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Erdogan opens third bridge over Bosphorus Strait Emir condoles Caution urged with Italy’s President over over online ads quake victims DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday held a telephone conversation to hire maids with Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella and expressed his con- dolences and those of the Qatari people to the president and the the recruitment process is com- friendly Italian people on the pleted and there are others who victims of the devastating earth- Sri Lankan Embassy come here and run away,” he added. quake that hit central Italy. official says According to Rohana, when a The Emir also expressed maid is recruited through a man- Qatar’s support for Italy. advertisements power agency, then the agency Foreign Minister H E Sheikh on social media is responsible for the maid for Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al three months if she does not show Thani held a phone call with his and other online up for duties or runs away as the Italian counterpart Paolo Gen- platforms lack employer signs a mandatory bond tiloni and expressed condolences of QR15,000 with the agency for on the victims of the earthquake, credibility and this time period. reports QNA. employers should “However, if someone finds a Meanwhile, in Amatrice, the maid through online advertise- first funerals for victims were verify details with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, along with Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and ments or any other sources, we held as Italy prepared for a day the mission. advise them to verify about the is wife, Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Ahmet Arslan and other officials cut the of mourning. Flags will fly at person with the embassy,” Rohana ribbon to inaugurate the Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, in Istanbul yesterday. The bridge, the third in half-mast today in respect for added. Turkey, is technically a hybrid between a suspension and cable-stayed bridge, spans the steep banks the victims whose number has It is mandatory for every Sri of the Bosphorus Strait at the entrance to the Black Sea. → See also page 3 reached 281. By Fazeena Saleem Lankan, skilled or unskilled, leav- → See also page 10 The Peninsula ing the country for employment overseas to seek approval from the Sri Lankan Foreign Employ- ment Bureau. DOHA: The Sri Lankan Embassy The bureau runs mandatory Qatar condemns bombing at Turkish checkpoint in Doha has advised employers to short training programmes for be cautious about online advertise- women who want to travel abroad ments for recruitment of maids and to take up domestic jobs. urged them to verify details with The training also makes them Agencies and affirming solidarity with Tur- truck bombing on the police build- The state-run Anadolu news the mission. aware about the laws and cus- key in actions and measures it takes ing. It came two days after the agency said the explosion took place Many advertisements for maids toms of the manpower importing to address criminal acts and main- Turkish army launched an offensive 50 metres from the building, at a posted on social media and other countries. DOHA: Qatar expressed condem- tain security and stability in country. in Syria that the government says is control post. online platforms lack credibility Also, an employment contact nation and denunciation of the The ministry reiterated Qatar’s not only aimed against Islamic State The PKK said it carried out the and some mislead employers, A K U has to be certified by the Sri Lankan bombing which occurred near a rejection of violence and terrorism in (IS) jihadists but also a Syrian Kurd- assault in retaliation for the “con- Rohana, Counsellor at the embassy, mission in the host country as well police checkpoint in the south- all their forms and manifestations, ish militia detested by Ankara. tinued isolation” of the group’s told The Peninsula. as the bureau. eastern Turkish province of Sirnak whatever their motives and causes. The blast tore the facade off the jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan and “There are people who adver- However, Rohana said some yesterday, killing 11 officers and It extended condolences and headquarters of the riot police in the the “lack of information” about his tise about maids on social media, employers submit a different con- wounding 78, including three civil- sympathy to the Turkish govern- town of Cizre, a bastion of PKK sup- welfare. but they are not reliable. We have tract to the Labour Department at ians. ment, people and families of the port north of the Syrian border. Cizre, a majority Kurdish town, received complaints from employ- the Ministry of Labour and Social In a statement, the Foreign Min- victims, wishing the injured a speedy The local governor’s office said 11 has been badly hit by renewed ers who recruited such maids,” he Affairs here. istry said Qatar strongly condemns recovery, reports QNA officers were killed and 78 injured, violence between the PKK and gov- explained. these heinous criminal acts aimed at The outlawed Kurdistan Work- three of them civilians. Four were ernment forces since the collapse of “Some maids don’t turn up after → Continued on page 2 destabilising security and stability ers’ Party (PKK) claimed the suicide said to be in critical condition. a ceasefire last year.

BeIN buys Digiturk Spewing ash Up to 80 motorists caught daily for violations: Official AFP

DOHA: Qatar’s beIN Media Group announced The Peninsula We wanted to avoid that,” he added. yesterday that it had completed the “largest deal “Every year, the campaign in its history” by buying Turkish satellite sports begins in summer. We have cho- and entertainment company, Digiturk. sen the summer months because “This acquisition represents the larg- DOHA: Traffic police patrols have there is no major traffic jam and it is est deal in the history of our group and a caught 50 to 80 motorists everyday easy to stop any violator and register major milestone in our global expansion,” for violations, including the use of the offence like what we did dur- beIN Chairman Nasser Al Khelaifi said in a mobile phones and not wearing ing this campaign. “The drive has statement. the seat belt while driving, during ended because schools are gearing He said the group’s expansion into the a summer campaign which has con- up to reopen for the new academic Turkish market was an “essential step” for cluded after over a month. year next month,” he added. beIN. The General Traffic Directorate During the campaign, police The statement did not say how much beIN at the ministry had focused espe- patrols were deployed across the paid for Digiturk. cially on motorists using mobile country to register violations. Al The Turkish pay TV broadcaster has more phone use and not wearing the Shamal, South, Dukhan and Doha than three million customers and specialises seat belt while driving. Violations patrols, among others, took part. in sport, showing matches from Spain’s La Liga Indonesian motorists stop by a mosque to take pictures of Mount Sinabung’s eruption were registered across the country, The campaign started as and France’s Ligue 1, among others. from Brastagi city, in Karo district, North Sumatra province, yesterday. according to Major Jaber Mohamed planned within the framework of Rashid Odaiba, Assistant Director, the General Traffic Directorate’s Media & Traffic Awareness Depart- aim to reduce accidents and pre- ment at the ministry. vent deaths and injuries. He said in the next five days Major Odaiba advised motorists, or so the department will release especially truck drivers, to use ‘tri- France’s top court suspends burkini ban statistics related to violations reg- angle warning’ to avoid accidents. istered during the road safety and He said the reason behind the traffic awareness campaign to eval- recent accident in Al Kharrara near AFP illegal violation of fundamental freedoms”. Police have fined Muslim women for wearing uate its impact and results. Mesaieed, was lack of awareness The court said local authorities could only burkinis on beaches in several towns, including Most violations were recorded in among road users. The freak acci- introduce measures restricting individual popular tourist resorts of Nice and Cannes, spark- densely populated areas, including dent claimed the lives of two youth freedoms if wearing the Islamic swimsuit on ing controversy in France and abroad. Al Rayyan, Doha and Old Airport, and the truck driver, who had run PARIS: France’s highest administrative court beaches represented a “proven risk” to public Amnesty International said the decision had Major Odaiba said. over them when they were crossing yesterday suspended a controversial ban on the order. “drawn an important line in the sand”. “French “It was practically difficult for the road, he said. burkini by a French Riviera town after it was chal- The judges said there was no such risk in the authorities must now drop the pretence that traffic police patrols to detect vio- He also advised motorists to lenged by rights groups. case concerning Villeneuve-Loubet, a resort on these measures do anything to protect the rights lations and catch the offenders on be cautious while driving, follow In a judgement expected to lead to bans being the Cote d’Azur between Nice and Cannes. of women,” Amnesty’s Europe Director John Dal- expressways or busy highways speed limits and give warning sig- overturned in around 30 towns, the State Coun- The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) huisen said. because any police action would nals to other motorists to reduce cil ruled the measure was a “serious and clearly hailed the ruling as a “victory for common sense”. → See also page 10 disrupt traffic and cause congestion. their speed in case of an accident. 02 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 HOME

FM receives phone call from Call to remian vigilant Netherlands DOHA: Foreign Minister H E amid weather changes Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrah- man Al Thani yesterday received a telephone call from his Nether- lands counterpart Albert Gerard By Raynald C Rivera Instagram accounts. “I urge people to follow us Koenders. The Peninsula for updates and warnings. They can also sub- They discussed relations scribe to free SMS service by sending the word between the two friendly coun- “Weather” to 92125 to receive updates,” he said. tries, ways of strengthening and Information, including temperature, wind developing them, and the latest DOHA: The Qatar Meteorology Department speed, humidity, and sea state, is available on regional and international devel- has urged people to remain vigilant amid sud- the department’s website and updates can opments, reports QNA. den weather changes by being in the loop on also be accessed in five languages by calling the latest updates and warnings. 44480444. People were taken by surprise by an unex- Scattered rains were also reported in some Sri Lankan mission pected sandstorm for a short time across the areas recently such as Al Jumailiah, Al Shee- country on Wednesday afternoon, prompting haniya, Al Ghuwariyah and Al Khor. receiving lesser the Ministry of Interior to issue warning for “It is not unusual to have rains in August. motorists. Rains have been recorded in the country dur- complaints: Official “People must be vigilant at all times. The ing this period in past years. There have been Children playing at Sheraton Doha park as temperatures dropped in the city yesterday. department issues warnings at least 25 minutes some rains in the past few days and their inten- Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula before such phenomena,” Abdullah Mohammed sity varied,” Al Mannai explained. Continued from page 1 Al Mannai, Acting Director of the department at He said there had been a drop of three hazy to misty, and turn hot during daytime with Maximum temperature will be around 45 Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, told The Penin- degrees Celsius in temperature four days ago, some clouds and relatively humid by night. Off- degrees in Abu Samra. Temperatures in Doha “In such cases, if a dispute sula yesterday. but a significant drop can be seen by third week shore it will be hazy to misty with some clouds. will range between 33 and 41 degrees. Wind arises between the employer and The weather bureau posts up-to-date of September,” he said. Visibility will be between 5km and 8km speed will be between five and 15 knots north- the employee, the contract which bulletins on its official Twitter, Facebook and According to a forecast, early today will be and could drop to 3km or less at some places. easterly to southeasterly. is more favourable to the worker is taken into consideration,” he added. Qatar is one of the largest employers of Sri Lankans in the Free Wi-Fi UN Security Council plans S Sudan region. The number of Sri Lankans here is estimated at 146,000 — an increase of about 20,000 from visit to push for regional force 2015. They include professionals, semi-skilled Sri Lankans as well as domestic workers and families. Although the number of AFP protect civilians, including doz- force and threatening to impose an Sri Lankans has increased, the ens of women and girls who were arms embargo if UN Secretary-Gen- embassy receives a lesser number raped near a UN base in Juba after eral Ban Ki-moon reports within a of complaints. a flareup of violence in the capital month that the Juba government is “We receive a low number of NEW YORK/JUBA: The UN Secu- Juba in early July. not cooperating with the plan for the complaints compared to our mis- rity Council is planning a trip to Kiir’s government has expressed regional force. sions in other countries in the South Sudan next week to per- strong reservations about the US Secretary of State John Kerry region,” said Rohana. suade President Salva Kiir to accept proposed deployment that was traveled to Kenya this week and said “But there are many maids a new regional protection force or authorized by the Security Council following meetings with regional and other domestic workers who face an arms embargo, diplomats two weeks ago and has called for foreign ministers that there was run away assuming they could said yesterday. Ambassadors from further discussions. “We want to “absolutely no question that we need find a better job,” said Rohana. the 15-member council are sched- know the mandate of this protection to move forward with the deployment However, according to him, Sri uled to travel from September 2 force,” said South Sudan Vice Presi- of the regional protection force.” Lankan workers who run away to 7 for meetings on the proposed dent Taban Deng Gai during a visit to South Sudan descended into war from their employers on valid 4,000-strong force to be deployed the Sudanese capital Khartoum on in December 2013 when Kiir accused A man using free Wi-Fi service at Sheraton Park Doha, yesterday. grounds and wish to go back home in Juba to strengthen the UN peace- Monday. “We want to sit with them his former deputy Riek Machar of plot- The sign provides guidance to access the service, as part of iPark should immediately report to the keeping mission. in Juba, not in New York.” ting a coup, and a peace deal signed initiative. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula embassy. The mission, known as UNMISS, The council adopted a resolu- last year was left in tatters during the has faced criticism for failing to tion on August 12 authorizing the flare-up in Juba in early July.

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Police HQ bombed in Turkey Yemen rocket Erdogan and Putin hits Saudi agree to step up power station AFP

RIYADH: Rocket fire from Yemen aid for Aleppo struck a power station in southern Saudi Arabia yesterday, emer- gency workers said, a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday, a witnesses said, as an announced a new peace initiative. evacuation to end one of the long- The strike on the transformer Besieged residents est stand-offs in Syria’s five-year in Najran which lies just across the and rebels began war began. Yemen border, marked a rare hit Insurgents and government on Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure leaving the forces agreed a deal on Thursday to despite months of periodic bom- Damascus suburb evacuate the town, which the Syrian bardment of the area. army has surrounded since 2012. Attacks have intensified since of Daraya as an The UN said only one shipment of the suspension in early August of evacuation to end aid has reached the area since then. United Nations-brokered peace one of the longest A Reuters witness saw six buses talks between the Shia Houthi leaving the town. Footage on state rebels and their allies, and Yem- stand-offs in Syria’s television showed buses carefully en’s internationally-recognised five-year war began. driving past a large group of soldiers government. through streets lined with rubble. The civil defence agency in Peeping from the window of Najran said it had responded to a one the vehicles was a small child rocket strike from Yemen on an no older than four or five, too young electrical station, which caused Agencies to remember life before the siege. no injuries, and that the blaze was A Syrian Army general told extinguished. Purported video of reporters in Daraya that around 300 Smoke rises from the destroyed police headquarters in Cizre, southeastern Turkey, after a suicide the incident circulating on social families of fighters would leave the truck bombing claimed the lives of eleven Turkish police officers and injured 78 people, in an attack media showed heavy black smoke ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep town on Friday, and in total around blamed on Kurdish militants. rising behind white storage tanks Tayyip Erdogan and Russian coun- 700 fighters and 4,000 civilians licked by orange flames. terpart Vladimir Putin yesterday would be evacuated by Saturday. agreed to step up efforts to ensure The plight of civilians in Daraya humanitarian aid reaches citizens and other besieged areas has long in Syria’s conflict-torn northern been of concern to the United Aleppo province. Nations, which has condemned In telephone talks “the two lead- the use of starvation as a weapon Turkey unveils third Bosphorus bridge ers... agreed to accelerate efforts by both sides in the conflict. to ensure help reaches people in There have been previous deals Aleppo,” the state-run Anadolu news to allow similar evacuations of Anatolia connecting people,” he told a crowd as well as cut congestion and pollu- and Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko agency said, adding that Erdogan besieged fighters and civilians, or of dignitaries. tion in Istanbul. Borisov were among the guests who briefed Putin on the current Turk- to let people return to their homes The bridge, which cost nearly It forms part of the Northern attended the opening ceremony. ish operation inside Syria. after ceasefires were agreed. $3bn to construct, is the latest in a Marmara Motorway Project, the Erdogan, who along with The phone call was the latest In February, around 4,000 ISTANBUL: A third bridge span- raft of infrastructure “mega-projects” next two phases of which will see Yildirim was among the first to cross sign of improving relations between people returned to their south ning Istanbul’s Bosphorus waterway unveiled by the government. The 1.4km 257 km of roads completed by the the bridge, said it would “pioneer” Moscow and Ankara after a deal in Damascus neighbourhood after opened yesterday with a ceremony bridge will carry eight lanes of traffic end of 2018. Transport Minister further projects, such as a canal June normalising ties in the wake a ceasefire deal, and in Decem- attended by President Recep Tayyip and two rail lines between Europe and Ahmet Arslan said the government linking the Black Sea and the Sea of of the crisis sparked by Ankara’s ber hundreds of fighters and their Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Asia at the entrance of the Bosphorus would continue to strengthen Tur- Marmara and another Europe-Asia shooting down of a Russian war families were evacuated from two Yildirim. to the Black Sea. key’s infrastructure. “Without using bridge at the Dardanelles. plane last year. besieged areas in northern and “We are connecting continents,” Named after Selim I, the 16th any public sources, we will main- The president used the occasion The statement said the two lead- western Syria. Erdogan said. “We are celebrating century sultan known for his tain such mega-projects through to attack Daesh, which killed 54 peo- ers emphasised the need to fight “all In June, authorities agreed to together and we are very proud of it. expansion of the Ottoman empire, the build-operate-transfer finance ple in a suicide bombing at a wedding terror groups” in Syria, including allow UN-supplied food deliver- The nation deserves this. With God’s the bridge accompanies the July 15 model,” he said. in the southern city of Gaziantep on Islamic State (IS) jihadists. ies into Daraya under a cessation permission, this nation will get what Matryrs’ Bridge — previously the An estimated 135,000 vehicles August 20. “Those terrorists cannot The Kremlin confirmed the tel- of hostilities deal, but just one ship- it deserves.This is great day and joy- Bosphorus Bridge — and the Fatih are expected to use the bridge daily, be Muslim. They are manipulating ephone talks. “The leaders held a ment of food aid has reached the ful day.” Sultan Mehmet Bridge in crossing the with those travelling from Europe to children by using them as suicide thorough exchange of views on the town since then. The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge Bosphorus. Asia paying a toll, set at 9.90 Turkish bombers. When asked, they claim situation in Syria. They noted the By this spring, conditions there was described as a new neck- It is the world’s longest suspen- liras (around $3) for cars, from Sep- that they are acting in the name of importance of joint efforts in line were so bad that, amid reports of lace for the city by Yildirim. “It will sion rail bridge and will lead to $1.75 tember 1. H M King Hamad bin Issa Islam. However, they have nothing to with the fight against terrorism,” it the army burning local wheat fields, not only serve to Istanbul but also billion-a-year in savings through Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Macedonian do with Islam. There is absolutely no said in a statement. some people were reduced to eat- serve to every journey in the his- reduced travel times and energy President Gjorge Ivanov, President room for such cruelty in our religion, Meanwhile, besieged resi- ing grass and sending their children toric Silk Road, starting from the costs. All trucks and heavy-duty of the Turkish Republic of Northern because our religion is a religion of dents and rebels began leaving out to beg, the UN’s World Food Pro- Far East, ending in Europe and vehicles will be directed to the bridge Cyprus Mustafa Akinci, Bosnian peace.” The president said he would the Damascus suburb of Daraya gramme said. bringing civilizations together by to ease traffic on the other bridges, Joint President Bakir Izetbegovic visit Gaziantep tomorrow.

Call for reforms Iran’s actions Kuwait detains IS cyber increase risk of miscalculation: US army member: Report

WASHINGTON: Actions by Ira- nian vessels in several encounters Reuters thoughts of the so-called Islamic with US warships in the Gulf this State”. week are cause for concern and The statement said Nayef’s increase risks of miscalculation, arrest had helped capture two sus- the White House said on Friday. DUBAI: Kuwaiti authorities have pects in Iraq and one in Jordan on The intentions of the Iranian detained a state employee sus- Thursday, but provided no further vessels in the incidents is not clear, pected of belonging to the Islamic details. White House spokesman Josh Ear- State-(IS) linked “Cyber Caliphate Kuwait has waged a crackdown nest said in a news briefing, but Army”, and hacking official web- on Islamist militants since a suicide the behaviour is unacceptable sites of foreign countries to spread bomber killed 27 people in an attack and “in a compressed space like militant ideology, local media on a Shia mosque in Kuwait city in the Strait of Hormuz it increases reported yesterday. June 2015. Islamic State claimed the risk associated with possible The Arabic-language Al Watan responsibility for the attack. miscalculations.” and Al Qabas reported that the In a separate report, Al Qabas 26-year-old man identified as Oth- said that around 150 Kuwaiti man Zebn Nayef was arrested after nationals and residents who hold Ethiopian workerworker months of surveillance. no citizenship, known as Bidoon, dies afterin roof roof col- Al Qabas quoted the inte- were in Syria fighting within armed rior ministry’s public information groups trying to topple President Iraqis wave the national flag during a demonstration calling for governmental reform and the elimination collapseslapse in Makkah department as saying in a state- Bashar Al Assad, and that up to 11 of corruption, in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, yesterday. ment that Nayef confessed to being have died in the fighting. “a main member of the so-called The newspaper quoted RIYADH: An Ethiopian worker Caliphate Cyber Army”, believed unnamed sources as saying that was killed and 18 Egyptians were to be the electronic arm of Islamic some of those fighters have been injured when the roof of a build- State. trying to find ways to return home ing under construction collapsed The English-language Arab as they face “extortion” and robbery Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian in Saudi Arabia, a newspaper Times, which carried a similar from fellow militants. reported yesterday.yesterday. They were report, did not identify the depart- The Kuwaiti government, an ally trappedThey whenwere trappedthe metal when roof the in ment where he had worked, but said of the United States, has stepped up Makkahmetal roof collapsed in Mecca on Thursday,collapsed he was caught using his office com- its monitoring of individuals and Reuters found on his body. “(Israeli) forces the collapse of peace talks in 2014 Okazon Thursday, said on its Okaz website, said citing on theits puter to “hack official social media charities suspected of collecting identified a suspect running towards and Israeli settlement expansion in Civilwebsite, Defence citing department. the Civil Defence sites of some ‘friendly and sister’ donations for militants linked to al an IDF (Israel Defence Forces) post in Israeli-occupied territory that Pal- department.It did not say what caused the countries to spread the extremist Qaeda in Syria and in Iraq. Silwad,” the military spokeswoman estinians seek for an independent collapse,It did notwhich say iswhat under caused investi- the JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers said. “Upon the suspect’s advance, state. Most countries view the settle- gation.collapse, The which men is had under been investi- doing yesterday shot and killed an appar- the forces shot the suspect, resulting ments as illegal. Israel disputes this. metalworkgation. The menat the had time, been doingOkaz Egypt military court jails 17 civilians ently unarmed Palestinian who ran in his death. The incident is currently Israel says incitement in the reported.metalwork Fifteen at the of the time, Egyptians Okaz towards their position in a Pales- being reviewed.” Palestinian media and personal neededreported. hospital treatment. A day tinian village in the occupied West Asked whether the Palestinian problems at home have been impor- earlier,Fifteen two Pakistanisof the Egyptians died in a CAIRO: An Egyptian military court jailed 17 civilians for allegedly com- Bank, and the incident was under had been armed, she said that “the tant factors that have spurred separateneeded hospital construction treatment. accident in mitting violence, according to a local human rights activist. review, a military spokeswoman details are still being checked.” assailants, often teenagers, to carry Mecca,A day the earlier, newspaper two Pakistanis said. The court slapped ten defendants with a life sentence each in absentia said. At least 209 Palestinians have out attacks. diedIn in April a separate last year, construction at least 10 for attacking a police station in southern Egypt, Ezzat Ghoneim, the direc- A Palestinian official said been killed, 141 of whom Israel said On Wednesday, an Israeli soldier constructionaccident in Mecca, workers the from newspa- Paki- tor of the Cairo-based Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms the 38-year-old man suffered were assailants. Others died during fatally shot a Palestinian motorist stanper said. and one from India died in (ECRF), told Anadolu Agency. Seven people were also jailed for 15 years on from mental illness, and several clashes and protests. who the army said had stabbed him the collapse of a convention centre the same charges, he said. The verdict is still subject to appeal. Egypt has unsourced Israeli news websites Palestinian leaders say assailants and thrown rocks from his car at a beingMillions built at of a universityexpatriates in work Qas- been roiled by turmoil since the military deposed Mohamed Mursi, the reported that no weapons were have acted out of desperation over military vehicle in the West Bank. simas labourers northwest and of Riyadh.in other jobs in country’s first freely elected president, in a 2013 coup. 04 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 ASIA / AFRICA Violence erupts after anti-Mugabe protest

Joice Mujuru fled the rally in their teargas and a water cannon when cars while protesters ran for cover parts of the crowd refused to comply. More than a hundred as police firing tear gas and water Police spokeswoman Charity police officers backed cannons broke-up the core of the Charamba said she was still to get demonstration. details on yesterday’s protest. up by water cannons Clashes then spread through “Demonstrating is the only solu- and armoured trucks, the streets of Harare as riot police tion left to force the dictator out of fought running battles with protest- office,” said Tapfuma Make, an occupied the venue ers who hurled rocks at officers, set unemployed 24-year-old from Chi- that protesters tyres ablaze and burned a popular tungwiza town, south of the capital market to the ground, in some of the Harare. planned to use for worst unrest since food riots in 1998. Zimbabwe’s High Court earlier their rally. “Mugabe’s rule must end now, ruled that police should allow the that old man has failed us,” said one protest to proceed between 12pm- protester before throwing a rock 4pm in what Tsvangirai’s Movement at a taxi. Mugabe’s opponents have for Democratic Change (MDC) called Reuters become emboldened by rising public a “victory for democracy”. MDC sec- anger and protests over an economic retary general and lawyer Douglas meltdown, cash shortages and high Mwonzora said the police had disre- People loot clothing from street vendors and run past a burning barricade as Zimbabwe's opposition unemployment. garded the court order and accused supporters clash with riot police during a protest for electoral reforms in Harare, yesterday. HARARE: Zimbabwean police yes- More than a hundred police offic- ZANU-PF youths of infiltrating the terday fired tear gas at opposition ers in riot gear, backed up by water crowd to disrupt the protest. in 2018 to be supervised by interna- large scale ‘stay at home’ strike in Zim- justify international intervention in leaders and hundreds of demon- cannons and armoured trucks, Opposition parties leading the tional observers, including the United babwe since 2007, inspired by social Zimbabwe’s affairs. strators as a protest against President occupied the venue that opposi- protests say the electoral commis- Nations. They are also calling for media movements such as #ThisFlag Police used teargas and a water Robert Mugabe descended into one tion parties planned to use for their sion is biased in favour of the ruling Mugabe to fire corrupt ministers, led by pastor Evan Mawarire. cannon on Wednesday to break-up of the worst outbreaks of violence in demonstration. ZANU-PF and is run by security scrap plans to introduce local bank Home Affairs Minister Ignatius a march by MDC youth supporters two decades. As opposition supporters arrived agencies loyal to Mugabe, charges notes and end cash shortages. Chombo on Thursday called oppo- who were protesting over economic Opposition head Morgan Tsvan- for the march, they were told by the the commission denies. The latest demonstrations come sition leaders “foreign agents” using mismanagement and what they say is girai and former vice president police to leave. The officers then fired The protesters want the next vote nearly two months after the biggest protests to cause chaos in order to brutality by security agencies.

