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SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 • 25 SHAWWAL 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6873 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar 2 more winter Emir’s visits boost ties with ,

QNA the importance of stability in the Mid- attended a dinner banquet hosted between both sides as positive and dle East and expressed concern over by President Macri at the Quinta de distinguished and wished they would humanitarian consequences of the Olivos Presidential Palace in honour be held regularly to enhance coop- markets in ongoing conflicts in the region. of the Emir and his delegation. eration, partnership and investment. : Emir H H Sheikh On Israeli-Palestinian conflict, President Macri thanked the President Macri’s wife Juliana Awada Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- both sides stressed the importance Emir for visiting Argentina, calling and several Argentine ministers also day concluded a two-day official visit of reaching comprehensive and fair for to be a strategic partner, attended the banquet. to Argentina. solution, taking into account the especially as both countries are eco- The Emir arrived in Argentina coming season The Emir sent a cable to President related United Nations resolutions nomically integrated and can achieve from a visit to Colombia where he held , expressing thanks and the Arab Peace Initiative. a lot through cooperation, particu- talks with President Juan Manuel San- and appreciation for the hospitality The Emir said the visit would larly as Argentina has started a new tos. They expressed satisfaction with and warm reception and said the visit contribute to strengthening and phase of reforms. the good level of relations in politi- of the markets. “Until now, we do was an opportunity to exchange views developing friendship and cooper- The Emir said relations between cal, economic and investment fields. not know the exact sites for the on regional and international issues of ation in various fields for the benefit both countries would develop to a During both visits, several memoran- Al Ruwais and new winter markets, because we common interest. Both sides stressed of the two peoples. Earlier, the Emir strategic partnership, describing talks dums of understanding were signed. Muaither yards along haven’t yet secured the approval for the locations from the author- with three existing ities concerned,” said Al Khulaifi. ones could open The markets will provide a wide Emir congratulates two weeks earlier in variety of vegetable and poultry maternity hospital attacked products from local farms at attrac- President of Peru November. tive prices. They will also offer an opportu- DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim nity for farmers to sell their produce bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday directly to consumers. sent a cable of congratulations By Sidi Mohamed The new markets will be a sig- to President of Peru, Pedro Pablo The Peninsula nificant addition to the existing one Kuczynski, on his country’s Inde- — Al Mazroua, Al Khor-Al Dakhira pendence Day. and Al Wakra, which sell agricul- Deputy Emir H H Sheikh tural products. Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani DOHA: The Agricultural Affairs “In the coming season this year, also sent a congratulatory cable Department at the Ministry of the winter vegetable markets will to President Kuczynski. Municipality and Environment is open earlier — by more than two Prime Minister and Interior gearing up to open two new winter weeks. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin markets in Al Ruwais and Muaither, “During the previous season, the Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a a ministry official said yesterday. markets were open from November similar cable to President Pablo, The markets are likely to open to May,” Al Khulaifi said, adding the reports QNA. in December in time for the coming winter markets could open some 10 2016-2017 winter season. days earlier compared to the previ- “We are going to launch two ous season. Opec output set new winter markets this year, one in On the decision to extend the Al Ruwais and the other in Muaither. operation of the winter markets last to reach record “The opening could be in season from six months to seven, December,” Yousef Al Khulaifi, he said: “It was a challenging expe- high this month Director, Department of Agricul- rience, but we succeeded and all An image released yesterday by ‘Save the Children’ shows people around the area of a damaged tural Affairs at the ministry, told vegetables sold were locally pro- The Peninsula. duced,” he added. building of a maternity hospital supported by the Britain-based NGO after it was hit by an air raid in Reuters At the moment, the ministry is the rebel-held town of Kafar Takharim, in Idlib province of northwest Syria. → See also page 3 yet to finalise the exact locations → Continued on page 2 LONDON: Opec’s output is likely in July to reach its highest in recent history, a Reuters survey found yesterday, as Iraq pumps Yemen govt team to quit peace talks Erdogan accuses US general more and Nigeria manages to export additional crude despite rebel attacks on oil installations. of backing failed coup plotters Top Opec exporter Saudi AFP former president Ali Abdullah Saleh headway. Most discussions focused Arabia has kept output close to earlier announced the setting up of on the type of the government to run a record high to meet season- the 10-member council. Yemen during transition. “It must be AFP Votel had said the coup bid and ally higher domestic demand The council would “manage state made clear that it is the Houthi-Saleh round-up of dozens of generals and focus on maintaining mar- KUWAIT CITY: Yemen’s govern- affairs politically, militarily, eco- alliance that foiled the peace talks in could affect US military cooperation ket share rather than trimming ment delegation to UN-brokered nomically, administratively, socially Kuwait. They have shown that they with Turkey. He suggested the US supply to boost prices. peace talks in Kuwait said it will and in security”, a statement issued were never serious about a peaceful ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip had lost key Turkish military inter- Supply from Organisation of leave today, signalling the collapse of by the rebels said. settlement,” Emrani said. Erdogan yesterday accused a top locutors now in jail and accused of the Petroleum Exporting Coun- four months of UN-brokered negoti- UN special envoy Ismail Ould A top aide to President Abdrabuh US general of being on the side of being behind the coup. tries has risen to 33.41m barrels a ations with Shia Houthi rebels. Cheikh Ahmed said the rebels’ move Mansour Hadi said the government Turkey’s coup plotters after com- “Know your place!” Erdogan day (bpd) this month from 33.31m “Today (Friday), we are holding “contravenes” their commitment to considered the talks had wound up menting that the country’s turmoil told Votel, using one of his favour- bpd in June, according to the sur- some farewell meetings... and the the peace process and “represents without agreement. could downgrade military cooper- ite expressions of anger. “The coup vey based on shipping data and delegation will leave on Saturday,” a grave violation” of UN Security “The negotiations have com- ation with Washington. plotter is in your country, you are information from industry. delegation spokesman Mohammad Council Resolution 2216 on Yem- pletely ended,” said Abdullah Al “You are taking the side of already feeding him,” he said, refer- The increase has added to Al Emrani said. en’s conflict. Olaimi, Deputy Director of the Pres- coup plotters instead of thanking ring to the US-based cleric Fethullah downward pressure on prices. Oil “There can be no more talks after A UN spokesman in Kuwait said ident’s Office and member of the this state for defeating the coup Gulen who Ankara accuses of being has fallen from a 2016 high near the new coup,” he said referring to Ahmed was scheduled to meet rebels delegation. More than 6,400 peo- attempt,” Erdogan said in remarks the mastermind of the coup. $53 a barrel in June to $42 as of the rebels’ formation of a supreme and with ambassadors of the 18 ple have been killed in Yemen since at a military centre in Golbasi out- Turkey is part of the US-led coa- yesterday, pressured also by con- political council to run war-torn countries backing the peace process. the Saudi-led coalition intervened side Ankara. lition fighting Islamic State jihadists cern about weaker demand. Yemen. The Iran-backed Houthis Indirect negotiations in Kuwait in support of Hadi’s government, Quoted by US media, US Cen- in Syria, with its Incirlik air base and the General People’s Congress of since April have failed to make according to UN figures. tral Command Chief General Joseph used as a launch hub for raids. → See also page 17

55% dud cheque cases resolved 3 tonnes of dates sold The Peninsula on day one of festival DOHA: Fifty-five percent of cases of bounced cheques last year have been settled, Brig. Nasser Jaber Al Noaimi, Director, Capital Security Depart- By Nada Fahad Al Baker 18-day festival. “Eighteen farms ment, has said. The Peninsula are participating in the festi- He said the department gives priority to such val and the number could rise cases. The department, in collaboration with Pub- if demand increases,” Yousef Al lic Relations at the Ministry of Interior, has started DOHA: Three tonnes of dates Khulaifi, Director, Agricultural chalking out a plan to curb the phenomenon and were sold on the opening day of Affairs Department at the min- make people aware about its danger, Al Sharq Local Dates Festival 2016 at Souq istry, told The Peninsula. reports. Yusuf Al Zaman, a prominent lawyer, earlier Waqif, organisers said yesterday. Al Khulaifi said the most told this daily: “The government has set up tribu- According to the official popular varieties of dates avail- nals to deal with cases involving dud cheques.” He Twitter account of the Ministry able are Khalas, Khanizi, Shishi, said the tribunals can hear over 200 cases a ses- of Municipality and Environ- Barhi and Arziz. sion which will help reduce the settlement time. ment, 2,000 boxes (three tonnes) were sold on the first day of the → Continued on page 2 Visitors at the exhibition yesterday. 02 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 HOME

2015-2016 season saw increase in sales Local Dates Festival at winter markets offers seedlings at very low price

Continued from page 1 features — they are produced from plant tissue culture, resistant to dis- There are also other varieties eases and are of good qualities, he grown by local farms but they are said. rare and farmers don’t want to sell In a survey by the ministry in its them, he added. Twitter account, 61 percent of follow- The festival is also offering seed- ers agreed that this year’s festival is a Yousef Al Khulaifi, Director, lings and 79 were sold on the first very good initiative, 18 percent said Department of Agricultural day. The seedlings are offered at a ‘good’ and 21 percent said it is fair. Affairs at the Ministry of very low price. The followers said the festival Municipality and Environment One seedling is sold for QR85 had come at the best time, and Souq while it costs in the market between Waqif as the venue was an excellent QR230 and QR250. A citizen is choice. One of the most visited tour- Continued from page 1 allowed to purchase only maxi- ist spots in Doha, Souq Waqif offers mum five. “The reason for offering the festival an excellent platform to The 2015-2016 season saw seedlings to citizens at such a good bring it closer to a bigger audience. increase in sales at the winter veg- price aims at boosting date produc- This year’s festival has been etable’ markets. tion by encouraging them to plant the extended by three days from the Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi visiting Al Mazrouah Yard. Al Khor-Dakhira yard sold seedlings on their own,” stressed Al previous 15-day edition. The festi- He was briefed by officials on its functioning and listened to the views of citizens and residents about the about 1156.7 tonnes of vegeta- Khulaifi. val until August 14 is open from 4pm services. bles and Al Mazroua yard 1,779.3 The seedlings sold have improved to 10pm. tonnes. Al Wakra yard achieved sales of about 1,140.1 tonnes of vegetables. Some 77 local farms participated last season, including 33 in Al Mazroua, 22 in Al Khor- Turkish cleric’s Al Dakhira and 22 in Al Wakra. Egypt education system under spotlight During the 2014-15 season, Al supporters Khor-Dakhira yard sold 1,078.1 tonnes of vegetables and Al Maz- can afford private tuition to go on to a main component”, said Kamal Over 12 percent of Egyptians allege assaults, roua yard sold 1,421 tonnes. After cheat sheets coveted universities and faculties. Mogheith, an expert at the govern- were unemployed in late 2015, with Al Wakra yard sold 1,118.5 The leaks “put me on the same mental National Centre for Educational the rate reaching nearly 28 percent death threats tonnes of vegetables, Al Khu- were leaked this footing as those who haven’t studied Research and Development. among young people, official fig- laifi had earlier told this daily. at all”, said Khaled, an 18-year-old at “What is happening is a wide- ures show. The coming 2016-2017 season is year, the exams a private school in Cairo who wants scale protest movement... against a With nearly half a million stu- Reuters expected to start in November or turned into a to become an engineer. failed educational system that does dents enrolled at high schools in the even earlier, said Al Khulaifi. nightmare for many “I’ve been preparing my whole not teach a thing, yet it drains fam- academic year that ended in July, the The markets will be open on life for this exam to be able to plan ilies’ energy and funds for years,” challenge of reforming the system is THE HAGUE: Supporters of US- Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays students. my future. Now I feel extreme injus- Mogheith told reporters. huge. The education minister prom- based Turkish cleric Fethullah from 7am to 5pm. tice,” she said. Khaled’s family say they have ised this month that the exams’ system Gulen living in the The fiasco prompted student pro- struggled to support her dream would change starting next year. fear for their safety after dozens of tests and clashes with police outside of studying engineering at a state Some students admitted they death threats in the wake of a failed Tunisian FM meets AFP the education ministry in late June. university. took advantage of the leaks, while coup attempt, a spokeswoman for One placard at the demonstra- “Money was tight for the whole others said they used bluetooth the community said yesterday. tions in June read: “2016, the class family due to high school expenses. headphones and mobile phone appli- Dutch police declined to comment. French MP of injustice.” The answers had been Making funds available for school cations to cheat. Turkey says Gulen was the CAIRO: High school finals are always leaked anonymously on Facebook and private classes in the current Ahmed Hesham, 18, who mastermind behind failed July TUNIS: Tunisian Foreign Minis- a terrifying prospect for Egyptian by people who said they wanted to economic situation wasn’t easy,” said attended the protest in June, said he 15-16 putsch against the govern- ter Khemaies Jhinoui, yesterday students. After cheat sheets were spark a debate on education in Egypt. Ola Mahfouz, her mother. cheated to level the playing field. ment of President Tayyip Erdogan. met with Michel Vauzelle, Vice- leaked this year, the exams turned Critics say underpaid teachers at If Khaled is not accepted at a state Hesham, whose father is a Gulen denies any involvement. President of the Foreign Affairs into a nightmare for Mariam Khaled. state schools offer poor tuition, mak- faculty, she can still enrol at a private craftsman, showed a group chat on Saniye Calkin, who heads the Committee of the French National She had gone home to sleep after ing private tuition a must. university, but that would place a fur- WhatsApp through which he had Netherlands-based Hizmet organ- Assembly. The two sides reviewed finishing an exam. When she woke One Facebook group called on ther burden on family finances. obtained several leaked exam papers. isation of Gulen supporters, said bilateral relations in various fields up, she discovered she would have authorities to raise teachers’ sala- Egyptian students face fierce “The children of wealthy parents members were keeping out of and touched on preparations for to resit it. ries and update curricula to match competition to study subjects such buy the exams, so why oppose the sight after dozens of reports of the International Investment Con- The leaks have put the spotlight the jobs market. as engineering and medicine, which leaks now?” asked Hesham. “This death threats, arson, vandalism, gress due on November 29 and 30 on flaws in Egypt’s education system, Education in Egypt is in a “cha- are considered routes to social is equality in an unjust and corrupt and physical assaults in Dutch in Tunis, QNA reports. which critics say favours students who otic and absurd state, with corruption advancement. society.” towns and cities. “They have unleashed a witch- hunt that is causing a lot of tension between Dutch Turks,” Calkin said. “These are signs of Erdogan’s Use me Jailed Palestinian author flays Turkey’s failed coup interference in the Netherlands and it is threatening my freedom and safety.” She said dozens of Anatolia Tayyip Erdogan, he said: “Be patient, streets to protest the coup attempt. incidents had been reported to Mr. Erdogan, and continue taking the The failed attempt martyred at police, and that similar incidents right path.” least 246 and wounded more than had occurred in neighbouring He also praised the Turkish 2,100 people. , which has ’s ISTANBUL: A Palestinian com- nation and its protests against the Thousands of soldiers have been largest Turkish community. mander and author who is currently failed coup, which he said “proved remanded into custody while inves- Several thousand Gulen sup- behind bars in Israel’s Rimon Prison how honourable and dignified they tigations and operations are still porters, who run charities and has expressed solidarity with the are.” underway to find the remaining coup schools are among up to 500,000 Turkish government following the “You showed the world what love forces. Barghouti, who is serving out Turks living in the Netherlands. July 15 coup attempt. of country and love of ummah (com- a record 67 life sentences for alleg- Tensions among Dutch Turks, Abdullah Ghaleb Barghouti con- munity) is.” edly killing Israeli citizens, called who came to the Netherlands as demned the failed coup in a letter On the night of July 15, when the coup plotters in Turkey “traitors.” migrant workers in 1960s and sent from prison to Ekin Publish- rogue elements of the military The coup attempt had shaken the 1970s, escalated earlier this year ing, the Turkish publisher of one of tried to overthrow Turkey’s demo- entire country. The people of Turkey when a hotline was opened by his books. cratically elected government, tens supported Erdogan after an appeal Turkish Embassy to report insults Addressing President Recep of thousands of people took to the by him. to Erdogan.

Kerry to meet Stand against terror Palestinian leader Abbas today

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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Pales- tinian President Mahmud Abbas in today to discuss progress toward a two-state solution, the State Department said. “The secretary is not look- ing at trying to make progress based on a fixed date on calen- dar,” spokesman John Kirby said. Instead, Kerry will speak with “Abbas about prospects for a two- state solution, and trying to make meaningful progress to create the conditions... where that solution can be more successfully pur- The General Cleanliness Department at the Ministry of sued,” Kirby said. Municipality and Environment has put up 244 garbage bins Kerry will travel to Paris before at 11 beaches across the country. The initiative is part of the returning tomorrow. He may also Ambassador of Bangladesh Ashud Ahmed (third right), with officials and other people at a special ministry’s keenness to ensure cleanliness at beaches for visitors meet other leaders for bilateral dis- and protect the environment. cussions, although Kirby gave no event on “Awareness Building against Militancy and Terrorism”, at Bangladesh Embassy, yesterday. further details on the matter. MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 03 Libya govt, oil Syria maternity hospital bombed guards in deal AFP

BEIRUT: A maternity hospital sup- ported by Save the Children was to reopen ports bombed yesterday in an air raid in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, causing casualties and damage, the Britain-based charity said. salaries to Jathran’s forces. He said The Syrian Observatory for they had not been paid wages for Human Rights said a jihadist from Agreement 26 months. Their role is protecting Al-Nusra Front, which has changed included paying an the oil ports, though critics say they its name to Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, used it to extort money from Tripoli. was killed in the raid. unspecified amount Rival governments and a com- “Save the Children supported in salaries to the plex network of armed groups who maternity hospital in #Idlib bombed, once fought against Gaddafi and casualties reported — numbers forces, which had not have quasi official status are vying unconfirmed,” the charity tweeted. been paid wages for for power and for control of the It said the bomb hit the entrance 26 months. country’s oil wealth, closing down to the hospital. pipelines and battling over export “This is the only hospital special- terminals. ising in maternity and children in the Ali Hassi, a spokesman for Jath- northern western side of rural Idlib,” Reuters ran’s PFG brigade, said no date had a statement said. been decided for reopening the Alun McDonald, Save the Chil- ports because that would depend dren regional media manager, said in on the National Oil Corporation. a separate statement: “There are ini- BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Libya’s UN- But he confirmed an agreement tial reports of some casualties among walk past destroyed buildings in the neighbourhood of Bani Zeid, on Aleppo’s northern outskirts, backed government signed a deal had been signed between the coun- patients and staff, although numbers yesterday. with an armed brigade controlling cil and Jathran. Jathran’s brigades are so far unconfirmed.” the major Ras Lanuf and Es Sider oil led blockades of the ports start- The Britain-based Observa- the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, Al- women and providing after violations of the laws of war and can ports to end a blockade and restart ing in 2013 saying he was trying tory, quoting local sources, said a Nusra Front, said it was breaking ties care,” it said. The Observatory did not never be justified,” said Amnesty’s exports from the major terminals to prevent corruption in oil sales, jihadist was killed in the raid that with the global terror network and specify if the raid was carried out by Philip Luther. shut down since December 2014. though others disputed his motives. struck the hospital in the rebel-held changing its name to Jabhat Fateh Syrian regime aircraft or warplanes Several clinics and makeshift Reopening the ports would be He has also called for more auton- town of Kafar Takharim, leav- al-Sham. of its Russian allies. hospitals in rebel-controlled areas a major step for the North African omy for his eastern region. Opening ing it heavily damaged and barely Save The Children said the hospi- Amnesty International said the have been hit by Syrian regime air state, which since the 2011 fall of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider would add a operational. tal is the biggest maternity facility in strike “appears to be part of a des- strikes, particularly in Aleppo and Muammar Gaddafi has slipped into potential 600,000 barrels per day “It was him that was targeted. He the area, serving over 1,300 women picable pattern of unlawful attacks Idlib provinces. chaos that has cut its oil output to of capacity to Libya’s crude exports, went to visit his wife who had just monthly and delivering up to 700 deliberately targeting medical facil- Last week, air raids struck four less than a quarter of pre-2011 levels though experts estimate damage given birth when the bombing hap- babies each month. ities” across Syria and a “potential makeshift hospitals and a blood bank of 1.6 million barrels per day. from fighting and the long stoppage pened,” said the monitoring group’s “The hospital has six incubators war crime”. over a 24-hour period in the regime- No specific date was set for must be repaired before shipments head, Rami Abdel Rahman. for premature babies, and an outpa- “Deliberate attacks on hospitals besieged eastern sector of the city restarting exports, but swift are at full capacity again. The bombing came a day after tient clinic for supporting pregnant and medical facilities are serious of Aleppo. resumption will be hampered by The NOC has said damage from technical damage from militant recent attacks by Islamic State, attacks and by opposition from the which expanded in the country’s state-run National Oil Corporation, chaos, meant the ports would strug- which objected to paying cash to gle to get beyond 100,000 bpd in UN envoy rejects Russia Aleppo corridors offer reopen the ports. the near term. Libyan Presidential Council Beyond technical problems, deputy Mousa Alkouni signed the NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla AP He said civilians who leave the city agreement late on Thursday with has also objected to any deal with risk being shot by government snip- Ibrahim Al Jathran, commander of Jathran saying it was a mistake to ers or being detained because of their the Petroleum Facilities Guards, one reward the brigade commander by GENEVA: The UN special envoy for opposition sympathies. of Libya’s many armed brigades that paying to end his blockade of the Syria yesterday urged Russia to leave The Britain-based Syrian have controlled the terminals. oil ports. the creation of humanitarian cor- Observatory for Human Rights said “I think the resumption depends Sanalla said a deal including ridors around Aleppo to the United airstrikes in Kafr Takhareem village now on technical part... and I think payments would encourage other Nations and its partners, issuing a in Idlib hit a hospital and a centre for also it will happen from within a groups to disrupt oil operations gentle snub to , which had civil defence volunteers. The group week to two weeks, but not more,” in the hope of a similar payout. made the proposal a day earlier as said the hospital was damaged and Alkouni said by telephone. The NOC has also threatened to pro-government troops tightened there were initial reports of casual- He said the agreement included withdraw its recognition of the their encirclement of rebel-held parts ties. It said the hospital was no longer paying an unspecified amount in Presidential Council. of the northern Syrian city. operational. Rights groups and civilians The Observatory said an Islamist trapped in opposition-held neigh- militant was believed to have been bourhoods in eastern Aleppo reacted killed in the attack. Syrian state TV critically to Russia’s plan, saying it said government warplanes carried US general denies links does not guarantee safe passage out an airstrike in the same area, also or give residents a choice of where claiming it killed a senior Islamist they flee to. Some residents fear the militant without naming him. proposed corridors are intended to Amnesty International said the to Turkey’s failed coup restore government control over aerial attack “appears to be part of parts of the city that have been in a despicable pattern of unlawful AFP rebel hands since 2012. A fighter from Jaish Al Izzah, part of the Free Syrian Army, jumps attacks deliberately targeting med- UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said through a fire loop during a military display as part of a graduation ical facilities,” which can amount to he was not consulted on the proposal, ceremony at a camp in the Hama province, Syria, yesterday. a war crime. WASHINGTON: The commander of US forces in the Middle East denied which was first announced Thurs- Yesterday’s attack comes after yesterday that he had any link to the military coup attempt in Turkey fol- day by the Russian defence ministry. director for the International Com- activist-run Aleppo Media Center four hospitals and a blood bank in lowing accusations by the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “That’s our job,” de Mistura said mittee for the Red Cross, said those said yesterday. eastern Aleppo city were struck in “Any reporting that I had anything to do with the recent unsuccessful of the corridors plan at a press con- who choose to stay in Aleppo must Osama Abo Elezz, a general sur- aerial attacks last week. coup attempt in Turkey is unfortunate and completely inaccurate,” Gen- ference in Geneva. He expressed be protected and that all parties geon from Aleppo who was stranded In other violence, activists said eral Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command, said in a statement. support “in principle” for humani- must allow humanitarian agencies in Turkey because of the siege, said a US-led coalition airstrike target- “Turkey has been an extraordinary and vital partner in the region for tarian corridors but said it must be to reach them. the idea of allowing people to evac- ing a village in northern Syria held many years. We appreciate Turkey’s continuing cooperation and look for- “under the right circumstances.” “Humanitarian corridors need uate the city “offers a service to the by the Islamic State group killed 28 ward to our future partnership in the counter-ISIL fight,” Votel said, referring “How do you expect people to to be well and carefully planned, regime and the Russians, and forces civilians, including seven children. to the Islamic State group. walk through a corridor — thousands and have to be implemented with people to go to areas they don’t want The Britain-based Syrian Erdogan yesterday accused Votel of being on the side of Turkey’s coup of them — while there is shelling, the consent of parties on all sides,” to go to.” Observatory for Human Rights said plotters after commenting that the country’s turmoil could downgrade bombing, fighting?” de Mistura said. Mardini said. He said he had no indi- He said that if the UN allows coalition airstrikes hit the IS-held military cooperation with Washington. He said he is awaiting clarifica- cation that all involved groups had residents to travel safely to other village of Al-Ghandour late Thurs- “You are taking the side of coup plotters instead of thanking this state tion from Russian authorities about agreed to the plan. opposition held-areas, this could day. It said another 13 people were for defeating the coup attempt,” Erdogan said in angry remarks at a mil- the plan, noting the urgent situation With airstrikes on Aleppo con- reassure people that it is safe to leave killed in the strikes, but that it was itary centre in Golbasi near Ankara, where air strikes left dozens dead in the city, wracked by devastating tinuing, the Russian proposal seems and would reduce casualty numbers. unclear if they were IS fighters or during the failed putsch on July 15. violence in recent months. more like an effort to “depopulate There were no reports of civilians civilians. According to US media reports, Votel had said the coup bid and sub- “The clock is ticking for the Aleppo City in preparation for con- using the corridors yesterday. Rebel The international coalition had sequent round-up of dozens of generals could affect American military Aleppo population,” he said. The UN certed pro-regime ground operations fighters were forbidding people from no immediate comment on the cas- cooperation with Turkey. says Aleppo is now possibly the larg- to force the surrender of opposition using the Bustan Al Qasr crossing, ualty figures. The bombings came a In particular, Votel reportedly suggested the US had lost key Turkish mil- est besieged area in Syria, with an groups within the city,” the Institute in the north of the city, “out of fear week after airstrikes, also blamed by itary interlocutors who are now in jail and accused of being behind the coup. estimated 300,000 residents trapped for the Study of War said in a brief. for their safety,” according to Kha- Syrian activists on US aircraft, killed “Know your place!” Erdogan told Votel, using one of his favourite expres- inside. Late night airstrikes in the led Khatib, a volunteer for the Civil at least 56 civilians in IS-held terri- sions of anger. Robert Mardini, Middle East city killed at least six people, the Defence search-and-rescue brigade. tory in northern Syria. Erdogan criticises US reaction to failed coup

