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Friday 18 July 2014 • 20 Ramadan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6130 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Bones and 295 die as Malaysia plane shot down HRABOVE, UKRAINE: A Malaysian airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 295 people aboard and raising the stakes in a conflict Joints Centre between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels that has set Russia and the West at daggers drawn. As the US said the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was closed down “blown out of the sky”, probably by a ground- launched missile, Ukraine and Russia traded accusations of blame, cranking up global pres- Many staff hurt as fire breaks out sure for a way out of a bloody local conflict that risks fuelling a new Cold War. DOHA: Hamad Medical maintenance work going on. Ukraine accused pro-Moscow militants, Corporation’s (HMC) Bones There are plans to shift the centre aided by Russian military intelligence offic- and Joints Centre, also known to new premises, said the daily. ers, of firing a long-range, Soviet-era SA-11 as Orthopaedics Centre, in Old Al Sharq, quoting some employ- ground-to-air missile. Salata in Doha has been closed ees, said due to neglect, fires were Leaders of the rebel Donetsk People’s down until further notice after not uncommon at the premises. Republic denied involvement and said a a fire erupted in its parking lot It said as soon as fire broke out Ukrainian air force jet had brought down the yesterday morning. the alarm bell rang. A security intercontinental flight. But separatists have Several staff suffered minor guard tried to use a fire extin- said they took control of such a missile system The burning wreckage of the Malaysian airliner near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. injuries and were rushed to guisher by breaking a window last month and had used it to shoot down a the emergency unit of Hamad pane and sustained injuries. Ukrainian military transport plane that was The United Nations Security Council capital of Donetsk. More than half of the General Hospital (HGH), an There were a lot of people at the destroyed on Monday. plans an emergency meeting on Ukraine dead, 154 people, were Dutch. Another 27 HMC press statement said. The centre when the fire broke out. The scale of the disaster, which left scores of today, diplomats said. UN Secretary-General were Australian and 23 Malaysian. HMC’s Outpatient Department’s They were evacuated but some unsuspecting foreigners, adults and children, Ban Ki-moon urged a full international The Ukrainian government, condemning an Annex for bones and joints was employees suffered minor injuries, strewn lifeless across the muddy Ukrainian investigation. act of “terrorism”, released recordings it said earlier known as the health cen- HMC’s press statement said, add- steppe, could prove a turning point for inter- Journalists saw burning and charred were of Russian intelligence officers discuss- tre for school students. ing “we will inform the public as national pressure to resolve the crisis. It has wreckage bearing the red and blue Malaysia ing the shooting down of a civilian airliner HMC said it was a small fire soon as normal operations of the killed hundreds since protests toppled the insignia and dozens of bodies strewn in fields by rebels who may have mistaken it for a and was quickly contained by centre can be resumed”. Moscow-backed president in Kiev in February near the village of Hrabove, 40km from the Ukrainian military plane. AGENCIES firefighters, but according to Al The cause of the fire is being and Russia annexed the Crimea a month later. Russian border near the rebel-held regional See also page 9 Sharq, it was a major blaze and it investigated, it said. Some cars was not the first time such a fire parked near the site were also had erupted there. damaged by the fire. The building that houses the Another picture on page 3 centre is old and most of the THE PENINSULA Israel begins ground offensive in Gaza; toll 235 JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israel move into densely populated Gaza along the eastern border from foolish act,” Abu Zuhri said. announced the start of a Gaza City, where urban warfare could the southern town of Rafah to Gaza health officials said 235 ground campaign yesterday prove costly to both sides. the north of the Strip. But there Palestinians, mostly civilians, had after 10 days of aerial and naval Israel last mounted a large- was no immediate sign that tanks, been killed since Israel began the bombardments failed to stop scale invasion of the Gaza Strip deployed for days near the border, air and sea offensive on July 8 Palestinian rocket attacks, but during a three-week war in late were moving in. in what it called a response to it signalled the invasion would 2008 and early 2009 that claimed Explosions echoed and flashes mounting rocket salvoes into be limited in scope. 1,400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli of orange lit the sky in the east- its cities. A statement from the A statement from Prime lives. ern Strip as Israeli gunboats fired Israeli military said the operation Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s No time frame was announced shells and tracer bullets. Israeli will include “infantry, armoured office said he had given orders to for the new operation, and the artillery pounded the area and corps, engineer corps, artillery destroy tunnels militants had dug length and intensity of assaults helicopters fired across the bor- and intelligence combined with to infiltrate Israel and carry out could depend on the scale of civil- der, witnesses said. aerial and naval support”. It said attacks. ian deaths, casualties likely to Hamas spokesman Sami Abu another 18,000 reserve soldiers An Israeli military spokesman boost international pressure for Zuhri responded with defiance would be mobilised to join more said Israel was not out to try to a ceasefire. to Israel’s invasion announce- than 30,000 already called up. Smoke coming out of the centre. topple the Hamas Islamist group. Gaza residents and medical ment. “We warn Netanyahu of the REUTERS time one can see repair and Such a goal would likely entail a officials reported heavy shelling dreadful consequences of such a See also page 5

Aleppo attacked Gold producer Mali Ministry slammed over erring outlets grants four permits DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has come in for severe public criticism for its failure to name and shame on its web- to Qatar Mining site five outlets recently found violating health and safety rules. The law authorises the Consumer Protection Department to post the DOHA: Mali has awarded names of erring outlets on its website but the CPD has not done, four mining permits to Qatar local Arabic daily Al Raya said. People are critical of its failure to Mining, the mines minister name the outlets and provide details of violations. The CPD said on said, as the West African coun- Wednesday that a shop selling cakes and ice cream in Al Wakra, two try seeks to boost exploration to supermarkets in Umm Salal and two beauty parlours in Al Shamal offset ageing mines. were temporarily shut for selling and using expired items. The CPD “Qatar Mining has opened its recently said it is naming and shaming erring outlets, the daily said. Mali entity. We will be granting them four mining concessions — Drunken, unruly QA passenger fined greenfield projects — they will develop in the next few years,” DOHA: A criminal court here has fined a New Zealander QR3,000 Boubou Cisse said. ($824) for drinking and disturbing the peace of co-passengers while The deal follows a meet- flying to Doha from Bangkok by Qatar Airways. A local Arabic daily ing between President Ibrahim yesterday said the man was tried in absentia and fined. The convict Boubacar Keita and a Qatari skipped the court despite having been summoned. It seems the man investment team last month. was caught drinking and disturbing passengers and had confessed to “This company (Qatar Mining the crime during interrogation by Public Prosecution. Mali Greenfield) will represent THE PENINSULA Qatar’s interests in Mali and the Syrian residents and rescue workers search the rubble for survivors following an air strike by government region as they say they would like forces in the northern city of Aleppo yesterday. See also page 8 to make Mali their base for West Africa,” Lassana Guindo, a min- istry official, said. A document outlining Qatar 52 endangered reptiles seized at airport Mining’s investments shows the permits cover four zones — DOHA: Customs officials at had been handed over to authorities. the ministry and immediately get Tabako, Mininko Nord, Netekoto Hamad International Airport The reptiles were being carried in touch with them the moment we and Linguekoto in the west and have caught a passenger carrying in half-a-dozen bags, he said. The come across any such cases,” said south. REUTERS 52 reptiles, including snakes, in passenger had made all efforts to Al Kabi. bags made of cloth. ensure the reptiles were hidden According to him, the ministry Ramadan Timing The endangered species were from authorities. had not cleared the import of the being smuggled into the country, Al Kabi said the Ministry of reptiles. Todays Iftar: Arabic daily Al Sharq reported Environment was informed immedi- The Convention on International 06:28pm yesterday. ately after the passenger was caught Trade of Endangered Species of Tomorrow’s Acting Director of Customs, because it is they who issue permits Wild Flora and Fauna bans trade Imsak: Khalid Hamad Rashid Al Kabi, told for import or export of endangered in and import and export of endan- 03:17am the daily that legal action had been animal species. gered species, he added. taken against the passenger and he “We have close coordination with THE PENINSULA Customs officials checking some of the reptiles. FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Lifestyle diseases common among young people Upto 400 visit ‘Kulluna’ health check-up booths at malls

DOHA: Undiagnosed lifestyle diseases preventative measures of cardiovascular for the mother and baby,” he said. were found commonly among young diseases and highlights the behaviours, life- “There was another 24 years old young people visiting special booths set up at style and risk factors that can lead to heart- man, who looked bit over weight and shopping malls by ‘Kulluna’ the national related illnesses such as smoking, obesity, claimed not having any illness. But safety campaign, says a senior health high blood pressure and diabetes. when he was checked we found him hav- expert. An average of 300 to 400 people visits ing high cholesterol and diabetes,” said Life style diseases such as obesity, dia- the health check up booths daily, at shop- Dr Saifeldeen. betes and high blood pressure which are ping malls. The health check up booths at shopping risk factors for cardiovascular diseases “This year’s campaign has re-confirmed malls will end with Ramadan, although the were mostly diagnosed among visitors at that many people are walking among us campaign will continue on social media, with Kulluna for Health and Safety initiative’s with un-diagnosed lifestyle diseases, we find health experts highlighting the importance www.swiss-belhotel.com health awareness campaign, Kulluna for a such very young people,” said Dr Saifeldeen. of preventing lifestyle diseases, which could Tel Healthy Heart. He narrated two important incidents lead to heart related illnesses. Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen, the head where young people were found with un- Launched in April 2013 by Hamad Medical Fax of Kulluna campaign, spoke on the sidelines diagnosed life style diseases at the Kulluna Corporation’s (HMC) Hamad International of a health check-up booth opened at the for a Healthy Heart booth in the City Training Center (HITC), and supported by Landmark Mall yesterday in addition to Centre. its founding sponsor ConocoPhillips Qatar, booths open at City centre and The Mall A very young pregnant mother had the campaign aims to raise awareness of Tel since the beginning of Ramadan. been diagnosed with gestational diabe- Qatar residents about cardiovascular dis- Fax The ‘Kulluna for a Healthy Heart’ tes. “She had not been diagnosed with ease, its prevention, available treatments campaign being held under the theme gestational diabetes until we checked and lifestyle changes that promote heart ‘Know your Numbers’ focuses on various her, this is a very dangerous situation health. THE PENINSULA

Tel Fax Emir, PM send condolences to Tollfree King of Malaysia Fax DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of con- Tel dolences to King of Malaysia Fax Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah on the crash of the Malaysian plane in East Tel Ukraine yesterday. The Prime Minister and Fax Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent The winners with the officials. Tel similar cable cable to the King of Malaysia. QNA Fax www.doha.hilton.com Ramadan Sports Festival ends

Tel +974 44233333 DOHA: The curtain came in last year’s tournament final. Aspire Zone also hosted the Windy and dusty Fax +974 44233000 down on a fortnight of free Unfortunately for the dozens final of a unique radio-control- sporting fun evening as the of football fans in the stands led car race event. Open to men weather forecast final events of the Ramadan however, the game amounted and women, the two-day com- Sports Festival were held at to nothing more than a train- petition was a chance for local from Sunday the Aspire Zone. Since its ing ground exercise for reign- radio-controlled car owners launch two weeks ago, the ing champions Al Andalus to bring their own buggy and DOHA: The weather is expected hugely popular festival has who used their impressive skill truggy models to the Aspire to be windy and dusty across captured the attention of and physicality to great effect. Zone race track and compete the country for a week starting hundreds of local Doha sports Having gone ahead in the fifth against other enthusiasts. from Sunday, according to the enthusiasts with its wide- minute through a simple tap-in After 48 hours of drama Metrological Department. Tel array of unique late night, goal, Al-Andalus then added to and excitement for the many The country will experience a post-Iftar activities. their advantage a further six spectators, the eventual cham- fresh wave of strong northwest- Fax Having encouraged so many times before Al-Wadi pulled pion of the truggy competition erly winds, especially during the members of the local commu- two goals back in the game’s was Mohd Hafiz Adb Malek, day, and the weather would be nity to stay fit and active during closing minutes. whilst Rewell Englis and Joel moderate to fresh in the nights. the Holy Month of fasting, it With the game ending 7-2, Legere finished second and According to the forecast, Tel was only fitting that the festi- Al Andalus were deserved third respectively. In the buggy winds will cause moderate to Fax val’s closing night should pro- tournament champions on race Richard Ford claimed first rough waves in the sea reaching vide a spectacular send-off for the night and were awarded place, Gael Richard finished up to 10 feet. all those who have taken part. for their efforts with a trophy. second and Mohd Hafiz Adb Winds could reach speeds of Kicking off the superb line- Among the several other com- Malek managed third place. between 25 knots and 35 knots Tel up of festivities was the men’s munity sport events also taking Despite the culmination of and reach even 40 knots at some Fax football match – the deciding place on Tuesday included the the sporting tournaments, AZF places, especially on Tuesday and game of a ten-day tournament semi-final and final matches of Ramadan activities remain Wednesday. that featured a total of six local a men’s volleyball tournament. available to the public. Religious The strong northwesterly wind amateur sides. Having each won Spectators were treated to two lectures in the Torch Ballroom will be accompanied by dusty all of their qualifying matches, hours of serving, spiking and at Aspire Ladies Club are being weather at times, decreasing vis- Tel the competition final was played rallying before a final match organized by Aspire in partner- ibility to less than 2 km at places, Fax out between fierce Doha rivals Al between local teams Palaboys ship with Sheikh Khalid Bin especially in open areas and on Andalus and Al Wadi. and Paravaids. Winning this Thani Al Thani-Foundation highways. With both sides widely game 2-0, the Palaboys — a team (RAF) and will conclude next Qatar Meteorological depart- considered to be the best two made up of Philipino nationals Friday. “Splash & Dash” activi- ment has also advised people to be Tel amateur football teams in — maintained their 100 per- ties will be running through cautious and take necessary pre- the country, the match was a cent competition record to be July and extend to the end of cautions to be safe in the windy Fax chance for Al-Wadi to avenge crowned eventual tournament August. and dusty weather. their 2013 defeat to Al-Andalus champions. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

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DOHA: Reach Out To Asia that provides a large soft play (ROTA), Qatar’s leading edu- area suited to the requirements cational non-profit organi- of children with special needs, sation in Qatar celebrated as well as in Hamad Hospital’s the joy of Garangao with Paediatric Ward. ROTA volun- Tel child patients at Hamad teers played with the children Fax Hospital’s Paediatric Ward and distributed bags filled with and Rumailah Hospital’s sweets and toys, while they all Children’s Rehabilitation joined together to sing the tra- Centre as part of its Ramadan ditional Garangao song. Tel 2014 Project, sponsored by “The Garangao celebration Fax Occidental Petroleum of Qatar at both Hamad and Rumailah Ltd (Oxy Qatar). Hospital reiterates our commit- www.renaissancedoha.com Often called “The Festival ment to giving back to the local of Children,” Garangao is community. Garangao is about Tel +974 44195000 observed on 14th day of the celebrating and preserving our Holy Month of Ramadan every heritage, and by doing so, ROTA Fax +974 44195100 year. Historically, ROTA hosts has reached out to create hap- Children during the ROTA Garangao event. special events to mark this joy- piness in these children’s lives, ous occasion, looking to provide especially poignant during the celebration we wanted to bring volunteers for being part of all new treats and entertainment Holy Month of Ramadan, where smiles to the children’s faces. our wonderful initiatives this for children. This year ROTA it is the custom to reach out to They celebrated the festivities month, it has been a privilege hosted the event in two special the less fortunate,” said National with enthusiasm and excite- working with each and every one locations for vulnerable children Program Director at ROTA, ment and it has been an hon- of them,” said ROTA’s Volunteer in the local community: outside , Mohamed Al Saleh. our celebrating Garangao with Programme Manager, George ‘My Gym’ in Rumailah Hospital By participating in this them. I want to thank all our Tavola. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Sotheby’s auction to highlight Hirst’s butterfly masterpiece

DOHA: A Damien Hirst combining his most famous Following last year’s Monir Farmanfarmaian. – international artists with butterfly masterpiece, concepts into one canvas. record-breaking sale of The works will be exhib- their Middle Eastern coun- valued between $1m and Titled Tranquility, the Arab and Iranian and ited at Sotheby’s New Bond terparts. This selection of $1.5m, will be the high- piece is a beautifully con- International Contemporary Street galleries in London works will not only speak light of Sotheby’s auc- structed and flawlessly Art in Doha — in which nine from July 22 until August to art lovers and collectors tion of Contemporary executed work that has artist records were achieved 22. Pre-sale expos will also but challenge them and art by Middle Eastern captured the manifestation — this year’s sale features be held in Jeddah, Dubai expose them to new art- and International art- of the most subliminal fear artworks of the highest cali- and New York. ists and forms of art that ists on October 13 in in human existence: that of bre that corresponds to the “For our forthcoming they may not be familiar Doha. death. Like the beating of demand from both Middle auction in Doha we have with,” said Aileen Agopian, Hirst’s most famous sub- butterfly wings, the canvas Eastern and International sourced supreme examples Sotheby’s International ject is often considered to breathes life into the room. collectors. of works by well-estab- Contemporary Art be the fight between life The title evokes both the This includes master- lished and internationally Specialist. and death, and Hirst’s tranquil state that is pro- pieces by some of today’s recognised artists. We have An exhibition of the butterfly works are a tes- duced by being in the pres- most celebrated art- created a sale in which pieces will also open on tament to his ability to cel- ence of such beauty as well ists from the region, the works speak for them- October 6 here prior to the ebrate the complexities of as the state of the butter- including Ali Banisadr, selves as much as they auction. One of the works in Damien Hirst’s butterfly series. the human experience by flies themselves. Ayman Baalbaki and engage with each other THE PENINSULA Qatar’s retail market Thousands attend Aspetar’s ‘Fasting for Health’ campaign reaches QR32bn mark DOHA: Aspetar annual ‘Fasting for Health’ campaign has proved incredibly popular Infrastructure boom, influx of foreign workers help growth across the Gulf region as thou- sands of men, women, and chil- DOHA: Given the infrastruc- influx of foreign workers), Qatar’s of daily needs under one roof. dren participated in the first ture boom and rapidly grow- retail market has become one of “Despite the opening of so week of programme. ing population, size of Qatar’s the fastest growing in the GCC,” many hypermarkets and malls in Aspetar re-launched ‘Fasting retail market has touched he said adding, “This is the reason the country, all the commercial for Health’ due to the positive QR32bn ($8.9bn) mark, local Qatar has become one of the most centres remain equally crowded, feedback received in previous Arabic daily Al Raya reported preferred destinations of invest- irrespective of their geographical years’ editions. The month-long yesterday. ment by some leading interna- location and distance,” Al Emadi campaign aims to encourage fast- As a result of growing demand tional brands.” said. ing residents to remain active and and higher purchasing power of He also added that some of the He said that there are several continue playing sports through- people, the sector is expected to existing international brands in areas that still do not have easy out Ramadan through useful grow by over 6 percent annually the country are attracting locals access to retail facilities, espe- health tips and tricks. during 2014 and 2017. as well as customers from neigh- cially those facing demolition The campaign not only targets Supported by massive infra- boring countries. “Earlier people drives to make way for various Qatar, but the entire Gulf region. structure investments and sharp could buy these brands only when developmental projects. Every day, more than 8,000 indi- increase in the country’s popula- they travelled overseas such as The daily, quoting Al Emadi, viduals read the comprehensive tion, non-oil sector is anticipated the US and Europe.” said that rentals for shops and guidelines provided by Aspetar’s to register over 10 percent growth Al Emadi said that Qatar’s commercial spaces have grown experts, and in the first week alone, in 2014, said the daily quoting retail sector, over the last few to a level beyond imagination. more 4,000,000 people accessed Euromonitor International, a of decades, has witnessed sea In some places shops are being the tips in Qatar, the United London-based market intelligence change. Sales of retail outlets have rented out at a whopping price Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. firm. grown exponentially. ranging between QR150,000 and The information is published on “The current economic boom “The retail outlets whose daily QR250,000 per month. Aspetar’s website and its social and huge investments in infra- sales used to remain confined Another Qatari citizen, media pages, Facebook, Twitter, structure development by gov- between QR200 and QR500 about Mohammed Shabeeb Al Dosri, and Instagram. The tips were cre- of the multifaceted programme in shopping centres across Qatar, ernment are positively affecting fifty years ago, have now grown to also lauded similar opinions about ated by a team of highly qualified is to communicate with as many and take advantage of the air-con- the country’s retail market,” QR100, 000, or even more may be the robust future of retail sector. experts at Aspetar. The hospital people as possible, both locally ditioned corridors. Another exam- Abdulaziz Al Emadi, a prominent in millions of riyals per month,” He added: has also created a comprehensive and regionally, to raise awareness ple includes ‘Walking at Aspire Qatari businessman was quoted he said. “Availability of several com- fasting calendar, or ‘Imsakiyah’, of the importance of good health Dome’, which allows residents to by the daily as saying. He said that availability of large mercial centres across the coun- which includes prayer times, and during the Holy Month.” explore the state-of-the-art facil- Al Emadi noted that higher number of commercial centres try (inside and outside Doha) and is available to download online. The ‘Fasting for Health’ campaign ity in the evenings, after the fast public sector spending has accel- across the country and their easy rapidly growing economic activi- Abdulla Saeed Al Mohannadi, also encourages residents to stay fit by is broken. Both activities are part erated economic activities and access are some of the impor- ties are some of the key factors Health Promotion Researcher providing the public with a range of of Aspetar’s wider social initiative, doubled people’s purchasing tant factors of the retail sector for the strong growth of the retail at Aspetar, commented: “The fun, recreational activities, including ‘Step into Health’, which, has to capacity. growth. Contemporary concept sector. The trend is expected to ‘Fasting for Health’ campaign ‘Walk More, Walk the Malls’. date, seen nearly 32,000 members “With the launch of several of retail shopping facilities such continue over the next several is just one of the many activi- The initiative was re-launched walk over 9.4 billion steps, the mega projects and significant as malls and hypermarkets are years.” ties organised by Aspetar for in June and offers residents the equivalent of 6.5 million km. growth in the population (due to providing all goods and services THE PENINSULA Ramadan. The overarching aim opportunity to exercise by walking THE PENINSULA

