SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 MUHARRAM 5, 1440 VOL.11 NO. 4393 QR 2

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Gulf / Middle East 7 Business 10 Sports 13 Palestinian mission ceases Perry encourages OPEC, Russia Sjostrom, Pieroni sink records; operations in Washington to work against oil price spike Hosszu claims two more golds QNA hacking to be added to the case against UAE at ICJ: A-G Qatar will spare no effort to defend itself: Marri

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THE Qatar News Agency Qatar, Spain share deep ties: FM (QNA) website hacking case will be added to the case filed MADRID Deputy Prime Minister highlighted Qatar’s regional The FM briefed the officials strengthening cultural, eco- against the United Arab Emir- and Minister of Foreign Affairs and international efforts to on the efforts of the Arab nomic and political relations ates (UAE) before the Interna- HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Ab- establish global peace. House in Spain to enhance with the countries of the tional Court of Justice (ICJ) in dulrahman al Thani underlined A group of officials, aca- communication between Spain Arab world. The FM also higli- The Hague after evidence une- the depth of the Qatari-Spanish demics and representatives of and the Arab world. ghted Qatar’s efforts to protect quivocally proved the involve- relations during a round table companies interested in the Sheikh Mohammed gave a human rights and preparations ment of the UAE and Saudi discussion at the Arab House Middle East took part in the briefing on his visit to Spain, for hosting the 2022 FIFA Arabia in the crime, Attorney- in Spain on Friday. The FM also discussion. stressing the importance of World Cup. (QNA) General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri has said. In press statements in New York on Friday, the Attorney- General said largest law firms Quick read in New York were contacted, which in turn contracted with Attorney-General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri addresses a press Ivory Coast Israeli troops kill three leading international compa- conference in New York on Friday. nies specialising in computer president to science and IT, which proved expertise in law firms were ap- part, which is a political one arrive today Palestinians in Gaza conclusively the involvement proached, which in turn con- is for politicians. We will con- of the siege countries — Saudi tracted with the largest compa- tinue to focus on the legal DOHA President of Ivory Coast Arabia and the UAE — in the nies specialising in computer aspect on the existence of evi- Alassane Ouattara will arrive in REUTERS hacking of the QNA’s website. science, and obtained solid evi- dence and how to deal with Doha on Saturday on an official GAZA He said the next step is to dence confirming Qatar’s past them in a way that serves our visit to the country. The Amir transfer the file of the QNA findings of the involvement of case which were the QNA’s HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Israeli soldiers on Friday killed three Pales- website hacking case with evi- the UAE and Saudi Arabia in website hacking and the lists Thani will meet the President of tinians, one of them a 12-year-old boy, and dence and add it to the case the hacking,” he added. of terrorism.” Ivory Coast at the Amiri Diwan wounded more than 250 others taking part in against the UAE at the ICJ. The Attorney-General The Attorney-General said, on Monday. They will hold talks the weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip Marri stressed that the stressed that Qatar will spare “The large law firm in New on bilateral relations and ways border, Palestinian medical officials said. siege countries’ involvement no effort to take necessary le- York, which was contracted to enhance them. (QNA) The Israeli military said it used force neces- in the QNA website hacking, gal steps to defend itself in all by Qatar, includes prominent sary to repel 13,000 Palestinians who massed at specifically Saudi Arabia and international legal forums. names globally, who would several points at the fence. the UAE, had been detected In response to a question not risk their credibility if they Super typhoon Friday’s dead brought to 177 the number of since the first week of the about the possibility of a set- did not have strong evidence Palestinians killed since the demonstrations hacking by the Department of tlement before new cases are on the involvement of Saudi blasts into were launched on March 30 to press demands Electronic Crimes at the Min- raised by Qatar, Marri said, Arabia and the UAE in the Philippines against Israel. The 12-year-old, Shadi Abdel- Israeli forces fire tear gas canisters at Palestinians istry of the Interior of Qatar. “We as a legal team are con- QNA website hacking.” Al, is the youngest fatality from Israeli gunfire. during a demonstration along the Israeli fence, “Since Qatar is the victim cerned about the legal aspect TUGUEGARAO Super Typhoon (REUTERS) PAGE 7 east of Gaza City, on Friday. (AFP) in this case, largest specialised of this case. As for the other Continued on page 2 Ô Mangkhut slammed into the northern Philippines on Friday with violent winds and torren- tial rains as authorities warned millions in its path of heavy destruction. The massive DEATHS AND DESTRUCTION AS Manafort to cooperate storm, which forecasters have called the strongest typhoon in Russia probe this year, made landfall on the GIANT HURRICANE POUNDS US island of Luzon with gusts of US President Donald Trump’s former up to 255 km per hour. “The At least four people were killed as Hurricane Florence mauls the US campaign chairman Paul Manafort eye of the typhoon has made East Coast on Friday, knocking out power to 600,000 homes and agreed on Friday to cooperate landfall... as of 1:40am,” said causing buildings to crumble. A mother and child were killed when in the Russia collusion Gener Quitlong, a forecaster. Ahead of the storm’s arrival a tree fell on their house in Wilmington, North Carolina. Evacuation investigation in a plea deal that the weather service raised a warnings are in place for 1.7 million people. The third fatality was a left the White House looking “signal four” alert, the second- Pender County, North Carolina, woman who had a medical condition. increasingly under siege highest storm warning, for In Lenoir County, a person was killed while plugging in a generator, by Special Counsel Robert six provinces in Luzon’s north. PAGE 3 according to the governor’s office. PAGE 9 Mueller. (AFP) PAGE 9

World must revise stance on Saudi to end GCC crisis: Analysts

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Europe and the international com- as it has unfolded. LSE Middle East Centre. LONDON munity must change [their] posi- The diplomatic crisis began in “I can’t see that any repair can tion. [They are] morally obliged to, June 2017, when Saudi Arabia, the be done, not even a shared enemy THE international community and I would argue, legally obliged UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed would bring them together.” must revise its stance towards Sau- to,” said Carl Buckley, a barrister diplomatic relations with Qatar. Law suggested that a lack of di Arabia to end the current Gulf and Chambers Director at Guernica Bill Law, a journalist who has perspective from Gulf leaders was a crisis, experts of international law 37 International Justice Chambers. reported from the Middle East for major factor in the continuation of and Middle East politics told a con- “Saudi Arabia is emboldened to the BBC, reflected on the way the the crisis. ference in London on Thursday. continue to act as it sees fit, because current crisis has changed the dy- Calling for a more measured According to a report in Al silence is seen as tacit approval,” namics of the Gulf. approach, he said: “Sane and sen- Jazeera, the panelists agreed that Buckley said at the event, which was “The GCC has been ruptured sible heads should get together unless world leaders take stronger hosted by Diwan London and titled permanently.” and solve this pointless dispute. It action, the probability of the Gulf The Arab Gulf States in Transition: At the London conference, ana- seems that those are in short sup- crisis ending soon is low, and con- The Present Predicament and Fu- lysts warned that should the crisis ply, and so this crisis will go on stitutes a threat to the wider region. ture Prospects. continue, negative consequences and on and on.” “We are seeing a deepening and Fifteen months after the advent may be difficult to reverse. “Qataris have seen off the block- widening of the crisis. I don’t see of the latest Gulf crisis, the GCC has “There is a fragmentation of the ade, the economy is buzzing. It is it changing any time soon unless been unable to resolve the dispute, concept of the Gulf,” said Madawi al hard to see Qatar as the loser here,” other states change their position. which has grown increasingly bitter Rasheed, a visiting professor at the said Law. 02 Saturday, September 15, 2018

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Qatar and Spain to establish ‘institutional framework for achieving common goals’

QNA host countries. MADRID The FM also attended a debate session at the Spanish THE State of Qatar and the Elcano Royal Institute, dur- Kingdom of Spain have agreed ing his official visit to Spain. to establish an institutional During the session, a number framework for cooperation to of regional and international achieve common objectives. issues were discussed, as well This came in a joint state- as developments in the Middle ment issued in Madrid on East, especially the Gulf crisis. Thursday, on cooperation in Furthermore, the Spanish the field of investment be- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tween the State of Qatar and met with the Qatari Deputy the Kingdom of Spain, repre- Prime Minister and Minister sented by the Deputy Prime of Foreign Affairs on Thurs- Minister and Minister of For- day. The meeting discussed eign Affairs HE Sheikh Mo- bilateral relations and means hammed bin Abdulrahman of enhancing and developing al Thani and Spanish Prime them, in addition to a number Minister Pedro Sanchez. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh of issues of common concern. The statement stressed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani with President of the Congress The FM also met with Pres- that Qatar and Spain agreed with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. of Deputies of Spain Ana Pastor. ident of the Congress of Depu- to establish an institutional ties Ana Pastor, during his offi- framework for cooperation to (the Spanish development procedures to promote busi- by the Amiri Decision No. 22 ture generations. financial development institu- cial visit to Spain. The meeting achieve common goals. Qatar finance company) will also ness and joint investment, the of 2005. The mission of QIA is Established in 1988, the tion designed to facilitate the discussed bilateral relations Investment Authority (QIA) submit another memorandum statement added. to invest, manage and develop Spanish development finance internationalisation of Span- and means of supporting and and Compania Espanola de of understanding that will set QIA is owned by the State Qatar’s reserves to create long- company is owned by the ish companies while contrib- developing them, as well as Financiacion del Desarrollo guidelines and operational of Qatar and was established term value for the state and fu- Spanish public sector and it’s a uting to the development of matters of common concern.

Senegal official meets Qatar’s ambassador MME team cleans solar SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic HMC, ADI join hands to raise of Senegal Mame Baba Cisse met with Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Senegal HE Saree bin Ali al Qahtani in Dakar. panels at Al Wakra beach The meeting discussed bilateral relations and ways of boosting and awareness about Alzheimer’s developing them, as well as matters of common concern. (QNA) CATHERINE W GICHUKI ops dementia – where Alzhe- other HMC departments,” Dr DOHA imer’s is the leading cause. Chandran said, adding, “At “The impact of World the memory clinics, we have HAMAD Medical Corpora- Alzheimer’s Month is grow- three to four new assess- ‘World is not a jungle tion (HMC) has joined hands ing, but the stigmatisation ments and an average of 8 to with Alzheimer’s Disease and misinformation that sur- 10 follow up cases, weekly.” International (ADI). Their rounds dementia remains a Talking about the series and governed by law’ main aim is to raise aware- global problem that requires of events for this month, Dr ness about Alzheimer’s with action,” Dr Chandran said. Zerak al Salihy, consultant Continued from page 1 Ô terrorism,” he said, adding a series of activities. According to Dr Chan- geriatric psychiatrist of Old that “unfortunately, the Arab This is part of the World dran, the departments of Adult Psychiatry Services, Regarding the list of terror- world today uses the lists of Alzheimer’s Month marked geriatrics and psychiatry are said the nationwide cam- ism issued by the siege coun- terrorism in the liquidation every September to raise working together in a series paign is planned to target tries against Qatari citizens of the finest young Arabs”. awareness and focus on chal- of events to raise awareness, community, healthcare pro- and institutions, he said, “The The Attorney General lenges and stigma that sur- understanding and help to- fessionals and the carers. list of 16 Qatari nationals and pointed out that the list round dementia. wards tackling the stigma. Events this year include first two Qatari institutions had drawn up by the siege coun- This year will mark “Alzheimer’s is a chronic responder training. also been proven unequivo- tries targeting Qatari in- the 7th World Alzheimer’s neurodegenerative disease “A significant number of cally that they have nothing dividuals and institutions, Month. And the World that usually starts slowly and patients we treat under Old to do with terrorism after a includes a journalist, noting Alzheimer’s Day will be ob- worsens over time. It is the Adults Psychiatry Services process of scrutiny by special- that these countries consid- served on September 21. cause of 50 to 60 percent of also have dementia. We have ised international offices that ered the journalist as a ter- Speaking at a press con- dementia cases. It predomi- outpatient clinics, a small proved their innocence and rorist that harasses and in- ference in Doha on Thurs- nantly affects people above inpatient unit and a com- The Ministry of Munici- they have no connection with timidates them. day, Rumailah Hospital sen- the age of 65, however some prehensive homecare serv- pality and Environment any form of terrorism.” Marri said the lists of ter- ior consultant and geriatric could get it at a younger age,” ice. At least 200 patients are (MME) represented by the “We have handed over rorism issued by the siege psychiatrist at the depart- Dr Chandran said. cared through home serv- Al Wakra Municipality and the list to specialised inves- countries against Qatari ment of geriatric medicine “We run Memory Clinics ices,” said Dr Salihy, adding in cooperation with the tigation, auditing and ac- people affected their families Dr Mani Chandran said at Rumailah Hospital under that certain lifestyle choices, Public Hygiene Depart- counting offices in the world and their future, so they will this year’s theme for World the Department of Geriat- such as physical activity and ment has cleaned solar which, after a year and a demand legal action against Alzheimer’s Month is ‘Every rics. We started with one healthy diet, controlling hy- panels at Al Wakra Family half of work, proved that the these countries. “The world 3 Seconds’. It is meant to clinic and it has now grown pertension and diabetes, Beach to increase their names on the list did not is not a jungle and governed highlight the observation to three. We get patients may help support the “brain efficiency and production have anything to do with by law,” he said. that in every three seconds referred to by the Primary health and reduce risk of of electricity. (TNN) someone in the world devel- Health Care Corporation and dementia”. Thailand’s ‘Vie Trio’ entertains Doha residents

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RESIDENTS of Doha were treated with contemporary Thai music by globally-re- nowned Thai musicians Vie Trio at an event in Katara Dra- ma Theatre on Thursday. Titled ‘Thai Classical Cross- over Music Show’, the musical programme was attended by Katara Cultural Village Gen- eral Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al Sulaiti along with the new Thailand Ambassador to Qatar HE Nathapol Khanta- The musical event was attended by Katara’s General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al Sulaiti along with hiran and other diplomats. Thailand’s Ambassador to Qatar HE Nathapol Khantahiran and other diplomats. On the occasion, the Thai (PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANSON K JOSEPH) ambassador underlined the impressive accomplishments ing the trophy ceremony of “I’m sure that Qatari pub- sical music instruments and of the featured performers and ATP ExxonMobil Qatar Open lic and a lot of you here are pattern, changing the percep- expressed his pride for being in 2011. already familiar with the tra- tion of Thai people that classi- able to host them in Qatar for “For the past few years, the ditional classical music. But cal music is for everyone and the second time. Royal Thai Embassy has or- not many Thai people are ex- every generation.” Vie Trio has performed ganised many cultural events posed to it. On that note, the Vie Trio has captured the over a thousand concerts in six to promote various aspects of siblings of three whose lives hearts of audiences around continents and in a number Thai culture in Qatar. These have immersed in classical the world with their distinct of well-known concert halls, include traditional cultural music since a young age wish rendition of crossover music including Carnegie Hall and performances – Thai culinary to bring Thai people, particu- of all genres. Thai performers even ser- Miracle’. They proceeded with ie masterpiece ‘Somewhere Kennedy Center Washing- art and food festivals. How- larly younger generation, to During Vie Trio’s latest enaded the crowd with some performing other classical hits Over the Rainbow’. Another ton, D.C. The band has held ever, this is the first time we classical music,” the ambassa- concert in Qatar, the band song numbers. including a rendition of ‘La highlight of the programme a number of concerts in the have exclusively introduced dor said, adding, “They make surprised the crowd with their The musical evening Vie En Rose’ sung by Akkra- was the band’s performance of Middle East, including in Qa- contemporary Thai music cul- classical music more acces- remarkable energy on stage. kicked off with Vie Trio’s per- wat. Kanyapas, the cellist, also three songs composed by late tar, when they were invited by ture to the audience in Qatar,” sible and enjoyable by mixing Aside from showing off their formance of their original showed off her singing prow- King of Thailand Bhumibol the organiser to perform dur- the ambassador said. all genres of songs with clas- skills on violin and cello, the composition ‘Paradise and ess and sung the timeless mov- Adulvadej. Philippines / Southeast Asia / World Saturday, September 15, 2018 03 ‘Absurd’ for UK to accuse Philippines braces for worst as Russia of lying about spy super typhoon barrels closer poisoning, says Kremlin AFP zCategory 5 storm strongest to hit country this year zOver 5 million people are at risk MOSCOW THE Kremlin on Friday said Accusing Russia of lying it was "absurd" for Britain to dismiss as unconvincing an after the declarations of two interview with two suspects in Russian citizens is absurd. the poisoning of former dou- These are ordinary citizens. ble agent Sergei Skripal on They have nothing to do British soil. with the Russian state The comments came a day after Alexander Petrov and Spokesman Dmitry Peskov Ruslan Boshirov denied any involvement in the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter in whether President Vladimir the English city of Salisbury in Putin had but that it was March, telling Russian state "hardly likely" he had seen it TV they had visited as tourists. in full. British security services The Kremlin responded had named the two men as after Prime Minister Theresa main suspects in the case. May's spokesman said the in- "Accusing Russia of lying terview contained "lies and after the declarations of two blatant fabrications" and Russian citizens is... absurd," called it "an insult to the pub- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry lic's intelligence." Peskov said. Peskov said that the Rus- "These are ordinary citi- sian government's position on zens. They have nothing to do the case has not changed and with the Russian state," Pesk- "we consider unacceptable any ov said. associations between the Rus- He added that he had not sian leadership and the Rus- watched the interview him- sian state and what happened self and that he did not know in Salisbury".

Japan’s commercial whale

Filipino fishermen secure a boat in anticipation of the coming typhoon in the town of Aparri, Cagayan province, on Friday.(EPA-EFE) hunting bid rejected by IWC REUTERS Isabela where it is forecast like this and so we would ask AFP Australia, the European Union MANILA to make landfall overnight. ‘Monster typhoon’ targets more the assistance of the national FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL and the United States, defeated Disaster officials warned that densely populated areas government and even the pri- Japan's "Way Forward" pro- PHILIPPINE authorities evac- tens of thousands more may vate sector." JAPAN'S determined bid to posal in a 41 to 27 vote. uated more areas on Friday need to be moved and weather TUGUEGARAO: Typhoon ‘Ompong’ (international name: Mangkhut) The capital, Manila, and return to commercial whale Japan had sought consen- and warned an estimated 5.2 forecasters warned of storm retained its ferocious strength and shifted slightly toward more more than three dozen north- hunting was rejected by the sus for its plan but had been million people in the path of surges as high as six metres densely populated coastal provinces on Friday as it barrelled ern and central provinces International Whaling Com- forced to push the proposal a "very destructive" typhoon in coastal villages in the ty- closer to the northeastern Philippines, where a massive evacua- have been placed under storm mission (IWC) on Friday in a to a vote "to demonstrate the to stay indoors, as the coun- phoon's path. tion was underway. warning signals. Classes have tense vote that exposed a deep resounding voices of support" try braced for heavy rain and Second and third contin- The Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center categorises been suspended and govern- split in the 72-year old organi- for a return to sustainable damage to infrastructure and gents of rescue teams were Mangkhut as a super typhoon with powerful winds and gusts ment offices shut early in sation. whaling for profit, said Taniai. crops. being prepared, in case first- equivalent to a category 5 Atlantic hurricane. more than 600 places, while Japan's vice-minister for Pacific and Caribbean Super Typhoon Mang- responders get into trouble A huge raincloud band 900 kilometers (560 miles) wide, military, medical and emer- fisheries Masaaki Taniai said island nations as well as khut is expected to barrel themselves. combined with seasonal monsoon rains, means the typhoon gency response teams were he regretted the vote's out- Nicaragua and several Af- through the northernmost tip "My appeal is that we need will bring heavy to intense rain that could set off landslides and put on stand by. come, and threatened Tokyo's rican countries, including of the Philippines on Saturday to heed the advice of the au- flash floods. Storm warnings have been raised in almost all the The coastguard said withdrawal from the 89-mem- Morocco, Kenya and Tanza- morning, carrying 205 kph thorities. Stay indoors," said provinces across the main northern island of Luzon, including about 5,000 passengers were ber body if progress could not nia, voted with Japan, as did wind speeds, and gusts of up presidential adviser Francis the capital, Manila, restricting sea and air travel. (INQUIRER.NET) stranded at several ports by be made towards a return to Laos and Cambodia. Korea to 255 kph, that it has main- Tolentino, the government's the impending storm, which commercial whaling. abstained. tained since it struck Micro- disaster response coordinator. will head on towards Hong "If scientific evidence and The Russian Federation, nesia earlier in the week. The storm further picked lashed down on buildings. typhoon, there were 14,000- Kong, China and Vietnam. diversity is not respected, if which like several states allows More than 9,000 people up speed and was about 340 Cagayan Governor Manuel plus of totally destroyed hous- Mangkhut's peak winds commercial whaling is com- aboriginal subsistence whal- have been moved to tempo- km east of the Philippines late Mamba said he expects wide- es and about 40,000-plus of are stronger than those of pletely denied ... Japan will ing, said it abstained because rary shelters as Mangkhut, afternoon on Friday. Video spread damage to crops and partially destroyed houses," Hurricane Florence, which be pressed to undertake a fun- "this vote showed a sharp split locally known as Ompong, posted on social media by Ca- infrastructure in his province, Mamba told news channel has left 188,000 without damental reassessment of its within the Commission. Our makes its way towards the gayan residents showed trees and said help would be need- ANC. power and is expected to drop position as a member of the worry is not to split the Com- rice- and corn-producing being whipped by fierce winds ed to rebuild. "We expect this kind of eight months of rain on the IWC," he said. mission too far and that's why provinces of Cagayan and under dark grey skies as rain "Last time we had a super damage with a super typhoon Carolinas in the United States. Anti-whaling nations led by we abstained."