AP self-imposed exile in Pennsyl- his movement espouses inter- was bombed and fired upon dur- behind it is, and with these vania whom it accuses of being faith dialogue. The United States ing the attempted coup, and 47 statements you are revealing behind the violent July 15 coup has asked Turkey for evidence of police officers were killed. yourselves, you are giving your- ANKARA: Turkey’s president attempt that left 290 people dead. his involvement, and said the US “The putschist is already in selves away,” he said. slammed the United States yester- It is accusing Western nations of extradition process must take its your country,” Erdogan said. Turkish Foreign Minister Mev- day, claiming it was not standing not extending sufficient support course. The president also lashed out lut Cavusoglu said Turkey wanted firmly against a failed military to its efforts to counter further “Instead of thanking this at an American military official Gulen’s extradition process to coup and accused it of harbour- threats from followers of the nation that quashed the coup in who expressed concern that the conclude rapidly and has asked ing the plot’s alleged mastermind, Gulen movement, which it says the name of democracy, on the failed coup may have longer- the United States to make sure as a government crackdown in the have infiltrated the country’s state contrary, you are taking sides term effects on the US-led fight he does not escape to another coup’s aftermath strained Tur- institutions. with the coup plotters,” Turkish against Islamic State militants in country. key’s ties with key allies. Turkey considers Gulen’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Syria and Iraq. He also criticised Turkey’s Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Turkey has demanded the movement a terrorist organisa- said in an angry speech yesterday “My people know who is European and Western allies for Erdogan take a selfie with him in Ankara, United States extradite Fethul- tion. Gulen has denied any prior at a police special forces head- behind this scheme ... they know their stance on the government’s yesterday. lah Gulen, a cleric living in knowledge of the plot and says quarters in Ankara. The facility who the superior intelligence broad crackdown. 04 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 ASIA / AFRICA Boko Haram ambushes Govt supporters rally in Kinshasa UN aid convoy in Nigeria AFP KINSHASA: Tens of thousands of people rallied in Kinshasa yesterday in support of Congolese President Nigeria’s mainly-Muslim north. assistance and aid that these work- Joseph Kabila just two days after his “The convoy was travelling from ers were bringing,” it added. leading opponent returned home to UN temporarily Bama to Maiduguri in Borno State, UNICEF said the UN had tem- a massive welcome. suspended Nigeria, returning from delivering porarily suspended humanitarian Political tension is high in the desperately needed assistance,” assistance missions in the area country as the opposition fears that humanitarian when it was ambushed, UNICEF said pending a review of the security Kabila, whose mandate ends in assistance missions in in a statement yesterday. situation. December, will delay elections in a “Unknown assailants attacked a The Nigerian army confirmed bid to cling on to power. the area. humanitarian convoy that included the incident in a statement by its “We came here to affirm our staff from UNICEF, UNFPA, and spokesman Colonel Sani Usman. support for Joseph Kabila,” Aubin IOM,” the statement added. “Troops returning from Bama Minaku, secretary general of the AFP It said a UNICEF employee and on humanitarian escort duty, were ruling majority and president of an IOM contractor were injured in ambushed en route (to) Maiduguri by the national assembly, told a crowd Supporters of Congolese President Joseph Kabila attend a pro- the attack and were being treated suspected remnants of Boko Haram estimated at over 40,000, a corre- government rally in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital LAGOS: A United Nations human- at a local hospital. terrorists hiding in Meleri village, a spondent at the scene reported. Kinshasa, yesterday. itarian convoy was ambushed by “All other UNICEF, IOM and few kilometres from Kawuri,” it said. “Kabila, stay as long as possible,” Boko Haram jihadists on Thursday UNFPA staff are safe,” it added. It said the military repelled the the crowd shouted, alluding to the the Constitutional Court ruled in May Tshisekedi who returned home on in Nigeria’s restive northeast, leav- UNICEF said the team was in a attack, leaving two soldiers and political controversy raging in Dem- that Kabila could remain in office Wednesday from where ing several people wounded, the UN remote area of northeastern Nigeria, three civilians injured, including ocratic Republic of Congo. in a caretaker capacity beyond the he had been medevaced in the year children’s agency and the Nigerian where protracted conflict has caused UN aid workers. In power since his father’s assas- end of his current mandate ending 2014. army said. extreme suffering and has triggered Some cities in the northeast, sination in 2001, Kabila is suspected December. The 83-year-old first emerged It was the first such attack a severe malnutrition crisis. including Bama, had gone up to 18 by opponents of eyeing a third term But now the DR Congo’s oppo- as a leading opposition voice as far on aid workers in the volatile “This was not only an attack on months without any humanitarian which would involve changing the sition has achieved the rare feat back as the 1980s when he became region, the epicentre of the seven- humanitarian workers. It is an attack deliveries before aid agencies and constitution’s two-term limit. of rallying behind a single figure, a critic of former dictator Mobutu year Boko Haram insurgency in on the people who most need the the UN arrived in June. Opposition protests erupted after the immensely popular Etienne Sese Seko.

Two Kenyans sentenced to death for murders Top S Korean prosecutor indicted on graft charges AFP carried out in Kenya for several decades. Two other suspects were AFP from 2005-2014. Kim allegedly acquitted due to lack of evidence. gave 425 million won to Jin in 2005 MOMBASA: Two suspected The killers were accused of to buy unlisted Nexon Korea stock, members of a Kenyan separa- belonging to the Mombasa Repub- SEOUL: A top South Korean pros- only to sell the shares back to the tist movement were sentenced to lican Council (MRC), a group seeking ecutor was indicted yesterday on game maker for double the value. death yesterday for the murder of the secession of Kenya’s Muslim- charges of receiving millions of He also stands accused of four police officers in Kenya’s sec- majority Indian Ocean coast, which dollars in bribes from a leading receiving a luxury car and lump ond city of Mombasa during the is popular with tourists. online game maker, state pros- sums of cash from Kim for over- 2013 election campaign. The police murders marred oth- ecutors said. seas travel expenses with his High Court Judge Martin Muya erwise peaceful elections viewed at Jin Kyung-Joon, who enjoys family. said it had been proven “beyond the time as a crucial test for Kenya, the comparable rank of a vice- The inspection department at doubt” that Jabri Ali Dzuya and following bloody 2007-8 post-poll minister, is the first high-level the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Bwana Mkuu Alwan Jabu were violence in which over 1,100 peo- South Korean prosecutor to be has unanimously decided to dis- guilty of killing the officers who had ple were killed. indicted while in office. miss the 49-year-old, the Yonhap responded to an alert in Mombasa’s The banned MRC insists it is a Jin is charged with receiving news agency reported, adding Members of secessionist group Mombasa Republican Council, Jabiri Miritini suburb on March 3, 2013. political movement and has repeat- over $800,600 worth of bribes that the Ministry of Justice will Ali Dzuya (left) and Bwana Mkuu Alwan sit inside the dock at the High However, despite their sentences edly denied any involvement in a from Nexon founder Kim Jung-Ju make the final decision. Court in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, yesterday. the death penalty has not been string of attacks in the coastal region.

Jailed ex-Chad dictator ordered US army prepares for to pay victims Okinawa land return

AFP Reuters Okinawa was under US occupa- tion until 1972. The return of the land was DAKAR: Former Chadian dictator TOKYO: The United States military agreed in 1996, but has been delayed Hissene Habre, sentenced to life in said yesterday it was preparing for by protesters blocking the construc- May for crimes against human- the biggest land return in Okinawa tion of the helipads. ity, was ordered yesterday to pay since 1972, as it faces a surge in The Japanese government compensation to thousands of his opposition to its presence follow- recently resumed work at the site. victims of up to $33,000 each. ing the arrest of one its civilian Local resentment over the US A special African Union court contractors for the murder of a local military presence surged after an ordered financial redress for those woman. American civilian working at a who suffered rape, arbitrary Okinawa is the US military’s US base, Kenneth Franklin, was detention and imprisonment dur- key base in Asia where it faces an arrested last month in connec- ing his abusive 1982-1990 rule, as increasingly assertive . It tion with the murder of a local well as for victims’ relatives. hosts 30,000 military personnel on 20-year-old Japanese woman, Rina Habre was sentenced to life bases that cover a fifth of the island. Shimabukuro. in jail on May 30 by the court set “We are respectful of the feel- Nicholson announced a 30-day up to try him a quarter century ings of Okinawans that our footprint mourning period after the murder after he fled to Senegal following must be reduced,” Lieutenant Gen- and temporarily banned marines his 1990 ouster by Chad’s current eral Lawrence D Nicholson, the US from drinking off base. president Idriss Deby. commander on the island, said in a Washington and Tokyo agreed The landmark conviction press release. to limit legal protections and ben- was seen by rights campaigners Once new helipads are com- efits to some US civilians working Family members of passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing in 2014 hold as a victory in the fights against pleted, the US military will hand for the military. impunity. back 40sq km of land to the Jap- The murder and a subsequent placards during a protest outside the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing, yesterday. It set a global precedent anese government, which is 17 arrest of a US Navy sailor for drunk as the first time a country had percent of the area it controls. driving spurred large scale dem- prosecuted the former leader of The tract is part of the US onstrations and calls, backed by Relatives of MH370 passengers another nation for rights abuses. Marine Corp jungle training camp Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, It was also the first such trial by known as Camp Gonsalves in North- for Washington to move military the African Union. ern Okinawa. personnel off the island. calls to continue hunt for plane

Reuters search spanning 120,000sq km in since the plane went missing. Taiwan bus crash driver was ‘drunk’ the southern Indian Ocean. China’s Foreign Ministry did not About 30 family members, some immediately respond to a request for BEIJING: Chinese relatives of those in tears, gathered at China’s foreign comment. AFP a local tour guide -- found an alco- driving over the limit, Wang said. on board Malaysia Airlines Flight ministry to hand over the petition, Investigators believe the plane hol concentration of 1.075 mg per Tests did not find any traces of MH370, which went missing two and a group were allowed in despite was deliberately flown thousands of litre of breath, prosecutors said in drugs or sedatives in his system, years ago on a flight to Beijing, made a brief stand-off with plainclothes kilometres (miles) off course before TAIPEI: The driver of a tour bus a statement. the statement from prosecutors an emotional plea on Friday for the security. crashing into the southern Indian which crashed and caught fire in That put the Taiwanese driver, said. search to continue. “We oppose their decision. We Ocean off Australia. Taiwan killing dozens of Chinese who was identified only by his sur- Investigators have already said Last week, Malaysia, China and don’t recognise it at all. That deci- Malaysian investigators said in tourists was drunk when the acci- name Su, at more than four times the that five bottles of gasoline were Australia said in a joint statement sion has no reason behind it,” said 2015 there was nothing suspicious dent happened, investigators said legal limit of 0.25 mg per litre. found in the bus, despite regulations that the hunt for MH370 would Boa Lanfang, 65, whose son, daugh- in the financial, medical or personal yesterday. “He was drunk driving -- a very banning inflammable substances in be suspended if the aircraft was ter-in-law and grandson were on the histories of pilots or crew. In the worst road accident ever severe case of drunk driving,” said a vehicle. not found in an area now being flight. Several pieces of aircraft wreck- to hit mainland visitors to the island, chief investigator Wang Yi-wen. They have searched his home searched. Some family members held up age have washed up on beaches in an entire tour group of 24 died when The discovery means the probe twice and questioned his relatives The Boeing 777, with 239 aboard, placards reading “The three gov- Africa and been positively identified their bus was engulfed in flames and will now focus more on the driver’s and co-workers. disappeared in March 2014 while on ernments have an obligation to the as coming from MH370 but they shed rammed through an expressway mental and physical state, he added. Local media said Su, the main a flight from the Malaysian capital, world to fulfil their promise”. little light on the mystery. barrier last week. Investigators are delving into breadwinner in his family, struggled Koala Lumpur. The families of those on board, The search has lasted more than Tests on the remains of the driver Su’s habits, diet, and social circle to financially and interacted little with Almost $135 million has been most of whom were from China, two years but has found no sign of -- who died in the crash, alongside determine why he might have been his colleagues. spent since then on an underwater have pressed hard for answers ever the main wreckage. ASIA / PHILIPPINES SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 05 Indonesia executes four drug convicts

be executed in outdoor clearings was farewells to their loved ones and Singaporean hit by a major storm as the other sen- ambulances carrying coffins over Indonesian official tences were carried out. to the heavily guarded penal colony. jailed after explains that the The executions, which saw an The executed Indonesian was Indonesian and three Nigerians face named as Freddy Budiman, while the glorifying IS acts purpose of executions the firing squad, were the first in the three Nigerians were: Seck Osmane, is to stop the evil act country since April last year when Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke SINGAPORE: Singa- of drug trafficking. authorities put to death eight drug and Michael Titus Igweh. pore said yesterday it convicts, including two Australians. Eleweke’s lawyer, Afif Abdul has detained a 44-year- President Joko Widodo has Qoyim said the execution should old Australia-based defended dramatically ramping up not have gone ahead as his client this Singaporean who alleg- AFP the use of capital punishment, say- week filed a legal appeal. edly glorified the Islamic ing that Indonesia is fighting a war on “When this process in not State group and backed drugs and traffickers must be heav- respected, that means that this is no the establishment of a WCILACAP: Indonesia yesterday ily punished. longer a country that upholds the law, caliphate in the city-state. executed four drug convicts, three Noor Rachmad, deputy attorney nor human rights,” he said. Zulfikar Mohamad of them foreigners, by firing squad, general for general crimes, said the Two people whose cases had Shariff is being held an official said, drawing swift con- latest executions were “done not in raised high-profile international under the Internal Secu- demnation as Jakarta pushes on with order to take lives but to stop evil concern among rights groups were rity Act, which allows its tough campaign of capital pun- intentions, and the evil act of drug not executed. for detention without An ambulance carrying the remains of an executed prisoner leaves the ishment. trafficking”. The first was Pakistani Zulfiqar trial, for being a threat port of the prison island of Nusa Kambangan, in Cilacap, Central Java, Ten others expected to have faced He added that “the rest (of the Ali, whom rights groups say was to national security, the Indonesia, yesterday. the firing squad, including nationals executions) will be carried out in beaten into confessing to the crime Ministry of Home Affairs from Pakistan, India and Zimbabwe stages”, saying that the timings had of heroin possession, leading to his (MHA) said. as well as Indonesians, were not put not yet been decided. take place must be halted immediately. opposition to the plan in recent days. 2005 death sentence. “Zulfikar has made use to death but officials said they would Amnesty International con- The injustice already done cannot be Yesterday’s executions, which Syed Zahid Raza, the deputy of social media to propa- be executed at a later stage. demned the executions, with the reversed, but there is still hope that it happened at 12:45am, came after Pakistani ambassador in Indonesia, gate and spread his radical Authorities did not give a rea- group’s Rafendi Djamin labelling won’t be compounded,” he said. a day of frenetic activity, with dis- hailed his reprieve as a victory and messages,” the MHA said. son for the reprieve, but the prison them “a deplorable act”. The UN Secretary-General Ban traught relatives travelling to said it was due to diplomatic efforts island where they were expected to “Any executions that are still to Ki-moon and the EU had also voiced Nusakambangan island to say in Jakarta and Islamabad. Eight jailed over Hong Kong Six IS-linked militants Vietnam airports screens hacked heiress abduction die in Philippine clashes Reuters Sea and denounced Vietnam and the minister, Nguyen Nhat, said the BEIJING: Eight men who Philippines, which are at odds with content displayed by the hackers kidnapped a Hong Kong Beijing over maritime sovereignty. offended his nation and the Philip- heiress and held Anatolia In a separate press statement, HANOI: Hackers attacked the web- Vietnamese media said the pines, Thanh Nien news reported, her in a cave as they Tan said that two militants were site of a national airline and flight hack was claimed by a group called without elaborating. negotiated a multi-mil- killed at around 6.30am in Basi- information screens at Vietnam’s 1937CN. Reuters was not able to The report said the same picture lion-dollar ransom were ZAMBOANGA CITY: At least six lan’s Tipo-Tipo town, where Abu two biggest airports yesterday, post- immediately verify the content of was posted on the Vietnam Airlines sentenced to up to 15 members of an IS-affiliated group Sayyaf members reportedly tried ing notices that state media said the messages. website, with “distorting content” years in prison yesterday, were killed in clashes yesterday in to capture the municipal hall and criticised the Philippines and Viet- The region is on edge, facing dip- about the situation in the South a mainland court said. two majority Muslim island prov- raise an IS flag earlier this month. nam and their claims in the South lomatic dilemmas in the wake of a China Sea. Queenie Rosita Law, inces in the troubled Philippines Nine soldiers sustained minor China Sea. July 12 ruling by an arbitral court Vietnam operates 37 civil air- granddaughter of late south, according to the military. injuries and were airlifted to a Operators of airports in Hanoi that declared Chinese claims to most ports, including three international textiles tycoon Law Ting- Major Filemon Tan Jr, Western hospital at a military camp in the and Ho Chi Minh City briefly had of the South China Sea as having no gateways: Noi Bai serving Hanoi, Da pong, who founded the Mindanao Command spokesman predominantly city of Zamboanga. to halt electronic check-ins when legal grounds. Beijing has called the Nang serving Da Nang City, and Tan Bossini clothing chain, said, “the military coordinated with Meanwhile in Sulu, four Abu systems were attacked yesterday ruling farcical and refuses to rec- Son Nhat serving Ho Chi Minh City. was abducted from her the Scene of the Crime Operatives to Sayyaf members were left dead afternoon, the country’s civil avia- ognise it. Tan Son Nhat is the largest, han- house in Hong Kong in conduct documentation of the Abu following intensified military oper- tion authority said. The decision was favourable to dling 75% of international passenger April last year. Sayyaf group body counts.” ations in Indanan town at around The website of Vietnam Air- the plaintiff, Manila, and by exten- traffic. The 29-year-old was He added that pursuit oper- at 8.50a.m. lines was also compromised, sion, Hanoi, which has similar Vietnam Airlines, the national held in a mountain cave ations are ongoing in Sulu and “Close air support was pro- directing browsers to what the flag disagreements with China about its airline, has a fleet of 30 aircraft that for four days before family Basilan as the military “continues to vided to the engaged troops. carrier described as “bad websites island-building and the conduct of link Vietnam with 19 foreign cities. In members paid a ransom conduct all-out offensives targeting Military troops further recovered overseas”. its vast coastguard fleet in the South 2004 Vietnam Airlines had 5 million of $3.61m for her release. the Abu Sayyaf Group to neutralise the remains of the enemy casual- State-run media said the mes- China Sea. passengers, up 25% from the prior the threat group”. ties,” Tan said. sages were about the South China Vietnam’s vice transport year.

Turnbull ‘not backing’ ex-PM for UN top job Face under water

AFP UN Secretary General,” he said on his Facebook page. Rudd, who flew to Sydney yes- SYDNEY: Australia refused yester- terdya wrequesting a meeting with day to back former prime minister Turnbull but spoke to the prime Kevin Rudd’s bid to be the next sec- minister only by telephone, said he retary general of the United Nations, wished all candidates in the running saying he was not suited to the job. for the UN job well. Rudd was spectacularly dumped Among the top contenders to suc- as prime minister by his own Labour ceed Ban Ki-moon are Argentina’s Party in 2010, with colleagues sub- Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra, sequently alleging that his office was Slovenia’s ex-president Danilo Turk, chaotic and he was difficult to work New Zealand’s ex-prime minister with. Helen Clark and Antonio Guterres, “This is not a partisan issue, this who served as ’s prime is a considered judgement,” Prime minister and headed the UN refu- Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and former prime minister Kevin Rudd gee agency. from the rival Liberal Party, said Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is the when announcing the decision in Rudd forward after consulting with suited for that position?’” he asked. 29th and current Prime Minister of Sydney. his cabinet. “My judgement is that Mr Rudd Australia and the Leader of the Lib- “This is a judgement about Mr. Turnbull said he explained his is not, and I’ve explained to him the eral Party. Rudd’s suitability for that particu- decision to Rudd -- who brought reasons why.” He assumed both offices after lar role.” Labor out of the political wilder- Rudd, who served as prime min- defeating Tony Abbott in a leader- Canberra revealed earlier this ness in a 2007 election landslide ister from 2007 to 2010 and again ship election in 2015. month that the Mandarin-speak- -- but would not elaborate on his briefly in 2013 as Labour faced an He was subsequently elected ing Rudd, who is based in New York reasons. electoral wipeout, said had he been in his own right at the 2016 federal as head of the Asia Society policy “When the Australian govern- nominated it “would have reflected election. institute, was keen to lead the glo- ment nominates a person for a job, well on what our nation can offer to On September 14, 2015, Turnbull A child plays at the Taipei Water Park to beat the heat in Taiwan's bal body. particularly an international job the world”. resigned as Minister for Communi- capital Taipei. According the Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, Candidates must be nominated like this, the threshold question is, “It would have been the first time cations and challenged Abbott in a the highest temperature reached 38.5 C, recorded as the second- by their governments and Turnbull ‘Do we believe the person, the nom- in the United Nation’s 70 year history leadership ballot that he won by ten hottest day for July as the whole island swelters. said he made the decision not to put inee, the would-be nominee, is well that Australia offered a candidate for votes. Suu Kyi meets leaders of notorious Myanmar rebel group

