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The Emir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani with Prime Minister and Minister for Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani, former Yemen President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou, Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon at the Doha Forum on Saturday. PAGE 20 Emir patronises opening of 16th session of Doha Forum which is being held under the title policy to stick to the need for settle- from where to look into various de- ring parties to turn their attention He accused Assad’s government FM stresses need for ‘Stability and Prosperity for All’. ment of disputes by peaceful means, velopments and changes and con- to a political transition in the nation. of continuing to drop barrel bombs Former Yemen President Abd especially through mediation, which tribute to the awareness in the face Ban Ki-moon said a full, immedi- on civilians and placing “uncon- peaceful settlement Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Afghani- is one of the priorities of the Doha of challenges and crises and work to ate cessation of hostilities is needed scionable and unlawful obstacles in stan President Mohammad Ashraf foreign policy. establish security and stability. in Syria and must be accompanied the way of humanitarian aid.” of disputes Ghani, Niger President Mahama- He said this policy stems from Referring to the crises facing the by discussions of what will follow. Assad’s fate remains a key stick- dou Issoufou, Mauritius President Qatar’s firm conviction under the world, he called for taking advantage Fighting could escalate without ing point in any discussions of a po- QNA Ameenah Gurib and Secretary- leadership of HH the Emir in renun- of opportunities for consultation such negotiations, he warned. litical transition. DOHA General of the United Nations Ban ciation of the use of force and meth- among politicians and intellectuals “I call on all regional and inter- The opening ceremony was at- Ki-moon and many heads of delega- ods of pressure and coercion. to achieve stability and security of national actors to use their influ- tended by Prime Minister and Min- THE Emir His Highness Sheikh tions participated in the forum. The foreign minister said the pa- the people and of nations. ence with the parties and persuade ister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdul- Tamim bin Hamad al Thani on Sat- Minister of Foreign Affairs HE tronage and continued support of HH The United Nations chief called them to negotiate in good faith lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani, urday patronised the opening of Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrah- the Emir for this forum has made it on Middle Eastern countries and on transitional arrangements,” ministers and heads of diplomatic the Doha Forum at its 16th session, man al Thani underlined Qatar’s one of the most important platforms world powers to press Syria’s war- Ban said. missions accredited to Qatar.

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4 killed in Baghdad’s Green Zone riots MEC revises goods exchange rules

BAGHDAD Four anti-government protesters were killed and 90 injured when security forces Shops have 2 weeks’ time to comply with the order on goods exchange/ refund for consumers ejected them from Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, hospital TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK consumer protection. scratches). 3. When a dealer When a product fails to ers can return/ exchange sources said on Saturday. Iraqi DOHA The circular says if a con- Shops should allow doesn’t grant the consumer an meet the purpose for which it products without having to security forces used live am- sumer finds a product de- return/ exchange when opportunity to try out a prod- was purchased, the consum- prove the goods are defective munition and water cannons to THE Ministry of Economy and fective, shops must allow a product doesn’t con- uct before he purchases it and er can return it or seek ex- or overvalued. disperse demonstrators from Commerce (MEC) has sent out exchange of the same. This form to specifications the consumer later finds the change. For instance, when a The ministry said if a the central district. PAGE 17 a circular to the traders outlin- includes three instances. 1. product isn’t working. consumer purchases a multi- product is purchased through ing under what circumstances When a consumer finds a Consumers can return/ Shops should allow re- functional electronic device credit card, the amount should a consumer can exchange product non-functional or exchange products turn/ exchange when a and finds that some of the be reversed to the card. If the Cyclone Roanu hits products or request a refund. it doesn’t serve the purpose without having to prove product does not conform to functions don’t exist or when purchase is made through Bangladesh, kills 20 MEC has granted trad- for which it was purchased. the goods are defective specifications. For instance, a trader fails to provide a cheque, the consumer should ers and suppliers two weeks’ 2. When a consumer selects an electrical device failing to trial/ changing room though be refunded either in cash or CHITTAGONG Cyclone Roanu time to comply with the cir- a product, asks the dealer to Purchase made via conform to standards stipu- the nature of the product re- cheque. battered the coast of Bangla- cular. The move is part of its deliver it home and later finds cash or card to be lated by Qatar General Or- quires consumers to try it out desh on Saturday, forcing half efforts to ensure traders com- the product is not in its origi- ganisation for Standards and before purchasing it. MORE ON PAGE 3 a million people to flee their ply with Law No 8 of 2008 on nal condition (broken/ has refunded in cash Metrology. The circular said consum- homes and left 20 people dead in floods and rain-triggered landslides. The cyclone dam- aged hundreds of houses in two southern districts. PAGE 9 Asian man arrested for taking bribe Proposal to make companies pay Zakat

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK violations. The CID first gathered evi- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK pass legislation to make the eli- of Responsible Agencies for Zakat Taliban leader killed DOHA dence to ensure the information was DOHA gible individuals and companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council in drone strike right and then devised a plan to catch pay Zakat. Banks can adopt this (GCC) for Arab States in Riyadh. AN Asian national was arrested by the man red-handed. After obtaining IN view of a marked depletion procedure as per law.” “Each country should implement WASHINGTON Afghan Taliban the Criminal Investigation Depart- an arrest warrant, the CID officials ar- in the Zakat Fund in the GCC He said the GCC Zakat Funds legislation. Kuwait is planning to leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour ment (CID) after he was found seeking rested him while he was receiving bribe countries, a legislation is being officials had discussed a plan to pass the legislation,” he said. and another combatant likely monetary favours to allow shops to get from one of the shop owners. planned to make individuals and launch an official ‘unified GCC Saleh said among the recom- were killed in a US military away with cases of violations at a fa- On interrogation, the accused ad- companies contribute to the fund, website’ to make it easier for citi- mendations made by GCC Gen- drone strike in Pakistan author- mous market in Doha. mitted he had received bribe from a said a GCC official. zens to pay Zakat. eral Secretariat includes a push ised by US President Barack The CID had received information number of shop owners. Speaking to Saudi newspaper The project will be launched for legislation to ensure Zakat Obama, a US official said on that a man working in a ministry was He was referred to the Public Pros- Al Eqtisadiah, Director-General next November. is paid in each country and re- Saturday. taking bribe from shop owners and al- ecution, which will later refer him to of Kuwaiti Zakat House, Ibrahim Saleh’s statement came dur- duce the shortfall in the Zakat lowing them to get away with cases of the competent court. Ahmed al Saleh said: “We seek to ing a meeting of the Committee Fund. EgyptAir plane sent smoke-alarm warnings before crash

REUTERS 290km north of Alexandria. PARIS/CAIRO GREEK JETS INTERCEPT US PLANE The army published pictures on Saturday on its official Facebook THE EgyptAir jet which crashed in the GREECE scrambled fighter jets to monitor a US passenger plane that failed to page of the recovered items, which Mediterranean on Thursday sent a se- identify itself when entering Greek airspace this week, an official said on Satur- included blue and white debris with ries of warnings indicating smoke had day. The Delta Air Lines aircraft, flying from Paris to Kuwait, entered the Athens EgyptAir markings, seat fabric with been detected on board, shortly be- Flight Information Region (FIR) at 1710 GMT on Thursday, the day the EgyptAir designs in the airline’s colours, and a fore it disappeared off radar screens, plane crashed in the Mediterranean shortly after leaving Greek airspace. yellow lifejacket. French investigators said on Saturday. ITS pilots failed to answer the repeated calls from the Greek Civil Aviation au- The signals from the plane “do A spokesman for France’s BEA air thorities, according to media reports. At 1749 GMT, two F-16 fighter jets inter- not allow in any way say what may accident investigation agency said the cepted the Delta airplane while it was flying near the Aegean island of Santorini. have caused smoke or fire on board signals did not indicate what caused The Ant1 Channel said the pilots contacted Greek authorities at 1755 GMT and the aircraft”, said a spokesman for the the smoke or fire on board the plane, exited the Athens FIR at 1810 GMT. (AFP) French BEA agency, which is assisting which plunged into the sea with 66 an official Egyptian investigation. people on board as it was heading He said the priority is to find the An image taken from a video posted on the Facebook page of from Paris to Cairo. den explosion may not have generated Egypt said its navy had found two flight recorders containing cock- Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman on Saturday shows a piece of One aviation source said a fire on any, though officials stress that no sce- human remains, wreckage and the pit voice recordings and data readings carpet from the wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804. board would likely have generated nario, including explosion, is being personal belongings of passengers from the Airbus A320 which vanished (EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES VIA AP) multiple warning signals, while a sud- ruled out. floating in the Mediterranean about from radar early on Thursday. PAGE 16 02 Sunday, May 22, 2016

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Qatar gifts 9 high-end vehicles to Nepal as a goodwill gesture MANEESH BAKSHI DOHA

AS a goodwill gesture towards the Government of Nepal, the Qatari government has gifted nine high- end sedans including one SUV to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal Kamal Thapa. According to sources, the Am- bassador of Qatar to Nepal HE Ahamed Jaseem Mohammed Ali al Hamer handed over the keys of eight Mercedes-Benz E-Class vehi- cles and one SUV of the same make to the Nepali minister at a function in Kathmandu recently. The Nepali minister in his address during the function ex- pressed his gratitude to the Qatar government for its generosity and goodwill message to the people of Nepal. The vehicles are expected to be used during important meetings The Qatari government has gifted nine high-end sedans to the Government and summits to be held in Nepal. of Nepal. It is worth mentioning here that Nepal had to resort to rented cars ing held in Kathmandu last year. played an important role during the for the movement of VIPs during Qatar houses around 450,000 devastating earthquake that struck the South Asian Association for Re- Nepali workers employed mainly in Nepal last year by quickly dispatch- gional Cooperation (SAARC) meet- the construction sector. Qatar also ing relief supplies to the victims. Nation Sunday, May 22, 2016 03

SHEIKHA MOZA ATTENDS US MILITARY ACADEMY GRADUATION CEREMONY

HER Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser on Sat- urday attended the gradu- ation ceremony of the Class of 2016 from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in New York. The ceremony was also attended by the Minister of State for De- fence Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammed al Attiyah and Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden. The Class of 2016 included a Qatari graduate Abdul- rahman al Hinzab, who re- ceived a Military Bachelor Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser attends the graduation ceremony of the class of 2016 from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in New York on Saturday. The ceremony was also attended by Minister Degree. (QNA) of State for Defence Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammad al Attiyah. HH Sheikha Moza with Abdulrahman al Hinzab and his family. Hinzab received his Bachelor Degree from West Point. (AISHA AL MUSALLAM/HHOPL)

CBSE Class 12 ‘Relations between Arab countries results declared

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK and China will continue to deepen’ DOHA THE Central Board of Second- RAMY SALAMA ary Education (CBSE), an Indian DOHA Board of Education for public and private schools, announced its RESEARCHERS, scholars and ex- Class XII results on Saturday. perts in international relations at 1,179 students from Indian a seminar held on Saturday were schools in Qatar (193 from Birla almost unanimous in expressing Public School, 225 from Ideal In- the great potential for closer coop- dian School, 539 students from eration between China and the Arab MES Indian School and 222 from world, while also expressing the DPS-MIS) took the examination view that the two sides would inevi- held in March this year. tably continue to deepen their ties in Eminent speakers at a seminar organised by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha on Saturday. (HANSON K JOSEPH) At DPS-MIS, Yogesh the foreseeable future. Parthasarathy topped with 97.4%, Speaking at that event, organ- the One Belt One Road. The Sino- oil and gas, or in terms of political “China and the Arab states have The meeting takes place at a time followed by SM Navheen with ised by the Arab Center for Research GCC cooperation can, therefore, and security relations, and here I had friendly relations since ancient when China’s increased engagement 97.2% in the science stream and and Policy Studies under the title be expected to expand as China’s cite as evidence the increasing mili- times. Intensive exchange between with the Arab world is becoming vis- Anukriti Menon with 94.8% in ‘The Arab World and China – Fu- footprint expands across the Indian tary presence of the Chinese navy the Arabs and China flourished via ible. This was underscored by China’s commerce stream. ture Prospects for Relations with Ocean,” he explained. in African waters and in the Indian the old Silk Road in terms of trade in ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, a series of From Birla Public School a Rising Power’, Jonathan Fulton, For his part, Marwan Kabalan, a Ocean and Arabian Sea. Not to men- silk, ceramics, tea, gum, and others. infrastructure projects which are Anurag Srivastava (science who teaches Political Science at leading researcher at the Arab Cent- tion that China is the second largest Currently, relations are deepening aimed at tying China to many of stream) scoring 96.2% was first, Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, er for Research and Policy Studies trade partner of the Arab world,” he further in the framework of the part- the old ‘Silk Road’ countries. When while Christine Abraham Lesly stressed the pivotal role which the underlined the increasingly close said, outlining some of these trajec- nership for building the ‘Economic completed, the ‘Belt and Road’, an- (commerce stream) with 95.6% countries of the Gulf Cooperation cooperation between the Arab states tories of cooperation. Belt and New Silk Road’ in the spirit nounced by China’s President Xi was second. Council (GCC) are expected to play and China in the past, while judging Gao Youzhen, a Middle East spe- of the original Silk Road. Friendly co- Jingping, will make it possible for Ideal Indian School’s Moham- in these developing relations. that this trend can reasonably be ex- cialist who has formerly served as operation between the Chinese and goods and people to move more eas- mad Saqib with 94% topped the “The States of the GCC represent pected to increase in the future. China’s Ambassador to a number the Arabs holds out great prospects ily between the far east of China and science stream, while Farrah Sadi- a crucial hub in the One Belt One “China has seen a rise and in- of Arab countries including Qatar, which will serve the interests of both Europe though the Middle East and yan topped the commerce stream Road initiative. Their geostrategic creasing influence on the world agreed with Kabalan’s analysis of China and the Arab states,” he noted. North Africa. This builds on an al- with 93.6%. location links China to Middle East- stage generally and in the Arab re- the positive and productive relations More than 40 speakers from Chi- ready strong economic and trade re- At MES, Pooja Udayabhanu ern, African and European markets, gion especially, be it in terms of its between the two sides in the past, as na, the Arab world and beyond are lationship between the Arab region was the topper with 96%, followed and their vast hydrocarbon reserves economic relations with the coun- well as with his prognosis of increas- participating in the two-day seminar, and China – supplies from the Gulf closely by Jessica Judith Dsouza are an important factor in driving the tries of the region due to its increas- ing ties between the Arab world and which continues at the Ritz-Carlton States already provide a large propor- with 95.8%. development projects that comprise ing thirst for energy sources such as China in the future. Hotel on Sunday. tion of Beijing’s energy needs. Busy time for AC Promoting awareness: Ashghal maintenance units as mercury soars organises visits to project sites TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK in cooperation with Qatar Leader- SANTHOSH CHANDRAN carrying out the maintenance DOHA ship Academy, a site visit for the stu- DOHA work. We also pay them over- dents of the academy to the Lusail time if they have to work beyond THE Public Works Authority (Ashghal) Expressway project. IT is busy time for air-condi- their normal working hours.” continues to implement its community In its efforts to communicate with tioner maintenance units in Qa- The human resource man- outreach programme which aims at all age groups in the society, Ashghal tar as mercury soars. A number ager of a civil construction com- promoting awareness about its projects invited in a group of administrators and of automobile workshops han- pany said, “We foresaw the rush across the country and to keep different athletes to Al Wakra Bypass project. dling AC maintenance of heavy and therefore, got maintenance segments of the public informed about Al Wakra Bypass project was select- vehicles in Industrial Area, for work done in early April itself. the projects’ development stages. ed since it is one of the most important example, are working overtime I believe the number of auto- As part of the programme, the au- expressway projects that will serve driv- to make the most of the rush mobile air conditioner garages thority organises site visits and tours to ers during the hosting of the FIFA World and are doing brisk business. is less compared to the rising its projects periodically throughout the Cup 2022 in Qatar. Many of these AC maintenance number of vehicles.” year. These site visits include presenta- The project will provide connection units relocated to Industrial An employee of another tions given by project engineers, which to Al Wakra Stadium, which is planned Area from Doha city. leading construction company explain all of the projects’ details and the to be used during the FIFA World Cup Mohamed Ibrahim, man- in Doha said, “The requirement benefits they will bring. The visits to Ashghal’s project sites include presentations by project engineers, which 2022, in addition to being one of the aging partner of an AC main- of buses to transport workers is Ashghal recently organised a site explain the projects’ details and benefits. mega projects that have achieved a sig- tenance workshop in Industrial only going to increase with in- visit to the Doha North Sewage Treat- nificant progress in the implementation Area, said, “The business sea- creasing number of projects in ment Works (STW) project, in which it of works recently. son of AC maintenance units the country. Some of our own invited a number of students from Ha- In addition, the authority invited begins in April and reaches its projects will begin next month mad Bin Khalid University, member of a group of students from Al Ahnaf Bin peak at the end of May. Besides, with additional manpower.” Qatar Foundation, as well as a number Qais Preparatory School for Boys to with the Ministry of Labour and Many of the leading con- of faculty members from Qatar Environ- Ashghal’s headquarters in an effort to Social Affairs strictly ordering struction groups either have ment and Energy Research Institute of introduce them to the authority’s sec- employers to ensure proper their own garages or permanent the university. tions, departments and various projects air condition systems in their agencies to carry out mainte- The visitors were received by Ashghal enable them to speak with the author- transportation fleets, work- nance. However, short time officials, including Eng Jassim Salman ity’s officials and engineers. shops are flooded with buses recruitment for handling main- al Sayegh, Design Engineering Advisor Ashghal also invited 26 students transporting workers to work- tenance works has also become at the Infrastructure Affairs; Engineer from the College of Arts and Sciences at sites in the recent months.” a regular practice among many Rashid Arqoub al Khaldi, Projects Engi- Qatar University to the Fifth Expansion According to sources, many firms in the industrial sector. neering Advisor at the Drainage Projects of Doha West Sewage Treatment Works of the workshops handling AC An Indian professional who Department; Engineer Kevin Richards, (STW) project site. maintenance in buses are run- was recruited in the air condi- senior projects engineer at the Drain- Eng Khalid al Qahtani from Drainage ning short of experienced tech- tion maintenance section of a age Projects Department and Engineer the engineering and construction tech- The authority also organised, in col- Networks Projects Department at Ash- nicians. Thoufeeq Ismail, chief reputed firm for a short while Raymond Malik, design engineer at the niques used in the project implementa- laboration with Qatar University, a visit ghal gave a presentation to the students technician in Asian Auto Ga- said, “I was recruited for a short Drainage Networks Design Department. tion, the components and advantages to its headquarters to introduce the prior to the tour, in which he briefed rage, said, “We cannot employ time project. I was happy to re- The visit started with a presentation of the new treatment plant and the major infrastructure projects carried them about the details and benefits of permanent staff as our work ceive the offer as the experience provided by Eng Khaldi and Eng Sayegh, thermal drying plant, as well as the out by Ashghal to 26 students from the the project. Students were then accom- does not last more than three with a leading firm will improve who explained the project’s details and plants’ advanced systems. Faculty of Management and Economics panied at the site of the Fifth Expansion months. So, we have to depend my job profile benefiting my ca- the progress it is making. The students were then accompa- at the university. of Doha West Sewage Treatment Works on temporary technicians for reer in future.” The students were also briefed on nied in a tour at the project’s site. Besides, the authority organised, (STW) project. MEC gives new norms for products’ exchange HIGHLIGHTS OF MEC CIRCULAR ● A consumer may request to return or exchange an item if the person regrets spending the amount paid CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 should compensate the consumer for the Supplier and dealer obligations: change of products price difference. To ensure the compliance of suppliers • Merchants shall refrain from posting to the shop IF the purchase was made through cash 2. When a dealer sells expired food or and dealers with the circulars, the minis- any banner indicating products cannot be ● A consumer can return an item to the shop if the or card, refund should be made in cash. counterfeit car spare parts. The consumer try has asked them to take the following exchanged/ returned. person is not satisfied with size, colour or price of The ministry outlined three other in- can exchange the defective product or de- measures: • If a product is door-delivered to con- the item stances in which consumers are entitled mand a full refund. • Suppliers and merchants should dis- sumers, it should be free of charge. ● A customer can also return a gift item to the shop, to a partial/ full refund, though these 3. If a consumer buys a product that play a return/ exchange policy in a promi- • Merchants should provide space for if the person receiving the gift is not satisfied with it cases do not fall under the exchange/ re- doesn’t comply with the terms of his agree- nent place in the shop. The policy should consumers to try out products before they ● In case of return of an item, the amount paid by turn policy as defined by the Consumer ment with the dealer. For instance, if the be written in Arabic as well as other lan- can make a purchase. consumers has to be refunded according to the Protection law. product is not the same as the item re- guages chosen by the merchant. • Merchants should fully refund con- method of payment 1. When a supplier advertises that it quested or is of a different colour than that • Merchants should post the exchange/ sumers for products as well as shipping and ● If a consumer finds that a product is being sold is selling a product at the lowest market mentioned on the package. The consumer return policy on the rear of the invoice delivery fees, taking into account the nature at another shop at a lower price, the owner of the price and the consumer finds the same is entitled for an exchange. If the product handed to consumers. of the product, the defect and the time- first shop has to compensate the client for the price product is being sold at a lower price cannot be exchanged, dealer has to make a • Merchants should refrain from post- frame during which the consumer used the difference at another shop. In this case, the shop refund to the consumer. ing any documents prohibiting return/ ex- product before discovering the defect. 04 Sunday, May 22, 2016 Nation

