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Qatar to host most compact World Cup

The Peninsula of Manchester and Liverpool4. eight currently under construction stadi- making their way across any major city The longest distance between any two ums that are set for completion by 2020. centre, with travel times ranging between 2022 FIFA World Cup venues, Al Bayt – Al The release of the new data coincides 60 minutes for the longest commute the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Khor City in the North of Qatar and Al Wak- with the six years until kick off anniver- between venues and a mere five minutes 2022 will be “the most compact” World rah in the South, is a mere 35 miles, only sary, with the first game set to be played for the shortest. Every stadium used dur- FIFA World Cup Qatar Cup in history, allowing fans to seven miles further than the distance at Lusail Stadium in Qatar on 21 Novem- ing the tournament will be connected by will be the most watch multiple live matches per between Liverpool FC’s Anfield and Man- ber 2022. It also marks the near halfway Qatar’s new state-of-the-art metro, sched- compact World Cup in day, shows new data released by chester United’s Old Trafford. mark on the Qatar 2022 World Cup project uled for launch in 2019, as well as a range history, allowing fans to Tthe organizers yesterday. The shortest distance between any two since the country won the hosting rights of other public transport options such as watch multiple live The total square mileage of the stadi- venues, Khalifa International and Qatar on 2 December 2010. buses and water taxis. matches per day. ums and training pitches required for the Foundation, is a mere 3.5 miles, one mile The compact nature of the 2022 FIFA Nasser Al Khater, Assistant Secretary 2022 FIFA World Cup will be contained shorter than the distance between Arsenal World Cup Qatar will mean that fans can General, Tournament Affairs, Supreme within a mere 235sqm, equal to less than FC’s Emirates Stadium and Tottenham Hot- realistically watch an unprecedented two- Committee said: “We have always main- Qatar will provide prime half the size of Greater London which cov- spur’s White Hart Lane. to-three live games per day during the tained that Qatar’s size will make it one of time viewing times for ers over 670sqm. The Supreme Committee for Delivery group stages, depending on the final FIFA the most unique World Cups ever that will more than three billion Putting in the context of other major & Legacy (Supreme Committee) yesterday match schedule. benefit both fans and players. For fans, this people around the cities in the UK, the total Tournament released the new data using a new bespoke It also means fans will spend a similar will be the ultimate tournament for live world. Footprint is a little over twice the size satellite mapping tool that calculates the amount of time travelling to and from game experiences". of Birmingham and four times the size distances and travel times between the games as they would do if they were → Continued on page 4

Horseback patrol Ministry urges vaccination as six measles cases reported

Huda N V all the primary healthcare cen- The Peninsula tres, and also at various health facilities including private t least six cases of clinics. measles were con- The Ministry has urged par- firmed here over ents whose children are between the last three the ages of 1 and 13 years and months, as Minis- have not yet been vaccinated dur- tryA of Public Health is set to ing the campaign, to get their wrap-up its national immu- children inoculated. nisation campaign against The Ministry has advised measles, mumps and rubella 160,000 parents to avail of the booster (MMR). Some 160,000 chil- dose before the end of the dren have been vaccinated as Children have been campaign to enhance and part of the campaign, which vaccinated till now. ensure the immunity, in chil- began here on October 17, the dren, against the highly ministry announced contagious diseases. MoPH yesterday. stressed the need for taking the In the last three months the booster dose, considering the Ministry has recorded six con- 339 fact that more cases are being firmed measles cases. The still detected here. disease was detected in those schools including 214 Meanwhile, the Ministry who had not taken the MMR also organised an open vacci- Mounted policemen in traditional uniform patrolling Souq Waqif. Horseback police are government schools vaccine. The Ministry stressed nation day at the Pakistan an added attraction of Doha's popular traditional souq. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula that such cases could be pre- and 125 private schools Education Center, on Novem- vented and measles be covered as part of the ber 19, which saw huge eliminated in Qatar if parents campaign. attendance. A team from the ensure their children take the Ministry inoculated children two routine doses of MMR vac- who had not taken the vaccine cination and also the booster As the campaign enters into at schools or health facilities. Shops asked to use digital scales dose that is given for free as part sixth week, some 339 schools To signify the importance of of the ongoing MMR including 214 government vaccination against measles and campaign. schools and kindergartens and vaccination campaigns, WHO, The Peninsula yesterday issued a circular ask- transparency in the business Early this year, 22 cases of 125 private schools, have been Unicef, CDC and GAVI in a joint ing all outlets here to use transactions and promote trust measles were reported. How- covered. press release on the stated that ll commercial outlets in weighing scales that comply between traders and consum- ever the incidence rate and Earlier, owing to the huge despite a 79% worldwide Qatar have been given with Qatari specifications by ers. The rule applies to all number of measles cases in demand, the ministry had decrease in measles deaths Aless than four months February 28, next year. commercial outlets including Qatar have dropped rapidly dur- extended the campaign, which between 2000 and 2015, nearly time to switch to electronic The move comes within groceries, supermarkets and ing the last few years, from 160 was to conclude on November 400 children still die from the weighing scales. The Ministry ministry’s aim to protect con- other retail traders. confirmed cases in 2012 to 18 14, until November 30. disease every day. of Economy and Commerce sumer rights, ensure → Continued on page 2 cases in 2015. The vaccine is available at → Continued on page 4 Qatar tops GCC in curbing traffic accidents

Sidi Mohamed Director General of the Traffic among Arab countries in achiev- be completed by July next year. The Peninsula Department at the MoI. ing goals related to safety and “The main authorities like Al Kharji was speaking during security and the efficiency of Ashghal, Mowasalat, Ministry atar ranks first among the a workshop for authorities con- banks among others, said Prof Dr of Public Health, Ministry of Gulf countries in the per- cerned to the National Traffic Kim Jraiw, Manager, NTSC. Education and Traffic Depart- Qcentage of decrease in Safety Strategy (NTSS 2013-2022) Among the important ment have achieved 102 traffic accidents, followed by the to discuss what they achieved in projects that the Public Works projects and only 64 plans UAE, a senior official said the first phase of the strategy. Authority ‘Ashghal’ is working remain to be completed by yesterday. The workshop was held yes- on with regard to NTSS is build- June 2017, said Brig. Moham- “Among the important ways terday at Hilton Hotel Doha and ing a modern road network to med Abdullah Al Maliki, to curb traffic accidents is to organised by the National Traf- meet Qatar's projects for World Secretary-General, National increase traffic awareness among fic Safety Committee (NTSC). Cup 2022 and Qatar National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC). residents, and the Ministry of Qatar was ranked 49th inter- Vision 2030. He said that “the number of Brig Mohamed Saad Al Kharji, Director-General of the Traffic Interior (MoI) succeeded in this nationally in a United Nations For the strategy plan for 2013 authorities which joined the NTSS in collaboration with several report for achieving sustainable -2016, only 13 out of a total 34 increased from 13 to 30, and the Department at the MoI, speaking during a workshop for authorities concerned," said Brig development. plans under the strategy remain number of plans increased to authorities concerned to National Traffic Safety Strategy, at Mohamed Saad Al Kharji, It was also ranked first unfinished and are expected to more than 250. Hilton Hotel Doha, yesterday. 02 HOME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

Darb Al Saai decks up Emir sends cable Ooredoo adds of condolences to Indian President five languages QNA EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to President of India Pranab Mukherjee to Money app on the victims of the train crash which took place on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh state. The Peninsula The Emir wished the injured Seven languages quick recovery. ncreasing its sphere of Deputy Emir H H Sheikh utility, Ooredoo yesterday Ooredoo Money Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani added five new languages app is now also sent a similar cable to including Hindi, Malay- available in Hindi, Indian President. alam, Nepali, Bengali and Prime Minister and Inte- Malayalam, Nepali, ITagalog in its “Ooredoo Money” rior Minister H E Sheikh Bengali and app alongside English and Qatar national flags erected at Darb Al Saai grounds, the biggest venue of the National Abdullah bin Nasser bin Arabic. Tagalog alongside Khalifa AlThani sent a cable Day celebrations next month. Located in Al Saad, Darb Al Saai is an annual fixture of Ooredoo announced that the English and Arabic. of condolences to Prime the festivities which see cultural shows, exhibitions and activities which celebrate the “Ooredoo Money” app is now Minister of India Narendra available in five new language country’s history and heritage. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula Modi on the victims of the options to ensure that as many Malayalam, Nepali, Bengali and train crash . people as possible can enjoy the Tagalog, alongside the conven- incredible range and function- tional USSD Menu (*140#) ality of the award-winning which is available in English Mobile Money service. and Arabic. With Ooredoo Mobile Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Al Kawari to deliver lecture in Oslo Money, customers can send Community and Public Rela- money to more than 350,000 tions Director, Ooredoo, said: MoneyGram agent locations “Today’s announcement is The Peninsula officials and NGO leaders dur- Al Kawari will participate in The institute is mainly across the globe with compet- another step forward as we aim ing his official visit. a series of organised meetings funded by the Research Council itive exchange rates and very to provide the best possible E Dr Hamad bin A dinner hosted by Oslo aimed at sharing of knowledge of Norway and the Ministry of affordable fees, pay Shahry experience for all our custom- Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cul- Urban Peace Week will be gath- and to enhance cooperation Foreign Affairs, and also receives bills, re-charge Hala services ers. By offering the app in a Htural Adviser at the Emiri ering leading Norwegian between Qatar and Norway in funding from the Ministry of and Ooredoo Passport and wide range of languages, we are Diwan and Qatar's candidate to dignitaries and will be held at the relation to Peace based Defence, various international much more. reflecting Qatar’s diverse com- the post of Unesco Director- prestigious Grand Hotel Oslo, the initiatives. organisations such as the World In addition, customers can munities, and ensuring that General, will present a lecture home of the Nobel Peace Prize The Peace Research Institute Bank and the European Union, also send money directly to everyone has the full confi- on Education combating extrem- Awardee 2016. Oslo is an independent peace and private foundations. bank accounts in a number of dence to access the Ooredoo ism at the Peace Research Anne Lene Hompland, and conflict studies research The Oslo Peace Week Foun- countries, including Bangla- Money App safely and Institute of Oslo on December Founder and Chair of Oslo institution, based in Oslo and dation aims to build a global desh, Nepal, Philippines, Sri conveniently.” 12. Urban Peace Week, stated: “Al founded in 1959 by a group of resource centr for solutions that Lankan, Indonesia and Malay- Customers can download or The Peace Research Institute Kawari will be an honoured Norwegian researchers led by can support peaceful coexistence sia. With latest upgrade, the upgrade the app for free from Oslo is regarded as the world's guest in Oslo and we are very Johan Galtung, the principal in sustainable and resilient Ooredoo Money App pro- the Google Play Store or Apple oldest and most prominent pleased to have this opportu- founder of peace and conflict cities. vides five new language iTunes store, register, set up peace research centre. nity to support his Unesco studies, who was the institute's Over time, this resource can options along with the exist- mPIN and immediately gain Al Kawari will visit Oslo as candidature through this offi- first director. become invaluable, as input ing options of English and access to the incredible range of part of his Unesco Director Gen- cial visit, but also to The Journal of Peace from around the world is shared Arabic. interactive mobile financial eral candidature and will meet strengthen ties between Qatar Research, the discipline's preem- and traded, ensuring rapid Customers can now choose services provided by Ooredoo with the Norwegian Nobel Insti- and the NGO community in inent journal, is also published implementation of proven to access the app in Hindi, Money. tute, Norwegian Government Norway”. by the institute. solutions. ‘Pavilion of Mercy Programme’ today

The Peninsula The programme provides a competition between students school students training on through which we endeavour to EHSAN-Center for empower- communication, skills and eti- develop the value of respecting ment and elderly care (Qatar quette when dealing with the elders. This is to make them Foundation of Elderly People elderly. aware in understanding physi- Care) will host the seventh edi- Pavilion of mercy pro- ological, health and social tion of ‘Pavilion of Mercy gramme will have lectures aspects of elders,” said Khalid Programme’ today with 20 pri- and training workshops dur- Abdullah Hussein, Director of mary and secondary schools ing the weekdays of schools. Public Relations and Media, participating from various “The programme hopes to Ehsan . parts of the country. raise awareness and help stu- “I invite all the schools who The programme aims to dents establish good are willing to take part in the enhance solidarity between communication skills with eight edition which will be held generations and to encourage elders to create good relation- in academic year 2017-18,” he interactions. ships. This programme includes added.

Legal action after grace period

→ Continued from page 1 The ministry said that after the grace period, stringent inspections would follow and erring outlets would have to face legal action as per Con- sumer Protection Law. The ministry stressed that the scaling machines should comply with Qatari standards and specifica- tions. Modern digital scales would provide accurate weight reading and prevent outlets from manipulating the machines. Customers will be able to know the weight and corresponding cost of the goods bought. Electronic scale would eliminate usual glitches that happen when using manual weighing machines. It would also make inspections and auditing easier for both traders and the govern- ment authorities concerned, the ministry said in statement yesterday. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 HOME 03 694 public officials Sri Lanka woos Qatari investors Fazeena Saleem The Peninsula

to get skilled training ri Lanka has invited Qatari investors to seize the favour- Sable climate for foreign Mohammed Osman new public employees investment in the country. The Peninsula Quality training known as specialised skills Besides several opportunities, that enable them perform investors would also have access The administrative their careers with a high to large market prospects by ben- he Institute of Pub- training degree of perfection and efiting through the free trade lic Administration programme quality with self confidence. agreements between Sri Lanka and (IPA) at the Minis- This level will include 158 several countries, said Rauff try of includes leadership workshops covering differ- Hakeem, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Administrative positions for ent government positions City Planning and Water supply TDevelopment, Labour and finance sector from and works to raise employ- who was here on a three day visit. Social Affairs has set up ees awareness and develop “Qatar should take advantage Grade 1 to Grade 4, annual plan to train a total their skills introducing them of the agreements we have with of 694 public servants on comprising 176 the law of human resources, other countries such as India, Paki- administrative and special- various workshops, computer skills, media and stan, Singapore, china and Turkey. ised skills. aiming to develop communication skills. They can gain access through free The training programme According to the trade agreements by coming and Sri Lankan Minister of City Planning and Water Supply, Rauff for 2017, has introduced new leadership skills, schedule published by IPA investing, we want to emphasis areas including media strategic planning, the training programme among the Qatari investors to Hakeem, speaking to The Peninsula in Doha, yesterday. reporting, preparing legal negotiation skills, will start on January 1, exploit the opportunities and be Pic: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula materials, preparing techni- crisis management 2017 and continue until part of the our development,” cal reports, the art of the end of the year span- Hakeem told The Peninsula Hakeem. Different investment and managing medical waste. delivering speech and com- and institutional ning throughout the whole yesterday. opportunities in sectors such as Also Doha Bank is preparing to municating with audience capacity building. months of the year except He also met with H E Dr Saleh LNG and power, tourism, indus- open its office in Sri Lanka’s capi- and cyber security. IPA June and July. Mohamed Salem Al Nabit, Minister tries, health and agriculture. tal Colombo soon. Dr Raghavan pointed out that, the new For registration in the of Development Planning and Sta- “We are now building massive Seetharaman, the Group CEO of areas of training were added Grades 7 to Grade 5 and administrative training tistics. Hakeem and a delegation of industrial estates with all the infra- Doha Bank and a team are expected upon feedback received by include 248 training pro- and programmes of spe- officials are on a visit to Qatar as structure necessary very close to to visit Sri Lanka to hold discus- the institute and assessment grammes designed to cialized skills, employees part of Sri Lanka’s agenda in sea ports in Sri Lanka where the sions with Central Bank officials. of previous training achieve the aim of develop- are required to choose the approaching countries, look at their Qatari investors will have a oppor- “Doha Bank has shown a keen programmes. ing supervisory skills, ability suitable training pro- investment preferences and work tunity to engage in production of interest in opening a office in The administrative train- of organizing work pro- gramme and its timing in on n order to facilitate investments goods. As much known Sri Lanka Colombo, it will be a big boom for ing programme includes grammes, basic cooperation with their direct in the country. The visit was ahead is high potential services sector investors in Qatar to invest in Sri three levels, leadership administrative skills, as well head of department, and of the official visit of Sri Lankan investment destination. We also Lanka,” said Hakeem. positions for finance sector planning skills, follow up, department of human President Maithripala Sirisena have a high human potential in the Further, Sri Lanka has every from Grade 1 to Grade 4, and conducting detailed resources. scheduled for the first quarter of country, a highly literate popula- fast approval and problem solving comprising 176 various assessments. List of participants must 2017. tion and professionals. Then we system for foreign investors, workshops, aiming to The third level of the be submitted to the Ministry During a forum facilitated by have our agriculture sector, as Mid- according to Duminda Ariyasinghe, develop leadership skills, administrative training will of Administrative Develop- the Doha Bank the delegation dle East is looking for food security Director General, Board Of Invest- strategic planning, negoti- include finance courses for ment before two months and showcased Sri Lanka’s different in next few decades, Sri Lanka is a ment of Sri Lanka. ation skills, crisis staffs from Grade 11 to Grade priority will be given to those sectors as potential investment very highly potential for cultiva- “We have a system where management and institu- 8. This level will have 102 who apply earlier because opportunities. “First time we had tion. Also there is ample issues are resolved very quickly tional capacity building. various training programmes every programme will only this type of a investment forum tar- opportunities in the tourism indus- that’s why some major investments Each of the programmes focusing on development of have 20 trainees. geting high network of corporate try,” said Hakeem. came with small investments and will have 20 trainees behavioural skills and basic The major target of the customers of a bank. During the As result of the Investment expanded. We have system where selected by their employing PC skills. programme is to ensure three days we met with a wide forum at least five Qatari investors decisions can be made very quickly. entities and priority is given In addition to the admin- that government staffs at range of government officials and have shown keen interest in fur- We have a weekly meeting with the in accordance to the order istrative development different positions and private sector investors who have ther finding the possibilities of Prime Minister regarding and any of applications. programmes, the ministry’s Grades are equipped with shown a keen interest in coming investing in Sri Lanka in the tour- issues of foreign investors could be Level two include super- training plan for 2017 has ten good administrative and and investing in Sri Lanka,” said ism, infrastructure office towers solved immediately,” he said. visory positions consisting of training programmes for finance skills. 04 HOME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 QIMHC to display mental health R&D Qatar to be completely unique compared to any The Peninsula “Mental health research is so HMS’s Mental Health Service and Health initiative essential and as yet underrepre- Chairman of Psychiatry. other FIFA World Cup he Qatar International Qatar International sented in this region that a core “The conference promises not Mental Health Confer- objective has been to encourage only to highlight some of the lat- Mental Health Continued from page 1 ence (QIMHC), the more research initiatives. This est advances and best practices in Conference will be held leading conference of its year’s programme features sev- mental health within the region, "The compact nature means short travel times from kind in the Gulf region, from December 1 to 3. eral oral sessions which will but it will promote information the airport and accommodation to fan parks, tourist attrac- Tis poised to showcase leading showcase research and quality ini- and knowledge exchange between tions and most importantly, match venues, enabling fans available mental health research purpose of which is to provide the tiatives from Qatar and the Gulf local professionals and interna- to watch more than one live game a day. Qatar is also and developments (R&D) from best possible mental health serv- region. Our objective is to use the tional experts,” said Dr Suhaila only an eight hour flight for two thirds of the world’s pop- around the world. ices for citizens and foster conference as a platform to Ghuloum, Senior Consultant Psy- ulation. This is completely unique compared to any other The QIMHC objective under- changing attitudes towards men- explore and promote research col- chiatrist – HMC Mental Health FIFA World Cup,” Nasser Al Khater, Assistant Secretary pins that of Qatar’s National tal illness. QIMHC will be held laborations,” said Professor Peter Service and Conference Organis- General, Tournament Affairs, Supreme Committee, said. Mental Health Strategy, the between December 1 and 3. Woodruff, Medical Director of ing Committee Chairperson. “For the teams competing, it will also be a huge advan- tage as they will be based at one location for the entire tournament, play in a consistent climate throughout and experience minimal travel between matches. If you com- pare this to the USA’s group stage travel during Brazil 2014, which saw them notch up nearly 9,000 air miles just for their first three games, you can see how this will clearly benefits the players. With one training base, one hotel and no need for exhausting flights between stadi- ums for the entirety of the tournament, teams will have the maximum time possible for preparation, recovery and rest,” he added. For those tuning in around the world for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar’s geographical position means that the tournament will provide prime time viewing for more than three billion people around the world. Qatar is investing heavily in infrastructure as part of the country’s preparations for the 2022 tournament and its 2030 National Vision. New hotels will offer travelling fans accommodation options to suit every budget and a new metro, light-rail and expanded and improved road network will mean minimal congestion on the roads throughout the tournament. Hamad International Air- port is also being further expanded, increasing its hourly capacity beyond the current 8,700 to ensure the country can accommodate the thousands of players, fans and oper- ational staff arriving in 2022. Stress on mass vaccination Continued from page 1 The statement also stressed on the importance of mass vaccination campaigns clarifying that mass measles vac- cination campaigns and a global increase in routine measles vaccination coverage saved an estimated 20.3 million young lives between 2000 and 2015. In its commitment to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all children and in line with the vision and recommen- dations of these international organizations, MoPH has organised the current national MMR campaign.

Inviting Offer for Sale of Used Items Bank Guarantee/ Bid Number Description Closing Date Certified Cheque GEN/1351/10-2016 Please be informed that this is a HUGE 12:00 Noon Qrs.300,000/= ONE-OFF SALE. The highlight is a Thursday, 1st complete Warehouse Racks & Beams set December and an external covered shed. 2016. The following are some of the major items included: Cable in drums, short length cables, used batteries (various), desktop & laptop computers, old reach forklifts, office furniture, complete yard shed, old 20 feet container & racks. AC Plants and accessories, BMW Car – Model 7 Series, 2006, etc. etc.

