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SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 • 27 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6432 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 N-deal likely Obama: US to if partners serious, says work with GCC Iran minister

BERLIN: Iranian Foreign to meet threats Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced optimism about reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in comments pub- President hails Camp David success lished yesterday by German newsweekly Der Spiegel. DUBAI: US President Barack the United States,” Obama told “A deal is totally probable, pro- Obama said in remarks broad- Al Arabiya’s Washington corre- vided that we have serious nego- cast yesterday that Washington spondent Nadia Bilbassy. tiating partners,” he was quoted would help Gulf states face any On Iran, which many Gulf as saying in pre-released excerpts conventional military threat, countries see as a regional threat, from an article to be published in such as Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Obama said that plans had been today’s edition. He also said that Kuwait, and improve security made for “joint capabilities to “unfortunately there has been a cooperation to deal with con- address destabilizing activities barrage of insulting comments cerns about destablising Iranian and conflicts in the region, some coming from Saudi Arabia,” and actions in region. of these are related to concerns that “we see some people panick- Speaking in an interview with surrounding Iran.” On the forth- ing in this region.” Saudi-owned Al Arabiya tel- coming Iranian nuclear deal, bro- Arab and largely Sunni Muslim evision following a summit with kered between six world powers states of the Gulf fear a nuclear Gulf leaders he described as – including the United States – Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro shake hands at Miraflores deal could be a harbinger of closer “very frank and honest”, he also and the Islamic Republic, Obama Palace in Caracas yesterday. Emir left Caracas after a short visit following the Camp David summit. US ties with their Persian and said that the war in Syria would sought to allay fears from Gulf Shiite arch-foe Iran, a country “probably not” end before he allies that the agreement would they also see as fuelling conflicts leaves office. weaken their own security. conflict was likely to be resolved to authorize strikes against the “What I’m optimistic about it is in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. Obama hailed the success of the “The United States has been before he leaves office in 2017, and Assad regime. On being asked that the GCC countries repre- Zarif sought to dispell fears summit held in his Camp David very clear that a nuclear armed whether or not it would prove what he thought about a per- sent stability and also I think an about Iran seeking more regional compound, saying that the aim of Iran will potentially be reckless to be his “Rwanda” — a refer- ceived failure and inaction of awareness of the need for us to be influence, saying: “We don’t want the meeting was to “deepen and and dangerous. So it is in eve- ence to the 1994 genocide in the US leadership after the Assad able to move together,” he added. to dominate this region... We are broaden” the “excellent relation- ryone’s interest to ensure Iran African nation which killed hun- regime was blamed in 2013 for On the ongoing Israeli- a country that is content with its ship” between Washington and its does not have nuclear weapons dreds of thousands — Obama said: using chemical weapons, he said: Palestinian conflict, Obama size, content with its geography.” Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provide a pathway for Iran “Probably not.” “We didn’t because they got rid of reiterated his commitment to a Iran has long asserted its allies. “The intentions here were to engage in positive behavior,” Yet a lasting solution to the the chemical weapons, and that in two state solution, adding that nuclear programme is for peaceful to deepen and broaden what is Obama was quoted as saying by Syrian crisis must come from the fact was very important.” trust must be rebuilt between energy purposes, and that inter- already an excellent relationship Al Arabiya. Middle East itself, Obama said. The Gulf allies play a key role both sides in the peace process. national concern about it seeking between the GCC countries and Asked where the Syrian Obama defended his refusal in the region’s security, he added. AGENCIES a nuclear bomb is misplaced. AFP First UN aid flights land in Yemen; 10 killed SEC on recruitment ADEN/ GENEVA: At least that has killed at least 1,600 peo- spree for teachers 10 people were killed in heavy ple, UN humanitarian coordinator clashes in Yemen yesterday Johannes van der Klaauw said. despite a five-day humanitarian The first UN aid flights landed DOHA: Education sector regu- Independent School teachers are truce, while aid distribution to in Yemen yesterday since a five-day lator, the Supreme Education one of the best in the region. the millions deprived of food, fuel humanitarian pause was declared Council (SEC), has embarked on The tests and interviews are and medicine by weeks of fighting on Tuesday night. Two of a planned a recruitment spree for teach- expected to continue until May 23 and air strikes continued. six cargo planes, which will take a ers for Independent Schools for and one of the tests could involve The ceasefire, which began on total of 150 tonnes of shelter and the next academic year that a demonstration by applicants Tuesday, appeared to be mostly relief items, arrived in Sana’a, the begins in September. of their teaching skills to check holding on Friday despite heavy refugee agency said. Interviews and tests of some their ability to communicate. ground fighting between local mili- A tightly enforced inspec- 856 applicants for teaching posi- There are special committees tiamen and the Houthis in the city tion regime has hindered deliv- tions in various subjects are that will be conducting the tests of Taiz, residents said. A medical ery of humanitarian supplies, beginning today at Al Khaleej and interviews for the applicants source said 10 were killed. while roadblocks and continued Training Centre in Old Airport subject-wise and on these panels In the city of Dhalea residents sporadic fighting are holding up neighbourhood of the city. will be sitting experts like human also reported clashes but there was distribution inside the country, The maximum number of resource officials from the SEC, Yemenis carry a wounded man to a hospital after he was injured during an no information on casualties. van der Klaauw told a Geneva applicants (149) is for the posi- besides the operator and director exchange of fire between tribal fighters and Houthi rebels in Taez. “Nothing has changed with this news briefing via audio link from tions of English teachers, followed of schools. truce. People are still fighting and Sana’a. “The arms embargo and its by mathematics (113), Arabic These interviews are aside from the Houthis are still in control,” even before the war, Yemen is now imports of vital aid that is being inspection regime results in com- language and literature (98) and the extensive ones the SEC and said Alawi Al Afouri, a resident in mired in a humanitarian catastro- held up despite a humanitarian mercial goods, be it by air or ship, computer science (49). its committees have conducted for the southern city of Aden. phe, as 300,000 people have been truce. The aim is to get supplies no longer reaching the country,” Only 10 applications have been teachers of different subjects in Meanwhile, tribal sources said displaced by the conflict and 12 to 2.5 million Yemenis deprived he said, calling for inspections to received for chemistry teach- countries like Egypt, Jordan and yesterday Houthi fighters have million are short of food. of food, fuel and medicine due to be sped up so humanitarian goods, ers, 15 for biology, 13 for phys- Sudan to recruit teaching staff for withdrawn from the border area The UN urged Saudi Arabia fighting by an Iranian-allied mili- including “food and other life-sus- ics, 22 for geography and 25 for the Independent Schools for the between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. and its allies to ease inspections of tia and air strikes against them taining necessities can resume”. history. Pay scales and perks as next academic year. Impoverished and strife-torn Yemen-bound cargo, to accelerate by a Saudi-led coalition, violence REUTERS well as working conditions for THE PENINSULA Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death Google’s self-driving cars to hit roads soon BOSTON: A US jury yesterday unanimously sentenced Boston DETROIT: Google Inc will accelerator pedal or brake pedal bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for perpetrating one of begin testing self-driving cars ... because they don’t need them.” the bloodiest assaults in America since the September 11, 2001 of its own design on public roads It turns out, however, that the attacks. It took the jury more than 14 hours to choose death on this summer, but they will have prototypes will need those critical six of the 17 capital counts over life imprisonment for the 21-year- steering wheels and brakes, control devices after all because old Muslim former university student of Chechen descent who which is not what the company California requires that self-driv- came to the United States as a child. described a year ago. ing vehicles have manual controls The same 12-member panel convicted him on April 8 on all 30 Engineers will operate 25 pro- during testing. Google describes counts relating to the April 15, 2013 bombings, the murder of a totype vehicles, which use the the pod-like prototype, which police officer, a car jacking and a shootout while on the run. same software as Google’s self- seats two people, as “the world’s Three people were killed and 264 others wounded, including 17 driving Lexus RX450h sport first fully self-driving vehicle.” who lost limbs, in the twin blasts near the finish line at the north- utility vehicles that have been in The company also said it would eastern city’s popular marathon. operation for several years, the test new passenger and pedes- Tsarnaev went on the run and was arrested four days later, company said yesterday. trian protection technologies, hiding and injured in a grounded boat on which he had scrawled When the Internet search including a foam front end and a bloody message apparently defending the attacks as a means to company announced a year ago a flexible windshield. It also said avenge the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two years later, he that it planned to build a fleet of the speed of the prototypes will stood in a dark blazer with his hands clasped before him, showing self-driving cars, project director be limited to 40 kph to “decrease no emotion as the court clerk read from the death penalty. AFP Chris Urmson said the prototypes the likelihood of severe injury” in A Google self-driving car. “won’t have a steering wheel, a collision. REUTERS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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Emir reaches Venezuela after attending summit LEFT: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with US President Barack Obama and other GCC leaders at the Camp David presidential retreat in the US. ABOVE: Emir shaking hands with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. After attending the summit, the Emir reached Venezuela on a short visit to that country.

CMC: Al Jefairi gets woman Nine illegal vendors held DOHA: Inspectors from Doha Municipality caught at least nine ille- gal vendors in Souq Haraj (the popular second-hand goods market) in Najma during a clampdown launched in collaboration with the Search and Follow-up Department of the Ministry of Interior and Public Hygiene colleague after 12 years Section of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning. In a separate drive, the inspectors also caught 10 illegal vendors in the Industrial Area and got them arrested. Legal action is being taken against them, head of technical monitoring section at Doha Municipality, Ali Nasser Al Hajri, Fatima Al Kuwari is second female face in the civic body said.

DOHA: For 12 long years, Sheikha Al three working class expatriate-dominated Jefairi has been the only female face of neighborhoods of Najma, Al Mansoura and Few cases of forged currency notes the Central Municipal Council (CMC), Umm Ghuwailina as also Old Ghanem, DOHA: Some 340 economic offenses were reported in the country in Qatar’s only elected body. which is one of the most expensive locali- the latter half (July to December) of 2014 and just a small percentage of In the recent election to the fifth term of ties of Doha as it has most hotels and tourist these cases were related to attempts to circulate forged currency notes, the CMC, however, another woman has won, attractions such as the Museum of Islamic Lieutenant-Colonel Ali Hassan Al Kubaisi said. while Al Jefairi has retained her seat—for Art and the picturesque Corniche. Head of Economic Offenses Combating Unit at the Criminal Investigation the fourth time in a row since 2003. Asked about the new areas in her con- Department (CID) of the Ministry of Interior, Al Kubaisi said that preventive In a brief interview, Al Jefairi told this stituency now, she said she will be getting measures taken by his department are actually responsible for low incidence newspaper yesterday that she was hopeful the files of these neighbourhoods only when of economic offenses, especially circulation of counterfeit currency notes. of Fatima Al Kuwari winning this time. the fifth term of the CMC is inaugurated— He told Police Magazine Asshurta Ma’ak (The Police With You) that nearly “Somehow I was expecting that she hopefully, sometime in early July. a few cases of counterfeit currencies caught here involved foreign curren- would win and she did,” Al Jefairi said of Al One new area in her re-demarcated con- cies. A number of people have been arrested tryingto circulate fake currency Kuwari, who won from Constituency 9 (Al stituency—Al Nuaija—has no school and notes, he said. Thumama and Mesaimeer). “It will be so kindergarten, she said. “I will have to work There have been cases of people forging bank cheques and many have been nice to have another woman in the House,” to get these facilities.” arrested while trying to get cash from banks using forged cheques they signed said Al Jefairi. Interestingly, Al Kuwari was The term of the present CMC (the fourth in the names of companies and individuals. her challenger in the last CMC election term which began in 2011) ends on June 27, from her bastion Old Airport ward in 2011, she said. An Emiri decree is to be issued for but she defeated her (Al Kuwari). the fifth term of the CMC to begin. Plan to amend housing law This time, Al Jefairi had all male chal- The last time the time difference between DOHA: The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs which boasts a hous- lengers but she won comfortably again due the end of the previous CMC (third term) ing Unit that is responsible for giving away free plots of land to eligible Sheikha Al Jefairi to her reputation as a go-getter, with a and the start of the present term (fourth Qataris and helping them obtain soft state loans to build houses is amend- margin of over 500 votes, as she polled 852 term of the CMC) was a week, recalls Al ing the housing law and reviewing conditions of eligibility for the benefici- votes while her nearest rival bagged only without challenges since her constituency Jefairi who is a legal professional. aries of the state housing scheme, reports Al Sharq. 295 votes. Al Jefairi’s win, though, is not has been re-demarcated and now includes THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Joint team to study WMD and other related issues

DOHA: Qatar University (QU) and the National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons (NCPW), an arm of Qatar Ministry of Defence signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration on issues relating to international con- ventions on the prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) between QU staff and students on one hand, and experts from the Committee on Members of Qatari delegation at the symposium. the other. The agreement, which was signed by QU President Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad and NCPW Chairman Major General Staff Pilot Nasser bin Mohammed Al Ali Qatar-Turkey urology symposium NCPW Chairman Major General (left) speaking at the event. Staff Pilot Nasser bin Mohammed DOHA: The Urology they exchanged knowledge and training and new techniques in Al Ali, will establish a joint team the conventions, to advance their issues. QU students will also be Department at Hamad Medical discussed the latest diagnostic urosurgery. to study the extent of the applica- knowledge on the issue of weap- encouraged to work on gradu- Corporation (HMC) recently and therapeutic advances in the The opening session of the tion of the laws and regulations ons of mass destruction and the ation theses focusing on the organised the first Qatar- field of urology. symposium was jointly chaired pertaining to chemical, biological ability to articulate their posi- national, regional and interna- Turkey Urology Symposium in At the symposium, Dr Al by Dr Abdulla Al Ansari, Head of and nuclear safety and security tions in this regard. tional role in the conventions, collaboration with the Turkish Rumaihi presented a paper on the Surgery Department at HMC in Qatar and prepare reports in The Committee may also facili- and in supporting international Association of Urology in Prostate Tumors, Dr. Sabah Al and Dr Ates Kdioglu, Head of the this regard. tate the students’ periodic inclu- peace and safety. Antalya, Turkey. Qadhi, Consultant in Surgery Turkish Association of Urology. The event was attended by sion in the NCPW delegations in “It is incumbent on QU to Dr Khalid Al Rumaihi, at HMC’s Urology Department Dr Rumaihi said that the officials of the NCPW includ- representing Qatar at the annual expose its students to issues of Consultant in Surgery and Head spoke about Urinary Bladder second Qatar-Turkey Urology ing Prof Karimeldin Abdelaziz conferences in which signatory international impact and to pro- of HMC’s Urology Department, Fistulas and Dr Abdulla Al Naimi, Symposium is being planned Eladham, radiation expert; Prof countries to the chemical and vide them with the opportuni- said that the symposium was a also a Consultant in Surgery at within the next one or two years, Salwan Kamal Jamil Al Ani, biological weapons conventions ties to better understand the result of the fruitful collaboration HMC’s Urology Department adding that plans were also being radiation expert; and Ahmed participate. national and regional perspec- between the department and the presented a paper on Minimally discussed between the two coun- Ismail Afifi, legal expert. Also QU students will also benefit tives that attend the strategies Turkish Association of Urology. Invasive Surgery of Ureteral tries to boost the exchange of in attendance were top officials from summer internships with and approaches of the various As many as 30 healthcare pro- Calculi. The Turkish participants expertise and knowledge in the of Qatar University. QU and the the Committee to participate in countries of the Gulf and Middle fessionals from HMC took part also gave three presentations on field of urology. Committee will liaise to organise training and awareness work- East”, said Prof Al Misnad. in the symposium during which the Turkish education system, THE PENINSULA annual debates for students on shops to be oriented on the key THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Clashes in Palestine on Nakba Day Israeli troops fire on Palestinians

NABLUS, PALESTINIAN from nearby Jewish settlements TERRITORIES: Israeli sol- were bused into the city to visit diers fired tear gas, rubber and Joseph’s Tomb early in the day, live bullets at Palestinians in and soldiers blocked off roads the West Bank and Gaza Strip leading to the pilgrimage site, yesterday, wounding at least Palestinian witnesses and security 21 people, medics and security sources said. sources said. Palestinians protested, some Clashes took place near throwing stones, before clashes Ramallah and farther north in with the army erupted. Nablus, after a new Israeli cabi- A spokeswoman for the mili- net took office and as Palestinians tary said soldiers had “escorted” marked 67 years since the up to 3,000 Jewish visitors to the “Nakba”, or “catastrophe” that tomb since Wednesday evening, befell them when Israel was and that a crowd of some 200 established in 1948. Palestinians had approached the At a demonstration outside area throwing stones and burn- Ofer military prison near the ing tyres. West Bank administrative centre Soldiers used “riot dispersal” of Ramallah, dozens of protest- means, she said. ers stoned soldiers who responded In Gaza, which is still recover- with tear gas and rubber bullets, ing nine months after last sum- an AFP correspondent said. mer’s war between Israel and de Palestinian protesters from the West Bank village of Bitonya, near Ramallah, prepare to clash with Israeli Border police next to the Ofer Military prison, Medics said seven Palestinians facto rulers Hamas, Israeli troops yesterday. were wounded. on the border fired live rounds at In separate clashes in the Nakba Day protesters, wounding The Israeli army confirmed it Israeli soldiers often fire at until we liberate Palestine”. their descendants — fled or were northern West Bank city of four, the enclave’s interior min- had fired at the “lower extremi- Palestinians who stray closer. Israel and Hamas fought a driven from their homes, with the Nablus, rubber bullets and live istry medical spokesperson said. ties” of five people who approached The protests were significantly 50-day war in July and August Nakba marked every May 15. fire by soldiers wounded at least Three demonstrators were the border fence, despite warn- smaller than the main demon- last year that killed about 2,200 For the Palestinians, the right 10 Palestinians, security sources hit at a demonstration staged by ings not to come any closer. stration in Gaza City, which was Palestinians and 73 people on the to return to homes they fled or and witnesses said. dozens of people near the border Under Israel’s blockade of the attended by 2,000 people, an AFP Israeli side. were forced out of is a prereq- The Israeli army confirmed fence east of Gaza City, and a coastal territory, Gaza residents correspondent said. After Israel’s establishment uisite for any peace agreement the clashes, but denied that live fourth was shot at a similar pro- are not allowed within 100 metres At the rally, a Hamas speaker in 1948, more than 760,000 with Israel, but it is a demand rounds were fired. test near Khan Yunis in the south, of the border fence on foot, or 300 called for “continuing the resist- Palestinians — estimated today to the Jewish state has rejected out More than 1,000 settlers Ashraf Al Qudra said. metres in a vehicle. ance against the enemy Israel, number around 5.5 million with of hand. AFP

S Sudan defends Netanyahu’s new cabinet has ministers of all shades law limiting JERUSALEM: Israel’s new ultra-Orthodox Shas party, spent which labelled Palestinian mili- Kulanu party, now becomes min- government, party members will foreign aid rightwing government brings 23 months in prison after he tants as “snakes”, described “the ister of construction and housing. hold the positions of deputy min- together a former convict, reli- was convicted in 2000 of taking entire Palestinian people (as) the The ultra-Orthodox United ister of health and chair of the gious conservatives and a far- $155,000 in bribes during his term enemy” and said anyone support- Torah Judaism was one of the first house finance committee. workers right justice minister criticised as interior minister. ing terror should be killed. parties to sign up to Netanyahu’s The ultra-Orthodox also have for inflammatory comments on Incoming Justice Minister Former general Yoav Galant, coalition but has no portfolios. a prohibition on shaking hands LONDON: South Sudan has Palestinians. Ayelet Shaked, of the far-right appointed as armed forces chief Its members, who have theo- with members of the opposite defended a law limiting the The government led by Prime Jewish Home party, has been rais- in 2010 was disqualified before he logical misgivings about swearing sex, but deputy foreign minister number of foreign aid workers Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ing hackles during her past two could take office, over allegations allegiance to the secular Zionist Tzipi Hotovely, an ultra-Orthodox that can work in the country was sworn in late on Thursday years as a member of parliament. that he had illegally grabbed public state, get around the problem by woman from the Likud’s far right despite concerns from relief after winning a narrow approval In a posting on her Facebook land around a luxury villa he built, serving as deputy ministers or issued a statement saying she groups that the move could by parliament. page last summer she endorsed and lied when questioned about it. heads of powerful parliamentary would not offend foreign officials have “potentially catastrophic Aryeh Deri, the new econ- an article written in 2002 by With magnificent irony, Galant, committees. by refusing any proffered hands. effects” for the millions of peo- omy minister and head of the then settler leader Uri Elitzur number two in the centre-right In Netanyahu’s new AFP ple who need help. The law, which is awaiting President Salva Kiir’s signature after being passed on Tuesday, Light moment requires non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to limit Tanker fired on by Iran foreign employees, including those at senior level, to one fifth of their staff in the country. “There is nothing in the bill had a collision in March that can worry anybody because this is a bill that adheres to LONDON: A Singapore- The Alpine Eternity was international standards,” said flagged oil products tanker fired anchored off Dubai yester- presidential spokesman Ateny at by Iranian craft yesterday day after managing to reach Wek Ateny. had previously collided with an United Arab Emirates waters “All the countries in the world Iranian oil drilling platform in on Thursday with its crew safe. have the policy of employing the March and efforts have since The ship’s master had ignored a local citizens. For NGOs that been made to resolve the issue, call to stop by the Iranian boats. come to South Sudan there must the owner said yesterday. The statement said in ordinary be provisions ... for local citizens,” The Alpine Eternity was circumstances insurers would be he told the Thomson Reuters attacked by a number of small able to post security on behalf Foundation by phone from South craft in international waters off of the owner, but Western sanc- Sudan yesterday. the United Arab Emirates in the tions imposed on Iran, including However, an umbrella group latest escalation in the region. banking measures, had made this of more than 300 NGOs said it The owner, South Maritime Pte difficult. was worried the new law would Ltd, and manager, Transpetrol “This has been discussed in hinder operations in one of the TM, said in a joint statement full with the Iranian counter- least developed countries in the that the tanker collided with an parts,” the statement added. world. uncharted object on March 21 in “The owners, managers and the “If the bill is implemented in a the Gulf, which was later identi- liability insurers are committed way that creates a more regres- fied as an Iranian jacket platform. to resolving these issues once all sive environment, then this will No one was injured and no pollu- necessary clearances have been have potentially catastrophic tion was spilled. obtained from the appropriate effects for the large amounts of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir (second left) with Kamel Mhanna (left), head of the Amel “Since the March 21 incident, authorities in the UK and USA.” the South Sudanese population Association non-government organisation, which provides support for impoverished people living in Lebanon, there has been a continuous dia- The statement said an under- that rely on NGOs to provide during a tour yesterday of the headquarters of the institute in Haret Hreik in southern Beirut. Iraqi, Syrian and logue between the owners/drilling water survey of damage to the basic services and life saving aid,” Palestinian refugees can attend free courses and training seminars at the institute. contractor of the offshore struc- jacket had been carried out with South Sudan NGO Forum said in ture, and representatives of the discussions “on-going in good faith a statement. vessel and their liability insurers,” for full surveys to take place, after “If the bill makes getting assist- they said in the statement. which the scope of repair/replace- ance to people harder rather than “Owners and managers can ment options will be clearer”. easier, it could cost lives at a time Saudi aide of Osama jailed for life in US see no reason why the Iranian The Maritime and Port of tremendous suffering for South authorities should try to seize Authority of Singapore said yes- Sudanese communities,” it said. NEW YORK: A Saudi man and injured more than 4,000. embassy bombing there. the vessel, given the advanced terday that no Singaporeans were Four years after South Sudan whom US authorities described Instead, prosecutors accused him Defense lawyers for Al Fawwaz, state of negotiations and ongo- aboard the Alpine Eternity, add- declared independence from as one of Osama bin Laden’s of working as a key Bin Laden who did not testify at trial, ing dialogue with the Iranian ing that it was “investigating the Sudan, the world’s newest state closest advisers was sentenced deputy in London, disseminat- claimed he was a peaceful politi- counterparts.” matter”. faces huge challenges. to life in prison yesterday in ing the Al Qaeda leader’s calls cal dissident who shared with Last week, Iran released a Millions of barrels of oil are The literacy rate is only 27 connection with the deadly 1998 for violence to media outlets and Bin Laden a desire for reform Marshall Islands-flagged con- transported daily through the Bab percent, and only 30 percent of bombings of US embassies in arranging for supplies to be sent in their native Saudi Arabia but tainer ship, Maersk Tigris, and El-Mandeb and Strait of Hormuz children aged between six and 17 Kenya and Tanzania. to the group’s members in Africa. eventually turned away from the its crew, which were seized in the to Europe, the United States and have ever set foot in a classroom, Khalid Al Fawwaz was sen- In addition, US authorities Al Qaeda leader when he began Strait of Hormuz over a years-old Asia, waterways which pass along according to UN figures. tenced by US District Judge Lewis charged Al Fawwaz with running calling for violence against US debt. This prompted the United the coasts of Yemen and Iran More than 1.5 million peo- Kaplan after being convicted of an Al Qaeda training camp in citizens. States to send vessels to tem- respectively. ple have been uprooted inside four conspiracy counts in federal Afghanistan in the early 1990s “My goal was reform, not rebel- porarily accompany US-flagged Shipping sources said they South Sudan and 500,000 have court in New York in February. and helping to establish an lion,” he said yesterday, turning ships through the strait. Iranian were bracing for more tensions fled to neighbouring coun- He was not charged with Al Qaeda cell in the Kenyan to face victims sitting in the patrol boats had shadowed a sep- at sea, which could lead to a spike tries since fighting broke out in planning or participating in the capital of Nairobi that later con- courtroom. arate container ship earlier last in shipping costs. December 2013. REUTERS attacks, which killed 224 people ducted surveillance ahead of the REUTERS month. REUTERS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 IS occupies govt HQ in Iraq’s Ramadi Major setback for Iraqi government; families start fleeing on foot BAGHDAD: Islamic State Baghdadi reaffirms fighters seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi yesterday and edged closer to what would be their biggest vic- his leadership of IS tory in Iraq this year, officials BAGHDAD: The Islamic A previous recording, which said. State’s release of an audio dates back to November, was The loss of the capi- message by Abu Bakr also released a few days after tal of Anbar province, which Al Baghdadi reaffirmed his rumours that he had been killed Prime Minister Haider leadership of the group follow- or wounded in an air raid. Al Abadi had said would be ing a six-month silence and Thursday’s message was not the next target of government rumours over his health. immediately authenticated forces after wresting back In his half-hour speech or dated but the credibility of Tikrit last month, would be a posted on jihadist forums on previous such releases by the major setback. Thursday, Baghdadi calls for a group has in most cases stood The government stressed that general mobilisation and urges the test of time. Baghdadi’s Ramadi had not fallen yet and all Muslims to move to the speech alludes mostly to battles announced that a major counter- caliphate he proclaimed last year in Anbar province and the Baiji offensive was under way as Abadi or wage jihad (holy war) wher- area but not in Tikrit, suggesting held an emergency meeting with ever they are. it was recorded after the govern- top security officials. “I think this release partly ment took it back in early April. IS has threatened to take con- has to do with rumours of his Hassan Hassan, co-author trol of Ramadi for months, and supposed incapacitation,” said of the acclaimed and recently the breakthrough came after a Aymenn Jawad Al Tamimi of published “ISIS: Inside the wide offensive on multiple fronts the Middle East Forum research Army of Terror”, said his assess- in the province, including an group. Rumours emerged last ment was also that the record- assault using several suicide car month that Baghdadi was seri- ing post-dated claims of his bombs in Ramadi on Thursday. ously wounded in a March air incapacitation. The jihadists seized the gov- strike and had relinquished “Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’s ernment complex at around 2pm the organisation’s leadership new statement was most likely (1100 GMT) and raised the black Sunni tribal fighters and Iraqi police carry their weapons as they stand guard against attacks from Islamic State to a militant called Abu Alaa recorded in last five days of April. flag, a police officer said, giving militants, in Ramadi, yesterday. Al Afari. “I do indeed think Almost certain,” he tweeted. them nearly full control over the release is well timed,” said Afari, an Iraqi from the Anbar’s capital. Patrick Skinner, an analyst with Tal Afar region who is also IS “now occupies the govern- forces also confirmed the govern- following another IS offensive by our brother martyr Abu the Soufan Group intelligence sometimes referred to as ment centre in Ramadi and has ment complex had fallen. in April. Khobayb Al Shami attacked consultancy. Abdulrahman Al Qaduli, was also raised its flag over the police “The only (government) forces “Families are trying to flee on the Al Majd police station near “It was important for him little known until last month. HQ for Anbar”, the police major still fighting are confined to a foot, leaving their cars and homes Al Haq mosque in Ramadi, fol- even in audio to show some level The US State Department told AFP, speaking on condition few pockets in Ramadi but they behind, but most areas around lowed by an assault that killed of engagement and persuasion. listed him — under the same of anonymity. have no command post any more,” Ramadi are under IS control,” who was left,” the group said in The group depends on image as Abd Al Rahman Al Qaduli — on The group itself issued a state- Sheikh Hekmat Suleiman told said Sheikh Jabbar Adjadj Al its daily radio broadcast much as reality,” he told AFP. its Rewards for Justice website, ment saying its fighters broke into AFP by phone. Assafi, a tribal leader. yesterday. The recording provides no offering a $7m bounty for infor- the government complex, and Provincial council mem- The IS said earlier that it It also claimed to have killed clues as to Baghdadi’s health but mation leading to him. That blew up the adjacent buildings ber Adhal Obeid Al Fahdawi had launched several attacks on 13 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a largely dispels any notion he is makes him the Islamic State of Anbar’s governorate and the had described the situation as army positions east of Ramadi, hill east of Ramadi and executed no longer the overall leader of an group’s most senior leader on police headquarters. “critical” moments earlier, and including one by a British suicide 14 Sunni tribal fighters when it organisation which now claims the list behind Baghdadi him- A senior tribal leader in charge said civilians were fleeing the bomber it named as Abu Musa took over the central neighbour- branches all over the region, as self, who is in the $10m bounty of the coordination of local fight- city centre, the second time Al Britani. hood of Jamiya. well as in Asia and Africa. category. AFP ers with regular government in a month they have done so “Another vehicle driven AFP

