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Turkey and Qatar to protect its people: FM Qatar share same values: Agencies Erdogan "Whatever measures inister of Foreign they are going to take, PRESI- Affairs H E Sheikh there is an international DENT Mohammed bin Recep Abdulrahman Al law which everyone Tayyip Thani said yester- should respect. We took Erdogan Mday Qatar will do ‘whatever it the first shock, and we yester- takes to protect our people’, and day are ready to move ahead Gulf states that have imposed a reaf- blockade on Doha of trying to with our people. We are firmed undermine his nation's going to do whatever Turkey’s sovereignty. it takes to protect our support for Qatar in its dis- He told the Chatham House pute with four other Arab think tank in London that "Qatar person, which is normal states, saying their continues to call for dialogue". for any country." demands against the Gulf "We welcome any serious nation were efforts to resolve our differences unacceptable. with our neighbours," he said, said Doha has done its part, and “When it comes to this adding: "We don't accept interven- it is now the turn of Saudi Ara- list of 13 items ... it’s not tion in our own affairs. I think if bia and its allies to respond. acceptable under any cir- we are not going to have a proper "They are the aggressors, and cumstances,” Erdogan said dialogue which will get us to a they are the countries which in an interview with solution...we are setting a prece- launched an attack on Qatar by France 24 television. dent for the future which might imposing all these measures," he Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani speaks during a Chatham Some of the terms be a challenge for other countries said. "So I should expect from House think tank in London, yesterday. were tantamount to “strip- in different regions," he added. them to take the first step in ping” Qatar of its He accused Saudi Arabia and engagement. are going to do whatever it takes Emirates and Egypt in cutting international laws and regula- statehood, he added. “We its regional allies of "demanding "Whatever measures they to protect our person, which is diplomatic and transport links a tions, despite the separation of remain loyal to our agree- that we must surrender our sov- are going to take, there is an normal for any country." month ago "were clearly 12,000 families, despite the siege ment with Qatar. If it ereignty as the price for ending international law which every- Sheikh Mohammed bin designed to create anti-Qatar that is a clear aggression and an requests us to leave, we the siege". one should respect. We took the Abdulrahman Al Thani said sentiment in the west". insult to all international trea- will not stay where we are Without divulging the details first shock, and we are ready to charges cited by Saudi Arabia, "Qatar continues to call for ties, bodies and jurisdictions," not wanted,” he said. of Qatar's response, the Minister move ahead with our people. We Bahrain, the United Arab dialogue despite the violation of added the Minister. Erdogan was quoted as saying in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit published yesterday UK supports Kuwait's that "what is being done efforts to defuse tensions Blockade countries stuck between with Qatar runs counter to international law." UK FOREIGN SECRETARY Boris Johnson con- He said the demand for firmed his country's full support to Kuwait's siege and rejection of dialogue the Turkish base to be role to defuse tensions in the Gulf region, Kuwait closed shows "a lack of News Agency (KUNA) reported. This came in a respect towards us and meeting held in London between the UK For- Agencies Shoukry said, reading out a joint state- solution to the crisis, Kuna said. Qatar" and added that "the eign Secretary and Kuwait's Deputy Foreign ment after the meeting. The UN meanwhile said its under- Americans are also there, Minister Khaled Al Jarallah. he Saudi-led Arab countries are "The political and economic boy- secretary general for political affairs, with 9,000 soldiers, and so stuck between siege and rejection cott will continue until Qatar changes its Jeffrey Feltman, was in Kuwait for talks are the French." Report blames Saudi of Tof dialogue which was clearly vis- policies for the better," Saudi Foreign Min- on ending the dispute. He asks: "Why are the ible from the outcome their meeting ister Adel Al Jubeir told a news conference. Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Min- Saudis disturbed by us and promoting extremism held in Cairo, yesterday. The foreign The four foreign ministers said they would ister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah not by that? This is unac- ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bah- next meet in the Bahraini capital Man- Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah met yester- ceptable." Erdogan also SAUDI ARABIA is the chief foreign promoter rain and the United Arab Emirates, after ama though gave no date. day with the visiting German Foreign criticised a demand for the of Islamist extremism in the UK, a report has their meeting, refrained from announc- In a related development, US Pres- Minister Sigmar Gabriel. closure of broadcaster Al warned. The report by Henry Jackson Soci- ing further sanctions on Qatar and said ident Donald Trump spoke to Egyptian The foreign minister lauded Ger- Jazeera, saying Ankara "will ety, a thinktank, run by controversial the boycott would continue. counterpart Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to urge many's support of Kuwait's mediation support Qatar in every way, journalist and political commentator Doug- "The response the four states got all parties "to negotiate construc- in resolving the regional crisis. For his because we share the same las Murray called for a public inquiry in Saudi was overall negative and lacked any tively". US Secretary of State Rex part Gabriel reiterated his country's values, have good relations Arabia’s connections with UK based extrem- content. We find it did not provide a Tillerson spoke with the Emir of support of Kuwait, while urging and we cannot be silent ism, according toThe Independent. basis for Qatar to retreat from its poli- Kuwait and stressed Washington's restraint in order to reach a solution that about the injustice." cies," Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh ‘support’ for his efforts to mediate a satisfies all parties. → See also page 6 UN chief sends envoy Ministry: Health sector NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has sent UN political chief Jeffrey Felt- not affected by siege man to the Gulf to discuss how the United Nations might work with regional partners to The Peninsula resolve the crisis between Qatar and four Arab nations. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric THE MINISTRY of Public Health (MoPH) yester- told reporters that Feltman has already been day assured that all services provided by the health to the United Arab Emirates — one of the four sector will not be affected by the siege imposed Arab nations — and was in Kuwait, which is on the country. The Ministry has the potential to trying to mediate the conflict, yesterday. sustain health services and deliver them at the Dujarric says Feltman will be travelling to same quality, Hamad Jassim Al Hamar, the Direc- Doha. tor of the Public Relations and communications at the MoPH said in a statement. Haniyah praises Qatar “The State of Qatar, under the wise leadership of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al GAZA: Leader of Hamas political bureau Thani, considers the wellbeing of the people as a Ismail Haniyah has praised the support top priority and provides all necessary resources extended by Qatar to the Gaza Strip as well to deliver advanced health services in accordance as the role of its support in the life of Gazans with the best international standards,” he said. under the siege imposed on them. Haniyah “The Ministry always takes precautions to pro- highlighted Qatar's support for Gaza while vide all medical supplies, medicines and required delivering a speech to outline Hamas's top necessities to provide a high quality health serv- priorities in the next stage. Haniyah put for- ices under different conditions,” he added. ward a new initiative to formulate a clear and MoPH will continue to implement all health unified political programme based on com- projects that aim to maintain sustainable devel- monalities and based on the goals, rights and People hold a banner reading "We Stand With Qatar" to show their support to Qatar ahead of opment of health services and increase the aspirations of the Palestinian people. Foreign Minister H E Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani's visit to London, yesterday. potential and capabilities of the health sector. 02 HOME THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

Minister attends Rome meet Emir greets Solidarity for President of Venezuela

EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin leadership Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of congratulations to President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro on the anniversary of his country's grows stronger Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Sanaullah Ataullah Minister and Interior Minis- The Peninsula The blockade has ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani he show of solidarity failed to affect also sent similar cables. among citizens in the day-to-day life of Qatar’s leadership is citizens as increasing Emir wishes getting stronger with import of foods and every passing day. President TSome marriage functions turned non-food products into patriotic programme with from various new of Algeria hosts playing and singing alternative markets national anthem other than cel- EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim ebratory songs. has replaced the Minister of Municipality and Environment, H E Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, during bin Hamad Al Thani sent a The blockade has failed to products of siege a ministerial event on 'Addressing Water Scarcity and improving food Security Under cable of congratulations to affect day-to-day life of citizens countries. Climate Change - Perspectives from the Near East and North Africa Region, in Rome, President of the People's Dem- as increasing import of foods and yesterday.' The Minister took part in the event on the sidelines of the Food and Agriculture ocratic Republic of Algeria non-food products from various Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Conference 40th Session. Abdelaziz Bouteflika on the new alternative markets has names of different pro-Qatar anniversary of his country's replaced the products of siege accounts like the famous one Independence Day. Deputy countries, said citizens. “Tamim Al Majd,” said a young Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin “During a marriage cere- Qatari woman Nada. Hamad Al Thani and Prime mony of my sister held recently, “Social networking site hold- Minister and Interior Minis- more than 50 percent songs were ers are posting news about latest Single window panel holds meet ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin related to national anthem as development regarding block- Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani audience was demanding for ade. They have added a big also sent similar cables. national anthems. Guests stood number of citizens from siege QNA Qatari industrial sector on 100 Qatari and foreign investors or up and started dancing and countries to discuss the issue industrial establishments offer- the partnership between them Emir greets encouraging the singers, creat- with them. The discussion has he Coordinating Commit- ing facilities, the most important so that they have many privi- ing a very patriotic environment,” great impact on them. And many tee for the Management of of which is the completion of the leges such as issuing licences for President of a Qatari woman said. citizens of GCC countries are with Tthe Single Window System project transactions and the target project within 72 The enthusiastic citizens said us from the beginning of the cri- organised an open meeting to approval within 72 hours hours and the readiness of the Cape Verde that they have succeeded in con- ses,” said Nada. facilitate industrial investment through one entity. land of the project in addition to vincing many GCC countries Speaking on the interests of in Qatar, which is part of the Head of the Committee obtaining immediate visas for EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin especially those belonged to citizens in defending Qatar on second phase of the one-stop Mohammed Salman Kaldari said employment and the readiness Hamad Al Thani sent a cable siege countries- Saudi Arabia, social networking sites, Nada initiative (own a factory within this initiative is the second of the of industrial infrastructure of of congratulations to President United Arab Emirates (UAE) and said: “Many citizens, even those 72 hours in Qatar), attended by one-stop initiatives under the water and electricity and roads of the Republic of Cape Verde Bahrain that the blockade is that had no interest in politics, hundreds of Qatari investors and directives of Prime Minister and with the priority of procurement Jorge Carlos Fonseca on the unfair. Young Qatari women are are being seen active following residents at the Ministry of Interior Minister H E Sheikh with local manufacturing, sup- anniversary of his country's also keeping pace on social blogs and posting their com- Economy and Commerce . Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khal- port and promotion of exports Independence Day. Deputy media in conveying the stand of ments. It is a matter of our The aim of the meeting was ifa Al Thani, to facilitate and external promotion through Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Qatar about blockade. country, so how we can keep to introduce investors to the investors in obtaining industrial the foreign investor as well as Hamad Al Thani and Prime “Me and my other family mum. Everybody is engaged in industrial investment proce- and environmental licences to the customs exemption for raw Minister and Interior Minis- members, relatives and friends defending the country. They are dures in the country after 250 enhance the position of the materials and 10% support on ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin are participating in big way in the very enthusiastic and active on investment opportunities were industrial sector. the government product and Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani discussion on social media in the social media.” offered to those interested in the The initiative targets all financing facilities. also sent similar cables. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 HOME 03 Business as usual for Souq Waqif traders

Raynald C Rivera this is the effect of the crisis,” The Peninsula Traders at the most explained Hani. He said the continuing dip- hile some Souq Waqif visited tourist hub in lomatic crisis imposed on Qatar traders say it is busi- Doha said they did not by four of its neighbouring coun- Wness as usual amid yet feel the pinch of tries is likely to impact shops ongoing blockade, some are the siege until during which import most of their prod- already seeking alternative ucts from the UAE. countries to source goods from, the past Eid Al Fitr “Right now these shops don’t before the products they bought holidays when the yet feel the effect of the block- from Dubai are sold out. absence of visitors ade because they still have Traders at the most visited from Saudi Arabia was stocks, but once supplies are tourist hub in Doha The Penin- gone in a few months, it will be sula spoke to yesterday said they clearly noticeable. a problem for them. But in my did not yet feel the pinch of the case, I don’t worry about it siege until during the past Eid Al souvenirs and gift items. because majority of my products Images of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani are displayed in Souq Waqif to show Fitr holidays when the absence Thin crowds of buyers were come from China and India, of visitors from Saudi Arabia was seen on the alleyways of Doha’s though I also buy a few from solidarity with the leadership. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula clearly noticeable. most famous Souq yesterday, but Dubai,” he said. “It is usually during Eid this couldn’t be attributed to the Products from Dubai are and other countries, but still sources of his products. “I rarely have Saudi buyers. break that I have Saudi custom- current siege, claimed retailers. costlier than those from China, many choose to buy from Dubai “Right now, I’m planning to Most of my customers are ers, but during ordinary days, “Business is usually dull India and other Asian countries suppliers because of fast and import products from Vietnam Qataris, residents and other tour- mostly it is the residents and during summer because not but some businessmen prefer easy shipment,” he explained. because it’s cheaper there,” he ists. This blockade does not affect tourists of various nationalities many tourists come and many Dubai. “Products from Dubai Shukur, another trader sell- said. my business because I don’t who visit my shop to buy sou- residents travel out of the coun- such as souvenir and gift items ing watches, sunglasses and For Ali, whose shop sells import from Dubai; all my prod- venirs,” said Hani, who try for summer and school are more expensive because they souvenir items said he had branded perfumes, the blockade ucts come from France and manages a shop selling Qatari vacation, so we cannot say that also buy them from China, India already identified alternative doesn’t affect his business at all. Italy,” he said.

