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Qatar win second gold in World Container traffic rises Youth Bowling Championship 30% at Hamad Port QNA

WASHINGTON: Qatar SACHIN KUMAR The half yearly performance of the port has been bowling team secured a THE PENINSULA robust in the current year, showing that the port is second gold medal in World not only playing a crucial role in Qatar’s economy but Youth Bowling Champi- DOHA: Hamad Port is is also a major player in the regional maritime trade. onship, currently being held continuing to see huge rise in in the United States, with the traffic. The QR27bn port participation of world’s top witnessed a 30 percent rise in purpose ports in the region. The half yearly performance 132 young players repre- the handling of goods containers It handled 61,280 tonnes of of the port has been robust in the senting 36 countries. in July. The port handled 122,827 break bulk cargo in July while current year, showing that the This is the second gold Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units 8,005 tonnes of bulk cargo was port is not only playing a crucial medal after Ghanem Abu (TEUs) containers last month, handled during the month. role in Qatar’s economy but is also Jassum won the first gold according to Mwani Qatar data. Since commencing opera- now a major player in the regional medal after collecting 1,428 It had handled 94,911 TEUs tions in December 2016, Hamad maritime trade. The Port received points in singles and 1,360 in containers in June. Port has modernise the way 803 ships in the first six months teams. The Qatari team was The strong momentum was Qatar handles imports and of the current year and handled represented in the four-team also seen in vehicle movement. exports and has helped in facil- 644,824 TEUs containers in Jan- competition by Ghanem Abu The port, which has a capacity itating the growth and diversi- uary-June period while handled Jassum, Jassim Mohamed Al to receive 500,000 vehicle per fication of the country’s 631,076 break-bulk cargo in the Muraikhi, Mohammed year, witnessed around 20 economy. Within a short period same period. It handled 132,325 Hamad Al Muraikhi and percent rise in the handling of of time, the port has reached a bulk cargo; 341,793 heads of cattle Jassem Ibrahim Al Dhiaab. vehicles. A total of 5,643 vehicles global port connectivity cov- and 32,084 units of vehicles in the were handled last month com- erage with 40 ports spanning first six months of the current pared to 4,708 vehicles handled over three continents. The port year. by the port in June. has seen tremendous growth in Hamad Port achieved an beIN Media Group, BBC Studios Last month, 133 commercial a short duration and is further important milestone in April as vessels called at Hamad Port cementing Qatar’s position as a it received the highest number which is one of the largest multi- regional maritime hub. of vessels during the months. A sign landmark agreement total of 148 commercial vessels THE PENINSULA called at Hamad Port which was nities for the co-development, companies, the partnership con- the highest monthly number co-production and distribution tinues to extend their creative ties ever recorded since the start of DOHA: BBC Studios, a global of content in Qatar, the Middle and has been a strategic priority operations at the port. content company and East and Turkey for each organisation. As part of The port accomplished commercial subsidiary of the Paul Dempsey, President for the agreement, BBC Studios and another feat in early this year as BBC Group, yesterday signed a Global Markets at BBC Studios, beIN intend to seek opportunities it celebrated, in March, handling landmark Memorandum of and Yousef Al Obaidly, Deputy for the development and/or pro- of its first one million TEUs con- Understanding (MOU) with beIN Chief Executive Officer of beIN duction of content, while tainers. The Port achieved this Media Group, one of the world’s Media Group, placed pen to paper exploring the acquisition of addi- feat in less 14 months which was leading entertainment and to sign the agreement – which is tional BBC Studios’ digital content well ahead of its expected sports groups and owner of set to run for an initial three year by beIN to complement the schedule. It plans to achieve the Miramax studios. The MOU term from August 1, 2018 – at BBC current BBC programming on next one million container establishes a strategic part- Studios’ London headquarters in beIN’s platforms. throughput by the end of this nership between the two Television Centre. year. companies to explore opportu- In a symbolic deal for both →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Qatar condemns explosions in Healthcare providers create awareness about breastfeeding

Afghanistan FAZEENA SALEEM August 9, on social media and with breastfeeding. centres including at Al Wakra, want to successfully breastfeed, THE PENINSULA across the institutions for staff, Al Wakra Hospital will host Muaither, Al Sheehaniya and including mothers who are QNA patients, and visitors. an interactive information booth West Bay. Also a lecture on having difficulties breastfeeding. An exhibition gallery has in the Obstetrics and Gynecology ‘Working Mother and Breast- Similar services are provided at DOHA: To mark World Breast- been set up in the main entrance Department. The booth, which feeding’ will be held for the the Al Wakra Hospital as well. DOHA: The State of Qatar feeding Week (WBW), healthcare at Women Wellness and will be staffed by lactation spe- female staff of PHCC on Sunday. According to available data, expressed its strong condem- providers in the country are Research Centre(WWRC) and it cialists and nursing staff, will Further, to enhance the a 2012 study conducted by gov- nation and denunciation of hosting a number of events and includes educational resources remain open from 8am to 12pm breastfeeding rates in the country, ernment healthcare entities says the three explosions that took the activities to encourage the and presentations on breast- between August 5 and August 9. several steps have been taken. The that just 29 percent of mothers place yesterday in south practice and create more feeding. The exhibition, which While, the PHCC has held WWRC’s Baby-Friendly Hospital breastfeed in Qatar during the Afghanistan and left a awareness. will remain open until August 7, several awareness events across Initiative, which is recognised by first six months of an infant’s life, number of people killed and Activities by the Hamad will also include small discussion health centres to educate the vis- the WHO is significant. while worldwide the average injured. Medical Corporation (HMC) and groups where women will meet itors and mothers about the ben- The WWRC’s Breastfeeding rate is 37 percent. At least nine people were Primary Health Care Corporation each day between 9am and 1pm efits of breastfeeding. Such Clinic provides essential services killed in South Afghanistan (PHCC) are being held until to talk about their experiences events were held at health and support to mothers who →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 as a result of several explo- sions. Girishk town saw two explosions kill six people, including four children. Local authorities there accused Agricultural quarantine offices inspect Taliban of being behind the two bombings. Kandahar 5,990 imported shipments in July meanwhile saw the death of three people due to a THE PENINSULA bombing close to the borders law and for certain damages. with Pakistan. The agricultural quarantine is In a statement issued yes- DOHA: The Ministry of Munici- a first line of defense for protection terday, the Ministry of pality and Environment’s agricul- from agricultural infections. The Foreign Affairs reiterated the tural quarantine offices have preventive procedure aims to State of Qatar’s firm stance inspected 5,990 imported ship- protect the country’s agricultural in rejecting violence and ter- ments, weighing more than 87,665 wealth from foreign-originated rorism regardless of the tonnes from different types of pests. motives and causes. imported agricultural consign- It also requires that all plants, The statement expressed ments, plant products and agricultural products and any other the State of Qatar’s condo- production inputs in July across the materials shall be subject to phy- lences to the families of different customs points. tosanitary regulations for its pro- victims as well as the gov- Revamped Al Bidda Park attracts children The quarantine offices cedures and to ensure that other ernment and people of Children enjoying their evening with scooter and roller skates at Al Bidda Park yesterday. destroyed 65 shipments weighing agricultural production inputs are Afghanistan, wishing the PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA more than 238.55 tonnes for vio- in conformity with the conditions injured a speedy recovery. lating the agricultural quarantine and specifications. 02 HOME FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 Qatar and US exchange ideas, best Qatari official meets Dominican Republic’s FM practices to end human trafficking THE PENINSULA countering trafficking in Persons TIP, Affairs Department in the Ministry of globally and in the US, through the Justice; Dr. Ali Dharman, Director of DOHA: Five Qatari officials of the Qatar three “P” approach: protection, pros- the Legal Affairs Department in the National Committee to Combat Human ecution, and prevention. The partici- Ministry of Public Health; and Jaber Al Trafficking (NCCHT) has returned from pants met with US victim assistance Marri, Legal Advisor to the Chairman the ten-day International Visitor Lead- programmes that provide services to of the National Human Rights ership Program (IVLP), which explored victims, law enforcement officials who Committee. how the United States’ law investigate human trafficking crimes, As part of the US-Qatar Strategic enforcement, civil society, and legis- prosecutors who prosecute the crim- Dialogue held in Washington, DC on lative institutions tackle trafficking in inals, and civil society organisations January 30, 2018, the US Department persons (TIP). and advocates who work tirelessly to of State and the NCCHT signed a Mem- The NCCHT also examined best raise awareness about the threat posed orandum of Understanding (MOU) to practices and how both governmental by human trafficking to communities reaffirm shared commitments to pro- and non-governmental organisations in every corner of the globe. moting and expanding bilateral rela- interact, share information, and work The Qatari delegation included: tions in TIP-related areas and to together to end human trafficking Ambassador Faisal Al Henzab, Head of conduct dialogue and cooperative through activism, engagement, pros- the Human Rights Department at the activities focusing on several TIP- ecution, and public awareness Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Brigadier related areas including: labour and traf- promotion. General Abdulla Al Mohannadi, ficking reporting and database man- While in the United States, the par- Director of the Human Rights agement; interagency cooperation; ticipants learned why the US Congress Department in the Ministry of Interior; identifying and protecting victims of has mandated strong support for Salem Al Marri, Head of the Lawyers’ trafficking in persons; investigating human trafficking cases; informing and empowering the public to report TIP cases; highlighting success stories as a means to reward partners and deter future culprits; and more. The US Department of State’s Inter- national Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is an exchange programme which facilitates short-term visits to the United States by current and emerging foreign leaders in a variety of fields. This prestigious opportunity provides first-hand encounters with American leaders and cultivates lasting relationships between US and foreign counterparts. Since 2010, over 100 The Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Qataris have participated in the pro- met yesterday with the Charge d’Affaires at wthe State of Qatar’s Embassy in fessional exchange programmes that explore innovative solutions to the Dominican Republic, Khalid Mohammed Al Sharshani, in Santo Domingo. Qatari officials of the Qatar National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking problems and challenges that affect The meeting focused on bilateral relations and the means to enhance them. with others at the International Visitor Leadership Program in the US. both societies.

QU graduate wins Best Poster Award in ACCP Virtual Poster Symposium Healthcare providers create THE PENINSULA hundreds in the ACCP Best The winning poster is a Fatima Khalifa Al Sulaiti the best of its kind in Qatar in which the Poster competition. She pre- product of Fatima’s MSc research poster award in the 2018 investigators have developed a awareness about DOHA: Qatar University College sented her poster to a panel of project that was supervised by American College of Clinical vancomycin population-specific of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) MSc expert judges. CPH Associate Professor Dr Pharmacy (ACCP) Virtual Poster dosing model for Qatar. This breastfeeding graduate, Fatima Khalifa Al The posters were evaluated Ahmed Awaisu and co-super- Symposium. Her project will, model will allow population- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sulaiti, won the Best Poster on the following criteria vised by Dr Ahmed Nader without a doubt, advance specific calculations of vanco- Award in the 2018 American including originality, rationale, (AbbVie Inc. Principal Scientist healthcare and serve as a mycin pharmacokinetic param- College of Clinical Pharmacy and significance; research of Pharmacometrics in USA), Dr pharmacy resource in Qatar and eters in individual patients in “My daughter was born (ACCP) Virtual Poster question, study design, and Daoud Al Badriyeh (CPH Asso- the Middle East. This is a real Qatar’s clinical settings, an at Al Wakrah Hospital and Symposium. methods; results; discussion/ ciate Professor), and Dr. Hazem reflection on the College of important tool in vancomycin my experience was good,” Fatima’s abstract on the conclusions; and contribution to Elewa (CPH Assistant Pharmacy research quality and dosing and therapy. The project said Indika Jayawardane, a ‘Outcomes of Peak-trough- the research and response to the Professor). excellence.” also identified the exact vanco- Sri Lankan mother. based versus Trough-only-based judges’ questions. Dr Mohammad Diab, Dean CPH Associate Professor and mycin monitoring practice defi- Indika Jayawardane also Vancomycin Therapeutic Drug Fatima Al Sulaiti has been College of Pharmacy, said, Main Supervisor, Dr Ahmed ciencies in the local setting, said the hospital staff was Monitoring Clinical and Pharma- invited to present the winning “Aligning with the College Awaisu, said, “We are really which will guide health policy- very supportive and they did cokinetic Approaches: A Prag- poster at the 2018 ACCP Global mission to promote research and proud of Fatima for this signif- makers to establish setting-spe- so much to encourage matic Randomized Controlled Conference on Clinical scholarly activity, we are proud icant and tremendous accom- cific protocols to improve TDM breastfeeding. “I was taught Trial’ was selected among Pharmacy in October 2018. to announce the winning of plishment. Her project is the first practices in Qatar.” everything about breast- feeding in detail. Later I was referred to the clinic as I had some difficulties in breast- feeding,” added Indika Ashghal announces Jayawardane. This is not an isolated voice but there are many in minor traffic diversion Qatar expressed similar opinions. at Bu Erayyen Street Annie Altura, a Filipina mother, said, “I underwent THE PENINSULA Area via Bu Erayyen Street can a caesarean delivery at the continue their journey on Bu Al Wakrah Hospital. Nurses DOHA: The public Works Erayyen Street then turn right did so much to help me start Authority (Ashghal) will on to Al Samriya Street, located breastfeeding.” implement a minor traffic 220 metres from the closed Annie Altura says she detour at Bu Erayyen Street in access. learnt many new things to Luaib Area for two months, Travellers heading from follow in breast-feeding, starting on Sunday, aimed to Luaib Area towards Bu Erayyen though it was her third enable the upgrade works on Street can use Al Samriya Street child. “It’s very helpful ini- Bu Erayyen Street. then turn right onto Sanaya tiative by the hospital,” she Ashghal, in collaboration Street towards Rasheeda Street added. with the General Directorate of and turn left at Lekhwiya Every year, countries Traffic, will close the traffic Roundabout onto Erayyen around the world observe Volunteers of Ooredoo Myanmar give food aid to a flood victim in Myanmar. coming from the southbound Street. Ashghal will install the World Breastfeeding Week lanes on Bu Erayyen Street to signage necessary to guide the between August 1 and Luaib Area, as shown on the drivers, requesting road users August 7. This year, the Ooredoo aids flood victims in Myanmar attached map. to abide by the speed limit and World Health Assembly During the traffic change, follow the traffic instructions adopted the World Breast- THE PENINSULA and to show its care for the caused by heavy rain and we travellers heading for Luaib for their safety. feeding Week by member people who are suffering the want to help. We stand firmly states to advocate for the DOHA: Heavy rain has flood disaster. with our 3 Core Values – Caring, protection, promotion and hammered southern, eastern Ooredoo provided the flood Connecting and Challenging. support of breastfeeding and central parts of Myanmar victims with the emergency Therefore, we took the chal- everywhere. since last week and it forced supply bags which includes rice lenges to reach out reliefs for The theme of this year’s many people to flee their homes and other dry rations such as, flood victims who had to suffer World Breastfeeding Week because of serious flood cooking oil, instant noodles and because natural disaster. We is ‘Breastfeeding: Foun- affected vast swathes of land. canned fish which is worth connected with them show our dation for Life’ which indi- Therefore, Ooredoo Myanmar about MMK 15m which covered concern and care for these flood cates the recognition of the family has reached out to flood for nearly 1900 households. The victims through our immediate importance of breastfeeding affected areas to send food and food in the bag donated by support. We are really happy to to a baby’s future. In view aid provisions for the flood Ooredoo will cover the huger have the execution support.” of the World Breastfeeding victims. of the flood victims for 3 days. Last month, Ooredoo Week, many organisation Ooredoo Myanmar family Vikram Sinha, CEO of Myanmar family connected in Qatar and across the went in Shwegyin Tonwship in Ooredoo Myanmar, said, “We with 451 households in Maw- world organised various Bago Region, Bilin Township in would like to express our great lamyaing and Ye in Mon State events underlining the sig- Mon State and Hpa-An in Kayin concern about the flooding and to send food and aid provisions nificance of breastfeeding. Stat to concern about the flood devastation of the country for the flood victims. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 HOME / MIDDLE EAST 03 beIN Media Group, BBC Studios sign landmark agreement CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Yousef Al Obaidly, added, Middle East and North Africa via the USA, Canada, and the APAC “We are incredibly excited about its direct-to-home service. BBC region. beIN Media Group’s Included in the MoU is the furthering our trusted part- Earth joined BBC Studios’ pre- sports network, beIN Sports, agreement by BBC Studios and nership with BBC Studios. This school brand, CBeebies, which covers the best and most exciting beIN to explore investment in memorandum of understanding has been on the beIN platform sports in the world including content production and for the establishes a new milestone of since 2016. football, basketball, American two companies to collaborate on cultural collaboration between BBC Earth and CBeebies are football , cricket, rugby, tennis, knowledge exchange and media our organisations, bringing also available as bespoke cycling, volleyball, motor sports, business development opportu- together two of the strongest channels in Turkey via pay-tv college sports and more. In nities in the State of Qatar. global entertainment brands to operator Digiturk, which – along addition to its global sports Paul Dempsey, said, “This deliver stand-out original with Miramax studios – is also network, the Group is a major MoU builds on BBC Studios’ suc- content, cutting-edge innovation part of beIN Media Group’s rap- player in entertainment through cessful existing partnership with and – ultimately – more value idly-growing and market- production and distribution as beIN Media Group and stands to to our customers. We are also leading global and entertainment well as in the digital space. bring our expertise in devel- delighted to support BBC Studios’ and sports business. In November 2015, a new opment and production to an intention to explore broader beIN Media Group is one of platform was launched in MENA, even wider international business opportunities together the world’s foremost media beIN MENA, which offers a com- audience. It further demon- with beIN Media Group in Qatar.” groups, bringing an unrivalled plete spectrum of entertainment strates our commitment to Earlier this year, beIN array of entertainment, live sport including blockbuster movies, Yousef Al Obaidly (left), Deputy Chief Executive Officer of beIN working with partners globally launched BBC Earth, BBC action, and major international series kids programs, and factual Media Group, and Paul Dempsey, President for Global Markets at to create world-class Studios’ global factual brand, as events to millions of viewers in entertainment — all delivered programmes”. a linear channel across the MENA, Turkey, France, Spain, through state of art technology. BBC Studios, during the signing of the agreement.