Ready for war Tunisia passes Video of Saddam law to set up deputy released judicial BAGHDAD: The TV channel passages were closed,” he said. oversight body of Iraq’s former ruling Baath “I affirm in this gathering that party yesterday released an what’s happening today in our TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament audio recording purportedly country is a direct and a com- passed a controversial law yes- of the elusive Saddam Hussein prehensive Persian occupation, terday to set up a judicial over- deputy some officials said had under the obnoxious cover of sec- sight body, immediately drawing been killed last month. tarianism,” he said. the wrath of judges who said it Several officials and leaders of An introduction to the full- would stifle their independence. Shia militia groups had claimed to length version of the record- The constitution adopted last have killed Izzat Ibrahim Al Duri ing says Duri was speaking at a year designates the Supreme more than a month ago near the recent meeting in Baghdad of the Council of the Magistrature, city of Tikrit. three main bodies of the Baath. which parliament approved, as Pictures had emerged of the Nicknamed “The Iceman” for responsible for guaranteeing “the body of a red-haired man bearing his humble origins selling blocks good functioning and independ- some resemblance to Saddam’s of ice, he was the King of Clubs ence of the judiciary”. feared deputy, who is the most in the US Army’s deck of cards of After the law passed by a vote of senior former regime member most-wanted Iraqis. 131 for and 14 against, parliament believed to still be at large. The Army of the Men of the speaker Mohamed Ennaceur told The authorities, however, have Naqshbandiyah Order — known judges the new legislation shows since been unable to positively by its Arabic initials JRTN and that “we share the same wish for identify the body as Duri’s, argu- believed to be close to Duri — Armed Yemeni fighters, loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, stand in position an independent judiciary”. ing that they lacked DNA samples took part in a sweeping militant during clashes with Shia Houthi rebels in the area of Jaadan, in Marib province, east of the capital Sana’a But two associations of judges for comparison. offensive that overran large areas yesterday. immediately announced plans to Yesterday’s audio recording north and west of Baghdad last boycott the new law which they was released by the Baath party’s June. say would undermine the judici- Al Tagheer channel. A two-hour The Islamic State group was ary’s independence. version was subsequently posted. the driving force, however, and “We are facing a huge crisis” Duri clearly refers in the Duri had to align with the group. Morocco may have found pilot’s body with the passing of the new law, recording to events that have hap- But in yesterday’s recording he said Raoudha Karafi, president pened since rumours of his alleged distanced himself from IS. RABAT: The Moroccan mili- said a statement from the Royal rebels said anti-aircraft guns had of the Association of Tunisian death surfaced on April 17, nota- “We do cross paths... but what tary said yesterday it may have Armed Forces carried by state downed the jet in a remote area Magistrates. bly the deployment of Shia para- stops us from meeting is that located the body of the pilot of news agency MAP. of the northwestern province of “We will oppose this law by all military groups in the Nukhayb even if we wanted to, they would an F-16 fighter jet that crashed A Saudi-led coalition has been Saada — a Houthi stronghold bor- means at our disposal,” she said, region earlier this month. not accept because they consider during coalition air strikes in conducting air strikes against dering Saudi Arabia. urging President Beji Caid Essebsi “Nukhayb represents a strate- the Baath infidels,” Duri said. Yemen, and had sent genetics Houthi rebels and army units The army statement did not not to ratify the law. gic position for Iran inside Iraq, He used the word Daesh, an experts to carry out checks. loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah say whether Houthis had cooper- Karafi said the law would grant and one of the aims of occupy- Arab acronym considered deroga- “Contacts made locally by Saleh since March 26 with the ated to locate or identify the body. too much power to the govern- ing Nukhayb is to open a front tory by IS, and claimed that the Moroccan authorities should lead aim of restoring exiled President A five-day humanitarian cease- ment, and would allow it to against Saudi Arabia, and con- group was detaining a third of the to the repatriation, after the nec- Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. fire came into force late Tuesday appoint and train judges. nect with the fronts in Syria Baath’s command. essary formalities, of the appar- The Moroccan warplane went in Yemen. Mourad Messaoudi, who heads and Lebanon after the northern AFP ent body of the missing pilot,” missing last Sunday, and Houthi REUTERS the Tunisian Association of Young Magistrates, also said he opposed the law. AFP Morocco to allow 150 besieged students in Syria allowed to take exams abortion in

BEIRUT: At least 150 seen in a long time,” said Fadi. the camp are not recognised by receiving food and other aid from Yesterday, UNRWA published a some cases Palestinian students from a The students were driven from the state, an AFP correspondent UNRWA. photo of Amira, a two-month old besieged refugee camp south of Yalda into Damascus, where today in Yarmuk said. It is the second time Yarmuk child born just before the fighting RABAT: Morocco is to allow Damascus have been allowed to they will sit for national curricu- Walid Al Kurdi received gov- students have been granted spe- with IS began, calling it “an image abortion in cases of rape or leave the camp to sit their school lum examinations. ernment permission and then cial permission to take exams in that should shame the world”. serious foetal malformation, the exams in the Syrian capital. A young Palestinian girl wait- negotiated with Al Qaeda’s Syrian Damascus. The tiny child, wrapped in Royal Palace announced yes- Carrying backpacks and suit- ing to begin the trek told AFP she affiliate, which controls swathes The camp was once a vibrant blankets, weighs just one kilo. terday after a heated debate on cases and accompanied by their was scared. of the camp along with other home to some 160,000 people, but Her mother calls her “a baby of illegal abortions in the North teachers, the students walked “I don’t want to leave my rebel groups. has been ravaged by a devastat- the siege”. African nation. Abortions will three kilometres Thursday from mother in the camp, but I have All roads out of Yarmuk are ing government siege, bombing, “UNRWA has demanded and be allowed in the cases of “preg- Yarmuk to rebel-held Yalda, to go because I can’t take the test shut or regime-controlled. and clashes. continues to demand humanitar- nancies resulting from rape or which has been calm since a 2014 here,” she said. Chris Gunness, spokesman Last month, much of the ian access to civilians in Yarmuk, incest”, or “serious deformities ceasefire. Teachers had petitioned a for the UN’s Palestinian refugee camp was overrun by the Islamic people like Amira and her fam- and incurable diseases of the “I’m happy I’ll take my exams, Palestinian official in Damascus to agency, said 155 Palestinian stu- State group, though its fighters ily who are living life on the very foetus”, the statement said. but I’ll also be able to see my fam- allow students to take their exams dents had left Yarmuk with the have since been pushed back to edge of existence,” Gunness wrote Legalising abortion will be lim- ily outside Yarmuk who I haven’t there, as those administered in help of the authorities, and were Yarmuk’s southwest. in a statement. AFP ited to these cases, it said. AFP SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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wo developments this week have given a boost Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate to the Palestinian cause, taking their struggle for an independent state two steps closer to the Tobjective. Both received widespread coverage in the international media and are seen as a jolt to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who wouldn’t baulk at Europe’s migrant tragedy can anything to scupper the creation of a Palestinian state. First is Vatican’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood. This decision is rich in significance and symbolism because it comes from the spiritual capital of be stemmed only in Africa the world’s Catholics. Vatican said on Wednesday that it had concluded a treaty to recognize Palestinian statehood BY NATALIE NOUGAYRÈDE done: there were moral obligations. But shores in recent months had come from and a statement from a joint commission of Vatican and the fact is also that Italy ended up alone countries in western and sub-Saharan Palestinian diplomatic officials, posted on Vatican news NE day in October 2013, Enrico in bearing the brunt of the effort. Africa such as Senegal, Mali or Ivory website, said that “the work of the commission on the text Letta, the then prime minister A lot of this came back to the fore in Coast – though official figures compiled of the agreement has been concluded’ and that it would of Italy, stood in front of 302 recent weeks, as even worse mass drown- by the Italian interior ministry put their coffins lined up inside a venti- ings have occurred off the Italian coast. numbers considerably lower. be submitted for formal approval and for signing in the O lated room on the island of Lampedusa. More than 1,800 people have died in the These are not necessarily war refu- near future. Israel has grown increasingly alarmed about They contained the bodies of those Mediterranean since the beginning of the gees, but often young men fleeing poverty, the increased international acceptance of Palestine. The who had perished at sea, in the biggest year. European ministers have scrambled unemployment, repression and corrupt Vatican decision will be deeply upsetting for the Netanyahu migrant disaster Europe had known at to produce a list of possible measures, political regimes. They are aware of government because it can accelerate the process of global that point. Some of the coffins were very ranging from mandatory national quotas the risk posed by the potentially deadly recognition and also give moral authority and legitimacy small: they contained the bodies of chil- for refugees to the military targeting of crossing of the Med, but willing to take dren. The smell of death hung in the air. trafficking networks in Libya, the coun- it in the hope of reaching a more affluent to the efforts of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to There was complete silence, except for try that acts as the biggest launchpad part of the world and building a future garner international support. Pope Francis, the leader of the the creaking sound of the air condition- for migrants. there. Sub-Saharan Africa is a demo- world’s one billion Catholics, has long signaled his wish for a ing. It was a moment of deep reckoning. There is much discussion of how graphic time bomb waiting to happen: Palestinian state. Letta suddenly realised that Europe’s realistic some of these ideas are. according to some estimates, its popula- In another major development, indifference, and its powerlessness, had Thecancellation of the Mare Nostrum tion will double by 2050. Vatican’s a group of former EU diplomats, created a situa- programme in the final months of 2014 Neither the EU nor its member states tion where thou- has been widely criticised. New commit- have engaged in a comprehensive dia- recognition political leaders and foreign ministers sands of human ments have been made to strengthen logue with these African countries about has called for Israel to be held to lives were put at Triton, a European border protection the causes of migration. It is not just that of Palestinian account for its actions in Palestine. While the EU risk. For Letta, programme suddenly given the task of development aid has shrunk in recent statehood In a letter to EU foreign minister argues over that day marked saving people at sea – all while operat- years. It is that African governments Federica Mogherini, the group also the starting point ing within a much smaller radius off the haven’t even been asked hard questions lends moral of Mare Nostrum, Italian coast than Mare Nostrum. about the trafficking networks taking urges the EU to review its policy those drowning an operation The deeper problem is that only the root in their countries – Niger banning authority and towards Palestine, and questioned in the Italy launched to downstream aspect of the migrant trag- people-smuggling this week is so far an legitimacy to whether the US was best placed to Mediterranean, search and rescue edy is being addressed. The issues at the honourable exception. Not to mention lead negotiations and help to secure a migrants attempt- other end – where these migrants come the money trail: if the business of traf- the cause. lasting peace deal between Israel and it overlooks ing the perilous from, and why – have hardly been stud- ficking humans across the Sahara and Palestine. The group, which includes crossing fromAf- ied in depth, or with strategic solutions the Mediterranean brings in hundreds of the need to rica to Italy. in mind. There has been much focus on millions of dollars annually, surely that former foreign ministers of France, work with the Letta tells this the resources for rescue operations, on pile of money is not hiding under a mat- Spain and Sweden, advocates urgent action in order to story in his recent the situation in Libya, its traffickers and tress somewhere in Libya. “construct a coherent and effective policy on the question of sub-Saharan book Andare its boats, and on how many asylum seek- Tracking the money, possibly into Palestine”. The group’s call is certain to have an impact on countries that insieme, andare ers will be taken in by European coun- tax havens, may be more efficient than the future policy of European Union towards Palestinians. lontano [Going tries. But just as Letta wrote in his book, destroying fishermen’s boats. All these Unlike Americans, Europeans have been following a more people are Together, Going there is a much larger issue at play here, questions are pending. To tackle the Far], in which and one that no one seems quite ready migration problem, a more far-reaching impartial and independent policy on the Palestinian issue. fleeing. he describes his to confront: the question of why millions European approach is needed, not just It has been critical of Israel and America’s blind support for experience as of people decide to uproot themselves rescue operations and emotional appeals, Israel, and the latest move shows that the European Union head of the Italian government in 2013- from Africa in search of a better life in however necessary. The geographical in future could adopt a tough stance against the Netanyahu 14. He says the migrant crisis became Europe. dimension of African migration hasn’t government which Tel Aviv will be forced to take notice. the “gravest issue” he had to deal with Concentrating on Syrian war refu- yet sunk into our minds. Yet how we deal as prime minister. But, as Letta points gees, many of whom now arrive in with it will determine Europe’s future. Arab Spring has caused a change of priorities at Arab out, doing something about those deaths Europe via other routes, misses a bigger It is fitting that Letta has put an capitals. One result has been a lack of interest in the wasn’t just about putting an end to our story: the largest group of people cross- African proverb on the cover of his Palestinian issue, with Arab rulers preoccupying themselves shame or sense of guilt. It had to do ing the Mediterranean to get to Europe book: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If with preserving their power against forces of democracy with a certain conception of civic and this year were those from sub-Saharan you want to go far, go together”. Europe and reforms. But Palestinian cause is getting a boost from political duty. Those boat people in the Africa. One Rome-based European offi- will be able to cope with its immigration Europe and the rest of the West. This is likely to gather Mediterranean came as a reminder that cial went as far as claiming that “90% to problem only if it works with Africa. there were things that simply had to be 95% of migrants” who arrived on Italian THE GUARDIAN momentum. Finally, truth will prevail. The other side Quote of Palestinian state the day N Wednesday, the Vatican Know more: Vatican recognises for Palestinian statehood; the British, solution. It is hoped that this wide- recognised the state of state of Palestine in new treaty French, Irish and Spanish parliaments spread support for Palestine in the Palestine in a new treaty, Quite to the contrary, the move is have all voted in favour of recognition international community will send a Ogiving legal cover to the the latest in a series of international while Sweden has already recognised strong message to Tel Aviv and its From this podium I Holy See’s earlier support for the Arab developments that have supported Palestine. global patrons that the question of nation. Palestinian statehood — a just and So whatever Israel and its support- Palestinian statehood cannot be put want to assure the The Vatican’s deputy foreign minister historic demand that is an absolute ers in the world may say, clearly global on the back burner indefinitely. Greek people that said he hoped the move would help pre-requisite for there to be a lasting opinion is inclined towards Palestinian Today, Palestinians will be observ- establish “an independent, sovereign peace between Arabs and Jews in the statehood. Yet despite the international ing the ‘Nakba’ — or ‘catastrophe’ — there is no possibility and democratic state of Palestine”. Middle East. diplomatic support for Palestine, Tel which marks the foundation of Israel or chance that the Given the Holy See’s standing in In 2012, the UN General Assembly Aviv seems unmoved and continues and the start of the Arabs’ cruel ban- the world, the move is yet another had adopted a resolution recognising to regularly unleash atrocities upon the ishment to the political wilderness. For Greek government moral victory for the Palestinian peo- Palestine as an observer non-member Palestinian people. almost seven decades the Israeli state ple. Predictably, Israel has responded state, with the vast majority of the In fact, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s has heaped scorn and humiliation upon will back down on negatively to the Vatican’s recognition, global body’s member states voting right-wing prime minister who was Palestinians, and far too often resorted pension and labour with its foreign ministry saying the move in favour. Moreover, several European recently re-elected, has indicated he to spilling their blood in displays of Alexis Tsipras. “will not promote peace”. states have also expressed support is simply not interested in a two-state manifest brutality. DAWN issues. Greek Prime Minister SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Amtrak crash shows high cost of red tape Just as conservatives act as if funding Congress did infrastructure is imprudent, liberals in Congress defend multiple layers of review. not deliberately Red tape is not the same as good govern- ment. It harms the environment as well as driving up costs. The wasted electricity create this from the obsolete power grid is the same as the output of 200 average coal-burning power plants — causing an extra 280 mil- bureaucratic jungle. lion tonnes of carbon to spew into the air each year. Delays in permitting new The jungle just wind farms and solar fields and connect- ing transmission lines similarly result in extra carbon emissions. Traffic bottle- grew, like kudzu. necks create exhaust fumes. Infrastructure is unavoidably contro- Environmental versial. There is always an impact and always a group that is affected more than others. A wind farm or transmission line review statements spoils views and can affect bird popula- tions. A desalination plant produces a are supposed to be briny byproduct. Modernising a port will disturb the ocean floor and increase traf- fic in nearby neighbourhoods. 150 to 300 pages, But delay on new infrastructure is far worse than these unavoidable side effects. according to federal An inefficient port reduces competi- tiveness and drives shipping elsewhere, requiring goods to be trucked longer dis- regulations, and tances. Delay in a desalination plant fur- ther depletes aquifers. All public choices focus on important involve tradeoffs. No amount of law can avoid that reality. What is needed for infrastructure trade-offs. Emergency workers and Amtrak personnel inspect a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. approvals is basic: Congress must cre- ate clear lines of authority to make deci- BY PHILIP K HOWARD competitiveness, achieve a greener foot- — returning $1.44 on each dollar invested, required 47 permits from 19 agencies, and sions. Environmental review and public print and create upward of 2 million jobs. according to Moody’s. Delays due to infra- a 5,000-page environmental assessment. input are important, but countries such he deadly Amtrak derailment So what’s the problem? Modernising structure bottlenecks cost about $200bn The approval process took five years. In as Germany and Canada achieve this in on Tuesday is just another infrastructure requires money and per year on railroads, $50bn per year on San Diego, permitting for a desalination two years, not 10. They do this by giving symptom of Congress’ refusal permits. Congress needs to create a roads and $33bn on inland waterways. plant began in 2003 and was completed, responsibility to particular agencies to Tto address the United States’ long-term funding plan and radically America’s antiquated power grid wastes 7 after 14 legal challenges, in 2012. It will make practical choices that balance com- decrepit infrastructure. Amtrak is noto- reduce the red tape that drives up costs percent of the electricity it transmits, or start producing fresh water this year — peting public interests — within strict riously underfunded, with a huge capital and ensnarls projects in their infancy. about $30bn worth of electricity annually. 12 years later. time frames. For example, an environ- expenditure backlog. While the cause Instead, Congress uses short-term fixes Funding won’t build much, however, Congress did not deliberately create mental official should have responsibility of the crash is not yet determined, even to get past the looming insolvency of without red-tape reform. Congress this bureaucratic jungle. The jungle just to draw lines on how much review is suf- engineer error may have been avoided if the Highway Trust Fund. Congressional funded an $800bn stimulus plan in 2009, grew, like kudzu. Environmental review ficient. Similarly, one agency should have Amtrak had implemented “positive train efforts to cut red tape are similarly weak. but five years later only $30bn had been statements are supposed to be 150 to overriding permitting authority, balanc- control” to restrict dangerous speeds. Congress pretends that not spending spent on transportation infrastruc- 300 pages, according to federal regula- ing the concerns of other agencies and But almost every category of US infra- money is prudent. But continued delay ture because no government agency tions, and focus on important trade-offs. departments. structure is in a dangerous or obsolete is not only dangerous but also costly. had authority to approve projects. As Nor was the proliferation of permits by The opportunity here is transfor- state — roads and bridges, power genera- The longer we wait, the more our infra- President Obama put it, “There’s no such design. As government got bigger, it natu- mational. With a two-year process and tion and transmission, water treatment structure will cost. Because of decades of thing as shovel-ready projects.” rally organised itself into silos, each with adequate funding, the United States and delivery, ports and air traffic control. deferred maintenance, the bill for repair- Red tape can consume nearly a decade its own rules and territorial instincts. can modernise its infrastructure at far There is no partisan divide on what is ing the Williamsburg Bridge in New York on major projects. For example, raising Many requirements are senseless in con- less cost and with huge environmental needed: a national initiative to modern- City, for example, was inflated tenfold in the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge near text — like requiring a survey of historic and economic benefits. This requires ise our 50-to 100-year-old infrastructure. recent years, to $800m. the Port of Newark, a project with vir- buildings within a two-mile radius of the Congress to make deliberate choices in The upside is as rosy as the status quo is Merely avoiding inefficiencies more tually no environmental impact (it uses Bayonne Bridge, even though the project the public good. dire. The United States can enhance its than pays for new infrastructure existing foundations and right of way), touched no buildings. WP-BLOOMBERG The dire needs of Yemen’s civilians Kim’s penchant for Everyone is taking steps to purges could backfire preserve precious water. Bathing BY ANDREI LANKOV the collapse of other communist regimes, nearly all of whom were and washing clothes have lenty of doubts have been much softer on their populations. raised about claims that Thrust into power in his 20s, become luxuries. Those most in PNorth Korea executed its Kim Jong Un seems to perceive defence minister by anti- aircraft the threats to his rule differently. gun at the end of April. Whether It’s entirely likely that the old need ask for a few litres from or not General Hyon Yong Chol guard didn’t take him seriously met such a grisly end, though, at first, given his lack of politi- neighbours, just to survive. the fact remains that top officials cal experience or even knowl- face increasingly uncertain fates in edge about the country he runs. Pyongyang. Since coming to power Previously, the rank of four-star We are witnessing nighttime three years ago, dictator Kim Jong general, or blood relations with Un has presided over a large-scale the First Family, served as vir- robberies at water tanks, and and very violent purge of North’s tual security guarantees and per- military and civilian leadership. haps encouraged disrespect. Kim Some 70 high-level officials and appears to have decided that only fights are breaking out generals have reportedly been a campaign of terror would ensure executed during Kim’s brief reign. obedience: Under his watch, dis- at supply points. This marks a dramatic reversal graced officials aren’t merely sent of the strategies Kim’s father and to retirement or low-level office BY TERESA 1,644 wounded people. One of grandfather used to stay in power. jobs, they’re frequently killed. SANCRISTOVAL the patients in our hospital in As dictators’ courts go, the pal- By contrast, Kim appears to the northern city of Sa’adah told aces of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong have come around to the idea s the devastation of Yemen me that 27 members of his fam- Il were remarkably safe places for — long promoted by ally China demonstrates, the need to ily were killed in airstrikes last their inner circle. After an ini- — that the best way to control Aend hostilities is as urgent week. Volunteers clear rubbish piled on a street after collections were halted due tial period in which he extermi- average citizens is to distract as ever. But even if the tempo- But the coalition blockade is to a fuel supply shortage in Sana’a, Yemen. nated all hostile factions, Kim Il them with money. Incipient mar- rary ceasefire takes hold, it will making life even more desperate Sung surrounded himself almost ket reforms have given farmers amount to little improvement and tenuous than the bombing for a few litres from neighbours, because power cannot be extended exclusively by the former guer- the right to keep more of the prof- in the lives of average Yemenis and fighting are. The lack of fuel just to survive. We are witness- throughout the buildings. rillas who had fought under his its from their crops — up to 60 unless the Saudi-led coalition’s is of critical concern. ing nighttime robberies at water I have worked frequently in command in 1930s Manchuria. percent — and factory managers blockade of vital imports, includ- Fuel is essential for life every- tanks, and fights are breaking out Yemen over the past seven years, Compared to Stalin, who had a the freedom to hire and fire, buy ing food and fuel, is also lifted. where. In Yemen, it is especially at supply points. Everyone fears witnessing the war in the Sa’adah habit of killing half of his closest necessary supplies and pocket a While an end to the bombing crucial for ensuring the supply of there will soon be no water to be region, deadly clashes during the associates every few years, North significant part of whatever they and fighting could allow for aid water. At the best of times, Yemen had at all, at any price. pro-independence demonstra- Korea’s founder was relatively sell. to reach combat-affected areas has among the lowest per capita In addition to the fighting, the tions in 2010 and the battles in the forgiving of trespasses. Disgraced For now, this gives average and for wounded civilians to be rates of water consumption in the lack of fuel prevents people from capital, Sana’a, during the Arab officials might lose their jobs and North Koreans more of a stake evacuated, it would only partially world. In many cities, water must accessing medical care, whether Spring revolt. But the impact of disappear, but then in many cases in maintaining the status quo: address the dire and increasing be drawn from deep wells, using for treating bomb-related inju- the current crisis by far surpasses reappeared a few years later back They can legitimately aspire to needs of Yemen’s civilians. pumps powered by electricity or ries or for giving birth. Most of anything I saw before. in the top ranks of the state and owning a cell phone or even a Coalition airstrikes aimed at diesel fuel. Without fuel, there is our patients arrive at hospitals To be clear, the lack of fuel may party hierarchy. The system motorbike, while having less fear stopping the Houthi offensive in no water. on foot. soon cause more deaths than the encouraged loyalty. While a gen- of being carted away for minor Yemen have damaged airports, The water-pumping system It is virtually impossible to bombs and the fighting. eral or minister might suddenly infractions. The strategy seems to seaports, roads, bridges, water in Sana’a has only 20 percent of find a taxi, and most people can’t A temporary ceasefire will not find himself a clerk in a rural be working: There’s little sign of tanks, gas stations and other vital the fuel necessary to supply the afford one anyway. This week, be enough. Even once a decision office or even a miner, he also any real opposition to Kim’s rule infrastructure. Houthi attacks in city’s population. We surveyed the one father told me of desper- is made to allow sufficient quan- knew that if he braced himself for among the Pyongyang elite. Aden, Al Dhale, Taiz and other price of water in several areas of ately trying to locate fuel to take tities of fuel into the country, it humiliation and kept professing But it’s likely to prove destabil- cities and towns are causing enor- the city between March 15 and his daughter to the hospital. He will take several days before those his devotion to the regime, he’d ising in the long run. Previously, mous destruction, not to mention the first week of May and found found none. She died. supplies get through and before likely survive and prosper again. any officials under suspicion knew tremendous loss of life. the price of water had on average Even those who reach hospi- access to water and health serv- At the same time, both Kim their best bet was to remain calm According to the United more than doubled. In parts of the tals are not guaranteed to receive ices are reestablished. Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adopted and redouble their professions of Nations, more than 1,500 peo- city, it is impossible to buy water care. Many health facilities are There will be no point deplor- a much more brutal approach loyalty, hoping to be rehabilitated. ple have died in the fighting and because the gas tanks of delivery closed because generators have no ing the scale of the tragedy in toward ordinary North Korean Now, when a purge means bombing as of May 6, and thou- trucks are empty, too. fuel. In heavily bombed Sa’adah, Yemen in a few weeks’ time. citizens, hundreds of thousands of almost certain death, threat- sands more have been injured. Everyone is taking steps to three out of five hospitals are The writer is an emergencies whom were dispatched to prison ened officials might well consider Over the past month and a half, preserve precious water. Bathing closed for lack of electricity. The coordinator for Doctors Without camps and execution grounds even actions which would have been medical teams from Doctors and washing clothes have become two main referral hospitals in the Borders. for minor deviations. The strategy unthinkable before. Without Borders have treated luxuries. Those most in need ask country have reduced services WP-BLOOMBERG worked: The Kim family survived WP-BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