Fire at Orthopaedics Centre Calligraphy artist Sabah Arbilli opens Alif exhibition DOHA: Thirty art pieces power of the brush strokes inspired by the first letter of reflecting the real experience of the Arabic alphabet are fea- past and present of his home- tured at the ‘Alif’ exhibition by land in Iraq. acclaimed artist Sabah Arbilli He states, “I envisage the which opened yesterday at the lands which relate to the echo InterContinental Doha The in my ear taking me back to a City. place where I see harmony and The two-month long exhibi- tranquility. I see the forms of the tion was specifically created for letter all around me waiting to Ramadan and Eid and centres unravel a meaning of hidden on Alif which is also the first truth beneath the façade. I smell letter from the word Iqra which the place and sense my presence means read. This was the first and belonging which I capture to word revealed by God. share with the audience.” “I’ve been in Qatar for the “As part of our ongoing com- past four years and every year mitment to support local art- during Ramadan I always have ists, we are delighted to host some type of event related to Sabah Aribilli’s Alif exhibi- calligraphy because this type of tion at our hotel,” said Cedric art which is Arabic calligraphy Gaillard, Hotel Manager, is related to Ramadan more InterContinental Doha The than any other month,” Arbilli City. “It is through Sabah’s told The Peninsula at the exhibi- pieces that we can find inspira- tion launch. tion and further reflect on the The reason behind, he said meaning of Ramadan and the was calligraphy is being used celebration of Eid.” to we write the verses of Quran The large body of work con- and poetry which is related to sists of paintings and sculptures, Arabic and Islamic culture. unique with their varying forms, “This gives people more moti- sizes and colours. For art enthu- vation and extra joy during siasts who wish to add a Sabah Ramadan because the month Arbilli to their collections, the of Ramadan is a month of unity artworks are for sale. Smoke coming out of Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Orthopaedics and people get together during The exhibition spread Centre in the Old Salata area yesterday, after a fire erupted in its park- this month and I want to make throughout the hotel’s lobby is Sabah Arbilli with one of his sculptures at the ‘Alif’ exhibition, which ing lot. HMC said it was a small fire and was quickly contained by it special for them,” he added. open until September 17. opened yesterday at the InterContinental Doha The City. firefighters. People inside the building were safely evacuated but some In addition, Arbilli uses the THE PENINSULA staff members suffered minor injuries, an HMC press statement said. FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM The last ten nights of Ramadan

BY SALMAN AL OUDA is one of the immense favors that God has we can see with our eyes. No one after bestowed upon the Muslim community. the Prophet can see the angels. he last ten nights of Ramadan Imam Ibrahim Al Nakhai says: “Good are very special. The first of works performed on this night are better OBSERVING RETREAT IN THE these nights occurs on the eve than those performed consistently for a MOSQUE Tof the 21st day of Ramadan. In thousand months.” Observing a retreat in the mosque is of other words, it is the night that com- Abu Hurayrah relates that the Prophet the best things we can do during the last mences after the completion of the 20th (PBUH) said: ten nights of Ramadan. Aisha tells us: day of fasting. “Whoever spends Laylat Al Qadr in “The Prophet (PBUH) used to observe a Sometimes there are only nine nights, prayer, believing in Allah and seeking His retreat in the mosque during the last ten whenever the month of Ramadan lasts reward, will be forgiven all of his past nights of Ramadan up until he died. His for only 29 days. Nevertheless, they are sins.” (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) wives continued to observe this practice still traditionally referred to as “the last “Believing in Allah”, in this hadith, after his death.” (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) ten nights”. means not only to believe in God, but to The practice of i`tikaf is a strongly rec- The last ten nights of Ramadan are believe in the reward that we are prom- ommended act. It is defined as remaining very special. These are the nights that ised for observing prayer on this night. in retreat in the mosque for the express the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Laylat Al Qadr (the Night of Power) purpose of worship. The purpose of doing him) would spend in constant worship. is on one of the odd nights. Aisha relates so is to devote one’s heart exclusively to Among these nights is Laylat Al Qadr that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)said: God. The person engaging in i`tikaf keeps (the Night of Power) – a night more “Seek out Laylat Al Qadr in the odd this intention close to mind and seeks blessed than a thousand months. nights during the last ten nights of God’s blessings. He should not forget the The Prophet (peace be upon him) used Ramadan.” (Al-Bukhari & Muslim) reason why he is observing this retreat. to single these nights out for worship and It is most likely one of the last seven A person observing i`tikaf does not the performance of good deeds. He would odd nights. Ibn Umar relates that Prophet leave the mosque except for what is exert himself in worship during these ten Muhammad (PBUH) said: “Look for it absolutely necessary (like going to the nights more than any other nights of the in the last ten nights. If one of you falls bathroom). While in the mosque, he year. weak or unable to do so, then he should at should busy himself with the remem- The Prophet’s wife Aisha (may Allah least try on the seven remaining nights.” brance of God. He should make sure to be pleased with her) tells us: “During the (Muslim) offer the remembrances of the morning last ten nights of Ramadan, the Prophet The most likely candidate for Laylat Al and evening and the prescribed remem- (PBUH) would tighten his waist belt and Qadr is the 27th night of Ramadan. This brances for the five daily prayers. He spend the night in worship. He would also is indicated by the statement of Ubayy should perform all of the Sunnah prayers. wake up his family.” (Al Bukhari) ibn Ka`b: “I swear by Allah that I know He should read as much of the Quran as Aisha also says: “I had never known which night it is. It is the night in which he can. Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) to read the Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) ordered us He should spend less time eating and entire Quran in a single night, or to spend to observe in prayer. It is the night on sleeping as little as possible. He should the whole night in prayer up until the the eve of the 27th of Ramadan. Its sign avoid unnecessary talk. However, he morning, or to spend a whole month in is that the sun will rise in the morning should engage in advising his fellow fasting – except in Ramadan.” (An Nasai’ of that day white without exuding any Muslims and in enjoining them to truth & Ibn Majah) rays.” (Muslim) and to patience. When we say that the Prophet A Muslim should seek out this special Muhammad (PBUH) spent the whole night by spending the last ten nights of GENEROSITY night in worship, we should qualify it. Ramadan engaged in various acts of wor- It is encouraged for us to be extra This is because he would spend some ship. These include reciting the remem- generous during the last ten nights of time eating dinner, partaking of his pre- brances of God, reading the Quran, and Ramadan, without being extravagant or dawn meal, and other similar activities. begging God’s forgiveness. ostentatious in our giving. Ibn `Abbas However, he would spend most of the It is best for us to strive hard on all ten relates that: “Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) night in worship. nights, because the Prophet said: was the most generous of all people in “The way we “look for” Laylat Al Qadr doing good, and he was at his most gen- WAKING UP THE FAMILY is by engaging in extra worship.” erous during the month of Ramadan. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) would When the Prophet said: “Look for it Gabriel used to meet with him every year wake up his wives to pray for a much in the last ten nights” he did not mean throughout the month of Ramadan, so longer portion of the night... that we should literally “look for” signs the Prophet could recite the Quran to Aisha informs us that the Prophet and indications that distinguish Laylat Al him. Whenever Gabriel met with him, he used to wake up his family during the last Qadr from other nights. The things that became more generous than a beneficial ten nights of Ramadan. Indeed, he used to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) would would “tighten his waist belt”, she is distinguish this night from other nights breeze.” (Al Bukhari & Muslim) wake up his wives for prayer throughout wake up his wives to pray for a much speaking figuratively. The phrase means are part of the Unseen. Al Nawawi states: “Generosity and the year, but that was so that they could longer portion of the night than during to set about to devote oneself fully and Allah says: Surely We revealed it on open-handedness are strongly encouraged pray for a small fraction of the night. the rest of the year. wholeheartedly to the task at hand. a blessed night. Surely We ever wish to in Ramadan, especially during the last We know this, because Umm Salamah, warn against evil – On this night, every ten nights. By doing so, we emulate the the Prophet’s wife, relates that the EXERTING ONESELF IN WORSHIP SEEKING OUT LAYLAT AL QADR wise matter is made distinct. (Quran 44: example of Allah’s Messenger (PBUH) as Prophet woke her up one night and said: Aisha tells us: “The Prophet would One of the greatest distinctions of 3-4) well as of our Pious Predecessors. Also, “Glory be to Allah. What has been sent exert himself in worship during the last these ten special nights is that one of Allah again says: Laylat Al Qadr is bet- this month is noble, and good works car- down of trials during this night? What ten nights more than at any other time them is Laylat al-Qadr. This is the great- ter than a thousand months. The angels ried out in this month are more blessed has been sent down of treasures, so that of the year.” (Muslim) est night of the year – better than a thou- and the Spirit descend therein, by the than they are at any other time. Also, the denizens of the bedchambers will The great jurist, Al Shafi’i, declares: “It sand months. This means that a Muslim permission of their Lord, with every during this month, people are preoccu- be awakened? O Lord! To be clothed in is Sunnah for one to exert greater efforts can earn more rewards on the Night of decree. (This night is) peace, until the pied with fasting and worship, and this this world by naked in the Hereafter.” in worship during the last ten nights of Power than he would if – excluding this rising of the dawn. (97: 3-5) distracts them from their livelihood, so (Al-Bukhari) Ramadan.” special night – he were to worship his These are the ways in which Laylat Al they might need some assistance during During the last ten nights of Ramadan, When Aisha tells us that Prophet Lord for eighty-four years straight. This Qadr is special. They are not things that this time.” www.onislam.net Hadiths on Night Prayer

BY MUHAMMAD FATHI something bad.” of time as he had spent in bow- Abdullah was asked, “What ing. He then prostrated himself s the days and nights was that?” and said: of Ramadan are run- He said: “I thought of sit- Subhana Rabbia Al A`la ning quickly, we are ting down and leaving him.” Glory be to my Lord, the most Anow approaching the (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) High last third of Ramadan, the ten His prostration lasted nearly blessed nights that include the 3. Hudhaifah (may Allah be the same length of time as his special Night of Decree, Laylat pleased with him) reported: standing. (Muslim) Al Qadr. The greatness of this I prayed with the Prophet 4. Ali (May Allah be pleased night is incomparable: Worship (PBUH) one night and he started with him) reported that the in it outweighs worship in 1000 reciting surat Al-Baqarah. I Prophet (PBUH) visited him and months as indicated in the Quran thought that he would bow at the his wife Fatimah (May Allah be (Al Qadr 97: 3). end of one hundred verses, but he pleased with her) one night and Qiyam-ul-Layl or optional proceeded on; so I thought that said, “Why do not you observe night prayer is one of the best he would perhaps recite the whole prayer at night?” (Al-Bukhari ways to gain the reward of this surah in a rak`ah. He continued and Muslim). “O people, spread Salam revive the night in worship and night. Since it is not known in reciting and I had the belief that 5. Salim ibn Abdullah ibn RAMADAN SPECIALS (greeting of peace), give food, awake his family… (Al-Bukhari which of the last 10 nights does he would bow on completing the `Umar (May Allah be pleased 9. Abu Hurayrah reported that maintain kin relationships, and and Muslim) occur Laylat Al Qadr, we are rec- Surah. However, he went on and with them) reported, on the the Prophet (PBUH) said, pray at night while people are 15. Abu Hurayrah (May Allah ommended to do Qiyam-ul-Layl started surat An-Nisaa’ and authority of his father, that the “Whosoever performs Qiyam asleep. With this, you shall enter be pleased with him) reported in all of them. recited it all. Then he started Messenger of Allah (PBUH) (optional night prayer) dur- Heaven in peace.” (Ibn Majah) that the Messenger of Allah Following are 15 hadiths that surat Aal `Imran and recited it. said, “What an excellent man ing Ramadan out of faith and (PBUH) said, show the significance of this He recited leisurely and when `Abdullah is! If only he could per- being hopeful of Allah’s reward, HOW TO DO IT “May Allah show mercy to a special type of worship and the he reached a verse which referred form [optional] prayers at night.” will have his past sins forgiven.” 12. Abdullah ibn `Umar (may man who gets up during the night Prophet’s (peace and blessings be to the Glory of Allah, he glorified Salim said that after this, (his (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) Allah be pleased with him) and performs Salah, awakens his upon him) example and guidance Allah; when he recited a verse father) `Abdullah used to sleep 10. Abu Hurayrah reported reported that the Prophet wife to pray and if she refuses, he regarding it: that includes a supplication, he very little at night. (Al-Bukhari that the Prophet (PBUH) said, (PBUH) said: “Night prayers are sprinkles water on her face (to 1. `A’ishah, the Prophet’s wife would supplicate Allah; and when and Muslim). The Prophet (peace and to be offered two by two, then if make her get up). (may Allah be pleased with her) he came across a verse related 6. Abdullah ibn Amr (May blessings be upon him) said, you fear that dawn will come, May Allah show mercy to a reported: to isti`adha (seeking Allah’s Allah be pleased with him) “Whosoever performs Qiyam make [the total of the rak`ahs woman who gets up during the When the Prophet (PBUH) protection), he asked Allah for reported that the Prophet (optional night prayer) during you performed] an odd number by night and performs Salah, awak- prayed (the optional night protection. (PBUH) said to him: “O Lailat Al Qadr (Night of Decree), praying one [additional] rak`ah.” ens her husband for the same prayers: Qiyam-ul-layl), he would Then he bowed and repeated `Abdullah, do not be like so and out of faith and being hopeful of (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) purpose; and if he refuses, she stand until (the skin of) his feet (while bowing): ‘Subhana rab- so! He used to pray at night and Allah’s reward, will have his past 13. Abu Huryrah (May Allah sprinkles water on his face.’’ (Abu swelled. So, I said: bia Al adheem’ (Glory be to my then he stopped doing that” sins forgiven.’’ (Al-Bukhari and be pleased with him) reported Dawud). “O Prophet of Allah, do you do Mighty Lord.) His bowing lasted (Al-Bukhari and Muslim Muslim) that the Prophet (PBUH) said, 16. Abu Sa`id and Abu as such while Allah has forgiven about the same length of his “When one of you gets up at Hurairah (May Allah be pleased you all mistakes?” standing time. (Then, on return- THE BEST GOOD DEED EASY ACCESS TO PARADISE night to perform [optional night] with them) reported that the He responded: “Should not I ing to the standing posture after 7. Abu Hurayrah (May Allah 11. Abdullah ibn Salam (may prayer, let him start Salah with Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, be a grateful servant of Allah?” ruku) he said: Sami Allahu liman be pleased with him) reported Allah be pleased with him) two short Rak`ahs.” (Muslim). “When a man awakens his (Muslim) Hamidah. that the Prophet (PBUH) said, narrated, When the Prophet wife during the night and they 2. Abdullah ibn Mas`ud (may rabbana walka al-Hamd “The best month for observing (PBUH) arrived for the first time A FAMILY ACTIVITY both perform two-Rak`ah prayer Allah be pleased with him) (Allah responds to whoever fasting after Ramadan is Allah’s in Madinah, I went with everyone 14. `A’ishah reported: When together, they are recorded reported: I prayed one night with praises Him) month of Muharram, and the best to see him. When I saw him, I the last ten nights of Ramadan among the men and women who the Prophet (PBUH) and he kept O Lord, Yours is the praise Salah after the prescribed Salah knew his face was not that of a entered, the Prophet (peace and celebrate remembrance of Allah.’’ standing until I thought of doing He stood about the same length is Salah at night.’’ (Muslim) liar. The first words he said were, blessings be upon him) would (Abu Dawud) www.onislam.net FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Sisi, Abbas mull Erdogan slams Israel over Gaza strikes donors’ meet to It’s systematic genocide: Turkey PM rebuild Gaza

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime criticism of the United Nations, CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan which he accused of having no use Fattah Al Sisi and Palestinian yesterday launched his most and pursuing a hidden agenda. leader Mahmud Abbas yester- bitter attack yet against Israel “What is the UN doing? Why day mulled holding a donors’ over its air campaign against has it been founded? For world conference to rebuild Gaza, the the Gaza Strip, accusing it of peace? Does it contribute to the Egyptian presidency said. trying to carry out a “systematic world peace? No. They are serving Sisi and Abbas, who discussed genocide” of the Palestinians. whatever their secret agenda is.” ways to end the Israeli offensive Erdogan, a pious Muslim who But he also accused other on the Palestinian enclave, also sees himself as a champion of the Islamic countries of being indiffer- agreed that Israeli crossings to Palestinian cause, has intensified ent to the fate of the Palestinians, the besieged Gaza be opened to his rhetoric against Israel as he a possible swipe at Saudi Arabia facilitate movement of people and presents himself as a leader of and Egypt, with which Ankara goods. the entire Islamic world ahead of has prickly ties. It was not clear whether they August 10 presidential election in “I am asking the Islamic world, were also referring to Egypt’s Turkey. isn’t your heart shattered? Forget Rafah border crossing with Gaza. But in his latest attack, he went about the West. If your family The two leaders met amid even further in comments that does not embrace you, would oth- intensifying global efforts to end could endanger attempts to nor- ers do that?” the deadly conflict as Israel and malise troubled relations between Hundreds of protestors held Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist Israel and Turkey. a march in central Istanbul movement that is the main power “This is not the first time we yesterday shouting slogans like in Gaza, resumed their strikes, have been confronted by such “Palestine and Gaza are our after a brief halt of hostili- situations,” Erdogan told a meet- honour” and “Damn murderer ties yesterday on humanitarian ing of Islamic scholars gathered Israel!” grounds. in Istanbul for Ramadan, a holy Foreign Minister Ahmet “The two presidents agreed on month of fasting for Muslims. Davutoglu, meanwhile, scoffed at the urgency of holding a donors “Since (the creation of the state claims by Israel’s outspoken top conference to immediately start A Palestinian woman cries inside her damaged house in Gaza City, which police said was targeted in an Israeli of Israel) in 1948 we have been diplomat Avigdor Lieberman that rebuilding the Gaza Strip,” a witnessing this attempt at sys- Turkey was seeking to sabotage air strike. statement from the Egyptian tematic genocide every day and Egypt-brokered attempts for a presidency said. every month. ceasefire. It said Sisi and Abbas agreed “But above all we are witness- “I have never taken the Israeli on the “necessity of an immediate ing this attempt at systematic foreign minister seriously,” Lebanon files UN complaint against Israel ceasefire” based on an Egyptian genocide every Ramadan.” Davutoglu said in an interview plan to stop the conflict that has The violence has so far claimed with Turkish television. BEIRUT: Lebanon filed a com- Gaza, describing this as “repeated This action “is a threat to peace killed at least 240 Palestinians the lives of 241 people in Gaza He said Turkey would speak up plaint yesterday against Israel and dangerous violations”. and stability that serves neither since Israel launched Operation and one person in Israel, with against “crimes against human- at the UN Security Council, During that same period at Lebanon nor the Palestinian Protective Edge on July 8 to Israel bombarding Gaza while ity” in Gaza. saying it had violated its sov- least nine rockets were fired from resistance, and gives Israel reason stamp out rocket fire from Gaza Palestinian militant group Hamas Israeli media have reported ereignty by opening fire on south Lebanon into Israel. Israel to attack Lebanon and its sover- militants. launch rockets at Israel. that Turkey pressured Hamas its territory in retaliation for has responded with artillery fire. eignty,” it added. Egypt sharply criticised Hamas “The Western world remains not to accept the ceasefire pro- rocket attacks. The foreign ministry said Two Palestinian brothers sus- yesterday, saying they could have silent, so does the Islamic world. posal floated by Egypt, with which The foreign ministry said Lebanon “rejects the firing of pected of involvement in rocket saved dozens of lives had they Because those who lost their lives Turkey has had strained relations Israel fired 102 shells at Lebanon rockets (from its territory) on attacks on northern Israel have accepted a Cairo-mediated truce. are Palestinian, you can’t hear since the ousting of Islamist pres- between July 11 and 14, during the occupied Palestinian territory,” been arrested in Lebanon. Hamas, the Islamist rulers of their voices,” Erdogan added. ident Mohamed Mursi. ongoing war between Israel and in a reference to Israel. AFP the besieged enclave, had rejected Erdogan renewed his vehement AFP the ceasefire intended to start on Tuesday and continued firing rockets at Israeli cities. “Had Hamas accepted the Three charged over Palestinian’s murder Egyptian proposal, it could have saved the lives of at least 40 JERUSALEM: Israeli prose- July 2 and burned to death in a setting alight a Palestinian shop Palestinians,” Foreign Minister cutors indicted three Jews yes- suspected revenge attack for the in the town of Izmeh, a West Sameh Shoukri said, quoted by terday over the abduction and abduction and killing of three Bank village near Israel, the jus- state news agency MENA. murder of a Palestinian teen- Israeli teenagers. tice ministry said in a statement. He accused Hamas of plotting ager who was burned to death Israel’s defence ministry An Israeli government legal with Qatar and Turkey to “frus- this month, the justice ministry announced in a statement it had adviser quoted in the media trate Egypt’s regional role.” said. decided to recognise Abu Khudair denounced the attacks as “shock- Abbas met in Cairo on The identity of those charged as a victim of “terrorism” — a ing acts of racism against inno- Wednesday Hamas deputy leader was not disclosed by the ministry, term rarely used in Israel for cent people”. Mussa Abu Marzuq, who insisted which simply stated that one was Palestinian victims of violence. The trio had decided to kill an on changes to the Egyptian truce a 29-year-old from the West Bank The Israelis face separate Arab, and equipped themselves plan, including guarantees on settlement of Adam. charges over the attempted with cable ties, petrol and other opening border crossings to Gaza. The others were 16-year-olds, kidnapping of a seven-year- materials, and had randomly cho- The initiative called for a return one from Jerusalem and the other old Palestinian from the east sen Abu Khder as their victim. to an Egyptian-brokered 2012 from Beit Shemesh, an Israeli Jerusalem neighbourhood of Beit On July 1, the suspects had ceasefire that ended eight days town west of Jerusalem. All were Hanina, as well as alleged arson tried to kidnap a child elsewhere of fighting, and loosened border The 29-year-old Israeli prime suspect, who was charged along with two from the same family. attacks on Palestinian-owned in east Jerusalem, but were restrictions on goods for the block- minors with the abduction and murder of a Palestinian teenager, covers Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was cars. thwarted by the youth’s mother. aded coastal enclave. his face as he leaves a courtroom at the Jerusalem district court yesterday. kidnapped from east Jerusalem on Two of them are also accused of AFP AFP

