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Several medicines become Al Arabi lift Emir Volleyball Cup affordable after price cut

According to data released by the 400 mg + 40mg declined from QR20 Ministry, with implementation of the to QR15.75. Prices of anti-impotence Some medicines have third phase, prices of 2,873 medicines drugs Snafi and Viagra also declined become cheaper by have been reduced. This constitutes remarkably, said pharmacy sources. 62.5 percent of the total 4,600 reg- A box of Snafi containing four tab- more than 80%. istered drugs in the country. lets of 20mg, earlier sold at QR156 is “We have noticed that some now is available at QR99.75. Price of patients with chronic diseases like Viagra has also fallen from QR156 to diabetes have started buying med- QR86 per box. Such medicines can By Sanaullah Ataullah icines from our store for months be dispensed only on a prescription The Peninsula continuously. After the price cut, by a doctor. many drugs have became afforda- Prices of a strip of 14 tablets of ble so they prefer to buy them from a gastro-resistant, Nexium 40mg, DOHA: A sharp drop in the prices of private pharmacies rather than going declined from QR117 to QR89.25. medicines in Qatar over the past two to a public hospital,” said a pharma- Prices of vitamins remain years has come as a great relief to cist working with a private pharmacy unchanged except Centrum multi- citizens and expatriates, apparently in the Airport area. vitamin, said the pharmacy sources. drawing more customers to private With issuance of the third revised A box of 100 tablets of Centrum is pharmacies. price list, prices of several medicines available now at QR56. Earlier it was Players and officials of Al Arabi, winners of the Emir Volleyball Cup, celebrate at the Ali Bin Hamad Al A large number of medicines, in high demand such as painkillers and being sold at QR100. including several expensive life tablets for diabetes and gastric diseases Since herbal medicines are not Attiya Arena, yesterday. Al Arabi defeated El Jaish to win the Emir Cup title for the third successive saving drugs have become cheaper have fallen by up to 50 percent. Anti- included in the price cut, their prices year. Pic: Syed Omar → See also page 21 following a phased price cut, imple- impotence drugs and contraceptive are not expected to fall. On the con- mented by the Ministry of Public pills have also become cheaper. trary, the prices have gone up in Health in line with a GCC decision Price of a box of Brufen (used some cases. For instance, prices of to unify import prices of medicines as analgesic and anti-inflamma- a famous cough syrup Prospan in member countries. tory drug) containing 30 tablets in increased from QR22 to QR29.75. Farmers’ market sells Jangal Jalebi Enquiries with several private three strips has declined from QR32 Health inspectors carry out pharmacies have revealed that the to QR20 (for 600mg) and from QR20 surprise raids to ensure that the ministry move has led to an unprec- to QR12 (for 400mg). Price of a bot- pharmacies comply with the revised edented drop in the prices of several tle of Brufen syrup came down from price list and other health require- The Peninsula the Al Mazrouha farmers’ market. and farmers’ markets in the begin- most sought after drugs. QR19 to QR11.35. A popular diabetes ments. “At least once in three The winter farmers’ markets ning of this month and production is Prices of 400 medicines were medicine Janumet (50 mg/1000 mg) months they come for inspection. are still operating from Thursday expected to continue until the end reduced by an average of over that was available at about QR300 They check the storage of medi- to Saturday and are expected to of this month. A 3kg box of this fruit 26 percent in the third and latest (a box containing 56 tablets) is now cines, prescriptions of doctors for DOHA: Sabar — a local fruit close for this season by the end of was available at QR20 at Al Maz- phase of the price cut, enforced last being sold at QR189.25. restricted medicines and licence which is commonly known as this month. rouha yesterday. month. Some medicines have become Price of a box of 10 suppository of pharmacists and hygiene related Jangal Jalebi in most Asian com- Sabar began coming to local cheaper by more than 80 percent. capsules for piles of Procto-Glyvenol, requirements,” said a pharmacist. munities — is now being sold at markets including central market → Continued on page 2

Lekhwiya to meet Al Sadd in Ministry plans to develop 60 ‘smart public parks’

Emir Cup final By Mohammad Shoeb municipalities across the country. the exhibition for the first time. The in a phased manner over the next “We are trying to introduce new The Peninsula “All the upcoming new parks will main objective is to display the needs four-five years. The facilities will ideas, unique products (which are DOHA: Lekhwiya SC marched be different from the existing ones. and requirements of our department be of different sizes depending on eco-friendly) and energy saving into the final of the Emir Cup We are planning to incorporate inno- for the upcoming parks and pub- the availability of land, expected lighting system to be more green and football tournament when they DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality vative ideas, smart technologies, new lic facilities. We are also looking to number of visitors and requirements environmentally sustainable adding outplayed El Jaish SC 2-1 in the and Environment is set to develop 60 plants, flowers and trees which are establish partnership with companies of the local community. value to our facilities. The innovative second semi-final played at the new ‘smart public parks’ across Qatar, more resilient to the harsh climatic con- and agencies dealing in smart tech- The attractive pavilion of the Min- ideas can be anything related to land- Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium yes- a senior official has revealed. ditions such as dusty winds and high nologies, green and recycled products istry at the exhibition is the replica of scaping which can make every park terday. El Jaish took the lead in The Ministry is looking to estab- temperatures,” Mohammed Al Khoori, and innovative ideas which can be a theme park which has used natural more attractive and unique from the the 28th minute when their star lish partnership with companies to Director, Public Parks Department at introduced in the parks.” green grass, a running water foun- other,” said Al Khoori. striker Abderrazzaq Hamdallah provide smart technologies, innova- the Ministry told The Peninsula on the He explained that the Ministry tain designed like a piano, live ducks, Al Khoori said the department is scored through a penalty. tive ideas and unique products which sidelines of ‘Project Qatar 2016’, which is looking to source energy saving eye-catching flowers and ornamen- also working with the authorities con- However, Lekhwiya made are environment-friendly and sus- is concluding today at the Doha Exhibi- LED lighting system, solar tech- tal plants. The pavilion also featured cerned to offer free Internet service at a perfect comeback when their tainable, to introduce in the upcoming tion and Convention Centre. nologies, new species of flowers wooden furniture and footsteps all all parks and other amenities which South Korean midfielder Nam public facilities. The Public Parks Al Koori, whose department is and trees which are suitable to the made of recycled wood planks orig- are currently lacking. Tae-Hee squared the scores Department at the Ministry runs participating with a big pavilion at the local environment. He said that the inally used between railway tracks at one-all in the 45th minute and maintains some 86 c parks in all expo, added: “We are participating at upcoming parks will be developed in Brazil. → picture on page 2 before Mohammed Moussa Ali seal their victory in the 79th minute with a perfect header. Lekhwiya will meet Al Sadd Sports Club who look to defend Children against occupation GCC states denounce Iran’s their title in the final which will be played at the same venue on May 20. attempts to politicise Haj → See also page 21

QNA & agencies charge of organising the Haj season in order to allow Iranian pilgrims to UN chief to attend safely perform the holy duty. He expressed the appreciation of Doha Forum RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council GCC states and the Islamic world for (GCC) states have denounced Iran’s efforts and facilitations offered by QNA attempts to politicise Haj and using the Saudi monarch’s government to the Islamic pillar to harm Saudi Ara- take care of pilgrims and visitors of bia. the holy sites in Saudi Arabia. Secretary-General Dr Abdul- A delegation from Tehran held NEW YORK: The official spokes- latif bin Rashid Al Zayani said GCC four days of talks in Saudi Arabia last man for the United Nations states denounce Iran’s stance that month, aimed at reaching a deal for announced that the UN Secre- aims to politicise Haj by placing hur- Iranians to go for Haj, which will tary-General Ban Ki-moon will dles in the way of reaching a final take place in September. take part in the 16th Doha Forum agreement to pave way for Iranian “Iran is the only country that from May 21 to 23. pilgrims to perform the coming Haj. refused to sign the agreement on The UN Secretary-General will GCC states call on Iranian offi- the Haj. It insisted on a number deliver a speech before the Forum cials to realise that Haj is a holy of unacceptable demands,” Saudi on May 21, said the spokesman, duty for all Muslims and should not Minister of Haj and Umrah Moham- pointing out that the Doha Forum be associated with political stances med Bintin told state TV channel is an opportunity for world leaders and disagreements among countries, Ekhbariya. Children hold placards during a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, to discuss several issues related to Al Zayani added. Iran wants Saudi Arabia to issue development and free trade in the in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, yesterday. He urged Iran to work with the visas through the Swiss embassy in Middle East. official entities in Saudi Arabia in Tehran. 02 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 HOME

Qatar e-Nature app to add Vegetables sold at lowest prices

→ Continued from page 1 country’s marine features “We have at least 10 trees of jangal jalebi in our farm. We har- vest some 10 cartons per day”, said Mohammad Iqbal, a salesman at Currently it provides an outlet which belongs to a local farm participating at Al Mazrouha. a repository of birds, Sabar (Pithecellobium dulce) is a insects, flora, reptiles species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to and mammals found the Pacific Coast and adjacent high- in Qatar. lands of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. It grows extensively in the Caribbean, Florida, Guam, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines. “Al Mazrouha By Raynald C Rivera market will remain open during The Peninsula weekends in the next two weeks. We were told by the authority that Sabar — a local fruit, commonly known as Jangal Jalebi. May 28 will be last day for this sea- son,” said Iqbal. DOHA: Qatar e-Nature — the first “We are still offering varieties of Prices of vegetables here are Sweet melon was available at QR30 of its kind smartphone applica- vegetables such as cucumber, sweet lower compared to those available for a box of same quantity while a 5kg tion that highlights the diversity of melon, pumpkin, cauliflower and in other local markets like shopping box of pumpkin was sold at QR15. The Qatar’s environment — will intro- Phinda Vilakazi, President GTL Ventures, Sasol Ltd. spinach this week. There is a pretty malls and groceries, he added. price of cauliflower was QR12 per 8kg duce the country’s marine life this good demand we sold some 150 An 8kg box of cucumber was sold box while seven bundles of spinach year to its existing features, accord- boxes of vegetables in a day,” he said. at QR22 in Al Mazrouah yesterday. were sold at QR8. ing to an official. this year,” Phinda Vilakazi, Presi- environment. Vilakazi was speaking Access to the rich biodiversity dent of GTL Ventures at Sasol, told on the sidelines of the conclusion of of Qatar’s environment is at the fin- The Peninsula. the annual Qatar e-Nature Schools gertips of thousands of app users Earlier this year, a new “Nature Contest recently organised in especially young students who ben- Reserves” category was included partnership with the Ministry of Project Qatar efit most from the app in their studies. raising awareness among people Education and Higher Education, Sasol, an international integrated about the areas whose wildlife is in which nearly 200 students from chemicals and energy company, cre- being protected by the State from 60 private and Independent schools ated the app as part of its corporate extinction. In the list are the 12 pro- participated. social responsibility programme in tected areas in Qatar including Al Every year, the competition is partnership with Friends of the Envi- Sheehaniya, Al Mashabiya, Al Thak- unique and this year it was more ronment Centre and since its launch ira, Al Eraiq, Al Reem, Al Wusil, Khor exciting turning it into a live quiz more than two years ago, more fea- Al Adaid, Al Rafa, Sunai, Um Al Amad, show for Primary students. tures have been added. Um Qarn and Irkaya. “We try to cover various lev- Currently it provides a repository Vilakazi said Sasol has been con- els. This year we chose to focus on of birds, insects, flora, reptiles and tinuously developing the App to make Primary students, in the future we mammals found in Qatar including it more informative and accessible will cater to high school as well,” he their photos, bird sounds, and specific to everyone. explained. information such as common and sci- “We want to continue improving The annual school competition entific names, colour, size and habitat the app, adding more features to it, has given an added value to the App as well as detailed descriptions mak- importantly adding more accurate reaching more than 350 schools and ing it easier for students to identify information about all spheres of the 250,000 students since it started. and learn. environment. We want to make it Qatar e-Nature app can be down- “With regard to the new features, accessible and available to all stu- loaded for free on Apple App Store, we are now focusing in particu- dents in Qatar and even teachers,” Google Play store for Android, Win- lar on marine life. We want to add he said, adding the app has played a dows Phone Store and on the website A general view of the pavilion of Public Parks Department under the Ministry of Municipality and more species and information about significant role in raising awareness (www.enature.qa) which is also avail- Environment, at Project Qatar at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre. Pic: Salim M /The Peninsula marine life and this will be launched among the young on protecting the able for desktop access.

Quranic Botanic Eleven Italian restaurants in Garden participates in Qatar receive recognition international conference The Peninsula

The Peninsula Italian food prepared by the res- travelling abroad, said the Italian taurants in live cooking stations. Ambassador. Among the attendees were the Palma Libotte chairperson of DOHA: The Quranic Botanic Garden (QBG), a mbassadors of the UK, Japan, the Italian Chamber of commerce, member of Qatar Foundation, participated in DOHA: Eleven Italian restaurants Spain, India, Korea, Poland. said: “It has been an extremely the International Conference on Food Research in Doha have officially received Croatia, Peru, Ecuador, Romania successful result for the first edi- Based on Sunnah Nabawiah (ICFRS 2016) held the prestigious Ospitalita’ Italiana and Bulgaria. tion that puts Doha right on track recently at the University of Malaya in Kuala Diploma — a recognition given to De Sanctis said that the with major capitals in the world. Lumpur. the most authentic Italian restau- project was launched in 2009 Ospitalita’ Italiana will create inter- Fatima Saleh Al Khulaifi, Project Manager rants worldwide. by the Italian government to national awareness that Doha’s of QBG, presented scientific research enti- Porcini, La Piazza, Antica Pesa, award the Italian restaurants Italian restaurants are of a very tled ‘Plants and Herbs from the Quran and the La Spiga, Paper Moon, La Cucina, which guarantee typical quality high standard.” Hadith: A Special Vision of the Quranic Botanic Italia Mia, Di Capri, Carluccio ‘s, Lo standards of Italian hospitality “We’ve been officially Garden’, and discussed edible plants mentioned Spaghetto and Nonna Zanon join abroad. appointed by the Italian Gov- in the Quran and Hadith. She also documented a the ranks of more than 1,700 res- “In 2015 Qatar was selected to ernment to select the Italian number of recipes with evidence from the Sun- taurants in 54 countries which have takepart in this important project, restaurants in Qatar. We began vis- nah, such as Talbinah and Sakhinah among other been honoured with the award thanks to the Italian Cham- its in November checking out the foods. similar to Michelin star. ber of Commerce’s promotion of origin of theirproducts, the offer The event, organised by the Academy of Italian Ambassador Guido the country and out of 14 nomi- on the menus and the chefs’ qual- Islamic Studies at the University of Malaya, De Sanctis handed the award to nations eleven restaurants have ifications. All the information was served as a platform to discuss the benefits and the restaurants in a ceremony been awarded in this first edition,” sent to Italy and a panel of experts advantages of the foods mentioned in the Hadith organised recently by the Ital- he added. In Italy, the restaurants decided who was going to receive and Sunnah, as well as the relevant scientific An ice sculpture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, a famous Italian ian Chamber of commerce at his that are awarded this diploma are this notable certification. We are research. Delegates at the conference also dis- residence. The guests including considered the best, and Italians hoping that in 2017 we can award cussed the chemical components of food and the monument crafted by one of the recipients of the prestigious ambassadors and prominent Qatari tend to choose restaurants that bear new restaurants and to bring this effects of the use and misuse of the term Sun- Ospitalita’ Italiana Diploma, at the award ceremony. dignitaries sampled authentic this symbol at the entrance when project to a higher step,” she added. nah with regard to nutrition.

CMU-Q students get traditional HMC marks World Social Work Day welcome DOHA: The Department of Social Services at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) recently held an event to mark the World Social Work The Peninsula Day under the theme ‘Enhancing the Value and Dignity of People.’ The event was attended by senior officials from the Department of Social Services as well as a number of guests associ- DOHA: Secondary school stu- ated with social work in Qatar. dents who have been admitted It was held to highlight the important to Carnegie Mellon University role played by social services in the health- in Qatar (CMU-Q) for the fall care field and strengthen communication 2016 have learned more about ties between HMC’s Department of Social the university at the Marhaba Services and Qatar’s social civil organiza- Participants at the event held to mark World Social Work Day. Tartans — an annual tradi- tions. The event was also an opportunity to New students offered glimpse of campus life ahead of tion to give incoming students create wider awareness of the role of social academic year at CMU-Q. and families a glimpse of the services agencies and social workers and to Social Services for Hospitals highlighted the commented that truly exceptional social CMU-Q community. enable attendees to exchange ideas about fundamental basis and principle of respect- work can change a patient’s life. Social Current CMU-Q stu- potential career paths. students who are here tonight, their work. In her opening remarks, Haifa’a ing human dignity is to ensure patients’ workers themselves generate an actual dents, faculty and alumni Ilker Baybars, dean and the Class of 2020. Each and Al-Hajri, Acting Executive Director of HMC’s healthcare rights are respected without change in a patient and empower him/her were on hand as more than CEO of Carnegie Mellon Qatar, every one of you deserves Department of Social Services emphasized any racial, religious, economic or social to cope in the most challenging of situations. 100 new students and their said: this honor, and we are proud the role of social services in ensuring human discrimination. Al Hajri also presented certificates of appre- parents explored CMU-Q’s “I would like to extend that you will be joining our dignity regardless of race, religion and lan- Thomas George, Acting Senior Special- ciation to the charitable organizations that programmes, student life and my congratulations to the community.” guage. Dr Ranya Fayadh, Acting Director of ist at the Department of Social Services support the department’s social work. MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 03 Top Hezbollah commander in Syria dead in explosion

Hezbollah-controlled Al Manar TV 22 others was one of the Middle East’s station. most dramatic political assassina- A Hezbollah member of “The resistance will carry out its tions. The trial is ongoing near The parliament said Israel duties at the appropriate time,” he said. Hague, Netherlands. A billionaire Hezbollah earlier announced that Mus- businessman, Hariri was Lebanon’s was behind the killing tafa Badreddine had been killed in an most prominent politician after the of Mustafa Badreddine, explosion near Damascus airport, but 15-year civil war ended in 1990. indicating that the did not say who had carried out the Hezbollah denies involvement in attack. The pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Hariri’s assassination and says the Lebanese group TV station Al Mayadeen had earlier charges are politically motivated. would respond “at the said it was Israel. Badreddine’s death is the biggest appropriate time”. Hezbollah said several others blow to the militant group since the were wounded in the blast and that 2008 assassination of his predeces- it was investigating the nature of the sor, Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed explosion — whether it was the result in a bomb attack in Damascus. After of an air raid, missile attack or artil- that, Badreddine, known among the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is greeted by students upon his arrival at Kocaeli University in AP & Reuters lery shelling. group’s ranks as Zulfiqar, became It didn’t say when the explosion Hezbollah’s top military commander the western city of Izmit, Turkey, yesterday. happened, and Hezbollah’s media and adviser to the group’s leader, BEIRUT: Lebanon’s militant Hez- office said they also had no informa- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. bollah group mourned yesterday tion about the timing of the attack. “The message is that a martyred the killing in Syria of its top military On Tuesday night, Hezbollah denied commander has joined the convoy of Europe needs new formula to commander, Mustafa Badreddine, reports that Israel’s air force targeted martyred leaders,” Hezbollah Cabi- who died in an explosion in Damas- a Hezbollah convoy on the Lebanon- net Minister Hussein Haj Hassan said. cus — a death that is a major blow to Syria border. “He boosts us with his martyrdom the Shia group, which has played a Badreddine was one of four peo- with strength, glory, will and inten- solve visa-free dispute: Turkey significant role in the conflict next ple being tried in absentia for the tion to continue the fight against the door. murder of former Lebanese prime Zionist enemy and the Sunni extrem- Badreddine, 55, had been the minister Rafik Hariri. The 2005 sui- ists until victory is achieved, God mastermind of the group’s involve- cide bombing that killed Hariri and willing.” Reuters reining in its broad anti-terror laws. own way if they failed to agree. ment in Syria’s civil war since The EU and rights groups say Turkey Turkey’s record on press freedom Hezbollah fighters joined the battle uses the laws to stifle dissent, while is a growing concern in Europe. Pros- on the side of Syrian President Bashar Syrian regime airstrikes Ankara says it needs sweeping leg- ecutors have opened more than 1,800 Assad’s forces against those trying to BRUSSELS/ANKARA: Turkey said islation to fight Kurdish insurgents cases against people for insulting remove him from power, according in Idlib claim 15 lives yesterday talks with the European and Islamic State. Erdogan since he became president to pro-Hezbollah media. Hezbol- Union on a deal providing visa-free “I am not very optimistic about in 2014, including journalists, car- lah, along with Iran, has been one of travel in return for stopping a flow the outcome of the talks we held in toonists and teenagers. A German Assad’s strongest backers. IDLIB: Fifteen people lost their lives and another 28 were injured yester- of illegal migrants into Europe had Brussels today. It’s essential that the satirist is also facing prosecution A Hezbollah member of par- day by two separate regime airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib province, according reached an impasse and the bloc European Commission find a new after mocking him on German TV, a liament said Israel was behind the to a Syrian civil defence official. must find a “new formula” to salvage formula,” Bozkir told reporters in case that has widespread public out- killing of one of its top commanders, Defense official Abdulkerim Adhar told Anadolu Agency that a regime the agreement. Brussels, in comments broadcast live rage in Germany. Erdogan bristles at indicating that the Lebanese group warplane targeted a residential area in Idlib and left 14 people dead and 20 The comments, some of the on Turkish television. suggestions Turkey uses its anti-ter- would respond “at the appropriate others injured. Meanwhile, one civilian was killed and eight injured when harshest yet from EU Minister Vol- His comments come a after Pres- rorism laws indiscriminately. He says time”. another airstrike targeted a hospital in the town of Ariha, south of Idlib. kan Bozkir, will further heighten ident Tayyip Erdogan ratcheted up he is determined to crush militants “This is an open war and we Both attacks caused serious damage to the targeted areas. concerns in Brussels about the future pressure on Europe over the deal, fighting an insurgency in the mainly should not preempt the investiga- Syria has been locked in a vicious civil war since 2011, when the regime of the deal. While Brussels is desper- accusing the bloc of setting new Kurdish southeast, and is unlikely to tion but certainly Israel is behind cracked down on pro-democracy protests. ate for it to succeed, it also insists that hurdles for visa-free travel and sanction Ankara backing down on this,” Nawar Al Saheli said told the Turkey meet 72 criteria, including threatening that Turkey may go its the European demands.

China closes US ready to loosen Libya arms embargo to fight IS embassy in Libya

AFP things that it wants to use to fight ISIL carved up the country into virtual foreigners to join them. US President waiting for the government to request Agencies and responds to all the requirements fiefdoms, and two rival governments Barack Obama’s administration and help. “All the talk about what we of the exemption, I think that Coun- have been formed. its European allies have been eager to might do, or could do, it responds to cil members are going to look very Western nations and many Lib- help the government establish itself the needs of the Libyan government. WASHINGTON: The US govern- seriously at that request,” a senior yans have watched in horror as and take on the jihadists. When asked When we talk about training or we BEIJING: China has temporarily ment is ready to loosen a ban on arms administration official said. the jihadist IS group has emerged earlier this year about his greatest talk about equipment, we are having shut down its embassy in Libya exports to Libya, in a bid to help the “There is a very healthy desire from the chaos to control a swathe mistake in office, Obama cited Libya: a conversation about ‘what are your amid ongoing conflicts in the country’s fledgling unity government inside of Libya to rid themselves of of central Libya around Gaddafi’s “Probably failing to plan for the day needs?’” said the US official. North African country. The state- fight the Islamic State (IS) group, offi- ISIL, and I think that is something we hometown of Sirte. With its port and after what I think was the right thing US actions in Libya have been run People’s Daily Online reported cials and diplomats have said. should be supporting and responding airport, there are fears the jihadists to do in intervening in Libya.” limited to strikes against a suspected yesterday that the announcement, Under White House-backed plans, to,” the official said, using an acronym could use the Mediterranean city as But the West has had to avoid the Islamic State training camp and a sus- posted on the Chinese foreign min- the United Nations would carve out for the Islamic State group. a staging post for attacks on Europe. risk of appearing to interfere and, in pect believed to be involved in deadly istry’s account on the country’s exemptions to an embargo introduced Gaddafi’s regime was deposed They have already hit nearby oil so doing, undermining the fragile gov- attacks in neighbouring Tunisia. social media platform Weibo, said by the Security Council in 2011, during with the help of Nato airpower in 2011 installations, choking much-needed ernment. Officials in Washington, The US has also covertly sent a the mission would remain closed Muammar Gaddafi’s failed attempt to and he was ultimately killed in Octo- oil revenues. The Pentagon earlier Rome and elsewhere have recently small group of special forces to Libya until November. suppress a popular uprising. ber of that year, but the country has this year estimated that as many as toned down talk of sending a contin- to gather intelligence and liaise with The ministry also cautioned “If the Libyan government pre- been in turmoil since. 6,000 Islamic State fighters were in gent of troops to the country to train some militias, according to The Wash- nationals against traveling to pares a detailed and coherent list of Dozens of militia groups have the country, with a standing call for and assist Libyan fighters, instead ington Post. Libya, where a few Chinese offi- cials are expected to remain in case of any emergency. Contact information for the embassy was also included in the Weibo post. Waiting for extradition Libya has remained in a state Court rulings confuse push of turmoil since 2011, when a bloody rebellion ended with the ouster and death of longtime strongman Muammar Gaddafi. for Turkey’s MHP congress Since then, two rival seats of government have emerged in Tobruk and Tripoli -- with both Anatolia & Reuters extraordinary congress will go ahead Oktay Ozturk said on April 29 that administrations boasting a sig- tomorrow. an Ankara court had decided to halt nificant military capacity and a Another former MHP dep- the party’s extraordinary congress legislative assembly. uty, Sinan Ogan, called yesterday’s as a precautionary measure. ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Turkey: Ankara court ruling “a positive deci- Party bylaws ban the election of Members of Turkey’s Nationalist sion, reversing a mistaken direction” a new leader at such extraordinary Yemeni forces Movement Party (MHP) were in dis- and blasted the Gemerek Civil Court congresses. Party dissidents hope to array yesterday, divided over whether as “unauthorised”. change such bylaws at the proposed capture 250 a new court ruling would allow a Dissidents within the MHP have extraordinary congress, which could extraordinary congress to be held approached the courts to force an eventually pave the way for the elec- Qaeda members this weekend. extraordinary congress in wake of tion of a new party leader. Ankara’s 2nd Enforcement Court the party’s poor electoral showing The main challenger for the yesterday reversed an earlier deci- in last November’s general election. leadership of Turkey’s national- ADEN: Yemeni government forces sion by Ankara’s 25th Enforcement A total of 543 delegates had sent ist opposition vowed yesterday a have captured around 250 “Al- Directorate to block any extraor- a petition to party headquarters party congress would go ahead this Qaeda members” since they retook dinary congress, which could see a demanding an extraordinary con- weekend despite the threat of police Mukalla, the largest city in the push to replace the MHP leadership. gress in the aftermath of the election, action, amid an internal party power country’s southeast, last month, a Speaking to reporters, MHP which saw the MHP losing its posi- struggle that could be crucial for top officer said yesterday. lawyer Yucel Bulut said that even tion as the third-largest group in the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We have arrested around 250 without a final ruling by the Court parliament, falling behind the Peo- Several hundred members of the members of Al-Qaeda, including of Cassation, where the MHP Cen- ples’ Democratic Party. MHP have launched a bid to chal- some leaders, since our operations tral Committee appealed a decision The petition filed at an Ankara lenge Devlet Bahceli, its leader began,” General Faraj Salmin said. by Ankara’s 12th Civil Court to allow court in February also criticised the for much of the last two decades, Salmin commands the sec- the congress, some members of the MHP leadership for not calling an hoping to change party rules at a ond military zone which includes party are urging people to attend a extraordinary general convention. special congress tomorrow in order Mukalla, capital of the vast desert congress Sunday. Devlet Bahceli, who has led the party to oust him. province of Hadramawt. Cypriot security personnel escort Egyptian Seif Al Din Mohamed Bulut described this move as since 1997, has refused the push for Bahceli’s removal could lead The port city was retaken from Mostafa, who is accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane and “illegal”, adding that no extraordi- an extraordinary congress. to a surge in support for the MHP, the jihadists on April 24. All of the diverting it to Cyprus on March 29, to an extradition hearing at nary congress can be held due to A special committee appointed by weakening the chances of Erdog- arrests were made in Mukalla and the court in the capital Nicosia, yesterday. Cyprus has approved a injunctions by civil courts in Tosya the Ankara Civil Court of Peace had an’s ruling AK Party securing the its surroundings, the general said. request from Cairo to extradite Mostafa, who argues that he faces and Gemerek. given tomorrow, as the date for the stronger majority in parliament he Al Qaeda occupied the city for a the death penalty if sent back to Egypt. Former MHP Deputy Meral MHP to hold an extraordinary con- wants for it to change the constitu- year, and imposed strict law on Aksener said via Twitter that the gress. However, MHP Deputy Chair tion and hand him greater powers. residents. 04 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Red Detachment of Women Marcos’ son Duterte wants fighting for gender-equal political future AFP