Memorial service at US Capitol France offers Mexico mayoral Russia $890m to ditch candidate killed warship deal

MOSCOW: France has offered during campaign Russia its terms to scrap a con- tentious contract to supply two warships that was suspended due to the Ukraine crisis, but Gunman shoots Hernadez to death Moscow judged the sum as unacceptable, a report said MORELIA, Mexico: A former social tensions in recent months. yesterday. Mexican vigilante running for The western state of Jalisco has Russian defence sources told mayor was shot dead during a also endured cartel violence this Kommersant newspaper that the campaign event in the troubled year. French side is willing to pay ¤785m state of Michoacan, the third Earlier this month, a may- ($890m), and the documents are politician killed ahead of June oral candidate for Pena Nieto’s now “being studied” by the Russian elections. Institutional Revolutionary Party, government, defence ministry and Enrique Hernandez was killed Ulises Fabian Quiroz, was mur- other relevant parties which par- by gunfire coming from “a vehi- dered as he returned home from ticipated in the 2011 deal. cle in movement” in the centre a rally in the Guerrero town of But the daily reported that of the town of Yurecuaro, where Chilapa. Moscow was not happy with the he was seeking higher office, the In March, also in Guerrero, a French offer, with the defence state prosecutor’s office said in a woman candidate in the town of Police officers from Great Britain take part in the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the US Capitol ministry claiming that Russian statement. Ahuacuotzingo, Aide Nava, was in Washington yesterday. firms have now incurred ¤1.16bn Three other people, including kidnapped and later found dead. of costs associated with the ships. his wife, were wounded in the Her husband, the town’s former The fate of the two Mistral shooting in the town of 30,000 mayor, was killed months earlier. helicopter carriers has plagued people. Mexicans will vote for 500 new French-Russia ties for over a Hernandez was a candidate for members of the lower chamber of year, following the decision by Morena, the new leftist party of Congress as well as governors in Cameron rules out full scale Paris to put the ¤1.2bn deal on two-time presidential candidate nine of 32 states and nearly 900 ice as the West slapped sanctions Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. mayors. on Russia over its annexation of He was also a former leader of Michoacan Governor Salvador autonomy for Scotland Crimea and alleged backing for vigilante groups formed by farm- Jara Guerrero said Hernandez’s separatist rebels in Ukraine. ers in Michoacan in 2013 to com- killing “marks the first flash- Russian President Vladimir bat the Knights Templar drug point” of the election and that LONDON: British Prime further devolution will be imple- “constructive” even though the two Putin last month played down cartel, which had terrorized the the security cabinet would meet Minister David Cameron ruled mented in full,” Cameron said were “worlds apart” politically and the importance of the ships and state through murder, kidnap- yesterday. out full fiscal autonomy for after the meeting. that she had pushed for further claimed that Russia ordered them pings and extortion. “We hope that this won’t have Scotland yesterday after his “It gives massive extra power to powers for Edinburgh. mostly to help the French ship- Last year, Hernandez was a bigger impact” on the elections, first talks in Edinburgh since the Scottish parliament,” he said, “We’re talking about business yard. The Kremlin strongman, detained in connection with the he told Milenio television. being re-elected but agreed to adding: “I’m, of course, happy to taxes, employment legislation, the however, made clear Moscow murder of the mayor of Tanhuato, Other politicians condemned consider granting extra powers. consider other proposals”. minimum wage and more powers would still like its money back. but he was later released due to the killing, saying it shows Cameron held talks with The Conservative leader added: over welfare,” she said. “We are not planning to lack of evidence. “He was a person Michoacan remains violent Scottish First Minister Nicola “I don’t support full fiscal auton- “These are the key levers you demand any penalties or exorbi- who worried for his people due to despite the federal government’s Sturgeon, whose secessionist omy for Scotland. need to grow the economy faster. tant fines but all expenses should organized crime and he decided deployment of extra police and party won almost every Scottish “I think the idea of laying on to As a priority, I want to see the be returned,” he said. to take up arms,” fellow vigilante troops. “This acts confirms that in seat in last week’s British parlia- the Scottish people another £7bn Scottish Parliament able to exer- While Kommersant reported leader Estanislao Beltran said. Michoacan the issue of violence is mentary elections. ($11bn) of either spending cuts or cise those powers on its own.” France is proposing to return only Morena’s candidate for gov- still relevant. The security strat- He agreed to implement in full tax increases, I don’t think that The SNP chief added that she the cash that was paid so far on ernor, Maria de la Luz Nunez egy is a total failure,” said Daniel the proposals of the cross-party will be good for Scotland.” wanted Scotland to be given full the deal, Russia would like to have Ramos, said Hernandez’s killers Moncada, state leader of the left- Smith Commission on further Cameron said that after the fiscal autonomy at some point, but other expenses reimbursed, such as were wearing masks. “This act is ist Movimiento Ciudadano party. devolution. That was established commission proposals are imple- accepted it was not on the imme- training costs of 400 sailors for the deplorable and we demand that Silvano Aureoles Conejo, the after the September independ- mented, Scotland would have con- diate horizon. crews and building port infrastruc- the authorities find those respon- gubernatorial candidate for a ence referendum — in which trol over 60 percent of its spending A bill granting more powers to ture in Vladivostok, where the first sible,” she said. coalition of the leftwing PRD, PT Scots voted by 55 percent to 45 and be one of the most powerful Scotland is to be included in the of the two ships was to be based. The June 7 vote is the first elec- and PANAL parties, said: “We are percent to remain part of the devolved parliaments in the world. May 27 Queen’s Speech, which “The option of returning the toral test of President Enrique jointly calling to build peace, tran- United Kingdom. While Cameron’s centre-right sets out Cameron’s government’s sum in the French offer cate- Pena Nieto’s administration, quility, stability and harmony, and He also agreed to look at fur- party won enough seats to form legislative programme, indicating gorically does not work for us,” a almost half way through his six- this stains the electoral process.” ther devolution proposals from a majority government in the it is a priority for his second term source told Kommersant. year term. “The authorities must act imme- Sturgeon on business taxes, wel- UK, Sturgeon’s left-wing Scottish in office. Cameron yetserday ruled The first ship was due for Security is a concern in diately,” he said. “The motives for fare and the minimum wage. National Party made dramatic gains out another Scottish independ- delivery in 2014, while the sec- Michoacan and the neighbouring this assault against hte Morena “I’m delivering on the commit- in the May 7 election and has a vis- ence referendum, saying it was ond, called Sevastopol, was to be state of Guerrero, which has been candidate must be cleared up.” ment I made, which is that the ceral dislike of the Conservatives. “not remotely on the cards”. delivered this year. hit by drug gang violence and AFP Smith Commission report on Sturgeon said the meeting had been AFP AFP

Boston Marathon bomber’s life in Rising star Umunna quits UK Labour leadership race LONDON: Rising political following the party’s electoral However, he has impressed his most notable achievements to of belongings to his name before balance as jury star Chuka Umunna abruptly drubbing last week and the res- Labour grandees such as former date. setting up an import-export withdrew yesterday from the ignation of Ed Miliband as leader. prime minister Tony Blair and Umunna, a self-identified business. race to become the new leader Umunna was the bookmak- former European trade commis- “European social democrat”, has His mother, Patricia Milmo, deliberates of Britain’s defeated centre- ers’ favourite. His withdrawal sioner Peter Mandelson with his said that Labour “can’t be afraid was a solicitor and daughter of left Labour opposition party, leaves Andy Burnham as the new broad appeal to business leaders to say we want to help peo- High Court judge Helenus Milmo, BOSTON: The jury in the Boston three days after announcing his favourite, with Yvette Cooper, and traditional egalitarians alike. ple make their first million,” in a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Marathon bombing trial yester- intention to run. Mary Creagh and Liz Kendall If elected, he would have been a sharp contrast to tone of the Nazi trials. Bennett, who had day began its third day of delib- In a statement, Umunna the other declared runners so far. the first ethnic minority leader party’s election campaign. returned to Nigeria to run as an erations over whether Dzhokhar blamed the “added level of pres- Labour hoped to form the gov- of a major British political party Umunna grew up in the anti-corruption candidate, died Tsarnaev should be sentenced to sure that comes with being a lead- ernment after the May 7 election and he has spoken of how his late multi-cultural neighbourhood in a road accident when Umunna death or to life in prison without ership candidate”. but was heavily defeated by Prime father’s example of fighting cor- of Streatham in south London, was aged 13. the possibility of release. “I have not found it a comfort- Minister David Cameron’s centre- ruption in Nigeria inspired him. which he now represents in Umunna followed his mother Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic able experience,” the 36-year-old right Conservatives. But there was concern about parliament. into the legal profession, and built Chechen was convicted last month said. Urbane and unashamed of his lack of experience, with his His father Bennett, a Nigerian up a reputation as a slick opera- of killing three people and injuring In a Facebook video on Tuesday, enjoying the high life, Umunna stint in the shadow cabinet and immigrant from the Igbo tribe, tor with a penchant for exclusive 264 others by detonating a pair Umunna had said he wanted to has only served five years as a membership of an influential par- arrived at Liverpool docks in nightclubs and bespoke suits. of homemade pressure-cooker stand for the Labour leadership, member of parliament. liamentary committee on finance the 1960s with only a suitcase AFP bombs at the race’s crowded fin- ish line on April 15, 2013. Three days later, he and his 26-year-old brother shot a police Haworth Weekend officer to death, carjacked a Chinese Bosnia indicts 12 businessman and hurled bombs at Russia jails Crimea activist police, triggering a day-long lock- for fighting down of most of the Boston area as police searched for Tsarnaev. in Syria, Iraq Federal prosecutors say for 4 years over Kiev protest that Tsarnaev, who moved SARAJEVO: Bosnia has with his family to Cambridge, MOSCOW: A Russian court firearms in his home. The indicted 12 people for forming Massachusetts, from Russia a in Crimea yesterday jailed a court sentenced him to four a terrorist group and travelling decade before the attack, was an local activist for four years for years and two months in a to Syria and Iraq to fight for the adherent of al Qaeda’s militant throwing a rock at police during penal colony. Islamic State, the state pros- Islamist ideology, and wanted to pro-Western protests in Kiev Mass protests in Kiev in the ecutor’s office said yesterday. “punish America” with the attack. last year. winter 2013-2014 ended with The indictment follows raids and Defence attorneys portray him as Dmitry Sotnikov, a lawyer for the toppling of Kremlin-backed arrests across the Balkan country a hapless teenager who was in the the jailed man, said that the case president Viktor Yanukovych’s over the past eight months, during thrall of his older brother, Tamerlan, was fabricated and that his client last February. which weapons, bombs, ammuni- who they contend dreamed up the was beaten and starved in the jail Moscow seized Ukraine’s tion and specialist military equip- attack after being spurned by a mil- in Simferopol after being detained Crimea region in the wake of ment had been seized, the office itant group he had attempted to join in February. Yanukovych’s ouster in a move said in a statement. on a 2012 trip to Russia. Prosecutors said Alexander that sent ties between Russia “The accused are charged Tamerlan died in the early hours Kostenko, a resident of Crimea, and the West plummeting to their with... accepting radical ideol- of April 19, 2013, after a gunfight was found guilty of “inflicting lowest point since the end of the ogy of the so-called Islamic State with police in suburban Watertown, physical harm” on a riot police Cold War. organised on the territory of Massachusetts, that ended when officer during the protests despite Crimea’s Moscow-loyal pros- Syria and Iraq, collecting means Dzhokhar ran over Tamerlan with arguments from his lawyers that ecutor Natalia Poklonskaya and leaving Bosnia to join terror- a stolen car. During the trial, the the court on the Russian-annexed accused Kostenko of yelling Nazi ist organisations,” it said. jury saw gruesome of the explosions peninsula had no jurisdiction to slogans, doing the Hitler salute It said the men had left for and their bloody aftermath, and try events that allegedly hap- and participating in “Gestapo” Turkey during 2013 and 2014 heard from some of the 18 people pened in Ukraine. torture during the Maidan pro- and from there illegaly crossed who lost limbs in the bombing, as A man dressed as a US marine takes a picture on his phone on the A statement on the Crimea tests in Kiev as she turned his into Syria, where they stayed for well as friends and family of the first day of the Haworth 1940s Weekend in the village of Haworth, prosecutor website said former trial into a condemnation of the several months and took part in four people killed by the Tsarnaevs. Northern England yesterday. police officer Kostenko was also authorities in Kiev. terrorist activities. REUTERS found guilty of later storing AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Burundi arrests leader of failed coup Bujumbura calm as president returns from Tanzania

BUJUMBURA: Burundian against the army which was then More than 105,000 people forces arrested the leader of commanded by minority Tutsis. have already fled to neighbour- a failed coup yesterday and The army is now mixed and ing states, including next door President Pierre Nkurunziza has absorbed rival factions, but Rwanda, with the same ethnic returned to the capital, his the coup attempt exposed alarm- mix as Burundi and which was spokesman said, but protest- ing divisions. Diplomats say the torn apart by a genocide in 1994 ers pledged to go back to the longer unrest continues the more that killed 800,000 mostly Tutsis streets, setting the stage for chance that a conflict, till now and moderate Hutus. more clashes. been largely a struggle for power, Hundreds of people lined the Major General Godefroid reopens ethnic wounds. streets carrying flags for the pres- Niyombare was captured two days The unrest worries a region ident’s return to the capital from after announcing Nkurunziza with a history of ethnic killing, his rural home. His spokesman had been toppled in the African but there was little sign that ten- said he was back in the presiden- nation, which is still recovering sions were easing. tial palace on Friday after return- from an ethnically fuelled civil Troops loyal to Nkurunziza had ing to Burundi on Thursday from war that ended just a decade ago. largely calmed the streets after Tanzania where he had been when “He has been arrested. He frequent gunfire on Thursday. the coup was declared. didn’t surrender,” presidential But activists called for more A man with a gaping head wound spokesman Gervais Abayeho said, rallies against the president, lay dead in a street in Butarere, a after earlier announcing that while some Bujumbura resi- Bujumbura district that has been a A supporter of Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza carries his picture while waiting for the president to return to three other generals had also been dents said police told them they hotbed for protests. Residents said the capital, at a street in Bujumbura, yesterday. detained. would be fired upon at if they did police had shot him and wounded Asked what would happen demonstrate. two others. There was no immedi- around the state radio station, court’s impartiality. Several African leaders had to the plotters who announced “Protests to reject the third ate police comment. a strategic asset for loyalist and The heavy-handed response criticised Nkurunziza’s bid for the coup when Nkurunziza was term bid for Nkurunziza will con- A group of men in Bujumbura’s supporters of the coup. An army of the police to demonstrations re-election in the June 26 presi- abroad, Abayeho said it was up to tinue,” said Gordien Niyungeko, Cibitoke suburb said they had chief said 12 rebels were killed in in recent weeks has drawn stern dential vote. The African Union the justice system: “They will be deputy head of Focode, one of been told by police that they would those clashes. rebukes from Western donors, also condemned any attempt to held answerable.” the 300 civil society groups that be treated as rebels and shot at if The constitution and a peace who have urged the president not seize “power through violence”. Burundi was plunged into backed protests. “Our move- they demonstrated. “Now we are deal that ended the civil war both to run again. The United States, The European Union, Belgium deep crisis after Nkurunziza ment had nothing to do with the no longer looking for protesters, specify a two-term presidential which provides training and and the Netherlands have all announced he was running for attempted coup.” we are looking for rebels,” police limit. But Nkurunziza is seek- equipment to the army, demanded suspended some aid due to the another five-year term. Until the coup attempt, pro- told them. ing a third term anyway, relying a halt to “violent force” by police. unrest, particularly donations Opponents say this violates the tests had been almost daily. Even before the coup attempt, on a court ruling that his first The U.S. embassy was closed on linked to the elections, which constitution and a deal to end the Protesters hurled rocks while officials had called protests an term does not count because he Friday, non-essential staff were alongside the presidential polls civil war that pitted rebel groups police fired tear gas, water cannon “insurrection”. was appointed by parliament, leaving and a decision on when also include a parliamentary race of the majority Hutu population, and were even seen firing guns at Fighting on Thursday had at not elected. His opponents and to reopen had yet to be made, an scheduled for May 26. including one led by Nkurunziza, the protesters. times been fierce, particularly some donors have questioned the embassy spokeswoman said. REUTERS

900 migrants arrive in Indonesia, Thailand as pressure grows for solution At least 55