News Nigeria names new spy chief Australian PM’s own party defies him in brief AFP parliament, were "a gross vio- ABUJA lation of constitutional order" in selection of by-election candidate and the rule of law. Kidnapped Congolese journalist found in NIGERIA has appointed a The DSS under Daura REUTERS tre-right government at least a ‘very weak’ state new head of the country's was often accused of high- SYDNEY temporarily surrendered its intelligence agency, after his handedness and abuses one-seat majority in parlia- BUKAVU, DR CONGO: A journalist who was kidnapped three days predecessor was sacked when against perceived political AUSTRALIAN Prime Minis- ment. Opinion polls sug- ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive east has been security operatives blockaded opponents of the Buhari ad- ter Scott Morrison's own par- gest that could become more found in a "very weak" state, his radio station said Friday. parliament. ministration. ty defied his wishes on Fri- permanent, with Australian Hassan Murhabazi surfaced on Thursday evening in the city The presidency said on The blockade came after day by nominating a former voters angry about frequent of Bukavu, a statement from his employer, Radio Svein, said. Thursday evening that Yusuf the leader of the Senate, Bu- diplomat instead of a female leadership changes. "He is very weak but he confirms have been kidnapped. The Magaji Bichi has taken over kola Saraki, defected to the candidate to run in a crucial Dave Sharma Sharma is a former Aus- circumstances under which he was found remain unclear and will from Lawal Musa Daura as main opposition from the rul- by-election for a seat that be- tralian ambassador to Israel be released later after medical tests," the statement. director-general of the De- ing party. longed to the man he deposed The nomination of Dave and received the endorsement Kidnappings are fairly common in the Sud-Kivu province, partment of State Services. Saraki, who has been at in a leadership coup. Sharma is another sign of the of both Turnbull and the Lib- whose capital is Bukavu. According to Reporters Without Bor- Daura -- a key ally of Pres- loggerheads with the execu- Morrison's Liberal party, deep fractures within the party eral party's elder statesman, ders (RSF), Murhabazi went missing after leaving his house on ident Muhammadu Buhari -- tive since he took up the post the senior partner in a Liber- former prime minister John Tuesday following a telephone call from an unknown person. He was dismissed after ordering in 2015, has since declared al-National coalition, nomi- Howard, although Morrison left his mobile phone at home. (AFP) what the government called his intention to stand for nated Dave Sharma to run in Malcolm Turnbull resigned had hoped a female candidate the "unauthorised takeover" president next year. the blue ribbon Sydney seat from parliament after los- would be chosen. of the National Assembly in Buhari's office said the new of Wentworth in the October ing the leadership in a par- "Of course, I want to see Southeast Asian cybersecurity centre early August. spy chief was a "core secret 20 by-election, another sign ty-room ballot last month, more Liberal women in par- opens in Thailand Vice-President Yemi Osi- service operative" who began of the deep fractures within handing Australia its sixth liament," Morrison said on nbajo said at the time the his career with the Nigerian the party. prime minister in 10 years. Twitter on Friday. "But I al- BANGKOK: A cybersecurity centre opened in Thailand on Friday actions, which prevented Security Organisation (NSO), The by-election was called Turnbull's resignation ways want to see the best can- to train personnel from countries in the Association of South- lawmakers from entering the forerunner of the DSS. when former prime minister also meant Morrison's cen- didate selected." east Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help combat cyber threats in the attack-prone region. The idea of the ASEAN-Japan Cyber Security Capacity Build- ing Centre came from a meeting between ASEAN and Japan's AFP gatherings were banned due to The MDC accused the gov- tions," party spokesman Jacob ministers in Cambodia last year. About 700 cybersecurity Zimbabwe oppn HARARE a cholera outbreak. ernment of using the cholera Mafume said. personnel from Southeast Asia are expected to graduate from MDC had planned the event outbreak, which has claimed 25 "It is clear that the govern- the Japan-designed programmes, which include cyber defence, calls off mock ZIMBABWE’S opposition to highlight its claims that the lives, to stop the mock inaugu- ment is abusing the cholera digital forensics and malware analysis. MDC party on Friday called July 30 election was rigged and ration at the party's 19th anni- epidemic for political purpos- "Every ASEAN member state is experiencing more sophisti- off plans to hold a mock in- that Chamisa was the rightful versary celebrations. es and puts into serious doubt cated cyber threats, whereas the cyber security personnel are presidential auguration to name its leader president, rather than Presi- "The Movement for Demo- that the ban of our commemo- yet insufficient," said Surangkana Wayuparb, executive director Nelson Chamisa as the coun- dent Emmerson Mnangagwa of cratic Change has postponed ration event was out of genu- of Thailand's Electronic Transaction Development Agency, where inauguration try's president after public the ruling ZANU-PF. its 19th anniversary celebra- ine concern." the centre is located. (AFP)

S Korea launches its first missile-capable submarine Two Koreas set up liaison office ‘to talk 24x7’ AFP the next five years. AFP created by the South and the meet with Kim as he seeks to SEOUL It represented a "leap KAESONG (NORTH KOREA) North". rekindle the process. forward in the country's" The nuclear-armed The leaders' first meet- SOUTH Korea launched its defence industry, President NORTH and South Korea North's chief delegate Ri Son ing as well as key events dur- first ever missile-capable at- Moon Jae-in said at the Dae- opened a joint liaison office in Gwon responded in kind, ing the three-day visit will tack submarine on Friday, woo shipyard where it was the Northern city of Kaesong calling it a "substantial fruit be shown live on television, despite a recent diplomatic designed and built. on Friday to talk on a regu- nourished by the people of the Moon's office said after a thaw with the nuclear-armed "Peace through power lar basis as they knit closer north and south". working-level meeting with North. is the unwavering security ties ahead of President Moon The two Koreas have the North on Friday. The $700 million, strategy of this government." Jae-in's visit to Pyongyang sought to pursue joint projects Moon's trip will mark his 3,000-tonne Dosan Ahn "We have set off on a next week. in multiple fields since the third summit with Kim this Chang-ho submarine is capa- grand journey toward the de- "A new chapter in history April summit between Moon Pedestrians walk past a giant banner showing a picture of the summit year after he orchestrated a ble of firing both cruise and nuclearisation of the Korean is open here today," South and the North's leader Kim handshake between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North rapid diplomatic thaw on the ballistic missiles and the first peninsula," Moon said. "But Korean unification minister Jong-un in the Demilitarised Korean leader Kim Jong-un at Seoul City Hall. (AFP) peninsula and brokered June's of three planned diesel-elec- peace is not given gratuitous- Cho Myoung-gyon told a cer- Zone that divides the peninsu- Singapore summit between the tric boats to go into service in ly," he added. emony, calling the office "an- la, even as US efforts to secure Pyongyang's denuclearisation Moon will fly to the North Korean leader and US other symbol of peace jointly concrete progress towards have stalled. North's capital on Tuesday to President Donald Trump. 04 Saturday, September 15, 2018 India Modi discusses rising fuel prices, plunging Congress demands independent rupee issues with FM probe into Mallya-Jaitley meet IANS NEW DELHI Another review Despite startling revelations, Modi and Jaitley maintaining a ‘conspiratorial silence’: Cong spokesperson Modi will hold another eco- AS rupee continues to weaken and fuel prices soar to record nomic review meeting with levels, Prime Minister Narendra key policy makers on Modi on Friday met Finance Saturday to discuss macr- Minister Arun Jaitley and top oeconomic challenges arising Finance Ministry officials to re- out of the depreciating rupee view the economic scenario. Modi will hold another eco- and steep rise in fuel prices. nomic review meeting with key The PM may like to know policy makers on Saturday to discuss possible interventions the possible fiscal and by the government to address monetary measures that the macroeconomic challenges the government can take to arising out of the depreciat- improve market confidence ing rupee and steep rise in fuel and economic scenario prices. While Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia and Econom- and economic scenario, officials ic Affairs Secretary Subhash said. Chandra Garg accompanied On Wednesday, Econom- Jaitley to the Friday meeting, ic Affairs Secretary Subhash Expenditure Secretary Ajay Chandra Garg said the govern- Narayan Jha will join the Sat- ment and Reserve Bank of In- urday meeting during which the dia (RBI) will take all necessary Prime Minister will also review measures to check the further the budget, informed sources slide of rupee as there was no said. fundamental rationale for the The high-level meeting on rupee to depreciate to these lev- Saturday has been called to els. analyse the economic situaion Garg said the steep depreci- precipitated by record deprecia- ation in rupee reflected overre- tion in rupee and unprecedeted action of market operators and rise in fuel prices. attributed rupee's correction The rupee touched an all- the same day as proof. Rupee time low of Rs 72.91 per US dol- closed at Rs 72.19 per green- lar on Wednesday and closed at back on Wednesday after recov- Rs 71.85 on Friday. Fuel prices, ering from its lowest intra-day too, have been breaking records of Rs 72.91. for some days with petrol sell- Modi is also likely to discuss ing at Rs 81.28 in Delhi and Rs issues related to fiscal discipline 88.67 in Mumbai on Friday. with the policy makers. Con- The Prime Minister may sidering general elections next like to know the possible fis- summer, some economists have cal and monetary measures expressed fear against populist that the government can take measures and hope the govern- Congress workers protest wearing masks of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and businessman Vijay Mallya in New Delhi on Friday. (EPA-EFE) to improve market confidence ment does not cut tax on petrol. IANS Jaitley?" asked Congress Mallya's passport confis- made a startling revelation NEW DELHI Spokesperson Randeep Singh Collusion? cated. The SBI management that Mallya could have been Surjewala. and other banks never re- possibly tipped off and, hence, ACCUSING Prime Minister "Skeletons are tumbling O “Is this silence an turned the next day for action ran away." Narendra Modi of maintain- out of the Modi government's admission of guilt by Modi against Mallya or for blocking "After this statement, on ing a "conspiratorial silence" cupboard, unravelling a sinis- and Jaitley?” asked his escape, said Surjewala. what basis can any agency on Vijay Mallya, the Congress ter conspiracy and collusion Congress Spokesperson "Who in the Modi govern- refuse to initiate investigation on Friday asked why he was of government agencies, in- Randeep Singh Surjewala ment told the SBI and other into the great government-as- not ordering an "independent cluding the CBI, ED, SFIO and banks to not move the Su- sisted escape of Mallya?" the probe" into the fugitive busi- banks in permitting Mallya to “Skeletons are tumbling preme Court on February 29, Congress leader added. nessman's meeting with Fi- escape the clutches of law. out of the government’s 2016, to block the escape of He questioned who was nance Minister Arun Jaitley. "Jaitley and the consor- cupboard, unravelling a Mallya?" he asked. directing the banks not to Demanding the sacking tium of banks led by the SBI sinister conspiracy and "Why did the banks wait lodge an FIR against Mallya of Jaitley, the party said that and CBI/SFIO need to answer till March 5, 2016 to move or not provide the full facts "despite startling revelations important issues," he added. collusion of government the Supreme Court when of loan defaults and diver- about a meeting between The Congress leader said agencies,” he added Mallya had already escaped sion of funds to investigating Mallya and Jaitley on March that the consortium of banks on March 2. agencies. 1, 2016, both Modi and Jaitley had met Supreme Court sen- Does it not prove a sinister "If the Prime Minis- have maintained a "conspira- ior advocate Dushyant Dave (on Thursday) that he ad- conspiracy to help Mallya?" ter does not act, it will be torial silence". on February 28, 2016, for vised the SBI management "Mukul Rohatgi, the then proved that the watchman is "Is this silence an admis- advice on the Mallya case. to move the Supreme Court Attorney General and close not only a partner, but is also Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. sion of guilt by Modi and Dave has gone on record the next day and get friend of Jaitley, has also guilty," Surjewala added.

NEWS RETELLING THE EPIC IN BRIEF Rs50 lakh compensation for

Haryana college ex-ISRO scientist in ‘spy’ case student abducted IANS eight weeks, the court said. and gang-raped NEW DELHI The committee would be headed by former Supreme NEW DELHI: A college THE Supreme Court on Fri- Court judge Justice DK Jain student was abducted and day awarded Rs 50 lakh com- and have a representative raped by three men in India's pensation to former ISRO each from the Centre and the northern Haryana state while scientist S Nambi Narayanan Kerala government. on her way home from a tui- who was falsely implicated The committee would tion class, the latest sexual in an espionage case and had function from Delhi but it attack to shock the country. to suffer wrongful imprison- was given the option to hold The 19-year-old girl was wait- ment, malicious prosecution meetings in Kerala as well. ing at a bus stop when she and humiliation. The central government was allegedly kidnapped, Awarding the compensa- has been made responsible drugged and raped, police tion, a bench of Chief Justice ISRO scientist S Nambi Narayanan. for providing the facilities to said Friday. "She knows the Dipak Misra, Justice AM the committee. three accused as they are Khanwilkar and Justice DY the alleged Indian Space Re- While awarding com- from the same village (as the Chandrachud also directed search Organisation (ISRO) pensation by invoking pub- girl). They are on the run at the setting up of a committee spy case. lic law remedy, the court the moment," said Anirudh to inquire into the role of err- The compensation said that Narayanan could Kumar, a local police official. ing officials who Narayanan amount "shall be" paid by proceed with the civil suit he Haryana, governed by Prime said had implicated him in Kerala government within had filed for compensation. Artistes from Banaras perform Lord Rama’s story in Bhopal on Friday. (EPA-EFE) Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, is a largely rural and conservative state. (AFP) BJP dumped Ram temple issue Pachauri to face trial Man fills potholes out of love for dead son in harassment case after coming to power: Togadia NEW DELHI: Former UN AFP capital in the past three years. climate change panel chief MUMBAI The 48-year-old vegetable IANS of Muslim women... that's Rajendra Kumar Pachauri vendor does it to pay tribute to LUCKNOW how they have betrayed you," will face trial in a sexual DADARAO Bilhore smoothes his beloved son and in the hope the former VHP leader said. harassment case, an Indian the road surface, rests his shovel, that it will save lives. FORMER Vishwa Hindu Togadia questioned the court ruled on Friday. The looks to the sky and prays for his "Prakash's sudden death Parishad (VHP) President Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) court said there was suf- son, one of thousands of Indians left a huge void in our lives. Praveen Togadia on Friday leadership that if a law could ficient material to proceed killed every year in accidents I do this work to remember accused the BJP of coming to be enacted on the triple talaq against Pachauri, according caused by potholes. and honour him. power by promising a Ram issue, why couldn't a law be to a lawyer representing Prakash Bilhore, a promis- “I also don't want anyone temple at Ayodhya in Uttar made to facilitate the con- the complainant. Pachauri, ing student, was just 16 when else to lose a loved one like we Pradesh but dumping the is- struction of the Ram temple. 78, resigned from the UN's he died in July 2015 in Mum- have," Bilhore says at the mod- sue thereafter. He said he will lead a Intergovernmental Panel bai, India's hectic financial and est apartment he shares with Addressing a rally at the march from Lucknow to on Climate Change (IPCC) Bollywood capital of 20 million his wife, daughter and extended Janakpuri ground in Akbar- Ayodhya on October 21 to in February 2015 after his people. family. Prakash Bilhore was pur, he said: "They always "awaken" the government on colleague, a researcher at To help deal with his grief, travelling pillion when the mo- Dadarao Bilhore filling up a pothole on the Western Express highway said that 'we will build a the issue. The Energy and Resources Prakash's devastated father torbike he was on with his cousin in Mumbai. (AFP) grand Ram temple at Ayod- Togadia accused Prime Institute (TERI), made al- Dadarao decided he would do hit a deep pothole, sending them hya when we come to power Minister Narendra Modi of legations of sexual harass- something about Mumbai's both flying through the air. during Mumbai's summer to have Mumbai featured in the with a majority'... now, four forgetting the "supreme sac- ment The woman, then roads, which like much of In- Prakash, who wasn't wear- monsoon when heavy rains are Guinness Book of Records as the years have passed, and look, rifices made by hundreds of aged 29, alleged Pachauri dia's, are notoriously shoddy. ing a helmet, suffered fatal brain blamed for causing crater-like city with the most potholes. nothing has been done." people during the Ram Jan- made physical advances Using sand and gravel col- damage. His cousin, who was holes on the teeming coastal Navin Lade, a resident, "The BJP came to power mabhoomi movement" and and sent her lewd emails lected from building sites, Bil- wearing a helmet, walked away city's roads. claims to have recorded more at the Centre due to votes of pointed out that Modi had and messages. (DPA) hore has filled in almost 600 with minor injuries. Potholes are so common than 27,000 holes on the web- crores of Hindus. Now, they not visited Ayodhya even potholes across India's financial The tragic accident occurred that a campaign is under way site www.mumbaipotholes.com. only remember the welfare once in the past four years. Pakistan / South Asia Saturday, September 15, 2018 05 Thalassaemia cases on the rise in Maldives Sri Lanka seeks UN reprieve over war crimes probe MALE: The Maldivian Blood Service has expressed concern over the rising number of Thalas- COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president said Friday that he wants the United Nations to drop its de- saemia patients in the archipelago nation. The Maldives currently has the highest prevalence of mand for state accountability over the alleged killing of some 40,000 Tamil civilians by govern- NEWS Thalassaemia in the world, according to the Maldivian Thalassaemia Society. Some 874 people ment forces during a brutal civil war. Maithripala Sirisena told local editors in Colombo that he IN BRIEF are registered as Thalassaemia patients in the Maldives and their treatment is funded by the will ask the UN General Assembly to allow Sri Lanka to "amicably resolve" war crime allega- state, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. This year, 13 children were diagnosed with the tions against the majority Sinhalese government forces who fought a 37-year conflict against disorder compared to 11 last year, reports say. Regulations in the Maldives make it compulsory Tamil separatists. Sirisena's predecessor, Mahinda Rajapakse, crushed the Tamil rebels in a for couples to do a blood test for Thalassaemia before getting married. (IANS) no-holds-barred military campaign that ended in May 2009. (AFP) Imran Khan vows to Funeral of former Pakistan PM protect bureaucracy TRIBUNE.COM.PK Sharif’s wife draws huge crowd ISLAMABAD PRIME Minister Imran Khan on Friday vowed to depoliti- cize the bureaucracy in an ad- dress to civil servants at the Prime Minister House. He said the government wanted to uplift the bureauc- racy by ensuring merit-based appointments and ending po- litical pressure at time of ap- pointments. The prime minister added that he had instructed the Pakistani PM Imran Khan. chair of the National Account- ability Bureau (NAB) to not humiliate anyone under inves- within the next two years. tigation after receiving com- In a major ongoing reshuf- plaints from the bureaucracy. fle of bureaucrats, the fed- At the same time, however, eral cabinet has transferred or civil officers need to work for posted over 100 officers in ma- our success, said PM Imran. jor ministries and departments He appealed to the bureauc- and the process would contin- racy for their support to imple- ue in the coming days. ment the government’s auster- Talking about recent reshuf- ity-based measures and to curb fling, Information Minister Fa- corruption. wad Chaudhry had clarified the PM Khan reiterated corrup- government was transferring tion had devastated the country’s officers who had spent over ten institutions and remained the years in a province. biggest problem. He also said that in line The premier also asked civil with the government’s target servants to bear with the gov- of improving governance in ernment as it instituted long-de- deprived areas of the country, layed reforms and assured them senior bureaucrats were to be that their salaries would improve posted in Balochistan.

