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QNA “Qatar welcomes pending the final decision of the THE HAGUE the Court's strong Court on the merits of the case, acknowledgment on the allegation that Qatar has The International Court of Justice “aggravated” the dispute before (ICJ or 'Court') yesterday issued of the lack of legal the Court. an order rejecting the request of and factual basis Public hearings took place the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the request on May 7, 8 and 9, 2019. During for provisional measures against made by the UAE the hearings, Qatar demon- the State of Qatar in a case strated that the measures relating to the UAE's unlawful for the indication of requested by the UAE were discriminatory treatment of provisional measures inconsistent, incoherent, and Qatar and the Qatari people. in its rejection of UAEs unjustified. Background to the case on groundless request. Qatar argued that in seeking June 11, 2018, Qatar filed its provisional measures based in Application instituting pro- Qatar brought this part on the false assertion that ceedings against the UAE before case to protect the Qatar has aggravated this the ICJ pursuant to the Con- Qatari people against dispute, the UAE failed to dem- vention on the Elimination of All the UAEs policy and onstrate that the rights for which Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrived yesterday evening in Dushanbe of the Republic Forms of Racial Discrimination the UAE was requesting pro- practice of racial of Tajikistan to take part in the 5th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building (CERD or 'Convention'), to which tection were plausible, that they Measures in Asia (CICA), which will take place today. H H the Amir and the accompanying delegation Qatar and the UAE are parties. discrimination," Dr were linked to the requested were received by Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, Minister of Foreign Affairs The same day, Qatar also Mohammed Abdulaziz measures, and that the UAE had of the Republic of Tajikistan Sirodjidin Mukhriddin, Mayor of Dushanbe Rustam Emomali, Ambassador requested that the Court, as a Al Khulaifi said. evidenced the urgency and of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Tajikistan Ibrahim bin Mohamed Al Abdulla, Deputy Ambassador matter of urgency, indicate pro- imminence of irreparable harm of the Republic of Tajikistan to the State of Qatar, and Qatar’s embassy staff.` P2 visional measures protecting to its rights in issue in this case Qatar and the Qatari people from UAE's discrimination against so as to provide a basis on which racial discrimination while ICJ Qatar and Qatari people by the Court might have indicated proceedings are ongoing. The taking the dispute to the prin- such measures. Convention was adopted on cipal judicial organ of the United On June 14, 2019, the Court NHRC welcomes decision of ICJ December 21, 1965 and entered Nations pursuant to Article 22 of delivered its judgement and into force on January 4, 1969. the Convention. firmly rejected the UAE's request. THE PENINSULA immediately withdrawing its legitimate right — guaranteed by The State of Qatar acceded Following hearings on the Dr Mohammed Abdulaziz Al DOHA complaint against the UAE to the international agreements to to the Convention on July 22, Qatar's request for the indication Khulaifi, Legal Advisor to Qatar's UN Committee on the Elimi- achieve justice — that is fair and 1976. It is the oldest United of provisional measures, the H E Deputy Prime Minister and The National Human Rights nation of All Forms of Racial Dis- compensatory to the victims. Nations human rights treaty and Court delivered its order on July Minister of Foreign Affairs and Committee (NHRC) received crimination and preventing its This important decision of sets forth an overarching goal: 23, 2018 to protect Qataris, in a Agent of Qatar in the ICJ, stated with great satisfaction the national organizations and the the court also contradicts the the elimination of all forms of win before the Court that vindi- that “Qatar welcomes the Court's decision of the International media from publishing accusa- UAE’s allegations against the racial discrimination. cated Qatar's rights. strong acknowledgment of the Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday tions against the UAE in cases NHRC and attempts to question Qatar's application arises The provisional measures in lack of legal and factual basis for to reject the complaint filed by brought before the International its credibility through UAE offi- from the discriminatory favour of Qatar were unprece- the request made by the UAE for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Court of Justice, and other cials, NHRC said in a statement measures imposed in June 2017 dented in their scope and spe- the indication of provisional concerning temporary measures measures. posted on its website, by the UAE as part of an unlawful cificity, focusing on family reuni- measures in its rejection of UAEs under the International Welcoming the decision of the yesterday. imposition of land, sea and air fication, the right to education groundless request. Qatar Convention on the Elimination ICJ, the NHRC considered it an The NHRC believes that the restrictions against Qatar as part and access to justice. brought this case to protect the of All Forms of Racial Discrimi- essential step in addition to the UAE’s policy of escaping to cover of a campaign of political and In the UAE's ill-founded Qatari people against the UAE's nation in its dispute with the Court’s first decision of July 23, up its crimes and violations com- economic coercion. request on March 22, 2019, the policy and practice of racial State of Qatar. 2018 to redress victims and further mitted against the Qatari people Qatar initiated proceedings UAE filed a request for the indi- discrimination. The Court rejected the UAE’s evidence of the legal movements and the Gulf peoples will not before the ICJ as the best means cation of provisional measures It is the Qatari people who demand that the State of Qatar of the State of Qatar and that work and will not prevent inter- to resolve peaceably the human allegedly in order to preserve its are the victims here, and not the be bound by a number of recourse to all means and mech- national condemnation and rights violations arising from the so-called “procedural” rights government of the UAE”. measures, including: Qatar anisms is not an escalation, but a accountability. `P2 Issuance of building Qatar to host ANOC World Beach Games 2019 QNA 2006; World Indoor Athletics ongoing qualification process in the global sporting. At the same permits increases LAUSANNE Championship 2010, World which has seen more than 70 time, we are fully committed to Handball Championship 2015; national Olympic committees live up to the challenge by hosting SACHIN KUMAR building completion certificates The Association of National and other international cham- (NOC) qualify across the 14 sports, the 2019 ANOC World Beach THE PENINSULA data is of particular importance Olympic Committees ( ANOC) pionships in swimming, gym- with athletes from up to 90 nations Games in the best possible way, as it is considered an indicator yesterday announced the 2019 nastics and cycling. ultimately expected to compete. despite the short time available to Qatar’s construction sector for the performance of the con- ANOC World Beach Games will Qatar is also set to host Qatar will also host the ANOC prepare for the tournament. remains vibrant and resilient as struction sector which in turn be hosted by the Qatar Olympic several major tournaments, General Assembly and ANOC QOC Secretary-General said building permits in the country occupies a significant position Committee (QOC). including the 2019 World Ath- Awards, which will now take place he is confident that the 2019 continue to rise. Issuance of in the national economy. “Qatar boasts spectacular letics Championships, the 2022 immediately after the Games on ANOC World Beach Games will building permits has increased The strong momentum in oceanfront locations and is ready World Cup, the 2023 World (October 17-18). NOC delegates be an event to remember, significantly since the beginning construction activity leads to to provide the perfect setting for Water Games and other major attending the ANOC General pointing to Qatar’s experiences of this year, according to increase in the demand for NOCs and their athletes to tournaments on its calendar. Assembly will be invited to arrive in organizing sports events in Planning to Statistics Authority building materials. The demand compete in exciting beach, action In order to prevent disruption in Qatar at the start of the Games various games. data. for building material was strong, and water sports,” ANOC said in to the NOCs and their athletes, the so that all NOCs will be able to Al Buainain extended thanks A total of 743 building which is evident from data a press statement yesterday. sports programme will remain enjoy the inaugural event. the Association of National permits were issued in April this available with ports. According The state of Qatar has a unchanged and the dates of the QOC Secretary-General Olympic Committees for giving year compared to 662 permits the Mwani Qatar, the ports wit- proven track-record in success- Games will be moved back just a Jassim Rashid Al Buainain: “We Qatar the opportunity to host the issued in same month last year, nessed around 30 percent rise fully hosting international few days to October 12-16. There are proud of this confidence which first edition of the ANOC World showing a rise of 12 percent. In in handling of building mate- events, including Asian Games will also be no impact on the underlines Qatar’s leading position Beach Games. March this year, 713 building rials, last month. permits were issued against 712 The ports handled 46,173 permits in 2018. tonnes of building materials in The rising trend was wit- May this year, compared to Exciting line-up of concerts awaits music lovers nessed in February also as total 35,715 tonnes in the previous 675 building permits were issued month. The movement of RAYNALD C RIVERA prominent artistes from different SiQ brings the best of Bollywood her stunning performance during in the month, compared to 640 building materials was also THE PENINSULA parts of the world offering a music in this one-of-a-kind show the opening ceremony of Doha permits showing a rise of 5.5 strong in the first quarter of this kaleidoscope of entertainment presented in a grand scale. Asian Games in 2006. She will be percent. year. The ports handled 110,938 Summer in Qatar (SiQ) has to residents and visitors alike. The festival is expected to rock joined by equally famous and tal- In January this year 790 tonnes of building materials curated a special treat for Kicking off the summer concert the 10,000 capacity Lusail Indoor ented vocalists Guru Randhawa, building permits were issued during the first quarter of 2019 concert-goers with a lineup of season is the Bollywood Music Fes- Arena with over 50 musicians led Neeraj Shridhar, Bhoomi Trivedi, against 677 permits in December compared to the same quarter varied music shows to suit tival slated on June 21 to coincide by multi-award winning versatile and Ragini Tandan along with a 2018, showing a rise of 17 percent. last year, reflecting 37 percent everyone’s taste this season. with World Music Day celebrations. singing sensation Sunidhi Chauhan host of surprises, according to Building permits and growth. `P2 The concerts feature One FM Live in cooperation with who first mesmerised Doha with organisers. `P2 02 HOME SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS Qatar strongly condemns FAJR 03. 14 AM Amir arrives in Dushanbe SHOROOK 04. 43 AM explosion in Afghanistan QNA ZUHR 11. 34 AM MAGHRIB 06. 27 PM DOHA ASR 02. 57 PM ISHA 07. 57 PM The State of Qatar expressed yesterday its strong condemnation and denunciation of an explosion that WEATHER TODAY targeted a security checkpoint in Jalalabad city in Eastern Afghanistan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed, in a statement released yesterday, the State of Qatar’s firm rejection of violence and terrorism, regardless of the motives and reasons. The statement also expressed the condolences of the State of Qatar to the families of the victims, the government, and people of Afghanistan, wishing the injured a speedy recovery. Deputy Prime Minister meets official of EEAS QNA / DOHA

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, met here yesterday with the Secretary-General of European External Action Service (EEAS), Helga Maria Schmid, who is currently visiting the country. During the meeting, H E the Deputy Prime Minister and the Secretary- General reviewed relations between the State of Qatar and the European Union, besides a number of issues Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is being received upon arrival in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. of common interest. There is coordination between Qatar, Jordan on all issues: Minister o o QNA concern. In a television interview, Al international legitimacy and the Arab knows what would be offered by the 36 C 46 C AMMAN Safadi said that Jordan will deal with peace initiative. United States, which says will present Minimum Maximum any proposal on the Palestinian cause He stressed that Jordan’s positions its plan when it is completed. The Jor- Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs according to its firm principles which on the Palestinian cause are fixed and danian foreign minister stressed that Ayman Al Safadi affirmed that his emphasise that there can be no solution firm. It is the same Arab and Islamic the security of the Arab Gulf is a pillar Very hot daytime with slight dust at some country’s relations with Qatar are to the conflict without the estab- stance that the international com- of international peace and security, places and some clouds at times. distinguished fraternal relations lishment of an independent Palestinian munity supports. There is no alternative calling for reducing tension and

HIGH TIDE 01:49–16:14 LOW TIDE 9:38 – 23:05 pointing that there are coordination state on the lines of June 4, 1967 with to a two-state solution as a way to working with effective mechanisms to and consultation, between the two East Jerusalem as its capital in resolve the conflict. On the so-called prevent the aggravation of the Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department countries on all issues of mutual accordance with the resolutions of deal century, Al Safadi said that no one situation. MME educates public on environment, air quality SANAULLAH ATAULLAH The Ministry is development projects to ensure DOHA working on a that they follow best environ- mental practices. They are The Ministry of Municipality and plan to set up a monitored regularly to ensure Environment (MME) organised national network for environmental standards. a programme at Mall of Qatar monitoring air quality. He said that the Ministry (MoQ) yesterday to create Under the plan, a total has established a network for awareness among visitors about air quality monitoring stations protecting environment to mark of 26 stations will in the country in collaboration the Wold Environment Day be set up across the with authorities concerned (WED) which falls on June 5. country to serve the using advanced technologies The WED of this year was to follow up the effects of air marked worldwide under a purpose. pollution causing climate campaign on fighting air pol- change and work to reduce it lution. Large number of visitors, in accordance with the inter- including children and women, was suspended until it rectify the national conventions on attended the programme, which situation by removing the climate change ratified by included stage shows on envi- violation. State, most recently the Paris ronment and air quality. The Assistant Under-Sec- Agreement. Children participated in retary for Environment Affairs The Assistant Under-Sec- A view of the event organised by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment at Mall of Qatar drawing and colouring contests at MME, Eng Ahmad Mohamad retary for Environment Affairs yesterday to create awareness about the protection of environment. on issues of environment to Al Sada, said in statement that called people and institutions to educate them about the impor- the Ministry gave top priority to participate in the efforts of the tance of environment from established with advanced total of 26 stations will be set up company last month. The action check the air pollution in the Ministry to maintain air quality childhood. MME took a number equipment for monitoring air across the country to serve the was taken during an inspection country so as to ensure the sus- and address climate change by of measures including strict quality, the Ministry said in a purpose. campaign launched by the tainability and environment establishing sustainability monitoring on industries and statement. The Ministry is The Department of Industrial department at a number of protection. standards reducing pollutant establishing stations to check air working on a plan to set up a Inspection and Combating Pol- industries to catch environment He said that the Ministry is emissions of air, rationalising quality in the country. national network for monitoring lution at the Ministry caught a related violations. The services working to review and evaluate energy consumption in all its So far, 18 stations are air quality. Under the plan, a violation of environment at a of erring company the environmental status of forms to preserve environment.

