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Summer work Increased vigil timings come into force from June 15 at food outlets The Peninsula

DOHA: The Ministry of Admin- and abattoirs istrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs yesterday announced summer working hours Due to the rush, some outlets espe- for outdoor works. The new work- cially sweet shops and eateries may ing hours will be in force from June Doha Municipality not give proper attention to the 15 until August 31 in line with the has enforced new health standards and requirements. Ministerial Decree No. 16 of 2007. This is forcing us to intensify inspec- The summer working hours requirements for tion on such facilities,” Al Sayed told must not be longer than five hours in slaughter houses and The Peninsula. the morning and it must not exceed He said the Municipality, in 11:30 am as well. The evening work- intensified inspection collaboration with Widam has ing hours must not start before 3pm. campaigns on all introduced new health stand- Employers must put the timetable ards for slaughter houses across in a visible place at the workplace, food outlets ahead Foreign Minister and Qatar Development Fund Chairman H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani the Doha city. They are required to according to the decree. The min- of Ramadan. keep the slaughtered meat in a lower witnessing the signing of the agreement in Doha, yesterday. istry warned that any facility that height to ensure that they get proper violates the decree will be closed refrigeration. for a period not exceeding one The walls have been cov- month. By Sidi Mohamed ered with ceramic tiles and the $5m Qatar Development Fund The Peninsula abattoirs are equipped with new cutting machines and hangers, Slight hike in petrol said Al Sayed. Widam has signed premium price an agreement with the Ministry of aid for Syrian refugees DOHA: Ahead of the Holy month Municipality and Environment to of Ramadan, the Doha Municipal- implement the new requirements. DOHA: Petrol (premium) prices ity has enforced new requirements Currently, about 4,500 animals will see a marginal rise in June, for slaughter houses and intensified are slaughtered in five abattoirs in QNA Nations’ Under-Secretary-General providing assistance to those affected according to the new price list inspection campaigns on all food the city daily and the number is for Humanitarian Affairs and Emer- by the ongoing crisis in Syria. issued by the Ministry of Energy outlets across the city, a senior offi- expected to increase to 5,000 dur- gency Relief Coordinator Stephen For his part, O’Brien called on the and Industry yesterday. cial said yesterday. ing Ramadan. Since January, a total O’Brien. international community to follow The ministry has posted the The round-the-clock inspections 346,156 animals were slaughtered DOHA: Qatar Development Fund Al Kuwari said that the signing the steps made by Qatar and provide June price list on its website in line will focus on outlets that receive at the abattoirs. (QDF) yesterday signed $5m agree- of the agreement to support HPF assistance for humanitarian opera- with a recent decision to review more visitors during the fasting “We are going to increase the ment with Turkey’s Humanitarian stressed Qatar’s and QDF’s keen- tions in Syria, pointing out that such the fuel prices every month, based month, said Mohammed Ahmed Al number of inspectors covering the Pooled Fund (HPF) to assist Syrian ness to support Syrian people through contributions could save the lives on international prices. Prices of Sayed, head of Health Control Sec- abattoirs from next week, while a refugees. Foreign Minister and QDF humanitarian and development of Syrians, particularly women and premium petrol will be higher by 5 tion at Doha Municipality. special team of veterinarians has Chairman H E Sheikh Mohamed bin assistance programmes. children. dirhams during June at QR1.20 per “Inspection drives are all along been deployed in the five abattoirs Abdulrahman Al Thani was present He stressed the long term Qatari O’Brien extended sincere thanks litre while prices of petrol (Super) the year and there is no special to follow up and check the slaugh- during the signing ceremony. support for Syrian refugees in times to Qatar and QDF for their generous and diesel will remain unchanged inspection for Ramadan. What is tered animals,” said Al Sayed. The agreement was signed by of crisis while QDF continues to back contributions and efforts in alleviat- at QR1.30 and QR1.40, respec- happening is that during Ramadan QDF General-Director Khalifa bin thousands of them through financ- ing the suffering of those affected in tively. Petrol (premium) was priced more people visit the food outlets. → Continued on page 3 Jassim Al Kuwari and the United ing humanitarian operations and all parts of the world. QR1.15 last month. 02 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 HOME

Premier greets Over 18,000 have applied Qatar-Azerbaijan ties reviewed new Turkey Prime Minister for Haj this year: Official Doha: Prime Minister and Interior Minister due to ongoing expansion works of new instructions and took their sug- H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Grand Mosque of Makkah, he added. gestions. The next meeting will be Nasser bin Khalifa Al Haj quota for Qatar There is hope to raise the quota held soon to discuss final arrange- Thani yesterday congratu- remains unchanged but so far no confirmation has been ments for this season. lated Binali Yildirim on his received. Hopefully, the quota will be He also praised the Saudi Haj assumption to the post of at 1,200 pilgrims this increased due to the large number of authorities for cooperation with the Prime Minister of Turkey. year but efforts are applicants, said Al Mesaifri. Qatari Hajj Mission, their eagerness During telephone talks, The selection process has been to serve the pilgrims and facilitate the Premier also wished ongoing to increase it. completed for the applicants who the performance of their rituals eas- Yildirim every success and have met the requirements. ily and smoothly, stressing that there Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif relations between the two The selected candidates were is continuous communication with Al Sulaiti yesterday met Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Qatar Tofig countries more develop- informed via text messages and them to serve the pilgrims. Abdullayev. Talks dealt with cooperation in areas of transportation, ment. They also discussed The Peninsula given one week to register with a He also commended the organ- communications and information technology between the two cooperation, means of tour operator of their choice. isers of Haj trips for cooperation countries and ways of enhancing them. enhancing it and issues of Applicants who fail to register with the Ministry, their response to common concern. within the given time will be elimi- instructions and their commitment DOHA: More than 18,000 candi- nated automatically. to provide quality services and all dates have applied for Haj this year Twenty-seven authorised tour means of comfort to pilgrims. Eight mosques and the huge number of applications operators have been selected to Al Mesaifri reaffirmed the Min- might help increase the quota, a sen- organise Haj trips this year — 16 by istry’s commitment to create all Qatar official selected to open soon ior official has hinted. air and 11 by road if they could reg- conditions and provide all means “Haj quota for Qatar remained ister at least 50 pilgrims. to ensure pilgrims’ security, safety DOHA: The Ministry of unchanged at 1,200 pilgrims this About new instructions issued and comfort as part of implementa- member of CSI Awqaf and Islamic Affairs year (1437 AH), however efforts by the Saudi Hajj authorities, Al tion of the directives of Qatar’s wise will open eight new are ongoing to increase it,” said Ali Mesaifri stressed that Saudi Arabia leadership. advisory committee mosques, with a capac- Sultan Al Mesaifri, Director, Haj is keen to annually provide all Haj Al Mesaifri said the department ity of more than 6,000 and Umrah Affairs Department at missions in all countries with new is developing its work constantly worshippers, across Doha the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic instructions and procedures that are and upgrading means and mecha- soon. The new mosques Affairs. always in the interest of the pilgrims nisms, taking advantage of modern DOHA: Mohammed Henzab, Presi- Inter Club. The Italian media high- are in Leabaib, Al Hetmi Applicants for the pilgrimage this and their safety and security. techniques to ensure an appropri- dent, International Centre for Sport lighted the formation of the advisory Old, Al Nasr, Msheireb, Al year totalled nearly 18,400, includ- He said the Haj Affairs Depart- ate atmosphere for the pilgrims from Security (ICSS), has been selected as committee and said it will boost Sakhama, New Al Ghanim ing Qataris and expatriates, but the ment held a meeting with tour their departure to the holy land until a member of a new advisory com- CSI initiatives which aim at using and Umm Ghuwailina. state’s quota is still 1,200 pilgrims operators and informed them about they return home. mittee formed by Italian Sports sport as a means of helping the most The biggest one Centre (CSI) to formulate and follow needy people, noting that the first is in Al Hetmi and can up implementation of international initiative will be the organisation of accommodate 3,000 initiatives in the field of sports and an international campaign for the worshippers. The capac- community. volunteers during the Rio de Janeiro ity of most of the The selection of Henzab came Olympics in collaboration with the mosques ranges between during an expanded meeting at the ‘Save the Dream’ programme. 500 and 600 worshi- Italian National Olympic Commit- The media also highlighted the pers. Some are smaller tee in Rome, Qatar News Agency selection of Henzab as a member of and can accommodate reports. the committee, pointing out to his 200 to 300 people. All The CSI advisory committee for call for unifying global efforts to new mosques include international initiatives includes 17 address problems and making sports chapels for women and prominent Italian personalities in a means of changing the world and houses for Imams, Qatar the fields of sports, politics, culture create a better future. News Agency reports. and media, among others. Henzab expressed pride to be a The Mosques Department They include Giovanni Malago, member of the advisory committee of the Ministry takes into President, Italian National Olympic which includes prominent figures account the requirements Committee; Silvia Costa, Member from all spectrums of the Italian of green and sustainable of the European Parliament; and society and works for noble humani- buildings, rationalis- Massimo Moratti, Italian business tarian goals through sport under the ing the use of electricity tycoon and Honorary president of umbrella of Italian Sports Council. and water, and preserv- ing heritage aesthetics in designs for the mosques, reflecting the authenticity of the Qatari and Islamic Qatar to host meeting of heritage according to the highest standards. GCC civil retirement panel Shura delegation Visitors at one of the farmers’ markets. leaves for Cairo QNA nationals and qualifying trainers specialised in retirement issues. Doha: An Advisory Coun- The meeting will also discuss cil delegation yesterday Farmers’ markets sell QR58m produce joint programmes and projects and left for Egypt to partici- DOHA: Qatar, represented by Gen- exchange experiences and expertise. pate in the fifth meeting eral Retirement and Social Insurance An awareness meeting will be of the fourth session of The Peninsula increased to QR58m compared to (vegetables), 32 percent (fish), 33 per- Authority (GRSIA), will host the 37th held on the sidelines to inform Gulf the Arab Parliament’s first QR39m in the previous season. cent (birds), 223 percent (livestock), meeting of the Standing Technical nationals working in Qatar about legislative term. The markets sold 4,785 tonnes of and 55 percent (eggs) while sale of Committee of the GCC Civil Retire- signing-up procedures, benefits, The third Arab Parlia- fresh vegetables, 1,365 tonnes of fruits imported fruits decreased by eight ment and Social Security today at methods of contributions, collec- mentarians Conference DOHA: The farmers’ markets in Al and 130 tonnes of fish. percent. Shangri-La Hotel, Doha. tion and objectives of the system. on children’s issues in Mazroua, Al Khor-Al Dhakhira and Al They also sold 22,500 birds, 6,750 During the markets’ four years Ali Al Kuwari, Director, Con- The GRSIA is seeking to identify the Arab region will be Wakrah have witnessed increase in sheep and goats and 17,000 cartons of operation, farmers increased the tributors Department, GRSIA, said obstacles that may face the insured held during the meeting sales as they concluded their fourth of local eggs. number of produce and for the first the two-day meeting will review people and resolve them in coop- tomorrow. season on Saturday. Compared to previous years, time this season has been extended progress of applying insurance pro- eration with retirement services in Total sales at the three markets sales this season rose by 33 percent to seven months. tection extension system for GCC GCC countries. Over 250 companies to Ministry registers nine violations by outlets attend Ramadan Souq The Peninsula

The Peninsula be open daily from 2pm to 2am in Hall 3. Football enthusiasts will also DOHA: As part of ongoing inspection campaigns, inspectors be able to watch UEFA Euro 2016 from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce have registered DOHA: Over 250 local and inter- matches live at Ramadan Souq Food nine violations of the law of consumer protection. national companies will be taking Court, which will offer light snacks. The inspectors conducted surprise raids on several shops part in the Ramadan Souq which will The souq is supported by Qatar selling vegetables, fruits and fish in different parts of the coun- be open from June 11 to 24 at Doha Tourism Authority (QTA) and deliv- try. The campaign has led to the registration of nine violations, Exhibition and Convention Center ered by Maraya Public Relations. including non-display of price lists in visible places and lack (DECC). The exhibition aims to support of compliance with the prices. The souq will include stalls members of the local community, The inspection campaign aims at monitoring the local mar- extending over Halls 1 and 2 of as well as share Qatar’s Ramadan ket and commercial activities to protect the rights of consumers DECC, offering fashion and house- customs with visitors and residents and monitor suppliers’ compliance with Law No. 8 of 2008 on hold products, antiques and carpets. by bringing together the country’s consumer protection. The law stipulates punishments, includ- The souq will be open daily from unique traditions, cultural roots and ing administrative closure and fines ranging between QR3,000 11am to 3pm and 8pm to 1am and on charitable character. and QR1m. Fridays from 8pm to 1am. “We are delighted to be deliver- The Ministry urged consumers to report any abuse or irreg- Daily religious and cultural ing this event with QTA. The Holy ularities. The Ministry receives complaints and suggestions events will be held in collaboration Month of Ramadan, when families through its communication channels. with Qatar Charity and Qatar Her- and friends come together, is a great Meanwhile, the Ministry will discuss the topic of ‘trade- itage and Identity Centre between opportunity to share Qatar’s Ram- mark’ during today’s episode of the weekly program Feed wa 9.30pm and 11.30pm, featuring adan traditions with visitors and Istafeed produced by Al Rayyan Channel in cooperation with scholars from Qatar and the GCC residents. the Ministry. region, presented by Dr Abdulrah- “We look forward to welcoming The episode will discuss the difference between the trade- man Al Harami. visitors to the souq, which we have mark and brand name, and the importance of registering the The souq will also cater to chil- endeavoured to capture the spirit of product by choosing the appropriate trademark and the mech- dren of all ages with a gaming area the Holy Month for the family,” said anisms of its registration. The programme aims at raising including activities such as kart- Jaber Al Mansouri, CEO, Maraya awareness about services and will also highlight the Minis- An inspector checking fish at an outlet. ing and mini-football, which will Public Relations. try’s role in protecting trademarks. HOME MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 03

Al Kawari arrives New lease of life for pelvic organ prolapse patient in Brussels to

unveil his Unesco longer able to hold the organs in place. “Although up to half of women are poll programme The 27-year-old thought to suffer to some degree from mother of two returns a pelvic organ prolapse, far fewer seek help. Those that do are typically Brussels: H E Dr. Hamad to work, travel offered a hysterectomy which requires bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, again and play with the removal of the womb,” said Dr Qatar’s candidate for the her children after Ayman Elnaqa, Senior Consultant and post of the Director-Gen- Subspecialist in Urogynaecology and eral of United Nations Sacrohysteropexy. Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery Educational, Scientific at Women’s Hospital. and Cultural Organisa- However, after a life-changing tion (Unesco) and Cultural 90-minute operation and an over- Adviser at the Emiri The Peninsula night stay in HMC’s Women’s Hospital, Diwan, arrived in the Bel- a young mother was able to return to gian capital Brussels work, travel again and play with her yesterday. children. He is scheduled to DOHA: Although many women suffer “After my second pregnancy, deliver his speech dur- from pelvic organ prolapse, a condi- I started feeling more and more ing a meeting organised tion related to the uterus, only a few uncomfortable every day. in coordination with the seek medical help, says an expert. “I had severe back pain and even Dr Ayman Elnaqa, Senior Consultant and Subspecialist in Urogynaecology and Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Qatari-European Friend- Common causes of a pelvic organ worse, I couldn’t control my own Surgery at Women’s Hospital, with his Sacrohysteropexy surgical team. ship Association at the prolapse include childbirth, lower lev- bowel movements. European Parliament els of estrogen at menopause, being “I didn’t know what was happen- and the Qatari Mission overweight and chronic illnesses such ing and I had nobody to talk to,” said done robotically or through an open invasive approach offers the patients several of these life changing proce- to the European Union as lung disease, which create pressure the 27-year-old mother of two. surgical procedure, a Sacrohyster- a much better alternative because dures for the first time in Qatar and this evening. Top Belgian inside the abdomen from coughing. After being referred to Dr Ayman, opexy is performed under general it requires a shorter operation and the region. Presently, a Sacrohyster- personalities, European It affects many women and the patient was given the option of anaesthetic to put the womb back a shorter recovery time,” said Dr. opexy is only carried out by a fraction Commissioners, Nato offi- most of them have no idea there is a undergoing a procedure called a into its normal position. Ayman. of gynaecological surgeons because of cials, a large number of problem until years later, when the Sacrohysteropexy. “This procedure when done Since joining HMC in June 2015, Dr the limited number of clinicians who European parliamentar- muscles weaken with age and are no A minimally invasive technique robotically or through a minimally Ayman and his team have performed can perform the surgery. ians, ambassadors of Arab and foreign mis- sions accredited to Brussels and perma- nent representatives to Ramadan: Civic inspection team to work in 3 shifts the European Union will attend the event. The speech will be Continued from page 1 preceded by extensive Industrial area. In addition, evening 120 outlets and more than 2,000 have destroyed more than 907 meetings with education and night inspections will cover outlets per month. tonnes of vegetables and fruits that and culture commission- eateries, sweet shops and hotels, “On average, four to five food are found not fit for consumption,” ers to introduce Dr Al Al Sayed said the municipality’s among others. outlets face closure every month, said Al Sayed. Kawari’s election pro- inspection team will work in three Al Sayed said the municipal- for violating the health regulations,” He said some meat shops cheat gramme. Dr Al Kawari is shifts during Ramadan. ity has conducted a total of 7,568 said Al Sayed. customers by changing the munic- also expected, along with There will be round-the-clock inspection campaigns from Janu- He said there will be more ipality seal showing the price and Yvan Mayeur, Mayor of inspections to make sure that outlets ary until April and 57 erring outlets inspections at the central market variety and selling them at higher Brussels, to lay a wreath preparing Iftar and Suhoor meals faced temporary closure following because fruits and vegetables are prices. at the memorial of the during the fasting month meet the the raids. perishables and most of them are “We detect such violations victims of terrorist attacks health requirements. Most of the violations were imported. during joint campaigns with the at the Maelbeek metro Mohammed Ahmed Yousef Al Inspections during morning detected at restaurants and cafete- “Daily we destroy tones of rot- Consumer Protection Department at station today. Sayed, Head, Health Control will focus on supermarkets and rias, he added. ten fruit and vegetables. the Ministry of Economy and Com- Section, Doha Municipality. hypermarkets and food stores in “Daily we are inspecting about “From January until now we merce,” said Al Sayed. Oxy Qatar sponsors four new books for children

Officials with children at the sponsorship event.

The Peninsula tradition is called Heya Beya, and illustrations in the four books aim the story talks about a little girl, Al at encouraging reading and learn- Dana, in the pre-oil era where she ing and building awareness about learns about this tradition and per- important issues. The stories are told DOHA: Occidental Petroleum of forms it with friends. in an interactive and engaging way Qatar Ltd (Oxy Qatar) has sponsored Stephen A Kelly, President and set in Qatar. writer Maryam Al Subaiey, Founder and General Manager, Oxy Qatar, One of the books is inspired by of Q Talent, to write four children’s said:“Oxy dedicates the books to a familiar Qatari traditional story books as part of an initiative to sup- the children of Qatar. We are very and encourages the reader to learn port local talent. pleased to work with talented author about the country’s heritage, while The books will be 100 percent Al Subaiey, who has written a col- the other three deal with safety and Qatari production and illustrator lection of four books: Safety in our environmental issues. Sultan Al Subaiey is also one of local House; The Road to My School; Truf- “All of us at Oxy believe this talents who contributed to them. fle Hunt; and Ya Heyetee Ya Beyetee. beautiful books will be enjoyable All stories are inspired by Qatari “Oxy has had the privilege of and inspiring to everyone who reads culture and environment and for operating in Qatar for more than them,” he said. local children. The books are bi- 20 years. We are committed to sup- Al Subaiey said: “It was a great lingual to also enable expatriates’ porting Qatar National Vision 2030 experience working with Oxy on the children to learn about local culture through our social responsibility project as I haven’t published any- and traditions. programme designed to help Oxy thing new for a long time. Three of the books are about sib- become a partner of choice – in Qatar “Their support enabled me to get lings — Hamad and Hissa — who go and everywhere we operate. out of my comfort zone and be crea- through different situations to learn “One of our focus areas is to tive again. I am also pleased that for about home safety, road safety, and promote local art and culture by the first time, I produced bi-lingual environmental awareness. enhancing awareness and access, books. I am sure we will see more The fourth is about a forgotten particularly among young people,” talents supported by the recently tradition children used to perform he said launched Mawaheb competition,” during the season of pilgrims. The The stories and original she added. 04 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 HOME All Karwa taxis to have tamper-proof meters

excess fares to rude behaviour, flout- being added to enhance customer ing traffic rules and untidy and smelly satisfaction. Now 65 percent of interiors among others. With regard to improving its taxis are fitted with “Our quality control team are bus service, the state-owned trans- 24 X 7 checking drivers and vehi- port company recently extended the new meters and cles. Behaviour and following traffic and modified some of the routes by next year all taxis rules are to a great degree monitored as per the demand in ridership and and controlled with yearly refresher reduced the waiting time to 12 min- operated by Karwa course program from Karwa Driving utes with increased frequency, said and the franchisees School for taxi drivers to improve,” the statement. said the statement. “We will have more bus shel- will have the new “We are at present registering ters, as most of our bus shelters are meters. complaints, suggestions and feedback unavailable due to road and infra- from every customer, resolving as per structure works.” Mowasalat requests action the case warrants and commu- customers to give their feedback and nicating with customers,” it stressed. experience, which will help it to serve The Peninsula Mowasalat-Karwa gets its taxi the public better and better. fleet replaced once in every two years, “We are aware that Public trans- according to the statement. port buses block roads and access to “Last week we had 330 new other vehicles to move, mainly due to DOHA: All Karwa taxis will have Camry taxis replace the existing fleet. private cars take parking in the bus tamper-proof meters by next year, Also we had refurbished our entire stopping area lay-by which prevents Mowasalat said yesterday. fleet a year back. One taxi is used our bus entering the lay-by. “Karwa taxis fleet now have twice a day and twice the driver at “This requires the attention of the tamper-proof meters installed and the wheels goes to car wash, fuelling authorities to ease the job and respon- operating under our unified call cen- and interior cleaning before he leaves sibility that bus driver carries, that is tre with related services, such as GPS the premises.” to drop passengers and pick up wait- tracking, dispatch, metered receipt, Mowasalat received a total of ing passengers, and to serve them speed monitoring of drivers, seat sen- 88,000 bookings last month through without incurring fines from traffic sor and customers can access. its call centre and the Karwa Taxi App. police. Our drivers undergo train- “Now 65 percent of taxis are fit- Launched in January, the app ing for driving heavy vehicle, but are Karwa taxis are operating under a unified call centre with related services. ted with the new meters, and by 2017, allows passengers to make a book- also being trained with customer care all taxis operated by Karwa and the ing for future or for immediate pickup. course. PT drivers carry out a hard franchisees will have the new meters,” The customer gets driver details task to tackle the traffic congestion, are requested to give their feedback with the public requirements, through customer complaint management said a statement. through the application as well as bus stop lay-by woes and incur traffic and experience, which will help us upgrading ourselves with optimising office to take all suggestion and feed- The statement was issued in SMS, enabling them to identify the car fines,” the statement added. to serve the public better and better. supply and reach, technology, spe- back besides resolving complaints and response to complaints on taxi and that is waiting or that will reach them Mowasalat ensured to connect “Infrastructure development cial customer care and refreshment 100 percent focus on customer deliv- bus drivers ranging from refusal to which is available from the vicinity of with customers through all possible and growth in the country is on an courses to train our drivers, monitor erable and satisfaction,” the statement switch on metres and demanding shortest distance. More features are channels through which customers upswing. We are gearing up to meet and control with quality inspection, said.

Abandoned vehicles removed Qatar Charity inaugurates ‘Pointer towards Good’ app

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DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has inaugurated ‘Pointer towards Good’ app on the sidelines of Social Network Forum. This version of the applica- tion offers the social networks users to donate using their names or those they wish the heavenly reward would reach through pointing towards good without being charged any riyals. QC launched a new appli- cation called ‘Pointer towards Good’ during the concluding Nearly 160 abandoned vehicles have been removed in Al Khor-Al Dhakhira Municipality as part of a events of Social Network Forum held few days ago. campaign to rid the area of clunkers. Meanwhile, the health monitoring section of Al Rayyan Municipality Mohammed Al Yazidi, conducted 279 inspection visits in April, raided 27 salons and registered 13 violations. CEO, Financial Resources, QC, Mohammed Al Yazidi, CEO, QC’s Financial Resources, QC, speaking at the announced the inauguration of event.

the application and stressed on the fact that QC uti- lizes technology so to effectively introduce its relief projects and campaigns. This way it facilitates mobi- lizing support. Al Yazidi said, “We were inspired to implement this campaign as we believe that those who point toward good receive a great reward. QC utilizes technology to support charity work. It launched this new technique that allows social media users to spend their money and receive Allah’s reward through supporting char- ity projects around the world without paying any riyals. This project encourages the social media users to make their personal pages a means for promotion. They can register in the application which will allow them to access direct links for the projects thus circulate them”. What makes this system distinguished is the fact that it can easily be used for promoting projects. Every time the post is shared, the initiator, the first user to share, will receive the points. This leaves a true value for people and a chance to compete in doing good, mainly because the points will allow the person to transform them into a charity project (such as building a mosque, drilling a well, implementing educational and health projects and others). Al Yazidi said this step QC seeks to achieve. “QC launched this initiative to help people be part of good- doing. Users will donate using their names or those they wish the heavenly reward would reach through point- ing towards good without being charged any riyals. We are updating a new version for this project through which it will be easier for users to deal with the system and will give them easy access to promoting links and other services”. The application allows the users to fol- low the projects they choose. Once they register on the website or through their cell phones, they can see the posts about the projects they choose, share and promote them. QC is prominent in the field of utilizing advanced technology in charity work. It was the first to use dona- tion through text messages for different conditional and unconditional donations. It offers self-service devices in public places such as airports and public offices for 24\7 services. People can donate through credit cards or mobile credit balance. QC received Smart Govern- ment Excellence Award across Qatar in Kuwait, the award for best smart app across the civil society organ- isations. QC was able to positively respond with the beneficiaries’ needs. HOME / MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 05

Sidra outpatient clinic to offer new 35 patrols to nab beggars during Ramadan

support services expatriates to inform the authorities con- cerned about the beggars, said Al Kaabi. from Thursday More than 280 beggars, He said begging is not a phenomenon including men and women, that is common in Qatar. However, some people enter the country The Peninsula were arrested during the especially during Ramadan with the inten- Holy Month last year. tion of begging, with innovated ideas for exploiting the sympathy of the people. They narrate false stories and produce DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research Centre fake medical reports seeking money. Some of (Sidra) will offer new support services at its The Peninsula them also ask for contributions for building Outpatient clinic from Thursday. mosques and schools or sponsor orphans in New support services include anaes- their countries. Some beggars were caught thesiology, post-anaesthesia care unit selling substandard products as a ploy for (PACU) services, diagnostic imaging for DOHA: The Criminal Investigation Depart- begging, said Al Kaabi. magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), phys- ment (CID) at the Ministry of Interior plans More than 280 beggars were caught last ical and occupational therapies, speech to deploy 35 police patrolling teams across year at mosques, shopping complexes, pop- and language pathology and audiology. the city to crack down on beggars during ular markets and residential areas, said First It will be introduced in addition to the Holy Month of Ramadan. Lieutenant Abdullah Saad Al Dosari, a sen- neonatology, developmental paediatrics, More than 280 beggars including men ior official at the Anti-Begging Department child and adolescent mental health, pae- and women were arrested last year. at CID. Legal action will be taken against diatric ENT, paediatric plastic/craniofacial The patrolling teams comprising men those caught indulging in this illegal prac- surgery and pre-admission testing clinics. and women police officers will be deployed tice, he added. “Our phased opening of the Sidra Out- at potential places round-the-clock to curb Citizens and expatriates have been patient Clinic is progressing rapidly with this illegal practice, said Brigadier Jamal advised to give donations only to authorized the launch of six additional paediatric clin- Mohammad Al Kaabi, Head of CID. charity organizations so that they could dis- One of the beggars with alms arrested last year. ics in June. Other security agencies will be coor- tribute them to the most deserving sections. “Feedback from patients related to our dinating with the Department to catch the Investigation reports suggest that most services, physicians and nurses since we beggars. Two hotlines — 33618627 and beggars enter Qatar on tourist visas. permits of neighbouring countries. in Qatar despite that the beggars resort to opened on May 1, has been very positive. 2347444 — have been set up for citizens and Some of them were holding residency “The begging problem is under control new tricks to win sympathy,” said Al Dosari. It is testament to the dedication of every individual at Sidra who is committed to our ethos of providing patient and fam- ily- centric care. We are looking forward to the expansion of more clinics and serv- DIFI to host first annual Seven dead in IS suicide attack in Iraq cafe ices in the coming months and establishing ourselves as an integral part of Qatar’s healthcare network,” said Peter Morris, Family Policy Forum today AFP “Abu Ifan Al Moslawi, may God accept him, CEO, Sidra. was able to... blow up his explosive belt,” IS said During Ramadan, Sidra Outpatient in a statement published on social media. Clinic will operate from 8am to 1pm on The Peninsula forum aims to enhance the knowledge It said the blast had left 30 dead and weekdays and remain closed on Fridays base of Arab Family matters, make fam- BAQUBA: A suicide bomber blew himself up wounded. and Saturdays. ily issues a priority for policymakers and yesterday among young Iraqis assembled in a The interior ministry said the explosion The clinic opened on May 1 with pae- encourage knowledge exchange on family cafe in Moqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad, kill- occurred in a market area. diatric dermatology, paediatric general DOHA: The Doha International Fam- matters through interdisciplinary networks ing at least seven people, police said. The attack happened despite the bomber’s surgery consultation and obstetrics clin- ily Institute (DIFI), a member of Qatar which include researchers, policymakers, The Islamic State (IS) group, which swept picture being put up at checkpoints all over ics. It also provides radiology, pathology Foundation for Education, Science and civil society organisations and service pro- through large parts of Iraq two years ago but no town after his mother tipped off the security and pharmacy services. The referral- Community Development, will host today viders, Qatar News Agency reports. longer holds fixed positions in Diyala province services, the ministry said in a statement. based Sidra Outpatient Clinic is accepting the first annual Family Policy Forum under The forum will stress rethinking of where Moqdadiyah is located, said it carried Moqdadiyah is in the religiously and eth- patients from Hamad Medical Corporation, the theme ‘Rethinking the Work-Family work-family reconciliation policies in the out the attack. nically mixed province of Diyala, which the Primary Health Care Corporation and QF Reconciliation Policies in the GCC’. GCC within the local economic, social, cul- “It was a place where young people were government declared free of IS in January 2015 Primary Health Care Centre. Sidra is col- Organised in collaboration with the tural and demographic contexts, and will gathered... for now we have seven killed and 22 but which has continued to see suicide and car laborating with healthcare institutions in Ministry of Administrative Develop- focus on national realities, contextual fac- wounded,” a police colonel in Moqdadiyah said. bomb blasts since then. Qatar to expand the referral network as ment, Labour and Social Affairs, and the tors within the GCC countries and possible A hospital official in Moqdadiyah, 80km IS claimed an attack on May 13 on a cafe and when more clinics and services are Executive Bureau of the GCC Council of alternatives that could be appropriate for northeast of the capital, confirmed the cas- packed with supporters of Real Madrid football launched. Ministers for Social Affairs, the two-day Gulf societies. ualty toll. club in the town of Balad that killed 16 people. 06 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Bahrain court GCC and UK hold strategic dialogue in Jeddah upholds life terms for 5 Shias QNA & AFP GCC-British strategic dialogue was launched in New York in Septem- ber 2011. AFP Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia accused JEDDAH: The 5th ministerial meet- Iran of sowing “sedition” in Iraq ing of the GCC-UK Strategic Dialogue urging the Islamic republic to “stop kicked off in Jeddah yesterday to dis- intervening” in the affairs of its DUBAI: A Bahraini appeals court cuss ways of promoting relations in neighbours. yesterday upheld life prison sen- all areas. “Sedition and division in Iraq are tences against five Shias convicted The meeting was chaired by the results of sectarian policies that of spying for Iran as well as their Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al developed out of Iran’s policies in citizenships being revoked, a judi- Jubeir and British Foreign Sec- Iraq,” said Foreign Minister Adel Al cial source said. retary Philip Hammond in the Jubeir in a joint press briefing with A statement by the prosecution presence of the GCC Secretary- his British counterpart Philip Ham- said the court rejected the appeal General Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid mond in Jeddah. by the five defendants. Al Zayani. “If Iran wants stability in Iraq, The men were convicted in The meeting focused on relations it has to stop intervening and with- November of “spying for and between the GCC countries and the draw,” he said after accusing Tehran seeking with Iran and its agents United Kingdom and means of bol- of sending “Shia militias” to the war- to carry out hostile acts against the stering them in all fields. torn country. kingdom”, a judicial sources said The ministers also exchanged “Iran should respect the princi- at the time. Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (second left), Britain’s Foreign Secretary views on regional and international ple of good neighbourly relations, They were found guilty of Philip Hammond (fourth left) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid developments especially the situation to focus on its internal situation and working with Iran’s elite Revolu- in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, not intervene in the affairs of other tionary Guard to carry out attacks Al Zayani with other GCC foreign ministers at the 5th ministerial meeting of the GCC-UK Strategic Dialogue, and fighting terrorism. countries in the region, mainly Iraq,” in Bahrain against public facilities in Jeddah, yesterday. The first meeting of the he said. and banks. Coalition partner threatens to bring down Netanyahu govt Iraqi forces complete buildup

AFP in the dark on important developments, around IS-held Fallujah pointing to aspects of the 2014 conflict with Palestinian militants in Gaza, among other concerns. JERUSALEM: A key party in Israeli Prime “I am not prepared to have sol- a week ago. The city, located about 65km west Sunni majority city. As he cleared his weapon Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newly diers die because the security cabinet of Baghdad, is one of the last major IS strong- and checked his Humvee at the camp, soldier expanded right-wing coalition threatened is left blind due to someone’s ego,” Ben- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider holds in Iraq. The extremist group still controls Ali al-Shimmari said he was “totally ready” for to bring it down yesterday over a demand nett wrote on social media, referring to Al Abadi called on residents territory in the country’s north and west, includ- the battle. related to the military. Netanyahu. ing Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. “I phoned my family in the morning and The Jewish Home party, whose Netanyahu has offered to create a of Fallujah to either leave The last battalion from Iraq’s Special Forces asked them to pray for me to get back safe to leader Naftali Bennett is a political rival panel of experts to look into potential the city or stay indoors. Service arrived at dawn yesterday at the sprawl- them,” he added. “I’m determined to end Daesh,” to Netanyahu, said it would vote against reforms, but Bennett has rejected it. ing Tariq Camp outside Fallujah, said Maj. Dhia Al Shimmari continued, using the Arabic acro- the expanded coalition in parliament if its While some analysts say such a Thamir. He declined to comment on troop num- nym for the group. demand was not met. change is needed, the demand is also bers or the timing of the expected assault. The militants meanwhile launched an The religious nationalist party holds seen as political manoeuvring ahead of AP He said troops have recaptured 80 percent attack Sunday on the town of Hit, 85 miles west eight seats, enough to block Netanyahu’s the next elections, due by 2019 at the of the territory around the city since the oper- of Baghdad, which was recaptured by govern- proposed new line-up. latest. ation began and are currently battling IS to the ment troops last month. A military officer said The expanded coalition was agreed Bennett is widely seen as aspir- northeast as they seek to tighten the siege ahead the extremists entered three neighborhoods to on Wednesday when Netanyahu ing to replace Netanyahu, whose TARIQ CAMP, IRAQ: Iraq’s special forces of a planned final push into the city center. and were engaged in heavy clashes with Iraqi controversially joined forces with ultra- Likud party is currently the largest in completed a troop buildup around Fallujah In a televised speech to parliament, Iraqi forces backed by US-led airstrikes. nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, set to parliament. yesterday ahead of an operation to retake the Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said the “cur- By late afternoon, the forces had managed become defence minister. Lieberman and his Yisrael Beitenu Islamic State (IS)-held city west of Baghdad, a rent second phase of the Fallujah operation” will to push the militants out and were in control of Parliament is expected to vote today party will add five lawmakers to Netan- military officer said, as the militants attacked last less than 48 hours, after which the offen- the whole town. The officer was not authorized on the deal, which would form what is seen yahu’s previous one-seat majority, giving a newly-liberated town to the west. sive to recapture the city will begin. to release information so spoke on condition as the most right-wing government in Isra- it 66 seats out of 120. Teaming up with paramilitary troops and Al Abadi called on residents of Fallujah to of anonymity. Fallujah, which saw some of the el’s history. The move to hand the defence min- backed by aerial support from the US-led coa- either leave the city or stay indoors. Government heaviest fighting of the 2003-2011 US-led mil- “We will vote against if the issue istry to the 57-year-old hardliner has lition, the government launched a large-scale officials and aid groups estimate that more than itary intervention, was the first city in Iraq to is not resolved,” Justice Minister Aye- sparked deep concern among Israeli cen- offensive to dislodge IS militants from Fallujah 50,000 people remain inside the center of the fall to IS. let Shaked of Jewish Home told army trist and left-wing politicians, as well radio. as among some of Netanyahu’s Likud Asked about the chances of new colleagues. elections over the issue, she said it was On Friday, environment minister Avi Police recommend a “possibility.” Gabbay announced his resignation in a Last phase of voting Jewish Home has demanded the strongly worded statement that accused indicting Netanyahu’s wife creation of a military liaison for the gov- Netanyahu of putting the country on a ernment’s security cabinet, a smaller path to ruin. forum of cabinet members which decides Gabbay, of the centre-right Kulanu JERUSALEM: Israeli media reported yesterday that on matters of national security. party, is not a member of parliament and a police investigation has recommended indicting Bennett says such a post is needed to his resignation does not affect the ruling the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu avoid security cabinet members being kept right-wing coalition’s majority. over misuse of state funds and inflated household spending. Channel 2 TV, and other outlets, reported that police believe they have enough evidence to bring Sara Netanyahu to trial. It said she used state funds to care for her late father and over-billed for meals. In a statement, police announced the end of their investigation but offered few details. A police spokesman would not comment further. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the allegations in a Facebook post. “In the police statement there was no recommendation to bring Mrs. Netanyahu to trial. In contrast to reports, Mrs. Netanyahu did not commit any crime.” The Netanyahus have long faced scrutiny over their spending and have fended off accusations that Lebanese men wait to cast their ballots in the last phase of the municipal their lifestyles are out of touch with ordinary Israelis. elections at a polling station in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, yesterday. Municipal Sara Netanyahu in particular has been accused of using government funds to support her expensive elections in Lebanon are held in four phases on four consecutive Sundays. tastes and alleged abusive behavior toward staff.