Over 2 million Mwani Qatar completes relocation to new headquarters benefit from The Peninsula Mwani Qatar, which also includes practices in its operations. The QC's Ramadan Doha Port and Al Ruwais Port. company’s efforts will help to n line with its strategy aiming With these three ports, Mwani enhance the non-oil sector con- campaign at consolidating its position as Qatar plays a pivotal role in tribution in the state’s GDP, trade Ia leading integrated port and achieving the objectives of Qatar between Qatar and the world, as QNA logistics services provider, Qatar National Vision 2030 by support- well as supporting the competi- Ports Management Company ing economic diversification, tiveness of local industries, which atar Charity (QC) has (Mwani Qatar) announced that it domestic market stability and the will make Qatar more flexible in announced that more has completed the relocation of implementation of the State’s the face of changes in the global Qthan 2 million people all its departments to the new development plans, through economic environment. inside and outside Qatar have headquarters at Hamad Port in ensuring the smooth handling of Mwani Qatar manages sea- benefited from its Ramadan Umm Al Houl. The new headquar- imports and exports and related ports, quays, dry ports, container campaign titled 'Your Giving ters is equipped with supplies for both ongoing and and other terminals, including is Life' conducted during the state-of-the-art technology that future projects. In addition, Mwani cruise and passengers, and pro- Holy Month of Ramadan will ensure the highest levels of Qatar is promoting the plans vides navigation assistance and including a number of efficiency, safety and customer aimed at transforming Qatar into pilotage, towage as well as Aids to projects being implemented services, said a statement. The new headquarters at Hamad Port in Umm Al Houl. a regional trading hub in the Navigation (AtoN) in addition to at home and abroad. It will support the company's region through investing in the loading and unloading and han- The campaign included objectives aimed to improve pro- operations, particularly at Hamad trade. Hamad Port is one of the infrastructure of ports, modern dling and storage of cargoes in all mainly Iftar for the fasting ductivity, performance and Port- Qatar’s gateway to world most important ports managed by technology and adopting best forms. people, Eid clothing and Zakat Al Fitr along with a number of awareness projects at an estimated cost of QR30,750,572, QC said in a Ooredoo invests in Sidra launches 'LEAD Yourself' press statement yesterday. The partnerships being implemented within this campaign covered various real-time customer development programme sectors in the governmental, semi-governmental and pri- vate sectors, it added. The Peninsula QC stressed that partner- engagement ships and their outputs were idra Medical and Research various as they provided dis- Center (Sidra) has launched counts and direct benefit to The Peninsula Sa new competency based beneficiaries, supported program targeting Graduate projects with direct social oredoo has announced Associates and Qatari employ- impact, allocated halls and that it is investing in the ees who are in the early stage of places to collect donations, Olatest technology to their careers. said the statement. ensure a truly next-generation 'LEAD Yourself' is a 12 customer experience for Qatar month development pro- in the near future. gramme, specifically designed Thanks to a new agreement to provide graduate associates Ministry between Ooredoo and Comp- with the knowledge, skills and tel Corporation, Ooredoo will capabilities required to succeed inspects 6,114 implement Comptel’s Faster- in the workplace. shipments mind solution to improve “Ooredoo is continuing to The programme is part of Dr Kholode Al Obaidli, Chief Learning Officer at Sidra, at the customer engagements through deliver exceptional data expe- the Sidra National Development launch event. artificial intelligence capabili- rience leadership in 2017 by Strategy 2.0 — 'To inspire and The Peninsula ties that process and analyse enhancing our network and cultivate the development of Yourself are a clear demonstra- tor in the Middle East. in-the-moment customer data portfolio of digital services. We Qataris and the development of tion that Sidra is committed to Danah Abdulla, Graduate he Agriculture Quaran- to recommend and automati- believe this latest technology the healthcare sector in Qatar.' the Qatar National Vision 2030 Associate and a LEAD Yourself tine Office at the cally trigger the next best will help further boost our cus- Sidra has customised its national and the national Qatar Health- participant said, “The first LEAD TMinistry of Municipal- action. tomer experience and give our development as well as learn- care Strategy.” Yourself workshop gave me an ity and Environment last Talking about the invest- users the real-time service they ing and development Key subjects in LEAD Your- opportunity to recognise the month inspected 6,114 ship- ment, Waleed Al Sayed want,” added Waleed Al Sayed. programmes to ensure that self include — taking personal value of purposeful behaviours ments of different types of (pictured), Chief Executive Juhani Hintikka, Chief Qatari employees at all levels responsibility for leading, work- and the profound impact it can agricultural products. Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, said: Executive Officer, Comptel, are given access to the right ing in a multi-cultural team have not only on one’s personal The total weight of the “Thanks to this technology, said: “Comptel has a 30-year training tools, mentorship pro- setting and communication and growth, but those around you. I inspected imported ship- Ooredoo is taking another leap heritage in helping operators grammes and learning project management skills. Par- personally found this to be an ments was 294,364 tonnes at towards our goal of transform- get more value out of their data, opportunities to advance their ticipants will attend monthly incredibly empowering thought. different outlets of the ing our digital customer and we're thrilled to play a role careers in healthcare. classroom sessions which And this is just the beginning for country. journey. Very soon we will have in supporting Ooredoo Qatar as Dr Kholode Al Obaidli, Chief include guided learning hours what’s to come over the next 12 About, 102 shipments the ability to reach our custom- it transforms its customer Learning Officer at Sidra, said, and work on assignments that months of the programmes.” weighing 16.89 tonnes were ers in real-time, with the right engagements with a data- “It is critical that our develop- will demonstrate the applica- Ahmed Al Tamimi, another destroyed for violating the messages, and interact more driven approach. We look ment programmes prepare the tion of theoretical learning into Graduate Associate said, “LEAD law of agricultural quarantine dynamically than ever to forward to seeing the impact participants with industry the workplace. Yourself will expose us to dif- rules as the quantity was deliver what they need when that operators like Ooredoo can knowledge and real-world After successful completion ferent lessons in relation to infected with pests. they need it.” create through personalisation, employability and workplace of the LEAD Yourself pro- communications, teamwork and The office also inspected Comptel’s Fastermind solu- both for their business and for skills. Sidra is committed to grammes, the participants will entrepreneurship — which are one shipment weighing 20 tion ensures that customers will the industry.” investing in the growth and be awarded a Level 2 qualifi- amongst the most valuable fea- tonnes was ready for export receive more relevant and per- The new technology is development of our future cation in Leadership and Team tures of a successful leader. This at the country’s export out- sonalised notifications from expected to be implemented Qatari healthcare professionals Skills from ILM. According to is a great opportunity that will lets. The agriculture Ooredoo, as well as enjoy real- soon and is the latest in a line and leaders as part of our the ILM, this is the first time that put us one step closer in becom- quarantine considers the first time responses to service of self-service investments the National Development 2.0 strat- this qualification is being ing leaders in our respective line of defence to protect requests, promotions and more. company has made this year. egy. Programmes like LEAD offered in the healthcare sec- field.” plants from pests. 04 HOME THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

Kyrgyzstan GU-Q, Indonesian invites Qatar to attend Snow entrepreneurs Leopard Forum The Peninsula

yrgyzstan has invited strengthen ties Qatar to attend the KInternational Snow Leopard Forum, which will be The Peninsula held in August and aims to cre- Three Georgetown ate a platform for countries to hree Georgetown Uni- work together to protect and versity in Qatar University students conserve the animal. (GU-Q) students recently met with A special letter has been recently met with board members sent from the President of Kyr- board members of the of the Indonesian gyzstan inviting Qatar to TIndonesian Young Entrepreneur participate in the forum. Also Georgetown students with board members of the Indonesian Young Entrepreneur Association. Association (Himpunan Pen- Young Entrepreneur interested parties and experts gusaha Muda Indonesia) in Association in Jakarta Center for Leadership and students used the opportunity to speak fluent Mandarin), I felt it also have been invited to join, Jakarta, in a bid to increase the as well the chair Governance. share details of the business was right to try to connect the said Nuran Niyazaliev, Kyrgyz level of collaboration between “Students in Georgetown, environment in Qatar and the dots and build networks between ambassador to Qatar. Indonesian entrepreneurs and of the National Tax both in DC and Qatar, see a wide region. Qatar and Asia in general, and Snow leopard is among the their counterparts in Qatar and Center and the head of range of opportunity in Indone- "My motivation for visiting after seeing all that Indonesia endangered and the is threat- the United States. economic creativity. sia,” explained Iskander. Indonesia is due to the fact that has to offer, I believe it would be ened with extinction. The During their trip to the “We think building bridges I really want to try my hand at a shame not to try to make use Forum aims to draw the South East Asian nation, GU-Q and opening channels with both building something meaningful,” of all the opportunities available world's attention to the plight students Hythem Al-Mulla included participants from formal and informal organisa- explained Al Mulla. “I saw that in both countries." of the snow leopard, and urge (SFS’19), Irsyad Iskandar (SFS’ three different nationalities. tions and networks would help Qatar is really investing a lot in Established in 1972, the Indo- the global community to take 18), and John Robling (SFS’ 19) The trip also preceded the lay the groundwork for current its youth in working towards the nesian Young Entrepreneur appropriate steps to preserve met with the Association’s arrival of five undergraduate and future Hoyas [Georgetown 2030 Vision by trying to promote Association reaches over 25,000 the snow leopard and its eco- chairman and vice chairman, students from Georgetown Uni- students] who want to come and innovation and entrepreneur- entrepreneurs in Indonesia, with system. The Bishkek as well the chair of the National versity’s Main Campus in see what this country is all ship through various initiatives 274 branches in 33 provinces. Its Declaration for snow leopard Tax Center and the head of eco- Washington, DC, who will be in about.” in Qatar Foundation, Qatar members are active in a range conservation was endorsed at nomic creativity. With the the country in mid-June for the In addition to fostering the Development Bank, and other of industries including agricul- the Global Forum by all snow students’ diverse international ‘Hoyas in Jakarta’ project run by support networks needed for places. Being Qatari, and having ture, financial services, leopard range countries, and backgrounds, the meeting the Georgetown University future collaborations, the a passion for Asia (for instance I procurement, and mining. supported by international financial institutions and non- governmental organisations. The two-day form will include plenary sessions, thematic ses- Latin Honors conferred on NU-Q graduates sions, side events, exhibitions, expositions and cultural events. “The main idea is to attract The Peninsula educational experience as of summa cum laude. This honour is TEDxNorthwesternU in Evanston. and expand the understanding undergraduates. awarded to graduates in the top five per- Receiving magna cum laude recogni- of the political, scientific and s part of the Northwestern Univer- “These honours reflect academic cent of their class. Gautam also received tion were Jemina Legaspi and Aamer economic elite and the general sity commencement ceremonies excellence across all their course work, the Dean’s Award and has demonstrated Elsayed Hassan. The magna cum laude is public to the issues of conser- Ain the United States, six recent including liberal arts instructing, as well a string of distinctions since arriving at awarded to those in the top 10 percent of vation and enhancement of the graduates from Northwestern University as professional endeavours in their NU-Q. In 2014, he was awarded the Most their graduating class. Valeria Marinova, population of the snow leop- in Qatar had Latin Honors conferred on majors,” said Everette E. Dennis, dean and Promising Freshman award by HBKU, Nayab Malik, and Lana Mahmoud were ard, the expansion of them. The honours, which use Latin CEO. took part in multiple international learn- designated as cum laude, graduating in favourable conditions for its names — magna, summa, and cum laude NU-Q’s Class of 2017 valedictorian, ing opportunities, served as president of the top 25 percent of their class. All three existence within its supporting — are conferred to students based on their Vibhav Gautam, was the class’s highest Studio 20Q, and the media chair for both students were active members of the natural ecosystems,” Niyazal- academic performance over their entire ranking student receiving the Latin Honor TEDxEducationCity in Doha and NU-Q community. iev told The Peninsula. KidzMondo Doha announces launch of first edition of its Summer Camp

The Peninsula of role-playing adventures and kids can now immerse them- KidzMondo Doha’s kid-sized uniforms and look after the safety 2 to 14 collectively imagine, capacity-building activities. selves in a mental and physical edutainment city.” of their fellow Kidizens, become define, and work towards creat- idzMondo Doha, Qatar’s Commenting on the occa- voyage of investigation, explo- Among the many role-play- one of the city’s paramedics and ing a better future for themselves one-of-a-kind edutain- sion, Dr Eman Baker Abu El ration, and adults’ role play that ing activities kids get to engage get trained on CPR, or learn eve- and their communities while Kment city, is launching the Hawa, General Manager of Kidz- perfectly complements school in as part of the Summer Camp rything they need to become having plenty of fun. The kid- first edition of its Summer Camp Mondo Doha, said: “The summer curricula, while empowering 2017, children can enjoy driving successful entrepreneurs who sell sized city, which is an exact on July 8, for the young visitors holiday is the perfect occasion them with knowledge and life- a car in the ‘Race Track’ and oper- their own products and earn replica of the real world — com- of its indoor theme park. The for Qatar’s parents and children lessons that help them become ate the vehicles in the money at the Entrepreneurial plete with its own currency, programme will help children to enjoy an exceptional time at well-versed individuals in their ‘Construction Site’, help solve Academy, and many more. constitution, economy, and func- from 4 to 14 years old, acquire KidzMondo Doha and discover adulthood. We look forward to crimes and accidents at the KMD Through its huge range of tioning infrastructure — dovetails cognitive skills, enhance self- its unique world of purposeful welcoming families and children Court House, research, write and activities and edutainment with the Qatar National Vision confidence and develop a sense edutainment in a fun and safe to our indoor theme park, where present news to Kidizens at the establishments, KidzMondo 2030 and its focus on human of creativity, discipline and surrounding. With the first edi- they can finally unlatch the gate Newspaper, save the city from a Doha blends imagination and development as the engine for patience, through a rich variety tion of our Summer Camp ‘2017’, to imagination and creativity in pest invasion, put on their police knowledge to help children aged progress and advancement. Lexus short film wins Bronze Lion in Cannes

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exus and The Weinstein Company have announced that Jeannie Dono- Lhoe’s film Game has won a Bronze Entertainment Lion for Cinema and The- atrical Fiction Film at Cannes Lions. Game, about a young athlete who defies the odds to pursue a sports passion, was one of four films released this year as part of Season 3 of the Lexus Short Films series. Lexus Short Films aims to engage with film enthusiasts and audiences to develop and nurture a new generation of emerg- ing filmmakers. Now in its fourth season, the series continues to exemplify Lexus and The Weinstein Company’s shared Makers of the film, Game, at work during the shooting. commitment to arts and innovation by rec- ognising and supporting up-and-coming talent. Submissions are now open for Sea- Toyota Motor Corporation, “We would like sincere appreciation to our customers for son 4 until August 24, 2017 at www. to congratulate Jeannie Donohoe and her wholeheartedly backing Lexus’ ongoing withoutabox.com/LSF. team on this fantastic achievement and efforts to nurture creativity and “Being recognised with a Cannes Lion commend their efforts in creating the innovation.” in addition to the other film festival awards beautiful and inspiring piece of cinema Game has already won several pres- is an amazing achievement,” said Spiros that is Game. The Lexus Short Films series tigious film festival awards, such as the Fotinos, Global Head of Brand Manage- is all about providing emerging and tal- Best Short Film at the Julien Dubuque ment and Marketing, Lexus. “It reflects the ented filmmakers with a platform to bring International Film Festival, the Audience spirit of our Lexus Short Films programme, their creative vision to life and reach out Choice Award at the Los Angeles Indie Film which is to support emerging filmmakers to the world with their stories. We are Festival, the Best Short Live Action Narra- by giving them opportunities to make their thrilled to see that the films emerging from tive at the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival, the career leap forward. We are thrilled to see this unique program continue to garner Special Jury Prize: Narrative Short at the such fantastic results.” awards and accolades at some of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festi- According to Takayuki Yoshitsugu, world’s biggest and most prestigious movie val. All the films from the Lexus Short Films Chief Representative, Middle East and festivals. As we celebrate this moment, I series are available at www.LexusShort- North Africa Representative Office, would like to express my Films.com and on Amazon Prime Video. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 HOME 05 Camel & sheep owners Jumblatt meets Qatar's envoy praise Ministry for help