LANGSA, Indonesia: About Activists estimate up to share the desire to find a solution chaos just as a surge of migrants the stricken vessel, police said. killed in Boko 900 Rohingya and Bangladeshi 8,000 migrants may be at sea to this crisis,” he said in a state- has taken to the sea. Muhammad Amin, a Rohingya, migrants made it to shore in in Southeast Asia, with horrific ment, without elaborating. “We are unlikely to attend... said that the boat had first been Haram raids Indonesia and Thailand yester- tales emerging of passengers It was not clear whether we do not accept it if they turned back by the Indonesian day, as Myanmar undermined abandoned by abusive smugglers, those “relevant parties” included (Thailand) are inviting us just navy towards Malaysian waters, calls for a coordinated response horribly cramped conditions, Myanmar, which faces harsh to ease the pressure they are only for the Malaysian navy to on villages to Southeast Asia’s human-traf- starvation and death. criticism of its treatment of facing,” Myanmar presidential direct it back towards Indonesia. ficking crisis by threatening to In his first public comments Rohingya and on Friday snubbed office director Zaw Htay said. In an increasingly desperate sit- KANO, Nigeria: At least 55 boycott a planned summit. on the issue, Malaysian Prime neighbouring Thailand’s call for a Indonesian police said at least uation—after nearly two months at people were killed in two Boko The Indonesian and Malaysian Minister Najib Razak said he was regional meeting on the problem 797 people were rescued Friday by sea and the crew having abandoned Haram raids this week near policy of turning away stricken “very concerned with the plight of on May 29. fisherman in Aceh province on the ship — he said the Bangladeshis Maiduguri, capital of restive boats filled with Bangladeshis and migrants” but gave no indication of The unfolding humanitar- east coast of huge Sumatra island. attacked the Rohingya and threw northeastern Nigeria Borno ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar a policy shift on an issue that has ian crisis appears to have been One overloaded boat was sink- some of them overboard, and he state, a vigilante and two resi- has been met with outrage, caused regional finger-pointing. precipitated by a Thai police ing off the coast when local fisher- was forced to swim for hours dents said yesterday. including from Washington and “We are in contact with all crackdown that has thrown busy men came to the rescue, picking before being rescued. “Boko Haram fighters raided the United Nations. relevant parties, with whom we people-smuggling routes into up migrants as they jumped from AFP Bale and Kayamla villages where they killed at least 55 people and burnt several homes after loot- ing them before proceeding to For fire victims the outskirts of Maiduguri where they were crushed by troops,” a Wreckage of missing US vigilante official, Abacha Zinnari, said. “They killed 30 people in Kayamla and another 25 in Bale,” copter found in Nepal he said. A resident of Bale, Husseini KATHMANDU: The wreck- converged on the crash site. “It Ari, said the village on Thursday age of a US military helicop- was found on a steep slope,” Major buried 25 people killed in the pre- ter lost on an earthquake relief General Binoj Basnet said. US and vious day’s raid while several oth- mission was found yesterday, Nepali teams were investigating the ers who were injured were taken high on a mountainside in site and were expected to announce to hospital. Nepal, with three bodies recov- their findings at news conferences “The village is mourning the ered and the other five people later yesterday, he said. death of 25 people killed in the on board feared dead. The area’s tallest peak soars to Boko Haram attack who were A US search team identified more than 7,000 metres. Hillsides buried yesterday,” Ari said. the wreckage as that of the miss- are cloaked with lush forest that A group of heavily armed Boko ing Marines UH-1Y Huey helicop- made it hard to find the chopper Haram fighters late on Wednesday ter deployed after the Himalayan even though it came down just launched an offensive on Maiduguri state was hit by a massive earth- a few miles from Charikot, the city which was repelled by troops quake last month that killed more capital of Dolakha district that from a military base on the out- than 8,000 people. lies half a day’s drive to the east skirts of the city, according to the Crash debris was found just of Kathmandu. military and residents. 13km north of the town of An army base in the town has The insurgents had raided the Charikot, said Army Major Dave been serving as a hub for opera- villages before the foiled assault Eastburn, spokesman for the tions to airlift and treat those on the city but the story was slow US military’s regional Pacific injured in the two earthquakes, to emerge following a round-the- Command. “The assessment of and Prime Minister Sushil clock curfew imposed on the city Members of labour groups light candles as they hold a sympathy protest in front of the gates of a footwear factory, the site is ongoing and a thorough Koirala flew in on Thursday for by the military on Thurday which three days after the factory was gutted killing 72 of its workers, in Valenzuela City in suburban Manila, yesterday. investigation will be conducted,” an on-the-spot briefing. restricted movement. he added in a statement. The first quake, which struck “The gunmen burnt around 50 The US statement made no on April 25 with a magnitude of houses and looted food stores and mention of the fate of the six 7.8, has killed 8,199 people. The livestock,” said Ari, adding that Marines and two Nepali soldiers death toll from a 7.3 aftershock the insurgents targeted homes Myanmar extends martial law on board the Huey that went on Tuesday has reached 117, with they identified as belonging to missing on Tuesday, the day a many victims in Dolakha. vigilantes in the village strong aftershock hit Nepal and The combined toll is approach- Musa Kumbo, a resident of YANGON: Myanmar extended prompting a rebuke from Beijing to continue working for border killed more than 100 people. ing the number of just over 8,500 Kayamla, said at least 30 people a state of emergency in a con- which scrambled its fighter jets. security and peaceful relations Nepal says none of the eight on who died in an earthquake in 1934, were killed in the Boko Haram flict wracked northern region A state of emergency giv- with our neighbouring country,” board could have survived. the worst ever natural disaster to raid on the village and surround- near China yesterday, with ing the military sweeping pow- he said. The Huey, an iconic helicopter hit the poor Himalayan nation. ing settlements. the defence minister arguing ers has been in place in Kokang Of the nearly 90,000 people who dating back to the Vietnam War Some 76,000 more have been “The attackers were heard shout- that continued military con- since February and Myanmar’s have fled the region, only some era, was completely destroyed, hurt while hundreds of thousands ing they would come back and finish trol of the area was necessary parliament yesterday approved 11,000 have returned, he said. Nepal’s top defence ministry of buildings - including ancient their operation once they were done to ensure “peaceful relations” an extension, following an appli- Conflict in the isolated moun- official said, adding that three temples and monuments - have with Maiduguri,” Kumbo said. At across the border. cation from defence minister tainous region has overshadowed charred bodies were found in the been damaged or destroyed. least three soldiers, six vigilantes Fighting between government Lieutenant general Wai Lwin. wider efforts to secure a nation- wreckage. “The search for others Nearly three weeks after the and dozens of Boko Haram insur- troops and ethnic Chinese rebel He told the legislature that the wide ceasefire with a host of is continuing. As the helicopter first quake, aftershocks continue gents were killed during clashes in fighters has raged in the Kokang move was needed to ensure “sta- other rebel groups — excluding has broken into pieces and totally to rattle the country. Maiduguri on Wednesday evening, region of Shan state since early bility” in the region, particularly the Kokang. crashed there is no chance of any Nepal mobilised 600 soldiers to sources have said. The assault was February, raising fears over the as the country prepares for cru- Myanmar has seen decades survivors,” said Defence Secretary search for the Huey, which had six the first on Maiduguri for three country’s peace process and caus- cial elections later this year as it of conflict in its ethnic minority Ishwori Prasad Paudyal. Marines and two Nepali soldiers months and came after sweeping ing tens of thousands of people to emerges from decades of military border areas, with insurgencies After a three-day search the on board when it went missing offensives against Boko Haram flee, many into China. rule. driven by regional demands for Huey was spotted near the village of after the crew was heard over the strongholds by a regional military Myanmar air strikes have “That’s why I have requested greater political autonomy as well Ghorthali at an altitude of 11,200ft, radio saying that the aircraft was coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad also drifted into Chinese terri- 90 more days of military admin- as tussles over natural resources. an army general said earlier, as hel- experiencing a fuel problem. and Cameroon. tory, killing several civilians and istration; it is needed to be able AFP icopters and Nepali ground troops REUTERS AFP SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Officials question group’s claim on IS funding Jundullah behind some of Pakistan’s worst atrocities; Group once part of Taliban, claims Islamic State link

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The “ISIS brothers are support- officials in Pakistan said they shadowy jihadist groups that have archbishop emerged between the move- militant group that said it was ing us a lot financially,” he said doubted IS had financial ties long been part of life in Pakistan. aptured or killed, and the rem- ment and smaller splinter behind Wednesday’s massacre by telephone from an undisclosed with Jundullah. Security forces used to back nants of the group were absorbed groups. of 45 commuters in Karachi is location. Marwat added that “We have no evidence of any some militant groups to use into the Pakistani Taliban, a dis- He said Marwat used to come a dangerous outfit with ties to Jundullah planned more attacks money trail of this kind,” said one as proxies in Afghanistan and tinct, though related movement to their offices in Miranshah, Pakistan’s Taliban, but intel- and its aim was to impose sharia, military intelligence official, when against arch-rival India. Some to the Afghan Taliban. the capital of North Waziristan, ligence sources voiced doubts or Islamic law, in Pakistan. asked about Marwat’s claims. elements of the security forces According to Marwat, dif- a mountainous region along the about claims it had received Leaflets left at the scene of “This is deep exaggeration.” are accused of maintaining links, ferences with Taliban leader Afghan border. The city was financial support from Islamic Wednesday’s gun attack on a bus Another official said Jundullah but officials deny there is ongoing Hakimullah Mehsud prompted under Taliban control until a State. carrying Shi’ite Ismailis referred financed itself through bank rob- support. Jundullah to leave, and they Pakistani military offensive last Jundullah, a Sunni Muslim to Islamic State and expressed beries, extortion and kidnapping. According to several secu- resumed their own attacks in year. organisation that targets hatred for Shia Muslims. Foreign Ministry spokesman rity sources, Jundullah once had 2012. Mehsud was killed in a “Initially we didn’t trust him, Pakistan’s minority Shia commu- Later a Twitter account from Qazi Khalillulah told reporters strong ties to al Qaeda’s Khalid US drone strike on Pakistan in but he was very funny and we nity, pledged allegiance to Islamic militants identifying themselves late on Thursday that IS had “no Sheikh Mohammed, suspected 2013. allowed him to sit in our media State (IS) last year, one of several as Islamic State claimed responsi- footprint” in Pakistan. mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 In the last three years, office sometimes,” the Taliban smaller jihadist groups in South bility. It was not possible to verify “However, our law enforcement attacks, when it was founded in Jundullah has claimed respon- commander said. Asia to do so. their claims. and security agencies are vigilant 2003 by a statistics student from sibility for some of Pakistan’s They added that the Taliban It also said in November that Any proof that IS has direct and will take appropriate action, Karachi University. worst militant attacks, including initially allowed Marwat to claim its leaders held a meeting with a links with some of the thousands if need be.” The group recruited educated, a suicide bombing of a church in his group had carried out attacks three-man delegation represent- of Islamist militants in Pakistan IS leaders in the Middle East middle class Pakistanis, and in Peshawar that killed around 80 that caused heavy civilian casual- ing IS. and Afghanistan would spark have done little to suggest they 2004 its leaders were convicted people. ties in order to deflect anger, but Ahmed Marwat, who purports alarm in a region where the are actively involved in South of a failed assassination attempt Marwat said the group had eventually he went too far. to be a Jundullah commander Taliban, Al Qaeda and myriad Asia. on General Ahsan Hayat. ties to militants in Iran and Angry Taliban sought to detain and spokesman, went further other groups carry out atrocities Jundullah’s claim of responsibil- Al Qaeda was gradually weak- Bangladesh, and that he had been him, but he fled. this week, telling the group had almost daily. ity for the Karachi killings could ened by the U.S.-led campaign arrested in Iran in 2006 and held “He was a mysterious charac- received money from IS, the But, while analysts believe not be independently verified. against it in South Asia after for a year. ter,” said the commander. “But ultra-violent jihadist movement militants draw inspiration from The security threat it poses is 2001. A Taliban commander dis- some people may be using his that controls areas of Iraq and the IS’ military successes and also difficult to judge given shift- Some Jundullah leaders were missed Marwat as an upstart, name.” Syria. grisly propaganda, intelligence ing alliances and rivalries among also cone sec will call Peshawar underlining tensions that have REUTERS

Massive anti-Taliban IPPs allowed re-exporting offensive launched machinery,

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Residents said tanks and sol- equipment Pakistani troops ysterday began diers were approaching the valley a “massive” offensive to try to from the north and south. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan gov- push the Taliban from their last “Hundreds of trucks and pick- ernment has decided against major stronghold in the moun- ups full of soldiers and weapons... its earlier decision of banning tainous northwestern region of are moving towards Shawal,” said re-export of machinery and North Waziristan, moving in Zainullah, a telephone operator plants for short-term independ- from north and south, officials in Shawal Valley. “There are ent power producers (IPP), now and residents said. roadblocks everywhere, no one allowing the sector to re-export The heavily forested ravines of can come in or go out. There is a the equipment after three years the Shawal Valley are pockmarked complete curfew and phones lines have been completed. with Taliban hideouts and the val- are also being cut.” During Musharraf’s regime, ley itself is a key smuggling route Several military officials told the government allowed rental into neighbouring Afghanistan. Reuters that the Pakistani mili- power plants (RPP) to import Pakistani jets began bombing tary had requested help from equipment on the condition that the valley in the early hours, kill- Afghanistan to prevent militants it would be re-exported after a ing between six and 15 militants, from fleeing over the border. period of three years — allowing four intelligence sources told Any cooperation would be a sig- it to enjoy tax exemption. Water Reuters. nificant step forward in a thaw and Power Minister Khawaja Asif “It is a massive military action in relations that began when had challenged the decision in the against the Taliban militants and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Supreme Court at the time. their allies in the Shawal moun- took office last year. After taking charge, Asif also tains,” said a government official Neither the Pakistani nor had the name of RPPs changed who asked for anonymity because the Afghan military responded Rescue workers move the body of Ejaz Haider, who was killed by a gunman on a motorcycle, at a hospital morgue and introduced a policy on he was not authorized to speak to requests for comment. in Karachi, yesterday. short-term IPPs in January 2015 about military operations. Government officials in the area — approved by the Economic The Pakistani Taliban control- said they were not authorized to Coordination Committee (ECC) led almost all of North Waziristan comment. Gunman kills police officer in Karachi — that disallowed the re-export of until troops launched a long- A resident said there had been machinery and plants, effectively awaited offensive there in June. heavy fighting between the mili- killing the tax exemption status. The Taliban still maintain control tants and the military on the KARACHI: A lone gunman on Superintendent Ejaz Haider was fighters. The shooting of Haider, However, in its meeting on of Shawal Valley and have used it edge of the valley and civilians a motorbike shot dead a senior claimed by both a Taliban spokes- who was a minority Shi’ite, fol- April 23, the ECC lifted the as a launching pad for attacks on feared being trapped. “We are in Pakistani police officer in the vol- man and a Twitter account pur- lows Wednesday’s massacre of ban on re-export of plants and Pakistani forces. fear, especially the kids,” he said. atile southern city Karachi yes- porting to be from a breakaway 45 Shi’ite Muslim commuters in machinery. A spokesman was not immedi- “We are now preparing to leave terday, police said, the third in an group of Pakistani militants who Karachi. That attack was also The meeting was informed ately available for comment. the area and shift to safe places, sudden spate of killings targeting have sworn allegiance to Islamic claimed by militants who swore that there was a tax-exemption The Pakistani Taliban are because last night artillery shells senior officers in the city. State, according to the SITE allegiance to Islamic State. status on the temporary import allied with Afghan Taliban and were fired continuously.” “The killing of three senior Intelligence Group, which moni- Leaflets left at the scene of power generation equipment share a similar jihadist ideology. Pakistan has been battling a ranking officers in 15 days is quite tors jihadi communications. denounced Shias and hailed Islamic granted through the policy on But they operate as a separate homegrown Islamist insurgency unusual,” a senior police officer Neither claim could be immedi- State, but also denounced extraju- May 5, 2006. entity, focused on toppling the for over a decade following the requesting not be named said. ately verified. Pakistani authori- dicial police executions and named It was subject to the condi- Pakistani state and establishing late 2001 US-led invasion of “Earlier, low-ranking police- ties doubt that Islamic State has one officer accused of involvement tion that machinery and equip- strict Islamic rule in the nuclear- Afghanistan. The Pakistan army men like constables and assist- operational links with Pakistani in a number of killings. ment would be re-exported after armed nation. has been waging a major cam- ant sub-inspectors were being militants. Police publicly deny killing sus- a period of 36 months and should Nato forces, which left paign against Taliban and other targeted, but now the pattern is But it underline fears that pects but privately many say the not be used for the purpose other Afghanistan last year, repeatedly militant strongholds in the North changing.” the ultra-violent Islamic State country’s broken judicial system than it was imported. The specific urged Pakistan to take action Waziristan tribal area since June It was unclear who was behind is inspiring Pakistani militant means they must either kill mili- SRO, however, was rescinded in against Taliban havens along its last year. the shootings, or even if they groups to emulate it, even if the tant suspects or see them walk free. budget 2014-15. border. AGENCIES are linked. Friday’s killing of groups do not share funding or REUTERS PIA to acquire Labour for future rest 12 planes on Tax on imported cars dry lease ISLAMABAD: The Senate of Pakistan was informed yester- to save radio service day that the national flag car- rier would soon be acquiring 12 ISLAMABAD: Sub- Rana Afzal Hussain in the chair. aircraft on dry lease. committee of the Public In the meeting, the status of Minister of State for Accounts Committee (PAC) on implementation of the PAC direc- Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Implementation and Monitoring tives from the ministries of Inter- Aftab Ahmad told the house that yesterday agreed with the pro- Provincial Coordination (IPC), nine A320 narrow-body, short- posal of Pakistan Broadcasting Information and Broadcasting, to-medium-haul jet airliners and Corporation (PBC) for impos- and Information Technology for three ATR-72 twin-engine, turbo- ing Radio tax on the import and the year 1996-97 was taken up. prop, short-haul regional aircraft purchase of new cars. The audit officials told the would be acquired. Moreover, it directed to move committee that in year 1996-97, The Pakistan International the summary for approval of the Information Councilor Kamran Airlines had no plans to purchase prime minister. PBC director gen- Shakeel in violation of rules spent new aircraft, he said, adding that eral has proposed before the PAC Rs1.2m on medical and Rs1.6 mil- it had acquired 13 aircraft on wet sub-committee on Implementation lion on entertainment. lease and six on dry lease since and Monitoring that following the Secretary of the Ministry of March 2014. At present, four A320 pattern of Pakistan Television Information told the committee and two ATR-72 planes acquired licences’ fee collected through that he was going to take up this on dry lease were in operation. electricity bills, if onetime sur- case and referred the case to the The minister said a wet lease charge of Rs5,000 Radio tax was National Accountability Bureau. was an arrangement under which imposed on purchase of every new The audit officials revealed before a company provided an aircraft car and import of a vehicle, the the committee that though the offi- along with crew, maintenance and Radio Pakistan could come out of cials of telephone industry who drew insurance and the payment made the financial crisis. Rs8.5m illegally from the account was calculated on hours oper- The PAC sub-committee on faced seven-year imprisonment, the ated. It usually is a short-term A man carries a newly purchased bed in Lahore, yesterday. Implementation and Monitoring amount was not recovered as yet. arrangement. held its meeting with its Chairman INTERNEWS INTERNEWS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Modi tells China to reconsider approach Consulates to be opened in Chennai and Chengdu

BEIJING: Visiting Indian had welcomed a foreign leader remain delicate, as demonstrated Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his hometown, Chinese media by the mixed rhetoric. told his Chinese counterpart reported. “The bilateral relationship is yesterday that Beijing needs In another moment of warmth, still vulnerable to many sensi- to “reconsider its approach” a selfie of Modi and Li smiling in tive issues,” said an editorial in to relations between the Asian the sunshine at what appeared to the Global Times, affiliated with giants, as the Hindu nationalist be Beijing’s Temple of Heaven was the Communist Party mouthpiece leader departed from the usual posted on both the Indian leader’s People’s Daily. “Lack of mutual diplomatic pleasantries. Sina Weibo Chinese social media trust still disturbs both sides.” Modi, who despite his hardline account and Twitter — access to China is India’s biggest trad- reputation has moved to engage which is blocked in China. ing partner with two-way com- with Beijing since his election “It’s selfie time!” Modi cap- merce totalling $71bn in 2014. But last year, made the remarks after tioned the picture on Twitter. India’s trade deficit with China being welcomed to the Great “Thanks Premier Li.” has soared from just $1bn in 2001- Hall of the People by Premier Li After their formal meeting, Li 02 to more than $38bn last year, Keqiang. said in a speech: “We do not deny Indian figures show. “I stressed the need for China that there are some disagreements After his meeting with Li, to reconsider its approach on between us, but we have far more Modi told students at Beijing’s some of the issues that hold us common interests than differences. elite Tsinghua University that back from realising full poten- “We agree that we need to India’s democracy and youthful tial of our partnership,” Modi keep up the momentum on the population were key assets for his said, adding that he “suggested special representatives’ talks on country. that China should take a stra- the boundary question and seek “India has 1.2 billion people, and tegic and long-term view of our a fair, reasonable and mutually 800 million below 35 years old,” he relations”. acceptable solution.” said. “This is a very good advan- His comments stood out from The two countries signed 24 tage, and democracy is also a key the usual public declarations by documents, including agreements advantage to us.” diplomatic visitors to Beijing, who to cooperate in fields ranging Meanwhile, Prime Minister normally stick to uninterrupted from aerospace and railways to Narendra Modi arrived at pledges of friendship and good tourism and education, although Shanghai yesterday on the last relations. no details were given, as well as leg of his visit to China. The world’s two most populous open consulates in Chennai and “PM @narendramodi arrives nations are jockeying for regional Chengdu. in Shanghai on the last leg of influence in Asia and their rela- But China has become increas- his China visit,” said ministry of tionship is coloured by a brief ingly assertive in territorial dis- external affairs spokesman Vikas Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attend the Taiji and Yoga event at the Temple of but bloody 1962 border war over putes in recent years and relations Swarup. AFP Heaven park in Beijing yesterday. the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, parts of which Beijing claims as South Tibet. Another bone of contention is what Beijing sees as Delhi’s sup- Govt drops plan to establish army corps facing China port of the Dalai Lama — a Nobel Peace Prize laureate whom China NEW DELHI: Government has scaled just a question of raising a corps, it’s about force that can operate in the mountains,” the proposed new carrier, and in January, considers a separatist — and the back an ambitious plan to establish a maintaining it.” he said. In the second phase, the army will during President Barack Obama’s visit to Tibetan government in exile, both new army corps to counter Chinese con- India and China share a 3,500 km bor- likely add air assault divisions and special India, the two countries agreed to set up based in India. “Our relationship ventional forces across the Himalayas, der that has remained in dispute since a forces. a group to explore cooperation in carrier has been complex in recent dec- defence sources said, pouring funds brief war in 1962 that ended in a disastrous “They are not winding down the corps, technology. ades,” Modi said, adding there instead into a new aircraft carrier and defeat for India. they are adjusting it to the right size.” India and the United States have been were issues that “trouble smooth border roads. Because the two armies cannot agree China has built a network of airfields concerned about the expanding reach of development of our relations”. Stung by a 21-day face off on the disputed where the line of actual control lies, patrols and roads just over the border with India China’s navy in the Indian Ocean. “But, we have a historic respon- border two years ago, India announced the have ended up in territory claimed by the that give its troops mobility which India On Wednesday, the Indian defence sibility to turn this relationship establishment of a mountain strike force other side, raising tensions and domestic lacks. ministry sanctioned Rs300m ($4.72m) into a source of strength for each consisting of 90,000 troops, estimated to outcry in India. Parrikar told parliament last month to be spent on starting the design of the other and a force of good for the cost $10bn and equipped with modern However, no shot has been fired across he was pushing for faster construction of carrier, the military official said. world,” he said, adding that the weaponry. the remote frontier, and yesterday the roads on the Indian side. He said only 19 “The money is for preparatory work,” Chinese leadership had been But Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar two countries proposed fresh measures of 73 road links identified as strategic on the official said. India inducted an old air- “responsive” in the meetings. has ordered the force be 25-30,000 strong, to stabilise the border during Prime the Chinese border had been completed. craft carrier from Russia in 2014 to add to “We are committed to set a new according to sources, saying the previous Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China. While funds have been tightened for the an ageing British vessel likely to be decom- direction between the two largest government had not thought through the Retired Indian army brigadier Arun army, the government this week pressed missioned in 2018. Asian countries,” he said. costs involved in raising and equipping Sahgal, who led the integrated defence ahead with plans to build its biggest war- Local media reports have said that India Modi began his three-day visit such a corps at a time when existing army staff’s long term strategic assessments ship, a 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier that may consider nuclear propulsion for the on Thursday in Xian, the capital units are short of everything from field division, said the plan now was to raise a the United States has said it was inter- new carrier, which could boost its range of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s guns to ammunition. smaller rapid reaction force to be deployed ested in collaborating in. and potency. The official said that naval home province Shaanxi, where “The reason for cutting down is on the Chinese border. India wants US flight launch technology planners were nowhere near that decision he was hosted by the head of finances,” said a military official. “It’s not “The idea is to create an interventionist that will allow heavier jets to operate from yet. REUTERS state. This was the first time Xi Protester detained JDU, RJD tussle over Australia bans seat-sharing in BIhar Indian doctor CANBERRA: Authorities in PATNA: A tussle over seat-sharing between JD(U) and RJD in Australia yesterday banned Bihar assembly poll started today with a senior RJD leader staking an Indian-origin surgeon from claim to 145 seats out of total 243 for his party, a demand which was practising in the country after rejected with disdain by JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar. he was found to have lied in his Former Union minister and the Rashtriya Janata Dal vice-president job application and lacked pro- Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said that RJD should get at least 145 out of fessional competence in per- a total 243 seats in coming Bihar elections, indicating tough posturing forming complex surgeries, a by the allies. Queried on the issue by the reporters, Kumar retorted, media report said. “Why 145? The entire 243 seats are available.” The Queensland Civil and Singh, who was addressing media, stressed that the 2010 Assembly Administrative Tribunal ordered poll results should not be the criteria for seat-sharing among RJD and the registration of former JD(U) and instead strength of the party on the ground should be taken Bundaberg Hospital surgeon into consideration in deciding seats. Jayant Patel, who was convicted RJD President Lalu Prasad held a meeting with his party legislators and jailed in 2010 on three counts yesterday. JD(U) had won 117 seats in the 2010 polls in alliance with of manslaughter and grievous BJP while RJD was confined to 24 seats at that time. bodily harm to a fourth patient, Singh asserted that the situation has changed after break-down of be cancelled and he never be NDA in Bihar on June 16, 2013. allowed to practice again in However, Singh’s demand of 145 seats for RJD was summarily dis- Australia, ABC Online reported. missed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Judge Alexander Horneman- In another reflection of “tensed” relationship between the RJD and Wren said that Patel lied to be JD(U), Kumar made a terse comment on RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s registered in Queensland state demand that the state government should go to Supreme Court to and he lacked the competence to challenge recent Patna High Court judgement annulling an old govern- perform complex surgeries. A member of Jammu and Kashmir Handicapped Association shouts slogans from police vehicle after he was ment order on promotion to SC & ST in jobs. AGENCIES detained during a protest march in Srinagar yesterday. Vadra hopes enquiry not for US House okays measure to expand defence ties political vendetta