US businessman gets 15 years in prison in Dubai

AP fined Dh56m ($15.3m). The US Embassy had no immediate comment. Sha- hin’s lawyers could not be DUBAI: A Dubai court has reached. sentenced an American busi- Shahin is a former nessman to 15 years in prison head of Dubai-based after convicting him on theft property company Deyaar and fraud charges. Development who was Abu Dhabi government- detained in a 2008 embez- owned daily The National zlement probe. said Zack Shahin was sen- He staged a hunger strike tenced yesterday at the in 2012, then escaped to Dubai Criminal Court over Yemen after being granted a 2007 Texas land deal. bail but was caught and Three other Americans returned to Dubai. received similar sentences He was sentenced to 10 in absentia. years imprisonment in a sep- The defendants were also arate judgment in 2014. MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 07

Iran says its Thousands flee pilgrims will not attend Haj

IS offensive in Agencies

DUBAI: Iran’s Haj and Pilgrim- northern Syria age Organisation said yesterday the country’s pilgrims would not attend the annual Haj, after failing At least 29 civilians have been to reach an agreement with Saudi killed since IS launched the assault Arabia. Saudi media earlier said Heavy fighting raged early on Friday, the Syrian Observa- an Iranian delegation had left the early yesterday on the tory for Human Rights said. kingdom without an agreement outskirts of Marea and It came as the jihadists were over the Haj, the second time the under attack by the Kurdish-led alli- two countries have failed to reach around two villages on ance in Raqa province further east a deal. the supply route on the and by the army and allied militia “The issue of ensuring the around Fallujah in neighbouring Iraq. safety of the pilgrims was very Turkish border. “More than 6,000 civilians, most important for us,” Iranian Cul- of them women and children, were ture Minister Ali Jannati told state able to flee areas in the countryside television. of Aleppo province... especially from Rebel fighters from the First Regiment, part of the Free Syrian Army, fire a Grad rocket from Aleppo’s Al Saudi Arabia denounced as AFP Marea town and Sheikh Issa village” Haidariya neighbourhood, towards forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad stationed in Talet Aal “unacceptable” Iranian demands to its west, the Britain-based moni- Sheikh Youssef, yesterday. over its pilgrims joining the Haj, after toring group said. Tehran accused Riyadh of raising “The displaced arrived last night obstacles. “Iran has demanded the BEIRUT: Thousands of civilians have in areas in the west and north of two members of staff and forcing doc- with Nato ally Ankara which regards it from the Kurds in Afrin on Friday. right to organise... demonstrations fled an offensive by the Islamic State Aleppo province under the control tors to operate on one of them without it as a terror group. Heavy fighting raged early yes- and to have privileges... that would (IS) group against non-jihadist rebels of the Syrian Democratic Forces,” electricity after IS cut off the hospital’s Pictures of US commandos terday on the outskirts of Marea and cause chaos during the Haj. This is in northern Syria into territory con- Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rah- generator. The SDF is an alliance of wearing the YPG insignia drew con- around two villages on the supply unacceptable,” Foreign Minister Adel trolled by a US-backed Kurdish-led man said. Kurdish and Arab fighters that Wash- demnation on Saturday from Turkish route to the town of Azaz on the Turk- Al Jubeir said in a joint press briefing alliance, a monitor said on Sunday. An anaesthetist who fled Marea ington regards as the most effective President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ish border to the northeast. with his British counterpart Philip The offensive against the towns of with his family after five relatives force on the ground in Syria against whose government regards the group The jihadists managed to cut the Hammond. Marea and Azaz threatens to overrun were killed in shelling said late Sat- the jihadists of IS. as a puppet of the Kurdistan Workers key supply line in a surprise assault Jubeir said Saudi Arabia annu- the last swathe of territory in the east urday that just four medical staff Washington’s support for the Party (PKK) which Ankara has been early on Friday. At least 61 rebel fight- ally signs a Haj memorandum of of Aleppo province held by non-jihad- remained in the town’s only hospital. alliance, which is dominated by the battling for more than three decades. ers have been killed in the fighting, as understanding with more than 70 ist rebels and bring IS to the doorstep He said IS surrounded the hos- Kurdish People’s Protection Units IS launched its offensive against well as 47 jihadists, nine of them sui- countries “to guarantee the secu- of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin. pital for 10 hours on Friday, injuring (YPG), has severely strained relations the rebel-held territory that separates cide bombers, the Observatory said. rity and safety of pilgrims”. “This year, Iran refused to sign the memorandum,” he said, arguing that Riyadh has agreed to facilitate the travel arrangements King Abdullah dissolves Jordan 48 dead in Yemen clashes of Iranian pilgrims despite having no diplomatic ties or air links. “It is very negative if Iran’s parliament, names caretaker PM intention from the start was to AFP pushed the rebels back, he said. manoeuvre and find excuses, in “Our forces managed to recap- order to prevent its citizens from Reuters the election should be held within politicians to compete in the elec- ture several positions. The fighting performing the Haj,” he said. four months under the constitu- tions, the sources say. resulted in the death of 25 Huthis “If it is about measures and tion and after the lower house In 2011, under pressure from the ADEN: Fierce fighting between gov- and Saleh loyalists and 14 from our procedures, I think we have done passed an amendment to the elec- popular protests across the Arab ernment forces and Shia rebels in forces,” Harithi said. more than our duty to meet those AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah toral laws in March government world, Jordan’s parliament endorsed south Yemen yesterday claimed the Forces loyal to President needs, but it is the Iranians who appointed veteran politician Hani sources and political analysts say constitutional changes that devolved lives of 28 insurgents and 20 sol- Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, backed by have rejected things,” he added. Mulqi as prime minister after dis- there are likely to be more candi- some of the monarch’s powers to the diers, a military official said. the firepower of the Saudi-led coa- Iran boycotted the Haj for solving parliament by royal decree dates from political parties vying for parliament. The clashes erupted when lition, managed to drive rebels out three years after 402 pilgrims, yesterday, following the end of its votes with traditional tribal and fam- However, political analysts say Huthi rebels and allied forces loyal of Shabwa and four other southern mostly Iranians, died in clashes four-year term, and charged him with ily allegiances. tribal lawmakers who dominated the to former president Ali Abdullah provinces in the summer. with Saudi security forces at an conducting new elections by October. But Jordan’s main political oppo- last parliament resisted any change Saleh attacked government posi- More than 6,400 people have anti-US and anti-Israel rally in The monarch accepted the res- sition to the government comes from which they saw undermining their tions in Bayhan district on the border been killed in Yemen since the coali- Makkah in 1987. ignation of Prime Minister Abdullah the Muslim Brotherhood move- influence and maintained a system between Shabwa and Marib prov- tion began a campaign in March 2015 The dispute has provided Ensour, as is customary under the ment which is facing increasing that favours sparsely populated tribal inces, said General Misfer Al Harithi, against the rebels who had occupied another arena for discord between constitution, before appointing an legal curbs on its activities, leaving regions which benefit most from state who commands the 19th infantry the capital and advanced on Hadi’s Saudi Arabia and Iran, which back interim head of government. mostly pro-monarchy parties and patronage and the support of the battalion. refuge in the south, forcing him to opposing sides in Syria and other Under the constitutional rules some independent Islamists and monarchy. Troops counter-attacked and flee to Riyadh. conflicts across the region. New Turkish cabinet wins confidence vote

Anatolia

ANKARA: Turkey’s new government won a par- liamentary vote of confidence on Sunday. Prime Minister and ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party chairman Binali Yildirim’s government received 315 votes while 138 lawmakers voted against the administration. The party has 317 deputies in the 550-seat Grand National Assembly. Only 453 deputies attended Sunday’s vote. In a statement earlier, the AK Party said one of its deputies for Bolu, Ali Ercoskun, was una- ble to attend the vote due to duties overseas; the remaining deputy is the speaker of parliament and is excluded from voting. On May 5, former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his cabinet resigned and Presi- Turkey’s new Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (centre) raises his hand during the general dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted. session at the Grand National Assembly in Ankara, yesterday. Yildirim, 60, who was the sole candidate to run for the party’s leadership became AK Party new government is everyone’s government”. and brotherhood,” he added. chairman and Turkey’s new prime minister on “We will move to further enhance our The new cabinet also paid a visit to the May 22. He later revealed a new cabinet. democracy; we will develop more human Ankara mausoleum of Turkey’s first president Following Sunday’s vote, Yildirim made a rights and freedoms. We will also work day – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – after Yildirim’s speech of thanks in parliament, saying that “our and night for our nation’s unity, togetherness speech.

Egypt court sentences 8 Brotherhood members to death

AP and two were convicted in the defendants receive a fair hear- president, Mohammed Mursi. absentia. ing before a civilian court. The Brotherhood was banned Military prosecutors had Egyptian rights activists have and declared a terrorist group after accused the defendants of belong- long campaigned against the trial the military ousted Mursi in 2013. CAIRO: An Egyptian military ing to an illegal group and plotting of civilians by military courts. Last Following his overthrow, the court sentenced eight alleged to assassinate police and army year, Egypt executed six men con- number of militant attacks on Muslim Brotherhood members personnel. The verdict can still be victed by a military court. Egypt has increased. An affiliate to death on terrorism charges appealed. Earlier this month, an Egyp- of the Islamic State (IS) group based yesterday, a security official and The official spoke on condition tian court issued death sentences in northern Sinai has claimed most the website of state newspaper Al of anonymity because he wasn’t against six people, including two of the attacks. Yesterday, a road- Ahram said. authorised to brief reporters. Al Jazeera employees, for alleg- side bomb killed two police and The court issued life sentences Rights group Amnesty Inter- edly passing documents related to wounded three conscripts in the to 12 defendants and sentenced national condemned the verdict, national security to Qatar and the northern part of the Sinai Penin- another six to 15 years in prison. describing it as a “grossly unfair Doha-based TV network during sula, according to Egypt’s state Two defendants were acquitted, military trial” and demanding that the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood news agency, Mena. 08 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 ASIA

Green wheels Japan’s Abe 10 dead in may leave tax hike to Bangladesh next PM poll violence AFP TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to push back his debt-loaded country’s next A police officer injured in poll tax hike for two and a half years, violence last month also died in when he will likely have left office, Unprecedented a Dhaka hospital on Saturday, an reports said yesterday. levels of violence officer said. In Jamalpur, hundreds Abe on Saturday told his close of armed supporters of an Awami aides, including Finance Minister and allegations of League candidate clashed with rivals Taro Aso, that he intends to push poll rigging have supporting a candidate who had back a planned raise in taxes to marred local council defected from the party, police said. October 2019, according to Japa- “Three people died. They had nese media. Abe’s premiership will elections held in bullet marks and arrow injuries,” end in September 2018 unless his phases since March, Jamalpur deputy police chief Shar- ruling Liberal Democratic Party iful Haq told AFP, adding police approves an exceptional measure Taiwanese pedal on bicycles at a street in Taipei, Taiwan, yesterday. Taiwan ranks fourth in the world with at least 90 opened fire to bring the situation to extend his leadership. people killed in total. under control. bicycle sector after China. This means Abe will likely A candidate from the main oppo- leave the tricky work of imposing sition Bangladesh Nationalist Party heavier taxes -- a key measure (BNP) was stabbed to death in east- which would help pay down one of ern Comilla district while another the biggest debt loads among rich AFP was killed in southern Chittagong, nations but may also undermine police said. China and Bangladesh vow to boost Japan’s frail economic recovery -- Election Working Group (EWG), to his successor. funded by US charity the Asia Foun- Tokyo already postponed rais- DHAKA: At least 10 people have dation, said the election commission military exchange and cooperation ing the tax from eight to 10 percent been killed and thousands injured had “utterly failed to conduct free last year to April 2017. in clashes between supporters and and fair polls” mainly because it had Abe had previously said that candidates of rival parties during no authority over police and local IANS trade, and culture between the two cooperation in equipment technol- his government would only push the latest Bangladesh local elec- officials. sides have scored great achievements ogy, promote exchanges between back the long-planned consump- tions, police and poll monitors said “The violence during the cur- since the two countries established the young military officers of the tion tax hike in the event of “a yesterday. Unprecedented levels rent local elections surpassed all diplomatic relations in 1975. two countries and push forward the grave situation” -- on the scale of of violence and allegations of poll records. The level of irregularities DHAKA: China and Bangladesh Cultivated and pushed by the comprehensive development of bilat- the collapse of Lehman Brothers rigging have marred local council were also unprecedented,” EWG’s vowed here yesterday to further boost leaders of the two countries, the eral ties, he said. or a major earthquake. elections held in phases since March, director Abdul Alim said. exchange and cooperation between development of the military ties Calling China a trust-worthy At the two-day Group of Seven with at least 90 people killed in total, Alim said the latest violence put the two militaries. between China and Bangladesh has strategic partner, the Bangladeshi (G7) leaders summit, which con- according to monitors. the overall death toll at 90. The pledge came after China’s maintained good momentum with military leaders said the two coun- cluded in Japan Friday, Abe argued Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh has been hit by a Defence Minister Chang Wanquan cooperation in all fields further deep- tries have developed high-level that the global economy risked a ruling Awami League is looking to political crisis since the BNP and met Bangladesh’s Chief of Army ening, Chang said. political mutual trust and con- “crisis”, though Germany’s Angela tighten its grip on power in the polls, other opposition parties boycotted Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad China is willing to work with the ducted fruitful economic and trade Merkel and International Mone- as Bangladesh reels from a pro- the 2014 general election. Scores Shafiul Hug, Chief of Naval Staff Bangladesh military to earnestly cooperation. tary Fund chief Christine Lagarde tracted political crisis. of people were killed in firebomb Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin implement the important consen- The Chinese minister arrived reportedly said that prediction was During the latest round of vot- attacks on vehicles last year when Ahmed and Chief of Air Staff Mar- sus reached by Chinese President here on Saturday for a visit. too negative. Tokyo’s last sales tax ing on Saturday, three people were BNP leader Khaleda Zia called a shal Abu Esrar here, Xinhua reported. Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Before the meetings, Chang laid a rise in April 2014 -- the nation’s killed in central Jamalpur district transport blockade as part of her The visiting Chinese defence minister Sheikh Hasina, boost stra- wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown first in 17 years -- was blamed and another seven elsewhere around efforts to force the government to minister said the cooperation in tegic exchange and mutual support, Soldier in Dhaka, sources from his for stalling a nascent economic the country, police officials said. hold fresh elections. the sectors of politics, economy and broaden personnel training and circle informed. recovery.

Scientists discover new way to kill Indonesia’s bid to cancer cells

IANS probe massacres

SYDNEY: In a finding that could sparks backlash lead to new drugs to treat can- cer and autoimmune diseases, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have discovered a AFP official apology. new way of triggering cell death. Last month the government Programmed cell death, also took steps towards coming to terms called apoptosis, is a natural proc- with the episode by backing for the ess that removes unwanted cells JAKARTA: Indonesian activist Adlun first time public discussions into from the body. Failure of apopto- Fiqri could be jailed for wearing a the killings -- attended by survi- sis can allow cancer cells to grow T-shirt allegedly bearing a leftist vors and members of the military unchecked or immune cells to logo, one of many caught up in a -- and they announced they would inappropriately attack the body. backlash against efforts to shine a investigate sites that activists say are The protein known as Bak is light on military-backed, anti-com- mass graves. central to apoptosis. In healthy munist massacres half a century ago. But the moves swiftly sparked Runners participate in the world’s highest marathon in the foothills of Mount Everest, in the Solukhumbu cells Bak sits in an inert state but Police and the military have in a backlash from the military and when a cell receives a signal to die, district of Nepal, yesterday. recent weeks rounded up people for police. Conservative elements of Bak transforms into a killer protein allegedly spreading communism the security forces began speaking that destroys the cell. -- which remains outlawed in Indo- out against a supposed commu- In this study, researcher Sweta nesia -- through logos on T-shirts. nist resurgence, despite the fact the Iyer from the Walter and Eliza Hall Nepalese runner wins They have also seized books Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) Institute of Medical Research, Vic- about communism and stopped a was wiped out during the 1960s toria, and colleagues discovered film screening that touched on the massacres. a novel way of directly activating subject. “The leftist movement is cur- Bak to trigger cell death. world’s highest marathon It came after the govern- rently surging in this country,” The researchers discovered ment last month took timid steps hardline Defence Minister Ryami- that an antibody they had pro- towards making peace with one of zard Ryacudu warned in a recent duced to study Bak actually bound the nation’s darkest chapters -- the speech to hundreds of retired gen- to the Bak protein and triggered its AFP including from Britain, United States, Organisers hailed the large killing of at least 500,000 people in erals, according to the Jakarta Post activation. China and Australia, joined another number of participants as a further anti-communist massacres in 1965- newspaper. “We were excited when we 30 from Nepal. sign of the recovery of Nepal’s moun- 66, conducted by local groups with Observers believe the military is realised we had found an entirely Local soldier Bed Bahadur Sunu- taineering industry after two years of military support. whipping up the spectre of a com- new way of activating Bak,” said KATHMANDU: Gasping for breath war took first place, completing the tragedy on the 8,848-metre (29,029- The killings began after General munist threat as their role in the Ruth Kluck who is also from Walter and clad in trekking boots, more than 42-kilometre run in four hours and foot) peak. Suharto put down a coup attempt killings comes under scrutiny. and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical 150 local and foreign runners took 10 seconds. “The earthquake dampened the blamed on communists. He rose to Paul Rowland, an independent Research in Australia. part yesterday in the world’s highest “The route is very challenging but race last year, but we have seen a power on the back of the bloodshed, Jakarta-based political analyst, said The researchers hope to use marathon in the snow-covered foot- amazing too. I feel proud to be the significant increase in the number and went on to lead Indonesia with some in the military “would like to this discovery to develop drugs hills of Mount Everest. winner,” the 29-year-old said. of participants this year,” said organ- an iron fist for three decades. revive the communist threat because that promote cell death. The annual Tenzing-Hillary Ever- The air at base camp contains iser Bikram Pandey. Only 55 took part During his rule, the massacres that effectively justifies the actions “There is great interest in est Marathon, which began in 2003, only half as much oxygen as at sea last year and it was postponed until were presented as necessary to rid that were taken 50 years ago”. developing drugs that trigger Bak is meant to mark the anniversary of level, leaving many runners gasp- October after a massive earthquake the country of communism -- Indo- Those caught up in the backlash activation to treat diseases such as the first summit of the peak by Ten- ing for breath on even the slightest hit the Himalayan nation in April, nesia had the world’s third-biggest potentially face tough punishments, cancer where apoptosis has gone zing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on incline along the narrow, rocky killing nearly 9,000 people and trig- communist party before the killings. as spreading communist ideology is awry,” she said. “This discovery May 29, 1953. mountain paths. gering a deadly avalanche on Everest Public debate about the killings punishable by up to 12 years in jail. gives us a new starting point for Runners kicked off the race at “It is a difficult and exciting to base camp. was taboo, and no one was ever held This includes activist Fiqri, 20, developing therapies that directly 07:00 am local time, with the trail race at this altitude. My muscles will An avalanche on Everest in 2014 to account. who was arrested earlier this month activate Bak and cause cell death,” taking them from Everest base camp hurt once the adrenaline wears off,” also claimed the lives of 16 Nepali Since Suharto’s 1998 down- on the eastern island of Ternate for Kluck pointed out. The research- at a height of 5,364 metres (17,598 said Poland’s Robert Celinski, 43, tak- guides and forced a shutdown of the fall and Indonesia’s transformation wearing a T-shirt that had a picture ers used information about Bak’s feet) to the finishing line about 2,000 ing part in his fourth race. mountain. But hundreds of moun- into a freewheeling democracy, there of a coffee cup and the letters “PKI” three-dimensional structure to metres below in the town of Nam- “The Nepali runners are very taineers have reached the summit have been growing calls to re-exam- on it, which authorities claim was find out precisely how the anti- che Bazaar. good. But next year, I hope to win,” in recent weeks, as this year’s spring ine one of the worst mass killings a reference to the country’s former body activated Bak. About 130 foreign runners, he said. climbing season drew to a close. of the 20th century, and even for an communist party. ASIA / PHILIPPINES MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 09

Police kill three Duterte seeks more drug early talks with suspects AFP communists MANILA: Philippine police have killed three drug suspects in a shoot-out, officials said yester- day, the latest such deaths after conference in his southern home- president-elect Rodrigo Duterte town of Davao. vowed to crack down on crime by Duterte is betting on He said Benito Tiamzon and his any means necessary. his close friendship wife Wilma Tiamzon, the detained Police said they were fired on alleged leaders of the Commu- when they went to the home of a with Sison, his former nist Party of the Philippines and its suspected drug dealer on the tiny university teacher, to armed wing the New People’s Army, central island of Banacon before would also be let out to take part in dawn Saturday. They returned fire bring a swift political the peace talks. and the suspect and three associ- settlement to a Incumbent President Benigno ates were injured. Aquino revived peace talks soon The suspected trafficker rebellion that has after taking office in 2010 but Rowen Secretaria and two uni- killed about 30,000 shelved them in 2013. dentified men were pronounced The talks got bogged down dead after being taken to hospital, people. after the communists demanded while a fourth was treated for gun- the release of scores of their jailed shot wounds, local police officer comrades whom they described Roel Lagora told AFP. AFP as “political prisoners”, which the “The armed men shot at Aquino government rejected. the raiding team several times, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari with his followers at his mountain lair at Indanan Duterte, who met a rebel emis- prompting the latter to defend sary in Davao 10 days ago, said town in southern island of Mindanao. themselves and return fire,” Lagora PHILIPPINES: Incoming Philip- he would also be sending out two told AFP by phone, reading an offi- pine President Rodrigo Duterte members of his cabinet to Norway cial account of the incident. said yesterday he would seek an for preparatory meetings with the Police have killed 12 other drug early start to peace talks with com- exiled rebel leaders. suspects across the country in the munist rebels and free detained Norway had acted as go- 22 militants dead in three days past week, while unidentified gun- guerrilla chieftains when he takes between in failed peace talks men murdered two other people office in end-June. He also offered between the Aquino government linked by police to illegal drugs. safe passage for Jose Maria Sison, the and the rebels. “I have commissioned Duterte has warned that founder of the insurgency who fled them to go to Oslo... to go there for Anatolia “Since May 26, 2016, intense mil- for a series of kidnappings in Lanao security forces will kill tens to European exile nearly 30 years the framework and agenda that (we) itary operations are being conducted province in the Autonomous Region of thousands of criminals and after the failure of initial attempts will talk about,” Duterte added. against the local terrorist group,” in Muslim Mindanao and holds it ignore human rights, part of a to end one of Asia’s longest armed He said the two cabinet emissar- he added. Tan said the operations responsible for the beheading of the campaign pledge to eradicate the insurgencies. ies would then “maybe accompany PHILIPPINES: The Philippines had resulted in a series of clashes two civilians -- sawmill workers -- in scourge of drugs that many vot- Duterte is betting on his close Jose Maria Sison home”. Should his military says 22 members of a Daesh- which left 22 members of the largely Butig town in Lanao del Sur last month. ers rated as their top concern. friendship with Sison, his former emissaries be able to hammer out linked group have been killed in a unknown “Maute group” dead, along The deaths of the Daesh-linked group The incoming leader, who is also university teacher, to bring a swift an agreement, “then I will release series of clashes with government with two soldiers members follow a conflict that broke the sitting mayor of the southern political settlement to a rebellion all the political prisoners,” troops in the predominantly Muslim Nine government troops were also out in in Lanao del Surn on Feb. 20 city of Davao, has been accused that has killed about 30,000 people Duterte said -- the rebels’ term south in the past three days. wounded. The Maute group -- along this year between government troops of backing vigilante death squads by official count and impoverished for their jailed comrades. The rebels Military spokesman Maj Filemon with fellow militant group the Abu and a group of Moro insurgents with that have murdered more than a vast swathes of the country. have hailed Duterte’s earlier offer for Tan Jr. said in a statement Saturday Sayyaf -- has pledged allegiance to reported Daesh sympathies. thousand people in Davao, includ- “I will... give him (Sison) a a ceasefire, as well as to allow the that the deaths occurred after the Daesh. Tan said government forces Three army soldiers were killed in ing more than 100 minors.Police safe-conduct pass,” the soon-to- rebels to nominate their allies to four “beheading of two civilians in the remained in pursuit of the group. the disturbances, 11 were wounded, have denied they are implement- be president told a midnight news positions in his cabinet. area” of Lanao del Sur. The military has blamed the group and 20 members of the group died. ing Duterte’s campaign promises.

Body of British Colours of joy China firm apologises for tourist found racist detergent advert after Thailand

AFP “ F or the harm caused to the boat accident African people because of the spread of the advert and the over-ampli- AFP fication by the media, we express BEIJING: A Chinese detergent maker our apology, “ the company said has apologised for an advertisement in a statement on an official social BANGKOK: The body of a Brit- which shows a black man stuffed media account . ish man missing for four days into a washing machine and trans- “We sincerely hope the public after a tourist speedboat crashed formed into a fair-skinned Asian, just and the media will not over-read in southern Thailand was found a day after dismissing critics as too it,” the statement added. yesterday on rocks close to where sensitive. “We express regret that the ad the boat went down, bringing the The advertisement by the Shang- has caused a controversy , but we death toll to four. hai Leishang Cosmetics company will not shun responsibility for con- The vessel, which was car- provoked an uproar on US news troversial content.” The firm said in rying 32 tourists plus four crew, websites, with commentators citing the statement posted late Saturday capsized Thursday afternoon it as an example of racist attitudes it had stopped airing the advertise- after it was slammed by a wave towards black people in China. ment and deleted links to it. near a rocky stretch of coast on Its commercial for the “Qiaobi” A spokesman had earlier told Koh Samui, a popular island in brand shows a black man whistling China’s Global Times newspaper that the Gulf of Thailand. and winking at a young Chinese the issue of racism had not crossed The accident threw all of the woman, who calls him over, puts a the company’s mind and “the for- passengers overboard, trapping detergent packet into his mouth and eign media might be too sensitive some under the ship’s hull. forces him head-first into a wash- about the ad”. The advertisement The bodies of three women ing machine. attracted little attention in China, -- from the United Kingdom, She sits on the lid while the man which has historically experienced Germany and Hong Kong -- were shrieks. Moments later an Asian man almost no settlement by people of soon located while rescuers battled emerges in clean clothes and the African descent. rough seas to search for 46-year- woman grins. Traditional attitudes prizing Filipino runners jubilate as paint is sprayed on them during the Manila Colour Night Marathon in old Briton, Jason Parnell. The advert has been viewed white skin in women have contrib- “Rescue workers found his Muntinlupa, south of Manila, Philippines, yesterday. more than seven million times on uted to bias against dark-skinned body at 9:25am near the accident YouTube in the past three days. people. site,” Lieutenant General Ukhcara- wath Sithanaubo. “His body was trapped among the rock. Rescue workers are bringing his body ashore by rubber boat now and we have called off US & Vietnam forces signal readiness for deeper ties the search operation,” he added. Parnell was travelling his wife who survived the accident, police Reuters the relationship but we’re also very concerns about China’s growing mil- carrying out four port visits last year, Green Berets, who specialize in said. The second British tourist mindful that we go at the pace of itary clout as Beijing aggressively a spokesman for the US Navy’s Pacific irregular warfare, were active in the killed, Monica Cozma, was cele- what our governments want to do,” advances sovereignty claims to the Fleet said. The head of US military Vietnam conflict. brating her honeymoon with her Kilrain said, disclosing the details of South China Sea. forces in the Asia-Pacific earlier sig- “For us, because we’re light, we’re husband of three-weeks, who TAMPA: Special operations forces the meeting. “We were both very encouraged naled to Congress his desire to do small and we can move quickly, we’re survived, Britain’s Daily Mail from the United States and Vietnam The talks, which lasted about by the positive meeting that Presi- more visits in 2016. about re-establishing friendships and newspaper reported. are signaling a readiness to start forg- half an hour on Wednesday, came dent Obama had with the Vietnamese. The United States has also con- relationships,” Kilrain said. “And we’re The two other victims were ing ties should their governments two days after US President Barack And we wanted to go back and tell tributed over $92 million since 1993 oftentimes the easiest ones to start named by Thai officials as choose to do so, in what would be a Obama ended the US arms embargo our chains of commands that ... we to help Vietnam address the threats with militarily. And I’m proud of that.” 29-year-old German Kafo Fra- major step in relations between mili- on Vietnam during a visit to that stand ready to take the next steps,” posed by unexploded ordnance from Although he declined to speculate neiska and 30-year-old Hong taries that were at war 4-1/2 decades country on Monday. Kilrain said. the war and is supporting Vietnam’s on first steps with Vietnam, Kilrain Kong national Trunk Laidka. The ago. Human rights advocates reacted Still, Kilrain was emphatic that development of a peacekeeping train- acknowledged the process usually boats that ferry tourists around Operations Forces in the Asia- to Obama’s decision with dismay, say- the extent and pace of any such ing center near Hanoi, the White started slowly, with planning con- Thailand’s popular beaches are Pacific region, said in an interview ing Washington’s decision to end the contacts would be decided by their House said. Kilrain noted that when ferences to share information about notoriously reckless and life vests that he met the commander from embargo tossed away a critical lever governments. it came to kick-starting military ties, how their militaries were organized are often in short supply. Speed- Vietnam’s elite forces on the sidelines it might have used to spur political “We will wait for positive signs elite US special operations forces, and discussions on human rights. boats are also often overcrowded of a conference in Tampa, Florida, this reform in the Communist-ruled state. from our own governments to move which include everything from Navy “So it’s somewhat benign and it’s as companies try to squeeze as week. Obama’s trip to Vietnam, which forward,” he said. The US Navy SEALs to the Army’s elite Delta Force, not necessarily classic military-type much profit from each trip. “Both of us would like to deepen borders China, underscored shared has already taken important steps, are often some of the best options. training,” he said. 10 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Battles aplenty The Palestinian Nakba n the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande stood hand-in- Ohand to light a flame commemorating the longest and the right of return battle in the First World War. The commemoration of the landmark battle is all the more relevant as Europe is at a crossroads — centrifugal forces of disintegration and the and encompasses Israel’s largest resilience towards their cause and institutional pull of unity pulling it apart. The European project is settlement blocs containing hun- Palestinians have an unwavering steadfastness in dreds of thousands of settlers’. By clinging to the right of return to strained under the weight of unprecedented migration, lingering 2004 it had resulted in the separa- shown, over their confiscated lands and homes possibility of Britain leaving the bloc and varying political tion of ‘35,000 Palestinian farmers the years,stout since 1948. Even the brutal Israeli forces tugging at the seams of a system forged with the aim of from their lands and crops’. resilience towards assaults on Gaza in 2009 and 2014 bringing about unity among varying socio-cultural strains. Often Ethnic discrimination and vio- their cause and have not thwarted the Palestini- misunderstood as a monolithic entity, Europe stretches from the lation of basic citizen rights became ans efforts to persevere in their Balkans to the United Kingdom and Italy to Norway — straddling the norm. Scores of examples can an unwavering mostly peaceful struggle against be brought into light but suffice the occupation. many cross-cultural divides. steadfastness in to mention the establishing of a The right of return was revived The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in network of Jewish-only roads, clinging to the after the Madrid Peace Summit in 2012 “for over six decades of contribution to the advancement By Dr Noureddine Miladi deprivation of Palestinians from right of return to 1991. The UN declaration number of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in their basic human rights, estab- their confiscated 195 dating 1949 which stated that Europe”. Europe, in the 20th century, lishing special check points for lands and homes Palestinian refugees should be rein- was often called the dark continent Arabs facilitating long delays for stated back to their properties got as it fought wars to redefine borders n 15 May 1948 the name of their movements and systematic since 1948. Even discussed again. Soon after, many Forces of Palestine was removed arbitrary detention. international and regional organ- amid competing claims to territory and the brutal Israeli disunity from official maps in the Stories of such violations used izations have attempted over the sovereignty. Despite forces of disunity West and replaced by to be in the past reported quietly assaults on Gaza years to campaign for the right of straining the in prominence today, it is a feat that OIsrael. That move marked a his- and sometimes required courage in 2009 and 2014 return of Palestinians. European Europe has held together relatively well. torical turning point given that the of access. But nowadays stark viola- have not thwarted Considering its length,it is project should The influence of the Russian sphere name ‘Palestine’ dates back thou- tionsof Palestinians’ basic rights are the Palestinians evident that by far the Israeli occu- on the geography and polity of the sands of years. A bedrock of human reported everyday in front of inter- pation is the worst and most brutal civilization, Palestine was home to national media. Social media too has efforts to persevere occupation of the modern age, and be looked continent cannot be overemphasized. great world religions and prophets. managed to report scores of the day- in their mostly its defiance of international law is at in terms Russia’s tug of war with the West has That date in history also marked the to-day routine stories of Palestinian done in broad light and is witnessed of Europe’s been largely shaped by the rivalry over expulsion of over 700 000 Pales- suffering under the occupation. peaceful struggle by the international community. volatile eastern Europe. The crisis in Ukraine tinians from their villages in what Palestinian sources witness against the Peace is not possible to achieve in is an example of the West and Moscow was known as the ‘Nakba’ (Catas- everyday the increasing land occupation. face of the continued neglect of history. battling for supremacy. The eastward trophe) or the ‘exodus’. Those Arab grabbing from them where ‘Set- the rights of Palestinians. Key to expansion of the North Atlantic inhabitants formed about 80% of tlers are recruited worldwide to any successful peace process and what was later installed as Israel. come to Israel, enjoy state-subsi- highlight Israel’s abuse of human a real settlement of the Palestin- Treaty Organisation (Nato) fanned the The forced eviction ofnative dized housing on free land taken rights and unlawful land confis- ian-Israeli conflict will be to grant rivalry with Russia even after the Cold War ended following the Palestinians entailed the system- from Palestinians, and are allowed cation get recurrently vetoed by the right of return to the refugees crumbling of the Soviet edifice. atic destruction or confiscation to carry weapons which are denied the US government. and compensatetheir families for Europeans reenact wars and observe the anniversaries of key of their homes and villages. The to Palestinians. Settlers are pro- Western powers bear respon- theirdestroyed/confiscated homes battles to mark points in history when politics and society perhaps aim was to obliterate the physi- tected by the Israeli Occupation sibility in the sustenance of Israel and properties. worked at cross-purposes. 300,000 lives were lost in the battle cal existence of Arab Palestinian Force (IOF) (wrongly called the regardless of its abuses. Lots of the For how long could Palestin- history. Whole villages were bull- Israeli Defense Force) and enjoy actions that are being practiced ians employ the Ghandian model of Verdun as France emerged victorious. Hollande and Merkel’s dozed to prove that the occupied impunity from arrest and prosecu- in the occupied territories and in in their struggle? Isn’t it time that comment yesterday that the European Union must now pull settlements were ‘a land without a tion for their frequent violence and Israel are not tolerated in Europe world powers bring back justice to together to deal with the migrant crisis and a possible British exit people’ (www.cactus48.com). Israeli intimidation against Palestinians’. or US. The USA and other west- Palestinians and establish peace in a referendum next month deserves applause and introspection. historian and author of The Ethnic What is further disturbing is ern powers have been ostensibly with a fair solution to both Pales- Words aside, the complete integration of Europe has become Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe that the Israeli brutal occupation supporting democracy and justice tinians in the occupied territories a daunting challenge. Not only are migration and Brexit to be speaks about the attempt to obliter- falls back on direct and indirect in various parts of the world. This as well as those in diaspora? blamed, the rise of the far-right and the inability of certain states ate the memory of over 1300 years support from the USA and other mission seems inept when it comes of Palestinian history and so was western powers. The legal protec- to the Palestinians’ plight. Israel The writer is a university profes- to shoulder the burden of migrants trigger concern. While Greece described by few other historians. tion of Palestinians has always been remains an incongruous exception! sor of media and communication. has been crushed by a debilitating debt crisis, Turkey cries itself Since then, and over the last threatened by the blockages in the Nevertheless, Palestinians He can be reached via email: nmi- hoarse to find its way into the European Union. It is not a surprise six decades since the installation UN Security Council. Attempts to have shown, over the years,stout [email protected] that Europe is strained. Managing the crisis, though a challenge, is of the state of Israel, the remaining not an unachievable task. Palestinians have faced systematic marginalization and sometimes attempts to uproot them from their homes. While the rest were transported into refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and other Quote of the day parts of the Arab world including Europe and the USA. The war in Iran has demanded Syria has added to their misery the right to organise... by further displacing tens of thou- sands of them from Syria into other demonstrations and to have neighbouring countries. privileges... that would For the remaining Palestini- cause chaos during the Haj. ans in Israel and the West Bank the This is unacceptable. Israeli governments have estab- lished a systematic apartheid system which has culminated in the separation wall in 2002. This Adel Al Jubeir separation barrier, dubbed the Saudi Foreign Minister “Apartheid Wall”, is an 8 meters- high fence over 700 kilometres long Palestinians mark Nakba Day in Ramallah. and ‘cuts far into the West Bank

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fghanistan’s government has offered the new Taliban leader a choice: make peace or face the same fate as his predeces- Asor, killed in a US drone strike last week. But Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is a hard-liner who has used his religious cre- dentials to justify the Taliban insurgency that has killed or wounded tens of thou- sands of Afghan civilians as a “holy war” and his succession has inspired little hope for an end to the bloodshed. For many Taliban fighters, the move- ment’s leadership lost Islamic legitimacy last year, when it emerged that its founder, one-eyed Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been dead for years and that his deputy, a wealthy drug smuggler named Mullah Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada hails from Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar. RIGHT: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued an ultimatum, saying Akhtar Mansour, had been running the that “Taliban groups have yet another chance to end violence/lay their arms and start normal life. Or they’ll face the same fate as their leadership. war in his name. The revelation caused a split at the top of bring unity and mend the “mistakes” of the have yet another chance to end violence/ and was conspicuously extremist in his “significant changes on the battlefield in the Taliban, and provoked mistrust among recent past. The new leader will “bring all lay their arms & start normal life. Or they’ll views of women, according to Rahmatul- the short term,” said Brig. General Charles fighters. Several factions broke away, and the mujahedeen (holy warriors) together face the same fate as their leadership.” lah Nabil, a former head of Afghanistan’s Cleveland, spokesman for the American and some began fighting Mansour loyalists. on a single platform,” the statement said. But analysts say such threats are bound secret service. Nabil described Akhundzada Nato mission in Afghanistan. He expected The Taliban leadership is now desper- Mansour, nicknamed “the Account- to fail as they effectively call for surrender. as a “small-minded man with a weak per- fierce months of fighting ahead. ate to close these rifts. After Mansour was ant” because of his wealth, controlled a Mansour had refused to join Ghani’s sonality” who has never travelled abroad As Akhundzada consolidates power, killed last Saturday when his vehicle was vast drugs-smuggling empire based in the earlier efforts to start a peace dialogue, and so lacks “any familiarity with the big- he will have to identify dissidents, said struck by an American drone in southwest- southern opium-producing provinces that instead intensifying the war. When the ger issues.” political analyst Idress Rahmini. The fac- ern Pakistan, Akhundzada was swiftly provide the bulk of the world’s heroin and Taliban and their partners, the Al Qaida Akhundzada’s need to consolidate his tion led by Rasool — the main detractor to chosen to replace him in an attempt to fund the 15-year insurgency, one senior affiliated Haqqani network, were linked position could mean escalated violence, as Mansoor — have said they will not recon- avoid the tensions that followed Mullah Afghan official said. He spoke on condition to an April 19 attack on Kabul that killed he seeks to be taken seriously as a warrior. cile with Akhundzada. Omar’s death. of anonymity because he was not author- 64 people and wounded hundreds, Ghani Anatol Levin, a professor at Georgetown The new Taliban leader’s success and On Thursday, the Taliban religious coun- ized to speak to the media. changed tack and accused Pakistan of using University in Qatar, said the United States longevity also depends on how he manages cil released a statement to The Associated Battles between Mansour and his main the Taliban to wage war on his country. appeared to have “decided that peace talks his relationship with Pakistan’s intelli- Press, saying they believe Akhundzada will detractor, Mullah Mohammad Rasool, for The new attitude has been welcomed by are pointless at this stage and, encour- gence agency, said Rahimini. control of the smuggling routes spread many Afghans, who regarded attempts to aged by the Afghan government, have He must handle the relationship “very disillusionment among foot soldiers, the appease Islamabad, which they accuse of decided to go for a strategy of decapitat- carefully to avoid the mistakes of the last official said. harbouring the Taliban leadership, as mis- ing the Taliban.” leader,” Rahmini said. “The Taliban have always claimed guided. Pakistan denies such accusations. The impact of the divide-and-rule Islamabad has protested that the strike Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada that they are fighting not for power, but Akhundzada, a low-profile conserva- strategy may be emerging as Akhundza- on Mansour violated its sovereignty, but for Islam, for freedom. So when they started tive who was a deputy to Mansour, is seen da’s two deputies — Sirajuddin Haqqani, it is not known if the intelligence agency is a hard-liner who has used his fighting for power, it led to the erosion of by many as a natural choice for a move- head of the Haqqani network, and Mul- colluded in the assassination. religious credentials to justify the their legitimacy among their own rank ment that, despite battlefield gains, has lah Omar’s son, Mullah Yaqoub — vie for If Pakistani authorities did secretly Taliban insurgency that has killed and file and caused them to become sus- been in disarray for more than a year. He influence. support Mansour’s killing, this “shows that picious of each other,” he added. Never was close to Mullah Omar, helping formu- The two, Haqqani and Yaqoub, have Pakistan is supporting the Afghan peace or wounded tens of thousands of again would the Taliban leadership “have late religious decrees to justify the war, and already “divided Afghanistan into two parts” process by removing a Taliban leader who Afghan civilians as a “holy war” and the unity, authority and position as they like him is a native of Afghanistan’s Kan- and each wants to control his own section, was a barrier to peace,” Rahmini said. had under Mullah Omar.” dahar province, which was the centre of said one Taliban commander said, speak- But, he added, if the attack was con- his succession has inspired little hope On his Twitter account, Afghan Pres- the Taliban’s 1996-2001 regime. ing on condition of anonymity to discuss ducted unilaterally, this “will have a negative for an end to the bloodshed. ident Ashraf Ghani issued an ultimatum As head of the Taliban courts, Akhun- the Taliban leadership. impact on the peace process and we will on Thursday, saying that “Taliban groups dzada was brutal in his pronouncements The US military does not anticipate any see an escalation of attacks in Afghanistan.” Obama’s visit to Hiroshima new step in a long journey

The Japan News/Yomiuri civilians. To this day, many people international community. China has been building up its a friendship that has won far more for suffer from the after effects of the Japan did not ask for an apology, nuclear arsenal. North Korea, for its our people than we could ever claim bombings. Obama refrained from but that does not mean the country part, has defiantly conducted nuclear through war.” et’s make the US president’s visit making a judgment on the bomb- has condoned the inhuman act of tests four times and claims to be a The Japan-US alliance has been to Hiroshima a milestone from ings, and did not make an apology. atomic bombing. nuclear power. The danger of nuclear recognized both during and after the Lwhich people can once again However, we believe he made suffi- The majority of the American proliferation is beginning to involve Cold War period as “an international Obama expressed make steady, pragmatic progress cient effort in his remarks, which had people still justify the indiscrimi- even terrorist organizations. public good” that contributes to peace his determination toward the lofty ideal of bringing about an underlying understanding of the nate killing of citizens with the atomic The nuclear umbrella provided and prosperity in Asia. It is imperative a world without nuclear weapons. inhumane nature of nuclear weap- bombs, arguing that the use of nuclear by the United States for its allies, for the two allies to play a pivotal role for a world without Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and ons and the atrocity of war. weapons hastened the end of the war including Japan, functions effectively in both political and economic fields nuclear weapons in US President Barack Obama vis- “Among those nations like my and reduced the number of US sol- as a deterrent. The idea of abruptly in cooperation with South Korea and ited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we diers killed. banning the stockpiling and use of Australia. his remarks, saying, Park on Friday and spent time in the must have the courage to escape the As 71 years have passed since the nuclear weapons is an argument that During a Japan-US summit meet- “We have a shared Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, logic of fear, and pursue a world with- end of the war, support for such one- disregards the security of each nation. ing Wednesday, Abe lodged a protest where items of the deceased and other out them,” Obama added. sided logic has gradually declined A realistic approach would be over the incident in which a civil- responsibility to records of the atomic bombing are This is a declaration of his deter- and skeptical views about the atomic to push ahead with nuclear disar- ian US base worker was arrested for look directly into the exhibited. After that, they laid wreaths mination to reinforce his efforts bombing have been spreading, mainly mament in phases, while taking abandoning the body of a Japanese in front of the cenotaph in the park toward the reduction and nonprolif- among the younger generations. the security environment into woman. Obama expressed his deep eye of history and to mourn the atomic bomb victims. eration of nuclear weapons, based on Efforts must be made to push ahead consideration. regret in response. ask what we must Standing side by side, the head of his 2009 speech in Prague, where he with this shift in public opinion. First and foremost, it is essen- Both leaders take a serious view do differently to the only nation ever to have used an called for a nuclear-free world. Talks on disarmament by nuclear tial for the United States and Russia of the incident, most probably based atomic bomb and the leader of the Abe went along with him by say- powers have been at a standstill in to mend bilateral relations and then on their strong awareness that the curb such suffering only nation ever to have suffered the ing, “Any place in the world, this recent years. bring China into the negotiations. It impact of this outrageous crime will again. Among those effects of one pledged peace together. tragedy must not be repeated again.” The United States and Russia, is important that Japan, as the only be grave. The implication of this is important. Many hibakusha atomic bomb which together possess 90 percent atomic-bombed country, strives to Obtaining the cooperation and nations like my own We would like to commend the his- survivors aspire to see their desire of the world’s stockpile of more than tenaciously serve as a bridge to alle- understanding of the residents around that hold nuclear toric first visit by a sitting US president that such a tragedy never be repeated 15,000 nuclear weapons, signed in viate the confrontations between bases is indispensable to the stable to ground zero. shared throughout the world. Dur- 2010 a new treaty calling for them nuclear and nonnuclear states. stationing of US forces in Japan. Japan stockpiles, we must Obama expressed his determi- ing the Friday visit, Sunao Tsuboi, a to decrease the number of deployed Obama’s visit to Hiroshima and and the United States must strive to have the courage to nation for a world without nuclear chairperson of the Japan Confeder- strategic nuclear arms to 1,550 each. Abe’s speech to the US Congress last work out effective measures to pre- weapons in his remarks, saying, “We ation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Since then, their talks have made little year are two events also symbolizing vent crimes by US servicemen. It escape the logic of have a shared responsibility to look Organizations, held Obama’s hands progress. The deep-seated antago- the reconciliation and deepened alli- is also important to steadily push fear, and pursue a directly into the eye of history and ask and asked the president to visit the nism between the United States and ance of Japan and the United States, ahead with the consolidating and world without them” what we must do differently to curb city again after his term expires in Russia over such incidents as Russia’s countries that once fought each other downsizing of US bases, including such suffering again.” January next year. annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in a war. the relocation of the Futenma Air The atomic bombings in Hiro- We would like to see Obama - a territory of Ukraine - is casting In his remarks in Hiroshima, Station, and improve the way the shima and Nagasaki took the lives continually convey what he felt and a shadow over the ties between the Obama said: “The United States and Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement of more than 200,000 innocent experienced in Hiroshima to the two nations. Japan forged not only an alliance, but is implemented.