Court rejects Indonesia seizes hundreds of frozen pangolins appeal over

AFP and stored in five large freezers, The suspect, who was arrested Pistorius sentence East Java province police spokes- during the police raid on August man Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono 15, insisted he had not sold any of SURABAYA: Indonesian authorities said recently. the pangolins and refused to tell AFP have seized more than 650 critically The house owner, a 55-year-old Indonesian authorities where they endangered pangolins found hidden man whose identity was not dis- were to be sent, the spokesman said in freezers and arrested a man for closed, was arrested and has been recently. JOHANNESBURG: A South Afri- allegedly breaking wildlife protec- named a suspect, a step in the Indo- Pangolins are sought after in can judge yesterday rejected the tion laws, police said yesterday. nesian legal system meaning that China and other parts of Asia for state’s appeal seeking a longer jail Police discovered the pangolins, authorities believe they have enough their meat, skin and scales. sentence for Paralympian Oscar known as “scaly anteaters”, when evidence to consider filing charges. The meat is considered a deli- Pistorius, who is serving a six-year they raided a house in Jombang dis- He could face five years in prison cacy, while the skin and scales are term for killing his girlfriend three trict on the main island of Java after and a fine of $7,500 for breaking used in traditional medicine and to years ago. local residents became suspicious wildlife protection laws. make fashion items such as make Thokozile Masipa -- the same about the large number of freezers “The suspect insisted the Pan- boots and shoes. judge who imposed the sentence in the property. golins were not his, a friend asked Protection group the Interna- last month -- said in the High Court A total of 657 pangolins, which him to store the animals because he tional Union for Conservation of in Johannesburg that she was not are consumed as a luxury dish in has freezers,” Yuwono said, adding Nature classifies the pangolin spe- persuaded there was a “reasona- Some of the 657 dead and frozen pangolins displayed by Indonesian China and used in traditional med- the friend named by the suspect was cies found inIndonesia as critically ble prospect of success on appeal”. police in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. icine, were found wrapped in plastic also being sought. endangered. “The application for leave to appeal against the sentence is dis- missed with costs,” she said. Masipa presided over Pis- torius’s lengthy trial, and South Congo to free activists African law empowers the trial Singapore haze hits hazardous levels judge to grant or reject applications to appeal their own judgements. After Masipa’s decision, the Reuters to ease negotiations prosecution is now left with the option of directly petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal to ask it SINGAPORE: Air pollution in Singa- Reuters week as insufficient and boycotted to toughen the sentence. pore rose yesterday as acrid smoke the talks. The prosecution had been drifted over the island from fires on Only four of the 24 prisoners pushing for a longer sentence Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the city- KINSHASA: Democratic Republic named last week turned out to still against the fallen 29-year-old state’s National Environment Agency of Congo will free five pro-democ- be in jail, and several prominent sprint star over the 2013 murder (NEA) said. racy activists in the next few days, political figures were not on the of Reeva Steenkamp. Every dry season, smoke from the justice minister said yesterday, list of names. Thambwe said yes- “The sentence of six years is fires set to clear land for palm oil and to try to appease the opposition and terday that he expected those four shockingly lenient and disturb- pulp and paper plantations in Indo- ease negotiations over an election to be released at the weekend. ingly inappropriate,” prosecutor nesia clouds the skies over much of timetable after a delayed presiden- Talks between the govern- Gerrie Nel argued in court. the region, raising concern about tial vote. ment, its political opponents and Pistorius shot Steenkamp in public health and worrying tourist Opponents accuse Presi- civil society representatives started the early hours of Valentine’s Day operators and airlines. dent Joseph Kabila of deliberately this week after authorities said last in 2013, saying he mistook her for The 24-hour Pollution Standards Passengers boarding a boat while the building (background) blanketed delaying the vote in order to cling to weekend that a vote set for Novem- a burglar when he fired four times Index (PSI), which the NEA uses as a with haze in Singapore, yesterday. power beyond the end of his man- ber could not be held before July as through the door of his bedroom benchmark, more than doubled in date in December, a charge his they enroll millions of new voters. toilet. the past 24 hours to 65-88 across over many areas” in Singapore. It Pollution levels in neighbour- supporters deny. Authorities have arrested dozens At his sentencing in July, Singapore. Levels above 100 would expected the PSI level to remain ing Malaysia were normal yesterday. Opposition leaders could not of people in the last year, who the Masipa listed mitigating factors be considered “unhealthy”. The more below 100 over the next 12 hours. Singapore pushes Indonesia be reached for comment but yes- opposition deem political prison- for ordering Pistorius to serve less volatile three-hour PSI was 198. When heavy, the choking smog for information on companies sus- terday’s news looked unlikely to ers, and about 40 people were killed than half the minimum 15-year The NEA said it planned a “daily closes airports and schools and pected of causing pollution, some of appease the main opposition alli- in January 2015 in protests over a term for murder, including the haze advisory” as “a burning smell prompts warnings to residents to which are listed on Singapore’s stock ance, which dismissed a similar possible election delay, drawing athlete’s claim he believed he was and slight haze were experienced stay indoors. exchange. promise to release prisoners last criticism from the UN. shooting an intruder. Delta Avengers spawn copycats in Nigeria’s oil heartland

AFP Boro Avengers, Joint Niger Delta three months, the NDA have claimed to negotiate with the Nigerian bigger share of crude revenues. Movement for the Emancipation of Liberation Force, Niger Delta Rev- responsibility for six attacks, but we government. “The issues of resource ownership the Niger Delta crippled output. olutionary Crusaders and the Niger have recorded 16 militant-related “The charade called ceasefire is and management which have been In return for laying down their WARRI: When the Niger Delta Aveng- Delta Greenland Justice Mandate. attacks in Delta and Bayelsa states,” in the bid to collect more money from agitating the people over the years arms, militants were handed monthly ers (NDA) rebel group announced this Nigerian security forces operat- said a senior state security officer in both the federal government and oil have not been addressed,” said Eric stipends and given training as divers, week it had called a ceasefire and ing in the region say the NDA have Warri. That is bad news for Nigeria. companies to be shared between the Omare, spokesman for the Ijaw Youth welders and farmers. was entering talks with the govern- been responsible for just over half of The country’s petroleum minister founders and the boys of the Aveng- Council, a community organisation Yet when President Muhammadu ment, many hoped peace would be the major attacks on oil pipelines and has said that the country’s oil output ers,” said Greenland Justice Mandate in the heart of the oil-rich riverlands. Buhari indicated that he would wind restored to the country’s oil belt. facilities in recent months. has dropped 23% from last year to 1.5 spokesman Aldo Agbalaja on Monday. “Until these issues are addressed down the costly programme in an If only it were so easy. “More than 50% of these attacks million barrels per day, according to “The Niger Delta Greenland Jus- and the people benefit from the oil effort to trim government spending The NDA dominate the headlines, have been traced to the so-called Bloomberg News. tice Mandate is still carrying on with revenue, peace would continue to the region erupted again in violence. but behind the scenes, a groundswell Niger Delta Avengers, but we have “Our average for the year will this campaign against Nigeria’s oil elude the Delta region and no amount “If the government fails to put of other groups have been claiming also discovered that other groups obviously be dismal,” Emmanuel and gas interest until the federal gov- of security presence can solve the concrete plans in place for major damaging attacks on Nigeria’s oil have emerged in the last three Kachikwu said earlier this month. ernment does right by our people.” problem.” infrastructural development in the infrastructure and are refusing to months and some of these attacks “We have a lot more groups now Each group has a different varia- An amnesty programme intro- region the negotiation will likely come to the negotiating table. can be traced to these new groups,” we need to bring together to have tion on the NDA platform varying by duced by former President Umaru break down,” said Chijioke Nwao- They include the Reformed a military officer said. peace.” ethnicity and region, but all demand Yar’Adua in 2009 brought peace to zuzu, petroleum economist at the Egbesu Boys of the Niger Delta, Adaka “From our records in the last Most of those groups are refusing greater ownership of oil blocs and a the Niger Delta after attacks by the University of Port Harcourt. ASIA / PHILIPPINES SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 05 Philippines and leftist rebels ink truce deal

that could have been called off if the Both sides hailed the guerrillas failed to match it. “There is a clear plan to accel- ceasefire deal and erate the peace negotiations,” Jose measures to step Maria Sison, the exiled founder of the Communist Party who lives in up negotiations as a the Netherlands said. breakthrough after 30 He called the Philippines “semi- colonial” and “semi-feudal”. The years of fitful peace rebels want sweeping reforms to talks. redistribute land to poor farmers and to nationalise industries. The government and the National Democratic Front (NDF), the political Reuters wing of the Communist Party, agreed to meet again in Oslo from October 8. “There is still a lot of work to be OSLO: The Philippines government done ahead. Let us all stay the course and Maoist-led rebels agreed indef- together, no matter what,” said Jesus inite ceasefires as part of an accord Representative of the Philippine government Jesus Dureza, Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende (centre) and representative of National Dureza, Philippines presidential to accelerate efforts to end a conflict Democratic Front (NDF) Luis Jalandoni (second right) after signing an indefinite ceasefire agreement, in Oslo, yesterday. RIGHT: Representatives peace adviser. that has lasted almost five decades of both sides shake hands after signing a joint declaration. Both sides urged President Rod- and killed at least 40,000 people. rigo Duterte, who helped unblock the The government expressed hopes negotiations by releasing 16 detain- that a peace agreement could be Both sides, at a signing cere- Norwegian Foreign Minister dating back more than 50 years. the Philippines. Under the Philip- ees before the talks, to proclaim an reached within a year after the Oslo mony in a hotel on the outskirts of Boerge Brende, hosting the cere- “I hope this has been an inspi- pines accord, the rebels indefinitely amnesty for all insurgents. talks, the first formal meeting for five Oslo, hailed the ceasefire deal and mony, urged both sides to mirror an ration,” he said after the five-day extended a week-long ceasefire that Rebels said that such an amnesty, years. The guerrillas, who reiterated measures to step up negotiations as agreement between Colombia’s gov- meeting in Oslo. Norway has had been due to expire after the Oslo which would also need approval by demands for “revolutionary change”, a breakthrough after 30 years of fit- ernment and Marxist FARC rebels to been a long-standing facilitator talks. The government reaffirmed an Congress, could cover about 530 stopped short of setting a deadline. ful peace talks. end Latin America’s longest conflict, for peace deals in Colombia and open-ended ceasefire since August 21 jailed guerrillas. Dissidents ‘plotting to Drug addicts urged to eliminate traffickers topple’ Maldives leader AFP killed and so many bodies would be dumped in Manila Bay that fish AFP comment from the Maldivian gov- would grow fat from feeding on ernment, but the administration has MANILA: The Philippines’ police them. consistently maintained there is a chief has called on drug users Days after his election win, COLOMBO: The Maldives’ dissident plot to oust the president. to kill traffickers and burn their Duterte also offered security offi- former president met opposition In June, Yameen’s former dep- homes, escalating President Rod- cials bounties for the bodies of drug groups in neighbouring Sri Lanka uty Ahmed Adeeb was jailed for rigo Duterte’s deeply controversial dealers. yesterday to hatch a plan to top- 15 years on a charge of plotting to crime war that has claimed 2,000 And when he took office on June ple strongman president Abdulla assassinate the president -- part of a lives. 30, Duterte told a crowd in Manila: Yameen, opposition sources said. sweeping crackdown on opponents, “Why don’t you give them a visit, “If you know of any addicts, go ahead Ex-president Mohamed Nash- most of whom are in jail or exile. pour petrol on their homes and set and kill them yourself as getting their eed, who recently won asylum The international community these on fire to register your anger,” parents to do it would be too painful.” in Britain after being jailed by has mounted fierce criticism against Ronald dela Rosa said in a speech The UN special rapporteur on Yameen’s government, was among what they say is Yameen’s unlaw- yesterday. summary executions, Agnes Cal- several exiled opposition groups ful jailing of Nasheed and other “They’re all enjoying your money, lamard, said such directives “amount meeting in Colombo, two people in opponents. money that destroyed your brain. You to incitement to violence and kill- Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Nasheed, the country’s first know who the drug lords are. Would ing, a crime under international law”. Party said. democratically elected leader who you like to kill them? Go ahead. Kill- However Dela Rosa and Duterte “The opposition leaders are came to power in 2008, was forced ing them is allowed because you are have insisted they are working meeting in Colombo to work out to step down in February 2012 fol- the victim.” within the law and their aides have strategies to legally topple Yameen,” lowing a mutiny by police and the Dela Rosa was speaking on dismissed some of their comments as one MDP member said. military. Thursday to several hundred drug merely “hyperbole” meant to scare Philippine National Police director general Roland Dela Rosa, gesturing The MDP is part of a new coa- In March 2015 he was jailed for users who had surrendered in the drug traffickers. while speaking during the Senate inquiry into the alleged spate of lition opposed to Yameen, called 13 years on a charge of terrorism central Philippines. After a barrage of bad headlines, extra judicial killings in the war against crime. the Maldives United Opposition for having a judge arrested when Dela Rosa’s comments fol- Dela Rosa yesterday apologised for (MUO), formed in London in June he was president three years earlier. lowed Duterte’s own controversial his remarks the previous day and where Nasheed sought asylum while US Secretary of State John directives that have sparked criti- described them as due to an “emo- human being who gets mad,” he this week that the confirmed number on leave from prison for medical Kerry warned in May last year cism from the UN and human rights tional outburst”. added. of people to have died in the drug treatment. that democracy in the Maldives groups. “Yesterday, I said that because When asked earlier yesterday if war was 1,946. Police had shot dead The Male-based news outlet was under threat, saying Nasheed Duterte, 71, won May elections I felt so bad. I was in front of those Duterte supported Dela Rosa’s call to 756 suspects in self-defence. Maldives Independent said Nasheed had been “imprisoned without due in a landslide on a vow to kill tens poor people, pushers and users, they murder and commit arson, presiden- He said there were another 1,190 and two other seniors of the MUO process”. of thousands of suspected criminals looked like zombies. I was so mad, tial spokesman Ernesto Abella denied killings under investigation, but they arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. The simmering political unrest in an unprecedented blitz that would that’s why I said that,” he said. that was the police chief’s intent. were likely due to drug gangs mur- “The website report is accurate,” in the nation of 1,192 tiny coral eliminate illegal drugs in six months. “I’m sorry if I said something “There is no such call. It’s a pas- dering people who could implicate a person close to the MDP said. islands has dented its image as a He promised on the campaign unpleasant. Many people are react- sionate statement,” Abella said. each other. He also emphasised the There was no immediate paradise for upmarket tourists. trial that 100,000 people would be ing. I am very sorry. I am just a Dela Rosa told a Senate inquiry crime war had so far been a success. Philippine troops shoot dead 11 militants in Jolo

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MANILA: Philippine comman- dos killed 11 Islamist militants on a remote southern island yesterday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his aim to “destroy” one of Asia’s most notorious kidnap gangs. Major Filemon Tan said doz- ens of Abu Sayyaf rebels, a small but brutal group affiliated with Soldiers and rescuers stand next to the crashed military aircraft on a rice field in the outskirts Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, were also wounded in the of Tuy Hoa city in the central province of Phu Yen, yesterday. 45-minute gun battle in the jun- gle of Jolo island. Seventeen commandos were Pilot dies in Vietnam army jet crash wounded, Tan said, adding the soldiers clashed with about 100 Abu Sayyaf militants holding AFP college near the crash site in two pilots crashed during a about 20 hostages, including eight coastal Phu Yen province, chief training mission off the coast Indonesians, five Malaysians, a administrator of the provin- of northern Nghe An prov- Norwegian and a Dutch national. HANOI: A Vietnamese trainee cial people’s committee said ince, with only one of the pilots “The mission is clear. Seek and pilot was killed when his fighter recently. rescued. destroy the Abu Sayyaf,” Tan said. jet crashed into a rice field, an “During its training session, Days later, a military search “By all means, that’s what we official said yesterday, the third the fighter jet crashed into the plane deployed to find the miss- are doing and we will not stop deadly military plane accident rice field, killing the trainee ing pilot lost contact and was until it’s done,” he added. since June. pilot on board,” Ho Thi Nguyen later found crashed with all nine The Abu Sayyaf has dogged The pilot was the only one Thao said. people on board dead. successive Philippine govern- on board when the plane went Though Vietnam’s civil- One of the worst accidents ments, entrenching its network down in south-central Vietnam, ian aviation sector has a strong in recent years was in July 2014, with vast sums of ransom money the Ministry of Defence said on safety record, there have been when 19 people were killed after in what has become one of the state-run television. several recent accidents involv- a Russian-made Mi-171 chopper Asia’s most lucrative kidnap The L39 fighter jet belonged ing military aircraft. crashed in the capital Hanoi rackets. to the air force pilot training In June, a jet fighter carrying during a training exercise. 06 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 PAKISTAN US aid shrinks amid frustration over militants

ing US military and business relations “We’re seeing a very defini- ties between Washington and Islam- Russia and an increasingly assertive authorise hundreds of millions of with India, is sharply diminishing tive and very sharp reorienting of abad, the US officials said. China. dollars in aid to Pakistan for the next The US relationship Islamabad’s strategic importance as US policy in South Asia away from Obama announced last month he In March, Republican Senator fiscal year. The Pentagon is due to with Pakistan an ally to Washington, US military, Afghanistan-Pakistan and more would keep US troop levels in Afghan- Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate authorize $350m in military aid for has long been a diplomatic, and intelligence officials towards India,” said Michael Kugel- istan at 8,400 through the end of his Foreign Relations Committee, said the next fiscal year, and is unlikely to and outside experts said. man, a South Asia expert with the administration, shelving plans to cut he would seek to bar $430m in US approve it under the Obama admin- transactional one The US has cut both military and Woodrow Wilson Center. the force in half by year end. funding for Islamabad’s purchase of istration, a US defence official said. marked by mutual economic aid to Pakistan sharply in The US relationship with Paki- American civilian and military $700m of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 “Congress is no longer willing to recent years, reflecting mounting stan has long been a transactional one aid to Pakistan, once the third-larg- fighter jets. fund a state that supports the Afghan mistrust. frustration among a growing number marked by mutual mistrust, marriages est recipient of US foreign assistance, Earlier this month, Secretary Taliban, which is killing American of officials with the nuclear-armed of convenience, and mood swings. The is expected to total less than $1bn in of Defence Ash Carter refused to soldiers,” said Bruce Riedel, a Brook- country’s support for the Taliban in long-standing US frustration with 2016, down from a recent peak of authorize $300m in military reim- ings Institution expert and former CIA neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan’s refusal to stop supporting more than $3.5bn in 2011, according bursements to Pakistan, citing the officer who headed Obama’s first Reuters That frustration has dogged US- the Taliban, especially within the US to US government data. The US has not limited gains the country has made Afghanistan policy review. Pakistan ties for more than a decade, military and intelligence community, appropriated less than $1bn to Paki- fighting the militant Haqqani network, In a stark illustration of the lim- but has spiked anew as the militant is now overriding President Barack stan since at least 2007. which is based in the country’s tribal its of US-Pakistan cooperation, the US Islamic group has advanced in parts Obama’s administration’s desire to The decrease also comes amid areas bordering Afghanistan. The killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s continued of Afghanistan that US and allied avoid renewed military involvement budget constraints and shifting global approval of such funding has been Mansour in a drone strike in Paki- support for resurgent militant groups forces once helped to secure, US offi- in Afghanistan, as well as concerns priorities for the US, including fight- mostly routine in the past. stan’s remote Balochistan region in hostile to the US, coupled with warm- cials and analysts say. that China could capitalise on fraying ing Islamic State militants, a resurgent The US Congress has yet to May, without informing Pakistan.

Afghan life Guitarist uses music as

healing force in Kabul Karachi to install

Reuters Angeles, said he was moved to act 10,000 security after hearing about two sisters Parwana and Khorshid, who were cameras KABUL: Strumming their guitars killed in a suicide attack four years and clapping together, American ago while selling items on a street KARACHI: Chief Minis- musician Lanny Cordola and his in Kabul. ter of Pakistan’s Sindh Afghan pupils sing a Bob Marley He raised money and moved province Murad Ali Shah tune as they sit on a hill in Kabul. their family into a new home in has approved a Rs10bn The song is one of several the Kabul. project to install 10,000 guitarist has taught the children to One of his best students is surveillance cameras in play at The Miraculous Love Kids 12-year-old Mursal, Parwana and the city within the next music school he founded where he Khorshid’s sister. three years in order to hopes to help some 50 students. “Playing guitar really makes me keep an eye on Karachi. He wants to help them find a happy and it takes me to my dream He announced this safe place to express themselves world but it cannot ease the pain of at a gathering yester- and escape the hardships of daily losing my sisters,” Mursal said. day. He added that life in Kabul. “My ambition is to become a apart from this, cameras “My hope is that ... everybody good guitarist and a guitar teacher already installed in the in Afghanistan will pick up a guitar in the future.” city will also be made and sing and make music,” Cordola “I wish for peace and stabil- functional. said. “Music is a healing force. It’s ity and I also urge the people to Shah said that keep- a peace making force. It’s a way to encourage girls to learn guitar so ing in mind the history of communicate things without even they can become a better future for criminal activities in the An Afghan boy carries firewood over his shoulders on the outskirts of Herat. having to know languages.” Afghanistan,” said 14-year-old Shiba city, the police have iden- Cordola, originally from Los Rahmani, another student. tified over 2,000 spots where the 10,000 cam- eras should be installed. Punjab tops list of College mourns death of principal Pakistani probe ‘stop and search’ agency goes Internews Established in 1971, its first prin- A week ago, Director General hi-tech for arrests cipal was Barrister Yahya Bakhtiar, Faculty Training and Development operations in country who had also served as counsel for Centre University of Balochistan Gul ISLAMABAD: The Fed- ISLAMABAD: It is an hour of dark- former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Muhammad Kakar assumed charge eral Investigation Agency ness for the University Law College, Bhutto. as principal. “My job is extremely upon the interior minis- where thousands of students from Today, the school mourns some challenging after the killings.” try’s directives has started Internews of powers that the paramilitary Quetta and other parts of Balo- of its most notable alumni, namely He promptly wrote letters to the using the latest tech- force enjoys in Sindh. chistan have obtained LLB and LLM former president of Balochistan Bar concerned authorities, requesting nology to make arrests. Punjab again leads the table degrees. Association Baz Muhammad Kakar beefed-up security in and around Through these methods ISLAMABAD: In stark contrast when it comes to misuse of loud- The college was still reeling from Advocate, former Supreme Court Bar the college. the premier investiga- to the claims made by the ruling speakers, arrests that were made the chilling murder of principal Bar- Association vice president Syed Qahir The college’s faculty members tion agency has arrested PML-N about the improved law under hate speech and possessing rister Amanullah Achakzai in June Shah and son of former federal min- are just as shaken as the students. proclaimed offenders, and order situation in Punjab, the objectionable material and premises when the unthinkable happened on ister Dr Abdul Malik Kasi Dawood. Assistant Professor Shamsul- blacklisted persons and frequency of security-related oper- sealed and material/equipment con- August 8; dozens of alumni members An aspiring lawyer, Sundas Ilyas’ lah Khan is unable to fathom that other offenders. ations conducted against terrorists fiscated on this count. were killed when a suicide bomber voice cracks as she remembers the so many of his students whom he The agency’s Lahore and anti-state elements under the Punjab, Sindh and AJK are still struck the city’s Civil Hospital and college’s deceased principals, Bar- mentored were killed in the attack. chapter has arrested 25 National Action Plan (NAP) in the short of the required strength of killed over 70 people. rister Achakzai and Barrister Adnan “It is an irreparable loss,” he says blacklisted persons in two province is far greater than any the counter terrorism force (CTF). Gathered on the university’s Kasi. She describes them as “two with a huge sigh. months with the help of other part of the country. The sanctioned strength of CTF in leafy campus, students talk about dedicated and competent mentors”. It is natural to resort to cynicism the Integrated Border These operations include Sindh was 1,000 while it got 188 concerns for their future, the despair “Some students have migrated when hope is hard to find. But faculty Management (IBM) sys- combing, stop and search, intelli- personnel. evident on their young faces. and some are preparing to do so,” member and brother of slain law- tem. Yesterday, the agency gence-based operations (IBOs) and Punjab has 1,182 against the “After what happened, it is very says one student. yer Abdul Ghani Mashwani Advocate arrested Ghulam Mustafa others. sanctioned strength of 1,500 per- difficult for us to focus on our stud- Yet despite the looming threats Fazal ur Rehman Mashwani says from the Lahore airport According to the data com- sonnel while AJK has 260 against ies,” says Yasin Shah, an LLB student. and chronically low attendance, with burning conviction that they after he was recognised by piled by the National Counter the sanctioned strength of 500 CTF “We worry about our security. A security both in and around the will not give up, separately urging IBM as blacklisted person Terrorism Authority (Nacta), of the personnel. whole generation of lawyers has college is weak. Only two private the government to ensure a secure by the agency. total 122,772 combing operations Defence analyst Brigadier (retd) been eliminated.” security guards guard the college. environment for students. launched throughout the country, Mahmood Shah, when contacted to 56,834 were conducted in Punjab comment on these statistics, said alone. the federal government seems to Likewise, Punjab also emerged be compromising on these issues on top when it comes to ‘stop and due to political reasons. Repairing cables Tehmina Janjua likely to search’ operations, with a massive He said currently the govern- figure of 1,875,182 out of 2,012,765. ment has adopted ‘Dang Tapao’ Punjab also tops in IBOs with a high policy instead of taking required become foreign secretary figure of 2,042 out of the total of action in any province where it is 4,230 of the total IBO operations. required, adding that Punjab CM Internews The majority of actionable calls Shahbaz Sharif was on record as on Nacta helpline 1717 generated having requested the Taliban to from Punjab, i.e., 1,696 of the total spare Punjab from their activities. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s permanent representative (PR) for the UN’s Geneva calls of 2,250. Punjab is also ahead Shah said this is not an issue of Mission Ambassador Tehmina Janjua will be next foreign secretary of the of other provinces in the number of survival of a single province but that country to replace Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry. She will be 29th foreign secre- executions it carried out under NAP, of the entire country, adding that the tary of the country and first woman foreign secretary of Pakistan. with 380 cases out of 411 executions armed forces need to be backed at Highly placed sources said other day that Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry will that were conducted throughout the the moment. become Pakistan’s ambassador for the United States. country. He said the armed forces under The incumbent ambassador in Washington Syed Jalil Abbas Jailani, who Fata tops the list regarding the Operation Zarb-e-Azb are winning had earlier served as foreign secretary would be completing his tenure in number of terrorists killed in ‘action the war against terrorism, but there January next as he is on extension after completing his earlier contrac- against armed militias, TTP and seems to be lack of wholeheart- tual period. affiliates’ with a figure of 951. edness on the part of the federal Tehmina Janjua, who had earlier served as Pakistan’s ambassador The figure of 135 terrorists government in this exercise. to Italy and served at various important foreign slots had also worked as killed in Punjab is alarming given According to him, there are spokesperson of the Foreign Office for about two years. Janjua is a down the fact that Operation Zarb-e-Azb reports of terrorists, who have to earth diplomat who has praiseworthy command over her job. is being conducted in Fata while taken shelter in southern Pun- She had meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last month in Islam- Sindh Rangers have been conduct- jab and it is the right time to take abad as she came here for attending the Envoy’s Conference. She has been ing operations in Sindh. action against them because cur- given go ahead signal by the prime minister, who is also retaining the port- A worker fixes damaged electricity cables after an attack at the However, Punjab still insists that rently their morale is low due to the folio of the Foreign Affairs. American University of Afghanistan in Kabul recently. there is no need to deploy Rangers success of Operation Zarb-e-Azb. The sources indicated that the formal agreement of appointment of in the province under the same set Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry would be sought from Washington next month. INDIA SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 07 1 dead and many injured in Kashmir protests