Thousands of people attend Begum Kulsoom’s funeral in Lahore on Friday. (AP) Trade takes centre stage

in Saudi Arabia, despite having which were held in the grounds in Pakistan, Turkey talks Political workers, civil society activists, Behind the been handed a death sentence of Sharif Medical City, adjacent traders and journalists gather in Lahore to by a court. Though funerals are to the Sharif family’s Jati Umra TRIBUNE.COM.PK to prioritise our agreements bargain considered somber occasions in residence. ISLAMABAD and to fast-track the imple- pay their last respects to Kulsoom Nawaz Pakistan, thousands of Sharif's Security at the ground was mentation of the projects.” Kulsoom remained apolitical loyalists chanted slogans to de- high, and barbed wire was used FOREIGN Minister Shah Me- FM Qureshi said that for most of his life, except nounce his conviction. to separate the high-profile at- hmood Qureshi and his Turk- Turkey has agreed to support AGENCIES long battle with cancer. She was for a short period when Legal experts say powerful tendees from ordinary citizens. ish counterpart on Friday laid Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir ISLAMABAD 68. Sharif, a three-time premier former military ruler Pervez generals and judges colluded to Despite these measures, televi- emphasis on better trade ties and a peaceful solution for the now serving time in a Pakistani Musharraf arrested her punish Sharif for his attempt to sion footage showed politicians between the two countries in decades-long issue between TENS of thousands of people jail for corruption, was released husband following a coup seek civilian supremacy in Pa- being jostled by the crowd as a joint press conference. Pakistan and India. defied scorching heat in Paki- temporarily on parole on Tues- in 1999. It was thanks to kistan, a country that was ruled they were led to their places. “Our meeting today fo- “I invited the Turkish FM stan on Friday to attend funeral day to attend the funeral. political agitation led by by the army for almost half of its Former president Mam- cused on enhancing our eco- to attend the Kashmir group prayers for the wife of jailed The couple's daughter, Kulsoom that Pakistani history. noon Hussain, former prime nomic relations and ways to on the sidelines of the UN Se- former prime minister Nawaz Maryam Nawaz, and her hus- generals allowed Sharif to Sharif remains Pakistan's minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, facilitate each other,” said the curity Council session,” added Sharif. band were also released from most popular leader, despite NA Speaker Asad Qaiser, Sen- foreign minister. the foreign minister. Political workers, civil soci- prison to accompany the go into exile in Saudi Arabia, the conviction and his party's ate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, He added that mutual Cavusoglu also called ety activists, traders and jour- former leader. despite having been handed defeat in controversial elections Punjab Governor Chaudhry interests and defence ties on Chief of the Army Staff nalists gathered in the eastern Kulsoom remained apoliti- a death sentence by a court in July. Sarwar, Punjab Housing Min- were also discussed during General Qamar Javed Bajwa city of Lahore to pay their last cal for most of his life, except Thousands of PML-N sup- ister Mehmoodur Rasheed, the discussion with Turk- at General Headquarters in respects to Begum Kulsoom for a short period when former porters, well-wishers and poli- former Pakistan Cricket Board ish Foreign Minister Mel- Rawalpindi. The discussion Nawaz. military ruler Pervez Musharraf to political agitation led by Kul- ticians gathered to pay their chairman Najam Sethi, MQM vut Cavusoglu. “We have revolved around Pak-Turk re- Kulsoom died at a clinic in arrested her husband following soom that Pakistani generals respects to the three-time first leaders and Saudi officials exchanged views about how lations and regional security. London on Tuesday after a year- a coup in 1999. It was thanks allowed Sharif to go into exile lady and offer funeral prayers, were among the attendees.

3 Pakistani security Bangladesh trade unions reject $95 ‘Afghan conflict could be deadlier than Syria’ personnel killed in Balochistan blast minimum wage for garment workers AFP The Syrian conflict -- which be- KABUL gan a decade after Afghanistan's QUETTA: At least three security AFP set in 2013 after at least 1,130 -- has claimed the lives of more personnel were martyred in a DHAKA people were killed when a the THE Afghan conflict could over- than 15,000 people so far this blast targetting the vehicle of a Rana Plaza garment factory take Syria as the deadliest con- year, according to the Syrian local official on Pishin Bypass on BANGLADESH unions staged in Dhaka collapsed. The new flict in the world this year, ana- Observatory for Human Rights. Friday. Additional Deputy Com- street protests on Friday to re- wage was set at 8,000 taka. lysts say, as violence surges 17 Graeme Smith, a consult- missioner Pishin Waqar Khur- ject what they called an "inhu- "We can't accept this sal- years after the US-led invasion. ant for the International Crisis sheed confirmed to the press man" $95 a month minimum ary. It is an injustice and The grim assessment con- Group, told AFP some indica- that the assistant commissioner wage fixed by the government inhuman. It is cheating the trasts sharply with the consist- tions "suggest the Afghan war of Bashore was targetted in the for the country's four million workers," Jolly Talukder, a ently upbeat public view of the is on track to inflict more than attack, however, the government garment workers. top union leader, said. conflict from NATO's Resolute 20,000 battle deaths in 2018" official was not present in the Authorities said the new Talukder's group is one Support mission in Kabul, and -- including civilians and com- vehicle. A security personnel was wage marked a 51 percent of three leftist outfits that underscores the growing sense batants. also injured in the blast. rise and would be applied staged protests in Dhaka and of hopelessness in the war-torn US Army soldiers from NATO are seen through a cracked window of an "That could exceed the toll Security forces established from December but hundreds she said more were planned country. armed vehicle in a checkpoint during a patrol against IS militants at the of any other conflict, possibly a cordon around the site of of workers hit the streets of to demand a wage of at least It suggests that US President Deh Bala district. (AFP) even the war in Syria," he add- the incident and the injured Dhaka within hours of the an- 16,000 taka. Donald Trump's much-vaunted ed. It would be a record high were shifted to nearby medical nouncement vowing to fight Another union leader strategy for Afghanistan is, like to enlist. Johnny Walsh, an Afghanistan for Afghanistan, according to facilities. Last month, six people for more. Babul Akter revealed al- those of his predecessors, fail- "The soaring casualties in expert at the United States In- the respected Uppsala Conflict – among them three Chinese Unions said they would most all unions, except pro- ing to move the needle on the Afghanistan and the potential stitute of Peace. Data Program (UCDP) in Swe- engineers – were wounded in a organise action across Bang- government groups, had re- battlefield, observers said, as a endgame in sight in Syria... "Most years have become den, which put the total number suicide attack on a bus in the ladesh. The current minimum jected the new wage set after generation of Americans born could leave Afghanistan as the the new 'most violent year'. This of deaths on all sides of the con- Dalbandin area of Chagai district. wage of 5,300 taka ($63) was months of negotiations. after 9/11 become old enough world's deadliest conflict," said is continually getting worse." flict at 19,694 in 2017. (EXPRESSTRIBUNE) US-funded scheme for Afghan women fails to achieve goals Nepal president seeks

DPA was supposed to help 12,500 The programme was justice for rape victim KABUL women obtain new or better jobs, but USAID reduced the launched in 2014 THEHIMLAYANTIMES was a matter of sorrow that A US-funded programme for number of participants re- with a $216-mn KATHMANDU Nirmala’s parents and fam- promoting the role of women ceiving help to 1,824 women, budget and has ily were desperately waiting in Afghanistan is falling well the report released late on spent some $90 mn APRESIDENT Bidya Devi for justice. short of its goals in the em- Thursday revealed. so far, but with little Bhandari has called on Stating that she was deep- battled country, where the The programme was stakeholders to bring the ly saddened by the murder of majority of women have little launched in 2014 with a progress towards perpetrator(s) in the rape and Nirmala after rape, the Presi- participation in civil society, 216-million-dollar budget, the planned goals killing of Nirmala Panta of dent has extended condolenc- experts said. and represents the biggest US Kanchanpur to book. es to the bereaved family. It In one account in the re- investment globally in pro- “All sides should be sensi- may be noted that the 13 year- port by the Special Inspector moting the role of women, including conservative so- tive for punishing the crimi- old-girl of Kanchanpur was General for Reconstruction USAID said. cial attitudes, harassment in nals by bringing them under killed after rape on July 26. of Afghanistan (SIGAR), only It will last until 2020 or the workplace, and women's the purview of law, becoming Calling on all to put the 55 women managed to get a 2021. low access to good education mindful of the notion ‘justice fundamental rights of children job with the Afghan govern- The project has spent block their full participation delayed is justice denied’,” the guaranteed by the constitution ment through the USAID pro- close to 90 million dollars so in Afghan society. Head of-the-State said. into practice, the Head-of-the- gramme. far, but with little progress Currently, 60 per cent of the In her address to a cer- State mentioned that only ef- The target figure had been toward the planned goals, SI- 3.7 million children that cannot emony organised to mark fective and practical enforce- 2,100. GAR said. go to school are girls, a UNICEF the National Children’s Day ment could end violence and One part of the scheme Various social barriers, Afghan Women chant slogans during a recent protest in Kabul. report revealed in June. today, the President said it exploitation against girls. 06 Saturday, September 15, 2018 UK / Europe

End the chaos: Anti-Brexit Britain, EU ‘closing in’ on campaigner AFP DOVER, UNITED KINGDOM

LEADING anti-Brexit cam- Brexit agreement: Raab paigner Gina Miller launched an information campaign Fri- day to help “end the chaos” Britain is due to leave the bloc on March 29, hopes to reach a deal with the EU by mid-November surrounding Britain’s looming departure from the European REUTERS Union. LONDON The 53-year-old business- woman, who has previously BRITAIN and the European Un- called for a popular vote on ion are “closing in” on a withdrawal the final withdrawal deal, agreement, Brexit minister Dominic said that “no-one truly under- Raab said on Friday, before a meet- stands what Brexit means for ing of European leaders in Salzburg Britain”. next week. “Our country is crying out Britain is due to leave the bloc for clarity,” she said, adding: on March 29 but has yet to reach “There is a panic in the air — a full exit deal with Brussels, and and time is fast running out.” some rebels lawmakers in Prime Miller became a public Minister Theresa May’s Conserva- figure when she successfully tive Party have threatened to vote launched a legal challenge against any agreement unless she against the government to changes her proposals. force it to consult parliament in the Brexit process. It is clear our teams Her new website, www. endthechaos.co.uk, aims to of- are closing in on fer “a trusted source of informa- workable solutions to the tion from which people can de- cide for themselves” what they outstanding issues in the want for Britain’s future. Withdrawal Agreement, and It would “allow the light of are having productive transparency to disinfect the poisonous and unproductive discussions in the right spirit debates around Brexit that we on the future relationship are all sick of”. She said she wanted “more Brexit Minister Dominic Raab pressure put on the MPs to give people another say”, either in an election or new referendum. She Both London and Brussels are was speaking in the port of Do- hoping to reach a deal by mid-No- Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab (right) and EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier during a round Gina Miller during the launch of ‘End The Chaos’ of Brexit cam- ver on the Channel, the busiest vember. May has said next week’s of talks at the European Commission in Brussels recently. (EPA-EFE) paign at Dover Town Hall in Dover, England, on Friday. (AFP) shipping lane in the world which informal EU summit will be a “stag- she emphasised was ‘crucial’ for ing post” in the negotiations that will to devote the necessary time and en- Britons on how to prepare for the the British economy. allow the bloc’s leaders to discuss her Germany’s Merkel seeks close defence ergy to bring these negotiations to a possibility of a “no-deal” Brexit, and There are concerns that Brexit plans for the first time. cooperation with Britain after Brexit successful conclusion,” he said, add- May held a meeting of her top team if Britain and the EU fail to “While there remain some sub- ing that the pair agreed to take stock of ministers to discuss the govern- reach a deal before Brexit in stantive differences we need to re- VILNIUS German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she wanted the again following the Salzburg summit. ment’s plans for leaving without an March, the resulting border solve, it is clear our teams are closing European Union to have a close relationship with Britain when it leaves the Barnier said on Twitter that he agreement. checks could cause huge tail- in on workable solutions to the out- bloc and added that the allies should work together closely on security and had had a “useful dialogue” with Bank of England Governor backs of lorries in Dover. standing issues in the Withdrawal defence in the future. Raab but that key differences re- Mark Carney told the meeting Brit- “Did Dover residents who Agreement, and are having produc- “We want good, reliable ties with Britain - we want close cooperation in the mained between the EU and Britain ain’s property market would crash voted Leave realise the out- tive discussions in the right spirit on fields of security and defence policy and we want cooperation between the 27 over the future of the Irish border and mortgage rates would spiral come of that decision could the future relationship,” Raab said member states of the European Union and Britain but it’s also up to Britain and the EU’s system of protecting up in the event of a chaotic no-deal potentially leave them ma- after a phone call with EU chief ne- how it wants to define its relationship with the European Union,” she said dur- food names. Brexit, with house prices falling 35 rooned in their homes for up gotiator Michel Barnier. ing a news conference in Vilnius. (REUTERS) On Thursday the government percent over three years, the Times to three months following our “We reiterated our willingness published a set of advice notices for newspaper reported. departure?” she said.

AFP fulfilling its commitments under nian capital Vilnius. Merkel said that the talks be- continue to be important topics EU firm on VILNIUS a peace plan for east Ukraine. Berlin and Moscow, along tween Russia, Ukraine, France for all of us here,” she added. Three EU nations “Before the Minsk agree- with Paris, signed peace agree- and Germany, known as the Merkel spoke a day after Russia sanctions GERMAN Chancellor Angela ment has been implemented or ments in the Belarussian capi- Normandy format, “may not an EU court rejected a bid by mull clearing Merkel said on Friday that the progress has been made in that tal Minsk in 2015 intended to have progressed as much as we eight Russian companies to house to avoid over Ukraine, European Union would main- regard, we will not consider lift- put an end to a conflict that would have wished them to”. cancel sanctions, ruling that tain sanctions against Russia un- ing sanctions on Russia,” Mer- has left more than 10,000 dead “Peace and reinstating the the measures were reasonable Iran sanctions says Merkel til Moscow makes progress on kel told reporters in the Lithua- since it began in April 2014. But territorial integrity of Ukraine and proportionate. AFP FRANKFURT AM MAIN

GERMANY, France and Brit- NEWS ain are mulling setting up a Austria, Italy propose holding EU pleads for cooperation to new financial institution to al- IN BRIEF low EU trade with Iran to con- migrants on ships for days tinue despite American sanc- avoid clock-change chaos tions renewed by US President 21 bodies wash REUTERS on whether they deserve pro- Donald Trump, German me- up as migrants VIENNA tection,” Austrian Interior AFP ate as they make their choice. dia reported on Friday. try to reach Spain Minister Herbert Kickl told a BRUSSELS “Member states now have The three countries could AUSTRIA and Italy’s far-right joint news conference in Vi- to decide — either they want set up a “Special Purpose GENEVA The bodies of interior ministers suggested enna with his visiting Italian THE EU’s on Friday urged to stick with summer or winter Vehicle” (SPV) — a firm re- 21 people thought to be on Friday that the European counterpart. member countries to work to- time,” Bulc told reporters. sembling a clearing house migrants trying to reach Union hold migrants rescued Italy has become the main gether to avoid turning Europe “In order to maintain a that would cut Tehran out of Spain have washed up on at sea on ships for days while route into Europe for hun- into a confusing patchwork of harmonised approach we are the financial loop while still the shores of the Mediter- an initial screening of their dreds of thousands of asylum different timezones, after an- encouraging consultations allowing trade, news weekly ranean this month, the UN chances of obtaining asylum seekers arriving by sea since nouncing plans to abolish sea- at national levels to ensure a Der Spiegel and business dai- migration agency said in is carried out. the other main route from sonal clock changes. coordinated approach of all ly Handelsblatt reported. statement on Friday. Far-right parties like Ita- Turkey to Greece was largely The European Commis- member states.” For example, Iran could The latest deaths bring ly’s League and Austria’s Free- shut in 2016. Although num- sion wants to end the long- Commission President ship oil to a Spanish firm, ac- the total of Mediterranean dom Party have long pushed bers have dropped over the standing practice of putting Jean-Claude Juncker an- cumulating credit that could migrant deaths this year for a system where migrants past year, Italy’s new populist clocks forward an hour in the nounced the plan unexpectedly be used to pay a German ma- to 1,586, the International rescued while attempting the government has made shut- spring and back an hour in the last month after an online con- chine-tool manufacturer for Organization for Migration dangerous Mediterranean ting down the route a policy autumn, arguing that it causes sultation which generated some goods going the other way — said. The remains of nine crossing be taken back to Af- priority. unjustified disruption. Electronic board displays various 4.6 million responses from EU without any money passing sub-Saharan Africans were rica rather than brought to Migration dominated last Each EU country is be- European cities clock times. (EPA) citizens — mostly from Germa- through Iranian hands. found on Sept 4 on a beach Europe, where they can stay year’s parliamentary elec- ing asked to decide whether it ny, where the clock change is a Spokespeople for the near Marsa Ben M’Hidi, in while their asylum claims are tion in Austria, which took wants to stay permanently on lands could end up an hour major issue. German economy and fi- Algeria’s province of Tlem- processed. in more than 1 percent of its what is now their summer or apart. The proposal also raises nance ministries told AFP the cen, about 200 km from the “For those who manage population in asylum seekers their winter time. To avoid a mishmash of a fresh Brexit conundrum: scheme was one of several op- Spanish coast. (AFP) to make it into a European in 2015. The conservative-led This will end the twice- timezones in neighbouring if it goes ahead, EU member tions capitals are discussing state’s territorial waters and government has pledged to yearly ritual of time changes, countries, the bloc’s Transport Ireland will stop changing with the European Commis- Poland to block are then picked up by a ship, prevent another such influx, but raises the possibility that Commissioner Violeta Bulc, the clocks, but British-ruled sion to create “independent any EU sanctions we should use the ships to car- even if that means restricting neighbouring countries such who is leading the initiative, Northern Ireland will continue payment channels” to Tehran. against Hungary ry out the appropriate checks border crossings from Italy. as Belgium and the Nether- urged governments to cooper- the practice. WARSAW Poland, the biggest former communist country in the European Union, said it will oppose any sanctions French restaurants look to imposed by the bloc on Deep Sea ‘hardcore’ fish discovery fellow member Hungary, ac- asylum seekers to fill jobs cused of flouting EU rules on AFP Temporarily named the democracy. PARIS pink, blue and purple Ata- REUTERS “It’s frustrating,” said Alain “Every country has its cama snailfish, the previously PARIS Fontaine, owner of the Parisian sovereign right to make SCIENTISTS have discovered unknown creatures are 20- bistrot Le Mesturet where wait- internal reforms it deems three new species of “hard- 25 centimetres (8-10 inches) RESTAURATEURS in France ers’ cries of “chaud devant” — or appropriate,” Poland’s core” fish living in one of the long, translucent and have want the government to speed watch your back — mix with the foreign ministry said. “Ac- deepest parts of the ocean, the no scales.They appear to be up its asylum process and make lunchtime chatter. tions aimed against member see-through, scale-free crea- uniquely adapted to condi- it easier to identify suitable staff Fontaine has employed sev- states serve only deepening tures perfectly adapted to con- tions four-and-a-half miles be- to help them fill thousands of eral refugees in recent years, divides in the EU, increas- ditions that would instantly neath the ocean surface, where jobs they say are increasingly but only once they have waited ing citizens’ current lack kill most life on Earth. the days are permanently pitch snubbed by French workers. months for their papers. of confidence to European An international team of black and water temperatures The hotel, cafe and restau- “Here you have a workforce, institutions.” researchers used state-of-the- barely top two degrees Celsius rant union GNI-Synhorcat says you’ve got potential, you’ve got The European Parliament art underwater cameras to (36 Farenheit). some businesses are downsiz- people who want to work, and voted on Wednesday to find the new fish at the bot- At such depths, the pres- ing or shortening their opening on the other hand you can’t hire sanction Hungary for neglect- tom of the Atacama Trench in A graphics rendering of the bone structure of an Atacama snailfish. sure is so great that larger ani- hours as a result of the shortage them,” Fontaine said. ing norms on democracy, the eastern Pacific Ocean at a mals would be crushed under of manpower. Unemployment in France civil rights and corruption depth of 7,500 metres (24,600 on the limit of what all fish son, senior lecturer in marine their own mass. Under France’s immigra- hovers above 9 percent, a head- in a first bid to launch the feet) — and were surprised at can take so you might expect ecology at Newcastle Univer- “It’s the equivalent of tion laws, asylum seekers have ache for President Emmanuel punitive process of the EU their abundance in such an in- at that depth you’d maybe be sity told AFP on Friday. having an 800-kilogramme to wait six months from lodging Macron who promises his busi- treaty’s Article 7. (REUTERS) hospitable environment. lucky to see one or two eking “But there’s a whole heap weight placed on your little the application for refugee sta- ness-friendly reform drive will “These things are right out an existence,” Alan Jamie- of them sitting there.” finger,” Jamieson said. tus before they can work. create more economic growth. Gulf / Middle East Satuday, September 15, 2018 07 Turkey talking to all sides in Syria conflict for Idlib ceasefire