• Please note that the bid is for all items collectively and therefore individual items cannot be quoted separately even at the request of the bidders. • Participating bidders are required to submit bid documents along with certified/bank guarantee separately to participate in the auction. • Bids that are not supported with bank guarantee/certified cheques from a local bank will be automatically disqualified. • The successful bidder must pay the offered price for the items sold in full within 5 Calendar Days and take delivery of the items and clear the site within 10 working days. • Auction documents for the above can be obtained from: - Location: Ooredoo Main Store, Street No. 13, Industrial Area, Salwa. Contact Person: Mr. Presenan, Tel: 44401385 / 55829800 - Procurement & Supply Chain Dept., 14th Floor, Ooredoo HQ1, West Bay. Contact Person: Ramesh Adiyat, Tel:44000798 / 55850601 • Bid should be valid for 30 days commencing from the bid closing date. • Bids are to be submitted in a plain, closed and waxed envelope addressed to: The Chairman, Assets & Inventory Write Off Committee, Ooredoo, P. O. Box 217, Doha, Qatar, clearly stating the subject and Bid Number as the reference on the envelope and submitted to the Procurement & Supply Chain (Compliance) Dept., 14th Floor, Ooredoo Headquarters Building, West Bay, Doha. • Site inspection at Ooredoo Main Stores, 13th Street, Salwa can be arranged by calling Tel: 44401385 / 55829800 (Mr. Presenan) and fixing a particular date and time prior to bidding. • It is the responsibility of the bidder to inspect the items listed for auction and the items are being sold on an as is where is basis.

Please note that above photos may not give a realistic view of the items. bidders are recommended to visit the site at ooredoo main stores at 13th street, salwa, industrial area for proper evaluation. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 HOME 05 Alkawthar school holds career counselling event

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s many as 12 higher- educational institutions and seven government and pri- vate organisations tookA part in “Career Counselling Event” organised by Alkawthar Secondary School to provide pur- poseful counselling to its secondary students for making right choice at the ripe time. The counselling opportunity was fully availed by the students and the representatives of vari- ous academic institutions and state and privately-run organi- sations. It provided up-to-date information to students to choose their future course of action regarding higher-education and employment. Talking to The Peninsula, Sara Mubarak Al Shafi, Academic Vice-Principal, said that as per the vision of the school, the school is preparing students to ensure their registration in well-known Participants at the Career Counselling Event organised by Alkawthar Secondary School. universities of the world on com- pletion of their schooling. “The main idea of our vision is to pre- Career path Qatar University (QU) provided Nida Ahmed, a 12 Grade stu- pare the students for the Qatar counselling services to students. dent, said: “This event is a great National Vision 2030. It’s a plan Career Counseling Apart from these academic opportunity to know about dif- for student’s future profession in Event by Alkawthar institutions, Qatar Voluntary, ferent universities in Qatar. This line with Qatari labour market Secondary School to Bedaya, Hamad Medical Cooper- event will help us as students to needs. All the departments and provide purposeful ation (HMC), Al Faisal without devise a future plan.” teachers of the school work in counselling to its Borders Foundation (ALF), Qatar The students of secondary coordination to accomplish the secondary students National Bank (QNB), Qatar Fer- classes were invited to the event same goal.” for making right tilizer Company (Qafco) and Girls to explore the different fields of The event was organised last choice at the ripe time. Creativity Center also gave brief- study and employment. The Studies, Hissa Al Khater for Tour- Muneera Mollazehii, Thursday. Among educational ings about their organisations to counsellors of different organi- ism Management and Asmahan employee of HMC Trauma Center, institutions, College of North The students were guide the students how they could sations and institutions took part El Beaba for International Hos- said: “We are internationally rec- Atlantic Qatar (CNA-Q), Commu- invited to explore the enter a specific professional field. in guiding the young girls. pitality Management to woo the ognised as number one trauma nity College of Qatar (CCQ), different fields of Nevien Al Sayed, English Lan- Ghizlane Gacim, Marketing students to her university. centre and we deliver the high- British Council, Qatar Aeronau- guage Coordinator, said: “The Manager of SUQ was convincing “This is done for the students est quality care for the trauma study and tical College (QAC), Weill Cornell staff of English department is giv- students to adopt business, tour- to understand what the real sto- patients. We are here to convey employment. The Medical College, Texas A&M, ing priority to activate and ism and hospitality management ries are of these alumni to to the students that 'prevention Stenden University Qatar (SUQ), counsellors of various implement the school’s vision courses which her university motivate them for these specific is better than the cure' and guide Virginia Commonwealth Univer- organisations and through preparing students and offered. She was giving reference fields. The only requirement is six them how they can be a part of sity (VCU), Georgetown institutions took part build their language skills accord- of bright alumni of SUQ like score in ILETS as the students of trauma center as a learner or University, Academic Bridge Pro- in guiding young girls. ing to the requirements of the Saima Bukhari for the Interna- the independent schools usually staffer after doing graduation in gram (ABP) – Qatar Foundation, university all around the world.” tional Business and Management have it,” Gacim added. medicine.” 06 HOME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

RAF provides QR38m aid to Gazans

The Peninsula cold in winter. The projects also helped heikh Thani bin Abdul- decreasing numbers of the fam- lah Foundation for ilies living in shelters. They were Humanitarian Services forced to shelter there after dem- (RAF) has provided olition of their homes. The humanitarian aid worth permanent home also reduced Sabout QR38m to people in the risk of disease breakouts. besieged Gaza Strip during the The new homes provided past three years. beneficiary families with other The money was given by cit- needs like proper schools that izens and expatriates in Qatar as were not available in shelters. donations to rescue Palestinians fighting for survival due to the Cash support economic blockade by Israel. RAF provided QR7m in cash More than 400,000 people to the poor in Gaza to meet their benefitted from the RAF largesse. urgent needs. The beneficiaries Many projects were implemented were college students, widows, to meet the urgent and basic needs orphans and families left with- of the beneficiaries. The projects out breadwinners. The project Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has provided aid to multifarious projects in the Gaza Strip. include foods, clothes, shelters, had positive impact on the devel- treatments and education. Main- opment of education sector. It tenance of damaged homes and helped meet the necessary and Food supply meat of sacrificial animals, food further the relation between Pal- Miscellaneous ongoing building new houses were also urgent requirements especially A large number of food bas- baskets in Ramadan and Eid estinians and Qataris. efforts part of the project. The poor fam- those related to providing edu- kets at a cost of QR7.62m were clothes among others. These RAF has been working on ilies were given money to pay their cation to the orphans. distributed to the families fight- projects cost QR2m in Gaza. Income generation projects various projects to meet the home rents when they were una- ing for survival due to financial RAF distributed meat of sac- RAF has been planning for a requirements of Gazans whether ble to do so. Income generation Medical projects reasons. They were having a rificial animals worth QR1.34m long time to improve the eco- related to relief, daily necessities projects were also launched to More than QR4.2m was spent tough time earning livelihood to families in Gaza in a bid to nomic conditions of Gazans. and rebuilding of Gaza Strip. make poor families productive. on medical projects to improve due to financial blockade. The bring about smiles on their faces Projects for the establishment of Other projects like infrastructure Projects for sponsoring and car- the deteriorating health condi- unemployment rate in Gaza Strip during festivities. Another pur- small businesses were imple- development and income gen- ing for orphans and widows were tions of the people in Gaza. jumped to 40 percent. pose is to send them a message mented at a cost of QR1m. The eration are being also also implemented. Patients with chronic diseases Food baskets were given to that they are not alone in their project aimed at creating job implemented. were provided medicines in bulk. most deserving families. The tough times. The people in Qatar opportunities to youths to make RAF will do its best to keep Rehabilitation projects The hospitals operating in Gaza beneficiaries were selected are always with them for them independents. They were supporting people in Gaza on RAF spent about QR13m on were supplied medical equipment through a field survey conducted support. provided technical support and humanitarian grounds to building new houses, maintain- and power generators to cope by RAF in collaboration with its During war, RAF dispatched field survey to set up small busi- improve their social, econom- ing damaged one and paying with power outage. People with local partners in Gaza to assess three ships carrying humanitar- nesses like poultry farms, animal ical and living conditions. The home rents for homeless Pales- disabilities were given wheel- the needs of the families. ian aid materials including breading farms and other agri- move aims at creating a culture tinian families in Gaza. They chairs. Patients, especially those Gaza Strip is on the top of the urgent medical supplies to Gaza. cultural projects. They were also of love, peace and solidarity were living in old tents that could suffering from fatal diseases like list of RAF for seasonal projects RAF’s humanitarian project in financed to open tailoring shops that is the goal of RAF “mercy hardly protect them from scorch- cancer, were provided financial like mass Iftar during holy month Gaza is a support from their and carpentries among others. on human being is a noble ing heat in summer and biting support to pay medical bills. of Ramadan, distribution of the brothers in Qatar. It strengthened deed”. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 HOME 07 'Museums are a valuable education hub'

Raynald C Rivera The Astrolabe is a scientific most important books dating The Peninsula Learning hub tool used in the Islamic world for back to the dawn of Islamic era Museums contain many centuries. By measuring the to teach the development of Ara- useums are a val- artefacts that can position of the sun and the stars, bic script were among other MIA uable education the travellers could determine the collections Trkulja mentioned. provide numerous hub which contain position of their ship or a cara- “Our other collections are learning opportunities artefacts that can van and thus find their way home. equally rich source of learning. provide numerous across various It was also used to determine the Once our other museums open Mlearning opportunities across subjects in curriculum. direction towards Makkah and including the National Museum various subjects in the school the time of prayer, she explained. of Qatar, the Sports Museum, and curriculum, according to an Auditorium. The event was a step “Object-based teaching and the Orientalist Museum; oppor- expert. “Museum collections can to engage educators more closely learning changes the dynamics tunities for learning will be great resources for almost all with QM for them to take advan- of everyday classroom because exponentially increase,” she said. subjects of the school curriculum tage of the organisation’s rich it brings the children in contact QM provides student-centred including art and a variety of lineup of programmes and with the authentic artworks and experiential learning which uti- Dr Jelena Trkulja, Director of Education at Qatar Museums, other subjects like science, math- resources for schools. artefacts and this builds a bridge lises all senses which proves very speaking at the first-ever Teachers Council event on Sunday ematics, languages and religious “The Science in Art gallery on between theoretical learning and effective to students remember- at the Museum of Islamic Art Auditorium. studies, among others,” said Dr the second floor of MIA is a treas- real life,” she pointed out. ing better, she stressed. Jelena Trkulja, Director of Edu- ure trove for teaching An ancient jar that can be “There are lots of hands-on training. “Because professional single sessions on how to cation at Qatar Museums (QM). mathematics, astronomy and used in teaching medicine and activities in which children are development through teacher develop lesson plans by using our Trkulja was speaking on geography and MIA has one of pharmacy, a textile that covered invited to build and create things, training programmes is some- collection, study sheets and les- “Learning in Museums” before the best collections of astrolabes the door of the Kaaba and an reconstruct and deconstruct thing QM is committed to, we’re son plans to teach modern art 200 teachers at the first-ever in the whole world,” she said 18th century lithograph of the objects and so on. A lot of things going to be organising a number and week-long courses in Teachers Council event organ- while citing the MIA’s Astrolabe Kaaba to bring to life the tradi- we do are very interactive and of such programmes during this Islamic art, lectures on art in sci- ised by QM on Sunday at the collection as an example of a tion of the Haj, and the gallery of practical,” she said, adding there academic year such as a week- ence, art in mathematics, art in Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) learning resource. manuscripts with some of the is also emphasis on teacher long general art history course, cultural studies, art in literacy.” Customs body destroys HBKU lecture sheds light on GCC-EU relations

30,762 bottles of liquor The Peninsula importance and enhance the intellectual life in Doha.” amad Bin Khalifa Univer- Ambassador Amal Al Hamad The Peninsula sity (HBKU) recently has led the GCC delegation at the Hwelcomed Ambassador EU since 2008 and was selected he General Authority of Amal Al Hamad, Head of the Gulf as the first speaker in the series Customs has destroyed as Cooperation Council (GCC) dele- not only because of her promi- Tmany as 30,762 bottles of gation to the European Union nent role, but also because of her liquor seized from Doha Port (EU), to Qatar as the first featured willingness to engage with the recently. The Authority speaker in the College of Human- community and her ability to destroyed the stock of liquor by ities and Social Sciences (CHSS) comment on critical challenges bulldozing the bottles in the Dean’s Lecture Series. facing GCC stability and growth. presence of senior officials of The well-attended event was The Ambassador noted her long- the Ministry of Interior and hosted by Dr Amal Al Malki, time interest in Qatar Foundation Ministry of Municipality and founding dean of the college, on and in visiting Education City and Environment. November 14 and shed light on Ambassador Amal Al Hamad, Head of the GCC delegation to also mentioned her excitement The cache had been seized The stock under destruction. the strategic relationship between the EU, at the inaugural HBKU Dean’s Lecture event. at having been given the oppor- over a period of time by cus- the GCC and EU, with the official tunity to speak to students in the toms officials at Doha Part as destroyed after completing speaking candidly with the stu- eral public in attendance. community and specialists audience about the GCC-EU rela- part of its drive against illegal legal procedures and on taking dents, faculty, government Dr Al Malki said: “The Dean’s together to discuss topics of tionship and its relevance for commodities. The stock was approval from the courts. officials, and members of the gen- Lecture series aims to bring the social, cultural, and regional their lives. 08 HOME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 MEC recalls Honda Civic Istanbul cooperation The Peninsula campaign comes within the framework of its ongoing efforts inistry of Economy and to protect consumers and ensure initiative meeting ends Commerce announces that car dealers follow up on vehi- Mrecall of Honda Civic cles' defects and repair them. model year 2016 over an electri- The Ministry said that it will QNA that the partnership between cal malfunction in the parking coordinate with the dealer to fol- Qatar's effort members of the cooperation brake programme. low up on the maintenance and he Third Meeting of Qatar has put in a initiative and Nato has HEC Paris in The Ministry of Economy and repair works and will communi- the Consultative recorded a noticeable success huge effort to Commerce (MEC), in collabora- cate with customers to ensure that Group for the in terms of achieving security enhance tion with Doha Marketing Services the necessary repairs are carried Istanbul Coopera- in some countries. Qatar gets new Company (Domasco), dealer of out. The Ministry urges all cus- tion Initiative (ICI) cooperation For his part, Qatar's Honda vehicles in Qatar, has tomers to report any violations to Twas concluded yesterday in between ICI Ambassador in Belgium Dean and CEO announced the recall. its Consumer Protection and Anti- Doha after coming up with a members and Nato. Sheikh Ali bin Jassim bin The ministry said the recall Commercial Fraud Department. number of important propos- Thani Al Thani, who is also HEC Paris in Qatar, has als and ideas. head of Qatar's mission to EU appointed a new Dean and Secretary-General of the community. This develop- and Nato, stressed that Qatar Chief Executive Officer, Dr Foreign Ministry Dr Ahmed ment required a joint, has put in a huge effort to Nils Plambeck (pictured), bin Hassan Al Hammadi said comprehensive effort in fac- enhance cooperation who begins his duties with that the threats to global ing those threats while between members and Nato immediate effect. security and stabilities have exchanging expertise and ever since it joined the Istan- Working with HEC Paris become common between all information on a regional and bul Cooperation Initiative in since 2004, Dr Plambeck members of the international international level. He noted March 2005. holds a Doctorate in Eco- nomic and Social Sciences from the University of Ham- burg and a Diploma in Business Administration (Dip- Condolences to Ecuador lom Kaufmann) with a focus on Strategy and Sociology. As an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Business Policy department of HEC Paris, Dr Plambeck was the Academic Director for the MSc in Strategic Management in the last year. Prior to this, he was responsible for the core strat- egy course at the HEC Grande Ecole, and shared responsi- bility for the strategic implementation courses of the Executive MBA. In addition, he is fre- quently involved in the development and design of custom leadership and exec- utive development programs in different industries such agriculture, banking, con- Jordan Ambassador to Qatar Zahi Mohamed Al Samedi signs a book of condolences sumer goods, energy, for the passing of former Ecuador president Sixto Alfonso Duran-Ballen Cordovez healthcare, pulp & paper pro- duction in countries such as at the Ecuador Embassy yesterday. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula France, Italy, Qatar, Oman and Russia. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 HOME 09 QA increases SOS winner dedicates victory to cancer victims The Peninsula

he winner of Qatar Foun- daily capacity dation’s (QF) Stars of TScience (SOS) TV show has dedicated his victory in season eight of the programme to all the lives that have been lost to can- to Cape Town cer and to those currently in treatment. Medical researcher Sadeem Qdaisat was named the Arab The Peninsula More Passengers world’s top innovator in the thrilling finale of Stars of Science atar Airways has The Doha–Cape Town on MBC4 on Saturday night. increased daily route, which was Sadeem said he is hugely grate- capacity to the pop- previously served ful for the level of support he ular family holiday with a Boeing 787 received from QF throughout the Qdestination of Cape offering 254 seats, programme, and in particular Town, with the introduction of will now be operated from specialists at Sidra Medi- a Boeing 777 serving the route with a Boeing 777, cal and Research Center (Sidra) from this month. This means an which offers a total and Hamad Medical Corpora- additional 158 seats per day of 412 seats across tion (HMC). from Doha to Cape Town for Sadeem’s winning innova- its Business and passengers looking to enjoy tion, ‘GenomiQ’, which aims to South Africa’s holiday season. Economy Classes. eliminate human error and sig- Stars of Science Season 8 winner Sadeem Qdaisat of Jordan (second right) reacts as the final Passengers from around the nificantly cuts down the time world and key cities such as operated with the Boeing 777, needed to test genetic samples result is declared. London, Dubai, Paris, Frankfurt, which offers a total of 412 seats through an automated process, has served as a platform for the “can do” attitude at QF, and he had always wanted Melbourne, Perth, Beijing and across its Business and Econ- earned him a winning score of young people across the Arab said he feels particularly grate- ‘GenomiQ’ to be an Arab inven- Hong Kong now have more omy Classes. Passengers in 36.8 percent in a combined jury region and beyond to solve ful to H E Sheikha Hind bint tion, supported by companies opportunity to travel to one of every seat across both cabins and public vote, and a prize of regional problems, supported by Hamad Al Thani, Vice Chairper- and institutions in the Middle the most beautiful cities in the will enjoy a fully interactive $300,000 in seed funding. the resources of QF’s Qatar Sci- son and CEO, QF, whom he met East. world — Cape Town. Visitors personal audio and video enter- “This means we’re ready to ence & Technology Park (QTSP) with other SOS finalists and “My ambition now is to build can soak up the spectacular tainment system with up to help cancer patients; to ease and many other prominent insti- alumni in the run up to the five devices and get them into views of Table Mountain, 3,000 options. their pain and to provide them tutions within Qatar. show’s finale. hospitals in the Middle East, explore beautiful scenic beaches Qatar Airways Senior Vice with better results,” said the Sadeem, who first presented “You can tell, from the very Europe and the US. I’ve been or take up the adventurous gar- President Africa, Middle East & 28-year-old PhD candidate from his automated genetic testing senior figures at QF right through approached by a lot of compa- den route with its natural beauty Pakistan, Ehab Amin, said: Jordan. “I’m dedicating this win idea in SOS season six, said: the organisation, that their sole nies, and the affiliation with and charm, attracting “Qatar Airways is anticipating to all the lives that have been lost “Qatar came up time-and-again purpose is to help communities, Qatar Foundation has opened outdoor-enthusiasts. increased travel to Cape Town to cancer, and I promise to con- as a go-to destination for inno- and that they’re prepared to go many doors for me. Developing Qatar Airways has been during the busy winter travel tinue to fight for everyone still vation support when I began that extra mile to ensure they a prototype like this is about successfully serving Cape Town season, and as such we are in treatment and with looking for mentoring and back- achieve this. You just don’t see connecting with people who from its Doha hub since 2005 happy to provide our passen- diagnoses.” ing.” The young scientist said he that anywhere else.” believe in the idea, and QF has and started its operations with gers with greater choice when Since 2009, Stars of Science has been hugely impressed by The young entrepreneur said helped enormously in this area.” four weekly flights via Johan- they make their travel plans. nesburg. Due to popular Cape Town is a hugely popular demand, the airline has been destination for leisure travel steadily upgrading its opera- with its fantastic blend of tions to Cape Town. Qatar nature, culture and wildlife. Taqat plans to train 150 young people with disabilities Airways de-linked Cape Town Whether it is mountain biking, from Johannesburg and started surfing, sea kayaking, visiting The Peninsula the Specialized Training and train and rehabilitate disabled and seek training to get suitable operating a direct five-times- historical places or even shop- Consulting Center (STCC) in individuals and develop their jobs for them, said Laila Al Mun- weekly service from November ping, Cape Town offers every s part of the Qatar cooperation with the Qatar skills in order to find jobs, or faridi, First Coordinator of 2014. The airline then started discerning traveller a memo- National vision 2030, Chamber – QC. continue their education, said Training and Development at QC. operating with a full non-stop rable holiday experience.” ATaqat programme for The training, which is going Faisal Mohammed Al Kahwaji, Mamdoh Kamal Riyad, daily service to Cape Town in Travellers can enjoy addi- training and rehabilitation of to be practical and use scientific chairman of STCC in his open- Training Consultant at STCC, October 2015. tional servies to the popular people with disabilities has set methods, is specially designed to ing speech yesterday during a said the training programme The Doha–Cape Town South African destination on a up a plan to train 150 young peo- match the abilities of trainees pre- ceremony hosted by QC for includes course on basic skills route, which was previously Boeing 777 operated daily from ple with disabilities next year. paring them for the job market launching Taqat programme. consisting 56 training hours that served with the Boeing 787 Doha's Hub, Hamad Interna- The training programme will and making them self-reliant. QC welcomes initiatives to will be implemented within offering 254 seats, will now be tional Airport. be implemented by Taqat programme aims to support youth with disabilities three months.

