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FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 • 12 RAMADAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6830 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Emir meets Sudan President Emir extends Advisory Council’s New law on term for 3 years

DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Emiri Decision No. 25 of real estate 2016, extending the term of the Advisory Council for three years starting July 1, 2016 and ending on June 30, 2019. The decision is effective on July 1 and will be published in the offi- under way cial gazette. QNA Palestinian estate ownership limit for Qataris as well as terms and conditions for reg- President arrives Draft law being istration, fines and jail for violators. prepared proposes It said real estate ownership is DOHA: Palestinian President Mah- limited to Qataris without violating moud Abbas arrived yesterday on imprisonment for provisions of the law regulating own- a fraternal visit to Qatar. He was up to three years ership of GCC citizens and foreigners, greeted at Hamad International said the daily. There must be legal Airport by Minister of Culture and and fines of up to evidence for registration and must Sports H E Salah bin Ghanem Al QR500,000 for fulfil legal requirements. When the Ali and Palestinian Ambassador existing law was issued, it was the to Qatar Moneer Ghanam. QNA obtaining documents best in the region, making real estate in an illegal way. registration mandatory in the coun- → Picture on page 2 try. It also stipulates that the owner must have ownership document, said Clinton’s running Prominent lawyer Yusuf Al Zaman. By Mohammed Osman “Upon the issuance of this law, mate could be The Peninsula all real estate owners were invited to register properties. Earlier, peo- ple were not doing that. They were Warren: WSJ depending on a customary law and DOHA: A new law regulating real prevailing traditions in their areas,” WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton is estate registration and ownership in Al Zaman told this daily. considering US Senator Elizabeth Qatar is in the making. Once enforced, The law remained without Warren for her running mate for the it will replace the existing 52-year- changes despite substantial changes Democratic presidential ticket, the old law. in the real estate sector because it Wall Street Journal reported yes- A draft law is being prepared, fulfilled requirements and met the terday, citing people familiar with which proposes imprisonment for needs as real estate ownership then the process. up to three years and fines of up to was limited to residential and com- Warren is among Democratic QR500,000 for obtaining real estate mercial properties. Thanks to this Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Sudan’s President Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed presidential candidate Clinton is documents in an illegal way, Al Sharq law, disputes over real estate were Al Bashir at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. They discussed cooperation between the two countries, means vetting for the vice-presidential reports. Anyone found guilty of forging the lowest compared to neighbour- of enhancing relations and the latest regional and international developments. Ministers and Al position and not her rival Bernie a real estate ownership document could ing countries, Al Zaman said. Bashir’s delegation were present. The Emir also hosted an Iftar banquet in honour of Al Bashir and Sanders, the newspaper said. be punished with a fine of QR10,000. his delegation. The draft law has specified the real → Continued on page 2 → See also page 12

Black box found at EgyptAir Five stalls at exhibition closed down British MP shot dead crash site ahead of EU vote The Peninsula error, the Ministry said yesterday. found unfit for human consumption. The violations include a failure The Ministry has intensified AFP to announce the prices and details inspections at eateries, fish outlets, of products and giving false informa- stores, fruit and vegetable shops and AP Witnesses described a man shoot- DOHA: In a rare move, the Minis- tion about the products, among others. butcheries since the beginning of the ing Cox several times and appearing try of Economy and Commerce has The erring outlets were caught dur- Holy Month. It has also provided 347 to stab her as she lay on the pave- CAIRO: A search team yesterday shut down five stalls at a commercial ing an extensive inspection campaign garbage bins at 199 Iftar tents through- ment. Police said they had arrested a recovered the cockpit voice recorder exhibition being organised at Doha launched by the Ministry in the begin- out the country, said Safar Al Shafi, LONDON: A British lawmaker who 52-year-old man and were not look- of the EgyptAir plane that crashed Exhibition and Convention Center ning of Ramadan, said a statement. Head, Cleaning Department. The campaigned for the country to stay in ing for anyone else. into the Mediterranean on May 19 adjacent to City Center. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Munic- number of tents has increased by 18 the European Union was killed yes- “Our working presumption... is in a major step towards establish- The stalls have been closed down ipality and Environment destroyed percent to 169 compared to last year. terday by a gun- and knife-wielding that this is a lone incident,” said Dee ing the cause of the tragedy. temporarily for violating the consumer around 500kg of fish at Al Wakra fish attacker in her small-town constit- Collins, Acting Chief Constable of West The device was found broken protection law, until they rectify the market, as the entire quantity was → Picture on page 2 uency, a tragedy that brought the Yorkshire Police. Security officials into pieces but the salvage experts country’s fierce, divisive referen- said the shooting didn’t appear to be retrieved its crucial memory unit, dum campaign to a shocked standstill. related to international terrorism, Egypt’s civil aviation authority said. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old Labour Party but domestic terrorism has not been Officials are preparing to trans- legislator who praised the contribution ruled out. Residents identified the sus- fer the recorder from a search Air strikes shatter Aleppo truce of immigrants to Britain and champi- pect to the BBC and other media as vessel in the Mediterranean to Egypt oned the cause of Syrian refugees, was Birstall resident Tommy Mair. Neigh- for analysis, a statement said. attacked outside a library in Birstall, bours said he was a quiet man who The recorder keeps track of con- Reuters northern England, after a meeting did gardening jobs for local people. versations and other sounds in the with constituents. Police would not pilots’ cabin. The breakthrough came speculate on the attacker’s motive. → See also page 11 hours after a deep-sea robot located pieces of the main body of the plane BEIRUT: Air strikes hit rebel-held at the bottom of the Mediterranean. parts of Syria’s Aleppo city yester- day just hours into a 48-hour ceasefire announced by Russia to try to curb weeks of intense fighting as govern- RAMADAN ment forces battle for control of the city. Russia, an ally of President Bashar TODAY’S TIMING Al Assad, announced the brief truce Italy vs Sweden 4pm GROUP in the northern city late on Wednes- Czech Republic vs Croatia 7pm day but did not say which parties had STAGE Spain vs Turkey 10pm agreed to it. There has been no public MATCHES comment from Assad’s government Smoke and flame rise after US-led air strikes on the mills of Manbij or factions fighting his forces on the where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo Governorate. truce announcement. The Britain-based Syrian Observ- government-held territory in Aleppo, said strikes on residential areas had atory for Human Rights said aerial the observatory said, and fighting and caused fires and damage. “The truce strikes hit neighbourhoods in the oppo- air strikes continued in the surround- was supposed to have come into effect Today’s Ifthar 6 : 29pm sition-held sector and that there were ing countryside. at midnight, but now there is no truce.” Tomorrow’s Imsak 3 : 04am reports of one death and some injuries. Bebars Mishal, a Civil Defence Rebels had also fired rockets into chief working in rebel-held Aleppo → See also page 4 02 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 HOME

Palestinian President arrives QF’s Garangao events tonight

traditionally marks the 14th night of Ramadan. project that extends community develop- QF will activities for the whole family, ment assistance in Qatar by renovating and Activities for the whole including pony rides, traditional games and refurbishing houses of less fortunate fam- family will be held at Al arts and crafts, traditional Qatari food and ilies. Several National Reading Campaign henna painting, among others. Following activities will also be held. The campaign, Shaqab’s Indoor Arena the games, children will receive prizes from a QF initiative in association with several from 7.30pm to midnight. Al Shaqab. organisations, aims to foster a nationwide Qatar Solar Technology (QSTec), a QF culture of reading. member, will facilitate creative lantern-mak- National Reading Campaign events in the ing sessions using solar panels, while children evening will include a Book Hangout, where can blend their own healthy smoothies by children can dress up as their favourite story- The Peninsula cycling to generate energy through ‘Sahtak book characters and act out specific scenes; Awalan: Your Health First’, an initiative of bookmark-making sessions; games and over- Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). sized puzzles. The public is also invited to The Quranic Botanic Garden (QBG) will join in the festivities and enjoy traditional DOHA: Qatar Foundation for Education, offer planting activities, 3D puzzles and vir- songs and games such as Gaiss, Sack races, Science and Community Development (QF) tual reality games, while Qatar Green Building Dahouri, Tak taqieh and other fun family is inviting the entire community to join its Council (QGBC) will stage a puppet show activities. Garangao celebrations at Al Shaqab’s Indoor and storytelling session in conjunction with By hosting meaningful activities and cele- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived yesterday on a fraternal visit to Qatar. Arena tonight. Events will be held from 7:30pm Qatar National Library (QNL). brations for the entire community throughout He was greeted at Hamad International Airport by Minister of Culture and Sports to midnight. Some events will include a small fee, the year, QF is prioritising community devel- H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali and Palestinian Ambassador to Qatar Moneer Ghanam. Garangao, a children’s festival cele- which will be donated to Reach Out To Asia’s opment in efforts to support and enhance brated in the Gulf and rooted in local culture, (ROTA) ‘Reach into Qatar’ initiative, a volunteer Qatar’s cultural life and protect its heritage. Minister honours Holy Decree dismisses Al Jazeera Media Network Advisory Council’s Quran memorisers establishes Digital Division regular session DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin QNA affiliated to the Ministry. Hamad Al Thani issued Decree No. The honourees included 10 30 of 2016, dismissing the 44th reg- Holy Quran memorisers who have The Peninsula Under his leadership, the new divi- the most present digital channel on ular session of the Advisory Council. DOHA: Minister of Awqaf and achieved advanced positions in sion will oversee the development of Facebook and two Webby Awards for It stipulates that the session shall Islamic Affairs H E Dr. Ghaith bin international competitions and digital products, services and platforms people’s choice. be dismissed on Monday, Shawwal Mubarak Al Kuwari honoured Qatari about 25 Qatari students who com- of the network to address the rap- Al Jazeera’s English website has 13, 1437 H, which corresponds to students participating in interna- pleted memorising parts of the Holy DOHA: Al Jazeera Media Network has idly evolving digital media landscape. also swept many awards at the Online July 18, 2016. The decree is effec- tional competitions on the Holy Quran during the last year and 50 announced the establishment of a new The division will seek to expand Media Awards, most notably the Best tive from the date of issue and will Quran and outstanding students Qatari and expatriate students who Digital Division in alignment with its Al Jazeera’s audience-base, provid- Website while winning Best media be published in the official gazette. for memorising the Holy Quran at have completed memorising the objectives to innovate and lead in the ing content wherever they are at any toolkit, Best use of photography and QNA Holy Quran and Sciences Centres whole Holy Quran. development of digital products, serv- time and across all digital platforms. Best Digital editor awards. ices and platforms. In the past two years, AJ+ has Dr. Bishr holds a PhD in computer The decision announced in a achieved remarkable success exceed- science from Twente University in the Vegetable and network circular by Acting Director ing four billion views in its English Netherlands, and a Master’s degree in General Dr. Mostefa Souag, appointed version. The network recently launched business administration from Duke fruit prices drop Indian Embassy to mark Dr. Yaser Bishr as the Executive Direc- AJ+ Arabi, which has also attracted University, Fuqua School of Business, tor of the division. more than 55 million views during in the US. by 12% in a year Dr. Bishr has served as executive its soft launch. Before joining Al Jazeera, he International Day of director for corporate strategy and Testament to the network’s pio- worked as director of strategy and development and led digital projects neering digital work are a large number technology innovation at Lockheed The Peninsula for the network such as the concep- of international awards, including Martin in the US. Yoga on Tuesday tion and launch of AJ+ in 2014. the Shorty Award obtained by AJ+ as DOHA: The prices of vegetables and fruits in the local market have The Peninsula of the global community’s keenness fallen by 12 percent and four percent to come together to seek a balanced, Qatar condemns respectively over the past one year. healthier and sustainable future ‘Right to benefit’ granted A report released by the Minis- for the world. Misrata bombing try of Economy and Commerce said DOHA: The Indian Embassy will Modi thanked Qatar for sup- there was no change in vegetable celebrate the second International port to the First International Day in draft law on real estate prices and fruit prices rose by one Day of Yoga on Tuesday at 9pm at of Yoga on June 21, 2015 through the DOHA: Qatar has voiced condem- percent in May compared to April. Continued from page 1 Al Gharafa Sports Club Indoor Hall issue of commemorative stamps by mentioned in other laws which allow nation and denunciation of the The central vegetable market on Tuesday. Qatar Post to mark the occasion. foreigners to own properties and land bombing that targeted a police sta- received 11.047 tonnes of vegetables The programme, in coopera- Modi, in his address at the 69th He said current developments in some areas like Lusail, and The tion in the Abu Grain in the Libyan and 4,248 tonnes of fruits in May. tion with the Qatar government, Session of the United Nations Gen- and rapid expansion of buildings and Pearl-Qatar. city of Misrata, and left many peo- The report said the main sources Indian Cultural Centre and other eral Assembly on September 27, 2014 diversity of their usage and owner- The “right to benefit” has been ple dead. In a statement yesterday, of fruits were Egypt followed by community associations, will had called upon the UN member ship have necessitated amendment to granted in some other areas and all the Foreign Ministry stressed Qatar’s India, France, the Philippines and include speeches by Qatari digni- states to work towards adopting an some articles of the law, but the major these types of ownership are not part support for the Presidential Council Saudi Arabia. Vegetables were taries and the Indian Ambassador, International Day of Yoga. provisions would remain unchanged. of the old law, he explained. in Libya and the council’s proce- mainly supplied by India, Jordan, a short film and demonstrations by India’s Resolution at the General “There is a need to keep pace with Meanwhile, the law has stipulated dures to establish security across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, yoga experts. Assembly to declare June 21 June as current developments as enormous establishment of a real estate regis- the country. China, and the local market. All are invited. Dress is infor- International Day of Yoga was unan- changes and developments have taken tration committee at the Ministry of It reiterated Qatar’s stance in The report provided prices of mal and in conformity with local imously adopted on December 11, place in the real estate sector and own- Justice through a ministerial decision rejecting all forms and manifes- vegetables and fruits for May and customs. Attendees are requested 2014, with a record co-sponsorship ership system is no longer limited to which will specify its mandate, duties tations of violence and terrorism, April and said the prices of most to bring photo ID of 177 countries, including Qatar. residency and commercial proper- and responsibilities, Al Sharq said. stressing Qatar’s cooperation with vegetables dropped compared to During an official visit to Qatar The Indian Embassy deeply ties but includes different types of The committee will consider the international community’s efforts last year and the prices of some on June 4 and 5, Indian Prime Min- appreciates the support and cooper- investments, industrial and business applications of registration of real to restore security and stability to fruits remained the same due a ister Narendra Modi held talks with ation of all the concerned authorities activities and foreigners’ ownership,” estate properties located within the Libya and maintain its unity and sov- drop in supply. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad in Qatar for the commemoration said Al Zaman. border of the towns and villages that ereignty. It expressed condolences The report said fish prices in the Al Thani and both stressed that the of the second International Day of The existing law states in general are still not registered and look into to the Libyan government, people local market dropped by one percent overwhelming response to Interna- Yoga, the mission said in a state- that real estate ownership is limited complaints related to real estate eval- and families of the victims, wishing in May compared to the same month tional Day of Yoga was a reflection ment yesterday. to Qataris with some exceptions uation and fees. the injured a speedy recovery. QNA last year and six percent in April.

Five QU health sciences graduates pass ASCP exam Stall inspected

The Peninsula Affairs at the college, said this sig- nificant success is an improvement milestone at the college and QU academic levels. The success refers DOHA: More than 20 graduates from to efforts towards establishing a the Biomedical Sciences Programme state-of-the art academic scheme at Qatar University College of Health through well-structured study plans Sciences have passed the American that comply with the accreditation Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) requirements. “We invest in schol- Board of Certification exam in the past ars and scientists to expand available years, including over five last month. capabilities and grant extra atten- The programme is the first accred- tion to detail in curricula, syllabi and ited academic course outside the US courses at the college. The forthcom- by National Accrediting Agency for ing academic implementations will Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAA- further heighten in terms of the qual- CLS) since 2008. ity of our graduates.” This accreditation reflects the Dr Marwan Abu Madi, Associate exceptional and standardised qual- Professor and Head, Biomedical Sci- ity of education at the theoretical and ences Department, recognised the practical levels. NAACLS certification graduates who passed the ASCP exam testifies the excellence and brilliance and encouraged their fellows to take in biomedical sciences, laboratory similar steps towards a future of excel- technology, patients’ safety and scopes Students at the laboratory. lence in the field of laboratory science. of healthcare applications. “We value our graduates and faculty “The college aims to graduate extraordinary achievements in the requirements of Qatar’s healthcare who dedicated efforts towards this a specialised generation in health- fields of clinical science and research. sector,” said Prof Asmaa Althani, Dean achievement which reflects the qual- care tracks who meets national and “Our educational strategy per- of the college and Director, Biomed- ity of education and clinical practice international standards to fulfil ceives benchmarked and superior ical Research Centre, QU. manoeuvres at the college along with Inspectors from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce checking the increasing demand of scien- academic baseline to shape the Dr Ahmad Malki, Associate Profes- our business partners, in particular, documents at one of the stalls at the exhibition. tists and scholars, and accomplish desired competencies and meet the sor and Associate Dean for Academic Hamad Medical Corporation. Ramadan Thoughts

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Seeking Allah’s blessings Islam: Basic Facts 3

By Mariam Anwer The Messenger (peace be upon him) and ‘Laam’ is a letter and ‘Meem’ is a letter.” his companions would pray, fast, spend time (Tirmidhi, 2910) For those who listen to the Obligatory with the Quran and be obedient to Allah all Qur’an attentively, it was said that mercy year round but in Ramadan, they would max- does not come quicker to anyone than the llah made Ramadan a month of imize their efforts to excel in various good one who listens to the Quran according to prayers mercy, forgiveness, dua and mul- deeds. Nothing can be better for us than fol- the words of Allah: “So when the Qur’an is tiplied rewards. Every night of this lowing their footsteps in this world and then recited, then listen to it and pay attention blessed month, He invites the fortu- being rewarded by having their company in that you may receive mercy.” (Quran, 7:204) rayer in Islam, is worship of Allah the Anate ones who witness it, to race and compete the Hereafter. The Messenger (peace be upon There is a narration by Ibn Abbas that Almighty, Praising and Thanking with each other in doing righteous deeds. him) mentioned many actions which, if per- emphasizes the need to be generous in giv- Him, acknowledging His Sovereignty The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “On formed sincerely, grant us great rewards. ing all kinds of charity in Ramadan: “Allah’s and committing oneself to obey and the first night of the month of Ramadan, the The best of such actions in Ramadan Messenger (PBUH) was the most generous Premember Him at all times. It is the second devils are chained, the jinn are restrained, is fasting, which has been made obliga- of people and he was the most generous in pillar of Islam and is the central part of a way and the gates of Hellfire are closed and none tory by the Almighty. The exact reward the month of Ramadan, when Jibreel would of life, which is based on submission to the of its gates are opened. The gates of Paradise for fasting has not been specified but it is meet him. Jibreel used to meet him every Creator of us all. are opened and none of its gates are closed. expected to be tremendous because of the night of Ramadan to teach him the Quran.” The five prayers are among the best acts of A caller announces: ‘O seeker of good, come way this hadith describes it: “Every deed of (Bukhari, 1716, Muslim, 4268) worship that the Muslim performs. Performing near! O seeker of evil, stop short! Allah will the son of Adam will be multiplied between The Prophet (PBUH) said: “Whoever gives them is the best deed after having the correct save them from the Hellfire and that is dur- ten and seven hundred times. Allah, may a fasting person (food or drink to break their belief in God and His Messenger. Prophet Muham- ing every night of Ramadan’.” (Tirmidhi, 682) He be glorified and exalted, said: Except fast), they will have similar to the reward of mad (peace be upon him), was asked what the Ramadan is a golden opportunity for fasting. It is for Me and I shall reward for the one who fasted, without any decrease best deed was and he said it was performing all of us who hope to be saved from the it. He gives up his desires and his food for for the one who fasted.” (Tirmidhi, authen- the obligatory prayers at the beginning of their Hell fire and yearn to dwell in Paradise. My sake.” (Muslim, 1151) ticated by Albani) Buy some dates and hand times. When we say “prayers” we are refer- This is not a month of socialising and feast- We need to perfect our fast by not just them over at a masjid, for the worshippers ring to an act of worshipping God which has ing even though it is common to see this avoiding food and drink but also false and at the time of breaking the fast or hand over a specific format as God revealed to Prophet around us. This is a month of competing hateful speech and deeds so the rewards bottles of cold water and small packets of Muhammad (PBUH). with each other in improving our relation- can be maximised. According to another dates on the road sides at the time of Magh- The prophets, from Prophet Adam to Prophet ship with our Creator, a month where we Hadith, there is a gate to Paradise that is rib. If you are unable to do any of that, then Muhammad (PBUH), ordered their followers to ignore all distractions and race to Him by called Ar-Rayyan. On the Day of Resur- just helping out in the kitchen and setting up pray as per God’s orders. Since the prayer is the Each of the five prayers have different number doing lots of good deeds. Allah says, “And rection it will say: ‘Where are those who Iftar with dates and cold water for your fam- most important matter of Islam after having the of units (Raka’at) for each. Fajr (Dawn Prayer) vie one with another for forgiveness from fasted?’ When the last (one who fasted) has ily will bring a similar reward insha Allah. correct belief in God and His Messenger, one is 2 units (Raka’at). Dhuhar (Noon prayer) is 4 your Lord, and for a Paradise as wide as passed through the gate, it will be locked. Making extra voluntary prayer along must plan his life around the prayer. It would units. Asr (Afternoon prayer) is 4 units. Magh- are the heavens and the earth, prepared (Al Bukhari and Muslim) with the 5 obligatory ones is another way to be a great sin to neglect praying when at work rib (Sunset prayer) is 3 units. Isha (Night prayer) for those who ward off (evil).” (Quran 3:133) The blessed month of Ramadan is a cel- race to Paradise according to the narration if a prayer was required at that time. is 4 units. The Prophet (PBUH) said: “There has ebration of the Quran as the blessed Book of Rabi’a bin Kaab who said: “I was with If a believer is shopping at the mall or waiting Almighty Allah says in the Holy Quran: come to you the month of Ramadan, a month was revealed in it. Striving hard to spend the Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) one at the airport and there is no way to get home or “When My servants ask thee concerning Me, of blessing, in which Allah covers you with month in reading, reciting and listening to night and I brought him water and what he to a mosque, he is still obligated to perform the I am indeed close (to them); I listen to the grace, sending down mercy, forgiving sins and the Quran carries huge rewards. Regard- required. He said to me: ‘Ask (for anything prayer within its due time instead of purposely prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on answering supplication. Allah looks at your ing reciting it, the Prophet (peace be upon you like)’. I said: I ask for your company in leaving out or delaying the prayer. This indi- Me; let them also with a will listen to My call competition in doing good therein, and boasts him) said, “Whoever reads a letter from the Paradise. He (peace be upon him) said: ‘Or cates the importance of the obligatory prayer. and believe in Me; that they may walk in the of you before His angels. So show Allah good- Book of Allah, he will have a reward, and anything else other than it?’ I said: That is Performing the obligatory prayer on time takes right way.” ness from yourselves, for truly the wretched this reward will be multiplied by 10. I am all (what I require). He said: ‘Then help me priority over other non-obligatory matters. (Quran 2:186) person is the one who is deprived of the Mercy not saying that ‘Alif, Laam, Meem’ is a let- to achieve this for you by devoting yourself of Allah during this month.” (Tabarani) ter, rather I am saying that ‘Alif’ is a letter, to frequent sujood (prostrations)’.” (Muslim) 04 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Eritrea claims Barrel bombs it killed 200 in threaten new Ethiopia clash Agencies truce in Aleppo NAIROBI: Eritrea claimed yester- day to have killed “more than 200” Ethiopians in a battle last week, one of the fiercest border clashes since Peace talks aimed at ending the a 1998-2000 war, while giving no five-year conflict have stalled and mention of its own casualties. Regime helicopters a February countrywide ceasefire Each side blames the other for dropped the crude between the regime and non-jihad- starting the two-day battle which explosive devices on ist rebels lies in tatters. broke out on Sunday, saying also that “There is no progress in the politi- their rival suffered the most losses. the city’s rebel areas cal process,” Russian Foreign Minister There was no immediate after residents had Sergei Lavrov said, referring to Syria. response from Ethiopia, which headed to markets He accused Washington — which has not released numbers killed. broadly supports the opposition — “More than 200 TPLF (Ethio- Displaced people, who fled Fallujah, wait for security checks from tribal fighters in Ameriyat Fallujah, Iraq, for their first morning of being “unable or unwilling to put pian) troops have been killed and yesterday. shopping in weeks. pressure on its allies in the region”. more than 300 wounded,” Eritrea’s Nevertheless, direct contact Ministry of Information said in a between Russia and the United States statement, calling it a “conserva- about Syria have taken place “with- tive estimate”. out any hysteria”, he added. Iraq forces push into Fallujah There was no mention of any AFP There have been repeated vio- prisoners of war. Ethiopian govern- lations of the February 27 truce in ment spokesman Getachew Reda Aleppo, with rebels pounding regime- on Tuesday said “there were signif- controlled neighbourhoods with amid concern over civilians icant casualties on both sides, but ALEPPO, SYRIA: Barrel bombs hit rocket and artillery fire and the regime more on the Eritrean side.” Syria’s Aleppo yesterday just hours hitting rebel areas with air strikes. Eritrea won independence after a temporary truce announced The new ceasefire was announced AFP (IS) terrorists,” Raed Shaker Jawdat, logistics of new positions they were from Ethiopia in 1991 after three by regime ally Russia came into effect by Moscow late Wednesday in a bid Iraq’s federal police chief, said. setting up inside the city. decades of war, but returned to in the northern war-torn city. to halt violence in the city, split since Iraqi forces launched an opera- “With this heat, this dust and all the battle in 1998-2000, when nearly A reporter said regime helicopters 2012 between a regime-held west tion to retake Fallujah, which lies only things we have to wear, sitting in the 80,000 died. dropped the crude explosive devices and a rebel-controlled east. FALLUJAH: Iraqi elite forces bat- 50km west of Baghdad, last month. Humvees all the time, I just couldn’t on the city’s rebel areas after residents “On Russia’s initiative, a ‘regime tled Islamic State (IS) group militants The advance of pro-govern- fast,” said a fighter who gave his name had headed to markets for their first of silence’ has been introduced in yesterday in their bastion of Fallu- ment forces has since been slow, as Ali, as he offloaded huge pots of Two policemen morning shopping in weeks. Aleppo for 48 hours from 00:01 16 jah, where an aid group says nearly with Fallujah’s status as a emblem- beans and crates of fruit from a pick- Aleppo has seen some of the worst June (2101 GMT Wednesday) with the four weeks of fighting have ensnared atic IS stronghold and a tight siege by up truck. The holy fasting month of dead in Sinai fighting in a war that has killed more goal of lowering the level of armed civilians in a humanitarian disaster. Iraqi forces ensuring holdout jihadists Ramadan started nearly two weeks than 280,000 people, and there is violence and stabilising the situa- Forces from the counter-terrorism have few options other than fighting ago but very few among the govern- attack deep scepticism that the latest halt to tion,” Russia’s defence ministry said. service (CTS) pushed into the Nazzal to the death. In the southern neigh- ment forces on the Fallujah battlefield fighting in the battered city will last. A source close to the regime said neighbourhood, consolidating their bourhoods, once densely-populated went without at least water. The two-day truce came hours the truce had been decided “in con- grip on the southern part of the city and now completely empty of civil- “Our advance is excellent so CAIRO: Eg y pt’s Inter ior M i n ist r y after US Secretary of State John nivance” with Washington. and working their way up to the centre. ians, every home bore the pockmarks morale is high. We don’t care what says four masked gunmen have Kerry warned Moscow that Wash- Residents in Aleppo’s rebel-held “Our troops are operating in Naz- of the battle. Daesh throws at us, we know we will stormed a house in the northern ington’s patience was running out over east had headed out to the markets to zal, where just today we were able to CTS units parked their Humvees win this battle,” said Jamal Abdullah, Sinai Peninsula city of Al Arish breaches of a nationwide ceasefire. buy meat and vegetables last morning. destroy 15 car bombs driven by Daesh on the sandy streets and organised the a federal police captain. and shot dead two policemen inside. Al Arish, a city on the Mediter- ranean, has been at the center of an insurgency by Islamic militants Israel reiterates threats to Hezbollah and Hamas targeting members of the security forces and soldiers. The shooting took place early yesterday. The statement did not say who Anatolia Hezbollah would reduce Lebanon to on Hezbollah from which it would Wednesday, a senior Israeli military faction Fatah — lacked any “political was behind the attack, which bore a “nation of refugees”. benefit in any future conflict with source was quoted as saying that Israel’s legitimacy”. the hallmarks of Islamic militants. Israeli daily Haaretz quoted Herzl the group. next war with Palestinian resistance “Abu Mazen [Abbas] doesn’t have Led by an affiliate of the extrem- Halevi as saying that, while Israel Israeli military officials in recent movement Hamas would be the last. the public support or strength to reach ist Islamic State group, the militants JERUSALEM: Israeli officials have would recover from the impact of months have repeatedly mentioned the “There will be no Hamas govern- any arrangements or agreements with have been battling security forces recently made a series of bellicose such a conflict, Lebanon would not, potential impact of a possible future ment in the Gaza Strip]after that,” the Israel,” he said. The high-ranking offi- for years in northern Sinai but their assertions suggesting a readiness on while Hezbollah would lose the pop- war with Hezbollah and have carried source, who spoke anonymously, said, cial noted that Abbas had not visited attacks have grown more frequent the part of the Jewish state to engage ular support it currently enjoys. out several military drills on the Leb- according to Israel’s Channel 7. any Palestinian Authority-controlled and deadly since the military’s in fresh conflicts with both Hezbol- Speaking at a conference in the anese border. Israel would also prohibit construc- cities —- such as Jenin or Tulkarm — ouster in 2013 of Egypt’s Islamist lah and Hamas. Israeli city of Herzliya, Halevi boasted In 2006, Israel fought a devastat- tion of a seaport in the Hamas-run within the last eight years, although he president, Mohammed Mursi. On Wednesday, the head of Israel’s of Israel’s military ascendancy in the ing war with the Shia militia that left Gaza Strip, he said, while going on to had visited several prominent Euro- They have also carried assassi- military intelligence agency warned region, going on to assert that the more than 1,200 people — mostly civil- assert that Palestinian President Mah- pean capitals numerous times over nations and bombings in mainland that the country’s next war with country had significant intelligence ians—dead. In a related development moud Abbas — head of rival Palestinian the same period. Egypt.

