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Qatar most open country in Middle East: UNWTO

THE PENINSULA The high ranking already reciprocating. reflects a string Brigadier Mohammed DOHA: Qatar has become the Ahmed Al Ateeq, Director most open country in the Middle of visa facilitation General of General Directorate East and the 8th most open in measures introduced of Passport in Qatar’s Ministry the world in terms of visa facil- by Qatar, including of Interior, said: “MOI has long itation according to The World allowing nationals been committed to working with Tourism Organisation’s its partners to enhance the (UNWTO) recently updated visa of 88 countries to visitor experience while opti- openness rankings. enter Qatar visa-free mising resources. We are The high ranking reflects a and free-of-charge. delighted to see the results in string of visa facilitation As a result, Qatar’s this remarkably improved measures introduced by Qatar, openness ranking, which places including allowing nationals of openness score has Qatar in a stronger position to 88 countries to enter Qatar visa- leapt by 71.3 points negotiate better mobility for its Qatar Development Bank honours banks for supporting SMEs free and free-of-charge. As a since 2014, when it citizens.” Qatar Central Bank Governor H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani (third left) with top executives result, Qatar’s openness score ranked 177th. Qatar embarked on a of the award winning banks (QIIB, al khaliji, QIB, QNB) and QDB officials during the ‘Best Partner has leapt by 71.3 points since journey to enhance visa facili- Bank Award’ event hosted by QDB to honour the banks for supporting SMEs through its Al Dhameen 2014, when it ranked 177th. tation and ensure Qatar is ready Program, yesterday. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA →SEE ALSO PAGE 13 Already, Qatar’s increased to welcome the world in 2014, openness is showing in the journey. We will continue to when QTA commissioned growing number of visitors from work with our partners on UNWTO to conduct a visa facil- markets which can now access further facilitating entry to Qatar itation study. the country visa-free. Notable through additional streamlining “Qatar has implemented and increases in arrival volumes in of the immigration process at over-achieved the recommen- the first half of 2018 compared Qatars ports of entry, as well as dations of the study, setting an Ministry of Finance starts budget discussions to the first half of 2017 came ensuring that all visitor visas and example by spearheading safe from (18%), (43%) visa procedures are and seamless travel, enhancing THE PENINSULA implementation. The Ministry’s financial stability of the country. and , which grew most electronic.” the visitor experience and better discussion with different Minis- The Ministry has asked gov- significantly with a 366% The UNWTO also measures placing itself to improve DOHA: As a part of its efforts to tries and institutions started from ernment institutions to provide increase. the mobility of a country’s cit- mobility for its citizens,” said prepare budget for 2019, which September 2 and will continue their estimates for 2019 budget, Hassan Al Ibrahim, Qatar izens, or the extent to which cit- UNWTO Secretary-General starts from January 1 and ends until September 25. vision and expectations for two Tourism Authority’s Acting izens are affected by other Zurab Pololikashvili. on December 31, the Ministry of The budget plan focuses on financial years, including Chairman, said: “Openness and countries’ visa policies with In September 2016 an Finance has issued directives to enhancing food security by estimate of revenue and ease of access are crucial ele- highly mobile citizens being able agreement was signed between different Ministries and boosting local production and expenditure along with targets ments of the visitor experience. to travel easily and seamlessly QTA, Qatar Airways, Qatar’s government institutions to supporting food sector, increasing that need to be achieved. The That is why, in addition to the to most other countries. Ministry of Interior and VFS prepare budget. contribution of non-oil sectors by Ministry directive have set three accelerated development of our While Qatar currently ranks Global to create an online The instructions, copy of encouraging and supporting standards for preparation of tourism offering, we have com- 106th in the world in terms of platform for processing visa which is with Lusail newspaper, private sector and attracting local budget. One of the criteria is mitted to providing a seamless mobility, it is worth noting that applications and issuing e-visas. issued by Minister of Finance and foreign investments. The maintaining the current policy experience to our visitors even 20 of the countries benefiting H E Ali Shereef Al Emadi, include budget aims to achieve efficiency of the state to estimate the oil as they are planning for their from the Qatari visa waiver are →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 rules and guidelines for its in expenditure and maintain and gas prices. Roof installation of Al Bayt Stadium begins

THE PENINSULA tonnes. Each truss was fabricated into major lifting required on-site and means eight pieces at the workshop, trans- the big cranes can soon be removed.” DOHA: The construction of Al Bayt ported to site, and welded together at Engineer Majid Al Bader, Aspire Stadium in Al Khor City, a proposed a dedicated area outside the stadium Zone Foundation’s Al Bayt Stadium, semi-venue for the 2022 FIFA World before being lifted into place. Al Khor City Project Manager, added: Cup, has taken another step forward The lifting of the roof trusses is “We’re very pleased with the as work began on installing the done only when there’s little or no progress to-date and look forward venue’s retractable roof. wind, takes approximately three to unveiling this unique stadium to Once fully assembled, the roof will hours, and can be done every two to the world.” weigh around 1,600 tonnes – the equiv- three days. Designed in the style of a traditional alent of almost 380 medium sized Aspire Zone Foundation’s Project Bedouin tent, Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor motor cars. It will be possible to close Director for Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor City will have a capacity of 60,000 the roof at the touch of a button, in a City, Dr Nasser Al Hajeri, said: “This during the World Cup. Post-tour- three-phase movement that takes structure will allow more flexibility nament, the capacity will be reduced approximately 20 minutes, the Supreme in lighting and climate conditions to approximately 30,000, with parts of Committee for Delivery and Legacy within the stadium, making it fit for the stadium donated to countries in announced yesterday on its website. the purpose all year round.” need of sporting infrastructure. Workers watch as a section of the roof truss is being lowered onto the top of the Al Bayt Each roof truss measures 94.4 “Installing the roof structure is a sig- Stadium in Al Khor City. metres and weighs between 82 and 104 nificant milestone as it completes the →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 HTC treats around 2,000 trauma cases annually FAZEENA SALEEM HTC at the Hamad service and it goes to all the to entities of different min- operating room machine can THE PENINSULA General Hospital is the hub of way up to rehabilitation. The istries which could provide save them as they have died the national trauma system in HTC is right at the centre of direct intervention to prevent at the scene. We are working DOHA: The Hamad Trauma Qatar and provides care to the system and it provides the accidents. to avoid this 70 percent of Center (HTC) receives around people who get serious most emergency and urgent The most important part preventable deaths,” said Dr 2,000 cases annually, and injuries across the country. care needed by patients. The of the HTC is prevention. We Consunji. among them 40 to 45 percent Besides providing highest ambulance service provides are doing our best to provide “We were able to prevent are due to road-related acci- standard of care to patients, the pre-hospital service,” said local based evidence for pre- 30 percent of deaths through dents. HTC also aims at prevention Dr Consunji. ventive measures for eve- quality improvement, hospital These accidents involve as 70 percent of deaths due to HTC, through the Hamad ryone in Qatar including programmes, increasing motorists, pedestrians, motor- trauma occur prior to hospital Injury Prevention Program children, adults and workers. capacity of physicians, quality 8 8 1 0 1 cyclists as well as ATV riders, admission. (HIPP), is actively involved in “We want to reduce the of equipment and training of said Dr Rafeel Consunji, Con- HTC also receives around preventing trauma and number of injuries and deaths. all healthcare professionals,” sultant, Director Injury Pre- 35 to 40 percent of patients of injuries among the population. Because, 70 percent of people he added. The number of people from Qatar and vention, Department of work related injuries. In this regard it provides evi- who die from trauma or HTC has received the around the world seeking registration as Surgery at Hamad Medical “The entire trauma system dence-based data on trends injuries in Qatar are in the Trauma Distinction award volunteers to support Qatar 2022 is Corporation (HMC) while starts from the 999 emergency of accidents and globally pre-hospital services, no from Accreditation Canada continuously increasing at a fast pace. talking to media persons. call which is the pre-hospital accepted recommendations ambulance, no doctor, no International (ACI). 02 HOME TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018

Qatar, Greece review ties in transport, communications Qatar condemns Change in school attacks in Iraq

DOHA: The State of Qatar strongly condemned the two hours eases attacks on a mosque in the south of Al Shirqat district and a village in western Anbar in traffic congestion Iraq, which killed a worshiper and wounded six others in the mosque, and killed two SIDI MOHAMED ‘Traffic patrols have people in the village. THE PENINSULA also been intensified In a statement, the Min- to manage traffic istry of Foreign Affairs reit- DOHA: The new strategic erated Qatar’s firm position decision made by the Ministry flow that may face on rejecting violence and ter- of Education and Higher problems due to rorism regardless of motives Education related to change increased traffic on and reasons. and reduction in school hours the roads with the for all grades in public schools Sheikha Al Mayassa has helped alleviating traffic opening of schools.’ congestion. expresses concern “Traffic patrols have also been intensified to manage loudly. He pointing out that over Brazil inferno traffic flow that may face such behavior bothers the Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti with the Ambassador problems due to increased driver, which could cause a of Greece to the State of Qatar, Constantinos Orphanides. The two officials discussed cooperation DOHA: The Chairperson of traffic on the roads with the traffic accident and this is a relations between the two countries in the fields of transport and communications and means of Qatar Museums H E Sheikha Al opening of schools,” said Lieu- great risk for students and bus further enhancing them. Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani tenant Colonel Mohammed passengers. has expressed her concern over Radi Al Hajri, Director of Media He also stressed that the the fire incident of the National and Traffic Awareness. students under the age of 10, Museum in Rio de Janeiro in “Many roads are expected should sit in the back seats of tweet. In 2014, Qatar ran a to be open by the end of this the car because it is a safety for cultural exchange programme year to contribute easing traffic them, explaining the danger of Qatar, Serbia discuss bilateral relations with Brazil. “A sad day for the flow. Also places which were crossing the road without fol- museum community around Minister of State witnessing highest congestion lowing traffic rules. the world. Qatar and Brazil for Foreign Affairs, in previous years like Al “Any person who wants to shared an exciting year of Markhiya signals and Hamad cross the road must be sure that H E Sultan bin Saad culture in 2014, connecting bin Jassim signals didn’t witness the road is free of cars coming Al Muraikhi met between our cultures. Hoping too much traffic this year at the from both directions and cross yesterday with the artefacts can be recovered.” opening schools. This is because only from the places designated the Ambassador Sheikha Al Mayassa of new working hours of inde- for pedestrian crossing,” he of the Republic tweeted. One of Latin America’s pendent schools,” he added explained. of Serbia to Qatar biggest cultural, scientific and during to a visit to Jawaan Bin Brigadier Mohammed Jasminko Pozderac. historic treasures, the National Jassim Model School for Boys Abdul Rahim Marafia, Director Talks during the Museum in Rio de Janeiro, has in order to spread traffic of Engineering and Traffic meeting covered gone up in flames, leaving little awareness among school Safety Department at the bilateral relations more than a charred ruin students. General Directorate of Traffic and cooperation behind.The blaze destroyed Al Hajri said that the aim of said that the back to school between the two most of the 20 million items in the visit is to educate students preparations started early, countries and ways the 200 year-old former on concepts and traffic culture. adding that Engineering and of enhancing them, palace, including Egyptian In the meeting which was held Traffic Safety Department is in as well as issues mummies, dinosaur replicas in the theater hall of the school, communication and contact of mutual interest. and one of the oldest human Al Hajri pointed out the impor- with Ashghal to install traffic skeletons found in the tance of adhering to traffic boards around the schools. Americas, local media reported. safety rules, in particular the At the end of the visit, a lot obligation of remain seated in of gifts were distributed among a moving bus and avoid students on the occasion of the Roof installation excessive movement or speak beginning of the academic year. Qatar most open country in region, of Al Bayt according to UNWTO rankings Stadium begins CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 all nationalities who hold valid residence permits The new service, launched in 2017, has signifi- or visas from the , the United States The upper concourse of cantly eased visitor access to Qatar, offering a more of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or the the stadium will be converted efficient and transparent visa application system, Schengen countries. This system allows eligible vis- into a hotel, while a shopping with standardised fees. In the same month, a new itors to obtain an ETA by completing a simple online centre and branch of Aspetar, process to facilitate disembarkation of cruise pas- application prior to travel at www.qatarvisaservice. the leading sports medicine sengers was put in place, and before the end of the com. facility, will also be incorpo- year, Qatar had launched a free, 96-hour transit visa, According to the UNWTO, 60% of the world’s rated into the structure, doubling the amount of time stopover passengers population is required to obtain a traditional visa alongside entertainment and could remain in the country and enjoy its offerings. prior to departure to destinations in the Middle East. shopping centres, multi- Brigadier Mohammed Abdul Rahim Marafia, Director of Engineering In August 2017, Qatar applied the new visa Europe continues to be among the most restrictive purpose halls and other and Traffic Safety Department at the General Directorate of Traffic waiver policy for nationals of more than 80 coun- destinations, requesting on average the highest pro- venues. Parks and greenery (centre) and Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Radi Al Hajri, Director tries. In September 2017, Qatar made an Electronic portion of the worlds population to obtain a tradi- will also form an integral part of Media and Traffic Awareness (right) at the event. Travel Authorization (ETA) available to visitors of tional visa prior to departure (66%). of the surrounding precinct. Registration for entry of 12th Education Ooredoo sponsors S’hail 2018 Excellence Award to begin on October 1 THE PENINSULA DOHA: Ooredoo is the THE PENINSULA “Adham Falcon sponsor” of the Katara International DOHA: The Ministry of Hunting and Falcons Exhi- Education and Higher Education bition (S’hail) 2018 for the has announced that the regis- second year in a row. tration for the entry of 12th This was announced at edition of Education Excellence a press conference which Award will begin from October witnessed the agreement 1, 2018 and it will continue till signing yesterday at the the end of the month. Cultural Village Foundation The award is an occasion to – Katara Building 32. honour Qatari citizens who The agreement was excelled in different fields to signed by Ahmed Abdul- spread the culture of creativity rahman Al Sayyed, and excellence in the Qatari Assistant General Manager society, said a release. The at Katara and Yousef Al award also encourages students Kubaisi, Head of Opera- Chief Executive Officer of 12th Education Excellence Award, Dr further excellence and out- tions at Ooredoo. Hamda Al Sulaiti (right) is announcing the registration of the standing academic achievement, Al Sayyed said that the award at a press conference, yesterday Ahmed Abdulrahman Al Sayyed (third right), Assistant General Manager the integration of individual and first edition of (S-hail) exhi- at Katara, and Yousef Al Kubaisi (third left), Head of Operations at institutional efforts to improve bition witnessed an out- Ooredoo, along with other officials at the agreement signing event the outcomes of the education award is to appreciate and individual and institutional standing success as its yesterday at Katara. process and to meet global honor those scientifically dis- energies towards scientific second edition this year is standards. tinguished, deepen the concept excellence in areas that serve receiving more than 150 The nine categories of the of excellence, encourage indi- the development directives of participants from 20 countries now as it sheds light on a sig- devices and network boosters award are outstanding student viduals and educational institu- the State, she said. and that the area of the exhi- nificant prominent part of our in the remote areas. “We will be award for primary, preparatory tions to develop their per- Dr Hamda Al Sulaiti said that bition has doubled. heritage which is falconry and also distributing gifts to visitors and secondary levels, as well as formance and promote posi- the most prominent is organ- Commenting on this hunting and we look forward such as Car-Fi devices and other bachelor’s level, master’s and tivity towards knowledge and ising an introductory meeting agreement, Al Kubaisi empha- to make it a significant inter- products that assist hunters and PHD level and an award for dis- scientific research. for school principals and coor- sized Ooredoo’s commitment to national event,” Al Kubaisi said. desert safari goers,” he tinguished teachers and out- The award also aims to dinators, ministries and institu- support activities and cultural Al Kubaisi added that explained. standing school and scientific inspire innovation among stu- tions and hold training work- events that aim to preserve the Ooredoo will be having a large At the end of the conference, research awards. dents, researchers and educa- shops for the award categories Qatari national heritage. booth at the exhibition dis- both sides exchanged greetings Chief Executive Officer of tional institutions and stim- . She also explained the benefits “We give our support to this playing all the hunting-related and assured that this agreement the Award, Dr Hamda Al Sulaiti ulate the spirit of scientific and rewards offered to indi- valuable exhibition by spon- services and products they is to strengthen cooperation said that one of the goals of the excellence and channel vidual award winners. soring it for the second year provide such as GPS tracking between the two institutions. TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 HOME 03 Community-based care facilities to be expanded THE PENINSULA Minister of Public where possible, to bring a sense Health H E Dr Hanan of normalcy into patients’ lives. DOHA: Minister of Public Health Our plans to expand Qatar’s H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Mohamed Al Kuwari community-based care facilities Kuwari has said that plans for the visited patients and in 2019 with the opening of the expansion of community-based staff at HMC’s Enaya Daam Specialized Care Center Care Facilities in the coming Specialized Care will ensure we can continue to year, especially with the opening provide patient-centred medical of the new Daam building, will Center and inspected care to even more people in the enhance the capacity to continue the construction site future,” said Dr Al Kuwari. providing quality medical care of the new Daam Late last year, Dr Al Kuwari to more patients in the future. building. and H E Sheikh Abdulla Bin The Minister visited patients Saoud Al Thani, Qatar Central and staff at Hamad Medical Cor- Bank Governor and Chairman of poration’s (HMC) Enaya Spe- beds, state-of-the-art facilities, the Board of Directors of the cialized Care Center and and round-the-clock monitoring Sports and Social Activities inspected the construction site and treatment from specialist Support Fund (Daam), signed a of the new Daam building. nurses and doctors. Memorandum of Understanding Opened in early 2015, the “The care that our teams at (MoU) to establish the Daam Spe- Minister of Public Health H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari visiting patients and staff at HMC’s Enaya Enaya Specialized Care Center Enaya are providing is so cialized Care Center. Specialized Care Center. provides an advanced care important to patients and their The donation from Daam system for long-term patients families. Dedicated care teams covers one hundred percent of The new facility, which will care centre will provide an It will expand the capacity of with chronic illnesses and degen- provide specialised medical care the costs to retrofit and com- join HMC’s existing Enaya Spe- advanced care system for the current Enaya facilities while erative diseases that restrict their while also working to enhance mission the new facility, which cialized Care Centers, is expected patients who are well enough to also providing more privacy for ability to care for themselves. the ability of patients to function has already commenced con- to open in late 2019 and will have be discharged from hospital but patients who require long-term The facility offers a healing envi- independently, to engage more struction in Hamad Bin Khalifa 67 beds. still require specialised medical medical care outside of the hos- ronment with over 150 patient with family and friends, and Medical City. This inpatient specialised treatment that is often long term. pital setting.