Sidi Mohamed They appreciated Emir H H The Peninsula The Ministry has Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for his directions, efforts he Ministry of Munic- offered free shelter, and services which the Ministry ipality and water, fodder and offered to them, including tem- Environment has veterinary services porary land, fodder, veterinary offered necessary for more than 8,000 and consultation services. services to owners of “Now we have become Tcamels and sheep who returned camels and sheep, familiar with the new situation from their farms in Saudi Ara- in order to save and the Ministry did a lot to help bia, after three neighbouring the animals which us offering free fodder and Gulf countries imposed block- returned from Saudi water so we appreciate the gov- ade on Qatar. ernment for responding The Ministry has offered free Arabia. quickly,” said a camel owner. shelter, water, fodder and vet- Talking about the number erinary services for more than Owners said, "In the first of animals in Qatar, Dr Abdul- Chief of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblatt has met with Qatar's 8,000 camels and sheep, in days of the crisis we faced prob- lah bin Mohamed Al Marri, an Ambassador to Lebanon Ali bin Hamad Al Marri. They discussed ways of enhancing order to save the animals which lems because it happened official at the Ministry, said, "The cooperation prospects in addition to a number of issues of common concern. returned from Saudi Arabia. suddenly. We lost some camels number of animals is more than Omar Salem Al Nuaimi, and we don’t know if they were 1.03 million out of which 63 per- Director of Environmental Pro- already dead or alive." cent are sheep, 27 percent are tection Department earlier said Describing the problems goats, 7 percent camels and 2 that the Ministry had offered that they had faced, others said, percent cows." temporary shelter especially in "The camels were mixed when Private companies like Three researchers get awards areas like South Kasarat Al they were coming here. We Ghadeer, Al Rawda Abdullah bin Nakhash and that more space spent three to four days during Rasheed Farm, Baladna Farm would be allocated later. Ramadan to identify our cam- and others own around 47,000 The Peninsula grant, DIFI and QNRF, a mem- Institute for Graduate Studies, Al Nuaimi said a team of els. Some of the camels died livestock. ber of Qatar Foundation Qatar University and the Amer- drivers, animal experts and because of thirst, hot weather Also, the Ministry repre- hree Researchers have Research and Development, aim ican University of Beirut. other staff has been assigned to and due to some other sented by the Livestock been granted awards to encourage research that con- Executive Director of DIFI, help livestock owners. reasons.” Department is providing full Tthrough OSRA, a program tributes to the development of Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, said, support to animal launched by the Doha Interna- evidence-based policies and “Building on the success of the farms and compa- tional Family Institute (DIFI), in programs on families, marriage, first OSRA cycle, we are creating nies by providing collaboration with the Qatar parenting, parenthood and a combination where the prac- free veterinary serv- National Research Fund (QNRF). divorce. tice of these advanced research ices and guidance, in Three research proposals The call for proposals, theories will offer us a thought- order to increase the designed to address emerging launched in December 2016, provoking, firsthand look into domestic meat issues affecting the well-being saw strong interest from both solving some of the family issues production. of the Arab family. OSRA, which local and regional academic we see in the region today.” About clinics means “family” in Arabic, is a research institutions, with 17 “QNRF’s collaboration with which provide treat- DIFI-QNRF joint initiative that proposals submitted as part of DIFI continues to address the ment to animals, Al unites researchers to study the the highly competitive review challenges facing families in the Marri said that there challenges presently facing Arab process. Priority was given to Arab world and, by expanding are nine veterinary families across the region. It is those proposals focused on our skill set in this area, we are centres across the designed to encourage research researching the effects of wars creating future-focused profes- country, in addition that can be used to develop a and conflict on parent-child sionals who gain advanced to Central Market knowledge base about the Arab relationships within Arab fam- critical-thinking skills,” said Dr clinic and mobile family. ilies. The three awarded Abdul Sattar Al Taie, Executive Camels seen at a shelter provided by the Ministry. clinics. In this second cycle of the proposals came from the Doha Director of QNRF. 06 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

Erdogan visits veterans Somali militants No deal on kill two police officers de-escalation Reuters MOMBASA: Somalia's Al Shabaab militants killed two police officers during a raid zones in Syria on a northeastern Kenyan town that sparked a day-long gunbattle, a police official Astana said, the latest in a spate of Reuters militant attacks on Kenyan Russia and Iran, which security services. ussia, Turkey and back President Bashar Al Shabaab gunmen Iran failed in talks Assad’s government, attacked the police station in yesterday to finalise and Turkey, which the town of Pandanguo in the an agreement on supports some of the coastal district of Lamu around creating four de- rebels, aim to reach a 6 am, forcing villagers to flee, Rescalation zones in Syria after according to residents. The consensus on the zones Ankara raised objections, dip- area is near Kenya’s long, lomats said. by the end of August, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caresses a child during a visit to veterans at Gazi porous border with Somalia. Russia and Iran, which back when their delegations University Hospital in Ankara, yesterday. The militants raided a dis- President Bashar Assad’s gov- are set to meet again in pensary for drugs and houses ernment, and Turkey, which the Kazakh capital. for food items, clothes and supports some of the rebels, other valuables, witnesses aim to reach a consensus on the said. Smoke could be seen ris- zones by the end of August, Lavrentyev said details ing from the village later in when their delegations are set related to the southern de- US envoy Haley leading the day. to meet again in the Kazakh escalation zone needed to be In July 2014, more than capital. agreed with the United States 60 militants attacked the The failure is a setback for and Jordan, who support the same village, torched houses Moscow, the main architect of rebels based there. anti-Palestinian 'war': PLO and stole drugs at the same the plan, as it seeks to take the Turkish delegates made no dispensary. By 4 pm., the gun- lead in global efforts to settle statement to the media after the Jerusalem battle was still continuing and the Syrian civil war. talks. The Kazakh talks, which AFP the militants had destroyed a “During these consultations began in January, come at a Court rejects demand to demolish phone mast, police said. “I can the Turkish side said it needed time when Turkey and Russia senior Palestinian official confirm two police officers more time in order ... to make each want to disentangle them- yesterday blasted US home of Jewish assailants have lost their lives in the an appropriate decision,” said selves from the fighting. This A President Donald JERUSALEM: Israel's top court has rejected a demand that the attack in Pandanguo in Lamu senior Russian negotiator Alex- has led them into an ad-hoc Trump's United Nations envoy, state demolish the homes of Jewish extremists who murdered but the police are still cur- ander Lavrentyev. alliance, though they still trade accusing her of carrying out a a Palestinian teenager in 2014, saying the petition was filed too rently fighting the militants,” Bashar al-Ja’afari, the lead barbs. "crusade" against the Palestin- late. Yosef Haim Ben-David and two minor accomplices had on said George Kinoti, Kenya’s negotiator from the Damascus Since the May agreement ian people. Hanan Ashrawi, an July 2, 2014 kidnapped 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir national police spokesman. government, was more direct. was announced, the rebel-held senior member of the Palestine from Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, beating him up before Al Shabaab’s military “The Turkish delegation stronghold of Idlib province in Liberation Organisation, said burning him alive. operations spokesman, objected to the adoption of any the northwest of Syria has been Nikki Haley was leading a "one- His body was found hours later in a forest in the western Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, documents related to the mostly calm. But fighting has woman crusade ... against part of the city. Ben-David was sentenced to life in prison in May confirmed the attack to Reu- implementation of mechanisms continued on other frontlines Palestine and the Palestinian 2016. The two minors were tried separatedly and were given ters by phone. “We burned of the agreement on the de- in western Syria, including people individually and sentences of life and 21 years in February 2016. Abu Khdeir's the police station and cap- escalation zones,” he said. Eastern Ghouta of Damascus collectively." parents had appealed to then-defence minister Moshe Yaalon tured cars. Now, today, there Russia, Turkey and Iran and the southwestern city of "Through an obsessive and to act to demolish the homes of the three assailants as Israel are sporadic exchanges of have set up a working group to Deraa, where government targeted campaign of intimida- does in cases of Palestinian attackers, a measure it says deters gunfire between us and the reconcile their positions before forces and their allies are try- tion and threats, Miss Haley's future potential assailants. police in the outskirts of the the next Astana meeting set for ing to crush remaining pockets crusade does not miss an oppor- town but we still control the the final week of August. of rebellion. tunity to put pressure on anyone town,” he said. that seeks to challenge Israeli criticising senior US officials. victory, Haley has consistently The raid follows a series impunity," she added. Haley visited Israel and the accused the United Nations of of attacks in Kenya claimed Ashrawi said Haley was ech- Palestinian territories in June. systematic bias against Israel. by Somali militants that have oing Israeli Prime Minister Ashrawi said Haley was The US vetoed the appoint- killed at least 28 people in the Iraq retakes 2 more areas of Mosul Benjamin Netanyahu. Palestin- "compounding the victimisation ment of a former Palestinian last six weeks. Most have ian officials have privately of the Palestinian people and prime minister as UN envoy to taken place near the Somali BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army yesterday recaptured two more neigh- expressed increasing alarm at browbeating the institutions that Libya, while Haley has called on border. The Al Qaeda-linked bourhoods of western Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group, the Trump administration's pro- are meant to defend their UN Secretary-General Antonio al Shabaab militia is fighting according to an Iraqi army commander. Israel stance as the US president rights". The statement was dis- Guterres to intervene to block a to overthrow Somalia’s weak, In a televised statement, Abdulamir Yarallah, commander of seeks to restart peace negotia- tributed by the PLO. forthcoming vote on the city of U.N.-backed government and an ongoing army campaign to retake the city, said Iraqi troops tions. However, until yesterday Since being nominated by Hebron which declares the West impose strict Islamic law in had successfully “liberated” the Al Khatuniya and Al Tawaleb neigh- they had publicly refrained from Trump after his November Bank city under threat. the Horn of Africa state. borhoods of western Mosul’s Old City district. Saudi promoter of extremism in UK: Report

Agencies was first commissioned by David Cam- the findings since its dispute with Qatar eron in 2015 following an agreement with has largely been based on the accusation audi Arabia is the chief foreign pro- the Liberal Democrats to get their support that its Gulf rival is both the primary moter of extremism in the UK, a for Syrian air strikes. But last month a funder terrorism overseas and harbours Sreport has warned. The conservative spokesman for the Home Office admitted terrorists that support the Muslim Broth- Henry Jackson Society said there was a to the Guardian that the report may not erhood or Hamas. “clear and growing link” between Islam- be published because its contents were The report claims: “Saudi Arabia has, ist organisations preaching violence and “very sensitive”. since the 1960s, sponsored a multimillion- foreign state funding,The Independent has Since coming to power in July last year, dollar effort to export their ideology across reported. In a new report entitled “For- Ms May has courted Saudi Arabia, which the Islamic world, including to Muslim eign Funded Islamist Extremism in the is one of the main buyers of UK-made communities in the west. UK”, the thinktank calls for a public inquiry arms. Earlier this year, the Government “In the UK, this funding has primarily into extremism bankrolled by other approved £3.5bn-worth of arms exports taken the form of endowments to mosques countries. licences to the Gulf state. and Islamic educational institutions, which It suggests several countries are Several British ministers have visited have in turn played host to extremist preach- responsible for much of the foreign fund- Saudi Arabia over the last year to culti- ers and the distribution of extremist ing of extremism in the UK, but that Saudi vate trading relationships as the UK looks literature. Influence has also been exerted Arabia in particular had spent millions on for post-Brexit trading partners and the through the training of British Muslim reli- exporting its conservative branch of Islam kingdom, under new Crown Prince gious leaders in Saudi Arabia, as well as the to Muslim communities in the West since Mohammad Bin Salman, is trying to diver- use of Saudi textbooks in a number of the the 1960s. sify its economy away from oil. UK’s independent Islamic schools.” The thinktank, run by controversial According to The Guardian, foreign It adds: “A number of Britain’s most journalist and political commentator funding for extremism in Britain prima- serious Islamist hate preachers sit within Douglas Murray, said this typically took rily comes from Saudi Arabia, but the UK this ideology and are linked to extremism the form of endowments to mosques and government should set up a public inquiry sponsored from overseas, either by hav- Islamic educational institutions which host into all Gulf funding sources, a report has ing studied in Saudi Arabia as part of radical preachers and distribute extrem- said. The report by the Henry Jackson Soci- scholarship programmes, or by having ist literature. The report calls for a public ety also calls for the government to been provided with extreme literature and inquiry in Saudi Arabia’s connections with consider requiring UK religious institu- material within the UK itself.” UK based extremism. tions, including mosques, to be required Apart from an official public inquiry The UK’s Saudi Arabian embassy told to reveal sources of overseas funding. into the funding of terrorism, the report the BBC the allegations were “categori- The findings come as Theresa May calls for the government’s planned new cally false”. But it comes as the faces pressure to publish the government’s commission for countering extremism Government is facing mounting pressure own report into foreign funding of announced in the Queen’s speech to to release its own report into Saudi fund- terrorism. address the financing of extremism from ing of extremism. The Home Office-led report was com- overseas a matter of priority Responding to a parliamentary ques- pleted six months ago, and No. 10 says Tom Wilson, a fellow at the Centre for tion on Tuesday, Theresa May said ministers are still deciding whether to pub- the Response to Radicalisation and Ter- ministers were “considering advice on lish. MPs nervous of upsetting strategic rorism at the society – and author of the what is able to be published and will report relations in the Gulf have also decided not report, said: “While countries from across to Parliament with an update in due to publish a separate Foreign Office strat- the Gulf and Iran have been guilty of course”. The report, which has been in Ms egy paper on the region. advancing extremism, Saudi Arabia is May’s personal possession for six months, Saudi Arabia is likely to be angered by undoubtedly at the top of the list. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 ASIA 07 Israel & India agree to combat terrorism Jerusalem Strategic ties leaders recognised that their IANS countries faced forces of terror On the second day of which seek to undermine peace ndia and Israel yesterday the first visit by an and stability. "We have agreed decided to scale up their Indian Prime Minister, to cooperate in this field as well," relationship in the fight Modi, after discussions he said. against terror, with Prime with host Prime The two leaders addressed Minister Narendra Modi Minister Benjamin the media after one-on-one and Isaying the two countries have delegation level talks, with Jais- Netanyahu, sought to "agreed to do much more to pro- hankar describing it as an balance New Delhi's tect our strategic interests" and "upbeat conversation as between traditional ties with to combat rising radicalization two peoples and two cultures and terrorism including in the Israel's neighbours by who can work together". cyber-space. saying India hoped A joint statement issued after On the second day of the first that "peace, dialogue the talks said "...strong measures visit by an Indian Prime Minis- and restraint" will should be taken against terror- ter, Modi, after discussions with prevail in West Asia. ists and terror organisations and host Prime Minister Benjamin all those who encourage, sup- Netanyahu, sought to balance of the Palestine issue. port and finance or provide New Delhi's traditional ties with Besides concurrence on stra- sanctury to terrorists and terror Israel's neighbours by saying tegic issues, India and Israel groups". India hoped that "peace, dialogue signed seven agreements and This, Jaishankar said, was a Demonstrators protesting against India's support for Israel, outside the Indian consulate in the and restraint" will prevail in West MoUs in space, water manage- fairly clear and expressive West Bank city of Ramallah, yesterday. Asia. ment and conservation and description on the issue of ter- Modi is making a stand-alone agriculture cooperation. One ror and it was possible to reduce India and Israel live in complex spread by terror. So has Israel. including in cyber space. visit to Israel and not combining accord provides for setting up of it to three words — cross border geographies. "Prime Minister and I agreed "We also discussed the situ- it with a trip to Palestine. In his $40 million fund to be spent over terrorism — which a reporter "We are aware of strategic to do much more together to ation in West Asia and wider briefing, Foreign Secretary S. five years for technological said was missing in the joint threats to regional peace and sta- protect our strategic interest and region. It is India's hope that Jaishankar said India favoured a innovation. statement. bility. India has suffered first also cooperate to combat grow- peace, dialogue and restraint will negotiated, peaceful settlement Netanyahu said the two In his remarks, Modi said hand the violence and hatred ing radicalization and terrorism, prevail." China demands troop withdrawal from Sikkim sector Australian naval ship Beijing Doklam was "serious" and the issue. The more unified the IANS repeatedly asked New Delhi to Chinese people are, the more docks at Kochi withdraw troops from the area. sufficient conditions the profes- mid calls for war by the He also indicated that Bei- sionals will have to fight against New Delhi state-run media, China jing could issue a travel alert to India and safeguard our inter- IANS Ayesterday accused India its citizens visiting Indian ests. This time, we must teach of lying to the public on the bor- depending on the security situ- New Delhi a bitter lesson," the oyal Australian Navy der row and again warned New ation. Adding to the heightened editorial said. (RAN) ship HMAS New- Delhi to withdraw troops to tensions and talk of war, in its In his briefing, the Chinese Rcastle is currently on a "avoid worsening of the sharpest comment since Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson four-day visit to Kochi, an situation." and Chinese troops scuffled in said that India had "misguided" official said yesterday. The As Beijing raised the decibel Doklam, state-run Global Times its public about the proximity ship reached Kochi port yes- over the latest border stand-off said China must teach India "a of Doklam to India. Geng said terday and will stay there till in the Sikkim sector, it also bitter lesson". Doklam, which the Chinese July 7. hinted that the development In an editorial, the Chinese refer to as Donglong, is not at Its Commanding Officer, could derail the boundary talks. Communist Party-run newspa- the tri-junction of India, China Commander MD Sirois, China also said India had per said China will inflict greater and Bhutan as claimed by New accompanied by Australian "trampled upon" the Panchsheel losses on India than in the 1962 Delhi. High Commissioner Harinder pact by illegally entering into war if New Delhi incited mili- "In disregard of the 1890 Sidhu and Defence Attache Chinese territory. tary conflict. It also said Indians Sino-Britain convention, the Captain Sheldon Williams, Not mincing his words, Chi- will be "kicked out" of Doklam Indian side said that Doklam is called on Vice Admiral A.R. nese Foreign Ministry by the Chinese military. located within the tri-junction of Karve, AVSM, Flag Officer A Chinese soldier standing next to an Indian soldier at the Nathu spokesperson Geng Shuang said "We call on Chinese society the three countries, that is mis- Commanding-in-Chief of the nature of the stand-off in to maintain high-level unity on leading the public," Geng said. La border crossing between India and China in Sikkim, yesterday. SNC, to discuss issues of mutual interest. A guided tour for Indian naval personnel on board the HMAS Newcastle as well as Sri Lanka vows Tamil autonomy conducted tour of some train- ing units under the SNC at Kochi, like Anti-Submarine Colombo separatist conflict that claimed stitution," Senaratne said. Warfare School and Damage AFP 100,000 lives between 1972 and "We will not work against the Control Training Facility 'Avi- 2009. On Tuesday the senior people's will just because Bud- nash', for the ship's crew have ri Lanka vowed yesterday monk Anamaduwe Dhamma- dhist monks want us to do so." been planned, an official to grant greater autonomy dassi said the clergy opposed the Nearly 70 percent of the island's statement said. Sto its Tamil minority in a plan, which would "create population is Buddhist and the The ship's crew will also new constitution after an influ- unnecessary problems". monks, who hold huge sway, visit places of public interest ential Buddhist monk said the But government spokesman have generally opposed any at Fort Kochi, Marine Drive, clergy opposed the plan. Presi- Rajitha Senaratne said the political concessions to the and various museums at dent Maithripala Sirisena has national parliament would not mostly Hindu Tamils community. Kochi. The ship will partici- said the new constitution will roll back the process which Dhammadassi said senior monks pate in a passage exercise Supporters of the Gorkha National Liberation Front taking grant extensive autonomy to began in April last year to draft were united in their opposition along with Indian Navy ships part in a protest amid an indefinite strike caled by the Gorkha Tamils concentrated in the a new statute that will be put to to constitutional reforms. off Kochi on July 7. Indian Janmukti Morcha (GJM) organisation in Darjeeling, yesterday. island's northern and eastern a referendum. "The monks can The latest move by the Bud- naval ships Jyoti, Shivalik, and regions. have their views, but the peo- dhist leadership is seen as a new Kamorta, from the Eastern He has said he wants to pre- ple's mandate at two elections challenge to Sirisena, who is Fleet had visited Freemantle Bodo leaders warn of vent a repeat of a bloody in 2015 was to change the con- committed to ethnic unity. in Australia. stir if demands not met Guwahati therein have not been fulfilled SC rejects Sahara's plea to extend payment deadline IANS yet. This is leading to a trust def- icit in the government," Biswajit New Delhi "If the cheque is dishon- pay," the court said as senior said: "We are not going to grant s the Gorkha-dominated Daimary, Bodoland People's IANS oured, appropriate counsel Kapil Sibal and Mukul any kind of indulgence. That north Bengal areas con- Front leader and member of the consequences will be faced by Rohatgi tried to impress upon stage is over." Atinue to reel under a Rajya Sabha from Assam, said. he Supreme Court yester- the contemnor," the apex court the bench the difficulties post- Describing the prevailing sit- violent campaign for statehood, He warned of a violent pro- day turned down Sahara observed. Roy is facing contempt demonetisation market uation as "unfair", Sibal said: "I it seems to have triggered sim- test, even more intense than the TGroup chief Subrata Roy's for not complying with the apex conditions were posing in the can't allow my properties to go ilar sentiments in Assam's Bodo Gorkha agitation, if the current plea for more time to pay Rs court's order. sale of Sahara properties. to vultures." The court then Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) tripartite talks with the govern- 552.21 crore and warned of con- Sahara had urged the court Sibal appeared for Roy while asked the official liquidator of that threaten to destabilise the ment did not yield any results sequences if the cheque given to give it time till August 15 for Rohatgi appeared for Sahara the Bombay High Court: "... are entire northeast. on separate statehood. by the firm to market regulator mobilising funds. Housing Finance Corporation you planning to auction his "There is a reason why He demanded that both the SEBI was not honoured. The court was informed yes- Ltd. and Aamby Valley. properties to vultures?" Gorkhas have lost faith in the central and Assam governments Declining the plea for exten- terday that the Sahara Group "You pay Rs 400 crore or Rs While not giving any exten- government. They have been find a way to create a separate sion in the time for the cheque's had deposited Rs 710.22 crore -- 500 crore once in a while. This sion in time to Sahara, the court betrayed several times and the Bodoland sooner than later or encashment, a bench of Justice the balance of Rs 1,500 crore is going to take a lifetime to pay approved the terms, conditions current outrage is a result of be prepared to face never- Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan that it was to pay by June 15. Ear- the entire amount... for how and proclamation vis-a-vis the that. Similarly, in Bodoland also before difficulties in the days Gogoi, and Justice A.K. Sikri lier, Sahara had paid Rs 790.18 much time we have to assemble auction of Aamby Valley project there are some issues, which to come. Gorkha-majority areas directed Securities and Exchange crore. (for hearing your matter)... you in Maharashtra. will escalate soon. in West Bengal — Darjeeling, Board of India (SEBI) to submit "The question is not how want us to wait," the court said. However, it put on hold the "Despite the Bodoland Kalimpong and Kurseong -- are the same for encashment on July much you have paid; the ques- As both senior lawyers next step till Sahara's cheque accord, the promises made witnessing violent protests. 15. tion is how much you have to sought the court's indulgence, it was encashed. 08 VIEWS THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected]