MANILA: The son and namesake cabinet of late Philippine dictator Ferdi- nand Marcos was fighting for his political future yesterday after a cliffhanger vice presidential Duterte election contest against a novice politician. administration is A win for Ferdinand Marcos looking for officials Jnr, 58, would have been the fam- ily’s biggest political victory since with a shared its humiliating downfall in 1986 vision, integrity, after a “People Power” uprising ended 20 years of human rights competence or ability abuses, election fraud and the and willingness to plunder of state coffers. It was also widely seen as part sacrifice. Performers dancing and singing during a Chinese national opera of the “Red Detachment of Women” of a long-term strategy to become at Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province. president. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tru- But the count for Monday’s deau’s working team. vote has dragged and on Friday Anatolia “He wanted young people. We Marcos was 217,000 votes behind are also sensitive on gender issue Leni Robredo, a widow thrust into so hopefully many women will take politics after her well-regarded part in governance. Of course we interior-minister husband died in ZAMBOANGA: Philippines pres- wanted to ideally follow Prime Min- Cops cheer crime-buster president-elect a 2012 plane crash. ident-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte ister Trudeau’s cabinet in Canada,” With a million votes left to (pictured) and his transition team The Philippine Star quoted Lavina count Marcos Jnr has refused to are in the thick of selecting key offi- as saying. He added that Duterte will Reuters Duterte’s message, unpolished overstate the problem because concede defeat, while accus- cials to compose the cabinet of the not announce his new Cabinet until and peppered with profanities, reporting of crimes has risen with ing President Benigno Aquino’s new administration that will rule the they have decided on the selection. tapped into popular alarm over the introduction of closed-circuit TV government of manipulating the country for the next six years. “We are considering a number of a drug-fuelled jump in crime. In cameras in many urban areas and results for Robredo. Vowing during the campaign names already but we are not at lib- MANILA: The police force in Manila 2012 the United Nations said the SMS messaging for filing complaints. “If you add up all the votes that trail to crush criminalities and run erty to disclose them until they are is so underfunded that officers say Philippines had the highest rate of There aren’t enough police cars had not been transmitted, it would after corrupt government officials, okayed by the presumptive president they have to buy their own bullets methamphetamine, or “shabu”, use to go around and Anicete said one show that I won by a large margin,” the southern Philippines mayor because some of the candidates may and it is not uncommon for funeral in East Asia. The US State Depart- colleague uses a motorbike to do his Marcos, an incumbent senator, said captured the presidency by a large not be interested,” the spokesman service cars to give cops a lift along ment said that 2.1 percent of Flipinos policing duties, paying for fuel and this week as his near-one-million majority of votes on May 9. said, according to the Star. to murder scenes because they have aged 16 to 64 were using shabu, the repairs out of his own pocket. lead early in the count evaporated. He added that the positions Duterte is looking for officials no vehicles of their own. main drug threat in the Philippines The Philippines had one police Late Thursday he urged the were social services and develop- with a shared vision, integrity, com- Enter Rodrigo Duterte, who won along with marijuana. officer for every 651 people in 2012, state election body Commission ment, security and peace and order, petence or ability and willingness this week’s presidential election in Reported crimes in the Phil- according to official data. Its force is on Elections to investigate the economic development, judiciary, to sacrifice. the Philippines on a single-issue ippines more than doubled from far more stretched across an archi- alleged “tampering” of a compu- infrastructure development and “The best and the brightest campaign of crushing crime, corrup- 319,441 cases in 2010, when Pres- pelago than neighbouring Thailand ter software that received data for government-owned and control- throughout the country and our tion and drug abuse. He has pledged ident Benigno Aquino took office, with a 1:302 ratio and Malaysia with the count in Manila. However the led corporations. Lavina said that brothers and sisters abroad, OFWs to raise policing standards to the level to 675,816 last year, according to 1:267 in the same year. The govern- poll body rejected allegations of Duterte -- who has received inter- [Overseas Filipino Workers]. Many of Davao, the once-lawless city in national police data. Roughly half ment budgeted $1.89bn for the police cheating. The Marcos family fled to national criticism for comments talents that left the country. If they southern Mindanao, where he has of those were serious crimes, and this year, up around 13 percent from US exile after the “People Power” that appeared to trivialise violence are willing to return, sacrifice for the been mayor for 22 years and the only rape cases jumped 120 percent over 2015. A senior police official said revolution ended the dictator’s against women -- looked forward to next six years, of course we would one in the country that runs its own this period. it was still too little for the force of one-man rule, in which thousands a gender-sensitive Cabinet similar to welcome them,” he said. 911 emergency call service. Police officials say the figures about 160,000 officers. of critics were thrown in prison. Taiwan urges tribunal to visit island before taking a decision

Reuters not just a rock, but a real island that sovereignty but it does outline a sys- “If the tribunal decides not to China, which claims sovereignty water. Itu Aba is the biggest natural can qualify for a maritime economic tem of economic zones that can be respond to our kind invitation, then over self-ruled Taiwan, also claims island in the Spratlys and is the only zone. claimed from features such as islands. it should not rule on the legal sta- almost the entire South China Sea. one claimed by Taiwan.Manila is chal- China refuses to recognise a case “The government of the Republic of tus of Taiping Island.” Last month, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Tai- lenging the legality of China’s claim, TAIPEI: Taiwan yesterday called on lodged by the Philippines with the China (Taiwan’s formal name) once the panel allowed written evidence wan and Vietnam also have claims to in part by arguing that no land mass an international tribunal not to make Permanent Court of Arbitration in The again solemnly invites the five arbi- from a government-linked Taiwan- the waters. Taiwan has just finished in the Spratly archipelago can legally a ruling on a disputed South China Sea Hague over the South China Sea and trators (in the Philippine case) to ese group pressing Taipei’s position a $100m port upgrade on Itu Aba, be considered a life-sustaining island, island if the judges don’t visit first to says such disputes should be resolved conduct a field study on Taiping that Itu Aba is not a rock and is enti- known as Taiping in Taiwan, in the and therefore, cannot hold rights to a see for themselves it can sustain life. through bilateral talks. Island,” Taiwan’s foreign ministry tled to part of the disputed waterway disputed Spratly islands. The island 200 nautical mile (370 km) exclusive Taiwan wants to prove Itu Aba is The panel does not rule on said in a statement. as an economic zone. has an airstrip, a hospital and fresh economic zone. Freed Indonesian sailors arrive in Jakarta

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TUBAN: Four Indonesian sailors released after nearly a month in captivity in the southern Philippines arrived in Jakarta, yesterday. An Indonesian foreign ministry spokes- man said that the men, who were released by Daesh-linked militants earlier this week in the Philippines’ majority Muslim Sulu province, will undergo physical and psy- chological examinations. “After that, they will be handed over to their families,” Arrmanatha Nasir said. He said Philippine authorities had escorted the sailors to an Indonesian warship in waters between the countries Thursday. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi greeted the men upon their arrival Friday morning at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air- Indonesian seamen, who were held hostage in the southern Philippines with Indonesian port in eastern Jakarta. “We would like to thank all parties for Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi (front second left) at the Halim Perdana Kusuma military their assistance in the release,” detik.com airbase in Jakarta, yesterday. quoted her as saying. Earlier this month, Abu Sayyaf militants released 10 other Indone- sian sailors, for whose release $1m had been Nasir also said that ransom demands “This is the result of cooperation between demanded, turning them over to the gover- had not been met in both cases, and the lat- various elements of Indonesia and the nor of the Sulu. est release resulted from diplomacy during Philippines, including the involvement of non- Their release came six days after the Abu a trilateral meeting with the Philippines and government elements,” he added. Sayyaf beheaded a 68-year-old Canadian Malaysia earlier this month. Kidnap-for-ransom gangs frequently oper- hostage after a $6m ransom failed to be paid. “In both the release of the 10 Indonesian ate in the Philippines’ Zamboanga Peninsula Vice President Jusuf Kalla insisted citizens and four citizens, the government does and the island provinces of Sulu, Basilan and Thursday that Indonesia’s government had not have a policy of paying a ransom to hostage Tawi-Tawi. In early April, Filipino gunmen also again refused to pay a ransom for the four takers,” he told Anadolu Agency. abducted four Malaysian crew from a vessel off men released earlier this week. “I think they He said that the government would not the Malaysian state of Sabah, whose eastern were not [freed because of any ransom]. The reveal details about the negotiation process coast is located just around 50 nautical miles government must not [pay ransom],” kom- with the militant group due to safety concerns from the southernmost Philippine island of pas.com quoted him as saying. for those who assisted the efforts. Sitangkai. ASIA / AFRICA SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 05 SWIFT discloses new bank hacker attack

Reuters case showed that the Bangladesh heist the investigation into one of the big- damage, but is unlikely to be able to earlier this month, did not further was not a single occurrence, but part gest cyber heists in the world. Reuters order fraudulent fund transfers, the identify any of the groups. Forensic experts of a wider campaign targeting banks. reviewed parts of the report, but the investigators wrote. BAE Systems, Europe’s largest believed that the In both cases, SWIFT said, insiders source who shared the document Two other groups are also inside weapons maker, which also has a DHAKA: Investigators probing the or cyber attackers had succeeded in declined to provide access to its full the bank’s network, which is linked to large cyber-security business, said cyber heist of $81m from the Bang- second case showed penetrating the targeted banks’ sys- contents, saying the release of some the SWIFT international transaction it had uncovered evidence linking ladesh central bank connected it that the Bangladesh tems, obtaining user credentials and details could hamper a multinational system, the report found. One of the malicious software used in the Bang- yesterday to the hack at Sony Corp’s submitting fraudulent SWIFT mes- effort to catch the criminals. two is a “nation-state actor” engaged ladesh heist to the high-profile attack film studio in 2014, while global heist was not a single sages that correspond with transfers Asked about the report, a Bangla- in stealing information in attacks that on Sony’s Hollywood studio in 2014 financial network SWIFT disclosed occurrence, but part of money.The cooperative has main- desh Bank spokesman said: are stealthy but “not known to be and other cases. a previously unreported attack on a tained that its core messaging service “We have engaged forensic destructive”, it said. “What initially looked to be an commercial bank. of a wider campaign has not been compromised. But con- experts to investigate the whole thing, A spokeswoman for SWIFT said isolated incident at one Asian bank SWIFT did not say which com- targeting banks: firmation of a second attack on a bank including this.” He did not elaborate. she was unable to comment. turned out to be part of a wider cam- mercial bank it was or whether it SWIFT will likely increase scrutiny on the Investigators have determined The report said investigators knew paign,” BAE’s cyber-security team said had lost money, but cyber-security security of a network used by 11,000 that one team of hackers, dubbed little about a third group of hackers in a report it released on Friday. firm BAE Systems said a Vietnamese financial institutions globally. Group Zero in the report, was respon- found inside the network, referred to BAE also said it uncovered mal- bank, which it did not name, had been In Bangladesh, cyber-security sible for the heist and remained as Group Two, except that they were ware that was recently used to target a target. It was not clear if they were authorities in Hanoi. SWIFT, the linch- experts hired by the central bank inside the network. Group Zero may using mostly commodity, or off-the- a Vietnamese commercial bank using referring to the same attack and there pin of the global financial system, said said in a report that hackers were still be seeking to monitor the ongoing shelf, hacking tools. fraudulent messages on the SWIFT was no immediate comment from forensic experts believed the second inside the bank’s network, monitoring cyber investigations or cause other The report, which was submitted money-transfer network. Suu Kyi faces Boko Haram tops Bangladeshi girl seeks help to ire over plans to curb Nigeria summit focus treat rare excess hair condition free speech AFP people have been killed since 2009. AFP But Nigeria’s military maintains its fight-back since early 2015 has Reuters the Islamists in disarray and recently LAGOS: Nigeria hosts a security announced the launch of operations DHAKA: The family of a 12-year- summit today on ending the threat inside the rebels’ Sambisa Forest old Bangladeshi girl who suffers from Boko Haram, with increasing stronghold. from a rare condition that causes YANGON: Myanmar democracy signs of closer military cooperation “The idea is to be able to thick hair to cover her face and champion Aung San Suu Kyi is fac- between regional powers and inter- announce (at the summit)... that this body have spoken out as they seek ing criticism from rights groups national support. French President sanctuary no longer exists,” a source to fund surgery to give their daugh- and student activists who say her Francois Hollande, US Deputy Sec- close to Chadian President Idriss ter a chance at a normal life. Bithi ruling party is planning to retain retary of State Antony Blinken and Deby told AFP earlier this month. Akhtar suffers from Byars-Jurkie- restrictions on free speech once Britain’s top diplomat Philip Ham- “That is a military and also a wicz syndrome and a complication wielded against it by the country’s mond are among the senior foreign political imperative.” known as hypertrichosis -- dubbed former junta. dignitaries expected in Abuja. Yet there are mounting concerns “werewolf syndrome”. Since taking power in April, The leaders of Nigeria’s neigh- for the future of more than 2.6 mil- “She has been covered with hair former political prisoner Suu bours Benin, Cameroon, Chad and lion people displaced by the violence, since she was born. We thought it Kyi’s National League for Democ- Niger are also invited, along with with many living in host communi- would go away as she grew up,” Bangladeshi patient Bithi Akhtar (left) and her mother at a hospital racy (NLD) has released scores of delegations from the European ties or camps and affected by chronic Akhtar’s mother Beauty Begum said. detainees and is making a big push Union and the West African and Cen- food shortages. As a result of the syndrome, in Dhaka, yesterday. to revise some of the most repres- tral African blocs. Borno -- the Nigerian state swollen gums cover Akhtar’s teeth, sive measures from the long years Nigeria said this week “the worst-hit by the violence -- last and her breasts make up almost half exact condition, the child’s doctor Akhtar’s family are seeking to of military rule. But its new version successful conclusion of ongoing month said there was a “food cri- of her 38kg frame, leaving her una- said. generate awareness of her plight in a of the law governing public dem- military operations” and “the speedy sis” and it needed $5.9 billion (5.1 ble to stand or attend school. “Byars-Jurkiewicz syndrome bid to raise funds for treatment, with onstrations has prompted alarm resolution of the humanitarian cri- billion euros) to rebuild shattered “We thought it was God’s wish creates facio-genital disorder and doctors saying her life could be vastly since the proposals were submit- ses” would dominate the talks. homes and infrastructure. she was born like this. But I no massive bilateral enlargement of improved with surgery. Doctors ted to parliament last week. Boko Haram was named in the The election of former military longer can see my kid bearing all breasts after puberty, which has hap- plan to carry out a breast reduc- The draft bill would punish latest Global Terrorism Index as “the ruler Muhammadu Buhari as Niger- the pain anymore,” her mother said. pened to the young girl,” said Fakhrul tion, reduce her swollen gums. “We protesters for spreading “wrong” most deadly terrorist group in the ia’s president has given fresh impetus Only four or five people in the Alam, a doctor at Bangabandhu are truly optimistic the kid will be information and make straying world” in 2014. An estimated 20,000 to the military counter-insurgency. world are thought to have the same Sheikh Mujib Medical University. returning to normal life,” Alam said. away from pre-registered chants an offence. It bars non-citizens - a category that includes the largely stateless Muslim Rohingya minor- ity - from protesting and lists criminal penalties for “disturb- 3 foreigners among 4 missing at sea found alive ing” or “annoying” people. The NLD says the new bill would introduce substantial AFP Through the trawler’s crew, authorities changes to the military era legis- learned that the four had been picked up by lation and was aimed at protecting two other Vietnamese fishing boats, he said peaceful protesters rather than during a press briefing in Sabah’s capital Kota penalizing them. KUALA LUMPUR: Four people, including three Kinabalu late Thursday, The Star reported. But worries over the proposed foreigners, who turned up after disappearing The other Vietnamese ships were then con- Peaceful Assembly Law are com- for more than a week in the South China Sea tacted by radio. pounded by concerns over the were found by chance aboard a trespassing “We were shocked. The woman on the radio government’s recent request to Vietnamese trawler, Malaysia’s coast guard told us she was Armilla and it didn’t hit me then the US ambassador to refrain from has said. that she was among the four missing people. It using the term “Rohingya” and Suu Spanish nationals David Hernandes Gasulla was only when she said she was with Tommy Kyi’s refusal to speak out in sup- and Martha Miguel, Hong Kong citizen Tommy that it clicked,” he said. port of a community that faces Lam Wai Yin, and Malaysian Armilla Alihassan The foursome were said to be in good continuing persecution in Myan- went missing in their small boat May 2 while health, and photos posted on Twitter by mar.The issue is being closely on an island-hopping excursion off the Malay- Malaysia’s coast guard showed them smiling watched by Suu Kyi’s supporters sian state of Sabah on Borneo island. as they arrived back in Kota Kinabalu yester- in the West. The NLD faces sky- Malaysia’s coast guard and navy launched day morning. high expectations at home and a search-and-rescue operation but hope faded Zubil said he did not know why the group abroad, but the Nobel peace prize as days went by and they were not found. went missing or how they came to be aboard winner’s autocratic decision-mak- The quartet were unexpectedly discovered the Vietnamese boats. They were to be inter- ing style makes the government’s Thursday when a Vietnamese fishing trawler viewed by authorities yesterday. intentions hard to read. “We are was intercepted in the disputed Spratly Islands Malaysian fishermen had recovered an concerned that the NLD is rushing near Layang-Layang atoll, a popular diving engine entangled in their net last weekend this,” said David Mathieson, a sen- spot, for encroaching in Malaysia’s territorial that was believed to be from the missing boat, David Hernandez Gasulla of Spain is transported away on a stretcher after arriving at Kota ior researcher at the Human Rights waters, coast guard First Admiral Zubil Mat prompting fears that it had sunk and the group Watch based in Yangon. Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, yesterday. Som told local media. had perished. Action against S Africa gold firms for causing physical harm to miners

Reuters Phineas Mojapelo judge said any- 288,000 cases of compensable sili- Dwadube, 74, a former rock driller at was terminated from my job in 2009. operate gold mines but have been where from 17,000 to 500,000 cosis in South Africa. Harmony Gold who has tuberculo- Since then, I still don’t have a job,” he named in claims dating back to when miners had been affected. “We hold The 2009 paper put the indus- sis (TB). said. they did. the view that in the context of this try’s unpaid compensation liability Judge Mojapelo said workers who The defendants include some of “Certainly it will have an effect on JOHANNESBURG: South Africa gave case, class action is the only realis- at $660m on 1998 values. had died of the diseases could be the world’s biggest bullion produc- their reserves. Most of them proba- the green light yesterday for class tic option through which most mine Silicosis is an incurable disease included in the suits, with any dam- ers, who have already been hit by a bly made provisions,” Gryphon Asset action suits seeking damages from workers can assert their claims effec- caused by inhaling silica dust from ages paid to family members, and that slide in commodities prices and wide- Management Chief Investment Officer gold companies for up to half a million tively against the mining companies,” gold-bearing rocks. It causes short- each mining company should be held spread labour unrest among miners. Abri du Plessis said. miners who contracted the fatal lung Mojapelo said in a unanimous ruling ness of breath, a persistent cough and liable separately for any damages. Anglo American , Africa’s top gold “It’s still too early to say what it diseases silicosis and tuberculosis. by three judges. chest pains, and also makes people While most of the miners are producer AngloGold Ashanti, Gold will be (the damages) but it does cre- The High Court decision sets the “Mining companies will be held highly susceptible to tuberculosis. South Africans thousands also came Fields, Harmony Gold, Sibanye Gold ate a lot of uncertainty and that is stage for protracted proceedings cov- liable or responsible for their own Activists sang and danced outside from neighbours such as Lesotho, and African Rainbow Minerals have never good for share prices,” he said. ering cases dating back decades in the actions for unlawful emissions,” he the courthouse after the ruling while Malawi and Swaziland. formed the Occupational Lung Dis- Alan Fine, a spokesman for OLD largest class action suits yet in Africa’s said. miners walked out triumphantly with Mantso Mokwena, 53, a former ease (OLD) group to deal with such working group said in a statement most industrialised country. A paper by researchers at Uni- fists raised. worker at Sibanye Gold’s Beatrix mine, issues. the gold companies were studying In their 1980s heyday, South versity of the Witswatersrand in “This will make a difference in owned by Gold Fields until 2013, said Shares in the companies were the judgment and each firm would Africa’s gold mines employed half a Johannesburg and University Col- our lives, because we have been the outcome gave miners some clo- mixed, with some tracking a stronger decide whether to appeal the court million men and High Court Judge lege London estimated there were struggling for so long,” said Vuyani sure. “I contracted TB in 2007 but I gold price. Anglo and ARM no longer decision. 06 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 PAKISTAN