The separatist leaders, who have been detained in their houses Thousands of since the unrest began on July 9, Kashmiris defied had planned midday congregational prayers at the Eidgah, which also harsh security houses a graveyard for those killed restrictions and in militancy-related violence in the last 28 years. joined the protests But the government thwarted the after Friday prayers. protest march to the sprawling prayer ground. Police deployment outside the upscale Hyderpora residence of Hur- AP & IANS riyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani was beefed up to pre- vent the octogenarian separatist from moving out and leading the SRINAGAR: A young man was killed rally. and dozens of other civilians were Chairman of the moderate Hur- wounded yesterday when government riyat Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was forces fired bullets and shotguns to held from his house and lodged at quell new protests against Indian rule the nearby Nigeen police station on in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. Thursday evening. The top cleric had A police officer said thousands planned to address his supporters of Kashmiris defied harsh security over the phone to mark the August restrictions and joined the protests 25, 1989 police raid on Srinagar’s after Friday prayers. Clashes erupted Jamia Masjid. in over a dozen places, including in The Mirwaiz’s detention contin- the main city of Srinagar, between ued a day later. rock-throwing protesters and troops, Kashmir has been on the boil who fired live ammunition, shotguns since the July 8 killing of Hizbul and tear gas. Mujahideen commander Burhan Police said the man died in Wani that triggered the unrest — southern Pulwama town. At least 50 the deadliest the valley has suffered civilians were injured in the clashes. in six years. Earlier, government forces Sixty-nine people, including two blocked worshippers from offering policemen, have been killed and over prayers at large mosques for the sev- 11,000 injured in the unending cycle A protester throws back a tear gas shell fired by police in Srinagar against the recent killings of civilians by the military in Kashmir. enth consecutive week. However, of violence. prayers were allowed at small neigh- A spokesperson for Doctors bourhood mosques. Association of Kashmir said vari- There was no let up in the gov- ous health facilities in the valley had ernment-imposed curfew and received over 7,000 civilian injured Chilli pepper balls may replace pellets in Kashmir separatist-called shutdown yester- in the last seven weeks. Most have day, the 49th day of Kashmir unrest been wounded by dangerous pellet that has brought life to a standstill in guns. IANS chemical found in natural chilli, but stronger in intensity than the overwhelm him or her with the the troubled valley. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, to be used against protesters in pepper. Also called pepper shots, the cloud of the powder it releases. The Police said the strict curfew will here for two days for talks on seek- Kashmir. ammunition is used in many coun- powder causes severe irritation and continue without any relaxation ing ways to break the logjam, said The recommendation comes tries across the world as an effective paralyses any person in the vicinity in Anantnag, Pulwama, Badgam, on Thursday that more than 4,000 NEW DELHI: A government- after global criticism over the use tool for riot control. temporarily. Shopian and Srinagar city while security personnel have been appointed experts panel has of pellet guns against Kashmiri The projectile, after being shot, Unlike pellets, chilli pepper restrictions on the assembly of four injured by stones thrown by Kash- recommended chilli pepper-filled protesters that have killed at least breaks upon impact and releases an balls do not penetrate skin or pose or more persons will remain in force miri protesters. balls to replace the dangerous pel- three and maimed or blinded thou- almost barely visible irritant powder. ricochet hazards, making it a less elsewhere in the valley. The Home Minister made a pas- lets as less lethal ammunition to sands of civilians. Hundreds of the As the chilli-filled balls burst after dangerous weapon for defence even The security restrictions were sionate appeal for peace in Kashmir control protesting crowds in Jammu injured have either partially or fully hitting the target, the ammunition at short range. Pellet guns have been tightened amid apprehensions that but cut no ice with separatist leaders. and Kashmir. lost their eyesight. need not be shot directly at the riot- used by security forces as a tool to separatist leaders may stoke further He said the government was Government sources said that The payload of these guns is ers. It can be shot effectively up to a control unruly mobs since 2010 trouble as they have asked people to ready to hold peace talks with anyone the seven-member committee has filled with the Pelargonic Acid range of 150 feet. when some 120 people were killed gather in Eidgah prayer grounds for a who believes in democracy, humanity submitted its report that recom- Vanillyl Amide, or PAVA — a syn- It can even be shot at a hard in firing by security forces follow- pro-freedom protest rally in the heart and Kashmiriyat — a Kashmiri spirit mends PAVA, containing an irritant thetic compound found in chillies surface in the rioter’s vicinity to ing street protests. of the volatile old Srinagar city. of living in harmony. Floods raise risk of women and Outrage after workers hoist children being sold into slavery woman’s body from pole Reuters year’s earthquake in neighbouring Thousands of children, mostly Nepal and floods in Bihar in 2008. from poor rural areas, are taken to “Children are always the most cities every year by gangs who sell AFP vulnerable during emergencies them into bonded labour or hire them NEW DELHI: Women and children in — especially during floods, when out to unscrupulous employers. India’s flood-hit eastern region are at families are forced to move to Many end up as domestic work- risk of being preyed upon by human higher ground, leaving their homes ers or labourers in brick kilns, NEW DELHI: A video of Indian traffickers and sold into slavery in for an extended period of time,” said roadside restaurants or small tex- hospital workers crushing the middle class homes, restaurants and Thomas Chandy, CEO of Save the tile and embroidery workshops. dead body of an elderly woman shops, and even brothels, aid work- Children India. Many women and girls are sold into and hoisting it from a pole ers warned. “While a child’s parents may brothels. because of a shortage of ambu- Heavy monsoon rains have not always remain in their close Experts say post-disaster human lances has become the second caused rivers including the Gan- proximity, and with the presence trafficking has become common in incident in a week to spark out- ges and its tributaries to burst their of strangers, the threat of sex- South Asia as an increase in extreme rage in India. The footage shows banks, forcing more than 200,000 ual abuse and child trafficking is events caused by global warming workers in Orissa state appearing people into relief camps in the states high. There are organised groups leave the already poor even more to break the hips of the woman, A flood-affected resident receives food supplies from a relief boat of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya of offenders who are quick to seize vulnerable. aged about 80, who died after arranged by social workers in the low lying area of Rashoolpur in Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. opportunities to exploit the plight The breakdown of social insti- being hit by a train, and bundling The deluge has killed at least of children.” tutions in devastated areas creates Allahabad, yesterday. her into a sheet to carry away. 300 people, submerged thousands South Asia is the fastest-growing difficulties in securing food and It comes days after a video of mud-and-brick villages and and second-largest region for human humanitarian supplies, leaving agency Unicef to curb instances of are involving everyone includ- emerged of a man who was forced destroyed large swathes of farmland trafficking in the world, after East women and children at risk of kid- trafficking. ing the police department, labour to walk for hours carrying his - affecting millions of people across Asia, according to the United Nations napping, sexual exploitation and “Before the current floods, department and social welfare wife’s corpse 10 kilometres (six the five states. Office for Drugs and Crime. trafficking. we had held meetings early this departments.” miles) home from hospital, after Charities working in the worst India alone is home 40 percent Government officials in Bihar month on the issue of human traf- Officials added that authorities she died of tuberculosis. The two affected regions of Bihar and Uttar of the world’s estimated 45.8 mil- said they were aware of the risk of ficking,” said Imamudin Ahmad, were also checking trains, often used incidents in the eastern state of Pradesh said trafficking was wide- lion slaves, according to a 2016 global exploitation and were working with Director of Bihar’s social welfare to transport victims, originating from Orissa have been shared widely spread in the aftermath of previous slavery index published by the Aus- charities such as Save The Children, department. impoverished districts where chil- on social media and television disasters in the region, such as last tralia-based Walk Free Foundation. ActionAid and the UN children’s “We are sensitising people and dren labour is commonly sourced. networks, drawing outrage from users at authorities’ treatment of impoverished patients. “This is extremely distressing. Kanhaiya granted bail We are enquiring into the matter. AAP sacks Punjab chief over alleged graft We are also taking steps to have ambulances to transport bod- IANS ies,” Orissa Chief Minister Naveen IANS disciplinary committee of the party, com- “conspiracy of my own friends” in the Patnaik told reporters. The state prising Delhi lawmaker Jarnail Singh and AAP. Chhotepur’s comments came hours government has launched a free former Punjab bureaucrat and AAP leader ahead of an AAP meeting in New Delhi, hearse service in the state follow- NEW DELHI: A court here granted regular bail to Jawaharlal Jasbir Singh Bir, regarding allegations of called to discuss the controversy around a ing the incident, he added. Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya CHANDIGARH: In the biggest internal corruption. Differences between top lead- video clip in which Chhotepur is allegedly Public hospitals often refuse Kumar and two others accused in a sedition case after Delhi setback for its Punjab unit just six months ers of the AAP’s national leadership and seen accepting money from a party sup- to provide ambulances to rela- Police didn’t oppose their plea and said they had cooperated with before the state assembly elections, the AAP the Punjab unit came out in the open on porter. The AAP leader told media that AAP tives to carry the bodies of loved the probe. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh granted bail removed its Punjab unit chief Sucha Singh Friday with Chhotepur saying he won’t national convener and Delhi Chief Minis- ones home, forcing them to hire to Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. Chhotepur from his post following alle- leave the party on his own. ter Arvind Kejriwal had made “anti-Sikh” expensive private hearses. “Some “In view of the fact that these three accused are on interim gations of corruption. The political affairs “I will not leave the party. I have remarks to him (Chhotepur) after the AAP allegations have been made and we bail and have joined the investigation as and when called, I committee of the Aam Aadmi Party took the built it brick by brick in the last two and got embroiled in a serious religious contro- have also seen the video. We will admit all these accused persons i.e. Kanhaiya Kumar, Anir- action against Chhotepur, the Punjab AAP a half years,” Chhotepur told the media versy when it published its election symbol investigate the alleged lapse,” V T ban Bhattacharya and Umar Khalid to regular bail on the same convener who had led the emerging party in here. The AAP leader, who was the par- “broom” with a photograph of the holiest of Mishra, inspector general of police terms and conditions on which they were granted interim bail,” Punjab for nearly two and a half years. ty’s most visible face in Punjab till now, Sikh shrines Harmandar Sahib, popularly for railways in the coastal state said the court said. Chhotepur will now face a alleged that he had been framed by a known as Golden Temple. after the most recent incident. 08 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Yellen’s no-show Why Turkey finally went

he Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s remarks at yesterday’s much-anticipated Jackson Hole symposium has failed to attract the desired cheer to war in Syria from the market. Stock markets initially trimmed gains on Yellen’s speech, and then recovered on relief Tthat any rate rise could be some way off, only to drop again. of terrorist attacks — including a Al Din Al Zenki Movement were State. Turkey will leave the town “The biggest speech of the year has come and gone. And suicide bombing in the southern moved from other rebel areas in rebel hands, though it may also traders are acting like they heard nothing groundbreaking”, city of Gaziantep just last week- farther west, through Turkish ter- choose to keep its own troops seemed to be the market mood. end, which killed 54 people at a ritory, and over the border into there to deter or defend against The main headline from Yellen’s speech was that she believed wedding. the Jarablus fight. Islamic State counterattacks. If More importantly, Ankara is This is Turkey’s most dramatic Turkey and its allies can hold it, ‘the case for another interest rate hike has strengthened in recent responding rather belatedly to move in its otherwise inconsist- Jarablus could serve as a spring- months’. On the face of it, and initially, Government bond yields territorial acquisitions in north- ent war on the Islamic State, board for further Turkish-backed quickly moved higher and global stocks gave back some gains. ern Syria by the PYD-dominated and it could provide a blueprint expansion of an anti-Islamic State But after digging into the meat of her speech, it became clear for Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), for cooperation with the United buffer zone. This will cement a the market that she really wasn’t saying anything new. The initial which aims to connect different States going forward. new partnership between Tur- By Faysal Itani moves quickly reversed course, after the headlines created a knee- “cantons” to form a contigu- Washington has been hesi- key and an array of Syrian rebels, Foreign Policy ous Kurdish territory along the tant to ally with Turkish-backed with US backing. jerk reaction in various markets. Turkish border. As Turkish rebel groups focused on fighting These dynamics have poten- “ Yellen’s comments were Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Damascus, fearing it could be tially enormous implications for The market is relieving and positive for oil and said Wednesday, Turkey will not dragged into a war against Pres- the war in northern Syria. They now struggling regional (read GCC) equities. Oil accept a Kurdish entity on its ident Bashar Al Assad’s regime. may raise Turkish-PYD tensions to make sense price’s initial response was also he United States may border. This has left the United States in the short term, which the finally have a profes- But why now? The SDF has heavily dependent on the PYD, an United States will have to man- of yesterday’s positive taking Brent above $50”, a top Doha-based Fund Manager told sional military ally been expanding for months, and affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ age and factor into its anti-Islamic speech from against the Islamic the Turkish response had been Party (PKK) — a US-designated State strategy. On balance, how- The Peninsula, shortly after Yellen State in Syria. The rather muted until Wednesday. terrorist group — and a sworn ever, Washington has little choice Yellen. concluded her speech at the annual TTurkish-led assault on the north- Ankara may have hoped the enemy of Turkey. but to embrace Ankara, a NATO symposium at Kansas City. ern Syria town of Jarablus, which United States, which supports the The United States desperately ally, over a controversial militia Key worry on most investors’ was held by the Islamic State for SDF, would pressure the group to needs an ally that can deliver that is Turkey’s enemy. minds was slowing down global growth despite near zero interest two-and-a-half years but was re- respect territorial red lines, such results against the Islamic State, Having Turkey as a rates in most countries. Hence comments of growth trend being captured Wednesday with little as staying east of the Euphra- work with local Arab citizens who full-fledged partner in the anti- resistance, will shape the war on tes River. This, however, did not are suspicious of Kurdish groups, Islamic State fight also will give positive by Fed are taken positively by markets. Many developed the extremist group to Washing- happen, as the SDF crossed the and serve as a strategic interna- Washington greater leverage with countries as well as countries like China have very high debt to ton’s advantage. Euphrates and eventually took tional partner rather than a local its Kurdish allies. GDP levels and have been trying to stimulate their growth both Turkey entered the Syrian war the town of Manbij on Aug. 12 and militia. In Ankara Wednesday, US with monetary policies as well as fiscal spending. directly for the first time Wednes- seemed intent on continuing west While Turkey was focused Vice President Joe Biden called The $13.5 trillion US Treasuries market was the one key day morning, sending tanks and to link up with the farthest Kurd- exclusively on defeating the Assad for Kurdish forces to withdraw portfolio that has been waiting for some clarity from yesterday’s special forces to support a rebel ish canton in Efrin. regime and containing the PYD, from areas west of the Euphra- Jackson Hole outcome. With Bank of Japan, the European offensive on the Islamic State’s The SDF’s growing momen- none of this was possible. But if tes, which is the very region only remaining stronghold on tum seems to have changed Ankara calculates that playing a Turkish-backed rebels hope to Central Bank and several smaller European authorities the Turkish border. US aircraft Ankara’s calculations, leading central role against the Islamic expand into. venturing into the territory of negative interest, the dramatic also backed the offensive, pro- to the Jarablus operation. Tur- State is its best chance to bolster Kurdish forces will likely have drop in bond yields have been weighing on pension funds for viding close air support against key had already been fighting a viable Arab partners in northern little choice but to comply — or long, an asset class of an estimated $35.4trillion, spelling doom Islamic State targets — a cru- rebel proxy war to clear other Syria — while countering the pos- risk losing US military support. on millions of retirees across the globe. The problem is more cial indication that the Turkish border areas of the Islamic State sibility of a united, hostile Kurdish Thus, a curb on Kurdish expan- acute in the UK, where gilt yields have tumbled to unprecedented intervention had received Wash- and preempt SDF expansion, entity — that would change. sion may actually de-escalate ington’s acceptance. using local militias but resist- The Jarablus operation is Turkish-Kurdish tensions, so lows since June’s vote to leave the EU. The UK’s 350 largest listed Rebels declared victory ing the deployment of Turkish therefore the culmination of a long as the United States remains companies face a shortfall up to £149bn in their pension plans. within hours, suffering no signif- troops into Syria. In taking Jara- strategic Turkish adaptation, engaged in the war. The market is now struggling to make sense of yesterday’s icant casualties. Turkey has thus blus, groups including the Sultan PYD overreach, and US eager- If built upon, the Jarablus speech from Yellen. quickly achieved its immediate Murad Division, Faylaq Al Sham, ness to expand its operations operation could lay the basis The market has been waiting anxiously for Yellen’s speech, objective of taking Jarablus and Liwa Al Mutasim, and the Nour and partners against the Islamic for much-needed US-Turkish as members of the Federal Reserve often presented conflicting has now signaled its attempt to cooperation, facilitate an Arab- views on rate hikes. Now, Yellen’s speech has failed to generate push westward to “cleanse” the Kurdish balance of power in border area of the Islamic State. northern Syria, and substan- that gyration the market has been looking for. The campaign itself may tially strengthen the war on the launch a new era of US-Turk- Islamic State. ish cooperation in Syria. It’s true And if Washington and that Ankara’s motives for directly Ankara remain closely engaged, entering the Syrian war do not they should be able to secure cleanly overlap with Washing- the border area. South of that ton’s and are in direct conflict strip of land, however, things get Quote of the day with those of the Kurdish Dem- complicated, as the rebels will ocratic Union Party (PYD), which eventually run into PYD and I am reaching out to is a US ally in the fight against the regime forces. everyone, Republicans, Islamic State but is considered a Their respective foreign back- terrorist group by Turkey. Over- ers — Turkey, the United States, Democrats, independents, all, however, Wednesday’s events Russia, and Iran — will have everyone who is as troubled mark a change for the better for to work very hard to avoid an as I am by the bigotry and the United States, its alliance escalation. For now, however, divisiveness of Donald with Turkey, and the war on the Washington has plenty to gain Islamic State. from Ankara’s newfound enthu- Trump’s campaign. Every actor in the Jarab- siasm and aggression against the lus operation is fighting for its Islamic State. Hillary Clinton own reasons. Turkey certainly US Democratic presidential candidate sought to weaken the Islamic The writer is resident senior fellow Turkish soldiers gathering next to tanks in the Turkish Syrian State, which has shelled Turkish at the Rafik Hariri Center for the territory and carried out a series border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep. Middle East at the Atlantic Council.

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By James F Jeffrey Foreign Policy

he Middle East remains the most dangerous, most com- plicated, and perhaps most controversial element in the Obama administration’s con- Tduct of world affairs. In an interview with Foreign Policy contributor Aaron David Miller, Robert Malley, special assistant to the president and coordinator for the Middle East on the National Security Council staff, discussed President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies in depth. It is not only a polished, sober assess- ment of the actions and interests of the Obama administration, it’s a surprising one, too — it’s rare that a White House insider and counsel to the president gives US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) sits across from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as negotiators wait for a meetingat the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel us such insight into how off-base much on Iran’s nuclear programme in Lausanne, Switzerland. of Obama’s approach to the region is. As ambassador to Turkey and Iraq during For Malley, the core administration “forget” this, of course, because it didn’t subsequent fallout; the refugee tidal wave Netanyahu, nobody in the region the Obama administration’s first term, objectives are 1) avoiding attacks, par- actually happen as Malley describes: across the Middle East and into Europe; opposes that agreement explicitly. I had a front row seat as much of that ticularly terrorist, on Americans (“the Obama became president not in 2003, Iran’s infiltration of four Arab states; and Rather, understanding that this approach developed. president’s priority . . . must be to defend but 2009. By then, almost all fighting Russia’s military return. agreement will give Iran financial To be fair, I have few quibbles with America’s security”) and, 2) avoiding had ceased in Iraq, President George None of these threats — apart from and diplomatic benefits useful for its Malley’s rendition of Obama’s actions. His disastrous military adventures (“costly, W Bush had begun withdrawing forces the Islamic State, and then only recently hegemonic agenda, they expected account of the Syrian chemical weap- open-ended conflicts”; “getting bogged and had committed to pull out all — has generated a robust American America to understand these concerns ons denouement gives more credit to the down in military adventures”; and troops before 2012. response: Washington was inactive — and many thought they got Wash- administration’s decisiveness and less to avoiding the myth “that military victory Likewise, Bush had opted not to (against the Islamic State, initially, and ington’s commitment to do just that at pure chance — Putin compromising to invariably translates into lasting politi- confront Iran militarily over nuclear in countering Russia’s moves), responded two summits with the president. But thwart US military action that Obama cal success”). The problem is that these programs, begun the P5+1 negotiations inadequately (in supporting the moderate instead of reassurance, they get warn- had essentially ruled out — than the pub- objectives do not add up to a coherent with Tehran, mobilised the interna- Syrian opposition), or acted contradic- ings about unleashing a Sunni-Shiite lic record justifies. policy - at best, they are things to be care- tional community with four Security torily and weakly (with Iran in regard to confrontation. Malley is basically right, however, in ful about when doing foreign policy. But Council resolutions, and negotiated missile tests, downplaying the seizure of One explanation for Obama’s fail- his assessment of the Iran nuclear deal, Malley insists these are the standards by with the Iranians in Baghdad to avoid US sailors, a curious $400 million pay- ure to respond effectively to threats to and the role of “tough multilateral diplo- which to measure the administration. tensions over Iraq. ment, and so on.) the regional order by Iran, the Islamic macy” and threat of force in achieving a He has half a point with the first. Even more troubling is Malley’s All of this, Miller notes, is alarming State, and now the Russians is the admin- breakthrough. Since September 11, 2001, the American lack of emphasis on the classic US for- America’s partners. In response, Malley istration’s obsession with Malley’s two But a list of American actions does people have been fixated on avoiding any eign policy objective since the 1940s: makes the point that Washington’s part- objectives, especially avoiding military not alone make a coherent mosaic. What terrorist attack on US soil. In fact, a recent the maintenance of a global security ners are aware that the United States is missteps. Running a deterrence pol- gives context are the objectives that poll found that 42 percent of Americans order based on liberal values, interna- supportive of them, but he also is in turn icy always risks military setbacks. But underlie activity. Malley, in the two he say they are less safe from terrorism than tional law, and trade and finance — all defensive and admonishing: America sells if minimising risk is job one, deterrence stresses, and the one he basically ignores, before 9/11. enabled by collective security centered our friends lots of weapons and uses mil- necessarily gets short shrift. Even worse reveals why — as Miller noted — many But that persistent fear can lead us on America’s readiness to defend these itary force. might come. believe “the Middle East is going to look to ignore what was long thought vital: goals; not only against ideological rivals Those opposing America’s Iran Malley’s emphasis on “testing” the a lot worse when Barack Obama leaves that if America does not deal with the but also regional hegemons seeking to policies can’t overcome their “conven- Russians, his assumptions that Putin office than when he arrived.” broader threats to peace that so dev- subjugate neighbors and carve out no-go tional wisdom.” Don’t assume the United could bog down in Syria where Assad astated Europe and Asia in the past zones against us. States will support allies if their actions can’t win, his hope for a better relation- century, it places its own security at Malley touches on this objective in work against American interests, say in ship with Iran, and his disparaging tone existential risk. describing the Obama administration’s fomenting a “Sunni-Shia confrontation.” toward partners together suggest that Those opposing America’s Iran policies To emphasise the importance of balancing act, but does not dwell on what But perceptions in the region are quite perhaps the administration does have a avoiding unsuccessful military oper- seemingly should be a central objective. different from Malley’s presentation. In Middle East grand strategy, albeit one not can’t overcome their conventional ations — his second “core” objective That’s understandable, perhaps, as the fact, no-risk, no-casualty American vetted publicly: to “share” (the president’s wisdom. The administration may — Malley inflates the dangers. His tar- administration put little emphasis on its aerial campaigns against terrorists con- word, not Malley’s) the region with those get, as often with this administration, is role in maintaining global order in the vince no one that Uncle Sam will be there anti-status quo forces now helping turn want to dismiss those unhappy with the last administration: “nor should one Middle East. when things get rough. Ducking military it into a nightmare. In this regard, Mal- Washington’s Iran policy as hopeless forget that when Obama took office, the Initially Obama’s White House team challenges that carry risks is what our ley’s most worrisome words refer to the opponents of a reasonable nuclear United States had roughly 150,000 troops did not have to prioritise these issues, partners see. end of Obama’s time in the White House: in Iraq, an unsustainable allocation of as the focus was — apart from Iran’s The administration may want to “six months is a long time . . . there is still deal. But aside from Israel’s Benjamin human and material resources that was nukes — nonstate actors and the Arab dismiss those unhappy with Wash- so much to be done.” Netanyahu, nobody in the region harming our global security posture. Spring. But recently we’ve witnessed ington’s Iran policy as hopeless Iran also was steadily advancing its serious challenges to that order: the rise opponents of a reasonable (and here James F Jeffrey is the Philip Solondz distin- opposes that agreement explicitly. nuclear program, presenting the threat of of the Islamic State; the Bashar Al Assad I agree with Malley) nuclear deal. guished visiting fellow at the Washington a dangerous military confrontation.” We regime’s slaughter of its population and But aside from Israel’s Benjamin Institute for Near East Policy. Nuclear disarmament unrealistic without N-powers’ involvement