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Up in arms Five dead Govt to talk in Nigeria to Niger Delta bomb attack leaders: Buhari AFP LAGOS: Five people were killed when an improvised explosive device exploded in northeast major source of dissent in the Delta Nigeria, in a region where Boko along with widespread poverty. Haram insurgents have operated Local officials and “I believe the way forward is for years”, the country’s military Western allies such to take a sustainable approach to said yesterday. address the issues that affect the A rickshaw driving close to a as Britain had told Delta communities,” he said without military checkpoint on the out- Buhari that moving elaborating. But security operations skirts of Biu town, Borno State, would still go on, he said. ran over the IED in the morning. in troops to the Delta The army has moved reinforce- “Preliminary investigations Participants enjoy the ‘Colour Me Run’ festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, yesterday. was not enough to ments to the swamps, with soldiers shows that the IED was buried long stop attacks. on Saturday raiding for the second time ago undetected. It exploded time a community that is home to when the tricycle erroneously a former militant leader linked to stepped on it,” Nigerian military attacks. “We shall apprehend the spokesman Sani Usman said. Reuters perpetrators and their sponsors and “The IED exploded instantly bring them to justice,” Buhari said. killing four persons comprising On Thursday, Oil Minister Gambia leader blasts UN & of a woman with her baby and Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said an two other male adults,” Usman ABUJA: The Nigerian government amnesty program for former mil- said, adding that a soldier injured will talk to leaders in the Delta itants, signed in 2009 to end a Amnesty over probe calls by the blast later died in hospital. region to address their grievances previous insurgency, needed to He added that “the explosion while cracking down on mili- improve. The scheme had funded would not deter us from seeing tants who have staged a wave of cash benefits and job training to mil- to the end of Boko Haram terror- attacks oil pipelines there, President itants who have laid down their arms AFP died in custody in April after being of state being ‘yes men’. If he were a ists wherever they might be hiding Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. but has been cut by the government arrested for participating in a rare dictator, he was a benign one. through our ongoing clearance Local officials and Western allies by two-thirds. Buhari has also upset demonstration calling for Jammeh’s “I am just a dictator of develop- operations.” such as Britain had told Buhari that former militants by ending contracts removal, according to his party and ment,” he said. “When I took power, The Nigerian government moving in troops to the Delta was to protect pipelines, part of a drive PARIS: Gambian President Yahya Amnesty International. At the time, this country was one of the poor- has won back swathes of terri- not enough to stop attacks, which to tackle corruption. Jammeh has slammed UN chief Ban a government minister said he was est countries in the world. This is no tory from the Islamist insurgents have cut Nigeria’s oil output to a Moving in the same direction, Ki-moon and Amnesty International unaware of his death. longer the case. There is an opposi- in recent months, with President 20-year low. a committee set up by Delta state for demanding an investigation into “I don’t see the point. People tion, an elected parliament, we have Muhammadu Buhari saying in a “The recent spate of attacks by leaders said on Thursday that the the death in custody of an opposition die in custody or during interroga- one of the best public health systems,” recent speech marking his first militants disrupting oil and power federal government and oil firms activist, the Jeune Afrique weekly tions, it’s really common. This time, Jammeh insisted. He also rhetorically year in office that “by the end of installations will not distract us have neglected the grievances of reported yesterday. there is only one dead and they want questioned the value of double-digit December 2015, all but pockets from engaging leaders in the region local communities. “Ban Ki-moon and Amnesty investigations? I will not,” said the growth if that left schools empty and remnants had been routed” in addressing Niger Delta problems,” On Saturday, Bayelsa state gov- International can go to hell! Who are outspoken leader. because of children being forced to from the northeast. Buhari said in a speech marking his ernment in the Delta said militants they to demand that?” said Jammeh, “No one can tell me what to do in work. Jammeh, who said he would But even areas freed of Boko first year in office. attacked a crude oil pipeline oper- who has ruled Gambia with a rod my country.” The 51-year-old said he remain president “as long as God and Haram are suffering from the The former military ruler also ated by Italy’s ENI, hours after a of iron since 1994. Solo Sandeng, a was “proud” to be labelled as a “dic- the people wish”, seized power in a seven-year insurgency that has said the government was commit- group called Niger Delta Avengers senior figure in Gambia’s main oppo- tator” by western powers whom he bloodless coup in 1994 and was then devastated infrastructure in the ted to a clean up of polluted areas, a militants claimed another strike. sition United Democratic Party (UDP), claimed were used to African heads elected in 1996. poor region. China pledges Uganda to halt military ties with N Korea S Africa denies Gordhan defence ties inquiry moved to new unit Reuters providing police training as recently Nations Security Council resolution with Indonesia as December, according to a February in March tightening sanctions against report by a United Nations panel of Pyongyang. Reuters experts. Another report by the panel “During the summit, Ugan- Reuters Standard and Poor’s, which SEOUL: Ugandan President Yoweri last year said North Koreans trained da’s President Museveni...said he ranks Africa’s most industrialised Museveni said his country would halt Ugandan police on the use of AK-47s had ordered (officials) to faithfully country just one step above subin- security and military cooperation and pistols. enforce the UN Security Council vestment grade, is due to make BEIJING: China wants deeper with North Korea, a South Korean Isolated North Korea has come resolution including halting of its JOHANNESBURG: South Afri- public its rating decision on Friday. military ties with Indonesia and official said following a summit in under growing diplomatic pressure in security, military and police coop- ca’s elite Hawks police unit denied Gordhan has said rival credit will strengthen cooperation on Kampala between Museveni and the aftermath of its January nuclear eration with North Korea,” Jeong yesterday a report that an investi- rating agency Fitch will also bilateral and multilateral issues, South Korean President Park Geun- test and a space rocket launch in Yeon-guk, a spokesman for Park, gation involving Finance Minister announce the result of its review of China’s defence minister told his hye. Uganda hosted 45 North Koreans February, which led to a United told reporters in the Ugandan capital. Pravin Gordhan, which has helped South Africa on June 8. Policymak- Indonesian counterpart, after a to weaken the rand, has been trans- ers fear the country, whose economy recent diplomatic spat in the South ferred to another part of the force. is expected to grow by less than one China Sea. Citing an unnamed source, the percent this year, may be headed to Indonesia is not embroiled City Press newspaper said the police “junk’ status, an outcome that would in the rival claims with China Turning a new page crime intelligence unit had taken increase its borrowing costs. over the South China Sea and has over the inquiry into a surveillance On Friday, the presidency said instead seen itself as an “honest body formed at the national tax in a statement that President Jacob broker” in disputes between China agency SARS when it was run by Zuma is not “at war” with Gord- and the Philippines, Malaysia and Gordhan between 1999 and 2009. han over the control of the National Brunei. Meeting on the sidelines The Hawks, which are respon- Treasury, in response to widespread of a regional defence ministers sible for tackling organised and media reports. meeting in Lao capital Vientiane, commercial crime plus serious cor- The City Press cited an unnamed Chinese Defence Minister Chang ruption, have previously said they senior crime intelligence com- Wanquan said he hoped China and were running the inquiry but that mander as saying his police unit was Indonesia would “deepen prag- Gordhan was not being personally now involved in the inquiry because matic exchanges and cooperation” targetted. it had “better resources and capacity, and promote military ties, the offi- On Sunday, Hawks spokesman and a larger network of informants”. cial Xinhua news agency reported. Hangwani Mulaudzi repeated this The commander added that the “Being two large develop- denial, and dismissed the City Press Hawks were “not making sufficient ing countries in Asia, China and report. “There is no investigation progress” in the case of the spy unit, Indonesia have aligned devel- against the minister, the investiga- which was set up to tackle organised opment strategies and broad tion is only on the spy unit at SARS. crime and illicit revenues. prospects for cooperation,” the It is not correct that the crime intel- The crime intelligence unit is report paraphrased Chang as tell- ligence unit is handling the case,” authorised to use surveillance and ing Indonesian Defence Minister Mulaudzi told Reuters. conduct undercover operations, such Ryamizard Ryacudu. Gordhan has been embroiled in as infiltrating crime syndicates. Chang also “made clear China’s the investigation and an accompa- Gordhan faced imminent arrest, consistent stance” on the South nying political row at a time when sending the rand tumbling to a two- China Sea issue, Xinhua added, Children look at books displayed during the International Book Fair of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, yesterday. South Africa faces a possible down- month low, despite denials by the without elaborating. grading of its credit rating. presidency and the police. Hope and relief as Everest season draws to a close

AFP mountaineering industry after fatal mountain last year after an earth- Simone Moro, that shocked the moun- way -- 43-year-old Nepali moun- sickness near the summit. Two Indian disasters effectively closed the peak quake-triggered avalanche killed 18 taineering community. taineer Lhakpa Sherpa came back climbers are still missing after losing for two consecutive years. people at Everest base camp weeks This year around 400 climbers, from retirement for a seventh ascent, contact with their guides. Gyalzen Dorje, 26, was among before the season was due to begin. including more than 150 foreigners, breaking her own world record for the While the casualties bring the KATHMANDU: Hundreds of moun- the nine who reached the top first on Only one climber reached the have realised their Everest ambitions, maximum number of Everest summits dangers of Himalayan mountaineer- taineers have reached the summit of May 11, charged with fixing ropes for summit in 2014, when an avalanche although a further three died in the by a woman. ing into focus, they are not unusually Everest in recent weeks, drawing a climbers to use, marking his fourth claimed the lives of 16 Nepali guides attempt. Meanwhile, US climber Melissa high compared to previous years. line under two years of tragedy on the Everest summit. on the notorious Khumbu icefall that British guide Kenton Cool led his Arnot became the first American As climbers ascend above 8,000 world’s highest peak. “It felt like we had broken the bad sits above base camp, forcing organ- client Robert Lucas up the 8,848- woman to successfully summit and metres, they enter the “death zone” -- As the brief spring climbing sea- spell of the last two years,” said Dorje, isers to cancel their expeditions. metre (29,029-foot) peak a day after descend Everest without using extra notorious for its difficult terrain and son drew to a close, Nepal’s famed who was on Everest when disasters The 2013 season was marred by the ropes were fixed, making the pair oxygen. thin air -- where oxygen supplies fall sherpa guides -- who rely on Ever- wrecked the 2014 and 2015 climbing a brawl between a group of Nepali the first foreigners to scale Everest The season saw three deaths, with to dangerously low levels and make est for their livelihoods -- said it seasons. guides and two professional climbers, this season. an Australian, a Dutch and an Indian mountaineers susceptible to altitude brought fresh hope to the beleaguered Climbers abandoned the Ueli Steck of Switzerland and Italian A few have set records along the mountaineer succumbing to altitude sickness. PAKISTAN MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 13 Brother of Mansour’s driver seeks charges against US

AFP said Azam was an innocent man who Pakistan’s Interior Ministry yesterday The US has carried out hundreds was providing for his four children confirmed Mansour’s killing following of drone strikes in Pakistan, mainly in US described the and had been murdered. a DNA match with one of his relatives the border tribal regions with Afghan- driver as a “second “US officials whose name I do not who had come from Afghanistan to istan, and leaked documents show QUETTA: The brother of a man who know accepted responsibility in the take the body. Islamabad had quietly consented was killed alongside the Taliban’s male combatant” but media for this incident, so I want jus- Pakistan had not previously despite publicly protesting. slain chief Mullah Akthar Mansour according to officials tice and request legal action against confirmed Mansour’s death. “It has But this was the first by the US in (pictured) in an American drone those responsible for it,” Qasim said been confirmed that one of the men Balochistan province and Pakistan — strike in southwest Pakistan is press- he was a chauffeur in a police report dated May 25. who was killed in the drone attack whose spy agency has long supported ing murder and terrorism charges named Mohammad “My brother was innocent, he was Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan the Taliban — angrily denounced it as against US officials, police said. Azam who worked was very poor and he has left behind former chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour,” a violation of its sovereignty. Mansour was travelling by car four small children. He was the lone the spokesman said in a statement. Islamabad says it hosts many of near the town of Ahmad Wal on May for a rental company breadwinner in the family,” he added. “The identification was confirmed the Afghan Taliban’s top leadership to 21 when he was killed, a major blow to based out of Quetta. “My aim is to prove the innocence after a DNA test which was matched exert influence over them and bring the group that has been waging a gue- of my brother as he is being portrayed with a close relative of Mullah Man- them back to peace talks with Kabul. rilla war in Afghanistan since being as a militant, but he was just a driver,” sour who had come from Afghanistan Drone attacks have proven toppled from power in 2001. Qasim said on the telephone. officials yesterday confirmed charges to receive his body.” extremely controversial with the US officials described the car’s Mohammad Azam who worked for He said that so far the family had had been filed, but declined to com- Mansour was appointed head of Pakistani public and rights groups. driver as a “second male combatant” the Al Habib rental company based not sought any compensation for ment on what steps authorities would the Taliban in July 2015 and was suc- In 2013, Amnesty International said but according to Pakistani security out of Quetta, the region’s main city. Azam’s death. take to pursue the case, if any. ceeded on Wednesday by his deputy the US could be guilty of war crimes officials he was a chauffeur named His brother, Mohammad Qasim, Local police and administration Meanwhile a spokesman from Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada. by carrying out extrajudicial killings.

Standing guard Breakaway Taliban faction willing to negotiate without preconditions

AP thousands of foreign soldiers remain on hilltops surveyed dirt roads lead- in the country, mainly carrying out ing to the area, which serves as the training, support and counterterror- main base for the mobile fighters. SHINDAND: A breakaway Taliban ism operations. The encampment where the meet- faction is willing to hold peace talks Mansour had refused to partici- ing was held is only accessible by with the Afghan government but will pate in a peace process initiated by motorbike or horse. The turbaned fol- demand the imposition of Islamic Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that lowers of Rasool — who is believed law and the departure of all foreign included Pakistan, the United States to have been detained in Pakistan forces, a senior leader of the group and China. — appeared to be armed with new said yesterday. Representatives of the four coun- weapons, including automatic rifles Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi told tries have held five meetings, without and grenade launchers. a group of around 200 followers in inviting the Taliban. Their aim is The Taliban have continued to eastern Afghanistan that his fac- to chart a roadmap toward talks launch major attacks on government tion had no faith in the government between the Afghan government forces despite the internal conflict, but was willing to negotiate without and the insurgents to end the 15-year and the war has shown no sign of preconditions. war, but the disarray within the Tal- abating over the past year. Niazi is deputy to Mullah Moham- iban has complicated those efforts. The Taliban attacked checkpoints mad Rasool, who split from the The Taliban’s spokesman, Zabihullah in the southern Helmand province Taliban last summer after Mullah Mujahid, has branded Rasool’s faction late Saturday, killing four police, Akhtar Mansour was chosen to suc- “a government army in the shape of according to the provincial gover- ceed the group’s late founder, Mullah the Taliban.” He claimed that Rasool nor’s spokesman, Omar Zawaq. Mohammad Omar. was supported by Kabul and Wash- Among those killed was local The main Taliban faction has ington. “For us he is nothing more police commander Safar Mohammad, Afghan border police personnel stand guard on the Afghan side of the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan bridge expressed similar demands, but than a local policeman or a puppet who in recent years had success- in Hairatan. Hairatan, the only crossing between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, is an ominous bellwether says it will only enter peace talks of Afghan intelligence,” he said. fully kept highways in the area open after they have been met. The US and Rasool’s followers met in the to traffic. Zawaq said another nine of economic activity in northern Afghanistan. Nato officially ended their combat mountainous Shindand district, police officers and one soldier were mission more than a year ago, but near the border with Iran. Snipers wounded in the attack.

Police kill three Judges endorse increase Govt mulls special development Al Qaeda militants in perks and privileges mechanism for tribal regions in Karachi for themselves AFP Internews three-star general. The commander Monday, and Prime Minister Nawaz of the 11th Corp will chair the com- Sharif will chair the meeting through mittee and will have special powers a video link from the UK. He will also KARACHI: Pakistani police killed Internews to approve development schemes chair a federal cabinet meeting for three Al Qaeda militants during a ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan gov- worth up to Rs1.5bn, said a senior approval of the federal budget for the gunfight in the southwestern port ernment is mulling authorising the official at the planning ministry. next fiscal year. city of Karachi yesterday after military to approve development The committee will handle a fund Officials said the military was not raiding their hideout, officials said. ISLAMABAD: A full court meeting schemes for the Federally Adminis- of Rs200bn, earmarked for the tem- happy with the slow pace of devel- The skirmish took place in of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has tered Tribal Areas (Fata) bordering porarily displaced persons (TDPs). opment. Majority of the areas in Fata Gulshan-e-Buner, a low-income approved a boost in perks and priv- Afghanistan after it expressed dissat- For the outgoing fiscal year, the gov- have been destroyed during Opera- neighbourhood in the city, when ileges for both serving and retired isfaction over the slow pace of uplift ernment had allocated Rs100bn for tion Zarb-e-Azb, which was started police were searching the area judges. Official sources here say the in the war-torn region. the TDPs and the same amount has in June 2014 to flush out militants. after receiving a tip-off that mil- meeting, held under Chief Justice Officials say that the National also been proposed for fiscal year The military had expected a itants were hiding there, senior Anwar Jamali (pictured), discussed Economic Council (NEC) will take 2016-17, according to the budget quick return of the TDPs but the repa- police official Rao Muhmmad several issues regarding perks and up a proposal to set up a Fata devel- documents. triation was delayed in some areas Anwar said. “When police reached privileges. The meeting was attended opment committee to be headed by a The NEC is scheduled to meet on due to incomplete development work. an area near a hill, terrorists by all apex court judges. started firing on them and in retal- The nine-page minutes of the iation three militants were killed,” meeting indicated the full court said Anwar, adding that the mili- approved the reimbursement of manage their private servants as per tants belonged to the Al Qaeda in Supreme Court (SC) judges’ medi- their own needs and in that case, “no Temperatures rise the Indian Sub-continent branch. cal claims for indoor and outdoor financially liability would rest with Police also recovered weapons treatment in government hospitals, this court”. and explosives from the hideout, in addition to medical allowances. It was also decided that to adopt he added. One of the militants was It also resolved that SC judges the arrangements, the matter will identified as Riaz Raju, who was after retirement should be pro- be taken up with the federal gov- wanted over the killing of police- vided an option either to return IT ernment for inserting suitable men and murders of minority gadgets / devices/ computers / lap- amendments to the order. Shiite Muslims in Karachi, Anwar tops / PC-Notebooks in their use, or The SC judges again expressed said. Two other policemen con- to purchase the same at 40 per cent desire regarding the round the clock firmed the raid and casualties. depreciation per year of the origi- posting of a security guard at their Karachi, a city of 20 million nal purchase price and after five respective residence. This proposal is and Pakistan’s economic hub, is years, a flat price of Rs5,000 may still under the federal government’s frequently hit by religious, polit- be charged. consideration. ical and ethnic violence. The full court decided to The full court also decided to Paramilitary forces began a enhance the stay of judges in guest enhance the legal fees of advocates sweeping crackdown on militants houses from three to seven days. nominated to represent convicts in in the city in 2013, which has led to The deputy registrar was allowed criminal jail petitions and criminal a substantial drop in overall levels to reserve a suite/room up to seven jail appeals before the apex court, of violence. Al Qaeda and the Paki- days for (serving) and former judges. raising it from Rs15,000 to Rs25,000. stani Taliban have carried out joint However, the chief justice will be About the fixing of reasonable operations for years, but both are kept informed about the reserva- limit regarding payment of water hostile to the Islamic State group tion made by the deputy registrar charges to retired chief justice/judges which is an upstart in the region. for the sake of transparency. and widow of late judges, the full Pakistan launched a country- The meeting resolved that all court decided to continue the 2001 wide campaign against militancy retired judges and their widows be policy, wherein it was resolved that called the National Action Plan allowed to opt either to continue in view of the scarcity of water sup- starting in 2015 after a deadly Tal- with the provision of services of the ply in Karachi, reimbursement of Children play under the shade of some trees in Larkana, Pakistan, on a hot summer day. Temperatures iban attack on a Peshawar school contingent staff or opt for a special charges for not more than five tank- rose to record levels in several parts of the country. left more than 150 people — mostly additional pension and personally ers per week was allowed. children — dead. 14 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 INDIA

Net gain AAP MLA in hot Parrikar stands water for assault; denies charge by special IANS

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Jagdeep Singh was law for army yesterday arrested on the charge of assaulting an employee of a waste management company here a week ago, police said. The MLA was later granted bail. comes from such laws; AFSPA is a The legislator from west Del- major one,” he said. “If that is not hi’s Hari Nagar was accused of Defence Minister there, the army will not go to a civil- attacking Mohit, who works for baulks at activists ian area for operations. The Home a company contracted by the Ministry should decide on the basis municipal corporation on May 21. suing imposition of of that, after assessing the situation,” However, the case was registered AFSPA in disturbed Parrikar maintained. on May 23. areas. “If the army is required, this Singh was booked under act has to be there; otherwise the Section 323 (punishment for vol- army cannot operate. Jawans can- untarily causing hurt) and Section not be made to face standard laws,” 341 (wrongful restraint) and 506 he contended. There is a “new crop” (punishment of criminal intimi- IANS of activists who keep filing cases dation) of the Indian Penal Code. against the AFSPA, the minister said, The MLA, however, denied Fishermen load their nets onto mechanised boats in Chennai yesterday, as they prepare to set sail adding in a lighter vein that someone the police claim on his Twitter may even file a case on the Kargil after a 45-day fishing ban on the east coast of India. account. “I am at home; it’s only NEW DELHI: The Indian Army conflict even though 17 long years a rumour,” he tweeted. cannot operate in civilian areas have passed since the Indian Army without a contentious act that gives went into action to evict Pakistani it sweeping special powers, Defence intruders from the icy heights of Minister Manohar Parrikar has said, Jammu and Kashmir. amid demands from several quar- “There is suddenly a crop of ters that the act be revoked in Jammu activists who try to file cases and Call for celebrities to join anti-tobacco drive and Kashmir and the northeastern all that... Actually if you see, the states where it is in operation. immunity should be total unless it “My department’s role comes (a wrongdoing) is proved in a partic- IANS asked. Questioning if it was because that certainly is one push factor that into the picture when the army is ular fashion. How will armed forces of enormous revenues linked to the must be taken up seriously. Many asked to proceed and act in a certain act otherwise? Someone can even tobacco industry or an interplay of governments argue against coming area. At that time, the army requires file a case on Kargil,” he said. NEW DELHI: Rajiv Gandhi Can- politics and business, Dewan said: down heavily on tobacco through protection,” Parrikar told IANS in an The AFSPA came into force in cer Institute and Research Centre “The government can take a leaf out taxation pleading that it will lower interview, referring to the Armed the northeastern states in 1958 after (RGCIRC) has urged the government of its experiences in polio and filaria- revenue, increase illicit activities, Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) the Naga tribes rebelled against the to appoint prominent people, includ- sis, two debilitating diseases, that it affect employment and leave smok- that is in place in what are termed government and continues to be ing Amitabh Bachchan (pictured) so handsomely contained.” ers impoverished,” said Dewan. “disturbed areas”. in force there. It is also in force in among others, as brand ambassadors “A solid two-pronged strategy The theme of ‘World No Tobacco Asked about the possibility of Assam, Manipur, and parts of Aru- for the better impact of its tobacco — of massive awareness drive, and Day’ for the year is ‘Plain Packaging’. revoking the AFSPA, the defence nachal Pradesh. It came into force in control programmes. on-ground intervention by mass Dewan is also part of WHO minister said that the subject falls Jammu and Kashmir in 1990, a year The organisation — one of the drugs administration led to the suc- Framework Convention on Tobacco under the Home Ministry, adding it after an Islamist insurgency, which best cancer treatment centres in Asia cess of these two campaigns. Why has Control, which is asking all the coun- was needed by the army to “proceed continues to fester, erupted. The act — asked the government whether such experiment not been done for tries to get ready for plain packaging and act” in certain areas. He also was also enforced in Punjab in 1983 the high revenue generated by the campaign on the lines of polio,” won- cancer and tobacco, especially the of tobacco products. said immunity for soldiers should and withdrawn in 1997. tobacco industry was the reason dered A K Dewan, medical director awareness part.” India has recently implemented be total. The minister stressed that In Jammu and Kashmir, where behind not appointing a celebrity as and chief of head and neck services, According to WHO, tobacco 85 percent pictorial warnings on the the army will not go to civilian areas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a an ambassador of its anti-tobacco at RGCIRC. causes 22 percent deaths every year packets of all tobacco products, as without the act being in place. junior partner in a coalition headed campaigns. “Why can’t we rope in an Amitabh globally, with a large chunk of such part of its efforts to regulate the con- “If that act is not there, the army by the PDP, removing AFSPA from “The cost of tobacco use, accord- Bachchan or an Aamir Khan, a cases in India. sumption of tobacco. will not take action. For carrying out certain areas was one of the con- ing to WHO, are measured in its toll Shahrukh Khan or a Sachin Ten- “High taxation is one demand- However, the step was opposed counter terror operations, the army ditions the latter had set for joining of disease, suffering and family dis- dulkar as a brand ambassador for reduction policy advocated across by various business chambers and requires that power. That power hands. tress. Why not a massive awareness anti-tobacco campaign,” Dewan the globe as well as in India, and tobacco growers.

Manipur CM hits out at BJP govt Will never take country down the wrong path: Modi for causing IANS at a public rally in this Karnataka tex- Giving an account of his two year to poor families in Karnataka, while cigarettes. “Cooking on gas is not only tile town, 260km from Bengaluru. rule, Modi said his government had noting that more than 30 million fam- economical and beneficial to wom- Thanking the people for coming abolished over a thousand archaic ilies have got cooking gas connections en’s health, but also helps us conserve instability in large numbers to the ‘Vikas Parva’ and outdated laws to free the peo- in the last one year. forest wood, which is still used for DAVANGERE: Taking pot shots at rally, organised by the party’s Kar- ple from legal burden, while surveys “Under the scheme, we will pro- cooking food in rural areas,” he said. IANS those mocking him for not doing nataka unit to mark two years of the have revealed that the government’s vide cooking gas connection without Expressing gratitude to 11.3 mil- “big things”, Prime Minister Narendra BJP-led NDA government, Modi said biggest achievement was the ‘Swacch security deposit to 50 million women lion consumers across the country for Modi yesterday assured the people those in Delhi had no idea why peo- Bharat’ campaign. from BPL (below poverty line) house- surrendering cooking gas subsidy till IMPHAL: Manipur Chief Minister that he would not allow the country ple flock to his public meetings in Also citing the Pradhan Mantri holds across the country in the next date, Modi said there was a dramatic Okram Ibobi Singh yesterday hit walk on the wrong path. thousands even in sweltering sum- Suraksha Bima Yojana, he said: “You three years,” he said. change in mindsets. out at the BJP-led central govern- “People sitting in air-conditioned mer heat. don’t even get a cup of tea for Re1, Asserting that the scheme would “People from even the middle ment for “causing instability” in the rooms in Delhi criticise me for not “When people like you give me which I used to get when I sold tea. improve health of women as they class are coming forward to surren- northeastern state. doing ‘big things’. Previous govern- so much love and affection, there is But people can get life insurance won’t have to inhale smoke from der the subsidy given on cooking gas “Whenever the BJP comes ments did big things and took huge no need for me to walk on the wrong schemes at Re1.” firewood for cooking food, Modi cylinders. This is helping govern- to power at the Centre, there is advantage of them. But I will not com- path. My government has also decided Before the public meeting, Modi said studies have shown that fumes ment provide subsidised cooking gas always instability in Manipur,” mit the same sin or allow the country to free the country of middlemen,” he launched the Ujjwala Yojana scheme from firewood were equivalent to connection to women in poor house- he said at an election meeting to walk on the wrong path,” Modi said said in his 40-minute speech in Hindi. to provide cooking gas connections smoke from about 400 burning holds,” he said. at Kwakeithel Moirang Purel in Imphal West district ahead of the June 2 municipal polls. Though he did not elaborate, the Congress leader’s reference Grooming him up BJP names 12 for was to the June 18, 2001 violence during which 18 people were killed and many others injured in pro- tests following the then Atal Bihari Rajya Sabha vote Vajpayee government extending the ceasefire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland- IANS Birendra Singh has been renomi- Issak-Muivah “without territorial nated from Haryana. limits”. Since last year, Manipur Naidu, a Rajya Sabha member has been experiencing agitations NEW DELHI: The BJP yesterday from Karnataka, is retiring in June. for implementation of the Inner released its list of 12 candidates for Once he gets re-elected, it will be Line Permit (ILP) system. the biennial elections from nine Naidu’s fourth term in the Upper On the other hand, nine people states to the Rajya Sabha, including House, which is rare in the party. were killed in Churachandpur dis- union ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Power Minister Piyush Goyal trict during rallies protesting the Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, has been renominated from Mahar- demand for ILP. For nearly one Chaudhary Birender Singh and ashtra, where six seats are falling month, the state has also been Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. vacant. under siege demanding enact- The other candidates named by The BJP will get four berths. ment of the three anti-migrant the BJP central election commit- Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, bills passed by the state assembly tee are Om Prakash Mathur, Harsh who entered the Upper House from on August 31, last year. Vardhan Singh, Ram Kumar Verma, Haryana, is likely to make it from Attacking the Narendra Modi Purushottam Rupala, Anil Madhav Maharashtra this time. However, his government, Ibobi Singh said: “The Dave, Ramvichar Netam and Gopal name doesn’t figure in Sunday’s list. UPA government had introduced Narayan Singh. Prabhu is among the six union the Look East policy. The NDA All the five ministers and Dave ministers retiring from the Rajya changed it to Act East Policy. Peo- have been renominated while Sabha over the next three months. ple have not seen any change in Mathur and Rupala will make a All six are from the BJP. the past two years. comeback to the Upper House after Commerce Minister Sitharaman “Whatever projects commis- a gap of two years. The remaining has been nominated from Karna- sioned in Manipur were started four are new entrants. taka. She was earlier a Rajya Sabha during the UPA. Now rail line is A groom gets his make-up done in a horse cart during a mass wedding ceremony organised for the Naidu, Mathur, Harsh Vardhan member from Andhra Pradesh, extended up to Tupul in Manipur underprivileged and physically challenged couples in Mumbai, yesterday. Singh and Verma have been nom- where two seats are falling vacant. and it was done during the prime inated from Rajasthan while Rural Both the seats will go to the Telugu ministership of Manmohan Singh.” Development Minister Chaudhary Desam Party this time. INDIA MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 15

Six arrested for attacking Curious peep Africans in New Delhi

all isolated incidents. One attack residents. Police met with residents as took place for playing music loudly, well as members of the African com- Police start another for drinking alcohol on way munity and discussed their concerns sensitisation in the night... We had to register the in detail. The latter were told to get cases on suo motu first information in touch with police in case of any programme in areas reports (FIRs) as none of the victims difficulty. with major African came forward to file a complaint,” “I held a meeting of residents presence. said the DCP. Some of the victims, of Rajpur Khurd and Maidan Garhi however, said they faced racist slurs which was attended by about 250 vil- while being attacked. lagers. Similar meetings were also On Thursday night, two calls held by senior police officers in other IANS were made to the Delhi Police con- parts of Delhi to prevent recurrence trol room reporting a brawl in Rajpur of such incidents,” said the DCP. Khurd area where many Africans Asked if police will continue the reside. The first call was made at sensitisation programme, he said: NEW DELHI: Hours after Union 11 p.m. by a Nigerian national Ken- “I will hold a regular meeting with People peep into a tinted windows of Talgo, a train made in Spain, before its first trial run from Bareilly Home Minister Rajnath Singh con- neth Igbinosa, 29, a priest at the local residents in the area... Regular night to Moradabad, yesterday. Railways have planned to increase the number of high speed trains in the demned attacks on Africans in the church, following a minor brawl with patrolling will also be done.” country and the trial of Talgo is part of the strategy. national capital and asked police local residents when he was going Earlier, Rajnath Singh, condemn- to be more active, Delhi Police said in his car to a chemist, a police offi- ing the attacks on Africans, told the yesterday that six people, includ- cial said. city police to step up patrolling in ing a juvenile, were held for cases of “I was attacked by 15-20 peo- neighbourhoods that have signifi- assaults on five Africans but ruled out ple while travelling in my car with cant African populations. the crimes being planned or racial. my wife and son. I heard some of the “Instructed CP (commissioner Police also said they have also attackers saying ‘You leave our coun- of police) Delhi to take strict action Haryana police on high alert as started a sensitisation programme try, you Africans’,” said Igbinosa. against the attackers and increase in areas where Africans have a major The second call came from police patrolling in these areas to presence. Lockey, a Nigerian, who, according to ensure security of everyone,” he said Jats threaten to revive agitation “We have arrested five people police, was allegedly assaulted after in a tweet. and apprehended a juvenile in con- he intervened to save the driver of In another tweet, he said: “Spoke flict with law in connection with the the auto-rickshaw in which he was to CP Delhi regarding the incident of IANS ordered imposition of prohibitory Court on the Haryana government’s attack on four African nationals. A travelling from being beaten by a car physical assault against certain Afri- orders, under section 144 of the decision to grant reservation to Jats few more people would be arrested driver following an argument. can nationals in New Delhi. Such Criminal Procedure Code, in the and five other communities in jobs soon,” said Deputy Commissioner of He received minor injury on his incidents are condemnable.” CHANDIGARH: With Jat leaders district “to ward off any tension, and educational institutions under Police Ishwar Singh. nose when he “fell on a stone” on the External Affairs Minister Sushma threatening to renew their agitation fights, threats to human life, dam- the newly created Backward Class Those arrested were identified road, police said. A Cameroonian Swaraj said Rajnath Singh and Delhi for reservation in Haryana from age to property and deterioration in ‘C’ category”. as Babu, 32, Kunal, 20, Om Prakash, businessman Pierres and his sister Lt Governor Najeeb Jung assured her June 5, the state government and the the law-and-order situation”. Under section 144, there would 24, Rahul, 24, and Ajay, 25 — all resi- Vicky were attacked by a group when on Saturday that the culprits would police have started mobilising secu- The order has been issued follow- be a complete ban on the gathering dents of Mehrauli’s Maidan Garhi and they were getting off an auto rick- be arrested soon and a sensitisation rity forces at various places. ing apprehension of violence during of five or more than five people at Rajpur Khurd areas in south Delhi. shaw. A group of people also attacked campaign would be launched in areas Haryana Police sources said that the renewed Jat agitation. any place and carrying sticks, axe, He said police have registered Ugandan national Shamima Nazzasi, where many Africans reside. police personnel and para-military Pandurang said that “there were sword, knife or any other sharp- four separate cases after the four a salon owner, with sticks and pieces On May 20, Congolese man forces were being stationed in sen- chances that some agitators, hooli- edged weapons. The order would attacks occurred within a radius of wood in Chhattarpur in south Masonda Ketada Olivier, 29, was sitive districts like Sonipat, Rohtak, gans and anti-social elements may remain effective for 60 days from of one km on Thursday night in Delhi. Ishwar Singh said sensitisa- beaten to death by three men after Jhajjar, Jind and Fatehabad to ensure cause damage to roads, railway May 28 to July 27. Mehrauli area. tion programmes has been started an altercation over hiring of an auto- law and order. tracks, water sources and power As many as 30 people were killed “Neither the attacks were racial at Maidan Garhi and Rajpur Khurd rickshaw in Vasant Kunj area turned Sonipat District Magistrate K. houses in view of the stay ordered and 320 injured during the agitation nor were they planned. These are areas, which have over 300 African violent. Makrand Pandurang on Sunday by the Punjab and Haryana High in February.

