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Google, Android, Android TV, Chromecast and other related marks Your hero for family entertainment and logos are trademarks of Google LLC. Amir to leave for Pakistan Change Readiness Index places Qatar on two-day official visit among top states QNA/THE PENINSULA During the visit, both DOHA parties are expected to sign a number SACHIN KUMAR released two years ago. Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin THE PENINSULA At that time, Qatar was Hamad Al Thani will pay a of memoranda of ranked 11th in government capa- two-day state visit to the Islamic understanding in Qatar is among the top 20 coun- bility, 24th in the enterprise Republic of Pakistan today at the several fields. tries in the world which are capability and 21st in people and invitation of Pakistani Prime well-prepared to embrace civil society category. Minister Imran Khan. change. The country has been The Index measures a coun- H H the Amir will hold talks the Amir is expected to further ranked 12th out of the total 140 try’s capacity for general change, with President Dr Arif Alvi and strengthen the close fraternal ties countries in the 2019 Change but KPMG’s methodology shows Prime Minister Imran Khan on between Pakistan and Qatar and Readiness Index released by that those same capabilities also ways to enhance bilateral rela- deepen bilateral cooperation in KPMG. dictate a country’s preparedness tions in addition to discussing a diverse fields. Qatar’s performance in the for climate change. number of issues of common It said “H H the Amir will index assumes significance as The 2019 Index also revealed interest. hold talks with the Prime Min- it has surpassed many major that countries most susceptible During the visit, both parties ister and will have meeting with economies including United to climate risks are mostly low will sign a number of memo- the President. The two sides will States, Canada, Japan and Aus- income and lower-middle randums of understanding in discuss ways and means of tralia. At a time when the world income countries. several fields. An official dele- building a robust and mutually is changing at a rapid pace, Less mature economies like gation will accompany H H the beneficial economic part- Change Readiness Index ranks Chad, South Sudan and Amir. nership. During the visit, 140 countries on how effec- Afghanistan are the worst per- The Ministry of Foreign Pakistan and Qatar will sign tively they prepare for, and forming in climate resilience, Affairs of Pakistan also issued Memorandum of Under- respond to, major change as are countries in Sub- statement regarding the visit of standings (MOUs)/agreements events. Saharan Africa and South Asia. H H the Amir to Pakistan. for enhanced bilateral cooper- Switzerland has topped the The majority of higher income It said that the visit of H H ation in different areas.” ranking for a second year, fol- economies are considered low lowed by Singapore and risk, high readiness Denmark which were placed in countries. Qatar condemns second and third place, respec- The 2019 Change Readiness tively. Europe dominated the Index combines data from 25 attack on MME allocates five plots for top ranking as nine European primary survey questions, countries were included in the gathered from 1,400 specialists, Baghdad mosque top 20. with a secondary dataset of heavy machinery parking The 2019 Change Readiness more than 125 variables. QNA/DOHA Index (CRI) indicates the capa- The Index, now in its SANAULLAH ATAULLAH report posted on its website. A for heavy vehicles, machines and bility of a country – its gov- fourth year of bi-annual pub- The State of Qatar has THE PENINSULA plot of land was already allocated equipment and asked the Min- ernment, private and public lication, measures each strongly condemned the in the Industrial Support Services istry to conduct a feasibility enterprises, people and wider country across three key bombing that targeted a The Ministry of Municipality and Area at Doha Municipality. study in this regard. civil society – to anticipate, pillars of capability: enter- mosque in the east of the Iraqi Environment represented by The Ministry of Municipality Residents also had been prepare for, manage, and prise, government and people capital Baghdad, causing Urban Planning Department has and Environment also said that a expressing their resentments respond to a wide range of & civil society. deaths and injuries. allocated five plots of land for proposal is under study to allocate through social media and local change drivers, proactively cul- “Climate change is among In a statement yesterday, heavy machinery parking another four plots of land for newspapers for long time against tivating the resulting opportu- the most pressing issues we face the Ministry of Foreign Affairs including trucks, machines and heavy machinery in Bu-Al Yuwabi the presence of some heavy nities and mitigating potential as a global society. Those coun- reiterated the State of Qatar’s equipment. at Al Rayan Municipality. vehicles in residential areas. negative impacts. tries failing to recognise the firm stance rejecting violence Four plots of land are ear- “The new allocated plots of The public hygiene law No 18 Qatar has ranked fourth in impact of climate change are and terrorism, regardless of marked in Al Rayan Municipality land will provide safe and desig- of 2017 prohibits occupying fields government capability, 16th in the likely to be unprepared for its motives and reasons. and one in Umm Salal Munici- nated places for parking trucks and and roads with abandoned vehicles, enterprise capability and 22nd in growing costs, which will be It stressed the State of Qatar pality. At Al Rayan Municipality, heavy equipment,” Abu Mohamad, temporary or permanent buildings people and civil society category. levied on citizens, businesses total rejection of targeting one plot of land is allocated in an expert told The Peninsula. He without taking prior permission Qatar has also improved its and economies around the places of worship and intimi- Umm Qarn, two in Bu-Al- said that members of Central from the respective municipality. performance in the past few years world. Our 2019 report aims to dating civilians. Yuwabi and one in Industrial Municipal Council (CMC) have In April 2019, the General in terms of adapting to changes demonstrate that there isn’t a The statement expressed Area. The fifth plot of land is been raising the issue of providing Monitoring Section of Al Dayeen which is evident from jump in its one-size-fits-all approach to the condolences of the State of allocated in Bufasila area at parking lots for heavy vehicles. Municipality caught 40 heavy ranking the index. responding to major change,” Qatar to the victims’ families, Umm Salal Municipality. In a session, CMC had rec- machines and equipment for The country has jumped said Timothy Stiles, Global the government and the people The allocations are made in ommended to the Ministry of occupying public places including seven places in the last couple of Chair of KPMG’s International of Iraq, wishing the injured a coordination with the authorities Transport and Communications fields and roadsides behind Al years, as it was ranked 19th in the Development Assistance speedy recovery. concerned, the Ministry said in a to provide separate parking lots Khisa Petrol Station. `P2 2017 Change Readiness Index, Services. FIFA World Cup winner Cafu unveiled as SC Ambassador QNA glory when he lifted the famous Cup game between Brazil and SAO PAULO trophy in Japan following his England, so you could say it would nations 2-0 victory over be my destiny to have a lifelong Brazils legendary 2002 FIFA World Germany. With 148 international affiliation with the sport. From Cup winning captain Cafu has offi- appearances, he is also the most dreams of playing as a small child, cially joined Qatar's journey on the capped player in Brazils illus- to getting the chance to represent road to 2022 after being unveiled trious football history. my nation, to the ultimate honour as an SC Ambassador. At a special unveiling cer- winning the World Cup it has Established by the Supreme emony in his home city of Sao always been my passion. Committee for Delivery & Legacy Paulo, hosted by SC Secretary- “During my time as a player (SC) the organisation responsible for General Hassan Al Thawadi, and since then in retirement I have delivering tournament infra- Cafu officially joined Xavi also witnessed the games unique structure for the FIFA World Cup Hernndez, Samuel Etoo and power to educate, inspire and 2022, the ambassador programme Mohammed Saadon Al Kuwari provide outlets for underprivi- works alongside some of the games as an official SC Ambassador. leged people, no matter where most iconic stars to help deliver and Reflecting on the you are from in the world.” He promote the numerous legacy pro- announcement, Cafu said: “It is continued: “Through its legacy grammes and infrastructure an honour and a privilege to offi- programmes, such as the Josoor projects associated with the Arab cially become part of the team Institute, Generation Amazing and worlds first FIFA World Cup. helping to deliver the World Cup Challenge 22, I have witnessed the One of the games most in Qatar. The World Cup has SCs commitment to ensuring respected and iconic stars, in played a dominant role in my life, Qatars World Cup looks beyond 2002 Cafu joined an elite group some may say even from birth. the 28 days of football to inspire of just five men to have cap- “As many know, I was born and help people far away and for SC Secretary-General Hassan Al Thawadi (right) with legendary 2002 FIFA World Cup winning captain tained Brazil to FIFA World Cup during the famous 1970 World generations to come. `P2 Cafu in Sao Paulo, yesterday. 02 HOME SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS Qatar’s candidate elected as AG meets US Secretary of Treasury FAJR 03. 15 AM member of UN’s Elimination SHOROOK 04. 44 AM of Racial Discrimination panel ZUHR 11. 36 AM MAGHRIB 06. 28 PM QNA NEW YORK ASR 02. 58 PM ISHA 07. 58 PM

The States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination WEATHER TODAY of All Forms of Racial Discrimination have elected the candidate of the State of Qatar, H E Dr. Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad for the membership of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by an overwhelming majority where she received 132 votes from a group of 180 votes to the States parties to the Convention. Dr. Sheikha Abdulla Al Missned has been elected at 28th Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination held yesterday at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Dr. Al Misnad was elected among 14 candidates to fill nine seats for the Committee, which begins in January 2020. The election of the candidate of the State of Qatar comes for her role in emphasising the right to education and the dissemination of human rights principles in the educational curricula, as evidenced by her deep respect for the principles of dignity and equality among all human beings. Throughout her career, she has promoted and Attorney-General H E Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri met with the United States Secretary of the Treasury, respected everyone without distinction as to race, sex, Steven Mnuchin, and a number of his aides. The two sides discussed a number of issues of common language or religion. concern. The Permanent Delegation of the State of Qatar to the United Nations efforts were crowned in managing the electoral campaign culminated in the election victory of Dr. Al Misnad amid fierce competition and overwhelming MME allocates plots for heavy machinery parking majority of the votes in favor of the candidate of the State o o of Qatar for membership of the Committee on the Elim- FROM PAGE 1 32 C 42 C ination of Racial Discrimination. four truck parking facilities in (QPTP). Committed and dedi- Minimum Maximum Dr. Sheikha Abdullah Al Misnad’s victory also under- key areas across the country. cated to supporting the private scores Qatar’s vital role in defending human rights and The action was taken According to the report, the sector, The Ministry of Transport working through United Nations bodies to eliminate all according to the public hygiene aim of this move was to mod- and Communications has also Hot daytime with slight dust at some forms of racial discrimination. Dr. Al Misnad was law. Last year in March, The ernise and improve mobility and provided facilities to the truck places. appointed President of Qatar University in 2003 as the Ministry of Transport and Com- transportation services coun- freight industry, allowing it to

first Qatari woman to hold this position. Since 2012 she munications had revealed a plan trywide in accordance with the take advantage of the multiple

HIGH TIDE 06:26–20:03 LOW TIDE 03:38 – 12:52 has been a member of the Global Justice Project. for establishing and developing Qatar Public Transport Program services the project offers. Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Grammy winning Indian musician enthralls Katara audience Dubbed “Unison of Strings and Wind,” the Culture. We are really happy for concert was a Jugalbandhi performance, which what we have achieved having in Indian classical music means duet of two events that had witnessed such good interest in Qatar and we musicians, with Bhatt showcasing his great have more coming before the skill playing the Mohan Veena, a slide guitar he Year of Culture comes to an end,” himself created, while Shashank revealing why said Indian Ambassador to Qatar, he is arguably the best bamboo flutist in the P Kumaran. The ambassador congratu- world. lated BTE for a successful launch and thanked Katara for its con- stant support and ceaseless help RAYNALD C RIVERA in the world. They were accom- in presenting many events by the THE PENINSULA panied by two equally talented Embassy during the Year of musicians who demonstrated Culture. “It is a great honour and Hundreds of Indian classical their expertise in playing Indian privilege for us to launch Beats music lovers had the privilege to percussion instruments — and Tunes Events today as it also watch Grammy winning Himanshu Mahant on tabla and happens to be the World Music musician Pandit Vishwa Mohan Patri Satish Kumar on Day. We are honoured to host Bhatt and Grammy nominee mirdangam. this programme at this pres- Shashank Subramanyam “One feature of the Indian tigious Drama Theatre in Katara creating beautiful music classical music is that it is based Cultural Village with artistes of World class Indian musicians Pandit Vishwa Mohan (left) and Shashank Subramanyam at the “Unison yesterday at Katara Drama on improvisation which means great international recognition of Strings and Wind” concert held at Katara Drama Theatre yesterday. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA Theatre. no pre-written or pre-composed to perform for us,” said BTE Dubbed “Unison of Strings music. It is created there and Director Varshini Gopal and Wind,” the concert was a then spontaneously and will not Hindustani music — are slightly which he described as ‘a won- The concert served as the Bhatt praised BTE “because Jugalbandhi performance, which be repeated in another pro- different in approach, they can derful city.” launch event by Beats and Tunes they are working selflessly so in Indian classical music means gramme; that’s the beauty of become one which they aimed The well applauded per- Events (BTE) organised in line that they can provide music to duet of two musicians, with Bhatt Indian classical music,” Bhatt to show at yesterday’s concert formance was preceded by sitar with the ongoing Qatar India people who are interested in it.” showcasing his great skill playing told the audience. on the occasion of World Music recital by Amita Dalal with 2019 Year of Culture in cooper- In 1994, Bhatt along with the Mohan Veena, a slide guitar The legendary 1994 Grammy Day. Himanshu on tabla, who both ation with the Indian Embassy American musician Ry Cooder he himself created, while Award winner stressed that Bhatt said it was his privilege impressed the audience with and Katara Cultural Village. won the Grammy Award for Best Shashank revealing why he is while the two streams of Indian and pleasure to perform in front their exceptional talent in a “This happens to be the 21st World Music Album for “A arguably the best bamboo flutist classical music — Carnatic and of an august audience in Doha 20-minute scintillating show. event on the India Qatar Year of Meeting by the River.” FIFA World Cup winner Cafu unveiled as SC Ambassador FROM PAGE 1

