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WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 • 13 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6506 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 25 die in Egypt factory fire 100 teachers Exchange firms leave Gaza for jobs in Qatar GAZA CITY: About 100 ordered to stop Palestinian teachers have left Gaza Strip for potential teach- ing positions in Qatar. Two buses with banners prais- ing Qatar and Emir H H Sheikh special fee Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani dropped them off yesterday after- noon at the Gaza side of the bor- Qatar Central Bank issues circular der crossing with Israel. From there, they will travel to DOHA: Qatar Central Bank yesterday prove that exchange Jordan and arrive in Qatar. (QCB) has issued strict warnings houses levying the fee from the They are the first batch of to money exchange companies first of this month have been vio- teachers who have applied for jobs against collecting commissions lating QCB regulations. in Qatar since the state launched from customers while selling Enquiries revealed that man- a new Palestinian employment and buying foreign currencies. agement of a section of money programme. In a circular to the companies, exchange houses has been unilat- Qatar recently launched ini- QCB Governor Sheikh Abdulla erally taking decision to charge tiatives in Gaza, building a hos- bin Saoud Al Thani asked them the fee to meet their growing Firemen put out a blaze that broke out at Al Helw furniture factory, north of the capital Cairo, yesterday. At least pital, repaving roads and funding to stop levying the fee with imme- rentals and logistics, ignoring the 25 workers were killed when the fire raged through the three-storey plant and its warehouse after a gas cylinder construction of a large housing diate effect. fact that they are under QCB’s exploded. Report on page 5 project to accommodate 1,000 “We have noticed that a section direct supervision. families. of money exchange companies has While almost 90 percent of According to the World Bank, been collecting fee while selling exchange houses have been charg- Hamas-run Gaza has the highest and buying foreign currencies. ing the fee, the remaining pre- unemployment rate in the world “Those involved in unlawful ferred not to flout central bank at 43 percent. business must stop the activity regulations. Kindergarten shut down for with immediate effect. As per the They said there had been no UAE hikes petrol law, money exchange companies directive or permission from QCB are not allowed to levy charges on in respect of the levy. prices by 24pc, buying and selling foreign curren- “It is very surprising that some three months over violations cies,” Al Sharq said, quoting the exchange houses are charging a diesel cheaper circular. fee without any directive from QCB warned the companies the regulator. We are not aware DOHA: A misdemeanour court and childcare facilities by enact- to formulate and submit a set ABU DHABI: The UAE is that any violation of its order will as to what kind of approval they has ordered temporary closure ing the and have intensified of their internal administrative raising petrol prices by 24 per- be treated as a violation of the have obtained,” an executive of a of a kindergarten for three inspections. policies, including fee structure, cent but prices will still be low central bank’s Law No. 13/12012. leading money exchange company months and fined it QR20,000 According to the law, nurseries, healthcare, entertainment, food by international standards, a A section of exchange houses said. for repeatedly violating Law day care centres, play schools and and other details for the minis- government committee said has been charging QR2 for buying Driven by growing population No. 1/2014 that stipulates rules similar facilities require licence try’s approval. yesterday. or selling foreign currencies from and demand for foreign curren- for nurseries and childcare from the Ministry of Labour and Penalties for an institution From Saturday, a litre of petrol the beginning of this month. cies, Qatar’s money exchange facilities. Social Affairs to operate. operating without a licence could will cost 2.14 dirhams at petrol Some exchange houses put up market has grown an estimated The kindergarten manage- To acquire the licence, they include a fine of QR100,000 and stations. However, diesel prices a notice at their service centres 15 percent over the past couple ment was found guilty of organ- need to make a deposit of a jail term of up to two years for will be cut by 29 percent to 2.05 across the country which read of years. ising an exhibition and taking a QR100,000 covering the licence the owner. dirhams. The panel said the prices ‘Exchange Companies will be Accordingly, money exchange an entrance fee from visitors in period and renewal and fulfil Children above four years can will be adjusted each month. applying a nominal flat service companies have expanded their violation of activities permitted other conditions. be admitted to kindergartens The UAE decided last week charge of QR2 for every foreign networks across the country. by its licence. The ministry will refund the while those under four can be to end fuel subsidies, a move currency transaction receipt Besides, Qatar’s robust growth Inspectors found the kinder- deposit if the owner decides to enrolled in nurseries, play schools expected to save billions of dollars starting July 1, 2015’. is increasingly attracting foreign garten repeatedly holding such shut down the nursery. or crèches. a year. Fuel prices in the coun- Questions were raised in investors and regional and inter- events despite several warn- It will also set up a separate All staff of these facilities are try are the highest of any of the the financial circles as to how national companies, which has ings, an Arabic daily reported entity to monitor the practices of required separate certification six GCC member states but still exchange houses could charge the further bolstered their businesses yesterday. these institutions. from the ministry and regulated among the lowest in the world fee without QCB’s prior consent. in Qatar. Authorities implemented Within a month after obtain- by the labour law. because of the subsidy. The central bank’s directives THE PENINSULA tougher regulations for nurseries ing licence, nurseries are required THE PENINSULA AGENCIES

Summer Festival from Saturday Kurdish peace impossible: Erdogan

ANKARA: President Recep in tatters after a bombing blamed in Brussels to discuss Ankara’s Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday on Islamic State (IS) militants strikes against the IS fighters Turkey cannot continue the in a mainly Kurdish border town and Kurdish rebels. But some peace process with the Kurds last week that killed 32 people members expressed concerns in the face of attacks against and triggered revenge attacks that strikes on Kurdish fighters Turkish targets. by Kurdish militants against could torpedo peace talks with “It is not possible to carry on Turkish security forces. Since the rebels. the (peace) process with those then, Turkey has launched strikes Erdogan said the formation of who target our national unity against IS group in Syria and an “IS-free” safe zone in the north and brotherhood,” Erdogan told PKK positions in northern Iraq. of war-torn Syria would help the a news conference at an Ankara The PKK warned after the aer- return of many refugees. airport before leaving for a visit ial bombardments that the truce “The clearance of those regions to China. “Those who exploit the largely observed since March and of a safe zone there will lay tolerance of the state and the peo- 2013 has lost all meaning. The US the ground for 1.7 million citizens ple will receive the answer they backed the right of its Nato ally here to return home,” he said. deserve as soon as possible,” he to bomb PKK. Meanwhile, the military said an said. Erdogan vowed to press ahead army sergeant was shot dead by Turkey, which considers the with anti-IS and anti-PKK opera- a Kurdish militant near the Iraqi outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ tions. “Any step back is out of the border, a day after gunmen killed Party (PKK) a terrorist organisa- question. This is a process and a paramilitary police commander. tion, launched peace negotiations this process will continue with Two Turkish F-16 jets later made with its jailed leader Abdullah the same determination.” “direct hits” on PKK targets in Ocalan in late 2012 when Erdogan Nato affirmed support for a mountainous region bordering was prime minister. Turkey’s fight against “terrorism” Iraq. AGENCIES But the process has been left at an emergency meeting called Picture on page 5

Workers instal entertainment equipment for the Summer Festival at Doha Exhibition Centre yesterday. The festival organised by Qatar Tourism Authority begins on Saturday and runs until August-end. SALIM MATRAMKOT Death penalty for Gaddafi son Oil steadies after 4-day loss TRIPOLI: A Libyan court yesterday sentenced NEW YORK: Oil prices steadied yesterday, with Bahrain blast kills two policemen a son and eight aides of slain dictator Muammar Brent recovering from near six-month lows and US Gaddafi to death for crimes during the 2011 upris- crude settling over 1 percent higher as bets for a DUBAI: A bomb blast killed weapons from Iran. targeting police in Shia villages, ing, in a verdict denounced by rights campaigners. drop in US stockpiles offset concern over a global two Bahrain policemen and The kingdom’s main Shia oppo- witnesses said. Seif Al Islam, also wanted by International oil supply glut and China’s stock market meltdown. wounded six others yesterday, sition Al Wefaq condemned the “The explosives used in the Criminal Court, is held by militia opposed to the Brent futures settled down 17 cents, or 0.3 percent, the interior ministry said. bombing, insisting that it “cat- terrorist incident were of the Tripoli authorities. Former intelligence chief Abdullah at $53.30 a barrel. It had hit $52.28 earlier in the The blast in Sitra island outside egorically rejected” violence. same quality of explosives seized Senussi and Gaddafi’s last prime minister Al Baghdadi session, its lowest since early February, on concern the capital Manama comes days Police blocked routes leading to recently while being smuggled Al Mahmudi were also sentenced to death, although about the stock market plunge in China, the largest after authorities announced they the island following the explosion from Iran,” the BNA state news they can appeal to the supreme court. AGENCIES energy consumer. US crude futures settled up 59 had foiled an attempt to smuggle — the latest in a series of blasts agency said. AFP See also page 5 cents, or 1.2 percent, at $47.98 a barrel. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Leaders condole with Saudi king Qatar attends Eid festival in London DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud following the death of Princess Mishael bint Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a cable of condolences to King Salman. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar cable to King Salman. Qatar supports Turkey’s security DOHA: Qatar condemned attacks, targeting civilians and security personnel in Turkey. Officials and (right) participants at the festival. In a statement yesterday, the Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks which targeted Turkey’s LONDON: The Qatari embassy Minister of Energy and Hamad Mohammed Hussein Ali global peace and stability. Roger more about cultures of the Islamic stability and security and took part in the annual Eid Al Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Almuftah said relations between Evans, Deputy Mayor of London, world. Qatar’s tent exhibited expressed Qatar’s support to the Fitr festival organised by the Saleh Al Sada attended the fes- Qatar and the UK exceed eco- expressed delight over the embas- Arab calligraphy, pearl hunting, country in its measures to pro- Mayor of London in Traflagar tival, along with 30,000 visitors. nomic partnership as both have sy’s support and encouraged tour- and traditional Qatari clothings, tect its borders and maintain its Square. Qatari Charges d’Affaires a joint interest in enhancing ists to visit the festival to learn among others. QNA security and stability. The minis- try said Qatar’s support is out of its rejection of violence and ter- rorism in all its forms regardless Govt scholarships for of motives. It expressed Qatar’s condolences to victims’ families, QA denies interest in stake in India’s the government and people, wish- ing the injured a speedy recovery. Qatari children of 2,000 tramadol SpiceJet, confirms talks with Indigo non-Qatari fathers strips seized DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) has reports that a consensus has been deliberately spread to influence share DOHA: Government scholarships for Qatari stu- said it is not in talks with India’s reached regarding an interline agree- valuations, QA said, adding it has no dents and employees of government entities, at DOHA: An Arab passenger SpiceJet to pursue a commercial ment, and that negotiations are set to further remarks on the matter. universities in the state and abroad in various dis- arriving at Hamad International stake in that airline. continue in the near future. But QA confirmed that the only air- ciplines will also include children of Qatari mothers Airport on a direct flight from However, QA confirmed that it is in QA does not have any form of inter- line it is talking to is Indigo, India’s and non-Qatari fathers, Al Sharq reports. his country, has been prevented talks with the Indian carrier Indigo. line agreement with SpiceJet, which biggest carrier. The Ministry of Administrative Development’s pro- from carrying tramadol banned In a statement yesterday, QA said: is the simplest form of relations Meanwhile, flydubai also rejected gramme will provide 21,386 scholarships covering 84 in Qatar, Al Sharq reports. “This release is to confirm that QA is between any two airlines, and QA is reports of interest to buy a stake in areas of specialisations between 2016 and 2026. Customs officials noticed not in talks to pursue a commercial not planning to pursue any form of SpiceJet, Reuters reports. In the first phase, 3,485 Qatari students and employees something suspicious in his lug- stake in SpiceJet. arrangement in the future, the airline In an emailed statement, flydubai in government bodies will be selected for scholarships. gage during scanning. Inspection “There is no interest from the air- clarified. said it is not in talks with SpiceJet. Deadline for applications is August 18. Disciplines revealed a separate bag containing line to engage in a partnership with This is not the first time that such On Friday, SpiceJet said it was in include medicine, engineering, computer science, finan- small bags covered with carbon the Gurgaon-based airline. claims have been made. Similar news “exploratory and preliminary stage” cial management, economy, tourism, media and public papers. When they opened the “QA officially states that it is an was disseminated in January 2013 and talks with potential investors who relations, communications and aviation, among others. packages, they found 2,000 strips inaccurate claim from news reports this appears to be a tactic to increase have shown an interest in putting The scholarship programme was announced in June to of the narcotic-like pain reliever. that ‘QA is picking up a stake in market and share value. money into the airline. It did not say improve efficiency and promote administrative capaci- It was not clear if he was arrested. SpiceJet’.” These stake sale comments are who the potential investors were. ties among young Qataris. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA/QNA Claims are also being made in unfounded and are believed to be THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 QC zakat project benefits Venezuela Independence Day marked 37,500 families in Syria

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) distributed Zakat Al Fitr across Syria, includ- ing besieged areas such as Damascus’ countryside Ghouta and at camps where displaced people are living. Around 37,500 families benefited. M inister of Development Planning and Statistics H E Dr Saleh Mohamed Salem The project covered 7,000 Al Nabit, Venezuelan Ambassador Julian Rivas to Qatar and other officials cut families in Idlib and its coun- a cake to mark Venezuela’s Independence Day, at Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday. tryside such as Jericho, Saraqib, BAHER AMIN Maarat Al Nu’man, and Binnish. It also covered 3,000 families in Hama and Al Ghab Plain’s Qatar slams Israeli violation of countryside, 7,000 families in Aleppo and its suburbs, 7,000 families in Damascus coun- tryside, including besieged Al Aqsa sanctity, Bahrain blast areas such as Ghouta, Duma, DOHA: Qatar has condemned the yesterday, killing two policemen and Al Zabadani, Muadamiyat Al violation of the sanctity of Al Aqsa critically injuring another. Sham and Harasta, 2,700 fam- Mosque by Israeli police and set- In a separate statement, the min- ilies in Quneitra, 2,700 fami- tlers, deploring constant aggressive istry said Qatar condemns criminal lies in Homs’ countryside in practices by Israel in Jerusalem. acts to subvert Bahrain’s security Talbiseh, Al Rastan, Houla, and In a statement yesterday, the and stability, and reiterated solidar- Al Waer and 2,000 families in Foreign Ministry said the settlers’ ity with the Bahraini leadership, gov- the camps for the displaced and breaking into the mosque is a provo- ernment and people. other areas. Beneficiaries queue up at one of Qatar Charity distribution centres in Syria. cation of the feelings of millions of It said Bahrain’s security and sta- QC prioritised countries and Muslims. bility is part of GCC’s security and territories suffering wars, dis- It called on Israel to end its evil and stability and that Qatar stands by asters and siege. These places in the Strip praised QC’s Similarly, 1,541 poor families in Syria, Palestine, Yemen, illegal actions towards the mosque, Bahrain in all measures it takes to benefited from QC’s Ramadan Ramadan and Zakat Al Fitr in Niamey, and Tahoua in Niger Albania, Jordan, Bosnia, Sudan, stressing that Israeli violations of enhance its security and stability. projects as part of its ‘Ramadan projects and said these came thanked QC for implementing Somalia, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, the sanctity of places of worship will The ministry expressed Qatar’s Al Basma’ campaign. at the right time when it was Ramadan projects. Bangladesh, Turkey, Kosovo, increase tension in the region. condolences to the Bahraini govern- QC also focused on the Gaza mostly needed. In the last days of Ramadan, and Lebanon. Qatar also condemned the crimi- ment, people and the families of vic- Strip and the West Bank in I’timad Al Ghandour, a ben- QC announced a plan to distrib- QC also implemented its nal bombing which targeted Sitra tims, wishing the injured a speedy Palestine. Over 500 families in eficiary, said, “The project came ute Zakat Al Fitr to the most annual Kisswet Eid (Eid near the Bahraini capital of Manama recovery. QNA Gaza, sponsored by QC, ben- when it was mostly needed. I needy categories in 14 countries Clothing) project and distrib- efited, along with 274 needy have a family of eight. At the at a cost of over QR1.67m. uted clothes and presents at a families in Jerusalem and the end of last year’s Ramadan, The project focuses on cost of QR5.7m to 54,000 chil- West Bank. I could not afford to provide places with special circum- dren and women. The mothers of orphans them with basic needs.” stances and displaced persons THE PENINSULA Erring outlets in Al Rayyan fined QR183,000 in June DOHA: Health inspectors con- were also destroyed by authorities. ducted 887 regular and five sur- Inspectors also visited outlets in Al GU-Q students attend US national forum prise visits to outlets in Al Rayyan Daayen and registered 11 violations Municipality area and registered in June. DOHA: Five female students 148 violations last month. They visited 90 outlets, including from Georgetown University Five outlets were fined a total of restaurants, supermarkets, sweet in Qatar (GU-Q) attended QR183,000, an Arabic daily reports. shops and eateries. the National Conference Inspections are usually carried out Violators were fined a total of for College Women Student at eateries, bakeries and other out- QR30,600 and 10 warning letters Leaders at University of lets which sell food items as well as issued to shopkeepers who had com- Maryland, College Park. barber and beauty salons. mitted minor violations. The forum, a premier US Inspectors also checked 34 new In separate raids, Al Shamal event for college women, has commercial licences of outlets. Some Municipality officials registered been helping them learn, grow, 43 shop owners gave written assur- violations related to public hygiene, and empower each other to ance that they will not repeat the including sewage leaks. further leadership skills for minor violations they had committed. Inspectors also found several aban- 30 years. During inspections, about 2,182kg doned and put stickers on them for It provides a transformative of meat and 65 slaughtered sheep civic officials to identify the vehicles experience for participants were found unfit for human consump- and take action. and prepares them to be the tion. A total of 20,610 packets of food THE PENINSULA next generation of leaders. To shortlist students to gain the most at the forum and return to the campus and community to take action, GU-Q Office of Student Development selected the candidates through an essay competition for female stu- dents interested in becoming leaders. Out of 13, five were The students at College Park, University of Maryland. selected. “Our five students stood out because they talked about Learning and Disabilities attending the event and had walks of life, the conference women’s empowerment in Specialist, GU-Q and the stu- set out goals in terms of future featured over 50 workshops, their culture and how they dents’ chaperone to the event. achievements and impact they eight speakers and opportu- want women to have a big- “We ended up with a plan to make within their own nities to gain experience for ger voice in their communi- group of smart young women communities.” more than 1,000 participants. ties,” said Candice T Render, who were so excited about Attracting students from all THE PENINSULA Youngsters take part in one of the workshops. A P J Abdul Kalam remembered 4,000 mark Eid at museum DOHA: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim were booked by families and kids. Al Thani Museum (FBQ Museum) The New Lego Education work- received more than 4,000 visitors to shop was a favourite of younger kids. its programmes organised as part Facilities such as the café and the of Eid Al Fitr family celebrations. education area were popular with On Saturday, it hosted more than families, as was the gift shop offering 1,000 visitors. locally sourced and designed prod- Painting, calligraphy, collage, clay ucts to promote Qatari and Arabic sculpture and drawing workshops culture. THE PENINSULA

Database to enhance services for people with special needs DOHA: The Ministry of Labour services they have received and what and Social Affairs has developed a they would require in the future. database on people with difficulties The database also contains infor- and special needs to enhance serv- mation about employers who provide ices for them. job opportunities for people with spe- According to the database, more cial needs, and vacancies available than 10,000 people with special needs for them. Data will to used to find are in the country, Al Sharq reports. out whether employees are provid- The database includes details such ing required facilities for such staff. the type of difficulties each person Data will also be used to analyse how I ndian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora speaks to community members gathered at Indian Cultural Centre yesterday to pay tributes to former Indian has, reasons, these people’s national employment has helped improve the president and nuclear scientist A P J Abdul Kalam who died in India on Monday. KAMMUTTY VP identity card numbers, special iden- lives of people with special needs. tity card numbers, rehabilitation THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Qatar-Sudan ties reviewed Shaded market and parking

Minister of State for Defence Affairs and Cabinet Member H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah and Chief of Staff Major-General Ghanem bin Shaheen Al Ghanem yesterday met Sudanese Chief of Staff of Armed Forces Mustafa Osman Obeid Salim and his delegation. Talks dealt with means of enhancing relations, particularly in the military field. Sudanese Ambassador Yasser Khadir Khalaf Allah was present.