Iraq forces battle militants in north, east West may ease sanctions

KIRKUK: Iraqi security forces clashes with IS gunmen that broke “Around 20 gunmen belonging field — 55 kilometres northwest backed by aircraft have repelled out on Wednesday. to Daash were killed,” the source of the city Kirkuk — since they to get Iran concessions an insurgent attack on a north- “Peshmerga Brigadier General added, referring to the former claimed control of it on July 11, a ern Shia Turkmen town, killing Shirko Rauf was wounded with six Arabic acronym for IS. senior source in the Iraqi North BRUSSELS/VIENNA: With steps suspending sanctions in var- 15 militants, a local official said of his bodyguards this afternoon in Iraq’s autonomous region of Oil company said. talks between world powers ious industries that can be easily yesterday. clashes in western Kirkuk,” said a Kurdistan yesterday pumped The Kurdistan regional gov- and Iran over a broad nuclear reinstated if Tehran reneges on The attack by Islamic State senior security source, declining to an experimental 20,000 barrels ernment encountered some diffi- accord at an impasse, Western its nuclear commitments. The (IS) insurgents and allied Sunni be named. of light crude from an oilfield culties connecting Bai Hassan to governments are considering extent of these steps would match Islamist extremists on the town of “The clashes have been ongoing recently seized from the federal the Kurdish-run Kharmala Dome offering a significant easing of Iranian concessions. Amirli took place on Wednesday, since yesterday, and have resulted authorities, an official said. oil field, but will make another sanctions early on in the proc- “When Iran does something, said Talib Al Bayati, an official in the deaths of two peshmerga It was the first time the Kurds attempt today. ess to try to wring concessions then we can respond with sanc- from nearby Suleiman Bek. and the wounding of 53 others. had pumped oil from Bai Hassan AFP from Tehran, diplomats say. tions relief,” one said, speaking “Iraqi forces, with the help To be effective, such a plan on condition of anonymity. “The of military aircraft, repelled an would have to involve clear guid- whole process will take years.” attack on Amirli on three sides ance to companies made wary by The timing of any easing of oil and killed 15 gunmen, according US fines for sanctions-busting, sanctions, which now prohibit US to an initial toll,” said Bayati. be reversible and not go too far, and European importers from Amirli lies to the south of or skeptical US lawmakers would buying Iranian crude and impose Suleiman Bek, which fell to an simply reimpose restrictions. severe restrictions on third coun- IS-led onslaught that swept parts The Opec oil producer has seen try purchases, will depend on of Iraq’s north and west last its economy devastated by years what Iran offers to do from its month. of sanctions imposed over its con- side and when. Also on Wednesday, govern- tested nuclear programme, which But some diplomats said ment forces drove IS gunmen out Western states say appears to be restrictions on banking with of three northern districts of the aimed at producing a nuclear Iran might have to be eased in city of Baquba, capital of Diyala bomb and Tehran says is peaceful. step with other industries, such province in eastern Iraq, security The prospects for an immedi- as shipping for example, to make and medical sources said. ate accord scaling back that pro- sure companies can finance any They said two members of the gramme in return for sanctions newly re-established trade. security forces were killed in the relief appeared tenuous yester- “We can be flexible,” a senior fighting and 11 wounded. day. Diplomats said the six world western diplomat said. Yesterday, a suicide car bomb powers negotiating with Iran — Without access to finance, relief against a police checkpoint in Taji the United States, Russia, China, might not materialise, raising killed at least two policemen and a France, Britain and Germany — questions about the world pow- civilian, a police colonel said. were working out terms for an ers’ credibility and endangering A medical source in the town, extension of talks, beyond their the implementation of the accord, only 25 kilometres north of self-imposed July 20 deadline, they said. Baghdad, confirmed the death toll. instead of seeking a deal now. Western companies are eager A roadside bomb also killed If there is an agreement in to enter Iran, a market of nearly three people and wounded 10 out- the coming weeks or months, 80 million people and vast oil side a ShiA prayer hall in a cen- Western diplomats have said, Iran reserves. But banks have been tral Baghdad market, security and might still have to wait years, or reluctant to process cash when medical sources said. as long as two decades, to see the it became admissible to a certain In Iraq’s north, the commander complex web of sanctions perma- extent under an interim accord of Kurdish peshmerga forces in nently removed. struck between Iran and the the city of Kirkuk was wounded Iraqis stand in the debris of a house after an apparent air raid by the Iraqi Air Force in Fallujah city yesterday. Instead, they said, Western world powers last November. along with six bodyguards in states may opt for a patchwork of REUTERS FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE air disaster in Ukraine yesterday is not a crash that can only be reduced to technical banalities. Though the crash has killed all 295 people onboard, it Tis likely to transcend the element of human tragedy and trigger a flux in relations between a number of nations including Russia, Ukraine, and America’s major allies in the New Russia sanctions western world. As the world sat up to take note of the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 yesterday, there was consternation in the voices of world leaders — after claims that the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. are hollow as old ones The Boeing 777 came down in the province of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The territory has been controlled by Russia-backed rebels fighting Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY Since both these paths are unpalatable The leaders of the 28 EU nations President Petro Poroshenko claimed the aircraft was brought for obvious reasons, and Western politi- agreed to stop the European Investment down by a rebel-fired missile. The standoff between Kiev and hough they sound more seri- cians must be seen as doing something, Bank from funding further Russian Moscow after the ouster of former Ukrainian President Viktor ous, the latest Western sanc- there are the sanctions — but God for- projects. It has disbursed a total of tions against Russia for failing bid they should cause trouble for US ¤1.6bn ($2.17bn) in Russia, none of it Yanukovych has reached a stage when an aircraft belonging to to stop the war in eastern or European companies. That reticence this year and a little over 1 billion last a third nation has been pulled into the controversy. T Ukraine are, again, mostly bark and will make the measures ineffective year. Before Malaysian Airlines could completely recover from very little bite. The growing disparity against Russian ones, too. The EU also decided to use its the loss of Flight MH370 in March, the shock of MH17 has between the sanctions imposed by the The Treasury Department’s new influence at the European Bank for come to haunt it. It is likely that Kuala Lumpur has been plain United States and the European Union sanctions announcement is a master- Reconstruction and Development to unlucky — that only its aircraft was targeted. also raises the question of whether piece of ingenuity. It names large com- stop further funding in Russia (the the two are allies in any real sense of panies such as the state-controlled oil influence is decisive, though Russia is As Ukraine blamed Russian separatists for the downing of the word. major Rosneft, second-biggest natural a big shareholder in the development the plane — Ukrainian intelligence chief claimed that he had Russia’s participation in the events gas producer Novatek, third biggest bank, too). The EBRD’s total invest- transcripts of a conversation between Russian military officers in Eastern Ukraine is progressively bank, Gazprombank, and government- ment in Russia to date stands at ¤24bn — Moscow shot back. President less deniable. Videos of Grad unguided owned development bank, VEB, which ($32.5bn), but in recent years its The bringing Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine missiles fired at makes for impressive headlines. But the Russian activity has been shrinking (to for the disaster, saying that if Kiev Ukrainian ter- sanctions against them are narrow. less than ¤2bn last year). In any case, down of a ritory have been The banks are not banned from dol- 84 percent of it went to private sector wouldn’t have renewed the offensive The disconnect traced — as con- lar clearing, and Gazprombank-issued companies, which Putin doesn’t worry Malaysian against rebels in the east, the between US clusively as pos- Mastercard and Visa cards will still about too much. airliner in incident could have been avoided. sible under the work, unlike for a few previously sanc- In addition, EU leaders agreed to The crisis in Ukraine, as has been eagerness to circumstances tioned small Russian banks. “consider the possibility of targeting Ukrainian said earlier, doesn’t only affect the punish Putin and — to a Russian The energy companies can still trade individuals or entities who actively pro- border town. It with US entities. Igor Sechin, Rosneft vide material or financial support to the region. The Russia-West wrangling territory EU’s unwillingness is increasingly CEO and Putin’s close friend, says he Russian decision-makers responsible for will have is having far-fetched ramifications, to punish itself is clear that as is confident his company’s several big the annexation of Crimea or the desta- especially after Putin annexed growing. The new Ukraine’s mili- projects with ExxonMobil are going bilisation of eastern Ukraine” — a vague far-reaching Crimea. tary attempts to ahead, and nobody in the US has con- hint that may or may not turn into a list consequences. The European Union, which US sanctions, crush the rebels, tradicted him. of sanctioned companies by the end of has taken upon himself to defeat meanwhile, cannot Russian President The only thing denied to the big this month. The list, if it does emerge, Vladimir Putin Russian companies will be new financ- will probably be less impressive than the Putin’s designs in the former Soviet be effective without cannot afford ing with a maturity of more than 90 US one, given Rosneft’s recent activity Republic, needs to be more decisive. Amid Kiev and Moscow symmetrical to let it happen: days from US entities and individuals. in the EU. trading allegations over the downing of the plane, the question European ones. That would dam- The markets have already taken The disconnect between US eager- age his popularity care of that: In recent months, it has ness to punish Putin and EU’s unwill- on the international community’s mind is—who shot down the The wariness about plane? Was the airliner actually shot down by Russia-backed at home. become hard for Russian public and ingness to punish itself is growing insurgents, who mistook it to be an aircraft belonging to lending to Russian Putin’s semi-public companies to line up foreign steadily. The new US sanctions, mean- public entities is, Ukrainian coun- credit. They have been preparing for while, cannot be effective without Ukraine, or was MH17 brought down by a missile that came terpart, Petro this moment since March, and Rosneft, symmetrical European ones. Dollar from some another source. of course, present Poroshenko, faces for one, accumulated $21bn in cash and financing is not the only kind available; Separatists have brought down several Ukrainian planes in Europe, too, but even more pow- other short-term financial assets at the Europe may even be a better place to in the area over months and two have been brought down that’s not the same erful pressure to end of the first quarter as a cushion in seek resources, now that the European this week. The freighters brought down this week point to a keep hitting the case external financing dried up. Central Bank is dovish on monetary as actual sanctions. insurgents with A back-of the-envelope analysis of policy and the US Federal Reserve proclivity among insurgents to shoot down Ukrainian planes to all he’s got. The Gazprombank’s balance sheet shows is tightening it. The wariness about weaken Poroshenko’s administration in Kiev. momentum is pro-war, and there are that last month, less than 12 per- lending to Russian public entities is, It is likely that the Malaysian plane was unlucky to be only two ways left in which the West cent of its foreign-currency liabilities of course, present in Europe, too, but targeted by Russian separatists who mistook it to be enemy could productively intervene: Provide were owed to foreign entities, includ- that’s not the same as actual sanctions. aircraft. This all the more makes it incumbent upon the military assistance to Ukraine or pres- ing US ones, and that share has been Bloomberg View contributor Leonid international community to try harder to end the Ukrainian sure it to make a compromise with shrinking. Bershidsky is a a Moscow-based writer. Russia, accepting some of its terms. Europe has not even gone that far. WP-BLOOMBERG crisis. The other side Quote of Democracy in Afghanistan must be engineered from ground up the day OGGED US diplomacy last perform a partial audit of polling sta- government remain unclear. The loser have agreed to sign a bilateral secu- weekend kept alive, for now, tions with higher-than-expected turn- may play the role of chief executive rity agreement with the United States, the prospect of the first out failed to allay the fears of Abdullah, or de facto prime minister to the win- which is crucial to a continued American Dpeaceful transition of power in whom preliminary results put in second ner’s president; Cabinet positions and military presence; and, last but not We do not exclude Afghanistan. Yet for democracy to ever place; he threatened to form his own other nominees may either be formally least, both seem to recognize that the take root in Afghanistan’s stony soil, the government. Kerry hammered out an allocated or the losing side would be winner-take-all model embodied in an that the plane was effects of an earlier and less helpful US agreement between the two men for an able to nominate candidates “based on all-powerful chief executive bodes ill for intervention must be reversed. audit of all 8 million votes cast, with the capacity, ability, qualification and exper- stability in a country riven by ethnicity shot down and Secretary of State John Kerry was certified winner to form a “government tise,” as one representative from Ghani’s and geography. That was the system in Kabul to resolve a dispute between of national unity.” camp put it. The Afghan constitution favored by the US when the constitution confirm that the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Even a full-scale audit, supervised may be amended in two years to cre- was drafted. As a 2003 US diplomatic Ukraine Armed Abdullah and former Finance Minister by monitors under the auspices of the ate the position of prime minister, along cable reported, the US ambassador Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the two presi- United Nations, won’t eliminate the with other reforms. In other words, the told a French constitutional expert that Forces did not fire dential candidates in a June 14 runoff possibility of fraud. Still, it will shore up bazaar is very much open. “Afghanistan needed a strong President who have each claimed victory amid public faith in the voting process and The good news is both candidates given all the vectors of power” and to at any targets in Petro Poroshenko allegations of voting fraud. Plans by the credibility of the winner. have experience that, on paper at least, avoid “endless crises.” the sky. Afghanistan’s election monitors to Yet plans for a national unity might make them good leaders; both The Washington Post Ukrainian President FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 When should America use force? The willingness of the US to use force and the threat to use it to defend its interests and the liberal world order has been an essential and unavoidable part of sustaining that world order since the end of World War II.

BY ROBERT KAGAN the common view at the time that Saddam Hussein, if left “unfettered,” as the Iraq war the posed an “inevitable threat” and the only greatest strategic question was whether “we address it now error in recent dec- or do we wait a year or two or three.” ades, as some pun- Similarly, the lessons learned after US dits have suggested global passivity in the 1930s produced the Wrecently? The simple answer is no. That global activism, sometimes to excess, of honour belongs to the failure to take the Cold War era. action against Al Qaeda and Osama bin It is possible to argue, as historians Laden before the attacks that killed and analysts have, that in both cases the nearly 3,000 Americans on US soil on pendulum swung too far, that excessive September 11, 2001. And if one wants to complacency led to excessive paranoia go back a few decades further, it was the and activism. failure to stop Hitler in Europe and to This is among the central critiques deter war with Japan, failures that dwarf that George Kennan and others have Shia volunteers join the Iraqi army in Baghdad in the fight against militant invasion last week. both Iraq and Vietnam in terms of their levelled against the US over the years, tragic consequences and the cost in lives a tendency to swing wildly from one end and treasure. of the spectrum to the other. numbers of troops, as well as naval and three years, and US troops intervening or as a key ally of the US stem from that Therein lies the conundrum. One kind The question now is whether the pen- air operations such as President Ronald engaged in combat in 19 out of 25 years, “Forgotten War.” of error can come from doing too much, dulum has swung too far in the other Reagan’s bombing of Muammar Gaddafi, or more than 75 percent of the time, since In my view, the willingness of the US from using force too quickly, extrava- direction, whether the response to what President Bill Clinton’s four-day air cam- the fall of the Berlin Wall. to use force and the threat to use it to gantly or, as is usually the case, ineptly. many perceive as the profligate use paign against Iraq in 1998 or President Nor has it mattered whether admin- defend its interests and the liberal world The other can come from doing too lit- of force is going to be to abjure force Obama’s action in Libya, the number is istrations have been Republican or order has been an essential and unavoid- tle, from not using sufficient force quickly altogether. at least six times higher. Democratic, or whether presidents have able part of sustaining that world order enough to remove or deter a threat before Some might argue that the US should This does not include covert opera- been alleged “liberal internationalists” since the end of World War II. It is also it strikes or from hoping that there is an return to a more traditional approach to tions of the kind that President Dwight such as Clinton or alleged “realists” such an essential part of effective diplomacy. alternative to force until it is too late to the use of force, perhaps presuming that Eisenhower ordered against Jacobo as George H W Bush, who ordered three As George Shultz observed while sec- act effectively. Nor should it be surprising the past decade was abnormal. In fact, Arbenz in Guatemala and Mohammad military interventions in his four years retary of state, ‘’Power and diplomacy that the first kind of error often leads to however, for more than a century the US Mossadegh in Iran or threatening nuclear in office. always go together... The hard reality is the second. has employed force as a tool of foreign attack against recalcitrant nations, Should the US return to that norm that diplomacy not backed by strength The lesson of 9/11 for many who lived policy rather frequently. another favourite tool of Eisenhower’s. or depart from it? One can easily point is ineffectual.” through it was that passivity in the face Depending on how one chooses to Counting only the larger interventions, to the cases in which military force has The question today is finding the right of threats was dangerous. This think- count, the US has undertaken roughly with “boots on the ground,” there has failed to achieve its objectives and where balance between when to use force and ing surely informed the George W Bush 26 armed interventions since 1898 across been one intervention on average every it probably would have been better not when not to. We can safely assume the administration’s actions on Iraq, and it the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe 4 1/2 years since 1898. Overall, the US has used. But in other cases, the use of force answer lies somewhere between always informed the support given those actions and the greater Middle East: from Cuba been engaged in combat somewhere in has been effective, sometimes more so and never. Perhaps we can move away by 77 members of the Senate, includ- and the Philippines in the 1890s to the the world in 52 out of the past 116 years, than it seemed at the time. from the current faux-Manichaean ing a majority of Democrats, when they Persian Gulf, Haiti and the Balkans a or roughly 45 percent of the time. When the Korean War ended, few struggle between straw men and carica- authorised the use of force in October century later to Iraq and Afghanistan Since the end of the Cold War, the Americans considered it a success, but tures and return to a reasoned discussion 2002. in the 2000s. rate of US interventions has been higher, the marvellous economic and political of when force is the right tool. Then-Sen Joseph R Biden Jr expressed If one includes the dispatch of smaller with an intervention roughly once every vitality of South Korea today and its role WP-BLOOMBERG