Qatar to host GCC QUICK READ civil retirement PHCC, Wayak in pact to committee meet Defence minister visits US Central QNA Command, Special Operations Forces promote mental health DOHA QATAR’S Minister of State for Defence Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin QATAR, represented by Gen- Mohammed al Attiyah has visited the US Central Command and CATHERINE W GICHUKI For his part, Benali said eral Retirement and Social In- the US Special Operations Forces as part of his current visit DOHA that both sides have shared surance Authority (GRSIA), will to the US. During the visit, officers at the Central Command goals based on the delivery host 37th meeting of the Stand- briefed Attiyah about the history of the Command and its mili- THE Primary Health Care Cor- of public health services to ing Technical Committee of the tary capabilities. The minister also listened to an explanation poration (PHCC) has signed a citizens and residents, with GCC Civil Retirement and So- about the special tasks carried out by the Special Operations memorandum of understand- respect to physical or psycho- cial Security on May 30 and 31. Forces and its distinct skills and experiences. (QNA) ing (MoU) with the Soci- logical health. Director of Contributors ety of Mental Health Friends “We are delighted to sign Department in GRSIA Ali al QCS conference to begin today (Wayak) to implement joint this memorandum with an im- Kuwari said that the upcoming programmes in mental health portant Corporation at the na- meeting will discuss a number THE third Qatar Construction Specifications (QCS) conference awareness. The MoU aims at tional level, such as the PHCC, of topics, including the progress will start in Doha on Sunday under the patronage of Minister spreading the culture of vol- through which we agree on of applying insurance protec- of Municipality and Environment HE Mohamed bin Abdullah al untary work as well as devel- our goals based on the deliv- tion extension system for GCC Rumaihi. In a statement, Assistant Undersecretary for Labora- oping and implementing joint ery of public health services nationals, the coordination be- tories and Standardisation Affairs at the ministry Dr Mohamed programmes to raise mental to citizens and residents, with tween retirement institutions in bin Saif al Kuwari said that the QCS Conference will discuss health awareness. respect to physical or psycho- the GCC states in addition to the some of the requirements of the Qatari standards, especially The MoU was signed by Wayak’s Executive Director Mohammad al Benali at an agreement logical health. We are both joint programmes and projects with regard to raw materials used in roads such as limestone or Executive Director of Opera- signing ceremony in Doha on Thursday. complementing each other.” and exchanging successful ex- gabbro building blocks as well as washed sand used in build- tion Department at PHCC Dr He added, “We have a periences and expertise. ings. He noted that the conference comes one year after the Samya al Abdulla and Wayak’s of the National Strategy for She added that the main common vision to provide On the sidelines of the entry Qatar Construction Specifications 2014 into practice. Executive Director Moham- Mental Health and Primary objective of signing the MoU psychological and moral sup- meeting, an awareness meet- Kuwari pointed out that the QCS is now on the ASTM Interna- mad al Benali. Health Care Strategy (2013), is to facilitate exchange of port to those who need it and ing will be held to inform the tional database, to become an international reference for hot Commenting on the MoU, which highlight the need to experiences and information ensure a dignified life for Gulf nationals working in Qa- and humid regions in the world. He added that all companies in Dr Abdulla stated that the develop and implement a and enhance scientific re- them. We also aim to work tar about the system’s sign-up Qatar are applying QCS being binding rules for building projects, positive cooperation with So- comprehensive mental health search cooperation on mental together to build a society, procedures, benefits, methods roads, infrastructure and construction industries. (QNA) ciety of Mental Health Friends services that focus on the health between the two or- which is sensitive to mental of contributions collection comes within the framework needs of the community. ganisations. and psychological issues.” and objectives. QC gives handicraft training to QRCS attends QIMC as social partner TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK emergency tips, road safety female orphans in Indonesia DOHA and the Prepared Child. Other preparedness and TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK can implement their own small tion to join the programme, she QATAR Red Crescent Society safety programmes dis- DOHA projects to generate income.” felt that it would be a new thing (QRCS) participated in the played at QRCS’s corner Yunihadri Kremi, director of for her. second annual Qatar Inter- were ‘Safe School’, which QATAR Charity (QC) held a Social Care Department at QC “Several institutions hold national Medical Congress trains young children in how training workshop on handi- in Jakarta, said that QC’s plan different activities for orphans. (QIMC) as a social partner to deal with earthquakes, crafts for female orphans and for developing the orphans’ skill However, QC always holds pro- The event, held at the ‘I Am a Paramedic’, which their mothers in Ache, Indo- was comprehensive. grammes and activities that are Doha Exhibition & Conven- trains schoolchildren in first nesia, recently as part of its “QC's plan covers sports, truly needed,” she commented. tion Center from May 18 to aid skills needed to stabilise annual development plan in education, entertainment, de- Another orphan Ninda 20, was organised to intro- injuries and save lives, and the country. velopment and journeys. It also Arsina said, "This training is duce the medical sector in the ‘Disaster Management The workshop attended by gives these orphans the chance very useful for me and my col- Qatar to the latest innova- Camp’, which trains volun- 80 orphans along with their to celebrate with Qatar's people leagues. We were able to be tions in medical technology teers from across the region mothers included teaching the Qatar National Day and Qatar creative and learn more about and health care. in a wide range of emergency girls the basics of handicrafts Sports Day,” Kremi said. handicrafts. We hope with this Over three days, QRCS relief activities. and how to make use of them Ruhmi Swaraya, team train- training we can make things had a special corner at the This was QRCS’s second to make products at the least er, said, “The orphans showed and sell them so we could have event to keep in touch with Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohammad al Kuwari visits Qatar appearance in QIMC, as part possible costs. The workshop great interest during the train- our own source of income.” the public and raise aware- Red Crescent Society’s corner at the Qatar International Medical Congress. of its role as an auxiliary to lasted for eight training hours. ing. I tried to make it fun so Echoing Arsina, a mother ness about its humanitarian Qatar in its social and devel- The girls and their mothers that they do not get bored. We Halima al Sa'deya said that mission and social activities members. fainting person. opment efforts. Medical serv- expressed their happiness and discussed the basics and had a such training would help them for the vulnerable, in cooper- The minister also watched The visitors were trained ices are a major field of work thanked QC for organising the wonderful time together. We all have a source of income. ation with other institutions. QRCS’s various state-of-the- in life-saving techniques of for QRCS locally as it seeks to workshop, which, according to felt the warmth and happiness It is worth mentioning that During her tour of the art ambulance vehicles used first aid and cardiopulmonary advance public health in the them, will help them earn a liv- of a large family.” QC started working in Indone- venue, Minister of Public to help victims in diverse set- resuscitation (CPR). country in pursuit of its mis- ing on their own. Riska Rihana, one of the or- sia in 2004 in Aceh. It spon- Health HE Dr Hanan Mo- tings. Health education pub- sion of improving the lives of Mohammed Ith'har Shah, phans, expressed her gratitude sored the orphans and estab- hammad al Kuwari visited The visitors, received by lications were distributed, vulnerable people by mobi- the Programme’s coordina- to QC for taking care of them lished Al Rayyan Village where QRCS’s corner to get an over- QRCS’s medical personnel, including on the annual dis- lising the power of humanity tor, said, “Such training is very and helping them. Another par- it sheltered the displaced. It in- view of its medical, social and learnt about basics of first aid aster management camp, and seeking the well-being of useful for the orphans. It de- ticipant Rita Juliati said that cluded 100 houses and a medi- voluntary services for society for a wounded, bleeding or Ebola, Coronavirus, summer individuals in all aspects. velops their skills so that they when she received the invita- cal centre. Animals’ population in Qatar hits 1,220,100 in March

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK ductivity and examined 386 breeders about the impor- services. DOHA pregnancy cases. tance of examining animals The report shows that According to the report, before purchase to make sure 6,374 camels, 71,652 sheep ANIMALS’ population in the Livestock Department that they are free of diseases and goats and 806 cows were Qatar reached 1,220,100 be- vaccinated 51,812 animals, and to preserve their live- imported in March. It also re- longing to 13,561 breeders including 31,415 sheep and stock from the risk of trans- veals that 288 horses and 93 in March, according to the 19,934 goats, in March. mitting infection from the cats and dogs were imported monthly report issued by The The department also treat- newly bought animals that in the same month. Livestock Department at the ed 75,171 animals, including may be carrying the infection, The number of animals Ministry of Municipality and 899 cows, 69,226 sheep and the report says. exported during the month Environment (MME). goats, 3,933 camels, 1,007 The department also gave amounted to 22,018, includ- The report states that the cats and dogs and 5,717 of dif- instructions to the breeders ing 15,468 camels and 6,053 department performed 325 ferent species of birds. about proper healthy nutri- sheep and goats, while the artificial insemination aimed The department contin- tion for the animals, while number of exported horses The workshop was attended by 80 orphans along with their mothers. at improving animal pro- ued to provide guidance for continuing the quarantine amounted to 497. Ooredoo’s cloud Ministry of Interior services receive Tenders Committee Cisco certification

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PM chairs SCPC meet 3,700 health professionals attend meet QNA College Brig Dr Mohammed DOHA Abdullah Talib al Mahanna al on quality improvement in healthcare Marri said that this batch is the PRIME Minister and Min- nucleus of future courses to be TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK World Innovation Summit for ister of Interior HE Sheikh held by the College for gradu- DOHA Health (WISH), added to the Abdullah bin Nasser bin ates of civilian universities who rich diversity of information Khalifa al Thani chaired are engaged in the field of po- OVER 3,700 doctors, nurses available for delegates. the 4th meeting of the lice work. He praised the high and allied health professionals IHI President and CEO Supreme Council of Po- standards shown by the gradu- from around the region attend- Derek Feeley said Qatar was lice College (SCPC) at the ates and explained that the ed a three-day conference on a leader in embracing qual- College headquarters. course included a start-up pe- patient safety and quality im- ity improvement and patient During the meeting, the riod for transition from civilian provement in healthcare held at safety movements. council discussed topics on the to police life, in addition to aca- the Qatar National Convention “IHI has partnered with agenda and took appropriate demic qualification through le- Centre in Doha recently. HMC for the past four years decisions thereon. gal and police materials. Organised by Hamad Med- to develop the framework and The PM, the Chairman Commander of the course ical Corporation (HMC), in embed the knowledge and of Supreme Council of Po- First Lieutenant Jassim Abdul- collaboration with American- thinking required to propel lice College, has also at- lah al Khater said that the main based Institute for Healthcare quality and safety improve- tended the graduation of the objective of the course is to de- Improvement (IHI), the Mid- ment methodologies forward first mandatory qualifying velop the information and ca- dle East Forum on Quality into real frontline successes,” course organised by Police pabilities and to refine the skills and Safety in Healthcare (ME said Feeley. College for the graduates of and experience of the officers Forum) featured four keynote Themes for this year’s con- civilian universities. to assume their work functions addresses from world-re- Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al Kuwari with other officials at a health conference in ference centred on a trans- The batch comprised 36 efficiently and effectively. nowned experts, and included Doha recently. formative approach to im- attendees from the Ministry Speaking for the graduates, over 55 interactive workshops proving healthcare delivery by of Interior’s different depart- Second Lieutenant Rashid and lectures. ways in which they can refine here in Qatar, share new inno- The Ministry of Public Health inspiring innovation. A series ments, who graduated with Hazam Mohammed al Marri Minister of Public Health their procedures and processes, vations and join in our conver- participated with information of intensive pre-conference the rank of Second Lieutenant. said that the course has added HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al with the ultimate goal of rais- sation about improving care for submitted by the Qatar Coun- workshops on the day prior to During the six-month a lot to the participants in the Kuwari was in attendance, and ing the standards of healthcare patients,” Janahi added. An ex- cil for Healthcare Practitioners the start of the conference in- course, attendees received field of police work, pointing toured the specially designed in their hospital or clinical en- hibition area called the Knowl- (QCHP) and the Accreditation cluded a half-day workshop on military, sports and academic that training is one of the es- exhibition with members of her vironment,” said Ali al Janahi, edge Zone featured stands from and Licensing division. Quality Improvement Basics training in addition to making sentials of success in any work. senior management team. chief of Business Services Hamad Healthcare Quality HMC’s strategic partners, conducted in Arabic which was field visits to a number of the The ceremony was attend- “The Middle East Forum Group at HMC. Institute (HHQI), the Ambu- including teams from Primary well received by local clinicians. Ministry’s departments. ed by a number of the MoI provides a fertile arena for “It was fantastic to see so lance Service, the Academic Health Care Corporation, Qatar The conference was devel- Commenting on the occa- senior officials and families of healthcare experts and front- many people from across the Health System (AHS) and a University, Sidra Medical and oped in accordance with the sion, Director General of Police the graduating officers. line staff alike to convene to- globe coming to the Forum, to Social Media Hub that was ex- Research Center, Weill Cor- criteria set out by the QCHP as gether and discuss practical learn from what we are doing tremely popular with delegates. nell Medicine – Qatar, and the a category 1 learning activity.

To promote tourist activities taking place during Over 50 hotels partner with QTA the summer, Qatar Tourism Authority will lead a delegation of industry representatives on a GCC- wide roadshow starting today. The roadshow will travel through Jeddah, Riyadh, Al Khobar, to offer special summer packages Manama, Kuwait City, Dubai and Muscat

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK apartments. Select establish- closely with QTA to ensure that of industry representatives on in partnership with the private DOHA ments will provide additional Qatar is viewed as the preferred a GCC-wide roadshow start- sector, especially during tradi- incentives covering a variety of destination in the Gulf Coop- ing on May 22 (Sunday). The tionally off-peak periods. The QATAR Tourism Author- options including free break- eration Council (GCC). Qatar’s roadshow will travel through 2016 edition of the Festival is ity (QTA) has partnered with fasts, late check-outs, free meals hospitality sector, which was Jeddah, Riyadh, Al Khobar, expected to build on the suc- 56 members of the hospital- for children when accompanied recently ranked at the top of Manama, Kuwait City, Dubai cess of previous years in terms ity industry to ensure a warm by their parents (a maximum GCC destinations in the Guest and Muscat. of size and the variety and welcome to visitors during the of three children per family) Experience in the Middle East During the roadshow, QTA scope of the family entertain- Qatar Summer Festival, which and free transfers to and from report released by hospitality and its partners will update ment and fun activities on offer will take place throughout the Hamad International Airport. and travel data providers Ol- travel agents and tour operators across the country. nation from August 1 to 31. These offers are also available ery, presents a key attraction in each city on tourism opportu- Visitors and residents can Hotel partners are offer- to residents booking during the to the visitors targeted by QTA nities in Qatar, and further in- look forward to the return of ing special packages during the same period. initiatives such as Qatar Sum- form them of plans for the 2016 QSF’s Entertainment City, Festival, which include offers to The number of hotels par- mer Festival 2016. Qatar Summer Festival. which features exciting activi- pay for two nights and stay for ticipating has doubled since To promote tourist activities The Festival is part of QTA’s ties for children of all ages, this three in hotels, and pay for five last year’s Festival, as the hos- The Festival is part of QTA’s strategy to grow and diversify the country’s taking place during the sum- strategy to grow and diversify time at the Doha Exhibition and nights and stay for six in hotel pitality sector works even more tourism offerings in partnership with the private sector. mer, QTA will lead a delegation the country’s tourism offerings Convention Center in West Bay. QF Radio marks QFIS nominated for end of 2015-2016 academic year architecture award TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA DOHA

QF RADIO, the in-house broadcast- THE iconic Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS) building at Education ing station for Qatar Foundation (QF), City has been nominated by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently celebrated the completion for its inaugural International Prize. of the 2015-2016 season of program- The award is open to qualified architects located anywhere in the ming with an appreciation ceremony world, and QFIS, a college of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and that marked the accomplishments of member of Qatar Foundation (QF), is one of 30 projects currently under its students and staff. consideration and the only Gulf representative. The event, which took place in Opened in March 2015, the 35,270 square-metre university is designed Education City, held particular signifi- to serve the higher education needs of Qatar and other Islamic societies. cance for QF Radio which, this year, Designed by Mangera Yvars Architects Ltd, it houses both an academic fa- collaborated with a record number cility and a mosque which, with a capacity of 1,800 people, is one of the of students, QF centres and organi- largest in Qatar. sations to bring a selection of di- “We are absolutely delighted and incredibly honoured to have been verse and exciting programmes to the selected as a candidate for RIBA’s first ever International Prize,” said En- local community. gineer Jassim Telefat, Executive Director Capital Projects, QF. “This nomi- As a defining factor of this year’s nation illustrates our ongoing commitment to excellence in innovation, shows, QF Radio acknowledged the and highlights our dedication to continuous growth and development in contribution of youth in shaping the order to serve the people of Qatar.” country’s future development and Entries for the RIBA awards were submitted from 50 countries, and growth, by producing programmes projects from more than 20 countries are represented in the diverse short- list. The award will be officially announced in December 2016, and present- Appreciation ceremony ed to the architects of the building that is regarded as the most significant and inspirational, and which exemplifies design excellence, architectural marks accomplishments of ambition and delivers meaningful social impact. students and staff members Since its opening, QFIS has been recognised by a number of interna- tional entities. In 2015 it was awarded the best building in the category of Religion at the World Architecture Festival and, in the same year, it was the which have helped to address the winner of the MEED Quality Project of the Year. Grand Challenges facing Qatar. “The station is determined to at- tract as many Qatari youth as pos- sible,” Mohammed al Beshri, Me- dia Centre Manager, said. “Our HEC Paris to run in-house training courses have pro- vided young men and women with the fundamental knowledge and ex- perience needed to work in real-world EMBA Masterclass media environments.” “QF Radio has integrated the coun- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK not to do, if faced with a similar try’s next generation into the station’s DOHA disruption in your business. The team through education and valuable second case study puts the spot- experience. By sharing knowledge in HEC PARIS reinforces its com- light on an example of a business broadcast journalism and produc- mitment to knowledge-based that transformed itself from a tion, we have introduced young peo- management and leadership with traditional manufacturer or what ple to the necessary skills to produce the running of a Masterclass on is known as a “break-fix service” and present their own radio shows,” ‘Leading Innovative Strategies – into a value-added provider of he continued. Challenges and Best Practices’. genuine solutions. During this year’s ceremony, over The class will be led by Profes- The Masterclass will also cover 30 students, faculty and staff were sor Roger Hallowell at the Tornado topics related to strategy, innovation, celebrated for their commitment to Tower, West Bay, on May 31. operations and human resources. It delivering quality programmes in During this interactive Mas- will be a multi-disciplinary session the fields of science and technology, terclass, Professor Hallowell will that is useful for prospects from vari- health, medicine, design, travel and showcase innovative strategies ous business sectors and will give a culture. These topics reflect QF’s vi- that leaders develop and imple- feel for what the HEC Paris Execu- sion to support human, social and eco- ment in disruptive technologies tive MBA offers. nomic development in Qatar. and also when transforming com- Professor Hallowell is the Aca- QF Radio will continue efforts to moditised products. demic Director of programmes for involve and collaborate with QF stu- The class will feature two en- managers and executives in the dents and centres. If you are interest- gaging case studies. The first is on fields of strategy and business poli- ing in contributing to the upcoming Netflix, which is a classic example cy, as well as leadership. He teaches 2016-2017 season, contact: connect@ of how to deal with a disruptive regularly on the HEC Paris Execu- qfradio.org.qa. technology: What to do, and what tive MBA. 06 Sunday, May 22, 2016 Reports by Ailyn Agonia For events and press releases email Kabayan Corner [email protected] or call (974) 44422077 PINOY FILMMAKER’S WORK TO PREMIERE AT CANNES The film titled‘Panaginip ni Nida Chua (May 25, 1985)’ directed by Doha-based filmmaker Jordan dela Criz is one of the nine short films by Filipinos scheduled for world premiere at the 67th Cannes Film Festival taking place from May 11 to 22.

ILL my boss allow me film depicted a hospital room slowly ways just a hobby for me. After finish- and what was your first film? to travel on a short flooding with blood. We needed to do ing my degree in BS Psychology at the I started to venture into filmmak- notice?’ was among extensive set work and to make that Ateneo de Naga, I moved to Quezon ing in my mid-twenties. At times I ¶: the initial thoughts of happen – things that none of us had City and was on my way to earning think that I may have started too late. Doha-based filmmaker any experience with. We barely had my Masters Degree in Clinical Psych But then I realised that, like many Jordan dela Cruz upon reading the enough time to get our shots during at the University of the Philippines people, I didn’t really have anything acceptance letter to the 67th Cannes my vacation so all of the post-pro- (UP). I became aware of my passion of substance to say when I was young- Film Festival in France. duction had to be done here in Qatar. for cinema during my time with the er so this delay may have been all to The 28-year old native of Bicol Upon my return I had to resume work UP Cinema. And so, I took a break the good. However, I would hesitate Province is currently working in the full time so I could only edit the film with UP and enrolled in a short film to say that I am “in the film industry”. finance department of a British in- during the weekends or after work. course at the Asia Pacific Film Insti- Although I’ve been a part of several terior design company in Doha. His tute (APFI) where I studied under independent productions back in the five-minute short film titled ‘Panag- Who or what motivated you to well-established industry profession- Philippines, my own work has been inip ni Nida Chua (May 25, 1985)’ is submit an entry in Cannes? als such as Bing Lao, Nap Jamir and largely self-funded. A lot of my film- one of the nine short films by Filipi- My teammates, writer Siege Jade Castro. Nearing the end of my maker friends constantly complain nos scheduled for world premiere Ledesma and cinematographer Josef film course I contracted a severe case about the creative compromises that at the prestigious event taking place San Mateo persuaded me to submit of dengue fever. As I lay in the hospi- they have to make in their films be- from May 11 to 22. our film to the festival. I was hesitant tal bed I promised myself that I would cause of the pressure from meddling The entry, which is Jordan’s first at first because I didn’t really think end my academic hiatus and go back financiers, so I appreciate the carte attempt for an international film our film was good enough for Cannes to finish my Master’s Degree. Howev- blanche that funding my own work event, is inspired by the director’s re- but I eventually acquiesced. Getting er, the first thing I did when I got out provides me. Still, producing my curring dream when he was a child. into the festival was not that difficult, of the hospital was write a script. That own films means that I often have to It was shot in his home province at least in our experience. But it has script later turned into ‘Bardo’ - my tone down my original vision for my while the post-production was done to be said that getting into the Court thesis film for the APFI. The panelists projects. I have shelved a lot of scenes entirely in Qatar. Metrage (Short Film Corner) doesn’t had received the film very positively and set-pieces simply because I did The young filmmaker’s initial necessarily mean you are part of the and they urged me to not have the budget to execute them reaction to the acceptance letter also Official Short Film Competition. make more satisfactorily. This is also why I have included thoughts on whether he can films. A only dabbled in short-form work so actually afford to fly to France for Who or what inspired few far. I could have attempted to expand the screening of his film. Eventually, you to venture into The entry, which years my previous works into features but after calming his nerves it finally filmmaking? I doubt that I would have been hap- hit him that he had really made it I never really is Jordan’s first attempt py with the results if I was forced to to Cannes! wanted to become stretch my budget that thin. In an interview with Qatar a filmmaker. I for an international film event, Tribune, prior to his flight to France, shot some videos is inspired by the What is the most rewarding part the young filmmaker expressed his with my cousins of being a director? excitement on his trip highlighting when I was still director’s recurring dream when My first film “Bardo” was shot Poster of Jordan’s entry to Cannes. his anticipation on the festival events, a teenager but in Ortigas. We couldn’t really get the including filmmaking conferences, back then film- he was a child. It was shot in his proper permits for the shoot so we round-tables, screening and the making was al- could only roll cameras after mid- Masterclass with Brillante Mendoza, home province Bicol while the night when location was relatively de- a seasoned Filipino director and serted and there were no authorities Best Director awardee during post-production was done in the area. The shoot involved a few the 62nd Cannes Film Festi- entirely in Qatar. close calls and a lot of running. It re- val. He also fondly shared later ally made me appreciate the physical- his inspiration in the film and I ity of directing. All my projects since industry. find my- then have revolved around challeng- self working ing shooting locations. We had to go Q: What were your here in Qatar and down rivers to shoot ‘Nawawara’. preparations for your setting aside my in- We had to trek into dense forests film entry to Cannes and come in order to to shoot ‘Panaginip ni Nida Chua’. the challenges you’ve en- fund my produc- Recently, I even shot a music video countered in completing tions. I’m fully in the middle of a sandstorm in the the entire project? aware that making dunes of Mesaieed. Personally, I feel Jordan: ‘Pangarap ni Nida films is not really that the most rewarding part of be- Chua’ was inspired by a recurring the most economical- ing a director is the rush that you get dream that I had when I was a child ly viable of endeavours while shooting a scene that is difficult - of a river of blood coagulating and I find myself hesitant to pull off. When nature, logic, and into an image of a human skull. to plunge into a circumstance fight against your shot I only had time to shoot it filmmaker’s life of but you manage to power through during my vacation endless freelanc- and put it in the can anyway. so my crew and I ing. However, the were under heavy desire to - some- What are your immediate plans time constraints day - make com- after Cannes? to complete that pelling cinema After Cannes, I plan to resume part of the pro- haunts me and I work on a script that our team has duction. Besides feel like I have to see been developing for quite a while. the remote shoot- this through. This is a spy thriller/comedy about ing locations, an- a paranoid overseas Filipino worker other particular At what age based in the Gulf. Hopefully, I can challenge was the did you meet some investors who will sup- fact that the open- Jordan dela Cruz start in the port our project during my time at ing scene of the industry the festival. Some of the crew members.