MoI honours Rotana The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has set up shades in the vegetables market at the central market to protect the produce dis- played for sale, from direct sun and dust and vehicles in the parking areas. The ministry said open areas in the market will be developed and Group for support provided with shades, electricity and other services. British Council Qatar to make changes in new academic year

DOHA: British Council Qatar The changes ensure that has announced changes to be students will not miss classes introduced in the next aca- due to conflicting holidays and demic year. will have time to concentrate The new academic year on end-of-year exams in their beginning in September, has a schools after concluding studies winter break planned at the end at the council. Col. Abdullah Khalifa Al Muftah, Director, Public Relations Department, Ministry of of January to match other edu- Giving a further boost to Interior, presents a memento to Ajmal, Managing Director of the group. cational institutions in Qatar students’ progress, the council and will finish at the end of May. plans special additional ses- DOHA: The Ministry of Interior ‘We are proud to associate with the Sharing improvements in sions for adult learners on skills honoured Rotana Restaurant ministry on all occasions and celebra- greater detail, the council said such as conversation, business Group for constant support in tions for communities throughout the from September there will be workshops and IELTS writing organising cultural events and year. During National Day celebra- four terms in the academic year courses to supplement English raising traffic awareness among tions last year, our group sponsored compared to the current three. for Life, English for Business, expatriate communities in Qatar. promotional brochures of ‘Associated The terms will be shorter, and IELTS Preparation courses. Col. Abdullah Khalifa Al Activities of Qatar National Day covering eight weeks instead The top-up sessions will be Muftah, Director, Public Relations Celebrations 2014’ and this time of 10. held on Thursday and Saturday Department of the ministry, pre- associated again with the ministry in As a direct result of the Officials at the event. evenings to help those needing sented a memento as a token of sponsoring promotional brochures of change, students will be able improvement in specific areas. appreciation to Mr Ajmal, Managing ‘Eid Al Fitr Celebrations 2015’,” said to complete more terms in the will extend the programme to cognitive development with Amanda Ingram, Director, Director of the group, in a ceremony Ajmal. ‘As part of social responsibility year and complete an English include first year primary chil- their English level and chil- English & Exams, said, “The as part of ‘Eid Al Fitr celebrations towards our customers, we associ- level every year. dren and introduce more refined dren are grouped according to council is constantly searching 2015 for communities’ on the sec- ated with the ministry in spreading Understanding the pressure student grouping. English language level within for ways to help our students ond day of Eid at Barwa Workers pedestrian safety message among our adult students feel to make The newly formulated age each age group to optimise meet their English language Recreation Complex in Al Khor. customers. maximum improvement within groups correspond to school their learning environment and learning objectives and we lis- More than 6,000 people from dif- “The response of our customers the time available, the council age groups typical in Qatar: 6-8 progress. ten carefully to their feedback ferent nationalities took part in cel- was overwhelming and many appre- will provide them with oppor- (primary grades 1-3), 9-11 (pri- For greater convenience, par- and suggestions. “I’m delighted ebration activities. ciated our initiative in several lan- tunity to study more hours each mary grades 4-6), 12-14 (pre- ents will be offered opportunity that these practical changes for The group supported the celebra- guages. Some took mats with traffic week and make faster progress. paratory grades 7-9) and 15-17 to register their children for a the new academic year combine tions, including a six-nation cricket safety tips to their rooms to pass the In response to increased (secondary grades 10-12). complete semester and secure sound educational principles match for communities at Asian message to roommates,” he added. demand for specialised courses The council takes care to bal- their place across terms with a with convenience and flexibility.” Town cricket stadium in Doha The group printed one million table for young learners, the council ance each child’s maturity and special discount. THE PENINSULA Industrial Area and joined hands mats with pedestrian safety messages with the ministry to raise aware- in English, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi, ness about pedestrian safety among Urdu and Nepalese. customers. THE PENINSULA QA plans freighter service to Djibouti DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) constant temperature control QR Pharma and QR Fresh, can building two airports: Hassan Cargo will launch a new during transit from origin to unlock this potential for busi- Gouled Aptidon International freighter service to Djibouti on final destination. nesses and consumers, trans- Airport and Ahmed Dini Ahmed 1 August, becoming the carri- Ulrich Ogiermann, Chief porting pharmaceuticals to International Airport. er’s seventh African freighter Officer Cargo, QA, said: flowers and providing oppor- QA Cargo operates from destination. “Djibouti is an important tunities for greater choice and its hub Hamad International The weekly A330F service market for QA Cargo and the competition within the market.” Airport, where its cargo termi- will satisfy increasing airfreight Middle East, which benefits as Africa is a key growth mar- nal is one of the largest in the demand from customers in the a consolidation point for the ket for QA Cargo, which serves world. Middle East, South Asia and African market due to its geo- Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg, Operating an advanced air Europe into east Africa. graphical location. Entebbe, Nairobi, and Khartoum cargo handling system, the With more than 170 tonnes of “The new route will further with freighters. cargo complex has a capacity perishables destined for Djibouti open up the African market to The development of Djibouti to process 1.4 million tonnes of every week, QA Cargo’s QR our customers who are increas- as a regional hub for commer- cargo per year and can accom- Fresh service and state-of–the- ingly demanding capacity to cial and logistics services is the modate 11 wide-body freighters art cargo handling and storage Africa and are keen to maximise focus of a significant govern- with 42 airside loading docks facilities will ensure seamless upon numerous possibilities the ment campaign in Africa. to facilitate swift and efficient movement of fresh food and country holds. Termed the gateway to the transfer of cargo in and out of perishable goods, which require “QA Cargo’s services, such as horn of Africa, Djibouti is also Qatar. THE PENINSULA Giordano offers youngsters smart casual apparel to go back to school DOHA: Giordano is welcom- percent cotton and bring back get students back in the mood the region. This season, we have ing the school season with the classy prep look. for college. With messages about identified what works best for smart casual apparel for Polo shirts for men and positivity and confidence, the college students and delivered students. women are available to throw prints work for men and women quick and wearable clothing that Available from the begin- on whether it is for a class or in the classroom. The women’s transition from day to evening ning of August at all Giordano dinner with friends. tees come in a stretchy mate- for men and women,” said Ishwar stores in the GCC, the collection These come in multiple col- rial with short and elbow length Chugani, Managing Director, includes oxford and polo shirts ours and striped patterns sleeves. Giordano Middle East FZE, and for tops and versatile khaki providing easy styling for any The scorching summer Executive Director, Giordano pants to pair. occasion. For women, the 100 months calls for easy-to-wear International. Customers Keeping a smart look despite percent linen shirts come in khakis. From your smart casu- can also shop online at www. the sweltering heat, Giordano pastel shades of white, pink and als to graphic tees, the light and giordano-me.com. 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ADEN: A humanitarian truce a building occupied by insurgents in Yemen has failed to take in Jaawala — also north of Aden — hold after Saudi-led warplanes and an overnight strike hit rebels resumed raids yesterday on in Marib east of Sana’a, witnesses rebels, who clashed with loyal- said. ists, military sources said. Fighting around Aden has Iran, which backs the Shia killed 28 people since Monday, Houthi rebels, accused its among them 22 rebels, two civil- Sunni regional rival Riyadh of ians and two pro-Hadi south- “playing with fire and with the ern fighters, city health chief ceasefire”. Al Khader Laswar said. An international rights group, On Monday, coalition war- meanwhile, urged the United planes mistakenly hit positions of Nations to investigate air strikes pro-government forces in Lahj, last week that killed scores of killing 12 people and wound- civilians, calling them an “appar- ing 30, military sources and ent war crime”. witnesses said. The five-day truce that began Iran’s deputy foreign minis- on Monday was unilaterally ter, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, declared by the pro-government accused Riyadh yesterday of stir- Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia ring regional unrest. to allow the delivery of desper- “Saudi Arabia, by committing Former aides to Libya’s deposed dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, attend their trial on charges of crimes linked to the 2011 revolution, in Tripoli, Libya, yesterday. ately needed relief supplies. a strategic error in attacking But the coalition, which began Yemen, is playing with fire and its air campaign against the today is playing with the cease- Shia Houthi rebels and their fire,” Iranian state television Rights groups slam death for Gaddafi aides allies in late March, had said it quoted him as saying. also reserved the right to strike “The continued use of force TRIPOLI: Rights groups criti- to death, although they can appeal “Instead of helping to establish militia alliance seized the capital against any military movement by in Yemen highlights the lack of cised the death sentences given to the supreme court. the truth and ensuring accounta- and set up its own administration. the insurgents. security and promotes terrorism to a son and eight aides of slain The 37 defendants were charged bility for serious violations during Prosecutor general Siddick Air strikes targeted rebels in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian dictator Muammar Gaddafi with crimes including murder and the 2011 armed conflict, this trial Al Sour acknowledged that there north of Aden, Yemen’s second said. Human Rights Watch, yesterday for crimes during complicity in incitement to rape exposes the weakness of a crimi- was no prospect of Seif Al Islam city, most of which was recap- meanwhile, called on the United the 2011 uprising. Actvists said during the 2011 revolution. nal justice system which is hang- facing the court’s sentence any tured by loyalists last week after Nations to investigate coalition the trial was deeply flawed Libya has been wracked by con- ing on by a thread in a war-torn time soon but said that was a four months of ferocious fighting, air strikes that hit residential and missed an opportunity to flict since Gaddafi’s overthrow, country with no central author- matter for politicians. military sources said. areas, condemning them as an expose the crimes of the Gaddafi with rival governments and pow- ity,” Amnesty’s Philip Luther said. “The court pronounced sen- Raids also struck rebels in “apparent war crime.” regime. erful militias battling for control Human Rights Watch’s Joe tence and has nothing to do with nearby Lahj province, where Last week, coalition aircraft Seif Al Islam, the strongman’s of key cities and the country’s oil Stork said the trial was “plagued the political conflict,” Sour said. forces loyal to exiled President repeatedly struck two compounds one-time heir apparent who is riches. The trial, which opened in by persistent, credible allegations Seif Al Islam’s sole appearances Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi have housing the families of workers at also wanted by the International the Libyan capital in April last of fair trial breaches that war- before the court were by video tightened the noose on insur- the Mokha Steam Power Plant, Criminal Court, was tried in year, has been dogged by criticism rant independent and impartial link and there had been none gents in the strategic Al-Anad killing 65 civilians, the New York- absence because he is held by from human rights watchdogs judicial review”. since May last year. airbase. based watchdog said. militia opposed to the Tripoli and an unresolved dispute with The militia holding Seif Al The UN Security Council Three air strikes targeted a “With no evident military tar- authorities. the International Criminal Court Islam in the southwestern hill referred the conflict in Libya to rebel convoy near Sabr, north get, this attack appears to be Former intelligence chief (ICC) in The Hague over jurisdic- town of Zintan is aligned with the the ICC in February 2011 amid of Aden, where loyalists had a war crime,” said HRW sen- Abdullah Senussi and Gaddafi’s tion in the case of Gaddafi’s son. internationally recognised gov- Gaddafi’s repression of the popu- advanced over the past days, mili- ior emergencies researcher Ole last prime minister Al Baghdadi Amnesty International called ernment which fled to the remote lar uprising against his decades- tary sources said. Other raids hit Solvang. AFP Al Mahmudi were also sentenced the death sentences “appalling”. east last August when a rival old regime. AFP

Suicide bombing, attack kill nine Syrian army, Kurds oust IS from Hasakeh city BEIRUT: Syrian troops and experienced a series of defeats yesterday. Control of Hasakeh is Libyan soldiers Kurdish fighters ousted the at the hands of Kurdish militia divided between forces loyal to Islamic State group from in northern and northeastern President Bashar Al Assad and Hasakeh yesterday, more than Syria. The jihadists’ only major the Kurdish YPG. IS had attacked in Benghazi a month after the jihadists victory was its May capture of the regime-controlled neighbourhoods attacked the northeastern city, ancient town of Palmyra. in the city’s south, but the YPG BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Nine a monitoring group said. Now the IS assault on Hasakeh helped eject IS from several of Libyan soldiers were killed in the On the political front, UN Syria city, which began on June 25, has these areas. eastern city of Benghazi yester- envoy Staffan de Mistura is due to ended in defeat after 33 days. Since the beginning of Syria’s day by a suicide bomber and in brief the Security Council today. “The Syrian army pushed IS uprising in March 2011, its ensuing clashes between troops UN humanitarian chief out of Zuhur, the last neigh- Kurdish minority had adopted a and Islamist fighters, medics Stephen O’Brien is also set to visit bourhood where it was present neutral position. and military sources said. Damascus next month to try to in Hasakeh city, on Tuesday” When government forces with- Forces loyal to Libya’s inter- negotiate greater access to mil- said Rami Abdel Rahman, head drew from Kurdish areas in some nationally recognised govern- lions of people who need aid. of the Syrian Observatory for parts of the north and northeast, ment have been fighting Islamist Throughout its rise to power Human Rights. Kurdish authorities established groups in the country’s second- during 2013 and its announce- At least 287 IS fighters were autonomous local administra- largest city since last year, part of ment of an Islamic “caliphate” killed in Hasakeh, either in clashes tions to fill the void. As IS sought a wider struggle since Muammar straddling Iraq and Syria last with troops and the Kurdish to advance in northern Syria, Gaddafi was overthrown and summer, IS has presented itself People’s Protection Units (YPG) the YPG became one of the main killed in 2011. as unstoppable. or in air strikes by a US-led coali- Syrian President Bashar Al Assad (right) with the Iraqi National Security fighting forces pushing back A suicide bomber rammed a car The ultra-radical Sunni group tion, the Observatory said. Advisor and envoy, Faleh Al Fayyad, in Damascus, Syria, yesterday. against the jihadists. They expelled laden with explosives into a group has used terror and mass exe- IS’s death toll also included at IS from Kobane, a key town on the of soldiers during a street battle cutions to help seize territory least 26 child soldiers, according in the fight for Hasakeh city were 120 regime loyalists and dozens Turkish border, in late January. in the city centre near Benghazi’s in Syria’s north, including the to the monitor, which uses a net- children,” Abdel Rahman said. of YPG fighters were also killed. Since then, Abdel Rahman told Mediterranean port, killing three group’s de facto capital in Raqa, work of sources throughout war- The jihadists had used at least State news agency SANA said AFP, “we haven’t seen any major soldiers and wounding eleven, and east, where it has captured torn Syria. “IS is depending more 21 car bombs and “several sui- Syria’s armed forces “dealt great IS victories with the exception of medics said. most of resource-rich Deir Ezzor on children for suicide operations. cide bombers” in its advance into blows to the Daesh (IS) terror- the battle at Palmyra. There has Shortly afterwards, Islamist province. And we saw the effect of that, since the city. ists... in a special operation against been a continuous retreat for IS fighters blamed by the army for But in recent months, it has 10 percent of IS members killed According to the Observatory, the terrorist hotbeds” in Zuhur forces since February.” AFP the suicide bombing attacked troops loyal to the official gov- ernment in the same area. Six more soldiers were killed and 10 Nato meets on Turkey wounded in the fighting, medics At least 25 killed in Egypt said. Clashes between Islamist fighters and government forces continued after nightfall in cen- furniture factory blaze tral Benghazi. Army forces backed by armed CAIRO: At least 25 people networks showed thick smoke residents have regained some died in a fire that gutted an billowing from the factory as areas in Benghazi lost to the Egyptian furniture factory rescuers crowded to help the Islamist brigades last year. But north of Cairo yesterday, a victims. critics say their war planes and Health Ministry official said. Another fire at a super- heavy guns have turned parts of Twenty-two more work- market in a town near the city into rubble without gain- ers suffered from burns and the Mediterranean city of ing much on the ground. smoke inhalation in the blaze Alexandria yesterday injured The Benghazi fighting high- in the Al-Helw factory on the 12 people, security officials said. lights the chaos in Libya, where outskirts of the capital, Health Such accidents are rela- two rival governments are vying Ministry spokesman Hossam tively common in Egypt, given for control. The official prime Abdel Ghaffar said. the dilapidated state of many minister has been based in the Security officials said the fire buildings and failure to adhere east since the capital Tripoli was raged through the three-storey to industrial safety norms. seized by a rival group that set up factory and its warehouse after In September 2014, six people its own government. Islamic State a gas cylinder exploded. died and 22 were injured when has exploited the chaos by launch- The Interior Ministry said 23 a textile dyeing factory col- ing suicide bombings, executing fire trucks were at the scene to lapsed in Cairo in an accident foreigners and staging attacks NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (centre) attends a Nato ambassadors meeting on Turkey at the Nato extinguish the blaze. blamed on poor construction. against embassies in Tripoli. headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday. Video footage posted on social AFP REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iran agreement No worries over deal execution: Zarif not meant to EU foreign policy chief Mogherini meets Zarif in Iran after visiting Saudi Arabia reform Iran TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign min- Iranian military sites where regime: Kerry ister moved to dismiss concerns international monitors have yesterday that his country’s alleged past work on developing WASHINGTON: The Iran nuclear deal with major pow- nuclear weapons took place. nuclear deal was not intended ers could hit difficulties, saying Although international inspec- to reform the country’s hard- he had “no concern or worry” tors have visited Iran’s nuclear line regime but simply prevent about its implementation. sites for years, critics have said atomic bomb development, Mohammad Javad Zarif’s such restrictions on military Secretary of State John Kerry remarks came during a joint facilities will hamper any effec- told US lawmakers yesterday news conference with visiting tive enforcement of the deal. while defending the controver- EU foreign policy chief Federica Iran has always denied seeking sial accord. Mogherini aimed at ensuring that an atomic bomb. Mogherini flew In his second appearance before the historic agreement swiftly in from talks in Iran’s regional Congress in a week, America’s takes effect. rival Saudi Arabia, whose leaders top diplomat also stressed that As the European Union’s high told her of their deep misgivings the plan reached this month representative, Mogherini was about Tehran’s intentions. with Tehran was the best deal intricately involved in the long- Riyadh has not publicly con- achievable, and that a better pos- running diplomacy that culmi- demned the agreement but the sible alternative as suggested by nated in a July 14 accord between deal has come under furious Republican critics was pure “uni- Iran and six world powers. attack by Israel. corn fantasy.” Her trip to Tehran came days Mogherini said that while the “Let me underscore: the alter- after US Secretary of State John accord was on the nuclear issue native to the deal we’ve reached Kerry was grilled by lawmakers it could have a broader impact as isn’t a better deal... some kind of in Washington who effectively it was “not the end of a process... unicorn fantasy that contemplates accused him of being duped in it’s a beginning.” Iran’s complete capitulation,” the talks by Zarif and Iran’s other “It’s going to open a new chap- Kerry warned before the House negotiators. ter in relations between Iran and Foreign Affairs Committee. Republicans in the US the EU,” she said, before address- “That’s a fantasy, plain and Congress, including presidential ing possibly greater cooperation simple,” he said, adding that a candidates, have poured scorn Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini between Iran and the West on rejection of the deal would essen- on the nuclear deal but they face (centre) and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi (left) arrive for a meeting in Tehran yesterday. tackling Islamic State group mili- tially give Iran a “green light” to a monumental battle to over- tants in Iraq and Syria. return full-speed to its enrich- come President Barack Obama’s peaceful nature. to the UN nuclear watchdog. implementing the deal,” he said, “It is probably one of the most ment efforts. veto power over any attempt to In return, the P5+1 powers “I hope the EU and United acknowledging that “some people difficult chapters that will be Scepticism has soared among block it. in the talks — Britain, China, States will continue to implement in Iran have some doubts about opened,” Mogherini said. US lawmakers since Washington The past week has also France, Russia and the United their commitments,” he added. some countries, particularly the “If we manage to adapt to a and five world powers reached seen hardline elements in the States plus Germany — must Asked about accusations made US, to implement seriously and new understanding this can lead a historic accord with Iran that Islamic republic, including the finalise the mechanism for lift- in some of Iran’s conserva- precisely”. to benefits for all in the region would scale back the Islamic commander of the powerful ing UN and Western sanctions. tive media that the agreement But he added: “I have no con- and beyond.” The deal has been republic’s nuclear programme in Revolutionary Guards force and Zarif gave a timeline of “60 to breaks supreme leader Ayatollah cern or worry that the deal broadly welcomed in Tehran with exchange for an easing of US and MPs, raise concerns about the 70 days” for the deal to be settled, Ali Khamenei’s “red lines” for will be implemented. I know officials lining up to back the gov- international sanctions that have agreement’s terms. following talks with Mogherini the talks, Zarif moved to allay very well that it is going to be ernment for securing relief from crippled Iran’s economy. Under the deal, Iran must take about measures that are needed. such claims. “Iran has stuck to implemented.” sanctions in exchange for curbs Last week, senior Republican measures at its nuclear facilities “Iran will continue to cooperate its obligations and Iran is going MPs recently passed a law for- on some but not all of its nuclear senators accused Kerry of being to satisfy UN monitors of their with the IAEA,” he said, referring to do the same when it comes to bidding foreigners from entering activities. AFP “fleeced” by Tehran during hard- fought negotiations. Several Republicans, including many who are running for president in 2016, advocate walking away from the Netanyahu says Iran poses grave danger to Europe deal. With Congress having a cru- NICOSIA: Israeli Prime Tehran’s controversial nuclear the terrorism that emanates from was a Hezbollah member, to four on security, defence and the cial say, the White House has Minister Benjamin Netanyahu programme, an accord the Israeli these areas,” he added. years in jail after he was found exploration of oil and gas reserves launched a full-court press to win said yesterday that Iran posed a leader criticised as a “stunning, Last month, a Cypriot court guilty of targeting Israelis on the in the eastern Mediterranean, over enough members to prevent “formidable” threat to Europe, historic mistake”. jailed a Lebanese-Canadian man island. according to Anastasiades. the accord from collapsing. accusing its proxy Hezbollah Netanyahu said Israel and for six years after he pleaded A botched bomb attack on the The Aphrodite field, discov- And while some have criticised of operating cells across the Cyprus were faced with the dual guilty to terror charges linked Israeli Embassy in 1988 claimed ered off Cyprus’ southeast coast the deal because it does not obli- continent. dangers of Iran and the extrem- to 8.2 tonnes of potential bomb- the lives of three people. in 2011, is estimated to contain gate Iran to recognise Israel’s Just last month, a member of ist attacks perpetrated by the making material found in his Israel has repeatedly criticised between 3.6 trillion and 6 trillion right to exist, or require Tehran the Lebanese Shia militant group Islamic State group, which con- home. the Iran nuclear deal and insists cubic feet of gas. to renounce support for extrem- was jailed in Cyprus for plotting trols large parts of Iraq and Syria. Authorities said the man was it is not bound to respect Tehran’s Israel has found large reserves ist or terrorist activities, Kerry attacks on Israeli targets on the “ISIS obviously endangers a member of the military wing accord with the West. off its own shoreline and the two said it was vital that lawmakers Mediterranean island. European societies, Western soci- of Hezbollah and had helped the Cypriot President Nicos countries are looking to cooperate recognise the deal focuses purely Netanyahu, on an official visit to eties, African societies, the whole group plan “terrorist attacks” on Anastasiades said he and on energy issues such as export- on nuclear weapons. Nicosia, said “Iran and Hezbollah world,” the premier said, using an “Israeli interests in Cyprus”. Netanyahu had discussed the ing Israeli natural gas. “This plan was designed to organise a terrorist network that alternative acronym for IS. Cyprus is not known for mili- accord, adding that Cyprus “We think that by cooperating address the nuclear issue alone, covers over 30 countries on five “These are two formidable dan- tant activity despite its proximity expressed “hope that this deal with each other we think that we not to reform Iran’s regime, or continents, including just about gers. They are expressed in many to the Middle East. will help generate stability... and can take it (natural gas) out more end its support for terrorism, or every country in Europe.” weapons, in many attacks, but the But in 2013, a Cypriot court assist in addressing the security easily and market it better to the its contributions to sectarian vio- Iran and leading world pow- most prevalent one that concerns sentenced a Lebanon-born concerns of the State of Israel”. betterment of both our societies,” lence in the Middle East,” Kerry ers signed a deal this month on Cyprus and Europe is of course Swedish man who admitted he Yesterday’s talks also focussed Netanyahu said. AFP told the panel. AFP

Garbage activism Second Saudi execution after Ramadan RIYADH: Saudi Arabia brings to 104 the number of activists, the New York-based beheaded one of its citizens for executions in the kingdom group said it had documented drug trafficking yesterday, in this year, a sharp increase on “due process violations” in Saudi the second execution after a the 87 recorded during the Arabia’s legal system that make it pause for Ramadan. whole of 2014, according to AFP difficult for defendants to get fair Saif Al Hadissane was found tallies. trials even in capital cases. guilty of smuggling a large amount This year’s figure is still Under the kingdom’s strict of hashish. below the record 192 which Islamic Shariah legal code, drug He was executed in the Al-Ahsa human rights group Amnesty trafficking, rape, murder, armed region of eastern Saudi Arabia, International said took place in robbery and apostasy are all pun- the Interior Ministry said in a 1995. ishable by death. statement carried by the official Human Rights Watch has The Interior Ministry has Saudi Press Agency. accused Saudi authorities of cited deterrence as a reason for SPA had reported no execu- waging a “campaign of death” by carrying out the punishment. tions during the Holy Month of executing more people in the first It has also talked of “the physi- Ramadan and the Eid Al Fitr six months of this year than in all cal and social harm” caused by holiday which followed it from of last year. drugs. Lebanese activists hold a placard depicting Members of the Parliament and an Arabic inscription reading ‘128 July 17. The latest beheading Echoing the concerns of other AFP tonnes of garbage’ during a protest against the garbage crisis, in front of the government palace, in Beirut, yesterday. Fighting brings starvation to South Sudan