Securing border First SEZ likely Senators seek to be developed at Gwadar more powers under CPEC for Upper House Internews ISLAMABAD: The First Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is likely to massive amount of money was used be developed at Gwadar under the to buy loyalties of MPAs and to get $46bn China-Pakistan Economic Almost all Senators elected to the Senate. Corridor (CPEC), Executive Direc- expressed concern A majority of speakers suggested tor General, Board of Investment the system of secret voting should be Raania Ahsan, said yesterday. over allegations that replaced with show of hands to min- She said the government had a massive amount of imise ambiguities related to voters. identified 29 SEZs so far, add- They demanded Senate should ing those SEZs would be set up money was used to also have role in approval of finance across the country under CPEC. buy loyalties of MPAs bill and election of prime minister. Afghan border police secure their side of Pakistan-Afghanistan borders, after three consecutive days She maintained that three SEZs Currently, the Senate has no role of its closure, in Toorkham, Afghanistan. Hundreds of people from across the borders were stranded were already notified in Sindh. and to get elected to in legislations related to finance bill, on either sides after talks between Pakistani and Afghan officials failed following a disagreement over A high-level committee led the Senate. including annual budget, or in elec- installation of barbed wire and putting up fences in Pakistani territory. by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tion or vote of confidence of prime would give a formal go ahead to minister. Tahir Mashhadi said the SEZ schemes soon and then share Senate, through recent initiatives, details with Chinese authorities. Internews had made its name far better and This would be followed up with efficient than before. provision of basic infrastructure Sardar Azam Musakhel said Strategy planned for peace in Sindh facilities like power, gas and water. in direct elections for the Senate, Responding to a question over ISLAMABAD: A majority of Paki- a province as a whole should be a possible inking of Bilateral Invest- stani Senators expressed their constituency and because of direct Internews people working on China-Pakistan to help Sindh police in getting fed- ment Treaty (BIT) with US, she said support for existing system of elec- elections, Senators would be more Economic Corridor (CPEC) and on other eral government’s permission to the Board stopped all negotiations tion for members of the Senate accountable to their electorates and projects, the committee was informed. acquire latest technology, strengthen on new BITs or ratifying the exist- yesterday, but demanded more polit- workers would be more active. The committee meeting, pre- the special branch, counter-terror- ing BITs until finalisation of new ical powers for the Upper House. Chaudhry Tanveer said direct KARACHI: The Apex Committee sided over by Chief Minister Syed ism department, training centres template for BIT. The Upper House was trans- elections would not resolve the prob- of Sindh Province has decided to Qaim Ali Shah, further decided to of police, provide police access to The template would be sub- formed into a Senate Committee of lem. He said small reforms in the develop a new strategy for sustain- provide necessary facilities to Rang- Nadra’s database related to crimi- mitted before the Cabinet after the Whole to discuss mode of election system would make it more effective. able peace in the city and strengthen ers checkpoints at Sindh-Balochistan nals and their families, establish a consultation with stakeholders, for members of the Senate and pros Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldin said there the police force by inducting 20,000 and Sindh-Punjab borders and also to forensic lab and install new closed- she added. She said the Board and cons of single transferable vot- was need for reforming the entire more personnel, including 8,000 police, Anti-Narcotics Force, Excise, circuit television cameras. was working to improve Pakistan’s ing system. The committee meeting system. He said senators should be personnel in Karachi, who will be National Database Registration Earlier, a detailed presentation ranking in Ease of Doing Business was presided over by Senate Chair- directly elected by the people while trained by the army. Authority for verification and check- on law and order was given by the Report. The Board has evolved a man Raza Rabbani. chief secretaries, governors and IG Moreover, a special force com- ing of every individual and vehicle Rangers and police authorities by strategy and bringing improve- Almost all Senators expressed police in provinces should not be prising 2,000 ex-army personnel will through electronic equipment. highlighting their performance, cur- ment in various indicators of Ease concern over allegations that a appointed by the federal government. be created for security of the Chinese The apex committee also decided rent issues and challenges before them. of Doing Business in phases. ‘Solar kids’ London court’s decision proves Sharifs own Park Lane flats disappointed Internews obtained from the Al-Towfeek Invest- these properties with the fund. The court on February 5, 1999 of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, the after meeting ment Fund in the name of Hudaibiya The Sharif family’s response so ruled: “It is ordered that: 1) the defend- defendants were ordered to pay to the Paper Mills and had attached four far has mainly remained focused ants’ application under RSC Order 12 plaintiff the loan money but till date it President properties of the Sharifs. Those four on the post 2006 transactions while Rule 8 be refused. 2) Costs of this appli- remained due and that the defendants ISLAMABAD: The London High properties are the same which the the family has so far tried to avoid cation be paid by the defendants to the have a beneficial interest in the assets Court’s 1999 decision in the Hudaibiya PM’s son says he had bought in 2006 discussing the details of offshore plaintiff to be taxed if not agreed.” specified in the schedule thereto. Internews Papers Mills loans acquired through along with offshore companies. companies from 1993 to 2006. On March 16, 1999, the court Hussain Nawaz, son of the prime Al-Towfeek Investment Fund is irref- Sharif family in its response has Perhaps, the London High Court’s delivered its judgment ordering Huda- minister, has told the media in his utable documentary evidence proving mentioned that after selling the busi- decision of 1999 is the only document biya and the three other defendants to repeated statements that only after ISLAMABAD: The so-called ‘solar the Sharifs’ association with London ness in Saudi Arabia in 2006, the money which can put the Sharifs in trouble. repay the loan. The amount due was selling a steel mill in Saudia Arabia in kids’, who have been suffering flats which the prime minister’s chil- was transferred through legal channels There were four defendants not paid and on November 5, 1999, the 2006, he bought two offshore compa- from a mystery ailment, came dren claim to have purchased in 2006. to the UK where the offshore companies before the London High Court: Hud- court by ordered that the properties nies Nielsen Enterprises Limited and out disappointed from a meeting Though his children have been and London flats were bought. abiya Paper Mills Ltd (first defendant), of the Sharifs be attached. Nescoll Limited and then purchased with President Mamnoon Hussain trying to justify that they had pur- However, the UK’s high court Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif (sec- The judgment said that upon flats number 16, 17, 17A of Park Lane yesterday. The family said that the chased the flats after selling their steel decision of 1999 proves it beyond ond defendant), Mohammad Sharif reading the witness statements London in the names of these offshore President met them for five min- mill in Jeddah, the London court in doubt that the Sharif family was (third defendant) and Mohammad of Shezi Nackvi filed on October companies. utes for a photo-op, and left after 1999 had proceeded against Shahbaz the declared owner of London flats Abbas Sharif (fourth defendant) and 26, 1999, and November 5 ,1999 it He said that he or any member of giving the children a cricket bat, a Sharif, Abbas Sharif and Muham- because it obtained a loan from a UK- the plaintiff was Al-Towfeek Invest- appeared that by a judgment made his family never owned these offshore tennis ball and a football. mad Sharif for defaulting on a loan based investment fund by pledging ment Funds Ltd. on March 16, 1999 in the High Court companies before 2006. The children’s father, Moham- mad Hashim said he was excited to get an invitation to meet the president. “I thought he would announce some kind of package Bringing smiles Sharif govt fails to fully for my children’s future and finan- cial aid for the family, which did not happen,” he said. Hashim said he was surprised utilise power plants when the President handed his children toys worth a few hun- dred rupees and left. Internews “I had heard that when the President calls a family suffering in some way, he announces funds or other packages for them,” he said. LAHORE: As summer season kicks The children’s father said that in and temperatures rise in Paki- the media had been a big help. stan, one of the shortcomings of the The case of the three chil- economy becomes more apparent: dren came to light when reports the energy shortfall. emerged of three brothers in a Sources in the Ministry of Water village in Balochistan who would and Power revealed that one of the wake up normal and full of energy main reasons behind this scarcity in the morning and would lose was under-utilisation of resources energy as the day progressed, that not only causes a loss to so much so that they would be the national exchequer but also “The cost of generating electric- completely paralysed by sun set, increases the financial burden on ity through re-gasified LNG was Rs with the cycle repeating every the general citizens. 7.26 to Rs 7.66 per unit, while the day. Because they are only active Orphaned children play at the Edhi Foundation in the port city of Karachi. Abdul Sattar Edhi created With the power shortfall cross- capacity utilised is 59.2 per cent. during the day, villagers had nick- a charitable empire out of nothing, masterminding Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation. ing 4,500 megawatts, it is evident the However, cost of heavy fuel oil- named the children ‘solar kids’. government is not fully utilising its based electricity stood at Rs 4.70 to Rs power plants, resulting in long hours 5.70 per unit and the capacity utilised of load-shedding. was 41.6 per cent,” said the source. “Power sector data shows the real For instance, the Nandipur plant is issue is under-utilisation of capacity being run despite being uneconomi- Residences of parliamentarians teeming with rats as in March 2016 only 41.43 per cent cal and inefficient. “Nandipur run at 36 of total dependable capacity was uti- per cent of its capacity at a cost of Rs lised,” said a source. The government’s 7.54 per kilowatt-hour in March 2016.” Internews of rats biting children in Peshawar. During the meeting, it was The public health coordinator at usual stance is that the energy crisis Similarly, plants in Muzaffargarh Women MNAs residing in the pointed out that rodents had caused the Peshawar District Health Office, is the outcome of production shortfall, (only 30 per cent of capacity utilised) Parliament Lodges also took the short circuiting and an ensuing fire Mohammad Asif, clarified that three however, this is not the case. and Faisalabad (21 per cent of capac- opportunity to raise complaints about in the Supreme Court, which is also people had died from rat bites as “Not running the power plants at ity utilised) are generating electricity ISLAMABAD: It appears that in addi- a rat infestation in the lodges. infested with rats. compared to figures reported in the full capacity makes them lose effi- at Rs 6.07 to Rs6.91 per unit and tion to children in Peshawar’s hospitals, “A rat bit me recently,” PPP MNA The chairman of the commit- media. ciency and increases per unit cost. Rs10.20 per unit, respectively. rats have also bitten parliamentarians Musarat Rafique said. Jamiat Ulema- tee, PML-N MNA Babar Nawaz Khan “There have been 923 cases of rat Running more costly re-gasified LNG The government is planning to add and their children in Islamabad. i-Islam (JUI-F) MNA Aliya Karman said the National Assembly deputy bites reported so far,” Asif said. plants is adding to the woes of con- more than 6,000MW to national grid The matter was raised at a meet- added: “Giant rodents have attacked speaker, who is in charge of the main- “There is no research on this sumers due to increase in per unit through LNG and coal-based plants. ing of National Assembly Standing children. We have to block holes and tenance of the Parliament Lodges, species of rodent in Pakistan. We do cost whereas cheaper furnace oil- “What is the rationale to add more Committee on Human Rights yester- open spaces to stop them from enter- would be asked to respond to the not know if it is native or imported,” based plants are not being utilised capacity, when existing one is not day, which discussed increasing cases ing our apartments.” complaints. he said. fully,” added the source. being utilised fully,” the source asked. INDIA SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 07 Parliament passes key bills amid chopper row

IANS minister, the parliament session saw in Uttarakhand, Congress members Modi on Friday pointed out that it functioning of the Lok Sabha pro- the successful passage of several key in the Rajya Sabha resisted according would have been good if the Goods ceedings was most recently recorded The 8th session of bills. approval to the state budget -- which and Services Tax (GST) Bill and the almost 25 years ago -- in 1990 during the 16th Lok Sabha The eighth session of the 16th Lok Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley one seeking to unlock Compensatory the stint of Rabi Ray as Speaker; and NEW DELHI: The high-decibel Sabha passed important legislations, called a “constitutional necessity”. Afforestation Fund Management and in 1992 when Shivraj Patil was pre- passed important debate on AgustaWestland chopper including the Insolvency and Bank- The hill state was under Presi- Planning Authority (CAMPA) funds siding over the lower house. legislations, including scam and acrimonious scenes over ruptcy Code, which is being described dent’s Rule since March 27 and the were also passed during the session. During the session, which con- political developments in Uttara- as one key reform step and a game- Centre had issued an ordinance on “Had we decided on CAMPA Bill cluded on Wednesday, the Lok Sabha the Insolvency and khand, punctuated with allegations changer in terms of tracking black March 31 to ensure that the state’s in this session, states would have also recorded 120 percent work dur- Bankruptcy Code, and counter-allegations, dominated money. expenditures in the new financial got Rs.42,000 crore. That would be ing its 13 sittings spread over 92 hours the proceedings in both houses of This key bill later got the nod from year had legal sanction. Rs.2,000 crore to Rs.3,000 crore per 21 minutes. which is being parliament during the Budget Ses- the Rajya Sabha too. After winning the trial of strength state,” the prime minister said. On the last day of the session in described as one sion-Part II that concluded, yesterday. In the Rajya Sabha, too, despite in the assembly mandated by the He said similarly the states would the Rajya Sabha, in his concluding The Lok Sabha proceedings ended differences and occasional dis- Supreme Court, the Harish Rawat- have benefited if the much-awaited remarks on various retiring members, key reform step and on Wednesday -- two days ahead of ruptions over Uttarakhand and led Congress ministry was back in GST Bill was also passed. Finance Minister Jaitley, who is also a game-changer in schedule. AgustaWestland, a bill was passed Uttarakhand. The 8th session of the 16th Lok Leader of the House, sought to revive terms of tracking Notwithstanding the bitter- on May 11 to upgrade the Rajendra Among the bills passed by the Sabha also created history of sorts the debate about contests of powers ness over the chopper deal debate Agricultural University in Bihar into Rajya Sabha during the session were when the business of the lower and authorities of the two houses. black money. It got and developments concerning Utta- a central university. In a record of the Finance Bill 2016, The Appropri- house could be carried out without He preferred the supremacy of the nod from the rakhand, and other issues like an sorts, the bill was also passed by the ation (No 2) Bill 2016, the Insolvency any adjournment due to interruptions. parliament in general and the Lok adverse CAG report on Gujarat Lok Sabha on the same day. and Bankruptcy Code 2016 and The “This is making of a history,” a Sabha in particular in two funda- Rajya Sabha too. State Petroleum Corporation when In the midst of a fierce legal bat- Indian Trusts (Amendment) Bill 2015. senior Lok Sabha official told IANS mental duties of governance -- of “law Narendra Modi was the state’s chief tle over imposition of President’s Rule In fact, Prime Minister Narendra here, adding that such smooth making and budget making”.

New Intellectual Maharashtra bans Property Rights council ordering Policy unveiled IANS

‘social boycotts’ NEW DELHI: India has unveiled a new National Intellectual Prop- erty Rights Policy to safeguard Reuters example. “The law will help check commercial interests arising from caste crimes to some extent. It creativity -- like music, books, empowers lower-caste people and industrial drawings, software and it empowers human rights organisa- even drugs and pharmaceuticals. MUMBA: India’s Maharashtra state tions, as it gives us a tool with which The country, in the process, has become the first in the country to fight against village panchayats,” also wants to meet global obliga- to ban village councils from impos- said Irfan Engineer, director of the tion towards protecting innovation, ing “social boycotts” that ostracise Centre for Study of Society and Sec- while also placing it at the core of individuals or families for defying ularism in Mumbai. industrial progress. The new policy tradition. “We need a similar law in the will serve as a vision document to Women and lower caste Dalits rest of the country, particularly in ensure synergies between the stat- often bear the brunt of such judg- states where (unelected) khap pan- ute and institutional mechanisms. ments, passed as punishment for chayats are strong,” he told the “When there’re new inven- perceived misdeeds such as mar- Thomson Reuters Foundation. tions, when there is growth in rying between castes or dressing Khap panchayats are unelected trade, commerce, industry, an immodestly. village councils comprising men of a Tribal villagers filling up containers with drinking water from a leaking pipe on a roadside at Chandampet intellectual property rights regime The western Indian state last particular clan or caste. While their Mandal in Nalgonda, east of Hyderabad, in Telangana, yesterday. must be there for protection,” month passed the law against a power has diminished since 1992, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. decades-old practice of village pan- when elected village councils were “We have a robust trademark chayats, or councils, ordering social made mandatory, they remain pow- law in place that deals with com- boycotts. “The Act was required erful in socially conservative states Drought-hit kids to get free meals mercial identity of products. The against the backdrop of atrocities including Haryana, Punjab, Rajas- one underlying principle is a per- inflicted on people in the name of than and parts of Uttar Pradesh. son should sell products under his tradition, caste and community,” India’s top court in 2011 own identity and name -- steal- said Maharashtra Chief Minister described khap panchayats as “kan- AFP high and some have migrated to cit- have prompted extreme measures ing identity should not be possible,” Devendra Fadnavis. “It is necessary garoo courts” that are entirely illegal. ies and towns to work as daily wage including water restrictions, armed Jaitley added. to prohibit social boycotts as a mat- Maharashtra, home to sev- labourers to earn money. Acting on a guards at reservoirs and water trains “If you steal somebody’s iden- ter of social reform in the interest of eral social reformers including B.R. petition, the Supreme Court ordered sent to the worst-affected regions. tity and piggy-back on it, it’s called public welfare,” he said. Ambedkar who fought against caste NEW DELHI: India’s top court yes- that children affected by drought Prime Minister Narendra Modi commercial theft,” he said, but Under village council orders, discrimination, in 2013 passed legis- terday ordered state governments to should be provided free meals six has met recently with at least three assured intervention when needed. individuals and families have been lation criminalising practices related provide free meals to schoolchildren days a week under the government state chief ministers over the drought, “We need this so that medicine banished from the community, and to black magic, human sacrifices, even during the summer break as the scheme with either an egg or milk as the government comes under costs don’t get affected. Patents denied access to temples, wells, mar- and other superstitious beliefs. country reels from the impact of one added to the menu. intense pressure to ease the crisis. may give rise to a monopolistic kets and celebrations. The social boycott act is another of the worst droughts on record. “Children affected by the The free meal scheme, which situation. Hence a balancing act In some cases, panchayats have step toward ending outdated cus- Free lunches are offered to some drought should be provided one egg started nationally in 2001, is aimed at is needed.” even branded women as witches, toms, said Avinash Patil, executive 120 million students throughout India or 200gms of milk per day six days enticing poor and vulnerable children He said unlike earlier where and ordered gang rapes or killings president of Maharashtra And- in what is the world’s largest school a week under the mid-day meal to attend class instead of languish- copyright was accorded to only as punishment. hashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, feeding programme, but not during scheme,” Justice Madan B. Lokur said ing at home hungry or helping their books and publications, the recast Maharashtra’s new law declares which had campaigned for the bill, holidays. However, with some 330 in a written judgement. parents labour. The 2015 global hun- regime will cover films, music social boycotts a crime punisha- as well as the 2013 law. million people -- a quarter of the “In addition to this, the mid-day ger index (GHI) report ranked India and industrial drawings. A host ble by up to seven years in prison, “We are demanding that the cen- Indian population -- suffering from meal scheme should continue dur- at 20th spot, with a World Bank esti- of laws will also be streamlined a fine of $7,500 or both. Human tral government enact similar laws severe drought, households have seen ing the summer vacation period mate saying it has the highest rate of -- on semi-conductors, designs, rights campaigners called for other in all states, so we can end this bru- their incomes dip sharply owing to in schools so that children are not malnutrition among children, almost geographical indications, trade- Indian states to follow Maharashtra’s tal practice,” he said. poor harvests. Farmer suicides are deprived of their meals.” Poor rains double that of sub-Saharan Africa. marks and patents.

World’s largest aircraft Malegaon blast: Key accused and five others get clean chit

IANS officer are admissible in a court anybody. The premier probe agency under the law. However, they will did not rely on the confessionals now be prosecuted under the lesser recorded by the Mumbai Anti-Ter- stringent Unlawful Activities (Pre- ror Squad (ATS) under the dreaded MUMBAI: The National Investigation vention) Act, or UAPA, for their role MCOCA. Agency (NIA) yesterday gave a clean in the bombing that had brought to The Sadhvi’s lawyer Sanjiv Punal- chit to Malegaon blast key accused fore the so-called “right-wing ter- ekar said that the NIA had decided Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur and ror” in India. Most of the accused in to drop charges against her because five others, dropping terror charges such terror cases were linked to Hin- there was no sufficient evidence to against them and paving the way for dutva groups, including the Rashtriya prosecute her. their early release from prison. Jagran Manch and Abhinav Bharat. “The charges against the six But eight more accused, includ- The Malegaon blasts accused accused have been dropped while the ing Colonel Srikant Purohit, will given clean chit include the Sadhvi, charge sheet is being filed against the continue to be prosecuted for their Shiv Narain Kalsangra, Shyam Bha- other remaining accused,” Punalekar role in the September 2008 terror varlal Sahu, Pravin Takkalki alias said. The six accused were likely to bombing that claimed at least seven Mutalik, Lokesh Sharma and Dhan be released from prisons soon, he told lives in the Muslim majority town of Singh Choudhury. reporters. The Malegaon blast was Maharashtra. “During investigations, suffi- the first terror case involving the The NIA in its supplementary cient evidences have not been found hitherto unknown “Hindu extrem- charges filed before a special court against (the accused) and the NIA has ists” and was initially investigated here decided to drop terror charges submitted in the final report that by police and the ATS later. The case under the dreaded Maharashtra Con- the prosecution against them is not finally went to the NIA which was Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and airport personnel stand near the world’s largest aircraft, trol of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) maintainable,” the agency said, add- formed in 2009, months after the the AN-225 Mriya, at Rajiv Gandhi International airport in Hyderabad, yesterday. against all the accused, an official ing that no offence was established November 16, 2008, Mumbai terror said. Confessions before a police under the MCOCA in this case against attack. 08 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Change in Brazil War on militants tests razil’s Senate has finally voted to suspend Dilma Rousseff and begin an impeachment trial against her, ratcheting up tensions in a country which has Tunisia’s young democracy witnessed intense squabbling and turmoil over the fate of a leader whose popularity has been on a steady Bdecline. The Senate took the decision on Thursday morning after an all-night debate, and in a vote of 55 to 22, the lawmakers By Patrick Markey type of abuse,” said Justice Minis- detention period to 15-days. home and threw him in a Tunis and Tarek Amara accepted the charges against Rousseff – that she borrowed from ter Omar Mansour during a visit to Tunisia’s army has made jail where he said he was abused Reuters a women’s prison on May 8. Many progress in counter-terrorism, verbally, forced to kneel for hours, state banks to conceal a looming deficit, among others. of the inmates there were arrested in part thanks to training from and accused of links to militants Michel Temer was sworn into office on Thursday as interim under terrorism charges and have Western nations such as bor- behind the attack on the bor- President, taking the country to the centre-right after 13 years of complained of beatings. der protection tactics. But police der town of Ben Guerdane. Five leftist Workers Party rule. Temer quickly started work on revving OUR days after Islam- Few accuse Tunisia of a return reforms have lagged behind and days later he was released with- up the battered economy. After taking oath, he promptly unveiled ist militants shot dead to the worst days of its past when the government has brought back out charge. an agenda of reforms, including cuts to public spending and 21 tourists in Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s security former Ben Ali officers to beef up “If this happened to me, some- Bardo museum last services operated with impunity. its intelligence ranks. one relatively known, imagine pension reforms. year, police rounded Since the 2011 uprising ended his “They bring knowledge in what happens to those who don’t The crisis over Rousseff has been roiling the political waters of up dozens of peo- repressive regime, Tunisian civil security in general and counter- have anyone to help them out,” Brazil for some time at a time when the Fple suspected of links with the society, rights groups and a free terrorism,” one senior Tunisian Melliti told Reuters. “Where are country badly needs political unity and gunmen. press have brought the state under security official told Reuters. “Of the rights, where are the author- The political a stable government to repair its badly One of the men, a labourer, scrutiny in a way never imagined course, abuses can happen, but ities in all this?” crisis in mutilated economy. For independent was arrested in his Tunis home. under Ben Ali. the cases of mistreatment and A police spokesman said he observers, both sides are not without The man, who has denied any At the same time, the Islam- torture are only individuals. All could not comment on the case. Brazil is set connection to the militants, said ist threat has many people calling those cases that are proven, we After the Bardo attack, some blemish. Michel Temer himself, who he was taken to a police deten- for a harsh crackdown. Militants punish them.” conservative young Tunisians to worsen replaced Rousseff, has been convicted tion centre where he was tied to have struck three times since Tunisia’s Human Rights Min- began shaving off their beards with the of violating campaign finance limits. a metal bar and had his head and Bardo, gunning down tourists at ister Kamel Jandoubi said his and avoiding going to pray to suspension But that doesn’t absolve Rousseff of feet smashed with a pipe. a Sousse beach, dispatching a sui- country is trying to get the bal- evade police sweeps in poorer responsibility for her commissions “I told them everything, I even cide bomber in Tunis and raiding ance between security and Tunis neighbourhoods. of Dilma and omissions. She had a wonderful told them I was guilty, just so they a border town. human rights, but acknowledges Mohammed, a conserva- would stop,” said the labourer President Beji Caid Essebsi difficulties. tive Tunis resident who works Rousseff. But opportunity to lead her country up who is on release from prison regularly tells Tunisians they are “How do you fight against a at a community centre and as a parties must the path of economic progress but her and spoke to Reuters last month at war with militants trying to group seeking death and do it with representative for a European set aside their image was tarnished by accusations of in the company of his attorney. “I attack its democracy. the principles of rights? A soci- company, said police visit him corruption and other malpractices. She thought I didn’t have any other The labourer who was beaten ety has to defend itself,” Jandoubi after every attack to put him on differences has now vowed to fight the impeachment way out.” by police, who told him he was a said. “When we arrest someone, administrative restriction—lim- to rebuild trial. But that should be through legal Several recent cases of police suspect because he lived in the it is always with the principle of iting his movements—though he and democratic means, instead of abuse - which the Tunisian gov- same neighbourhood as one of the human rights.” has never been charged or jailed. the country’s ernment acknowledges still Bardo gunmen, said such brutal- Activists worry that even iso- “Are they really fighting ter- battered choosing a path of confrontation. She sometimes occurs - underscore ity left him fearful. “I always heard lated security abuses will feed rorism like this,” he said. economy. must allow the law and the democratic the difficult path Tunisia is tread- about people being tortured, but jihadist propaganda, especially Meanwhile, secular politi- process to take their course. Her ing as it tries to both nurture the never thought I would become a because Tunisia is still struggling cians such as lawmaker Walid popularity has declined and the margin young democracy it founded after victim myself,” he said. to fix the youth unemployment Jalled are calling for a ban in pub- against her in the Senate on Thursday the 2011 revolution and simulta- There is little doubt Tunisia is and economic malaise that helped lic places on the full-face niqab shows that she has little chance of winning the trial and finishing neously fight Islamist militants. at risk from militants. More than trigger the 2011 uprising. veils saying militants use them to Like France, Belgium and 4,000 Tunisians have left to fight It does not help when cases evade police. the remaining two and a half years of her final term in office. other victims of Islamist bomb- for Islamist state and other groups of abuse are high profile, like the “Don’t think that the freedoms If Rousseff and her opponents continue their fight, it will ings and attacks, Tunisia is trying in Iraq, Syria and Libya. one involving Sofiane Melliti, a and rights we won in the revolu- only prolong the agony of the country and a compromise seems to figure out how to protect people A state of emergency extended former professional footballer tion are going to disappear. No unlikely considering the depth of hatred and distrust between the while also protecting their rights. since the Sousse hotel attack in with a 2006 World Cup appear- Tunisian would accept that,” he two sides. But this is a crisis the country must overcome, which That process is even more June has given state security wider ance and scores of international said. “But we are in a delicate and it will overcome. Temer must focus on rebuilding the economy, difficult in a country where the powers to make arrests and detain matches under his belt. sensitive phrase in the war on ter- which is going through its worst period in decades, and steer security services themselves are suspects. A new anti-terrorism law In late March, counter-ter- ror and we have to use what we trying to emerge from a history has also extended the pre-trial rorism forces stormed Melliti’s must to win.” away from the mistakes committed by his predecessor. Rousseff as abusers. As they take on the has the option of taking her grievances to the people. Meanwhile, Islamists, there is a risk that police the leaders need to show a face of unity because the Summer abuse will undermine the coun- Olympics, which Rio de Janeiro is hosting, is just months away. try’s democratic progress. Rights groups such as Amnesty International and law- yers say cases of abuse at police detention, arbitrary arrests and torture have emerged, undermin- ing the new democracy. Quote of the day “When it comes to the war on terrorism, people say rights We are united in our are taking a back seat,” said law- concern about Russia’s yer Anouar Aouled Ali who has defended suspected militants. growing aggressive The government said more military presence and needs to be done to stop it. In posture in the Baltic- April, it set up an independent commission to prevent torture and Nordic region. other abuses, an initiative praised by the United Nations. “We know there are cases of torture, but it is not systematic or a Barack Obama strategy. They are individual cases US President and we are working on them with Sofiane Melliti, 38, a Tunisian soccer player who says he has been harassed by authorities because civil groups so we can stop this of suspected ties to militant attacks, poses for a photograph in Tunis.