Parliament must decide if Australia goes to war Is Germany a fragile Concurrently with the Iraq ally or silent enemy? deployment, Australia has also BY JEFFREY GEDMIN decade ago in Berlin, a well- informed source cautioned me, fought a long, costly and ultimately half tongue-in-cheek, against holding meetings in a certain hotel not far from the Brandenburg Gate. It seems that a futile war in Afghanistan. A US trade delegation had stayed there not long before and prepared a negotiating strategy late into the night, only to sense in talks the next day that, as my friend put it, “It was as if the Germans BY SCOTT LUDLAM piecemeal attempts to pin the had been a fly on the wall the previous evening.” blame on intelligence services and Nations spy on each other. Allies spy on allies, too, even if they don’t ustralia is one of the few shift focus away from the actions like to admit it. The US, France and Israel may lead the pack in this remaining democracies of the Howard government. regard, but even Germany spies on its friends, the US included. that can legally deploy At the time, Iraq was not In his book “Spies Among Us,” former National Security Agency Aits defence force into a threatening war. There was no intelligence analyst Ira Winkler explains, for example, that Germany’s conflict zone without recourse to allegiance between the secular BND — the federal intelligence service — gathers information on the the parliament. At the moment, Baathist regime that ruled Iraq US and other foreign business competition for the benefit of German that decision is reserved to the and the fundamentalist Al Qaeda companies. executive alone. networks responsible for the 9/11 So why the German furore and dismay over US snooping in Berlin? As kindred democracies around attacks. There were no weapons The outrage somewhat echoes Capt Renault in the movie “Casablanca” the world have enacted reforms of mass destruction in Iraq, and (“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!”). to vest the so-called “war power” hadn’t been since 1991. First, throw the Germans a bone. The leaks from former NSA con- in elected parliaments, Australia Intelligence agencies within the tractor Edward Snowden about the agency’s extensive operations in President Obama addressing Australia’s parliament during his visit in has remained anchored to a pre- US, UK and Australia understood Germany, the public disclosure that we were monitoring Chancellor democratic tradition founded in these facts, but inflexible group- November 2011. Angela Merkel’s phone and the recent arrest of one agent for spying hereditary monarchies and feudal think prevailed within the White for the US with a second under investigation is a lot to absorb in a states. If this anachronism had House, Downing Street and the deployment, Australia has also to ensure that the decision to short amount of time. served Australia well, it might be prime minister’s office here in fought a long, costly, and ulti- deploy members of the Australian In addition, Germany is exceptionally sensitive about these things. possible to mount an argument Australia. Australia is entirely mately futile war in Afghanistan. Defence Force be made not by the Surveillance was the backbone of Nazi tyranny. The treachery contin- that “if it isn’t broken, it doesn’t complicit in the violent, decade- The heaviest cost was carried by executive alone but by parliament ued for 40 years in Communist East Germany. need fixing”. If the horror unfold- long occupation that shattered the Afghan people: tens of thou- as a whole. This means debate in By some estimates, a half-million informants (“inoffizielle ing in Iraq does not permanently Iraq’s social and economic struc- sands of civilians killed, maimed both houses, followed by a vote. Mitarbeiter”) spied for the secret police, the Stasi, on fellow citizens put this view to rest, it is difficult tures, and ignited long-dormant and traumatised as the US gov- Our ally, the US, has a similar in the German Democratic Republic. According to one Stasi colonel, the to imagine what would. sectarian tensions that now ernment’s saturation bombing provision that subjects the deci- figure was closer to 2 million if occasional informants were included. On the basis of fabricated and threaten to plunge the crippled campaign transitioned into a long, sion to go to war to a broader This was in a country of 17 million. wilfully misinterpreted intelli- country into full-blown civil war. untenable occupation. forum - section 8 of the US Throughout the Cold War, West Germany was the US’ junior part- gence, in 2003 then-prime minis- If there is a strategic policy Forty-one Australian soldiers Constitution quite clearly says, ner. In contrast, France was never divided, had nuclear weapons and ter John Howard followed the US failure more complete than the lost their lives in Afghanistan. “Congress shall have power to maintained an independent foreign policy. and United Kingdom into an ille- catastrophic invasion of Iraq, it Out of respect to them and their declare war”. In the wake of the Did Germans never notice? Dependency breeds resentment, even gal and open-ended war in Iraq. is difficult to recall it. This dis- families, parliament pauses to disaster in Iraq, the UK parlia- in the closest of families. This autumn, Germany will mark 25 years Our parliament, and by exten- mal outcome was predicted at acknowledge their sacrifice when ment now holds a de-facto war since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We forget that united Germany is still sion the voting public of Australia, the time by many of those who news breaks of another death. No power, a new convention that pre- young and very much a work in progress. were cut out of the decision, opposed the war, but the execu- such respects are paid to those vented a rushed deployment into What’s more, our relationship with Berlin is more fragile, the terms despite the fact that hundreds tive’s lock on the process means Afghans who also paid the ulti- Syria earlier in 2014. more fluid, than many think. In one recent poll, after six years of of millions of people around the that the normal parliamentary mate price; no-one even appears There are exemptions in this President Barack Obama, majorities found the US aggressive, reckless world organised and campaigned processes of critique and account- to be keeping count. bill to avoid interfering with non- and power-hungry. In another recent poll, in reference to the crisis in against the decision to go to war. ability were bypassed. Somewhere It is no longer tenable that the warlike overseas service in which Ukraine, 45 percent of Germans said they want their country firmly The decision by hardliners between 100,000 and one million decision to deploy into conflict Australian troops are engaged. anchored in the West. Forty-nine percent, though, want Germany to within the Bush administration Iraqis have paid for this obscene zones should be left to the execu- It is time that Australia joined play an intermediary role between the West — Nato and the European to invade Iraq is now seen as one oversight with their lives. tive alone. Our current Defence its closest allies and like-minded Union — and Russia. of the most grievous strategic As the security environment Act does not allow for any level democratic states by involving Unsettling indeed. This should remind us — Atlanticists in the US disasters in modern history. The in Iraq deteriorates, should Tony of transparent decision making, the parliament in the decision to and Germany alike — that beyond the spying dust-up we have larger vast majority of the world’s peo- Abbott decide to compound the scrutiny and debate. This is an deploy the ADF. The entwined strategic matters to tend to, such as a rising China, increasing Russian ple were right, and the executive strategic incompetence of 2003 artefact of legislation, not the tragedies of our recent military belligerence and a dangerously unstable Arab-Persian world. We’ll authorities in the US, the UK and with a further deployment, the natural order of things. misadventures, and the threat never have Europe as a strong ally unless Germany is healthy and Australia, were wrong. Australian parliament, and the Today I reintroduced that history may soon repeat, comfortable with US power. No inquiry into the decision Australian people, will be cut out the Defence Amendment make passage of this bill more Responsible Germans must do their part. But we Americans must to go to war has ever been held of the decision again. (Parliamentary Approval of urgent than ever. do all we can to diminish German resentment and drift. in Australia - only a handful of Concurrently with the Iraq Overseas Service) Bill 2014 THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST 90 killed as Killing, airport shelling deepen Libya chaos TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI: Several shells hit the termi- nal of Libya’s main airport on Thursday as rival militias Syria jihadists fought in Tripoli for a fifth day, and gunmen assassinated a female politician in the east. In another sign of growing tur- moil, air controllers halted work seize gas field in Tripoli, shutting off much of the oil-producing country from international traffic. Tripoli International Airport 21 Islamic State militants also dead has been a battlefield since fight- ers attacked it with heavy guns on BEIRUT: Militant group Syrian Observatory for Human Sunday to wrest control from a Islamic State seized a Syrian gas Rights said. It said 21 Islamic rival militia which has been based field and killed at least 90 people State fighters were killed in the there since the fall of Libya’s late yesterday in one of the bloodiest offensive. ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. clashes between the Al Qaeda The Observatory, which moni- The airport fighting pits bri- offshoot and President Bashar tors violence in Syria through a gades from Misrata, a western Al Assad’s forces, a monitoring network of sources in the coun- coastal town, against rival fight- group said. try, quoted “trusted sources” ers from Zintan in the northwest. Islamic State has made rapid as saying a further 270 guards, Powerful militias from the city gains in Syria in recent weeks, government forces and militia of Misrata yesterday announced mostly by seizing territory from members loyal to Assad were their support for Islamists in rival rebel groups, using weaponry missing, taken prisoner, wounded their battle for control of the brought in from Iraq where last or killed. airport. month it managed to take large “Since the beginning of the year Leaders of the Misrata militias, areas from government forces. there have been clashes between in a statement broadcast on local People inspect the passenger terminal at the Tripoli international airport in the Libyan capital, which came under Activists say the Syrian air the Islamic State and the regime television, described the assault force has in recent weeks stepped in some areas, but these are the on the airport as “a battle by rocket fire for a fourth straight day yesterday. up attacks on positions held by largest,” the Observatory’s direc- the revolutionaries” against pro- Islamic State, formerly known as tor Rami Abdurrahman said. Gaddafi elements. On Wednesday, Libya reo- the Islamic State in Iraq and the It was not immediately possible Yesterday, several shells hit pened the western Misrata air- Levant. to verify the report. Syrian state the airport terminal where the port, which had been closed with Tripoli seeks UN help to train forces Last morning, the group media made no mention of the Zintanis are holding out, strik- Tripoli after the weekend attack, launched an attack against the attack. ing the main building for the first but it will have to shut again UNITED NATIONS: Libya yesterday asked the United Nations Sha’ar gas field east of Homs, kill- About 30 people had managed to time, witnesses said. because Tripoli air controllers for help to build up its security forces, with the foreign minister ing at least 90 of the men guarding escape to the nearby Hajjar field, A reporter at the airport saw are also responsible for Misrata. warning that his country could turn into a “failed state”. it in a “wide assault” from sev- the Observatory report added. holes in the roof and smashed In the eastern Islamist hotspot Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz asked the UN eral directions, the Britain-based REUTERS windows at the terminal building of Derna, gunmen shot dead Security Council to dispatch experts to train the country’s defence and in airline offices, including Fariha Al Barkawi, a former and police forces to ensure they can protect oilfields, airports and one belonging to British Airways, member of parliament, officials other vital sites. “Should Libya become a failed state, kidnapped by with a shell lying on the floor. said. She is the second prominent radical groups and warlords, the consequences would be far-reaching Air controllers refused to go woman to be assassinated, follow- and perhaps beyond control,” warned Abdelaziz. Hezbollah, Nusra Front clash to work at the control tower in ing the killing of Benghazi human Libya could become a “hub for attracting extremists”, feeding radi- BEIRUT: Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda have Tripoli, which regulates traffic for rights activist Salwa Bugaighis calism and the arms flow in the region and further afield, he warned. fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with all of western Libya, a spokesman last month. AFP Lebanon, a Hezbollah source and a fighter for the Nusra Front for the transport ministry said. REUTERS said yesterday. Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim militant group that has fought along- side troops loyal to President Bashar Al Assad in Syria’s civil war, now in its fourth year. Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front is a Sunni militia that considers all Shias heretics deserving death. A Nusra Front member said Hezbollah had lost many fighters over Gunmen attack Yemen police camp, kill two the past few days during clashes in Syria’s Qalamoun mountains. On Wednesday, Hezbollah tried to enter Syria from two Lebanese villages ADEN: Gunmen have killed “Two policemen were killed Baida,” the provincial capital. It is considered by Washington on the border when they were ambushed by Nusra Front fighters. two Yemeni police in an attack and a third was wounded” in the In January 2012, hundreds of as the most dangerous affiliate of “We saw them trying to sneak in,” he said. “We waited for them, on a camp for anti-riot forces in clash, he said, adding the assail- extremists briefly took over Rada the jihadist network for its role in and when they arrived and before they were able to load their guns the central province of Baida, ants fled after failing to storm before withdrawing under pres- failed attacks against the United or rocket-propelled grenades, we attacked. Some of them escaped.” an Al Qaeda stronghold, an the camp. sure from powerful tribal leaders. States. A Hezbollah source said the group had lost three fighters dur- official said yesterday. The official was unable to say if Al Qaeda in the Arabian Attacks on members of the ing the Wednesday assault, upping the death toll to nine Hezbollah The assailants on board two there were any casualties among Peninsula, or AQAP, is active security forces are common fighters killed in the area this week. A Lebanese security source vehicles fired machine guns at the attackers. across several parts of Yemen and in Yemen and usually blamed said 26 Nusra Front fighters had been killed this week in the area the camp in the town of Rada Separately, the official has taken advantage of a collapse by officials on Al Qaeda in the of the fighting, 3 km from the Lebanese town of Arsal. late on Wednesday, and on-duty said the authorities still had of central authority during a 2011 Arabian Peninsula, which rarely REUTERS policemen shot back at them, said “no news of two policemen uprising that ousted veteran claims responsibility. the regional government official. kidnapped two days ago in president Ali Abdullah Saleh. AFP 14 die in deadliest attack on Tunisia army Turkey court rules scribe’s TUNIS: Suspected jihadists combat terrorism “day and night”. Since the 2011 revolution that presidential poll to be delayed. murder probe was flawed killed 14 Tunisian soldiers near The army’s chief of staff, toppled Zine El Abidine Ben In January, after a tense the Algerian border, officials Mohamed Salah Hamdi, said it Ali, Tunisia has been rocked stand-off between rival factions, ANKARA: Turkey’s top court prison for planning the killing but said yesterday, in the worst was unclear if the missing sol- by violence blamed on hardline parliament finally adopted a new yesterday ruled that the inves- the family is concerned that those such attack in the army’s his- dier had been killed, wounded or Islamists who were suppressed constitution and the ruling coa- tigation into the killing of an who ordered the killing have tory as it presses a crackdown taken hostage. under the former dictator. lition led by moderate Islamist ethnic Armenian journalist had never been brought to justice. on radical Islamists. President Moncef Marzouki The country has made tangi- party Ennahda resigned, allowing been flawed, paving the way for It was Dink’s family who The attack took place in declared three days of national ble progress this year in terms for the formation of an interim potential further trials against made the formal complaint that the Mount Chaambi region on mourning, while government of stability, and elections are due administration of independents. new suspects. prompted the ruling by the con- Wednesday evening as the sol- spokesman Nidhal Ouerfelli con- to take place in just over three But the jihadist threat has cast The constitutional court unani- stitutional court. diers were breaking their day- demned what he called a “hei- months, after political turmoil in a shadow over any political gains. mously decided that the authori- Bahri Belen, lawyer for the long Ramadan fast. nous act”. 2013 triggered by the assassina- The authorities have desig- ties had failed to carry out an Dink family, said that the deci- The defence ministry said 40 The attacks came almost a tion of two opposition politicians. nated Mount Chaambi and neigh- effective investigation into the sion was in line with a previous to 60 “terrorists”, a term used to year to the day after the bod- But Interior Minister Lotfi bouring mountain districts a 2007 killing of journalist Hrant verdict issued by the Strasbourg- refer to Al Qaeda-linked jihad- ies of eight Tunisian soldiers Ben Jeddou said the aim of closed military zone, and warned Dink. based European Court of Human ists, opened fire on twin army were found, some of them with assailants was to undermine of the growing threat posed by Dink was shot dead in broad Rights which found Turkey guilty posts with machine-guns and their throats slit, after being an the political transition by forc- “terrorist organisations” based daylight by a teenage ultrana- of failure to prevent the journal- grenade launchers. ambush in the western Kasserine ing the October 26 legislative there. tionalist outside the offices of his ist’s murder and carry out an Fourteen soldiers died, 18 region. election and the November 23 AFP bilingual Agos newspaper. effective probe. were wounded and another went Ogun Samast, a 17-year-old job- Belen said the latest verdict missing, making it the heaviest less high-school dropout at the paved the way for the trial of state toll inflicted on the army since time, confessed to the murder and officials who could be implicated Tunisia’s independence in 1956, was sentenced to almost 23 years in the murder and had so far been the ministry said. in jail in 2011. protected by a cover-up. “Most of the terrorists infil- However, supporters of Dink’s Dink, 52, had campaigned for trated from outside the Chaambi family believe that those behind reconciliation between Turks region, probably from outside the the murder were protected by the and Armenians, but incurred borders,” said Defence Minister state and have asked for a deeper the wrath of Turkish national- Ghazi Jeribi. investigation to uncover officials ists for calling the mass killings He said Tunisians, Algerians who were allegedly involved. of Armenians during World War and unidentified “foreign merce- In 2012, an Istanbul court I a genocide. naries” were among the assail- sentenced Yasin Hayal to life in AFP ants. The army said a Tunisian jihadist was killed. The ministry has previously insisted that militants the army has been hunting since late 2012 in the remote western border Turkey’s ‘youngest novelist’ dies region are linked to Al Qaeda in ISTANBUL: A Turkish teenager who won fame as a fantasy nov- the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). elist has died in a mysterious fall from an Istanbul balcony which The army said nine of the sol- police are investigating as a possible suicide, reports said Thursday. diers had burned to death. Eren Demir, 16, earned renown at the age of 12 with his fantasy novel “These attacks cost us 14 mar- Kristal Kilic (“The Crystal Sword”) and Turkish media dubbed him as tyrs. Five were hit by bullets and the second youngest novelist anywhere in the world. nine were burned ... when the Demir was talking to one of his friends on the phone when he plunged tent they were in caught fire,” 10 floors to his death on Tuesday night from his house in Atakoy, an after it was hit by grenades, the upscale residential area on the European side of the city. army’s head of ground opera- The young man died on the spot, Hurriyet newspaper reported. tions, Souheil Chmengui, told a Police — who found Demir’s destroyed cell phone by his body — were press conference. investigating the circumstances surrounding the death which they “This is open war. The war of An army ambulance carrying Tunisian soldiers, injured following an attack near the Algerian border, arrives at a suspect could be suicide, it added. a country and a people against hospital in Kasserine, at the foot of Mount Chaambi, yesterday. Demir’s parents were not at home when their son died. an evil,” he said, pledging to AFP FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Plane crash shocks world leaders US offers probe help Airlines avoid Ukraine airspace

PARIS: World leaders expressed shock yesterday after a Malaysian airliner carrying 295 people crashed in eastern Ukraine, calling for an inter- national investigation to deter- mine the cause of the disaster. President Barack Obama called the crash “a terrible tragedy” and said US officials were trying to establish if any Americans were on board. “The world is watching reports of a downed passenger jet near the Russia/Ukraine border. And it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy,” he said, before going ahead with a previously scheduled event in Delaware. Obama said his first priority was to determine whether there were any US citizens aboard the crashed jet. “I have directed my national security team to stay in close con- FROM LEFT: A girl carrying a doll stands next to people placing flowers in front of the embassy of the Netherlands disaster as quickly as possible,” are not known.” Leading airlines tact with the Ukrainian govern- in Kiev yesterday, to commemorate passengers of flight MH17. A family member of a victim weeps at Kuala Lumpur German Foreign Minister Frank- quickly announced plans to route ment,” Obama said. International Airport. RIGHT: Wreckage of the plane near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. Walter Steinmeier said. planes away from the area. “The United States will offer European airlines steered Air France said it had “taken any assistance we can to help to the (crash) site.” several Dutch onboard”, adding and saddened by the Malaysian clear of Ukraine’s airspace after the decision to no longer fly over determine what happened and Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 he was “deeply shocked” by the air disaster.” the crash. In France, a state- eastern Ukraine as soon as it why.” US Vice President Joe Biden disappeared from radar screens “horrible” images coming from He added that government offi- ment by junior transport min- heard of the event.” A spokes- repeated Washington’s offer dur- in eastern Ukraine at around the crash site. cials were meeting “to establish ister Frederic Cuvillier said he woman for German flag carrier ing a phone call to Ukrainian 1415 GMT, the carrier said on Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib the facts”. told “French airlines to avoid Lufthansa told AFP it has decided President Petro Poroshenko, a its Twitter account, hours after Razak said on Twitter he was British media have reported Ukraine’s air space as long as the to immediately make a “wide US official said. the Boeing 777, bound for Kuala “shocked by reports that an MH that between five and 10 British reasons behind this catastrophe detour” around the area. AFP The Kremlin said President Lumpur, had taken off from plane crashed” and announced an citizens were on board MH17. y Vladimir Putin and Obama — at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. “immediate investigation.” “We are not talking about num- loggerheads over a new wave of Holland’s Justice Minister British Prime Minister David bers. Our priority is to find out US sanctions over Ukraine — had Ivo Opstelten said “there were Cameron tweeted: “I’m shocked if Britons involved,” a spokesman Thursday 1030 GMT RUSSIA discussed the crash. for the Foreign Office told AFP. Amsterdam EU foreign policy chief French President Francois POLAND 1320 GMT NETHERLANDS Catherine Ashton called for an Ukraine blames Russian officers Hollande offered “all my solidar- GERMANY Crash site international investigation into ity” with relatives of the crash Kiev the disaster. KIEV: Ukraine’s state secu- allegation on intercepts of phone victims, and echoed Ashton’s call UKRAINE Luhansk “Our thoughts are with all rity chief accused two Russian conversations between the two for a wide-ranging investigation. Donetsk those with relatives on board,” military intelligence officers officers. “Now you know who Foreign Minister Laurent Flight path of MH17 from Ashton said in a statement. of involvement in the down- carried out this crime. We will Fabius said there were “at least” Amsterdam to Kuala “The circumstances must be ing of the passenger plane and do everything for the Russian four French people onboard the Lumpur on July 16 Areas of conflict between Crimea clarified without delay and an said they must be punished for military who carried out this doomed airliner. Russia and Ukraine international investigation needs their “crime”. crime to be punished,” he told Germany also echoed calls for Sources: Reuters; Flight Aware to shine a light on this tragedy,” SBU chief Valentyn journalists. “an independent international // she added. “We call on all parties Nalivaychenko said he based his REUTERS probe”. “We expect everything A graphic depiction of the crashed airliner’s route. in the region to allow full access to be done to shed light on this

Clegg says Cameron Russia denies it will reopen behaving like Putin Cold War spy

LONDON: Conservatives Strains in would lay out post in Cuba Britain’s two- plans to “cur- MOSCOW: President Vladimir party coalition tail” the role of Putin denied yesterday Russia surfaced yes- the convention plans to reopen a Cold War terday as David in Britain and listening post in Cuba as new Cameron’s gov- to replace the US sanctions over Ukraine erning part- legislation which ratcheted up tensions between ner likened the enshrines it into Washington and Moscow. prime minis- British law. Russian broadsheet ter’s policies to “The Kommersant, citing several official those of Russian Conservatives, sources, reported on Wednesday President extraordinar- that Moscow and Havana had Vladimir Putin ily enough, want agreed in principle to reopen the and other to line up with Lourdes spy base during Putin’s “tyrants”. Vladimir Putin visit to the Communist-run island Deputy Prime Britain’s Prime Minister David and other sort last week. Minister Nick Cameron at the reopening of the of tyrants Putin however denied that Clegg, leader newly renovated Imperial War around the Russia was reopening the base set of the junior Museum in London yesterday. world by tear- up in 1964 after the Cuban missile coalition part- ing up our long General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra (right) and the company’s general counsel Michael Millikin appear crisis saw the United States and ner the Liberal tradition of before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee in Washington yesterday. the Soviet Union reach the brink Democrats, made the compari- human rights,” Clegg told Britain’s of nuclear confrontation. son when criticising plans by LBC radio station yesterday. “That is not true, we have not Cameron’s Conservatives to Some Conservatives want discussed this issue,” Putin told limit the power of the European Britain to leave the convention reporters in Brasilia. Convention on Human Rights in altogether, arguing that it makes US lawmakers blast GM “According to an agreement Britain if re-elected next year. it too difficult for the country to with our Cuban friends we shut Both parties trail the opposi- deport foreign criminals. down our centre. We have no tion Labour Party in the polls Cameron on Tuesday dismissed plans to resume its work,” he said. ahead of a national vote in May Dominic Grieve, the government’s officials at Senate hearing The Kremlin strongman spoke 2015 and are increasingly trying top lawyer and someone who had just hours after Washington tar- to distance themselves from each cautioned against withdrawing WASHINGTON: GM officials Feinberg’s independent work, Motors,” as well as years of legal geted Russian companies in the other in an attempt to make sure from the convention, in a big gov- came under attack at a Senate they blasted Barra and GM chief obfuscation that showed “indif- finance, military and energy voters understand they stand for ernment shake-up, a move seen hearing yesterday from law- counsel Michael Millikin for the ference, incompetence and deceit” sectors. different things after four years as paving the way for a potential makers who accused them of company’s “culture of diffused in one of the most serious safety The European Union also stiff- in government together. exit. Clegg said the changes to “gross negligence” that contrib- responsibility” that prevented crises in the company’s history. ened punitive measures against Clegg said he had been “blind- Cameron’s team had been about uted to at least 13 deaths linked or shielded key executives from “It is very clear that the culture Russia after fighting between sided” by comments from Justice removing people with “reasonable to defective General Motors knowing about the years-long of lawyering up and Whac-A- Ukrainian government forces Secretary Chris Grayling that the internationalism”. REUTERS cars. problem. Mole (at the Detroit manufac- and pro-Moscow separatists While Mary Barra, the embat- Lawmakers are investigating turer) killed innocent customers intensified. tled chief executive of America’s the company’s recall of 2.6 mil- of General Motors,” McCaskill Russia closed the Lourdes spy largest automaker, returned for lion cars that began only last said. She expressed incredulity base south of Havana on Putin’s another congressional grilling, February, 11 years after the com- that despite at least four sepa- orders in 2001 to save money the man GM hired to determine pany discovered ignition switch rate internal warnings begin- and due to a rapprochement Colombia talks resume on Aug 12 the compensation for crash vic- problems related to dozens of ning in 2010 that GM could face with the United States after the tims made his first appearance on accidents and at least 13 deaths. punitive damages over its ignition September 11 attacks. HAVANA: Representatives of victims of the conflict in Colombia Capitol Hill. GM, which also is under fed- switches, Millikin knew nothing But Moscow has since shown will take part in peace talks between the government and the FARC Compensation expert Ken eral investigation for the delayed about the issue until the recalls a new interest in Latin America guerrilla group next month, the two sides announced yesterday. Feinberg, who has said GM would recall, has been slapped with a were announced this year. and its Cold War ally Cuba as The victims’ “voice will be a fundamental element of the discussions,” offer at least $1m for each death $35m fine and is facing potentially No pre-2014 filing was made relations with the West have a joint statement said after an agreement between negotiators as part linked to faulty ignition switches billions of dollars in compensa- to the Securities and Exchange deteriorated amid the Ukraine of talks to end the five decade-old conflict. in GM cars, assured lawmakers tion costs. Commission, nor was GM’s board crisis. Just 250 kilometres from The next round of negotiations dealing with compensation for victims that the compensation fund had Senator Claire McCaskill, chair of directors informed of the issue the US coast, Lourdes was the of the conflict is scheduled to begin August 12 in Havana. no limits. “We are authorised to of the Commerce, Science and until this year, Millikin said. Soviet Union’s largest overseas Starting August 16, the government and rebel delegates will see pay as much money as is required,” Transportation Subcommittee, “This is either gross negligence covert military outpost with up the “direct participation” of various representatives of victims groups Feinberg told a Senate panel. pointed to a series of “tragic or gross incompetence,” McCaskill to 3,000 staff. chosen with an eye to “balance and pluralism.” AFP As lawmakers praised management failures at General boomed. AFP AFP FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Philippine typhoon death toll hits 38 Dozens killed in China before Rammasun arrives

MANILA: The Philippines set in the capital and southern Luzon, part of southern China has killed to work clearing debris, recon- the most densely populated part 34 in the last week. necting power and rebuilding of the country with about 17 Tropical Storm Risk down- flattened houses yesterday after million people. Power had been graded Rammasun to a category a typhoon swept across the restored to just over half of the 1 storm on a scale of one to five. country killing 38 people, with Luzon grid, a transmission agency But it predicted it would gain in at least eight missing, rescue official said. Electricity distribu- strength to category two within officials said. tor Manila Electric Co said a 24 hours, picking up energy from Typhoon Rammasun, the third of its 1.88 million custom- the warm sea. strongest storm to hit the ers were without power. Quezon governor David Suarez Philippines this year, was heading Disaster officials were assessing said the province was preparing northwest towards China after damage but the coconut-growing to declare a state of calamity. He cutting a path across the main Quezon province south of Manila said officials had confirmed seven island of Luzon, shutting down appears to have borne the brunt people died in the province. the capital and knocking down of Rammasun, which intensified “Last night we had difficulty trees and power lines, causing into a category 3 typhoon as it going around because many trees widespread blackouts. crossed the country. and fallen poles are blocking high- Filipino Indigenous Badjao people transfer a stilt house through ‘Bayanihan’ (spirit of communal unity) after the The storm destroyed about The cyclone is expected to make ways and roads,” Suarez said in a damage caused by Typhoon Rammasun in a village in Batangas City, yesterday. 7,000 houses and damaged landfall in China around midday radio interview. 19,000, the executive director of today somewhere between the Meanwhile, dozens of people the National Disaster Agency, island of Hainan and the south- have died in the past week as other fatalities from lightning in Officials are bracing for more Three people were reported Alexander Pama, said. More than ern province of Guangdong, the torrential rain batters swathes Guizhou in the southwest, it said, devastation, the China Daily said, missing and more than 91,000 530,000 people had taken refuge Hainan government said on its of China, with at least six killed where a total of seven people died. reporting a warning that “local relocated in the province, the in evacuation centres, according website, adding that fishing boats by lightning, thousands of homes A landslide in the province authorities should make full- report added. to official figures. had to return to port. destroyed and more than 300,000 early yesterday buried eight peo- scale preparations for geological Five people were killed and 14 Pama put the damage to crops, The Ministry of Civil Affairs evacuated, state media said. ple, Xinhua said, with two res- disasters that could be triggered missing in landslides in Anhua mostly rice and corn, from the has already put authorities on There had been six deaths from cued by mid-morning but six still by rains.” The most severe down- county in Hunan, also in central Bicol region, southeast of Manila alert across a swathe of southern lightning strikes in the central missing. Another landslide in the pours, which began on Sunday China. Across the province the and the first to be hit by the and south-western China to deal province of Jiangxi since last southwestern province of Yunnan night, destroyed 5,800 homes torrential rain has destroyed 1,330 storm, at around $15m. with expected damage, especially Friday, the official Xinhua news on Wednesday left at least nine and damaged another 16,300 in homes and forced 283,000 people Most schools remained closed as torrential rain across a large agency reported. There were people dead, Xinhua said. Guizhou, Xinhua said in a report. to be relocated. AGENCIES