DABLUAL, SOUTH SUDAN: The Scores of their neighbours were killed in Tens of thousands have died in the war, sacks of grain falling from the sky are the the fighting, they say, while others died of according to the UN, but no official death first food aid the people of Dablual have disease, sickness or hunger. toll has been kept. seen in months since fighting cut the “Life is very bad, my cows were all Pressure is once again mounting on the South Sudanese village off in April. taken by government forces. Here there is warring leaders to strike a deal. Here in the northern battleground state no food at all,” said David, one of around US President Barack Obama, who of Unity, fighting in South Sudan’s 19-month 30,000 people here who fled intense fight- wrapped up a two-nation Africa tour yes- civil war has escalated since April, with gov- ing to this remote and already hugely terday, has focused attention on South ernment and rebel forces accused of burning overstretched village. Sudan, holding talks with regional leaders in people alive, gang rape and recruiting large “The food security situation is alarm- Ethiopia and raising the issue in an address numbers of child soldiers. ing,” according to the United Nations with to the African Union. “We want peace, we are really suffer- “nearly 70 percent” of the country’s popula- “The joy of independence has descended ing... anytime they can come, kill children, tion — 7.9 million out of 11.6 million people into the despair of violence,” Obama said rape the women, burn the children — those — expected to face hunger during the cur- of Africa’s newest nation which broke free in the houses they burnt them alive,” said rent rainy season. from Sudan in 2011. David, recounting what government forces South Sudan’s civil war began in “Neither Mr Kiir not Mr Machar have did when they attacked his village of Koch. December 2013 when President Salva Kiir shown any interest in sparing their people People here survived by retreating into accused his former deputy Riek Machar from this suffering or in reaching a politi- the rebel-held enclave then fishing in rivers of plotting a coup, setting off a cycle of cal solution,” Obama said. He promised to or gathering water lilies from the swamps. retaliatory killings that has split the pov- “raise the costs of their intransigence” if a Their farms have been destroyed, livestock erty-stricken, landlocked country along regionally imposed August 17 deadline for stolen and grain stores ransacked. ethnic lines. a peace agreement is not met. AFP WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Two patients US foundation test negative for MERS in UK LONDON: Two patients in ‘undesirable’ Britain have tested negative for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), officials said, after a hospital wing was shut down as a precautionary meas- group: Russia ure. Public Health England con- firmed the results of the test after the accident and emergency unit of Manchester Royal Infirmary in NGO a threat, say prosecutors northwest England was closed for two hours on Monday. The risk MOSCOW: Russian prosecu- War over the crisis in Ukraine. from MERS in Britain “remains tors yesterday declared the US Russian officials led by Putin very low”, Rosemary McCann of Congress-funded National End- and state-owned media claim that PHE said, adding that the two owment for Democracy the first the West is trying to sow revo- negative tests were “separate and “undesirable” foreign group lution in the country after the unrelated”. under a controversial new law ouster of a Kremlin-backed leader to ban overseas organisations in Kiev in 2014. 1,800 migrants deemed a threat. Critics say that the authorities The move is part of what critics are whipping up anti-Western rescued off Italy say is a Kremlin drive against civil hysteria over alleged foreign med- society being fuelled by growing dling in a bid to further cement Rescue workers try to locate the body of a woman trapped under the rubble of her house in the village of Golmovsky ROME: More than 1,800 anti-Western rhetoric over the their political grip on Russia. near Gorlivka in the Donetsk region after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists yesterday. migrants have been picked up Ukraine crisis. The controversial new law in the Mediterranean and 13 “Taking into account the over- could see Russian activists jailed bodies recovered as the exo- all aim of the Endowment’s work, for up to six years for “partici- dus from north Africa by boat prosecutors came to the conclu- pation in the activities” of any Foreign monitors come under endures, Italy’s coast guard said sion that it presents a threat to banned organisation. yesterday. Vessels taking part the constitutional order of Russia, The National Endowment for in EU border security operation its defence capabilities and state Democracy says it receives fund- Triton rescued the migrants security,” the prosecutors said. ing from the US Congress to bol- ‘targeted’ fire in Ukraine from their rickety boats in five Prosecutors accused the ster organisations “working for separate operations on Monday, American non-profit organisation democratic goals in more than KIEV: Western monitors of the separatist east — said the town of Shchastya. following the arrival in Sicily of using local NGOs to undermine 90 countries.” The organisation Ukraine’s tattered truce yes- number of incidents in which its The OSCE refused to assign on Saturday of 1,300 migrants, elections and organise political slammed the decision from the terday reported coming under teams have come under attack blame for either attack. mostly from sub-Saharan rallies in the country. prosecutors and said the aim of “targeted” fire that has forced has grown markedly since the Both government troops and Africa and Syria. The 13 bodies “The National Endowment for the undesirable law was “to intim- them to rethink their future weekend. the gunmen accuse the other of were recovered by an Irish mili- Democracy participated in work idate and isolate Russian citizens.” operations in the war-torn “In the past days the SMM has launching daily attacks that offi- tary ship after it came to the to declare the results of election “The law on undesirable organi- former Soviet state. faced three separate, targeted cials said had killed at least three aid of one of the boats, which campaigns illegitimate, to organ- zations is the latest in a series of The Organisation for the security incidents in certain loca- people — including two civilians — was carrying 522 people. ise political demonstrations aimed highly restrictive laws that limit Security and Cooperation in Europe tions in the conflict zone,” deputy since Monday evening. Rebel com- at influencing decisions taken by the freedom of Russian citizens,” (OSCE) has been at the heart of mission chief Alexander Hug told mander Eduard Basurin accused Le Pen wins feud state institutions and to discredit the foundation said in a statement. global efforts to end a 15-month reporters in Kiev. Kiev yesterday of “paralysing” the service in the Russian armed “NED remains committed to conflict between Western-backed “In response to security inci- work of the Western monitors. with daughter forces,” the statement said. supporting human rights and fun- Kiev and pro-Russian insurgents dents over past days SMM is “We fully guarantee the safety The decision — which now needs damental freedoms throughout that has already claimed more than reviewing its monitoring opera- of the SMM observers,” he was VERSAILLES: Jean-Marie to be rubber-stamped by the justice the world,” it added. 6,500 lives. tions in certain locations.” quoted as saying by Interfax. But Le Pen, the veteran ex-leader of ministry — will see the Endowment Groups in Russia it has given The Cold War-era peace Hug said one mission leader suf- the mission itself accuses the insur- France’s National Front (FN), barred from opening offices in funding to listed on its website enforcement body reports cease- fered a head injury and was flown gents of limiting its access to some yesterday won a legal victory in a Russia or funding any groups or include anti-corruption groups, fire violations and arranges to Kiev for treatment after being suspected rebel bases and often battle over his expulsion from the individuals in the country. those working on freedom of asso- periodic aimed at salvaging an caught in an exchange of heavy blocking the passage of its teams. far-right party amid a festering Prosecutors said that in 2013 ciation and human rights organisa- often-ignored truce signed in gun and sniper fire in a town about The Shyrokyne battle is partic- feud with his daughter. Daughter and 2014 the foundation gave tions. Earlier this month, Russian February with the help of the 100km south of the separatists’ de ularly sensitive because Ukrainian Marine, leading the party her funding worth around $5.2m to senators compiled an official pro- leaders of Germany and France. facto capital Donetsk. forces have refused to give up the father founded, launched a postal local organisations. posal to blacklist 12 foreign NGOs, But its Special Monitoring The incident in Shyrokyne came village after guerrilla units staged ballot on whether to change the The move comes as Russia and including the National Endowment Mission (SMM) — compris- a day after another team escaped an unexpected retreat from its FN’s statutes and scrap Jean- the West are locked in their worst for Democracy. ing almost 500 members who unharmed from a similar breach of outskirts earlier this month. Marie’s position as honorary standoff since the end of the Cold AFP are predominantly based in the armistice in the Donetsk region AFP president. AGENCIES

Venezuela leader angers Spain Cameron’s EU reform plans a recipe for confusion: Panel LONDON: David Cameron (pic- uncertainty surrounding the what the timetable for agreement force before Britain’s vote, the by calling tured) has cooked up a “recipe plans and the government must is,” said Timothy Boswell, chair- government needed to make it for confusion” with his plans rethink the process if it is to be man of the House of Lords EU clear how it would guarantee any PM a ‘hitman’ to reform Britain’s relation- accountable to the public. Committee, which scrutinises deal was legally binding. ship with the European Union, The committee said that with government EU policy. It also urged Cameron, who has MADRID: Spain lashed a committee of lawmakers said the finance minister, foreign “We’re also concerned about already carried out a whirl-wind out yesterday at Venezuela’s yesterday, criticising the prime secretary, Europe minister and the lack of transparency. It’s vital tour of European capitals to dis- President Nicolas Maduro for minister for failing to make clear senior government officials all that parliament and the public cuss his plans with other EU lead- what it called “insulting and what changes he is seeking. playing significant roles in the are kept informed, and are not ers, to continue engaging with all unacceptable” comments in Cameron plans to renegoti- renegotiation alongside Cameron, simply presented with a done deal 27 other member states “regard- which he branded conserva- ate Britain’s EU ties ahead of a it was not clear whom the EU at the end of the process.” less of size or perceived influence”. tive Spanish Prime Minister membership referendum by the should be engaging with. Cameron has said he believes British media has reported that Mariano Rajoy a “hitman”. end of 2017. “The ... process is so unclear changes to EU treaties will be Cameron plans to hold another The Spanish foreign minis- In a report published yesterday, as to be a recipe for confusion, required to adapt rules in areas round of talks with key European try had summoned Venezuela’s a committee of lawmakers from we don’t know who is in charge such as immigration. But the leaders in the autumn to help ambassador in Madrid on Monday Britain’s upper house of parlia- within government, who they committee said that as it was not determine how quickly a deal can to complain after Maduro’s com- ment said there was too much will be talking to at EU level, or feasible for changes to come into be reached. REUTERS ments in a televised address at the weekend. It was the latest in a series of rows between the countries’ lead- ers after Spain’s former King Litvinenko suspect a no-show Juan Carlos snapped at the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez “Why don’t you shut up?” at a summit in 2007. at poisoning inquiry in Britain Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said yes- LONDON: A Russian wanted in Britain over an offence under Russian law if he testified terday that he ordered his min- the death of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko will unless he secured permission from authorities istry to summon the ambassador not appear before an inquiry into his poison- in Moscow. “over some completely insulting ing, the probe heard yesterday. The inquiry received the first indication late and unacceptable comments by After several days of uncertainty, Dmitry Thursday that Kovtun may not give evidence President Maduro about Prime Kovtun failed to give evidence via video link from but gave him time over the weekend to change Minister Rajoy.” Moscow to the inquiry at London’s High Court his mind. Maduro, Chavez’s successor by a 0800 GMT deadline set by its chairman. “I will not be able to give testimony today, as president, said in a televised Underlining his absence, the video link to tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” Kovtun address Sunday that Rajoy was a Moscow was briefly activated, showing an empty told Russia’s Interfax news agency on Monday. “hitman of the people” for intro- chair. “That would seem to make the situation Kovtun has already denied murdering Litvinenko ducing tough new penalties for crystal clear,” Robin Tam, one of the inquiry’s and claimed he accidentally poisoned himself. public order offences in Spain. lawyers, told the court. In a letter to the inquiry dated May 12, Kovtun Garcia-Margallo retorted that Kovtun and a second Russian, Andrei Lugovoi, described Litvinenko as having “mental health Venezuela itself “has a long way are wanted by British police for allegedly poi- problems, a person driven to despair who was to go in terms of human rights, soning Kremlin critic Litvinenko at London’s prepared to do anything to achieve his financial as numerous statements by the Millennium Hotel on November 1, 2006 using tea goals.” United Nations have made public.” laced with the radioactive isotope polonium-210. Kovtun said he and Lugovoi met Litvinenko, It was the second time in three The inquiry is a source of tension in British- who he suggested was working for British intel- months that Spain had sum- Russian relations, along with the conflict in ligence, at the hotel on the day of his alleged moned the Venezuelan ambassa- Ukraine, last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines poisoning “completely by chance”. dor. In April it did the same after flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine and repeated The hearing also heard evidence given to Italian Maduro called Rajoy “racist”. cases of Russian military aircraft flying close to police by Litvinenko’s father Valter. He initially When a group of senators from British airspace. blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his Spain visited Venezuela last week “This unhappy sequence of events drives me to son’s death, saying his son told him from his hos- to try to mediate in a political dis- the conclusion either that Kovtun never in truth pital bed: “Daddy, Putin has poisoned me.” pute in the former Spanish colony, intended to give evidence and that this has been However, Valter Litvinenko later reversed Maduro called the gesture “vomit- a charade,” Robert Owen, the judge chairing the this claim, saying: “Now I am talking well about inducing”. The Spanish foreign inquiry, told the court. “Alternatively, if he has at Putin.” The Litvinenko inquiry started its hear- ministry called for “constructive some stage been genuine in his expressed inten- ings in January and is due this week for final relations” between Madrid and tion to give evidence, obstacles have been put in submissions from the main parties involved. Caracas, “based on dialogue and the way of his doing so.” It is due to report by the end of the year. mutual respect”. AFP The businessman said he would be committing AFP WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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YRIAN President Bashar Al Assad’s statement on Sunday that his forces have lost some territory to rebels because of ‘manpower’ losses is actually not San admission of his weakness. No captain would admit defeat and losses if he is actually losing. Assad didn’t Egypt’s timid press lashes make such an admission when the fighting was its peak, but chose to make it after realising that he is here to stay. A few recent developments have actually emboldened his position. First, the nuclear deal signed by Iran with the out at harsh media curbs world powers, which was heartily welcomed by Assad because the deal is expected to strengthen Iran and make BY ERIN CUNNINGHAM who has consistently been at odds with and other periodicals, according to it a formidable force in the region; second, the cooperation those in power. Some Egyptian journal- Freedom House, a U.S.-based watchdog between United States and Turkey in fighting the Islamic HEY’VE cheered for officials ists have fought hard to expose things of political and other institutions. State in Syria. The IS is an enemy of the world and our at news conferences. They’ve like corruption and police abuse, he said. The Egyptian government also con- region, but in Syria, this terrorist organisation is an enemy smeared government critics. But many others see themselves more as trolled licenses for radio and satellite of Assad and it has make huge strides in the war against TEgypt’s reporters threw their Egypt’s defenders, particularly in times broadcasters, which are extremely support behind a 2013 coup, becoming a of instability. important in shaping public opinion. Assad. Fighting the IS would mean weakening Assad’s mouthpiece for the new, military-backed “Some journalists are no longer Television continues to be the dominant enemy and in a sense it’s a symbolic victory for the Syrian regime. going to be silent,” he said of those who media outlet in Egypt, according to the leader because he has been shouting from the beginning But this month, Egyptian journalists opposed the jail terms. “And they are Broadcasting Board of Governors, which that he is fighting ‘terrorists’ and his defeat will be the didn’t roll over for authorities. In an becoming part of a small movement of oversees the U.S. government’s broad- victory of terrorists which will further destabilise the unusual moment for this tightly control- people who are taking a stand.” casts abroad. According to the agency, region. led country, the media openly opposed The government’s new counterterror- more than 84 percent of Egyptians a government initiative, one that would ism bill was proposed after a string of watch TV news daily or most days of The embattled leader made the admission during a have jailed reporters who published attacks by militants in the capital and the week. speech in the capital, Damascus, his first public address information contradicting official state- in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, on the border Some restrictions on the media were since a recent string of rebel advances. Assad also said that ments about terrorism operations. with Gaza. The first was a powerful car relaxed after the 2011 Arab Spring his forces had to abandon parts Egypt’s official press union success- bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top uprising, and the market was flooded of the country to protect other fully lobbied the cabinet to amend a prosecutor on June 29. Several days later, with new newspapers, television chan- fronts. The remarks, which were counterterrorism militants in the Sinai town of Sheikh nels and news Web sites. Syrian bill that would Zuweid killed at least 21 Egyptian sol- Many publications remained state- televised, came a day after his have established diers in coordinated attacks on security owned, however, and others belong to president’s government issued a general the jail terms. It checkpoints. businessmen who prefer to stay on good admission amnesty for military deserters In an unusual was a rare act Early reports from local outlets and terms with the regime. The New York- and draft dodgers. Syrians of public dis- news services, which cited security based Committee to Protect Journalists, that his army have been evading compulsory moment for this sent in a country sources, said between 30 and 70 soldiers an advocacy group, says Egypt is cur- whose rulers have may have been killed in the Sinai assault rently holding 18 journalists in prison, military service in huge tightly controlled suffered huge grown increas- on July 3. But the Egyptian military said many on charges of belonging to the numbers, depriving the military country, the media ingly repressive the death toll was much lower. Military now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. losses is just a of crucial ranks amid a civil openly opposed since the coup. spokesman Gen. Mohamed Samir After former Brotherhood leader war that has killed more than Some reporters slammed the media for reporting the Mohamed Morsi was elected president public relations 230,000 people and displaced a government say they hope higher death tolls, telling the flagship in 2012, he struggled to gain control of millions. The armed forces have initiative, one the gesture will state newspaper al-Ahram that they the country’s vast bureaucracy, including exercise. inspire a broader were published to “reduce the morale the state-run media. Many bureaucrats been weakened by defections, that would have movement for of the Egyptian people.” opposed what they saw as his attempt to desertions and high casualty jailed reporters a free press in After the attack in the Sinai, the coun- bring pro-Islamist rules to state media. rates during the four-year-old Egypt, as the gov- terterrorism bill was amended to include When then-defense minister and conflict. Casualties have been especially high within Assad’s who published ernment steps up a minimum two-year prison sentence for current President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi minority Alawite sect. information its persecution of journalists who use anonymous or unoffi- staged a coup on July 3, 2013, the mili- Assad is expected to further consolidate his position. journalists. cial accounts in their reporting on terror- tary cut the feeds of nearly all Islamist contradicting “There has ist operations. On July 16, after pressure and Brotherhood-linked satellite chan- Hezbollah and Iran would fight for him till the end. Arab official statements never really been from the journalists, Egypt’s state-run nels. The official media swiftly embraced countries and the West, especially US, are unlikely to press freedom in news agency announced that the Cabinet Sissi’s new government. “Sissi knew that resolve their differences and form a common strategy to about terrorism Egypt, but now had agreed to strike the prison sentences the media was his right hand,” Gamal oust Assad. The Islamic State militant group has pushed operations. we are confront- from the bill. State media said, however, Eid, executive director of the Arabic westward against government forces from its strongholds ing a far more that the government would still penalize Network for Human Rights Information. violent state,” said news outlets for publishing death tolls Last fall, a group of Egyptian editors in eastern Syria. And in the south, relatively moderate Khaled Al Balshy, vice president of the that are not official figures — with fines announced their support for Sissi and rebels backed by the United States and Arab countries have Egyptian Press Syndicate, which led the that could reach $64,000. what the government has called its war made recent gains. If the IS in Syria is targeted by Western effort to negotiate with the government Egypt has a long history of constrain- against terrorism. In a declaration, the powers, the battle will be between the Syrian opposition over the jail terms. ing the media. Under the regime of editors and media personalities pledged forces and Assad, which the latter is likely to win. Balshy, who has worked as an editor ousted president Hosni Mubarak, the to ban criticism of the state from their Assad’s admission that his military suffered huge losses and reporter for nearly two decades, is state owned nearly all the country’s pages and the airwaves. one of the few members of the media more than 500 newspapers, magazines WASHINGTON POST is just a public relations exercise. The other side Quote of Curbing dynasties the day E’S had bills pending level of threat to the political status quo performance. But incumbent officials create more positions for relatives. This for decades passed by is the passage of the enabling law that have a significant edge over challeng- can undermine the system of checks Congress, so President is needed to implement the spirit of the ers, and those belonging to a dynasty and balances, such as when the mayor Aquino is reportedly constitutional provision against political benefit from the so-called equity of the is a close relative of the vice mayor. The Hconfident that he can get lawmakers dynasties. incumbent. For a number of clans, vice mayor presides over the city or Africa’s to approve one of the priority measures The administration that espouses politics has become a family business municipal council, whose tasks include he mentioned in his final State of the the straight path or tuwid na daan, from which their fortunes are built and checking abuses of the mayor. democratic Nation Address: the Anti-Dynasty Law. however, must at least try to shepherd nourished. Such incestuous linkages must be Among the biggest beneficiaries of the anti-dynasty proposal through a In recent years, dynasty building has discouraged. Spouses may want to progress is also at the absence of the law are members of resistant Congress. Dynasty building reached atrociously shameless propor- fill each other’s shoes and many chil- Congress, so the President’s push for has made a mockery of term limits set tions, with family members wanting to dren want to follow in the footsteps risk when leaders the measure is being met with skepti- by the Constitution. Spouses, siblings occupy every possible elective position of their parents. But it is possible to cism. Lawmakers have shown impres- and children simply take turns occupy- in their turf. There are close relatives rationalize this desire and set limits in refuse to step sive resistance to any measure that will ing the same position. in the 24-member Senate. When they political succession by relatives. The aside when their disrupt the way they do business, such Those who have created dynas- run out of positions, they branch out greed for public office is unhealthy for as proposals to strengthen regulation ties argue that they cannot be sus- to other voting areas or, if they have a democracy and must be curbed. terms end. Barack Obama of campaign finance. Posing the same tained if voters are unhappy with their the clout, resort to gerrymandering to The Philippine Star US President WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 The messy war Turkey is now fighting