EDITORIAL

Incredible home support

onsider this scenario: it’s 20 past midnight and the traffic signal near popular football venue Al Arabi Stadium is surprisingly Ccrowded so late in the night. A quick investigation — it barely took a few seconds to see what was happening — showed that Qataris and expats had assembled to sign on a huge Qatar being punished for poster showing the face of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The warm July weather was no bother to the people gathered to get their turn to write a line or two embracing American ideals supporting Qatar. Qatari children, women and men in their national dress were joined by hundreds of residents to back the leadership in this time of crisis created by the neighbouring countries. to the traditional bedouin constitu- council with elected members early in What was seen near Tadamun traffic signal was a Patrick N Theros tional order. The family chose the ruler 2000 under universal suffrage. clear reflection of how people see and support the through consensus with the governed. Women got the vote on the same day sovereign country’s leadership. Last night’s Qatar had already declared its de facto as the men. This, in a society that impromptu act from the residents wasn’t a one-off independence in 1990 when it realised remains as privately pious and con- gesture of support from the masses. The entire that Saudi Arabia could not defend servative as any of its neighbors. country — ever since the siege was imposed by Saudi itself, let alone the GCC, after Iraq Religious freedom also thrives in Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt in the first week n June 21, the US Department of invaded Kuwait. Qatar. In early 1996, the Qatari Minis- of June — has expressed love for the Emir’s leadership State announced it was “mysti- Rather, Saudi Ara- try of Foreign Affairs officially allowed in this tough time. fied” by the bullying of the State bia had to call the a priest to come to Doha to celebrate A crisis - like the one imposed on Qatar - can test of Qatar by, among others, Saudi Americans, some- Holy Week and Easter and tend to his the character of the people. It surely has but there has Arabia and the United Arab Emir- thing the Qataris communicants. The Foreign Ministry Oates, who had broken diplomatic relations, could do themselves. arranged for the priest (now the patri- been no lack of support and bonding in these four weeks or so. Qataris and expats have issued a clear closed all borders, airspace and sea lanes in Relations with Saudi arch of Jerusalem) to meet with the an attempt to shut down their neighbor’s prime minister and have an audience message: They are with economy. with the Emir. Today, seven churches the Emir and slam the Senate Foreign Relations Chairman The countries that ganged openly occupy a large plot donated by region’s attempt to Robert Corker (R-Tenn.), taking a cue from up on Qatar, a long-standing the government in a Doha suburb. muzzle the country’s the State Department, announced he would American ally that is home to To the dismay of other regional rul- march towards block all future arms sales to Gulf Coopera- ing families, Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad prosperity. People in a number of US military bases, What was seen tion Council (GCC) countries until they never disguised his unabashed love for Qatar have dismissed resolved their differences, a move that lays fear that the smallest Gulf state being an Arab and his belief that the the notion they would near Tadamun the onus mostly on Saudi Arabia, which has had embarked on a path to peoples of the Arab world deserved traffic signal was be marginalised by this large, pending arms deals still to be better governance. He set the example modernisation based on the a clear reflection blockade that has been contracted. of what free speech and free press can slammed by countries of how people see Senator Corker also recognised that the American model that could accomplish. He established Al Jazeera in the region and the accusation that Qatar funds terrorism was upend the established regional out of the remnants of the BBC Arabic and support the rest of the world. only a pretext for punishing Qatar for its service, which had been shut down by sovereign country’s While the siege strongly pro-American policies; policies autocratic order. the Saudis. leadership. stays, Qatar continues that the neighbors view as a threat despite He made Qatar the hub for a dec- to go about its business their need for American protection. ade-long series of international showing no signs of The countries that ganged up on Qatar, a Arabia deteriorated and then turned conferences where Arab intellectuals slowing down. The real long-standing American ally that is home to toxic when Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and could meet and exchange views with- estate sector continues a number of US military bases, fear that the the UAE conspired to support an out fear of the secret police of their to flourish. The trading smallest Gulf state had embarked on a path attempted plot. It failed. countries. volume exceeded QR1bn to modernisation based on the American Qatar then embarked on the most We all failed to anticipate the Arab from June 18 to 22, according to the weekly bulletin model that could upend the established radical modernisation policies in Spring because we were looking for released by the real estate registration department at regional autocratic order. regional memory by choosing the the intellectual ferment in the wrong the Ministry of Justice. While real estate trade volume They saw that the aim of the Qatari institutions and liberal values of the places. Qatar had assumed the intel- showed staggering figures, national carrier Qatar experiment — from the US universities United States as a model. By early lectual role of Andaluz and we never Airways said on Monday it is set to start flights to housed on the Qatar Foundation’s Educa- 1996, the Emir lifted all press censor- noticed. When the counter revolution Sohar in Oman and Prague next month, the first new tion City campus to its invention of a ship and even abolished the Ministry of violently overthrew Egypt’s first demo- routes announced by the airline since a regional pan-regional investigative journalism tradi- Information, making Qatar the only cratically elected government, Doha political crisis forced it to stop flights to 18 Middle East tion at Al Jazeera — has been to create Arab state without a ministry responsi- made the cardinal sin of agreeing with destinations last month. Also yesterday, Barcelona people-power: Training millions at home ble for censorship. the United States publicly by express- stalwarts Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets and Jordi and across the region to think, debate and To improve education, Qatar ing concern about this backward step. Alba engaged soccer fans at the state-of-the-art Mall challenge the status quo of autocrats who enlisted RAND Corporation to advise The repressive states of the Arab of Qatar. buy American friends while supporting on reforming K-12 schools. After world, meanwhile, all sought American In Qatar, it really is business as usual! repression and extremism at home. explicitly stating that American univer- protection while subliminally fostering Long unhappy with Qatar’s modernisa- sities were the world’s gold standard, hatred toward the liberal values about tion, its neighbors created the current crisis the Emir’s consort, H H Sheikha Moza which we lectured them. The hatreds to undo what they perceive as a threat to bint Nasr, led an effort that brought six they created interacted with repres- the regional status quo. Their list of of the most prestigious American uni- sion to formulate a deadly mix that led demands would, if accepted, reduce Qatar versities to establish branch campuses to 9/11, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. to a vassal state of the Kingdom of Saudi in Doha. Now that the American lectures are QUOTE OF THE DAY Arabia worse than what it endured from Qatar insisted that they come as officially over, the repressive countries independence in 1971 to 1990. Qatari soci- true branch campuses having a seam- turned all their fury on Qatar as a sur- ety in that period could best be described as less relationship with the home rogate for espousing the values and a “lite” version of Saudi Wahhabism. campus, with complete academic free- institutions of the United States. Amer- Let‘s keep this in With few exceptions, Qatari women dom teaching the same curriculum icans should not stand idly as its perspective. We‘re could not get a driver’s license, and exactly as at the home campus (for neighbors punish Qatar for its belief in churches were banned. Following my example, mixed classes). Qatar wel- these American values. not expecting any arrival in late 1995, several senior clerics comed Georgetown University to set major agreements, told me that they chafed under these up its fabled School of Foreign Service Patrick N Theros has previously served we‘re not expecting restrictions, which they described as against in Qatar as an explicitly Jesuit as US ambassador to Qatar in the second the real teaching of Mohammed Abdul Al institution. Clinton administration and is currently to settle substantive Wahhab. When asked why they tolerated Since then, Qatar Foundation has president of the US-Qatar Business differences. them, the reply was always the same: “We established many educational and Council, a private sector organisation are afraid of the Saudis.” social institutions that have brought that provides a forum for discussion of Fortunately for Qatar, it differed from Qatari women into a more equal status key economic, commercial and other issues of interest to American companies Enrique Pena Nieto Saudi Arabia in one other crucial aspect: than any of its neighbors. Seventy per- Governance. Unlike the Al Saud family, the cent of all Qatari graduates are doing or planning to do business in Mexican President ruling Al Thani family adhered more closely women. Qatar established a municipal Qatar. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 OPINION 09 The blockade is as much an opportunity as a threat

A culture of good hospitality Zahir Irani and buffets for every social occasion and event isn’t helping the food waste problem. In par- ticular, Qataris will need to become accepting of the poten- tial (initially) of lower standards he blockade is as much an opportunity as of locally-produced foods (that a threat to Qatar. It’s a spur to ensure the have the same nutritional value food supply issue is addressed head-on, of imports), and an immature with a commitment to a future of greater agriculture industry but one self-reliance and commitment to solving with much potential. Ta localised global challenge. A combination is needed of Depending on imports for 90% of food supplies new enterprise, new regulations has been an expensive luxury that can’t continue: to limit waste and new technol- international supply chains are increasingly uncer- ogies for transportation, storage tain and stretched by demand; food security is a and dealing with the food- problem globally, including all the developed water-energy nexus – it is here nations. Despite its agricultural heritage, for exam- where the Qatar Foundation ple, around 50% of the UK’s food and animal feed through its generous Qatar depends on imports. National Research Fund has real Qatar’s lack of domestic capability has been potential to become a leading exposed, the legacy of a local industry not able to light and definer of innovation compete with cheaper, sometimes loss leader and thinking - and the Safe- ranges of imports that are seeking to establish a guarding Food and Environment profile and place with local consumers, the high in Qatar (SAFE-Q) project is an production costs associated with the local climate example of this. and ecology, immature supply chains, a lack of Qatar can be a role model knowledge and expertise — and also a general for the rest of the world, by preference among its consumers for higher quality being pro-active and creative imports in a status conscious market. in dealing with food security The nation has the economic resources to over- issues. As we are finding in the come most challenges from its natural West, it’s complacency that’s environment. the enemy. Vehicles with stickers of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, displaying support for the Water is, of course, a basic issue for food pro- duction. Desalination plants — converting leadership. Professor Irani is the head of Brad- seawater for drinking water and agriculture — ford University’s management school have been used since the 1950s in the Middle East. the future - capable of producing a litre of water agriculture to animal husbandry, through to genet- in the UK, and is part of the team But financial and environmental costs of this for around 2 cents (compared with $1 for a litre by ically modified crops and new management running the Qatar National Research approach are unsustainable. It’s been estimated conventional desalination plants) and are a high- practices. This opens doors for global partnerships Fund project, Safeguarding Food and that the thirty desalination plants in Saudi Arabia potential investment opportunity. There’s now just with other Universities and corporates alike. Environment in Qatar (SAFE-Q) with rely on around 300,000 barrels of crude oil each a need for hard evidence of viability, and quickly, Tackling food waste across the system, from Cranfield and Brunel Universities in day. in terms of costs and scale. field to plate, has the potential to have as impor- the UK and the University of Western Solar-powered desalination plants look to be First and foremost, Qatar needs to be promot- tant an impact as building local food production Sydney. ing new generations of ‘agro-preneurs’, and that capabilities. Waste less, you need less. means backing them with subsidies, a framework So there is a need for action in terms of legisla- of business-friendly processes for start-ups and tion — which currently encourages rather than Qatar can be a role model the necessary capital for facilities. The fledgling limits food waste through the use of strict expiry for the rest of the world, enterprises will need an ecosystem of knowledge dates, rather than the more flexible ‘best before’ by being pro-active and and expertise in agriculture to demonstrate how labelling which encourages more thought and flex- they can become established in local markets and ibility. The future will be shaped as much by creative in dealing with D-RING ROAD be more attractive than imported goods. decisions / habits from shoppers as the changes POST BOX: 3488 food security issues. As There is a role here for the state University to introduced by agribusiness and governments. DOHA - QATAR we are finding in the promote and develop local talent and to direct Smart marketing and widespread education is them to new growth areas that support the econ- needed to change ‘normal behaviours’ among con- [email protected] West, it’s complacency omy and ultimately the sustainability of a nation. sumers: the rejection of ‘non-perfect’ foods, excess that’s the enemy. Also, there will be many opportunities for intellec- food just seen as rubbish, the preference for luxury tual discover; research that ranges from global brands as a definition of status. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758

