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Visitor arrivals in Qatar during January-March FIFA World Cup 2022 37% 35% 11% helps transform Share of visitors Share of visitors Share of visitors 588,072 in Qatar from in Qatar from in Qatar from Total number region: Al Thawadi Europe Asia region GCC countries of visitors 216,818 206,203 62,909 came to Qatar THE PENINSULA cities and countries can benefit in Qatar. We’re still three years DOHA from hosting mega-events. away from kick-off but we are Number of visitors Number of visitors Number of “Qatar has always under- already seeing the positive from European from Asia visitors from The FIFA World Cup 2022 is stood the potential impact of the impact the tournament is having countries region GCC countries helping to transform the region World Cup and how it can accel- on the country’s development,” and accelerate Qatar National erate our national vision and he added. Vision 2030, said Hassan Al transform our country for future Al Thawadi also praised Rus- Thawadi, Secretary General of generations,” said Al Thawadi. sia’s hosting of the 2018 FIFA the Supreme Committee for “From day one, we set about World Cup and noted how much Delivery & Legacy. ensuring the tournament leaves Qatar had learned from their Speaking at the St. behind not just world-class operations. Petersburg International Eco- sporting infrastructure, but that Al Thawadi was joined on the nomic Forum, he emphasised it has a positive social and panel by Pavel Kolobkov, Rus- the need for innovative legacy human impact on those in Qatar sia’s Minister of Sport, Igor Levitin, Aide to the President of Russia, Alexander Dyukov, Pres- ident of the Russian Football Europeans top visitor arrivals in Q1 The World Cup is Union, Alexander Beglov, Acting already helping Governor of St. Petersburg, Anton SACHIN KUMAR 206,203 visitors came to Qatar cruise tourists coming to Qatar Qatar develop new Alikhanov, Governor of Kalin- THE PENINSULA from Asian countries. has increased substantially in the industries, attract new ingrad, Martin Kallen, UEFA Visitor arrivals measure past few years,” a senior official Events CEO, and international Visitors from European countries non-residents travelling to Qatar of a tour and travel agency told talents and investment footballing legends Christian Kar- have emerged as the largest on a short-term basis for all pur- The Peninsula. into the country, and ambeu and Sol Campbell. The group of people coming to Qatar poses. It includes arrivals at The country witnessed a very accelerate legislative panel was moderated by FIFA in the first quarter of this year. borders under 15 different visit successful cruise season the Council member Alexey Sorokin. The visitors from Europe visa classes, including all number of cruise tourists as Qatar change in critical Talking to Russian news occupied 37 percent share in business and leisure visa types welcomed a record number of areas, such as labour agency Sputnik, Thawadi said that total tourist arrivals, making while excluding work visas. cruise tourists in the 2018-19 reform." the budget for 2022 FIFA World them the biggest group of As per the Planning and Sta- season. Doha Port received Cup stadiums and its facilities was tourists coming to Qatar during tistics Authority, a visitor is a 144,707 passengers and crew on estimated to be around $6bn. the quarter. traveller taking a trip to a main 44 ships during the season “The budget for stadiums and According to the Planning destination outside his usual according to Mwani Qatar. planning to ensure tournaments and across the region in the associated facilities for hosting of and Statistics Authority data, environment, for less than a year, Proactive steps by concerned leave an impact on a country build-up to, during, and long the 2022 World Cup is about 588,072 visitors came to Qatar for any main purpose (business, authorities have also played long after they have finished. after the tournament has fin- $6bn,” Thawadi said. “The con- during the first quarter of 2019, leisure or other personal purpose) crucial role in increasing the Al Thawadi participated in ished,” he said. struction work for the World Cup out of which 216,818 visitors other than to be employed by a number of tourists. In 2017, two panel sessions during the “The World Cup is already has triggered a positive economic came from Europe. Out of the resident entity in the country or Qatar eased its visa policies and three-day event, speaking helping Qatar develop new movement in the state,” he added. total visitors, around 495,000 place visited. A visitor is classified allowed citizens of 80 countries alongside political, business and industries, attract new talents and The second panel Al Thawadi visitors came via air while as a tourist, if his trip includes an visa-free entry into the country. sporting leaders from across the investment into the country, and participated in was titled ‘Business around 93,000 came via sea. overnight stay. Visitors from other regions world. During the first panel, accelerate legislative change in in National Development Projects: Visitors from Asian countries “Qatar Airways have also grew during the quarter. titled ‘Big Football in the City- critical areas, such as labour Ways to Succeed’ and transmitted as they had a share of 35 percent increased its connectivity to Share of visitors from GCC coun- scapes’, Al Thawadi and his reform. It’s also helping promote live on the Russia 24 news in the total number of visitor several European cities in the tries was 11 percent as 62,909 vis- fellow panellists discussed how football and a healthier lifestyle channel. `P2 arrivals. During the first quarter, past two years. Also, number of itors came from these countries. Health centers receive almost 24,000 patients during Eid

QNA important pillars of the National at Al Wakra Hospital treated DOHA Health Strategy in line with the around 656 cases in the first three Qatar National Vision 2030. days of Eid. The Ambulance The Primary Health Care Corpo- The PHCC also stressed its Service at HMC the Pediatric ration’s (PHCC) centers received keenness to exert utmost efforts Emergency Centres (PEC) 23,900 patients through 17 to provide the best medical received hundreds of patients but health centers on Eid Al Fitr services and health care to cit- all were simple routine ones with holidays. izens and residents alike no critical cases reported from During the period from June reflecting the efforts of the any of the departments. Many of 2 to yesterday, the PHCC pro- primary health care institution cases were minor and moderate vided general medicine services, in this field. cases and were sent home after dental clinics, as well as emer- HMC’s main Emergency treatment on the same day. gency services, and other spe- Department at Hamad General When Eid Al Fitr festivities cialised clinics and prenatal Hospital (HGH) had treated at were approaching, HMC had examination. least 1,524 cases during the first cautioned people against road Summer in Qatar proves cool for children The PHCC affirmed that three days of Eid Al Fitr due to accidents. HMC’s Hamad Trauma meeting the needs of the patients several reasons including Center has urged motorists to Children enjoying a stage show at a mall which was organised as a part of Summer in Qatar programme is one of the main priorities that stomach ailments, respiratory practice safe driving on roads, launched by Qatar National Tourism Council. To make summer a memorable experience, QNTC has the corporation is keen to problems and trauma. especially during the Eid lined up several events and activities throughout the summer season for residents and visitors. achieve as it is one of the most The Emergency Department holidays. Qatar’s livestock sector sees huge growth since 2017

SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Environment, said a senior “The livestock sector of Qatar of Al Rayan TV, Al Marri said that Traditional farms which produce have joined the market recently. THE PENINSULA official. witnessed substantial growth at the number of animals in Qatar 98 percent of total animal pro- “Such farms are contributing The initiatives which were all levels from 2017 to 2019,” said reached over 1.75 million repre- duction. They are run by Qatari only about two percent of total The number of animals has launched under Qatar’s Strategic Saleh Jarullah Al Marri, Head of senting 64 percent sheep, 25 citizens individually,” said Al local animal production but they reached over 1.75 million heads Food Security Projects 2019- the Animal Health Section at the percent goats, nine percent Marri. create investment opportunities in Qatar, witnessing remarkable 2023 aim at increasing local Livestock Department at the camels and two percent cows. He said that the second type in animal farming business to growth during past two year, meat production from existing Ministry of Municipality and “There are two types of of farms are those licensed for increase self-sufficiency of the thanks to the initiatives of the 18 percent of total demand of the Environment. animal farms in the country — commercial activities and they are country in meat production,” Ministry of Municipality and country to 30 percent by 2023. Speaking at a recent program traditional and fully commercial. being run by the companies which said Al Marri. `P3 02 HOME TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 14 AM QSC’s summer activities to begin from June 29 SHOROOK 04. 43 AM QNA The 2019 summer committee for the summer QSC Managing Director reception and registration will DOHA activity Fatima Al Mohannadi added that registration is be through a group of young activities at Qatar ZUHR 11. 33 AM MAGHRIB 06. 26 PM said that the activities are available through QSC’s volunteers who have expe- Scientific Club will ASR 02. 56 PM ISHA 07. 56 PM The 2019 summer activities at organised over six weeks, website, adding that QSC will rience with QSC. Qatar Scientific Club (QSC) will begin from June 29 divided into three groups, each provide a scientific bag for The Chairman of the activ- begin from June 29 and it will and it will continue group is two weeks. each participant as a symbolic ities and events team said the WEATHER TODAY continue until August 7. Many The activities are being price with a special discount process of registration and dis- activities and events will be until August 7. Many held on morning and evening for the family, which regis- tribution will be smooth to held to foster creative thinking activities and events sessions so that the participant tered three children and ensure the comfort of the par- among participants. will be held to foster can choose between them, she above. ticipants. He called on those The summer activities of creative thinking added. Al Mohannadi pointed Sheikh Ali bin Salman Al wishing to participate to reg- 2019 have been completed in out that the age groups were Thani, the Chairman of the ister through QSC’s website line with the instructions of the among participants. divided into four categories, activities and events team at and complete registration pro- Department of Youth Affairs with each category has its own the QSC, confirmed the team’s cedures at the Club in order to in the Ministry of Culture and yesterday. Managing Director appropriate programs and readiness for the summer ensure that there are Sports, QSC said in a statement of QSC and member of the activities. activity, stressing that the vacancies. FIFA World Cup 2022 helps transform region: Al Thawadi FROM PAGE 1 Panelists discussed the importance of public-private partnerships for large-scale infrastructure projects and examined the model of national vision strategies. Here, Al Thawadi explained Qatar National Vision 2030, saying it had succeeded in driving and diversifying the o o country’s economy, and was 33 C 46 C using the FIFA World Cup to Minimum Maximum further accelerate its mission. “Qatar’s astute financial planning and diversification Very hot daytime with slight dust at some away from a wholly hydro- places. carbon-based economy into

new industries, such as Islamic

HIGH TIDE 13:39–23:22 LOW TIDE 6:30 – 17:26 finance, medicine, education Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department and sport, has helped the coun- try’s economy thrive over the last two decades to become one of the region’s strongest,” said Al Thawadi. “The hosting of the World The Secretary-General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), Hassan Al Thawadi, participated in two panel Cup is just one vehicle we are sessions during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. using to drive public-private partnerships, diversify the economy and encourage inter- a rapidly changing global Economic Development, Chen Minnikhanov, President of political and business leaders, national investors and com- environment. Fenjian, Chairman of China Tatarstan. as well as experts in the fields panies into the country.” Al Thawadi was joined on Railway Construction Corpo- Al Thawadi and Fahad bin of tourism, sport and Al Thawadi said Qatar and the panel by Andrey Kostin, ration Limited, Li Yong, Director Mohammed Al Attiyah, the technology. Russia share similar national President and Chairman of VTB General, United Nations Indus- Qatari Ambassador to Russia, Al Thawadi and the SC del- visions and went on to discuss Bank, Maxim Akimov, Deputy trial Development Organisation, went on to hold a number of egation also attended the Qatar- how both countries face similar Prime Minister of Russia, Maxim Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of bilateral meetings on the side- Russia gala dinner hosted by the challenges and opportunities in Oreshkin, Russia’s Minister of Moscow, and Rustam lines of the forum with leading Qatari Embassy. Tokayev victory proves veracity of exit poll

THE PENINSULA pointed out that the exit poll, con- briefing in the capital. She said DOHA ducted by the Qogamdyk Pikiri 350 interviewers questioned a (Public Opinion) Institute, total of 13,200 voters at 325 The results, released immediately Amirzhan Kossanov of the Ult polling stations, including 97 in after midnight of June 10, suggest Tagdyry United National Patriotic regional centers as well as in that Tokayev won a clear victory Movement who campaigned as cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, over six other contenders, said the opposition candidate, came Shymkent and 94 in small towns, Serik Myrzakhmetov, Counselor, in second with 15.39 percent. and 143 in rural districts. The at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in The exit poll showed that margin of error was said to be Qatar commenting on the June 9 Daniya Yespayeva of the Ak Zhol three percent. presidential election. Democratic Party won 5.32 “This day will go into our President of the Republic of percent, Zhambyl Akhmetbekov history… This was about the com- Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart of the Communist People’s Party petition of election platforms,” Tokayev won the election, of Kazakhstan – 3.86 percent, Tokayev told his supporters receiving the support of 70.13 Toleutai Rakhimbekov of the immediately upon hearing the percent of the votes as the results Auyl (Village). Kazakhstan’s social results of the exit poll. Overall, of a nation-wide exit poll, Myr- democratic party – 3.03 percent, there were 9,968 polling stations zakhmetov added. Amangeldy Taspikhov of the across Kazakhstan and at the A total of 1,013 international Kazakh Trade Unions Federation country’s foreign missions observers, including 866 – 1.41 percent, while Sadibek abroad, where 11,947,995 voters observers from 9 international Tugel of the “Uly Dala Kyrandary” were registered to vote. The voter organisations and 147 observers National Public Association turnout, according to the official from 41 foreign countries, have gathered only 0.86 percent. data of the Central Election Com- been accredited by the CEC to He added Ainur Mazhitova, mission (CEC), was 77 percent. observe the election, the Coun- chairwoman of the board of According to the law, the final selor highlighted. “Qogamdyk Pikiri Institute”, results are to be released within Furthermore, Myrzakhmetov announced the results at a 10 days of Election Day.