Army rebels and Kurdish fighters in the Some critics accuse People’s Protection Units, also known as the YPG, injuring four. A Turkish official the government of told Agence France-Presse that the YPG “remains outside the scope of the current military effort.” Turkish President The YPG, whose political parent organisation has direct ties to the PKK, Recep Tayyip is a headache for the Turkish govern- ment. The territorial gains of Syrian Kurdish militias in the past year has Erdogan of tacitly given wing once more to aspirations for a Kurdish homeland. In Diyarbakir, the enabling or most important majority-Kurdish city in Turkey’s southeast, graffiti hailing the Syrian Kurdish factions is ubiquitous supporting the along the walls and alleys of the historic old quarter. Hundreds of Kurdish youths IS, partially as a from Diyarbakir and the surrounding areas have left their homes to join the bulwark against YPG’s fight in Syria. Last month, a spokesman for the Democratic Union Party, the YPG’s resurgent Kurdish political parent, said any military inter- vention by Turkey into Syria would be factions on both construed as an act of “aggression” by “invaders.” Turkish officials, meanwhile, say the Syrian Kurds are in league with sides of the border. the Assad regime, a claim met largely with scepticism by outside observers and denied by the Kurds. BY ISHAAN THAROOR Leftist radicals fter months of relative inaction, Another group caught in the the Turkish military whirred Turkish dragnet is the DHKP-C, or the Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (centre) chairs a security meeting in Ankara, Turkey. into motion at the end of last Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/ Aweek, bombing Islamic State Front, a Marxist extremist group that positions across the border in Syria. But Some critics accuse the centre-right bomber killed dozens of youth activists with a more hardline wing frustrated by has carried out attacks on politicians the militant group was not the only one government of Turkish President Recep in the town of Suruc last week, Turkey a stalled, ineffectual peace process and and police in the past, including a suicide in Turkey’s crosshairs: Turkish jets also Tayyip Erdogan of tacitly enabling or cracked down. It launched airstrikes on pushing for greater confrontation. bombing in January. It also is classified as targeted the Iraqi mountain bases of supporting the Islamic State, partially as Islamic State targets and carried out US officials say the Turkish strikes a terrorist group by Washington and was the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a bulwark against resurgent Kurdish fac- sweeping arrests of suspected militants in on the PKK had nothing to do with among a number of radical leftist groups an outlawed Kurdish group that waged tions on both sides of the border. Officials Istanbul and other Turkish cities, includ- Washington’s coordination with Ankara targeted in a nationwide crackdown. a decades-long insurgency against the in Ankara, including Erdogan, reject the ing dozens thought to be linked to the over the fight against the Islamic State. A member of the DHKP-C was slain Turkish state until a ceasefire in 2013. allegations. Islamic State. But, in the rhetoric of Turkish offi- during one of the many police raids car- That fragile peace is now effectively They have not seen eye-to-eye with the cials, the war on the militant group and ried out Friday. Her death spurred a dead, and the Turkish airstrikes come Obama administration on its strategy in The PKK the Kurdish guerrillas is all part of a weekend of riots and clashes in Istanbul’s amid a spiraling “vortex” of violence Syria. In the early stages of the country’s But hundreds more of those detained joint struggle against the terrorists in Gazi district, where anti-Erdogan sen- inside the country. Meanwhile, Turkey conflict, Erdogan was the most outspoken were said to belong to the PKK, a sepa- Turkey’s midst. timent runs deep. On Sunday, a police forged a security pact with the United world leader calling for the departure of ratist faction deemed a terrorist organi- Ideologically, the PKK could not be far- officer was shot in the chest during the States allowing American fighter jets and Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. The sation by the United States and Turkey. ther from the Islamic State: The PKK’s unrest and died of his wounds. armed drones to launch from the NATO White House’s air campaign against Turkish jets also hit PKK camps in political roots are Marxist-Leninist, and The chaos comes at a time when air base at Incirlik. the Islamic State was unsatisfactory to northern Iraq. Suspected PKK militants its political leadership is staunchly secu- Turkey’s politicians are still struggling The geopolitical map is getting compli- Erdogan and his allies, who wanted more are accused of carrying out attacks on larist. Images of unveiled female fighters to form a government after elections in cated, so here’s a guide to whom Turkey direct international action against the Turkish police and security personnel in in the ranks of the PKK — and those of June saw Erdogan’s ruling Justice and is now fighting. Assad regime. the past week. other Kurdish factions — are frequently Development Party lose its parliamentary Now, after Turkey’s sanctioning of US The PKK emerged in the 1980s as trotted out as a sign of Kurdish affinity majority for the first time in a decade. The Islamic State air raids from the Incirlik base, a sig- the main militant wing championing a for Western liberal values. Moreover, the It lost dozens of seats to the Peoples’ For many months, Western govern- nificant shift appears to be afoot. News separate homeland for Turkey’s Kurdish PKK and other Kurdish factions have lost Democratic Party, or HDP, a motley bloc ments and local opposition groups, par- of Washington and Ankara agreeing to a minority, whose cultural identity had for hundreds of soldiers in frontline clashes of leftists and Kurds, some directly linked ticularly Kurdish factions in southeast de facto “safe zone” on the Syrian side of decades been harshly suppressed by the with the Islamic State. to the PKK. The HDP’s leader, Selahattin Turkey, have urged the government in the border follows Turkey’s long-standing Turkish state. An estimated 40,000 peo- Demirtas, accused Erdogan and his allies Ankara to more aggressively confront demand for an internationally monitored ple died in about three decades of hos- Syrian Kurds on Monday of fanning the flames of a the Islamic State. The extremist group no-fly zone and “safe haven” in northern tilities, until a ceasefire was announced Syrian Kurdish militias on the bor- regional conflagration. has consolidated its position across Syria that, among other things, would by Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK’s jailed der with Turkey alleged that they, too, “A temporary government with its stretches of war-torn Syria and Iraq in help ease the enormous burden of hous- leader, in 2013. were being targeted by Turkey, claim- temporary prime minister is dragging part through arms, fighters and money ing Syrian refugees. But Ocalan’s control over the group ing that Turkish tank shells had hit a the country step-by-step into a civil war,” smuggled via Turkey’s porous border. After a suspected Islamic State suicide from prison appears to have slackened, Syrian village manned by both Free Syria Demirtas said. WP-BLOOMBERG Is IS saving the Syrian regime? Why the most popular rule easily labelled terrorists and extremists, surprised the world a few days ago dur- of weight loss is wrong instead of confronting revolutionaries ing his press conference with Syrian and people who want freedom, dignity Foreign Minister Walid Al Moallem, and a decent living. when he said that there is a tendency BY ROBERTO A FERDMAN heavier. So cut 500 calories per day, and Since the regime has released some for a regional US-Arab coalition to face drag it out for a week, and you’ll be roughly members of certain Islamist groups ISIS. here’s a popular rule you’ve probably one pound lighter; double the decrease, and from prisons, it began to breathe a Lavrov spoke about the possibility heard before about losing weight: for you’ll drop two pounds; triple it, and do sigh of relief slowly, since the people’s of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan to Tevery 3,500 calories you shed from away with three. But the reality is much revolution in the Syrian uprising is no participate with the Syrian regime to your diet, you’ll lose a pound. But just harder for people trying to lose weight. In longer mentioned in the international fight extremists in the region, which is a because everyone, including nutritionists fact, the further progress you make, the media, which is currently more inter- dramatic development by any standards. with graduate degrees, keep repeating this tougher it gets. ested in covering news about Islamist Al-Moallem described it as a miracle if doesn’t make it true. “Over time, the more weight you lose, the extremists. it happens. In fact, it’s a total myth. more your metabolic rate drops,” explained Let us remember that the regime’s It is true that ISIS is neither the “I see dietitians using it all the time, John Peters, a leading researcher at the delegation to the Geneva negotiations fabrication of the Syrian regime nor its making recommendations based off it,” Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at was calling for the world to stand by allies. It is also true that the terrorist said Kevin Hall, who is a researcher at the the University of Colorado. “In order to its side to combat terrorism, and not to organisation has an independent special National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive keep losing weight at the rate you started BY DR FAISAL AL QASSEM enter into negotiations with the opposi- strategy and objectives, and it is not the and Kidney Diseases. “Unfortunately it’s losing weight, you’re going to have to tion in order to remain in a transitional regime’s agent. completely wrong.” eat even fewer calories. A month in, you t is clear that the Assad regime phase. However, ISIS is exploiting the frag- The adage dates back to the 1950s, might have to eat another hundred fewer; and his Russian, Iranian, Iraqi and Some argue that whenever the Syrian ile military regime in order to stretch when medical researcher Max Wishnofsky a month after that you might have to drop ILebanese allies have succeeded in regime felt endangered, it facilitated and expand in Syria. The regime, in measured how much energy a pound of fat it another hundred.” terrorising the world with their ISIS ISIS access to new areas in Syria, as turn, facilitates ISIS movement and tissue represents, and found that it was The disappointing reality dieters face is bogeyman. it recently did when ISIS took over, uses it as a bogeyman for two goals: 3,500 kilojoules, otherwise known as calo- that our bodies work tirelessly to defend The Syrian regime was brilliant at overnight and without prior warning, In the interim, to intimidate Syrians ries. Theoretically, he had calculated how our weight, even when that weight isn’t playing on the tendon of Islamist ter- the city of Palmyra and the Yarmouk in the interior in order to rush in the many calories a person had to burn — or ideal. The metabolic changes are actually rorism even before the strong advent refugee camp in Damascus. regimes’ arms and beg for pardon, and forego — in order to lose a pound of fat. only one of three biological adjustments of ISIS on the scene, by warning the Some felt that the regime handed strategically to scare the world abroad But Wishnofsky made a couple of spurious that follow severe cuts in calories — there Syrians and the world of Islamists since over the city of Palmyra with its huge that the Syrian regime’s alternative is assumptions. are neurological and hormonal changes the first day of the revolution. cache of weapons to ISIS under an an extremist terrorist group, so that the First, he assumed that when you lose that happen too, both of which make los- It is no longer a secret that the regime agreement and not as a result of battle. world will hurry to the Syrian arena to weight you only lose fat tissue. “That isn’t ing weight and keeping it off a significant played the card of the Islamist extremist As a confirmation, the Turkish intelli- face all militant groups, especially since true,” said Hall. “It’s a relatively minor challenge. In fact, it can be nearly impos- bogeyman as a last resort to blackmail gence reported a few days ago that the Assad knows very well that ISIS is use- error, because a lot of it is fat tissue, but it sible. For these reasons some researchers the world to allying with it instead of Syrian regime coordinates all its steps ful to him only in the short term, but still isn’t true.” say diets don’t actually work. overthrowing it. with ISIS. would later be a disaster. The much bigger mistake Wishnofsky Hall prefers to say that losing weight We have seen at a given moment how It is possible that the regime will later Therefore, the Syrian regime wants made was misunderstanding how our bod- is difficult. Most people who try to lose Bashar Al Assad launched thousands hand over to ISIS peaceful minority to bring international troops to Syria to ies react to weight loss. As soon as we start weight, he says, end up back to where they of dangerous Islamists from jails, and areas such as As-Salamiya with Ismailia later protect it from the terrorist organ- cutting calories from our diet, the number started in less than a year. But he blames even contributed to arming and direct- majority and As-Suwayda with Druze isation in order to eliminate the remain- of calories our body expends begins to fall. popular but misleading rules for the long- ing them. majority to tell the world: “Look at how der of the revolution in Syria under the “It literally starts happening on the first term failure of so many diets. After feeling threatened by the Free ISIS is capturing minority areas and pretext of combating terrorism. day,” said Hall. “And it continues to mount “People don’t have the time or energy Syrian Army (FSA) and those who are threatening their existence”, so that This is what Bashar Al Assad and his as you lose weight.” or knowhow to sift through myths like supporting it, the Syrian regime started the world will rush to Syria and protect Russian and Iranian tutors are blatantly The reason Wishnofsky, and so many the 3,500 calorie rule,” said Hall. “So they strengthening, especially extremists, Assad from falling under the pretext of after by trading with the bogeyman of others since, have botched this biological believe them, and tailor their behaviour Islamist groups, in order to confront the counter terrorism. terrorism. fact is that it’s fairly counterintuitive. The to them.” FSA and take the popular revolution It is obvious that the goal has become However, matters are judged by their tendency is to assume that as you lose It’s hard enough to tell fact from fic- off course. There is nothing wrong if it quite clear after the world began to tilt good endings. Therefore, who will later weight, the same calorie cutback should tion in the nutrition world, where popular occasionally faces the regime! and cooperate with the Syrian regime succeed in their strategies? Let us wait prove even more effective once you are fads often speak louder than science. But It is much better for the Syrian and its allies to face jihadists, instead of and see. lighter, and, presumably, in need of less it’s nearly impossible when the same lie regime to appear in front of the overthrowing the regime. The writer is a columnist and presenter food. At the very least, it should continue to is printed in practically every nutrition world as facing Islamists that can be The Russian Foreign Minister in Al Jazeera TV. produce the same results as when you were textbook. WP-BLOOMBERG WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS

LaGuardia Airport to be rebuilt NSA to stop Female prison using bulk US phone data employee in November

WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency will cease its pleads guilty access to most bulk data collected under a controversial surveil- lance programme in November, but retain records for litigation Mitchell helped inmates to escape purposes, officials said. The office of the Director of PLATTSBURGH: A female outside the prison in Dannemora, National Intelligence said in a prison employee pleaded guilty to New York. After a manhunt, statement that the bulk telephony one felony and one misdemeanor Matt, 49, was fatally shot by a fed- data would be destroyed “as soon charge in a deal with prosecutors eral agent on June 26 about 43km as possible” to comply with a law yesterday in connection with away from the prison. Sweat, 35, passed by Congress in early June. helping two convicted murderers was captured two days later about The statement said that dur- in their daring June escape from 3km from the Canadian border. ing the 180-day transition period a maximum security prison in “Matt got her to feeling good required under the USA Freedom upstate New York. about herself, better than she An artist’s rendering of plans for New York City’s LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, yesterday. The airport, Act, “analytic access to that his- Joyce Mitchell, 51, faces up had in a long period of time, and famously likened to a “third world country” by Vice President Joe Biden, is to be rebuilt from the ground up, torical metadata... will cease on to seven years in prison for her she was swept off her feet a bit,” officials said. The new airport will move 600 feet closer to the Grand Central Parkway, creating more space November 29, 2015.” But it added role in the breakout by inmates Johnston said. “Then when she that “for data integrity purposes,” for flight operations and will eventually be linked up to the rail network. Richard Matt and David Sweat realized who she was dealing with, NSA will allow technical person- from Clinton Correctional Facility everything changed.” nel to continue to have access to on June 6. Under terms of her plea deal, the metadata for an additional Appearing in Plattsburgh Mitchell will cooperate with an three months. County Court in shackles and investigation by the state inspec- Additionally, the statement said a black and white jail uniform, tor general ordered by Governor NSA must preserve bulk teleph- Mitchell wiped away tears as she Andrew Cuomo, Wylie said. “She Snowden should ‘come home ony metadata collection “until civil signed legal documents before wanted to expedite her case pro- litigation regarding the program Judge Kevin Ryan. ceedings and move on,” he said. is resolved, or the relevant courts “She realizes that she made a Mitchell had agreed to drive and be judged’: White House relieve NSA of such obligations.” horrible mistake,” her attorney a getaway car in the escape but The data kept for litigation Stephen Johnston told reporters. got cold feet and checked herself “will not be used or accessed for Under the plea deal, she will not into a hospital with symptoms of WASHINGTON: The White has been granted asylum in National Security Agency spying any other purpose, and, as soon face any possible sexual assault or a panic attack, authorities have House rejected a call yesterday Russia after he leaked docu- programme. as possible, NSA will destroy the rape charges stemming from alle- said. Sentencing was scheduled to pardon Edward Snowden, ments on vast US surveillance But his revelation that the Section 215 bulk telephony meta- gations that she had sexual rela- for September 28. saying the former intelligence programmes to journalists, is NSA siphons vast quantities data upon expiration of its litiga- tions with Matt or Sweat, Clinton Charges against prison contractor should “be judged by “running away from the conse- of telephone data from private tion preservation obligations.” County District Attorney Andrew employee Gene Palmer will be a jury of his peers” for leaking quences of his actions.” US citizens struck a cord and The USA Freedom Act sought Wylie said at a news conference. presented to a grand jury in US government secrets. “If he felt his actions were con- Congress has begun to amend to roll back the powers of the NSA Mitchell, the training super- August, Wylie said. Palmer is The US administration re- sistent with civil disobedience, once secret laws. under the Patriot Act, and nota- visor in the prison’s tailor shop, accused of helping give contra- iterated its tough stance against then he should do what those Snowden has been nominated bly Section 215, which authorized pleaded guilty to a felony charge band to the inmates. the exiled fugitive, whom sup- who have taken issue with their for the Nobel Peace Prize for the a vast data sweep program the of promoting prison contraband No one else has been identified porters regard as a whistleblower, own government do: challenge it, second year in a row and has agency said was aimed at tracking and a misdemeanor charge of as connected to the escape, Wylie in response to a petition on the speak out, engage in a construc- received a string of international potential terrorists. criminal facilitation. said, adding he does not expect White House website signed by tive act of protest, and — impor- awards for free speech and civil The new law halts the NSA’s Mitchell was accused of smug- to charge the 12 prison staffers more than 167,000 people. tantly — accept the consequences liberties. ability to scoop up and store meta- gling hacksaw blades and a screw- placed on leave after the escape. Lisa Monaco, an adviser on of his actions,” she wrote. The petition took up this call. data from millions of Americans driver bit to the pair to help An escape charge against Sweat homeland security and coun- “He should come home to the “Edward Snowden is a national who have no connection to ter- facilitate their escape. Her hus- will be presented to a grand jury, terterrorism, said Snowden’s United States, and be judged by hero and should be immediately rorism. It shifts responsibility band Lyle Mitchell was seated in he said. While Sweat is serving “dangerous decision to steal a jury of his peers — not hide issued a a full, free, and absolute for storing the data to telephone the front row in the courtroom. life in prison without parole for and disclose classified informa- behind the cover of an authori- pardon for any crimes he has companies, allowing authorities to In making their escape, the murder, an escape conviction tion had severe consequences for tarian regime.” committed or may have commit- access the information only with inmates cut through the steel would help keep him in special the security of our country and The US administration has ted related to blowing the whistle a warrant from a secret coun- walls of their cells, climbed down restricted housing, confined to the people who work day in and branded Snowden a hacker and on secret NSA surveillance pro- terterror court that identifies a a catwalk and through a steam his cell 23 hours a day, Wylie said. day out to protect it.” a traitor who endangered lives grammes,” it said. specific person or group of people pipe and emerged from a manhole REUTERS She said that Snowden, who by revealing the extent of the AFP suspected of terror ties. 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US man killed in assault of woman Hillary urged to hand over may have been private email server serial killer: Police WASHINGTON: Republican “She knows exactly how clas- WASHINGTON: US police are US House of Representatives sifying materials works. At this reopening old murder cases after Speaker John Boehner yesterday point the best thing for Mrs. concluding that a man shot dead said that Democratic presiden- Clinton to do is to come clean and with his own gun by an alleged tial candidate Hillary Clinton just turn the server over to the IG prostitute in her home may have should “come clean” and turn (inspector general) at the State been a serial killer. over her private email server to Department.” Neal Falls, 45, killed on July 18 the State Department’s inspec- Clinton’s use of her private in Charleston, West Virginia, may tor general. email account linked to a server be linked to the murder or disap- At least four emails from the in her New York home for her pearance of nine women in three account used by Clinton while she work as America’s top diplomat states, police say. “Our victim was was secretary of state contained came to light in March and drew the tenth. But she survived,” Lt. classified information, accord- fire from political opponents who Steve Cooper, the lead detective ing to a government watchdog. accused her of sidestepping trans- in the West Virginia case, said. Clinton has said she did not send parency and record-keeping laws. In the trunk of Falls’ car police or receive any secret information The inspector general who found knives, an ax, a machete, using that account, but Boehner oversees US intelligence agencies a sledgehammer, plastic bags, cast doubt on this. wrote in a letter to members of bleach, a bullet-proof vest and “Despite evidence to the con- Congress last week that a sam- four sets of handcuffs. Cooper has trary, Secretary Clinton continues pling of 40 of about 30,000 emails called it “a serial killer kit”. to maintain that she never had sent or received by Clinton found Falls had arranged to meet Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hugs 10-year-old Emily Wall, after she asked to shake the hand classified emails. Now let’s not be at least four that contained infor- with the woman via a website of the first female President of the United States, during a town hall campaign event in New Hampshire yesterday. foolish,” Boehner told reporters at mation the government had clas- advertising escort services. The a regular news conference. sified as secret. REUTERS woman, who has asked to be iden- tified only as Heather, told CBS News over the weekend that as soon as Falls entered her home he pulled out a handgun, asked her if she wanted to live or die and Brazil to use drones to fight slave labour in rural areas started choking her. “When he strangled me he just wouldn’t let me get any air and so RIO DE JANEIRO: The China’s DJI, have cameras that 21 million people are trapped in people have been freed from slave- of 2005, pledging not to do busi- I grabbed my rake. And when he Brazilian government plans can shoot 4K resolution video some form of forced labour. like work. ness with blacklisted employers. laid the gun down to get the rake to use drones to strengthen and capture 12 megapixel photos. There is no reliable data about A key weapon in Brazil’s fight The fight against slave labour out of my hands, I shot him. I just its fight against slave labour After Rio, other Brazilian states slave labour in Brazil, and it’s against slavery is the “Dirty List” of had a setback in December, when grabbed the gun and shot behind in rural areas, the Labour will start using similar equip- difficult to gauge if the situation employers. Launched in November Supreme Court Justice Ricardo me,” she said, making the gesture Ministry has said. ment, the Labour Ministry said has improved or if employers who 2003, the blacklist has revealed to Lewandowski ordered the Labour of reaching behind her head and Labour inspectors, who investi- in a statement last week. exploit slave labour have simply the public hundreds of companies Ministry to suspend the release shooting blindly. gate properties that are suspected The decision to use drones become more sophisticated, said and individual employers who were of the blacklist. His decision was The shot hit Falls in the head, of employing workers in slave-like comes at a time when a crucial Leonardo Sakamoto, head of São investigated by labour prosecu- a response to an injunction filed killing him. DNA samples from conditions, will use six drones weapon in Brazil’s fight against Paulo-based Repórter Brasil. tors and found to be using slaves. by Brazil’s Real Estate Developers’ Falls have been entered into an equipped with cameras to moni- slavery — regular publication of a “We can’t say things are better, The list of about 600 employers Association, whose members FBI database to see if they match tor suspicious activities starting blacklist of companies using slave or that slave labour has migrated is updated every six months. If include the country’s largest con- evidence from old cases, Cooper next month in the state of Rio de labour — has been halted by an to the cities, and it’s almost after two years a company pays struction companies. said. On Falls’ person police found Janeiro. injunction brought by a body rep- impossible to calculate numbers,” all its fines and proves that it has Last year, OAS SA, which a yellow Post-it note with the “Drones don’t substitute the resenting real estate developers. Sakamoto said. remedied working conditions, it is built two stadiums for Brazil’s names, ages and telephone num- inspector’s physical presence, More than 120 years after In May 1995 Brazil officially removed from the list. World Cup, was put on the bers of other women. but they will be useful out in Brazil became the last country in recognized the active use of slave Blacklisted employers are blacklist. Odebrecht, Latin Falls is now being investigated the country, in the case of farms the Americas to abolish slavery, labour in the economy. That year, blocked from receiving govern- America’s largest construction over the killings or disappearance that are hard to reach by road, in 1888, about 1.8 million men and the Labour Ministry launched ment loans and have restrictions company, was accused last year of nine women in Nevada, Ohio and for example,” said Bruno Barcia women work for little or no pay as a Special Mobile Enforcement placed on sales of their products. of keeping 500 Brazilian work- Illinois, Cooper said. All or most Lopes, coordinator of Rural forced laborers in Latin America, Group that works with prosecu- They also undergo private sector ers in slave-like conditions at the of those women worked as escorts Supervision at Rio de Janeiro’s according to 2012 estimates by tors and the police to find and raid boycotts, as more than 400 banks construction site of a sugar and and advertised online, he said. Labour Secretariat. the Geneva-based International farms and companies that employ and companies have signed the ethanol plant in Angola. AFP The Inspire 1 drones, made by Labor Organisation. Globally, slave workers. Since then, 50,000 National Slave Eradication pact REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Don’t rule forever, Obama tells AU leaders US president calls for boosting trade with Africa, says ready to partner with Africa to defeat terrorism