Police prohibit Feathered migrants Children help end open Sahara Pariwar members from defecation in village holding meeting IANS Arti loves English and wants to become a doctor and “serve the IANS people of this under developed area and educate them about personal RAIPUR: Arti Rawte, an 11-year- hygiene and healthy life.” old tribal girl from Dhobni village “I understand the importance of BHUBANESWAR: Sahara India of Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon dis- cleanliness and personal hygiene. chief Subrata Roy yesterday said trict in Chhattisgarh, used to wake My elder sister who is married in a it was unfortunate that he could up at four every morning — not to nearby village, Kurrubhat, does not not meet Sahara Pariwar mem- study but keep a sharp lookout for have a toilet at her in-laws. I told her bers after authorities imposed villagers going out to defecate in the in-laws to construct a toilet and dis- restrictions at his meeting venue open and stop them from doing so. courage open defecation. Now they in Cuttack and the place was evac- Her village has been declared ‘Open have agreed to mine and my sister’s uated. Defecation Free’, thanks to efforts of wish and are getting a toilet con- Apprehending trouble, Section such spunky kids. structed,” Arti said. 144 of the CrPC was imposed by “I along with some other chil- According to Swachhta Sta- police before Roy’s visit. He was dren used to look out for people tus Report released by the National scheduled to address the employ- going for open defecation and upon Sample Survey (NSS), more than half ees of Sahara India and investors spotting such people we used to of the rural population in India still at the Indoor Stadium in Cuttack. blow a whistle and tell that person opts for open defecation. “It is very unfortunate that not to do so. Violators would be fined The survey estimates that 52.1 I could not meet around 3,000 Rs.500,” Arti, who is part of Team percent of people in rural India members in Cuttack. We had per- Swachh - an initiative of UNICEF choose open defecation as com- mission but at the last moment, and a non-governmental organisa- pared to 7.5 percent in urban Section 144 has been imposed,” tion Jan Kalyan Sansthan, told IANS. India. said Roy in a statement. Arti’s village got toilets in each The initiative of persuading vil- Migratory flamingoes take flight at Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, some 70km from Ahmedabad, yesterday. He said they learnt from the house two years back, but the lagers in Chhattisgarh to use toilets police that some forum threatened problem of open defecation did not was started by UNICEF with the to stage agitation and disrupt the end. help of an NGO from Delhi in 2013 meeting in Cuttack. It was very difficult to con- in Rajnandgaon. Later local NGOs “Police administration very vince the villagers to change their were roped in the campaign to make rightly took the decision otherwise habit of going to the field to relieve it more effective. our 3,000 members would have Swaraj Party formed in Punjab themselves. The open defecation free cam- lost their temper and that could Arti who hails from the Halba paign is now spreading to various have been a big law and order tribe says despite having toilets in Chhattisgarh districts, including Sur- problem. As responsible citizens, their homes people used to opt for guja, Dhamtari, Dantewada etc. we should co-operate with police IANS Party president, in Chandigarh. the due process laid down by the open defecation. A vigilance com- Yogendra Pratap Singh, the chief administration for maintaining Swaraj Lehar was the Punjab unit Abhiyan,” the Swaraj Abhiyan media mittees (nigrani samiti) was formed of Jan Kalyan Sansthan - which leads peace,” said Roy. of Swaraj Abhiyan. cell said in a statement. in each village of the district which the open defecation free campaign “I shall definitely request the The party leadership said “We wish the Swaraj Party well comprised children and other com- in Rajnandgaon district - told the forum people to remember the CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: With its organisational structure was and and will like to have a fraternal munity members including the visiting IANS correspondent that in truth, that good can never be com- barely months to go for assem- already in place in 11 of the 22 dis- relationship with it.” On the other village chief — to prevent people Rajnandgaon district over 300 vil- pared with bad. It is pertinent to bly polls in Punjab, launch of a new tricts in Punjab. However, none of hand, two suspended Aam Aadmi from going to the field. lages have been declared ODF. note that Sahara’s financial serv- political party — Swaraj Party, led the national leaders of Swaraj Abhi- Party parliamentarians Dr Dhara- ices neither was nor is in any chit by former Panjab University profes- yan, including Yogendra Yadav and mvira Gandhi and Harinder Singh fund business,” the Sahara India sor Manjit Singh — was announced Prashant Bhushan, were present Khalsa expressed solidarity with the chief added. in Chandigarh yesterday. at the convention where the res- new political entity. He also praised Bhubaneswar The new entity claimed associ- olution for creating the new party “I welcome the formation of this More than 50% fail Bihar Class 10 exam police for providing all necessary ation with the Swaraj Abhiyan -- a was passed. Within hours of the outfit. Any party that works to prop- support. socio-political group which is headed announcement about the Swaraj agate the idea of alternative politics IANS the results announced yesterday. Police yesterday asked the by expelled Aam Aadmi Party leader Party by some of its leaders, the and Swaraj must be supported,” Gan- The pass percentage was people to vacate the place at Yogendra Yadav. Swaraj Abhiyan dissociated itself dhi, Lok Sabha member from Patiala, expected to drastically fall this Indoor Stadium in Cuttack after “A large number of delegates of from the entity. told IANS. Khalsa, MP from Fateh- PATNA: Following strict measures year due to strict measures against imposing prohibitory orders. Swaraj Lehar from all over Punjab “We wish to clarify that this ini- garh Sahib, too lauded the formation against cheating, more than 50 cheating, including CCTV cameras Notably, after getting parole have launched the Swaraj Party. A tiative has not been sponsored by of the new party. “Basically, it’s an percent of the students appearing and prohibitory orders against from the Supreme Court to attend state working committee of 41 mem- Swaraj Abhiyan. Though many col- entity formed by the people thrown in the Class 10 exams conducted ‘unlawful assembly’, in conduct- the last rites of his departed bers has been constituted to expand leagues associated with this initiative out by (Delhi Chief Minister and AAP by the Bihar School Examination ing the exams in last March. mother, the Sahara Group chief has the party base at the block and vil- are from Swaraj Abhiyan, Punjab, the national convenor) Arvind Kejriwal Board failed with the pass per- Last year, the pass percentage launched an ‘Abhaar Yatra’ from lage levels,” said Manjit Singh, who decision to form a political party has when they questioned him. We wish centage only 44.66, according to was 75.17. Hyderabad on Saturday. was unanimously elected the Swaraj not been taken in accordance with them luck for the future,” Khalsa said. 16 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 EUROPE / UK

Labour MP Alan Johnson (centre) with supporters during a “Labour In for Britain” campaign event in London, yesterday. RIGHT: A campaigner for ‘Vote Leave’, the official ‘Leave’ campaign organisation for the forthcoming EU referendum, hands out leaflets outside Wembley Park tube station in northwest London, yesterday. Brexit campaign slams Cameron as rift widens

Bloomberg year increased to more than 330,000. said. “It leaves Cameron with a diffi- grow. Lawmaker Andrew Bridgen told to 333,000 in 2015, just below the economy, with a poll commissioned “Voters were promised repeatedly cult decision to make if he wins the BBC 5 live that more than four dozen record, and a 20,000 increase from by the Observer newspaper show- at elections that net migration could referendum — what does he do with lawmakers from Cameron’s party 2014, the Office of National Statistics ing nine out of 10 economists agree be cut to tens of thousands,” Gove and those who broke the rules of engage- were ready to back a vote of no-con- said on Thursday. an exit would cause economic dam- LONDON: The rifts in Prime Min- Johnson wrote in the letter, published ment that were set.” fidence in the prime minister. Cameron remains committed to age. The IPSOS Mori online survey of ister David Cameron’s Conservative in the Sunday Times newspaper. “This With less than a month to go “If there’s a small ‘remain’ vote,” the immigration pledge. “The ambi- over 600 economists showed 88 per- Party worsened as two leading Brexit promise is plainly not achievable as before the June 23 referendum, the then “I think there probably would tions I’ve set out are the right ones,” cent of respondents said leaving the campaigners accused him of break- long as the UK is a member of the EU debate has turned acrimonious, with be 50 colleagues who’d be very dis- he told reporters traveling to a leaders’ EU single market would damage Brit- ing his promises on immigration and and the failure to keep it is corrosive parliament’s Treasury select com- satisfied with the prime minister’s summit in Japan with him last week ain’s growth prospects over the next speculation mounts about a leader- of public trust in politics.” mittee on Friday accusing both sides performance,” he said. when asked if it wouldn’t be easier to five years. The survey was carried out ship challenge after the June 23 UK The Johnson-Gove letter is an of misleading voters with “bogus Former Tory Defence Secretary abandon the target. from May 19 to May 27. referendum on European Union mem- escalation in Conservative defiance claims.” and Brexit campaigner Liam Fox told “Of course the figures are disap- Speaking on the Marr show on bership. of Cameron over the EU issue, and is After the publication of several the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show” yes- pointing,” Cameron said on Friday Sunday, former Labour Prime Minister Former London Mayor Boris John- a “clear break” from current policy, reports by the Treasury focused on terday that none of the Conservatives when asked about the statistics. The Tony Blair said the risks of leaving the son and Justice Secretary Michael said Tim Bale, professor of politics at the potential economic shock of an in parliament will be able to meet high numbers are partly the result of bloc far outweighed any advantages. Gove said Cameron, who is leading Queen Mary, University of London. exit, the Leave campaign is seeking to their election promises if the nation the UK economy performing better “We will suffer an immediate the drive for Britain to remain in the “We’ve not seen such a clear rup- regain control of the debate by focus- remains in the EU. “I want control of than those elsewhere in Europe, he shock to our economy, we will cre- EU, should accept that his Conserv- ture of agreed government policy ing on the impact of EU membership our own lawmaking, I want control of said. ate years of uncertainty,” Blair said. ative Party’s election pledge to cut or such a push on collective cabi- on migration. our own money and I want control of Meanwhile, the “Remain” cam- “It’s an enormous economic problem. annual immigration to tens of thou- net responsibility towards breaking The disquiet among rank-and-file our own borders,” Fox said. paign continued to focus on the Is that pain worth the gain and what is sands has failed. The migrant flow last point as we have this weekend,” Bale Conservative lawmakers continues to Net migration to the UK rose potential impact of Brexit on Britain’s that gain that’s so important?” 20 rescued from Gibraltar chief fears Spain boat in English sovereignty Channel: Coastguard push AFP

AFP the Channel for several months, par- ticularly in the Straits of Dover, by LONDON: Spain may try to force those “without the slightest notion the issue of joint sovereignty with of navigation and unaware of the Britain over Gibraltar in the event LONDON: Twenty people, most of real dangers.” of a Brexit, the territory’s chief them migrants, were rescued by the High winds, strong currents, a minister said in an interview. British coastguard from the Channel high volume of traffic and low water Fabian Picardo told Sky News yesterday after their inflatable boat temperatures all make the Channel a television that Spain might close began to take on water. treacherous stretch of water. the frontier gates with the British The rhib (rigid-hulled inflata- Mary Lawes, councillor with the overseas territory if Britain votes ble boat) carrying 20 people “was anti-mass migration UK Independ- to leave the European Union in located at 2.00am and the incident ence Party, accused the government a membership referendum on handed over to Border Force,” it said of “not doing enough to control our June 23, choking the peninsula in a statement. coastline”. of workers and land access to the The Italian Navy ship “Vega” arrives with more than 600 migrants and refugees at Reggio Calabria Port Of those rescued, 18 were Alba- “This is very worrying, the good continent.Gibraltar’s thriving serv- nian and two British, according to news is no-one appears to have been in southern Italy. ices-based economy relies in large the BBC. harmed,” she said. “Something has to part on access to the EU’s single Thousands of people have be done to protect these people from market. been massed in northern France harm and our borders.” Picardo said Brexit support- for months, trying to reach Britain Some 17 suspected Albanian Dozens of children drown as ers “would have a lot to answer where they believe they will have migrants were detained Tuesday for” if Madrid raised the possi- a better chance of finding employ- after a boat arrived at Chichester bility of joint sovereignty over the ment, according to French and Marina on the south coast. Rock—hitherto anathema to its British charities. Four Iranian migrants making shipwrecks claim 700 lives 30,000-odd residents. Calais coastguard organisation a rare attempt to reach Britain by In case of a Brexit, the chief SNSM assisted in the rescue oper- boat from France in February were minister said: “The current Span- ation, according to its president rescued just in time after their ves- ish foreign minister (Jose Manuel Bernard Barron. sel took on water and was close to AFP bodies recovered from a wreck that packed tightly into the hold down Garcia-Margallo) has been explicit “We were called for help... to capsizing. happened Friday, the Unhcr said it with it. The Sudanese captain was as to what that may mean. search between Calais and Dover Rescuers were only alerted after feared up to 700 people had drowned arrested on his arrival in Pozzallo “They’ve said that they might for a boat carrying about twenty one of the migrants made it back to in total this week. along with three other suspected consider closing the frontier if the people,” he said. Helicopters from the beach at Sangatte in northern ROME: A week of shipwrecks in the Giovanna Di Benedetto, Save the people traffickers. United Kingdom were to leave the England and France took part in the France before dawn. Mediterranean culminated yesterday Children’s Sicily spokeswoman, said “We tried everything to stop the European Union. “And if Gibraltar search. Officials warned last month that with 700 migrants feared dead and that survivors of Thursday’s wreck water, to bail it out of the boat,” a wanted to continue to have access The passengers were taken to migrants from the Jungle camp in survivors giving harrowing testimony said around 1,100 people had set out Nigerian girl told cultural media- to the single market and the rights the nearby port of Dover to be inter- Calais were stepping up attempts of dozens of small children drowned. from Libya on Wednesday in two tors, according to La Stampa daily. that we enjoy today of free move- viewed by Border Force officers, the to reach Britain with summer on Survivors brought to safety in the fishing boats and a dinghy, before “We used our hands, plastic ment, that we would have to once Home Office said. its way, with a sharp increase in Italian ports of Taranto and Pozzallo running into trouble. glasses. For two hours we fought again consider the issue of joint “The castaways, who were migrant attempts to stow away in told the UN’s refugee agency (Unhcr) “The first boat, carrying some against the water but it was useless. sovereignty with Spain—which migrants, called their families, who the back of lorries. and Save the Children how their boat 500 people, was reportedly tow- It began to flood the boat, and those nobody in Gibraltar is prepared then alerted the authorities and res- David Monk, leader of the Shep- sank on Thursday morning after ing the second, which was carrying below deck had no chance. Woman, to consider.” Spain ceded Gibral- cue missions were triggered on both way Conservative local authority a high-seas drama which saw one another 500. But the second boat men, children, many children, were tar to Britain in perpetuity in 1713 sides of the Channel,” said Barron. near Dover, said that boosted woman decapitated. began to sink. Some people tried to trapped, and drowned,” she said. but has long argued that it should “This confirms our fears: the surveillance measures would iden- “We’ll never know the exact swim to the first boat, others held Those who survived told medi- be returned to Spanish sovereignty, smugglers are willing to take tify most unauthorised crossing number, we’ll never know their iden- onto the rope linking the vessels,” ators the dead included “around 40 and the territory remains a source extreme measures, but the Chan- attempts. tities,” said the Unhcr’s spokeswoman she said. children, including many newborns”, of diplomatic tension. nel is a real highway, presenting a “I am pretty sure our security is Carlotta Sami. But multiple witness According to the survivors, the La Repubblica daily said. “I saw my In 2002, the Labour gov- great danger for this type of cross- good. I cannot recall a previous inci- reports suggested over 500 peo- first boat’s Sudanese captain cut mother and 11-year old sister die,” ernment of prime minister Tony ing,” he said. dent but this should act as a warning ple had drowned in that shipwreck the rope, which snapped back and Kidane from Eritrea, 13, told the aid Blair said Britain was willing to The coastguard chief said that to the authorities to be even more alone. With some 100 others missing decapitated a woman. The sec- organisations. “There were bodies share sovereignty with Spain over they had observed attempts to cross vigilant,” he said. after a boat sank Wednesday, and 45 ond boat quickly sank, taking those everywhere.” Gibraltar. EUROPE MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 17

Countless France set for transport strike chaos signs of election fraud: Austrian 2016 championships. President Fran- forced to queue for petrol and have negotiate terms and conditions with All eyes this week will be on the cois Hollande and the government are been restricted in how much they can their workers rather than be bound railways. With negotiations on work- The union has refusing to give in to the hardline CGT buy in many parts of the country. by industry-wide agreements. ing conditions delicately balanced, far-right responded by calling union’s demand that it withdraw the “There will be petrol. Things But the unions say the moves will unions have called for rolling strikes planned reforms. are getting better although we need erode job security and fail to bring to begin on Tuesday. AFP for strikes on the The union has responded by call- to stay on our guard,” government down unemployment which is stuck They look set to be more disrup- national rail network ing for strikes on the national rail spokesman Stephane Le Foll told at just under 10 percent. Forty-six tive than last week when four out of network beginning tomorrow and France 3 television. percent of French people want the five trains ran despite strikes calls. beginning tomorrow. commuters on the Paris Metro net- Riot police on Friday cleared government to scrap the reforms, Mass stoppages would add to VIENNA: Austria’s far-right is work will be hit by industrial action all the remaining blockades at fuel according to an opinion poll in the mounting problems for rail operator probing “countless” cases of fraud from Thursday. Air travellers are depots, allowing more supplies to Journal du Dimanche newspaper SNCF which had to deal with power in last week’s presidential elec- AFP also set to face more cancellations reach petrol stations. One depot on Sunday. Forty percent think they cuts on Saturday and Sunday that tion that saw its candidate lose by and delays. Six of France’s eight oil remains on strike. should be modified and just 13 percent crippled part of the network. a narrow margin, the party chief refineries were Sunday still halted or Hollande’s tough line was ech- want them left unchanged. Civil aviation unions have called was quoted as saying yesterday. running at reduced capacity due to oed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls The conflict comes a year before for a strike from next Friday to Satur- “We are going to get the count- PARIS: France is bracing for a week action by union activists. on Saturday, when he held talks with presidential elections in which Hol- day over their own demands. less indications (of irregularities) of severe disruption to transport Strikes continued at oil terminals bosses in the oil and transport sectors. lande is considering seeking a second A leading member of the Social- looked at by an independent, neu- after unions called for more action in the southern city of Marseille and He pledged to defend the labour term despite popularity ratings that ist Party tried to play down concerns tral body and then decide” whether in their bitter standoff with the Social- at the terminal in the northern port law reform “to the end” and said with- are among the lowest for a post-war that the strikes will play havoc with to challenge the result, Freedom ist government over its labour market of Le Havre, which supplies kerosene drawing it would be a “bad thing French leader. There is no sign that Euro 2016 which kicks off on June Party (FPOe) head Heinz-Chris- reforms. The escalating unrest, which to Paris’s two main airports. A skele- for working people”. At issue are the unions will back down soon. 10 and will take place at 10 venues tian Strache said. last week sparked petrol shortages ton service is however allowing some measures aimed at injecting more They have called for another across France. “There are lots of indications that forced the government to dip supplies to get through. flexibility into France’s famously-rigid national day of rallies and strikes on “There will be no train or Metro coming from voters, and so far five into strategic fuel reserves, comes The government insisted that labour market by making it easier to June 14, the day that the Senate, the strikes during Euro 2016,” Jean- criminal complaints where the law less than two weeks before football the situation would improve on Mon- hire and fire employees. upper house of parliament, begins Christophe Cambadelis, the party’s was obviously broken,” he told the fans pour into France for the Euro day for motorists who have been Companies would also be able to examining the law. secretary general, said. populist Kronen-Zeitung daily in an interview published Sunday. “The result of the election could change,” Strache said. Last Sunday’s election saw Five Ukrainian soldiers and the FPOe’s candidate Norbert Hofer fail by just 31,026 votes to become the European Union’s two rebels dead in clashes first president from the continent’s increasingly popular anti-immi- gration far-right. Prompting huge relief from AFP “as quickly as possible,” according Europe’s centrist parties, former to the French presidency. Green Party chief Alexander Van The accords call for a ceasefire der Bellen was instead declared to along with a range of political, eco- have won the runoff for Austria’s KIEV: Five Ukrainian soldiers and nomic and social measures to end largely ceremonial but coveted two rebel fighters have been killed the conflict which erupted in April presidency. in fresh clashes between government 2014 and has now claimed more Mirroring the rise of other pop- forces and pro-Russian separatists in than 9,300 lives. But persistent vio- ulists in Europe and beyond, Hofer the country’s east, the military said lence is preventing the warring sides had tapped into unease about yesterday. from reaching a reconciliation deal immigration and Austria’s falter- “Unfortunately, over the past despite a series of truce agreements. ing economy to win support not 24 hours, five Ukrainian soldiers The latest spike in violence came just among poorer, less educated have died and four more have been after Kiev scored a major diplomatic voters but across the board. wounded,” military spokesman Ole- victory on Wednesday by securing Last week Austrian authori- ksandr Motuzyanyk told reporters. the return of Ukrainian military pilot ties said they were investigating It was the second biggest death Nadiya Savchenko as part of a pris- several cases of alleged election toll in a single day this year for the oner swap with the Kremlin. irregularities. army after the military reported Some observers expressed the For the most part, however, on Tuesday that seven government hope that the high-profile Savchenko the allegations concerned postal Firefighters work in a burned residential building housing elderly people after a fire broke out, in the troops had died in the east of the prisoner swap would help reduce votes being opened for count- country. The villages of Avdiivka and tensions between the two rivals village of Litochky near Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. ing too early, which experts say Opytne located close to the rebels’ and speed up the implementation is thought unlikely to change the de-facto capital of Donetsk remain of Western-brokered agreements overall result. the epicentre of the fighting, said to reach peace in the east of the ex- Strache meanwhile has been Motuzyanyk. Soviet country. forced to call for supporters to tone In the rebel-held east two insur- Ukrainian President Petro Poro- 17 dead in Ukraine fire down their rhetoric after some fans gents had also been killed over the shenko received Savchenko—who called for violence against Van past 24 hours, said rebel spokesman was fighting in a pro-Kiev militia der Bellen and even published his Eduard Basurin. He confirmed the group against rebels in east Ukraine Reuters residence did not meet existing reg- 40 minutes for the firefighters to address on Strache’s popular Face- situation had become worse near the before she was captured by Russia in ulatory requirements. arrive and had tried unsuccessfully book page. village of Avdiivka. June 2014 -- late on Saturday. More than a dozen body bags to rescue the people themselves. According to press reports, “Some 30 people from the The two discussed the exacer- were laid out close to the fence of One witness, Vasyl, said a res- this has prompted police to beef Ukrainian side with mortar guns bation of violence in the east, with UKRAINE: Seventeen people died a fire-gutted white brick building idence employee had rescued one up security around Van der Bellen. and armoured personnel carrriers Poroshenko asking the 35-year-old when an unlicenced home for elderly before they were loaded onto a truck, person and returned to help get more The FPOe is now looking have tried to break through but we Iraq war veteran “to visit a number people outside the Ukrainian capital a photographer reported from the people out when a wooden structure ahead to the next general elections, repelled the attack,” he told AFP. of European countries and hold Kiev caught fire in the early hours of scene. National television said police crashed down upon her. due in 2018. The party is leading The latest deaths came after Kiev meetings with European leaders.” yesterday, a fresh tragedy to shake had cordoned off the area. Locals said the private resi- the opinion polls with more than said Saturday that another Ukrain- Savchenko, who had been held the conflict-riven country. Citing preliminary information, dence had been built several years 30 percent, while the two centrist ian soldier had died in clashes with in Russia for nearly two years, was The fire tore through the two- emergency service said that 35 peo- ago. “My heart aches,” Tamara, whose parties in the governing coalition rebels near the government-control- convicted by a Russian court in storey building for the elderly in the ple were at the home when the fire relative lived at the shelter, said in tel- look set to fall short of a majority. led city of Mariupol. March over the killing of two Russian village of Litochky, located some broke out in the early hours of yes- evised remarks. In a Gallup poll of 600 people “The situation has worsened journalists in eastern Ukraine and 50km north of Kiev. terday. Eighteen people have been “If you want to know, everything published yesterday by the Oester- sharply,” another military spokes- sentenced to 22 years behind bars. “The bodies of 17 people have rescued and five of them have been was good there: things were clean, reich daily newspaper, the FPOe man, Andriy Lysenko, said Saturday. The West and Kiev have accused been found at the site of the fire,” hospitalised, said the service, add- tidy, orderly, she had been looked was in first place on 34 percent. On Monday, the leaders of Russia of buttressing the rebels and the head of Ukraine’s state emergen- ing the fire, tackled by more than after, there are no complaints.” The Social Democrats (SPOe) of France, Germany, Russia and sending regular troops across the cies service, Mykola Chechotkin, told 150 people, had been extinguished It was not immediately clear what Chancellor Christian Kern were on Ukraine called for the 2015 peace border, claims Moscow has repeat- reporters. by Sunday morning. caused the blaze but according to one 24 percent, their centre-right coa- accords signed in the Belarussian edly denied despite evidence to the “The fire broke out at a privately- A privately-held television chan- version it might have been sparked by lition partners the People’s Party capital Minsk to be implemented contrary. owned house,” he said, adding the nel said the locals had waited some an exploding TV set. (OeVP) on 21 percent.

Floral replica Hollande and Merkel mark centenary of Verdun battle

AFP “Verdun is a town which represents joined hands there during the play- both the worst—where Europe lost ing of the French national anthem its way 100 years ago—and the best, in 1984, it underlined how close ties because the town has been able... to had become between two coun- VERDUN: French President Francois unite for peace and Franco-German tries which were once enemies but Hollande and German Chancel- friendship.” are now often described as the twin lor Angela Merkel stood shoulder to Both leaders are expected to motors of the European Union. shoulder yesterday to mark the cen- make a call in speeches later for Hollande said before Sunday’s tenary of Verdun, one of the bloodiest Europe to pull together to confront its ceremony that it was an opportune battles of World War I. current challenges. Under persistent time for the leaders to spell out their The battle in northeast France rain, Hollande and Merkel began the ambitions for Europe, at a time when was the longest of World War I, last- commemoration by laying a wreath the continent was in the grip of the ing 300 days, and claimed more than at the German military cemetery at “evil of populism”. 300,000 lives before France emerged Consenvoye, just north of Verdun. That appeared to be a reference victorious. “The name Verdun is a Sharing an umbrella, they walked to Europe’s far-right parties which symbol of the unimaginable atroc- between rows of black crosses have made advances in several coun- ity and the absurdity of war, but also embossed in white with the names tries, fuelled by growing concern over of Franco-German reconciliation,” of the dead that stretch down the hill an unprecedented influx of migrants. Merkel said in the speech at Verdun’s of the cemetery where 11,000 Ger- Over lunch, the two leaders town hall, a first for a German leader. man soldiers are buried. will discuss the crisis caused by the The chancellor said she recog- By visiting the German cemetery, hundreds of thousands of migrants nised it was not “easy” for the people Hollande and Merkel were following and refugees seeking refuge in A figure made of daffodils is presented at the boat parade in Bad Aussee at Ausseerland, Austria, of the town that is forever marked in the footsteps of their predecessors Europe and the June 23 referendum yesterday, as part of the 57th Daffodil Festival. The festival ended yesterday. by the fighting to give her such a Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl. in Britain on whether or not to quit “warm welcome.” Hollande said: When Mitterrand and Kohl the EU. 18 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 AMERICAS Little boy rescued after shooting gorilla

wouldn’t have knocked it out immedi- to Cincinnati in 2015 from the Gla- Botanical Garden’s gorilla exhibit that ately, leaving the boy in danger. dys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. an unauthorized person was able to There was strong “They made a tough choice and Maynard called the killing a tragic get into the enclosure, zoo president social media reaction they made the right choice because death of a critically endangered spe- Thane Maynard said. they saved that little boy’s life,” May- cies and a huge loss for the zoo and Western lowland gorilla numbers about how the boy nard said. “It could have been very bad.” the gorilla population worldwide. in the dense rain forests of Cameroon, managed to get into Zoo officials said the 4-year- The killing of a gorilla triggered the Central African Republic, the the exhibit and the old climbed through a barrier at the outrage and questions about safety, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gorilla World exhibit and fell 10 to 12 but zoo officials called the decision Equatorial Guinea have declined by zoo’s decision to kill feet into the moat on Saturday after- to use lethal force a tough but neces- more than 60 percent over the last the gorilla. noon. He was in there for about 10 sary choice. 20 to 25 years, according to the World minutes. Two female gorillas also More than 2,000 people signed a Wildlife Federation. were in the enclosure. petition on Change.org that sharply The Cincinnati zoo was open yes- One witness said that just before criticised the Cincinnati Police terday, although Gorilla World was the boy fell, she saw him in bushes Department and the zoo for putting expected to be closed indefinitely. AP & Reuters beyond a fence around the exhibit. down the animal and called for the At other US zoos, similar encounters “I tried to grab for him. I started child’s parents to be “held accounta- have ended in tragedy, including the yelling at him to come back,” Brittany ble for their actions of not supervising 2013 fatal mauling of a 2-year-old boy Nicely, of Dayton, told The Cincinnati their child”. Cincinnati police said the by a pack of wild African dogs after CINCINNATI: Panicked zoo visi- Enquirer. “Everybody started screaming parents had not been charged, but that he fell into an exhibit at the Pittsburgh tors watched helplessly and shouted, and going crazy. It happened so fast.” charges could eventually be sought Zoo and PPG Aquarium. “Stay calm!” while one woman yelled, Witness Kim O’Connor shared by the Hamilton County Prosecuting A man who in 2012 jumped into “Mommy loves you!” as a 400-pound- video she and her family recorded Attorney. an enclosure at New York’s Bronx plus gorilla loomed over a 4-year-old with WLWT-TV of the boy and Hara- A Facebook page titled “Justice Zoo to be “one with the tiger” suf- boy who had fallen into a shallow mbe. The two appear in a corner of the for Harambe” had more than 3,000 fered bite wounds and other injuries moat at the Cincinnati Zoo. exhibit while visitors yell, “Somebody likes by yesterday afternoon. The ani- but survived. The boy sat still in the water, look- call the zoo!” and “Mommy’s right mal was a Western lowland gorilla, But there was a happy ending ing up at the gorilla as the animal Harambe, the 17-year-old gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. here!” The station did not air portions an endangered species, and the zoo when a 3-year-old boy fell into the touched the child’s hand and back. of the video showing the gorilla drag- said it had intended to use him for gorilla den at Brookfield Zoo near At one point, it looked as though the inside the exhibit, zoo officials said. where he was expected to recover. ging the boy. Zoo staff cleared the area breeding. Chicago in 1996, and an 8-year-old gorilla helped the youngster stand up. Fearing for the little boy’s life, the Hospital officials said they couldn’t and visitors heard gunfire a few min- “If we think it’s acceptable to kill a female gorilla named Binti Jua picked Two witnesses said they thought zoo’s dangerous-animal response release any information on him. utes later. Firefighters then rushed into gorilla who has done nothing wrong, I up the unconscious boy and protected the gorilla was trying to protect the team shot and killed the 17-year-old Zoo Director Thane Maynard said the enclosure and picked up the boy. don’t think our city should have goril- him from the other primates. The act boy at first before getting spooked by ape, named Harambe. the gorilla didn’t appear to be attack- There was strong social media las,” Manvinder Singh posted on the of kindness won Binti Jua national the screams of onlookers. The ani- The child, whose name was not ing the child but was “an extremely reaction about how the boy managed Facebook page. attention as Newsweek’s Hero of the mal then picked the child up out of the released, was taken to Cincinnati strong” animal in an agitated situa- to get into the exhibit and the zoo’s It was the first time in the 38-year Year and one of People’s most intrigu- moat and dragged him to another spot Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, tion. He said tranquilizing the gorilla decision to kill the gorilla, which came history of the Cincinnati Zoo & ing people.

Kayak adventure Drug lord ‘Chapo’ Teen removed from Guzman’s school graduation for lawyers split on extradition case wearing African cloth AP

AP pocket and wait until after gradu- MEXICO CITY: Jailed drug lord ation to wear it,” Holmes said. “But Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s I felt that he wasn’t listening to fight to stave off extradition to the what I was saying or respecting my United States has led to a schism SACRAMENTO: A black teenager opinion.” among some of the people he’s says he was escorted out of his high Holmes walked the stage wear- counting on most: his own lawyers. school graduation ceremony in ing the kente and shook hands with After two of Guzman’s attor- Sacramento by three deputies for the school principal, Maria Osborne, neys filed an appeal against the refusing to remove his kente cloth, and other administrators. But as extradition request, a third lawyer a traditional Ghanaian silk and cot- he walked down the stairs, three quickly disavowed it on Saturday. ton fabric. sheriff’s deputies waited for him to Attorney Jose Refugio Rod- Nyree Holmes said on Satur- escort him out. A security guard later riguez said that the move was not day that he wore the decorative helped him to get back into the arena authorized by Guzman and his cli- cloth atop his graduation robes to retrieve his diploma and returned ent will not sign off on the appeal, Polish kayaker Aleksander Doba begins his translatlantic kayak adventure from New York to Lisbon to have something with him that the loaned cap and gown, he said. meaning the courts would not act represented his culture during the Osborne met with his parents yesterday in New York. The 69-year-old man hopes to complete his journey in three months. on it. “This hurts Joaquin Guzman ceremony at Sacramento’s Sleep and apologized for the incident and because it hinders our defence,” Train Arena on Tuesday. he too, plans to meet with her next Rodriguez said. “The kente represents my culture week, he said. Rodriguez added that the law- that I have no other links to,” Holmes Elk Grove Unified spokes- yers who filed it, Juan Pablo Badillo told The Associated Press in a tele- woman Xanthi Pinkerton told and Jose Luis Gonzalez Mesa, are phone interview. “I wanted to show the Sacramento Bee on Friday it Trudeau defends assisted suicide bill not part of the team working on I’m proud of who I am and that as was unfortunate that Holmes was the extradition case. That team is the descendant of slaves, I represent escorted out of the commencement. still considering the government’s Africa and my ancestry.” “We would have preferred that Reuters of extending the right to minors and come up with a law, adding Canada arguments and plans an appeal in But Holmes, an 18-year-old the student would have complied. the mentally ill. “There are people to the handful of Western countries the coming weeks that “El Chapo” student from Cosumnes Oaks High We wouldn’t have even gone here who think we should have gone fur- that allow the practice. will approve. “We have a strategy School in Elk Grove, California, said with that. It would have been nice not ther with this bill, there are people Trudeau said he expected Par- with Joaquin and we are planning the school’s student activities direc- to have the image of a police escort,” WINNIPEG: A bill legalising med- who think we already went too far,” liament to meet that deadline. He it,” Rodriguez said. tor wouldn’t hear his arguments and Pinkerton said. Holmes he would like ically-assisted suicide in Canada Trudeau told reporters at a Liberal added, however, that failing to do He suggested that Badillo and told him he was violating gradua- the school’s rule on graduation attire strikes the right balance between convention in Winnipeg. so could lead to uneven access to Gonzalez may have been moti- tion dress requirements, which only change to reflect how much Elk Grove defending fundamental freedoms “Making this first step a responsi- assisted dying across Canada. If new vated by “a desire for notoriety.” allow decorating caps and gowns has transformed over the years. and protecting against abuses, Prime ble, prudent one that gets the balance legislation is not in place by June 6, Gonzalez did not immediately with medals, cords or pins received “This neighborhood has gone Minister Justin Trudeau said late on right between protecting vulnerable last year’s Supreme Court ruling return a voice message seeking though the school. from a farm town to a bustling Saturday, predicting confusion if it is Canadians and defending rights and comes into effect, allowing assisted comment. Mexican courts recently Holmes said he tried to have a small urban city that’s building up not approved. freedoms is what we have focused dying for those with a “grievous and approved two U.S. requests for dialogue with him, but the activities and growing,” he said. “I understand The draft legislation, introduced on and I’m confident that we got that irremediable” medical condition. Guzman’s extradition and formally director instead tried to prevent him not wanting people to dazzle their by Trudeau’s Liberal government balance right.” Trudeau’s Liberals hold a major- sent notification to the Foreign from walking onstage. caps with random words or wear in April, would allow people with The Supreme Court of Canada ity of seats in Canada’s House of Relations Department. “I understood the rules. But I feel neon pink sashes and crazy things. incurable illnesses or disabilities to overturned a ban on medical- Commons, but not in the Senate. However his lawyers have 30 if he would had heard what I was But they need to adapt it to accept end their lives with a medical pro- assisted suicide last year and gave Bills must pass both chambers on days to appeal and the case could saying, I may have just put it in my cultural items.” fessional’s help, but stopped short the new government until June 6 to their way to becoming law. go all the way to the Supreme Court, meaning it could be months before a final decision is reached. The convicted Sinaloa cartel boss is wanted in seven U.S. juris- Haiti bracing for trouble as election panel delivers report dictions on charges that include murder, conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and mar- ijuana, money-laundering and AP It was not immediately clear message by the US Embassy. For res- thumbprints on ballot sheets. stability. But in truth, he has very lim- arms possession. when the commission’s report will idents of Haiti’s capital, life goes on. It’s far from clear whether the ver- ited power and the election impasse Guzman is currently in a federal be made public. The panel’s mostly Tyre-burning roadblocks and other ification panel’s findings will provide has deepened divisions in the polar- prison on the outskirts of Ciudad mum spokesman, Gideon Jean, said signs of political turbulence are clarity to last year’s elections or if its ized country. Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas. PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitians are there would be no press conference depressingly familiar in Haiti. recommendations will be accepted by International monitors who Authorities suddenly transferred preparing for trouble as an electoral this weekend and then declined to The possibility of paralysing pro- Haiti’s political class. Robert Fatton, a observed Haiti’s October presiden- him there in recent weeks from the verification commission is due to respond to further questions. National tests in comings days is a big concern Haitian-born politics professor at the tial first round said results putting Altiplano lockup near Mexico City deliver the results of its monthlong Palace officials said they didn’t know to Adler Augustin, a 29-year-old who University of Virginia and the author government-backed candidate Jov- where he was being held before, review of last year’s contested presi- when the report would be released. has a small business inflating car tires of “The Roots of Haitian Despotism,” enel Moise in the leading position for citing work being done to improve dential and legislative elections. In recent days, several foreign at the side of a busy road in Port-au- said doubts and suspicions about the a two-candidate runoff appeared to security at the facility. The five-member panel, led by a embassies have warned their citizens Prince. “All my work is in the streets commission are an indication that be a genuine reflection of voters’ will. “El Chapo” broke out of a Haitian businessman who is a former in Haiti that the release of the panel’s so I’m worried I won’t be able to do Haiti’s electoral impasse might actu- But the tally was rejected by virtu- Mexican prison in 2001 and spent ambassador to the US, is scheduled recommendations and a scheduled any business,” he said. Commission ally deepen further. “I think we are in ally all the other candidates, most more than a decade on the run, to deliver its recommendations soon Tuesday announcement of a new elec- president Pierre Francois Benoit has for a bumpy ride,” Fatton said. notably the No. 2 finisher, Jude Cel- becoming one of the world’s most to the country’s revamped Provi- tion date could lead to civil unrest in said a random sample of 25 percent of Interim President Jocelerme Priv- estin. He called results showing Moise wanted outlaws before he was sional Electoral Council. It’s also due coming days. the roughly 13,000 minutes from poll- ert, who became a caretaker president with nearly 33 percent of the October recaptured in 2014. Last year he to provide its report to Haiti’s interim “US citizens are reminded that ing stations would be audited. In recent in February after a presidential run- 25 vote a “massive fraud” and many escaped again through a mile- president during a ceremony that unrest and protests throughout Haiti days, a team of police officers could be off was scrapped for a third time, has civil society groups expressed con- long (1.5km) tunnel dug to the could be held today. could occur,” said a May 25 security seen at a tabulation center examining been trying to show he can guarantee cern about the legitimacy of the vote. shower of his cell at Altiplano. AMERICAS MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 1917 ‘Big data’ could play huge role in US vote

Trump is defying the traditional and subsequent hit movie using data wisdom in both political parties, to build a winning baseball team. Campaigns have been which have been ramping up the way Because the campaigns can’t speeding up how they they use data to help candidates and reach everyone, they want to find the their backers personalize their pitch most “persuadable” people, accord- collect and analyse to raise funds and get out the vote on ing to specially designed formulas or data to form the election day. algorithms. “In 2012 for the first time so-called predictive Jordan Cohen at the digital mar- we were able to successfully model keting firm Fluent, which works with persuadability,” said Dan Porter, a models that can help candidates, said the Trump campaign member of the Obama data team who determine tactics and “has exhibited the least amount of co-founded BlueLabs, a consulting digital sophistication or interest” and firm now working with the Hillary strategy. that this could hurt his efforts. Clinton campaign. Cohen said email fundraising, TargetSmart, which works with which has become a staple for can- the Democratic party and politi- didates, requires considerable work cal action groups, said it has begun Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf AFP to build a supporter base. working with Facebook data that “Now that the Trump campaign eliminates the need for track- hold a biscuit during a roundtable discussion at Home of Chicken and Waffles on May 27 in Oakland, California. wants to raise funds from the public ing cookies. The consultancy has Hillary Clinton continues to campaign in California ahead of the State’s presidential primary on June 7. they are certainly at a disadvantage by matched 191 million voter file records WASHINGTON: “Big data” could play not having spent the past year build- to Facebook users to be able to a huge role in the 2016 US election, ing up a big database,” Cohen said. The deliver targeted messages to people even if Donald Trump doesn’t think 2016 campaign could see more sophis- on whatever device they are using, Marco Rubio warms to Trump so. Trump, who sailed through the ticated data efforts thanks to advances said Bonier. Republican primaries using uncon- in computing technology. Bonier said this is more accurate ventional campaign rallies and Campaigns have been speeding than using tracking cookies because Reuters of the things he stands for.” Rubio, a US the backing of other prominent party Twitter messages, has indicated that up how they collect and analyze data it is based on user log-ins regardless senator from Florida, ended his White figures. Rubio said he expected to he sees little use for popular data to form the so-called predictive mod- of the device. He noted that Face- House bid in March after an embarrass- attend the convention and did not rule analytics tools to help target spe- els that can help determine tactics book’s platform provides important ing loss in his home state. out a speaking role. He said he wanted cific voters. and strategy. clues because it uses people’s “likes,” WASHINGTON: Former US Repub- Trump, who has practically to be helpful to Trump’s presidential But analysts say he may be at a Consulting firms boast of having which can be important for political lican presidential candidate Marco ensured he will emerge as the nomi- run because he wants to see likely disadvantage in the general elec- as much as 1,500 “data points” or bits campaigns. Rubio yesterday ruled out becoming nee from the Republican convention Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton tion if he stays on that course. “In the of information about voters, and doz- Some Republican candidates Donald Trump’s vice presidential run- in July, derided Rubio as a lightweight defeated in the Nov. 8 U.S. election. primaries, he was only looking for ens of “voter models” that categorize have used predictive models from ning mate, but said he’d be “honoured” and dubbed him “Little Marco.” “I don’t want Hillary Clinton to be Republican voters, and in the general individuals for targeted messages. a firm called Cambridge Analytica, to play some kind of a role in helping Rubio called the real estate mogul president. If there’s something I can he needs all voters,” said Alan Rosen- The data ranges from voter reg- which offers profiles of voters for so- him win the White House. a con artist and quipped about his do to help that from happening and blatt, a digital political strategist. istration databases to public records called behavioral microtargeting. Rubio, who clashed bitterly with small hands, a charge that Trump it’s helpful to the cause I’d most cer- “Unless he starts to be more on hunting or fishing licenses or gun Chris Wilson, a consultant for Trump in the brutal race for the Repub- took to mean as questioning the size tainly be honored to be considered for sophisticated in how he targets his ownership, to online “cookies” or Republican Ted Cruz’s campaign lican nomination, said his policy of his manhood. Rubio and Trump dif- that,” Rubio said. message, he’s not going to have a small programs which track Web which used the Cambridge scores, differences with the real estate mogul fered sharply on policy issues, with In another olive branch to Trump, good sense of where he’s going to win browsing and purchase activity. argued that using this data is posi- were too great for Rubio to join the Trump eschewing the interventionist Rubio said he regretted making the and not win and where he should put “This is ‘Moneyball’ for politics— tive for the democratic process.But ticket. “I wouldn’t be the right choice for approach favoured by Rubio and Rubio “small hands” remark about his his resources.” it’s about running smarter, more while better data can help campaigns him,” Rubio said in an extensive inter- criticizing Trump’s call for temporar- former foe. “I actually told Donald Trump’s rise appeared to take the efficient campaigns, and the more operate more efficiently, the growing view with CNN’s “State of the Union” ily banning the entry of Muslims into at one of the debates. I forget which wind out of the sails of data crunch- data you have, the more effective use of these tools also raises privacy programme. “Donald deserves to have a the United States. one - I apologised to him for that,” ers and the techniques that helped you can be,” said Tom Bonier, chief issues, says Jules Polonetsky, who vice president - he’s earned the nomina- Ahead of the July 18-21 Republi- Rubio said. “I said ‘I’m sorry that I the 2012 re-election campaign of executive of TargetSmart, a political heads the Future of Privacy Forum tion - and he deserves to have a running can convention, Trump has sought to said that.’ It’s not who I am. And I President Barack Obama. consultancy, referring to the book think tank in Washington. mate that more fully embraces some unify the party behind him and gain shouldn’t have done it.”