REUTERS dozen military posts inside is not humane,” he said on a ISTANBUL/BEIRUT the Idlib region, which lies visit to Pakistan. Erdogan to No major assault across its southern border The United Nations has meet Putin planned: Lavrov TURKEY said on Friday it and is controlled by Turkey- warned that an offensive in was talking to all parties in backed rebels and fighters, Idlib could trigger a humani- on Monday BERLIN Russian Foreign the Syrian conflict to prevent trying to forestall a govern- tarian catastrophe in an area ISTANBUL Turkish Presi- Minister Sergei Lavrov said on a government offensive on ment assault. where 3 million people live. dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday that the Syrian regime is Idlib ahead of talks between Chief of Staff Yasar Guler Turkey, already hosting 3.5 will meet with his Russian not preparing a major offen- Russian and Turkish leaders, visited military positions on million Syrians, says it cannot counterpart Vladimir Putin sive against the opposition- who support rival sides in the the border and was briefed by take in another wave of refu- on Monday, officials said, held Idlib, adding that Moscow looming battle for the rebel- commanders stationed in the gees. amid rising international will do everything to protect held region. Idlib region, Turkey’s armed Turkish presidential aide concern over a looming civilians. “What is being pre- Ankara failed last week to forces said. Ibrahim Kalin said after talks Syrian government assault sented at the moment as the win agreement for a ceasefire Foreign Minister Mevlut with Russian, German and on a rebel-held province beginning of a Russian-backed from Russia and Iran, Presi- Cavusoglu said Turkey had French officials in Istanbul bordering Turkey. “Presi- offensive by Syrian forces is dent Bashar al-Assad’s main also contacted foreign minis- that they agreed the conse- dent Erdogan will meet not a faithful representation of backers, but there has been a ters of several countries and quences of an attack on Idlib with Mr Putin on Monday,” the facts,” said Lavrov during recent lull in air strikes and a was in touch with “all actors would be severe and a refugee Turkey’s Foreign Minister a German-Russian forum in pro-Damascus source indicat- in Syria”. Syrians from the rebel-held city of Idlib and its surrounding towns wave would impact not just Mevlut Cavusoglu told a Berlin. “Syrian forces and we ed a ground attack may not be “We are making an ef- wave the flag of the opposition as they gather for an anti-government Turkey but Europe too. televised press conference ourselves are simply reacting imminent. fort for a ceasefire in Idlib,” demonstration in Idlib on Friday. (AFP) “Our expectation is to on Friday. The meeting will to the attacks coming from Rebels also said some pro- he said, repeating Turkey’s maintain the current status take place in the Russian the zone of Idlib,” he argued. Assad forces had left front- call for targeted operations onslaught. killing everyone - civilians, in Idlib, protecting the civil- resort city of Sochi, a Lavrov also said that Russia lines in northwest Syria in against militants, including “We are ready to coop- women, children - like this in ians and not creating a hu- senior Turkish official was concerned about civilians’ recent days. the Tahrir al-Sham alliance, erate with everyone to fight the name of fighting terrorist manitarian crisis,” Kalin told told AFP. (AFP) welfare. (AFP) Turkey has reinforced a instead of an indiscriminate terrorist organisations. But organisations is not right and reporters. Palestinian mission ceases operations Israeli forces shoot three in Washington Palestinians dead in Gaza dressed to “the great people of America.” The closure came on the More than 250 wounded in Israeli fire as Palestinians gather for weekly protests 25th anniversary of the Oslo accords, the first agreements between the rival Israelis and Palestinians which prom- ised to end decades of deadly conflict, but which are now deadlocked and tarnished by soured relations. The Palestinian Liberation Zomlot on Thursday de- Organisation mission’s office in nounced the “unfortunate and Washington. (AFP) vindictive” US move to close the Palestinian mission. AFP “It was unsurprising to WASHINGTON us the Trump administration gave us only two choices: ei- THE Palestinian diplomatic ther we lose our relationship mission in Washington ceased with the administration or we operations on Thursday fol- lose our rights as a nation,” he lowing a demand by the Unit- said. ed States to shut down but “Our president, leadership expressed hope the closure and the people of Palestine would be short-lived. opted for our rights.” State Department officials Zomlot said the Palestini- on Monday ordered the office ans were “extremely saddened shuttered, in a bid to pressure by the current state of affairs.” the Palestinians to enter peace Addressing the “millions talks with Israel. upon millions” of Americans It was the latest point of who remain friends of Pales- tension between the admin- tine, he hoped that “may we istration of President Don- soon return to continue to be a ald Trump and the Palestin- symbol and a reflection of the ians, who cut off contact with historic relationship between Washington after Trump rec- the Palestinian and the Ameri- ognised the disputed city of can people.” Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in Prior to ordering the mis- December. sion’s closure, the United “Today is the deadline” States cut more than $200 for closure, Husam Zomlot, million in aid to the Palestin- who headed the Palestine Lib- ians and cancelled its support eration Organisation mission, for the UN agency for Palestin- said in a Facebook video ad- ian refugees. Palestinians carry an injured protester during a demonstration along the Israeli fence east of Gaza City on Friday. (AFP)

REUTERS times violent demonstrations at the fence. Early on Friday, GAZA were launched on March 30 Scuffles at West Bank Bedouin several Palestinians crawled Sudan ruling party unveils to press demands against Is- village slated for demolition to the fence to throw a pipe- ISRAELI soldiers killed three rael. The 11-year-old, Shadi bomb at troops, who fired new, smaller cabinet Palestinians, one of them an Abdel-Al, is the youngest fa- KHAN AL-AHMAR Scuffles broke out between Israeli forces and back, the military said. There 11-year-old boy, and wounded tality from Israeli gunfire. dozens of pro-Palestinian activists on Friday at a village slated was no word of casualties. AFP Minister Moutaz Mousa Abdal- more than 250 others taking “He used to go every Fri- for demolition in the occupied West Bank. An Israeli bulldozer The protesters want rights KHARTOUM lah, who had been tasked with part on Friday in weekly pro- day to the marches like thou- sought to close off a route to the Bedouin village of Khan to lands Palestinians lost dur- forming a new government af- tests at the fortified Gaza Strip sands of other people. This al-Ahmar by dumping rocks and earth on it, sparking a protest ing the 1948 war of Israel’s SUDAN’S ruling party unveiled ter he himself was sworn in on border, Palestinian medical Friday was his destiny to die that led to small clashes. Three people were arrested, a police foundation, as well as the a new 21-member cabinet Monday. officials said. as a martyr,” the boy’s father, spokesman said. Activists said among them was a French law easing of a crippling block- Thursday after President Omar “The executive bureau of The Israeli military said Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Al, told Re- professor, Frank Romano, but the police did not confirm his ade that Israel, with the help al-Bashir sacked the previous NCP approved the nominated it used force necessary to re- uters. arrest. The village of roughly 200 people is at risk of being de- of neighbouring Egypt, has government for failing to tackle people from the party to take pel 13,000 Palestinians who He said he himself had molished at any time, despite fierce criticism from key European placed on Gaza to isolate Ha- a growing economic crisis. their positions as ministers,” massed at several points at not been at the protest and nations. (AFP) mas and deny it weaponry. Sudan has been grappling Faisal Hassan Ibrahim, a top the fence. had no further details about UN and Egyptian media- with an acute foreign exchange aide to Bashir, told reporters Some hurled rocks, fire- the circumstances of the boy’s tors have been trying to reach shortage and inflation above after the party meeting. bombs and grenades at troops death. border incendiary attacks. ance problems and to provide a deal to calm Gaza, where Is- 65 percent for several months, The cabinet is due to be under cover of smoke from Since March 30, Gaza has Israel’s tactics against the cover for armed Palestinian rael and Hamas have fought prompting Bashir on Sunday to sworn in on Friday, and is burning tyres, injuring a sol- also seen shelling exchanges protests have drawn interna- border incursions. Hamas has three wars in the last decade. sack his 31-member cabinet to scheduled to hold its first dier, and nine Palestinians between the coastal enclave’s tional condemnation. denied this. The brokering efforts have “fix the situation”. meeting on Sunday. briefly crossed into Israel, the Islamist Hamas rulers and But Washington has The Israeli military said been complicated by Hamas’s The ruling National Con- Several ministers from the military said. Israel. An Israeli soldier was backed its ally in accusing that, twice this week, its pa- feuding with Western-backed gress Party (NCP), in a late previous government were Friday’s dead brought to killed by a Palestinian sniper Hamas of staging the mass- trols discovered and disman- Palestinian President Mah- meeting Thursday, approved retained in the new, smaller 177 the number of Palestin- and Israel has lost tracts of mobilisation to distract from tled bombs that had been moud Abbas, who has re- the ministers chosen by Prime cabinet. ians killed since the some- forest and farmland to cross- Gaza’s poverty and govern- planted for use against them stricted funding to Gaza.

2 Saudi pilots killed in helicopter crash UN’s Yemen envoy pushes for new talks as fighting continues DUBAI Two Saudi pilots AFP on Friday there had been Oman for three months due to were killed when their Sixteen rebels killed in coalition no breakthrough. a coalition air blockade. helicopter came down in the “There has not been After the failure of the Ge- eastern Yemeni province air strike in south of Hodeidah progress regarding the discus- neva talks, deadly clashes re- of al-Mahra on Friday, the sions while we have not re- sumed around the Houthi-held Saudi-led coalition fighting AFP the reasons for their absence ceived the guarantees,” he said port city of Hodeidah, a vital the Houthi group in Yemen SANAA from Geneva with the United by phone. entry point for aid to a country said. Nations envoy, the rebel-run Griffiths is also scheduled to teetering on the edge of famine. In a statement carried THE UN’s Yemen envoy Mar- Saba news agency said. visit the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Sixteen rebels died in a coa- by the Saudi Press Agency, tin Griffiths has met the coun- The first negotiations be- held by the Houthis, and Saudi lition air strike in the far south the coalition said the heli- try’s Houthi rebels in a push tween Yemen’s warring sides Arabia, which leads a coalition of the city on Thursday evening, copter, which belongs to the for new peace talks, as fighting in two years were scheduled to against the rebels. according to military and medi- Saudi ground forces, had continued on Friday around start last Thursday, but a Yem- The last talks between the cal sources in the province. crashed following technical the strategic port city of Ho- eni government delegation left Houthis and the Yemeni gov- Three pro-government issues. deidah. after the Houthis decided not ernment, led by President Abd fighters were killed the same “(The helicopter came Griffiths travelled to the to attend. Rabbo Mansour Hadi, took evening when a military vehicle down) when it was carry- Omani capital Muscat to meet The rebels had accused the place in Kuwait in 2016. was hit by a shell to the east of ing out its tasks of fighting the rebels after they refused to UN of failing to guarantee the Those negotiations faltered Hodeidah city. terrorism and smuggling attend negotiations in Geneva return of their delegation from A Houthi rebel inspects a burnt armoured vehicle near the eastern over power-sharing and the Over 60 people have died in in al-Mahra in Yemen,” the last week. Switzerland to the Yemeni entrance of the Yemeni city of Hodeidah. (AFP) rebel withdrawal from key cit- fighting around Hodeidah since statement said, quoting the Mohammed Abdulsalam, capital Sanaa and to secure the ies including Sanaa. Wednesday, when Yemeni gov- coalition spokesman Colo- head of the Houthi delega- evacuation of wounded rebels sions also covered the “nec- possible”, Saba reported. They collapsed after 108 ernment forces said they seized nel Turki al-Malki. (REUTERS) tion, and fellow rebel official to Oman. essary measures” needed for Hamid Assem, a member days and the rebel delegation two major supply routes into Abdelmalak al-Ajri discussed This Thursday’s discus- fresh talks set for “as soon as of the Houthi delegation, told was subsequently stranded in the port city. 08 Saturday, September 15, 2018

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS Opinion HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Persecuted Muslims: Atrocities in Myanmar, Abuses In China Achieving Peace On

The governments of Myanmar and China both should be held answerable for their actions Korean Peninsula OVERNMENTS in two countries, My- contemptible leadership should be punished. anmar and China, face allegations of The US has imposed sanctions. persecuting minority Muslim popula- Given the terrible violence, you may As the diplomatic process continues to unfold on the Korean Peninsula, Gtions. The mistreatment is different in wonder about the role played by Myanmar’s peace seems within reach, but caution is necessary each situation but the reports are credible and de facto civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a the oppression is grievous. Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former dissi- In Myanmar, military leaders of the Bud- dent. True, the military doesn’t answer to her, JOHN HEMMINGS, TAT YAN KONG, dhist-majority nation consider Rohingya but the UN report makes clear she failed her AND RAMON PACHECO PARDO | Muslims to be interlopers and enemies. Bru- moral obligation to try to stop the generals. TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE tal attacks by security forces on Rohingya vil- Therefore, Suu Kyi and other civilian authori- lages last year amounted to ethnic cleansing ties “contributed” to the persecution. AN North Korea, South Korea, and and could meet the definition of genocide, A crackdown on the press in Myanmar has the United States successfully ne- according to United Nations investigators. thwarted the free flow of information about gotiate peace on the Korean Penin- A new UN report describes mass killings, the abuses. This month two Reuters journal- sula? And if so, how? On the verge the destruction of villages and gang rapes of ists were sentenced to seven years in prison Cof the third, and longest, inter-Ko- Rohingya women and children – crimes that for violating a colonial-era Official Secrets Act. rean summit in less than five months and were “shocking for their horrifying nature The pair had been reporting on a Rohingya with Pyongyang and Washington now and ubiquity,” the UN report says. The death village massacre when they apparently were discussing a potential second summit, toll could exceed 10,000. set up by the police. It was a “warning” against the possibility of peace seems closer than In China, the communist government news coverage of the Rohingya, said the My- ever before. Yet, there is need for caution. views with suspicion the Muslim Uighur pop- anmar Press Council, an independent group. A peace treaty putting a formal end to the ulation concentrated in the far west. Officials The pair should never have faced charges. Korean War is as likely as a return to the tightly control religious practice and show no They should be released. hostility that defined North Korea-US re- tolerance for political dissent. A crackdown on The situation in China: Chinese authori- lations throughout 2017, as we argue in a Uighurs underway since 2017 has developed ties don’t trust Uighurs and fear they may new report jointly published by the Lon- into a campaign of mass arrests. There are as have ties to international terrorism because don Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science, many as 1 million people in detention, accord- they are practicing Muslims with their own the Henry Jackson Society, and the KF- ing to UN officials. Yes, 1 million people. Chi- culture. There is a small Uighur separatist VUB Korea Chair. nese authorities have created “something that movement, but the government treats all Chi- North Korea is the key actor to solve resembles a massive internment camp that is nese Uighurs as enemies. the Korean Peninsula conundrum. shrouded in secrecy,” said Gay McDougall, a The Wall Street Journal reports that Pyongyang’s authoritarian regime and member of the UN Committee on the Elimi- China’s sprawling internment system – development of nuclear and missile pro- nation of Racial Discrimination. visible in satellite photos – functions as a grammes are the main impediment to a its nuclear deterrent redundant. In the down of relations between the United We write of these incidents together not detention and re-education programme de- peaceful Korean Peninsula. The main rea- mold of previous liberal leaders, Moon States and the two Koreas. The Trump to suggest that slaughter and internment are signed to break down Uighur identity and son behind these programmes is survival. sees talks and economic exchanges as the administration might reach the conclu- equivalent but to cast a light on two undemo- denigrate Islam. In one instance, detainees For decades now, North Korea has seen best way to achieve this outcome. Indeed, sion that full denuclearisation is not on cratic governments, each accused of horrific were bound to chairs, deprived of adequate a nuclear deterrent as the only real guar- there is a question as to whether Seoul is the table and react accordingly. Maxi- human rights abuses against vulnerable mi- food and told “there is no such thing as reli- antee against regime change. The fates of willing to abandon its peace agenda even mum pressure would thus become its norities. The governments of Myanmar and gion.” The Chinese government has denied Saddam Hussein in Iraq and, especially, if it comes at the expense of relations with policy of choice to deal with North Korea China both should be held answerable for the mass detention of dissidents, describ- Moamer Qadhafi in Libya were particu- the Trump administration. again. But Seoul, not to mention Beijing, their actions. ing the facilities as re-education or voca- larly instructive. From Pyongyang’s view, The United States is the third key vor- is unlikely to support this scenario. Open The situation in Myanmar: Investiga- tional training centres for petty criminals. both leaders were removed from power tex in Korean Peninsula peace negotia- disagreement between the United States tors for the UN’s Human Rights Council The US State Department has said it is and ultimately killed by their own people tions. Washington’s top priority is clear: and South Korea would be a real possibil- compiled eyewitness accounts of the atroci- troubled by reports of the arbitrary deten- because they lacked a nuclear deterrent final, fully verified denuclearisation, as ity and significantly damage the bilateral ties and abuses that compelled more than tion of possibly more than 1 million Uighurs and other weapons of mass destruction. the Trump administration puts it. But the alliance. 700,000 Rohingya to flee across the border and has called for the release of anyone But there is another potential path road toward this goal would be long, so From our perspective, peace would be to Bangladesh. The investigative panel says arbitrarily held in custody. The Trump ad- toward regime survival. A prosperous, Washington also seeks short-term gains. the ideal scenario. And the way to do this the country’s military leaders, including army ministration may impose sanctions against economically vibrant North Korea recog- Most clearly, the United States has openly – it seems – is for the United States to of- commander Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, are high-ranking Chinese officials and compa- nised as an equal partner by the interna- linked the North Korean nuclear issue to fer North Korea economic incentives and responsible. There were previous attacks on nies. If China doesn’t relent, the US should tional community would also guarantee relations with China, including the ongo- regime security in exchange for nuclear the Rohingya in 2012 and 2016. take action. China’s cruel treatment of Ui- Kim Jong Un’s power. The examples of ing trade war between Washington and disarmament. A more prosperous, denu- The panel says the brutality was systemic ghurs is well documented. China and Vietnam show this. And the Beijing. Furthermore, the United States clearised North Korea would defuse one and “undoubtedly” represents “the gravest Two appalling situations in two countries: United States holds the key to both. This does not want to break the alliance with of the main security hotspots in Northeast crimes under international law.” The coun- Myanmar and China want to be players on the is why Kim is dangling the denucleari- South Korea even if its relationship with Asia. It would also put an end to the last try’s top generals should be prosecuted for world stage. But the governments of the US sation carrot in front of US President North Korea improves. Trump might remnants of the Cold War in the Korean genocide by the International Criminal Court and other influential nations should highlight Donald Trump. The question is whether have sent mixed messages regarding the Peninsula. We have to be realistic and or a special tribunal, the panel says. Myan- the abominable behaviour of these two coun- Pyongyang is sincere about denucleari- presence of US troops in South Korea, but it might well be that the Koreas and the mar, which did not cooperate in the investi- tries at every turn. Sanctions and condemna- sation. From its perspective, the ideal so far there has been no real indication United States will just muddle along in in- gation, has blamed Rohingya militants for the tion from Washington and other world capi- scenario would be to keep part of its nu- that the alliance per se is at stake. Consid- cremental steps, with disarmament being violence, but the UN panel says Myanmar’s tals may not rescue these Muslim minorities. clear deterrent while sanctions are slowly ering this range of interests, it is unclear reciprocated with sanctions relief, eco- response was “grossly disproportionate” to But they’re worth a try. Robust and consistent removed and investment flows into the whether Washington is willing to offer nomic aid, and ultimately a peace regime. any security threat. We agree: Myanmar’s attention from the United Nations is a must. country increase. Ultimately, North Korea Pyongyang real incentives to achieve full With Kim, Moon, and Trump committed would like to be a new India or Pakistan. denuclearisation. to diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula, South Korea is, of course, also cen- As the diplomatic process continues however, we should also hope that peace tral to peace on the Korean Peninsula. to unfold on the Korean Peninsula, peace could be achieved. President Moon Jae-in has been the main seems within reach. Seoul and Washing- catalyst behind the negotiation process ton insist that Kim is committed to full (John Hemmings is Director unfolding over the past few months. The denuclearisation. A security guarantee of the Asia Studies Centre at the tangible benefits of a peace declaration or from the United States, also underpinned Henry Jackson Society. treaty for the Korean Peninsula go beyond by China, could well lead to full denu- Tat Yan Kong is Reader in inter-Korean reconciliation. Supporting clearisation. Economic support from the Comparative Politics and Political North Korea’s economic development key actors in Korean Peninsula affairs, Economy at SOAS. would help bring a broader peace regime plus others such as Japan, the IMF, or the Ramon Pacheco Pardo is to the Korean Peninsula, one in which EU, could seal the deal. KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Pyongyang could decide that economic Having said that, the current process Institute for European Studies of integration with South Korea makes could just as likely end in a total break- Vrije Universiteit Brussel.) Tribune News Service

CO2 Is Killing The Ocean ‘We need to understand what fossil fuels are doing to our oceans before it’s too late’

JAMES B MCCLINTOCK | produced by humans has been absorbed by smell their food when exposed to elevated TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE our surging seas. acidification. Oceanic absorption of carbon diox- Ocean acidification could cause a sub- S the new acting chief of the Envi- ide varies somewhat with latitude. The stantial loss of biodiversity within some of ronmental Protection Agency, An- colder the water, the more readily carbon the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. drew Wheeler, pushes ahead with dioxide will dissolve in it. The Southern Complex marine ecosystems, including the the Trump administration’s plan Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, ab- seafloor communities surrounding Ant- Ato weaken fuel economy standards sorbs about 10 percent more carbon diox- arctica and tropical coral reefs, provide to levels that give even the auto indus- ide than other seas. habitat and nutrients for a rich array of try pause, Americans should consider the When carbon dioxide combines with bacteria, invertebrates and fish. As ocean ramifications of the rollback. seawater, it undergoes a series of chemi- acidification begins to eliminate the most Most of us are aware that auto emis- cal reactions that increase the acidity of vulnerable species, their loss risks disrupt- sions contribute significantly to the pool of the water. The same chemical reactions ing these interdependent communities. atmospheric greenhouse gases. Scientific also reduce the availability of calcite and Not to mention that some of these ecosys- studies show that nearly one-fifth of the at- aragonite, two carbonate minerals that are tems may provide cures to a variety of hu- mospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) gas gener- needed for the shell-building process. es not only the ability of marine organisms sect-like crustaceans – die after prolonged man diseases. ated in the United States each year comes Marine life is reacting to the acidifica- to make and maintain a shell, but also their exposure to ocean acidification, perhaps While the Trump administration works from the combustion of fossil fuels by cars tion of our oceans, and not in a good way. capacity to grow, reproduce and navigate. because they have trouble shedding their to freeze car pollution rules, Americans and trucks. Many citizens also know that In some coastal regions, oysters, clams and Researchers at the University of Tas- exoskeletons. need to weigh the full costs of such a move. the product of this combustion process is snails are struggling to produce and main- mania, led by Dr So Kawaguchi, found And a team of scientists at the Austral- We have collectively made the connection primarily carbon dioxide, a colourless gas tain their shells. The tiny offspring of these that the tiny eggs of krill are less likely to ian Research Council Center of Excellence between fossil fuels and the atmosphere. that traps heat within the atmosphere, con- animals are particularly vulnerable. hatch when exposed to ocean acidifica- for Coral Reef Studies, led by Dr Philip We need to understand what fossil fuels tributing to the ongoing warming of Earth. Coral reef ecosystems are also at risk. tion. The shrimp-like crustaceans provide Munday, observed that in acidifying condi- are doing to our oceans before it’s too late. Much less common, however, is an un- Half of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef sustenance for the majority of fish, seals, tions, juvenile clownfish lose the ability to derstanding that the emissions spewing has died since 2016 in a catastrophic penguins and baleen whales that dominate relocate their natal reef, a process required (Dr James B McClintock is an from our tailpipes are also acidifying the bleaching event exacerbated by acidifica- Antarctic food webs. for their reproduction. endowed professor of polar and world’s oceans. Since the first coal-burning tion. A scientist at the University of Oregon, Even sharks are affected. Dr Danielle marine biology at the University of fires of the Industrial Age, about 30 per- Marine biologists and chemists have es- Dr Julie Schram, determined that some Dixson at the Georgia Institute of Technol- Alabama at Birmingham and the cent of the atmospheric carbon dioxide tablished that ocean acidification influenc- species of Antarctic amphipods – small, in- ogy discovered that sharks are less likely to author of ‘Lost Antarctica.’)