WASHINGTON: Reflecting The amendment was offered as well as support the India “Continued cooperation House India Caucus. NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, the solid bipartisan support by Ed Royce, Republican chair- Defence Trade and Technology in defence benefits both our “The US-India partnership will son-in-law of Congress presi- for building US-India rela- man of the House Foreign Affairs Initiative (DTTI). countries as we draw down in define the South Asia region and dent Sonia Gandhi, said yes- tionship, the US House of Committee, its top Democratic This was the first vote held Afghanistan and deal with ter- beyond for years to come. Front terday that he hoped the Representatives yesterday member Eliot Engel, Democrat by the House on US-India rela- rorism around the world.” and centre in this critical part- enquiry ordered against him passed a key measure call- Ami Bera and George Holding, tions since the 2014 Indian elec- “This amendment demon- nership is our increasing defence over his land deals in Haryana ing for expansion of US-India co-chairs of the Congressional tions, and comes on the heels of strates our strong support for cooperation,” said Royce, former will not be used for political defence cooperation. Caucus on India and Indian the defence framework advanced growing the defence partnership co-chair of the House India vendetta. In addition to urging an over- Americans and Democrat by President Barack Obama and between the US and India,” he Caucus. However, he reiterated that all expansion in defence ties, Joe Crowley, vice chair of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi added “With the emerging challenges all laws were complied with in a an amendment to the FY2016 Democratic Caucus. in January. “One of the most important the United States and India both completely transparent manner. National Defence Authorisation The measure also wants the US “As the world’s oldest democ- decisions the US has made in face in the Indo-Pacific region and “An enquiry has been ordered Act (NDAA) specifically calls for to work cooperatively with India racy and the world’s largest recent years is to strengthen our across the globe, it is essential we by the government of Haryana. the US to welcome the role India on matters relating to common democracy, the United States relationship with India, includ- strengthen the defence partner- Let us await its outcome. Neither plays in providing security and defence, vigorously support the and India are natural allies,” said ing cooperation and coordina- ship and cooperation between our I nor anyone associated with me stability in the Indo-Pacific region implementation of the US-India Bera, the lone Indian-American tion on defence matters,” said two nations,” said Holding. has anything to hide,” said Vadra. and beyond. Defence Framework Agreement, member of US Congress. Crowley, former co-chair of the IANS IANS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Petrol, diesel Boat ride in Ganga prices hiked Petrol up by Rs3.13, diesel by Rs2.71

NEW DELHI: Transport fuel and Analysis Cell (PPAC) under prices were hiked effective Friday the Ministry of Petroleum and midnight by Rs.3.13 per litre Natural Gas was $ 64.88 per bar- for petrol and by Rs.2.71 a litre rel (bbl) on Thursday. This was for diesel, including state levies, lower than the price of $65.70 per state-owned oil marketing com- bbl on previous publishing day of panies (OMCs) said yesterday. Wednesday. The rates were last increased Currently, the government fully on May 1 by Rs.3.96 per litre for subsidises sensitive products like petrol and by Rs.2.37 a litre for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) diesel. cylinders and kerosene. “Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Allowing for local taxes, the has decided to effect the price prices per litre of petrol will changes midnight of 15th-16th be Rs.66.29 in Delhi, Rs.73.76 May,” IOC said in statement. in Kolkata, Rs.74.12 in Mumbai According to IOC, it had to hike and Rs.69.45 in Chennai. prices due to volatility in the rupee After adjusting the upward value and hardening of interna- revision, diesel will cost be tional motor spirit (MS) and diesel Rs.52.28 in Delhi, Rs56.85 in Tourists take a boat ride next to anchored boats in the waters of river Ganga during early morning in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, yesterday. prices in the international mar- Kolkata, Rs.59.86 in Mumbai and ket. “Since the last price change, Rs.55.74 in Chennai. there has been a steep increase in As the latest round of petrol international prices of both petrol price hike would push up the Notice to Delhi govt on funding civic bodies and diesel. Rupee-dollar exchange cost of essential commodities rate has also depreciated quite sig- burdening the commoners more, nificantly during this period,” the AIADMK general secretary NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court yes- The commission had filed its report in 2013 continues to impede the smooth function- statement said. Jayalalithaa yesterday asked the terday issued notice to the Delhi govern- which is yet to be implemented, it said. ing of the municipal bodies, namely North The three state-run OMCs Centre to roll back the hike. ment and lieutenant governor on BJP leader Senior advocate Bijender Chara along with Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi review prices of diesel and pet- In a statement, she criticised Vijender Gupta’s plea seeking direction for advocate Sushil Kumar Pandey, who appeared Municipal Corporation, badly effecting civic rol every fortnight depending the BJP—led Union govern- financial allocation to the three municipal for Gupta, contended that there must be an life of nearly 80 percent of Delhi’s population,” on global oil prices and cur- ment for following the fuel policy corporations in the national capital to allow equitable distribution of funds between the said the plea. rency movements. Petrol price adopted by the previous UPA them to function. Justice Rajiv Shakdher government and civic agencies to ensure finan- “Out of six lakh properties, revenue genera- has been market-linked since regime. The Centre should have sought response from the Arvind Kejriwal- cial independence and proper functioning of tion is provided by only 1/3rd of properties in June 2010, while diesel prices the authority to fix the fuel price led Delhi government and Lt Governor municipal corporations. East Delhi. There are number of unauthorised were fully deregulated from Oct and not oil companies, she said, Najeeb Jung on the issue by July 24. They argued that inaction of Delhi govern- colonies and resettlement colonies which do 18 2014. Both the fuel prices are seeking a reversal of the policy. The plea, filed by MLA Gupta, also sought ment on non-implementation of 4th Finance not generate any revenue,” it added. revised periodically depending on Like the previous Congress coa- direction for the Delhi government to “imme- Commission report amounted to non-exercise The municipal bodies are struggling to pay the international crude oil price. lition government at the Centre, diately implement” the report of 4th Finance of the constitutional duty placed on it and has salaries to their employees and a number of The international crude oil the present BJP government was Commission of Delhi which was constituted in further caused undue hardship to the munici- employees sporadically went on strike in both price of Indian Basket as computed also following the wrong fuel pol- 2009 to decide the share of municipal corpora- pal corporations due to lack of funds. East and North Municipal Corporation. yesterday by Petroleum Planning icy, she said. AGENCIES tions in the total revenue of Delhi. “This lack of funds has impeded and IANS Hailstorm lashes Shimla ‘Acche din’ for Modi, not for people: Rahul Gandhi

NIRMAL, TELANGANA: asked the crowd: “Is there any- capitalism. Crony capitalism Targetting Prime Minister body among you who wears a means give everything to two Narendra Modi, Congress vice Rs.10 lakh suit.” to three industrialists,” he told president Rahul Gandhi yes- “Modiji wears it,” he added. farmers. terday said “acche din” have “One year has passed. Did Hitting back at NDA and TRS come for Modi and few busi- anybody among you get a job for criticising him for meeting nessmen close to him and not which Modiji at centre and families of farmers who commit- for people. mini-Modi in Telangana had ted suicide, he said if Modi and He also trained guns on promised,” he asked. Chandrasekhar Rao had visited Telangana Chief Minister K The Congress vice chief them, there was no need for him Chandrasekhar Rao, terming claimed that wherever goes, to do so. him a “mini Modi”. people tell him that they com- Gandhi claimed that the Addressing a public meeting mitted a mistake by voting Congress, while in power, always at Wadial village near here, he for the National Democratic came to the rescue of farmers in came down heavily on both the Alliance. times of natural calamities or to leaders for neglecting farmers He said both the NDA and the solve other problems. and for failing to deliver on their Telanagana Rashtra Samithi He recalled that the UPA poll promises. had promised that they will government waived Rs70,000 Gandhi said Modi has five to change India and Telangana crore of farm loans, and also People walk past a horse and owner reflected in a puddle after a hailstorm in the northern hill town of Shimla six businessmen friends and the respectively but forgot farm- provided Rs800,000 crore bank in Himachal Pradesh yesterday. entire country was being run for ers who can bring the real loans to farmers in 10 years, thus them. change. increasing the agriculture credit “It is a government of selected Hitting out at the NDA gov- by 700 percent. people. It is a government of ernment for proposed amend- Congress’ state unit president Customer gets stone, instead of mobile! suit-boot and selected industri- ment to land acquisition law, the Uttam Kumar Reddy said 700 alists,” he said after winding up Congress leader said the govern- farmers committed suicide in GHAZIABAD: A man who the delivery boy Raju Pal was which the company would send 15-km long padyatra in Adilabad ment want to snatch the lands the state during 11 months. had ordered a mobile from an wrapping his articles after col- the refund if the allegations were district to console families of of farmers and give them to few Earlier, walking briskly, online portal yesterday opened lecting cash, I opened the packet found true,” he added. farmers who committed suicide industrialists who are close to Gandhi completed his ‘padyatra’ the package to find a stone, and and was shocked to see that “Then I had no option but to due to financial distress. Modi. in four hours in the backward filed a case when the company packet contained a stone instead report the matter to police and I On his first visit to Telangana “They want to snatch your district, about 200 km from refused to return the money he of the mobile phone. I, immedi- filed a complaint with the Sihani after formation of a separate land because land is gold. The Hyderabad. paid, police said. ately, stopped him and demanded Gate police,” said Sharma. state, Gandhi covered five vil- price of land in coming years will Despite being slightly indis- Police said Basant Sharma, who my money back,” said Sharma. A police officer, speaking on lages under his padyatra, which increase manifold and this will posed, he completed his walka- works at a car showroom here, “The boy refused to return the condition of anonymity, said they drew good response and boosted benefit you and your children,” thon ‘Kisan Sandesh Yatra’, had ordered a mobile phone online money and said it is not the pol- had arranged a meeting of the the morale of the opposition he told farmers. which was attended by hundreds on May 11. Yesterday, a delivery icy of the company. He provided victim with a company execu- party. He consoled five families Gandhi, however, clarified of party workers from across the boy came with the package and me the customer care number tive on Monday and if they fail and gave them Rs200,000 each. that his Congress party is not state. asked for the payment prior to and the company executive I to reach any compromise, a case “Acche din” have not come against development. The young leader launched the delivery. “On his request, I talked too also refused to return of cheating would be filed against for people but for Modi, who is “Industries should come. the walkathon in the morning made a cash payment of Rs1580 the money and asked to send a the company. visiting different countries, he There should be partnership from Koratikal village, about and accepted the packet. When request with account number to IANS quipped. between industries, farmers and four km from here. In another dig at Modi, he labourers. We are against crony IANS Apex Court upholds death sentence to couple for killing 7 of family

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Justice Dattu said: “The act of slaugh- most deserving for death penalty”. Noting the disregard of the accused exterminating seven lives including that yesterday upheld the death sentence of tering a ten month old child by On the intervening night of April 14, girl for the familial ties, the court said: of an innocent child”. a couple for exterminating all the seven strangulation in no chance reflects 2008, Shabnam had killed her mother, “Not only did she forget her love for and Both Shabnam and Salim hatched the members of the girl’s family, holding that immature action but evidence for the father, her elder brother, his wife, their duty towards her family, but also perpe- conspiracy to liquidate all the family the “couple indulged in such debased act lack of remorse, kindness and human- 10-month old child, another brother and trated the multiple homicide in her own members of girl — who was also preg- of multiple murders driven by infatua- ity. The crime is committed in the most her minor niece. house so as to fulfill her desire to be with nant outside of wedlock by Salim — as tion and exhibited no remorse”. cruel and inhuman manner which is Holding that the accused girl was from the co-accused Salim and grab the prop- they were opposed to their alliance. The Upholding the death sentence of extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical an educated family and herself a teacher, erty leaving no heir but herself.” accused girl first administered her family Shabnam and her paramour Salim, a and revolting.” the court said: “Such a deed would be Here is a case, the court said, “where members with sedatives mixed in tea pre- bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu, Justice Therefore, the court said that the sufficiently appalling were the perpetra- the daughter, (Shabnam), who has been pared by her and thereafter, bled them to S A Bobde and Justice Arun Mishra said: “instant case requires us to award a pun- tor and the victims are uneducated and brought up in an educated and independ- death by “slitting the vital blood vessels “The accused persons’ preparedness, ishment that is graduated and propor- backward, but it gains a ghastly illumi- ent environment by her family and was in their throats”. A trial court convicted active involvement, scheming execution tioned to the crime... we have reached the nation from the descent, moral upbring- respectfully employed as a Shikshamitra and sentenced them to death in July and subsequent conduct reeks of calcu- inescapable conclusion that the extreme ing, and elegant respectful living of the (teacher) at the school, influenced 2008 and the decision was upheld by the lated and motivated murders.” culpability of both the appellants — accused educated family where the father and by the love and lust of her paramour Allahabad High Court on April 26, 2013. Pronouncing the judgment, Chief (Shabnam and Salim) makes them the daughter are both teachers.” has committed this brutal parricide IANS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 EBRD to invest more in Greece, central Europe Luxury goods sales hit in China Russian Q1 More funds for ex-Soviet countries contraction

TBILISI: The European and expand by two percent in Bank for Reconstruction and 2016, provided the negotiations at 1.19pc less Development (EBRD) prom- prove successful. Chakrabarti also ised more funds for ex-Soviet said his bank was ready for more than feared countries, Central Europe, investments in the wide swathe and Greece, but ruled out new of countries suffering the after- investments in Russia due to shocks of Russia’s economic and MOSCOW: Russia’s economy Western economic sanctions financial crisis. “What has been shrank 1.9 percent in the first over Ukraine. happening in the Russian economy quarter under pressure from “We have the potential to has affected the Caucasus, but also low oil prices and Western expand our investment levels Central Asia quite deeply, so I’d sanctions, the state statistics beyond what we are currently expect us to invest more,” he said. agency said, a smaller contrac- doing and we should use this “I’d expect us to be investing more tion than had been feared. opportunity where there is real in Central Europe and the Baltics.” Russian Prime Minister Dmitry need and where there is real On Thursday, the EBRD Medvedev last month estimated reform,” the EBRD’s President revised growth forecasts down- that the economy had shrunk Suma Chakrabarti said during wards for almost all ex-Soviet by two percent year-on-year in the bank’s annual meeting held countries that have been hard hit the first quarter while Economy in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. by the Russian crisis. Minister Alexei Ulyukayev He said the terms of EBRD’s A consequence of Western projected the contraction had investments pledged to Greece economic sanctions and falling reached 2.2 percent. Many econo- will depend on the outcome of oil prices, Russia’s economic dive mists had released even more pes- Athens’ talks with its credi- “is having larger-than-expected simistic forecasts. tors. “How much we can do, how negative spill-over effects on Citing preliminary data, the many projects, what sectors we countries with which it has strong state statistics service said that can operate in” would depend economic links,” the EBRD said. A Chinese family walks past a store display window of luxury brand Chanel at a shopping mall in Beijing Russia’s gross domestic product on the economic policy agreed Russia’s gross domestic product yesterday. A slowing economy and a government crackdown on corruption and gift-giving has affected the contracted 1.9 percent in the first to between the Prime Minister is due to contract by 4.5 percent sales of luxury goods in China with negative one percent growth last year at approximately 115bn yuan. quarter year-on-year after an Alexis Tsipras’s radical left- this year and 1.8 percent in 2016, expansion of 0.4 percent in the ist government and its credi- according to the EBRD. last three months of 2014. tors, Chakrabarti added. “The In July 2014, the EBRD froze Russia’s economy has been hit need (for investments) is there new investments in Russia as part hard by plunging oil prices and and that is why Greece became of the Western sanctions imposed several rounds of Western sanc- a country of operations for the on Moscow over its alleged role in US industrial production falls tions over Moscow’s meddling in EBRD this year,” he said, adding backing the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. But after shock falls in that the bank has so far “started the unfolding Ukraine crisis. WASHINGTON: US industrial so we are unlikely to see a massive fallen by about 50 percent since the ruble last year, the currency in a very small way.” Russian Deputy Finance production fell for a fifth straight rebound in growth momentum. last June, resulting in a sharp drop has bounced back somewhat in At Athens’ request, the London- Minister Sergei Storchak on month in April due in part to a These are not the numbers that in well drilling activity. recent months. based institution announced in Thursday denounced the deci- further decline in oil and gas would inspire confidence in the Companies like Schlumberger, President Vladimir Putin has March the launch of a five-year sion as politically motivated and drilling, painting a lackluster Fed to tighten policy,” said Millan the world’s No. 1 oilfield services said the worst is over for the investment programme in Greece, breaching EBRD’s mandate. picture of economic growth in Mulraine, deputy chief economist provider, and Halliburton have Russian economy and the gov- without specifying the volume of “Mr. Storchak also said he the second quarter. at TD Securities in New York. slashed their capital spending ernment expects the country’s funds pledged. On Thursday, the did not expect EBRD return- The economy’s struggle to pick Industrial output slipped 0.3 budgets for this year. Caterpillar economy to return to growth EBRD issued its first ever eco- ing to Russia with new projects up steam after a dismal first quar- percent after a revised 0.3 percent Inc has cut its 2015 profit outlook next year. But many economists nomic forecast for Greece, warn- this year and I think he is right,” ter was underscored by other data drop in March, the US central and warned that lower oil prices say the Russian government’s ing the country of another “major Chakrabarti said. “We will be showing a sharp drop in consumer bank said. Economists had fore- would hurt its energy equipment predictions appear too sanguine. recession” if talks fail with the ready (to resume investments confidence in early May and only cast industrial production edging business. “We see a further drop in Capital Economics, a UK-based International Monetary Fund in Russia) if the geopolitical a mild rebound in factory activ- up 0.1 percent after a previously mining investment over the next consultancy said that even though and the European Union on a situation changes,” he added. ity in New York state. Coming reported 0.6 percent fall in March. few quarters and are not con- the financial market had stabi- minimum set of reforms required Founded in 1991, the EBRD is on the heels of weak retail sales A plunge of 14.5 percent in oil vinced that business investment lised, vulnerabilities remained. to unlock the bailout loan’s last an international financial insti- and producer inflation data this and gas well drilling pushed min- ex-mining will be strong enough to “The growing confidence among tranche of $8.2bn. tution owned by 64 countries, week, Friday’s reports suggest the ing production down 0.8 percent sufficiently offset this drag,” said policy makers that the economy It said that the Greek economy, the European Union and the Federal Reserve will probably not last month. It was the fourth Michelle Meyer, a senior econo- will return to growth over the which grew by 0.8 percent in 2014, European Investment Bank. raise interest rates anytime soon. straight monthly decline in min- mist at Bank of America Merrill coming months looks overdone,” would post zero growth this year REUTERS “It means in the next month or ing output. Crude oil prices have Lynch in New York. REUTERS it said. AFP ICANN sees privatisation of Internet management soon

SAN FRANCISCO: The head scheme are accounted for and control by governments or inter- done the same, government after us to a global, independent, neu- everyone in the world is con- of the nonprofit group that there will be “major legitimiz- governmental bodies like the government is showing support.” tral, well-governed organization,” stantly scrutinizing us,” Chehade oversees the world’s Internet ing endorsements” from several United Nations. Chehade said some 150 coun- Chehade said. said. “We should always be on addresses expressed confidence countries in coming weeks. The US plan seeks to turn over tries now support the shift of He was optimistic the shift top of our game.” Representative that it would be privatised and “It is now up to the community this function to what Chehade ICANN oversight away from the from US oversight would take Bob Goodlatte said there had been out of US government control to wrap them up, put them in a calls a “global multistakeholder US government to a globally rep- place by the end of this year, but “concerns routinely expressed by year’s end. nice little box with a bow and ship community.” resentative group of governments, cautioned that political timetables by a wide array of stakeholders Fadi Chehade’s comments them to Washington,” Chehade Chehade said a growing number civil society and businesses. tend to be elastic. about ICANN’s trustworthiness, came despite criticism in the US said, of the pieces of a plan to sup- of countries, including China ICANN is in charge of assigning Chehade dismissed concerns accountability, execution and Congress, where some lawmak- plant a contract ICANN has with and Brazil, have voiced support Internet domain names and the brought up at a House hearing transparency of its current and ers have resisted the plan to end the US Department of Commerce. for this new system. “When we numbering codes that lie behind on Wednesday that ICANN was existing duties and initiatives.” Washington’s key management The comments come a year started we heard things like the online addresses. The California- not transparent or accountable The lawmaker also lamented role in the Internet Corporation after the US government said it UN would take over or China will based nonprofit has been overseen enough, saying the organisation ICANN’s “refusal to deal respon- for Assigned Names and Numbers would end its technical oversight fragment the Internet. Everyone by the US government since its is open to anyone with ideas sibly with registries that profit (ICANN). role for the Internet domain sys- was in threat and defense mode,” inception in 1998, under a con- regarding how it could be better. from the trafficking of counter- Chehade said all the necessary tem, with the stipulation that he said. “Now that China has tract that expires on September “I welcome the fact that Congress feit drugs and even controlled components for a new stewardship it be managed without direct come to the table, and Brazil has 30. “I feel the proposal will lead is constantly scrutinising us; that substances like heroin.” AFP

Protest against Shell rig Turkey names veteran Islamic banker as head of regulator

ISTANBUL: Turkey has involve all segments of the sector.” for more than 20 years, includ- appointed a veteran Islamic The government announced his ing Kuwait Finance’s Turkish banker to oversee its $820bn appointment in its official gazette branch Kuwait Turk. He most banking industry, reflecting yesterday, two weeks after the recently worked at another finan- Ankara’s drive to bolster Islamic former chief passed away. cial regulator, the Saving Deposit finance and potentially raising Secular banks dominate the Insurance Fund. further concern about political Turkish banking sector, with the The new BDDK chief takes over influence over the sector. main players including Isbank, at a time when Turkish banks are Mehmet Ali Akben, the new Akbank, Garanti, Ziraat and grappling with slower economic president of the BDDK watch- Halkbank. Islamic banks account growth at home in recent years. dog, was quoted as saying that for about 5 percent of total bank- Banks’ return on equity (ROE) Islamic lenders would bolster the ing sector assets. averaged 11.4 percent in 2014 and financial industry, in line with the The government issued a debut could fall to 10.4 percent this year, “New Turkey” — a term coined $1.5bn Islamic bond three years according to the industry group. by President Tayyip Erdogan and ago and last year presented a leg- Global emerging market banks referring to his vision for a fast- islative framework to encourage average an ROE of around 14 growing economy and a more reli- publicly owned Islamic banks. It percent according to data. gious society. wants Islamic banks to double They also face a fall-out from “In the New Turkey process, their assets to $100bn by 2023. the lira currency’s tumble this the industry will adopt new poli- The Turkish constitution stipu- year, Moody’s warned this week, cies in line with the state policies,” lates that the banking watchdog is saying the sell-off could push Environmental activists in kayaks protest the arrival of the Polar Pioneer, an oil drilling rig owned by Shell Oil Akben was quoted as saying by an independent institution. up loan repayments on foreign- in Seattle. The rig is part of a fleet that will lead a controversial oil-exploration effort off Alaska’s North Slope. state-run Anadolu Agency. “The Akben worked at various currency loans, ultimately hitting BDDK will be stronger ... and will Islamic financial institutions bank credit profiles. REUTERS SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Brait bets on UK with Mizuho profits fall $1.2bn New Look deal Enters fiercely competitive UK fashion retail market

JOHANNESBURG: African “It’s a lot of money Brait is pay- investment opportunity for Brait,” investment heavyweight Brait ing and the UK market is highly said John Gnodde, Brait’s chief SE will pay $1.2bn for virtu- competitive,” Wayne McCurrie, executive and former Goldman ally all of budget clothes retailer fund manager at Momentum, Sachs banker, adding that the New Look, giving it a sub- which, according to Thomson company had the potential to stantial presence in Britain’s Reuters data, owns a stake “grow rapidly” in several other fiercely competitive fashion worth just under $10m. “But on markets that include China. retail market. the bright side it is not as risky Brait raised 8.6bn rand The deal, announced yester- as Nigeria, for example, and over (£461.2m) in 2011 — at the time day, puts Brait, whose top share- time to diversify is actually a logi- South Africa’s largest ever capital holder is South African retail cal strategic move.” raising — by issuing more pub- mogul Christo Wiese, in the mid- New Look had been eyeing licly owned shares and ditching dle of the crowded British high a stock market listing when the private equity business model. street, where New Look vies with Brait swooped, with chief execu- But it has stuck with its Primark, part of AB Foods, Next tive Anders Kristiansen telling strategy of investing in private and H&M. reporters in February that the companies, including British People walk past a branch of Japan’s Mizuho Bank in Tokyo yesterday. Mizuho Financial Group’s net profit New Look, owned by private retailer was ready for floatation. supermarket chain Iceland Foods fell 11.1 percent for the fiscal year as the benefits from a shrinking bad-loan provision were smaller than a equity groups Apax and Permira, However, Nick Bubb, an inde- and South Africa’s Premier Foods, year earlier. as well as founder Tom Singh, has pendent retail analyst in London, the biggest maker of local staples 600 stores in the UK and Ireland said an IPO may not have made such as maize meal and bread. and trades from a further 200 sense for New Look, which has Last month, it announced a $1 across Europe, North Africa, the ambitions to grow in China, the billion deal to buy Virgin Active, Middle East and Asia including world’s most populous country. using some of the 26 billion rand ‘US airlines get $71.5bn in subsidies’ China where it wants to expand. “An IPO never looked a runner it made from selling its stake in It is the second big deal in a given New Look’s very chequered Pepkor, Africa’s biggest budget month for Brait, one of Africa’s UK history and the unproven clothes retailer, in a deal that ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways Last year, the three largest US over bilateral air agreements to largest investment houses which Chinese potential,” Bubb said. intercepted a planned initial pub- said yesterday that the US carriers posted profits of almost address what they said are vio- is also buying fitness chain Virgin “Whether New Look’s recent lic offering. government has provided $9bn, close to half the gains lations of those pacts, giving the Active. Brait will take a 90 per- revival can be sustained is another Apax made a return of 4.4 America’s three biggest airlines racked up by the entire world- Gulf carriers unfair competitive cent equity stake in New Look matter, given the surplus capacity times its original investment, with more than $70bn in ben- wide aviation industry, the air- advantage. for £780m, giving the retailer in the UK fast fashion market.” and Permira made 4.3 times, two efits and concessions, citing a line added. Etihad general secretary Jim an enterprise value of £1.9bn, New Look, which also operates sources familiar with the matter report it commissioned. In early March, American Callaghan said his airline’s study which includes £1bn in debt. The in France, Poland and Belgium, said. The business received offers The Abu Dhabi-based airline Airlines, Delta Airlines and was not intended to criticise remaining stake will stay in the pulled a planned stock market from other trade buyers, includ- has itself come under attack from United Airlines, along with US the subsidies US competitors hands of the founding family and listing in 2010 amid turbulent ing Asian bidders, but Brait’s US rivals over subsidies. airline labour groups, accused received. “We simply wish to management. financial markets. offer was the highest and more “US airlines have received Gulf carriers of enjoying inter- highlight the fact that US car- Brait shareholder Momentum Shares in Brait, which is also than the company was expected benefits valued at $71.48bn, more est-free loans, subsidised airport riers have been benefitting and Asset Management, which has listed in Luxembourg, jumped to fetch in an IPO, one of the than $70bn of which has been charges, government protection continue to benefit from a highly more than 1.6bn rand funds under more than 3 percent before giv- sources added. Permira said the since 2000, enabling the nation’s on fuel losses, and below-market favourable legal regime, such as its custody, said it was a strategic ing up some of the gains to trade deal valued its stake in New three largest carriers to transi- labour costs that are considered bankruptcy protection and pen- move into the British market that 2.12 percent higher at 92.83 rand Look at £37m, nearly 70 percent tion from the verge of bankruptcy unfair subsidies by the WTO. sion guarantees, exemptions from should be less risky than some — valuing it at $4bn. more than the January valuation to today’s industry leaders,” a They called on the US gov- certain taxes, and various other African ones. “New Look is an attractive of £22m. REUTERS statement from Etihad said. ernment to open new talks benefits,” he said. AFP