EU allows Iran’s Waiting for food 10 dead as IS steps up state carrier to resume flights Libya suicide bombings

AFP stronghold in Libya, 130km to the east. Reuters Thirty-two people were killed and 50 wounded in a car-bomb attack in Abu Grein the next day targeting the TRIPOLI: Pinned down in the cen- forces allied with the GNA. BRUSSELS: Iran’s state airline, which tre of the coastal city of Sirte, Islamic Ten members of the pro-GNA has just reached an agreement with State (IS) group militants yesterday forces were killed and seven wounded Boeing Co to purchase new jetlin- stepped up suicide bomb attacks on in Thursday’s blast at Abu Grein, said ers, can resume flights in the EU, the forces of Libya’s unity government sources at the central hospital in Mis- European Commission said. who suffered 10 dead. rata, from where they launched an Iran is dangling the prospect The focus of IS counter-attacks offensive against the jihadists. of significant business for West- has been aimed at retaking Sirte’s The military command of the ern planemakers as it emerges port and western sectors of the city, anti-IS operation said two other car- from decades of sanctions. While the hometown of late dictator Mua- bombings inside Sirte itself were foiled the European Commission, the mmar Gaddafi, military sources said. yesterday. “Our forces managed to EU’s executive, said Iranair could Jihadist groups took root in Libya destroy two car bombs before they resume flights, some of the carri- in late 2014, taking advantage of the reached their targets,” it said. er’s aircraft would remain on the chaos and power struggles that fol- “The two cars had targeted posi- EU’s safety blacklist. Yemeni children stand next to food rations that a local charity is distributing to families affected by lowed the Nato-backed uprising that tions of our forces on two fronts.” “I am happy to announce that the country’s ongoing conflict, in an impoverished part of the capital Sana’a, yesterday. toppled and killed Kadhafi in 2011. The jihadists have mounted eight we are now also able to allow most “A suicide attack using a booby- suicide car bombings against pro-GNA aircraft from Iranair back into trapped car targeted the Abu Grein forces since Sunday, as they inten- European skies,” said EU Trans- checkpoint,” the forces of the Gov- sify efforts to regain lost ground in port Commissioner Violeta Bulc. ernment of National Accord said in the Mediterranean city. The Commission also removed a statement. The pro-GNA forces backed by Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, Bahrain jails 8 Shias, revokes nationality IS claimed responsibility for two air strikes entered the city last week, a major buyer of Airbus and Boe- suicide bombings against pro-GNA aiming to drive the extremist group ing jets, from its safety blacklist. forces on Thursday, without men- out of its bastion on Europe’s doorstep. Iranair will be allowed to fly all tioning Abu Grein. But the advance has been stalled of its planes in the EU except the AFP and raising donations to fund a ter- They staged an unauthorised dem- In messages distributed online, since Sunday on the outskirts of Sirte’s Boeing 747-200s, Boeing 747SPs ror organisation named Bahraini onstration in Nuwaidrat in June 2014 it said a Tunisian and an Egyptian residential areas where the jihadists and Fokker 100s, the Commis- Hezbollah”, the source said, citing and blocked the streets while one of had detonated car bombs targeting are holed up. sion said. the verdict. the defendants opened fire at a police “apostate” forces west of Sirte, US- Established in Tripoli more than Iran needs an estimated 400 jets DUBAI: A Bahraini court yesterday The group’s name appears to link patrol, the judicial source said. based monitor SITE Intelligence said. two months ago, the UN-backed unity to renew its fleet and prepare for sentenced eight Shias to 15-year jail it to Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Two other defendants were jailed It was unclear if these were government has been struggling to projected growth, according to Ira- terms for forming a “terror” group, as Shia movement, though the verdict did three years each for participating in the same attacks the GNA forces exert its control over the North African nian and Western estimates. Tehran the authorities crack down on oppo- not specify any connection. the demonstration. announced on Thursday morning, country, which is awash with weapons. said on Tuesday that it had reached sition in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, a The eight defendants were accused The verdict is the latest in the series since they have not specified the loca- The operation to retake Sirte has an agreement with Boeing for the judicial source said. of forming the group in 2014, pos- of rulings meted out against mem- tion of the two attacks. so far left 165 pro-GNA fighters dead supply of jetliners, reopening the The criminal court also stripped sessing weapons and attempting to bers of Bahrain’s Shia majority, and it Forces allied to the GNA captured and more than 500 wounded, accord- country’s skies to new US aircraft the defendants of their citizenship kill policemen in Nuwaidrat, a Shi- came days after authorities suspended the town of Abu Grein on May 17 as ing to a count based on reports from for the first time in decades. after convicting them of “establishing ite village east of Manama. the main opposition Al Wefaq group. they advanced on Sirte, the jihadists’ medical officials. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 05 Nigerian oil rebels claim new attack

rejected the claim and said it was an Akwa Ibom borders the oil-produc- A spate of attacks since February But they have also called for self- Dhaka arrests Police claim that the accident caused by a leak. ing hub of Rivers State. has slashed oil production in Nigeria to determination for the delta and sought “At 4:00am (0300 GMT) @NDAv- Akwa Ibom police commissioner some 1.6 million barrels per day, well to ally themselves with separatists Islamist over explosion merely an engers blow up NNPC Pipeline in Oruk Murtala Mani told reporters in the state down from a budgeted 2.2 million bpd. in the southeast calling for an inde- accident. Anam Local Government Area in Akwa capital, Uyo, that the explosion was That has aggravated economic pendent homeland for the ethnic Igbo publisher attack Ibom,” the Niger Delta Avengers wrote caused by a gas leak and engineers troubles for Nigeria, which relies on people. on Twitter. were working to repair the damage. oil sales for most of its government The petroleum industry in Nigeria Dhaka: An Islamist mil- The militant group has previ- AFP contacted the NNPC but there revenue and has been hit by the glo- is the largest on the African continent. itant suspected of AFP ously attacked pipelines and facilities was no immediate response. bal slump in crude prices for nearly As of 2014, Nigeria’s petroleum attacking a publisher last operated by the Nigerian National The Niger Delta Avengers this two years. industry contributes about 14% to its year has been arrested, Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as week indicated they would be will- The Avengers have issued a series economy. Bangladesh police said PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA: A Nige- well as local subsidiaries of Shell, ing to enter talks with the government of demands similar to militants who Therefore, though the petroleum yesterday, in what they rian militant group yesterday said it Chevron and Eni. on an end to the attacks, on condition roamed the creeks and swamps of the sector is important, it remains in fact described as an impor- sabotaged a pipeline run by the coun- Most of the attacks have been in the that independent foreign mediators oil-rich but impoverished delta region a small part of the country’s overall tant breakthrough in their try’s state-run oil company but police southern states of Delta and Bayelsa. were involved. in the 2000s. diversified economy. investigations into a spate of horrific attacks. Suman Hossain Pato- wari, 20, was arrested in Dhaka late Wednes- day over a brutal attack South Sudanese that wounded pub- lisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul and two others at his office in the capital in refugees in Sudan October. The arrest comes amid a nationwide police anti-militant crackdown that has seen more than at 232,000: UN 11,000 people, includ- ing 176 suspected Islamist militants, detained since AFP of which only 13 percent had been Friday. received by 26 May,” it said. South Sudan is one of the poor- Several dead as KHARTOUM: Sudan is hosting the est countries on the planet, and it had largest number of South Sudanese ref- some of the world’s worst indicators army and rebels ugees, with 232,000 having entered for development, health and educa- since a civil war erupted in the neigh- tion even before the war erupted. clash in DR Congo bouring country at the end of 2013, The war broke out in Decem- the UN said yesterday. ber 2013 when President Salva Kiir Lubumbashi: Several South Sudan won independence accused Riek Machar of plotting a people were killed in from Sudan in 2011 but two years later coup and sacked him as vice president. clashes between the army it fell into a brutal civil war that has Machar’s sacking set off a cycle and former rebels at a killed tens of thousands of civilians. of retaliatory killings that split the military base in the Dem- “As of the beginning of June 2016, poverty-stricken, landlocked coun- ocratic Republic of Congo Sudan hosts the largest number of try along ethnic lines. Buddhist monks and followers gather inside the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple complex in anticipation Wednesday, officials said. refugees who have fled South Sudan Tens of thousands of people have of a planned police raid, in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. Tension had been and sought refuge in neighbouring been killed and more than two million mounting for days at the countries,” the UN Office for the Coor- have been driven from their homes. military base in Kamina, dination of Humanitarian Affairs, or The conflict has been charac- in the southeast, where OCHA, said in its weekly bulletin. terised by horrific rights abuses, more than 2,000 former “According to the UN refugee including gang rapes, the wholesale Police fail to arrest popular Thai monk rebels from various agency UNHCR ... there are about burning of villages and cannibalism. groups are stationed as 232,000 South Sudanese refugees Machar returned to the capital in part of a government dis- in Sudan.” April as part of a peace deal which AFP Historically, secular authorities shrine that resembles a huge UFO, has armament programme. Another 230,000 have fled to Ethi- saw him reinstated as vice president, have been reluctant to intervene in denied its abbot conspired to laun- It was unclear how opia, 202,000 to Uganda and 57,000 forging a unity government with Kiir. the affairs of the clergy. der the money, calling the charges many had died in the to Kenya, OCHA said. However, fighting continues BANGKOK: Thousands of supporters But a series of recent scandals and “groundless and unconscionable”. bloody clashes, with Since January, 71,000 South Suda- between multiple militia forces of a wealthy and controversial Thai corruption probes engulfing various Temple authorities say their leader one rebel source putting nese have arrived in Sudan, fleeing who now pay no heed to either Kiir Buddhist sect rallied at the temple’s temples -- including allegations of is too ill to be questioned by police. the number of dead at conflict and food shortages in their or Machar. space-age headquarters yesterday monks flying in private jets, having After weeks of stalemate, police around 10 while an army war-torn country, it said. The movement of populations to successfully see off an attempt by sex and trafficking animal parts -- has obtained a court-approved arrest war- source said at least 20 The majority of new arrivals take within and around the territory of police to arrest the movement’s eld- generated calls for greater oversight. rant and arrived at the temple yesterday people had been killed. refuge in East Darfur, which currently modern-day Sudan and its neigh- erly abbot on fraud charges. The country’s equivalent of the FBI to search for the abbot. Regional governor hosts 66 percent of all of this year’s bours for trade, opportunity, climatic The long simmering spat between has been trying for months to question Investigators adopted a non-con- Celestin Mbuyu said one newcomers. Highlighting the latest variations and conflicts is not unique investigators and the powerful Wat Phra Dhammachayo, the 72-year-old frontational approach, holding talks lieutenant from the Con- humanitarian crisis, OCHA warned to recent or contemporary history. Dhammakaya temple in northern abbot of the Dhammakaya temple, with monks throughout the morning. golese army was among that the overall donor response has Movements of people are also Bangkok is the latest clash to reveal over allegations he accepted embez- But they conceded defeat, saying the dead, “killed with a been low so far. inherently more problematic across bitter political ruptures at the heart of zled funds worth 1.2 billion baht ($33 they had been stopped by devotees machete by rebels... who “Inter-agency requirements for international boundaries, which may Thailand’s national faith -- and law million) from the owner of a cooper- from searching some buildings in the were headed to the city the South Sudanese situation response be contradictory to natural popula- enforcement’s seeming inability to ative bank who was jailed. 400-hectare compound where they centre to loot it”. in Sudan amount to $141.2 million, tion flows within the region. confront monks accused of crimes. The temple, famous for its main thought the abbot might be. South Africa marks Soweto uprising

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Public Announcement SOWETO: South Africa yesterday TO all Ships, Fishermen and Mariners marked 40 years since the Soweto “Pipeline Route Free Span Correction and Survey for RasGas Flow uprising, when white police offic- Assurance Project Pipeline ” ers gunned down black students in a massacre that ignited a new era Warning of Subsea Diving Works th th of anti-apartheid resistance. Offshore Qatar from 12 June to 30 June 2016 The 1976 protests, and the gov- In pursuant to and under directives from the Department of Marine Regulations, Ministry of ernment’s violent response, were Transport and Communications, State of Qatar, this announcement is to inform all the vessels, a turning point in the struggle that mariners, and fishermen that Flow Assurance Project (Offshore) owned by RasGas Company eventually led to the fall of apart- Limited intends to carry out Pipeline Route Free Span Correction and Survey in the location bounded heid rule with Nelson Mandela’s by the coordinates shown in the diagram below. election as president in 1994. The works will be performed by a DP2 Vessel “MEO RANGER”, will utilize Free Span Correction The anniversary commem- and Survey techniques and sonar equipment within the marked operations area shown below. All orated the youthful, unarmed Ships, Fishermen and Mariners are advised mindful of this operation and to avoid interfering with protesters who gathered in Soweto the vessel activities. township to demonstrate against RasGas Company Limited take no responsibility for any loss or damage caused to outside parties an order that schools could only in association with this operation, following publication of this notice. teach in the Afrikaans language used by whites. Survey Operations Area At least 170 people were killed, with some estimates putting the death toll at several hundred over South African students from Chief Albert Luthuli Primary and High School in Daveyton take a ride on the following months as the upris- a bus in Johannesburg on Wednesday, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the June 1976 uprising. ing spread nationwide. “The apartheid ideology espoused that whites were by Images of poor, young black became the iconic image of the frictions worsened by the coun- nature superior and that blacks students shot dead by the police uprising. try’s dire economic performance were inherently inferior,” Presi- also brought the injustices of white- Divisions along racial lines and anger at politicians’ failure to dent Jacob Zuma said in a televised minority rule to the world’s attention remain strong in South Africa, with meet post-apartheid expectations. speech at a stadium in Soweto, south and spurred the global anti-apart- most black people enduring worse Highlighting the country’s of Johannesburg. heid movement. education, housing and unemploy- unhealed wounds, a reconciliation “The struggle and sacrifices of Deputy President Cyril Ram- ment than white people. event in Soweto last Saturday was the class of 1976 were not in vain. aphosa yesterday placed a wreath Students have again been pro- sparsely attended. “South Africa is indeed a much at the memorial to Hector Pieterson, testing in recent months over tuition The gathering had been better place than it was when the 13, who was one of the first victims. fees that force some poor black intended to bring together black Any further inquiries should be addressed to: students stood up and said ‘enough is The black-and-white photo- youths out of education. and white people, but it split some Construction Manager RasGas Flow Assurance Project (Offshore), Tel. +974 5556 0951 enough’ in June 1976, but the strug- graph of Pieterson’s body being Racist Internet postings have black activists, and white former gle continues.” carried away by a student in tears also underlined long-standing policemen declined to take part. 06 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Govt to resume talks with communist rebels

The long-running talks collapsed an interim ceasefire and a timeline During campaign, in 2013, but Duterte had made a cam- for talks, according to the statement. paign pledge to revive the negotiations Duterte’s negotiators also said they the president-elect aimed at bringing a swift political set- would recommend some detained com- pledged to revive tlement to a decades-old rebellion. munist rebels be allowed to participate the dialogue aimed “Formal peace talks will resume in the talks, a move the rebel side has in the third week of July 2016 in Oslo, been pushing for. at bringing a swift Norway,” the two sides said in a joint Outgoing President Benigno political settlement statement late Wednesday after a Aquino revived negotiations soon two-day meeting in the Scandina- after taking office in 2010 but shelved vian capital. them in 2013, accusing the rebels of Duterte, who assumes office on June being insincere about finding a polit- 30, has offered to declare a ceasefire ical settlement. AFP and promised to free ailing or ageing The talks collapsed after his gov- communist rebels. He has also named ernment rejected the rebels’ demand to two rebel allies to his cabinet. release scores of their jailed comrades, MANILA: Incoming Philippine Presi- At the informal meeting in Nor- whom they described as “political Supporters of the communist National Democratic Front (NDF) of the Philippines cover their faces and display dent Rodrigo Duterte will resume stalled way, whose government has acted prisoners”. placards as they call for the resumption of peace talks between the government and the Maoist-led rebels, peace talks with communist rebels as a go-between in the talks, the two The communist rebellion has killed during a protest along a main road in Metro Manila, Philippines, yesterday. next month, negotiators said, a step sides agreed to discuss amnesty for about 30,000 people since the 1960s towards ending one of Asia’s longest all political prisoners, subject to the and impoverished vast swathes of the New People’s Army (NPA), is believed to 1980s, according to the military, but The NPA collects “revolutionary insurgencies that has killed tens of approval of the Philippine legislature. country. have fewer than 4,000 gunmen today, it retains support among the deeply taxes”, mostly from businesses, in the thousands of people. They will also talk about setting up The communists’ armed wing, the down from a peak of 26,000 in the poor in rural areas. areas where it operates. China blamed for US fighter jets arrive in Philippines Asean U-turn on AFP pilots as Manila remains locked in an routine operations that enhance its ability to defend its territory. increasingly tense maritime dispute regional maritime domain aware- The Philippines hosts the tempo- with Beijing. ness and assure access to the air and rary detachment at the former US air MANILA: US fighter planes have The US Navy made a veiled refer- maritime domains in accordance with base of Clark, a two-hour drive north South China Sea arrived in the Philippines for a train- ence to so-called freedom of navigation international law,” the US Navy said, of Manila. ing mission and operations to ensure operations in which Washington sends referring to the EA-18G Growler air- The American detachment is com- access to the disputed South China Sea, a ship or plane to pass by a Chinese- borne electronic attack planes. posed of four aircraft and about 120 the US Navy said yesterday. claimed island to reject its claims of Manila has been improving its personnel, coming over a month AFP Asian nations to get them to with- The Philippines’ longtime ally sovereignty. defence ties with the United States, after annual war games with the draw their support. deployed the aircraft to train Filipino “Growler aircraft will support its former colonial ruler, to help boost Philippines. “The usual factor, pressure from MANILA: Chinese pressure was China,” said the diplomat, speaking on blamed yesterday for a stunning dip- condition of anonymity, when asked lomatic U-turn by Southeast Asian why unity crumbled. Nations that saw them retract a state- “I suspect the two countries that March of monks ment sounding alarm over Beijing’s opposed the statement were Cambo- island building in the South China Sea. dia and Laos.” The chaotic events at the end of Singapore’s Straits Times news- a meeting of foreign ministers from paper also reported yesterday that China and the 10-member Association the joint statement was “scuttled by of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) the Chinese, who lobbied its friends Strong quake on Tuesday have led to allegations of in the grouping to block” it. bullying by Beijing. “Malaysia releasing it was a man- hits Hokkaido, no The document, released by Asean ifestation of the extreme frustration member Malaysia and described as a of the original five Asean members tsunami danger joint statement from the bloc, warned plus Vietnam at the particularly crude developments in the hotly contested and arrogant behaviour of the Chi- TOKYO: An earthquake South China Sea could “undermine nese,” the Straits Times reported an of magnitude 5.3 jolted peace, security and stability”. Asean official as saying. Japan’s northernmost The statement specified “land rec- The Philippines also said yester- main island of Hokkaido lamation” as a source of tension, a clear day that there had originally been yesterday was no dan- reference to China’s massive island unanimous support within Asean ger of a tsunami and no building activities where it is trying for the strongly worded statement. immediate report of inju- to cement a claim to almost the sea. “By the time the meeting ended, ries or major damage. But just hours later, Malaysia said there was an agreement among Asean No problems were the grouping was retracting the state- foreign ministers. They agreed on reported at any of the ment for “urgent amendments”, but the text of the Asean statement and nuclear plants in the area, offered no reason. Various partic- they agreed it would be released,” although none of them ipants have since given conflicting Philippine foreign affairs spokesman are in operation. explanations over what happened. Charles Jose said. Earthquakes are com- An Asean diplomat who was Jose said the statement was then Newly ordained Buddhist monks arrive at a street parade during a ceremony of Upasampada, a mon in Japan, one of present at the meeting in the Chi- retracted after the meeting had ended Buddhist rite of higher ordination by which a novice becomes a monk, or bhikhu, at a Buddhist temple the world’s most seismi- nese city of Kunming said that China and most foreign ministers, including in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. cally active areas, which had put the screws on some Southeast the Philippines’ Jose Rene Almendras. accounts for a fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger. Japan’s strongest quake on record was one Eight pilot whales dead in mass Australia’s cowboy poll of magnitude 9 that struck the northeast coast on March 11, 2011, unleash- ing a massive tsunami and stranding on Indonesia beach campaign video blasted killing nearly 20,000 peo- ple, besides setting off the world’s worst nuclear cri- AFP AFP by a gunman who opened fire at a sis since Chernobyl. gay club in Florida. “I don’t know what’s going on in US man commits PROBOLINGGO: Eight pilot whales SYDNEY: An Australian MP yesterday the media. I don’t watch television, have died after a mass stranding on defended an election campaign video I get to bed at midnight every night. suicide in Taiwan the coast of Indonesia’s main island depicting him as a cowboy shooting I don’t see newspapers,” Katter said. of Java that sparked a major rescue two political opponents as “scream- He told Sky News that “satire has courtroom operation, an official said yesterday. ingly funny”, despite criticism in the been one of the most powerful weap- Thirty-two of the short-finned pilot wake of the Orlando club killings. ons inAustralia’s history”. Taipei: An American man whales came ashore during high tide Bob Katter, an independent MP “Australia’s got a sense of humour fatally stabbed himself early Wednesday in Probolinggo, East known for his opposition to selling off and we need to keep it while our coun- with a pair of scissors Java province. rural land to foreign interests, posted try is being sold off.” in a Taiwan courtroom “At first there were just one or two the parody of an old-style Western The video, which has had almost yesterday during his whales swimming near the shore, and on Wednesday on his social media 100,000 views, split opinion online, sentencing on drug pos- the nature of whales is that if they are accounts, ahead of national polls on and Katter’s gay half-brother Carl session charges, raising sick they will come near the shore,” July 2. was not impressed. questions over security Dedy Isfandi, the head of the local It shows two men in Labor and “It’s a total disregard for the loss of failings. maritime and fisheries office said. Liberal party t-shirts putting an “Aus- lives that we saw in Orlando recently, The man, named as “But whales have such high social tralia For Sale” sign on some outback which is still having a huge impact on 41-year-old Tyrel Mar- interaction -- when one fell ill, they land and shaking hands. my community which is the LBGTI, tin Marhanka, is thought Children stand on a dead short-finned pilot whale in Probolinggo approach the sick one to swim back The video then switches to Kat- but also the greater community,” he to have hidden the dis- to sea... when the tide fell all of them yesterday. ter changing the sign so it reads told broadcaster ABC. mantled scissors inside were trapped,” Isfandi added. Rescuers used tarps to wrap they had eaten something poisonous. “Australia NOT for sale”. He is Labour senator Penny Wong she a magazine to get past Hundreds of local fishermen and around the beached sea mammals Over the last decade or so, whale subsequently seen blowing smoke was “always uncomfortable with polit- a metal detecting door, government officials tried to take them and pull them out to sea while swim- sharks and orcas were also found from a cowboy pistol while grinning, ical ads which choose to, even in a Changhua district court back out to sea overnight, but in the mers plunged into the water to drive stranded in the area, Isfandi said. before the camera pans to the two satirical sense, make fun of violence”. said. morning eight whales had returned others out of the area. Conservation group International men lying dead. There have been growing con- The court vowed to to shore and died, Isfandi said. Vets and scientists conducted Union for Conservation of Nature said “I thought it was screamingly cerns among the public in Australia beef up its security con- About 23 others were already out autopsies on the dead whales to find there was insufficient data to classify funny. Political correctness council about valuable agricultural and min- trol by adding two X-ray at sea while one disoriented whale out why they were stranded, but fishery the risk of extinction of short-finned are out there,” Katter told ABC after eral assets passing into foreign hands, scanners when it moves was accompanied by some rescuers officials said it could be due to tur- pilot whales, which are found in warm its appropriateness was questioned but it has yet to feature prominently to a new building. to make sure it did not return to shore. bulent waters in the Indian Ocean or temperate to tropical waters. just days after 49 people were killed in the election campaign. PAKISTAN FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 07