Stills from the filmPanaginip ni Nida Chua (May 25,1985). Sunday, May 22, 2016 07 Reports by Ramy Salama The page title ‘Liwan’ ( ) is a traditional Qatari room For events and press releases email facing north. It is the coldest part of the house where the [email protected] or Qataris used to receive guests. call (974) 44422077

A course in the etiquette of the majlis

“Through this course, we seek to convey the value of tradition to the chil- dren, these being the bond that ties us directly to our elders and our ances- tors before them,” said Abdulhadi Ali al Nuaimi, instructor of the majlis. etiquette workshopssociety didn’t learn these things from books, but rather in a direct manner, exactly as they are taught in this course.

Children at a traditional majlis CHILDREN TRAINED IN THE ETIQUETTE OF THE MAJLIS A course to teach the Majlis etiquette to the young men of tomorrow, is drawing students in droves. Such courses are getting popular precisely because they provide an important component of Qatari traditions

HERE is a Qatari Describing the courses, other aspects of Qatari tradition our forefathers protected them- cisely because they impart an saying which em- Nuaimi noted that they are two- and heritage, according to the selves and their families from important component of Qatari phasises the edu- week long, and are generally instructor. thieves and other threats,” he traditions and customs, which cational aspect of well-attended. “This course, for “We lead the children added. also make them increasingly the majlis (a recep- example, was attended by 20 through a discussion of some of Nuaimi explained that the important in a contemporary tion room, a salo0n for evening boys,” he said. the most important aspects of next four days of the course society with different condi- gatherings where Qataris enter- “For the first four course their traditions, disserting on are devoted to “the preparation tions from those in which these tain guests, and do much more days, we talk to the children the major aspects of traditional of traditional gahwa (or cof- local traditions emerged. which can be found almost in about the greetings to be spo- Qatari ethics, which combines fee), from roasting the beans to “Through this course, we every Qatari household), and ken on entering and leaving the courage and strength with a re- grinding them and mixing them seek to convey the value of tra- which goes by the name of ‘al majlis, the manner in which the spect for others,” he said on this with the traditional spices, to dition to the children, these be- majalis madares’ (or ‘the maj- host welcomes the guest into note. brewing and serving them to ing the bond that ties us directly lis is a school’). Nowhere is this his majlis, and the etiquette for “We also talk to the children, guests in the majlis. We also to our elders and our ancestors truer than at a majlis etiquette leaving such a gathering. There on their level, about compo- teach them the different tradi- before them. For generations, session organised by an educa- are customs and etiquettes to nents of Qatari heritage includ- tional terms for the implements, Qatari society didn’t learn these tional institution unique to Qa- be followed for these things, ing the place of horses and cam- utensils and ingredients”. things from books, but rather in tar, the Nomas Center. and we teach the children while els, which today the children The last four days of the a direct manner, exactly as they Qatar Tribune recently sat explaining the purpose of each are most likely to encounter in majlis etiquette course, Nuaimi are taught in this course. This in on one of these engaging and step. Needless to say, this is races but which were the animal said, are devoted to a review, is why I would say that these informative sessions, and spoke the most important part of the companions of our ancestors, which also include quizzes and courses are important, and why with Abdulhadi Ali al Nuaimi, course, and the one on which who relied on them for hunt- graded tests, which evaluate the I think they are popular with instructor of the majlis etiquette the rest is built,” he added. ing and many other activities, children’s grasp of the course’s Qatari families and their chil- workshops about these sessions The instructions are not and the sword, which is used in content. dren,” he said, elaborating on and their ultimate value to Qa- limited to the etiquette of the the traditional ardha, but which The instructor noted that the course’s objectives and val- Nuaimi talks to the children about aspects of the tari society. majlis as such, but also address was once the means whereby such courses are popular pre- ue to Qatari society. Qatari heritage

Nuaimi supervises as children prepare traditional coffee

Children practise the traditional greeting on entering the majlis 08 Sunday, May 22, 2016 Philippines / Southeast Asia Duterte’s ‘vigilantism’ sparks Vietnam frees jailed dissident debate in, outside Philippines priest ahead of “Putting an end to extra judicial executions, unlawful arrests and torture is one of our non-negotiables for Duterte” Obama’s visit

AP been serving an eight-year BANGKOK prison term since March 2007 after being convicted VIETNAM granted early of spreading propaganda release from prison to a against the state. He was Catholic priest who is one first jailed in 1977, two of its most prominent dis- years after the Communist sidents, a move widely seen takeover of all Vietnam. as a goodwill gesture before Vietnam’s persecution President Barack Obama of dissidents has been a arrives on an official visit roadblock to warmer re- late on Sunday night. lations with the United The Catholic Archdio- States, from which it is cese of the central city of seeking the lifting of an Hue reported on its web- arms embargo. Washington page that it welcomed the and Hanoi share a strategic return Friday of the Rev. interest in challenging Chi- Nguyen Van Ly from pris- nese territorial claims in on. Photos on its website the South China Sea, some showed a frail Ly, 70, be- of which are in areas long ing helped off a minibus, claimed by Vietnam. kneeling to pay his respects The government’s re- to his senior colleagues, lations have always been then being led to a room strained with the Catholic prepared for him at the church, associated with diocese. He has suffered French colonial rule and several health crises while the former anti-communist imprisoned. South Vietnam, as well as Ly has served several an influential power base long terms in prison or independent of the ruling under house arrest for Communist Party’s control. promoting political and The US State Depart- religious freedoms in the ment said it welcomed Ly’s communist nation. He had release.

Philippines’ President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, surrounded by supporters, speaks to reports at a restaurant in Davao City, on the southern island of Mindanao, recently. (AFP)

AGENCIES president to carefully think Philippines chair Ritz Lee Based on the Commission in that (the reimposition of MANILA about the policy proposals un- Santos III said. on Human Rights report cited death penalty). We are against der his administration in or- In a news conference after by Cabarde, the crime rate in death penalty,” said Ossowksi REVIVING death penalty der to ensure that none of his the May 9 elections, Duterte 1999 even increased by 15.3 in an interview on Thursday would be an international proposed measures will con- said bringing back the death percent or a total of 82,538 night at the Friedrich Nau- embarrassment for the Philip- travene the very commitment penalty would be a central compared with the previous mann Foundation (FNF) an- pines, Amnesty International we made before the world,” part of his war on crime. year’s 71,527 cases despite niversary in Makati. (AI) said on Friday even as it Cabarde said in a media fo- Cabarde noted that the the executions of death row Former Deputy Speaker pointed out that the country rum in Quezon City. Philippines is a state party to convicts. Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, is a signatory to various cov- The group presented a the Second Optional Protocol Meanwhile, European dip- who espoused the bill to re- enants on human rights, in- programme of action to be to the International Covenant lomats and civil rights advo- peal the death penalty, ex- cluding the protocol to abolish submitted to presumptive on Civil and Political Rights cates have also raised concern pressed hopes that lawmakers Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly (centre) is welcomed back by the capital punishment. President-elect Rodrigo Du- which aims for the worldwide on the reimposition of death will vote against the proposal Archbishop Tadeo (left) and a senior colleague to his parish in AI Philippines vice chair terte to ensure that human total abolition of death pen- penalty in the Philippines, to reimpose it. Hue, Ha Nam province, Vietnam. (AP) Romeo Cabarde Jr said there rights is made a priority and alty. saying it is anti-poor and will “It’s going to be a numbers is also no logical connec- embedded in all government “What kind of face are we not deter crimes. game in Congress and those tion between imposing death agencies and programmes. going to show the rest of the German Ambassador to who voted for the repeal of penalty and reducing crime “Putting an end to extra- world, having promised at a the Philippines Thomas Os- death penalty in 2006 have rate, citing the increase in the judicial executions, unlawful certain point that we will erad- sowski said the reimposition been reelected and hopefully country’s crime rate in 1999 arrests, secret detention, en- icate death penalty and here of death penalty is contrary to they will maintain their posi- Malaysia’s police nab when seven convicts were ex- forced disappearances, tor- comes a new leader who wants the human rights principles tion and vote against its reim- ecuted by the Estrada admin- ture and other ill-treatment to reimpose death penalty that the Philippines is known position,” said Tañada in an istration. is one of our non-negotiables just because he wants to curb for in the world. interview at the sidelines of 14 in terror crackdown “We call on the incoming for President Duterte,” AI criminality,” Cabarde said. “Germany is very adamant the FNF event. REUTERS lice had earlier identified as KUALA LUMPUR having recruited several Ma- laysians to launch an attack in TAIWAN MALAYSIAN authorities de- the southeast Asian nation. MH17 victims’ tained 14 people believed to Three others were de- have links to the Islamic State tained on suspicion of pro- kin sue Putin, (IS) in a series of raids across moting IS ideology, while two Ex-leader faces lawsuits as immunity ends several states earlier this men and one woman were ar- Russia in week. rested for allegedly planning AFP image, favoured by a public immunity to criminal pros- neighbourhood in Taipei on The 14 - all Malaysians - to travel to Syria to join the rights court TAIPEI fed up with the scandals of ecution,” prosecutors said in Saturday, after moving back are the latest to be detained terrorist group. former DPP leader Chen Shui- an earlier statement. there from the presidential by authorities who have been The raids were carried out AFP DOZENS of lawsuits brought bian, who was jailed for cor- “The investigations will re- residence. on a concerted campaign over between May 17-20 by the po- SYDNEY against former Taiwanese ruption. start according to law after the Ma took the leadership the past few years to stamp lice special branch’s counter- president Ma Ying-jeou reo- However, Ma now faces president steps down,” it said. in 2008 by the biggest land- out the threat of Islamist mili- terrorism division in six states FAMILIES of victims of Malay- pened on Saturday as his his own court battles as politi- Local media reported on slide in Taiwan’s democratic tancy in the country. across the peninsula. sia Airlines flight MH17, which presidential immunity lapsed cal rivals hurl suits at him on a Thursday that the High Court history, but saw his popular- Deputy inspector-general Muslim-majority Malaysia was shot down over Ukraine after the island swore in its range of allegations, including had ordered a re-hearing on a ity plummet during his eight- of police Noor Rashid Ibrahim has been on high alert since in 2014, are suing President new leader. leaking political secrets and request brought by a DPP law- year run, with the public un- said in a statement that eight Islamic State-linked militants Vladimir Putin and Russia for Ma left the presidential of- failing to declare assets. maker that Ma be prevented nerved by policies seen as of the suspects are believed to carried out an armed attack Aus$10 million each in the fice on Friday as Tsai Ing-wen His departure from office from leaving the country due linking the island too closely have transferred money to the in the capital of neighbouring European Court of Human of the Democratic Progressive means he now faces 24 cases, to the cases he faces. with rival China. IS in Syria and the Abu Sayyaf Indonesia in January. Rights, The Sydney Morning Party (DPP) took the reins as according to the Taipei Dis- That request had previous- Even though Taiwan is militant group in the southern In March, Malaysian Herald reported on Saturday. the island’s first female leader, trict Prosecutors Office. ly been denied at district level. self-governed after splitting Philippines. Home Minister Ahmad Zahid The compensation claim after winning a landslide vic- “The office has been ac- Seemingly undeterred, a with the mainland in 1949 fol- All eight are also believed Hamidi said police had foiled was filed with the Strasbourg- tory in January. tively taking inventory of relaxed Ma was pictured go- lowing a civil war, Beijing still to have ties with Malaysian IS an IS plot to kidnap Prime based court by Sydney legal Ma came to power in 2008 cases relating to president Ma ing for a morning jog and sees the island as part of its recruiter Muhammad Wan- Minister Najib Razak and oth- firm LHD Lawyers on May partly due to his “Mr Clean” that were suspended due to doing push-ups in his old territory to be reunified. ndy Mohamed Jedi, who po- er senior ministers last year. 9 on behalf of 33 next of kin from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, the Herald said. All 298 passengers and crew -- the majority of them Beijing warns will cut contacts if Taiwan doesn’t toe line Dutch -- died when the Boeing 777 was hit by a Russian-made BUK anti-aircraft missile over AFP ruling after splitting with the mechanism between the two risk, Chinese authorities said. war-torn eastern Ukraine on BEIJING mainland in 1949 following a departments can only contin- The Association for Rela- July 17, 2014. civil war, it has never formally ue if the ‘92 consensus’, which tions Across the Taiwan Straits The documents filed by BEIJING warned Taiwan it declared independence and represents the common politi- (ARATS), a semi-official or- LHD Lawyers allege that would cut off critical contacts Beijing still sees it as part of its cal foundation of the One Chi- ganisation that works with its the Russian Federation has with the island if its new presi- territory awaiting reunification. na principle, is adhered to,” Taiwanese counterpart, the worked to keep its involvement dent Tsai Ing-wen does not Beijing is highly suspicious Xinhua quoted Ma as saying. Straits Exchange Foundation in the plane disaster hidden. state her support for the con- of Tsai, whose Democratic (SEF), deals with issues that Jerry Skinner, a co-asso- cept that there is only “one Progressive Party (DPP) is tra- are too legally or politically ciate of LHD whose signature China”, state media reported ditionally pro-independence The two organisations, delicate to be handled through is on the claim, told the Her- on Saturday. and has warned her against which have played a criti- official government channels. ald that his clients wanted ac- The comments came a day any attempt at a breakaway. cal role in improving ties “As long as SEF receives countability. after Beijing-sceptic Tsai’s in- Beijing and Taipei have between Taipei and Beijing, authorisation to confirm to “They want enough money auguration speech, where she held regular, official communi- renewed contact in 2008, ARATS the adherence to the to reflect that the Russians called for “positive dialogue” cations since 2014, but that will following almost a decade ‘92 consensus’... authorised take this seriously,” the paper with the Chinese mainland, stop unless Tsai acknowledges of tension that ended with negotiations and contact be- quoted Skinner as saying. but stopped short of any com- the “1992 consensus”, said Ma tween the two organisations Officials with the Dutch promise on Beijing’s demands Xiaoguang, spokesman for the the election of Ma. can be maintained,” Xinhua Safety Board (OVV) concluded that she back its “one China” Taiwan Affairs Office, accord- quoted the head of ARATS as last year as part of an interna- principle. ing to a report by the official Tsai and the DPP have saying, without giving a spe- tional investigation that the That principle was recog- Xinhua news service. never acknowledged the con- cific name. Boeing 777 was hit by a BUK nised by outgoing president The tacit agreement fol- sensus. In her speech Friday, The two organisations, missile. Ma Ying-jeou of the Beijing- lowed a 1992 meeting between Tsai reiterated her previous which have played a critical In February, a separate friendly Kuomintang party, Chinese officials and the KMT stance of recognising the 1992 role in improving ties between criminal investigation team who oversaw an eight-year which laid out the “one China” meeting took place, but did Taipei and Beijing, renewed said they hoped within months rapprochement between the ideology, but allowed each not endorse its conclusions. contact in 2008, following al- to pinpoint the exact spot from Taiwan’s new President Tsai Ing-wen chats with Vice President Chen former bitter rivals. side its own interpretation. Unofficial communication most a decade of tension that which the missile was fired. Chien-jen during a banquet in Taipei on Friday. (AFP) Although Taiwan is self- “The communications mechanisms will also be at ended with the election of Ma. Pakistan / South Asia Sunday, May 22, 2016 09 Afghan policemen shoot 6 colleagues dead, flee with arms India pledges $1 million for Kabul school maintenance

KABUL An Afghan police official says six police have been shot and killed by colleagues who KABUL The Indian government has pledged $1 million for the annual routine maintenance of a turned their guns on them at a checkpoint in the southern Uruzgan province. Mohammad Ha- school in Kabul. The fund will be utilised for replacement of electricity transformers, immediate civil NEWS sham, head of police in the Charchino district, says the shooting happened in the early hours of repairs, modernisation programme and annual routine maintenance in Habibia High School, Khamaa IN BRIEF Saturday morning. He says three officers involved in the shooting have escaped the scene, taking Press reported on Saturday. Habibia High School, one of the largest schools in Afghanistan, was weapons and vehicles with them. The incident follows another in Kabul on Friday, when an Afghan established in 1904 by King Habibullah. The school was renovated with the assistance of the Indian security guard at a UN compound shot two Nepalese guards, killing one and wounding the other. government between 2003 and 2006. The renovated building was jointly inaugurated by Hamid Kar- In southern Zabul province on Thursday, eight policemen were shot dead by a colleague. (AP) zai, then president of Afghanistan, and former prime minister Manmohan Singh. (IANS) Foreign aid reaches flooded Sri Lankan capital; toll touches 71