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A mother and infant were killed in Wilmington when a tree fell on their house as Hurricane Florence crashed into North Carolina on Friday, swamping streets with torren- tial rain and a powerful storm surge. Police said they were the first confirmed deaths di- rectly related to storm, while the child's father was taken to the hospital. CNN showed the scene, a small brick house. In Pender County, North Caro- lina, one woman died after she suffered a heart attack and par- amedics were unable to reach her due to blocked roads au- thorities said. After landfall, Florence slowed to a pace that meant it would plague the area with days of flooding. The hurri- cane's storm surge - the wall of water it pushed in from the Atlantic - "overwhelmed" the town of New Bern at the conflu- ence of the Neuse and Trent riv- ers, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said. "To those in the storm's path, if you can hear me, please stay sheltered in place," he said at a news conference in Raleigh, adding that Florence A view from the International Space Station of Hurricane Florence off would "continue its violent A woman reacts upon learning that a giant tree toppled onto her family members’ house, killing two in Wilmington on Friday. (EPA-EFE) the US east coast in the Atantic Ocean on Frdiay. (AFP) grind across the state for days." No storm-related deaths or 90 miles per hour (150 kph), state's Outer Banks barrier is- the downtown area was under- emergency personnel wad- tion this bad. "Afterwards, I'm egory 3 hurricane with 120 serious injuries were reported the National Hurricane Center lands, already had received 30 water. Calls for help kept com- ing through rippling thigh- going to drink a bottle of whis- mph winds on Thursday but in the hours immediately after (NHC) said. inches (76 cm) of rain, the U.S. ing in as the wind picked up high floodwaters in residential key and take a two-day nap, dropped to Category 1 before Florence hit but authorities said By 1:50 p.m. (1750 GMT) Geological Service said. Twenty and the tide arrived, said city neighborhoods. but right now I'm walking the coming ashore. more than 60 people, including the winds had dropped to 75 inches (50 cm) were reported public information officer Col- Florence also blew down neighborhood and making sure It is expected to move many children and pets, had to mph (120 kph) and the center by early Friday afternoon in the leen Roberts. trees, including one that went my neighbors are fine, because across parts of southeastern be evacuated from a hotel in was moving west at a 6 mph (10 town of Oriental. "These are folks who de- through the roof of Kevin DiLo- nobody can get in here." North Carolina and eastern Jacksonville, North Carolina, kph), the NHC said, and parts The NWS predicted Flor- cided to stay and ride out the reto's home in Wilmington. More than 634,000 homes South Carolina on Friday and after strong winds caused parts of North and South Carolina ence could drop up to eight storm for whatever reason, He said all roads leading to his and businesses were without Saturday, then head north over of the roof to collapse. would get as much as 40 inches months' worth of rain in two or despite having a mandatory neighborhood were blocked by power in North and South the western Carolinas and cen- The center of the hurri- of rain (1 meter). three days. evacuation," she said. "These fallen trees. Carolina early on Friday, utility tral Appalachian Mountains cane's eye came ashore at about Cooper said Florence was Authorities in New Bern, a are folks who are maybe in one- "It's insane," he said in a officials said. Utility companies early next week, the NHC said. 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) set to cover almost all of North town of about 30,000 people story buildings and they're see- phone interview. "Everybody said millions were expected Significant weakening is ex- near Wrightsville Beach close Carolina in several feet of wa- dating to the early 18th century, ing the floodwaters rise." laughs at the fact that this to lose power and restoration pected over the weekend. to Wilmington, North Caro- ter. As of Friday morning, At- said more than 100 people had Video reports from several storm got downgraded ... but could take weeks. About 10 million people lina, with sustained winds of lantic Beach, a town on the to be saved from floods and that towns in the Carolinas showed I've never seen tree devasta- Florence had been a Cat- could be affected by the storm.

News in brief Trump ex-campaign head Manafort to cooperate with Russia probe

REUTERS ert Mueller's inquiry into Rus- But Friday's announce- former Trump campaign of- Teen dead as gas WASHINGTON sian interference and possible ment was a political blow to ficial to plead guilty in Muel- explosions rock coordination between Trump Trump's presidency ahead of ler's investigation. US towns DONALD Trump's former campaign members and Mos- Nov. 6 congressional elections He had other charges campaign chairman Paul cow, Manafort took a plea deal that will determine whether dropped but could still face NEW York: A teenager was Manafort will cooperate with and agreed to cooperate in re- or not Republicans maintain 10 years in prison on the two killed and 25 residents the federal investigation into turn for reduced charges. control of Congress. charges in Washington. injured after a series of gas Russian meddling in the 2016 It was not immediately Manafort, 69, pleaded In August, Manafort was explosions and fires rocked election, prosecutors said on clear what information about guilty in a federal court in convicted at trial in Alexan- three US towns north of Bos- Friday, a dramatic turnaround Trump that Manafort, a long- Washington on Friday to dria, Virginia, on charges ton, according to the state that deals the US president a time Republican political con- counts of conspiracy against that pre-dated his stint on government. Massachusetts political setback. sultant who ran the campaign the United States and con- the Trump campaign and in- police said they had respond- After months of refusing as it took off in mid-2016, spiracy to obstruct justice, volved his work with pro-Rus- ed to 70 reports of fires, to assist Special Counsel Rob- could offer prosecutors. US President Donald Trump and Paul Manafort in Washington. (AFP) becoming the most prominent sian politicians in Ukraine. explosions and the smell of gas that began Thursday and triggered mass evacuations across east coast towns of Lawrence, Andover & North Trump lashes ex-secretary of US president top court pick denies Andover "The incidents have been traumatic," said 1980s sexual harassment story Governor Charlie Baker late state Kerry for Iran meetings Thursday. (AFP) AFP who negotiated the 2015 Iran AFP on her during a party while crats fighting the nomination Former Canada WASHINGTON nuclear deal which Trump WASHINGTON they were in high school. say that could turn the court foreign minister scrapped this year, said dur- "I categorically and une- away from guaranteed abor- unveils new party PRESIDENT Donald Trump ing a tour to promote his new PRESIDENT Donald Trump's quivocally deny this allegation. tion rights, against programs lashed out at former Secre- book "Every Day is Extra" that conservative pick for the Su- I did not do this back in high that benefit disadvantaged OTTAWA: Former Canadian tary of State John Kerry for his he had met Iranian Foreign preme Court Brett Kavanaugh school or at any time," Ka- minorities, and for greater foreign minister Maxime meetings with Iran's foreign Minister Mohammad Javad denied Friday involvement in vanaugh said in the statement. presidential immunity from Bernier on Friday unveiled a minister after the Obama-ap- Zarif "three or four times" an alleged sexual assault on The allegation came just the law. new populist right-wing party pointee had left office. since he left office and Trump a woman while they were in one week before the Senate Ju- On Thursday Senator that could become a spoiler "John Kerry had illegal had entered the White House. high school in the 1980s. diciary Committee is to vote on Dianne Feinstein, the sen- for the opposition Tories in meetings with the very hos- Asked by conservative In a statement released his nomination. If approved by ior Democrat on the Judici- upcoming elections. At a tile Iranian Regime which can radio host Hugh Hewitt on to US media, Kavanaugh re- the committee and the whole ary Committee, announced press conference in Ottawa, only serve to undercut our Ex-US secretary of state John Kerry. Wednesday if he had offered jected the woman's claim, Senate, as has been expected, cryptically that she had for- the longtime politician who great work to the detriment of Zarif advice on how to deal made in a letter to Demo- Kavanaugh is likely to decid- warded to the Federal Bu- split last month with the the American people," Trump the Trump Administration!" with Trump's decision to with- crats vetting his nomination, edly tilt the court to conserva- reau of Investigation “infor- Conservatives said his new said on Twitter late Thursday. he said, ending his Tweet draw from the pact, he replied: that he tried to force himself tives for years to come. Demo- mation from an individual.” party would be called the "He told them to wait out with the word "BAD!" Kerry, "No, that's not my job. People's Party and would field candidates across the country in next year's general election -- running on a libertarian platform of smaller government. (AFP) Indigenous people, key to saving forests, catch a break Maduro pays tribute AFP shift for tribal and indigenous forge the new charter, said it to Mao, makes SAN FRANCISCO engagement," Mary Nichols, ‘The partnership between would make a difference. deals with China chair of the California Air Re- "We live in, depend upon, PROVEN masters at sustain- sources Board, said at the Glo- governments & indigenous and manage our forests -- and BEIJING: Venezuelan Presi- ably managing forests that bal Climate Action Summit. leaders marks a paradigm have done so for centuries," dent Nicolas Maduro paid protect against global warm- Up to now, native commu- shift for tribal engagement’ said Francisca Arara, leader of tribute to Mao Zedong at ing, indigenous peoples got a nities in the forests of Latin the Arara indigenous people in the late Chinese leader's place at the table, and some America, Africa and Asia have Acre, Brazil. mausoleum on Friday cash, at an international cli- seen their ancestral lands de- tion of environmental activists "These principals provide before overseeing energy mate summit in San Francisco graded and destroyed -- some- by state and private forces," us with a stronger platform for and gold mining deals as this week. times with the blessing of lo- the non-profit Center for In- negotiating equal ground with he seeks Beijing's help to New "guiding princi- cal or national governments ternational Forestry Research governments." bolster his crisis-hit coun- ples" for collaboration en- -- by extraction industries (oil, (CIFOR) reported last year. Experts described the try's economy. "We are dorsed by three dozen mostly gold) and big agriculture (soy, "Today we recognize the charter as "an important step beginning this state visit in tropical provinces and states palm oil, cattle). essential role of local commu- forward," but said more was the best way because we across nine countries bolster Even UN-led efforts to in- nities and indigenous peoples needed. "Recognizing the have come to pay tribute indigenous rights to land, volve indigenous peoples in for the conservation of for- rights is really key to keeping to the great helmsman self-governance and finance preventing deforestation have est territories and the devel- the carbon in the trees and the A group of indigenous women commemorate the International Day of Mao Zedong," Maduro said earmarked for safeguarding unfolded "in a context of rights opment of effective climate soil," said Andy White, Coor- Indigenous Women in Santiago Chile. (EPA-EFE) in comments broadcast by forests. abuses, displacement and dis- change strategies," said Jorge dinator of the Washington- Venezuela's official VTV "The partnership between possession, threats and har- Aristoteles Sandoval Diaz, based Rights and Resources how much money they put be- provide livelihoods and anchor network. (AFP) governments and indigenous assment over territories, and governor of Jalisco, Mexico. Initiative, a research group. hind implementing these com- the cultural identities of tens of leaders marks a paradigm the repression and assassina- Tribal leaders, who helped "But the real question is mitments." Tropical forests millions of indigenous people. VW to end production www.facebook.com/QatarTribune of iconic ‘Beetle’ in 2019 www.youtube.com/QatarTribuneChannel PAGE 12 www.twitter.com/Qatar_Tribune

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DOW38,090.64 QE 10,021.96 SENSEX 38,090.64 GOLD 1,200.10 Bank of England prepared for wide range -23.48 PTS +31.79 PTS +372.68 PTS -0.67% of Brexit outcomes: Carney PAGE 12 PRICE PERCENTAGE PRICE PERCENTAGE 14.14 BRENT 78.06 -0.15% WTI 68.94 +0.51% SILVER -0.73% Trump is hitting China with another $200 billion in tariffs

still working on the final list of quoted administration sourc- Trump has already levied du- decision, said a public order This is despite US attempts to restart talks products. es. There has so far been no ties on $50 billion worth of had been delayed as the ad- President Trump ordered formal announcement. Chinese goods. ministration revises the final with China on resolving the trade war his staff to start preparing the However, Trump has also On 7 September, Trump list of products. tariffs this summer, escalat- repeatedly signalled his will- said tariffs on $200bn in US stocks sank on the AGENCIES report on Friday said that ing a dispute over what the US ingness to impose the new goods “could take place very news. Talks to resolve the mat- WASHINGTON Trump was moving ahead on says are China’s unfair trade duties, despite warnings from soon” and added that tariffs ter ended without resolution the tariffs despite Treasury practices, such as state subsi- economists and widespread on a further $267bn in goods this spring. U.S. President Donald Trump Secretary Steven Mnuchin's dies. opposition in the US among were “ready to go on short no- The United States only im- has instructed aides to proceed attempts to restart talks with The new duties would add the business community. tice if I want”. ported $505 billion in goods with tariffs on about $200 bil- China on resolving the trade to tariffs the US has already The step comes one week The White House and of- imported from China last year. lion more of Chinese products, war had an immediate effect imposed on $50bn in Chinese US President Donald J Trump after Trump raised the pos- fice of the US Trade Repre- But 2018 imports from China a source familiar with the on financial markets, leading goods as part of that dispute, sibility of duties on the $200 sentative did not respond to through July were up nearly 9 process said on Friday, adding U.S. stocks to reverse course as well as tariffs that China Friday’s news reports that billion of imports and also requests for comment. percent over the same period that the timing is not yet clear. and trade lower. levied on $50bn in US goods Trump has ordered the US to threatened tariffs on another Bloomberg News, which of 2017, according to U.S. Cen- An earlier Bloomberg Officials are reportedly in retaliation. proceed with further tariffs $267 billion worth of goods. first reported the president’s sus Bureau data.

Quick read Oil mixed as India, Russia set two-way investment Perry encourages OPEC, Russia China tariff target of $50 bn talk scotches MOSCOW: India and Russia have set a new two-way investment early rally target of $50 billion by 2025 fol- lowing a meeting between Indian to work against oil price spike REUTERS External Affairs Minister Sushma NEW YORK Swaraj and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov here The US energy OIL prices pulled back on Fri- on Friday during which bilateral day amid concerns additional cooperation across various sec- secretary meets U.S. tariffs would be placed tors was reviewed. Addressing on China, trading mixed after the media after co-chairing with with his Russian a rally triggered by worries of Borisov the 23rd India-Russia counterpart more sanctions on Iran. Inter-Governmental Commission Crude futures were on on Technical and Economic Co- Alexander Novak track to end the week up operation (IRIGC-TEC), Sushma about 1.6 percent. Swaraj said in 2017, the annual in Moscow Traders said a rally on Fri- trade between India and Russia day was sparked by reports reached $10.17 billion. (IANS) REUTERS Secretary of State Michael MOSCOW Pompeo was going to give a press conference on new French central bank OPEC and Russia are to be sanctions on Iran. trims 2018 growth admired for trying to prevent “It increases the odds that forecast a spike in global oil prices, US there will be less oil coming Energy Secretary Rick Perry out of there,” said Phil Flynn, PARIS: The French economy said after meeting Russian En- an analyst at Price Futures is expected to expand by 1.6 ergy Minister Alexander Novak Group. percent this year, the country's in Moscow. The gains from the ex- central bank said Friday, well US sanctions on Iran's oil pected news conference were short of the 2 percent goal exports, which come into force curbed after reports U.S. originally set by the govern- in November, have already cut President Donald Trump in- ment for this year. The slower supply back to two-year lows, structed aides to proceed with growth is likely to compound while falling Venezuelan out- tariffs on about $200 billion the challenges facing President put and unplanned outages more of Chinese products. Emmanuel Macron, who cam- elsewhere will also keep the At about 11:30 a.m. EDT paigned on a pledge to dyna- supply-demand balance tight, (1530 GMT) the rally began, mise the economy with reforms the International Energy Agen- with U.S. crude up over $1 a that would make it easier to do cy said on Thursday. barrel. business in the country. Finance "The kingdom (Saudi Ara- Brent crude however Minister Bruno Le Maire had bia), the members of OPEC pulled back on the reports of already acknowledged this week that are opting their produc- Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak (R) and US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shakes hands during a press conference after their additional tariffs, dropping that growth was unlikely to tion to be able to make sure meeting in Moscow. (EPA) 5 cents a barrel to $78.12 by reach that target, forecasting a that the citizenry of the world 1:03 p.m. EDT. The global 1.7 percent rise in GDP. (AFP) does not see a spike in oil price East-dominated Organization cials that the Trump adminis- winter, and imposed bans on benchmark fell 2 percent ... are to be admired and ap- of the Petroleum Exporting tration opposes Nord Stream customers reselling gas to oth- on Thursday after rising on preciated, and Russia is one of Countries and a group of non- 2 because it would concentrate er countries. Wednesday to its highest Russia raises key them," Perry told reporters. OPEC producers, including The members of OPEC that a single route of Russian gas Perry told the Russian of- since May 22 at $80.13. interest rate for first The United States, Rus- Russia, will meet in Algeria to are opting their production into Europe, "one vulnerable ficials that the Trump adminis- U.S. West Texas Interme- time since 2014 sia and Saudi Arabia are also discuss the market situation. to be able to make sure to disruption and risks of over tration welcomes competition diate (WTI) futures were up working together to make sure During the meeting with that the citizenry of the reliance for European custom- on energy from Russia, but 29 cents at $68.88 a barrel MOSCOW: Russia’s Central the world has access to afford- Perry, Novak said he proposed world does not see a spike ers," his spokeswoman, Shay- "Moscow can no longer use en- after dropping 2.5 percent on Bank raised its key interest able energy, he added. creating a joint investment lyn Hynes said. ergy as an economic weapon," Thursday. rate on Friday for the first time Oil prices fell on Thursday, fund to develop new projects, in oil price ... are to be The United States is boost- Hynes said. After a volatile week, since an economic crisis four slipping back from four-month adding the Russian Direct In- admired and appreciated, ing its own gas exports to Eu- Novak said Nord Stream Brent was set for a 1.6 per- years ago. In an effort to stave highs as investors focused on vestment Fund (RDIF) could and Russia is one of them. rope, including to Poland and 2 was a "commercial project", cent weekly rise and WTI 1.6 off inflation, the bank raised the risk that emerging market be part of such a fund. Lithuania, through liquefied which Russia hoped would percent. the rate by 0.25 percentage crises and trade disputes could The RDIF supports this US Energy Secretary Rick Perry natural gas, or LNG shipments. continue to be developed and Brent reached a session points to 7.5 per cent per dent demand even as supply idea and will propose pos- LNG is more expensive for Eu- that the United States would high of $78.94 a barrel, as annum, the monetary author- tightens. sible parameters for such an a warning to Western firms in- rope than gas pipelined from approach rationally. speculators attempted to ity said in a statement. The Russia's Novak said ear- arrangement soon, it said in a vested in the pipeline that they Russia, but Washington is em- Perry did not rule out break through resistance at bank said it would “consider lier this week that his country statement. were at risk of sanctions, saying phasizing the reliability of U.S. the introduction of sanctions $79.00 a barrel. the necessity of further in- could raise output if needed Perry and Novak also Moscow was using the project LNG. against Nord Stream 2, but “The price action of yes- creases in the key rate,” used and warned of uncertainty touched on the topic of gas to divide Europe. Russian state energy com- said neither leaders of the two terday confirms $80.00 a to determine the cost of credit, on the market due to the up- pipeline project Nord Stream 2, Perry, who also met with pany Gazprom has in the past countries, nor their energy barrel as a strong resistance as “annual inflation is return- coming U.S. sanctions against that would double Russia's ex- Russian Deputy Prime Min- cut off gas to Ukraine, and ministers, wanted to get to the line in Brent,” consultancy ing to 4 per cent faster than Iran's oil exports. port capacity via the Baltic Sea. ister and Minister of Finance onward to Western Europe, point where sanctions against Petromatrix said in a re- expected.” (DPA) In September, the Middle In July, Washington repeated Anton Siluanov, told the offi- during price disputes in deep the project would be engaged. search note. SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon AFP details, but said more infor- They would have blasted have ever been to the Moon. LOS ANGELES mation would follow on Mon- off aboard a Falcon Heavy Humans have not set foot US President Donald day. rocket. on the Moon since the final Trump has championed plans SPACEX has announced a This is not the first time However, the company Apollo mission in 1972, to put boots on the Moon new plan to launch a tourist the California-based compa- has remained mum about capping an era of US again, as NASA works on around the Moon using its Big ny, headed by Internet entre- those plans in recent months. building a lunar gateway that Falcon Rocket (BFR), a mas- preneur and Tesla electric car The names and identities national pride would serve as a launching sive launch vehicle that is be- CEO Elon Musk, has touted of those two tourists -- and point for missions heading ing designed to carry people plans to send tourists around how much they intended to ping an era of US national even further into deep space, into deep space. the Moon. pay -- were never revealed. pride. such as asteroids or Mars. "SpaceX has signed the In February, 2017, SpaceX SpaceX declined an AFP American astronauts Neil SpaceX is a key commer- world's first private passenger announced it would send the request for more details, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin cial partner to NASA, and is to fly around the Moon aboard world's first two space tourists but said further information became the first men to ex- working on a crew ship that our BFR launch vehicle -- an around the Moon in late 2018. would follow Monday at an plore the lunar surface in will make its first flight to the important step toward ena- That plan called for them event lasting from 5:30 pm to 1969, a moment seen and orbiting International Space bling access for everyday peo- to ride on a Dragon crew vehi- 7:00 pm (0030 GMT to 0200 heard around the world when Station next year, restoring ac- ple who dream of traveling to cle, similar to the cargo ships GMT). Armstrong declared "one cess to space from US soil for space," the company said on that SpaceX routinely sends Humans have not set foot small step for man, one giant the first time since 2011, when The SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator used to train NASA astronauts who Twitter. loaded with supplies to the In- on the Moon since the final leap for mankind." the space shuttle program was will travel to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon. SpaceX gave no further ternational Space Station. Apollo mission in 1972, cap- Only 24 people in history retired after 30 years. www.guide.com.qa  :H[\YKH`:LW[LTILY