It is for these reasons that I did not hesitate to join the organi- sation and help it continue to deliver its work.” Although his remit will cover a wide range of SC programmes, projects and initiatives, Cafu will work closely with the Josoor Institute to help deliver its groundbreaking academic and vocational courses and qualifica- tions to the next generation of sports and events professionals. Josoor Institute was launched in December 2013 with the purpose of building the capabilities of the sports and events industries in Qatar and the MENA region through education, training, profes- sional certification, consultancy and research. Education through sport is a subject close to Cafus heart. He has played an active role in helping to deliver educational and voca- tional courses to underprivileged children in Jardim Irene, the area of So Paulo in which he grew up. “There are a great deal of parallels between this and the work that the SC is doing, through Josoor and also other programmes such as Generation Amazing,’ said Al Thawadi. “So to combine this kind of work with the next World Cup in Qatar, and the work I have done in the past, it really does feel a perfect fit for me,” he added. Adding his own words of welcome, Al Thawadi also added that: “We are delighted to welcome Cafu to our team. His legendary status and the legacy he leaves behind from his on-field activities are clear for all to see. But what is equally impressive to us is the work, com- mitment and dedication he has shown towards using his profile to deliver genuine hope and opportunity to the underprivileged. “That he joins us with a commitment to helping ensure that the next generation receives the opportunities and avenues to succeed whether it be on or off the pitch makes him a perfect fit for our International Yoga Day marked organisation. I look forward to working alongside him up to and Children and adults of different nationalities practice Yoga to mark the International Yoga Day at the Indoor Tennis Court of Sheraton beyond Qatar 2022.” Grand Doha Resort and Convention Hotel yesterday. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 GULF/ MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 03 Tunisians against ‘Deal of the Century’

ANATOLIA “We are against the Deal of the Century, TUNIS because it would eliminate the Palestinian cause and hand over Palestine [including] Tunisians believe the US-backed compromise plan between Israel Jerusalem to the Zionist entity [Israel], in the and Palestine will fail due to context of a comprehensive compromise” said wide-spread popular rejection Hatem, 47, a state servant. in Arab and Muslim countries, despite the “weak” stance of their governments. Gulf states. The peoples of the Arabia, Qatar, and host country The residents of the capital Gulf, including Saudi Arabia Bahrain — have all stated that Tunis, expressed their expecta- and the United Arab Emirates they will be participating in the tions to the plan dubbed “Deal (UAE), were “different from conference. Last month, the Pal- of the Century”. their leadership and refuse to estine Liberation Organization, “We are against the Deal of normalise ties with Israel,” announced that it would not the Century, because it would Samara opined. send a delegation to the US-led eliminate the Palestinian cause Documentary film director conference. and hand over Palestine Marwan Suleimani, 26, warned Based on leaks to the media, [including] Jerusalem to the that the deal “would again dis- the deal will call on Palestinians Zionist entity [Israel], in the place the Palestinian people.” to make major concessions to context of a comprehensive Meanwhile, Ikram Maliki, a Israel regarding Jerusalem’s compromise” said Hatem, 47, a 22-year old graduate student status and the right of Pales- state servant. argued that “the Tunisian people tinian refugees to return to their Jordanian protesters chant slogans during a protest against US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of “We support the resistance,” as well as the Arab peoples reject homes in historical Palestine. the Century” after the Friday prayer in Amman, Jordan. he added in reference to the Pal- this deal.” “We will remain sup- estinian resistance factions. portive of the Palestinian cause,” Al Sahbi Samara, 40, who she affirmed. works as a broadcaster, said the On May 18, Washington Jordanians protest against peace plan deal “is linked to the US’ announced plans to convene a influence in the [Middle East] conference in Bahrain’s capital, REUTERS protesters, among them leaders normalisation with Israel... down, will deliver a message there that region” noting that it’s mere Manama, where US officials are AMMAN of the mainstream Islamist down with the Bahrain con- no cash offers can replace a attempt by Washington to expected to unveil next week the movement that organised the ference,” shouted angry pro- political solution to end Israel’s “revert the balance of power in economic aspects of the Middle Hundreds of Jordanian Islamists march, chanted “O Trump, O testers who mixed pro-Islamic occupation of the West Bank, its favour...,” Samara added that East compromise plan or “Deal marched in the capital yesterday Trump, go away from us. Jordan chants and anti-Western officials say. “We have come to in recognising Jerusalem as of the Century”. to denounce Washington’s peace is steadfast and we will never rhetoric. Some carried placards say in one voice that as Jorda- Israel’s capital in December The conference will plan to end the Arab-Israeli kneel.” The protesters chanted saying “Down with Bahrain nians we reject the Bahrain 2017, the US intended to provoke reportedly be chaired by US conflict and demand their slogans against Amman’s partic- workshop” as hundreds of police workshop. It is shame on those more than a billion Muslims President Donald Trump’s senior government boycott a ipation in the US sponsored stood by and cordoned off a main who participate,” said Murad Al worldwide. adviser and son-in-law, Jared conference in Bahrain next week workshop in the Gulf kingdom street in the heart of the capital’s Adaylah, the head of the Islamic He voiced doubt that Wash- Kushner and US special envoy that will examine the project. of Bahrain next Tuesday which downtown area. Action Front,(IAF) the political ington’s plan would succeed to the Middle East Jason Green- Emerging from the main Washington has billed as an eco- Although Jordan will join the arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, due to the publics’ sensitivities blatt. So far, six Arab states — Husseini mosque in downtown nomic overture to its long conference to roll out the eco- the country’s largest opposition towards Palestine, even in the Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Amman after Friday prayers, the delayed peace initiative. “No to nomic parts of Trump’s plan, it group.

Kuwait calls for Ethiopia oppn sees dangers if 2020 vote delayed halt to Israeli REUTERS could delay next year’s par- public,” former political prisoner political parties, and prosecuted tell voters to go and vote,” said ADDIS ABABA liament vote. Merera Gudina said. He chairs officials accused of gross human the former judge, once given a settlement A national census has already the opposition Oromo Federalist rights abuses. Those reforms fol- life sentence for activism but Opposition politicians in Ethiopia been postponed twice, poten- Congress party from a region, lowed three years of sporadic appointed by Abiy to head the expansion are warning against a delay to tially undermining logistics for Oromia, at the heart of anti-gov- deadly protests against the gov- board. “There are many inter- national elections due in 2020 the polls including the drawing ernment protests in recent years. ernment in which hundreds died nally displaced people.” A QNA that would be the first under up of constituencies. “Once the public begins to and thousands were imprisoned. spokeswoman for the board, KUWAIT reformist Prime Minister Abiy Critics say postponing the express its anger... no one will Local elections last year were Soleyana Shimeles, said yes- Ahmed but are under threat from national vote could cause an have the means or the power to postponed due to unrest. terday, however, that election The State of Kuwait has called an explosion of regional ethnic adverse social reaction, further control it.” Ethiopia’s 100 million Election board chairwoman officials were working on the for the immediate halt of rivalries. fuel regional conflicts, and citizens are seeing unprece- Birtukan Mideksa acknowledged assumption the poll would Israel’s illegal settlement activ- Earlier this month, the damage Abiy’s democratic dented political change. Abiy, earlier this month that prepara- proceed as planned. ities on occupied Palestinian election board said insecurity, credentials. who took power last year after tions were behind schedule for One Addis-based diplomat land, saying these breaches of which has driven 2.4 million “If the government is going his predecessor suddenly the 2020 election, due in May. said delaying the vote might fuel international law were a “huge people out of their homes to postpone the general resigned, has freed journalists “If the security of the country tensions instead of buying time obstacle” to the peace process. according to the United Nations, election... it will anger the and activists, lifted bans on is not going to improve, we can’t to cool them. “Israel, an occupational power, continues its illegal set- tlement activities in full vio- lation of its obligations under ‘Turkey not moving Security Council resolutions and international conventions and treaties,” Kuwait’s per- away from Nato manent UN representative Mansour Al Otaibi told the Security Council. by buying S-400s’ “Israel’s establishment of settlements in the Palestinian ANATOLIA Seventeen top putschists on territories, occupied since 1967, ANKARA Thursday got 141 aggravated life including East Jerusalem, has sentences each for their no legal validity and constitutes Turkey is not moving away from involvement in the 2016 a flagrant violation under inter- Nato by purchasing Russian defeated coup in Turkey. national law,” he added. S-400 missiles, according to The Fetullah Terrorist Al Otaibi underlined that Turkey’s defence minister. Organisation (FETO) and its US- these measures represent a “Turkey fulfils all Nato based leader Fetullah Gulen “huge obstacle” to the two-state requirements. We’re not moving orchestrated the defeated coup solution and attaining compre- away from Nato by purchasing of July 15, 2016, which left 251 hensive and permanent peace. S-400 missiles. This is a supply people martyred and nearly “We therefore call upon Israel issue,” Hulusi Akar told a mil- 2,200 injured. to cease immediately and com- itary graduation ceremony in the Turkey also accuses FETO pletely all settlement activities capital Ankara. of being behind a long-running on occupied Palestinian land, “We strongly reject linking campaign to overthrow the state to fully honour all of its legal this matter with the [US] F-35. through the infiltration of obligations and to cease its We’re partners with nine coun- Turkish institutions, particularly Loyal supporters forceful annexation policies.” tries on the F-35 project,” he the military, police, and He outlined the many violations The supporters of the ruling AK Party wait for the arrival of their mayoral candidate Binali Yildirim added. Turkey expects its allies, judiciary. Israel continues to commit, during an election rally in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. especially the US, to behave with On Turkey’s current Oper- namely its siege on Gaza. common sense and evaluate the ation Claw in northern Iraq, near issues objectively, he said. the border, Akar said that the Tensions between the US PKK terrorist group is beginning and Turkey have simmered over to realise that their terror cam- Mursi ‘killed’ by Egyptian regime: Son Ankara’s purchase of Russian paign will accomplish nothing. S-400 defence systems. “By neutralising the last ter- Washington claims the pur- rorists, we will save our nation AGENCIES called “partners” of Al Sisi “in Brotherhood, won Egypt’s first Egyptian authorities have chase will jeopardise Turkey’s from terror and thereby once ISTANBUL killing the martyr president”. free presidential election in allowed Israeli state television role in the F-35 fighter jet pro- again ensure the nation’s peace He particularly accused 2012. to broadcast from an area very gramme and has threatened and security by keeping our Abdullah, son of late Egyptian incumbent and former interior After only a year in office, close to the cemetery where sanctions. borders safe,” he said. President Mohamed Mursi, has ministers Mahmoud Tawfiq and however, he was ousted and Mursi was buried. Turkey has said there is no “Operation Claw shows that accused incumbent President Magdy Abdel Ghaffar, imprisoned in a military coup “Not far from this place, the conflict between the S-400 and the so-called leaders of the PKK Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and a respectively. led by then-Defence Minister cemetery of Nasr City east of the F-35 and has called for a terror organisation understand number of officials of “killing” The names also included Sisi. Cairo,(former) Egyptian Pres- working group to clarify the they will get nowhere through his father. judges Shirin Fahmy, Shaaban At the time of his death, ident Mohamed Mursi was issue. Speaking on the heavy terrorism.” The Turkish Armed Mursi, the first democrati- Al Shami and Ahmed Sabry as Mursi faced a host of legal buried last night,” a reporter for sentences handed down this Forces launched Operation Claw cally elected president, died on well as Attorney-General Nabil charges, which he, along with Israeli state-owned Kan TV said week to ex-officers who took against the PKK in Hakurk, Monday after falling into a Sadek and Abbas Kamel, head numerous human rights groups in a report on Wednesday. part in the 2016 defeated coup, northern Iraq on May 27. coma inside his soundproof of intelligence service. and independent observers, Egyptian authorities have Akar hailed the verdicts. The military offensive aims glass cage during his trial on Egyptian authorities have said were politically not allowed the general public “These traitors [who infil- to neutralise terrorists in the “espionage” charges. yet to comment on claims by motivated. to attend his funeral prayers trated the General Staff] got the area. It began with artillery In a Thursday tweet, the Mursi’s son. While restricting local and also refused to allow punishment that they deserved shelling, supported by airstrikes late president’s son named a Mursi, a leading member remembrances of its first dem- Mursi’s burial in his hometown from the Turkish justice.” and commando operations. number of officials whom he of Egypt’s Muslim ocratically elected president, in the Sharkia province. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 US calls off Iran strike to save lives AP “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night WASHINGTON on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a The US President Donald Trump General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped said yesterday the US was “cocked and loaded” to retaliate it,” Trump tweeted. He added that those deaths against Iran for downing an would not be a proportionate response to the unmanned American surveil- downing of an unmanned drone. lance drone, but he cancelled the strikes 10 minutes before they were to be launched after being tamping down its rhetoric. then outlined his reasons for told 150 people could die. Trump defended his stance on cancelling the strikes. “We were Trump’s tweeted statement Iran amid criticism from Dem- cocked & loaded to retaliate last raised several questions, ocrats who accuse him of having night on 3 different sights when including how he could have no strategy. He said he pulled out I asked, how many will die. 150 learned about casualties only of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, people, sir, was the answer from minutes before the operation which gave Tehran sanctions a General. 10 minutes before the when that information typically relief in exchange for pledges to strike I stopped it.” He added that would be provided much earlier. rein in its nuclear programme, those deaths would not be a pro- His tweet was the latest indi- because the agreement only portionate response to the cation that he does not want to temporarily blocked Iran from downing of an unmanned drone. escalate the US clash with having nuclear weapons. Trump “I am in no hurry,” he said. Tehran, though he didn’t rule out said the nuclear deal also did not “Sanctions are biting & more future strikes. He said US eco- stem Iran’s support of militant added last night. Iran can NEVER The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Mevlut Cavusoglu (third right), and Iranian Foreign Minister nomic sanctions are crippling the groups or restrain its ballistic have Nuclear Weapons, not Mohammad, Javad Zarif (second left), hold a meeting in Isfahan, Iran, yesterday. Iranian economy, more are being missile programme. against the USA, and not against added and he insisted anew that He said his exit from the deal the WORLD!” The overnight the US would never allow Iran and the re-imposition of sanc- events, however, were a stark administration combines its to have a nuclear weapon. After tions on Iran has crippled its reminder of the serious risk of “maximum pressure” campaign Iran refrained from shooting days of harsh words against the economy. “Now they are Bust!” military conflict between US and of economic sanctions with a US, Iran also seemed to be Trump tweeted and Iranian forces as the Trump buildup of American troops. down US plane with 35 on it LONDON / REUTERS