Actor Meg Ryan to visit Experts to gather for first Doha soon wound management meet The Peninsula The Peninsula at ways to improve the wound care system by offering innovative ideas HOLLYWOOD actor Meg amad Medical Corporation on prevention, treatment, manage- Ryan (pictured) is coming to (HMC) will hold Qatar’s First ment and research. Doha for the screening of her HInternational Wound Manage- Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Medical directorial debut Ithaca at the ment Conference at the Qatar National Director for Hamad General Hospital fourth Ajyal Youth Film Fes- Convention Center (QNCC) from (HGH) at HMC and the Scientific Com- tival presented by the Doha November 24 to 26, under the patron- mittee Chair for the conference Film Institute (DFI). age of the Ministry of Public Health. thanked the external partners and During her time at the The conference, which has around sponsors for their support of this first Festival, the acclaimed actor 1,500 registered delegates, will be ever wound management will discuss her film with the attended by renowned international conference. young jurors and will also be speakers on the subject of wound care. “This is an important milestone for presented with the Ajyal Hon- It will share the most modern scien- wound care services in Qatar and we orary Award, to celebrate her tific applications in the treatment of are very thankful for the kind and gen- inspirational career. wounds resulting from chronic dis- erous support of all of our sponsors", Beneficiaries of Qatar Charity's projects in Sudan. Meg Ryan steps into the eases such as diabetes and will look Dr Al Maslamani said. director’s chair with Ithaca, an adaptation of William Saroyan’s novel “The Human QC implements 46 Comedy”, in which a teenage boy takes on a part-time job Bakery found violating law as a telegram delivery boy in a fictional US town during projects in Sudan World War II. Ryan takes a pivotal role in the film and recruits her regular co-star The Peninsula Khartoum State, Northern State and South Tom Hanks in a cameo, while Kordofan. Hussein Kermash, the Director Sam Shepard stars as a o promote its developmental and of QC Office in Sudan said, "The income- crotchety telegraph operator humanitarian role in the global areas generating projects are important as they nearing retirement. Tof intervention, QC implemented 46 alleviate the suffering of the poor and low- income-generating projects in Sudan in income people under the conditions of favour of more than 322 people during the lack of employment. In addition, they last months of 2016. encourage these groups to be self-reliant The projects included providing trucks, through providing decent work with con- grain mills and taxis "Rakshah", distrib- stant income." uting sewing machines to housewives and He assured that QC office in Sudan implementing poultry and livestock- carried out a feasibility study to ensure breeding projects. the benefit of these projects. The feasibil- QC hopes that these projects would ity study revealed that these projects are bring revenues to enable people to live a useful and income generating, and they decent life. will improve the living conditions of hun- The Health Monitoring Section at Doha Municipality yesterday found a More than 322 individuals benefited dreds of individuals and families. bakery in Umm Ghuwailina area wrapping bread in newspapers, which from these projects that amounted to Therefore, QC office in the Sudan have vilolates law Number 8 of the year 1990, regulating human food control. QR250,000. They were carried out in funded them immediately. 10 MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

EU lawmaker's Fears grow for civilians in Aleppo visit to Kurdish Aleppo Quick advance leader blocked AFP The advance had Edirne yrian regime forces both strategic and AFP advanced quickly in symbolic significance rebel-held areas of as Masakan Hanano urkish authorities yes- Aleppo yesterday, was the first terday blocked a pressing a new offen- neighbourhood to Tdelegation of national Ssive in defiance of international and European Parliament fall to rebels in 2012. concern over the fate of the city lawmaker's from visiting the and its residents. Both US President leader of Turkey’s main pro- Both US President Barack and the UN’s Syria Kurdish party who has been Obama and the UN’s Syria envoy envoy expressed held in jail for almost three expressed pessimism about the pessimism about the weeks. future of the city, where more future of the city. The delegation of a dozen than 250,000 people are members of the Party of besieged in the rebel-held east. European Socialists (PES) More than 100 civilians have Observatory director Rami Abdel sought to make a visit to the been killed in the east since the Rahman. “If they take control of head of the Peoples’ Demo- regime’s latest offensive began Masakan Hanano, the regime cratic Party (HDP) Selahattin on Tuesday, according to the will have line of fire control over Demirtas at the prison in Syrian Observatory for Human several rebel-held neighbour- Edirne in northwest Turkey. Rights monitor. hoods and will be able to cut off But they were blocked by The group said government the northern parts of rebel-held Turkish gendarmes on the forces backed by Iranian and Aleppo from the rest of the oppo- approach road to the prison Russian troops and fighters from sition-held districts.” Free Syrian Army (FSA) members make preparations before they attack Daesh terrorists' and instead held an Lebanon’s Hezbollah had cap- Abdel Rahman said the positions at Kabasin neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. impromptu press conference tured the eastern part of the advance had both strategic and in the street, an AFP corre- Masakan Hanano neighbour- symbolic significance, because spondent said. hood. “It is the most important Masakan Hanano was the first is close to the government, Aleppo. Once Syria’s economic protests in March 2011 before Demirtas’ lawyers were advance inside the eastern neighbourhood to fall to rebels described the neighbourhood as powerhouse, Aleppo has been spiralling into a brutal war that however allowed to visit him. neighbourhoods that the regime in 2012. the “biggest and most important ravaged by the conflict that has killed more than 300,000 He is one of 10 HDP MPs has made so far,” said Syria’s Al Watan daily, which stronghold of the gunmen” in began with anti-government people. held, including his co-leader Figen Yuksekdag, following their arrest earlier this month. They are accused of membership of or promoting Saudi daily sacks Iraq scribe the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and are Baghdad after the paper ran an article on under arrest in various pris- AFP Sunday accusing Iranian pil- ons across the country grims taking part in the Shia pending trial. he Saudi-owned newspa- Muslim commemoration of “He is not abandoned, he per Asharq Al Awsat said Arbaeen of physically harass- is not alone, our political fam- Tyesterday it fired its Bagh- ing women. ily is in solidarity with him,” dad correspondent, a day after The article quoted a World said PES president and Bul- printing controversial accusa- Health Organization spokes- garian MEP Sergei Stanishev tions wrongly attributed to a UN man as saying that after last who was joined by MEPs and spokesman. year’s pilgrimage more than 169 national lawmakers from The report drew condem- Iraqi women became pregnant Sweden, France and nation from Iraqi Prime out of wedlock. Austria. Minister Haider al-Abadi and The UN’s health agency said The former Bulgarian several other leading Shiite fig- the “claim that this information premier added that there can ures and bodies demanding an was released by a WHO head- be “no compromise” on polit- apology. quarters communications ical criteria, as Turkey seeks The sacking of the journal- officer is completely to join the European Union in ist, who was not named, came erroneous.” a long-stalled bid.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Nato Secretary—General Jens Stoltenberg Egypt refers militants charged in during their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. Sisi death plot to military judiciary

Cairo borders Gaza, Israel and the and included confessions by 66 Erdogan demands support Reuters Suez Canal, judicial sources and suspects. state media said. They are The suspects include one gypt’s public prosecutor accused of belonging to Sinai cell consisting of six police has brought before the Province, Islamic State’s Egyp- officers and a dentist, who plot- against PKK at Nato meeting Emilitary judiciary 292 sus- tian affiliate, which operates ted to kill Sisi in Egypt by pected Islamic State militants, out of northern Sinai. Of the 292 targeting his motorcades. Istanbul hailed Turkish democracy Mon- political parties, we again and some of whom are accused of suspects, 151 are in custody, Another cell, based in Saudi AFP/ Anatolia day during a Nato meeting in again have proven that we are plotting to assassinate President seven are out on bail, and the Arabia, took advantage of one Istanbul just four months after able to stand together in the alli- Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Saudi rest on the run. Suspects in of its members working in a urkish President Recep the July 15 coup attempt that ance on the main message of Arabia’s Crown Prince Moham- security and terrorism-related Mecca hotel where they mis- Tayyip Erdogan yesterday martyred 248 and wounded collective defense and the will med bin Nayef. cases are often sent to the mil- takenly thought Sisi was Turged the European Union more than 2,000. to defend each other,” he said. The suspects are accused of itary courts in Egypt, but human staying. and West to step up backing of “I would just also remind us “That was exactly what we belonging to 22 cells and car- rights activists say the military The ring planned for the Ankara’s fight against Kurdish all of the fact that we are meet- did in Warsaw and we decided rying out 19 attacks in total, judiciary is not fit to try wife of one of the members to militants, as he addressed a ing here in Turkey four shorts to strengthen our collective including the assassination of civilians. detonate a bomb at a holy site meeting of Nato lawmakers. months after the failed coup defense in response to Russia’s three judges who were over- The investigation had been to distract security forces while Erdogan said he expected attempt,” Nato Secretary- Gen- aggressive actions in Ukraine seeing a parliamentary election ongoing for over 18 months, they targeted Sisi and the Saudi the support of Nato countries in eral Jens Stoltenberg told the and ongoing military buildup of in restive northern Sinai, which state news agency MENA said, prince. Turkey’s fight against “all terror 62nd session of the alliance’s Russia,” he added. groups” including the Kurdistan Parliamentary Assembly. This July, the leaders of 28 Workers Party (PKK), Islamic “This should be a sober Nato member states decided to State (IS) jihadists and the group reminder to us all, a reminder bolster collective defense amid blamed by Ankara for the failed that democracy and freedom concerns over Russia and Students protest July 15 coup. cannot be taken for granted,” he threats by non-state actors. - He called on the European added. ‘Nato stands together as one’ Union to tighten its approach to “In September, I visited the Saying that Nato has taken the PKK, which Brussels desig- Grand National Assembly in necessary steps, Stoltenberg nates as a terror group but Ankara which had been shelled added: “We are increasing our whose members, according to by tanks and bombed by F16. I defensive presence in the Erdogan, are allowed to roam saw the damage that was done eastern part of the alliance, freely within the bloc. and I met members of the par- including the deployment of “Those who have a hesitant liament from all major political four multinational battalions to attitude against terrorist organ- parties. They rushed to the par- the Baltic States and Poland. isations will be hit themselves liament on the night of the coup “Earlier this year Canada, sooner or later,” he said in a attempt and stood together in Germany, the United Kingdom, speech to deputies at the Nato defense of their democratic and the United States each Parliamentary Assembly. institutions,” Stoltenberg said. committed to lead one of those Erdogan had at the week- “I want to salute them today battalions, and I want to thank end mooted that Turkey could for their courage and dedication those nations for their join the Shanghai Cooperation to democracy,” he added. leadership. I also want to Organisation (SCO), a loose Stoltenberg, a former prime express my appreciation to the security and economic bloc led minister of Norway, said that 13 other alliances that have by Russia and China sometimes democracy, individual liberty, pledged to join for those forces. seen as an eastern counterpart and the rule of law are core Nato “Our preparations for the four to Nato. But he did not refer to values. battalions are on the truck. We this in his speech in Istanbul to “The important thing is that expect to deploy all four Tunisian students take part in a protest against new exam system at the Habib Bourguiba the Nato meeting. given that we all represent dif- battalions in early 2017,” he street in Tunis, Tunisia, yesterday. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg ferent nations and different said. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 MIDDLE EAST 11 Anger on campus as Erdogan picks varsity rectors

Istanbul Deputy Prime Minister Numan down on Kurdish rebels. AFP Appointment row Kurtulmus saying that such elec- Barbarosoglu “went to the If Erdogan doesn’t tions had polarised Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office pick one of the universities. and demanded that Esra Mun- he direct appointment candidates proposed “We know how much that gan be set free,” the academic of university rectors by by YOK in a month, harmed universities,” he said, said. Some opponents compared President Recep expressing hope that the new the president’s direct appoint- he can choose the Tayyip Erdogan since rules would not lead to hostility ment of rectors to the move to rector directly. July’s failed coup has among academic staff. install government-appointed Tstirred up tensions on campus Academics and students, trustees in municipalities in the and prompted claims of politi- The govt has however, slammed the appoint- south-east after several mayors cal interference in the education defended the new ment as a blow to the university’s were removed over alleged links sector. system, with Deputy autonomy. “Am I worried? Very to the outlawed Kurdistan Work- The state-run Bosphorus Prime Minister saying much. Students are also shocked ers’ Party (PKK). University in Istanbul is one of that such elections and frustrated,” an associate pro- The secular Republican Peo- the most prestigious in the coun- had polarised fessor at the university said. ple’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal try. With its green lawns The academic hailed Bar- Kilicdaroglu blasted the move universities. President of the Bogazici University Student Committee Mert reminiscent of the Ivy League or barosoglu as a dean who always which he said was reminiscent Oxbridge, it is the traditional Nacakgedigi (right), speaks during an interview at the Bogazici advocated the university’s dem- of the days after the 1980 coup, starting point for the Turkish following the failed bid by a University in Istanbul. ocratic tradition and suggested when the military junta punished elite. rogue army faction to oust him. that she was replaced because universities for their role in the But beneath the gilded sur- Elections for rectors in Tur- Outgoing rector Barbarosoglu appointment, Barbarosoglu said she defended staff who signed a upheaval, dismissing thousands face, tensions are simmering key’s 181 universities -- 111 of won 86 percent of the vote she was stepping down from her January petition criticising the of students and staff. after Erdogan this month them state-run—were suspended among Bosphorus University academic career. military campaign in the south- “We are facing a ruling party appointed Professor Mehmed after the July 15 coup, with academics in the July 12 election, “I bid farewell to our univer- east. An Istanbul court in March that internalised the spirit of that Ozkan in place of the popular Erdogan picking winners from a held just three days before the sity where I have contributed for arrested three academics, coup,” he said. There have been Gulay Barbarosoglu as the uni- pool of candidates selected by coup. over 40 years at various levels, including Esra Mungan of Bos- sporadic protests at the univer- versity rector. the education authority YOK. Ozkan, an academic at the as student, academic and admin- phorus University, on charges of sity since Ozkan’s appointment He made the appointment If Erdogan doesn’t pick one university’s biomedical engi- istrator, and finalise my “terror propaganda” after the on November 12, with police under a measure allowed by the of the candidates proposed by neering department and brother academic career.” three read out the joint petition briefly detaining two students state of emergency which was YOK within a month, he can of a ruling party MP, did not run The government has signed by over 1,000 academics last week although they were imposed by the government choose the rector directly. in the race. After Ozkan’s defended the new system, with urging an end to Ankara’s crack- later released.

Kuwait poll campaign Israel to build Yemen truce ends 7,000 new without extension settlement units Ramallah Sana'a breaking the conditions of the Anatolia AFP deal, and violence flared as its expiration loomed. 48-hour ceasefire ended Fifteen rebels and nine loy- he Israeli government yesterday in Yemen after alist troops were killed in is planning to build Afailing to stem violence clashes overnight in and around T7,000 new settlement across the country, with both Taez, military and medical units in the occupied East sides blaming each other for sources said. Four civilians Jerusalem, the Palestinian deadly “violations” of the US- were also killed and 11 others Foreign Ministry said yester- backed truce. wounded in rebel bombing of day. The ministry said in a The ceasefire, aimed at loyalist-held neighbourhoods, statement the Israeli scheme ending the chaos and bloodshed the sources said. Forces loyal aims to separate the holy city that has gripped Yemen since to Hadi attacked Shia Houthi from its Palestinian March 2015, came into effect on rebels and their allies on the surroundings. Saturday following the inter- western outskirts of Taez, “It also aims to increase vention of US Secretary of State according to military officials. the number of Jewish settlers John Kerry. But despite a lull in The offensive targeted an in the city and to grab more air strikes on the rebel-held air defence base, the officials lands,” it added. The ministry Banners of a nominee are seen on the street ahead of general elections, which will be capital, both parties traded said, while witnesses reported warned that the Israeli settle- accusations over hundreds of loud explosions. Four of the held on November 26, in Kuwait City yesterday. ment building “shuts all doors violations. The Saudi-led coa- Houthi casualties were killed to all political solutions to the lition said the truce ended at in an air strike by the Saudi-led conflict”. midday (0900 GMT) yesterday, coalition. Coalition warplanes and accused Iran-backed insur- hit rebel positions in Nahm, gents of repeatedly breaking it. north of rebel-held capital Three children “There is no respect (for the Sanaa, and in the Houthi’s Iran begins exporting heavy water truce), only violations,” coali- heartland in Saada province, tion spokesman Major General witnesses said. And warplanes Vienna International Atomic Energy pledged to ship out five tons of dead in Ahmed Assiri said. also conducted numerous sor- AP Agency said that Tehran had the material to return to com- “There have been more ties over Sana'a. more heavy water in storage pliance to the agreement, which Benghazi blast people killed in (the southwest- The ceasefire was the lat- ran has begun to export than called for by the agreement gives it sanctions relief in ern city of) Taez and more est international effort to put excess quantities of heavy between it and six world exchange for limits on its atomic Benghazi attacks with surface-to-surface an end to Yemen’s 20-month Iwater, which could be used powers. program. Reuters missiles, so automatically the conflict, which the United in the process to make atomic While the overhang was Both Iran’s semi-official conditions are not there” for Nations says has killed more arms, as it moves to end a small slight — 100kg over the allotted ISNA news agency and two dip- t least three children prolonging the ceasefire deal, than 7,000 people and but significant violation of a 130 metric tonnes — it is the sec- lomats familiar with Iran’s were killed and 20 he said. “At the military level, wounded nearly 37,000. landmark nuclear deal, accord- ond time that Iran had exceeded nuclear program reported that Apeople wounded by a for the moment, we have no Yemen’s Houthi rebels ing to diplomats and an Iranian its limit since the deal came into by Monday the country had car bomb in the Libyan city of orders to extend the ceasefire. overran Sanaa and other parts news site. effect in January. US diplomats transferred an amount of its sur- Benghazi yesterday, witnesses It’s over.” The coalition had said of the impoverished Arabian Heavy water is used to cool have criticized the violation, and plus heavy water to Oman for and a medical official said. the truce could be renewed if Peninsula country in Septem- reactors that can produce sub- with the incoming US adminis- sale. A Reuters reporter saw the rebels abided by the deal ber 2014, prompting the stantial amounts of plutonium. tration warning it could try to The diplomats are familiar billowing smoke and flames and allowed aid deliveries to Saudi-led coalition to intervene That, in turn, can be applied to overturn the deal, Iran’s with the issue but demanded at the site of the explosion besieged cities. six months later in support of making the fissile core of repeated breach of its commit- anonymity because they weren’t near the city’s Jala hospital, But both sides have accused President Abedrabbo Mansour nuclear warheads. A recent ment is adding concerns about authorized to comment on what which witnesses said had each other of incessantly Hadi. report from the UN’s its durability. Iran has recently are confidential developments. been caused by a car bomb. A hospital official said the bodies of three children had been received. Benghazi has been the Iraqi troops search for suicide car bombs in eastern Mosul scene of fighting between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Islamist-led opponents Mosul the approaching vehicles, which continuing danger to troops forces remain some 10km (6.2 taking place. The Iraqi military for more than two years. The AP exploded before hitting their posed by suicide car bombs and miles) from Mosul’s city center. is known to have received US- LNA has made major intended targets. sniper fire underline the difficulty Meanwhile, Mosul residents made pontoon bridges designed advances in this year, but A civilian woman was of the campaign — even in east- reached by telephone inside the for use in combat. faces pockets of resistance in raqi troops fighting Islamic wounded in the blasts, the com- ern Mosul where Iraq’s most city and two special forces’ offic- The residents spoke to the AP parts of the city. State militants in the eastern mander said. combat-seasoned troops are ers said an airstrike yesterday by on condition of anonymity Several car bombings in Ioutskirts of Mosul regrouped The Iraqi military launched operating. Weighing heavily on the US-led coalition destroyed a because they feared reprisals by recent weeks targeting the yesterday in neighbourhoods a campaign on October 17 to their battle plans is the safety of major bridge over the Tigris in the IS. The two officers insisted LNA and its supporters have they recently retook from the retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-larg- some 1 million civilians still the southern part of the city. on anonymity because they were been claimed by the Benghazi extremist group, conducting est city and the extremist group’s residing in Mosul, a sprawling It’s the third of the city’s five not authorized to speak to the Revolutionaries Shura Coun- house-to-house searches and last major urban bastion in the city cut in half by the Tigris. bridges on the Tigris to be tar- media. In Baghdad, Prime Min- cil (BRSC), the main group looking for would-be suicide car country. Most gains have been The resilience of the IS fight- geted by the coalition. One was ister Haidar Al Abadi made an fighting the LNA, and by bombs, a top Iraqi commander made by the special forces oper- ers and the reluctance of the Iraqi hit shortly before the offensive impassioned call for unity in an Islamic State. said. ating in the part of the city east military and its Western backers to retake Mosul began and the address to the nation yesterday. Benghazi has seen some Maj. Gen. Sami Al Aridi of the of the Tigris River. Other forces to use overwhelming firepower other soon after it started. Tar- Accusing unnamed parties of of the heaviest fighting in Lib- Iraqi military’s special forces told are advancing on the city from — in order to avoid civilian cas- geting the bridges appears seeking to raise the specter of ya’s conflict, which developed The Associated Press that his men different directions, and the US- ualties — have led to the slow designed to limit the IS capacity sectarian strife, he said: “Our as rival factions battled for also foiled two attempted suicide led coalition is providing pace of the battle to retake Mosul. to reinforce or resupply fighters strength lies in our diversity ... we power and oil wealth follow- car bombings earlier in the day, airstrikes and other support. More than a month since the on the east bank of the Tigris have a tough task ahead of us to ing the revolution that toppled firing from a US-made tank on But yesterday’s pause and the operations started, the special where most of the fighting is rebuild what Daesh destroyed.” Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. 12 VIEWS TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

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CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