NHRC chief discusses cooperation with German parliament member Judicial power The Chairman of the status accorded National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), Dr Ali to some labour bin Smaikh Al Marri met yesterday with Roderich inspection staff Kiesewetter, member of the THE PENINSULA German Federal Parliament and foreign relations officer of the Christian DOHA: The Ministry of Democratic Union. The Administrative Development meeting discussed means Labour and Social Affairs of cooperation on issues has granted judicial power of common concern and status to a number of exchange of expertise in employees from the labour the rights field. inspection department to implement the provisions of the labour law and its related decisions. The new batch of inspectors have been sworn in yesterday in front of Min- QSRSN holds program to develop skills, ister of Administrative Devel- Qatar, Arab League review ties opment, Labor and Social capabilities of persons with disabilities Affairs, H E Dr Issa bin Saad The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Al Jafali Al Nuaimi. THE PENINSULA Aboul Gheit, has received the credentials of Ibrahim Abdulaziz training and recreational activ- objectives of the QSRSN to inte- This new batch is part of Al Sahlawi as Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar ities to develop their skills and grate persons with disabilities the ministry’s jurisdiction to the League of Arab States. During the meeting, they reviewed DOHA: The Qatar Society for capabilities. into society and involve parents represented by the labor the cooperation between the State of Qatar and the Arab Rehabilitation of Special Needs QSRSN Chairman Sheikh and guardians in such activities inspection department to League and the most important developments on the Arab and (QSRSN) concluded the first Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani said in order to motivate them to ensure the implementation of international arenas. season of annual program to that the program was part of the explore and enhance the abil- the labor law and its develop the skills and capabil- QSRSN’s objectives to rehabil- ities and skills of their children. decisions. ities of persons with disabilities. itate persons with disabilities Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al The six-week program, and discover their talents, skills Thani added that the program will attended by a number of persons and abilities in order to develop be developed annually to include with disabilities from the them through specialized super- all types of disabilities and addi- QSRSN’s educational and reha- vision by the QSRSN’s experts. tional programs to accommodate QF’s PUE hosts orientation bilitation centre for girls, He pointed out that the all persons with disabilities reg- included a range of educational, program was in line with the istered with QSRSN. for 200 new teachers Al Khater praises skill-based THE PENINSULA DOHA: The Education Devel- opment Institute (EDI) and The Learning Centre (TLC), under the curriculum development umbrella of Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Pre-University Education THE PENINSULA (PUE), jointly held an orientation event for around 200 new DOHA: The upgrading of educa- teachers who will join QF tional curricula in the country schools this year. in terms of quality is based on The event, organised to give the skills that the Ministry seeks educators a better cultural and to teach students, said Assistant linguistic understanding of their Undersecretary for Educational new environment, took place at Affairs at the Ministry of Awsaj Academy, in Education Education and Higher City. The sessions demonstrated Education, Fawzia Al Khater. how learners can master a lan- She said that the move also guage through effective language The participants at the QF orientation for new teachers. aims at enhancing students’ strategies, and focused on educational abilities and ideas approaches to teaching and and enable them to perform learning, helping the teachers The sessions demonstrated how learners can their duties better, which con- align themselves with the goal of master a language through effective language tributes to raising their aca- improving the language profi- strategies, and focused on approaches to demic level. ciency of all students at QF teaching and learning, helping the teachers The development of the schools. The Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs at the Ministry educational curriculum in Qatar Joanna Moe, Assistant align themselves with the goal of improving of Education and Higher Education, Fawzia Al Khater, interacting includes all levels and courses, Director, EDI, said, “We want to the language proficiency of all students at QF with the students during her visit to a government school. and the learning resources ensure that new teachers schools. developed in the current aca- receive ongoing professional demic year will be applied from the inputs of the educational The visit aims at following learning in order to have a grades 1 to 10, and will be process, adding that this is not up the absorptive capacity of the greater understanding of ways strategies to enhance established by QF to support the applied at the 11th level in the limited to knowledge and explo- school classrooms and the read- to support students.” vocabulary. growth of the educational com- coming year, followed by the ration, but to exchange ideas iness of the schools academi- Pedagogical sessions con- Each session also high- munity within Qatar and inter- 12th level. with teachers, coordinators, cally, administratively and pro- ducted during the event focused lighted the importance of nationally, through sessions Al Khater added in a press supervisors, school principals fessionally to coincide with the on differences in the use of embedding language instruction such as the recent orientation statement after her visit to Tiba and female students, to ensure launch and development of the Arabic and English in teaching in every classroom, a key com- event; while TLC helps every Primary School and Al Wajbah that the laws and circulars of the new educational curricula that and learning; the planning ponent of the IB program. child become a successful Preparatory Girls School that ministry are followed and were updated this year to the involved in developing and EDI, a centre of excellence learner by supporting all QF such visits aim to follow up the applied in the field of academic levels in all subjects delivering the International Bac- in professional development teaching staff through providing preparations that represent all education. from grades 1 to 10. calaureate (IB) curriculum and and lifelong learning, was expertise and resources. 04 HOME TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018