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TEN years after the fall of Worries about inter- Lehman Brothers helped est rates have crystalized REUTERS spark the global financial in recent months over the NEW YORK crisis, the United States is in prosect of an “inverted yield the midst of an exception- curve,” when short-term US technology and consumer ally long cycle of economic bond yields rise above long- discretionary stocks have been growth. term yields, traditionally a insulated from global trade Most major economic predictor of recessions. tensions, but if another round indicators continue to show The yield curve has been of US tariffs on Chinese goods a green light but some econ- of late closer to inversion goes into effect, even those omists see warning signs. than at any time since 2007. high-flying sectors could come Market watchers believe While economists watch down to earth. a trade war is one thing that the yield curve, some key The United States and could help make the US figures, including Fed Chair China have already imposed economy hit the brakes. Jerome Powell, are skepti- tariffs on $50 billion worth of Many key measure- cal of the indicator’s signfi- each other’s goods. The White ments are at or near multi- cance. House has proposed tariffs year highs such as those on an additional $200 billion assessing manufacturing, worth of Chinese imports, in- consumer confidence and cluding furniture, handbags unemployment. and some computer parts. Other signs of robust- The major risk of a US President Donald ness include solid job recession is the trade war. Trump has said he is prepared growth, higher gross domes- It could result in higher to move forward with levies on tic product and numerous inflation and lower an additional $267 billion — stock market records follow- consumption as the Fed in essence, all Chinese imports ing strong corporate profits. into the United States. Companies in the S&P tightens its monetary The inclusion of consumer 500 reported a 25 percent in policy. goods is a shift from previous second-quarter profits, the Gregori Volokhine, presi- rounds of US tariffs, which biggest increase since 2010, have primarily hit the indus- according to FactSet. dent of Meeschaert trial sector. Shares of compa- As the unemployment Financial Services nies such as Boeing Co and rate has fallen below four Caterpillar Inc have risen and percent, one source of un- fallen in tandem with trade ease for economists has been “The major risk of a re- sentiment. Container delivery trucks make their way south on the 710 freeway heading to the Port of Long Beach on July 12, 2018 in Long Beach, California. the prospect of inflation. cession is the trade war. It On Wednesday, the Trump The Trump administration announced tariffs on $200 billion more Chinese goods on July 11 with China vowing to retaliate. (AFP) That worry appeared to could result in higher infla- administration said that it in- gain some traction after the tion and lower consumption vited Chinese officials to re- Apple Watch and AirPods Consumer-oriented com- Atlanta. The list of targeted August jobs report showed as the Fed tightens its mon- start trade talks, which has headphones, though it did not panies face a catch-22 in their items in the next round of tar- a 2.9 percent rise in hourly etary policy,” said Gregori been welcomed by Beijing. US mention the iPhone. Tit-for-tat response to tariffs. Those that iffs excludes cell phones, for wages, the biggest jump in Volokhine, president of Mee- stocks have perked up on the In part because of trade is- compete on price, such as instance. nine years. schaert Financial Services. news, but that optimism could sues, shares of tech companies O The United States and Walmart, will likely have to With such mitigating fac- Another sign of accel- Of particular concern be fleeting. have gotten off to a rocky start China have already absorb the cost of levies, which tors, many investors are reluc- erating inflation came with is the worsening conflict “Investors in general are in September. As of Thurs- imposed tariffs on $50 will cut into their margins. But tant to make sweeping chang- the July reading on personal between Beijing and Wash- too predisposed to react too day’s close, the S&P 500 tech billion worth of each companies that pass costs onto es to their portfolios, though consumption expenditures, ington. President Donald positively to any signs of im- sector had fallen 1.2 percent other’s goods consumers, as Apple has indi- Morgan Stanley’s Shalett has the highest in six years. Oth- Trump has threatened to provement in the situation,” this month, versus a 0.1 per- cated it will do, risk dampen- recommended a rotation into er inflation data have been impose hefty tariffs on said Kristina Hooper, chief cent rise for the S&P 500 as O The White House has ing demand for their products. defensive sectors. more benign. all Chinese exports to the global market strategist at In- a whole. S&P 500 consumer proposed tariffs on an Invesco’s Hooper pointed Many are likely waiting In light of these trends, United States, a move that vesco in New York. “I don’t ex- discretionary stocks had risen additional $200 billion to washing machines as an for third-quarter earnings for the Federal Reserve is ex- would bruise the Chinese pect the (Trump) administra- 0.2 percent, less than the 2 worth of Chinese imports, example. Tariffs on steel and more details on the impact of pected to lift interest rates economy. tion to back down.” percent advance in industrial including furniture, aluminum caused Whirlpool trade, said David Joy, chief two more times this year. Another source of unease Companies in the tech stocks. handbags and some Corp to raise prices on its market strategist at Ameriprise Higher interest rates is the cloud surrounding and consumer discretionary “The next round of esca- computer parts appliances, and its second- Financial in Boston. could weigh on households emerging markets that hold sectors have begun sounding lation really does impact the quarter earnings slumped as But further signs of esca- in the form of increased large dollar-denominated alarm bells. A broad array of leadership of the market,” said O US President Donald a result. lation in the US-China trade mortgage and loan pay- debts, with Argentina and US industry groups, repre- Lisa Shalett, head of invest- Trump has said he is To be sure, consumer war could quickly raise the ments. Even more worri- Turkey at the top of the list. senting companies such as ment and portfolio strategies prepared to move forward electronics are flashier prod- stakes for the S&P’s leading some is the prospect of a “With their currency Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com at Morgan Stanley Wealth with levies on an additional ucts than a washer-dryer set. sectors. The final round of rapid spike in inflation that falling, it’s more problem- Inc, Walmart Inc and Mattel Management. And US tech companies can levies would include consum- hastens Fed interest rate atic for them to pay back any Inc , has voiced opposition to In anticipation of height- $267 billion — in essence, skirt some tariffs by shipping er electronic products import- hikes. loan they have outside the the new tariffs. ened trade tensions, compa- all Chinese imports into Chinese-made parts directly ed from China. Some market “We might keep raising country, “ said Tom Cahill, a Even Apple Inc, whose nies have built up inventory, the United States to other countries for assem- watchers fear that China, interest rates and the econo- strategist at Ventura Wealth stock has contributed heav- which could have an adverse bly and then importing the which cannot match the Unit- my can’t take it and we put the Management. “At some ily to the S&P 500’s gains, effect on supply chains later ductor industry. The Philadel- finished items into the United ed States in tit-for-tat tariffs, country into recession,” Neel point it’s going to reverber- has warned that the proposed on, Shalett said. Inventory phia SE Semiconductor Index States, said Scott Yuschak, would respond by restricting Kashkari, president of the ate around the world.” tariffs would affect several pile-ups have already pushed had fallen 2.8 percent in Sep- equity strategy analyst at Sun- US companies’ ability to sell of its products, including the down pricing in the semicon- tember as of Thursday’s close. Trust Advisory Services in products in the country. Bank of England prepared for wide range of Brexit outcomes: Carney

the BoE told banks last year over a year, as it has judged certainty around Brexit had He had reportedly said that a disorderly to ensure they had guarded longer-run prospects for non- weighed on pay growth, against. inflationary growth had weak- although recent data still Brexit could lead to 2008-like problems “The Bank of England is The Bank of England is ened. showed a pick-up, he said. well-prepared for whatever well-prepared for The BoE said after its The bulk of Carney’s path the economy takes, in- whatever path the September Monetary Policy speech focused on the long- REUTERS ed late on Thursday that Car- cluding a wide range of poten- Committee meeting that fu- term impact of technological DUBLIN ney had told senior ministers tial Brexit outcomes,” Carney economy takes, including ture rate moves would depend change on employment. earlier in the day that a cha- said, sticking close to previous a wide range of potential heavily on how households, “At present, there is little THE Bank of England and otic Brexit could lead to house language on preparations for Brexit outcomes. businesses and financial mar- evidence to go on to judge Britain’s largest banks are price falls of up to 35 percent Brexit. kets reacted to Brexit. the likely size and persist- well prepared for a disorder- over three years as well as spi- “We have used our stress BoE Governor Mark Carney “The appropriate policy ence of any increasing in ly Brexit, the central bank’s ralling interest rates. test to ensure that the larg- response is not automatic and structural unemployment. governor Mark Carney said Carney did not address est UK banks can continue to will depend on the balance of Monetary policy makers will on Friday, amid reports he this prospect directly in his meet the needs of UK house- be. Our job, after all, is not to has slowed since June 2016’s the effects on demand, supply, need to remain alert to this had warned it could trigger a speech at Ireland’s central holds and businesses even hope for the best but to plan Brexit vote, though that has and the exchange rate,” Car- possibility, updating their house price crash. bank, though these projec- through a disorderly Brexit, for the worst,” he added. not stopped the BoE raising ney said on Friday. assessment as the transition British media had report- tions are similar to scenarios however unlikely that may British economic growth interest rates twice in just In the meantime, un- occurs,” he said.

BYE BYE ‘BEETLE’ Volkswagen to end production of iconic bug-shaped car in 2019

Allied countries eventually made and Driver. VW revived the “New The curvy-topped sedans are being sidelined as VW Volkswagen a priority in an effort to Beetle” in the United States in 1997. revive the German auto industry. But sales of the Beetle slipped emphasizes e-cars and family-oriented vehicles The sedans made their US 3.2 percent to 15,667 in 2017 in debut in the 1950s, but sales were the United States, a fraction of AFP as a possible template. weak, in part owing to the com- the sales for the Jetta and Passat NEW YORK “As we move to being a full-line, pany’s Nazi origins. sedans. family-focused automaker in the The advertising agency Doyle At the Detroit Auto Show in VOLKSWAGEN has announced US and ramp up our electrification Dane Bernback in 1959 rechris- January, the German automaker that it would end production of its strategy...there are no immediate tened the car the “Beetle,” and unveiled a revamped version of the iconic “Beetle” cars in 2019 after plans to replace it,” Hinrich Woeb- began touting the vehicle’s small Jetta and also touted the Atlas, a adding a pair of final editions of the cken, chief executive of Volkswagen size as an advantage to consumers, new mid-sized SUV. bug-shaped vehicles. Group of America said in a state- according to the History Channel. VW continues to deal with fall- The curvy-topped sedans, which ment. The car attained further popu- out from the “dieselgate” scandal shook off Nazi origins to become a “But, I would also say, never say larity with the 1968 Disney movie that broke in September 2015. global auto phenomenon, are being never,” he added. “The Love Bug,” the story of a The company, having already sidelined as Volkswagen empha- “The loss of the Beetle after racing Volkswagen with a mind of paid out costly government settle- sizes electric cars and larger family- three generations, over nearly its own. ments, is fighting billions of dol- oriented vehicles. seven decades, will evoke a host of Andy Warhol did prints featur- lars in additional claims lodged by But company officials, still emotions from the Beetle’s many Vintage Volkswagen Beetle cars are parked in a row during a rally held in ing the car and a Beetle featured shareholders who saw their stock trying to completely turn the page devoted fans,” Woebcken said. Bangalore, India. prominently on the cover of “Abbey plummet in value after authori- after 2015’s costly “dieselgate” scan- Volkswagen plans to offer the Road,” the final Beatles album to be ties cracked down on VW over the dal, opened the door to reviving two final edition models in both up, the company said. with support from Adolf Hitler, recorded. installation of so-called “defeat the model at some point, alluding coupe and convertible styles. The The vehicle’s history goes back who in 1937 formed the state-run US sales ceased in 1979, but the devices” into 11 million cars world- to the company’s 2017 decision to cars will include nods to earlier ver- to the Nazi era, having first been Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s vehicle continued to be produced in wide to fool regulatory emissions unveil a revamped Volkswagen Bus sions and be priced at $23,045 and developed by Ferdinand Porsche Car Company.” After the war, the Mexico and Brazil, according to Car tests. Real coach not sure about overseas game Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui has criticised La Liga’s plans to hold a match in the US PAGE 15

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Yates tightens grip on Tour of Spain Britain’s Simon Yates holds on to the lead after SWIMMING Frenchman Thibaut Pinot wins 19th stage PAGE 14 FINA SWIMMING WORLD CUP

2018 Doha FINA Swimming World Cup Doha Sjostrom, Pieroni sink records; Hosszu claims two more golds Results (ALL FINALS) WOMEN’S 400M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY 1. KATINKA HOSSZU (HUN) 4:39.57; 2. ZSUZSANNA JAKABOS (HUN) 4:44.87 3. ALBA VAZQUEZ RUIZ (ESP) 4:48.68

MEN’S 1500M FREESTYLE 1. MARCOS GIL CORBACHO (ESP) 15:28.19; 2. FERRAN JULIA TOUS (ESP) 0.66 15:42.84 3. LIN ZHEQI (CHN) 0.65 15:57.24; 6. SALAH KAREEM SALAMA (QAT) 17:31.34

MEN’S 50M BACKSTROKE 1. MICHAEL ANDREW (USA) 24.49; 2. VLADMIR MOROZOV (RUS) 24.79; 3. MITCHELL LARKIN (AUS) 25.15

WOMEN’S 200M FREESTYLE 1. SARAH SJOSTROM (SWE) 1:56.32; 2. FEMKE HEEMSKERK (NED) 1:56.92 3. KATINKA HOSSZU 2:00.16

MEN’S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY 1. MITCHELL LARKIN (AUS) 1:59.14; 2. TOMAS PERIBONIO (ECU) 2:00.40 3. KIRILL PRIGODA (RUS) 2:03.47

WOMEN’S 100M BACKSTROKE 1. KATINKA HOSSZU (HUN) 59.63; 2. KIRA TOUSSAINT (NED) 1:00.05 3. TAMARA MOLINA (ESP) 1:02.47; 3. YURU JIANG (CHN) 1:02.47

MEN’S 50M BREASTSTROKE 1. FELIPE LIMA (BRA) 26.84; Winners on Day 2 of the 2018 Doha FINA Swimming World Cup and officials pose for photographs during a medal presentation ceremony at the Hamad Aquatic Centre at Aspire Zone on Friday. 2. MICHAEL ANDREW (USA) 27.47; 3. KIRILL PRIGODA (RUS) 27.60 VINAY NAYUDU fifth placed finish. 1:06.27secs, ahead of compa- 200m individual med- WOMEN’S 50M BUTTERFLY DOHA “Fans are giving me all the triot Vitalina Simonova. This ley (1:59.14) and Brazilian 1. SARAH SJOSTROM (SWE) 25.22; (WR) energy,” she said after her first was also the event which saw Felipe Lima, who topped the 2. RANOMI KROMOWIDJOJO (NED) 25.76; IN what turned out to be a gold medal swim in the wom- Hosszu lag behind and finish 50m breaststroke event in 3. KIMBERLY BUYS (BEL) 25.94 thrilling evening for the fans, en’s 400m individual medley fifth (1:11.82) in her otherwise 26.84secs. MEN’S 100M FREESTYLE Swedish sprint queen Sarah inviting big cheers. glorious evening. “I gave my best for this 1. BLAKE PIERONI (USA) 48.11; Sjostrom raised the Hamad “I thank all my fans in Hosszu, who won two tough race and I am happy to 2. VLADIMIR MOROZOV (RUS) 48.43; Aquatic Centre roof a little Doha who always support me. golds on the opening day, has achieve the victory. I am trying 3. PIETER TIMMERS (BEL) 49.04 on Friday as she bettered her I am enjoying the competi- so far collected four golds, a hard in the World Cup and this WOMEN’S 100M BREASTSTROKE own World Cup record in the tion here. Hopefully, I will win silver and two bronze medals win will give me confidence,” 1. YULIYA EFIMOVA (RUS) 1:06.27; women’s 50m butterfly event more titles here,” she added. thus far in this second leg of said Larkin. 2. VITALINA SIMONOVA (RUS) 1:07.90; on Day 2 of the 2018 FINA Soon after having said Cluster 1 of the On his part, Lima gleam- 3. SISHI ZHANG (CHN) 1:10.35 Swimming World Cup Series’ that, she returned with the World Cup ing with his second gold of MEN’S 200M BUTTERFLY Doha leg. 100m backstroke gold, after Series which the meet said, “It was the best 1. MAKSYM SHEMBEREV (AZE) 1:58.45; It took nearly two days for a bronze medal finish, in the is being led time for me this season. I was 2. DAVID VERRASZTO (HUN) 1:58.70; the first record of this three- 200m freestyle. by Sjos- a good time and I am very 3. YUHANG WU (CHN) 1:59.81 day meet to surface, but it Hosszu closed off her trom. happy to win my second gold MIXED 4X100M FREESTYLE came in fine style and amid beautiful evening at the HAC The oth- medal here in Doha.” 1. NETHERLANDS (KYLE STOLK, JESSE PUTS, loud cheers from a large Qatar pool with a silver in the thrill- er men to Qatari swimmers in ac- FEMKE HEEMSKERK, RANOMI crowd. ing mixed 4x100m freestyle sizzle were tion in the finals were also KROMOWIDJOJO) 3:30.81; The 25-year-old Sjostrom event with her Hungarian Australia heavily cheered and 2. HUNGARY (DANIEL DUDAS, DAVID VERRASZTO, ZSUSANNA JAKABOS, KATINKA won the 50m butterfly event in teammates, being pipped by Mitchell egged on by their HOSSZU) 3:37.71; 25.22secs, bettering her own the Dutch, who took gold. Larkin, home crowd. 3. CHINA (ZHEQI LIN, YUHANG WU, XINYU LI, World Cup mark of 25.39 set Also claiming a brief spot- who The young Ab- SISHI ZHANG) 3:40.76. just last week in Kazan, Rus- light was Russian Yuliya Efi- claimed dulaziz al Obaidly, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu celebrates after winning a race. WOMEN’S 100M BREASTSTROKE sia. mova, who won the women’s gold competing in the 1. YULIYA EFIMOVA (RUS) 1:06.27; And after the first record 100m breaststroke event in in the men’s 200m IM, 2. VITALINA SIMONOVA (RUS) 1:07.90; fell, it didn’t take long for the “I am happy that I could im- fastest time of my life. I’m su- finished a creditable 3. SISHI ZHANG (CHN) 1:10.35 first men’s record to follow. prove my time from Kazan, per happy. It’s (100m free) seventh, while Fahad MEN’S 200M BUTTERFLY In the very next race, Blake a few days ago. That’s really definitely one of my favourite Hussain swam in he 1. MAKSYM SHEMBEREV (AZE) 1:58.45; Pieroni of the US won the good. My only goal is to keep events,” he said. I am happy that I could improve my men’s 200m butterfly 2. DAVID VERRASZTO (HUN) 1:58.70; 100m freestyle in a World Cup improving all the time. I’ve Apart from these two stan- event (2:22.52). Earlier 3. YUHANG WU (CHN) 1:59.81 record time of 48.11. been working hard on my but- dout displays, the evening be- time from Kazan, a few days ago. My in the men’s 1500m free- Pieroni broke the 28.16 terfly and I hope for more, lit- longed to Hungary’s Katinka only goal is to keep improving all MIXED 4X100M FREESTYLE style Kareem Salama Salah 1. NETHERLANDS (KYLE STOLK, JESSE PUTS, mark set by South Africa’s tle bit better. My aim was to Hosszu as the 29-year-old the time. I’ve been working hard on finished sixth (17:31.34), FEMKE HEEMSKERK, RANOMI Chad le Clos in 2015. go under 25 seconds, but it’s three-time Olympic champion my butterfly and I hope for more. ahead of Lebanon’s Na- KROMOWIDJOJO) 3:30.81; Clos hasn’t competed in okay,” said the Swede speak- continued with her medal fish- has el Ahmed. 2. HUNGARY (DANIEL DUDAS, DAVID Doha this year as yet as he is ing soon after her race. ing act at one of her favour- My aim was to go under 25 The swimmers VERRASZTO, ZSUSANNA JAKABOS, KATINKA seconds, but it’s okay. HOSSZU) 3:37.71; indisposed due to fever. The 22-year-old Pieroni ite World Cup Series stops, will be back in action 3. CHINA (ZHEQI LIN, YUHANG WU, XINYU LI, Sjostrom was clearly de- too was over the moon with his scooping two golds, a silver Sarah Sjostrom on the final day on SISHI ZHANG) 3:40.76. lighted with her performance. splendid show. “It’s the second and a bronze. Add to that a Saturday. Al Rayyan pip Al Arabi by a lone goal in scrappy “fans’ derby”