Tropical Storm Back to safety Venezuelan officials and Bonnie weakens oppn meet mediators to tropical depression AFP that meets the requirements of each party and a method for engaging in national dialogue,” the statement AP said. The meetings were the initi- CARACAS: Venezuelan officials and ative of President Nicolas Maduro, opposition foes have held separate Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy CHARLESTON: Tropical Storm secret meetings in the Dominican Rodriguez tweeted, saying the effort Bonnie weakened to a tropical Republic with a group of ex-world “promotes peace, respect for the rule depression yesterday morning as leaders seeking a way out of political of law and the defense of sovereignty it continued to spin north toward crisis, officials said, as an ex-mili- and territorial integrity.” the coast, soaking eastern Georgia tary reserve leader was shot dead. The main center-right opposition and portions of the Carolinas while Representatives of both sides of group Democratic Unity Roundta- ruining the start of Memorial Day. Venezuela’s political standoff met ble said that its conditions for the Top sustained winds of the former Spanish prime minister Jose talks were the holding of a referen- season’s second-named tropical Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, former dum over Maduro’s recall, freeing storm decreased to 35 mph yester- Dominican president Leonel Fern- political prisoners, allowing exiles to day morning, four days before the andez and Panama’s ex-president return and “an end to prosecutions official start of hurricane season Martin Torrijos “in recent days” for political persecution.” in the Atlantic Ocean, according under the auspices of the Union of The opposition is also calling to the National Hurricane Center. South American Nations, UNASUR, on the government to allow inter- Francisco Antonio Pinto Vera, 56, kidnapped on May 10, guarded by members of the Colombian police The centre of Bonnie was to seek a “framework for a national national relief supplies of food and about 40km east-southeast of at the time of his rescue in San Bernardo de Bata, a rural area of the municipality of Toledo, Norte dialogue,” the organisation said. medicine into the country and seek Charleston, South Carolina, and de Santander department, Colombia, yesterday. Special commandos rescued a merchant who had The mediating former leaders to end a crippling economic crisis 130km south-southwest of Myrtle been kidnapped on May 10 in the same area where the ELN guerrillas held three journalists in the found “a desire for dialogue on both “generated by official corruption and Beach as of 8am EDT, the Miami- department of Norte de Santander, in northeastern Colombia, official sources confirmed. sides,” for which new meetings were an economic model that is spread- based centre said in an advisory. proposed to “agree on an agenda ing misery”. Bonnie was moving north at 9 mph. All tropical storm warnings were discontinued and no coastal watches or warnings remained in effect Sunday. Bonnie was As charters grow, public schools see sharp enrolment drop expected to move onshore near the south-central coast of South Caro- lina, according to the Hurricane Centre, followed by a slow, north- AP caused enrollment to plummet. The changes continued flight from traditional public schools most vulnerable.” The issue surfaced recently eastward motion near the coast of have unfolded slowly for years and recently has become a mounting concern. In most states, when nearly all of Detroit’s public schools were northeastern South Carolina. accelerated in some places. schools receive funding on a per-pupil basis, closed and more than 45,000 students missed Bonnie is expected to produce “It’s come to a tipping point for many of these and the majority of those dollars follow stu- classes for two days after about half of teach- total rainfall accumulations of 2 LOS ANGELES: Standing before the Los districts like Detroit,” said Ron Zimmer, an edu- dents when they leave for a charter. ers called out sick to protest the possibility that to 4 inches with isolated maxi- Angeles Unified School Board, Susan Zoller cation professor at Vanderbilt University. “They Charter school advocates say it’s only fair some wouldn’t get paid over the summer if the mum amounts of 6 inches from delivered a startling assessment: More than just can’t finance their school district that was for local and state property tax dollars to follow district ran out of cash. central and eastern South Caro- 100,000 students in the nation’s second-larg- meant for a much bigger enrollment than they children to the new schools, and that parents The number of students enrolled in Detroit lina to the Georgia border, and 1 est district were now enrolled in charters, currently have.” Charter schools arrived in the aren’t to blame for a district’s failing finances. public schools has dropped dramatically since to 3 inches farther north across draining more than $500m from the budget 1990s and began attracting parents searching “To the extent the district is not serving the the 1990s, fueled by the flight of a quarter million southeastern North Carolina. in a single academic year. for an alternative to big-city districts that had needs of their students, this has been a trend line city residents, abysmal graduation rates, financial Heavy rain is expected to develop “The financial future of Los Angeles is dif- strained for years to raise performance among for some time,” said Nina Rees, president of the mismanagement and corruption. In 2002, the dis- well north, to parts of the Mid- ficult,” said Zoller, a consultant hired by the minority and low-income students and those National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a trict had 156,000 students. This year, that number Atlantic region and the Northeast district’s union. Board member Richard Vladovic who are learning English. nonprofit advocacy group. was 46,000 — a 70 percent decline. with total accumulations of 1 to leaned anxiously toward his mic. “We are More than two decades later, charter enroll- District leaders contend that even with fewer Detroit is unique in the severity of its financial 2 inches through today. bleeding,” he said. If current trends continue, ment continues to climb. Nationwide, more than students to educate, they still have a range of fixed struggles, but isn’t alone in its enrollment troubles. Heavy rain and dangerous the district could be significantly diminished 2.6 million students attended charter schools costs. Ultimately, they say, the funding decline Kansas City schools, which once educated more surf kept people off the Geor- in another 10 years — at least a third smaller in 2014, according to the National Alliance for affects programing for students still at traditional than 70,000 students, now enroll about 15,000. gia, South Carolina and southern than at the start of the century. Public Charter Schools. public schools, who often face the steepest chal- Los Angeles had almost 674,000 students enrolled North Carolina beaches on Sat- In financially struggling urban districts In districts with growing student popula- lenges. If Los Angeles schools are no longer able in district-run schools in the 2006-07 school year, urday. No evacuations had been from LA to Philadelphia — and most notori- tions, such as Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, to function as a district, “there is going to be col- compared with about 542,000 in 2014-15, a nearly ordered, with forecasters saying ously, Detroit — the increasing popularity of that growth helps ease potential overcrowding. lateral damage,” said Steve Zimmer, president of 20 percent decline. Enrollment in traditional Chi- the biggest danger will likely be charter schools, combined with family flight But in cities like Los Angeles, where the LA Unified’s school board. And the damage “will cago public schools has declined by nearly 85,000 from locally heavy rain. to the suburbs and declining birth rates, have school-age population has been shrinking, the be to those children and families who are the students in the last decade.

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ONLINE CHART BUST World’s longest rail tunnel sees light www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

AFP referendum closed the deal, when 64 per- cent of Swiss voters approved the final MOST READ plans along with funding schemes, includ- ing a new road tax. Nigeria’s Buhari launches GENEVA: When Swiss engineer Carl Edu- "It's a big engineering achievement," 1 $2.5bn welfare program ard Gruner came up with the idea to build said Martin Knights of the London-head- the world's longest rail tunnel under the quartered Institution of Civil Engineers. Ministry of Awqaf to open 8 Alps in 1947, he predicted the visionary The tunnel runs from Erstfeld in the 2 new mosques project could be finished by the start of central Swiss canton of Uri, to Bodio in the 21st century. southern Ticino canton, and will shave Jose Mourinho: Three reasons why the Special He would turn out to be off by 16 years. the train journey from Zurich to Milan in 3 One is the right man for Man United Gruner's sketch and technical paper called northern Italy down to two hours and 40 "Journey through the Gotthard Base Tun- minutes, roughly an hour less than it cur- nel (GBT) in the year 2000" planted the rently takes. seeds for a venture that will be launched The new route also aims to make TWEET OF THE DAY this week and aims to transform travel rail freight more efficient, including by through the heart of Europe. supporting heavier cargo, which should Constructing the 57km rail tunnel took reduce the number of diesel-guzzling lor- just over $12bn and some 2,400 workers, ries on the roads, in turn improving traffic according to Swiss government statistics. and curbing pollution. More than 28 million tonnes of rock The number of daily rail passengers is had to be excavated from the mountain also expected to increase from the current near the Gotthard pass. rate of 9,000 people to 15,000 by 2020, The bumpy road from Gruner's initial according to the Swiss federal railway idea to the official start of construction service. in 1999 included bureaucratic delays In a study of the GBT's possible eco- and concern over the project's financial nomic benefits, Swiss bank Credit Suisse A miner standing in front of a giant drilling machine that completed viability. forecast a range of positive impacts driven the world's longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps, 30km from one Switzerland's federal government by an easier movement of goods, growth end and 2,000 metres below the mountains near Sedrun. set up a committee in 1963 to look into in day-trip tourism and higher property the building of an alpine base tunnel but values in the affected cantons linked to on the tunnel when he conceived the began to pick up in the 1960s and opinions were split over various proposals, increased accessibility. idea 69 years ago, engineers would 70s, Knights said. The boring before an official body eventually ruled German Chancellor Angela Mer- have had to undertake a costly and machinery used for the Gotthard in 1983 that the project was "not urgent." kel, French President Francois Hollande dangerous effort to blast and drill Tunnel is "a whole moving factory, Momentum in favour of the GBT built and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, through a massive amount of moun- half a kilometre in length", which again ahead of a 1992 referendum, which along with Swiss officials, are due to attend tain rock. synchronises all the steps needed to supported the project, but public outcry Wednesday's grand opening, which will But the project benefited in the carve a passage through a mountain, about the expense put work on hold. feature a ceremonial run. end from major technical advances he said. A separate system grouts the Eventually, a November 1998 Had Gruner attempted to break ground in tunnel boring machines that pieces together. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 23 QE 9,675.66 -40.82 PTS PAGE | 25 DOW 17,873.22 +44.93 PTS GCC capital projects FTSE100 6,270.79 +5.14 PTS Environmental need alternative groups invited to BRENT $49.56 -$0.15 funding: Expert discuss Monsanto bid

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Qatar seen taking more steps as liquidity remains tight

By Satish Kanady Qatar banks’ aggregate credit The capacity of the domestic levels seen in 2014. Despite the size- The Peninsula growth stood at 14 percent year on banking sector to absorb government able impact on revenues, Qatar’s year in February compared with debt was tested after the September LNG industry is well positioned to deposit growth of just 4 percent push- and November bond and sukuk issu- compete at lower prices. ing the Loan-to-deposit ratio to 120 ances, prompting a large spike in the Qatar’s budget for 2016 focuses on DOHA: With rapid credit growth percent. Public sector deposits fell by interbank rate. maintaining capital spending while outstripping deposit growth, thanks 20 percent from a year ago. The ‘Qatar Chart Book” noted consolidating expenditures elsewhere. to the falling public sector depos- In these circumstances, banks that LNG prices have continued to This should support sustained growth its, Qatar’s banking sector is facing are reportedly seeking to raise funds trend down in 2016 and the outlook of around 4 percent over the next two liquidity pressure. There are possibil- through private placements. There through 2017 remains bearish. Many years. ities for a move from the Central Bank is also the possibility of the Central companies made billions of dollars of The authorities have stated that to cut the repo rate or reduce reserve Bank cutting the repo rate and/or investment in LNG during the boom the budget deficit will be funded requirements, Samba’s latest ‘Qatar reserve ratio to help to assuage short- years and this wave of supply is set to entirely through debt issuance Chart Book’ has noted. term financing pressures. The recent hit the market amidst a backdrop of rather than drawing down assets “Liquidity in the banking sys- and pending government recourse modest demand growth. held at the Qatar Investment Author- tem is still tight - interbank rates to external borrowing partly reflects Qatar’s RasGas seems to have ity (QIA). Already the sovereign has are around 1.5 percent vs 1.2 per- a desire not to exacerbate domestic acknowledged this in the rene- raised $5bn in external loans and is cent in September 2015 despite the liquidity constraints, and is projected gotiation of the long-term export preparing to issue another $5bn in QCB not raising policy rates in line to push government external debt up contract with India, in which prices Eurobonds. spike upwards at the beginning of slightly from January levels but with the Fed”, the Financial Group’s to $27.9bn (16 percent of GDP) this are around the $5mbtu level – this Qatar sovereign bond yields have the year. Likewise the 12 month still remains elevated by histori- analysts said. year. is a far cry from the circa $14mbtu trended down this year after a sharp forward Riyal rate has come down cal standards.

Airbus agrees Ooredoo launches fastest 1Gbps fibre plan some A400M problems

By Mohammad Shoeb 275,000 homes and buildings in Qatar ‘home-made’ The Peninsula are enjoying high speed Internet and other services through Fibre connec- AFP tivity, which is about over 85 percent penetration. And by the first quarter DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday launched of 2017 we will achieve 100 percent FRANKFURT: Airbus chief Tom its new 1Gbps Fibre plan, the fastest Fibre penetration to become number Enders conceded in a newspaper Internet service available in Qatar, as one in the world,” he said. interview yesterday that some of the company continues to upgrade its Every customer who upgrades the “massive problems” dogging nationwide Ooredoo Supernet. their current Fibre plan to the new the European airplane manufac- With the launch of 1Gbps Fibre, 1Gbps plan will get two months at turer’s new military transporter, Qatar has joined the champions’ league no extra charge, before they start to the A400M, were of the group’s to become one of only 10 countries in pay the standard monthly price of own making. “We underestimated the world able to provide this fastest- QR1,900. The installation fee is lit- the engine problems,” Enders told ever Fibre connection for homes. tle over QR11,000. Since the service the Bild am Sonntag. At the start With the new fibre connection, is tailored so the installation fee may of the programme, Airbus had “let customers can download a 30 minute even exceed depending on the size itself be persuaded by some well- 4K quality movie in three minutes and and design of a building. known European leaders into using a two hour HD movie in two min- While only compatible devices an engine made by an inexperienced utes. Households can expect to see a will be able to access speeds of up consortium,” Enders said. smoother and faster experience for all Ooredoo Qatar Chief Executive Officer Waleed Al Sayed (fifth left) and other top officials after introducing to1Gbps, customers using the 1Gbps Furthermore, it had let itself users, as the speed will enable more the company’s new Fibre speed of 1 Gbps to members of the media at the St. Regis Hotel yesterday. plan will be able to deploy more be roped into assuming full people to enjoy being connected to Pic: Qassim R/The Peninsula devices to their full potential in their responsibility for this new type of the Internet at the same time. homes. Ooredoo also announced the turbo-prop engine, he continued. Waleed Al Sayed, CEO of Ooredoo very first in Qatar. Ooredoo believes Homezone service, which provides 1,000mbps (1Gbps), which again more launch of the luxury ‘Platinum Hom- “These are two massive prob- Qatar, said: “Ooredoo continues to set in future-proofing our network, and comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage for than three times faster than the one eZone’ – a first-of-its-kind service lems which we’re now paying for.” new records with our big, fast network, we continue to strive to bring our large villas. launched in February this year. that offers full Wi-Fi Internet cov- But in addition to the “insufficient and our on-going investment in our country the latest technology first.” During his presentation, Al Sayed Al Sayed highlighted that the erage for customers with large villas quality of the supplier ... home- state-of-the-art Fibre network means Ooredoo announced this mile- said that in February 2016 Ooredoo company has invested over QR1.5bn and mansions. made problems are also playing a that our customers can enjoy incredible stone at a special VIP event in Qatar increased the internet speed in building Fibre optics networks The service has been designed role,” Enders said. Despite deliv- 1Gbps Fibre speeds for the first time.” Doha, where Al Sayed presented the up to 300mbps, three times faster across the country. And today over in cooperation with HPE Aruba and ery delays and limitations in its He added: “We are one of the incredible speeds of the service for than the launch speed of 100mbps 85 percent homes have already been GBM, and ensures that customers can operational readiness, Enders said first operators in the world to launch the first time. In addition, the com- in 2009. And now the telecom leader connected with Fibre. access the Ooredoo Supernet at top governments should not start look- 1Gbps Fibre home services and the pany premiered its all-new Platinum has achieved a new milestone of “As we speak, people in over speeds across their homes. ing for alternatives. QNB honours brand ambassadors

The Peninsula brand ambassadors. The event also included a speech thanking them for their efforts in raising staff aware- DOHA: The QNB held a ceremony ness about QNB’s brand and its to honour its brand ambassadors current and future vision. to recognise their efforts through- For the second year in a row, out the year in raising awareness QNB maintained its position as about QNB’s brand and its vision to the most valuable bank brand become a Middle East and Africa in the Middle East and Africa, icon by 2017. according to Brand Finance Mag- The ceremony was held in the azine; which is a testament to the presence of QNB senior manage- Group’s continuous strong finan- ment, and saw the distribution cial performance and its expanding of appreciation certificates to all international presence. QNB officials with the brand ambassadors. 22 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

Fischer grooms QFBA and QFCA CEO candidates AFP

launch Future ZURICH: Machinery, pipes and car-parts maker Georg Fischer is grooming several internal candi- dates to replace Chief Executive Yves Serra when he turns 65 in two CEO Program years, the Swiss company’s chair- man, Andreas Koopmann, told the weekly SonntagsZeitung. Serra, also interviewed for potential and empower profession- the article published yesterday, als to reach new heights through told the newspaper the Schaff- The Program is part effective education and advanced hausen-based company is of the Academy’s training. considering broadening its range “It is my profound pleasure to of products to include parts for strategy to unlock announce to you QFBA’s and QFC’s airplanes. human potential exclusive launch of the world- Expanding in a new sector and empower renowned ‘Future CEO Program’ would require acquisitions, he in Qatar, presenting the country’s Fahad Ismail Zainal, CAO of QFCA (left), and Dr Abdulaziz Al-Horr, CEO of QFBA during a press conference said, in part to ensure the com- professionals to future leaders across all business at Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) Tower yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP/The Peninsula pany meets the aviation industry’s reach new heights. sectors, with a unique chance to safety standards. build on their strengths and learn honed and perfected with the right Zainal, Chief Administration Officer formal recognition of its members’ “We can’t start from scratch by all aspects of successfully running set of training, practice and experi- of the QFCA. professional qualifications and expe- developing everything ourselves,” an organisation, while preparing ence,” he added. “Providing international certifi- rience through certification from The Serra told the newspaper. He did By Sachin Kumar them to become tomorrow’s dis- The Program provides senior cates duly approved and granted by CEO Institute, the first global certifi- not name potential targets or how The Peninsula tinguished CEOs,” said Dr Abdul managers and corporations eager highly reputable international organ- cation body for CEOs. much the company may be will- Aziz Al Horr, CEO, QFBA in a press to invest in leadership development, isations is key for improving the The applications for ‘Future CEO ing to spend. conference held at its West Bay with the opportunity to acquire technical competence of our future Program’ are open for senior Qatari Georg Fischer is building a new headquarters. and develop the skills, knowledge Qatari business leaders, enhancing managers till June 23. QFBA and QFC plant in Switzerland that will cre- DOHA: The Qatar Finance and Busi- “We all have areas of our lives and contacts they need to meet their career paths, providing them will jointly sponsor the program, with ate 460 jobs. ness Academy (QFBA), in partnership where we have talent, expertise and challenges, manage growth, and with an opportunity to excel in cur- participants expected to pay only a Serra told the newspaper that with Qatar Financial Centre Author- capacity for success. And those of effectively lead organisations in var- rent and future roles, and ultimately nominal joining fee. The program is it is also expanding factories in ity (QFCA), yesterday announced us who possess the ability to influ- ious business sectors. improving the level of business per- set to kick off in September 2016, at India, Malaysia and the United the exclusive launch of the inter- ence, the desire to excel, and the “We are glad to join QFBA in formance,” he said. QFBA headquarters. Interested senior States, where it is building a light nationally-acclaimed ‘Future CEO confidence to explore and break launching another leading Program In addition to offering senior managers can apply for the Program metal foundry. Program’. new ground, have the potential to that aims to address the challenges executives the chance to develop by filling the application form on Serra said the company Slated to begin in September become great leaders. Because lead- and opportunities for professionals the strategic skills needed to success- QFBA website http://www.qfba.edu. also plans to add workers in this year, the Program is part of the ership is a mix of science and art, a in the financial and business serv- fully manage a company and drive its qa/fceoand sending it to the follow- China, where it now has 23 Academy’s strategy to unlock human unique blend of inherent qualities, ices industry in Qatar,” said Fahad growth, the Program also provides ing email address: [email protected] factories. UK banks must ‘change to end customer alienation’ Volvo XC90 SUV wins 2016 MECOTY award Reuters Barclays added that nearly nine years to fire people than to pay them less. Vickers has accused since the financial crisis started in Bankers fear that abandon- BoE of watering down the 2007 banks are showing signs of rec- ing distortions that create customer commission’srecommendations on ognising that their business models alienation could create “first-mover capitalising “ring fenced” retail arms LONDON: Britain’s banks are stuck need fundamental change. disadvantage”. of lenders from 2019. with flagging financial returns while “The length of time it has taken “I have no easy solutions to offer, But the difference between what failing to tackle overpaid investment for this penny to drop has proved very but feel that until issues like these the BoE is implementing and what the bankers and customer alienation, a costly,” Taylor said. are confronted, customer trust will commission recommended is “more senior Bank of England policymaker Behind the “improbably glossy continue to elude the industry,” Tay- or less invisible to the naked eye”, has said. surface”, retail banks have still not lor said. Taylor said. Martin Taylor, a member of the rebuilt trust with customers. He was the second senior BoE Vickers may have been influenced BoE’s Financial Policy Committee “Sermons won’t fix it, and nor will official in as many weeks to offer a by the “atmospherics” of various which sets the regulatory tone for advertising,” Taylor said. harsh assessment of banks’ progress commentators alleging BoE “wimp- supervising banks, said lenders may Banks must get out of “ghastly since the crisis. ishness”, Taylor added. be pursuing “unsustainably” high collective jams” such as free-in-credit Taylor joined a string of BoE pol- Reports of “ring-fenced” banks returns on equity of 10-15 percent at banking, which subsidises the bet- icymakers to reject criticism over not being able to pay dividends were a time of low interest rates. ter off at the expense of those who bank capital levels from John Vick- also “complete tripe”, he said. “We are in Siberia, where many pay penalty charges on overdrafts, he ers, with whom Taylor served on the The policymaker’s comment people feel bankers belong,” Taylor said, and the overpayment of invest- Independent Commission on Banking comes when Britain is debating the said in a speech. ment bankers is so baked in that it to reform a sector taxpayers propped pros and cons of Brexit ahead of a The former chief executive of appears easier go out of business or up during the financial crisis. referendum. The Peninsula the luxury SUV segment with many unique and passenger friendly features. With its full suite of intel- ligent safety features, Volvo XC90 Rolls-Royce Wraith Wolf DOHA : Doha Marketing Services is also the safest Volvo ever and has Company (Domasco), the authorised received the Euro N-Cap safest car distributor in Qatar for Volvo, has of the Year 2015 award. edition arrives in Doha announced that the all-new Volvo Commenting on the most recent XC90 has won the Jury Car of The award win, Faisal Sharif, Managing Year and the Best Midsize Premium Director at DOMASCO, said “Volvo The Peninsula strong interest from local collectors SUV award at the 2016 Middle East XC90’s stunning cabin, packed with seeking the pinnacle in luxury and Car of The Year (MECOTY) awards. game-changing technology, is com- individualisation. Volvo XC90 features ground- bined with luxury, space and great DOHA: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Doha Striking and distinctive, the Wolf breaking design and technology engineering, making it a very enjoy- has taken delivery of a one-of-a-kind Edition wonderfully captures the that provides new levels of comfort, able driving experience. It gives motor car inspired by the allure of one possibilities of Bespoke. The deep excellence, innovation and safety. us great satisfaction that Volvo nature’s most magnificent beasts – Twilight Purple exterior is embla- Juries all around the globe have XC90 continues to be appreciated the wolf. The Rolls-Royce Wraith zoned with intricate Wolf motifs acknowledged and appreciated the globally and regionally as it rep- Wolf Edition wonderfully captures within the twin coachline, allud- Volvo XC90 for its blend of innova- resents Volvo’s heritage, the value the synergies between this mysti- ing to the car’s inspiration. The light tive technology, superb passenger of authenticity and Scandinavian cal animal and the Wraith’s fleeting, Magnolia interior is interspersed with comfort, driving dynamics and its design.” enigmatic presence in an iconic auto- subtle Purple Silk leather details – outstanding design.Since its launch “We are absolutely thrilled that motive form. a Bespoke natural grain leather that in 2015, the XC90 has won more than the XC90 has won this prestigious Hand-crafted by specialists at perfectly complements the exterior. treadplates make this a truly unique to the creation of automotive master- 70 awardsincludingThe North Amer- and most respected award. This the Home of Rolls-Royce in Good- The Bespoke Designers have carefully motor car. pieces that embody the character of ican Truck of the Year 2016, Motor award is another feather added to wood, England over a period of placed Wolf motifs throughout the Ihab Allam, General Manager of their owner. The Wraith Wolf Edition Trend SUV of the Year 2016, Busi- the XC90’s glorious cap.”said Andrew 12 months,the Wraith Wolf Edi- interior, as embroidery on the head- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Doha said: is the perfect demonstration of this ness Insider 2016 Car of the Year and Parrott, Head of Sales & Marketing tion highlights the exclusivity and rest and as a central veneer inlay in “True luxury is authentic, hand- and we are proud to have the only one Auto Express Car of the Year 2015. for Volvo, “Volvo has changed the unique nature of the super-luxury the instrument panel. 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Bloomberg months, and are on average expecting grind in the place it was at for the bet- tumbled to a two-year low just 10 Investors are unimpressed with a 12th stasis. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and UBS flat returns for shares. From Germany ter part of three years. months later, it has since returned to quarter of economic growth in the Group AG are both calling for strong to Spain, economies are growing -- Earnings have been mixed, the trading between 300 and 350, a range region and the European Central Bank moves before the year is over, albeit but no data point has proven strong economy hasn’t picked up enough to it occupied for two years before the stimulus. Bankhaus Lampe strategist in opposite directions. Mislav Matejka LONDON: In the recent past, Euro- enough to stem the longest stretch of lure buyers, and valuations are stuck peak, and is sitting at its three-year Ralf Zimmermann agrees. at JPMorgan estimates an 11 percent pean stock strategists have been outflows from European stock funds above the five-year average. Natixis SA’s average. A rally since February’s low “Stocks aren’t capturing any of the annual decline in the Stoxx 600, while called upon to sort out Greek politics, since the financial crisis. Sylvain Goyon says his meeting notes has stalled after reaching a three- potential catalysts,” Zimmermann, UBS’s Karen Olney, the biggest bull judge sovereign solvency risk, and It’s not like strategists have done a have barely changed in five months. month high on April 20. who predicts the benchmark will among those surveyed, predicts gains gauge the impact of wars in places bad job of calling the market. Last year, “It’s difficult to have an aggres- Little seems to be able to move end the year 0.2 percent lower, said of 9.3 percent. The average of nine like Ukraine. The job has been many they came within 2 percent of nailing sive bet either way because we have the market as equities enter a histor- by phone from Dusseldorf, Germany. forecasts puts the year-end target things, but rarely has it been boring the Stoxx Europe 600 Index’s annual no ammunition to feed into our val- ically weak calendar period. Goyon, “Nothing seems to be a game changer. at 365, or 0.2 percent lower, versus a -- until now. move and quickly adjusted estimates uation model,” Goyon said by phone while predicting stock gains of 3.9 I’m just writing my half-year outlook drop of 8 percent as of Monday’s close. For the first time in two years, in January when equities started falling from Paris. “There’s no spark. Now we percent this year, says the argument and I could basically copy-paste eve- “My worry is that people are still analysts trying to fathom the direc- anew. The problem has been the mar- have our backs to the wall and need that equities are cheap versus bonds rything. It’s dull and it’s particularly too complacent on the risks to global tion of Europe’s equities just left their ket itself, which despite looming dramas to find our way out.” While the Stoxx is no longer enough, and waiting for difficult right now to take a stance.” growth,” said Matejka, a global equity forecasts unchanged for two straight like Brexit has shown a propensity to 600 surged to a record last April and profits to increase has grown tiring. Naturally, not everyone sees strategist at JPMorgan. BUSINESS MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 23 GCC capital projects need alternative funding: Expert

cuts in public spending and introduc- key focus area for KSA. The country The pressing need to adjust budg- Dubai. There is a substantial amount tion of structural reforms. has gradually cut energy subsidies and ets might have a negative impact on of projects to deliver in Qatar such as The governments will “Spending in the region will increased energy prices to raise income. the projects market resulting on slower stadiums, hotels, rail and roads in order have to make tough need to be better prioritised in order The UAE, the most diversified econ- tender processes, slower decisions and to enable the World Cup and the fore- to ensure it meets social and eco- omy among the GCC countries, is set payment procedures. The pipeline of casted value of contract awards stands choices like cuts nomic development. Governments to register the first current account projects planned in the GCC as of May at $22bn. Oman is expected to remain in public spending will have to seek the private sector deficit in decades, which is expected of 2016 amounts to $2 trillion with stable with values around $13bn. and and introduction of involvement, innovate and find alter- to widen to AED129bn this year. Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the big- Kuwait has a strong amount of planned native funding sources to fund their The IMF has urged the UAE to pur- gest project markets, with construction activity for this year in the construction structural reforms. project requirements,” said Cynthia sue growth-enhancing reforms and and transport being the two leading and transport sectors. Corby, (pictured) Audit partner and advance economic diversification. sectors with shares of 52 and 19 per- “There is a huge amount of project Middle East Infrastructure and Cap- In 2015, fuel subsidies were elimi- cent, respectively. investment due to take place between ital Projects leader at Deloitte. nated which has produced significant The forecast of contract awards now and the end of this decade. A The Peninsula According to the Deloitte Middle savings. for this year is at is at $140bn, about growing population in the region will East Powers of Construction report, the Qatar is intending to reduce its a 17 percent decline compared to demand improved infrastructure announced country budgets for 2016 spending, prioritize projects and has 2015. Saudi Arabia has been the most for the cities to function and grow as DOHA: The new economic reality outline cuts on spending imposed by also implemented subsidy reforms. impacted market and the forecast planned. At a time where governments of lower oil prices will constrain the low oil prices, but in a measured way, from SR163bn ($43.5bn) to SR600bn All GCC countries plan to introduce is a $10bn fall in contract awards to are facing budget deficits, their abil- amount of funding available to the as well as the introduction of new by 2020, and to SR1 trillion by 2030. a value- added tax by 2018 to raise $40bn, though it continues to be the ity to adjust to the new environment, Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) income sources. Saudi Arabia is plan- Privatization of government services non-oil revenues, and are considering largest project market and the biggest innovate and find alternative funding governments to finance capital and ning to reduce spending by 11 percent to encourage private sector invest- taxes which are even more unusual spender among the GCC countries. The solutions to bridge the funding gaps infrastructure projects in the region. this year to $227bn. As part of its Vision ments – both local and international to the GCC, such as corporate and forecast of contract awards in the UAE required for ongoing investment will These governments will hence 2030 plan, the country aims to increase – in healthcare, housing, finance and income taxes which may become is set to be stable and mainly driven be key to the long term diversification have to make tough choices such as overall non-oil government revenue energy sectors were announced as a more real prospects. by the robust construction market in success,” Corby said. QFB announces completion of Leinster Square development

The Peninsula invest in five stunning three and four individual needs of our clients with bedroom Townhouses and six lateral high levels of confidentiality, profes- three bedroom apartments. sionalism and responsibility.” QFB acquired the building, in 7-12 Ahmadi added: “QFB’s private DOHA: Qatar First Bank (QFB) Leinster Square, in August 2012. Over banking team, including our dedi- announced the completion of 7-12 the last four years, QFB has worked cated world class female relationship Leinster Square, a residential real with the development manager, Lon- managers, and real estate partners, estate development in Leinster Square don-based Alchemi Group, to rebuild JLL, are available to provide informa- in London. and restore the building to its former tion about London residential market QFB made the announcement at Victorian glory. The building bene- and market forecasts for the next five the QFB & JLL seminar titled “London fits from southerly views and access years with highlights on the impor- Real Estate Forecast” held at QFB’s to a private garden square, very rare tant factors influencing the market.” private banking lounge in collabo- in central London. Scott Strachan, Executive Direc- ration with the British Embassy in Nizar Ahmadi, QFB’s Head of Pri- tor - Alternative Investments at QFB Qatar. The event was attended by QFB vate Banking & Wealth Management, in charge of real estate projects, corporate and private banking clients, said: “The completion of our second said:Leinster Square is a unique alongside other institutional invitees residential real estate project in Lon- project in a great location in central interested in the London real estate. don complements the development of London. It is very rare to find new The LuLu Hypermarket in Jeddah being inaugurated by HRH Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and Leinster Square is QFB’s second QFB’s pioneer open architecture plat- developments like this, that offer completed real estate development in form. The platform is backed by our modern facilities like air conditioning Mazen Mohammed Batterjee, Vice Chairman of Jeddah Chamber of Commerce, in the presence of many London. The project offers QFB share- talented and highly experienced team and underfloor heating in a Victorian top officials and dignitaries including Arif Ali Al Taboor Al Nuaimi, the UAE Consul General, Yusuffali MA, holders and clients an opportunity to who are well-equipped to meet the building. The development is min- Ashraf Ali MA, Executive Director, and Saifee Rupawala, the CEO of LuLu group. utes away from Hyde Park and has excellent transport links, to both the Underground and Paddington station, which provides access to Heathrow LuLu opens 125th hypermarket and Crossrail. The development also benefits from 24/7 concierge services and all the homes have at least three bedrooms, which make them suita- The Peninsula Taboor Al Nuaimi, the UAE Consul bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud & ble for Qatari families.” General. Deputy Crown Prince HRH Mohamed Reflecting the demand for these Speaking to media after the bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. I investments, the project only has two launch, Yusuffali MA, Chairman of am really excited by the new 2030 apartments left for investment on the JEDDAH: LuLu Group, the Abu LuLu Group said: “We plan to launch vision declared recently by the Dep- top, fourth floor, of the building and Dhabi-based retail major, has fur- four more hypermarkets this year, uty Crown Prince Moahammed Bin 5 townhouses. The townhouses con- ther expanded its operations in the including one more in Jeddah and one Salman and will explore all avenues sist of accommodation on the first hugely potential Saudi Arabia market each in Hail and Hofuf. By 2018, we to further boost our group’s invest- floor of the building, the ground floor, with the opening of its 125th hyper- will launch eight more hypermarkets ment here”. lower ground floor, and basement, market in Jeddah yesterday. It’s the in the Kingdom including the holy cit- With 3 stores in Capital Riyadh, 1 and all have private terraces at the seventh LuLu hypermarket in Saudi ies of Makkah and Madina. each in Al Khobar, Jubail, Dammam rear of the building as well as their Arabia while 12 more are slated to be Revealing his investment plans, and 8 Commissaries in its entity, own entrance and access to the pri- open by 2018. Yusuffali said, “We have already LuLu has firmly established itself vate garden square, which has also The latest hypermarket, located invested SR1bn and intend to fur- as one of the most preferred retail been restored and replanted with conveniently in Amir Fawaz dis- ther invest SR800m in the next two destination for both locals and the lawns, flowerbeds and recreation trict of Jeddah, was inaugurated by years, taking our total investment large expatriate community residing areas. HRH Prince Saud bin Abdullah bin to more than SR1.8bn in the King- in the Kingdom. The newest hyper- Strachan added: Leinster Square Abdul Aziz and H E Mazen Moham- dom. We are very confident that market is spread across an area of is QFB’s second completed project in med Batterjee, Vice-Chairman of this great country will further pros- over 200,000 sq. ft. and has the wid- London, following the completion Jeddah Chamber of Commerce, in per under the visionary leadership of est range of world class products at A view of the Leinster Square residential property in London. of the award winning “Westbourne the presence of many top officials HRH King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al most competitive prices. House” completed in August 2015. and dignitaries including Arif Ali Al Saud, Crown Prince HRH Muhamed Fiskars CEO hunts for brands to transform firm into major player

Bloomberg maker Wedgwood and the Irish crys- funded our acquisitions,” the CEO said tal manufacturer Waterford. when asked if he’ll sell the remaining “It’s the areas where you can Waertsilae holding. “I am quite happy truly add value, either through bet- at the moment.” HELSINKI: Fiskars Chief Executive ter functionality or through better Kauniskangas is also expand- Officer Kari Kauniskangas is on the design,” Kauniskangas, wearing his ing the company’s sales network lookout for purchases that will help trademark Fiskars orange tie and and in particular sees opportunities him transform the Finnish company scissors emblem on his lapel, said for expansion in Asia, where Fiskars best known for its orange-handled of his acquisition strategy. “We are gets about 10 percent of its revenue. scissors into a global player in pre- building a global branded consumer He added 27 stories in the region last mium consumer products for the goods company.” year. Along with an increased retail home and garden. Fiskars is targeting an increase in presence, he also aims to boost sales “Acquisitions are part of our com- earnings this year as a result of the most to hotels and airlines for use in the pany strategy, our growth strategy,” recent purchases completed in July. company’s food service operations. Kauniskangas, 54, said in an interview First-quarter sales jumped 29 percent to At the same time, the CEO is over- on Monday at the company’s Helsinki $331m (€296m), while operating profit hauling Fiskars’s manufacturing headquarters. “Obviously we continue climbed 51 percent to €23.7m. operations to reduce spending and inte- to follow what’s happening out there.” To help pay for the purchases, grating back office operations across Since he joined as CEO eight years the CEO has sold divisions, such as the brands. What he doesn’t intend to do ago, Fiskars has shifted from a holding a boats unit, that don’t fit his vision. is mix the brands in terms of their prod- company with stakes in companies Fiskars, which has a market value of uct offerings and retail outlets. primarily for financial reasons to a €1.36bn, has also sold down its stake “We are very sensitive to the core stable of 20 high-end brands ranging in ship-engine builder Waertsilae of the brand,” he said. “We want to from Nordic housewares producers Oyj but remains the second-larg- make sure when the consumer walks Iittala and Royal Copenhagen to out- est owner with 5.5 percent, which is into the store that they get immedi- door gear with Gerber knives in the worth about €400m. “I am not going ately what the brand is about and A glass blower uses traditional methods to shape an Aalto style vase in the workshop at the Iittala glass US. The CEO last year bought a group to comment on the future but if you what the experience is that we are that includes the English porcelain look back that’s basically how we trying to communicate.” factory, operated by Fiskars, in Hameenlinna, Finland. 24 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 BUSINESS CEO-class private jets go begging for buyers

Gulfstream G650 -- just two years Varsano, an aircraft broker in London ago an aircraft so coveted by well- who is helping to sell three preowned Rarely seen bargains heeled buyers that some would pay G650s. Gulfstream, which is based abound for big $10 million above list for a used jet in Savannah, Georgia, has reduced rather than wait four years for a new production and prices of its G450 corporate aircraft as model. Now there are 19 G650s for and G550 models but doesn’t intend tumbling oil wealth, sale, about 11 percent of the global to cut prices for new G650s, said a stronger dollar and fleet in operation. One 2013 plane Phebe Novakovic, chief executive that first was posted for sale in June officer of parent company General a downturn cripple at $68m has had its asking price cut Dynamics. The jet remains a “hot demand. twice, to $58.8m. plane,” with about a two-year wait “It’s probably one of the best for a new one, she said on a confer- times I’ve seen in my career to get the ence call last month. values for a big-cabin jet,” says Brian Wynn Aircraft II wants to unload Bloomberg Foley, a business-aircraft consult- an extended range G650ER that sells ant who spent 20 years as director for more than $70m new. A spokes- of marketing for the North American man for Wynn Resorts, the casino NEW YORK: The private jet Janine jet unit of France’s Dassault Aviation. company run by Steve Wynn, Iannarelli is selling for a Russian cli- That marks a turnabout from declined to comment on the sale. ent has leather seats, wood paneling, the 2008-09 recession, when large ADM is selling a 2010 Dassault a satellite phone and can fly nonstop planes -- some spacious enough to Falcon 7X for $25.5m in an effort to from Tokyo to Los Angeles. The price let almost 20 people roam around reduce executive travel expenses. has dropped $3m since September -- weathered the storm better than “Commercial airlines offer options and is still falling. smaller jets, which cram as few as for long-range, nonstop flights which A view of Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s new headquarters in Ahmadi, Kuwait. Iannarelli today is hawking the five passengers in too tight a space can provide significant savings on 10-year-old Bombardier Global 5000 to stand up. Sales of bigger aircraft our overall costs,” says Steve Schrier, for $14.5m but recommends that her jumped with the economic surge of a spokesman for the world’s largest client cut the price further as the Brazil, Russia and other developing corn processor. Kuwait to spend $115bn on oil projects market for large-cabin business jets countries, plus a jump in oil prices General Electric is selling a 2003 keeps weakening. A new Global 5000 and a commodities boom that fed Gulfstream G550, part of an effort lists for $50.4m. China’s surging exports. to shed assets of its finance unit as “There’s absolutely no evidence of Now, with many emerging the company focuses on industrial Reuters rest abroad,” she said. Over two- three downstream ventures cost- a recovery on the horizon,” says Ian- markets faltering, oil companies operations. thirds of the spending, or 23bn dinars, ing over $30bn. narelli, founder of Houston-based trimming costs and commodities The price on a 2008 Gulfstream has been allocated for exploration These include a new 615,000- aircraft brokerage Par Avion Ltd. “None prices trending down, the tables G550 registered to Gulf States Toyota and production, Zaabi said. bpd refinery and a clean fuel project of the jet models has hit bottom.” have turned. Prices of used, large- Inc., a Houston-based car dealership, KUWAIT CITY: OPEC member Kuwait aims to raise its produc- to upgrade two of the three exist- Rarely seen bargains abound for cabin business jets fell 16 percent has dropped $750,000 to $24.95m in Kuwait has earmarked 34.5bn dinars tion capacity, currently just over 3.0 ing refineries, and a platform for big corporate aircraft as tumbling oil last year, according to Aircraft- about six months, according to plane ($115bn) to spend on oil projects over million barrels per day, to 4.0 mil- LNG imports. Like other Gulf oil- wealth, a stronger dollar and a down- Post Inc., which compiles data on broker Mesinger Jet Sales. the next five years, despite the slump lion bpd by 2020 and maintain it for exporting nations, Kuwait’s revenues turn for emerging-market giants from the industry. Business-jet sales The average value of a used jet in oil prices, a senior executive said another decade. have sharply dropped in the past 20 Brazil to Russia cripple demand. tumbled 16 percent to $3.53bn in currently falls about 8 percent to 10 yesterday. Among main projects, it plans to months due to a slump in oil prices. As owners from foreign tycoons to the first quarter, the biggest drop percent a year, compared with a 3 “We have earmarked 34.5 bil- build four gathering centres, carry But the government has insisted Archer-Daniel-Midlands try to sell in almost five years, according to percent to 4 percent drop before the lion dinars for spending on oil out a key project to boost heavy oil it will continue capital investment as their planes, Bombardier, General the General Aviation Manufactur- market slumped, says Jay Mesinger, projects over the next five years,” production and raise output of free planned. Dynamics’s Gulfstream unit and ers Association. Large-cabin jets led who is based in Boulder, Colorado. Wafa Al Zaabi, head of planning at natural gas to over two billion cubic Kuwait has amassed around other planemakers are cutting output the decline. The steeper decline may last for Kuwait Petroleum Corp, told an oil feet daily, from 150 million cubic feet $600bn in surpluses in the 16 years and chopping list prices to cope with “Have prices come down? Yes. years, he says. conference. currently, Zaabi said. to 2014 due to high oil prices. Around a glut of new and used business jets. Have they come down quicker “This is going to take a while to “Over 30bn dinars ($100bn) will Besides the upstream projects, 95 percent of state revenues came The slump extends even to the than usual? I’d say yes,” says Steve correct itself.” be spent on the local market and the Kuwait is currently implementing from oil.