Workshop on QNL lines up NU-Q welcomes its largest and child rights most diverse freshmen class programmes held events to mark THE PENINSULA THE PRENINSULA DOHA: As Northwestern DOHA: A three-day training University in Qatar (NU-Q) workshop on child rights literacy day marks its 10th anniversary in results-based programmes, Education City, it welcomed its organised by the Ministry of largest class with a week of Administrative Development, THE PENINSULA On the occasion of orientation that culminated in Labour and Social Affairs in International Literacy the Northwestern tradition of cooperation with the United DOHA: With the summer “March Through the Arch.” Nations Children’s Fund holidays coming to an end, Day on September 8, This year’s class — the Class (Unicef), was held yesterday Qatar National Library (QNL) parents and teachers of 2022 – includes more than with the participation of has invited members of the 100 students and is the most representatives of institutions community to participate in a are encouraged to diverse class to enroll at NU-Q. and social institutions. full schedule of events this join an interactive More than 40 percent of the The aim was to familiarise month promoting learning, lecture entitled, ‘Our class are Qatari, and 30 nation- participants with the general creativity, and sense of alities are represented from principles of the Convention on community. Children and Books’, countries as varied as Ethiopia, the Rights of the Child and how On the occasion of Interna- to learn about Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Russia, to use them in applying child tional Literacy Day on Sep- early childhood and Rwanda. rights-based approach in prac- tember 8, parents and teachers “The breadth of experience tical and interactive ways are encouraged to join an inter- development and and diversity that our incoming through the general provisions active lecture entitled, ‘Our children’s natural class brings to NU-Q adds and principles of the Con- Children and Books’, to learn attraction to books. dynamism and excitement to vention on the Rights of the about early childhood devel- our student body,” said Everette Child, and laws that take into opment and children’s natural E Dennis, Dean and CEO. “Their account the procedures for attraction to books, said a opportunity for everyone in the enrollment goes beyond the children and practical studies. statement. community to learn and walls of NU-Q, as the Class of The training would also Also on September 8, an become engaged, which is a 2022 joins the global North- cover other key child rights interactive lecture, ‘Outrageous prime goal of our library. The western community in instruments, such as the three Headlines and Suspect Sources: list of events has something for embarking on an education optional protocols of the Con- The Importance of Media Lit- everyone who plans to take journey that focuses on learning vention on the Rights of the eracy’, will highlight ways to some time after work hours and for the purpose of making the Child, Convention 182 and the identify so-called ‘fake news’ explore their creative side, world a better place.” Convention on the Rights of At the end of a busy orientation week, NU-Q’s Class of 2022 joins and the impact of misinfor- learn a new topic, and get tips The student orientation at Persons with Disabilities. A Dean and CEO Everette E Dennis at NU-Q’s Arch. mation on society. on improving their lifestyle.” NU-Q was a time for new stu- special emphasis was placed In collaboration with Wifaq On September 15, the dents to explore academic on social integration and (Family Consulting Center), the THIMUN Qatar executive team options, register for their first replica of the home campus’s Yemeni who was raised in Oman, capacity-building to implement Library will host ‘How to will host an interactive semester of classes, learn about Weber Arch as they are cheered found NU-Q to be the perfect results-based management to Manage Your Household workshop, ‘United Nations Sus- student life programs, and on and welcomed by the rest of university for her to pursue her improve the effectiveness of Budget’, a workshop that will tainable Development Goals’, explore the campus and its the NU-Q community. passion for both acting and com- programmes. Participants also provide families with tips on that will explore the impact of resources. And, if there is one thing that munication. “Northwestern learned more about RBM prin- how to efficiently manage their human activities on the They also participated in a NU-Q’s Class of 2022 all have in appealed to me as a university ciples by improving knowledge household finances. The event environment. number of Northwestern tradi- common, it is a passion for pur- because the work of its faculty and understanding about will take place on September 9 Individuals with hearing tions, including the colourful suing media and communi- and alumni really speaks concept, design, planning, in the Library’s auditorium and challenges and their families “March Through the Arch,” cation to tell stories that shed volumes about their dedication implementation, monitoring, will be conducted in Arabic. are invited to a demonstration which involves each new light on topics that matter. to media and journalism, and the programme evaluation and The library has invited all of the Library’s assistive tech- student marching through a Meanwhile, Noor Haddad, a industry as a whole,” she said. documenting results. lovers of classical music to join nology devices on September a screening of ‘The Art of 16. This month’s session of the Chopin’ by Gérald Caillat, on Book Club for the Blind will September 11. The documentary take place on September 17 and highlights the 200th birthday will discuss the life story of HMC to welcome international consultants of famed Polish pianist Frederic Hellen Keller, the renowned THE PENINSULA Chopin, and the screening will author and educator who was Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Metabolic Specialist from will visit from October 20 to 26. conclude with a recorded per- afflicted at the age of 19 months London, UK, will visit from Sep- Ventura Advanced Surgical Asso- Dr Marius Scarlat, a Con- formance of Chopin’s 1st piano with an illness that left her with DOHA: Hamad Medical Corpo- tember 14 to 16. ciates in Thousand Oaks, Cali- sultant Orthopaedic Surgeon concerto. permanent seeing and hearing ration (HMC) will welcome a Dr Vitaly Kisilevsky, Medical fornia, USA will visit from Sep- from the Clinique St. Michel in On September 12, Dr Sarah disabilities but later achieved number of visiting consultants Director of Vestibular Labora- tember 30 to October 6. Toulon, , will visit from Savant will deliver a lecture greatness in various fields. from various medical specialties tories and Services at the Uni- Dr Aldo Campanini, an ENT, October 22 to 24. entitled ‘Studying the Prophet’s ‘Philharmonic at the during the months of September versity of Toronto, Canada, will Head and Neck Surgery Specialist Members of the public Biography in the Digital Age: Library’ in collaboration with and October. visit from September 26 Sep- from Morgagni-Pierantoni Forlì wishing to book an appointment How Digital Technology Can Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra Abdul Razzak Juratli, an ENT, tember to October 3. Hospital, Forli, , will visit HMC with one of the visiting consultants Help’. will resume on September 20. Head and Neck Surgery Spe- Dr Zeynel Abidin Dogan, an from October 20 to 26. are advised to discuss this option Patrice Landry, Chief The session will offer a variety cialist, will visit from September ENT, Head and Neck Surgery While, Dr Filippo Mon- with their physician. If your doctor Librarian and Deputy Director, of musical pieces themed 8 to 13. Dr Manu Shankar-Hari, Specialist, will visit from Sep- tevecchi, Medical Director at the agrees that an appointment with QNL, said, “These events around ‘Sounds of the Sea’ with an Intensive Care Medicine Spe- tember 22 to 27. Dr Helmuth Billy, ENT Operative Unit at Morgagni- a visiting consultant is appro- provide an excellent CineMoon Ensemble. cialist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ a highly-experienced Bariatric Pierantoni Forlì Hospital, Forli, priate, they will provide a referral. QIC Group sponsors Gyer category of Katara’s S’hail 2018

THE PENINSULA children and adults, the exhibition enhance the Qatari individual’s business and operating principles will also display various falcons connection with his environment align with our objectives for CSR. DOHA: As a progressive leader in and its handling equipment. Now and heritage. In effect, being socially conscious Corporate Social Responsibility in its second year, the exhibition Commenting on the spon- has allowed us to respond, engage (CSR) and socially responsible boasts of participants from 20 sorship, Salem Al Mannai, Deputy and solve the common concerns of business practices, Qatar Insurance countries, namely, Kyrgyzstan, Group President & CEO of QIC the society along with the cooper- Group, the leading insurer in Qatar Pakistan, , Kuwait, China, MENA Region stated, “As the ation of our customers, business and the MENA region QIC Group Oman, Kazakhstan, UK, United leading insurer in Qatar, we have partners and affiliates. Contribution has sponsored Gyer category of States, , Turkey, , a long standing commitment to to and participation in S’hail dem- Katara’s International Hunting & , Italy, Azerbaijan, Iran, acting as a trusted and ethical onstrates our relentless efforts in Falconry Exhibition S’hail 2018. Morocco, Uzbekistan, Netherland, partner with the Qatari community highlighting the culture and tradi- Slated to start tomorrow, S’hail and Qatar. and to playing a vital role in the tions of the Nation. It also is regarded as the largest interna- Qatar Insurance Group has long sustainability of Qatar’s social underpins our keenness towards tional exhibitions that specialises demonstrated its eagerness fabric.” maintaining and reviving the in exhibiting falcons. Besides towards supporting activities that He further added, “We have legacy of falconry for our future Salem Al Mannai ,Deputy Group President & CEO- QIC MENA hosting an interactive session for showcase Qatar’s rich culture and ensured that the core values of our generation.” WCM-Q offers research experience for students

THE PENINSULA The Research Internship eight-week internship; those who of time actually working in the lab for College Students complete all of the taught modules and helping with a real research DOHA: College students with ambi- program targets and practical training elements on project. It has been very hands-on tions to pursue careers in biomedical students who are 18 either internship are awarded a cer- and I feel it has given me a really science were welcomed to Weill tificate of complete. good boost for starting my career Cornell Medicine Qatar (WCM-Q) years old and above. This year three nationals com- when I graduate.” this summer to learn essential pleted the program. Alaa Abdeen, The Research Internship for research skills. who is in her third year studying College Students program targets The Research Internship for practical laboratory skills, as well biomedical genetics at Newcastle students who are 18 years old and College Students program, admin- as completing modules focused on University in the UK, spent four above. istered by WCM-Q’s Research a set of key research management weeks at WCM-Q working in the lab Division, gives students aged 18 and competencies, including research of Dr Khaled Machaca, Professor of Alaa Abdeen (right), a third-year over the opportunity to join working operation, laboratory management, Physiology and Biophysics & Asso- student at Newcastle University laboratories and learn from senior grants management, research com- ciate Dean for Research. biomedical researchers in a chal- pliance, clinical management, and Alaa said: “I have had a fantastic in the UK, learned key lab skills lenging and dynamic professional skills. experience and wish I could stay this summer on WCM-Q’s Research environment. Students can choose to take a longer. The most valuable thing is Internship for College Students Each of the students learned four-week internship or an intensive that I have been able to spend a lot program. TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 05

Palestinian shot Militants must be dead near Hebron

HEBRON, PALESTINE: Israeli troops yesterday killed ‘cleaned out’ of a Palestinian youth near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian Health Idlib: Iran FM Ministry. In a statement, the ministry said a young Pales- Syrian government tinian man — who the ministry did not identify — BEIRUT: Iran called yesterday forces are planning a had been shot dead near for militants to be “cleaned out” phased offensive in Hebron’s Jewish-only Kiryat of Syria’s Idlib province, as it Idlib and surrounding Arba settlement. prepared for talks with Syria areas held by and Russia about confronting 38 Yemeni rebels the last major enclave held by insurgents fighting rebels opposed to President Assad. dead in Hodeida Bashar Al Assad. Syrian government forces KHOKHA, YEMEN: The are planning a phased offensive and Syrian Foreign Minister coalition fighting in Yemen in Idlib and surrounding areas Walid Al Muallem, who asked killed 38 rebels in the past 24 held by insurgents fighting for Iran to continue its support, hours in air strikes on the Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Al Jabouri (foreground) walks along with other lawmakers to attend Assad, who has been backed by according to Iran’s Fars News. strategic port of Hodeida, the first session of the new Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. both Russian and Iranian forces “All of Syrian territory must military and medical sources in the country’s conflict. be preserved and all the sects said yesterday. US Secretary of State Mike and groups should start the The latest raids come just Pompeo has said Washington round of reconstruction as one Iraq’s rival blocs vie for majority days before peace talks in views any government assault collective and the displaced Geneva between the interna- on Idlib as an escalation of should return to their families,” tionally recognised gov- AP Syria’s war, and the State Zarif said, according to Fars the twin tasks of rebuilding the Abadi, who came to power in ernment backed by the coa- Department warned that News. “And the remaining ter- north of the country following 2014, oversaw the war on IS lition and the Shiah Houthi Washington would respond to rorists in the remaining parts BAGHDAD: Iraq’s newly- the war against the Islamic State after the extremists seized rebels linked to Iran. any chemical attack by of Idlib must be cleaned out and elected parliament held its first group and rehabilitating services Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, Damascus. the region should be placed session yesterday as two blocs, in the south, where severe water and close to one-third of Iraqi Gunmen shoot 11 Iranian Foreign Minister back under the control of the both claiming to hold the most and electricity shortages have territory. Al Abadi declared Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Syrian people.” seats, vied for the right to form fuelled protests. victory last year, but the mili- dead in Nigeria Damascus to discuss plans for Assad’s office said in a a new government. “We must focus in the next tants continue to raid, kidnap, an upcoming summit between statement: “The two sides The session opened with a stage on reconstruction, and murder Iraqis in lawless and LAGOS: At least 11 people the leaders of Iran, Russia and asserted that the pressures prayer and an orchestral per- services, and providing jobs. It underserved regions in the west were killed and 12 others Turkey, which Tehran will host from some Western states on formance of the national is the time for economic reforms and centre of the country. injured when unknown on Sept. 7 to discuss Idlib, Iran’s Syria and Tehran will not deter anthem, as lawmakers con- and expanding our security Lawmakers must now select gunmen opened fire at locals Fars news agency reported. the two countries from con- vened for the first time since achievements,” said caretaker a parliament speaker before in central Nigeria, police said Zarif met Assad, Syrian tinuing to defend their national elections were held in Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi electing a president, a largely yesterday. Prime Minister Imad Khamis principles.” May. The new parliament faces in an address to parliament. Al ceremonial post. The victim of the attack late on Sunday was the Lo Pamyeti community of Plateau state. “We got a dis- tress call at around 9.30pm that the community was Rwandans vote in parliamentary elections under attack and we quickly mobilized to the area but we AFP re-elected with 98% of the vote. reserved for women, youth and ten seats in parliament,” said election. There were strict restric- met some people lying lifeless The Rwandan Patriotic Front the disabled and they are elected Frank Habineza of the Democratic tions on opposition parties who while others were crying for KIGALI: Rwandans voted in (RPF), in power for 24 years, its by special councils and national Green Party, the only permitted were given only three weeks to help,” Plateau police parliamentary polls yesterday that allied parties and one critical committees. “Our party is gaining critical opposition party, casting campaign. Currently all 53 seats spokesman Tyopev Mathias are expected to shore up the opposition party are vying for 53 momentum across the country his vote in Kigali. Habineza up for grabs are held by the RPF said. “We quickly evacuated power of President Paul Kagame’s of the 80 seats in parliament. despite numerous hurdles. We are secured only 0.45 percent of the and parties that are allied with it them where 11 persons were ruling party a year after he was The remaining 27 seats are hopeful that we will win at least vote in last year’s presidential or back government policies. confirmed dead.” 06 ASIA TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018