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By Tommy Wilkes and Rupam Jain sector where change is reaching distressed Reuters rural communities in Uttar Pradesh who will go a long way to deciding the outcome of the 2017 ballot. It was the prospect of tangible change OR Indian farmer Sompal that voters chose in 2014, propelling Modi Singh, the light bulb that to a landslide election victory won on the flickers outside his mud hut bold promise that “the good days are com- home is a symbol of progress: ing” for 1.3 billion people and by tapping The first time electricity from dreams of a more modern India. the grid has reached his While many promises remain unre- Fremote village since independence in 1947. alised, power reforms and the creation It is also a big deal for Prime Minister of tens of millions of new bank accounts Narendra Modi, who has promised to pro- have helped Modi maintain his popularity. vide electricity to every village before the In a February poll for India Today end of 2018 and is trying to woo the huge magazine, 40 percent of respondents rural population ahead of a key election chose him as the best candidate to be in Uttar Pradesh state next year. next prime minister, more than any other “The (electricity) supply is erratic but politician. Modi is personally stepping up we are happy that there has been a start,” pressure on ministers and bureaucrats said Singh, a 37-year-old father of three, to deliver results on everything from who employs a bullock to work the fields financial inclusion to infrastructure and Modi, 65, has plenty to boast about: Economic growth outstrips China’s, foreign direct investment grew by a quarter in Rampara Kisana, six hours’ drive east electricity to jobs. in the 2015 financial year over the previous year and inflation has nearly halved since 2013. of New Delhi. “We feel we have not been One senior government source said forgotten.” Modi warned individual ministers this As Modi approaches the halfway point month that he was personally monitor- of his five-year tenure, the leader of the ing the performance of each ministry to tax remain blocked in parliament, where a state poll next year to sustain his hope on people’s ability to afford it. world’s biggest democracy has not had it shake them into action, as his impatience the opposition controls the upper cham- of one day gaining full control of parlia- In Rampara Kisana, one of the last set- easy. Key economic reforms are stalled, with underperformance grows. ber, and two consecutive droughts hit ment and a second term in 2019. tlements before the road vanishes into the his “Make in India” push to turn the coun- He is also expected to unveil a rural India hard. The government must That may explain why the rate of floodplain of a Ganges tributary, Singh try into a manufacturing powerhouse has reshuffle of ministers within weeks, and also find employment for around a mil- electrification is highest in the state, was the first farmer to buy a television floundered and sizeable minority groups underperformers could lose their jobs. lion people joining the workforce every home to 200 million people including after power arrived in March. blame him and his party for pushing a Underlining the scale of his ambi- month, another major preoccupation for farmer Singh. Under an $11.4bn scheme, Farmers and their wives brandish Hindu nationalist agenda at their expense. tion, Modi has told power officials he Modi and his team. more than 7,000 villages across the passbooks for their first bank accounts, Yet his government has made progress wants to announce that every village At a cabinet meeting earlier this year, country were electrified in the 2015/16 while children talk excitedly of promises elsewhere, most notably in the power has been electrified at his next federal Modi assessed progress on some key financial year, the most since 2011/12, to build underground cables bringing budget in early 2017, 18 months ahead infrastructure projects and asked min- data from state-run Rural Electrifica- broadband. Yet power supply remains of the original target, a senior official isters to focus on those that would sustain tion Corp show. erratic, and many smaller settlements in told Reuters. the most jobs, a close aide to Modi said. That leaves 10,500 still unconnected, the area are left out. That would allow him to tell voters At the meeting, Modi gave the example and is only a small percentage of India’s In Patrampur village, 120km south- he had beaten his own target on a flag- of how kings would embark on large-scale 600,000 villages. Nor does an electrified east of the capital, residents said engineers ship policy. “This government’s job is to construction projects to deal with drought village mean everyone living there has arrived earlier this year to fix power As Modi approaches the halfway focus its energies on development, to and unemployment in times of crisis. power. But reaching people in some of the cables that had been broken for more than point of his five-year tenure, the take it (electricity) to every home, not like “Numerous new projects will have to poorest, most remote areas blunts criti- a decade. Even then, it is often an unaf- leader of the world’s biggest the erstwhile years where if the power be launched and creative ideas will have cism that Modi has put the rising middle fordable luxury. reached ... a few homes in the village the to be implemented, but we are yet to crack class before rural communities. Villagers said the cost of a connec- democracy has not had it easy. Key government thought the work was over,” the code,” the aide said. The BJP has also A new website monitors site vis- tion was between Rs1,500 and Rs2,000 economic reforms are stalled and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said. The been accused of undermining India’s tra- its to every village to assess progress, ($23 to $30), and several hundred rupees prime minister’s office declined to com- ditions of religious tolerance by appealing and releases photographs of incomplete a month after that for electricity. his “Make in India” push to turn ment for this article. to the Hindu majority, a shift that wor- work with the names and phone num- Many people in Rampara Kisana and the country into a manufacturing Modi, 65, has plenty to boast about; ries the Muslim population estimated at bers of the engineers in charge. Power Patrampur are subsistence farmers, and Economic growth outstrips China’s, for- around 170 million people. reforms also aim to end blackouts that do not know exactly how much they earn. powerhouse has floundered. eign direct investment grew by a quarter “If growth doesn’t pick up, if job cre- regularly affect even the biggest cities, But government data show that in Uttar Yet his government has made in the 2015 financial year over the previ- ation doesn’t pick up, that restlessness, and to that end India has boosted coal Pradesh, the average monthly per capita ous year and inflation has nearly halved that negative energy will manifest (itself) output and cut the peak power deficit income is Rs3,400. progress elsewhere, most notably since 2013. in social tensions,” said Ajit Ranade, chief to 1.7 percent in March from 5.4 percent Samay Pal Singh, a maize farmer in in the power sector where change Still, recent state election defeats economist at industrial giant Aditya Birla in mid-2014. Patrampur, said he could not afford the is reaching distressed rural punctured his aura of invincibility, and Group. “The stakes are huge.” The government has also won pledges Rs1,800 for a power connection, because the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Results in five regional elections, four of billions of dollars in funding for a push of debts accrued in paying for his daugh- communities in Uttar Pradesh who has seen ratings slip. The India Today poll of them opposition strongholds, are due on into solar energy and agreed a financial ter-in-law’s medical costs. will go a long way to deciding the showed a BJP-led coalition would win 286 May 19. Of those, the BJP has set its sights restructuring package for indebted utili- “I feel bad about it. Everybody has parliamentary seats if there had been an on winning only the northeastern state of ties. Still, almost one in four Indians lives electricity, but I have limited funds and no outcome of the 2017 ballot. election in February from 336 in 2014. Assam. But it is Uttar Pradesh, India’s big- without electricity, long outages remain one is helping.” Inside his room, a light fit- Key economic reforms on land and gest electoral prize, that Modi must win in the norm and access to power depends ting, with no bulb, dangled from the wall. ‘Avengers’ threaten new insurgency in Nigeria’s oil-producing Delta

By Tife Owolabi and Ulf poorest areas despite generating 70 all the locations,” it said. “It will be across Nigeria worsened as gas sup- another round of full-scale militancy”. Laessing percent of state income. Violence has bloody. So just shut down your oper- plies were also affected. Even oil majors, which have Reuters increased sharply this year - most of ations and leave.” There have been other smaller long pressed for better pipeline it claimed by the “Avengers” - after “To international oil companies, attacks and this week another explo- protection, worry the tactics could Buhari scaled back an amnesty deal this is just the beginning and you have sion, which bore the hallmarks of backfire. Executives met Vice Pres- with rebel groups, which had ended not seen anything yet. We will make the group, closed Shell’s Bonny Light ident Yemi Osinbajo this week and HEY call themselves the a 2004-2009 insurgency. you suffer,” it said. Authorities have no export programme. one of them warned the government Niger Delta Avengers. Little Under the deal, more state cash hard facts about the group - such as Its members describe themselves was being “too direct and blunt” is known about the new rad- was channelled to the region for job its size, bases or leadership, Nigeria- there as “young, well travelled” and and needed to find some balance, ical group that has claimed a training and militant groups were based diplomats say. mostly educated in eastern Europe. according to a source familiar with Militancy has been Tseries of pipeline bombings in Niger- handed contracts to protect the pipe- Diplomats and security experts Given the lack of intelligence about the discussions. rife over the past ia’s oil-producing region this year and lines they once bombed. But Buhari say it has shown a level of sophisti- the militants, the army launched a For Buhari, the campaign against evaded gunboats and soldiers trawl- cut the budget allocated to the plan cation not seen since the peak of the wide-ranging hunt across the Delta former militants is a part of his elec- decade in the Delta, ing swamps and villages. by about 70 percent and cancelled the 2004-2009 insurgency, which halved this week, sending gunboats into mos- tion promise to fix a country gripped a southern region Their attacks have driven Nigerian contracts, citing corruption and mis- Nigeria’s oil output. They say it must quito-infested creeks and searching by graft and mismanagement. oil output to near a 22-year low and, management of funds. be getting help from sympathetic oil villages in the middle of the night. Buhari’s cutting of the amnesty plan’s which is one of the if the violence escalates into another The “Avengers” have carried out workers in identifying the pipelines But some residents say such a budget has also caused widespread country’s poorest insurgency in the restive area, it could a string of attacks since February to cause maximum damage. heavy-handed military approach resentment in the Delta, as it helps areas despite cripple production in a country facing that reduced Nigerian oil output by “Its scary. Their demands are stokes dissent in the Delta where fund job training for the unemployed. a growing economic crisis. at least 300,000 barrels a day of out- impossible to meet so there will be many complain of poverty despite Tapping into such anger, the generating 70 President Muhammadu Buhari put, and shut down two refineries and probably more attacks,” said a secu- sitting on much of Nigeria’s energy “Avengers” point out that the former percent of state has said he will crush the militants, a major export terminal. On Thursday, rity expert, asking not to be named. wealth. They say some villagers help military ruler has never visited the but a wide-scale conflict could stretch the group emailed journalists a state- In February the group claimed an militants to hide in the hard-to-access Delta, where many roads are pot- income. security forces already battling a ment saying they were fighting for an attack on an undersea pipeline, forc- swamps. holed and some villages are polluted northern rebellion by hardline Sunni independent Delta and would step up ing Shell to shut a 250,000 barrels a Alagoa Morris, an environmental from oil spills. In a flurry of state- Muslim group Boko Haram. their attacks unless oil firms left the day Forcados terminal. Last week, activist based in the Delta, said unless ments, the militants have published Militancy has been rife over the region within two weeks. it took credit for blasting a Chev- soldiers acted with restraint, more a list of demands, from cleaning up past decade in the Delta, a southern “If at the end of the ultimatum you ron platform, shutting the Warri and people would join the militants, with oil spills to keeping the amnesty plan, region which is one of the country’s are still operating, we will blow up Kaduna refineries. Power outages a risk of “the Niger Delta returning to leading up to Thursday’s ultimatum.

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on a daily basis during last year’s Joanne Liu said in an open letter to peak months,” Frontex chief Fabrice EU leaders. Last month 3,360 Leggeri said in a statement. More than 850,000 people— migrants and The agreement is the cornerstone most of them fleeing conflict in of the EU’s plan to curb a crisis that war-ravaged Syria, Iraq and Afghan- refugees landed on has seen 1.25 million Syrian, Iraqi, istan—arrived on the Greek islands the Greek islands, Afghan and other migrants enter last year alone, and so far this year Europe since January 2015. another 155,765 people have landed, compared with The new figures underline the UN refugee agency figures show. 26,971 in March. powerful deterrent effect of the Italy however saw nearly 154,000 deal, and the closure of borders in arrivals last year, and more than eastern Europe, which have dis- 31,000 so far in 2016. couraged many to cross to Greece. But the balance shifted last AFP The most controversial provi- month, with Italy recording 9,149 Migrants disembark from the Italian coastguard vessel Peluso in Sicilian harbour of Augusta, Italy, yesterday. sions, including the mass return of arrivals—nearly three times more migrants from Greece to Turkey and than Greece, according to the IOM. GENEVA: A controversial EU-Turkey the exchange of Syrians, have not “For the first time last month deal dramatically cut the number been implemented on a large-scale. there were more arrivals in Italy than of migrant arrivals in Greece last But the deal was at risk of unrav- in Greece,” UNHCR spokesman Wil- Italy ups controls at Alpine pass month, data showed yesterday, elling after President Recep Tayyip liam Spindler told reporters. even as a row between Brussels Erdogan vowed that Ankara would There has been speculation that and Ankara threatened to sink the not amend its counter-terror laws—a the virtual closure of the route to Reuters the border and slow traffic along the As of May 10, 31,250 migrants had agreement. key condition set by Brussels for Tur- Greece would push refugees from highway that crosses it if there was a reached Italy by boat this year, a 14 Last month 3,360 migrants and key to secure visa-free travel. Syria to begin travelling through surge in migrant arrivals this summer. percent decline from the same period refugees landed on the Greek islands, With Turkey’s military battling North Africa and onto Italy instead. “Migrants who arrive here think- last year, according to the Interior compared with 26,971 in March—an rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ On Thursday, the Italian coast- ROME: Italy said yesterday it had ing to go to Austria will be taken to Ministry, but authorities expect the 88 percent drop, according to figures Party (PKK) in the Kurdish-majority guard initially said some 150 Syrians deployed 110 more guards to keep Italian shelters,” Alfano said at the numbers to surge this summer. from the International Organization southeast, Ankara has said that it can- were among hundreds of migrants migrants from travelling into Austria, Brenner Pass in comments broad- Italy’s announcement appeared for Migration (IOM). not change its anti-terror legislation. rescued off Sicily. after Vienna threatened to introduce cast live by SkyTG24. aimed at easing tensions after Vienna’s The EU border agency Frontex The agreement had run into But IOM spokesman Joel Millman tighter border controls that could have “A plan to slow traffic would announcement of a plan for a 370- also reported what it described as a widespread criticism from the United said yesterday that number appeared hurt trade. have an enormous impact on trade metre fence at Brenner drew fire from “dramatic” slowdown, saying it had Nations, rights groups and several EU to have been greatly exaggerated. Italian Interior Minister Angelino and travellers,” he added. The pass is Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, registered 2,700 arrivals in Greece member states even before it came When the boat that had sailed Alfano, speaking alongside his Aus- Italy’s main commercial route to Ger- who said last month it was a “shame- last month. The figures are the first into force. Medical charity MSF yes- from Egypt, thought to be carrying trian counterpart Wolfgang Sobotka at many, its top trading partner, by way less” infraction of European rules. for a full month-long period since terday described it as “a historic the large group of Syrians, arrived in the Brenner Pass, said the extra guards of Austria. “If Italy carries on acting as it has the EU-Turkey deal came into force abdication” of Europe’s moral and port “there were only two individuals would patrol the Alpine crossing point Alfano said Brenner controls done until now, namely by carrying in March and will be seen as a key legal responsibilities. who claimed to be Syrian,” Millman between the two countries. would be similar to those already in out controls on trains, at its interior measure of its effectiveness. “This deal is sending a trou- told reporters. Both Italy and Austria are mem- force in Ventimiglia, where migrants borders and at exit points, then there “The total for all of April is well bling signal to the rest of the world: Spindler said people were still bers of the European Union’s Schengen are taken off trains or stopped on the is no need (for controls),” Sobotka’s below the number of people we often countries can buy their way out of being taken from a number of boats open-border zone, but Vienna said road from crossing the border into spokeswoman said after the two min- saw reaching just the island of Lesbos providing asylum,” MSF president that rescued up to 1,000 people. last month it would erect a fence at France. isters met yesterday.

Briton gets Castle of Sleeping Beauty Major warns over life term for IS-inspired plot use of immigration

AFP in Brexit debate

LONDON: A British man who plot- AFP “As the Leave arguments ted an Islamic State(IS)-inspired implode one by one, some of the attack on US military personnel Brexit leaders morph into UKIP, and based in England was yesterday turn to their default position: immi- jailed for life and told he would LONDON: Former prime minis- gration,” Major said. spend at least 12 years behind bars. ter John Major warned yesterday “This is their trump card. I Junead Khan, 25, was a com- against using immigration as a urge them to take care, this is dan- mitted supporter of the IS group political football ahead of next gerous territory that—if handled and he also idolised Mohammed month’s referendum on British carelessly—can open up long-term Emwazi, the late British militant membership of the EU, saying it divisions in our society.” nicknamed “Jihadi John”, who risked “fuelling prejudice”. Fellow former Conserva- appeared in a string of IS execu- The former Conservative leader, tive leader Iain Duncan Smith, a tion videos. who wants Britain to stay in the bloc Brexit supporter, last week warned Khan had used his job as a in the June 23 vote, said supporters that staying in the EU meant more delivery driver for a pharmaceu- of a so-called Brexit were peddling “uncontrolled migration” that tical firm as cover to scout US Air “absurd falsehoods” about how mass would depress wages, push up Force bases in eastern England immigration would end if Britain left house prices and put pressure on between May and July 2015, it the European Union. schools and health services. emerged during his trial. “We mustn’t overlook genu- Official figures show 617,000 peo- “Junead Khan was not far A man works on huge sand sculpture ‘Castle of Sleeping Beauty’ by Russian sculptor Dmitry Glebezdob, ine concerns, but these should be ple migrated to Britain in the year to from the commission of the mur- Viktor Gogolin and Oleg Borobev during Championship of Sand Sculpture The Magical World of Sand expressed with care, honesty and bal- September, 257,000 of them coming der to be committed by horrifying in Moscow, Russia, yesterday. ance. Not in a manner that can raise from the EU. Almost 300,000 people method in the street to create ter- fears or fuel prejudice,” Major said in left in the same period. ror and terrorist propaganda in remarks released to the media. New data from Office for this country,” judge Andrew Edis The desire to stop hundreds of National Statistics revealed that said as he sentenced him. thousands of EU citizens coming to more than 257,000 Europeans “His offence was so seri- Britain each year has been a key ele- had registered for National Insur- ous that a life sentence must be EU naval mission ‘failing’ on ment of the campaign to leave the bloc, ance numbers, which are needed imposed.” Khan, from Luton, with Nigel Farage’s UK Independence to obtain work in Britain. The ONS north of London, had exchanged Party making the point repeatedly. put the discrepancy down to short- online messages with an IS fighter Major appeared to be aiming his term migration and stood by its in Syria called Abu Hussain, who people smuggling: Report remarks at those Conservatives who official figures, saying NI numbers prosecutors said was a British man, are campaigning for Brexit along- “are not a good indicator of long- Junaid Hussain. Hussain was later side UKIP. term migration”. killed in a US drone strike. The trial heard how one mes- AFP even more unsafe. The commit- member state officials had agreed to sage described an attack on tee said there was “little prospect of extend operation Sophia for another military personnel, which Khan Operation Sophia overturning the year from June and that it should take and Hussain compared to the business model of people smuggling”. on additional tasks, including helping Protest deadly knife attack by two Islam- LONDON: The European Union’s Committee chairman Lord train the Libyan coastguard and navy. ists on British soldier Lee Rigby in naval mission to combat people Tugendhat said the mission to patrol To do that however would require London in 2013. trafficking off the Libyan coast is an area six times larger than Italy a request from the Libyan authori- Khan, who stared straight “failing” and has only succeeded in “was always going to present an ties, they said. ahead as he was sentenced, had forcing smugglers to change their enormous challenge”. The EU naval operation is cur- also been found guilty of prepar- tactics, a British parliamentary report “Our report stresses that the rently limited to international waters ing to join the IS group in Syria said yesterday. operation is succeeding in carrying but the original plan was for it to with his uncle, 23-year-old Shazib Operation Sophia “does not in out its separate search and rescue extend into Libyan territorial waters Khan. any meaningful way deter flow of obligations, which is to be com- to tackle people smugglers at source, Shazib Khan was given a migrants, disrupt the smugglers’ mended,” he said. “However, a naval by force if necessary. 13-year sentence, of which he will networks or impede the business of mission cannot disrupt the business This however was also condi- have to spend at least eight years people smuggling on the central Med- model of people smuggling, and in tional on a formal request from an in jail. iterranean route”, it said. this sense it is failing. accepted Libyan central government. The judge said the two men, The report by the House of “The smuggling networks operate The recent formation of a UN- who are of Bangladeshi back- Lords’ sub-committee on EU Exter- from Libya, and they extend through backed national administration has ground, were “committed nal Affairs noted that arrests so far Africa. Without support from a stable raised hopes that the situation is supporters of ISIS (IS), an organi- have been of “low-level targets”, and Libyan government, the operation changing but its officials have been People protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment sation which wishes to control the the destruction of vessels has caused is unable to gather the intelligence it reluctant to invite in the EU for fear Partnership and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement world and which will stop short of smugglers to shift from using wooden needs or tackle the smugglers onshore.” of being seen as overly dependent on in front of EU council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday. no barbarity in order to do so”. boats to rubber dinghies, which are In Brussels, EU sources said outsiders. EUROPE SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 11

Germany sees Poland moves on Russia hand in missile shield; cyber attack Reuters

Russia outraged BERLIN: Russian intelligence agencies were probably respon- sible for a massive cyber attack on US and Nato officials insist the Germany’s lower house of parlia- system is intended to counter the ment last year which forced its Located in threat of short- and medium-range computer systems to be shut down Redzikowo, northern ballistic missiles, particularly from for days, Germany’s domestic so-called “rogue” states the Middle intelligence agency said yesterday. Poland, and Deveselu East like Iran. The agency, known as the Fed- in southern Romania, But with the Redzikowo sta- eral Office for the Protection of the tion just 250 km from the Russian Constitution (BfV), said a hacker the two missile enclave of Kaliningrad, Moscow group known as “Sofacy” was interceptor stations views the system as a security threat behind the attack. “The BfV has on its very doorstep. indications that it is being steered are part of Nato’s President Vladimir Putin yes- by the Russian state and has been larger European terday warned Washington that monitoring it for years,” BfV said. shield, due to become Russia will consider measures to The attack on the Bundestag “end threats” from US anti-missile lower house, first reported in May fully operational by systems in Europe but said Mos- An helicopter throws water over a fire at a tire dump near a residential development in Sesena, south of of last year, caused severe damage, 2018. cow would not be engaged in a new Madrid, Spain, yesterday. forcing authorities to shut down arms race. the computer system for days in US Deputy Secretary of Defence order to repair the network. Robert Work was on hand yesterday Hans-Georg Maassen, AFP for the start of construction on the president of the BfV, said that Aegis Ashore-type missile defence Tyre dump on fire near Madrid government, corporate and edu- facility in Redzikowo. cational facilities in Germany It will include 24 land-based were under “permanent threat”, REDZIKOWO, POLAND: Poland SM-3 missiles as well as anti-air- AFP town of Sesena,” which counts some to form in the 1990s when a company with critical infrastructure in areas yesterday broke ground on the craft systems. 20,000 residents, the regional gov- began using the site as a temporary like energy and telecommunica- northern section of a US missile The facility in Poland “is a ernment added in a statement. depot for old tyres due to be recycled. tions in particular focus. defence shield launched in Romania US contribution to Nato missile “Around a fifth (of the dump) But over the years the tyres “The campaigns that BfV has a day earlier, which Russia slammed defence,” Work said at the ground- MADRID: A huge waste ground near is affected, thousands of tonnes started to pile up in this wild dump observed in the past have been as a serious security threat despite breaking ceremonies, adding that Madrid where millions of tyres have (of tyres) are piled up there,” Luis that stretches over some 25 acres, the focused on obtaining information, US assurances to the contrary. “when completed in 2018 it will be been dumped was on fire yesterday, Villarroel, an official at Madrid’s fire- equivalent of 10 rugby fields, local in other words spying,” Maassen “Although we joined Nato years capable of defending the central and releasing a thick black cloud of toxic fighting department, said in a video residents said. said. “But lately Russian intelli- ago, now we are seeing that Nato is northern arc of Nato .” fumes that officials worry could harm posted on Twitter. Environmentalists have for years gence agencies have also shown truly entering Poland,” Polish Pres- Work also said that “by the (Nato) residents nearby. He urged residents nearby to warned that the dump poses a health a willingness to conduct sabotage.” ident Andrzej Duda said before Warsaw summit in July, we expect The government of the Castilla- close their doors and windows, and hazard, and the town of Sesena has Earlier this week, security ceremony participants took shov- alliance leaders to declare initial La Mancha region where the dump to try and stay away from the cloud lived in fear of the rubber heap catch- research firm Trend Micro said a els in hand and began digging at the operational capability for the Nato is located, just dozens of kilometres of smoke emanating from the fire— ing fire. group of hackers that target crit- Polish air force base. ballistic missile defence system.” south of the Spanish capital, said it the cause of which is still unknown. These types of blazes are noto- ics of Russian government had been Located in Redzikowo, northern Launched in 2010, Nato’s anti- had activated an emergency action A spokesman for the national riously difficult to put out and have trying to attack computer systems of Poland, and Deveselu in southern missile shield system—based plan. emergency services told reporters the been known to go on for months and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conserv- Romania, the two missile intercep- essentially on US technology— Firefighters and helicopters were alert was given in the early hours of even years, as tyres often continue to ative party. The strong comments tor stations are part of Nato’s larger involves the progressive deployment working to extinguish the blaze, yesterday morning, adding that no burn inside even if they are extin- come when relations between Ber- European shield, due to become fully of missile interceptors and powerful which produced a “toxic cloud... one had been injured. guished from the outside, and easily lin and Moscow have sunk to their operational by 2018. radar in eastern Europe and Turkey. that could affect part of the (nearby) The massive pile of tyres started reignite. lowest point. French cops evict protesters as unions plan unrest Kern to be Austria’s