AFP bordering China which is believed army for decades have signed cease- Htay, spokesman for her office said. after Aung San’s assassination and illicit trade in drugs, jade and tim- to be awash with drugs. fires but those are fragile, adding Suu Kyi wants to convene a meet- embarked on almost 50 years of dev- ber, which makes ending them all the But they have a 20-25,000-strong urgency to Suu Kyi’s task. ing to thrash out the precepts of astating rule. more complicated. NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s most heav- standing army and are yet to com- The Wa are accused of produc- greater federal autonomy for ethnic Suu Kyi has not set a date for the Tens of thousands of people have ily armed ethnic group held “positive” mit to a full nationwide ceasefire, ing and trafficking huge amounts of groups in exchange for peace. meeting but is ramping up efforts been killed or displaced by the dec- talks yesterday with the country’s undercutting Suu Kyi’s aim of swiftly methamphetamine and heroin from It is dubbed the 21st Panglong to ensure all rebel groups are at the ades of war. de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a securing a lasting peace. their secretive holdout and buying conference in a nod to a historic con- table. The Internal conflict in Myanmar spokesman for her office said, in a Several complex ethic conflicts weapons with the proceeds. ference called by her independence Both the USWA and Mongla army began after the country became inde- major boost for peace prospects. are rumbling across Myanmar’s bor- Yesterday’s “very positive discus- hero father -- Aung San -- in 1947 “support the 21st century Panglong pendent from the United Kingdom The United Wa State Army derlands, hampering efforts to build sions” between leaders of the Wa, a that saw major ethnic groups com- conference and they will try to par- in 1948. (UWSA) stopped fighting the govern- the country’s economy after the end powerful group called the Mongla mit to joining Myanmar. ticipate”, Zaw Htay added. The conflict has been described ment in 1989 in exchange for control of junta rule. army, and Suu Kyi were an “impor- But that deal collapsed under the Experts say Myanmar’s myr- as one of the world’s “longest run- of a remote portion of territory Some groups who fought the tant first step” in building trust, Zaw junta that took control several years iad conflicts are entwined with the ning civil wars”. 06 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 PAKISTAN Afghan govt loses 5% of land to rebels

day, an indication of the challenges end of May from 70.5 percent near The report, however, said insur- Support mission and a separate US its forces are facing. the end of January, based on data gents had 10 additional districts counterterrorism mission - was Sindh mayoral Taliban believed Fifteen years after the United provided by US forces in Afghanistan. under their control or influence in permitted to take action against the they were going to States invaded Afghanistan to topple That translates to a loss of 19 of the same timeframe. It was not pos- Taliban only “in extremis,” or when elections set on the Taliban rulers who had harbored the country’s approximately 400 sible to reach the Afghan government US assistance was necessary to pre- be able to seize and Al Qaeda militants who attacked governing districts. immediately for comment. vent a significant Afghan military August 24 hold terrain, and they the United States, the Taliban have The report cited US forces in Acknowledging that security setback. made major gains and are estimated Afghanistan as saying the loss of con- in Afghanistan remained precari- A report by the Center on Inter- failed to do so: Army to control more territory than at any trol was because Afghan forces were ous and Taliban forces had gained national Cooperation commissioned KARACHI: The Election official time since 2001. redeployed from lower-priority areas ground in some places, President by the United Nations and published Commission of Pakistan Washington has been train- to “conduct offensive operations, gain Barack Obama shelved plans to cut earlier this year found that the gov- (ECP) has announced the ing and equipping Afghan security and maintain the initiative, exploit the US force in Afghanistan nearly in ernment had access to 61 percent of schedule for election of forces in order to withdraw Amer- opportunities, and consolidate tac- half by year’s end, opting instead to districts in 2015, down from 67 per- mayor and deputy mayor Reuters ica troops from the country, but the tical gains.” keep 8,400 troops there through to cent in 2010. of the Karachi Metropol- Afghans remain short of personnel The commander of US Forces the end of his presidency in January. “The deficiencies and incapac- itan Corporation, along and hardware. in Afghanistan, Army General John President Obama also approved ities of the Afghan security forces with other municipalities WASHINGTON: The Afghan gov- The report, published by the Nicholson, said most of the areas the US forces new authorities that enable have really not been addressed of Pakistan Sindh prov- ernment lost control or influence Special Inspector General for Taliban control were rural. them to accompany Afghan forces, enough to avert such a scenario (of ince, setting August 24 as of nearly 5 percent of its terri- Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), “They believed they were going while allowing greater use of US air losing territory) in the future,” said polling day. tory between January and May, the said the area under Afghan govern- to be able to seize and hold terrain, power. Michael Kugelman, a South Asia spe- According to the ECP, US government’s top watchdog on ment “control or influence” had and they failed to do so,” Nicholson Previously, Nicholson - who com- cialist at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the schedule is for elec- Afghanistan said in a report yester- decreased to 65.6 percent by the told a Pentagon briefing. mands both the Nato-led Resolute a Washington think-tank. tion of mayors and deputy mayors and chairmen and vice chairmen of district councils, municipal com- mittees, town committees, municipal corporations Murdered British woman’s Afghan cleric arrested and district municipal cor- porations in Sindh and the only metropolitan corpo- husband plead for justice for marrying minor girl ration in Karachi.

AFP Abdul Hai Khatibi, the governor’s Punjab readies AFP spokesman. The arrest comes just days blood safety KABUL: An elderly Afghan cleric after a 14-year-old pregnant girl RAWALPINDI: The husband of a has been arrested after he married was burned to death in Ghor, in a draft bill British woman who was killed in a six-year-old girl, officials said yes- case that sparked shock waves in Pakistan has called for the UK and terday, in the latest case highlighting Afghanistan. LAHORE: A draft bill Pakistani governments to ensure his the scourge of child marriages in the The family of that girl, Zahra, for safe blood transfu- wife received justice, as he sought to war-battered country. said she was tortured and set sions has been sent to keep the spotlight on so-called “hon- Mohammad Karim, said to be alight by her husband’s family. a standing committee our” killings. aged around 60, was held in cen- But relatives of the teenager’s hus- of Pakistan’s Provincial Mukhtar Kazam presented at an tral Ghor province as he claimed her band insisted her death was by Assembly of Punjab. emotional press conference a copy parents gave him the girl as a “reli- self-immolation. The scrutiny of the of the post-mortem report into his gious offering”, officials said. The incidents underscore ris- Safe Blood Transfusion wife Samia Shahid’s death, seen by But they cited the family of ing incidents of child marriages in Act 2016 will be com- AFP, which said the 28-year-old had the girl, believed to be in shock, as Afghanistan. pleted next month. The marks on her neck, and suggested saying that she was abducted from “In some regions because of bill would then be sent to she had been strangled. western Herat province, border- insecurity and poverty the fami- the House for vote, said Kazam has branded her death an ing Iran. lies marry off their daughters at a Advisor to Chief Minister “honour killing”, a near daily occur- “This girl does not speak, but very early age to get rid of them,” on Health Khawaja Sal- rence in Pakistan in which a relative repeats only one thing: ‘I am afraid Sima Samar, head of theAfghan- man Rafiq said yesterday. is murdered by another for bringing Mukhtar Kazam, the husband of late British woman Samia Shahid displays of this man’,” said Masoom Anwari, istan Independent Human Rights He said the Safe Blood Transfusion Act aimed the family “dishonour”. her post-mortem report during a press conference in Rawalpindi. head of the women affairs depart- Commission, told reporters this The practice was dragged into ment in Ghor. month. to control spread of viral the international spotlight earlier Kazam sought to keep interna- Pakistani governments to conduct The girl is currently in a wom- Afghan civil law sets the legal Hepatitis by disallowing this month with the killing of Qan- tional attention on “honour” killings a fair trial,” he said. an’s shelter in Ghor and her parents age of marriage at 16 for girls, yet substandard blood banks deel Baloch, a polarising Pakistani when he spoke to media assembled Kazam and Shahid, both Brit- are on their way to the province to 15 percent of Afghan women under from operating. He was social media star. in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, ish-Pakistani dual citizens, had been collect her, the local governor’s 50 were married before their 15th addressing a seminar and Her brother has confessed to the close to the capital Islamabad, married for two years and were liv- office said. birthday and almost half were mar- the launch of a hepatitis murder, saying his sister’s behaviour Thursday. ing in Dubai, police said, adding that “Karim has been jailed and ried before the age of 18, according prevention programme. had been “intolerable”. “I request the British and it was Shahid’s second marriage. our investigation is ongoing,” said to Save the Children. PTI unlikely to challenge slot of ECP members Raid against activists

Internews Article 213(2A) provides, “The probable names of the ECP mem- Qadri had challenged the validity ‘led to Gilani’s release’ prime minister shall in consultation bers forwarded by the prime minister of the appointments in the Supreme with the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the opposition Court, demanding reconstitution of ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek- in the National Assembly, forward separately. the ECP. Internews Raheel Sharif was very happy. e-Insaf (PTI) yesterday signalled three names for the appointment of Top constitutional expert S M But the petition was dismissed He said, “My son has been its unwillingness to challenge the the Commissioner [or the ECP mem- Zafar believes the procedure adopted after heated arguments between the released.’ I told General Raheel appointment of Election Commis- bers] to a Parliamentary Committee by the parliamentary committee was petitioner and former chief justice ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani Sharif what Taliban thought of him. sion of Pakistan (ECP) members even for hearing and confirmation of any ‘flawed’. Iftikhar Chaudhry. prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s I told him Taliban only fear him. after legal experts spotted proce- one person.” “It was mandatory to com- A senior Pakistan Tehreek- son Ali Haider Gilani said that he On Eid and every month or so, dural flaws in the process. In case there is no consen- municate and converse with the e-Insaf leader Hamid Khan said would have never been released if Taliban were terrified when Gen- Relevant constitutional pro- sus, each shall forward their candidates before their finalisation,” currently no such option was under Pakistan Army had not moved on eral Raheel visited Wana, Mir Ali, visions call for a parliamentary separate lists to the committee for Zafar said. Such procedural flaw can consideration by the party. Hamid February 29 this year towards the Datakhel. committee ‘hearing’ before con- consideration. be challenged in court, according to admitted that the appointment posts of entrenched militants in I used to tell Taliban about his firming an ECP member. No such However, the parliamentary him. process was marred by a proce- Waziristan as part of the operation visits because I had access to radio hearing was held by the parliamen- committee in its July 25 meeting In 2011, four ECP members were dural mistake but ruled out any Zarb-e-Azb. and they were terrified. It was tary committee on the appointment did not conduct a hearing of any chosen in the same manner. Pakistan “plan to challenge the appoint- Ali Haider Gilani is visiting Brit- hugely demoralising for the Tali- of ECP members. candidate when it considered the Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul ment in court”. ain for vacation with his extended ban that Pakistan Army chief was family to celebrate his release from coming near them.” the three years long captivity of Al Haider Gilani said that three Qaeda and Taliban militants after years of captivity was the hardest Cybercrime bill being kidnapped from his home- time of his life. “To live was diffi- Dancing to freedom town of Multan. cult but to die was easy. I lived in ‘threatens rights’ He showered praise on the mili- extremely tough conditions. tary chief for taking on the militants For two years I remained in and playing vital role in securing his chains and for 14 months and 22 safe recovery. days I didn’t see light of the day. To Internews Speaking to Geo News here, keep myself sane I used to write Haider Gilani said that during diary. I had written two codes on the his recent meeting with Pakistan wall of my cell: This too shall pass ISLAMABAD: Despite amend- Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, and victory comes with patience. ments proposed by the he thanked him for the movement Two days after being kidnapped, Senate Standing Committee on of troops against the militants on I realised that it would be a long fight IT in Pakistan, the Prevention that particular day because fearing and I must not lose hope. Hope is the of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) Pakistani forces the Al Qaeda and last thing that leaves the body. I didn’t continues to pose a threat to fun- Taliban militants moved Haider to lose hope and survived,” he said. damental rights, local civil rights Afghanistan where he was eventu- Haider Gilani firmly denied organisations said in a joint state- ally rescued. paying any ransom to his militant ment issued yesterday. “After the February 29 advance kidnappers. He said that the mil- “Every aspect in the law is crit- movement of Pakistani forces, I was itants wanted a huge amount of ical. The overall spirit of the law taken to Afghanistan. When I met ransom and also wanted exchange is obvious, curbing freedom of General Raheel Sharif I thanked him of prisoners. expression on all information sys- if there was no operation on Feb- “They were clear in what they tems, phones and computers,” Aftab ruary 29, I wouldn’t be here today.” were doing. They wanted revenge Alam, a human rights activist said. The militants were on the run from my father Yusuf Raza Gilani. As the approved version of the and had no desire to fight Pakistani They blamed Pakistan People’s PECB makes its way to the Senate forces. Haider Gilani said that he Party for the killing of Osama Bin for discussion, local NGOs have met General Sharif for one hour and Laden, operations against mili- urged senators to stand up for civil fifteen minutes and answered the tants in Wana, Waziristan and Swat. Relatives of Pakistani national, Zulfiqar Ali, who was convicted to death in 2005 for heroin possession, liberties enshrined in the Consti- military chief’s questions about Tal- They were angry at the PPP. “They tution and take into consideration dance in celebration after the Indonesian government halted his execution, in Lahore, yesterday. iban and Al Qaeda. thought my kidnapping would help amendments. “We didn’t discuss politics. them,” he said. INDIA SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 07 Strike paralyses nationwide banking operations

IANS in it. Most of the nationalised banks more than 80,000 branches,” banking managements,” Majumder sector in national interest,” he said. are closed,” CH Venkatachalam, Gen- Venkatachalam said. told reporters in Agartala. A large He said the government wants to In the last 40 years, eral Secretary of the All India Bank The strike had its impact in the number of the ATMs were closed, consolidate and merge 27 public sec- more than 40 private Employees Association (AIBEA), said. northeastern region as well. creating problems for the people in tor banks to make them into some NEW DELHI: Banking operations Echoing this, K Thamaraiselvan, “Over 10,000 bank employees the northeastern states. five or six big banks for the sake of across the country were hit yester- banks have collapsed. General Secretary of Andhra Bank belonging to more than 3,000 nation- According to Venkatachalam, global competition. day as around 10 lakh employees in We cannot allow to Employees Union (Tamil Nadu unit) alised and private bank branches in unmindful of the adverse implica- “We need efficient banks and not around 40 private and nationalised said: “The banking operations have the seven northeastern states took tions, the government was pursuing necessarily big banks. Big banks do banks struck work for a day to pro- take that risk again. been paralysed nationwide.” part in the strike, opposing the pro- the reform measures in the bank- not automatically mean strong banks. test against the central government’s Banks must continue The strike call was given by the posed amendments to the banking ing sector like inadequate infusion In many countries big banks have policies for the sector. United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), laws,” said UFBU spokesman Sush- of capital in public sector banks, failed and they are in trouble,” he Unions in the banking sector had in public sector in an umbrella body of nine unions obhan Datta Majumder. which will result in reduction of gov- added. He said privatisation of banks given the strike call to protest the national interest: in the banking sector viz., AIBEA, “The proposed restructuring ernment’s equity capital and create will not help in recovering bad loans mergers in the sector, infusion of AIBOC, NCBE, AIBOA, BEFI, INBEF, in the banking sector is expected compulsion for higher extent of pri- totalling over Rs 13 lakh crore and private capital in government banks, Venkatachalam INBOC, NOBW and NOBO. to be undertaken aiming at merg- vate capital leading to privatisation may result in handing over the banks for recovery of bad loans, bringing “The strike involved around 10 ers, acquisitions and outsourcing of banks. “In the last 40 years, more to a loan defaulter. Criminal action to book wilful loan defaulters and lakh employees and officers of public of routine activities of Indian banks than 40 private banks have collapsed. against wilful loan defaulters should others. response nationwide as around 10 sector banks, old generation private and to allow foreign banks and We cannot allow to take that risk be taken instead of dealing with them “The strike has evoked a good lakh employees have participated banks and foreign banks totalling investors in these activities and again. Banks must continue in public with a velvet hand, he added.

Sushma chairs meet Planet after repairs Nine dead in Pune building on India-Sri Lanka site accident fishermen issue PUNE: Nine labourers were killed and four oth- ers injured when the slab of an under-construction IANS introduction of sustainable fishing 14-storied building col- practices. lapsed here yesterday All stakeholders agreed with morning, officials said. External Affairs Minister that it The accident occurred NEW DELHI: External Affairs was important to resolve the issues when 13 labourers were Minister Sushma Swaraj yester- quickly, the statement said. working on the 13th floor day chaired a meeting to discuss There was consensus that the of the upcoming build- the way forward towards a per- various measures proposed by the ing, Park Express of the manent solution to the fishermen’s External Affairs Minister would help Pride Purple Group, in issue between India and Sri Lanka. efforts towards a permanent reso- Balewadi, when the slab Minister of Agriculture and lution of the issue. suddenly crashed and all Farmers Welfare/ Fisheries Radha It was also agreed that the the workers fell in a heap Mohan Singh co-chaired the meet- Ministry of Agriculture and Farm- below. While eight were ing, which was also attended by ers Welfare and the Department Workers remove scaffolding from a replica of the Earth after repairs at the Science City in Ahmedabad, killed instantly, one more Minister of State for Transport, of Animal Husbandry, Dairying yesterday. succumbed while being Highways and Shipping Radha and Fisheries would take action rushed to the Sassoon Krishnan. on specific measures suggested to Hospital. All the victims The meeting was held in the meet livelihood concerns of Indian hailed from Bihar and context of the invitation to Sri fishermen. There was an agree- worked as contract labour. Lankan Minister of Fisheries and ment amongst all stakeholders Aquatic Resources Development that practical and pragmatic solu- Over 1.7 million affected by Assam Mahinda Amaraweera to visit India tions needed to be pursued so that in August for discussions, according fishermen on both sides can pursue SC seeks report to a statement issued by the Exter- their livelihood in a safe, secure and nal Affairs Ministry. sustainable manner,â the ministry floods; Rajnath to visit today on situation in The release of 77 Indian fish- statement said. ermen on July 25-26 and their The meeting was attended by Kashmir Valley repatriation to India on July 27 set representatives of the state govern- the immediate backdrop to the ments of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, IANS visit Bhagatgaon camp set up for the unauthorised absence and neg- NEW DELHI: The Supreme meeting. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, flood-affected residents in Morigaon ligence of officials, which led to Court yesterday asked The Ninth India-Sri Lanka Joint Odisha and 13 representatives from district and meet Assam Chief Min- breach of the Brahmaputra dyke and Solicitor General Ranjit Commission meeting on February the Fishermen Association of Tamil ister Sarbananda Sonowal and state the resultant misery to the people Kumar for a status report 5, 2016, had agreed on the need to Nadu as also five representatives GUWAHATI: With at least 20 per- government officials before return- and loss of property. On his directive, on the ground situation work out a permanent solution to from the Fishermen Association of sons dead and over 1.7 million ing to Delhi in the evening. the Water Resources Department in the Kashmir Valley as the fishermen issue during a visit by Puducherry. affected due to floods in 21 districts Over one lakh people have been suspended four officials on the it said that it could not the Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Besides, representatives of the of Assam, Union Home Minister forced to abandon their houses and charge of gross negligence of duty ask the state governor Resources Development of Sri Coast Guard, senior officials from the Rajnath Singh will visit the state take refuge in relief camps. Flood during the current floods in Majuli. to assume the reins of Lanka to India, the statement said. Ministries of Agriculture/Department today for a day to take stock of the waters have inundated 3,374 Assam Union Railway Minister Suresh the administration. Seek- The discussions between stakehold- of Animal Husbandry/ Dairying and situation. villages as well as crops standing on Prabhu said the Railways will ing the report, a bench of ers on the Indian side focussed on Fisheries, Home Affairs, Defence, The minister is expected to make 2,13,251 hectares of land, an ASDMA provide free wagons to the state Chief Justice TS Thakur, different aspects requiring atten- External Affairs, the Indian Navy and an aerial survey of the flood-affected official said. Over 20 people died in government to transport essential Justice A Khanwilkar and tion, including the livelihood the Prime Minister’s Office attended areas of Nagaon, Morigaon and the floods across the state. commodities to the flood-affected Justice DY Chandrachud concerns of Indian fishermen and the meeting. Kaziranga in Assam. He will also He took serious note of the districts of the state. told the petitioner, the J&K National Panthers Party, that they “can’t direct the Governor to assume the reigns of the Stripes and snarls Omani girl treated in Delhi hospital state administration”. “Situation at the IANS grounds changes in hours, these are not the issues that could be judicially NEW DELHI: A six-year-old girl from Oman who developed a rare genetic disorder, charac- dealt with,” Chief Justice terised by distinctive malformation of the skull and facial region, has been given a new lease Thakur told senior coun- of life after a breakthrough surgery at a Delhi hospital. sel Bhim Singh who also According to doctors at Fortis Healthcare, Lyaan came with a condition called Crouzon heads the party, and was syndrome -- a rare genetic disorder found one in 60,000 live births (or 16.5 cases in one mil- appearing for it. lion live births) and suffered with a severely deformed upper part of the face. According to her father, Ali Halthy, Lyaan was born normal, but developed the deformity in the upper part of the face and a retruded upper jaw, when she was 4-5 months old. Later, Lyaan also developed breathing problems and underwent tracheostomy -- an incision in the Telangana to windpipe made to relieve an obstruction to breathing. Since her head was not growing to the required standard size, she also had to undergo cranial surgery at the age of one in Oman. hold fresh Our team performed the Lefort III Osteotomy, where the mid-face was detached from the skull bone with application of rigid external distractors, also called RED Device, as part of the medical exam treatment on the patient, Taneja explained. Four days following the complex surgery, performed in February this year, her mid-face and upper jaw was pulled forward at the rate of 1mm a HYDERABAD: The Tel- day. After the complete healing of her bones, the ENT team also removed her tracheostomy. Schoolchildren stage a drama to promote tiger conservation, in Kolkata, yesterday. angana government “Lyaan has started breathing normally through her nose like any other child. She will have yesterday decided to can- to undergo another set of surgery at age 16 to align her jaw,” said doctors. cel TS EAMCET-II 2016 in the wake of leakage of the question paper and hold fresh exam for admission to the medical courses Indian wins temporary reprieve from execution in Indonesia in the state. The decision was taken by Chief Minis- ter K Chandrasekhar Rao IANS Gurdip Singh was convicted along Swaraj tweeted yesterday. were executed at 12.45am yesterday they had just 72 hours to live. Those after the CID submitted with 13 others and was due to be exe- India has urged for clemency for in the midst of torrential rain. Rum executed yesterday were Indonesian its report. The chief min- cuted at the Nusa Kambangan prison Singh and Indian embassy officials said that authorities have not decided Freddy Budiman and Nigerians Seck ister took the decision at JAKARTA: Indian national Gurdip island, known as Indonesia’s Alcat- have been in touch with the Indo- when the 10 other prisoners will be Osmane, Michael Titus and Hum- a meeting with some cab- Singh yesterday won a temporary raz - in the early hours of yesterday. nesian authorities to press his case. executed by firing squad. phrey Jefferson. Relatives, rights inet colleagues, Director reprieve from execution by a firing “Indian Ambassador in Indonesia Muhammad Rum, spokesman for Petitions to review their cases groups and foreign governments have General of Police Anurag squad in Indonesia for drug smug- has informed me that Gurdip Singh Indonesia’s attorney general, told have been denied. The remaining been urging Indonesia to spare the Sharma and other top gling as he was not among the four whose execution was fixed for last reporters outside the Nusa Kam- 10 have also not been taken from lives of the 14 convicts. It is not clear officials. prisoners executed by the authori- night, has not been executed,” Indian bangan prison that two Nigerians, their isolation cells. All the 14 pris- why the execution of the other 10 ties in that country. External Affairs Minister Sushma one Senegalese and one Indonesian oners had been told on Tuesday that prisoners did not proceed. 08 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Heinous attack Why the situation in Turkey n air strike on a maternity hospital in northwestern Syria’s Idlib province killed two persons and injured many more. It was not clear whether the regime or US-led coalition aircraft were behind the abhorrent attack, but the assault violates all international may only get worse Aregulations, war laws and is in defiance of ethical norms. Targeting civilians during wars is not approved and amounts to crimes against humanity. It is not the first time that a hospital country Erdoğan gave us.” has been bombed in the five-year civil war that has pitted the Erdoğan has delivered much Since the founding West against its arch enemy Russia in a battle of attrition joined needed services to Turks who live by Iran on Moscow’s side. Numerous civilian targets have been in the county’s ghettos, villages, and of the Turkish bombed by regime forces supported by Russia in the war that has towns. As mayor of Istanbul and republic in 1923 killed more than a quarter million people. later prime minister, Erdoğan and and for much of Bombing any civilian target is a despicable act and demands his Justice and Development Party, better known as the AKP, improved legal retribution. However, a war leads to chaos and the the 20th century, infrastructure, attracted invest- aggrieved don’t have recourse to proper justice even after guns ments, expanded the economy, and the urban white have fallen silent. jumpstarted social mobility. Most collar elite was the Attacking a maternity hospital By Lauren Bohn and moment of unity and optimism importantly, they spoke about a majority. The rural from the air not only puts innocent Elmira Bayrasli that Turkish politics had finally “new” Turkey in which everyone Reuters progressed and perhaps embraced would be heard, minorities would and largely pious Air strike on lives in danger, but also threatens newborns and those who are waiting democracy. be respected, and tolerance would underclass was a maternity But what has followed in recent triumph. to arrive in this world. Neonatal and days reeks more of revenge than Yet as his rule, in the face of a ignored, relegated centre in Syria maternity care is the most sensitive progress or democracy. weak and inept opposition, went to the margins of marks a new and intricate subject in healthcare. Istanbul’s towering Palace More than 50,000 people unchallenged, Erdoğan changed. society. Erdoğan low in the Even peaceful countries without signs of Justice opened in 2011, a have been rounded up, sacked He was no longer an outsider fight- of unrest sometimes struggle to cope gleaming 19-story behemoth or suspended from their jobs by ing against the establishment. He, tipped that balance. war. with the demand for good neonatal and the largest courthouse Turkey’s government. Last week, the scrappy soccer player from Iin Europe. Erdoğan called a three-month state Kasimpaşa, had become the estab- and maternity care. When it comes For more than a week, Emine of emergency to “cleanse terror- lishment. His focus veered away to countries ravaged by war, such has camped there with only a ist elements” from the military, from a “new” Turkey to maintain- healthcare becomes a casualty. handbag in tow, hoping to catch referring to supporters of his erst- ing the status quo – his power and own Kurdish issue, and the rise of Syria—embroiled in a war of the making of its President a glimpse of her 22-year-old son, a while ally and now foe, US-based the ability to hold on to it. Islamic extremists. At the end of Bashar Al Assad — has become a leitmotif of the failure of low-level military conscript, who Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. This white-knuckled grip on June, Erdoğan mended ties with diplomacy, the helplessness of the United Nations and the was detained in the aftermath of The government accuses Gülen power came to light during the Israel and Russia. In the days fol- weakness of the global community to countenance an issue Turkey’s coup attempt on July 15. of orchestrating the attempted 2013 anti-government “Gezi” pro- lowing the coup attempt, however, The morning after he rode in a coup, a claim Gülen denies. tests that opposed the razing of a Ankara has lashed out at Washing- that is a threat to millions of civilians and a nation with a strong military vehicle outside Istan- “Erdoğan will use the botched park outside Istanbul’s main Tak- ton, with which it has had strained historical footprint. Not a day passes by without scores being bul’s Ataturk airport, he texted coup to become Supreme Leader sim Square. Erdoğan responded in relations for the past several years. killed in one bombing or another. Rebels keep pushing against her: “I think they’re taking me.” of Turkey,” said a Turkish human textbook strongman fashion with Ankara has demanded that the regime forces, which supported by superior Russian military She hasn’t heard from him rights activist, requesting anonym- water cannons and tear gas. Crit- Obama administration hand over power, keeps pounding targets around Damascus, Homs, Hama, since. ity for fear of losing her job. “Dark ics and dissenters were arrested. Gülen – and threatens to “review” Deir Azzor, Aleppo and other major Syrian cities. “He’s a child, he didn’t do any- days are coming.” When corruption allegations sur- their relations if it does not. Both thing,” Emine said, asking for her Indeed, many are concerned faced later that year, Erdoğan shut capitals remain on edge. Amid countless ceasefires and meetings, Syria keeps burning. last name to be withheld. In Turkey, about Turkey’s future, particularly down social media sites and fired So do most Turks. On Sunday, Attempts at peace have been hit by the intransigence of the military service is compulsory and the direction of its democracy, judges and police officers whom thousands gathered in Taksim warring sides. While rebels want Assad to step down and an end her two younger sons are slated which has not come easy, if at he believed were linked to Gülen, Square to protest the coup attempt. to attacks against them, the regime is adamant. Assad refuses to to serve soon. “Now neighbours all. Democracy in Turkey has not whom Erdoğan thinks leaked the The rally was held by Turkey’s main quit citing an elected mandate by the Syrian people and insists say he was a terrorist...does any- always prioritised the rights and allegations. opposition party, the Republican serious talks will only begin when ‘terrorism’ in the country one know what is going on? Has freedoms of the individual or the As his term as AKP leader People’s Party (CHP), but members comes to an end. the world turned upside down?” collective whole. Instead, it has started to draw to a close in 2014 of the AKP joined in a historic ges- After decades of stability and taken a majoritarian approach – and he campaigned to become Tur- ture of unity. It seems there is no stopping to the daily carnage in Syria. Till economic growth, few in Turkey might makes right – drowning out key’s president, Erdoğan talked “This isn’t just about the coup, the international community cannot force Assad to resign, more expected the country’s generals diversity and dissent. about the need to rewrite Tur- we are saying no to dictatorship, innocents will keep dying in hospitals and hospices. to usurp power again as it had in Since the founding of the Turk- key’s constitution and overhaul too,” said Hale Ersoy, a CHP sup- 1960, 1971 and 1980. When they ish republic in 1923 and for much of the country’s system of govern- porter, offering a thinly veiled did, however, thousands heeded the 20th century, the urban white ment. Turkey, he argued, needed critique of Erdoğan. “We will be the call from President Recep collar elite was that majority. The to move away from a parliamen- back in the square if democracy Tayyip Erdoğan to stand up for rural and largely pious underclass tary system toward a presidential isn’t upheld. We’re watching.” “the people’s will.” Even Erdoğan’s was ignored, relegated to the mar- one – a system in which Erdoğan Just a few miles away in staunchest opponents came out gins of society. Erdoğan tipped that would gain unprecedented power, Kasimpaşa, Erdoğan’s old stomp- against the coup, offering a rare balance. solidifying not merely majoritar- ing grounds, youth like Emeroğlu Quote of the day “He’s from this neighbourhood, ian but strongman rule. are watching, too, and champi- he’s like us...he understands,” said In such a system, there is much oning the coming days as a much I will be a president for What would Obama Ömer Emeroğlu, 26, when asked at risk beyond civil liberties, jus- needed restructuring of the state. Democrats, Republicans why he supports Erdoğan and why tice and human rights. Many are “What would Obama do if this do if this happened he went out on the streets to stand concerned about the future of happened in America? This plot and independents. For the in America? This against the coup attempt on July 15. Turkey’s once dynamic but now will only make us stronger and struggling, the striving and The president has long strummed stalled economy. Turkey’s econ- reveal the traitors. Erdoğan is sav- the successful. For those who plot will only make his backstory as a common boy omy depends on exports, especially ing Turkey,” said Emeroğlu, before vote for me and those who us stronger and from Kasimpaşa, a working class with its largest trading partner, joining the Taksim rally. “Nothing district of Istanbul, like a well- the . can stop him.” don’t. For all Americans. reveal the traitors. versed instrumentalist, playing Even more wonder what will And that’s exactly why mothers Erdoğan is saving for a constituency that has long felt become of the country’s relations like Emine, who camped outside Hillary Clinton oppressed and disenfranchised. with its neighbours and allies, the marble fortress of the Palace US Democratic presidential candidate Turkey, Nothing can “He’s a real Turk, a son of this including the United States and of Justice, fear the days ahead stop him. neighbourhood,” Emeroğlu says. Nato. This is especially important might go down as some of Tur- “And I would die to protect the as Turkey grapples with Syria, its key’s darkest.