AAP blames Karnataka civic Modi govt for polls: Congress wins ‘economic mess’ IANS majority seats NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) yesterday blamed Prime Minister IANS Even as the BJP for the deteriorating economic won majority seats condition, saying “the economy BENGALURU: Less than four in seven districts was never in such a mess”. months after the Assembly “The BJP’s central lead- election, the Congress including the coastal ership, in the last few months, yesterday won the most seats districts of Udupi and either does not know what to in Karnataka’s 105 urban local Dakshina Kannada, do or is simply not bothered bodies, pushing the BJP to the the JD-S and about the hardships it is second spot, and voicing confi- heaping on the Aam Aadmi,” dence that a Congress-JD(S) Congress tie-up will Delhi’s ruling party said in a combine will sweep the Lok control most of the statement. “The economy was Sabha polls. urban bodies in the never in such a mess.” The “The Congress winning 982 state. Congress won AAP said that petrol and diesel of the 2,662 civic body seats Kovind addresses Cypriot parliament prices were touching an all- across the state shows people’s majority seats in 10 time high while the rupee was confidence in the party and our districts. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind (front centre) addresses the Cypriot parliament in Nicosia falling to a historic low. coalition government with the yesterday, while Cypriot’s President Nicos Anastasiades (top left) and President of the parliament The “grossly incompetent Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S),” state Dimitris Sillouris (top centre) listen. BJP government, led by Modi, Congress President Dinesh yesterday’s results a victory for has failed to address the con- Gundu Rao told reporters here. the coalition government. cerns of rising fuel prices and “The Congress cannot be “The outcome shows that depreciation of the rupee”, he written off in Karnataka any JD-S and Congress have won said. more. We (Congress and JD-S) the trust of not just the rural “The Central government will have a pre-poll alliance for electorate but urban voters as Traffic snarls as heavy rains lash Delhi, NCR has shown remarkable care- the Lok Sabha elections which well,” Kumaraswamy told lessness when it comes to the we are confident of winning,” reporters here. IANS gestion at several crowded junc- is flooded with knee-deep economy. The country’s Rao added. The BJP, on the other hand, tions in Delhi and Noida. water. Vehicles hardly moved Finance Ministry is caught in In the polls for urban bodies blamed the JD-S and Congress NEW DELHI: Heavy rains lashed Twitter and other social for a long time and I reached a power struggle between two across 22 of the state’s 30 dis- for its poor showing. several parts of Delhi and its media channels were flooded office late.” In Delhi, commuters high ranking Ministers... tricts held on August 31, the “The BJP should have won suburbs yesterday as the skies in with complaints of vehicles complained of heavy traffic con- “In this situation, the blame Congress has won 982 of the more seats but we could not the region remained engulfed in getting stuck in bumper to gestion in Lakshmi Nagar, Geeta for the country’s poor macr- total 2,662 seats. The Bharatiya perform the way we wanted to dark clouds with predictions of bumper traffic jams. Colony, Patparganj, Lajpat oeconomic indicators lies Janata Party (BJP) came second because of the Congress-JD-S more rain in the coming days. “Rains in Noida have gone Nagar, Old Delhi railway station, squarely with the Prime Min- with 929 seats while the JD-S coalition,” BJP state unit Pres- The downpour caused bonkers this morning, have had Yusuf Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, ister.” The party urged the remained far behind with 375 ident B S Yeddyurappa told water-logging in parts of the to drive like a snail,” Twitter Rajouri Garden. At Ashram, Central government to address seats. reporters here. Delhi-NCR region leaving many user Aahna Sharma posted on several vehicles were stuck in these issues at the earliest. Independents bagged 329 But the BJP is confident of roads, lanes and bylanes flooded the microblogging site. the carriageway towards AIIMS. “The people of this country seats, the Bahujan Samaj Party winning a majority in the Lok with rainwater. Anurag Dutta, who works The heavy rain also led to a are waiting for an opportunity (BSP) 13 and other regional Sabha election, he said. The morning commuters with a Noida-based publishing drop in mercury from 29 to defeat those who keep the parties and fringe outfits won The BJP performed well in had a tough time reaching their house, said: “The Rajnigandha degrees Celsius around 10am to Aam Aadmi at the bottom of 34 seats. its traditional bastions of destinations due to traffic con- crossing (near Sector 16 Noida) 26 degrees in the afternoon. their priorities.,” it added. While the Congress won coastal districts while the Con- majority seats in 10 districts, it gress retained its position in its was looking at an alliance with strongholds of northern JD-S in a few regions to keep districts. the BJP out of power, as it did Polling took place last Congress demands probe into coal scam involving Adani in the Assembly election in May Friday across 22 districts of the which threw up a hung verdict, state spread over 29 city munic- IANS seeking to quash all Letters Rog- Earlier, a Singapore court announced that there was a Rao said. ipalities, 53 town municipal- atory (LRs) issued by the Direc- had rejected Adani Global’s plea, huge scam on coal import and Even as the BJP won ities, 23 town panchayats and NEW DELHI: Taking the attack torate of Revenue Intelligence seeking a stay to produce docu- a probe was initiated on the majority seats in seven dis- 135 wards of three city corpo- further against Prime Minister (DRI), the Congress launched a ments pertaining to coal imports over-invoicing of import of tricts including the coastal dis- rations — Mysuru, Shivamogga Narendra Modi over crony-capi- frontal attack on the Prime Min- to India mostly from Indonesia. coal. tricts of Udupi and Dakshina and Tumakuru. talism, the Congress yesterday ister and Finance Minister Arun After that, the group moved the On March 31, 2016, DRI gave Kannada, the JD-S and Con- The polling in 45 seats of targeted the centre over a stalled Jaitley for being silent on the Bombay High Court on August a new statement that 40 com- gress tie-up will control most Kodagu district’s civic bodies probe against the Adani Group scam involving “Modi’s indus- 28. panies are involved in this scam of the urban bodies in the has been postponed due to and demanded a time-bound, trialist friend” Gautam Adani. The DRI had alleged that the and it is worth Rs29,000 crore,” state. heavy rains and floods. independent probe by a Special “Jailtley writes blogs on companies inflated the price of said Ramesh. In the Assembly election, of In the 2013 elections held Investigation Team (SIT) into an every issue, but he is silent on coal they were importing from In September 2017, a PIL the 224 constituencies, the BJP for 4,976 seats, the Congress alleged Rs 29,000-crore scam this. He should write a blog on Indonesia to siphon off money was filled at the Delhi High Court won 104 seats, the Congress 80 won 1,960 seats, while BJP and involving over-valuation of coal this. He doesn’t have the power abroad and to avail higher by an NGO run by (Advocate) and JD-S along with BSP (38)., JD-S won 905 seats each while imports. to take any action,” said Con- power tariff compensation. Prashant Bhushan and it JD-S leader and Chief Minister Independents bagged the Days after Adani Group gress spokesperson Jairam “In October 2014, Direc- demanded a Special Investi- H D Kumaraswamy termed remaining 1,206 seats. moved the Bombay High Court Ramesh. torate of Revenue Intelligence gative Team (SIT) probe.

Reserve Bank employees Myanmar court jails withdraw two-day strike reporters for 7 years REUTERS stateless Rohingya Muslims IANS have fled into Bangladesh since YANGON: A Myanmar judge then, according to U.N. MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank yesterday found two Reuters agencies. of India (RBI) employee unions journalists guilty of breaching The two reporters, who yesterday deferred their a law on state secrets and jailed were investigating the killing two-day mass casual leave them for seven years, in a by the security forces of planned for September 4-5 landmark case seen as a test of Rohingya villagers at the time after the bank management progress towards democracy of their arrest, had pleaded not sought “some time” to in the Southeast Asian country. guilty. consider their demands. Yangon northern district Press freedom advocates, “As responsible and rea- judge Ye Lwin said Wa Lone, the United Nations, the sonable trade unions, we 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, European Union and countries decided to respond to the Gov- breached the colonial-era including the United States, ernor’s and the Deputy Gov- Official Secrets Act when they Canada and Australia had called ernor’s appeal for giving them collected and obtained confi- for the journalists’ acquittal. ‘some time’ to resolve the Warding off vector-borne diseases dential documents. “Today is a sad day for issues,” the United Forum of “The defendants... have Myanmar, Reuters journalists Reserve Bank Officers and A municipal worker sprays pest-control chemicals to kill mosquitoes and larvae while a resident breached Official Secrets Act Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and Employees said in a statement. looks on in Kolkata, yesterday. Heavy monsoon across West Bengal has increased cases of vector- section 3.1.c, and are sentenced the press everywhere,” Reuters “We decided for a short borne diseases. to seven years,” the judge said, Editor-in-Chief Stephen J Adler deferment of our mass casual adding that the time served said in a statement. leave programme up to first since they were detained on The reporters had told the week of January 2019, beyond December 12 would be taken court two police officials which, if issues linger further, we into account. The defence can handed them papers at a res- will go for a flash strike, which appeal the decision to a taurant in the city of Yangon we have unequivocally commu- Dogs give Lalu sleepless nights in hospital regional court and then the moments before other officers nicated to Deputy Governor supreme court. arrested them. Viral Acharya,” it added. IANS incessant barking of dogs near paying ward of the RIMS. The verdict comes amid One police witness testified The forum had called the the super speciality ward of the Bhola Yadav also said that mounting pressure on the gov- the restaurant meeting was a two-day mass casual leave to RANCHI: Former Bihar Chief hospital. the RJD chief’s sugar level was ernment of Nobel laureate Aung set-up to entrap the journalists press for demands related to Minister and Rashtriya Janata According to RJD legislator above normal limit and he San Suu Kyi over a security to block or punish them for their pension updation for about Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Bhola Yadav, Lalu Yadav cannot needed to walk. crackdown sparked by attacks reporting of a mass killing of 21,000 retirees of RBI and Yadav on Monday requested the sleep due to barking of dogs and Lalu Yadav surrendered on by Rohingya Muslim insurgents Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. another chance to switch authorities of Rajendra Institute it has had an adverse impact on August 30 in a special CBI court on security forces in Rakhine More than 80 people, from Contributory Provident of Medical Science (RIMS) here his health. He said Lalu Yadav of Ranchi. On the same day he State in west Myanmar in including senior diplomats, Fund (CPF) to pension for to shift him to another ward as has requested the hospital was shifted to RIMS from Birsa August 2017. were packed into the court 2,600-odd CPF holders. he cannot sleep due to the authorities to shift him to a Munda Central Jail for treatment. More than 700,000 yesterday. TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 ASIA 07

US service Pakistan girds for ‘exchanges’ member dies in Khan moves to bring with Pompeo as U S halts aid Afghan attack new local govt system AP INTERNEWS also attended by the chief min- isters of three of the four prov- REUTERS “On the 5th, the “We will take our mutual WASHINGTON: A US service ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime inces besides federal and pro- American (secretary respect for each other into con- member has been killed and Minister Imran Khan yesterday vincial ministers and secre- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new of state) Pompeo sideration and move forward,” another wounded in an constituted a committee to taries, Federal Information foreign minister said he will he added. apparent insider attack in recommend within a week a Minister Fawad Chaudhry and “have exchanges” with US will be arriving, Qureshi argued that the US eastern Afghanistan. proposal for a new local the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and we will have a was not justified in cutting the Resolute Support and US government structure that will Secretary, gave separate over Washington’s cancellation chance to sit down $300m because it was intended Forces-Afghanistan Com- be scrutinised and presented briefings on the local gov- of a $300m disbursement for with him. There will to reimburse Pakistan’s military manding General Scott Miller before the provincial assem- ernment system. the Pakistani military when he for money spent fighting the says “the sacrifice of our blies to initiate the required The prime minister said visits Islamabad tomorrow. be exchanges,” said Taliban and other militants service member, who volun- legislation process within a the transfer of power at the Adopting a tougher line with Foreign Minister Shah threatening US troops in teered for a mission to month. grassroots level and people’s an ally that US President Donald Mehmood Qureshi. Afghanistan. Afghanistan to protect his While presiding over a empowerment in the real Trump considers unreliable, the “It is not aid. It is not country is a tragic loss for all meeting at PM Office, Khan said sense was the main plank of United States halted the dis- assistance, which was sus- who knew and all who will that new laws must be prepared PTI’s agenda of reforms. Khan bursement of Coalition Support balance of payments crisis that pended. This the money, which now never know him.” within a week so that they said the past practice of cen- Funds due to Islamabad’s per- could force it to seek a fresh we have spent. This is our He added: “Our duty now could be enforced in Punjab tralisation of power had ceived failure to take decisive bailout from the International money. We have spent it,” is to honor him, care for his and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the deprived the people of any action against Afghan Taliban Monetary Fund (IMF), or other Qureshi said. “We did it for our family and continue our provinces where his PTI has its meaningful say in government militants operating from Paki- lenders. betterment, which they had to mission.” government. affairs. stani soil. “On the 5th, the American reimburse.” Officially allies in White House spokes- Sindh, where the PPP has It was learnt that the prime The United States has now (secretary of state) Pompeo will fighting terrorism, Pakistan and woman Sarah Huckabee its government, and Balo- minister endorsed the new withheld $800m from the CSF be arriving, and we will have a the United States have a com- Sanders said the adminis- chistan, where a BAP-led coa- system proposed by the infor- so far this year. chance to sit down with him. plicated relationship, bound by tration was monitoring the lition is in power, would be mation minister and decided The latest move comes just There will be exchanges,” Washington’s dependence on situation and President asked to enforce the new LG that after completion of the as the less-than-one-month-old Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Pakistan to guarantee a supply Donald Trump had been system under Article 140-A of tenure of the current local government of Prime Minister Qureshi told reporters late on route for US troops in briefed by chief of staff John the Constitution, he added. bodies, the district government Imran Khan faces a looming Sunday night. Afghanistan. Kelly. At the meeting, which was would cease to exist. 08 VIEWS TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 Long reach of US sanctions ESTABLISHED IN 1996 hits Syria reconstruction CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