Surfing on a summer day People enjoying the summer time with boat surfing at the West Bay Lagoon yesterday. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 HOME 03

OFFICIAL NEWS HMC offers advanced treatment for vitiligo Amir greets President of Portugal FAZEENA SALEEM At present, the available, including excimer in University of Purdue and THE PENINSULA Department of where only the spot involved is when the usual treatment is not DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh treated and phototherapy successful then the patients can Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani With about 500 patients with Dermatology and machine where the patient get a skin transplantation,” he and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh vitiligo seen per year, Hamad Venerology at enters the machine and get said. Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani Medical Corporation (HMC) HMC have both exposed entirely,” said Professor However, Professor sent cables of congratu- provides several new treatment Steinhoff. Steinhoff insisted that it is lations to the President of methods and services to control phototherapy and HMC is also working with essential for patients with vitiligo the Portuguese Republic, the condition. excimer laser for University of Purdue in West to get early diagnosis and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on It includes phototherapy, vitiligo treatment. Lafayette, Indiana regarding treatment for better results. the occasion of his country’s new oral medications, advanced skin transplantations for patients “Most times it becomes dif- National Day. Prime Minis- research and partnerships with with vitiligo. Vitiligo can be ficult to intervene, because often ter and Interior Minister H E international institutions, treated with surgical approaches, patients come to the clinic at the Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser according to Professor Martin of a pigment called melanin in like skin or cellular grafts. The late stage of the disease. They bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent Steinhoff, Chair at the the skin. Melanin is produced by idea is that the top skin layer of come when the skin is already a cable of congratulations to Department of Dermatology and skin cells called melanocytes, Prof Martin Steinhoff the white spots is removed, and white and the immune system the Prime Minister of the Por- Venerology at HMC. and it gives skin its colour. In PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA healthy pigment cells (melano- has killed the pigment cells and tuguese Republic, Antonio “Vitiligo is one of the more vitiligo, there aren’t enough cytes) from another part of the it makes the treatment difficult,” Costa, on the occasion of his complicated diseases for the der- working melanocytes to produce research we hope we can do that body are transplanted there. he added. country’s National Day. QNA matology, because of the outer enough melanin in skin. This in the future,” said Professor After a few months, the trans- Dermatology and Venere- immune mechanism. At the causes white patches to develop Steinhoff. planted melanocytes start ology Department at HMC cur- moment we offer new therapies, on skin or hair. It’s not clear At present, he Department of working to make pigment, which rently runs 22 clinics including Amir congratulates oral medications and other exactly why the melanocytes dis- Dermatology and Venerology at deposits in the surrounding skin for many of skin conditions such Kazakhstan President services like phototherapy to appear from the affected areas HMC have both phototherapy and the white spots disappear, as vitiligo, posraisis, eczema block the process of vitiligo and of skin. and excimer laser for vitiligo explained Professor Steinhoff. among others. These clinics sit- DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh have less side effects,” said Pro- “A research is underway at treatment. “This is one of the most suc- uated at the Rumailah Hospital Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani fessor Steinhoff speaking to the HMC to find how to bring “We use excimer when there cessful methods and the success receive about 400 patients per sent a cable of congratulations media recently. back the cells that produce is less than 10 percent is about 60 to 80 % successful. day at and has one of the shortest to President Kassym-Jomart Vitiligo is caused by the lack pigment. As a result if the involvement. These services are We work together with a centre waiting time at HMC. Tokayev on the occasion of his victory in the presiden- tial elections in the Republic Discussion on of Kazakhstan, wishing him success and the Kazakh peo- Women’s key mental health issues human ple continued progress and prosperity. Deputy Amir H H memory during Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad discussed at WCM-Q Grand Rounds Al Thani also sent yesterday technological a cable of congratulations THE PENINSULA are more likely to provide care to President Kassym-Jomart DOHA to others, to provide unpaid development Tokayev on the occasion of labor and to work in poorly paid his victory in the presiden- Key issues in women’s mental agricultural jobs. Additionally, QNA tial elections in the Republic of health were explored at Weill women’s mental health is DOHA Kazakhstan. QNA Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s impacted by hormonal factors (WCM-Q) Grand Rounds lecture and conditions such as premen- Doha Magazine, issued by the series. strual dysphoric disorder, post- Ministry of Culture and Sports Dr Felice Watt, Division partum depression and in its No.140 issue of June 2019, Qatar’s livestock Chief of Adult Psychiatry for menopause. discusses the subject of human Women’s Health at Sidra Med- All of these factors contribute memory in the light of techno- sector sees icine, described the prevalence to the types of mental health dif- logical development in a special and effects of women’s mental ficulties experienced by women, file. huge growth health issues globally and sum- said Dr Watt. Violence against The file proposed the dis- marized the psychosocial, cul- women is also an important cussion of the person’s value since 2017 tural and biological determinants determinant of women’s mental during an era of the Internet and of women’s mental health. health. As such, gender-informed quick delivery of information. FROM PAGE 1 Dr Felice Watt, Division Chief of Adult Psychiatry for Women’s Dr Watt said that while the approaches are important in the In the article ‘I cannot remember Health at Sidra Medicine, described the prevalence and effects of Strategic Food Security total prevalence of mental health effective prevention, diagnosis tomorrow’, the writer Projects 2019-2023 eyes to disorders in women and men is women’s mental health issues globally. and management of women’s Mohammed Al Idrisi stated that increase local production of equal, each group is affected in health disorders, and reforming the loss of memory is costing meat to 21 percent in 2020, 24 different ways. “Women have PTSD (post-traumatic stress economic, legal and environ- social and cultural structures people their future. percent in 2021 and 28 percent twice the prevalence of disorder).” mental factors. that discriminate against women Furthermore, the magazine in 2022, according to a report depression than men, twice the Close consideration of the Gender issues often deepen is also key, she explained. translated a dialogue with Dr. issued by the Ministry of Munic- amount of anxiety disorders and key determinants of mental disparities associated with soci- The lecture, titled ‘Key Issues Francis Ostash, a neuroscientist ipality and Environment are two times more likely to health can shed light on the oeconomic determinants like in Women’s Mental Health’, was on the impact of technology in recently. attempt suicide, although we reasons why men and women income, employment and social accredited locally by the Qatar the future in the form of The Ministry launched a know that men are more likely experience mental health issues status, said Dr Watt. Women are Council for Healthcare Practi- memory, which stressed the number of projects and initia- to successfully commit suicide,” in different ways. These deter- more likely to experience tioners-Accreditation need to protect human memory, tives in collaboration with she said. “Women have four minants consist of genetic dif- poverty, discrimination and Department (QCHP-AD) and in addition to the subject of the authorities concerned and times the risk of anorexia, ferences, bio-neurological social disadvantage and to have internationally by the Accredi- fragility of memory in time of private sector to rise local meat bulimia and other eating dis- factors, psychological factors, low-status jobs and decreased tation Council for Continuing speed and image, while production. orders, and 2.5 times the risk of socio-cultural issues and decision-making powers. They Medical Education (ACCME). addressing the writer Under an ongoing initiative, Mohammed Marwan interest of local animal farms provided most cultures over the ages to over 4,000 sheep to Widam Last concert of season on June 13 at the Swiss International School Qatar glorify memory not as evidence Food Company. of for genius and intelligence but Residents can transport The initiative was launched only as a moral duty. themselves to a musical by the Ministry of Municipality The editorial of June, Editor- and Environment in collabo- wonderland with the Qatar in-Chief, Faleh Hussain Al Hajri ration with Ministry of Com- Youth Choir and Qatar wrote the ‘Arab Youth and merce and Industry and Junior Choir at their last Development’, where he Widam to encourage the local concert of the season, on emphasised that youth are the production by providing Thursday, June 13 at the main driver of the future of subsidy. Swiss International School development and its pillars, The move also aims at Qatar. The Qatar Youth Choir noting Qatar’s efforts in sup- increasing strategic reserve of is freshly returned from their porting youth to be effective in animals at local farms to ensure successful workshops and local development, therefore he the food security of the country. concerts with the prestigious suggests the need to involve The project helps provide good Vienna Boys Choir in Austria, youth in all sectors with their return to the farms for their while Qatar Junior Choir determination to achieve investments and hardworking will showcase their concert success and development vision. encouraging them to increase program that they will The magazine also raised the productions. perform during their tour many cultural topics in its new Under the initiative, the to Germany in September. issue and gave its readers the Ministry of Municipality and Tickets are priced at QR60, MirrorMaker poem, which is a Environment provides enough and are available from choir poetic anthology of Colombian fodders and veterinary services members or at the door. The poet Juan Manuel Rocca and free of cost to the farms. concert will start at 7pm. translated by Khalid Al Risouni. Indonesian Lawn Tennis Association organises tennis tournament

THE PENINSULA the Labor Attaché of the Indo- was to strengthen the bond DOHA nesian Embassy in Qatar, held within Indonesian tennis players the tennis tournament with in Qatar, whereas winning the During the celebration of Eid Al theme event: “Halal Bi Halal trophies was just a bonus to keep Fitr 1440 H, Indonesian have a Indonesian Migrant Workers everyone motivated. unique tradition known as ‘Halal Tennis Tournament”. This tournament was also Bi Halal’. This tradition drives A total of 28 players came attended by Chairman of the people to meet and forgive each from different regions such as Al Indonesian Community Associ- other. Khor, Mesaieed, Wakra and ation in Qatar (PERMIQA), Pri- Indonesian tennis players in Doha gather round in Ritz Carl- handoko and the Indonesian Qatar would also like to preserve ton’s Indoor tennis court to play Ambassador to Qatar, this noble heritage. tennis as well as do the Halal Bi Muhammad Basri Sidehabi, who On June 6, 2019, Indonesian Halal. delivered a speech as well as Lawn Tennis Association in Resonating the theme, the presenting trophies to the The participants at the tennis tournament organised by ILTA Qatar to celebrate Eid Al Fitr. Qatar (ILTA Qatar), supported by main purpose of this tournament winners. 04 HOME TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 QAS participates in IATA Ground Handling Conference in Madrid