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EDITORIAL Safety blight he latest train crash in India that claimed the Obama exudes calm about lives of 146 people in a tragedy that also injured scores speaks volumes about the state T of the Indian Railways. The fourth largest railway network in the world carries millions of Trump as Democrats fret passengers daily and transports hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight across one of the largest geographical spans — travelling from the extreme east vehement opposition to free trade deals wouldn’t cut ties to Latin America, said to the West coast of India is equivalent to crossing half Josh Lederman would create tensions, he stood firm that the individuals, who weren’t authorized of Europe. AP Trump, despite his campaign rhetoric, to comment publicly and requested The railways are managed as a departmental was committed to Nato, echoing his anonymity. undertaking by the Ministry of Railways that works message to leaders in Berlin and Athens. Whether world leaders are taking under the Federal government. An invaluable asset He didn’t dwell on Trump’s tough talk Obama — and therefore, Trump — at his bestowed on the nation by the exiting British Raj when about immigration, a key concern in word remains to be seen. After all, there it left India in 1947, the Indian Railways are more than n the surface, President Barack Latin America. may be a credibility gap for Obama, who a commercial entity. They have been used over the Obama was cool-headed, cerebral “With respect to Latin America, I spent the last year reassuring anxious years for earning political mileage in a system that and confident, doling out parting don’t anticipate major changes in policy allies that Trump would never win. depends heavily on subsidies. The second class fares reassurances to world leaders on from the new administration,” Obama Since Election Day, Obama has are heavily subsidized — defying economic wisdom. his final global jaunt. Behind the said. refused to entertain any wallowing in Underinvestment and lack of modernization has Oscenes, his aides and Democrats back at home If Obama seems more assured than despair, nor has he engaged in the kind plagued the railways for decades. Economic blight in a were a deflated and weary bunch, grimly end- fellow Democrats about how Trump will of warts-and-all diagnosis of what went transport network shows up in the safety record — so it ing Obama’s tenure in a way they never govern, that’s because he is, said individ- wrong that many Democrats crave, in does for the railways. imagined. uals familiar with his thinking. hopes of ensuring their devastating loss According to a The jarring gap between Obama’s public In their Oval Office meeting after isn’t repeated. Instead, his message has government report in 2012, face and the prevailing Democratic sentiment Trump’s victory, Obama discussed his been to buck up and keep calm. Indian Railways about 15,000 people are about Donald Trump’s election was an unex- upcoming trip and said he’d be quizzed It started within hours of Trump’s needs to spruce killed every year in train pected element to Obama’s final presidential on what to expect from Trump. Informed victory, when Obama called shell- up its safety accidents. The worst trip, which included visits to Greece, Germany by their conversation, shocked aides in for a morning meeting record. occurred in 1981, when a and Peru. Time after time, Obama opted for Obama felt confident and told them, essentially, to get it train fell into the Baghmati optimism over any sense of foreboding, and enough to tell foreign together, keep their heads up, and go River in northern India, diplomatic dodges over criticism. The man leaders that Trump, for about their work, aides said. This is poli- killing nearly 800 people. whose legacy risks being devastated by example, would stand tics, stuff happens, and this is how the Safety often becomes a Trump’s election appeared to be the one behind Nato and game is played, the president told his casualty when the system is starved of funds and the Democrat who wouldn’t publicly fret about its team. key decisions are based on political expediency rather impact. For Obama’s aides, many of whom than techno-economic feasibility. Politicians heading As Obama hopped from capital to capital, The jarring gap between sobbed openly in the Rose Garden hours the railways have often used it to appease their news of the emerging Trump administration Obama’s public face and later when he addressed the nation, it constituencies and the result has been loss-making followed him, dominating news conferences the prevailing Democratic was the slap in the face needed to be routes, uneconomic stops and compromise with safety and private meetings with leaders. The presi- able to focus on a task they never imag- parameters. dent answered nearly every question about sentiment about Donald ined having to perform: preparing to Indian Railways has tens of thousands of Trump, his new hires and his plan to disman- Trump’s election was an hand over the White House to Donald unmanned crossings — a sensitive chink in the safety tle Obama’s legacy, with a version of the same unexpected element to Trump. mechanism. Scores of people are killed due to answer. Obama’s final presidential That process started immediately — accidents on these crossings. But the government “Reality will force him to adjust how he before the nation had a chance to truly hasn’t been able to do much about the problem over approaches many of these issues,” Obama trip, which included visits to grasp what happened — and by the next the decades. said Sunday as he closed out his trip in Lima. Greece, Germany and Peru. day Trump was there, in the Oval Office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who has been “That’s just how this office works.” Time after time, Obama opted sitting down with Obama while his aides recently weighed down by an outrageous It was far from clear that other Democrats for optimism over any sense toured the West Wing. demonetization scheme — promised last year to invest shared that optimism. $137bn over the next five years to modernise the Each time Air Force One landed in another of foreboding, and diplomatic The writer has covered the White House railway network. foreign capital, cellphones buzzed and White dodges over criticism. and national politics for The Associated Going by initial reports, the latest railway tragedy House officials’ faces fell as the latest news Press since 2012. in the politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh has came in about Trump’s team-in-waiting: First, been caused by faulty tracks that may have been Steve Bannon, former head of the far-right fractured by overuse or being too old. All 14 outlet Breitbart News, as chief White House compartments careened off the tracks — that could strategist, then retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, have been caused by a track fracture. who had extreme views against Islam, to be Indian Railways will have to invest more into safety national security adviser. at the same time not losing view of the larger picture. And as Obama was somewhere over the Till revolutionary steps are taken to address safety Atlantic Ocean, flying to Lima, Trump picked issues, more such accidents cannot be ruled out. immigration hard-liner Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general and national security hawk Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA chief. Taken together, the selections deflated the QUOTE OF THE DAY hopes in the White House that Trump, faced with the awesome duty of running the nation, might tone it down after the campaign. Of all the Trump’s choices, White House The Revolution of Dignity put officials said it was the selection of Flynn that an end to our Russian-Soviet felt like the most devastating blow, given the immense authority the national security past and the post-Soviet adviser has over matters of war and peace. period. It has established a By the time Obama arrived in Peru, the clear demarcation line. It has creeping sense of despair among his aides separated our Ukrainian and was palpable. European world from the Even still, Obama told a young student from Peru the next day that she shouldn’t Russian world. assume the worst. When she asked whether anxiety about Trump was media-driven “glo- Petro Poroshenko bal paranoia,” Obama’s advice was to “wait President Barack Obama makes remarks during his news conference at the Ukrainian President until the administration is in place.” Though he acknowledged that Trump’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Lima, Peru. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 OPINION 13 The Oromo Protests have changed Ethiopia

Awol K Allo Al Jazeera

ovember 12 marked the first anniversary of the Oromo Protests, a non-institutional and anti-authoritarian movement calling Nfor an end to decades of systemic exclu- sion and subordination of the Oromo. Although the protests were sparked by a gov- ernment plan to expand the territorial and administrative limits of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, into neighbouring Oromo towns and vil- lages, they were manifestations of long-simmering ethnic discontents buried beneath the surface. The Oromo are the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and East Africa, comprising more than 35 percent of Ethiopia’s 100 million people. Yet, Oromos have been the object of discriminatory and disproportionate surveillance, policing, prosecution and imprisonment under the guise of security and economic development. The year-long protests, which brought decades of hidden suffering and abuse to the Ethiopian streets, were held under what Human Rights Watch described as a “near- Demonstrators chanting slogans while flashing the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, total closure of political space”. in Bishoftu town, Ethiopia As the protests grew in magnitude and intensity, the government responded with overwhelming and disproportionate force, unleashing what Amnesty Human Rights Watch described the measures as the Unequal access to education and the means of The government knows that it international called “a vicious cycle of protests and securitisation of legitimate grievances. narrative production excluded the Oromo from main- walked right up to the edge of the totally avoidable bloodshed”. Suddenly, the Oromo story moved from the stream knowledge frameworks, rendering them precipice. But, if it fails to address The failure of the government to respond to long- periphery of Ethiopia’s political discourse to the cen- invisible and unnoticeable, and condemning their the grievances of protesters, if it standing grievances and the deployment of tre. According to the government’s own figures, more culture and identity to a precarious subterranean continues to ignore the social fabric disproportionate violence which killed hundreds, than 11,000 people have been arrested since the existence. The Rio Olympics reconfigured this ripped apart by policies of divide exacerbated the tension, transforming what was a emergency was imposed. dynamic. Lilesa’s decisive intervention at one of the and rule, if it does not provide jus- single-issue protest into a formidable mass anti- Under international law, states can impose world’s biggest stages drew overdue attention to the tice to the inconsolable grief of authoritarian movement. The protests reached a restrictions on the exercise of rights and freedoms “in story of oppression that remained largely invisible to parents whose children were shot turning point on August 6, 2016, when hundreds of times of public emergency threatening the life of the mainstream media. by security forces, and the quiet but thousands of people marched in more than 200 nation”. However, a state of emergency does not give Suddenly, the Oromo story moved from the intensely agitated youth who have towns and cities to resist the government’s draconian the government carte blanche to do as it pleases. periphery of Ethiopia’s political discourse to the cen- become the beating hearts of this and ever-escalating repression. Governments can only take those measures that are tre. As the news media filtered the Oromo story into defiant generation, it may plunge Another milestone came on October 2, 2016, necessary and proportionate to the threat. The meas- the global public conscience via Lilesa’s expression of into it. when security forces fired tear gas and live bullets on ures being taken by the Ethiopian state go far beyond solidarity, it provided a revealing perspective on the a crowd of over two million people gathered to cele- what is required by the exigencies of the fiction underneath the country’s reputation as a bea- brate Irreecha, a cultural festival in which Oromos circumstances. con of stability and an economic success story. from all walks of life congregate to celebrate life and In the name of economic development and This movement has already changed Ethiopia for- nature. While the government acknowledged the national security, it established a permanent state of ever. It brought about a change of attitude and deaths of 52 people, local reports have put the emergency to obscure its lack of democratic mandate, discourse in the Ethiopian society, repudiating the number in the hundreds. making “development” and “security” the ultimate ideological proclivities and policies of the state. It On October 9, 2016, the government declared a standards of the regime’s legitimacy. enabled the society to see the government, its institu- D-RING ROAD state of emergency, giving security forces and the The protests rose to global prominence when tions, its symbols and its western enablers differently. POST BOX: 3488 army new sweeping powers in one of the most cen- Feyisa Lilesa, an ethnic Oromo marathon runner, Topics that used to be considered taboo only a year sored countries in the world, where the security crossed his wrists above his head in an “X”, a gesture ago, such as the supremacy of ethnic Tigrean elites, DOHA - QATAR apparatus is already extensive and permeates all lev- that came to define the Oromo protests, as he crossed are no longer off limits. In short, it enabled suffering [email protected] els of social structures, including individual the finishing line at the Rio Olympics to win the silver to speak. A year after the protests erupted, and after households. The government blocked mobile Inter- medal. hundreds of funerals were held, what remains upper- net, restricted social media, banned protests, closed If the Oromo protests are a battle of ideas, a con- most in the memory of the protesters is not the dead. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE down broadcast and print media, including the influ- test between those who seek equal opportunity and It is not even the bereaved. It is the stubborn persist- TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 ential Addis Standard magazine, and imposed those who deny these opportunities to all but a few, a ence of the Qabso - struggle - in the face of great FAX: +974 4455 7758 draconian restrictions on all political freedoms. In its conflict between bullets and freedom songs, it was sacrifice, and the defiant and unrelenting call for recent report analysing the effect of the emergency, also a battle for the control of the narrative. equality and justice. MANAGING EDITOR TEL: 4462 7505

DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR If the US withdraws, China wonders TEL: 4455 7743 LOCAL NEWS SECTION economy,” Xi told the Asia-Pacific Economic Coop- businesses at a competitive disadvantage in Asia. TEL: 4455 7769 Simon Denyer eration Summit in the Peruvian capital Lima on “There’s no doubt that there would be a pivot to the BUSINESS NEWS SECTION The Washington Post Saturday. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership if the TPP State news agency Xinhua gushed that Xi’s doesn’t go forward,” Japanese Prime Minister Abe said, TEL: 4462 7535 speech put China and the region in the “vanguard” according to the Kyodo news agency. of a joint effort to revive the global economy. Vietnam has already indicated it won’t go ahead with rat- SPORT NEWS SECTION Of course, both the United States and China ification of the TPP, while Malaysia has said it will now turn TEL: 4455 7745 Can China overtake the United have sometimes used their power to ignore global its attention towards the RCEP negotiations. Chile and Peru States to lead the world? rules, whether in sidestepping the United Nations to have also expressed interest in joining RCEP negotiations in ONLINE SECTION That was the question posed invade Iraq or in advancing territorial claims in the the light of the TPP’s problems. TEL: 4462 7501 by the nationalist Global Times South China Sea. But championing a regional trade deal is not quite the C [email protected] tabloid in Beijing on Monday. Nevertheless, China is defending the collabo- same as leading the world, and on that score at least China is If the United States under Donald rative, rules-based order because it has benefited not yet ready to take up the burden. PUBLIC RELATIONS Trump gives up its global leadership and hugely from that system: its accession to the World “China to its credit has always been open that at its cur- withdraws into isolationism, will the rising Trade Organization in 2001 gave an immense boost rent stage of development, it has no capability or ambition TEL: 4455 7613 superpower of China replace it? to Chinese exports but also provided a real incentive to replace the United States,” said Yanmei Xie, a China policy [email protected] Ironically, in the past week, China has for its own domestic economic reforms. analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics in Beijing. come forward to defend the system of glo- Its 1.4 billion people also stand to lose heavily if “It wants the US to gradually relinquish some control, and ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT bal governance which the United States the planet continues to warm sharply. gradually make room for China. But it doesn’t want the US to TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 has done much to build. But is it prepared to accept the burden of suddenly retreat - it doesn’t want to deal with the unpredicta- FAX: 4455 7870 Senior officials have urged Trump not leadership? bility and potential chaos that would go with that.” [email protected] to walk away from a global deal to address In 2014, President Barack Obama accused China Last week, China’s top envoy on climate change, Xie climate change, while President Xi Jin- of being a “free rider” on the world stage, but there is Zhenhua, said the United States still needed to play a joint CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT ping told the Asia-Pacific region not to no doubt that under Xi Jinping the country has been leadership role in combating global warming. For one thing, TEL: 4455 7857 surrender to protectionist pressures, but taking a more forceful global role - launching the developed countries have proposed around $100 billion in [email protected] recommit itself to globalization and free Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in 2014 and a annual support for developing countries by 2020, a commit- trade. “Belt and Road” regional development plan. ment that depends on Washington’s participation. SUBSCRIPTION & DISTRIBUTION “Openness is the lifeline of the regional China’s influence will also expand if Trump ful- More broadly, though, the Global Times argued that China TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 fills his campaign promise to walk away from the is still no match for the United States, as it lacks the ability FAX: 44557819 Trans-Pacific Partnership, an ambitious trade pact and psychological readiness to lead the world. involving 12 Pacific Rim nations. “If Washington withdraws from the Paris climate deal, [email protected] The TPP was a key element of President Obama’s China can stick to its commitment, yet it won’t be able to strategic rebalance to Asia, but his administration make up for the loss caused by the US,” it wrote. If the United States has given up on the idea of ratifying the deal in the “Or if the US takes on an anti-free trade path, the messy All thoughts and views under Donald lame duck session of Congress. consequences will be beyond China’s ability to repair.” expressed in these columns Trump gives up its China, meanwhile, has lost no time in pushing Even in the Asia-Pacific region, China “chafes” against US forward its own vision for free trade in Asia, through dominance, said Xie at Gavekal, “but a lot of foreign policy are those of the writers, not global leadership a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner- experts privately admit that China has benefitted from peace of the newspaper. and withdraws ship (RCEP), a potential deal it has long championed and stability under the current order.” into isolationism, involving 14 Asian nations, plus Australia and New The Global Times concluded it was unimaginable China All correspondence will the rising Zealand. could replace the United States. regarding Views and The RCEP would involve much lower standards “So Sino-U.S. cooperation is the only choice for future Opinion pages should be superpower of for the environment, labour rights and intellec- global governance. For a long time to come, the leadership of China replace it? tual property protection than the TPP and does not the US will be irreplaceable,” it concluded. mailed to the include the United States, potentially leaving US “Meanwhile, China’s further rise is inevitable.” [email protected] 14 ASIA / AFRICA TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

NEWS BYTES Japan troops Four dead in China highway pile-up in Juba for BEIJING: A 37-vehicle pile-up on an expressway in northern China killed four people and injured more than 40 yester- day, disrupting traffic in both directions, Chinese state broad- peacekeeping caster CCTV said. Most of the vehicles involved in the accident in Shanxi prov- Juba New mandate ince were large trucks, the report Reuters said, adding that the cause of the The soldiers will join accident was being investigated. UN peacekeepers Around 200,000 people die contingent of Japa- and help build on Chinese roads each year, the nese troops landed infrastructure in the World Health Organisation says. in South Sudan yes- landlocked and In a bid to improve road safety, terday, an official impoverished the government cracked down on said - a mission that country torn apart by the overloading of trucks. criticsA say could see them years of civil war. embroiled in their country's Members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force arrive at the airport in Juba, yesterday. first overseas fighting since Critics in Japan have Nigeria charges SC World War II. The soldiers will join UN said the move risks South Sudan seceded from judge for graft peacekeepers and help build pulling the troops Sudan in 2011 - a development infrastructure in the landlocked into conflict for the greeted at the time with mass ABUJA: A Supreme Court judge and impoverished country torn first time in more celebrations in the oil-produc- in Nigeria was charged yester- apart by years of civil war. than seven decades. ing state. day with money laundering and But, under new powers Aid agencies and world immigration offences, the latest granted by their government powers promised support. development in a controversial last year, they will be allowed the move risks pulling the But fighting, largely along crackdown on the judiciary. to respond to urgent calls for troops into conflict for the first ethnic lines, erupted in 2013 Justice Sylvester Ngwuta help from UN staff and aid time in more than seven after President Salva Kiir was one of seven judges arrested workers. decades. sacked his longtime political in October during an unprec- There are also plans to let Tsuyoshi Higuchi, from the rival Riek Machar from the post edented nation-wide sting them guard UN bases, which military's information depart- of vice president. operation by Nigeria's secret have been attacked during the ment said in Juba that 67 troops A peace deal, agreed under police in connection with alleged fighting. arrived in the morning while intense international pressure corruption. The deployment of 350 sol- another 63 were expected to and the threat of sanctions, He appeared in a Federal diers is in line with Japanese land in the afternoon. brought Machar back to the Members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF) High Court in Abuja in connec- security legislation to expand The last of the 350 are capital Juba in April, but he fled board a bus heading to the base at the compound of the tion with laundering over $1.7m the military's role overseas. expected to arrive on Decem- after more clashes and the vio- in naira, dollars and pounds. United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNMISS). Critics in Japan have said ber 15, he added. lence has continued. Opposition seeks Park's impeachment Unesco urges action over scribe's murder in Congo Seoul will formally try to start the opposition parties and even come out in favour of AFP process, a difficult and lengthy members of the ruling party who impeachment. Kinshasa decried the fact the murder one with no guarantee about the want Park to be impeached." But their commitment to the AFP took place during a curfew outcome. He said the party would for- process is unclear for now, between 10pm and 5am, when outh Korea's main opposi- Members of the Democratic mally begin the process when it partly due to fear of a political local security forces were sup- tion party voted yesterday Party voted unanimously in sees the "biggest possibility" of backlash if the impeachment nesco's director-general posed to be in control of the Sto seek the impeachment of favour of seeking Park's parliament approving such a bid fails. Irina Bokova yesterday town. President Park Geun-hye after impeachment and setting up a move. With Park showing no sign Uurged authorities in Following the murder, local prosecutors named her a crim- working group to review related Two smaller opposition par- of going voluntarily, the oppo- Democratic Republic of Congo activists Journalists in Danger inal suspect in a snowballing legal issues, its spokesman Ki ties have already said they will sition has come under pressure to bring the murderers of a tel- (JED) denounced "the increase corruption case. Dong-Min said. seek to remove Park. Even some to take a more assertive stance, evision journalist to justice. in targeted attacks against the But it remains unclear "We have decided to join members of the president's rul- but is wary of the political dan- Marcel Lubala was killed at press". exactly when Park's opponents efforts with civic groups, other ing conservative party have gers involved. his home in Mbuji-Mayi, cen- Joseph Tshilunde, president tral DR Congo, on the night of of the national union of Congo- November 14-15 by armed men. lese media (UNPC) said that \The 59-year-old had worked Lubala was the "16th journalist for the RTNC MbujiMayi televi- killed in DRC in 10 years and too Man bitten Kenya to go hi-tech to nab poachers at night sion channel that is part of state often the perpetrators and organ- broadcaster RTNC. isers are not sanctioned". by venomous "I condemn the murder of DR Congo has been Nairobi "Nine months after the use the cover of night to run Marcel Lubala. Journalists must wracked by recent violence snake twice AFP tech's installation, more than and hide. Their days of evad- be able to do their work inform- sparked by a political crisis two dozen poachers have been ing arrest are over," said Colby ing citizens without fearing for brought on by the postponing arrested in the Maasai Mara Loucks, WWF's Wildlife Crime their lives," said Bokova in a of a presidential election which A MAN working to clear wenty-six poachers have and two poachers have been Technology project leader. statement published in Paris. had been due to take place trees and shrubs in the been caught at night after apprehended at another undis- "This groundbreaking "I trust the authorities will before the end of the year. Australian Outback was Ta new thermal and infra- closed national park in Kenya," technology allows them to conduct a thorough investiga- President Joseph Kabila has bitten by venomous snakes red camera and software a statement said. search for poachers 24 hours tion and that those responsible been in power since 2001 when twice in three days. system was introduced in Ken- Africa's elephant popula- a day, from up to a mile away, for this crime will be brought he succeeded his father Lau- On Friday, the ya's famed Maasai Mara and tion has been reduced by about in pitch darkness," he said. to justice." rent Kabila, who had been 18-year-old man was bit- its other national parks, WWF 30 percent overall in just the Brian Heath, CEO and According to local authori- assassinated. ten on his right leg by an said yesterday. period 2007 to 2014, the jour- Director of the Mara Conserv- ties in the Kasai-Oriental He is constitutionally unidentified snake while The technology combines nal Nature Communications ancy, said the "remarkable" province, where Mbuji-Mayi is barred from standing for re- using a chain saw in a the imaging with human detec- said this month. The dramatic new technology was helping located, an investigation has election having served two field in Queensland state, tion software and was fall is mainly due to rangers distinguish potential been opened into the murder and terms but his opponents are the RACQ Rescue helicop- developed by the World Wild- poaching. poachers from a large five people have been arrested. worried the election postpone- ter service in Mackay said life Fund. "Poachers can no longer distance. But various charities and ment is part of a wider bid to in a statement media rights organisations hold onto power. yesterday. After treatment, he returned to work in the same field and was bitten on his left arm by a brown-colored snake Hundreds of Ronghiyas cross border to Bangladesh Sunday. A helicopter with a doctor and paramedic Yangon said he had witnessed more than after the military surrounded his aboard flew him 300km Reuters 500 people enter its camps in home and set fire to it. back to Mackay Base Hos- the hills near the border Myanmar's military and the pital for treatment of the yesterday. government have rejected alle- second bite. undreds of Rohingya Aid workers from other gations by residents and rights "This incredibly Muslims from Myanmar United Nations agencies and groups that soldiers have abused unlucky fellow wasn't Hcrossed the border to Reuters reporters in the IOM Rohingya women, burnt houses very talkative as he was Bangladesh over the weekend camps also reported seeing and killed civilians during the in a great deal pain when and yesterday, aid workers said, Rohingyas who said they had military operation in Rakhine. we arrived at the hospi- seeking shelter from escalating recently fled the fighting in The New York-based tal" on Sunday, the violence in the northwest that Myanmar. Human Rights Watch said at the statement said. has killed at least 86 people and The UN workers did not give weekend satellite images taken The man was almost displaced some 30,000. specific numbers, but expressed on November 10, 17 and 18 certainly bitten by differ- An official from the Interna- concern about a sudden influx showed 820 destroyed build- ent snakes, said Claudia tional Organization for of people. ings in five villages in northern A security personnel stands guard after catching thirty eight Corrigan, a snake expert Migration (IOM), the United Moulavi Aziz Khan, 60, from Rakhine, bringing the total from Canberra Reptile Zoo. Nations' migration agency, who a village in northern Rakhine, number it says it has docu- Rohingyas illegally crossing at a border check point in Cox’s did not want to be identified, said he left Myanmar last week, mented to 1,250. Bazar, yesterday. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES 15 Duterte to declare fishing ban on disputed shoal