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

ANGUS MCDOWALL ACTING MANAGING EDITOR REUTERS MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] s Syrian President Bashar Al Assad attempts to turn military DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR success into postwar recon- MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI struction, Western sanctions Aare a major obstacle that could scare [email protected] off foreign companies. Syria has suffered immense physical destruction, while millions of workers have fled, been conscripted or killed. A UN agency estimates the war has cost $388 billion. EDITORIAL Extensive reconstruction still looks far off. Assad’s allies Russia, as well as of involvement in making or using residents and under some sanctions China, have made some investments in chemical weapons. programmes - at present not including the country, but they cannot afford the They ban exports, sales or supply of Syria - foreign subsidiaries of American Immoral spying cost of rebuilding and want other coun- services, along with any new invest- firms. tries to share the burden. ments, into Syria by any US person. In April, US authorities arrested a report on leaked emails submitted in two lawsuits Western countries say they will not They also bar any dealings by US Bulgarian man working for the Bul- against the spyware’s maker, the -based NSO approve reconstruction funding for persons in Syrian oil and hydrocarbon garian office of a US company in a Syr- AGroup carried by the Times recently, revealed how Syria, or drop sanctions, without a products, or their import into the ian-related sanctions case for which far the (UAE) was involved in secret political settlement. Meanwhile, sanc- United States. three Americans were jailed in wars against its close neighbouring countries, its own tions are making it hard for foreign US persons cannot finance or facil- December. citizens and visitors of the country including tourists. companies to work there. itate any transactions by foreigners that Washington does not only target US For long, observers have noted the significant changes Although some have managed to do would fall under sanctions if done by sanctions violators. It can also blacklist in the policies of the UAE and its motive to implement business in Syria, the wide scope of the Americans. European Union sanctions foreign companies or people who help unprecedented political ambitions of hegemony in the sanctions and broad US powers to were imposed in May 2011, for Syria’s others to skirt sanctions - naming them region using all illegal means, military and security inter- enforce them mean companies risk “brutal repression and violation of as foreign sanctions evaders barred ference undermining sovereignty of other states by its inadvertent breaches. human rights”, and have been updated from most business with Americans. involvement in Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and Eritrea. Most Western companies are several times since. Non-US companies risk trouble if any The recent Times report revealed that the UAE had steering clear. One that hopes for future They are not as sweeping as the US part of a transaction involves Amer- asked an Israeli spyware company to hack into the work in Syria, German pipe manufac- sanctions, but are still extensive and icans or American companies. phones of various politicians, leaders and journalists, turer Ostendorf Kunststoffe, exhibited include asset freezes, travel bans, trade “If you do something that causes and had a particular interest in spying on Arab nations’ at an international trade fair in restrictions, financial sanctions and an someone else who is subject to US leaders including Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Damascus and is building relationships arms embargo. jurisdiction to violate US sanctions, Al Thani; Saudi Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, and Leb- with potential They bar trade in items that could then you are on the hook as well,” said anese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The agreement was customers. be used militarily or for repression, Bradshaw. Even diligent companies signed to license the company’s surveillance software However, luxury goods, precious stones and might inadvertently fall foul of the asset “as early as August 2013.” The International community it has not metals and equipment or technology freezes by dealing with a listed indi- should impose restrictions on agreed any for some oil and gas sectors including vidual or entity in Syria’s opaque the misuse and trade of such Western countries contracts yet exploration and production, refining business climate. hacking tools. say they will and its local and gas liquefaction. The European That risk has grown as Assad has Although, it was not clear not approve represent- sanctions also target Syria’s electricity consolidated control, Bradshaw said: whether communications of reconstruction ative, Nabil network, banning EU companies from “The people who will be commis- those officials were actually Moughrabie, building power plants, supplying tur- sioning the reconstruction efforts and The recent Times hacked or not, but the infor- funding for Syria, based in bines or financing such projects. the people in charge are likely to be the report revealed mation itself was a big shock or drop sanctions, Beirut, said US and EU sanctions include excep- very people targeted by financial that the UAE had to the Arab citizens and the without a political the company tions for humanitarian supplies, and for sanctions. asked an Israeli international community settlement. was waiting items needed by United Nations mis- “The more you can demonstrate closely following the UAE’s for the sions in Syria. The EU also allows com- that your due diligence is reasonable, spyware company political behaviorus and Meanwhile, political panies to carry out work in the energy the better chance you have of per- to hack into the practices in the region and sanctions are climate to and power sectors covered by contracts suading the authorities that they phones of various beyond. making it hard for clear. signed before the sanctions were shouldn’t pursue you,” she said, politicians, The malicious link of UAE “We have imposed. “It’s not for the faint hearted,” warning it may not always be possible to a network of sites tied to foreign companies obstacles. said Anna Bradshaw, a partner at law to spot that a counterparty is leaders and the NSO Group inflamed the to work there. There isn’t firm Peters & Peters in London, who sanctioned. journalists, and social media with serious any direct advises on sanctions. US rules pose a Syrian Finance Minister Mamoun had a particular criticism of the UAE’s shipping from Germany to syria. There bigger risk to companies involved in Hamdan told last week that the sanc- behaviour and aims and was are Syrian banks that cannot receive Syria than EU ones, she said. tions were unjust because they affected interest in spying widely condemned by people any money from Europe, and European American authorities have pursued ordinary people as well as the gov- on Arab nations’ who consider it an open col- companies that are afraid to receive violations more assiduously than the ernment and army. leaders. lusion with Israel against its any more from syria,” he said. EU, where enforcement may be com- Despite the humanitarian exemp- very close brothers. US sanctions on Syria predate the plicated by differences among its 28 tions, sanctions have hit Syrian News of this immoral and crisis, but were extended after Assad’s states in how to interpret rules and healthcare, the World Health Organisa- illegal act has made the crackdown on protests in 2011 and penalties. tion’s Syria representative Elizabeth public opinions recalling the incident of hacking of again as the country slid into war. US sanctions, besides being wider Hoff said. Qatar’s state-run news agency and government social The sanctions have frozen the in scope, have a longer reach: American Sanctions affected procurement of media accounts on May 24, 2017, which paved the way assets of the Syrian state and hundreds jurisdiction extends to the worldwide some medicines by preventing transac- for the ongoing Gulf crisis that began from June 5 last of companies and individuals, including activities of all “US persons”. That term tions with foreign banks and stopping year. government figures, military and includes both American citizens and many international companies from The two lawsuits against the Israel-based NSO Group security personnel and others accused companies, as well as US permanent dealing with Syria, she said. were filed in Israel and Cyprus by a Qatari citizen Abdullah Al Athbah, who came to know that his phone had been targeted by hacking software made by Israel’s NSO Group and cases were filed by five Mexican jour- nalists and activists who were targeted by the company’s S Korea must maintain ties with US over North’s nuclear issue spyware programme. What is the use of UAE’S collusion with Israel against THE NEWS have deadlocked because the Pyongyang should exchange and cooperation the closest brothers and leaders of brotherly countries North ramped up its tactic of proceed with formulating a with the North. such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Lebanon spying on them iplomatic maneu- giving priority to its calls for road map for its aban- It has been agreed by the by using software which is used only for crime and ter- vering has been the lifting of sanctions and donment of nuclear weapons two Koreas that Moon will rorism. This act has revealed the evil intention of the intensifying security guarantees for its while standing at the start line visit Pyongyang in September UAE as a country habitual of violating civil rights. between the United regime while delaying for denuclearization by to confer with Kim. Empha- DStates, which is calling for denuclearization. reporting all its nuclear arms sizing that the development of denuclearization, and North The International Atomic and development programs. the South-North relations is Korea, which is trying to stall and Energy Agency has com- North Korea, which gives the only driving force for proceedings. To make piled a report, confirming that weight to obtaining US guar- denuclearization of the QUOTE OF THE DAY progress on the nuclear issue, the North has been pro- antees of security for its Korean Peninsula, Moon has it is imperative for the inter- ceeding with nuclear devel- regime, has been persistently disclosed his intention to hold The coming months national community, opment programs, including calling for an early decla- within this year a ground- will be critical in including China and South the continued operation of ration of the end of the breaking ceremony for the shaping the future Korea, to maintain pressure nuclear-related facilities in Korean War. The United construction of a railway and by enforcing sanctions against Yongbyon in North Korea’s States has already made a a highway linking the two of our country and I Pyongyang. northwestern region. concession of canceling its Koreas. am clear about my President Donald Trump This is a move that runs joint military exercises with The Moon administration mission conceding has directed Secretary of State counter to a commitment for South Korea. Washington is expediting efforts to open a that there was still a Mike Pompeo to cancel his the “complete denucleari- should not comply with the South-North joint liaison planned visit to North Korea. zation of the Korean North’s demand for a decla- office in Kaesong, North lot more negotiating Trump also said, “At this time Peninsula,” which was made ration of the war’s end as long Korea. By establishing a close to be done. ... I feel we are not making by North Korean leader Kim as it does not take any con- relationship between the two sufficient progress with Jong Un, chairman of the crete action toward Koreas, Moon likely has the Theresa May respect to the denucleari- Workers’ Party of Korea, denuclearization. ulterior motive of bolstering British Prime Minister zation of the Korean during his June summit with A matter of concern is that the South’s position as a Peninsula.” Trump, and thus cannot be South Korean President Moon mediator between the United The bilateral negotiations overlooked. Jae In leans toward promoting States and North Korea. TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPINION 09 Twitter’s trolls are coming for Sweden’s election

witter bots are proliferating in the Oxford report, among them Technology Review, Lisa-Maria in promoting the success of ahead of Sweden’s election the US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Neudert, who is also part of the European far-right parties and they are 40 percent and , parties hired con- Oxford research project, predicted because of their destabilizing more likely to support the sultants to spread propaganda that artificial intelligence of the kind effect. Tanti-immigrant Sweden Democrats online. used to power digital assistants like The political bias of the bots LEONID BERSHIDSKY than human users. Their tools: bots and trolls that Amazon’s Alexa will search out sus- can best be explained as the con- That’s the finding of the coun- amplify fake news, make mali- ceptible users and guide them sequence of the distrust right- BLOOMBERG try’s Defense Research Agency, cious comments, micro-target toward an extremist viewpoint. wing audiences everywhere have which says the social media political messages and engage in Rather than broadcasting of mainstream media, which they platform has moved to suspend “astroturfing,” the creation of propaganda to everyone, these perceive as leftist, internationalist many of these malicious accounts. fake evidence of grassroots bots will direct their activity at and pro-immigrant. Democracies across the world support. influential people or political dis- People who don’t consume need to prepare for this threat: This activity is expanding sidents. They’ll attack individuals mainstream news for these People who don’t Radical parties, with or without beyond its roots on Facebook, with scripted hate speech, over- reasons tend to be the most vul- consume mainstream external help, are using and per- Twitter and YouTube. The Oxford whelm them with spam, or get nerable to this kind of propa- news for these reasons fecting this form of digital propa- researchers noted attempts to their accounts shut down by ganda because they start off with tend to be the most ganda — because it appears to work optimise search-engine results as reporting their content as the belief that the lying media so well. well as the growing use of mes- abusive. ignore, bury or misreport real vulnerable to this kind It’s spreading, too. Sweden didn’t saging platforms such as WhatsApp, There’s a reason Neudert men- news. of propaganda because figure in this year’s list of 48 coun- Snapchat, Telegram, Line, WeChat, tioned extremist viewpoints. Last Anyone who claims to do oth- they start off with the tries where Oxford University’s and even Tinder, a dating app, to year, she published a paper ana- erwise automatically gets their belief that the lying Computational Propaganda spread propaganda. lyzing computational propaganda in trust. In Sweden, almost one in Research Project found evidence of The technology is evolving as Germany. There, the majority of the every five people doesn’t trust the media ignore, bury or social-media manipulation. In 2017, social media platforms try to shut bots supported a far-right agenda. In mainstream media. That 20 misreport real news. there were only 28 such countries. down obvious bot activity. In a the US, the Oxford researchers percent likely intersects with the In 14 of the countries highlighted recent article for the MIT found that on both Facebook and on Sweden Democrats’ 20 percent Twitter, Trump voters and “hard base. conservatives” are responsible for The radical left hasn’t had the bulk of traffic sent to “junk much electoral success yet with news” sites - essentially, propa- slogans of resisting their right- ganda factories. wing counterparts. But if it ever That matches the pattern the does, it will likely be thanks to Swedish Defense Research Agency similar manipulation techniques. found. The Sweden Democrats, The parts of society not served which never garnered the support by professional journalists are of more than 6 percent of voters the ones on which the propa- before 2014, are heading toward ganda experts from all sides are, their best electoral performance, and will keep, lab testing their with polls predicting support for tricks. the grouping could surge to 20 percent. The writer is a Bloomberg Opinion This isn’t about foreign powers columnist covering European pol- trying to influence the election, itics and business. He was the though. Russian troll farms and even founding editor of the Russian intelligence services don’t have business daily Vedomosti and enough fluent Swedish speakers to founded the opinion website get involved on a massive scale, Slon.ru. especially to create fake news resources. So the Swedish authorities aren’t screaming “Russian interference” - even if the Kremlin has an interest