Gaps in Syria’s chemical weapons Jordan not yet ready to open border crossing with Syria declaration: Watchdog REUTERS last year to set up a de-escalation AP “Jordan in principle wants open zone. Washington’s decision not AMMAN: Jordan will reopen its to intervene during the southwest UNITED NATIONS: The border with Syria only when it is borders with all its campaign wrecked the accord international chemical ready, Foreign Minister Ayman neighbours.. But when and gave the Russians the green- weapons watchdog says there Safadi said yesterday, in a signal and how (Nassib light to crush rebels in the are still gaps, inconsistencies that Amman could delay a southwest, diplomats say. and discrepancies in Syria’s decision that would boost Pres- opening) this will They say Amman now wants declaration of its chemical ident Bashar al Assad. depend on when we Russian guarantees to help weapons, and the number of Billions of dollars in annual ensure our interests restore stability in the sensitive issues needing a response has trade with Europe and the Gulf and our security,” southern border area where offi- increased. moved through the Syrian-Jor- cials say a spillover of violence The latest report from the danian Nassib crossing until Foreign Minister and radicalism poses a threat. Organisation for the Prohi- fighting erupted in 2011. It was Ayman Safadi said. Before reopening the bition of Chemical Weapons captured by rebels in 2015 and its crossing, it also wants Russian said the Syrian government closure hurt the economy of Syria military police to play a bigger has remained engaged with and neighbouring states. open borders with all its neigh- role in protecting displaced the OPCW, but the infor- Damascus said this week the bours.. But when and how (Nassib civilians who want to return to Young Syrian refugees play on a slide at the Azraq camp for Syrian mation it has provided has road was ready for use but Safadi opening) this will depend on areas recently won back by refugees in northern Jordan, yesterday. not resolved the issues. said he had received no request when we ensure our interests and Syria’s army and to repel a threat Deputy Disarmament to reopen it. our security,” he added. from Iranian militias. Chief Thomas Markram “We will deal with the request reopening the crossing with Russia is a crucial backer of Jordan is a US ally but Syria’s army has recovered briefed the UN Security with all positiveness that serves Moscow. The crossing’s recapture Assad and Russian bombing was Moscow wanted Amman to per- control of most of the country. Council behind closed doors our interests,” he told a news con- by Syrian forces was a central central to a campaign by Assad suade rebels before it was retaken This year, they defeated insur- yesterday on the report. ference with visiting French goal of a campaign launched last that forced the mainstream Free by government forces last month gents in the last remaining The confirmed use of Foreign Minster Jean-Yves Le June by the government and Syrian Army (FSA) rebels once to cede control of the crossing to enclaves near the cities of Homs chemical weapons in the Drian. “Matters have to stabilise,” Russian forces to regain control backed by Jordan and Assad’s consolidate an accord between and Damascus, swept through the Damascus suburb of Ghouta he said. of rebel-held parts of the Western and Arab foes to sur- US President Donald Trump and southwest and regained the in August 2013, which killed Safadi said he discussed southwest. render. “Jordan in principle wants Russian President Vladimir Putin border with Israel and Jordan. 1,400 people according to the US government, led to a US- Russian agreement to elim- inate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid-2014. Water crisis salts The agreement required Syria to join the OPCW and declare all its chemical weapons and precursors, and the earth in Iraq’s there is growing frustration at Damascus’ failure to satis- factorily answer all out- long-neglected south standing questions from the AP OPCW about its declaration. contributed to last month’s violent demonstrations in Basra BAGHDAD: Qassim Sabaan Ali and other southern provinces, Protests in Iran has spent the past 15 years in which protesters attacked and tending to orchards in southern burned government and over currency drop, Iraq, only to see them wither or political party offices, prompting economic woes die as saltwater has seeped into security forces to open fire. the once-lush soil. Several protesters were The southern city of Basra killed or wounded, while others AP was once known as the “Venice were arrested. of the East” because of its fresh- Iraq’s government has DUBAI: Scattered protests water canals, and Iraq itself is scrambled to meet the growing broke out in several Iranian still known as the “Land demands for public services and cities yesterday over the Between the Two Rivers” — the jobs, but has been hindered by dramatic drop of the coun- Tigris and the Euphrates — years of endemic corruption and try’s currency and other which have nourished civiliza- a financial crisis fuelled by economic problems ahead of tions since antiquity. diminished oil revenues and the the imposition of renewed But upstream dams have costly war against the Islamic American sanctions, Iran’s shrunk the rivers and their trib- State group. state-run IRNA news agency utaries, seasonal rainfall has The water crisis has affected reported. dropped and infrastructure has the entire country, but Basra, at About 100 people took to fallen into disrepair. The result the mouth of the two rivers, has the streets in Sari, as well as is an acute lack of freshwater been hit the hardest. The rising unspecified numbers in the that has allowed a salty tide salinity has shut down water cities of Shiraz, Ahavz and from the nearby Persian Gulf to purification systems, turned Mashhad. The agency advance north from the Shatt Al once-fertile areas to desert and reported all protests had Arab waterway — the con- killed off fish and livestock. taken place without official fluence of the Tigris and the The scenes recall those permission and were subse- Euphrates that Basra residents during the war between Iraq and quently broken up by police. depend on - and seep into once- Iran in the 1980s, when the On Tuesday and Wednesday, lush farmland. orchards were burned to the about 200 people demon- Ali’s fig, apple and palm ground, the land was littered strated in the city of Karaj, trees are dying off, and the water with mines, and many farmers west of Tehran, IRNA from the taps is so salty and pol- were forced to flee. The Gulf war reported. Police said the dem- luted it cannot even be used for and Shiite uprising of the early onstrators had attempted to cooking or washing. 1990s, and a decade of crippling damage public buildings but “It’s an aching feeling when international sanctions, hin- were unable to, IRNA said. you see the hard work of years dered their return. In videos circulated on withering away and slipping Iraq has tried to reach social media and purporting through your fingers,” Ali, who agreements with its neighbours to have been taken in the lives in the Siba district south of on sharing the Tigris and town of Gohardasht, a suburb Basra, told The Associated Press Euphrates rivers, both of which of Karaj, dozens of demon- by phone. “I’m left to watch the originate outside its borders, but strators can be seen in the destruction and feel desperate, has had little success. In Basra, streets, setting fire to police as I’m unable to do more than hundreds of miles away from vehicles and shouting “death pray to God.” The water woes, where the fighting took place, to the dictator.” Police along with a lingering electricity the threat comes not from mil- respond with tear gas. crisis in the oil-rich region, itants, but from salt. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 Turkey: Trump jeopardising long-standing relations

AP The White House said the sanctions would target Turkey’s justice and interior ministers, ANKARA: A senior Turkish the officials Washington held responsible for official accused US President Donald Trump yesterday of the detention of evangelical Pastor Andrew jeopardising the long-standing Brunson. Ilnur Cevik, a senior adviser to Turkish ties between Turkey and the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that United States by allowing sanc- Turkey was deliberating possible measures, but tions on two Turkish ministers over the detention of an wanted to “minimise the damage.” American pastor. The Turkish government doing is not burning all the Soylu yesterday mocked the called on the United States to bridges but trying to keep the sanctions, saying his only asset reverse its decision to subject bridge intact and try to salvage in the United States is US-based Zimbabwean policemen sit in a vehicle stationed outside the headquarters party Movement for Turkey’s interior and justice whatever is left of the relations,” Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, in Harare, yesterday. ministers to financial sanctions. he added. whom Turkey blames for a Ankara also vowed to retaliate The White House said the failed coup in 2016 and wants for Washington’s move, which sanctions would target Turkey’s extradited. Zimbabwe tense as election is aimed at pressuring Nato ally justice and interior ministers, Brunson, 50, was arrested Turkey into releasing Pastor the officials Washington held in December 2016 following the Andrew Brunson. The evan- responsible for the pastor’s coup on charges of “committing results set to be unveiled gelical pastor originally from arrest and detention. crimes on behalf of terror North Carolina is on trial in The Trump administration groups without being a AFP Turkey on espionage and terror- insists there is no evidence member” and espionage. He was related charges. against Brunson and says he is recently released to home Police storm oppn offices, detain 16 The sanctions have inflamed being treated in an “unfair and detention due to health reasons. HARARE: Zimbabwe yesterday already tense relations between unjust” manner. He faces a prison sentence of up awaited the outcome of presi- REUTERS the two countries that are allied “President Trump insults the to 35 years if he is convicted on dential elections that have in the fight against terrorism in Turkish judicial system,” Cevik both counts at the end of his plunged the country into HARARE: Zimbabwe police stormed the headquarters of the Iraq and Afghanistan but can no said. “He says the pastor is being ongoing trial. bloodshed and protest, stirring opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the capital longer see eye-to-eye over a kept a hostage in Turkey. He is The evangelical pastor, who memories of a traumatic past. Harare yesterday and detained 16 people after sealing off the series of issues, including Wash- not a hostage - he is under trial is originally from Black A day after three people building earlier, a Reuters witness said. ington’s support to Syrian in Turkey.” Mountain, North Carolina, has were shot dead during demon- “Police came with a warrant of search and seizure they Kurdish militia that Ankara con- Under the sanctions to be lived in Turkey for 23 years and strations against alleged elec- claimed there were certain computers and other subversive siders to be terrorists. imposed by the Treasury leads the Izmir Resurrection toral fraud, the capital Harare materials,” MDC lawyer Denford Halimani said. Relations have also soured Department, any property or Church. Erdogan has denied — its centre cleared by troops — “They wanted to seize those things and also get people that over the recent conviction in the interest in property belonging speculation that there had been braced for the announcement of were inside. Perhaps it was a scare tactic. There was nothing the US of a Turkish banker of to Justice Minister Abdulhamit an agreement to swap Brunson the results. “The presidential police retrieved. They took away 16 people we are going to charges of helping Iran evade Gul or Interior Minister for Turkish citizens being held election results will start to be confirm if these people have been arrested.” sanctions. Suleyman Soylu within US juris- abroad, particularly 27-year-old announced around 10 pm,” Zim- Ilnur Cevik, a senior adviser diction would be blocked. Amer- Ebru Ozkan. Ozkan had been babwe Election Commission (ZEC) to Turkish President Recep icans would generally be pro- detained by Israel on terror- commissioner Qhubani Moyo said. opposition party of inciting the In a late-night press con- Tayyip Erdogan, said that hibited from doing business with related charges, but was “We are hopeful that all of them will unrest and vowed to enforce a ference on Wednesday, Home Turkey was deliberating pos- them. deported this month. be announced today.” security clampdown. But Pres- Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu sible measures, but wanted to Berat Albayrak, the Turkish The Turkish leader previ- The vote on Monday — the ident Emmerson Mnangagwa also warned further protests would “minimise the damage.” treasury and finance minister ously connected Brunson’s first since iron-fisted ruler said on Twitter that he wanted an not be tolerated. “The oppo- “Everyone’s very disap- and Erdogan’s son-in-law, return to the US to Gulen’s Robert Mugabe was ousted last independent investigation into the sition... are testing our resolve pointed. Nobody expected this called the sanctions “unac- extradition. The cleric denies year — were meant to turn the killings, and that he sought to and I think they are making a kind of treatment (towards) two ceptable” yesterday, but said involvement in the coup. page on years of brutal settle differences “peacefully”. big mistake,” he said. Yesterday, Cabinet ministers,” Cevik said. they would have “limited” effect Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign repression. But anger flared The presidential race has soldiers guarded the head- “President Trump is taking a on Turkey and its economy. Minister Javad Zarif condemned over alleged vote-rigging, pitted 75-year-old Mnangagwa, quarters of ZANU-PF, while very small case and jeopardising News of the sanctions scared the sanctions against the Turkish prompting troops to use live Mugabe’s former ally in the armoured personnel carriers, Turkish-American relations and financial markets on minister on his Twitter account, rounds on protestors. The gov- ruling ZANU-PF party, against water cannon trucks and police Turkish-American friendship.” Wednesday, causing the Turkish saying Washington’s “addiction ernment accused the Movement the MDC’s leader, Nelson anti-riot vans took position “What the Turkish side is lira to drop to record lows. to sanctions knows no bounds.” for Democratic Change (MDC) Chamisa, 35 years his junior. outside MDC headquarters.

Buhari to spend Abbas spokesman named 10-day vacation deputy Palestinian PM in London: Aide AFP Hamas said it ran con- trary to those efforts, which AFP RAMALLAH: Palestinian Pres- have repeatedly failed in the ident Mahmoud Abbas’ past. ABUJA: Nigerian President spokesman has been named “Any reconciliation Muhammadu Buhari will deputy prime minister, the agreement must be submitted begin a 10-day vacation in government announced to a unity government and not London from today, his office yesterday, a move criticised by to a Fatah government,” said said, without disclosing his rivals from Islamist Hamas spokesman Sami Abu whether he will also see his movement Hamas. Zuhri. doctor there. Nabil Abu Rudeina will Prime Minister Rami Ham- “While the president is on serve as deputy prime minister dallah told journalists the vacation, Vice President, Pro- and information minister, the appointment was part of the fessor Yemi Osinbajo will be government said. Palestinian Authority’s efforts in acting capacity. President The move comes amid talk to develop the information Buhari will be in London for of fresh attempts at reconcili- sector. the holiday,” presidential ation between Abbas’s Fatah Abu Rudeina will retain his Palestinian journalists stage a demonstration in support of their prisoner colleagues in Israeli jails in spokesman Femi Adesina said and Hamas, which runs the position as spokesman for the front of International Red Cross Commitee building in Gaza City, yesterday. in a statement. Gaza Strip. Palestinian presidency. He said the parliament had been notified about the president’s trip, his latest of several to the British capital Congo opposition leader Bemba in recent months. 26 dead in airstrike on fishing In May, the Nigerian leader was in London for files presidential candidacy three days for medical REUTERS reasons, having spent some port in Yemen’s Hodeidah five months last year receiving treatment for an KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader REUTERS undisclosed ailment. the hospital gates,” an eyewitness suspended oil exports through a Jean-Pierre Bemba filed his candidacy yesterday for December’s The development is said. Saudi Arabia, the United strategic Red Sea channel fol- presidential election, cementing an unlikely comeback after a bound to stir fresh doubts HODEIDAH, YEMEN: Air Arab Emirates and allies have lowing Houthi attacks on crude decade in prison for war crimes. Bemba returned to Congo on about the health of the strikes yesterday by a coalition been fighting in Yemen with tankers on July 25. Wednesday to a hero’s welcome from tens of thousands of his 75-year-old retired general led by Saudi Arabia on a fishing Western backing for more than Hodeidah port is the main supporters who lined the streets of the capital Kinshasa and chanted and his ability to campaign port and fish market in the three years against the Iran- conduit for supplies to Yemen, slogans against President Joseph Kabila. for re-election at polls Yemeni city of Hodeidah killed aligned Houthis. where around 8.4 million people His war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Court scheduled for February. 26 people, Yemeni medical The Houthis control much are believed by aid workers to (ICC) in The Hague were unexpectedly quashed on appeal in May, Nigeria’s main opposition sources and aid agencies said. of north Yemen including the be on the verge of starvation. and he could now pose a stern challenge to Kabila or his preferred Peoples Democratic Party The International Com- capital Sana’a and drove its The Saudi-led alliance says successor in the long-delayed vote. (PDP) has always insisted mittee of the Red Cross said on Saudi-backed government into capturing Hodeidah would cut “I announce to you that I will be your candidate in the 2018 Buhari is unwell and unfit to Twitter it was sending medical exile in 2014. A coalition off the main supply line of the presidential election,” Bemba wrote on Twitter after submitting govern, but his aides have equipment to Al Thawra Hos- spokesman did not immediately Houthis and force the group to his candidacy at the national electoral commission headquarters. dismissed the claims. pital to treat 50 people in critical respond. The strikes come as the negotiating table, but it has It is not clear, however, if the courts will approve Bemba’s can- The health of the pres- condition following the attack. the United Nations tries to made no major gains since it didacy. Kabila’s ruling coalition said last week he should be ident is a sensitive issue in The hospital said in a tweet secure a ceasefire agreement launched the offensive on June excluded from the race due to a witness tampering conviction that Nigeria following the death a strike targeted its main gate, between the warring sides. 12. The Houthis have offered to was not annulled by the ICC. in office in 2010 of then pres- leaving dozens of casualties while Yemen’s Houthi group said on hand over management of the Moreover, Kabila, in power since 2001, has refused to commit ident Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Houthi-run Saba news agency Tuesday it was unilaterally halting port to the world body, publicly to stepping down even though his mandate ran out in which followed months of said 40 were killed in the strike. attacks in the Red Sea for two according to the United Nations, 2016. This has raised fears he will defy constitutional term limits treatment abroad and “It is a very painful sight, parts of weeks to support peace efforts, a but the coalition says the group and spark a violent backlash by the population and militia groups sparked political turmoil. bodies are everywhere around few days after Saudi Arabia must quit the western coast. active in the country’s east. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 ISLAM 05 The Islamic view of life after death

n Islam, an individual’s life after God created people and which give one position, power, repu- death or their Hereafter, is very made them responsible tation or worldly happiness. closely shaped by their present life. for their actions. In this Such things become the objectives Life after death begins with the res- of life and they may not deter one from urrection of man, after which there world, we notice that pursuing cruel and unjust means in their Iwill come a moment when every human the virtuous often live in achievement. In contrast, for a believer, will be shaken as they are confronted all that pleases God is good and all that with their intentions and deeds, good a wretched state while invokes His displeasure and wrath is and bad, and even by their failure to do the wicked often seem to evil. A good act for a believer will remain good in this life. On the Day of Judgment have the good things in good even if it brings no personal benefit the entire record of people from the age in this world. of puberty will be presented before God. life. Innocent people often A believer will be confident that God God will weigh everyones good and bad suffer at the hands of will reward him in the eternal life and deeds according to His Mercy and His exploiters and criminals, that would be the real success. Similarly, Justice, forgiving many sins and multi- they would not fall a prey to evil deeds plying many good deeds. One who excels who seem to gain rather merely for some worldly gain, for they in goodness will be rewarded gener- than suffer by their crimes would know that even if they escape ously, whereas one whose evils and in this world. If there were punishment in this short worldly life, wrongs overweigh his good deeds will they would still have to answer to God. be punished. Those who emerge suc- no future life in which the True justice becomes apparent by cessful in this judgment will go to par- virtuous are rewarded and believing in Life after Death. adise and the doors of eternal bliss will the vicious are punished, God created people and made them be opened to them. Those who are con- responsible for their actions. In this demned and deserve punishment will there would be no justice. world, we notice that the virtuous often be sent to Hell – the abode of fire and live in a wretched state while the wicked torture. often seem to have the good things in Those who disbelieve say: The Hour usefulness, the more wavering and Third, are those who believe in the that have no worldly benefit. Similarly, life. will never come unto us. Say: Nay, by shaky would be our attitude.After all, Hereafter and do not delude themselves he may not be prepared to stop doing Innocent people often suffer at the my Lord, it is coming unto you surely. why does a child put his hand in fire? that they have any special relationship awrong act that will not harm him in hands of exploiters and criminals, who (He is) the knower of the unseen. Not an Because he is not sure that fire burns. with God or that anyone can intercede this world. seem to gain rather than suffer by their atoms weight, or less than that or Why does he evade studying? Because on their behalf. They hold themselves On the other hand, a person who crimes in this world. If there were no greater, escapes Him in the heavens or he does not fully grasp the importance accountable for their actions and their believes in life after death would look future life in which the virtuous are in the earth, but it is in a clear Record. and benefits of education. belief in the Hereafter becomes a great upon all worldly gains and losses as tem- rewarded and the vicious are punished, That He may reward those who believe moral force. As a result they find a per- porary and would not put at stake there would be no justice. There would and do good works.For them are pardon Three Categories manent guard, stationed within them, eternal bliss for a transitory gain. Belief be no point in creating people with a and a rich provision. But those who First, there are those who do not which cautions and admonishes them in the next world instills in one the desire conscience and in sending Prophets to strive against our revelations, chal- believe in the Hereafter and regard life whenever they deviate from the right to do well and avoid the wrong, however remind them of their responsibility. lenging (Us), theirs will be a painful on this earth as the only life and nothing path. There may be no court to summon costly it may be in terms of worldly We shall set up scales of justice for doom of wrath.[Al-Quran: 34: 3-5] destroys them except time. Naturally, them, no policemen to apprehend them sacrifices. the day of Judgment, so that not a soul they judge something to be good if it and no public opinion to pressure them. What! Do those who seek after evil will be dealt with unjustly in the least. Need to Believe In Life After Death produces desirable results and evil if it Instead the guard within them is ever ways think that We shall hold them And if there be (no more than) the weight Belief in life after death has always brings about undesirable results. alert and ready to remind them when equal with those who believe and do of a mustard seed,We will bring it (to been part of the teachings of the Second, there are those who do not they transgress.The consciousness of this righteous deeds, – that equal with their account): And enough are We to take Prophets and is an essential condition deny the Hereafter, but they depend on inner presence makes them fear doing life and their death? Ill is the judgment account.[Al-Quran: 21:47] of being a Muslim.Whenever we are the intercession or atonement of anything that is prohibited. Should they that they make. God created the heavens God is the Most Just; He will establish asked to do something, it is our very someone to absolve them of their sins. succumb to temptation and violate the and the earth for just ends, and in order justice among all His creatures and no nature to think about its benefits and its Among them are some who regard law of God, they are ever ready to offer that each soul may find the recompense one can escape from God. Islam, costs.We regard a useless action as themselves as Gods chosen people, who sincere regrets and to enter a firm con- of what it has earned, and none of them therefore, places great emphasis on unnecessary and are not prepared to will receive only nominal punishment, tract with God not to repeat the same be wronged.[Al-Quran 45:21] having absolute assurance of the Here- waste our time doing it. Similarly, we however grave their sins may be. This mistake in the future. There is a big difference in the way after.This assurance should be similar are not very eager to avoid a thing that deprives them of the moral advantage, A person who is focused on suc- of life of the two types of people. For to the certainty we have in death (which is harmless. The deeper our conviction which they could have derived from cesses or failures in this world alone will one, the idea of a good act may be can overcome us at any time). Therefore, about the usefulness of something, the their belief in the Hereafter. As a result be concerned with the benefits and limited to its value in this temporary life: striving to earn the pleasure of God firmer our response to it will be. The their behavior becomes very much like harms that come to him in this life only. for example gains in money, property, becomes the objective of life. more doubtful we are about its that of those who deny the Hereafter. He may be reluctant to do good deeds public recognition or similar things www.whyislam.org Five Prophetic advices for parents