from Japan, Sri Lankan au- Australia and the United central district of Kegalle, but 300,000 sheltered in relief centres thorities said their priority was States have made cash dona- that no casualties were report- now preventing diseases such tions to help victims. ed because the area had been as diarrhoea, with many areas Floodwaters in parts of evacuated. AFP coastline leaving six people still under water. the capital subsided slightly The country's influential COLOMBO dead and forcing the evacu- "We have sent a large overnight, officials said, but Buddhist clergy urged the faith- ation of 500,000 as it un- number of doctors and nurs- heavy downpours on Saturday ful to divert at least half of the FOREIGN aid began arriv- leashed winds as strong as 88 ing staff to ensure there is no prevented many from mov- money spent on holiday cel- ing in Sri Lanka on Saturday, kilometres (54 miles) per hour outbreak of waterborne dis- ing back to their homes on the ebrations to help flood victims. bringing help to half a mil- and heavy downpours. eases," Health Minister Ra- banks of the Kelani river. President Maithripala lion people forced out of their Torrential rains have jitha Senaratne told AFP. Nearly 300,000 people Sirisena called on Sri Lankans homes by heavy rains and deluged Sri Lanka since last The Indian government were staying in about 500 to provide shelter and donate landslides that have killed at weekend, triggering huge has provided inflatable boats, state-run relief centres Sat- cash or food to flood victims least 71 in a week of extreme landslides that have buried outboard motors, diving urday, which also marks the as offers of assistance came in weather wreaking havoc in victims in up to 50 feet (15 me- equipment, medical supplies, Buddhist holiday of Vesak, from overseas. South Asia. tres) of mud and left 127 peo- electricity generators and while a further 200,000 peo- The accommodation book- As the heaviest rains in a ple missing. sleeping bags, officials said. ple were staying with friends ing website airbnb.com listed quarter of a century battered As aid began to arrive Sat- The first of two Indian or family. at least 29 places offering free Sri Lankan navy personnel evacuate residents following floods in the Sri Lanka, Cyclone Roanu urday on a military plane from naval ships arrived Saturday Officials said there was a lodging for anyone affected by Kolonnawa suburb of Colombo on Saturday. (AFP) barrelled into the Bangladesh India and a commercial flight at the port in Colombo, while fresh landslide in the worst-hit the floods in Sri Lanka. Afghan who faced 20 dead, 500,000 flee as war crime charges at Gitmo to be freed cyclone batters B’desh AP land mines buried in a field MIAMI near his home. Authorities later concluded he was part Met department AN Afghan who once faced of a bomb cell linked to al- warns of further war crimes charges at Qaida, an allegation his law- Guantanamo has now been yers have denied. landslides in the cleared for release from He was charged in the the US base in Cuba, the military tribunals in Sep- Southeast government announced on tember 2008 with conspir- Friday. acy and providing mate- AFP The Periodic Review rial support for terrorism, CHITTAGONG Board, an organisation which appeals courts have made up of various gov- said can't be charged as war CYCLONE Roanu battered ernment agencies that con- crimes at Guantanamo for the coast of southern Bangla- ducts parole-style hearings conduct that occurred be- desh on Saturday, forcing half for prisoners held at Guan- fore 2006. The government a million people to flee their tanamo, determined it was dismissed the charges in homes and leaving 20 people no longer necessary to de- 2011 and his lawyers have dead in floods and rain-trig- tain the man known by the been pressing for his release gered landslides. single name of Obaidullah. ever since. The cyclone damaged hun- A statement announcing Obaidullah appeared dreds of mud-and-tin houses the decision was posted on before the PRB in April, part in two impoverished southern a Pentagon website. of an Obama administra- districts, with many low-lying The board found that tion attempt to determine villages inundated by a storm "the risks that the detainee if some of the prisoners surge that swelled up to seven presents can be adequately who have been held without feet (two metres) high. mitigated," according to the charge can be released as Authorities took more than three-paragraph statement. part of the effort to close the 500,000 people into shelters US forces captured prison in Cuba. as the cyclone made landfall Obaidullah during a raid in There are 80 prisoners just after midday local time Afghanistan in July 2002 still held at Guantanamo, (0600 GMT), packing winds when he was about 19. They including 28 cleared for as strong as 88 kilometres (54 found about 20 unactivated release. miles) per hour. At least 20 people are known to have died, police said. "Seven people drowned Bangladeshi villagers make their way to shelters in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday, as Cyclone Roanu approached. (AFP) at Banshkhali after the storm surge breached dykes at two officials said. A mother and her young ter Management Department, a week of extreme weather Pakistan central bank cuts places, inundating coastal "Up to 20 villages were child were killed after rains told AFP. wreaked havoc across South villages," Shah Alam, a po- flooded (in the area)," Hatiya triggered a landslide which Disaster authorities shut Asia with Sri Lanka battered by lice inspector in Chittagong, police chief Anisul Haq told buried their hillside home at Si- down sea and river ports on the heaviest rains in a quarter rates as growth lags told AFP. AFP. "The flood water is now takundu in Chittagong District, Saturday and ordered fishing of a century, triggering severe REUTERS percent a year to absorb new Three people, including receding," he said. a police inspector said. trawlers and other boats not to floods and landslides. KARACHI entrants to the work force. a mother and her daughter, Peripheral winds and heavy Others died on Bhola island go out on the water. Earlier this month lightning In a statement, the bank drowned on Hatiya island after downpours brought on by and in Cox's Bazar, Laxmipur The government's meteoro- strikes killed an unprecedented PAKISTAN'S central bank cut said growth in the service sec- sea water flooded their village. the impending cyclone struck and Patuakhali, officials said. logical department has warned 59 people in Bangladesh in its key policy rate by 25 basis tor and industrial activities By early evening Saturday coastal areas early Saturday "So far we have moved of the risk of further landslides three days as tropical thunder- points to 5.75 percent on Sat- would offset poor perform- conditions appeared to be im- morning, causing widespread more than 500,000 people to in the country's southeastern storms hit the country before urday, saying the country was ance in the agricultural sec- proving, paving the way for devastation before the storm cyclone shelters," Reaz Ahmed, hill districts. the annual monsoon, which on course to miss its econom- tor. There has also been an people to return to their homes, had even made landfall. the head of Bangladesh's Disas- The cyclone comes as runs from June to September. ic growth target for the year. uptick in lending. The bank said economic "GDP growth in FY16 is ex- growth in the fiscal year pected to provide the needed ending June 2016 was likely sustainability in growth tra- to exceed last year's 4.2 per- jectory and the basis for fur- cent but miss the 5.5 percent ther improvement in FY17," Motorcycle-borne gunmen kill two traffic cops in Karachi target. the bank said in a statement. The bank also said the It added that foreign ex- AFP shooting them in the head. Nobody immediately in the head," Raja Umer Police told AFP that, after the inflation outlook was "low" change reserves are expected KARACHI "The constables were claimed responsibility for the Khattab said, suspecting the killing of nine traffic police- despite headline inflation to continue building, while targeted while controlling killings. same group was involved in men last year, all field staff nudging up for seven con- the current account deficit MOTORCYCLE gunmen shot traffic at Ayesha Manzil A senior Counter Terror- all the attacks. had been armed and direct- secutive months. The annual will be at around 1 percent dead two Pakistan traffic po- Road by two motorcycle rid- ism Department (CTD) offi- Last year 79 policemen ed to wear bulletproof vests consumer inflation rate rose of GDP. lice in the southern port city ers. The terrorists also took cial said that, with the latest -- including four senior offi- while on duty. to 4.17 percent in April from Potential headwinds for of Karachi on Saturday, offi- with them the weapons of assaults, the number of po- cials and nine traffic police- "Both the deceased who 3.94 percent in March. the economy may come from cials said. the deceased," Syed Feroz licemen shot dead in Karachi men -- were killed by un- were targeted had weapons Economists say Pakistan, an increase in global oil pric- The assailants attacked the Shah, Deputy Inspector in the last five months had known gunmen. and bulletproof jackets but a nation of 190 million people, es, the bank said. Pakistan is a policemen while they were on General of the West Zone reached 16. Tahir Noorani, Assistant they could not get a chance to needs to expand by at least 6 net importer of oil. duty in a busy central district, Police, told AFP. "All these cops were shot Inspector General of Traffic resist," he said. Wildfires destroy forests in Dutch climber dies after Everest summit Pakistan’s Margalla Hills transporting it to the Nepa- Around 330 climbers have On the same day an In- IANS throwing cigarettes, burning Third death in a week to hit the lese capital Kathmandu. successfully scaled Mount dian climber died after fall- ISLAMABAD matches or even locals could Arnold, 35, on Friday post- ing ill while descending from be involved in the fires," Dawn Himalayan climbing season ed a picture on his Twitter ac- Everest this season after Mount Dhaulagiri, also in the AT least eight forest fires were online quoted Aman as saying. count saying he had reached two consecutive years of Himalayas. reported in Pakistan's Margal- On Friday the city man- AFP Managing Director of Seven the top of the mountain. deadly disasters. A second Dutch climber, la Hills over the past 15 days. agers discussed the frequent KATHMANDU Summit Treks said. It was his fifth attempt Niels van Buren, also scaled The largest fire erupted on fires spread over 12,605 hec- "The climber who died to scale the 8,850-metre his sleep. Everest on Friday to become Tuesday night, and according tares. The CDA chairman A DUTCH climber has died was a Dutch mountaineer (29,035) high peak. Last year, Around 330 climbers have the first patient suffering with to some Capital Development Maroof Afzal directed the after reaching the summit of named Eric Arnold. We got he was among the climbers successfully scaled Mount multiple sclerosis (MS) to Authority officials, the hills environment wing to deploy Mount Everest, expedition or- the news from his team lead- caught up in a deadly ava- Everest this season after two reach the top "after an intense were still burning. 300 more officials to curb fire ganisers said on Saturday, the er, Arnold Coster, at base lanche which struck the re- consecutive years of dead- journey of two months," his or- However, CDA environ- incidents in Margalla hills, a third death in a week to hit the camp," Pasang Phurba Sher- gion in the wake of the Nepal ly disasters, but two other ganisers Mission Summit said. ment member Sanaullah statement said. Himalayan climbing season. pa, a board director at the ex- earthquake. mountaineers have died in the Nepal issued 289 permits Aman said Tuesday's fire was In order to enforce effective The mountaineer, named pedition agency told AFP. The Dutch news agency past few days. to foreign mountaineers for extinguished but another fire monitoring, the number of fire as Eric Arnold, died at Camp Earlier Saturday a tour- ANP reported that Arnold had A Nepali sherpa guide this year's brief spring climb- erupted on Friday. pickets were increased from 15 4 after falling ill with altitude ism official said authorities told his teammates after re- perished Thursday after he ing season, which runs from "Citizens' carelessness is to 30, it said. Aman said other sickness late Friday as he de- were working to bring the turning from the summit "my slipped and fell 2,000 me- mid-April to the end of May, the main cause of the fire in- departments were assisted in scended the world's highest deceased climber's body to body has no energy left" add- tres down Mount Lhotse, the after two consecutive failed cidents in the hills. People curbing such incidents. mountain, Mingma Sherpa, Everest base camp before ing he had apparently died in world's fourth-highest peak. seasons. 10 Sunday, May 22, 2016

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS Opinion HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Stealing From Ebola To Fight Zika The Real Source Of The House took funds away from other programmes meant for fighting an even more dangerous threat OBODY should be surprised when The money in the House bill would be Terror In Bangladesh the present House of Representa- available only until the end of Septem- tives, dominated by penurious ber, when the fiscal year ends. That cutoff reactionaries, produces a stingy seems to assume that Zika will no longer be Nresponse to a danger that calls for a problem by then, an absurdly risky line of compassionate largesse. But for sheer reasoning that most health experts do not The government’s relentless repression of the opposition and fecklessness it’s hard to top the House’s accept. Cutting off funds that early would response this week to the Zika virus. The also severely hamper the effort to create civil society has unleashed extremist killers salient feature is that in providing money a Zika vaccine, which is expected to take to fight one health menace, it steals from more than a year to develop and test. other funds meant to fight an even more Some ultraconservative House Repub- WILLAM B MILAM | NYT SYNDICATE dangerous threat — the Ebola virus. licans have said that they do not consider In February, President Zika a major health crisis. AST weekend a Buddhist monk was Barack Obama asked Con- Perhaps they have yet to see hacked to death, presumably with gress for $1.9 billion to The Senate voted for $1.1 (or, more distressingly, they a machete, in southeastern Bang- help fight Zika, a virus that billion in emergency funds deliberately ignore) the pho- ladesh. The week before, it was a can cause severe birth de- for research, vaccine tographs of babies born with LLGBT activist. Just days before that, fects and has been linked development, mosquito small heads because of the an English professor. to neurological disorders control efforts and other virus. Or perhaps they do Some of these attacks have not yet been in adults. Transmittable by programmes. not think of this as an emer- claimed, but they follow a gruesome pat- mosquitoes and through gency worthy of their atten- tern: There have been at least 25 violent, sex, Zika broke out last tion because those babies sometimes public, killings of religious mi- year in Brazil and has since spread to the were not born in the United States outside norities, secularists and free-speech advo- United States and other countries. Puerto Rico, or to their constituents. cates in Bangladesh since February 2015. Experts fear there could eventually be Perversely, while not doing much to A dozen more people have been assaulted hundreds of thousands of infections in contain the virus, some House members in similar ways and survived. Puerto Rico, where nearly half the popula- have seized upon it as a pretext to weaken Of these attacks, more than 20 have tion lives below the poverty line, with pos- environmental regulations. Republicans been claimed by the Islamic State, about sibly hundreds of babies affected. States in have introduced a bill that would allow half a dozen by Al Qaeda in the Indian the American South with large mosquito businesses to spray pesticides on or near Subcontinent and one each by the in- populations are also at particular risk. waterways without first notifying regula- digenous Bangladeshi extremist groups On Thursday, the Senate voted for $1.1 tors, as now required by law. Once called Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and used its vast majority in Parliament to re- the Islamic State, they accuse the BNP – or billion in emergency funds for research, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act, the Ansar al-Islam. move from the Constitution a clause pro- what is left of it – of conspiring with the vaccine development, mosquito control bill was recently given a more ominous The surge is worrying Western gov- viding that general elections be overseen Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami to destabi- efforts and other programmes. The bill name, the Zika Vector Control Act, the idea ernments, which fear that local Islamist by nonpartisan caretaker governments. lise the government. Hasina repeated this does not provide as much money as public being that with Zika lurking around the terrorists may now be competing for the The BNP boycotted the 2014 election, charge most recently a few weeks ago, after health agencies like the Centers for Disease corner, local governments should be able attention of international jihadist net- largely in response to that amendment, the killing of the LGBT activist and US Em- Control and Prevention say they need, but to use pesticides more easily. works or cooperating with them. Several and since winning that one-party election bassy employee Xulhaz Mannan. it is a decent start. The bill, rejected on Tuesday under a Western countries have responded with the Awami League has been hellbent on More pernicious still is the govern- The House bill approved on Wednes- rule that required a two-thirds majority in antiterrorism measures: Japan is provid- turning Bangladesh into a one-party state. ment’s wavering on free expression. On day would provide just over half that — favour, could come up again under a rule ing aviation security; the United States The BNP has become the primary – really, the eve of a Hindu holiday in September, $622 million. Further, the House insisted requiring only a simple majority. In any has called for strengthening cooperation the only – target of the government’s so- Hasina told a group of Hindu leaders that that even that sum be offset by cuts to oth- case, it’s a ruse to benefit pesticide manu- with the Bangladeshi authorities to coun- called law enforcement efforts. The Awami people had the right to practice their own er programmes, including those aimed at facturers and farmers who find the regula- ter terrorism and violent extremism. League routinely deploys the judiciary and religion but not “to hurt others’ religious Ebola. That makes no sense. tion burdensome. The Environmental Pro- This is a predictable reaction, but it the police against its political opponents sentiment.” At a Bengali New Year cel- It would shortchange critical efforts to tection Agency says that in emergencies, is misguided, and dangerous, because it and any dissenting voices in civil society. ebration last month, she reportedly said strengthen public health systems in Africa spraying can occur without prior notifica- proceeds from the wrong diagnosis. High-ranking BNP members have been the writings of bloggers criticising Islam in order to prevent a resurgence of Ebola, tion. The House seems incapable of seeing The recent string of vicious killings in framed on corruption charges, among oth- were “filthy words” and asked why the which killed more than 11,000 people, and that Zika is a real threat, not a device to Bangladesh is less a terrorism issue than er things. According to the International government should take responsibility if other diseases. satisfy its anti-regulatory zeal. a governance issue: It is the ruling Awami Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch, those writings “lead to any untoward in- League’s onslaught against its political the government has silenced critics by cidents?” Islamists could be forgiven for opponents, which began in earnest after resorting to enforced disappearances, interpreting these statements as a free the last election in January 2014, that has torture and extrajudicial killings. Journal- pass to attack people they consider to be unleashed extremists in Bangladesh. ists who dare cover any of this are being enemies of scriptural Islam. A zero-sum mentality has been the rule charged with sedition and treason. Bangladesh has a history of fringe of Bangladeshi politics since the end of the The Awami League’s relentless cam- extremist groups. Some of those are a military dictatorship in 1991. Between then paign against the political opposition and legacy of the war in Afghanistan, in which and 2007, the country’s two main parties, civil society has allowed violent radicals of some Bangladeshis fought; others are by- the Awami League and the Bangladesh Na- all stripes to let loose. Concentrating the products of the Wahhabi influence that tionalist Party (BNP) traded power every state’s limited judicial and police powers Bangladeshi workers in the Persian Gulf term. Whichever one was leading the gov- on the BNP and its supporters reduces the brought back when they returned home. ernment focused on enriching itself and resources that can be devoted to preventing But before the string of attacks that start- weakening the other. That left the private terrorism and crime. Using illegal means ed last year, the last known terrorist at- sector largely alone to invest in economic to quiet perceived opponents undermines tack in Bangladesh (by Jamaat-ul-Muja- expansion and NGOs to provide educa- the rule of law, creating an atmosphere of hideen Bangladesh) dated back to 2005. tion, health care and other social services impunity that emboldens extremists. It’s difficult to gauge the current ter- the government wasn’t delivering. The first machete killing – of a secu- rorist threat in Bangladesh, especially In some respects, the government’s larist blogger – occurred in February any links between local and international failure to do its job served the country 2013, before the last general election. groups. Whatever its exact nature, how- well: The economy has grown by an aver- The Awami League reacted as you would ever, it is largely the result of the govern- age of 5 percent to 6 percent annually over expect from an incumbent party: Prime ment’s repression against mainstream the last two decades; Bangladesh has out- Minister Sheikh Hasina left her office to dissent. Responding to this wave of at- done India and Pakistan on various social offer condolences to the family and vowed tacks as though it were principally a secu- development indicators, such as health to catch the culprits. But since the party rity issue, rather than a governance prob- care and education. But the country’s po- was re-elected, its response to similar at- lem, would only make matters worse. litical culture steadily deteriorated. tacks has become constructively evasive. Major protests broke out in late 2006, It is not clear whether Awami League (William B Milam is a senior after the then-ruling BNP tried to rig elec- leaders are even paying their respects to the policy scholar at the Woodrow tions scheduled for 2007. The army took victims’ families. At the same time that the Wilson Center in Washington over for a time. The Awami League was leaders deny the presence in Bangladesh and a former US ambassador New York Times voted back into office in 2009 and in 2011 of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent or to Bangladesh and Pakistan.) How To Survive 4.5 Years In Captivity The author’s Islamist kidnappers tried to break his spirit, but in Afghan mountains he found strength

SHAHBAZ TASEER | NYT SYNDICATE time. In such dark moments it is easy to piety. They showed me my sister’s tweet an illicit pleasure. He believed that playing moment that a Taliban elder was opening sink into despair. But I clung to my faith on Nelson Mandela’s death and said it rep- or even listening to soccer was a sin. For my prison door to set me free, hundreds of AHORE – August 26, 2011, an ordi- and the Quran, the memory of my coura- resented fealty to an infidel. My brother’s me, it was a window to the outside world. miles away, a cell door in Rawalpindi was nary day. I was driving to work on the geous father, and the love of my family. photograph at a social event was proof Getting soccer news kept me sane. opening and the executioner was readying same road in Lahore that I took every The torture started in my fourth month of my family’s errant ways. But this “evi- Looking back, I can see that I was al- the gallows to hang my father’s assassin. day, and my mind was busy with the of captivity. The people who kidnapped dence” gave me strength. I knew that my ways free. No one can imprison you except Then, March 8, 2016, an extraordinary Lmundane. A car blocked the road, me were from the Islamic Movement of family was well, and that they, and many yourself. My abductors could make my day. It had taken me eight days and several but I didn’t give it much thought. Then five Uzbekistan, or IMU — one of Pakistan’s others around the world, were thinking of life intolerable, but as long as I held on to stories to hitchhike my way from Oruzgan, masked men put a gun to my head, pulled most feared militant groups. They found me and praying for my safety and release. my sanity, I was liberated. I was in God’s Afghanistan, to Pakistan’s Balochistan me out of the car and my world spun hor- perverse pleasure in torturing me. I found Solitary confinement, loneliness, doubt hands, not theirs, and I knew that He Province through rain, hail and sun. The ribly out of control. solace in prayer. I prayed for the fortitude and anxiety can do strange things to your would protect me and take me home. He motorbike I was riding hit a highway, and Right now, I can’t tell all of the details to bear as much pain as my torturers could mind. You start questioning your san- did. He worked miracles: I survived drone I knew this one led to freedom.As I turned of my capture or my release for security inflict until they broke from inflicting it. I ity. The faces that you have loved so much strikes and war, I lived through multiple onto the road taking me home, I thought reasons. Someday I hope to be able to re- often thought of my father, who had suf- recede into darkness. But memory has illnesses without treatment, I was shot, of the moment I had spoken to my mother count the full story. But I can say for sure fered political persecution in the 1980s its own magic. I could not go home, but I mentally and physically tortured, I lived and my wife after my first six months in that mine was no ordinary kidnapping. under the dictatorship of General Moham- could bring my home to me. In my mind in abysmal living conditions, and survived captivity. I had been told that I was going Just seven months earlier, my father, mad Zia ul-Haq. He would say physical I visited familiar places. I conjured up my the rout of the IMU by the Afghan Taliban to be shot after the phone call and that I Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab pain touches only the surface; you must boisterous friends, one by one, and imag- in November 2015. should say farewell to my family. I told Province, had been shot dead by his guard never let it break your spirit. ined myself to be a stand-up comedian and I could spend a lifetime being bitter and them with finality in my voice, the same for criticising Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, It is difficult to say which was worse, developed comedy routines for each friend. asking why this happened to me. But there words my father once wrote to my mother after a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was the physical torture or the excruciating These practiced routines are now coming is a higher purpose, a cosmic design. I know from jail: that I was not made from a wood sentenced to death for allegedly commit- tricks my captors played on my mind. They in handy as I see my friends again. that how you react to what happens to you, that burns easily. Having said this to them ting blasphemy. With my kidnapping, showed me printouts of Twitter posts to There were some 30-odd months when with what grace you handle misfortune, gave me peace, and this peace was my there was more at stake than just money. convince me that I had been forgotten. I had brief, unmonitored, almost surreal and the strength and bravery with which strength for four and a half years. It had My captors wanted the release of their They shared agonising details of how easy contact with the outside world. One of you tackle hardship are the things that mat- taken a long time, but here I was, coming “Muslim brothers” being held in jails it would be to target my mother, how vul- my guards, like myself, was a Manchester ter. This is what God sees and judges. back to change that goodbye into a hello. across Pakistan. I knew that was going to nerable my family was. They showed me a United fan, and every other week he would There was something divine in what be difficult, and that because of their lu- picture of my wife on a pilgrimage in Mecca sneak a radio into my cell and we would happened on February 29, 2016. At the (Shahbaz Taseer is a dicrous demands, my release would take and claimed she was a hypocrite feigning listen to soccer games. For him, this was crack of dawn that day, at perhaps the exact Pakistani businessman.)

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THE OPINION AND ANALYSIS PAGES ARE THE AUTHORS’ OWN. QATAR TRIBUNE BEARS NO RESPONSIBILITY. Sunday, May 22, 2016 11 Have your say Is there an issue you feel strongly about, or an article you want to comment on? QT will carry your voice to the public and to Analysis places where it matters. Write to us at PO BOX 23493, DOHA, QATAR O FAX: +974 44416790 O[email protected] Donald, Save Your Golf Greens, And The Planet Bilingual babies AN article in the Chill Out section of Qatar Tribune asserts that brains of babies from bilingual families are Republicans supported by oil money don’t really care about climate change more open to learning new language but Trump will get some Clinton votes if he takes pro-climate stand sounds, compared with babies from monolingual families thus they have the advantage growing up. I guess there is nothing to argue about be- cause we should know by now that being bilingual, or multilingual, has obvious advantages. For instance, as stated in the article, researchers found that babies raised in bilingual households show brain activity linked to executive functioning as early as when they are 11 months old. Bilin- gual children, or those speaking more than one language fluently develop executive function – the part of the brain used for planning and problem- solving – and this also give them a leg up on understanding how language works. Children have the capacity and facility to learn and adapt more than one language at an early stage, so it would be best if parents will speak other language besides their mother tongues. Also, ain’t it wonderful to hear your child, at an early age, tries to emulate you and speaks two lan- guages at the same time? Coming from a family that speaks more than one language, I can attest that lit- EAR Donald – it’s been a while tal Studies at Florida Atlantic University, revolutionary: You’ve single-handedly re- tle learners at home are smarter and Tight Leash since we talked on the practice tee told PBS.” shaped the agenda of the Republican Par- they easily connect with others. I can at Doral. (Nice course you built.) I In other words, Donald, there is no ty, mixing some left-of-centre and cen- also vouch that advantages of being THOMAS L FRIEDMAN am only going to do this once, but I candidate in this race who is more ex- trist positions with the party’s traditional bilingual or multilingual will manifest NYT NEWS SERVICE Dam going to offer you some free ad- posed to climate change than ... you. And I right-of-centre stuff. You should do the later in life when they go to school, or vice — and it’s about all the things you love am not talking only about your coastal golf same now, embrace the reality of climate more when they graduate and go job most: yourself, your kids, winning, money courses. Global warming doesn’t mean change and vow as president that you will hunting. Research studies also sug- and golf. Have I got a deal for you ... the weather, on average, just gets hotter. be “huge, huuuuuge” on this issue — that gest that as we grow old, bilingual- Cards on the table, You see, Donald, I was looking at all It means the weather gets weirder. You “I’ll make the whole planet great again.” ism will help guard our ageing brain the golf courses you own. Some of them get more weather extremes — hotter hot It would be in your financial interest, against dementia and Alzheimer’s. I are real gems, like Doral, Turnberry, days, wetter wet ones, longer droughts, America’s interest and your grandkids’ in- have no supporting facts to this idea, Donald, I won’t be Doonbeg, Palm Beach, Aberdeenshire. fiercer storms, heavier snows. terest. Nobody who voted for you in the but sounds good to me. But you know what else I noticed? How The Climate Wire quoted a US Golf primaries did so because of climate, ex- voting for you. But many of them are on or near coastlines. Association turf expert in August 2014 cept maybe coal miners in West Virginia. Ana Vi FA And do you know what’s going to hap- as saying that “individual golfers and Your base does not care about this issue, if you really want pen to those golf courses, Donald, if the club leadership are becoming aware that and, by the way, all their kids are telling climate scientists are even half right? these are real issues.” I can only imagine them climate change is real. The reason They’re going to go from oceanfront prop- what this will mean for insurance rates for the Republican Party has its head in the to make this race erty to ocean-floor property. Because ice golf course. And that was before Nature sand on climate is the oil companies force melt and sea level rise are going to threat- magazine published a new study in March it to. But you don’t need Big Oil’s money. interesting, preserve en all of them. Here’s a July 21, 2015, sto- indicating that sea levels could rise almost Here’s what you need: some Bernie ry from Weather.com: twice as much as previously predicted by Sanders voters. You can’t win without “As our seas continue to rise, some the end of the century — “an outcome some of them. And they’re all greens. If your wealth and do cities, like Miami, are planning to spend that could devastate coastal communities you promised to take climate change seri- billions on revamping infrastructure. But around the globe,” as The Washington ously, you’d make it much easier for some something to make some scientists say sea level rise will lead Post noted, unless we curb emissions of of them, who dislike Hillary Clinton, to to another phenomenon in South Florida, greenhouse gases. Ask your golf course hold their noses and vote for you. You’d “#ClimateAction is a bipartisan America great again. and local leaders need to start prepar- greens keepers how many of them think also get a lot of other people to give you a effort. San Diego’s Republican ing for it now. The region that’s home to climate change is a hoax? second look. Most important, it would tip thousands of high-priced homes nestled So here’s the advice: I know that Republicans on this issue. mayor wants the city to run on against the water is expected to be threat- you’ve tweeted that “the concept of global Cards on the table, Donald, I won’t ened directly by the rising seas in the com- warming was created by and for the Chi- be voting for you. But if you really want 100% renewables. Florida is ing decades, and when the harsh reality nese in order to make US manufacturing to make this race interesting, continue to experiencing sea level rise due sets in, a mass exodus could commence. non-competitive.” (Just as an aside, Don- reshape the Republican Party, raise the ... In short, there’s no way to save South ald, that’s incredibly stupid. The Chinese odds of winning Florida, preserve your to climate change. Coral Ga- Florida, and lawmakers should start to are ahead of us in putting a price on car- wealth and do something to make Ameri- bles’ Republican mayor prepare for millions to move north. ... bon because they can’t breathe.) But let’s ca great again, tweet this: “Talked to some More than 2.4 million people live within put that aside. We both know that you scientists, smartest in the world, changing is taking action.” 4 feet of the local high-tide line, and ac- know as much about climate change as position on climate change. Feeling the cording to Climate Central, the risk of you did about abortion rights and the nu- burn. Gotta protect our kids.” storm surge flooding will be far higher by clear triad. It was just one of those things After all, Donald, you don’t want to Al Gore 2030. ... ‘This is not a future problem. It’s you put out there to keep you looking like be remembered as the politician who’ll a current problem,’ Leonard Berry, direc- a Republican good ol’ boy. be the answer to the question, “Who lost tor of the Florida Center for Environmen- Donald, you’ve done something truly Florida?”