Issuance of building permits increases FROM PAGE 1 Municipality came second with 146 permits, accounting for 20 Al Rayyan Municipality percent share in total permits was in top in terms issuance issued during the month. of building permits as it Al Wakrah Municipality acquired 30 share in the total was in the third place as it wit- such permits issued in the nessed issuance of 130 country during March. permits, having a share of 18 Al Rayyan Municipality percent in total building saw issuance of 212 building permits issued in March in the permits in March. Doha country. NHRC welcomes decision of ICJ FROM PAGE 1 organisations for the second IIS honours teaching faculty for excellent exam results victory in the judicial process In conclusion, the National initiated by the State of Qatar, The Ideal Indian School (IIS) honoured its teaching faculty for their contribution in producing excellent results in the CBSE Class X and XII Human Rights Committee con- to end all kinds of violations Examinations held in March 2019. Presenting the Certificate of Appreciation, Principal Syed Shoukath Ali congratulated them for keeping gratulates the victims of the resulting from the blockade and with the tradition of producing the best results in the region. IIS had recorded a remarkable performance in the CBSE examinations. blockade and human rights to redress those affected. Summer Festival in Qatar: Exciting line-up of concerts awaits music lovers FROM PAGE 1 topping hits. breakthrough success of the from August 14 to 17 at QNCC as stimulating graphics in this series singing some of his popular The intriguing masked per- show by another EDM artist The part of their world tour. This of shows presented by Alchemy songs on August 16 and 17 at Electronic Dance Music former behind the smash hits Chainsmokers who rocked the award-winning theatrical phe- Project and SiQ. QNCC’s Al Mayassa Theatre. (EDM) lovers are sure to have a “Silence,” “Friends,” “Happier” 5,000 crowd at the Doha Exhi- nomenon will see the three bald In store for Arabic music fans With the series of concerts, blast on July 25 as American and “Wolves” has already col- bition and Convention Center and blue performers surprise the are two shows by Iraqi singer- comedy shows, movie awards, electronic music producer and laborated with famous singers during the Shop Qatar festival audience with their out-of-the- songwriter Kadim Al Saher, con- family shows and film DJ Marshmello take the Qatar and won several awards. last year. For the first time in box performance combining sidered one of the most suc- screenings; entertainment is one National Convention Center The concert is produced by Doha, the highly popular Blue music and comedy with stories, cessful Arab singers in history. of the major features of this (QNCC) stage playing his chart- The Social Studio following the Man Group will be staging shows custom instruments and sensory He will enthrall the audience year’s summer festival. SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 HOME / MIDDLE EAST 03 Turkey not reducing Bangladesh Forum Qatar marks anniversary troops in N Cyprus ANATOLIA “Turkey is not reducing ISTANBUL its troops in Northern Cyprus. We keep our Turkey has the right to keep its troops in the Turkish Republic soldiers in there as of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), much as needed,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan said referring (pictured) said yesterday. Erdogan was speaking to to speculation over reporters prior to his visit to Northern Cyprus. Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, where he will attend the 5th Summit of Heads of State of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures The Ambassador of Bangladesh to Qatar, Ashud Ahmed (sixth left), with the first anniversary award winners of Bangladesh Forum in Asia (CICA). Qatar (BFQ), an organisation of diverse group of professionals and business personnel working in Qatar, during the anniversary function “Turkey is not reducing its troops in Northern Cyprus. We at the Crown Plaza Doha on Wednesday evening. The President of BFQ, Iftekhar Ahmed (fourth left), was also present at the event. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA keep our soldiers in there as much as needed,” Erdogan said referring to speculation over Northern Cyprus. UN calls for Commenting on an attack on Dozens of migrants stranded a Turkish army observation independent point in Syria’s Idlib on Thursday which left three soldiers probe into Gulf wounded, Erdogan said that off Tunisia for 15 days: UN Turkey will not remain silent if tanker attacks the Syrian regime continues actively to resolve Turkey’s con- AFP southern port of Zarzis, where migrants since the start of the such attacks. “We want peace to cerns regarding the terrorist TUNIS authorities have refused to allow year, is reluctant to take on more REUTERS prevail there [Idlib], we want PKK. In its more than 30-year the vessel to dock despite an new arrivals, demanding that UNITED NATIONS deaths to stop. But the continu- terror campaign against Turkey, Dozens of migrants rescued in appeal by the boat’s captain. they agree to be repatriated ation of attacks on this area with the PKK — listed as a terrorist international waters off Tunisia The UN’s International before being allowed to enter United Nations Secretary- barrel and phosphorus bombs organisation by Turkey, the US are still stranded 15 days later as Organisation for Migration said Tunisian territory. The IOM said General Antonio Guterres can never be forgiven, and we and the EU — has been respon- authorities refuse to allow the yesterday that the vessel’s at least 32 unaccompanied called yesterday for an inde- cannot remain silent because we sible for the deaths of nearly boat carrying them to access a owners have since been pro- minors were on the boat, and pendent investigation to pay attention to the voice of the 40,000 people, including many nearby port, the UN said viding those aboard with food offered to help Tunisia host the establish the facts and who was people in this region,” he said. women and children. “Our yesterday. and water. Tunisian officials migrants. It added that 10 of responsible for attacks on two Erdogan stressed that they partner, the US, did not keep its Egyptian tugboat Maridive refused to comment on the sit- those aboard the boat — nine oil tankers this week in the Gulf cannot set the Adana Agreement promise on Manbij. The expec- 601 rescued 75 migrants off the uation, although an interior min- Egyptians and a Moroccan — had of Oman. aside because Turkey continues tations will not come true. southern Tunisian coast in late istry official said last week, on expressed interest in returning Amid the rising tensions, and will continue to fight against However, it does not mean that May after they embarked from condition of anonymity, that “the home. “We ask for the rein- Guterres said he was available terror organisations in the we give up on the Manbij issue, Libya, a key launchpad for sub- migrants want to be welcomed statement of mechanisms to care to mediate if the parties agreed, regions as part of the agreement. we keep all our plans and we Saharan Africans making dan- by a European country”. for migrants rescued at sea” to however he added that “at the In 1998 Syria and Turkey will continue to do,” Erdogan gerous bids to reach Europe by Humanitarian groups say prevent similar incidents in the present moment we don’t see signed a pact under which said Turkey-US cooperation in sea. The vessel has been Tunisia, which has already future, said IOM’s Tunisia head a mechanism of dialogue pos- Damascus agreed to work Manbij. anchored since May 31 off the received several hundred Lorena Lando. sible to be in place.” Tehran and Washington have both said they have no interest in starting a war, but South Sudan sees this has done little to assuage concerns that the two arch foes could stumble into a conflict. record hunger levels Guterres said the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the Gulf. despite peace deal “It’s very important to know the truth and it’s very AFP the beginning of 2019, it was important that responsibilities JUBA estimated that 6.1 million people are clarified. Obviously that can were facing hunger. only be done if there is an inde- A record number of almost But this figure now stands at pendent entity that verifies seven million people are facing 6.9 million people — about 61 those facts,” he told reporters, severe hunger in South Sudan, percent of the population. adding that he believed only despite a peace agreement Under the IPC system, level the Security Council could which has largely stopped five is classified as “catas- order a UN investigation. fighting after more than five trophe,” and when it applies to UN political affairs chief years of war, UN agencies 20 percent of the population is Rosemary DiCarlo met with warned yesterday. deemed a famine. Iranian Foreign Minister “Every year, hunger reaches South Sudan declared a Mohammad Javad Zarif on the new and unprecedented levels “man-made” famine in 2017. sidelines of a Shanghai Coop- in South Sudan with millions of While the technical require- eration Council meeting in Kyr- people unsure where their next ments for a famine are not cur- gyzstan, UN spokesman meal will come from, particu- rently met, the overall number Stephane Dujarric said. He larly at this time of the year of people requiring food aid has added that Guterres and his when hunger peaks from May increased by about two million. Beating the heat staff had been in contact with to July,” Hsiao-Wei Lee of the A statement from the many of the countries con- World Food Programme (WFP) agencies said the annual lean An Iraqi street vendor wears a makeshift cardboard hat to protect himself from the heat during a cerned to tell them of the need said in Juba. season “started early following heat wave in Baghdad yesterday. to avoid any escalation. UN-backed assessments use record low stocks from the poor a ranking called the Integrated 2018 harvest and has been Food Security Phase Classifi- further extended by the delayed cation (IPC), which rates hunger onset of 2019 seasonal rains.” Kuwaiti and Singaporean ships collide at Bangladeshi port levels from one to five. Persistent economic instability, The WFP, Food and Agri- years of fighting and dis- QNA the outer anchorage of Chit- at the port, it added. be carried out in order to find culture Organisation (FAO) and placement and high food prices KUWAIT tagong Port after the Kuwaiti However, neither marine the exact causes of the collision children’s agency Unicef said have all made access to food tanker Burgan’s shipment was pollution no casualties were and take all necessary legal about 1.8 million people in South more difficult. A Kuwaiti oil tanker had a minor unloaded in a normal and safe reported as the Kuwaiti tanker measures in order to safeguard Sudan were in an “emergency,” If the current situation con- collision with a Singaporean way, the KOTC said in a safely docked at the Bangladeshi its rights and properties. or level four, which means large tinues, about 21,000 people container ship at the Port of Chit- statement carried by Kuwait port, according to the statement. The Kuwaiti oil tankers gaps between meals, acute mal- could slide into “famine” condi- tagong in Bangladesh, Kuwait Oil news agency KUNA. The Kuwaiti company’s company, established in April nutrition and excess deaths. tions, said Pierre Vauthier, Tanker Company (KOIC) said The accident between operations have not been 1957, is one of the Kuwait More than five million others deputy country director for the yesterday. Burgan and Express Mahanada affected by the accident, it said, Petroleum Corporation are also having to skip meals. At FAO. The collision took place at was caused by traffic congestion adding that investigations would companies. UN says Ebola outbreak in Congo still not a global emergency AP more than 1,400 people since it disappointed” that WHO and the know where the virus is adequate surveillance, this indi- “It’s legitimate for countries GENEVA was declared in August. affected countries have not spreading. cates the outbreak is a persistent to raise these concerns, but the At a press briefing following received the funding needed to WHO’s expert committee has regional risk,” she said. basis on which WHO and its The World Health Organisation the meeting, Dr. Preben Aavit- stop the outbreak and delivered met twice previously to consider Phelan said she was con- emergency committee should be yesterday said the ongoing Ebola sland, the acting chair of the a blunt message to donors: “Step the situation in Congo. In April, cerned WHO might be swayed looking at is the risk to public outbreak in Congo — which committee, announced that the up.” The outbreak, occurring the UN health agency said the by political considerations. health and the risk of interna- spilled into Uganda this week — outbreak is “a health emergency close to the borders of Uganda, outbreak was of “deep concern” As the far deadlier 2014-16 tional spread,” Phelan said. is an “extraordinary event” of in the Democratic Republic of the Rwanda and South Sudan, has but officials were “moderately Ebola outbreak raged in West Dr. Axelle Ronsse, emer- deep concern but does not yet Congo” but that the situation been like no other. Mistrust has optimistic” it could be contained Africa, WHO was heavily criti- gency coordinator for Medecins merit being declared a global does not yet meet the criteria for been high in a region that had within a “foreseeable time.” cized for not declaring a global Sans Frontieres, was unsure emergency. being declared a global one. never faced Ebola before and Alexandra Phelan, a global health emergency until nearly 1,000 whether a declaration would The UN health agency con- For such a declaration, an attacks by rebel groups have expert at Georgetown University, people had died and the virus help. She said outbreak vened its expert committee for outbreak must constitute a risk undermined aid efforts. said the legal criteria for had spread to at least three responders, including WHO, the third time to assess the out- to other countries and require a On Thursday, WHO’s emer- declaring Ebola a global emer- countries. should reevaluate their strategies break, which some experts say coordinated response. The dec- gencies chief acknowledged the gency have long been met, even Internal WHO documents to contain the spiraling outbreak. met the criteria to be designated laration typically triggers more agency has been unable to track before the virus reached Uganda. later showed the agency feared “It’s quite clear that it’s not under an international emergency long funding and political attention. the origins of nearly half of new “Given that we are still seeing the declaration would have eco- control,” she said. “Now may be ago. This outbreak, the second- Aavitsland said the com- Ebola cases in Congo amid the daily numbers of cases in the nomic and social implications for the time to reset and see what deadliest in history, has killed mittee was “deeply challenges, suggesting it doesn’t double digits and we do not have Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. should be changed at this point.” 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 Iran denies tanker attack; tensions soar P Rouhani: Situation calls for closer ties with Russia P Iraqi PM, in phone call with Pompeo, urges calm AGENCIES requires closer ties between Iran Command blamed Iranian forces DUBAI and Russia, Iranian President for the attacks — the second in a Hassan Rouhani said at a China- month in the strategic shipping Iran dismissed as “baseless” led security bloc summit yes- lane. yesterday US accusations it terday, according to the Russian CENTCOM released grainy executed twin attacks that left state news agency RIA. black-and-white video it said two tankers ablaze in the Gulf of Rouhani earlier said US showed crew members of an Oman, raising fears of conflict in actions pose a serious threat to Iranian patrol boat removing an the strategically vital waterway. stability in the Middle East after “unexploded limpet mine” from China called for all sides to Washington accused Iran of the hull of Japanese-owned Iranian soldiers in the Strait of Hormuz. “resolve the conflict through dia- attacks on oil tankers on a key tanker Kokuka Courageous. logue” as oil prices jumped, while shipping route. No proxy group could be while the other was Guterres warned against a Gulf military resources (it) has taken the European Union and the Secretary of State Mike responsible, Pompeo said. Norwegian-operated. confrontation. an aggressive approach,” he United Nations called for Pompeo warned Washington But Foreign Minister “It is a serious case which But Iran labelled the attacks said. restraint. would defend its regional Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted threatens our country’s peace “suspicious,” as its supreme The two vessels, which were The Middle East situation interests after US Central that the US had “immediately and stability,” Japan’s foreign leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 10 nautical miles apart en route jumped to make allegations ministry said in a statement, rebuffed overtures by Abe to to Asia, were struck by explo- against Iran without a shred of adding that the straits where the open talks with US President sions in the early daylight hours factual or circumstantial evi- incidents occurred were “vital Donald Trump. Thursday after passing through dence”. He accused Washington for our country’s energy Rouhani called the US a the Strait of Hormuz some 25 of seeking to “sabotage security”. With tensions spi- “serious threat to global sta- nautical miles off Iran’s southern diplomacy” as Japanese Prime ralling between Iran and the bility” as he attended an inter- coast. There was no claim of Minister Shinzo Abe visited Iran. United States, the European national forum in Kyrgyzstan. responsibility for the blasts, One of the targeted vessels is Union called for “maximum “Over the last two years... using which struck both tankers at the owned by a Japanese company restraint” and UN chief Antonio its economic, financial and waterline. Trump blames Iran for blasts AFP Iranian patrol boat removing blast on board, the operator’s WASHINGTON an “unexploded limpet mine” head said yesterday. Wash- from one of the tankers, ington has dispatched the US President Donald Trump Trump was emphatic. destroyer USS Mason to the yesterday rejected Tehran’s “Iran did do it,” Trump told scene “to provide assistance,” denial it was behind mysterious the “Fox and Friends” show. CENTCOM said in a statement explosions on two oil tankers in “You know they did it because while Oman said it sent two the Gulf of Oman, saying the you saw the boat. I guess one navy vessels to assist. The incident had Iran “written all of the mines didn’t explode United States has also accused over it.” As US-Iranian tensions and it’s probably got essen- Iran over May 12 attacks on soared, Trump dismissed tially Iran written all over it.” four tankers anchored in the previous threats by Tehran that “You saw the boat at night, Gulf of Oman off the United in case of conflict it could block successfully trying to take the Arab Emirates port of Fujairah. the Hormuz Strait — a narrow mine off — and that was The preliminary findings seaway vital to the world’s oil exposed,” he added. The crew of a five-nation investigation supplies. “They’re not going to vision. Speaking hours after the of the Japanese-owned indicated a state actor was be closing it,” he said in an US military released grainy Kokuka Courageous saw a responsible but stopped short interview on Fox News tele- footage it said showed an “flying object” before a second of naming Iran. Houthis launch fresh attacks against Saudi airport Israeli jets REUTERS reported, two days after it Thursday it had destroyed “The targets that were as tensions have risen between hit Gaza; ADEN claimed responsibility for a Houthi military assets on the out- destroyed in Yemen include Iran and Gulf Arab states allied missile attack against the same skirts of the Houthi-held capital missile depots, weapons and with the United States. Last no casualty Yemen’s Houthi group carried airport. The Saudi-led coalition, Sana’a. A statement from the manufacturing plants,” said a month, the group carried out out new drone strikes on a Saudi which intervened in 2015 in alliance said the operation tar- coalition statement. drone strikes on two Saudi oil AGENCIES / JERUSALEM airport yesterday after a series Yemen’s civil war to restore the geted “foreign experts from ter- The Houthi-run Masirah TV pumping stations. of air strikes by a Saudi-led government of President Abd rorist organisations working with said coalition airplanes bombed Tehran and Washington Israeli aircraft struck Hamas coalition against the capital Rabbu Mansour Hadi, said it the Houthis” but did not identify three sites, including military have engaged in a war of words bases in Gaza early yesterday, Sana’a, residents and both sides intercepted five drones that tar- their nationality or say whether targets belonging to Houthi since the United States reim- a report said. There were no of Yemen’s war said. geted Abha airport and Khamis they had been hit. forces, on the outskirts of Sana’a. posed sanctions on Tehran and reported casualties. The group said it has Mushait in the same region. It was unclear if there were Residents said the strikes had increased its military presence “Last night, a rocket was launched several drone strikes The Western-backed coa- any casualties following yester- targeted military camps west and in the Gulf. The Yemen conflict launched from the Gaza Strip against Abha regional airport in lition, which had vowed to day’s drone strikes. Wednesday’s north of the city. The Houthis is widely seen in the region as a into Israeli territory,” yester- southern Saudi Arabia, the respond to Wednesday’s missile missile attack had wounded 26 have stepped up missile and proxy war between Saudi Arabia day’s Israeli military statement Houthi television channel attack on Abha airport, said on people, Saudi authorities said. drone attacks against Saudi cities and Iran. said. It said that the Israeli Air Force “fighter jets and aircraft targeted infrastructure in mil- itary compounds and a Hamas Turkish FM says no step Sudan military naval force military compound as part of a strike on a number of Hamas sites throughout the Gaza Strip.” back on Russian S-400 deal admits violations Israeli authorities on Wednesday announced a ban ANATOLIA on fishing off Gaza, in response ANKARA in sit-in dispersal to the launching of balloons, fitted with incendiary devices, Turkey will never retreat on its AP elaborate on the violations into Israeli territory to set fire deal to buy Russian S-400 KHARTOUM, SUDAN beyond describing them as to farmland. missile defence systems, the “painful and outrageous.” Over country’s foreign minister said Sudan’s ruling military acknowl- 100 people were killed in the Boko Haram yesterday. edged that security forces capital and across Sudan in a “We will never take a step committed violations when they sweeping crackdown last week, kills soldiers back (on the S-400s),” Mevlut moved in to disperse protesters according to protest organisers. Cavusoglu said. “We will con- at a sit-in camp outside military Protesters also said more than in Nigeria tinue our dedication in order to headquarters in Khartoum last 40 bodies were pulled from the be an independent and free week, and a major human rights Nile River in Khartoum and AFP / KANO, NIGERIA nation,” Cavusoglu said. organisation said yesterday the taken away by security forces. His remarks came after need for an outside investigation In response, Amnesty Inter- Boko Haram militants have President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was more urgent than ever in national called yesterday for an raided a military base in north- said on Wednesday that Turkey light of the admission. international probe. eastern Nigeria near the border has already bought the Russian The spokesman for the “Following this admission, with Niger, killing several S-400 system and is set to take The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu, speaks ruling military council, Gen. it is now more urgent than ever, troops and stealing weapons, delivery next month. to the media in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. Shams Eddin Kabashi, said at a in the interest of accountability military sources said yesterday. On why Turkey decided to news conference late on and transparency, that the mil- Fighters from the Islamic purchase a defence system from price and delivery process, can the system, which Washington Thursday that an investigation itary authorities allow interna- State West Africa Province Russia, Cavusoglu said Ankara you (US) guarantee it would be said will jeopardise Turkey’s role was underway and that several tional scrutiny and investiga- (ISWAP) in eight guntrucks tried to buy US Patriots, but passed by Congress? No, you in the US F-35 fighter jet pro- military officers were already in tions by the UN and African launched a pre-dawn attack on couldn’t reach a deal. can’t,” Cavusoglu added. gramme and could trigger sanc- custody for alleged “deviation” Union into the escalating human Thursday on the base in Kareto “Then we looked for The foreign minister stressed tions. Following protracted from the action plan set by mil- rights violations under their village, 335km north of the alternate (defence systems) and that if the US takes negative efforts to purchase an air itary leaders. watch,” said Sarah Jackson, Borno state capital Maiduguri, we got the best offer and best steps towards Turkey over the defence system from the US with “We feel sorry for what hap- Amnesty’s Deputy Regional they said. “The terrorists technology from Russia,” he said. S-400 purchase, as it has no success, Ankara decided in pened,” said Kabashi. “We will Director for East Africa, the Horn attacked the 153 Troops Bat- Turkish officials have threatened to, Ankara would 2017 to purchase the Russian show no leniency and we will and the Great Lakes. talion in Kareto around 4am stressed that Russia offered tech- have counter measures. S-400 system. hold accountable anyone, The dispersal of the sit-in and subdued the soldiers who nology transfers with the S-400 Tensions between the US US officials advised Turkey regardless of their rank, if was a violent turn in the standoff were forced to withdraw after deal. “Even if we reached and Turkey have risen in recent to buy the US Patriot missile proven to have committed vio- between the protesters and the a hard fight,” an army officer agreement [with the US] on the months over Ankara purchasing system rather than the S-400s. lations.” Kabashi did not military. said. SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 ASIA 05 Doctors across India protest Bengal assault, patients seek solution