his family is solid in order to also have a respected The Prophet (PBUH) was a very loving station with the Almighty. father and grandfather. He showed affection to children in the community 3. Do not be quick to scold. and did not hesitate to make them Anas bin Malik, a young servant who lived in the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) home narrated: feel special and loved. This is quite “I have never seen anyone more kind to one’s contrary to the men of his time, who family than Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon thought showing such tenderness him)” (Muslim). towards family and children was not a While at times, Anas bin Malik may have slipped up in his tasks due to his young age, the masculine characteristic. Prophet (PBUH) would not be quick to scold him. In fact, Anas bin Malik said, “I served the Prophet (PBUH) in Madinah for ten years. I was a boy. HABEEBA HUSAIN Every work that I did was not according to the desire of my master, but he never said to me: Uff, nor did he say to me: Why did you do this? or Why 1. Complete faith = kindness to family did you not do this?” (Sunan Abi Dawud). The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Indeed among the believers with the most complete faith 4. Show your love. is the one who is the best in conduct and the most Another account says, “Some Bedouin people kind to his family” (Tirmidhi). In Islam, faith and came to the Prophet (PBUH) and said: ‘Do you family go hand-in-hand. Our parents have rights kiss your children?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ [The Bedouin] upon us, and when we become parents ourselves, said: ‘But we, by Allah, never kiss (our children).’ our children have rights upon us. There are no The Prophet (PBUH) said: ‘What can I do if Allah shortcuts when it comes to focusing on and raising has taken away mercy from you?’” (Sunan Ibn a righteous family. But there is an essential guide— Majah). and like in every other aspect of a Muslim’s life, The Prophet (PBUH) was a very loving father that guide is the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) . and grandfather. He showed affection to children in the community and did not hesitate to make 2. It is okay to play! them feel special and loved. This is quite contrary One narration states, “They had gone out with to the men of his time, who thought showing such the Prophet (peace be upon him)…and Husain was tenderness towards family and children was not there playing in the street. The Prophet (PBUH) a masculine characteristic. The Bedouin in the came in front of the people and stretched out his above account actually boasts about not kissing hands, and the child started to run here and there. children—as they were often seen as mere com- The Prophet (PBUH) made him laugh until he modities and acting harsh with them was more caught him, then he put one hand under his chin in line with “being a man.” The Prophet (peace be and the other on his head and kissed him, and upon him) instead highlights that showing mercy said, ‘Husain is part of me and I am part of him. and affection to children is indeed the better path May Allah love those who love Husain. Husain is to take. a tribe among tribes.’” (Sunan Ibn Majah) This is a beautiful account of the way the 5. Listen to children, and do not dismiss their Prophet (PBUH) interacted with his grandson, feelings. Husain. Playful, fun, and loving are just a few of On one occasion, the younger brother of Anas the heartwarming words that come to mind when bin Malik, Abu Umayr, lost his pet bird named reading this narration. Looking to this example of Nughayr. Upon seeing the child’s distress, the the Prophet (PBUH), Muslims too try to treat the Prophet (PBUH) consoled the young boy and asked children in their lives in a similar way. It is hard him about his pet (Bukhari). Here we see the to imagine any person not wanting to have this example of the Prophet (PBUH) take very con- kind of relationship. But for a Muslim, this inherent siderate action to help a young child, whereas human experience is one that Islam actually many adults would brush away such a seemingly encourages and one that God can reward a person “trivial” situation. This kind of relationship can for. Since faith and family go hand-in-hand in build trust, open communication, and validation Islam, a Muslim must ensure his reputation with for the child. 06 ASIA FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 ‘GST on petroleum products only after revenue stabilises’

IANS Sushil Modi said there come down if they are brought is “no guarantee” in the GST ambit. KOLKATA: Bihar Deputy “No states would like to Chief Minister and GST Coun- that the prices of reduce revenue as they are cil’s member Sushil Modi petroleum products earning 40 percent of their yesterday said the Council can would come down if revenue from petroleum think of bringing the they are brought in products. Even if these petroleum products under the products are brought under new tax regime only after the the GST ambit. GST, the states will also be monthly revenue target of Rs1 allowed to levy taxes over and lakh crore is achieved. above the GST rate as these He said there could be a will lead to more compliance are considered as sin goods,” “shortfall in revenue” in initial and people have a tendency he said. months as indirect tax rates to pay taxes when it is low. Elaborating further, he on items are being lowered, There will be better revenues said: “Let the revenue sta- but the revenue would as tax rates for more than 450 bilise. When we achieve the increase in the long run due items were brought down,” he Rs1 lakh crore (monthly) to more compliance. said. target, then only the GST Floating lamps Modi said the new indirect In a relief for common Council can think of bringing Indian students float lamps with flowers in a pool of water as part of their cultural celebrations in tax structure would be a man, the GST Council in its last petroleum products under Chennai, yesterday. “complete GST” only after meeting reduced tax rates on GST. I do not see inclusion of petroleum products, stamp over 50 items including refrig- these products in the tax and electricity duty are erators, washing machines regime in near future and it included. and small televisions, which will take longer time, but ulti- He also said the way the would now be taxed at 18 per mately, stamp duty, electricity GST is being “implemented cent, down from the current duty and petroleum products India successfully test-fires interceptor missile successfully”, “no states would 28 percent. have to come in GST.” IANS be required any compensation “Our target is to get Rs 1 He also indicated that the The interceptor missile (it Development Organisation after three years”. lakh crore per month,” he said GST Council’s efforts would remains within the earth’s (DRDO) test-fired the AAD inter- “When you reduce the tax on the sidelines of an event continue to bring more items, BHUBANESWAR: India atmosphere at an altitude below ceptor from a canister against rates, there may be a shortfall organised by the Indirect Tax except some sin and luxury yesterday successfully test-fired 100km), fired from the Abdul multiple simulated targets. The in revenue for the next 3-4 Committee of the Institute of goods, from the 28 percent the endo-atmospheric Advanced Kalam Island off the Odisha missile shoots down one after months and sales remain com- Chartered Accountants of slab and there is a possibility Air Defence (AAD) interceptor coast, hit a designated incoming choosing from a number of paratively lower during the India. to create a new slab between missile, which is a part of the dummy enemy missile at a dis- targets, said the sources. monsoon season. But, in the Modi said there is “no 12 percent and 18 percent country’s ballistic missile tance of 40km, said official The DRDO has developed long run, the revenue will gain guarantee” that the prices of depending on the stabilisation defence (BMD) shield against a sources. both high-altitude and low- because lowering the rates petroleum products would of revenue. multiple target scenario. The Defence Research and altitude anti-ballistic missiles.

Culture of banning books impacts free Lok Sabha passes amendment bill on OBC Commission IANS flow of ideas: SC Replying to the debate, Social bill on July 31 last year. The bill from the minority community. will decide on the central list and Justice and Empowerment Min- was passed by Lok Sabha on Gehlot said that the sug- states will need to come to it if IANS NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha ister Thaawarchand Gehlot said April 10, 2017. Gehlot took a dig gestion for “religion-based res- they want OBCs from their list to NEW DELHI: The Supreme yesterday passed an amendment that the rules will be framed in at Congress, saying its members ervation” in composition of the be included in the central list. Court yesterday said the bill to give constitutional status a way that one of the members had supported the bill in Lok commission was unconstitu- Prime Minister Narendra culture of banning books to the OBC Commission negating of the commission is a woman. Sabha last year but had changed tional. He said once the OBC Modi was in the Lok Sabha when impacts the free flow of ideas the amendments approved by He said the Narendra Modi their position in the Rajya Sabha. commission gets constitutional the amendment bill was passed and should not be taken the Rajya Sabha and adopting government was committed to Congress members in the status, 80 percent of the with a majority of total members recourse to unless they are hit alternate amendments. grant constitutional status to the Rajya Sabha had moved an demands of members will be present and not less than two by Section 292 of the IPC that The Constitution (One National Commission on amendment to clause 3 of the bill met. BJD member Bhartruhari thirds of those present and prohibits obscenity. Hundred and Twenty-third Backward Classes (NCBC). seeking to provide for Mahtab said states should not be voting. The bill is seen to be a Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Amendment) Bill was passed fol- The official amendment appointment of all the five forced to come to the central push by the BJP to consolidate Justice A M Khanwilkar and lowing a division with 406 moved by the minister negated members of the commission government to about their lists its support among OBCs ahead Justice D Y Chandrachud members voting in favour of the the amendments made by the from the OBC community, of OBCs. of state elections this year and reserved their order on a plea motion and none against it. Upper House when it passed the including a woman and a person Gehlot said the Commission Lok Sabha elections in 2019. seeking to omit certain excerpts from the contro- versial Malayalam novel “Meesha” written by author S Hareesh. Pregnant woman abused in “You are giving undue importance to this kind of Mumbai; panel seeks report stuff. In the age of Internet, IANS you are making this an issue. assaulted them with pipes and It is best forgotten,” said sticks, robbed them of cash and Justice Chandrachud. MUMBAI: An eight-month woman’s gold ornaments. The court gave expression pregnant woman from Satara Then they tied the husband, to its apparent reluctance to was allegedly gang-abused by gagged and locked him inside interfere with the passage eight men in Sangli, following his vehicle and allegedly gang- being sought to be taken off which Maharashtra’s women’s raped the woman even as she as counsel Gopal Shankara- panel yesterday took a serious pleaded with them to let her go yanan told the court that the note amid widespread condem- due to her condition. passage makes insinuations nation and sought a report from The attackers even against the priestly class. police, an official said. threatened the couple against The crime occurred around informing police, claiming that 6am on Tuesday when the “they were very influential and Student protests 20-year-old woman, along with nobody will listen to the her hotelier husband, had gone couple”. Later, the couple reg- enter fifth day to Turchi Phata in Tasgaon. istered a complaint at Tasgaon Residents make their way in floodwaters in Shwegyin, Bago region, yesterday. An official of Tasgaon police police station, with the woman in Bangladesh station said that both were naming four accused as Mane, looking to hire a couple for their Sagar, Javed Khan and Vinod in AFP 150,000 displaced in Myanmar floods hotel business. the FIR. Nearly 48 hours after One of the accused, the incident, police was yet to AFP DHAKA: Bangladesh shut Above the town of Madauk and Taninthari provinces with Mukund Mane, had earlier make arrests but said that down high schools across the in Bago region, floodwaters are 36 dams and reservoirs over- called the hotelier to Turchi teams are out to trace them. country yesterday as tens of Bago, Myanmar: Fears that only inches from the top of vul- flowing, according to state Phata, claiming a couple was Maharashtra State Com- thousands of students embankments could burst under nerable embankments that are media. State media reported ready to work for them and mission for Women Chair- protested for a fifth straight fresh rains mounted in flooded so far holding fast, but locals are yesterday that 148,386 people asked him to bring Rs20,000 person Vijaya Rahatkar wrote day after two teenagers were southeastern Myanmar, where afraid that fresh monsoon rains are currently taking refuge in as advance payment. to the Sangli Superintendent of killed by a speeding bus. some 150,000 people have been could spell disaster. 327 camps.The Myanma Alinn When they reached the Police to personally look into Bangladesh’s transport forced from their homes and a Evacuation orders are still newspaper said nearly 28,000 spot, Mane and his accomplices the case and submit a detailed sector is widely seen as dozen people killed. in place across Bago, Karen, Mon are still in their flooded homes. pounced on the hotelier couple, report on the case status. corrupt, unregulated, and dangerous, and as news of the teenagers’ deaths spread rapidly on social media, they became a catalyst for a China wants military drills with Asean in disputed sea massive outpouring of anger. Authorities have pleaded AFP with students to call off the of efforts to expand its influence making. The draft document out- installations. But there was little Singapore’s Foreign Minister protests with vehicles van- in the South China Sea, which it lines different countries’ bar- sign of serious resistance from Vivian Balakrishnan, who is dalised and clashes with SINGAPORE: China wants claims almost entirely, and push gaining positions as they work other countries, signalling how chairing the meeting, called the police. The demonstrators, military exercises and energy back at Washington which has towards an agreement, and ana- opposition to China’s aggressive draft a “major achievement”. mostly students in their exploration with Southeast Asian backed countries with over- lysts said it represented some expansion in the resource-rich Brunei, Malaysia, the Philip- mid-teens, chanted “we nations in disputed waters, lapping claims to the waters. initial progress. waters has ebbed in recent years pines, Taiwan and Vietnam have want justice” yesterday as according to a draft document, but A code of conduct between In the text, Vietnam offers the in Southeast Asia. At a meeting of rival claims to China’s in the sea. they defied pouring rain to insists on outside countries being Beijing and the Association of strongest opposition to Beijing’s foreign ministers in Singapore Tensions have escalated in march in Dhaka for another excluded in what analysts say is Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) activities — calling for countries yesterday, Beijing and Asean recent years due to Beijing day, bringing traffic to a a bid to diminish US influence. to govern behaviour in the stra- to stop building artificial islands announced they had agreed on building artificial islands that can standstill. Beijing’s suggestions are part tegic sea has been years in the and establishing military the negotiating text for the code. host military bases. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 ASIA 07 Imran Khan invites Indian stars to oath-taking ceremony INTERNEWS Asked whether When asked about the Indian Prime Minister meeting of the PTI’s MNA-elect ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Narendra Modi was with the CJP and other judges, Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan Chaudhry could only say by way has invited Indian cricketers also among the guests of explanation that being a senior Kapil Dev, Sunil Gawaskar, being invited to attend counsel of the apex court he Navjot Singh Sidhu and the ceremony, the PTI could meet any judge and that Bollywood star Aamir Khan to he was also a student of Justice his oath-taking ceremony to be spokesman explained Asif Saeed Khosa. He said the held later this month in that the party had judges congratulated him over Islamabad. asked the Foreign his victory in the general The piece of information was Office to apprise its election. disclosed by PTI’s spokesperson Soon after realising that the and MNA-elect from Jhelum leadership regarding PTI had achieved a comfortable Fawad Chaudhry while talking extending invitation position to form a government to reporters after his meeting to the heads of states at the Centre, in Khyber with Chief Justice of Pakistan and foreign leaders Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, Khan Mian Saqib Nisar and other in his victory speech on July 26 judges of the Supreme Court. of different countries expressed the hope of building Chaudhry Faisal Hussain accom- especially in view of better relations with India, panied him. the paucity of time. stating that better relations Asked whether Indian Prime between Pakistan and India Minister Narendra Modi was also would be “good for all of us”. The supporters of a Pakistani political Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party carry placards as they among the guests being invited “We are awaiting response He claimed that he had more chant slogans during a protest against alleged election rigging in Karachi, yesterday. to attend the ceremony, the PTI of the Foreign Office,” said friends in India than any other spokesman explained that the Chaudhry. Pakistani leader had. He also too, was ready to improve ties bowlers of his time - dismissed Botham and Sir Richard Hadley. party had asked the Foreign Earlier on Monday, Modi had called for resolution of core with New Delhi. Legendary on a number of occassion in dif- Although they were arch-rivals Office to apprise its leadership called Khan to congratulate him issues between the two coun- Indian batsman Sunil Gawaskar ferent test matches. Likewise, professionally but outside the regarding extending invitation on his party’s victory in the tries, including the Kashmir used to describe Khan as his Kapil Dev is one of the world stadium they were good friends. to the heads of states and foreign general election and expressed dispute, for meaningful progress younger brother and enjoyed a class all-rounders among the Recently, the three famous leaders of different countries the hope that Pakistan and India in ties. very cordial relationship with group of four professional crick- Khans of Bollywood had felici- especially in view of the paucity would work to open a new He said that if the Indian him. Gawaskar is a player to eters in the 1980s. tated the cricketer-turned poli- of time. chapter in bilateral ties. leadership was ready, Islamabad, whom Khan - one of the fastest Others were Imran Khan, Ian tician on his success. Court disqualifies PPP, PML-N in talks over leader of opposition key leader INTERNEWS issue has not been taken up for- N-League would realise before up in the coming sittings of the upper house of parliament. The of Sharif’s party mally, but it will definitely come long that it must take along other joint opposition. He, however, said party also managed to install its ANATOLIA LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples up for discussion soon. parties on opposition benches, the discussion would not remain deputy chairman in cooperation Party (PPP) said yesterday it was “The PML-N will be asked to particularly the PPP, for a better confined to the two slots of oppo- with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ISLAMABAD: The country’s in negotiations with the Pakistan choose either the opposition working relationship in par- sition leader, but would also (PTI) and independents from Balo- top court yesterday disqual- Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader in the Senate or in the liament, he added. encompass the Senate chairman chistan earlier this year. For the ified a key leader of jailed to arrive at a consensus over the National Assembly, leaving one of The PML-N’s Information Sec- and deputy chairman as well as first time in the country’s parlia- former Prime Minister Nawaz Leader of the Opposition in the the two offices for the PPP,” a retary, Mushahidullah Khan, told cooperation in provincial assem- mentary history, independent sen- Sharif’s party from holding National Assembly. party office-bearer said. Dawnby phone from Islamabad blies. At present, PPP’s Sherry ators have become a major stake- any public office for five According to the PML-N, the He expressed the hope the that the subject would be taken Rehman is opposition leader in the holder with a strength of 32. years, local media reported. Tall Chaudhry, former minister of state for interior, was convicted in a contempt Philippines nabs of court case. According to Geo News, the Supreme Court cleric over bomb 3 foreigners abducted, murdered in Kabul handed down a symbolic sen- tence to Chaudhry “till the AFP claimed by IS services giant Sodexo in Kabul of their citizens and said they are “They had been shot inside rising of the court” and fined — were from India, Macedonia seeking to repatriate their the car,” said interior ministry him for Rs100,000 ($813). REUTERS KABUL: The bodies of three and Malaysia, a spokesman for bodies, adding they were official Bahar Mehr. The verdict announced by foreign nationals who Afghan the interior ministry said. working with Afghan authorities. Another spokesman from the a three-member bench said MANILA: The Philippine police said had been abducted “At this stage we think it is a Raveesh Kumar, India’s Foreign ministry said the car’s driver was Chaudhry used derogatory military said yesterday it has and killed in Kabul were terrorist incident,” police Ministry spokesman, called the being questioned by police and language against the judiciary arrested a Muslim cleric who recovered yesterday, in the latest spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai murders caused “deep anguish”. treated as a possible suspect. in his speech in a party rally knew in advance about a incident targeting foreigners in said. Sodexo said it was “deeply No group has so far claimed He added that all three had in Jaranwala, a town of south- bomb that killed 11 people on the war-torn capital. saddened and shocked” by the responsibility for the killings. been handcuffed and shot, with eastern Punjab province, in Basilan island in an attack The killings come as the city deaths of its staff members. The incident happened after the two of the bodies later placed in January this year. earlier this week that raised has been rocked by an increasing “On behalf of the Sodexo group left their office with a car the trunk of the car. Chaudhry lost the July 25 fears of Islamic State number of attacks in recent community, I want to say that and driver yesterday. Kabul is plagued by criminal general election from Fais- involvement. months with both Islamic State our hearts are with their fam- Just over an hour later their gangs who stage abductions for alabad, the country’s textile Acting on a tip off, scout (IS) and Taliban insurgents tar- ilies, friends and colleagues,” bodies were found in what ransom, often targeting for- hub. He is the third leader of rangers raided the home of geting security forces and gov- said chief executive Denis appeared to be a different car by eigners and wealthy locals, and PML-N who has been sen- Indalin Jainul, alias Ustadz ernment installations. The Machuel. India and Malaysia authorities in the rural outskirts sometimes hand them over to tenced by the top court for Abdulgani, 12 hours after victims — all working for French have both confirmed the deaths of Kabul. insurgent groups. anti-judiciary speeches. Tuesday’s bombing in Lamitan town. Informants told the army that the cleric, 58, knew the Thailand wants UK to extradite former PM bomb would go off and had been helping foreign opera- BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta wants Britain to extradite ousted tives reach Basilan from leader Yingluck Shinawatra, according to a recent request, in a Malaysia, according to army move denounced as “political”. spokesman Gerry Besana. A Yingluck, whose elected government was toppled in a 2014 grenade was found at his coup, fled the country in August 2017 after being charged over her home. government’s failed rice policy. She was sentenced in absentia a Jainul is charged with month later to five years in prison for failing to stop graft in the multiple murder and illegal programme — a case lambasted by her supporters as part of a possession of explosives. His junta effort to drive the ex-premier’s family out of politics. family protested what they said were trumped-up NZ premier returns from maternity leave charges. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister and new mum Jacinda which killed five militias, a Ardern, only the second world leader to give birth while in office, soldier, and four civilians, resumed her duties yesterday, ending six weeks of maternity leave. including a child, calling it a The 38-year-old has opted to work from home in Auckland until “martyrdom operation”. the weekend when she will relocate to the capital Wellington. The driver of a van car- rying the device also died. Cambodia PM slams election boycott campaign The attack came days Giving up weapons after Philippine President PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said oppo- The members of Islamic State hand over their weapons to the Afghan forces during a ceremony in Rodrigo Duterte made peace sition calls to boycott elections failed as he celebrated his “crystal Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, yesterday. overtures towards the Abu clear” victory in the uncontested vote in a speech to thousands of Sayyaf. garment workers yesterday. Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) is poised to win all 125 parliamentary seats after the flawed poll that will see the N Korea says ‘unprecedented’ heatwave causing heavy crop damage strongman leader extend his 33-year rule, cementing the coun- try’s status as a one-party state. AFP been gripped by a scorching scale of the damage. But the said that curbing further damage Australian senators face off over slur heatwave in recent weeks, with rising temperatures have already to the agriculture sector was an SEOUL: North Korea yesterday dozens of deaths in the South inflicted heavy losses on the “extremely important and urgent SYDNEY: An Australian senator has sued a male counterpart for warned that an “unprecedented” blamed on soaring temperatures richer South, which has reported task”. “Rural areas across the defamation for making offensive remarks, in a landmark case that heatwave has caused heavy that have hit all-time highs. more than three million deaths country... are reporting damages brings the spirit of the #MeToo movement to the heart of Australia’s damage to crops as it urged The temperature in North of livestock and a fivefold to crops including rice and corn democracy. During a debate a month ago in parliament over a ban citizens to “join the struggle” to Korea’s capital Pyongyang increase in deaths from heat- due to extremely high temper- on the use of pepper spray, Senator David Leyonhjelm had heckled prevent drought-like conditions climbed to a record high of 37.8 related illnesses, while vegetable atures and drought,” it said. “This Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, telling her to “stop shagging from worsening and hampering degrees Celsius on Wednesday, prices have doubled due to sup- year’s high temperature is an men”, a vulgar colloquial term for sexual intercourse. food production in the impov- with state TV warning that it was plies being affected. unprecedented natural disaster Comments made in the chamber are subject to legal protec- erished country. “taking a toll on the economy”. The North’s state-run but it is not an insurmountable tions. But Leyonhjelm repeated the remark, using the same term, The Korean peninsula has It did not elaborate on the Rodong newspaper yesterday difficulty,” it added. in subsequent media appearances. 08 VIEWS FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 Israel needs to loosen its chokehold ESTABLISHED IN 1996 on Gaza to avoid another war CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected] TAREQ BACONI THE WASHINGTON POST ACTING MANAGING EDITOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] srael and Hamas are again on the brink of all-out war. Last week, Israel killed three Palestinians in DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Iresponse to continued protests MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI along the Gaza border fence. Earlier [email protected] last month, the most intense round of fighting since 2014 erupted after Israel further tightened its blockade, citing the damage wrought by burning kites. And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Ref- ugees (UNRWA) has announced it EDITORIAL would be cutting jobs and services in Gaza following the withdrawal of American funding, risking further Palestinians gather in front of the gate of Rafah border crossing during a protest against the instability. The only way to conclu- blockade calling for reopening of the crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 3, 2017. Fighting the lies sively defuse the persistent violence is for external parties to mediate a reoccupation, extrajudicial assassina- comptroller report in 2015 excoriated veryone from governments to big tech firms are busy cease-fire between Hamas and Israel tions and military onslaughts - the Israeli government for failing to tackling the scourge of fake news and it’s not going to that commits to three longer-term decades before the creation of Hamas alleviate the humanitarian suffering in Ebe an easy one. As they say ‘a lie can travel half way goals: lifting the blockade, reversing or the group’s use of rocket fire. Since the Gaza Strip, noting this was a key around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” policies that have been aimed at iso- the early 1990s, years before Hamas factor that led to the 2014 war. The fight against fake news has become a pressing lating Gaza from the rest of the was a viable political actor, and more These lessons still persist. The only matter all over the world as lies masquerading as news, occupied Palestinian territories, and than 15 years before it came to power, way to pull back from the brink of war which spread like wild fire over social media, are causing ultimately addressing the Palestinians’ Israel imposed access restrictions, is to loosen the chokehold on the Gaza riots, taking lives, influencing elections and damaging call for self-determination. blockades and mechanisms of “eco- Strip. reputations. The blockade Israel has imposed nomic de-development” in Gaza. Yet achieving lasting calm must Fake news is created either for economic incentive or on the Gaza Strip is entering its 11th Israel’s current system of external entail engaging with Hamas as a to propagate some agenda. Even though governments, year. The United Nations and human control, coupled with sporadic wars, political actor, mediating between the including Qatar, have introduced various measures like rights organizations have deemed it a has given rise to an equilibrium of bel- Palestinian factions for unity, and fines and jail for perpetrators of false news, the flow of lies form of collective punishment, and ligerence between Israel and Hamas. working to address the Palestinian is never ending. legal experts agree it contravenes Israel uses overwhelming military struggle for self-determination. As Qatar is preparing to host the World Cup football in international law. Perhaps more force to seek a “calm for calm” Israel has avoided such measures 2022, the blockading countries will be working overtime to importantly for the Israeli gov- formula, whereby it has tolerated (and because division within the Pales- peddle fake news to defame Qatar’s image. Many reputed ernment, the even abetted) Hamas’s control over tinian territories has served its international publications have already warned about these blockade has the Gaza Strip, so long as rocket fire purpose. Instead of pursuing diplo- countries paying public relation companies to manufacture evidently from Gaza could be deterred. Hamas, matic initiatives, Israel continues to news and events against Qatar. failed to in turn, has used rocket fire to renego- use military and economic means to As citizens and residents of Qatar, we need to be very The Palestinian achieve its tiate terms of access into Gaza, manage the conflict and avoid careful about the news we consume and share. Always make alleged goal rejecting the “calm for calm” formula addressing the core political drivers sure that you trust the source of demand for freedom of ensuring and arguing instead that “calm” can that animate the Palestinian struggle. the news before you forward to and dignity will persist “calm” for only be guaranteed following a lifting The blockade serves this purpose. someone else. If you feel suspi- until fundamental Israel’s or easing of the blockade. The The Trump administration has cious then check with official rights are achieved. southern movement views the blockade itself as bought into the narrative of Israel’s agencies or report to concerned towns. a violent act of war that merits self- current government and placed the As Qatar is authorities. Nowadays it’s very Rather than buying It is time defense by rocket fire. onus on ending violence solely on preparing to host easy to get in touch with author- into the false narrative to revisit the Israel’s alleged goal from the Hamas, without pressuring Israel to lift the World Cup ities through their social media underpinning Israeli factors that blockade was to force the collapse of the blockade or to end the much football in 2022, handles. policy and legitimating have given the Hamas government. Its actual goal, greater violence it routinely inflicts on Fake news can be local in rise to the however, is to pacify the Gaza Strip, the people of Gaza. This approach will the blockading content like petrol price hike or the suffering of two present possibly under Hamas’s rule, and do little beyond sustaining a horrific countries will be introduction of new tax. Many million Palestinians in dynamics perhaps more importantly, to equilibrium of belligerence - in which working overtime times ministries have to come Gaza, the international between maintain the Gaza Strip as a stand- those who suffer disproportionately to peddle fake out with clarifications denying community must end Hamas and alone entity that is separate from the are the civilians in Gaza. these rumours. So as a respon- Israel. West Bank. But the Palestinian demand for news to defame sible resident it becomes every- the closure. The Over the course of the past decade, freedom and dignity will persist until Qatar’s image. one’s duty that they are respon- blockade was in every cease-fire that has prevailed, fundamental rights are achieved. sible for the news they share and ostensibly put in place because of Israel’s own intelligence establishment Rather than buying into the false nar- just because someone send you Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in has affirmed Hamas’s increased ability rative underpinning Israeli policy and something on WhatsApp doesn’t mean it’s true. 2007. In reality, it is merely the culmi- and willingness to stabilize the Gaza legitimating the suffering of two In the current regional situation, even big media houses nation of decades-old Israeli policies Strip and police the military opera- million Palestinians in Gaza, the inter- from blockading countries are busy manufacturing news of deploying disproportionate military tions emanating from within. Israeli national community must end the than reporting facts. There is a well-oiled setup working force and exerting intentional eco- officials and members of civil society closure. Both parties are currently on behind them and one needs to be extremely cautious about nomic pressure toward Gaza. Since have repeatedly noted the urgent need the brink of another war. Recent what we read. This rings very true for social media plat- 1948, Israel has carried out 12 wars on for Israel to ease access into Gaza and history is littered with examples of the forms like Twitter and Facebook as some neighbouring Gaza, unleashing violence through to lift the blockade as prerequisites for likely outcome if no decisive action is countries are alleged to have setup organisations with hun- occupation, maintaining calm. An Israeli state taken. dreds of people to spread their propaganda using ‘elec- tronic flies’ as they are called in Arabic social media space. Tech giants like Facebook and Twitter has bought in many measure to eliminate false news from their platform. They have made it tougher for people to share and promote Increase momentum for cooperation in sustaining global economic growth news by augmenting their machine learning capabilities and also using manual interventions. It is heartening to see THE JAPAN NEWS leaving world trade and stance shown in the statement Trump said that the weak such coporates are taking steps to pull out the weeds, but investment stagnant. may have been intended as a yuan and the strong dollar, they need to do much much more. he significance of To sustain the growth of stopgap remedy. consequences of China’s WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application, major economies the world economy, the G-20 At a US Commerce foreign exchange manipu- which is owned by Facebook, has also introduced many having averted an group must further increase Department hearing held last lation, are acting against the new features to help people identify fake news. aggravation of their the rising momentum for week, a string of opposing interests of US export T industries. There are steps in the right direction, but the most antagonism and sharing con- cooperation. What is essential opinions were expressed not important part has to be played by the user. Be very aware cerns about the future of the is steadily implementing the only by foreign countries but It is vital to avert a situ- of what you receive, read and share. world economy is not small. substance of the statement by representatives of U.S. ation in which trade friction The meeting of finance and effectively calming trade domestic industries about would even develop into a ministers and central bank friction down. punitive tariffs on car imports. currency depreciation race, governors from the Group of The United States is cur- The US government with the foreign exchange 20 major countries and rently considering a plan to should listen to opinions from problem creating a new cause QUOTE OF THE DAY regions has adopted a joint impose punitive tariffs on car all corners and restrain itself of antagonism among the statement saying that imports. The automobile from adopting additional G-20 economies. It is downside risks for growth business is a key industry for punitive steps. Each G-20 important to more carefully have increased due to such Japan and European countries. member must persistently watch market trends and The United States factors as intensified trade The adverse effects resulting continue to persuade the promote close dialogue and the West friction. To mitigate such risks, from the implementation of United States of this. among G-20 monetary could do more they also agreed on the idea of such tariffs will likely exceed The sharp drop in the authorities. to help rebuild reinforcing dialogue and those of previous sanctions. Chinese yuan’s value was also The Chinese monetary cooperative action. At the latest G-20 meeting, discussed at the meeting. authorities have a responsi- warn-torn Syria to Economic conditions in there was a barrage of crit- There is a view among bility to clearly explain the improve the lives of Japan and Europe are about to icism against the United States markets that China is manipu- cause of the yuan’s depreci- refugees there. reach marking time, and the from other members of the lating the foreign exchange ation. The rapid progress in Chinese economy has group. In a press conference rate. That is based on the currency depreciation in somewhat slowed down. There after the meeting, however, judgment that, in reaction to Argentina and other emerging Sergei Lavrov is a gradually growing uncer- US Treasury Secretary Steven trade friction, China is staging economies was also discussed. Russian Foreign tainty about the global economy. Mnuchin stubbornly insisted the yuan’s depreciation, which A massive amount of funds is Minister If trade friction expands, it could that his nation’s trade policy is provides an advantage for its flowing into the United States, increase anxiety among markets not protectionist. There are export drive. Via his Twitter which has continued to raise and corporations, thereby concerns that the cooperative account, US President Donald interest rates. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 OPINION 09 Bangsamoro Organic Law can be Duterte’s greatest legacy