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By Daniel Serwer The Washington Post

he military situation in Syria has turned against the US- supported opposition over the past year, due mainly to Russian intervention. Now, Tthe failed coup in Turkey and subse- quent crackdown there stand to reduce the capabilities of a key US ally. With- out some rebalancing now in favor of the opposition to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, the prospects for a satisfactory negotiated political transition are dim. In a dissenting internal memo last month, 51 State Department diplomats advocated attacks on Syrian government forces to end their aggression against the country’s civilian population, alter Hezbollah members carry the coffin of top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an attack in Syria, during his funeral in Beirut’s the military balance and bring about a southern suburbs on May 13. negotiated political solution. President Barack Obama has focused instead on fighting terrorism in Syria, but US targets Israeli withdrawal from that country. That progress has hardened Assad’s need to be ready to attack as soon as the expend there. Assad would be outraged are limited to Sunni extremists such as Tightly allied with and supported by Iran, negotiating stance and blocked the U.N. ultimatum expired. and promise revenge, but the Syrian the Islamic State and al-Qaida affiliates. it has become the dominant political force search for a political solution. Assad is Hezbollah’s withdrawal or US target- government is even more clearly at the There is also a Shiite terrorist among Shiites in , where it not winning, and he sees no reason to accept ing of Hezbollah would send a strong but limit of its capabilities. organization in Syria: Lebanon-based only participates in national politics but a transition away from his rule. still limited message to the Syrian opposi- Meanwhile, the non-extremist Syrian Hezbollah. It should not be immune. also runs its own security forces and pro- A shift in the military balance is tion and its allies in Turkey and the Persian opposition would applaud and press hard Hezbollah was founded to resist the vides social services to Shiite populations. essential to ending the war, which is Gulf: We are prepared to attack Shiite as against the territory where Hezbollah is Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the early Covertly since 2012, and overtly what Washington says it wants. But well as Sunni terrorists, but it’s up to you deployed. Gulf states would likewise 1980s and takes credit for the eventual since 2013, Hezbollah has deployed Obama has steadfastly refused to go to take advantage of the opportunity welcome the US action and redouble forces inside Syria, where its thousands to war against the Syrian, Iranian or and come to the negotiating table ready their efforts to support the opposition. of fighters are aligned with Assad’s army Russian government. Even if he wants to reach a serious political settlement. It Israel knows all too well how to react to and mainly Shiite and Alawite militias to, it is doubtful he has authorization from would also send a strong but likewise lim- Hezbollah attacks in order to reestablish against mainly Sunni forces that Assad Congress to do so. ited message to Iran and Russia: We will deterrence. Turkey might complain that US targeting of Hezbollah would regards as terrorists. The Iranian Revo- But Hezbollah is a non-state actor. It is not continue to tolerate your intervention the United States was not also acting mostly please and embolden lutionary Guard Corps pays Hezbollah’s also a US-designated terrorist group that in Syria without responding. The time for against the US-allied Kurdish fighters Washington’s friends and discomfit bills and provides its command-and-con- has murdered Americans, among many a political settlement is now. whom Ankara regards as terrorists, but trol operations. Hezbollah forces have others. Most Republicans and Democrats How would the players in Syria the Turks would still benefit from any its antagonists. It would also reassert been particularly effective along the bor- would applaud an attack on Hezbollah, react? Hezbollah would likely try to consequent military progress against US commitment to fighting terrorism der with Lebanon, which provides it with even if some in both parties would strike at accessible US assets or citizens Assad by non-Kurdish forces. strategic depth and supply lines. bemoan a move that suggested widening in neighboring countries, most likely in In short, US targeting of Hezbollah of all sorts, renew Washington’s Hezbollah is a major factor in commitments overseas. Lebanon or Iraq. It might also launch would mostly please and embolden commitment to holding Hezbollah the military balance in Syria. Along Washington could inform Tehran, rockets into Israel. The Islamic State, Washington’s friends and discomfit its with the Russian air intervention Moscow and Beirut that Hezbollah should which uses Hezbollah’s involvement antagonists. It would also reassert US accountable, hasten an end to the begun last September and the Iranian withdraw from Syria by a certain date in Syria as a recruiting tool, would be commitment to fighting terrorism of all Syrian civil war and make a political Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah’s fighters or the United States would target any undermined. Russia and Iran could sorts, renew Washington’s commitment settlement more likely. That is not a have enabled Assad to make progress of its troops attacking non-extremist in theory up the ante, escalating their to holding Hezbollah accountable, hasten against his opponents, especially those opposition forces in and around Aleppo involvement in Syria, but in practice they an end to the Syrian civil war and make bad balance of risks and benefits. associated with the Free Syrian Army and elsewhere. If Hezbollah failed to both appear to be close to the limit of lives a political settlement more likely. That is fighters backed by the United States. withdraw, the United States would then and treasure they are willing or able to not a bad balance of risks and benefits. How the West censors for China

conclusions on a sensitive political with this explanation: “There is con- who have taken the greatest risks for ACLA and how the attempts were topic anger the regime, they won’t cern that we run the risk of upsetting China’s future - get excluded before shut down and those engaged in get a visa, and their work and fund- the Chinese government by publish- a conversation even begins. them punished. The ACLA is part of ing will be jeopardized. ing your book, and because we have There is likewise a self-fulfilling the government’s apparatus of con- Whenever Chinese politics is ABA commissions working in China economic rationale to the self- trol. Helping such GONGOs is worse mentioned, most think of the fac- there is fear that we would put them censorship. By avoiding the most than doing nothing. tional struggles among Communist and their work at risk.” sensitive or difficult areas, visible The same can be said for training Party leaders. But this is only part Later, the ABA released an offi- achievements - training programs, programs directed at police, judges of the picture. The stories I’ve long cial statement disavowing this workshops, policy tinkering - can and prosecutors. Western organ- sought to tell are otherwise: About explanation, asserting that the be noted in annual reports to justify izations are inclined to think that activists given heavy prison sen- cancellation was “made for purely continued funding. There is a tempt- miscarriages of justice must be due tences for forming opposition economic reasons.” This was based ing comfort in the idea thatin the end to insufficient professional training. By Teng Biao political parties. About human rights on a market viability study actu- we’re still creating more space for Wrong again. The primary reason for The Washington Post lawyers representing persecuted ally performed the month before the rule of law and human rights. But abuses of justice in China is that the Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, I received the formal acceptance, this, too, has a bitterly ironic conse- judicial system is an instrument of Tibetans and Uighurs. About rights but aside from the peculiar timing, quence. Nearly all the major funding party control, where political cad- defenders whose activism helped I have to ask: Should “purely eco- for such programs ends up in the res directly and arbitrarily interfere The permissive wo years ago, I was invited by end the labor camp system, the one- nomic reasons” be the driving logic pockets of government departments, in legal cases. the American Bar Association child policy and forced demolitions. of an association of lawyers? government-organized nongovern- If refusing to publish my book attitude and Tto prepare a manuscript for a I am intimately familiar with Clearly, there is a deeper, more mental organizations (known as was the price to be paid for genu- mild stances on book to be titled “Darkness Before this work, because I am one of their troubling logic at work here. Like GONGOs) and pro-government inely effective work by the ABA to Dawn.” This book was to describe number. For my activism I’ve been every Western institution oper- scholars. In this way, resources promote the rule of law in China, China taken by the decade I spent engaged in human banned from teaching, forced out ating in China, the ABA wants its meant to support the rule of law I would have happily torn up the international NGOs rights work in China and what those of a job, disbarred from practicing programs to be effective, so such and human rights make their way contract myself. But the opposite experiences tell us about the coun- law, jailed and tortured. All of us who organizations avoid a great many into the hands of those whose job it is true. are of a piece with try’s politics, society and future. But engage in this work pay an enormous issues that might endanger their is to trample upon human rights - The permissive attitude and mild the West’s general the ABA soon rescinded the offer. price. But we’ve also made progress. success. This list of issues is long: the official bar associations, courts, stances on China taken by interna- appeasement The reason I was given? The group And no understanding of contempo- the persecution of Falun Gong, the prosecutors and police. tional NGOs are of a piece with the did not want to anger the Chinese rary China can be complete without Tiananmen Square massacre, the Americans are often guilty of the West’s general appeasement of Chi- of China’s government. a thorough grasp of this suppressed Communist Party’s policies in Tibet classic error of mirror-imaging: pro- na’s dictatorship. It’s an approach dictatorship. It’s I don’t write this to pick on the community. China’s activists and dis- and Xinjiang, and the treatment of jecting onto China what is familiar based on shortsighted interests, ABA. There was nothing uncom- sidents are the country’s hope for the human rights lawyers, dissidents and to them. The ABA might imagine, for and it undermines the sanctity of an approach based mon about this episode, but the future. street activists. These groups con- instance, that the All China Lawyers universal values. Not only do these on shortsighted details are useful in illustrating the These were the ideas animating stantly play a guessing game about Association (ACLA) is its professional policies fail to promote human corrosive influence of the Chinese my manuscript proposal, which was which way the political winds are counterpart, but this would be a deep rights and the rule of law in China, interests, and it Communist Party on the West. Far at first enthusiastically received by blowing. Self-censorship becomes misunderstanding. My book, which but also the relentless self-censor- undermines the too many Western organizations and the ABA. The group said it promised instinctive and characterizes the I still hope to publish, discusses the ship they engender has eroded the scholars working in China practice to be “an important and ground- very basis of their interactions with extensive efforts by rights defense moral prestige and values that are sanctity of universal self-censorship - and for perfectly breaking book.” But unfortunately the regime. Those who need help the lawyers in Beijing to lobby for free the foundation of free societies. It’s values. understandable reasons. If their the project was quickly canceled, most - who deserve it the most and elections for key positions in the time for a new approach.

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Britons jailed over King asks Rajoy to form new govt bid to smuggle in 18 Albanians parties refuse to back him. relinquished the task of forming a The country has been without government due to lack of support, Reuters The acting Prime a fully-functioning government for forcing the king to nominate run- Minister said he seven months, leaving it in political ner-up Socialist party chief Pedro would work to get limbo at a time as it needs to take Sanchez instead. But he too failed LONDON: Two British men who urgent steps to reduce its deficit as to garner enough support as far-left tried to smuggle 18 Albanians into the support he well as address a growing separatist Podemos—which came third—refused England by inflatable boat in May needs — a challenge movement in the Catalonia region. to back him, prompting the repeat and had to be rescued in choppy The blockage started after elec- elections. This time round, Rajoy faces waters were each sentenced to as most other parties tions on December 20 failed to give a similarly difficult task. over four years in prison yester- refuse to back him. any party an absolute majority, as He needs to get enough sup- day, Britain’s state prosecution upstart groupings Ciudadanos and port from other parties to push a service said. Podemos shook up Spain’s long- coalition or minority government News of the rare attempt at established two-party system. through a parliamentary vote of con- a clandestine sea crossing was AFP Fed up with years of austerity fidence—be it with ballots in favour seized upon by media and some and repeated corruption scandals, or abstentions. politicians who were campaign- millions of Spaniards tasked the two But Sanchez has already said that ing at the time for Britain to leave upstarts to revitalise the country. his party—which with 85 seats has the European Union as evidence : Spain’s King tasked acting But efforts to forge a coalition the power to block the PP—will not of migratory pressures and the Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy with the were unsuccessful as rival parties back him, as has Podemos. need for tighter border control. King of Spain Felipe VI (left) and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy delicate mission of forming a govern- were unable to overcome their dif- Ciudadanos chief Albert Riv- Thousands of refugees and ment and unblocking seven months of ferences, prompting repeat elections era meanwhile has said his party shake hands during their meeting at La Zarzuela Palace in Madrid. migrants have tried to illegally political paralysis after a second round in June with a similar result. will abstain in a vote of confidence, enter the country in recent years, of inconclusive elections. Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP), in though with its 32 seats, this will still reaching any kind of agreement. Failure to come to an agreement mostly by stowing away on trucks Rajoy told reporters King Felipe power since 2011, won the June not be enough for Rajoy to push his “The Spanish... are starting to get would eventually prompt a third or trains bound for England from VI had asked him if he would attempt 26 vote with 137 seats out of 350. government through. fed up,” Rivera told reporters earlier round of elections—a situation Rajoy , although the numbers are to form a government, adding he Although its victory margin was wider The date for the vote has yet to after meeting with the king. said he would work to avoid. dwarfed by flows of people in the had “accepted this assignment” and than in the December polls, the party be set and Spain still faces weeks “The ‘old parties’ have no “I will do all I can so that Spain Mediterranean. would work to get the support he failed to achieve an absolute majority. of uncertainty, particularly as the excuse to avoid sitting at a table and gets a government, but it doesn’t only The two smugglers, Robert needs—a challenge as most other After the last elections, Rajoy had PP and Socialists appear far from negotiating.” depend on me,” he said. Stilwell and Mark Stribling, were the only people on board the boat who were wearing life jack- ets. Passengers had paid €6,000 ($6,700) each to make the trip, Ireland jails three top On their toes which British authorities said had nearly cost them their lives. The boat’s battery failed shortly after it left France and bankers over 2008 water started flooding in, leaving those on board to frantically try to bail it out as fast as they could. Local lifeboats were launched, banking meltdown along with a Border Force vessel and a search-and-rescue helicop- ter. The rescue took around an Reuters than a deposit from another bank. hour and a half in rough waters “By means that could be termed with poor visibility. One woman dishonest, deceitful and corrupt had to be treated for symptoms of they manufactured €7.2bn in depos- hypothermia. DUBLIN: Three senior Irish bank- its by obvious sham transactions,” “We may well have seen a ers were jailed yesterday for up to Judge Martin Nolan told the court, tragedy just off the British coast- three-and-a-half years for conspir- describing the conspiracy as a “very line,” said Kris Venkatasami, ing to defraud investors in the most serious crime”. deputy chief prosecutor for the prominent prosecution arising from “The public is entitled to rely southeast of England. the 2008 banking crisis that crip- on probity of blue chip firms. If we Both smugglers had pleaded pled the country’s economy. can’t rely on probity of these banks guilty at Maidstone Crown Court The trio will be among the first we lose all hope or trust in institu- to conspiring to assist illegal senior bankers globally to be jailed tions,” said Nolan. immigration. Stilwell was sen- for their role in the collapse of a None of the defendants reacted tenced to four years and four bank during the crisis. visibly to the sentencing before months, while Stribling received The lack of convictions until being led away by officers to Mount- four years and eight months. now has angered Irish taxpay- joy Prison, the country’s largest and Over a million people entered ers, who had to stump up €64bn used in the past to hold Irish Repub- Europe in 2015, mostly fleeing war - almost 40 percent of annual eco- lican Army prisoners. or poverty in the Middle East and nomic output —after a property Lawyers for the accused argued Africa, with hundreds of thou- collapse forced the biggest state during trial that their motivation in Soldiers of the operation “Sentinelle” stand guard near a concrete block during the “Jazz in Marciac” sands risking their lives to cross bank rescue in the euro zone. authorising the deal was the “green music festival in the street of Marciac, France, yesterday. the sea from Turkey to the Greek The crash thrust Ireland into a jersey” agenda, the financial reg- islands or from Libya to . three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 ulator’s request for Irish banks to and the finance ministry said last support one another as the finan- month that it could take another 15 cial crisis worsened. years to recover the funds pumped McAteer was convicted in 2014 into the banks still operating. of illegal lending and providing May reassures Poles and Slovaks in UK post-Brexit Former Irish Life and Perma- unlawful assistance to investors, nent Chief Executive Denis Casey but sentenced to perform commu- was sentenced to two years and nine nity service when a judge ruled he AFP heated campaign in the run-up to British people in the Brexit vote that months following the 74-day crimi- was “led into error and illegality” the Brexit referendum last month. they want us to ensure that we can nal trial, Ireland’s longest ever. by the Irish regulator. “I fully expect and intend to be have some control on the movement Willie McAteer, former finance Scandal-hit Anglo-Irish, able to guarantee the rights of Polish of people from the EU into the UK in director at the failed Anglo Irish Bank, described by Nolan as “probably WARSAW: British Prime Minister citizens when we leave the EU,” May the future.” and John Bowe, its ex-head of capital the most reviled institution in the Theresa May (pictured) travelled said, but also demanded reciprocity. The Polish and British prime markets, were given sentences of 42 state”, was put into liquidation in to Warsaw in a bid to reassure the “The only circumstances in ministers announced they had months and 24 months respectively. 2013 and remains subject to other Polish government that the hundreds which that would not be possible decided to hold annual bilateral All three were convicted of con- criminal trials. of thousands of Poles living in Britain would be if the rights of British cit- summits. spiring together and with others to Irish Life and Permanent was still had a post-Brexit future there. izens living across the EU were not May said: “I have offered to host mislead investors, depositors and broken up during restructuring of Ire- “I want to be clear that Poles guaranteed,” she said. the first of those in the UK.” lenders by setting up a €7.2bn cir- land’s financial sector and its banking living in the UK continue to be wel- Earlier on Thursday, May had Szydlo for her part said the cular transaction scheme between arm, permanent tsb, remains under come and we value the contribution offered the same reassurances in European Union needed to engage March and September 2008 to bol- 75 percent state ownership. they make to our country,” May told Bratislava to her Slovak counterpart in some soul-searching after Brexit ster Anglo’s balance sheet. Two other Anglo-Irish bank- reporters during a joint press con- Robert Fico, whose country currently and make the necessary changes “to Irish Life placed the deposits ers, chief operations officer Tiarnan ference with her Polish counterpart holds the rotating half-year EU pres- become a stronger institution.” via a non-banking subsidiary in O’Mahoney, 56, and former com- Beata Szydlo in Warsaw. Kingdom and Polish is the second- idency and has around 90,000 of The bloc “has to give thought the run-up to Anglo’s financial year- pany secretary Bernard Daly, 67, At some 790,000, Poles make most spoken language there. its nationals living and working in to what happened that such an end, to allow its rival to categorise earlier this year had their sentences up by far the largest community Migration featured as the main Britain. important country, with such a big them as customer deposits, which quashed on appeal after spending of some three million European hot-button issue for voters wanting But May also stressed that “there economy, decided to leave the Euro- are viewed as more secure, rather several months in prison. Union migrants living in the United Britain to leave the EU during the was a very clear message from the pean Union,” she said. Damaged British nuclear submarine leaves Gibraltar