IANS In West Bengal, student, yesterday came out in NEW DELHI/KOLKATA 200 doctors of four support of the protesting doctors. Abesh Banerjee, whose Doctors, including kin of top medical colleges, Facebook bio describes him as Trinamool Congress leaders, held including the NRS the President of KPC Medical protests across the country Medical College College and Hospital, was seen yesterday in solidarity with their at a rally holding a placard agitating colleagues in West Bengal and Hospital - the Earlier, Kolkata Mayor and even as Union Health Minister epicentre of the state Minister Firhad Hakim’s Harsh Vardhan and relatives of protests after a junior daughter, a doctor, criticised the patients urged both sides to end the doctor was beaten government’s handling of the impasse which has crippled the ongoing doctors’ strike and said state’s healthcare system. up by attendants of medicos had the right to Doctors in Delhi’s AIIMS and an old patient who “peaceful protest” and “safety at Doctors hold placards at a government hospital during a strike demanding security after the recent other prominent hospitals, in work”. died, submitted mass assaults on doctors by the patients’ relatives, in Agartala, yesterday. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, resignations. In a Facebook post, Shabba Andhra Pradesh, Telangana as Hakim asked people to question well as other places, especially why “goons were still sur- where such incidents have condemn the unruly behaviour government hospitals also went AIIMS, stayed away from work, for an end to the agitation. rounding hospitals and beating occurred and ensure safe and assault on doctors. I will on the one day token strike and demanding justice for their Bengal Terming West Bengal Chief up doctors”. working conditions for doctors,” discuss it with the Chief Minister boycotted work. Except for emer- counterparts and enhanced Minister Mamata Banerjee is like Amid the crisis, Union Health he said after meeting a dele- of Bengal.” Around 4,500 Mahar- gency services, there was full security for practitioners. a “guardian”, a “mother”, Harsh Vardhan appealed to both gation of Resident Doctors Asso- ashtra Association of Resident shutdown of all outpatient However, in Bengal, the sit- renowned actor-filmmaker the agitating doctors to end their ciation of AIIMS, Safdarjung Hos- Doctors (MARD) stopped departments (OPDs), routine uation worsened as in the wake Aparna Sen appealed to her to strike and Chief Minister Banerjee pital, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia attending to patients in all the 26 operation theatre services and of cease-work at state-run hos- “change her stance a bit” and take to withdraw her ultimatum against Hospital, United Resident & government hospitals in the state ward visits, the AIIMS association pitals, over 200 doctors of four a more humane view of the the doctors in her state, which trig- Doctors Association of India simultaneously on Friday. said. medical colleges, including the threats faced by doctors. gered strikes across the country. (URDA) and Federation of Res- A large number of doctors Resident doctors at the All India NRS Medical College and Hos- Sen was part of a group of Urging the doctors to end their ident Doctors Association gathered outside Mumbai’s KEM Institute of Medical Sciences pital - the epicentre of the pro- intellectuals from the state who strike in the larger interest of the (FORDA), who gave him a mem- Hospital with banners and (AIIMS) and Safdarjung hospitals tests after a junior doctor was on Friday stood by the agitating society, he said he would take all orandum on the violence against posters, while similar protests carried bandages on their heads in beaten up by attendants of an old junior doctors at the NRS Medical possible measures to ensure a safe doctors in West Bengal. were held in Pune, Aurangabad a symbolic protest and suspended patient who died, submitted College and Hospital. environment for them at hospitals Expressing deep concern and Nagpur. all non-emergency services. Some mass resignations even as Banerjee’s nephew Abesh across the country. over the West Bengal incident, In Delhi, senior and junior doctors also went around wards patients and their kin appealed Banerjee, who is a medical “I’ll write to all the states Harsh Vardhan said: “I strongly resident doctors of several while wearing helmets. Maharashtra SC refuses to hear plea challenging NEET exam boy tops JEE IANS courts in such issues is too The counseling for the NEET “Pertinently, no option was keys yet again, and, subsequently, Advanced NEW DELHI much...we sometimes think if we exam is scheduled on June 19. given to the candidates to file any these were published on June 5 should consider ourselves as On Thursday, a vacation objections. To the shock and after a revision. examination The Supreme Court yesterday experts?” the court observed, bench comprising Justices Indira chagrin of the petitioners, not “The respondents (authorities refused to entertain a plea while declining the plea. Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi agreed only did the Key continue to have concerned) have not only failed IANS moved by a group of students The court also said that the to hear the writ petition, which errors, some answers that had to rectify the defects/errors in the NEW DELHI claiming that the answer keys of judges are not better experts than was filed by advocate Mahfooz been correctly notified earlier, question papers but have also four questions in the National those who have examined the Nazki representing Kayathi stood changed to a wrong refused to accept any represen- Maharshtra’s Kartikey Gupta has Eligibility-cum Entrance Test questions. “If we become subject Rohan Reddy and three others, answer”, said the petitioners. tations sought to be made by the topped the Joint Entrance Exam- (NEET) for admissions to MBBS expert then will every multiple hailing from Hyderabad. The stu- The court, initially, declined petitioners in respect of the ination (JEE) Advanced 2019, by and BDS courses were incorrect. choice question be scrutinised by dents claimed that the error can to allocate a hearing on the matter, revised key. The whole process securing 346 out of 372 marks, The test was held on May 5. the courts?” the court asked the potentially jeopardiae prospects but at the insistence of the counsel is, therefore, vitiated and is liable according to the results declared A vacation bench comprising petitioner. of lakhs of students, who had allowed the plea for hearing. to be set aside”, said the petition. yesterday by IIT-Kharagpur. Justices Ajay Rastogi and Surya The court also declined to appeared for the test. The petition claimed that the It also claimed that the author- At number 10, Ahmedabad’s Kant said that the judges cannot appoint any subject matter The counsel for the peti- answer keys first published by ities concerned discarded the rep- Shabnam Sahay secured the top become subject experst, and experts to examine the queries tioners urged the top court to the NTA on May 29 had a number resentation sent by students on June rank among the female candi- therefore, cannot sit as an of the petitioner. direct the quashing of the final of questions answered wrongly. 9, citing that the matter has already dates. She has obtained 308 appellate body over the National The petitioner, consequently, answer key published on June 5 On May 30, the petitioners, been referred to the specialists in marks of the total, the results Testing Agency (NTA). withdrew the plea from the apex by the NTA, the agency which through a representation, pointed the field, and the final answer keys showed. “... Of late interference from court. conducts NEET UG -2109. out the flaws in the official answer were published subsequently. Archit Bubna from New Delhi secured the third rank in the examination. A total of 1,61,319 candidates Shivpal, Akhilesh appeared for the exam, of which 38,705 candidates cleared it. Among the candidates who passed the exam, 5,356 were unwilling to unite female and 33,349 male. The total number of General IANS Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Category students who qual- LUCKNOW Yadav — have lost the lok Sabha ified for the exam were 15,566. elections and the party’s tally Apart from these, 7,651 candi- Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch rests at five members in the Lok dates were successful from the Mulayam Singh Yadav’s efforts Sabha. OBC (non-creamy) layer cat- to bring his son Akhilesh Yadav Akhilesh, too, is facing egory, 8,758 Scheduled Caste and younger brother Shivpal pressure from his cadres. Having and 3,094 candidates from Singh Yadav together do not failed in the 2014 Lok Sabha, Scheduled Tribe categories. seem to be bearing fruit. 2017 Assembly and now 2019 A candidate is required to Shivpal Singh Yadav cate- Lok Sabha elections, his lead- score at least 10 per cent marks gorically said that he had no ership is now being questioned in each subject and an plans to merge his Pragatisheel and if he fails to put his act aggregate of 30 per cent to pass Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) together, the voices of dissent the examination. into the Samajwadi Party. may grow louder. JEE Advanced is the second “My party is building up and The relationship between stage of the selection process we are growing from strength the uncle and nephew has dete- for various engineering colleges to strength. I have no plan to riorated so much that recently in India. Only the candidates merge my party with SP. It is when both visited the ailing SP who meet the cut off of the JEE Braving the rains too late in the day. However, if patriarch at his Lucknow resi- Main examination, progress to there is a proposal for an dence, when Chief Minister Yogi the JEE Advanced exam. Commuters ride their bikes along a flooded street after heavy rains in Guwahati in Assam, yesterday. alliance, we may consider the Adityanath also happened to be same,” he said. there, the two failed to exchange Akhilesh, on the other hand, even a word. is said to be completely against Shivpal said he was open to Antony, Venugopal decline to be Congress chief the return of his estranged uncle alliances in the upcoming to the SP fold. bypolls to 12 Assembly seats. Of IANS Besides, party General Sec- citing his other role of strength- Although the Congress “With great effort, Akhilesh the vacant seats, 10 belong to the NEW DELHI retary K C Venugopal has also ening the party. Working Committee, the party’s has managed to establish BJP and one each to the SP and declined to accept the post of He is also in-charge of Kar- highest decision-making body, himself as the undisputed leader BSP. The crisis in the Congress is Working President offered to nataka, where the party won had rejected Gandhi’s resig- of his party and he naturally Mulayam, despite his poor showing no signs of ending, with him, the sources said. only one out of 28 seats in the nation, he has remained does not want his uncle to return health, is said to be in constant one of its senior-most leaders A Senior party leaders Ahmed Lok Sabha elections, despite steadfast on giving up the post. and challenge his authority touch with Akhilesh and Shivpal K Antony turning down an offer Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad, being in power in the state along Now Congress leaders are again,” said a supporter of the and is persuading them to forgo to be the party President, a post who have been tasked to look with the JD-S after bagging 78 looking for a face from north SP chief. their differences in the larger which Rahul Gandhi is adamant for a face outside the Gandhi out of 225 seats in the Assembly India to lead the party, the party Mulayam, who initiated a interest of the family and the on quitting in wake of the Lok family to lead the party, had polls last year. source said. patch-up effort between his son party. Sabha electoral debacle. asked Antony to take up the job. The search for the new Names of several senior and brother after the BSP called It was on Mulayam’s According to party sources, The sources said Antony leader was initiated after Rahul leaders are doing the round for off its alliance with the SP, has insistence that the SP did not Antony, a former Defence Min- informed Patel and Azad that he Gandhi decided to resign from the role of Working President. warned the family that unless it moved a petition seeking Shiv- ister and a trusted man for the has full respect for the Gandhi the party’s top post, following the The party has considered the unites, its political survival pal’s disqualification from the Gandhi family, cited health family but could not accept the dismal performance in the Presidium system as well as the would be at stake. membership of the state issues as a reason for not taking post. recently-held general option of having multiple Three members of the Yadav Assembly even though he has up the job. Venugopal refused the offer, elections. Working Presidents. family — Dimple Yadav, formed his own party. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 Peace to remain elusive till confrontation becomes cooperation, says Imran