Iran refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the downed drone in the Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said yesterday. Amirali Haji- zadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency: “With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 plane with 35 people on board. This plane also entered our airspace and we could have shot it down, but we did not.” Iran gave two warnings before downing a US reconnaissance drone over the Gulf of Oman, the commander of the aerospace arm of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards said yesterday. “Twice we... sent warnings,” Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh told state television. Hajizadeh said that even pilotless drones, like the one shot down on Thursday, had systems to relay warnings and other com- The purported wreckage of the American drone is seen displayed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, Iran, yesterday. munications to their operators thousands of kilometres (miles) RIGHT: Sailors get ready for flight operations on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), in away in the United States. the Arabian Sea.

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Tamil Nadu to Triple talaq bill back in LS amid protests transport 10

IANS Congress MP Sashi Tharoor said the Bill did declared instant triple talaq void versal law to provide total pro- MLD of water by NEW DELHI meaning the marriage does not tection to all women,” he said. nothing to benefit Muslim women. “Instead of end by such pronouncements. It Premachandran said the Bill train to Chennai The government yesterday intro- protecting Muslim women, the Bill criminalises puts the burden of on the woman violated the Constitution’s Article duced the bill to ban instant Muslim men,” he said, adding that the proposed while her husband would be in jail 32 (redressal for violations of IANS triple talaq and ma ke the law is a “textbook example of class legislation” for three years for pronouncing fundamental rights) and added CHENNAI practice a punishable offence instant triple talaq,” he said. that marriage disputes should under the Indian Penal Code in as it discriminates against Muslims. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, not be put in the purview of a The Tamil Nadu government the Lok Sabha, amidst the oppo- and Revolutionary Socialist criminal act. plans to transport 10 million sition’s criticism that it will harm Party’s N K Premachandran also The first Bill to be introduced litres of water daily by rail from Muslim families and that it was 186 MPs voted in favour and 74 Supreme Court judgment spoke against it. in the 17th Lok Sabha, it was Jolarpettai in Vellore district to discriminatory. against it. (declaring the practice uncon- Tharoor said the Bill did introduced to replace an ordi- meet the water needs of Soon after Union Minister While introducing the Bill, stitutional) and only 31 after an nothing to benefit Muslim nance issued earlier this year by parched Chennai. Ravi Shankar Prasad tabled the Prasad said people elected the ordinance on the issue was women. “Instead of protecting the previous BJP-led NDA gov- Announcing this yesterday, Muslim Women (Protection of government to make laws and it issued,” he said. Muslim women, the Bill crimi- ernment. The Bill, which pro- Chief Minister K Palaniswami Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 in was their duty to do so. He also Opposing the Bill, All India nalises Muslim men,” he said, poses to make the practice of said a sum of Rs650m has been the lower House, opposition said that parliamentarians Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen adding that the proposed law is instant triple talaq (talaq-e- allocated for this purpose. members demanded that wider should not become judges. President Asaduddin Owaisi a “textbook example of class leg- biddat) a penal offence, was He also requested Kerala consultations involving the entire “Let Parliament legislate and noted that abandoning a wife islation” as it discriminates introduced in December 2017 but Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan spectrum of political parties the courts debate the legality of attracted up to one year jail term against Muslims. was pending in the Rajya Sabha to extend cooperation to should take place before its a law. The Modi government was under the Hindu Marriage Act The MP said he is not advo- and had lapsed owing to disso- strengthen the Mullaperiyar introduction. voted to power in the Lok Sabha and sought to know why Muslim cating instant triple talaq but lution of the 16th Lok Sabha last Dam so as to increase the Speaker Om Birla sought a for bringing such laws and men had to undergo harsher opposing making a “void act” a month. storage levels. voice vote and ruled that the Bill ensuring justice to women. punishment for the same crime. criminal offence punishable with The government had prom- Currently the Chennai Met- could be introduced in the “The law is to give justice to “The Bill violates Articles 14 a jail term. “Abandoning of women ulgated the Ordinance on triple ropolitan Water Supply and House. But the opposition the victims of triple talaq... as per (equality) and 15 (against discrim- by husbands is not unique to talaq twice -- in September 2018 Sewerage Board (Chennai members continued to raise information, a total of 543 cases ination on the basis of religion, Muslim community, it is equally and in January 2019 -- as the Metro) is supplying about 525 objections and pressed for a vote. of triple talaq came to light after caste, race, sex, etc) of the Consti- prevalent among other commu- contentious bill remained million litres per day (MLD) in The Bill was introduced after 2017. Of them, 229 came after the tution. The Supreme Court has nities and so why not make a uni- pending in the Rajya Sabha. Chennai. The water from Jolar- pettai will augment the existing supply. Palaniswami also wel- ‘Brain fever’ in India comed Vijayan’s offer to supply water to Tamil Nadu. Vijayan’s office had on preventable: Doctors Thursday offered to supply two million litres of drinking water REUTERS families who often suffer from to neighbouring Tamil Nadu by MUZAFFARPUR malnutrition and dehydration, train. doctors in Muzaffarpur said. Palaniswami said if Kerala Five-year-old Soni Khatun was If caught quickly, AES gives two MLD then it will be playing in the midday sun last patients can often recover with useful for the people of Tamil week when she began to vomit simple rehydration treatment, Nadu instead of one-time and lose feeling in her hands. doctors said, but delayed care supply. According to him, the Her mother, a poor labourer can lead to convulsions and state will write to Kerala living in rural India, borrowed eventual death. regarding this aspect. money to take her to hospital. “It is a preventable disease,” Palaniswami also said the Five hours later, Soni was said Dr.Chaitanya Kumar at the Kerala government has created dead, one of more than 100 district’s Kejriwal Maternity hurdles in Tamil Nadu’s attempts children to die this month from Hospital, one of two treating to strengthen the Mullaperiyar Acute Encephalitis Syndrome young AES patients. “Glucose Dam so that the water storage (AES), or ‘brain fever’, in one dis- and providing meals to some of level could be increased to 152 trict of eastern Bihar state. the poorest districts — these are feet from the current 142 feet. “I still see her in my dreams,” not expensive things.” He requested Vijayan to said Sahana Khatun, Soni’s India has world-class hos- extend cooperation to Tamil mother. “I can’t accept she is pitals in major cities like New Modi leads nation in Yoga Day observance Nadu to implement the gone.” The deaths were pre- Delhi and Mumbai, but rural Supreme Court judgement in ventable, doctors say, if poor facilities like those in Muzaf- Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga on International Yoga Day in Ranchi, yesterday. the matter. families had access to good food, farpur are overstretched, clean water and better medical doctors say. care in Muzaffarpur district, The 600-bed Sri Krishna 80km from the state capital Medical College Hospital in Muz- Politician-underworld nexus found in arms case Patna. affarpur has more than 900 The epidemic has sparked a patients, a third of them children IANS criminal-turned-politician from an AK-47 rifle from a close asso- into politics, Hulas Pandey also debate over growing inequality in with AES. Ninety-three AES NEW DELHI/PATNA Siwan, Mohammad Sha- ciate of Sunil Pandey. entered politics and became a India and focused attention on a patients have died at the facility habuddin, who is currently Sunil Pandey parted ways JD-U MLC and also looked after free healthcare scheme for the since the outbreak began. Links between politicians and lodged in Delhi’s high-security with Shahabuddin after the the sand mining business. poor — known as “Modicare” after Stray goats roam over the underworld have once again Tihar jail. murder of one Mohammad Sillu. The case relates to recovery Prime Minister Narendra Modi - rubbish and rubble on the hos- surfaced during the National An NIA official said that After severing his links with of 22 AK-47s rifles in Munger eight months after it was launched. pital grounds. The building has Investigation Agency’s (NIA) Hulas Pandey’s brother Sunil Shahabuddin, Sunil Pandey ven- smuggled from the Central Ord- The precise causes of AES, frequent power cuts and the raids at the residence of an LJP Pandey was a close associate of tured into the business of sand nance Depot in Jabalpur in Sep- which killed more than 350 in stench of urine lingers in the leader in its probe into the Shahabuddin in the 1990s. mining and also entered politics. tember, 2018. The matter came Bihar in 2014, are not known, hallways. alleged Munger arms seizure Sunil Pandey is also one of He became an MLA as an inde- to light on August 28, 2018 when though a majority of medical The hospital evicted a group case in Bihar. the founders of the upper caste pendent candidate in 2000 and the Munger police arrested a professionals say it is linked to of sick inmates from a ward to According to a senior NIA Ranveer Sena militia, which was then joined the Samata Party, man identified as Mohammad a ferocious heat-wave that has accommodate the surge in AES official, Hulas Pandey, a former accused of carrying out mas- which was later named as JD-U. Imran with three AK-47 rifles. gripped Bihar for the last month. patients, but at times there are Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MLC sacres in several parts of Bihar Sunil Pandey then won three The NIA raided 12 locations Some studies have blamed still two or three children and currently a Lok Janshakti in the 90s. Assembly elections till 2010. He in Bihar’s Patna, Buxar, Bhojpur, toxins in lychees, a fruit grown assigned to one bed. Party (LJP) leader, has emerged According to the NIA official, lost the seat in 2015. Rohtas and Uttar Pradesh’s Var- in abundance in orchards “It is incredibly difficult to as a figure with the underworld Sunil Pandey had flashed his The official further said that anasi on Thursday and recovered around Muzaffarpur, though be a doctor in a place like this,” as his elder brother Narendra AK-47 rifle in 1994 in Bihar’s NIA has found links of the cash worth Rs 29 lakh and also many families said their children said Ravikant Singh, a volunteer Pandey aka Sunil Pandey, a Bhojpur during one of the Pandey brothers with Uttar seized one rifle along with various had not eaten them in recent doctor from Mumbai who was former JD-U MLA from Piro in meetings of the Ranveer Sena. Pradesh’s criminal-turned- cartridges, four laptops, five hard weeks. giving rehydration solutions to Bhojpur district of Bihar, was The official said that the politican Brijesh Singh. disks, 12 pen drives, 12 mobile The victims come from poor patients at the hospital. once a close aide of police had earlier also recovered Following his brother’s entry phones and one computer. 16 arrested in Pompeo likely to calm West Bengal’s Bhatpara tension with India