Iftar in Kabul Woman throws US Senate nod acid on man for refusing to new Pakistan marriage defence fund AFP

The US administration is allowing MULTAN: A Pakistani woman who the CSF to expire because it was linked allegedly threw acid on her boy- Pakistan has with a specific US mission in Afghan- friend causing life-threatening received a total of istan, which has formally ended. injuries after he refused to marry While adopting the new provision, her, officials said yesterday, and was $3.1bn since 2013 the Senate Armed Services Commit- arrested in a rare case of a woman under the CSF. This tee used the CSF model to restructure attacking a man. security support for Pakistan. But Momil Mai, a married mother- fund expires in the it focuses specifically on Pakistan’s of-four, had been in a relationship current financial year own security needs instead of tying with 25-year-old Saddaqat Ali, who ending in October. it to a broader coalition. In doing so, was also married, for several years, the new provision delinks Pakistan police near Multan city in Punjab from Afghanistan, by recognising it province said. as a country with its own strategic Mai was demanding Ali make value for US interests. her his second wife, officials said. Afghans eat Iftar meal at a mosque in Kabul, yesterday. Internews In a report filed with the draft Polygamy is legal though rare for Defence Bill, the US Senate Armed men in conservative Muslim Paki- Services Committee called Pakistan stan, however a woman would have ‘a long-standing strategic partner” to divorce before being allowed to ISLAMABAD: The US Senate has and stressed the need to continue a marry again. passed its draft of the National strong relationship with the country. “On Wednesday night, Ali went Defence Authorisation Bill, includ- The committee also noted that All flood warning radars outdated to see Mai as usual and she threw ing a provision to set up a new fund since 9/11 Pakistan has been a vital acid on his body after he once to reimburse Pakistan for its efforts partner of the US in efforts to com- again refused to marry her,” Bashir in the war against terrorism. bat terrorism in South Asia. Ahmed, a local police official, said. The Senate version authorises Both houses of the Congress have Internews Pakhtunkhwa had seen repeated flash system and cell broadcast and FM Ali had time to turn, he said, $800m under a provision called passed their versions of the Defence floods since 2010, the only warning weather radio. with the acid burning his back but the ‘Pakistan Security Enhance- Bill. system set up in the province was in The minister claimed that the cost not his face. ment Authorisation’. It also fences A conference committee of both Dera Ismail Khan in 1994. of the project was quite high and could Ashiq Malik, medical superin- $300m behind a similar Haqqani houses will now be formed to develop ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s seven flood He explained that the PMD had not be funded immediately. However, tendent at the government hospital network provision that has existed a consensus draft. warning radars are now obsolete, this proposed a Rs7bn project for a mod- he added that the project should be in Multan where Ali is being treated, in the annual defenceauthorisation The consensus draft will be passed was disclosed at a meeting presided ernised early warning system for the processed for multi-year financing. said that the victim received burns acts since the fiscal year 2015. The from both houses of the Congress again over by the federal minister for plan- entire country with 21 radars but could PMD Director General Dr Ghu- to around 60 percent of his body. proposal for Pakistan was passed as before it is sent to the president for ning and development, Ahsan Iqbal, not get immediate support. lam Rasul confirmed that “our radar Doctors are fighting to save Ali’s originally initiated. signature. on flood preparedness and monsoon The official said that as a part of network is very poor” as the life of a life, he said. A criminal case was None of the over 400 amendments The procedure can be completed rains forecast by the Pakistan Mete- the project they would install radars weather system radar was 10 years registered against Mai, whose cur- considered by the Senate targeted by July, although past bills have been orological Department (PMD). in Gwadar, Zhob, D.I. Khan, D.G. Khan after which they became obsolete. rent husband is a labourer, after a this outlay for Pakistan. passed as late as November. Those present at the meeting were and Quetta along with 40 observa- He said that a new radar system complaint by Ali’s family. The proposed reimbursement Senator John McCain, who chairs also informed that the government tories in the remaining districts at a was being set up in Mardan (follow- Acid attacks, which disfigure mechanism for Pakistan replaces the Senate Armed Services Commit- was short on funds to mobilise the cost of Rs3.7bn. ing losses in Chitral last year) which and often blind their overwhelm- the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), tee, had introduced the bill late last Rs7 bn ($67.07m) Early Warning Sys- Automation of nearly 100 exist- would be operational by 2017. He added ingly female victims, have long been which was used to reimburse both month. tem (EWS) project. ing observatories would cost another that devastations of floods could not used to settle personal or family Afghanistan and Pakistan for their The committee sent it to the Senate According to an official who Rs500 million while 200 Automatic be avoided without overcoming tech- scores in Pakistan, with hundreds efforts to combat terrorism. with its approval. Another bill, passed attended the meeting, the oldest Weather Stations (AWS) would cost nological gaps. of cases reported each year. It is Pakistan has received a total of by the House of Representatives last flood warning system was installed Rs1bn, a Glacier Lake Outburst Flood According to DrRasul, the govern- rare for a woman to attack a man. $3.1bn since 2013 under the CSF. But week, linked $450m from a total of in Sialkot in 1978 while the latest (GLOF) station in Gilgit Baltistan and ment was keen on modernising the Acid is readily available in agri- this fund expires in the current finan- $900m proposed for Pakistan to take one was installed in 2004 in Man- Upper KP worth Rs450m besides wind EWS given the increasing frequency cultural southern Punjab because cial year, ending in October. action against the Haqqani network. gla. He said that even though Khyber profilers, warning communication of weather-related disasters. of its use in farming.

Sikh rituals US commander in Afghanistan submits three-month take on war

AP deployment to Afghanistan — come decided. One factor in determining at a time of Taliban resurgence, with future troop levels is the extent to the group gaining ground in the south- which Nato allies are willing to remain ern provinces of the Taliban heartland. involved in training and advising the KABUL: The new US commander in After 90 days in the country, Afghans. Afghanistan has submitted his first Nicholson has now “completed his That is likely to figure prominently three-month assessment of the sit- assessment and submitted it to his in Nicholson’s review, which is widely uation in the war-torn country and chain of command at the Penta- expected to include a recommendation what it’s going to take to defeat the gon,” said a US military official in for more US soldiers to boost training. Taliban, a US military official has told Afghanistan, speaking on condition Nicholson took over the Afghani- The Associated Press. of anonymity as he was not author- stan command in March and has since And though the content of the ized to discuss the issue. traveled across the country to meet review by US Army Gen. John W. Since all foreign combat troops Afghan soldiers on the front lines and Nicholson is secret, the US strat- pulled out of Afghanistan at the end gauge their most pressing needs. Ear- egy in Afghanistan received a major of 2014, leaving only an advisory and lier, he had already served more than incentive this month when President training contingent of international three years in the country, but not as Barack Obama decided to expand forces behind, the Afghan military top commander. America’s involvement with more has struggled in leading the fight, its His review is also expected to look airstrikes against insurgents, giving 195,000 soldiers learning as they go. at the current threat level from var- the US military wider latitude to sup- The 9,800 remaining US troops ious insurgent groups operating in port Afghan forces, both in the air and in Afghanistan are scheduled to drop Afghanistan, assess resources to deal Sikh pilgrims attend religious rituals at the Gurudwara in the cultural city of Lahore yesterday. on the ground. to 5,500 by the end of this year, but with that threat, and look at current The report — and Nicholson’s the pace of that decline has yet to be and future operational needs. Trucks line up after fighting closes Afghan-Pakistan border

Reuters “We just want this to end so we can go home but nothing like this,” said one guard at the cross- and get back to making an honest living.” Hun- ing, Shafi Ullah, referring to the weekend clashes. dreds of brightly painted trucks lined both sides “But we will build this gate at all costs. ... There of the road at the end of the Khyber Pass, unable is terrorism, there are blasts - it all comes from PAKISTAN: Hundreds of trucks lined roads to deliver their cargo. The smell of rotting fruit that side (Afghanistan).” Pakistan’s top foreign leading to the normally bustling Torkham bor- filled the air, and drivers sheltered from the sun policy official, Sartaj Aziz, told parliament on der crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan under their vehicles during the Muslim fasting Thursday that Afghan forces started the clashes. yesterday, with drivers increasingly frustrated at month of Ramadan. “There has been no aggression or provoca- an impasse between the two countries over their Thousands of vehicles normally pass through tion by Pakistan,” Aziz said. disputed frontier. the crossing every week, making it a vital trade “The past three times, Pakistani forces attacked Pakistan is going ahead with plans to build link between the countries. us and our forces were in a defensive position and a barrier at the crossing, saying that it is neces- A ceasefire agreed by Afghanistan and Pakistan defended themselves and our soil,” said Attaullah sary to keep out Islamist militants sneaking in is holding, but the weekend skirmishes reflected Khogyani, spokesman for Afghanistan’s Nan- from Afghanistan. strained relations between them in recent months. garhar province where Torkham is located. But Afghanistan rejects the Durand Line bor- Afghanistan, struggling to contain a stub- Afghanistan’s ambassador in Islamabad, der drawn up in 1893, and the row over a solid born insurgency led by Taliban militants, blames Omar Zakhilwal, on Thursday accused Paki- recognition of that boundary led to armed clashes Pakistan for harbouring fighters and allied net- stan of reneging on ceasefire terms that he said between the neighbouring countries on Sunday works on its territory. included halting construction of the gate. that killed four people. Pakistan denies it supports militants, and Zarwaid Khan, a Pakistani border guard, said “We’re just sitting here waiting for some good says it is building the gate at Torkham to stop the construction of the gate was continuing and there news,” said Musa Jan, an Afghan truck driver movement of militants coming the other way, was no fighting on Thursday, although he said the An overview of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Torkham, from the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, stuck from Afghanistan. situation was still “delicate”. “We are watching in Pakistan since Sunday night. “In the past there would be small skirmishes, and waiting,” he said. Pakistan, yesterday. 08 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Stark warning Post-Orlando call for expanded ith relative impunity and unsurpassed cruelty, watch list tests civil liberties the Islamic State continues its egregious march across the world—from United States to Iraq and France to Indonesia. The all- before the Orlando attack, assuming Abusalha, the first American sui- powerful CIA has admitted that despite By Mike Dorning & Chris there haven’t been major changes It’s already too cide bomber to die in Syria. Agents Wlosing territory in the Middle East, the marauding jihadist group Strohm in the size of the list or the propor- concluded the contact was min- hard for innocent remains dangerous in much of the world. Bloomberg tion of Americans on it. imal and the inquiry never led to CIA chief John Brennan informed the Congress yesterday The FBI’s Terrorist Screening people to get their a new investigation. Center, which maintains the watch “That’s a picture of someone about the most dangerous non-state actor on the globe. Islamic list, says it adds people based on names off watch who warrants to be left indefinitely State refuses to be cowered and seems to be growing from he Orlando massacre “reasonable suspicion” that they lists, there are calls on the list, unless there is excul- strength to strength. is fueling demands that are engaged in, preparing or aid- for the government patory information,” Collins said. Brennan’s remarks should be a final wake up call for the the government greatly ing terrorist activity, or have done “We’re just talking about reason Obamas, Putins and Bans of the world who support fighting the expand the number of so in the past. to create an to believe that he could be a dan- Tpeople it monitors as potential ter- Based on the information that ger to our country at some point.” group by bleeding its financial resources and cutting off weapons alumni list to rorists, a proposal critics worry has become public about the FBI Yet that judgment is especially supplies. veers dangerously close to the dys- investigation, Mateen wouldn’t track those whose difficult for counterterrorism agents Stating that the IS is a global challenge, Brennan said the topian science fiction of “Minority have met the standard of “reason- investigations are to make regarding lone actors who number of jihadist fighters now far Report.” able suspicion” of terrorist activity don’t conspire with terrorist groups exceeds what Al Qaeda had at its While the ACLU and the NRA or preparations at the time, said closed for lack and may not have made any prep- height. say it’s already too hard for inno- Kayyem, now a lecturer at Harvard’s of evidence. The arations, Kayyem said. CIA’s He said there were 18,000 to cent people to get their names off Kennedy School of Government Orlando shooter, “The quintessential question is: 22,000 IS fighters in Syria and Iraq — watch lists, there are calls for the and author of “Security Mom: An can any safety and security appa- assessment of government to create an alumni Unclassified Guide to Protecting Omar Mateen, was ratus predict from one, two, three down from about 33,000 last year. The the IS group list to track those whose inves- Our Homeland and Your Home.” removed from the interviews whether that person will branch in Libya, with between 5,000 tigations are closed for lack of Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, be the one who goes through the has to be seen and 8,000 fighters, is likely the most evidence. The Orlando shooter, a Republican on the Intelligence government’s list front door of a bar and kills some- as a strategic advanced and most dangerous, but IS Omar Mateen, was removed from Committee, said someone like in 2014, so no one one?” Kayyem said. “I just don’t the government’s list in 2014, so no Mateen raised enough red flags know that we have the capacity threat to is trying to gain more traction in Africa in law enforcement and to plot attacks in the region and in one in law enforcement was alerted that he should have remained on to do that.” when he purchased firearms used the list anyway. The watch list already relies world peace. Europe. was alerted when in his attack. Dianne Feinstein of Califor- on “vague and over-broad stand- International franchises of IS has “The terror watch list is an on- nia, the top-ranking Democrat on he purchased ards” in which Americans can’t helped consolidate its foothold in many off switch,” said Juliette Kayyem, a the Senate Intelligence Committee, firearms used in his confront evidence against them regions, leveraging the power of the former assistant secretary of Home- this week proposed a new version attack. kept secret in the name of pro- group to radicalise thousands and federalise its operations. In land Security. “We need to think of a bill to ban gun purchases by tecting intelligence sources and Nigeria, it is Boko Haram that has been terrorising an entire about gradations of it, especially people on the terror watch list to methods, said Hina Shamsi, direc- state machinery. The northeast of the country, including Borno, when it comes to purchasing weap- also include anyone who has been tor of the ACLU’s National Security ons and travel.” investigated in the previous five extremism across the country, the Project and author of the article is virtually under their control. The calls for broader surveil- years, even if they were cleared. majority of which are connected on Slate comparing the process to In the Sinai, the IS has become the most active and capable lance come as the challenge of Democrats staged a marathon ses- in some way to Islamic State, two Minority Report. terrorist group in all of Egypt, Brennan told the Senate identifying potential threats is sion of speeches on the Senate floor officials said. “Predictive judgments guaran- Intelligence Committee. Fighters regularly target Egyptian vastly complicated by the shift Wednesday and threatened to hold Sometimes people are investi- tee a high risk of error,” Shamsi said. military and government installations and attack foreigners from the centrally directed ter- up a spending bill to force consid- gated based on bogus information, “So if the government is going to and tourists. They also brought down a Russian passenger jet rorism of al-Qaida to the individual eration of Feinstein’s legislation. such as a tip from an estranged have a system that predicts Amer- “lone-wolf” attacks that Islamic Currently, suspected terrorists spouse or partner with a vendetta, icans might become a threat and last October. The branch in Yemen is a potent one keeping the State seeks to inspire. A task that on the watch list are allowed to buy the second official said. Creating blacklist them, that is even more impoverished nation on tenterhooks. once relied heavily on identify- guns, but the intelligence agency a new system under which agents of a reason for the fundamental The Libyan branch of IS has contributed to the chaos, turning ing connections to known terror that placed them on the list is noti- would be notified if someone who due process safeguards that we the country into a virtual failed state. Foreigners including groups and targeting weak links in fied when they make a purchase. was previously cleared of wrong- seek and the government is refus- citizens of Western nations are the most worrisome part of the a conspiracy now depends instead That’s provided the purchase is doing tries to buy a gun would be ing to provide.” IS trail. They have caused carnages in France, Belgium and the on the vagaries of determining an made through an authorized dealer burdensome and potentially a vio- The ACLU challenged the gov- United States. Brennan’s warning shouldn’t be obfuscated by individual’s evolving psyche. who performs a background check lation of rights, the official added. ernment’s No-Fly list, which bars An official with the Ameri- rather than at a gun show or through The FBI has about 13,500 agents some people on the watch list from an electorally-charged US. Obama’s decision not to send troops can Civil Liberties Union a year a deal between individuals. working worldwide whose top mis- boarding flights, in a 2010 lawsuit to Syria and the failure of the US administration to keep tabs on ago compared the opaque proc- Last year people on the watch sion is counterterrorism. But the that is still pending. Preliminary domestic sleeper cells has helped IS grow from a small group to ess of compiling the watch list to list were involved in 244 attempts number of agents working those rulings already have required a major non-state actor. It is time for world powers with US in the the “precrime” policing of “Minor- to buy guns from authorized deal- cases will ebb and flow depend- changes in the redress process. lead to launch a blitzkrieg against the IS. ity Report.” In the 1956 short story ers, of which 223 were allowed ing on priorities, and investigators About 8 percent of those on the by Philip K. Dick and a 2002 movie to proceed and 21 were denied, have other vital missions including watch list are designated for No- starring Tom Cruise, a fictional according to data from the Govern- cybersecurity cases and white-col- Fly status, according to the 2014 society drives down crime rates ment Accountability Office released lar crimes. congressional testimony. by acting on predictions of citi- by Feinstein on Wednesday. The FBI opened a preliminary Meanwhile, presumptive Repub- zens’ future conduct. Some law enforcement offi- investigation into Mateen that lasted lican nominee Donald Trump and Quote of the day The government’s watch list is cials worry that more expansive 10 months, from May 2013 to March the National Rifle Association indi- already larger than the population monitoring will place an undue 2014, after coworkers in his job as a cated on Wednesday that they may The corruption allegations of the nation’s capital. burden on an agency that already contract security guard at a court- meet to discuss barring suspected against me are dishonest Though the government doesn’t is struggling to weed out potential house raised concerns that he had terrorists from buying firearms. But release information on the current terrorists. The FBI initiates thou- terrorist leanings. Agents found no the politically powerful organization and reckless. My government size of the list, it included 800,000 sands of counterterrorism cases evidence to challenge his claim that said its long-held concerns about would not be distracted from people in September 2014, accord- every year. The agency currently he made statements about terrorist the watch list still stand. fiscal reforms. ing to congressional testimony. U.S. has 7,000 to 8,000 pending coun- connections “because he thought “The NRA believes that ter- citizens or permanent residents terterrorism cases, which includes his coworkers were discriminating rorists should not be allowed to made up 5 percent of the list at the full investigations and prelimi- against him and teasing him because purchase or possess firearms, Michel Temer time of a Congressional Research nary investigations, said one law he was Muslim,” FBI Director James period,” said Chris Cox, a lobby- Interim President of Brazil Service Report in 2013. enforcement official who insisted Comey told reporters this week. ist for the group. “At the same time, That implies the government on anonymity. Mateen’s case never Agents questioned Mateen due process protections should be assessed about 40,000 Americans moved beyond a preliminary inves- again two months later because put in place that allow law-abid- and 760,000 foreigners as present- tigation. About 1,000 of those cases they learned he had a brief asso- ing Americans who are wrongly ing a greater threat than Mateen are related to homegrown violent ciation with Moner Mohammad put on a watch list to be removed.”

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By Mohamed Elmenshawy The Washington Post

he Muslim holy month of Ram- adan falls at a fraught time for American Muslims this year. The fast started about 1 1/2 weeks ago — before a US Tcitizen born to Afghani immigrants com- mitted the worst mass shooting in US history at the Pulse gay club in Orlando, and before Donald Trump reacted to that tragedy by repeating his proposal to ban Muslim visitors to the United States and blaming Muslims for failing to stop the attack. Meanwhile, the Obama adminis- tration is preparing to welcome Muslim Americans to the White House to cele- brate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the fast, for the final time. This year’s White House Ramadan cel- ebration will mark the 20th anniversary of But it’s hard to imagine that a Presi- prohibition to all countries with a history Muslims in the United States coinciding White House. a tradition first adopted by then-first lady dent Trump would continue the tradition of perpetrating violence against the United with the 2016 campaign, as did a similar Trump, if we are to take him at his Hillary Clinton in 1996 and continued each — and for that matter, it’s hard to think of States and its allies - a categorization that study using FBI data. word, clearly believes otherwise. The year by every president since, whether any Muslims who would agree to attend it includes nearly the entire world. With- That is exactly what makes the White horror in Orlando underscores that the Republican or Democrat. The first docu- if he did. If Trump wins the election this out citing any evidence, Trump essentially House Iftar celebrations valuable. In a Islamic State seeks — and already views mented White House Iftar occurred more November, could this be the final White accused Muslim Americans of treason, statement commemorating the start of itself as engaged in — perpetual war with than 200 years ago, when President Tho- House Iftar for years to come? alleging that they routinely conspire with Ramadan 2016, President Obama made the United States and its values, as part mas Jefferson hosted the Tunisian envoy About 3.3 million Muslims are esti- extremists to harm the nation, hiding that point: “As Muslim Americans cele- of its perversions of my faith’s teachings. Sidi Slimane Mhlmyla on December 9, mated to live in the United States, would-be terrorists from the authori- brate the holy month, I am reminded that Trump, should he be elected president, has 1805, to discuss the issue of piracy in the worshipping at some 2,500 mosques ties and obstructing federal anti-terror we are one American family. I stand firmly promised to give the despicable terror- Mediterranean Sea; informed by the envoy spread across all 50 states. Around 1 mil- investigations. with Muslim American communities in ist organization exactly what they want. of his ongoing Ramadan fast, Jefferson lion Muslim-Americans are registered to Trump appeared to blame President rejection of the voices that seek to divide This Ramadan, we must all hope he never ordered food service to be rescheduled vote, exerting a strong influence in swing Obama and his “ulterior motives” for the us or limit our religious freedoms or civil has the chance. to commence exactly at sunset so as to states such as Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. massacre, and suggested anyone who rights. I stand committed to safeguarding comply with Islamic custom. None of that has stopped Trump from opposes his ban cannot be a friend to the the civil rights of all Americans no matter The White House Iftar has become the deploying rhetoric aimed at my faith that gay community. He reserved his most their religion or appearance.” country’s most important public gathering is, at best, deeply unsettling. So far, Trump vicious xenophobia for the shooter’s par- As Muslim-American and immigrant Without citing any of Muslim and non-Muslim voices, used has pledged to seriously consider shutting ents, contending that “the bottom line is myself, I found Obama’s remarks moving. evidence, Trump by three presidents to enhance inter- down mosques and putting others under the only reason the killer was in America Having attended several State Department faith unity and mutual understanding. surveillance; promised to issue Muslims in the first place is because we allowed his Iftars, I know first-hand just how valuable essentially accused In the wake of last weekend’s atroc- special ID cards; discussed creating a family to come here.” and constructive official US government Muslim Americans of ity in Orlando, the celebration is more federal database to track and monitor Unfortunately, Trump does seem to be overtures to Muslims at home and abroad important than ever to help Americans Muslims residing in the United States; and, speaking for significant numbers of Amer- are. Such measures must remain a key treason, alleging that understand the true, peaceful face of of course, ban all Muslims from entering icans. A Washington Post/ABC News poll component of US foreign policy going they routinely conspire Islam. the country. in May was almost evenly divided on his forward. As news of the Orlando attack broke, proposed Muslim ban, with 43 percent As I approach my third decade in with extremists to Trump reacted with his most dangerous of respondents for it, 50 percent against this country — and especially now, in harm the nation, hiding outburst yet, congratulating himself on and 7 percent undecided. And clearly, the aftermath of the Orlando massacre would-be terrorists Twitter for getting “Islamic terror right” Trump’s xenophobic rants have harmed — I am convinced that that there is no Three different presidents have and repeating his call to ban Muslims Muslims and their standing in America. place for false divisions between ethnic- from the authorities and celebrated Iftar, for 20 years. Could from the United States even though the For example, a recent report published by ities and faiths in my adopted country. My obstructing federal anti- killer was a native-born American citi- Georgetown University’s Center for Mus- young children are now and forever must this be the last one for a while? zen with no known connections to foreign lim-Christian Understanding has shown be considered equal in rights, dignity and terror investigations. extremists. On Monday, he expanded the a marked increase in violence against under the law, no matter who occupies the Rural jobs collapse in 2016 fuels migration