INTERNEWS realisation that the conflict in Afghan- BISHKEK Imran Khan said it is istan has no military solution. important to seize He said Pakistan is fully sup- Prime Minister Imran Khan says the opportunities for porting efforts for peace and rec- enduring peace and prosperity onciliation, through an Afghan- in South Asia will remain elusive peaceful resolution led and Afghan-owned process. until the main dynamic in South of outstanding The Prime Minister said we Asia is shifted from confrontation disputes and collective deem this to be part of a shared to cooperation. endeavours for responsibility and, therefore, He was addressing the 19th appreciate the positive contri- meeting of Shanghai Cooperation regional prosperity. butions being made by China, Council (SCO) Council of Heads Pakistan condemns Russia and Afghanistan’s imme- of State in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan terrorism in all diate neighbours. He said SCO’s yesterday. its forms and support for post-conflict Afghan- The Prime Minister said South istan will remain crucial. Asia continues to be challenged manifestations, Expressing concern over by common enemies, including including State- evolving situation in the Gulf and poverty, illiteracy, disease and Middle East, the Prime Minister Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a session during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation terrorism against summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, yesterday. under-development. people under illegal said we join the SCO members in He said political differences urging the parties to exercise and unresolved disputes further occupation, he said. restraint, take steps to de-escalate our vision of cooperation, that Bank to catalyze the trans- He said SCO should take the compound the predicament. the situation, and find solutions rejects confrontation, and regional development agenda. lead role in establishing a com- Imran Khan said it is He said we are among the through diplomatic means. advance the imperatives of Khan said the SCO member prehensive framework for com- important to seize the opportu- few countries to have success- He said we believe imple- peaceful coexistence at the states need to synergise the bating corruption and white nities for peaceful resolution of fully turned the tide against ter- mentation of the Joint Compre- regional and international levels; various region-wide connectivity collar crime; prioritise women outstanding disputes and col- rorism. He said Pakistan remains hensive Plan of Action by all galvanise the “Shanghai Spirit” initiatives, and work on comple- and youth empowerment and lective endeavours for regional ready to share its experience and parties is essential for interna- to strengthen SCO’s core menting infrastructure connec- bridge the gap between region- prosperity. The Prime Minister expertise in counter terrorism. tional and regional stability. mandate of mitigating the risks tivity with soft connectivity and specific research and policy by said Pakistan condemns ter- We will also remain actively The Prime Minister pre- of conflict, fostering confidence, make SCO more relevant to the launching feasibilities for cre- rorism in all its forms and man- engaged in SCO’s counter-ter- sented eight-pronged course of and promoting stability; and daily lives of citizens by pro- ating SCO Centers of Excellence ifestations, including State-ter- rorism initiatives. action for SCO on the turf of finalize arrangements for trade moting food security and on Poverty Alleviation, De-Rad- rorism against people under Referring to the Afghan issue, the international politics. in local currencies, and set up enhancing cooperation in health icalization, Connectivity, and illegal occupation. Prime Minister said there is finally a He said we should reinforce SCO Fund and SCO Development and humanitarian sectors. New Technologies. NAB orders Pakistani PM directs increasing retirement age arrests of INTERNEWS increased to 69 years, providing carries huge financial and Any change in retirement age the finance ministry that these Zardari’s sister ISLAMABAD room for enhancing the limit by administrative implications. limit would require an deliberations may be completed at least three years. “The prime minister has been amendment in the Civil Service within two days and a mutually Pakistani Prime Minister Imran The premier instructed the pleased to desire that the finance Act of 1973 and the PTI gov- agreed report with tangible way REUTERS Khan yesterday directed the Ministry of Finance to complete secretary will hold consultations ernment does not have majority forward be presented for approval. ISLAMABAD Ministry of Finance to explore deliberations within two days. with the Establishment Division in the Senate to get any bill passed. The Task Force on Institu- the possibility of increasing Sources in the Ministry of and the finance departments of There is no concept of early tional Reforms had floated the Pakistani anti-corruption superannuation age limit of civil Finance said that the PM’s direc- the governments of Punjab and retirement in civil service, but it idea to increase the age by three authorities ordered one of the servants and early retirement of tions could not be honoured Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to is implemented in the armed years to 63 years. However, Task leaders of the opposition dead wood a move that if imple- within 48 hours as there was a evaluate legal, financial and forces. This has increased the Force Chairman Dr Ishrat Husain Pakistan Peoples Party to be mented could transform the need for thoroughly studying the administrative implications of pension bill of the military, wanted that in the first phase confined to her residence bureaucratic structure. implications of the proposal. increasing the age of retirement standing at 77 percent of the total only the retirement age of federal yesterday as they continued an The current superannuation The finance ministry has and early retirement,” according pension bill of the federal secretaries should be increased anti-graft crackdown that age of civil servants is 60 years, sought more time from the PM to the instructions issued by the government. by three years, according to a critics say is aimed at stifling but average life expectancy has Office to review the proposal that PM Office. The PM Office further directed member of the task force. dissent. The National Accountability Board (NAB) ordered Faryal Talpur, sister of former Pres- Sri Lanka repatriates ident Asif Ali Zardari, to be con- fined to her residence in Islamabad in connection with five attack suspects a case of suspected money laundering through fake bank AFP killing of two police constables accounts. COLOMBO in the east of the island where An NAB spokesman said NTJ leader Zahran Hashim had Faryal Talpur had been ordered Five Sri Lankans wanted in his base. to remain in her house. He said connection with the Easter “A team of Criminal Inves- she would be attended by bombings that killed 258 tigations Department officers female police officers and her people were arrested in Saudi brought the suspects back to Sri treatment should not be Arabia and repatriated Lanka this morning,” described as an arrest. yesterday, police said. Gunasekera said. No further The move follows the arrest Correcting his earlier details were immediately earlier this week of Zardari, statement that the men were available. widower of former Prime Min- seized in Dubai, police This is the second time sus- ister Benazir Bhutto, who was spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera pects have been arrested killed in a 2007 suicide attack said the suspects were taken abroad in connection with the and whose father, PPP founder into custody in the Saudi city attacks against three churches Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, also served of Jeddah. and three luxury hotels in the as president and prime Among them was country, which were claimed minister. Mohamed Milhan, a senior by the Islamic State group. The government has denied leader of the National Thow- Last month, army chief any role in the arrest of Zardari heeth Jama’ath (NTJ) jihadist Mahesh Senanayake said two and says the NAB operates Fury of the ocean group, which was held respon- suspects were arrested in Qatar independently. But the People gather on a beach during high tide in the Arabian Sea in Karachi. The tropical cyclone Vayu sible for the April 21 bombings, and Saudi Arabia. He did not crackdown has prompted an Gunasekera said. disclose the nationalities of the angry response from PPP offi- formed in Arabian Sea has converted in category one and the Metrological Department issued alert Milhan was also wanted in suspects, but official sources cials, including Zardari’s son, in this regard. connection with the November said they were Sri Lankans. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Thousands honour former Sri Lanka ‘super woman’ cop guilty of child abuse Australian PM Bob Hawke AFP had been sexually attacked. molested by the politician, Bog- is brought before courts is a COLOMBO A three-judge bench held ahawatte had illegally detained fragment of the totality of inci- REUTERS honoured, your legacy is secure that Bogahawatte, who won the her at Matara police station in dents taking place across the SYDNEY and your country will be forever Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court fined best woman officer award in 2012 and subjected her to four country,” the judges said grateful,” said Australian Prime an award-winning woman 2017, had abused her authority medical examinations which Wednesday in their 24-page Minister Scott Morrison. police officer for illegally and violated the girl’s funda- proved negative. decision seen said. Thousands of people gathered Belying his trade union con- detaining and intimidating a mental rights and also intimi- Bogahawatte also locked up A senior police source said at Australia’s Sydney Opera nections before being elected to teenage girl to frame a local poli- dated her family. the girl in a cell with an adult they would immediately House yesterday as a state parliament, Hawke ushered in tician for rape, officials said Local media had hailed her offender, violating rules in withdraw the awards given to memorial honoured former a wave of economic deregu- yesterday. as a “super woman” chasing dealing with juveniles. The court Bogahawatte and she would prime minister Bob Hawke, a lation that turned around an Chief Inspector Waruni Bog- child abusers and sexual felt that the girl, who cannot be also be subjected to an internal transformative and charismatic economy languishing in ahawatte was also ordered to offenders. identified by the media, had been investigation and risked losing left-wing lawmaker, who died recession and with double-digit pay 100,000 rupees ($570) as The court heard that Boga- treated as a perpetrator rather her job. last month aged 89. unemployment and inflation. compensation to the victim while hawatte repeatedly forced the than a potential victim of a Another women’s organi- Hawke, who served as Aus- The reforms triggered strong the state was also ordered to pay girl from the southern town of crime. sation which granted her a “Top tralian prime minister from 1983 economic growth, allowing 50,000 rupees in the hearing Akuressa to make a false “This court also takes an Career Woman” award in 2014 to 1991, enjoyed extraordinary Hawke to introduce universal earlier this week. statement against a low-level opportunity to note with concern said it was reviewing the case. popularity throughout and after healthcare, strengthen social The 15-year-old girl was politician who faced several the increasing number of inci- The Supreme Court asked leaving office largely due to his security for poor families and forced by Bogahawatte to unrelated rape allegations. dents of abuse of power by law police to remind their staff of the loveable rogue character. enact stronger environmental undergo repeated medical When the girl insisted she enforcement authorities. need to protect the basic rights “Bob, your record is legislation. examinations to establish if she had not been raped or sexually “There is no doubt that what of individuals. SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 ASIA 07 Pressure mounts on HK over extradition plan