Military upgrade not aimed Ex-premier Shinawatra given Japan police at neighbours, says Aquino make arrest in MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino told his country’s permission to leave country data leak case neighbours yesterday that efforts to modernise the military were not aimed at them but rather at strengthening national defence BANGKOK: Thailand’s mili- of sometimes violent protests the 65th birthday party in TOKYO: Tokyo police said capabilities and tackling disasters. tary rulers have given permis- against her government. France this month of Thaksin yesterday they had arrested Aquino has allocated 75bn pesos ($1.72bn) over five years to upgrade sion to former Prime Minister Some of those detained remain Shinawatra, removed by a 2006 an engineer for allegedly steal- maritime security operations and humanitarian response, buying frig- Yingluck Shinawatra to travel in custody under martial law. military coup. ing massive amounts of per- ates, fighter-trainers and anti-submarine helicopters. to Europe where she is expected Since taking power, the mili- Thaksin has lived in self-exile sonal data from an educational The Philippines is locked in a dispute with China over Spratly Islands to attend the birthday party of tary’s National Council for Peace since 2008 to avoid serving a sen- services firm, a leak that may and Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and ships from both her brother Thaksin, also a and Order has banned hundreds tence for corruption. ultimately affect more than 20 countries have been engaged in cat-and-mouse confrontations. Brunei, deposed former premier, offic- of activists and politicians from The ouster of Yingluck million people. Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan also have competing claims in the area ers said yesterday. leaving the country. It has also Shinawatra’s government was Private details -- including believed to be rich in oil-and-gas deposits and marine resources. A military spokesman said stifled dissent and dispersed anti- the latest twist in a decade-long names, addresses, phone num- The Philippines has one of the weakest militaries in the region, Yingluck, forced from office by a coup protests. power struggle pitting Thaksin, bers and birthdays -- were stolen long focused on fighting twin insurgencies from Maoist rebels and court ruling days before the mili- “Yingluck has not done any- who gained widespread popular- by 39-year-old suspect Masaomi Muslim separatists. It operates a fleet of World War II-vintage ships tary seized power in May, was thing that violates our orders ity for providing social benefits in Matsuzaki, police said, with and Vietnam War-era helicopters and planes. permitted to leave provided she so her personal trip to Europe impoverished northern regions, Japanese media reporting that “Lest anyone accuse us of shifting to a more militaristic position, stayed out of politics. has been approved,” said army against the royalist-military he sold the information for about I must emphasise: Our efforts seek to modernise capabilities of our He said she would be allowed spokesman Colonel Winthai establishment. 2.5m yen. security sector to address the needs in human disaster response arenas back into Thailand at the end of Suvaree. For six months before the The magnitude of the leak, and for our internal defence,” Aquino told a security exhibition. her trip. “Yingluck is not a wanted per- coup, Thailand was convulsed by which has been headline news “None of these actions are meant to increase tensions in the region. The military briefly detained son. Of course we will allow her establishment-backed protests in Japan, prompted angry calls Rather, they are meant to address our domestic problems and issues.” Yingluck and hundreds of other back into the country.” aimed at ousting Yingluck, who for an explanation from Benesse, Since coming to power in 2010, Aquino has allocated more than politicians, activists, academics General Teerachai Nakwanit, became Thailand’s first female one of the country’s best-known 40bn pesos to upgrade military capabilities, acquiring two US cutters, and journalists after the May army commander for the region prime minister when she swept companies. Benesse said last week refurbished UH-1H helicopters and 50,000 M4 assault rifles. During 22 coup, which it says it staged which includes Bangkok, said to power in a 2011 election. that it had confirmed the leak of the remaining two years of his mandate, he has promised to acquire a to restore order after months Yingluck was expected to attend REUTERS personal data of at least 7.6m peo- squadron of FA 50 fighter-trainers, eight combat utility helicopters, two ple, but it added that the problem long-range patrol aircraft, six close-air support aircraft, two frigates, could ultimately affect more than three missile craft and two anti-submarine helicopters. REUTERS 20 million. However, other details such as credit card numbers, banking South Korea helicopter crash kills five data and student performance evaluations were safe, it said. Matsuzaki was a systems engi- China urged to allow SEOUL: A fire-fighting heli- A female high school student The fire-fighting agency said neer at a Benesse affiliate when copter crashed into a residential on the ground sustained a minor the helicopter at the ferry sinking he allegedly copied personal area of South Korea’s southern injury after getting hit by a frag- site off the country’s southwest details of customers who had city of Gwangju yesterday, kill- ment of the helicopter. coast on Monday. supplied the information to the HK-wide poll reform ing all five firefighters on board, The helicopter was returning According to witnesses, the educational services company, officials said. to its headquarters in Gangneung, chopper caught fire in the air according to police. They said a HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s person who loves the country and The chopper crashed into an about 237 kilometres east of Seoul, before nose-diving into the street. minimum of 10m were affected. leader formally asked Beijing loves Hong Kong”. uncrowded street near a huge after participating in search oper- The officials said they were on Tuesday to allow electoral The report marks one of the apartment complex in the city’s ations for 11 people still missing investigating the exact cause of reform, paving the way for a most significant steps yet in housing area of Gwangsan-gu, from the April 16 ferry disaster the incident and assessing the Singapore to city-wide leadership election in Hong Kong’s political journey - they said. when it crashed damage. AGENCIES the free-wheeling Asian finan- an experiment with democracy monitor adverts cial hub in 2017. in communist-controlled China. SINGAPORE: Singapore The devil remains in the details, It comes amid a hot political has warned maid employ- however, with Chief Executive summer in Hong Kong, where ment agencies in the city-state Leung Chun-ying offering no firm hundreds of thousands marched against “undignified” adver- proposal and the city’s democrats to demand full democracy on July tising following complaints by fearing they will be shut out of 1 and more than 800,000 voted in rights groups that domestic the poll once Beijing’s Communist an unofficial referendum in June workers are being marketed as Party leadership approves an of possible election models. commodities. election plan. A campaign of choreographed In an advisory sent to the agen- Leung’s report to the stand- civil disobedience threatens to cies, the Ministry of Manpower ing committee of the National paralyse Hong Kong’s glitzy said it was concerned by the People’s Congress, China’s par- Central financial district unless “insensitive and inappropri- liament, followed a five-month Beijing’s allows full democracy. ate” portrayal of domestic help- consultation on democracy in the The intensifying debate is split ers in advertisements as well as former British colony that drew between Beijing officials and their instances where they are put on nearly 125,000 public submissions. local supporters, who are insisting display in shopping malls. Hong Kong returned to China upon a special committee to select “Advertisements which empha- in 1997 with wide-ranging auton- candidates, and democratic activ- sise cheap fees, promotional rates, omy under the formula of “one ists who want open nominations. and/or discounts inadvertently country, two systems”. Leung’s report said “main- give the impression that the for- “Implementing universal suf- stream opinion” was that the eign domestic workers are being frage for the Chief Executive’s Basic Law had already made marketed as merchandise,” the election will be an important clear the power to nominate must ministry said in the advisory. milestone of the democratic remain with the committee. The ministry warned it has the development of Hong Kong’s The standing committee of the power to suspend or revoke the political system, with significant National People’s Congress is due licences of violators. real impact and historic mean- to rule on the need for reform in Advertisements that liken ing,” the report said. August after which Hong Kong domestic helpers “to merchan- It also appeared to reflect a key people will be asked to comment dise that can be purchased and concern of Beijing’s leadership, on a range of options. Hong Kong’s replaced when found unsatisfac- saying Hong Kong people believed legislature must then vote in any tory” are unacceptable, it added. Officials at the crash site. their next leader needed to be “a changes. REUTERS AGENCIES FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Taliban attack airport amid Afghan vote audit Kabul International Airport closed to all flights: Official

KABUL: Militants armed police special forces. The area is positions inside a partially con- with rocket-propelled grenades being cleared now, there are no structed building nearby. attacked Kabul International casualties to our forces,” said There was no immediate claim Airport in the Afghan capital Interior Ministry spokesman of responsibility for the latest yesterday in one of the most Sediq Sediqqi. attack. audacious assaults on the facil- The airport is home to a major A Kabul airport official said all ity, used by both civilians and operational base for Nato-led flights had been diverted to other the military, in a year. forces that have been fighting cities. In such circumstances, pas- The attack on the airport Taliban and other insurgents senger planes are immediately comes at a time of great uncer- for 12 years and is bristling with diverted to other Afghan cities tainty for Afghanistan as votes soldiers and police, guard tow- such as Mazar-i-Sharif in the from the second round of a dis- ers and several lines of security north or Herat in the west. puted presidential election are to checkpoints. “Due to the closeness of the be recounted. The poll is meant Militants fire rockets into the attack to the runway, Kabul air- to mark Afghanistan’s first demo- airport almost every week, caus- port is now closed to all flights,” cratic transfer of power. ing little damage, but frontal the official said. Planes could be The attack lasted about four attacks on the heavily guarded heard circling above Kabul as the hours after four unidentified facility are rare and represent an attack unfolded. militants armed with automatic ambitious target for insurgents. The witness near the scene rifles and rocket-propelled gre- The attack was similar in earlier saw black smoke billow- nades opened fire on the airport tactics to last year’s assault on ing above the airport and heard from the roof of a building just to the airport, when seven Taliban several explosions. A car had been its north. insurgents including suicide set on fire not far from the scene. Afghan security forces take positions after militants attacked Kabul International Airport yesterday. “Four terrorists were killed by bombers attacked after taking up REUTERS Pakistani tribals to raise Rebel ‘hideout’ raided near Sharif’s home militia against militants LAHORE: Pakistani security reprisal attacks. “A police team hours because civilians had to be It is also the base of the ISLAMABAD: A grand Malik Daftar Khan and Malik forces laid siege yesterday to raided a house... around 2:00am evacuated from the area first. Tablighi Jamaat, a Sunni evan- jirga of the Mamond tribe in Khanzeb said that they have a suspected militant hideout (2100 GMT Wednesday) on a tip Television footage showed a gelical movement known for its Pakistan’s northwestern tribal decided to raise the lashkar just a few kilometres from the off about presence of suspected bullet-ridden compound with a ultra-conservative views. region of Bajaur Agency has in order to ensure durable family home of Prime Minister militants, but they retaliated,” large hole blown into one its walls Pakistan launched a long- decided to raise a tribal lashkar peace in Bajaur Agency where Nawaz Sharif in the eastern senior police official Malik Owais being swarmed by police. awaited operation in the North (militia) to aid security forces Afghanistan-based militants city of Lahore, officials said. said. Police could not immediately Waziristan tribal district last in the fight against marauding routinely carry out cross-border One policeman was killed and “One terrorist has been killed confirm the group to which they month aimed at eliminating Taliban militants in the Bajaur. attacks on Pakistan border posts. three others wounded in the and another injured in this opera- belonged. Taliban and other militant and The jirga, or tribal assembly, was The lashkar will assist the assault in the Raiwind area of tion has been arrested. Police have The Raiwind area is home to insurgent bases after a dramatic convened in the Bar Khalozo area security forces in eliminating the Lahore, which came as a mili- now occupied the compound,” he the famous ‘Raiwind Palace’ -- attack on Karachi airport which of Mamond tehsil of Bajaur which militants and their sympathis- tary operation against Taliban added. the residence of the powerful marked the end of a faltering was attended by leaders of all peace ers. Volunteers of the lashkar is militants in the country’s res- Waqas Nazir, another police Sharif political family which also peace process with the Pakistani committees of the troubled region. patrolling the area since yester- tive northwest enters its sec- official confirmed the incident, includes the chief minister of the Taliban. Local tribal elders including day. INTERNEWS ond month amid rising fears of adding that the raid took several Punjab province. AFP Anti-Israel protest

Palestinian and Pakistani nationals shout anti-Israel slogans during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza, in Islamabad yesterday. Harassed Pakistani female Majority against cricketer commits suicide drone strikes ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been the main front in the drone KARACHI: A female Pakistani deeply conservative country war, but about 66 percent people cricketer who committed sui- where the women’s game only in the country disapprove the cide by drinking acid was under recently gained prominence and US air strikes. extreme stress after an admin- male non-family members are Only three percent approve the istrator sued her for pursuing a barred from watching matches at drone while the rest expressed sexual harassment case against stadiums. The Pakistan Cricket no opinion, says the latest sur- him, her cousin said yesterday. Board (PCB) formed a two-mem- vey by the Washington-based Halima Rafique, a 17-year-old ber inquiry committee which in Pew Research Centre. According all-rounder from the central October cleared the officials of to this survey, the drones have city of Multan died in her home any wrongdoing and banned all become widely unpopular across on Sunday in a case that has five women from playing for six the world. shocked both fans and women’s months. Out of the 44 countries sur- rights activists, who have accused Three of the women changed veyed for this study, 39 oppose US cricket authorities of covering up their statements before the com- drone strikes targeting extremists. her damaging claims. mittee, while Ghafoor and Rafique Israel, Kenya and the US are the Rafique along with four other declined to appear, amid specu- only nations polled where at least domestic cricketers -- Seema lation that the women had been half of the public supports them. Javed, Hina Ghafoor, Kiran pressured to back down. Drones are unpopular even in Irshad and Saba Ghafoor -- had Last week, Alam filed a defa- India, where majorities in recent jointly levelled the charges against mation case against the televi- surveys supported strong military Multan Cricket Club chairman sion channel officials as well as action against the militants. Maulvi Sultan Alam and selector the cricketers seeking damages of But on the question of drones, Mohammad Javed in a television 20 million rupees ($20,000). those who disapprove the strikes, show in June last year. Halima’s family said the lawsuit 36 percent, have an edge over The allegations rocked the had pushed her over the edge. those who approve them, 28 per- cricketing establishment in the AFP cent. INTERNEWS FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA RS to debate Gaza conflict Modi seeks stronger Peace in West Asia is in the interest of India, says opposition ties with Latin America

NEW DELHI: The Indian gov- NEW DELHI: India will forge ernment has agreed to a debate stronger trade and investment Premier invites in the Rajya Sabha on Monday ties with South America and on the conflict in Gaza strip, work more closely than ever Merkel to India after two days were lost over before with countries of the disruptions on the issue. region at both bilateral and mul- NEW DELHI: Prime The Rajya Sabha was stalled tilateral level, Prime Minister Minister Narendra Modi yesterday, on the second day of Narendra Modi has said. spoke on the phone yester- disruptions over the issue, as Saying that “distance is not day with German Chancellor opposition members demanded a a barrier to opportunities”, the Angela Merkel during his debate on the Israel-Palestinian prime minister told a group transit halt at Frankfurt conflict in the Gaza Strip. While of South American leaders in on his way back home from the chairman agreed, the govern- Brasilia that two-way trade has the BRICS summit in Brazil ment wanted to do it another day. shown strong growth in recent and both leaders invited each The decision to take up the years and there is a growing other for official visits. debate on Monday was taken presence of Indian investors in A statement from the Prime after the day was lost to disrup- South America. “It is, however, Minister’s Office said that tions over the issue. The govern- still well below potential. From Modi had a “fruitful” conver- ment had Wednesday blocked the hydrocarbons to pharma, textiles sation with Merkel and con- debate, saying rules did not allow to leather, engineering goods to gratulated her on Germany’s “discourteous reference” towards automobiles; the range of oppor- victory in the FIFA World Cup, “friendly nations”. tunities is enormous,” an official as also on her birthday. IANS External Affairs Minister statement issued here yesterday Sushma Swaraj wrote to the quoted Modi as saying. chairman, urging him not to allow Modi is perhaps the first Indian and innovative solutions. India the debate. However, as the chair- Prime Minister to interact with stands committed to the same.” man agreed to the debate yester- so many South American leaders India has deputed experts to day, the government said another at one place together. South American countries in day should be fixed to take up the The meeting was arranged the fields of agriculture, horti- matter. This led to an uproar as by President Dilma Rousseff culture, disaster management, the opposition refused to take of Brazil in which leaders of communications, law and renew- up any other business before the Hundreds of Indians from different organistations hold placards and shout slogans against Israel during a protest Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, able energy. To share its exper- debate. in Bangalore yesterday. Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and tise in Information Technology, Government members sug- Paraguay participated. India, Modi said, will set up cen- gested that the discussion on the up immediately, or we can take it its question hour, before the chair railway budget, agitated opposi- Modi said the Preferential tres of excellence in IT in South railway budget should be taken under rule 267, which suspends all adjourned it till 2pm. tion members gathered near Trade Agreement between India American countries. up, and the other debate can be other rules,” Agarwal said. When the house reassembled, the chairman’s podium, creating and the MERCOSUR trade block, Also, India will expand coop- scheduled for some other day. Leader of Opposition Ghulam the scene was no different as both a ruckus. The house was then and Chile, must be utilised more eration in areas such as tele- An agitated opposition, how- Nabi Azad said India also had sides remained adamant on their adjourned for the day, without effectively and asked the Latin medicine, tele-education, ever, insisted that the debate be economic interests in West Asia. stand. While the deputy chairman transacting any major business. American leaders to encourage e-Governance, weather forecast- taken up promptly and urged “Peace in West Asia is in the said the debate cannot be taken According to an official spokes- their business leaders to take ing, resource mapping and disas- Deputy Chairman P J Kurien to interest of India,” Azad said. without the government agreeing person in Gaza, the death toll part in an upcoming investment ter management. India and Brazil give a ruling immediately. As the opposition continued to it, some members quoted rules since the beginning of the Israeli conclave in India. “I firmly believe, inked three bilateral agreements Samajwadi Party leader Naresh its uproar demanding that the and said the Leader of the House offensive in the Gaza Strip July the possibilities of cooperation are in the field of environment, con- Agarwal suggested that the debate debate be taken up immediately, shall be consulted but a consent 8 has climbed to 227, while 1,685 limited not by distance but only sular and mobility issues as well be taken up under a rule which the business in the Rajya Sabha was not necessary. people have been injured, more by our imagination and efforts... as setting up a Brazilian earth allows suspending all other rules. was disrupted. The upper house As the deputy chairman gave than half of them civilian women We must share with each other, station that will receive data from “Either the debate shall be taken was repeatedly adjourned, losing the go-ahead for discussion on the and children. IANS our experiences, best practices Indian satellites. IANS

Sushma exhorts NRIs Parents storm Bangalore school over assault on minor

BANGALORE: Hundreds of that she was physically abused by children studying in the school stormed into the school premises to assist in progress outraged parents yesterday the sports teacher and physical where the tuition fee alone is after pulling down the gate and stormed into a private school instructor in the school premises, Rs1.5 lakh a year. smashing the window glass panes NEW DELHI: External managing editor of the now here, protesting against the the Vibgyor High School author- “We have told the school man- of the building after they were Affairs Minister Sushma defunct Hindustan Samachar alleged sexual assault on a six- ities failed to act against the agement to file a separate com- denied entry to meet the school Swaraj yesterday called Hindi news agency. He died in year-old student by two teach- accused and tried to hush up the plaint with the police against the management. upon NRIs to work for the May 2013 aged 91. ers during school hours. incident. accused so that the case could “We are not shielding the reconstruction of the coun- The External Affairs Minister “We have detained the accused “The incident came to light be investigated properly and the accused. We are cooperating try, and said Indians living said the government was giving for interrogation after a com- Tuesday after the parents brought guilty punished,” said Nandish with police in the case,” school abroad endorse the National final shape to a Rs94crore NRI plaint was filed against them it to our notice. We registered Reddy, the parent of a student. chairman Rustom Kerawalla told Democratic Alliance govern- building project. Wednesday on the incident, which the case under section 376 of the Incidentally, Reddy is a former reporters. ment as their “own”. “By January 9, when we mark is reported to have occurred July Indian Penal Code on their com- BJP lawmaker from the K R “We have also handed over the “The NDA government is the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the 2,” deputy commissioner of police plaint...,” Kumar said. Puram assembly segment in the CCTV footage of the class room first government which NRIs building would be ready for inau- (east) Satish Kumar said. Seeking stringent action city’s eastern suburb. to the investigation officer. If they endorse as their own. We want guration,” she said. Though the victim told her against the accused, protesting Earlier, the agitated parents are found guilty, they should be the NRIs to work with us for the She said her ministry was con- parents and teachers on July 9 parents sought security for their and guardians of the wards hanged,” Kerawalla said. IANS progress of our nation,” Sushma templating an immigration bill Swaraj said in the first Baleshwar which would take all such peo- Agrawal memorial lecture at the ple to task who lure other people India International Centre here. with false promises of jobs abroad She said Non-Resident Indians and issue fake visas. played an important role in the “If there is any trouble to any Clinton visits victory of the Bharatiya Janata Indian in any country, India Party-led National Democratic should be ready to come to help,” UP village, Alliance (NDA) in the general Sushma Swaraj said, adding that election. this would be the basis of her “The NRIs were crucial in our NRI policy. meets Akhilesh victory. They assisted us by com- The External Affairs Minister ing here and from abroad as well. lamented that because of the LUCKNOW: Former US It is our duty that we will have “policy paralysis” of the previ- President Bill Clinton arrived to live up to their expectations,” ous UPA government, the success here yesterday afternoon to Sushma Swaraj said. story of India was being written participate in a social activity She said it was only during off. She expressed hope that with in Jabrauli, a village on the out- the previous NDA government its strong initiatives, the current skirts of the state capital. of 1998-2004 that NRIs earned government would regain India’s The event, a part of the Clinton their rightful place in foreign global position. Health Axis initiative, was part countries. L K Advani, who presided of a series in which it provides “After the first National over the lecture, said the gov- for healthcare training and treat- Democratic Alliance government ernment should be prepared to ment of diarrhoea involving self- came to power, India became an permanently solve the issues of help groups and school children. IT power which enabled Non- blue collar Indian workers who Clinton spent about two hours Resident Indians to live with face multiple problems in other in the village and mingled freely dignity and recognition,” Sushma countries. with the womenfolk and others Swaraj said during the lecture “It is the duty of the govern- present. He later met the Chief titled “Diaspora policy of the ment to serve Indians, the ones Minister Akhilesh Yadav and government of India”. who are living here as well as some of his ministers. The two Baleshwar Agarwal, a vet- those who are living abroad,” Former US President Bill Clinton (left) during his visit to a school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, yesterday. leaders discussed health care sec- eran journalist, was a former Advani said. IANS tor in detail. IANS