work only when the family is short from Mukhed to Mumbai Rathod’s person-days employed and those who MGNREGA works, the key reason of money. When she does work, she family, with two other couples, own worked in Mukhed taluka declined for the steep fall in jobs created and earns Rs 300 ($4.50) a day, mostly about two acres of land in their vil- steadily between 2012-13 to 2015-16; money spent on the scheme”. as a bigari or unskilled worker at lage. There is no irrigation, well or a period that - according to local pol- Kshirsagar, the bureaucrat, said construction sites. Her family’s 600- borewell, so they could plant no win- iticians — sent a flood of migrants to that those who signed up for MNREGA km migration by bus indicates the ter crop after the rains failed last year. Mumbai. also got more money working on administrative failure of a govern- They worked as farm labour No more than Rs 26 lakh was large farms and still more working ment programme meant to provide during 2015’s four monsoon months, spent as MGNREGA wages for 782 on urban construction sites. “So, they work to the poor, especially in times finding work three days every week. workers in 2015-16, compared to Rs 25 naturally avoid MGNREGA,”she said. of distress. Women earned Rs 100 a day, the men crore on 45,800 workers in 2012-13. Yet, many would stay, had MGN- Five of Rathod’s family broke Rs 200. For the four monsoon months, How corruption and administra- REGA worked as it should, as Rathod boulders and built temporary roads, the family earned Rs 20,000, not tive failures crippled MGNREGA confirmed. With the MGNREGA By Abhishek Waghmare working 30 days under the world’s enough to get by. It is in situations of Tushar Rathod, Bharatiya Janata “Amchya gavaatach kaam bhetla — about which IANS largest make-work plan, the Mahatma distress like these that the MGNREGA Party member of legislative assembly tar hikda yaaychi paali naay yenar (If Gandhi National Rural Employment was meant to offer an alternative to (MLA) representing Mukhed taluka, we get enough work and earn enough the only thing she Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in her vil- migration. said the data did not reflect reality. in our village itself, we wonÂ’t need to knew was that her lage of Nevli in Mukhed taluk in the With the MGNREGA — about “On paper, from 2009 till 2014, a come here)”, said Yashodabai. southeastern district of Nanded last which the only thing she knew was lot of works under MGNREGA were The agent who supervised MGN- work was getting armhand Yashodabai Rathod, year. that her work was getting registered undertaken in our taluka, ” he told REGA inYashodabai’s Nevli village, registered on a 38, migrated to Mumbai for None of them were paid, the on a job card — failing, her fam- IndiaSpend. “In reality, many of those did not pay her family the money job card — failing, the second time in last three fallout — as we will explain — of a ily, like many others, lost faith in were carried out using machines, and they earned, saying that he himself years, with her husband, scandal that indicates administrative the world’s largest make-work pro- employment registers were falsely had not received money from the her family, like Fthree daughters and three sons, lapses and the MGNREGA’s failure in a gramme, which the World Bank in filled with names of labourers. government. many others, lost brother-in-law and his wife, and their year of record drought, during which 2013 called a “stellar” example of Money was laundered, workers “Tyo mukadam police patlacha three children from the drought-hit it should have been working at full rural development. did not know their names were used, porga vhata. Deto Deto mhanla, an faith in the world’s southeastern Maharashtra region of tilt, guaranteeing 100 days of work In Mukhed, the MGNREGA’s fail- no one got paid, and works of inferior dilech nhait paise. Aami kaay karnar largest make-work Marathwada. to every household every year, as ure was a key reason for migration. quality were completed.” tyala? (The works supervisor was the Sporting a gold nose-ring and required by law. “MGNREGA works were in full After news of the scandal broke, son of the police patil (village police programme, which mangalsutra (a gold chain Hindu Instead, nearly four times as many swing in the entire district till 2011- the district magistrate initiated crim- officer). He repeatedly said he’d pay the World Bank women wear as a sign of allegiance families (350 instead of 80-100) left 12,” Kalpana Kshirsagar, deputy inal action in about 23 villages and us our due, but never did he. His fam- to husbands), Rathod shared her story Mukhed and flocked to a temporary chief executive officer of Nanded about 200 accused named in the ily controls a powerful administrative in 2013 called a reluctantly but with candour, play- migrant site of tarpaulin-and-bamboo District Council, told IndiaSpend. order, including the sarpanch (elected post in the village, there was nothing “stellar” example of ing with her 10-year-old son, as she homes in the central Mumbai suburb She acknowledged that “activ- village head) and gram sevak (vil- we could do),” she said. rural development. discussed the chores for the day with of Ghatkopar. ity has subsided in the last three lage administrative officer), fled their So, their migrations continue. sister-in-law Nageshree Vishnukant We examined some of these lives years, especially in Mukhed taluk villages. “Come this Monday and you won’t Rathod, who was babysitting her two- in the first part of this series as part of of Nanded district”, where Rathod’s MLA Rathod spoke of “a panic find us here,” said Yashodabai. “We year-old daughter. an IndiaSpend survey. Rural jobs pro- village is located. situation” in the taluka, with no vil- are leaving the day after to work as Yashodabhai sets off to find gramme fails, sends flood of migrants Expenditure on wages, number of lage panchayat “daring to initiate farmhands in our village.”

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 INDIA

It’s yoga time Supreme Court Jisha murder: okays ‘Udta Police pin down Punjab’ release IANS

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Assamese youth yesterday refused to interfere with a Bombay High Court order allowing the release of Bollywood film “Udta by police two days back and Sand- Punjab”, set to hit the screens today. hya led his questioning at Thrissur. The apex court’s vacation bench The prime accused in Yesterday evening he was brought to of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and the crime, according Aluva where all the top police offic- Justice L. Nageswara Rao said: ers, including Sandhya, were present. “If there is no prima facie case, to police, is 23-year- According to police, two vital how can we interfere? We are not old Amiyur ul Islam, clues turned out to be the clinching going into the merits of the mat- evidence for nailing the perpetra- ter in the absence of the high court who was picked from tor -- the footwear which was left judgement.” Tamil Nadu near the near Jisha’s home and a photo of Islam But the court permitted the and Jisha taken at a local studio near Punjab-based NGO Human Rights Palakkad border two her house. Awareness Association (HRAA), days ago. The footwear shop owner and Students practise yoga during a training session ahead of World Yoga Day in Ahmedabad, yesterday. which wanted to block the mov- the studio owner identified the youth ie’s release, to approach the apex even as police concluded, from the court at a later stage. evidence, that the crime was com- The high court on June 13 IANS mitted by someone who knew Jisha. allowed the release of “Udta Pun- Islam had taken part in the construc- jab”, which had problems with the tion of Jisha’s home and they were in Modi calls for 100 million people censors, with one cut and three touch and had some verbal duel over disclaimers. The Central Board of KOCHI: Signalling a breakthrough in the construction. Film Certification (CBFC) had ear- the Jisha murder case, Kerala Chief According to the information, lier ordered 89 cuts. This number Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced the Assamese youth had come to to be brought into tax net was scaled down later. yesterday that “the suspect” -- an her home in the morning of April 28 On Thursday, the bench asked Assamese youth -- in the murder of and they had a fight. He came again the petitioner how it was affected the woman law student is in police in the afternoon when he was drunk IANS asked the taxmen to remove the fear and Customs (CBEC). The conference by the Bombay High Court order custody while police said some foren- and committed the crime. of harassment from the minds of peo- will prepare a roadmap for tax offi- telling the censors to give ‘A’ cer- sic and other evidence have shown Police zeroed in on Islam after ple and advocated what he termed cials for the current fiscal. tificate to the film when the CBFC his involvement. The prime accused his DNA samples, checked against as RAPID -- revenue, accountability, The revenue secretary said that and the Punjab government had in the crime, according to police, is saliva and blood samples found on NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra probity, information and digitisation. Modi heard various suggestions from not challenged it. 23-year-old Amiyur ul Islam, who Jisha’s body, matched when the results Modi yesterday called for 100 million “The Prime Minister gave the officials of CBDT and CBEC. The offi- Justice Goel referred to the was picked from Tamil Nadu near came in Thursday. Director General people to be brought into the tax net, RAPID formula, which he said are cials suggested formulation of a tax expletives used in the film, telling the Palakkad border two days back. of Police Loknath Behra, who is in up from the current 53m, in a bid to the five pillars of tax administra- facilitation act and also conveyed their senior counsel Meenakshi Arora: “This is certainly going to be a Mumbai, told reporters there that expand the revenue base. tion,” Minister of State Jayant Sinha dilemma between tax enforcement “The language used is very. very feather in the cap of the police probe things are all going well in the case “There are a total of 250m house- told reporters. The Prime Minister also and tax friendly measures, he said. obscene. Is it necessary to use team,” Vijayan told reporters in Kochi and expressed happiness in the chief holds in the country, out of which 10 called for bridging the trust deficit Sinha however clarified that the tax this language? Can you review it about the investigation into the late minister’s praise of the police force. crore have non-agricultural income. between the taxpayer and tax depart- officials should not see any trade-off on your own? At time the usage April brutal murder of the 27-year-old Jisha was found dead on April 28 at The Prime Minister, in his address, ment, he said. Sinha and Adhia were between the two. The Prime Minister (of expletives) in certain situa- Dalit woman in Ernakulam district. her home in Perumbavoor in Ernaku- called for the expansion of the tax net briefing the media after an address also emphasised on the CBDT and CBEC tions becomes necessary, it is not Additional Director General of lam by her mother Rajeshwari, who to 100 million people,” said Revenue by Modi at the two-day Rajasva Gyan moving towards digitisation. “Out of the it is always irrelevant.” Police B. Sandhya, who is heading works as a casual labourer. Her body Secretary Hasmukh Adhia. Sangam - Annual Conference of Tax total returns, 90 per cent returns are Asked Justice Nageswara Rao: the new probe team, told reporters bore injuries in a way that gave rise Adhia, however, did not give any Administrators 2016 of top officials filed through e-filing. And out of that “These expletives might be rele- in Aluva that things are very positive to suspicions that she was abused timeline to reach the 100 million tax with the Central Board of Direct Taxes 67 per cent income tax returns hap- vant. We do not know. We have not in the probe. Islam was picked up before being killed. payers base. The Prime Minister also (CBDT) and the Central Board of Excise pen via the online route,” Sinha said. seen the film.”

No role in 1984 In wheelchair 23 AAP legislators anti-Sikh riots: Kamal Nath never went to college

IANS IANS Sharad Kumar from Narela, Manoj Kumar from Kondli, Girish Soni from Madipur, Sahi Ram from Tughlakabad, NEW DELHI: Senior Congress Mohinder Goyal from Rithala and leader Kamal Nath, who quit as NEW DELHI: Though Delhi Chief Mahinder Yadav from Vikas Puri are in-charge of party affairs in Pun- Minister Arvind Kejriwal has claimed matriculates (Class 10). jab over his alleged role in the 1984 his party MLAs are “educated and Twelve party MLAs, including anti-Sikh violence, has vehemently very well qualified”, the affidavits Shiv Charan Goel from Moti Nagar, proclaimed his innocence and said filed with the Election Commission Narayan Dutt Sharma from Badar- he is ready for any probe, includ- show that 23 AAP MLAs, of the total pur, Jarnail Singh from Tilak Nagar, ing by the CBI. 67 MLAs, have only cleared the school Pawan Kumar Sharma from Adarsh “There has been SIT (Special exam at different levels while another Nagar, Vishesh Ravi from Karol Bagh, Investigation Team) probe, the three, including Deputy Chief Min- Amanatullah Khan from Okhla, Shri (Ranganath) Misra Commission ister Manish Sisodiya, are Diploma Dutt Sharma from Ghonda, Gulab inquiry, (G.T.) Nanavati Commis- holders and never attended a degree singh from Matiala, Rajesh Gupta sion inquiry. I am ready to face any college. from Wazirpur, Jagdeep Singh from other probe, including that of the An Indian star tortoise uses a prosthetic wheel fitted after an injury to move around an enclosure at While defending the appointment Hari Nagar, Parmila Tokas from R.K. CBI (Central Bureau of Investiga- the Araingar Anna Zoological park in Chennai, yesterday. of 21 MLAs as Chief Parliamentary Sec- Puram and Dinesh Mohaniya from tion),” Nath said in an interview to retary, Kejriwal had said, “Our MLAs Sangam Vihar have cleared Class 12. ‘India Today’ news channel. are educated and very well qualified”. While 16 of the AAP MLAs are “There was no mention of my “They are highly qualified people in graduates, seven are graduate profes- name (in the anti-Sikh riots) for different fields, starting from MBA to sionals, including Kejriwal, and 20 are many years... no statement from engineering and not illiterates like in post graduates. Three AAP MLAs are any quarter or any individual Cabinet reshuffle likely after June 21 other parties,” the Aam Aadmi Party diploma holders and have not men- accusing me of involvement... then leader had said on Sunday. tioned themselves as graduates. someone approached the Nanavati Four of the 26 AAP MLAs -- Naresh Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Commission to probe my role. The Balyan from Uttam Nagar, Hazari Lal MLA from Patparganj, Manish Sisodiya commission exonerated me of all IANS after the International Yoga Day on rounds. There is no representation from Chauhan from Patel Nagar, Raju Dhin- has mentioned Diploma in Journal- charges,” Nath added. June 21, they said. Uttarkhand in the Cabinet at present. gan from Trilokpuri and Avtar Singh ism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan The G.T. Nanavati Commission Among the probable names doing Party sources said more rep- from Kalkaji -- have passed middle as his highest qualification. was set up by the National Demo- the rounds from politically significant resentation may also be given to school (Class 8) as per the affidavits Rituraj Govind, MLA from Kirari, cratic Alliance (NDA) government NEW DELHI: A reshuffle of the Union Uttar Pradesh are party MPs Yogi Adi- Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. they submitted to the Election Com- has mentioned Advance Diploma in in 2000 to inquire into the 1984 Cabinet may take place this month tyanath, Satyapal Singh and Sadhvi Recently, Union Minister of State for mission before contesting the Delhi Hotel Management from Monarch anti-Sikh violence that broke out with more representation likely to be Savitri Bai Phoole. Sports Sarbananda Sonowal took over assembly poll in 2015. Party MLA International College of Hotel Man- in Delhi after the then Prime Min- given to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, The names of Navjot Singh Sidhu, as the Assam Chief Minister. Minister Mohammad Ishraque from Seela- agement, Adelaide in Australia, as ister Indira Gandhi’s assassination Uttarakhand and Punjab, informed Rameshwar Teli from Assam and of State for Social Justice and Empow- mpur is the least educated in the lot her top most qualification. Kartar by her Sikh bodyguards on Octo- sources said, yesterday. Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Ajay Tamta erment Vijay Sampla has been made -- he has just cleared the primary Singh Tanwar from Chhatarpur has ber 31, 1984. The reshuffle could take place from Uttarakhand are also doing the BJP Punjab unit president. school level. got a Diploma in Civil Engineering. On the charges levelled against him by senior lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party leader H.S. Phoolka, Kamal Nath said: “Where was Phoolka all these years? Why did he not file an FIR or a case against Maritime terror major threat but coasts secure: Rajnath me? Why is he making the alle- gations now, despite the Nanavati Commission exonerating me of all IANS receivers. Consequent upon the imple- were taken to beef up coastal security, security, including coastal and offshore, seriously consider suggestions received charges?” mentation of these important initiatives, including security audit of all major the Indian Coast Guard is responsible from the coastal states and UTs. The Congress leader elected to our coasts are far more secure now,” and minor ports, to identify the vul- for coastal security in territorial waters, He said an in-principle approval the Lok Sabha from Chhindwara Rajnath Singh said while chairing the nerable points. including areas patrolled by coastal had been accorded to set up a National in Madhya Pradesh said it was his MUMBAI: Union Home Minister second coastal security review meet- Besides a chain of static sensors police comprising state marine police. Marine Police Training Institute in own decision to quit as in-charge Rajnath Singh yesterday said that ing here. He said the vulnerability of and AIS along the coast and radars Addressing the meet, Maharash- Gujarat and State Marine Police Train- of the party affairs in Punjab and while maritime terror posed a major India’s coasts was exposed in 1993 when operated by the Indian Coast Guard at tra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ing Centres in police training academies nobody asked him to. threat to India, the country’s coastline explosives were smuggled from Raigad 45 locations, another 38 more radars suggested the formation of a new ‘Cen- in all states and UTs. “It was my own decision to is now more secure due to a slew of and later in 2008 when Pakistani ter- are planned to be installed to ensure tral Marine Police Force’ to protect For e-surveillance, the Mahar- quit in the party’s interest. I did not initiatives taken by the government. rorists sneaked into Mumbai to carry a gapless surveillance of the entire sea, coast, ports and vital institutions ashtra Chief Minister suggested that want this inconsequential issue to “We are securing the Indian coast- out their deadly attacks. 7,516-km coastline, he said. and a high-tech e-surveillance of all while the Centre could bear the cap- overshadow more important and line by creating a chain of radars and However, he assured, after the 26/11 The minister said while the Indian landing points and non-major ports. ital expenditure, the states could foot relevant issues in Punjab today.” automatic identification system (AIS) Mumbai terror strikes, many initiatives Navy is overall entrusted with maritime Singh said the Centre would the operational expenses. EUROPE / UK FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 11 Brexit campaigns suspended after MP shot dead Russia unveils for the day,” the official Britain Stronger In Europe campaign wrote on Twit- ‘biggest’ nuclear Prime Minister David ter. “Our thoughts are with Jo Cox and Cameron cancelled her family.” Those advocating leaving icebreaker the EU also put their effort on hold, the a trip to the British BBC reported. Moscow: Russia yester- territory of Gibraltar, Prime Minister David Cameron day floated out a new saying “it’s right that cancelled a trip to the British terri- nuclear-powered ice- tory of Gibraltar, saying on Twitter breaker, said to be the all campaigning has that “it’s right that all campaigning world’s biggest and most been stopped after has been stopped after the terrible powerful, to be used for attack on Jo Cox.” hauling liquefied nat- the terrible attack on The Guardian reported an eyewit- ural gas from its Arctic Jo Cox.” ness saying Cox’s attacker had shouted terminal. “Britain First.” That’s the name of a Arktika, ordered by group which campaigns against immi- Russia’s Rosatom state gration and Britain’s membership of nuclear agency, was built Bloomberg the European Union. at the Baltic Shipyard in A video on the group’s website Saint Petersburg, and will showed activists learning combat be ready to use by the techniques at a “training camp” in end of next year. LONDON: Both sides suspended cam- the Snowdonia mountains of North “There are no ice- paigning on whether Britain should Wales. In a statement on the site, the breakers like it in the leave the European Union after a law- group said it “obviously is NOT involved world,” said Rosatom A forensic officer takes part in a a search of a house suspected of being connected to the murder of Labour maker was attacked in her district. and would never encourage behav- chief Sergei Kiriyenko at Jo Cox, a member of the opposi- iour of this sort.” MP Jo Cox in Birstall, yesterday. the ceremony. tion Labour Party, was hospitalised The attack came as those push- in a critical condition, with the Press ing to leave the European Union held a steady lead for anti-EU campaign- John Curtice, professor of politics at in Helsinki quitting the EU would Association reporting she had been a steady lead in opinion polls. A survey ers, was conducted from June 11 to June Strathclyde University in Glasgow, told be “a huge mistake” and he had an Bulgaria not to shot twice yesterday in West York- by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard 14. Another poll for IG Group by Sur- the BBC. “We no longer have a favour- “obligation to be frank and fair with shire, northern England. Local police newspaper released yesterday showed vation showed 45 percent for leaving ite in this referendum. There has to our argumentation.” join Nato Black said they had arrested a 52-year-old 53 percent support for leaving with 47 and 42 percent for staying, with 13 per- be a serious possibility that we will European Commission Presi- man in the area. It was unclear if the percent for “Remain,” excluding those cent undecided. vote ‘Leave.”’ dent Jean-Claude Juncker, speaking Sea fleet incident was related to the June 23 who said they didn’t yet know. “Until this morning I would have EU leaders reiterated their desire to reporters on the sidelines of a con- referendum. The telephone poll of 1,257 adults, said to you that on the balance of prob- for Britain to remain a member ference in St Petersburg, had a simple SOFIA: Bulgaria’s prime “We are suspending all campaigning the latest in a string of surveys showing abilities, ‘Remain’ were the favourites,” nation. President Donald Tusk said message to voters: “Don’t do it,” he said. minister said yesterday he would not join a pro- posed Nato fleet meant to counter Russian forces in the Black Sea as he did Juncker warns not want a war there, a Croatia’s govt falls as PM loses trust vote day after Moscow warned Russia on against any build-up. Boiko Borisov said sanctions ahead AFP If a new government is not formed quit as the coalition descended into chaos. Croatia over its national oil group INA, he did not want to see within 30 days, parliament will be dis- Oreskovic also rejected a call by where it is a major shareholder. frigates sailing past the solved and president will call snap polls. HDZ for his own resignation, and the Oreskovic accused HDZ of top- tourist resorts, at a joint of Putin meet Oreskovic, a former pharmaceutical party filed the no confidence motion pling him because he wanted to resolve press conference with ZAGREB: Croatia’s government fell executive with no party affiliation, shortly after, accusing the premier of the dispute and protect the national President Rosen Plevne- yesterday after Prime Minister Tihomir came to power pledging to undertake trying to boost his own political power, interest. liev who described AFP Oreskovic lost a confidence vote in badly-needed economic reforms. instead of dealing with economy. The conservative government, Bulgaria as a peaceful parliament, in a serious blow to the “Unfortunately, instead of dis- But, Oreskovic rejected the accu- which took over after a four-year rule country. country’s nationalist rulers after only cussing reforms ... we discuss this sations, saying the motion was tabled by the Social Democrats, has come in SAINT PETERSBURG: EU Com- five months in power. no-confidence motion,” Oreskovic, as a result of “interests of individu- for strong criticism from local activists mission head Jean-Claude Juncker The vote will delay planned reforms 50, told the deputies ahead of the vote als”—meaning Karamarko. over a growing climate of intolerance. French head warned Russia yesterday that the in the European Union’s newest mem- yesterday. “I tried to prevent that. That’s my Critics say the authorities have 28-nation bloc will only lift its sanc- ber, whose economy— which only last The political crisis, deepened by only guilt,” he told lawmakers. turned a blind eye and even contrib- of EU foreign tions if the Kremlin fully implements year emerged from a six-year reces- constant squabbling between the main Considered a key figure in govern- uted to concerns over a far-right surge, a Ukraine peace deal. sion—remains one of EU’s weakest. HDZ party and its junior partner, Most, ment, Karamarko stepped down on including nostalgia for a pro-Nazi past, service quits “The next step is clear, full Cobbled together after indecisive escalated last month with a conflict Wednesday saying the government’s which has seen increased pressure implementation of the agree- November polls, the fragile coalition has of interest affair involving Tomislav “disfunction is unsustainable”. on ethnic minorities and the media. BRUSSELS: The head of ment—no more, no less,” Juncker been beset by internal disputes, amid Karamarko, powerful HDZ head and His resignation came just hours The HDZ, whose popularity rat- the European Union’s told Russia’s main economic forum concerns over Croatia’s shift to the right. deputy premier. after a national ethnics watchdog ruled ings have been hit by the oil affair, has foreign service, French in Saint Petersburg ahead of a meet- Speaker Zeljko Reiner said of those Most demanded his resignation, he had a conflict of interest due to a expressed confidence it would be able diplomat Alain Le Roy, ing with President Vladimir Putin. present 125 deputies in 151-member par- while prime minister called for both business deal between his wife and a to form a new parliamentary major- has resigned after dif- “This is the only way to begin liament backed the no confidence motion Karamarko and Most leader Bozo lobbyist for Hungary’s oil group MOL. ity, although analysts estimate this ferences with EU foreign our conversation and the only way while 15 were against and two abstained. Petrov—another deputy premier—to MOL is currently in arbitration with could be difficult. policy chief Federica to lift the economic sanctions that Mogherini, EU diplomats have been imposed.” said. The Juncker-Putin meeting— Le Roy’s departure their first in Russia since the EU “for personal reasons” slapped sanctions on Moscow over Hundreds in silent march Artistes at the Vatican just 16 months after he Ukraine in 2014—had sparked took the job of secretary- Kremlin hopes it might signal the general of the European start of a return to business as usual External Action Service with the bloc. for slain French couple was disclosed in a brief Putin is hosting Juncker as well statement announcing as Italian Prime Minister Matteo the appointment of his Renzi at the three-day conference AFP “I don’t feel a form of fear, rather successor. in Russia’s second city just weeks disappointment,” said Alain, the head Mogherini named before the expiry of EU sanctions of a Parisian police unit who has told Helga Schmid, 55, a Ger- that have helped plunge Russia’s his officers to “be careful—we have man diplomat who has economy into recession. MANTES-LA-JOLIE: Some 2,500 to change our behaviour.” been political director Putin will also sit down with UN people marched in silence yester- In Monday’s assault, 25-year-old of the EEAS in charge of chief Ban Ki-moon alongside the day in honour of a policeman and his Larossi Abballa, who had served time issues such as the Iran world body’s envoy on Syria Staffan partner who were knifed to death by for links to jihadist networks, killed nuclear negotiations de Mistura, as he seeks to recast an extremist pledging allegiance to 42-year-old police commander Jean- for the last six years, to Moscow as a more stable partner the Islamic State (IS) group. Baptiste Salvaing outside his home succeed Le Roy from Sep- for the West and bolster his coun- Many in the crowd of police, gen- in Magnanville. tember 1. try’s flagging economy. darmes, firefighters and locals wept He then entered the house, tak- The EU has tied the lifting of as they walked from the police station ing Salvaing’s 36-year-old partner the punishing sanctions that have where the couple worked in Paris sub- Jessica Schneider and the couple’s Ukraine wants battered Russia’s financial sector to urb of Mantes-la-Jolie to their home in three-year-old son hostage, before the implementation of a deal bro- Magnanville where they were killed slitting her throat. Russian beats kered by the leaders of France and on Monday. Abballa was later killed in a police Germany in Minsk in February 2015 The attack came in midst of the raid on the house. Just before the raid, off its airwaves to end the pro-Russian uprising in Euro football championship—already Abballa streamed a live video on Face- east Ukraine. dogged by terror fears—and is the first book of himself inside the house with Kiev: Ukraine’s parliament But the accord has stalled as the since Islamic State gunmen and suicide the toddler, urging “other surprises” yesterday ordered radio violence—that Kiev and the West bombers struck Paris in November, and pledging to “turn the Euro into Artistes perform during a Jubilee audience for the circus performers stations to start playing says is masterminded by Moscow— killing 130. a graveyard”. and street artists in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, yesterday. over a third of their tracks rumbles on. in the local language in And despite some signs of cracks the latest rap of its cul- in the EU over extending the sanc- tural war with Russia. tions, Juncker insisted the bloc was Kiev has already “united”. banned dozens of Russian Diplomatic sources in Brussels performers who backed French union to stage more street marches the Kremlin’s 2014 annex- said that EU members could agree to renew the economic sanctions ation of Crimea and against Russia for six months as pro-Moscow separatists early as next week as they look to Reuters by President Francois Hollande to ban Valls to pin blame for violence on the police, smashing shopfronts and fighting a war in the east clear the schedule ahead of a sum- further marches. As he spoke, a court CGT risked exacerbating tensions. daubing buildings with anti-capi- from entering the country. mit at the end of the month set to official said around 40 people arrested The union says the labour law talist slogans. The new legislation be dominated by the fallout from in Tuesday’s clashes were sent to face a change will undermine labour pro- The trouble caused largely by gangs will require radio stations Britain’s EU referendum. PARIS: The head of a French union judge in Paris, risking immediate sen- tection while the government says it of youths sparked outrage when they to broadcast at least 35 Despite the frosty relations blamed for months of violence-marred tences of months in prison for public will help develop grassroots union rep- smashed windows of the capital’s percent of their songs in with Moscow, however, Juncker demonstrations said yesterday it would order offences. resentation by devolving negotiation Necker children’s hospital. Ukrainian by 2019. insisted he had come to Russia to stage more street marches against “It’s as if the CGT is to blame for of pay and conditions to the workplace The CGT head rejected govern- It also mandates that try to improve relations. labour law reform next week, and everything going on in this country,” from sector-level. ment accusations that his union was at least of 60 percent of “If our relationship today is accused the government of trying to said Martinez, whose union plans more After months of at times confron- turning a blind eye to troublemak- all radio talk shows be troubled and marked by mistrust, discredit legitimate protest. protests on June 23 and June 28. tational protests, violence escalated ers in its ranks, but he was put on the aired in Ukraine’s national it is not broken beyond repair. We The riposte from CGT union leader “The government must stop throw- dramatically at a Paris city centre rally defensive by Paris police reports that language within three need to mend it, and I believe we Philippe Martinez followed running ing oil on the fire,” he said, adding that when hundreds of mostly masked riot- up to 200 CGT members took part in years. can,” he said. battles in the streets of Paris and threats attempts by Prime Minister Manuel ers engaged in running battles with altercations. 12 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 AMERICAS Obama meets massacre survivors Canada promotes