Bloggers’ Borough GET HEARD! Young & Oppose ‘Brexit’? Be Cameron’s Match On Tinder QT NOW MAKES YOUR LIFE STEVEN ERLANGER | among ethnic minorities to register to vote Times of London website, Charles Lamb in efforts to re-create the “golden age” of BBC-NYT SYNDICATE before the June 7 deadline. said of Cameron: “Now, who gave him that the Romans. Members of Bite the Ballot, a youth wise advice! Yeah, people go on Tinder to “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried SIMPLE AVID, 49, is not looking for love; campaign group, along with representa- listen to political leaders speak and read this out, and it ends tragically,” he said. he is seeking votes, especially from tives of Google and BuzzFeed, the news their opinion. Tinder is an app for one- “The EU is an attempt to do this by differ- young Britons who are considered ent methods.” more likely to vote for Britain to re- Britons are used to Johnson’s extrava- ADVERTISING & PR main inside the European Union in Opinion polls and political analysts gant language, but the president of the D Phone: 40002155, 40002122 a coming referendum. suggest that up to two-thirds of European Council, Donald Tusk, a former This David — Cameron, the prime Britons younger than 25 prefer to Polish prime minister, on Tuesday leapt to Fax: 40002235 minister of Britain — is not joining Tinder, remain in the European Union, and Europe’s defense. a dating app, a Downing Street spokesman “When I hear the EU being compared Email : [email protected] said on Tuesday, nor has he joined The- the government wants to do all it to the plans and projects of Adolf Hitler, I LADbible, a popular photo and video site can to get them to the polls on cannot remain silent,” he said. “Such ab- for men 16 to 30. But the prime minister’s June 23. surd arguments should be completely ig- office did say it is exploring advertising on nored if they had not been formulated by SUBSCRIPTION & both services, and looking for other hip night stands, not a political platform!” one of the most influential politicians in ways to get more young people to register website, were also at the meeting last Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party the ruling party.” CIRCULATION and to vote. week, which was chaired by Daniel Korski, leader, 66, is also urging the young to vote Johnson “crossed the boundaries of Phone: 40002111 Opinion polls and political analysts a special adviser to the prime minister on to remain inside the European Union, but rational discourse, demonstrating politi- suggest that up to two-thirds of Britons Europe. more traditionally, speaking earnestly to cal amnesia,” Tusk said. Mobile : 55878073 younger than 25 prefer to remain in the Bite the Ballot is expected to work with student groups. But Britons on Tuesday seemed most European Union, and the government Tinder on something like the “Swipe the As the referendum approaches, the exercised by the news that the BBC, seek- Email : [email protected] wants to do all it can to get them to the Vote” program it organised in the United political talk has grown heated, with Boris ing budget cuts, will ax a website called polls on June 23, since that age group is States, where users were presented politi- Johnson, the former London mayor and BBC Food and its 11,000 recipes, which less likely to bother to vote than those old- cal issues on the Tinder app to swipe right a leader of the campaign to leave, being will be archived but harder to find. Only SUGGESTIONS & er than 45, who tend to favour the British (approve) or left (reject). There, too, the widely criticised for suggesting that the recipes associated with television cooking exit, or “Brexit.” idea is to try to get younger potential vot- European Union, like Napoleon and Hit- shows will be maintained, and only for 30 COMPLAINTS Cameron addressed a meeting at ers to register. ler, wanted to unite Europe. days after the show is broadcast. Downing Street of representatives from The suggestion that Cameron had In an interview with The Sunday Tel- More than 140,000 people have signed Phone : 40002202, Fax : 40002221 social media networks including Facebook joined Tinder, which he has not done, egraph, Johnson said that European his- a petition on change.org demanding that Email : [email protected] and Twitter on Friday to encourage 7 mil- caused the expected surge of amusement tory had been marked by repeated and the government and the BBC restore the lion people who are younger than 40 and and disgust. In a comment posted on the ill-fated attempts to unify the continent, recipes. 12 Sunday, May 22, 2016 India Five militants killed, two armymen Rain, landslides disrupt road, rail traffic Man calls NIA, threatens to blow up injured in Kupwara gunfight in Northeast residences of PM, Kejriwal SRINAGAR Five separatist guerrillas were killed on Saturday AGARTALA/SILCHAR Road and rail traffic was disrupted in NEW DELHI Security officials were sent into a tizzy after they NEWS and two armymen injured in a gunfight between the security southern Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and western Manipur by received a call from a man, who claimed to have planted bombs at IN BRIEF forces and holed up militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and incessant rain and landslides, officials said here on Saturday. the residences of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Kashmir. “Five terrorists have been killed in the Chak Drugmulla Tripura has been cut off from the rest of the country since Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday afternoon. The call later turned encounter in Kupwara district between the security forces and Friday as its lifeline -- National Highway-8 (NH-8) -- was badly out to be hoax. The call was received around 12.30 PM at the con- the terrorists,” Defence sources said. (IANS) damaged in adjoining southern Assam. (IANS) trol room of the NIA, which informed the police immediately. (PTI)

Islamic State threatens attacks in India ‘GOVT TAKING ALL STEPS TO PROTECT COUNTRY’

living in harmony with Hindus Islam. In this land your life, tacked by Hindu mobs in retali- NEW DELHI Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said The militant group says it is planning to who worship cows, trees and your honour, your property is ation for the burning of Hindus the Centre is taking all steps needed to protect the country and avenge the deaths of Muslims killed in the sun, and urged them to trav- protected.” in a train. asserted that the people of all religions and castes will fight the el to IS-held territories in the Another fighter then says Modi was the chief minister terror forces “with all their might”. riots in Gujarat and elsewhere “Caliphate”. “In this land you Islamic State will come to India of Gujarat at the time and faced He was asked about terror group Islamic State (IS) reportedly get to have hatred for the kuffar to liberate Muslims and avenge allegations that he did not do threatening in a video to take revenge over Kashmir, demolition of REUTERS more than 160 million Mus- . In this land you get to perform the violence perpetrated against enough to stop the bloodshed. Babri mosque and communal riots in Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar. NEW DELHI lims, but only a handful of them jihad,” said an Indian fighter them in 2002 in the western But a Supreme Court-ordered “We are taking whatever steps need to be taken to keep this have joined the Middle East- who is identified as Abu Salman state of Gujarat as well Kashmir investigation has said there was country secured. And I feel all people of this country have a sense IN a rare appeal to India’s Mus- ern group. Indian leaders and al-Hindi operating in the Syrian and the destruction of a mosque no case against him. of confidence...people of all castes, religions will fight the terror lim minority, Islamic State says members of the community province of Homs. by Hindu zealots in 1992. “We India has suffered from Is- forces with all their might,” Singh told reporters on the sidelines it is planning to avenge the say this testifies to the strength “In this land your religion will come back, with the sword, lamist attacks. In 2008, a mili- of ‘International Buddha Poornima Diwas Celebration’ organised deaths of Muslims killed in ri- of the country’s secular democ- is safe. In this land Allah’s Law to free you, to avenge Babri tant group based in Pakistan here. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, who also attended ots in Prime Minister Narendra racy. is the highest. In this land you mosque, Gujarat, Kashmir,” the launched a rampage through the celebrations, asserted that such type of “propaganda” videos Modi’s home state of Gujarat In a video monitored by the have nothing that stops you fighter says. More than 1,000 the city of Mumbai that killed by terror outfits will not be able to influence the people of the and elsewhere. India, a Hindu- US intelligence group SITE, Is- from doing good deeds, from people were killed in Gujarat. 166 people and traumatised the country. (PTI) majority country, is home to lamic State mocked Muslims doing da’wah, from preaching Most of them were Muslims, at- country. Congolese teacher dies after attack in Delhi Apple boss Cook meets PM

AFP foreigner. The victim taught at NEW DELHI a private institute in southern New Delhi, police said. Modi to plot India strategy A young Congolese teacher has Singh said the assault was been killed by a group of men not racially motivated. Yet at- in New Delhi, police said on tacks on African nationals are Saturday, the latest victim in a relatively common in India, Apple is looking to expand its retail presence in India and is pursuing a licence to set up its own store series of attacks on African na- where they face frequent racial tionals in India. discrimination and harass- Three men pelted M T Ol- ment by locals. ivia, 23, with stones and bricks Police typically reject any after chasing him through the suggestion of racist intent in upscale neighbourhood of Vas- the case of attacks. ant Kunj late on Friday, police In 2013, a Nigerian nation- said, following an altercation. al was killed by a mob in west- ern Goa state, with local politi- cians later comparing Africans Three men pelted M T to “cancer”. Olivia, 23, with stones and The politicians demanded bricks after chasing him the eviction of Africans from through the upscale the state and local councils neighbourhood of Vasant ordered residents not to rent them their homes. Kunj late on Friday. In January, an Indian mob beat a Tanzanian woman and “It started when the Con- her male friends in Bengaluru golese man was hiring an and set their car ablaze before auto-rickshaw. They had a dragging them off a bus, while heated argument leading to the scores of passengers watched attack,” Ishwar Singh, deputy in silence. That attack came in police commissioner for south- an apparent revenge for a road west Delhi, told AFP, adding accident in which a Sudanese that the man died in hospital driver ran over a local woman early on Saturday. in the city. “One of the attackers has Delhi’s former law minis- been arrested,” he said. ter was also accused in 2014 The police official said a of harassing African women manhunt had been launched after he led a vigilante mob to find the remaining attackers, through an area of the capital, who also beat up a local resi- accusing the women of being dent after he tried to help the prostitutes. Girls outshine boys in CBSE Class 12 exams; Delhi girl tops Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Apple CEO Tim Cook during a meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. (AFP/PIB)

IANS School in west Delhi secured REUTERS India is keen to get Apple to Modi and Cook dis- been pushing the Indian gov- ing telecom operator Bharti NEW DELHI 99.4 percent marks to top the NEW DELHI/MUMBAI start making products in the ernment to allow it to import Airtel and lender ICICI Bank, exams. Gupta, a science stream country in what would be a cussed Apple’s plans for refurbished phones in the but also took out time to visit GIRLS outclassed boys as Su- student, scored full marks in APPLE Inc chief Tim Cook boost for Modi’s “Make in In- its India business, country, but that application a temple, dine with Bollywood kriti Gupta of Delhi and Palak Physics and Chemistry and got met Prime Minister Narendra dia” manufacturing push. including the possibility was turned down earlier this stars and watch cricket. Goyal of Haryana bagged the 99 out of 100 in English, Math- Modi on Saturday, concluding “Every aspect of busi- of manufacturing and month. Apple also announced first and second positions in ematics and Computer Science a four-day trip to India that ness was discussed. Now it’s retailing in the country. A second source aware of plans to expand a software the Central Board of Second- each. She aggregated 497 out of could set the stage for Ap- for Apple to talk about their the meeting said Cook asked development centre it recent- ary Education (CBSE) class 12 500. ple’s expansion plans in one plans,” a close aide of Modi India is keen to get Modi to reconsider the com- ly opened in Hyderebad and results declared on Saturday. Palak Goyal of Tagore Pub- of the world’s fastest growing said. Apple to start making pany’s plans to import refur- launched a program for local With an overall pass per- lic School, Kurukshetra, stood smartphone markets. Cook’s first official visit to products in the country bished phones - a strategy developers working on its iOS centage of 88.58, girls per- second in the all-India rank- Modi and Cook met for the country comes at a crucial in what would be a seen key for Apple to make af- platform. Modi and Cook also formed better compared to the ing, securing just one mark less an hour in central Delhi and time as Apple looks for new fordable iPhones available in discussed cyber-security and boys’ 78.85. The pass percent- than Gupta. She scored 99.2 discussed Apple’s plans for its growth markets after posting boost for Modi’s “Make a country where most smart- data encryption, a govern- age for boys in 2015 was 81.59 percent. India business, including the its first-ever decline in iPhone in India” manufacturing phone sell for less than $150. ment statement said. percent, while it was 90.87 per- The third place was secured possibility of manufacturing sales. push. In an interview with Apple has been at the cent for girls. by Somya Uppal of St Theresa’s and retailing in the country. More than 100 million NDTV channel on Friday, centre of a debate on the role According to a CBSE press Convent School, Karnal, and Apple is looking to expand smartphones were sold in Both of them also dis- Cook said Apple plans to im- technology companies play in release, 83.05 percent students Ajish Sekar of P S B B Senior its retail presence in India and India last year and sales are cussed cyber-security port second-hand phones and protecting data that led to a cleared the examination this Secondary, Chennai - both is pursuing a licence to set up expected to grow 25 percent and data encryption, a refurbish them at a facility in much-publicised dispute be- year against 82 percent last scoring 99 percent marks. its own stores, which could this year, but Apple only has government statement India. Cook spent most of the tween Apple and the FBI over year. In the differently-abled start to open as early as next about a 2 percent share of said. week meeting heads of India’s a phone linked to a shooting Thiruvananthapuram re- category, Mudita Jagota of year. Government officials say the market. The company has largest companies, includ- in San Bernardino, California. corded the highest pass per- DAV Public School, Farida- centage of 97.61, followed by bad, stood first with 97 percent Chennai at 92.63 percent. marks, Siddhartha Biswas of Over 10 lakh students had Kendriya Vidyalaya School, R appeared in the examinations K Puram, Delhi, came second that began on March 1 and con- and Rakshit Malik of Amity 3 drought-hit states get extra foodgrains on SC directive cluded on April 22. International School, Noida, Sukriti Gupta of Montfort stood third. addressing the state food min- Non-ration card holders from Maharashtra, isters meet on price rise here. Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh to get benefit Three drought-hit states -- Maharasthra, Karnataka PTI tion (NGO) Swaraj Abhiyan, and Madhya Pradesh -- have NEW DELHI the SC had asked the Centre to asked for additional allocation cover all the people under the of foodgrains for this purpose, DROUGHT-HIT western state national food security system, she said. of Maharasthra, southern state appoint state food commis- “We have given it to them. of Karnataka and central state sioners and district grievance Other states may like to look at of Madhya Pradesh have been redressal officers in drought- this issue,” she added. provided extra foodgrains for hit states. The Secretary further said distribution to even non-ration “The SC has said that all that the apex court has also card holders as directed by the the people should be covered directed appointment of state Parched bed of Koyna dam, a result of decreased water level, in Supreme Court (SC), the Cen- under the food security system food commissioners for ef- Satara, Maharashtra, recently. (PTI) tre on Saturday said and asked of Public Distribution System fective implementation of the others to place their require- (PDS) in drought-affected food law. hearing in August,” she said. rity Act. “Some of you have al- ments, if any. states. It is saying to cover the “Some states have done She also asked the drought- ready done this. Please go and In a judgment pronounced rest of the population. You it. The SC will expect that hit states to appoint district look at it again as they (SC) Students celebrating their success at a school in Amritsar after the last week in a petition filed by have to think about it,” Food drought-hit states provide af- grievance redressal officers as said, this should be as per announcement of CBSE Class 12 results on Saturday. (PTI) non-governmental organisa- Secretary Vrinda Sarup said, fidavit in this regard in the next per the National Food Secu- the Act.” India Sunday, May 22, 2016 13 No failure is permanent; stick Will continue as ‘sentinel’ of to principles, Sonia tells party people of Kerala: Cong is reeling from defeat in the assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu Achuthanandan

PTI fice as Opposition leader and THIRUVANANTHAPURAM to thank you for all the sup- port you have given to me,” COMMUNIST Party of India he said. (Marxist)(CPI-M) veteran V Asked about reports that S Achuthanandan on Satur- he would be given some top day said he would continue post, he replied, “You know to play the role of a “sentinel” that I don’t expect such of the people of Kerala, a day things.” The CPI(M) veteran after the party unanimously said the people of Kerala nominated Pinarayi Vijayan expect LDF to bring out the over him for the chief minis- truth behind the various ter’s post. scams of the previous Con- Achutanandan, who gress-led UDF government. called a press meet on Sat- “People also believe that urday morning to announce the new LDF government that he was stepping down will put behind bars those as the Opposition leader, refused to be drawn into any matters relating to the “People also believe selection of party politburo that the new LDF gov- member Vijayan as the new ernment will put behind Left Democratic Front (LDF) bars those involved in chief minister. “I will continue as a sen- the murder of Dalit law tinel of the people of Kerala student at Perumbavoor by upholding the spirit of in Kochi recently,” the Left and taking up peo- Achuthanadan said. ple’s issues,” 92-year-old Achuthanandan, a tireless fighter against corruption involved in the murder of and corrective force with- Dalit law student at Perum- in the party, told report- bavoor in Kochi recently,” ers shortly after the Chief Achuthanadan said. Minister-designate made a He said the people ex- courtesy call on him at his pect the LDF government to residence. Achutanandan, complete the state’s dream who was the LDF’s face in projects like Kochi Metro, the campaign during the May Kannur International Airport 16 assembly polls, evaded and SmartCity IT in a time- questions on whether he was bound manner. Achuthanan- Sonia Gandhi (centre), Congress party President and wife of late former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi along with Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and others pay tribute at sidelined. “This is not the dan in his trademark style Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial on the 25th anniversary of his death in New Delhi on Saturday. (EPA) time for any such questions. I ended the press conference have called you (media) as I saying “good bye...good bye... PTI said, “We have to compensate ing prosperity in the life of am formally demitting the of- good bye”. NEW DELHI for each drop of Rajiv’s blood HAND OVER POWER TO YOUTH: DIGVIJAY the poor through science and on Indian soil by promoting technology. It was he who took SEEKING to lift the party’s and strengthening social har- strong steps to bring peace in morale after the electoral deba- mony.” “We will have to follow NEW DELHI Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Satur- Assam, Mizoram and Darjeel- cle, Congress president Sonia his values of simplicity, moder- day pitched for handing over power to the youth in the organisa- ing. Rajivji wanted to see India Gandhi on Saturday asserted nity, harmony and sensitivity. tion, saying there is “no option” as the party is “facing challeng- at the forefront of the world that “no failure is permanent”. That will be our true homage es” in the backdrop of its drubbing in the recent Assembly polls. order,” the Congress president “A success achieved by dis- to him. Only then will we be Singh’s remarks come in the backdrop of a renewed buzz said. carding basic principles does able to say that Rajiv is in us.” in the Congress circles about Rahul Gandhi’s sooner than later Congress Vice-President not stay for long. If one sticks Lauding the late prime elevation as party president. “Now, we have to hand over power Rahul Gandhi, who was not to principles, no failure is per- minister for his contributions to the youth and there is no option. When I spoke about major keeping well for some days, manent,” she said addressing in giving the youth the right to surgery, some people had objections. But the power should go in and former prime minister party workers at a programme franchise, devolution of pow- the hands of youth and this is a necessity from the party’s point Manmohan Singh were con- Kerala Chief Minister-designate Pinarayi Vijayan meeting CPI(M) to commemorate the 25th ers to panchayats and bringing of view,” Singh said. He was speaking at a function organised to spicuous by their absence at veteran V S Achuthanandan (right) in Thiruvananthapuram on death anniversary of her hus- in a revolution in telecom and mark the 25th death anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv the event, which was organ- Saturday. (PTI) band and former prime minis- communication, the Congress Gandhi. Singh said, youth forms a major chunk of the population ised by the Youth Congress. ter Rajiv Gandhi. president said that he ensured and with benefits from the reservations over the years, many have Some former ministers like Congress is reeling from participation of the young peo- been elevated to the middle class. (PTI) P Chidambaram and A K defeat in the just concluded ple and the deprived sections Antony were also not present. Assembly elections in Assam, of the society in the country’s The event was attended Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil development process. she said. Sonia said that it economy and politics, “which by senior leaders Ghulam Pinarayi Vijayan calls Nadu. “India is walking with its was Rajiv who had started the we talk about loudly today”. Nabi Azad, Digvijay Singh, Pitching for social har- head held high in the world change that led to the gains “It was he who took the Janardan Dwivedi, Ajit Jogi on Achuthanandan mony, the Congress president due to the steps taken by him,” that are visible in the society, revolutionary step of bring- among others.