Japan plans up to $90.7bn supplementary budget Greece will be back on ECB agenda at Vienna IANS

AFP the Greek bailout review on Tues- TOKYO: The Japanese government is day suggests that the ECB will planning to present a second supple- introduce a waiver and once more mentary budget of between $45.3bn FRANKFURT: The ECB, expected accept Greek government bonds as and $90.7bn for this fiscal year, an offi- to hold fire on monetary policy at collateral for tender operations,” said cial said. its meeting on Thursday, will likely Commerzbank’s Schubert. The government is expected to focus instead on welcoming Greece Greek banks have been unable to present the budget in a special leg- back into the fold of fully-fledged take part in the ECB’s regular refi- islative session after Upper House eurozone borrowers after a bailout nancing operations for a long time elections in the summer, according deal, analysts said. now. to local news agency Kyodo. European Central Bank chief Normally, in these, banks receive The new supplementary budget Mario Draghi may well also use the cash in the form of very low inter- will be used to fund more public work lull in the bank’s unprecedented est loans in return for “collateral” projects and will be the second such stimulus drive to remind govern- -- high-quality assets, preferably budget for the present fiscal year ments that they can’t leave all the sovereign bonds, placed at the cen- after the approval of a $7bn budget heavy lifting for Europe’s recovery tral bank as guarantee. to finance reconstruction of areas in to central bankers alone. But given the desperate state southwestern Japan affected by the “As the ECB is presently focus- of Greece’s finances, its sovereign mid-April earthquakes, EFE news ing on implementing the measures bonds have been classified as “junk” reported. decided in March, the governing for some years, and are not normally Prime Minister Shinzo Abe council is likely to sit tight at its eligible to be used as collateral. had raised the idea of another meeting on Thursday,” said Com- Initially, the ECB granted supplementary budget follow- merzbank economist Michael Greek banks a special waiver to ing discussions with G7 leaders Schubert. get around this problem, allowing during a two-day summit at Ise- The ECB’s decision-making them to use Greek sovereign bonds Shima National Park which ended council is holding its regular policy as collateral, as long as Athens kept on Friday. meeting in Vienna this time round, to the terms of its international bail- At the summit, Abe said the cur- A man walks in Tokyo’s business district. rather than its Frankfurt home. out programme. rent economic outlook is similar to The most recent package of But then the ECB suspended that the global financial scenario after the demand and domestic consumption, increase in Japan’s value-added tax the economic programme of the measures -- the further cut in inter- waiver until Athens could thrash out bankruptcy of investment bank Leh- the main engines of the world’s third (VAT) scheduled for April, due to fear Japanese government to end defla- est rates, the expansion of the asset an agreement with its international man Brothers in 2008, and expressed largest economy. it may choke the country’s recovery tion, are being blurred by the fall in purchase programme known as creditors on its bailout programme. concern about the weakness of global Abe is expected to postpone an at a time the effects of ‘Abenomics’, oil prices. quantitative easing (QE) and a new And since then, Greek banks programme of ultra-cheap loans for have been kept afloat via the Emer- banks -- was only announced a little gency Liquidity Assistance or ELA more than two months ago. programme, which is much more Neither the corporate bond expensive. South Korea’s growth falls behind OECD members purchase scheme nor the new loan BayernLB economist Johannes scheme have even started yet, Cap- Mayr said that allowing Greek banks ital Economics economist Jonathan to participate in the ECB’s regular QNA It marked the first time since grow 2.6% and 2.7% on-year in 2016 The customs agency releases only Loynes noted. refinancing operations would rep- 2006 that South Korea did not make and 2017, respectively. the total values on its website with- Furthermore, recent economic resent a substantial cost reduction the top-10 list of the fastest expand- “South Korea’s economic growth out elaborating. Estimates for the full data do not call for more stimulus for the banks. ing member states. still remains high compared with month will be released by the trade for now. They would also be able to par- SEOUL: South Korea’s annual South Korea’s economic growth other larger OECD members,” a gov- ministry on June 1. “The general news on the econ- ticipate in the new cheap-loan economic growth lagged behind came in below major Eastern Euro- ernment official said. “It is important Exports account for about half of omy since the last meeting does not scheme known as TLTROs, Mayr fast-expanding members of the pean countries, with the Czech for us to maintain a growth that South Korea’s gross domestic product. seem to warrant immediate further said. “This could have a very pos- Organization for Economic Cooper- Republic, Hungary and Poland post- meets our potential and avoid tak- Nearly 60 pecent head to emerging policy action,” Loynes said. itive effect on credit growth and ation and Development (OECD), data ing comparable figures of 4.2%, 2.9% ing unnecessary measures to bolster markets, where the country’s ship- Nevertheless, Draghi “will be therefore on domestic demand in showed yesterday. and 3.6%, respectively. development.” ments dropped 15 per cent this year careful to leave the door to fur- Greece,” he said. Asia’s fourth-largest economy saw Seoul’s economic growth also South Korean exports rose 2.1 after a 9 per cent fall last year. ther policy loosening wide open,” The ECB might also allow Greece its annual economic growth reach lagged behind smaller OECD econ- per cent year-on-year to $24.847bn Slowdown in the global economy he said. to take part in QE, which would bring 2.6% on-year in 2015, ranking 12th omies, such as Iceland and Ireland, in May 1-20, while imports fell 8 per- will have a huge impact on exports. With no monetary easing on the down the very high risk premia on among the members of the Paris- which each posted annual growth of cent to US$21.962bn, Customs Korea With oil prices falling, dollar gaining cards, Greece is likely to be back on Greek sovereign bonds and boost based organization of economically 4 percent in 2015. data showed. strength, and some emerging econo- the agenda following last week’s the prospects of Greece being able developed countries, according to The Korea Development Institute Exports have declined since Jan- mies losing their momentum, sales of bailout deal, ECB watchers said. to return to the capital markets, Mayr South Korea’s (Yonhap) News Agency. expects the South Korean economy to uary 2015. luxury products are affected. “The successful conclusion of argued. BUSINESS MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 25 Clues about Fed’s rate hike likely next week

highlight of the week after some thoughts of a June hike,” economists the Fed’s first post-crisis rate hike in and reaffirm its focus on implement- inflation in the pipeline, the ECB will members of the Fed’s Federal Open at Dutch bank ING wrote in a note. December. ing the stimulus package announced be in no hurry to launch any new A Fed rate hike could Market Committee suggested a rate “On balance, the FOMC is in no “A stronger dollar is likely to in March. measures.” send shockwaves increase could come as early as June hurry and may wait until July when increase pressure on China’s cur- This included purchases of cor- Despite the bounce in oil prices if the US economy recovered from a the event risk surrounding the UK ref- rency and weigh on commodity porate bonds and a new round of and a continued, albeit modest, recov- across the world at a weak first quarter. erendum has passed.” prices, thereby re-introducing the key so-called TLTRO loans for banks, ery in lending, inflation was expected time when the global A Fed rate hike could send shock- Trading in US federal funds elements of stress that led to a sharp both due to kick off in June. to have remained negative in May. waves across the world at a time futures on Friday implied a 26 per- tightening of financial conditions ear- The ECB will likely have a rare With price growth likely to remain economy is slowing. when the global economic is slow- cent chance of an increase at the June lier this year,” economists at Deutsche opportunity to raise some of its below the ECB’s target of almost 2 ing, emerging markets remain fragile 14-15 meeting and 56 percent at the Bank said. “If this view is correct, the inflation forecasts for this year and percent until as late 2018, some econ- and Britain’s EU membership refer- July 26-27 one, according to deriva- scope for further rate increases by the the next thanks to a rebound in oil omists were still betting on more ECB endum on June 23 is on a knife-edge. tives exchange CME Group. Fed is reduced.” prices, giving it some breathing space action before the end of the year. Reuters Economists expect US employ- Growing market expectations The dollar was on track for its to allow its measures to work their “We suspect there is some tolerance ers excluding farmers to have added of a rate hike may be self-defeating, strongest monthly performance since way into the economy. (about the time it would take to reach 170,000 workers last month, slightly though, as they have been accom- last November against a basket of cur- “The combined economics the inflation target),” Greg Fuzesi, an FRANKFURT: Next week will pro- more than in April, with hourly wages panied with a tightening of financial rencies and yields on US Treasuries departments of the Eurosystem cen- economist at JPMorgan, said. vide investors with clues as to how growing by 0.2 percent from the pre- conditions via a stronger dollar and were higher on the week. tral banks must be sighing in relief “But, we also think that the 2018 far the US Federal Reserve is from its vious month. higher bond yields, some economists Next week will also see the ECB over this round of forecasts,” Anatoli inflation forecast will set the scene for next interest rate hike and whether “Anything above last month’s said. These may damage emerging hold its policy meeting on Thursday Annenkov, an economist at Societe an eventual easing, likely announced the European Central Bank will see 160,000 non-farm payrolls reading economies where many companies after the publication of inflation and Generale, said. in September.” out the year without easing its mon- should be sufficient for the FOMC, borrow in dollars and knock down the lending data earlier in the week. “With the Corporate Sector Pur- Every three in five economists etary policy again. whilst any unexpected swing in wage price of some commodities, risking a The euro zone’s central bank is chase Programme and TLTRO II still polled by Reuters do not expect the Friday’s US jobs data will be the growth could foster some further repeat of the market rout seen after expected to keep interest rates on hold to be launched, and higher headline ECB to ease its policy again this year.

Environmental groups ChemChina eyes SGL Carbon India growing at 7.5 percent amid invited to discuss global slowdown: Bayer’s Monsanto bid Finance Minister IANS

AFP NEW DELHI: India’s economy has picked up pace and achieved a growth rate of about 7.5 percent amid a global slowdown, Finance FRANKFURT: Bayer’s chief execu- Minister Arun Jaitley said here on tive said in an interview published Saturday. yesterday he is ready to meet envi- “At a time when the global ronmental groups to address economies are shrinking, our concerns about his group’s plans to economy is growing at around 7.5 take over US agrochemicals giant percent. This is a healthy growth Monsanto. rate, especially in the context of In an interview with the Sunday current global economic scenario,” newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Jaitley said at an event organised Sonntagszeitung, Werner Baumann here to mark the two years in (pictured) also hinted that the Mon- office of the NDA government led An exterior view of the headquarters of SGL Carbon in Wiesbaden, Germany. Chinese company santo brand could disappear once by Narendra Modi. the business is integrated into Bayer. ChemChina may be interested in acquiring the struggling company or part of it. SGL has said their Titled ‘Ek Nayi Subah’ (A New Bayer, a household name thanks operating income will be considerably lower in 2016 as their graphite electrode business is facing a Dawn), the gala event saw the to its painkiller Aspirin, said this its prospects.” tough competition from Chinese enterprises. finance minister talking about his week that it is offering $122 per Bayer would continue to uphold ministry’s achievements during the share in cash for Monsanto -- $62bn its strict ethical standards if it suc- last two years. in total. ceeded in acquiring Monsanto, “We brought in the legislation If successful, it would be the big- Baumann said. against black money that provides gest foreign takeover by a German “Our way of doing business may for stringent punishment for tax company and would create a new differ from the way Monsanto does. Al Kharafi family scraps stake sale evaders. We registered criminal world leader in seeds, pesticides and I can assure you that we would con- cases against several tax evaders,” genetically modified (GM) crops. duct these businesses based on the Jaitley said. Monsanto has dismissed the same standards as our other oper- On Panama Papers which offer as too low, but said it was will- ations,” he said. Reuters Americana from Al Khair for Stocks Before the Adeptio deal was pro- showed the rich and famous in ing to enter into further merger talks. Asked whether Bayer would and Real Estate, which is controlled visionally agreed, banking sources India exploiting secretive off- Environmental campaigners fear retain the Monsanto brand Bau- by the Kharafis, a wealthy merchant had said other parties including Sin- shore tax regimes, Jaitley said that that the combined group’s domi- mann said: “We’ll decide that when family. gapore’s Temasek Holdings, Saudi criminal cases would be registered nant market position in the seeds the time comes. Suffice to say that DUBAI: Kuwait’s Al Kharafi fam- The stake would be worth $2.15bn food maker Savola Group, and pri- against the people who have been and pesticides markets could lead Bayer enjoys an excellent reputation ily has scrapped a sale of a majority based on Americana’s current market vate equity funds KKR and CVC stashing black money in tax havens to higher prices, limit consumer and appeal worldwide. We must take stake in Kuwait Food Co (Americana) value of $3.11bn, according to Thom- had all expressed an in interest in abroad. “We are giving a chance choice and open the door to Mon- advantage of that.” to a Gulf-based consortium, a com- son Reuters data. Americana. to domestic tax evaders to declare santo’s genetically modified crops Bayer’s shares have plummeted pany controlled by the family said “An agreement has not been Had Adeptio concluded a deal their black money by paying 45 being marketed in Europe. since it announced its takeover plans yesterday, ending months of talks reached between Al Khair and with the Khorafis, the consortium percent penalty,” he added. Baumann has sought to limit as investor concern has grown that over the multibillion-dollar deal. Adeptio and both sides have agreed would have been obliged to launch He also touched upon finan- opposition to any takeover bid by the price it is offering is too high. Americana, which owns the to end all negotiations in regard to a mandatory offer to buy America- cial inclusion schemes for the poor inviting campaigners to talk to Bay- Baumann insisted that Bayer Middle East franchises for fast the acquisition”, Al Khair said in a na’s remaining shares under Kuwaiti like Jan Dhan Yojana and Mudra er’s management. needed to make a “very attractive food chains KFC and Pizza Hut and statement. securities rules. Yojana. “As much as I talk to our inves- offer which values Monsanto fully”. also produces branded consumer Americana made a similar In April, Reuters reported that “Financial inclusion has been tors to convince them of the plans, Asked whether Bayer might have foods, has been up for sale since announcement, but neither of these Citi had dropped out of the group our focus. This means joining peo- the offer also stands for envi- to sell off other assets to finance the early 2014. provided further details. of banks slated to provide a $1.5bn ple with the banking system. In ronmental groups and other deal, the chief executive said: “No. Investment firm Adeptio, which An Adeptio spokesperson said: bridge loan to help fund Adeptio’s 100 days we brought around 22 non-governmental organisations,” Our finances are solid. We’ll finance is led by prominent Dubai busi- “The parties involved could not reach acquisition. Trading in Americana’s crore people into the banking sys- Baumann said. the deal solely through a mixture of nessman Mohamed Alabbar, in an agreement on mutually accepta- shares was halted on Sunday pend- tem which is unprecedented,” the “Let’s talk about the matter and loans and own funds.” February agreed to buy 69 percent of ble terms.” ing an announcement from the firm. minister said.

Air Austral German economy minister blasts Merkel on EU-US trade treaty

AFP year”. Washington and Brussels want and Canada -- expressed their sup- the TTIP completed this year before port for a TTIP agreement this year, Obama leaves office, but it has faced as long as it is “ambitious, compre- mounting opposition on both sides of hensive, high standard and mutually FRANKFURT: Germany’s economy the Atlantic. beneficial”. minister lashed out at Chancellor Gabriel, whose party is the junior The next round of TTIP talks is Angela Merkel for her “wrong” stance partner in Merkel’s coalition govern- set to take place in June. on a huge EU-US free trade pact in an ment, already said earlier this month The wide-ranging pact would interview to be published today, sig- that the deal “will fail” if the United create a free-trade zone covering 850 nalling a deepening rift within the States refuses to make concessions. million people. Critics say it would government over the controversial Opinion polls show that people come at the expense of jobs, consum- accord. in the eurozone’s biggest economy ers and the environment. Sigmar Gabriel, also the vice are growing increasingly wary of The Transatlantic Trade and chancellor, told the RND group of the proposed pact despite Merkel’s Investment Partnership (T-TIP) is regional papers that his Social Dem- continued support. Some 70 percent described as an ambitious, compre- ocratic Party “doesn’t wish to be part of Germans polled this month said hensive, and high-standard trade and of a bad deal”, as he warned against a they believed the TTIP would bring investment agreement being negoti- hastily negotiated agreement on the “mostly disadvantages”. ated between the United States and so-called Transatlantic Trade and Tens of thousands of Germans the European Union (EU). T-TIP will Investment Partnership (TTIP). have so far taken to the streets in help unlock opportunity for Amer- He said Merkel “was wrong to protest against the treaty, including ican families, workers, businesses, The first Boeing 787-8 of the two Boeing ordered by the Reunion’s airplane company Air Austral lands say, in the euphoria of (US President during last month’s visit by Obama. farmers and ranchers through at the airport Roland-Garros of la Reunion, in Sainte Marie. Air Austral will be starting from June 10 Barack) Obama’s visit to Germany, Meeting in Japan this week, increased access to European mar- two direct flights per week between Mayotte and Paris. that we will be able under all sce- leaders of the G7 nations -- the US, kets for Made-in-America goods and narios to conclude negotiations this Germany, Japan, Britain, Italy, France services. 26 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 9,675.66 0.42 % QE Total Return Index 15,654.58 0.42 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,793.7 0.41 % QE All Share Index 2,709.18 0.40 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,618.9 0.19 % QE All Share Industrials 3,038.35 0.71 % QE All Share Transportation 2,477.29 0.21 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,369.79 0.01 % QE All Share Insurance 4,088.75 0.49 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,064.57 1.74 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,470.48 0.78 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 29-05-2016 Today 26-05-2016 Previous day Index 9,675.66 9,716.48 Change 40.82 10.74 % 0.42 0.11 YTD% 7.23 6.84 Volume 1,959,947 4,727,381 Value (QAR) 64,683,545.66 185,274,426.50 Trades 1,512 3,384 Up 11 | Down 27 | Unchanged 03

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5451.919 15.137 0.28 5483.7 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4499.74 18.1 0.4 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 17851.51 145.46 0.82 18229.8 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 20397.11 29.06 0.14 21794.84 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6454.99 -17.86 -0.28 6791.68 5611.89 Karachi 100 In/D 36540.97 41.54 0.11 36848.02 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 16772.46 15.11 0.09 18951.12 14865.77 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2132.82 1810.1

EXCHANGE RATE Currency Buying Selling US$ QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 UK QR 5.2938 QR 5.3712 Euro QR 4.0111 QR 4.0923 CA$ QR 2.7710 QR 2.8342 Scrapped Americana sale weighs on Kuwait; other bourses mixed Swiss Fr QR 3.6242 QR 3.7160 Yen QR 0.0326 QR 0.0335 Aus$ QR 2.5853 QR 2.6509 Reuters Kuwait’s index fell 0.1 percent on whether Britain should leave regional investors exited positions, Ind Re QR 0.0535 QR 0.0546 to 5,393 points. the European Union will contrib- bourse data showed. Global Tele- Pak Re QR 0.0350 QR 0.0351 Qatar’s stock index Elsewhere, Dubai’s index ute to volatility in Dubai stocks com Holding dropped 3.3 percent. Peso QR 0.0766 QR 0.0783 slipped 0.4 percent, added 0.3 percent, with main ahead of Ramadan. Saudi Arabia’s But peer operator Telecom SL Re QR 0.0245 QR 0.0251 DUBAI: Shares in Kuwaiti com- support from blue chips. Dubai benchmark fell 0.8 percent, with Egypt outperformed the market, panies linked with the al-Kharafi erasing the gains Islamic Bank and telecommunica- banking shares particularly weak. and climbed 0.8 percent to 8.39 Taka QR 0.0460 QR 0.0470 family tumbled yesterday after of the previous tion operator du rose 2.9 percent Banque Saudi Fransi and National Egyptian pounds. On Thursday Nep Re QR 0.0337 QR 0.0344 the multi-billion-dollar sale of session. Shares and 1.1 percent respectively. Commercial Bank slumped 4.0 Deutsche Bank raised its target SA Rand QR 0.2313 QR 0.2359 another Kharafi-controlled busi- Dubai Parks and Resorts and 2.2 percent respectively. price for the telecom operator to ness was scrapped, while other which were strong was the most-traded stock on Stocks which had been 16.90 Egyptian pounds and main- markets were mixed in thin trade. last week lagged the bourse. It closed 1.4 percent advancing since the government tained a buy rating on the stock. GOLD AND SILVER Investment company Adeptio lower after rising as much as 4.2 announced an economic plan in Yesterday’s Highlights had agreed in February to buy 69 yesterday with oil percent in earlier trade. The com- April to diversify the economy Saudi Arabia: The index fell GOLD QR144.4097 per gramme percent of Kuwait Food Co (Amer- drilling provider pany completed a 1.68bn dirham away from its dependence on oil 0.8 percent to 6,428 points. SILVER QR1.9363 per gramme icana) from Al Khair for Stocks Gulf International ($457.44 million) rights issue last also fell, with miner Saudi Mining Dubai: The index rose 0.3 per- and Real Estate, which is run by week. Co (Ma’aden) dropping 2.1 percent, cent to 3,360 points. the wealthy Kharafi merchant Services and Volumes, which were low on its third session of declines. Abu Dhabi: The index edged family. But Al Khair announced Vodafone Qatar Sunday, have slumped since late Qatar’s stock index slipped up 0.3 percent to 4,297 points. on Sunday that the sale had been April in the runup to the Muslim 0.4 percent, erasing the gains of Qatar: The index lost 0.4 per- scrapped. each falling more holy month of Ramadan which the previous session. Shares which cent to 9,676 points. Ordinary Brits too Americana’s shares were sus- than 1.0 percent starts in early June. But the were strong last week lagged yes- Egypt: The index fell 0.6 per- pended, but other Kharafi-linked weaker trend could yet be dis- terday with oil drilling provider cent to 7,486 points. stocks plunged. turbed, said Marwan Shurrab, Gulf International Services and Kuwait: The index dropped 0.1 dodge Brexit risks National Industries Group and director at Vision Investments telecom operator Vodafone Qatar percent to 5,393 points. National Investment Co slid 1.8 Gulf Cable Co fell 3.7 percent. and Holding in Dubai. each falling more than 1.0 percent. Oman: The index fell 0.4 per- percent and 8.9 percent respec- The Kharafis own stakes in all Shurrab said speculation In Egypt, the main index slid cent to 5,890 points. tively, while Al Mal Investment four companies, Thomson Reu- over a possible rise in U.S. inter- 0.6 percent in the lowest vol- Bahrain: The index lost 0.6 Co was down 8.5 percent and ters data shows. est rates and a June referendum umes in almost seven months, as percent to 1,092 points. Bloomberg

LONDON: Emma Patcas will arrive in Greece three days before Britain votes on its membership of the Euro- Japanese consumers: Between thrift and extravagance pean Union. To make sure a plunge in the pound doesn’t bust her budget, the 26-year-old Londoner bought 600 euros ($671) in early April to spend during the three- week holiday. Reuters trillion yen for the 2014 April- at discounts of 30 percent to 50 my child grows so fast, it helps that I use daily are important “You think: should I hold out and see if it gets better, or June quarter, which was directly percent as part of its “mottainai” that I can get such good bargains to me as a woman,” Sato said. “I should I not?” said Patcas, who is traveling with her boy- affected by the consumption tax (too good to go to waste) line of here and can buy and sell clothes don’t mind that the price is high.” friend on June TOKYO: “Five black beans, hike. produce. The products have been so frequently,” she said. Another woman, 55, who 20. “We just please,” a customer says at the The slowdown in con- very popular, with sales for fiscal Meanwhile, prices for daily works at an insurance com- decided it was Tsukuasa Japanese deli coun- sumer spending coincides with 2015 reaching approximately 110 necessities such as food and pany, dropped in during a work too much of a Transfers of sterling ter in the Odakyu department an increase in peoples’ incli- million yen, roughly six times the clothing are going down. Fast break to check out Dyson vac- risk with all overseas handled store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where nation to save. Although wages figure from five years ago. Retailing Co., which operates uum cleaners, whose prices range the unknowns the number of customers order- have increased with the “gov- But consumers’ efforts to cut Uniqlo casual clothing stores, has from 40,000 yen to 70,000 yen. of the by Western Union ing minute amounts of prepared ernment-orchestrated spring down on spending are not lim- returned to a price-cutting strat- “I don’t want to pinch pennies referendum.” Business Solutions rose foods such as simmered beans or labor offensive,” higher prices ited to food. egy after previously announcing for things that I think are good Britons seven-fold to $1.5m. pumpkin is increasing. caused by a weaker yen and On a weekend in mid-May, price increases for some of it and have excellent features,” she who need to “That will be 93 yen (about the increased burden of social Yukari Kobayashi, a company products. And gyudon beef-on- said. “I just need to reduce what buy foreign 84 cents),” the clerk says, picking insurance premiums are mak- employee in her early 30s, was rice chain Yoshinoya Co. saw I spend on food or drink by that currencies up beans one by one with well- ing it difficult for wage earners arranging several dozen pieces of sales soar after re-introducing amount.” for their vaca- practiced movements and placing to feel the benefits of the wage clothing, including knitwear and its cheaper pork-on-rice bowls. Products that have unique tions or other personal expenses are trying to sidestep them in a small packet. increases. For this reason, skirts, at a flea market in Nakano These developments come at designs or performance and unpleasant surprises in the exchange rate should the U.K. Originally, orders were typ- consumers are becoming Ward, Tokyo. A customer stopped a time when some in the distri- give consumers a sense of joy to decide to quit the union. While the pound has rebounded ically in units of 100 grams, but increasingly conscious of the to take a look at her homemade bution industry are whispering own sell well despite their high in recent weeks as polls signal a receding risk of a Brexit, the number of customers order- need for “livelihood security.” banner, which read, “All clothes such things as, “We appear to prices. And consumers are will- everyone from the UK Treasury and the Bank of England ing less than 100 grams started Tomatoes sometimes exhibit for 100 yen.” have reverted to deflation.” ing to pay generously for unique to Goldman Sachs is predicting sharp declines should to increase after the consump- a form of scarring called “zip- Organised by Mercari Inc., Abenomics aims to cre- experiences. the country leave. tion tax was raised two years pering,” caused when they grow the maker of a leading “flea mar- ate a virtuous cycle that According to PIA Research Transfers of sterling overseas handled by Western ago. Such customers, many of with anthers (part of the blossom) ket app” for smartphones, the flea gently increases prices through Institute, entertainment ticket Union Business Solutions rose seven-fold to about 1 mil- whom are elderly, now make up stuck to them. Although tomatoes market had roughly 250 vendors. increases in wages and demand. sales exceeded 500 billion yen lion pounds ($1.5m) in the three months through April 30 percent to 40 percent of the with one scar can be sold at nor- Mercari’s online marketplace However, the current state of in 2015, compared with about from a year earlier. Most of the transactions weren’t deli’s customers. According to deli mal prices, those with multiple charges around 60 percent to consumption shows a very dif- 300 billion yen in 2011. from holiday makers, but Britons sending sums abroad manager Tamiko Masaka, 53, the scars usually must be down- 80 percent of the listed price for ferent reality. Consumption that is divided to pay off mortgages or purchase properties, according primary reason behind the small graded to Grade B, which are unused goods and around 30 per- Not all consumers are bent between the polar opposites of to the money-transfer company. purchases is that customers have usually sold at a discount of 20 cent to 60 percent of the listed on saving money. At the Bic Cam- extravagant spending and frugal- Jenny Slade, a business owner from High Wycombe, difficulty eating as much as 100 percent to 30 percent. price for used goods in good con- era store in Yurakucho, Tokyo, ity continued long after the collapse northwest of London, bought 30,000 euros in early May grams. Buying smaller amounts At a distribution centre in dition. With transaction volume in mid-May, homemaker Yaeko of the bubble economy. Although to pay for the renovations at her summer house near both prevents waste and saves Narashino, Chiba Prefecture, now exceeding 10 billion yen per Sato, 69, and her daughter, 44, overall consumption showed signs Marseille, on France’s Mediterranean coast. money. for home food delivery com- month, it has grown more than scrutinized a Nanoe moisture- of recovery with Abenomics, the “We’ve seen more fluctuations in the last couple Consumer spending has been pany “Daichi wo Mamoru Kai,” 10-fold compared to before the infusion hair dryer by Panasonic. recovery was ultimately short-lived. of months than we’ve seen in the past six years,” said sluggish for the past two years. about 10 workers were busy sort- consumption tax increase. Although it is rather expensive at Recently, polarized consumption the 39-year-old Slade. “We secured a rate when the The annualized gross domestic ing tomatoes with defects and A company employee who about 17,000 yen, its appeal lies patterns have become clearer, with pound was stronger, so we could keep that rate going product for the 2016 January- odd shapes. The company sells is the mother of a fifth-year pri- in the fact that it does not dry hair a corresponding decline in moder- for six months rather than just buying on spot and see- March quarter was 306.4 trillion these tomatoes, small potatoes mary school student comes to the excessively. “Although I normally ate consumption between the two ing how it was.” yen, up only slightly from 305.9 and irregular boiled black beans flea market regularly. “Because live frugally, beauty appliances extremes. BUSINESS VIEWS MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 27 Where free wind meets Cash cows fund China dairy firm cheap gas in US, power dynamics changing that defied stock market slump

By Mark Chediak Andrew Cuomo has proposed a Bloomberg clean energy standard that would require utilities to buy credits from qualified, financially strug- gling nuclear operators. or a snapshot of the In Ohio, American Electric woes of the US coal and Power Co. and FirstEnergy Corp. nuclear industries, take won guaranteed rates from the a look at Illinois. Follow- state’s utility regulator in March Fing a four-year drop in electricity for some money-losing coal plants demand, power companies there and FirstEnergy’s Davis-Besse announced the closing of coal power reactor, before the mat- and nuclear plants that account ter was stalled by U.S. regulators. for more than 10 percent of gen- In the Midwest grid, the aver- erating capacity. The shutdowns age annual wholesale power price come amid a fourfold increase plunged 43 percent to $25.80 in cheap wind from neighboring a megawatt-hour in 2015 from states and growing competition 2008, according to data com- from generators burning low-cost piled by Bloomberg. Driving natural gas. those numbers is an 85 percent Exelon Corp, the operator drop in natural gas prices over of 11 nuclear reactors in Illinois, the past seven years. The percent- and Dynegy Inc, which has 10 age of Midwest wind power has coal-fired plants in the state, are increased from about 2 percent in asking lawmakers to bail out their 2012 to as much as 12 percent this money-losing assets to prevent year, according to Genscape data further job-cutting, closures and, compiled by Bloomberg. in Exelon’s case, preserve carbon- Dynegy on May 3 said it would free electricity production. shut coal units with a capacity of “You’ve got free wind power 1,835 megawatts over the next year. coming from the west and cheap The decision came after the plants By Lisa Pham back shares,” said RHB’s Yuen, who has a “Huishan Dairy’s gearing was more gas coming from the east and failed to recover their operating Bloomberg “sell” rating on the stock. “The chairman than 60 percent last year, so it’s not a that’s not a good place to be for costs in the most recent power wants to prop up the share price for rea- bad idea for the company to get a loan coal and nuclear power plants,” capacity auction. An additional sons that are unclear. It could be a way to get for working capital,” said Anson Chan, an said Travis Miller, a utility analyst 500 megawatts is under review. better terms for share pledged-based loans, analyst at Daiwa Capital Markets, who for Morningstar Inc., an invest- The coal plants have been N THE creative world of Chinese which he’s done before.” also recommends investors “sell” the ment research firm. undercut by out-of-state utilities lending, there’s a new trade in town: Company Chairman Yang Kai has been shares. “The interest rate for the finance Illinois isn’t alone. The power that can offer power at low prices the cow leaseback. China Huishan building up his stake in the company to lease is lower than the company’s cur- industry upheaval is playing out because they get paid regulated Dairy Holdings Co, which operates almost 74 percent, according to the latest rent bank loans.” in more than a dozen states that rates in their home states, said the largest number of dairy farms in disclosure of interests to the stock exchange. The growth of finance leasing in China deregulated their electricity Dynegy Chief Executive Officer the country, is selling about a quar- Yang pledged shares he owned to Ping An is partly a reflection of the broadening of markets, opening their borders Robert Flexon, who asked the Iter of its herd — some 50,000 animals — to Bank Co to finance the buybacks, RHB said the nation’s banking system. Most con- to competition, over the past Illinois legislature to intervene Guangdong Yuexin Finance Lease Co for 1bn in a research note on January 28. tracts involve the leaseback of equipment, two decades. In those locations, to keep the coal units operating. yuan ($152m) and then renting them back. Meanwhile, the company itself spent said Shujin Chen, a banking analyst at DBS owners of aging generators are Plant closings can be averted With an estimated $1.3 trillion of risky HK$1.93bn ($249m) buying back 820.2 Vickers Hong Kong Ltd. They totaled about particularly vulnerable as the if Illinois lawmakers act quickly to loans in the country, Chinese banks are million shares in the six months ended Sep- 4 trillion yuan at the end of last year, with average wholesale power price resolve “market design deficien- becoming more cautious about lending, forc- tember, equivalent to almost twice its cash the percentage of equipment purchased has dropped by about half since cies,” Flexon said. ing some companies to look for new ways from operations for the same period. by finance leasing at about 7 percent to 2008. In response, electricity pro- Exelon is seeking help to save its to borrow. Finance leasing has been grow- Chief Financial Officer Eddie So wouldn’t 8 percent, compared to only 1 percent in viders in places like Ohio and New Illinois nuclear reactors. The com- ing in popularity, especially for purchases comment on the finance leasing, when con- 2008, she said. “Finance leases offer tax York are asking for millions of pany said on May 6 that it will shut of equipment. tacted by Bloomberg News. A company advantages, asset flexibility and cash dollars to keep their units running. the 1,069-megawatt Clinton reactor But cows? “It’s not very common to use official said Yang also wouldn’t be available flow certainty,” Chen said in an e-mail. Nowhere has the confluence by June 1, 2017, and the 1,871 meg- cows as collateral,” said Robin Yuen, an ana- to comment. Yang is in talks with financial In China they account for around 4 per- of market forces produced such a awatt Quad Cities plant, which has lyst at RHB OSK Securities Hong Kong Ltd. institutions for loans of about HK$7bn to be cent to 5 percent of bank loans, compared profound dislocation as in Illinois. two reactors, by June 1, 2018, unless “The value of a cow would fluctuate depend- secured by some of his shares in Huishan with about 22 percent in 2013 in the U.S., The rise of lower cost competition the state adopts “adequate” legisla- ing on milk prices and other factors, so it’s a Dairy, the company said on April 29, the day where cow leasing has fallen out of favor. from inside and outside the state tion to reverse losses by May 31. risky asset for lenders. It would be hard to it announced the cow lease deal. “The environment just isn’t right for the has pushed coal and nuclear units Exelon is behind a bill that “is do forced selling — there’s no liquid market The share buybacks helped Huishan practice with low interest rates, balance to the brink. For example, unregu- essential to preserving Illinois’ at- for a large number of cows.” Dairy’s share price jump 72 percent since sheets generally in good shape, plenty of lated power suppliers in southern risk nuclear plants and putting the In Huishan Dairy’s case, the story is an the beginning of July, even as Hong Kong’s heifers and milk prices are low,” said Mark Illinois are competing against out- state on a path to achieve its car- increasingly common benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 22 percent. Stephenson, director of Dairy Policy Analy- of-state generators able to recover bon reduction goals,” said Paul one in China of rising Still, keeping the stock price buoyant drained sis at the University of Wisconsin, who said costs through state-approved rates Adams, a spokesman for Exelon. debts, slumping com- cash as milk prices were slumping and the it was more common in the 1990s. “Why while selling their excess power on The bill backed by Exelon would modity prices and the company’s debts were rising. Huishan had would anyone want to lease what they the deregulated markets. require utilities to buy 70 percent of propensity of Chinese 10.4bn yuan of bank loans at the end of Sep- could own?” There’s little relief in sight. their generation from nuclear, wind executives to use their tember, with more than half needing to be China’s first registered cow lease plan Generators have reached a point or solar sources, Shahriar Pourreza, shares as collateral for repaid within a year. The value of short-term was last July, when CreditEase Leasing where they don’t see any “real an analyst at Guggenheim Securities private loans. That’s fine bank loans had more than doubled com- took ownership of 200 cattle from Hebei pickup” in prices for the next year LLC, wrote in a May 6 note to clients. if the shares are rising, pared to six months earlier. Luan County Junying Pastures, a supplier or so, according to Kit Konolige, The company presented a “tight but in the volatility of the Whole milk powder prices, meanwhile, to Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group. an analyst for Bloomberg Intel- deadline” for policy makers and With an estimated $1.3 past year, many stocks have plunged, with the latest GlobalDairy- Huishan Dairy’s lease-back is 250 ligence. They are being forced to guessing the outcome of legislative trillion of risky loans slumped, prompting Trade auction price of $2,252 a tonne on May times the size. The company’s 190,911 confront the uncomfortable ques- moves has been “challenging”, Pour- lenders who held them 17 down 57 percent from a peak in April 2013. dairy cows, valued at 5.73bn yuan in tion of how long they can afford to reza said. Clinton and Quad Cities in the country, Chinese as guarantees for loans So the company turned some of its cows into September, are spread across 78 farms lose money.“The power price you have lost more than $800m in the banks are becoming to demand the borrower cash, leasing them back through a unit at an in Liaoning, a province in northeastern are getting now is so much lower past six years, Exelon Chief Exec- more cautious about supply more collateral. annualised interest rate of as much as 6.2 China between Inner Mongolia and North than it used to be a few years ago,” utive Officer Chris Crane said on a “Huishan Dairy seems percent, with an option to repurchase the Korea. “It might take a while for this to Konolige said. “Plants that used to conference call with investors. “The lending, forcing some to be selling cows and cattle at the end of the five years. turn into a trend,” Daiwa’s Chan said. “It be comfortably in the money are energy market is depressed in the companies to look for leasing them back in As dairy cows are typically slaughtered won’t be easy at first for banks and other losing it now.” region,” Pourreza said in an inter- order to raise money after about five years, when their production financial institutions to accept this kind of In New York, Governor view. “That’s the long and short of it.” new ways to borrow. now, because they’ve declines, the agreement included provisions arrangement, because of the risk of hold- been using cash to buy to cull and replace animals regularly. ing animals as collateral.” The next global tech hot spot? Amsterdam stakes its claim

Elco van Groningen and Celeste Perri Amsterdam’s residents are of a foreign ori- Homegrown newcomers are also building he settled on an office in a startup hub Bloomberg gin—makes it a natural place to test-drive buzz. Payment processor Adyen in September funded by ABN Amro Group NV, where he new businesses. Its central location and raised an undisclosed sum that it says values works alongside people from more than a transport connections make it a good spot the company at $2.2 billion. Takeaway.com is dozen countries. “It’s easier to build a net- to expand from. And it doesn’t hurt that its said to be mulling an initial public offering that work here; It’s a bit of a village feel,” Staunton rustrated by the difficulty of finding liberal, bike-to-work atmosphere makes could establish a valuation of more than $1.1 said, perched on a beat-up couch in the hub’s dates while living in London, Dutchman Amsterdam a pretty nice place to live. billion. And last July, high-frequency trading warehouse-like space in central Amsterdam. FDavid Vermeulen started InnerCircle, The Digital City Index for 2015 ranked startup Flow Traders NV raised $671 million “It’s a great testing ground.” a matchmaking website focused on highly Amsterdam the region’s second-best city, in an IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. This is illustrated by one of Amsterdam’s educated singles. Yet rather than set up in behind London, for tech startups. On May 24, The city is “a very stimulating envi- most successful internet startups: Booking. Europe’s biggest city, he moved to Amster- tech titans Tim Cook of Apple Inc. and Uber ronment, whether for trading or any other com. When it started in 1996, the company dam, home to about 800,000 people and a Technologies Inc.’s Travis Kalanick will speak industry,” said Dennis Dijkstra, co-chief exec- only worked with hotels in the Netherlands, much smaller pool of potential customers. at the opening of “Startup Fest,” a five-day con- utive officer of Flow Traders. but it soon noticed customers were search- Amsterdam has become a The city, he says, offered an inexpensive place ference intended to showcase Dutch innovation. To help attract more newcomers, the local ing for reservations in Spanish beach towns to try out the idea as well as a launchpad for “The more we position Amsterdam as government in 2014 formed StartupAmster- and other vacation spots abroad. After sealing preferred destination for international expansion if the site took off. a gateway to Europe, the more companies dam, an agency aimed at helping entrepreneurs deals with hotels across Europe and then the companies aiming to start “Amsterdam is the ideal market for testing,” come here,” said Kajsa Ollongren, Amster- navigate bureaucracy and drum up support. globe, Booking.com grew rapidly and today Vermeulen said at InnerCircle’s office, a shared dam’s deputy mayor in charge of economic Last September, the city hosted Capital Week— offers rooms in more than 200 countries small and grow into the startup workspace on the placid waters of the affairs. Last year, a record 140 foreign com- a conference designed to link entrepreneurs and territories. In 2005, competitor Price- broader European market. Herengracht canal. “The concept was initially panies opened shop in the city—which local and investors. And the Dutch government has line.com bought the company for $133 million, set-up in such a way that we could easily roll- authorities expect will add an additional earmarked 100 million euros through 2019 to and last year, the Netherlands accounted for out internationally.” His site is now available 3,000 jobs within three years. Netflix, Uber give an extra boost to startups it decides have two-thirds of Priceline’s $9 billion in revenue. in five cities and has 93,000 approved suitors, and Tesla have all established their Euro- the potential to grow and create jobs. Startups intending to focus on a single with another 95,000 on a waiting list. pean headquarters in Amsterdam, citing Amsterdam’s global outlook pulled in market would “do better in France, Germany Amsterdam has become a preferred des- the international talent pool and quality of John Staunton, an Irishman who in 2013 co- or the U.K.,” said Pepijn Rijvers, Booking.com’s tination for companies aiming to start small life. Generous corporate tax rates paired with founded Countr, an application that helps chief marketing officer. “If your aim is a truly and grow into the broader European mar- individual breaks for knowledge workers also store owners manage cash registers. After global business, then Amsterdam is a great ket. The international mindset—about half of help attract companies. considering London, Berlin and Copenhagen, starting point.” 28 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