IANS REUTERS Another issue that has KOLKATA NEW DELHI alarmed India is the possibility of US restrictions on work visas for Sixteen persons have been US Secretary of State Mike Indian professionals in retaliation arrested in Bhatpara in West Pompeo will try to soothe for India’s insistence on local data Bengal’s North 24 Parganas increasing friction with India storage by big foreign firms, even district, but not in connection over trade, data flows and arms though the State Department said with Thursday’s violence that from Russia during a visit next on Thursday it had no such plan. claimed two lives, police said week and instead focus on stra- “US-India trade ties, at least yesterday. tegic ties between the two big between our capitals, are certainly “Sixteen persons have been democracies, officials said. worsening. We both have leaders arrested in relation to various Pompeo arrives in New Delhi who look at trade as a zero-sum cases. However, no arrests have on Tuesday for talks that are aimed game,” said Richard Rossow, a been made in relation to Thurs- at laying the ground for a meeting specialist on US-India ties at the day’s bombing and firing,” a between US President Donald Center for Strategic & Interna- senior officer of the newly- Trump and Indian Prime Minister tional Studies in Washington. inaugurated Bhatpara police Narendra Modi later in the week The Indian government says station said. at a G20 meeting in Japan. it has been trying to negotiate Yesterday morning, mis- India is embroiled in dis- solutions to the disputes with the creants hurled a bomb in Kak- putes with the United States over US but that, as a developing inara amidst imposition of pro- tariffs, Indian price caps on country, it has to protect the hibitory orders and additional imported medical devices, most interests of its people. police reinforcement. from the United States, and Trump has repeatedly crit- A delegation of BJP activists Tibetan nun’s merchandise Indian rules on e-commerce that icised India for its high tariffs led by MP Arjun Singh submitted impose conditions on the oper- and last month raised the stakes a deputation at Barrackpore A Tibetan nun stands outside her shop at a Tibetan refugee colony in New Delhi, yesterday. ations of US giants such as with the withdrawal of a police commissionerate. Amazon and Walmart. decades-old trade privilege. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019

Army to be Pakistan Senate deployed for panel rejects polls in tribal districts

Finance Bill ’19 INTERNEWS PESHAWAR INTERNEWS The opposition ISLAMABAD senators termed the The Pakistan armed forces will taxation measures be deployed inside and outside After witnessing walkout by two all polling stations during elec- senators from treasury benches, very harsh and tions for seats of the Khyber Pakistan’s Senate Standing possessed the Pakhtunkhwa Assembly elec- Committee on Finance rejected potential to cause tions in the recently merged the Finance Bill 2019-20 in storm of protests tribal districts of erstwhile tribal totality, saying they could not districts. stamp taxation measures after approval of the According to the schedule causing price hike and budget. issued by the Election Com- burdening the common people mission of Pakistan yesterday, more. elections for provincial The recommendations of the Senator Talha Mehmood said, assembly seats of the tribal dis- Upper House of Parliament are not on the occasion, that the taxation tricts on July 20. binding on the National Assembly measures would bring a storm of “The Pakistan armed forces to approve and approval of Senate price hike so it should be rejected Kathmandu observes International Yoga Day and civil armed forces shall assist is not required on money bill, in totality. The price of everything People perform yoga during the International Yoga Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Election Commission of Pakistan however, total rejection of the will go up, so he will not make and make necessary security finance bill will cause loss to the part of burdening people more. arrangements for conduct of ruling PTI politically. Senator Mohsin Aziz elections in KP Assembly in erst- The opposition senators opposed this proposal and while tribal districts scheduled termed the taxation measures argued that they had worked Balochistan announces Rs126bn to be held on 20th July,” the ECP very harsh and possessed the hard in the last four days, so said in a notification. potential to cause storm of pro- there was no rationale to reject The forces will be deployed tests after approval of the budget. the whole Finance Bill in totality. for development programmes inside and outside all polling The senators from oppo- He said that he remained stations from July 18 to 21 “for sition benches including Ayesha part of this standing committee INTERNEWS Rs24,610.75m has been made for local governments’ related provision of secure envi- Reza Farooq from PML-N, without having political consid- ISLAMABAD 581 new development schemes development schemes.Industries ronment to assist ECP in Senator Talha Mehmood from eration and point-scoring and in the communication sector and sector will get Rs862.15 million conduct of election in free, fair JUI-F and Imam Uddin made all out efforts to improve Pakistani province of Balo- second highest allocation of for implementing 16 devel- and transparent manner”, the Shouqeen from PPP voted in the budgetary proposals. chistan’s government has Rs12,678. 45m has been made opment schemes. Commission said. support of the resolution tabled Senator Ayesha Reza Farooq announced Rs126bn for 2,461 for 284 development schemes The provincial government “After the close of poll, the by the Chairman of the Senate stated that every government had new and ongoing development of education sector. will spent Rs3,662.60m on 70 troops shall be deployed at the Standing Committee on Finance presented deficit budget but this schemes under the Public Sector The provincial government development schemes under offices of Returning Officers till Farooq H Naek, stating that the government had taken such Development Programme will spent RS12,213.85m on 574 urban planning and devel- consolidation of election taxation measures which are measures in the last 10 to 12 (PSDP). development schemes in public opment department. An amount results,” it added. burdening more the common months that people had starting According to the PSDP doc- health engineering department of Rs1,632.5m has been allocated Troops would also be people is rejected in totality. crying as the disposable income uments, the provincial gov- for supplying drinking water to for 34 schemes of social welfare deployed at the Printing Cor- Two treasury members dropped significantly and inflation ernment has included 1,796 new the people who are facing department. poration of Pakistan in including Senator Mohsin Aziz was heading towards double digit. and 665 ongoing development shortage of water since long. The mineral sector will get Islamabad from July 5 to July from ruling PTI and Dilawar She said that export reforms schemes in the programme In the next financial year, the Rs223.54 for its seven devel- 20 “to make foolproof security Khan, who won as independent, could not be done in the last five announced in 2019-20 budget. government would spend opment projects proposed in the arrangements during printing/ supported the government and years. Senator Mohsin Aziz said A priority has been given to Rs8201.78m on 113 new devel- budget. Rs108,114.84m would be staking and storage of ballot preferred to walkout in protest that he did not want to make this education, commutation, health, opment schemes while it has spent on new development papers”, and to provide security just ahead of voting where the committee a debating club as the public health engineering, local allocated Rs3,518.28m for the 19 schemes. This would include during transportation of ballot senators rejected the taxation last government ran the government, law and order, development schemes in the Rs12,742.48m which would be papers from printing press to measures unanimously in the economy on the basis of wrong urban planning and agriculture sector. spent on schemes which were the offices of returning officers absence of senators belonging figures as the public debt had development. The government has allo- not identified in the previous and district returning officers to treasury benches. gone up phenomenally. The highest allocation of cated Rs2,164.16m for the 114 PSDP. and back to the ECP offices. SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 ASIA 07 Ex-Philippine minister denied entry to HK