ADDIS ABABA: Barack I cannot run again. I actually building infrastructure with for- Obama yesterday condemned think I’m a pretty good president, eign labour, or extracting Africa’s African leaders who refuse to I think if I ran again I could win, natural resources,” Obama said. give up power and urged the but I can’t,” he explained. “Real economic partner- continent to end “the cancer “And, I’ll be honest with you, ships have to be a good deal for of corruption”, in the first ever I’m looking forward to life after Africa. They have to create jobs address to the African Union by being president. I won’t have such and capacity for Africans. That’s a US president. a big security detail all the time, it the kind of partnership America But Obama also said the world means I can take a walk, it means offers.” Obama said the United needed to change its approach I can spend time with my family. States also stood with Africa to to Africa by boosting fair trade “The point is I don’t under- defeat terrorism and end con- and not just aid, vowing that the stand why people want to stay so flict, warning that the continent’s United States stood with the long. Especially when they’ve got progress will “depend on security region to defeat terrorism and a lot of money,” he said, drawing and peace”. end conflict. a huge cheer. “As Africa stands against terror The speech marked the end of “Nothing will unlock Africa’s and conflict, I want you to know a short tour that has seen Obama economic potential more than the United States stands with visit Kenya, his father’s birthplace, ending the cancer of corruption,” you,” he said, highlighting threats and Ethiopia. Both are key security Obama said, also speaking at ranging from Somalia’s Shebab, allies in the fight against Somalia’s length of the need for growth to Boko Haram in Nigeria, insur- Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab mili- be unlocked by ending discrimina- gents in Mali and Tunisia, and tants, but they were also taken tion and sexual violence against the Uganda-led Lord’s Resistance up on concerns over democracy, women and girls. Army rebels in central Africa. human rights and graft. Obama singled out Burundi’s Obama said the United “Africa’s democratic progress is President Pierre Nkurunziza -- States was backing AU mili- also at risk when leaders refuse whose successful bid for a third tary efforts and saluted the to step aside when their terms term provoked weeks of unrest in “brave African peacekeepers” end,” Obama said, drawing huge the small central African nation battling militants. applause and cheers from some -- as an example of the dangers “Many of these groups claim sections of the audience in the of trying to stay put and risking US President Barack Obama speaks at the African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday. Obama the banner of religion, but hun- AU’s Nelson Mandela hall. “instability and strife”. said that democracy in Africa was threatened when presidents did not stand aside at the end of constitutional dreds of millions of African “No one should be president for At the same time, Obama said term limits and pointed to violence in Burundi where the president has secured a third term. Muslims know that Islam means life,” he said. the world needed to “recognise peace. We must call groups like “Now let me be honest with Africa’s extraordinary progress”. Africa forever mired in poverty and took a veiled swipe at resource- Chinese-built AU headquarters Al-Qaeda, ISIL (Islamic State), you: I do not understand this. I “A half century into this inde- and conflict,” the president said. hungry China -- which has mas- where he gave the speech. Al-Shebab and Boko Haram, we am in my second term... I love my pendence era, it is long past time Obama said the US was a sively stepped up its presence on “Economic relationships cannot must call them what they are - work, but under our constitution, to put aside old stereotypes of an trusted partner of the continent, the continent, symbolised by the simply be about other countries murderers.” AFP Quake rocks Indonesia Boko Haram raids kill 25 in Nigeria JAYAPURA: A powerful spokesman Sutopo Purwo MAIDUGURI: At least 25 peo- Vigilantes resisted the attack The militants have dispersed reported to have been killed in earthquake rocked remote east- Nugroho. "Residents panicked ple were killed by suspected on Dille that came around 1pm into various pockets across Borno the countries around Lake Chad. ern Indonesia yesterday, killing and rushed out of their homes." Boko Haram Islamist militants local time (1200 GMT), the state, notably along the Niger Nigeria and its neighbours, a teenage boy who fell into a One house collapsed and in raids last Monday afternoon sources said. border near Damasak, Lake Chad, increasingly targetted by the river as he fished and damaging another was partially damaged and yesterday morning on three A police source who declined the Sambisa forest reserve and insurgents, are setting up new several buildings. in Kasonaweja city, not far from communities in Nigeria’s north- to be named said the attacks on around the Mandara mountain headquarters for their multi- The 7.0 magnitude quake the epicentre, while patients were eastern Borno state, military the smaller nearby communities range that borders Cameroon. national joint taskforce in Chad’s struck inland in a mountainous evacuated from a hospital after its and police sources said. came early yesterday. Borno state governor Kashim N’Djamena. area of Papua in the early hours, walls cracked, said local disaster Fighters in pick-up trucks Boko Haram has been trying Shettima said this month that A tally showed that more almost 250 kilometres (150 miles) agency official Yonas Taudufu. attacked the town of Dille and to carve out an Islamist state seven local government areas out than 600 people had been killed west of the province’s capital A 15-year-old boy fell into a two smaller communities in the in the northeast of Nigeria for of 27 were “largely inaccessible in Nigeria alone since President Jayapura, the US Geological river where he was fishing and Askira/Uba area in Borno state the last six years. It control- because these lunatics called Boko Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugu- Survey said. drowned when the quake hit, he about 250 km (160 miles) south led large swathes of territory in Haram still move up and down ration at the end of May, when "The quake was felt very said. Local people later recovered of Maiduguri the capital of Borno three states last year before being the areas”. he promised to make getting rid strongly for four seconds," said his body. state and the epicentre of the pushed out of the major towns it Yesterday, the European Union of Boko Haram his top priority. Indonesian disaster agency AFP insurgency. controlled. said that about 800 people are REUTERS

Cameron in Singapore Three Philippine China conducts air, sea soldiers killed in rebel ambush drills in South China Sea MANILA: Three Philippine BEIJING: China said it con- lanes critical to US trade with soldiers were killed and 13 ducted air and sea drills in the Southeast Asia and the oil-rich wounded in a midnight ambush South China Sea yesterday as Middle East. by Maoist guerillas in the it stakes an increasingly asser- China rejects US involvement northern highlands. tive claim to virtually the whole in the dispute and its more asser- The rebels detonated a road- sea despite rival claims by tive approach recently, which has side bomb and then opened fire neighbours. included land reclamation and on three military trucks driving The live-ammunition drills construction on disputed reefs, on a dirt road in the mountain involved more than 100 ships, doz- has raised tension. The latest town of Pinukpuk on last Monday ens of aircraft, information war- exercises focused on integrating night, local military commander fare units as well as the nuclear information warfare systems with Brigadier-General Paul Atal said. force, the state-backed China air and naval forces, as well as “They really wanted to inflict Military Online said in a report testing the combat effectiveness casualties that’s why they used posted on the defence ministry’s of new weapons and equipment, landmines,” he said. The 30-man website. It did not specify where China Military Online said. unit was returning to base after exactly the exercises took place. The military achieved “new security patrols when it was China claims most of the poten- breakthroughs” in several areas attacked, he added. tially energy-rich South China including engaging high-speed In a separate incident on last Sea, through which $5tn in ship- low-altitude targets, anti-sub- Sunday, rebel forces attacked a borne trade passes every year, marine warfare and intercepting security outpost in the southern and rejects the rival claims of supersonic anti-ship missiles with province of Compostela Valley, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, surface warships, it added. where they burned an excavator Malaysia and Taiwan. China’s navy last Saturday and seized two security guards, The United States has called played down the exercises and said regional military spokes- British Prime Minister David Cameron, his Minister of State for Small Business Anna Soubry and Singaporean on claimants to settle differences criticised other countries for “ille- man Lieutenant Colonel Eduardo minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Grace Fu and Chief Executive Officer of National Parks Board, Kenneth through talks and has said its gally” occupying islands and reefs. Gubat. AFP Er tour the recently declared UNESCO World Heritage Site, Singapore Botanic Gardens, yesterday. Cameron is Pacific Fleet aims to protect sea REUTERS on a two-day visit to Singapore as part of his Southeast Asia tour. $3bn ADB loan for Philippines Myanmar makes $100m drug haul YANGON: Myanmar authori- for decades. Last month Myanmar torched ties have seized methampheta- While its opium produc- and crushed drugs worth some to help end Muslim rebellion mine tablets worth an estimated tion has slipped behind that of $245m in an annual event mark- $100m from an abandoned Afghanistan, illicit drug labs in ing World Drugs Day. truck in Yangon, state media the country’s war-torn border- The country, which is emerging MANILA: The Asian the Philippine government. the violence-racked area, which said yesterday, as the country lands have produced a flood of from years of military rule, is the Development Bank is to lend Bank President Takehiko President Aquino hopes will be struggles to stem surging drug methamphetamine that has swept world’s second largest opium pro- about $3bn to the Philippines Nakao said boosting lending to passed before next year. production. across the region. ducer, with illicit poppy growing over the next three years, part the country was in part aimed at The Muslim rebellion began Police discovered the unat- Last Sunday’s find was “the across whole swathes of eastern of which will help support a “supporting the government in in the early 1970s plunging the tended vehicle stuffed with sacks biggest stimulant tablet sei- Shan state. peace deal ending a long-run- its effort to bring lasting peace region into poverty with even carrying an estimated 27 million zure during this government”, The United Nations Office ning Muslim insurgency, a joint and development” to the Catholic existing infrastructure like roads, tablets in the industrial suburb a police officer at the anti-drug on Drugs and Crime has said statement said yesterday. nation’s Muslim south. rudimentary ports, and schools of Mingalardon last Sunday, trafficking department said on methamphetamine -- known The loan -- up 66 percent from A peace deal was struck in destroyed. Rebuilding basic infra- according to the Myanmar- condition of anonymity, add- as “yaba” or crazy medicine in the $1.8bn agreed for 2015-2017 March last year with the largest structure, as well as improving language Mirror newspaper. ing that the investigation was Thailand -- dominates the -- will help the Philippines build Muslim rebel group, to end dec- literacy levels, would help the Myanmar sits at the heart of ongoing. global market for synthetic roads and other infrastructure, ades of fighting that has claimed region attract business invest- the infamous “Golden Triangle”, He said the estimated value drugs and is expanding improve its basic education system 120,000 lives. Parliament is ment necessary to create jobs to which also covers parts of of the haul was calculated based significantly in Southeast and and reform its capital markets, said debating a proposed law to grant help its people get out of poverty. Thailand and Laos, and has been on an assessment of the current East Asia. the statement issued jointly with minority Muslims self-rule in AFP a hotbed of narcotics production market price. AFP WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Eco-corridor by 2018: Sharif Pakistan gets $336m PM fast-tracks projects linked to Pakistan-China super highway for helping fight Taliban

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister official hand-out released after units of the Frontier Works Secretary Hassan Nawaz Tarar, KARACHI: Pakistan yester- programme, which is the first Nawaz Sharif is fast track- the meeting quoted the PM Organisation to connect Gwadar and Water and Power Secretary day received some $336m from tranche of a $1.5bn for the cur- ing all infrastructure projects as saying. The meeting also port with major roads in the other Muhammad Younus Dagha among the United States for its ongo- rent fiscal year ending June 2016. related to the multibillion-dol- reviewed the Havelian-Thakot provinces. other senior officers attended the ing role in combating a Taliban Pakistan has received a total of lar China-Pakistan Economic Road project and other sections Last week, Pakistan army chief meeting. insurgency in neighbouring $13bn in CSF payments since the Corridor (CPEC), signalling to of the Karakoram Highway that General Raheel Sharif also vis- The insurgency-hit province Afghanistan. programme began. officials that they were working are being upgraded. ited Panjgur and Turbat areas in of Balochistan has been a major The injection of cash, which US-led NATO forces on a strict end of 2017 deadline. Premier Nawaz was told Balochistan province to inspect source of concern for the project comes as the Taliban steps up its ended their combat mission The premier issued the that the major sections of the the under-construction road decided upon in April during annual summer offensive launched in Afghanistan in December, instruction while presiding over Peshawar-Karachi Motorway, network. the landmark visit of Chinese in late April, has helped Pakistan’s leaving local forces to battle mili- a meeting yesterday to review including the Sukkur- Multan, The construction of 870km President Xi Jinping to Pakistan. foreign exchange reserves reach a tants alone, but a 13,000-strong progress on the Gwadar East Gojra-Khanewal and Lahore- roads was under way simultane- More than 50 agreements were fresh high of about $19bn, state residual force remains for train- Bay Expressway, Mughalkot-DI Abdul Hakim portions, were ously at five different locations, signed to inaugurate the corridor bank officials said. Regular pay- ing and counter-terrorism Khan Road and various other ready for groundbreaking. out of which 502km in Balochistan expected to create a new network ments to Pakistan under the operations. road projects under the corridor He directed that all neces- had been completed already. of roads, railways and pipelines Coalition Support Fund (CSF) The Afghan government mean- project in Balochistan. sary arrangements be completed The PM was also briefed about linking China’s restive west to the programme began in 2001 when while conducted its first face-to- Pakistan and China had ear- before the inauguration so that the ongoing upgrade of 10 railway Arabian Sea through Pakistan. Pakistan joined the US-led coali- face talks with Taliban cadres lier this year finalised deals worth construction is started right away. stations on the Peshawar-Karachi Soon after the inaugura- tion in Afghanistan as a “frontline on July 7 in a Pakistani hill sta- $46bn for infrastructure and The PM, who is expected to main railway line. He called for tion of the project, the military ally”. tion, aimed at ending the 14-year energy projects under the corri- inaugurate the Attabad tunnel in providing the best possible facili- had announced setting up a Pakistan provides use of its insurgency. dor from Gwadar in Balochistan Gilgit in the last week of August, ties to passengers and for utilising 10,000-strong force especially for air bases and other facilities in Almost 1,000 civilians were to Kashgar in China. also directed the authorities to the buildings of railway stations the protection of the schemes exchange for the reimbursements. killed in the conflict during the “The completion of road complete the work on the new for economic and commercial under the CPEC and the Chinese The central State Bank of first four months of this year, a projects in Balochistan under Gwadar International Airport as activities. workers and engineers working Pakistan (SBP) in a one-line sharp jump from the same period the CPEC would be a game early as possible. Planning and Development on them. press note said it had received a last year, according to the United changer for the region,” an The army has employed 11 Minister Ahsan Iqbal and INTERNEWS total of $336.8m under the CSF Nations. AFP Exchange firms free to Bamiyan’s caves, homes for poor Afghans

BAMIYAN: Carved into dun- bring dollars in baggage coloured cliffs, hundreds of manmade caves situated next KARACHI: After 10 years, the Karachi. Thus ECs exporting to empty niches that once shel- State Bank of Pakistan has once foreign currencies from Karachi, tered giant Buddha statues again allowed the exchange Lahore or Islamabad airports will destroyed by the Taliban are companies to bring in US dol- bring into Pakistan cash (US dol- home to Bamiyan’s poverty- lars directly in baggage or in lars) only through JIAP Karachi,” stricken who have nowhere else their accounts against the sale said a State Bank circular. to go. of foreign currencies abroad. Earlier, on July 24, the State The ancient caves lining “This arrangement shall Bank governor met the currency the Bamiyan valley in central remain in operation from Aug 3 dealers, along with President, Afghanistan were originally used to Oct 15 unless advised otherwise Forex Association of Pakistan, by Buddhist monks for meditation or until further instructions,” said and asked the reasons for sud- and retreat but now shelter land- the State Bank. den rise in dollar prices since the less Afghan families who cannot Currency dealers said the deci- dollar rose to Rs103.40 in the open afford conventional housing. sion will immediately improve market. With no electricity or running dollar supply in the market, “Since July 14 and due to Eid, water, the cave dwellers are forced reduce dollar demand, bring down banks did not supply dollars to the to adapt to an arduous existence difference in dollar rates in open/ exchange companies which cre- in these dark, dank, and musty inter-bank and will bring stability ated their shortage, thus prices structures. in the exchange rate. started crawling up,” said Malik “It’s not a good place, it’s never “Exchange Companies (ECs) Bostan, President, FAP, adding been a good place to live,” said were banned in April 2005 to bring that the State Bank asked banks Haji Hussain, who has been liv- dollars into the country and were to immediately supply dollars to ing in a cave atop a cliff with his bound to send dollars through TT the exchange companies. wife and three children for thirty A Hazara Afghan family stands in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200 kilometres northwest (telegraphic transfer- through Bostan said the demand years. of Kabul. Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of manmade caves situated next to empty niches that once banks),” said Zafar Paracha, was high because 0.3 million “It’s very difficult to climb up sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban are home to Bamiyan’s poverty-stricken. Secretary, Exchange Companies Pakistanis will leave the country here and then come back down. Association of Pakistan. within 45 to 50 days for Hajj and And as far as water is concerned, largely been spared the wrench- predominantly Shia Hazaras, UNESCO. The government came However, the State Bank has they are buying dollars and Saudi it’s a big problem. We have to ing conflict that afflicts the rest forcing them to take shelter in down heavily on the cave dwellers, made it mandatory to bring dol- Riyals. carry it on our back to bring it of Afghanistan. caves right next to the Buddha evicting many and moving them lars only through Jinnah Airport, Representatives of ECs will up here,” the labourer said in his When the Taliban captured statues. But two years after into temporary shelters elsewhere Karachi. declare the import consignment cave. Bamiyan in the late 1990s, some the Taliban regime was top- in the city. “Dollar currency notes can be of cash (US dollars), upon their Hundreds of families dwell of these people lost their homes pled in the 2001 US-led invasion Some 250 families have been imported only through Jinnah arrival into Pakistan, to the SBP in the caves of Bamiyan, a rare as the hardline Sunni movement of Afghanistan, the area was evicted from the caves in recent International Airport (JIAP) staff. INTERNEWS oasis of tranquility that has burned down the houses of the declared a World Heritage Site by years but many still remain. AFP Chinese envoy hails special ties with Pakistan Pakistan’s poor gasline ISLAMABAD: Chinese Jamaldani, Deputy Commissioner He said that Chinese peo- Later, the Chinese envoy vis- Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Gwadar Abdul Hameed Abro, ple consider Pakistan as their ited schools in Gwadar and met Whidang said yesterday that mayor and deputy mayor, public second home and so a large teachers and students. A memo- network won’t stand the China-Pakistan Economic representatives and officials of number of Chinese engineers and randum of understanding was Corridor (CPEC) would start China Port Handing Company experts work in different parts of signed between the China Port a new era of development and were also present on the occasion. Pakistan. Chinese envoy further Handing Company and manage- up to Iran pipeline prosperity in Asia. “Pakistan-China friendship said that the full functioning of ments of government and private He was speaking during visit to is higher than mountainous Gwadar Port would open ways schools of Gwadar. a monument built in memory of and deeper than oceans,” Sun of development for Central Asia The Chinese envoy announced KARACHI: Pakistan’s plan to Afterwards, the government slain Chinese in Gwadar. Whidang said, adding that both and nearby countries and people Rs04m for the betterment of hos- import 750mmcfd gas from Iran issued tender for another similar Chairman Gwadar Port Pakistan and China helped each of these countries would avail vast pitals and schools in Gwadar. and 800mmcfd liquefied natu- terminal. Authority Dostain Khan other in hard times. business opportunities. INTERNEWS ral gas (LNG) is embroiled in However, the multimillion dol- a debate whether the country’s lar terminal is under-utilised, existing gas distribution system while the government also had is able to handle such flow. to pay capacity charges for the Fleeing floods “Pakistan may not be able to period the terminal remained idle. import gas from Tehran despite a “The LNG terminal has a Promotions of nuclear deal between Iran and the capacity of 660mmcfd, but it is US, which has renewed hopes for operating at around 200mmcfd, 300 bureaucrats improved economic ties between another example of mismanage- the neighbouring countries,” a ment of gas companies.” void: High Court business leader said yesterday. Paracha said that in response “Iran has completed its part to his letter, the gas utility admit- ISLAMABAD: The promo- of the pipeline to transport ted that the system could not tions of over 300 ‘influen- 750mmcfd of gas to Pakistan, handle a flow of over 325mmcfd. tial’ bureaucrats in Pakistan, while Islamabad has started APCNGA is the main stake- including chairman CDA implementation of 880km of holder of the gas business as CNG Maroof Afzal, home secretary pipeline, but it hasn’t considered stations do not have any alternate Punjab Azam Suleman and act- up gradation of gas distribution fuel. The CNG bodu is next in line ing Pemra chief Kamaluddin network,” Ghiyas Paracha, central to import LNG after PSO using Tipu, in grade 20 and 21 have leader of the All Pakistan CNG Engro Elengy’s terminal, but the been declared as void by the Association (APCNGA) said. network is hampering their plans. Islamabad High Court (IHC). Paracha said that the existing “We are all set to import The court directed the old-fashioned gas infrastructure LNG to meet the demand of out Establishment Division to resub- could not sustain the pressure members particularly in Punjab, mit the cases to the authorities of Iranian gas; therefore, it must but we have been stopped as util- concerned after reframing the be upgraded immediately, other- ity companies are not capable of promotion rules. wise all efforts to tame the energy handling more flows,” Paracha The bureaucrats whose pro- crisis through Iran gas would go said. motions have been reversed also down the drain. Sui Southern Gas Company included Fawad Hassan Fawad, Pakistan’s gas demand-sup- (SSGC) spokesman said the pipe- additional secretary Prime ply gap is hovering around line being installed to transport Minister’s Secretariat, chairman 2,000mmcfd. The government, in gas from Iran would connect to Punjab chief minister’s inspection order to bridge the gap started Nawabshah junction from where team Irfan Ali, additional secre- importing liquefied natural gas it would be distributed to both tary cabinet division Sikandar People flee flooded areas in the Muhammad Pur Ghota area of Punjab province, Pakistan, yesterday. According (LNG). SSGC and SNGPL. “There will Sultan, secretary health Punjab to local officials, the death toll from floods in Pakistan has risen to 69, as rescuers continue to struggle to reach A tender was issued for a be no issue in handling the supply Jawad Malik and additional sec- nearly 300,000 people stranded without food and potable water for two weeks in a northern town. Floods also 400mmcfd LNG terminal (initial as far as imports from Iran are retary President Secretariat inundated hundreds of villages in the eastern region, forcing tens of thousands to leave their homes for safety. imports of 200mmcfd). Engro concerned,” he said. Shaista Sohail. INTERNEWS setup a 660mmcfd terminal. INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Nation pays tributes to Kalam Thousands turn up to pay last respects as country unites in mourning; last rites in Rameswaram tomorrow

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation yesterday paying tributes to former president A P J Abdul Kalam. Thousands of people visited the ‘Missile Man’s’ official residence here to pay their last respects to the “people’s president” who collapsed while delivering a lec- ture at the Indian Institute of Management in Shillong late Monday evening. The two houses of Parliament were adjourned for two days as a mark of respect to Kalam as polit- ical parties gratefully recalled his contributions to the nation. The union cabinet met in the morning to formally pay tributes to Kalam who rose from hum- ble beginnings to become one of India’s leading scientists and later a popular president. Kalam’s body, wrapped in the President Pranab Mukherjee salutes as he pays respects to the body of former President A P J Abdul Kalam, wrapped with the national flag, during a wreath laying ceremony at the airport in Tricolour, arrived yesterday at New Delhi. RIGHT: School girls hold candles as they sit in front of a portrait of former President A P J Abdul Kalam during a prayer ceremony in Chennai yesterday. the Palam technical area of Indira Gandhi International Airport Hamid Ansari, Defence Minister 2002-2007 and assumed the high- last rites be performed in his The union cabinet, which met India Millennium Mission 2020. at around 12.30pm in a special Manohar Parrikar, Delhi Lt est office when BJP-led National hometown. yesterday to pay its condolences Born on October 15, 1931 at Indian Air Force plane. Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Democratic Alliance was in power. After the Lok Sabha met yes- to Kalam, said the country lost a Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, After a ceremonial guard of Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Modi said Kalam was “rashtra terday morning, Speaker Sumitra visionary scientist, a true nation- Kalam specialised in aeronau- honour at the airport in the pres- While the central government ratna” (country’s jewel) and his Mahajan read out a condolence alist and a great son. tical engineering from Madras ence of the three service chiefs, declared a seven-day mourning on “personality was special”. message and said Kalam was a “Kalam made significant con- Institute of Technology. Kalam’s mortal remains were last Monday, the Goa government “His life inspires us; it inspires “real gem” of the country and a tribution in developing India’s He was the recipient of many brought in an army vehicle to declared a seven-day mourning the youth,” Modi said. “sagacious statesman”. first indigenous satellite launch national and international his official residence at 10, Rajaji yesterday. Kejriwal announced The former president died The members stood in silence vehicle and made India an exclu- awards, including honorary doc- Marg in central Delhi. that the Delhi government will late Monday evening in a pri- for two minutes to pay their sive member of space club,” the torates from 48 universities from Thousands of people visited his name its scheme providing edu- vate hospital in Shillong after he respects. resolution said, adding that stra- India and abroad. He received the residence to pay homage as cries cational loan up to `10 lakh after collapsed while delivering a lec- In the Rajya Sabha, Chairman tegic missile systems were devel- country’s highest civilian award, of “Abdul Kalam amar rahe” and Kalam. ture on ‘Liveable Planet’ to stu- Hamid Ansari said the country oped and the Pokhran-II nuclear Bharat Ratna, in 1997. “Long live Abdul Kalam” rent the Modi, who addressed a meet- dents of the Indian Institute of had lost a true son. “His contri- tests were conducted during Tributes continued to pour in air. ing of the Bharatiya Janata Party Managment, Shillong. butions to the nation as a man Kalam’s term as scientific advi- for Kalam with political leaders The prime minister and the (BJP) parliamentary party yes- Kalam will be accorded a of technology, a teacher and a sor to the defence minister. from the BJP, CPI-M and the president went to the airport to terday, paid glowing tributes to state funeral with full military leader will be deeply cherished by It said Kalam was responsible Congress recalling his decades of pay tributes to the late leader. Kalam and said India had lost a honours at 11am tomorrow at a grateful nation,” he said. for evolving policies, strategies dedicated service to the country Other dignitaries present at the “ratna (jewel)”. Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. Both houses will now have their and missions for many develop- in various fields. airport included Vice President Kalam was president from His family had wished that his next sitting on July 30. ment applications and piloted IANS