Reuters easier, in a flagship reform of Presi- dent Francois Hollande, plagued by next chancellor rock-bottom popularity ratings ahead of a May 2017 election. PARIS: Riot police evicted dozens There are calls for broader street Reuters of people yesterday from a build- protests next week and strikes by rail- ing they took over in protest against way workers, dockers, truckers and labour law reforms that are provok- airport and refinery workers. ing street demonstrations and strike “The government has public opin- VIENNA: Rail boss Christian Kern calls across France. ion against it, a majority of the labour (pictured) will become Austria’s Police moved in at dawn, using a unions against it and the youth move- next chancellor, the country’s pres- fire-engine ladder to get through the ment against it,” CGT union leader ident confirmed yesterday, after the roof of a public hall in the western city Philippe Martinez said. Social Democratic Party (SPO) united of Rennes and flush out the protest- Other CGT representatives called behind him as its choice to lead the ers, some of whom had taken refuge for rolling strikes from next Monday embattled coalition government. on the roof itself. night, arguing that the labour law Werner Faymann stepped down After sometimes violent marches change could prompt employers to as chancellor, bowing to party revolt and 82 arrests on Thursday, Prime cut overtime pay. that erupted after the SPO’s candi- also be held on Tuesday. Minister Manuel Valls condemned Police themselves plan to pro- date in Austria’s presidential election “Dr Kern will be proposed unan- rampagers who ransacked party test next week over what they say is a crashed out in the first round. A sec- imously next Tuesday for the posts offices and daubed them with anti- rise in hostility towards them, despite ond round will be held on May 22. of party leader and chancellor,” act- government graffiti and smashed the having to work overtime as part of a Kern, admired for his skills as ing SPO leader Michael Haeupl told a entire glass front of a train station in tightening of security after Islamist a manager who oversaw the mass news conference after a meeting of Nantes. militants killed 130 people in Paris transit of asylum seekers to Germany senior party figures in Vienna. “These vandals are unbearable,” in November. at the height of the migration cri- “The party unanimously stands Valls told reporters, adding that he Polls show as many as three in sis last autumn, has been keeping behind the future party leader,” Hae- was counting on the courts to deal four people oppose the reform, which a low public profile and has given upl added, shortly before Fischer’s firmly with them. would allow employers to bypass few clues as to his policy preferences. statement. About 1,000 people have been national or sectoral obligations on Policemen and a firemen ladder stand on the roof of the building during A party leadership meeting on The SPO and its coalition part- arrested since protests began sev- pay and conditions by opting for in- Tuesday will formally propose Kern ner, the conservative People’s Party, the evacuation of protesters, yesterday. eral weeks ago over the labour law house deals. as chancellor, after which he must be have suffered a series of electoral reform, Interior Minister Bernard The last time France faced large- sworn in by President Heinz Fischer. losses in recent years. They must Cazeneuve said. scale street protests was in 2011, when to withdraw a law obliging people to mobilised tens of thousands of peo- Fischer’s office ended any rem- either work together in government The protesters’ anger is at govern- unions sought, but ultimately failed, to work longer for a pension. ple, compared with hundreds of nant of suspense yesterday by saying until 2018 or face an early parlia- ment plans to make hiring and firing force then President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday’s street marches thousands in 2011. the swearing-in ceremony would mentary election. Ukraine’s karate kids strike blow at Down’s syndrome stereotypes

AFP “Every morning he wakes up and knows taking part in social activities with kept private to avoid potential problems that he has a workout in the evening other children is essential for their with the law. Vova is one of six Down’s and it makes him happy.” kids’ healthy and happy growth. children in this particular karate group. Vova is getting psyched up for his Mixed groups like these have His coach Nataliya opened the KIEV: Little Vova Tkachuk has dif- third karate class in an average Kiev murky legal status in Ukraine due to first one in 2013 as an experiment ficulty speaking because of Down’s secondary school gym packed with bureaucratic system in place since to see if any social progress can be syndrome but still loves practising dev- tumbling and screaming children communist times. Both parents and made. The kids spent first two years astating elbow strikes on the gym floor. who are running around before their coaches need to procure a myriad of working out in separate sections while The six-year-old boy has bravely coach arrives.The shy, ginger-haired permits from various health and other getting used to each other and com- overcome the inherent genetic dis- boy looks excited and waves to the other oversight institutions before allow- fortable with how each group behaves ease and become one of Ukraine’s children—who wave back and in a ges- ing Down’s kids to join sports groups. and performs. Nataliya liked what she latest karate kids—a vibrant group ture that visibly moves his mother. This laborious and energy-sap- saw and made the radical decision to of children challenging stereotypes This is practically the only place ping process takes so much time and create mixed groups in 2015 “Children that have held on for generations in in Ukraine where a boy like Vova can effort that Down’s kids’ parents and like these are isolated in Ukraine,” says the conservative ex-Soviet state. interact with kids who do not have director of the Kiev school visited by the pioneering 48-year-old instructor. “He still does not speak very well, but mental and physical development a section of media decided to ignore “They know how to coexist with he gestures that he wants to go to karate,” problems caused by addition of an the rules and simply open the classes other people only through their par- Vova’s mother Maryna says, while help- extra chromosome at the time the to the handicapped kids. ents or special schools, where they ing him pull a white sports shirt over his child is conceived. But it also asked that its location are surrounded by kids with the same Nine-year-old Artyom , affected by a Down syndrome, taking part in a head before he sets off to the exercise mat. Parents like Maryna believe that and last names of the instructors be syndrome,” Nataliya says. karate training session with karate coach Nataliya Milko. 12 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 AMERICAS

Temer gave Temer govt vows change of course for Brazil ‘sensitive briefings’ to Ministers said later that the new priorities would be to create a leaner US: WikiLeaks Finance Minister government, balance finances, and Henrique Meirelles root out the corruption that a huge judicial probe has uncovered at the pledged not to highest levels of Brazilian politics and AFP cut the popular business. “We’re living through the worst social programmes economic crisis in the history of Bra- BRASÍLIA: WikiLeaks published launched under the zil,” said chief of staff Eliseu Padilha. a cable yesterday showing Bra- “People took to the streets to seek zil’s new acting president Michel sidelined Workers’ two things: they wanted a state with- Temer gave “sensitive” political Party. out corruption and they wanted an briefings to US diplomats ahead of efficient state,” he said, referring to elections in 2006. The cable pub- mass protests against Rousseff. lished online—dated January 11, “Out with corruption and in with 2006 and marked “sensitive but AFP efficiency,” he added, admitting unclassified”—contains summaries achieving that would be “very dif- of conversations Temer, a federal ficult.” Finance Minister Henrique lawmaker at the time, had with the Meirelles, the man tasked with restor- US officials. BRASÍLIA: Brazilian interim pres- ing confidence in Brazil’s economy, WikiLeaks claimed Temer ident Michel Temer’s new cabinet said the country demanded a “change acted as an “embassy inform- promised to blaze a new path yester- of course,” which he vowed to bring ant for US intelligence.” The cable day to revive Latin America’s largest by cutting spending. is marked as cleared by the US economy after a string of crises put an He pledged not to cut the popular embassy in Brasilia but does not Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer (at podium) addresses his newly sworn-in ministers, during a end to 13 years of leftist rule. social programmes launched under name or give ranks of the officials ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. As workers took down portraits the sidelined Workers’ Party (PT) -- Temer briefed. of suspended president Dilma Rous- initiatives credited with helping lift In the briefings, Temer spoke seff, who faces an impeachment trial tens of millions of people from pov- a social programme doesn’t mean programmes are being used.” Political analysts warned his hon- of possible plans for his centrist in the Senate, Temer’s ministers held erty—as long as beneficiaries really maintaining the misuse of a social Temer faces many of the same eymoon may not even last until he PMDB party to mount an electoral their first meeting in the presidential need them. programme. We will make a rig- stumbling blocks as his predeces- opens the Olympic Games in Rio de challenge to leftist president at the palace in Brasilia. But he warned: “Maintaining orous evaluation of how social sor—plus a few of his own. Janeiro on August 5. time, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva. Canadian PM visits fire-ravaged Fort McMurray Trump starts mending

AP have a plan within two weeks for get- Trudeau landed, trees looked like there, but there are hundreds and fences with insiders ting residents back into their homes. little more than used match sticks, hundreds of emergency workers. Trudeau was scheduled to tour charred right up to the tarmac, and I think they’ll get a lift from that,” one of the city’s damaged neighbour- the ground was blackened. he said. AP many GOP leaders who fear he will FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA: Can- hoods and visit with first responders “I heard there were situations and Melissa Blake, mayor of Regional be crushed in the fall. At the same ada’s Prime Minister landed in Fort and volunteers. He planned to meet peculiarities in this fire that give us Municipality of Wood Buffalo, accom- time, more are recognising that he’s McMurray yesterday and boarded a Alberta Premier Rachel Notley dur- pause for reflection on how we move panied Trudeau, saying it was tapped a deep nerve among many of military helicopter to assess the dam- ing his visit. forward,” Trudeau told Fort McMur- critical for him to tour the burned WASHINGTON: Donald Trump and the disaffected — and the GOP has age caused by a raging wildfire that The helicopter ride took Tru- ray Fire Chief Darby Allen, who led neighborhoods. House Speaker Paul Ryan pledged to no alternative to him in any event. forced the evacuation of more than deau over a patchwork of devastated the fight against the fierce fire. “I’m “Once you see it, you know not work together despite their differences Representative Tom Cole of 88,000 people in the country’s oil neighbourhoods where some homes very, very interested in not just what just how daunting the work will be, after a meeting aimed at unifying a Oklahoma, an ally of GOP leader- sands capital. still stand, while others have been we manage to do to get through this but how important it is to make it party torn over Trump’s rise to cusp ship, said his biggest worry about Justin Trudeau arrived almost burned to their foundations. Alberta one, but what we can do around min- back to what it was before,” she said. of the Republican presidential nom- Trump is that he is “’unpredictable.” two weeks after a massive wildfire officials say 2,432 structures have imising the impacts of the next one Trudeau was also accompanied ination. The speaker stopped short Yet Trump is also a “change agent,” ignited, tearing through the Alberta been destroyed, 530 damaged and — because it will come.” by Notley and some federal cabinet of a full-throated endorsement but Cole said. “That’s exactly what peo- town and surrounding areas, causing 25,000 saved. Allen said having the prime min- ministers, who are part of a special appeared closer to one. ple want right now, so in that sense several oil sands operations to shut In the forest surrounding the ister visit is a morale boost. committee that will coordinate aid Trump and Ryan issued a state- he’s very well-positioned for a gen- down. Alberta officials say they will Fort McMurray airport, where “Right now the residents aren’t and reconstruction efforts in the city. ment describing their meeting as eral election.” a “very positive step toward uni- The highest-ranking woman in fication” that recognised “many the House GOP leadership, Cathy important areas of common ground” McMorris Rodgers of Washington as well as areas where they disagree. state, said the meeting gave her a US Navy fires Red tide rally Ryan stunned Republicans by with- chance to make this core value clear holding his endorsement a week ago to Trump: “Dreaming big for every- commander of when it became clear Trump was on one and turning its back on no one.” a firm path to the nomination. About a dozen protesters who sailors who were The much-anticipated meeting oppose Trump’s immigration posi- unfolded as more Republicans have tions demonstrated at the front of held by Iran begun urging the party to put the the RNC building where the men extraordinary discord behind. The met. They chanted “Down, down statement by the two suggested both with deportation. Up, up with lib- Reuters are invested in tamping down Repub- eration.” They carried a cardboard lican infighting as they try to pull the coffin that they said represents the GOP together for the fight against Hil- suffering of immigrants under GOP lary Clinton and Democrats in the fall. policies and the death of the party WASHINGTON: The US Navy said Ryan told a news conference under Trump. that it had fired the commander they are “planting the seeds” to The scene was similar out- of the 10 American sailors who accomplish that. side Senate Republican campaign wandered into Iranian territo- In a tweet, Trump said: “Great offices where Trump gathered later rial waters in the Gulf in January day in DC with @SpeakerRyan and with Senate Majority Leader Mitch and were briefly held by Iran in an Republican leadership. Things work- McConnell and other top Republi- incident that risked becoming an ing out really well!” cans from that chamber. “The GOP international crisis. Trump, slipped from one GOP is dead to our community,” said Dey- The Navy said in a statement power centre to another on a fence- anira Aldana, 21, a protester who is that it had lost confidence in mending mission made necessary the child of Hispanic immigrants. Commander Eric Rasch, who was by his outsider status in the city that “And Donald Trump is the final nail executive officer of the coastal riv- embodies insiders. in that coffin.” erine squadron that included the The billionaire’s provocative, Republican Representative Lee 10 sailors. Rasch became the first A protester is arrested by the police after a rally in favour of fishermen affected by the red tide in crowd-rousing pronouncements, his Zeldin of New York, a Trump sup- person to be publicly singled out Puerto Montt, Chile. The red tide is caused by the excessive proliferation of microalgae with high arsenal of insults hurled at rivals and porter, said it will help both the after a preliminary investigation concentrations of toxins, which can cause illness in humans and animals. his amorphous positions on matters candidate and the speaker if they into the incident that occurred dear to conservatives have unnerved can work overcome their rift. near Farsi Island in the Gulf. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the commander of Navy forces had also taken non-judicial action against other sailors involved in Colombian govt and rebels agree peace deal the incident but declined to pro- vide details. Such administrative forms of punishment can include Reuters missed in March, but Colombian Pres- ceasefire and rebel disarmament. things like letters of reprimand and ident Juan Manuel Santos said on The Colombian government has verbal counseling. Wednesday his government hoped to been addressing the FARC’s concerns The Navy has not yet released conclude a peace deal with the FARC about their safety in the even of a dis- results of its investigation, but in HAVANA: Colombia’s government rebels “in the very near future”. armament in recent weeks. February the military said the and leftist FARC rebels yesterday The government’s top negotia- Bogota is stepping up its offensive Americans had been intercepted agreed on a series of legal mecha- tor, Humberto de la Calle, reiterated against crime gangs which formed on January 12 after the diesel nisms to ensure peace deal agreed at Bogota’s position that any deal would after a 2006 peace accord with right- engine in one of their boats devel- negotiations will be constitutionally be submitted to a referendum. He said wing paramilitaries failed to absorb oped a mechanical problem. binding if approved by Colombians in the FARC, long wary of a referendum many into society. Iran’s supreme leader awarded a proposed referendum. given that many Colombians harbour In the 1980s hundreds of former medals to navy commanders for The two sides have been in peace deeply anti-rebel sentiments, was FARC soldiers were killed by para- capturing US sailors. Iranian talks in Havana, Cuba, since late 2012 warming to the idea. military groups when they laid down media broadcast videos of the to end Latin America’s longest war “The head of the FARC delegation their weapons to join democratic pol- detainees, including scenes in that has displaced millions and killed opened door to a popular referendum itics. Fears of a repeat have hardened which Revolutionary Guards per- hundreds of thousands. a few days ago,” de la Calle said. the guerrillas’ resolve not to disarm sonnel trained weapons on the “We have arrived at a deal to Many proponents of a peace deal until they feel sure of their safety. sailors as they knelt. give the final deal juridical secu- say the referendum is key because Colombia’s defence minister said Some 15 hours later the Ameri- rity and stability,” the two sides without popular backing, the political last week armed forces will launch air cans were freed after US Secretary announced in a joint statement read opposition might try to stall its imple- raids on crime gangs involved in drug of State John Kerry intervened with in Havana, the site of peace talks for mentation in the courts. De la Calle trafficking and illegal mining. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad the past three years. added that both sides were contin- Government air attacks against Cuban guarantor to peace talks Rodolfo Benitez (centre) speaks at a Zarif, averting a diplomatic crisis. A deadline for a final accord was uing to work on a deal for a bilateral the FARC are currently suspended. press conference at Convention Palace in Havana. BREAK TIME SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 13

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ONLINE CHART BUST Festive times Death after surgery www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 3 times more likely in lower-income countries MOST READ Reuters Emir: China key partner of 1 Arab world

Qatar Career Fair opens registration for GUILDHALL: How many people survive after emer- 2 Career Guidance Stakeholders Platform gency surgery is one measure of the quality of care they have access to, and post-surgery death rates in low- and Syrian community slams Assad middle-income countries suggest quality needs to be 3 for ‘burning’ the country better, researchers say. Using mortality rates within 24 hours and 30 days after emergency abdominal surgery as a measure, the study covered 58 countries and found risk of death was TWEET OF THE DAY three times higher in low-income compared to high- income nations. “Safety practices at the time of surgery are now embedded in high-income settings, which have the resources to plan and deliver them,” said study coauthor Dr. Aneel Bhangu, from the University of Birmingham Singers rehearsing the opera ‘Mefistofele’ at the festival theatre in Baden-Baden, in the UK. Germany. The opera by Italian composer Boito premiered yesterday. “They are less routinely used in low and middle income countries, due to a lack of resources and train- ing in safety cultures,” which may include equipment sterility, availability of antibiotics, and type of skin preparation used at the time of surgery, he told Reu- ters Health by email. Spring art sales fail to shine “Around the time of surgery, lack of critical care facilities and imaging due to resources may also affect outcome adversely,” Bhangu said. For the study, 357 medical centers reported data Reuters markedly smaller sales this season, with no on more than 10,000 patients receiving emergency works carrying estimates much beyond $40m. abdominal surgery over a six-month period in 2014, “This was a sale that took place against not including women undergoing cesarean section. a backdrop of some uncertainty,” said Jussi Many surgeries involved the appendix or gallstones. INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY NEW YORK: The spring art sales ended with Pylkkanen, Christie’s’ global president. “The Sixty percent of the patient records collected came a bit of a whimper in New York on Thursday proof was in the pudding,” he added, in light from high-income countries like the US, UK and Swe- at Christie’s’ muted auction of Impressionist of the sale making its estimate and even set- den, while the rest came from middle-income countries Al Arabi coasted and modern art. ting some records. like Egypt and low-income countries like Mozambique. to an easy The sales took in $141.4m against a pre- Emblematic of the results’ mixed signals There were 174 deaths within 24 hours of surgery straight sets win sale estimate of $134m to $197m for the 51 lots vis-a-vis a seemingly flagging market was Frida and 404 deaths within the following 30 days. In the over El Jaish to on offer. Kahlo’s “Dos desnudos en el bosque,” which set first 24 hours, mortality rates were about 1 percent in clinch the Emir All but seven found buyers. Christie’s offi- a record for both Kahlo and any Latin Amer- high-income countries, 2 percent in middle-income Cup Volleyball cials declared themselves pleased with the ican artist when it fetched $8m. But the price countries and 3.4 percent in low-income countries. By title for the third result, saying they had tailored the sale to the barely made the low estimate. The work had the 30-day mark, mortality rates were 4.5 percent, 6 successive year. tastes of the current market and that bidding been expected to sell for as much as $12m. The percent and 8.6 percent, respectively. Pic By: Syed from across the globe, particularly Asia, helped top-priced lots, Monet’s “Le bassin aux nym- Trauma leading to surgery was more common in Omer drive bidding. After years of soaring prices, phaes” and Modigliani’s “La Jeune femme a la lower income countries, according to the results in the both Christie’s and rival Sotheby’s assembled rose” each barely made their low estimate. British Journal of Surgery. English gardens celebrated in Downton Abbey castle

AFP garden to sculpt and re-fashion the accentuate the effects of perspective landscape in a way so subtle it seems and to cause the huge castle to dip in natural. The grounds of Highclere and out of view. are a “rare survival of a Brown park Driveways, hills, lawns, trees, HIGHCLERE CASTLE: As Brit- -- it looks incredibly simple but it is lakes and valleys were all carved into ain mulls questions of identity and very clever and sophisticated,” said the landscape in a naturalistic style. a possible exit from the European Tim Mowl, a historian at the Univer- The lake features “a typical Brown Union, 2016 marks an anniversary sity of Bristol. trick -- he always hid the end of the year for some beloved British icons: Brown began working on designs lakes so that they seemed much big- the queen, Shakespeare, and gar- for Highclere in 1770, when it was ger,” said Kate Felus, a historian dener “Capability” Brown. owned by the first Earl of Carnarvon specialising in gardens. Queen Elizabeth II has cele- and was still a relatively modest red “I grew up here. As a small kid Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a solar-powered plane, lands at Tulsa International Airport, Oklahoma, US, yesterday. brated her 90th birthday and the brick building. The process of trans- this environment is a bit scary,” said playwright died 400 years ago, two formation would take years. A tour of George Herbert, the eighth Earl of events being marked with national the 400-hectare grounds is a jour- Carnarvon, now in his fifties, as he fanfare. ney through a hilly landscape home showed a group of journalists around But fans of Brown, the grand to 18,000 sheep, dotted with centu- the grounds. The park envelops and Solar Impulse 2 lands in Tulsa master of English gardens who was ries-old cedars, the oldest dating back accentuates Highclere Castle, the born 300 years ago, hail him as to 1740. The dark trees are a trade- home of the aristocratic Crawley fam- another stalwart of national identity. mark of Brown’s, which he used to ily in Downton Abbey. Reuters compared with conventional aircraft. Borschberg set a new endurance Lancelot “Capability” Brown is With a wingspan exceeding that record for the longest non-stop solo credited with creating more than 170 of a Boeing 747 but an ultra-light car- flight last July during a 118-hour gardens, among them the grounds of bon-fiber skin and overall weight of trans-Pacific crossing, over five Highclere Castle in southern Eng- TULSA: An experimental aeroplane a car, the Solar Impulse cruises at days and five nights, from Japan to land, made famous as the set of the powered solely by energy from speeds ranging from 55 to 100kmh. Hawaii. He also set new duration and hit television series Downton Abbey. the sun has flown from Arizona to The four engines of the pro- distance records for solar-powered Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the Oklahoma on the eleventh leg of an peller-driven aircraft are powered flight. But battery damage sustained owner of Highclere, said that after historic bid by its pilots and develop- exclusively by energy collected from during the crossing kept the aircraft Brown, gardens became a focus in ers to fly around the globe without a more than 17,000 solar cells built into grounded for nine months. literature from Jane Austen to Eve- drop of fuel. its wings. Excess energy is stored in The Swiss team’s ultimate goal lyn Waugh. The single-seat Solar Impulse four batteries during daylight hours is to achieve the first round-the- “It’s been part of our culture, it is 2 aircraft arrived at Tulsa Interna- to keep the plane flying after dark. world solar-powered flight, part part of our landscape and I think it’s tional Airport in Oklahoma at 11:15pm The plane can climb to 28,000 of its campaign to bolster support a really important part of our herit- on Thursday, 18 hours after leav- feet but generally flies at lower alti- for clean-energy technologies. The age today,” she said. ing Phoenix Goodyear Airport, the tudes at night to conserve energy. team hopes to eventually complete The son of a wealthy farmer, project team said in a statement. Piccard and Andre Borschberg have its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, Brown began the study of gardens Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard been taking turns piloting the plane the starting point for the journey in early, quickly becoming a darling called the 1,609km trip “a magical on each leg of the journey, with Pic- March 2015. The two men completed of his time and gardener to King flight” on his Twitter account. card at the controls for Thursday’s an earlier multi-flight crossing of the George III. The long hours required for flight. Both men have trained to stay United States in a prototype of the Along with his colleague William covering relatively short distances alert for long stretches of time by solar plane in 2013 as a precursor to Kent, he broke with the restraints The gardens of Highclere Castle are picured at the castle in Highclere, showed how slowly the plane flies practicing meditation and hypnosis. their globe-circling quest. of the classic geometrical French southern England, yesterday. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Spot prices for petrochemicals rise in April

The Peninsula LLDPE soared 3.7 percent, Polypropyl- Among the large-cap names, Tas- line with estimates and three names oxide units Saudi Kayan resumed The gains were ene jumped 7.7 percent, while Styrene nee (31.4 percent), Saudi Kayan (SABIC, Saudi Kayan and Tasnee) beat operations at its ethylene glycol and slipped 3.5 percent. (39.3 percent), and PetroRabigh (20 estimates. ethylene oxide plants after complet- driven by recovery in Median of Petrochemical product percent) outperformed the Petro- The bulk of miss appears to have ing periodic maintenance. DOHA: Spot prices for petrochemicals crude prices as Brent prices for a basket of major products chemical index. stemmed from lower than expected Kayan’s other plants depend- during April gained month-on-month gained 3.0 percent MoM but declined In the mid-caps space, Advanced operating rates ing on ethylene glycol and ethylene (MoM) driven by recovery in crude recovered to $48.1 20 percent YoY in April. SASEPETR Petrochemicals (16.4 percent) and The fire that broke out at a plant oxide have also completed periodic prices as Brent crude recovered to $48.1/ per barrel by April outperformed the broader index in Sahara petrochemicals outperformed operated by SABIC subsidiary, Jubail maintenance and will resume opera- bbl by April end from March’s month from March’s month April 2016 the petrochemical index. United Petrochemical Co., is not tions gradually according to the plan, average of $39.8/bbl. The Saudi Petrochemicals Sector In Qatar, Industries Qatar closed expected to impact the plant’s oper- the company said in a statement to Brent crude prices for April aver- average of $39.8. Index (SASEPETR) gained 14.2 per- 3.0 percent lower in April, underper- ations. SABIC owns a 75 percent stake Tadawul. aged at $43.4/bbl, up 3.6 percent MoM cent during April, outperforming the forming the broader Qatar Exchange in Al-Jubail United. The company started planned but declining 29 percent YoY amid broader Tadawul benchmark, which (QE) index by 1.2 percent. Saudi Arabia’s Pension Fund holds periodic maintenance at its plants global supply glut and demand slow- In April month, Ethylene rose 1.5 gained 9.4 percent. 1Q16 result season was a mixed a 15 percent position; while GOSI on March 1, 2016. down from China, Investment Bank percent month-on-month, Propyl- All stocks ended the month on bag with six names out of our cover- owns 10 percent of the plant. Sipchem announced early SICO noted in its monthly ‘petrochem- ene gained 3.8 percent, HDPE added a positive note with the exception age universe of 11, missing estimates. Saudi Kayan resumes opera- redemption of its SAR 1.8bn 2011 ical round-up’ report. one percent, LDPE surged 4 percent, of SAFCO which lost 0.6 percent. Advanced petrochemicals reported in tions at ethylene glycol, ethylene sukuk. Opec signals greater Oil prices reach glut as output surges 2016 highs AFP