BACK TO BUSINESS sight Luxury brands struggle to Goldman warns on swelling iron surplus attract Internet generation as retreat breaks $50

Bloomberg May 26 note. Goldman said it saw iron AFP opportunities based on ore at $55 a tonne this quarter time, location, interests and $45 a tonne between July and more. oldman Sachs Group Inc and September, repeating fore- Still, brands such as has warned that the glo- casts that the New York-based educing hyper-connected Tiffany face a problem: Gbal iron ore market faces bank gave in a report earlier this “Millennials” poses an some young people see a rising surplus as miners are month. increasing challenge for lux- them as “old-world lux- poised to churn out more supply For the final three months, ury brands, which find their ury” items that don’t jibe while China’s production of steel Goldman said iron ore is now Smarkets slowing as young, skepti- with their Internet Age slows, predicting that prices will seen at $38 a tonne, $2 less than cal consumers force them to rethink values and lifestyles, probably sink below $40 a tonne the figure given in the earlier strategies. according to Neil Saun- as stockpiles expand. report. Goldman Sachs estimates that ders of Conlumino retail “We expect a growing sur- Ore with 62 percent con- 92 million Americans are in the Mil- research company. plus of seaborne supply to drive tent sank 1.8 percent to $49.48 lennial generation—born between Being on social net- an increase in port invento- a tonne on Thursday, the low- the early 1980s and the 2000s— works has become a ries,” analysts Christian Lelong est since February 26, according surpassing the famed cohort of “must” in the market- and Amber Cai wrote in a note to Metal Bulletin Ltd. The raw postwar Baby Boomers who are now ing equation, but it is received on Friday. “Stocks are material has lost 30 percent approaching a geriatric phase. The not enough, contended set to increase as new mining since peaking at more than $70 huge pool of Millennial consumers Quinlan. capacity ramps up in the sec- on April 21, when the specula- grew up with the Internet, smart- “The bottom line is ond half of 2016 and Chinese tive frenzy in China helped to lift phones and a sharing economy in having something rele- demand declines.” prices for three straight months. which owning things like cars is seen vant that fits into their Benchmark prices sank back On Friday, iron ore futures in as almost unhip. lifestyle,” Quinlan said of below $50 on Thursday to the Dalian and Singapore climbed, Studies show many have differ- Millennials will require a high level Russia and China have seen growth luxury brands that court lowest level since February on paring weekly losses. ent expectations than their elders, of brand investment.” slowing in their countries. It is Millennials. “I don’t think they’ve concern that profit margins at There are signs of increased who were relatively better paid and Luxury-sector sales, excluding unclear that Millennials, with their done enough to curate their brands.” China’s steel mills are again col- supply. China’s port inventories less indebted at the same point in the effects of currency changes, were fickle and prudent spending styles, The fading lure of luxury items lapsing, hurting the outlook for topped 100 million tonnes last life. up only one percent last year, and will take up the slack. among Millennials is “not necessarily iron ore demand just as miners week, the highest level since Deloitte analyst Nick Pope spoke similarly tepid growth is expected But Burberry has taken aim an income problem,” she contended. continue to add supply. Between March 2015, while miners’ are this week at an FT Business of Lux- this year, according to global man- at those Millennials with a digital Data collected by Mastercard February and April, iron ore expected to increase output. ury Summit of “a structural worry” agement consulting firm Bain & strategy cited as an example for the describes consumers who choose to had benefited as an upswing in Overseas producers are fore- as to whether there would be the Company. industry. And LVMH, the France- enhance their lives with spending credit in China lifted steel prices, cast to dispatch more shipments “same level of spending in product US jeweler Tiffany recently based multinational luxury goods on trips, dinners, outings and other spurring a revival of production to China this quarter and next, ownership and luxury as there was announced a disappointing finan- colossus, reached into the Silicon experiences instead of on “stuff.” at mills. A speculative frenzy according to Huatai Futures Co. in their parents’ generation.” cial forecast, and the maker of the Valley talent pool last year and “They might buy one piece; if it’s by local investors added to the Iron ore “oversupply should A Deloitte study targeted Millen- well-known British Burberry trench recruited Apple executive Ian Rogers. very special, it’s very valuable, has a gains, prompting a clampdown extend into the rest of 2016 nials as an opportunity for luxury coat has embarked on a money-sav- Luxury brands including Burb- memory of a trip somewhere,” Quin- from regulators and exchanges. thanks to planned capacity brands, but warned that they require ing plan. erry, Vuitton and Tiffany have taken lan said. Yet, Pope saw the luxury In China, “the brief improve- additions,” Citigroup Inc said “a high level of investment” and are “The people in the luxury to relying heavily on social networks goods market as “absolutely sound,” ment in profitability caused in a note earlier this week, cit- more “mercurial” consumers whose space, they got very spoiled, because such as Snapchat that are popular so long as brands recognize the too many blast furnaces to be ing the four largest shippers brand loyalty can quickly shift. there was a market of people who with young people. Having a pres- shifts under way and offer “value reheated,” according to the — Rio Tinto Group, BHP Bil- “Their engagement with dig- consistently spent,” Sarah Quinlan ence online and in social media has enhancing” products. Thus, compa- analysts, who said there’s now liton Ltd., Vale SA and Fortescue ital technology has exposed them of MasterCard Advisors told AFP on become a necessity for brands. nies could transform their shops into excess steel supply. Metals Group Ltd — as well as to more sources of information, a the sidelines of the FT luxury sum- It promises to become even places where people can socialize Steel production will proba- the Pilbara venture backed by greater range of influences, and mit in San Francisco. more important as people use and linger as they might in a coffee bly follow a downward path for billionaire Gina Rinehart. “We smaller brands,” the study said of “That market is no longer there.” smartphones while making buy- shop, or connect with increasingly the rest of the year, in line with remain bearish on iron ore,” Cit- Millennials. Oligarchs with lavish spending ing decisions on the move. Internet popular historical, ethical or sustain- historical trends, they said in the igroup said. “To attract, excite and engage habits in oil-rich countries such as titans are pitching instant shopping ability trends.

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The Peninsula medallists from London 2012: Nor- enticing match-up between world sil- way, Montenegro and Spain. ver medallists the Netherlands and The men’s draw saw France and European bronze medallists Sweden. Croatia, who have dominated the In the men’s tournament, the DOHA: World silver medallists Qatar game for the last 20 years, placed most eagerly anticipated contest will will launch their handball campaign together in group A. see rivals Croatia and France go hand at the 2016 Olympic Games with a Taking place at the Future to hand on day eight (August 13). clash against Croatia on August 6, Arena in Barra Olympic Park, the France have recently had the details showed yesterday. competition will commence with upper hand as the Olympic and Qatar are in Group A with six women’s matches on August 6, world champions beat the Croats Croatia, Tunisia, France, Denmark where hosts Brazil will face Olym- in their backyard to win gold at and Argentina pic, world and European champions the 2009 world championships In their second game, Qatar take Norway. and then inflicted defeat again on France on August 9 followed by a But the Brazilian women, who at the semi-final stage of Lon- game against Tunisia on August 11. won their first world title in 2013, don 2012. In their fourth game, Qatar face say they are full of confidence, Group A, which includes France Denmark on August 13 followed by especially in front of a home crowd. and Croatia as well as European sil- the final group clash against Argen- Brazil’s women opted to be placed in ver medallists Denmark and Qatar, tina on August 15. a tough group. plus Tunisia and Argentina, has been Qatar qualified for the Olympic “I am certain that we are ready dubbed the group of death. Games after winning their berth at to start the Olympic Games well,” However group B will be no walk the Asian qualifiers held in Doha last Morten Soubak, the Brazil women’s in the park for hosts Brazil, who year in November. Qatar beat Iran in coach said in a story posted on www. must face Olympic silver medallists the final. rio2016.com. Sweden and European champions After the groups were drawn “I hope playing at home will be Germany, along with Poland, Slov- last month, fans have been eagerly very positive for us. Our players love enia and Egypt. waiting to find out when the big playing in Brazil.” Highlight matches in this group match-ups will take place. Another interesting contest on include the opener between Sweden The big stories from the draw day one will be between Montenegro and Germany on day two (August 7), were that the Brazilian women’s team and Spain, silver and bronze med- and then Germany vs Poland, who The Qatari handball team in action during the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship held at Lusail boldly opted to join group A which allists respectively at London 2012. won bronze at the world champion- Complex in this January 2015 file picture. Qatar finished second at the championship. includes the gold, silver and bronze Day 7 (August 12) will see an ships, on August 9. Champions League: Ronaldo Qatar vs Albania friendly caps another Real win in final

An unbelievable night to win my third Champions League and to be the top scorer in the competition again, says star striker

AFP Action from the friendly match between Qatar and Albania in Vienna, Austria, yesterday. Albania won 3-1. Coached by Daniel Carreno, the Qatar national team is taking part in a training camp MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo could in Austria in preparations for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. not contain his pride after firing BOTTOM: Qatar’s Abdulkareem Hassan (right) celebrates after Real Madrid to their 11th Champions scoring a goal. League success on Saturday with a decisive, and pre-planned, penalty in a 5-3 shoot-out over Atletico Madrid. After two scoreless periods of Real Madrid’s Marcelo Vieira (left) and Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo arrive at La Cibeles fountain on extra time following a 1-1 draw, the city rivals were forced to spot-kicks. board a bus to celebrate with their supporters the victory in the UEFA Champions League final, in Madrid, And after Atletico defender Juan- Spain, yesterday. fran’s penalty came off the post, Ronaldo sparked wild celebrations to win this amazing trophy, so I’m so that went their way when Juanfran one. It’s tough. It’s the end of the sea- at Milan’s San Siro stadium after proud of my teammates, of the fans, hit the post. son, you don’t have power in your stepping up to confidently sweep families, of the coach. Ronaldo, he appeared to suggest, legs that you have at the beginning his effort past Jan Oblak. “It’s my second year I scored was never likely to miss. of the season.” With 16 goals in the competition, more than 15 goals. The person with “To be honest, I was confident I Zidane becomes just the sev- Ronaldo has finished the top scorer the season scoring record in this would score, I said to Zidane before enth footballer to win the trophy for the second time after his 17-goal competition is me, with 17 goals (in the penalties, ‘put me the last one as coach and player. In 2002, the haul in 2014. 2014). because I feel I’m going to score the Frenchman’s stunning volley was Although he missed out on “And this year 16; or 17 with the winning goal, and this is what hap- the match-winner in a 2-1 defeat of matching his previous record, his penalty. What more can I ask for ?” pened,” he said. Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow. pride was plain to see. Two years after reviving Real’s “I’m so proud to score the win- “I’m so proud to be part of this “An unbelievable night, to win bid for a 10th title, Real captain ning goal and to win the Champions great club. It’s the club of my life, the my third Champions League on pen- Sergio Ramos bundled home a close- League again.” one that made me who I am,” said alties again, to be the top scorer in range opener after just 15 minutes Ronaldo capped the celebra- Zidane. the competition again, I’m so proud,” only for Yannick Carrasco to force tions with the trademark removal Ronaldo, meanwhile, says there’s said the Portuguese star, who won extra time when he came off the of his shirt, revealing a still muscular plenty more to come. the trophy with Manchester United bench to level for Atletico 11 min- and toned physique, although after “I’m always there, in the top level. in 2008 -- when he missed a penalty utes from the end. spurning a couple of real chances, I still feel good, I still feel fresh, not in the shoot-out -- and with Real in Real spurned chances to secure the 31-year-old admitted his per- tonight though!” he said. 2014 when Atletico crashed to a 4-1 the trophy in both periods of extra formance was far from perfect. “I showed the team that I’m there. extra-time defeat. time, but kept their composure “It maybe wasn’t the best one, but For the good moments and the bad. “We work hard during the season throughout a tense penalty shoot-out who played unbelievable tonight? No This is what makes me feel proud.” 30 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 SPORT

Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Skipper Mathews David Warner (2nd right) gestures as he celebrates his team’s victory against Royal leads Sri Lanka’s fight Challengers Bangalore during the IPL final at The M Chinnaswamy for self-respect Stadium in Bangalore yesterday.

AFP Mendis make a brisk 26 before he was caught behind off a James Anderson delivery that nipped away. Lahiru Thirimanne made 13 CHESTER-LE-STREET: Sri Lanka before off-spinner Ali bowled him captain Angelo Mathews led from the with a classic delivery that turned front in the second Test at the River- past the left-hander’s outside edge side yesterday as his side avoided the as he pushed forward. embarrassment of another defeat by Silva’s leg-glance off fast bowler England inside three days. Steven Finn, his sixth boundary, saw But despite Mathews’s 80 as Sri him to a 111-ball fifty. Lanka followed on, England were Mathews then clipped Stuart eyeing a series-clinching win. Broad through mid-wicket for four At the close of the third day, Sri and cut him to the point rope, before Lanka were 309 for five -- still 88 his slogged six off Ali brought up Sri runs behind England’s first innings Lanka’s 150. Finn ended an entertain- 498 for nine declared, which featured ing stand, however, when his bouncer Moeen Ali’s Test-best 155 not out. surprised Silva, whose skyed pull into Mathews’s fourth-wicket second- Bairstow’s gloves ended nearly four innings stand of 82 -- Sri Lanka’s first hours of resistance. The umpires fifty partnership of the series -- with checked for a possible no-ball, but opener Kaushal Silva (60) kept Eng- Finn had narrowly avoided over-step- Sunrisers choke RCB land at bay for much of Sunday’s play. ping and Sri Lanka were 182 for four. Dinesh Chandimal (54 not out) Mathews fell short of three figures and Milinda Siriwardana (35 not out) when Anderson squared Mathews built on that platform with an unbro- up and took the outside edge, with ken partnership of 87 that took Sri Bairstow holding a tumbling catch. Lanka to stumps. Yesterday’s sec- Sri Lanka were now 222 for five, with ond innings saw the talented Kusal more than 19 overs left before stumps. chase for first IPL title SCOREBOARD England (I innings): 498-9 decl Sri Lanka (II innings): With 18 runs required off the final SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka (I innings): D Karunaratne c Root b Woakes 26 over, pace spearhead Bhuvneshwar Chris Gayle’s 38-ball Kumar gave away just nine as the SUNRISERS HYDERABAD ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE D Karunaratne b Anderson 9 K Silva c Bairstow b Finn 60 76 in vain as Kohli’s Hyderabad players celebrated amid D A Warner c I Abdulla b Aravind 69 C H Gayle c B Sharma b Cutting 76 K Silva c Bairstow b Broad 13 K Mendis c Bairstow b Anderson 26 Bangalore fall nine fireworks. S Dhawan c Jordan b Chahal 28 V Kohli b Sran 54 K Mendis c Anderson b Woakes 35 L Thirimanne b Ali 13 Electing to bat first, Hyderabad rode M C Henriques c Chahal b Jordan 4 A B de Villiers c Henriques b B Sharma 5 runs short on entertaining knocks from Australia’s D Chandimal c Cook b Anderson 4 A Mathews c Bairstow b Anderson 80 Yuvraj Singh c Watson b Jordan 38 K L Rahul b Cutting 11 A Mathews c Bairstow b Woakes 3 D Chandimal (batting) 54 Warner and Ben Cutting to post a mam- moth 208 for seven in 20 overs. D J Hooda c Kohli b Aravind 3 S R Watson c Henriques b M Rahman 11 L Thirimanne c Compton b Anderson 19 M Siriwardana (batting) 35 If Warner laid a solid foundation B C J Cutting (not out) 39 Sachin Baby (not out) 18

M Siriwardana c Bairstow b Woakes 0 Extras (LB-9, W-1, NB-5) 15 AFP with his ninth fifty of this IPL season N V Ojha (run out) 7 S T R Binny (run out) 9 R Herath c Anderson b Broad 12 Total (for 5 wkts) 309 then fellow Aussie Cutting finished it Bipul Sharma c Chahal b Jordan 5 C J Jordan (run out) 3 off with an unbeaten 39 off 15 deliveries. S Eranga c Root b Broad 2 To bat: R Herath, S Eranga, S Lakmal, N Pra- B Kumar (not out) 1 Iqbal Abdulla (not out) 4 deep The left-handed Warner (69) gave S Lakmal c Bairstow b Broad 0 Extras (B-1, LB-2, W-11) 14 Extras (LB-5, W-4) 9 Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-79, 3-100, 4-182, BANGALORE: Skipper David Warner’s the team a rollicking 63-run start with N Pradeep (not out) 2 Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) 208 Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) 200 5-222. sparkling half century helped Sunrisers opener Shikhar Dhawan (28). Extras (LB-1, NB-1) 2 Hyderabad survive a punishing blitz by Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who Did not bat: B B Sran, Mustafizur Rahman. Did not bat: S Aravind, Y S Chahal. Total (all out) 101 Bowling: Anderson 16-3-40-2; Broad 17-5- Chris Gayle (76) to edge out Royal Chal- remained the team’s top wicket taker of 47-0 (2nb); Woakes 15-7-51-1 (1w); Finn 16-0- Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-97, 3-125, 4-147, Fall of wickets: 1-114, 2-140, 3-148, 4-160, Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-44, 3-53, 4-58, 5-67, lengers Bangalore by eight runs in the the season with 21, got the first break- 5-148, 6-158, 7-174. 5-164, 6-180, 7-194. 55-1 (1nb); Ali 17-2-94-1 (2nb); Vince 1-1-0-0; Indian Premier League final yesterday. through in Dhawan who mistimed a slog 6-67, 7-88, 8-90, 9-93, 10-101. Bowling: S Aravind 4-0-30-2; C H Gayle 3-0- Bowling: B Kumar 4-0-25-0 (1w); B B Sran Root 2-0-13-0. Defending 208 to claim their maiden sweep to deep square leg. Bowling: Anderson 12.3-2-36-3; Broad 13-2- Match position: Sri Lanka, following-on, are IPL title, Hyderabad restricted Virat Koh- The last five overs saw the back of 24-0 (2w); S R Watson 4-0-61-0 (2w); Y S 3-0-41-1 (2w); B C J Cutting 4-0-35-2 (1w); 40-4 (1nb); Woakes 7-4-9-3; Finn 7-3-15-0; Ali 88 runs behind with five second-innings wick- li’s Bangalore to 200 for seven at the M four Hyderabad batsmen, but Cutting’s Chahal 4-0-35-1; Iqbal Abdulla 1-0-10-0; C J Mustafizur Rahman 4-0-37-1; M C Henriques 4-4-0-0. ets standing. Chinnaswamy stadium with Gayle’s late blitz allowed the side to bag 68 runs Jordan 4-0-45-3 (2w). 3-0-40-0; Bipul Sharma 2-0-17-1. 38-ball 76 in vain. from the final 30 deliveries. Murray, Wawrinka reach last eight in Paris

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PARIS: Andy Murray moved omi- to ram a backhand past him as he nously into the French Open advanced to the net. quarter-finals for the sixth time in Three-times Roland Garros his career with a clinical 7-6 (9) 6-4 semi-finalist Murray converted his 6-3 defeat of American John Isner second set point when Isner hit a yesterday. forehand wide. The second seed began the After a rain delay, the second tournament scraping through back- set proved another tight tussle to-back five-setters but has been a before Isner cracked under pres- model of efficiency since and has sure at 4-5 - Murray breaking for his eyes fixed firmly on a first title the first time to move two sets clear at Roland Garros. with the help of a delightful angled Isner took a 0-5 career record drop shot. It was routine after that against Murray on to a murky for Murray who will play either Court Suzanne Lenglen but he stuck Frenchman Richard Gasquet or manfully to his task in the first set, Kei Nishikori next. denying the Briton the slightest Hitting sublime back- whiff of a break. hands, defending champion Stan Champion Clutch team representative (right) receives The 15th seed had three set Wawrinka surged 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), points in the tiebreak, the first of 6-3, 6-2 into the quarterfinals yes- the Aspire Open Basketball League trophy during the which, when serving at 6-5, he will terday. After lending the lucky lad presentation ceremony. be rueing. a racket for their impromptu hit- Murray reacted superbly to about, the third-seeded Swiss return a booming first serve and got back to business, securing his Isner then failed to make the most win in cold and humid conditions Clutch cagers win FRENCH OPEN of an inviting mid-court fore- on Court Philippe Chatrier in just hand, giving the Briton the chance under three hours. RESULTS Aspire Open Men: 4th round Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) Basketball League bt Milos Raonic (CAN x8) 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 Mirza-Hingis Slam Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x3) The Peninsula atmosphere at Aspire Zone, and bt Viktor Troicki (SRB x22) witnessed the participation of 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (7/9), 6-3, 6-2 dream ends in Paris eight teams of eight players per Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt team. Britain’s Andy Murray John Isner (USA x15) 7-6 DOHA: The Aspire Open At the conclusion of the serves the ball to US (11/9), 6-4, 6-3 AFP Basketball League recently tournament, the Clutch team player John Isner concluded following a month of took home major honours and during their men’s Women: 4th round exciting competitions that took the league title after scoring 68 fourth round match at Garbine Muguruza (ESP x4) PARIS: Top seeds Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza saw their hopes of hold- place at the Multi-Purpose Hall points against Tunisia Team the Roland Garros 2016 bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS ing all four Grand Slam women’s doubles titles at the same time come to at Aspire Dome. who were placed second with French Tennis Open in x13) 6-3, 6-4 a shattering end yesterday. The League offered bas- 39 points. Paris yesterday. Murray Shelby Rogers (USA) bt Irina Bidding to become the first team to hold all four majors simultane- ketball enthusiasts aged 17 and Dub City team secured the beat Isner 7 -6 (11/9), ously since Serena and Venus Williams in 2010, Hingis and Mirza slumped above in Qatar the opportunity third place when they out- Begu (ROM x25) 6-3, 6-4 6-4, 6-3. to a shock 6-3, 6-2 loss to Czech pair Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina to practise their favourite sport played LKZ Warriors 33-32 Siniakova in the third round. in an exciting and competitive in a thriller. SPORT MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 31 Real get heroes’ welcome in Madrid

a worldwide audience of 180 million people in over 200 countries. Rain couldn’t stop Praise poured in for Real Madrid, thousands of fans including from Spain’s acting Prime to celebrate historic Minister Mariano Rajoy. “Epic final in the League of Cham- triumph at Plaza pions,” he tweeted. Cibeles as Spain’s “Congratulations to all... for the 11th.” acting Prime Minister Another public celebration with Mariano Rajoy also the team is planned for last night in their stadium, which will follow a heaps praise on reception with city leaders. Zidane’s side “I am delighted. Two Champi- ons League titles in three years, it is incredible,” said Monica Gonzalez, a 25-year-old Real fan. AFP “They (Atletico) deserved it. They almost played better. I am happy my team won, but it could have been any MADRID: Thousands of Real Madrid of the two teams.” However, Gonzal- fans chanted and waved supporter ez’s boyfriend Jaime de Francisco, an scarves under a rain of confetti yes- Atletico fan, couldn’t hide his disap- terday in the Spanish capital as the pointment as once again the red and team returned home after an historic white half of Madrid was forced to life 11th European Cup win. in Real’s shadow. An open top bus emblazoned with Just 500 metres (yards) away from the word “Campeones” (Champions) wild scenes of celebration at Cibe- carried the team, who showed off the les, the Neptuno fountain -- where trophy to fans who had spent hours Atletico fans go to celebrate their tri- awaiting their heroes in the heart of umphs -- was empty. the city. Spanish daily sports newspaper “How can I not love you!,” shouted Marca captured the mood, describing the ecstatic crowd at the Plaza de Real as “the king of Europe”, adding Cibeles – a traditional meeting point that manager Zinedine Zidane had for Real’s trophy celebrations. been “touched by a magic wand”. Three-time World Player of the “He was born to play for Real Year Cristiano Ronaldo struck the Madrid... and to lead them,” wrote winning spot-kick in a 5-3 penalties the paper. victory over Atletico Madrid at Milan’s “A supreme derby, exhausting, sti- San Siro Stadium. Fans surround the bus as Real Madrid players hold up the trophy celebrating the team’s win against Atletico Madrid in Saturday’s Champions fling,” wrote the AS sports newspaper. It is the second time in three years League final at Plaza Cibeles in Madrid, Spain yesterday. Spain’s bestselling El Pais that Real have defeated Atletico in the newspaper described the final as final. “unforgettable and gruelling”, with The players snapped photos of the large silver trophy for the cheering followed the action from the tense am (0400 GMT), headed directly for of 3.2 million people had been dom- an editorial arguing that Atletico have raucous crowd from a platform spe- supporters. final on four giant television screens. Cibeles where the fans had been cel- inated by the two clubs crests and nothing to regret, saying that they cially erected at Cibeles, and team At Real’s Santiago Bernabeu Sta- The Real Madrid players, who ebrating since midnight. colours in a frenzied build-up to the were “far superior at the start, (and) captain Sergio Ramos waved the dium around 50,000 supporters had arrived home from Milan around 6:00 The football-mad Spanish capital final, which was expected to attract must be gritting their teeth”. Penalties are a lottery, says Ramos is Real Madrid hero match-winner Ronaldo again after turbulent year

Reuters 1-1, the Spaniard cut down Yannick Ramos endured a difficult start to AFP Real Madrid’s Carrasco to end a potentially fatal the season as Real struggled to gel Portuguese Atletico attack. under coach Rafael Benitez, and the forward After marshalling his exhausted defender dislocated his shoulder a Cristiano MILAN: Just as he did two years team through extra time and into month into the season, then suffer- MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo said Ronaldo ago, Sergio Ramos left his footprint the shootout, Ramos calmly tucked ing the same injury in November. penalties are just a game of chance celebrates all over Real Madrid’s Champions Real’s fourth spot-kick into the bot- He was rushed back to play after scoring the winning spot-kick League final triumph over Atletico tom corner before Cristiano Ronaldo against Barcelona but came in for the team’s to give Real Madrid an 11th Champi- Madrid following a turbulent 12 converted the decisive penalty to more criticism as Real were crushed win at Plaza ons League crown on Saturday. months. secure Real’s 11th European Cup. 4-0 by Luis Enrique’s side. Ramos “The penalties are always a lot- Cibeles Ramos scored a controversial “There are few things that can was sent off against Barcelona tery, you never know what’s going to in Madrid opening goal in the San Siro on Sat- compare to winning this trophy, five months later at the Nou Camp, happen, but we showed that our team yesterday. urday and nonchalantly converted his it’s an award for hard work and for although his side went on to win 2-1. had more experience and we showed penalty in the shootout before being suffering because it’s been a very dif- A commanding display in the 3-0 that we scored all penalties -- it was named man of the match and lifting ficult season,” Ramos told reporters. win over Wolfsburg in the Champi- unbelievable, a fantastic night,” Ron- European soccer’s biggest trophy for “Scoring goals is a real boost for ons League quarter-final second aldo told BT Sport after the shootout the second time in three years. me, when you score a goal in a final it leg marked his return to form, and triumph. Ramos influenced the game will always go down in history.” Ramos admitted after that game he Ronaldo scored the winning pen- hugely from the 15th minute when he Less than a year ago, Ramos was had a tough season. alty just after Juanfran had missed popped up in front of Atletico goal- reported to be on the verge of join- All those issues were forgotten, for Atletico in Milan’s San Siro sta- keeper Jan Oblak to bundle Gareth ing Manchester United and ending his however, as he jubilantly hoisted the dium where the game finished 1-1 Bale’s flicked header into the net and decade-long spell with Real. Champions League trophy into the after extra-time. Real won 5-3 on put Madrid ahead, despite appearing After a two month stand-off, he Milan sky. penalties. to be marginally offside. ended the speculation by penning a “I suffered a lot after injuring my Atletico’s Yannick Carrasco had Ramos then threw himself in new improved deal in August, saying shoulder, but I decided to stop and scored a 79th minute equaliser after front of a goal-bound shot from Anto- it was never his intention to leave the then I improved,” added Ramos. Sergio Ramos opened the scoring for ine Griezmann and in the second half, Spanish capital. “It’s a privilege to finish the sea- Real on 15 minutes. with the game delicately poised at Despite clearing up his future, son like this.” French legend Zinedine Zidane became only the seventh man to win Europe’s premier club competition both as a player and coach. He was previously assistant to Carlo Ancelotti -- another of the seven -- two years ago when Real also beat Atletico in the final. “It’s huge! Ancelotti told me he hoped I’d be able to lift (the trophy) as a head coach,” Zidane told beIN Sport. “He was right, it’s a massive joy. I’m empty, but it’s all positive. “When you achieve what we’ve Wales winger Gareth Bale over- second time in three years was extra achieved all season it means you’ve came cramp to score his spot-kick special. “That’s the most important done well, that the messages have got for Real. thing. Obviously they gave a great through, that the players have fol- “I can’t feel a lot to be honest, I’m game, I’m obviously feeling a bit sorry lowed me, that I’ve followed them cramping up. What an amazing feel- for them but a final’s a final and you and that’s how we’ve managed to ing,” he said. have to win.” win this Champions League.” “It was difficult, in extra-time Real’s French striker Karim Ben- Real’s Brazilian full-back Danilo a lot of people were getting cramp. zema, who has not been picked for paid tribute to Zidane: “We’ve learnt We showed resilience and what we’re France’s Euro 2016 squad, suggested everything with him and he created made of. this result would make up for his per- a real group. At Real Madrid we never “I had cramp afterwards, thank sonal disappointment. accept that we’re beaten.” god it wasn’t before. It’s an amaz- “It’s great! This season has been Many players ended the game ing feeling, I can’t describe what it very difficult but we fought to the suffering with cramp. feels like. end,” said Benzema. “It’s difficult, it’s the end of the “The boys gave everything. The “We showed we’re a real team season, people are not fit any more club, the fans have been amazing on and we’ve entered into history. I’m Real Madrid’s defender Sergio Ramos rides on the bus beside the trophy as the team celebrates at Plaza so we have to rest now and do it this journey -- we deserve it.” happy and proud. for European Championship,” said And he said beating their bitter “We’re here to win titles and go Cibeles in Madrid yesterday after winning the UEFA Champions League final against Club Atletico Madrid Ronaldo. city rivals in the final again for the through nights like this.” in Milan, Italy. 32 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 SPORT

Spanish press CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNERS 2016 Real Madrid (ESP) laud Real’s Zidane assured place in Real 2015 Barcelona (ESP) 2014 Real Madrid (ESP) 11th crown 2013 Bayern Munich (GER) 2012 Chelsea (ENG) 2011 Barcelona (ESP) AFP 2010 Inter Milan (ITA)

hearts if not a long future 2009 Barcelona (ESP) 2008 Manchester United (ENG) MADRID: The big-game expe- 2007 AC Milan (ITA) rience of a side littered with 2006 Barcelona (ESP) galacticos helped ensure an 11th Having conquered Europe with 2005 Liverpool (ENG) European title for Real Madrid, Having conquered Real as a player, coach and assist- Spanish press reported yesterday. ant, Zidane’s next task is to wrest the 2004 FC Porto (POR) Real beat city rivals Atletico Europe with Real as La Liga title back from Barcelona, 2003 AC Milan (ITA) 5-3 on penalties after Saturday’s a player, coach and who finished a solitary point above 2002 Real Madrid (ESP) final in Milan finished 1-1 after his side. 2001 Bayern Munich (GER) extra-time. assistant, Zidane’s Zidane picked up more points 2000 Real Madrid (ESP) Real “shone in the first quarter next task is to wrest than Barca and Atletico since suc- 1999 Manchester United (ENG) of an hour, but then lost its way in ceeding Benitez on January 4, 1998 Real Madrid (ESP) the game”, said Marca, the most- the La Liga title back including victories in the last 12 1997 Borussia Dortmund (GER) read sports newspaper in Spain. from Barcelona games, although the football his 1996 Juventus (ITA) The Zinedine Zidane-coached team played lacked the sparkle of 1995 Ajax Amsterdam (NED) side went on to win the match Luis Enrique’s championship-win- 1994 AC Milan (ITA) 1993 Marseille (FRA) thanks to “its character during Reuters ning side. big occasions and the quality of The most graceful of players, 1992 Barcelona (ESP) its players”. Zidane has proved to be a great prag- 1991 Red Star Belgrade (YUG) “The 11th title will enter into matist as a coach, stressing on the eve 1990 AC Milan (ITA) history as the toughest of all Real MILAN: In leading Real Madrid to of the final that his team’s plan was 1989 AC Milan (ITA) have won,” said Madrid-based their 11th European Cup less than five to “run, run and run”. 1988 PSV Eindhoven (NED) sports daily AS. months after inheriting an unhappy With Cristiano Ronaldo clearly 1987 FC Porto (POR) “Real didn’t play well yester- team from Rafael Benitez, Zinedine not match fit, Real’s win owed more 1986 Steaua Bucharest (ROM) day, but the manner in which they Zidane has cemented his heroic sta- to the gutsy determination of defen- 1985 Juventus (ITA) clung on and came through at the tus at the Bernabeu and appears to sive midfielder Casemiro and man of 1984 Liverpool (ENG) end with half the team suffering have assured his immediate future. the match Sergio Ramos than the flair 1983 Hamburg (GER) cramp makes it praiseworthy,” AS Although neither Zidane nor players Perez loves to recruit. 1982 Aston Villa (ENG) said, highlighting top efforts from Real’s notoriously trigger happy presi- Zidane never tires of stressing 1981 Liverpool (ENG) Brazilian Casemiro, Welshman dent Florentino Perez have confirmed the value of hard work and his team 1980 Nottingham Forest (ENG) Gareth Bale and goal scorer Ser- whether the French coach would be selections reflect that, sidelining the 1979 Nottingham Forest (ENG) gio Ramos. remain charge, there could be no likes of James Rodriguez and Isco, 1978 Liverpool (ENG) El Pais hailed Real as the political capital gained from axing players overflowing with talent but 1977 Liverpool (ENG) “indisputable kings of Europe”, the coach now. reluctant to dig in and help the team 1976 Bayern Munich (GER) while lamenting Atletico’s “curse”, The Frenchman has enjoyed spe- out defensively. 1975 Bayern Munich (GER) Diego Simeone’s team having now cial status since his wondrous volley Another key to Zidane’s early suc- 1974 Bayern Munich (GER) lost three European Cup finals. against Bayer Leverkusen won the cess with Real has been to create a 1973 Ajax Amsterdam (NED) Barcelona-based sports dailies 2002 Champions League, although happy atmosphere among a squad 1972 Ajax Amsterdam (NED) Sport and Mundo Deportivo both he must know Saturday’s shootout that never bonded with predeces- 1971 Ajax Amsterdam (NED) ran the headline “Maximum pen- victory over Atletico Madrid does sor Benitez. 1970 Feyenoord (NED) alty” alongside a photo of prostrate not guarantee him a long future at “There is a very good feel- 1969 AC Milan (ITA) Atletico players and question- the club. ing between us and Zidane, he has 1968 Manchester United (ENG) ing the supposed offside it said He only needs to look at the fate brought happiness, hope, humility 1967 Celtic (SCO) allowed Real to open the score. of the last two coaches to lead Real and hard work,” Ramos said. 1966 Real Madrid (ESP) Mundo Deportivo editor Santi to European glory, Vicente del Bosque Zidane added: “What I’ve brought 1965 Inter Milan (ITA) Nolla called Real’s victory a “tri- and Carlo Ancelotti, both sacked 12 to Real is my positive attitude. I 1964 Inter Milan (ITA) umph”, adding that “no one will months later, as a reminder of that. believe in hard work, we already have 1963 AC Milan (ITA) talk about their football because The only Real coach to create any a lot of quality in the team. But work is 1962 Benfica (POR) there’s little to say about it”. sort of dynasty was Miguel Munoz, more important than quality.” 1961 Benfica (POR) Elsewhere in Barcelona, like Zidane a European Cup win- Hardwork may have delivered 1960 Real Madrid (ESP) broadsheets La Vanguardia and ner as a Real midfielder, who spent Zidane Europe’s biggest prize in his 1959 Real Madrid (ESP) Real Madrid’s coach Zinedine Zidane and his players celebrate after El Periodico both led on political 14 years in charge, winning Europe’s infancy as a coach, but he will need to 1958 Real Madrid (ESP) issues, only a small photo showing winning the UEFA Champions League final against Atletico Madrid in top prize in 1960 and 1966 and nine oversee a higher standard of football 1957 Real Madrid (ESP) Real’s victory on their front pages. Milan on Saturday. La Liga titles. if he is to remain in charge long term. 1956 Real Madrid (ESP) Title caps rollercoaster season for Spanish giants

AFP and stayed till well after sunrise on Florentino Perez. Benitez was the Zidane has already gone a “I was given the chance to Sunday morning to welcome their fall guy in early January to make long way to matching his stellar come to this amazing club, and heroes back from Italy around the way for Zidane to take his first career that included World Cup, then to coach it. Plaza de Cibeles fountain -- a tra- senior managerial role after just Champions League and European “I have a phenomenal team and MADRID: A season that prom- ditional meeting point for Real’s 18 months experience with Real’s Championships winner’s medals. great players who are also talented, ised so little when Zinedine Zidane triumphs. youth team Real Madrid Castilla. Victory in Milan ensured he and it was together we achieved took charge of a beleaguered Real The contrast in emotions to the Crucially, though, in contrast to became the first French coach to what we did tonight.” Madrid less than five months ago first half of the season couldn’t be the dictatorial Benitez, as a former ever win the competition and only By contrast, Atletico were left ended beyond even the richest club starker as a series of off-field gaffes legendary player, Zidane instantly the seventh man to win the Euro- with a horrible sense of deja vu in the world’s wildest dreams with and poor performances left the had the respect of Real’s star-stud- pean Cup as both a player and a as they were once again denied an 11th European Cup win in Milan. club in disarray. ded squad. manager. a first ever European Cup in ago- Cristiano Ronaldo struck the Manchester United goalkeeper “Zizou is very humble but Moreover, he has now played a nising circumstances by their winning penalty in a shootout to David de Gea’s move to Madrid was determined. His arrival was really key role in each of Real’s last three nearest and dearest rivals with cap a remarkable turnaround in botched due to a paperwork delay important for us because he has a Champions League triumphs as he goals bookended by Ramos and Real’s fortunes as for the second and the club were thrown out the great relationship with the players,” scored a sensational winning goal striker Ronaldo. time in three years they edged Copa del Rey for fielding an ineli- said Real captain Sergio Ramos in the 2002 final and was assistant Two years ago Atletico were a tense final against local rivals gible player. after the win. to Carlo Ancelotti in 2014. seconds away from victory before Atletico Madrid. A 4-0 home defeat to bitter “With Rafael we had some “I’m so proud to be part of this Ramos’s header took the game to Real’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas celebrates Thousands of delirious Real rivals Barcelona in November left good times, but when Zizou came great club. It’s the club of my life, extra-time where Real ran riot with with the trophy after Real Madrid won fans poured into the heart of fans calling for the head of then the dressing room was more the one that made me who I am,” further goals from Gareth Bale, the UEFA Champions League final against Madrid city centre after the match coach Rafael Benitez and president unified.” said Zidane. Marcelo and Ronaldo. Atletico Madrid in Milan on Saturday. Simeone may not have the stomach to reinvent Atletico again

Reuters competitive, never give up, fight against the His coaching career has been a story of difficulties and to know that there are oppo- similar ups and downs. nents who are better than us,” he said at one It began in spectacular style as he led Estu- stage. diantes to their first Argentine championship MILAN: Diego Simeone may not have the “Knowing they are better makes us more in 23 years after they dramatically overhauled stomach to reinvent Atletico Madrid again competitive to battle against them.” Boca Juniors, then won the same title with after they suffered another morale-shattering The question is whether he will want to go River Plate two years later. loss to Real Madrid in Saturday’s Champions through the whole process again. At one point, he was seen as favourite to League final. Whatever he decides, it is almost certain replace Alfio Basile as Argentina coach but The Atletico coach left doubts in the air that Simeone will be back somewhere, more was swept aside when it became clear that with vague answers about his future following likely than not at a club looking to upstage Diego Maradona wanted the job. their second Champions League final defeat in more glamorous rivals. His career then took a dive as he quit three seasons to the same opponents. Over the course of his career, Simeone River amid a dire campaign which left him It would be perfectly understandable if has made a habit of picking himself up, dust- so angry that he broke his hand in one game the combative Argentine, habitually dressed ing himself down and starting all over again. after smashing it against the substitutes’ bench in all-black, decides he has taken Atletico as Simeone suffered a huge setback relatively in a fit of rage. far as he can. early in his career when he was in the Argen- His philosophy has always stayed the Having joined a club teetering close to the tina team which infamously lost 5-0 at home same, however, and there was no change on relegation zone in 2011, he lifted them out of to Colombia in a World Cup qualifier. Saturday. danger and won the Europa League title, the Nevertheless, he went on to win 106 caps “We just have to keep on working, and per- Copa del Rey and La Liga within three years. for his country and played in three World Cups, sisting,” he said. Each triumph saw key players depart, invar- although those themselves all ended in dis- “Nobody remembers the team that comes iably to richer clubs, yet Simeone always appointment. There was, though, also plenty second. It’s a failure when you lose two finals Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone looks dejected after defeat against Real Madrid contrived to rebuild his side. of success amid the frustration including two and that is something you have to accept and in the Champions League final in Milan on Saturday. “To be with Atletico is to be perseverant, Copa America titles with Argentina. heal your wounds at home.” SPORT MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 33

Cantona slams Benzema Messi feeling better after and Ben Arfa’s omission

AFP injury scare, says doctor

PARIS: The omission of Karim Ben- zema (pictured) and Hatem Ben Arfa from the France squad for next Messi’s recovery is month’s European Championships is a missed opportunity to unite the day to day, there are country in the face of extremism several treatments and division, according to ex-inter- national Eric Cantona. for this type of blow, Cantona stirred up a hornet’s says team doctor nest last week when he claimed that France coach Didier Deschamps Daniel Martinez was guilty of racial discrimination in his selection, comments that French football chief Noel Le Graet Ben Arfa because of their “north on Saturday dubbed as “stupid” and African origins”. AFP “pathetic”. Deschamps’ lawyer said on Fri- “In this time of trouble and divi- day that the France coach would be sion, I would have liked all of the suing Cantona for slander over his BUENOS AIRES: Lionel Messi’s con- France that I love and dream of be comments. dition had improved on Saturday after represented in this France team. Cantona, who won 45 caps for the Barcelona superstar suffered a Football for me is a fantastic way France between 1987 and 1995, has back injury in Argentina’s 1-0 friendly of integration and should serve to in the past been very critical of his victory over Honduras, reports citing unify and unite,” Cantona said in a former teammate Deschamps, who team medical officials said. column published in Le Journal du in 1996 he branded a “vulgar water Team doctor Daniel Martinez told Dimanche. carrier”. La Nacion newspaper that Messi felt “We missed this chance by not The former Marseille and Leeds less pain in his lower back a day after selecting Benzema and Ben Arfa, two United striker retired in 1997 before being left writhing in agony after a of the best French players. taking up a career in cinema. In heavy collision with a Honduran “Firstly I think that from a sport- 2007 he married Franco-Algerian opponent in the far western city of ing point of view it’s a mistake and actress Rachida Brakni. San Juan. then, this European Championships, Deschamps, 47, went on to cap- “Messi is better, with less pain than which moreover is in France, is an tain France to the 1998 World Cup last night. His recovery is day to day, extraordinary opportunity to send title and 2000 European Champi- there are several treatments for this a clear message to the extremists, onship crown. Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi (centre) is assisted after being injured during a friendly match against type of blow,” Martinez said. whoever they might be. The exclusion of Benzema, of The Argentina Football Associa- Honduras at Bicentenario Stadium in San Juan, some 1110km west of Buenos Aires on Friday. “I’m neither linked to any party Algerian descent, follows his impli- tion (AFA) said in an injury update on nor the puppet of any ideology,” he cation in an alleged attempt by one its website that Messi had suffered a added. “I’m atheist. I am and always of his friends to blackmail interna- “significant bone and soft tissue con- Centenario in the United States next before a crowd of around 8,000 fans. due to fly directly to the California city will be a free man. tional teammate Mathieu Valbuena tusion of the left rib cage and lumbar month. Messi was substituted imme- The five-time FIFA World Player of Santa Clara, outside San Francisco, “For those who’d like to make over a sex tape. paraspinal area.” diately following the incident and was of the Year is due to begin his journey where they will be based before their believe that I’m spouting anti- Ben Arfa, of Tunisian origins, had Messi sustained the injury in an taken to a hospital for examination on back to Spain later Saturday in order opening Copa America game against white racism, my response is one of been hopeful of making the squad accidental collision with Honduras Friday. to attend what is expected to be a two- Chile on June 6. The star Barcelona contempt.” after relaunching his career at Nice player Oliver Morazan, giving Argen- Messi remained at the team hotel day hearing next week in relation to striker is expected to join up with the Cantona told British daily The but instead had to settle for a place tina an injury scare to their star player on Saturday as Argentina trained in allegations of tax fraud. squad in California in time for the first Guardian on Thursday that Des- on Deschamps’s standby list of eight as they prepare for the Copa America the Estadio Bicentenario in San Juan The rest of the Argentina squad are match of the tournament. champs had snubbed Benzema and players.