AFP Carrie Lam has so far refused to meet HONG KONG protester demands to withdraw or scrap the bill — although rumours were swirling that a Hong Kong’s embattled leader postponement of the bill was imminent amid a faced mounting pressure yesterday to abandon a deeply growing chorus of discontent. unpopular plan to allow extra- ditions to China, with protest At this moment, the government leader to change their position. organisers getting police should self-examine,” Ann There’s nothing wrong with go-ahead to hold a new rally at Chiang, a hardcore pro-Beijing that.” the weekend. lawmaker, said. Tien’s comments came as The international finance Yesterday’s comments Lam’s own adviser said pushing hub was rocked by the worst marked the first indication that ahead with fast-tracking the bill political violence since its 1997 supporters of the extradition law through the city’s legislature had handover to China on are now having second thoughts, now become “impossible”. Wednesday as tens of thousands following a growing public “Personally I can see that it of protesters were dispersed by backlash. is impossible to discuss (the bill) riot police firing tear gas and “The momentum against the when there is so much conflict Protesters attending the ‘Hong Kong Mothers Anti-Extradition Rally’, in protest against actions of the rubber bullets. bill is growing,” said Hong Kong- on all sides. It is very difficult,” city’s police force in recent demonstrations against a proposed extradition bill, in Hong Kong, yesterday. The Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing based political analyst Willy Lam. Bernard Chan said. leader Carrie Lam has so far “The opposition to the bill Chan sits on the Executive tomorrow, which was approved Lam’s determination to press locals and foreigners up in refused to meet protester now includes powerful members Council — the equivalent of a after several hours of ahead with a debate on the pro- China’s politicised and opaque demands to withdraw or scrap of the business community, cabinet — and was appointed by discussion. posed law in parliament on courts. the bill — although rumours were former senior civil servants and Lam two years ago to be a top The prospect of another Wednesday sparked another China’s ambassador to swirling yesterday that a post- the foreign business community adviser. protest raises the chance of fresh huge protest that descended into Britain, Liu Xiaoming, has ponement of the bill was — so I think Xi Jinping is under Opposition to the extradition confrontations with the gov- violence and brought the city’s rejected claims that Beijing was imminent amid a growing chorus heavy pressure to postpone the bill has united an unusually wide ernment following unprece- commercial district to a behind the extradition bill, of discontent. bill, and the scapegoat will be cross section of Hong Kong dented political unrest. standstill. adding that the “Beijing central Throughout the day Lam Carrie Lam.” against the proposal and sparked Leading democratic figures Young Hong Kongers, angered government gave no instruction, found herself facing calls from Prominent pro-Beijing law- huge rallies. said only the complete with- by years of sliding democratic no order.... This amendment was within her own political camp to maker Michael Tien also openly On Sunday, protest organ- drawal of the bill would stop freedoms in the city, have been at initiated by the Hong Kong reverse course and tamp down called on Lam to postpone the isers said more than one million future protests and calm public the forefront of the protests. government.” spiralling public anger — bill. people came out for the largest anger. But the extradition plan has “Beijing is saying that it was including from hardline pro- “She would gain points demonstration the business hub “We can’t trust the pro- also received a barrage of crit- never Beijing’s intention to push Beijing lawmakers. instead of losing points,” he told has seen in decades. establishment lawmakers,” said icism from legal bodies, business the bill, it was Carrie Lam’s “Shouldn’t (we) cool the cit- reporters. “Nothing is ever too Protest leaders met with pro-democracy legislator Alvin groups, religious figures and intention — so Carrie Lam has to izens down? I think to postpone late. New situations arise that police yesterday to discuss their Yeung. “We could only accept the Western nations who fear the bear the responsibility,” added it for a little bit is not a bad thing. would provide the basis for any plans for another mass rally government’s withdrawal plan.” proposal would tangle both analyst Lam. Top K-pop label chief resigns over drug allegations Accused in Christchurch REUTERS K-pop stars including him. down to avoid further damage over media reports that he was mosques attacks pleads SEOUL Allegations subsequently to the firm’s artists over the attempting to buy illegal drugs. surfaced of a network of pop accusations. These involved tax He publicly apologised for his act Yang Hyun-suk, founder of stars, businessmen and cops evasion and cover-up of a drug and quit the band. not guilty to 92 charges South Korea’s YG Entertainment having colluded and enabled tax scandal, all of which he has YG Entertainment is one of which manages top K-pop evasion and bribery exposing the denied. the top K-Pop record labels REUTERS performers, stepped down dark side of the glitzy industry. YG’s top shareholder, Yang, behind groups BlackPink and Big WELLINGTON yesterday from his duties as chief “I have waited out in founded the K-pop management Bang, but its shares have producer, in the aftermath of patience this situation in which firm in 1996. slumped for months, hit by the The Australian man accused drug and abuse scandals shameless and humiliating His brother Yang Min-suk, scandals. of killing 51 worshippers at involving his artists. words are being thoughtlessly the agency’s chief executive, also Shares of YG Entertainment two mosques in New Zealand In March, a member of YG’s spread as if it is the truth,” Yang, stepped down, according to a closed down 5.6 percent yes- in March pleaded not guilty boyband Big Bang quit showbiz a former legendary K-pop star, regulatory filing. terday, falling for a third con- to all charges in a court over bribery accusations, said in a statement. “But I don’t On Wednesday, the leader secutive session, while its yesterday. prompting police investigations think I can hold it in any longer.” of another one of YG’s boy bands, affiliate, YG Plus, lost nearly 6 In an attack broadcast and the resignation of four Yang said he was stepping iKON, also exited show business percent. live on Facebook, the lone gunman armed with semi- automatic weapons targeted Investigators set Muslims attending Friday prayers in Christchurch on to release latest March 15, in New Zealand’s findings on MH17 worst peace time mass shooting. A file photo of Brenton Tarrant Brenton Tarrant, 29, (centre) during his appearance at REUTERS appeared by video link and the Christchurch District Court. AMSTERDAM entered his plea through his lawyers. camera from a high security International investigators High Court Justice Cameron facility in Auckland, mostly with looking into the downing of Mander said the trial will begin an impassive expression but Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on May 4 next year. smirking at times including as in July 2014 said yesterday they Judge Mander said that his lawyer entered a not guilty would present their latest courts usually endeavoured to plea on his behalf. findings next week, nearly five bring cases to trial within a year Around 80 members of years after the disaster. of the event, but that “the scale Christchurch’s Muslim com- Family of the victims and and complexity of this case munity sat in the back of the the media will be briefed on the makes this challenging” court, solemn and quiet developments on June 19, pros- Tarrant has been remanded throughout the appearance. ecutors said in a statement. in custody until August 16 when There were some quiet gasps The MH17 was shot out of a case review hearing is when the not guilty plea was the sky over territory held by scheduled. entered by the Tarrant’s lawyer. pro-Russian separatist forces Tarrant faces total of 92 At the last hearing on April in eastern Ukraine as it flew charges after New Zealand filed 5, the court had ordered Tarrant from Amsterdam to Malaysian two additional attempted to undergo mental assessment capital Kuala Lumpur, killing murder charges, one murder first to determine whether he Indonesia’s top court hears former general Prabowo Subianto’s claim that the 2019 presidential all 298 people on board. charge and one terrorism was fit to stand trial. election was rigged, in Jakarta, yesterday. Dutch national broadcaster charge. This is the first time a The Judge said yesterday NOS reported yesterday that terrorism charge has been that there were no issues arising investigators intend to identify brought in New Zealand. from mental health assessments Oppn seeks to annul Indonesia vote results individual suspects. Tarrant stood facing the and defendant is fit to stand trial.

REUTERS Widodo had beaten Prabowo by deliver a verdict by June 28. JAKARTA 11 percentage points to win more Widodo has not commented than 55 percent of votes in the on his rival’s accusations of Pilots dead in Vietnam military plane crash Lawyers for Indonesia’s oppo- April 17 poll. cheating, saying everyone must sition leader called yesterday for The dispute has brought respect the legal process. AFP one of them instantly. belonged to Vietnam’s Air President Joko Widodo’s election weeks of uncertainty and deadly The election agency has said HANOI “One was found dead while Defence Force. victory to be annulled, telling the protests in the world’s third- there was no evidence of sys- the other one died on the way to At least 14 people were Constitutional Court it had been largest democracy. tematic cheating and inde- Two pilots were killed in hospital,” said Nguyen Ngoc reported killed in military achieved through “systematic “We are filing a lawsuit pendent observers have said the Vietnam yesterday after their Khue, the head of the local crashes in 2016. electoral fraud and abuse of against the General Election poll was free and fair. military plane crashed during a commune where the accident Vietnam is seeking to mod- power”. Commission, demanding that it Clashes broke out between training session, an official said. occurred. ernise its military equipment by The demand came as the annul its decision on the result Prabowo’s supporters and police Though Vietnam has a good The crash site was blocked purchasing more equipment court began a hearing into com- of the presidential election,” in the heart of the capital, civilian aviation record, airplane off for investigation, Khue from partners beyond old Soviet plaints from defeated presi- Bambang Widjojanto, the chief Jakarta, last month after the and helicopter crashes are reg- added, and photos in state media ally Russia, including from dential election candidate lawyer representing Prabowo, official result was announced ularly reported in the military, showed plumes of smoke bil- France, Germany and Israel. Prabowo Subianto, a retired told the court. and eight people were killed and which relies on an arsenal of lowing from the downed plane. US President Donald Trump general with strong support Prabowo and his campaign more than 900 injured. imported equipment — mostly Yesterday’s crash follows has also encouraged Hanoi to among conservative Muslims, team want the Constitutional Police have arrested dozens from longtime ally Russia. several similar accidents in the buy more American equipment who has refused to concede Court to annul the election, dis- of suspected instigators of the The two pilots in central communist country in recent to narrow a trade gap. defeat. qualify Widodo and his running rioting, including a close Prabowo Khanh Hoa province died when years. In July 2018, two pilots Observers said Vietnam is Official results released by mate as candidates or hold ally accused of orchestrating their Russian two-seater training were killed when training in willing to do so, but could the General Election Com- another election. assassination plots against top aircraft Yakovlev Yak-52 central Nghe An province in a struggle to afford US military mission last month showed The court is expected to government officials. crashed near a mountain, killing Russian-made Sukhoi Su-22 that hardware. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 How do Palestinians ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN beat Trump’s deal? SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