Japan News prohibiting the possession, use, conducted without the participa- even held there. emphasising their position of not deployment and other handling of tion of nuclear powers. It is unavoidable that Japan, accepting the convention. nuclear weapons. Whether to start It is clear that efforts to con- which acts as a bridge between The United States and Russia the negotiations will be discussed clude the convention without their nuclear and nonnuclear powers —which account for 90 percent again at a UN General Assembly involvement will result in the con- as the only nation to have suffered of more than 15,000 nuclear t is a realistic approach to meeting this autumn. vention being ineffective and make atomic bombings, abstained from weapons — have not proceeded involve the nuclear powers Behind the move is the stale- its goals merely pie in the sky. voting to prevent the confrontation with nuclear disarmament due I— the United States, Britain, mate in efforts toward nuclear The working group meeting also from intensifying. to bilateral feuds, including one France, China and Russia — in disarmament, as seen in the highlighted clashes of opinion among It is important to note that most concerning the Ukraine situation. efforts to gradually realise nuclear Review Conference of the Parties nonnuclear nations. of the countries voting against China has been strength- disarmament. First of all, it is nec- to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Mexico and Austria took the or abstaining from voting on the ening its nuclear capability, China has been essary to prioritise bridging the Treaty in May 2015, which ended initiative on the report, which was report are facing military threats keeping the details secret, and gap between nuclear and nonnu- in a rupture. supported by 68 nations, many from Russia, China, North Korea and North Korea is developing a strengthening its clear powers. There has been no concrete of which are countries in Africa, elsewhere. nuclear missile that can reach nuclear capability, By a majority vote, a UN work- progress in nuclear disarmament Latin America and Southeast Asia While the US nuclear deterrent the US mainland. ing group on nuclear disarmament even after US President Barack that do not need to rely on the US functions effectively, it is natu- With such tense relations in mind, keeping the details adopted a report urging the Gen- Obama visited Hiroshima in May nuclear umbrella. ral for Japan, South Korea and efforts should be made to heighten secret, and North eral Assembly to start negotiations this year. Twenty-two countries, including others to express “security con- the momentum for nuclear disarma- within 2017 to conclude a conven- It is understandable that non- South Korea, Australia and Germany, cerns” about the convention to ban ment without adversely affecting any Korea is developing tion on the prohibition of nuclear nuclear nations complain about voted against the report. Japan and nuclear weapons. country’s security, and to apply a cer- a nuclear missile weapons. the negative attitude of nuclear 12 other countries abstained from Nuclear powers also assert tain pressure on nuclear powers. We that can reach the The convention is aimed at powers toward nuclear disarma- voting. Unanimous approval is that nuclear disarmament should hope Japan will take a central role in not only reducing nuclear weap- ment. It is questionable that the required at a working group meet- be promoted in consideration continuously searching for such fea- US mainland. ons but also at simultaneously UN working group meeting was ing, and it is unusual that voting was of the security environment, sible measures.

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among the dead, according to “We will still use thermal devices media reports and updates from that can detect the presence of Flags will fly at foreign ministries. British media, human bodies.” said Checchi. half-mast across citing an official in Amatrice, said As powerful aftershocks closed the country today three Britons had died, including a winding mountain roads and 14-year-old boy. Romania reported made life dangerous for more than in respect for the two of its nationals, who were resi- 4,000 professionals and volunteers victims of a disaster dent in Italy, had died. Spain, Canada engaged in the rescue effort, sur- and El Salvador each said that one of vivors voiced dazed bewilderment that claimed at least their citizens had perished. over the scale of the disaster that 278 lives. The Civil Protection agency’s has struck their sleepy communities. emergency unit said no new sur- “I have been through earth- vivors had been found yesterday in quakes before, but this was not a the remote mountain villages blitzed quake, it was an apocalypse,” said AFP by Wednesday’s powerful pre-dawn Anacleto Perotti, 66. quake. At least 388 people have been The resident of the tiny hamlet of hospitalised with injuries. No one St Lorenzo Flaviano has gone back to has been pulled alive from the piles his house, which survived the quake. A woman wearing a headscarf joins a demonstration organised by “Stand up to Racism” outside the French AMATRICE: The first funerals for of collapsed masonry since Wednes- But he is sleeping in an armchair. victims of the devastating earth- day evening. “It is too scary in bed. After a Embassy in London yesterday against the burkini ban on French beaches. quake that hit central Italy this week “We will go on searching and quake comes fear, depression takes were held yesterday as the country digging until we are certain there is you over from the inside.” prepared for an emotionally charged no one left,” said Luigi D’Angelo, a Prime Minister Matteo Renzi day of mourning. Civil Protection officer working in has declared a state of emergency Several French mayors stick to Flags will fly at half-mast across Amatrice. Forestry police officer for the regions affected by Wednes- the country today in respect for the Valerio Checchi said he expected day’s quake, which occurred in an victims of a disaster that claimed rescuers to shortly start using area that straddles Umbria, Lazio burkini ban despite court ruling at least 278 lives, according to an mechanical diggers to move debris and Marche. Renzi also released an updated official toll. in a sign virtually all hope of find- initial tranche of ¤50m ($56m) in At least eight foreigners were ing survivors has gone. emergency aid. The first funerals took place in Agencies The Council of State ruled that: National Front leader Marine Le Pomezia, south of Rome, from where “The emotion and concerns arising Pen said the ruling is “not surpris- six of the victims hailed. Presi- from the terrorist attacks, notably ing” but the battle is not over. She dent Sergio Mattarella will today the one perpetrated in Nice on July said in a statement that lawmakers attend a funeral service in the city MARSEILLE: Several mayors in 14, cannot suffice to justify in law must vote “as quickly as possible” to of Ascoli-Piceno. southeast France yesterday said the contested prohibition measure.” extend a 2004 law that bans Muslim A total of 46 people died in the they would maintain their bans Lawyer Patrice Spinosi, repre- headscarves and other ostentatious two villages. The youngest was three on the Islamic burkini swimsuit senting the Human Rights League, religious symbols in classrooms to or four, the oldest in her nineties. despite a ruling by France’s highest said that women who have already include all public spaces. Some 2,100 people who spent administrative court to suspend the received fines can protest them President Francois Hollande has the night in hastily-erected tented measures. based on yesterday’s decision. He remained neutral, arguing that society villages were shaken by a 4.8 magni- Town hall authorities in Nice said the group plans to ask all French “presumes that each person conforms tude aftershock just after 6am (0400 said the mayor would continue to mayors who banned burkinis to to the rules, and that there is neither GMT) yesterday morning. fine women wearing burkinis while withdraw their orders and, if they provocation nor stigmatization”. But More than 900 aftershocks have the mayor of nearby Frejus, David refuse to do so, he will systemati- critics said the bans had been feed- rattled the region since Wednesday’s Rachline, said that “the Frejus order cally take each case to court. ing a racist political agenda. 6.0-6.2 magnitude first one triggered is still valid”. The mayor of the Corsican town of Amnesty International praised the collapse of hundreds of ill-pre- The bans grew increasingly Sisco said he wouldn’t lift the ban he the court decision, calling the local pared old buildings across dozens of controversial as images circulated imposed after an August 13 clash on a decrees “invasive and discrimina- tiny communities playing host to far online of some Muslim women being beach. “Here the tension is very, very, tory” and saying their enforcement A car covered by debris is seen near a collapsed house following an more people than usual because of ordered to remove body-concealing very high and I won’t withdraw it,” has led to “abuses and the degrading earthquake in Pescara del Tronto, central Italy, yesterday. the summer holidays. garments on French Riviera beaches. Ange-Pierre Vivoni said on BFM-TV. treatment of Muslim women and girls”.

Danish women-led Eastern EU leaders press need for joint army mosque holds first Friday prayers AFP Leftist Czech Premier Bohuslav Kaczynski called for EU institutional the Baltic region has also spooked on strengthening the bloc through Sobotka, for his part, said that “we reforms that would forge a confed- Nato and EU members there. boosting the economy and “finding should also begin a discussion about eration of nation states under a EU leaders from 27 states meet common ground” despite divisions AFP creating a common European army.” president in charge of a powerful on September 16 in the Slovak capital over issues like migration policy. WARSAW: Eastern EU countries yes- German Chancellor Angela common military. of Bratislava for an informal summit “People will only accept Europe if terday pushed for the bloc to create a Merkel also supported the idea of However, the concept of a com- that will go ahead without Britain. it will ensure their (economic) well- COPENHAGEN: Scandinavia’s joint army as they met with Germany stronger security but urged cau- mon army is a thorny issue within Talks are likely to be challeng- being. We must be leaders in the area first female-led mosque has held for talks on sketching Europe’s post- tion on how plans were translated the European Union (EU). All five EU ing as Berlin’s preferred vision of a of technology. We want to offer well- its first Friday prayers in Copen- Brexit future. into acts. “Security is a fundamental countries at yesterday’s Warsaw talks centralised, federal Europe clashes paid jobs. We have a lot to do,” Merkel hagen, a milestone for an “Islamic “We must prioritise security, issue... we can do more together in are also members of the 28-member with proposals for a confederation of added. feminist” project whose founder and let’s start by building a common the areas of security and defence,” Nato Western defence alliance. nation states popular among leaders Poland urged leaders to focus hopes will help combat Islamo- European army,” Hungary’s right- she said. But six of the EU’s 27 post-Brexit of eastern EU members. on economic growth and address phobia. wing prime minister, Viktor Orban, “Brexit is not just any event, it’s a membership do not belong to Nato: Migration policy is another highly a perceived lack of democracy in But there was also criticism said at talks with Czech, German, breaking point in the history of EU so Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, controversial issue on the agenda, European institutions. Rightwing that the project did not go far Polish and Slovak leaders. we need to work out a very careful Malta and Sweden. with eastern members the Czech Prime Minister Beata Szydlo urged enough in promoting women’s The five-nation gathering in War- response,” Merkel added, according EU and Nato ties with Russia Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slo- “reforms that Europeans expect rights. The khutba, or sermon, saw is part of a string of meetings to the official English translation of plunged to their lowest point since vakia refusing to take in refugees allowing the European Union to was held in the Mariam Mosque among various groups of coun- her words. the Cold War after Moscow’s 2014 under an EU-wide quota system become a stronger, development- in an apartment in a busy Copen- tries ahead of a summit on the EU’s In an early response to Britain’s annexation of the Crimean penin- championed by Berlin. oriented EU — but above all for hagen shopping street six months future following the June 23 British shock vote to exit the EU, Poland’s sula from Ukraine. Merkel insisted yesterday that Europeans to feel they are in charge after it opened. referendum. powerful rightwing leader Jaroslaw The Kremlin’s sabre-rattling in remaining members must focus of the European Union”. Temperatures soared inside on a balmy summer’s day as more than 60 women, around half of them Muslim, came to hear Dan- ish-born imam Saliha Marie Czech survivor recounts Tourist attraction Fetteh. Friday’s event was opened by the mosque’s founder Sherin Khankan, who is herself becom- ordeal on NZ mountain ing an imam. She said that she had origi- nally wanted to open a mosque AFP days before finding a ranger’s hut where female imams could preach and breaking in, to find food and on Fridays to a mixed crowd, but heating. “I made a few attempts to later changed her mind. walk out from the hut, but my feet, “It turned out that a majority WELLINGTON: A Czech hiker the weather conditions and the deep of the community wanted a Friday who survived a month trapped in snow discouraged me from doing prayer for women only,” Khankan, a remote snow-bound hut in New so,” she said. born in Denmark to a Syrian Zealand after her partner died in Given her poor physical con- father and a Finnish mother, said. a fall said yesterday she knew it dition, the amount of snow and “Today I am very happy about would be perilous to try to reach knowing the risk of avalanches, she the decision because when you try civilisation. decided it was best to stay in a safe to create change it’s very impor- Pavlina Pizova broke down in place. “At the hut I saw numerous tant that you do it wisely and tears as she relived details of her avalanches coming down.” slowly,” she added. harrowing ordeal, watching ava- Pizova said the couple realised The decision to bar men from lanches crash down the surrounding they made mistakes at the start of the prayers drew criticism from mountainsides while she waited in their hike by not recording their Syria-born Danish lawmaker the hut hoping to be rescued. plans, not carrying a locator beacon Naser Khader, who told broad- A search party found Pizova on and underestimating the weather. caster TV 2 that it was not “good Wednesday more than a month after “The conditions were extreme, enough” in a country like Den- she and her partner, Ondrej Petr, set we encountered heavy snowfall and mark — known for having a high out to walk the 32km Routeburn low cloud which contributed to our level of gender equality — to shy track, which traverses the Southern enforced overnighting in the open,” away from letting women preach People stand inside the British Airways i360 viewing platform in Brighton, southern England, yesterday. Alps in the southwest of New Zealand. she said. It was while trying to reach to a mixed crowd. Petr’s body was recovered yesterday. the hut that Petr fell and died. People in much of Britain have enjoyed a summer heatwave over the last week with temperatures Five Islamic marriage cere- Pizova said that after leav- “After his death it took me another exceeding 30 degrees celsius in some parts of southern England. The verticle cable car that ascends to monies have been conducted at ing Petr’s body she had to fight her two nights out in the open before I a height of 450 feet (132 metres) affords 360-degree views of up to 26 miles, according to the website. the mosque, which has issued its way through deep snow for two reached the safety of the hut.” own marriage contract. AMERICAS SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 11 Obama establishes world’s largest marine reserve

AFP discovered only this year and the Greenpeace also hailed what Ebiusi Jr, chair of the Pacific Regional major global conservation meet- world’s oldest living organism, black it called a “bold decision” that will Fishery Management Council. ing including thousands of heads of The waters are home coral, which is estimated to be 4,265 ban commercial fishing and mineral “Today is a sad day in the history state, scientists and policy makers, to pristine coral years old. extraction in the region. of Hawaii’s fisheries and a negative which the US president is expected MIAMI: US President Barack Obama Some 14 million seabirds soar US Senator Brian Schatz, a Demo- blow to our local food security.” to address in Hawaii on September 1. reefs and hundreds yesterday burnished his environmen- over the area and make their nests crat from Hawaii, said in a statement But Matt Rand, director of the The International Union for the of animals found tal legacy by establishing the world’s on the islands, including a 65-year- that the expansion will create “a safe Global Ocean Legacy project at the Conservation of Nature’s world con- largest marine reserve, home to thou- old albatross named Wisdom. The zone that will replenish stocks of Pew Charitable Trusts, took a dif- gress is held every four years at a nowhere else on sands of rare sea creatures in the area is home as well to threatened tuna, promote biodiversity and fight ferent view, saying that the change different location around the globe. Earth, including a northwestern Hawaiian islands. green turtles and endangered Hawai- climate change.” should have “a minimal economic This year it runs from September 1-10. Obama’s announcement more ian monk seals. Obama “has given Native Hawai- impact” on fishing in the area. Obama will also travel to Mid- new species of ghost than quadrupled the size of the The marine monument was ians a greater voice in managing this The archipelago and its sur- way Atoll, inside the protected area, octopus discovered existing protected area, known as established in 2006 by then president precious resource”, Schatz said. But rounding waters are considered a to underscore the decision. There he the Papahanaumokuakea Marine George W Bush and was designated a some expressed disappointment over sacred area by native Hawaiians. will make the case that climate change only this year and the National Monument, which is now Unesco World Heritage Site in 2010. the move to expand the zone to 200 The White House said permits will “makes protecting our public lands and world’s oldest living 582,578 square miles (1.5 million “By expanding the monument, miles from shore, saying that it imper- also be available for noncommercial waters more important than ever,” square kilometres) — about four President Obama has increased ils fishermen’s ability to make a living. fishing — including recreational fish- according to the White House. organism, black coral, times the size of California. protections for one of the most bio- “Closing 60 percent of Hawaii’s ing and the removal of fish and other The timing of Obama’s announce- which is estimated to The waters are home to pristine logically and culturally significant waters to commercial fishing, when resources for Native Hawaiian cul- ment is important because it “will coral reefs and hundreds of animals places on the planet,” said Joshua science is telling us that it will not tural practices — in the area. inspire probably the people that are be 4,265 years old. found nowhere else on Earth, includ- Reichert, an executive vice president lead to more productive local fish- Obama’s announcement came most interested and most engaged in ing a new species of ghost octopus at the Pew Charitable Trusts. eries, makes no sense,” said Edwin just days before the kickoff of a conservation globally,” said Rand.

Canada’s former Hillary and Trump exchange Tory premier Stephen Harper angry charges of racism quits politics

AFP from just over half of all respondents. time and say boom, you’re gone,” AFP The survey by Quinnipiac Univer- Trump said on CNN. But he repeated sity gave her a 51 to 41 percent lead his pledge that there would be “no over Trump in a head-to-head race. legalization” route for undocumented OTTAWA: Canada’s former WASHINGTON: The tone of the US Trump has recently attempted to immigrants already in the United prime minister Stephen Harper presidential campaign turned darker, enlarge his tiny base of support States, even those who have com- announced yesterday that he was with Hillary Clinton skewering Don- among blacks — it has been as low mitted no crime. quitting politics, 10 months after ald Trump as a man who flirts with as 1 percent — arguing that African “There’s no legalisation and voters tossed his Tories out of racism and paranoid ideas, while he Americans have “nothing to lose” by there’s no amnesty,” he said. “If office in a general election. in turn labeled her a racist whose voting for him. somebody wants to go the legaliza- The awkward career-poli- family foundation was a “criminal He met with a group of black tion route, what they’ll do is go, leave tician, who was more at home enterprise”. and Latino supporters at his Trump the country, hopefully come back in, plowing through economic the- Speaking at a campaign event Towers in New York. Speaking in and then we can talk.” He also prom- ory than glad-handing voters on in Reno, Nevada, Clinton employed New Hampshire later, Trump lashed ised again that he would build a wall the campaign trail, said in a state- unusually tough language as she out at Clinton, saying she was on the southern border. ment that he was stepping down detailed a history of what she said accusing “the decent Americans “We will have a strong border as a member of parliament after were the Republican real estate who support this campaign, your and we’ll have a tremendous wall, nearly 18 years of public service. mogul’s discriminatory actions. campaign, of being racists, which a wall that Mexico pays for,” Trump Summarizing the previous He had been sued as a young we’re not.” told CNN. Responding to Trump’s Tory government’s accomplish- developer for failing to rent to black Calling it “a tired, disgusting immigration plan to step up depor- ments over nearly 10 years with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign and Latino tenants, and by black argument,” he said it was Clinton tation, the Clinton campaign said him at the helm, Harper pointed to employees of his casinos, the Dem- who was being a “racist” by view- his extreme right-wing agenda “is event in Reno, Nevada. Hillary remarked that her opponent, Republican tax cuts, stiffer criminal sentences, ocratic presidential candidate said. ing minorities merely as a source of fueling a dangerous movement of presidential candidate Donald Trump, runs a campaign based on and steering the economy “through The Republican nominee’s recent votes while doing nothing for them. hatred across the country”. prejudice and paranoia. the worst global recession since the choice of Steven Bannion, a firebrand Trump doubled down later in an Great Depression” in 2008. conservative, as his new campaign interview broadcast on CNN Thurs- Of the Group of Seven indus- chief showed Trump was embrac- day night, saying he personally Paul Wolfowitz to vote for Hillary trialized nations, he noted, ing the extremist white nationalist thinks Clinton is “totally bigoted”. Canada “came out in the strong- stances of the so-called “alt-right” When asked to elaborate on the est position of them all.” movement, she said. allegation, he said Clinton’s poli- Reuters Trump as a security risk because of his admiration of Rus- Harper’s spokeswoman Anna “A man with a long history of cies “are bigoted because she knows sian President Putin and his views on China, the magazine Tomala said the former prime racial discrimination who traffics they’re not going to work.” Trump reported. “It’s important to make it clear how unaccept- minister has formed a consulting in dark conspiracy theories drawn also sought this week to moderate his able he is,” Wolfowitz said in an interview. group to provide advice to inter- from the pages of supermarket tab- earlier comments on immigration. BERLIN: Paul Wolfowitz, a Republican adviser to former Wolfowitz joins a long list of Republicans who have national clients. “The firm will loids and the far dark reaches of the As president, he would focus US president George W Bush, plans to vote for Democrat said they will not vote for Trump. “I wish there was a can- work in tech, finance, energy, internet should never run our gov- on deporting the “bad” immigrants Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election didate whom I could support enthusiastically. I will have infrastructure and manufactur- ernment or command our military,” without uprooting the “good” ones, despite his “serious reservations”, Der Spiegel magazine to vote for Hillary Clinton, although I have serious reser- ing along (with) other files, in the Clinton said. he said — a sharp shift from his early reported on Friday. vations about her,” he said. A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week US, Europe, Middle East and Asia,” Her speech came on a day when insistence that all undocumented Wolfowitz, who served as deputy defence secretary showed that Clinton would win the key swing states of she said in an email. one poll showed her support reach- immigrants be deported. under Bush and also as president of the World Bank, said Florida, Ohio and Virginia, and have a 95 percent chance Regulatory documents show ing an important threshold—backing “You can’t take 11 million at one he viewed Republical presidential candidate Donald of beating Trump if the election were held now. Harper created a company last December called Harper & Associates Consulting Inc. with former aides Ray Novak and Jer- Cuba says US emy Hunt. Senators spar at Rousseff impeachment trial Since his party’s defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau’s Liber- commercial als on October 19, 2015, Harper has kept a low profile, appear- flights welcome Reuters majority of Brazilians want her gone. ing only once in public in May at But polls also show that Temer a Tory rally in Vancouver. It was has as little popular support as the first time he addressed his Reuters Rousseff and that the major- party and Canadians since his BRASILIA: The Senate impeach- ity of Brazilians would like to see election defeat, and the last time ment trial of suspended new elections called, an unlikely as an elected politician. HAVANA: Cuba said yesterday that Brazilian President Dilma Rouss- development. In a campaign-style stump it was ready to receive US commer- eff descended into a shouting match Few if any Rousseff support- speech, he told the party: “The cial flights beginning next week and between her political supporters ers have shown up outside Brazil’s past is no place to linger” and “the that it viewed their renewal after and opponents during its second Congress building to back her, under- best is yet to come.” The partisan being suspended in 1961 as another day yesterday, forcing a two-hour scoring the impeached president’s crowd responded with a standing positive step in a growing detente. halt in the proceedings. isolation. ovation. The Tories are scheduled JetBlue plans to inaugurate Supreme Court Chief Jus- Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla to pick his successor in May 2017. direct flights between the long-time tice Ricardo Lewandowski, who who was imprisoned and tortured During his years in politics, nemeses on August 31, when it flies is presiding over the final phase during Brazil’s military dictatorship, Harper united the political right from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to of a lengthy impeachment process is charged with spending without and led three successive govern- Villa Clara in central Cuba. Ameri- that has paralysed Brazilian pol- congressional approval and manipu- ments since 2006 before he was can Airlines in September will start itics since December, suspended lating government accounts to mask defeated in a come-from-behind flying from Miami to the provinces, the session after Senate President the extent of the nation’s growing Liberal landslide last October. followed by other airlines. Renan Calheiros was unable to stop deficit in the run-up to her reelection. He rejected the Kyoto Proto- There will be 20 daily flights the arguments. The trial resumed Senate President Renan Calheiros (left) argues with Senator Lindbergh Rousseff has denied any wrong- col climate agreement, more than to Havana by the end of the year. after lunch. Farias during the second day Senate impeachment trial of Brazilian doing and described efforts to oust doubled the number of free trade “It is a positive step and contri- Supporters and opponents of suspended President Dilma Rousseff at the National Congress in Brasilia her as a “coup” plotted by Temer and deals with other nations, includ- bution to the improving relations Rousseff shouted insults at each yesterday. his political allies, many of whom ing with the European Union, and between Cuba and the United other in a tumultuous session that are caught up in the huge kickback posted the largest budget deficit States,” Deputy Transportation showed the buildup to a final vote avoid corruption charges a month in the lower house. Her opponents scandal at state-run oil company in Canadian history in an effort Minister Eduardo Rodriguez said. expected on Wednesday morning ago. The trial is expected to culmi- need 54 votes, or two-thirds of the Petrobras that has engulfed much of to counter the 2008 global eco- Josefina Vidal, who heads will be fraught with tension. “This nate in the removal of 81-seat Senate, to convict her of Brazil’s political and business class. nomic slump, before balancing the Cuba’s US diplomacy depart- impeachment trial has become a Rousseff from office, ending 13 breaking budget laws. If confirmed as president, Temer budget in his last term. ment, said Cuba had confirmed loony bin,” Calheiros said, appeal- years of left-wing Workers Party A survey by the O Estado de S would face a daunting task: As well, he took a strong the JetBlue flight, removing the ing for calm. rule, and the confirmation of her Paulo newspaper published yester- steering Latin America’s largest pro-Israel stand and was one of last technical hurdle of offi- But Calheiros himself set off vice president, Michel Temer, as pres- day found 54 senators backed her economy out of recession and plug- Ukraine’s most vocal backers cial approval. Rodriguez said US another argument by taking on Gleisi ident for the remainder of her term ouster and 18 opposed it, with 14 ging a budget deficit that has topped following Russia’s annexation of airlines would be handled in a Hoffmann, a senator from Rousseff’s through 2018. undecided or not saying. 10 percent of gross domestic product. Crimea. Much of Harper’s key similar fashion as the 110 airlines Workers Party, for stating the Sen- Temer has been interim president A deep recession and wide-rang- Temer will need to quickly dem- crime legislation, including man- currently flying to Cuba and with ate lacked moral authority to try since mid-May, when ing corruption scandal has caused onstrate his commitment to cutting datory minimum jail sentences, equal attention to security issues the leftist president. He said Hoff- Rousseff was suspended after Brazil’s first female president’s pop- the budget deficit if he is to sustain however, has been rolled back by that were already a normal part mann did not have a leg to stand Congress decided it would continue ularity to plummet since she won investor optimism after a major rally the courts, or currently faces legal of the country’s system. because he had helped the senator the impeachment process that began reelection in 2014. Polls show a in financial markets this year. challenges. 12 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 AMERICAS