AFP damaged—had left and was “abso- collision had not damaged HMS Gibraltar has long been the subject lutely safe to go to sea,” although Ambush’s nuclear plant. of an acrimonious sovereignty row she refused to tell the media as to The spokeswoman said that between both countries. where it was headed. before sailing HMS Ambush under- Spain’s conservative government, GIBRALTAR: A British nuclear sub- The submarine was submerged went “a stringent safety review and which has been in place since 2011, marine that collided with a merchant and carrying out a training exercise full assessment of her ability to nav- has been particularly vocal about its vessel off the coast of Gibraltar and when it collided with an unspecified igate safely.” desire to see the territory come back was forced to dock in the territory left merchant vessel last week, damag- The incident revived memories into its fold. yesterday, the defence ministry said. ing its conning tower and forcing it to of another submarine incident at the In one particularly belligerent The incident that occurred on July dock for checks in the overseas Brit- turn of the century, when Britain’s row over disputed waters, Spanish 20, sparked environmental fears as ish territory on Spain’s southern tip HMS Tireless was forced to dock in authorities upped checks at its land well as concerns it could lead to yet known as “the Rock”. Gibraltar for repairs for nearly a year border with Gibraltar in 2013, creat- another diplomatic row between Concerned over the incident, after a crack was found in a cooling ing hours-long logjams and forcing London and Madrid, which wants Madrid had asked London for urgent pipe near its nuclear reactor. the European Commission to wade Gibraltar back centuries after it was explanations as to the extent of the Its presence caused outrage in in and ease the crisis. ceded to Britain in 1713. damage it had caused. Gibraltar and southern Spain, with And there have been repeated A defence ministry spokes- Britain’s navy however, tried people staging protests, and strained incidents involving fishing or police File photo of submarine HMS Ambush making an unscheduled stop woman said HMS Ambush—the to allay the fears, saying there ties between London and Madrid. patrol boats in disputed waters off in Gibraltar. front of its conning tower still were “no safety concerns” as the The tiny rocky outcrop of the coast of Gibraltar. EUROPE SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 11 Valls moots temporary ban on foreign-funded mosques

model” for relations with Islam had tried to go to Syria. Other messages speak of the A photocopy of a Syrian passport after a spate of jihadist attacks. Sparking particular ire was the influence of a “sheikh” Kermiche met was found at Kermiche’s home that The French Prime Manuel Valls (pictured), under revelation that one of the assailants, in prison, his wish to set up a terrorist may be that of the asylum seeker, the Minister, under fire fire for perceived security lapses 19-year-old Adel Kermiche, had been cell and details of his failed attempts source said. around the attacks, also admitted a released from prison while awaiting to reach Syria. Two jihadist attacks this month in for perceived security “failure” in the fact that one of the trial on terror charges after his sec- Some 200 people were in the Tel- Germany’s south were carried out by lapses around the jihadists who stormed a church and ond attempt to travel to Syria. egram group receiving the messages, asylum seekers, reviving a backlash attacks, also admitted killed a priest on Tuesday had been The electronically tagged Ker- L’Ex press said. against Chancellor ’s released with an electronic tag pend- miche was allowed out of his home The church attack came as the decision last year to open the borders a failure that one ing trial. on weekday mornings, enabling him government was already facing a to those fleeing war and persecution. of the jihadists who In an interview with French daily and his accomplice to storm a church firestorm of criticism over alleged A 30-year-old member of Le Monde, Valls said he was “open in the Normandy town of Saint- security failings after the Bastille Petitjean’s family and a 16-year-old stormed a church to the idea that—for a period yet to Etienne-du-Rouvray and slit the Day truck massacre in Nice that left whose brother travelled with Ker- and killed a priest be determined—there should be no throat of 86-year-old priest Jacques 84 people dead two weeks ago. miche are also in custody. financing from abroad for the con- Hamel at the altar. In the government’s first admis- In a newly released video, had been released struction of mosques.” Kermiche’s accomplice Abdel sion of a lapse since the two attacks, Petitjean pledged to attack France, with an electronic tag The Socialist prime minister also Malik Petitjean, also 19, had been on Valls acknowledged Kermiche’s directly addressing President Fran- called for imams to be “trained in the security watchlist since June after liberty was a “failure, it has to be rec- cois Hollande and Valls. pending trial. France, not elsewhere.” trying to reach Syria from Turkey. ognised”, adding that judges needed Wearing a striped T-shirt, He said Interior Minister Ber- Muslim populations which numbers Yesterday , the French weekly to take a “different, case-by-case, Petitjean speaks in French laced nard Cazeneuve, whose portfolio around five million. L’Ex press revealed that Kermiche approach, given the jihadists’ very with Arabic in the footage released also includes religious affairs, was Both Valls and Cazeneuve have had described the modus operandi advanced concealment methods”. by the Amaq news agency linked to AFP working on building a “new model” faced calls to resign after the second of the attack on the encrypted mes- But he said it was “too easy to the Islamic State group. for France’s relations with Islam. jihadist attack in less than a fortnight saging application Telegram. hold judges responsible for this act He and Kermiche pledged alle- And Salafism—the deeply funda- raised questions over France’s vigi- “You take a knife, you go into a of terrorism.” giance to IS in a video made before mentalist branch of Islam espoused lance and preparedness. church. Bam!” says a chilling mes- Meanwhile, a source close to inves- they murdered Hamel that emerged PARIS: France’s prime minister by many jihadists—“has no place in The government has faced tough sage recorded just a few days before tigation said a Syrian asylum seeker afterwards. said yesterday he would consider a France,” Valls said. questions since it emerged that both the attack whose authenticity was had been taken in for questioning after Hamel’s funeral will be held in temporary ban on foreign financ- France has just over 2,000 church attackers had been on the confirmed by a source close to the being arrested at a refugee centre in the Gothic cathedral of nearby Rouen ing of mosques, urging a “new mosques, for one of Europe’s largest radar of intelligence services and investigation, according to L’Ex press. Alliers, central France. next Tuesday.

High risk of more Building up ties Spanish govt seeks criminal attacks after charges against Catalan leader unchecked

migration: Fico Agencies said the government had asked the Constitutional Court to annul the latest resolution and see if Catalan Reuters assembly speaker Carme Forcadell MADRID: Spain’s central gov- had broken the law by trying to ernment is seeing if it can bring press ahead with the independ- BRATISLAVA: Europe faces a high criminal charges against the ence plans. risk of more terror attacks because speaker of the Catalonian parlia- A poll published last week of unchecked migration that has ment for letting the assembly vote showed support for Catalan inde- made it easier for attackers and for independence, it said yesterday. pendence growing at a time when weapons to illegally slip through The Catalan parliament voted political deadlock at the national EU borders, Slovak Prime Minister on Wednesday to continue with its level after two inconclusive gen- Robert Fico said yesterday. plan to detach the wealthy north- eral elections has prevented the Germany and France have eastern region from Spain, despite a formation of a new government both faced Islamist attacks in ruling by the Spanish Constitutional in Madrid. the past month, and many have Court annulling an earlier resolu- The survey, by the regional gov- blamed German leader Angela tion to form an independent state. ernment’s official pollster, found Merkel’s open-door refugee policy It argues the “only way possi- 47.7 percent of Catalans supported after more than a million migrants ble” for Catalans to exercise their independence, with 42.4 against. came into the EU last year, often right to decide on their future is if The separatist movement in fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria the region “disconnects” from the Catalonia, a region that accounts for and Iraq. Although the number of Spanish state and disobeys Span- almost a fifth of Spanish economic assaults has increased since migra- ish institutions. output and has its own language, Iranian Communications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi (left) and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak tion wave last summer, many of the Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, surged during Spain’s economic attackers have been home-grown exchange documents during a signing ceremony after their meeting in Moscow, yesterday. deputy prime minister in the care- crisis when it drew 1 million peo- radicals rather than immigrants. taker administration in Madrid, ple onto the streets of Barcelona. Fico told a news confer- ence there was an “absolute link between migration and terrorism”. “It is clear that potential Putin to visit Slovenia to improve European ties terrorists might have used uncon- trolled migration not only for passage but also to bring weapons AP Still, Slovenia has been careful to the former Yugoslavia in 1991. It of troops in the region. in the Julian Alps, which was erected and explosives,” he said. “There- portray Putin’s visit today as strictly joined Nato and the EU in 2004. Trump, whose wife Melania was in the memory of dozens of Russian fore the probability there might be informal — officially Putin is coming The United States and the born in the town of Sevnica while WWI prisoners of war who died in an more individual terror attacks is to attend a World War I memorial — 28-nation EU imposed economic Slovenia was still part of-run Yugo- avalanche while building a mountain very high because there is poten- LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA: Russian and not contrary to official EU policy sanctions on Russia for its 2014 mil- slavia, has sided with Putin on a wide pass for the Austrian army. tial for such attacks.” President Vladimir Putin is visiting of sanctions against Moscow. itary takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean range of issues, including saying that, The annual event, seen as a sym- Slovakia has been toughest European Union and Nato-member Slovenian President Boris Pahor Peninsula and support for insurgents if elected, he would consider recog- bol of friendship between Slovenia critics of EU’s response to migra- Slovenia this weekend, signaling a told Russia’s TASS agency the visit is in eastern Ukraine. The sanctions nising Crimea as Russian territory and Russia, was attended last year tion crisis, opposing quotas for bid to maintain ties amid simmering designed to build trust and dialogue. have cut Russia’s access to global and would not necessarily back Nato by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry asylum seekers and calling for tensions between the Kremlin and “(It) pays respect to traditional financial markets and blocked the members if Putin decided to invade. Medvedev. Putin will also unveil a beefed up borders. It has prom- the two Western-led blocs. friendship of Slovenia and Rus- transfer of key technologies. Russia Putin has not openly backed memorial to Russian soldiers who ised to be an “honest broker” Slovenia, a small Alpine nation sia, despite some differences in two has retaliated by banning most West- Trump and the Kremlin denies died in World War II at the main cem- while holding the bloc’s rotating where US Republican presidential countries’ relations over their posi- ern food imports, badly hurting many reports that it is interfering in the etery in Ljubljana, the capital, and presidency for the rest of the year. nominee Donald Trump’s wife Mel- tions on certain pressing issues,” Pahor EU nations, including Slovenia. US electoral process. meet Slovenian officials. Fico said some security ania was born and grew up, has kept said in comments published yesterday Tensions with Nato also have While in Slovenia — his only third Putin’s spokesman Dmitry experts estimated there are friendly relations with Russia even as by Slovenia’s official STA news agency. been heightened with Russia’s visit to an EU-member country this Peskov says the visit will also include around 300,000 migrants in it joined EU sanctions against Mos- Slovenia, a country of 2 million increased military activity in East- year — Putin will attend a commem- talks “on bilateral issues and busi- Europe, bulk of them in Germany. cow over Ukraine. people, became independent from ern Europe and Nato’s reinforcement oration of the centenary of a chapel ness ties.”

Austria hands over Paris two suspects Tough task to handle

AFP held up, detained by Greek author- Prosecutors said yesterday that ities for 25 days because they had both have now “left the country”. falsified Syrian passports. Usman is reportedly thought Once let go, they followed the to be a bomb maker for Pakistani VIENNA: Austria has handed over main migrant trail and made it extremist organisations including to France two suspected members to Salzburg in western Austria at Lashkar-e-Taiba. of the same Islamic State cell that the end of November—after the India holds Lashkar-e-Taiba massacred 130 people in Paris last Paris attacks. (LeT), allegedly linked to Al- November, the prosecutors said Austrian police commandos then Qaeda, responsible for the attacks yesterday. arrested them at a migrant centre a in 2008 in Mumbai that killed 166 The Algerian and Pakistani few hours after French authorities people. men, Adel Haddadi, 29 and Moha- informed them they could be in the Usman unsuccessfully appealed mad Usman Gani, 35, were arrested country. against his transfer from Austria, in Austria on December 10 at a cen- After his arrest, Haddadi told saying he would not get a fair trial tre for refugees. investigators that he wanted to go in France and that he feared for his Investigators believe that they to France to “carry out a mission,” safety. travelled to the Greek island of Leros according to a statement seen by a Salzburg prosecutors added on October 3 on the same boat full section of media. yesterday that two more men, a of refugees with two men who took A source close to the investiga- Moroccan and an Algerian arrested part in the November 13 attacks. tion said that Haddadi “was meant eight days after the others, remained Those two, thought to be Iraqis, to take part in the Paris killings with in custody. blew themselves up outside the Stade his travelling companions.” In December prosecutors had de France, one of a series of brazen After France filed a European said that the men, aged 25 and 40 assaults by around 10 people around arrest warrant, a court in Salzburg at the time, were being held “because the French capital. approved at the beginning of July the of indications of close contact” with Members of Evora forcados group perform during a bullfight at Campo Pequeno in , But Haddadi and Usman were transfer of the two men to France. the two now transferred to France. Portugal, yesterday. 12 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 AMERICAS

DCCC confirms Hillary accepts it was target of nomination, cyber security Reuters

WASHINGTON: The US Democratic slams Trump Congressional Campaign Commit- tee (DCCC) confirmed yesterday that it had been the target of a cyber security incident similar to other recent attacks, in the Democratic National Con- including theft of documents from the vention in Philadelphia where she Democratic National Committee. The former secretary called for unity in a nation at a “state The DCCC said it took immediate of state said that of reckoning.” action and engaged forensic inves- her lifelong goal Clinton repeated the conven- tigator CrowdStrike to investigate tion’s theme of “stronger together,” breach of its systems. The probe is has been to ensure declaring that her lifelong goal has ongoing, it added. that Americans can been to ensure that Americans can “The DCCC takes this matter very use their talent and ambition to seriously. With the assistance of lead- use their talent strengthen the nation. ing experts we have taken and are and ambition to “And so it is with humility, continuing to take steps to enhance determination, and boundless con- the security of our network in the face strengthen the fidence in America’s promise, that of these recent events,” the commit- nation. I accept your nomination for pres- tee said in the statement. ident of the United States,” she said, “We are cooperating with the fed- as her husband Bill and their daugh- eral law enforcement with respect to ter Chelsea looked on. their ongoing investigation,” it said. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (second right), former president Bill Clinton (right), their AFP While she soaked in the historic A section of press reported that nature of her accomplishment, she daughter Chelsea and son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky celebrate on stage after Hillary accepted the nomination the FBI was investigating a cyber spent much of biggest speech of her at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. attack against the DCCC that may be career taking aim at her Republican related to an earlier hack against the PHILADELPHIA: Hillary Clinton opponent, slamming him as a fear- inner cities to our small towns, Indian struggling, the striving and the suc- year-long campaign featuring heated Democratic National Committee. claimed her place in history as the monger with no policy credibility. Country to Coal Country,” she said. cessful. For those who vote for me and rhetoric from Trump and other candi- The potential link to Russian first woman presidential nomi- In an hour-long address, she laid And in a bold admission for a can- those who don’t. For all Americans.” dates. “We are clear-eyed about what hackers is likely to heighten accusa- nee of a major US party, promising out an optimistic plan to improve didate seeking to build on Obama’s The convention has been a parade our country is up against. But we are tions, so far unproven, that Moscow is economic opportunity for all and the US economy, stressing that “my policies, she said the economy “is not of party heavyweights—including Pres- not afraid,” Clinton said. “We will rise trying to meddle in the US presidential rejecting Donald Trump’s dark primary mission as president will yet working the way it should.” ident Barack Obama who stirringly to challenge, just as we always have.” election campaign to help Republican vision of America. be to create more opportunity and “I will carry all of your voices hailing Clinton as his political heir—and Clinton also rejected much of nominee Donald Trump. Pledging to be a president for more good jobs with rising wages.” and stories with me to the White tweeted after her speech “she’s tested. Trump rhetoric that has been a con- The Kremlin denied involvement “all Americans,” the former secre- Her efforts will focus particu- House,” she said. “I will be a presi- She’s ready. She never quits.” stant on trail, while mocking him as in the DCCC cyber attack. Hacking of tary of state received thunderous larly on places “that for too long have dent for Democrats, Republicans, and Clinton spoke of strains that have a thin-skinned candidate who “loses DNC’s emails caused discord among cheers from thousands of delegates been left out and left behind, from our independents,” she added. “For the been placed on US society during toxic his cool” at the slightest provocation. Democrats at the party’s convention. Two San Diego cops shot, one dies 6 Michigan state workers charged in Flint water crisis AP early yesterday, Police Chief Shel- treated yesterday at a hospital. Police Authorities also detonated several ley Zimmerman said. The other did not identify him and his condi- devices at the scene that made deaf- officer underwent surgery and was tion was unknown. ening booms. AP laws were broken. In April, two state expected to survive. His wife was at Residents were ordered to stay It was unclear whether the stand- regulators and a city employee were SAN DIEGO: One San Diego police the hospital. in their homes throughout the night off was related to the shootout with charged with official misconduct, officer was killed and another was The officers, members of the as San Diego police and officers the officers. A police spokesman evidence-tampering and other wounded in a shootout following department’s gang suppression unit, from other law enforcement agen- didn’t immediately respond to mes- FLINT, MICHIGAN: The Michigan offences. At the time, the Repub- a late-night traffic stop, authori- made the traffic stop around in San cies scoured ravines, yards, streets sages seeking comment. attorney general’s office yesterday lican attorney general guaranteed ties said yesterday. A suspect was Diego’s modest Southcrest area and and alleys for other possible sus- Zimmerman was emotional after charged six state employees with others would also be charged. wounded and taken into custody a were shot in the upper torso. They pects. A helicopter hovered over the visiting the home of the slain officer misconduct in office and other Flint utilities administrator Mike short time later and hours later police quickly called for assistance from neighbourhood. to notify his relatives. crimes stemming from the lead- Glasgow struck a deal with prosecu- surrounded a home as they searched other officers, and the critically About nine hours after the shoot- “It is extremely difficult, but contaminated water crisis in Flint. tors in May, pledging cooperation in for an accomplice. injured officer was rushed to the out, heavily armed police officers something you have to do,” she told A judge authorised charges filed exchange for reduced charges as The slain officer, a husband and hospital in a police vehicle. surrounded a house about a half- reporters outside Scripps Mercy Hos- by the office of Attorney General Bill authorities continue investigating father of two children, suffered The male suspect was captured mile away, one of them using a pital. “There’s nothing that prepares Schuette against three employees lead contamination of impoverished multiple gunshot wounds and died in a nearby ravine and was being bullhorn to urge a man to surrender. you to do that.” from the Department of Environ- Michigan city’s drinking water supply. mental Quality — Liane Shekter He entered a plea to one count of will- Smith, Adam Rosenthal and Patrick ful neglect of duty, a misdemeanor, Cook — and three from the Depart- in exchange for dismissal of a felony Lula tells UN his ment of Health and Human Services charge of tampering with evidence. Fuming out the menace — Nancy Peeler, Corinne Miller and Two officials with state Depart- Robert Scott. Other charges against ment of Environmental Quality also rights violated in them include willful neglect of duty were charged were charged with and various conspiracy counts. misconduct, conspiracy, tampering corruption probe The decision was made by a with test results and misdemeanor state-appointed emergency man- violations of clean-water law and ager. The water, which wasn’t treated await preliminary examinations. Reuters to control corrosion, leached lead In June, Schuette filed a lawsuit from aging pipes and fixtures as it against two water engineering com- flowed into homes and businesses in panies, saying their negligence caused SAO PAULO: Lawyers for Bra- the city. Elevated levels of the toxin and exacerbated Flint’s lead-tainted zil’s former president Luiz Inacio were discovered in children. water crisis and demanded hundreds Lula da Silva petitioned the United Shekter Smith, former head of millions of dollars in damages. Nations with allegations that his of state’s drinking water office, The public health emergency was human rights had been violated in appeared last month in a Detroit preceded by E coli detections; resi- a corruption investigation. courtroom so her lawyer could dent complaints about color, odor and Lula is under investigation assert her constitutional right taste; and high levels of a disinfect- over allegations he benefited from against self-incrimination amid ant byproduct. A General Motors plant a kickback scheme at state-run ongoing investigations. She hadn’t had stopped using water six months oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or yet been charged but was reassigned after the 2014 switch because it was Petrobras. after the water crisis came to light rusting engine parts, and experts sus- British lawyer Geoffrey Rob- and her firing was announced in Feb- pect a deadly Legionnaires’ disease ertson, who has defended boxer ruary. At the time, her lawyer said she outbreak was tied to the water. Mike Tyson and WikiLeaks hadn’t done anything wrong. Governor Rick Snyder has apol- founder Julian Assange, joined It’s the second round of charges ogised for regulatory failures, and Lula’s Brazilian lawyers in fil- stemming from the water crisis. state environmental agency said it ing the petition to the UN Human A vehicle sprays insecticides around Olympic media accommodations as part of preventive measures In January, Schuette announced wasn’t required to add an anti-cor- Rights Committee. against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, in , , yesterday. appointment of a special counsel to rosion chemical until after a year As president from 2003 to help his office investigate whether of testing. 2011, Lula campaigned to help Brazil win the 2014 World Cup and next month’s Summer Olympics. Companies such as Odebrecht SA are accused of overcharging FDA takes steps to protect blood supply in Florida amid Zika probe Petrobras for work and passing on kickbacks to politicians. They are also being investigated for graft Reuters be related to travel to other coun- or put in place technology that can products made by Hologic Inc and hotspots and there will be a short- on World Cup stadium contracts tries with active outbreaks. kill pathogens in the blood. Roche Holding AG. age of platelets across the country,” and Olympic venues. Odebrecht Zika has struck hardest in Brazil, The FDA also recommended The agency has also approved a Benjamin said. said it is cooperating with author- where the outbreak was first detected nearby counties implement same pathogen inactivation technology The FDA’s action follows Florida’s ities. Lula said he is innocent and CHICAGO: The US Food and Drug last year, and has since spread rap- measures as it moves to prevent trans- made by Cerus Corp that kills the announcement that it had identified is victim of a witch hunt. Administration has ordered blood idly through the Americas. mission of virus through blood supply. virus in blood platelets and plasma. two additional Zika cases —one more The 39-page petition lashes banks in Florida’s two most densely Zika most commonly infects peo- OneBlood, Florida’s biggest The company is conducting clinical in each county - that were not related out at federal judge Sergio Moro, populated counties to stop collecting ple via mosquito bite. But reports of blood collection centre, said it will trials to show it can also kill patho- to travel to an area where the virus who presides over most cases in blood as health officials determine the virus being transmitted through begin testing all of its collections for gens in red blood cells. is being transmitted. Petrobras investigation and has whether Zika has begun transmis- blood transfusions has prompted Zika virus, using an investigational Unlike oxygen-carrying red A CDC spokesman said that “evi- ordered arrest of dozens of high- sion in the continental United States. public health officials to recommend screening test and that it is working blood cells, which can be kept for dence is mounting to suggest local level construction executives in Florida is investigating four additional precautions. as quickly as possible to comply with 42 days in a refrigerator, or plasma, transmission via mosquitoes” in recent years. “Lula is a victim of possible cases of local transmis- In a statement posted online, the the FDA’s request. which keeps for a year if frozen, South Florida, noting that the cases abuse of power by a judge, with sion in Miami-Dade County and FDA said blood centres in the two The FDA has authorised the platelets have a shelf life of just four fit transmission patterns seen with the complicity of prosecutors and Broward County. 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ONLINE CHART BUST ‘Babylon 5’ actor Humming in the air www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Jerry Doyle dies MOST READ AFP HH the Emir Holds Session of Talks with 1 Argentinian President LOS ANGELES: Actor Liverpool FC: The best formation for turned radio talk show 2 Klopp to use this season host Jerry Doyle (pic- tured), who found fame Special Report: In Venezuela’s murky oil on sci-fi series “Babylon 3 industry, the deal that went too far 5,” has died at the age of 60, his family announced on Thursday. The New York native, TWEET OF THE DAY who was found in his Las Vegas home on Wednes- day, appeared in all five seasons of the 1990s show as Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. “The family of Jerry Doyle is sad to announce Jer- ry’s passing. The cause of death is unknown at this time,” they said in a statement circulated on social media. After more than 100 “Babylon” episodes between 1994 and 1998, Doyle turned to radio as the host of nationally syn- dicated current affairs program “The Jerry Doyle Show” and founder of the Epic Times website. “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski paid tribute to Doyle in a piece for the site, joking that “politically, Jerry was just to the right of Attila the Hun.” Straczynski revealed that he helped fund Doyle’s unsuc- cessful run for Congress as a Republican in 2000, despite their political differences, because he respected the actor’s profes- sionalism. “It is another loss in a string of losses that I cannot understand. Of the main cast, we have lost Richard Biggs, Hummingbirds fly in the sanctuary “El Paraiso de los Colibries” near Cali, Colombia, Michael O’Hare, Andreas Katsulas, Jeff Conaway, and now Jerry Doyle, and I’m goddamned tired of it,” he wrote. yesterday. INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY “Babylon 5” producer John Copeland described Doyle as “a consummate professional” who was “always ready with a joke or playful remark to the crew.” “He was a great person to have on set and work with. I am glad to have been able to call Jerry one of my friends,” he added. Doyle was raised in New York by his adoptive parents, a Breakthrough solar cell A Russian police officer and a housewife, went to school in New Jersey helicopter hov- and became a commercial pilot after graduating in aeronau- ering over Tartus tics from Embry-Riddle University. beach in Syria. He switched careers to stockbroking on Wall Street, but that works like a plant Pic by Peninsula felt he still hadn’t found his niche and moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Doyle landed his most famous role after securing parts as IANS The ability to turn CO2 into fuel at a cost Bruce Willis’s on-screen brother in “Moonlighting” and as a comparable to a gallon of gasoline would lawyer in the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful.” render fossil fuels obsolete. Chemical reactions that convert CO2 into NEW YORK: Researchers have developed burnable forms of carbon are called reduction a potentially game-changing solar cell that reactions, the opposite of oxidation or combus- essentially does the work of plants -- con- tion. Engineers have been exploring different Pokemon creators to remove real-world locations verting atmospheric carbon dioxide into catalysts to drive CO2 reduction, but so far usable hydrocarbon fuel using only sunlight such reactions have been inefficient and rely for energy. on expensive precious metals such as silver, AP to deal with it and make sure that every- from “Pokemon Go.” Since the free game “The new solar cell is not photovoltaic - Salehi-Khojin said. “What we needed was a one is playing safely and doing things in a launched July 6 for mobile devices and it’s photosynthetic,” said senior study author new family of chemicals with extraordinary respectful manor,” said Smith. rocketed to the top of the download charts, Amin Salehi-Khojin from the University of Illi- properties,” he added in a paper published in “It’s only been two weeks since it some players have injured themselves in nois at Chicago. the journal Science. LOS ANGELES: The creators of “Poke- launched, and there’s been so much atten- pursuit of virtual monsters or have been “Instead of producing energy in an unsus- The team focused on a family of nano- mon Go” say they’re working to remove tion and so many people playing that it’s distracted while playing “Pokemon Go” tainable one-way route from fossil fuels to structured compounds called transition metal real-world locations that don’t wish to be tough to think of all the ways it could affect while driving. greenhouse gas, we can now reverse the proc- dichalcogenides -- or TMDCs -- as catalysts, included in the mobile gaming sensation. the world.” “For us, we’re making sure the play ess and recycle atmospheric carbon into fuel pairing them with an unconventional ionic The Pokemon Company’s consumer The location-aware game provides vir- experience is done right,” said Smith. “Ini- using sunlight,” he added. liquid as the electrolyte inside a two-compart- marketing director JC Smith said in an tual rewards for players who visit real sites tially, there was some server overload, While plants produce fuel in the form ment, three-electrode electrochemical cell. interview this week that they’re updating designated as “Pokestops” in the game. which we’ve worked on. Now, we’re looking of sugar, the artificial leaf delivers syngas, The best of several catalysts they studied the augmented-reality game so it remains Several locations, such as the Hiro- at features in the game and how to fine-tune or synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen gas turned out to be nanoflake tungsten diselenide. fun for players but respects the real world. shima Peace Memorial Park in Japan and them so that it’s appealing to the fans but and carbon monoxide. Syngas can be burned “The new catalyst is more active; more able “When something is really popular, we the Arlington National Cemetery in Wash- also respectful of the private institutions directly, or converted into diesel or other to break carbon dioxide’s chemical bonds,” have to figure out the most respectful way ington, D.C., have asked to be removed that are affected by it.” hydrocarbon fuels. said study lead author Mohammad Asadi.