AFP Former foreign minister Albert del Rosario said MANILA he flew to Hong Kong early yesterday using a Philippine diplomatic passport but was taken to Former Philippine foreign an immigration holding area on arrival, where minister Albert del Rosario, a critic of Beijing’s claims to the he remained “for nearly three and a half hours”. disputed South China Sea, was denied entry to Hong Kong Marie Corominas subsequently complaint against Chinese leader yesterday and deported, his said: “He’s been excluded and Xi Jinping at the International lawyer said. deported.” Criminal Court, alleging “crimes Del Rosario was behind two She said he was already against humanity” over the sup- prominent initiatives against aboard a plane back to the Phil- posed environmental fallout of China, including a 2013 case at ippines and added that author- Beijing’s activities in the disputed an international arbitral tribunal ities had given no reason for waters. which eventually ruled against denying him entry. Hong Kong immigration Beijing’s claim over most of the Hong Kong immigration authorities briefly held another resource-rich waterway. officials had no immediate Philippine critic of China, former A man looking at barricades set up by protesters outside the police headquarters, in Hong Kong, yesterday. His deportation comes as statement on the deportation but Supreme Court justice and anger is still bubbling in Hong routinely decline to comment on special anti-graft prosecutor Kong over a proposed bill that individual cases. Conchita Carpio Morales on May would have allowed extraditions Although Hong Kong was 21 when she made a private visit Anti-govt protests in Hong Kong resume to the mainland, raising fears of returned from British to Chinese to the territory with her family. people being ensnared in China’s rule in 1997, it is still adminis- Morales, who was also a BLOOMBERG administration. bill. “The government has learned opaque court system. tered separately under an party in the complaint filed by HONG KONG The bill is a “thoroughly bad a hard lesson, but we remain Del Rosario said he flew to arrangement known as “One del Rosario at the ICC, was idea,” Martin Lee, founding hopeful that the experience Hong Kong early yesterday using country, two systems”. But released hours later, but chose Hong Kong protesters blocked chairman of the opposition gained will help us work better a Philippine diplomatic passport activists have been alarmed in to return to Manila instead. some roads outside the govern- Democratic Party and an elder to meet the public’s expectations but was taken to an immigration recent years by what they feel is Del Rosario said he had been ment’s downtown headquarters statesman among city demo- in future,” she wrote. holding area on arrival, where a tighter grip by Beijing, though in Hong Kong to attend a board after resuming demonstrations crats, said. “Hong Kong people Security chief John Lee has he remained “for nearly three Hong Kong still retains freedoms and shareholders’ meeting of a to demand Chief Executive can only continue to demon- defended his personnel, saying and a half hours”. unseen on the mainland. private company, and had asked Carrie Lam step down. strate, and I hope peacefully, so they acted in defence against Del Rosario’s lawyer Anne In March, del Rosario filed a the Philippine foreign Thousands of demonstrators that the world, the rest of the protesters who charged a police department to inform the terri- mostly wearing black blocked world, will speak up for us.” line blocking the city’s legislature tory’s authorities about his trip. key roads near the Central Gov- At one point, some protesters in an attempt to storm the Philippines rejects China’s call The former foreign sec- ernment Offices yesterday. The outside the government head- building. Some battled with riot retary, who served under pre- government temporarily closed quarters yesterday formed a line police throughout the afternoon to jointly probe sea collision vious Philippine president the building and cancelled a of open umbrellas on the ground. to prevent lawmakers from BLOOMBERG Philippine Foreign Affairs Sec- Benigno Aquino, accused airport meeting of the Legislative Coun- People used umbrellas to protect debating the controversial extra- MANILA retary Teodoro Locsin said on immigration authorities of acting cil’s transport panel. There was themselves from pepper spray dition bill. his official Twitter account. “in violation of the Vienna Con- a very light police presence in fired by police last week, and in The Civil Human Rights The Philippines rejected China’s China’s Foreign Ministry vention” on diplomatic the area. mass pro-democracy demon- Front— which helped organise suggestion to jointly probe the spokesperson Lu Kang, at a privileges. Historic protests in the past strations five years ago that a week of historic demonstra- June 9 collision in the South briefing on Thursday, proposed Yesterday’s incident comes few weeks, including several became known as the “Umbrella tions but was not overseeing China Sea involving the two a joint probe of a Chinese ves- as President Rodrigo Duterte that turned violent, prompted Movement.” yesterday’s gathering — made nations’ boats. sel’s collision with a Philippine seeks to calm public outrage Lam to suspend the bill indefi- Justice Secretary Teresa an investigation into what it calls “There will be no joint boat near Reed Bank, which left over the June 9 sinking of a Fil- nitely and apologise to the city’s Cheng apologised to the people excessive violence and abuse of investigation. China and the 22 Filipino fishermen floating ipino fishing boat by a Chinese 7.5 million people. The episode of Hong Kong yesterday in an power by the police a major Philippines will conduct their at sea and rescued later by a vessel in an area of the South has embarrassed the central official blog post, saying there demand of a historic protest respective investigations,” Vietnamese crew. China Sea claimed by both government in Beijing, which had been “deficiencies” in Sunday that it said brought 2 countries. has continued to back Lam’s authorities’ explanations of the million people onto the streets. ‘China ramps Japan Prince: Royal up search for North Korean duties need review escapees’ as members decline AFP/SEOUL AP and Poland that the scaling TOKYO down of imperial duties is inev- China may have intensified its itable and needs broad public lookout for North Koreans who Japanese Emperor Naruhito’s discussion. have escaped the reclusive state younger brother said yesterday “We can engage in broader to Chinese territory, a senior UN that the royal family can activities if there are more official said. perform only a limited number people in the next generation, Beijing currently works of duties because its but if you look at the current sit- with Pyongyang to send membership is declining uation, I believe it is necessary escapees who are arrested in sharply. to examine what to do.” China back to the repressive Crown Prince Fumihito, Official duties increased regime, which subjects them to better known as Prince Akishino, during the reign of Akihito, who severe punishments. is now next in line to the Chry- actively interacted with the Tomas Ojea Quintana, the santhemum Throne after his public, including visiting dis- United Nations special rap- father, Akihito, abdicated at the aster-hit areas to console resi- porteur on human rights in the end of April and his brother dents, and became a hugely Police officers examine a house used as a factory producing matchsticks after a fire swept through, North, believes China “may Naruhito succeeded him in May. popular emperor. at Binjai district in Langkat, North Sumatra province in Indonesia, yesterday. have strengthened the search”. The family faces declining Naruhito’s succession left “I have been receiving an numbers, with Akihito and his only two younger males in line increasing number of individual wife now retired and their three for the throne — 53-year-old cases of North Korean escapees, Warehouse fire in Indonesia leaves 30 dead granddaughters expected to lose Akishino and his 12-year-old including children, detained in AFP authorities said broke out yes- victims. “We’ve sent teams royal status when they marry son, Hisahito. Shenyang City, in China’s JAKARTA terday afternoon. there.” commoners under the current Naruhito’s 17-year-old Liaoning province,” he said. TV footage showed plumes Binjai police chief Nugroho Imperial House Law. daughter, Aiko, and Akishino’s “Information suggests that At least 30 people, including of black smoke billowing from Tri Nuryanto said a gas canister “Those who are building daughters Mako and Kako are China may have strengthened several children, were killed the home in the town of Binjai explosion may have set off the international goodwill are not in line because they are the search for North Korean when a fire ripped through a in North Sumatra, about 70km blaze, but that the cause still decreasing, but in a way there female. The imperial family has escapees.” home that doubled as a match- west of provincial capital Medan. needed to be confirmed. is nothing we can do,” the crown 13 women. The nuclear-armed nation stick factory in Indonesia “We don’t know what caused “We’re still identifying the prince said. “I think those among Akishino said he believes stands accused by the UN of yesterday, authorities said. the fire but it has been extin- victims and scouring the scene,” us who are able can only do so royal duties can be shared “systematic, widespread and Pictures from the scene guished,” the head of North he said, adding that three people much.” equally regardless of gender, but gross” human rights violations. showed blackened corpses lying Sumatra’s disaster agency Riadil escaped the blaze. Akishino told reporters at declined to comment on Pyongyang calls such accusa- on top of each other on the floor Lubis said, adding that at least It was not clear why there the Akasaka East Residence yes- whether female emperors tions anti-regime propaganda. in the aftermath of the blaze that three children were among the were children at the scene. terday ahead of a trip to Finland should be allowed. Mahathir vows to help Rohingya bound for Malaysia AFP (Asean) meet in Singapore for for Malaysia — a Muslim- the Rohingya,” he said. favourable for group’s BANGKOK defending the military’s majority country believed to be A deal for the Rohingya to repatriation. crackdown on the Rohingya. more sympathetic to their plight return to Myanmar has largely More than 740,000 Rohingya Malaysia’s Prime Minister His direct condemnation of _ raising fears of a renewed traf- stalled as virtually no Rohingya have fled Myanmar since August yesterday vowed to help Suu Kyi was a departure from the ficking route. have chosen to return due to 2017, flooding into neighbouring Rohingya seeking refuge in usually staid meetings of the Mahathir yesterday, the eve security fears. Bangladesh with accounts of Malaysia, reiterating the call for 10-country regional bloc, whose of the Asean summit, vowed to Still an Asean-commissioned rape, mass killings and the razing Southeast Asian leaders to “stop members normally avoid continue helping the Rohingya report leaked earlier this month of villages. the oppression” of the stateless confrontation. attempting to reach his shores. predicted repatriation efforts Myanmar refuses to grant minority group expelled from But the crisis has spun out “They are refugees. As much would be complete in two years. them citizenship or basic rights Myanmar. across the region, with desperate as we can do for them, we will,” Mahathir also cast doubts inferring that the Rohingya are Last year, Mahathir Rohingya taking to boats bound the 93-year-old premier told over the timeline. illegal immigrants from Mohamad (pictured) castigated for Thailand, Malaysia and reporters on the sidelines of a “If we can do it in two years, Bangladesh. Myanmar civilian leader Aung Indonesia. business forum in Bangkok. we will,” he said, though he was UN investigators have called has defended the military’s San Suu Kyi during the Associ- In recent weeks scores of “We hope something can be “not so sure” about whether con- for Myanmar’s top generals to be crackdown as necessary to flush ation of Southeast Asian Nations’ Rohingya have boarded vessels done to stop the oppression of ditions on the ground remain tried for genocide, but Suu Kyi out militants in Rakhine state. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 Syrian refugees spread to ESTABLISHED IN 1996 127 countries in 6 continents CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected] SELEN TEMIZER ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ANATOLIA MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] olitical solutions for Syria should head off new humani- tarian crises and ensure the DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Prights of the displaced people, MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI who amid the civil war have spread [email protected] across the globe, the head of the Syrian opposition coalition said yesterday. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Abdurrahman Mustafa told how the Assad regime crackdown on public protests in 2011 led to a mass EDITORIAL exodus of Syrians over the next eight years, spreading globally to 127 coun- tries in six continents. Once the regime saw the Syrian Most peaceful nation people’s struggle for freedom, it sought help from militias from Lebanon and eeing people living in harmony with themselves, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as well as with others and all sentinel beings around you is the chemical weapons, he explained. Smost delicious feast for eyes one would ever get in Mustafa decried the silence of the the world. This feast is omnipresent here as the people international community at large, as in Qatar peacefully co-exist by being non-violent and well as Russia’s stance, saying the civil tolerant and thus in turn celebrate a wondrous life. The war had led to both massacres and Gulf nation has got this amazing feature neither by chance mass migration. nor is an overnight development but the result of the sys- “The regime and its allies have not tematic functioning of the Qatari leadership with sheer yet finished their plans yet, hundreds confidence and absolute will power under Amir H H of thousands of civilians will be dis- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for years. placed in northern Syria,” he said, The nation has been taking so many initiatives to fight referring to regime attacks on some of crime, terrorism, corruption and all such misdeeds. the last opposition strongholds. Underlining its commitment in curbing crime, the sta- “Any political solution sponsored tistics released by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) indicates by the UN should provide assurances decline in crimes in Qatar in all categories (major, minor) for the return of the majority of Syrian and the security indicators exceeding global refugees,” he proportions. said. Statistics of the MoI for 2018 suggest that Qatar’s crime “The situ- intervening,” he argued. 40,000 people, including women and rate has declined below global average in 2018. The sta- ation of Turkey: Moral and loyal “Today, children. The YPG is its Syrian branch. tistics further reveal that the total number of crimes in Syrians who Turkey is the most moral and loyal Since 2011, more than 13 million 2018 decreased by 2.4 percent have fallen country in its humanitarian attitude Syrians have been forced to leave their compared with 2017 and 88.3 “Any political into a towards the Syrian people,” Mustafa homes, making them the largest dis- percent of the total crimes solution sponsored deadlock, said. placed community in the world. committed in 2018 were by the UN especially in “Syrians will never forget the role Some 6.18 million of them were minor, such as cheque cases, should provide Lebanese Turkey plays by hosting the most displaced within the country, while violations, non-criminal camps, is Syrians among other countries,” said 6.65 million took refuge in other At a time when quarrels. The MoI has suc- assurances for unacceptable,” Mustafa. countries. global crime ceeded in reducing the rate of the return of the Mustafa said. Turkey hosts some 3.6 million Some 140,000 Syrians sought statistics show major crimes in 2018 per majority of Syrian “We know Syrian refugees, more than any asylum in 127 countries spread across an upward trend, 100,000 inhabitants from the refugees,” he said. that the pro- country in the world. six continents, but most -- 85% -- global rate by 98.3 percent, vocative lan- Thousands of displaced Syrians remained in the Middle East. the fall in crime despite the increase in popu- Abdurrahman guage [against were able to return to their homes, vil- As of the end of 2018, the number in Qatar and the lation in the state last year by Mustafa head of the Syrians] does lages, and cities with the help of of Syrians in Turkey reached 3.62 Qatari model for 3.6 percent. Syrian opposition not represent Turkish military operations, said million. combating crime Qatar’s quest for peaceful the Lebanese Mustafa, in league with the Free Syrian Additionally, there are 944,200 living has come out in so coalition said. people,” he Army, to liberate border regions of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 676,000 gain significant many instances and it actively added. terrorists. in Jordan, 300,000 in Iraq, 252,500, attention. In fact, campaigned in many regional Nearly 1 Since 2016, Turkey’s Operation and 132,900 in Egypt. Qatar is showing and global platforms for million Syrian refugees are currently Euphrates Shield and Operation Olive Other major countries taking in peaceful living and high- in Lebanon, second only to Turkey. Branch have cleared large areas of Syrian refugees are Germany, with a virtuous path lighted measures to curb On Russia’s role, Mustafa said: northern Syria from the grip of Daesh over 532,000 Syrians, Sweden, with to the world to crime. “First they are supporting and contrib- and PKK/YPG terrorists. over 109,000, Sudan, with over be followed for a It was just recently, uting to massacres and deportations, In its more than 30-year terror 93,000, Austria, with 49,000, the crime-free world. Qatar’s Attorney-General H and then they also impose an order campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- Netherlands, with 32,000, and Spain, E Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri undermining a political solution.” listed as a terrorist organization by with nearly 14,000. signed a cooperation “They interfere with international Turkey, the US and the EU — has been The actual figures are higher than agreement, with 20 states and mechanisms and prevent them from responsible for the deaths of nearly the official data, said Mustafa. areas in the US, aimed at long-term strategic cooper- ation; consolidation of efforts to combat transnational criminal organisations, terrorism and corruption; and effective cooperation between law enforcement institu- When Facebook’s banker is Mark Carney tions. The agreement covers cooperation in confronting international conditions and challenges in the fight against LIONEL LAURENT reserve (though they’ll have to coor- decades, according to UBS. But that’s organised crime. BLOOMBERG dinate for a complete picture). And for partly because their opponents have The wise nation has learned that close coordination the tech companies, having the central been pretty under-powered: No amount with UN will work as a catalyst in curbing crime and it is entral banks and financial regu- bank’s blessing is the ultimate seal of of glitzy tech conferences featuring because of this sole reason, Qatar always calls for close lators have been on high alert approval and trust - something Zuck- entrepreneurs kitted out in lederhosen coordination and cooperation by various local, regional Csince the launch of Facebook’s erberg could benefit from. It would all can disguise that. Start-ups have been and global organisations with UN. proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. It’s still require a fair bit of readjustment in forced down a risky path to grow fast in At a time when global crime statistics show an upward at the conceptual stage, but the prospect terms of what a central bank does and a market that’s highly regulated and trend, the fall in crime in Qatar and the Qatari model for of a tech giant with 2.6 billion users how it does it, but it makes sense. concentrated. combating crime gain significant attention. In fact, Qatar shuffling digital money around and While this will all seem like a specific Facebook, as well as Apple, is showing a virtuous path to the world to be followed for backing it with piles of dollars, euros issue of financial plumbing off the Amazon and Alphabet are different. a crime-free world. and pounds is a potential heart attack in back of a crypto project, there’s a They have size: Apple is in “a billion the making for those trying to keep the much bigger point here about finance pockets,” as Oprah Winfrey put it. They financial system stable, governable and and tech in general. have money: Alphabet’s revenue in a predictable. That means setting the rules Carney’s push for new tech com- single quarter could cover the market now, before Libra’s born. panies to be embedded more deeply in cap of Deutsche Bank several times One idea as to how officials might the financial system will raise compet- over. And they have data: Amazon has QUOTE OF THE DAY keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams itive pressure on incumbent banks. The our credit card details, and indeed its grounded in reality is to get under the regulatory barriers to entry in finance own card. With their main businesses We must come out of hood of what goes into the digital cur- are already high - think of the billions drawing tough criticism over monopoly rency in the first place. Given Libra spent on compliance - and it’s a reason concerns, more diversification - even the European Union wants to back every digital cent with a why Silicon Valley hasn’t yet posed an into a very regulated sector - is on the 31 October mix of real-world reserve currencies, extinction threat for banks. But officials investor-friendly. because, otherwise I that might be the best place to start. want more firms to clear those barriers, Libra specifically may well be a Bank of England boss Mark Carney “leveling the playing field between old pipe dream that may never be imple- am afraid we face a hinted at this in his Mansion House and new,” Carney says. mented in its current form. But Face- catastrophic loss of speech on Thursday, proposing that Hence, he also talked up the central book’s size means that central banks confidence in politics. tech firms and other non-banks be bank’s payments system overhaul, with already have to take it seriously - or allowed to hold funds directly at the a view to plugging in tech firms. Libra they face being unprepared to ensure central bank. could just be a face that launches a financial stability. Bankers themselves Boris Johnson You can see why this idea would thousand ships of new payments ideas . aren’t powerless to respond to the tech UK PM candidate appeal. If central banks start to hold Banks have done a decent job of threat, and they have the financial fire- deposits for the likes of Facebook and fending off fintech over the past decade: power to develop services and other Libra backers, officials will get a 35 percent of British consumers have products. But as after dinner speeches first-hand view of the assets held in had the same account for at least two go, this was a sobering one. SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 OPINION 09 Xi muscles in on Trump-Kim ‘love’ affair