Reuters the world. Opec forecasts supply LONDON: World oil prices recov- from outside producers will decline ered strongly this week, reaching by 740,000 bpd in 2016 led by the 2016 highs as experts forecast an United States, little changed from easing to the global supply glut that LONDON: Opec said the global oil last month. has weighed heavily on markets market is oversupplied and signalled Opec cited factors that could lead for almost two years. the glut may increase this year, as to a bigger supply drop, such as the Opec and the advisory body surging output from its members impact of wildfires in Canada that the International Energy Agency makes up for losses from other coun- have cut production. The evidence (IEA) both pointed to lower sup- tries whose production has been hit of falling non-Opec supply should plies on the horizon and in a week by a price fall. lead to a stronger market next year, in which the United States revealed Supply from the Organization of it said. an unexpected drop to its commer- the Petroleum Exporting Countries “Outside the US, there have been cial crude inventories. (Opec) is climbing after sanctions consistent signs of declines in non- “Prices surged towards the on Iran were lifted and an initiative Opec production, which should likely end of this week” following the US with Russia and other non-members flip the global oil market into a net stockpiles report, research group to tackle a supply glut by freezing deficit in 2017.” Capital Economics said in a note output failed last month. But Opec supply has been climb- to clients. The Lusail City project site which the Project Qatar 2016 participants visited. Opec pumped 32.44 million bar- ing since the 2014 policy shift led by “What’s more, on Thursday, the rels per day in April, the group said top two producers Saudi Arabia and IEA decreased its forecast for non- in a monthly report citing second- Iraq. The return in December 2015 of Opec production and increased its Project Qatar 2016 attracts ary sources, up 188,000 b/d from Indonesia as an Opec member has estimates for demand this year.” March. This is the highest since at also increased total output. New York’s main oil contract least 2008, according to a Reuters So far this year, Iran is driv- reached $47.02 a barrel on Thurs- review of past Opec reports. ing the growth. Tehran had refused day -- the highest level since early large number of visitors “Fundamentally, oversupply still to join the supply freeze initiative November. persists,” Opec said in the report and the deal fell apart on April 17 in By yesterday around 1630 GMT, published yesterday. “Oil output Doha after Saudi Arabia insisted Iran US benchmark West Texas Inter- remains high.” took part. Opec left its forecast that mediate for delivery in June stood The Peninsula LCC and the Qatar Chamber (QC), body and it has given good knowl- A persistent surplus could weigh world oil demand will rise by 1.20 at $46.24 a barrel, compared with continued for the third consecutive edge about the scope of concrete on prices, which despite a recovery million bpd this year unchanged. It $43.74 a week earlier. day with professionals and policy work in general, and it was benefi- to $47 a barrel from a 12-year low sees demand for Opec crude aver- Brent North Sea crude for July makers benefiting from the chance cial. Excellent work!” of $27.10 in January, are less than aging 31.49 million bpd in 2016, surged to $47.78 a barrel from $44.43 DOHA: The five-day International to explore the latest local construc- IFP Qatar, organizer of Project half their level in mid-2014. Opec’s broadly unchanged from last month’s one week earlier. Construction Technology and Build- tion developments, and acquire Qatar 2016, also offered partici- 2014 strategy shift to defend mar- forecast. After falling at the start of the ing Materials Exhibition (Project specialized knowledge about vari- pants the opportunity to get the latest ket share against higher-cost rival The report points to a 950,000- week, crude futures began to rally Qatar 2016) that concluded here yes- ous industry topics. insights on the construction industry output helped deepen the decline. bpd surplus on average in 2016 if on Tuesday, as traders focused on terday attracted a large number of Three specialized workshops and explore how utilizing BIM can The price drop is hitting non- Opec keeps pumping at April’s rate, lingering oil producer shutdowns visitors. The highlights of the third were organized under the Project ensure that major construction and Opec supply as companies have up from 790,000 bpd implied in last in Canada and plummeting out- day of the event were tours of major Qatar Workshop Series. The first infrastructure projects are delivered delayed or cancelled projects around month’s report. put in Nigeria. construction sites, specialized con- workshop on construction waste to design specifications, within the ferences and workshops. was addressed by Dr Khaled Has- agreed timelines and on budget, by On the third day of the exhibition, san, Chair of the Solid Waste interest visiting Future BIM Implementation Project Qatar’s international exhib- Group (SWiG) and the second on Qatar 2016. itors visited Lusail City, located on Energy Efficiency, addressed by Along with Project Qatar 2016, Airbus wants to replace A400M parts the coast, in the northern part of the Nisar Ahmad, CEO of Solar Sigma IFP Qatar also organized two con- municipality of Al Daayen. Lusail Ltd. Pakistan and SSG International current events which took place over City, the second of three site tours Malaysia. A session on HSE Awarness, the past four days. These two major Reuters German parliament’s defence com- available for comment. offered during the exhibition, is addressed by Gary Waters, trainer/ events include “Qatar Stone Tech mittee about the company’s plans Germany has ordered 53 of the planned to have marinas, residen- consultant- Leadership & Strategy 2016,” the 5th International Stone and late yesterday, in a document seen planes from Airbus, but deliveries tial areas, island resorts, commercial and Health, Safety &Environment Stone Technology Show, and “Heavy by Reuters. In the notification, he have been delayed as Europe’s largest districts, luxury shopping and leisure was also organized by Excelledia. Max 2016,” the 13thInternational BERLIN: Airbus Group SE wants to said the swap could take up to seven aerospace company grapples with pro- facilities, and a golf course commu- Commenting on his participa- Exhibition for Heavy Machinery. swap out airframe components in months to complete. duction delays. The repairs would be nity, manmade islands and several tion at Project Qatar workshop series, Given the construction industry boom Germany’s A400M transport planes Airbus now needs to submit a completed as part of ongoing modifica- entertainment districts. These free Ahmad Shahin, Vice Chairman and in Qatar, these two conferences rep- after cracks were discovered in a comprehensive plan to deal with tions of the three A400M aircraft that site tours provide exhibitors and vis- CEO at Emirates House Group LLC resent the ideal platforms for traders French A400M aircraft, the German various problems that have affected have already been delivered to Ger- itors with the chance to take part of said: “It is very useful tool to learn and procurement managers to have a defence ministry told lawmakers the long-delayed A400M, including many, Zimmer told lawmakers. Qatar’s newest development plans. that companies and laboratories do close-up look at all the new special- yesterday. Benedikt Zimmer, who significant gearbox glitches on its Germany has demand retrofits of In addition, Project Qatar work- exist in this region. The American ized technologies necessary for the heads the ministry’s arms acqui- turboprop engines, Zimmer told law- the three aircraft which did not meet shop series organized by IFP Qatar Society is a very important testing execution of all the major projects. sitions department, notified the makers. Airbus was not immediately its requirements. 18 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 BUSINESS Nissan to scrap Mitsubishi deal if fuel scandal widens

it had been falsifying fuel-economy Japanese authorities tests for years, manipulating data to make cars seem more efficient than are to release they were in reality. a report on an The scandal -- reported to cover almost every model sold in Japan since investigation into the 1991 -- also includes mini-cars pro- matter this month. duced by Mitsubishi for Nissan as part of a joint venture. It was Nissan that first uncovered problems with the fuel economy data, AGENCIES but Mitsubishi has said Nissan had no part in the cheating. Ghosn said yesterday that Nissan would try to YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Nissan’s top help Mitsubishi restore its tattered executive warned yesterday that he reputation. would kill a $2.2bn offer to buy a into the matter this month, which is “This is a serious issue. There is a major stake in Mitsubishi Motors if expected to lay bare more details breach of trust and this is the respon- its fuel-economy cheating scandal about the cheating. “We have today sibility of (Mitsubishi). We are going spreads beyond Japan. a memorandum of understanding. to support them.” The country’s number two auto- The deal will come after (we do) due Mitsubishi was pulled from the maker threw a surprise lifeline to diligence,” Ghosn told a roundtable brink of bankruptcy a decade ago Mitsubishi on Thursday by offering of international media. after it was discovered that it cov- to buy 34 percent of its shares, in a “There is no problem in the US, ered up vehicle defects that caused deal that would give Nissan effec- in Europe -- soon we are all going fatal accidents. tive control over the smaller firm. to know about that. So when we will At the time, the Mitsubishi group But the deal will be dead if Mitsubi- have to conclude the deal we will of companies stepped in with a series shi was not being honest about claims know exactly what is the situation. of bailouts to save the firm. the cheating was limited to cars sold “I don’t think there is any doubt Mitsubishi Motors is mired in its only in its home market, Nissan’s that if there is any implosion... third scandal in two decades and has chief Carlos Ghosn (pictured) said. we won’t do the deal,” he said in had $3bn wiped off its market value People look around the showroom at the headquarters of Japan’s number two automaker Nissan Motor Japanese authorities are to response to questions. after confessing to manipulating fuel in Yokohama, in suburban Tokyo, yesterday. release a report on an investigation Mitsubishi last month admitted economy data. Spending cuts: Iraq oil France and Germany call for tighter trade defence

projects face delays Reuters But recent concern over China’s Brussels on Friday, France and Ger- rejected granting the status until steel overcapacity has persuaded many said investigations should China reforms its economy. MES some EU members, including Ger- be sped up, allowing duties to be would make it harder to impose anti- many, that EU industry needs more imposed after seven months, from dumping duties on Chinese goods Reuters downturn so oil companies should BRUSSELS: France and Germany protection. nine months now, and there should sold at knock-down prices because be getting less. urged fellow EU members yesterday Cheap Chinese steel exports be a greater ability to apply tariffs it would change the method for deter- Some companies, however, to tighten trade defences to protect are cited as one reason for Tata retrospectively. mining a fair price. have complained that the pro- the bloc’s companies against floods Steel’s decision to sell its British steel The two countries said that the France and Germany said the EU BAGHDAD: International oil firms posed budgets may prevent them of cheap imports, such as the recent operations. trade defence update was particu- should look into whether it could have warned Iraq that projects to from continuing operations in Iraq, surge of steel products from China. The European Commission now larly relevant given that the EU needs continue to treat China as a special increase its crude output will be the official said, giving no details. The European Commission, which has seven ongoing investigations into to decide by December whether to case if its producers could not prove delayed if the government insists He said BP, Shell and Lukoil have initiates EU legislation, proposed an Chinese steel imports after opening grant China “market economy sta- they are operating under market on drastic spending cuts this year, already objected to the proposed overhaul of the EU’s trade defence a new case into alleged subsidies for tus” (MES), which Beijing says is its conditions. a senior Iraqi oil official said yes- investment budgets. system in 2013, but failed to secure hot-rolled flat steel yesterday. right 15 years after joining the World The two also propose restricting terday. Iraq’s outgoing Oil Minister Adel the required approval from EU mem- In a joint paper put before EU Trade Organization. the use of the “lesser duty rule” which Oil companies helping Iraq Abdel Mahdi had said in February ber states. trade ministers at a meeting in EU legislators overwhelmingly limits the tariffs the bloc can set. develop its massive oil fields effec- that the budget for foreign oil com- tively perform a role similar to oil pany development costs had been service firms in that they have to revised down to just over $9bn in clear spending with the govern- 2016 from $23bn, following com- EU defends US ment each year. They are then repaid plex negotiations. Yamaha in Nigeria with crude oil produced from exist- Among Opec members, Iraq’s free trade deal ing fields. supply rose last year and output The arrangement worked reached a record 4.775 million bar- amid growing smoothly when oil prices were rels per day in January 2016. above $100 a barrel but since crude According to a summary of Iraq’s opposition has collapsed to $40 a barrel, Iraq proposals seen by Reuters, BP has has been struggling to find enough been asked to cut its 2016 budget to AFP oil to repay the companies for their $2.48bn and target output of 1.4 mil- investment. lion barrels per day at the Rumaila With its finances stretched, Iraq field it operates. BP proposed a has asked foreign oil companies to budget of $3.25bn for 2015, though BRUSSELS: EU trade chief Cecilia rein in their budgets for develop- the amount agreed with Iraq may Malmstroem said yeserday a his- ing the country’s oil resources for have differed. Lukoil is expected to toric free trade deal between a second year in a row but the two cut spending to $1.26bn and aim for Europe and the United States could sides have failed so far to agree on a production of 400,000 bpd at the still be reached this year despite spending levels. The Iraqi govern- West Qurna 2 project. The Russian growing opposition. ment request was contained in Oil company proposed a 2015 budget “We are working as hard as Ministry letters, seen by Reuters, to of $2.1bn. we can to do this,” Malmstroem, BP, Royal Dutch Shell , Exxon Mobil, Eni should cut spending to the EU’s trade commissioner, Eni, Lukoil and Petronas. $1.62bn and aim for production said, arriving for talks with min- “There has been no agreement of 351,000 bpd at the Zubair field. isters from the European Union’s so far with the foreign companies The Italian firm said in February it 28 member countries to discuss on the proposed budgets, and that would cut spending by 20 percent the deal. is causing delays in all key oil field across the board this year, without “But only if we feel that it is projects,” said the Iraqi official, add- specifying the size of cuts in Iraq. a good agreement that respects ing that the talks were continuing. ExxonMobil was asked to slash People stand outside the new Yamaha assembly factory in Lagos yesterday. Yamaha Nigeria Limited our red lines of course... and that The government has also argued spending to $878m and aim for opened a new showroom, technical training centre and assembly line yesterday in Lagos after years we feel comfortable that member that prices for goods and services output of 379,000 bpd at the West of absence in the local market. states will endorse it,” she added. have fallen steeply during the market Qurna 1 project. She spoke as about 100 activ- ists protested outside the Brussels venue of the ministerial talks demanding that the negotiations be abandoned. Bayer may divest assets in pursuit of $43bn Monsanto Washington and Brussels want the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) completed this year before US President Barack Obama leaves Bloomberg as Roundup, the world’s best-selling are already investigating the $130bn That might make a purchase of health and crop sciences. The German office, but it has faced mounting herbicide, and more than 2,000 seed merger between Dow Chemical and the world’s largest seed maker hard conglomerate has made no secret of opposition especially in France varieties. DuPont, while national security to digest for Leverkusen, Germany- the fact that it plans to eliminate its and Germany. Bayer could shed its stake in its officials in the United States weigh based Bayer, which has a market 69 percent stake in Covestro in the Polls show that Germans are BERLIN: Bayer’s exploration of a plastics unit and its animal-health China National Chemical Corp.’s bid value of $90bn. medium term. growing increasingly wary of the potential bid for Monsanto triggered business to make the acquisition to acquire Syngenta of Switzerland Germany’s second-largest com- The animal health business, proposed pact despite Chancel- speculation that the German com- work, said Colin Isaac, a chemi- for $43bn. pany could pay for some of the deal which makes treatments for pets lor Angela Merkel’s continued pany might need to sell some assets cal analyst with Atlantic Equities in Bayer and St. Louis-based Mon- in cash with 15bn euros raised in debt, and farm animals and accounts for support. to help fund its quest to create the London. santo together would have had Jeremy Redenius, an analyst at San- about 3 percent of revenue, also needs It’s not just activists who are world’s largest supplier of seeds and “If Bayer is ready to put up the bil- annual revenue of $67bn in 2015, ford C Bernstein & Co, said in a note to be bulked up or sold, according to concerned about the TTIP any farm chemicals. lions, then voila! That’s the real issue with 37 percent from pharmaceuti- on Thursday. It could also issue addi- Werner Baumann, who took over as more. Bayer has held preliminary dis- here,” said Lutz Krafft, a former Bayer cals -- including over-the-counter tional shares and sell assets including Bayer’s chief executive at the begin- The conflict between the cussions internally and with advisers executive who’s now a senior agri- products and diagnostics -- and 39 the animal health unit, he said. ning of this month. He estimates that TTIP’s two sides on the issues on an offer for Monsanto, which has cultural adviser at consulting firm percent from crop-chemicals. If Bayer acquires Monsanto, it Bayer’s unit ranks as No. 4 or 5 in the of climate and environment has a market value of about $43bn, peo- ChemAdvice. “ “It’s a very ambitious deal for could position itself as a life-sciences industry. driven the already skeptical ple with knowledge of the matter said The effects on Bayer’s balance either company,” Isaac said in a business, Isaac said. “We’ve always said that we want French President Francois Hol- on Thursday, asking not to be named sheet and the integration of the com- telephone interview on Thursday. Bayer has already started down to build out further our seeds busi- lande to the breaking point. because the deliberations are private. pany are the two challenges.” “Historically, these have been fairly that path, with the sale of a stake ness,” Liam Condon, head of crops In France, President Francois Representatives for Bayer and Mon- Combining the two businesses conservative institutions.” in its plastics business, Covestro, sciences at Bayer, told analysts on a Hollande said earlier this month santo declined to comment. isn’t likely to raise significant antitrust Investors are likely to demand at through an initial public offering last conference call April 26. that Paris would reject it “at this A deal would give Bayer -- whose hurdles by itself, but could intensify least a 40 percent premium for Mon- year, and the acquisition of Merck & “We’ve had some acquisitions, stage”. products range from blood thin- global scrutiny of the handful of com- santo, and the US company may resist Co.’s over-the-counter medicines in minor or smaller acquisitions that A poll said nearly two thirds of ner Xarelto to consumer products panies engaged in unprecedented selling itself even at that level, accord- 2014. Since January 1, the company we’ve made, and we continue to French people don’t trust the gov- including aspirin to pest-control consolidation across the crop-chem- ing to Jo Walton, an analyst at Credit has been organized under three divi- look at all options that create value ernment to defend the country’s treatments for farmers -- brands such icals industry. Competition regulators Suisse Group in London. sions -- pharmaceuticals, consumer for Bayer.” interests in the negotiations. BUSINESS SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 19

Finnish nickel US retail sales mine executives slapped fine for toxic dumping rise strongly & AFP

HELSINKI: A Finnish court fined buoy economy three former executives at a nickel mining company on Friday for the role they played in the dumping of toxic waste into local lakes and Retail sales surged 1.3 percent rivers. Americans stepped last month, the largest gain since Pekka Pera, the founder and March 2015. March’s retail sales former chief of Talvivaara mine, up purchases of were revised up to show a 0.3 per- was sentenced to pay a fine of automobiles and a cent decline instead of the previously some €20,000 ($22,700) for envi- reported 0.4 percent drop. ronmental destruction and gross range of other goods. Excluding automobiles, gasoline, negligence at what was once the building materials and food services, European Union’s biggest nickel retail sales shot up 0.9 percent last mine. Reuters month after an upwardly revised 0.2 Two other executives were percent gain in March. sentenced to smaller fines, These so-called core retail sales, while the court imposed a fine which correspond most closely with of €300,000 ($340,000) on WASHINGTON: US retail sales in the consumer spending component Talvivaara Sotkamo, the bank- Cars for sale at a Toyota Scion dealer in Hollywood, California. US consumers came back to stores in April, April recorded their biggest increase of gross domestic product were pre- rupt operator of the mine, in the in a year as Americans stepped up viously reported to have gained 0.1 spending more than expected to reverse a worrisome stall in the first quarter of the year. highly-publicised case in Kainuu, purchases of automobiles and a percent in March. east-central Finland. range of other goods, suggesting Economists had forecast retail Retail sales have been sluggish report showed retail sales in April Building materials and garden equip- The prosecutor had origi- the economy was regaining momen- sales rising 0.8 percent and core in part because the strengthen- rose across all categories, with the ment store receipts, however, fell nally sought a fine of €850,000 tum after growth almost stalled in retail sales gaining 0.3 percent last ing labor market has not generated exception of building materials 1.0 percent last month, the largest ($965,000) for the company. the first quarter. month. strong wage growth. Economists also and garden equipment. Auto sales decline since August. Sales at res- Situated around 500km north The jump in sales reported by The dollar rose against the euro say that some of the savings from advanced 3.2 percent, the largest taurants and bars rose 0.3 percent. of Helsinki, the mine opened in the Commerce Department yes- and the yen after the data, while cheaper gasoline over the past year- increase since March 2015, after In a separate report, the Labor 2008 amid expectations it would terday is a boost for the sector that prices for US government debt fell. and-a-half have been absorbed by slumping 3.2 percent in March. Department said its producer price usher in a new era for Finnish has been hit by sluggish demand. It US stock index futures erased losses. rising rents and medical care costs. Receipts at service stations index climbed 0.2 percent last month nickel mining. comes days after major retailers, The jump in core retail sales last Macy’s, the largest department increased 2.2 percent, reflecting after slipping 0.1 percent in March. In But the operation ended in including Macy’s and Nordstrom, month could prompt economists chain, said this week same-store recent increases in gasoline prices. the 12 months through April, the PPI disaster and financial failure reported sales tumbled in the first to raise their second-quarter GDP sales fell 5.6 percent in the first quar- Sales at clothing stores surged 1.0 was unchanged after dipping 0.1 per- after toxic levels of nickel, cad- quarter and lowered their full-year growth estimates, which are cur- ter, and expected full-year sales to percent, the largest increase since cent in March. mium, uranium, aluminium and profit forecasts. rently hovering around a 2 percent decline 3-4 percent. May 2015. Online retail sales jumped Inflation continues to be zinc were detected in nearby “The retail sales report shows annualized rate. Nordstrom reported that sales at 2.1 percent, the biggest gain since restrained by the lingering effects of lakes and rivers in 2012, after that recent claims of the demise of Economic growth braked to a stores open at least a year fell 1.7 per- June 2014. Receipts at sporting goods the dollar’s surge and oil price plunge. waste water began to leak from the US consumer have been greatly 0.5 percent pace in the first three cent in the first quarter. It cut its profit and hobby stores rose 0.2 percent last The greenback gained 20 percent the mine. exaggerated,” said Steve Murphy, a months of the year after expanding forecast for the year to $2.50-$2.70 month. against the currencies of the United The court decided to seize US economist at Capital Economics at a 1.4 percent pace in the fourth per share from $3.10-$3.35. Sales at electronics and appli- States’ trading partners between June €3.5m ($4m) in illegal profits in Toronto. quarter. The Commerce Department ance outlets increased 0.5 percent. 2014 and December 2015. from the company, but is unlikely to ever receive the money since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2014. Charges against a fourth former executive were dropped. Ryanair ‘would cut’ investment in UK if it leaves EU The Finnish state is currently operating the open-pit mine and has been looking for a new private Reuters passengers a year to and from the “The longer-term effect though is In addition, EU laws on free owner for it. United Kingdom and has its largest hub we will invest less in the UK, we will movement of labour give low-cost Finland’s Economy Minister at London’s Stansted Airport. It was the certainly switch some of our existing airlines greater flexibility in moving Olli Rehn said a decision about liberalisation of Europe’s skies two UK investment into other European around staff and aircraft. “However, the mine’s future would be taken DUBLIN: Ryanair would withdraw decades ago that allowed airlines to counties because we want to continue change brings opportunity and low within a fortnight. some investment if Britain opts to fly unrestricted between countries and to invest in the European Union and cost airlines have always been able If the mine is shut down, the leave the EU and air fares could fall which helped low-cost airlines such as it will be bad for air travel and Brit- to capitalise on that,” Stamp added. clean-up is estimated to cost tax- in the short term due to the “extreme Ryanair and easyJet to grow rapidly. ish tourism.” James Stamp, UK head For example, O’Leary said a Brexit payers at least €300m ($340m). volatility” such a vote would gener- O’Leary is one of the most vocal of transport at KPMG, said one of the may put some downward pressure on Pekka Pera’s representative said ate, Chief Executive Michael O’Leary business leaders urging voters to back people flying. So the fact is it would concerns over a potential Brexit was aircraft prices and there is always an he intended to appeal against the (pictured) said yesterday. continued European Union member- have a downward effect on our pric- that it could put people off investing opportunity for Ryanair to stock up verdict. The Irish low-cost airline, Europe’s ship in a June 23 referendum. ing for six to 12 months, but we will in bases and airlines in the UK while in such a downturn, though its cur- Damage claims from local largest by passenger numbers, flies “After 9/11, after every crisis Rya- keep people flying,” O’Leary told the UK renegotiates trade and traffic rent supply of Boeing planes covers landowners will be heard at a sep- 40 million of its 100 million-plus nair is selling cheaper fares, we keep reporters. agreements. it to 2023. arate trial. Apple invests $1bn in China taxi app Didi China’s April new

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BEIJING: Apple said yesterday it Reuters Broad M2 money supply grew has invested $1bn in Chinese ride 12.8 percent from a year earlier, the hailing app Didi Chuxing, the bit- lowest since last June and slowing ter rival of US-based Uber, as the from March’s 13.4 percent. Outstand- tech giant seeks to better under- BEIJING: Chinese banks sharply ing yuan loans grew 14.4 percent stand its second-biggest market. cut back new lending in April after on-year. Analysts polled by Reuters The announcement comes as a record first-quarter credit spree, had expected new loans of 900bn Apple faces headwinds in China, reinforcing views that the country’s yuan and predicted outstanding where it has seen huge drops leaders have turned more cautious loans would rise by 14.8 percent. in sales of its popular electron- about the risks of over-stimulating Money supply was forecast to rise ics, but is working to expand its the cooling economy. by 13.5 percent. mobile payments service and is The government is trying to In an encouraging sign, long- even believed to have ambitions arrest a prolonged slowdown in the term loans accounted for 69 percent for driverless cars. economy, which expanded 6.9 per- of April new loans, the same as in the Didi, formerly known as Didi cent in 2015, the slowest pace in a first quarter. Kuaidi, is China’s largest rideshar- quarter of a century. It has unleashed China’s outstanding total social ing service, and the tie up may a flurry of fiscal, monetary and financing - the central bank’s meas- serve as a way for Apple to get to administrative measures since 2014. ure of broad credit - was up 13.1 know the Chinese market ahead of March data showed improve- percent year-on-year at the end of a long-rumoured expansion into ment, but a report in the official April, amounting to 145.59trn yuan. the transportation sector. People’s Daily this week, quoting an In March it was 144.75trn yuan. “We decided to make the “authoritative person”, warned too Corporate bond financing also investment for a number of stra- much reliance on debt to kick-start slowed sharply, reflecting height- tegic reasons, including the chance activity could lead to a financial cri- ened credit risks, economists at to learn more about certain seg- sis or an economic recession. ANZ noted. ments of the China market”, chief Banks made 555.6bn yuan Data earlier this week showed executive Tim Cook (pictured) told ($85.21bn) in net new yuan loans in troubled loans at China’s commer- A taxi driver uses the Didi Chuxing app while driving along a street in Guilin, in China’s southern Guangxi the official news agency Xinhua. April, much lower than expected and cial banks reached 4.6 trillion yuan region, yesterday. Apple is thought to be one of a less than half the 1.37 trillion yuan ($706bn) at end-March, a jump of number of tech companies, includ- seen in March, data showed yes- 428bn yuan from December. ing Google and Chinese search The company’s shares have the company’s failure to expand into terday. “Banks may have sought to Bad debts in China have now giant Baidu, that are developing dropped more than 13 percent since the lower-priced handsets popular slow down the pace of lending after risen for 18 consecutive quarters, driverless cars. April 26, when it reported its first in developing markets, came amid a rapid rises in Q1 and March,” said Li reflecting the prolonged economic The move may also be ever fall in iPhone sales, largely due string of bad news from China. Huiyong, an economist at Shenyin slowdown but also a legacy of the intended to help Apple expand to waning interest from Chinese Last month, authorities shut & Wanguo Securities in Shanghai. last big government stimulus binge its Apple Pay service, which faces consumers. down Apple’s movie and book serv- “Also, it could be related to during the global financial crisis. strong Chinese competition, ana- On Thursday, the stock closed ices. Adding insult to injury, it was (recent) government controls on the Still, Premier Li Keqiang said the lysts said. down 2.4 percent, losing its coveted revealed to have lost a court case over property sector and tighter lending economy is operating steadily and The twin prospects may help spot as the world’s biggest publicly the use of its iPhone trademark. rules,” Li said, referring to recent he is confident that main economic soothe investors nervous about traded company to Google parent Hoping for a turnaround, Cook attempts to curb sharp home price growth targets will be reached this Apple’s prospects in the Middle company Alphabet. will travel to Beijing later this month rises in big cities and limit credit to year, Xinhua news agency said Kingdom. The fall from grace, blamed on to lobby senior leaders. unprofitable business sectors. yesterday. 20 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