MANAGING EDITOR The country behind Qatar crisis TEL: 4462 7505 DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR TEL: 4455 7769 education, contributing 100 million USD to the country that should actually be estranged, is like Ibrahim Karatas Ivanka Trump’s foundation for well being of anti-Qatari herd’s goat. It is this country that bribes American children and lefting Qatar to starve will British and American journalists to write reports that LOCAL NEWS SECTION have social consequences. Probably such a politi- Qatar is supporting terrorism. It also fuels civil wars in TEL: 4455 7743 cal prostitution will lead new uprisings in the Palestine, Libya and Egypt. As for Turkey, they fiscally Middle East. When that day comes, Arab politi- supported Fetullahist Terrorist Organization ( FETO) BUSINESS NEWS SECTION cians will find the guilt not in themselves but in fiscally during July 15 failed coup. Qatar also revealed TEL: 4462 7535 n the Arab peninsula, there is a cri- their people like they did to the Muslim Brother- that UAE met some the PKK executies, too. So, UAE is sis which is the result of weak hood in Egypt. directly supporting terrorist groups that fight Turkey. SPORT NEWS SECTION political culture and politics with- After giving their sovereignty and wealth to While UAE, which has more Iranian immigrants TEL: 4455 7745 out any certain strategies. Some Trump with their hands, turning Qataris and ask- than its own population, is blocking Qatar for its rela- countries, living by grants of Sau- ing their freedom and welfare have no match tions with Iran, its airlines continue to organise flights ONLINE SECTION Idis, leaded by Saudi Arabia closed their neither in religion nor in brotherhood. As you can to Tehran. In addition, they have very profitable trade TEL: 4462 7501 borders and seized Qatar, the country see, crushing Qatar also means loosing Turkey, a relations with Iran and they don’t seem to do what [email protected] with most rational politics in the region. strong ally in Sunni alliance. In other words, anti- they want from Qatar. Qatar, whose direction is not the Qatar countries will break Sunni bloc on their UAE has such a fragile political and economic PUBLIC RELATIONS West but only Kaaba unlike other 22 own. structure that if Iran asks its citizens living in this Arab countries, and doesn’t spend We hope Saudis will behave smarter and not country to revolt, there will be no such thing as state. TEL: 4455 7613 their revenues just for their individual become more aggressive. Because if they stick to UAE, which uses terror as a weapon, may lose its eco- [email protected] pleasures, hosts Muslim scholars and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and insist on their nomic power when terror turns and hits itself. For shares their wealth with Muslims that stubbornness, and if finally they fail, they will lose example, when a terrorist blasts a bomb in Dubai for ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT are oppressed in other countries. Now, their influence in the region. revenge, we hope not, its trade and tourism will be TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 this reliable country is blocked for all It should not be forgotten that the actual per- terribly affected. When terrorism visits UAE, they will FAX: 4455 7870 these humanitarian aids and left to petrator of the current, previous and possibly cry but it will be too late. As a Turkish proverb says “ if [email protected] die. subsequent crises is UAE. UAE, which is you have a glass made house, do not throw stones to When looked at the charges against houses of others.” CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Qatar, it can be seen that no accusations It is a correct decision for Turkey to be sentitive to TEL: 4455 7857 have been harmful to embargoing coun- political balances among Gulf countries and back [email protected] tries. For example, what would be the Qatar at the same time. Turkey should not be illu- damage to the blockading countries sioned by those saying “Let’s not take sides, they may SUBSCRIPTION & DISTRIBUTION when Hamas is supported? Hamas is not be in peace tomorrow again but we will be left new TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 fighting any Arab country. Punishing an enemies”. organisation like Hamas, which fights Turkey is helping Qatar not Turkey is helping Qatar not for the gain of tomor- FAX: 44557819 [email protected] for the salvation of Palestine and has for the gain of tomorrow but row but for the debt of yesterday. A country that has won elections, on behalf of Israel may already been tested for friendship cannot be left only be endorsed by Jews but never by for the debt of yesterday. alone. It is in Turkey’s own interest if it becomes even Muslims. A country that has already more active in the Middle East. When countries like All thoughts and views Just yesterday Israel gave approval UAE intervenes in Turkey’s politics at every opportu- expressed in these columns for 2500 new settlements. Yet, those been tested for friendship nity, it will be inadequate to just blame them and keep believing that they can beat small Qatar silent. Some counter actions must be taken against are those of the writers, not state are silent about that. Unfortunately, cannot be left alone. It is in that country. Someone should teach these sassy coun- of the newspaper. when Hamas resists to Israeli occupa- Turkey’s own interest if it tries that the source of strength is not skyscrapers but tion, both Hamas and Qatar are being becomes even more active in Allah, Almighty. All correspondence targeted. regarding Views and Thw writer is a a columnist at Yeni Akit daily newspaper While Arab peoples are tending more the Middle East. Opinion pages should be to terrorism due to poverty and weak based in Istanbul. mailed to the [email protected] 10 ASIA THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 Philippine troops arrest militants' main financier

Manila while ground forces tried to Reuters Recovers weapons advance from house to house. Security forces raided President Rodrigo Duterte hilippine security a village not far from imposed martial law on Mind- forces arrested yes- anao island, where Marawi is terday the main Marawi and detained located, for 60 days when the financier and logistics three suspects found fighting erupted and Defence supporter of the pro- with ammunition and Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said PIslamic State militants who have material for making there was pressure on the mil- for weeks been battling govern- bombs, an army itary to defeat the militants ment troops for control of a spokesman, Brigadier- before it expires on July 23. southern town, the army said. General Gilbert That is also a day before Security forces raided a vil- Gapay, said. One of Duterte is due to deliver his lage not far from Marawi and annual state of the nation those detained was detained three suspects found address in Congress. an important with ammunition and material Lorenzana said the military A US Marine preparing a mine clearance exercise with Afghan National Army soldiers as part for making bombs, an army supporter of the last week sent an aircraft to the of training operations in Helmand, yesterday. spokesman, Brigadier-General Maute group who United States to stock up on var- Gilbert Gapay, said. One of those Gapay identified as ious bombs and rockets, detained was an important sup- Monaliza Romato, supplies of which were running porter of the Maute group who alias Monay. out. US forces are providing US soldier dead in Helmand province Gapay identified as Monaliza Philippine troops with techni- Romato, alias Monay. cal assistance for the battle The woman is a niece of the affect the logistics support net- while Australia has sent two sur- Washington command in Kabul said in a of Taliban fighters, who have matriarch of the Maute clan, work of the group,” he said. veillance planes. Reuters statement. Kirkpatrick was steadily pushed back Afghan whose men-folk lead the The raid, seizure of weap- In another part of Mindanao, assigned to the US Army’s 1st forces that now control less than Marawi attack. Two of seven ons and the arrests would also soldiers on Tuesday found the 19-year-old American Armored Division, which is 60 percent of the country. Maute brothers, Omar and prevent the militants from beheaded bodies of two Viet- soldier has died in based in Fort Bliss, Texas. US and NATO coalition Abdullah, were educated in the mounting diversionary attacks, namese sailors abducted a year A Afghanistan’s Helmand Two other American sol- troops are deployed in Helmand Middle East, and were the main he said. ago by militants from the Abu Province from wounds received diers were also wounded but to train and advise Afghan secu- planners of the assault on More than 400 people have Sayyaf group. in an attack, the Pentagon said their injuries were not expected rity forces struggling against Marawi, the military has said. been killed in the fighting in Three Vietnamese sailors yesterday. Private First Class to be life threatening and they Taliban insurgents. Some Amer- “Monay has replaced her Marawi. Hundreds of thousands are still being held by Abu Hansen Kirkpatrick of Wasilla, were receiving medical treat- ican units also conduct aunt as the main financier and have been displaced and about Sayyaf, who, in all, hold 14 for- Alaska, died on Monday when ment, the statement said. Large partnered operations, special logistic supporter of the militant 20 percent of the centre of the eigners and eight Philippine he was struck by “indirect fire,” stretches of Helmand province operations raids, and provide air group,” Gapay said in a town has been destroyed. citizens. a military term that usually in southern Afghanistan, source support. Overall, around 13,000 statement. Yesterday, military aircraft Vietnam denounced the kill- encompasses rockets, mortars, of much of the world’s illegal US and allied troops are “The arrest will adversely dropped bombs on the town ing of its citizens. or artillery, the US military opium supply, are in the hands deployed in Afghanistan.

Sri Lankan Selfie time Bus crash leaves eleven journalist's murderer gets dead in central Pakistan Multan near Layyah town," a senior death sentence AFP local administration official in Layyah, Wajid Ali Shah said. Colombo passenger bus hit a tree A local police official, Ina- AFP and overturned in central yat Baloch also confimed the APakistan yesterday, kill- incident and casualties. ri Lanka's High Court ing 11 people and wounding 36 The oil tanker overturned handed the death sen- others on board, officials said. on a main highway from Kara- Stence yesterday to a The tragedy came days after a chi to Lahore while carrying labourer who was found devastating oil tanker explosion some 40,000 litres of fuel on guilty of murdering former killed at least 205 people. Paki- June 25, about 270 kilometres Agence France-Presse jour- stan has a poor record of fatal from Layyah. nalist Mel Gunasekera in a traffic accidents due to badly It exploded minutes later as break-in at her home. maintained roads and vehicles, crowds from a nearby village Anthony George, who and reckless driving. gathered to scavenge for fuel, stabbed Gunasekara to death "A speeding passenger bus despite warnings by the driver in February 2014, will have which was going to Rawalpindi as well as motorway police to his sentence automatically from Karachi first hit a tractor stay away. commuted to life in prison as Men taking a selfie while riding on a river boat on the Sardaryab river in Charsadda, trolley and then a tree, killing Officials have launched an Sri Lanka has an unofficial Pakistan, yesterday. 11 people and wounding 36 oth- investigation into the moratorium on capital ers, 18 among them seriously, accident. punishment. High Court judge Piya- sena Ranasinghe also found George guilty of breaking and entering and of stealing Singapore repatriates radicalised Indonesian maids Rohingya Gunasekera's mobile phone. During a lengthy trial, the Singapore domestic workers uncovered by question in parliament that the radical ideologies... whether by man killed in court heard that he had mur- IANS the city-state since 2015. All have two Indonesian maids were IS locals or foreigners," Lee said. dered Gunasekera after she been repatriated. supporters who were "radical- Hundreds of thousands of recognised him as a labourer ingapore has repatriated The affluent island-republic's ised through social media". foreign maids and construction mob attack who had been hired over a two Indonesian maids it leaders have warned it is a prime "One of them intended to workers are based in Singapore, month earlier to paint her Ssaid were radicalised target for a terror attack because travel to Syria with her foreign one of Asia's wealthiest econo- Yangon parent's house. online, one of whom wanted to of its strong stand against terror- boyfriend to join ISIS," he said mies. Singapore in 2015 and AFP Gunasekera, 40, was an travel to Syria with her foreign ism and reputation as a regional Tuesday, using another name for 2016 arrested 40 "radicalised" assistant vice president at boyfriend to join the Islamic financial centre. The city-state is IS. No details were given for the Bangladeshi workers who it said Rohingya Muslim was Fitch's Sri Lankan operation, State (IS) group. Second Home also supporting the US-led inter- seven other maids repatriated were plotting violence in their stoned to death and six a position she took up in 2012 Affairs Minister Desmond Lee national coalition against IS with earlier. While none of the nine homeland. All but six — currently Aothers wounded by a after a five-year stint as told parliament the discovery of non-combat assistance like air- maids intended to carry out serving jail terms for terrorism mob of Buddhists in the cap- Colombo correspondent for the two brought to nine the to-air refuelling. attacks in Singapore, "we can- and terrorist financing— have ital of Myanmar's Rakhine AFP. number of radicalised foreign Lee said in response to a not condone support for any been repatriated. state, authorities said yester- day, the latest flare-up in a region seething with religious tension. The western state is a hotbed of sectarian unrest, Thai lawmakers quit assembly to prepare for election with frequent bouts of com- munal violence between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Bangkok army’s real willingness to relin- Among those who quit were banned since the coup, when poorer voters in the populous Rohingya Muslims, a perse- Reuters quish power. former military men, veteran the army said it was seizing northeast. Thaksin’s sister, cuted minority. The vice-chairman of the politicians and an economist. power to end violent turmoil Yingluck Shinawatra, has been The worst bloodshed in ore than a dozen mem- National Reform Steering One said he hoped to build a coa- between the political forces that the unofficial face of the party 2012 left hundreds dead and bers of an assembly Assembly, which shapes govern- lition in support of military ruler have dominated Thailand for since the government she led as forced over 100,000 people Mappointed by Thailand’s ment policies, said 25 of its 200 Prayuth Chan-ocha. decades. prime minister was ousted in the — largely Rohingya — into junta have resigned to be able to members had resigned ahead of “The resignations signal that On one side is the Democrat coup. But she has been banned squalid displacement camps contest elections, one of the first a July 4 constitutional deadline we are now in general election Party, Thailand’s oldest, which from office for five years and is where they have languished signs of political activity ahead they needed to meet if they were mode,” Associate Professor Yut- is popular with middle-class on trial on corruption charges for years, many facing severe of a poll set tentatively for next to stand. taporn Issarachai, dean of voters and has strong support she rejects. restrictions on their move- year. “Most of them want to retain political science at Sukhothai in Bangkok and parts of the Although junta leader Pray- ments. Little has been done to The military government had their right to run as members of Thammathirat Open University, south. uth has said he does not plan to reconcile the two communi- initially promised a vote within parliament in the next election,” said. “People typically need On the other is the Puea Thai form a political party, he has fre- ties, with tensions 18 months of a May 2014 coup, Alongkorn Ponlaboot told Reu- about a year to campaign. This Party of ousted Prime Minister quently criticised what he calls skyrocketing since October in but the timetable has slipped - ters yesterday. Not all those who is the start of that,” he said. Thaksin Shinawatra, whose par- the “bad politicians” of the past the wake of violence between intensifying suspicion among had resigned were planning to Political gatherings of more ties have won every election and some politicians have voiced Rohingya militants and the government critics about the take part in politics, he said. than five people have been since 2001 by appealing to support for keeping him in office. army. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 EUROPE 11 China-Germany ties enter new phase