THE PENINSULA In 2018, Qatar Airways expansion plans, which were DOHA and Qatar Aviation announced at the same con- Services hosted the ference last year. Qatar Aviation Services (QAS) IATA Ground Handling QAS Senior Vice President, participated in the 32nd IATA Mehmet Murat Nursel, said, “We Ground Handling Conference , Conference, which are very proud of this year’s par- which took place in Madrid from is recognised as the ticipation at the conference. The May 26 to 29, as a silver sponsor. most prestigious IGHC plays an important role as For the second consecutive event on the ground a platform for all industry leaders year, QAS participated in what to come together and discuss is widely recognised as the most handling industry issues related to ground handling prestigious event on the ground calendar. and aviation.” handling industry calendar, the In addition to participating IATA Ground Handling Con- in the conference, Qatar Airways ference (IGHC). tralised Load Control (CLC). and QAS were proud to be the QAS officials pose for a group photo at the IATA Ground Handling Conference in Madrid, Spain. QAS welcomed hundreds of QAS recently announced the main sponsors of the evening delegates to its exhibition stand opening of their first interna- gala dinner, enabling delegates where the company showcased tional CLC office in New Delhi, to network and enjoy the hosted by Qatar Airways and the first conference of its kind to drew more than 700 international its premium ground handling India. This is the first step entertainment. Qatar Aviation Services and took be hosted in the Middle East North delegates and guests from more services, in particular the Cen- towards QAS’s international In 2018, the conference was place at Doha, Qatar, making it Africa (MENA) region. The event than a dozen nations globally. Kidzmondo & partners launch initiatives for people with special needs THE PENINSULA Kidzmondo Doha and Aura children spent their time Doha initiative, “Goodness DOHA Leisure Services under their playing various interactive brings us together”. He wel- joint community responsibility roles in the city in a wonderful comed the efforts to care for Kidzmondo Doha recently programme. Ramadan atmosphere. Zaher those with special needs and launched its charitable activ- Qatar Airways, the Islamic Shahib, sales manager of Aura to allocate material and moral ities in connection with the World Bank, Baladna Food Leisure Services Group, said: support. For her part, Huda holy month of Ramadan, Industries and Gulf Computer “The holy month of Ramadan Hamdan, Project Specialist at ‘The good brings us Company (GBM) have funded is not only a charitable act, but the Qatar Red Crescent Society’s together’ initiative by Kidz- orphans and children with if we do not feel the pain and Volunteer and Local Devel- mondo Doha aimed to draw a special needs with their fam- suffering of others, we do not opment Sector, praised this smile on the faces of people ilies, in cooperation with Qatar enjoy the meaning and value generous approach by Kidz- with special needs. Kidzmondo Red Crescent and Qatar of giving , and that’s what we mondo and its partners, for pro- Doha collaborated with Charity. The city of Kidzmondo believe.” viding psychosocial support to sponsors and partners who did Doha received more than 400 Lama Zaroo Yousif, children with special needs. not hesitate to extend their children at breakfast tables, Director of Partnerships at Huda Hamdan hoped QRCS, hand to charity. followed by a special pro- Aura Entertainment Services, Kindzmondo and others would “Al Khair brings us gramme for Ramadan, where thanked the partners and continue collaboration on char- together” is part of a series of storytellers, puppets and sponsors for their participation itable and social welfare initi- activities undertaken by Children take part in activities at Kidzmondo Doha. mascots entertained them. The and support for the Kidzmondo atives in the future. PISQ organises spelling bee competition Birla Public School student ranks THE PENINSULA the contestants from each team to showcase their abilities. Doing DOHA competed against each other. their best, all the contestants tried 6th in All India and Foreign level First segment comprised three to win the contest and bag any of Pakistan International School- rounds, giving each student four the 1st three positions. Qatar (PISQ) organised Spelling words to spell by the end of which At the conclusion of the Bee Competition 2019 for senior ‘Win the Bee Round’ was played segment, after a neck-to-neck boys and girls wings on May 29, to break the tie among students competition, from grade 7, two 2019. Students from grade 5 to 8 who had successfully spelled all students, Mehmooda Shah and from both the wings participated the words. Saif Raza, shared first position; in the contest, displaying From grade 5, two students, Maheen Saghir got second and marvellous performance. Eman Ejaz and Khalilullah, Shaan Ahmad obtained 3rd The competition was bagged first position; second position. Areeba Khalid, Haleema organised under the guidance of position was also shared by two Azhar and Hannan Tahir from Principal of PISQ, Nargis Raza students, Aruba Asif and Nawal grade 8 bagged first, second and Otho, to sharpen the mental fac- Muhammad, and Abubaker third positions respectively. Pragati Biswal, 6th Rank (India Sarthak Behal, Commerce Stream Erin Susan Thomas, Science ulties of students, enabling them Qureshi secured third position At the end of the event, certif- & Foreign) & 1st Rank in Qatar Topper in Qatar CBSE Grade XII Stream Topper CBSE Grade XII to keep pace with the ever- whereas from Grade 6, Mansoor icates were awarded to the changing contemporary systems Farhan and Eshal Ali clinched winners to encourage them for CBSE Grade X Board Exam 2019 Board Exam 2019 Board Exam 2019 of education. After the formal first position; Laiba Hina and their future endeavours. commencement of programme Husna Khan shared second The excellent manifestation THE PENINSULA the Indian Schools in Qatar. Her Science Stream topper of the with the recitation of the Holy position and Anas Faisal stood of students’ preparation high- DOHA parents gave credit to the hard school is Erin Susan Thomas with Quran, the participants from third. lighted the hard work and efforts work of teachers and environment 96.2 percent. The Management of Grade 5 and 6 occupied the stage In the second and last of the teachers who had Pragati Biswal of Grade X has of studies in the school in addition the school and parents applauded in the first segment. Demon- segment, the participants from groomed and polished them for brought laurels to Birla Public to her own sincere work. the achievement of Birlites at strating remarkable performance, grade 7 and 8 were called on stage the contest. School and Qatar by achieving 6th Similarly, Sarthak Behal of National & International level and rank in CBSE Board Exam in India Class XII topped in Commerce they also appreciated the sincere & Foreign level. She scored 494 stream with 96.8 percent among contributions of school leadership marks out of 500. She topped all all Indian Schools in Qatar and the and teachers. QC builds education centre for orphans in Nairobi THE PENINSULA/DOHA teaching them basic crafts, raise includes a model boarding the percentage of school primary school and a kinder- Qatar Charity (QC), with the attendance by orphans and reduce garten. Some 1,000 students are support of the people in Qatar, is the rate of school dropout expected to benefit from this implementing the Mahanju Multi- resulting from poverty. project. Service Education Centre project The 1,200 square meter centre The project is under imple- in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, comprises eight classrooms, four mentation in a populated area, which is one of the significant halls as student dormitories, two where more than 45 percent of projects QC is about to complete. training and rehabilitation halls, the people are middle-class, and The centre has many service a restaurant, a mosque, and an 55 percent of the population is facilities that aim to rehabilitate artesian well, along with other low-income, while the unem- PISQ principal, teachers and winning students after the Spelling Bee Competition 2019. orphans and their families by essential facilities. The project also ployment rate is 46 percent. A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light way for others

THE PENINSULA Is it only the school’s scapegoats, blamed for the pupils’ parents with their limited hours by empathising with others which DOHA and the teachers’ lack of progress or failure to at home are unable to spend much are the five key elements of emo- responsibility to achieve better grades. time with their kids. The use of tional intelligence. A teacher is the one who stands mould the child? No! Is it only the school’s and the social media by the student must Thus, teachers and parents are before the students and handles teachers’ responsibility to mould be limited. the two major contributors to the them with different personalities, The parents are also the child? No! The parents are also There should be regular mon- positive growth and development attitudes and nationalities, keeping equally responsible equally responsible for the values itoring of the child as what’s hap- of the student where the unques- them united amidst their differ- for the values to be to be inculcated in the child. pening at school, taught in the tionable key factor is reciprocal ences. It’s a big challenge for her/ inculcated in the child. Parents, being the first teacher to school and what is to be taken to communication. Trust and mutual him by making them learn the the child shouldn’t overshadow school the next day. When the understanding between parents scholastic and pre scholastic skills Parents, being the first the child’s mind towards the parents keep themselves informed and the teacher are the real secret and be a part of their life to mould teacher to the child, teacher. They should furnish the about such details on a regular of the child’s happy learning. As them as a good and responsible shouldn’t overshadow child with a scaffold by creating a basis, they would consequently be the child grows and hones dif- citizen of this society by incul- the child’s mind positive attitude and respect well prepared in planning out their ferent skills, the teacher becomes cating moral values in them, wrote Soujanya Bollineni towards the teacher by saying that child’s study schedule at home. a real guide in nurturing his Soujanya Bollineni, who is a towards the teacher. the school is the further platform Then comes the role of teacher interest and learning to make him teacher in Doha. for you to mould yourself as a as an emotional analyst who pro- more successful and independent. It is be said that teachers are creating different professionals deserved respect? Are they being respectable human being in the motes students to have self- It is said “A good teacher is like a the architects of this society. They who evoke their due respect in this esteemed for their work? At all society. awareness, self-regulation, moti- candle – it consumes itself to light are the creators of this world by society. But are they given their times teachers have been made In today’s world the employed vation and encourages social skills the way for others” TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 05

Nechirvan Iran warns against sworn in as ‘economic war’ President of Iraqi Kurdistan through sanctions AFP ARBIL, IRAQ AFP German Foreign TEHRAN Minister said tensions in the region were Nechirvan Barzani was sworn Iran’s foreign minister warned in yesterday as Iraqi Kurdistan’s yesterday of the consequences worrying, adding second President, succeeding of waging “economic war” Germany will do its his uncle and veteran leader against his country through US utmost to ensure they Massud Barzani whose son sanctions, saying those Masrour will likely be nomi- conducting and supporting it did not escalate. nated premier today. could not expect to “remain Nechirvan, the 52-year-old safe”. and the United States in 2015, deputy leader of the Kurdistan “One cannot expect an eco- leading to sanctions relief in Democratic Party, was elected nomic war to continue against exchange for curbs on its nuclear as President on May 28 after the Iranian people and that those programme. seven years as the region’s waging this war and those sup- But the US administration prime minister. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) shakes hands with his German counterpart porting it remain safe,” of President Donald Trump has He is the Kurdish region’s Heiko Maas after their joint news conference in Teheran, Iran, yesterday. Mohammad Javad Zarif said at imposed sweeping sanctions on second President after his uncle a joint news conference in Iran and, according to Tehran, Massud, who served in the role Tehran with his German coun- waged an “economic war” everything we can to keep it deal and regional issues. “We and strategic interest to from 2005 until he quit in 2017 terpart Heiko Maas. against it after walking away that way” for Iran. had a serious, frank and rather maintain this agreement and following a controversial inde- “The only way to decrease from the deal formally known “Nevertheless, the tensions long discussion,” Zarif told the dialogue with Europe”, he pendence referendum. The tensions in the region is to stop as the Joint Comprehensive here in the region are worrying, reporters at the news con- said. The nuclear deal, Maas younger Barzani took his oath the economic war,” he added, Plan of Action (JCPOA). and we fear that single events ference. Ahead of his meeting said, is “extraordinarily of office during a sleek cer- noting Germany and the The visiting German foreign can trigger developments that with Zarif, the German minister important” for Europe’s emony at Arbil’s Congressional European Union could have an minister said his country would end in violence, and we want acknowledged the economic security and they “have made Palace yesterday. In his address, “important role” to play in do its utmost to ensure tensions to prevent this under all cir- benefits Tehran hoped for from the greatest effort to meet he appealed for better ties with defusing the situation. do not escalate. “There is war cumstances,” he added. the deal were now “more dif- (their) commitments.” “We will federal authorities in Baghdad, Iran signed a landmark in Syria and in Yemen, fortu- Maas met Zarif in Tehran, ficult to obtain” but urged Iran not work miracles. But we are and said his government would nuclear accord with Britain, nately not here,” Maas said in and both said they had dis- to fully respect the agreement. doing all we can to prevent a also prioritise the well-being of China, France, Germany, Russia Tehran. “We want to do cussed the future of the nuclear It was in Iran’s “political failure.” constituents in the region. A set of speeches followed his swearing-in, with the first Istanbul mayoral slots going to Massud and then candidates face Palestine hits back at Israeli annexation talk Iraqi President Barham Saleh, AFP who hails from the opposing published Saturday. “Under with the Palestinians. The inter- “It should be expected that Patriotic Union of Kurdistan off in TV debate WARSAW certain circumstances, I think national community regards the (the) international community which boycotted Barzani’s ANATOLIA Israel has the right to retain settlements as illegal. will take up sanctions against election. Among those in the ISTANBUL The Palestinian foreign minister some, but unlikely all, of the “Friedman with his Israel if Israel really ventures audience were Turkish Foreign yesterday called for sanctions on West Bank,” Friedman said. statement is trying to help into such (an)approach. Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Turkey’s ruling and opposition Israel if it starts to annex parts Israeli Prime Minister Ben- Netanyahu to have the courage “Or when it comes to Israel, several foreign consuls, but not party candidates for the coveted of the occupied West Bank. jamin Netanyahu pledged ahead to take such a decision” to annex, is it really the holy cow that no Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Istanbul mayor’s seat are set to But Riyad Al Maliki also of April elections to begin said Maliki. one could really touch?” Abdel Mahdi. Born in northern meet this weekend in a live questioned whether Israel was annexing West Bank settlements. “This is really something that In Jerusalem, the Palestinian Iraq in 1966, Barzani spent part televised debate, party officials a “holy cow” no one dare touch. After failing to build a governing the international community has Foreign Ministry said it was of his life in Iran and speaks announced yesterday. He was talking to reporters coalition, he now faces new elec- to stand up to,” he said. looking at filing a complaint with fluent Kurdish, Farsi and Binali Yildirim, candidate in Poland after a US envoy’s tions in September. “We cannot accept the the International Criminal Court. English. He has had a long of the ruling Justice and Devel- comments that Israel had the Israel occupied the West annexation of territories by any The Palestinian leadership political career in the Kurdish opment (AK) Party, and Ekrem right to annex at least some of Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War country because this is (a) vio- has already rejected the long- region, serving as its vice prime Imamoglu, for the Republican the territory captured in 1967. and the continued construction lation of international law.” delayed US peace plan, saying minister, head of government People’s Party (CHP), will face US Ambassador to Israel of settlements there has been a The minister said sanctions President Donald Trump’s moves and prime minister since it won off on Sunday, at 9pm David Friedman made the claim major stumbling block to should be imposed if Israel so far show him to be blatantly autonomy from federal author- (1800GMT), in a debate set to in a New York Times interview progress in the peace process resorts to annexation. biased in favour of Israel. ities in 1991. be aired live across multiple Turkish channels. Veteran journalist Ismail 14 French, Dutch orphans repatriated from Syria Kucukkaya will serve as mod- erator, Mahir Unal, the AK AFP according to Abdelkarim Omar, themselves in, together with Party’s deputy chair, told PARIS a senior Kurdish official. their families, in the final stages reporters. The transfer marks the latest of the US-backed Kurdish assault The debate’s format will Twelve orphaned children of small step in efforts to resolve on the last fragment of the IS give each candidate equal time French militants were flown the problem posed by the huge “caliphate”. to answer the same questions, home yesterday from Syria, numbers of stranded foreign Like many Western coun- said Engin Altay, the CHP’s along with two Dutch orphans militants and their families in tries however it has been torn deputy group chair. who will be handed over to the Syrian camps. over what to do with the mili- Technical services for the Netherlands, the French Foreign The children, the oldest of tatns, insisting that they must live broadcast will be done by Ministry said. whom is aged 10 according to face local justice. a joint technical team assigned The latest wave of repatria- Omar, had been held together France had already repat- by both parties “that does not tions of foreigners from crowded with tens of thousands of people riated five orphans from Syria belong to any TV channel,” he camps in northeast Syria tar- who fled recent fighting against in mid-March, as well as a three- added. After local elections held geted a group of children that the Islamic State group. year-old girl whose mother was throughout Turkey on March were “isolated and particularly Omar said the transfer took sentenced to life imprisonment 31, Turkish poll officials ruled vulnerable”, the French Ministry place in the town of Ain Issa on in Iraq. that the Istanbul Metropolitan said, adding some were sick and/ Sunday, near Syria’s border with But so far it has refused to let Municipality mayor’s race had or malnourished. Turkey. mothers, some of whom were to be held again, due to irregu- They were handed over to France has one of the largest accused of acting as IS propa- A plane allegedly transporting orphaned children of French militants, larities and violations of French and Dutch officials by contingents of militants who gandists, return with their is parked at the Velizy-Villacoublay airport, France, yesterday. election law. Syrian Kurdish authorities, were captured or turned children. 06 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019