Sanctuary plan longtime ally the United States to exploit its fish stocks. sanctuary was the right move for what he calls hypocrisy and Presidential Communica- and was "the highest form of Duterte will make a bullying. tions Secretary Martin Andanar aquaculture preservation". unilateral declaration The about-face came soon said Chinese leader Xi, whom Philippine security expert barring fishermen after the Permanent Court of Duterte met at the weekend dur- Rommel Banlaoi said the plan from exploiting Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ing an Asia-Pacific summit in was to promote sustainable fish- marine life at a ruled in favour of the Philippines Peru, voiced support for the ing rather than give China a tranquil lagoon. in a complex ruling that under- sanctuary plan. graceful way out, adding that mined the territorial claims He said Xi wanted to create China had already softened its The Presidential China stakes with a U-shaped a "favorable environment" at the position on the Scarborough Communications dotted line on its maps. China has shoal. Shoal, without acknowledging refused to recognise the case. Staunch environmentalist so. Secretary Martin The PCA award said no one and former president Fidel "They are adhering, in fact, Andanar said that country had sovereign rights to Ramos, who in August broke the to the ruling of the arbitration President Xi voiced the Scarborough Shoal, thus all ice with Beijing as Duterte's spe- court by allowing our fishermen support for the claimants were legally entitled cial envoy, said a marine there," he said. sanctuary plan and also wanted to create a 'favourable environment' at the China's President Xi Jinping and Philippine President Rodrigo Taiwan to hold rescue drills amid sea row shoal. Duterte Taipei later, it said in a statement on its neighbours, but the planned Manila that was central to years of bit- could provide both countries a Reuters its website. drills would be the first since Reuters ter squabbling, and the basis of face-saving way to break the "Currently the navy regu- President Tsai Ing-wen took an arbitration case brought and diplomatic deadlock without larly patrols near Taiping power in May. won by the Philippines. making a political agreement or aiwan's coastguard has Island. We don't rule out the In July, a judgment by an hilippine President The dispute over the Scar- formal concessions. said it plans to hold res- navy playing a supporting role international court classified Itu Rodrigo Duterte will borough Shoal is one of several Under the plan announced Tcue drills in waters in future humanitarian rescue Aba was a rock and not an issue an executive involving South East Asian coun- by the president's office yester- around Taipei's sole territorial drills being held near Taiping," island, thereby making it inel- order declaring part of tries seeking to counter China's dya, fishermen of both countries holding in the disputed South the Coast Guard Administration igible to own a greater the disputed Scarbor- growing assertiveness in the can cast nets on the fringes of the China Sea at the end of this said in the statement. economic zone of resources off Pough Shoal a marine sanctuary South China Sea. lagoon, but not inside it, allow- month, and that the drills could China, the Philippines, Viet- its coast. off-limits to all fishermen, a Since 2012, China has ing fish stocks to be involve its navy. nam, Malaysia and Brunei also Taiwan's coastguard has move his office said was sup- deployed its coastguard to block replenished. The exercises to be held have overlapping claims in the had direct oversight of Itu Aba ported by Chinese counterpart the shoal from Filipinos, despite The move is the latest ges- around Itu Aba, known by Tai- South China Sea, through which since 2000, when it took over Xi Jinping. being located inside the 200 ture towards China in what has wan as Taiping, would include $5 trillion in ship-borne trade from the Taiwanese military. Duterte will make a unilat- nautical mile exclusive economic been an astonishing reversal of drills in rescuing shipwrecked passes every year. More than 100 coastguard eral declaration barring zone of the Philippines. Philippine foreign policy under personnel, the coastguard said. Taiwan has largely kept out personnel are stationed on Itu fishermen from exploiting The establishment of a pro- Duterte, who opted to befriend More details would be released of disputes between China and Aba. marine life at a tranquil lagoon tected marine zone, if successful, Beijing while admonishing Alarm over proposed Philippine law to jail 9-years-olds

Manila Manila is a state party to the AFP UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says criminal responsibility below the age of hildren as young as nine 12 is not acceptable. could be jailed in the "Jail is no place for a child. It CPhilippines for certain is alarming for children to be crimes under a proposed law institutionalised (sent to a penal backed by the president, spark- institution)," Unicef said in a Former legislators and a leader of the opposition Neri Colmenares (second left) and former legislator and ex-communist rebel ing concern yesterday from the position paper yesterday. leader Satur Ocampo (second right) present a copy of their petition for the exhumation of Marcos body at the Supreme Court, UN and rights groups. "It will be retrogression on in Manila. RIGHT: Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos gestures during a press conference at his office. President Rodrigo Duterte's the part of the Philippine allies have been pushing to pass Government." laws by December that would Rights organisations Filipinos want Marcos remains to be exhumed restore the death penalty and launched a campaign called lower the minimum age of #ChildrenNotCriminals to urge criminal responsibility from 15 lawmakers to reconsider their Manila massive corruption and human Court endorsed a decision by representing victims of Marcos' to 9. support for the law. AFP rights abuses. President Rodrigo Duterte to martial law also asked the "Adult criminals knowingly One of the groups, Plan Relatives of victims of his bury the dictator at the heroes' Supreme Court Monday to cite and purposely make use of International said that children rule asked the Supreme Court cemetery. the Marcos family and the mili- youth below 15 years of age to on the wrong side of the law ampaigners launched legal yesterday to dig up his remains, Lagman, an opposition tary in contempt of court for commit crimes, such as drug were often victims of criminal action yesterday to claiming they had not been given member of the House of Repre- organising the burial. trafficking," Pantaleon Alvarez, gangs. Cexhume the body of enough time to appeal a ruling sentatives, filed a "motion for Former president Fidel one of the proposed law's main "It is unfair that it's always former Philippine dictator Fer- allowing his burial in the exhumation" yesterday arguing Ramos, a senior Duterte advisor backers, said in an explanatory the children who are blamed. dinand Marcos, just three days cemetery. the court ruling was not final and former military chief who note. This will result in children after his burial in a national "How can a plunderer and because opponents were enti- was among the leaders of the While Duterte wanted the becoming hardened criminals," heroes' cemetery triggered street despot and violator of human tled to 15 days to appeal. anti-Marcos revolt, criticised the age threshold dropped to 12, his said Ernesto Almocera of Plan protests. rights be given that honour of "The exhumation is imper- burial. allies went one step further by International Philippines. He was finally laid to rest on being buried in the memorial of ative in order not to render moot "It was an insult, it was a calling for it to be lowered to The advocates appealed to Friday in a secretive ceremony good men?" said Congressman and academic the petitioners' trivialisation of the role, the sac- nine. Duterte to explore factors that at the "Cemetery of Heroes" with Edcel Lagman, brother of an forthcoming and seasonable rifices of our armed forces.... Of The UN children's agency led children to commit crimes, military honours almost three abducted anti-Marcos dissident motion/s for reconsideration," course they (anti-Marcos forces) Unicef reminded the Philip- such as poverty and lack of decades after his death, anger- who was never seen again. the motion read. are entitled to protest," Ramos pines of its international parental guidance and ing critics who accuse Marcos of Two weeks ago the Supreme Lagman and another group said. obligations. education.

Thailand to begin building late Vietnam media fined for 'toxic' fish sauce reports

king's funeral pyre next year Hanoi organisations for running the AFP reports, including the main- Bangkok for at least another year. stream Thanh Nien newspaper Reuters Deputy Prime Minister which was slapped with a Thanasak Patimaprakorn said ietnam yesterday fined nearly $9,000 penalty. a committee had been set up scores of news outlets The newspaper, which hailand will begin build- to oversee construction of the Vfor publishing now-dis- received the highest fine ing the funeral pyre for king's cremation pyre in a credited reports about toxic fish because it also ran its own inde- Tlate King Bhumibol public square in front of the sauce, accusing them of spark- pendent survey, was accused Adulyadej, who died last palace. ing public panic over the staple of "publishing incorrect infor- month at the age of 88, next "Building is expected to be condiment in a country plagued mation that undermined year, the government said completed before September by food scares. national interests", the minis- yesterday, adding 8,000 peo- 2017 but it depends on the "The news caused panic in try said. ple will be involved in the weather," Thanasak said. our society, causing consum- Other fines ranged from cremation ceremony. Prime Minister Prayuth ers to boycott traditional fish $450 to $2,200 and the minis- The Daily Buddhist Chan-ocha has made clear sauce... seriously undermining try said 560 news items in total funeral rites have been held that the king's only son and Vietnam's age-old fish sauce were published. for the king at the Grand Pal- designated heir, Crown Prince production," the Ministry of The reports were declared ace in Bangkok but a royal Maha Vajiralongkorn, will Information and Communica- false after an investigation by the A vendor stands next to her stand selling different type of cremation will not take place inherit the throne. tion said. Health Ministry, which later con- The ministry fined 50 news cluded the fish sauce to be safe. sauces inside a local market, in Hanoi, yesterday. 16 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 Bomber targets mosque in Kabul; 32 dead NEWS BYTES Eminent art KABUL Carnage critic Akbar AP The bomber, who Naqvi dies suicide bomber was on foot, had struck a Shia mosque walked into the Shia EMINENT art critic Dr S in the Afghan capital mosque in western Akbar Naqvi passed away yesterday, killing 32 Kabul where he here yesterday. He was 85. people, the UN office detonated his He leaves behind his wife, said,A the second large-scale two daughters and a son. explosives among attack targeting minority Shias Dr Naqvi was born the crowd of in Kabul in just over a month. on February 21, 1931, in Afghan police said the worshippers. Hajipur, Bihar, India. He bomber, who was on foot, had did his master’s in English walked into the Shia mosque in No group literature from the Patna western Kabul where he deto- immediately claimed University where he also nated his explosives among the responsibility for the taught for a brief period. crowd of worshippers. attack. He obtained a PhD in No group immediately English literature from the claimed responsibility for the University of Liverpool. attack, though Sunni extremists in Afghanistan." Yesterday's He tried his hand at such as the Taliban and the bombing hit during a prayers the art of painting but Afghan security forces keep watch in front of a mosque in Kabul, yesterday. Islamic State militants, who view ceremony commemorating 40 discovered that he was Shias as heretics and apostates, days since the anniversary of the more inclined towards frequently target Shia mosques death of Imam Hussein, the slain 14 people. The Islamic State affil- inside the mosque but suffered women and children killed and the critical and not the and public gatherings. grandson of the Prophet Muham- iate in Afghanistan claimed only minor wounds. wounded in today's attack," creative side of the sub- The United Nations Assist- mad. The ceremony is known as responsibility for one of those Kardel from UNAMA added Nicholson said. "We will con- ject. Although his critical ance Mission in Afghanistan said Arbaeen, meaning 'forty' in Ara- two attacks, the UN statement in her statement that "religious tinue to stand with our Afghan essays on art in Pakistan the explosion also wounded bic. Hussein is a revered Shia said. and ethnic tolerance are values partners and do everything pos- started to appear in mag- more than 50 people, many of martyr who was killed in 680 AD Faredoon Obiadi, head of the the Afghan people hold strong." sible to secure a peaceful, stable azines and journals early them children. Earlier in the day, in the city of Karbala in present- criminal investigation depart- "I urge the Afghan authori- Afghanistan." on in his career, Dr Naqvi’s the Afghan authorities said at day Iraq. ment for the Kabul police, said ties to do everything possible to Shias in Afghanistan make first major contribution in least 28 people were killed and In early October, militants the attacker in Monday's bomb- defend Afghans of all faiths," she up an estimated 15 percent of the the form of a book Image 48 wounded. attacked another Shia ceremony ing walked into the Baqir-ul added. country's population of around and Identity: Fifty Years of "This appalling attack on at a shrine in Kabul, commem- Ulom mosque during prayers. US Gen. John W. Nicholson, 30 million. Their public celebra- Painting and Sculpture in worshippers is an atrocity," the orating the anniversary of He mingled among the commander of the US-led Res- tions and commemorations were Pakistan came out in 1997. statement quoted Pernille Hussein's actual death. That crowd on the first floor of the olute Support Mission in largely banned during the five Kardel, the Secretary-General's attack killed 17 people, mostly two-story building where he det- Afghanistan, condemned the years when the Taliban control- Deputy Special Representative worshippers but also several onated his explosives, Obiadi bombing. led the country. But Afghanistan's PPP set to win for Afghanistan. "UNAMA policemen. A day later, a similar said. "On behalf of the men and Shiites have become more pub- expresses its revulsion at this lat- attack struck Shiites in the city "Suddenly, a huge explosion women of Resolute Support, we lic since the extremists were NA-258 est effort by extremists to stoke of Mazer-e Sharif in northern happened, then everything went offer our condolences to the overthrown in the US invasion sectarian violence Balkh province, killing at least dark," said Ewaz Ali, 50, who was families of the innocent men, of 2001. by-election

WITH only three days left until the NA-258 by- election, the Pakistan Army Chief begins farewell visits Russia to host talks People’s Party seems set to win the constitu- ency and regain an area Islamabad with Pakistan & China that has been one of the Reuters party’s few traditional strongholds in Kara- akistan’s powerful army Islamabad marred by Cold War rivalry in chi mainly because key chief Raheel Sharif began Internews the past. Moscow ignored rival political parties the Pa round of farewell visits Indian demand not to hold joint Pakistan Muslim League- yesterday, his spokesman said, n international diplomacy, military exercise with Islama- Nawaz and the Pakistan damping speculation he might there are no permanent bad after attack on its military Tehreek-e-Insaf are not receive an extension when his Ifriends or foes. This oft- base in Uri in the disputed participating in the poll. three-year term ends this repeated cliché perfectly Himalayan region of Kashmir. However, the resi- month. illustrates the current transfor- Indian Prime Minister dents of the constituency The general has been mation of Pakistan-Russia Narendra Modi’s efforts also do not seem very enthu- immensely popular among ordi- relationship. suffered a setback when Pres- siastic about the election, nary Pakistanis, who see him as When Afghanistan was in ident Vladimir Putin refused to forcing the PPP to run having effectively tackled crime turmoil in the 1980s, Moscow toe his line on Pakistan during a dull campaign. The and corruption, besides carry- and Islamabad were in oppo- the recent BRICS summit in NA-258, one of the largest ing the fight against Islamist site camps. But their Cold War Goa. The official with knowl- electoral constituencies of terrorism to unstable tribal rivalry has taken a dramatic edge of the upcoming Sindh which some ana- areas. turn. And the two countries are Pakistan-Russia-China trilat- lysts refer to as the half Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (left) and Army Chief of Staff Sharif, who is due to retire now exploring options to eral meeting said that it clearly of Karachi, had fallen on November 29, had never said General Raheel Sharif attending a port inauguration in become partners for bringing showed that Modi’s efforts to vacant after resigna- he would seek an extension, but Gwadar, Pakistan. peace in Afghanistan. isolate Pakistan had failed. tion of state minister for speculation of such a move has For this purpose, Russia will The official requested not communication Abdul recently been rife in the media for roughly half its 69-year his- Typically, the military provides host first-ever trilateral talks to be quoted on the record Hakeem Baloch, who left and among politicians. tory, and tension with civilian the prime minister the dossiers involving Pakistan and China because he was not authorised the PML-N and joined the “Army chief kicks off his governments - including that of of three or four contenders from next month in an effort to crack to speak to the media. He said PPP two month ago. farewell visits beginning from current Prime Minister Nawaz which to choose. the Afghan conundrum. the three-way talks will discuss Winning its sole Lahore today,” military spokes- Sharif - often runs high. Contenders this year include “This is a watershed how to bring an end to the long national assembly con- man Lieutenant-General Asim Sharif himself was ousted Lieutenant General Javed Iqbal moment,” said a senior Paki- running conflict in Afghanistan stituency in Sindh in the Bajwa said on social network from power in 1999 by a mili- Ramday, Lieutenant General stani official, who believes the and prevent groups such as 2013 general election - the Twitter, adding that Sharif tary coup. Pakistan’s last two Zubair Hayat, Lieutenant Gen- development is part of the rea- Islamic State, aka Da’ish, from NA-258 - by securing over would meet soldiers on the vis- army chiefs, including Pervez eral Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad and lignment taking place in this gaining a foothold in the war- 52,000 votes, the PML-N its. “Accomplishment of peace Musharraf, who led the coup Lieutenant General Qamar Javed part of the world. torn country. When contacted, has decided not to partic- and stability no ordinary task,” against Sharif, were both given Bajwa, three of the prime min- Last month, Pakistan and Foreign Office spokesperson ipate in the by-poll for the he added. “Our sacrifices and extensions. Prime Minister ister’s aides told Reuters in Russia held their first-ever joint NafeesZakaria said the initia- seat after its parliamen- joint national resolve helped us Sharif has until November 28 to September. The succession will military drills in a landmark tive was aimed at bringing tarian Baloch left the party in offsetting all odds.” name his choice of a replace- also be closely watched development showing gradual peace and stability in Afghani- and rejoined the PPP. The army has ruled Pakistan ment for the retiring army chief. overseas. improvement in their ties stan and the region at large. Guidelines for repatriation of Afghan refugees on anvil

Islamabad multiple entry/special visas to Refugees and the Ministry of the midst of their studies in Paki- extended help to millions of ref- insisted and called for a mecha- Internews Afghan students, investors and Safron in consultation with us, stani universities. ugees over the past 40 years and nism to document unregistered those with Pakistani spouses, have put together a package of “While we are happy that Afghans recognise this support. Afghans. he Ministry of States and while the people coming for proposals which will respond to 600,000 Afghan refugees have “I am hopeful that the good- Balkhi lashed out at what he Frontier Regions (Safron) health reasons would be granted the needs of these special cate- returned to their homeland (from will of 40 years would not be called some vested interests who Tof Pakistan has finalised a visa on arrival at Torkham. gories once approved,” said Pakistan) since July, we encour- damaged,” the minister said in a are “spoiling relations” between set of proposals/guidelines for Granting an indefinite visa or Zakhilwal, who is also President age and welcome the return of reference to some incidents of the two neighbouring countries the repatriation of Afghan refu- permanent residence if not Ashraf Ghani’s special represent- thousands continuously on a alleged harassment of the refu- and said President Ashraf Ghani gees that will soon be placed nationality to all those born in ative for Pakistan. daily basis,” he said. gees in Peshawar this year which and his government wants before the federal cabinet for Pakistan and advocated by sev- “We are optimistic this pack- In Kabul, Afghan Minister of forced hundreds of refugees to friendly relations with Pakistan. approval. eral political parties, as well as age will be discussed and Refugees and Repatriations return back their home He also criticised the role of the Senior officials in the minis- civil society organisations, has approved by the government of Sayed Hussain AlimiBalkhi has country. media for creating a rift between try said yesterday that the also been under discussion, an Pakistan in the near future,” he expressed the hope that the stay “Returnees should have a the two countries. guidelines have been devised for official said. said. of registered Afghan refugees positive approach towards Paki- Meanwhile, the UN refugee the smooth and voluntary return Afghanistan’s envoy Dr Omar He said there are some cat- would be extended until Decem- stan,” Balkhi said while lauding agency has welcomed the Paki- of Afghan nationals after Safron Zakhilwal also confirmed that egories of refugees that need ber 2017 as per the the Safron ministry for the stani plan to continue to extend Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch con- Pakistan is in the process of special provisions - including “understanding” between Paki- initiative. support to the refugees. sulted the mainstream political announcing a package for the those who own properties and stan and Afghanistan. “The issue of refugees should “We look forward to a deci- parties in parliament on the refugees. businesses worth billions of dol- Balkhi told members of the not be politicised and should be sion by the cabinet shortly and issue. “I am glad that the Chief lars, Afghans who have Pakistani Pak-Afghan track-II dialogue at treated on humanitarian will study the policies agreed They include: issuing Commissionerate for Afghan spouses and students who are in his office that Pakistan has grounds,” the Afghan minister carefully at this time,” she said. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 INDIA 17 Opposition to unitedly protest demonetisation

New Delhi have to find a new word to define IANS Currency Woes him." Inside Parliament "Why is Modiji supposed to too, opposition come to Parliament? He is at he Congress yesterday held parties kept up their another level now," Gandhi told a meeting with other like protest on the journalists outside Parliament minded parties over the after earlier interacting with peo- T demonetisation of issue of demonetisation to unit- ple queuing up at an ATMs in 500 and 1,000 rupee edly mount pressure on the Delhi's Jahangirpuri area. government, even as the AAP notes. "He does not consult his min- announced it will gherao Parlia- isters and takes decisions ment today. It was also decided according to his whims and fan- The meeting was attended cies," Gandhi said. that MPs of these 10 among others by leaders of Tri- "He took the biggest eco- parties will stage a namool Congress, Janata nomic decision in the history of Dal-United, Bahujan Samaj sit-in near Mahatma India by informing just three to Party, CPI(M), CPI, NCP, RJD, JMM Gandhi's statue in four people (about demonetisa- and DMK. the Parliament tion). There was no plan and no Inside Parliament too, oppo- complex tomorrow. thought was given to its negative sition parties kept up their repercussions," he said. protest on the demonetisation of "He cannot be even called a 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, lead- entails voting. 'Super PM'. We can see his dif- ing to several adjournments of It was also decided that MPs ferent form. We will have to find People crowd the entrance of the State Bank of India branch to deposit or exchange their both houses through the day. of these 10 parties will stage a a new word to define him," Gan- old high denomination banknotes in Beawar city, in Rajasthan, yesterday. Congress Vice President sit-in near Mahatma Gandhi's dhi said, adding that he was Rahul Gandhi, who earlier in the statue in the Parliament complex ready to discuss the demoneti- day interacted with people tomorrow. sation issue in Parliament. up to draw cash complained how found the spiking of the old cur- "I am going to Delhi tomor- standing in bank queues, was The opposition parties are "Those 15 to 20 people close badly their lives had been hit rency useful. Meanwhile, West row. I will be on the road also present in the meet. also to hold a march to Rashtra- to PM will be benefited (by the since the November 8 demone- Bengal Chief Minister Mamata tomorrow. if we get invitation, Sources said that it was pati Bhavan, sources said. currency spike). Their loans will tisation of Rs500 and Rs1,000 Banerjee announced in Kolkata we will join the protest pro- decided in the meeting that they Rahul Gandhi, who took to be waived off. The poor will incur notes. that she will protest on the streets gramme of other parties on will continue to mount pressure the streets yesterday morning, losses." Gandhi asked people about of Delhi tomorrow against November 23. I also request eve- on government for an adjourn- accused Prime Minister Naren- Gandhi's comments came the difficulties they faced due to demonetisation while the Aam rybody to join our programme ment motion in Lok Sabha and dra Modi of acting on his whims after he made a surprise visit to the demonetisation. He also Aadmi Party announced to as this is a big fight," Banerjee a debate under a rule which and fancies and said, "We will the ATM where people queuing asked those in the queue if they gherao Parliament yesterday. said.