Berlin expected to demonstrate for a Reuters Diplomacy raft of causes, ranging from anti- President Xi Jinping globalisation to failure to tackle ies between China and and Chancellor Angela climate change. Germany are about to Merkel pledged Already, German police have enter a new phase, yesterday to work used water cannon to disperse China's president said, together more closely around 500 anti-capitalist as he met the German protesters. on a range of issues. Tchancellor before a G20 summit Much of the tension will that is expected to highlight their revolve around Trump. In an differences with the United Chinese president said article for German newspaper States on a host of issues. he hoped to make a Handelsblatt Japanese Prime President Xi Jinping and "new blueprint, set our Minister Shinzo Abe urged the Chancellor Angela Merkel sights on new goals G20 states to continue working pledged yesterday to work and plan new routes" together on climate protection, together more closely on a range for cooperation during after Trump pulled the United German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a welcome ceremony of issues, two days ahead of the his visit to Germany. States out of the 2015 Paris for Chinese panda bears Meng Meng and Jiao Qing at the Zoo in Berlin, yesterday. G20 summit in Hamburg that US agreement on climate change President Donald Trump is also policy. told the newspaper Die Zeit that was opened. Merkel described bilateral cooperation in countries due to attend. Berlin. He said he hoped to make And World Bank President as G20 president, she had to them as "two very nice such as in Africa and Afghani- Trump's testy relationship a "new blueprint, set our sights Jim Yong Kim told Handelsblatt work on reaching agreement diplomats". stan, with Merkel highlighting an with both China and Germany is on new goals and plan new he agreed with Merkel on climate rather than contributing "to a sit- Merkel said she and Xi had agreement to jointly build a pushing the two countries closer routes" for cooperation during change, saying: "We cannot uation where a lack of also talked about wanting to hydroelectric power plant in together, despite Berlin's con- his visit to Germany. wait". In contrast to Trump's pro- communication prevails". quickly sign an investment treaty Angola. cerns about human rights in "We will have difficult dis- tectionist stance, Kim also To symbolise their close ties, that would ultimately turn into But she added: "In my view China and frustrations over mar- cussions, since bringing 20 states stressed that free trade was key Merkel and Xi opened a garden a full-blown free-trade agree- we must intensively pursue the ket access. together with all their develop- to alleviating poverty and boost- at the Berlin Zoo for Meng Meng ment. They discussed as well human rights dialogue, looking "Chinese-German relations ments and ideas is not easy," ing prosperity. and Jiao Qing, two giant pandas improving cooperation on cyber at how different parts of society are now about to have a new Merkel said. Merkel has lashed out at on loan from China who were security and working more can better express themselves. start where we need new break- Tension is likely both at the Trump's administration for tak- seen sitting on wooden benches closely together on fighting inter- In this respect, cooperation in the throughs," Xi told a joint news summit and outside it. ing the view that globalisation is munching bamboo when a red national terrorism. field of civil society can be fur- conference with Merkel in Thousands of protesters are creating winners and losers. She curtain covering their enclosure In addition, they discussed ther strengthened." May defends govt's Austria downplays Italy border issue austerity programme Vienna tabloid, confirmed by an official misunderstandings like the ones crossing from North Africa, Reuters in his ministry, that 750 troops that have evidently arisen with many of them fleeing war and were ready to be deployed and Italy," Kern said. poverty in their home London in control of her government, ustria yesterday played four armoured vehicles had been Austria is preparing to intro- countries. AFP after losing her party's major- down a dispute with Italy sent to the province that includes duce controls at Brenner if there More than 85,000 refugees ity in parliament in the June 8 Aover possible controls at the Brenner Pass, a gateway for is a surge in migrant arrivals and other migrants have arrived mbattled British Prime vote. their shared border, saying Italy to important trading part- there, but there is no need to at in Italy by that route so far this Minister Theresa May During her weekly question Rome had misunderstood its ners such as Germany. present, he said. year, making it the main point E(pictured) yesterday time, May said she would con- intentions when it spelled out Italy summoned Austria's "We are not deploying tanks of entry into Europe. defended her government's sider "very carefully" military preparations for any ambassador to Rome over at Brenner and I can emphasise Austria has said for more policy of austerity, amid signs recommendations from pay future influx of migrants. Doskozil's comments. But Aus- again that cooperation with Italy than a year that it will introduce of cabinet splits over the seven- review bodies. Rome reacted furiously on trian Chancellor Christian Kern is really good," Kern said, add- border controls at Brenner if year squeeze on But she Tuesday to Austrian Defence struck a conciliatory note yes- ing that there was no indication needed to prevent a wave of public spending. warned: "We Minister Hans Peter Doskozil's terday, praising cooperation Italy had lost control of the sit- arrivals like that seen in 2015, The Conserva- need to balance comment that he expected con- with Italy, which is dealing with uation on its southern flank. during which it took in more tive leader, who is the need to be trols at the border with Italy to a surge in the number of Italy has appealed to other than 1 percent of its population battling to assert her fair to public- be introduced "very soon". migrants crossing the Mediter- European countries for help in in asylum seekers, who came authority after last sector workers, His remarks were part of a ranean from Africa. dealing with the influx of peo- mainly through Turkey, Greece month's disastrous to protect jobs in report in Austria's top-selling "One must clear up ple making the perilous sea and the Balkans. general election, the public sector, drew loud cheers and to be fair to from her MPs when those who pay she insisted that for it." Child brings Britain must "live Corbyn said Fire woes within our means". the pay cap had led to "real WWII bomb In a robust exchange in the shortages" in nursing and House of Commons, opposition teaching, as well as "real hard- into Germany Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ship" as wages failed to keep up accused the government of with inflation, effectively kindergarten "flip-flopping and floundering" resulting in a pay cut. over whether to raise wages for "When Tories talk of tough teachers, nurses and other pub- choices, we know who suffers Berlin lic-sector workers. -- it's the poorest and most vul- AFP Foreign Secretary Boris nerable in our society," he said. Johnson, Defence Secretary May countered that she val- A CHILD in Germany sparked Michael Fallon and Environ- ued public-sector workers, the evacuation of a kindergar- ment Secretary Michael Gove adding: "The difference is, I ten yesterday by unearthing a have all indicated they would know we have to pay for them." World War II bomb and bring- support lifting the pay freeze on May warned that Labour's ing it back to the classroom, around five million people. plans to increase public spend- police said. Downing Street itself sug- ing could see Britain go the way The youngster "found an gested last week that it would of debt-laden Greece -- an accu- incendiary bomb on a walk review the policy -- only to sation a senior party source later in the woods and carried it insist hours later that nothing said was "preposterous". into the kindergarten," a has changed, a position She also pointed to record police spokeswoman in the repeated by Finance Minister levels of employment, attribut- Gigantium Arena in flames as a big fire broke out, in Aalborg, Denmark, yesterday. The western city of Darmstadt Philip Hammond. ing "good management of the arena hosted the Danish final several times, and were a very likely candidate for the said. The confusion led to accu- economy -- you only get it with 2018 Melodi Grand Prix final. "After the 'strange object' sations that May was no longer the Conservatives." was spotted on a shelf, the teachers immediately notified police and took the children to a playground off site". Explosives experts rushed UN chief to speed up Cyprus reunification process to the scene and retrieved the bomb, allowing the children Crans-Montana Switzerland with representatives Earlier Tuesday, Cavusoglu confidential documents were The four party representa- to return to kindergarten. Anatolia from the Turkish and Greek Cyp- criticized Greek Cypriots for not leaked despite promises," Cavu- tives issued a joint statement They later swept the site riot sides and those from two showing "good intentions and soglu said. inviting Guterres to return to the in the forest for further bombs oreign Minister Mevlut guarantor countries, Greece and flexibility" in reunification talks Cavusoglu said Ankara could Swiss Alps, saying progress was before giving it the all-clear. Cavusoglu said that UN the UK. taking place in the Swiss resort not accept “zero troops” in slower in the second week of Police issued a warning FSecretary-General Antonio "When he (Guterres) was of Crans-Montana. Cyprus. talks than in the first. that World War II explosives Guterres would return to Cyprus here, we decided on the frame- "If there is to be a solution, Turkish Cypriot President Cavusoglu also said Guterres were often found in woods talks in the Swiss Alps today to work of the talks, and he brought we should decide this week, Mustafa Akinci added: "The should return to Crans-Montana and fields as well as private speed up the reunification positive energy. So, his presence because this is the last confer- Turkish Cypriot side as well as regardless of progress. gardens and said that suspi- process. is very important because, this ence," Cavusoglu said. the Turkish side follow the Guterres left the Swiss resort cious objects should be "It is very simple. We wanted is very important conference and "We have shown good inten- parameters that have been set on Saturday after participating reported immediately to the him to come here and he is com- the final conference," he added. tions and flexibility but, this by the secretary general and we in the Cyprus conference on Fri- authorities. ing on Thursday. This is serious In a response to a question should get a response. Unfortu- are working hard along those day, along with Turkish and More than 70 years after business and his role is impor- whether there is progress, Cavu- nately, we could not see any lines, and we hope that the com- Greek Cypriot leaders as well as the end of the war, unex- tant," Cavusoglu said after a soglu said "Moving slowly, positive response from the other ing few days will be the guarantor countries -- Tur- ploded bombs are regularly meeting in Crans-Montana, slowly." side. We also saw that some productive." key, Greece and Britain. found buried on German land. 12 EUROPE THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

Unesco urges Ukraine foils fresh cyber attack Poland to stop logging Kiev Computer virus had been inserted, Chief Execu- cyber security and the way that collaborate on financial docu- Reuters tive Olesya Bilousova said: "Yes sophisticated actors behave," ments between internal ancient forest Interior Minister Arsen there was. And the fact is that said Leo Taddeo, a former FBI departments, and to file them he Ukrainian software Avakov said police this backdoor needs to be cyber investigator and executive with the Ukrainian state tax Warsaw firm used as part of had blocked a second closed." with cyber-security firm Cyxtera service. AP last week's global cyber attack from Any computer on the same Technologies. "I can’t think of a Police have advised busi- cyber attack warned servers hosting the network as machines using M E supply chain attack that has been nesses to stop using the software PARTICIPANTS in a Unesco yesterday that all software. Doc was now vulnerable to this thorough." and turn off every computer run- World Heritage Committee's Tcomputers sharing a network another attack, she said. Investigators are still trying ning it. session called on Poland yes- with its infected accounting soft- "As of today, every compu- to establish who was behind last Ukraine's government said terday to immediately stop Investigators are still ware had been compromised by ter which is on the same local week's attack, which hit a month on Tuesday it would submit a logging in the oldest part of hackers. trying to establish network as our product is a after the Wannacry ransomware draft law to parliament to extend Europe's last pristine forest and The attack used a virus, who was behind last threat. We need to pay the most virus crippled computers at hos- the tax deadline to July 15, and threatened to put the site on dubbed "NotPetya" by some week's attack, which attention to those computers pitals, banks and business waive fines for companies who a list of endangered heritage. experts, to take down thousands hit a month after the which weren't affected (by last around the world. missed the previous June 13 cut- Poland's Environment of computers in dozens of coun- Wannacry week's attack)," she said. Ukrainian politicians were off because of the attack. Minister Jan Szyszko is under tries, disrupting shipping and ransomware virus "The virus is on them wait- quick to blame Russia, which Losses from the NotPetya strong criticism from ecology businesses. crippled computers ing for a signal. There are denied it. Ukrainian cyber police and Wannacry infections are groups and from the Euro- A video released by Ukrain- around the world. fingerprints on computers which and some experts say the attack seen totalling $bn, but Finance pean Union for having ian police showed masked men didn't even use our product." was probably a smokescreen Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk increased logging three-fold in combat fatigues and armed Cyber security experts said used by the hackers to install told Reuters that estimates the in the Bialowieza Forest, parts with assault rifles raiding the installed on around 1 million that while hackers have previ- new malware. attacks could cost Ukraine 0.5 of which are Europe's last offices of software developer computers in the country. ously been known to insert "After developing the back- percent of its annual GDP were unspoiled woodland. Intellect Service late on Tuesday, Interior Minister Arsen Ava- viruses into software updates - door, the attackers compromised exaggerated. "I don't think it will The EU threatens sanc- after cyber security researchers kov said police had blocked a thus tricking computers and users' account details with the be that high at all," he said. tions for what it says is a threat said they had found a "backdoor" second cyber attack from serv- system administrators into aim of getting full access to the ESET senior malware to the forest, which is on the written into some of the updates ers hosting the software. installing the malware on their network," the cyber police said. researcher Anton Cherepanov, Unesco list of World Heritage issued by its M E Doc account- Intellect Service previously own systems - the attack on Little known outside Ukrain- who first discovered the M E Doc and under special care. ing software. denied its servers had been com- Ukraine is the largest and most ian accounting circles, M.E.Doc backdoor, said computers using Szyszko claims trees are M E Doc is used by 80 per- promised, but when asked disruptive such assault to date. is used by around 400,000 com- the programme would be at risk cut only in parts of the wood cent of Ukrainian companies and yesterday whether a backdoor "We are in a new phase of panies in Ukraine to send and until a further update was issued. to control a bark beetle infes- tation and calls it "sanitation." Ecologists say it is done for profit. Yesterday, the UN body, EU donates $5.67m to debating in Krakow, said it "strongly urges" Poland to "immediately halt all logging Congo's violence victims and wood extraction in old- growth forests." ARU protection needs and provide It called on the govern- Anatolia life-saving assistance, including ment to "maintain the water and sanitation, shelter, continuity and integrity of he European Union health and food assistance. protected old-growth forest announced yesterday that It will also enhance human- in Bialowieza Forest" and Tit would donate $5.67m in itarian partners' logistics requested that a mission of humanitarian aid to people in capacity in a country where World Heritage experts visit urgent need of assistance in the access is often problematic due and evaluate the situation at Democratic Republic of Con- to poor infrastructure and high the site. go's conflict-torn provinces of insecurity," he said. It obliged Poland to sub- Kasai. The Kasai region has been mit by the end of 2018 a report EU Commissioner for the scene of clashes since on how it is protecting the for- Humanitarian Aid and Crisis August 2016 when the leader est. The committee warned it Management Christos of Kamuina Nsapu rebels, also might put the forest on its List Stylianides said the funding called Kamuina Nsapu, was of World Heritage in Danger, would help to respond to urgent killed by police in the city of a step that would alert the needs of the internally dis- Kananga. international community to placed persons in the central Since then, Kamuina Nsapu the situation and open the region, the majority of whom rebels have caused over 3,000 path for immediate assistance are women and children. deaths and the displacement of from the World Heritage "The aid will address their 1.3 million people. Fund. FROM LEFT: Former French First Lady Bernadette Chira and her daughter Claude Chirac, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former president Francois Hollande and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin attends a national tribute ceremony for late French politician Simone Veil at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, yesterday. Russian author Daniil Granin dies at 98