tarmac upon his arrival. Florida Senator first combat Marco Rubio, also a Republican, trav- woman to general US President meets elled with Obama from Washington, families of 49 victims along with Corrine Brown, a Demo- crat who represents parts of the city. Ottawa: A Canadian Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bill woman who fought insur- Nelson joined Obama on the tarmac. gents in Afghanistan Agencies “The president believes that there’s became the country’s first no more tangible way to show support female combat officer to than by travelling to the city where rise to the rank of general this horrific incident occurred,” White yesterday. ORLANDO, FLORIDA: President House spokesman Eric Schultz told Colonel Jennie Carig- Barack Obama arrived in Orlando reporters. nan, 47, was promoted yesterday to meet survivors of the mas- Gunman Omar Mateen, 29, a US to brigadier-general (one sacre at a club and relatives of the 49 citizen born in New York to Afghan star) and put in charge of people killed, as the attack prompted immigrants, pledged allegiance dur- the Canadian army, the the US Senate to move toward voting ing his rampage to Islamic State and military announced. on gun control measures. other Islamist militant groups. Other female gener- Obama’s solemn visit was meant to Islamic State claimed responsi- als have previously risen express solidarity with a grief-stricken bility for the attack but US officials from non-combatant community and to show some meas- have said they do not believe Mateen disciplines such as intel- ure of unity from a political world that was assisted from abroad. CIA Director ligence, medicine and US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Senator Marco Rubio as Vice President Joe Biden (left) walks has largely used the tragedy to renew John Brennan told a Senate Intelligence development aid. its fights over guns and terrorism. Committee hearing yesterday that the towards the vehicle after they arrived at the Orlando International Airport, yesterday. Training as a combat Arriving with a bipartisan group agency had “not been able to uncover engineer—a role in which of lawmakers, Obama drove imme- any direct link” between Mateen and the US Senate Committee on Home- checks and prevent people on US ter- Democrats - have also failed to pass. soldiers clear bombs and diately to Amway Centre, a stadium foreign militants. land Security. rorism watch lists from buying guns. Presumptive Republican presiden- erect and destroy bat- just two miles from the scene of the Twenty-three of the wounded In denouncing the attack as both No formal deal between the par- tial nominee Donald Trump also joined tlefield structures—she massacre, to meet privately with fam- remained hospitalised, six of whom an act of terrorism and a hate crime, ties for votes was announced, and it the gun debate, announcing he would rose quickly through the ilies of the 49 victims, with survivors are in critical condition. Obama has reiterated his frustration was unclear when and how the Senate meet with National Rifle Association to ranks, shattering precon- and with local law enforcement offi- During his attack, Mateen also over easy availability of guns in Amer- would proceed with the votes. talk about barring people who are on ceptions about women cials who responded to the shooting. posted messages on Facebook. ica and failure of Congress to pass any Republicans, who currently hold terrorism watch lists from buying guns. warriors. White House press secretary Josh One message, apparently referring gun control measures in more than a 54-person majority in the 100-seat House of Representatives Speaker Earnest said Obama would deal with to air strikes by the United States and two decades. The massacre put pres- Senate, have blocked a number of Dem- Paul Ryan, a Republican, expressed the ambiguity in the Florida shooting allies on Islamic State, said: “You kill sure on Congress to act. ocratic-backed gun control measures caution. “As we look at how to proceed, Chile indicts by focusing on the victims. innocent women and children by doing After marathon speeches by Dem- over the years, saying they infringe we also want to make sure that we are Florida Governor Rick Scott, a us air strikes ... now taste the Islamic ocrats, a Democratic senator said on Americans’ constitutional right to not infringing on people’s legitimate Pinochet agents Republican frequently at odds with State vengeance,” according to a let- Republicans had agreed to hold votes bear arms. Some Republican gun con- constitutional rights. That’s impor- Obama, greeted the president on the ter to Facebook from the chairman of on measures to expand background trol measures—deemed insufficient by tant,” Ryan told reporters yesterday. in murder case

Santiago: A Chilean court indicted three former agents of late dicta- Probe of resort after child tor Augusto Pinochet’s Brazil’s Temer denies regime for the 1976 mur- der of US citizen Ronni Moffitt in Washington. death not criminal: Sheriff links to corruption Moffitt was killed in the brazen assassination of Chile’s exiled ex-foreign Reuters Department spokeswoman Rose Silva, underwater, and he was presumed to Reuters minister Orlando Letelier, adding, “It’s not criminal in nature at have been drowned by the alligator. considered the first foreign this time.” Disney said that Chief Executive terrorist attack on US soil. A Disney spokeswoman has said Bob Iger spoke to the family on phone Retired Chilean army ORLANDO, FLORIDA: The probe the company would review the posted and expressed his sympathies. BRASILIA: Brazil’s interim President officers Pedro Espinoza into the death of a two-year-old boy signs that ban swimming in Seven Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Michel Temer (pictured) dismissed Bravo and Armando Fern- likely drowned by an alligator at Walt Seas Lagoon but do not specifically Wahler said yesterday that resort graft allegations against him as dis- andez Larios and US Disney World Resort in Orlando, Flor- warn about alligators. beaches that were closed after the honest and reckless, pledging in a national Michael Townley ida, is not criminal in nature, the local The boy was grabbed by the rep- attack would be off-limits to guests national address yesterday that his are charged with plant- sheriff’s office said yesterday. tile while his family, on vacation from until further notice. government would not be distracted ing the bomb that killed Police divers recovered the body Elkhorn, Nebraska, relaxed on the The alligator was believed to be from fiscal reforms aimed at reviv- Letelier and Moffitt, his of Lane Graves from the man-made shore nearby, sheriffs officials have between four and seven feet long. ing the economy. assistant. Espinoza is lake where he had been snatched by said. His parents, Matt and Melissa Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser- Temer said it was “irresponsible, already serving a seven- the alligator as he played at the water’s Graves, tried to save the child but were vation Commission officials caught and ridiculous, mendacious and criminal” year sentence for the edge the night before. unable to free him from the alliga- killed five alligators from the lake in to suggest, as former Petrobras execu- assassination. The investigation is continu- tor’s grip. an effort to find the one that snatched tive Sergio Machado did in plea bargain ing, said Orange County Sheriff’s The boy’s body was found intact the child. They have not yet found it. testimony, that he had sought cam- the bribery allegations across their paign funds for his party from a graft front pages, pushing the government’s US hands over scheme at the state-run oil company. proposed 20-year constitutional cap The testimony, made public by the on public spending far below the fold. veteran drug LatAm powers Supreme Court, was the first direct Machado’s plea deal included ‘Lone hacker’ admits cyber link between Temer and the sweep- allegations that Temer had sought capo to Mexico ing corruption probe that has thrown campaign funds for his party’s 2012 to meet Brazil’s politics into chaos and deep- Sao Paulo mayoral candidate from Mexico City: US authori- attack on Democrats ened its worst recession in decades. the graft scheme at Petrobras, the big- ties turned over veteran Venezuela crisis “We will not tolerate affirma- gest ever uncovered in Brazil. drug lord Hector “El tions of that nature,” Temer said in The accusations provide more Guero” Palma Salazar to Reuters communications and stole research a hastily scheduled public address. fodder for suspended President Dilma Mexico after nine years mediators: OAS on presumptive Republican presiden- “A foolish suggestion like that can Rousseff and her allies, who accuse in US prison and he was tial nominee Donald Trump. confound the government’s work. Temer and his party of mounting the promptly detained on A Russian government spokesman But I want to affirm that nothing will impeachment process against her in murder charges. AFP WASHINGTON: A “lone hacker” responded by saying that Moscow hinder our desire, mission and aim order to distract from their own roles US immigration has taken responsibility for a cyber had not been involved. of doing what the president must in the corruption scandal. authorities delivered attack on the US Democratic National Aan individual using the moniker do right now.” As many as a dozen of the 55 sen- Palma, , to Mexican offi- SANTO DOMINGO: Venezuela has Committee, which the DNC and a Guccifer 2.0 took responsibility for The highly charged plea bargain ators who voted last month to put cials at a border crossing asked its regional neighbours to cyber-security firm have blamed the attack in a post on the blogging implicating Temer and two dozen Rousseff on trial are now undecided, linking the Texas city meet next week with international on the Russian government. site WordPress.com, saying the DNC other elected officials, many of according to surveys by Brazilian of Brownsville and the mediators trying to help settle the The DNC and cyber firm Crowd- was “hacked by a lone hacker.” them senior members of his rul- media. If just a couple of them change Mexican city of Matam- country’s economic and political Strike disclosed the attack on Tuesday, The DNC did not respond to a request ing coalition, stole the thunder from sides, the Temer camp would fall short oros, five days after his crisis, officials said. saying that hackers working for for comment on claim. CrowdStrike said a landmark fiscal reform revealed of the 54 votes—equivalent to two- release from a prison in The Organisation of American Russia broke into the DNC’s com- it stands by findings that the Russian the same day. thirds of the 81-seat Senate - needed California. States (OAS) scheduled a session puter network, spied on internal government was behind the attacks. Yesterday’s newspapers splashed to convict Rousseff. of its permanent council for June 21 in Washington to meet with the Court grants mediators at Venezuela’s request, according to an Oas document. injunction against The council will talk with three Hillary considering Warren for running mate: WSJ ex-leaders seeking to mediate abortion clinic between Venezuela’s President Nico- las Maduro and opponents seeking Reuters in the District of Columbia. LOUISVILLE, Kentucky: to remove him from office. Although Clinton and Sanders met A Kentucky appeals The three mediators are former this week, the senator from Vermont court granted Republi- Spanish prime minister Jose Luis does not plan to end his campaign or can Governor Matt Bevin Rodriguez Zapatero, and former WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton is con- endorse Clinton in a video speech to a temporary injunc- presidents Leonel Fernandez of the sidering US Senator Elizabeth Warren supporters, his spokesman said. tion against a Lexington Dominican Republic and Martin for her running mate for the Demo- While the search for a potential abortion clinic his admin- Torrijos of Panama. cratic presidential ticket, the Wall Street partner in the race is still in its early istration said was not The document was shown Journal reported yesterday. stages, the Journal reported several properly licenced. journalists during the Oas gen- Warren, a leading progressive Democrats said Clinton’s campaign is The Kentucky Court eral assembly in the Dominican voice among Democrats, is among looking at a number of potential can- of Appeals overturned Republic. Oas General Secretary those Democratic presidential can- didates, including Warren. a March decision from a Luis Almagro of Uruguay has called didate Clinton is vetting for the vice Other prospective running mates lower court judge that for the 34-country organisation to presidential position, the newspaper include US Labour Secretary Tom Perez denied the governor an meet on June 23 to discuss possibly reported. Clinton’s rival Bernie Sand- and US Housing and Urban Develop- injunction against EMW suspending Venezuela over Madu- ers is not, it added. ment Secretary Julián Castro, according Women’s Clinic. The judges ro’s human rights record. Representatives for Clinton, Sand- to the report. said the state’s Cabinet for The mediation led by Zapatero ers and Warren did not reply to requests Senators Tim Kaine of Virginia, Health and Family Services has been proposed as a possible for comment on the report. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Cory Booker had the right to regulate alternative. On Tuesday, Venezuela Clinton is the Democratic Party’s of New Jersey as well as US Represent- how abortions were per- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton poses for photographs and the United States agreed to presumptive nominee for the November atives Xavier Becerra of California and formed and how clinics launch new high-level talks after 8 presidential election, having won Tim Ryan of Ohio are also under con- with supporters after participating in a round table conversation on were licensed. years of tension. the last primary contest this week sideration, it said. national security at Virginia Air and Space Centre, in Hampton, Virginia. BREAK TIME FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 13

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ONLINE CHART BUST First Disney park opens in China www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

AP The company added China-themed elements and put the emphasis on pop- MOST READ ular characters at the Shanghai park, SHANGHAI: Walt Disney Co opened while downplaying its American iden- Tusk says ‘difficult to be Shanghai Disneyland, its first theme tity. At the entrance, instead of “Main 1 optimistic’ on Brexit given polls park in mainland China, with a lavish Street USA,” it’s “Mickey Avenue.” celebration yesterday featuring Com- Near its iconic Storybook Cas- Pieces of EgyptAir plane found at munist Party leaders, a children’s choir, tle, Disney created a “Garden of the 2 bottom of Med Sleeping Beauty and other Disney char- Twelve Friends” using characters such acters. as Remy from “Ratatouille” and Tig- UN envoy hails Qatar’s efforts for relief in A vice-premier joined Disney CEO ger from “Winnie the Pooh” as animals 3 Yemen Bob Iger in cutting the grand opening’s of the Chinese Zodiac. Disney says the red ribbon, showing the ruling party’s Wandering Moon Teahouse, modelled support for the $5.5bn investment in on a building in eastern China, is the promoting tourism at a time of slow- only Chinese-style structure in any of TWEET OF THE DAY ing economic growth. They read letters its parks. of congratulations from the Chinese and The park should generate some American presidents, Xi Jinping and $1.5bn to $4.5bn a year in revenue, Barack Obama. according to Drexel Hamilton analyst “This is one of the proudest and Tony Wible. However, Disney’s state- most exciting moments in the history owned Chinese partner, the Shanghai of the Walt Disney Co,” Iger said after Shendi (Group) Co Ltd, which owns 57 the choir sang. Later, actors dressed as percent of the 7.5-square-kilometre Sleeping Beauty, Donald Duck and other park, will get the lion’s share. Disney characters danced on stage. Disney’s international parks in The festive sentiment was tempered Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo haven’t by news from Florida that an alliga- made a profit in six of the past 10 years, tor killed a 2-year-old boy at Disney’s Wible figures. So the main advantage flagship Walt Disney World. The boy of the huge park may be promotion of drowned after the animal dragged him the brand and merchandise. into a lagoon on Tuesday. Disney has many inexperienced but The company hopes Shanghai Dis- ambitious competitors in China. neyland will burnish the brand behind The country’s biggest developer, “Frozen” in the world’s most populous Wanda Group, opened a 20bn yuan film market and help revive Disney’s ($3bn) entertainment complex in the struggling international theme park southern city of Nanchang in May and INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY business. said it plans more. It bought Hollywood Analysts expect Shanghai Disney- studio Legendary Entertainment in Jan- land to become the world’s most-visited uary, and Wanda founder Wang Jianlin, theme park, attracting at least 15 mil- Asia’s second-richest businessman, said lion and as many as 50 million guests Fireworks explode over the Shanghai Disney Resort during the opening he hopes to surpass Disney as the big- Restaurants a year. By contrast, Walt Disney World ceremony in Shanghai, China, yesterday. gest global tourism company by 2020. selling drew 19.3 million people in 2014. China is a challenging environment traditional Speaking as a light rain fell, Vice- in other ways, with official controls on food at the Premier Wang Yang quipped, “I would YouGov, a market research firm, Chinese are not cutting back on business activities and on taking prof- sidewalks like to call this a rain of US dollars or of said 44 percent of people it surveyed tourism despite the weak economy, said its out of the country. Live shows such in Musherib renminbi,” the Chinese currency. in China in May said they plan to visit Shaun Rein, managing director of China as Disney’s “Lion King” musical must be area. Photo by @Baher_Amin Wang, a member of the ruling par- Shanghai Disneyland within a year. Market Research in Shanghai. approved by Chinese censors. ty’s Politiburo, described the park as an It said 80 percent plan to take family “They are still spending on experi- Disney’s DisneyLife direct-to-con- example of Sino-US “practical coopera- members. ences and on their kids,” Rein said. “It’s sumer online movie and book offering tion” and “people to people exchanges.” “I think it’s really lively here and going to be a huge success. Everybody was closed in April, five months after Despite slower growth, China’s every girl can realise her dream of in China who has a kid or a grandkid is opening, amid a Chinese regulatory economy still is one of the world’s becoming a princess,” said Gong Hai- going to want to go to Shanghai Disney.” review. best-performing and tourism spend- yan, a visitor from western China’s Disney’s opening follows a decade In the Shanghai park, Disney needs Killing Nemo: Cyanide ing is rising. Sichuan province. of negotiations, five years of construc- its Chinese partner’s approval to change Shanghai represents a market of Wang Lei, 34, said she liked the tion and weeks of testing. Iger said more restaurant prices and other manage- 300 million people living within three park, despite long waits for some things. than 1 million visitors already have tried ment details. hours of the park by car or train in one “I’m sure I will go again, maybe out its rides, shops, restaurants and two “They are hamstrung in a lot of threat to tropical fish of China’s most affluent regions. Chi- again and again,” said Wang, a buyer hotels. areas,” said Rein. But still, he said, na’s bullet train network can draw in for a Shanghai food chain. “I’ll bring my Global brands like Disney are rush- Shanghai Disneyland “is far above any- areas further afield. kids and relatives from my hometown.” ing to create products for Chinese tastes. thing else in China.” AFP squirt cyanide onto a fish or it goes into this cloud of cyanide and it is stunned,” Downs told PARIS: Many of the real-life AFP by telephone. Nemos swimming in children’s More than half of saltwater Floating imagination Longoria tells film fish tanks are caught using cya- aquarium fish the research- nide, said research yesterday ers bought from US-based pet which highlighted the danger to stores and wholesalers, tested grads to follow corals. positive for cyanide residue, said Today’s release of Pixar’s the report. The results would be “Finding Dory”, an animated similar in other countries, given Rita Moreno film about a forgetful blue tang, that most of the world’s trop- will likely boost demand for ical aquarium fish come from AP aquarium specimens of the trop- the same suppliers, said Downs. ical fish, and fuel the poisonous Tests on European pet fish will practice used to trap them, said follow next year. LOS ANGELES: Eva Longoria has some advice for the a report. The film’s predecessor, The team had tested over new graduates of the American Film Institute: Use Rita “Finding Nemo”, had seen more 100 fish, including blue tangs — Moreno as a guiding light to use myriad points of view. than a million clownfish taken of which an estimated 300,000 Longoria presented the legendary stage and screen from tropical reefs, said Craig are traded every year, according actress with an honorary doctorate of fine arts Wednes- Downs of the Haereticus Envi- to a recent report. day in Los Angeles. ronmental Laboratory in Virginia, “The ‘Dories’, the blue tangs, “As you go on to write and direct and produce ... a research body which worked the ones I purchased, all had, rise above caricature, as she does. Create complete on the report with conservation except for one, very high levels” and complicated characters, as she does,” Longoria group For the Fishes. of poisonous residue, said Downs. told the audience of students and their family mem- One of the most common, And those “did not survive bers — including Denzel Washington, whose son was though illegal, ways of captur- beyond nine days after purchase.” A partial view of the monumental installation “The Floating Piers” created by artists Christo graduating. She stressed how important it was to her ing the colourful creatures is to Blue tangs are sold for aquar- Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude, yesterday during a press preview at the lake as a young Latina girl to see Moreno lighting up the big use cyanide. iums for up to $170 apiece, said Iseo in northern Italy. screen in “West Side Story.” “For them to be caught... you Downs. Moreno took the podium with a little spin and a kick after the “America” song and dance scene from “West Side Story” played on the big screen behind her at the TCL Chinese Theatre. “All I can figure is that the powers that be are giving Women celebrate excellence behind the camera me credit for 70 years of not giving up,” Moreno said. “The trick is just to live for 84 years and wear them the hell down.” Moreno recalled her discouraging early days AP and a director accepted prizes alongside Henson said as she claimed the award for Hollywood. Research shows women have in Hollywood where she was called on by studios to play actresses Taraji P Henson and Natalie Dor- excellence in television. “We’re fighting for represented around four percent of direc- any and every ethnicity — and how she’d use the same mer at a dinner ceremony on Wednesday what we deserve.” tors of top films for the past 15 years. The accent for all. She called them “dusky maiden roles,” BEVERLY HILLS: Women in Film is going night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. All called Women in Film helped fund studies Equal Employment Opportunity Commis- and usually they would involve her character ending up behind the scenes to recognise 10 behind- for gender parity in Hollywood and sis- that inspired the American Civil Liber- sion is now investigating. devastated after being rebuffed by white men. the-camera talents with its annual Crystal terhood among women working in the ties Union to demand federal inquiry last Filmmakers discussed the challenges “I had to deliver lines to my white lover like, ‘why + Lucy Awards. industry. year into whether discrimination is to they faced as women and mothers in male- you love Ula no more?’” Moreno said, referring to the Eight female producers, an agent “We’re all we got, ladies,” a spirited blame for the dearth of female directors in dominated Hollywood. 1955 film “Seven Cities of Gold.” www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Central banks sit tight as Brexit threat sparks upheavals

haven currencies and government it does not mean that the central After the Fed kept bonds instead. As a result, the Japa- bankers’ jobs would become eas- nese yen jumped to 20-month highs, ier, analysts warn. “For the ECB, next its key rates steady while the Swiss franc was trading at week will be highly tensed because overnight, BoJ held 1.08 to the euro, significantly stronger it may have to intervene directly in than the preferred level of 1.20 that the the market if there is a Brexit, and if fire on fresh stimulus bank had imposed until January 2015. there is turbulence in the market,” measures. Likewise, Bond yields sank, with rock-solid said Brzeski. Even the Swiss bank German government bonds falling could be forced to act, said Jennifer the Swiss National into negative territory as investors McKeown at Capital Economics. Bank left its rates were willing to pay for the safety to “We see the SNB continuing to park their cash in Bunds. intervene in the run-up to the refer- unchanged. Fed Chair Janet Yellen underlined endum and think that an actual Brexit the significance of the Brexit referen- would prompt much heavier interven- dum, saying “it is a decision that could tion and an interest rate cut to -1.0 AFP have consequences for economic and percent. Even this would be unlikely financial conditions in global finan- to prevent a significant appreciation cial markets”. “If it does so, it could of the franc in that scenario,” she have consequences in turn for the US predicted. But Ben May of Oxford Eco- BERLIN: Fears that Britain could economic outlook,” warned the top nomics expected few moves. quit the European Union have forced central banker of the world’s biggest “Clearly if the UK votes to leave key central banks to hold off on any economy. President of the Swiss National Bank Thomas Jordan (left) speaks with member of the governing board then it may well be a few more weeks action, even though they desperately The central bank chief of “small Andrea Maechler during a press conference in Bern yesterday. before any central bank might feel need to light a fire under chronically and open” Switzerland, Thomas Jor- they were in a position to make a big low inflation. dan, also saw the risks for his country. judgement on what the implications of After the Federal Reserve kept its “Next week’s UK referendum on watching the (referendum’s) impact But Carsten Brzeski, chief econo- hold off,” noted Brzeski. that are,” he said, adding however that key rates steady overnight, the Bank whether to remain in the EU may on the global economy, including in mist at ING bank said it was clear that Some analysts had been expect- he did not expect to see major pol- of Japan held fire on fresh stimu- cause uncertainty and turbulence to Japan”, he told reporters. the uncertainties over which way the ing the BoJ to launch another round icy shifts in the immediate aftermath. lus measures. Likewise, the Swiss increase. We will be monitoring the And the central bank directly UK would swing was “complicating of easing as the world’s third-largest “They might make noise saying National Bank left its rates unchanged. situation closely and will take meas- caught in the eye of the storm — the the situation for central banks”. “For economy falters. But the bank also sat they are assessing the situation but I’d The reason cited by all three: the ures if required,” he said. Bank of England — reiterated the “sig- the ECB it is definitely the case even tight as taking action now to lower be very surprised to see someone like fallout from Britain’s referendum BoJ chief Haruhiko Kuroda would nificant risks” posed by the vote. “A though it was already in crisis mode,” the value of the yen would be rowing the ECB come out and say that we’re on June 23 on whether to remain in not say if policymakers held off fresh vote to leave the EU could materi- he said, alluding to the bank’s long against the tide, given that investors going to increase QE or something like the EU. The uncertainty in the run- moves because of next week’s vote. ally alter the outlook for output and battle against stubbornly low infla- were determinedly parking their cash that in response to the UK’s vote. up to D-Day has wreaked havoc on However, he said Britain was an inflation, and therefore the appropri- tion. “It was most difficult for the Fed in the safe haven currency and send- “I think that’d be unlikely unless the markets, with investors dump- “important” member of the EU, which ate setting of monetary policy,” the because it had been seeking to get ing it appreciating anyway. Although a few weeks down the line the econ- ing shares and sending stocks down, has been a “great economic gift” for bank said as it voted to keep its lend- out of its low interest policy, but the the result of the vote could remove omy has taken a turn for the worse,” while shifting their funds into safe nations in the bloc. The BoJ “is closely ing rate unchanged. uncertainty had forced it yesterday to one uncertainty from the market, he added. Samsung to buy US cloud Nissan’s Infiniti recalls 60,000 Oil prices at one-month low computing startup Q50 sedans over steering issue as dollar jumps