Queues persist outside banks and ATMs NEWS BYTES

Mumbai demonetised Rs500 and Rs1,000 Several ATMs displayed by the government," Vibhav Bist decision but the implementation Gunmen loot IANS bank notes. boards of "No cash" and "Out of said. Anju Malhotra said "she has is really bad. Government did not Rs12 lakh from People, like other days, were cash" on them since morning. become habitual of standing in plan properly for it," he said. seen struggling in serpentine Even in the evening, anxious queue". At least 40-50 people were Kashmir bank 49-year-old vegetable queues to withdraw cash from people were seen visiting ATMs Resident of Paschim Vihar in waiting restlessly while many vendor died yesterday Automated Teller Machines to check whether cash was West Delhi, Vasdev Arora told were holed up inside some bank Aafternoon while waiting (ATMs) and trying to deposit or available. IANS: "It's really a bad decision offices in Noida Sector 16 in Uttar GUNMEN yesterday for his turn to deposit money as exchange the spiked high-value More than 500 people were of the government to demone- Pradesh. looted over Rs12 lakh, long queues persisted outside currency notes in banks across standing outside different ATMs tise 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. "I came to the bank for the comprising most new bank branches for the 12th day Delhi. and a Post Office in Connaught Common people are being har- first time since the note-ban and and withdrawn high- since the banks reopened after Some expressed frustration Place, 60-80 people in each assed. These leaders and it has already been half an hour denomination notes the November 8 demonetisation and disappointment over the queue at a time. businessmen don't stand in that I am waiting," said a Finan- from a Jammu and Kash- of Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency long wait while a few of them "I am trying for two consec- queues, then how will they cial Advisor with Genpact mir Bank branch in the notes. said they have become habitual. utive days but failed to withdraw understand our pain." standing at the far end of the state's Badgam district, The vegetable vendor Shatish And many were angry because money from any ATM in Con- Similar sentiment was ech- queue outside Axis Bank. police said. Sharma died while standing in their previous attempts had naught Place. Whenever, I reach oed by another youth Pushpak He hoped to get some cash "Four unidentified the queue outside the Oriental failed as many ATMs were non- outside any of these ATMs, I have Tiwari, who was standing out- in hand before the bank closed gunmen entered the Mal- Bank of Commerce branch in functional, including one at to stand behind 60-70 people side the Bank of India branch in their business for the day. He had pora branch of the Jammu west Delhi's Najafgarh area to Connaught Place -- the heart of every time. I don't know when Malviya Nagar. specially taken a day's leave and Kashmir Bank Ltd deposit Rs50,000 in Delhi. this situation will be sorted out "I am not against the from office to be at the bank. near Chrar-e-Sharief town in Badgam and looted Rs.12.89 lakhs at gunpoint, from the bank," a senior police officer said Hospital fire No school bags till class here. "The looted amount contained high value cur- II: Upendra Kushwaha rency notes including the newly issued Rs2,000 New Delhi "In its latest circular dated and withdrawn Rs500 IANS September 12, 2016, it has and Rs1,000 notes," the advised schools to take all pos- officer said. sible measures to keep the he CBSE has directed weight of school bag under con- schools affiliated to it to trol," said the Minister. Driver held Tensure that students do He said that the NCERT has not carry school bags till class not recommended any textbook with Rs49.96 II and also to restrict the for early childhood education, number of books to be pre- while only two books for classes scribed in classes I-VIII, Minister I & II and three books for classes lakh in cash of State for Human Resource III to V have been recom- Development Upendra mended. "The Government has A 28-YEAR-OLD man, Kushwaha told the Lok Sabha also launched a platform for who works as a driver, yesterday. showcasing and dissemination was held while carrying In a written reply to a ques- of all digital and digitisable Rs49.96 lakh in Rs500 tion, he said both the National resources for its stakeholders and Rs1,000 denomina- Council of Educational Research in collaboration with the tion notes in a car in Delhi, and Training (NCERT) and the NCERT," said the Minister, add- police said yesterday. Central Board of Secondary ing that the NCERT has made The driver, who was Education (CBSE) have taken available all their textbooks and identified as Dinesh and a Locals assisting fire fighters at the Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial Hospital, as a fire broke several measures to reduce cur- other teaching-learning mate- resident of Jhajjar in Har- out at the Sir Ronald Ross building of the government-run hospital in Kolkata yesterday. riculum load and the weight of rial for free access on its yana, was held at Tikri school bags. website. border in north-west Delhi. He told the police that he was transporting the cash on the instruc- tion of a Pitampura-based BMC blacklists Magsaysay laureate's NGO property dealer. "Dinesh during inter- rogation told the Police Mumbai since February followed by can- work and overshooting comple- work given our expertise in slum on June 30, 2015. During the total that he was carrying the IANS cellation of its registration. tion deadlines," Galgali said. development works," Arputham 42-month period, the NGO man- cash on the instruction The BMC has also retained Arputham, 70, claimed the said. Now, Arputham said there aged to complete construction of Anuj Gupta," Deputy the earnest money of Rs2.60 mil- BMC action was "a deliberate and are some contractors' lobbies work of only 20 toilet blocks and Commissioner of Police he BrihanMumbai Munic- lion and slapped an additional selective targeting" of his NGO's which want to bag similar works, eight blocks are still under con- (DCP) Vijay Kumar said. ipal Corporation (BMC) has penalty of Rs2.40 million on the work by certain vested elements because of which certain civic struction, he said. Gupta is a resident of Tblacklisted an NGO con- NGO, and has debarred it from and external lobbies of officials have resorted to selec- "The bold step of the BMC Pitampura and deals in nected with well-known global getting any new contracts for the contractors. tively targeting his NGO. must be praised. I have written finance and property in slumdwellers' activist and Mag- next five years. "Years ago, when the BMC Galgali said according to the to BMC Commissioner Ajoy Delhi, Kumar added. saysay laureate Jockin "The reasons cited for black- floated tenders for building and RTI reply, the NGO was awarded Mehta suggesting work should "We have informed Arputham, an RTI query has listing the NGO and other actions upkeep of toilets in slums for the work order on January 3, be allotted at ward levels instead the income tax officials revealed. RTI activist Anil Gal- are incomplete toilet repairs dur- three years, they got no response. 2012, for a time period of 30 of a single NGO or contractor for who are investigating the gali said the NGO, Spark, and its ing the defects liability period, Finally, they approached us and months and after a 12-month effectively execution and timely matter," the DCP added. contractor have been blacklisted poor quality and slow pace of virtually begged us to take up the extension, its deadline expired completion," Galgali added. 18 INDIA TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

Rescue workers searching for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district. RIGHT: Children holding candles as they pray for the victims of train accident at a school in Agartala, yesterday. Rescuers end search; train tragedy toll rises to 146

Pukhrayan Rail disaster "We recovered eight bodies injured were young children who three died. stitches all over his body, Srivas- AFP today and the rescue operations had become separated from rel- "In what little she has said, tava repeatedly called out for his At least 2,000 were called off late afternoon. atives. Doctors were using she has complained about her mother. people are believed There is no hope for more sur- WhatsApp to try to reunite chil- grandfather and uncles not "'Tell her I am calling'. This escuers yesterday to have been on vivors," said Anil Shekhawat, dren with relatives -- sharing responding to her calls for help is all he has been saying since ended their search for the train at the spokesman for the National Dis- photos of their unidentified after some loud bang noise on yesterday," his uncle Rajesh survivors amongst the time — many aster Response Force. patients with other hospitals in the train," Rahul said. Kumar Srivastava told AFP. twisted remains of a travelling without Another 179 people are being the area via the messaging app. The disaster occurred at the "How can I tell the child that derailed train as the reserved seats or treated in hospital, 60 of whom "This way, if anyone from his peak of India's marriage season, everything that was his is lost," Rdeath toll from one of India's are in a serious condition, a family or acquaintances was at and at least one wedding party he added. A fracture in the track any ticket at all. worst rail disasters rose to 146. spokesman for Indian railways the other hospital looking for was on board the train. is thought to have caused the Parts of the train were man- said. him, we were able to unite them Local media said wedding train to derail at around 3am, and gled beyond recognition when Doctors were using "The rail line has been swiftly," A K Srivastava, a senior clothes, jewellery and invitation Railways minister Suresh Pra- the Indore-Patna Express WhatsApp to try to cleared and some restoration doctors at one of the local hos- cards could be seen spilling from bhu has promised a thorough derailed, sending carriages reunite children with work is on. The line will be fit for pitals, told AFP, scrolling through abandoned bags. investigation. crashing into each other in the relatives. traffic in few hours from now," pictures of the injured on his Eleven-year-old Abhay "Forensic enquiry has been early hours of Sunday in the added spokesman Vijay Kumar. phone. Eight-year-old Sejal Srivastava was travelling to a ordered to look into all possible northern state of Uttar Pradesh. At least 2,000 people are Yadav was found by her brother wedding with his parents and angles. Guilty will be given strict- Rescuers worked through the But they called off the search believed to have been on the Rahul, 18, thanks to the app. two sisters. He is the only mem- est possible punishment," he night, picking through the yesterday afternoon as the last train at the time -- many travel- Yadav, who remains in inten- ber of his family who survived. said, addressing a rowdy crowd wreckage with sniffer dogs in of the carriages was removed ling without reserved seats or sive care, was travelling with her Whimpering in pain with of lawmakers in the lower house hopes of finding more survivors. from the tracks. any ticket at all. Many of the grandfather and two uncles. All multiple broken bones and of parliament yesterday.

Cordial ties not at SC orders status quo NEWS BYTES cost of national security: Parikar on Taj Mansingh Hotel 2-year jail and

New Delhi know how far we can go, we Rs1.48 crore fine Mumbai IANS know how far we can't go." IANS Fixing January 10 for hear- for power theft he Supreme Court yester- ing of the matter, the bench said: day ordered status quo on "Once for all, the matter has to TERMING power theft to be mid growing tensions TTata group-owned Taj be decided." a major menace for distribu- with Pakistan, Defence Mansingh Hotel here, disallow- As ASG Jain urged the court tion companies, BSES, one of AMinister Manohar Par- ing the New Delhi Municipal to permit it to start eviction pro- the capital's discoms, yesterday rikar yesterday said while Council's (NDMC) plea that the ceedings against Taj Mansingh, said a special electricity court good relations with neigh- Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar during commissioning hotel should not be allowed the court observed that if the here has sentenced an offender bouring countries are always ceremony of INS Chennai, in Mumbai, yesterday. bookings after this year ends. civic body could wait for 18 to two years' jail and a Rs 1.48 welcome, it cannot be at the Additional Solicitor General months (since litigation is going crore fine. cost of national security. (ASG) Sanjay Jain, appearing for on), then they can wait till the "Convict Ranjit Singh Chaud- "Prime Minister Narendra provoked from across the Earlier, Parrikar commis- NDMC which owns both the land matter is decided by the top hary is sentenced to undergo Modi has made efforts to borders, referring to the con- sioned the third and the building, told the court court. At this, senior counsel rigorous imprisonment for maintain relations with the tinuous violation of ceasefire indigenously-built guided that Taj Mansingh has already Harish Salve, appearing for the two years and to pay fine of Rs neigbouring country and the by Pakistan. missile destroyer, INS Chen- made bookings till December 31 India Hotels Corp Ltd (IHCL), 1,48,61,194, and in default of pay- people criticized him for it. Referring to Indian sol- nai into the Indian Navy, and it should be restrained from Tatas' hospitality arm, told the ment of fine to undergo simple We would welcome good dier Chandu Babulal Chauhan marking the completion of making any further bookings. bench: "We will walk out of the imprisonment for 6 months," relations with any neighbours of Maharashtra, who inad- the crucial Project 15A. Disallowing the plea, the premises if we lose." BSES said in a release here. and being friendly helps, but vertently cross the LoC last "This is a historic day for bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Jain wanted the court to "Chaudhary was caught it cannot be at the cost of month, he said standard pro- the Indian Navy... It will add Ghose and Justice Uday Umesh record this statement of Salve but stealing a whopping 243 kw of national security," Parrikar cedures are being new a dimension to our Lalit said: "Running (of the hotel) the court did not oblige. The electricity for running a plastic said. implemented to bring him navy's attack capabilities," can't be stopped." NDMC contended that by no factory at Golden Park, Ram- He said the Indian Army back and the Pakistan gov- Parrikar said, lauding the At another point during the measure do the Tatas have a pura in Tagore Garden," the does not initiate any action ernment has assured he is indigenously designed and hearing, the court, declining vested right to continue to run discom said. on the Line of Control unless alive and safe. constructed, Jain's submission, said: "We the hotel. Non-resident Country's longest expressway opens with landing of IAF jets Keralites urged to invest Unnao (UP) The portion of the Express- IANS way, intended to be used for WITH the upcoming Kannur emergency jet landings, has a airport likely to become oper- reinforced cement concrete ational next year, state-owned n a first of its kind, IAF fighter construction and appropriately Bekal Resorts Development Cor- jets yesterday touched down marked to facilitate aircraft poration (BRDC) wants fresh Ion the Agra-Lucknow landings. The entire operation investment in the hospitality Expressway in Uttar Pradesh as began with the first three sector in the northern districts part of the grand opening of Mirages coming overhead and of the state which are close to India's longest expressway. The culminated with a touch and go the airport. six-lane 302km-long express- by the SU-30 fighter jets. "This region comprises of way, connecting the city of Taj The aim of the exercise is unspoilt beaches, backwaters Mahal with state capital Luc- to check feasibility of the and hill stations and with the know, was inaugurated by expressway being used as alter- airport coming up, this could Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav nate airstrips in case of dire well be a place where investment Fighter jets of the Indian Air Force landing on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in a drill. and his father and Samajwadi emergencies or non-availabil- can come, especially from the Party supremo Mulayam Singh ity of runways for any reason, non-resident Keralites," BRDC Yadav. said the IAF. Central Air Com- Industrial Development travel time between Agra and with the project said the Ltd Managing Director T.K. Man- Three Mirage-2000s and mand chief, Air Marshal S B P Authority. Speaking on the Lucknow to just 3.5 hours from expressway is fully equipped zoor said. The BRDC has been three SU-30 of the Indian Air Sinha was among those present occasion, Akhilesh Yadav the current seven hours. with advanced traffic manage- working to promote the northern Force performed simulated at the venue to oversee the thanked the IAF for the grand The expressway, which joins ment systems that will work districts of Kannur and Kasar- landings on the Expressway at operations. show and said the expressway the Yamuna Expressway in during foggy conditions too. The gode and has been successful in Unnao, around 50km from A pet project of the Chief will be opened for public soon. Agra, is also expected to reduce state government claimed the attracting big names in the hos- Lucknow, as a host of IAF offic- Minister, the Expressway has According to the Uttar the travel time between Delhi Expressway had created a pitality industry like The Taj and ers, politicians and commoners been constructed by the Uttar Pradesh government, the and Lucknow to between 5 and national record of laying a 302- The Lalit, among others. watched in awe. Pradesh Expressways expressway will halve the 6 hours. An official connected km expressway in 23 months. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 EUROPE 19