PTI the wake of the brutal murder THIRUVANANTHAPURAM of a Dalit law student in Perum- Border with bavoor. The meeting, which Jaya to be sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM on May 23 CHIEF Minister-designate of came ahead of the proposed Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, met press meeting Achuthanandan B’desh will be PTI saiah gave her a letter inviting CPI(M)’s senior most leader CHENNAI her to form the government. 92-year-old V S Achuthanan- sealed in 2 “Jayalalithaa furnished a dan and spent some time with The meeting assumes ALL India Anna Dravida list of persons to be appointed him on Saturday. importance amid reports years: Sonowal Munnetra Kazhagam (AIAD- ministers in her cabinet which Vijayan, accompanied that the nonagenarian was MK) supremo J Jayalalithaa was approved by Governor Ro- by party state Secretary reportedly unhappy at not PTI will be sworn in as the Chief saiah,” an official release from Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, met being anointed as Chief GUWAHATI Minister of southern state of the Raj Bhavan said. Achuthanandan, the Leader of Minister. Tamil Nadu for a second con- Jayalalithaa will have port- the Opposition in the outgo- LISTING two priorities for the secutive tenure along with 28 folios of Home and All India ing Kerala Assembly, at his of- new government in the north- ministers, including her confi- Services including the IAS, ficial residence at Cantonment had called at 11 AM, assumes eastern state of Assam, Chief dant O Panneerselvam, on May public and general administra- House and informed him that importance amid reports that Minister-to-be Sarbananda 23. tion, stated the release. Pan- the LDF ministry would be the nonagenarian, LDF’s main Sonowal on Saturday said, The swearing-in function neerselvam will be the Minis- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa with Governor K Rosaiah sworn in on May 25 and invited campaigner in the May 16 as- sealing of the borders with will take place at the Madras ter for Finance, Personnel and after staking claim to form the next government at Raj Bhavan in him for the same. sembly polls, was reportedly Bangladesh in two years and University Centenary Audito- Administrative Reforms again, Chennai on Saturday. (PTI) Achuthanandan is under- unhappy at not being anointed completion of the National rium here. Jayalalitha on Sat- while former Dindigul MP C stood to have told him that as Chief Minister. In a bid to Register of Citizens (NRC) will urday called on Governor K Srinivasan will be the Minister ity), SP Velumani (Municipal tries), RB Udhayakumar (Rev- immediate efforts should be scuttle such reports, CPI(M) be done to put an end to infil- Rosaiah at the Raj Bhavan and for Forests. Several of the sit- Administration and Rural De- enue), SP Shanmuganathan made to curtail the price rise of General Secretary Sitaram tration. submitted a letter informing ting Ministers have been named velopment), Edappadi K Pal- (Milk and Dairy Development) essential commodities and the Yechury has on Friday met the “We have promised to the him of her election as Leader of to hold offices again includ- aniswami (Public Works), KT and KC Veeramani (Commer- new government should initi- press flanked by Achutanan- people of Assam that the two AIADMK legislature party. Ro- ing P Thangamani (Electric- Rajenthra Bhalaji (Rural Indus- cial Taxes), the release said. ate steps for safety of women in dan and Balakrishnan. key priorities of our govern- ment would be complete seal- ing of the border and com- pletion of NRC before the elections.” Vijaykant’s DMDK in danger of losing state party status “Therefore, we are obliged to doing them and show to the people that we are sincere Further the guidelines also DMK NOMINATES to our promises,” he told PTI A party has to get a six percent vote share in make it clear that a party has in an interview. A product of the last parliamentary polls and return at to get a six percent vote share ELANGOVAN, BHARATHI the student movement against in the last Parliamentary Polls AS RS CANDIDATES ‘foreigners’ in the 80s, Sonow- least one member to the state assembly and return at least one mem- al, who steered the BJP to vic- ber, which DMDK has not. CHENNAI Dravida Munnetra tory in the elections, said his PTI 7.88 per cent in 2011, even as In the 2014 polls, the party Kazhagam (DMK) function- party had made infiltration one CHENNAI the party failed to return a sin- did not win a single seat of the aries TKS Elangovan and of the major issues in the poll gle legislator. 14 constituencies it contested Alandur RS Barathi were on campaign. AFTER putting up spirited The EC guidelines man- as the NDA partner and reg- Saturday nominated by party He was asked how he in- shows in the previous As- date that a political party has istered a vote share of just 5.1 chief M Karunanidhi for the tended to seal the Indo-Bang- sembly and Parliamentary to not only get six per cent of per cent. June 11 elections to fill six ladesh border, an issue he had elections, Vijaykant’s Desiya It has also failed to meet vacancies from the southern spoken about on Thursday Murpokku Dravida Kazhag- DMDK’s rout in the May the requirement of having se- state of Tamil Nadu to Rajya soon after his party romped am (DMDK) is now in danger 2016 election has result- cured eight per cent of total Sabha, the Upper House of home in the election. of losing state party status, ed in it failing to meet all votes both in the last Lok Sab- Parliament. “Indo-Bangladesh border thanks to its dismal perform- Election Commission ha elections or Assembly polls, “Party organising secre- is not completely sealed, spe- ance in the just concluded in the event of not returning a tary Alandur RS Barathi and cially in riverine areas through polls. guidelines on State Party single member. spokesperson TKS Elango- which infiltration takes place. DMDK’s rout in the May status regarding vote While contesting from van will be our candidates We want that it must be com- 2016 election has resulted share and number of 104 seats for the May 16 polls, for the Rajya Sabha elec- pletely sealed so that there is in its failing to meet all Elec- seats. DMDK, which was actively tions,” Karunanidhi told zero infiltration from across tion Commission guidelines wooed by DMK and BJP be- reporters here. the border,” 53-year-old on State Party status regard- total votes polled, but also re- fore Vijaykant struck a poll “Our party’s Labour wing Sonowal said. ing vote share and number turn at least two members to pact with Vaiko-led PWF, lost will be given priority in the He said, the other priority of seats. DMDK’s vote share the state Assembly in the last all seats with the founder him- next opportunity,” he said. would be the early completion DMDK chief Vijayakanth arrives to cast his vote for Tamil Nadu plummeted to 2.4 per cent in general election, i.e. the May self relegated to the third spot (PTI) of the NRC. Assembly elections in Chennai on Monday. (PTI) the 2016 Assembly polls from 16 polls. in Ulunthurpet. 14 Sunday, May 22, 2016 World / Africa

Chibok girl rescued in Nigeria not taken Nigeria beefs up security in kidnapping, says advocacy group

NYT after oil installation attacks ABUJA AN ADVOCACY GROUP push- Nigeria’s naval chief ordered ‘to reorganise and strengthen the joint task force’ in Niger Delta ing for the rescue of more than 200 schoolchildren kidnapped AFP by Boko Haram fighters more ABUJA than two years ago said on Fri- day that one of the two girls PRESIDENT Muhammadu who turned up this week was Buhari has ordered security not among those taken in the to be stepped up in Nigeria’s mass abduction. oil-producing south, after a Military officials had said spate of attacks blamed on the girl, Serah Luka, was ab- local militants that he said ducted in April 2014 along threatened the economy. with dozens of classmates Buhari on Friday met sen- when members of the militant ior executives of the Anglo- group Boko Haram raided Dutch oil group Shell, whose their boarding school in the Nigerian subsidiary has been village of Chibok. targeted in recent months by Luka was a student at the a group calling itself the Ni- school in Chibok but was not ger Delta Avengers. there on the night of the Boko The group wants a fairer Haram attack, said Rotimi share of oil revenue for local Olawale, a spokesman for the people and wants a govern- advocacy group Bring Back ment amnesty programme that Our Girls. brought similar unrest to an end in 2009 to be continued. A statement from Buhari’s Some Nigerians fear that office said Nigeria’s naval chief anyone who has spent had been ordered “to reorgan- time with the group may ise and strengthen the military have become a Boko joint task force in the Niger Haram sympathizer Delta to deal effectively with the resurgence of militancy and the sabotage of oil installations”. She apparently was taken JTF operations “were also by Boko Haram at a later date, being enhanced with increased from her hometown, Madagali. support and cooperation from Luka was rescued on Thursday. the US and Europe in the areas “Every citizen returned is of training, intelligence, equip- victory for us all,” Bring Back ment and logistics”, it added. Our Girls said in a statement. “We have to be very seri- Gov. Kashim Shettima of ous with the situation in the Borno State said both Luka Niger Delta because it threat- and Amina Ali, a girl who was ens the national economy,” A poster displaying wanted Boko Haram suspects is seen on a street in Yenagoa in Nigeria’s delta region, on Thursday. (REUTERS) among those abducted from Buhari told Shell’s upstream the Chibok school in 2014 head Andrew Brown. EX-MILITANTS CALL FOR HALT TO ATTACKS The group wants a fairer slump in the cost of crude, has by a subsidiary of Italy’s Eni. and rescued this week, would “I assure you that every- share of oil revenue for budgeted for 2.2 million barrels The Niger Delta Avengers be taken to a safe house in thing possible will be done to per day this year. in February claimed an attack Abuja. protect personnel and oil as- YENAGOA FORMER militants called for a halt to a resurgence of local people and wants a But Vice-President Yemi on an undersea pipeline that There, they would be made sets in the region.” attacks on oil and gas facilities in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta, government amnesty pro- Osinbajo has said output is forced Shell to shut its Forca- comfortable, debriefed and Nigeria has recently lost saying it is an unnecessary distraction for President Muhammadu gramme that brought simi- now at just 1.4 million bpd. dos terminal. “de-radicalized,” if necessary. its status as Africa’s leading oil Buhari’s administration. The defunct Movement for the Emancipa- lar unrest to an end in Shell reportedly evacuated Early on Friday, suspected After years of rampages producer to Angola because of tion of the Niger Delta, a group of former militants, made the call 2009 to be continued personnel from an offshore militants blew up another gas by the Boko Haram militants, the cut in output from sabo- in a statement late on Friday. “We should give President Buhari installation recently after mili- pipeline operated by the state- some Nigerians fear that any- tage, attacks and leaks. the opportunity to fulfil his promises to the Niger Delta people by tants targeted US group Chev- run Nigerian National Petro- one who has spent time with The government, which re- maintaining peace in the region,” they said. (REUTERS) of revenue but has seen income ron while on Wednesday rebels leum Corporation (NNPC) in the group may have become a lies on oil exports for 70 percent slashed because of a global bombed a gas pipeline owned Delta State, according to locals. Boko Haram sympathizer.

NEWS DR Congo opposition IN BRIEF G7 vows clampdown figure Katumbi leaves Kazakh police break up anti-govt for South Africa demonstrations on terrorist financing ASTANA POLICE detained AFP AFP injured during clashes be- dozens of protesters in SENDAI LUBUMBASHI tween police and his support- Kazakhstan on Saturday ers in Lubumbashi on May 13. during small anti-govern- THE G7 on Saturday pledged POWERFUL Democratic Re- His detractors accuse him ment rallies in the country’s to clamp down on financial public of Congo opposition of feigning medical problems. major cities, prosecutors support for terrorist networks, figure Moise Katumbi, who The businessman is Presi- said. Opposition activists with a plan to step up intelli- has said he will run for the dent Joseph Kabila’s lead- had called for demonstra- gence-sharing, freeze assets presidency, left the country for ing rival for the country’s top tions in the Central Asian and tighten reporting rules on South Africa on Friday. job after recently announc- country’s largest cities, international transfers. Katumbi, who is seeking ing plans to stand against the including Astana, Almaty The club of wealthy na- medical care and faces a trial at long-serving head of state. and Karagandy, to protest tions has been cooperating to home for threatening state se- After that, judicial authori- a controversial proposal for block the financial pipelines curity, left aboard a plane which ties opened an inquiry on May land reforms that includes that allow terrorists to travel, took off from Lubumbashi at 4 alleging that Katumbi had extending land leases for plan and carry out attacks, but 8:03 pm, an AFP correspond- hired foreign mercenaries. foreigners. (AFP) said that more must be done. ent said, just hours after the DR Katumbi has denied the al- “Countering violent ex- Congo authorities said he was legations as “grotesque lies” and Storm kills 8, tremism and bringing perpe- free to travel abroad. said the case, which followed leaves 4 missing trators to justice remain top Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, center, speaks during a meeting of finance ministers and heads of Congolese Justice Minis- the arrest of four of his body- in southern China priorities for the whole inter- central banks of the Group of Seven in in Sendai, northern Japan, on Friday. (AP) ter Alexis Thambwe Mwamba guards, including an American, national community,” they told AFP earlier that Katumbi was politically motivated. BEIJING CHINESE state me- said after two days of talks in was now in the “operational counter the cover provided the bloc committed to reduc- “asked for conditional release No date has been set for dia say a strong storm that northern Japan. phase” of its efforts. by “prepaid but anonymous ing the threshold for declaring covered by a medical certifi- the trial of Katumbi, million- hammered a southern city “The G7 commits to work- “We will introduce effec- phone cards, movements of cross-border cash transac- cate saying he needed appro- aire owner of a prestigious has left at least eight people ing together to strengthen tive tools at our disposal in the cash that allow anonymous ac- tions from $15,000, 15,000 priate care abroad. The pros- football club and former gov- dead and four missing. The the global fight against ter- war against terrorism financ- cess to finances,” he said. euros and two million yen to ecutor agreed to the request ernor of mineral-rich Katan- official Xinhua News Agency rorist financing,” said an ac- ing,” he told AFP. “It is abso- “We must trace these.” $10,000, 10,000 euros and and authorised his departure.” ga province. said Saturday that all deaths tion plan to be adopted by the lutely essential.” The G7 action plan identi- one million yen. Katumbi arrived at the The charges carry the and the missing people were group’s leaders who meet in Sapin said that good ex- fied “targeted financial sanc- It also said it would pro- airport by ambulance which death penalty, which has been reported in the city of Xinyi, Japan next week. changes between intelligence tions” as critical to hindering vide “continued strong leader- drove straight up to a waiting systematically commuted which was hit the hardest French Finance Minister agencies were vital, “especially terrorist support networks. ship” to the Financial Action plane. According to airport to life since Democratic Re- by Friday’s storm. The Xinyi Michel Sapin, whose country to fight against large move- It also emphasised the need Task Force (FATF), which sources he was accompanied public of Congo suspended government says it is the suffered devastating attacks ments of money by, for exam- to freeze terrorist assets, includ- sets international standards to by his wife and a doctor on his capital punishment, Kinshasa heaviest rainfall since 1954. in January and November of ple, the IS in Syria or Iraq”. ing those of individual militants. combat money laundering and way to Johannesburg. University law professor Sam Xinyi says the accumulative 2015, said the Group of Seven Another key tool is to Among specific measures, terrorism finance. His entourage say he was Bokolombe told AFP. precipitation was 46.3 cen- timeters (18.2 inches) from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon. (AP) Six killed in Boko Boko Haram refugees in Niger feel ‘abandoned’ by world Haram raid on Niger village fairs minister Lawan Magadji, Conditions in the camp have deteriorated in recent who accompanied O’Brien NIAMEY SIX people were on his visit to the region, ac- killed on Friday in a village in months as food aid has struggled to reach its occupants cepts that not enough aid has southern Niger in an attack reached the camp. thought to have been carried who live with just basic medical care and schooling “There is not enough food. out by Boko Haram militants, Distribution operations are the Defence Ministry said. AFP ing sun after being displaced The UN emergency relief based on the neediest house- The six victims died from ASSAGA by the violence. coordinator Stephen O’Brien, holds,” he said. gunshot wounds or being The size of the camp has who visited the camp this The UN Office for the Co- burned alive. Another seven “TAKE us away from this swollen quickly since people week, warned that the raging ordination of Humanitarian people were wounded in the hell,” said Boussam, a moth- began to arrive from mid 2015, conflict has “catastrophically Affairs (OCHA) has blamed a attack and have been evacu- er of seven cradling skeletal having fled attacks that have en- exacerbated” the vulnerability lack of funds for the shortages. ated. The militants torched goats in Niger’s Assaga camp, gulfed the region as Boko Har- of the region’s refugees, dis- Of the $316 million need- about 10 homes, the market where thousands of desperate am seeks to carve out a hardline placing people already dogged ed to finance humanitarian and some cattle and stole refugees fleeing Boko Haram Islamist state in the north east by chronic food insecurity. efforts in Niger just under a two vehicles, the ministry Islamist insurgents are living of neighbouring Nigeria. Anger is rising in the camp quarter has been raised, ac- said. A teacher in Bosso, 4 in hunger. Conditions in the camp that more is not being done to cording to the agency. km from Yebi, said the at- She spoke to AFP in the have deteriorated in recent help them. O’Brien has promised to Children walk inside the Assaga refugee camp near Diffa in the south- tackers were young men who south eastern camp near the months as food aid has strug- “I think that everyone has raise funds at the World Hu- east of Niger, on Tuesday. (AFP) arrived on foot, horseback border with Nigeria where gled to reach its occupants abandoned us,” said Ibrahim, manitarian Summit in Istan- and camel. (REUTERS) some 6,000 people are who live with just basic medi- a refugee in his fifties. bul, starting May 23. warm welcome from children UN have not yet eased the dai- crammed in UN tents in bak- cal care and schooling. Niger’s humanitarian af- And despite receiving a in the camp, O’Brien and the ly grind of life in Assaga. UK / Europe Sunday, May 22, 2016 15 Italy’s Renzi launches referendum Romania’s ex-king asks not to pay taxes Four French police killed in chopper campaign on his castle crash ROME Prime Minister Matteo Renzi launched his campaign on BUCHAREST ROMANIA’S former King Michael has asked not to TARBES FOUR French police were killed Friday when their heli- NEWS Saturday to win an October referendum on constitutional reform, pay taxes on his castle in western Romania as he is a war vet- copter crashed in the Pyrenees, in one of the deadliest such IN BRIEF staking his political future on an attempt to finally give Italy stable eran. The royal household said Friday it had made the request incidents in recent years. The accident happened at an alti- governments. Recent opinion polls suggest the electorate will re- not to pay property taxes on Savarsin Castle and other real tude of between 2,000 and 3,000 metres (6,500 and 10,000 ject his proposal to streamline the parliamentary system and strip estate owned by the former monarch in line with exemptions feet) near the Vignemale, the highest peak on the French side Italy’s regions of some of their decision-making powers. (REUTERS) introduced this year for war veterans. (AP) of the mountain range bordering Spain. (AFP) Trump invite to 10 Downing Street: ‘Not just yet’ Murderer admits trespassing into Buckingham Palace Trump said Cameron had in- The crossed signals are the latest sign of tension between the vited him to London. REUTERS Prosecutor Tom Nicholson presumptive GOP nominee and the leader of a major US ally “I will do just fine with Dav- LONDON said when detained by officers id Cameron. I think he’s a nice he repeatedly asked them “Is guy. I will do just fine,” Trump A MAN with a conviction for Ma’am in”, the BBC reported. REUTERS view with MSNBC, said Cam- presidential candidates. told MSNBC. “But they have murder pleaded guilty to tres- In an interview, Hennessy, LONDON eron extended the invitation Trump’s comments fol- asked me to visit 10 Downing pass on Friday after scaling a who was convicted of murder- to visit 10 Downing Street two lowed a transatlantic exchange Street - and I might do it.” perimeter wall of Queen Eliza- ing a homeless man in 1992, REPUBLICAN presidential days ago and that he “might do between the two men over Cameron has said he will beth’s Buckingham Palace and said he had walked through candidate Donald Trump said it.” He gave no other details. Cameron’s criticism. work with the winner of the asking if the monarch was at the garden to enjoy the view. on Friday that British Prime A spokesman for Cam- In December, Cameron Nov. 8 US presidential elec- home, the BBC reported. The incident occurred Minister David Cameron had eron’s office said it was a called Trump “divisive, stu- tion and is committed to Dennis Hennessy, 41, hours after the queen had re- asked him to visit, but a UK longstanding practice for the pid and wrong” and suggested maintaining the special US- climbed over the wall sur- turned to the palace having spokesman said no invitation prime minister to meet with Trump would unite Britain UK relationship, his spokes- rounding the queen’s home in earlier carried out the State had been extended. the Republican and Democrat against him if he visited the Prime Minister David Cameron man has said. central London on Wednesday Opening of Parliament. The apparent crossed sig- presidential nominees if they United Kingdom. visits Abbey Road studios in Trump’s proposed ban night and walked for about 10 “He was located in the nals were the latest sign of ten- visited Britain. After Trump clinched London, on Friday. (REUTERS) also drew criticism from Sadiq minutes around the grounds grounds by officers and arrest- sion between the presumptive “Given the parties have his party’s nomination this Khan, who was elected mayor of the palace where 90-year- ed without incident - our se- Republican Party nominee and yet to choose their nominees, month, Cameron acknowl- week, saying on Monday that of London this month and old Elizabeth and her husband curity measures worked effec- the leader of a major US ally, there are no confirmed dates edged the achievement but he was likely not to have a is the first Muslim to hold Prince Philip were staying. tively and ensured the safety of who has criticized Trump’s call for this,” the spokesman said. said he stood by his earlier good relationship with Cam- the post. Khan said last week Hennessy, who cut his those within the Palace,” Com- for a temporary ban on Mus- However, a Downing comments and would not eron. But the next day he said that Trump’s “ignorant view hand scaling the wall, was ar- mander Adrian Usher, head of lims entering the United States. Street source said a formal in- apologize. he expected to have “a good of Islam could make both our rested about 10 minutes later London police’s Royalty and Trump, in a morning inter- vite would not be sent out to Trump fired back this relationship” and on Friday countries less safe.” after an alarm was activated. Specialist Protection unit, said. UK ‘In’ camp extends lead over ‘Out’ campaign ahead of EU referendum G7 warns of Brexit ‘shock’ to global economy AFP ropean Union countries, he SENDAI told the BBC. “If Britain left the EU, A BRITISH vote to quit and wanted access to the the European Union would single market... then we inflict a “shock” on the glo- would need to pay into the bal economy, G7 ministers EU budget and we’d have to said Saturday, presenting accept free movement of peo- a united front against the ple but we’d have no say over prospect of a “Brexit”. those policies at all,” he said. Among the most vocal “We would have a was German Finance Min- two-year period to negoti- ister Wolfgang Schaeuble, ate our exit with 27 other who strongly cautioned countries, we’d then have against opting to leave the to negotiate new arrange- 28-member EU in next ments...and at the same month’s referendum. time conclude over 50 “We were all of the opin- trade deals with countries ion that it would be the wrong that aren’t even in Europe.” decision for the UK,” Schaeu- ble said at the conclusion of two days of talks in northern The club of rich nations Japan among Group of Seven also issued a statement finance ministers and central that warned a Brexit bank chiefs. would only worsen the “But it’s a decision to outlook for an unstable be taken by the British vot- ers. We’re concerned that it world. could have negative conse- quences for the European During that extremely and the world economy.” difficult process, businesses The club of rich nations would have “no certainty” Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, (center back), presides over a meeting of finance ministers and heads of central banks of the Group of Seven in Sendai, Japan, on Friday. (AP) also issued a statement that about the future and so warned a Brexit would only would not take on new vote to stay in the EU. ly given that ours is an online backed a “Remain” result - worsen the outlook for an workers or invest, he said. O‘Remain’ takes 4-point lead in latest As polls have given sharp- methodology which typically 90 percent of it in the case of unstable world. “It hits people’s incomes, ly different pictures of public shows a closer race than polls Ladbrokes. Still, William Hill “Uncertainties to the it hits the value of houses, opinium poll OPoll marks 6th out of 7 opinion, many investors are conducted on the phone,” said most individual gam- global outlook have in- it hits businesses and jobs. this week to show lead for ‘In’ campaign watching betting odds close- Adam Drummond of Opin- blers had betted on Britain creased, while geopolitical People are beginning to un- ly. Odds have consistently in- ium Research said. leaving the EU. conflicts, terrorism, refugee derstand that.” dicated a high probability of Telephone polls have tend- “The Brexit rally of a few flows, and the shock of a With just over a month REUTERS week to show the Remain an “In” result in the June 23 ed to show a larger lead for weeks ago seems a distant potential UK exit from the to the vote, the “Remain” LONDON campaign in the lead. referendum. the “Remain” campaign, with memory. It’s significant that European Union also com- camp is on 55 percent and Forty-four percent of Brit- online surveys instead sug- so many people are pre- plicate the global economic the “Leave” campaign on THE CAMPAIGN to keep ons wanted to remain in the EU, 44% of Britons wanted to gesting the referendum result pared to back remain despite environment,” they said. 45 percent, according to Britain in the European Un- up from 42 percent in an Opin- will be too close to call. Opin- the short odds,” Ladbrokes As the June 23 refer- the What UK Thinks web- ion extended its lead over the ium/Observer poll at the end remain in the EU, up from ium surveyed 2,008 adults be- spokesman Alex Donohue endum on Britain’s future site’s average of the last six “Out” campaign in an opinion of last month, while the pro- 42% in an Opinium poll tween May 17 and 19. said in a statement. draws closer, finance minis- opinion polls. poll published on Saturday, portion wanting to leave edged at the end of last month, “The change comes mainly William Hill’s odds now ter George Osborne said his On a visit to London last while two major bookmakers down a point to 40 percent. while the proportion from Conservative voters who reflect an 85 percent chance meetings with G7 counter- month, US President Barack offered the shortest odds to Earlier, William Hill and wanting to leave edged have moved from narrowly of a “Remain” vote, up from parts underscored the grav- Obama said Britain being in date on a vote to remain. Ladbrokes cut their odds on down a point to 40% backing Brexit at the end of 83 percent on Friday. Lad- ity of the in-out decision. the EU magnified its global The poll from market re- Britain remaining in the Eu- April to a large lead for re- brokes, which removes the If voters opt to leave, influence, and outside the search company Opinium ropean Union to 1/6, meaning main,” Drummond added. margin it takes on bets from Britain would find it “ex- bloc it would go to the “back for the Observer newspaper gamblers would get only one “There does seem to have The two bookmakers said its calculations, pointed to a tremely difficult” to con- of the queue” when it came marked the sixth poll out of pound ($1.45) in profit for eve- been some move towards the vast majority of cash 79 percent chance - up from clude trade deals with Eu- to signing trade deals. seven published in the last ry 6 pounds wagered if Britons staying in the EU, particular- staked on the referendum 66 percent a month ago. Dignity only in death for migrants at Calais ‘Jungle’ camp “Often, police send me follow every clue -- checking Others have been struck Over 30 people have perished since June photographs, when they’re fit with travel companions, any to be seen, which I print out. documents or cell phone chips. by a train, drowned or last year in and around the vast camp They help me find people in Often, Chochois said, victims electrocuted, some in hor- the ‘Jungle’ who knew the vic- have several chips, typically rific circumstances, AFP man, only 24, hit by a car on tim to make a positive identi- hidden in their socks. If none dragged along tracks after CALAIS the ring road around Calais fication and prepare the rest,” of that works, they take finger a desperate, failed bid to on May 9. said Lou, a full-time psycholo- prints and DNA samples. stow away on cross-Chan- THEY fled hardship and war Others have been struck gist with the medical charity Sometimes the clue comes nel transport only to find misery and squal- by a train, drowned or elec- Medecins du Monde who gave from ‘Jungle’ residents them- or, but migrants who met a trocuted, some in horrific only her first name. selves, worried about someone gruesome end in northern circumstances, dragged along As for regular citizens, who disappeared. They come, lacking, Lou told AFP, as in France hoping to reach Eng- tracks after a desperate, “autopsies are systematically telling us “we lost one of our a case “in October when a land are finally getting a touch failed bid to stow away on performed to dispel any doubt friends,” said psychologist Lou. 26-year-old Syrian man died of dignity in death. cross-Channel transport. about the cause of death,” Yet restoring dignity can after being struck by a car in More than 30 people have To spare them a name- said Stephane Chochois, who be a challenge, said Chochois front of his nine-year-old son”. perished since June last year in less, forgotten fate, rights heads the forensic medicine citing one case where a mi- Nearly 5,000 people are and around the vast, infamous workers and medical person- unit at a Calais hospital. grant’s body parts were spread massed in the ‘Jungle’, some camp known as the “Jungle” in nel act as go-betweens to put Identifying people in ille- “along 20 metres (yards)” last months on end as they try to northern French port of Calais, the police, hospital in contact gal flight can take months but summer “after the person was reach Britain and, they think, near the Channel Tunnel. with family or other migrants the bodies are patiently kept dragged along by a train”. jobs, according to French and Policemen walk as agents dismantle shelters on Monday in the The latest was a Pakistani who came to know the victim. in the morgue. The volunteers Psychological support is British charities. ‘Jungle’ migrants and refugees camp in Calais, northern France. 16 Sunday, May 22, 2016 Gulf / Middle East Algeria troops kill six armed Islamists in East Tunisian Islamists Ennahda move to separate politics, religion