Gang violence Nearly 100 killed in central Mali village massacre in Nigeria AFP others,” an official in Koundou There are currently about 14,700 troops and Mopti region, also since January BAMAKO district, where the village of police deployed in Mali, which ranks as the most 2018. “It’s a shock, a tragedy,” leaves 43 dead Sobane-Kou is located, said. MINUSMA chief Mahamat Saleh Nearly 100 people were killed in The government, giving a dangerous UN peacekeeping mission, with 125 Annadif said of the latest blood- AFP a gruesome overnight attack on provisional toll, said 95 people peacekeepers killed in attacks since deployment letting, noting that it came at a KANO, NIGERIA a village in central Mali, in the had been killed, 19 were missing, in 2013. time “when we are discussing the latest violence to strike the numerous farm animals had renewal of the (MINUSMA) Gunmen on motorbikes have fragile region, officials said been slaughtered and homes had Ambassagou, deplored the “bar- Dogon are traditionally sed- mandate.” There are currently killed 43 people in waves of yesterday. been torched. baric and vile” attack which it entary farmers. about 14,700 troops and police attacks in northern Nigeria, There was no immediate “Armed men, suspected to be described as tantamount to On May 16, the UN peace- deployed in Mali, which ranks as police said yesterday, the latest claim of responsibility but the terrorists, launched a murderous genocide. keeping mission in Mali the most dangerous UN mission, violence by criminal gangs massacre, targeting a village attack on this peaceful village,” A brutal cycle of violence in (MINUSMA) announced it had with 125 peacekeepers killed in raiding villages and stealing inhabited by the Dogon com- it said in a statement. central Mali, an ethnic mosaic, recorded “at least 488 deaths” in attacks since deployment in livestock. munity, bore the hallmarks of tit- A Malian security source at began after a predominantly attacks on Fulanis in the central 2013. Donor countries to The string of attacks, for-tat ethnic attacks that have the site of the massacre said “a Fulani jihadist group led by regions of Mopti and Segou since MINUSMA are to meet at the UN carried out overnight Saturday claimed hundreds of lives. Dogon village has been virtually preacher Amadou Koufa January 2018. on Wednesday. A decision on to Sunday in Nigeria’s far north- It came less than three weeks wiped out.” The local official said emerged in 2015. In the bloodiest raid, about renewing the force’s mandate is western Sokoto state, saw the after nearly 160 members of the the attackers came and “started It started targeting the 160 Fulani villagers were slaugh- expected by June 27. gangs ride out from forest Fulani ethnic group were slaugh- shooting, pillaging and burning.” Bambara and Dogon ethnic tered on March 23 at Ogossagou, Speaking at the UN head- hideouts, speeding into villages tered by a group identified as The village had about 300 inhab- groups, which in turn started to near the border with Burkina quarters in New York, Annadif and unleashing their weapons. Dogon. itants, the official said, speaking form “self-defence groups” of Faso, by suspected Dogon voiced regret that the Malian “They opened fire on the “Right now we have 95 dead on condition of anonymity. their own. The Fulani are pri- hunters. According to MINUSMA, authorities had not been present village indiscriminately,” said civilians. The bodies are burned, An association of Dogon tra- marily cattle breeders and armed Fulanis had “caused 63 enough in the area to prevent Abdullahi Dantani, from the we are continuing to look for ditional hunters, called Dan Nan traders, while the Bambara and deaths” among civilians in the such violence. village of Satiru, where 18 people were murdered. In Sokoto state’s Rabah dis- trict, gunmen rode into four vil- Sudan deports three lages — Rukunni, Tsage, Giire and Kalfu — massacring 25 people. “Twenty-five people freed rebel leaders were killed,” said Ibrahim Kaoje, Sokoto state’s top police officer. “Several domestic after talks fail animals were rustled by the attackers.” Four people were REUTERS aimed at putting pressure on the arrested in connection to those KHARTOUM Transitional Military Council to attacks, Kaoje said, “including relinquish power. a female informant of the Sudan has deported to South The council toppled and gangs, who was disguised as a Sudan three members of a rebel arrested Bashir after three mad woman.” In a separate movement detained last week in decades in power on April 11, wave of attacks in Satiru village, the wake of a deadly raid on a before entering negotiations on in Sokoto’s Isa district, the protest sit-in, an official in the a transition towards elections raiders shot 18 people, and then movement said yesterday. with the Declaration of Freedom stole animals. “We lost 18 The three are members of the and Change Forces (DFCF) people in the raid by the Sudan People’s Liberation alliance, which includes the gunmen, who came into the Movement-North (SPLM-N), one SPLM-N. But the talks collapsed village on motorcycles,” said of the country’s main rebel last week when security forces Satiru village resident Umeh groups and part of an alliance stormed a sit-in outside the Na-Ta’ala. The gangs have long Relatives of victims of violence in the crackdown on Sudanese protesters listen to a doctor inside a pushing for a handover to Defence Ministry that had been been a scourge of rural com- ward in a hospital in Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan, yesterday. civilian rule after the military the focal point of Sudan’s protest munities in northern Nigeria, deposed President Omar Al movement for nearly two raiding villages, stealing cattle, Bashir in April. months. Yasir Arman, the most The two others, SPLM-N sec- between the military council and Opposition doctors say at burning homes, looting food, The deportations came with prominent of the three men retary-general Ismail Jallab and civilian opposition. An SPLM-N least 118 people have been killed and kidnapping for ransom. many shops and businesses in released and the deputy head of spokesman Mubarak Ardol, were official said the three had been since the raid on the sit-in a week President Muhammadu Buhari the capital Khartoum still shut the SPLM-N, was detained last arrested after meeting visiting put on a flight to Juba, South ago. The military council has con- condemned the killings, on the second day of a campaign Wednesday after returning from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Sudan’s capital, following their firmed 61 deaths, including three expressing “deep shock and of strikes and civil disobedience exile following Bashir’s ouster. Ahmed as he tried to mediate release in Khartoum. members of the security services. sadness” in a statement. TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 ASIA 07 3 accused get life terms for minor girl’s murder AFP The Supreme Court PATHANKOT, INDIA officer Deepak Khajuria. The had shifted the Kathua others were found guilty of taking Six men were convicted yesterday trial from Jammu and bribes and destroying evidence. over the notorious 2018 gang Kashmir to Punjab Prosecutors said that they abuse and murder in India of an would study the verdict before eight-year-old girl from a Muslim after the girl’s family deciding whether to appeal. The nomadic tribe that provoked and their lawyer family, who were not present at horror and stoked inter-religious complained of death the trial, had hoped that all six tensions. threats. would be given the death sen- The six men from the Jammu tences, prosecutors said. region of northern India escaped India has the death penalty the death sentence, however, In an ordeal lasting five days, she for the most brutal murders and with three defendants given life was sedated and held in a Hindu terror attacks. The last execution imprisonment and the others five temple, repeatedly raped and happened in 2015 over bombings years in jail. then strangled and bludgeoned in Mumbai in 1993. Sexual violence, including to death. The Kathua case sparked two against children, is rife in India Investigations suggested that days of violent protests in Jammu and outrage over the Kathua case, the girl was targeted in order to and demonstrations in several named after the district where the strike fear in her nomad com- other places across India, Policemen stand guard outside a court before the verdict on the case of abuse and murder of an eight- atrocity happened, contributed munity and drive them out of the including in New Delhi, Mumbai year-old nomadic girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir was announced, in Pathankot, India, yesterday. to the government introducing area. and Bangalore. the death penalty for child rapists. A seventh man was acquitted The ruling right-wing According to the charge sheet, yesterday while an eighth person, Bharatiya Janata Party also drew on a bus in 2012 that made head- Sexual violence, including Hundreds of police were on duty the girl was abducted while she who claims to be underage, faces flak after two of its members par- lines around the world. against children, remains una- yesterday in Pathankot for the was out grazing horses and taken a separate trial. ticipated in rallies in support of The Supreme Court had bated in India. Nearly 20,000 trial. Wary of new protests, to a village in Jammu, the Hindu- Among the three convicted the accused. shifted the Kathua trial to Punjab child rape cases were reported in security was also heavy in Kathua dominated part of the Muslim- for rape and murder and sen- The protests were remi- after the girl’s family and their 2016, according to official data, town and surrounding Muslim majority state of Jammu and tenced to life were village head niscent of those that followed the lawyer complained of death while a 2014 UN report said one areas, although no incidents were Kashmir, on January 10 last year. Sanjhi Ram and special police fatal gang rape of a Delhi student threats. in three rape victims was a minor. reported.