British navy French cops foil terror attack; 7 held warns Spanish ship with flares Paris Tightening noose the French people.” police and prison places, AFP He linked the plot by the lat- 62-year-old Fillon published a The arrests of the est suspects, aged from 29 to 37, book recently called “Beating near Gibraltar olice have broken up alleged plotters from to raids carried out shortly Islamic totalitarianism.” a terror ring plotting France, Morocco and before the Euro 2016 football He will face off against cen- Gibraltar an attack in France Afghanistan “enabled championship hosted by France trist Alain Juppe to clinch the AFP after arresting seven authorities to prevent in June and July. nomination next Sunday, with suspects in Strasbourg a long-planned terror Only one of the detainees the winner tipped to meet the A BRITISH navy patrol boat Pand Marseille, Interior Minister was known to security forces, a far-right candidate Marine Le fired flares to warn off a attack,” Interior Bernard Cazeneuve (pictured) Moroccan who had been flagged Pen in the final round of next Spanish ship which entered Minister Bernard said yesterday. by a “partner country,” Caze- year’s election. disputed waters off Gibraltar, Cazeneuve said. The arrests of the alleged neuve said. France has suffered three officials said, the latest in a plotters from France, Morocco The interior minister said major attacks since January 2015 series of maritime face-offs and Afghanistan “enabled us to 418 people had been arrested when gunmen targeted the Char- between the two sides. prevent a long-planned terror Police raids were for suspected links to terror lie Hebdo satirical magazine, The Angeles Alvarino, a attack on our soil,” Cazeneuve these arrests necessary,” one carried out in the networks since the start of the followed by last November’s survey ship operated by Spain’s told a televised news security source saud earlier, ask- eastern city of year. atrocities in Paris. state Oceanographic Institute, conference. ing not to be named. Strasbourg and Strasbourg has been on high In July, an extremist claim- entered the disputed waters on He said the investigation France remains in a state of Marseille following alert ahead of the opening of its ing to be a member of the Islamic several occasions over the past would show whether “the foiled emergency that gives security Christmas market, with local State (IS) group drove a truck 48 hours and was repeatedly an eight-month attack was a coordinated attack forces enhanced powers to officials warning it could be sus- through crowds watching fire- told to leave by Royal Navy investigation by aiming to target several sites mount surveillance and launch pended or cancelled if there works in the southern city of vessels, a Gibraltar government simultaneously on our soil.” raids, a year after attacks by security services. were serious threats. Nice, killing 86. spokesman said. Police raids were carried out jihadists on Paris that left 130 The centre-right Republicans In between, a host of IS- The navy also prevented overnight in the eastern city of people dead. party held the first round of a inspired killings, from the the vessel, whose crew say Strasbourg and Marseille in the Security and fears about “The threat of terrorism has primary election to select its murder of a priest in his church they are conducting a survey south following an eight-month Islamic extremism are playing a never been so high on our soil,” presidential candidate on Sun- to the fatal knifing of a police of an underwater canyon in investigation by security major role in campaigning ahead Cazeneuve said yesterday. “Zero day which was won by the officer and his partner at home, area of the Strait of Gibraltar, services. of France presidential elections risk cannot be guaranteed and conservative Francois Fillon. have deepened fears among the from deploying research “Credible information made due in April and May next year. anyone promising this is lying to As well as promising more French public. buoys into the sea. But the ship remained in the area and a British patrol boat fired at least three warn- Remembering their hero ing flares as a result of its Spain detains German movements, according to the Gibraltar government spokesman, Britain’s Foreign Office and eyewitnesses. murder fugitive Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said he had Madrid southeastern Germany, at the been in regular contact with AFP end of October. the Commander of British Police said the man recently Forces in the British territory, panish police said they got a “macabre” tattoo inked on Commodore Mike Walliker, have arrested a German his upper arm with the name of throughout the weekend in Sfugitive suspected of slit- his deceased girlfriend, her birth- respect of the ship’s ting his girlfriend’s throat and day as well the suspected date of “incursion”. have safely recovered the cou- her murder —27/10/2016 along “I have discussed all the ple’s 18-month-old toddler. with the words “Thank you for tactical decisions taken and Officers arrested the uni- everything” in Spanish. am satisfied that they have dentified man at a block of Spanish police said they been designed to demonstrate short-stay apartments in Llo- began looking for the man after untrammelled sovereignty ret de Mar, roughly 70km they were alerted by their Ger- jurisdiction and control over northeast of Barcelona where man counterparts that he may British Gibraltar territorial he was hiding with the baby have fled to Spain as he made waters,” he added. boy, police said. his way to North Africa. Gibraltar says Spanish He had been on the run The man is suspected of vessels regularly stray deep since German police found the having used his girlfriend’s into its territorial waters and body of his 20-year-old girl- mobile phone after he killed her the Foreign Office has People take part in a demonstration marking 41th anniversary of Spanish dictator Francisco friend inside plastic garbage to update her Facebook and attacked such incidents as Franco's death in Madrid, Spain. bags at couple’s apartment in other social media profiles to provocative, but it is rare for the town of Freyung, try to throw off investigators. the navy to fire flares. Cox's killer Germany to cull geese after bird flu found on firm had Third Hamburg/ Stockholm the same farm are also suspected in domestic duck and turkey weeks as wild birds believed to protection as a precaution,” the Reuters to have bird flu but it is not farms where all poultry have had transmit the virus migrate south- board said in a statement. “Bird Reich eagle known whether this is low risk to be culled. A case was also ward, the deputy head of the flu is spread mainly by wild birds erman authorities are pre- type or highly contagious H5N8 reported on a farm in Denmark world animal health body said. and therefore the risk of getting at his home paring to cull 8,800 geese strain, the state ministry said. yesterday. Authorities in Sweden raised the disease to the Swedish poul- Gon a farm in the north of A series of European coun- The contagious H5N8 strain the alert level for poultry to the try is now considered London the country where a low risk tries and Israel have found cases has been found in wild birds in second highest following an out- elevated.” Reuters strain of bird flu has been found, of H5N8 bird flu in the past few much of Germany over past days break of bird flu in neighbouring The H5N8 bird flu has been authorities said yesterday. weeks and some have ordered and the country’s government Denmark, the Swedish board of detected at a poultry farm in POLICE searching the house Some 1,800 geese on a farm that poultry flocks be kept has tightened sanitary rules for Agriculture said yesterday. Denmark, the country’s environ- of accused killer of British in Dithmarschen have a low risk indoors to avoid the disease farms and warned it may order The board raised the level to ment and food ministry said lawmaker Jo Cox found a H5 bird flu, said environment spreading. poultry to be kept inside. two on a scale of three, which earlier yesterday. Bird flu has Third Reich eagle ornament ministry in state of Schleswig- Most outbreaks involve wild More outbreaks of a severe means poultry must be kept been found in a number of coun- with a swastika on it as well Holstein. Another 7,000 geese birds but Germany, Hungary and strain of bird flu in Europe are indoors. tries across Europe over the past as far-right books and other at a different location owned by Austria have also reported cases likely to occur in the next few “We are raising the level of two weeks. Nazi material, a court heard yesterday. There were also newspa- per articles at the home of 53-year-old Thomas Mair More than 18 million on Deep-freeze sail about Cox, including a print- out of a piece she wrote for her local paper about why she HIV treatment: Official wanted Britain to stay in the European Union. London virus spreading and of reduc- Labour Member of Parlia- Reuters ing new infections are tough, ment Cox, 41, was shot three UNAIDS said, even though times and repeatedly stabbed ore than 18 million peo- drugs can reduce virus levels on the street in Birstall. ple now have access to in a patient’s blood to near zero Mair declined to respond Mlife-saving AIDS treat- and significantly reduce the risk when asked at a pre-trial ment, 1.2 million more than at of passing it on. hearing in October to enter a the end of last year, the United “The progress we have plea, so a judge recorded Nations said yesterday. made is remarkable, particu- pleas of not guilty to all In a report on the AIDS pan- larly around treatment, but it is charges on his behalf. demic, which has infected 78 also incredibly fragile,” Jurors at Old Bailey court million people and killed 35 mil- UNAIDS’ executive director heard the police search of lion since it began in the 1980s, Michel Sidibe said. Mair’s home had uncovered a UNAIDS said the consistently With detailed data showing cutting about Anders Breivik, strong scale-up of treatment has some of the many complexities a Norwegian far-right extrem- seen annual AIDS-related deaths of the HIV epidemic, the report ist who killed 77 people in 2011. drop by 45 percent to 1.1 million found that people are particu- The Nazi eagle was on top in 2015 from a peak of about 2 larly vulnerable to HIV at of a bookcase in one of the million in 2005. certain points in their lives. Members of the “Skipper” yacht club dressed as Santa Claus, its Russian equivalent Ded bedrooms, while on neatly But, as more HIV-positive It called for “life-cycle” Moroz and his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) sail a yacht along the Yenisei organised shelves were books people live longer, the chal- approach to offer help and pre- River while marking end of the sailboat season, with the air temperature at about minus about German military his- lenges of caring for them as vention measures for everyone 21 degrees Celsius, outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, yesterday. tory and Nazi race theory. they get older, of preventing the at every stage of life. 20 EUROPE TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 Fillon & Juppe in French presidential race Paris Uncertainty looms Fillon because it is he who will Reuters best defend the values of the Former prime right,” said party president Lau- ormer prime minister minister Francois rent Wauquiez, a close Sarkozy Francois Fillon is Fillon won 44 ally. favourite to become percent of votes in A snap poll by Opinionway the French centre- first-round of voting. after Sunday’s results showed right’s presidential He faces a second- Fillon winning the head-to-head Fcandidate after a voting upset round vote against contest against Juppe with 56 that puts him in pole position for another former percent of support. a showdown with far right leader prime minister, Alain A BVA poll in September Marine Le Pen in next year’s showed Fillon would beat Le Pen Juppe, who election. by a margin of 61 percent of votes Fillon, who has said he will trailed him by to 39 percent if they contest a cut public sector jobs and rein in 15 percentage presidential election runoff. government spending, won 44 points. But that consensus predates percent of votes in Sunday’s first- Donald Trump’s US election win, round of voting for the Former President which exposed the same popular centre-right’s nomination. He Nicolas Sarkozy anger against political elites as in faces a second-round vote came third and was Western European countries such against another former prime eliminated. as France, Italy and Austria that minister, Alain Juppe, who trailed Le Pen has tapped into. him by 15 percentage points. With his socially conserva- Former President Nicolas in next Sunday’s runoff. An tive and pro-business policies, Sarkozy came third and was admirer of late British Prime Min- Fillon lacks the broad appeal of eliminated. ister Margaret Thatcher, he is the more centrist Juppe, and so The outcome adds to uncer- probably the closest thing France may increase the perceived risk tainty about result of next year’s has to an economic liberal and that Le Pen could take power. A file photo of Alain Juppe (left) and Francois Fillon preparing to take part in a televised presidential election, likely to be social conservative. Fillon stood down as social debate in Paris. decided in a runoff in May. It could Although Fillon’s triumph on affairs minister after big street pro- increase a still remote risk that the Sunday was a surprise, opinion tests in 2003 when he championed Raphael Brun-Aguerre of JP Mor- would probably be targeted by “I believe that the people of anti-immigration, eurosceptic pollsters had said he made a late reforms extending the age at gan in a research note. far-right National Front leader France need to come together to National Front leader Le Pen can surge in campaigning, and several which people are entitled to retire- But Juppe, who served as Marine Le Pen being for part of turn the page of a disastrous five- win it, although there is no clear stalwarts from the conservative ment pension payments. prime minister form May 1997 the old political guard, and Juppe, year term that has demeaned our evidence Fillon would fare worse Les Republicains party threw their “To some extent, we believe until June 1997 under President on this front appears relatively country and to block from power against her than Juppe. weight behind him after his first- Fillon’s lead introduces addi- Jacques Chirac, would also be vul- more vulnerable,” said Morgan National Front which would lead The surprisingly big lead round success. tional uncertainty when it comes nerable to National Front barbs. Stanley in a research note. us into the worst of adventures,” hands Fillon, a strong advantage “I will vote for Francois to the presidential election,” said “Either of the candidates Juppe was not giving up. he told supporters yesterday. Russia to deploy N-missiles in Kaliningrad Naming challenger tough

Moscow says is a Nato military build-up to react to the planned US mis- Russia has to respond to what it task for Merkel rivals Reuters on Russia’s western borders. sile shield in eastern Europe. perceives as a threat from US- After the election as US pres- “As response measures to led forces in eastern Europe. Berlin oscow will deploy S-400 ident of Donald Trump, who has such threats we will have... to “Why are we reacting to AP surface-to-air missiles said he wants closer ties with the deploy additional forces... This Nato expansion so emotionally? Mand nuclear-capable Kremlin and has questioned the reinforcement includes deploy- We are concerned by Nato’s ermany’s main center- Iskander systems in the exclave cost of protecting Nato allies, ment of S-400 and Iskander decision making,” RIA quoted left party faced pressure of Kaliningrad in retaliation for some analysts predict an systems in Kaliningrad,” the him as saying in an interview for Gyesterday to decide on a Nato deployments, a senior pro- emboldened Moscow could agency quoted Ozerov as a documentary that will be challenger to Angela Merkel Kremlin lawmaker was quoted become more assertive in east- saying. broadcast by Russian TV today. (pictured) in next year’s elec- as saying yesterday. ern Europe. The defence ministry did not “What should we do? We tion after the chancellor Russia has previously said it Viktor Ozerov, chairman of immediately respond to a have, therefore, to take counter- announced she will seek a periodically sends Iskanders to the defence committee in the request for comment on Oze- measures, which means to target fourth term. Kaliningrad, but until now it has Federation Council, Russia’s rov’s remarks. with our missile systems the The Social Democrats lost said these were routine drills. upper house of parliament, said Also yesterday , Russian facilities, that, in our opinion, the chancellery to the conserv- Moscow has not linked the in remarks reported by RIA news President Vladimir Putin was start posing a threat to us,” Putin ative Merkel in 2005 and moves explicitly with what it agency that Russia was forced quoted talking about how said. currently serve as her junior partners in a “grand coalition” to the daily Tagesspiegel. of Germany’s biggest parties. It is “time for party chairman Party leader Sigmar Sigmar Gabriel to say whether Gabriel, who is also Merkel’s he is running as a candidate for Danish PM Paying tributes vice-chancellor and economy chancellor,” he added. minister, has yet to decide Ralf Stegner, a deputy party mulls coalition whether to run. European Par- leader, said that Gabriel would liament President Martin propose a candidate in due amid snap Schulz is also considered a time, but didn’t say when. strong possible contender. “We will talk calmly about Whoever takes on the task when and how we do it — it poll fears faces an uphill struggle to dis- won’t take forever, but we won’t lodge Merkel. The Social let ourselves be pushed,” Steg- Copenhagen Democrats trail Merkel’s Union ner told ZDF television. “We will AFP bloc by 10 percentage points or make right decision, and one more in polls, and their hopes with which we have good DANISH Prime Minister Lars appear to depend on a left-wing chances of beating the Union.” Lokke Rasmussen yesterday alliance with the Greens and the A three-way left-wing alli- began talks over expanding Left Party that would have to ance, even it wins a majority, is his minority government with overcome significant policy a difficult proposition because two allied parties, after a dis- divisions. the Left Party grew out of oppo- pute over tax cuts threatened Gabriel is tactically skilled sition to economic reforms to topple his administration. but far less personally popular conducted by a Social Demo- “I have had some good than Merkel. Schulz has raised crat-led government and talks that make me believe it the European Parliament’s pro- opposes military deployments is possible,” Rasmussen told file and helped secure one of the abroad. news agency Ritzau. party’s best results in recent years While they have worked Rasmussen’s centre-right in 2014 European elections, but together in state governments, Venstre party holds only 34 is less well-known at home. the three parties are only grad- out of 179 seats in parliament Germany’s top labor union ually moving closer at the People lay flowers at the memorial for the killed Maidan activists during a ceremony and needs support of anti- official, Reiner Hoffmann, national level. And some Greens immigration Danish People’s marking the third anniversary of the Euromaidan beginning in central Kiev, yesterday. called for “clarity” from the would prefer to link up with Party (DPP), Liberal Alliance Social Democrats in comments Merkel’s conservatives. and the Conservative People’s Party to govern. The Liberal Alliance has threatened to topple the gov- ernment unless it cuts the top Former Greek president Stephanopoulos passes away income tax bracket by five percentage points by the end Athens New Democracy party and then the public and he maintained “a model of selfless, dignified of the year. But the move is AP formed a splinter party that good relations across the polit- and consistent service for the opposed by DPP, Denmark’s remained marginal before being ical spectrum, especially with public good.” largest right-wing party, which onstantine Stephanopou- dissolved. He was first elected to moderate socialist Costas Simi- Stephanopoulos was not has cast itself as a defender of los (pictured), a veteran the presidency by Parliament on tis, who was prime minister from always considered a moderate. the country’s cherished cradle- Cconservative politician the third ballot with support 1996 to 2004. For much of his political career, to-grave welfare state. who served two terms as presi- from the social-democratic His widespread acceptance he was seen as a conservative The leader of Liberal Alli- dent of Greece from 1995-2005, PASOK party and a smaller con- was reflected in the reaction hardliner. In the 1970s, he caused ance, Anders Samuelsen, said passed away yesterday at age 90. servative party, defeating the from political leaders after his an uproar when he denied that he was willing to soften his A statement from the Henry New Democracy candidate. death. the smog regularly enveloping demands for tax cuts in Dunant Hospital said Stephan- He found unexpected popu- “A moral man with a lofty Athens was dangerous. exchange for his party joining opoulos was admitted Thursday larity in the last years of his vision,” said leftist Prime Minis- “Bring me a dead body to a three-party coalition with and died at 2118 GMT from name diminutive Costis, Steph- presidency. His moderation, ter Alexis Tsipras. President convince me,” he said at the Venstre and the Conservative “complications of pneumonia.” anopoulos twice failed to win the unpretentiousness and lack of Prokopis Pavlopoulos, a con- time. Years later, he said he People’s Party. Known widely by his first leadership of the conservative bombast made him popular with servative, called Stephanopoulos regretted that statement. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 AMERICAS 21 Obama says goodbye to world stage

Lima were tinged with a sense of AFP International hero uncertainty about things to come. His historic Obama’s last presidential trip S President Barack was dominated by the deep presidency and Obama bid farewell uncertainty Trump has unleashed charisma have made to the world stage, about the postwar world order pondering his legacy, Obama a rock star on with his attacks on free trade and offering advice to his the international the US role as “policeman of the Usuccessor and discussing his post- scene, even at times world.” presidential life at the end of his when the daily grind Obama said an increasingly final foreign tour. of politics dimmed borderless world has brought His historic presidency and the glow around his “historic gains in prosperity, edu- charisma have made Obama a election as the cation and health,” but rock star on the international United States’ first acknowledged globalization had scene, even at times when the both winners and losers. black president in US President Barack Obama with Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong, Vietnam's daily grind of politics dimmed the 2008. “When jobs and capital can glow around his election as the move across borders, when work- President Tran Dai Quang; Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla, Japan's Prime Minister United States’ first black presi- ers have less leverage, when Shinzo Abe and South Korea's Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn wave during the traditional dent in 2008. volatile style and isolationist rhet- wealthy corporations seem to be family photo on the final day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Lima. Obama spoke to both the oric. Several of Obama’s fellow playing by a different set of rules, American people and the world as world leaders said an emotional then workers and communities can It was an awkward trip for He announced his signature “Once you’re in the Oval he gave his final foreign press con- goodbye as they wrapped up a be hit especially hard,” he said. Obama, who campaigned trade agreement in the Asia- Office, once you begin interact- ference in Lima, Peru. But summit. “That can reverberate against Trump as an unfit suc- Pacific, the TPP, was still alive ing with world leaders, once you ultimately, those two audiences are “It’s a great moment, but a sad through our politics. That’s why cessor but now wants to despite Trump’s vows to kill it, see the complexities of the inseparably linked, he insisted. moment, to have our last meet- I firmly believe one of our great- reassure US allies on the future. and said he wanted to reach a issues, that has a way of shap- It was a key message as he ing,” said Australian Prime est challenges in the years ahead He asked the world to treat deal on the Ukraine crisis before ing your thinking,” Obama said. prepares to hand over to Presi- Minister Malcolm Turnbull. across our nations and within Trump as he himself vowed to leaving office. The brutal war in Syria has dent-elect Donald Trump—who “I am going to miss having them will be to make sure that do: “Wait and see.” At the same He said Trump’s presidency been the most difficult foreign has spooked some in the inter- Barack around,” said Canada’s the benefits of the global econ- time, he sought to pre-empt his would likely be far different policy challenge of Obama’s national community with his Justin Trudeau, in comments that omy are shared.” successor on some key issues. from his candidacy. eight years in the White House. Film shows Obama: I’ll push back recovery for bombing on Trump if needed survivors to defend US ideals Boston Lima name a few. Those policy AP AP proposals and others like them have stoked fear for A NEW documentary about S President Barack many Americans who oppose the 2013 Boston Marathon Obama said he doesn’t Trump and are hoping that bombings chronicles the long Uintend to become his vehement opposition from road to recovery for many of successor’s constant critic — Obama and other Democrats the survivors still struggling but reserved the right to might prevent Trump from with physical and emotional speak out if President-elect implementing them. wounds. Donald Trump or his policies Yet Obama suggested Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro greets supporters as he arrives for his weekly broadcast Marathon: The Patriots breach certain “values or that while he might not "En contacto con Maduro” (In contact with Maduro) in La Victoria, Venezuela. Day Bombing”focuses on the ideals.” always hold his tongue, his stories of three families who Offering a rare glimpse goal wasn’t to spend his time had all been spectators near into his thoughts on his post- publicly disparaging the next Maduro hopes good ties with US the finish line when two pres- presidency, Obama suggested president. sure cooker bombs detonated: once he was out of office he “My intention is to, cer- Caracas tion and major shortages. Bush the “devil” at the United a young newlywed couple, a would uphold the tradition tainly for the next two Reuters Trump said in July that the Nations a decade ago, when mother and daughter and two of ex-presidents stepping months, just finish my job,” United States would “end up relations were at their nadir. brothers. aside quietly to allow their Obama said. “And then after enezuelan President being Venezuela” if his rival Hil- The two countries have had Filmmakers Ricki Stern successors space to govern. that, to take Michelle on Nicolas Maduro said he lary Clinton were to win the rocky relations since Chavez and Annie Sundberg say they He heaped praise on former vacation, get some rest, Vhopes for an improve- White House. became president in 1999 and set out to give an unflinching President George W Bush, spend time with my girls, and ment in relations with nemesis “I hope that during the next Venezuela replaced Cuba as look at the ups and downs of saying he “could not have do some writing, do some the United States after Donald presidency of the United States, Washington’s primary irritant long-term recovery from the been more gracious to me thinking.” Trump’s White House win, with Donald Trump, Venezuela in the region. attack, which killed three when I came in” and said he Obama’s remarks at a despite last year calling the real will have better relations...and Maduro met with US Secre- people and injured nearly wanted to give Trump the news conference in Lima estate tycoon a “bandit and overcome...grave errors com- tary of State John Kerry in 300 others. same chance to pursue his offered some of his most spe- thief.” mitted by George W Bush which Colombia in September. Kerry “We felt a huge responsi- agenda “without somebody cific indications to date of Since he came to power in were sadly deepened by spoke with Maduro about Ven- bility to tell a broad picture of popping off” at every turn. how he feels Democrats and 2013, Maduro has railed against (Barack) Obama,” Maduro said ezuela’s “economic and political the survivors’ story,” said But Obama suggested Trump opponents should the United States, blaming it for in a televised broadcast. challenges,” urging him to work Stern. “Many of the survivors there may be limits to his handle the next four years. being behind an “economic war” Maduro’s predecessor Hugo with the country’s opposition, feel this global relationship silence. Asked whether Democrats in which has left the OPEC nation Chavez infamously called according to the US with other survivors of ter- “As an American citizen the Senate should follow in crisis with triple-digit infla- former US President George W government. rorist attacks." who cares deeply about our Republicans’ example of country, if there are issues refusing to even consider a that have less to do with the Supreme Court nominee, specifics of some legislative Obama said they should not. proposal or battle or go to “You give them a hearing,” Gun shops eye busy Black Friday core questions about our val- said Obama, whose own ues and ideals, and if I think Supreme Court nominee, Mer- that it’s necessary or helpful rick Garland, has lingered for San Francisco Like most other retailers, for me to defend those ide- more than half a year due to Reuters gun sellers thrive during the hol- als, I’ll examine it when it the GOP’s insistence that no idays. Last year’s Black Friday comes,” Obama told Obama nominee be consid- hristmas came early for US featured record activity for a sin- reporters. ered. Obama said he certainly gun shop owners - who gle day, according background Obama, who has consist- didn’t want Democrats to Csaw a rush of firearms check data. ently praised Bush for the adopt that tactic spearheaded purchases ahead of the presi- December 2015 was the sec- way he’s handled his ex- this year by Senate Majority dential election - but they may ond busiest month ever, topped presidency, faces a Leader Mitch McConnell. now be hard-pressed to match only by December 2012, when conundrum about how to “That’s not why the last year’s record holiday sales. President Barack Obama threat- handle his own. Though he’s American people send us to Gun merchants had a record ened to rein in gun rights after a vowed to ensure a smooth Washington, to play those October, federal background deranged man killed 26 people, handover of power, Obama games,” Obama said. check data shows, as gun enthu- including 20 children, in a shoot- is keenly aware he’s being He declined to weigh in siasts snapped up pistols and ing rampage at Sandy Hook replaced by a new president explicitly on whether House rifles on fears that Democrat Hil- Elementary School in Newtown, whose views on many issues Democrats should stick with lary Clinton would win the White Connecticut. Potential buyers try out guns which are displayed on an are antithetical to his own. Representative Nancy Pelosi House and seek to restrict Obama, a Democrat, never exhibitor’s table during the Nation’s Gun Show in Virginia. The president spoke out as minority leader, arguing it ownership. enacted any sweeping new gun vigorously throughout the was improper to meddle in Traffic has fallen off sub- restrictions because he faced any slower than our normal percent compared to the prior campaign against Trump’s the vote. But he said of Cali- stantially since Donald Trump, opposition in a Republican-con- Black Friday,” said Kellie Weeks, November, according to back- calls for banning Muslim fornia Democrat, who faces a gun rights supporter, won the trolled Congress. owner of Georgia Gun Store in ground check data from the immigrants, deporting mil- a challenge for the leadership presidency. Shares of Smith & Now, with this year’s Black Gainesville, Georgia. “But if Hil- National Shooting Sports Foun- lions of people living in the post: “I cannot speak highly Wesson Holding Corp are down Friday just days away, gun deal- lary had won, we would have dation. By comparison, checks US illegally, reinstituting enough of Nancy Pelosi.” 15 percent since then, despite a ers say traffic is regaining sold out already.” rose a more modest 5 percent in waterboarding, repealing Obama’s remarks came as rebound this week, while Sturm momentum after the post-elec- After Obama was elected in November 2004 after Republi- “Obamacare” and canceling he concluded his final world Ruger & Company’s stock is 17 tion drop. 2008, November background can George W Bush was the Paris climate deal, to tour as president. percent lower. “I’m not expecting it to be checks jumped 48 re-elected. 22 AMERICAS TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