LAURENT THOMET with Trump, as they prepare to hold between their nations was over the nuclear issue. AFP talks on their trade war at the G20 “irreplaceable”. Lu Chao, a North Korean expert summit in Japan next week. Kim gave Xi a lavish welcome, at China’s Liaoning academy of S President Donald Trump Months after Trump declared that inviting him to the “Mass Games”, an social sciences, said Beijing “will Xi’s two-day visit, once said there was “love” he and Kim had fallen “in love”, their epic music and dance show in a certainly play a major role in medi- between him and North nuclear talks faltered as their second packed stadium that featured the song ating the return of the DPRK and which ended UKorean leader Kim Jong Un, summit in Vietnam in February ended “I love you China” and a giant portrait the United States to the negotiating yesterday, will but Xi Jinping is intruding into the without an agreement. of Xi. table.” also serve the relationship to remind them that Trump has also repeatedly called “(Xi) wants to use his visit to But Lu said it was wrong to Chinese leader in China is an indispensable chaperone Xi his “friend”, but their own negotia- Pyongyang to demonstrate to Pres- think that China would use North in their nuclear dance. tions to end the US-China tariffs war ident Trump that China’s role on the Korea as a bargaining chip -- a his complicated With his first trip to Pyongyang as broke down last month. Korean Peninsula is indispensable,” notion that the Chinese foreign relationship with president, Xi took another big step to With Trump’s relationship with said Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser ministry has also rejected. Trump, as they prepare patching up his tattered relations with Kim on the rocks, Xi has found an for Asia at the Center for Strategic Shi Yinhong, professor of inter- Kim, whose nuclear tests prompted opening. and International Studies in national relations at Renmin Uni- to hold talks on their Beijing to join UN sanctions against its After the North Korean leader Washington. versity in Beijing, said ties between trade war at the G20 longtime ally. travelled to China four times in the “And if Xi can persuade Kim to China and North Korea have not summit in Japan next Xi’s two-day visit, which ended past year, Xi has finally reciprocated, resume talks with the US, he hopes been “fully repaired” just yet, as week. yesterday, will also serve the Chinese declaring in North Korea’s official that Trump will ease up pressure on China still enforces UN sanctions. leader in his complicated relationship newspaper that the friendship trade,” Glaser said. “With the improvement of Glaser noted that Trump himself Sino-DPRK relations, China can made the link between a trade deal restore some influence on the and China helping with North Korea. DPRK, but the main thing is that But Trump has also seen Xi as a Kim Jong Un makes his own deci- potentially negative influence on Kim, sions,” Shi said. calling him a “world-class poker In a sign that the neighbours player” last year, as he noted a change are not always in sync, North of attitude by the North Korean leader Korean media did not carry com- after meeting the Chinese president. ments by Kim reported by Chinese In talks on Thursday, Xi told Kim state broadcaster CCTV, which that he was “willing to strengthen quoted him as saying that he was coordination and cooperation” with “willing to be patient” in the talks North Korea and other parties, and with the US, but wanted “the play a “positive and constructive role” parties concerned” to meet him in achieving denuclearisation of the halfway. Korean Peninsula, according to The state-run China Daily Chinese state media. sought to play down Xi’s influence Ahn Chan-il, a North Korean on North Korea. defector and researcher in Seoul, said “The world may hope that the Xi is using North Korea as leverage in Chinese leader has the magic touch his own confrontation with the United that can turn a stone to gold,” the States. newspaper said in an editorial. “Xi and North Korea... are saying “But it is unrealistic to expect the Beijing-Pyongyang alliance forged that Xi can solve all the peninsula in blood will not be affected by issues with a two-day visit — even Trump, regardless of any economic if Beijing has always been the most incentives to effect a change,” he said. reliable and considerate partner to China, which fought alongside the Pyongyang.” North in the Korean War, remains North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping upon his arrival at Pyongyang Pyongyang’s main diplomatic and international airport in Pyongyang. economic backer despite tensions

raqi farmer Riyadh woke on May Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said last fires were man-made and said they 13 to find his wheat crop ablaze. week that only about a 10th of the could have been caused by Islamic In his fields in Diyala province, he fires were the result of sabotage, with State, also known as Daesh, or other D-RING ROAD found the remains of a mobile the rest caused by electrical faults, groups. “In the past we would hear of POST BOX: 3488 I one field being burned once every few phone and plastic bottle which he cigarette butts or faulty agricultural DOHA - QATAR believes was an explosive device det- machinery. years. This year, the situation is out of [email protected] AHMED ABOULENEIN & onated in the night to start the fire. He said just 40,000 donums the ordinary,” he said. “Maybe there is MAHA EL DAHAN Riyadh and his neighbours in (10,000 hectares) of wheat and barley short-circuiting, but there are also REUTERS Sheikh Tami village put out the blaze had been destroyed by fire culprits and hidden hands.” EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: nationwide, a tiny proportion of the While scorching temperatures and 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: estimated 13 million donums of culti- tinder-dry fields in Iraq lead to fires +974 4455 7758 vated land. every year, local officials said there “We are following up on the issue are far more than usual this season MANAGING EDITOR TEL: After years of war and but it must not be blown out of pro- and they’re finding more evidence 4462 7505 portion,” he told a weekly news con- that blazes have been started ference on June 11. deliberately. DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR TEL: drought, Iraq’s bumper Figures cited by federal officials, Islamic State has claimed respon- 4455 7769 however, don’t tally with data given sibility for burning hundreds of hec- by officials and farmers in 10 areas of tares of farmland in Diyala, Kirkuk LOCAL NEWS SECTION TEL: 4455 7743 crop is burning Diyala, Nineveh and Salahuddin prov- and Salahuddin provinces as well as inces visited by reporters. Based on Syria. But it was impossible to BUSINESS NEWS SECTION their figures, at least 145,000 donums determine how many fires had been TEL: 4462 7535 and saved most of his crop but hun- had gone up in flames in those areas started by the militants. dreds of other farmers in Iraq have alone by June 16. The challenge for the government SPORT NEWS SECTION been less fortunate since Islamic State The prime minister said there had is even greater because some have TEL: 4455 7745 urged its supporters to wage eco- been 262 fires nationwide this year, taken advantage of fires sparked by nomic warfare with fire. but Salahuddin’s civil defence chief militants to start their own - to settle ONLINE SECTION Since the harvest began in April, said there were 267 fires during May scores or ethno-religious feuds, TEL: 4462 7501 crop fires have raged across Diyala, in that province. Officials in Diyala farmers said. Some farmers accused [email protected] Kirkuk, Nineveh and Salahuddin also said the federal figures were too Shi’ite militias of burning the land of provinces while the government, bat- low. Sunni farmers they believe supported PUBLIC RELATIONS In Nineveh, which accounts for IS during their reign. They also said tered by years of war and corruption, TEL: 4455 7613 almost half Iraq’s cultivated land with some security forces were burning has few resources to counter a new [email protected] hit-and-run insurgency. 6 million donums devoted to grain, fields to flush out insurgents holed up in farms. The government in Baghdad is officials recorded 180 fires between ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Ali al-Hussaini, a spokesman for playing down the crisis, saying very May 18 and June 11. By June 10, 65,000 TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 the mainly Shi’ite paramilitary groups few fires have been started deliber- donums of wheat and barley had gone FAX: 4455 7870 ately and only a fraction of the coun- up in flames in the province, well in northern Iraq, rejected the accusa- [email protected] try’s farmland has been affected. above Baghdad’s estimate for all of tions and said they had helped many But officials in Iraq’s breadbasket Iraq. “Some days we have 25 fires times to put out fires in Diyala and CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT province Nineveh warned that if the reported,” Nineveh’s agriculture chief Kirkuk. “Terrorist Daesh media have TEL: 4455 7857 fires spread to storage sites, a quarter Duraid Hekmat said in his Mosul repeatedly published footage of [email protected] of this year’s bumper harvest could be office. burning wheat farms across Iraq and at risk, potentially ending Iraq’s During a 48-hour visit to Nineveh, they have also claimed responsibility. SUBSCRIPTION & dream of self-sufficiency after years Reuters witnessed five major fires and Why would we destroy our food? DISTRIBUTION of disruption due to drought and thick black smoke regularly clouded Won’t all these wheat crops end up as TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 Islamic State rule. Iraq declared the skies. Nevertheless, Nineveh is still bread for our children to eat?” he said. FAX: 44557819 victory over Islamic State in expected to produce 1.3 million tonnes Army colonel Mohammed al- [email protected] December 2017 but the militants have of grain this year, which would help it Jubouri, whose division is based Since the harvest regrouped in the Hamrin mountain regain its status as the country’s between Kirkuk and Tikrit, said began in April, crop range which extends into the northern breadbasket. almost all the intelligence and security provinces - an area described by offi- In the town of Alam in Salahuddin, force reports and investigations had All thoughts and views fires have raged cials as a “triangle of death”. council chairman Jassem Khalaf has proved that the majority of fires were across Diyala, In recent weeks, IS has published spent much of this year’s harvest con- started by Islamic State. expressed in these columns Kirkuk, Nineveh detailed instructions online about soling distraught locals who have lost “Sometimes we set fires to are those of the writers, and Salahuddin how to carry out hit-and-run opera- a combined 250 hectares to fire. deserted bush areas to make sure ter- not of the newspaper. tions and weaken the enemy by On May 15, his entire 50 donums rorists will not use it as a hiding place provinces while attrition - without taking losses. of land caught fire too, destroying an but we never do this if it is close to the government, “It looks like it will be a hot estimated 60 tonnes of wheat that wheat farms or orchards,” he told All correspondence battered by years of summer that will burn the pockets of would have earned him 40 million Reuters. “All accusations that the regarding Views and war and corruption, the rejectionists and apostates, as well Iraqi dinars ($34,000). army is recklessly setting fires are Opinion pages should be as their hearts,” Islamic State wrote in “It went up in flames in a enemy propaganda.” Local officials sent to editor-in-chief has few resources to its al-Naba newspaper last month, moment,” he said, standing in his said the kind of device discovered by counter a new hit- referring to Shi’ite Muslims and scorched field of blackened crops Riyadh in his burnt fields in Diyala office or mailed to the and-run insurgency. Sunnis who do not subscribe to its holding a lone golden bushel. was an example of just one method [email protected] interpretation of Islam. Prime Khalaf was adamant some of the being used to start fires this year. 10 EUROPE SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 EU leaders fail to agree on top jobs Power centres Berlin and Paris clashed over Three candidates have been who should take over at the helm of the excluded from race: Macron Commission. AP BRUSSELS

REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron declared that three top candi- BRUSSELS dates to become head of the European Union’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission, have been ruled out of the race European Union leaders will by the bloc’s leaders, but other leaders weren’t so sure. meet again on June 30 to seek Speaking after a summit with his EU counterparts in Brussels, agreement on who should inherit Macron told reporters that “the point was made that it is impos- the bloc’s top jobs — including sible for these three candidates to be retained.” the head of its central bank — Centre-right lead candidate Manfred Weber from Germany, French President Emmanuel Macron (centre), President of the European Council Donald Tusk (left) and after failing to get a deal at the centre-left pick Dutchman Frans Timmermans and liberal choice Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel attending the second day of European Council Summit second attempt in talks dragging Margrethe Vestager of Denmark were considered most likely to in Brussels, yesterday. into the small hours on Friday. be named to run the commission, the job currently led by Jean- The 28 national leaders Claude Juncker. French President Emmanuel The Parliament is more divided Barnier, currently the EU’s Brexit meeting in Brussels for secret The three were backed by the European Parliament, but Macron Macron is campaigning to block than before and has missed the negotiator, Croat Prime Minister deliberations — no aides or opposes the system that made them favourites and wants someone Weber over lack of government boat. And EPP national leaders Andrej Plenkovic, Denmark’s phones allowed — remained at else at the commission, which proposes EU laws and enforces experience. Paris and Madrid are turning their back on him as Margrethe Vestager, currently odds on who should steer the them, for the next five years. Macron said talks have been launched want more prominent EU jobs well,” said a senior EU diplomat. the bloc’s top competition bloc in coming years. “so that other names emerge.” for liberal and socialist candi- “If the Germans lose Weber, the official, and Belgium’s caretaker “There was no majority for Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, however, said the three dates after a change of the par- French don’t get the job either, Prime Minister Charles Michel. any candidate,” summit should still be up for consideration. liamentary guard. it’s tit for tat.” Vestager — who has been chairman Donald Tusk told a “I think it would be strange to assume that among 500 million Any new Commission chief Possible consolation prizes publicly praised by both Merkel news conference. “We will meet Europeans who can become commission president, there would must not only get the backing of for Weber include the presidency and Macron in the past — could again on June 30.” be three who cannot get that job. That is crazy,” Rutte said. a clear majority — or, preferably, of the European Parliament, or help avoid a tug-of-war between The prominent positions, unanimity — of national leaders a deputy head of the next Com- the national leaders and the including the head of the change to tech regulation - big crafting compromises between but must also be accepted by the mission, diplomats said. European Parliament as the European Central Bank and the areas as member states struggle member states, whose particular new European Parliament, which Seeking to narrow a wide liberal faction there has pro- EU’s executive European Com- with a range of challenges at interests often vary — are all will sit for the first time on July gender gap in the bloc’s lead- posed her for the Commission mission, lead the bloc’s policies home and abroad. changing hands later this year 2. ership is also a factor in a chief. on issues ranging from monetary “I note with certain after an EU-wide election. The newly elected legislature complex race that seeks to Two of the leading candi- policy to migration and Brexit to amusement that it is not easy to Power centres Berlin and has refused to rally behind balance out party politics and dates to head the ECB are trade. replace me,” said Jean-Claude Paris clashed over who should Weber, even though he heads the regional influence in the EU. German Jens Weidmann and For the European Union, the Juncker, whose term as the Com- take over at the helm of the Com- biggest faction there, the The fifth job in the package French central bank governor Commission presidency is a mission chief expires at the end mission, with German Chancellor European People’s Party (EPP). of prominent postings up for Francois Villeroy de Galhau. pivotal job. The body acts as the of October. Angela Merkel backing compa- This might give Merkel just grabs is the EU’s chief “It’s quicker to elect the pope bloc’s competition watchdog, The bloc’s top five jobs — triot Manfred Weber, a deputy enough grounds to drop him diplomat. very often than it is to fill these oversees national budgets and including the head of the head of her centre-right sister eventually, diplomats said. Other names in the frame particular positions,” Irish Prime proposes policies from climate European Council tasked with party CSU. “Weber’s claim is imploding. include Frenchman Michel Minister Leo Varadkar quipped. Russia urged to release Ukrainian sailors EU rules out reopening ANATOLIA Kerch Strait in accordance with separatist-controlled eastern since March 2014, after Russia’s of Brexit deal whoever BRUSSELS international law,” they said in Ukraine to obtain Russian pass- annexation of Crimea. Fighting the closing statement of their ports through a presidential with separatists in the Donbass European Union leaders reit- meeting. decree in April. area has led to more than 10,000 replaces Theresa May erated their call on Russia to The leaders of all 28 EU “The European Council will deaths, according to the UN. release 24 Ukrainian sailors countries were meeting in continue to monitor the situation Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian AP agreement. The declaration is captured last November and Brussels to discuss who will helm in eastern Ukraine and stands sailors last November in a con- BRUSSELS vaguer but deals with a range of return their naval vessels. the bloc, the union’s strategic ready to consider further frontation off Crimean Peninsula other matters including the out- “The European Council reit- agenda for 2019-2024 and its options, including non-recog- escalated regional conflicts. The European Union insisted lines of a future trade rela- erates its call on Russia to release Multiannual Financial nition of Russian passports The statement also called that it will not reopen the Brexit tionship between the EU and the captured Ukrainian sailors Framework (MFF). issued in contradiction to the Turkey’s drilling activities in the withdrawal agreement with the Britain. unconditionally, return the They expressed concern over Minsk agreements,” it added. Eastern Mediterranean “illegal” UK government whoever Britain was originally set to seized vessels and ensure free Moscow’s move to make it easier Ukraine has been wracked and voiced concern over the succeeds Theresa May as British leave the EU on March 29 but passage of all ships through the for residents of by conflict in its eastern regions ongoing activities. prime minister. because of the British Parlia- Jean-Claude Juncker, the ment’s failure to back the deal president of the EU’s executive that May agreed with the EU, it Prosecutor says 12 Commission, said the bloc’s has been granted an extension leaders were unanimous in the until October 31. bodies found in view that the Brexit deal, which However, some EU leaders Bosnia mass grave has been rejected three times by said any new extension should the British parliament, should only be granted to hold general AP not be reopened. elections in Britain or a new SARAJEVO “We repeated unanimously Brexit referendum. that there will be no renegoti- “It’s not possible (that) The prosecutor’s office in ating of the withdrawal because you change the leader Bosnia said the remains of 12 agreement,” Juncker said in in the UK that we need to people were found in a mass Brussels after a meeting of EU postpone decisions,” said Lux- grave from the 1992 to 1995 war leaders excluding May. embourg Prime Minister Xavier that was recently discovered He said the 27 leaders Bettel. near the capital, Sarajevo. rebuffed any call from May’s Worries of a “no-deal” Brexit A statement said DNA successor next month to restart have swelled during the race to samples have been taken to the Brexit negotiations over the succeed May. determine the identity of the withdrawal agreement that Boris Johnson, the favourite people whose remains have deals with citizens’ rights, the to prevail in the election of Con- been unearthed from the grave Irish border and how much servative Party members next on Mt Igman that was found money Britain owes the EU. month, has indicated that he’s some two weeks ago. Donald Tusk, who is the prepared to go ahead with a The prosecutor’s office said president of the European “no-deal” Brexit. at the time that the victims were Council and chairs meetings of Most economists think a probably Bosnian from the EU leaders, said there could be sharp rupture with the EU, People attend a demonstration calling for action on climate change during the “Fridays for Future” village of Donji Hadzici, west of tweaks to the political decla- which accounts for around 50% demonstration in Aachen, Germany, yesterday. Sarajevo, who have been ration that accompanies the of Britain’s trade, will lead to a missing since 1992. legally watertight withdrawal deep recession. Thousands call for climate action

AP It comes a day after threatened to chop down a UK minister suspended after ejecting BERLIN European Union leaders failed nearby forest. to agree a plan to make the bloc’s Police have mobilised hun- protester from gala, faces probe Thousands of students from economy carbon neutral by dreds of officers and a water across Europe protested 2050. Several large European cannon to prevent the vast, AP showcases the financial industry. firmly on her neck as he leads yesterday near a coal mine in countries — including Britain, open-cast mine and adjacent LONDON May’s office said she saw the her away. western Germany, calling on France and Germany — have power plants from being blocked footage and found it The Greenpeace activist governments to take bolder backed the target, but coal- by protesters. British Prime Minister Theresa “concerning.” involved in the altercation, Janet action against climate change. reliant countries in the east, such The German government has May’s office suspended Foreign Treasury chief Philip Barker, described Field’s as Organisers said up to 20,000 as Poland, blocked consensus on approved an expert proposal to Office Minister Mark Field Hammond was speaking when “over the top.” “I expected to protesters from 16 countries took the proposal, which entails an end the use of coal for electricity yesterday while an investigation activists, wearing red dresses maybe engage in a conversation part in the rally in Aachen, near almost complete phase-out of by 2038. Activists said that’s not takes place into his treatment of and sashes reading “Climate or two with people, perhaps Germany’s border with Belgium fossil fuel use. soon enough if Germany wants a climate change protester at the Change Emergency,” began people blocking my way,” she and the Netherlands. Yesterday’s protest took to help achieve the 2015 Paris gala Mansion House dinner. milling around tables at the said. “But certainly not to be Demonstrators carried col- place near the site of one of Ger- climate accord’s most ambitious The City of London Police, event. Video shows the female grabbed round the neck.” ourful signs and banners with many’s biggest lignite coal goal of keeping global temper- the Cabinet Office and the gov- protester walking forward She said she wouldn’t press slogans like “your greed costs us mines. The mine has become a atures from rising more than 1.5 erning Conservative Party are toward Hammond when Field charges, but suggested he take our future,” ‘’climate justice: focus of environmental protests degrees (2.7 Fahrenheit) by mid- all looking into the incident that blocks her path. He then pushes an anger management course. that’s what we want,” and “stop in recent years because its century, compared to pre-indus- took place on Thursday night at her into a pillar to turn her Field apologised and said he coal.” operator, utility company RWE, trial times. the annual black-tie event that around and places his hand deeply regretted the incident. SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 EUROPE / AMERICAS 11 Nato aims to make space new frontier in defence

REUTERS The decision, set to be The decision to declare space “You can have warfare Germany of being a prisoner of Italy, Britain and France are BRUSSELS taken at a December a new frontier for defence may exclusively in space, but whoever Russian energy, signed a plan in Europe’s main space powers, 3-4 leaders summit help convince Trump that the controls space also controls what February to start creating the US while Germany is drafting new Nato aims to recognise space as North Atlantic Treaty Organi- happens on land, on the sea and Space Force. laws and seeking private a domain of warfare this year, in London would sation can be a useful ally in in the air,” said Jamie Shea, a Even though the London investment to secure a slice of four senior diplomats said, partly formally acknowledge deterring China’s rise as a rival former Nato official and now an gathering is some six months an emerging space market that to show US President Donald that battles can be military power, the diplomats analyst at Friends of Europe away, European allies are could be worth $1 trillion a year Trump that the alliance is waged not only on said. think-tank in Brussels. “If you already nervous about whether by the 2040s. relevant and adapting to new While Nato countries today don’t control space, you don’t Trump will use the meeting to France wants more assur- threats after he signed off on the land, in the air, at own 65 percent of satellites in control the other domains again question the value of the ances of how its space assets creation of a US Space Force. sea and on computer space, China envisions massive either.” alliance, of which he is the de- would be used in the event of a The decision, set to be taken networks, but also in constellations of commercial sat- Nato defence ministers are facto head. crisis. at a December 3-4 leaders space. ellites that can offer services expected to agree to a broad The US military is increas- Most sensitive of all would summit in London that Trump is ranging from high-speed Internet space policy next week at a ingly dependent on satellites to be deciding if an attack on a due to attend, would formally for aircraft to tracking missiles regular meeting in Brussels, determine what it does on the allied satellite constituted an acknowledge that battles can be technical policy work was still and armed forces on the ground. although there will be no ground, guiding munitions with assault on the alliance and waged not only on land, in the underway. China is developing weapons decision yet to declare space an space-based lasers and satellites whether to trigger Nato’s Article air, at sea and on computer net- The diplomats deny the it could use in orbit and became operational domain of defence. as well as using such assets to 5 collective defence clause. works, but also in space. alliance would be on a war the first country to land on the A second diplomat said that monitor for missile launches and Similar to a decision to make “There’s agreement that we footing in space, but say far side of the moon last year. while the decision was weighty track its forces. cyber a domain of warfare in should make space a domain and declaring it a domain would Russia, once a strategic and had real consequences, it No longer forced to simply 2016, Nato’s decision would ini- the London summit is the best begin a debate over whether partner for Nato but now viewed would likely be “a gift to Trump”. circle the earth’s orbit, satellites tially mean increased military place to make it official,” said Nato should eventually use space by many allies as a hostile power, Trump, who used Nato’s can now be manoeuvred in space planning, a review of Nato vul- one senior Nato diplomat weapons that can shut down is also a force in space and is one summit in July last year to to spy on other space assets. nerabilities and scrutiny of how involved in the discussions, enemy missiles and air defences of the few countries able to harangue European allies over India launched an anti-satellite to better protect commercial sat- although cautioning that or destroy satellites. launch satellites into orbit. defence spending and accused missile test in March. ellites used by the military.