hree years into his presi- first president of the Moro people, signed the Bangsamoro law less (ARMM), a largely failed earlier dency, Rodrigo Duterte and an unremitting advocate for than a year after militants affiliated experiment at granting autonomy signed the Bangsamoro Mindanao’s interests. with the Islamic State of Iraq and the to relatively few Muslim-majority Organic Law, previously Against this unique backdrop, Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) regions. T group laid a months-long and known as the Bangsamoro Basic Duterte has pushed for greater Duterte has promised to per- Law (BBL). autonomy and respect for the destructive siege on the Muslim- sonally mediate among com- It marked a historic step towards Muslim minority in the Philippines, majority city of Marawi. peting ethnic-tribal groups to the creation of a Muslim-majority who are among his most loyal Through granting greater unify the Moros under the new RICHARD JAVAD HEYDARIAN sub-state entity within the Catholic- constituents. political autonomy, Duterte hopes, political entity. The other chal- AL JAZEERA majority Philippines. It also repre- The final approval of the contro- the government will address the lenge is the willingness of more sented, to this date, Duterte’s biggest versial Bangsamoro law served as a roots of extremism and terror that prosperous and diverse prov- legislative achievement. testament to the political will and have hounded his country. He inces, especially in Cotabato but The path ahead, however, enduring popularity of the Filipino argued that the Filipino people “owe also in Lanao del Norte and else- remains bumpy and uncertain. Resi- president. it to our fallen soldiers and police where, to join the MILF-domi- dents of Muslim-populated regions For years, the proposed creation officers” during the liberation of nated Bangsamoro. in Mindanao are yet to approve the of a Bangsamoro faced stiff oppo- Marawi to “put an end to the After all, some Moro warlords creation of a Bangsamoro (nation of sition among the political estab- bloodshed and seek the path of true and political dynasties may prefer Moros) in a plebiscite later this year. lishment as well as the wider public, peace” for generations to come. to duke it out under the estab- Lurking over the horizon are the especially after the Mamasapano The new law provides for the lished rule of distant “Imperial dark clouds of tribal-ethnic divi- massacre in 2015, when rebel demobilisation of tens of thousands Manila” rather than a more sions, poor basic infrastructure, and groups killed dozens of Filipino of Moro rebels, as both sides hope to uncertain one under proximate an overall climate of insecurity. Yet, Special Forces during a botched end a war economy that has ravaged rivals in Mindanao. to many people and experts, this is counter-terror operation. Mindanao. Under a 75-25 wealth- Surveys also show that the As the first Filipino the Philippines’ best chance at Throughout much of his two sharing arrangement between the broader Filipino public is largely president hailing staunching the wounds of a religious years in office, Duterte himself national government and the pro- “neutral” with almost equal from Mindanao, divide, which has haunted the fertile shunned the BBL issue, partly con- posed Bangsamoro entity, only a numbers of people expressing and beautiful island of Mindanao for cerned about lack of political quarter of locally-generated taxes support and opposition to the Duterte has centuries. support. Back in May, however, he will be remitted back to the national creation of a larger Muslim- fulfilled his earlier As the first Filipino president finally certified the proposed law as government. majority political entity. Many promise to nudge hailing from Mindanao, Duterte has an urgent bill, mobilising his allies in The Bangsamoro will also be Mindanao residents are either the troubled fulfilled his earlier promise to nudge both houses of the Congress to guaranteed an annual block grant of sceptical or perplexedabout its the troubled southern island approve it. up to a five percent share of the implications. southern island towards peace and prosperity. In his third State of the Nation entire national revenue, amounting There is even a chance that towards peace and Ahead of his election as the Phil- Address (SONA), Duterte placed the to just over $1bn (P59 billion) some critics will question its con- prosperity. ippines’ most powerful man, Duterte Bangsamoro issue front and centre. annually. The region will also have stitutionality at the Supreme billed himself as a unifying force, the He underscored his “solemn com- its own unique domestic legislation, Court on the grounds that this will mitment” to ensure likely a parliament, and a plethora undermine the country’s internal his administration of distinct administrative systems, coherence and territorial “will never deny our including the creation of Islamic law integrity. Muslim brothers courts. Above all, however, the and sisters the basic After a decades-long liberation biggest challenge is for the MILF legal tools to chart struggle, led initially by the Tausug- and other regional leaders to their own destiny dominated Moro National Liberation transition from weary rebels into within the Constitu- Front (MNLF) and later the a competent and progressive tional framework of Maguindanao-dominated Moro ruling class capable of addressing our country”. Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the the most fundamental needs of Describing Moros are now the closest they’ve the Moro peoples. Mindanao as a land been to achieving their long-sought of promise autonomy, though still within the The writer is a specialist in Asian approaching a framework of the Philippine geopolitical/economic affairs. “crossroads of constitution. history”, Duterte Yet, the proposed Bangsamoro, a implored his coun- product of a 2014 peace agreement trymen for “loads of between the Philippine government understanding and and the MILF, has been met with patience to endure reticence if not derision by some and overcome the leaders of the MNLF, who may fear a D-RING ROAD birth pangs or pains loss of power and prestige to their POST BOX: 3488 of the new rivals under the new regime. DOHA - QATAR beginning”. After all, the Bangsamoro will [email protected] A file photo of President Rodrigo Duterte shaking hands with Moro Islamic Liberation Front There was a replace the MNLF-led Autonomous (MILF) peace panel chairman Mohagher Iqbal. sense of urgency. He Region of Muslim Mindanao EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 s he was bundled into the back charge. “Journalists have been ultimate price”. “Saudi air strikes have of a car and beaten by his abducted, chased, and displaced,” Aglan killed several journalists over the past MANAGING EDITOR captors, Yousif Aglan’s screams said. “You’ll now find them in Jordan or three years,” he told Al Jazeera. “The TEL: 4462 7505 quickly turned to silence as his Istanbul. Some have abandoned their raids have caused the total and partial A destruction of over 200 TV and radio DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR thoughts shifted to the fate of his wife jobs, resorting to other work. It’s a tragic TEL: 4455 7769 and young children. situation.” stations as well as newspaper With just a few dollars to his name, Out of 180 countries, Yemen headquarters.” LOCAL NEWS SECTION FAISAL EDROOS the budding journalist feared they’d dropped to 167 in the 2017 World Press Another problem journalists began TEL: 4455 7743 have to resort to crippling debtors and Freedom Index. The International Fed- facing was the almost non-existent eration of Journalists (IFJ) said there occupational safety measures, Adel BUSINESS NEWS SECTION were at least 103 cases of kidnappings Abdulmughni, a Yemeni journalist, said. TEL: 4462 7535 and arrests last year, with the fate of “Some media outlets began pushing one reporter unclear after he was their correspondents to hazardous SPORT NEWS SECTION Exile, torture & death: abducted by Al Qaeda in the Arabian areas without prior training in health TEL: 4455 7745 Peninsula. The media watchdog added and safety,” said Abdulmughni, who is that there were at least 29 assassination based in Sanaa. ONLINE SECTION The perils of being a attempts, with three confirmed deaths. With a fresh batch of journalism TEL: 4462 7501 Marib Ward, a journalist based in students graduating every year, many [email protected] Yemeni journalist the rebel-held city of Taiz, said the didn’t realise the risks associated with Houthis created an anti-media atmos- their work, he added, with news PUBLIC RELATIONS phere, launching witch-hunts against agencies failing to provide them with TEL: 4455 7613 anyone who dared criticise them. equipment taken to war zones as [email protected] loan sharks to pay-off his kidnappers “Houthi leader [Abdul Malik Al Houthi] standard - such as flak jackets, helmets and satellite phones. and save him from the abuse that has encouraged people to target reporters ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT With perpetrators escaping prose- afflicted so many of his colleagues. and called them more dangerous than TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 “Working as a journalist comes with fighters. “Houthi media published my cution for murdering journalists, FAX: 4455 7870 big risks,” Aglan told Al Jazeera, shortly name and those of other journalists, Yemeni reporters say they will continue [email protected] after he was released from a year of a calling us coalition supporters. “By to face targeted harassment amid little captivity at a Houthi-run prison. doing that, they increased the threat on hope of action by authorities. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT “In Sanaa, no one dares write anti- our lives and our movement. If the And with the war effort hastily TEL: 4455 7857 Houthi pieces because they are known Houthis were to spot us, our fate would approaching the city of Hodeidah, the [email protected] The International to kidnap and torture their opponents,” be uncertain.” journalists fear they will be forced to Federation of he said. “While government-held areas The restrictions forced several news grossly under-report the civilian cas- SUBSCRIPTION & Journalists (IFJ) are relatively safer, the risks are still crews to avoid sending their reporters ualty rate. DISTRIBUTION to the country altogether, while inde- “We could end up with a situation said there were there due to partisan and political TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 differences.” pendent journalists looked for alter- like Mosul where hundreds of bodies FAX: 44557819 at least 103 cases Yemeni journalists like Aglan have native routes in - either a perilous are still being recovered from the [email protected] of kidnappings faced increasing threats on their lives 13-hour sea crossing from Djibouti or rubble a year after the city was and arrests last since late 2014 when Houthi rebels one from war-ravaged Somalia. captured.” seized the capital, Sanaa, and large With the deaths of year, with the fate swaths of the impoverished country. more than 100,000 All thoughts and views of one reporter Almost immediately after ousting children, a cholera epi- unclear after he the government, the armed group demic and the wors- expressed in these columns was abducted launched a crackdown on dissent, ran- ening humanitarian sit- are those of the writers, sacking the offices of Suhail TV, Yemen uation is going largely not of the newspaper. by Al Qaeda. The Shebab TV, and Yemen Al Youm. unnoticed. media watchdog Saudi Arabia’s intervention in the Mohammed Al All correspondence added that there conflict some six months later, further Sabri, the head of regarding Views and were at least 29 worsened the media landscape, with Yemen’s Media Union, both sides investing vast sums in their said non-partisan Opinion pages should be assassination propaganda operations. writers and journalists send to editor-in-chief attempts, with three In an attempt to control the local who were willing to office or mailed to the confirmed deaths. and international narrative, the Houthis brave the front lines began detaining journalists without were paying “the [email protected] 10 EUROPE FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018