BoE to test UK banks on coping with illiquid markets Japan’s biggest bank surges LONDON: Britain’s banks will in themselves to boost market inventories of bonds for trading, UK regulators are study- against potentially illiquid assets, be tested this year on how they liquidity. blaming tougher regulation. ing whether automated trading Bailey added. would cope with investors clam- Huge swings in US Treasuries But Bailey said inventories have using computer programs, which Potential responses could past 1 trillion mering to sell bonds in frag- last October and in the Swiss simply returned to more normal can exacerbate market moves, is include requiring funds to hold ile markets, Bank of England franc in January deepened the levels, though the global bond properly controlled. larger liquid asset buffers, to Deputy Governor Andrew concerns and Bailey said the BoE market has grown from $30 tril- Britain’s Fair and Effective apply stricter leverage limits, yen profit mark Bailey said yesterday. wants to see how such volatility lion in 2000 to nearly $90 trillion Markets Review of trading, due and to reflect liquidity risks in Regulators are increasingly feeds back into banks, key players today. The Bank’s Financial Policy to be published next month, will redemption terms. TOKYO: Mitsubishi UFJ concerned that bond investors in making markets. Committee has asked for an look at market structure stand- “Last, central banks can back- Financial Group (MUFJ) said will stampede for the exits when “In order to enhance our pro- interim report on fragile liquid- ards, and effective competition stop market liquidity by acting Friday that its annual net profit interest rates begin rising, cre- tection against this risk, in this ity for June. and pre-emptive supervision, as market makers of last resort,” passed the 1.0 trillion yen mark, ating huge price swings because year’s BoE concurrent stress test, Bailey said it was best to focus Bailey said. Bailey said. “Here too, there is a a first for any Japanese lender, there won’t be enough liquidity or we are taking a substantial step to on activities that create markets Regulators are also looking at lot more to be done to consider while top rivals Mizuho and inventory capacity to cope. enhance the coverage of market risks like fragile liquidity before options for controlling risks from the circumstances in which this Sumitomo saw their bottom line Bailey said central banks could, risks,” he said in a speech. moving on to entities that house asset managers offering short- tool could be used.” shrink. in exceptional circumstances, step Banks have cut their those activities. term redemptions to investors REUTERS The whopping earnings for the fiscal year to March — $8.6bn — saw Japan’s biggest bank cash in on an expansion of its business over- seas and the purchase of a Thai bank, countering sluggish lending UK may extend at home. Mitsubishi’s gains were Tokyo investors look “mainly due to increases in net interest income from overseas loan trading plan businesses and net fees and com- missions from sales of investment to sell more to economy after products and investment banking,” it said. The bank, which said it would Lloyds shares earnings season spend 100bn yen on a share buy- back, also cited the impact of its LONDON: Britain is consider- acquisition of Thailand’s Bank ing selling more shares in Lloyds TOKYO: Japanese growth data 162.68 points to finish at 19,732.92, of Ayudhya for the boost to its Banking Group by extending a and a central bank meeting will for a weekly gain of 1.82 percent. earnings. Toyota, the world’s big- trading facility beyond the cur- be in focus for Tokyo investors The Topix index of all first-sec- gest automaker, is the only other rent deadline at the end of June, next week, as the country wraps tion shares climbed 0.98 percent, Japanese firm to have surpassed people with knowledge of the up its latest earnings season. or 15.62 points, to 1,607.11. It rose the 1.0 trillion yen profit mark, matter said. Kicking off the week, machin- 1.21 percent over the week. according to the Nikkei business Morgan Stanley has sold a 5 ery orders — a leading indica- The rise came as Japan finishes daily, but Mitsubishi said its earn- percent stake in Lloyds since tor of capital spending — will be a relatively upbeat reporting sea- ings were likely to shrink back to December through a “pre-arranged released Monday while January- son and after Wall Street supplied 950bn yen this year. trading plan” that it was asked March gross domestic product a strong lead, with the broad- MUFJ’s profits linked to secu- to undertake by UK Financial figures are due Wednesday, after based S&P 500 bolting to a fresh rities trading were smaller than Investments, the government Japan limped out of a brief reces- record-high close Thursday, led by those in the previous fiscal year agency which manages Britain’s sion in the last three months of strong gains in Apple, Facebook as Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stakes in bailed-out banks. 2014. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is and other technology stocks. index rallied a hefty 57 percent in The government’s stake has also holding a two-day meeting It rose 1.08 percent to end at 2013 — its best annual performance been cut to 19.9 percent from 24.9 with governor Haruhiko Kuroda 2,121.10. The Dow gained 1.06 per- in decades. The rise came as the percent through the plan, which slated to meet the press on Friday cent and the Nasdaq jumped 1.39 yen weakened sharply on the back has so far raised over £2.5bn for as investors look for more clues percent. of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo taxpayers. An extension could help about another round of expansion In Tokyo on Friday, Toyota Abe’s policies to revive the econ- the government to return Lloyds to the BoJ’s monetary easing plan. rose 1.43 percent to 8,296.0 yen omy, dubbed “Abenomics,” which fully to private ownership in the Speculation has been rising and Sony climbed 1.99 percent to enticed retail customers into the next year. The trading plan is due that a weak economy including 3,892.0 yen. stock market. But last year, the to end on June 30 but may be pro- tepid inflation would force poli- Chipmaker Renesas jumped Nikkei climbed a more modest longed to accelerate the govern- cymakers to further ease policy, 2.93 percent to 972 yen — after 7.1 percent. Japanese banks hold ment’s exit. with the latest data showing con- soaring as much as 12 percent in vast stock holdings which have The process, known as a “drib- sumer confidence remained weak early trade — on a report that allowed them to get involved in ble out”, allowed Morgan Stanley in April. US-based Avago was eyeing it as management of their borrowers to undertake regular sales of the “The focus of the Tokyo mar- a potential acquisition target. and benefitted them when overseas shares provided they were sold ket is likely to move to economic However, camera giant Nikon investors poured billions of dollars above the government’s 73.6 pence fundamentals from corporate dropped 10.96 percent to 1,527 yen into the long-overlooked market. buy-in price and the sales didn’t earnings,” Daiwa Securities said as it cut its operating profit fore- Japanese lenders have relied on exceed 15 percent of overall trad- in a note. cast. Sharp tumbled 7 percent to profits linked to securities trading ing volumes. It effectively allowed “January-March GDP to be 186.0 yen after the struggling firm and other market activities rather the government to continue selling released on Wednesday will likely announced it took a 200 billion than bread-and-butter domestic shares in Lloyds in the run-up to Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda gestures as he delivers a speech provide a key focus,” it added. yen bailout from its banks and lending, as they struggle to find this month’s election without fac- in Tokyo yesterday. Kuroda cast doubt on the chances of an imminent Yesterday, the Nikkei 225 will slash its global workforce by borrowers despite the Bank of ing accusations that the sales were expansion to the BoJ’s huge monetary easing plan. stock index at the Tokyo Stock about 10 percent in a bid to stay Japan’s efforts to pump money into politically motivated. REUTERS Exchange rose 0.83 percent or afloat. AFP the economy. AFP SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Differences within US govt WeChat is Tencent’s ace over Google-Oracle case

BY DAN LEVINE and LAWRENCE HURLEY

he Obama administration has been locked in internal in China’s online race wrangling over what position to take in high profile litiga- tion between two American technology giants, Google and BY PAUL CARSTEN and Century Fox Inc’s FOX, FOX to more than $46bn by 2018 for 2013. They include Patrick Liu, LISA RICHWINE TOracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the Sports and the National online games and video stream- current head of Alibaba’s digital discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to Geographic Channel to its media ing alone, according to iResearch entertainment unit and former take sides in a case before the US Supreme Court that will have n a multi-billion dollar dog- arsenal, which already includes data, prompting China’s biggest head of Tencent Video. wide implications for the technology industry. fight with Alibaba Group various rights for Sony Corp’s Internet companies to spend lav- Other firms staking a claim The case involves how much copyright protection should extend Holding Ltd for leadership Sony Music Entertainment, ishly on TV shows, films, games, in China’s online entertainment to the Java programing language. Oracle won a federal appeals in China’s online entertain- Warner Music Group, Time music and sports rights. market include Internet search court ruling last year that allows it to copyright parts of Java, while ment market, mobile mes- Warner Inc’s HBO network and “When we have the key con- leader Baidu Inc and its online Google argues it should be free to use Java without paying a licens- Isaging app WeChat is Tencent the U.S. National Basketball tent, our traffic makes it more video unit iQiyi; Sohu.com Inc; ing fee. Google, which used Java to design its Android smartphone Holdings Ltd’s trump card. Association. “We’ve paid aggres- popular than it would otherwise and Leshi Internet Information operating system, appealed to the US Supreme Court. The high The wildly popular app allows sively to buy some of the most be,” said Mitchell, noting that and Technology Corp Beijing. court then asked the Obama administration in January for its opin- Tencent to channel 500 million popular content, the most estab- Tencent’s online advertising busi- Dealing with Tencent won’t ion on whether it should take the case. The nine justices request monthly active users to its enter- lished brands,” Tencent’s Chief ness revenues jumped 65 percent be easy, says Mark Natkin, man- that US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr, the government’s tainment services, a huge con- Strategy Officer James Mitchell last year, to 8.3bn yuan ($1.34bn). aging director of Beijing-based top lawyer before the Supreme Court, weigh in on about 20 cases sumer base for subscriptions or said in a recent interview. Video advertising revenue has at Marbridge Consulting. “They a year in which the federal government has a strong interest. The marketing — pay dirt for media Founded 17 years ago by CEO least doubled year-on-year in all understand what users want in justices generally give greater weight to what he or she says than and advertising partners. Pony Ma, Tencent operates an of the past six quarters. Alibaba, terms of entertainment content, other third parties that take a side in a case, an influence which Combined with a willingness to online gaming business to rival meanwhile, is flush with cash after they understand how to deliver has caused the solicitor general to be dubbed the “tenth justice.” throw cash at top-tier film, tel- those of Sony, Microsoft Corp and its record $25bn share sale in New it,” he said. “Tencent knows that According to Google, an Oracle victory would obstruct “an enor- evision, game and music content, Nintendo Co. It also owns China’s York last year and, alongside its space better than anybody.” mous amount of innovation” because software developers would not Tencent has locked down exclu- biggest music streaming service by affiliates, has spent more than Tencent’s content library, be able to freely build on each others’ work. But Oracle says it is sive deals with some of the big- subscribers, and by some measures $3.5bn since the start of 2014 on which also includes South Korean effective copyright protection that’s the key to software innovation. gest names in Hollywood, eager to runs the country’s most popular stakes in video, music and gaming YouTube sensation Psy through a It is unclear what position the administration will ultimately take. piggyback on the $190bn Chinese Internet video platform. firms, including a minority share tie up with YG Entertainment Deliberations within the Obama administration have mirrored the group’s growing success. The pairing of Tencent’s active of Youku Tudou Inc, one of China’s Inc, is arguably deeper than that larger debate in the technology world about how broadly copyright Shenzhen-based Tencent, whose dealmaking with the success of biggest Internet video services. of its rivals. “You clearly see the should apply to software, the sources said. WeChat and QQ social networks WeChat and QQ is critical, says Alibaba’s claims music dis- growth of (Tencent’s) position,” Charles Duan, a lawyer for interest group Public Knowledge, that are as ubiquitous in China as Mathew Alderson, who leads tribution deals with Germany’s said TCL Multimedia CEO Hao Yi, backs Google in the case, said he met with officials at the Federal Facebook Inc is elsewhere, has the China media and entertain- BMG and two of Taiwan’s big- who works with many of China’s Trade Commission and the Department of Justice antitrust division spent billions of dollars in recent ment practice at Harris Moure gest labels. It has also teamed Internet companies, about the to advance the view that Oracle is seeking a monopoly on software. years building up its content in Beijing. “I consider them to be up with Hollywood studio Lions firm’s video business. “A couple “They were very interested in the competition implications of the library and on stakes in entertain- ahead because of the reach and Gate Entertainment Corp to offer of years ago they were nowhere. case,” Duan said of the antitrust regulators. An FTC representative ment firms, though the company sophistication of their social net- a subscription streaming service The WeChat thing, indeed, this declined to comment. declines to give specific details on working tools,” he said. in China. Its operations are led is a killer.” “You can use content Another source briefed on the discussions said the solicitor gen- its investment. The stakes are huge. Revenue by former members of Tencent’s to drive very good margins — if eral’s office has pushed back on pro-Google arguments. The debate Last month, Tencent added in China’s online entertain- video business, who left follow- you have the right pipes,” said one is coming down to the wire as the solicitor general’s office, a division streaming rights to Twenty-First ment industry is set to double ing a leadership reshuffle around Hollywood executive. REUTERS of the DOJ, usually files its opinions by the end of May to give the Supreme Court time to make a decision by the conclusion of its term at the end of June. A Department of Justice spokeswoman declined to comment. Google’s Android operating system is the world’s best-selling smartphone platform. Oracle sued Google in 2010, claiming that Google had improperly incorporated parts of Java into Android. Oracle is seeking roughly $1bn on its copyright claims. The case examined whether computer language that connects programs — known as application programing interfaces, or APIs — can be copyrighted. A San Francisco federal judge decided that the Java APIs replicated by Google were not subject to copyright protection and were free for all to use. But the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed that, saying it was bound to respect copyright protection for software “until either the Supreme Court or Congress tells us otherwise.” Legal teams from both Oracle and Google made separate pres- entations to government officials in March, a third source familiar with the meetings said. The company pitches attracted so much interest from different government agencies that they had to be moved to a larger conference room at the Department of Justice to accommodate all the lawyers, this source said. Some of the administration’s technology advisers have been advocating the pro-Google position as well, the second source said. This week, the White House appointed Edward Felten as deputy US Chief Technology Officer. Felten, a computer scientist, signed onto a legal brief last November urging the Supreme Court to hear Google’s appeal. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, nor did an Oracle spokeswoman. A Google representative declined to comment. Meanwhile the US Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress, is known as being pro-copyright which could make it more likely to back Oracle, according to a lawyer for groups that support Google. The Copyright Office did not respond to a request for comment. Other technology companies, including Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard, filed legal briefs at the Supreme Court supporting Google, arguing that the Federal Circuit ruling “upset settled expectations about the scope of copyright law.” Yet Oracle argued that the Supreme Court should decline the case because the Federal Circuit applied settled legal doctrine. “Google’s argument — that the code lost all copyright protec- tion because it became popular and Google wanted Android to be popular, too — would not fly for any other work,” Oracle’s attorneys wrote. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Who wants to be a swing producer? No one

BY JOHN KEMP policymakers, and which they vowed March was essentially unchanged $55 and $65 per barrel to maintain the current level of 1.2 million bpd. There is an element of bravado never to repeat. from the last six months, records output at around 1.2 million bpd. If US oil prices were to remain in the claims. The same producers S shale producers are One reason prices have crashed from the state government show. In practice, there is no direct at current levels, or climb by only dismissed the threat from OPEC in the new “swing produc- since mid-2014 is because Saudi There is not yet enough data way to measure the price producers another few dollars, it is reasonable September and October last year ers” in the oil market, as policymakers, having been burned to conclude that production has actually receive for their oil at the to assume that output from North and spoke confidently about being Umany analysts have noted, before, refused to shoulder the bur- peaked following the near-halving wellhead but it is possible to specify Dakota and the other major shale able to weather the downturn in but the status of swing producer is den of balancing the market and of oil prices since the middle of a range. The best price producers plays would stabilise. There might prices without having to cut produc- hugely misunderstood. have forced it upon the shale indus- 2014. Production growth often flat- could receive would be the futures be a brief decline over the summer tion plans at all before being forced It is often portrayed as if it con- try and other high-cost producers. tens during the state’s harsh winter, price for US domestic crude (WTI), as the lagged effect of critically to cut their capital budgets sharply. fers power and control. In fact, it The swing producer role has now which makes drilling, well comple- which ignores quality and location low prices in February and March Shale companies must be able often means the opposite. The swing fallen to the US shale sector, which tions and other maintenance diffi- discounts. The worst price would be works its way through, but in the to convince investors and lenders producer often becomes the passive will find it as uncomfortable as the cult. One or two months more data the posted price for the Williston second half of the year production they can maintain and raise output absorber of shifts in market supply Texas independents and the Saudis will be needed before it is possible Basin area, which assumes they are should be broadly flat. profitably through a combination of and demand. Between the 1930s and did previously. Swing status will to say prices rather than a seasonal charged the full cost of tanker col- Some shale producers have begun strict cost controls and improved the 1970s, the role fell to small, inde- ensure oil prices stabilise at a level slowdown are responsible for output lection from the site. to talk about reactivating rigs, com- production efficiency, so they tend to pendent well owners of Texas, who that brings forth just enough shale stalling. Nonetheless, there is a high DMR estimates typical wellhead pleting more wells and resuming talk up their prospects. Nonetheless, were forced to limit their produc- production to be consistent with the probability that North Dakota’s oil prices by averaging the futures production growth if prices hold at they are probably correct in think- tion to balance the global oil market. global oil market balance. Following production has indeed levelled off price for WTI with posted prices for current levels or slightly higher. ing prices have increased to a level Prorationing orders issued by the 50 percent surge in prices over as a result of the sudden collapse Williston Sweet crude. In March, “If oil prices recover and stabilize that is just about sustainable. the Railroad Commission of Texas the last eight weeks, there are indi- in oil prices. The number of rigs the averaged wellhead price touched at the $65 level, EOG Resources is The prospect of further price and conservation commissions in cations prices have risen to this drilling in the state has more than a low of just $35 per barrel but it prepared to resume strong dou- increases, however, is more uncer- other states compelled owners to level, allowing shale production to halved since early October, accord- has since jumped to $55 per barrel. ble-digit oil growth in 2016 with tain. The global oil market appears restrict output to a fraction of the be sustained or grow slowly, but ing to the Department of Mineral With posted prices by buyers such balanced capital spending and dis- comfortably supplied. There is no well’s maximum, and it was not a avoiding the rapid growth reported Resources (DMR). There are cur- as Plains Marketing now at almost cretionary cash flow,” the company clear need for lots of extra shale comfortable experience for the US before September 2014. North rently 83 rigs active in the state, the $50, most North Dakota producers told investors. Other major shale output to meet current and pro- domestic oil industry. Dakota’s shale producers, together lowest number since January 2010, will be receiving $50 or better for producers have made similarly opti- spective demand, which suggests Saudi Arabia found itself cast with those in Texas, have become the DMR wrote in its latest report. their oil. Wellhead prices in North mistic comments about their ability prices will settle for a while around in the role of swing producer in the critical swing producers. Earlier this year, the DMR’s chief Dakota are now at, or very close to, to continue growing production if current levels, sufficient to main- the early 1980s, an experience North Dakota’s oil production of told state legislators producers levels the DMR identified as being prices remain at current levels or tain shale production but not grow that traumatised the kingdom’s 1.19 million barrels per day (bpd) in needed a wellhead price of between able to sustain production around climb only a little higher. it very fast. REUTERS SATURDAY 9 MAY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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Refuelling, which was the sport’s engine manufacturers. per driver for the current season ties for exceeding the allocation. turers involved in the sport and show”. banned in 2010, will return with The FIA said the meeting at was rejected. The FIA said other areas, such to give visibility to potential new This will be achieved through a maximum race fuel allowance Biggin Hill, south of London, had While dominant Mercedes as the race weekend format, entrants,” the FIA added. aerodynamic rule changes, wider in keeping with moves to improve been “constructive” and paved had expressed no objection to required further investigation REUTERS Byrd’s homer helps Reds Cavaliers rout Bulls 94-73; past Giants CINCINNATI: Marlon Byrd hit a go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning after Johnny Cueto delivered another solid outing, and the Cincinnati Reds Rockets rally to stay alive held on for a victory over the San Francisco Giants. Cincinnati (18-17) improved to Cleveland advance to Eastern Conference finals as Los Angeles choke 21-8 against the Giants over the past four seasons behind a strong seven innings from Cueto, who CHICAGO: The Cleveland allowed two runs on five hits and Cavaliers punched their ticket Play-off Results three walks. He struck out nine. to the NBA Eastern Conference Results on Thursday in the second round of Tim Lincecum allowed three finals on Thursday night, but the NBA play-offs (best-of-seven): runs in 4 2/3 innings and took a in the West the Los Angeles Eastern Conference no-decision for the Giants (17-18). Rays 6, Yankees 1 Clippers stunningly failed to get At Chicago past the Houston Rockets. The Tampa Bay Rays pulled Cleveland 94 Chicago 73 Cleveland superstar LeBron within a game of first place in James got plenty of help from his (Cleveland win series 4-2) the American League East with supporting cast in the Cavaliers’ Western Conference a victory over New York. 94-73 victory over the Chicago At Los Angeles Tampa Bay (20-16) got five Bulls. Houston 119 LA Clippers 107 scoreless innings from right- With the win the Cavs com- (Series tied 3-3) hander Erasmo Ramirez (1-1), pleted a four-games-to-two tri- who won for the first time in more umph over the Bulls in their than a year and 25 appearances. best-of-seven second-round LEFT: Cleveland Cavaliers Rene Rivera’s three-run homer series, and will now face either forward LeBron James (right) in the second inning was the big- the Atlanta Hawks or Washington dribbles the ball around gest blow against the Yankees Wizards for a place in the NBA Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy (21-15), who lost starter Chase finals. Butler (21) at the United Center Whitley to an elbow injury after In Los Angeles, the Clippers in Chicago on Thursday night. only five outs. Cardinals 2, Indians 1 had appeared to be heading for a BELOW: Blake Griffin of the similar series win. Los Angeles Clippers (left) Matt Carpenter’s two-run But the Rockets put together homer in the eighth inning sent clashes with Terrence Jones a stunning comeback, erasing a the St. Louis to a 2-1 win over of the Houston Rockets at the 19-point third-quarter deficit to Cleveland at Progressive Field. shock the clippers 119-107 and Staples Center in Los Angeles Carpenter’s home run snapped force a decisive game seven back on Thursday. a streak of 17 consecutive innings in Houston tomorrow. without a run by the Cardinals, “We gave this one away, said. “Very few people event who still won two of three games there’s no doubt about that,” said wanted to shoot in stretches. It in Cleveland. Clippers coach Doc Rivers, whose happens, but it’s awful to watch.” Trevor Bauer pitched seven team was out-scored 40-15 in the There was no such drama in scoreless innings and started the fourth quarter. “But it’s still 3-3, Chicago, where the Cavaliers eighth by retiring Pete Kozma on and we have a game seven.” seized their opportunity to elimi- a flyout to left. Peter Bourjos drew Rivers admitted it would be nate the Bulls despite a tough a walk and Marc Rzepczynski tough for his players to regroup shooting night for James and a was brought in to face Carpenter, after their second straight failure first-half injury to Kyrie Irving. who pounded a 2-1 pitch over the to put away a series which they James connected on just seven wall in center for his sixth home had led 3-1. of 23 attempts from the floor, but run. It was an outcome that looked he still finished one rebound shy Cubs 6, Mets 5 impossible when Rockets star of a triple-double with 15 points, A seventh-inning passed ball James Harden went to the bench 11 assists and nine rebounds. gave Chicago a go-ahead run that with 1:33 remaining in the third The four-time NBA Most led to a win and a series sweep quarter, his team trailing by 17. Valuable Player said that, as over New York. Harden never even got back always, he just tried to make Anthony Recker mishandled in the game, as Corey Brewer the most of his team’s chance to Hansel Robles’ 1-0 pitch with two and Josh Smith spearheaded advance. outs, allowing Dexter Fowler to the Rockets’ remarkable “I just love the moment and I score from third for what proved resurgence. just try to not waste the opportu- to be the winning run. Brewer and Smith combined nity,” he said. “Is it always going REUTERS for 29 points over the final 12 to work out that way? No. There’s minutes, each finishing with 19. going to be series where you can Baseball Results “This is what we fought all close out and win and you just St. Louis 2 Cleveland 1 season for — for home court to don’t do it. For me, my mindset Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 2 be able to put the pressure back is just to go out and try to win Detroit 13 Minnesota 1 on them for a game seven at our every game.” Kansas City 6 Texas 3 house,” Smith said. Irving reinjured his left knee Chicago Cubs 6 NY Mets 5 Blake Griffin, who finished with in the second quarter and sat out Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 3 28 points for Los Angeles, didn’t much of the game, but a string of quarter, Iman Shumpert scored “The power of team trumps Conference finals, the last four Tampa Bay 6 NY Yankees 1 score in the final period — nor lesser-known players stepped up 13 points and pulled down seven all,” Cleveland coach David Blatt were during his tenure in Miami. Houston 6 Toronto 4 did Matt Barnes or DeAndre to help the Cavs seal the series. rebounds and J.R. Smith added said. The Cavaliers are back in the San Diego 8 Washington 3 Jordan. Matthew Dellavedova scored 12 points and eight rebounds for While James will be play- conference finals for the first time Boston 2 Seattle 1 “We got very tentative,” Rivers 11 of his 19 points in the fourth the Cavaliers. ing in his fifth straight Eastern since 2009. AFP Colorado 5 LA Dodgers 4 Brady appeals ‘Deflategate’ suspension, Goodell to hear case