AFP refrigerators and air conditioners, Reuters self-driving cars on the road, seeing he said. Infiniti chief Roland Krueger a company statement said. autonomous driving as the next big said that the brand plans to roll out Reuters Samsung did not disclose the thing, although safety, regulatory and autonomous driving to more new value of the deal, which remains technical hurdles remain. models as it introduces the steer- SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said subject to customary closing con- BEIJING: Nissan’s Infiniti luxury The Q50 is Infiniti’s first model ing system to more of its cars “one yesterday it had agreed to buy US ditions. It would be Samsung’s third brand will recall roughly 60,000 that can drive itself on highways by one.” NEW YORK: Oil prices slumped cloud computing company Joyent recent acquisition of a US start-up, vehicles globally, a spokesman for the under certain conditions thanks to “With this (steering) function, we 3 percent to hit a one-month low — the latest in a series of start-up following that of LoopPay last year brand said yesterday, as the steering its direct adaptive steering system. can offer what we call partial auton- yesterday, sliding a sixth straight acquisitions aimed at strengthening and, in 2014, of SmartThings which system key to the Q50 sedan’s auton- That system could malfunction omous drive already, so the car above day for the longest bear run since the Korean giant’s software capacity. connects and controls home appli- omous driving capabilities could “in certain rare circumstances, just 60km/ hour on the highway can be January, as the dollar’s rally on The purchase of the San Fran- ances via mobile handsets. Samsung malfunction. The recall will affect after starting the vehicle” when a driven hands free,” he said. fears of Britain’s exit from the EU cisco-based firm would provide has been searching for ways to boost cars in all markets where the Q50 software glitch “can lead to a lack of Krueger said more advanced hammered commodities priced Samsung with its own cloud plat- profits as growth in the smartphone is sold, including China and North steering responsiveness and change autonomous driving features, such in the currency. Also weighing on form to support its main mobile market slows, and has been actively America, spokesman Stefan Wein- in turning radius,” Weinmann said. as those beyond highways, will the oil complex were uninspir- business and connect with Samsung pursuing startups, including those in mann said in a written statement. Infiniti will begin informing cus- require advances in infrastructure ing drawdown data on US crude household appliances such as TVs, the artificial intelligence field. The auto industry is racing to put tomers of the recall in June and July, and regulation. inventories in spite of peak sum- mer driving demand in the US. Brent crude futures’ front- month contact was down $1.56, Nokia moves to finalise acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent or 3 percent, at $47.41 per barrel by 10:58 am EDT (1458 GMT). The session low of $47.20 marked its lowest price since May 12. AFP Nokia said yesterday it was set- stock exchange. “Following these Brent has lost about $5 a barrel, tling the ownership issue “through transactions, Nokia will own 95.33 or nearly 10 percent, since the six- privately negotiated transactions”. percent of the share capital and 95.26 day slide began on June 9. Prior to “Nokia expects to cross 95 percent percent of the voting rights of Alca- that, it hit an eight-month high of HELSINKI: Finnish telecom equip- ownership thresholds in Alcatel- tel-Lucent, corresponding to 95.16 nearly $53. The front-month in U.S. ment giant Nokia announced Lucent and announces intention to percent of the Alcatel-Lucent shares,” crude’s West Texas Intermediate yesterday a plan to complete the file a public buy-out offer in cash for Nokia concluded. (WTI) futures CLc1 fell $1.55, or 3.2 acquisition of its former rival, French- the remaining Alcatel-Lucent securi- Nokia has just gone through two percent, to $46.46 a barrel. It ear- American Alcatel-Lucent during the ties followed by a squeeze-out,” the and half years of radical transforma- lier hit a one-month low of $46.16. third quarter. company said in a statement. tion. In 2013 it bought 50 percent of The dollar was up 0.7 percent, The world’s former top mobile France’s stock market regulator its network activities from Germany’s on track to its largest one-day gain phone maker had gained control of will still have to approve the trans- Siemens; in 2014 it divested its mobile in two months, as equity and other 80 percent of Alcatel-Lucent’s shares action, as its rules require Nokia to phone business where it had been markets were gripped by fear that by January but has struggled to mop cross a 95-percent threshold in order the world’s number one brand; and Britain will vote in a week to leave up the remaining shareholders to gain Nokia’s Chairman Risto Siilasmaa (left) and President & CEO Rajeev to make a clean sweep by delisting in 2015 it sold its mapping unit Here the EU, triggering economic slow- full control of the company. Suri attend the firm’s annual general meeting, in Helsinki, yesterday. all remaining shares from the Paris and took control of Alcatel-Lucent. down on the continent and beyond. 18 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS

Housing and Gazprom forecasts growth in Europe medical care

of LNG and demand damped by the support US Gazprom has a economic crisis. The Moscow-based monopoly on Russian producer included a market-based component in its formulas and retained inflation pipeline gas exports clients by making price adjustments to Europe, which and easing rules on how much gas they had to accept. REUTERS earned it $38bn last Russian gas at the German border year. cost $3.99 a million British thermal units at the end of May, the lowest since September 2004, according to WASHINGTON: US consumer prices data from the International Monetary moderated in May, but sustained Fund. That compares with $4.70 for increases in housing and health- Bloomberg front-month gas in the U.K., Europe’s care costs kept underlying inflation biggest market. supported, which could allow the “We expect Russia to focus on a Federal Reserve to raise interest market share approach to selling gas rates this year. MOSCOW: The world’s biggest nat- into Europe,” Shankari Srinivasan, vice While another report yesterday ural gas exporter isn’t too concerned president at IHS Energy, said by e-mail. showed an increase in the number about a global glut that will probably As the lowest cost supplier the nation of Americans applying for unem- last another five years. “could compete on price” if it decides ployment benefits last week, the Gazprom PJSC is counting on fall- to do so, she said. trend remained consistent with a ing European output to boost flows to Gazprom so far sees no need for healthy labor market. The data came a record and cement its 30 percent “structural” changes as it already has a day after the Fed downgraded its market share, Deputy Chief Execu- tools for a more flexible approach, assessment of the jobs market and tive Officer Alexander Medvedev, 60, Medvedev said before today’s eco- gave a mixed view of the economy. said in an interview. nomic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia’s The Labor Department said its After crude’s 35 percent slide last Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller (right) and Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden arrive for a signing ceremony main business event. It will promote Consumer Price Index increased 0.2 year, the company’s oil-linked prices on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2016) at the Konstantin its project to double the capacity of percent last month, slowing from are low enough to ward off competition (Konstantinovsky) Palace outside Saint Petersburg, yesterday. a Siberian gas pipeline to Germany April’s 0.4 percent rise. Gasoline from sources including US liquefied to 110 billion cubic metres a year at prices rose modestly and the cost natural gas, which will favour more Gazprom managed to maintain its Baltic States together with Turkey, will Ukraine, once one of its biggest buyers the event. of food fell. lucrative markets from Asia to Latin market share in the region over the “undoubtedly” be more than 165 bil- by volume, cut gas imports amid a con- Gas-export auctions started last In the 12 months through May, America, he said. past five years as North African sup- lion cubic metres (5.8 trillion cubic feet) tracting economy and price disputes year will be continued, Medvedev said. the CPI gained 1.0 percent after “We’ve never suffered from eupho- ply declined, the period through 2018 this year, about 4 percent more than with Russia. The company won’t be able The company has three types of con- advancing 1.1 percent in April. ria,” Medvedev, who once compared “will be very different” as a tightening in 2015, and stay above 160 billion for to pipe gas to China until it opens its tracts in Europe, spot-linked, oil-linked Stripping out the volatile food US shale gas production with the dot- of oil markets from next year makes at least three years, Medvedev said. first link there in 2019 at the earliest. and “hybrid,” he said. About one-third of and energy components, the so- com bubble, said in Moscow. “We’ve its fuel less attractive amid compe- Gazprom has a monopoly on Rus- In 2009, Gazprom was forced to supplies “one way or another take into called core CPI, increased 0.2 always based our business on analysis.” tition from “large volumes of cheap sian pipeline gas exports to Europe, rethink its marketing strategy after account hub levels,” up from approx- percent after a similar gain in April. Europe will need to source more gas LNG,” the Paris-based agency said. which earned it $38bn last year. It’s its prices soared, reflecting a previous imately 16 percent after the contract That took the year-on-year core to 2021 as demand rises amid slumping Gazprom’s analysis shows that suffering from weak demand in the jump in crude in a decades-old conven- adjustments of 2009-10, he said. CPI rise to 2.2 percent from 2.1 per- domestic production, the International exports to Europe, the 28 nations in former Soviet Union as local rivals eat tion that links the fuels, even as spot “We are watching the market every cent in April. Energy Agency said last week. While the European Union excluding the three into its domestic market share, while rates declined amid increased supplies second,” Medvedev said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the CPI gaining 0.3 percent last month and the core CPI rising 0.2 percent. The Fed has a 2 percent inflation Europe car sales up 16% as Zuckerberg philanthropy project target and tracks an inflation meas- ure which is currently at 1.6 percent. The US central bank on Wednesday volume & luxury brands jump kept interest rates unchanged and makes first major investment said it expected inflation to remain below its target through 2017. While the Fed signaled it still Reuters 22 percent while the region’s No. 1 planned two rate hikes this year, market Germany posted 12 percent Reuters there was less conviction, with growth. six officials expecting only a sin- Last month’s expansion was gle increase, up from one in March. LONDON: European car sales jumped driven by mass market manufacturers The Fed raised its benchmark over- the most this year in May, industry data Renault and Fiat Chrysler Automo- SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc night interest rate in December for showed yesterday, helped by an extra biles’s Fiat brand, jumping 34 percent founder Mark Zuckerberg’s (pictured) the first time in nearly a decade. selling day in a number of markets, and 27 percent respectively, ACEA said. philanthropy venture has made its The dollar extended losses with volume and premium brands But Germany’s luxury nameplates first major investment, leading a fund- against the yen on the data, while alike posting double-digit percentage Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen’s Audi ing round in a startup that trains and prices for US government debt were growth. Registrations of new passen- also fared well, with the core Mer- recruits software developers in Africa. little changed. ger cars in the European Union and cedes, BMW and Audi brands jumping The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Last month, gasoline prices rose the European Free Trade Association 15 percent, 22 percent and 20 per- LLC, created by Zuckerberg and his 2.3 percent after surging 8.1 percent increased 16 percent last month to 1.33 cent respectively. wife Priscilla Chan, led a $24m Series in April. Food prices fell 0.2 per- million vehicles, the Brussels-based Battling to move beyond its die- B funding in Andela, the startup said cent, reversing the prior month’s Association of European Carmakers sel emissions test-rigging scandal, yesterday. increase. (ACEA) said. Volkswagen’s (VW) deliveries in its Alphabet Inc’s GV, previously Within the core CPI basket, “Looking ahead, it is expected that core European market recovered fur- known as Google Ventures, was also housing and medical costs main- the market will maintain its positive ther in May. VW group sales including part of the funding round. tained their upward trend. Owners’ momentum,” ACEA said in a state- the troubled namesake brand, pre- Andela selects the top 1 percent equivalent rent of primary residence ment published two weeks after the mium flagships Audi and Porsche and of tech talent from Africa, trains not. Andela’s mission is to close that donations, lobby lawmakers, invest rose 0.3 percent after rising by the group more than doubled its forecast Czech division Skoda rose 8.8 per- them and places them in engineer- gap,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. in businesses and recoup any profits same margin in April. for growth in European auto sales to cent, the highest monthly gain in the ing organisations. When the philanthropy initiative from those investments. Medical care costs increased 0.3 5 percent from 2 percent. nine months since the manipulation The startup, which has nearly 200 was launched in late 2015, Zucker- Zuckerberg has also signed the Giv- percent after a similar gain in April. Five-month deliveries in Europe came to light last September, ACEA engineers currently employed by its berg said he would put in 99 percent ing Pledge, which invites the world’s The cost of hospital services shot up were up 9.7 percent to 6.58 million data showed. Nigeria and Kenya offices, will use of his Facebook shares. The initiative wealthiest individuals and families 0.7 percent after rising 0.3 percent vehicles. Four of Europe’s five biggest Registrations from the Opel Group, the funds to expand to a third African is structured as a limited liability com- to commit to giving more than half of the prior month. Doctor visit costs markets recorded double-digit sales the European division of General country by the end of 2016. pany. This means, unlike a traditional their wealth to philanthropy or char- rose 1.0 percent, but the cost of pre- gains, led by Italy and France where Motors, rose 12 percent, while Ford “We live in a world where talent is charitable or philanthropic founda- itable causes over their lifetime or in scription medicine fell 0.4 percent registrations surged 27 percent and was up 7.8 percent, ACEA added. evenly distributed, but opportunity is tion, the venture can make political their will. after increasing 0.7 percent in April.

German regulator to resubmit Eurogroup meeting proposal to EU on vectoring

Reuters arrangement would deny the degree broadband than aiming to run new of control necessary to differenti- fibre into every building. ate their retail offers from those of But rivals say that an independ- Deutsche Telekom. ent fibre-optic network would give BONN: Germany’s telecoms regu- With Deutsche Telekom owning all players equal chances. lator will try again to persuade the the network and rivals paying to get They have warned that initia- European Commission to approve access to it, competitors would strug- tives such as vectoring could slow Deutsche Telekom plans to use its gle to offer choices on price or quality. the roll-out of much faster, but also existing copper wiring to connect The German regulator said it had more expensive, fibre-optic connec- homes and offices to its high-speed withdrawn its proposal and would tions. In Germany alone the cost of fibre-optic broadband network. submit a new one early next week. such a network is estimated at up Competitors including Vodafone The European Commission said to €80bn. complained the plan would leave them in a statement: “The Commission was Deutsche Telekom’s Chief Exec- dependent on the Deutsche Telekom concerned that the proposal would utive Tim Hoettges told shareholders network and unable to tailor how not be in line with EU telecoms rules, last month that its competitors should they attracted customers. which encourage competition on stop moaning and start investing. The technology, known as “vec- telecoms markets, technological The German regulator had toring”, only works when applied to a development and ultimately a high approved Deutsche Telekom’s plan whole bundle of copper cables, mean- quality of services for consumers.” last year to use vectoring technol- ing that individual lines cannot be Former national network monop- ogy to double the bandwidth of the unbundled physically to give access olies such as Deutsche Telekom and existing copper lines running from a to alternative operators. Britain’s BT say the application of new fibre-connected central distribution FROM LEFT: Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna talks with French Economy, Finance Rivals would get ‘virtual’ access copper-based G.fast technology is a point to give download speeds of up & Trade Minister Michel Sapin and Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb during an Eurogroup to the ‘local loop’ copper network, far cheaper and quicker way to get to 100 Mbps instead of running fibre meeting in Luxembourg, yesterday. but the Commission said this more people hooked up to high-speed all the way into homes and offices. BUSINESS FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 9,791.65 0.24 % QE Total Return Index 15,842.23 0.24 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,811.49 0.45 % QE All Share Index 2,730.75 0.10 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,641.44 0.38 % QE All Share Industrials 3,031.15 0.12 % QE All Share Transportation 2,458.6 0.04 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,455.26 0.97 % QE All Share Insurance 3,981.88 0.30 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,104.05 1.14 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,399.99 0.20 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 16-06-2016 Today 15-06-2016 Previous day Index 9,791.65 9,768.65 Change 23.00 12.27 % 0.24 0.13 YTD% 6.11 6.34 Volume 3,658,714 4,477,927 Value (QAR) 134,825,672.90 161,918,012.18 Trades 1,752 2,554 Up 12 | Down 22 | Unchanged 06

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5231.736 1.363 0.03 5489.8 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4153.18 -18.4 -0.44 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 17640.17 -34.65 -0.2 18188.8 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 20038.42 -429.1 -2.1 21794.84 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 5941.06 -62.88 -1.05 6791.68 5611.89 Karachi 100 In/D 38751.6 191.73 0.5 38609.01 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 15434.14 -485.44 -3.05 18951.12 14865.77 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2132.82 1810.1

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Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen on Wednesday sounded a fresh warning over a possible British exit from the EU, while the yen soared to a 22-month high against BoE says Brexit would pose risks to global economy the dollar yesterday and Tokyo stocks slumped 3.2 per- cent as the Bank of Japan failed to pump up its stimulus. Gold meanwhile hit a near two-year high. “Brexit concern has been brought back to the fore,” the European Union next week, Bank of England Governor them financially, immediately said Jasper Lawler, analyst at CMC Markets trading group. BoE Governor saying it could harm the glo- Mark Carney (pictured) has faced tweeted the Bank’s latest warnings, Policy decisions from the US Federal Reserve and Mark Carney has bal economy and sterling looked increasingly hostile criticism from as another opinion poll showed the the Bank of Japan had also unnerved markets, he added. increasingly likely to fall further supporters of a British exit from “Leave” campaign in the lead with The Fed on Wednesday lowered its growth fore- faced increasingly after an “Out” decision. the EU who accuse him and the just a week to go before the vote. casts for this year and the following two, and flagged hostile criticism The BoE’s monetary policy- Bank of making unnecessary US Federal Reserve Chair interest rates rises to be lower and slower, highlight- makers also discussed the Bank’s warnings about the risk of a hit Janet Yellen on Wednesday ing increasing concern about the US and wider global from supporters of contingency plans to protect the to the economy from a Brexit vote. acknowledged Britain’s possible economic outlook. a British exit from banking system in the event of an Carney has said the Bank has exit from the EU as a factor for “There was a time not all that long ago when this “Out” vote, including closer super- a duty to spell out what is likely keeping US interest rates on hold flush of dovishness would have sent equity markets the EU who accuse vision of banks to make sure they to happen to the economy. Other this month, and the Bank of Japan skyward,” said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O’Hare. him and the bank of have access to the liquidity they institutions have also warned of said the risk of Brexit is its biggest “Now, they simply appear grounded by the belief making unnecessary need. a hit from a Brexit vote and the near-term concern. that monetary policy has been ineffectual in producing They said the referendum was International Monetary Fund is BoE policymakers said it was escape velocity and that the central bankers haven’t a warnings about risk. the largest immediate risk facing expected to detail its forecasts on “increasingly likely” that sterling good clue what to do about it at this juncture.” British financial markets, repeat- minutes of the June 15 meeting of Friday. The BoE’s nine rate-set- would fall further after a vote to Thursday also saw the Bank of England leave its ing previous language about the the Bank’s Monetary Policy Com- ters voted unanimously to keep leave the EU, perhaps sharply. main interest rate at 0.5 percent, while the BoE also vote but this time they said mar- mittee said. interest rates at their record low Shifts in the pound’s exchange maintained the amount of its cash stimulus pumping Reuters kets and economies around the Billions of dollars have been of 0.5 percent at their meeting, the rate around the publication of around the economy. world could be at risk too. wiped off global stock markets in BoE said. opinion polls had reinforced “The outcome of the referendum continues to be “Through financial market the run-up to the June 23 refer- Finance minister George their view that a big part of ster- the largest immediate risk facing UK financial mar- LONDON: The Bank of England and confidence channels, there endum and yields on government Osborne, who is struggling to keep ling’s weakness recently was kets, and possibly also global financial markets,” read escalated its warnings about the are also risks of adverse spill- bonds in several countries have hit voters focused on his message that down to uncertainty around the minutes from the BoE’s June meeting. fallout from a British vote to leave overs to the global economy,” record lows. a vote to leave the EU would hurt referendum. 20 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

Why Tesla & electric car boom could be Fed sees losing investor good news for grid faith in policy rate path

By Chris Mooney during these peak hours, and power The Washington Post companies have to fire up so-called “peaker plants,” usually driven by natural gas, to slake demand. “If it increased the peak we would arlier this year, breathtaking have to invest more money for more numbers of pre-orders for the generation capacity for the peak, ETesla Model 3 not only shocked which is the most expensive kind of the auto industry, but suggested that generation capacity,” says the Rocky a transition of the US and world auto Mountain Institute’s Chris Nelder, fleet toward electric vehicles could one of the authors of the report. happen faster than expected. This is either a huge coming There are still only a little more problem — or a huge opportunity. than 400,000 electric vehicles on The Rocky Mountain Institute report the road in the US, or just 0.16 per- sees it as the latter. cent of all cars. But predicted growth The idea is that if we can find rates could have them at more than ways to shift when this growing fleet a third of new car sales globally by of electric vehicles charge up — either 2040, according to Bloomberg New toward daylight hours, when they’re Energy Finance. And the growth won’t more likely to be powered by solar, just be in personal vehicles - services or to overnight hours, when elec- such as Uber and Lyft, and makers of tricity is cheap — then it opens up a self-driving cars such as Google and number of options and efficiencies. Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve has Tesla, could also drive fast growth The result, the report says, could of the electric vehicle fleet. actually be more renewables on the decided to leave the interest rate unchanged for now. As the cars and their batteries get grid, fewer greenhouse gas emis- cheaper, meanwhile, they’ll become sions and cheaper electricity prices. By Liz Capo McCormick and and guidance. They’re in a leadership role, Holdings in New York. “But that’s not nec- more and more accessible to buyers “Instead of investing in this peak Joseph Ciolli and if you associate that with credibility, it’s essarily the way it goes. Wednesday it was — even as a profusion of charging capacity, we want to shift that charg- Bloomberg definitely being called into question.” all about the dots.” stations to service growing num- ing so that it happens in the middle of While the median forecast of 17 policy- Officials also slowed the pace of bers of vehicles will help address the the night when you’ve got baseload makers remained at two quarter-point hikes expected moves in both 2017 and 2018: major psychological factor holding capacity sitting there running,” says this year, the number of officials who see just They now only foresee three increases in people back: so-called “range anx- Nelder. The result, he says, could t’s the Fed that cried wolf. After US a single move rose to six, from one in March, each of those years, down from the four iety.” These trends, combined with “actually optimize the use of all the central bank officials including Chair according to Fed projections. The committee they expected in March. In a press confer- climate change concerns, all presage other assets on the grid. And in so Janet Yellen signaled for weeks that they left their target range for the benchmark fed- ence Wednesday, Yellen spoke of a sense a bright future for the electric car. doing, it could actually reduce the expected to raise interest rates in com- eral funds rate unchanged at 0.25 percent to that rates may be depressed by “factors All of which means that at some per kilowatt-hour cost of electricity.” ing months, backing previous forecasts 0.5 percent. Traders had ruled out the possi- that are not going to be rapidly disappear- point — and maybe not that far from That’s one option — which could Ithat called for two increases this year, the bility of a rate hike this month after a June 3 ing, but will be part of the new normal.” now, at least in certain neighbor- be accomplished, the report says, Federal Reserve on Wednesday lowered its report showed employers in May added the In the US stock market, bulls couldn’t hoods or areas — this trend could by creating financial incentives, in borrowing-cost trajectory. The revisions fewest new jobs in almost six years. hold on to what would’ve been the first start to have key implications for the the form of time-varying electricity came even as projections for US economic “The market is increasingly skeptical of advance in five days, surrendering to sell- entire electricity system, says a new rates, to push more people to charge growth and inflation were left little changed. what the Fed says,” said Ward McCarthy, the ing pressure that built throughout Yellen’s report released Wednesday from overnight, which they’ll be able to For investors who had already discounted chief financial economist at Jefferies Group. testimony. The S&P 500 Index ended 0.2 the energy think tank The Rocky do with sophisticated charging con- the Fed’s prior projections, the changes are “The last couple weeks the Fed was pushing percent lower. The yield on the two-year Mountain Institute. trols or apps that give the option of another blow to their faith that they’d be raising rates in the months Treasury note, the coupon maturity most An electric vehicle with a 30-kil- having cars draw power while the in the central bank’s abil- ahead, and then they go and lower their pro- sensitive to Fed policy, fell to the lowest owatt-hour battery, the report notes, owners are asleep. ity to communicate the jections drastically.” since February. Yields on US debt due in a “stores as much electricity as the aver- But another idea is to shift more path of rates. So far this Officials including San Francisco Fed Pres- decade have dropped 71 basis points since age US residence consumes in a day.” charging toward the middle of the year, traders have pre- ident John Williams and Atlanta Fed President Dec. 31 to 1.56 percent, confounding ana- It adds that if all US light duty cars day — the prime time to take advan- dicted a slower pace of Dennis Lockhart said last month that two lysts who had forecast that they would suddenly became EVs, “they would tage of growing amounts of solar hikes, with Treasuries ral- or three rate increases were possible this climb to 2.60 percent by June 30. require about 1,000 [terawatt hours] power, especially in key places like lying and Fed fund futures year. Minutes from the Fed’s April meeting, “If you read the release today they basi- of additional electricity per year, or California. In this scenario, the grow- For investors who had signaling just a 40 percent released May 18, showed most officials said a cally pushed the spaghetti around the plate an increase of about one-quarter ing number of EVs are “basically already discounted the chance of one increase June move would be warranted if economic — the strengths and weaknesses just shifted,” of our current electricity demand.” going to act like a big sponge to soak to interest rates in 2016. data indicated stronger growth and inflation, said Anna Rathbun, director of research for Clearly, a lot of EVs means a lot up all that power,” says Nelder. Fed’s prior projections, “It seems as though the causing futures traders to boost wagers on a CBIZ Inc.’s retirement-plan services unit in of electricity use. In particular, if This would make every mile Wednesday’s decision Fed is a bit lost and try- hike this year. In a May 27 speech at Harvard Cleveland. “The Fed is trying to get the market large numbers of EVs are charging at driven by these EVs greener, and it ing to find their way,” said University, Yellen said an increase would ready for a possible rate hike but the market roughly the same hour of day — and would also likely flatten the peak is another blow to Robert Pavlik, who helps likely be appropriate “in the coming months.” is quick to dim that possibility. There is a ‘boy that time of day is likely to be when of daily energy demand. The crit- their faith in the oversee $9.1bn as chief “The Fed continues to voice a bit of a hawk- who cried wolf’ effect with the Fed.” The dol- people get home from work, which is ical factor, though, would be the central bank’s ability market strategist at Bos- ish tone when officials are speaking on the lar touched a 20-month low versus the yen when electricity use spikes already vast infrastructure of charging sta- ton Private Wealth. “They circuit, and everyone interprets that as that’s Wednesday on the Fed’s dovish stance. The — the repercussions could be mas- tions that will need to accompany to communicate the seem almost as confused the Fed next move,” said Tom di Galoma, man- Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index has declined sive. Electricity is most expensive EV growth. path of rates. as the rest of the market in aging director of government trading and 3.8 percent this year, after surging 25 per- terms of their projections strategy at investment bank Seaport Global cent from mid-2014 through a January peak. VW bets on electric cars & services to recover from crisis