Giant pugmark Portrait of Elizabeth I bought for the nation

AFP £400,000. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) gave £7.4m raised through national lottery ticket LONDON: A defining portrait of England’s sales, with the remaining £1m coming from queen Elizabeth I has been bought for the the Art Fund, a charity. nation, auctioneers said yesterday, after “The ‘Armada Portrait’ is a compelling thousands of donations to a fundraising historic icon, illustrating as it does a deci- campaign to keep the painting in Britain. sive conflict, inspiring female leadership, The life-sized portrait, which celebrates maritime power and the emergence of the the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada, was Elizabethan ‘Golden Age’,” said HLF chair- being sold by the descendants of Francis man Peter Luff. Drake -- the vice-admiral who co-led “This image has shaped our under- England’s defence against the attempted A gallery assistant poses with the standing of ‘Gloriana’, the Virgin Queen, for invasion. Armada portrait of England’s Queen over four hundred years and I am delighted Royal Museums Greenwich -- a group Elizabeth I, painted about 1590, at the that it will now have such an appropriate of four London museums -- bought the oil National Maritime Museum in London, permanent home in Greenwich.” painting from the Tyrwhitt-Drake family in yesterday. The painting was first recorded as being a private sale, Christie’s auctioneers said, owned by the Drake family in 1775 and it is after £10.3m ($13.6m, ¤12.2m) was raised. the first time it has been sold. The “Armada Portrait”, painted around Now part of the national collection, it A representative of the Tyrwhitt-Drake 1590 by an unknown artist, is the defin- will hang in the Queen’s House, built in 1616 family said the painting had been “safe- ing image of queen Elizabeth in her pomp. on the site of the original Greenwich Pal- guarded for future generations” and could It shows the monarch wearing a gold ace in southeast London, which was queen now be seen “in the context of our nation’s embroidered and jewelled dress with her Elizabeth’s birthplace. great history”. Two other surviving versions Paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia touches a dinosaur’s footprint at the Maragua hand resting on a globe, while the English £1.5m for the painting came from more of the painting exist: one at the National Syncline, . fleet enjoys calm waters and the approach- than 8,000 public donations raised since Portrait Gallery in London and the other ing Spanish fleet is wrecked in a storm. May, with the museum group putting up at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,652.31 +47.54 PTS PAGE | 18 DOW 18,441.87 -14.48 PTS Alphabet revs up Armani creates advertising, FTSE100 6,724.43 +3.37 PTS foundation as boosts profits BRENT $41.47 +$0.33 succession issue looms

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GCC, Iran and Iraq to see higher oil output

just $410bn this year. Every region Middle East and OECD Pacific, but is a relevant shift.” BofAML reiterated of the world has curtailed spending, are holding up better in Asia. its estimates that global oil supplies Brent will average but North America has certainly led GCC, Iran, and Iraq will likely see will likely expand by just 0.2m b/d $61 next year, says the way with the total rig count in higher output and could strive to fill YoY in 2017 against demand growth BofAML update the US falling from 1931 in Septem- the oil supply gap. Saudi Arabia and of 1.1m b/d, and retain its view that ber 2014 to 447 this past week. the rest of GCC, coupled with Iraq and Brent will average $61/bbl next year. BofAML’s latest figures point to Iran will attempt to keep gaining mar- BoAML forecast 2016 Brent a 41 percent or $285bn global oil ket share. In fact, much of the growth and WTI prices to average $46/bbl By Satish Kanady and gas capex reduction from the in global oil supplies in the past year and $45/bbl, respectively. Peak oil The Peninsula 2014 peak. This collapse in capex has already come from GCC, Iraq and demand lies beyond 2050 if oil stays is starting to impact output and Iran and BofAML projects growth of below $100, as transport offset effi- BofAML estimate that non-Opec oil 1.2 and 0.5 million b/d from these three ciency and substitution. field decline rates have accelerated players this year and next, respectively. According to BofAML report, DOHA: The collapse in the capital to 5 percent. This figure is higher “Even then, it will be hard to fill spot LNG prices have decoupled expenditure has started to take the than the 4.87 percent recorded in the widening supply gap on current from Brent and may push lower on toll on global conventional energy 2009, and it is also slightly higher investment trends. For instance, rising LNG oversupply even as oil output. The effects of these spending than our previous estimates for this the Iraqi rig count has dropped in prices continue to recover. Asian cuts are expected to be long-lasting. year of 4.9 percent. On a country by half over the course of the last 24 buyers have bought too much LNG Bank of America Merrill Lynch country breakdown, larger than pre- months while Saudi Arabia has not on long-term contracts and will be (BofAML) weekly update on ‘Global vious years’ decline rates have been really increased drilling activity to selling in the face of the largest sup- Energy’ noted capex in the global oil recorded in countries like Australia, make up for the staggering 37 per- ply wave ever. EU and Asian spot LNG and gas industry has tumbled in the Netherlands, Canada and even Rus- cent drop in global rigs since the 2014 prices may eventually find support on past 18 months, with total spend- sia. Regionally, decline rates are peaks. The rig count in Abu Dhabi coal-togas switching levels, which at ing falling from $690bn in 2014 to accelerating particularly in the and Kuwait has increased, and that present sit at $3.80/MMBtu.

Mercedes to Opec oil output create 2,500 jobs at €1bn set to reach unit

AFP record high in July

FRANKFURT: German Reuters Indonesia in 2015 and another, luxury car maker Mer- Gabon, this month, skewing histori- cedes-Benz said it would cal comparisons. July’s supply from spend €1bn on a large new the remaining members, at 32.46 factory in Hungary, creat- LONDON: Opec’s oil output is likely million bpd, is the highest in Reu- ing around 2,500 jobs. in July to reach its highest in recent ters survey records, starting in 1997. The “convertible fac- history, a Reuters survey found on Supply has also risen since Opec tory” — designed to be Friday, as Iraq pumps more and abandoned in 2014 its historic role Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda (centre) attends a policy board meeting at the BOJ rapidly reconfigured to Nigeria manages to export addi- of cutting supply to prop up prices produce different mod- headquarters in Tokyo yesterday. tional crude despite militant attacks as major producers Saudi Arabia, els — will sit alongside on oil installations. Iraq and Iran pump more. an existing plant in the Top Opec exporter Saudi Ara- In July, the biggest increase of city of Keckskemet, Mer- bia has kept output close to a record 90,000 bpd has come from Iraq, cedes board member BOJ eases policy by doubling ETF high, the survey found, as it meets which has exported more barrels Markus Schaefer said in a seasonally higher domestic demand from its southern and northern statement. and focuses on maintaining market ports despite a pipeline leak that Construction will share rather than trimming supply restrained southern exports. begin in 2018, with the buying, underwhelms expectations to boost prices. Nigeria, where output has been company hoping to start Supply from the Organisation of hit by militant attacks on oil facil- production in 2020 or 2021, the Petroleum Exporting Countries ities, has nonetheless exported a spokesman for Mercedes Reuters 2 percent target — keeping alive institutions park with the central has risen to 33.41 million barrels per slightly more in July than June, parent Daimler said. expectations of further monetary bank. The dollar fell more than a day (bpd) in July from a revised 33.31 the survey found, although crude The new factory will easing. “I don’t think we’ve reached full yen yesterday at one point to million bpd in June, according to the exports remain significantly below be capable of producing the limits both in terms of the possi- as low as 102.825 and the Nikkei survey based on shipping data and the 2 million bpd seen in early 2016. rear-wheel drive models TOKYO: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) bility of more rate cuts and increased average tumbled nearly 2 percent, information from industry sources. Output in two major producers as well as the front-wheel expanded stimulus yesterday by asset purchases,” Kuroda told after the BOJ’s decision fell short of The increase in Opec production is largely stable. Iran, Opec’s fastest- drive cars currently built doubling purchases of exchange- reporters after the policy meeting. expectations. has added to downward pressure growing source of supply expansion in Hungary — and will traded funds (ETF), yielding to “We will of course consider what The benchmark 10-year JGB yield on prices. Oil has fallen from a 2016 this year after the lifting of Western enter service as Mer- pressure from the government and to do in terms of monetary policy rose briefly to minus 0.170 percent, its high near $53 a barrel in June to $42 sanctions, has pumped only 20,000 cedes ramps up a push to financial markets for bolder action, steps, based on the outcome of the highest since June 24, as the BOJ held as of Friday, pressured also by con- bpd more as the growth rate tops eventually electrify all its but disappointing investors who had assessment.” off on expanding bond purchases. cern about weaker demand. out for now, the survey found. passenger cars. set their hearts on more audacious At the two-day rate review that “The BOJ did not live up to expecta- Opec’s production could rise Saudi output in July was Stuttgart-based Mer- measures. ended on Friday, the BOJ decided to tions,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior even further should talks to reopen assessed at 10.50 million bpd, close cedes, the flagship brand The central bank, however, said increase ETF purchases so its total economist at Mizuho Securities. some of Libya’s oil facilities succeed. to June’s revised rate and the record of the Daimler group, has it will conduct a thorough assess- holdings increase at an annual pace “Increasing ETF purchases makes Conflict has been keeping Libyan 10.56 million bpd reached in June been producing compact ment of the effects of negative of 6 trillion yen ($58bn), up from the no contribution to achieving 2 per- output at a fraction of the pre-war last year. “Exports are down a bit, cars at its facility in Keck- interest rates and its massive asset- current 3.3 trillion yen. The decision cent inflation. The BOJ won’t admit it, rate. “This could shortly release offset by higher direct burn and skemet, around 70km buying programme in September, was made by a 7-2 vote. but it has reached the limits of quan- more oil into an already abundantly slightly higher refinery runs,” said south of , since suggesting that a major overhaul But the BOJ maintained its base titative easing and negative rates.” supplied market,” Carsten Fritsch an industry source who monitors 2012. Company bosses of its stimulus programme may be money target at 80 trillion yen, as By coordinating its action of Commerzbank said, although Saudi output. “For the time being, announced plans to invest forthcoming. well as keeping to the existing pace with the government’s promised earlier hopes of a restart have not I’m sticking to my numbers, which an additional €580m mod- BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda of purchasing other assets including $272bn economic stimulus spend- been realised. “It therefore remains suggest supply is flat.” ernising and expanding said the bank was conducting the Japanese government bonds. ing package, the BOJ likely aimed to to be seen whether this time will be Of countries with lower produc- that factory in April. review not because its policy tools It left unchanged the 0.1 per- maximise the effect of its measures different.” tion, Libyan output edged down due have been exhausted but to come cent interest it charges on a portion on an economy that is struggling to Opec’s output has climbed due to the stoppage of a major oilfield, up with better ways to achieve its of excess reserves that financial escape decades of stagnation. to the return of former member Sarir. 18 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 BUSINESS

Alphabet revs up advertising, boosts profits Baidu profit falls 34% in we’ve made over many years in rap- smartphone market with a share of idly expanding areas such as mobile around 80 percent, which enables Q2 after Google parent’s and video.” Google to offer search and other second quarter “We continue to invest respon- services to handset users. ads scandal profit jumped 43% sibly in support of our many Analyst Colin Gillis at BGC Part- compelling opportunities,” Porat ners said Google still has room to from last year to said in a statement. boost revenue. “We remain highly $4.9bn and revenue She said the gains came mainly positive on Google’s ability to mon- AFP from “increased use of mobile search etize its large user base including increased 21% to by consumers, benefiting from our seven products with over one bil- $21.5bn. ongoing efforts to enhance the lion users each,” he said in a note to SHANGHAI: Chinese mobile search experience.” She also clients this week. Internet giant Baidu’s cited “solid growth in desktop and “Mobile clicks are likely to see second-quarter prof- tablet search as well as continued increased monetisation as Google its plunged 34 percent, it AFP strength in YouTube and program- continues to experiment with for- reported, as a scandal over matic advertising.” mats and presentation.” its policies for displaying Alphabet shares rallied 5.6 per- But Google’s success and domi- paid ads cut into customer cent in after-hours trade on the nance have also prompted scrutiny growth. SAN FRANCISCO: Google parent results. The company announced from regulators. The European Union In May, Baidu was Alphabet beat expectations with a reorganisation last year that left recently opened a third investigation summoned by regulators robust profit growth for the past Google as its main operating unit accusing Google of unfairly blocking and lashed by Chinese quarter, fueled by gains from its lead- within Alphabet, with several others offering startup-like flexibility to digital ad market and 55 percent of rivals in online advertising. media over the death of ing online advertising platform on representing “moonshot” invest- long-shot, trailblazing projects. search advertising, which is linked EU officials are also probing a student whose family mobile devices. ments in new areas. They include self-driving cars, to its leading search engine. Google Google’s dominance in Android and used the search engine to Second quarter profit jumped The Google segment nonetheless “Google Glass” smart spectacles, unit chief Sundar Pichai told a con- whether it harms rivals in online seek a cancer cure that did 43 percent from last year to $4.9bn. produced almost all the revenues — internet balloons, drones, health care ference call that “the strength of the shopping. not work. Following the Revenue increased 21 percent to $21.3bn — and operating profit of and Google TV — none of which have quarter was about mobile.” The rise of Google/Alphabet, public outcry, the govern- $21.5bn, the California tech giant $6.9bn. Advertising accounted for become a major revenue source. Mobile, he said, “has transformed which is vying with Apple to be the ment announced stricter said, in results that topped most ana- $19.1bn in revenue. But Alphabet’s bread and but- the way that people consume infor- world’s most valuable company, has controls over internet lyst forecasts. The “other bets” line item showed ter comes from online advertising, mation and Google’s products have coincided with a steep decline for advertising, while Baidu Alphabet Chief Financial Officer $185m in revenue and an operating where Google dominates the market. become an essential and much loved Yahoo, which this week announced itself stepped up checks Ruth Porat (pictured) called the loss of $859m. The new structure The research firm eMarketer part of the experience.” a sale of its core operations to Verizon on customers. results “terrific” and said they gives the tech giant more ability estimates that Google accounts for The tech giant’s Android oper- for $4.8bn, a far cry from Alphabet’s “Baidu faced a chal- “reflect the successful investments to focus on its core business, while 30.9 percent of the total worldwide ating system dominates the market value of more than $500bn. lenging second quarter with heightened regu- lation in the healthcare sector and on internet advertising impacting our business and operations,” New rescue plan Amazon quarterly profit Baidu chairman and chief executive Robin Li said on a conference call. Net income for the sends Italian bank’s quarter ending June 30 jumps ninefold to $857m was 2.4bn yuan ($363.2m), down 34.1 percent on-year, the Nasdaq-listed com- shares soaring pany said after the market AFP closed on Thursday. Revenue rose 10.2 per- AFP had received an alternative proposal cent to 18.3bn yuan for the from Corrado Passera, a former period, it said. chief executive of the Intesa San- WASHINGTON: Online giant Ama- “The implementation paolo bank and ex-minister for zon said profit in the second quarter of new regulations and MILAN: Shares in Monte Paschi di economic development and UBS. surged ninefold to $857m, lifted by the stricter standards that Siena (BMPS) soared on the Milan The bank’s board, which meets cloud services as the tech giant we proactively imposed to stock exchange yesterday, boosted to approve first-half results, will expanded its offerings. make our platforms more by a possible new lifeline tabled by now look closely at the proposal, Revenues jumped 31 percent to robust will likely suppress a veteran Italian banker and Swiss which came as a complete surprise $30.4bn, Amazon said in stronger- revenue for the next two giant UBS. to financial markets. than-expected results. While to three quarters,” Li said. The stock of BMPS, the world’s “The board quickly launched a Amazon developed a reputation for Chinese regulators oldest bank which has become the series of in-depth preparatory stud- delivering little or no profit in its have ordered Baidu to eurozone banking sector’s problem ies” to analyse the proposal, BMPS retail operations, its earnings have change how it displays child, rose over 10 percent at the said. been growing over the past year as it Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough search results following opening on news of the plan, which At the end of that process, it will expands into video and new delivery the death of Wei Zexi, 21. of New York City. could turn out to be a welcome inform markets of its conclusions, services and boosts its cloud com- Wei had been diag- alternative to drastic restructuring the bank said. puting unit, Amazon Web Services nosed as having a terminal measures demanded by the Euro- BMPS will the focal point of (AWS). The strong profit came a year shipping, and announced that Prime 63 million US members, spending soft tissue disease when pean Central Bank. stress test results for Europe’s top after earnings of $92m which began Video is coming soon, offering Prime on average about $1,200 per year, his family found an exper- It settled at 0.31 euros, up 6.5 banks to be published by London- a string of improvements for Ama- members in India exclusive access to compared to about $500 per year imental immunotherapy percent on the day, by mid-morning. based European Banking Authority zon. Amazon shares rose 1.5 percent Amazon Original Series and Movies for non-members. treatment at a Beijing The ECB told BMPS, Italy’s third- at 2000 GMT. in after-hours trade. — including original content featur- In its statement Amazon said hospital run by the armed biggest bank, this month that it must The tests for 51 banks from 15 The company has also been ing top Indian creators and talent,” its second annual “Prime Day” was police force via a Baidu offload €9.6bn ($10.6bn) of non- European countries, representing 70 building loyalty with its Amazon said Amazon Founder and Chief the biggest day ever for Amazon, and search. performing assets within two years. percent of Europe’s banking assets, Prime subscription service, which Executive Jeff Bezos in a statement. was also a record day for Amazon When it did not work, The bank, working with US bank will be a key measure of the sec- provides access to its online video “The team in India is inventing at devices globally. Wei accused the hos- JP Morgan and Italy’s Mediobanca, tor’s stability. and music as well as fast delivery for a torrid pace, and we’re very grate- It said worldwide orders grew by pital of exaggerating has submitted a plan to shift the bad BMPS, whose stock has fallen most items. ful to our Indian customers for their more than 60 percent. the treatment’s efficacy loans with the help of the Atlante by over 80 percent over the past Amazon has also been expand- welcoming response.” Amazon has been bringing in and accused Baidu of fund, created specifically to take on 12 months, is seen as particularly ing globally, notably to India. Amazon has offered few details customers to Prime by touting its ranking medical infor- doubtful banking assets. vulnerable. “It’s been a busy few months on its Prime subscriber base or the streaming video which competes mation search results The plan also calls for a capi- Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore said for Amazon around the world, and number of its Fire brand devices with the likes of Netflix and Hulu. by the amount paid by tal increase of five billion euros to BMPS will come out as the worst particularly in India — where we sold. But analysts at Consumer Its Amazon Studios received 16 advertisers. boost capital reserves. performer by far among Italy’s five launched a new AWS region, intro- Intelligence Research Partners Emmy nominations for its original But late Thursday, BMPS said it major banks. duced Prime with unlimited free estimated Amazon Prime now has programmes.

Petrobras sells first Armani creates foundation as succession issue looms pre-salt oil field Reuters watchmaker Rolex.” Rolex is controlled by a founda- tion named after its founder Hans Wilsdorf. AFP MILAN: Italian fashion designer Armani, known for its clean-cut Giorgio Armani said yesterday he designs, is also seen as a potential would create a foundation in his candidate for a stock market listing. RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s scan- name, for the first time shedding Giorgio Armani said future man- dal-plagued state oil company some light on succession plans for agement of the company would have Petrobras said yesterday it will his fashion business. to be committed to “innovation and sell off its first “pre-salt” deep- Armani, who recently turned excellence”, and be supported by water oil field to ’s Statoil 82, founded the eponymous group “appropriate investments, prudent in a bid to pay off its massive debt. in 1975 and is the sole shareholder. and balanced financial management, The Petrobras board approved Still very actively involved in the limited recourse to debt and a care- the $2.5bn sale of its 66-percent business, he has never clearly indi- ful approach to acquisitions.” stake in the offshore exploration cated a designated heir or outlined The statement gave no further block known as BM-S-8, the com- future plans for his empire, which details. “This structure will certainly pany said in a statement. extends from fashion and cosmetics make it harder, if not impossible for It said the sale was part of its to interior design and hotels. Giorgio Armani to be bought by strategy to prioritize investment Armani said in a statement the another group. Armani has always in “assets with greater potential foundation would “safeguard the said he wanted to maintain his group for short-term cash generation, governance of assets of the Armani independent,” said Bernstein analyst capital optimisation and econo- Group and ensure that these are kept Mario Ortelli. mies of scale.” stable over time in respect of and Ortelli added that it will be “inter- Petrobras had said in Decem- consistent with some principles that esting to see the governance of the Giorgio Armani appears at the end of a fashion show for Giorgio Armani Prive in Paris. ber it would start selling off its are particularly important to me.” foundation in order to understand prized assets, the deep-water According to Exane BNP Paribas the implications on a management, offshore fields found in what is analyst Luca Solca, “a likely future operational and fiscal level.” of creating a foundation to protect Armani has also hinted over the to €2.65n ($3bn), placing Armani just known as the pre-salt layer some scenario is for the Armani business Armani, whose fortune is esti- the future of his fashion empire, say- years that he could list or sell the behind Italy’s biggest fashion group five kilometers below the Atlan- to be enshrined in (the) foundation, mated by Forbes at $5.9bn, said in ing: “I don’t want to leave problems group. Revenues at the Milan-based Prada which had sales of €3.55bn tic seabed. in an arrangement similar to luxury 2014 he was studying the possibility for the people who come after me.” group were up 4.5 percent last year, last year.