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

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR GHADA KARMI MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED AL JAZEERA [email protected] f ever there was a time for Pales- tinians to implement a strategy to DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR counter the deadliest threat to MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Itheir cause, it is now. US President [email protected] Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” is the latest in a series of failed peace pro- posals over the past few decades that have only served to promote Israel’s expansion and consolidate its hold on what remains of historic Palestine. If reports of its content are true, the Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest marking the 71st anniversary EDITORIAL so-called “deal of the century” is the of the Nakba in the southern Gaza Strip. most lethal of these attempts to deprive Palestinians of their basic rights to date. and come under Palestinian Authority the Palestinians their rights. Therefore, Drawn up over the past two years by control. The deal would be sweetened pursuing the failed objectives of the Qatar’s quest for peace Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, by an aid package of $30-40 billion past - the appeal for help from outside Jason Greenblatt, his adviser, and David over five years, the bulk to be provided bodies paralysed by pro-Israel bias, the Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, by the Gulf states, with smaller contri- futile quest for an independent state n a warring-world full of conflicts, taking a glance at it heavily favours Israeli interests. All butions from the United States, the EU against the odds and the peace negotia- the developments will make one understands the kind three men are fervent Zionists, lack and others; the assumption is that Pal- tions weighed in favour of Israel - is a Iof strife-torn environment around us and nothing experience in Middle East peace- estinian acquiescence can be bought time-wasting distraction. would prevent anyone from blindly stating that the world making, and know little about Pales- with financial handouts. The Pales- Instead, Palestinians must soberly is actually entering into a new era of tensions. The ongoing tinian history or culture. It is hard to tinian right of return would be can- examine what options they really have tension in Korean peninsula, US-China trade war, India- envisage three more unsuitable people celled. Palestinian refugees would in this context. They cannot take on the Pakistan tensions, conflicts in Ukraine, Sudan, Algeria, for such a task. receive compensation and be allowed combined power of the US and Israel, South China Sea and the list goes long. The situation in The deal, which Kushner has more rights in the Arab states where nor look for help from state allies in the Middle East is also not different as is plagued by tensions described as “unique”, would sup- they reside. Arab world, several of which have been in Iran, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and all. posedly resolve the Israeli-Palestinian The economic side of the plan is compromised by a growing alliance The world needs more forces of peace as they have conflict. In a recent interview, he due to be discussed at a special with Tel Aviv. a vital role to play. It is at this juncture, Qatar’s stance claimed it would improve the lives of workshop in Bahrain scheduled for Mounting popular support for the on various global and regional issues gets much focus as the Palestinian people, while conde- June 25-26, which Arab finance min- Palestine cause, like the Boycott, it stands firm for global peace. Qatar remains non- scendingly casting doubt on their isters, investors and businessmen are Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) aggressive towards the nations, that imposed unjust ability to govern themselves. expected to attend. The Palestinian movement, is encouraging, but will blockade against it, and it elevated its position globally The exact leadership has made it clear that they take too long to become effective. as a peace ambassador. In all global platforms, Qatar details of the are boycotting the event, with Pres- Meanwhile, Israel’s drive to annex most stood tall for peace and opened its doors always for talks. deal have not ident Mahmoud Abbas saying recently of the West Bank and build more settle- Retaliating the siege nations was easy for Qatar, but by been made the deal “will go to hell”. According to a ments, and its campaign of slow Pales- being calm and quiet, the nation has shown the world a public yet, but recent poll conducted by the Pales- tinian ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem new path of peace to settle a stream of tinian Centre of Policy and Survey and the other occupied territories will global disputes. The Palestinian unauthenti- Research, 80 percent of Palestinians continue apace. Qatar’s commitment leadership has cated leaks in also rejected the deal. To counter this, what Palestinians towards global peace is high- made it clear that the Israeli But rejection is not enough. Even if need is a strategy that keeps them on lighted in various instances; they are boycotting press provide the Trump deal is now postponed or their land, stops their cause from being like when it hosted the recent a rough idea never happens, its essential parameters further eroded by “peace” concessions, Qatar stood tall for US-Taliban talks and the event, with of what might will resurface sooner or later in the and can pave potentially the way for peace and opened mediated various global and President Mahmoud be some of its form of a new peace proposal. This is the return of the refugees. The only regional conflicts. Qatar’s provisions. because western peace-makers are strategy that could conceivably achieve its doors always for Abbas saying stance on the recently con- recently the Briefly, the hamstrung by self-imposed conditions this is a campaign for Palestinian equal talks. Retaliating cluded Makkah summits has deal proposes that do not allow for any other civil and political rights in the entirety the siege nations also proved its unflinching deal “will go to the creation outcome. of Israel-Palestine. was easy for Qatar, thirst for peace. hell”. According of a Pales- They have consistently tried to rec- There is nothing unreasonable in When crises one by one to a recent poll tinian semi- oncile diametrically opposed demands this demand. Israel-Palestine is cur- but by being calm hit the region, the heart of the autonomous between two parties while being irre- rently one state under Israeli rule. The and quiet, the nation which direly longed for conducted by the mini-state trievably committed to one of them. population is divided into 6.6 million nation has shown peace bruised and its dream Palestinian Centre called “New Preserving Israel as a Jewish state has Israeli Jews with citizenship and rights, the world a new of a peaceful Middle East was of Policy and Palestine”, been a Western imperative since 1948, 1.8 Palestinians with citizenship and seen getting away from the Survey Research, comprised of and pressuring Israel into complying restricted rights and 4.7 million Pales- path of peace reality. Qatar’s decision to Areas A and B with anything it does not want to do tinians without citizenship or rights. to settle global participate in the Makkah 80 percent of of the has been a complete taboo. Today, this Demanding equality of rights in this disputes. summits in a blockading Palestinians also occupied stance is stronger than ever, as the unequal situation is natural and inevi- nation underlined its com- rejected the deal. West Bank, its West moves to equate anti-Zionism table. Had the Palestinian Authority not mitment towards peace. capital to be with anti-Semitism, silencing all crit- existed to provide an illusion of inde- Qatar’s stance on the ongoing Palestine conflict was somewhere icism of Israel. pendent rule, equal rights would have also not away from its peace principles. The nation within the expanded boundaries of How can Palestinian demands be been demanded long ago. rejected all stances against the will of people in Palestine municipal Jerusalem. It would be accommodated in these circum- The advantages of an equal rights at the summits. demilitarised, its borders under Israeli stances? The answer of the West so far system are many: equal legal status, Qatar in various instances expressed its concern that control, and linked to Gaza by a cor- has been a succession of mean-minded equal government representation - the new generations in the Gulf are growing up without ridor. Israel would retain most of Area peace proposals that pander to Israeli with which refugee repatriation could hearing the slogan of united Gulf but they just hear about C and the whole Jordan Valley. wishes and abrogate Palestinian rights, become policy - equal access to edu- crises and its complications. Qatar actively calls for the Gaza would be expanded into Trump’s deal being the most extreme cation, employment and social services, revival of the GCC system by citing the reason that lack northern Sinai on land leased from example. While this logic prevails, no and the myriad benefits that come with of regional mechanisms for settling disputes and internal Egypt. Hamas would surrender its arms Western peace proposal will ever give a normal civic life. Gulf differences end up the GCC crises are being handled by global bodies and is the key reason for its failure in solving disputes. Qatar’s unwavering quest for peace is still a wonder Investigating a deadly drug war and it should inspire the world to side with peace and justice, irrespective of all material reasons. A peaceful THE WASHINGTON POST “We have recorded a staggering users or dealers, leaving families to world needs more hands like Qatar and the nation is number of unlawful deaths and police grieve without any accountability for ready to move an extra mile always to paddle the canoe President Rodrigo Duterte of killings in the context of the so-called the death squads. More recently, there of peace from the sea of turbulence towards the shore the Philippines is not intro- war on drugs, as well as killings of have been indications that Duterte, of harmony. spective about the violence he human rights defenders,” the special who effectively received a vote of con- Phas unleashed against sup- rapporteurs said in a statement. “Very fidence in the recent midterm elec- posed drug users and dealers. The few independent and effective investi- tions, is expanding the use of drug-war extrajudicial killings have resulted in gations have taken place, independent tactics in other areas, such as against at least 5,000 deaths, perhaps thou- media and journalists are threatened, political activists. He has also sought sands more, with no due process. the law has been weaponised to repeatedly to squelch free speech. QUOTE OF THE DAY Speaking in Tokyo last month, Duterte undermine press freedom, and the Duterte pulled the Philippines out We want peace to was unapologetic. “I don’t care how independence of the judiciary is of the International Criminal Court in many of you have died,” he said, “just undermined. We are extremely con- March after it launched a preliminary prevail there (Idlib), don’t f— with me on drugs.” cerned over the high number of inquiry into the extrajudicial killings of we want deaths This brazen refusal to be held to killings which are being carried out his drug war. He quickly rejected the to stop. But the account for a slaughter is one more across the country in an apparent latest call for a UN investigation, with reason to take seriously the need for climate of official, institutional his government saying the Philippines continuation of attacks an impartial and outside investigation, impunity.” is a democracy with rule of on this area with which Duterte has repeatedly The group said it has raised con- law,rejecting “unpardonable intru- barrel and phosphorus rebuffed. In recent days, 11 human cerns 33 times with the Philippines sions” and saying the criticism was a rights special rapporteurs at the during the past three years about “a “biased and absolutely false recital of bombs can never be United Nations have called on the range of gross human rights viola- facts.” Considering that the 47- forgiven. body’s Human Rights Council to start tions,” including extrajudicial, member Human Rights Council has a such an investigation. This is a summary or arbitrary executions. The number of members with records of potential case of crimes against drug war Duterte declared after taking gross violations, such as China, Cuba, Recep Tayyip Erdogan humanity, and only a thorough, inde- office in 2016 has involved police and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the prospects Turkish President pendent probe can begin to establish motorcycle-riding vigilantes shooting for launching a serious Philippines the facts. to kill people they think might be drug investigation are challenging. SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 OPINION 09 Trump-Kim diplomacy is on life support

ne year after the Singapore aren’t picking up the phone. There “The summits between Kim and strongly to confront Chinese and summit, the Trump admin- were two “track two” conferences this Trump symbolized a major break- Russian shortcomings in istration’s diplomatic month - one in Mongolia and one in through in relations, but they also enforcement. Trump directly told Oprocess with North Korea Hong Kong - but the North Korean revealed the limits of personality- Vladimir Putin that Russia must has hit a stalemate with no clear path officials expected to attend failed to driven diplomacy when it’s not follow through on its commitment toward a resolution. Now the goal show. backed up by working-level talks held to enforce sanctions, officials said. JOSH ROGIN seems to just be to keep the process Kim’s strategy seems clear. He is on a regular basis,” the Carnegie In Singapore earlier this month, THE WASHINGTON POST alive, and the only working channel is appealing directly to Trump, sending Endowment’s Suzanne DiMaggio acting defense secretary Patrick between Kim Jong Un and President him sweet but vague letters, even wrote Thursday. Shanahangave a “gift” to China’s Donald Trump. But a process that bashing Joe Biden. Trump, who has a National security adviser John National Defense Minister Wei If there is still some exists primarily to perpetuate its own political incentive to keep the Bolton said this week that Trump was Fenghe: a collection of photos of hope of making a existence is not long for this world. diplomacy going, is returning Kim’s open to a third summit. “Kim Jong Un North Korean sanctions-busting deal, Trump can justify Trump revealed this week that he affection publicly. Officials said holds the key,” he said. “We are ready ship-to-ship oil transfers inside had received another “beautiful letter” Trump is simply trying to keep the when they are, so it’s any time that China’s territorial waters. keeping the North from Kim, but the letter reportedly door open, to give his team time and they want to schedule it.” Trump has decided that there Korean negotiations had no substantive details about how space to make a deal. State Department spokeswoman should be no new sanctions on alive despite no progress Washington and Pyongyang might The problem is that Kim failed to Morgan Ortagus told reporters North Korea for now. But if Beijing and dim prospects. But salvage the nuclear negotiations, learn the two lessons from Hanoi. Wednesday the diplomats are ready to and Moscow don’t tighten the talks can’t stay on which have been almost completely First, the negotiations can only make negotiate at the working level as well, enforcement, calls will grow to go life support forever. At dormant since the failed Hanoi progress at the lower working level. but the core demand is not going to after their companies under the summit in February. According to Second, Trump is not actually as des- change. “We’re looking for a complete justification of enforcing existing some point, it will be several officials and diplomatic perate for a deal as people think, offi- denuclearisation,” she said. sanctions. For Trump, there is no necessary to pull the sources, North Korean officials have cials said. That means the deal he Inside the administration, the political upside to ending negotia- plug. Let’s hope Team gone dark on almost all previously pitched to Kim in Vietnam - full denu- current debate is over how to manage tions with North Korea. As long as Trump has a strategy for functioning channels. clearisation for economic normali- this stalemate. Some officials want to he can say diplomacy continues what happens next. Kim’s negotiating team may not be zation - is about as good as it’s going increase pressure on North Korea, and North Korean provocations dead, as previously reported, but they to get. which risks ending the diplomatic remain under a certain threshold, process. For example, when Kim shot the president has a clear interest in off a bunch of short-range missiles maintaining the stalemate and and other rockets last month, National maybe having one more summit Security Council officials advocated before the election. bringing the issue before the U.N. The problem is that the status Security Council, multiple adminis- quo is certain to change. Sanctions tration officials told me. weaken over time. Kim may even- State Department officials advised tually resort to a more serious Trump not to overreact, fearing that provocation, like a nuclear test. He would play into Kim’s hands and continues to build nuclear weapons cause a split between the United and advance his missile programs. States and China, Russia and South The risk of proliferation is growing. Korea. By showing more restraint, If there is still some hope of they argued, the international sanc- making a deal, Trump can justify tions coalition could be better main- keeping the North Korean negotia- tained. Trump sided with the latter tions alive despite no progress and camp. dim prospects. But the talks can’t Officials told me that after Trump stay on life support forever. At played down the missile launches some point, it will be necessary to publicly, the intelligence showed that pull the plug. Let’s hope Team the North Korean regime was angry. Trump has a strategy for what That was interpreted to mean Kim’s happens next. plan to spark a retaliatory provocation A file picture of North Korean President Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shake hands prior to their was foiled. meeting in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Officials are also split on how