‘Dolphin Swim’ Arizona sheriff Canada pledges faces tough 600 soldiers re-election bid Reuters for UN missions PHOENIX: Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio has long battled contro- versy over his tough stance on illegal immigration but may now were deployed this year on UN face his toughest test as he seeks peacekeeping missions in Haiti, a seventh term as sheriff of the Defence Minister Jerusalem, South Sudan, Cyprus, the state’s most populous county. Harjit Sajjan said a Democratic Republic of Congo and Twenty four years after he was South Korea, down from a reported first elected sheriff of Maricopa decision has not yet peak of 3,000 in 1993. County, which surrounds Phoe- been made about Trudeau also announced in Feb- nix, Arpaio goes to voters facing ruary when he hosted UN Secretary the possibility of criminal sanc- where to deploy the General Ban Ki-Moon in Ottawa that tions. Last week, a federal judge military personnel. Canada would seek a seat on the recommended that he and three Security Council, hoping to erase others be prosecuted for contempt the humiliation of its first failed bid of court for failing to comply with Tourists at the “Dolphin Swim” at Cabo Adventures in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. US federal officials in 2010, which was seen as a slap an order in a racial profiling case. AFP against the previous Tory adminis- are seeking a ban on swimming with Hawaii’s spinner dolphins, saying the encounters popular with Prosecutors have not yet tration’s foreign policy shift. tourists are harming the nocturnal creatures’ sleeping habits. decided whether to charge him In a statement, the government with contempt, and Arpaio, 84, is said the Canadian deployment would widely expected to win at the pri- OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Min- tackle “multifaceted conflicts, requir- mary level on August 30. But the ister Justin Trudeau’s government ing political, security, development man who styles himself as “Amer- yesterday committed 600 troops and humanitarian responses brought ica’s toughest sheriff” could be in and Can$450m ($350m) over three together under the broad umbrella of for a close race in the November years to United Nations peacekeep- ‘peace operations.’” FDA recommends Zika testing general election. ing operations around the world. Funding would go to protect dis- “If I didn’t care, I would say Touted by the Liberal admin- placed persons, refugees, women ‘Good,” and would let someone istration as a recommitment to and children, as well as support else take over,” Arpaio, a Repub- multilateralism, the move also posi- “early warning, conflict prevention, for all blood donated in US lican, said in an interview with tions Canada to make a stronger bid dialogue, mediation and peace- Reuters. “That’s not how I am.” for a rotating seat on the UN Secu- building, and the empowerment A tireless campaigner against rity Council. of women in decision making for AFP transmission mounts and those cases of locally transmitted Zika, with illegal immigration, Arpaio drew Ottawa’s “commitment to peace and security.” infected often show no symptoms, 43 infections made public. national attention in 1993 for setting increase Canadian participation in The 600 personnel will include even stricter safeguards are needed “Testing of donated blood is up a tent city outside the Maricopa UN peace operations and support- ground troops and command- across the nation, said the FDA. already under way in Florida and County Jail, where inmates were ing its mediation efforts, preventing ers, with engineering and medical MIAMI: All donated blood should “The FDA is updating its guidance Puerto Rico, as well as in other areas, housed even in the desert heat. He conflicts, and engaging in post- expertise and military and police undergo tests for the Zika virus, after careful consideration of all avail- and it has shown to be beneficial in is also known for making prison- conflict reconstruction” will give training. Military transport aircraft which can cause birth defects, US able scientific evidence, consultation identifying donations infected with ers wear pink underwear. Canada “a stronger voice on the will also be deployed. regulators said yesterday amid a with other public health agencies, and Zika virus,” said the FDA statement. Arpaio’s main competition in world stage,” Foreign Affairs Min- Trudeau has said French speak- mounting outbreak of the mosquito- taking into consideration the potential Health officials say Zika is pri- Tuesday’s primary on the Repub- ister Stephane Dion told a news ers in the Canadian military are borne virus in the United States. serious health consequences of Zika marily spread by the bite of an Aedes lican side is from Dan Saban, conference. in demand in hotspots in some “There is still much uncertainty virus infection to pregnant women aegypti mosquito, but it can also be a former police chief of Buck- Defence Minister Harjit Saj- former French or Belgian colonies, regarding the nature and extent of and children born to women exposed transmitted sexually. Yesterday, eye, Arizona who has lost to him jan said a decision has not yet including Haiti and the Central Afri- Zika virus transmission,” said Peter to Zika virus during pregnancy,” said US authorities announced the first twice before. “Right now, we have been made about where to deploy can Republic. Sajjan also recently Marks, director of the Food and Drug an agency statement. known case of a man who had Zika an organization built around one the military personnel. Trudeau is returned from a five-country scout- Administration’s Center for Biolog- More than 2,500 people in the but did not know because he showed person and his image and it’s quite likely to identify a specific mission ing mission of possible locations in ics Evaluation and Research. United States have been diagnosed no symptoms — and then subse- disturbing,” said Saban, 60. “I’m or missions when he goes to the UN Africa, providing a hint of possible “At this time, the recommen- with Zika, and more than 9,000 in quently infected his female partner compelled as a citizen to offer the General Assembly next month. countries in which Canada may dation for testing the entire blood the US territories such as Puerto during unprotected union. voters another choice.” Whereas his Conservative pred- deploy troops. supply will help ensure that safe Rico, according to the US Centers Four out of five people who get By the next fiscal year, county ecessor Stephen Harper, sought International Development blood is available for all individu- for Disease Control and Prevention. Zika do not show any of the com- taxpayers are projected to have distance from the United Nations, Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau also als who might need transfusion.” Most of those cases were brought mon symptoms. “As new scientific spent $54 million on the on-going Trudeau has signaled that Canada visited Colombia earlier this year, The move revises a previous in by people who were infected while and epidemiological information federal racial profiling case. now intends to play an increased opening the door to Canada play- FDA guideline issued in February traveling abroad. There are 584 preg- regarding Zika virus has become If Arpaio beats Saban on role beyond its borders through the ing a role in an upcoming ceasefire that recommended active screen- nant women in the mainland United available, it’s clear that additional Tuesday, he will go up against global body. observer mission following a truce ing of donated blood only in “areas States with lab evidence of Zika infec- precautionary measures are neces- Democrat Paul Penzone, a former According to government between the government and rebel with active Zika virus transmission.” tion, and 812 in the US territories. sary,” said Luciana Borio, the FDA’s Phoenix police officer who nar- figures, 31 Canadian soldiers forces. But now, as evidence of sexual Florida announced last month its first acting chief scientist. rowly lost to Arpaio in 2012. Devastating California judge keeps in bird flu strain place new law allowing found in US wild duck physician-assisted suicide

Reuters Reuters to legalize medical aid in dying for terminally ill patients, terminol- ogy that advocates prefer over the CHICAGO: The type of avian flu phrase “physician-assisted suicide.” that led to the deaths of about RIVERSIDE: A California judge At least 30 individuals are 50 million US chickens and tur- yesterday refused to suspend a known to have obtained a prescrip- keys last year has been found in new state law allowing physician- tion under California’s law since it the country for the first time in assisted suicide for terminally ill took effect on June 9, according 14 months, the US Department of patients, citing the need to protect to Compassion & Choices, a group Agriculture said yesterday. them from pain, but he allowed a backing the law. The USDA said it detected legal challenge to proceed. The doctors named as plaintiffs the H5N2 strain of the disease in The mixed ruling portends a were joined by the American Acad- a wild duck in Alaska as part of continued debate over the highly emy of Medical Ethics, also known A miner returns a tear gas capsule during clashes with riot police during a protest against Bolivia’s President surveillance testing it has been contested law in the first months of as the Christian Medical and Dental conducting on birds since last Evo Morales’ policies, in Panduro south of La Paz. its implementation. “The court won’t Society. The law in question allows year’s devastating outbreak. That be deterred when there’s a matter of terminally ill patients to obtain strain has not been found in any public interest this large,” Riverside a prescription for medication to wild birds or poultry since June Bolivia deputy minister murdered County Superior Court Judge Dan- hasten their death so long as two 2015, according to the agency. iel Ottolia said yesterday. physicians agree that the person has Following the discovery, the A group of doctors in Riverside, no more than six months to live and agency recommended that all east of Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit is mentally competent. farmers and companies involved AFP the country, is also politically trou- scene. A real flogging,” said prose- to overturn the so-called Califor- The statute also requires a in poultry production review bling for Morales, a leftist and labor cutor Edwin Blanco. Illanes’s boss, nia End of Life Option, which was patient seeking life-ending med- their protocols for cleaning and leader who sees himself as a cham- Interior Minister Carlos Romero, said passed by the state legislature last ical aid to present two separate security to assure the health of pion of unions and workers. all signs indicated he had been “cow- year and went into effect in June. requests to an attending physician their birds. LA PAZ: Bolivian President Evo Morales accused his enemies of ardly and brutally murdered.” Attorneys for the doctors and for two witnesses to attest to Wild birds can carry the virus Morales said yesterday that there using a series of recent protests by Illanes, who had served as dep- requested a preliminary injunction the patient’s wish to die. without showing symptoms of it was a “political conspiracy” against disabled Bolivians, private trans- uty interior minister since March, to suspend the law while the law- The bill was strongly opposed and transmit it to poultry through his government after protesting min- portation companies and now the had gone to a highway blockade in suit proceeds. But Ottolia denied the by some religious groups, includ- their feathers or feces. ers allegedly kidnapped, tortured National Federation of Mining Coop- an attempt to mediate with miners request, saying it would harm ter- ing the Roman Catholic Church, as The US Centers for Disease and beat to death a deputy minis- eratives (FENCOMIN) to destabilize after days of violent protests. minally ill patients. “The injunction well as advocates for the elderly and Control and Prevention consider ter who tried to negotiate with them. his government. He had earlier told local media would subject them to additional disabled. They argued unscrupulous the risk of infection to the general Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira “There is a political conspiracy in by telephone that “I am in very good pain,” Ottolia said in court. caregivers or relatives could pres- public to be low, the USDA said. broke down in tears on national TV this movement by FENCOMIN, and health... safeguarded by peers, so Ottolia also ruled on a request sure vulnerable patients to take Last year’s outbreak cost poul- describing how miners allegedly not a genuine social agenda for the people do not hurt me.” But reports by the state and other supporters their own lives. try exporters millions of dollars bludgeoned Deputy Interior Minis- mining sector,” the president told a later came in that the 56-year-old of the End of Life Option to dismiss To win an injunction, the plain- in lost business as trading part- ter Rodolfo Illanes to death Thursday news conference. “I feel this perma- former criminal lawyer was dead. the lawsuit instead. They argued the tiffs had to convince Ottolia they ners limited deals from states and after he tried to hold talks with them nent conspiracy is using disabled His body was found wrapped doctors lack proper legal standing have a strong likelihood of prevail- counties with infected flocks. Some at a roadblock they had set up in the people, using private transport and in a blanket abandoned along the to bring their case. “Plaintiffs have ing on the merits of their challenge. countries, such as China, halted western highland town of Panduro. mining cooperatives,” he said. highway, which has since been patients that fall under the act so The lawsuit’s essential argument all imports of US poultry. The 2015 “He was harassed, tortured... he Investigators said Illanes reopened to traffic. Illanes’s body- the case is not hypothetical,” Otto- is the law violates some patients’ outbreak also sent US egg prices to was beaten to death according to the appeared to have died of a stroke guard escaped the scene after being lia said, in denying the request to constitutional rights to due process record highs and tightened supplies information we have,” Ferreira said. after suffering brain trauma and stripped of his gun, and was admit- put aside the lawsuit. and equal protection by arbitrarily of turkey meat. The brutal killing, which shocked fractured ribs. “It was a very rough ted to a clinic in La Paz. California was the fifth U.S. state labeling them terminally ill. CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 13

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INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Expatriates enjoying a day off with playing cricket at the empty parking area of Al Sadd Sports Club in Doha, yesterday. Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula

Temperatures dropped in the city, Chil- dren enjoying SpaceX Dragon at the Shera- Britney Spears does it again in ton park Doha returns to Earth yesterday Photo by with station Kammutty VP latest pop culture comeback science, gear

Reuters before undergoing a personal and a distinctive dance style that com- AP career meltdown in 2006-2007 bines cheerleader precision with that included shaving her signature slinky bits of burlesque.” Panic on NY subway train as blonde locks, losing custody of her Spears will perform “Make Me,” NEW YORK: Britney Spears is hit- two children and being placed under with rapper G-Eazy, at the live VMA CAPE CANAVERAL, FLOR- crickets, worms let loose ting up pop culture one more time, a court-ordered conservatorship. show, her first appearance there IDA: A SpaceX Dragon capsule releasing a new album, singing retro She made a comeback in late since her halting performance of returned to Earth yesterday karaoke hits and about to take the 2008 and for the past three years has “Gimme More” in 2007 when her with scientific gifts from the AFP After the crickets were set free, MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) been performing a nightly show in career hit a low. International Space Station. some of them jumped on passengers, stage for the first time since 2007. Las Vegas. But the new album and “She has had such a huge NASA astronaut Kate according to the Post. “Never seen a Spears, 34, who became a teen the anticipation surrounding her impact on this show throughout her Rubins waved goodbye as the crowd get so panicked so fast, eve- pop phenomenon with breathy VMA performance have thrust her career, so for us to have her back is Dragon slowly flew away Fri- NEW YORK: It could have been a ryone rushed to the other side of the hits like “Toxic” and “Oops!..I Did it back in the national spotlight. a no-brainer,” said Garrett English, day morning. Six hours later, scene straight out of a horror movie. train,” one rider, Ezra Mechaber, wrote Again,” released new album “Glory” Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield executive producer of the VMA show. the spacecraft parachuted A woman trying to sell crickets on Twitter. “Mass hysteria in a locked, yesterday ahead of a much antici- said “Glory” was “another fantas- “She embodies what the VMAs into the Pacific, just off Mex- and worms on a crowded New York enclosed space is something else.” pated return to the VMA show on tic comeback” for Spears, in which is to a large extent and she has had ico’s Baja California coast. It’s City subway car became frazzled Some people whipped out Sunday in New York. she “goes back to the fizzy electro- some of the biggest moments on this loaded with 3,000 pounds by some teenagers and let the crit- smartphones and began recording. She also became the latest super- stomp mode she does best.” stage, and I think Sunday night will of research and equipment, ters loose on riders, then urinated In one video posted online, the star to ride, sing and chat with US “Glory” was top of the iTunes be the same,” English added. including 12 mice that flew on herself, according to social media woman yelled, “Why’d you have to talk show host James Corden for his charts in more than 40 nations yes- Spears is also to be the subject up on the Dragon as part of a posts and news reports. hit me?” and “My crickets!” viral “Carpool Karaoke” segment, terday, including Saudi Arabia, Chile of a 2017 TV biopic for the Lifetime genetic study. Riders on the subway train In another, the woman is seen where both donned the schoolgirl and Russia. cable channel that will chart her rise “Good splashdown of were locked in close quarters with screaming uncontrollably as rid- uniforms that shot her to fame as a Billboard’s Jennifer Keishin Arm- to fame along with her stumbles, and Dragon confirmed,” SpaceX the critters for half an hour during ers tried to consol her. The D train, 16-year old in the 1998 music video strong said that with the single and her romances with Justin Timberlake reported via Twitter. rush hour on Wednesday evening which connects the boroughs of the for “... Baby One More Time.” music video for “Make Me”, Spear and ex-husbands Jason Alexander Rubins and Japanese astro- after a passenger pulled the train’s Bronx with Brooklyn via Manhattan, Spears dominated pop music had “reclaimed her standout talent, and Kevin Federline. naut Takuya Onishi used the emergency brake while they were was stopped on the bridge spanning big robot arm to release the on the Manhattan Bridge. the East River. After it began mov- capsule. Mission Control The teenagers had pushed the ing again, police officers met the thanked the astronauts for woman as she offered the creepy- train at the next station. No one was Enjoying the run their effort, then added, “To crawlies for sale, and she tossed the injured, and the woman was taken the Dragon recovery team, container holding them into the air, to a hospital for psychiatric obser- fair winds and following seas.” the New York Post reported, citing vation, the New York Daily News The Dragon delivered a witnesses. It was unclear if the reported. Police did not release new docking port last month teens pushed her accidentally. her name. that will be used in another year or two by SpaceX and Boeing, which are develop- ing crew capsules for NASA. Apple devices failing more than Its shuttles five years retired, the space agency has turned Android smartphones: Study over orbital deliveries of both cargo and astronauts to pri- vate companies, in order to NEW YORK: When it comes to reliability and performance, Apple iPhones focus on Mars exploration. In and iPads are failing more often than Android smartphones, a study has the meantime, NASA astro- revealed. According to global data security firm Blancco Technology Group, nauts ride in Russian capsules iOS devices had a 58% failure rate while Android smartphones reported to the space station. SpaceX is an overall failure rate of 35% in the second quarter of 2016. the only space station shipper It is the first first time that Apple’s devices have a lower performance capable of returning items for rate compared to Android, softpedia.com reported, citing the study. analysis back to Earth; that’s iPhone 6 had the highest failure rate of 29%, followed by iPhone 6s why the Dragon is so impor- and iPhone 6S Plus. For this, the study revealed the device failure rates by tant to NASA. Everyone else’s operating systems, manufacturers, models and regions. In the first quar- A giraffe runs in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, yesterday. The park is 39,206 hectares in size at cargo ships are filled with trash ter of 2016, Android smartphones had an overall failure rate of 44 per cent. the core of an 8,000 sq km ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. at mission’s end and burn up “Samsung, Lenovo and LeTV were among the manufacturers with the on re-entry. weakest performance and higher failure rates. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 11,134.81 -51.33 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,358.52 -89.89 PTS Iran wants Facebook moves to pre-sanctions oil FTSE100 6,838.05 +21.15 PTS making money from market share: Minister BRENT $47.59 +$0.26 WhatsApp

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39% of GCC-listed firms Moscow auto show beat analysts estimates

QNB and IQ key out- performers in Qatar as 11% Qatari listed companies beat forecast during the second quarter.

By Satish Kanady The Peninsula Models pose beside Mercedes Benz GLC 250 4MATIC Coupe and AMG cars on display at the 2016 Moscow International Auto Salon in Moscow. lower than estimates by 32 per- of Dh1.8bn, due to 31 percent decline cent. STC reported 2Q16 net income in provisioning charges supported DOHA: An estimated 11 percent of SR1.87bn vs estimates SR2.47bn by a loan-loss recovery of Dh497mn. Qatari listed companies beat ana- due to reduction in Mobile termina- NBAD’s 2Q16 bottom line decreased lysts’ forecast during the second tion rate and finger print verification 5 percent YoY at Dh 1.4bn, however quarter of 2016 (Q2, 16). Industries impacting subscriber’s numbers. it beat estimates by 6 percent on the Qatar (IQ) and QNB were the key Mobily also posted lower than back of strong fee and FX income FTSE announces ‘eligible’ outperformers. IQ posted 2Q16 net expected results at SR19m (vs. esti- reported by the bank. income of QR1.27bn (-14 percent YoY) mated SR34m), mainly due to 18.4 In Kuwait aggregate profit was 2 beating estimates by 64 percent, due percent higher SG&A expenses. On percent below estimates at KD222m. list of Qatari companies to stronger performance in the steel the other side, petrochems out- Banks contributed to the lower than and petrochemical segment. QNB performed by 32 percent; SABIC’s expected earnings in Kuwait, as reported Q2, 16 profit of QR3.4bn bottom line was down 23 percent NBK missed consensus estimates of (+16 percent YoY), higher than con- YoY at SR4.7bn, but beat expectations KD80m and posted KD72m in 2Q16. The Peninsula Qatar , Doha Bank, Ezdan Hold- same period. sensus estimate of QR3.2bn due to by 22 percent, due to better earn- CBK reported Q2, 16 net earnings of ing Group, Industries Qatar ,Masraf “Qatar’s performance was the consolidation of two quarters of ings contribution from its three listed KD3.7m, down 64 percent YoY and Al Rayan ,Medicare Group ,Oore- largely because of the expectation its recent acquisition (Finansbank), subsidiaries. below expected earnings of KD12.7m. doo ,Qatar Electricity & Water Co of new foreign fund buying on the investment bank SICO said. Yansab’s earnings were higher Omani companies’ profit reached DOHA: FTSE Russell has published ,Qatar Gas Transport ,Qatar Insur- back of FTSE increasing Qatar’s SICO, which covered 142 GCC than estimates by 59 percent led by RO157m (+7 percent YoY), 5 per- an indicative list of Qatari stocks ance ,Qatar International Islamic weight in its emerging market indi- companies including 17 listed com- better than expected operating per- cent above expectations. Omantel which will be eligible for addition Bank ,Qatar Islamic Bank , Qatar ces. Also fundamentally, due to a panies in Qatar, said at least 39 formance and other income. outperformed consensus median to FTSE’s Secondary Emerging Mar- National Bank, Qatar Navigation, better government budget position, percent of GCC’s listed companies UAE’s overall aggregate prof- (RO28.8m) and reported net income ket Index, in conjunction with the Qatari Investors Group, Salam Inter- Qatar is viewed as a safer bet in the missed the estimates while another its were at Dh13.2bn vs. Dh12.4bn of RO32m (+20 percent YoY), led by September 2016 Review. national Investment Ltd, United region. That said, in the last week 39 percent beat the analysts’ esti- estimated by analysts. Earnings robust top line growth and lower FTSE Russell client products, Development Company and Voda- stocks started selling off indicat- mates in Q2. On an aggregate level, beat was mainly because of Etis- royalty expense. Also in banks, scheduled to be released on August fone Qatar. ing the speculative buying may be GCC companies’ profits declined by alat’s strong Q2, 16 bottom line of Bank Muscat posted net income 31, 2016 will confirm the final list of The changes to the FTSE Second- over however. While previous stock 6 percent year-on-year. Dh2.3bn, which outperformed esti- of RO46.7m, higher than expected Qatari additions, it announced on ary Emerging Market index will be valuations were below other GCC The aggregate profit of Saudi mated median by 16 percent, led by RO42.6m. 46 percent of Telecoms Thursday. effective from September 20, 2016. markets like UAE, I think now val- companies reached SR26.1bn (-12 strong performance in UAE. More- and 53 percent of Petrochems has The Qatari companies eligible Qatar’s stocks in recent weeks uations have caught up. The key for percent YoY) in Q2, and was slightly over, Banks beat estimates by 4 beaten estimates. 57 percent of the for the FTSE Secondary Emerging outperformed other GCC markets continued stock future performance below estimates (-1 percent). The percent, as ENBD reported Q2, 16 Real estate and Construction com- Market Index are:: Aamal , Al Meera by around 8-10 percent, particularly is higher oil prices of at least around miss in earnings was primarily due net profit of Dh1.9bn (+16 percent panies reported lower than expected Consumer Goods Company, Barwa the Saudi market which actually 55-60”, a Doha-based fund manager to Telecoms’ earnings, which were YoY) higher than estimated median profits. Real Estate,Commercial Bank of declined by 5 percent during the told The Peninsula yesterday. Yellen suggests US Fed rate hike is coming US economy grew

AP and our outlook for economic activ- rise in inflation towards the 2 percent ity and inflation,” Yellen said, “I target, with a December move still at tepid 1.1% pace believe the case for an increase (in appearing the most likely outcome,” the Fed’s benchmark borrowing rate) said Andrew Hunter, an economist WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve has strengthened in recent months.” with Capital Economics. AP quarter by spending at the fastest Chair Janet Yellen (pictured) said Still Yellen declined to hint at Hunter pointed to a government pace in six quarters, Commerce that the case for raising interest rates whether the Fed might raise rates report Friday that the economy, said. That suggests steady job has strengthened in light of a solid at its next policy meeting, Sept. as measured by the gross domes- growth and modest pay gains are job market and an improved outlook 20-21, or at its subsequent meetings tic product, grew at an anemic 1.1 WASHINGTON: The US econ- making Americans more confi- for the US economy and inflation. But in early November and mid-Decem- percent annual rate last quarter as omy expanded at a sluggish 1.1 dent and willing to spend. “The very she stopped short of offering any ber. Instead, she stressed, as she evidence that the Fed likely wants percent pace this spring as busi- slight downward revision ... isn’t too timetable. frequently has, that the Fed’s rate to see stronger growth. nesses sharply reduced their concerning, especially given that the Yellen sketched a generally decisions will depend on whether In December, the Fed raised stockpiles of goods and spent less more recent data point to a strong upbeat assessment of the economy the freshest economic data contin- its benchmark rate modestly in on new buildings and equipment. rebound in the third quarter,” Steve in a speech to an annual conference ues to confirm its outlook. response to a brighter economic pic- Yet most analysts forecast much Murphy, an economist at forecast- of central bankers in Jackson Hole, “As ever,” she said, “the economic ture, notably a job market nearing faster growth in the summer and ing firm Capital Economics, said in Wyoming. She pointed to steady outlook is uncertain, and so mone- full health. The rate had been kept fall, fuelled by healthy consumer a research note. gains in employment and strength tary policy is not on a preset course.” at a record low near zero since the spending. The Federal Reserve Bank of in consumer spending. Economists took her remarks to depths of the 2008 financial crisis. The estimate is slightly below Atlanta currently forecasts growth She also noted that while infla- mean that while a rate hike remains At the time, the Fed foresaw four the Commerce Department’s pre- will jump to a 3.4 percent annual tion is still running below the Fed’s possible at the Fed’s September additional rate increases in 2016. But vious figure of 1.2 percent growth pace in the July-September quar- 2 percent target, it’s being depressed meeting, it isn’t necessarily likely. since then, global economic pres- as measured by gross domestic ter. Still, the economy expanded at mainly by temporary factors. “We think most officials will sures, financial market turmoil and product, the broadest gauge of the a lackluster 1 percent annual pace “In light of the continued solid want to see more concrete evidence a brief slump in the US job market economy. Consumers offset the cor- in the first half of 2016, following performance of the labor market of a rebound in GDP growth and a have kept the Fed on the sidelines. porate cutbacks in the April-June growth of 2.6 percent last year. 18 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS

Air New German economy on growth trajectory Zealand self-reinforcing cycle of activ- spending, will drive an economic negotiations between Brussels and a record budget surplus over the ity, though Britain’s Brexit vote has expansion tipped to reach 1.7 per- London on their future relationship. same period, allowing Finance Min- flies to Vibrant domestic unnerved German companies trad- cent in 2016 — a forecast that could German exports to Britain — its ister Wolfgang Schaeuble to increase economy offsets ing abroad.Data and surveys released well be bumped higher. third biggest market — stagnated in state spending on roads, housing and record profit shocks from this week showed domestic demand The GfK institute said it expected the first half of the year ahead of the migrants ahead of federal elections cementing its role as the main driver private consumption, which accounts 23 June referendum in which Britons in 2017, while sticking to his goal of abroad as private of Europe’s biggest economy, more for roughly 50 percent of GDP, to voted to leave the European Union. running a balanced budget. WELLINGTON: Air New consumption and than compensating for a sluggish grow by 2 percent. “There are still Brexit-related risks were a major Some analysts now think eco- Zealand announced an export sector that is facing waning no signs of consumer fatigue in factor in a sharp and unexpected nomic growth will pick up speed in operating windfall yes- state spending demand. Germany,” said Sal. Oppenheim drop in morale among German the third quarter, to 0.5 percent from terday, posting a record become both buoyant. A robust labour market, ris- economist Ulrike Kastens. “Private company executives in August, as 0.4 percent in the second. NZ$463m (US338.01m) ing wages and ultra-low borrowing consumption remains an important measured on Thursday by the bench- For 2016 as a whole, the gov- after-tax profit, up 42 costs suggest the spending power of pillar for the German economy, in mark Ifo index. ernment and national central bank percent, as the country German consumers will rise further, addition to construction.” Even so, Tuesday’s survey among expect GDP to expand by 1.7 percent, benefitted from a tourist Reuters the GfK sentiment indicator showed But an unwillingness to invest on purchasing managers by research matching last year and the strongest boom. yesterday. the part of companies — which Kas- firm Markit — also closely watched growth rate in four years. It was “the best result The survey showed the consumer tens termed the economy’s Achilles’ — showed German private sector Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ever” in the 76-year his- mood improved unexpectedly head- heel — remains a barrier to faster growth remained robust overall. chief of staff Peter Altmaier has tory of the New Zealand BERLIN: Germany’s domestic econ- ing into September, hitting one of its growth. The private sector is hold- That points to further expansion hinted Berlin may nudge that fore- national carrier, chief omy is set fair for further growth, highest points in the past 15 years. ing back investment due to a number in an economy that grew a robust 1.1 cast higher, saying in June: “We will executive Christopher with robust household and gov- That reinforced expectations that pri- of external risks and uncertainties, percent in the first half of the year. have economic growth this year that Luxon said. ernment spending propelling a vate consumption, along with state not least the timing and terms of The solid upswing generated is probably above last year’s level.” The before-tax profit for the year to June 30 stood at a record NZ$663m, up 40 percent, with pas- senger revenue up 8.9 Iran wants pre-sanctions percent to NZ$4.5bn. The record numbers co-incide with New Zea- land recording 3.31 million oil market share: Minister short-term visitor arrivals in the year to June 30, up 11 per cent on the previ- AFP ous year. Luxon expressed confidence in the future, believing the airline TEHRAN: Iran wants its pre-sanc- was well-placed to meet tions share of the crude market, increased competition Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh (pic- ahead. “There’s no doubt tured) said yesterday, dampening customers have more the prospects of agreement on an choice but we are confi- output freeze at an Opec meeting dent that we have the right next month. pricing, products and serv- “Iran had no role in disrupting ices to stay a step ahead of the stability of the oil market and the competition as we grow after the (lifting of) sanctions we our business at home and The logo of German car maker Volkswagen is seen at a dealership in Woodbridge, Virginia. seek to revive our share in the global overseas,” he said. crude market,” he said, quoted by But given the uncertain the ministry’s SHANA news service. impact of competition, and Zanganeh had given a brief based on the current mar- boost to world prices on Thurs- close to the level before interna- Volkswagen labour boss suggests ket conditions, Air New day after announcing he would tional sanctions were imposed Zealand forecast pre-tax attend the informal Opec meeting in 2012. “When the instability earnings for the full year in Algiers on a possible output freeze occurred in the market, ... Iran’s oil 2017 to be in the range of with non-cartel producer Russia in exports were less than one million taking stakes in key suppliers NZ$400m-NZ$600m. late September. bpd,” Zanganeh said. “We expect The airline is to pay a But yesterday he insisted there those who disrupted the market’s fully imputed ordinary div- could be no talk of Iran abandoning stability to take the highest respon- idend of 10 cents per share, its ambitions to restore its market sibility in restoring stability.” Reuters “A conceivable approach are minor- saying that VW should now seek bringing the full-year divi- share after last year’s nuclear agree- Prices had already dipped in ity stakes or options to buy.” stakes in all of its suppliers. But with dends to 20 cents per share, ment with world powers led to the Asian trade earlier yesterday after Europe’s largest carmaker regard to vulnerable parts (of the up 25 percent on the pre- lifting of sanctions on its oil exports. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al and the two suppliers on Tuesday business), this might be a possibility.” vious year. Employees “Iran will cooperate with Opec Falih played down the prospects of HANOVER: Volkswagen should resolved a dispute affecting 28,000 VW declined to comment. will also benefit from the on improving prices and the state any major move on output. “I don’t consider taking stakes in key sup- workers at six of VW’s 10 German VW suppliers Car Trim and ES record performance with of the crude market, but we expect believe that an intervention of sig- pliers to shield itself from disruptions factories. Automobilguss last week stopped a bonus of up to NZ$2,500 our right to restore our lost market nificance is required. I certainly after two of its parts makers brought A day earlier VW was forced to deliveries of seat covers and cast to be paid to 8,200 staff not share in the market to be consid- don’t advocate a cut,” he said. car production in Germany to a halt production of its top-selling iron parts for gearboxes, triggering covered by other incentive ered,” Zanganeh said. “Iran has A previous Opec attempt to standstill by refusing to deliver com- Golf and Passat models as well as stoppages after VW had cancelled a programmes. Earlier this made its sacrifices for the market freeze output collapsed in April ponents, Deutsche Presse Agentur assembly of engines, gearboxes and contract without notice and refused week, Air New Zealand’s and it’s no longer the time for Iran,” largely because of Iran’s refusal (DPA) reported yesterday, citing the emissions systems. to pay €58m of compensation, main regional rival, Qantas, another Iranian website, Mizan to join talks. Around 1230 GMT, US VW’s labour boss. Osterloh, a member of VW’s sources said. reported a record annual Online, quoted him as saying. benchmark West Texas Interme- “Because of what we experi- supervisory board, referred to Japa- VW expects production of its Golf net profit of Aus$1.42bn Tehran says it has doubled its diate for delivery in October was enced in the past days, we may now nese rival Toyota for possible lessons and Passat models in Germany to be (US$1.08bn) in a strong exports of oil and gas to 2.7 million down 18 cents at $47.15 a barrel. possibly need an additional alert sys- on how an investment in parts mak- back to normal by Monday follow- turnaround after major barrels per day (bpd) since signing Brent North Sea crude for Octo- tem to further reduce those risks for ers can help a carmaker to better ing a compromise which will see the restructuring. the nuclear deal in July last year. ber delivery lost 32 cents to $49.35 Volkswagen,” VW works council chief control its supply chain. suppliers, both part of Bosnia’s Pre- Its total output has risen from a barrel compared with the close Bernd Osterloh was quoted as saying “Toyota has holdings in many vent group, work with VW for at least 2.7 million bpd to 3.85 million bpd, on Thursday. in an interview published yesterday. of its suppliers,” he said. “I am not another six years. General Motors wins ignition-switch trial Brexit: Tata Motors Q1 net profit halves on forex loss Bloomberg York yesterday. Often with product-defect cases, the first claims are won by the defense, then the pattern flips, Reuters was at its British luxury unit Jag- NEW YORK: General Motors’s vic- Tobias said. The plaintiffs’ lawyers uar Land Rover where profit after tory in a Houston courtroom makes “become more educated over time,’’ tax fell to £304m from £492m in the the carmaker three for three in tri- he said. “They figure out what they’re year ago quarter, despite a 9 per- als related to an ignition-switch doing wrong. It turns and the defense MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Foreign cent increase in revenue thanks to defect, but its legal entanglements gets serious over settlement talks.’’ exchange losses after Britain’s deci- strong sales of its Jaguar XE compact may stretch on for years. The number of lawsuits claim- sion to leave the European Union saloon and Discovery Sport SUV. At least a dozen lawsuits are set ing ignition switch failures caused and higher expenses offset strong “The operating performance for trial in the next year, according to deaths or injuries continues to grow. sales growth at India’s Tata Motors, in the quarter reflects the over- court records. The next trial begins Last month, a federal appeals court more than halving its net profit in all higher wholesales, offset by Sept. 12 in New York federal court in Manhattan ruled GM had to face the April-June quarter. adverse foreign exchange impact in a lawsuit over the 2011 crash of working as designed. The defect has In one case, a federal jury in even more, by reversing a deci- Tata Motors’ profit was hit of £207m including revaluation of a Chevrolet Cobalt in Virginia. The been linked to at least 124 deaths and March blamed a New Orleans crash sion dismissing suits over accidents by forex losses of Rs22.96bn £84m, mainly euro payables result- company also faces lawsuits by car 275 injuries. on a freak ice storm rather than a before the company emerged from ($342.43m) mainly due to pound ing from depreciation in the pound owners claiming economic losses Jurors heard GM Chief Execu- faulty ignition switch. The first trial bankruptcy in 2009. depreciation post-Brexit vote and following the Brexit vote,” Tata said because of the reduced value of their tive Officer Mary Barra (pictured) fell apart before it went to a verdict GM may have a tougher time adverse commodity derivatives in a statement. vehicles. testify by video that the company’s when the plaintiffs were caught in a winning cases in the future judging impact of Rs1.67bn in the quarter, As a result, operating margins In the Texas case, a jury of eight failure to properly classify the igni- lie. “People keep trying these cases by the post-trial comments of jurors it said in a statement yesterday. at JLR fell to 12.3 percent during the women and four men in state court tion flaw as a safety defect — which where their client gets caught in a in the Texas case. Chief Financial Officer C Ram- quarter from 16.4 percent in the year took about an hour to reach its deci- would’ve triggered a mass recall — lie,’’ Langdon said. “You are not going “There was some hate of GM in akrishnan said while the company ago quarter. sion following a three-week trial. was part of a “series of mistakes” that to win those cases.’’ the room,” said juror Deanna Harner, cannot predict whether the foreign Margins were also impacted They determined that GM wasn’t lia- had “tragic consequences,” including In addition, the two jury victo- a 43-year-old corporate finance exchange impact will continue, it by lower local market incentives ble for a 2011 accident that left Zach some deaths. ries came in trials led by lawyers who executive who said it was “pretty will be cautious and closely mon- earned in China this quarter com- Stevens, then 19, with a brain injury But jurors weren’t convinced that aren’t experienced in auto-defect despicable” the carmaker knew itor and assess market conditions pared with a year ago and a change after his 2007 Saturn Sky careened Stevens’ accident was directly related cases. Many of the remaining claims about the defect but failed to warn in Britain and the EU. in the product portfolio to include out of control on a rain-slick road to the ignition-switch defect. Plain- are being pursued by product-defect customers. “We need to be careful ... that is more high-volume-low-margin and hit a pickup, killing the driver. tiffs’ credibility was questioned when specialists. Walter Kimble, a 58-year-old why we have a fairly robust hedge vehicles like the Jaguar XE. In 2014, GM recalled 2.6 mil- they provided the wrong car key as “I’d like to see what happens in home inspector, said Stevens’s law- book so we are not subject to so Tata Motors, India’s top auto- lion US cars with ignition switches evidence. Flaws like that mean GM’s a very solid case with very experi- yers didn’t give him “anything I could much volatility,” Ramakrishnan maker by revenue, said consolidated in danger of jostling off. Once the three wins so far won’t have much enced lawyers,’’ said Carl Tobias, a work with.” said, adding that major events net profit for the quarter fell to 22.36 switch came off, the cars lost power effect on the claims remaining, said law professor at the University of “I held my nose and did my job,” that suddenly trigger significant billion rupees compared with 52.31 and safety systems such as power plaintiff’s attorney Bob Langdon, Richmond in Virginia. Kimble said. “I wanted so desper- currency movements tend to be a billion rupees in the year-ago quar- steering, power brakes, air bags who represents multiple accident GM shares rose less than 1 per- ately to make that young man a surprise. ter. Analysts on average expected a and seat belts were prevented from victims suing the automaker. cent to $31.66 at 10:25 a.m. in New millionaire.” The majority of the forex loss profit of Rs24.2bn. BUSINESS SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 19 Facebook moves to making money from WhatsApp

policies. Another change is poten- a current phone number because tially more controversial: WhatsApp that’s how WhatsApp knows where WhatsApp is says it will begin “coordinating” to deliver messages. going to share accounts with Facebook by shar- The coordination of accounts ing WhatsApp users’ mobile phone may draw fire from privacy advo- your phone number numbers and device information, cates. WhatsApp has long promised with Facebook. such as the type of operating system not to employ user data for adver- and other smartphone characteris- tising. Its acquisition by Facebook tics. The company says Facebook will two years ago sparked complaints employ the phone number internally from activists who worried the new AP to better identify WhatsApp users owner would start mining WhatsApp on Facebook, so it can recommend accounts. Though both companies friends or show targeted advertising. pledged WhatsApp would oper- The ads would come through a ate separately from its parent, the SAN FRANCISCO: Global messaging Facebook programme called “Cus- Federal Trade Commission warned service WhatsApp says it will start tom Audiences,” which lets a business them publicly, in a 2014 letter, against sharing the phone numbers of its upload lists of customers and phone changing how they employ WhatsApp users with Facebook, its parent com- The WhatsApp application displayed on a iPhone in San Anselmo. numbers or other contact informa- user data without users’ consent. pany. That means WhatsApp users tion the business has collected from WhatsApp says current users could soon start seeing more targeted out to anyone. WhatsApp on Thursday offered could include using WhatsApp to pro- warranty cards or other sources. have up to 30 days to accept the new ads on Facebook — although not on But the giant social network has a glimpse of its plans for turning on vide receipts, confirm a reservation Facebook matches the list to users policy terms or stop using the serv- the messaging service itself. been looking for ways to make money the money spigot, releasing new doc- or update the status of a delivery. with the same information and ice. Once they accept, they have 30 The move is a subtle but signifi- from WhatsApp since it bought the uments that describe the company’s Companies could also send mar- shows them ads. Facebook says it more days to opt out of sharing with cant shift for WhatsApp, which has service two years ago, in an eye- privacy policy and the terms of serv- keting offers or messages about sales doesn’t give out users’ information Facebook. long promised to safeguard the pri- popping deal social network’s Chief ice that users must agree to follow. to individual customers, according to advertisers. Privacy groups have praised vacy of more than 1 billion users Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg The documents are the first revision to the new documents, which note WhatsApp phone numbers are WhatsApp for building powerful around the world. WhatsApp is giv- (pictured) paid $21.8bn for the app of those policies since 2012, before that users will be able to control or valuable to Facebook. While the encryption into its services, mak- ing users a limited time to opt out of in 2014. At the same time, Facebook Facebook acquired WhatsApp. block such messages. WhatsApp says social network already has many ing it impossible for the company or sharing their information with Face- has pledged not to interfere with a One change follows through on it will continue to bar traditional dis- phone numbers, it doesn’t require anyone else to read users’ messages. book, although they must take the longstanding promise by What- previous hints by WhatsApp execu- play ads from its service. users to provide them, and doesn’t WhatsApp promises that encryption extra step of unchecking a box to do sApp’s co-founders to respect users’ tives, who have said they’re exploring “We do not want you to have a always have the most current number will remain, so neither WhatsApp nor so. It also says Facebook won’t post privacy and keep ads off its messag- ways for businesses to communicate spammy experience,” the company for everyone on Facebook. But any- Facebook would be able to use mes- phone numbers online or give them ing platform. with customers on WhatsApp. That tells users in a summary of the new one on WhatsApp must provide sage content for advertising purposes. Rajan welcomes Patel UK consumers powered growth in Q2 as successor at RBI Reuters leading up to and immediately fol- The ONS data showed that during fall in business investment in annual lowing the referendum, show no sign the second quarter the economy was terms over two quarters since late so far of uncertainty having signifi- its strongest in April before remain- 2009 and early 2010. Reuters cantly affected investment or GDP,” ing flat in may and June. The Bank of England and the LONDON: Britain’s consumers and Joe Grice, ONS chief economist, said Spending by households, who International Monetary Fund said businesses showed no sign of reining in a statement. drove Britain’s economic recov- earlier this year there were signs that in their spending ahead of the coun- Gross domestic product rose by ery over the past three years, rose uncertainty about the Brexit referen- MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Reserve try’s Brexit vote in June, official data 0.6 percent in the second quarter and by 0.9 in the three months to June dum was weighing on investment. Bank of India(RBI) Governor showed yesterday, adding to signs was up by 2.2 percent compared with compared with the first quarter, the Some major investors in Britain, Raghuram Rajan (pictured) wel- that the economy went into the ref- the same period last year, in line with strongest increase since the July-Sep- such as carmaker Nissan, have said comed yesterday the appointment erendum in strong shape. preliminary readings and with fore- tember period of 2014, the ONS said. their investment plans will hinge on of Urjit Patel as his successor, calling Households increased their casts in a Reuters poll of economists. In annual terms, a 3.0 percent the country’s future trading arrange- him a close ally and saying it would spending by the most since before the There have been signs that Brit- increase in household spending ments, but others have pressed ahead ensure continuity in meeting the financial crisis in the second quarter, ain’s economy did not suffer an was the strongest rise since the with expansion and takeovers. country’s inflation objectives. the Office for National Statistics said. immediate sharp slowdown after the end of 2007. Business investment The ONS data showed trade Patel, currently a deputy gov- The data also showed invest- Brexit vote, mostly thanks to contin- increased by 0.5 percent on the quar- dragged on overall economic growth ernor at the RBI, was named by the ment by businesses unexpectedly ued spending by consumers. ter, confounding expectations in the in Britain in the April-June period but government this month to replace rose between April and June — a But the April-June growth rate is Reuters poll for a fall and reversing there have been signs that the post- Rajan at the helm of the central period which mostly covered the widely expected to be a peak com- a decrease in the first three months referendum slump in the value of the bank on September 4. run-up to the shock decision by vot- pared with the coming quarters of the year. pound is giving exporters some help. The future RBI governor is ers to leave the European Union on because Britain’s economy is likely In year-on-year terms, business A survey published this week widely seen as closely aligned to June 23 — compared with the pre- to slow sharply, or possibly even fall investment was down 0.8 percent, showed manufacturers’ export Rajan, who was hailed by inves- committee — to be made up of three vious three months. “Our survey into recession, as a result of the Brexit matching a similar fall in the first orders rising at their fastest pace in tors for cutting inflation in half officials named by New Delhi and returns, which include the period vote, economists say. quarter. It was the first consecutive two years in August. during his three-year tenure after three RBI representatives — will be introducing a target that aims to established by then. keep consumer prices rising at 2-6 In the speech, Rajan focused percent. on the market reforms the RBI has Target Corp Patel, who prefers a lower pro- unveiled since he joined in 2013, British Home Stores closes down file, headed the committee that when India was mired in its worst unveiled that target and is one of the currency crisis in more than two mulls Welspun architects of the creation of a yet- decades. to-be-named six-member monetary He acknowledged the RBI had contract shift policy committee that will set inter- proceeded cautiously, saying his est rates. “I am confident that Dr. priority had been to navigate India to rival Trident Urjit Patel, who has worked closely through a period of great market with me on monetary policy for the turmoil. last three years, will ably guide the Rajan reiterated his caution Bloomberg Monetary Policy Committee going about issuing a dollar-denomi- forward in achieving our inflation nated bond abroad for the first time, objectives,” Rajan said in a speech given the “currency risk” involved, to market participants in Mumbai. while also expressing misgivings NEW YORK: Target Corp is con- The remarks were the first to about allowing rupee-denomi- sidering shifting its bedsheets address the appointment of his nated securities to trade abroad. orders to Trident Ltd, a supplier successor. But he strongly endorsed the raft among those that stand to win Rajan added he had “no doubt of reforms unveiled by India’s cen- some of the $90m in business that that inflation will fall in the months tral bank on Thursday to deepen the rival Welspun India Ltd lost after ahead”, after consumer prices rose country’s corporate bond markets it was caught passing off cheaper 6.07 percent in July. That is above as being the right form of slower sheets as premium Egyptian cot- the RBI’s inflation target and also developments. ton, according to people familiar above his personal aim to bring “Observers may be impatient, with the discussions. down inflation to around 5 per- but my belief is that steady and irre- Target has begun sampling cent by March 2017. The RBI will versible reform and ‘mini bangs’ like A man pulls baskets full of goods as he shops in the retailer BHS (British Home Stores) during its last sheets manufactured by Tri- next hold its policy review on Octo- yesterday’s rather than ‘Big Bang’ is day of trading before the store closes in Bromley, south east London. The last branches of BHS close dent. Trident, which says it’s the ber 4 in what would mark Patel’s the need of the hour. As global con- their doors for the final time this week ending the chain’s 88-year history on Britain’s high street. world’s largest maker of terry debut, though the government has ditions become less uncertain, the After failing to find a buyer for the clothing, food and homeware retailer, administrators announced towels, currently supplies them not said whether a monetary policy pace of reform can pick up.” the closure of all 163 stores with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs. to the retailer and is one of the few Indian companies with the capac- ity to produce more bedsheets. “We have previously shared that we were actively work- Amazon launches its own car research site for customers ing with existing vendors on our matrix to determine where we move the business. Trident is one of our current vendors,” said Tar- The Washington Post car parts and accessories, but this is car owners within the Amazon information, including information because reviewers haven’t yet had get spokeswoman Molly Snyder. the first time it has taken a serious customer community,” said Adam on recalls. The move positions Ama- time to leave much commentary. Target on August 19 severed push to feature vehicles on the site. Goetsch, director of automotive at zon against many well-known car Someone looking at the new Ama- business ties with India’s largest One selling point for Amazon Vehi- Amazon.com. research sites, including trusted zon Vehicles section on Thursday home textiles exporter after the WASHINGTON: Looking for a new cles, according to the company, will Amazon Chief Executive Jeffrey P names such as Edmund’s or Kelley morning wouldn’t have very much company said it discovered that car? Now you can look that up on be that customers can leave reviews Bezos is also the owner of The Wash- Blue Book 1 which also list profes- information from other drivers — sheets and pillows labelled as Amazon.com. for cars in much the same way as ington Post. sional and consumer reviews for many cars don’t have any reviews. premium Egyptian cotton were Although Amazon isn’t getting they can for any other item on the Amazon also has collected basic cars. While Amazon doesn’t have the Amazon also doesn’t have a way actually made with another type into the business of selling cars, a site. information on a number of vehi- same reputation on vehicles as these for users to find dealerships sell- of cotton. The retailer pulled the new section of its website is designed “Amazon Vehicles is a great cles, giving users easy access to older sites, it appears to be banking ing the cars they want, which is an items from its stores and offered to help people looking for a new ride resource for customers who are attributes such as gas mileage and on the fact that customers already on option on other car research sites. customers refunds. Other Welspun get more information on the vehi- interested in car information or look- car dimensions. the site will find it convenient to get Instead, Amazon users can save a customers, including Wal-Mart cles out there. The Amazon Vehicles ing for a broad selection of parts and Users can compare different auto information at Amazon’s one- car to a “garage” on the site. Doing Stores Inc, Bed Bath & Beyond section of the massive online retailer accessories - all enhanced by the versions of the same model of car stop shop. so will make it easier for people to Inc and JC Penney Co said they went online on Thursday. ability to tap into the knowledge, — the hatchback vs. the sedan, for It will take some time for the find compatible car parts and acces- are reviewing Welspun’s product Amazon already sells millions of opinions and experiences of other example. Listings also contain safety site to get off the ground, however, sories - where else? — on Amazon. claims and certification records. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016

British economy Ride-hailing industry escapes Brexit blow, for now is ripe for competition