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EU leniency for Spain, The TPP is much more Portugal signals softer economic path than just a free-trade deal

By Jan Strupczewski chairman of eurozone finance and Gernot Heller ministers, who is keen to Reuters uphold the credibility of the rules, expressed dismay with the Commission decision not to recommend fines. “It is disap- he European Commis- pointing that there is no follow up sion’s decision to spare on the conclusion that Spain and Spain and Portugal fines Portugal did not take effective over their excessive action to consolidate their budg- Tbudget deficits signals a ten- ets,” the hardline Dutch finance tative effort to promote more minister said in a statement. “It expansionary economic policy must be clear that despite all the in response to Britain’s destabil- efforts already taken, Spain and ising vote to leave the European Portugal are still in danger.” Union. Another senior eurozone Economics Commissioner official said a Dutch or Belgian Pierre Moscovici defended finance minister who now tried Wednesday’s leniency by pointing to convince parliament that sav- to growing public doubts about ings measures were needed to Europe reflected in the Brexit ref- respect the Stability Pact would erendum vote last month. be “laughed out of the room”. He was keen to ensure that The volume of criticism a “bossy ” did not widen forced German Chancellor euroscepticism at a time when Angela Merkel to insist on Thurs- the euro zone’s recovery from a day that the deficit limits multi-year sovereign debt cri- remained in force despite the Delegates show their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Parternership Agreement (TPP) during Day 1 of the Democratic National sis is weak, uneven and faces a Brussels decision. “I don’t think Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, on Monday. potential setback due to uncer- the decision means that the Sta- tainties over Brexit. “Particularly bility Pact is no longer valid,” she By Noah Smith that the deal has essentially no chance of the conventional wisdom about the post- in the current wider situation told a news conference in Ber- Bloomberg producing the kind of industrial hollowing- war era. The US opened its markets to allies with Brexit, countries that have lin, without explaining why her out in rich nations that happened after China in Europe and East Asia — Japan, Germany, taken severe measures in the cri- veteran finance minister had lob- joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001. France, Taiwan and others — even though sis should be able to present their bied against punishing what the The most problematic part of the deal these allies didn’t always reciprocate. But the case, also on social impacts, for German media call the “deficit he Trans-Pacific Partnership, a mul- concerns intellectual property, but I doubt resulting trade linkages, we are often told, no fines,” a senior official in one sinners”. tilateral trade deal involving the US that any significant fraction of the peo- helped keep those countries in the Western eurozone government said. A German Finance Min- and many countries on the Pacific ple opposed to TPP actually care about IP camp during the Cold War. “Imposing fines would affect istry spokesman called the Rim, has become something of a issues. Instead, I see the TPP as a scapegoat A similar, if less tense, rivalry exists the economies and the popu- Commission’s reasoning “com- Tbugaboo for those both on the left and the for people who are — justifiably — angry between the US and China in East Asia today. lation, no doubt. Europe has to prehensible”, noting that the right. Republican nominee Donald Trump about the China trade explosion that hap- That country’s meteoric rise is allowing it to show some understanding with possibility of withholding prom- has denounced TPP, declaring it a sop to pened a decade ago. Killing TPP wouldn’t press territorial claims against US allies in the situation as well,” he said. ised EU structural funds next year China, even though China isn’t included in bring back any of the jobs that the US lost in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Fiscal hawks in northern could prompt Madrid and Lisbon the agreement. Bernie Sanders is against it the 2000s, but it would be a stinging public But its economic might also makes it very Europe cried foul after the two to make the necessary budget as well. President Barack Obama and Dem- rebuke to internationalists like Clinton and hard for countries in the region not to coop- southern countries escaped corrections. ocratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine Obama — a message that Americans are fed erate with China. There is thus a tug-of-war financial penalties for breaching officials were silent on are for it, while Hillary Clinton, who helped up with technocratic meddling done in the for influence in the region, and trade agree- the bloc’s Stability Pact budget Schaeuble’s role but did not dis- negotiate the deal, has now turned against name of economic efficiency. That in and of ments are part of that contest. rules again, although Madrid and pute Brussels reports that he had it. It’s not clear what Americans in gen- itself isn’t too worrying. China is pushing its own version of the Lisbon may yet suffer a suspen- telephoned several centre-right eral actually think about the treaty — polls Killing the TPP won’t do much economic TPP, called the Regional Comprehensive Eco- sion of some EU budget payments. EU commissioners to urge them indicate lukewarm support, and Americans harm. And with the countries showing lit- nomic Partnership. That deal, which includes But outrage was muted after not to fine Spain, which has a tend to view foreign trade as an opportu- tle willingness to do big global trade deals, many Asian countries but excludes the US, EU sources disclosed that Ger- caretaker government led by fel- nity rather than a threat. But it’s obvious that the free-trade agenda has mostly already would cement Chinese influence and help many’s usually super-hawkish low conservative Mariano Rajoy. there are very vocal, committed minorities ground to a halt all on its own. Also, I agree make the US less economically important to finance minister, Wolfgang It was unclear whether he in both parties who are with the idea that technocrats have been too countries in the region. The TPP is Ameri- Schaeuble, had intervened per- had acted out of political clan adamantly opposed blasé about ignoring the distributional issues ca’s natural counter to that effort. sonally to argue against sanctions. loyalty in the centre-right Euro- to the deal, and both that arise from policies like free trade. But Obama even talks about China and the “The Stability Pact has died a pean People’s Party, post-Brexit nominees appear to be when we think about economic policy, it’s TPP in very China-centric terms. In May, second time,” said Daniel Gros, economic policy concerns, or fear giving them what they important to realise that there’s often more Obama warned: Increasing trade in this area director of the Brussels-based of a eurosceptic backlash. want. at stake than economic concerns or popu- of the world…give us a leg up on our eco- Centre for European Policy Stud- However, he shows no sign That’s odd, because lar anger. nomic competitors, including one we hear ies, recalling that France and of willingness to alter Germany’s the TPP is pretty innoc- The TPP isn’t just a trade pact — in fact, a lot about on the campaign trail these days: Germany had torn up the first own balanced-budget policies uous and incremental its main purpose probably isn’t economic but China…China is negotiating a trade deal that version of the rules in 2003 to to fund more public investment Trade agreements stuff. Since trade bar- geopolitical, and part of the effort to cement would carve up some of the fastest-growing avoid sanctions on themselves. despite repeated prompting from aren’t just about riers in the countries US alliances in Asia against growing Chi- markets in the world at our expense. Conservative German eco- Brussels over a massive current that are parties to the nese power. Though he doesn’t explicitly mention nomics commentator Werner account surplus, equivalent to 8 opening foreign treaty aren’t that high Trade agreements aren’t just about open- the military angle, everyone in the inter- Mussler wrote in the Frank- percent of annual output. markets or providing to begin with, there ing foreign markets or providing cheap national relations world knows that this is a furter Allgemeine Zeitung that Economists say that has are only small gains to imports for domestic consumers. They’re big part of what’s going on. So while it might the official justification made skewed the eurozone econ- cheap imports for be made from drop- also part of the complex, delicate dance be tempting to sacrifice the TPP to appease clear the rules were “empty talk” omy, leaving the burden of domestic consumers. ping them. By the same of international diplomacy. Political sci- trade opponents on the right and left, the and would never lead to fines. adjustment disproportionately token, it also means that entist have long studied the link between geopolitical and strategic dimensions of the “Might these (eurosceptic) doubts on southern countries strug- They’re also part of few American jobs are trade deals and political alliances between deal shouldn’t be forgotten. As a trade accord, not be due to the constant bend- gling with mass unemployment, the complex, delicate in danger of being lost. nations. One example I know of is Paul Poast, TPP isn’t a game-changer. But it’s probably ing and breaching of the rules by especially among the young, and dance of international Most importantly, the a political science professor at the Univer- an important way to preserve the strength the Commission?” he asked. heavy public debt legacies from main TPP countries sity of Chicago, who in a series of papers and unity of the US’s democratic allies in Jeroen Dijsselboem, the crisis. diplomacy. are all rich, developed found that trade deals do in fact make mil- Asia. Giving up on that effort would be a step nations, which means itary alliances more durable. This fits with toward isolationism. Global funds cut share holdings to 5-year lows as Brexit bites

By Claire Milhench “Scarce visibility on the political front continue to stimulate equity markets, but respondents, such as Raphael Gallardo, a Reuters leads us to take an even more cautious it was likely to be “a roller-coaster ride” strategist at Natixis Asset Management, felt approach towards equities — especially in over coming months. “Equities are likely to Brexit would show how costly it could be for developed markets and Europe.” remain volatile but rewarding,” he said. a country to leave the EU. He pointed out that The poll showed equity holdings at 42.9 Global fund managers also trimmed in Central and Eastern Europe, EU funding lobal investors dumped equities percent in investors’ global balanced port- property allocations to 2.4 percent from 2.9 would be a strong barrier to overcome for in July and raised bond alloca- folios, down from 45.6 percent in June - the percent in June. However, the drop was big- obtaining a pro-exit majority. tions after Britain’s vote to leave lowest in at least five years. ger among British funds, which on average “Peripheral countries with major anti- the European Union and subse- At the same time, they raised the weight- almost halved holdings of property from the EU movements simply cannot afford to leave Gquent signs of damage to economic growth ing of bonds to 40.9 percent from 38.1 previous month to 3.8 percent. the EU,” agreed Jan Bopp, an asset allocation prompted a dash towards fixed income. percent in June, also the highest level in at Real estate is expected to be one of the strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin. Markets have The monthly poll of 44 fund managers least five years. biggest victims of Brexit, with prime housing Within global bond portfolios, investors and chief investment officers in the United Boris Willems, a strategist at UBS Asset and commercial property prices in London cut their euro zone bond exposure by around recouped States, Europe, Britain and Japan was con- Management, said uncertainty over the full already moving lower. Several property two percentage points to 23.9 percent, the some of the ducted between July 15 and 28 and is the economic implications of Brexit was keep- funds have suspended trading after a wave lowest level since January 2015. first to fully reflect the fallout from the ing investors jittery. Within equity portfolios, of redemption requests following the June But U.S. bond allocations rose to 38.2 losses, but data Brexit vote. After the vote, sterling crashed to investors cut exposure to US stocks by just 23 vote. percent from 36.9 percent, with Bopp not- released since 31-year lows and some $2 trillion was wiped over two percentage points to 38.4 percent, One notable side-effect of Brexit, so far ing that the higher real yields on offer in U.S. off global stock markets, as investors stam- possibly taking profit after a strong rally. at least, has been a surge in support for the fixed income had tempted investors. then indicates peded into the safe haven of bonds. The S&P 500 .SPX is up over 6 percent EU elsewhere in the bloc. The collapse in developed market bond the fallout will Markets have recouped some of the so far this year and reached all-time highs An overwhelming majority of poll par- yields in recent months - with over $10 tril- losses, but data released since then indicates in July. UK equity allocations held steady at ticipants who expressed a view thought the lion in debt now yielding less than zero - is spread through the fallout will spread through the British 11.5 percent and holdings of eurozone stocks UK would be the only country to leave the pushing more investors to seek out better the British economy and the rest of Europe. “After the edged up one percentage point from June to EU in coming years. “The UK’s decision to returns in emerging markets. economy and the UK referendum, we are increasingly biased 19.2 percent. leave the EU has arguably brought (EU) coun- Holdings of emerging equities and bonds towards a risk-off stance,” said Matteo Ger- Peter Lowman, chief investment officer tries closer,” said Trevor Greetham, head of rose, with Latin American equities and Asia rest of Europe. mano, global head of multi-asset investments at UK-based wealth manager Investment multi-asset at Royal London Asset Man- ex-Japan bonds showing the biggest month- at Pioneer Investments. Quorum, said loose monetary policies would agement, citing recent opinion polls. Other on-month increases. SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 21

Day/Night Test in England moves Australia wobble in tricky chase closer with trial

to play for the fourth day running in SCOREBOARD Hafeez highest AFP Tourists precariously Pallekele. The world number one Test team Sri Lanka (I innings) 117 Fall of : 1-6, 2-6, 3-45, 4-86, 5-203, earning Pakistan placed at 83 for three still need another 185 runs for vic- Australia (I innings) 203 6-274, 7-290, 8-314, 9-323, 10-353 in pursuit of 268-run tory on the final day on Saturday, Sri Lanka (II innings): Bowling: Starc 19-4-84-4, Hazlewood 18.4- cricketer for LONDON: Prospects of day/ target in Pallekele when Sri Lanka’s trio of spinners K Perera lbw b Starc 4 3-59-2, O’Keefe 16.2-3-42-1, Lyon 27-2-108-2, night Test being staged in will expect to capitalise on their early K Silva lbw b O’Keefe 7 Warner 1-0-10-0, Voges 1.4-0-3-0, Marsh 9-1- England moved closer to reality 33-1, Smith 1-0-1-0 2015-16 season inroads against the tourists. D Karunaratne lbw b Starc 0 yesterday with a trial announced The hosts’ leading left-arm spin- Australia (II innings): by Warwickshire next month.

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AFP ner Rangana Herath struck in only J Burns b Sandakan 29 The county club will stage one A Mathews c Burns b Lyon 9 Agencies the second over of the Australian D Warner b Herath 1 of their Second XI fixtures under innings when he bowled vice-cap- D Chandimal lbw b Marsh 42 lights at Edgbaston. U Khawaja lbw b Dilruwan Perera 18 tain David Warner for one. D de Silva c Khawaja b Lyon 36 The August 22-24 fixture S Smith (batting) 26 PALLEKELE, SRI LANKA: Australia Usman Khawaja started posi- D Perera () 12 LAHORE: There are much big- against Worcestershire 2nd XI has A Voges(batting) 9 faced an uphill struggle to save the tively with three fours but he was R Herath c Henriques b Hazlewood 35 ger stars in Pakistan cricket than been moved from Barnt Green to Extras 0 first Test against Sri Lanka’s rampant ruled leg before wicket to off-spinner L Sandakan b Starc 9 him but when it comes to mak- Warwickshire’s Edgbaston head- spinners after losing three early sec- Dilruwan Perera when he attempted Total (3 wickts; 27 overs) 83 ing money, Mohammad Hafeez quarters in Birmingham, which ond innings yesterday while a sweep shot after making 18, leav- N Pradeep (not out) 10 Fall of wicket: 1-2, 2-33, 3-63 (pictured) is way ahead of his has permanent floodlights. trying to chase down a formidable ing Australia reeling at 33/2. Extras (B 1, LB 11) 13 Bowling: Pradeep 3-0-16-0, Herath 10-1-35-1, compatriots. Australia won the inaugu- target of 268. Then the debutant Lakshan Total: (all out, 93.4 overs) 353 Perera 9-1-19-1, Sandakan 5-1-13-1 According to a report, the sea- ral day/night Test when they beat The tourists were precariously Sandakan joined the party with a soned batsman was the highest New Zealand by three wickets in placed at 83 for three, with skip- ball that turned sharply and bowled One run later, first innings top After starting the day unbeaten earning Pakistani Adelaide in November last year. per Steve Smith unbeaten on 26, opener Joe Burns who had looked scorer Adam Voges was ruled lbw to on 169, Mendis only managed cricketer in 2015- Doubts, however, remain when bad light forced an early end well set on 29. Perera for no score, but the batsman another seven runs before he played 16 after he took about the visibility of the pink reviewed the decision successfully. away from his body to a full length home approxi- ball used in floodlit Tests -- the With the ball turning alarmingly, delivery from Mitchell Starc to be mately Rs39m standard red ball does not show Smith and Voges then suppressed caught behind by wicketkeeper Peter as earnings from up well under the floodlights and their urge to play attacking shots Nevill. Starc was the pick of the Aus- the Cricket Board the white ball used for one-day while keeping the scoreboard ticking tralianbowlers, finishing the innings (PCB). matches could get ‘lost’ when over with some sharply run singles. with figures of four for 84. According to players are in their traditional “It should be an interesting game Herath and Nuwan Pradeep documents sent ‘whites’ for . if we get the full quota of 90 overs... added 30 runs for the last wicket by the PCB to There are also particular con- We are still confident,” Australia bat- off 29 deliveries before the Sri Lanka the Ministry of Inter-Provincial cerns about whether day/night ting coach Stuart Law told reporters. innings ended after substitute fielder Co-ordination for the fiscal year Tests are necessary in England, “We saw Sri Lankans sweeping a Moises Henriques took a spectacu- 2015-16, it paid some 46 cricket- when much of the cricket sea- lot. Our guys being a bit taller, sweep lar catch at extra cover. ers around Rs550m as their fees son takes place when the hours shot is a bit difficult so we try to use Sri Lanka, who were 282 for six and bonuses for all formats of the of natural daylight are the long- our feet,” Law said. overnight, eventually managed to game. Not surprisingly the players est in the year. Smith’s 54-ball innings has not reach a total of 353, 267 runs ahead representing Pakistan in all three Nevertheless, England and featured any boundaries so far, of the Australians. formats have earned the highest Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chair- while his partner Voges was batting It was a remarkable turnaround money in the last fiscal year. man Colin Graves remains keen in a similarly steadfast mood, reach- after they conceded a first innings Wicketkeeper-batsman Sar- on the idea and officials at Lord’s ing nine at the close of play off 25 lead of 86 to the tourists who were faraz Ahmed earned around are keen to look into the subject, deliveries. presented with the mace as the Rs33m. In contrast flamboyant as are leading ball manufacturers Australia’s struggles against the world’s number one team on the eve all-rounder Shahid Afridi, who Dukes and Kookaburra. Sri Lankan bowlers further under- of the match. Much of their hopes of now represents Pakistan in only Both firms will provide a pink lined the importance of Kusal victory will rest on the shoulders of T20 cricket, earned approximately ball for the 2nd XI fixture, with Sri Lanka’s Lakshan Sandakan (centre) is congratulated by his Mendis’ superb maiden Test cen- the 38-year-old Herath, who took Rs18m. each used for two innings of the teammates after dismissing Australia’s Joe Burns during the fourth day tury in what has been a low-scoring four wickets in the first innings and The documents confirm that match, which will be free to the of the first Test match at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Test. No other player on either side has a reputation of cleaning up on the PCB is also heavily subsidis- public. in Pallekele yesterday. has passed 50. the last day in home Tests. ing domestic cricket. Alan Fordham, the ECB’s head of cricket operations, said: “Stag- ing first-class matches under lights with a pink ball is a format which has worked well elsewhere Latham emulates father as NZ dominate Zimbabwe in the cricketing world and it’s important we consider ways in which we can attract more peo- ple to first class-cricket in the long SCOREBOARD AFP For their part Zimbabwe did an Williamson caught at slip on 72, term. admirable job with the ball and often only for the third umpire to deter- “We’ll be monitoring this trial Zimbabwe (I innings) 164 restricted the New Zealand scoring, mine that the edge had fallen just match closely and we would like but on a placid pitch the hosts strug- short of the fielder. to thank Warwickshire for their New Zealand (I innings) : BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE: Opener gled to make regular breakthroughs. However there was reward for support in hosting the fixture.” M Guptill c Ervine b Chibhabha 40 Tom Latham (pictured) followed in While Martin Guptill fell in the Zimbabwe in the next over when Neil Snowball, Warwick- T Latham c Chari b Masakadza 105 his father’s footsteps as he ground morning session when he reached for Latham chased a wide delivery shire’s chief executive, added: out a century on day two of the first a delivery from Chamu Chibhabha from and was “The concept of day/night cricket K Williamson c Masakadza b Cremer 91 Test against Zimbabwe to give New and edged low to gully to depart for caught behind, and Cremer eventu- has attracted a large amount of R Taylor (batting) 38 Zealand a commanding first-innings 40, the hosts did not taste success ally got his man when a Williamson interest around the world and we H Nicholls c Chari b Tiripano 18 lead at Queens Sports Club on Friday. again until 20 minutes after tea as edge carried to Masakadza at slip. are keen to support the ECB by Almost 24 years after his father, Latham and Williamson showed Zimbabwe took the second new exploring the potential for these

I Sodhi (batting) 5 Rod, scored 119 in New Zealand’s first ample patience on a slow surface. ball with six overs remaining in the fixtures in England and Wales. Extras (6B, 2W, 10NB) 18 ever Test in Bulawayo, Latham made “There wasn’t a huge amount of day, and Donald Tiripano used it to “We have a long tradition of Total (for 4 wkts) 315 105 as the Black Caps moved to 315 pace on the ball and they managed have Henry Nicholls caught behind staging day-night cricket on this for four in response to Zimbabwe’s to get it to reverse quite early on,” for 15. Ross Taylor went to stumps ground and this trial game will Fall of wickets: 1-79, 2-235, 3-272, 164 all out. said Latham. on 38 not out, and will return to provide valuable insights for eve- 4-299. “I only realised it when I came “It was nice to soak up that the crease with nightwatchman Ish ryone interested in broadening the Still to bat: Mitchell Santner, BJ Watling, off,” said Latham. “It is pretty nice early pressure, get through the Sodhi on Saturday morning. audience for our first class game.” Tim Southee, Neil Wagner, Trent Boult. for us to have both scored hundreds tough parts and build a couple of “I thought the guys fought hard,” Edgbaston hosted the first ever here.” big partnerships.” said Cremer. “They didn’t run away day/night limited-overs match in Bowling: Chinouya 15-2-41-0, Tiripano The left-hander shared a 156- Legspinner Graeme Cremer with the game, and we kept them in Britain in 1997, under temporary 17-2-51-1, Masvaure 5-0-20-0, Cremer 35- run stand for the second wicket with proved the toughest opponent for check. lights. But the Birmingham ground 4-113-1, Sikandar Raza 9-3-37-0, Chib- Kane Williamson, who made the pair, as he found sharp turn and “We’re still upset we didn’t score now has permanent floodlights habha 10-0-22-1, Masakadza 9-1-25-1. 91, to continue New Zealand’s dom- bounce and occasionally beat the enough runs but that’s gone now. and is seen as the most likely inance of the game following Neil edge. We’re going to try and drag the game venue should England play a home Wagner’s six-wicket haul on day one. Cremer thought he had out for as long as possible.” day/night Test. Djokovic joins top seeds in Toronto quarter-finals

Reuters In a tournament so far devoid of major “The first set I played really good upsets, the top five seeds advanced to the tennis. I had some tough times, but this quarters, with Swiss Stan Wawrinka, Japa- score shows I was dominating a little bit,” nese Kei Nishikori, Canadian Milos Raonic Nishikori, who next plays Bulgaria’s Grigor TORONTO: Top seed Novak Djokovic and Czech Tomas Berdych booking last Dimitrov, told reporters. breezed into the quarter-finals as the Rog- eight berths. “I’m still not 100 percent yet, but feel- ers Cup continued pretty much according Only Berdych needed three sets to ing pretty strong. We’ll have to see after to script at the Aviva Centre on Thursday. progress and the fifth seed’s reward is a a couple of more matches, but right now Djokovic beat Czech qualifier Radek showdown against Djokovic, who leads I feel good.” Stepanek 6-2 6-4 in a friendly encoun- their head-to-head by a staggering 24-2 A confident Gael Monfils extended ter, during which both players repeatedly margin. his recent run of form with a 7-6(5) 2-6 hammed it up for the crowd. Wawrinka won a hard-hitting battle 6-4 minor upset of Belgian seventh seed Stepanek, at 37 the oldest player in with American Jack Sock, 7-6(3) 6-2. David Goffin to book his spot in the the field, broke serve in the first game of Next up for the two-times grand quarter-finals. the second set but it was merely a stay of slam champion is unseeded South Afri- The 10th-seeded Frenchman, who execution against the world number one can Kevin Anderson, who rallied for a 4-6 arrived in Toronto fresh off earning his from . 6-3 6-4 victory over the 12th seeded Aus- first tournament win in two-and-a-half Djokovic is the only member of the so- tralian Bernard Tomic. years, will play Raonic in the quarters, called “big four” competing in Toronto, Nishikori had little trouble getting by after the local favourite dusted off Amer- Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a shot against Gilles Muller of Luxembourg on Day 3 of the with last year’s champion Andy Murray, American Rajeev Ram, requiring just 68 ican qualifier Jared Donaldson 6-2 6-3. Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal all absent minutes to register a convincing 6-3 6-4 “I’m going for the shots,” Wimbledon Rogers Cup at the Aviva Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. from the $4.7 million event. win. runner-up Raonic said 22 SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 SPORT