New high-speed rail corridor to cost Rs63,000cr Sasikumar, ace director

NEW DELHI: The Indian by French Railways (SNCF) — the house that for semi-high speed Mumbai-Goa, Mumbai- of record 141 films, dead Railways’ ambition to develop a have been undertaken,” the reply trains (160-200 kmph), the sec- Ahmedabad, Chennai-Hyderabad high-speed rail corridor between said. “Expenditure estimated tions have also been identified. and Nagpur-Secunderabad KOCHI: Ace director Sasikumar, referred to as the first “hitmaker” Mumbai and Ahmedabad is esti- on Mumbai-Ahmedabad High “Feasibility study for semi-high are identified as sectors where of the Malayalam film industry, passed away yesterday at a private mated to cost Rs63,000 crore. Speed Corridor is approximately speed (up to 200 kmph) between semi-high speed trains will run. hospital here, his family members said. He was 86. Sasikumar, who According to a written reply Rs63,000 crore.” Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai- However, the minister did not was born N Varkey John, was suffering from age-related illnesses. His to a question in the Lok Sabha, The minister of state said the Ahmedabad was conducted by divulge any time line for project first film Kudumbini came in 1964 and his last film was Dollar in 1993. Minister of State for Railways high speed rail project will have Japan International Cooperation completion for both the projects. During the nearly three decades, he paved his way into record books Manoj Sinha said two feasibility to be taken up through a mix of Agency (JICA) and report submit- Earlier, while presenting his by becoming the director who made a maximum number of 141 films. studies have been conducted on government support, multilateral ted in March 2014,” the minister maiden budget, Railway Minister Another record that he has is, that he cast, Prem Nazir, the legendary the corridor. “Two studies — one a funding and by alternative means said. D.V. Sadananda Gowda said that evergreen hero of the Malayalam film industry, in 84 films. In 1977, joint feasibility study, co-financed of resource mobilisation, includ- Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, the first dedicated bullet train Sasikumar directed a staggering 15 Malayalam films. by India and Japan, and the other ing Public-Private Partnership Delhi-Kanpur, Nagpur-Bilaspur, project will be launched on the The Kerala State Government honoured him last year by conferring a business development study (PPP). The minister informed Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai, Mumbai-Ahmedabad route. IANS the coveted J C Daniel Award for his contribution to cinema. IANS FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

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Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs as it chops Nokia About 12,500 of the layoffs will come from eliminating overlaps with Nokia

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp fewer layers of management, both cleaning up part of the mess that Windows phone software. The will slash up to 18,000 jobs, or top down and sideways, to accel- Ballmer left.” Nokia-related cuts were widely 14 percent of its workforce, erate the flow of information and Microsoft shares jumped 1.7 expected. Microsoft said when it this year as it almost halves decision making.” percent to $44.84 on Nasdaq, struck the deal that it would cut the size of its newly acquired Beyond the Nokia reductions, reaching their highest since the $600m per year in costs within 18 Nokia phone business and tries Nadella gave few clues about technology stock boom of 2000. months of closing the acquisition. to transform into a cloud-com- where the axe will fall or what About 12,500 of the layoffs Stephen Elop, the former CEO puting and mobile-friendly soft- areas will receive more funding, will come from eliminating over- of Nokia who now runs Microsoft’s ware company. saying he will flesh out his plans laps with the Nokia unit, which devices unit, said phone engineer- The larger-than-expected cuts, after Microsoft’s quarterly earn- Microsoft acquired in April for ing efforts will be concentrated announced yesterday, are the ings report on July 22. $7.2bn, with the bulk of the cuts in Salo and Tampere, Finland. deepest in the company’s 39-year The size of the cuts were wel- coming from Nokia itself. The It will reduce engineering work history and come five months comed by Wall Street, which acquisition of Nokia’s handset in Beijing, San Diego and Oulu, into the tenure of Chief Executive viewed Microsoft as bloated under business in April added 25,000 Finland. He said phone manufac- Officer Satya Nadella. He outlined previous CEO Steve Ballmer, top- people to Microsoft’s payroll. turing will be focused in Hanoi, plans for a “leaner” business in ping 127,000 in headcount after The first wave of layoffs include Vietnam, with some production to a public memo to employees last absorbing Nokia earlier this year. 1,351 jobs in the Seattle area, continue in Beijing and Dongguan, week. “We will simplify the way “This is about double what the Microsoft said. As part of the China. Some Microsoft manu- we work to drive greater account- Street was expecting,” said Daniel integration of Nokia, Microsoft facturing and repair operations ability, become more agile and Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital is abandoning its experiment in will be moved to Manaus, Brazil move faster,” Nadella wrote to Markets. making phones powered by Google and Reynosa, Mexico, as it winds employees in a memo made public “Nadella is clearing the decks Inc’s Android system, moving some down operations in Komaron, early Thursday. “We plan to have for the new fiscal year. He is of its Nokia X line of phones onto Hungary. REUTERS A Nokia mobile phone lies on a tablet computer showing logos of Microsoft.

Smart moves Muntajat signs Airbus tails Boeing, thanks two-year contract with Milaha to best Farnborough orders

DOHA: Qatar Chemical and FARNBOROUGH: Airbus has enjoyed its “Customers demonstrated their strong con- Petrochemical Marketing best ever Farnborough show in terms of fidence in the family of Boeing commercial and Distribution Company orders, the head of the European plane- products, announcing orders and commit- (Muntajat) QJ.S.C. signed a maker said yesterday, helping it close the ments for 201 Boeing airplanes valued at more two-year contract with Qatar gap on US rival Boeing. than $40.2bn at list prices,” the group said in Navigation Q.S.C. (Milaha) for Airbus said it had won commitments and a statement yesterday. the time charter of the LPG/C firm orders for 496 planes worth more than Ahead of the show, Airbus had lagged Boeing ALMARONA to primarily $75bn at the key industry sales event that with 290 net plane orders versus 499 for the transport Ammonia exports alternates annually with the Paris airshow. US group since the start of the year, when from Qatar to Muntajat cus- Boeing said it had clinched deals for 201 air- deliveries and cancellations were also taken tomers around the world. craft worth more than $40bn. “This is the best into account. The gap now stands at 648 versus The contract was signed in Farnborough airshow in Airbus history and 783 in favour of Boeing. a ceremony held in Doha by this is the third biggest if we include the Paris Launched at Farnborough on Monday, the the Chairman and Managing airshow,” Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier told Airbus A330neo airliner is a revamped version Director of Milaha, Sheikh Ali bin a press conference at the event near London, of the A330, sporting latest generation Rolls- Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, which opens its doors to the public over the Royce Trent 7000 engines to provide more and Chief Executive Officer of weekend for flypasts. economical long-haul travel. Muntajat Abdulrahman Ali Al The latest deals confirmed yesterday saw Airbus said it had secured 121 commitments Abdulla. leasing company Hong Kong Aviation Capital for the A330neo at Farnborough. The LPG/C ALMARONA is a sign a firm order for 70 single-aisle A320neo Bregier on Thursday said Airbus had 23,000 cbm capacity gas carrier passenger planes from Airbus. no plans in the short term to upgrade the and is fully owned and managed The fuel-efficient jets are valued at $7.72bn engines on the A380 superjumbo, on display by Qatar Shipping Company, a at list prices but customers tend to receive at Farnborough but which won no new orders. fully owned subsidiary of Milaha. significant discounts on such purchases. “The Boeing is meanwhile changing the engines “We have, over the years, built green credentials of the neo is one of the key on its long-haul 777 model, helping it to secure a close relationship with Qafco factors for us to choose the aircraft,” said new sales as economic recovery picks up and more recently with Muntajat, HKAC chief executive Donal Boylan. around the globe. Production of the 777X is set and we are very pleased to be Transaero, Russia’s second-biggest airline, to begin in 2017, with the first delivery targeted able to extend this relationship,” meanwhile said it is committed to buy 20 A330 for 2020. First deliveries of the Airbus 330neo said Sheikh Ali bin Jassim bin aircraft, including a dozen new fuel-efficient are scheduled for the end of 2017. Mohammed Al Thani. neos, worth $5.3bn. Brazilian group Embraer, the world’s third- “In keeping with Milaha’s con- “The clear winner of the show was Airbus,” largest commercial planemaker, also won tinued commitment to safety and noted Deutsche bank analyst Myles Walton. orders worth billions of dollars for its regional the protection of the environment, Airbus had dominated the start of the week- jets at Farnborough, including its new single- this ship has been retrofitted long Farnborough event, securing a host of aisle E195-E2 jet. with the latest available energy commitments for its new long-haul A330neo Missing from the show however was a much- efficiency enhancing devices, passenger plane — from air leasing companies anticipated appearance of the F-35 fighter jet. Smart Automobile CEO Annette Winkler (left) and Daimler CEO Dieter which includes the Mewis Duct and the airline AirAsia X — but no firm orders. The US military said on Tuesday that it Zetsche present the new Smart ForTwo (left) and Smart ForFour car in Berlin amongst others, together with Boeing’s big moment at Farnborough came would not send the plane to Farnborough the implementation of Energy yesterday. Daimler is betting that cooperation with Renault and the launch of on Wednesday, when it concluded a deal with after an engine fire grounded the entire fleet, Management Systems of world models to tap growing demand for city cars may pave the way for its diminu- Qatar Airways for 50 of its revamped long-haul in another embarrassing setback for the leading providers.” he said. tive Smart brand to become profitable. Smart will add a new four-seater passenger jets along with a potential order for Pentagon’s most expensive programme ever. QNA model to its line-up this year and upgrade the two-passenger Fortwo vehicle, 50 more. AFP raising hopes by the German group of boosting the brand’s flagging sales. BoA offers $13bn in Fiat denies Nissan’s Ghosn wary of Abe’s merger talks mortgage settlement target of 30pc women in top jobs report with VW

NEW YORK: Bank of America Bank of America has expressed TOKYO: Nissan Motor Co Chief percent target. Ghosn said aim- account for only 11 percent of mid- BERLIN/MILAN: Fiat (BoA) put $13bn on the table in its desire to pay for large parts of Executive Carlos Ghosn raised ing for 10 percent by end-March to-senior management and just 1 Chrysler has denied a maga- negotiations with US authorities the settlement under structuring doubts over Japanese Prime 2017 was a more realistic goal for percent of executive committee zine report saying it’s in merger over a mortgage-linked securi- that would allow for payment of Minister Shinzo Abe’s call to Nissan, where women now fill members, according to McKinsey. talks with Volkswagen, while ties settlement, although negoti- damages to clients in different appoint women to 30 percent of around 7 percent of management The number of women in manage- the German carmaker said it ations are far from over, a source forms, such as consumer relief. top jobs by 2020, saying rush- positions. ment positions at Nissan is well had no takeovers on its agenda. familiar with the matter said. The Department of Justice ing to meet such a target could “Frankly, what I don’t want is ahead of many Japanese auto mak- Germany’s Manager Magazin Bank of America, the sec- alleges that Bank of America set the firm and its staff up for a burst of females in management ers. Around 1 percent of managers said yesterday Volkswagen (VW) ond largest US bank in terms profited from mortgage-linked failure. with a lot of failures,” Ghosn told at rivals Toyota Motor Corp and Chairman Ferdinand Piech had of assets, had been in talks for securities that sank in value Abe issued his call as part of a a news conference in Tokyo yes- Honda Motor Co are women. held talks with the owners of Fiat several months with the Justice after the housing bust, generat- strategy to encourage more women terday, when asked about the 30 “I totally understand and sup- Chrysler about buying all or part Department when it made the ing billions of dollars in losses to work in the world’s third-big- percent target. “We need to show port the Japanese government’s of the group that was formed this offer Tuesday during a meet- for investors who bought them. gest economy, replenishing Japan’s successes. If people start to see efforts to promote women in year from the merger of Italian ing with federal prosecutors, the These toxic loans were related to dwindling workforce in a rapidly ... failures, I think it’s going to be society. Obviously the Japanese and US carmakers. source said, confirming reports complex financial products. The ageing population. Yet with women counter-productive.” government has a lot of objec- The magazine cited unnamed in The Wall Street Journal. The penalty would be equal in value now filling just 1 percent of corpo- Abe has vigorously talked up tive reasons to do that,” Ghosn company sources. However, a VW Department of Justice, however, to a record $13 billion settlement rate executive committee jobs, the the potential for women to con- said. “But I think 30 percent is spokesman said Europe’s biggest has demanded $17bn from the between the Justice Department target is ambitious. tribute more to Japan’s economy ambitious.” carmaker was focused on deliver- bank, US media reported. and JPMorgan Chase concern- Scepticism from Ghosn, a in line with his administrations Japan’s top business lobby, ing improvements at its existing Negotiations between the two ing high-risk mortgage securities Brazil-born French citizen of reforms to stoke growth dubbed Keidanren, opposes across-the- operations. “There are currently had become deadlocked in mid- it sold ahead of the housing bust. Lebanese origin considered one of ‘Abenomics’. But his pledge at the board targets and has said com- no M&A (merger and acquistion) June, but the resumption of talks Earlier, Bank of America reported the more progressive executives Davos World Economic Forum in panies should adopt their own projects on the agenda,” he said. were not an indication that they a 43 percent drop in second-quar- in the country, echoes resistance January that women would occupy individual strategies to promote “We are now focusing on boost- were headed towards a settlement, ter earnings weighed down by among Japan’s more tradition- 30 percent of leading jobs in Japan more women. ing efficiency across the group.” the source said. heavy litigation costs. AFP bound business leaders to the 30 by 2020 is lofty: Women now REUTERS REUTERS FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS New UAE rules Hershey’s gets costlier QE index jumps 2.83 percent in past week to boost listing, DOHA: Qatar Exchange con- the index breaching the 13,000 tinued its good run yester- mark again following the record day lifting the index by 0.84 set on May 29. percent to close at 13,284.65 The trading value QR3bn, an private equity points. increase by 35.94 percent com- The trading value reached pared to QR2.6bn in the previ- QR946.167m with a volume of ous week. 22 million shares from 9,737 The trading volume reached Firms can use shares to raise funds transactions yesterday. Of the 43 83 million shares, an increase by listed companies, 26 made gains, 20.84 percent. DUBAI: The United Arab 14 went down and two remained The market capitalisation of Emirates’ Ministry of Economy unchanged. rose by 1.84 percent to QR714bn has published new rules allow- Ithmar Capital, Qatar individual investors from QR701bn at the end of pre- ing firms in the Gulf Arab state bought a volume of 12 million vious week. to use existing shares when list- Gulf Capital shares of 41 companies worth Banks and financial services ing on local exchanges or rais- QR473m, or 50.09 percent, and led the traded value during the ing fresh equity capital, a move planning IPOs sold a volume of 12 million shares week, accounting for 35.53 per- likely to boost private equity in of 41 companies worth QR524m, cent of the total traded value. the country. DUBAI/ABU DHABI: or 55.47 percent. They bought 3 Real estate sector accounted Laws governing initial public United Arab Emirates-based million shares of 37 companies for 20.25 percent and industrials offerings in the Gulf Arab state private equity firms Ithmar worth QR174m. accounted for 14.47 percent of have long been criticised for their Capital and Gulf Capital are Gulf International closed the total traded value. restrictive nature, including the looking to sell shares to the at QR111.80, up 3.04 percent. Real estate led the traded vol- need to list a minimum of 55 per- public as they seek cash for Doha Insurance also made fair ume accounting for 28.04 per- cent of a company and for only new investments, according gains, up 9.01 percent to close cent of the total traded volume. allowing the sale of new shares to sources, in a move emulat- at QR27.60 from the previ- Banks and financial services when going public. This has led ing global peers. ous QR25.60. Qatar General accounted for 24.22 percent and many firms to seek listings out- Private equity in the Middle Insurance slid by 4.17 percent telecoms 13.46 percent. side the country in recent years East suffered a difficult period to close the day at QR46. Banks and financial services to the chagrin of local authorities, at the end of the last decade, QE index gained 365.02 points topped the number of transac- such as oil services group Gulf as challenging global market or 2.83 percent in the past week tions this week with 34.49 per- Marine Services and healthcare conditions and the bursting of when trading closed at 13,284.65 cent of the total transactions providers Al Noor Hospitals and local asset bubbles left groups points yesterday. followed by real estate, 18.91. NMC Healthcare. unable to exit existing invest- A majority of banks, real Of the 43 listed companies, Under a July 1 ministerial ments without major losses. A carriage driver at the Hershey’s Chocolate World store yesterday in estate companies, and Qatar Gas 35 ended higher during the resolution on firms converting The economic rebound seen Chicago. The store, along the Magnificent Mile, sells Hershey prod- Transport Company (Nakilat) in week, six fell and two remained to public joint stock companies, both locally and internationally ucts, gifts,and souvenirs. Hershey Co, the No.1 candy producer in the the transport segment enjoyed a unchanged. founders of a company can list has seen deal-making revived US, is raising the price of its chocolate by 8 percent due to the rising good run in the week which saw QNA shares through a sell down of a in the last two years, with cost of cocoa. certain percentage of their exist- many now divesting stakes and ing stock. looking for new opportunities. The document didn’t specify a Dubai-based Ithmar Capital, minimum percentage any seller which manages over $800m could offload, while the law won’t in investments, is looking to Time Warner investors want bigger cash ratio come into force until one day raise Dh3bn ($816.8m) for new after it is published in the official assets, particularly in the edu- BOSTON: To clinch a deal to way to get more cash in the deal,” “Cash is cash, so you know risk and uncertainty as to the gazette. cation and healthcare industry, buy Time Warner Inc, Rupert said Mario Gabelli, Chairman and exactly what the value is,” this valuation” of Fox’s stock were Private equity groups are two sources said. REUTERS Murdoch’s Twenty-First CEO of Gamco Investors. person said. reasons for rejecting the bid. It expected to be among the main Century Fox Inc will not only Gamco’s funds own about 3.6 Even though this executive, also noted the stock did not have beneficiaries of the new law, as need to raise the value of its bid million shares of Time Warner. who spoke on condition of ano- voting rights, a type of share that they can now use the capital mar- not required to raise 55 percent above $80bn but also boost its Like many other sharehold- nymity because of company policy, typically trades at a discount. kets to exit existing investments of the capital,” he added. ratio of cash to stock, investors ers, Gamco also owns stock in said he thought the overall value A Time Warner spokesman — like in most mature jurisdic- Changes to laws governing said. Murdoch’s company — about 10.5 of the proposed deal was fair, declined further comment. A tions — instead of relying on trade IPOs in the UAE have been in Time Warner said it rejected million shares — and Gabelli said Murdoch can still raise his bid. spokesman for Twenty-First sales to other investors to offload the works for a number of years Murdoch’s unsolicited offer, some of his own investors are not “It’s a corporate poker game for Century Fox declined to comment. holdings. but authorities have been slow to of which 60 percent would be eager to increase the number of sure, and Murdoch never plays Mitch Zacks, portfolio manager “Giving the companies in the formalise amendments. Twenty-First Century Fox stock those shares as part of a merger. his best card first. There’s always and principal of Zacks Investment UAE the option to either raise The provision on sell downs and 40 percent cash, a far-reach- Another executive at one of another card left to be played,” Management of Chicago, said additional capital or sell exist- was one expected to be included ing proposal that would reshape Time Warner’s large institutional this person said. Time Warner’s board may have ing shares or doing both will go a within the country’s long-awaited the media landscape. shareholders also said he would Time Warner shares rose 17 rejected the offer as a bargain- long way in encouraging private companies law that covers the A number of Time Warner look for Murdoch to offer a higher percent to $83.13 in trading on ing tactic. “My guess is that if the equity firms to contemplate exits operations of firms. shareholders said Fox and ratio of cash to firm up the value Wednesday after the company offer goes to about $95 per share, on the local stock markets,” said The UAE’s economy minister Murdoch, its Chairman and Chief of the deal. Prospects for gains in disclosed the offer and its rejec- the board would have a hard time Karim Souaid, managing partner in March said the country’s presi- Executive, may have to raise the Fox stock in the near term could tion. Including the assumption of turning it down,” he said. at Growthgate Capital, a Gulf- dent is expected to soon approve bid to as much as $95 a share and be constrained by the difficulties Time Warner debt, the deal would Zacks declined to discuss focused buyout firm. it. Also included is a provision boost its cash component to wrap of merging the two businesses, have been worth $94.3bn, accord- exactly what price he would “Private equity will become reducing the minimum free float up a merger. Murdoch offered including wringing out cost sav- ing to data. Twenty-First Century accept to sell his own shares. He more mainstream when found- required in IPOs to 30 percent about $85 a share when the bid ings, and the effect of the likely Fox shares fell 6 percent to $33. said his firm has about 192,000 ers don’t need to cede manage- from the current 55 percent on was made in June. debt burden Fox assume after Time Warner said the strength Time Warner shares and none of ment control upon listing and are UAE exchanges. REUTERS “Rupert has got to figure out a borrowing billions of dollars. of its own strategy and “significant 21st Century Fox. REUTERS