Mastermind of Hot African air 2017 Barcelona attacks still on brings heatwave, the run: Report dust to Europe AFP MADRID: The suspected AP Up north in Sweden, mastermind of last year’s the country’s official jihadist attacks in Barcelona MADRID: Hot air from Africa tallest point is set and a nearby seaside resort is bringing a new heatwave to is still on the run in Europe, a Europe, prompting health to change amid Spanish newspaper reported warnings about Sahara Desert record temperatures. yesterday. dust and exceptionally high Scientists said Investigation sources told temperatures that are forecast a glacier on Barcelona-based daily El to peak at 47 degrees Celsius Periodico that “the terrorist (116.6 Fahrenheit) in some Mount Kebne, has been localised, he southern areas. the Scandinavian changes country regularly” The torrid weather meant country’s highest and “remains in contact with that public services were put on peak at 2,111 metres, other (radical) groups”. alert in Spain and Portugal. Previously a Moroccan Temperatures were forecast to is melting and is no iman, Abdelbaki Es Satty, reach 44 degrees (111 Fahr- longer Sweden’s Visitors look at a sign in front of The Eiffel Tower in Paris yesterday, which indicates the city believed to have radicalised enheit) in the Portuguese city tallest point. monument as closed. many of the youths who of Evora, 130km east of the carried out the twin attacks capital of Lisbon, and in the in August 2017, was presented Spanish province of Badajoz, page that patrons hoping to cool by the authorities as the man across the border. down could sleep overnight in Strike over long queues shuts who dreamt up and planned A hot air mass was moving its air-conditioned store in Hel- the attacks. northward from Africa, author- sinki. Homes in Finland are But the paper said now ities said, warning that the designed to handle the extreme Eiffel Tower for second day security forces believe the mercury could peak at 47 cold and damp typical of the iman “was the link with the AFP degrees Celsius this weekend Nordic region, not the recent in managing the thousands to discuss a proposal offered by intellectual author of the in the southern Portuguese high temperatures. hoping to reach the top of the the site’s operator SETE, which attacks, who was ‘in a city in town of Beja. Portuguese In eastern Europe, Poland PARIS: The Eiffel Tower was “Iron Lady” each day during the is majority owned by the city of the centre of Europe’ at the authorities issued a nationwide endured unusually high tem- turning away tourists for a peak summer tourist season. Paris. time.” The sources did not give health warning, including for peratures up to 34 degrees second day yesterday as The tower’s operator “The SETE is well aware of the nationality or the age of the dust from the Sahara Desert. Celsius, forcing its power plants workers pressed a strike over a counters that lines haven’t the disappointment for visitors suspected mastermind of the Warnings were also issued for to go into emergency mode to new access policy which they gotten any worse than before, because of the monument’s attacks, and did not say if he 40 of Spain’s 50 provinces. increase output due to the wide say is causing unacceptably long even as visitor numbers have closure, and its negative impact had lived at any point in Spain. Up north in Sweden, the use of air conditioning and wait times for visitors. risen, with more than 6.2 million on the image of both the city and A spokeswoman for the country’s official tallest point is electric fans. The monument has been tickets sold last year. country,” the company said in a regional Catalan police force, set to change amid record tem- In the streets of Warsaw, closed since Wednesday But many tourists showing statement. the Mossos d’Esquadra, peratures. Scientists said a the Polish capital, authorities afternoon as unions locked up yesterday morning had no “It offers its apologies to refused to comment on the El glacier on Mount Kebne, the placed cooling water installa- horns with management over a idea what the strike was about, everyone — Parisians and Periodico report, saying “eve- Scandinavian country’s highest tions around and advised decision to assign separate ele- with signs saying only that the French as well as foreign rything concerning the inves- peak at 2,111 metres, is melting people to stay indoors. Dozens vators to visitors with pre- monument was closed. tourists.” The tower’s 300- tigation into the international and is no longer Sweden’s of the country’s Baltic Sea booked tickets and those who “I’m annoyed, I’m not going strong staff has staged strikes connections” of the jihadist tallest point. beaches have “no swimming” buy them on site. At the same to lie,” said Robin Frye of Bir- repeatedly in recent years over cell that carried out the Gunhild Rosqvist, a warnings due to health risks time, the tower now sets aside mingham, England, who was issues including pickpocketing attacks was confidential. Stockholm University professor from algae blooms. half of daily tickets for internet visiting Paris for the first time. and maintenance work. The iman was killed during in geography, said the glacier Farmers across the con- customers, up from just 20 “It’s going to throw off our “It’s unfortunate to end up an accidental explosion a day lost four metres of snow in July tinent were battling the effects percent previously. whole trip if I’m honest,” she here, with visitors being before the attacks at a house alone as Sweden endured of drought, so the European Workers say the changes said. “We got up at 6am and penalised, but we did everything in Alcanar, a town located record temperatures that trig- Union offered to speed up funds have resulted in lopsided queues were among the first people to avoid it,” said Denis Vavassori some 200km from Barcelona, gered dozens of wildfires, even to help them cope. German that can extend to three hours for here, but it’s closed,” said Adele of the CGT union. He said where the group was making in the Arctic Circle. farmers have already asked those waiting to pay for tickets, Liliane, who arrived this week directing people to the elevator bombs. A total of 16 people In Finland, a supermarket their government for €1bn and up to an hour for internet from Montreal, Canada. with the shortest waits were killed when a van drove came up with a novel way of ($1.17bn) in financial aid to help customers who are supposed to Negotiations resumed yes- regardless of the type of ticket into crowds on the Las escaping the heat. The K-Super- cover losses from this year’s have reserved time slots. terday after workers held a they bought, as they used to do, Ramblas boulevard in the heart market said on its Facebook poor harvest. They want more flexibility general assembly in the morning would ease the congestion. of Barcelona.

Poland’s Walesa extends olive Rappers in custody after brawl AFP branch to ruling airports, said the fight had self-defence. He added the damaged Orly’s image and assailants used perfume and party chief CRÉTEIL: Two of France’s best “endangered the lives of others.” glass bottles as weapons. known rappers were in custody ADP added the disturbance had Booba lawyer Yann Le Bras AFP yesterday a day after a brawl meant it was not possible to responded by telling BFM TV the between them and their entou- place a security cordon around video footage showed it was WARSAW: Polish freedom rages brought an official an abandoned item of luggage. Kaaris and his group whose icon Lech Walesa took to complaint from the Paris airport Some passengers who suf- behaviour had been “very Facebook to extend an olive where the rumpus delayed flights. fered brief delays to their flights aggressive”. Booba, 41, and branch to arch-enemy Orly airport said it was filmed the brawl, which saw one Kaaris, 38, have known each Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head lodging a public order complaint duty free store damaged, and other since 2011, by which time of the ruling conservative after Booba and Kaaris posted the footage to social Booba had already carved out a party. remained in detention having media. The two rappers had been name for himself. “Brother Kaczynski, soon been held for questioning over- due to perform on Wednesday The pair have since waged you and I and our whole gen- night with a dozen members of evening in Barcelona. a feud over social media where eration will enter into eternity,” their respective entourages. According to Kaaris’ lawyers some posters indulge in any- the 74-year-old Walesa wrote Police and airport sources Arash Derambarsh and Yacine thing from simple mockery to to Kaczynski, who turned 69 said border police detained 13 Yakouti, the rapper, who was calls to settle differences via and spent several weeks in people after the fracas. Two accompanied by six people, was actual fisticuffs. hospital this year. were released Thursday surrounded by “a dozen people Booba, one of France’s most “I would like to get my morning, a judicial source said. who have nothing to do with popular rappers, has reportedly things in order. I would also The ruckus forced airport music and were just looking for fallen out with Kaaris in the past like to leave reconciled with officials temporarily to shut a fight. after failing to support him in a my foes,” added the former Farmers protest down departures hall 1 of Orly’s “He was taken aside by dispute with fellow French artist president and Nobel Peace lau- western terminal which was Booba, who insulted his child Rohff. reate who led the Solidarity Polish farmers, including food producers, hold banners during a packed with people heading off and his wife. Then they all Rohff was sentenced in movement that brought a demonstration to protest against the low-selling prices of agricultural at the height of the holiday jumped on him. You see it on the November to five years in jail peaceful end to communism products, especially fruits and to ask for the government’s support season. videos, they were three against for aggravated assault in a in Poland. Asked for his yesterday in front of the government building in Warsaw. Aeroports de Paris (ADP), one,” said Derambarsh, who clothes boutique owned by yet motives for reaching out, which manages the capital’s said his client reacted in another rapper, Unkut. Walesa denied that the move was linked to health problems on either side. He said he was guided by the Christian imper- ative of reconciliation. Britain failing forced marriage victims by granting visas to abusers Kaczynski has yet to REUTERS respond but the spokeswoman “Unfortunately, I’m not sur- crime of forced marriage”. does not support his visa appli- signs of risk. Harrah described for his Law and Justice (PiS) prised by it,” Aneeta Prem, Britain banned forced mar- cation. This can expose women to one case where a woman wrote party, Beata Mazurek, tweeted LONDON: Britain is failing founder of Freedom, a charity riage in 2014, although there domestic violence, homelessness to the Home Office to say that an that “we can no longer take victims of forced marriage by opposing forced marriage, told the have only been two convictions and family rejection, they said. application had been fraudulently Walesa seriously” and refused granting dozens of visas to their Thomson Reuters Foundation. since the law was passed. “It’s a huge, huge barrier for submitted in her name, but offi- all other comment. spouses despite warnings that “It is a very typical case that The government’s Forced women to come forward,” said cials dismissed her letter as her Walesa ended his message the women married abroad girls are forced into marriage, Marriage Unit received reports Polly Harrah, founder of The handwriting made them believe to Kaczynski saying: “If I did against their will, charities said and then when they come back of nearly 2,000 possible cases Sharan Project, a charity that that it was written by a child. you wrong, then I ask for your yesterday. to the UK, they are forced to put last year, many involving girls supports vulnerable South Asian “There are a number of forgiveness. As for me, I am The Times newspaper said in a spousal application for their from South Asian backgrounds women who have left home. reasons why cases are referred able to forgive you and your yesterday that visas were abuser.” The Home Office said but campaigners say the figure Charities said the system was to the Forced Marriage Unit, not late brother Lech for every- granted in almost half of 88 cases in a statement that they “take our is just the tip of the iceberg. flawed as victims’ attempts to all of which are the result of a thing, even the lousiest thing last year where victims, officials safeguarding responsibilities Charities called for reform of escape coercive marriages were reluctant sponsor getting in you’ve ever done to me which or third parties had raised fears very seriously” as a “world- a policy that requires officials to often overridden by officials who contact,” a Home Office was... the Kiszczak folder.” of forced marriage. leader in tackling the horrendous inform a foreign spouse if his wife were not sufficiently alert to spokesman said. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 AMERICAS 11 Family separations a ‘low point’; media not the enemy: Ivanka AFP “I am very vehemently observers at the start of Trump’s against family presidency had come to believe WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump separation and the that Ivanka and her husband, distanced herself yesterday from Jared Kushner, formed a com- some of her father’s most contro- separation of parents passionate camp in the White versial policies and strident and children, so I House and would act as a check rhetoric, saying she is “vehe- would agree with that on her father’s cruder instincts. mently against” family separa- sentiment.” That role failed to fully mate- tions and that journalists are not rialize. While Trump was said to the enemy. have discouraged her father pri- Speaking publicly for the first which swelled further when vately from the border policy, time since she shuttered her audio emerged of detained tod- she said nothing publicly until eponymous fashion brand last dlers crying for their mothers, after his reversal, when she week, the first daughter and caused a firestorm and in June thanked him for “taking critical senior adviser to President the president reversed course. action ending family separation Donald Trump took a decidedly He ordered an end to the at our border.” different approach than her separations. But as of last week’s Last year, she urged him to combative father to stress that deadline, 711 of the roughly 2,500 keep the United States in the the immigration crisis has caused separated children were still not Paris climate accord, but her her anxiety. reunited with their parents, and prodding fell on deaf ears and “That was a low point for me officials were unable to clarify the president pulled out. as well,” Trump, 36, told a con- when they would see their In November, as Republican ference organized by news family. Senate candidate Roy Moore website Axios, referring to the Trump also distanced herself faced accusations he pursued Trump administration’s “zero tol- from her father’s relentless con- sexual relationships with teenage erance” policy that led to the sep- demnation of the media — girls when he was in his 30s, US President Special Adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump participates in a conversation on workforce aration of thousands of children attacks that have raised the Ivanka Trump weighed in, saying development and news of the day at the Newseum in Washington, yesterday. from their migrant parents. levels of anti-press antagonism “there’s a special place in hell for “I am very vehemently against at his recent rallies. people who prey on children.” family separation and the sepa- While saying she had “sen- But two weeks later, the pres- “I’m really passionate about point,” but could not give a time- be very careful about incentiv- ration of parents and children, so sitivity” about why some people ident endorsed Moore, who ulti- the work that I’m doing here and table and felt that was “unfair” izing behavior that puts I would agree with that sen- who feel targeted have gripes mately lost to a Democrat. I’m really committed to it,” she to her company staff, so she children at risk of being traf- timent.” Ivanka’s position aligns with reporters, the moniker with As first daughter, Ivanka has said yesterday. decided to shutter the business. ficked, at risk of entering this with the opinions of everyday which the president has branded travelled overseas representing So much so that last week In discussing the immi- country with coyotes or making Americans, who polls show are them is misplaced. the United States, attended she announced she was closing gration crisis, Trump described an incredibly dangerous broadly opposed to the separa- “No, I do not feel that the meetings with visiting heads of her fashion brand, following crit- herself as “the daughter of an journey alone,” she said. tions — although the immigration media is the enemy of the state and traveled domestically, icism about potential conflicts of immigrant” — her mother was “These are incredibly dif- policy retains majority support people,” Ivanka said. fueling speculation that she may interest and flagging sales. born and raised in the former ficult issues, and like the rest of among Republicans. The divergence from the harbor future political ambitions Trump said she might return Czechoslovakia, and came to the country I experience them in The immigration crisis, president is not surprising. Many of her own. to the private sector “at some the US legally. “So we have to a very emotional way.”