3,000 teachers Alemao interrogated seek amnesty in Louis Berger case for fake degrees in Bihar PANAJI: Former Goa minister Congress-led coalition govern- Churchill Alemao was quizzed ment in 2010, when Louis Berger PATNA: About 3,000 school yesterday for three hours by officials allegedly paid him and teachers in Bihar, who allegedly Crime Branch sleuths in con- the then chief minister Kamat, used fake degree certificates to nection with the Louis Berger among other officials, a $976,630 get jobs, have resigned till date bribery case even as ex-chief bribe. apprehending legal action. minister Digambar Kamat While the US Justice The Patna High Court yes- failed to appear before the Department did not identify the terday refused further general investigators. politicians and officials who were amnesty to those who have failed “I am innocent. It will be offered bribes, it confirmed that to resign so far, a government proven,” former Public Works $976,630 was paid in bribes to a lawyer said, adding that the Department minister Alemao told Goa minister and other officials. state education department has reporters after his questioning. Louis Berger was part of a con- informed the court that 3,000 Kamat, however, did visit the sortium that eventually won a school teachers have resigned so Goa legislative assembly, where contract to execute a multi-billion far. he insisted that he had not been dollar water and sewerage project According to education offi- issued the summons. in Goa worth `1,031 crore funded cials, the teachers resigned fol- Speaker Rajendra Arlekar, by the JICA. lowing the Patna high court however, confirmed the sum- A Crime Branch team had directive to the state government mons to the former Congress contacted the Indian officials early this month to ask the school chief minister, who is a legis- of the consultancy firm, who teachers, who allegedly used fake Men ride on a motorcycle through a flooded road after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, yesterday. lator from Margao legislative through Saturday to Monday degree certificates to get the jobs, constituency. reportedly gave detailed sworn to resign or face legal action. “Because the assembly is in statements about the alleged The court had made it clear session, the police intimated me bribes paid to Kamat as well as that school teachers, continuing about the summons as I am the Alemao in 2010. with their jobs with fake degree Rains to hit Gujarat, MP, Odisha Speaker,” Arlekar said. Chief Minister Laxmikant certificates even after the dead- In a related development, Parsekar yesterday commended line to resign would be liable to NEW DELHI: There will Department (IMD) said. The Met Office warned that Japan International Cooperation the elite police unit for doing a punishment and recovery of the be heavy rainfall in parts of The IMD said a depression over parts of Gujarat and the territo- Agency (JICA) project director “very good job”. salary paid to them. Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and southwest Rajasthan intensified ries of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Anand Wachasundar, arrested “The Crime Branch is doing a Last month, the Patna High Odisha over the next three into a deep depression and lay Nagar Haveli are likely to receive on last Monday in connec- very good job. They have gone to Court directed the director of days, the weather department centred over the region yesterday. “heavy to very heavy rainfall” tion with the bribery case, was different states to record state- the Bihar vigilance department forecast yesterday. Due to another depression between today and last Friday. remanded in four-day police cus- ments in quick time,” Parsekar to probe the recruitment of nearly “Heavy to very heavy rainfall at over northeast Bay of Bengal Meanwhile, the Ministry of tody yesterday. said. 40,000 government teachers who a few places over south Rajasthan and adjoining coastal areas of Earth Sciences, in a caution- Wachasundar is a former The Goa legislative assembly on allegedly used fake degree certifi- during the next 72 hours and Bangladesh and West Bengal, ary statement, said: “Extremely principal chief engineer of the last Monday resolved to hand over cates to get their jobs. over north Rajasthan on July 30 heavy to very heavy rainfall heavy rain fall over Gujarat, PWD. the investigation into the bribery The court ordered the probe on is expected. Southwest Madhya would occur at isolated places Daman, Dadra and Nagar Haveli Alemao, who was questioned in allegations to the Central Bureau the petition of Ranjit Pandit, and Pradesh is also likely to get over Gangetic West Bengal and and Saurashtra, Kutch and Diu is the presence of Superintendent of of Investigation due to the “inter- asked for an investigation report heavy rainfall during the next 24 Odisha during the next 48 hours, predicted for today and tomorrow. Police (Crime) Karthik Kashyap, national ramifications” of the within four weeks. Pandit’s law- hours,” the India Meteorological the IMD said. IANS was the PWD minister in the case. IANS yer Dinu Kumar said the court asked the director of state vigi- lance to complete the verifica- tion of degrees and certificates of teachers recruited by the state government from 2006 till date. Shortage of retired judges stalling rights panel: Tripura CM Earlier, the state government admitted that it recruited more than 300,000 contract teachers AGARTALA: The Tripura become an obstacle to form the did not respond positively, Sarkar Tripura Police Act, 2007 with the matter of regret that despite without verifying their educa- government is keen to consti- constitutional body,” Sarkar said. said. powers of a civil court to summon the National Human Rights tional and professional degrees. tute a human rights commission He said: “According to the rule, “In 2007, the state govern- and enforce attendance of wit- Commission (NHRC) strongly The petition was filed in the but paucity of suitable retired a retired high court chief justice ment had constituted the Police nesses under the civil procedure and repeatedly recommending high court last year into recruit- judges has become a stumbling or a retired Supreme Court judge Accountability Commission with code 1908. The Supreme Court setting up of state commissions, ments of teachers with fake block in forming the rights body, must be the chairman of the state provisions to protect human on last Friday had said it was the they have not been set up. degree certificates who got jobs Chief Minister Manik Sarkar human rights commission. For rights of the people. Cases of statutory duty of the state gov- The court directed the Tripura, in government schools. said here yesterday. many years we are looking for human rights violations are ernments to set up state human Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, The petitioner said he has col- “We had initiated the process such a retired judge but failed.” extremely low in Tripura,” Sarkar rights commissions. Mizoram, Arunchal Pradesh, lected documents as evidence to constitute the state human A few years back, we proposed added. A division bench of the Supreme Meghalaya and Nagaland gov- through Right to Information rights commission many years to share the authority of the The Tripura Police Court comprising Justice T S ernments to set up human rights queries to prove that thousands back but lack of suitable retired Assam human rights commis- Accountability Commission Thakur and Justice R.Banumathi commissions. of teachers used forged degrees judges to head the body has sion, but the Assam government has been constituted under the in their judgment said it was a IANS to get jobs. IANS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Bus accident: New SC bench to hear Memon’s plea Search continues Two-judge bench split on petition for 28 bodies SHIMLA: Search operations NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of the matter can be heard on mer- continued on the sixth day yes- India H L Dattu will constitute its as soon as possible, preferably terday for the 28 passengers a new bench tomorrow to hear tomorrow.” from Punjab who got drowned 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast Dismissing Memon’s petition, when their bus fell into the swol- convict Yakub Memon’s plea Justice Dave said: “Submissions len Parvati river in Himachal seeking stay of his execution made about the curative peti- Pradesh. slated for July 30 and quash- tion do not appeal to me as they Eleven bodies have been taken ing of death warrant on the are irrelevant and there is no out and 23 people rescued, police grounds that it was issued even substance in them. In these cir- said. The passengers were travel- before he could exhaust his legal cumstances, the writ petition is ling to a Sikh shrine in Manikaran. remedies. dismissed.” Kullu Deputy Commissioner Chief Justice Dattu said: “I will He recounted the sequence of Rakesh Kanwar said over the constitute a bench tomorrow”, as the court proceedings from 1993 telephone that search operations Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to when Yakub’s death sentence were on to locate the bodies. informed the bench about the was upheld till the curative peti- Though one more body was split verdict earlier in the day, tion was dismissed on July 21, recovered from the river, it was with a common order asking the 2015 including rejection of mercy not that of the missing passen- court registry to place it before petition by the president and the gers, he said. The official said the the chief justice for the matter Maharashtra governor. bus was still untraceable, and the to be listed before an appropri- Memon’s mercy petitions were divers could not successfully carry ate bench. rejected by the president and out the operation as the river was Senior counsel Raju governor “possibly because of the still in spate. Ramachandran, appearing for gravity of the offence committed “The flow in the river today Memon, urged Chief Justice by the petitioner”, Justice Dave came down marginally owing to Dattu to grant stay of execution said in his order. less rain in the catchment area. of Memon slated for tomorrow. Noting that Memons moved We are hopeful that the water However, the court did not pass another application for pardon level will decrease in one or two any order on the plea. before the governor, which he had days,” he added. Rescuers said Earlier yesterday, Justice Anil filed soon after the rejection of there were chances that the R Dave and Justice Kurien Joseph his curative petition on July 21, An activist reacts as she gets detained by police for distributing pamphlets during a protest against the death remaining bodies, which were in took differing stands on Memon’s Justice Dave said it would be open sentence for Yakub Memon, a key plotter of the Mumbai bomb attacks which killed hundreds of people in 1993, the process of getting bloated, plea challenging his death penalty to governor to dispose it of before in Mumbai, yesterday. would start surfacing in the water. and urged the chief justice to set July 30, if he “wants to favour the In the first two days, nine bod- up “an appropriate bench” so that petitioner”. Kurian Joseph who had heard life of a person.” “After all, law is for man and ies were recovered.Over 150 res- matter could be heard as soon as Staying the death warrants and decided the review petition “I do not think that such a law is never helpless and the cue workers are involved in the possible. till decision was taken afresh “in by Memon against him on April technicality should stand in the Court particularly the repository search operation, focusing on the The bench of Justice Dave and accordance with law is taken in 9, 2015. way of justice being done. When of such high constitutional pow- 44 km downstream stretch of the Justice Kurian, in its common the curative petition”, Justice Referring to the Supreme this court as the protector of the ers like Supreme Court shall not river from the accident spot to order after pronouncing their Joseph found faults in the com- Court order 48 rule 4 dealing with life of the persons under the con- be rendered powerless,” Justice Pandoh dam. Most bodies, officials divergent judgments, said: “In position of the bench that had curative petition and holding that stitution has come to take note Kurian said while dealing with said, were either trapped under view of the disagreement between rejected the curative petition. they were not followed, Justice of a situation where a procedure Rohatgi’s contention that there the rocks or buried in the river- us, the registry is directed to place He contended that the Kurian said: “Thus, it is found established by law has not been was no challenge to the composi- bed silt. the papers before the Hon’ble bench that decided the cura- that the procedure prescribed followed while depriving the life tion of the bench that heard the Family members of many of Chief Justice of India, preferably tive petition must have included under the law has been violated of a person, no technicality shall curative petition by the Memon the missing passengers met Chief today, so that an appropriate besides Justice Dave, Justice while dealing with the curative stand in the way of justice being in his latest petition Minister Virbhadra Singh here Bench could be constituted and J Chelameswar and Justice petition and that too, dealing with done.” IANS yesterday and sought cooperation from the government to locate the bodies. IANS Court asks Maharashtra to Court to hear Kejriwal bribe submit ‘coalgate’ records remark case NEW DELHI: A special court on last Monday and fixed the NEW DELHI: A court here hearing a coal block allocation matter for further hearing on yesterday said it will hear in case allegedly involving Nagpur- August 10. September a complaint against based Grace Industries Ltd The court earlier directed the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind (GIL) and others has directed CBI to place records of the case Kejriwal for asking voters to Maharashtra chief secretary to before the competent authority take bribes from other par- present documents related to so that they could grant sanc- ties but vote for his AAP in the refusal of the state government tion to prosecute former coal assembly elections. to grant sanction to prosecute a ministry’s joint secretary K S Metropolitan Magistrate Babru public servant in the matter. Kropha and Sawakhande for Bhan fixed September 10 to hear Special Judge Bharat Parashar offences under the Prevention the case, in which Delhi Police are directed the chief secretary to of Corruption Act. yet to file a status report. produce original records relating The CBI has told court that The court adjourned the hear- to the issue. Sawakhande has attained the ing due to Delhi district court law- The Central Bureau of age of superannuation on May yers’ indefinite strike against the Investigation (CBI) informed 31 from his post and but it would delay in passage of an amended court that it has received a com- obtain a final report from the bill in parliament on enhance- munication from the state gov- Maharashtra government as to ment of pecuniary jurisdiction of ernment that though Vishwas the fate of request sent by them. trial courts. Sawakhande, earlier direc- As regard to Kropha, it has The complaint, filed by Ikrant tor, geology and mining, has been submitted that no commu- Sharma, alleges that making retired on May 31 but the state nication has been received till now such a statement was not only has refused to accord sanction from the competent authority as against the model code of con- to prosecute him. The probe to the request for sanction to duct but also amounted to crimi- Punjab Police soldier Rajinder Kumar (centre) speaks with police officers as he recovers at Guru Nanak Dev agency submitted that in these prosecute him. nal offence because Kejriwal was Hospital in Amritsar yesterday, after he was injured during an encounter with heavily armed attackers on a police circumstances it is necessary to The CBI also said that all the promoting and instigating the station in Dinanagar, in the northern state of Punjab. ascertain as to whether the gov- records of the case were sent public to accept bribes from err- ernment of Maharashtra refused to the competent authority on ing politicians. the request to consider accord- February 11 this year and since “Thus, the accused (Kejriwal) ing of sanction to prosecute the then more than five months have was not only promoting the accused after his retirement elapsed and thus this court should offence but also spreading this Punjab attacks: CCTV footage from government service or prior consider the sanction as deemed message among the public. Hence, to it. to have been granted. the act of the accused comes “In view of the submissions The court had directed the CBI under the definition of crimi- made, I find force in the submis- to conduct further probe into the nal offences as mentioned in the shows well-armed terrorists sion of senior public prosecutor alleged collusion between public Indian Penal Code,” he said in his and accordingly direct that sum- servants and company officials in complaint filed in February. DINANAGAR (PUNJAB): running for cover after the ter- The GPS track indicated that mons be issued to chief secretary, a case related to the allocation of Sharma has requested the The three terrorists who rorists began firing. the terrorists began their jour- government of Maharashtra, coal block in which the CBI had court to summon, try and pros- unleashed terror in Dinanagar Gurdaspur district police chief ney from the Pakistan side on last who may depute some concerned charge sheeted GIL and one of its ecute Kejriwal and also direct town of Punjab’s Gurdaspur G S Toor said that all clues about Sunday. officer along with the relevant directors Mukesh Gupta. Delhi Police to register a case district were heavily armed the terrorists were being collected Security was beefed up in original record to be produced IANS against him. and moving around in army and examined. Jammu, Samba and Kathua dis- before this court,” the court said IANS fatigues, CCTV footage that “We have got clues from the tricts in Jammu and Kashmir emerged yesterday showed. CCTV footage,” Toor said. following the terror attack in The CCTV footage shows the Police officials investigating the neighbouring Punjab. three terrorists moving freely terror incident claimed that the “Security all along the interna- on foot on a road in Dinanagar terrorists disguised themselves as tional border in the three districts town at 4.55am on last Monday, army troopers and took a bus from has been tightened to ensure that Rapist sentenced to 10 years in jail minutes before they began firing Bamiyal town towards Dinanagar any infiltration bid by militants indiscriminately at the town’s bus where they first planted five live receives a hot reception,” the stand and near the police station bombs on a bridge on the railway officer added. “Security forces are NEW DELHI: A court here accused had lowered his pants,” tell the doctors anything about complex. track on the Amritsar-Pathankot patrolling all link roads connect- yesterday sentenced a man the court said, relying on the tes- the incident. After her mental The CCTV footage was obtained section. ing with the Jammu-Pathankot who raped a mentally-chal- timonies of eyewitnesses. condition was discerned, she was from a camera installed outside a “They then moved towards the highway,” he said. lenged girl to 10 years rigorous A case was lodged against referred to Institute of Human shop in the town. town on foot and tried to stop a Security was tightened in imprisonment. Pandey on a complaint by a Delhi Behaviour and Allied Sciences The terrorists, who can be seen tempo. However, the vehicle did and around the Bhagwati Nagar Additional Sessions Judge Transport Corporation (DTC) (IHBAS) for treatment. from the side and the back, were not stop. They then signalled the Yatri Niwas in Jammu where the Kaveri Baweja, while announcing bus driver who claimed that on According to victim’s brother, carrying assault rifles and back- Maruti car whose driver stopped Amarnath Yatra pilgrims camp the sentence on convict Durgesh November 14, 2014, midnight, he he, with his mother, and two sis- packs as they walked towards the thinking that army personnel for the night. Pandey, 23, said that “the accused saw Pandey lying upon a naked ters including the victim, had town’s centre. were conducting a search. When Sujit Kumar, the senior super- had manipulated the body of the girl near a foot path at Gopalpur come from Gujarat to the national The second CCTV footage, they tried to snatch the car from intendent of police of Reasi girl in such a manner to cause in north Delhi. capital to attend Sant Nirankari taken from a camera installed him, the driver resisted and was district in Jammu region, said penetration”. The driver called his uncle at Satsang here where the girl got outside a bank building, shows shot at,” a police officer said. security for the pilgrims heading “Convict (Pandey) by taking the spot and they tried to remove separated on November 13 last the hijacked Maruti 800 car being Agencies have tracked the glo- for Mata Vaishno Devi shrine had advantage of vulnerability of the the man from there but Pandey year. He lodged a missing com- driven towards the bus stand and bal positioning system (GPS) sets, been strengthened. victim, raped her, as he was found did not move after which they plaint of his sister at Timarpur the police station around 5.18am. recovered from the terrorists, to Two terror attacks have lying upon her and as per testi- called police and he was arrested. police station and was taken to Later footage from the same Shakargarh area of Pakistan near occurred in Kathua and Samba monies of eyewitnesses, the vic- The victim was taken to a hos- IHBAS where he identified the bank camera shows people the India-Pakistan border. this year. IANS tim was in nude condition and the pital where she was unable to girl. IANS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 You won’t miss the meat or cheese in these burritos

By Melissa D’Arabian 8 baby bella or button mushrooms, sliced 2 teaspoons olive oil oasting is my default cooking method for 1 teaspoon garlic powder just about any veggie. The high heat brings 1 teaspoon ground cumin the natural sweetness of the vegetable to Kosher salt and ground black pepper Rthe surface and turns a simple little item 1/4 cup cider vinegar from the produce aisle into a delectable treat. 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes If 5pm on a weeknight has sneaked up on me (It 1 teaspoon sugar happens!), I automatically heat my oven to 400 F, rum- 1/2 small head red cabbage, finely chopped mage through my crisper drawer to find something to 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced toss in a bit of olive oil and pop in the oven on a foil- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast (optional) lined baking sheet while I figure out the rest of dinner. Six 8- to 10-inch whole-grain tortillas And sometimes I make whatever is on that baking 1/2 cup purchased tomatillo salsa (or any favourite sheet the main part of dinner, skipping meat entirely. salsa) Hardy vegetables such as cauliflower, not to mention 1 small avocado, pitted, peeled and cubed mushrooms, are great choices to star in place of meat 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt in my roasted veggie burrito. They offer a nice hefty Method bite and a stand-and-notice-me flavour, which I need to Heat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with satisfy my normally-carnivorous appetite. In this all- kitchen parchment or foil, then mist with cooking veggie delight, I added a quick-pickled cabbage, which spray. does triple-duty: it adds texture, a cool freshness and a In a medium bowl, toss the cauliflower florets, tang, all which make this a deeply satisfying meal for mushrooms, olive oil, garlic powder, cumin and a meatless Monday, or any day of the week. hefty pinch each of salt and pepper. Arrange in an Adding fibre and filling healthy fats is some cubed even layer on the prepared baking sheet and roast avocado, which means I don’t even miss the cheese until the cauliflower is golden brown and the mush- (especially with the cheesy goodness of nutty nutri- rooms are cooked but not dry, 15 to 20 minutes. tional yeast!). No boring veggie burritos here! Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, use a fork to mix together the vinegar, red pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon of salt and the sugar until the salt and sugar are Veggie Burritos dissolved. Toss in the cabbage and onion, mixing to coat, then set aside. Start to finish: 45 Once the cauliflower and mushrooms are cooked, Servings: 6 remove from the oven. Sprinkle the yeast flakes over Divide the vegetables among the tortillas and top calories from fat (38 percent of total calories); 9 g fat the veggies (if using) and toss. If not using, give them each with a sixth each of the pickled cabbage and (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 300 mg Ingredients another sprinkle of salt. onion, the salsa, avocado and Greek yogurt. Roll up sodium; 27 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 8 g protein. 1/2 large head cauliflower, cored and cut into very Place the tortillas between 2 damp paper towels into burritos, leaving one end open. Melissa d’Arabian is the author of the cookbook, small florets and microwave for 15 seconds to make them pliable. Nutrition information per serving: 210 calories; 80 Supermarket Healthy. AP More chocolate you eat, lower your risk of heart disease: Study By Ariana Eunjung Cha hot cocoa — had lower heart disease and lower risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke risk than those who did not con- 25 percent lower risk of associated death. hh, chocolate. There probably sume the confection. The study also noted that more of the isn’t a more magical ingredient on A hundred grams is equivalent to about participants in the study ate milk choco- earth than the sweet, dark brown two classic Hershey’s bars or — if you’re late versus dark chocolate which has long Aflavoring used for more than 3,000 going fancy — five Godiva truffles. In terms been considered healthier. This might years. Today most chocolate is consumed of calories you’re looking at 500-535. To suggest that beneficial health effects may in the form of candy — a development that put that into perspective, the Department apply to both, the researchers said. has sparked heated debate among scientists of Agriculture recommends men consume “Our results are somewhat surprising about what that’s doing to our health. 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day depending since the expectation was that benefits of Common sense tells us that too much on their height, body composition and chocolate consumption would be mainly of something so fatty and full of calories whether they are sedentary or active. associated with dark chocolate rather is a bad thing. This association in the study was valid than the commercially available prod- there wasn’t a big risk to chocolate eat- Charles Mueller, clinical assistant But a surprising number of stud- even after researchers adjusted for a wide ucts generally used in a British popula- ing for the study participants, he said professor of nutrition at New York ies have found that dark chocolate can range of risk factors, such as age, smok- tion which are high in sugar content and that the results of the study should be University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, reduce the risk of death from a heart ing, alcohol consumption, physical activ- fat,” the study’s author wrote. read with a few caveats. First, it looked Education, and Human Development, attack, decrease blood pressure and help ity and other dietary variables. So what’s the theory behind how this at people ages 39 to 70 and nearly all the points out that there’s no definitive con- those with chronic fatigue syndrome. “The main message is that you don’t works? study participants were white. He also clusion about cause and effect and that The question for many chocolate lovers need to worry too much if you are only Myint explained that chocolate is full of emphasised that in a sample size this it’s possible that chocolate eaters engage has been at what point are you having too moderately eating chocolate,” Phyo flavonoid antioxidants and that previous large, there were also a number of par- in other behaviours or eat other foods much of a good thing. That is, is there an Myint, a professor at the School of studies have shown that intake of choco- ticipants who ate a lot of chocolate but that are good for the heart. optimal “dose” for chocolate eating? Medicine at the University of Aberdeen late results in improved function of the did not see the same benefits as others. “Cocoa beans are not unlike red pep- A new study published in the jour- and one of the study’s lead authors, said endothelium, or inner lining of the blood “Indeed some people had worse out- pers, green peppers and broccoli and stuff nal Heart looked at the effect of diet in an interview. vessels. Chocolate has also been shown to comes when eating that amount of choco- like that. They are full of phytochemicals on long-term health. It involved 25,000 Higher levels of consumption were increase HDL or “good” cholesterol and late so the findings need to be taken with that are good for you. But if you are over- volunteers and found that the answer to associated with a large number of decrease LDL or “bad” cholesterol. He extreme caution,” he said. weight, and you are thinking of protect- how much chocolate can be good for you other positives in the study: lower BMI, also said many chocolate bars that were While the study provides evidence ing yourself by eating chocolate you are is — a lot. Study participants in the high waist:hip ratio, systolic blood pressure, probably consumed by study participants that there’s no need to avoid chocolate in being kind of silly. Chocolate is just one consumption group — those who ate 15 inflammatory proteins. As compared contained nuts which are known to be your diet to protect your cardiovascular small element in a full range of a good to 100 grams of chocolate a day in the with those who ate no chocolate, those good for heart health. health, it probably is too soon to run out diet,” Mueller said. form of everything from Mars bars to who ate high amounts saw a 11 percent While Myint said it seemed clear that and gorge on chocolate bars. WP-BLOOMBERG