By Andreas Cremer to cover the cost of vehicle refits and a settle- He gave few further details, saying they He said a “cosy relationship” between Reuters ment with US authorities, and analysts expect would be announced by the company’s indi- key shareholders meant “this company never more fines and legal costs. vidual brands in due course, but said the reaches proper profitability.” The scandal has cast a shadow over the Volkswagen brand was counting on a “pact However, Evercore ISI analyst Arndt Elling- entire market for diesel cars, which account for the future” with unions to be agreed by horst said yesterday the new strategy was an olkswagen will invest more than ¤10 bn for about half of new vehicle sales in Europe, the autumn, aimed at both boosting com- encouraging sign. ($11bn) by 2025 in areas such as elec- and has ramped up pressure on Volkswagen petitiveness and preserving jobs. “Has VW changed? While only time will Vtric cars and ride-hailing as it seeks to to cut costs at its namesake brand, which lags Critics of the company, including activist tell, there is certainly evidence that this is reshape its business in the wake of its emis- the profitability of rivals. investor TCI, have urged it to take more radi- the case,” he said, retaining a “buy” rating sions-test cheating scandal, it said yesterday. Spelling out a new strategy ahead of its cal action to cut costs despite union protests, on Volkswagen shares. Europe’s biggest carmaker said it would annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, particularly at the Volkswagen brand. At 1150 GMT (7.50 am ET), the stock was Volkswagen is battling fund what it dubbed “the biggest change proc- the company said it planned to launch more Some have also called for Volkswagen down 1.2 percent at ¤118.65, within a European to recover from the ess in the company’s history” with an efficiency than 30 electric vehicles over the next ten to tackle a complex ownership structure, in blue-chip market .FTEU3 down 0.7 percent. drive, including integrating components busi- years, forecasting they would account for 2-3 which the founding families, the German state Volkswagen said its new plan aimed to biggest business crisis in nesses that currently employ 67,000 people million unit sales in 2025, compared with a of Lower Saxony and labor unions all have improve its operating return on sales before its 79-year history after in 26 locations worldwide. tiny number currently. strong voices. one-off items to 7-8 percent by 2025 from “The Volkswagen Group will be more It also said it would build a services busi- Investors are braced too for the results of 6 percent in 2015, and the return on capital admitting in September focused, efficient, innovative, customer-driven ness encompassing areas such as ride-hailing an ongoing investigation into who was respon- employed in its automotive division to more to cheating US diesel and sustainable — and systematically geared and car-sharing that it expects to generate sible for, and who knew about, the emissions than 15 percent from 13.8 percent. to generating profitable growth,” CEO Mat- sales in the billions of euros by 2025, as well test cheating. Mueller reaffirmed the company’s emissions tests. thias Mueller said, launching a plan called as developing its own autonomous driving “For me, this is not an investible stock. expansion and investment plans for North “TOGETHER — Strategy 2025”. and battery technologies. That is really to do with the corporate gov- America and China, adding he expected Volkswagen is battling to recover from Mueller said the transformation would ernance issues, which they still haven’t China would be the main market for its the biggest business crisis in its 79-year his- require a “double-digit billion” amount of addressed,” Kevin Lilley, European equities new electric cars. He also said Volkswagen tory after admitting in September to cheating investment, funded by an efficiency drive fund manager at Old Mutual Global Inves- was in talks with potential partners to bolster US diesel emissions tests. across the group aimed at delivering around tors, said on Wednesday before the strategy its position in China’s growing economy-car The German company has set aside $18bn 8 billion euros a year in savings. announcement. market, a current weak spot for the business. FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 21

Wallabies ready to ‘scrap’ for D-day arrives for the Russians series survival

Reuters as IAAF meets in Vienna MELBOURNE: A Wallabies team nursing injured pride will hope for Russian doping violations. Russian more discipline from a re-jigged officials have acknowledged doping Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva forward pack and some sympa- Russian track problems on its Olympic teams, but (left) and hurdler Sergey thy from the referee as they bid to and field team is deny any government involvement. Shubenkov are seen in square the series against a confident WADA is investigating allegations these two separate file England in Melbourne tomorrow. currently suspended made by a former Russian anti-dop- photos. World athletics Australia’s 39-28 defeat in the from international ing doctor that his government bosses governing body IAAF will Brisbane opener was just their condoned and supported both drug meet today to decide fourth to England on home soil competition since cheating and testing sabotage, but if Russia, suspended in and first at Lang Park, where the November last year that investigation won’t be concluded November over a report tourists piled on a record points until mid-July. on state-sponsored tally against the team that dumped Russia’s track and field team doping, will be allowed them out of their own World Cup currently is suspended from inter- the compete at the Rio last year. The Washington Post national competition, a penalty the Olympics. If the IAAF Perhaps most aggrieving for IAAF imposed last November, after a rules to uphold Russia’s Wallabies coach Michael Cheika previous WADA investigation found was the manner of the loss, his side suspension, some key widespread drug cheating among the having been knocked off its game track and field stars will VIENNA: T h e g l o b a l o r g a n i s a t i o n t h a t nation’s track athletes. At some point by England’s up-front aggression miss the Games. oversees track and field is expected to this week in Vienna, a five-member after dominating the opening half decide today whether to restore the IAAF task force will update the entire hour. eligibility of Russia’s suspended team council (there are 27 members; it’s The Six Nations champions’ before the Rio Olympics in August, fol- unclear how many will be in attend- The vote will be an early test can all rest assured the IAAF rules be Meantime, some Russian athletes belligerence saw their forwards lowing multiple reports of systemic, ance) on Russia’s progress in reforming for IAAF President Sebastian Coe, applied,’ “ Pound said. “They were get- have said they would individually pur- restore their traditional dominance state-sponsored drug cheating. But as its anti-doping operations. the former British Olympic runner ting that assurance from leadership.” sue legal action if their team is banned in the scrum, leading to a string International Association of Athletics There are no other IAAF coun- who took over the job last year from Diack has denied the charges of from Rio. of penalties from French referee Federations (IAAF) council members cil meetings scheduled between now Lamine Diack, who was indicted in corruption, as has his son, Papa Mas- There’s also the possibility that Romain Poite. meet in Vienna, significant questions and August’s Summer Games in Rio, France last November and charged sata Diack, a former IAAF marketing the International Olympic Commit- Owen Farrell’s unerring boot remain about the organisation itself, so a decision to maintain the suspen- with money laundering and conspir- consultant also criminally charged tee steps in and arranges some kind did the rest as England secured a which has been implicated in the same sion on Russia effectively will bar the acy in connection with allegations he in France but avoiding extradition of compromise, regardless of what seventh straight win under coach far-reaching doping scandal. nation’s track and field team from took bribes to cover up doping cases. in his native Senegal. the IAAF decides. Eddie Jones and a chance to win In January, a World Anti-Doping the Olympics. In an interview last week, Dick Pound, Pound’s investigation also impli- IOC President Thomas Bach, who their first test series in Australia at Agency (WADA) investigation con- An IAAF spokesman said a deci- the former WADA president whose cated former IAAF treasurer Valentin has a close relationship with Russian Melbourne’s Rectangular Stadium. cluded a “powerful rogue group” in sion should be announced at a news investigation found corruption was Balakhnichev, who was also the former President Vladimir Putin, has implied Cheika paid ample credit to the the IAAF had extorted athletes and conference in Vienna today. “embedded” in the IAAF, said he felt president of Russia’s track and field in public statements that individual tourists but will hope his revamped allowed Russian doping to continue While Russian officials have pub- Coe could be trusted to reform the federation. The IAAF has banned Bala- athletes from a banned track team front row gets a better hearing at unabated for years. licly pledged they have met all the organisation. khnichev for life. could compete in Rio. scrum-time from South African A former IAAF president faces IAAF’s terms, others in the anti-dop- While Coe and others probably Even if the IAAF council votes to Each additional revelation in the referee Craig Joubert, whose inter- criminal corruption charges in ing community are skeptical. Travis knew about allegations of Russian maintain the suspension of Russia, Russian doping scandal - from the fact pretations could be critical to the France in connection with the scan- Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti- drug cheating for years, Pound said, that might not be the final word on WADA waited four years to investi- outcome. dal, a former IAAF treasurer has been Doping Agency, has called for Russia’s former IAAF president Diack told them whether Russian track athletes com- gate a whistleblower’s claims to the The Australia coach is not leav- banned from the organisation for life, track athletes to be barred from Rio, he was handling things appropriately. pete in Rio. allegations of IAAF officials cover- ing anything to chance, however, and just last week, the IAAF suspended and for all Russian Olympic athletes “When that issue (of Russian dop- The nation’s sports ministry could ing up doping cases for cash - has having dumped loosehead prop its current president’s chief of staff, to be banned from competition if alle- ing) was raised in council, you’d have appeal a decision to the Court of Arbi- only further eroded public trust in Scott Sio from the matchday squad Nick Davies, as it investigates allega- gations of government involvement Diack saying, ‘We’re aware of that, tration for Sport, an international body the organisations that are supposed after he was schooled by England’s tions Davies took money to cover up in doping are found to be true. it’s a very serious problem, and you created to settle disputes of this nature. to police Olympic sports. Dan Cole and ended up in the sin- bin at Lang Park. James Slipper replaces him, with tighthead Greg Holmes also demoted to the bench in favour of another veteran in Sekope Kepu, Canada calls for Russia ban from Rio Games who would have started in Bris- bane had he not returned from France late. Jones warned his players to Reuters athletics community when the Council meets to country appeared to have made little progress tests, which the report called “significant”, 111 beware the Australian team that decide whether the Russian Athletics Federation on reforms, the IAAF Council voted in March to whereabouts failures and 736 tests were declined has its back to the wall and Cheika will be reinstated to allow participation in the maintain the ban. or cancelled. was also relishing the challenge, TORONTO: Citing a lack of progress in enact- Rio Games,” said Athletics Canada Chief Exec- Any thoughts, though, that Russia may have “We have a fundamental obligation at the which has been made stiffer by the ing serious doping reforms, Russian track and utive Officer Rob Guy in an open letter to Coe. had about winning over the doubters among the IAAF and at Athletics Canada to ensure our ath- loss of loose forward David Pocock field athletes should not be allowed to compete “While we acknowledge some modest progress IAAF Council members were probably dashed letes know, when they line up in Rio, that they to injury for the series. at the Rio Olympics, Athletics Canada said in a has been made in Russia, Athletics Canada feels on Wednesday when WADA released another and their competitors are competing on equal “I love being in this situation,” letter to IAAF President Sebastian Coe yesterday. strongly there is little evidence of a reversal in damning report. terms,” continued Guy. “We empathize with Rus- Cheika said. “I know that sounds The International Association of Athletics a systematic and deep rooted doping culture in It said that Russian athletes have continued to sia’s clean athletes who achieve their dreams crazy, but we’re 1-0 down and in Federations (IAAF) Council will meet today in Russian Athletics, and therefore there is no jus- fail drug tests and obstruct doping control offic- through clean hard work. a scrap and I want my players to Vienna to decide if Russia, currently suspended tification to grant re-inclusion.” ers in the months when they are supposed to be “Unfortunately, their federation has failed enjoy that, too. That’s what Aus- from international track and field competition, Russia was suspended from all track and showing that there has been a change of culture them and the ongoing recent revelations of non- sies are like.” will have the ban lifted clearing a path for them field in November after an independent report in their approach to the problem. compliance, lack of cooperation and widespread Sean McMahon, the latest in a to compete at the Rio Summer Games. from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) According to the report, Russian athletes individual doping violations from previous Olym- long line of top quality Australian “On Friday June 17, the IAAF Council will revealed widespread state-sponsored doping. returned 52 adverse findings, including 49 for pics cause one to be skeptical about any Russian openside flankers, replaces Pocock make a transformative decision for our global After a task force reported back that the meldonium. It also said there were 23 missed performances.” at number eight in a calculated gamble that his mobility and energy will make up for his lack of heft. A “gut” decision by Jones to replace centre Luther Burrell with flyhalf George Ford after 30 minutes in Olympics: The Syrians going for gold in Rio Brisbane proved a master stroke as his team worked their way back into the game. Jones has decided to stick with AFP side’s goalkeeper, Abdel Basset Sarout, where he cleared 2.36 metres -- just that winning combination, with reportedly joined the Islamic State nine centimetres short of the world Ford to start at flyhalf and Far- group, which has declared a caliphate record. rell at inside centre in one of only DAMASCUS: The front lines of Syr- across swathes of Syria and neigh- “The training facilities in Syria two changes to his starting line-up. ia’s civil war are just a few kilometres bouring Iraq it controls. aren’t enough,” said Ghazal, who was The other saw Jack Nowell, away, but at the Tishrin Stadium in The athletes heading for Rio have denied entry to Morocco and several an ever present in the Six Nations Damascus, Majd Ghazal is training overcome the daily threat of vio- European countries to take part in grand slam side, restored to the left hard for August’s Olympics in Brazil. lence, poor training facilities and international competitions. wing in place of Marland Yarde. Like a handful of other Syrian travel restrictions that have prevented In 2012, the British government Meanwhile in Johannesburg, athletes, the high-jumper is hoping them taking part in other international declined to grant a visa for the head of an embarrassing home defeat for to bring a rare moment of happiness competitions. the Syrian Olympics Committee, Mow- South Africa in their opening test to a country submerged in violence Many of them train in the Tishrin affak Joumaa, to attend the London against Ireland could provoke either for the past five years. Stadium in northwest Damascus, which Olympics, citing European Union- a devastating backlash or be the “I’m going to do everything I can has been hit repeatedly by mortar fire wide sanctions. precursor to more turmoil as the with my coach to achieve a strong per- from nearby rebel-held areas, wound- Joumaa said Syrian athletes have sides meet again tomorrow in the formance, and I’m hoping to get up on ing several fellow athletes. missed several international compe- second test at Ellis Park. the podium and make the Syrian peo- The Syrian regime has been ostra- titions for the same reason. The tourists produced a logic- ple happy,” Ghazal said. cised by much of the international “The crisis in Syria has had a big defying 26-20 win at Newlands in Just six Syrians are guaranteed a community since its bloody suppres- impact on the preparations and training Cape Town last weekend despite place at the Games, which get under sion of the anti-government protests of athletes, due to the lack of security playing with only 14 men for three way in Rio on August 5 -- two ath- that erupted in 2011 and many coun- much of the time,” he said. quarters of the match after the early letes, two swimmers, a weightlifter tries, particularly Arab and European The athletes heading to Rio join a dismissal of flanker CJ Stander for Syrian high jump athlete Majd Ghazal and hurdler Ghafran Mohammad and a table tennis player. ones, have imposed sanctions, includ- short list of Syrians ever to have taken their first ever away win over South (right) get ready for a training session at Tishrine Stadium in Damascus Two boxers -- welterweight Ahmad ing travel restrictions. part in an Olympic Games. Africa. Ghassoun and his light heavyweight Ghazal’s trainer, Imad Sarraj, said Syrian heptathlete Ghada Shouaa in this June 12, 2016, file photo. Like a handful of other Syrian athletes, The plucky performance now brother Ala -- will join them if they the high-jumper is capable of compet- won the country’s first and only gold the high-jumper is hoping to bring a rare moment of happiness to a offers the Irish a chance for a series do well enough at this month’s qual- ing with the best in the world, but that medal, at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. country submerged in violence for the last five years. win that would have seemed ification tournament in Azerbaijan. being allowed to compete in European Syrian wrestler Joseph Attiya won unthinkable when they arrived in Syria’s sports community has been competitions would have helped him silver in Los Angeles in 1984, while Syr- Rio is “a confirmation that Syria is “I train here and I don’t fear death,” the country with a squad depleted deeply divided by the civil war, with reach the level he needs to succeed in ia’s last medal was boxer Nasr al-Shami, breathing and steadfast in the face she said. by injury to key players and hand a some siding with the government, the Olympics. who won bronze in Athens in 2004. of the terrorists.” “It’s hard to compete but for me major psychological blow to South others with the rebels and some even The 28-year-old, a relative out- Mohammad Abbas, editor of the Hurdler Ghafran Mohammad, it’s enough of an honour just to take African rugby.But Ireland coach reportedly joining jihadist groups. sider in the sport, did manage to take Itihad sport newspaper, says that the working out at the Tishrin Stadium, part and raise the Syrian flag,” he said Joe Schmidt warned he anticipated Early last year, the national football part at a tournament in Beijing in May, presence of Syrian competitors in knows the size of the task she faces. yesterday. something of a backlash. 22 FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 SPORT

Murray books first all-British Tendulkar to help pick new Queen’s quarter-final AFP

India coach by video link LONDON: Andy Murray set up the first all-British Queen’s Club quarter-final in the Open era as the defending champion cruised to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over another compatriot, Aljaz Bedene yesterday. Murray will face British wildcard Kyle Edmund for a place in the semi- finals after brushing aside Bedene in the second round of the Wimbledon warm-up event. The retired batting The last time two British players contested an ATP Tour quarter-final was in Adelaide in 2002 when Tim Henman defeated Greg Rusedski 6-4, 6-4. star will join former “It wasn’t bad. I’m still getting used to the conditions a bit but I played team-mates Sourav well,” Murray said. “The British thing had no bearing on it. It’s good the British players are Ganguly and VVS doing well and I’m happy there are more Brits at the bigger events. I had a Laxman to pick the feeling I would play one here. “Kyle Edmund is improving all the time -- it’s not one massive leap but national team coach every year he gets a bit better.” Murray is bidding for a record fifth Queen’s crown and the world number two took just 83 minutes to extend his fine career record in west London to 27-5 and book a sixth appearance in the Queen’s last eight. AFP The 29-year-old Scot, who resumed his partnership with coach Ivan Lendl this week after a two-year separation, next takes on Davis Cup team-mate Edmund, who was given a walkover into the quarter-finals after his French NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar will opponent Paul-Henri Mathieu pulled out with a wrist problem. tune in from abroad by video link to The promising South Africa-born 21-year-old had enjoyed the best win help choose India’s new coach after of his career on Wednesday when he defeated French world number 18 Gilles he was handed the task alongside Simon in the first round. fellow batting greats Sourav Gan- While there was another more high-profile Battle of Britain going on guly and VVS Laxman. across the English Channel in France, where England and Wales clashed in Former Indian cricket captain and current president of the Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB), Sourav Tendulkar, Ganguly and Lax- Euro 2016, there was plenty at stake for Murray. Ganguly (right) and former Indian batsman VVS Laxman gesture as they display pink cricket balls during man, dubbed the “holy trinity” by It was the first time Murray had faced a British opponent at Tour level on Indian media, together with sen- a function at Eden Gardens in Kolkata yesterday. Eden Gardens will host India’s first day-night game with home soil and the first time anywhere since he lost to Henman in Bangkok ior official Sanjay Jagdale, will get a pink ball starting from June 19, with Bhovanipur Club taking on Mohun Bagan AC in a four-day game. in 2006. Murray had battled hard to subdue Nicolas Mahut in two tie-breaks to work after the flood of 57 appli- in the first round and initially he looked out of sync against Slovenia-born cations was whittled down to 21, a less than a week to pick a coach, with committee deems fit,” BCCI secre- former team director Ravi Shastri and Bedene. Appearing to be discomforted by a shoulder problem, Murray had statement said yesterday. their choice expected to be submit- tary Ajay Shirke said in the statement. current chief selector Sandeep Patil. to save a break point in the first game. The Board of Control for Cricket ted for approval by June 22. The new “Should the committee desire Shastri has thrown his hat in the But he gradually found some rhythm and broke for a 5-3 lead before in India (BCCI) release added that coach is likely to be appointed before to look at all the 57 applications as ring once more, while former cap- serving out the first set with the minimum fuss. Tendulkar, who is out of the coun- India’s tour of the West Indies in July. well, the said will be made availa- tain and star spinner Anil Kumble and Murray was on top without having to reach top gear and after breaking in try, “has confirmed his availability “The said committee... will proc- ble to them.” chief selector Patil have also confirmed the third game of the second set, he gifted the advantage back with a care- as and when required through video ess and scrutinise all the applications, The BCCI hasn’t named any of they were keen to take on one of the less effort in the next game. Even with that blip, Murray never looked likely conference facilities”. conduct interviews and seek pres- the candidates, but media reports most challenging jobs in international to come unstuck and he broke the world number 58 again for a 4-3 lead that The high-powered committee has entations from candidates as the suggest that the front-runners are cricket. was more than enough to take him into the last eight. Elsewhere in the second round, Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller saved 10 match points to claim a surprise 3-6, 7-6 (18/16), 7-6 (9/7) win over American seventh seed John Isner. Muller, who also reached the Queen’s quarter-finals Tahir spins Chandimal last year, will face Australia’s Bernard Tomic or Spain’s Fernando Verdasco for a place in the last four. Canadian third seed Milos Raonic advanced to the South Africa shines as last eight for the second successive year with a 7-5, 7-6 (8/6) victory against to victory over Sri Lanka beat Czech Jiri Vesely. West Indies hosts Ireland

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Great Britain’s Andy Murray in BARBADOS: Leg-spinner Imran MALAHIDE, IRELAND: Sri Lanka Tahir became the first South Afri- beat Ireland by 76 runs, under the action during can to claim seven wickets in a Duckworth/Lewis method for rain- the second one-day international as the Pro- affected matches, to win the first round at the teas demolished West Indies in St one-day international in Malahide Queen’s Club Kitts on Wednesday. yesterday. yesterday. Tahir served up a rich variety of Ireland, chasing a revised target deliveries to claim 7-45 from nine of 293 in 47 overs, were dismissed overs as the Proteas won by 139 for 216, with Sri Lanka ODI debutant runs, dismissing the bewildered Dasun Shanaka taking five wickets. West Indies for 204 in 38 overs at Sri Lanka, after losing the toss, Warner Park. made 303 for seven with Dinesh Earlier in the day, Hashim Amla Chandimnal scoring exactly 100 scored 110 off 99 balls to notch his not out before rain interrupted Ire- Lendl says Murray can end 23rd career ODI century, sharing land’s chase. an opening partnership of 182 with Victory saw Sri Lanka go 1-0 Quinton de Kock (71) to set the vis- up in the two-match series ahead Djokovic’s ‘Slam’ dream itors on their way to a formidable of the 2nd ODI, also in Malahide, 343-4. tomorrow. Reuters SCOREBOARD SCOREBOARD