France pays homage to Veil Simone Moscow President Vladimir Putin scientists fighting for their AP offered condolences to his inventions against stolid Paris 89 on June 30, would be laid to "I forgive you for emptying family, praising Granin as a bureaucracy. Several of Reuters rest with her husband in the a jug of water over my head aniil Granin, a Russian "great thinker" and a "man of Granin's books were turned crypt of the Pantheon mauso- because of a remark you con- author who wrote a great spiritual strength." into movies, earning him quick rance paid homage yester- leum alongside other national sidered misogynistic," said one Dchronicle of the Nazi Granin, who was trained popularity. day to Simone Veil, who icons including Emile Zola, Vic- of the two sons, Jean Veil. siege of Leningrad and several as an industrial engineer, In the 1970s, Granin pub- Fsurvived the Nazi death tor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. A Jewish survivor of the Nazi widely popular novels, has joined the Red Army when the lished "A Book of the camps and went on to make her At a ceremony in the sun- death camps at Auschwitz-Birk- died. He was 98. Nazis invaded the Soviet Union Blockade," containing horrify- mark in the male-dominated drenched courtyard of the Les enau and Bergen-Belsen with Granin, a World War II vet- in 1941 and fought through the ing accounts by survivors of world of French politics by Invalides military museum in the prisoner number 78651 tat- eran whose writings made him end of WW II. the Nazi siege of Leningrad. championing the legalisation of Paris, her two sons, prominent tooed on her arm, Simone Veil a moral authority for many in He published his first work City authorities said Granin abortion as health minister in criminal affairs lawyers, deliv- was a fervent European and Russia, died on Tuesday at a in 1949 and authored several is to be buried on Saturday at the 1970s. ered moving tributes to their fighter for civil liberties, elected hospital in St Petersburg, Rus- novels inspired by his experi- the Komarovo cemetery out- President Emmanuel mother's dogged defence of tol- president of the European Par- sian news reports said. ence as an engineer, describing side St Petersburg. Macron said Veil, who died aged erance and the feminist cause. liament in 1979. Bosnia to bury 70 more 32 arrested in anti-Mafia raid in Europe

Srebrenica murder victims Barcelona "The drug proceeds were Belgrade buried this year were killed AFP laundered via reinvestment in Anatolia when they were below 18 years catering, food import and export, of age. olice detained 33 people in trade in precious metals and s many as 70 more iden- Damir Suljic, who was Spain, Italy and Germany vehicles, and football," it added. tified victims of the 15-year-old when he was killed, Pyesterday as part of a Police seized assets worth ASrebrenica genocide will is the youngest victim to be bur- Europe-wide operation against $5.6m from the suspects in Ger- be buried on July 11 to mark the ied this year, while Alija suspected members of Italy's many, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and 22nd anniversary of Europe's Salihovic, the oldest one, was Camorra crime group, law Britain as well as 520 kilos of worst massacre since the World 72 years old. enforcement officials said. cocaine and 450 kilos of hash- War II. The statement by the insti- Over 330 police officers car- ish and marijuana, Europol said. The victims' bodies were tute said that no more than 70 ried out 35 morning raids on Officers arrested 18 suspects exhumed from mass graves in victims were identified for this homes, restaurants and other in Italy, 12 in Spain and three in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovi- year's anniversary. businesses in the three countries Germany, a Eurojust spokes- na’s village of Potocari, the However, if the families of as part of the operation, Euro- woman said. Missing Persons Institute (MPI) the previously identified victims pean Union police agency The investigation is contin- of Bosnia and Herzegovina said had allowed the institute to Europol said in a statement. uing and further arrests are in a statement issued recently. complete the process, there The operation aimed to "dis- expected in the near future, MPI is an independent would have been an increase mantle an international criminal Spanish Civil Guards strap a Trattoria in an operation against Eurojust added. state-level institution, whose in the number of victims to be organisation involved in drug Italian Camorra in Barcelona, yesterday. A drug seizure two years ago mandate is to search for miss- buried this year. trafficking and money launder- prompted the probe by the Anti- ing persons from the armed Most of the bodies exhumed ing," a spokesman for Spain's based in Naples in southern and hashish from Spain to Italy," Mafia Prosecution Office in conflict relevant to Bosnia and from mass graves after years of Guardia Civil police force said. Italy. EU anti-crime coordination Naples that led to yesterday's Herzegovina and the Region. search and excavation work are He identified the organisa- The group allegedly smug- agency Eurojust said in a operation in three countries, said Seven of the victims to be incomplete. tion as the "Italian Camorra," gled "large quantities of cocaine statement. Eurojust. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 AMERICAS 13 FARC rebels free captive UN official At least 26

legal ones, the government people dead in Towards peace said yesterday. The UN contractor The Colombian United kidnapped by Nations contractor was Mexico shootout organised crime in seized on May 3 by gunmen Guaviare has close to Miraflores in south- Mexico City informed his ern Guaviare province, where coca cultivation has Reuters superiors that he long formed a key part of has been freed by Colombia’s cocaine produc- t least 26 people were dead or hospitalised his captors. tion. He was stopped by after a shootout in the northern Mexican armed men in a convoy of border state of Chihuahua yesterday, the The kidnapping A vehicles. state attorney general’s office said, as drug vio- came at the same “The UN contractor kid- lence surges in one of Mexico’s bloodiest years on time napped by organised crime record. representatives of in Guaviare has informed his The shootout took place near the mountain- the UN Security superiors that he has been ous community of Las Varas, in the heart of one Council were in freed by his captors,” the of Mexico’s drug trafficking regions, and it involved Colombia to discuss defence ministry said via its two armed groups. the peace accord Twitter account. It was unclear how many of the victims were signed with the The rebels, about 300 or dead and how many were alive at hospitals, Marxist FARC to so former FARC fighters who spokesman Felix Gonzalez said. end more than five rejected a peace accord with President Enrique Pena Nieto came to office decades of conflict the government late last in 2012 vowing to end years of drug violence, and in the Andean year, want to take over coca although the murder rate fell initially, it has been country. cultivation and cocaine traf- rising steadily and is on track to hit its highest level ficking that was abandoned UN official Harley Lopez (second left), who had been kidnapped by dissident FARC since recent government records began in 1997. when the Revolutionary rebels in May, after being released unharmed, at San Jose del Guaviare in Colombia, The shootout coincided with US Secretary of Bogota Armed Forces of Colombia yesterday. Homeland Security John Kelly visiting Mexico to Reuters (FARC) agreed to lay down meet with Pena Nieto and to discuss cooperation their weapons. discuss the peace accord refused. They have formed peace accord allows former in fighting organized crime. The government is seek- signed with the Marxist a new criminal gang and FARC fighters to avoid prison More than 100,000 people have died in drug- olombia’s dissi- ing to substitute coca — the FARC to end more than five now engage in the same time and participate in related violence since 2007 when former President dent FARC rebels raw material for cocaine — decades of conflict in the lucrative drug trafficking national politics. Many Felipe Calderon sent in the military to battle the freed a member with legal crops such as Andean country. that the FARC had pursued Colombians say the govern- cartels, and at least 30,000 people are missing. of a United coffee, fruits and cacao. While as many as 7,000 for years, the military has ment has not done enough Last Friday, 17 people died in a shootout with Nations team it The kidnapping came at fighters agreed to the pact said. to prevent other criminal police in the neighbouring state of Sinaloa. Rela- Chad taken hostage while he the same time representa- and have turned in most of Opposition politicians, groups and FARC dissidents tives of some of those people believe they may was working on a project to tives of the UN Security their weapons to the United including former President from filling the void and tak- have been executed by the police, a charge offi- substitute illegal crops with Council were in Colombia to Nations, the dissidents Alvaro Uribe, are angry the ing over the drug business. cials deny.

Venezuela's Oscar Perez Colombia making appears in video progress towards Caracas Reuters salvaging treasure

enezuelan police Bogota the wreckage. Santos did not officer Oscar Perez, Reuters disclose the investor behind Vwho staged a helicop- the first proposal or its terms. ter attack on government olombia is making Sonar images have so far buildings in Caracas last progress towards salvag- revealed bronze cannons made week, appeared in an Inter- Cing a Spanish galleon specifically for the ship, arms, net video early on yesterday carrying jewels and coins that ceramics and other artifacts. vowing to continue fighting sank more than 300 years ago, Archaeological excavation and for the “liberation” of his President Juan Manuel Santos scientific tests on the wreck country. said yesterday after receiving will continue to ensure it can “Once again we are in a proposal from an investor to be properly preserved, Santos Caracas, ready and willing to bring it to the surface. said. continue our struggle for the The ship named San Jose, The San Jose was part of A government supporter holds a National flag while clashing with people outside Venezuela's liberation of our country,” thought by historians to be car- the fleet of King Philip V, who Perez said in a video seen on rying one of the largest fought the English during the opposition-controlled National Assembly in Caracas, yesterday. YouTube, wearing a military unsalvaged maritime treas- War of Spanish Succession. uniform and wool cap, with ures, sank in 1708 near the Some 600 people died in the a Venezuelan flag and a rifle historical Caribbean port of shipwreck when an English behind him. Perez hijacked a Cartagena, and its wreckage fleet engaged the galleon in a Pro-govt activists attack helicopter with an unidenti- was located in 2015. gun fight. fied companion and flew “The discovery of this ship A team of international through the city on June 27 - one of the most important experts, the Colombian navy with a banner that read that navigated in our seas dur- and the country’s archaeology lawmakers in Venezuela “Freedom” and later opened ing colonial times - begins a institute discovered the wreck fired and dropped grenades new chapter in the cultural and in 2015. The San Jose was the on the Interior Ministry and scientific history, not only of subject of a legal dispute Caracas for medical treatment. ministers. El Aissami made an Supreme Court without caus- Colombia, but of the entire between Colombia and Sea AFP "This does not hurt as much address in which he called on ing any deaths or injuries. world,” Santos said on national Search Armada, a US-based as seeing every day how we are supporters of Maduro to come President Nicolas Maduro television from Cartagena. salvage company, which said ro-government activists losing our country," one of them, to the legislature to show sup- called the attack a terrorist “Questions about naviga- in 1981 it had located the area stormed into the grounds Armando Armas, told reporters port for the president. assault to overthrow his gov- tion, world trade, about where the ship sank. Pof Venezuela's state legis- as he got into an ambulance A crowd of Maduro support- ernment. But many of his colonial costs, will be The company and the gov- lature yesterday and beat with his head wrapped in bloody ers held a rally outside the critics doubt the official ver- answered.” ernment agreed to split any lawmakers, leaving at least five bandages. Deputies also said building for several hours before sion of the events, with some The government will proceeds from the wreckage, hurt and three with blood that two employees of the breaking into the grounds dur- suggesting it may have been accept further offers to recover but the government later said streaming from their heads, assembly were hurt. Tension is ing a recess. Government and staged to divert attention the ship and its treasure, San- all treasure would belong to their colleagues said. high in Venezuela after three opposition have accused each from the country’s economic tos said. A museum will be built Colombia, a view that was It was the latest eruption of months of anti-government pro- other of using armed groups to and political crises. to showcase artifacts found in backed by a US court in 2011. political violence in three tests that have seen 91 people sow violence. months of chaos in the oil-rich, killed in clashes with police. The opposition has accused poverty-stricken South Ameri- Protesters blame President plainclothes armed pro-govern- can country. Nicolas Maduro for a desperate ment groups of attacking The attackers were support- economic crisis. He says the protesters. While the chaos Peru reveals face of ancient ruler ing President Nicolas Maduro chaos is the result of a US- erupted in the grounds of the against opposition demands for backed capitalist conspiracy by assembly, Maduro was watch- elections to remove him from the opposition. ing a military parade in another Lima based on the Lady of Cao’s skull The discovery of the Lady of office. Military police guarding "The government always part of Caracas, with troops Reuters structure and ethnographic Cao’s mummified remains in the site stood by as about 100 resorts to violence," said oppo- marching and armored vehicles research and took 10 months to 2005 shattered the belief that intruders brandishing sticks and sition lawmaker Stalin Gonzalez rumbling by. create, Peru’s culture ministry the ancient Moche society, pipes broke through the front after yesterday's attack. In a speech at the parade, he he died in her twenties said. which occupied the Chicama gate of the National Assembly Another deputy, Simon Cal- demanded that the military be some 1,700 years ago, and The goal, said Culture Min- Valley from about 100 to 700 and into the interior gardens. zadilla, vowed: "We will "ever loyal, never traitors." Sis believed to have ruled ister Salvador del Solar, was to AD, was patriarchal. Several The mob reached as far as continue to face up to these sav- "Let no one become a Tro- over a desert valley in ancient bring the world closer to one of Moche female mummies have the corridors of the congres- ages." The opposition-controlled jan horse," he said. "Let no one Peru where her elaborately tat- Peru’s best archaeological finds been found since in graves with sional building, striking and legislature was holding a spe- become a servant of the oligar- tooed body was buried with and remind Peruvians of their objects denoting a high political injuring lawmakers. cial session to mark chy." Maduro retains the public weapons and gold objects. rich cultural heritage. and religious standing. The attackers, one of them independence day when the backing of the military high But a glimpse of the former “Its relevance is really incal- Archaeologists believe the holding a gun, ordered journal- government supporters burst in. command -- a key factor in priestess, the Lady of Cao, can culable,” del Solar said of the Lady of Cao died due to compli- ists to leave the premises. Earlier Maduro's vice-pres- keeping him in power, accord- now be seen in a replica of her oval-shaped face with high cations of childbirth but The speaker of the assem- ident Tareck El Aissami had ing to analysts. face unveiled by culture officials cheekbones on display under a otherwise lived a healthy life. bly, Julio Borges, in a Twitter made an impromptu appear- But the president last month and archaeologists. Using 3D golden crown. “We can now Her arms and legs were cov- message named five lawmak- ance in the congress along with said he was replacing four other imaging technology and foren- show the world her face, a face ered with tattoos and other ers who were hurt in the the head of the armed forces, senior commanders of the sics archaeology, the replica was that Peruvians see ourselves in.” supernatural motifs. violence. Some were taken away Vladimir Padrino Lopez and armed forces. 14 AMERICAS THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

Top US diplomat US sends N Korea missile warning Tillerson to visit Ukraine Washington Growing conflict AFP Washington The US president had AFP he United States and South dismissed the idea of Korea fired off missiles the North possessing S Secretary of State Rex Tyesterday simulating a pre- a working ICBM, Tillerson will visit cision strike against North vowing it "won't UUkraine following the Korea's leadership, in response happen", but G20 Summit in Hamburg, to a landmark ICBM test independent experts sending a message that described by Kim Jong-Un as a Washington remains commit- said the missile could gift to "Americans". ted to the country's Tuesday's launch— acknowl- reach Alaska or even sovereignty despite Moscow's edged as an intercontinental further towards the takeover of the Crimea ballistic missile by Washington continental US. region. — marked a milestone in The State Department Trump has recently Pyongyang's decades-long drive said yesterday that Tillerson for the capability to threaten the used a series of will visit Kiev on July 9 to US mainland with a nuclear Twitter outbursts to meet President Petro Poro- strike, and poses a stark foreign criticise China, the shenko and reformers from policy challenge for Donald North's sole major government and non-govern- Trump. ally and economic mental groups. The US president had dis- lifeline, over its "The secretary will reaf- missed the idea of the North failure to rein in the firm America's commitment possessing a working ICBM, nuclear-armed state. to Ukraine's sovereignty and vowing it "won't happen", but territorial integrity, while independent experts said the encouraging the government missile could reach Alaska or to pull rank on Pyongyang was of Ukraine to continue imple- US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania walk to board Marine One as they depart even further towards the conti- misplaced. menting reforms that will the White House in Washington, DC, yesterday. nental US. "Trade between China and strengthen Ukraine's eco- Trump has recently used a North Korea grew almost 40% nomic, political, and military series of Twitter outbursts to in the first quarter. So much for on their target, the South's Joint with more than just a statement". and missile programmes. Moon resilience," said State Depart- criticise China, the North's sole China working with us - but we Chiefs of Staff said, "displaying The US and South Korea are in later urged Beijing and Moscow ment spokeswoman Heather major ally and economic lifeline, had to give it a try!" Trump the capability of a precision a security alliance, with 28,500 to back international pressure Nauert. over its failure to rein in the tweeted. Amid international con- strike against the enemy head- US troops stationed in the South on Pyongyang and "raise their Tillerson's trip to Kiev, his nuclear-armed state. demnation of the ICBM test, quarters in times of to protect it. Their language is awareness that the speed of the first as secretary of state, will In the latest sign of growing South Korean and US military emergency". likely to infuriate Pyongyang, North's nuclear and missile follow an expected meeting friction in US-China relations he forces launched short-range bal- The South's new President which says it needs nuclear development is fast". this week between US Presi- lashed out at Beijing Wednes- listic missiles of their own less Moon Jae-In, who backs bring- weapons to defend itself against "I believe China especially dent Donald Trump and day, pointing to a surge in its than 24 hours afterwards from ing Pyongyang to the negotiating the threat of invasion and has holds the key," he said, in com- Russian President Vladimir trade with North Korea as evi- the peninsula into the Sea of table, said the North's "serious been subjected to multiple sets ments reported by the Yonhap Putin at the G20 summit amid dence that US reliance on Beijing Japan. Both weapons homed in provocation required us to react of UN sanctions over its atomic news agency. strained relations between the two superpowers.