Wizz Air on expansion spree South America hails China picks new BRICS bank development BRASÏLIA: South American among all parts of the interna- bank site presidents hailed the crea- tional safety net intended to pre- tion of a development bank by serve financial stability in the SHANGHAI: China has the BRICS group of emerg- world,” she said in a statement. already chosen a site for the ing powers as an alternative to Leftist South American leaders future Shanghai headquar- the Western-dominated global praised the creation of the BRICS ters of the BRICS development financial system. financial institutions as rivals to bank, state media said yes- The leaders of Brazil, Russia, the Washington-based World terday just two days after its India, China and South Africa Bank and IMF, which they are creation. held unprecedented talks with pressing to increase voting rights At a summit in Brazil, the South American peers in Brasilia to developing nations. BRICS group of emerging a day after the BRICS agreed to “The decision to create a BRICS economic powers, which also launch the bank and an emer- development bank and a reserve includes Russia, India, China and gency reserve fund. fund was welcomed as great news South Africa, on Tuesday created The leaders also used the for our entire South American the New Development Bank to occasion to voice support for region,” Venezuela’s socialist finance infrastructure projects. Argentina in a $1.3bn debt battle President Nicolas Maduro said After drawn-out negotiations Passengers talk to a Wizz Air desk clerk at Budapest Airport. Wizz Air’s maiden flight to London took off with hedge funds that could sink after the closed-door summit. over the bank’s location, BRICS from Katowice in May 2004. It now has over 300 routes, annual revenues of €1bn, counts Ryanair, another the country into default by the Maduro proposed an alliance leaders agreed to put its head- no-frills airline as its main competitor, and dominates air travel in a region with faster economic growth than end of July. between the new bank and the quarters in China’s commercial the rest of Europe. Organic expansion in the region is set to continue while a new phase of growth is likely to The $50bn bank, to be based in region’s Bank of the South to hub of Shanghai, which is seek- come from Wizz Air exploiting the difficulties of state-backed regional airlines that are struggling to survive. Shanghai, will fund infrastructure build a new financial system free ing to become an international projects in developing countries of “speculative financial capital financial centre. while the $100bn reserve fund, that loots our economies.” Shanghai will place the head- dubbed “mini-IMF,” will help the His leftist ally, Bolivian quarters in the former site of BRICS withstand currency crises. President Evo Morales, said the the 2010 World Expo in the BBC News to cut 415 jobs in austerity drive Brazilian President Dilma world needed a new financial city’s premier Pudong develop- Rousseff insisted that the BRICS organisation to counter World ment zone, in the section where LONDON: The BBC said yes- Corporation would restructure its Harding joined the BBC last were not seeking to distance Bank and IMF “blackmail.” the old China Pavilion — now an terday it will cut 415 jobs from news operations while increasing August, having previously edited themselves from the Washington- “I am certain that the New art museum — was located, along its news department in the its investment in digital journal- The Times newspaper, owned by based International Monetary Development Bank will end neo- with those of several Asian and latest cost-cutting measures ism, Harding said. media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Fund. “On the contrary, we wish liberal policies and neo-colonial- Middle Eastern countries, local by the world’s largest public “It will be a testing time of News UK. to democratise it and make it as ism,” he said. television reported. broadcaster. uncertainty and change,” Harding BBC News currently employs representative as possible,” she Argentine President Cristina The city cleared a five-square- Director of News James was quoted by the BBC as telling around 8,400 people, including told reporters alongside Indian Kirchner used the occasion to rally kilometre site for the six-month Harding said the cuts were part staff in a briefing at its headquar- some 5,000 journalists, the cor- Prime Minister Narendra Modi neighbours behind Buenos Aires as expo and large plots are now of savings needed as a result of a ters in London. poration said. before the summit. it negotiates with hedge funds to unused, though some of the area freeze in the licence fee, which all “The challenge is how to make Changes as part of the restruc- And IMF Managing Director resolve the debt dispute after her has been redeveloped. British households with a televi- BBC News even better, despite turing include having more pro- Christine Lagarde said her staff country lost a US court battle. “We Chinese state media said the sion must pay. having less money.” grammes with single presenters would be “delighted” to work with believe we must put an end to this BRICS bank aims to reduce The cuts will save £48m ($82m) But he said the BBC would on the BBC News Channel, merg- the BRICS bloc. international pillaging in finance Western dominance of the global a year over the next two years and create 195 new posts in the news ing some BBC News Channel and “IMF staff would be delighted to that they are trying to do against financial system, while criticis- are part of a total of £800m in division as part of a restructuring BBC World output, and having work with the BRICS team dedi- Argentina, and that they will cer- ing multi-lateral agencies like the savings that began in 2010. plan, meaning an overall reduc- fewer staff in South Africa and cated to this project with a view tainly try to do against other coun- World Bank and the International The British Broadcasting tion of 220 full-time jobs. Afghanistan. AFP to reinforcing the cooperation tries,” Kirchner said. AFP Monetary Fund. AFP FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