The world still Silicon Valley venture capitalists just can’t get raise more money, give less away enough bonds

By Jamie McGeever pressures. That’s not happening.” Reuters Analysts also cite the “struc- tural” support for bonds from banks and pension funds. For regulatory reasons or risk management pur- HE investor love affair with poses, they must maintain large bonds, which has survived holdings of bonds. regular predictions it will Benchmark 10-year yields are break down for three dec- negative in Japan, within a few basis ades, remains as strong as points of last year’s record low. They Tever. A sale of 10-year US Treasur- are close to zero in the euro zone ies this week drew record foreign and well under 2 percent in the demand. The yield at a 30-year United States, where growth and Japanese government debt auc- core inflation are around 2 percent. tion was the lowest ever. A 50-year Goldman Sachs this week cut Spanish bond sale was more than its yield forecasts for the United three times oversubscribed. States, euro zone and Japan, nota- Citi’s aggregate sovereign bly the 10-year US yield. They see 10-year bond yield, comprising 2.40 percent this year, down from more than 20 countries, fell this 2.75 percent previously, and 2.75 in week to 0.77 percent — within a 2017 compared with 3.30 percent. The Alphabet Inc campus, also known as Googleplex, in Mountain View, California. basis point of a record low. That’s Goldman had earlier lowered because investors maintain a pes- its forecast for U.S. rate increases simistic view of the global economy. to two this year and three in 2017. By Heather Somerville seen their share prices steadily sink. High retreat from late-stage startup financing They think growth and inflation Before April’s jobs data, they had Reuters valuations have also scared off potential deals. Mutual funds led just eight deals in will stay low despite the efforts expected three increases this year acquirers. the fourth quarter of last year, down from of central banks, who will pump and four next. But those are still Scale Venture Partners exemplifies the 26 in the second quarter, according to the in more stimulus, keeping inter- pretty aggressive forecasts rela- cautious approach taking hold in the VC indus- research firm CB Insights. est rates and yields at rock bottom. tive to current market expectations. ENTURE capitalists are raising try. It chose to do one fewer investment from The confluence of trends means that “There’s an understanding that They are pricing in only one rate money at the fastest rate in a dec- its last fundraising round and to increase its money-losing startups likely will struggle inflationary pressures remain sub- increase this year and a 10-year ade, raking in about $13bn in the reserves by more than 10 percent. “We will more for venture capital. That, in turn, could dued, and in this environment, yield at 1.74 percent. first quarter of 2016. But much have to support our companies longer,” said lead to more companies failing or cutting bonds are a good investment,” said The Fed has so far backed of that cash won’t flow into new Rory O’Driscoll, a partner at the firm, which staff, cooling the red-hot market for tech Nicola Mai, Head of European Sov- off raising again after Decem- startups anytime soon. Rather, raised a $335m fund in January. talent. It could also strengthen the hand of ereign Analysis at bond fund giant ber’s increase, as the US economy Vventure firms are bracing for a downturn Accel Partners has reduced its pace of dominant tech companies, who may face Pimco in London. ground to a halt in the first quarter, and boosting reserves to keep companies new investments since the middle of last year, fewer disruptive rivals and attract employ- Mai said Pimco increased its a period that saw a high degree of they have already backed from going bust, while increasing its follow-on funding for ees tired of volatile startup life, according duration exposure over recent few global market volatility. Investors said venture capitalists and limited partners. portfolio companies, according to an anal- to tech recruiters. months to a more neutral position from around the world are flock- “They are squirrels trying to pack their ysis by venture capital database CB Insights. Until recently, many venture capital- from heavily underweight. “Also, ing to US bonds. Indirect bidders, cheeks full of nuts,” said Ben Narasin, a part- The venture firm raised $2bn in March, ists have had a land-grab mentality, even equities this year have reminded which can include governments, ner at Canvas Ventures. “Everyone has been but it won’t tap into the new fund until late with more obscure startups such as Magic us how volatile that investment can fund managers and insurance waiting for winter to start for a long time.” fall, said managing director Richard Wong. Leap — an augmented reality company be. There’s a significant risk pre- companies, bought 73.5 percent The paradox of rising venture fundrais- Total US venture investment fell to $12.1bn that raised about $800m in February — mium in equities, so it’s no surprise of the $23bn of 10-year notes auc- ing and falling venture investing is the latest in the first quarter — down 30 percent from or Social Finance, a startup in the highly we’re seeing fixed income do so well.” tioned on Wednesday, the largest sign of a tectonic shift in the tech startup the most recent peak of $17.3bn in the second scrutinised fintech sector that raised $1bn A Bank of America Merrill portion since data began being realm. The extraordinary quarter of last year. Chris Douvos,Managing in September. Lynch report yesterday showed released in 2003. growth of so-called “uni- Director of Venture Investment Associates, an Investors competed fiercely to finance equities have returned 1 percent this Research by UBS analysts corn” companies such as investor in early-stage venture funds, says the hot companies they believed could be the year, against 7 percent for bonds. shows US Treasuries accounted Uber and Airbnb - now funds he backs are increasing their reserves next Google or Facebook. Higher prices Most economists and strategists for 87 percent of Japanese inves- valued at tens of billions by 10 percent to 25 percent over what they for smaller stakes drove up valuations in still expect yields to drift higher, tors’ net purchases of foreign assets of dollars, based on ven- had in previous funds. companies, including many who burned albeit gradually. Simple arithme- in March, the highest proportion ture investments - has left The $13bn raised by VCs is the third-larg- cash quickly in a quest for growth. Many tic holds that oil’s recent rebound since at least 2005. many high-value startups est quarter for fundraising since the dot-com venture capitalists say they overpaid by towards $50 should boost inflation. In Europe, the ECB is buy- with no “exit strategy,” in peak in 2000, according to Thomson Reu- 20 to 30 percent, and now have to keep “But take a step back and look at ing ¤80bn of bonds per month Silicon Valley parlance. ters data. There is now $382bn of dry powder those companies afloat. how structurally weak developed through March 2017, offering strong Burned by previous Burned by previous — cash available to spend — held by both ven- For now, venture capitalists have little economies are, with their ageing support for the market. Many econ- busts, Wall Street busts, Wall Street has ture capital and private equity firms that problem raising money, despite their new populations, and how that is play- omists expect that programme - “a lost its appetite for ini- invest in technology companies, according hesitance to spend it and the inability of ing a role in the strong demand for ‘black hole’, pulling in everything,” has lost its appetite tial public offerings from to investment banking and consulting firm many startups to turn profits or go public. bonds. That won’t change,” said according to BNP Paribas - to be for initial public money-losing companies. Bulger Partners. That’s in part because many VC firms ING senior rates strategist Mar- extended. “The speed of the rally No venture-backed tech “It’s fast, and it’s a lot of dollars this year,” are currently showing huge paper gains in tin van Vliet in Amsterdam. has been surprising, but it has still offerings from money- startup has gone public said Beezer Clarkson, managing director at the value of their portfolios. Many firms “A strong snap back in bonds not gone far enough,” strategists at losing companies. this year, and the few that Sapphire Ventures, which invests in early- are raising as much as possible now, in would require clear evidence of the French bank wrote in a report did last year - including stage venture funds. Many VCs believe that case valuations drop in so-called “down rising underlying inflationary on Thursday. No venture-backed enterprise storage com- more reserves will be needed for the big rounds,” when later stage investors pay less tech startup has gone pany Pure Storage, and cash infusions that startups often need after for company stakes than earlier ones, and public this year. cloud storage and file- establishing themselves but before turning the returns on their investments plummet, sharing firm Box - have a profit. VCs are also seeing mutual funds according to limited partners. Global oil demand surprises on the upside

By John Kemp of the oil market (is) towards balance”. The traffic on US roads grows strongly and motor- by a warm winter across the northern hem- Reuters agency expects the global supply-demand ists opt for larger crossover-utility vehicles isphere as well as stagnant or falling freight surplus to narrow sharply from 1.3m b/d in rather than smaller cars. The EIA estimates demand in the United States and around much the first six months to just 200,000 b/d in the drivers used 9.46 million barrels of petrol per of the globe. second half of 2016. day in April, an increase of 320,000 b/d com- Freight demand shows no sign of picking up LOBAL oil consumption is grow- The strongest demand growth is com- pared with the same month in 2015. in either the US or the rest of the world. Slump- ing much faster than most analysts ing from India and the United States, where The United States is on track to consume ing oil, gas, mining and manufacturing activity expected at the start of the year but cheaper prices are encouraging motorists to a record amount of gasoline this year, passing continues to weigh on shipments of raw mate- increases in demand remain very consume record quantities of petrol. the previous peak set in 2007. The extraor- rials and capital goods while distributors and Guneven geographically and by fuel. India’s consumption of petroleum prod- dinary strength of demand from motorists retailers struggle with elevated inventories. World oil demand increased by 1.4m bar- ucts topped 4m b/d for the first time in the 12 has caused the EIA to revise its forecast for Fears at the start of the year about a sud- rels per day (bpd) in the first three months months ending in April, according to data from gasoline consumption sharply higher over den plunge into a global recession have proved The strongest demand of 2016 compared with the same period in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. the course of the last six months. unfounded but the global economy is strug- 2015, the International Energy Agency said Consumption of petroleum products was The agency’s petrol consumption growth gling to gain much traction and freight demand growth is coming from on Thursday. First-quarter consumption grew around 400,000 b/d higher during the first four forecast has been raised from just 10,000 b/d is growing very slowly if at all. Reflecting the India and the United faster than the agency predicted at the end of months of 2016 compared with 2015, an increase in December to 70,000 b/d in January, 90,000 weak freight outlook, the EIA forecasts US last year, when it forecast growth of 1.2m b/d of 10 percent. As a result of the phenomenal b/d in March, 130,000 b/d in April and now consumption of fuels other than petrol will States, where cheaper between January and March. increase in oil demand from its growing mid- 160,000 b/d in May. These pockets of excep- decline by 20,000 bpd in 2016 before return- prices are encouraging For the time being, the IEA has left its fore- dle class, India is now the fourth-biggest oil tionally strong oil demand have helped offset ing to growth of 120,000 bpd in 2017. motorists to consume cast for average consumption growth this year consumer in the world and set topple Japan a much weaker picture in other regions and Global oil demand looks set to surprise on at 1.2m b/d, noting “headwinds” as a result of from third-place in the next year. for other fuels such as diesel. the upside again in 2016 as it did in 2015, entirely record quantities of sluggish global growth, which implies a slow- In the United States, consumption of petro- Latin America and the Middle East, among on the back of drivers in a handful of economies, petrol. down later in 2016. leum products is estimated by the Energy the biggest drivers of oil consumption until provided global economic conditions do not But coupled with large crude supply inter- Information Administration to have increased 2014, report much slower growth or even fall- deteriorate further. A sustained increase in oil ruptions from Canada, Nigeria, Libya, Iraq and by 240,000 b/d in the first four months. ing consumption as their economies fall prey demand requires a broadening of the demand Venezuela, and a slowdown in US shale, the Petroleum consumption is being driven to the commodities slump. Consumption of away from petrol and the United States and India agency predicts the “the direction of travel by prodigious use of petrol as the volume of diesel and other mid-distillates has been hit to include diesel and other emerging economies. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 23 PAGE | 24 Steyn still the FIFA congress sstandard-setter in seeks to Broad’s eyes clean up mess

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El Jaish clinch third successive Emir Cup volleyball title Bowlers help Punjab The Peninsula Italian Ivan Zaytsev, who won the 27-year-old, who was member the Best Player of the Final award of the Italian team which won the of QR 10,000, stood tall in the Al bronze at the 2012 London Olym- hold Arabi ranks with an all round pic Games. DOHA: A clinical Al Arabi coasted performance. El Jaish coach Zohair Belhadj to an easy straight sets win over El The final victory meant Al Arabi complimented Al Arabi for their Mumbai Jaish to clinch the Emir Cup Vol- took revenge of their Qatar Cup superb win. leyball title for the third successive semi-final loss to El Jaish. “Al Arabi played well, they year. For El Jaish yesterday final loss deserved to win, full credit to them,” Agencies Yesterday at the Ali Bin Hamad was the second loss of the season said the Tunisian coach of El Jaish. Al Attiya Arena, the Qatar Volleyball having featured in three finals. Belhadj said El Jaish knew from Association League winners took Earlier, they lost to Al Rayyan in the start that they will face an uphill VISAKHAPATNAM: Star bats- an hour to overcome the challenge the Qatar Cup title clash. Success task if Al Arabi play true to their men Wriddhiman Saha (56) and of the Armymen 3-0 ( 25-19, 25-21 came the Armymen way in the sea- form. Murali Vijay (54 not out) smashed and 25-17) to pick their third title of son-opening QVA Cup final where “Our strength has been to fight half-centuries each as Kings XI the season. they emerged champions, after ral- back when we are down. We could Punjab outclassed Mumbai Indi- Earlier, coach Maaouia Lajnef lying from one set down tow in 3-1. not do it today. I had said on the eve ans by seven wickets in an Indian side had won the Super Cup win and Zaytsev was happy to help Al of the final that we are ‘physically Premier League (IPL) match yes- the League title. Arabi clinch their third Emir Cup down’. We knew that if Al Arabi terday. Al Arabi started on an aggres- title in a row. played well in the final we will not Batting first, defending cham- sive note and scored points at “We are really happy to win be able to bounce back as we were pions Mumbai lost wickets at regular intervals to have the upper the Emir Cup third time for the physically exhausted playing a long regular intervals as they were hand. On the other hand, El Jaish third year in succession. It is a very season. So today, you saw we tried restricted to 124/9 in 20 overs, tried to make a fight off it but some good win for us. The credit goes to to make a comeback but did not thanks to impressive bowling by superb service from Al Arabi saw team work. It is always good to see have the physical energy to do so.” Marcus Stoinis (4/15), Sandeep Lajnef’s side scoring crucial points. your team-mates fighting together. Belhadj was happy with his Sharma (2/11) and Mohit Sharma The League winners took the We were confident that we if will team’s performance in the season. (2/26). first set at 25-19 in over 20 minutes play according to our strength we “Yes, I am indeed satisfied with In reply, skipper Vijay and Saha and the second in almost identi- will win the title. I think our serv- the report card of the season, we displayed an impressive show as The players of Al Arabi, winners of the Emir Cup Volleyball, take selfies after cal time at 25-21 and wrapped the ice disrupted El Jaish’s game plan. featured in three finals in the sea- Punjab chased down the total the victory ceremony at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena yesterday. Al proceedings by clinching the third The disappointment of losing the sons and emerged winners in one comfortably posting 127/3 with 18 Arabi defeated El Jaish to win the Emir Cup title for the third successive year. and deciding set at 25-17 to spark Qatar Cup semifinal to Jaish is also of them - the season-opening QVA balls to spare. Picture by Syed Omar / The Peninsula off wild celebrations. over with the Emi Cup victory,” said Cup,” he added. Chasing a target of 125 runs, the visitors got off to a poor start, losing opener Hashim Amla (0) in the very first over. But in-form Vijay along with incoming Saha took it from there on and played sensibly to not lose Haydos double any more wickets and help the team reach 32/1 after the first six overs. Without taking any risk and playing proper cricketing shots, the duo added 116-run partnership for the second wicket before Saha was takes Al Sadd to dismissed in the 16th over. But Vijay kept playing his nat- ural game and remained unbeaten to take team to victory. Mitchell McClenaghan (2/24) was the pick of the bowlers for Emir Cup final Mumbai. Earlier, opting to bat, Mumbai got off to a disappoint- ing start, losing opener Unmukt Chand (0) and Ambati Rayudu (0) inside the first three overs to have Al Sadd’s Baghdad the team on the back foot at 8/2. Defending champs Bounedjah (left) vies bounce back to for the ball with an SCOREBOARD register thrilling Al Rayyan player during their first MUMBAI INDIANS 3-2 win against semi-final yesterday. R G Sharma b Patel 15 Al Rayyan U B T Chand c G Singh b Sharma 0 A T Rayudu b S Sharma 0 N Rana c Saha b Stoinis 25 The Peninsula J C Buttler c G Singh b Stoinis 9 K A Pollard b Stoinis 27 K H Pandya c Patel b Stoinis 19 Harbhajan Singh (not out) 14 DOHA: Al Sadd cleared the final T G Southee c G Singh b Sharma 1 hurdle on their way to defend the Emir Cup crown with a com- Al Sadd’s Hassan Khalid Al Haydos (right) vies for the ball with an Al Rayyan player M J McClenaghan c Miller b S Sharma 4 manding 3-2 win against the during their first semi-final of the Emir Cup football tournament played at the J J Bumrah (not out) 2 reigning Qatar Stars League Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium yesterday. Defending champions Al Sadd beat Qatar Extras (LB-6, W-2) 8 champs Al Rayyan in the first Stars League champions Al Rayyan 3-2 to reach the final of the tournament which Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) 124 semi-final played at the Jassim will be played on next Friday. BELOW: Fans celebrate Al Sadd’s victory. Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-8, 3-36, 4-47,

Bin Hamad Stadium yesterday. striker Hassan Khalid Al Hay- However, in the 89th minute of

Pictures: Baher / The Peninsula 5-61, 6-103, 7-103, 8-104, 9-114. The winners proved to be dos successfully netted one to the game, Baghdad Bounedjah the better side in almost every square the score at one all. The made life harder for Al Rayyan Bowling: Sandeep Sharma 4-0-11-2; M department throughout the game star striker made no mistake as when he was placed in the per- M Sharma 4-0-26-2 (1w); A R Patel 4-0- and led the first semi-final 3-1 at he beat Al Rayyan’s goalkeeper fect spot inside the penalty box 30-1; M P Stoinis 4-0-15-4; K C Cariappa one stage, before a penalty in Omar Barry and the ball kissed to pick up the ball and redirect it 4-0-36-0 (1w). the fifth minute of stoppage time the bottom left corner of the net. to the net to make it 3-1 in favour KINGS XI PUNJAB decided the final score of 3-2 in Haydos put his side ahead of Al Sadd. M Vijay (not out) 54 favour of Al Sadd. of Al Rayyan when he added his Al Rayyan’s skipper Tabata H M Amla lbw Southee 0 The half-time score read 2-1 second goal in the 20th minute was awarded a penalty in the fifth in favour of Al Sadd. of the game, when he struck a minute of stoppage time and the W P Saha b McClenaghan 56 Al Rayyan’s captain and beauty from just inside the pen- star striker made no mistake as G J Maxwell c Pollard b McClenaghan 0 striker Rodrigo Tabata earned his alty box to beat the Al Rayyan the ball flew into the top right cor- Gurkeerat Singh (not out) 6 team the perfect start when he goalkeeper once again. The ball ner to make it 3-2, but his efforts Extras (B-4, LB-3, W-4) 11 netted the first goal of the game flew over the hands of Barry were not enough to block Al Sadd’s Total (for 3 wkts in 17 overs) 127 just 11 minutes after the kick-off, and hit the inside edge of the bar way towards the final of the pres- picking up the ball from Ayoup before bouncing back into the net. tigious Emir Cup tournament. Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-117, 3-118. Mashhor just three metres away Jorge Fossati’s side looked Al Sadd will now look to Bowling: T G Southee 4-0-22-1 (1w); M J from the goal. tougher in the early stages of defend their title against the win- McClenaghan 3-0-24-2 (2w); K H Pandya However Al Sadd made a stu- the second half, not allowing ner of the second semi-final. The 4-0-32-0; J J Bumrah 2-0-13-0 (1w); pendous comeback just seven Al Sadd to impress much, and final will be played at the same Harbhajan Singh 4-0-29-0. minutes later when their key both sides struggled to score. venue on May 20. 22 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 SPORT

Merritt reveals second kidney operation

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SHANGHAI: Olympic hurdles champion Aries Merritt (Pic- tured) revealed yesterday that he needed a second operation for kidney trouble and said he was “months” behind in his In this file photo, Jamaica’s preparations for the Rio Games. Usain Bolt makes his signature The 30-year-old American pose after winning the gold underwent a kidney transplant medal in the 100m final during in September but he said he then the Beijing 2015 IAAF World needed a second procedure after Championships at the National complications developed. Stadium in Beijing, China. The latest details about Mer- ritt’s condition raise questions about his ability to mount a suc- cessful Olympic title defence. He said he still suffers discomfort when he trains and competes. “About seven weeks later, I actually had a second surgery Bolt ready for 2016 debut that many people don’t know about,” Merritt told journalists ahead of the Shanghai Diamond League. unprecedented “triple-triple” in what time, because I train with (Yohan) (Jamaica Olympic Trials) first,” he said “I had one complication he has said will be his final Olympic Blake, who ran a good time (9.93) before reiterating his determination to which caused me to have to go World’s fastest man games. already this season,” Bolt said. scoop another treble of golds in Rio, back in and have another oper- warms up ahead of Rio The 29-year-old superstar has not Bolt’s competition on Saturday where he is also hoping to become the ation... I was having difficulty “I’m really strong right now competed since winning three gold includes training partner Kemar Bailey- first man to duck under 19 seconds for with haematoma that had devel- but I’m just not fast,” Merritt Games as he targets medals at last August’s World Cham- Cole and the Cayman Islands’ Kemar the 200m. oped that was actually crushing added with a laugh. an unprecedented pionships in Beijing and is hoping to use Hyman, both of whom have gone below “I am going to Rio for the three gold the kidney.” Merritt said his blood this weekend’s Cayman Invitational to 10 seconds for the 100m. medals. That’s always the aim and as I Merritt was back training in chemistry is now normal fol- “Triple-triple” gauge the state of his race fitness. Bolt will also run in Ostrava later said earlier in the season, I would love by January but he said his prep- lowing the transplant -- using Bolt, the world record holder over this month, where he is scheduled to to break 19 seconds,” he said. arations were way behind those his sister’s kidney -- which was 100m and 200m, runs in the 100m on face US decathlon king Ashton Eaton Elsewhere today, America’s 2011 of his rivals. necessary because of a genetic Saturday at the Truman Bodden Sports over 100m. World champion and Olympic Games He finished sixth in the 110 disorder. AFP Complex. “These upcoming races will deter- silver medallist Carmelita Jeter head- metres hurdles at this month’s “All my labs are great. My “When I left Jamaica everything mine where I am preparing for Rio,” lines the women’s 100m, which also has Doha Diamond League. basic body chemistry is normal. was good,” Bolt told at the Truman Bod- Bolt said. USA 200m champion Jenna Prandini “It is a struggle, but it’s not My blood levels are normal,” he den Sports Complex on Thursday. “I just have to hope that everything and Jamaican Kerron Stewart. because over time it will get bet- said. “Now, I’m full of energy GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: “This is my first race, so you never fall into place and when I get back to Prandini is also in the women’s ter and better. But I don’t want to and I’m ready to try to get back Usain Bolt will take the first long strides know what to expect, because race fit- Jamaica in training, I will know what I 200m with compatriot Miki Barber. make any excuses because I’m to where I was before.” on his road to Rio today when he makes ness is different from training.” need to work on.” American Kori Carter is the biggest lining up with everyone else,” In Shanghai, he will face fel- his 2016 track debut with less than Bolt however believes he is ready to Although his qualification for the name in the women’s 400m hurdles Merritt said. low American David Oliver, who three months to go before the Olympics. hit the ground running, revealing that Olympics is likely to be a formality, Bolt while Kendra Harrison of USA will “It’s like I’m months and won the world title in 2013, and The Jamaican sprint king is plan- training partner Yohan Blake has been said the Jamaican track and field trials start favourite over Phylicia George of months behind my competitors Jamaican Omar McLeod, who ning a successful defence of his 100m, in blistering form this year. were a priority. Canada and Virgina Crawford in the (in terms of training), but I’m still won the world indoor gold in 200m and 4x100m crowns in Brazil, an “The way I feel I should run a good “We always focus on trials women’s sprint hurdles. running decent,” he said. Portland earlier this year.