Governor meets PM, Shah amid Make India $5 trillion economy, Modi tells bureaucrats IANS to play in making India a $5 Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman years,” Modi said, according to Modi also said that India’s Bengal violence NEW DELHI trillion economy,” the Prime and Jitendra Singh, the Prime an official statement. progress in “ease of doing IANS Minister said while addressing Minister said the mandate in the He said the election this time business” should reflect in greater NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi the secretaries of all the gov- Lok Sabha polls reflected the will has been marked by a positive facilitation for small businesses yesterday asked the top bureau- ernment departments. and aspirations of the people to vote, which emerges from trust and entrepreneurs. “Each Min- Amid continuing violence in crats of each government Modi also touched upon the change the “status quo” and seek that the common man feels based istry of the government should West Bengal following the Lok department to plan, create importance of the “Make in a better life for themselves. on his day-to-day experiences. focus on ‘ease of living’,” he said, Sabha elections, West Bengal roadmap and take decisions to India” initiative and the need to “The recent general election “The Indian voter has outlined a adding that water, fisheries and Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi make India a $5 trillion economy make tangible progress towards was marked by pro-incumbency vision for the next five years and animal husbandry will also be yesterday met Prime Minister while making “ease of living” this end. He asked the top for which credit must go to the this is now an opportunity before important areas for the gov- Narendra Modi and Home their top priority. bureaucrats to focus on taking entire team of officials. They us. The huge expectations of the ernment. PM urged the secre- Minister Amit Shah and “Every department of the steps to improve “ease of living” worked hard, conceived schemes people should not be viewed as taries to use technology to apprised them of the situation Union government and every for the people. In the presence and delivered excellent results a challenge but as an oppor- improve outcomes and efficiency in the state. district of each state has a role of Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, on the ground over the last five tunity,” Modi said. in each department. “I have met the Prime Min- ister and the Home Minister. It was a courtesy call. 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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ISHAAN THAROOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED THE WASHINGTON POST [email protected] he long-simmering standoff between Sudan’s military DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR regime and civilian protesters MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Tencamped in the capital of [email protected] Khartoum exploded this week. On Monday, troops from the Rapid Support Forces, an infamous paramil- itary unit, attacked the sit-in protest site that activists had occupied for the A Sudanese protester holds a national flag as he stands on a barricade along a past two months. At least 35 people street, demanding that the country’s Transitional Military Council hand over power were killed and hundreds more EDITORIAL wounded. By the following day, the to civilians, in Khartoum. site had been dismantled and cleared by the paramilitary forces, which also Abdel Fattah Al Burhan announced the Sudan’s military rulers are drawing Qatar – home to cultural diversity set up checkpoints and locked down end of dialogue with the protest “lessons from the impunity for mur- parts of Khartoum. movement, deemed the protest site as dering opponents enjoyed by [Saudi he State of Qatar was elected a member of the Inter- “Pockets of defiant protesters a potential “threat to national crown prince] Mohammed bin Salman Governmental Committee of the Convention on the gathered at mosques on Tuesday, security,” and said the military council and Sissi who are now backing them,” TProtection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural turning their prayers for the Eid Al Fitr would fast-track the transitional Timothy Kaldas, a Cairo-based analyst Expressions during the seventh session of the Conference of holiday into calls for sustained civil period and stage presidential elections for the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Parties to the 2005 Convention held in Paris last week. disobedience,” my Washington Post within nine months. That’s bad news Policy, told Today’s WorldView. “Their In 2009, Qatar joined the Unesco-led instrument, which colleagues reported. “Sporadic gunfire for pro-democracy activists and oppo- backing by regional authoritarians aims to strengthen the creation, production, dissemination, could still be heard throughout sition parties, which need more time to who themselves have escaped any access and enjoyment of cultural expressions transmitted Khartoum and its suburbs.” muster the resources to contest an consequences for violently repressing by cultural activities, with a strong focus on developing coun- The violence marked a grim turn election against entrenched regime opponents may have emboldened tries. The Convention has 146 parties, 145 countries and the for what had been a hopeful moment forces. them to follow their example and use European Union. During the 7th session of the Conference in Sudan. In scenes redolent of the “The concern is the TMC . . . will deadly force against protesters in of the Parties in Paris, some 98 countries voted to elect 12 Arab world’s 2011 pro-democracy now link up with old regime elements Sudan.” new members of the Inter-Governmental Committee. 59 uprisings, an emboldened grass-roots and so the elections will open the way “If the military prevails in Sudan, it countries voted for the State of Qatar in Group 5b of the Arab protest movement had taken root in for the old regime to come back into will mark a victory as well for these Group. the heart of the Sudanese capital, power. It is very worrying,” Rosalind ruthless despots and their road-to- Qatar’s election to the Committee reaffirmed the confi- clamoring for democratic reform and Marsden, a Sudan expert at Chatham nowhere style of governance,” noted dence of the international community in the State of Qatar political change. Their stamina and House, told the Guardian. an editorial in The Washington Post to protect and strengthen cultural diversity and expression, courage led It’s also a blueprint seen elsewhere that called out the negative role played both at home and abroad. to the April in the Arab world. In Algeria, a com- by the Saudis and Emiratis. The Ministry of Culture and Sports, which represented ouster of mitted protest movement that forced Kaldas cautioned, though, that the State of Qatar at the summit, presented a detailed paper long-ruling the departure of the country’s aging, Sudan “lacks the comparable strategic highlighting the cultural diversity in Qatar and the initiatives President enfeebled president is still locked in a value” that a country like Egypt or the country has taken to promote Omar al- tense standoff with a military elite that Saudi Arabia has for many Western cultural expression, as well as its Sudan’s military Bashir by top is bent on preserving their control over governments. For more than a decade, support for regional and inter- rulers are military offi- large sections of the state. In Egypt, Bashir, who is wanted on genocide and national cooperation and drawing “lessons cials within Sudanese protesters have a clear crimes against humanity charges by communication. from the impunity his regime. example of what happens when a pro- the International Criminal Court, was a Qatar is a truly multi-cultural But the democratic revolution eventually gets global villain in the eyes of the West Qatar’s National society with people, languages, for murdering protesters swept away by a vicious counterrevo- and his regime the subject of various Vision 2030 also and cuisines from all over the opponents never trusted lution led by the military international sanctions. The RSF has its encompasses world coming together under the enjoyed by [Saudi the Transi- establishment. antecedents in the notorious Jan- cultural diversity overarching Arab-Muslim crown prince] tional Mil- A coup against the country’s jaweed militia that carried out mass identity of Qatar. Doha has a rich itary Council unpopular but democratically elected atrocities in Sudan’s restive Darfur and expression cultural calendar with dozens of Mohammed bin that came government in 2013 was followed by a region. as part of the cultural troupes coming to the Salman and Sissi into place massacre of Islamist protesters that US officials slammed the roadmap for city from across the globe every who are now after Bashir’s drew parallels to the killings at crackdown this week, with White sustainable year. removal and Tiananmen Square in 1989. That coup House national security adviser John The Qatari delegation at the backing them,” insisted that leader, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is now Bolton describing the move to attack development. Unesco event rightly highlighted the generals the country’s strongman and potential the protesters as “abhorrent.” Tibor the importance of cultural transfer president for life. Nagy, US assistant secretary of state diversity and its support as an authority to civilians. They had good Not surprisingly, Burhan and his for Africa, decried “a brutal and coor- essential dimension of intercultural dialogue and an reason to distrust the top brass - the allies recently called on Al Sissi and dinated attack, led by the Rapid important factor for sustainable development. The cele- senior officials of the TMC all have also paid visits to Saudi Arabia and the Support Forces militia, that mirrors bration of cultural diversity also promotes human rights and deep ties to Bashir and the complex United Arab Emirates. The two gulf some of the worst offenses of the the sense of belonging and identity with full respect for other security apparatus he built. The mil- monarchies are especially hostile to Bashir regime.” cultural identities coexisting in a single society. itary and protest leaders met for the prospect of democratic upheaval in But analysts aren’t convinced that The State of Qatar has taken a number of steps to rounds of failed negotiations con- their wider neighbourhood and the United States will do much more strengthen cultural expression and celebration in recent cerning the way forward, while a gen- promised $3 billion in aid to Sudan to than scold. “The international com- years, including the Cultural Years Project; the Qatar Phil- eration of Sudanese activists gathered provide for the country’s “stability.” munity - so interested and morally harmonic Orchestra, which is composed of 101 musicians in hopeful vigil and protest in the heart But experts see a disturbing trend in exercised by Bashir’s human rights from the region; the World Cultural House Project; the Fran- of Khartoum. On May 28, they called play, where Arab authoritarians guar- abuses in the past that it has left Sudan cophone Cultural Days in the State; the establishment of for a two-day general strike. antee their preferred political order, hobbled by years of economic sanc- community radio stations in Qatar and the Cultural Village The military’s response was to preside over shocking repression and tions and international isolation - has Festival at Qatar University. crack down. After the Rapid Support human rights abuses and pay little now moved on,” wrote British- Qatar’s National Vision 2030 also encompasses cultural Forces moved in, TMC head Lt. Gen. price for it. Sudanese columnist Nesrine Mali k. diversity and expression as part of the roadmap for sus- tainable development. Some trailblazing initiatives the State of Qatar has taken to advance the dialogue of civilisations and to promote peaceful coexistence between different reli- Drugs and Brexit: Race to replace UK’s May under way gions and cultures include Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue, the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of AFP “Not honouring payment obliga- the government over May’s approach, Civilizations, the Qatar Global Award for Dialogue among tions is a breach of international com- Gove stayed on. The pair have history Civilizations, Wijdan (Conscience) Cultural Centre, Doha he contest to replace Theresa mitment equivalent to a default on its — Gove dramatically withdrew his Award for Drama Writing, the Sheikh Hamad Award for May as Britain’s next leader sovereign debt, with the consequences backing for Johnson during the 2016 Translation and International Understanding, and the Cul- formally got under way on that we know,” a source close to French leadership campaign, only to falter tural Diversity Festival in Katara. TMonday, with frontrunner President Emmanuel Macron said. himself, clearing the way for May. Boris Johnson facing criticism from Johnson is the bookmakers’ favourite The 51-year-old’s campaign this Paris over his Brexit plan and a key but has not appeared in public for time has been hit by the revelation in a rival struggling to throw off a drugs weeks, a tactic that has helped the poli- forthcoming biography of his illegal use scandal. tician best known for his gaffes, jokes of cocaine, which he admitted but said Eleven candidates have declared and anecdotes to stay on message. was a mistake. QUOTE OF THE DAY their interest in succeeding May, who While his rivals have been touring He suffered another blow on We have said it many quit as her Conservative party’s leader the broadcast studios, he announced Monday when his cabinet colleague on Friday over her failure to take his latest campaign promise -- to slash Amber Rudd, a moderate on Brexit, times, that all the money Britain out of the EU on time. She income tax -- in his regular newspaper endorsed Foreign Secretary Jeremy in the world, if it is being remains prime minister until a new column. By contrast, another leading Hunt for the leadership. Gove has put to us in exchange for leader is chosen, likely in late July, and candidate, Environment Secretary taken a softer line on Britain’s EU giving up on our right to they will automatically enter Downing Michael Gove, spent the weekend apol- departure than Johnson, suggesting he Jerusalem as our capital or Street. ogising after revealing he had taken might delay Brexit once again to try to the right to establish our The race has been dominated by cocaine on several occasions two avoid a damaging “no deal” exit. Britain’s looming EU exit on October 31, decades ago. Meanwhile Hunt claimed at that independent Palestinian with Johnson among those talking May took over after the 2016 EU weekend that he had received encour- state, we will choose the tough on the need to renegotiate the referendum but was forced to quit after aging signals for renegotiating the second and not the first. terms May struck or leave with no deal. failing three times to get her divorce Brexit deal from German Chancellor But his vow to refuse to pay the multi- deal through parliament, and twice Angela Merkel. In response, a German Riyad Al Maliki billion-euro financial settlement she delaying Brexit. government spokeswoman referenced Palestinian Foreign Minister has agreed, covering Britain’s liabilities Johnson and Gove were both a previous remark by Merkel that the from four decades of EU membership, leading campaigners for Brexit in the deal cannot be reopened, although a drew a sharp rebuke from Paris. referendum, but while the former quit declaration on future ties could be. TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 OPINION 09 Europe’s new tech giant is 100 times more outrageous than Facebook repeats to re-flug urope wanted a consumer ficult for shareholders to hold man- European firms with dual structures, Amsterdam stock exchange, would technology giant to rival agement to account. but the voting ratios are generally risk losing the lucrative Naspers Silicon Valley. It’s getting one However much sense that makes much lower. And they are the listing to a rival if it sought to - along with California-style for journalists, it’s hard to see how exception, not the rule. (Holders of impose similar strictures - stock E VW preferred shares have no voting disregard for public investors. the safeguards are needed for offerings generated about 8.6% of When Naspers Ltd. lists its tech- investors in food delivery and rights. But the carmaker has also suf- its 2018 revenue. It would also ALEX WEBB nology investing unit in Amsterdam e-commerce startups, which is fered its fair share of management forego the distinction of having BLOOMBERG next month, the new company will where the new company is directing missteps partly due to a lack of such a prominent firm on its have a market capitalization that’s its funds. Even the argument that a accountability.) exchange. In the context, you can likely to top $100 billion, a valuation guarantee of independence is At Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg see why Euronext is being so derived entirely from its 31 percent required for its stake in Russian and his co-founders have “Class B” spineless. stake in Tencent Holdings Ltd. The social media and messaging platform shares, which enjoy 10 times as many The more achievable approach parent trades at a discount to the Mail.Ru seems thin. votes as the “Class A” shares that are would be for index operators to value of its holding in the Chinese web Naspers is adamant that a multi- publicly traded. exclude firms with dual structures, giant. plicity of shareholders are repre- That arrangement has provoked since no exchange seems likely to But Naspers will also bring with it sented in the two main holding com- dissatisfaction enough as the social push back. S&P Global has taken a dual shareholding structure to panies that control the firm, and that network’s shareholders have been that route, which is why Snap Inc., match or even exceed the worst prac- their main objective is to preserve its helpless in the face of management which confers no voting rights tices of tech behemoths such as independence. missteps over data and privacy. But whatsoever on ordinary share- Facebook Inc. or Google parent Naspers is listing about a quarter it looks almost progressive com- holders, isn’t a constituent of the Alphabet Inc. of the new firm, known as NewCo for pared to Naspers, where the voting S&P 500. But it hasn’t imposed the Naspers will also It’s a holdover of Naspers’ current now, and retaining the rest. While an concentration is 100 times greater. same rules on those existing bring with it a set-up, where the two classes of stock exchange-traded “N Class” share in The situation there is exacerbated listings with dual stocks. dual shareholding give the chairman and his cohort NewCo will confer one vote on its by the opacity of the ownership Naspers’ European listing is structure to match extra voting rights. Its rationale lies in owner, the holders of the unlisted “A structure. partly intended to attract index the Cape Town-based company’s Class” stock will have 1,000 votes, The supervoting shares reside in investors - it expects to be newly or even exceed the origins as an Afrikaans newspaper just as they currently do in Johan- a series of holding companies. In a eligible for nine indices. If the worst practices of owner. Like The New York Times Co., nesburg, should Naspers’s voting legal dispute two years ago, rival operators of those groupings were tech behemoths which has a similar structure, the interest in the NewCo drop below 50 media firm Caxton alleged that those to stipulate that the shareholding such as Facebook arrangement is supposed to ensure percent. holding companies were in turn con- structure is an obstacle to joining, editorial independence by preventing Dual classes of shares aren’t trolled by Naspers Chairman Koos it would be a positive step. Inc. or Google parent malign influences from building up a uncommon, but seldom on this sort Bekker and other veterans of the And it will be difficult to per- Alphabet Inc. stake and trying to dictate editorial of scale. Volkswagen AG, Ericsson firm, including non-executive suade startups planning to list in policy. But it also makes it more dif- AB, Altice Europe NV are among director Cobus Stofberg. Irrespective Europe to adopt a structure which of who ultimately calls the shots, the represents all shareholders equally point is that we don’t quite know. It’s when what could be the region’s thoroughly unsatisfactory. biggest tech firm doesn’t. It would What’s more, the Silicon Valley risk making poor shareholder rep- firms are controlled by their resentation de rigueur in Europe, founders, who are supposed to have and it’s harder to put toothpaste a singular corporate vision. While back in the tube than to stop it Bekker and his colleagues helped escaping to begin with. Exchanges transform Naspers, the firm dates and indices have an opportunity to back to 1915. Bekker did not found it. lay down a marker, and they Why he merits more votes is should. therefore unclear. Who has the power to affect this? Without outside pressure, the A Class shareholders have little incentive to sacrifice control. 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There was no evidence of a [email protected] actually an autocrat. decides the politics and adminis- Kashmir will be the highest priority rebellion from those who were They also said that trative direction of the country. He is for Amit Shah. excluded from the cabinet. Vajpayee SUBSCRIPTION & there is an undeclared hundred per cent competent. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Home Min- had made Sikandar Bakht his foreign DISTRIBUTION He has been inventing various ister was the Vallabhbhai Patel. Atal minister. But, he did not come to emergency in the TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 kinds of observers and analysts in Bihari Vajpayee’s Home Minister was South Block for the first two-or-three FAX: 44557819 country and, as a different ways. Some think that he is Lal Krishna Advani. North Block has days after becoming minister [email protected] result, there are no the rightist leader of the leader. Some a huge black-and-white picture of because he had not been made dissenting voices. But, people also believe that he is a very the Home Minister. This huge picture Finance Minister. Such a scenario is is quite significant today. Because unimaginable in the time of Modi. millions of people liberal leader, he has taken socialist programmes in many ways, keeping Advani won from Gandhinagar, Amit Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie, and All thoughts and views in the country have an eye on poor people. Those social Shah also came from that seat, and Shatrughan Sinha have all been side- incredible confidence projects are the characteristics of a broke Advani’s record for votes. Like lined for their rebellion. expressed in these columns in Modi. If some well-intentioned state. So Narendra Amit Shah, Advani was also the Many said that Modi is actually an are those of the writers, people oppose Modi Modi is a state hero, who has many party’s president. autocrat. They also said that there is not of the newspaper. types of shades, a variety of layers. I have seen Amit Shah at work an undeclared emergency in the by attacking their own So what are the issues or the pre- even when his sugar level was high. country and, as a result, there are no interests, they will condition that Modi is to choose from He was running the poll campaign dissenting voices. But, millions of All correspondence be isolated. People his ministers? Firstly, he wanted a just after taking an insulin injection people in the country have incredible regarding Views and will throw them in working minister who can work at the inside his chopper. He is a man of confidence in Modi. If some people Opinion pages should be same rhythm as him, who will be action. His aim will be to start a dia- oppose Modi by attacking their own sent to editor-in-chief the dustbin. And so honest and whose image in public logue on Article 370 and Article interests, they will be isolated. People this is a new avatar of would be good. Sushma Swaraj did 35(A). The BJP is still small in the will throw them in the dustbin. And office or mailed to the Narendra Modi. not contest this election for health Rajya Sabha. So the Bill with Article so this is a new avatar of Narendra [email protected] reasons, so, Modi made Rajnath Singh 370 cannot be passed even now. Modi. 10 ASIA TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019