Alarm about 2018 and 2020 US prosecutors focus anew on election security Manafort’s lavish spending AP REUTERS consulting firm. Manafort’s trial testified that a Manafort invoice is the first stemming from Muel- was phony, listing an incorrect WASHINGTON: President ALEXANDRIA: Prosecutors in ler’s 14-month investigation of address and an altered version Donald Trump has directed a the trial of US President Donald Russia’s role in the 2016 US of his company’s name. “vast, government-wide effort” Trump’s former campaign presidential election and Regolizio said he was paid about to protect American elections chairman Paul Manafort potential coordination between $450,000 between 2010 and after Russian attempts to hammered away yesterday at the Trump campaign and 2014 for work for Manafort, and interfere in 2016, the White his lavish spending as they Moscow, though none of the that the money was paid via a House said yesterday. sought to prove fraud charges, charges against Manafort money transfer from Cyprus. In a letter to Senate Dem- while they also confirmed plans involve this issue. Two witnesses — an exec- ocrats, John Bolton, the to call a key witness to testify. Manafort, 69, is charged utive at an upscale clothier and national security adviser, The prosecution has spent with tax fraud, bank fraud and a retired general contractor — wrote: “President Trump has the first 2-1/2 days of the trial failing to report foreign bank testified on Wednesday that not and will not tolerate attempting to portray Manafort accounts. He has pleaded not invoices purporting to be bills interference in America’s as a tax cheat and a liar who hid guilty to all charges. Manafort from their companies to a system of representative gov- much of the $60m he earned routed millions of dollars to the company tied to Manafort ernment.” The warning to from political work for pro- United States by putting it in real appeared to be fake. It was American adversaries came Russian politicians in Ukraine estate, and spending it on unclear who created the Clashes in Chile as top US intelligence and by stashing it in undisclosed expensive suits, cars and home invoices or how they were used. homeland security officials overseas accounts. renovations, according to pros- As he did on Wednesday, Riot policemen block the way of protesters, during a demonstration raised alarms about potential A day after the prosecution ecution witnesses. US District Judge T.S. Ellis to demand higher minimum wage, best labour conditions and efforts to influence the 2018 raised the possibility that Man- Prosecutors said Manafort warned prosecutors against no more fired workers from the public sector in Santiago, Chile, and 2020 elections. afort’s former business partner evaded taxes through this focusing too much on Mana- yesterday. Homeland security chief Rick Gates — expected to be a scheme. Five of the 18 counts he fort’s lifestyle. Kirstjen Nielsen said: “Our star government witness — faces relate to filing false tax “It kind of engenders some democracy is in the cross- would not be called to testify, returns. Manafort has pleaded resentment against rich people,” hairs.” “We continue to see a Greg Andres, a member of not guilty to all charges. Ellis said, expressing concern pervasive messaging cam- Special Counsel Robert Muel- Yesterday, the jury heard about displaying photos exhib- paign by Russia to try to ler’s team, made clear yesterday from Joel Maxwell of a Flor- iting Manafort’s wealth. US mulls cutting passenger weaken and divide the United that he would. “We have every ida-based company that Later, prosecutors are States,” Director of National intention of calling him as a installs lighting, audio visual expected to call to the witness Intelligence Dan Coats said. witness,” Andres said in a equipment and automation stand accountants and a series screening at small airports They, along with National federal court in Alexandria, Vir- systems for homes that did of tax preparers in an effort to Security Agency director Gen. ginia, outside Washington. work for Manafort. Maxwell convince the jury Manafort AFP said. “Any potential operational Paul Nakasone and FBI Gates pleaded guilty to testified that some of the Man- cheated on his taxes and failed changes to better allocate Director Christopher Wray, making false statements after afort invoices shown to him to report foreign bank accounts. WASHINGTON: US authorities limited taxpayer resources are appeared at the White House being indicted by Mueller. from prosecutors appeared to Heather Washkuhn, man- are considering eliminating simply part of predecisional yesterday to try to reassure Defense lawyers have painted be have been forged. aging director of the accounting passenger screening at small discussions and deliberations the American people they are Gates as an untrustworthy Michael Regolizio, of a land- firm Nigro Karlin Segal Feldstein and mid-size airports across the and would not take place doing everything in their business partner who embezzled scaping firm in the Hamptons & Bolno, will be one of the wit- country, a report said, creating without a risk assessment to power to address the threat. funds from Manafort’s on New York’s Long Island, also nesses to be called, Andres said. concern among terrorism ensure the security of the avi- experts. ation system.” Internal memos The Transportation Security reported by CNN suggest the Administration (TSA), which move could save $115m was created in the aftermath of annually which could be used ‘Paid Off’ US game show wipes out winners’ student debt the September 11, 2001 attacks, to boost security at bigger air- AFP is looking at a proposal to cut ports, where risks are deemed “My wife and I struggled subsidiary network owned by conversation about it, we’re screening at more than 150 air- to be much greater. with student debt and could only Turner Broadcasting best known thrilled to work with him to bring ports serving aircraft with 60 But it would also carry a NEW YORK: It’s the new pay it off because — true story for comedy reality shows and for his vision to life,” he said. seats or fewer, according to “small (non-zero) undesirable American game show aiming to — I booked an underpants com- whom recent college graduates are While Goldman, who is agency officials and documents increase in risk related to addi- make a difference in a country mercial,” says host Michael a key audience demographic. senior vice president of devel- cited by CNN. tional adversary opportunity,” where millions of university Torpey introducing the show. While the vibe is light and opment and original pro- Travellers and luggage a document said. graduates battle for years to “But what about the other 45 funny, Torpey — previously best gramming at TruTV, declines to would instead be screened when CNN’s terrorism analyst repay the crushing burden of million Americans with student known as an actor on Netflix hit reveal audience numbers, he their flights connect to higher- Paul Cruikshank said militant student debt. loans? Sadly, there are just not “Orange Is the New Black” — says the “buzz” and reaction on volume airports. In a statement groups like Al Qaeda and the “Paid Off” offers recent that many underpants commer- also seeks to raise awareness social media has been “out- reacting to the report, TSA’s Islamic State group “still regard college graduates a glimmer of cials,” he deadpans. and hope to enact change. standing.” So far only 16 episodes assistant administrator for public aviation as a priority target — hope. Go head-to-head each The College Board, a non- “It doesn’t have to be this have been filmed at the Turner affairs, Michael Bilello, said that includes aircraft where you week, answer enough quick-fire profit organization, says the way,” he advises. “Call your rep- Studios in Atlanta. “We’ll see if “there has been no decision to have fewer than 60 people on trivia questions and possibly average cost of a US degree is resentatives right now and tell there’s an appetite for more eliminate passenger screening board.” The network also cited have your entire college debt $34,740 a year at a private them we need a better solution episode orders in the coming at any federalized US airport,” TSA officials who asked to written off with a big fat check. college, minus living costs. than this show.” Lesley Goldman, weeks,” says Goldman. but did not say the issue was not remain anonymous as It’s a particularly American The majority of the most the network producer, says the TruTV did not fix an upper under consideration. expressing serious concern. problem and one that is growing. prestigious universities in the program is “a comedy game show limit on a contestant’s debt, but “Every year as part of the The move would mark a According to the US Federal United States are private. Many that shines a light on a national Goldman says they tried to max- federal budget process TSA is reversal of a trend toward Reserve, Americans currently students borrow either the entire crisis.” “Student debt is a reality imize the production budget for the asked to discuss potential oper- enhanced security measures owe $1.38 trillion in college debt, amount or a substantial part. for millions of people and if it 16 episodes “to ensure we could ational efficiencies -- this year since the TSA’s inception in a figure that has more than “Paid Off” made its debut on takes this absurd game show from have the highest impact possible to is no different,” the statement 2001. doubled in the last 10 years. July 10, broadcast on TruTV, a Michael Torpey to spark a all of our contestants”. 12 AMERICAS FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 US senators introduce bill with new Russia sanctions REUTERS The latest measure summer recess. The latest meas- would have to pass ure’s prospects were not imme- WASHINGTON: Republican and both the Senate diately clear. Democratic US senators intro- and House of It would have to pass both duced legislation yesterday to the Senate and House of Repre- impose stiff new sanctions on Representatives and sentatives and be signed by Russia, the latest effort by be signed by Trump Trump to become law. lawmakers to punish Moscow to become law. Aides to the Senate’s Repub- over interference in US elections lican Majority leader, Mitch and its activities in Syria and McConnell, referred a question Ukraine. implement it; he signed it only about the bill to the Senate The bill includes restric- after Congress passed it with Banking Committee, which has tions on new Russian sovereign huge majorities. jurisdiction over sanctions debt transactions, energy and Democratic Senator Bob matters. A committee spokes- oil projects and Russian Menendez said the adminis- woman said she had no details uranium imports, and new tration had not fully complied on what measures the panel sanctions on Russian political with those sanctions. “This bill might consider. Last month, figures and oligarchs. is the next step in tightening the McConnell said Senate com- Russian markets reacted screws on the Kremlin and will mittees should hold hearings on quickly to the bill’s introduction, bring to bear the full condem- legislation to stop Russia from with the Russian rouble and nation of the United States Con- any future election meddling. dollar bonds weakening. gress so that Putin finally under- At the time, he specifically “The current sanctions stands that the US will not tol- mentioned a different bill, intro- regime has failed to deter Russia erate his behavior any longer,” duced by Republican Senator from meddling in the upcoming Menendez said. Marco Rubio and Democratic 2018 midterm elections,” said Republicans and Democrats Senator Chris Van Hollen, that Republican Senator Lindsey were united last month in repu- would impose stiff sanctions on Graham, one of the measure’s diating Trump’s failure to pub- key Russian economic sectors if lead sponsors. licly condemn Russian President Moscow was found to have inter- Congress passed a Russia Vladimir Putin for interfering in fered again in a US election. sanctions bill last summer but the 2016 US elections. Still, Con- Both the Banking and some lawmakers chafed at gress failed to pass anything Foreign Relations Committees what they saw as President before lawmakers left Wash- have since scheduled hearings Donald Trump’s reluctance to ington for their weeks-long relating to Russia.

Colombia gives over 440,000 Venezuelans nod to stay REUTERS

BOGOTA: Colombia yesterday temporarily granted more than 440,000 migrants from Vene- zuela permission to stay in the country for two years and access social services, as hundreds of thousands flee a devastating economic crisis in neighboring Venezuela. The decree, signed by President Juan Manuel Santos, is directed at 442,462 Venezuelans without visas, stamped passports or other permission to live in Colombia who registered in a recent two-month survey. Colombia has borne the Firefighters conduct a controlled burn to defend houses against brunt of the migration from flames from the Ranch fire, as it continues to spread towards Venezuela, where hyperin- the town of Upper Lake, California, yesterday. flation, food and medicine shortages, and crime have forced many to leave their Crew battling California homes. Estimates of how many wildfires facing Venezuelans have left their home country during the extreme conditions tenures of former president Hugo Chavez and current REUTERS was burning with less intensity leader Nicolas Maduro vary this week and posed little widely. LAKEPORT: Extreme weather immediate threat to populated Maduro has said his conditions were expected to areas. Overnight, crews faced country is the victim of an return and could stoke wildfires wind, steep terrain, and dry “economic war” led by oppo- in California, where thousands fuels, CalFire said in a report sition leaders with the help of of weary firefighters are battling yesterday morning. Washington, but his critics say the destructive, deadly blazes. “Throughout the day crews the problems are the result of In the Redding area, where will continue to mitigate spot the government’s currency and the Carr Fire has killed six fire potential across control price controls as well as people, including two fire- lines,” it said. declining production of oil. fighters, winds of 40km per Despite the outlook, strong Colombia had asked Ven- hour, temperatures above 95 gusts along the upper ridge ezuelans to register in the degrees Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) lines were a concern on the survey if they did not have and extremely low humidity fire’s rugged western flanks, a work or tourism visas, dual were in the forecast until few miles from the town of citizenship, or some other tomorrow, the National Lewiston, which remained type of formal permission to Weather Service said. evacuated. remain, so it could assess the This could lead to “dan- More than 4,200 fire- need for social services. gerous and rapid irregular fighters are battling the blaze, Many Venezuelan migrants spreading of a large wildfire,” which has scorched more than arrive in Colombia with little the service said in an advisory. 125,800 acres (50,900 hec- money with which to begin The Carr Fire has destroyed tares) in the scenic Shasta- new lives. Some 250,000 more than 1,550 structures in Trinity region. Colombians who had been and around Redding, a city of Law enforcement officials living in Venezuela have also 90,000 people about 260km said the last four people returned home recently. north of the state capital, Sac- reported as missing were found “We will continue to ramento. Authorities have reo- safe on Wednesday. support the Venezuelans and pened more evacuated neigh- The Carr Fire was one of the returning Colombians, just bourhoods as ground crews, eight large wildfires burning in as we have been doing up to aided by diminished winds, the state and 93 burning in the this moment,” Santos said in a extended buffer lines carved United States, mostly in the statement. “This is an interna- out of thick, dry brush along the West, according to the National tional milestone in migration fire’s edge to 35 percent of its Interagency Fire Center. issues.” All the Venezuelans will perimeter, officials said. The wildfires have been have access to emergency California Department of fuelled by years of drought- medical care and be able to par- Forestry and Fire Protection dessicated vegetation, and ticipate in the social security (CalFire) commanders said on stoked by frequent bouts of system, while pregnant women Wednesday that the fire, erratic winds and triple-digit will have prenatal care, the sparked by a vehicle on July 23, temperatures. statement said. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 CLASSIFIEDS 13

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Apple hits Oil nears 2-week record high, lows after signs nears $1 trn of supply pickup AFP NEW YORK: The US tech giant Apple became the first REUTERS private-sector company to surpass $1 trillion in market LONDON: Oil prices fell for a value yesterday following third day yesterday, nearing Brent crude futures its latest surge after their lowest in two weeks reporting strong quarterly following a surprise increase in were down 35 cents earnings. US crude inventories that added at $72.04 a barrel by Shares of Apple briefly to existing concern about the 1345 GMT, while US hit $207.05 in late-morning rapid rise in global crude trading, before retreating supply. crude futures fell 35 somewhat. The gains came Several major Opec and cents to $67.31. after the iPhone maker non-Opec producers have reported strong earnings increased production, as agreed moving up the timing of annual late Tuesday that prompted at a meeting in June, to help to drills amid heightened tensions a two-day rally in the share compensate for an anticipated with Washington, US officials Turkey’s responds to US Treasury Department price. shortfall in Iranian crude sup- told Reuters on Wednesday. The company’s stock Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (left) shakes hands with Finance Minister Berat Albayrak as he arrives at plies once US sanctions come US President Donald was at $206.85, up 2.7 Anitkabir in Ankara, Turkey yesterday. Turkey has announced that it would take “an equivalent response” into force later this year. Trump’s decision to pull out of percent near 1620 GMT. to the “aggressive” decision by the US Treasury Department to impose a US asset freeze on two ministers. Brent crude futures were an international nuclear deal Apple said it currently has down 35 cents at $72.04 a and reimpose sanctions on Iran 4.83 billion shares barrel by 1345 GMT, while US has angered Tehran. Iranian outstanding. crude futures fell 35 cents to officials have warned the As with other land- $67.31. country would not easily yield marks -- such as the Dow “There’s been a lot of to a renewed US campaign to crossing 25,000 for the first bearish news over the last strangle Iran’s vital oil exports. QSE investors became time -- the Apple record is week. We’ve seen the Opec July “There are a lot of esca- significant because of its numbers increasing quite dras- lation points that could occur resonance beyond the tically month-on-month and very quickly and that worries financial universe. along with that, Russian pro- me,” Jonathan Barratt, chief QR26.75bn richer last week “The $1 trillion mark is duction back at pre-deal investment officer at Ayers more psychological, and THE PENINSULA levels,” ING commodities strat- Alliance in Sydney, said. transactions rose by 21.63 last week with 32.44 percent of sends a message of growth egist Warren Patterson said. Oil prices are also feeling percent, to reach 18,711 trans- the total number of transac- and size into the market,” The Organization of the the effects of tensions over DOHA: Qatar Stock Exchange’s actions as compared to 15,383 tions. Industries sector said Howard Silverblatt, Petroleum Exporting global trade, which could cause (QSE) benchmark index made a transactions. accounted for 21.30 percent. senior index analyst at S&P Countries(Opec) and partners economic growth to slow. remarkable gain during the last Banking and Financial Real Estate sector accounted for Dow Jones Indices. including Russia had agreed in Trump has turned up week powered by banking and Services sector led traded value 17.56 percent and Telecoms But many financial late 2016 to cut output by 1.8 pressure on China for trade industrial sector stocks. The QSE last week with 46.21 percent of sector accounted for 10.29 insiders view the record as million barrels per day to concessions by proposing a index gained 373.33 points, or the total traded value. Indus- percent. a non-event, despite rebalance supply and demand. higher 25 percent tariff on 3.89 percent, last week when the tries sector accounted for 16.12 From the 45 listed com- breaching the psychological “Oil is holding up rea- $200 billion of Chinese imports bourse closed yesterday at percent. Transportation sector panies 26 ended last week barrier. sonably well... A lot of this is the and China has said it will 9,981.22 points. Investors at the accounted for 10.10 percent and higher, while 16 fell and three “There’s no real risk premium priced in for Iran retaliate. exchange became QR26.75bn Real Estate sector accounted for remained unchanged, reports excitement on the trading and when do we start seeing an “It is almost certain that richer as the market cap rose by 9.46 percent. QNA. desk,” said Karl Haeling of impact on supply there,” Pat- China will impose additional 5.11 percent to reach Banking and Financial QNB led trading value LBBW. “It’s one of those terson said. duties on oil and refined QR550.53bn as compared to Services sector led traded during last week accounted for things that does not mean “At the moment, there is a products imported from the US QR523.78bn at the end of volume last week with 29.39 19.64 percent of the total anything by itself... it’s more mismatch in timing, where if the Trump administration previous week. percent of the total traded trading value. Qatar Gas a testimony of the impor- there is increasing OPEC supply implements additional tariffs Trading value during last volume. Real Estate sector Transport accounted for 8.41 tance of Apple on the and yet we’re not seeing a sig- on the next tranche of Chinese week increased by 25.84 accounted for 22.64 percent. percent and Industries Qatar market.” nificant reduction in Iranian goods. This could severely dent percent to reach QR1.21bn com- Transportation sector accounted for 8.40 percent. The landmark is the supply,” Patterson said. the competitiveness of US oil pared to QR967.03m. Trading accounted for 15.83 percent and When compared on daily latest victory for Apple chief The United States believes and derivatives in the Chinese volume increased by 31.72 Telecoms sector accounted basis, the QSE index gained 4.71 executive Tim Cook, who Iran is preparing to carry out a market,” said Abhishek Kumar, percent to reach 41.07 million 13.13 percent. Banking and points, or 0.05 percent, yes- faced skepticism when he major exercise in the Gulf in senior energy analyst at shares, as against 31.18 million Financial Services sector led terday compared to Wednes- took reins of the iconic coming days, apparently Interfax Energy. shares, while the number of traded number of transactions day’s closing. technology giant in 2011. BoE raises rates above crisis lows, signals no rush for next hike

REUTERS the level at which they have spent walk -- not run -- to stand still,” “speed limit”, or full capacity, as key members of Prime Minister most of the past decade, apart he said as he explained a new BoE raising the prospect of more Theresa May’s Conservative Party LONDON: The Bank of England from a period after the 2016 estimate of neutral interest rates home-grown inflation pressure -- remain far apart on what their (BoE) pushed interest rates above Brexit vote when they were cut for Britain’s economy, which the ahead. Business groups were future trading relationship should their financial crisis lows even lower. Economists polled by central bank believes will rise critical of the decision to raise look like. yesterday, but signalled it was in Reuters had mostly expected a only slowly against the backdrop rates now. The British Chambers But Carney said there was a wide no hurry to raise them further as 7-2 vote in favour of a hike. But of a strong global growth. Growth of Commerce said it was ill- range of outcomes for Brexit -- Britain heads for Brexit next year sterling fell against the dollar and in Britain, the world’s fifth-biggest judged given the degree of uncer- most of which would require with no clear plan for leaving the the euro and British government economy, has slowed since the tainty around Brexit and the rates to be at least as high as now European Union. The BoE’s nine bond prices rose after BoE referendum decision in 2016 to Institute of Directors said the BoE -- and that the central bank was rate-setters were unexpectedly Governor Mark Carney (pictured) leave the EU. The BoE never- had “jumped the gun”. With less working on the assumption that unanimous in their vote to raise stressed the gradual path for rate theless said the economy was than eight months until Brexit, there would be a smooth tran- rates to 0.75 from 0.50 percent, hikes ahead. “Policy needs to now operating at almost its London and Brussels -- as well sition. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 BUSINESS 15

Aimia in MarketWatch Ghana merges 5 banks talks with in $1.2bn rescue deal Oneworld QSE FTSE100 DOW BRENT 9,981.22 7,578.84 25,220.02 $68.11 BLOOMBERG BLOOMBERG +4.71 PTS -74.07 PTS -113.80 PTS +0.45 TORONTO: Aimia Inc is in 0.05% 0.97% 0.45% Dow & Brent before going to press ACCRA: Ghana’s banking regu- talks with the Oneworld lator said it created a new lender The lenders were airline alliance as the through a merger of five Aeroplan frequent-flyer insolvent banks as the country among the smallest of programme operator bolsters issued 5.8 billion cedis ($1.2bn) Ghana’s 34 previously its attempt to go it alone in Turkish businesses in bonds to clear their debt. authorized banks and the face of an unsolicited bid Bank of Ghana revoked the from Air Canada. licenses of Unibank Ghana Ltd, the merger is part Aimia is in discussions slam US sanctions Royal Bank Ltd, Beige Bank of increasing efforts with the alliance, whose Ltd, Sovereign Bank Ltd and to avert failures in members include American ANADOLU Construction Bank Ltd, Gov- an industry that has Airlines, British Airways and ernor Ernest Addison (pic- Cathay Pacific, about making ANKARA: Turkish business tured) told reporters on been beset by poor requirement,” Addison said. it a “potential preferred groups yesterday condemned Wednesday in the capital, governance and weak “Such support will be limited airline partner for the Aer- the US move to impose sanc- Accra. lending. to indigenous banks that are oplan program,” spokes- tions on two Turkish ministers The lenders were among solvent, well governed and woman Tammy Smitham following tension over an the smallest of Ghana’s 34 pre- managed.” said in an email. The talks American pastor, who faces viously authorized banks and good assets while the bank will Read more: Ghana regu- were first reported by the terrorism charges in Turkey. the merger is part of increasing be headed by Daniel Addo as lator is lining up investors to Globe and Mail. “We would like it to be efforts to avert failures in an chief executive officer, he said. spur bank deals Yesterday was the known that the US decision is On Wednesday, White industry that has been beset by The government intends The administrator that was deadline for Aimia to unacceptable,” Turkish Industry House spokeswoman Sarah poor governance and weak to privatise the bank within appointed for Unibank found respond to the proposal and Business Association Sanders said the US was lending. two years, the central bank that the lender “was beyond from Air Canada. The airline (TUSIAD) head Erol Bilecik (pic- imposing sanctions on Interior The five lenders’ assets will said in a statement on its rehabilitation” after share- partnered with Toronto- tured) said in a statement. Minister Suleyman Soylu and be transferred to the newly website. holders and related parties took Dominion Bank, Canadian Bilecik said the move goes Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul created Consolidated Bank The regulator has inten- out 5.3 billion cedis in loans and Imperial Bank of Commerce against the nature of strategic for not releasing Brunson. Ghana Ltd, which is fully sified its oversight of Ghana’s and other withdrawals without and Visa Inc to offer alliance and endangers the rela- Sanders said the US would owned by the government, banking sector in the past year following due process, Addison C$250m ($192m) for Aimia’s tionship between the both coun- block “any property, or interest Addison said. The government as it announced a more than said. Aeroplan rewards program, tries. Turkish Exporters’ in property of the two ministers”. will provide the bank with 450 three-fold increase in the Royal Bank’s non-per- and to assume C$2bn in lia- Assembly (TIM) head Ismail In a written statement published million cedis in fresh capital, minimum capital requirements forming loans constituted 79 bilities in Aeroplan points. Gulle said American Pastor Wednesday, the US Treasury he said. for lenders to 400 million percent of all loans granted Air Canada, which spun off Andrew Craig Brunson case is Department said Minister of “All deposits of the five cedis. It placed Unibank Ghana while Sovereign, Beige and Aeroplan in 2005, is still one about justice, not politics. Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Min- banks are safe and have been Ltd. under administration in Construction obtained their of its main customers but Turkey’s independent judi- ister of Interior Suleyman Soylu transferred to the Consolidated March and withdrew the operating licenses “by false pre- said last year that it would ciary will take decisions without “played leading roles in the Bank,” Addison said. “Cus- licenses of two other banks in tenses through the use of sus- sever ties in 2020 and any discrimination, Gulle said. organizations responsible for the tomers can carry out their August last year for failing to picious and non-existent launch its own rewards Turkish Union of Chambers arrest and detention of Pastor business as usual at their meet capital adequacy capital,” he said. plan. and Commodity Exchanges of Andrew Brunson”. respective banks, which will thresholds. Construction Bank’s Chief Aimia’s shares tumbled Turkey (TOBB) Chairman Rifat According to US law, those now become branches of Con- The government will offer Executive Officer Stephen 72 percent over the 14 Hisarciklioglu said the US should mentioned on the sanctions list solidated Bank.” financial support to state-con- Kpordzih declined to comment months between Air Canada reverse its decision. will have any of their assets and Consolidated will acquire trolled National Investment when contacted by phone. Calls cutting ties and the “It is not possible to accept properties under US jurisdiction all deposits, “good assets” and Bank Ltd., Agricultural Devel- to the offices of Sovereign Bank, announcement that the the decision of US President blocked and American busi- some liabilities of the five opment Bank Ltd and “other Royal Bank and Beige Bank airline wants to re-acquire Donald Trump’ administration, nesses and individuals will be lenders, Addison said. The indigenous banks as needed, didn’t connect. A spokesman for the loyalty programme. which is against international prohibited from engaging in bond will bridge the gap to help them meet the Unibank wasn’t available when They’ve rebounded 39 laws and practises,” Hisarcik- financial transactions with between the liabilities and minimum capital called at his office. percent since then. lioglu said. them. BREAK TIME