‘Facekinis’ a big hit among Chinese for skin protection

ver more Chinese women are paintings from traditional Pekin Opera embracing the “facekini” to protect for the product’s latest and fifth version. Ethem from the sun and the threat “In the past I really wanted to do eve- of a tan on a trip to the beach. rything I could to avoid scaring people. If I Pale white skin is highly-valued in was to make a face-kini, I wouldn’t make China, where a darker complexion is asso- a black one, I wouldn’t make a white one, ciated more with poor rural women, who nor dark colours, nor brown, nor even often labour for long hours in the sun. grey... But scaring people still couldn’t be The nylon accessory has tiny holes for avoided. So I thought--why don’t I draw the mouth and nose, offering those who on some of these Peking opera designs couple it with a full body suit complete that Chinese people like? So little chil- protection from not only ultraviolet rays, dren might not be so scared when they but also jellyfish and mosquitoes. see these designs.” The mask was developed more than 10 The mask has become a common sight years ago, with Chinese media attributing on the beaches of Qingdao, in the eastern its invention to Zhang Shifan, who runs province of Shandong. a swimwear store in Qingdao. The facekini has evolved into a fashion Zhang says despite the product’s accessory for some, and comes in many remarkable success, it also scared small different colours, with some of the most children and other visitors at the beach. recent designs resembling the brightly To fix the problem, Zhang thought of coloured and striking masks of Peking incorporating the widely popular face Opera. AGENCIES

A model showcases a creation by designer Ashok Maanya at the Bangalore Fashion Week 2015. WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Prayer Timings Weather Hazy to misty at plac- es at first becomes very hot daytime with Fajr 03.34 am Zuhr 11.40 am Maghrib 06.22 pm Minimum: 35o C Maximum: 45o C Shorook 04.59 am Asr 03.07 pm Isha 07.52 pm scattered clouds and HIGH TIDE 01:30 - 16:15LOW TIDE 08:15 - 23:15 relatively humid by night. French teen finds 560,000-year-old tooth

TOULOUSE: A 16-year-old For a long time the Heidelberg French volunteer archaeologist jaw — including the chin and full has found an adult tooth dating set of lower teeth — discovered in back around 560,000 years in Germany in 1907 dating to around southwestern France, in what 600,000 years ago, was the old- researchers hailed as a “major est fossil of human ancestors in discovery” yesterday. western Europe. “A large adult tooth — we can’t However some archaeological say if it was from a male or female sites offered up evidence of stone — was found during excavations tools dating back much earlier. of soil we know to be between This has left many questions 550,000 and 580,000 years old, and stirred debate about the life because we used different dating and presence of human ancestors methods,” paleoanthropologist in Europe before modern humans Amelie Viallet said. rose out of Africa and went on to “This is a major discovery conquer the planet. because we have very few human In 2013 the discovery of a fos- fossils from this period in Europe,” sil tooth in southeastern Spain she said. The tooth was found in that dated to about 1.4 million the Arago cave near the village of years ago shook up the timeline Tautavel, one of the world’s most of the colonisation of Europe by important prehistoric sites which modern humans. has been excavated for about 50 Dr Matthew Skinner, a pal- years. aeoanthropologist from the It is also the site of the discov- University of Kent in Britain said ery of over 140 fossils belonging to that while the find was important Tautavel Man, an early hominid as there are few human fossils that lived an estimated 450,000 from this period, “a single tooth, I years ago. Volunteer Camille, 16, wouldn’t say is a major discovery, was working with another young unfortunately”. archaeologist when she found the “If there’s something about Volunteer archaeologists work in the Arago cave near the village of Tautavel, one of the world’s most important prehistoric sites which has been tooth last Thursday. its shape or its size that would excavated for about 50 years, yesterday. A 16-year-old French volunteer archaeologist has found the adult tooth (right) dating back around 560,000 They were among the hundreds suggest that it is different from years in southwestern France, in what researchers hailed as a “major discovery”. of young trainee archaeologists the other fossils we have from who come to work in the cave every that time period and perhaps from modern humans, they above the neck, making it difficult paleoanthropologist from Tautavel, last man standing, in the past our year to study human ancestors belongs to a different species , existed before Neanderthals. to understand the species. said the tooth would also shine a ancestors shared the earth with during the lower Paleolithic era, then that would be of course very They had quite large brains and “What we need is for them to light on the current debate over several early human species at the when they first began to use tools. interesting.” fairly complex behaviour but find a skeleton ...We have lots of Homo Heidelbergensis—owner same time. The owner of the tooth—a very He said the most obvious spe- weren’t modern in the way that skulls of heidelbergensis but what of the German jaw and ances- A plethora of archaeological worn lower incisor — lived during cies to which the tooth would we are. we don’t have are arms and legs tor of Neanderthals. “Was Homo finds in past decades continues a cold, dry and windy period and belong would be Homo heidelber- “They were quite robust, very and ribs and pelvis... not much, Heidelbergensis simply European to change the size and shape of according to archaeological finds gensis — owner of the German jaw stocky individuals, they had really there’s a few pieces, but it’s really or also African? It is a very impor- humans’ family tree and the con- in the cave, hunted horses, rein- — about whom little is known. massive skulls.” However he said not very much.” tant debate,” said Chevalier. While nections between the different deer, bison and rhinoceros. “These are certainly different most fossils available came from Tony Chevalier, another modern Homo sapiens is now the branches. AFP

Sleeping with smartphones, Arab female bodybuilder looks abroad for recognition DUBAI: Flexing her muscles in defi- bodybuilding associations and has been I can understand the passion” and that and other vices ance of the Gulf’s conservative cultural working as a weights specialist in Dubai, it is “worthwhile to go on stage”. “I think stereotypes, bodybuilder Haifa Musawi where she trains both men and women. Haifa has a lot of talent and... possibili- WASHINGTON: Consumers has lost all hope of pumping iron for In June, she came sixth in the physique ties,” says Sousa, who oversees Musawi’s around the world admit it: They Bahrain so now is looking elsewhere for category of the International Natural rigorous fitness regime and diet, and acts sleep with their smartphone, recognition. Bodybuilding Association championships, as her manager. take it in the shower, and would The 32-year-old began working out a a drug-free competition held for the first While more and more Arab women rescue the device from a fire decade ago after finding a personal trainer time in Dubai. Musawi and a Jordanian are developing interest in the sport and before saving the family cat. to help her overcome obesity — a wide- woman were the only Arab female body- some come to her, mainly seeking weight- Those are among the findings spread problem in the oil-rich region. builders at the event. loss training, many are still burdened by of a seven-country survey of more “I had a problem with obesity and I She is now seeking a pro-card so she “social restrictions”, says Musawi. She says than 7,000 people about smart- used to like bodybuilding,” says Musawi, a can take part in professional competitions that many of her male clients also find her phone habits released Tuesday square-jawed woman with curly hair pulled around the world and join the International “strange” at first but they have slowly become by Motorola, the newly acquired back in a tight ponytail. As a young girl, she Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness. more accepting. “I have proved it to them.” division of Chinese electronics would seek out publications with articles But Musawi cannot represent Bahrain Lifting weights at the same gym is giant Lenovo. and pictures about bodybuilding. or any other countries in the Gulf, where Shaza Jamil, a British-born girl of Yemeni- Sixty percent of those sur- “At that age, I didn’t have the experience there is no national bodybuilding team to Pakistani origin. “Men usually ask me: veyed said they slept holding or knowhow to become a bodybuilder,” she represent for women, let alone competi- ‘Why are you building muscles? You’re a their handsets—with the highest recalls. “It wasn’t easy... bodybuilding for tions to enter. girl. Why are you ruining your body?’ But percentages in India (74 percent) women in our society is rare.” But “I was at In October she plans to travel to Portugal I am not. I love my body and this is why I and China (70 percent). And 57 the gym every day and to me it was more to obtain residency and represent the do lifting,” she says. percent said they took the device important than anything else”. European country, with the help of her Like Musawi, she took to the sport after into the toilet, with the highest Musawi’s family encouraged her efforts Portuguese trainer Andreia Sousa. “This struggling with her weight and shape. Her totals from China and Brazil. to shed weight and despite worrying about is my dream and I want to fulfil it,” says mother had first rejected the idea of her One in six smartphone users the supplements she took as part of her Musawi. “If Portugal offers me my dream, going on stage as a bodybuilder. said they used their phones while training programme, she said “they finally then why not? But I hope to represent “We had drama at home but when she showering, and more than half -- Bahraini female bodybuilder and personal accepted” what she was doing. Bahrain” one day. attended the competition and saw how 54 percent — said they would reach trainer Haifa Al Musawi at a gym in Dubai. Ten years on, Musawi has several cer- Sousa, who has been Musawi’s trainer for happy I was and that I had won,” she began for the smartphone before saving tificates from international fitness and more than a year, says that “as an athlete to accept it, says Jamil. AFP their cat in the event of a fire. How close are people to their devices? 22 percent said they would give up sex for a weekend before parting with their smart- phone. And 40 percent tell secrets Kong Kong panda Jia Jia to their phones they would not reveal even to their best friend. But the relationship is not per- becomes oldest ever fect. Only 39 percent said they were “happy” with their smartphone, HONG KONG: It may not be handover by Britain two years and 79 percent felt bothered that considered a landmark birthday earlier. their devices interrupted them at for humans, but turning 37 yes- The previous record was held inopportune moments. terday made Hong Kong’s Jia by a male panda called Du Du, The survey was conducted Jia the oldest-ever giant panda who was also caught in the wild online by KRC Research with a in captivity, and she celebrated and died in July 1999 at the age total of 7,112 smartphone owners in in style. of 36 in a zoo in China’s Hubei the United States, Britain, Brazil, The equivalent of more than Province. China, Spain, Mexico and India. 100 years old in human terms, Jia Vet Paolo Martelli said Jia It was released as Motorola Jia was presented with a tower- Jia was still “moving about” unveiled two upgraded versions of ing birthday cake made from ice though she suffered from cata- its flagship Moto X handset — one and fruit juice with the number 37 racts and high blood pressure. with a larger 5.7 inch display and carved on top in her enclosure at “She is sleeping more, so is doing another with a 5.5 inch screen. the city’s Ocean Park theme park. everything less. But she is age- The company said the devices “Jia Jia has achieved two ing gracefully, just like your would be priced hundreds of dol- Guinness world record titles — grandma,” he said. lars lower than other flagship the oldest panda living in cap- Because she eats less bamboo devices. AFP tivity and the oldest panda ever she relies on fibre supplements, living in captivity,” said Blythe Martelli added. Jia Jia, whose Ryan Fitzwilliam, adjudicator of name translates as “excellence”, Guinness World Records, dur- picked at fruit slices and bamboo ing a ceremony at the park. He around the ice cake to celebrate Giant panda Jia Jia eats beside a birthday cake made from ice and vegetables as she celebrates her thirty-seventh offered her his congratulations, her big day. birthday at the Hong Kong Ocean Park, China, yesterday. saying it was an “amazing longev- Although the exact birth ity achievement”. dates of Du Du and Jia Jia are had claimed the title by a few been ravaged by development. on bamboo and eat almost noth- Jia Jia was born in the wild in unknown because they were months. There are fewer than Roads and railways cut through ing else. Given their low birthrate, Sichuan, China in 1978 and was born in the wild, Guinness said 2,000 pandas now left in the wild, the bamboo forests they depend captive breeding programmes given to Hong Kong in 1999 to that based on the evidence, according to the World Wildlife upon in China’s Yangtze Basin, have become key to ensuring their mark the semi-autonomous city’s they’ve concluded that Jia Jia Fund, as their habitats have their primary habitat. Pandas rely survival. AFP Wednesday 29 July 2015 13 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6506 Price: QR2

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BY SATISH KANADY in the GCC bonds market in H1, total amount raised in GCC bonds TOKYO: Toyota has fallen 2015, a decline of 19.29 percent and sukuk market during H1 2015. behind Volkswagen in the DOHA: The aggregate primary from $24.57bn raised in H1 2014. This was a decline of 16.69 percent race for the world’s big- issuance of bonds and sukuk by On the geographical allocation, as compared to H1, 2014. Sukuk gest automaker title, figures GCC entities, including cCen- the Markaz report noted the issuances shrunk by 26.45 percent showed yesterday, as the tral Banks, totalled $48.13bn in issuances by UAE entities raised from $6.55bn raised in H1, 2014 to German giant outsold its the first half of 2015 (H1, 2015), the largest amount in GCC Bonds $ 4.82bn raised in H1 2015. Japanese rival in the first a 15.19 percent decrease from & Sukuk market in the first half The Financial Services issu- half of the year. the total amount raised in the of the year, representing 75.6 ers accounted for the largest Toyota said it sold 5.02 first half of 2014. percent of the total amount, or amount raised during H1, 2015, million vehicles worldwide During H1, 2015, a total of $14.99bn, and were the most with $16.82bn representing 84.8 between January and June, $28.29bn was raised by the GCC active in terms of issuance fre- percent of the total amount falling below earlier figures central banks of Kuwait, Bahrain, quency with 99 issuances. raised, through 113 issuances. The from Volkswagen of 5.04 mil- Qatar, and Oman. The Central Saudi Arabian issuers raised other sectors — Communications, lion units shifted in the same Bank of Kuwait raised the highest $1.57bn through three issues. Government, Industrial Utilities regional bonds and sukuk listed US dollar denominated issu- period. US-based General amount of $12.85bn, representing Omani corporates raised $1.38bn, and Transport — were repre- on international exchanges were ances dominated the GCC bonds Motors was sitting in third 48.8 percent of the total amount while Bahraini issuers raised sented by a single issue each. GCC 47 issues with a value of $13bn. and Sukuk market in H1, 2015, spot with 4.86 million in sales. raised by Central Bank Local $800mn. Qatari entities raised bonds and sukuk issuances during As of June 30, 2015, the total raising a total of $13.13bn, thereby Camry and Prius maker Issuances (CBLIs) through 36 $380m by 10 issuances. There was H1, 2015 had issue sizes ranging amount outstanding of corpo- representing 66.2 percent of the Toyota broke GM’s dec- issuances, followed by the Central a single Kuwaiti corporate issue, from $5m to $1.12bn. rate and sovereign bonds issued total amount. ades-long reign as the Bank of Bahrain, which raised a a tier 1 perpetual $700m bond by Issuances with principle by GCC entities was $242.04bn. Euro-denominated issuances world’s top automaker in total of $6.69bn, 47.13 percent National Bank of Kuwait bearing amounts greater than or equal to Corporate issuances constituted raised $3.23bn $3.23bn, followed 2008 but lost the crown higher from $4.55bn raised in an initial coupon of 5.75 percent. $500m but less than $1bn raised the majority of total amount out- by SAR denominated issues which three years later as Japan’s the first half of 2014, Kuwait During H1, 2015, corporate the largest amount of $7.07bn, standing with $205.41bn, or 84.87 raised $1.57bn. GCC curren- 2011 earthquake-tsunami Financial Centre (Markaz) noted issuances dominated the majority representing 35.63 percent of the percent of the total. Sukuk issu- cies were used to raise a total of disaster hammered produc- in its latest GCC Bonds & Sukuk of the amount raised in the GCC total value. ances represented 34.33 percent $1.66bn, 8.37 percent of the total tion and disrupted the sup- Market Survey. bonds market, with $18.83bn, or The two largest issues were of the total amount. amount, in H1 2015. ply chains of the country’s The GCC bonds and Sukuk 95 percent of the total amount the Euro-denominated bonds by Of the amount outstanding During H1, 2015, a total of automakers. market is composed of bonds and raised. The sole sovereign issue Aabar Investments each rais- as of June 30, 2015, $115.85bn, 44 issuances, representing 37.3 In 2012, Toyota again over- sukuk issued by GCC Sovereign was a 10 year $1bn bond issued ing €1bn and having tenures of or 47.87 percent were issued by percent of the total number of took its Detroit rival, which and Corporate entities for financ- by the emirate of Ras al Khaimah 5 and 7 years. During H1, 2015, UAE entities. Bonds and Sukuks Sovereign and Corporate issu- sells the Chevrolet and luxury ing purposes and denominated in bearing a coupon of 3.094 percent. 52 bonds and sukuk, represent- by Kuwaiti entities represented ances, were rated by either one Cadillac brands, to grab the top local and foreign currencies. Conventional issuances raised ing total of $15.56bn, were listed $6.10bn, or 2.52 percent of the or more rating agencies. spot globally. AFP A total of $19.83bn was raised $15.01bn, or 75.71 percent of the on exchanges. The number of total amount outstanding. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS QCB real estate price index hits record high Value rebounds 23.5 percent in June from a year ago

DOHA: After softening a bit 284.0 points in June. The QCB infrastructure development in April 2015, Qatar’s real index performance is a reflec- plan, NBK analysts noted in its estate price value rebounded tion of the surging value of the updated economic outlook for 23.5 percent in June 2015, country’s real estate market. Qatar. from a year ago period. According to market analysts According to NBK, an esti- The Qatar Central Bank’s the combined value of Qatar’s mated $29bn worth of contracts (QCB) updated real estate price real estate transactions for the were awarded in 2014 — 30 per- index, which tracks Qatar’s real first six months of this year cent more than in 2013 — and it estate market value, yesterday (H1, 2015) surged 48 percent on expects momentum to further noted the index hit a record year-on-year to QR36bn. increase in 2015 on the back of high of 284.0 points in June This is against an 18 percent the $13bn worth of contracts compared to 230.6 points in the year-on-year increase recorded for strategic projects awarded same month in 2014. for the first half of 2014, when in the first quarter of this year. QCB’s real estate index wit- the combined value stood at Ahmed Al Arouqi, General three years. “If you compare the have gone up at a significant increase ranging between 40 to nessed a slowdown during the QR24.4bn. Manager, ROOTS Real Estate total number of deals struck in rate over the past two years. 50 percent. The surge in prices first month of second quar- Central to Qatar’s economic said told Al Sharq that Qatar’s first half of 2015 with 2011, you For instance, land prices at of lands are comparatively mod- ter. The index slipped to 269.5 outlook, which has been pro- real estate market has grown could see the number has fell to places like Central Doha and erate in places like Al Shamal points in April from the previ- jected to grow at a rate of 6.5 manifold over the past five 3,050 from 3,279,” he said. Al Rayyan have recorded an and South Doha and in the ous month’s 271.3 points. percent per year for the next years in terms of value, though According to him, land value increase of something 30 to 35 municipalities like Al Dhayeen, The index rose to 27.7 points two years, is execution of the the total number of deals have meant for villas and residential percent. And Dafna, West Bay Umm Salal and Al Wakra. in May, before jumping to government’s five-year, $210bn been remaining flat for the past complexes at prime locations and Pearl, witnessed a sharp THE PENINSULA

China shares fall again QNB unveils new insurance as Beijing scrambles service for cargo DOHA: QNB has recently coop- to calm markets erated with Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) to announce a SHANGHAI: Chinese shares Hong Kong. new addition to its line of ban- fell yestertday, as Beijing Monday’s dramatic slide shat- cassurance services with the scrambled once again to prop tered three weeks of relative calm addition of the marine cargo up a stock market whose wild for Chinese equities, secured insurance service accessible to gyrations have heightened fears through heavy government inter- all current and new QNB cor- about the financial stability vention in which authorities porate customers. of the world’s second biggest pumped liquidity into the mar- The new bancassurance prod- economy. ket while effectively barring many uct was issued as part of QNB’s After a plunge of more than investors from selling. continuous efforts to significantly 8 percent in major indexes on The rapid sell-off, which saw enhance the quality of services Monday, Chinese regulators said China’s major indexes suffer their offered to its customers through yesterday they were investigating biggest one-day loss in more than its Corporate Bancassurance share “dumping” incidents. eight years, may have been partly products, and to align with its Earlier the China Securities due to authorities testing the vision of becoming a banking and Regulatory Commission water for withdrawing some of industry icon and bring value to (CSRC) had said it was prepared that heavy-handed support. its customers through relevant to buy shares to stabilise the stock Three people in the banking consumer insurance products. market, while the central bank industry with direct knowledge This new product offers cost injected cash into money markets said that the state-run margin saving and speed issuance of the and hinted at further monetary lender had returned ahead of Investors react as they look at computer screens showing stock information at a brokerage house in Fuyang, insurance certificate in addition easing. Despite those moves, schedule some of the funds it bor- to a valuable insurance coverage Anhui province, China, yesterday. aimed at bolstering the confidence rowed from commercial banks to to QNB corporate customer’s of the ordinary investors who stabilise the stock market. cargo business. QNB prides itself dominate China’s equity markets, “The authorities picked an Japanese yen. While economists sell-off “should only have a limited China’s main stock indexes had on its offering of market leading the Shanghai Composite Index inopportune time to float a trial at Nomura said China’s economy negative impact on the real econ- more than doubled over the year services across its global foot- fell 1.7 percent, while the CSI300 balloon about scaling back market was “far from being in a crisis sce- omy”. But the renewed turbulence to mid-June, when a sudden print that spans over 27 countries index of the largest listed compa- support operations,” wrote Tim nario”, they said shaken investors has raised questions about the swoon that wiped out as much as across 3 continents. QNB offers nies in Shanghai and Shenzhen Condon, head of research Asia for could cut back on spending and long-term viability of Beijing’s $4 trillion in stock market capi- a suite of unique bancassurance dipped 0.2 percent. ING Bank in Singapore, in a note investment, which could impede strategy of intervening to con- talisation in a matter of weeks. products that cater to its clients’ A highly volatile day — not yesterday. “Lesson learned: senti- a broader recovery that had been trol its markets. “Monday’s plunge Markets finally began stabil- needs and can be customised to unusual in China’s unruly stock ment manifestly remains fragile.” expected in the second half of the showed the Chinese authorities ising in the second week of July suit their risk profile, leverag- markets — had seen both indexes The wild volatility in China’s year. that even governmental measures after a barrage of official support ing the necessary products and lurching between losses as deep as markets has stoked fears among Market watchers also fear that have their limits,” said Bernard measures. China’s central bank market information through local 5 percent and gains of more than global investors about the broader some companies may be facing Aw, market strategist at IG in cut interest rates, brokerages expertise in each market across 1 percent. “Retail investors’ con- health of the Chinese economy, heavy losses after speculating Singapore. “It’s anybody’s guess formed stabilisation funds and its network to honor its commit- fidence in the mainland market is and sent Asian investors scur- in stocks, although the overall what else they can do to shore up regulators lifted restrictions on ment toward always meeting and very weak,” said Steven Leung, a rying for safe-haven assets such amount of leverage is hard to market sentiments. pensions and insurers investing exceeding our clients’ needs and director from UOB Kay Hian in as government bonds and the quantify. Still, Nomura said the Despite a slowing economy, in stocks. REUTERS expectations. THE PENINSULA