he decision of Brazil’s top elec- task of transferring Lula’s votes to expected runoff, scheduled to take D-RING ROAD toral court to bar former Pres- Haddad, a politician who is not place on October 28. To avoid a second POST BOX: 3488 ident Luiz Inacio “Lula” da instantly recognisable around the round of voting, a candidate would DOHA - QATAR Silva from contesting the country and currently polls at just four need to win more than 50 percent of [email protected] country’sT polls in October has forced percent. “It’s the only strategy available the votes on October 7. his party - and a large chunk of the to them,” said Ribeiro. “But Lula’s pop- In six of the seven presidential Brazilian electorate — into a rethink. ularity means there is a good chance it elections held since Brazil’s return to EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE EUAN MARSHALL TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 AL JAZEERA After a marathon session, the will be successful.” democracy in 1985, the two candidates Superior Electoral Court deemed Lula’s Indeed, Haddad can take heart in with the most votes have come from FAX: +974 4455 7758 candidacy to be ineligible under Bra- the fact that recent polls show 31 the centre-left Workers’ Party and the percent of the electorate would vote centre-right Brazilian Social MANAGING EDITOR for any candidate endorsed by Lula, Democracy Party - a trend set to be TEL: 4462 7505 which would be more than enough to bucked in the upcoming election. propel him into a potential second- Geraldo Alckmin, the Social Dem- DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR What next after Lula’s round runoff with Jair Bolsonaro, a far- ocrat candidate who is seen as TEL: 4455 7769 right candidate with the Social Liberty “market-friendly”, is severely lagging LOCAL NEWS SECTION Party. behind in the polls, despite having the TEL: 4455 7743 election ban? With Lula’s removal from the pres- support of a vast coalition of centrist idential race, Bolsonaro, a former army and centre-right parties. BUSINESS NEWS SECTION captain and Rio de Janeiro con- Alckmin is also considered as the TEL: 4462 7535 gressman since 1991, has emerged as a candidate of the establishment, a par- zil’s “Clean Slate” law, which forbids frontrunner. Due to the long-perceived ticularly damning title given that the SPORT NEWS SECTION those with appeals court convictions inevitability of Lula’s candidacy being current government, under President TEL: 4455 7745 from running for office. blocked by the electoral courts, major Michel Temer, is hugely unpopular. The 72-year-old, who is currently pollsters have been conducting two Alckmin’s broad coalition may yet ONLINE SECTION serving a 12-year prison sentence for different scenarios: one which includes work in his favour, benefitting from TEL: 4462 7501 corruption and money laundering, has the former president, and one without the start of election campaign mes- [email protected] been a clear leader in all opinion polls him. sages broadcasted on television and In opinion polls without Lula, Bol- radio. held so far in the run-up to the October PUBLIC RELATIONS sonaro appears ahead of all compet- In Brazil, free airtime is distributed 7 elections. TEL: 4455 7613 among the parties in accordance with His leftist Workers’ Party, which itors, with a vote share varying [email protected] has promised to “fight through all between 20 and 22 percent. Bolsonaro their number of seats in the lower house of Congress, with Alckmin’s means to secure his candidacy”, is has managed to present himself as a ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT numerous alliances giving him the expected to file an extraordinary credible outsider candidate, despite a TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 appeal to the Federal Supreme Court track record of homophobic and racist lion’s share. With Lula’s FAX: 4455 7870 this weekend. statements. In each commercial block of 12 [email protected] removal from the Ricardo Ribeiro, a political analyst The far-right politician has a bel- minutes and 30 seconds, the Social presidential race, at MCM Consultores, told that the ligerent stance on crime, declaring in a Democrat candidate will be allotted CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT five minutes and 32 seconds. In com- Bolsonaro, a former success of the court appeal depends on recent TV interview that police officers TEL: 4455 7857 which judge hears the case. “If it goes who “kill 10, 15, or 20 people” should parison, Bolsonaro will receive just [email protected] army captain and to [Supreme Court Justice] Ricardo be rewarded and not punished. eight seconds. “Alckmin’s biggest Rio de Janeiro Lewandowski, there is a chance that Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mauricio opponent isn’t the Workers’ Party, as it SUBSCRIPTION & congressman he will grant an injunction in favour of Santoro, a political scientist and pro- has been in years past,” said Santoro. DISTRIBUTION since 1991, has Lula’s candidacy,” said Ribeiro. fessor of international relations at Rio “Now, it’s Jair Bolsonaro.” TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 Still, the Workers’ Party is expected de Janeiro State Uni- emerged as a FAX: 44557819 to decide on a new candidate to versity, stressed that for a [email protected] frontrunner. Due to replace Lula — while its Federal significant portion of the long-perceived Supreme Court request is pending. voters, “Bolsonaro has been able to establish inevitability of According to the electoral court decision, the party has 10 days from himself as the spokes- All thoughts and views Lula’s candidacy Saturday to nominate a new presi- person for the feelings of expressed in these columns being blocked by dential candidate, with all signs anger and revolt which are those of the writers, the electoral courts, pointing towards Fernando Haddad, many Brazilians feel Lula’s running mate and a former today”. not of the newspaper. major pollsters have mayor of Sao Paulo. Bolsonaro is popular been conducting A party meeting in the city of among young, educated, All correspondence two different Curitiba, when Haddad’s candidacy is middle-class male voters. regarding Views and scenarios: one which likely to be confirmed. If Lula’s While his support appears Supreme Court appeal is successful, to have hit a plateau, it has Opinion pages should be includes the former the Workers’ Party will still be able to not yet dropped, sug- send to editor-in-chief president, and one put the former president back on the gesting that he has a solid office or mailed to the without him. ballot. voter base, which is likely If not, the party will face the uphill to push him into the [email protected] 10 ASIA / EUROPE TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 Philippines and Israel sign three agreements

AP The two leaders Latin America, where many oversaw the signing countries have historically JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime of three agreements shunned Israel over its Minister Benjamin Netanyahu treatment of the Palestinians. extended a warm welcome to in trade, science and But Netanyahu has come Philippine President Rodrigo care-giving. under fire for embracing Duterte yesterday at the start of Duterte, whose forces are an official visit, despite being accused of killing thousands in criticised for embracing a leader the support given by Filipino anti-drug raids since he took accused of human rights abuses caretakers for the elderly.” office in 2016. Duterte drew in his deadly drug crackdown. Duterte thanked Israel for outrage that year when he com- The two leaders oversaw the hosting some 28,000 Filipino pared his anti-drug campaign signing of three agreements in workers and for assisting his to the Holocaust, and himself to trade, science and care-giving. country in its times of need. Hitler. He later apologised. Netanyahu highlighted the “We share the same passion Official Philippine police countries’ long friendship, how for peace, we share the same tallies place the number of sus- A Filipina takes a selfie with an effigy of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as fellow Filipinos await the the Philippines took in Jewish passion for human beings but pects killed in police-led anti- arrival of their President at the start of an official visit to Israel. refugees after World War II and also we share the same passion drug raids at more than 4,500 was the only Asian nation to of not allowing our country to since Duterte took office. Inter- vote for Israel’s establishment. be destroyed by those who have national human rights He noted how in recent years the corrupt ideology, who know watchdogs have cited far higher Duterte apologises for insulting Obama Filipino health aides have nothing but to kill and destroy. death tolls. Duterte, a 73-year- AFP assisted the elderly in Israel, And in this sense Israel can old former government prose- violent drug crackdown, which also to say at this time to Mr. including Netanyahu’s own expect any help that the Philip- cutor, denies condoning extra- has been a target for interna- Obama that you are now a father. “We remember our pines can extend to your judicial killings but has openly JERUSALEM: Philippine leader tional condemnation. civilian and I am sorry for friends, and that friendship has country,” he said at a joint threatened drug dealers with Rodrigo Duterte has apologised However, the Philippine uttering those words,” Duterte blossomed over the years and appearance with Netanyahu. death. to former US president Barack president said his nation’s rela- said in a speech before Filipinos especially over the last few The visit is the first by a Phil- He also visited yesterday the Obama for abusing him in 2016, tionship with America has since in Israel. years,” Netanyahu told Duterte. ippine president to Israel since Yad Vashem Holocaust which sparked a new low in improved under President Duterte cursed Obama “There has been a remarkable the countries established diplo- memorial in Jerusalem and later their nations’ long alliance. Donald Trump, who he ahead of a regional summit in phenomenon in Israel where matic relations in 1957. a monument commemorating Duterte lobbed the insult in described as a “good friend” Laos two years ago prompting thousands and thousands of Netanyahu has worked to cul- the Philippines’ rescue of Jews response to steady criticism who “speaks my language”. the US to cancel a meeting families have taken heart from tivate allies in Asia, Africa and during the Holocaust. from the United States over his “It would be appropriate between the two leaders there.

Inter-Korean talks Japan claims China ‘escalating’ military activities ‘under way’ AFP including carrying out new air- country. This has become a sig- in the East China Sea, aggra- War era and is bringing powerful over liaison office borne operations around Japan nificant concern for our coun- vating tensions with Beijing. weapons, including ground-to- ANATOLIA TOKYO: Japan’s defence chief and running a nuclear submarine try’s defence,” he said. But he has since softened his air missiles, to the disputed yesterday warned the country near disputed East Coast isles. Onodera made the remarks rhetoric, and called on China to Southern Kuril islands, he said. faces a tough security envi- “China has been rapidly as Tokyo attempts to improve its press North Korea to give up its “We are seeing movement to SEOUL: The Koreas are ronment, with China and Russia improving its military strength tense diplomatic ties with nuclear and missile programmes. again push forward its military actively engaged in “consul- stepping up military activity and and fast increasing its military Beijing, with Prime Minister Japanese businesses have also activities in the Far East,” he said. tations” over launching a joint North Korea posing “imminent activities,” Onodera told an Shinzo Abe expected to visit voiced desire for closer ties with Onodera also repeated that liaison office in the North’s threats”. annual gathering of the top brass Japan’s biggest trade partner China to boost trade. North Korea continues to pose a border town of Kaesong, the Defence Minister Itsunori of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. next month. Onodera said Russia was also “serious and imminent threat” South’s Unification Ministry Onodera said China had been “It is unilaterally escalating On coming to power, Abe flexing its military muscle. to Japan, despite international said yesterday. “unilaterally escalating” its mil- its military activities in the sea took a firm position on Japan’s Moscow is planning to hold diplomacy intended to convince The facility had been itary activities in the past year, and aviation spaces around our claims to a disputed island chain its biggest drill since the Cold Pyongyang to denuclearise. expected to start up by the end of August, following an agreement reached between Seoul and Pyongyang during April’s first inter-Korean Cambodian government critic summit in over a decade. South Korean President flees after receiving threats Moon Jae-in recently her- alded the “opening of an era REUTERS August 30. The embassy in which the South and North declined to comment. communicate with each other PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian Tens of thousands protested 24 hours a day, 356 days a political analyst said yesterday the murder of prominent year”. he has fled the country after activist Kem Ley, many of However, Seoul’s presi- receiving threats since his whom said they suspected a dential office also said late release from a 1-1/2 year political motive in his death. A last month the plan needed sentence for accusing Prime man was jailed for life last year to be reviewed amid souring Minister Hun Sen’s party of for the killing and testified that ties between its ally the orchestrating the 2016 murder he killed Kem Ley over a debt. United States and North of government critic Kem Ley. Human rights groups and Korea. Kim Sok, who has a six- Kem Ley’s supporters said they The South Korean gov- year-old daughter, was were skeptical of the convicted ernment was specifically released on August 17 and since man’s testimony. The family worried about US President then has criticised Hun Sen’s said the activist did not owe any Donald Trump’s decision to appointment to government of money. cancel Secretary of State Mike US soldiers take part in the opening ceremony of the “Rapid Trident-2018” international military some leaders of parties that Hun Sen, whose Cambodian Pompeo’s scheduled trip to exercises in Starychi, outside Lviv, yesterday. participated but won no seats People’s Party (CPP) swept all North Korea last week. in July 29 elections. parliamentary seats in largely He told Reuters that on unopposed elections, said on August 29 he received six anon- August 29 that Kim Sok must launches joint military drills with Nato Malaysian finance ymous calls in which he was pay a $200,000 court fine AFP told: “’I know you have a dating from his conviction or of Starychi until September 15, military exercises since the Cold minister cleared in daughter and if you don’t stop return to prison. involve some 2,200 soldiers War, in the east of the country talking, you must be careful.’” Phay Siphan, a spokesman STARYCHI, UKRAINE: Ukraine from 14 countries. and with the participation of corruption case “I and my daughter are seeking for the Cambodian government, yesterday launched joint “(The participants) stand in China and Mongolia. AFP asylum in a third country,” he said Kim Sok was lying. military exercises with the solidarity with Ukraine, for A spokesman for the said. “Once my daughter is safe, “This is his intention to do United States and a string of Ukrainian security, Ukrainian Ukrainian drills Taras Gren said I will go back to Cambodia and anything to get asylum abroad other Nato countries as tensions sovereignty, and Ukrainian ter- that some 350 pieces of military KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s continue my advocacy,” he without having to care about with Russia remain high over ritorial integrity,” the US Ambas- equipment will be used during finance minister was added. truth and laws,” Phay Siphan the Kremlin-backed insurgency sador to Ukraine Marie Yovano- the exercises. yesterday cleared of He declined to say where told Reuters. “Like the prime in the country’s east. vitch said at the opening The Ukrainian Border Guard corruption charges brought he had gone but said he had minister has said, if you want The annual Rapid Trident ceremony. Service and the National Guard against him by the former reported the threats to a U.S. to get asylum, just curse him,” military exercises, taking place The drills start a week troops will be involved for the government, which critics embassy in Phnom Penh on he said. in the western Ukrainian village before Russia holds its biggest first time, he said. said were a bid to neutralise a potent political threat, official media reported. Lim Guan Eng is a leading politician in the reformist alliance that unexpectedly Outrage in Romania over video clip by Valcov swept to power at May elec- AFP Klaus Iohannis, a strong gov- 2013, as a “Nazi organisation”. saying the clip “was extremely the prime minister also urging tions, toppling the coalition ernment critic and ethnic Valcov, a former finance damaging, undermining the Valcov’s dismissal. The gov- that had ruled Malaysia for 61 BUCHAREST: A Romanian German, sporting a hairstyle and minister of the ruling Social presidency and the memory of ernment, long besieged by anti- years and was criticised for government adviser sparked moustache like Adolf Hitler. Democrats who is appealing an the Holocaust victims”. corruption protests, came under becoming increasingly outrage yesterday after posting Under the photo, it reads eight-year-prison sentence for FDGR president Paul-Jurgen renewed pressure last month fol- authoritarian. a video clip comparing the coun- “Heil Iohannis” with a Nazi corruption meted out by a court Porr said that such attacks were lowing violent clashes when Lim was a vocal critic of try’s president to Hitler as salute. The video, posted by the in February, removed the video “deplorable, even more so as 80,000 Romanians rallied in the former leader Najib political tensions simmer after left-wing government’s advisor, after a flood of outraged Romania gets ready to take over Bucharest. More than 450 people Razak, who allegedly had a mass anti-corruption protests Darius Valcov, on Facebook, also comment. the EU rotating presidency” from were injured after security forces central role in a massive last month. describes the group Democratic Opposition National Liberal Austria in January next year. charged protesters with teargas, financial scandal that helped The clip shows an altered Forum of Germans in Romania Party spokesman Ionel Danca He said his group would drawing strong criticism from persuade voters to boot him photo of centre-right President (FDGR), which Iohannis led until called for Valcov’s dismissal, write a letter to Iohannis. out of power. TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 EUROPE 11 Putin wants to Merkel urges citizens to stand up against hate AFP