By Andy Bruce UK avoided an immediate crisis Reuters does not tell us much about the future,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, adding he thought Britain ritain’s high streets are would probably avoid a techni- heaving with shoppers cal recession — defined as two despite June’s shock consecutive quarters of falling vote to leave the Euro- economic output. Business sur- Bpean Union, big companies have veys and some forward-looking reported few signs of distress and indicators of inflation already some tabloid newspapers are offer reasons for caution. Price even talking about a post-Brexit pressures in factories — which economic boom. feed through into consumer The overwhelming view from prices — shot higher after the economists is that it is too early pound’s post-referendum plunge, to know how Britain will cope posing a threat to consumers’ with years of Brexit uncertainty future spending power. — but there is a growing belief Market research firm GfK’s the country can avoid a reces- gauge of consumer confi- sion that only weeks ago was dence also fell sharply after the regarded as likely. vote. The survey often predicts On the face of it, the early changes in household spending Pedestrians cross the road as a nuTonomy self-driving taxi undergoes its public trial in Singapore on Thursday. optimism contrasts with the pre- in the following quarters. referendum warning from former A YouGov/CEBR gauge of By Heather Somerville smaller ones. of whether it could compete with Uber. Prime Minister David Cameron consumer morale, published yes- Reuters The industry, they said, has none of the Lyft says it can. In the United States, it that a Brexit vote would put a terday, showed consumers have elements that traditionally have enabled says it more than tripled its drivers to about “bomb under the economy”. regained some of the confidence single companies to control a sector. If it is 315,000 in the last year. Between October Retail sales in August they lost after the referendum, the first of its kind, a company can domi- and May it nearly doubled its annual gross reversed much of an immedi- but researchers warned this pos- hinese powerhouse Didi nate markets that have huge infrastructure revenue to $1.9bn — although that figure ate post-Brexit vote fall, with itive trend could easily change Chuxing’s acquisition of Uber costs, such as putting up cell towers or lay- does not reflect the many rider discounts retailers reporting their strong- next year. Technologies Inc’s China oper- ing pipes; a large workforce of employees and promotions Lyft offers. est sales in six months, industry The outlook for the housing ations marked the biggest move with specialized skills; and customers who Uber has 1.5 million drivers and pro- data showed on Thursday, partly market, the bedrock of British yet toward consolidation in an get locked into a service and have difficulty jected $26bn in gross revenue globally due to a weaker pound attract- consumer wealth, is also unclear: Cindustry that many investors and Silicon leaving for competitors. this year, based on a 2015 presentation ing overseas buyers. Official a Reuters poll on Thursday sug- Valley pundits view as a winner-take- Ride-services, by contrast, are relatively for investors. Last year, Lyft hit another figures out last week showed gested the Brexit vote will have all game. On the day the Didi deal was cheap to start, depend on contract labour benchmark: the wait time for a ride is three the number of people claim- a negative impact on both prices announced earlier this month, Uber board with no inherent loyalty or specialised skills, minutes, on par with Uber, said President ing unemployment benefit fell and turnover. member Bill Gurley said Uber’s rivals in and have free apps that can be downloaded and Co-Founder John Zimmer. At three unexpectedly in July. Before the Charles Goodhart, a former other markets had a slim chance of split- in seconds. “You may not want to try a new minutes or less, a passenger will almost June 23 referendum, the British BoE interest-rate setter, said so ting the market with the dominant player, social networking site if your friends aren’t always complete the ride. “You need a cer- finance ministry had warned a far there had been almost no just as Uber struggled to erode Didi’s share on it,” Evans said. “But you don’t care what tain level of scale to get to three minutes,” Brexit vote would mean home- data on important areas of the in China. app your friends use for ride-hailing.” Zimmer said, referring to the number of owners facing higher borrowing economy such as investment, After China, the industry will consoli- The question of whether on-demand drivers and passengers. “Once you reach costs, pushing the economy into inventory levels and construction. date in other markets, said Hans Tung, an ride services will remain open to new play- that, if someone else has more scale, it a “DIY recession”, and that equity “I think it would be very dan- Asia-focused investor and managing part- ers has vexed startups and investors since doesn’t matter.” prices were likely to fall. gerous to take a position either ner at GGV Capital, which backed Didi Uber started the industry seven years ago. New York-based Juno has brought on However, nearly half of mort- that it’s all going to be alright and and Grab, a Singapore-based ride service. Companies taking on Uber include Lyft 12,000 drivers since launching earlier this gage borrowers look set to gain that the fears were massively “There will be a dominant No. 1,” he said in the United States, Grab in Southeast Asia, year and already has hit the three-minute from the Bank of England’s inter- overdone, or that the fears were that same day. Ola in India and newer startups like New wait time in Manhattan, said Co-founder est rate cut on August 4, while justified,” said Goodhart, a pro- The consensus of 11 economists inter- York City’s Juno. In the United States, in par- and CEO Talmon Marco. “This is a fairly British equity markets have risen. fessor at the London School of viewed, however, suggests an entirely ticular, part of Uber’s attraction to investors local industry,” Marco said. “You can be a Some British newspapers Economics, said. “The answer is, different scenario, one of perpetual com- is the chance at grabbing the entire industry. hero in New York and you can be zero in which supported the Leave cam- frankly: we don’t know.” petition in a business with relatively few In a statement, Uber said: “The ride- California, and it’s OK.” paign have hailed such news. While the mood among econ- barriers to entry. sharing industry around the world is highly In India, Uber and Ola are neck and “Remainers were WRONG!” the omists remains one of concern, it “That one firm wins is a narrow and not competitive and innovative. That’s good neck around 45 percent of the market each Daily Express declared earlier has brightened across financial accurate way to think for riders.” after Uber’s market share fell and Ola’s rose this month, adding: “Brexit Brit- markets. Investors were braced about these firms,” said Uber investor and board member Gur- in 2015, according to market research firm ain booms”. But most economists for a global economic shock after David Evans, chair- ley argued that any competitor would need 7Park Data. do not share this jubilance and a vote for Brexit, but the FTSE 100 man of the Global to pursue a different strategy — perhaps The challenge for new startups, how- caution these positive signals index of UK blue-chip companies Economics Group and offering more luxury and high-end services ever, is that leading companies subsidise may have little bearing on the is about 8 percent higher since co-author of a recent — to successfully battle Uber in its strongest their drivers and passengers as they pri- long-term outlook for the econ- the referendum. book that included markets. Didi, Ola and Grab did not respond oritise gaining market share over profit. omy, which must contend with Many big companies have Uber, “Matchmakers: to requests for comment. Both Uber and Lyft have spent heavily on years of uncertainty as Britain reported little immediate impact Companies taking The New Economics of When business magnate Carl Icahn driver bonuses and rider discounts and extricates itself from the EU. from the vote in Britain, includ- Multisided Platforms.” invested $100m into Lyft in early 2015, he promotional credits. “Everything that has New British Prime Minister ing retailers John Lewis and Next, on Uber include Lyft Ten other econo- told media outlets he saw “room for two.” happened in this space is completely artifi- Theresa May has said she will not the world’s biggest staffing com- in the United States, mists who have studied Chris Sacca, a prominent venture capital- cial and funded by a glut of VC money,” said trigger the EU’s Article 50 this pany Adecco and carmaker BMW. ride-hailing agreed that ist who invested in Uber, responded “This Daniel Ramot, CEO and co-founder of star- year, to begin formal talks with Some major employers — car- Grab in Southeast the growing industry, is a winner-take-all game,” on Bloomberg tup Via, which completes about 200,000 the bloc to negotiate the terms maker Nissan, for example — say Asia, Ola in India and which UBS estimates television. Lyft has hired an M&A firm and rides each week in New York. Economists of Britain’s exit from the EU and their plans for investment in Brit- newer startups like to be a $40bn market, recently explored the possibility of acqui- argue that Lyft can be a profitable company its future trading relationship ain will hinge on the trade deals it has room for at least sitions by several companies, a source with roughly 20 percent of a market, which with the bloc. “The fact that the strikes with other countries. New York City’s Juno. two successful play- familiar with the discussions said, and would allow it to reduce expenses through ers, and perhaps a few reports of a possible sale stimulated talk economies of scale. Saudi seen undeterred by potential Fed hike to sell bond

By Matthew Martinand very crucial for success of the issue. My fear is Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the Archana Narayanan While the timing and size of the deal may that by the end of September, or early Octo- kingdom’s debt to A1 in May, the fifth-highest Bloomberg change depending on market conditions, the ber, most issuers will issue. Placing $10 billion investment grade and two levels below that of kingdom wouldn’t be concerned by a poten- is a huge amount, and it needs some time to get both Abu Dhabi and Qatar, saying the slump tial US interest rate increase next month, one of absorbed by market participants.” in oil prices may lead to a “material deteriora- the people said. Traders see one-in-three odds It would be better to get the sale done by tion” in the nation’s credit profile. audi Arabia will probably push ahead of higher US interest rates after the Septem- early September, when there is less compe- Government debt levels will increase to with the sale of at least $10bn of bonds ber 20-21 meeting, increasing bets from zero tition from other issuers in the Gulf, and still 30 percent of economic output by 2020 from even if the US raises interest rates next two weeks ago, as some policymakers predict comparatively low borrowing costs, he said. 7.7 percent, according to targets set out in the month, spurred on by demand for growth picking up. Citigroup Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc, and transformation plan released in June. The Semerging-market assets that may leave enough The possible sale comes as Kuwait plans to JPMorgan Chase & Co. were hired as global plunge in crude is driving bond sales across room for other Gulf states to follow. issue as much as $9.9bn of bonds, with Bahrain coordinators for the Saudi Arabia deal, peo- the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council as gov- Saudi is planning The kingdom is planning to sell its first and Kuwait also considering deals after Qatar ple familiar with the situation told Bloomberg ernments seek to fill fiscal gaps the IMF said to sell its first international debt securities in early October raised a record $9bn in May and Abu Dhabi in June. Proceeds would be used to help fund could reach $900bn by 2021. as the country seeks to plug a budget deficit $5bn in April. “Having seen record emerging- an economic transformation plan and plug “This diversifies their sources of revenue international debt estimated at about $80bn this year, people with market inflows in recent weeks despite a lack a budget shortfall caused by the slump in oil and funding, so I think it’s very clever,” said Bob securities in early knowledge of the matter said. The government of issuance, there will also be room for other prices, they said. Michele, chief investment officer and head of may market the securities to potential inves- Gulf issuers, even if Saudi Arabia issues above The gap is estimated at 13 percent of eco- global fixed income at JPMorgan Chase & Co. October as the country tors in the last week of September and issue $10bn,” Pham said. nomic output this year, according to the “Oil is in a sweet spot now at $40-50 a barrel, seeks to plug a budget the debt early the following month, the people Not everyone is convinced that Saudi Ara- International Monetary Fund. it’s not down at $30 a barrel where it was a cou- said, asking not to be identified as the infor- bia’s issuance will succeed if it’s done after the The kingdom earlier this year hired HSBC ple of quarters ago, so it’s good timing for them.” deficit estimated at mation is private. Fed meeting, which could cause demand for banker Fahad Al Saif to start a debt manage- Investors are buying the most amount of about $80bn this year. “Saudi Arabia’s mega-bond deal is the most riskier emerging-market assets to wane. ment office responsible for the bond sale. The protection against a Saudi Arabian debt default awaited emerging-market bond sale this year,” “I would have thought they would do it a office is still working on hiring personnel and in at least five years, according to data compiled said Trieu Pham, a strategist at Mitsubishi UFG little bit earlier,” Sergey Dergachev, a senior implementing policies, which could affect the by Bloomberg. The net amount of outstanding Financials Group Inc. in London. “The Federal money manager at Union Investment Privat- timing, one of the people said. Saudi Arabia credit-default swap contracts has climbed to Open Market Committee’s meeting in Septem- fonds GmbH in Frankfurt, which oversees about also celebrates a week-long religious holiday $1.1bn, according to data from the Depository ber therefore won’t pose a serious hurdle.” $13bn, said in e-mailed comments. “Timing is in September. Trust & Clearing Corp. SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 21

BARCLAYS SCORES 66 Patrick Reed, Martin Laird (SCO) 67 Rickie Fowler, J.B. Holmes, Kevin Chappell, Emiliano Grillo (ARG) South Africa and New Zealand 68 Jason Day (AUS), Jonas Blixt (SWE), Jhonattan Vegas (VEN), Kang Sung-Hoon (KOR) 69 Billy Horschel, Luke Donald (ENG), Scott Piercy, Adam Scott (AUS), Lucas Glover, John Huh, Ryan Moore, Sean O’Hair, Derek Fathauer 70 Adam Hadwin (CAN), Chez Reavie, Jerry Kelly, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, shootout for series honours Brian Harman, Jim Furyk, Blayne Barber, Kevin Kisner, Brandt Snedeker, John Senden (AUS), Zac Blair, Keegan Bradley 71 Brian Stuard, Jason Bohn, Ryan Palmer, Kevin Streelman, Ben Martin, Char- ley Hoffman, Daniel Berger, Robert Streb, Paul Casey (ENG), Marc Leishman (AUS), Jim Herman, Gary Woodland, Rory McIlroy (NIR), Justin Thomas, Hideki Proteas hope for win Matsuyama (JPN), Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Shawn Stefani against Black Caps at their Test fortress Centurion to improve PGA: Reed and Laird grab in the world rankings early lead at Barclays AFP

AFP to get myself on a hot streak and get going. And anytime you shoot bogey-free you’re going to get a low CENTURION: South Africa and New one.” Zealand go into a one-match shoot- NEW YORK: Patrick Reed and Mar- Laird meanwhile also produced out for series honours when they tin Laird fired five-under-par 66s a blemish-free round, carding a 66 meet in the second and final Test to open up a one-shot lead after the after sinking five birdies and no starting at SuperSport Park in Cen- first round of The Barclays Cham- bogeys. turion today. pionship on Thursday. Laird and Reed finished ahead The Proteas can nudge up one World number 14 Reed rat- of a group of four players on four place to sixth in the International tled off 10 consecutive pars over under, which included Rickie Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings the opening 10 holes before hitting Fowler. if they win, while the Black Caps will three birdies and an eagle over the Fowler’s round included three remain fifth irrespective of the result. New Zealand’s players shake hands with Zimbabwe’s batsmen after victory during the fourth day of the final eight holes at Bethpage Black birdies and an eagle and would have But the reputation of Test cricket first Test match in a series of two Tests at Queens Sports Club, in Bulawayo, in this July 31, 2016 file photo. in Farmingdale. been good enough for a share of the is at much at stake as rankings points New Zealand take on South Africa in the final Test starting today in Centurion. Reed’s impressive opening lead had it not been for a bogey on after a farcical first Test in Durban round left him sitting pretty along- the par-four ninth, when his sec- where less than 100 overs of cricket side Scotland’s Laird after a first ond shot landed in the front bunker. were played before a wet, soft out- season. He said it was necessary to overs each before rain intervened on round that saw Sweden’s Henrik “It was a good solid start,” said field prevented any play on the last plant winter grass because fielders SECOND AND FINAL TEST the second day in Durban. Stenson limp out injured. Fowler, who believes accuracy off three days. struggled on dry, dormant summer BEGINS TODAY South Africa’s batting is a con- Reed, who teed off on the back the tee will be key heading into the There was even less cricket in a grass when the same two countries cern, however, with AB de Villiers nine, grabbed the first of his three remaining three rounds. Test match between the West Indies met in a one-day international in missing because of injury and sev- birdies on the second, before eagling “You’ve got to get the ball on the and India in Port of Spain, also August last year. “It might not deteriorate as we eral players falling to loose shots in the par-five fourth hole with a fairway. You have to be aggressive because of outfield conditions. “The players are used to sliding are used to. It might be a little bit Durban. 16-foot putt. off the tee here,” he said. “It pays It is the first time Test cricket in to stop the ball, which on dormant slower, it might be holding back a New Zealand have an advan- Further birdies on six and seven to be closer on those second shots.” has been played in South Africa in turf you cannot do. That was the bit more,” he said. tage in terms of match practice after completed a flawless display for the World number one and defend- August, almost two months before major consideration when switch- Centurion has been a fortress for playing and winning two Tests in 26-year-old from San Antonio, who ing champion Jason Day of Australia the usual start of the season. ing to winter turf.” South Africa in Test cricket, with the Zimbabwe before coming to South is chasing a fifth PGA Tour victory. meanwhile was two off the pace, Preparing grounds for winter With virtually no rain falling on home side having won 16 of the 21 Africa. “My goal today was to stay after a 68. conditions has been a challenge - the South African Highveld during Tests at the ground. patient, stay in it,” Reed said. “I Day recovered from a bogey on which Durban failed to meet after winter - and no rain predicted dur- Their only two losses were felt like I was hitting the ball well. the second to carve out four birdies re-seeding the outfield only two ing the Test - Du Preez is confident against England in a contrived result PROBABLE TEAMS I wasn’t being that patient when I and 12 pars for his three-under-par months before the match. that conditions will be suitable for in 1999-2000, engineered by the late South Africa: Faf du Plessis (capt), Dean made 10 straight pars but I was able total. Following reports from the match Test cricket. Hansie Cronje before he was banned Elgar, Stephen Cook, Hashim Amla, JP referees, the outfields in Durban and He said more time had been nec- from cricket because of his associa- Duminy, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Port of Spain were condemned as essary to prepare the pitch because tion with bookmakers, and against Kock (wkt), Vernon Philander, Kagiso “poor” by the ICC. cool conditions meant it took longer Australia in 2013-14. Rabada, Dale Steyn, Dane Piedt. Centurion groundsman Rudolph to dry out after watering. The hosts go into the match New Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt), du Preez had the advantage of plant- Du Preez said he did not expect buoyed by the form shown by open- Martin Guptill, Tom Latham, Ross Taylor, ing winter grass much earlier than uneven bounce to be as much of ing bowlers Dale Steyn and Vernon Henry Nicholls, BJ Watling (wkt), Mitchell Durban, with work starting in April, a factor as it has been in the later Philander, both returning from Santner, Doug Bracewell, Neil Wagner, almost immediately after the 2015-16 stages of matches in recent seasons. injury, although they only bowled six Tim Southee, Trent Boult. England to go ahead with Bangladesh tour

AFP accompanied by director of cricket Following the meeting Strauss, “Selection for the tour will be operations John Carr and David a former England captain, said: made after the end of the (English) Leatherdale of the Professional “England’s tour of Bangladesh will summer internationals (in Septem- Cricketers’ Association recently vis- continue as planned. ber),” he said. LONDON: England are to go ahead ited Bangladesh to make their own “Safety and security of play- England are due to arrive in with their tour of Bangladesh, the security assessment. ers and management are always Bangladesh on September 30, with England and Wales Cricket Board Following their return, the ECB paramount. We’ve received a thor- their schedule also including three confirmed on Thursday. said on Thursday that the three one- ough risk assessment, had excellent warm-up matches. “We can confirm that @eng- day internationals and two Tests insight into the current situation One before the ODIs and two landcricket’s tour of Bangladesh will which England are due to play in and been fully briefed on security ahead of the Tests. continue as planned,” said a state- Bangladesh in October and Novem- commitments. They are set to leave Bangladesh ment on the ECB’s official Twitter ber before heading to India were set “The ECB and PCA have the on November 2 ahead of a five-Test feed. to go ahead as scheduled. utmost confidence in the advice and series in India starting the follow- The future of the tour was England players -- includ- support we’ve been given.” ing week. thrown into doubt when an attack ing Test captain Alastair Cook and Strauss added that details had “We will, as always, continue to in Dhaka, the capital of Bang- One-Day captain Eoin Morgan -- been discussed with the players and monitor the situation right up to and ladesh, saw 20 hostages killed, received a briefing on Thursday management in an open meeting throughout the tour,” Strauss said. including nine Italian citizens, with from longstanding security chief Thursday. Australia cancelled their tour of the Islamic State group claiming Dickason, accompanied by ECB “They asked lots of questions, Bangladesh in October for security responsibility. director of cricket Andrew Strauss, have time to ask more and will reasons and then withdrew their Martin Laird of Scotland lines up a birdie putt on the 16th hole during An ECB delegation led by Leatherdale and Carr, as well as Tom clearly want to take it all in -- we side from the Under-19 World Cup in the first round of The Barclays in the PGA Tour FedExCup Play-Offs on security adviser Reg Dickason, Harrison, the ECB chief executive. understand that. the country at the start of this year. the Black Course at Bethpage State Park on Thursday in New York.

BASEBALL RESULTS MLB: Rangers, Giants and Nationals earn big wins Tampa Bay 2 Boston 1 Detroit 8 Minnesota 5 Washington 4 Baltimore 0 LA Angels 6 Toronto 3 Reuters and three walks in 8 2/3 innings on for the fifth time this season. Closer batters he faced, finishing with eight runs (one earned), five hits and three Kansas City 5 Miami 2 a career-high 133 pitches (88 strikes). Mark Melancon pitched the ninth in strikeouts as the Indians managed to walks while striking out four in 5 2/3 NY Mets 10 St Louis 6 He struck out seven. a non-save situation and retired the get only four balls out of the infield innings to win for the first time since Texas 9 Cleveland 0 Joe Panik homered and drove side while allowing one hit. against him until the eighth. July 17. NEW YORK: Matt Moore came in two runs for the Giants, who First-place Washington (73-54) The Rangers did not have the Rays 2, Red Sox 1 Pittsburgh 3 Milwaukee 2 within an out of recording his first snapped a four-game losing streak snapped a four-game slide and had same kind of problem against Cleve- Mikie Mahtook snapped an 0-for- C White Sox 7 Seattle 6 no-hitter as the San Francisco Giants and dropped the Dodgers’ lead in the dropped its last six games to Bal- land starter Josh Tomlin (11-8). Texas 34 slump with an RBI double in the Atlanta 3 Arizona 1 beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 on National League West to two games. timore over the past two seasons, jumped on Tomlin for three runs in seventh inning that lifted Tampa San Francisco 4 LA Dodgers 0 Thursday. Nationals 4, Orioles 0 including four straight at Nationals the second inning on a three-run Bay to a four-game series split with Moore held the Dodgers hitless Max Scherzer gave up two hits, Park. homer from newly acquired Carlos Boston. until Corey Seager blooped a single no walks and no runs in eight innings Rangers 9, Indians 0 Gomez. Royals 5, Marlins 2 Mets 10, Cardinals 6 to right to end the bid with two outs and Jayson Werth had two key hits, Left-hander Cole Hamels allowed Angels 6, Blue Jays 3 Alcides Escobar homered and Rookie Seth Lugo pitched five score- in the ninth. Santiago Casilla came including a solo homer in the fourth, two singles in eight innings as Texas Mike Trout had three hits and hit the go-ahead double in the sixth less innings before a right calf cramp on in relief and forced Justin Turner as the Washington Nationals beat the shut out Cleveland. four RBIs as Los Angeles claimed inning to lead Kansas City over forced him out and Alejandro De Aza to pop out to clinch the victory for Baltimore Orioles 4-0 on Thursday. Hamels (14-4) allowed a two- the rubber match of the three-game Miami. Royals (66-61) have won 10 drove in a career-high five runs as the Giants. Scherzer (14-7), who lowered out single to Francisco Lindor in the series with Toronto. of their past 11 games and have also New York defeated St Louis in the rub- Moore wound up allowing a hit his ERA to 2.92, did not allow a run first inning and retired the next 19 Jered Weaver (9-11) allowed two claimed their sixth series win. ber match of their three-game series. 22 SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 SPORT

Alonso to join Belgian GP: Verstappen on top Hamilton at back of grid

Reuters in Red Bull one-two in practice SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS: Fern- ando Alonso will start the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix near the back of the grid after the Span-

Verstappen’s brief Formula One Red Bull racing’s Max iard’s McLaren team replaced career that he had topped the session Verstappen drives during his power-unit with a fresh one The 18-year-old times and did so in front of thousands following yesterday’s opening the second practice session of supporters camping under the practice session. Dutch driver fastest at the Spa-Francorchamps trees in the unexpected heat-wave The double world champion in second practice conditions. Circuit in Spa, yesterday. and his team-mate Jenson Button ahead of tomorrow’s “Compared to our rivals, we switched to the fifth of their per- showdown showed great pace today,” said mitted five power units heading Vertstappen. into the weekend with engine- “I am very happy to finish P1, but supplier Honda introducing an of course it’s only practice. It’s not updated version. qualifying or the race.” But Alonso’s sprung a water AFP He dismissed suggestions that he leak during yesterday morning’s could realise a dream by taking pole 90-minute practice session, lim- at his ‘home’ circuit. iting him to just three laps with no SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS: Dutch “I never dream,” he said. “I just time on the board. teenager Max Verstappen delighted want to work and then we’ll see The new power unit, which his army of fans in the forests of the where we end up.” will cost Alonso 35 places on the Ardennes yesterday afternoon when With Hamilton due to start from grid, is of the same updated speci- he topped the times in second free the back of the grid after taking two fication Honda has introduced this practice for this weekend’s Belgian successive new power units, Ver- weekend. Grand Prix. stappen may have a chance to claim Marcus Ericsson will also drop The 18-year-old Red Bull driver, a memorable win. 10 places in tomorrow’s grid, after who was born 50 kilometres away Hamilton had accumulated a his Sauber team fitted a sixth tur- from the sprawling and majestic Spa- minimum 30-place grid penalty by bocharger to his Ferrari-powered Francorchamps circuit at Hasselt in the end of the day and it is expected car. Belgium, clocked a best lap of one to increase on Saturday if he takes World championship leader minute and 48.085 seconds. another new power unit in final Lewis Hamilton is also set for a That allowed him to outpace Aus- practice. hefty grid drop for exceeding his tralian team-mate Daniel Ricciardo “I am cool about it and for sure, permitted allocation of engine by two-tenths as the Renault- it is going to be an interesting race components. powered outfit delivered a strong on Sunday,” said a smiling Hamilton. The Briton is already set for one-two showing. German Nico Huelkenberg was a 30-place grid drop, with Mer- It was the third time in third-fastest for Force India ahead of his compatriot Sebastian Vettel seventh in the second Ferrari ahead bring Hamilton at least a 15-place cedes fitting his car with two new of Ferrari, Mexican Sergio Perez in of Frenchman Romain Grosjean penalty on the grid. After taking a power units ahead of each of Fri- the second Force India and cham- of Haas, Briton Jenson Button of second power unit for the second ses- day’s practice sessions. BELGIAN GRAND PRIX pionship contender Nico Rosberg of McLaren and Mexican Esteban Guti- sion, Hamilton is expected to have The possibility of Hamilton Mercedes. “I’m not entirely happy, as errez in the second Haas. another installed for third practice on taking on a third new power unit Free Practice Time (Top 10) you can see,” said Vettel. Hamilton, clearly focused on Saturday morning, actions that may ahead of Saturday’s final practice FP2 “I’m struggling a bit with the bal- his race rather than qualifying, was lead to him taking an overall record session to push him even fur- 1. Max Verstappen (NED) Red Bull 1:48.085, 2. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red ance of the car. It didn’t feel great 13th, one place behind Alonso, who grid penalty of 75 places. ther down remains open, a team Bull 1:48.341, 3. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) Force India 1:48.657, 4. Sebastian out there, but that’s up to us, myself was 12th for McLaren having missed A series of engine failures early spokesman said. Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:49.023, 5. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:49.100, 6. and the team -- to work on that and out on the morning session due to a in the year meant Hamilton quickly The Formula One grid com- Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes-AMG 1:49.161, 7. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Fer- improve the car.” water leak. reached the limit of new parts he is prises 22 cars. Grid penalties rari 1:49.244, 8. Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas 1:49.419, 9. Jenson Button Rosberg had been fastest in a The team was forced to change allowed for the season while Ros- cannot be carried over to the (GBR) McLaren-Honda 1:49.419, 10. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Haas 1:49.648. Mercedes one-two ahead of cham- his power unit and install a new berg, who won the opening four next event which means Hamil- pionship leader and defending one, which led to him taking a grid races without problems, is within ton, Alonso and even Ericsson are FP1 champion Hamilton in the morning penalty. the limits. likely to start together at the back. 1. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes-AMG 1:48.348, 2. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) session, but both men concentrated Both Rosberg, who trails Hamil- The Mercedes policy is aimed to But just where they line up rel- Mercedes-AMG 1:49.078, 3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:49.147, 4. Sergio on preparation for the race with long ton by 19 points in the title race with be as fair as possible to both drivers ative to each other will depend Perez (MEX) Force India 1:49.274, 5. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:49.768, runs on medium tyres. nine races remaining, and Hamilton and to give Hamilton sufficient new on when they were hit with their 6. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:49.782, 7. Max Verstappen (NED) Red Finn Kimi Raikkonen, newly were given new Mercedes power- parts to last for the rest of the sea- respective penalties, the number Bull 1:49.865, 8. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) Force India 1:50.088, 9. Valtteri married during the month-long units for the opening free session, a son with all of his penalties served of places they have to drop and Bottas (FIN) Williams 1:50.394, 10. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Haas 1:50.583. European summer break, was move that the team confirmed will at one race. where they qualify. Diamond League: Thompson wins Lochte charged over false robbery claim