Illimani Mountain Appeals grow to pardon Most voters support limited mentally disturbed killer travel ban: Poll Washington beating up a deputy and taking AFP his pistol, which he used to kill New York a guard. He then shot dead Reuters wo top UN rights officials another sheriff's deputy a day added their voices yester- later during the manhunt close ix in ten American vot- Tday to a growing chorus to the campus of Virgina Tech. ers support the new ban of appeals to Virginia's gover- Both slain officers were fathers Son people from six pre- nor to spare the life of a of young children. Morva was dominantly Muslim countries mentally disturbed man found sentenced to death in 2008, from entering the United guilty of killing a police officer even though two psychologists States unless they can show and prison guard. had diagnosed him with a they have a close relative Defenders of 35-year-old severe mental disorder similar here, according to opinion William Morva say his fragile to schizophrenia. poll results released psychological condition should His supporters say that yesterday. preclude his execution, sched- Morva had long suffered from The Politico-Morning uled to take place on Thursday psychological delusions which Consult poll found 37 percent through lethal injection. render him incapable of under- of voters said they “strongly An aerial view of Illimani Mountain near the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, yesterday. "We are deeply concerned standing the consequences of supported” the new guide- about information we have his own actions, and that jurors lines issued by the US State received indicating that Mor- were not given an accurate pic- Department that would deny va's original trial did not meet ture of his mental state during visas to citizens of Iran, Libya, fair trial safeguards, which his trial. Syria, Somalia, Sudan and include reasonable accommo- As a young man, Morva was Yemen who do not have close New York City police officer killed dation in all stages of the known for his conspiracy the- relatives in the United States. process, and may therefore ory diatribes and for walking Another 23 percent of voters have breached international barefoot in winter and sleep- said they “somewhat support” standards," said UN Special ing in a forest with only leaves the guidelines. in ‘unprovoked’ shooting: Police Rapporteurs on summary exe- for cover. He would eat only The poll was conducted cutions, Agnes Callamard, and raw meat, berries and pine online on Thursday and Fri- New York New York Police Department doing the job she loved,” Mayor on right to health, Dainius cones and was convinced he day following a US Supreme Reuters said. The suspect fired through Bill de Blasio said. Puras. had paranormal powers. Over Court ruling that partly the vehicle’s window, hitting The suspect, Alexander "We are concerned at Mor- time, he became increasingly upheld the ban, with 1,989 gunman fatally shot a Familia in the head, police said. Bonds, 34, of the Bronx borough, va's deteriorating psychosocial convinced that others wanted registered voters taking part, female New York City “It is clear that this was an was on parole for robbery in condition. The denial of reason- him dead. sources said. A police officer in an unprovoked attack on police Syracuse, New York, according able accommodation in During his trial he used the The poll result’s margin unprovoked attack early yester- officers who were assigned to to a police source. The mobile detention can be considered a assumed name of Nemo instead of error was two percentage day in the city’s Bronx borough, keep the people of this great city command unit has been located form of discrimination against of what he called his own "slave points, meaning results could then was himself shot dead by safe,” Police Commissioner since March in the area because him because of his mental name," and told the court, "You vary that much either way. police as he ran from the scene, James O’Neill told a news con- of a rash of gang-related shoot- health condition," the UN may kill me, that's guaranteed. The Supreme Court ruled authorities said. ference outside Saint Barnabas ings, O’Neill said. Police officers experts added. Morva, who There are others like me, and on June 26 that the tempo- The officer, Miosotis Familia, Hospital, where Familia was lined the street outside the hos- holds both US and Hungarian some day they're going to get rary travel ban could proceed 48, a 12-year veteran of the later pronounced dead. pital and saluted as an citizenship, had originally been together, and they're going to so long as visa applicants with force, was shot as she sat in a “She was on duty serving ambulance drove her body to jailed for attempted armed rob- sweep over your civilization a “bona fide relationship” mobile command truck with her this city, protecting people, New York’s Office of Chief Med- bery, but in 2006 he escaped and wipe these smiles off your with a person or entity in the partner at about 12:30am, the doing what she believed in, and ical Examiner, police said. from a Virginia prison hospital, faces." United States were exempted. Trump-Pena Nieto meet unlikely to lead to big deals: Mexico

Mexico City Trump as presidents. Mexican Trump and Pena Nieto will Trump’s pledge to build a wall toned down earlier threats to pull Mexico in what became a public Reuters Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray discuss renegotiations of the on the US-Mexico border, Vide- out of the NAFTA pact with Mex- relations disaster for Pena Nieto, warned not to expect too much. North American Free Trade garay said in an earlier television ico and Canada. who was widely condemned for meeting between Mexican “We have to put it in context Agreement (NAFTA) scheduled interview. This month, the US and Mex- inviting a man who has united President Enrique Pena and not have expectations that for August, as well as coopera- In late January, a planned ican governments resolved a Mexican like few others in shared ANieto and US President are unjustified,” Videgaray said tion in combating drug cartels meeting between the presidents long-standing dispute over the disdain. Donald Trump tomorrow at the in a press release. Trump’s elec- and development in Central was canceled following a Twit- sugar trade, while agricultural One of Pena Nieto’s closest G20 summit in Germany will last tion and his early days in office America, the foreign ministry ter dispute over Trump’s pledge ministers from the three NAFTA aides, Videgaray was viewed as about 30 minutes and probably sent US-Mexico relations to a said. Pena Nieto will also talk to make Mexico pay for the wall, countries met and said there instrumental in organizing that not lead to any major agree- new low due to his threats to about the rights of Mexican a campaign promise popular were “relatively few” differences meeting, and he lost his job as ments, Mexico’s foreign minister apply tariffs to Mexican-made migrants in the United States, the among many of his supporters. over farm trade to resolve in finance minister as a result. Pena said yesterday. goods and a plan to build a wall ministry said. Trump has since shied away talks. Last August, during Nieto in January revived Vide- The face-to-face talks will be on the southern US border to One topic not on the agenda from that demand. Trump’s presidential campaign, garay’s career, appointing him the first between Pena Nieto and keep out illegal immigrants. at the meeting in Hamburg is Trump’s administration also he accepted an invitation to visit as foreign minister. THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017 BREAK TIME 15

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NOVO — Pearl SHOWING AT Tisbah Ala Khair (2D/Arabic) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 12:20, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:40, VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 6:00, 8:00, 8:20, 10:00, 11:00pm, 12:00midnight & 01:40am Spider Man: Homecoming (3D/Adventure) 12:00noon, 2:45, 5:30, 7:00, 8:15, 9:40 11:00pm & 12:20am The House (2D/Comedy) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm Despicable Me 3 (2D/Animation) 10:00, 11:00am, 12:00noon, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 & 6:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight (2D/Action) 8:00 & 11:00pm Overdrive (2D/Action) 10:30am, 2:45, 7:00 & 11:15pm Antar Ibn Shaddad (2D/Arabic) 12:30, 4:45 & 9:00pm Pirates of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:40; 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 & 11:20pm Inconceivable (2D/Thriller) 10:30am, 3:00, 7:30pm & 12:00mn How To Be A Latin Lover (2D/Comedy) 12:40, 5:10 & 9:40pm Spider Man: Home Coming (3D IMAX/Action) 10:40am, 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20pm & 12:00mn MALL Despicable Me 3 (2D/Animation) 1:00 & 4:30pm Mom (2D/Comedy) 1:00 & 11:30pm Spiderman: Homecoming (2D/Adventure) 2:30, 7:00, 9:30 & 11:45pm Role Models (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 11:30pm The House (2D/Comedy) 3:30 & 8:00pm How To Be A Latin Lover (2D/Comedy) 5:00pm Inconceivable (2D/Thriller) 5:00 & 9:30pm Tisbah Ala Khair (2D/Arabic) 6:00 & 9:30pm Guest In London (2D/Comedy) 7:00pm LANDMARK Spiderman: Homecoming (2D/Adventure) 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm Role Models (2D/Malayalam) 1:00 & 9:00pm Guest In London (2D/Comedy) 1:00 & 11:30pm How To Be A Latin Lover (2D/Comedy) 3:30pm Despicable Me 3 (2D/Animation) 3:30 & 5:00pm Tisbah Ala Khair (2D/Arabic) 6:30 & 9:45pm The House (2D/Comedy) 5:30 & 8:30pm Inconceivable (2D/Thriller) 7:00pm ROYAL PLAZA

Spiderman: Homecoming (2D/Adventure) 2:00, 4:30, 9:00 & 11:30pm Despicable Me 3 (2D/Animation) 2:00, 3:30 & 5:00pm Mom (2D/Comedy) 2:30 & 11:30pm The House (2D/Comedy) 6:30 & 8:00pm Tisbah Ala Khair (2D/Arabic) 7:00 & 9:30pm Inconceivable (2D/Thriller) 5:00 & 11:30pm Role Models(2D/Malayalam)9:00pm How To Be A Latin Lover (2D/Comedy) 7:00pm ASIAN TOWN Yesterday’s answer DJ (Telugu) 6:30pm Tubelight (2D/Hindi) 7:00 & 10:00pm Lakshyam (Malayalam) 5:30 & 10:30pm ALL IN THE MIND Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan 6:00pm Vanamagan (Tamil) 8:45 & 11:30pm CIA: Comrade In America (Malayalam) 9:30pm Puthan Panam (Malayalam) 8:00pm AL KHOR Despicable Me (Animation) 10:30am, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 & 6:30pm CIA: Comrade In America (Malayalam) 11:15am, 5:15 & 11:15pm ARCHIMEDES, BELL, BENDIX, Tubelight (2D/Hindi) 8:30 & 11:30pm The Mummy 11:15, 4:15 & 915pm BENZ, BUNSEN, BURROUGHS, Pirates of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2D/Action) 1:30, 6:30 & 11:30pm CARTWRIGHT, COLT, Vanamagan (Tamil) 2:15 & 8:15pm CROMPTON, DAIMLER, DE SEVERSKY, DIESEL, DUNLOP, ROXY EDISON, FORD, FRANKLIN, FULTON, JEFFERSON, Despicable Me (Animation) 12:00noon, 2:30, 4:30 & 6:30pm LEONARDO DA VINCI, Tisbah Ala Khair (2D/Arabic) 12:00noon, 2:10 & 4:20pm MARCONI, MORSE, NOBEL, Spiderman: Homecoming (2D/Adventure) 12:00noon 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 & PULLMAN, SINGER, 11:00pm Mom (2D/Comedy) 12:00noon & 2:50pm STEPHENSON, TULL, WATT, How To Be A Latin Lover (2D/Comedy) 8:30 & 11:00pm WESTINGHOUSE. Vekham Vedra (Tamil) 6:30, 9:30 & 12:30 Role Models 5:40, 8:30 & 11:20pm 16 HOME THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017

PRAYER TIMINGS Galfar Cricket Club FAJR 03.20 am SHOROOK 04.49 am wins IBN Ajayan T20 ZUHR 11.39 am MAGHRIB 06.30 pm ASR 03.02 pm ISHA 08.00 pm Ramadan Cup 2017 WEATHER TODAY The Peninsula

o o alfar Al Misnad Cricket Club won the 3rd Ram- 33 C 46 C adan T20 Tournament organised by IBN Ajayan. G Galfar Cricket Club defeated Malabar XI by Minimum Maximum 8 Wickets in the grand finale at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium on Eid day. Galfar Club with tight bowling and fielding, restricted the opponents to a mere total of 46 runs in 12.5 overs. Satish G Pillai, Executive Director of Gal- far Al Misnad, appreciated all the Players for this achievement. Galfar chased this in 9 overs with loss FC Barcelona stars with Aspire Academy officials. of 2 wickets. Some of the Special Performance by Gal- far team members in this Ramadan Tournament are -1. Best batsman of the tournament : Kamran Khan FCB stars visit Aspire Academy 2. Best bowler of the tournament : Tamoor Sajjad Zafar 3. Best wicket keeper/ fielder of the tournament : The Peninsula year and I want to have a long coaches as possible and to keep Rizlan Iqbar career with my club, FC Barce- fighting to their level of football. 4. Only a hat-trick of the tournament by Imraz C Barcelona stars, Gerard lona. To do that, sometimes you Commenting on the develop- Rafi 5. Most economical bowler of the tournament : Pique, Jordi Alba and Ser- have to make sacrifices and ment of sports in Qatar, Alba Imraz Rafi Fgio Busquets, paid a visit leaving the national team will added: “The sports field in Qatar 6. Man of the quarter final : Shehan Achintha to Aspire Academy for a panel give me more time to rest.” is growing steadily. Qatar has a 7. Man of the semi final : Chaudhry Iqbal & Kam- discussion about future sched- Speaking about Aspire- lot of potential and people are ran Khan ule at the Mall of Qatar. It was owned Culturally Deportiva expecting great things from it.” 8. Man of the final : Tamoor Sajjad Zafar jointly organised by the Acad- Leonesa’s promotion to Spain’s Speaking about Aspire emy and Mall of Qatar. Second Division, Pique added: Academy, Spain’s midfielder As part of their visit, the “I think this will be a great expe- Sergio Busquets praised the spa- players received a tour of Aspire rience for the team. It’s also cious facilities and high-level of Academy’s facilities and the lat- good for Aspire Academy coaching. Hazy at places at first becomes very est technologies on offer, because they will be able to send The players were welcomed hot daytime and relatively humid at including a sneak peek of Aspire their players to Spain to help to Aspire by senior officials from places by night. Academy’s new building, which them prepare for the Qatar Aspire Academy, comprising Ali HIGH TIDE 01:30 – 16:15 LOW TIDE 08:30 – 23:00 is still under construction. World Cup 2022.” “Right now, I Salem Afifa, Deputy Director Spain’s star defender Ger- would like to finish my football General of Aspire Academy, Pro- Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department ard Pique praised Aspire career with Barcelona, but in fessor Valter Di Salvo, Director Academy, saying it is equipped football you never know. I can- of Football Performance & Sci- LATEST NEWS with great facilities. When asked not rule anything out ence, Markus Egger, Director of UPDATE about his retirement plans from completely.” Sport and Strategy, Ali Sultan the national team, Pique said: “I Meanwhile, Jordi Alba Fakhroo, Director of Corporate have thought a lot about this advised Aspire Academy’s stu- Services and Jassim Al Jaber, www.thepeninsulaqatar.com decision and am happy I have dent-athletes to soak up as Aspire Academy’s School Galfar Cricket Club team with the trophy. made the right one. I’ll be 31 next much knowledge from their Principal.