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Al Gharafa players celebrate after scoring a goal I like to win during the previous every game. For QNB Stars League that matter, all in this file photo. sides would like to win. You can win matches if FIXTURES: ROUND 1 you play good TOMORROW football. We Al Gharafa vs Qatar SC hope to win Al Sadd Stadium Saturday’s match 5:35pm. and thus make Al Arabi vs Al Khor a strong start to Khalifa International Stadium our campaign: Al Gharafa coach 5:35pm. Gourcuff Al Sailiya vs Umm Salal Khalifa International Stadium 7:45pm. SUNDAY QSL: Al Gharafa eye win Al Kharaitiyat va Al Sadd Khalifa International Stadium We have tried to strike the right 5:35pm. balance in our against Qatar SC in opener Al Shahania vs Al Duhail squad. We are up Khalifa International Stadium against a strong 7:45pm. RIZWAN REHMAT team (Al Gharafa) games and tried out three dif- Al Rayyan vs Al Ahli in the first match. THE PENINSULA ferent combinations. All players Al Sadd Stadium But it is better to were seen in action and I am so face Al Gharafa DOHA: Former champions Al happy that they adapted well,” 7:45pm. than facing Al Gharafa will be aiming for a win Mubarak informed. in their opening QNB Stars League “We have tried to strike the Duhail at the clash against Qatar SC, new coach right balance in our squad. We are Twelve teams begin very start of the Christian Gourcuff said yesterday. up against a strong team (Al their battle for the season: Qatar Al Gharafa, who won three Gharafa) in the first match. But it Falcon Shield as QNB SC coach Abdulla back-to-back titles from 2008 to is better to face Al Gharafa than Stars League kicks off on Mubarak 2010, finished last season in facing Al Duhail at the very start fourth spot behind title winners of the season,” the Qatari said. Saturday. Al Duhail, Al Sadd and Al Rayyan. “Al Gharafa had put up a “I like to win every game. For strong performance against CS Al Duhail are the that matter, all sides would like Sfaxien (Tunisian club) at the defending champions, to win. You can win matches if Salalah tournament in Oman you play good football. We hope recently. But we are confident,” followed by their to win Saturday’s match and thus Mubarak said. unprecedented run during We did a good make a strong start to our cam- Al Gharafa’s new coach Christian Gourcuff (left) and Al Shahaniya “My ambition is to put Qatar the last season. job in the pre- paign,” Gourcuff said in his official coach Jose Murcia speak during a press conferences held yesterday, SC in the top rung of the QNB season camp. media conference. ahead of the start of new QNB Stars League (QSL) season. Stars League. To be among the top We hope to build “All my players are ready to Pictures: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula four is a difficult target to achieve. Teams have strengthened on our strong take on Qatar SC,” Gourcuff For that, we must double our their squads with a host preparations and added. - who will have the services of games is not a period to assess a efforts,” said Abdulla. The Frenchman said Al Dutch star Wesley Sneijder - team’s overall level. For the first four rounds of the of new recruitments and do a good job on Gharafa have arrived prepared won’t underestimate Qatar SC, Qatar SC coach Abdulla new QNB Stars League season, the have undergone intense our return to the for the season’s opening clash to who finished last season in 10th Mubarak said his players were matches will be played at only pre-season training. QSL. We will try be played at Al Sadd Stadium spot. feeling short of match practice two venues - Al Sadd Stadium and to improve our tomorrow. “All teams are staying “The preparatory period was the Khalifa International Stadium. game after every “We had a very good training focused, particularly at the very short. One month was not Both venues are equipped with The first-four rounds will week and thus camp in the Netherlands ahead beginning of the new season. And enough for the players to gear up state-of-the-art cooling of the start of the new season,” we are no different. We are con- for the season,” Mubarak said technology. be played at the Khalifa provide a good Gourcuff said. centrating much on our game yesterday. After the first four rounds, the International and Al Sadd level of football: “And then, we played in a against Qatar SC,” Gourcuff said. “However, we could make an teams will move to their own Stadiums, making use Al Shahania tournament in Salalah, Oman. We “In the league, you can get elaborate plan for the tour- home grounds for the remainder of the state-of-the-art coach Jose want to see how we can improve bad results sometimes. My life has nament,” he added. of the rounds from September cooling technology. Murcia on our game further,” he added. always been about football, be it “We made the best use of our onward, Qatar Stars League (QSL) Gourcuff said Al Gharafa a player or coach. One or two time. We played six friendly announced last month. A battle of wits as coaches get set for new season THE PENINSULA QSL TEAM COACHES DOHA: Tactical and technical confrontations between the Al Duhail: Nabil Maaloul coaches are sure to steal the Al Sadd: Jesualdo Ferreira spotlight in the QNB Stars League Al Rayyan: Rodolfo Arruabarrena (QNB) 2018-19 season. Al Gharafa: Christian Gourcuff Many eminent coaches are Umm Salal: Laurent Banide at the helm of clubs in this sea- Al Sailiyah: Sami Trabelsi son’s QSL as well. Al Arabi: Luka Bonacic Tunisian Nabil Maaloul, who Al Khor: Adel Sellimi coached his country’s national Al Kharaitiyat: Nassif Al Bayawi team at the recent FIFA World Cup in Russia, has replaced Al Ahli: Milan Macala Algerian Djamel Belmadi at Qatar SC: Abdulla Mubarak defending champions Al Duhail. Al Ahli’s new Czech coach Milan Macala (left) and Al Rayyan’s Argentinian coach Rodolfo Arruabarrena speak a during press conferences Al Shahaniya: Jose Murcia Last season’s runners-up Al held yesterday, ahead of the start of new QNB Stars League (QSL) season. Pictures: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula Sadd have retained Jesualdo Fer- reira. The Portuguese is a result- Rodolfo Arruabarrena. The Uygun, who played his part in 2008. He coached Al Khor at the succeeding his compatriot Nassif is the only national coach on the oriented master tactician. He is former Argentina left-back will The Cheetah’s fourth-place start of last season and had Al Bayawi, who has been named scene. He did admirably well more experienced, having been have his task cut out as The Lions finish last season, having taken trained Al Kharaitiyat earlier. as the new coach of Al with The Kings last season. in the profession since 1981 and endured a trophy-less season over the side halfway through Tunisian Sami Trabelsi Kharaitiyat, replacing Yasser Jose Murcia also has a big coached teams in Spain, Greece even though they had reached the tournament. extended his long stay at Al Sebaei. task on his hand — to enable and Egypt besides his native the Emir’s Cup final, where they Laurent Banide returned to Sailiyah, while Croat Luka Milan Macala, who returned promoted team Al Shahaniya to Portugal. lost to Al Duhail. Umm Salal. The Frenchman is Bonacic also stayed at Al Arabi. to Al Ahli, is keen to help them impress in the top flight. He had Al Rayyan replaced Danish Al Gharafa signed Christian no stranger to The Orange For- Tunisian Adel Sellimi finish in the top half. coached them last season as great Michael Laudrup with Gourcuff in place of Turk Bulent tress, having trained them in became Al Khor coach Qatar SC’s Abdulla Mubarak well. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 SPORT 17 Wild Illusion corners Qatar Nassau Stakes glory

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GOODWOOD, WEST ESSEX: Wild Illusion landed her second top-grade victory when winning the feature race on day three of the Qatar Goodwood Festival, the £600,000 G1 Qatar Nassau Stakes. Dropping back to a mile and a quarter seemed to suit the Godolphin-owned three-year-old filly, who was taking on older rivals for the first time, and whose two most recent runs had come over a mile and a half yesterday. Wild Illusion (4/1) made all the running under William Buick before beating Urban Fox (3/1) by two lengths, with Veracious a short-head back in third. Winning trainer Charlie Appleby said: “Wild Illusion has been rock solid all season and was fourth in a Guineas (at Newmarket), second in the Oaks (at Epsom) and second in the Ribblesdale Stakes (at Royal Ascot). She was coming into the race as well as I have seen her all season, and I felt that dropping back in trip was going to be her forte. Full credit to all the team at home, and to Michel (Rakotoarisoa) who rides her every day at home and looks after her. The Aidan O’Brien-trained Rhododendron (15/8 Qatar Olympic Committee President H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani (centre) poses for a photograph with the winners of the Qatar Sussex Stakes favourite) ran poorly and finished last of the six (Gr1), won by Qatar Racing’s Lightning Spear, at Qatar Goodwood Festival on Wednesday. runners. Land Force wins Qatar Richmond Stakes Pilaster victorious in THE PENINSULA the two-furlong pole. Land Force knuckled into him, he was very game and kept down well under Moore in the closing stages responding. GOODWOOD, WEST ESSEX: Ryan Moore to fend off all challengers and score a shade “He ran a very good race in the Norfolk. Goodwood thriller recorded his third victory of the 2018 Qatar cosily by a length from Mark Johnston’s We felt six furlongs would suit him. He is a THE PENINSULA Goodwood Festival following the success Marie’s Diamond (9/2) in second. very fast horse with a marvellous attitude. in the colours of her breeder, of the well-supported Land Force (5/2) in Moore said: “Land Force is a very fast He does not need to go any further than Kirsten Rausing, beat Rux the £200,000 G2 Qatar Richmond Stakes horse and got away well. To be honest, I six.” GOODWOOD, WEST ESSEX: Power by three-quarters of a over six furlongs. was in the lead long enough.” Land Force is 20/1 with Betfair for Pilaster landed the £300,000 length, with Lady Cosette a The two-year-old son of No Nay Never “I was left there at the two, which is a next year’s Commonwealth Cup at Royal G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes, further neck behind in third. was always prominent and took the lead at bit too soon for him, but when I got stuck Ascot. surviving a stewards’ enquiry McDonald, who on the to triumph in a thrilling battle opening day of the meeting at the Goodwood Racecourse won the Chelsea Barracks yesterday. Handicap on Under The Al Mohannadi highlights success of Trained by Roger Varian Covers, was happy to have and ridden by David Egan, the another success, but was three-year-old daughter of rueing one he felt might have Nathaniel engaged in a thrilling got away - Star Rock, on Qatar’s horseracing at Goodwood battle in the closing stages of whom he finished third in the G2 event with Maid Up, today’s G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry THE PENINSULA race as was the case at Chantilly trained by Andrew Balding and Stakes. last year. In fact, we have a clear partnered by Rob Hornby. Earlier, Yorkshire-based GOODWOOD, WEST ESSEX: commitment towards Purebred Pilaster responded willingly to Scot Mark Johnston inched Issa bin Mohammed Al Arabian racing and horses as they Egan’s urgings to regain the closer to the goal of becoming Mohannadi, Chairman of Qatar We have seen represent a main part of Qatar’s lead close home and score by the most successful trainer of Racing & Equestrian Club (QREC), heritage in the equestrian world,” a short-head. winners in Britain when Com- hailed the Qatar Racing-owned the excellence of the QREC Chairman said. Pilaster raced just once as munique won the £75,000 Lightning Spear’s victory in the Qatar Racing when Speaking about the results a two-year-old, finishing Matchbook Best Value Qatar Sussex Stakes at this year’s Lightning Spear recorded by Qatar’s horses so far seventh in a Doncaster mile Exchange Handicap. renewal of the Qatar Goodwood in the Festival, Al Mohanndi said, maiden in October. The Ridden by Silvestre De Festival. He stated that winning landed the Qatar “We have seen the fantastic Cheveley Park Stud-owned Sousa, Communique beat such a Group 1 title is not easy at Sussex Stakes. Al excellence of Qatar Racing when homebred won both of her Zaman and Global Giant by one all given the importance of this Shaqab’s return has Lightning Spear landed the Qatar starts in novice events on the and a half lengths and a short race and its historical value and also been impressive Sussex Stakes.” All-Weather at Chelmsford (1m head. that it enhances the standing of “Al Shaqab’s return has also 2f) and Kempton (1m 4f) this Katie Forrest won yester- Qatar’s horseracing worldwide. with two wins so far been impressive with two wins year with Newmarket handler day’s Magnolia Cup riding Hur- Speaking during the Qatar by Watan on the first so far by Watan on the first day Varian describing her as a ricane Harry. Goodwood Festival, Al day and Medahim on and Medahim on the second “classy” filly. The winner, who is trained Mohannadi said, “Qatar Racing’s day. Watan’s win is very special Earlier, The Richard near Chiddingfold by George Issa bin Mohammed Al win is a victory for Qatar in the second day: Al as he was bred by Al Shaqab. Fahey-trained More Than This Baker, tracked Harrodian Mohannadi, Chairman of Qatar general and it serves as a moti- This very fact reflects His Excel- maintained his unbeaten Knight through the first few Racing & Equestrian Club (QREC) Mohannadi vation for other studs, such as Al lency Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad record with a game success in furlongs and then eased past Shaqab, Al Shahania and Umm Al Thani’s support to Al Shaqab the Telegraph Nursery before recording a com- Qarn, to maintain their presence the title this year, but that does Arabian racing all over the world breeding operation and their Handicap. fortable success. in this race in future, especially not underestimate the value of has been successful. We have presence in the world’s top Ridden by Paul Hanagan, The Ian Williams-trained as it is one of the most coveted Qatar’s horses and our consid- another experience at the Qatar racing festivals and events. I the two-year-old son of Dutch Harrodian Knight, the mount races worldwide and the most erable attention to purebred Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, where would like also to take this Art ran on strongly on the far- of Sarah Cook who works on prestigious of the Qatar Arabian races in the Qatar-spon- the Qatar Arabian World Cup has opportunity to thank His Excel- side rail to score by a length the Daily Mirror’s sports desk, Goodwood Festival.” sored racing events as demon- become a landmark in the lency Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad and a half in the seven-furlong took second ahead of the “Winning a prestigious race strated by organising a race for world’s racing every year. Before Al Thani for his presence during contest. Camilla Swift-ridden Boots for Thoroughbreds does not purebred Arabians since the very Qatar’s sponsorship, no Arabian the first two days of the Festival Meanwhile, Jockey P J And Spurs from Scott Dixon’s mean that there is no attention first year of our partnership with races were organised during the and to His Excellency Yousef bin McDonald rode his second stable. to Purebred Arabians,” Al Goodwood. This year’s renewal Arc weekend, but Qatar, in Ali Al Khater, Qatar’s Ambas- winner at this year’s Qatar The John Quinn-trained Mohannadi said. of the Qatar International Stakes agreement with France Galop, sador to the United Kingdom. I Goodwood Festival when Lord Riddiford (6/1) captured “Particularly as QREC is com- has a top quality field, who has introduced this race, which think the large-scale Qatari landing the Markel Insurance the final race on day three of mitted to hold the Qatar Interna- between them had won 11 Group is considered the World Cup for presence is a huge gain, which British EBF Fillies’ Maiden on the Qatar Goodwood Festival, tional Stakes for Purebred Ara- ones and 23 Pattern races. Such Pure Arabians.” should be maintained, espe- the Mark Johnston-trained the Tatler Handicap over five bians as part of the festival every top quality runners confirm that “It is now run before the cially in such a high-profile Accordance. furlongs, his third successive year. It was Muraaqib who won QREC’s strategy of supporting Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe event.” The 9/2 winner, who races victory. 18 SPORT FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 Qatar’s Tamimi among top-30 in the world Marquez in commanding QNA Federations junior circuit rankings lead at halfway point (Under-19). He has also won DOHA: Qatari squash player and several other prestigious titles, AFP will still be very long with 10 races Aspire Academy graduate including the Under-19 Qatar to go, and not easy at all. Our rivals Abdulla Al Tamimi, who recently Youth Open Championship, again BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC: As the are riding fast at every circuit.” won the Malaysia Open, climbed in 2012, and the Under-19 Dutch MotoGP season reaches its “I’ll go to Brno not thinking to the 28th position on the PSA Junior Open in July 2013. halfway point on Sunday, Marc about the advantage in the Cham- World Ranking, his highest He also finished fourth in the Marquez sits regally in first place pionship, as if we were all still at positoin so far. World Youth Championship, held seemingly as concerned with his the beginning, on zero points.” “Im delighted to reach the in Poland in July 2013. adoring fans as with his distant The Brno course is long at top-30 this month. It’s a great Throughout 2014 and 2015, pursuers. 5.4km with six left-hand corners way to kick off the new squash Al Tamimi continued to shine at The Czech MotoGP in Brno is and eight right-handers and a 74m season and I am looking forward international squash champion- the 10th of the 19 races on this change in elevation on each lap. to the rest of the year,” the player ships in Qatar and around the season’s calendar. It is also the It has not always been kind to said. world, reaching the final rounds 100th for the 25-year-old Marquez. Al Tamimi is only 23-years- of a number of different tourna- Spaniard in the sport’s elite class In 2010, while he was still old, yet most top squash players ments. These included the Guil- and he has won 40 of them. racing in the 125cc class (today are older than 30. This has led to foyle Financial PSA Classic, the This season, after winning five Moto3), he came to Brno on a players and experts believing NASH Cup, the AnyPresence of the first nine races, including streak of five straight victories and that the huge improvements in Open, the Qatar Classic Squash the last two in Assen and on the finished seventh. his performance over the last 12 Championship, amongst others. Sachsenring, the Honda rider’s Four years later, he arrived months will continue over the In 2017, his progress con- closest rivals are two Yamaha having won the first 10 races of next few years. tinued as he achieved a career- riders. the MotoGP season and finished In 2012, Al Tamimi became best world ranking of 37 after Italian veteran Valentino Rossi fourth. world No.1 in the World Squash reaching the second round of the is 46 points back and another Last year’s race may have World Squash Championships in Spaniard, Maverick Vinales, trails gone some way to wiping out Manchester. Heading into the by 56. those memories as Marquez pitted 2018 season, Al Tamimi is now After a three-week break fol- early to switch from wet tyres to hoping to improve on his current lowing the German Grand Prix, slicks and rode away from his world-ranking of 28. Marquez, the reigning champion, rivals on a drying circuit to win by understandably enters the race 13 seconds. feeling good. During his break, the Spaniard, “We’re coming off of wins at who is adored in his homeland, two very different races, one an attended a charity run in Bar- all-out battle and one more tac- celona where local newspaper MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP tical, so we arrive in Brno in a con- Mundo Deportivo asked him: “Is STANDINGS fident mood,” said the four-time it hard being Marc Marquez?” MotoGP world champion. “It’s complicated because, 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 165 points “It was also good to enjoy a although I appreciate it a lot when 2. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 119 few days of vacation to recharge people stop you, ask for a picture 3. Maverick Vinales (ESP/Yamaha) 109 the batteries and prepare for the and give you encouragement, it’s Abdulla 4. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 88 second half of the season, which difficult,” said Marquez. Al Tamimi Marc Marquez 5. Johann Zarco (FRA/Yamaha Tech3) 88