Imran threatens Pakistan ex-president Zardari arrested action against AP The development tax evaders ISLAMABAD came hours after a AP/ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s anti-graft body court in Islamabad yesterday arrested former Pres- rejected a request Pakistan’s prime minister says ident Asif Ali Zardari, widower by Zardari and his tax evaders who fail to declare of assassinated ex-Premier sister Faryal Talpur their wealth and pay taxes will Benazir Bhutto, in a multi- face legal action. million dollar money laundering for an extension of Imran Khan delivered his case that has shaken the country. their bail that would message in a televised speech The development came have allowed them to yetserday, vowing punitive hours after a court in Islamabad remain free pending measures for Pakistanis who rejected a request by Zardari and won’t disclose the property they his sister Faryal Talpur for an trial in the case. own or the amount of money extension of their bail that would they keep in banks at home and have allowed them to remain abroad. Khan’s actions are part free pending trial in the case. Raza Gilani, a senior leader of of a recently announced The court’s decision paved Zardari’s party. program to get tax evaders to the way for the National The Pakistan People’s Party mend their ways by June 30. Accountability Bureau to arrest urged its members to remain The government is allowing the two. However, the anti-graft calm. In recent weeks, the party them to legalize their wealth by body did not arrest Zardari’s had accused Prime Minister paying 4% taxes on previously sister; no explanation was given. Imran Khan’s government of undisclosed assets. Zardari, a lawmaker in the intentionally targeting political Most high-income earners Former Pakistani President and the co-chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali Zardari (second lower house of Parliament, and opponents. in Pakistan avoid paying taxes left), arrives for his bail appeal at Islamabad High Court yesterday. his sister, also a politician, have “This is political victimi- altogether. Since coming to been accused of having dozens sation,” said Shazia Marri, a law- power in 2018, Khan’s gov- of bogus bank accounts. Earlier maker from Zardari’s party. corruption allegations, is cur- spike in prices of essential food founder, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was ernment has faced significant yesterday, the two attended the The anti-graft body has rently in prison in the eastern items. Zardari became president ousted in a military coup and economic challenges. Pakistan court hearing amid tight security arrested several politicians and city of Lahore after being sen- in 2008 after Pakistan’s former hanged by dictator Gen. Ziaul recently reached a preliminary where their bail extensions were businessmen on corruption tenced to seven years in a cor- military dictator Pervez Mush- Haq. Both his sons were killed agreement with the IMF for a denied. charges since Khan took office ruption case. arraf was forced to resign. Zard- by unknown assailants. Benazir $6bn bailout. Zardari, who appeared calm last year after winning a narrow Sharif and Zardari’s are ari’s wife Benazir Bhutto served Bhutto’s only surviving sibling, when officers came to his home majority in parliamentary longtime political rivals but their twice as a prime minister before her sister Sanam, lives in Britain shortly afterward to take him, elections. parties recently joined together, being killed by the Taliban in and has stayed out of politics. Talks with speeding away in a convoy of Khan’s predecessor, Nawaz vowing to launch a protest cam- 2007. Zardari served as Pakistan’s vehicles, “did not resist arrest,” Sharif who was removed from paign against Khan’s government The Bhutto family has been president for five years, until Taliban in new said former Prime Minister Yusuf office by the Supreme Court over over increasing inflation and a dogged by tragedy. The party’s 2013. stage: US envoy Tokayev wins presidential ANATOLIA/KABUL The US envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation yesterday said the peace talks with the Taliban election in Kazakhstan are entering a “new stage”. Zalmay Khalilzad, Wash- REUTERS Securiy Council and leads the arrested 500 people at rallies in ington’s top envoy for Afghan- NUR-SULTAN/ALMATY ruling Nur Otan party. With Almaty and Nur-Sultan, the istan, met President Tokayev winning nearly 71% of capital city that was renamed Mohammad Ashraf Ghani at the Kazakhstan’s interim president the vote in a race against six after Nazarbayev at Tokayev’s presidency in Kabul. In a series Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, rivals largely unknown to suggestion.Yesterday the of tweets early yesterday, he chosen successor of veteran Kazakh voters, opponents number of protesters was much said an agreement has been ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev denounced the election as smaller as hundreds of police reached over the significance who retains sweeping powers, unfair, prompting public pro- gathered at the Almaty park of preparation for intra-Afghan has won a snap presidential tests despite Kazakhstan’s where Sunday’s rally took place. negotiations. “Good meeting w/ Kazakh president-elect Kassym-Jomart Tokayev speaks to the election which observers say restrictive laws on freedom of A correspondent saw police Pres @AshrafGhani & his team. was tarnished by violations of expression. detain a few dozen people. The media at Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Nur-Sultan, yesterday. Discussed building further intl basic freedoms. Monitors from Organisation Kazakh state closely controls [international] consensus for Nazarbayev, who ruled oil for Security and Cooperation in domestic politics and public dis- vote and “we should not focus Tokayev promised to work on #peace. Also regional require- producer Kazakhstan for almost Europe (OSCE) said “a lack of course. The vast majority of on the assessment of this par- improving Kazakhstan’s ments & implications for peace three decades, handpicked the regard for fundamental rights, local media does not criticise ticular organisation”. business climate and said he including recent positive 66-year-old career diplomat as including detentions of peaceful Nazarbayev, and social media “I know... how they compile would meet major foreign movement in AfPak [Afghan- his successor when he stepped protestors, and widespread and online messaging platforms these reports and how politically investors - such as Western oil istan-Pakistan] relations & down in March. In a power- voting irregularities on election were restricted during Sunday’s prejudiced they can be companies who have pumped opportunities peace will sharing arrangement, day, showed scant respect for election. Tokayev said it was depending on which country billions of dollars into the provide for regional connec- Nazarbayev, 78, remains democratic standards.” “just one of the international they work in,” Tokayev said at resource-rich nation’s economy tivity & development”, Kha- chairman of the influential During Sunday’s vote, police organisations” monitoring the his first post-election briefing. - next month. lilzad said in a Twitter post. Hong Kong to push ahead with bill that sparked huge protest