LOS ANGELES: New England 2011 collective bargaining agree- to grip and throw, although the Brady’s appeal when it posted loss of PSI of the Patriots’ foot- indicated the team wouldn’t fight quarterback Tom Brady (pic- ment,” the league said in a brief actual competitive benefit is a point-by-point rebuttal of balls by inexplicably rejecting league sanctions. tured) will fight his four- statement. unclear. the Wells report online at the referee’s recollection of what But Kraft on Monday called game NFL suspension over Brady, a four-time Super Bowl Wells found that two Patriots Wellsreportcontext.com. gauge he used in his pregame the penalties excessive and said the “Deflategate” scandal, the champion, was suspended for the equipment personnel were The Patriots argued that Wells’ inspection,” the Patriots say. Brady has the club’s “uncondi- NFL Players Association said first four games of the upcom- involved in doctoring the footballs, conclusions were “incomplete, “Texts acknowledged to be tional support”. on Thursday, but the union’s ing season after Ted Wells, the citing text messages incorrect and lack attempts at humour and exagger- Brady himself has made lit- demand for a neutral arbitrator third-party investigator hired from the pair. context.” ation are nevertheless interpreted tle public comment on the mat- was denied. by the league, found it was likely Further implicating In comments writ- as a plot to improperly deflate ter, although he insisted shortly “Given the NFL’s history of that Brady was “at least gener- Brady was the revela- ten by attorney Daniel footballs, even though none of after the report came out that inconsistency and arbitrary deci- ally aware” that team equipment tion that he declined L. Goldberg, who rep- them refer to any such plot.” the Patriots’ latest Super Bowl sions in disciplinary matters, it is personnel deliberately deflated to hand over details resented the Patriots The Patriots’ rebuttal came triumph was “absolutely not” only fair that a neutral arbitrator footballs below league minimums of his own emails, text and was present dur- two days after Wells hit back at tainted by the scandal. hear this appeal,” the union said before the AFC Championship messages and phone ing interviews of team criticism of his report, dismiss- Meanwhile, the team and its in a statement. Game against the Indianapolis messages. personnel, the team ing suggestions of a witch-hunt fans are showing few signs of But the league said on Thursday Colts in January. In addition to sus- claimed investigators against Brady. throwing in the towel. On their night that NFL Commissioner “Deflategate” dogged the pending Brady, the ignored some findings Wells called it “ridiculous” to Twitter account, the Patriots Roger Goodell would preside over Patriots in the build-up to last league on Monday fined and misinterpreted think the NFL wanted to make changed the avatar to the back the appeal. season’s Super Bowl, with Brady the Patriots $1m, and docked others. a scapegoat of Brady “the most of Brady’s number 12 jersey. “Commissioner Goodell will and coach Bill Belichick insist- them a 2016 first-round draft “Our intention is to provide popular, iconic face in the league”. Patriots fans this week also set hear the appeal of Tom Brady’s ing they didn’t know why the air selection and a fourth-round pick additional context for balance and When the findings of the NFL up a website to seek donations suspension in accordance with pressure in the footballs was low. in 2017. consideration,” Goldberg wrote. probe were released on May 6, to pay the team’s $1m fine and the process agreed upon with the The lower pressure could con- But the team fired back on “The report dismisses the sci- Patriots owner Robert Kraft had collected $15,691 by Thursday NFL Players Association in the ceivably make the footballs easier Thursday, setting a tone for entific explanation for the natural voiced disappointment, but afternoon. AGENCIES SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Kohli, Gayle propel RCB ECB chairman says ‘no promises’ to second on the table made to Pietersen LONDON: Colin Graves (pic- Superb batting display by RCB in rain-hit IPL encounter tured), the incoming chair- man of the England and Wales Cricket Board, was adamant HYDERABAD: Virat Kohli’s yesterday that he made no late blitz of 44 runs from 19 balls promises to Kevin Pietersen and Chris Gayle’s cameo helped about a possible return to Test Royal Challengers Bangalore cricket. beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in a Graves, whose tenure as ECB rain-curtailed Indian Premier chairman started yesterday, League (IPL) encounter at the released a statement via the Rajiv Gandhi International governing body’s website in his Stadium here yesterday. first public response to claims Gayle smashed a 10 ball 35 and from Pietersen that he had helped his side climb to the sec- received “incredibly deceitful” The chairman of the England and ond spot on the league table with treatment. Wales Cricket Board, Colin Graves 15 points from 13 games, while the Andrew Strauss, the new Sunrisers drop to the fifth spot ECB director of cricket and rather that if he did fulfil cer- with 14 points from 13 matches. Pietersen’s successor as tain conditions he would at Chasing a revised target England captain, said Tuesday least be considered for England of 81 runs from six over, the that a “massive trust issue” pre- selection. Challengers got over the line with vented the South Africa-born Graves was prepared to a ball to spare and with six wick- batsman’s return, even though accept there may have been a ets in hand. Pietersen is England’s all-time “misunderstanding”. It was a tailor-made situation leading run-scorer across all “Back then, when we talked for the hefty Jamaican who rel- formats. on the phone, Kevin asked if I ishes such challenges as he plun- That appeared to contradict thought his England career had dered 41 in the first two overs earlier comments from Graves ended in the right manner fol- with Dale Steyn giving away 17 that a return was possible if lowing the last Ashes series in and Bhuvneshwar Kumar being Pietersen, in international Australia,” Graves wrote in his belted for 24 runs. exile since the team’s 5-0 Ashes ECB blog. However, it was all-rounder thrashing in Australia last year, “I agreed that nobody par- Moises Henriques for SRH who scored enough runs in county ticularly emerged with much got the hosts back into the contest cricket. credit from the whole episode, as Gayle pulled one of his slower Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli celebrates after hitting the winning runs against Sunrisers But shortly after Pietersen particularly given his achieve- deliveries into the hands of the Hyderabad during an IPL match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday. made an unbeaten triple ments for England. man at deep mid-wicket. South century for Surrey against “I can see something has been African skipper followed AB delivery after lofting one to long as the visitors were reduced to The next over from pacer Leicestershire on Monday, misunderstood around the con- de Villiers fell off the very next on. The over produced just three 44/2 after three overs. Ashok Dinda yielded 18 runs as Strauss told him to forget about versation and in the following But it was Kohli who swung some wayward bowling helped playing for England against debate — and perhaps how that the pendulum in favour of RCB Henriques put the leather into New Zealand and Australia this happened.” Scoreboard again belting Karn Sharma for 14 the stands. home season. Strauss’s decision to ditch SUNRISERS HYDERABAD V Kohli (not out) ...... 44 and then getting 10 of a Praveen Henriques went berserk That in turn led Pietersen Pietersen was followed by a DA Warner (not out) ...... 52 AB de Villiers c Steyn b Henriques ...... 0 Kumar over. against Harshal Patel, after being to say he’d been “misled”, with report in the Daily Mirror that S Dhawan c Dinda b Wiese ...... 8 Mandeep Singh c Morgan b P Kumar ...... 1 Needing 13 of the last over, it dropped in the opening delivery the 34-year-old going on to England captain Alastair Cook MC Henriques c Karthik b Wiese ...... 57 KD Karthik† run out (B Kumar) ...... 2 was Kohli who hit the winning of the seventh over. 20 runs came make an unbeaten 355 against had threatened to quit interna- EJG Morgan c Mandeep Singh b Starc ....11 SN Khan (not out) ...... 0 runs lofting Bhuvneshwar for a off the over. Leicestershire. tional cricket if he came back Extras (LB 2, W 3, NB 2) ...... 7 Extras (W 1) ...... 1 straight six. SRH reached the triple figure But former Yorkshire chair- into the side. Total (3 wickets; 11 overs) ...... 135 Total (4 wickets; 5.5 overs) ...... 83 Earlier in the day, even though mark with three overs to spare as man Graves had a different take Graves said he was happy to Did not bat: NV Ojha, KL Rahul, Bipul Sharma, Did not bat: D Wiese, MA Starc, HV Patel, YS the hosts lost swashbuckling Warner kept playing second fiddle on events, yesterday saying: “In abide by Strauss’s judgement. KV Sharma, B Kumar, P Kumar, DW Steyn Chahal, AB Dinda opener Shikhar Dhawan (8) and giving the strike to his part- the past few days my integrity He added the scars from Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-122, 3-135 Fall of wickets: 1-43, 2-43, 3-58, 4-69 early, David Warner and Moises ner at the end who was having a has been called into question, Pietersen’s incendiary autobi- Bowling: MA Starc 3-0-26-1; HV Patel 2-0- Bowling: DW Steyn 1-0-17-0; B Kumar 1.5-0- Henriques kept on the pressure gala time in the middle. something I can’t accept. ography, published in October 30-0 (1w); D Wiese 2-0 -20-2 (1w); AB Dinda 39-0; MC Henriques 1-0 -3-2 (1w); KV Sharma on the RCB bowlers clubbing But Henriques soon fell after “Throughout my busi- last year and severely critical 2-0-23-0 (2nb); YS Chahal 2-0-34- 0 1-0-14-0; P Kumar 1- 0 -10-1 them to the ropes frequently. completing his half-century. ness career and my years at of many of his colleagues, were ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE Player-of-the-match: V Kohli (Royal Chal- Yuzvendra Chahal was hit for RCB pulled things back in the Yorkshire, integrity has been unlikely to heal quickly. CH Gayle c Dhawan b Henriques ...... 35 lengers Bangalore) 17 in the 5th over which brought last few over but by then the dam- my watchword. It governs eve- “What I did stress was that up the team’s 50. age had been done. IANS rything I do and is an important when I took over as chairman I part of what I bring to the ECB. would back those people whose “So it saddens me that what job it was to take the decisions was a private conversation with on team selection,” Graves said. Pakistan get Zimbabwe tour confirmation Kevin in March has been used “I stand by that. to do just that. “Given the history and the LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket an apology 20 minutes later, say- “We welcome this affirmative since militants attacked the Sri “I didn’t make any prom- book, the simple fact is that chief yesterday said Zimbabwe ing the abandonment was not response,” he added, insisting that Lankan team bus in 2009, killing ises, There were no guarantees bridges have still not been would be touring the country as confirmed. Zimbabwe’s national side would be eight and injuring nine including that if he chose to exit his IPL rebuilt and trust needs to be scheduled after a major militant Yesterday, Pakistan Cricket provided with “the best possible six visiting cricketers. (Indian Premier League) con- restored.” attack put the visit — the first Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar security”. They are due to play two tract, play county cricket and Pietersen is currently side- by a Test playing nation in six Khan said his Zimbabwean coun- Tickets for the matches would Twenty20 internationals on May score runs he would be selected lined due to a calf injury years — in doubt. terpart William Manase had told go on sale from Saturday, accord- 22 and 24, followed by three one- for England — and I said he sustained playing against Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) him via telephone that Zimbabwe ing to the PCB’s Chief Operating day internationals on May 26, 29 should make any decision on Leicestershire that ruled him released a statement on Thursday was “still willing and ready to Officer Subhan Ahmed. and 31 — all in Lahore. his future on that basis.” out of joining the Sunrisers saying the tour would not go send their team to Pakistan”. “People are really eager to come Test opposition has stayed However, Graves appeared Hyderabad for the IPL and so ahead due to the “security risk” in “This evening we were and watch the revival of inter- away since the 2009 attack, forc- to be defending himself from a would, quite likely, have been the wake of an attack on minority informed that Zimbabwe Cricket national cricket in Pakistan,” ing Pakistan to play their home charge Pietersen had not made, unavailable for next week’s first Shiites in Karachi on Wednesday had decided to stick to its plans of Ahmed said. matches mainly in the United as the batsman hadn’t said he’d Test against New Zealand at that left 45 dead. sending their team to Pakistan,” Zimbabwe are set to become the Arab Emirates. been “promised” anything, but Lord’s. AFP But a ZC spokesman issued Khan said in a statement. first Test team to tour Pakistan Warne, Tendulkar planning to start new T20 All Star league

SYDNEY: Cricket greats Gilchrist and Glenn McGrath, comment when approached, but Cricket All Stars League pro- Shane Warne and Sachin along with Michael Vaughan and has said previously that anything ceeds it could affect some domes- Tendulkar are planning to start Andrew Flintoff from England, that promotes and grows the tic Twenty20 competitions such a new Twenty20 competition for and South African Jacques Kallis. game in new and emerging mar- as Australia’s Big Bash League former international players, The Australian said none of kets is good for cricket, as long as and the Indian Premier League, reports said yesterday. the players it contacted wanted it doesn’t use current contracted which often include former inter- Unconfirmed reports say that to discuss the proposal but there players. national cricketers. Warne and Tendulkar have was concern about the push to Lee’s manager Neil Maxwell Under the reported proposal, offered 28 big-name ex-players sign a one-page contract with the confirmed his client had received a series of matches will be held contracts worth $US25,000 a promise of more details to follow. an offer to play in the Cricket All around the world over a three- match, with 15 Twenty20 games “Warne is in Britain but has Stars League and would be seek- and-a-half-year period, with planned for the Cricket All Stars been actively spruiking (pro- ing permission from CA to play. the US to host the first series in League over a 42-month period. moting) the idea. He hinted this “I can’t see anything wrong September. The Australian newspaper said year that he and Tendulkar had with it, it’s a group of retired New York, Los Angeles and players believed to have been formed a business that would be blokes playing a game of cricket,” Chicago were cited as the leading Cricket greats Shane Warne (right) and Sachin Tendulkar contacted included Australians launching during the year,” it said. Maxwell told Fox Sports yesterday. contenders to host the matches in Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting, Adam Cricket Australia had no The newspaper said if the the US. AFP Marquez ‘still has a lot to learn’ from Rossi

LE MANS: Young prodigy 2013 and 2014 MotoGP World everyone can see how he’s done “But both of us are professional Marc Marquez may be the Championships, is oft said to it and try to copy him.” enough to know the difference reigning double world champion be the heir to Rossi, now 36, The two look set for a thrilling between what happens there but insists he can still tap into who has nine Grand Prix World battle for the MotoGP crown this and outside. But it’s true he is the vast experience of motorcy- Championships to his name across season following a neck-and-neck the leader and a reference,” the cle legend Valentino Rossi. the three categories, including battle at the Argentina GP in Spaniard said. “I have learnt a lot from seven MotoGP titles. April resulted in Marquez crash- Marquez, who had won the first Valentino and I still have a lot to “I don’t believe in being any- ing out with two laps to go after ten grand prix in 2014, started off learn from him,” Marquez said one’s successor. To each his own. clipping the Italian icon’s back this season slowly with just one yesterday. Everyone has different goals, wheel. victory to Rossi’s double in Qatar “I believe he’s an idol for all of personality or mentality,” said “Our relationship hasn’t and in Argentina. the riders.” Marquez. changed (after the incident). The Yamaha rider is currently At just 22, Marquez, who “I think Rossi has been one of Logically, on the road, we are sitting at the top of the rid- won the 2010 125cc World the greatest. He’s 36 now but he both looking out for our personal ers’ standings, 26 points ahead Spain’s Marc Marquez competes on his Repsol Honda during the second Championship, the 2012 Moto2 remains a reference in our sport. interests. We’re both defending of Repsol Honda’s Marquez in free practice session in Le Mans, France, yesterday. World Championship and the Everyone can learn from him, ourselves,” he explained. fourth. AFP SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Djokovic and Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) Federer advance Executive Director Ahmed al Shebaani into Rome semis (centre) and QVA Technical Director ROME: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic Hussein Imam Ali moved a step closer to defending poses for a picture his Italian Open title after dom- with officials and inating Japan’s Kei Nishikori players of Al Arabi 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in a one-sided semi- and Al Rayyan dur- final in Rome yesterday. ing a press confer- Djokovic, who beat Rafael ence at the QVA Nadal in last year’s final to claim premises in Doha on his third trophy in the Italian the eve of the Emir capital, will now meet David Cup Volleyball final. Ferrer in the semis today when he The final will kick off will be highly fancied to account at 6.30pm at Al Arabi for the Spaniard. Stadium. In their 19 meetings so far, PICTURES BY: Djokovic has won 14 times. KAMMUTTY VP Although Ferrer has won three of their five meetings on clay, his last victory against the Serbian on the surface was during a Davis Cup match in 2009. Djokovic has won their past two meetings on clay, including a three-set quarter-final in Rome last year. Exciting tussle on the cards as But, admitting he has yet to reach the form that saw him beat Tomas Berdych in the final of the Monte Carlo Masters last month, Djokovic warned an upset could be on the cards. Al Arabi face Al Rayyan in final “I have to be honest and say I haven’t been playing as well in this tournament as I did at Monte Emir Cup Volleyball: Winners to get QR1m, runners-up QR55,0000 Carlo. The level I want to get on is still not there,” said Djokovic. “But little by little it’s coming DOHA: An exciting tussle for together. supremacy is on the cards today “Hopefully I will be able to at Al Arabi Stadium when Al play better -- more consistent, Rayyan take on Al Arabi in the less unforced errors, less ups and final of the Emir Cup Volleyball. downs in tomorrow’s match -- Defending champions Al Arabi because I have another clay court Club have been in good form this Al Rayyan coach specialist, one of the best compet- season. Daniele Bagnoli (left) itors on the Tour, somebody that They lost the battle for League and Ljubomir Travica is not going to hand me the win. crown to Al Rayyan but have coach of Al Rayyan “He (Ferrer) is going to make three titles in their kitty so far – pose with the Emir me work.” the newly-introduced Super Cup, Cup trophy. RIGHT: Djokovic had warned after Qatar Cup and the Federation The Emir Cup, the a hard-fought third round win Cup. winners will get over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci on Today’s clash between the two Thursday that his Japanese oppo- Qr1000,000 and the teams is the 15th time they are nent would be a tough customer. runners-up Q55,0000. meeting in the final with Al Arabi But after levelling the match at having an edge as they have won one set apiece, Nishikori’s chal- on ten occasions. lenge fizzled out in a third set that Both the teams have assem- saw the fifth seed grow increas- bled an array of stars in a bid to ingly frustrated at his inability win Qatar’s premier volleyball to match Djokovic’s clinical and championship. varied game. Holders Al Arabi have roped Djokovic swung the match in Bulgarian Nikolay Uchikov, it will not be easier than said done match in the semi-final playoffs in his favour when he broke to replace Polish player Mariusz to win the title. compared to Al Rayyan. Nishikori in the fourth game Wlazly while former Trentino Al Rayyan coach Daniele “All my players will fight hard, of the third set, stretching his star Juantorena Osmany joined Bagnoli said it takes time for new despite being a bit tired and I advantage to 4-1 with a forehand them for the Emir Cup. players to jell into a new team the hope the better team wins the volley at the net in the next game. Al Rayyan on the other hand new players have been adjusting title,” Bagnoli added. A Djokovic victory over Ferrer have hired Italian star Cristian in quick time. “I’m sure the final would be today could set up a final clash Savani, a strong server who led “Of course, it is difficult to hard and contesting. We’re more with Roger Federer or Rafael Italy to the Olympic Games sil- find a good balance. If we have than ready and hungry than Al Nadal on Sunday. ver and bronze medals in 2004 the players full time, it can make Arabi as we had lost the Qatar Earlier, Federer -- bidding for and 2012. They have also roped the job easy. Cup to them. We’ll try to put in his maiden Rome title having suf- in Wilfredo Leon Venero, replac- “But the players who are here our best tomorrow,” he added. fered three final defeats includ- ing Jan Stokr who played for the are high level professionals. So it Al Rayyan besides the QVA ing two to Nadal -- remained on club in the Qatar Cup. is very exciting for me to work League crown have also clinched course for a semi-final clash with Venero is a 21-year-old Cuban with them and get the best out the prestigious GCC Clubs the Spaniard after cruising past sensation who helped Russian of them,” added Bagnoli. Championship in Saudi Arabia Tomas Berdych 6-3-, 6-3 in just team Zenit Kazan to the European Bagnoli’s opposite number earlier in the year. over an hour. Clubs Championship this season. Ljubomir Travica said they have Al Rayyan have appeared in 23 He will meet Nadal in the last He is also a silver medallist in a difficult task at hand. Emir Cup finals earlier and have four if the Spaniard overcomes the 2010 World Championships “It is no doubt going to be a dif- been successful in wining the Swiss Stan Wawrinka in their in Italy. ficult match. Everybody is ready, tournament on 11 occasions. semi-final. But coaches of both teams said though we had to play one more THE PENINSULA But Federer admitted beat- ing Spain’s seven-time champion would be a “huge challenge”. Russia’s Maria Sharapova, the Emir Cup Basketball last winner of the women’s title in the past five years still in conten- tion in Rome, boosted her chances of a third title but first since 2012 by cruising to a 6-3, 6-2 win over Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Sharapova, the number three seed, will now meet Daria Gavrilova, who beat fellow-quali- fier Christina McHale 6-2, 6-4, in the semi-finals. In the other semi-final Spanish 10th seed Carla Suarez, who stunned the fourth seed Petra Kvitova 6-3. 6-2, will meet the second seed Simona Halep after she swept past fellow Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru, a qualifier, 6-1, 6-0. Italian Open Rome: Results from the sixth day of the ATP and WTA Italian Open yesterday (x denotes seeded player): Men Quarter-finals David Ferrer (ESP x7) bt David Goffin (BEL) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 Roger Federer (SUI x2) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) 6-3, 6-3 Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN x5) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 Women Quarter-finals Maria Sharapova (RUS x3) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 6-3, 6-2 Daria Gavrilova (RUS) bt Christina McHale (USA) 6-2, 6-4 Simona Halep (ROM x2) bt Alexandra Al Rayyan’s Christopher William dunks during their Emir Cup Basketball match against Al Khor at Al Gharafa Stadium yesterday. RIGHT: Al Gharafa player Downey Devan attempts to Dulgheru (ROM) 6-1, 6-0 break through the Al Arabi defence during the Emir Cup Basketball. PICTURES BY: BAHER AMIN Carla Suarez (ESP x10) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE x4) 6-3, 6-2 SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Al Sadd, El Jaish to clash in final Emir Cup: Qatar Stars League winners lose 2-0 to Al Sadd, El Jaish edge Qatar SC

DOHA: A brace from Hassan Al Haidos helped Al Sadd to register a 2-0 win over Qatar Stars League winners Lekhwiya and set up a Emir Cup final date with El Jaish. Yesterday playing at home, the former AFC Champions League winners struck in the 62nd and Action from 82nd minute at the Al Sadd the El Jaish Stadium. and Qatar Al Haidos won the man-of- SC match. the-match award for his two-goal effort. Lekhwiya, who were eyeing a triple, having already won the QSL title and the Qatar Cup, thus will have to content with the double as the Emir Cup will bring down the curtains on the football season in Qatar. Earlier, in the first semi-final, El Jaish bounced back to defeat Qatar Sports Club 2-1. Romarinho netted the match winner for El Jaish in the dying minutes of the match (90th minute). Hamdi Harbaoui had given the lead for Qatar SC in the 35th minute while five min- utes later Abdulgadir Ilyas Bakur equalised for El Jaish. THE PENINSULA

TOP: Al Sadd’s Hassan Al Haidos celebrates scoring a goal against Lekhwiya during the Emir Cup Semi-final match in Doha yester- day. Al Sadd won 2-0. LEFT: Action from the Emir Cup semi-final match between El Jaish and Qatar SC. BOTTOM RIGHT: Fans take selfies during the match. PICTURES BY: MOHAMED FARAG