Action during the Arab Table Tennis Neymar rejoins Championship 2018 in Cairo, Egypt. PSG on China tour AFP lowing a foot injury in late February. The flamboyant forward then SHENZHEN: Dozens of screaming fans endured a turbulent World Cup as Brazil welcomed Brazil star Neymar (pictured) were stunned by Belgium in the quarter- yesterday as he flew in to China to rejoin finals and he was widely lampooned for Paris Saint-Germain after his disap- his play-acting. Djamel Belmadi pointing World Cup. “I didn’t want to see a ball, or to see The world’s most expensive player, any more football played,” the 26-year- wearing a canary-yellow hoodie, posed old told AFP last month in an interview, Belmadi for pictures with airport staff before his describing his World Cup noisy welcome in the disadisappointment.ppointment. Team Qatar reaches Arab Table arrivalsarrivals hall. However,However, yesterday’syesterday’s ententhusiastichusiastic named welcomewelcome indicated thatthat hhisis popupopularitylarity Tennis Championship final in CChinah ina Algeria’s remainsremains very QNA The prestigious event sees 17 muchmuch intintact.act. Arab nations in action including CAIRO: Qatar U-21 team reached Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, new coach the final of the Arab Table Tennis Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Iraq, Oman, Championship 2018, after defeating Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon and hosts REUTERS Bahrain in the semi-finals in Cairo Egypt who are competing in different on Wednesday. categories. ALGIERS: Algeria have In the title clash which was scheduled Around 386 players are competing appointed former interna- for yesterday, Qatar were to play in five different categories of Under- tional Djamel Belmadi as their against hosts Egypt. 21, Under-18 and Under-15 years. new national coach, the FootageFootage on Neymar’sNeymar’s country’s football federation TwitterTwitter accountaccount showedshowed himhim announced yesterday. signingsigning Barcelona,Barcelona, BrazilBrazil andand PSG The former Manchester shirtsshirts beforebefore beingbeing guidedguided throughthrough thethe City midfielder will travel to ccrowdrowd by minmindersders anandd security stastaff.ff. Algiers to sign a contract Neymar’sNeymar’s arrival,arrival, aaheadhead ofof replacing Rabah Madjer, who tomorrow’s French Super Cup Woods has sights on resigned in June, the Algerian game agaagainstinst MMonacoonaco in Football Federation said. Shenzhen,Shenzhen, comes more than French-born Belmadi, 42, fivefive monthsmonths aafterfter hhisis llastast ninth title at Firestone played for Algeria between appeaappearancerance forfor PSGPSG fol-fol- AFP 2000 and 2004, including a golf courses on the entire tour,” Woods quarter-final place at the said. “It’s a very simple, straightforward 2004 African Nations Cup LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods returns to golf course, which we don’t see very often finals. England keen to extend the scene of his most recent victory when anymore. It’s one of the reasons why I tried His club career started at he tackles the WGC Bridgestone in Akron, so hard to get in this event, is because it Paris St Germain and included Ohio, just making the elite field a does mean something special to me.” stints at Olympique Marseille, Southgate’s contract testament to the superstar’s resilience. A ninth victory at Firestone would Celta Vigo in Spain, Man- “This event has been very special to also put Woods closer to his goal of AFP chester City and be a contract conversation and he’s on me over the years. I’m excited to be back,” playing in the Ryder Cup -- as well as Southampton. holiday now, so we’ll talk when he comes said 14-time major champion Woods, serving as an assistant to US captain Jim His previous coaching LONDON: England’s Football Association back. who has climbed from 656th in the world Furyk. experience has been wants Gareth Southgate to stay on as Southgate’s current salary is under- to start the year to 50th -- barely making “You know he’s going to play well this restricted to Qatar where he manager beyond Euro 2020 but knows it stood to be £1.8m ($2.4m) a year, with the field for a tournament he has won an week,” American Justin Thomas said of has managed the national cannot compete on wages if a Premier bonuses taking it closer to the £2.5m his astonishing eight times. Woods. side as well as several clubs. League club makes an approach. predecessors Sam Allardyce and Roy That includes his victory in 2013 -- “This place is like Augusta for him. Belmadi is the seventh Southgate took England to the World Hodgson are believed to have earned. his most recent win anywhere. He could probably take two, three weeks coach of Algeria since they Cup semi-finals in Russia, boosting his The figures, however, are still much Since then, Woods has been ham- off and he’s going to get it around here reached the second round of stock within the game and ending a run less than the £4m Fabio Capello received pered by the back trouble that led to fine, because he knows how to. He’s won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, of miserable failures at major tournaments when at the helm and a fraction of the sal- spinal fusion surgery in April of last year. here as many times as I’ve won every- reflecting a turbulent last four for the national side. aries of around £15m earned by the likes “I went from just hoping to be able to where in my career. years for the side. “Gareth has been excellent -- we’d like of Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola in the play the tour to now that I feel that I can “I am surprised he hasn’t mentioned His first assignment will him to stay beyond 2020,” FA chief exec- Premier League. play the tour,” he said. “I certainly can that yet -- which is nice,” quipped be away against the Gambia utive Martin Glenn told reporters at Now 47, Southgate has not hidden the win again.” Thomas, who will play alongside five- next month as Algeria resume Wembley. fact he would like to return to club man- And where better to prove that than time major winner Phil Mickelson in the their bid to qualify for next “I think we’d both like that but if we agement one day, having been sacked by Firestone? first two rounds, when Woods tees it up year’s Nations Cup finals. talked about it at any length it would then Middlesbrough in 2009. “It has always been one of my favorite with Australian Jason Day. FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018 SPORT 19 Kohli smashes 149 as India Murray sails fight back on second day past Edmund AP at Citi Open BIRMINGHAM: Virat Kohli rode REUTERS his luck before delivering a “I feel better than I did batting exhibition in a brilliant during the grasscourt season, innings of 149 to keep India in NEW YORK: Former world which is positive,” said Murray, sight of England on a gripping number one Andy Murray took who played three matches in second day of the first Test at another big step in his late June but withdrew from Edgbaston yesterday. comeback from hip surgery by Wimbledon as it came too early The India captain made beating fellow Brit Kyle in his recovery process. England pay dearly for dropped Edmund 7-6(4) 1-6 6-4 in the “So things are still getting catches when on 21 and 51, second round of the Citi Open better and I’ve lasted fairly well blazing to his 22nd Test century on Wednesday. through two long matches here - and first in England - to end a The 31-year-old Scot on a tough surface on the body. sorry run of scores on English blasted a backhand cross-court “Hopefully I can keep soil. return winner on match point healing up from the matches In fact, his total beat the to end the two-and-a-half hour and feeling better.” combined scores in his 10 pre- contest and dispatch the fourth Also in the second round, vious innings on English soil seed. Denis Shapovalov fired his 15th from India’s five-Test tour in Top seed Alexander Zverev ace on match point to complete 2014. won 82 percent of his first a 3-6 6-1 6-4 victory over Rus- After he was the last man out serves in his rain-interrupted sia’s Daniil Medvedev. with about 30 minutes left of the match that started on Tuesday Medvedev led 4-1 in the day, Kohli was given a standing against Malek Jaziri en route to third set but 19-year-old ovation around Edgbaston, with a 6-2 6-1 win over the Tunisian. Canadian Shapovalov was able England fans also showing their Third seed David Goffin to turn it around behind his appreciation of one of cricket’s survived a scare from France’s booming left-handed serve and box-office talents. Pierre-Hugues Herbert but punishing ground strokes. Kohli opened his shoulders hung on for a 6-2 1-6 7-6(5) win Jared Donaldson had to halt late in his knock and finished while Japan’s Kei Nishikori sent the third set of his match with a total of 22 fours and a six Donald Young packing for the against Stefanos Tsitsipas to off his penultimate ball as he second year in a row, beating receive treatment on his right successfully hogged the strike to the American 6-3 6-4. hip and, after failing to convert demonstrate his excellent game Earlier on Wednesday, Nick two match points, fell 3-6 6-3 management. Kyrgios withdrew from the 7-5 to the Greek. Thanks to Kohli, India was tournament with a hip injury, There was more injury woe eventually dismissed for 274 - another setback in the Austral- for Australian Kyrgios, who had for a first-innings deficit of 13 ian’s buildup to the US Open. hurt his hip a week earlier in runs - having been 59-3, 100-5 Edmund and Murray were Atlanta. and 169-7 at various stages. on serve to start the match The fifth seed made the trip England, which started the before trading breaks to set up to Washington hoping to be fit, day by adding just two runs to a first-set tiebreaker, which only to pull out of his opening its overnight 285-9, ended it by Murray won when his match against compatriot closing on 9-1 in its second backhand return caught the line James Duckworth. innings after offspinner Ravi- in a call confirmed by video The world number 17 is chandran Ashwin bowled review. scheduled to play tournaments Alastair Cook for 0, in a virtual Edmund, who had defeated in Toronto and Cincinnati repeat of the opener’s first- Murray in straight sets in the before the US Open, which innings dismissal. second round at Eastbourne in begins on Aug. 27. The hosts led by 22 runs with June, fought back in the second Jason Kubler was awarded nine second-innings wickets set, cutting down on his errors Kyrgios’s spot in the draw but remaining heading into the third and breaking Murray twice to the lucky loser was unable to day. set up a decider. take advantage, falling 1-6 6-2 England swing bowler Sam Edmund saved two break 7-6(5) to Duckworth. Curran took three wickets in points at 4-3 to get back on Americans Frances Tiafoe eight balls before lunch - serve but nerves appeared to and Denis Kudla cruised to removing Murali Vijay (20), get to the 23-year-old as sent a straight sets wins over Poland’s Lokesh Rahul (4) and Shikhar forehand long before com- Hubert Hurkacz (6-2 6-4) and Dhawan (26) - to reduce India mitting his seventh double fault Russian 12th seed Karen to 59-3, before the tourists were to bring up match point. Khachanov (6-2 6-3) while given a testing first hour of the Next up for Murray is a French 14th seed Jeremy afternoon session against a ball third-round battle with Marius Chardy fell 6-4 6-4 to 93rd that swung around. India’s Virat Kohli in action on day two Copil. Murray won their only ranked Romanian Copil. Two more Indian batsmen of the first Test against England at previous meeting last year in The summer rain storms departed, with Ben Stokes taking Edgbaston, Birmingham, yesterday. Kohli straight sets. that have plagued the tour- the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane smashed his 22nd Test career century. Murray, who has added the nament all week returned on (15) and Dinesh Karthik (0) in China Open to his schedule in Wednesday, pushing the consecutive overs, but Kohli just October as he continues his second-round match between about survived. SCOREBOARD SL scrap plans return from hip surgery earlier second seed John Isner and He was dropped by Dawid ENGLAND 1st Innings (overnight: 285-9) V. Kohli c Broad b Rashid ...... 149 this year, after the match said fellow American Noah Rubin to Malan at first slip on 21, edged A. Cook b Ashwin ...... 13 A. Rahane c Jennings b Stokes ...... 15 to emulate IPL his body was being put through Thursday and forcing several three times short of fielders K. Jennings b Shami ...... 42 D. Karthik b Stokes ...... 0 the wringer at the hardcourt other matches to be behind the wicket, then glanced J. Root run out (Kohli) ...... 80 H. Pandya lbw b Curran ...... 22 tournament tournament. suspended. another edge through the right D. Malan lbw b Shami ...... 8 R. Ashwin b Anderson ...... 10 hand of the diving Malan when J. Bairstow b Yadav ...... 70 M. Shami c Malan b Anderson ...... 2 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Cricket on 51. B. Stokes c and b Ashwin ...... 21 I. Sharma lbw b Rashid ...... 5 authorities yesterday shelved Andy Murray of Great In going past 39, he’d already J. Buttler lbw b Ashwin ...... 0 U. Yadav not out ...... 1 long-delayed plans for a Britain returns a bettered his top score from the S. Curran c Karthik b Shami ...... 24 Extras (b4, lb11, nb4, w1) ...... 20 Twenty20 competition akin to backhand shot to A. Rashid lbw b Sharma ...... 13 2014 tour and soon England was Total (all out, 76 overs, 360 mins) ...... 274 the massively lucrative Indian compatriot Kyle Edmund S. Broad lbw b Ashwin ...... 1 on the defensive, spreading the Fall of wickets: 1-50, 2-54, 3-59, 4-100, 5-100, Premier League, instead J. Anderson not out ...... 2 during Day Five of the field. 6-148, 7-169, 8-182, 9-217, 10-274 announcing a local tournament Extras (b9, lb4) ...... 13 Citi Open at the Rock Kohli proceeded to dominate Bowling: Anderson 22-7-41-2; Broad 10-2-40-0 with no foreign players. Total (all out, 89.4 overs, 393 mins) .....287 Creek Tennis Center in the bowling with a variety of (3nb); Curran 17-1-74-4 (1w); Rashid 8-0-31-2; With an eye on the billions Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-98, 3-112, 4-216, 5-223, Washington, DC. shots to the boundary. 6-224, 7-243, 8-278, 9-283, 10-287 Stokes 19-4-73-2 (1nb) of dollars and millions of viewers As he steadily ran out of Bowling: Yadav 17-2-56-1; Sharma 17-1-46-1; Ash- ENGLAND 2nd Innings drawn to the IPL, Sri Lanka partners, Kolhi managed to keep win 26-7-62-4; Shami 19.4-2-64-3; Pandya 10-1- A. Cook b Ashwin ...... 0 launched its own premier league the strike in what proved to be 46-0 K. Jennings not out ...... 5 in 2012 but the competition was a memorable 225-ball knock INDIA 1st Innings Extras (b4) ...... 4 a flop, lasting just one edition. before being caught by Stuart M. Vijay lbw b Curran ...... 20 Total (1 wkt, 3.4 overs, 12 mins) ...... 9 The new league will nurture Broad off Adil Rashid. S. Dhawan c Malan b Curran ...... 26 Fall of wickets: 1-9 emerging local talent by giving Cook’s dismissal brought KL Rahul b Curran ...... 4 Bowling: Shami 2-2-0-0; Ashwin 1.4-0-5-1; young players the opportunity about stumps, with Keaton Jen- to play alongside the island’s nings 5 not out. lunch interval for an X-ray on there was no break, but Buttler best, the official said. The four England will hope Jos Buttler his left middle finger, which he didn’t return to the field and teams will face each other twice will be able to bat today after he injured while fielding. received treatment to reduce the in the tournament, which is went to the hospital during the The X-ray yesterday showed swelling. slated to begin August 21. India’s top 10 century-makers in Test cricket BIRMINGHAM: India’s skipper Virat Kohli yesterday smashed his 22nd century in Test cricket. Kohli, 29, has joined former skipper Mohammad Azharuddin with 22 centuries for India in the longer format of the game. Here’s a list of India players with 14 or more centuries.

Batsman, Career span Tests Innings NOs Runs HS Ave 100s 50s 0s SR Tendulkar 1989-2013 200 329 33 15921 248* 53.78 51 68 14 R Dravid 1996-2012 163 284 32 13265 270 52.63 36 63 7 SM Gavaskar 1971-1987 125 214 16 10122 236* 51.12 34 45 12 V Sehwag 2001-2013 103 178 6 8503 319 49.43 23 31 16 V Kohli 2011-2018 67* 113 8 5703 243 54.31 22 16 6 M Azharuddin 1984-2000 99 147 9 6215 199 45.03 22 21 5 D Vengsarkar 1976-1992 116 185 22 6868 166 42.13 17 35 15 VVS Laxman 1996-2012 134 225 34 8781 281 45.97 17 56 14 SC Ganguly 1996-2008 113 188 17 7212 239 42.17 16 35 13 CA Pujara 2010-2018 58 97 7 4531 206* 50.34 14 17 4 20 MORNING BREAK FRIDAY 3 AUGUST 2018

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Kurdish refugee wins ‘Nobel of mathematics’ Fields medal For Paris pedestrians, life

AFP the International Congress of turns into ‘dodgeball’ Mathematicians (ICM), which REUTERS RIO DE JANEIRO: Kurdish oversees the prize, said in its world’s top tourist destinations, refugee turned Cambridge announcement. fills up with foreign visitors University math professor That changed after Figalli PARIS: Strolling along elegant during the summer, it can be a Caucher Birkar was among four entered the International Mathe- boulevards is one of the serious obstacle course for the winners in Rio de Janeiro of the matical Olympiad, awakening a pleasures of visiting Paris. But uninitiated. prestigious Fields prize, dubbed fascination for math that today these days pedestrians and “I use electric scooters the Nobel for mathematics, but has seen him become a leader in tourists need to keep an eye out every day to go to work or had his gold medal stolen calculating variations and partial for speeding scooters, hover- meet clients. They are faster minutes later. differential equations. Figalli, now boards, Segways and bicycles, than Uber, taxis, the metro, It was an embarrassing 34 and at ETH Zurich, said the as well as the sights. everything,” said Benjamin, debut for crime-ridden Rio, the prize “gives automatic visibility Over the past year the 28, a commercial manager first Latin American city ever to and opens up doors to us.” number of ways of getting in Paris. host the Fields ceremony, which As for Germany’s Scholze, around the city has blossomed. “I can’t lie, scooters are takes place every four years. From left: Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay who was awarded the Fields Besides on foot and via Velib, dangerous,” he said, saying it Less than an hour had Venkatesh, — Kurdish, Italian, German and Indian — mathematicians medal for his work in arithmetic the decade-old bike-share was the case for both riders and passed since Birkar, a 40-year- that won the Fields Medals Award, math’s most prestigious prize, algebraic geometry, he says scheme now getting an pedestrians. “We have no old specialist in algebraic at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. there’ll never be an end to the overhaul, there are three other helmets and the roads can be geometry, had been handed his challenges he faces. “There are an bike-sharing firms, three unsafe.” 14 karat gold medal when his said “Kurdistan was an unlikely The Fields medal recognizes infinite number of problems,” said electric scooter operators and An elderly couple from the briefcase went missing. The place for a kid to develop an the outstanding mathematical Scholze, who is at the University hundreds of people riding US state of Georgia said they organizer behind the event, the interest in mathematics.” Despite achievements of candidates who of Bonn and is only 30 years old. single- and double-wheel couldn’t believe how fast International Congress of Math- that, he went from Tehran Uni- were under 40 years old at the “Whenever you solve a problem, hoverboards. scooters went. “They don’t ematics, said it “profoundly versity, where he recounts start of the year. At least two and there are 10 more coming.” But the proliferation of watch the pedestrians at all,” regrets” the incident. having looked up dreamily at preferably four people are The fourth laureate, transport comes with a said the woman, declining to Birkar celebrated his portraits of past Fields winners, honored each time. Venkatesh, is an Indian-born, downside: a walk beside the give her name. achievement — alongside co- to get political asylum and citi- In 2014, Maryam Mirza- Australian-raised prodigy who Seine or down the broad side- “One nearly ran me over.” winners Alessio Figalli, Peter zenship in Britain — and khani, from Iran, became the began his undergraduate degree walks of the Champs-Elysees For walkers, obstacles are only Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh establish himself as an excep- award’s first and so far only in mathematics and physics at can involve dodging an likely to increase. — as a fairy tale come true for tional mathematical mind. female winner. She died in 2017. the University of Western Aus- onslaught of commuters Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo the often beleaguered Kurds. “To go from the point that I Another of Wednesday’s four tralia when he was just 13. zipping along at speeds of up to is intent on reducing emissions “I’m hoping this news will put a didn’t imagine meeting these co-winners, Figalli, also had an Now 36 and at Stanford Uni- 28 kph (17 mph). and encouraging new transport. smile on the faces of those 40 people to the point where unlikely start to academic super- versity in the United States, While many ride on the In the coming months, another million people,” he said. someday I hold a medal myself stardom, albeit for very different Venkatesh specializes in number roads, others feel safer on the electric scooter operator will Born in a village in the ethnic -- I just couldn’t imagine that reasons than Birkar. theory and describes his work pavements, which means launch and another bike-share Kurdish province of Marivan, this would come true,” Birkar “Until high school, his only in terms more often associated pedestrians need to be on their scheme, this time offering fast near the Iran-Iraq border, Birkar told Quanta Magazine. concern was playing football,” with the artistic fields. toes. As the city, one of the electric bikes.