AP newspaper front pages in a city government in China’s capital. “I Hong Kong media reports. There HONG KONG that allows far more freedom of have not received any instruction was a heavy police presence on expression than other parts of or mandate from Beijing to do downtown streets deep into the Hong Kong’s leader signalled China. this bill,” she said. “We were night. Authorities said 19 people yesterday that her government Chief Executive Carrie Lam doing it — and we are still doing were arrested in connection with will push ahead with contro- told reporters the legislation is it — out of our clear conscience, the clashes. versial amendments to extra- important and will help Hong and our commitment to Hong Hong Kong currently limits dition laws despite a massive Kong uphold justice and fulfill its Kong.” extraditions to jurisdictions with protest against them that under- international obligations. Safe- People of all ages took part which it has existing agreements scored fears about mainland guards added in May will ensure in the march. Some pushed or to others on an individual China’s broadening footprint in that the legislation protects strollers while others walked basis under a law passed before the semi-autonomous territory. human rights, she said. with canes, and chanted slogans 1997. China was excluded In what was likely Hong Hong Kong was guaranteed in favour of greater transparency because of concerns over its poor Kong’s largest protest in more the right to retain its own social, in government. record on legal independence than a decade, hundreds of thou- legal and political systems for 50 The protest that stretched and human rights. sands of people shut down the years under an agreement past midnight into yesterday was In Beijing, Chinese foreign Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam attends a news conference heart of the skyscraper-studded reached before its 1997 return to largely peaceful, though there ministry spokesman Geng in Hong Kong, China, yesterday. city on Sunday, three days before China from British rule. But were a few scuffles with police Shuang said China firmly backs the Legislative Council is slated China’s ruling Communist Party as demonstrators broke through the proposed amendments and to take up the bill. has been seen as increasingly to face charges, spurring crit- vulnerable to vague national barriers at government head- opposes “the wrong words and The demonstrations refo- reneging on that agreement by icism that defendants in the security charges and unfair trials. quarters and briefly pushed their deeds of any external forces” that cused attention on the former pushing through unpopular legal Chinese judicial system won’t Lam said Sunday’s protest way into the lobby. Police in riot interfere in Hong Kong’s affairs. British colony, whose residents changes. have the same rights as they shows Hong Kong’s enduring gear used batons and tear gas to “Certain countries have have long bristled at what many The extradition law amend- would in Hong Kong. Opponents commitment to its people’s push the protesters outside. made some irresponsible see as efforts by Beijing to tighten ments would allow Hong Kong contend the proposed legislation freedoms. She denied that she is Three officers and one jour- remarks” about the legislation, control, and dominated to send people to mainland China could make Hong Kong residents taking orders from the central nalist were injured, according to Geng said, without elaborating. Populist China-friendly mayor Pilot vertigo likely cause of F-35 crash in Japan to run for Taiwan president REUTERS the pilot was suffering from increase vertigo training for its gave no indication he was in AFP opposition Kuomintang (KMT) TOKYO vertigo or spatial disorientation pilots, check its remaining F-35s trouble and did not try to avoid TAIPEI party for its primary election. and wasn’t aware of his con- and meet residents living near a collision despite advanced Confirmation of Han’s entry Japan’s Air Force said yesterday dition,” Defence Minister Takeshi the base from which they instrumentation and a ground A populist mayor who can shakes up an opposition list that “spatial disorientation” likely Iwaya told a briefing. operate, in Misawa, Aomori pre- proximity warning system that command huge crowds and had until now been dominated caused one of its pilots to fly his “It can affect any pilot fecture, before restarting flights. should have alerted him to pull wants closer ties with China has by Taiwan’s richest man, F-35 stealth fighters into the regardless of their experience.” The air force has yet to up. The air force did not find any thrown his hat in the ring to Foxconn billionaire Terry Gou. Pacific Ocean in April, hitting the By dismissing mechanical or recover any intact data from the indication he had attempted to stand as a candidate in Taiwan’s Taiwan goes to the polls in water at more than 1,100kph. software problems as a cause for $126 million aircraft’s flight data eject. His plane, which was less upcoming presidential elections. January and the race will be The Lockheed Martin Corp the advanced fighter’s crash, recorder to back its assessment, than a year old and part of a Han Kuo-yu, who seized the dominated by its relationship jet disappeared from radar Japan’s assessment is likely to which is based on data and com- squadron that had just became mayoralty of southern Kaoh- with China. screens during an exercise with come as a relief to other coun- munication received by ground operational, crashed 28 minutes siung city from the ruling party Gou and Han are seen as the three other F-35s over the ocean tries that operate or plan to controllers and interviews with after taking off. Debris from the in a shock victory last year, was two front-runners in the KMT off northwest Japan on April 9. introduce the jet, including the other pilots. plane is spread across the sea among five candidates primary, which will conclude on The 41-year-old pilot was killed. United States, Britain and Aus- The pilot, who had only 60 floor about 1,500 metres below announced yesterday by the July 16. “We believe it highly likely tralia. Japan, Iwaya said, would hours flying time in the F-35, where it slammed into the water. TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 EUROPE 11 Race to replace UK’s premier kicks off

The race is dominated saying it could lead to the oppo- Brussels says it will not rene- by Britain’s looming sition Labour Party winning gotiate the terms, which cover EU exit on October 31, power. Britain’s financial settlement, the with leading Brexiteer At his own campaign launch, rights of EU citizens and the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt Northern Irish border. Johnson, the former also lambasted the gaffe-prone But many of the leadership foreign secretary, Johnson, presenting himself as a candidates insist they will try. among those talking “serious leader” for “serious Johnson has won praise from times”. Hunt opposed Brexit in US President Donald Trump for tough on the need the 2016 EU referendum but said threatening to walk away with to renegotiate the that the Conservatives — under no deal at all. But he drew a divorce terms or leave pressure from populist euro- rebuke from Paris on Sunday for without a deal. sceptic Nigel Farage’s new party saying Britain may withhold the — must deliver on the result or multi-billion-euro divorce face “annihilation” in the next payment which May has agreed, AFP election. its liabilities from four decades LONDON He received a boost with the of EU membership. endorsement of eurosceptic “Not honouring payment The contest to replace Theresa Defence Secretary Penny Mor- obligations is a breach of inter- May as Britain’s next leader daunt, although he is likely to national commitment equivalent heated up yesterday, with candi- anger some in the ruling party to a default on its sovereign dates lining up to define them- by refusing to rule out another debt,” a source close to French selves against the “bluff and Brexit delay. Former Brexit min- President Emmanuel Macron bluster” of frontrunner Boris ister Dominic Raab meanwhile said. Asked about “no deal”, Hunt Johnson. warned that Britain’s EU exit said: “I would be prepared to Eleven Conservative MPs are would not happen with “bluff without a deal if there was a Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd (left) and Conservative MP Patrick McLoughlin vying to succeed May, who quit and bluster”. straight choice between no deal attend the launch of Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s Conversative party leadership campaign as the party’s leader on Friday “I’m the conviction Brexiteer and no Brexit, but I’d do so with over her failure to take Britain in London yesterday. with the plan, the discipline and a heavy heart.” He claimed at the out of the European Union on the focus to lead us out by the weekend that he had received time. She remains premier until secretary, among those talking edged he is the one to beat. hide in their bunker,” said Gove, end of October,” he said, while encouraging signals for renego- her replacement is chosen, likely tough on the need to renegotiate Environment Secretary who also criticised Johnson also attacking Johnson’s plans for tiating the Brexit deal from in late July, and whoever it is will the divorce terms or leave Michael Gove, who is battling a directly for his newly-announced a tax cut for the rich. German Chancellor Angela automatically enter Downing without a deal. scandal over his admission that proposal of cutting taxes for the May, who took office after Merkel. In response, a German Street. The bombastic former he took cocaine, jeered at rich. Gove, whose decision to run the referendum, was forced to government spokeswoman ref- The race is dominated by London mayor has been keeping Johnson for shunning the lime- for the premiership three years quit after failing repeatedly to get erenced a previous remark by Britain’s looming EU exit on a low public profile but is cam- light. “We need someone who ago scuppered Johnson’s chances her EU divorce deal through par- Merkel that the deal cannot be October 31, with leading Brex- paigning hard behind the scenes, has been tested in the heat of then, attacked his party col- liament and delaying Brexit reopened, although a declaration iteer Johnson, the former foreign and his rivals tacitly acknowl- battle.. not someone who will league’s hardline Brexit policy twice in the process. on future ties could be. Greek president approves Albanian President stops elections AP Tsipras call for snap election TIRANA, ALBANIA Albania’s governing Socialist REUTERS party by 9.5 points in the election progress made in recent years. Party called a no-confidence ATHENS for European parliament last Tsipras, 44, stormed the vote against President Ilir Meta, month. Yesterday’s request from Greek political stage six years saying yesterday it was uncon- Greece’s president accepted a Tsipras and approval from Pres- ago, promising to fight austerity stitutional for him to cancel request from Prime Minister ident Prokopis Pavlopoulos were prescribed by Greece’s lenders upcoming municipal elections. Alexis Tsipras to dissolve considered formalities. Pavlo- in return for financial bailouts The vote will be held at parliament yesterday, formally poulos is then expected to issue after years of economic crisis. Thursday’s parliamentary triggering a snap election that a decree ordering the new vote His Syriza party was forced session, Socialist spokeswoman Tsipras has called for next month and dissolving parliament. to backpedal and accept another Elisa Spiropali said. The after badly losing a vote for The government has said it bailout soon after its election in Socialists need 94 votes to oust European parliament. wants to hold the new election 2015 or risk Greece being thrown Meta which they don’t have in Tsipras called the snap on July 7. Tsipras has said this out of the euro zone. the 140-seat parliament. election four months before the will avoid a protracted pre- Greece emerged from eco- Even if they get the numbers, end of his term after the main election period before the end nomic adjustment programmes the Constitutional Court makes opposition conservative New of his term in October, which in 2018 after borrowing more the final decision. The court was Democracy beat his leftist Syriza might have hurt economic than ¤280bn in three bailouts. dysfunctional for a year after most of its judges were fired. Albanian President Ilir Meta signs a decree in Tirana, Albania, Meta announced on Sat- yesterday. Russia releases Poland and US conclude talks on urday that he planned to cancel the June 30 municipal elections. it would boycott the municipal calling of early parliamentary top Chechen higher American troop presence He explained yesterday that elections and threatened to elections. The Central Election made the decision because he prevent them from taking place. Commission, which is dominated rights activist AP / WARSAW concerns over Russia’s military thought they would be “undem- Since mid-February, the oppo- by Socialist-nominated activity, Poland has been ocratic” and feared tensions sition has been holding protests members, refused to recognize from jail: NGO An aide to Polish President pushing for an increased, per- would rise if the elections were accusing the government of links the president’s decree and said Andrzej Duda says that negoti- manent presence of US troops. held. “There is the danger to organised crime and preparation for local elections AFP ations to increase the US military Duda aide Krzysztof Szczerski Albania goes toward an unpre- demanding a new general continued. MOSCOW presence in Poland have said yesterday the negotiations dictable escalation of the social election. Prime Minister Edi The EU and US have concluded and were a success. on what Poland has dubbed tension that may cause uncon- Rama denies the allegations, and repeatedly urged the Albanian A Russian court granted parole The comments came days “Fort Trump” would provide for trollable consequences,” Meta insists the municipal elections opposition to disavow violence yesterday to Oyub Titiyev, the before Duda’s visit in Wash- an increase in the “quality and said at a news conference. The will go ahead as scheduled to and sit down with the gov- head of the Chechen branch of ington with President Donald quantity” of US presence in the centre-right opposition, led by prevent political “blackmail” ernment to resolve the political rights group Memorial Trump this week. Citing country. the Democratic Party, had said from being used to force the crisis. convicted this year on contro- versial drug charges, the NGO said. The court “agreed to a With Moldova in crisis, two France commemorates parole request for Titiyev. Now he must be released within 10 World War II massacre days,” Memorial representative Oleg Orlov said. rival govts hold meetings AP responsible for the killings, The 61-year-old was sen- ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, FRANCE herding hundreds of civilians tenced for drug possession in REUTERS smallest and poorest countries, urged state institutions to con- into barns and a church and March to four years in a penal CHISINAU where the West and Russia vie tinue to function normally. “Cit- France remembered yesterday setting the town on fire. colony in a case condemned by for influence. izens should not suffer because the 642 people killed in the A new village has been built Amnesty International and Two rival Moldovan govern- The United States, the EU of the political crisis,” he told small village of Oradour-sur- but the old town’s ruins have other global rights groups. ments held simultaneous cabinet and Nato urged both sides to assembled ministers and gov- Glane 75 years ago, in what was been left untouched as a tes- Titiyev’s lawyers said the meetings and accused each other show restraint. Russia welcomed ernment agencies. the biggest massacre of civilians timony to Nazi horrors. case was connected to his of trying to usurp power the formation of the new gov- Sandu’s agreement with the by Nazi troops during their Michael Roth, Germany’s investigations into the secretive yesterday, deepening a crisis ernment and hoped matters Socialist Party broke months of occupation of the country in Deputy Foreign Minister for prison system of a republic brought on by an inconclusive would stabilise soon. deadlock after a February World War II. European Affairs, said the mas- notorious with rights abuses. parliamentary election in ACUM leader Maia Sandu election produced a hung Genevieve Darrieussecq, a sacre represents “unimaginable Observers say drug charges February. was sworn in as prime minister parliament. junior armed forces minister, inhumanity and cruelty.” “We have been used repeatedly in Over the weekend, the over the weekend and her gov- But a Constitutional Court presided over ceremonies at the bow our heads to the victims the past to silence critical jour- leaders of the pro-European ernment convened in par- ruled that Sandu’s side had site near the town of Limoges and their descendants in shame nalists and rights workers in the Union ACUM bloc and the liament, while Filip’s cabinet met missed a deadline to form a gov- in central France. A mass, and the deepest sadness,” he region. The release came as Russian-backed Socialist Party in the government building, ernment and that the country several wreath-laying cere- said in a statement from authorities in Moscow faced agreed to form a government which was blocked off by police should hold a snap election. monies and a march through German Foreign Ministry. public pushback against the aimed at fighting corruption and officers and Democratic Party Sandu and President Igor the village were organised to “The crimes that the arrest of an investigative keeping a party run by tycoon supporters. Dodon, the former Socialist remember the tragedy on June Germans inflicted upon their reporter named Ivan Golunov Vladimir Plahotniuc out of “This situation in the country Party chief, rejected the verdict 10, 1944. neighbours during the Second on separate drugs charges. power. will continue as long as the of the court, which they said was Though the massacre World War were, and remain But Orlov said this was not But Plahotniuc’s Democratic Moldovan oligarch Plahotniuc, not politically independent. occurred four days after the an inextricable part of our connected to the Chechen Party refused to recognise the who has captured all state insti- Moldova has been dogged by Allied D-Day landings in Nor- history.” Roth added that in that court’s decision. Titiyev’s pred- new government and insisted tutions, is in Moldova,” Sandu political instability and cor- mandy, the killings were context today, “we are all the ecessor as the regional leader that Pavel Filip, the prime min- said. “We don’t want to ruption, especially since a believed to have been ordered more grateful for the out- of Memorial, Natalya ister who led the government aggravate the situation. I hope scandal known as the “theft of in retaliation for the kidnapping stretched hand and the read- Estemirova, was kidnapped and until the election, was still in that those who are trying to the century” emerged in 2014- of a German soldier by the iness for reconciliation killed in 2009. The rights group charge. usurp power are aware of their 2015 in which $1bn, around an French Resistance. extended to us Germans. The said the killers were acting on The crisis threatens more position and will leave volun- eighth of its economic output, Troops from the fanatical SS German-French friendship is the orders of local authorities. instability in one of Europe’s tarily.” In his rival meeting, Filip was pilfered from three banks. “Das Reich” division were for us a gift and a mission.” 12 AMERICAS TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019 Justice Dept to release some Mueller proofs REUTERS The Democratic-controlled House of |WASHINGTON Representatives still will hold a vote today that would increase pressure on Trump by allowing Congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump’s the committee to sue the administration in administration struck a rare federal court if needed over access to the compromise yesterday in the report. battle over their investigations of him, with the Justice Department agreeing to provide allowing the committee to sue paign and Moscow. evidence from Special Counsel the administration in federal The report also outlined 10 Emergency vehicles fill the street at the scene after a helicopter crashed atop a building in Times Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry court if needed over access to the instances in which Trump tried Square and caused a fire in the Manhattan borough of New York, yesterday. to the House Judiciary report. to interfere with Mueller’s inves- Committee, a key investigative Nadler said a lawsuit may yet tigation but declined to make a panel. be necessary. “If important judgment on whether that As lawmakers continue to information is held back, then amounted to obstruction of Helicopter crashes onto roof of New discuss possible impeachment we will have no choice but to justice. proceedings against Trump, the enforce our subpoena in court It was not clear from Justice Department relented and consider other remedies,” Nadler’s statement whether law- York City building, kills one: Media after nearly two months of he said in a statement. makers on the committee would stonewalling and said it will The Justice Department did get to see an unredacted copy of REUTERS unidentified person was killed. takes their hand and just shoves provide evidence related to not immediately respond to a Mueller’s report. Barr has said NEW YORK Media reports said the person you,” he said. “You felt it through Trump’s possible obstruction of request for comment. he is required by law not to killed was the helicopter pilot. the whole building.” Mueller’s probe, said committee Mueller’s investigation is one release evidence obtained from A helicopter made a crash Governor Andrew Cuomo, Melvin Douglas, 50, who was Chairman Jerrold Nadler. front in a broad battle between grand jury proceedings but landing onto the roof of a who was at the scene soon after selling umbrellas on the street, At the same time, Nadler said Trump and congressional Dem- Democrats have argued that he midtown Manhattan skyscraper the crash, told reporters that it said he heard a “rumble” when he will hold off on a threat to ocrats, who are investigating his can ask a judge to make those yesterday, killing at least one appeared a helicopter attempted the helicopter crash landed. bring criminal contempt charges policies, conduct in office and materials public. person and sending a plume of a forced emergency landing on “I didn’t see it, but I felt it,” against US Attorney-General private businesses. Trump has Grand jury materials were smoke skyward from the top of the roof and that no one inside said Douglas. “Smoke was on top William Barr. He had for weeks vowed to fight congressional redacted from the section of the the building, which was the building had been injured. It of the building.” A fire that broke resisted a subpoena from subpoenas. report dealing with Russian shrouded in fog. was not clear if the weather was out on the roof was quickly Nadler’s committee to provide Released in mid-April, Muel- interference in the election. But The crash occurred shortly a contributing factor. brought under control, the fire a full, unredacted version of ler’s report found Russia this was less of a concern for the before 2pm on a rainy day at the Nathan Hutton, who works department said. The building, Mueller’s 448-page final report meddled in the 2016 US presi- section of Mueller’s report AXA Equitable Center at 787 in information technology for the which houses a number of cor- and certain underlying dential election and that Trump’s dealing with obstruction, which Seventh Avenue. Dozens of French bank BNP Paribas on the porate offices, was evacuated evidence. election campaign had multiple was based on testimony from emergency vehicles swarmed 29th floor, said the building after the crash. “Phenomenal job The Democratic-controlled contacts with Russian officials. voluntary interviews Trump the busy area, a few blocks north shook when the helicopter by our GREAT First Responders House of Representatives still But the report found insufficient advisers and other witnesses of Times Square. The city fire slammed into the roof. who are currently on the scene,” will hold a vote today that would evidence to establish a criminal gave to Mueller, rather than department said on Twitter “It felt like you were just US President Donald Trump said increase pressure on Trump by conspiracy between the cam- grand jury testimony. around 2:40pm that one standing there, and someone on Twitter.