I am not target PSG one point of FBI probe, away from Coach Mourinho rules out joining says Blatter French title

ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain rivals in transfer bidding wars Blatter insisted yesterday he is head into their penultimate league not the target of an FBI cor- match of the season today in the COBHAM, United Kingdom: approach. “The market is difficult. “Every player is linked to our ruption investigation and that knowledge that one point will be Jose Mourinho fears the forth- I can imagine that, this season, English Premier League club. Some because they want to he would visit the United States enough for the capital side to claim coming transfer window will will be like Wall Street collaps- come, some because they want Fixtures (1400 GMT unless stated) next year. a third consecutive French title. be dominated by inflated prices ing,” he told reporters yesterday. better contracts in their club. “I know this and everybody PSG have amassed 77 points and insists Chelsea will not get “I can imagine that some clubs Today: Burnley vs Stoke, Liverpool vs Crystal That’s the nature of the mar- knows that in the US there is from the 36 games played so far dragged into a bidding war for are coming with such determina- Palace (1630 GMT), QPR vs Newcastle, ket. We are not going to get an investigation against former -- with just three defeats -- six any of their targets. tion to the market that they will Southampton vs Aston Villa (1145 GMT), into this game. It doesn’t affect (FIFA) people,” Blatter told a ahead of Lyon. With three points Mourinho believes the deter- disrupt the market and take it in Sunderland vs Leicester, Tottenham vs Hull, us. It is what it is now. But we group of reporters at the world on offer for a win and one for a mination of a number of major unexpected directions. West Ham vs Everton know what we want and it’s not football body’s headquarters in draw, the Parisians would walk clubs to strengthen their squads “But we are in a good situation. Tomorrow: Manchester United vs Arsenal much.” Zurich. away as champions should they will drive prices up. We have stability in our squad. (1500 GMT), Swansea vs Manchester City Mourinho is also adamant he “But it is nothing against me,” not lose at Montpellier today. Manchester United are plan- We don’t need dramatic changes. (1230 GMT) has not given up hope of keep- he added. AFP ning a major overhaul of their We have to be loyal to our play- Monday: West Bromwich Albion vs Chelsea ing Petr Cech at Stamford Bridge An ESPN television documen- squad after two trophyless sea- ers. We believe in them. We have (1900 GMT) despite the goalkeeper’s agent tary this week said that the Swiss Ligue 1 sons and have already been linked a good squad. claiming he has been given per- official had deliberately stayed Fixtures from the Ligue 1 matches with big money moves for Real “What other clubs are going With a fairly young and suc- mission by Chelsea to negotiate away from the United States since Today Madrid midfielder Gareth Bale to do is not going to affect our cesful squad at his disposal, the with other clubs. his last visit in 2011 because of Monaco vs Metz (1900) and Tottenham striker Harry direction. If others buy 10 players former Real Madrid manager “I don’t know that’s absolutely an FBI investigation into FIFA En Avant Guingamp vs Toulouse (1900) Kane. each, that will not push us to do doesn’t expect a repeat of that true, what the agent is saying. corruption. Evian Thonon Gaillard FC vs St Etienne (1900) Manchester City are also things we are not going to do. We big spending this time. Or maybe it is. But, after that, The Federal Bureau of Nantes vs FC Lorient (1900) expected to strengthen in a bid to are stable.” “Last season we had stability to the player has a contract with Investigation is looking into the Lille vs Olympique Marseille (1900) recover lost ground on Mourinho’s Last year Mourinho responded analyse the needs to improve the Chelsea and Chelsea will have a actions of former CONCACAF Montpellier HSC vs Paris St Germain (1900) Premier League title winners. to Chelsea’s failure to win a tro- team. This season we have stabil- very important say in the deci- Americas regional confederation Nice vs Racing Lens (1900) But Blues boss Mourinho says phy by splashing out on Diego ity to keep our squad, our team, sion,” Mourinho said. officials Jack Warner of Trinidad Olympique Lyon vs Girondins Bordeaux (1900) Chelsea, who signed Brazilian Costa and Cesc Fabregas, with but to give some extra motivation “I keep saying the same: I want and Tobago and Chuck Blazer Bastia v Caen (1900) starlet Nathan this week, can both proving key figures in the to the squad and a couple of extra my best players to stay. Petr is one of the United States. Both are Stade de Reims v Stade Rennes (1900) afford to take a more cautious club’s title-winning campaign. options to improve,” he said. of my best players. AFP one-time members of the FIFA executive committee. But Blatter insisted he could go to the United States if he wanted to. Argentine fans halt match with pepper spray “If they want to speak with me there are international relation- ships,” he said. BUENOS AIRES: Boca Confederation (CONMEBOL) spray burns. Leonardo Ponzio, hurling rocks, bottles and other in an apology to the River Plate The FIFA president, who is Juniors fans fired pepper spray said it would meet Friday to Leonel Vangioni, Ramiro Funes missiles, authorities waited for an players on Twitter. seeking a new term as president at rival River Plate players forc- decide whether to try to finish Mori and Matias Kranevitter hour before calling off the match. The Boca-River Plate rivalry is at a FIFA congress this month, ing authorities to halt a Copa the game or just kick out Boca were all seen suffering. Fans climbed over a six metre (20 one of the most bitter in football. said he would go to the United Libertadores game in the latest Juniors for the conduct of their “I can’t see, I can’t see. I am feet) high wire fence to get onto Football authorities around the States, which is hosting a Copa violence to hit world football. fans. burning. This is not a war!” the pitch. After referee Dario world have warned over a resur- America centenary tournament Four River Plate players suf- River Plate won the first leg of shouted River Plate defender Herrera called off the game, some gence of hooliganism and racism. in June 2016. fered burns, according to media the round of 16 game 1-0. Mori. players ran off with their heads In Europe there have been seri- The special edition of the reports. River Plate players were com- Ponzio’s face swelled up and covered in wet towels in case of ous incidents in Greece, Ukraine South American tournament Players were returning for the ing out of the tunnel from the Mori said he had burns on his new attacks. Police guarded oth- and the Netherlands in recent will feature countries from other second half of the game, dead- dressing room for the second half body and in his eyes. Teammates ers with a tunnel of shields to stop months. continents. locked at 0-0, when the shocking when the irritant was sprayed at Tomas Martinez and Vangioni them being hit by projectiles. UEFA president Michel Platini Blatter, who is a strong favour- attack was staged by fans among them. were seen desperately throwing Boca Juniors condemned the warned in March of a return to ite to win a new term at 79, said the 60,000 capacity crowd in Team doctor Pedro Hansing water in his face to try to relieve violence. Boca player Marco the “dark days” of hooliganism in that age was no problem for con- Boca’s Bombonera stadium. told Argentine media that four the pain. Torsiglieri said “what happened Europe fired by a rise in national- tinuing in the post. AFP The South American Football players were treated for pepper Amid wild scenes with fans today was embarrassing, sad” ism and extremism. AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

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Justin Gatlin (left) of the United States wins the men’s 100m race at the IAAF Diamond League meet at the Qatar SC Stadium in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Allyson Felix (left) of the United States celebrates after winning the women’s 200m race in Doha yesterday. PICTURES: KAMMUTTY VP Doha Diamond League Results Results from the first meet in the 14-leg Gatlin runs race of his life, Diamond League circuit in Doha yesterday: Men 100m 1. Justin Gatlin (USA) 9.74s 2. Mike Rodgers (USA) 9.96s 3. Keston Bledman (TRI) 10.01s Felix wins in Doha again 4. Kim Collins (SKN) 10.03s 5. Femi Ogunode (QAT) 10.04s 800m 33-year-old records career-best time as Gebrhiwet stuns Mo Farah 1. Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) 1:43.78 2. Ferguson Rotich Cheruiyot (KEN) 1:44.53 3. Alfred Kipketer (KEN) 1:44.59 BY RIZWAN REHMAT their season’s best times. Rico’s Javier Culson, who man- In a shock result, Ethiopia’s aged a season best time of 48.96s. 3,000m DOHA: American sprinter Hagos Gebrhiwet stunned dou- Ireland’s Thomas Barr (48.99s) 1. Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) 7:38.08 Justin Gatlin yesterday laid ble Olympic and world champion finished third. 2. Mohamed Farah (GBR) 7:38.22 down the marker for the rest Mohammed ‘Mo’ Farah of Britain “What was important for me 3. Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa (KEN) 7:39.22 of the season by storming to a in the 3,000m. today was to have a great race and 400m hurdles convincing win in the season’s Gebrhiwet clocked a time not the time,” Jackson said. “I am 1. Bershawn Jackson (USA) 48.09 opening 100m duel. of 7:38.08 to edge Farah in the glad I broke the meeting record. 2. Javier Culson (PUR) 48.96 Looking in imperious run- tense run. Farah clocked 7:38.22 People doubted me last year but ning form, Gatlin clocked a new while Kenya’s Thomas Pkemei it was the injury problems that 3. Thomas Barr (EIR) 48.99 meet record time of 9.74 seconds, Longosiwa (7:39.22s) finished pulled me back.” Triple jump eclipsing his personal best of 9.77s, third. “I proved I can still run fast. 1. Pedro Pablo Pichardo (CUB) 18.06m in front of a cheering crowd at the Gatlin, who picked up a bronze I have been in the circuit for 2. Christian Taylor (USA) 18.04 Qatar Sports Club Stadium here. medal at the 2012 London many years but don’t forget that 3. Teddy Tamgho (FRA) 17.24 Gatlin, 33, erased Asafa Olympic Games behind Usain Bolt I started competing when I was Pole Vault Powell’s 2015 world-leading time and Yohan Blake, yesterday edged 19 and I still have a lot to give,” 1. Konstadínos Filippídis (GRE) 5.75m of 9.84s recorded last week. The compatriot Michael Rodgers he said. American sprinter also obliter- (9.96s) and Trinidad and Tobago’s Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti 2. Carlo Paech (GER) 5.60 ated Olusoji Adetokunbo Fasuba’s Keston Bledman (10.01s) on way managed a world-leading time of 3. German Chiaraviglio (ARG) 5.60 Doha meet record time of 9.85s to his big win. 1:43.78 for his win in the men’s Shot Put set in 2006. “It was a magical night for me,” 800m final. 1. David Storl (GER) 21.51m Gatlin’s previous best time of Gatlin said. “I won as I did on the Souleiman finished ahead of the 2. Reese Hoffa (USA) 21.30 9.77s was recorded in Brussels previous races here in Doha but I Kenyan duo of Rotich Ferguson 3. Ryan Whiting (USA) 21.06 last year. ran even faster.” Cheruiyot (1:44.53) and Alfred Javelin Earlier in humid conditions, “I put in a great show for the Kipketer (1:44.59). American sprint queen Allyson fans. I have been in training hard “I am happy that I beat a lot of Lithuania’s Airine Palsyte on her way to 1. Tero Pitkämäki (FIN) 88.62m Felix posted her 19th Diamond for that. Doha is a great place for big names,” Souleiman said. “But winning the gold medal in the women’s 2. Antti Ruuskanen (FIN) 86.61 League win as the American out- me. It is a popular meeting here. that is my goal this year — I want high jump event at the Qatar SC Stadium 3. Vítezslav Vesely (CZE) 83.67 sprinted Murielle Ahoure of Ivory I was invited again this season to win all the races until the end in Doha yesterday. Women Coast and Anthonique Strachan and with my performance I sent of the season, including the World 200m of the Bahamas in the women’s a statement,” he said with a smile. Championships in Beijing.” 1. Allyson Felix (USA) 21.98s 200m. Also yesterday, American “The 800m is a good prepara- Minutes after Felix savoured Germany’s Nadine Muller 2. Murielle Ahouré (CIV) 22.29s The 29-year-old American sprinter Bershawn Jackson pro- tion for my main discipline. Doha her memorable run, American (65.13m) finished second best clocked a time of 21.98s that gave duced a meet record time of is my place. I feel like at home sprinter Jasmin Stowers won the while Australia’s Dani Samuels 3. Anthonique Strachan (BAH) 22.69s her the world-leading time for 48.09s to seal an impressive win here,” he said. women’s 100m hurdles ahead of (64.45m) was third. 400m this year and a new meet record. in the men’s 400m hurdles. Germany’s David Storl over- compatriot Sharika Nelvis and “I am satisfied with four points 1. Francena McCorory (USA) 50.21 The previous best was recorded Jackson bettered L.J. Van Zyl’s came Reese Hoffa’s season-best Britain’s Tiffany Porter. and with a win here in Doha,” 2. Sanya Richards-Ross (USA) 50.79 by Romania’s Ionela Tirlea- previous best time of 48.11s posted distance to win the men’s shot Stowers clocked a world-lead- Perkovic said. “But the result 3. Stephenie Ann McPherson (JAM) 50.93 Manolache (22.35s) in 1999. in 2011. put gold. Storl produced the day’s ing time of 12.35s, scripting a doesn’t make me happy. I came 1500m: Ahoure (22.29s) and Strachan The 22-year-old finished the best throw of 21.51m on his second new meet and Diamond League here with 71m that’s why my (22.69s) also managed to register season’s first race ahead of Puerto attempt to pick up four points in record. expectations were higher.” 1. Dawit Seyaum (ETH) 4:00.96 the season-opening competition. Nelvis registered a personal “Of course, this is the second 2. Sifan Hassan (NED) 4:01.40 Hoffa’s season-best 21.30m best time of 12.54s while Porter best throw of the season but I can 3. Senbere Teferi (ETH) 4:01.86 Qatar’s Abdalleleh Haroun earned him two points. Third- finished third with 12.65s. do better,” the 24-year-old added. 100m Hurdles celebrates after winning placed Ryan Whiting finished the “It’s been a great start to the Ethiopian teen Dawit Seyaum 1. Jasmin Stowers (USA) 12.35 the men’s 400m race at the proceedings with 21.06m throw season,” Stowers said. “It means erased last week’s season-best 2. Sharika Nelvis (USA) 12.54 Qatar SC Stadium in Doha that got him his first points of the a lot of competitions with such time to win the women’s 1500m 3. Tiffany Porter (GBR) 12.65 yesterday. season. great women and athletes. It just ahead of Dutch runner Sifan Whiting said: “I love throwing feels great.” Hassan (4:01.40). 3000m Steeplechase here in Doha, the weather condi- “Now it’s Rome, New York Seyaum’s time of 4:00.96 yes- 1. Virginia Nyambura (KEN) 9:21.51 tions are ideal. I am starting to and the US trials in late June. terday easily bettered Anna 2. Hiwot Ayalew (ETH) 9:21.54 get my rhythm; I am in shape for I definitely want to be at the Mischenko’s time of 4:02.47, 3. Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (KEN) 9:22.11 better, but today I’ll take it.” world championships in Beijing,” clocked last week. High Jump He added: “I will now get back Stowers said. Ethiopian runner Senbere 1. Airiné Palsyté (LTU) 1.94 m home, then go to Prefontaine, In the women’s 400m final, Teferi managed a personal best 2. Irina Gordeeva (RUS) 1.94 maybe Rome, then New York, the American sprinter Francena time of 4:01.86 to finish third. Nationals and of course the world McCorory topped the race ahead “I am happy I won today,” 3. Isobel Pooley (GBR) 1.91 championships.” of chief rival and compatriot Seyaum, 18, said. “It was my first Long Jump Earlier, Felix, 29, rarely looked Sanya Richards-Ross. Diamond League with such a 1. Tianna Bartoletta (USA) 6.99 m in trouble as she stormed to her McCorory clocked 50.21s while strong field. Thank you all to the 2. Shara Proctor (GBR) 6.95 19th Diamond League win in the Richards-Ross had to settle with supporters in Doha,” she added. 3. Christabel Nettey (CAN) 6.93 women’s 200m. 50.79s. Jamaican Stephanie Ann In the women’s long jump, Discus “I am really happy today,” Felix McPherson finished with a sea- American Tianna Bartoletta 1. Sandra Perkovic (CRO) 68.10m said. “A world lead, a meeting son-best time of 50.93s. managed the world’s leading dis- record and I equaled the Diamond McCorory said: “It was a great tance of 6.99m on her sixth and 2. Nadine Müller (GER) 65.13 League record. It’s a good start. I race for me. I didn’t think about final attempt to get her season 3. Dani Samuels (AUS) 64.45 feel strong and my speed is good,” the rivals or time. I just wanted going on an impressive note. she said. to run my own race. This is defi- Bartoletta said: “I feel very first was back in 2006 and it feels “I am looking forward to the nitely a good performance for the good about my jump and great to be back.” next competitions, the world world championships.” the world lead. Training has Britain’s Shara Proctor (6.95m) championships in August. Doha Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic eased been going really well and I am finished second while Canada’s is always a special place for me, so to a gold medal in the women’s happy.” Christabel Nettey (6.93m) ended thanks to the fans for their sup- discus throw, managing a distance The 19-year-old added: “It is in third place. port,” the American added. of 68.10m. my second time here in Doha. My THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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Mondrian Facebook tramples EU privacy law: Watchdog sets artist’s BRUSSELS: Belgium’s pri- across the 28-member bloc to study’s recommendations with uses data it collects. It highlighted “right to be forgotten”. vacy watchdog accused demand that big US tech com- the Irish data protection commis- problems with plug-ins such as EU anti-trust regulators Facebook yesterday of tram- panies abide by European laws. sioner: “We work hard to make Facebook’s “Like” button, which launched a case against Google record at pling on European privacy laws “Facebook tramples on sure people have control over it said affected many who do not last month and are probing Apple by tracking people online with- European and Belgian privacy what they share and with whom.” have a Facebook account. and Amazon over low-tax deals out their consent and dodg- laws”, the Commission said “Facebook is already regulated A number of firms are under with Ireland and Luxembourg. Christie’s ing questions from national after publishing a report ana- in Europe and complies with fire in Europe over the data they The European Commission is regulators. lysing changes that the com- European data protection law, collect. Facebook places track- studying whether to pursue auction The Privacy Protection pany made to its privacy policies so the applicability of the CBPL’s ing “cookies” when anyone visits German and French proposals for Commission (CPVP/CBPL), in January. efforts is unclear,” she said. a Facebook page, meaning it can an EU-wide regulator for Internet which is working with German, It said in a statement that Some EU states accuse Ireland track the online activities of a platforms. NEW YORK: Art col- Dutch, French and Spanish coun- Facebook had refused to rec- of being soft on the multinational huge number of non-customers, Some European politicians, lectors continued lavish terparts, launched the blistering ognise Belgian and other EU firms it wants to attract, whether but has said this is a bug that it also angered by revelations of spending on Thursday as attack after trying to find out national jurisdictions, insisting in data protection or corporate is working to fix. US espionage in Europe, say US the spring art auctions more about the US social media it was subject only to the law in taxation. The Commission asked firms abuse their power, discour- wrapped up at Christie’s, giant’s practices. Ireland, the site of its European The commission said it would Facebook to stop gathering user aging local start-ups and jeop- where a $50.6m oil by It urged Internet users to headquarters. publish a second report on data via cookies and plug-ins, ardising privacy laws cherished Piet Mondrian set an art- install privacy software to shield “Facebook has shown itself par- Facebook this year. Sanctions except where users asked for it. by Europeans with memories of ist’s record and went far themselves from Facebook’s ticularly miserly in giving precise available to privacy watchdogs European regulators have pre- authoritarian rule. towards the auction house’s tracking systems, whether they answers,” the watchdog said, add- can be negligible to big firms, but viously forced Google to change US President Barack Obama, $202.6m Impressionist and have an account with the social ing that the results of the study a new EU data protection law its privacy policies. who is trying to negotiate a land- modern sale total. network or not. by a group of researchers were expected to be ready this year And a year ago, EU judges mark transatlantic free trade deal With 43 works on offer, The show of strength from the “disconcerting”. would allow for fines up to 5 per- upheld a Spanish order that with the EU, TTIP, says Europe only three failed to sell, while Belgian regulator, which does A Facebook spokeswoman cent of annual sales. Google must remove links to out- is throwing up protectionist bar- Christie’s exceeded its high not have the power to levy fines, questioned the Belgians’ author- The commission said Facebook dated information from searches riers to tech companies. pre-sale estimate by more highlights a growing willingness ity but said it would review the would not explain in detail how it for people’s names—establishing a REUTERS than $40m. The result capped two weeks of sales that have brought in well over $2bn Antarctica’s at Christie’s and rival Beatles guitar headlines Sotheby’s, with Christie’s massive ice boasting a new record for history’s top auction price NY music auction shelf weakening with Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’),” which NEW YORK: A guitar played by George Harrison in the fetched $179.4m. Christie’s’ Beatles’ early days, previously on display in a British museum, fast, says Nasa alone took in more than goes on auction in New York yesterday, valued at $400,000 to $1.3bn during the course of $600,000. LOS ANGELES: The its Monday and Wednesday The electric guitar is the two-day auction’s star item, amid hun- last intact section of one of evening sales. dreds of possessions once owned by rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest stars, Antarctica’s mammoth ice “This sale marks a record- which auctioneers hope will rake in millions. shelves is weakening fast and setting week for the global Harrison borrowed the guitar while his was under repair and will likely disintegrate com- auction market,” said Brooke was photographed and filmed playing it at concerts, said Martin pletely in the next few years, Lampley, head of Impressionist Nolan, executive director of Julien’s Auctions. contributing further to rising and modern art of Thursday’s “It was played by Harrison in the Cavern Club in the early 60s,” sea levels, according to a Nasa strong result. said Nolan, referring to a Liverpool nightclub that gave birth to study. Officials said international the world’s biggest band. The research focused on a rem- demand by a growing pool of “That is a really iconic piece, highly sought after. The estimate nant of the so-called Larsen B relatively new collectors com- is $400,000 to $600,000 but I think it goes a lot higher,” he said. Ice Shelf, which has existed for peting with more established The guitar is being sold by a collector in Britain who had loaned at least 10,000 years but partially ones for a fixed supply of mas- it to the Beatles museum in Liverpool, where it became a “great collapsed in 2002. What is left terpieces had driven prices at draw,” Nolan said. covers about 625sqm, about half the art market’s top echelons “Even the new owner may decide to lend it back to them.” the size of Rhode Island. to record levels. The New York auction will potentially draw fans, celebrities and Antarctica has dozens of ice Sotheby’s said Asian buy- museums, as well as Wall Street bankers and hedge funds looking shelves - massive, glacier-fed ers had accounted for more for an investment. floating platforms of ice that than 30 percent of its evening The highlight of the sale at the Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday hang over the sea at the edge of sales, most notably van Gogh’s is a state-of-the-art tour bus bought by Elvis Presley for his the continent’s coast line. The “L’Allée des Alyscamps,” which back-up band, J D Sumner and the Stamps, in 1976, the year largest is roughly the size of sold for $66.3m last week to a before he died. France. mainland Chinese buyer. Valued at $100,000 to 200,000 and refitted with dusty peach soft Larsen B is located in the The auction house logged furnishings, the bus still has Elvis’ “Takin’ Care of Business” motto Antarctic Peninsula, which its second-best results ever at and a lightening bolt emblazoned on the outside. extends toward the southern tip both its Impressionist/modern Fully road worthy, it seats 12, sleeps nine and comes equipped of South America and is one of and post-war/contemporary with air conditioning, a fridge, microwave, TVs and speakers. There two principal areas of the conti- sales. are even chandelier-style lights hanging from the lounge area. nent where scientists have docu- The highlight at Christie’s Inside is a copy of the $25,000 check that Elvis made out to friend mented the thining of such ice on Thursday, as expected, was and mentor Sumner to purchase the bus. formations. Mondrian’s “Composition No. Elvis is believed to have had some meetings on the bus but by “This study of the Antarctic III, with Red, Blue, Yellow, 1976, he had no personal need for road transport, flying high on Peninsula glaciers provides and Black,” which soared far his private jets the Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II. But he did have insights about how ice shelves beyond its estimate of $15m a burning desire to road-test the bus, calming Sumner’s nerves by farther south, which hold much to $25m as six international promising to buy him another if it crashed, Nolan said. more land ice, will react to a bidders competed. At $50.6m, “He took the bus out from Graceland and he drove right out warming climate,” said Eric it obliterated Mondrian’s auc- into the country and then he was worried how am I going to turn Rignot, co-author of the study tion record of $27.6m, which this bus around, so he drove into a corn field, drove back out again and a glaciologist at Nasa’s had stood since 2009. and back home.” Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Modigliani’s canvas The bus is one of nearly 200 Elvis items going on the auction Pasadena, California. “Beatrice Hastings” also did block, including a military uniform, a black-and-white stage outfit Almost 200 countries have well, selling for $16.1m against valued at $60,000 to $80,000, and a “Love Me Tender” record dedi- agreed to negotiate a United a high estimate of $10m, while cated to his beloved mother Gladys. Even if the Harrison guitar is Nations pact by the end of 2015 Fernand Léger’s “Le corsage top lot, Elvis is king when it comes to generating mega bucks at to combat global climate change, rouge” similarly outper- music auctions. which most scientists expect formed expectations, selling Nolan said there is worldwide interest in the bus, which could will bring about more flooding, for just under $17m including end up in Australia, Japan, China or Europe... or just as easily stay droughts, heat waves and higher Christie’s commission of just in America. seas. over 12 percent. AFP REUTERS REUTERS