Australia’s Jason Day WADA declares in action Kenya non-compliant, Day shoots record-tying Rio Olympics at stake 63 to move two ahead

Reuters Reuters try and give myself a birdie on nine to beat the record but I will take tying the course record.” Fred Couples in 1992 was the first player to shoot 63 at the TPC Sawgrass before Greg MONTREAL: The World Anti-Doping Agency found FLORIDA: Jason Day lived up to his status as Norman (1994), Roberto Castro (2013), Mar- Kenya to be non-compliant with the WADA Code on the world’s number one golfer as he charged tin Kaymer (2014) and then Day followed suit. Thursday, saying changes needed to be made to legis- into a two-shot lead with a record-tying nine- PGA Championship winner Day, who has lation recently enacted by the African nation. under-par 63 in Thursday’s opening round long coveted a first Players title to add to his The surprise move could lead to Kenyan athletes of the Players Championship at Ponte Vedra already impressive golfing resume, felt that missing August’s Rio Olympics if the International Beach, Florida. fatigue had helped his on-course focus. Olympic Committee (IOC) so deems. Only the IOC can Taking advantage of a receptive lay- “It’s been a long week because it’s been hot ban a sport or country from the Olympics. out at the TPC Sawgrass with very little and I just felt really tired for some reason,” said “There are sufficiently major changes (in the new rough and barely a breath of wind early on the 28-year-old Australian, who has won six legislation) that they wouldn’t be operating under the a sun-drenched day ripe for low scoring, the tournaments in his last 16 starts. “That kind of same rules as everybody else so we need to get it right,” long-hitting Australian piled up nine birdies in distracted me from anything else. WADA president Craig Reedie told Reuters. a bogey-free display. “The scores here are so low. When you WADA’s compliance review committee had rec- Though he rued a missed birdie opportu- shoot a nine-under-par round, you expect - ommended Kenya be found in non-compliance and nity at the par-three eighth, his penultimate especially on this course - to have a decent the WADA Foundation Board agreed. hole, Day picked up five shots over the closing lead. I’ve got only a two-shot lead and there’s Under the WADA Code, non-compliant countries stretch to become just the fifth player to card a slew of guys that are at seven under and at and sporting federations risk being prohibited from a 63 at the event widely regarded as the unof- six and five (under).” holding international events. ficial fifth major. Four-times major winner Ernie Els of South Kenya’s parliament had passed, and its president “I played solid from tee to green and I was Africa, Italy’s Francesco Molinari and Ameri- signed, a law last month that will criminalise doping. very confident with my putter,” Day told Golf cans Hudson Swafford, Brooks Koepka, Daniel Many thought that would satisfy WADA’s threat to Channel after finishing two ahead of Ameri- Berger and Boo Weekley opened with 66s sanction the African nation famous for its middle and cans Cameron Tringale, Bill Haas and Brendan while world number two Jordan Spieth dou- long-distance runners. Steele, England’s Justin Rose and Ireland’s ble-bogeyed his final hole for a 72. But Reedie said the legislation was not code Shane Lowry. The late starters had to cope with strength- compliant. “Just got things going. Unfortunately it didn’t ening winds in the afternoon when scoring “We have been working with Kenya for a number go in on eight,” he said of a narrow miss with a became a little more difficult as American of years and thought we had agreed that the draft leg- 40-foot putt at the eighth that would have given Rickie Fowler, the defending champion, and islation and rules were entirely compliant and it would him a birdie-birdie-birdie finish. Northern Irish world number three Rory McIl- appear that during their parliamentary process changes “I really wanted to hole that putt to then roy both opened with 72s. were made that unfortunately weren’t code compliant so we will be in touch with Kenya to try and resolve that at the earliest possible moment.” WADA had give Kenya until May to enact the law or be declared non-compliant. Ariya targets Rio gold after LPGA Tour breakthrough Kenyan running great Kipchoge Keino, who is chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), described WADA’s move as “very unfortunate” but also said that his government had not acted quickly Reuters 2013 when a stunning triple-bogey eight shaking,” Ariya told reporters after her Chan-ocha yesterday. “I will try my best enough in the crusade against doping. handed Korea’s Park In-bee a one-shot nervy five-footer at the last in Alabama. to bring home the medal despite the fact “I can’t understand why this has happened,” Keino triumph. At last month’s ANA Inspiration, “The last three holes were so tough. I that the course does not suit my game,” she told Reuters by telephone. “Could be because of miss- Ariya held a two-shot lead late in the final couldn’t control anything.” added of the brand new layout built on a ing the two deadlines.” SINGAPORE: Ariya Jutanugarn sank a round of the season’s first major but three The victory took Ariya up to 21st in the nature reserve to the west of Rio de Janeiro “But very unfortunate indeed. Government gutsy par putt on the 72nd hole to become bogeys in a row from the 16th handed the world rankings and she is ready to mount for the August 17-20 tournament. “On the dragged its feet a lot in tackling doping. I cannot the first Thai to claim an LPGA Tour vic- title to world number one Lydia Ko as the an assault on Olympic gold alongside tour, I am always trying to win every tour- blame WADA.” tory last weekend and after finally getting Thai was left to rue another collapse. compatriot Pornanong Phatlum, herself a nament and my target is to be among the Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario told Reu- her maiden win after several near misses, At last week’s Yokohama Tire Classic, four-time runner up on the lucrative U S top 10 by the end of the year,” Ariya said. ters he was awaiting official communication before the 20-year-old has set her sights firmly Ariya led by three strokes going into the -based circuit. Proud of his daughters, Somboon is con- commenting on the decision. on Rio. final round after a sizzling 63 today and “The Olympic gold is one of my goals fident Ariya has the skills and temperament Up to 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests Big-hitting and renowned for her despite seeing her advantage dwindle to this year,” Ariya, who was introduced to golf to climb all the way to the top as the nation since 2012, the biggest name among them being former aggressive play, Ariya famously blew a just one shot by the last, she was not about by her father Somboon at the age of five, begins to embrace women’s golf after the three-time Boston City Marathon and Chicago Mara- two-shot lead on the final hole of her to be denied again. told reporters in Thailand, where she was men had dominated the playing field for thon champion, Rita Jeptoo, now serving a ban. home Honda LPGA Thailand event in “My legs were shaking, my hands were due to meet with Prime Minister Prayuth many years. SPORTS SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 23 Rosberg back on top in Spanish GP practise

having opted for more sets than their north of Barcelona, he said the ban had rivals as they feel their car is better ended an era of “muppets” at the wheel. World championship suited to them. He told Autosport that television leader fastest in Hamilton is 43 points behind Ros- viewers had stopped thinking that “we berg in the standings after suffering looked like ‘muppets’ directed by our second session as power unit failures in the last two race engineers on radio.” Under this year’s Ferrari’s dominate weekends that sent him to the back of rules, they must now drive the cars the field in China and to 10th on the “alone and unaided”, a move that morning practise starting grid in Russia. defending three-time champion Ham- Mercedes said they had changed the ilton said would make his job more turbo and a part of the energy recov- difficult.It will be “a lot harder,” the Reuters ery system for Barcelona. Briton said before the season began. But limited time to change the Rosberg has reeled off four straight design since the last race in Rus- wins this year to pull clear at the top sia meant they had just one example of the drivers’ world championship BARCELONA: Formula One world available and getting it ready in time ahead of Hamilton who has suffered championship leader Nico Rosberg had taken a “superhuman” effort, the a series of misfortunes including suc- set the practice pace yesterday for a team said. cessive engine failures. Spanish Grand Prix that could see the Dutch teenager Max Verstappen “I like the direction because, now, Mercedes driver celebrate his eighth was sixth and eighth on his practice we’re more on our own,” said the metic- win in a row. debut with Red Bull after leaving Toro ulous and well-educated Rosberg, who The German, who would become Rosso in a swap with Russian Daniil turned down a chance to study aer- only the third driver to win the first Kvyat. Australian team mate Daniel onautical engineering at Imperial five races of a season after compa- Ricciardo was quicker in both. College, London before becoming a triot Michael Schumacher and Britain’s Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz was ahead racing driver. Nigel Mansell if he triumphs on Sun- of both Red Bulls in the afternoon. “Now, what’s more important is day, led the way with a fastest time of Spain’s Fernando Alonso, twice the pre-race preparation where we work one minute 23.922 seconds. world champion, was 10th and sev- more intensely together through all Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel had been enth on another encouraging day for the different things that my engineer fastest in the morning session in 1:23.951 McLaren after last year’s struggles. German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Scuderia Ferrari in action during the first training session can’t tell me in a race. and was fourth in the second session. Mexican Sergio Perez had a diffi- at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit in Montmelo, Barcelona, Spain, yesterday. “There’s more focus on that. It’s Both were well inside Rosberg’s cult morning, stopping with two-thirds more intense and complex. In the race, 2015 pole position time of 1:24.681. of the session remaining after smoke it’s good. We’re out there, we get the Vettel’s team mate Kimi Raikkonen came from the rear of his Force India technical problems. Palmer also had wins. The 30-year-old German has Lewis Hamilton’s more ‘laissez-faire’ job done ourselves and it’s a real chal- was second fastest in both sessions, car. The team have brought major aer- problems in the afternoon, with a tyre praised the new direction of Formula approach to racing, the championship- lenge. I like it.” 0.254 adrift of Rosberg in the after- odynamic upgrades to Spain. blowout halting the session. One thanks to restrictions on the use leader said the ban on radio instructions Hamilton, who struggled through noon, with three-times world champion French rising star and reserve Meanwhile, Savvy student Ros- of drivers’ team radio and a need for meant that drivers could no longer rely his school days, has always said he Lewis Hamilton fourth in the morn- Sebastien Ocon made his practice debut berg is happy to do the extra technical more individual initiative and pre-race on other people’s guidance alone. enjoys being allowed to wring all the ing but third after lunch. with Renault, taking the car that Brit- homework required as he has roared preparation. Speaking ahead of this weekend’s speed possible out of his car as a driver Ferrari were the only ones using ain’s Jolyon Palmer will race on Sunday, to the top of this year’s drivers’ world In what could be seen as a thinly- Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Cat- by maximising on his pure talents as the quicker, soft tyres in the morning, but was unable to set a lap time due to championship with a run of four straight veiled jab at his Mercedes team-mate alunya, set in the industrial hinterland a racing driver.

Jayawardene and Steyn still the standard-setter in Broad’s eyes Dravid join ICC committee AFP sponsors Investec. “It’s very nice to be were really in my favour. England’s Stuart at the top of the rankings, but for me “Whereas I feel the more I’ve played it’s come really for me through playing Broad gearing up in different conditions, the more I’ve AFP a lot of cricket,” added Nottingham- for the Test series realised you have to adapt your game LONDON: Stuart Broad may have risen shire seamer Broad, who at 29 is three against Sri Lanka. quickly in Test cricket to survive.” to number one in the world Test bowler years younger than Steyn. Broad’s new-ball partnership with NEW DELHI: Batting greats Rahul rankings but, as far as the England “I’ve played 40-odd Tests on the James Anderson has become one of Dravid and Mahela Jayawardene paceman is concerned, South Africa bounce now, so I’ve been out there hav- the most celebrated in English cricket joined the ICC’s cricket committee quick Dale Steyn is the “bowler of our ing the opportunity to take wickets and history. yesterday in the first major appoint- generation”. bowling within a bowling unit that’s But they’ve generally been known ments at the game’s governing body Broad’s record of 333 wickets in 91 creating a lot of pressure,” said Broad. as ‘Anderson and Broad’, with the Lan- since India’s Shashank Manohar Tests at an average of 28.66 is worthy “It’s always nice when you do get to cashire seamer, England’s all-time was elected chairman. of considerable respect. a ranking like that, but it’s not some- leading Test wicket-taker, having the Former Indian skipper Dravid But Steyn’s figures of 406 wickets thing I focus on a huge amount,” added privilege of choice of ends. and retired Sri Lankan stroke- in 82 Tests at 22.53 stands comparison the England mainstay, who has a nar- “I’ve never bowled down the hill maker Jayawardene, two of the with all-time great fast bowlers such row lead at the top of the Test standings at Headingley, that’s my aim next biggest run-scorers of all-time, as the West Indies’ Malcolm Marshall, from India off-spinner Ravichandran week -- to try to get a spell down will join the likes of Australian Australia’s Dennis Lillee and England’s Ashwin. the hill,” joked Broad ahead of the coach Darren Lehman and the Fred Trueman, all of whom had Test Broad, the son of former England first of a three-Test series against Sri umpire Richard Kettleborough on bowling averages in the early 20s. opening batsman turned International match wins and what the team wins.” increasingly consistent. “I feel with a bit Lanka starting at Yorkshire’s head- a body which has a crucial say in “On the ranking, I’m certainly not Cricket Council match referee Chris Broad has a reputation as some- of experience, I know what I’m look- quarters in Leeds, northern England, playing matters. going to sit here and say I’m a better Broad, was clear where his goals lay. thing of a ‘streaky’ bowler who can ing for as a bowler now, know what on May 19. The International Cricket Coun- bowler than Dale Steyn -- I’ve said “For me, it’s all about trying to take produce unplayable spells such as the tempo I’m trying to find in my run- On a more serious note, Broad said: cil (ICC) said Jayawardene and before he is the bowler of our gener- top-order wickets and get us into a one on his Trent Bridge home ground up,” he said. “I’m not a big away swinger, Jimmy Dravid had joined the committee ation,” explained Broad in London on winning position,” he said. last year where his stunning return “I feel like I can adapt to different always swings the ball away, so the after Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara Thursday at an event staged ahead of “When you finish your career, you of eight for 15 set up England’s Ashes conditions quicker. When I was my dream is a bit of a cross-wind. He can and former India leg-spinner Lax- next week’s first Test between England don’t look back on where you got to series-clinching win over Australia. learning my trade, up until 25 or 26, I choose the end that helps him swing man Sivaramakrishnan completed and Sri Lanka at Headingley by series in the rankings, you look back on Test But Broad believes he has become only seemed to strike when conditions it away.” their three-year terms. Lucky loser Pouille set for Tennis Australia back bad boy possible Murray clash in Rome Kyrgios ahead of Rio Games

AFP AFP of Swiss ace Stan Wawrinka and was given a suspended 28-day ban and fined US$25,000. Chiller has made it known that ROME: Lucky loser Lucas Pouille set up a possible semi-final SYDNEY: Tennis Australia yesterday Tomic and Kyrgios were under scrutiny clash with British second seed Andy Murray at the Rome Mas- backed controversial star Nick Kyr- for their behaviour ahead of finalis- ters after Juan Monaco of Argentina pulled out of their scheduled gios (pictured) ahead of his mooted ing Australia’s team for Rio. quarter-final with injury yesterday. selection in Australia’s team for this “I would be appalled. I would be It is the second time in the tournament the 22-year-old French- year’s Rio Olympics. embarrassed as a leader of the team man has advanced without hitting a ball in anger. The backing of TA President Steve if any of our Olympians behaved with After falling in the final round of qualifying, Pouille was Healy for the polarising Kyrgios comes disrespect,” Chiller told reporters Fri- granted a main draw berth when countryman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga after Bernard Tomic announced on day after news of Tomic’s unavailability. withdrew. Friday that he would not be available Kyrgios took to social media, refer- He capitalised to defeat Ernests Gulbis of Latvia in the sec- for selection for the Olympics, citing ring to the team boss as “that Kitty ond round and reached his first ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final his busy playing schedule. Chiller” and all but daring selectors to on Thursday with an epic performance that saw him oust Span- Australia’s Olympic chef de mission overlook him for Rio at a recent post- ish ninth seed David Ferrer 6-4, 6-1. Kitty Chiller has warned TA that bad match media conference. The Frenchman was set to meet Monaco on the red clay behaviour will not be tolerated in Rio. “His performances this year have “We have had nothing official of the Foro Italico early on Friday but Monaco announced his But Australia’s tennis chief Healy been markedly improved and it’s obvi- except for some ill advised, shall I retirement before the match started after reportedly complain- came out in support of Kyrgios as the ous he’s showing more maturity. say, comments about me and what ing of soreness in his hip. organisation mount a case for his selec- “Only world No.1 Novak Djokovic it means to be an Olympian,” Chiller Pouille is now set for a Centre Court showdown on Satur- tion in Australia’s tennis team for the has beaten more top 10 players than said of Kyrgios’s latest response. day with either Murray or Belgian David Goffin, who stunned Rio Olympics. Nick this year. “I think some of Nick’s comments Czech Tomas Berdych 6-0, 6-0 on Thursday. Murray and Gof- “Since the disciplinary action “Nick deserves the opportunity in social media have shown that maybe fin face off, when the highlight will be a quarter-final clash taken against Nick last year he’s made to concentrate on his tennis without he doesn’t understand what it means between seven-time champion Rafael Nadal and world number a concerted effort to improve his per- any additional distractions.” to be an Australian Olympian. one Novak Djokovic. formance and behaviour, and full credit Kyrgios, 21, the world number 20, “It is not just about winning on the Lucas Pouille of France speaks during a From 48 previous meetings, Djokovic holds the edge with to him,” Healy said in a statement. has frequently been under fire in the court - it’s about how you go about it.” press conference after the disqualification of 25 wins, and has won their last six meetings. Nadal’s last win “It’s unfortunate that he’s been past for his behaviour both on and TA’s nominations for Australia’s Argentina’s player Juan Monaco during the over the Serbian came in the final of Roland Garros two years included unfairly in recent discus- off the court. tennis representatives at Rio are due ATP Tennis Open at the Foro Italico, in Rome, ago. In the other men’s quarter-final, Austria’s Dominic Thiem sions on player behaviour that have He infamously made crude to handed to the AOC for ratification yesterday. faces Kei Nishikori of Japan. not involved him. remarks last year about the girlfriend next month. 24 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016

Kuwaiti clubs FIFA congress seeks to clean up mess confident as FIFA eyes lifting ban

Montagliani became CONCACAF’s and more balanced executive powers. fourth president in five years after his But Infantino’s promises of a new AFP New president wants three predecessors were ensnared in era at FIFA are not happening as fast to turn the page corruption allegations, with the last as some want. The reforms give big- one arrested in December. ger powers to the secretary general, and put the focus FIFA’s new council, meanwhile, or number two, who would become a MEXICO CITY: A delegation from back on football at decided on Tuesday to resume the true counterweight to the president. Kuwaiti clubs lobbying for the FIFA the scandal-tarred process to select the host of the 2026 But Infantino has yet to name a Congress to lift a suspension of the World Cup, which had been frozen deputy. He has vowed to pick some- nation’s football association is organisation since last year over. one this summer, but a decision confident of victory ahead of yes- But the scandals keep haunting could come later as council mem- terday’s vote in Mexico City. world football. On Monday, Infanti- ber Wolfgang Niersbach of Germany “So far, we have received a no’s former boss, Michel Platini, said said no extraordinary meetings were lot of support from the FIFA fam- AFP he will step down as head of Euro- planned before the fall. ily and we are very optimistic,” pean football body UEFA after failing The former secretary general, said Saad Al-Hootie, captain of to overturn his ban from all football- Jerome Valcke of France, was sacked the Kuwait team that reached the related activity over allegations that in January and banned from football 1982 World Cup in Spain. “It’s time MEXICO CITY: FIFA’s new president he received a dubious $2m payment for 12 years over misconduct in tel- to let our players play.” Gianni Infantino will preside over from FIFA. Infantino was Platini’s evision deals and World Cup ticket FIFA suspended the Kuwait world football’s annual congress in number two. sales. Football Association (KFA) last Mexico City to push through reforms Earlier this month, FIFA banned Germany’s Markus Kattner, who October after finding the govern- aimed at rehabilitating the scandal- for life top executive members Ser- is the acting secretary general, will ment had interfered in the group’s tarred organization. gio Jadue of Chile and Luis Bedoya of present on Friday the state of the affairs, leading to three World Cup Infantino -- who was elected Colombia over bribes they accepted organization’s finances, which posted qualifying match forfeits. in February after his predecessor for football television and market- a $122 million loss last year. “Kuwait football is suffer- Sepp Blatter was brought down by ing contracts. In other decisions, the congress ing,” Al-Hootie said. “Clubs from the corruption crisis -- wants to turn World football’s governing body faces prickly votes over the admis- all leagues, players from all levels the page and put the focus back on must now ratify reforms that were sion of Gibraltar and Kosovo that will and the development system have football. approved by a special congress in take the world body to 211 members. been completely blocked from any “We will show to the world we February, which renamed the dis- The FIFA Council recommended activity for more than half a year are serious with the reforms, with graced executive committee as the on Tuesday that both be admitted, now. The most frustrating part in our democratic process and football FIFA Council and pruned its powers. which would entitle them to partici- all of this is that our FA is not doing development,” Infantino said Thurs- The reforms came into force on pate in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. anything to have the suspension day at an opening ceremony for the April 27, 60 days after the vote, but The former Serbian province of lifted. This is why we are in Mex- congress. Infantino must now make sure that Kosovo narrowly won a vote at the ico City this week, to defend the In another attempt at restor- the regional confederations and UEFA congress this month to get future of football in our country.” ing trust, the North and Central national associations at the heart of membership to the European body. Abdullah Al-Maayouf, a American and Caribbean football the corruption follow through. FIFA’s executive originally Kuwait national assembly mem- confederation (CONCACAF), which “Things are getting calmer at rejected Gibraltar’s bid, but the Court ber who was also on the World Cup has been in the eye of the corrup- FIFA,” said Fernando Sarney, Bra- of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ordered side from 34 years ago, said per- tion storm, elected a new president zilian member of the Council. that the congress take a vote on the sonal agendas and politics played FIFA President Gianni Infantino gives a speech during the opening on Thursday. The governance reforms include British territory, which is also claimed a role in the ban. Canadian football chief Victor term limits, transparency in salaries by Spain. ceremony of the 66th FIFA Congress in Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday. “The process that led to our suspension was unclear, unfair and not worthy of the new FIFA administration,” Al-Maayouf said. Fixtures “No proper legal investigation was made by FIFA before the suspen- (All times in GMT) Ibra announces departure from PSG sion was imposed.” English Premier League He cited no suspensions for Tomorrow Kuwait’s cycling, athletics or bad- Arsenal vs Aston Villa (1400) minton governing bodies as a sign AFP “I am very proud of the last four the ban was wrongly imposed. years. I have loved every day I have Chelsea vs Leicester City (1400) “This makes us believe some- spent here,” Ibrahimovic said. Everton vs Norwich City (1400) thing else is behind our suspension “PSG has become a star club Manchester United vs AFC in FIFA because only sports organ- PARIS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic con- internationally and I have played a Bournemouth (1400) isations where certain people from firmed yesterday that he will leave major part in that transformation. Newcastle United vs Tottenham Kuwait have a lot of influence, such Paris Saint-Germain at the end of this “The time has now come for me Hotspur (1400) as FIFA and the IOC, have sus- season, but the French champions to take a different path. pended Kuwait. We believe these said the Swedish star will eventu- “This is not a farewell but simply Southampton vs international sport leaders from ally return in a “management” role. a goodbye for now. I came here like a Crystal Palace (1400) Kuwait pushed for the suspension “My last game tomorrow at Parc king and leave as a legend. But I will Stoke City vs in order to drive their personal des Princes. I came like a king, left come back!” West Ham United (1400) political agendas.” like a legend,” wrote Ibrahimovic on Ibrahimovic scored his 36th Swansea City vs A statement from KFA general Twitter, ending speculation that he league goal of the season in Wednes- Manchester City (1400) secretary Saho Al Saho showed the could extend his contract with PSG day’s 1-1 draw at Bordeaux, leaving divide between the nation’s top beyond this season. him just one away from equalling Watford vs Sunderland (1400) football officials and those mak- Ibrahimovic, whose existing deal Argentine striker Carlos Bianchi’s West Bromwich Albion vs ing the emotional pitch to FIFA expires on June 30, will make his Paris St Germain coach Laurent Blanc encourages Zlatan Ibrahimovic as PSG record of 37 in a top-flight cam- Liverpool (1400) members. final home appearance for the club he enters the pitch during their French Ligue 1 r match against Stade paign, set back in 1978. “The KFA would like to make in their last Ligue 1 game of the sea- Rennes at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris in this May 7 file picture. He has 46 in all competitions Ligue 1 it clear that only members of its son against Nantes today. and has 152 goals in total as a PSG Today official delegation... are respon- However, he will then run out in player in 178 appearances, having Angers SCO vs Toulouse (1900) sible for speaking on behalf of a PSG shirt one more time when they when he turns out for Sweden at Euro career with LA Galaxy. Ibrahimovic, overtaken Portuguese great Pauleta Monaco vs Montpellier HSC (1900) Kuwait Football Association here face Marseille in the French Cup final 2016 in June. who last weekend was crowned as the club’s all-time leading scorer at the FIFA Congress in Mexico,” on May 21 at the Stade de France. There has been widespread spec- France’s player of the year for a back in October. Caen vs Girondins Bordeaux (1900) Al Saho said. “After discussions between Paris ulation about the 34-year-old former record third time, has enjoyed enor- Ibrahimovic has also become the En Avant Guingamp vs Nice (1900) “The KFA has noted that some Saint-Germain and the agent of Zla- Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona mous domestic success with PSG club’s all-time leading scorer in the ES Troyes AC vs Olympique Marseille individuals from outside the foot- tan Ibrahimovic, the club and the and AC Milan star’s next destination. since moving to the French capital league and in Europe, but he never (1900) ball family have been speaking player have mutually decided not to He has been linked with a move from Milan in 2012, winning the Ligue really managed to reproduce his and sending phone messages to FC Lorient vs GFC Ajaccio (1900) renew his contract,” PSG said. to the English Premier League, while 1 title in each of his four seasons. brilliant domestic form in the Cham- the media and to FIFA members, “They have also agreed that once his agent recently suggested he If Paris win the French Cup next pions League. The Swede performed Paris St Germain vs Nantes (1900) claiming to represent Kuwait’s his playing career is over, Ibra will could return to AC Milan and Major week, they will have completed a poorly in PSG’s quarter-final exit to Stade Rennes vs Bastia (1900) delegation and football family. join the management of the club in a League Soccer is another potential clean sweep of the domestic hon- Manchester City last month, missing St Etienne vs Lille (1900) These individuals do not have the position of responsibility.” destination. ours for the second year running and a penalty in the 2-2 first-leg draw at authority to do so and the KFA is In the meantime, Ibrahimovic will One report in Italy said he was Ibrahimovic will have won 12 trophies the Parc des Princes before Paris went Stade de Reims vs not responsible for, and does not make his French swansong as a player “90 percent” likely to continue his with the club. out 3-2 on aggregate. Olympique Lyon (1900) support, their behavior or views.” Manchester United on track for £500m plus revenue in single year

AFP final at Wembley later this month, from club’s 10-year £750m deal with German most popular sport,” Woodward said of a announcing a record underlying pre-tax sportswear giants Adidas signed in 2014, title race won by former 5,000/1 outsiders third quarter profits of £44.9m yesterday. Tseayo added there would be a 30 percent Leicester City. The Premier League side said in a state- cut only if United missed out on a place in “As we reflect on our season, we are LONDON: Manchester United are in line ment that this represented an increase of European club football’s elite tournament delighted by the emergence of yet another to become the first British club to “exceed” 76.8 percent, while revenue for the same two seasons running. crop of exciting young players that demon- half a billion pounds in revenue in a single 2016 fiscal third quarter and nine months Any reduction would be spread over strate once again our terrific track record year, even if participation in the lucrative ended March 31 had risen to £123.4m, up the remaining life of the deal. of youth development,” Woodward added. Champions League next season still hangs 29.9 percent. But with only investors, rather than “We are looking forward to the FA Cup in the balance, the club said yesterday. Commercial revenues rose 37.7 percent reporters, posing questions, United exec- final on May 21 and hopefully winning this United head into their final Premier to £65.8m, with total operating expenses utive vice-chairman Ed Woodward was special trophy for a record-equalling 12th League game at home to Bournemouth on up 3.2 percent to of £102.2m compared to not asked about what impact, if any, fail- time.” Sunday, in fifth place and two points behind the same quarter last year. ure to qualify for the Champions League United’s operating expenses rose to local rivals Manchester City. In a subsequent conference call with would have on van Gaal. Woodward also £102.2m -- a 3.2 percent increase com- Only the top four clubs in the English investors, United head of corporate finance made no mention of the Dutchman in an pared to the same quarter last year. top flight are guaranteed a place in the Hemen Tseayo said the club, one of world earlier statement to accompany the finan- In the conference call, Woodward Champions League and failure to do so sport’s biggest brands with a huge glo- cial results, where he expresses satisfaction attributed some of this increase to high will add to the pressure on United manager bal fan base, expected revenues would with the club’s performance on and off the transfer spending by van Gaal, which was Louis van Gaal (pictured), whose future at “exceed” £500m and possibly be as much field. necessary for squad “re-tooling”. Old Trafford is the subject of intense spec- as £510m in 2016. “The conclusion to this year’s season “Things will stabilise in the coming few ulation. But none of that stopped United, As for what impact failing to qualify for demonstrates once again why the Premier years and then be lumpy thereafter,” said who face Crystal Palace in the FA Cup the Champions League would have on the League is the most popular league in the Woodward.