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Dutchman gets tough from the start, orders double training sessions New Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos of Germany poses during LONDON: New Manchester his presentation at the Santiago United coach Louis van Gaal Carrick hurt, Bernabeu stadium in Madrid said he believes he can meet the yesterday. expectations for success at “the biggest club in the world” but could miss refused to indulge in predictions when he was introduced to the World Cup media at Old Trafford yesterday. 10 weeks The Dutchman, smiling and looking relaxed after arriving LONDON: Manchester from his stint as Netherlands United’s Michael Carrick could winner manager at the World Cup, also miss the start of forthcoming made it clear that the commercial season after suffering a serious demands at United would make ankle injury, new manager Louis Toni Kroos his job harder. van Gaal revealed yesterday. “I’m now two days here,” Van The 32-year-old England mid- Gaal, 62, told reporters. “I’ve met fielder was seen being driven joins Real a lot of people, and when you see away early from the club’s train- that kind of people loving the club ing ground on Wednesday and they expect a lot of me. it is now feared his injury could MADRID: Toni Kroos yester- “Can I fulfil that expectation? mean he is unavailable for up to day said he was looking forward I think I can, but because of the 10 weeks. to a trophy-laden time with greatness of this club it is much “Michael Carrick was injured Real Madrid after signing from more difficult than in another in the last day or the day before,” Bayern Munich on a six-year club. van Gaal, speaking at his first deal just days after winning the “This club is also guided in a press conference as United’s man- World Cup with Germany. commercial way and we have to ager, told reporters. “I am here to win titles. That fulfil that also, but it is not always “So that is, in my opinion, a big is how it has always been in my possible to fulfil both. Manchester United’s newly-appointed Dutch manager Louis van Gaal (left) poses for pictures with retired English blow because he is an experienced career,” said the 24-year-old play- “I will do my utmost best. footballer Sir Bobby Charlton at Old Trafford in Manchester yesterday. player.” maker as he was presented to That’s what I can give. I cannot Asked how long it could take thousands of fans and media at give predictions.” van Gaal’s methods after the new is waiting for the return of those containing new signings Ander for Carrick to recover, the former the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Van Gaal added: “I cannot manager ordered double training enjoying post-World Cup breaks, Herrera and Luke Shaw, who Netherlands coach said: “Much “When I started at Bayern give predictions because you sessions just two days into the including striker Wayne Rooney, were brought at a combined cost too long for me.” Munich the only option was to never know. It’s the biggest club pre-season. before he addresses the squad as of £56 million, depart for the US The Premier League side travel win, and now it is the same,” he in the world. Within two days Van Gaal was given a tour of a whole. for a pre-season tour today. to the United States for a pre- added. I know already how important the Carrington training facility Van Gaal, 62, a noted discipli- Van Gaal, who has won titles season tour today with the mid- “I know that I am at a very suc- Manchester United is but also by his new assistants, recently- narian, has been asked to make with Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern fielder likely to be left behind to cessful club and I am going to do how important the sponsors are. retired United star Ryan Giggs, United a force again after last Munich and AZ Alkmaar, will work on his recovery. my bit to make sure that contin- “I have to adapt to this big club. and Albert Stuivenberg. season’s disappointing campaign take charge of a United match for United host Swansea City ues to be the case.” It will not be easy but you can see The Dutchman introduced under David Moyes in which they the first time on July 23 against in their first Premier League Kroos had an outstanding what I have won.” himself to the players individu- finished seventh. the Los Angeles Galaxy. fixture of the new season on World Cup, scoring two goals The club’s players had a taste of ally but it is understood that he The Manchester United squad, AGENCIES August 16. REUTERS in two minutes in the 7-1 semi- final rout of Brazil before helping Germany overcome Argentina 1-0 after extra time in Sunday’s final. Spanish media said Real and Germany return to top of FIFA rankings Bayern agreed a deal worth between 25m and 30m euros ($33- PARIS: Germany’s charge to seventh. Deposed world champi- $40m) for Kroos, who had a year claim Sunday’s World Cup title ons Spain slumped seven spots left on his contract in Bavaria. has seen them return to the top to their new modest placing of Latest FIFA Rankings Kroos, who sported the number of FIFA’s world rankings for the eighth, with Switzerland and eight jersey at his unveiling, 1. Germany (+1) 11. Portugal (-7) first time in around 20 years. France (+7) completing the top denied that a disagreement with The latest list, published yes- 10. 2. Argentina (+3) 12. Chile (+2) Bayern coach Pep Guardiola was terday, has Germany moving up Costa Rica’s remarkable behind his decision to leave the one place on the strength of their charge to the quarter-finals was 3. Netherlands (+12) 13. Greece (-1) Bundesliga champions. 1-0 defeat of Argentina ar Rio de rewarded with a jump of 12 places He said: “I had already been Janeiro’s Maracana. to 16th. 4. Colombia (+4) 14. Italy (-5) at Bayern for a long time and Lionel Messi’s Argentina are England’s woeful first round have won everything there, so I 5. Belgium (+6) 15. USA (-2) placed second, an improvement of exit resulted in Roy Hodgson’s thought a new step would do me three places, with the Netherlands side plummeting down the ladder 6. Uruguay (+1) 16. Costa Rica (+12) good.” leaping 12 rungs into third after ten places to 20th, their lowest The two clubs said the official their impressive World Cup third ranking for 18 years. 7. Brazil (-4) 17. Croatia (+1) transfer fee would remain secret, place finish. The Qatari national team but the arrival of Kroos could has- The James Rodriguez-inspired climbed 14 places from last month 8. Spain (-7) 18. Mexico (+2) Andre Schuerrle of Germany ten the departure from Madrid of Colombia move up to fourth to sit on 86th place. Following a celebrates with the World Cup his fellow German Sami Khedira, (+4), ahead of Belgium (+6) good run in Brazil, Algeria find 9. Switzerland (-3) 19. Bosnia and Hercegovina (+2) trophy at the Maracana Stadium who now risks losing his midfield and Uruguay while disappoint- themselves 24th, on top of the 10. France (+7) 20. England (-10) in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. place and has been linked with ing Brazil dropped four spots to African teams. AGENCIES Arsenal. “A magnificent player has arrived, as he showed at the World Cup, where he was one of the best Red card for Nico Rosberg’s Rinaldi Brazil’s new in the competition,” said Madrid president Florentino Perez. “His great performances in recent weeks do not come as a World Cup trophy helmet technical director surprise, but as confirmation that we had chosen the right player.” HOCKENHEIM, RIO DE JANEIRO: Former Earlier, a Bayern statement GERMANY: Formula One World Cup winning goal- confirmed they had agreed a deal championship leader Nico keeper Gilmar Rinaldi has been with Real and that Kroos had Rosberg has had to abandon appointed Brazil’s new technical signed a six-year contract. plans to wear a special helmet director, the Brazilian Football “The two clubs have agreed to decorated with the World Cup Confederation (CBF) said remain silent about the transfer trophy at his home German yesterday. fee,” it said. Grand Prix due to copyright His appointment comes three “We thank Toni Kroos for his issues after FIFA intervened. days after coach Luiz Felipe time at Munich,” said Bayern Rosberg, who drives for Scolari and his backroom staff chief executive Karl-Heinz German Football Association resigned following Brazil’s humili- Rummenigge. “We have experi- sponsors Mercedes, had shown ating 7-1 loss to Germany in their enced great successes with him.” his 712,000 followers on Twitter World Cup semi-final. Kroos arrives at the Santiago a picture of the planned helmet “He is the general co-ordinator Bernabeu with 11 trophies already in the German colours with four and he will co-ordinate all Brazil’s on his CV, the World Cup the stars and the golden trophy on national teams, including the jewel in a collection including top. women’s team,” said CBF presi- Former Brazilian goalkeeper the 2013 Champions League, last “This will be my Hockenheim dent Jose Maria Marin. “He is the Gilmar Rinaldi speaks during a season’s Bundesliga title and the World Cup special edition helmet Formula One driver Nico Rosberg shows his new helmet during a press link between the president and press conference where he was Club World Cup. with the FIFA trophy. How do you conference at the Hockenheimring circuit in Germany yesterday. the coaches.” unveiled as the new technical The path from the World like it?,” the German had asked Rinaldi was reserve keeper in director of the Brazilian team, in Cup to Spain could also see fans still celebrating Germany’s jeopardise the rights of our com- think about, It’s amazing,” com- 1994 when Brazil won their fifth Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Monaco’s Colombia hotshot James 1-0 triumph over Argentina in the mercial affiliates. mented Rosberg. “Even a trophy World Cup title. He then served Rodriguez join Kroos at Real. final in Brazil last weekend. “We appreciate Nico Rosberg’s has its trade mark or whatever. as technical director of Flamengo Rinaldi told a press conference. The World Cup’s top scorer The helmet infringed world desire to congratulate the German “That was a surprise but and was also a player’s agent. He “We want someone who knows with six goals told Spanish sports soccer body FIFA’s copyright, team and have therefore been of course I fully understand,” has informed his final clients he us and we don’t have a lot of daily Marca on Monday: “I’d jump however, and Rosberg’s spokes- in discussions with the Rosberg said the German. “It was a pity will no longer represent them. time, we want to choose someone at the chance of going to Real man Georg Nolte confirmed that team to attempt to find a solution because it looked really cool with Brazil hopes to appoint a new quickly. We have a lot of good and Madrid.” the image of the trophy would not whereby he is still able to show the trophy on top. Now it has a coach to replace Scolari by next well trained coaches. I don’t think Real have also been linked with now appear. his support for Germany without big star and nobody can take that Tuesday but Rinaldi said there (a foreign coach) would adapt to a move for Keylor Navas, the FIFA said it was “obliged to using FIFA intellectual property away. The star is ours.” was no chance of them hiring a what we want right now.” goalkeeper whose heroics helped take action against any unau- in a commercial context.” Rosberg, who signed a contract foreign coach for the first time Among the names mentioned Costa Rica reach the World Cup thorised reproduction of its intel- A new version, shown to report- extension with Mercedes earlier in their history, as some have to replace Scolari are Tite, the quarter finals. Navas plays with lectual property in a commercial ers, featured one big star with a 14 this week, leads British team wanted. man who led Corinthians to Levante in the Spanish first divi- context.” inside it and three smaller stars mate Lewis Hamilton by four “I think this is the time to look the Libertadores Cup and Club sion and his arrival would increase It added: “We cannot allow a denoting Germany’s four world points ahead of Sunday’s race - inside our own house, for some- World Cup in 2012, and Muricy pressure on Iker Casillas already commercially branded helmet to championships. which marks the halfway point one who knows our problems and Ramalho, the current coach of criticised for his role in Spain’s feature the trophy as this would “All the things you have to in the season. REUTERS qualities — and there are many,” Sao Paulo. REUTERS World Cup collapse. AFP FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Real Madrid, McIlroy and Woods steal Barcelona top Forbes rich list the show at British Open NEW YORK: Spain may have been embarrassingly dethroned as World Cup holders, but Real Madrid and Barcelona are still Northern Irishman leads the way on 66; Woods three strokes behind champions at making money after they were named as the HOYLAKE, England: Golfing delicate chip to 12 inches from the Taking advantage of benign world’s two richest sports gunslingers Rory McIlroy and cup at the 16th gave him another scoring conditions on a flat course franchises. Tiger Woods sprayed Royal birdie before a long-range effort with few undulations, the twice For the second successive Liverpool with a barrage of lipped out on 17. major winner peppered the flag year, Forbes business magazine birdie bullets to steal the show Interest in Woods was run- on the front nine. tagged European champions Real midway through the opening ning high with American televi- McIlroy almost holed out with Madrid, where Cristiano Ronaldo round of the 143rd British Open sion network ESPN devoting the his second shot at the par-four plays, as the number one sports yesterday. whole of its ESPN3 digital channel second before converting putts of team with a value of $3.44bn. Northern Irishman McIlroy to coverage of him. six and 14 feet for further birdies Barcelona, the home of Lionel has developed a penchant for “I knew I could do it. I’m tell- at the fifth and sixth. Messi, Neymar and now the noto- making fast starts and he did it ing you guys it was so important The 25-year-old made more rious Luis Suarez, are second in yet again on a blisteringly hot day for me to play at Congressional,” inroads on par at the 10th and the chart with a current value at the third major championship he told reporters, referring to 12th before enjoying an outra- of $3.2bn, while English giants of the season, firing a pacesetting his two comeback rounds at the geous moment of good fortune at Manchester United are ranked six-under-par 66. Quicken Loans National event in the 14th when he avoided trouble at three at $2.81bn despite their Matteo Manassero was in Maryland last month. in the rough with a lucky bounce miserable season. second place on 67, one ahead “It felt good to be back out on to the fairway. The only other football club in of fellow Italians Francesco there competing again today. It McIlroy did not drop a shot to the top 10 are German champions and Edoardo Molinari. Also on wasn’t exactly the greatest of par all day and a sixth and final Bayern Munich whose current 68 were American pair Brooks starts, bogeying the first two, and birdie at the 16th took him to the value of $1.85bn is good enough Koepka and Jim Furyk as well as especially the second hole was a top of the leaderboard. for seventh spot. Spain’s Sergio Garcia. sloppy three-putt. “We had perfect scoring condi- The rest of the top 10 is from Woods, playing in only his third “Coming back after that start tions out there this morning,” said Major League Baseball and the competitive round since undergo- I had today, to fight myself back the world number eight. National Football League. ing back surgery in March, con- into the championship. I feel “There wasn’t much wind. The New York Yankees are founded the critics who wrote off pretty good about it.” “It started to pick up a little number four, valued at $2.5bn his chances by shooting a 69. Woods did not, however, feel on the back nine but there were with the Dallas Cowboys, worth The 14-times major winner particularly good about some of plenty of opportunities to make $2.3bn, holding the fifth place. made a poor start by bogeying the the distractions from the ama- birdies and I was able to take a With 30 teams in the top 50, for first two holes but it was almost teur photographers among the few of them.” the second consecutive year, the vintage Tiger on the back nine 35,000 crowd and the professional Playing in the heart of Liverpool NFL occupies 60% of this year’s as he went storming through the snappers. Football Club country, it was per- list. field with five birdies in six holes “There were a lot of cam- haps no surprise that Manchester The full list also included six from the 11th. eras out there,” said the world United fan McIlroy was on the teams from MLB and four from The former world number one, number seven. “We were backing receiving end of some Merseyside the NBA. sporting grey slacks and a white off a lot of shots and a lot of peo- humour. The NFL’s prominent stand- shirt with blue/grey flecks down ple were moving around - that “I got terrific support even ing on the list and the potential the front, got his round going was tough. though I support United,” he sale of the Los Angeles Clippers when he holed out from off the “Unfortunately people just laughed. “I took my hat off on 16 to former Microsoft head Steve green at the 11th. don’t put their phones on silent or 17 walking up the fairway and Ballmer for $2bn shows the value Woods then rattled in birdies at or some of the professional guys I heard someone say, ‘Get a hair of big market sports teams in the the 12th and 13th before dropping were getting on the trigger a lit- cut’. USA is higher than ever. a stroke at the 14th following a tle early.” “Apart from that the support Ballmer’s proposed record hook off the tee into thick rough. It was McIlroy, though, who was really great and hopefully I Northern Ireland’s Rory Mcllroy acknowledges the crowd on the 18th purchase price for the Clippers The 38-year-old American took the tournament by the scruff can give them a lot more to cheer hole on the first day of the 2014 Open Golf Championships in Hoylake is 15 times the revenue. By com- bounced straight back by sinking of the neck with some scintillat- about in the next few days.” yesterday. parison, in March the Milwaukee a 12-footer at the next hole. A ing shot-making. AFP Brewers were sold for five times the revenue. The Clippers sale is currently hung up in the US court system. Forbes valued the team at $575m Woods upset at phone nuisance in January before tentative deal was announced. HOYLAKE, United Kingdom: just put there phones on silent and I know there are a lot of getting faster and I’m getting Forbes said the stock market’s Tiger Woods showed glimpses of or some of the professional guys fans here who are experiencing more explosive. The ball is start- bull run over the last five years, his former greatness during a (photographers) were getting on the Open for the first time this ing to travel again and these are soaring TV rights and a limited crafted opening three-under 69 their trigger a little early.” week. all positive things,” continued number of teams for sale has con- at the British Open yesterday, Woods remarks and annoy- “We urge them and all our Woods. tributed to skyrocketing values but said it could have been lower ance, especially at the par five spectators to keep their phones on The Florida resident, who is like the Clippers. if not for cameras clicking and 18th when he planted his second silent and remind them that tak- playing only his second com- The average value of the top 50 mobile phones going off during shot in a greenside pot bunker ing photographs on Championship petitive tournament since much teams is $1.34bn, which is an 8% his round. after he was forced to pull out of days is not permitted.” said needed back surgery, says his increase from last year, according The American 14-time major his swing when distracted, even Cole-Hamilton. comeback at the Congressional to Forbes which has been rating winner pulled back from several forced course officials to issue a Despite the controversy, the last month where he missed the the world’s leading sports clubs shots to regain concentration statement. former world number one shook cut, was crucial to the way he since 1998. and compose himself, and was “I’ve had numerous years of off a rocky start to his round with played yesterday. The New York Mets were one evidently annoyed at the end of a dealing with this. There’s a lot consecutive bogeys, by bouncing “I think Congressional was a of three teams that dropped off day, he thought could have been of moving parts out there and back with five birdies in six holes big stepping stone for me. If this this year’s list of the top 50 -- more prosperous. you’ve just got to stay focused and on the back nine. was my first tournament back, the other drop-offs include the “People were taking a lot of pic- plod your way around, continued His three-under score keeps not really knowing how explosive Oakland Raiders in the NFL and tures and we had it all day long Woods. him within touching distance of I could be, how hard I could go at McLaren in Formula 1. AFP today, there were a lot of cameras Mobile phones were banned clubhouse leader Rory McIlroy it, the shots I could play, all those out there,” Woods said at the end after 2006, when Woods won after the Northern Irishman took were variables I took care of at of his first round on the sunbaked his 12th major at Hoylake, but sole possession atop the leader- Congressional. Forbes top 10: par-72 Hoylake layout. reintroduced in 2012 at Royal board with a 66. “Today was totally different 1. Real Madrid $3.44bn, 2. Barcelona “We were backing out of Lytham. Defending champion Phil and consequently I shot a bet- $3.2bn, 3. Manchester United $2.81bn, shots and a lot of people moving The Executive Director of the Mickelson, world number one ter score. I felt good about a lot 4. New York Yankees $2.5bn, 5. Dallas around, it was tough,” added the Championships Johnnie Cole- Adam Scott, Masters’ winner of things I did out there today, Cowboys $2.3bn, 6. Los Angeles Dodgers $2.0bn, 7. Bayern Munich $1.85bn, 8. New Tiger Woods applies lip salve 38-year-old Californian who was Hamilton issued a statment Bubba Watson and in-form especially after the start I had, England Patriots $1.8bn, 9. Washington during his first round at the followed by throngs of enthusi- shortly after Woods’ remarks. Englishman Justin Rose were to fight myself back into the Redskins $1.7bn, 10. New York Giants British Open astic fans. “We are delighted to have big still out on the course. championship so I feel pretty “Unfortunately, people don’t crowds here enjoying the golf “I’m getting stronger, I’m good about it.” AFP $1.55bn. Serena Williams heads women’s field for US Open NEW YORK: World number two-time US Open the 21-year-old, but has slipped from a career-high WTA Swedish Open Results one Serena Williams (pic- champion Venus did not specify its world ranking of 27 to a current Results on the fourth day of the WTA Swedish Open yesterday (x dentoes seeding): tured), coming off a surprise Williams and former reasons. “IMG and 124. His career has nosedived third round loss at Wimbledon, US Open cham- Bernard Tomic have since withdrawing in the first Second Round heads the women’s field for the pions Samantha mutually ended our round of the Australian Open Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Richel Hogenkamp (NED) 6-3, 6-1; Mona Barthel (GER) bt Gabriela US Open, which starts in New Stosur and Svetlana relationship,” IMG against Rafael Nadal. He under- Dabrowski (CAN) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Silvia Soler Espinosa (ESP) bt Julia Goerges (GER) 4-6, York in late August. Kuznetsova. Tennis tweeted. went double hip surgery shortly 6-1, 6-3; Alexandra Panova (RUS) bt Grace Min (USA) 6-2, 6-4 Players from 36 coun- The latest WTA “We wish Bernard afterwards and then suffered a Hamburg ATP Results tries are represented, the US rankings were used great success on and record 26-minute defeat on his HAMBURG: Results from the Hamburg ATP tournament on Thursday (x denotes seeding): Tennis Association announced to determine the off the tennis court.” comeback event at Miami. Second Round on Wednesday, with two-time main draw entry list Reports in tennis Last year, his father John defending champion Williams for the final Grand publications said his was banned from attending the Pablo Andújar (ESP) bt Dustin Brown (GER) 6-1, 6-2; Tobias Kamke (GER) bt Aleksandr heading an 11-strong American Slam event of 2014 off-court behaviour French Open, even as a paying Dolgopolov (UKR x4) 7-5, 2-6, 7-5; Lukas Rosol (CZE) bt Tommy Robredo (ESP x3) contingent for the Aug. 25-Sept. but seeds will be was behind the split. spectator, after he was charged 7-5, 7-6 (8/6); Leonardo Mayer (ARG) bt Dominic Thiem (AUT) 6-3, 6-2; Dusan Lajovic 8 event. announced closer to Tomic had been with with assaulting his son’s hitting (SRB) bt Filip Krajinovic (SRB) 3-1 - retired Williams has five US Open the event. IMG since he was 13, partner, Frenchman Thomas Bogota ATP Results crowns, just one shy of the mod- Meanwhile the before he won the Drouet in Madrid. BOGOTA: Bogota ATP results yesterday (x denotes seeded player): ern era record held by compatriot global manage- boys’ titles at the Drouet was left with a broken Second Round Chris Evert. ment company 2008 Australian Open nose after a brawl broke out in Joining Williams in the top four IMG said yesterday it had split and 2009 US Open. front of the players’ hotel in the Vasek Pospisil (CAN x3) bt Alex Kuznetsov (USA) 7-5, 7-5; Bernard Tomic (AUS) bt Alejandro Falla (COL x5) 6-1, 7-6 (7/2); Alejandro González (COL x6) bt Thiemo de Bakker (NED) are Li Na of China, Simona Halep with troubled Australian tennis Their agreement spawned mar- Spanish capital. 6-3, 6-4; Radek Stepanek (CZE x4) bt Guido Pella (ARG) 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 of Romania and this month’s star Bernard Tomic, reportedly keting deals potentially worth Tomic himself has also been in Wimbledon champion, Petra amid concerns over his off-court millions of dollars. the headlines in recent years for First Round Kvitova of the Czech Republic. behaviour. But in the space of two years, the wrong reasons, including run- Peter Polansky (CAN) bt Nicolas Barrientos (COL) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Víctor Estrella (DOM x8) bt The field also includes French The agency used social media since reaching the fourth round of ins with police in his sports car. Juan Ignacio Londero (ARG) 7-5, 6-3; James Ward (GBR) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS x7) Open champion Maria Sharapova, to announce it had cut ties with the 2012 Australian Open, Tomic AGENCIES 6-4, 3-0 abandon; Jimmy Wang (TPE) bt Michal Przysiezny (POL) 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 6-3 FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Ballance Rahane century rescues escapes shirtless photo action LONDON: England batsman India on first day at Lord’s Gary Ballance will not face any formal punishment by officials after being pictured shirtless in Anderson becomes most successful England Test bowler on home soil a Nottingham bar following last week’s drawn first Test against India. LONDON: Ajinkya Rahane Dhoni, who raised England’s However, England coach Peter scored a well-compiled cen- Scoreboard ire by reporting Anderson for Moores ha reminded his squad to tury to help rescue India’s first an incident involving Ravindra “uphold the best possible image innings on the opening day of India (I innings) Jadeja at Trent Bridge, received for England cricket”. the second Test against England M Vijay c Ballance b Plunkett ...... 24 a frosty reception from the Lord’s Yorkshire batsman Ballance, at Lord’s yesterday. S Dhawan c Ballance b Anderson ...... 7 crowd and much to their delight, who made 71 in the match, went England had reduced the visi- C Pujara b Stokes ...... 28 lasted only 17 balls before being out with several team-mates fol- tors to 145 for seven on a bowler- V Kohli c Prior b Anderson ...... 25 caught by Prior off Stuart Broad lowing the end of the match and friendly pitch early in the final A Rahane c and b Anderson ...... 103 for one. was photographed by members session, but Rahane’s 103, along MS Dhoni c Prior b Broad ...... 1 Jadeja, also unpopular with the of the public enjoying himself in with support from number R Jadeja lbw Moeen ...... 3 home fans, was trapped lbw by a Nottingham bar in the early nine Bhuvneshwar Kumar (36), S Binny lbw Anderson ...... 9 Moeen Ali for three, leaving India hours. ensured India had rallied to 290 B Kumar b Broad ...... 36 in disarray at 128 for six before Although in the middle of back- for nine at the close. M Shami (not out) ...... 14 the tea interval. to-back Tests, with the second Having won the toss and I Sharma (not out) ...... 12 Stuart Binny (9) was also Test at Lord’s starting yesterday, elected to bowl, the hosts initially Extras (NB-1, B-17, LB-10) ...... 28 out leg before, although had the Moores had given the England struggled to find their rhythm on Total (for nine wkts, 90 overs) ...... 290 decision review system been in squad permission to go out ahead a green-looking surface, taking Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-48, 3-86, 4-113, use the decision may have been of a rest day on Monday. only two wickets before lunch. 5-123, 6-128, 7-145, 8-235, 9-275 overturned as Anderson’s deliv- But the images of Ballance However, a four-wicket burst Bowling: Anderson 22-7-55-4, Broad 22-5- ery appeared to be going over the were not ones the England and in the middle session followed by 79-2, Plunkett, 15-5-51-1 (nb-1), Stokes wickets. Wales Cricket Board would like another dismissal shortly after 17-5-40-1, Moeen 14-2-38-1 However, Rahane, in his sev- to see repeated. tea put England in control before enth test, took advantage of Moores said: “I am aware that Rahane’s late assault. Rahane’s initially failed to grasp the oppor- England’s tiring bowling attack some of the England players were knock, which included 15 fours tunity to make significant inroads and brought up his second caught on camera relaxing after and a six, was ended by a sharp into the Indian line-up, with Test century with a stab through the conclusion of the recent Trent caught and bowled effort by James openers Shikhar Dhawan (7) and to the offside boundary off Bridge Test match. Anderson late in the day. Murali Vijay (24) the only wickets Anderson. “As the players had been Tail-enders Ishant Sharma to fall before lunch. He put on 90 with Kumar released at the end of the first (12) and Mohammed Shami (14) However, four more dismiss- before the latter, who passed 50 Test and were not due to meet up safely navigated the closing overs als in the middle session put the in both innings at Trent Bridge, to begin preparations for the sec- to ensure England will have to hosts in the driving seat. was bowled by Broad soon after ond Test until Monday evening, come out and bowl today morning. Anderson had the dangerous the new ball was taken. and there were no suggestions of The Lord’s surface was in Virat Kohli caught by Matt Prior The 31-year-old Anderson’s impropriety, there is no need for marked contrast to the one used for 25, the wicketkeeper look- four-wicket haul made him any disciplinary action. in Nottingham, which came in ing slightly sheepish after drop- England’s most successful wicket “I will, however, be reminding for fierce criticism for its placid ping two catches before lunch, taker on home soil, surpassing all players of their responsibilities nature as the first match of the while Ben Stokes knocked back Fred Trueman’s tally of 229, and to uphold the best possible image five-test series petered out to a Cheteshwar Pujara’s middle he also eclipsed Ian Botham (69) for England cricket.” India’s Ajinkya Rahane celebrates his century during the first day of the tame draw. stump after an obdurate 28 from by becoming the highest test Ballance was included in an second cricket Test match against England at Lord’s in London yesterday. After being presented with 117 balls. wicket taker at Lord’s with 72 unchanged England side for the a pitch to their liking, England Captain Mahendra Singh victims. REUTERS second Test. REUTERS Anderson Ton-up Duminy takes and Jadeja Proteas to big total hearing after second test GALLE: JP Duminy scored his fourth test century and his LONDON: England’s James first in the subcontinent to steer Anderson and India’s Ravindra South Africa to a first innings Jadeja will face a prelimi- total of 455 for nine wickets nary hearing regarding their declared on the second day of International Cricket Council the first test against Sri Lanka disciplinary charges on Tuesday, yesterday. the global governing body has At close, Sri Lanka openers announced. Kaushal Silva (eight) and Upul Both players were charged by Sri Lanka’s Sachithra Senanayake appeals to umpire Michael Gough Tharanga (20) had survived 12 the respective opposing teams fol- after ‘Mankading’ England’s Jos Buttler during an ODI at Edgbaston. overs to take the hosts to 30 for lowing an altercation during the no loss. lunch break on the second day Batting at number eight, of last week’s drawn first Test at Duminy completed his well- Trent Bridge. composed 100 not out, including The ICC announced yesterday Buttler ‘Mankading’ 10 fours, with support from the that the first stage of the disci- tailenders. plinary process would involve a He reached the mark with a preliminary hearing via a telecon- alright, says MCC single to square leg off Dilruwan ference conducted by Australian Perera, who had earlier dropped judicial commissioner Gordon him on 82 at mid-off. South Africa’s Jean-Paul Duminy plays a shot during the second day of Lewis on Tuesday — the day after LONDON: Some of crick- of Cricket or the International Morne Morkel stayed at the the first Test match against Sri Lanka in Galle yesterday. the ongoing second Test at Lord’s et’s greatest names insisted Playing Conditions, then he can crease for 74 balls, scoring a defi- is due to end. England’s Jos Buttler had have no complaints should he be ant 22, to help Duminy reach his The task at hand for Lewis is only himself to blame for his dismissed in this manner. hundred in a ninth-wicket stand for almost two hours, facing 96 Scoreboard to, the ICC said, “address prelimi- ‘Mankad’ dismissal against Sri “Furthermore, the committee of 66 runs. balls for 27, before skipper Angelo nary issues” before setting a date Lanka. believes it was not against the Perera accounted for Morkel’s Mathews provided Sri Lanka with South Africa (I innings): for a full hearing. The issue of players being Spirit of Cricket to uphold such wicket as the batsman went for the only wicket of the afternoon A Petersen lbw b Perera ...... 34 It is unlikely, although possi- run out backing up was in the an appeal, and urges batsmen to an expansive drive and missed the session by trapping him leg before. D Elgar c Chandimal b Lakmal ...... 103 ble, that a decisive outcome will spotlight when Buttler was dis- ensure they do not try to gain an ball altogether, to end with figures “We realize how crucial the F du Plessis c Silva b Perera ...... 80 be reached on Tuesday. missed in such a fashion by bowler unfair advantage by moving out of of four for 162. first innings is and to try to get H Amla c Perera b Herath ...... 11 What could well happen is an Sachithra Senanayake during Sri their crease before the appropri- The visitors batted to a plan to as big a total as possible that was AB de Villiers b Lakmal ...... 21 amendment to the level of charge Lanka’s 3-2 series-clinching vic- ate time.” occupy the crease for as long as the goal,” Duminy said. Q de Kock c Jayawardene b Perera ...... 51 facing either Anderson or Jadeja. tory in the fifth and final one-day Even though ‘Mankading’, the possible and wear out the pitch “Four hundred and fifty is not D Steyn b Lakmal ...... 3 England were shocked that international at Edgbaston. term coined after India’s Vinoo using up 166.2 overs in their first the biggest but a good start for JP Duminy (not out) ...... 100 Anderson was charged by India at However, the world cricket Mankad ran out Australia non- innings. the first innings V Philander lbw b Mathews ...... 27 all and particularly taken aback committee of Marylebone Cricket striker Bill Brown during the “It’s always pleasing to get “It’s going to be a lot of hard M Morkel b Perera ...... 22 that he was deemed by the tour- Club (MCC), whose chairman is 1947 Sydney Test, remains a three figures in these conditions work we know the wicket is Extras: (LB2, NB1) ...... 3 ists to have committed a Level former England captain Mike valid dismissal, some regard it as but more crucial was my batting pretty flat for the seamers, there Total: (for 9 wkts decl.) ...... 455 Three offence — the second most Brearley and whose members underhanded. at seven and trying to marshall is a little bit there for the spinners Fall of wickets: 1-70, 2-195, 3-220, 4-246, serious under the ICC code — for include Australia greats Rodney England captain Alastair Cook, whatever is possible has always but it’s probably going to speed 5-266, 6-290, 7-314 (de Kock), 8-389, allegedly “abusing and pushing Marsh and Steve Waugh, as speaking immediately after the been the key for me,” Duminy told up towards day four and five. 9-455 Jadeja”. AFP well as India’s Rahul Dravid and Edgbaston match, said: “I was reporters at the close of play. Tomorrow is going to be a crucial Bowling: Lakmal 33-12-75-3 (1nb), Eranga Pakistan’s Majid Khan, insisted pretty disappointed with it to be “Honestly I wasn’t thinking day in setting up the game.” 9-4-32-0, Herath 60-12-148-1, Mathews Buttler, not Senanayake, was at honest with you. I hope I wouldn’t about my hundred until I got to The hosts were handicapped by 11-1-36-1, Perera 53.2-8-162-4 fault. do it.” 80, the partnership was more cru- the absence of paceman Shaminda Sri Lanka (I innings): MCC still retains worldwide However, Sri Lanka captain cial than anything else and time Eranga, who did not take the field K Silva (batting)...... 8 responsibility for cricket’s rules, Angelo Mathews said afterwards: to extend our batting today. That after having eight stitches into U Tharanga (batting) ...... 20 or Laws as they are known, and “We gave him (Buttler) two warn- was what was on top of my mind the webbing between his right Extras: (LB1, NB1) ...... 2 following their latest meeting at ings, and I don’t know what else at the time. thumb and index finger after his Total: (for no loss; 12 overs) ...... 30 the club’s Lord’s headquarters in you can do to stop him doing that, An eighth-wicket stand of 75 injury on Wednesday. Bowling: Steyn 4-1-4-0, Philander 3-1-9-0 London, the committee issued a so we had to go for it.” between Duminy and Vernon “We are hoping that he will (1nb), Morkel 3-2-4-0, Tahir 2-0-12-0. statement on Wednesday say- During a wide-ranging meeting, Philander frustrated the Sri be able to bowl in the second To bat: Mathews, Thirimanne, Sangakkara, ing: “The unanimous view of the the committee also backed the Lankan bowling attack, which innings,” Sri Lanka manager Jayawardene, Chandimal, Herath, Perera, committee was that if the non- International Cricket Council’s was missing one of their front- Michael de Zoysa confirmed. Lakmal, Eranga Anderson and Jadeja striker is out of his ground earlier crackdown on illegal bowling line bowlers. Philander defended REUTERS than allowed in either the Laws actions. AFP FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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RIYADH 43/32 Thunderstorm 43/32 Chance of storm DUBAI 44/29 Clear 43/29 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 43/28 Clear 42/28 Clear Fruit colours evolved THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW Probe headed for HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER to please picky birds ATHENS 31/24 Clear 30/25 Partly cloudy PARIS: Tropical Asian birds have a WASHINGTON 29/21 Partly cloudy 30/20 Mostly cloudy penchant for red and black — a procliv- SYDNEY 16/07 Chance of rain 17/09 Mostly cloudy duck-shaped comet ity that likely prompted jungle plants to LONDON 30/19 Clear 29/17 Chance of storm sprout fruit in these colours, scientists said PARIS 32/23 Mostly cloudy 30/20 Partly cloudy PARIS: New images reveal have to be done to determine that a single comet was yesterday. ISTANBUL 29/23 Clear 26/22 Clear that the deep-space comet how best to fly around the tugged into a strange shape It has long been suspected that an abun- on which mankind plans to weirdly-shaped rock, and how by the strong gravitational dance of red and black fleshy fruits in nature MANILA 32/26 Chance of storm 32/26 Chance of storm land a probe later this year, to place a lander on it. pull of a large object like a was partly inspired by a pigment preference DHAKA 32/26 Thunderstorm 32/26 Chance of storm has an “extraordinarily “We currently see images planet or the Sun. of the keen-eyed birds that eat them and DELHI 30/24 Chance of storm 34/25 Partly cloudy irregular”, duck-like shape, that suggest a rather complex A third theory is that “67P” spread the seeds. ISLAMABAD 35/26 Clear 36/29 Clear the European Space Agency cometary shape, but there may have once been round but A team in China decided to test the theory (ESA) said yesterday. is still a lot that we need to became asymmetric due to ice by determining once and for all whether birds The icy body dubbed learn before jumping to con- evaporation as it first entered do have colour favourites. Comet 67P/Churyumov- clusions,” he said. the Solar System from deep, To eliminate possibly confounding influences Gerasimenko is composed of Rosetta took a pixellated cold outer Space, or on subse- of smell, shape or taste, the team manufac- Blues legend Johnny two parts: one flat and long, image of the rock from a dis- quent orbits around the Sun. tured artificial fruits from a mixture of apple, the other bulbous, according tance of 12,000 kilometres on “One could also speculate pear, banana, wheat and corn flour rolled into to a blog on the ESA website. July 14, which was then proc- that the striking dichotomy of small balls and dyed black, red, yellow, green A photo of the comet was essed for a smoother image. the comet’s morphology is the or blue using tasteless food colouring. Winter found dead taken from the agency’s It also released a movie result of a near catastrophic They then put the fruit balls in front of Rosetta spacecraft, designed composed of a sequence of 36 impact event that ripped out different species of bulbul and barbet birds ZÚRICH: Johnny Winter, an blues rock stomper recorded after to team up with “67P” in interpolated images separated one side of the comet,” said native to tropical Xishuangbanna in south- American blues rock guitarist, he resurfaced from heroin addic- August and follow the ice by 20 minutes. the blog. west China. vocalist and band leader known tion in the 1970s. ball on its journey around Dual objects like this, “Similarly, it is not unrea- The birds, both wild-caught and hand- for his virtuoso slide-guitar solos A new Winter album, on which the Sun. known as “contact binaries”, sonable to think that a large reared, were left to choose for themselves and raspy vocals, was found dead Eric Clapton and Ben Harper “This week’s images of are not uncommon yet it outburst event may have what they wanted to eat. in a hotel room outside Zurich, appear as guests, is set to be comet 67P/Churyumov- was not clear how they are weakened one side of the All favoured red fruit, followed by black, the Swiss police said yesterday. He released on September 2. A boxed Gerasimenko reveal an formed, ESA said. comet so much that it sim- scientists found, and all avoided green ones, was 70. collection of his main tracks since extraordinarily irregular “The scientific rewards of ply gave away, crumbling into whose seeds in nature are generally dispersed Along with his brother, Edgar the 1960s was released this year, shape,” said the agency, add- studying such a comet would space.” by insects and other non-avian animals. Winter, also a well-known blues complete with tributes from other ing: “This is no ordinary be high, as a number of pos- In November, Rosetta The results were similar in experiments musician, Winter revered African- performers who said he’d been a comet.” sibilities exist as to how they will send down a 100-kilo- with real fruit. American blues tradition and seminal influence on their careers. Some have likened the form.” gramme refrigerator-sized “The preferences were constant over time, began performing in his teens. In an interview with the New shape to a duck, it said, “with One theory is two comets lander, Philae, which will supporting the hypothesis that bird colour “His wife, family and bandmates York Times earlier this year, Winter a distinct body and head.” melded together in a low- hook itself to the comet’s sur- preferences are a contributing factor driving are all saddened by the loss of one said he enjoyed touring and work- Rosetta mission manger velocity collision during the face and carry out scientific fruit colour evolution in tropical Asia,” the of the world’s finest guitarists,” his ing with younger musicians. Fred Jansen said much more Solar System’s formation experiments. team wrote in the Nature journal Scientific publicist Carla Parisi said. Winter “I think about legacy a lot,” he analysis and modelling will billions of years ago, another AFP Reports. had been on tour in Europe. said. “Hopefully at the end of the AFP Johnny, distinctive because he day they say I was a good blues- and brother Edgar were albino, man. That’s all I want.” broke into national fame in 1968, Winter was found dead over- when Rolling Stone magazine night in a hotel room outside dubbed him the hottest musician Zurich, according to a police outside Janis Joplin. spokeswoman. A prosecutor has Rapping nuns fire up In 1969, he played the Newport ordered an autopsy because the Jazz Festival, where he performed cause of death is unclear. with B B King, one of his musical There was no indication of idols, and at Woodstock. third-party involvement, and early prayer competition He also produced albums for his indications pointed to a medically idol, Muddy Waters, in the 1970s, related incident. SEOUL: South Korea’s top excited followers and monks. helping to burnish the reputation Parisi said an official statement Buddhist organisation held an The 25-year-old nun, clad in of the legendary bluesman. with more details will be issued “at experimental “prayer competi- grey robes, waved at the audience Among Winter’s best known the appropriate time.” tion” yesterday, featuring rap- urging them to clap their hands songs was “Still Alive and Well”, a REUTERS ping nuns and singing monks as she jumped around the stage. in a bid to attract new, younger She was accompanied by two followers. equally animated nuns — on tra- More than 300 monks and nuns ditional gong and drum — as she packed a large temple in down- rapped over the sutra refrain “Aje town Seoul to take part in the Aje Bara Aje (Come, come, come competition hosted by the Jogye upward)!” Order. Buddhist tenets of humility Nuns hold placards reading ‘you rock’ as they shout support for performers Participants — mostly young and overcoming material crav- monks — chanted prayers, or ings were briefly pushed aside as at a Buddhist prayer competition at the Jogyesa temple in Seoul. invocations, from classic Buddhist monks from Hye-Kang’s temple scriptures, as well as “freestyle” chanted “We’re here to win!” and the message of its prayers,” one of the judges of yesterday’s prayers they composed. The contestants were compet- she said. event, said efforts were needed While many delivered tra- ing for a cash prize of three mil- The Jogye Order claims 10 to make Buddhist scripture more ditional, monotone recitations, lion won ($2,900). million followers, but Buddhism accessible. some opted for something bolder. Another nun, Go-Woo, also — once the dominant religion of “Many Buddhist prayers are A group of three young nuns went down the hip-hop route, South Korea — has been over- written in ancient words many delivered a blistering perform- rapping a mix of classic scrip- taken by Christianity in terms of people are not familiar with, so we ance of a rap song derived from tures and original lyrics praising popularity. asked participants to write prayers The Heart Sutra — one of the Buddha’s teachings. The Christianity practised in in plain, easy-to-understand lan- most popular Buddhist scriptures Hye-Kang said she and her South Korea is strongly evan- guage,” he said. “We wanted to let — and using their own lyrics pro- fellow performers had taken the gelical, with a lot of proselytising people, especially young people and moting love and harmony. contest very seriously, practising work that some Buddhists believe children, know Yumbul (Buddhist “Great wisdom, perfect wisdom. day and night for a month for the is bringing young people to the prayers) can be more interesting A file photo of legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter performing during Buddha’s teachings that show you performance. churches rather than the temples. and easier to practice than they a concert at the Valencia Jazz Festival, in 2008. the way!” Hye-Kang bellowed “I wanted more young people Venerable Yin-Mook, a senior think,” he added. out to cheers from hundreds of to take an interest in Buddhism member of the Jogye Order and AFP