Lausanne 100m after start fiasco AFP as saying by news website G1. “If he is summoned and does not turn up to the hearing, the trial will AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: US swimming go ahead in the accused’s absence star Ryan Lochte has been charged until the final sentence is given.” with making a false statement about Lochte apologised last week for being robbed at gunpoint during the saying that he and three team mates LAUSANNE: Double Olympic sprint champion Olympics, Brazilian police said on had been mugged on their way back Elaine Thompson overcame a start fiasco to pro- Thursday. from an all-night party by robbers duce a dominant run to win her favoured 100m at One police official quoted by pretending to be police. the Lausanne Diamond League meet on Thursday. Brazilian media said the 32-year- Rio police chief Fernando Veloso Thompson, who became the first woman since old gold medal-winner risks a jail later told a press conference that American world record holder Florence Griffith sentence, though judicial authori- the swimmers were not robbed but Joyner at the Seoul Games in 1988 to win the sprint ties had yet to confirm that. were detained when they tried to double at the Olympics, timed 10.78sec for the “Ryan Lochte was charged flee after vandalizing a gas station comfortable victory, American Jenna Prandini in with the crime of falsely reporting bathroom. second in 11.11sec. a crime,” police said in a state- The tale humiliated first the “There was a mix up at the start and we had ment, adding that the case had been Brazilian hosts of the Games and to do a re-run. To be able to produce 10.78 on the referred to the courts. later Lochte’s own Team USA when second attempt is great,” said Thompson, adding The police statement said they police contested his story. that she had not changed since her feats in Rio. had recommended that the courts Top sponsors such as Speedo “I’m the same person I was before the Olym- issue a summons for the 32-year- and Ralph Lauren this week aban- pic Games. The reality of being double Olympic old gold medal-winner to be doned Lochte. champion has not really sunk in. questioned. “I’m taking full responsibility “I’m looking forward to going back to Jamaica “Once he is summoned, for it,” Lochte said in an interview to celebrate with my people and my family, but I whether he turns up or not, the broadcast in part late Saturday. will first run a few more races in Europe.” penalty is the same: one to six “I over-exaggerated that story Elaine Thompson of Jamaica reacts following the women’s 100m competition at IAAF Athletics Thompson’s team-mate Omar McLeod was months’ prison,” Rio police offi- and if I had never done that, we Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday. trumped in the men’s 110m hurdles, Cuba-born cial Clemente Braune was quoted wouldn’t be in this mess.” Spaniard Orlando Ortega crossing for victory in 13.11sec. McLeod was one-hundredth of a second a few weeks with not being in Rio,” Harrison said. “I am running as well as I have ever run. Who off the Cuban’s pace. “My objective for the remainder of the sea- knows I can continue until Tokyo. If I manage to “Winning and losing is part of the parcel of son is to win the next two Diamond League races do so, I will have done five Olympics and that is hurdles,” he said. “I am happy for Orlando. and hopefully get another personal best... another an achievment for a sprinter.” “If I had won today I would have had a shot at world record!” Elsewhere there were wins for Jamaican Asafa the Diamond Race but I cannot complain too much. Lashawn Merritt, who won bronze in the Rio Powell in the men’s 100m (9.96sec) and American “Rio was what I wanted from this season.” 400m in which South African Wayde van Niekerk Sam Hendricks in the pole vault, his best of 5.92m The US women swept the 100m hurdles at the set a new world record, raced 44.50sec to seal vic- pushing France’s Renaud Lavillenie into second. Rio Games, but recently-anoited world record tory in the one-lap race in a balmy Lausanne. And Darya Klishina, Russia’s sole competitor in holder Kendra Harrison was not among them as European 100m champion Churandy Martina Rio, made the podium in the women’s long jump, she missed selection at the notoriously cut-throat ran a Dutch record of 19.81sec as he blasted to vic- finishing third with a best of 6.50m in a compe- US Olympic trials. tory in the men’s 200m. tition won by Serbia’s Olympic bronze medallist She showed her form in Switzerland, however, Running in lane seven, the Dutchman came Ivana Spanovic (6.83). clocking 12.44sec to win in another US sweep, fin- off a good bend and maintained his composure “Mentally this has been a very tough season,” ishing ahead of Dawn Harper-Nelson and Jasmin to motor past Panama’s Alonso Edward. she said. Stowers -- both of whom also didn’t make it to Rio “I have had my ups and downs in 2016 but I “I am happy to be back and to be competing. -- in an impressive display of strength in depth am very happy with how it shaped up,” said the This is what you want as an athlete. Ryan Lochte of USA reacts after 200m individual medley final during in the event. 32-year-old Martina. “A national record at the end “I hope the situation with Russia is sorted soon “I’m a bit rusty because I haven’t competed for of the season, you cannot ask for more. and we athletes just have to focus on performing.” the Olympic Games in Rio, in this August 11, 2016 file photo. SPORT SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016 23

PSG and Monaco primed for duel UEFA guarantee four Champions League AFP bolster Monaco’s ability to retain desire for Matuidi to stay, while although the 22-year-old hasn’t reported Manchester United tar- Khelaifi declared on Thursday featured since hurting his knee get Fabinho as well as Portugal that the midfielder would not in April. berths to top leagues international Bernardo Silva. be leaving the Parc des Princes. Today’s visit to Nice, winners PARIS: With their Champions “The guarantee of keeping “Matuidi has a contract with of their two opening matches, League qualification assured, all our players? Unfortunately us, he wants to stay and he will will come too soon for the cov- Monaco switch their focus to that doesn’t exist in football, but stay,” Khelaifi told Infosport+, eted Lille man who has been AFP appeasing the continent’s biggest clubs, hosting French title-holders we were well reinforced,” said although Benjamin Stambouli stepping up his recovery in especially as UEFA have also revealed and fellow European hopefuls Monaco vice-president Vadim is on his way out after closing in Doha. Marseille host Lorient that financial distribution to clubs will be Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 Vasilyev, in quotes published by on a move to Schalke. in the Friday night game as the “increased significantly” for the Champi- this weekend. French sports daily L’Equipe. Alexandre Lacazette’s beleaguered French giants chase MONACO: The top four leagues in Europe ons League and Europa League and that Monaco secured an impres- “We hope to keep the squad superb start to the season has their first win of the campaign. will be guaranteed four places in the “historical success in the competition sive 3-1 aggregate victory over like it is, the sporting ambition earned him a recall to the OM coach Franck Passi drew group stage of the Champions League will also be acknowledged in coefficient Villarreal of Spain in midweek, is really the priority.” France squad following his Euro ridicule for claiming “all is well” from the 2018/19 season, UEFA confirmed calculation.” no insignificant result as the PSG trail leaders Lyon on 2016 omission, and the 25-year- at the club following last week- yesterday. Regarding the latter, UEFA say points principality club attempts to goal difference after beginning old will attempt to add to his five end’s 2-1 defeat at Guingamp but The changes affect the top four domes- will be awarded for previous European keep hold of its top players. their pursuit of a fifth succes- goals at Dijon today. he remains full of optimism. tic leagues in UEFA’s ranking, which are titles and weighted towards more recent Leonardo Jardim’s side were sive league crown with wins While Lyon president Jean- “I’m not worried. I have very currently Spain’s Primera Liga, Germany’s success in the Champions League and placed with CSKA Moscow, over Bastia and promoted Metz. Michel Aulas has insisted that good players but not all of them Bundesliga, England’s Premier League and Europa League. Bayer Leverkusen and Tot- Club president Nasser al- Lacazette will stay, his presence all physically ready yet. You Italy’s Serie A, and will initially run until UEFA have called the changes “an evo- tenham Hotspur in Group E of Khelaifi said PSG had concluded central to OL’s hopes of navigat- (journalists) only talk about the 2021. lution not a revolution”, and the Champions Europe’s premier club competi- their business in the transfer ing a Champions League group result, the supporters too. That’s At the moment, only the three leading League group stage will continue to feature tion, while PSG, quarter-finalists market following the arrival including Juventus, Sevilla and how it is and I’m not going to leagues -- Spain, Germany and England -- 32 clubs, but the changes mean there will each of the past four seasons, of Jese Rodriguez from Real Dinamo Zagreb, Lille winger change anything,” he said. are guaranteed three places in the group be fewer opportunities for sides from lesser will face Arsenal, Basel and Madrid a fortnight ago, but the Sofiane Boufal is likely to join Saint-Etienne host Toulouse phase, with a fourth team entering in the leagues around the continent. Ludogorets Razgrad in Group A. future of Blaise Matuidi remains the Ligue 1 exodus. tomorrow, while Bordeaux will play-off round. Nevertheless, UEFA confirmed that Having fallen short in uncertain with the France mid- The Morocco international is aim to bounce back from a Italy has two guaranteed berths while the current qualifying format, separating the play-off round a year fielder strongly linked with a the subject of bids from South- heavy 4-1 defeat in the Garonne a third team enters the play-offs. domestic champions and teams who qualify ago, clinching their return move Juventus. PSG coach Unai ampton, coached by former Nice derby last time out when they The move will be seen as a manner of via a lower league placing, will be retained. to the group phase should Emery has made no secret of his boss Claude Puel, and Watford, take on Nantes. Portugal without Ronaldo for opening

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho World Cup qualifier Mourinho gives

Casillas left championships and this is an unusual phase Schweinsteiger of the season,” Santos said. “My choice was to PORTUGAL SQUAD FOR The 31-year-old star yet maintain the base of the final stages of the Euro- SWITZERLAND CLASH out of Spain to recover from injury pean championship, apart from the ones who Man Utd warning are medically not in shape. Goalkepers: Rui Patricio (Sporting), suffered during the Euro “The national team is never closed to any Anthony Lopes (Olympique Lyon- squad final as team heads for player,” he added. “There are other options who nais), Eduardo (Dinamo Zagreb) could be here but aren’t today.” AFP Switzerland Central defender Ricardo Carvalho, Defenders: Joao Cancelo (Valen-(Valen AFP whowho is witwithouthout a cclub,lub, anandd rirightght bbackack cia), CCedricedric SSoaresoares ((Southampton),Southampton VieirinhaVieirinha were alsoalso missingmissing fromfrom thethe PepePepe ((RealReal MadridMadrid),), Bruno AlvAlvese MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager Jose squad.squad. (Cagliari),(Cagliari), Jose Fonte (Southamp-(Southamp Mourinho indicated to out-of-favour midfielder Bas- MADRID: New Spain coach ReutersReuters PortugalPortugal faceface SwitzerlandSwitzerland in ton), Luis Neto (Zenit SStt PeterPeters-s tian Schweinsteiger yesterday that there will be no Julen Lopetegui yesterday left out BaselBasel on SeptemberSeptember 6 in theirtheir burg), Raphael GGuerreirouerreiro (Boruss(Borussia place for him at Old Trafford this season. veteran captain Iker Casillas (pic- openingopening ggameame in Group B anandd Dortmund),Dortmund), Eliseu (Benfica)(Benfica) The Germany international has two years to run tured), the country’s most-capped playplay a friendlyfriendly agagainstainst GiGibral-bral- on a reported £190,000-a-week ($251,000, 222,200 player, from his first squad as man- LISBON:LISBON: EuropeanEuropean ttarar in PortoPorto on SeptemberSeptember 1.1. Midfielders:Midfielders: William CarvalhoCarvalh euros) contract, but has been frozen out by United’s ager for upcoming internationals cchampionshampions PortuPortugalgal new manager. (Sporting),(Sporting), Danilo (Porto), JoaoJoa against Belgium and Liechtenstein. wwillill bbee witwithouthout CrisCris-- Schweinsteiger, 32, has declared he will not join “Iker is an absolute reference tiano RonaRonaldoldo fforor ttheirheir MoutinhoMoutinho (Monaco), Adrien SilvaSilv another European club and Mourinho suggested that for the squad, a true icon yester- openingopening WorldWorld CupCup qual-qual- (S(Sporting),porting), Andre GomesGomes (Barcelo-(Barcelo if he stays, he may not even play in the Europa League day, today and I hope tomorrow for ifierifier in SwitzerSwitzerlandland aafterfter na), Joao Mario (Sporting),(Sporting), RenatoRenat or the English Football League Cup. Spanish football,” Lopetegui told a hehe was llefteft out ofof thethe SSanchesanches (Bayern MunicMunichh Asked if Schweinsteiger might play this season, news conference to announce his squadsquad yesterday.yesterday. Mourinho said: “I think it’s very difficult to happen. I’m first squad since taking over from TheThe 31-year-old31-year-old is FForwards:orwards: RRafaafa SSilvailva (Braga), BeBer- not saying it’s impossible. I’m saying it’s very difficult. Vicente del Bosque in July. sstilltill recovering ffromrom tthehe nnardoardo SSilvailva (Monaco), Nani (Vale(Valen-n “I have Paul Pogba, Ander Herrera, Morgan Schnei- “But we decided that our first- kkneenee injury whichwhich fforcedorced himhim cia), Ricardo QuaresmaQuaresma (Besiktas),(Besiktas derlin, Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick. That’s choice goalkeeper will be David de toto limplimp out ofof thethe Euro 2016 finalfinal EEderder (Lille) Andre SSilvailva (Porto) five players for two positions. It’s difficult that a chance Gea. In any case we are not clos- againstagainst France in tthehe ffirstirst half,half, will arise.” ing the door (to Casillas) and will coachcoach FernandoFernando Santos saisaid.d. Mourinho admitted he is surprised Schweinsteiger continue to track his performance, ForwardForward BernardoBernardo Silva,Silva, wwhoho is willing to see out his deal. but have decided not to include him mmissedissed tthehe tournament in FrancFrancee Mourinho hinted that even the players in the club’s in this list.” ththroughrough injury,injury, returnedreturned to tthehe academy have more chance of getting a game than Pepe Reina and Adrian were ssquadquad aalonglong witwithh Russian- Schweinsteiger this season. the other two goalkeepers named basedbased defenderdefender Luis Neto. Schweinsteiger joined United last year from Bayern in the squad. UncappedUncapped Porto for-for- Munich, whose president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has Casillas, 35, has won two wardward AndreAndre SiSilvalva was criticised Mourinho’s treatment of the player. European Championships and alsoalso calledcalled upup.. the World Cup over the course of “The“The cclubslubs his 167 senior appearances for his areare ononlyly just country. startingstarting Spain take on Belgium in a theirtheir Henry becomes friendly in Brussels on September 1, which is Lopetegui’s first game in charge, and four days later host assistant coach CristianoCrC isstit aanno RoRonaldonaldo Liechtenstein at home in Leon in their opening 2018 World Cup AFP qualifier. Lopetegui, who brought Casillas to Porto last summer while in charge of the Portuguese club, BRUSSELS: Former France star Thierry Henry has also left out fellow veterans Cesc been named as the new assistant coach of Belgium, the Fabregas, Pedro Rodriguez, and Guardiola excited about Barcelona reunion national coach announced Roberto Martinez announced Juanfran Torres from the squad. yesterday. A former goalkeeper who “Thierry is an important figure. He will bring some- started a handful of games for Real thing different. He agreed right away to join us,” said Madrid and Barcelona, Lopetegui Reuters managed with distinction for four seasons. “The first time it’s ‘wow’, the second time ex-Everton Martinez, who was appointed at the start of played for Spain in the 1994 “I can’t deny it’s something special for me it’s the second time, then it’s normal.” the month to succeed the sacked Marc Wilmots. World Cup and coached Spain’s to return to Barcelona,” he told reporters on City also have to negotiate Scottish Henry, 39, finished his glittering playing career in youth squads from 2010-14. He Friday. “I grew up there, to play there at 13 to champions Celtic and Gladbach, who fin- 2014 with New York Red Bulls after previously starring also coached Casillas at Porto last LONDON: Pep Guardiola is excited about become a footballer. Most of my life I spent ished fourth in the Bundesliga last season. for Monaco, Juventus, Arsenal and Barcelona. season. the prospect of returning to his former club there, I know the people, the club, the media, “We’ll have to make our best per- Since hanging up his boots, he has been working Casillas was relegated to the Barcelona, though he acknowledges that most of the players, the emotion is there.” formance to go through to the next stage. as a pundit for British television station Sky and as an substitutes bench behind Man- Manchester City have their work cut out to Guardiola has come up against Barca I know Barcelona quite well and Borussia under-18 coach at Arsenal. chester United’s De Gea during advance from a testing Champions League before, and will be hoping that his City side Moenchengladbach. Guardiola has enjoyed He left the latter role in July because Gunners boss Spain’s 2-0 defeat to the Italians group. City have been drawn in Group C enjoy better fortunes than Bayern Munich, a 100 percent record at City, seeing off Steaua Arsene Wenger did not want Henry juggling his coaching which ended their hopes of a third alongside Barca, Borussia Moenchenglad- who lost 5-3 on aggregate in the 2014-15 Bucharest 6-0 on aggregate in the Champions with his punditry. Belgium face Spain in a friendly next consecutive European Champion- bach and Celtic, with Guardiola set to return semi-finals. League playoff and dispatching Sunderland Thursday and then take on Cyprus away in their open- ship crown. to the club where he began his career and “It happened with Bayern,” he added. and Stoke City in the Premier League. ing qualifier for the 2018 World Cup on September 6. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 ThompsonT wins Portugal without LausanneL 100m Ronaldo for Worldd aftera start fiasco Cup qualifier

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Rieti meeting Barshim clears 2.35m cancelled due to to win gold in Lusanne earthquake aftermath

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support was amazing!,” the Qatari ROME: The annual Rieti athletics meeting has been champion tweeted after his memo- cancelled to let local officials dedicate their resources LAUSANNE: Qatar’s gravity defying rable victory. toward recovery from the earthquake that killed at high jumper and 2016-Rio Games Britian’s Robert Grabarz fin- least 267 people in the area. silver medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim ished second while Erik Kynard of The meeting had been scheduled for September 11. cleared 2.35 metres to win the gold the US booked the third spot on the Hotels in Rieti are filled with rescue personnel at Lausanne IAAF Diamond League podium. tending to the worst-hit towns from Wednesday’s quake on Thursday afternoon. The bronze medallist at Rio in nearby Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto. Mutaz, the bronze medallist at Olympics, Bogdan Bondarenko of Eight world records have been set in Rieti, includ- the 2012 London Games, managed Ukraine had to be satisfied with a ing a mark of 9.74 seconds by Asafa Powell in the 100 to win the country’s first-ever sil- fourth-place finish. Mutaz Barshim of Quatar competes meters in 2007. ver medal at Olympics in Rio earlier The energy-filled contest was in the men’s high jump event Meeting director Sandro Giovannelli says that this month and continued his mag- regarded as a re-match between during the Diamond League 60,000 euros ($68,000) in funds from the previ- nificent form at the Swiss city with Olympians Mutaz and Bondarenko, Athletics meeting “Athletissima” ous three editions will go toward reconstruction in terrific performances. but it was Barshim who carried away in Lausanne on Thursday. Amatrice, preferably for children’s spaces and sports “Thanks Lausanne! The crowd all the honours. facilities. It is the first time the meeting has been can- celled since it began in 1971.

Two-time US Open winner Rafael Nadal Qatar trounce Thailand 3-0 in friendly game

The Peninsula Defending US Open champion Novak DOHA: Star striker Hasan Al Djokovic Haydos struck twice as Qatar defeated Thailand 3-0 in a friendly match on Thursday at Al Sadd Club’s Jassim bin Hamad Stadium as the two teams prepare for the final stage of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. Hassan Al Haidos scored on the 8th minute from the spot before adding another on the 77th minute, while Rod- rigo Tabata scored on the 62nd minute. Djokovic, Nadal drawn Al Haydos opened Qatar’s account from the penalty spot to give them the lead and the scoreline remained unchanged until the 62nd minute, when Brazilian-born Qatar striker Hasan Al Haydos in action in this file photo. for potential US Open midfielder Rodrigo Tabata doubled his side’s advantage. Al Haydos struck twice as Qatar defeated Thailand 3-0 Fifteen minutes later, Al in a friendly on Thursday at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium. Haydos was on hand again, scoring his second of the night preparations as they take on Thailand were hoping to build to help Qatar to a resounding Al Sadd in a last warm-up some confidence ahead of semi-final clash 3-0 victory. before travelling to Iran for the their World Cup qualifier The game was the first game of the final stage of against Saudi Arabia taking Maroon’s last in the the qualifiers on September 1. place next week.

Wimbledon due to a left wrist injury, faces Makarova, the world number 36, Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in his first reached the semi-finals in 2014, losing to Olympic champion round match. the American in straight sets. Murray to face Rosol in Second seed and Olympic champion But she beat Williams in the round of Balooshi signs Al Arabi deal Andy Murray, the 2012 winner, starts 16 at the Australian Open in 2012. the opening round against Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic. Williams, 34, comes into the US Open The two clashed in an angry match in after suffering a shoulder injury which Munich last year where Murray described forced her out of the Cincinnati event last The Peninsula Rosol as one of the most hated players on week. AFP the tour. Williams lost in the semi-finals to Rob- With Roger Federer missing the tour- erta Vinci 12 months ago in New York. nament due to a knee injury which has Adding extra spice to the event is the DOHA: Experienced midfielder Talal Al Balo- shut down his season, fellow Swiss Stan possibility for her to break Steffi Graf’s oshi (pictured) has signed a one-year deal NEW YORK: Defending champion Novak Wawrinka takes the third seeding. record of 186 consecutive weeks atop the with Qatar Stars League (QSL) title aspirants Djokovic and fellow two-time winner Wawrinka begins against Spain’s world rankings, and surpass Chris Evert Al Arabi. Rafael Nadal were drawn for a potential Fernando Verdasco and could face fiery for most US Open singles titles won in the Accordingly, the Al Sadd veteran will play US Open semi-final clash yesterday. Australian Nick Kyrgios in the round of 16. Open Era. for Al Arabi for one season. Djokovic, the top seed who has been Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 cham- Second seed Angelique Kerber, the The deal was signed in the presence of nursing a wrist injury since a shock first pion and Olympic silver medallist, looms Australian Open champion, starts against Talal Al Kuwari, the football chief at Al Arabi round loss at the Olympics, begins his cam- large as a potentially dangerous last-eight Slovenia’s Polona Hercog. club. paign against big-serving Jerzy Janowicz opponent for Wawrinka. The giant Argen- Third seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain, Al Arabi President Sheikh Khalifa bin of Poland. tine knocked Wawrinka out of Wimbledon the reigning French Open champion, and Hamad bin Jabor Al Thani said the new sign- Janowicz, a Wimbledon semi-finalist this year. fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of ing will benefit the club. for the QSL title. He said Al Arabi welcomes in 2013, has been plagued by knee trouble In the women’s draw, Serena Williams, Poland start against qualifiers. He also said that Al Balooshi is vastly expe- Al Balooshi with open arms. in recent months and has seen his rank- bidding for a seventh US Open title and Fifth seed Simona Halep of Romania rienced and a positive addition to Al Arabi Al Balooshi said he is pleased with the ing slump to 228 in the world. a modern era record 23rd Grand Slam, meets Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium in the playing XI. move and that he would provide every bit of Fourth seed Nadal, a gold medallist begins her campaign against experienced first round. Halep and Williams could meet Al Kuwari said Al Balooshi’s addition support to Al Arabi winning matches and titles at the Olympics in doubles after missing Ekaterina Makarova of Russia. in the quarter-finals. would help Al Arabi mount a serious challenge in the coming season.