ALGIERS Algerian troops killed six Islamist fighters during a large-scale military operation in a for- TUNIS Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda will separate its political and religious work, its chief ested area east of the capital, the ministry of defence said on Saturday. They were killed during has said, moving away from its tradition of political Islam. Ennahda was the first Islamist NEWS an army sweep through the d'Errich forest in Ain Turk in the Bouira region, the ministry said in a party to come to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and it took part in IN BRIEF statement posted by APS state news agency. The army said it had killed eight and captured one the first government coalition after the overthrow of Tunisia's autocratic leader Zine El-Abi- in total during the operation which began on May 17. More than 200,000 people died in Alge- dine Ben Ali. Analysts said Ennahda's reform appeared to try to distinguish itself in a region ria's civil war with armed Islamists in the 1990s, until President Abdelaziz Bouteflika negotiated where political Islam has suffered setbacks, and also to prepare for local elections next year an amnesty deal with several fronts of fighters, leaving others in the mountains. (REUTERS) and presidential run in 2019. (REUTERS) France confirms smoke on EgyptAir plane

OSignals did not indicate what caused smokeOHunt for plane’s ‘black boxes’ continuesONo cause has been ruled out: French PM

Relatives and friends of EgyptAir hostess Yara Hani (portrait), who was onboard Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo, mourn during a ceremony at a church in Cairo on Saturday. (Right) A picture posted on the officialFacebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows part of a plane chair from EgyptAir flight 804. (AFP/AP) AFP “far too soon to interpret and In deep waters EGYPT DENIES REPORTS OVER BLACK BOXES of their detectable range from said the meeting was held in PARIS understand the cause of Thurs- the surface based on the type “good conditions”, adding that day’s accident as long as we of acoustic equipment typically the families “certainly under- FRANCE’S aviation safety have not found the wreckage or CAIRO A senior official at the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry has used during the first stages of stand that the aftermath of this agency said on Saturday the flight data recorders.” 3,000 denied media reports that EgyptAir Flight 804’s cockpit voice and a search, according to a report event will be complex and take that the EgyptAir A320 that The signals indicated there flight data recorders, commonly known as the black boxes, have into the 2009 crash of an Air time.” crashed into the eastern Medi- was smoke in the front toilets Estimates say the plane been located. The official spoke Saturday on condition of anonym- France jet in the Atlantic. But he said some showed terranean with 66 people on near the cockpit, an expert wreckage could be in ity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. Military Crash investigators briefed “impatience” over a lack of new board had transmitted au- told AFP. waters 2,000 to 3,000 spokesman Brig-Gen. Mohammed Samir also says Saturday he had the relatives on what is known information and a reticence tomatic messages indicating According to the specialised metres deep. no information to share on the retrieval of the black boxes. (AP) so far and the procedures for over the ACARS messages, smoke in the cabin. aviation website the Aviation establishing the cause. which Gicquel said were “con- “There were ACARS mes- Herald, the ACARS messages “Methods and procedures firmed reluctantly at the insist- sages emitted by the plane in- read “smoke lavatory smoke” and an apparent problem with ruled out, though Egypt’s avia- nearly definitive conclusions,” for identifying the victims” ence of one family.” dicating that there was smoke then “avionics smoke” -- refer- the flight control system. tion minister has pointed to he said, warning of the “painful were also explained to the fami- He added: “Obviously many in the cabin shortly before ring to the plane’s electronic The messages indicated terrorism as more likely than tension” caused to the families lies, Ayrault said. families believe it was a terror- data transmission broke off,” a systems -- then a “fault” with intense smoke in the front por- technical failure. of the victims. The passengers included 30 ist attack.” spokesman of France’s Bureau the FCU, the pilots’ flight con- tion of the plane, specifically “At this time... all theories The plane came down in Egyptians, 15 French citizens, On Friday, search teams of Investigations and Analysis trol unit in the cockpit. the lavatory and the equip- are being examined and none is one of the deepest parts of the two Iraqis, two Canadians, and found wreckage including told AFP, confirming earlier The warnings began about ment compartment beneath favoured,” Ayrault told a news Mediterranean, a source in the citizens from Algeria, Belgium, seats and luggage about 290 media reports. three minutes before air traffic the cockpit. The error warnings conference after meeting with Egyptian-led investigation said. Britain, Chad, Portugal, Saudi kilometres (180 miles) north of ACARS, which stands for controllers lost contact with the also indicated that the flight around 100 relatives of pas- Another person familiar with Arabia and Sudan. They includ- Egypt’s coastal city of Alexan- Aircraft Communications Ad- plane at 0029 GMT on Thurs- control computer had malfunc- sengers who were aboard the Western naval estimates said ed a boy and two babies. dria, Egypt’s military said. dressing and Reporting System, day. tioned, the report said. doomed flight. the wreckage could be in waters Seven crew members and The plane disappeared off is a digital system that trans- The Wall Street Journal Also Saturday, French “The reports circulating 2,000 to 3,000 metres deep. three security personnel were the radar without emitting any mits short messages between earlier reported that automated Foreign Minister Jean-Marc here and there, which by the That would place the black also on board. distress signal between the aircraft and ground stations. warning messages indicated Ayrault said no theory on the way are sometimes contra- box locator beacons, which A representative for the Greek island of Karpathos and The spokesman said it was smoke in the nose of the aircraft cause of the crash has yet been dictory, give rise too often to last for 30 days, on the edge families, Stephane Gicquel, the Egyptian coast. Iran calls for ‘more concrete’ Lebanese charity says unfairly hit US action on sanctions by US anti-Hezbollah legislation AFP in the Middle East and its bal- TEHRAN European banks have listic missile programme. been slow to resume busi- REUTERS European banks, which told Reuters that some Leba- The Mabarrat foundation interview on Friday. IRAN'S foreign minister on ness with Iran, fearing often have subsidiaries on US BEIRUT nese banks, scared of risking The foundation generates Saturday said the United prosecution in the US. soil, have therefore been slow international isolation, had says some Lebanese banks funding through individual do- States must take concrete to resume business with Iran, A Lebanese charity network frozen some of its accounts, has frozen some of its nations and a network of busi- steps to encourage investors to countries were created due to fearing prosecution in the run by a Shi'ite Muslim cleric even though it had no political accounts even though it nesses including hotels, res- engage with Tehran, a day af- hostile American policies and United States. said it had been unfairly caught affiliation. has no political affiliation. taurants and petrol stations. ter Western powers said they sanctions," he said, according On Friday, a joint state- up in new US financial sanc- The foundation was es- The US Hezbollah Inter- back legal business with Iran. to the website of state televi- ment by the United States, the tions against Hezbollah, accus- tablished by the late Grand accounts. national Financing Preven- "More serious and con- sion. European Union, France, Brit- ing Lebanese banks of applying Ayatollah Sayyed Muham- "The foundation's name tion Act has ignited an un- crete actions must be taken by International sanctions ain and Germany said foreign the restrictions too widely. mad Hussein Fadlallah, a was not mentioned in this precedented dispute between the US in this regard," Foreign related to Iran's nuclear pro- banks and businesses should The US act passed in De- top authority in Shi'ite Islam law ... what is happening now Hezbollah, Lebanon's most Minister Mohammad Javad gramme were lifted under the not hold back from conducting cember threatens to punish who was an early mentor to are precautionary measures powerful group, and the cen- Zarif said at a news conference nuclear deal signed last year legal business with Iran. any organisation providing Hezbollah but later distanced taken by some institutions tral bank. with his New Zealand counter- and implemented in January. "We will not stand in the significant finance to Leba- himself from its ties to Iran. that are dealing with this Hezbollah, which is backed part Murray McCully. But the United States has way of permitted business ac- nese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, He died in 2010. matter far removed from the by Iran, has criticised the cen- "Obstacles in the past maintained its sanctions tar- tivity with Iran," the said in deemed a terrorist organisa- Sayyed Ali Fadlallah, his accuracy required to ensure tral bank for agreeing to meas- decade on economic coopera- geting Tehran's alleged spon- the statement released after tion by Washington. son, declined to say which no one is done an injustice," ures it deems as part of a war tions between Iran and other sorship of armed movements talks in Brussels. The Mabarrat foundation bank or banks had frozen the Fadlallah told Reuters in an against it. UN, Western donors urge Somalia to speed up poll process

the process will expand the The new election process the nation apart in the 1990s. Somalia is due to elect new parliament, whose number of people picking the President Hassan Sheikh lawmakers. aims to consolidate a Mohamud, who was elected in members will in turn pick the president In 2012, just 135 elders se- federal structure, which 2012, is expected to run again. lected members of the lower includes recently created Several corruption scandals REUTERS "The United States is in- house. Under the new rules, regional states. have frustrated donors. Of- NAIROBI creasingly concerned about 13,750 people from across ficials say they have worked delays in the 2016 Somali elec- federal states will chose 275 this week. hard to respond to criticisms. THE UN Security Council toral process," the US State members of the lower house. Egypt's UN ambassador, The new election process and Western donors have Department said on Friday, A new 54-seat upper house Abdellattif Aboulatta, told a aims to consolidate a federal urged Somalia's parliament adding the "legitimacy of So- will also be created to repre- news conference in Nairobi structure, which includes to speed up approval of new mali federal institutions" de- sent the states. on Friday that the delegation recently created regional election rules to ensure an pended on a transparent and The European Union, an- had urged Somali officials to states in a nation where poli- August vote is held on time, timely transition. other major donor, said a par- approve the process "as soon tics is still largely driven by saying delays put recovery It urged parliament "to act liamentary failure to act quick- as possible." clan loyalties. from conflict at risk. swiftly" to enact the new rules. ly "will jeopardise the Somali Privately, diplomats have But the government of So- Somalia, slowly rebuilding The process to be approved political process and set So- said the election process might maliland, a self-declared inde- after decades of violence and by the outgoing parliament malia several years back." slip by a few weeks, but it must pendent state in the north, will still battling an Islamist in- falls short of one-person-one- A delegation of UN Secu- maintain momentum because not take part in the election Women march to celebrate the 25th anniversary of proclaimed surgency, is due to elect a new vote, which diplomats say rity Council diplomats echoed any political vacuum could be process although seats will be independence of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, in the parliament, whose members would be too tough to stage the comments in talks with exploited by al Shabaab Islam- allocated on its behalf, diplo- capital Hargeisa on Wednesday. (AP) will in turn pick the president. because of the insurgency. But Somali leaders in Mogadishu ists or clan warlords who tore mats and officials say. Gulf / Middle East Sunday, May 22, 2016 17

Iraq to open 4 killed, 90 injured in Baghdad’s border with Jordan after year of closure Green Zone riots, say hospitals AP AMMAN

IRAQ'S border crossing with The toll accounts only for gunshot wounds and does not include cases of suffocation caused by tear gas Jordan is expected to open in about two weeks, after an al- most year-long closure, allow- ing for a resumption of vital trade and a return of Iraqi ref- ugees, an Iraqi diplomat said Saturday. Iraq had closed the cross- ing in July because large areas of the border province of An- bar had fallen to Islamic State extremists. But since its rapid expansion in 2014, IS has lost territory in Anbar in recent months, most recently the town of Rutba. The capture of Rutba from IS by the Iraqi army this week cleared the way for reopening the Trebil cross- ing, but security forces need time to clear explo- sives planted by the extremists.

The capture of Rutba by the Iraqi army this week cleared the way for reopening the Tre- bil crossing, but security forces need time to clear explosives planted by the extremists, said the Iraqi ambassador to Jor- dan, Safia al-Souhail. Rutba is located about 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the border, on the Jordan-Iraq trade route that links Amman and Baghdad, the respective capitals of the two countries. "We are expecting the opening of the borders in no Mourners carry the coffins of two people, killed during protests at Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone, during their funeralrocession p at Najaf in Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday. (AP) longer than two weeks' time," the ambassador said. "It might BAGHDAD caused by tear gas. pressed "deep concern" on revolution will take another be less, it might be a little bit REUTERS/AFP Civilians have breached Iraqi authorities close bridges, roads Saturday about the incident form” if there are attempts to more, but this is the time the Green Zone twice in three and warned it could hamper block them. frame that we have been in- AT least four anti-govern- weeks, raising questions BAGHDAD Iraqi authorities tightened security in the capital efforts to defeat Islamic State, Abadi has made several formed about." ment protesters were killed about the government's abil- Baghdad on Saturday, one day after protesters demanding the ultra-hardline Sunni group attempts to push through re- In closing the border last and 90 injured when secu- ity to secure the capital which reforms breached the city's heavily fortified Green Zone. Secu- that controls large swathes of forms aimed at curbing corrup- year, Iraq said it wanted to de- rity forces ejected them from has also seen a spike in bomb- rity forces closed two major bridges and roads leading to the territory in northern and west- tion and spending since he took prive IS militants of taxes they Baghdad's heavily fortified ings this month claimed by area, which houses parliament, government offices and foreign ern provinces. the country’s top job in 2014. impose on cargo trucks driving Green Zone, hospital sources Islamic State. embassies in central Baghdad. "Only the enemies of Iraq, His latest plan was to re- through the area. said on Saturday. Protesters on Friday in- "Security measures have also been bolstered around the Daesh at the forefront, benefit place the current government The closure dealt a blow to Iraqi security forces used cluded supporters of powerful Green Zone and government buildings," a police official told from chaos," UN Special Rep- of party-affiliated ministers Jordan, with exports to Iraq live ammunition, rubber bul- Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada dpa without giving details. Anti-government protesters were ab- resentative for Iraq, Jan Ku- with a cabinet of technocrats. dropping from $1.16 billion in lets, water cannons and tear al-Sadr and people from other sent from the area and major squares in Baghdad on Saturday. bis, said in a statement, using But he has faced resistance 2014 to $690 million in 2015. gas on Friday to dislodge the groups upset with the govern- On Friday, thousands of angry demonstrators stormed the an Arabic acronym for Islamic from key players, including Still, it is unclear if open- demonstrators from the central ment's failure to approve anti- area and briefly occupied the premier's office there.(DPA) State. within his own party, who are ing the crossing will automati- district which houses govern- corruption reforms and main- Abadi reacted to the latest reluctant to give on a system cally lead to the resumption of ment buildings, parliament and tain security in the city. breach by saying that “storm- of patronage that is the very land trade. many foreign embassies. Jaafar al-Moussawi, deputy ly unjustified and stark evi- al-Abadi has condemned ing state institutions... cannot source of their power. The Iraq military may The toll, compiled from leader of Sadr's political move- dence that a supposedly legiti- the Green Zone breach and be accepted”, but added that he Sadr ostensibly supports not be able to secure the long four hospitals where casual- ment, condemned the govern- mate government has turned warned against chaos and supports the “demands of the Abadi’s reform but every secu- desert highway from IS coun- ties were taken and Baghdad's ment for using what he called into an oppressive govern- strife as government forces peaceful protesters”. rity breach in the Green Zone terattacks that could discour- central morgue, accounts only "excessive force". ment," he said in a statement seek to keep up momentum Sadr vowed Friday that has made the premier look age truck drivers and busi- for gunshot wounds and does "Using live bullets against on Saturday. against Islamist militants. “peaceful protests” would weaker and infuriated rival ness people who once used not include cases of suffocation peaceful protesters is complete- Prime Minister Haider The United Nations ex- continue, warning that “the Shiite groups. the route. Istanbul summit seeks to transform aid flow At least 60,000 dead in Syria AFP to establish a set of "concrete due to attend including Turkish regime prisons: Monitor ISTANBUL actions and commitments" that The choice of Istanbul for President Recep Tayyip Erdog- would help countries better the summit is symbolic, an, German Chancellor Angela GLOBAL leaders and key prepare to fight crises, lay out with Turkey itself hosting Merkel and UN Secretary Gen- AFP cation or food, in regime deten- mane practices in its detention NGOs gather in Istanbul on a new global approach to man- at least 2.7 million of the eral Ban Ki-moon, participants BEIRUT tion centres," Abdel Rahman centres. A UN probe in Febru- Monday for an unprecedented age forced displacement, and estimated 4.84 million hope the summit will at least told AFP. ary accused the Syrian govern- UN-backed summit aimed at secure dependable financing to start to make a difference. AT least 60,000 people have He said the highest number ment of a policy of "extermina- transforming the world's re- respond to such situations. Syrian refugees. Turkey, which has spent died in Syrian government of deaths had been recorded in tion" in its jails. sponse to humanitarian crises, But participants will need some $10 billion in hosting the prisons over the past five years the infamous Saydnaya prison The Britain-based Observa- despite scepticism the talks to overcome deep scepticism hosting at least 2.7 million of Syrian refugees and repeat- from torture or due to dire hu- as well as detention centres tory says it has compiled a list will have little impact. about the summit's ability to re- the estimated 4.84 million ref- edly complained of the West's manitarian conditions, includ- run by Syria's notorious air of 14,456 names -- including With an estimated 60 mil- alise its ambitious agenda, and ugees who have fled the con- failure to shoulder the burden, ing a lack of food, a monitor force intelligence and state se- 110 children -- who have died in lion people displaced around not turn into yet another inter- flict in Syria. is emphasising the importance said Saturday. curity forces. regime prisons. the world and conflict and national talking shop with good If delegates step outside of the summit and has set up The head of the Syrian Ob- Thousands of prisoners are According to Abdel Rah- climate change posing a grow- intentions but zero outcome. the metal security barriers Olympic Games-style count- servatory for Human Rights held in the military-run Sayd- man, government forces have ing risk, there is widespread Medical charity Doctors separating the luxury venue down clocks around the city. monitoring group, Rami Abdel naya prison, one of the coun- arrested a total of 500,000 agreement among govern- Without Borders (MSF) has from the outside world, they UN Secretary General Rahman, said he compiled the try's largest detention centre lo- people since Syria's conflict ments and aid groups that the pulled out of the event, fearing will see the desperate faces of Ban has described the event toll from regime sources. cated 30 kilometres (18 miles) erupted in 2011. current humanitarian system it could be a "fig leaf" for a lack Syrian refugees begging and as a "singular opportunity" to "Since March 2011, at least north of Damascus. While some have been re- is in desperate need of an of global action. selling low-value goods on show that "we will not accept 60,000 people lost their lives Rights groups have accused leased and others died, the overhaul. The choice of Istanbul is many Istanbul street corners. the erosion of humanity which to torture or to horrible condi- Syria's government of system- whereabouts of thousands of The two-day summit aims symbolic, with Turkey itself But with 60 world leaders we see in the world today". tions, notably the lack of medi- atically using torture and inhu- detainees remain unknown. Top Iranian director condemns Tehran’s treatment of intellectuals