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REUTERS The report called on social in the year after which EU officials said they BRUSSELS media firms to develop tools will consider further regulation of online Europol points to Russia money to vet websites hosting ads, platforms. Russian online outlets spread disinfor- ramp up fact-checking and Despite voluntary steps taken by as biggest laundering threat mation to sway voters in last month’s Facebook, Google and Twitter and other European Union elections, the bloc said increase transparency by platforms, the review puts pressure on them REUTERS said as he warned of the dangers yesterday in a report calling for social media giving researchers access to go further, including sharing data on their THE HAGUE of a repeat of scandals involving firms to take greater action or risk regu- to data and governments efforts. tainted Russian money in the lation. information on the malign In response, Facebook higlighted the Europe’s Baltic states are at risk Baltics, a bloc of three countries, The preliminary review of the European steps it has taken into safeguarding the May from further Russian money laun- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Parliament elections said there was evi- actors. ballot, such as partnering with local fact- dering, a top European police which used to be ruled by Soviet dence that both Russian and European checking organisations and dedicating staff official said after several big Russia. online sources had sought to promote The 10-page report said there was no to monitor the vote. banks were hit by scandals “The high burden of proof in extreme views and polarise debate on proof of “a distinct cross-border disinfor- “The fight against false news will never centred on the region. Europe coupled with “zero divisive issues like migration and religion. mation campaign from external sources be over,” Facebook said in a statement. “We Pedro Felicio, who is respon- cooperation from Russia in pro- “The evidence collected revealed a con- specifically targeting the European are making significant investments to sible for fighting money laun- viding ... evidence” were exac- tinued and sustained disinformation activity elections.” remove fake accounts and clickbait and to dering at European police agency erbating the problem,” Felicio by Russian sources aiming to suppress Instead, EU officials cited examples of promote high-quality journalism and news Europol, said that “huge inflows added. turnout and influence voter preferences,” stories by Russian state-funded media — literacy.” of criminal money” are mainly “Some of the banks in the the report by the EU executive and its raising questions about how online content Google and Twitter were not immedi- coming into Europe from Russia Baltic area are very vulnerable to foreign service said. should be evaluated. ately available to comment. and China. money laundering activities espe- Moscow has consistently denied it is tar- Some domestic political sources mim- The report called on them to develop Russian money is alleged to cially coming in from Russia. It geting elections. icked the tactics of Russian sources, the tools to vet websites hosting ads, ramp up be at the heart of multi-billion has improved but it is far from The EU report said some 1,000 cases report said, and bots and fake accounts fact-checking and increase transparency by dollar laundering rackets that being solved.” were detected by a dedicated task force, were used to amplify these efforts. giving researchers access to data and gov- engulfed Danske Bank, Den- “It is just a matter of time until whose staff was more than doubled to “It’s not necessarily about breaking the ernments information on the malign actors. mark’s largest lender and Swe- we see another scandal coming sixteen ahead of the vote. The unit mon- law, but it is about attempting to mislead,” It said stricter rules governing paid-for den’s Swedbank. in from the area and it will itors and fact-checks foreign news outlets Europe’s Security Commissioner Julian King political advertising implemented by “There are billions of criminal probably be very similar to the but is not equipped with the tools of an said. Facebook should be improved and rolled money that are being taken out scandals we have seen in the intelligence agency to investigate cyber EU leaders will discuss the review at a out to upcoming national elections across of the Russian economy,” Felicio past,” he added. campaigns. summit next week. A final report is due later the bloc. Diplomats: North Macedonia Bulgaria returns 63 on track for EU accession artefacts to Turkey ANATOLIA/ANKARA REUTERS resolution of its name issue,” one BRUSSELS senior EU official said, referring Bulgaria has returned 63 to a decades-old dispute with historic artefacts to Turkey as North Macedonia is likely to win Greece that blocked its path to part of the bilateral agreement European Union support to start the EU and the Nato alliance. on fighting cultural assets membership talks later this year, The name change from smuggling, said a statement by diplomats said, but its Balkan Former Yugoslav Republic of the Turkish Culture and neighbour Albania faces oppo- Macedonia to Republic of North Tourism Ministry, it added that sition in France, Germany and Macedonia has given Skopje artefacts were seized in 2016. the Netherlands. momentum and is likely to per- The artefacts were received Despite EU rhetoric that the suade Paris, Berlin and The by Turkish Deputy Minister of bloc needs to accept new Hague to back EU talks. Culture and Tourism Ozgul members from the Western “But Albania is still a big Ozkan Yavuz at a ceremony Balkans to cement their issue for some governments. It held in Sofia National Archae- European path and offset is not looking so promising,” the ology Museum in the Bulgarian Chinese and Russian influence, official said. capital. anti-immigration sentiment has Perceived as one of Europe’s Speaking at the ceremony, raised doubts in some northern most corrupt countries, Yavuz thanked Bulgarian EU states. according to Transparency Culture Minister Boil Banov and Backed by a number of EU International, Albania — which museum experts, adding that governments and the European is already a Nato member — has Turkey also expects the return Commission, Albania and North made only limited progress in of other seized artefacts by Macedonia had hoped that the combating money laundering, Bulgaria. bloc’s Europe ministers would EU and US officials said, despite World’s tallest people stroll streets of Paris The artefacts returned to give the go-ahead to mem- firing corrupt judges and Turkey included 56 coins, 6 France’s Brahim Takioullah (right) answers questions from journalists as world’s tallest people gather bership talks at a meeting next prosectutors. bronze appliques and a bronze on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, yesterday. Tuesday in Luxembourg. Four other Western Balkan fibula. That would have cleared the nations — Bosnia, Kosovo and way for approval by EU leaders the two frontrunners Serbia and at a summit in Brussels on June Montenegro — are also seeking 20 and 21. EU membership. ‘Over 24,000 refugees entered Europe in 2019’ But neither country will be In June 2018, France and the given the green light then, dip- Netherlands unexpectedly ANATOLIA in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of people lost in “This new IOM report points lomats and EU officials said, blocked the start of EU talks for ANKARA According to IOM Spain rep- the Central Mediterranean to both the lack of outreach by even though 13 EU countries Albania and North Macedonia, resentative Ana Dodevska, 8,523 crossing have yet to be identified, the Italian authorities and to the including Italy and Poland, the seeking more reforms. Dip- More than 24,000 irregular men, women and children the IOM said in a separate absence of a visible and cen- European Council’s President lomats said the move reflected migrants and refugees reached arrived in the country since the statement said. tralized entity to provide Donald Tusk and the Com- concerns about the impact on Europe by sea since the beginning of 2019, down from According to the IOM’s support, feedback and trans- mission have publicly called for voters in EU elections in May, beginning of 2019, the UN 9,315 in the same period last Global Migration Data Analysis parency for families reporting formal negotiations to begin. 2019. migration agency said yesterday. year. Centre (GMDAC) and Missing missing persons as two reasons Now, the latest agreement With the European Par- Of that figure, 555 died at An average of 40 migrants Migrants Project, fewer than behind the poor identification is to reach a deal among EU gov- liament election out of the way, sea, according to a report pub- per day entered Spain in the first 5,000 bodies have been rates,” said IOM in the statement. ernments in September, but only France and the Netherlands lished by the International two weeks of June 2019, much recovered among 15,000 fatal- “Thousands of families of for North Macedonia, which is were expected to fall into line, Organization for Migration lower than the daily 230 in June ities en route to Italy from North missing migrants remain in also set to join the North Atlantic while the EU headquarters (IOM). 2018, IOM Spain reported. Africa since 2014. limbo. They face the disap- Treaty Organisation in 2020. invited Albania’s Prime Minister During the same period last Greece, on the other hand, Net identification rates in pearance of a loved one that may “North Macedonia has a Edi Rama and North Macedo- year, nearly 37,000 refugees and received 11,683 in 2019, nearly Italy and Malta have been in the never be acknowledged or con- good chance (for EU mem- nia’s President Stevo Pen- migrants were able to travel to equal to last year’s figure of range of only one in five between firmed,” said Frank Laczko, bership talks), given the historic darovski to Brussels. Europe, 875 of which drowned 11,812 arrivals. 1990 and 2013. director of GMDAC. Artillery attack injures family in eastern Ukraine WWII-era bomb in central