Chiller pours cold water Rio Olympics: Bolt ready to on Russia cheats meet

Reuters for those cheats and for those dop- ers I think is completely the wrong message.” strike after fitness scare The Australian gymnastics team MELBOURNE: Australia’s Olym- are awaiting a decision by the inter- pic delegation head Kitty Chiller has national federation (FIG) on Russian prompted a collective sigh of relief questioned Russia’s determination athletes to see if they will replace My biggest dream at across the athletics world as he dem- to eliminate drug cheats after it was them, while the women’s eight row- onstrated his fitness after limping out announced that the country would ing crew has been handed a berth the Olympics is to win of Jamaica’s Olympic trials weeks ear- host an alternative event for banned in place of a banned Russian team. three gold medals lier with a hamstring injury. track and field athletes in Moscow. Chiller, however, feels Austral- For his many fans, Bolt is a bea- On Wednesday, the Interna- ian athletes should avoid getting again, that’s my focus con of integrity in a sport scarred by tional Association of Athletics distracted by the Russian doping and that’s what I want, doping scandals. Federation (IAAF) upheld the ban situation when they are in Rio. At the World Championships in on 67 Russian track and field ath- “I’ll be encouraging all our team says sprint king Beijing last year, his 100m showdown letes for systematic state-sponsored members in all our sports to focus with Justin Gatlin -- twice convicted doping, ending any hopes they had on their own performance. The of doping offences -- was framed as of competing at next month’s Rio (Russian) decision has been made, a battle of “good versus evil.” Games. The Moscow tournament, there is nothing we can do about it,” Bolt won that race but will face a which was announced by Rus- Chiller added. AFP renewed challenge in Rio from Gat- sian state news agency TASS, will “The hurdles that those Russian lin, the fastest man in the world over feature banned athletes including athletes who have been cleared to 100m this year. Olympic high jump champion Ivan compete, the hurdles that they had His rivalry with Gatlin has been Ukhov and world 110 metres hur- to jump to be here are very strict KINGSTON: By his own charismatic given an added edge following dles champion Sergey Shubenkov. and very high. admission, Usain Bolt is a living leg- remarks by the American relating to “On one hand Russia is saying “We need to accept that process, end. Bolt’s withdrawal from the Olympic they want to change their system it was a strict, it was a fair process, But if the Jamaican sprint king trials. and the culture of doping in their and get on with it. Focus on our own pulls off only part of his stated goals “I laughed when I heard it, I was country,” Chiller told reporters on lane, on our performance and focus in Rio de Janeiro, a whole new vocab- disappointed, especially in Justin Gat- Thursday. on our own best result that we can ulary of superlatives will be required. lin,” Bolt said. “And yet to organise an event possibly do.” Arguably the greatest sprinter in In the 200m another threat is history, Bolt already owns the world likely to emanate from LaShawn Mer- records for the 100 meters and 200m. ritt, the season’s fastest man with a In London four years ago, he com- time of 19.74sec. pleted an unprecedented “Double Bolt, however, is never more dan- Triple” by retaining the 100m, 200m gerous than when he is challenged. and 4x100m crowns won four years He has been wearing the bulls eye on earlier in Beijing. his broad back for the last 14 years “I am now a living legend,” Bolt since he became the youngest IAAF informed reporters imperiously. “Bask champion at the world junior cham- in my glory.” pionships in Kingston in 2002. In Rio, Bolt is targeting all three It was his first world record, 9.72 titles once again – a “Triple Triple” seconds in the 100m in New York in – as well as a new 200m record of June 2008 that was to change the under 19 seconds which he insists is life of the shy young man from rural achievable. Jamaica – who had cried and begged “My biggest dream at the Olym- not to go to Kingston for the junior pics is to win three gold medals again. worlds six years earlier. That’s my focus, that’s what I want,” Bolt was long seen as a 200m Bolt said in an interview earlier this specialist who many thought would year. eventually run the 400m but that A member of the Russian delegation (left) greets athletes of the US “That’s the main aim. Everyone never panned out as his lightning Olympic team as they arrive at Antonio Carlos Jobim International wants me to win again, but what speed has kept him at or near the top they really want to see is records. of the 100m & 200m lists for eight Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. One of the big records I want is the years. 200. What I want is sub-19 -- the first His world records for the 100m man to ever have done it, It would be and 200m – 9.58sec and 19.19sec a game-changer.” respectively – have stood since 2009. Volleyball: Brazil seek gold It would take an almost super- More than anything else it could be the human performance from Bolt to toll on his body that has Bolt vowing become the first man to break the to leave the sport after the 2017 World sweep on home court 19-second barrier and it remains the Championships in London. longest of long shots for a man whose Before drawing a line under his fastest time this year is the 19.89 career in London however, there is Jamaica’s Usain Bolt competes in the men’s 100m race of the IAAF seconds he ran during the London next month’s Olympic swansong -- Reuters side will enter the Games top of the Ostrava Golden Spike athletics in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in this Diamond League meeting on July 22. and the prospect of a history-making world rankings, and eager to avenge May 2016 file photo. Bolt’s assured victory in that race finale in Rio. a stinging gold medal loss to Russia at London 2012, where they led by LONDON: In Brazil it is often said two sets and had two match points that volleyball is the country’s before capitulating. Injured Baghdatis favorite sport, because soccer is a Brazil will pin their hopes on Mighty Australia the team to beat religion. players such as precision setter Brazil’s deep well of volleyball Bruno Rezende and outside hitter withdraws from talent and home court advantage Ricardo Lucarelli, whose thun- make its women’s and men’s teams derous spikes make him a leading Games as Germans target title defence favorites to win gold at the Rio scorer. Third-ranked Russia are also Games, where fervent fans should expected to be strong while other Reuters make the sport a big crowd-pleaser. powerhouses in the men’s compe- In the women’s competition, tition include the United States, who Reuters veteran Brazil coach Ze Roberto is beat Brazil for gold at Beijing 2008, LONDON: Cypriot tennis player looking to lead a powerful squad and five-times medal-winners Italy, Marcos Baghdatis (pictured to a third straight Olympic gold, a who are still hunting for their first below) has withdrawn from next feat only accomplished once before, Olympic gold. month’s Rio Olympics after failing MUMBAI: Germany might be the by . In April, Ze Roberto said , who are ranked second to recover from an elbow injury, twice Olympic champions defend- Brazil were up to the task, but also in the world, have not won an Olym- the world number 42 said yester- ing their title in men’s field hockey sought to temper expectations. pic volleyball medal since 1976, but day. but top-ranked Australia will be Brazil’s arch rivals, the top ranked they dominated Brazil in the final The 31-year-old Baghdatis, the team to beat at next month’s Rio United States team, were looking of the 2014 world championship to runner-up in the 2006 Australian Games. especially strong, he said. underline their Games credentials. Open, lost to eventual champion Since 1992 Australia have won a A third straight Brazil-US final The volleyball in Rio will be Andy Murray in the round of 16 at medal at every Olympic tournament at the Olympics would be fitting. held at the Maracanazinho gym- the 2012 London Olympics. and the World Cup winners will be The two previous losses have left nasium, home to Brazil’s national “It is clear that unless I am 100 the favourites to clinch what would Team USA hungry for a first taste of team. The indoor competition kicks percent fit and healthy to compete, be only their second gold medal. Olympic gold in Rio. China’s strong off on August 6 with group phase I shall not participate at the Olym- The Kookaburras, who recently women’s team are also considered matches. The women’s and men’s pics because I would be doing beat India in a penalty shootout in promising contenders. In the men’s finals are set for August 20 and 21 injustice to my country,” Baghda- the Champions Trophy final, only draw, a young and confident Brazil respectively. Aerial view of the Olympic Hockey Centre that will host hockey event tis said on Facebook account. “It is managed a bronze four years ago in therefore with great sadness that London despite being overwhelm- during the upcoming Rio 2016 , in Rio de Janeiro. I now announce my withdrawal ing favourites. from the Cyprus Olympic Team. I Their London heartbreak trig- have already informed the Cyprus gered a lot of soul searching from Knowles said the team, who face the top four teams from each group Tennis Federation.” the men in gold and green. New Zealand in their first match, advancing to the quarter-finals. “Yeah, we had to do a lot of long would settle for nothing but gold in Once-mighty India are the most hard looking at ourselves, but it paid Brazil. decorated nation in the sport’s off ultimately,” 32-year-old Glenn “When we go to the Olym- Olympic history but the South Asians Turner, a member of the Australia pic Games as the Australian men’s won the last of their eight gold med- squad, said. hockey team we want to win, we als way back at the Moscow Games “Leading up to London we had don’t want to get bronze, just make in 1980. trained really hard but there was a the semis or play off for fifth,” he Their strong build-up, claiming very different feel to the squad com- said. Also in Australia’s group are silver at the Champions Trophy, has pared to this time around. Great Britain, Belgium, Spain and again boosted optimism among fans “After London we got a psycholo- the host nation. in the nation of 1.25 billion people. gist in and we started to get to know Germany, who triumphed in Bei- On the women’s side, the Neth- each other a lot better.” jing and London, are ranked third in erlands have captured seven world Mark Knowles and Jamie Dwyer, the world. The squad chosen by head titles and been to every Olympic a five-time International Hockey coach Valentin Altenburg contains Games since 1984, winning three Federation player of the year, pro- five Olympic gold medallists from gold, one silver and three bronze France’s Earvin Ngapeth takes part in a training session of the French vide Australia with a wealth of London. The champions have been medals. The world’s top-ranked side experience since Rio will be their pooled with the Netherlands, Argen- will be the heavy favourites to add to national volleyball team on Thursday in Saint-Nazaire, western France fourth Games. tina, India, Ireland and Canada, with their gold medal tally in Rio. ahead of Olympics. SPORT SATURDAY 30 JULY 2016 23 Djokovic biggest challenge for Murray

ebbing. “Winning medals for your coun- Serbian star stands Andy Murray try is as good as it gets,” said Murray, Novak Djokovic of between the Briton looking to who in 2012 became the first Briton and second gold as make history by in 104 years to win a men’s singles Serbia warms up winning back- against Gilles Muller Serena hot favourite gold medal at Olympics. to-back gold Three-time Grand Slam winner of Luxembourg on for women’s title medals. Murray will be hoping to improve third day of the on his 24-10 career match record Rogers Cup at the against Djokovic in Brazil, where Aviva Centre on the two men are favourites to take Thursday in Toronto, Reuters gold. Roger Federer’s hopes of win- Ontario, Canada. ning a men’s singles Olympics gold to go with the doubles title he won ISLAMABAD: Britain’s Andy Murray, in 2008 look to be at an end, how- bristling with confidence after ending ever, after the 34-year-old pulled a three-year wait for another Grand out of Rio – and the rest of the sea- Slam title at Wimbledon, will seek son – to undergo rehabilitation on to make history in Brazil by becom- his left knee. ing the first man to win successive In the women’s game, 22-time Olympic gold medals in men’s sin- Grand Slam winner Serena Williams gles tennis. is hot favourite to retain the Olym- But to replicate his London Olym- pic singles gold that she won for the pics triumph Murray will need to first time in 2012. Williams, who won find a chink in the armour of Novak three Olympic doubles gold medals Djokovic, the proud Serb who has with sister Venus, underscored her dominated men’s tennis in recent dominance of the women’s game this years and now has his eye on the only month by lifting her seventh Wim- major honour to elude him. bledon title. In recent years Murray has strug- Germany’s Angelique Kerber and gled to hold his own in the rivalry Spain’s Garbine Muguruza have con- against childhood friend Djokovic, tested the last four grand slam finals who defeated him in the 2016 Aus- against Williams and are expected to tralian and French Open finals to be her main challengers in Rio. became the first man since 1969 to title elevated the Serb, a winner of third-round exit at Wimbledon has But Russia’s Maria Sharapova will hold all four grand slam titles at once. 12 grand slams, to the pantheon offered hope to Murray and his other miss Rio as she is still serving a two- Djokovic’s maiden French Open of tennis greats but a lacklustre rivals that his dominance may be year ban for failing a drugs test. Sabres rattle as US-Russia rivalry hits piste Canoeists look to paddle

Reuters cleared recent doping tests. Nowhere out of doping wake are the deep US and Russian benches more obvious than in sabre, the fast- est and most aggressive of the sport’s Reuters see some new faces on the podium SAO PAULO: Olympic in Rio three weapons, in which Russia in Rio,” said Henderson, who has de Janeiro promises dramatic duels boasts the world’s top-ranked man coached for 27 years. in a storied rivalry. and woman in Alexey Yakimenko There are, however, also athletes Russia and the United States have and Sofya Velikaya. LONDON: Gold medals in the sprint looking to build dynasties. brought many of the hottest hands in Velikaya, who won silver in canoe events in Rio are up for grabs Henderson said he expects Ger- the sport, stepping out of the shadow London four years ago, could face a after a doping scandal barred some many, which paddled away with of traditional powerhouses such as daunting opponent in Mariel Zagunis, of the sport’s most dominant ath- eight medals in the slalom and France and Italy. the most decorated US fencer ever, letes from competing. sprint events at the 2012 Games, to While the history of the US-Rus- who is chasing her third Olympic The International Canoe Fed- be a dominant force in this year’s sian sporting rivalry may conjure gold in Rio. eration (ICF) said this month that Games. ice hockey or wrestling, their fenc- Yakimenko also knows how 21 athletes from three countries, Sebastian Brendel, who took ing teams this year are among the tough American competition can be, including Belarus, Romania and gold in the men’s C-1 1000 metres strongest in memory with medal after losing in the round of 16 in Lon- Russia would be barred from com- at the London games, returns this threats in all six individual and four don by one touch to US rival Daryl peting in the Olympics for ICF year, along with Franziska Weber Romanian athletes practise at Riocentro in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil last team events. Homer, who took silver at the world doping violations. and Tina Dietze, who took gold the Keen to see a clash between the championships last year. Wednesday. The ban includes five Russian same year in the women’s K-2 500 erstwhile Cold War foes, NBC is giv- The two countries are also likely canoe sprinters, including 2012 metres. ing more television time to fencing at to face off in foil, the most balanced In epee, the most cautious and second in men’s epee and team mate Olympic champion Alexander Meanwhile, Hungary’s wom- the Rio Games than any US broad- of the three fencing weapons, with defensive of the weapons, traditional Rossella Fiamingo is ranked fourth Dyachenko, who claimed gold in en’s sprint kayak squad will look to caster before. world number one Alexander Mas- European heavyweights retain the among the women. the men’s K-2 200 metres. cement their dynasty after claiming Russian fencers should avoid the sialas leading a stacked US team upper hand in the men’s game, as The best Italian shot at gold, Dan Henderson, a former a medal in all four women’s sprint fate of their track and field compatri- against top-ranked Italy and third- France fields three of the world’s best though, may be Arianna Errigo, who sprint canoeist on the US team and kayak events in 2012, including ots, who received a blanket ban from ranked Russia. six, including top-ranked Gauthier is ranked number one in women’s foil former Olympic commentator, said golds in both the K-1 500 metres this year’s Olympics due to evidence Women’s foil also pits third- Grumier. and took individual silver and team that some fresh faces are likely to and K-4 500 metres. of systematic doping. seeded American Lee Kiefer against In London, France failed to win gold at the 2012 Olympics. emerge in the sprints. Hungary had previously taken The International Fencing Fed- Russians Inna Deriglazova and Aida a medal in fencing for the first time The fencing competition takes “If people who are clean can gold in the women’s K-2 500 metres eration said that all Russian fencers Shanaeva, who straddle her in the since 1960. place from August 6 to 14 at the Car- stay clean and continue to pre- and silver in the women’s K-4 500 who qualified for the Olympics had rankings. Italy’s Enrico Garozzo is seeded ioca Arena 3. pare and improve, I think you will metres at the 2008 Olympics. Few stars left to shine in men’s field

Reuters Sweden’s Henrik Stenson is SAN FRANCISCO: Sweden’s Henrik Stenson and one of the the United States’ Bubba Watson will be vying for a contenders gold medal in golf’s return to the Olympics after 112 to win gold years, an event with less buzz than many in the sport had hoped for due to some high-profile no-shows. medal at Rio Watson and Stenson, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 Olympics. respectively in the Olympics field of 60 players, will be missing some familiar foes, since the top four men in the world -- Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy – have controver- sially decided not to play in the competition, which takes place between August 11 and 14. Olympic qualifying regulations have allowed the US to send four players, more than any other coun- try. Twice major winner Watson, the world number six, may be the one to beat in Rio. Another American Rickie Fowler, one of the highest-ranked golfers never to have won a major, will also be in the medal hunt. Nobody will have an advantage of knowing the newly-built Reserva de Marapendi course and it remains to be seen whether it will favour power or precision. world No. 11 Justin Rose. Spain may be a dark horse. won the Volvo China Open in May, could fit the bill. Stenson, ranked second in the Olympics and fifth Sergio Garcia, who has never won a major but often Canadian golfers David Hearn and Graham in the world, is on the hottest streak, having set scor- does well in international tournaments, and fellow DeLaet have the task of defending their country’s ing records at Royal Troon at the British Open in July. countryman Rafa Cabrera Bello are both in the top gold medal from 1904, the last time the sport fea- All three are featuring in the current PGA Cham- 10 in the Olympic rankings. tured in the Olympics. pionship in New Jersey, the final golf major before From the lesser known players in the field, the On that occasion George Lyon beat Ameri- the Games. golf world is hoping a breakout star will emerge can H. Chandler Egan in a 36-hole final. Lyon was Britain’s Olympic team is also strong, featur- from a country where the sport needs to grow. Ani- also awarded the 1908 gold medal in London but ing this year’s Masters winner, Danny Willett, and rban Lahiri, of India, or China’s Hao Tong Li, who declined it because no other players showed up. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 AAustralia wobble Bolt ready to strike in trickyt run chase after fitness scare aagainstg Sri Lanka at Rio Olympics

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F1: Rosberg tops Hockenheim Al Shaqab’s Al Jazi on top at practice

AFP the Qatar Goodwood Festival HOCKENHEIM, GERMANY: Nico Rosberg revelled in his return to home soil by topping the times ahead of his championship-lead- ers Al Shaqab Racing teamed up to win it again! We knew she was good ing Mercedes team-mate Lewis Al Jazi had everything win the L’Ormarins Queens Plate enough to run well. This was the first Hamilton yesterday free prac- for the second successive year as Al time she’s encountered a very good tice for this weekend’s German today. Good pace, Jazi ran out the impressive winner of pace and that is what she needs to Grand Prix. good draw and good the Group Three contest at the Qatar win a good race. The in-form German was Goodwood Festival this afternoon. “A strong pace and good going fastest in the morning session by going. She always Amy Eria won the race last year suits her. She has only run on good three-tenths of a second and dom- showed she was good for the same connections 12 months to soft at best in France. inated the opening day, repeating ago and Al Jazi was always travel- “She had everything today. Good the feat by four-tenths in the enough to win a race ling well for her jockey as the field pace, good draw and good going. She afternoon with a flawless dem- like this, says trainer turned for home. always showed she was good enough onstration of smooth precision on Rohaut Al Jazi ran on strongly when to win a race like this. the technical Hockenheim track. asked for her effort and she quickly “She’s is a different type of Just five days after losing the put daylight between her nearest filly to Amy Eria. You must look lead in this year’s championship pursuers, eventually running out after this filly. Amy Eria was a for the first time, it was a perfect the one and three-quarter length big, strong filly. This one is good bounce-back by the 31-year-old winner. though.” Mercedes man. The Peninsula Rohaut revealed after the race Charlie Appleby was delighted Rosberg clocked a best lap of that this race had been in their with the run of second-placed one minute and 15.614 seconds minds for quite a while. Mise En Rose in the Group Three in the second session to outpace “This was quite a long term tar- L’Ormarins Queen Plate Stakes, the Hamilton by 0.394 seconds ahead LONDON: Trainer Francois Rohaut, get,” said Rohaut. sixth race on day four of the Qatar of four-time champion Sebastian jockey Gregory Benoist and own- “When we win a race, we try to Goodwood Festival. Vettel of Ferrari. But Rosberg was not fooled into thinking he will have an easy ride to pole position on Saturday. “I don’t think my team-mate was pushing so we didn’t see what he can do and I expect a much tougher fight tomorrow. But it’s a good start to the weekend,” said Rosberg. “And it’s great to be back in Hockenheim, at this historic track. “The asphalt is old, so the way the tyres work is completely different to Hungary, where it was so new. “Here it’s much more snappy and more of a challenge, but in general our car worked well out there today. Jockey Gregory Benoist escorts Al Jazi back to the paddock after the “Saying that, we were very victory in the L’Ormarins Queens Plate. Al Jazi ran out the impressive quick on Friday in Hungary, but Action from the polo match at the Qatar Goodwood Festival yesterday. winner of the Group Three contest at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. then on Saturday and Sunday eve- ryone else was very close. So that’s a warning not to get over-excited.” Hamilton said: “It’s been a very chilled Friday. The weather has been good and the track feels Spain training: Qatar U-20 face Schweinsteiger retires great. “It’s the original surface so it’s nice and bumpy and has lots of Costa Rica in friendly tourney character.” from Germany duty He said he had struggled for balance in the second practice session. The Peninsula AFP “It was not as good and we have a few things to look at but I’m sure we can sort them out for tomorrow. “It’s been a straightfor- VALENCIA: Qatar yesterday continued BERLIN: Germany captain Bastian ward day with no real surprises.” training at the International Friendly Schweinsteiger (pictured) yester- Mercedes technical boss U-20 Tournament where Argentina is day announced his retirement from Paddy Lowe revealed that the showing indomitable form. international duty with immediate team had to compromise Hamil- Qatar, who lost to Argentina in their effect. ton’s programme because he had opening clash at the 10-team event, face The 31-year-old Manchester two reprimands to his name for Costa Rica tomorrow. United midfielder, who won his exceeding track limits. The next two games will deter- 120th and final cap in Germany’s “There was a little bit of stress mine who tops the group and reach the 2-0 defeat to France in the semi- this afternoon with race direction semifinals. finals of Euro 2016, revealed the concerning the limits at T1 so we Mexico and Morocco are the two other news on his official Twitter account. opening pool game. The defensive compromised to ensure that he teams in group. “With Bastian Schweinsteiger, midfielder said now is the right time avoided a third one.” Oscar Cano is coaching Qatar squad. we are saying goodbye to a big name to retire from the national team Dutch teenager Max Verstap- Saeed Al Marri, head of Qatar delega- from the national team,” said Ger- ahead of Germany’s first qualifier pen was fourth ahead of his Red tion in Spain, said: “We are getting better. man Football Association president for the 2018 World Cup against Nor- Bull team-mate Australian Dan- We are facing tough teams. That’s what Reinhard Grindel. way on September 9, four days after iel Ricciardo and 2007 champion we wanted to do.” Schweinsteiger retires from a home friendly against Finland. Kimi Raikkonen who was sixth He added: “We have long-term plans die Mannschaft with his Old Traf- “I have just told the national for Ferrari. with this squad. We are doing every- ford future in the balance having head coach (Joachim Loew) to no Another German Nico Hulken- thing so that the players arrive in pristine reportedly been told by United’s new longer consider me for selection in berg responded to being at home condition for the AFC Asian U-20 Cup in coach Jose Mourinho that he is one the future as I would like to retire,” by taking seventh in his Mercedes- Bahrain.” of nine players free to leave the club. wrote Schweinsteiger. powered Force India ahead of Qatar are the defending champions of He still has two years left to run “I would like to thank the fans, 2009 champion Jenson Button the Asian U-20 title they won in Myan- on his United contract. the team, the German Football of McLaren Honda who departed mar in October 2016. A knee injury in January flared Association and the coaches. early in the afternoon due to eye “Qatar players are getting the expo- up again in March, restricting him “In 120 internationals, I have problems. Button went to the cir- sure they were looking for. The tough to just a handful of matches before been allowed to run out for my cuit medical centre complaining Qatar U-20 team training in Valencia ahead of their match against matches they play here will make them he played at the European Champi- country and experience moments of eye irritation and from there Costa Rica in the International Friendly U-20 Tournament in better players,” Al Marri said. onship, netting a goal on his return which were undescribably beauti- he was transferred to hospital in Valencia, Spain, yesterday. The tournament ends on August 4. against Ukraine in Germany’s ful and successful.” Mannheim.