fire and finesse as he almost in the Arabi box but the de- ishing with a lovely one-time Shahaniya impress set up Tabata for the opener. fender could only slot his shot volley. in 3-2 win against Al Rayyan dominated early wide with the goalkeeper at his Kuwari made it two just in the match as Tabata forced mercy. before the half hour mark af- Qatar Sports Club a save from Masoud Zarei Al Arabi pressed for an ter a swift exchange of passes from a set piece just outside equaliser towards the end of saw the defender alone in the AYENI OLUSEGUN the box. the match but failed to break box with enough time to shoot DOHA Sebastian Soria’s goal a coordinated Al Rayyan de- past Jasem al Hail. drought in the league contin- fence. Eto'o's goal-bound effort AL Rayyan held off a last- ued as the big forward dragged The Lions will visit Al Sadd from 25 yards forced a good minute flurry to get the bet- a shot wide after beating his on September 22 for the Qatar save from Khalifa al Dosari as ter of Al Arabi 1-0 in the QNB marker. Soria scored a brace Clasico, while Al Arabi have a QSC tried to get into the game. Stars League fans’ derby at the in the QSL Cup last weekend. date to keep at Al Shahaniya. The Cameroun legend fi- Al Arabi Stadium on Friday. A The opening goal came In the other match, Al Sha- nally scored his first league first-half goal from Moham- from an unlikely source as Ju- haniya beat Samuel Eto’o’s goal seven minutes into the med Jumaa moved Rodolfo maa headed home from close Qatar Sports Club 3-2. second half with an audacious Arruabarrena’s side one point range in the 37th minute. Dan- Goals from Kesse, Kuwari flick from a low cross into the clear atop the league table iel Goumou’s cross into the and Hamad sealed three im- box as Dosari stood rooted in with Al Sadd and Al Duhail yet box was helped onto the cross- portant points for the new goal. to play. bar by the Al Arabi defence boys in the league. Samuel However, Shahaniya One of the biggest derbies before Jumaa shrugged off his Eto’o scored an outrageous sealed maximum points from in Qatar football due to both marker to put the Lions ahead flick and a screamer from a counter with Qatar's defence clubs massive fan base, the for his first goal of the season. Yousef Mohammed late in the spread too thin. Mesaad Ali al match failed to live up to the The hosts provided little second half were not enough Hamad slotted home with 11 hype. attacking threat to the visitors for QSC. minutes left. Khalfan Ibrahim lined up but came close to an equaliser Al Rayyan players celebrate with Mohammed Jumaa after his goal against Al Arabi during a QNB Stars Kesse Jean Amangoua The game had one last for his new club after spending after Diego Jardel pounced on League match at the Al Arabi Stadium on Friday. showed Shahaniya’s intent twist but Yousef Mohammed's last season with Al Arabi and a loose ball but Mohammed with a goal seven minutes blinder in added time was a lit- the former Asian player of the Salah failed to make a clean cross. chance to add to their tally as hosts. A Tabata freekick found into the match. The Ivorian tle too late as Shahaniya held year showed he still has the connection from the resultant Al Rayyan wasted another the pressure mounted on the an unmarked Musa Haroon latched on to a pass before fin- on to move up to seventh. 14 Saturday, September 15, 2018 Sports Groupama-FDJ’s Pinot claims 19th stage in mountains No sympathy for ‘rude’ Australians Yates tightens his grip from England's on Tour of Spain Moeen Ali The Mitchelton team’s rider widens his overall lead to 1 minute & 38 seconds He says it’s difficult to feel for them REUTERS rude." AFP on the attack very early and it MELBOURNE Australia's series against LA RABASSA (ANDORRA) paid off." South Africa was also blighted Yates stays on course to ENGLAND all-rounder Moeen with heated moments between BRITAIN'S Simon Yates, of become the fifth consecutive Ali has no sympathy for Aus- the players, with one alterca- the Mitchelton team, tight- British Grand Tour champion tralia's banned cricketers and tion between Warner and Pro- ened his grip on the Tour of after Froome won last year's finds the whole team “rude”, teas wicketkeeper Quinton de Spain red jersey on Friday af- Tour de France and Tour of British media reported. Kock spilling over off the field. ter a thrilling 19th stage in the Spain, followed by the Giro Australian cricket was The ball-tampering scan- mountains won by Frenchman d'Italia. Geraint Thomas then thrown into turmoil earlier dal was also seen as a wa- Thibaut Pinot (Groupama- triumphed at the Tour de this year when captain Steve tershed for the sport in Aus- FDJ). France in July. Smith, vice-captain David tralia, however, with national Yates started the 154.4 km "It's one of the biggest races Warner and batsman Cam- governing body Cricket Aus- ride from Lleida to Andorra we have, really the pinnacle of eron Bancroft were banned tralia announcing a root-and- with a lead of 25secs over Mo- the sport almost," Yates added. after a ball-tampering scandal branch review and ordering a vistar leader Alejandro Val- "But we're not there yet. during a Test in South Africa. charter governing player be- verde. Tomorrow is a very difficult Much of the cricketing haviour. But, as the Spanish vet- day and anything can happen world reacted with a mix of eran struggled to keep pace on so until then, we keep our feet anger and schadenfreude, with the climb to the summit finish on the ground." media pundits and former of La Rabassa, Yates forged The 'Vuelta' continues players suggesting Australia ahead to stretch his advantage with a 97.3km-long stage 20 had brought themselves un- to 1min 38sec. through Andorra on Sunday, done with the aggressive way Yates came in 5sec behind including six classified climbs, they played the game. Bad to worse Pinot while Dutchman Steven ahead of a mainly flat stage to "Everyone you speak to Kruijswijk was 13sec adrift, Madrid on Sunday. ... they are the only team I've That was the first time it hit having been separated from played against my whole life me. I gave them the benefit of the two frontrunners. that I've actually disliked," the doubt, but the more I Kruijswijk's strong run RESULTS Moeen told The Times news- played against them they were means he jumps to third over- Results from the 19th stage of the Tour of Spain, paper. just as bad, the Ashes here (in all, ahead of Spain's Enric Mas a 154.4km ride from Lleida to La Rabassa on "Not because its Australia 2015) they were worse, in fourth, but still 1:58 back on Friday: and they are the old enemy but actually. Yates. because of the way they carry Stage Yates led for 13 days at 1. Thibaut Pinot (FRA) FDJ 3hr 42min 05sec, 2. on and (their) disrespect of the Giro d'Italia in May, only Simon Yates (GBR/MIT) at 4sec, 3. Steven Kruijswijk people and players." to wobble at stage 19, allow- (NED/LNL) 13, 4. Rigoberto Uran (COL/EFD) 52, 5. Moeen, who had a terrible Tim Paine, who replaced ing Chris Froome to clinch the Miguel Angel Lopez (COL/AST) same time, 6. Enric 2017/18 Ashes in Australia but Smith as Test captain, said the Mas (ESP/QST) s.t., 7. Wilco Kelderman (NED/SUN) pink jersey. 1min 03sec, 8. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) 1:12, returned to form to help Eng- furore had been cathartic and "I really need to be careful," 9. Tony Gallopin (FRA/ALM) 1:15, 10. Nairo Quintana land beat India 4-1 in the re- would allow them to change said Yates. "I especially know Mitchelton-Scott’s British cyclist Simon Philip Yates crosses the finish line of the 19th stage of the 73rd (COL/MOV) 1:49 cent Test series, said he felt no their approach and team cul- how it can fall apart in one day. edition of “La Vuelta” Tour of Spain cycling race, a 154.4 km flat route from Lleida to La Rabassa in sympathy for Smith, Warner ture. Andorra, on Saturday. (AFP) Overall The race isn't finished yet." 1. Simon Yates (GBR) Mitchelton 76hr 44min 41sec, and Bancroft. Paine, however, added it A gruelling stage 19 had 2. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) at 1min 38sec, 3. "I'm someone who gen- would not diminish their de- begun in Catalonia and ended Movistar's Nairo Quintana and forces to move away from the triumph following his win on Steven Kruijswijk (NED/LNL) 1:58, 4. Enric Mas erally feels sorry for people sire to play the game hard. at the top of La Rabassa in Kruijswijk both attacked with chasing pack. stage 15. (ESP/QST) 2:15, 5. Miguel Angel Lopez (COL/AST) when things go wrong but its New coach Justin Langer, 2:29, 6. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) 4:01, 7. Thibaut Andorra, with 2,618 metres of 13km left. Finally, Kruijswijk dropped "It's really the cherry on Pinot (FRA/FDJ) 5:22, 8. Rigoberto Uran (COL/EFD) difficult to feel sorry for them," who leads the team on his vertical climbing in between. Yates, Pinot and Kruijswijk off, leaving Pinot to dart in the cake," Pinot said. 5:29, 9. Jon Izagirre (ESP/BAH) 6:30, 10. Tony he said. first Test tour later this month The drama, however, was rallied, however, and as Val- front of Yates with 200 metres "It was a beautiful stage, Gallopin (FRA/ALM) 7:21 "The first game I ever against Pakistan in the United saved for the final ascent when verde fell away, the trio joined remaining to claim his second fast, with a nice climb. I went played against them, in Syd- Arab Emirates, also said he ney, just before the 2015 felt there was a place for for World Cup, they were not just on-field banter, or sledging. going hard at you, they were "We've always played almost abusing you. hard, some of the best banter “That was the first time it is amongst each other to try to Kimi Raikkonen edges Hamilton in FP2 hit me. I gave them the benefit get the opposition thinking of of the doubt, but the more I other things," he said in May. played against them they were "I think we modify our be- AFP But Verstappen said he did just as bad, the Ashes here (in haviours a bit so it's not angry, SINGAPORE not think the Red Bulls had a 2015) they were worse, actu- or over-aggressive, but it's quick enough package to chal- ally. aggressive in the mindset we KIMI Raikkonen edged out lenge Ferrari and Mercedes "Not intimidating, just play with the bat and ball." Lewis Hamilton to the fastest for pole position in Saturday's lap in Friday's second practice qualifying. for the Singapore Grand Prix, "I think we can still improve but the Finn's Ferrari team- with the car," Verstappen said. mate Sebastian Vettel had "I don't think we have the pace his session cut short after he to fight for pole, but we'll try to smacked a wall. optimise the car a bit more." Raikkonen, who will leave Ferrari's new signing Ferrari for Sauber at the end Charles Leclerc had a moment of the season, sped round in 1 to forget when he crashed his minute 38.699 seconds, almost Sauber near the end of the first a second quicker than last year's session. pole position time, and then The 20-year-old from Mo- warned he could go even faster. naco, who will replace Raikko- "For sure in the second ses- nen at the Marinello team for sion I could have driven a bit 2019, misjudged his exit and better," the 38-year-old former clipped the wall hard at turn 13, world champion told reporters. destroyed his right front wheel "I went on the kerbs on the Ferrari’s Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen drives at the Marina Bay Street Circuit during the second practice and suspension. fastest lap so we lost quite a bit session ahead of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix in Singapore on Friday. (AFP) The Marina Bay track has of time, but overall it was pretty 23 corners -- more than any easy going." raris, but we will only find out It meant the German, who runs with tyres which will obvi- other on the current Formula Championship leader Ham- tomorrow how quick they really is 30 points behind Hamilton in ously be key for Sunday, but we One calendar -- and is a severe ilton was just 0.011 seconds are," said four-time world cham- the standings with seven races can recover most of it tomor- test for both drivers and cars, adrift of Raikkonen after bolting pion Hamilton, who finished to go, was only able to complete row." with temperatures regularly on the fastest hypersoft tyres for more than half a second ahead 11 laps under lights in race-sim- Valtteri Bottas was fifth in topping 30 Celsius during the the night session on the spectac- of the Red Bulls of Max Verstap- ulation conditions. the second Mercedes, less than night race. ular Marina Bay street circuit. pen and Daniel Ricciardo. But Vettel denied the set- a tenth of a second behind Ric- "The track is incredible," Mercedes, who usually Vettel limped back to the back would hamper him in Sun- ciardo, with the Renault of Car- said Hamilton. "We're a lot struggle for pace in Singapore, pits only ninth fastest with fluid day's race. los Sainz sixth. quicker than we were last year, had elected not to use the quick- pouring from a hydraulic pipe "No not at all," he told re- Earlier Singapore specialist but that also makes the lap so est compound in the first ses- after he bounced off the wall porters. "By now I think you Ricciardo, who has finished sec- much harder with G forces and sion, in which Hamilton fin- and damaged his right rear and have quite good experience ond for the past three years in a it is crazy hot. In the second ished sixth. front wheels with 40 minutes of reading into the others, what row, had led a Red Bull one-two session, I think I lost almost "We were close to the Fer- the session remaining. they did and reading into their in first practice. two kilos." England’s Moeen Ali: Feels no sorry for Aussies. Shastri asks for practice Steyn back in SA ODI squad after 2 years games before Oz Tests AFP ty20 series. SA SQUADS REUTERS Cricinfo. JOHANNESBURG Two uncapped batsmen, BENGALURU India had shortened their Gihahn Cloete and Rassie van One-day squad: Faf du Plessis (captain), Hashim lone warm-up clash against FAST bowler Dale Steyn was der Dussen, were included in Amla, JP Duminy, Reeza Hendricks, Imran Tahir, Christiaan Jonker, Heinrich Klaasen (wkt), Keshav INDIA coach Ravi Shastri has Essex before the England on Friday named in a 16-man the Twenty20 squad. Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, requested the Board of Con- Tests due to the heatwave in South African squad for three Selection convener Linda Andile Phehlukwayo, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, trol for Cricket in India (BCCI) Britain. one-day internationals against Zondi said the squads were part Dale Steyn, Khaya Zondo. to schedule practice matches Media reports had specu- Zimbabwe, starting on Sep- of an ongoing process to assess Twenty20 squad: Du Plessis (captain), Gihahn ahead of their Test series in lated that the quality of the tember 30. talent ahead of the World Cup. Cloete, Junior Dala, Quinton de Kock (wkt), JP Australia this year, but is not pitch led the BCCI to curtail Steyn, 35, has been plagued "We still have one-day se- Duminy, Robbie Frylinck, Imran Tahir, Jonker, Klaasen sure if additional fixtures can the match, which Essex de- by injuries in recent years and ries after this one against Aus- (wkt), David Miller, Ngidi, Dane Paterson, be inserted into a crammed nied. has not played in a one-day in- tralia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Phehlukwayo, Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen. schedule. Shastri said he was not ternational since October 2016. as we get closer to finalising Fixtures: India are keen to make averse to the idea of giving In- But he recently stated his our likely World Cup squad," September 30: First ODI, Kimberley amends following a 4-1 Test dia's batsmen a better chance determination to finish his Dale Steyn: Dogged by injuries he said. October 3: Second ODI, Bloemfontein series defeat in England where to adjust to conditions against white-ball career by playing in Faf du Plessis was named October 6: Third ODI, Paarl October 9: First Twenty20 international, East London most of their batsmen strug- tour sides Down Under where the 2019 Cricket World Cup in He has subsequently Twenty 20 international as captain of both squads, sub- October 12: Second Twenty20 international, gled against the swinging ball they play three Twenty20 in- England. shown a return to form dur- against India in February, ject to fitness assessments. He Potchefstroom in tough conditions. ternationals, four Tests and Steyn made a comeback ing a stint with English county is the only newcomer in the suffered a shoulder injury in October 14: Third Twenty20 international, Benoni "We have requested a three one-day internationals to international cricket af- Hampshire, taking 20 wickets one-day squad. Sri Lanka in August and said couple of (warm-up) games against Australia starting on ter shoulder and foot injuries in five first-class matches at an Batsman David Miller and on his return to South Africa in Australia before the Test November 21. when he played in two Tests in average of 19.10. wicketkeeper-batsman Quin- that he would miss the Zimba- a statement that if Du Plessis series. But is there space (to India were beaten 2-0 in Sri Lanka in July but he only Christiaan Jonker, who ton de Kock have been rested bwe series rather than return to was not fully fit a replacement play those matches)? That is the four-test series on their last took two wickets at a cost of made 49 in a promising de- for the one-day series but will action too soon. captain would be named near- the question," he told ESPN- tour of Australia in 2014-15. 89.50 runs each. but in the third and final play in a three-match Twen- Cricket South Africa said in er the time. Sports Saturday, September 15, 2018 15 Going Stateside upsets La Liga balance, claims Mourinho turns on media Real coach Lopetegui AFP year it took a lot to beat them in MADRID ‘lies’ over use of Rashford Montilivi.” Barcelona travel to Real So- REAL Madrid coach Julen Lo- ciedad on Saturday while Real petegui believes staging Giro- Madrid are at Athletic Bilbao. The 20-year-old na's home game against Barce- Both teams have taken nine forward impressed lona in the United States would points out of nine so far, but will harm the equality of La Liga. have one eye on the Champions for the Three Lions “I'm not in favour of it,” Lo- League next week, with Barca over the int’l break petegui said on Friday. hosting PSV on Tuesday and Barcelona and Girona Real also at home, to Roma, on as he scored against have signed a formal request Wednesday. -- made by La Liga to the Span- “We have a gap of three both Spain and ish Football Federation (RFEF) days between the two,” Val- Switzerland on Monday -- asking that the verde said. “The games are very game, originally scheduled to be compressed and we will have to at Girona's Estadi Montilivi, be rotate players to avoid injuries AFP played at Hard Rock Stadium in and be fresh.” MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM Miami on January 26. Malcom is out with an ankle Barca boss Ernesto Val- injury, further boosting Ous- MANCHESTER United man- verde insists an agreement for mane Dembele’s chances of a ager Jose Mourinho turned on the fixture to be moved is still start after he played only 25 the media once more on Fri- “far away”, even if he admitted minutes across France’s two re- day as he launched a detailed on Friday his players had dis- cent games. defence of his use of England cussed the issue and there is an Dembele has enjoyed a international striker Marcus “intention” for the match to go strong start to the season as the Rashford. abroad. 21-year-old looks to put behind The 20-year-old forward In theory, the switch could him a turbulent debut cam- impressed for the Three Lions favour Barca at the expense of paign in Spain. over the international break as Girona, who would be giving “He is the same player as he started, and scored, against up the advantages of holding a last season but what we want both Spain and Switzerland. fixture on home turf. Lopetegui is for him to have an attacking That led to questions over believes any change upsets the mentality,” Valverde said. “And whether Mourinho was mak- balance of the league. we want him to be consistent.” ing the most of Rashford's “I think we should all play Lopetegui would offer no abilities as he has struggled to in the same conditions, on clues as to the possibility of hold down a regular place in the same pitches - that's what changes for Madrid against Bil- the United side where he faces makes the league equal.” bao. Casemiro could be rested stiff competition from Romelu Valverde did not miss the after he played for Brazil against Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho celebrates after the match against Burnley, recently. The Portuguese has slammed the English chance to point out that his El Salvador in the US on Tues- Anthony Martial. media for their obsession with him and the Manchester United squad. (REUTERS) team beat Girona 3-0 in Mon- day but Gareth Bale is ready Rashford will definitely be tilivi last season. and available. missing when Mourinho’s men two seasons in charge before ing criticism in the first few important they have the right He also said a decisive Bale played twice for Wales, travel to Watford on Saturday, pointedly suggesting other weeks of the season after de- Fixtures (GMT) idea of how things are in real- agreement to take the match to a n d scored a stunner though, as he begins a three- managers should be quizzed feats to Brighton and Totten- ity." the US is still some way off. against Ire- match ban after being sent-off for their use of young English ham saw the Red Devils lose Tottenham vs Liverpool (1130) Mourinho also confirmed “We will wait to see how land to against Burnley before the in- players. ground on title rivals Liver- Bournemouth vs Leicester (1400) left-back Luke Shaw could re- everything evolves,” Valverde make it four ternational break. "Marcus Rashford is not pool, Chelsea, Spurs and Man- Chelsea vs Cardiff (1400) turn to action at Vicarage Road said on Friday. goals in as "I think I can expect that (Liverpool forward) Dominic chester City. Huddersfield v C. Palace (1400) just a week after suffering a “Everything is still far away. many games Sunday I'm going to be highly Solanke, he's not (Chelsea But despite righting the Man City vs Fulham (1400) concussion in England's Na- It’s good that we all for club and criticised for not playing him midfielder) Ruben Loftus- ship at Burnley and a two-week tions League loss to Spain. talk but country. tomorrow because some of the Cheek, he's not (Everton strik- international break to ease the Newcastle v Arsenal (1400) "Contrary to some news, to new things boys are really obsessed with er) Dominic Calvert-Lewin. pressure, Mourinho again took Watford v Man United (1630) some opinions, by the protocol come out me and, some of them, they "He's Marcus Rashford, aim at the press. point of view and according to every day. have I think a problem with Manchester United player, "The ones that wake up in our doctor, he will be free to “I have the some compulsive lies," said with an incredible number of the morning and the first thing and to be happy (about) in the play," added Mourinho. feeling everything is still a Mourinho. appearances and an incred- that comes into their mind is morning than to speak im- "The only situation we bit up in the air. It has been The Portuguese coach then ible number of minutes played Jose Mourinho and Manches- mediately about us and about have to analyse is if you are go- discussed with the players reeled off a stream of statistics at the highest level in the best ter United, I feel sorry for them football. ing to play him when during and there is an intention (for detailing Rashford's 105 ap- possible competitions." because there are much more "But for the Manchester the week he was not training the match to be moved). Last pearances in Mourinho's first Mourinho has faced sting- interesting things to wake up United supporters, I think it is with the team." WADA gets green light to reinstate Play Usain Bolt in defence, says Russia after doping suspension Spain's World Cup-winning coach AFP it depends, because it's not just SYDNEY about covering 100, or 60 or AFP WADA added that since 70 metres of the pitch. MONTREAL RUSADA was banned in 2015, WORLD Cup-winning coach “It’s about doing it many the agency and Russian author- Vicente del Bosque has some times over and that requires THE World Anti-Doping Agen- ities “have been working very advice for sprint king Usain stamina which I don’t know cy has been given the green hard to rebuild a credible, and Bolt's new Australian club -- whether he has or not -- al- light to lift its ban on Russia's sustainable, anti-doping pro- play him in defence. though I’m sure he has pre- drug-tainted testing authority gram in Russia.” The Jamaican superstar pared. Without a doubt as after a recommendation from If RUSADA's reinstatement has been handed the chance a full-back, with his back investigators, the global doping is approved next week, it could to train with the Central Coast towards the crowd and the watchdog said Friday. have far-reaching implication Mariners for an indefinite pe- touchline, that’s where he A WADA statement said across the sports world. riod in a bid to prove he has would be most useful.” its independent Compliance Russian officials had previ- fulfilling the first of the two Most significantly, it re- what it takes to earn a profes- Bolt, who retired from ath- Review Committee (CRC) had ously concluded that their dop- outstanding criteria of RUSA- moves a key obstacle to lift- sional playing contract. letics last year, has previously recommended that the Rus- ing system failed, but refused to DA's Roadmap to Compliance,” ing the suspension of Russia The eight-time Olympic tried out with clubs in Germa- sian Anti-Doping Agency (RU- acknowledge claims of institu- WADA said. by the International Associa- champion made his debut late ny, South Africa and Norway, SADA) be reinstated when the tional involvement. It said Russia had also tion of Athletics Federations last month in a 20-minute Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt to no avail. He has acknowl- agency's executive committee Tensions within WADA agreed to provide access to (IAAF), track and field’s global cameo as a substitute during warms up before he plays for edged the pace and rhythm of meets on September 20. emerged earlier this year over data and samples in its Moscow governing body. The IAAF has a friendly, starting in his fa- A-League football club Central football is completely different WADA suspended the RU- whether Russia had done laboratory to WADA via an in- taken a hardline stance on Rus- voured left wing position. Coast Mariners. (AFP) to the athletics track and said it SADA in 2015 after declaring it enough for the sanction to be dependent expert. sian athletes since the scandal He nearly scored but tired will take time to adjust. to be non-compliant following lifted, with some officials argu- That pledge fulfilled the emerged, refusing to lift its ban quickly and admitted he was possible, of course,” de Bosque Del Bosque believes that if revelations of a vast, Moscow- ing it had not fulfilled a "road- second outstanding criterion shortly before the European not match-fit, with Australian told the Olympic Channel. Bolt makes it as a footballer, it backed scheme to avoid drug map" to rehabilitation. on the roadmap, WADA said, Championships. pundits saying he had plenty of But he suggested the 100m will rank alongside his greatest testers. However WADA's state- “provided that the Executive The IAAF has said Russia work ahead to make the grade. world record holder would be achievements. A WADA report by Cana- ment on Friday said its com- Committee imposes a clear must fulfill three criteria to be Del Bosque said it was pos- better in defence than up front. “To start playing profes- dian lawyer Richard McLaren pliance committee had recom- timeline for such access.” readmitted; the reinstatement sible Bolt could fulfil his dream “With space, he could be a sional football at the age of 32 accused Russian authorities of mended reinstating RUSADA “The ExCo will fully dis- of RUSADA, provide access to of becoming a footballer, de- very good footballer,” said del isn’t normal,” he said. running an elaborate doping after reviewing a letter from the cuss this recommendation doping records at the agency's spite being 32. Bosque, who also steered Real “But he has won a lot dur- programme with the full sup- Russian Ministry of Sport. during its 20 September Moscow laboratory from 2011- “For a team that counter- Madrid to Champions League ing his 32 years of life and, port of the Russian Ministry of “This letter sufficiently ac- meeting and its decisions will 2015, and payment of costs in- attacks hard and transitions success. he has earned the right to Sport and the Russian secret knowledged the issues iden- be communicated publicly,” curred by the IAAF in the wake quickly into open space, sure “He could be a full-back say:’'Hey, I want to be a foot- service or FSB. tified in Russia, therefore said the statement. of the scandal. (he would fit in). It would be that covers a lot of space, but baller.’” Ronaldo chases first Juve goal before CL return to Spain