AFP year, civilian casualties Berlin forces evacuation KIEV were “among the lowest for the entire conflict AFP blocked off. A nine-year-old girl and three period,” the United BERLIN Nearly 75 years after the end relatives were wounded Nations monitoring of World War II, Germany yesterday in eastern Ukraine in mission in Ukraine said An unexploded American aerial remains littered with unex- an artillery attack on a Kiev- in a report published, bomb from World War II was ploded ordnance, a legacy of the controlled area close to a rebel but the number of found in central Berlin during intense Allied bombing cam- hub, Ukrainian police and armed civilian casualties has construction work yesterday, paign against Nazi Germany. forces said. risen again this month. forcing the evacuation of In the biggest post-war The shelling came as attacks A nine-year-old girl surrounding city blocks, police evacuation to date, some have intensified in the last month was being treated in said. 60,000 Frankfurt residents after a period of relative calm in hospital for concussion The 100kg explosive was were evacuated in 2017 so that the conflict between Ukraine and a trauma injury to unearthed on a building site an unexploded 1.8 tonne British forces and Russian-backed sep- her stomach after the adjacent to the Alexa shopping bomb dubbed the “blockbuster” aratists that has killed some attack at 5am local time centre and near a train line at could be defused. 13,000 people since 2014. (0200 GMT), the defence the central transport hub of Berlin was subject to a cam- The family were injured ministry said. Alexanderplatz in the city’s east. paign of intense bombardment after their house in the village of Two women from People were being evac- during the war, particularly in the Mariinka, 20km southwest of the the same family were uated from within a 300 metre spring of 1945, with a third of the rebels’ de facto capital Donetsk, also being treated in hos- Rescue workers clear debris in the ruins of a house which came under an radius of the corroded bomb, city’s homes destroyed and tens came under artillery fire, the pital along with an artillery attack in the village of Mariinka, yesterday. which had an intact detonator, of thousands of people killed. defence ministry said. 86-year-old man, who police said. Thousands of items of unex- The war in the east erupted received the most severe injuries. Several other houses and border to fan the flames of the A police bomb disposal ploded ordnance have since after a popular uprising ousted Ukrainian soldiers pulled the outbuildings were also damaged. conflict. squad was set to attempt to been discovered, but some Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president family from the ruins and took Kiev and its Western backers Moscow has denied the defuse the bomb later in the day, 3,000 are still believed to and Russia annexed Crimea. them to hospital, the military accuse Russia of funnelling claims despite overwhelming police said on Twitter, warning remain buried in the city’s In the first five months of this said. troops and arms across the evidence to the contrary. that nearby areas would remain subsoil, according to experts. SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 EUROPE / AMERICAS 11 Health minister quits race to succeed May REUTERS engaging in the TV debate,” Hunt LONDON told BBC radio. “What would Churchill say if somebody who Boris Johnson, the frontrunner wants to be prime minister of the to replace Theresa May as Brit- United Kingdom was hiding ain’s prime minister, came under away from the media, not taking pressure yesterday to face the part in these big occasions?” media over his Brexit plans as The latter comment was a another of his rivals dropped out jibe at Johnson who wrote a of the leadership battle. biography of Britain’s World War Health Minister Matt II leader. Hancock (pictured) quit the With Johnson so far ahead battle to succeed May as Con- in the first round of voting, there servative Party leader, saying the Health Minister Matt had been speculation in the party was looking for a can- Hancock quit the British media that some rivals didate for the present not the might withdraw to allow a more future, leaving six contenders battle to succeed May unified challenge to the man Doves are released after a service of remembrance marking the second anniversary of the Grenfell amongst whom Johnson is the as Conservative Party who led the official leave cam- Tower fire, at St Helen’s Church, in west London, yesterday. overwhelming favourite. leader, saying the paign in 2016. He won the backing of 114 of party was looking for “I ran as the candidate of the 313 Conservative lawmakers in future, but the party is under- the first round of voting on a candidate for the standably looking for a can- Experts warn of high-rise fire risk in London Thursday, way ahead of foreign present not the future. didate for the unique circum- AP The blaze began in an Program, the report said that of minister Jeremy Hunt who was stances we face right now,” LONDON apartment kitchen and ripped 328 buildings with similar com- second with 43 while three He argues that if Britain is Hancock said as he pulled out of through the 24-story tower in bustible cladding to Grenfell, others were eliminated. prepared for a no-deal Brexit, the race. “I will talk to all the Two years after a tower block the early hours of June 14, 2017. only 105 have had it removed. The issue dominating the the EU will bend to his argument other candidates about how fire in London killed 72 people, Investigators found that the Questions have also been contest is how and when Britain to remove the so-called these values can be best taken safety experts warned that building’s flammable aluminium raised about whether lives were will leave the European Union Northern Irish backstop to forward.” hundreds of apartment buildings and polyethylene cladding lost because of the fire depart- and who is best placed to solve prevent a return to a hard border A second round of voting around Britain remain at risk of helped the fire race out of ment’s advice to residents to stay the crisis that has plunged the with Ireland if there is no agreed among lawmakers takes place a similar devastating blaze. control. in their apartments and await political establishment into future trade deal. on Tuesday as the candidates are Survivors, neighbours and A public inquiry and police rescue. The advice was changed turmoil since the 2016 refer- But he has not yet agreed to whittled down to a final two politicians including London investigation are still underway, almost two hours after the fire endum to leave the bloc. take part in televised debates, before 160,000 Conservative Mayor Sadiq Khan attended a but survivors and fire safety broke out, too late for many May resigned as Conserv- the first of which takes place grassroots members choose the church service of remembrance activists said authorities allowed people on upper floors to escape. ative leader having failed three tomorrow, leading to accusa- next leader by the end of July. yesterday for the Grenfell Tower building safety standards to slip Police are considering cor- times to get her divorce deal with tions that the flamboyant former May’s potential successors blaze, the deadliest fire on British and have been too slow to fix porate and individual man- the EU through parliament. The foreign secretary is avoiding dif- have all said they could find the soil since World War II. them. slaughter charges over the blaze, EU has repeatedly said it will not ficult questions, in case any solution to the Brexit crisis which The congregation murmured The government has pledged but say it’s unlikely anyone will renegotiate that deal. slip-up proves costly. eluded her. agreement as Bishop of Ken- hundreds of millions of pounds be charged before late 2021. Rivals turned their sights on “We can only have that Another challenger, aid min- sington Graham Tomlin called (dollars) to remove cladding Yvette Williams of campaign Johnson who has pledged that debate if our frontrunner in this ister Rory Stewart, said Johnson the fire a “national shame.” from both privately owned and group Justice 4 Grenfell said Britain will leave on October 31, campaign is a little bit braver in had to attend the TV debates so “Grenfell happened because public-housing buildings, but people are “increasingly feeling whether or not a deal can be terms of getting out into the lawmakers could see who was we failed to love our neigh- work has been slow. Citing a sense of injustice, rather than struck. media, engaging in debates, his best challenger. bours,” he said. figures from the Building Safety a walk to justice.” WikiLeaks founder faces February US extradition hearing Toll from UK hospital listeria AFP in a case that has upset defenders Washington submitted a February 25, expected to last for York Times and The Guardian. LONDON of press freedoms and human formal extradition request to five days. Those stories redacted the outbreak rises rights. Britain after Quito terminated Mark Summers, Assange’s names and personal details of US Julian Assange’s full extradition In his first court appearance the 47-year-old Australian’s lawyer, told the court there were operatives and local informants REUTERS/LONDON hearing will begin in February, since being sensationally seven-year asylum stay. a “multiplicity of profound whose lives could have been an English judge ruled yesterday, dragged out of the Ecuadoran He is currently serving a issues” concerning his extra- endangered. The number of people to die with the WikiLeaks founder embassy in London in April, 50-week prison sentence for dition. “We say it represents an But WikiLeaks found the from a listeria outbreak in wanted in the United States on Assange told the court: “175 years violating bail conditions by outrageous and full-frontal arrangement too confining and British hospitals has risen to espionage charges. of my life is effectively at stake.” fleeing to the embassy in 2012 assault on journalistic rights.” published the entire load of five from three, Public Health Assange is accused of vio- Speaking via video-link from when he was wanted on accu- WikiLeaks’ initial revelations unedited cables and video files England (PHE) said yesterday. lating its Espionage Act by the top-security Belmarsh prison sations of sexual assault in about civilian casualties and — hundreds of thousands in all The agency said that since releasing a trove of classified in southeast London, and Sweden. embarrassing statements made by — on its website. the outbreak it had reviewed military and diplomatic files in sporting a scraggly white beard, England’s Chief Magistrate US officials about foreign leaders Assange could be sentenced earlier cases and established that 2010 about US bombing cam- he added: “WikiLeaks is nothing Emma Arbuthnot ordered a full were published in coordination to 175 years in jail if convicted on one other death had also been paigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a publisher.” extradition hearing to begin on with newspapers such as The New all charges. linked to the infection, which is thought to stem from sandwiches and salads. One patient who had been seriously ill has also since Women in Switzerland died, taking the number to five. “To date, there have been no patients linked to this rise up for equal pay incident outside healthcare organisations, but we continue AFP Unions and rights groups to investigate,” said PHE’s Nick GENEVA organising the events are hoping Phin. “Swift action was taken to see a sea of purple — the to protect patients and any risk Statues draped in purple in colour chosen to show solidarity to the public is low. Neuchatel, blocked traffic in with the cause — but with Lausanne and a massive thunder storms and rain clenched fist feminist symbol drenching a country where work Protest against pension projected onto a skyscraper in stoppages are rare, the turnout reform in Brazil Basel: women across Switzerland remains uncertain. went on strike yesterday for In Lausanne, the events AP/RIO DE JANEIRO equal pay. kicked off overnight, with women They staged various actions ringing the bells of the cathedral, Brazilians have begun a general to vent their frustration with per- which was lit up in purple, and strike that is likely to paralyse sistent gender discrimination lighting a “bonfire of joy”. major cities across Latin Amer- and wage gaps in the wealthy By morning, 500 people ica’s largest country. Alpine nation. gathered for a massive breakfast People holding a banner that reads, “women’s strike 14.6.” during a nationwide women’s strike for Yesterday’s strike was The strike comes nearly celebration, blocking traffic on wage parity, in Bern, yesterday. called for by trade unions to three decades after women held one of the town’s main bridges, years after half a million women insisting women need to demand “Wage equality has not been protest a pension reform being the country’s first nationwide according to a photographer. walked out of their workplaces “more time, more money, more achieved. That is a good reason discussed in Congress. strike for equal pay. In Bern, parliamentarians or homes across Switzerland to respect”. to go on strike,” Ruth Dreyfuss, In Rio de Janeiro, police Events planned throughout meanwhile took a 15-minute protest persistent inequalities, on Women in Switzerland on who in 1998 became Switzer- launched tear gas at protesters the day range from pram break from their discussions to June 14, 1991. That was 10 years average still earn 20 percent less land’s first female president, said. attempting to block Avenida marches to whistle concerts and mark the occasion, with many after equality between the sexes than men. Riding the wave of the global Brasil, while residents of Sao giant picnics. of the MPs and at least one gov- was enshrined in the Swiss And for men and women #MeToo movement, a new gen- Paulo awoke to find demon- Huge demonstrations are ernment minister dressed in constitution. with equal qualifications, the eration of women is attacking the strators burning tires on the planned in several cities, purple and sporting feminist But the organisers of yester- wage gap remains nearly eight lingering issues of discrimi- main Rodovia Anhangüera including in front of the gov- badges. day’s events said things have percent, according to the nation, harassment and wage highway. There were no reports ernment headquarters in Bern. The events come exactly 28 barely improved since then, national statistics office. inequality with renewed vigour. of injuries. California hotel gets $1.6m fine for blocking beach access AP exceptions, but the Ritz-Carlton Francisco failed to display signs access to those spaces, the com- settlement with the hotel, is the Palo Alto land conservation SAN DIEGO Hotel in Half Moon Bay did not informing the public that beaches mission said. second-largest in the history of group, to help purchase a make that clear and at times pre- are free and open to anyone. “Perhaps creating the illusion the coastal commission. Of the property north of the hotel to A posh Northern California hotel vented easy access, the California Although the hotel is of a private beach helps justify penalty, $1m will go to a com- expand public beach access. was ordered to pay $1.6m in Coastal Commission ruled, the required to have a free public the exorbitant cost of the rooms,” mission fund that provides signs, The company also agreed to penalties for failing to provide Mercury News of San Jose parking lot with 15 spaces and said Mandy Sackett, state policy trails, stairs and other amenities expand the beach parking lot to public access to its nearby reported. Rooms at the hotel can keep another 25 spaces public in director for the Surfrider Foun- to help the public use state 22 spaces, install signage stating beaches. cost $1,000 a night. its garage, valets would park cars dation, an environmental group. beaches. The remaining that the beaches are public, better All beaches in California are The commission also said the of hotel guests and golfers in The $1.6m penalty, which $600,000 will go to the train its staff and post the infor- open to the public, with rare hotel about 48km south of San public spaces or refuse public was reached as part of a Peninsula Open Space Trust, a mation on the hotel’s website. 12 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2019 Trump backtracks on reporting foreign ‘dirt’ to FBI

BLOOMBERG The president also mation on a rival. happened and has said the president said. Asked whether went to the heart of some of the WASHINGTON asserted that foreign “I don’t think anyone would lawyer didn’t provide any useful he would accept information controversial conduct Mueller’s officials are unlikely present me with anything bad information during a Trump from foreigners or hand it over investigation revealed. President Donald Trump said to offer him any such because they know how much I Tower meeting. to the FBI, Trump said he thought Federal Election Commission he’d report to the FBI if a foreign love this country,” he said. Trump said in an interview that “maybe you do both.” Chairman Ellen Weintraub official gave him damaging infor- information on a rival. Special Counsel Robert that aired on Wednesday that “I think you might want to tweeted to be “100% clear” that mation on a campaign opponent, Mueller discovered that a he’d want to hear damaging listen, there isn’t anything wrong “it is illegal to solicit, accept, or partially walking back on a with Fox News. But he said he’d Russian lawyer approached information about an opponent with listening,” he said, adding receive anything of value from remark earlier this week about review the information first and Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr in even if it were provided by a for- that if someone from a country a foreign national in connection how he’d handle the situation make an assessment. 2016, offering damaging infor- eigner. His comment came in such as Norway offered infor- with a US election.” after criticism from Democrats “If you don’t hear what it is, mation from the Kremlin about response to a question about mation on his opponent, he Weintraub, an appointee of and government officials. you don’t know what it is”. Trump’s Democratic opponent whether Trump Jr should have would “want to hear it.” former president George W Bush, “Of course you give it to the The president also asserted Hillary Clinton. The younger accepted the Russian offer for The comments drew crit- wrote before the statement: “I FBI” if warranted, Trump said that foreign officials are unlikely Trump didn’t report the “dirt” on Clinton. icism from lawmakers and other would not have thought that I yesterday in a phone interview to offer him any such infor- encounter to authorities when it “I think I’d take it,” the government officials, as they needed to say this.”

Man charged with Sarah Sanders leaving multiple murder White House job in Little Rock AP REUTERS together, and she’s tough, but LITTLE ROCK WASHINGTON she’s good.” Sanders drew criticism for Police have arrested and White House spokeswoman ending the long tradition of daily charged a man with the murder Sarah Sanders, a fierce loyalist press briefings, with Trump pre- of three women found dead in of President Donald Trump who ferring to take questions himself a home in Little Rock. evolved into one of his closest from reporters and command the The Arkansas Democrat- advisers, will leave her job at the White House stage, and relegate Gazette reported yesterday end of the month to return to her his staff to appearances on tele- that 42-year-old Torrence home state of Arkansas, Trump vision to defend his policies. Deshawn Price was at the said. Sanders’ last briefing was 94 home on Thursday when Sanders, who has worked days ago, but Trump answers officers arrived after someone with Trump since the early days questions from reporters on a called 911. of his unconventional run for near-daily basis, including two Officers who responded office, is the latest in a long line extended sessions with them on saw blood dripping from the of his senior advisers to leave. Wednesday. home’s door. Inside they found Sanders, 36, who often com- Sanders’ relationship with the bodies of the three women pared the antics of the press the press corps became partic- and several uninjured children. corps to the behaviour of her ularly strained a year ago after The identities of the women and three youngsters, said she a comedian hired by the White US President Donald Trump stands with White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders after it was the children have not been wanted to spend more time with House Correspondents’ Associ- announced that she will leave her job at the end of the month, in the East Room of the White House, released. her children. ation for its annual dinner in Washington, DC. The relationships among “She’s a warrior,” said mocked her appearance and the women, the children and Trump, who announced her penchant for spinning the truth smokey eye,” comedian Michelle of her association with the even the hard minutes,” she said, Price are not clear. departure on Twitter shortly as sanders sat nearby at the head Wolf said. Trump administration. her voice trembling with Price faces three first-degree before calling sanders on stage table. In the months afterward, she Sanders called the job “the emotion. “I have three amazing murder charges and a charge for at an event at the White House. “She burns facts and then she was asked to leave a restaurant honour of a lifetime.” kids and I’m going to spend a illegal possession of a gun. A “We’ve been through a lot uses that ash to create a perfect in Lexington, Virginia, because “I’ve loved every minute, little more time with them.” judge set his bond at $3m.

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