South Africa Sri Lanka LONDON: Andy Murray has what it takes to ruin Novak Djokovic’s dreams H Amla c Narine b Pollard 110 Pakistani Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq (left) presents the team players K Perera c and b McCarthy 32 of sweeping to a ‘Golden Slam’, coach Ivan Lendl has said as the Scot pre- autographed bats to British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Thomas Q de Kock b Taylor 71 D Gunathilaka c Stirling b McCarthy 9 pares for another tilt at the Wimbledon title. Drew during an Iftar dinner by the British High Commissioner ahead C Morris c sub (J Carter) b Brathwaite 40 K Mendis c and b O'Brien 51 Murray has not won a Grand Slam since parting ways with Lendl in March of the Pakistani team departure for England, in Lahore, yesterday. 2014 after two years in which he won the 2012 Olympic gold, the 2012 US F du Plessis (not out) 73 D Chandimal (batting) 100 A Mathews b Sorensen 49 Open and the 2013 Wimbledon titles. A.B de Villiers c Charles b Pollard 27 The two rekindled their partnership on Sunday and are already plotting J.P Duminy (not out) 10 D Shanaka b Rankin 42 to stop Djokovic, the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Extras (B-4, LB-2, W-4, NB-2) 12 S Prasanna c Anderson b Rankin 0 Slam titles at the same time. Hadlee says sun setting on Test U Tharanga c Anderson b Murtagh 7 Total (50 overs, 4 wickets) 343 The Serb has won the French and Australian titles this year and victory at D de Silva (batting) 3 Wimbledon and the US Open in August would give him a calendar-year Grand Fall of wickets: 1-182, 2-185, 3-245, cricket is a good thing Slam. Adding gold at the Olympics in Rio would see him seal the ‘golden slam’. 4-309. Extras (LB4, W6) 10 Reuters Total (7 wkts, 50 overs) 303 “To me there is a career Grand Slam, then all four in a row, next the calendar Did not bat: F Behardien, W Parnell, K year Grand Slam and on the top the golden slam (including the Olympic gold Fall of wickets: 1-42, 2-47, 3-129, Rabada, I Tahir, T Shamsi. medal). Djokovic has a chance to do that this year,” Lendl told British media. 4-218, 5-278, 6-278, 7-297 Bowling: J Taylor 8-0-72-1 (2nb, 1w), J MUMBAI: Day-night Test is the future of cricket’s longest format but the boards “Obviously Andy and I would like to ruin those plans if we can. Bowling: Murtagh 10-0-61-1 (1w); Holder 6-0-51-0, S Narine 10-0-46-0, C should not rush it, according to New Zealand pace great Richard Hadlee. “We know Andy has it in him. So now the question is ‘can he do it again?’ Rankin 10-0-45-2 (3w); McCarthy 9-0- Brathwaite 10-0-69-1, S Benn 7-0-35-0, Australia played the first day-night Test against New Zealand at Adelaide I think that’s an easier question to answer than ‘can you do it at all?’” 69-2; Sorensen 6-0-49-1 (2w); O'Brien Pollard 9-0-64-2 (3w). Oval last November and have agreed another flood-lit match with South Lendl and Murray’s renewed partnership began with a victory over

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West Indies Africa at the same venue during the home summer. Frenchman Nicolas Mahut at the Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club,

The concept has found ready takers in south Asia with India trialling pink- Ireland the Wimbledon warm-up event, on Tuesday. A Fletcher c Behardien b Tahir 21 balls and Pakistan agreeing to play a floodlit Test in Brisbane in December. W Porterfield c Perera b Eranga 73 J Charles c du Plessis b Shamsi 49 “You try, it is the game of the future. Probably one Test in a series is fair P Stirling b Shanaka 27 D Bravo b Parnell 11 enough,” Hadlee told reporters in Mumbai. E Joyce c Chandimal b Shanaka 9 “I think most people like to see the traditional format during the day.” Federer leads Swiss tennis tilt in Rio M Samuels c wkpr de Kock b Tahir 24 J Anderson c Chandimal b Shanaka 7 D Ramdin c Morris b Shamsi 11 The durability of the pink kookaburra ball and the dew factor in India have raised doubts about the future of a floodlit test in the country. K O’Brien lbw b Pradeep 64 K Pollard c Behardien b Tahir 20 Hadlee said the players must get ample practice before such a contest. S Poynter b Shanaka 20 AFP J Holder lbw Tahir 19 “It is important for the players to have practice games; you cannot ask them G Wilson lbw b Mathews 1 C Brathwaite b Tahir 0 to go out there and ask them to play a day-night game against the pink ball. M Sorensen b Shanaka 6 S Narine (not out) 18 “It is unrealistic in professional environment era. That needs to be tried B McCarthy c Chandimal b Mathews 0 LAUSANNE: Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka will lead a star-studded S Benn c Shamsi b Tahir 0 and tested, so players can get some confidence.” T Murtagh st Chandimal b Prasanna 0 Swiss tennis team gunning for gold at the Rio Olympics in August, officials Meanwhile, v eteran New Zealand umpire Billy Bowden, famous for his said yesterday. J Taylor b Tahir 16 B Rankin not out 0 quirky signals including raising a crooked finger to signal a dismissal, has World number three Federer, who will turn 35 during the Games, will be Extras (B-1, LB-2, W-10, NB-2) 15 been dropped from the country’s international panel of officials, New Zea- Extras (LB6, NB1, W2) 9 playing in his fifth -- and surely last -- Olympics and will be hoping to sign Total (38 overs, all out) 204 land Cricket announced yesterday. Total (all out, 40.4 overs) 216 off with a gold medal to add to his already bulging trophy cabinet. Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-82, 3-90, 4-121, The 53-year-old has officiated 84 test matches, 200 one-day interna- Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-71, 3-91, 4-159, He and Wawrinka, number five in the world, are among six Swiss play- 5-128, 6-169, 7-169, 8-170, 9-182, 10-204. tionals and 24 Twenty20 internationals in a career spanning 21 years. 5-198, 6-205, 7-211, 8-212, 9-216, 10-216 ers named by the country’s Olympic committee for the August 5-21 Games. Bowling: W Parnell 6-0-43-1 (2nb), K Ra- In a reshuffle of New Zealand’s umpiring structure, former first-class Bowling: Eranga 7-0-34-1 (1nb); Math- Martina Hingis, the 35-year-old former women’s number one, will also players Shaun Haig and Chris Brown received call ups to the international take part, along with eighth-ranked Belinda Bencic and Timea Bacsinszky. bada 7-0-46-0 (2w), I Tahir 9-0-45-7, Mor- ews 9-0-37-2 (1w), Pradeep 8-0-45-1 panel, along with Wayne Knights. Xenia Knoll is also lined up to take part. Federer and Wawrinka won gold ris 7-0-26-0 (1w), Shamsi 9-0-41-2 (3w). (1w), Prasanna 6.4-0-44-1; Shanaka 9-0- He last officiated at the international level in the ODI between Australia 43-5; De Sila 1-0-7-0 in the doubles in Beijing in 2008, and Federer took silver in the singles four and New Zealand in February. years ago, losing to Andy Murray in the final in London. SPORT FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 23

Czechs desperate Spain eye last 16 against for win over Srna’s ‘little Spain’ out of sorts Turkey AFP spent the season on loan at Inter Milan. “I believe if we play like we did against Turkey, we can win.” SAINT-ÉTIENNE: Czech Repub- Czech Republic held out against Selection headache lic take on Croatia today with their double defending champions Spain coach Pavel Vrba targeting a Group for 87 minutes until Gerard Pique for coach Bosque as D win over ‘little Spain’ crashed in the winner defending champions to help their bid to stay and their battling defen- at Euro 2016. sive was a plus point look to maintain “With their stars from the defeat. 13-match unbeaten playing at Real and “I don’t think they Barcelona, they can be will keep as much pos- Euro record nicknamed ‘little Spain’. session of the ball as We know another tough Spain, but they’re a game is in front of us,” strong team as well.” AFP said the Czech boss. “We will play more His side lost their offensive football too,” opening European said Czech winger Ladis- Championship finals lav Krejci. NICE: European champions Spain are game 1-0 to Spain in Czech forward often slow starters at major tourna- Toulouse last Sunday. Tomas Necid was left ments, but after Gerard Pique’s late The nickname ‘Little kicking himself for fal- winner in their Euro 2016 opener, Vice- Spain’ given to Croatia ing to finish his chance nte del Bosque’s men already have the has been coined with to score at the end of the last 16 in sight when they take on Tur- Ivan Rakitic at Barce- first-half against Spain, key today. lona, Luka Modric and but says they will take An opening defeat at the 2010 World Mateo Kovacic at Span- their fight to stay in the Cup, and draw at the 2012 European ish rivals Real Madrid, competition to Srna’s Championship ultimately counted for while forward Duje Cop Croatia. Spain’s players attend a training session at the Complexe Sportif Marcel Gaillard in Saint Martin de Re, little as Spain won both tournaments. is at Sevilla. “Croatia won the But after a disastrous 5-1 thrash- France yesterday, ahead of their Euro 2016 match against Turkey today. The Croatia squad has been hit opener - they may feel relatively ing at the hands of the Netherlands by a double bereavement in the build comfortable as we have lost,” said provoked a first-round exit from the chances in front of his retired long- on Sunday. Previously fancied by many up to the Saint Etienne clash. the Bursaspor forward. 2014 World Cup, Spain breathed a sigh Petr Cech’s goal. time partner Xavi to make it out of a difficult group, their Captain Darijo Srna, then goal- “I do not want to say we are going of relief with the 1-0 win against the Aduriz at his side, as he star talents like Arda Turan, Oguzhan keeping coach Marijan Mrmic both all-out for the win, but we need the Czech Republic in Toulouse on Monday. replaced Mor- made the goal Ozyakup and Hakan Calhanoglu were had to return home in recent days important three points to qualify Spain are now unbeaten in 13 ata for the last for Pique with far from their best. to be with their family after learn- from the group.” European Championship games, 20 minutes, but an inch-perfect In fact, the Turks were lucky to ing their fathers had died. With the experience of facing but question marks remain over the failed to make a cross. Two days lose by just a one-goal margin with Shakhtar Donetsk defender Srna Spain’s superstars out of the way, potency of their attack to give veteran big impact as he after the game, Croatia captain Darijo Srna and Ivan is back in France having travelled Czech captain Tomas Rosicky says coach Del Bosque plenty of selection sent a specula- Spanish sports Perisic both hitting the woodwork, in to Croatia after Sunday’s exciting his side can take confidence from headaches for their second Group D tie. tive overhead kick daily AS still mar- addition to Luka Modric’s spectacu- 1-0 win over Turkey for his father’s a good display to boost them for The two-time defending champions wide of the target with his best effort. velled at Iniesta’s sublime performance, lar match-winning volley. funeral. Croatia. dominated possession and managed Del Bosque also handed Euro- splashing: “Global astonishment!” on Terim said that his team had Defender Vedran Corluka trained “Our younger players were very 17 shots on goal, but had to wait until pean Championship debuts to Celta its front page on Wednesday. “dropped physically” in the second half, with the Croatia squad on Tuesday surprised about playing against the 87th minute for centre-back Pique Vigo winger Nolito and Bayern Munich Turkey need to at least avoid defeat while Barcelona’s Turan, who was sub- after a head injury knowing another world class players,” said the Arse- to head home at the back post. midfielder Thiago Alcantara, although to keep their Euro 2016 dreams alive. stituted in the 65th minute, asked for win would put Croatia in the sec- nal midfielder. One of several new Spain faces neither are guaranteed to start against Fatih Terim’s side entered the tour- “forgiveness” on Turkish television. ond round. “They have to go through it. It is making their major finals debut, Ath- Turkey. nament on a promising vein of form Against a Spain side seeking to nail “This is a crucial game, we need part of the normal development of a letic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz sat Despite the new-look Spain, it was having lost just one of their previous down a slot in the knockout stages, Tur- to win it to secure a place in the next football player, and they have to be on the bench as Juventus marksman the 32-year-old Andres Iniesta who 16 games, but were outclassed in losing key have an uphill battle to salvage their round,” said Dynamo Zagreb mid- more self-confident, if we are going Alvaro Morata spurned a hatful of ran the show for Spain, even without 1-0 to Croatia at the Parc des Princes prospects of progressing in France. fielder Marcelo Brozovic, who has to hurt big opponents.” Italians ready for Slovakia hail Hamsik after historic win

Ibra and Sweden AFP Slovakia’s midfielder Marek Hamsik celebrates his goal AFP fans for the past decade. He hit 11 during their Euro 2016 group goals for Sweden in their qualifying LILLE: Slovakia coach Jan Kozak B football match against campaign, only two shy of German believes Europe’s best teams should Russia at the Pierre-Mauroy Robert Lewandowski, and with the be watching Marek Hamsik after the Stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, MONTPELLIER: He terrorised oppo- pressure now on the towering striker Napoli midfielder led his country to near Lille, on Wednesday. sition defences in Serie A for Italy coach Antonio Conte has a 2-1 win over Russia on Wednesday. seven seasons but Zlatan sounded a warning. Ibrahi- It was a historic day for Slovakia in Ibrahimovic will face stiff movic’s talents on the pitch Lille as they claimed their first Euro- resistance to his efforts to are only exceeded by his pean Championship finals win since rescue Sweden’s Euro 2016 penchant for self-promo- the break-up of Czechoslovakia to boost campaign against Italy today. tion off it. their hopes of qualifying from Group “Zlatan can put a whole Although today’s game B at Euro 2016. team under pressure just would be the perfect occasion Hamsik, 28, was the instigator with by himself, but we have to for ‘Ibra’ to defy his detrac- a superb pass on his left foot to set up concentrate on our own tors, Italy won’t relinquish Vladimir Weiss for the opener in the game ... and try to limit their their new-found confidence 32nd minute. He then scored a bril- strengths,” Lazio winger easily. liant second with his right foot on the Antonio Candreva said. Italy, who have suf- stroke of half-time before Denis Glush- After a frustrating 1-1 fered first-round exits from akov pulled one back in vain late on draw with Republic of Ireland the past two editions of the for Russia. in which Ibrahimovic failed World Cup, were given no “Napoli has become too small for to sparkle despite playing a hope before the competition. him. I think he is ready to play for a decisive role in Ciaran Clark’s But after a deserved 2-0 really big club,” declared Kozak after late own goal, the Swedes win over Group E favourites seeing his team bounce back from a are under pressure ahead of Belgium, the Azzurri are 2-1 loss to Wales in their opener last Friday’s Group E clash in Toulouse. brimming with belief. Saturday in Bordeaux. A defeat would leave the Scan- Italy, beaten 4-0 by Spain in the “He has been performing very well dinavians needing to beat Belgium, 2012 Euro final, are hoping to make for Slovakia and is one of the leaders ranked number two in the world, in amends for their second successive of the team together with Martin Skr- their last group game and hope they first-round exit from the World Cup, tel. His performance today was really round -- we’ll see. I did well and am A draw in that match should be In contrast, Russia have endured a get among the four best third-placed in Brazil two years ago. It led to the superb.” very proud that I managed to score such enough to take Kozak’s side through troubled campaign and with just one group finishers to sneak into the last 16. resignation of coach Cesare Prandelli, Hamsik’s decisive goal followed a a goal -- it was brilliant,” said Hamsik, to the last 16 and with Hamsik on form point from two games could be facing a Sweden coach Erik Hamren is and in the aftermath reports claimed quickly-taken corner by Weiss. With who despite Kozak’s comments indi- they can be hope to upset their sup- group-stage exit from the tournament. already dubious. Italy were undone by a lack of team the Russian defence slow to react, the cated he is happy at Napoli, runners-up posedly more illustrious opponents. After snatching a 1-1 draw against “Even though we managed to unity. Under no-nonsense Conte, former Brescia playmaker, who has to Juventus in last season’s Serie A. “I hope he will cause problems to England in Marseille at the weekend on come back and equalise, I am dis- who will take over at Chelsea after been in Italy since the age of 17, col- “I am pleased with what I have England because he showed his qual- a night overshadowed by crowd trou- appointed. We will need to play at the tournament, Italy were virtually lected the ball and curled a stunning achieved so far although I am sure there ity today and showed how important ble, Leonid Slutsky’s side threatened a 300 percent to get through,” he said impenetrable at the back against Bel- shot in off the far post. is room for improvement. We will see he is for our team,” said centre-back couple of times early on but had no real after their opening draw. gium, while dynamic and creative in It was arguably the best goal yet where my future lies -- hopefully it will and captain Skrtel, of Liverpool. answer to Hamsik’s brilliance. Sweden will really need the tal- midfield and attack. at the tournament and it left Russia still be in Naples but for now I am just Kozak, whose team famously “The situation in the group is very ents of Ibrahimovic, their talisman Conte will be wary after Leonardo with too much to do, even if substi- enjoying the tournament.” defeated Spain during qualifying, complex. Every team will have a chance for many seasons. One of the most Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini, Eder and tute Glushakov’s late strike set up a Group rivals England and Wales added: “They have lots of good qual- of qualifying going into the final round feared strikers in the world, Ibrahi- Thiago Motta were all cautioned Mon- grandstand finale. meet in Lens on Thursday before Slova- ity players and are very strong but we of games,” insisted Slutsky ahead of movic’s ability to produce moments day, meaning they are one booking “I am very proud and perhaps this kia face the English in their final group have our quality as well and will try next Monday’s meeting with the Welsh of goalscoring magic have delighted away from a one-match suspension. has opened up the gates to the second game in Saint-Etienne next Monday. to be a decent opponent to England. in Toulouse. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 23 Syrians going for Slovakia hail gold in Hamsik after Rio Olympics historic win

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guarantee one of the two automatic in the build-up to the game, had qualifying berths. been a peripheral figure, save for The Three Lions “Obviously it is massively dis- a shot that was blocked by Cahill, come from behind appointing, but I am very proud of but three minutes before half-time everybody,” said Bale. “We keep he strode onto centre-stage. to secure dramatic fighting all the way.” Wayne Rooney’s foul on Rob- 2-1 win in all-British A draw against Slovakia in son-Kanu gave Wales a free-kick Euro 2016 clash Saint-Etienne will suffice for Eng- 35 yards out in a central position. land and they will approach the Though Bale’s shot had vicious pace game with renewed optimism after and dip, Hart should have done bet- RESULTS belatedly kicking their tournament ter than palm it inside his left-hand JUNE 10 AFP into gear. post. It made the Real Madrid for- It was the 102nd meeting ward the first Wales player to score GROUP A: France 2-1 Romania between the teams, but the first against England since Mark Hughes, at a major championship, and the on his debut, in May 1984. JUNE 11 LENS: Jamie Vardy and Daniel boxy, British-style Stade Bollaert- When the half-time whistle GROUP A: Albania 0-1 Switzerland Sturridge rose from the bench to Delelis provided an ideal setting on came, it drew a cascade of boos GROUP B: Wales 2-1 Slovakia, score as England came from behind a day when fears of fan violence from the England end. England 1-1 Russia to defeat neighbours Wales 2-1 in failed to materialise. Hodgson was quick to react, yesterday’s all-British Euro 2016 Wales recalled first-choice sending on Leicester City star JUNE 12 clash in Lens. goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey after Vardy and Liverpool’s Sturridge GROUP C: Poland 1-0 Northern Ireland, Just as he had in Wales’s open- he missed the win over Slovakia for Kane and Sterling at the break, Germany 2-0 Ukraine ing 2-1 win over Slovakia, Gareth due to a back spasm, as well as Joe and after Rooney had seen a low GROUP D: Turkey 0-1 Croatia Bale put Chris Coleman’s side ahead Ledley and Hal Robson-Kanu, who curler palmed behind by Hennes- with a long-range free-kick, which came off the bench in Bordeaux to sey, his side equalised. JUNE 13 England goalkeeper Joe Hart could score the winner. Sturridge’s flighted cross from GROUP D: Spain 1-0 Czech only fumble into the net. While it meant that Wales were the left was knocked down at the Republic But Vardy and Sturridge came at full strength, they were content to back post and Vardy swivelled to GROUP E: Ireland 1-1 Sweden, on at half-time and after the former let England, who were unchanged, tuck away his fourth international Belgium 0-2 Italy had equalised in the 56th minute, force the issue and it was Hodgson’s goal. He was standing around four the latter smuggled in a stop- men who bossed the first half on a yards offside, but replays showed page-time winner that fired Roy sunny afternoon in northern France. that the previous touch had JUNE 14 Hodgson’s men to the top of the They should have taken the come from Wales captain Ashley GROUP F: Austria 0-2 Hungary, group. lead in the seventh minute when Williams. Portugal 1-1 Iceland “When the chances don’t go Harry Kane freed Adam Lallana to The on-pitch scene soon resem- in and you’ve compounded your cross for Raheem Sterling, but from bled the Alamo as Hodgson threw on JUNE 15 task by conceding that Gareth Bale seven yards out the Manchester teenage Manchester United striker GROUP A: Romania 1-1 Switzerland, goal, it really is a happy moment City man could only slide the ball Marcus Rashford for Lallana, leav- France 2-0 Albania when both the substitutes score,” over the bar. Gary Cahill and Chris ing England with four of their five GROUP B: Russia 1-2 Slovakia said Hodgson. Smalling threatened with headers, named forwards on the pitch. England’s forward Jamie Vardy (right) “I thought it was on the cards all while the most contentious inci- Despite the charge it seemed YESTERDAY scores their first goal against Wales the way through the second half.” dent of the first period saw Kane Wales would hold out, only for Stur- GROUP B: England 2-1 Wales during their Euro 2016 group B Wales are a point back in second denied a penalty when his close- ridge to collect Dele Alli’s clever GROUP C: Ukraine 0-2 Northern Ireland, football match played at the Bollaert- place, above Slovakia on head- range header struck Ben Davies’s flick and steer a shot inside Hennes- Germany 0-0 Poland Delelis Stadium in Lens yesterday. to-head record, and need to beat outstretched left hand. sey’s near post in the 91st minute, Russia in Toulouse on Monday to Bale, Welsh antagoniser-in-chief silencing the Welsh hordes. Poland frustrate world champs Germany as Ukraine exit

AFP They made by far the better start as Loew introduced forwards Andre netted seven goals in qualifying to Mario Goetze headed just over from Schuerrle and Mario Gomez to bring help the Irish reach the finals. Ukraine Julian Draxler’s cross, whilst Toni more of a cutting edge to Germany’s coach Mykhailo Fomenko kept faith Kroos also failed to hit the target as attacking play in the final quarter. with the majority of the side which PARIS: Old rivals Germany and Poland he burst into the box. But a lacklustre German display lost 2-0 to Germany last Sunday. fought a battle of attrition that ended At the other end, Poland’s star man rarely looked like reaping all three It was an impressive display from in a goalless draw and edged both Robert Lewandowski was kept in close points as they had to settle for a point. Northern Ireland, who fought their countries towards a place in the last check by Bayern Munich teammates Earlier, in Lyon, veteran Gareth way back into the game. 16 of Euro 2016 yesterday. Jerome Boateng and the returning McAuley and substitute Niall McGinn They had struggled for first-half The stalemate left Germany on Mats Hummels - playing in his first netted as Northern Ireland shocked possession -- winning just 35 percent top of Group C on goal difference game for a month due to a calf injury. Ukraine 2-0 to keep alive their hopes in the first 45 minutes. with both sides on four points from A drab end to the first-half was of reaching the knockout phase of And the first clear chance for two matches. quickly forgotten by a fast start to the the Euro 2016. either side came with half an hour Poland’s Arkadiusz Milik had the second period. A flying header from West Brom- gone when Irish centre-back Craig best chance when he bundled the ball The hordes of Polish supporters wich Albion defender McAuley and Cathcart headed over. wide from point-blank range early in watched in amazement when on 48 McGinn’s injury-time strike at a hail- Mother Nature played her part as the second-half. minutes Milik -- scorer of the only goal stone-battered Stade de Lyon gave the heavens opened over Lyon for the Germany’s Jerome Boateng com- against Northern Ireland -- somehow Ireland their first win at a European start of the second-half. plained that his side had been “too failed to turn home Kamil Grosicki’s Championship finals. It did little to hinder McAuley’s div- rigid” in their play. dangerous cross from barely a metre Michael O’Neill’s side produced ing header from looping over Ukraine But a draw was a fair result from out. the perfect reaction to losing their goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov in a torren- a tightly contested encounter. Poland goalkeeper Lukasz Fabi- Group C opener 1-0 to Poland, giving tial downpour after a brilliant cross Northern Ireland’s 2-0 win over anski was not forced into a save in them everything to play for against from Oliver Norwood on 49 minutes. Ukraine earlier on Thursday leaves the first-half as he deputised for the world champions Germany in next It was McAuley’s eighth international Michael O’Neill’s men just a point injured Wojciech Szczesny. Tuesday’s final group game. goal and none will be toasted more behind the leaders ahead of their However, the Swansea City stop- McAuley also wrote himself into back home. The greasy ball was nearly final group game against Germany per was finally called into action as the history books. At 36 years and 194 in the Irish net minutes later as their on Tuesday. Goetze fired straight at him when days, he is the second oldest goalscorer goalkeeper Michael McGovern blocked Poland take on Ukraine in Mar- well-placed inside the area. at a Euro finals, after Ivica Vastic, who half-chances from Taras Stepanenko, seille in their final pool match with Milik drove a well-worked free- was two years, 63 days older when then Yevhen Konoplyanka. a draw enough to seal their place in kick just wide before Boateng produced he converted a penalty for Austria Both teams struggled in the sodden the knockout stages. a miraculous last-ditch challenge to against Poland at Euro 2008. conditions as a hailstorm then battered Poland had only beaten Germany deny Lewandowski as Poland began The victory is just desserts for the pitch and on 58 minutes Czech ref- once in 20 previous meetings, but to look the more threatening. O’Neill. eree Pavel Kralovec halted the game. that came in qualifying for Euro 2016 Ajax striker Milik fluffed his lines The Northern Irish manager made The players were back out three min- and the Poles were full of confidence again when he failed to make a clean five changes from his starting line- utes later and Ukraine fought for the Poland’s forward Robert Lewandowski (right) having won their first ever European contact when picked out again by Gro- up after his side had failed to impose equaliser as Viktor Kovalenko fired is challenged by Germany’s defender Jerome Championship finals match against sicki inside the box. themselves on Poland, including drop- wide of McGovern with 20 minutes left. Boateng during their Euro 2016 group C football Northern Ireland on Sunday. Yet, Fabianski then produced a ping top scorer Kyle Lafferty. Ukraine peppered their opponents’ match played at the Stade de France Stadium in Germany’s emotional return to stunning stop to turn Mesut Ozil’s O’Neill preferred to start QPR’s goal with long-range shots before Saint-Denis near Paris yesterday. the at the Stade de France did not fierce strike from the edge of the Conor Washington as striker instead McGinn slammed in just before the seem to affect Joachim Loew’s side. box over the bar. of Norwich City’s Lafferty who had end to wrap up a famous win.