Farhadi said in making his er's classic Death of a Salesman. particular woman," said Hup- “When you grown up with obstacles, they film he was interested in vio- In 2012, Farhadi won the pert, who has appeared in a lence that is somehow justified Oscar for the best foreign lan- record 20 entries in Cannes' become a source of energy,” says Farhadi by the perpetrators. guage film with Nader and main competition. She has won "Like a terrorist, (the hus- Simin, A Separation, which the festival's award for best ac- DPA energy," adding he would con- band) believes he entitled to be was awarded a series of prizes tress twice. Like Rana in The CANNES (FRANCE) tinue to work mostly in Iran. violent," said the 44-year-old around the world, including the Salesman, Michele in Elle - for Farhadi's movie is about a Farhadi. "He has also built up Berlin Film Festival's Golden very different reasons - refuses LEADING Iranian director young couple - Emad and Rana the reasons to be violent." Bear for best picture. to go the police. Asghar Farhadi condemned - who move into a new apart- After Rana rules out go- Both Farhadi and Elle in- Elle was the Dutch-born on Saturday the treatment of ment only to face a dramatic ing the police, Emad launches clude strong female characters Verhoeven's first movie in intellectuals in his country at a change in their life after she is his own increasingly obsessive - both young and old. This has French and was based on a Cannes Film Festival press con- attacked in an incident related probe into the assault in a bid to been a feature of this year's script by US scriptwriter David ference marking the premiere to a previous tenant. track down the attacker, turn- Cannes festival, with Rani in Birke that was adapted from of his film about a husband As was the case with the ing the movie into something of The Salesman standing her the novel Oh... by French writer seeking revenge for an attack other film that premiered at a detective thriller. ground against her husband. Philippe Dijian. on his wife. Cannes on Saturday, Dutch- "I think a western man Leading French actress Isa- Verhoeven's Elle repre- “The authorities' treatment born director Paul Verhoeven's might have reacted even more belle Huppert heads a strong sents his first appearance in of intellectuals such as poets Elle, Farhadi's The Salesman is violently," said Taraneh Al- French cast in Elle when she Cannes in more than 20 years and fellow filmmakers ‘embar- a tale about revenge. idoosti, who plays Rana in the plays a top video-game com- in a movie-making career that rasses me’," Farhadi told the But while it is the husband, film. "It's a taboo to invade a (From left) Actress Taraneh Alidoosti, director Ashgar Farhadi and actor pany executive, who is raped in has spanned Europe and the Cannes press conference for his Emad, who seeks revenge for woman's private sphere. Shahab Hosseini pose for photographers in Cannes on Saturday. (AP) her home and who sets out to United States and included film, The Salesman. the attack on his wife in The Emad "feels like what hap- turn the tables on her attacker such definitive US films includ- "But," he said, "when you Salesman, it is the victim of a pened to Rana is an assault on she said. screening of his movie The Past using unconventional methods. ing Robocop and recently the have grown up with these ob- rape in Paul Verhoeven's Elle his own masculinity" and he Farhadi is returning to with The Salesman, which in- "The film was not a state- Dutch World War II thriller stacles, they become a source of who seeks revenge. acts "out of love for his wife," Cannes three years after the cludes references to Arthur Mill- ment about women, but this Black Book. 18 Sunday, May 22, 2016 US / Americas Chicago police arrest almost 100 gang Brazil singers stage concert to protest Canada anounces security deal with members over 2 days acting president Tunisia CHICAGO CHICAGO police say they have arrested nearly 100 RIO DE JANEIRO GRAMMY award-winner Caetano Veloso has TUNIS CANADA on Saturday announced the start of a security NEWS alleged street gang members and 40 others on weapons and added his voice to a growing numbers of artists and musicians pact with Tunisia, initially for three years, to support the North IN BRIEF drug trafficking charges in an effort to combat the city’s gun rejecting Brazil’s interim government, holding a concert in a African country in its fight against “terrorism”. The agreement violence. Officials announced the arrests Friday, saying they building occupied by protesters. About 2,000 people gathered was announced during a visit by Canadian Foreign Minister took place over the past two days with help from federal law Friday night for a musical performance in protest against act- Stephane Dion. “The international community must support enforcement. (AP) ing President Michel Temer. (AP) Tunisia in battling terrorism,” Dion told reporters. (AFP) Obama leaves for Asia to boost trade, cooperation From Vietnam, the US president heads to Japan for a summit and visit to Hiroshima AP unfair competition. WASHINGTON A key sticking point dur- ing Obama’s stay in Vietnam PRESIDENT Barack Obama is will be human rights. Five leaving on a weeklong, 16,000- Republican senators sent the mile trip to Asia as part of his president a letter Friday la- effort to pay more attention to beling Vietnam “one of the the region and boost economic most repressive regimes in and security cooperation. the world” and urging Obama He’ll spend three days in to press Vietnamese leaders Vietnam, with stops in Hanoi to do more to respect free- and Ho Chi Minh City, for- dom of religion and expres- merly Saigon, for meetings sion and other human rights. with top leaders, a speech on The letter was signed by US-Vietnam relations, visits Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, to cultural treasures and ses- John Boozman of Arkansas, sions with civic leaders and John Cornyn of Texas, James entrepreneurs. From Viet- Lankford of Oklahoma and nam, he heads to Japan for a Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. summit of the Group of Seven Obama’s final year in office industrialized nations and a is heavy with foreign travel as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introduced to Chris Cox (left), Executive Director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action and Wayne LaPierre (right), Execu- historic visit to Hiroshima. he conducts what amounts to a tive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, at the National Rifle Association’s NRA-ILA Leadership Forum during the ANR Convention at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Along the way, Obama long, global farewell tour. He’s Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday. (AFP) will make a big push for the already made a historic trip to 12-nation trans-Pacific trade Cuba and visited Saudi Ara- agreement, which includes bia, Germany and England. the US, Vietnam and Japan. He’s due to make a daytrip to Trump rallies gun owners with The deal is stalled in Con- Canada next month, attend gress, but Obama hopes it will a NATO summit in Poland in one day increase trans-Pacific July and expected to become trade and make it easier for the first president to visit Laos U.S. workers and companies in the fall. He’s also expected pledge to end gun-free zone to compete in Asia. The deal to attend a fall summit of the faces strong opposition from Group of 20 industrial and GUN RIGHTS GROUP include comprehensive back- can take at the federal level the leading 2016 presidential emerging-market nations in Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the ground checks for gun buy- to keep guns out of the hands candidates and other critics, China and an Asia-Pacific Eco- ENDORSES TRUMP ers, including at open-air gun of criminals” while protecting who say it doesn’t do enough nomic Cooperation summit in Second Amendment, not change it; she shows and online. the Second Amendment. to protect U.S. workers from Peru in November. wants to abolish it: Donald Trump Trump, who is trying to Trump told the NRA he WASHINGTON THE NATIONAL unite the Republican Party would eliminate gun-free zones Rifle Association on Friday en- behind him after a brutal pri- imposed in some areas, noting REUTERS the US Constitution’s Second dorsed Donald Trump for US mary battle, accused Clinton, that the 2015 shooting deaths LOUISVILLE Amendment as a top priority. president, saying it was time a former secretary of state to of four US Marines at an armed Trump also planned to to unite behind the Republican President Barack Obama, of forces recruiting center in REPUBLICAN presidential meet on Monday with U.S. or “kiss your guns goodbye” if wanting to end the 2nd Amend- Chattanooga, Tennessee, took candidate Donald Trump as- Senator Bob Corker of Ten- Hillary Clinton is elected. “We ment, which says in part that the place in a gun-free zone. sured gun owners on Friday nessee, a source close to the have to unite and we have to people’s right to keep and bear “The Second Amendment he would protect their con- Trump campaign said. The unite right now,” Chris Cox arms “shall not be infringed.” is on the ballot in November,” stitutional right to bear arms two are expected to consult on said at the gun rights group’s “Hillary Clinton wants to he said. “The only way to save and eliminate gun-free zones foreign policy. The source said annual convention. “So on abolish the Second Amend- our Second Amendment is to if elected, accusing Democrat Corker remains on Trump’s behalf of the thousands of ment, not change it; she wants vote for a person you know: Hillary Clinton of wanting to list of potential vice presiden- patriots in this room, the five to abolish it,” Trump said. Donald Trump.” weaken gun rights. tial running mates. million NRA members across Clinton campaign senior The NRA’s convention Trump’s remarks at the Clinton, who is close to this country, and the tens of policy adviser Maya Harris took place on the same day NRA’s national convention clinching the Democratic millions who support us, I’m said Trump is peddling false- that a man brandished a gun in Louisville, Kentucky, were Party’s nomination for the officially announcing the NRA’s hoods and denounced “Donald at a checkpoint near the White not a surprise, but they could Nov. 8 election, has vowed to endorsement of Donald Trump Trump’s conspiracy theories.” House in Washington and was solidify his status among con- take on the gun lobby and ex- for president.” (AFP) She said Clinton believes there shot and wounded by a law en- President Barack Obama salutes as he arrives to board Air Force One, servatives who see protecting pand gun control measures to are “common-sense steps we forcement officer. at Andrews Air Force Base, on his way to Vietnam, on Saturday. (AFP) International concern mounts over Venezuela Oklahoma governor vetoes bill outlawing abortion The opposition, which has With the oil-dependent country’s a majority in the congress, AFP ble to subjective interpretation this week rejected the state of LOS ANGELES and application,” she added. economy in recession, public sentiment emergency. Fallin, who is known for her It led protests on Wednes- THE GOVERNOR of the US anti-abortion views, has been fevours Nicolas Maduro’s ouster day demanding a recall refer- state of Oklahoma on Friday mentioned as a potential run- endum against Maduro on the vetoed a bill outlawing abor- ning mate to Donald Trump, AFP But the socialist president basis of a petition that gar- tion, saying it was too vague the presumptive Republican CARACAS is digging in. nered 1.8 million signatures. and would not stand up to le- presidential nominee. He imposed a state of Seventy percent of Venezue- gal challenges. Her veto came barely 24 INTERNATIONAL concerns emergency this week and or- lans want a change of govern- “The bill is so ambiguous hours after lawmakers in are mounting over the eco- dered the two-day war games ment, polls say. and so vague that doctors can- Oklahoma passed the legisla- nomic and political crisis in to show the military can tackle But the Supreme Court, not be certain what medical tion which would have made Venezuela, where the mili- domestic and foreign threats stacked with judges loyal to circumstances would be con- performing abortions a crime tary on Saturday was holding he says are being fomented Maduro, overruled the legisla- sidered ‘necessary to preserve punishable by up to three a second day of exercises or- with US help. ture and called the emergency Opponents to the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Ma- the life of the mother,’” Gover- years in prison. dered by embattled President After deploying its Rus- decree “constitutional.” And duro take part in a demonstration in Caracas, recently. (AFP) nor Mary Fallin said in a state- The measure, which was Nicolas Maduro. sian-made strike aircraft electoral officials have been ment that labeled the measure sure to face legal challenges, With the oil-dependent across Venezuela’s skies on dragging their feet in validat- cy in 2013 elections following way there is a social explosion “unconstitutional.” was introduced by Republican country’s economy imploding Friday, the military on Satur- ing the petition. the death of Hugo Chavez, has and, as we have repeated, a “The absence of any defi- Senator Nathan Dahm, who under recession and hyper- day ran riot squads through Opposition leader Hen- given dire warnings about the coup d’etat,” Capriles said in nition, analysis or medical has said he hoped it would lead inflation, public sentiment is their paces on Saturday, state rique Capriles, whom Maduro mounting public frustration. an interview with the Spanish standard renders this exception to overturning Roe v. Wade, the backing Maduro’s ouster. television showed. narrowly beat to the presiden- The risk is that “along the newspaper El Pais. vague, indefinite and vulnera- 1973 Supreme Court decision. Sanders campaign down to less than $6 mn in cash

ton’s $24 million, the reports spending wasn’t a problem month to downsize its opera- Sanders’ rival had five times as showed. when his online supporters tion. He reduced his payroll This year, Sanders has were minting him money. But from about 1,000 to fewer much money, according to new averaged more than $40 mil- now that his fundraising has than 400 employees. Sanders Federal Election Commission filings lion in spending per month, dropped, his high burn rate has pledged to continue in the underlining how quickly he could hurt his chance to con- race until the final primary, could blow through the cash tinue competing. June 14 in Washington, DC. AP times as much money, ac- he had on hand at the begin- Even as he racked up pri- The latest reports showed WASHINGTON cording to new Federal Elec- ning of May. mary victories last month that Sanders spent about $21 tion Commission filings, be- Since he started his and sharpened his attacks million on media buys and BERNIE SANDERS’ cam- ginning the month with $30 presidential bid, Sanders against the former secre- digital consulting. The cam- paign had less than $6 mil- million in the bank. has spent nearly $207 mil- tary of state, online donors paign paid $17.3 million to lion at the start of May, a The two were on roughly lion, about $25 million more started holding back. Sand- Old Towne Media Inc., based critical cash shortage as he equal fundraising footing than Clinton’s $182 million ers raised considerably less in Alexandria, Virginia, and makes an admittedly tough last month, with Clinton in expenditures. For her in April than his record-set- more than $3.6 million to final play to wrest the Demo- and Sanders each raising part, Clinton has averaged ting $46 million in March or Revolution Messaging, a cratic presidential nomina- more than $25 million. But $26 million in spending per $43.5 million in February. Washington advertising firm Thousands attend a rally by Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. tion from Hillary Clinton. the Vermont senator spent month since January. The Sanders campaign that concentrates on digital Bernie Sanders at the Santa Fe Community College, on Friday. (AP) Sanders’ rival had five almost $39 million to Clin- Sanders’ heavy campaign began taking steps late last outreach. Sunday, May 22, 2016 19 20 Sunday, May 22, 2016 The Last Word

EMIR PATRONISES OPENING OF 16TH DOHA FORUM Emir and Ban Ki-moon discuss regional issues QNA tives of civil society groups. in Yemen. HH the Emir discussed with DOHA Meanwhile, HH the Emir met sepa- Niger’s President bilateral relations and rately with Ban Ki-moon, President of ways of developing them. THE Emir His Highness Sheikh Tamim the 70th Session of the UN General As- HH the Emir also discussed with bin Hamad al Thani patronised the sembly Mogens Lykketoft, Yemen’s Pres- Afghanistan’s President and Mauritius opening of the 16th Session of Doha ident, Niger’s President, Afghanistan’s President bilateral relations and ways of Forum at Doha Sheraton Hotel on Sat- President and Mauritius President and enhancing them. He discussed with Pres- urday evening. discussed with them the topics on the ident of the 70th Session of the UN Gen- The forum is being held under the Forum’s agenda. eral Assembly the latest developments on title ‘Stability and Prosperity for All’, in Discussions between HH the Emir regional and international levels. the presence of Yemen’s President Abd and Ban Ki-moon dealt with develop- Besides, HH the Emir met with a Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, President of Af- ments on the regional and international number of other participants of the Doha ghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, arenas, particularly the latest develop- Forum. The dignitaries included the Niger President Mahamadou Issoufour, ments in Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq Foreign Minister of Argentina Susana Mauritius President Dr Ameenah Gurib, and Libya. At the beginning of the meet- Malcorra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Secretary-General of the United Nations ing, the UN Secretary-General thanked Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Ban Ki-moon, as well as a number of HH the Emir for Qatar’s positive and Minister of Energy and Mines of the Do- heads of delegations. remarkable role in resolving regional is- minican Republic Antonio Emilio Conde. The opening ceremony was attended sues in order to achieve security and sta- HH the Emir also met with Senior by the Prime Minister and Minister of bility, as well as Qatar’s support for the Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser efforts and endeavours being exerted by Affairs of Singapore Dr Mohamad Maliki bin Khalifa al Thani, a number of minis- the United Nations to support stability bin Osman, Carolyn B Maloney, a mem- ters and heads of diplomatic missions ac- and security in the Middle East. ber of the US House of Representatives, credited to Qatar. It was also attended by HH the Emir in his meeting with Foreign Minister of Costa Rica Manuel senior officials, businessmen, academics, President Mansur Hadi reviewed bilat- Gonzalez as well as Rachida Dati, a former journalists, parliamentarians, intellectu- eral ties between the two brotherly coun- French Minister of Justice, member of als, representatives of regional and inter- tries and ways of strengthening them the European parliament and Mayor of national organisations and representa- and discussed the latest developments the 7th Arrondissement of Paris.

FM meets participants MINISTER of Foreign Affairs HE Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani met with several leaders and officials on Saturday who are now visiting Qatar to take part in the 16th Doha Forum. Among the several partici- pants, the FM met President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi of Yemen. Discussions during the meeting dealt with bilateral re- lations and ways of enhancing them, in addition to a number of issues of common interest. The FM met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina Susa- na Mabel Malcorra, the UK Minis- PM, Afghan president ter of State for the Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood and Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel- review bilateral relations Malek al Mekhlafi, among others. During the separate meetings, the PRIME Minister and Minister of In- two sides discussed relations be- terior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser tween the friendly countries, and bin Khalifa al Thani met with Presi- ways of enhancing them, as well dent Mohammad Ashraf Ghani of as a number of issues of common Afghanistan, who is currently visiting interest. Doha to participate in the 16th Doha Furthermore, the FM dis- Forum at Doha Sheraton on Saturday. cussed the latest developments During the meeting, they reviewed of the Yemeni peace consulta- cooperation relations between the two tions sponsored by the United countries and ways of developing and Nations in Kuwait with his Yem- enhancing them, as well as a number of eni counterpart. topics on the Forum’s agenda. The FM also met President of The PM also met with a number the United Nations (UN) General of ministers participating in the Doha Assembly’s 70th Session Mogens Forum on Saturday evening. The PM Lykketoft. During the meeting, met Minister of State for the Middle they discussed the relations be- East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood, tween Qatar and the UN General Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Assembly and means to develop Rica Manuel Gonzalez Sanz, Minister these relations in addition to a of Foreign Affairs of Argentina Susana host of topics of mutual interest. Mabel Malcorra, President of 70th UN The FM reiterated Qatar’s General Assembly Session Mogens commitment to promoting in- Lykketoft, Pakistan’s Minister of De- ternational peace and security, fence Khawaja Muhammad Asif and stressing the need for concerted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. international efforts to achieve The PM attended a dinner ban- comprehensive political, eco- quet held in honour of heads of del- nomic and societal approach to egations participating in the 16th address the challenges facing Doha Forum. (QNA) the region and the world. (QNA) Greece seeks Qatari help to ‘reverse economic crisis’ MANEESH BAKSHI in the field of business, trade and our economy has passed and de- ties for employment and drive the DOHA investment. Besides attending this spite the presence of small negative economy on the path of recovery.” conference, my objective during points, Greek’s economy is likely to According to the minister, the DOHA Forum is proving itself to be this visit is to explore the areas of see a positive reversal.” country’s focus is not on the infra- a fruitful platform providing oppor- economic cooperation that exists “Immediately after the ap- structure sector. “We are not look- tunities to its participants to meet between Qatar and Greece.” proval of the review of the bailout ing for investments in the field of and discuss directly with people The Greek minister is in Doha to programme, Greece is likely to get infrastructure since Greece already who are in a position to make de- take part in the 16th edition of Doha about 6 billion euros from its credi- has well-developed roads, hotels cisions thus making an important Forum, which opened at Sheraton tors. Besides this, we can grab an- and telecoms services. There are, political, economical and social im- Hotel on Saturday under the theme other 6 billion euros this year from however, good number of invest- pact, according to Dimitris Mardas, ‘Stability and Prosperity for All’. the regional development fund of ment opportunities in the Small Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Mardas will address the conference European Union (EU). That makes and Medium Enterprises (SME) Foreign Affairs of Greece. and is expected to meet Qatari Min- 12 billion Euros which can perhaps sector where Qatari investors can Talking to Qatar Tribune on ister of Economy and Commerce reverse the recession in the Greek form joint ventures for long-term Saturday, the Greek minister said, and others during his stay in Doha. economy,” he said. returns,” said the minister. “Qatar can be an important partner According to the visiting min- He added, “We are looking for Mardas is likely to meet Qatari of Greece since we enjoy excellent ister, Greece is targeting an invest- foreign investments to be ploughed Minister of Economy and Trade as diplomatic, political and cultural ment of 80 billion euros in the next in the sector of tradable goods and well as Assistant Minister of For- relations with each other. We look six years in the form of tradable crisis to the path of recovery. said, “Greece will see the positive services in technology, tourism and eign Affairs besides meeting other forward to Qatar as a brotherly goods and services to reverse its Talking about the current eco- signs of recovery in 2016 since we agricultural products, joint ventures national and international dignitar- country with many opportunities economy from the ongoing debt nomic scenario in the country, he consider that the worst phase of to generate returns and opportuni- ies during the visit.