CHEMNITZ: Chancellor Angela ‘dismantle’ EU, Merkel yesterday urged Germans to stand up against the far right’s message of hate and division, after the eastern city of claims Macron Chemnitz was rocked by xeno- phobic protests. Scenes of far-right protesters BLOOMBERG chasing down foreign-looking people in violent demonstrations PARIS: French President last week against the fatal weighed in Macron said that stabbing of a man, allegedly by on Sweden’s looming election, an Iraqi national, shocked condemning the nationalist Putin’s vision is to Germany. candidate who threatens an dismantle Europe, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen upset in next weekend’s vote. and that Sweden’s Seibert said it was under- “This person is not com- eastern neighbour standable that such crime would pliant with your story and your provoke sadness and concern values,” Macron told Sweden’s doesn’t share the among the population. SVT Television in an interview. same human rights But the marches by “vio- The 40-year-old French values as the rest of lence-prone right-wing leader was referring to a the Continent. extremists and neo-Nazis have Chancellor (centre) with representatives from German unions and industry before statement by Sweden’s nation- nothing in the least to do with the meeting, in the government’s guesthouse, Schloss Meseberg, in Meseberg, Germany, yesterday. alist figure and chief of the sadness for a person or with Sweden Democrats, Jimmie where he clashed with Deputy concern for a city’s cohesion”, right protesters. But the criticism of the right- circumstances,” Joerg Meuthen, Akesson, who declined to dif- Prime Minister Matteo Salvini he said. “We must make that clear wing extremist protesters was AfD co-chief said at a street fes- ferentiate between Macron and over the latter’s anti-immi- “These people who march to them,” be it through political immediately rejected by far- tival in Bavaria. Russian President Vladimir gration stance. and are prone to violence, they or legal means, he said. right party AfD. After a weekend of rival pro- Putin in an earlier interview. Macron is now focusing stand neither for Chemnitz nor “Every citizen can also raise “An entire state and its tests in Chemnitz that saw far- Sweden’s general election much of his attentions on next for Saxony overall, neither are his or her voice to clearly show people are vilified here in right demonstrators vastly out- on September 9 could rewrite year’s elections to the European they ‘the people’,” said Seibert, them their attitude against hate, general because there is a dis- number counter-protesters by the political rule book with the Parliament, saying last week referring to a popular “We are against the attempt to divide this tinct and understandable 8,000 to 3,000, calls have grown rise of the Sweden Democrats, that Salvini and Hungarian the people” chant used by far- country.” resentment about the for the silent majority to mobilise. a nationalist party with roots in Prime Minister Viktor Orban the country’s white supremacy were right to see him as the movement. Despite having main opponent in their bid to been ostracised by the main- bring trigger a nationalist wave France bans stream parties, the group’s of support. Migrant jailed for German girl’s murder message of halting immigration In his interview, Macron AP has resonated with voters after said that Putin’s vision is to dis- The verdict comes at a time Afghan and he was tried as a mobile phone a record inflow of foreigners mantle Europe, and that Swe- when Germany is struggling to minor. over the past few years. den’s eastern neighbour doesn’t BERLIN: A migrant was come to terms with the influx of Abdul D said he was 15 at the use in school “I think it’s for your voters share the same human rights convicted yesterday of more than one million migrants time of the murder, but an age and your people to react to that. values as the rest of the murdering his 15-year-old since 2015. evaluation during the trial con- AFP I think it says a lot,” Macron said Continent. German ex-girlfriend and Because of privacy rules, the cluded he was at least 17, dpa of Akesson’s stance on Putin. “I do respect sentenced to 8.5 years in prison, victim in the Kandel stabbing reported. The Swedish politician “doesn’t and I am one of the leaders who the German news agency dpa has been identified only as Mia Young asylum-seekers, PARIS: Texting under the know the right ranking of says we need to construct a new reported. and the migrant as Abdul D, who especially unaccompanied table should be a thing of the values and interests,” Macron security and defense archi- The stabbing of the 15-year- was also convicted of assault at minors, have more privileges past after French children said. tecture with Russia. We need old girl at a drugstore in the the district court in Landau. and get better care in Germany returned to class yesterday The French president has this discussion with Russia,” southwestern town of Kandel in Authorities did not confirm than older asylum-seekers, following a nationwide ban fanned controversy by com- Macron said. “But Putin’s dream December 2017 shocked the perpetrator’s nationality and which is why some of them lie on mobile phones in schools. menting on domestic politics is the dismantling of the Germany and fueled a debate his age, but German media have about their age when they apply The new rule, a campaign before, most recently in Italy European Union.” about violence by migrants. reported that he is most likely for asylum. pledge of President Emmanuel Macron, was brought in under a law passed in July which for primary and junior schools Brexit: Johnson slams UK Premier over Chequers plan also banishes tablets and smart watches. High schools, which teach AP Conservative government over wrote. “We won’t have taken past the Conservative Party, Brit- students aged 15 to 18, can how close an economic rela- back control - we will have lost ain’s Parliament and the introduce partial or total bans LONDON: Former British tionship to seek with EU. control.” European Union. on electronic devices as they Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson A proposal hammered out by May’s official spokesman, The deal has been received reopen after the summer (pictured) slammed Prime May’s Cabinet in July at the prime James Slack, said Johnson’s coolly by EU leaders, who warn break, though this will not be Minister Theresa May’s Brexit minister’s Chequers country opposition to the Chequers plan Britain cannot “cherry pick” obligatory. policy in a newspaper column retreat proposes keeping the UK was well known, and there were aspects of membership in the Proponents said the law, yesterday, heightening specu- aligned to EU regulations in “no new ideas in this article to bloc without the full cost and which has prompted vigorous lation that he plans to challenge return for free trade in goods. respond to.” responsibilities. debate, will reduce dis- her leadership. The plan infuriated Brexit- “What we need at this time On Monday Conservative traction in the classroom, Johnson wrote in the Daily backers in May’s Conservative is serious leadership with a supporters of “soft Brexit” put combat bullying, and Telegraph that May’s so-called party including Johnson, who serious plan and that’s exactly forward a rival proposal, arguing encourage children to be Chequers plan for continued quit the government in protest. what the country has with this that Britain should stay in the more physically active during close economic ties with the Johnson claims the Chequers prime minister and this Brexit EU’s single market for goods and recess. European Union would leave deal would prevent the UK from plan,” he said. services for three years after Nearly 90 percent of Britain tethered to the bloc and $51bn divorce bill in return “for striking new trade deals around With Parliament due to Brexit while it negotiates a future French 12- to 17-year-olds getting little in return. two-thirds of diddly squat.” the world. return today from its summer free trade deal with the bloc - a have a mobile phone, and Johnson said that Britain has Britain is due to leave the EU “We will remain in the EU break, Johnson and his fellow plan summed up as “, supporters hope the ban will “gone into battle with the white in March, but negotiations on a taxi; but this time locked in the Brexit enthusiasts are not the then Canada,” a reference to limit the spread of violent and flag fluttering over our leading divorce deal have stalled amid boot (trunk), with absolutely no only obstacle Theresa May faces those countries’ trade relations pornographic content among tank” and had agreed to pay a divisions within May’s say on the destination,” Johnson as she tries to get her Brexit deal with the EU. children.

Five dead as bus ploughs into Spanish bridge pillar Spain tourist arrivals AFP drop by 4.9% in July AFP MADRID: Five people died and 20 others were injured yesterday when a bus crashed MADRID: The number of foreign tourists visiting Spain in July fell into the pillar of a viaduct in for the first time in nearly a decade, official data showed yesterday, northern Spain, authorities said. as European sunseekers returned to cheaper rival sunshine desti- The accident took place in nations like Turkey and Tunisia. Aviles in the Asturias region, a Spain, where tourism accounts for around 10 percent of the spokeswoman for emergency economy, has enjoyed a surge in international visitors to its cities services said. and beaches in recent years partly due to security concerns in other “Five people have died,” a popular sunshine destinations in the Middle East and North Africa. spokesman for the central gov- The country surpassed the United States last year to become ernment’s representative office the world’s second most visited country after France as the number in Asturias added — all of them of arrivals in 2017 — 82 million — beat records for the fifth straight passengers. year. Among the 20 injured was Visitor numbers to Spain fell 4.9 percent to just under 10 million the driver, who had to have a in July over the same month last year, figures released by national limb amputated, the spokesman statistics institute INE showed, the first drop during the key summer said. holiday month since 2009. Photos published in local The number of Britons visiting fell by 5.6 percent, with the weak media showed the front of the pound making it more expensive to visit eurozone nations like Spain. bus split in half by the pillar. Foreign visitor numbers during the first seven months of the The bus was travelling on a Civil guards survey the wreckage of a bus crash which left at least five people dead, in Aviles, year inched up by just 0.3 percent to 47 million, compared to the highway at the base of the Spain, yesterday. double-digit growth recorded in 2016 and 2017. viaduct when the accident hap- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shrugged off the decline in visitor pened, the causes of which are It is the worst bus crash foreign students, most of them in the northeastern region of numbers in July during an interview with radio Cadena Ser, saying still unknown. since March 2016, when 13 from Italy, died in a bus accident Catalonia. arrivals numbers overall were still “historically high”. 12 AMERICAS TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 Kavanaugh faces tough hearings in Congress AFP and written on some of the nation’s most sensitive cases, WASHINGTON: President including when he opposed the Donald Trump’s newest Some two dozen Affordable Care Act, the sig- Supreme Court nominee Brett nature health reform of Pres- Kavanaugh is expected to face witnesses are lined ident Barack Obama that Trump punishing questioning from up to argue for and has sought to dismantle. Democrats this week over his against confirming “There is no one in America endorsement of presidential Brett Kavanaugh, more qualified for this position immunity. and no one more deserving,” Some two dozen witnesses who could swing the Trump said in announcing are lined up to argue for and nine-member high Kavanaugh’s nomination. against confirming Kavanaugh, court decidedly in Kavanaugh’s record of court who could swing the nine- opinions and legal analyses member high court decidedly in conservatives’ favour shows a mainstream conserv- conservatives’ favour for years for years to come. ative supportive of corporations A massive fire engulfs the National Museum, one of Brazil’s oldest, in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday. to come. against regulation, and — Democrats have mobilised despite his work in the Clinton heavily to prevent his approval, conservative from a wealthy case — holding beliefs that a arguing that while Trump faces Washington suburb, has the sitting president should not be investigation for alleged backing of powerful right-wing distracted by legal proceedings Blaze destroys 200-year-old Brazil museum obstruction of justice and pos- judicial groups and deeply reli- against him. AP sible collusion by his campaign gious — both of which are key “The elephant in the room on President Michel Temer said Connected to the Federal with Russia, he should not be constituents of the Republican Tuesday is going to be the pres- it was “a sad day for all University of Rio de Janeiro, the able to choose a judge who voter base. ident’s implication as an unin- RIO DE JANEIRO: A massive Brazilians.” museum has expositions that could cast a decisive vote in his Kavanaugh began his career dicted co-conspirator in very, fire tore through a 200-year-old “Two hundred years of include anthropology, archae- case. as a clerk to Anthony Kennedy, very serious criminal wrong- museum in Rio de Janeiro work, investigation and ology and paleontology, among When Kavanaugh appears the justice long considered a doing,” said Blumenthal. yesterday, lighting up the night knowledge have been lost,” others. before the Senate Judiciary critical swing vote on Supreme He was referring to the and sending plumes of smoke Temer said in a statement. The vice director of the Committee on Tuesday for the Court, who retired at the end of assertion by former Trump into the air as firefighters tried According to the museum’s museum, Luiz Fernando Dias first of up to four days of July. lawyer Michael Cohen in a to save historical relics from the website, it has more than Duarte, said the museum suf- hearings, Democrats aim to In the 1990s, he worked recent plea deal that then-can- flames. 20,000 items related to the fered chronic underfunding. show that his record as a judge with special prosecutor Kenneth didate Trump had directed him The esteemed National history of Brazil and other coun- “Everybody wants to be sup- and a former White House legal Starr in his probe of president in late 2016 to make a payment Museum in northern Rio, which tries, and that many of its col- portive now. We never had ade- counsel is coloured by extremist Bill Clinton’s affair with White to a film star in possible vio- houses artefacts from Egypt, lections came from members of quate support,” he said. views. House intern Monica Lewinsky, lation of election law. Greco-Roman art and some of Brazil’s royal family. Latin America’s largest nation They are concerned about which led to Clinton’s Democrats are also angry the first fossils found in Brazil, Roberto Robadey, a has struggled to emerge from its his views that the president impeachment trial. that the Trump administration was closed to the public at the spokesman for the fire worst recession in decades. The should be immune from inves- In 2001, he joined President has not released all the records time of the fire and there were department, said 80 firefighters state of Rio de Janeiro has been tigation and prosecution while George Bush’s White House legal of Kavanaugh’s work while he no reports of injuries, it said in were working to put out the particularly hard hit in recent in office — issues that could come team, where his role in key ter- was in the White House. a statement. blaze and that some pieces had years thanks to a combination of before the Supreme Court if rorism-related decisions. But Republicans insist that It wasn’t immediately clear been spared. falling world prices of oil, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller As a US Court of Appeals his judicial history shows a fully how the fire began. The museum “We were able to remove a its major revenue sources, mis- determines Trump violated laws. judge in Washington for the past qualified jurist able to see all said the blaze began around lot of things from inside with the management and massive Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old 11 years, Kavanaugh has ruled sides of the law. 7:30pm. help of workers of the museum”. corruption.