AFP just as his teammate, Croatia’s the Champions League and now had the opportunity to last season’s runners-up host MILAN World Cup runner-up Mario turn “dreams into reality”. play alongside Ronaldo,” said Fiorentina before playing Red Mandzukic, did. Juventus beat Sassuolo 7-0 Dybala. Star in Belgrade on Tuesday. CRISTIANO Ronaldo faces During the break the in their final match last season, Napoli, Roma and Inter Fiorentina have won two Sassuolo on Sunday still chas- 33-year-old was pictured re- but the club from Modena have Milan also have Champions games with their first match ing his maiden competitive goal laxing on board his yacht off St made a strong start this cam- League games on their minds. against Sampdoria postponed for Italian champions Juventus Tropez on the French Riveria. paign and are just behind the Roma host Chievo on Sun- because of the Genoa bridge before he returns to Spain for “Vitamin D,” wrote the five- champions in the table after day after their loss to AC Milan disaster. the first time in the Champions time Ballon d’Or winner under two wins and a draw. before the break, and ahead of a AC Milan head to Cagliari in League. a photo of him lounging on the Allegri will be keen to rotate trip to Spain to take on holders Sardinia with former Juventus Bolstered by five-time win- deck of his yacht. his side with a crowded sched- Real Madrid. forward Gonzalo Higuain also ner Ronaldo, Juventus begin “As my teammates say, ule of seven games in 21 days, Inter Milan play at home waiting to score his first goal for their quest for the Champions back to reality, work done,” he and defender Andrea Barzagli against Parma on Saturday his new club. League title which has eluded later posted. “Feeling good!! sidelined with a calf problem. before playing Tottenham Hot- them since 1996 in Valencia Let’s go.” Argentine Paolo Dybala – spur in the San Siro in their first Fixtures (all time GMT) next Wednesday. Coach Massimiliano Allegri Juventus’s top Serie A scorer European game since the 2011- Saturday Despite a seventh straight says he is not concerned that last season – and Brazilian 2012 season. Inter Milan v Parma (1300), Serie A title last season the Tu- Ronaldo has failed to find the Douglas Costa look set to start Luciano Spalletti's Inter Napoli v Fiorentina (1600), rin giants plunged into the red net despite 23 shots at goal in on the bench. – with last year's star forward Frosione v Sampdoria (1830) with a 19.2-million-euro loss as three games. Despite being overshad- Mauro Icardi fighting to shake Sunday a result of their European quar- “It takes time. We’ll all be Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during a Serie A match against owed by the arrival of Ronaldo, off a muscular injury – are Roma v Chievo (1030), Genoa v ter-final exit. fresher after the break and Parma. (REUTERS) Dybala insists he feels fortunate coming off a 3-0 win over Bo- Bologna, Juventus v Sassuolo, Serie A returns after a two- that’s when the real season to play in the same team as the logna after taking just a point Udinese v Torino, Empoliv Lazio week international break with starts,” said Allegri. league goal. ventus was extended this week five-time Ballon d’Or winner. from their first two games. (1600), Cagliari v AC Milan former Real Madrid player Ro- Ronaldo had to wait until Germany midfielder Sami that the Portuguese star was “I told myself after I was Carlo Ancelotti will look (1830) naldo having skipped Portugal his fourth game for Real Ma- Khedira pointed out in an in- brought in not to rack up goals lucky to play with Lionel Messi to put his first defeat as Na- Monday duty to focus on his new club, drid last season to get his first terview after his contract at Ju- but to make the difference in in the national team, I have poli coach behind him when SPAL v Atalanta (1830) 16 Saturday, September 15, 2018 The Last Word WCM-Q study sheds light on hepatitis C infections in MENA TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK The overview revealed body fluids. The World Health systematic reviews reporting DOHA that several hepatitis C sys- Organization has set a goal data on the MENA region. tematic reviews in MENA of eliminating viral hepati- We believe that in order to POPULATION health re- countries reported general tis by 2030. Because there is achieve the goal of HCV infec- searchers at WCM-Q have population estimates based no vaccine for pre-emptively tion elimination by 2030, up- published a study that gives a on data drawn from mixed protecting people from HCV to-date, good quality data that more accurate picture of the populations at differing risk infections, intervention meas- focuses precisely on at-risk epidemiology of hepatitis C in- of exposure to the hepatitis ures must focus on prevent- populations is needed in or- fections in the MENA region. C virus (HCV) and over long ing the infection among the der to help policy makers plan The researchers, led by time periods, in some cases as populations at higher risk to micro-elimination strategies Dr Sohaila Cheema and Dr long as two decades. HCV exposure and on identi- in MENA, which our study will Karima Chaabna of WCM- Dr Cheema, director of fying people with the infection certainly help achieve.” Q’s Institute for Population the Institute for Population through screening and giving Dr Ravinder Mamtani, Health (IPH), conducted a Health and assistant profes- them antiviral drugs. But in senior associate dean for comprehensive overview of 37 sor of healthcare policy and order to do this, good quality population health, capacity systematic reviews on hepa- research, said: “The consen- data is essential. building and student affairs at titis C in 20 MENA countries sus is that the best way to Incidence of HCV infection WCM-Q and senior co-author published between 2008 and eliminate HCV infection is to varies significantly across the of the study, said: “WCM-Q 2016. They then evaluated the focus interventions on at-risk MENA countries, with Egypt is at the forefront of engag- quality and precision of each populations, such as people having one of the highest HCV ing in cutting-edge popula- systematic review and the who inject drugs, people who prevalence rates in the world tion health research and this studies they included to deter- have had blood transfusions, and Pakistan the second-high- study, undertaken by us, is a mine how useful they were to prisoners, and people who en- est number of chronically in- case in point.” policy makers attempting to gage in risky sexual practices, fected worldwide. Conversely, Other researchers who design intervention strategies among others.” WCM-Q population health researchers have published a study of the hepatitis C virus in the MENA region in Qatar the prevalence is just contributed to the study to eliminate hepatitis C infec- “Unfortunately, many of that aims to help policy makers eradicate the disease. From left: Dr Ravinder Mamtani, Dr Karima 0.9 percent and it is the only were Dr Amit Abraham and tion from the region. the systematic reviews of HCV Chaabna, Dr Sohaila Cheema and Dr Amit Abraham. MENA country on track for the Dr Hekmat Alrouh, both of The WCM-Q research, en- in the MENA region use data elimination of HCV by 2030. WCM-Q, Dr Albert B. Lowen- titled Systematic overview of from mixed populations at dif- judgments of the current epi- difficulty using the available lion people worldwide have Dr Chaabna, population fels of New York Medical Col- hepatitis C infection in the Mid- fering risk of exposure to HCV, demiology in the region using systematic reviews to design chronic HCV infection, a po- health and communication lege, Valhalla, New York, and dle East and North Africa, has rather than targeted sub- old data, despite new data be- effective, targeted micro-elim- tentially life-threatening liver specialist, said: “Our study re- Dr Patrick Maisonneuve of the been published in the World sections of the population. In ing available. This means pol- ination strategies for HCV.” infection that is transmit- veals quite serious limitations European Institute of Oncol- Journal of Gastroenterology. addition, several studies make icy makers are likely to have It is estimated that 71 mil- ted through blood and other with many of the hepatitis C ogy, Milan, Italy. ‘Store food well to avoid poisoning’ Vitamin D deficiency: Avoid CATHERINE W GICHUKI DOHA over-the-counter supplements HAMAD Medical Corpo- ration (HMC) has advised people to store food prop- CATHERINE W GICHUKI give proper advice of sup- suffer from iron deficiency erly to avoid bacteria which DOHA plementation either injection (anaemia) owing to unhealthy can cause food poisoning. or orally. This is because it food choices and/or improper Speaking to Qatar HAMAD Medical Corporation Some people buy vitamin depends on the values.” She eating habits, and advised to Tribune recently, HMC’s (HMC) has advised people advised that not all people conduct blood test to deter- senior clinical dietitian not to avail over-the-counter D over the counter, which require multi-vitamin since mine the level of deficiency Lena Ribhi Nassar said: “If vitamin supplements and to should not be the case. their food intake has the re- and then consult the doctor to one consumes food that is go for proper advice from a This is because they need quired nutrients, and they get a prescription on proper not properly stored, one medical practitioner before to do certain tests to only need a guided advice. iron supplemental dose that can suffer from food poi- using them. know the level of The main source of vita- she/he needs. soning caused by the bac- Bearing in mind that min D, she said, is exposure Moreover, she recom- teria. Bacteria get activated many people in Qatar suffer deficiency and the dose to sun, and people should also mended such people to avoid and start to grow at certain from vitamin D deficiency, appropriate for their case have calcium rich foods. drinks that can impede iron temperature. And this re- they have a tendency of get- Lena added that people absorption. She said that it is sults in food poisoning.” ting the supplements without ~ Lena Ribhi Nassar, HMC should consume foods that not advisable to drink tea or Lena reiterated that any physician’s advice. senior clinical dietitian are rich in calcium which is coffee immediately after eat- when food is not prop- Speaking to Qatar Tribune (SOURCE: WEB) present in dairy products and ing food because it destroys erly stored, it promote the recently, HMC senior clinical green leafy vegetables, among the nutrients. “People should growth of bacteria. “Bacte- dietitian Lena Ribhi Nassar sun because it is harmful for Lena advised that one know the level of deficiency others. “Vitamin D is a fat- drink tea or coffee at least two ria – such as salmonella – said that vitamin D absorption the skin, Lena said. should not take vitamin D and the dose appropriate for soluble vitamin. If one has to three hours before or after are harmful to our bodies. depends on the timing of the According to her, it might supplements without consult- their case.” fat malabsorption he/she will their meals.” Food should not be kept sun exposure. “People should be also difficult for some peo- ing a physician. “Some peo- According to her, depend- have issues with vitamin D According to her, it is rec- in warm temperature for a expose themselves to the sun ple to get such an exposure. In ple buy vitamin D over the ing on the test, a physician absorption as well. Therefore, ommended to take vitamin long time.” early in the morning and just such a case, they are advised counter, which should not be and a dietitian can guide them people should be properly ad- C rich foods such as orange Vegetables particularly before sunset.” However, peo- to take vitamin D supple- the case. This is because they on the amount they can take. vised by a physician.” juice and tomato to help the the green leafy ones like ple should avoid the mid-day ments. need to do certain tests to “Based on test results we can She added that people absorption of iron. spinach and lettuce should not be chopped into small pieces until they are ready to be cooked. “One should majority of patients being not cut vegetables into women between the ages of small pieces and store ‘Advancements in treatment provide 31 and 40. them in fridge for a long “The causes of MS are time.” not well understood. There is She said that one no cure, but there are effec- should only cut the vegeta- better quality of life for MS patients’ tive medications and thera- bles when he/she is ready pies that modify the disease to cook. Chopping and outcome. We are continuing storing usually “kill nutri- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK makes understanding MS the amount of central nerv- to learn more about what ents”. In addition, Lena DOHA all the more difficult. It also ous system tract damage and causes MS and are zeroing in advised that before using highlights the significance of which tracts are affected. Prof on ways to prevent it,” said the vegetables wash them EMERGING treatments for raising awareness of the con- We are able to help many Deleu said the initial present- Prof Deleu. properly with clean water multiple sclerosis (MS) are dition and the importance patients with MS effectively ing symptoms often include “Depending on the sever- with a little vinegar. This helping to prevent relapses of early diagnosis and treat- blurred vision, numbness ity of the disease, the patient act should be repeated sev- and halt the progression of ment,” he said. manage their symptoms and or loss of sensation, incon- will be recommended for first- eral times before cutting or the disease in most patients, “We are able to help many these patients are able to live tinence, weakness in the ex- line or second-line treatment. cooking them to avoid any according to an MS specialist patients with MS effectively full and active lives. However, tremities, coordination prob- Some MS drugs have the po- insects that can cause food at Hamad Medical Corpora- manage their symptoms and early detection is the key to lems and double vision. The tential for complications that poisoning. tion (HMC). these patients are able to live getting the disease under disease is more common in can be quite serious so it is of Lena further said that Prof Dirk Deleu, director full and active lives. However, women than men and while critical importance that the in case of meat one should of HMC’s MS Program, said early detection is the key to control. If symptoms are it is not believed to be heredi- patient understands the pros cut it and put it inside a the neurological condition re- getting the disease under con- ignored or discounted and tary, family members have a and cons of each therapy,” he freezer. However, they mains one of the most misun- trol. If symptoms are ignored a person has several slightly higher risk of develop- added. should only take out the derstood diseases. or discounted and a person attacks, we may have ing the disease. He also noted that tre- pieces when they want to “MS is one of the most has several attacks, we may lost the critical window The MS Program at Ha- mendous progress has been use them. “Freezing the common disabling neurologi- have lost the critical window mad General Hospital is cur- made in recent years in the meat a number of times is cal conditions affecting young for treatment,” he added. for treatment rently caring for over 700 approval of disease-modify- not good. One can store it people, but it is also one of MS is a potentially disa- ~ Prof Dirk Deleu, patients who have been diag- ing drugs used to treat MS, in different portions and re- the most misunderstood. No bling disease that affects director of HMC’s nosed with the disease. Over adding that Qatar is one of move the one that they need two patients with MS experi- the brain and spinal cord. the last four years, almost 45 the leading countries in the to cook from the freezer.” ence the same symptoms or The symptoms of MS can MS Program percent of those diagnosed region to introduce many of have the same journey. This vary widely and depend on have been Qatari, with the these new treatments. Black ants can trigger allergies and asthma: Expert

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK ing is often the key to keeping nies in the case of an infesta- might not be serious or life- DOHA them out of the home,” said tion. He notes it is important threatening, it is important Dr Mehdi Mohammad Adeli, to be cautious when using to treat the patient promptly, AN allergy specialist at Ha- senior consultant, Paediatrics chemicals, especially if there especially if they experience mad Medical Corporation and Allergy and Immunology. are young children or pets at breathing difficulties,” said (HMC) said household ants Dr Adeli said that proper home. Dr Adeli explained that Dr Adeli. can trigger allergic reactions food storage and regular and children are often the target of “If there is not a severe al- and asthma symptoms and he thorough cleaning of the black ants because they spend lergic reaction, home-based notes that families, especially kitchen and other areas of the much of their time playing on remedies such as applying a those with young children home where food is prepared the ground and shoeless. cold compress over the area who have allergies, should or consumed will help deter He said while severe al- for 20 minutes to prevent be aware that black ants can ants. He says it is important lergic relations from black ant itching is recommended. Tak- cause respiratory problems. to be proactive and diligent, bites are not common, they ing an antihistamine is also “Qatar is situated in the quickly cleaning spills with are not unheard of. Accord- a good option, especially if warm Eastern Arab Penin- soap or vinegar to help elimi- ing to Dr Adeli, the symptoms there is minor pain, itching, sula, so black ants are very nate food odours. Dr Mehdi Mohammad Adeli, of black ant bites can vary or a localised allergic reac- common throughout the year. “These ants are attracted senior consultant, Paediatrics widely between mild allergic tion,” added Dr Adeli. However, most infestation oc- by the smell of food so it is and Allergy and Immunology. reactions and full-blown ana- To help prevent ant bites, curs during the summer ow- important to keep the kitchen phylactic shock. Dr Adeli recommended chil- ing to warmer weather. Black clean, to cover cooked food He said using pesticides “When a case involving a Black ants are attracted to the scent of sugar and grease. dren avoid going barefoot, ants are particularly attracted properly, and to store sugary with caution and profes- black ant bite is referred to us, cover exposed skin using long to the scent of sugar and foods in airtight containers,” sional pest control services we watch out for anaphylactic These symptoms will usually to minutes after a black ant sleeves, pants and a hat, and grease, so good housekeep- said Dr Adeli. can help eliminate ant colo- shock signs and symptoms. appear within a few seconds bite. While these symptoms use insect repellent creams.