Trump says Xi Canada to ban single-use plastics by 2021: Trudeau meeting at ANATOLIA conference. However, he did not France, Germany, Italy, the UK found with all kinds of plastics Meanwhile it is estimated that TRENTON, CANADA name specific products, but said and the European Union joined in them, too. Trudeau asked without action, Canadians will G20 scheduled the most harmful ones would be the charter in an effort to reduce Canadians to remember trips to dispose of about CAN$11bn by Single-use plastics will be targeted after scientific study. marine plastic litter. the cottage, camping and 2030. “We have reached a AFP / WASHINGTON banned in Canada by 2021, the The goal is “zero plastic Trudeau said action has to be canoeing and then he asked defining moment,” Trudeau said, Canadian government waste (from) coast to coast” that taken because plastics is malev- them to imagine what it would “and this is a problem we simply President Donald Trump announced yesterday. will be in effect “as early as olent in invading all aspects of be like to find dead birds, fish can’t afford to ignore.” Large cor- yesterday said he still expects The products are expected 2021,” he said. The move follows lives, including in the deepest and areas littered with shopping porations will be the immediate to talk with his Chinese coun- to include cotton swabs, cutlery, the establishment of a Canada- trenches of oceans. As well, it is bags. “That’s the fate of our kids targets, “the Coca-Colas and the terpart Xi Jinping at the plates, straws, bags and drink led Ocean Plastics Charter difficult to find areas at beaches if we do not act,” he said. Studies Unilevers of the world” and they upcoming G20 summit, stirrers, Prime Minister Justin announced by Trudeau at the G7 that are not littered with plastics, show that less that 10 percent of will be responsible for the warning he will impose new Trudeau said at a new conference last year. Canada, he said. Dead whales have been plastic in Canada is recycled. plastics they generate, he said. tariffs if there is no meeting. “Yes it would,” Trump told CNBC television when asked if Peru declares health emergency a failure by Xi to come to the summit later this month in over Guillain-Barre outbreak Japan would lead to the huge new tariffs kicking in. AFP state-run TV Peru, adding that But Trump said the meeting LIMA health authorities were taking was “scheduled” and “I think steps to control and contain the he will go.” “I would be sur- Peru has declared a health disease. prised if he didn’t go,” Trump emergency in five regions, While the syndrome is not added. “I think he’s going, I including Lima, after the deaths contagious, a 90-day health havent heard that he’s not. of at least four people linked to emergency was declared We’re expected to meet.” A Guillain-Barre syndrome, an because the current cases “have Chinese foreign ministry autoimmune disorder that unusual and atypical character- spokesman, meanwhile, said attacks the nervous system. istics that require rapid or last month that he had “no Health Minister Zulema immediate initial treatment,” information at present” on Tomas said yesterday that in Peru’s Institute of Neurological Trump-Xi talks. addition to the deaths there Sciences said. Trump has been trying to were currently 206 cases of the The precise cause of the dis- strongarm China into a major disease. order is unknown, but most change on trade policies that “We have an outbreak, there cases develop after a person has the president argues have for has been a brusque increase” been sick with diarrhea or a res- decades put the United States since June 5, Tomas said on piratory infection. at an unfair disadvantage.

Lawyer Chester Membreno, who according to local media was arrested for participating in a protest against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government, is greeted by neighbours after being Guantanamo detainee’s appeal rejected released from La Modelo Prison in Masaya, Nicaragua, yesterday. REUTERS Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi, Afghanistan targeting Al Qaeda, WASHINGTON who was captured in Pakistan which carried out the attacks, Nicaragua frees more political prisoners in December 2001 and detained and the Taliban-led government The US Supreme Court yesterday without charge ever since. The that sheltered the group. AP that the prisoners had been Committee of the Red Cross declined to wade into the US government has said al Alwi Justice Stephen Breyer, one MANAGUA, NICARAGUA arrested for crimes against safety observed. They come two days contentious question of to what was involved in fighting against of the court’s four liberals, issued and public order. It adds that after lawmakers passed an extent detainees held by the US US and allied forces in Afghan- a statement saying that the court Nicaragua has released 50 more authorities “continue preparing amnesty bill for crimes related military at the American naval istan and was closely linked with should weigh in on the issue at people whom the opposition for the release” of others. The to the 2018 protests. Opposition base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba the Islamic militant group Al some point to decide “whether, considers political prisoners, Civic Alliance opposition group leaders say the measure would can seek their release, turning Qaeda. in light of the duration and other jailed for their role in anti- recently said that 186 forgive killings and other abuses away an appeal by a Yemeni- After the September 11 2001 aspects of the relevant conflict, government protests during government opponents by police and pro-government born man held since 2001. attacks on the United States, the Congress has authorized and the months of political upheaval last remained behind bars. Repre- civilian militias during a deadly The court turned away an United States began a long- Constitution permits continued year. The Interior Ministry says sentatives of the International crackdown on demonstrators. appeal by Yemeni detainee running military campaign in detention.” Brazil leak has limited impact on Car Wash probe: Analysts AFP Intercept website co-founded by While claims that Justice Min- that undermines the legitimacy of the reason for the convictions even #EuApoioLavaJato, (#ISupport- RIO DE JANEIRO Glenn Greenwald published a ister Sergio Moro, the anticor- the whole effort,” Christopher though they reveal inappropriate CarWash) and #EuApoioTheInter- series of explosive articles on ruption judge who handed Lula Garman of Eurasia Group said. comments (by investigators),” said ceptBR among the top trending Leaked documents showing Sunday based on material his first conviction in 2017, While the revelations would ex-president Fernando Cardoso topics in Brazil, exposing the coun- Brazilian anticorruption investi- provided by an anonymous source improperly collaborated with fuel the “free Lula” movement and in remarks published by the UOL try’s deep political divisions. gators conspired to keep leftist that it said show “serious wrong- prosecutors were a “setback” for “give fodder” for legal challenges website. There could be “some “We shouldn’t discard the real icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out doing, unethical behaviour, and the probe, they were unlikely to to ongoing Car Wash investiga- fallout, probably, but no big deal,” possibility the conversations were of the 2018 presidential race systematic deceit” in the sprawling result in overturning convictions tions, they would at best fast-track David Fleischer, a political science forged, creating #fakenews,” ignited a firestorm on social media Car Wash investigation that has or Moro’s resignation. the popular ex-politician’s release professor at the University of Bra- tweeted Marcelo Bretas, a judge yesterday, but analysts down- claimed scores of political and “In the public imagination it is into home detention, he said. silia, said. Debate over the leak in the Car Wash probe in Rio de played the potential fall-out. The business scalps. not at all shocking or something “They do not change, in substance, erupted on Twitter, with Janeiro.