Poland’s striker and captain Robert Bayern will fight to keep Real target Lewandowski Lewandowski is seen during the training session at AFP the mountain resort pay the Poland striker 25m euros options at German champions Bay- “One thing I know for sure: Robert ($27.78m) per season. ern, who he joined in 2014 on a free Lewandowski will play in the upcom- in Arlamow in Lewandowski finished as the transfer from Dortmund ing season at Bayern Munich. There is southeast Poland, Bundesliga’s top scorer, when he The Champions League, or Euro- no need to think anything else,” Rum- on Saturday. BERLIN: Real Madrid have held talks became the first foreigner to score 30 pean Cup, which Real won for the 11th menigge is quoted in Monday’s edition with Poland’s star striker Robert league goals plus nine in the Cham- time in Saturday’s final, is the only of magazine Kicker. Lewandowski, his agent has con- pions League, in a tally of 42 in all domestic title to have eluded Lewand- “The decision has been made: firmed, while Bayern Munich insist competitions. owski at Dortmund and Bayern. we won’t let Robert Lewandowski they will pay whatever it takes to It was the first time a player has “I’ve been in Germany for six go, regardless of what offer lands on keep him. scored 30 goals in a single German years, have won everything here. the table. “Real Madrid approached us a league season in nearly 40 years. Sometimes you have to consider “There is no pain-barrier (to what few weeks ago, we have listened to The 27-year-old has been on whether it makes sense to try some- Bayern will pay) when it comes to everything and informed Bayern that Real’s radar since he scored four thing new,” said Lewandowski Robert.” we have held talks,” Lewandowski’s goals against the Spanish giants in the recently. Lewandowski has so far avoided agent Cezary Kucharski told the lat- 2013 Champions League semi-final But Bayern’s chairman Karl-Heinz joining Bayern stars Manuel Neuer, est edition of German Magazine Der for previous club Borussia Dortmund. Rummenigge has said the Bavarian Thomas Mueller, Jerome Boateng, Spiegel. The Poland hot-shot has a con- giants have ‘no pain barrier’ when it David Alaba and Javier Martinez who According to reports in the Ger- tract in Munich until 2019, but has comes to what they will pay to keep have all extended their Munich con- man media, Real is prepared to made it clear he is weighing up his their hot-shot in Munich. tracts until 2021.

Ibrahimovic to miss Slovenia Bruce eyes Premier League survival blueprint friendly

AFP “I had a long hard think about it to see if I AFP could repair the damage. “I dedicate this to the chairman. He couldn’t make it today and his ill health concerns us all, STOCKHOLM: Star striker Zlatan LONDON: Steve Bruce believes Hull can copy so for him I’m very pleased.” Ibrahimovic will sit out of Swe- the blueprint of the Premier League’s overa- Bruce is the first manager in the Premier den’s friendly against Slovenia in chievers as they look to survive in the top-flight. League era to mastermind four promotions to order to rest a sore calf, coach Erik Bruce’s side secured an immediate return the top-flight -- two with Hull and two with Bir- Hamren said yesterday. to the big time following last year’s relegation mingham -- but he conceded he was unsure at “We’ll save it until the Wales thanks to Mohamed Diame’s sublime strike in the start of the season if Hull were capable of match” on June 5, Hamren told the Championship play-off final against Shef- recovering from relegation. Swedish news agency TT ahead field Wednesday. “There’s an uncertainty when you get rel- of today’s match against Slovenia Senegal midfielder Diame’s long-range effort egated. We didn’t sign a player until the end of in Malmo. in the 72nd minute was enough to give Hull a July and people lost their jobs,” he said. “It’s the calf he’s had problems 1-0 win at Wembley on Saturday and Hull boss “We had to sell several of our best young with toward the end at PSG,” he Bruce can now turn his attention to planning players to make up the £25m deficit from rel- said. their attempt to avoid the drop next term. egation. It’s never easy but thankfully we had All eyes have been on the It will help that Hull’s bank balance will be enough in the squad to get us back up there,” 34-year-old striker lately pend- boosted by the £110m (145m euros, $161m) wind- he said. ing an announcement on the next fall they will earn due to the Premier League’s Meanwhile, Wednesday face a 17th suc- step in his career. new television contracts. cessive year outside the Premier League after Having left Paris Saint-Ger- Spending that cash wisely is essential, but a below par display on their first Wembley main at the end of this season, Bruce will also study shock champions Leicester appearance since 1993. he has refused to comment on and the likes of Swansea, Watford and Bourne- Hull City manager Steve Bruce (right) and Alex Bruce celebrate with the trophy after But Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal is speculation he is set to join mouth, who have all survived against the odds. winning promotion back to the Premier League, defeating Sheffield Wednesday in the hopeful the momentum from their surprise run Manchester United, where Jose “Nobody gave us a cat in hell’s chance of English Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday. to the play-offs will carry over into next season. Mourinho was on Friday named staying up a few years ago, but it can be done,” “We didn’t play today like we usually play the new manager. Bruce said. this season,” Carvalhal said. Ibrahimovic said last week he “We know we have to be at our maximum the club no end. If somebody had said Leicester Hull’s relegation but was persuaded to stay by “We are still very happy and proud with knew where he would be playing and invest well. That’s the hardest part for a club would be champions we’d have said they were the club’s Egyptian owner Assem Allam. what we did. I think we woke up the giant. football next season, but kept mum like Hull. nuts, so it proves anything can happen. Allam is ailing in hospital and Bruce dedi- “Sheffield Wednesday will be more on the details. “Even when you’ve got money you have to “Bournemouth and Watford stayed up this cated the promotion to him. respected. This is something we created. “Yes, I have made my choice,” spend it wisely and get the right player. We’ll season and Swansea have done it for seven or “I did offer to resign because ultimately we “Everything will not be like the past. We are Ibrahimovic told a press confer- do our best. eight years. We have to try to replicate that.” failed. Thankfully the owner didn’t want me to in a good way. We must get stronger but we have ence at a training camp. “If we do things properly we can improve Bruce revealed he had offered to resign after go,” Bruce said. a good base.” 34 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 SPORT Gatlin in form, Harrison shines at Prefontaine

PREFONTAINE CLASSIC: RESULTS The 2004 Olympic MEN’S 100M MEN’S JAVELIN THROW champion runs the 1. Justin Gatlin (U.S.) 9.88 1. Ihab Abdelrahman (Egypt) 87.37 fastest 100m dash 2. Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 9.94 2. Julius Yego (Kenya) 84.68 3. Tyson Gay (U.S.) 9.98 3. Thomas Roehler (Germany) 82.53 of the year ahead of 4. Mike Rodgers (U.S.) 9.99 a host of big names 5. Femi Ogunode (Qatar) 10.02 WOMEN’S 100M 1. English Gardner (U.S.) 10.81 MEN’S 400M 2. Tianna Bartoletta (U.S.) 10.94 1. Kirani James (Grenada) 44.22 3. Murielle Ahoure (Cote D’Ivoire) 11.01 AFP 2. LaShawn Merritt (U.S.) 44.39 4. Simone Facey (Jamaica) 11.09 3. Isaac Makwala (Botswana) 45.37 5. Barbara Pierre (U.S.) 11.11 6. Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) 11.16

MEN’S 800M 7. Carmelita Jeter (U.S.) 11.16 EUGENE: Justin Gatlin led wire- 1. Boris Berian (U.S.) 1:44.20 8. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) 11.18 to-wire to capture the 100 metres at the Prefontaine Classic as Ken- 2. Ferguson Rotich (Kenya) 1:44.56 dra Harrison delivered the biggest 3. Mohammed Aman (Ethiopia) 1:44.70 WOMEN’S 200M surprise with the fastest women’s 1. Tori Bowie (U.S.) 21.99 100m hurdles in 28 years. MEN’S MILE 2. Dafne Schippers (Netherlands) 22.11 Gatlin said he was pleased 1. Asbel Kiprop (Kenya) 3:51.54 3. Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) 22.16 with his winning performance 2. Abdalaati Iguider (Morocco) 3:51.96 but saved his biggest praise for 3. Elijah Manangoi (Kenya) 3:52.39 WOMEN’S 400M US Olympic teammate Harrison, 1. Shaunae Miller (Bahamas) 50.15 who finished just shy of the long- MEN’S 5000M 2. Francena McCorory (U.S.) 50.23 standing world record of 12.21 as Justin Gatlin of the United States (right) wins the men’s 100 meter dash ahead of Asafa Powell of Jamaica (centre) 1. Muktar Edris (Ethiopia) 12:59.43 3. Natasha Hastings (U.S.) 50.86 she stormed to victory in 12.24. 2. Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya) 12:59.98 “She stole my shine,” Gatlin and Tyson Gay of the United States (left) at the IAAF Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, USA on Saturday. 3. Mohammed Ahmed (Canada) 13:01.74 WOMEN’S 1500M said. “It is an amazing feat.” 1. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (Kenya) The controversial Gatlin MEN’S 10000M 3:56.41 Kendra Harrison of the United States, reacts blasted to victory in the 100m, ATHLETICS: to win the men’s 400m hurdles in 1. Mohamed Farah (Britain) 26:53.71 2. Dawit Seyaum (Ethiopia) 3:58.10 leading from start to finish with a time of 48.74. Kerron Clement after winning the 100-meter hurdles race. PREFONTAINE CLASSIC 2. William Malel Sitonik (Kenya) 26:54.66 3. Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) 4:00.18 the fastest time of the year. was second in 48.87 while Bett 3. Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia)26:57.33 Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic finished dead last in 51.33. champion who was banned for on the biggest stage as he failed Christian Taylor led an Amer- WOMEN’S 5000M doping between 2006 and 2010, to win gold at the Beijing Worlds ican sweep in the triple jump MEN’S 110M HURDLES 1. Hellen Onsando Obiri (Kenya) 14:32.02 clocked a wind-assisted 9.88 sec- in August. finishing with a jump of 17.76. 1. Omar McLeod (Jamaica)13.06 2. Viola Jelagat Kibiwot (Kenya) 14:35.13 onds at Eugene’s Hayward Field. Gatlin is now a six-time win- Will Claye finished a distant sec- 2. David Oliver (U.S.) 13.38 3. Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot (Kenya) The world number one showed ner at the Prefontaine, including ond with a leap of 17.56. 3. Jeff Porter (U.S.) 13.48 14:35.69 he is rounding into form ahead of five 100m wins. On the women’s side, Bahrain’s 4. Aries Merritt (U.S.) 13.51 the Rio Olympics, taking the tape Harrison has been unstoppa- Ruth Jebet held off Hyvin Kiy- WOMEN’S 3000M STEEPLECHASE ahead of Jamaican Asafa Powell ble this year as she is the Olympic eng of Kenya to win the 3,000m MEN’S 400M HURDLES 1. Ruth Chebet (Bahrain) 8:59.97 and American Tyson Gay. favourite in an event that is being steeplechase. 1. Michael Tinsley (U.S.) 48.74 2. Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi (Kenya) 9:00.01 Former world record holder dominated by Americans who took Jebet clocked a 8:59.97 to 2. Kerron Clement (U.S.) 48.87 Powell finished second in a time the top five spots on Saturday. become just the second woman in 3. Bershawn Jackson (U.S.) 49.04 WOMEN’S 100M HURDLES of 9.94sec while defending Pre- Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova history to go under nine minutes. 1. Kendra Harrison (U.S.) 12.24 fontaine champion Gay crossed in holds the two fastest times in his- Kiyeng also finished just off the MEN’S POLE VAULT 2. Brianna Rollins (U.S.) 12.53 9.98sec. The race was run with a tory, including the world record of nine minute mark as she crossed 1. Renaud Lavillenie (France) 5.81 3. Jasmin Stowers (U.S.) 12.55 strong tail-wind of 2.6 m/s. 12.21 which she set in August 1988. the line in 9:00.01. 2. Shawnacy Barber (Canada) 5.81 “I felt like I had a pretty strong She ran a 12.24 the same year. English Gardner, of the US, won 3. Sam Kendricks (U.S.) 5.71 WOMEN’S HIGH JUMP start, commanded the race to the The Prefontaine Classic is the women’s 100m with a time of 1. Chaunte Lowe (U.S.) 1.95 halfway point and just held onto the fourth stop on the 14-meet 10.81 to beat runner-up and US my form,” said Gatlin. Diamond League series that cul- compatriot Tianna Bartoletta who MEN’S TRIPLE JUMP 2. Levern Spencer (St Lucia) 1.92 “I felt a couple of guys come on minates with the Brussels meet in clocked a 10.94. 1. Christian Taylor (U.S.) 17.76 3. Kamila Licwinko (Poland) 1.92 strong at the end but I just stayed September. Gardner was pleased with her 2. Will Claye (U.S.) 17.56 3=. Alessia Trost (Italy) 1.92 focussed on my last 20 metres and Rio gold medal threat Kirani time and said she was in the right 3. Omar Craddock (U.S.) 17.15 I came out with the victory.” James edged American LaShawn frame of mind to do well. WOMEN’S LONG JUMP The 34-year-old Gatlin, who Merritt in a marquee showdown Tori Bowie ran her first MEN’S SHOT PUT 1. Brittney Reese (U.S.) 6.92 has been suspended twice for dop- as the two battled stride for stride career race under 22 seconds to 1. Joe Kovacs (U.S.) 22.13 2. Ivana Spanovic (Serbia) 6.88 ing in his career, got off to a slow in the men’s 400m. The 23-year- win the 200m in a time of 21.99 2. Tomas Walsh (New Zealand) 20.84 3. Lorraine Ugen (Britain) 6.76 start in 2016 but is now picking up old James flashed across the finish seconds. 3. Reese Hoffa (U.S.) 20.58 steam with the Summer Olympics line in 44.22 while Merritt clocked Bowie, who had a strong but WOMEN’S DISCUS THROW just two months away. a 44.39. legal tailwind, finished ahead MEN’S HAMMER THROW 1. Sandra Perkovic (Croatia) 68.57 The American is coming off American Micheal Tinsley eas- of Netherlands Dafne Schippers 1. Pawel Fajdek (Poland) 80.28 2. Nadine Mueller (Germany) 65.31 his fastest season ever in 2015 but ily took down reigning Olympic (22.11) and Elaine Thompson of 2. Dilshod Nazarov (Tajikistan) 78.12 3. Melina Robert-Michon (France) 63.69 suffered his only loss in the 100m champion Nicholas Bett of Kenya Jamaica 22.16. ‘Delusional’ to think London Five-try England overwhelm Wales Games dirtiest ever: Coe Reuters

AFP LONDON: England overcame a shaky start and some horribly wayward goal-kicking by flyhalf George Ford to run in five tries LONDON: London Olympics chief in a 27-13 victory over Wales at Sebastian Coe said it would be “delu- Twickenham yesterday to send sional” to think the 2012 Games in them on a three-test tour of Aus- the British capital may have been the tralia in confident mood. dirtiest in history in the wake of more After trailing 10-0 early on, positive drugs tests. England fought back and even- A total of 23 positive results came tually surged clear with tries for from 265 retested samples, the Inter- Luther Burrell, Anthony Watson, national Olympic Committee said, on Ben Youngs, Jack Clifford and top of over 30 previous failed tests from Marland Yarde. competitors who had been caught either It was a satisfying victory for during the Games or since. England, beaten by the Welsh in The high percentage of apparent the World Cup in September but doping offences sparked suggestions who hit back with a Six Nations on Friday that London was rife with win en route to a grand slam, but a England’s full-back Mike Brown (left) is tackled by Wales’ flanker cheating, but Coe denies that is the case. day to forget for Ford who missed Coe, now the president of world ath- six of his seven shots at goal. Ross Moriarty (top) and Wales’ hooker Scott Baldwin during the letics’ governing body the IAAF, served Last time Joe Launchbury was international rugby union match between England and Wales at as the London 2012 organising commit- voted man of the match at Twick- Twickenham Stadium in west London yesterday. England won tee chairman. enham it was, laughably, after 27-13. The former middle-distance track England had been bundled out star claims in the Sunday Telegraph that of the World Cup by Australia but Wales got off to a flier when his sharpness to cut through two at the time of the 1984 Olympics in Los the lock had every right to hold his prop Rob Evans forced his way defenders straight from a line- Angeles, where he competed and won London Olympics chief head up this time after delivering through some sleeping defend- out before number eight Clifford 1500 metres gold, technology was “pre- Sebastian Coe a timely reminder to second-row ers after seven minutes with Dan put in a remarkable turn of speed historic” and says many athletes would regulars Maro Itoje and George Biggar converting and adding a to score from 50 metres despite pick and base their schedules on the of the testing technology at a particu- to protect and promote clean sport. The Kruis. penalty soon after to make it 10-0. Welsh complaints that the turno- athletics circuit “in large part on the lar moment in their career, it does not Rio 2016 Games will be cleaner for it. It was not exactly the confi- England hit back through cen- ver had been forced by a knock-on avoidance of testing”. mean they can lie easily in their beds That should be the story.” dence-building send-off Wales tre Burrell, desperate to make an by Dan Cole. Yarde scored the fifth The IOC has said its reanalysis pro- until excitable grandchildren pore over The new findings cover five dif- would have wanted for the tough- impact after being dumped from on his first appearance for almost gramme is ongoing, with the possibility Olympic medals in their dotage. They ferent sports and six international est challenge in the sport -- a the World Cup squad last year, two years to underline England’s of more results in the weeks to come. will be caught.” federations, and were all based on intel- three-test away series against with winger Watson then showing eventual dominance. Coe wrote in his newspaper column: They will then have the discomfort ligence-gathering that began in August world champions New Zealand. great determination and aware- Wales failed to add to the “It would be delusional to say the Lon- of explaining to those grandchildren 2015. England were without any of ness to get through two tackles scoreboard after Biggar’s 27th- don Games was ‘in the words of many why they no longer possess those med- Russia has said eight of its athletes the players involved in Saturday’s then touch down with an overhead minute penalty and will need to yesterday’ dirtier than Games before.” als. More is being done to catch cheats are among the 23 to have tested posi- Premiership final when Saracens backwards stretch for his 11th try deliver a much more sustained He added: “The message from Fri- than ever before. tive on reanalysis. beat Exeter but, apart from back in his last 13 internationals. assault if they are to have the day was not only, or even actually, “We will not stop collecting data, All athletes found to have infringed row debutant Teimana Harri- Trailing 13-10 at the break, slightest chance of claiming a about interpreting trends. The big sharing information, building profiles, the anti-doping rules will be banned son, still fielded an experienced England took control within first victory over the All Blacks in message was for athletes to recognise developing testing techniques or calling from competing at the Rio Olympics side against a similarly familiar seven minutes of the restart as more than 50 years and first-ever that just because they may be ahead out and prosecuting cheats in our efforts this summer. Welsh XV. scrumhalf Youngs showed all in New Zealand. SPORT MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 35 Warriors rally to force game 7 with Thunder

said. “They made big plays coming Golden State Warriors player Stephen NBA play-offs down the stretch and we got a little Golden State stage stagnant.” The Warriors got more Curry (right) goes to the basket against semifinal result Oklahoma City Thunder player Serge Ibaka stunning rally to beat S Result from the NBA Play- intense. “We had so much more grit, the toughness that was lacking in in the second half of the NBA Western Oklahoma and avoid offs semi-final match between Conference Finals at the Chesapeake Oklahoma City and Golden State on (lost games) three and four,” Warri- Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, play-off elimination Saturday. ors coach Steve Kerr said. “Game five helped us regain our confidence. We USA, on Saturday, Oklahoma City 101 knew we could come in here and play Golden State 108 a much better game.” AFP (The best-of-seven Curry’s 3-pointer with 2:47 series is level at 3-3) remaining tied the game at 99-99 and Thompson made the last of his Trailing 89-81 with nine minutes 3-pointers with 95 seconds remain- remaining, the Warriors closed with a ing to put the Warriors ahead to stay WASHINGTON: Klay Thompson and 27-12 run -- 19-5 over the final seven at 104-101. Stephen Curry saved the season for minutes and 12-2 in the last three -- “This game was probably the defending NBA champion Golden in a thriller Thompson and Curry hardest game of our lives,” Curry State, sparking a stunning fourth- ranked among their greatest wins. said. “We felt like we had control quarter rally to beat host Oklahoma “It has to be because of the situ- of the game. We just needed a stop City 108-101 and avoid play-off elim- ation,” Thompson said. “Everybody or two. They got some garbage, the ination. probably counted us out. It was ball bouncing their way. We felt like Thompson scored a career play- great fun to play with that fire, that we could turn the game around, and off high 41 points, including an NBA emotion.” we did. one-game play-off record 11 3-point- “This was a huge win for us,” “We’ve got to keep it going at ers in 18 attempts, and NBA Most Curry said. “Doesn’t win us a ring -- home. We’ve got a great opportunity.” Valuable Player Curry added 29 we don’t want to pop the champagne The Warriors, who produced the points, 10 rebounds and nine assists or anything. It ranks right up there for best regular season mark in NBA his- as the Warriors leveled the best-of- sure because we’re still alive.” tory at 73-9 in this campaign, kept seven Western Conference final at Thompson scored the first nine defensive poise down the stretch. three wins each. points of the fourth quarter for “That has been our calling card, “I’m so proud of everybody,” Golden State and added two more made us a championship-caliber Thompson said. “We were down clutch 3-pointers in the period after team,” Curry said. “Down the stretch almost the whole game. We never a brief pep talk from Curry before the we stayed disciplined. gave up and our resiliency got us last quarter began. “Game seven, if we give that same through. We kept our composure. “Steph told me, ‘This is your time. effort, we’ll be fine.” We knew if we didn’t get it done we Show what you can do out there,’” Thompson’s amazing 3-point were going home.” Thompson said. “I tried to take that shooting in the final minutes stole The winner of Monday’s game to heart.” the show, shocking even backcourt seven at Oakland will advance to the Thunder star Kevin Durant made partner Curry, who this year set an NBA Finals, facing the LeBron James- four turnovers in the last 99 seconds NBA record for 3-pointers in a season. led Cleveland Cavaliers when the and Westbrook lost two more in the “It was unbelievable,” Curry said. best-of-seven championship series dramatic final moments. “We needed every single one of them. opens Thursday. “They got their hands on some “All Klay needs is a sliver of day- But after squandering a 3-1 series balls, but for the most part we tried light. The shots he made were huge. lead by botching a golden chance to to make the right plays, make the I’m sure there’s more in the chamber advance at home, the Thunder must right decisions, especially down the for game seven. We need that punch.” win on a court where the Warriors stretch,” Westbrook said. Kerr has learned to live with the lost only twice all season. Thunder coach Billy Donovan long-range heroics of Thompson “We can’t hang our heads. We wanted to see more players involved and Curry. “They walk that fine line have another game to play,” Thunder in those key plays. between lethal and crazy,” Warriors guard Russell Westbrook said. “Win “We just didn’t help each other coach Steve Kerr said. “We have to or go home. Simple as that.” enough in those situations,” Donovan live with that.” Crosby-led Penguins face Sharks for Stanley Cup Darvish triumphant in Rangers return AFP the Eastern Conference final while and Mike Sullivan replaced him as Murray, who turned 22 earlier this the Sharks eliminated St. Louis in the coach last December, Pittsburgh pro- month. West to reach the Stanley Cup Finals duced the best record in the NHL after Injured veteran Marc-Andre for the first time in their quarter-cen- January 1. Fleury has stayed benched since AFP champions before joining Texas in NEW YORK: Sidney Crosby opens tury history. “They definitely changed some getting healthy by Murray, whose 2012. Darvish went 39-25 with a 3.27 his bid to match Canadian country- “It’s a great test for us,” Sharks things when they brought the new 11 wins in 15 playoff games are more earned-run average in his first three man Mario Lemieux as a two-time center Joe Thornton said. “They are coach in and got that ball rolling in than his 9 wins in 13 regular-sea- campaigns with the Rangers. Stanley Cup winner when the Pitts- a great team with some great players. the right direction,” said Sharks coach son contests. WASHINGTON: Texas Rangers Texas improved to 28-21, one burgh Penguins begin the National We’ve got to be ready come Monday Peter DeBoer. “I know there are a lot of sto- pitcher Yu Darvish won in his first game behind American League Hockey League Finals today against night.” “They were the best team in ries that surround this group, but Major League Baseball start after West division leader Seattle, while visiting San Jose. Crosby, the 28-year-old Penguins the league in the second half of the greatest story of all is the group almost 22 months, striking out seven the Pirates fell to 28-20, five games Crosby scored the gold medal- captain and 2005 NHL Draft top pick, the year. itself,” Sullivan said. batters in five innings on Saturday in behind Chicago in the National winning over-time goal for Canada in played briefly as a rookie with Lem- “We know how tough an oppo- “When you’re part of something returning from elbow surgery. League Central division. the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic ieux, the Hall of Fame center known nent this is. They have two of the that’s bigger than yourself it’s a spe- The 29-year-old Japanese right- final after leading Pittsburgh to the as “Super Mario” who led the Pen- best players in the world (in Crosby cial feeling and I know these guys hander threw 51 strikes among his Results 2009 NHL crown, but the Penguins guins to Stanley Cups in 1991 and and Malkin). They are a deep team. have it right now.” 81 pitches against the visiting Pitts- Toronto 10 Boston 9 have not been back to the best-of- 1992. Lemieux later became the team It’s a great challenge. Our guys are The Sharks’ breakthrough has burgh Pirates, allowing one run on seven championship series until now. owner and had “Sid the Kid” living in excited.” given Patrick Marleau, whose entire three hits with one walk to earn the Kansas City 8 Chicago W Sox 7 “We know the biggest challenge his home during his rookie season. Kessel, with playoff team highs 18-season career has been spent in decision, departing with his team Chicago Cubs 4 Philadelphia 1 is ahead of us, but we’ve got a great Crosby led the Penguins with 36 of nine goals and nine assists, has San Jose, and Thornton, who like Mar- ahead 4-1 on the way to a 5-2 victory. Oakland 12 Detroit 3 opportunity,” Crosby said. goals this season while Russian center sparked the Penguins in the post-sea- leau has more than 1,500 NHL games, Darvish underwent “Tommy Cleveland 11 Baltimore 4 “It wasn’t easy getting to this Evgeni Malkin added 27 and Phil Kes- son alongside linemates Carl Hagelin their first trip to the Cup finals. John” right elbow tendon replace- Cincinnati 7 Milwaukee 6 point. It would be great to finish it sel had 26. and Nick Bonino. “You don’t make it this far all the ment and reconstruction surgery in off the right way.” The Penguins struggled early Backstopping the Penguins’ play- time obviously,” Marleau said. March of last year. Atlanta 7 Miami 2 Pittsburgh ousted Tampa Bay in but after Mike Johnston was fired off run has been goaltender Matt “Just trying to seize the moment.” He had not pitched in a major Tampa Bay 9 NY Yankees 5 league game since August of 2014, San Francisco 10 Colorado 5 the same year he reached the LA Dodgers 9 NY Mets 1 500-strikeout mark faster than any Texas 5 Pittsburgh 2 pitcher in major league history. St Louis 9 Washington 4 Burns becomes three-weight The son of an Iranian father and Japanese mother sparked the Houston 4 LA Angels 2 Nippon Ham Fighters to the 2006 Minnesota 6 Seattle 5 world boxing champion Japan Series crown and starred for Arizona 8 San Diego 7 Japan’s 2013 World Baseball Classic

AFP for a low blow earlier in the round. Burns’s aggression was paying dividends against an opponent who appeared somewhat taken aback. LONDON: Britain’s Ricky Burns Di Rocco started to pick things became a three-weight world cham- up from the sixth round but he was pion by stopping Italian Michele Di in trouble several times in the eighth Rocco in the eighth round to claim before he was knocked down by a the WBA super-lightweight belt in right hand. Glasgow on Saturday. That proved the end for Di Rocco The 33-year-old previously held but a new beginning for Burns, who the WBO versions of the super-feath- had lost three of his previous six erweight and lightweight world titles. bouts. In an all-action performance, Burns beat Puerto Rican Roman Burns floored 34-year-old Di Rocco Martinez to win the super-feather- in the eighth round, and although the weight title in 2010, defending it Italian rose to his feet, referee Terry three times. O’Connor waved off the contest. He won the lightweight title in Burns became the first ever Scot 2011, beating Australia’s Michael to win world titles at three differ- Katsidis but after successfully Ignas Shadrack of Tanzania (right), fights against Swiss Alain Chervet, ent weights. defending it four times, he was well in IBF Jr. Welterweight Championship, during IBF Fight Night at Di Rocco was down in the third beaten on points by American Ter- Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Chad Bettis pitches during the first Litternahalle, in Visp, Switzerland, on Saturday. Swiss Alain Chervet round and given a standing eight rence Crawford in 2014. inning of the MLB baseball game against the Boston Red Soxs at won the fight. count having already had a time-out Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Saturday. 36 MONDAY 30 MAY 2016

FORMULA ONE STANDINGS

1. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 106 2. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 82 3. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Red Bull 66 4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 61 5. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari 60 6. Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull 38 7. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams 37 8. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams 29 9. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India 23 10. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) Toro Rosso 22 11. Romain Grosjean (France) Haas 22 12. Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren 18 13. Carlos Sainz Jr (Spain) Toro Rosso 16 14. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India 14 15. Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) Renault 6 16. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 5 17. Stoffel Vandoorne (Belgium) McLaren 1 18. Esteban Gutierrez (Mexico) Haas 0 19. Jolyon Palmer (Britain) Renault 0 20. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden) Sauber 0 21. Pascal Wehrlein (Germany) Manor 0 22. Felipe Nasr (Brazil) Sauber 0 23. Rio Haryanto (Indonesia) Manor 0

RIGHT: British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG GP on his way Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to win the 2016 Formula One Grand Prix of AMG GP celebrates after Monaco at the Monte Carlo circuit in Monaco winning the Monaco Formula yesterday. ABOVE: Hamilton celebrates on the One Grand Prix at the Monte podium with the winner’s trophy. Carlo Circuit in Monaco yesterday. Skilful Hamilton wins Monaco GP

Ricciardo, who started from in the podium celebrations. resumed and Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari man advancing by emerg- his maiden pole position, led until “A big thank you to the team. promptly crashed his Ferrari at ing first. The reigning he pitted for slick tyres - that I’m kind of lost for words. I Loews, almost collecting Romain Ricciardo stayed out for a lap world champion were not ready for him -- after prayed for a day like this and it Grosjean with him. before following suit to find his 32 laps and finally came home came through so I feel blessed. On lap 16, Hamilton finally crew running around for a set of ends his wait for second, 7.2 seconds behind the That was the longest run after I passed Rosberg on the run uphill ‘super soft’ tyres. As he rejoined, victory after Daniel three-time champion. stopped for those tyres.” from Ste Devote - the German Hamilton swept into the lead. Ricciardo’s pit It was Hamilton’s second win A furious Ricciardo struggled appearing to succumb to team The Australian was more on the famous Mediterranean to control his feelings and his lan- orders - and swiftly began his confident than Hamilton on his stop bungle street circuit, his first this sea- guage. On a grim afternoon of pursuit of Ricciardo. slick tyres, at that stage, before son and the 44th of his career. It torrential rain in the Principal- The pair traded fastest laps, another VSC period when, after also repeated his 2008 triumph ity, the race started -- for the first but the Englishman, who won in Magnussen hit the barriers at when he started third and won in time -- behind a Safety Car with the Monegasque rain in 2008, had Mirabeau, Max Verstappen AFP wet conditions. the entire field running on full- 13 seconds to make up. crashed heavily at Massenet. Mexican Sergio Perez finished wet tyres. After 20 laps, Ricciardo was On resumption, Ricciardo third, 6.5 seconds behind a dis- This negated any advantage 12.8 seconds ahead. Rosberg attacked, and failed to pass Ham- consolate Ricciardo, but ahead that Ricciardo could have gained pitted for ‘intermediates’ and ilton, who ‘closed the door’ at MONACO: World champion of four-time champion Sebastian by Red Bull’s choice of ‘super- dropped to fifth. Tabac. His hand gestures - and Lewis Hamilton ended his six- Vettel of Germany (Ferrari) and soft’ tyres for final qualifying on Ricciardo pitted - in 3.6 sec- some profanities - confirmed his months wait for a win yesterday two-time champion Fernando Saturday. onds - after 23 laps, handing the frustration and anger. when he secured an unexpected Alonso of Spain, who finished a Finally, on lap seven, the lead to Hamilton who unexpect- A stewards inquiry resulted and skilful victory for Mercedes in superb fifth for McLaren on the Safety Car came in and the con- edly stayed out. This meant the in ‘no further action’ as the pair an incident-filled Monaco Grand 50th anniversary of their Formula test began in earnest. defending champion was the only diced for the lead before another Prix. One debut race in 1966. Almost immediately, Kevin driver in the top 12 on wet tyres VSC pause when the squabbling Taking full advantage of a Hamilton’s win kept alive his Magnussen pitted for inter- as the sun broke through. Saubers, ignoring team orders, bungled pit stop for his nearest title defence and, with Rosberg off mediate tyres and his Renault Planning a switch to slicks, collided at Rascasse. rival, Australian Daniel Ricciardo the podium, trimmed the leader’s team-mate Briton Jolyon Palmer Hamilton resisted Ricciardo’s Having led only one lap of Red Bull, Hamilton drove advantage to 24 points, less than wrecked the front of his car on his attacks as the circuit dried and this year, prior to the Monaco supremely in mixed conditions a single victory, in the title race. way down the straight as he lost he extended his lead over Ros- race, Hamilton revelled in to seize his first triumph in nine “Thank God that today grip on a pedestrian crossing and berg in third. demonstrating his mastery at races since clinching his third title went as I’d hoped,” said Ham- slid into the barriers at Ste Devote. Hamilton finally pitted after the front, defending his posi- at the 2015 United States Grand ilton, who sopped to give Justin A Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was 31 laps for a set of ‘ultra-softs’, fol- tion with aplomb to Ricciardo’s Prix last October. Bieber a swig of his champagne deployed until lap 11 when racing lowed by Rosberg and Vettel, the frustration. Lekhwiya to hold training camp, Al Sailiya sign Efoulo for one season play friendlies in Austria The Peninsula Paul Efoulo becomes the fourth arrived in Doha, which made me feel international player to join the ranks comfortable and left me with the most of Sailiyah alongside Romanian Dra- beautiful impressions of my upcom- The Peninsula will go through physical and techni- gos Grigore, Bahrain’s Faouzi Aaish, ing career with this team.” cal training. Pre-selection will take DOHA: Cameroonian striker Paul and fellow Cameroonian Raoul Loe. Efoulo added, “There is no doubt place for the final list of players who Alo’o Efoulo will join Al Sailiya for the The new Sailiyah striker, 32, was that I am proud to play in the Qatari will join the foreign camp. 2016/2017 Qatar Stars League season, born in the Cameroonian capital of league and join a great club like Sal- DOHA: Lekhwiya leave for training The team finished in fourth place the club confirmed yesterday. Yaounde and has previously played iyah, and I sensed the extent of the camp in Austria on July 13 Lekhwiya in the 2015/2016 Qatar Stars League The contract was signed by the for many clubs before moving to the power and excitement enjoyed by are going to leave for Austria to have season with 44 points, while they player under the presence of Abdul- Saudi league in 2013. the Qatari league. This is positive as their foreign training camp on 13 July succeeded in winning the Emir Cup lah Al Eida president of the club, as Abdullah Al Eida, president of Al well and therefore I am happy with and will continue until 30 July. The for the first time in their history after well as Faisal Al Marri who is part of Sailiya, said that the Cameroonian this step taken by me for my football camp is in preparation for 2016/2017 beating Al Sadd in the final. the administrative team. striker is a great asset to the team and career. Especially as I was eager for season, according to the announce- Lekhwiya played their last Efoulo is expected to formally will add to the line of attack and they a new professional challenge and I ment by the club. game of the season against fellow bound with the team during the com- are happy for signing him. hope to meet the expectations of the During their stay in Austria the QSL side El Jaish in the second leg ing period as he will be added to the Efoulo said, “I extend deep grati- officials of Saliyah who made it pos- Cameroonian striker team will play several friendlies of the round of 16 of the AFC Cham- list of players at Al Sailiyah for the tude to Abdullah Al Eida president of sible for me to get a new experience which will be determined in the pions League. Paul Alo’o Efoulo new season. Saliyah Club for the hospitality since I in my career.” coming days. Lekhwiya won the match 4-2, Lekhwiya will begin training but they exited the tournament as in Doha on 10 July, where the team they lost 6-4 on aggregate .

Al Khor announce contract with Mouhcine Iajour Al Ahli to play friendlies in Netherlands

The Peninsula Iajour joins Al Khor on a one-year Iajour, who played for Al Ahli last The Peninsula we’re also going to have four friendly loan move from Qatar Sports Club. season, said that Al Ahli gave him an games there.” Jalal explained that the move came offer to continue with the team in the The sports affairs official con- after Mouhcine Iajour put his name next season, but he strongly desired DOHA: Abdullah Jassim, sports tinued, “The Netherlands is one DOHA: Al Khor officially announced out for consideration to the coach Jean a move to Al Khor, and he is hoping affairs official at Al Ahli said that the of the best countries in the world the addition of Moroccan professional, Fernandez, who did not hesitate for a that Al Khor can achieve its goals next team will be heading to the Neth- for holding training camps and we Mouhcine Iajour (pictured) to the moment in the acceptance. season. The Moroccan international erlands for a training camp from hope that the camp will be a suc- ranks of the Knights. The announce- The team manager said that Al striker, revealed that he sat down with August 7 to 22 in preparation for the cess and may it help the team in the ment was made during a press briefing Khor are looking for stability and that the French coach Jean Fernandez, who 2016/2017 season. next season.” held at the headquarters of the club most professionals continue with the explained to him the project, and his Abdullah Jassim said: “the Neth- Al Ahli will begin their training yesterday, in the presence of the team team for two or three seasons and plans to work on it and the player erlands has been selected because for the upcoming season in Doha manager Yousef Jalal and the player there is nothing to prevent that in the liked the ideas and decided to sign we have seen that it has the best on the 10th of July before traveling himself. case of Mouhcine Iajour. for Al Khor. setup to host the outdoor camp, and abroad for the camp on August 7.