Tropical Storm Trump lashes out at union leader on Labor Day Gordon forecast AP News Sunday” over the weekend it’s questionable whether Trump from generic competition. “Gas prices have been up to gain strength where he said efforts to overhaul can unilaterally exclude Canada Trump wants to get a trade since the first of the year. So, REUTERS WASHINGTON: President the North American Free Trade from a deal to replace the three- deal finalised by December 1. overall, workers aren’t doing as Donald Trump started his Labor Agreement should include nation NAFTA agreement, Trumka also said of Trump: well.” Day with an attack on a top Canada. without the approval of Con- “the things that he’s done to hurt Yesterday, Trump touted the MIAMI: A tropical storm union leader, lashing out after Trumka, whose organisation gress. Any such move would workers outpace what he’s done economy, saying “Our country whipped the southern tip of criticism from AFL-CIO Pres- is an umbrella group for most likely face lengthy legal and con- to help workers,” arguing that is doing better than ever before Florida with high winds and ident Richard Trumka. unions, said the economies of the gressional challenges. Trump has not come through with unemployment setting rain yesterday and was Trump tweeted yesterday United States, Canada and Trump administration nego- with an infrastructure program record lows.” He added, “The forecast to gain strength as it that Trumka “represented his Mexico are “integrated” and “it’s tiations to keep Canada in the and has overturned regulations Worker in America is doing passed over the Gulf of Mexico union poorly on television this pretty hard to see how that reimagined trade bloc are to that “will hurt us on the job.” better than ever before. Cele- toward Louisiana, officials said. weekend.” He added: “it is easy would work without having resume this week as Washington Asked about the low unem- brate Labor Day!” Tropical Storm Gordon to see why unions are doing so Canada in the deal.” and Ottawa try to break a ployment rate and economic The unemployment rate of was forecast to drop as much poorly. ” Trump said on Twitter that deadlock over issues such as growth, Trumka said “those are 3.9 percent is not at the best as 20cm of rain in some areas The president’s attack came there was “no political necessity” Canada’s dairy market and US good, but wages have been down point ever — it is near the lowest of the US South still reeling after Trumka appeared on “Fox to keep Canada in NAFTA. But efforts to shield drug companies since the first of the year.” in 18 years. from hurricanes a year ago. The storm was generating winds of 72 kmh yesterdayas it steamed west-northwest at 27 kmh, National Hurricane Brazil court bans Lula Center Director Kenneth Graham said in a video poll campaign ads briefing on Facebook. “It looks like for the next REUTERS known as TSE, barred the jailed three or four days we’re going former president from running to be having to really watch BRASÍLIA : Brazil’s top elec- in this year’s presidential race close,” Graham said, “and toral court has banned political because of a corruption remember if you’re even campaign ads showing former conviction. inland you can get some of president Luiz Inacio Lula Da TSE set a $123,000 real fine these heavy rainfall totals so Silva as a candidate, according in case the order to remove Lula now is the time to be to a ruling made in response from the ads is breached. prepared.” to a complaint by the Novo Da Silva has been banned Last year, hurricanes wal- party. from running for president in loped Texas, Florida and Novo made the complaint October after months of com- Puerto Rico, causing thou- after Lula appeared as a can- motion that had tainted what is sands of deaths, hundreds of didate on a radio ad on Sat- already the most unpredictable billions of dollars in damage, urday, hours after the court, election in decades. massive power outages. Ministers from a dozen Latin American nations during a meeting on Venezuelan migrant crisis that has jolted the region, at the Foreign Ministry, in Quito, yesterday. LatAm nations discuss migrant crisis 8 hurt in gunfire at California apartment REUTERS the information we need to help initially received conflicting AFP scheduled to conclude with a received the bulk of migrants us locate a suspect or what led reports, he said. joint statement today, the host flowing out of Venezuela. LOS ANGELES: Eight people to the shooting or anything else,” The shooting happened QUITO: Ministers from a dozen Ecuador said. The EU announced a $35m were shot at a San Bernardino, Lawhead said in a phone during a hot holiday weekend Latin American nations began “A regional effort will help aid package on Friday to support California apartment complex, interview. in San Bernardino, a city of more a two-day meeting in Ecuador our countries respond better to Venezuelans both at home and including a 17-year-old boy who Two people, including the than 216,000 residents about yesterday on how they can these situations, so that we can in host countries. was in critical condition, police 17-year-old boy, were hospi- 96km east of Los Angeles. cooperate to end the massive coordinate efforts and provide Ministers from Argentina, said yesterday. talised in extremely critical con- San Bernardino was the Venezuelan migrant crisis that humanitarian assistance to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Police in the Southern Cali- dition, Lawhead said. scene of a 2015 mass shooting has jolted the region. people on the move,” Ecuador’s Chile, Mexico, Panama, Par- fornia city were unsure what The conditions of the other in which a husband and wife Officials discussed calls for Foreign Minister Jose Valencia aguay, Peru, the Dominican motivated the shooting yes- six people were not immediately killed 14 people and wounded international funding for over- told reporters ahead of the talks. Republic, and Uruguay will be terday in an outdoor common known. Victims were taken to 22 others before police shot the whelmed public services and Colombia, Ecuador and Peru present at the Quito meeting, area where a group of people three hospitals. couple to death. The couple was whether to impose tighter restric- have all called for more funding Ecuadoran officials said. had gathered, said San Ber- Police initially said 10 inspired by IS extremists, tions to curb migrant flows in the from developed countries to “Venezuela and its ally nardino police spokesman people had been hit by gunfire authorities said. first concerted drive to agree a assist their utterly overwhelmed Bolivia have also been invited, Captain Richard Lawhead. at the apartment complex, but There was no indication that common policy on the crisis. public services. but by late Sunday had not sig- “Right now, nobody is coop- Lawson later said a total of eight the gunfire was in any way con- The two-day meeting is The three countries have nalled they would attend.” erating and providing us with people had been shot. Police had nected to the 2015 shooting. 20 HOME TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2018

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 57 AM Mathaf to host renowned Iraqi artist SHOROOK 05. 15 AM THE PENINSULA ZUHR 11. 33 AM MAGHRIB 05. 52 PM ASR 03. 02 PM ISHA 07. 22 PM DOHA: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art will host a series of work- shops delivered by established Iraqi WEATHER TODAY artist Salim Matkhour, who will introduce emerging talents, art teachers and university students to the techniques of watercolour painting. The workshops are part of Mathaf’s popular Artist Encounters programme which invites artists to discuss art con- cepts and lead sessions that introduce participants to different creative proc- esses. The programme is one of several educational initiatives presented by Mathaf to provide art enthusiasts tools One of the paintings by Iraqi artist Salim Matkhour. RIGHT: Salim Matkhour during his work. to appreciate the complexities of the visual language. The three-hour workshops, which participants to his dream-like artistic reflect their working styles and cre- emerge from the humanitarian and will be conducted in Arabic, will be style, evident by his distinguished tech- ative processes. political crises in Syria and the Middle held daily from September 23 to Sep- niques and use of texture and colors. The upcoming fall season is set to East. tember 27 from 4pm to 7pm at the Maryam Al Attiya, Head of Art Pro- be a busy one for Mathaf. The museum Two Focus exhibitions will also be Manara learning space inside the grams Section at Mathaf, said: “Mathaf has recently announced a series of on view at the same time, continuing museum. aspires to become a resource that ground-breaking exhibitions that shed the in-depth display series dedicated Based in Qatar since 1999, Salim introduces visitors to Arab artists and light on key chapters of Arab modern to historical artists from the museum’s Mathkour is an established figure in celebrates their contributions to the art. Revolution Generation, curated by Collection. Fateh Al Moudarres: Colour, the country’s creative community and global art world. Thus, educational Abdellah Karroum, will introduce Extensity and Sense, guest curated by has previously exhibited in a number programmes are at the core of our artists as vital actors of social change Sara Raza and JassimZaini: Represen- of locations in Qatar and beyond. community engagement initiatives. We since the 50s when it opens on October tation and Abstraction, curated by Although his work appears to be are incredibly proud to host Salim 17. Fatma Mostafawi will introduce vis- o o inspired by daily life, the scenes are Matkhour, an artist known for his In parallel, Mathaf will also present itors to the two artists’ creative vision 32 C 38 C created as optimistic social and urban unique style and poignant paintings.” an exhibition by Mounira Al Solh, “I and the contexts that shaped their landscapes in opposition to the reality Since its launch, the Artist strongly believe in our right to be friv- works. Minimum Maximum of conflicts that made him choose exile Encounters programme has been olous,” curated by Hendrik Folkerts Those interested to attend Artist Misty to foggy at places by early morning, from his hometown of Baghdad. Salim incredibly successful with emerging and Laura Barlow. In the series of Encounters may register through: becomes hot and relatively humid day- has conducted several workshops in artists such as Fahad Al Maadheed and drawings, the exhibition collects per- https://form.jotform. time, humid by night. the past, where he introduced Eman Al Hidous leading sessions that sonal histories and experiences that me/82441159475461

HIGH TIDE 12:30 – 22:15 LOW TIDE 04:30 – 19:45 Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department QA congratulates organisers of 18th Asian Games THE PENINSULA Qatar Airways Group Chief Exec- utive, Akbar Al Baker, said “Qatar DOHA: Qatar Airways extends its Airways was delighted to see such a congratulations to the organisers of fitting end to the 18th Asian Games the 18th Asian Games Jakarta Pale- Jakarta Palembang 2018, which has mbang 2018 for providing a spec- been a successful and exciting tour- tacular, star-studded closing nament from start to finish. As the ceremony to the prestigious compe- Prestige Partner and Official Airline tition, featuring a host of Asia’s most of this world-class sporting event, celebrated dancers, musicians and Qatar Airways has been extremely artists at the Gelora Bung Karno proud to play such a significant part (GBK) Main Stadium, Jakarta, in uniting fans from around the globe, September 2. something which is central to the air- The national carrier of Qatar is line’s belief in the power of sport and The national team members at the Hamad International Airport before the proud to have been the Prestige its ability to bring people together”. departure to Indonesia for the 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018. Partner and Official Airline for the “We now have the privilege of games, which saw the nation’s most transporting more than 200 of our talented athletes bring home a total national athletes home to share the This is the second time that Qatar Official Airline of the 15th Asian of 13 winning medals including six celebration of their incredible Airways has sponsored the pres- Games Doha 2006, in what was the Gold, four Silver and three Bronze, success with the people of Qatar,” he tigious Asian Games; the multiple largest sporting event in the history across several sporting events. added. award-winning airline was also the of Qatar at the time. CMU-Q welcomes Class of 2022 Katara International THE PENINSULA business administration, com- embark on this new journey and within your community.” Hunting and Falcons puter science and information take advantage of these oppor- Dr. Al Malki is the founding DOHA: Carnegie Mellon systems. tunities, keep in mind that your dean of the College of Human- Exhibition starts today University in Qatar (CMU-Q) Dr. Amal Mohammed Al degree, important as it is, should ities and Social Sciences at THE PENINSULA welcomed the incoming Malki delivered an inspiring not be the sum total of your Hamad Bin Khalifa University. by experts in this field, in students at the Class of 2022 address during the ceremony. life’s achievements. Look She was part of the CMU-Q addition to awareness lectures convocation ceremony. “CMU-Q’s interdisciplinary around you to see how you can faculty for more than a decade. DOHA: The second edition of on safe hunting trips and The first-year class is made approach to education will offer tackle challenges within a local Michael Trick, Dean of the Katara International overland safaris. up of nearly 100 students you many opportunities to and global context, and strive CMU-Q, welcomed the class to Hunting and Falcons Exhibition It is also an opportunity to studying biological sciences, reach your full potential. As you to become an active agent the community and introduced (S’hail 2018) starts today at the introduce Qatari culture and the faculty members who will “Wisdom Square” in the heritage to international visitors teach and guide them: Cultural Village Foundation — displaying a main element of “Throughout your academic Katara. the heritage of Qatari ancestors journey, your professors will The five-day exhibition will related to hunting and falconry. challenge you, inspire you, and host more than 150 participants Falcon auctions will be also teach you. Each class you take from 20 countries. Exhibitors carried out during the exhi- will be a window into a spe- include companies that offer bition with new breeds intro- cialised area of knowledge with hunting weapons, tools manu- duced to the local market. The your professors as your guides. facturers, hunting trips organising committee of the And remember, one of the most agencies, restaurants, falconers exhibition has allocated valuable skills you will learn and many more. QR30,000 in prizes for the best here is how to work as a team The exhibition also provides display booth and best falcon and make the most of every- daily lectures about falconry mask, in a bid to support hand- one’s unique talents.” and breeding falcons, delivered icrafts in this field. This year, CMU-Q received a record number of applications from candidates living outside Qatar, resulting in an excep- tionally diverse class. Freshman students represent 26 nations, including the first students from Switzerland and Tanzania. About 40% of the Class of 2022 is Qatari. CMU-Q is now accepting applications for students One of the displays at S’hail 2018 which starts today at the starting university in the fall of The students and staff of CMU-Q at the Class of 2022 convocation ceremony. “Wisdom Square” in the Cultural Village Foundation — Katara. 2019.