Hawaii to build giant Georgia parliament head telescope on Mauna quits after 240 injured in Kea volcano

AP crackdown on protests HONOLULU AFP brought a backlash in Georgia, TBILISI which in 2008 fought and lost a After years of protests and legal brief but bloody war with battles, Hawaii officials The head of Georgia’s parliament Moscow over the breakaway announced yesterday that a resigned yesterday after more regions of Abkhazia and South massive telescope which will than 240 people were injured in Ossetia. allow scientists to peer into the a police crackdown on mass With parliamentary polls set most distant reaches of our protests, which erupted over a for next year, opposition groups early universe will be built on controversial address to are also seeking to capitalise on a volcano that some consider lawmakers by a Russian MP. discontent with the ruling sacred. Opposition leaders have Georgian Dream party and its The state has issued a vowed to hold demonstrations oligarch leader Bidzina Ivan- “notice to proceed” for the until parliament is dissolved and ishvili over the failure to kick- Thirty Meter Telescope project, snap elections are held. start a stagnant economy. Gov. David Ige said at a news Rallies broke out in the “Ivanishvili’s regime must conference. In October, a state capital Tbilisi on Thursday after cede power,” former president Supreme Court’s 4-1 ruling a Russian lawmaker addressed Mikheil Saakashvili said in a An anti-riot policeman fires a tear gas canister towards protesters during a rally against a Russian upheld the project’s permits for parliament from the speaker’s video address to supporters lawmaker’s visit in Tbilisi, yesterday. the $1.4bn instrument. seat — a deeply controversial yesterday. “We expect that TMT con- move in a country at loggerheads The United Opposition demonstrators when they health ministry said 102 people storm parliament and overthrow struction will begin sometime with Moscow. alliance has demanded snap par- attempted to enter the par- were being treated in hospital the government,” she said in a this summer. We will proceed Police fired rubber bullets liamentary polls and the resig- liament courtyard, but the rally yesterday for their injuries. statement as she cut short a trip in a way that respects the and tear gas at crowds, leaving nation of the interior minister. remained largely peaceful until Human Rights Watch criti- to fellow ex-Soviet republic people, place and culture that at least 160 demonstrators and “Peaceful mass protest will midnight when officers launched cised the use of tear gas and Belarus. make Hawaii unique,” Ige said. 80 officers injured according to continue until these demands are a violent crackdown. rubber bullets “against thou- Prime Minister Bakhtadze “We are all stewards of Mauna the health ministry. met,” its leader Grigol Vashadze After ambulances evacuated sands of non-violent protesters”. said “destructive opposition Kea. The state has an obligation The use of force in the pro- said, adding that a fresh rally dozens of injured protesters, Police failed to “abide by human leaders” who “staged mass vio- to respect and honour the Western ex-Soviet country has would start at 7pm. hundreds of baton-wielding riot rights for the use of force. lence” would face justice. unique cultural and natural sparked an international outcry, About 10,000 protesters police intervened again, beating Georgian President Salome Oligarch Ivanishvili —widely resources on this special while the Kremlin condemned gathered outside parliament on and arresting dozens of Zurabishvili described Gavrilov’s believed to be calling the shots mountain.” the protests as “Russophobic Thursday afternoon after protesters. Russian-language speech as “a in the country — said he “fully Ige said four unauthorised provocation”. Gavrilov addressed a forum of Georgian and foreign jour- crime... an offence against the shares the sincere outrage of structures were removed from The presence of Russian MP lawmakers. nalists were among those country’s dignity”. “But this can’t Georgians” over the invitation to the mountain earlier in the day. Sergei Gavrilov in parliament Police pushed back injured, according to reports. The justify anti-state actions, calls to the Russian representative. Opponents said the tele- scope will desecrate sacred land atop Mauna Kea, the state’s French electro highest peak and a place of reli- UN agency calls for safe disembarkation of migrants gious importance to Native star Philippe Hawaiians. ANATOLIA (IOM), 10 migrants were disem- since the beginning of 2019. The of Sea-Watch 3 ship,” said in a According to scientists the Zdar dies in ANKARA barked in Lampedusa, Italy due report documented deaths of 555 Twitter post on Wednesday. summit is one of the best places to health issues, but 43 people migrants. “It is crucial, today more than on Earth for astronomy. Several accidental fall The UN migration agency has remain in limbo at sea. In yesterday’s statement, the ever, that Member States of the telescopes and observatories called for a safe disembarkation “In recent days, the Sea- agency said: “To IOM, it remains European Union make a shared are already on the summit. AFP of migrants rescued by a human- Watch 3 had been invited to of serious concern that in the effort to find adequate solutions The new telescope, which PARIS itarian ship Sea-Watch 3 earlier bring migrants to Tripoli. Yet, in absence of state-led approaches to what cannot be considered as will begin to be constructed this this month. the eyes of the international to reduce loss of life at sea, an emergency in terms of summer, will allow astron- Electro star Philippe Zdar, one On June 12, the Sea-Watch 3, community, Libya is still con- rescue operations of non-gov- numbers, but as a humanitarian omers to reach back 13 billion half of the French house duo operated by a non-governmental sidered an unsafe port to dis- ernment organizations are delib- emergency,” IOM said. years to answer fundamental Cassius, has died after falling organisation Sea-Watch, rescued embark migrants,” the UN erately discouraged.” A total of 30,510 migrants questions about the advent of from a window in Paris — two 53 people — 9 women, 39 men, agency said. “Italian Interior Ministry has died between 2014 and 2018 the universe. days before his latest album is two toddlers and three unac- According to a report by the recently passed a new decree while making the treacherous The project won a series of released, his agent said. companied minors. IOM last week, more than law, forbidding humanitarian journey to Europe, the UN approvals from Hawaii, Zdar, who was 52, and had According to the Interna- 24,000 irregular migrants and ships from entering its territorial agency had said in January this including a permit to build on worked with a host of rap and tional Organization for Migration refugees reached Europe via sea waters, Carola Rackete, captain year. conservation land in 2011. electro stars including Kanye West, Pharrell, MC Solaar, Cat Power and the Beastie Boys’ Mike D, is believed to have Mexico and El Salvador fallen from a sixth-floor window in northern Paris. promote tree diplomacy He was a key figure in the so-called “French Touch” wave REUTERS borders Guatemala, during an of electronic bands led by Air, TAPACHULA event headlined by Lopez Daft Punk and St Germain. Obrador, Mexico’s leftist leader His agent Sebastien Farran Millions of new trees will soon who has long focused on the said the Grammy-winner “suf- begin sprouting in El Salvador poor, and El Salvador’s new fered an accidental fall from a thanks to a programme funded president, Nayib Bukele. high floor of a Paris building” by the Mexican government that “I’m sure that better times on Wednesday evening. aims to help impoverished are coming for all of us,” said Police are investigating the communities that often create Bukele, a 37-year-old entre- tragedy, a routine move after a fertile ground for fleeing preneur of Palestinian descent such a death. French media migrants. who took office this month. reported that a railing may have Part of a larger push to plant The grant will eventually given way. more fruit and wood trees cham- exceed $100m, officials said. They Zdar — whose real name pioned by Mexican President also announced the construction was Cerboneschi — was due to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of what they called the biggest play at the Olympia concert hall the $30m grant will be spread plant nursery in Mexico, expected in Paris yesterday to coincide across some 50,000 hectares, an to produce some 40 million plants with the release of the new area the size of more than and offer temporary jobs to some El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and Mexico’s President Manuel Lopez Obrador plant trees as Cassius album, “Dreems”. 900,000 American football 2,500 migrants. part of the new migration plan between Mexico and Central America in Puerto de Chiapas, yesterday. The duo became a staple of fields. Two new shelters for migrant the French electronic scene The programme was families with a capacity to hold from Mexico’s ministry of the announcements, especially that commits it to reduce the with their first album “1999” announced yesterday in Tapa- 5,000 people are also part of the well-being. the deal Mexico struck a couple flow of mostly Central American released the same year. chula, a Mexican town that plans, according to a statement Migration loomed large over weeks ago with the United States migrants within 45 days. 12 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2019 House Democrats unveil $4.5bn border measure

AP The House measure provides $2.9bn for at the border with the imperative WASHINGTON refuge and migrant care and assistance by the to hold the administration US govt to kick off immigrant Department of Health and Human Services, accountable.” House Democrats unveiled a another $1.3bn for care provided by Department The House bill is similar to a crackdown on Sunday: Report $4.5bn measure yesterday to Senate measure that won a respond to the growing human- of Homeland Security agencies, and $60m to sweeping bipartisan vote in the REUTERS Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles, itarian crisis at the southern reimburse local governments and non-profits Appropriations Committee on WASHINGTON according to the Post. border and the government’s who help shelter migrants. Thursday. Majority Leader Mitch A spokesman for the US responsibility to care for tens of McConnell, R-Ky, promised a US immigration authorities plan Immigration and Customs thousands of migrant refugees Senate vote next week. to launch tomorrow a sweeping Enforcement declined to seeking safety in the US under House liberals insisted on effort to deport recently arrived comment, saying: “Due to law- its asylum laws. the crisis stressed the need to act $2.9bn for refuge and migrant changes such as additional families who are in the United enforcement sensitivities and The measure is scheduled for and said time is running out. care and assistance by the money for legal help for migrants States illegally, the Washington the safety and security of US a floor vote next week as both “We’re going to run out of Department of Health and and a denial of funds for Post reported yesterday, citing Immigration and Customs the House and Senate are scram- money in July because the Human Services, another $1.3bn overtime and salaries of immi- three unnamed US officials. Enforcement personnel, the bling to wrap up action on the numbers are just so high,” Health for care provided by Department gration agents. House Democrats The operation is expected to agency will not offer specific must-do measure before and Human Service Secretary of Homeland Security agencies, vow to vote before the Senate, target up to 2,000 families facing details related to enforcement agencies caring for the influx of Alex Azar said yesterday at the and $60m to reimburse local but most Republicans are likely deportation orders in as many as operations before the con- migrants — already stretched to White House. “This is not about governments and non-profits to vote against the measure. 10 US cities, including Houston, clusion of those actions.” the limit - run out of money. gamesmanship,” he said. “This who help shelter migrants. Many lawmakers expect that the The measure was unveiled is not about politics. This is not “There are serious humani- bipartisan Senate version will R-Okla, a senior member of the logistical support in handling the as lawmakers and the adminis- about immigration policy. This tarian needs at the border, and generally prevail. Appropriations Committee. “Not crisis. He said Hispanic law- tration are increasingly unnerved is a humanitarian relief package. we all recognise the clear need “If I had a vehicle that both something they cook up here.” makers had a positive meeting by the crisis and reports of bad And it has got to pass. It’s got to to act,” said Appropriations Com- Democrats and Republicans in Rep Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, with Lowey this week and most living conditions at government- pass immediately. We are out of mittee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, the Senate could vote for and the chairman of the Congressional of them are expected to support funded shelters . money and we are out of D-NY. “This legislation would president has said he would sign, Hispanic Caucus, praised the the legislation despite not getting At the White House, the gov- capacity.” address the humanitarian crisis that’s the vehicle we ought to be House measure for denying all they wanted. ernment’s point man in handling The House measure provides in a way that balances the needs using,” said Rep Tom Cole, funding to the Pentagon for House panel subpoenas Trump associate after no-show at hearing

REUTERS with congressional probes of scheduled a voluntary staff-level WASHINGTON Trump and his business interests. interview with Mr Sater, but he Unexpected health issues did not show up this morning as A US House panel issued a prevented Sater from appearing, agreed. As a result, the com- subpoena yesterday to Russian- his lawyer Robert Wolf said. mittee is issuing a subpoena to born real estate developer Felix Sater has voluntarily testified compel his testimony.” Sater after he failed to appear previously to the panel, as well New York-based Sater, for an interview with the as two Senate committees and whose links to President Donald committee, which is interested US Special Counsel Robert Muel- Trump were examined in Muel- in his work on a proposed Trump ler’s staff, according to Wolf. ler’s in-depth report on Russian Tower project in Moscow. “Today’s issuance of a sub- meddling in the 2016 US Sater did not show up for a poena by the committee was election, worked with Trump’s scheduled session with the entirely unnecessary,” Wolf former lawyer Michael Cohen on House of Representatives Intel- added. a plan to build a Trump-branded ligence Committee. 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Refining Complex around 4am, tions says the 150-year-old oil The officials are National spokeswoman Cherice Corley refining complex produces Assembly President Gustavo said. “By 9am, emergency 335,000 barrels of crude oil Porras; telecommunications workers were still trying to daily. institute director Orlando José control the fire.” It was the second blaze at Castillo, Health Minister Sonia Nearby residents were asked the refinery this month, fol- Castro; and Transportation to shelter in place, and roads lowing a June 10 fire in which Minister Oscar Mojica. around the complex were closed no injuries were reported. Any assets they have in the to traffic. Plant and city firefighters US will now be frozen. News video shows a massive were cooling down nearby tanks The US has already imposed fireball shooting flames into the to prevent the fire from sanctions on at least six Nica- sky. 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