Crackdown Cops shot at in three cities; one dead on notorious San Antonio slum in Rio; Reuters Manhunt on In first incident, 11 dead police officer was Benjamin Marconi, of killed in Texas and the San Antonio Rio de Janeiro another wounded in force was fatally AFP Missouri in appar- shot as he sat in his ently unrelated squad car during a ambush-styleA shootings, while POLICE in Rio launched a a third officer was shot and routine traffic stop. vast operation early yester- wounded in Florida, authorities day in the City of God slum, said yesterday. Hours later, a where seven youths were The latest attacks on US law 46-year-old St. Louis found killed after four police enforcement revived painful officers died when their hel- police sergeant was memories of deadly ambushes icopter crashed nearby. shot in the face by targeting police in July in Dallas and able to speak after the attack. The security chief for and Baton Rouge. someone in a car The suspect was later killed in a state of Rio, Roberto Sa, A manhunt was underway who pulled up beside shootout after officers spotted his described the huge public for the suspect who killed the the officer’s cruiser car, police said yesterday. safety operation, which officer in San Antonio, Texas, at an intersection, The unidentified suspect was includes an armored vehicle, while the suspect in the Missouri opened fire, then wanted for other violent crimes as being open-ended. shooting died in a shootout with fled. and likely shot the officer “in fear “The entire favela is occu- authorities. of being recognized,” police said A man identified by the police as a suspect in shooting death pied by police,” a resident of In first incident, 50-year-old in a statement. of police detective Benjamin Marconi, is seen entering the the slum said. Benjamin Marconi (pictured), a The gunman then reached Meanwhile, a third police police headquarters building in San Antonio, Texas. Sa told a news conference 20-year veteran of the San Anto- through the window, fired a sec- officer was shot during a traffic Investigators in Texas said and Louisiana, he said, “You that seven bodies of young nio force was fatally shot as he ond shot into the officer, returned stop on Sanibel Island on Flori- they did not have any immedi- never want to see anything like people who disappeared sat in his squad car during a rou- to his vehicle and sped away. da’s Gulf Coast, but was not ate clues to the identity of the this happen. Unfortunately, like were found in a swampy, tine traffic stop outside the city’s Hours later, a 46-year-old St. seriously hurt, local media San Antonio gunman. They Dallas, like Baton Rouge, it’s hard-to-access area of the police headquarters. Louis police sergeant was shot reported. found no apparent link with the happened here now.” slum, known here as a favela. The assailant stopped his car in the face by someone in a car The officer was treated for a man who had been pulled over, McManus said the suspect’s Locals have accused the behind the police cruiser, walked who pulled up beside the offic- shoulder wound and later released McManus told reporters. image was captured by security police of executing the seven, up and shot the officer in the er’s cruiser at an intersection, from the hospital, according to the “This is everyone’s worst cameras. McManus did not say whose bodies were said to head through the window as he opened fire, then fled. St. Louis reports, while the suspect was nightmare,” McManus said. whether police believe there was show signs of torture, G1 news was writing a ticket, Police Chief Police Chief Sam Dotson said the apprehended at his home on an Referring to the recent ambush a racial element to the reported. William McManus said. wounded officer was conscious island off Ft. Myers. killings of police officers in Texas shooting. Sa said he had no infor- mation on the deaths, while adding, “No police excess will be tolerated, or will be left unpunished.” Protests turn violent near But he said people were sometimes too quick to accuse police of rights viola- tions before all the facts were North Dakota pipeline site in, and noted that 124 police officers have been killed this year in Rio. Washington Camp, referring to people pro- media, adding police were also At least three people have AFP testing the contentious project, using water, pepper spray and been arrested in the latest which is opposed by Native tear gas on protesters. sweep, police said, adding undreds of people pro- Americans who say it is being “Right now, we are trying to that drugs and weapons had testing a North Dakota built on ancestral lands. keep people warm, we’re trying been seized. Hoil pipeline project The Morton County Sheriff’s to get them decontaminated, The crash took place clashed yesterday with police Department put the number of and treating all kinds of differ- when the police, backed by who fired tear gas, rubber bul- protesters at 400, saying they ent wounds. People have been two helicopters hovering lets and a water cannon, soaking were engaged in a “riot” and had hit with (tear gas) canisters in overhead, entered the densely the crowd in subfreezing started a dozen fires. the chest or the leg and that sort populated area after drug temperatures. The Bismarck Tribune of thing.” traffickers blocked a road, Protest organisers said 167 quoted the sheriff’s department Twitter user Ruth Hopkins setting fire to trash and tires, people were hurt, including as saying protesters threw rocks commented: “WHAT EVIL according to police. three Native American tribal and logs at officers, and one LOOKS LIKE. Police spraying Investigators hope to elders, and that seven people officer was struck in the head. innocent civilians with water determine if the helicopter have been hospitalised for One person was arrested. cannons. Current temp. 25, you was struck by ground fire or severe head injuries. “We have seen four gunshot could die #NoDAPL.” suffered a malfunction, but Sa “The police... targeted the wounds, three of them I know Last week the US government emphasized that the craft was heads and legs of Water Protec- to the face and head, rubber bul- put a halt to pipeline construction not armored and was Police use water cannon on protesters at the Dakota Access tors,” read a post from the head lets,” medic Leland Brenholt said project, saying more analysis and mechanically in good condi- pipeline site, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. medic of the Oceti Sakowin in a video posted on social debate are needed. tion, G1 reported. Haiti awaits results of re-run vote NY governor declares Port-Au-Prince boost the economy and repair fight against hate crimes Reuters the damage. “We need aid, aid for the New York incident and prosecute the per- aiti waited overnight for country,” said Clauzette Fortine, Anatolia petrator to the fullest extent of the results of a re-run a 41-year-old voter in Port-a- the law,” he said and promised Hpresidential election held Piment, a town in southwestern ew York Governor a legal fund for immigrants who on Sunday in the impoverished Haiti pummeled by Matthew last Andrew Cuomo vowed can’t afford their own defense, Caribbean country, which has month. “Aid after the hurricane, Nto combat an “explosion providing them with “the legal been in political limbo for over because everything was lost,” of hate crimes” in the state, rep- assistance they need because a year and is still reeling from a she added. resenting a microcosm of state in New York, we believe in jus- devastating hurricane. Moise, an entrepreneur who of affairs across the United States. tice for all”. Early reports suggested that was tipped to prevail by one In an address at Abyssinian The governor’s remarks Jovenel Moise, backed by Haiti’s recent opinion poll, was leading Baptist Church in Harlem, come days after Attorney Gen- last president Michel Martelly, the count according to some Cuomo cited a report by South- eral Loretta Lynch announced had taken a lead in early voting radio stations broadcasting from ern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) a federal investigation into tallies. However, the party of polling stations. Calvin Cadet, a that said 437 incidents of intim- whether a rash of alleged another former president, Jean- former director of the commu- idation took place in the week crimes across the country in the Bertrand Aristide, said its nications ministry under after the country’s presidential wake of Donald Trump’s elec- nominee, Maryse Narcisse, was Martelly, said Moise was on track election November 8, targeting tion victory are hate crimes. headed for victory. to win 64 percent of the vote. blacks, Muslims, immigrants “The FBI is assessing, in con- Electoral authorities said However, Aristide’s Fanmi and women. junction with federal prosecutors, they do not expect to have pre- Lavalas party said the vote had The group also said the rate whether particular incidents liminary results until today. given a majority to Narcisse, a of hate attacks was even higher constitute violations of federal The vote was first held in doctor. than post-9/11. law,” she said. October 2015, but then And Celestin, who placed “I wish I could say our The FBI earlier this week annulled over complaints of second in last year’s vote, is also An electoral worker shows a ballot during the counting at a beautiful state of New York was released its annual tally of US fraud in the first round after in the running, as is former sen- polling station in Les Cayes, Haiti, yesterday. immune from this poison but hate crimes for the last year that Moise, the candidate of Mar- ator Moise Jean-Charles. All told, it’s not,” Cuomo said as he listed found a nearly 70 percent jump telly’s Bald Heads Party, more than two dozen candidates to take office in February, and reports of voting fraud, although examples of hateful rhetoric, in those perpetrated against finished ahead of Jude Celes- are competing. faces a formidable task rebuild- election observers made a including fliers of racist extrem- Muslim-Americans, as well as tin, the former boss of a state Martelly left office in Febru- ing the country after Matthew. broadly positive assessment, ist group Ku Klux Klan found increases in crimes targeting construction company. ary, and since then Haiti has The deadly storm battered suggesting it had gone more on Long Island and swastikas, Jews, blacks and other Further disputes ensued and been in the hands of a caretaker homes, farms and schools across smoothly than last year. one in Manhattan and another communities. a rescheduled vote due last government. To win outright in southern Haiti, piling fresh mis- Some Haitians complained in Wellsville, surrounded by the During the presidential month was postponed when the first round, the top candidate ery onto the nation of more than they could not cast a ballot words “Make America White campaign, Trump controver- Hurricane Matthew struck, kill- must secure more than 50 per- 10 million people on the west- because their names did not Again”. sially called for the US to bar ing up to 1,000 people and cent of the vote or a lead of at ern half of the island of appear on lists at the polling sta- The governor said a special Muslims from entering the leaving 1.4 million needing aid. least 25 percentage points. Hispaniola that is still recover- tions, while others said that police unit would be established country, later watering down Voters in the poorest coun- Failing that, a Jan. 29 second ing from a major earthquake in when they tried, they were told to investigate hate crimes. the proposal to prevent those try in the western hemisphere round run-off is likely for the top 2010. somebody had already voted for “With trained profession- from “terror-prone regions” to hope the next president will two finishers. The victor is due There were a number of them. als we will investigate every come to the US. TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016 AMERICAS 23 Trump readies cabinet announcement soon New York New picks soon Republicans as he goes about AFP building a new administration The President-elect before his January 20 S President-elect was seeking to sound inauguration. Donald Trump pre- out people from a On Sunday, he interviewed pared yesterday to wide range of one-time foe Mitt Romney—the announce a new backgrounds, from 2012 Republican presidential slate of cabinet party stalwarts to candidate who called him a Upicks, following a busy weekend “fraud” during the recent cam- business moguls and of meetings with hopefuls at his former rivals. paign—for the secretary of state golf club retreat outside New York. position, reportedly coveted by The Republican billionaire- Giuliani. turned-world leader heaped Some of Trump’s Trump, 70, was clearly praise on tough-talking retired choices have come wowed by Mattis, who led the US Marine Corps general James under fire on civil Central Command from 2010- “Mad Dog” Mattis, signaling he rights grounds from 2013, overseeing the US is seriously considering him as Democrats and other withdrawal from Iraq and a Pentagon chief. surge in Afghanistan. critics. When asked before dinner “General James ‘Mad Dog’ at his Trump National Golf Club Mattis, who is being considered in Bedminster, New Jersey if he for Secretary of Defense, was would soon reveal new nomina- immigration hardliner Kris very impressive yesterday. A true tions, Trump told reporters: Kobach. The President-elect was General’s General!” Trump said US President-elect Doanld Trump with US Marines General (Ret.)James Mattis and Vice “Pretty true,” confirming he had clearly seeking to sound out peo- on Twitter. Trump called the “made a couple of deals.” ple from a wide range of 66-year-old “the real deal” after President-elect Mike Pence(right) on the steps of the clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club But Trump made the backgrounds, from party stal- their meeting Saturday. in Bedminster, New Jersey. 90-minute drive back to Man- warts to business moguls and A colorful combat com- retired general David Petraeus, domestic security. Sessions as attorney general, hattan early yesterday after two former rivals. mander and voracious reader, a former CIA chief. Others meeting Trump on hawkish congressman Mike days in Bedminster, and no new Some of Trump’s choices for Mattis has been quoted as say- Christie, who threw his sup- Sunday included Wilbur Ross, Pompeo as CIA director and picks were revealed. other key posts so far—attorney ing: “Be polite, be professional, port to Trump after his own bid under consideration for com- retired lieutenant general Beyond Mattis, the top names general, national security adviser but have a plan to kill everyone for the Republican presidential merce secretary, global investor Michael Flynn as his national on the guest list were Republi- and chief White House strate- you meet.” nomination fizzled, appeared David McCormick, real estate security adviser. can New Jersey Governor Chris gist—have come under fire on Retired general Jack Keane back in favor after being pushed investor Jonathan Gray and Bob His choice of Steve Bannon, Christie, who was recently civil rights grounds from Dem- told NPR that he had declined an out as transition chief. Johnson, the founder of Black seen as an ideologue of the ultra- ousted as the leader of Trump’s ocrats and other critics. offer to serve as Pentagon chief, The campaign said the pair Entertainment Television (BET). conservative alt-right transition team, former New But he has also moved to citing personal reasons. He said had a “productive discussion” Trump’s picks so far include movement, as chief strategist has York mayor Rudy Giuliani and mend fences with moderate he had recommended Mattis and Sunday on law enforcement and ultra-conservative Senator Jeff also drawn fire. Melania and son Alaskans to resist Trump may stay in NYC bid to rename Washington Trump, 46, and her son will keep AFP living in Trump Tower at least mountain until the end of the school year onald Trump’s wife Mel- so the boy can continue attend- Anchorage, Alaska ania and young son ing his private school in AP DBarron will probably Manhattan’s Upper West Side. stay in New York when the Trump, speaking to report- AMONG Donald Trump’s president-elect moves into the ers in New Jersey, said “yes, many promises on his way to White House, the transition White House” when asked if he the White House was a team suggested Sunday. was planning on moving into tweeted vow to change the The parents are wary of the presidential residence. new name of North Ameri- pulling their son out of school He was then asked whether ca’s tallest mountain back to now, team communications his wife and son would be join- Mount McKinley. director Jason Miller told ing him there. “Very soon. After The Obama administra- reporters. “There’s obviously he’s finished with school,” tion renamed the Alaska peak sensitivity to pulling their Trump said. Denali in a symbolic gesture 10-year-old out of school in the Trump will be sworn in as to Alaska Natives ahead of the middle of the school year. A more president on January 20. president’s visit to the state formal statement will be coming US presidents have lived in last year. US President-elect Donald Trump appears with retired Marine Corps General John Kelly in the future,” Miller said. and worked at the White House Alaskans long have infor- outside the main clubhouse after their meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, He was responding to a New since John Adams took up res- mally called the mountain New Jersey. York Post report that Melania idence there in 1800. Denali — “the great one” in Athabascan. But the federal government recognised the name invoking 25th president, Line between transition & company blurred by Trump children William McKinley, who was born in Ohio and assassinated New York advocated for making Reince That raises conflict of inter- But the potentially problem- President John F Kennedy in his second term. McKinley AP Priebus, the Republican National est concerns. For example, atic entanglement revealed itself appointing his brother Robert never set foot in Alaska. Committee chairman, the White Trump could set domestic pol- this past week when Ivanka as attorney general. In his tweet, Trump called early every morning since House chief of staff. They coun- icy while making deals abroad Trump’s company promoted a But the law does not appear the name switch a “great their father’s stunning seled against bringing back that could affect his corporation, $10,800 bracelet she wore dur- to prevent the children — or insult to Ohio.” Nvictory on Election Day, Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s even if it were technically in his ing a “60 Minutes” interview on Kushner, who is one of Trump’s But if he indeed moves to three of Donald Trump’s grown first campaign manager, who children’s hands. CBS. The spokeswoman for the closest aides and is said to be undo it, Trump can expect children walk through the Trump was fired in June on their advice. Kellyanne Conway, a senior company later apologised. weighing a White House role — pushback from Alaskans. Tower lobby and board an ele- On Thursday, Ivanka Trump adviser, disputed the idea that The children — they were not from serving as unpaid advisers “We wanted that change vator. But are Don Jr., Ivanka and and Kushner were present for the Trump children’s involve- made available for interviews — or providing informal counsel. for a long time, and now we Eric going to the campaign office the President-elect’s meeting ment in the transition could lead are limited in what formal role The three grown children — finally have it, and we need on the fifth floor? Their business with Japanese Prime Minister to a breach of trust. they could take in a Trump their mother is Ivana Trump, to leave it alone,” said Victor offices on the 25th floor? The Shinzo Abe at Trump Tower. “You’re presuming that they administration. Trump’s first wife — delivered Joseph, president of Tanana president-elect’s penthouse on Trump has insisted he will are doing certain things that they Congress passed an anti- well-received speeches at this Chiefs Conference, a consor- the 56th floor? build a wall between his White should not be doing,” Conway nepotism law in 1967 that summer’s Republican National tium of 42 Athabascan tribes That uncertainty highlights House and his company by plac- said. “They are his children. And prohibits the president from Convention in which they tried in Interior Alaska. The organ- the multiple roles the children ing his holdings into a blind trust, they’ve been his business col- appointing a family member to to humanize their father. isation spent years advocating play for their father. For the past but with his children as its trus- leagues for a long period of time. work in the office or agency Don Jr. and Eric were staples for what they consider the year, the lines were constantly tees. Federal requirements are They obviously will support their they oversee. The measure was on conservative radio and on the 20,310-foot peak’s original blurred between political cam- that independent outsiders run father as president.” passed as a reaction to road, trekking to campaign name. paign and business empire, such trusts. offices and small rallies across “It was an insult to the raising questions about a possi- “We are in the process of battleground states like Ohio and first people of this land when ble conflict of interest between vetting various structures with North Carolina. Ivanka Trump, they took away the name and Trump’s White House and his the goal of the immediate trans- meanwhile, was utilized in some gave it to somebody else,” sprawling business interests. fer of management of The Trump of the campaign’s biggest Joseph said. The children are poised to Organisation and its portfolio of moments, including introducing It’s unclear at this early wield incredible influence over businesses to Donald Jr., Ivanka her father before his convention stage if Trump will take their father, even if they don’t and Eric Trump as well as a team speech, unveiling his family action. Changing the name follow him to Washington. of highly skilled executives,” leave plan and campaigning would require a presidential Trump said consistently during Trump spokeswoman Hope across the crucial Philadelphia executive order or an act of the campaign that if he won, Hicks said. She said the structure suburbs. Congress, according to the those children would stay in New “will comply with all applicable Another daughter, Tiffany federal board that oversees York and run his business. But rules and regulations.” Trump, a recent college gradu- place names. the three — plus Ivanka’s hus- Trump’s company would be ate whose mother is Trump’s Troy Eid, chairman of the band, Jared Kushner — were all the largest business portfolio to second wife, Marla Maples, also Indian Law and Order Com- named to the transition team’s belong to a modern sitting pres- made appearances on her mission and a member of executive committee. ident. Federal ethics rules would father’s behalf. Trump’s young- Trump’s transition team, said So far, they’ve been heavily allow Trump to run his business est child, 10-year-old Barron, in an email Tuesday he was not involved in shaping the new interests from the White House, whose mother is the president- in a position to comment. administration. They’ve sat in on or, perhaps more likely, influ- elect’s current wife, Melania, is The either declined to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin arrives at Trump Tower, meetings and taken late night ence decisions made by his enrolled at a private Manhattan comment or did not respond calls from their father. They children. yesterday. school. to requests for comment. 24 HOME TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2016

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WEATHER TODAY

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Merry-go-round at MIA Park is a big attraction for kids and parents as weather gets pleasant. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula

Winter brings pleasure to everyone except AC mechanics

Irfan Bukhari business related to maintenance work most of the AC mechanics due to heavy they were getting 4-5 AC service or The Peninsula continued in winter. Nazir said some workload simply refuse taking orders repair orders a day while during sum- offices and hospitals preferred main- from a number of customers. “We sim- mer season it was 30 per day. Expected poor horizontal visibility to the southern area at first. Hazy veryone is welcoming the fall tenance as well as repairs in winter. ply refuse providing services to around As majority of mechanics associ- to misty/foggy to the southern of mercury and the forecast But the mechanics who provide 50 percent customers in peak season,” ated with the profession feel unhappy area at first becomes mild daytime of imminent showers except freelance services to clients feel the says Nazir. Service charges for win- over income-decline, Asghar thinks with some clouds, relatively cold by the mechanics associated impact very hard. “We move back to dow AC are QR100 and split AC unit otherwise. “We also need a rest after night. with air conditioning serv- our hometowns during winter season. QR250 including refilling of gas. long hectic job of summer. The winter HIGH TIDE 00:00 - 11:00 LOW TIDE 02:45 - 19:15 Eices who take winter as a sign of At least it cuts our cost of living,” said Asked how much percentage of provides us that break,” he adds. income downfall. an AC mechanic. He said some of his window air conditioners had been Asghar further noted that the slug- Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department “We witness as much as 80 per- friends stay to offer services for refrig- replaced with split AC units in the town gishness in their business would cent decrease in our job. This slump erator, washing machine etc. according to his rough estimates, Nazir continue till March. “From March, we LATEST NEWS starts from December and continues Nazir said his workshop had 9 said: “Around 70 percent window ACs will start receiving AC service orders UPDATE until February,” said Muhammad employees. “Owing to light workload have been replaced with split air con- from the domestic and commercial Nazir, who runs an AC repair-shop at during winter, I give vacation to some ditioner units. And the majority of them customers. Meanwhile, we will con- Al Mansoura. Nazir, who hails from employees and I also visit my home were replaced in last summer.” tinue providing services for repair of www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Hyderabad in India, is settled in Doha during the same season,” he added. Asghar Ali, the Nepalese manager other electronic appliances like refrig- since 1975. He said only 20 percent On the other hand during summer, of another workshop, said currently erators,” he concluded.