BP profits slump by almost two GKN to buy Internet of Things Dutch aerospace third after huge oil spill charge supply firm becoming essential for LONDON: BP’s second-quar- ter profit slumped by nearly for $781m businesses: Ooredoo two thirds from last year as it Pemex posts Q2 loss of $5.2bn grappled with lower oil prices, a LONDON: British engineering DOHA: A new generation of Waleed Al Sayed, Chief write off in Libya and a $10.8bn MEXICO CITY: State-owned Mexican oil company Pemex company GKN said it agreed Internet of Things (IoT) and Operating Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, charge for the 2010 crude spill reported losses of $5.2bn in the second quarter, due mainly to to acquire Netherlands-based Machine to Machine (M2M) said: “With the enhancement of in the Gulf of Mexico. lower petroleum prices. It said prices of Mexican crude were 44 Fokker Technologies for €706m services are set to transform next generation services such as Expecting a prolonged period of percent lower than in the same period a year ago. In the first ($781m), boosting its standing key industries in Qatar in the M2M, we can provide ground- lower crude prices, the British oil quarter of 2015, Pemex lost $6.5bn. as an aerospace supplier and coming years, according to breaking solutions that will and gas company also cut its capi- The new losses — 84.6bn pesos in local currency — far surpass lifting its shares. experts at Ooredoo. integrate day-to-day tasks with tal spending plans for this year those of the second quarter of 2014, which came in at 52.3bn pesos. GKN, whose historic roots are IoT and M2M services enable technology to enhance Qatar’s key for a second time to below $20bn Pemex is Mexico’s largest company and its performance is criti- in auto-part supply but which has Qatar’s businesses to connect industries. Our ongoing invest- from $22.9bn last year. Norwegian cal to the health of state finances. The company has been reporting moved into aerospace in the last business assets directly with ment in businesses solutions rival Statoil announced more heavy losses since 2013 mainly as a result of slumping oil prices. two decades, said the deal would each other or with a central com- demonstrates our commitment to spending cuts too. In an earnings report, the company said the price of a basket of extend its global reach in the mand centre, thereby automating offering the latest advanced tech- BP’s Chief Financial Officer Mexican oil types used for export fell from $97.09 a barrel in the aerospace sector, building on its day-to-day tasks and delivering nological services in line with the Brian Gilvary said he expected oil second quarter of 2014 to $53.95 a barrel in the same period of this acquisition of Volvo’s aerospace maximum output with minimum 2030 National Vision.” prices LCOc1, which fell yester- year. Last year Pemex cut spending by 11.5 percent, suspending unit in 2012. investment in manpower, time Ooredoo’s growing IoT portfo- day to their lowest since February such projects as one for deep-water exploration. In 2014, President Chief executive Nigel Stein said and cost. lio has been developed to enhance below $53 a barrel, to remain soft Enrique Pena Nieto ushered in a historic constitutional reform that Fokker’s activities were comple- Ooredoo has taken the lead in Qatar’s business sector and boost in the medium term because of a opened up the Mexican oil sector to foreign money. AFP mentary and GKN was attracted supporting IoT technologies in the knowledge-based economy. supply glut worldwide. to its presence in China, Turkey, Qatar, deploying the world-class The company has been Qatar‘s BP reached an $18.7bn agree- India and Mexico. Ooredoo “superfastnet” to enable leading M2M and IoT provider ment with the US government were also hit by a $600m explora- analysts at Bernstein, who have a “In our auto business, we’re out a whole range of organisations to for more than 10 years. and five states earlier this month tion write off in Libya because “market perform” rating on the there all around the world. For deploy new services — including Ooredoo’s M2M data bundles to resolve most claims from the oil of security issues. Overall, BP’s stock. With oil prices languishing some time now we’ve had the goal government departments, health- offer a flexible pricing plan, from spill five years ago, the largest cor- underlying replacement cost profit, at less than half their 2014 peak, of taking aerospace to broader care providers, transportation 100 MB to 50 GB packages, that porate settlement in US history. the company’s definition of net cost savings remain key for oil parts of the world and this is a companies and major enterprises. can be shared among as many While BP had been expected to income, came in at $1.3bn, below companies to weather the storm. useful step forward in that goal,” Since the launch of Ooredoo’s SIM cards as needed. Customers take a $10bn hit at some point, it analysts expectations of $1.64bn BP has already cut about 5,000 he told reporters. “GKN looks enhanced M2M services in Qatar, wishing to evaluate the power and also agreed to pay up to $1 billion to and down from $3.6bn a year ear- jobs cut this year from a total to have continued following the the company’s portfolio of prod- potential of IoT and M2M serv- resolve claims from some local gov- lier. “Cost cutting is being delivered of 80,000 employees at the end shortest path from A to B; grow- ucts has expanded to include fleet ices can do so at Ooredoo’s OASIS ernment bodies, taking cumulative and capex is coming in lower than of 2014 and said costs linked ing away from its legacy liabili- management, smart grid and Lab in its Doha Headquarters, pretax charges for the Macondo rig previous guidance which are posi- to restructuring would now be ties and moving aerospace further metering, asset tracking, secu- which is designed to enable and explosion and spill that killed 11 tives, together with the fact that $1.5bn, up from $1bn announced towards a world-leading position,” rity and surveillance, and smart showcase Ooredoo Smart solu- workers to a massive $55bn. Profits Macondo is now behind us,” said in December. REUTERS he said. REUTERS healthcare services. tions. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 After strong GM to invest $5bn on new Chevrolet quarter, Ford Automaker with China’s SAIC to develop new family of smaller cars for emerging markets aims to ‘disrupt NEW YORK: General Motors automaker and a partner of GM GM lists about a dozen Chinese as “a very logical next step” fol- sales to continue in the second said yesterday it would invest on major joint ventures in the companies in which both it and lowing GM’s progressive build- half of 2015. GM chief execu- like a startup’ $5bn to introduce a new fam- world’s second-largest economy. SAIC have a stake. These include up in China. “They’re massive in tive Mary Barra pledged a smart ily of smaller cars under the GM said the new Chevrolet line manufacturing companies for China,” Whiston said “If you’ve approach to growth in China DETROIT: Ford Motor Co’s Chevrolet line targeting emerg- would replace several existing sport utility vehicles and sedans got a strong market there, it based on a “daily read” of condi- Chief Executive Mark Fields ing markets and co-developed offerings and that the program and an automotive finance com- makes sense to try to turn it into tions. “We will be monitoring that said yesterday he wants the by Chinese partner SAIC Motor. will benefit from global economies pany. GM has more than 58,000 an export hub.” closely and will only (add capac- company to act “like a startup” The largest US automaker of scale, as well as the purchase of employees in China. Whiston said GM could make ity) when we think it’s prudent to as it prepares for an evolution plans to manufacture and sell auto parts on a local level. The new Chevrolet program especially strong inroads in do so,” Barra said. of the auto industry, after it the vehicles in China, Brazil, India “With a significant majority of will employ “a full range of body Southeast Asia, an area long The US auto giant, seeking to posted second-quarter profit and Mexico and export the cars anticipated automotive industry styles,” a spokesman said, adding dominated by rival Toyota. move past a costly ignition recall that handily beat expectations. to other emerging countries, but growth in 2015 to 2030 outside that it was too soon to discuss Still, news of GM’s expanded scandal, has emphasized improv- Ford and other major automak- not to mature markets such as of mature markets, Chevrolet is pricing. The new line will feature efforts in China comes at a bumpy ing US profit margins and strong ers are racing to position them- the United States. taking steps to capitalize on that “advanced customer-facing tech- time for the Asian giant. Its econ- China sales as priorities for the selves to profit during what Fields The first all-new Chevrolet growth,” said GM president Dan nologies focused on connectivity, omy is slowing and a steep sell- next few years. termed a rare “period of change in the programme is expected Ammann in a statement. safety and fuel efficiency,” said off in the Shanghai stock market North America, China and and disruption in the industry” in the 2019 model year, and the A GM spokesman said some of GM executive vice president for since mid-June has stoked fears Europe accounted for more than that includes car-sharing, autono- programme is anticipated to grow the development work on the new global product development Mark about growth. 80 percent of the 2.5 million cars mous vehicles, connected cars and to more than two million vehicles line will be led by the Pan Asia Reuss. The cars are being devel- GM’s earnings conference call GM delivered in the second quar- new ways for people to get around. annually. Technical Automotive Center, a oped by a multinational team of last week was dominated by ques- ter. However, the investment pro- Fields pointed to 25 experi- The core architecture and 50-50 GM-SAIC joint venture engineers who will tailor entries tions about China. The automaker gramme unveiled illustrates the ments Ford announced earlier engine of the new vehicles are that opened a new research and to local preferences. has cut costs in China and worked growing importance of emerging this year to determine mobility being jointly developed with state- development center in Shanghai Morningstar analyst David with dealers to manage inventory markets, including, but not lim- needs of the globe’s consumers in owned SAIC, a leading Chinese in 2013. Whiston described the program levels, but said it expected strong ited to, China. AFP coming decades. “We are really pushing ourselves to think, to act, and disrupt like a startup company,” said Fields, who heads the automaker founded by Henry Ford 112 years ago. Nissan’s Kyushu plant It is too early to determine the success of Ford’s efforts to adapt to a changing industry, Barclays analyst Brian Johnson celebrates 40 years said in an interview, adding, “It’s very encouraging that (Fields) DOHA: Nissan Motor Co Ltd output, passing the 5-million-unit- and (Executive Chairman) Bill celebrated the 40th anniversary production milestone in November Ford are thinking about this type of its Kyushu production base 1992and the 10million-unitmile- of thing.” and the 15 millionth vehicle pro- stone in December 2004. Ford’s traditional business in duced there. Fukuoka Prefectural In 1992, a second production the second quarter generated the Governor Hiroshi Ogawa, Nissan line was opened that was not only company’s highest automotive Chief Competitive Officer Hiroto highly advanced but also designed profit since 2000, based on the Saikawa, Nissan Executive Vice to create a friendly and comfortable strength of its core pickup truck President in charge of manufac- work environment. In 2000, private and SUV business in the North turing Fumiaki Matsumoto, other wharfs for shipping to domestic and American market. executives and approximately 500 overseas markets opened, which Fields and Ford Chief Financial employees attended a ceremony enabled the plant to manufacture, Officer Bob Shanks said the sec- at the plant to commemorate the store and ship cars efficiently on ond half of 2015 will generate milestones. the same site. In 2010, Nissan more than the $4.3bn in first- Nissan started producing engines Shatai Co., Ltd, a Nissan subsidi- half operating profit, as new in Kyushu in April 1975 and pro- ary with strength in mixed-model launches increase sales and com- gressed to producing Datsun brand production lines, also started pro- mand better prices. The company trucks the following year. As the ducing in Kyushu. maintained its 2015 operating oldest vehicle manufacturing plant In 2011, the Kyushu plant was profit forecast of between $8.5bn in Kyushu, Nissan’s Kyushu plant made an independent operational and $9.5bn. Ford posted net quar- has continued to expand its pro- company, Nissan Motor Kyushu Co. terly profit of $1.89bn, or 47 cents Nissan’s Kyushu plant. duction line-up and increase its THE PENINSULA per share. AFP WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Gold demand weakest since 2009 in Q2 Global gold supply and demand Demand falls 14pc as Chinese buyers favoured stocks over bullion Demand for gold slid to its lowest since 2009 in the second quarter of this year as buyers from leading consumer China poured funds into its now troubled equities market. MANILA/LONDON: Demand for gold slid to its lowest in six GOLD SUPPLY DEMAND GOLD JEWELLERY years in the second quarter of in tonnes in tonnes Consumption in tonnes this year as buyers from top China Rest of the world consumer China poured funds 2,000 into its now troubled equities market, an industry report 1,500 showed yesterday. Retail investment from China 1,000 fell by a quarter and jewellery demand by 23 percent in the April 500 to June period as stock markets there soared, GFMS said in a 0 quarterly update. 2013 2014 2015 2013 2014 2015 2013 2014 2015 However, a subsequent plunge CHINA’S GOLD INVESTMENT in Chinese share prices from Retail Gold jewellery in tonnes investment consumption mid-June has not helped bullion, it said, as some investors were 300 locked in and others nervous about switching to different asset classes while financial markets are so volatile. 200 After a 12-year bull run peaked in 2011, global prices of the safe haven metal have struggled to gain traction. Last week, gold 100 sank to $1,077 per ounce, its low- est in 5-1/2 years, after a sud- den sell-off in New York and 0 Shanghai, as investors worried Salesmen attend to customers at a jewellery shop in Amman. 20082009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 about Chinese growth and the prospect of US interest rate rises made the dollar more attractive. “Gold has certainly moved out of quarter of the year. “Chinese pur- dropped sharply in the second quarter, down 14.2 percent from the lowest in five quarters, the 2004-2007 period,” he said. favour in China in recent quarters,” chasers tend to buy into rallies, quarter of 2013. GFMS, a division a year before. report said. China and India con- GFMS forecast gold would GFMS analyst Andrew Leyland so when gold gets some upward of Thomson Reuters, said global Central banks remained net sumed almost the same amount of average $1,135 an ounce in the said. “I think Chinese demand was momentum Chinese purchasing demand for gold bars and coins fell buyers of gold, but their purchases gold in January-June, with China third quarter against $1,192 in a reaction to weak price perform- should support this,” Leyland said. 12 percent year-on-year in April- fell 62 percent year on year. That a tad higher at 394 tonnes against April-June, before recovering to ance, rather than a cause. Both the China and India are the world’s June and was around 63 percent helped push the physical surplus India’s 392 tonnes, it said. $1,175 in the last quarter of the equity market, and the US dollar top gold consumers. Physical below the peak two years ago. in the gold market to its highest In the full year, GFMS is year. “It remains our view that a have promised stronger returns demand there has not picked up In the largest consuming in five years at 196 tonnes, more expecting gold demand to come in U.S. rate hike this year is already than gold, and this put investors strongly despite a sell-off last sector, jewellery, consumption than double the total of a year at around 4,000 tonnes, Leyland priced into the market and that off the yellow metal.” week that knocked global prices dropped 9 percent and produc- before. While jewellery consump- told the Reuters Global Gold an increase could well prompt a GFMS was cautiously optimis- to 5-1/2 year lows. That con- tion declined 6 percent, GFMS tion in India increased 2.5 percent Forum on Tuesday. “That’s the review of asset allocations that tic that both demand and prices trasts to the explosion in physi- said. Overall physical demand to 158 tonnes during the period, weakest since 2010, but still 1,000 leads to an increase in gold hold- could start to pick up in the final cal demand seen after gold prices stood at 858 tonnes in the second gross imports fell 10 percent to tonnes per year higher than the ings,” the report said. REUTERS Kuwait awards Facebook’s ascent has investors betting on more gains $11.5bn NEW YORK: The big sell- by disappointing results sent puts, which are usually bets on a offs in shares of social media shares of Twitter, LinkedIn and decline. Currently, for every put contracts to companies last quarter follow- Yelp down by more than 20 per- option there are nearly two calls Germany orders Facebook ing weak results seem to be cent the week they reported open, the highest this ratio has brushed under the carpet this results. “These stocks are some of ever been, according to options to allow pseudonyms build refinery earnings season as investors the most expensive stocks in the analytics firm Trade Alert. KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait focus instead on the success of market,” said Stephen Massocca, “The recent decline in BRUSSELS: Facebook may not prevent its users from using National Petroleum Co (KNPC) Facebook Inc. managing director with Wedbush Facebook’s put/call open interest fake names, a German privacy watchdog said, in the latest pri- awarded KD3.48bn ($11.5bn) Investors in the options mar- Equity Management in San ratio to an all-time low implies vacy setback for the US company in Europe. worth of contracts yesterday to ket are betting on more gains for Francisco. “If numbers are dis- long positioning ahead of earn- The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible for build the al-Zour oil refinery, the stock after it reports results appointing and either growth or ings,” said Jim Strugger, a deriva- policing Facebook in Germany, said the social network firm could which would be one of the larg- today. Facebook escaped the rout profitability looks out of reach, tives strategist at MKM Partners. not unilaterally change users’ chosen usernames to their real names, est in the Middle East, Kuwaiti in social media stocks after last it’s very easy to see why investors In contrast, trading in the nor could it ask them for official ID. state news agency KUNA quarter’s results. The shares are would get out in a hurry,” he said. options of Twitter, LinkedIn and The German order comes after the Belgian privacy watchdog took reported. up about 20 percent this year. The The bullishness in Facebook’s Yelp Inc suggest high risk of vola- Facebook to court in June over the way it tracks the activities of its Construction of the 615,000 stock and a handful of other win- recent options trading makes it tile moves in the shares but give users. The two authorities are working with their Spanish, Dutch barrel per day refinery could be a ners account for the bulk of S&P unique in the sector. little clue to their direction. and French counterparts to investigate Facebook’s new privacy major boost to Kuwait’s economy, 500 gains this year. Analysts expect robust mobile Twitter and Yelp are expected policy. A woman had complained to the Hamburg watchdog after which has slowed in recent years The rapid ascent has made pricing and strength in video ads to report results later, and Facebook blocked her account for using a pseudonym, requested by political tensions and is now Facebook one of the ten largest to help the company post strong LinkedIn’s results are scheduled a copy of her ID and unilaterally changed her username into her grappling with a blow to state S&P companies in terms of mar- results when it reports after the for tomorrrow. real name. finances from low oil prices. ket capitalisation, with the stock close of trading today. So far, there is little to sug- The Hamburg Data Protection Authority said the woman did The project was originally now worth more than $260bn — Strong viewership numbers gest traders are preparing for not want to use her real name to avoid being contacted through planned more than a decade ago surpassing decades-old companies for YouTube, which helped drive the kind of selloff seen in social it for business matters. Forcing users to stick to their real names but has been delayed repeat- like Wal-Mart Stores and Procter Google Inc’s stellar second-quar- media names last quarter, said violated their privacy rights, it said. edly by bureaucratic and politi- & Gamble. Earnings seasons are ter results, bodes well for video on Anshul Agarwal, equity derivative Facebook said it was disappointed with the order and that cal problems, including conflict typically choppy for stocks and Facebook’s own platform. strategist at Bay Crest Partners German courts had reviewed it on many occasions and deemed it between Kuwait’s parliament even more so for social media In July, open interest in in New York. compliant with EU law. “The use of authentic names on Facebook and the cabinet. State-owned companies due to their high valua- Facebook’s call options, usu- “For LinkedIn, Yelp, and protects people’s privacy and safety by ensuring people know who KNPC commissioned a consor- tions and ongoing concern, in some ally used for bets the stock will Twitter, we haven’t witnessed they’re sharing and connecting with,” said a spokesperson for the tium including Spain’s Tecnicas cases, about their business models. rise, increased by 24 percent, particularly bearish options flow,” company. REUTERS Reunidas, China’s Sinopec Last quarter, investors spooked twice as much as the increase in he said. REUTERS and South Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and Construction to build the main process units of the refinery, KUNA said. That Discussing Etihad Airways plans contract is worth KD1.28bn. A consortium including Daewoo Etisalat profit falls 40pc Engineering and Construction , Hyundai Heavy Industries and Fluor Corp of the United States DUBAI: Abu Dhabi-listed tele- latest restatement would cut its will build support units and infra- coms firm Etisalat missed ana- own 2015 net profit by Dh204m. structure services for KD1.74bn. lyst estimates by reporting a Etisalat said its quarterly profit Another consortium includ- 40 percent fall in second-quar- slump was due to Mobily, higher ing Hyundai Engineering and ter net profit yesterday that it depreciation and amortisation Construction, SK Engineering blamed on its troubled Saudi charges, bigger finance costs and and Construction and Italy’s Arabia affiliate Mobily and for- foreign exchange losses, but did Saipem was awarded a KD454m eign exchange losses. not provide further details or contract to build a marine export Etisalat, which operates in publish its second-quarter finan- terminal, KUNA quoted KNPC about 19 countries across the cial report. spokesman Khalid al-Asousi as Middle East, Africa and Asia, The UAE’s former monopoly saying. made a net profit of Dh1.5bn generated second-quarter revenue Asousi said he expected the last ($408.4m) in the three months of Dh13.3bn, up 6 percent from a major contract for the project to to June 30, the company said in a year earlier. It has approved pay- be awarded in the next two weeks, statement. ing a half-year dividend of 0.4 while signing of all contracts was It did not provide a year-earlier dirhams per share, up 14 percent to take place in early October. figure, but its previous financial on the same period of 2014. Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum statement showed Etisalat made Etisalat’s bought a 53 per- Council agreed this month to a profit of Dh2.51bn in the second cent stake in Maroc Telecom for increase al-Zour’s total budget to quarter of 2014. Analysts polled €4.14bn in May 2014, boosting the KD4.87bn from about KD4bn. had forecast the Gulf’s No.2 tel- UAE firm’s foreign revenues. Officials have said the refinery ecom operator by market value Maroc Telecom has operations is to start up by late 2018 or early would post a quarterly profit of in Gabon, Mauritania, Burkina 2019, providing low-sulphur fuel Dh2.16bn. Saudi’s Mobily, in which Faso and Mali and this year also to power stations, but it is not Etisalat owns a 27.5 percent stake, acquired Etisalat’s subsidiaries clear if that timeframe can still has been embroiled in an account- in six African countries. Maroc be met. Oil minister Ali Saleh Al ing scandal that has led the king- Telecom reported a second-quar- Omair said that there were pro- dom’s No.2 operator to restate ter net profit of 1.51bn Moroccan posals to build a petrochemical President and CEO James Hogan (right) of Etihad Airways discusses the future of airline competition at the much of its earnings from 2013 dirhams, down from 1.61bn complex alongside the refinery. Global Business Travel Association convention in Orlando, Florida, yesterday. onwards. Moroccan dirhams a year earlier. He did not elaborate. REUTERS In June, Etisalat warned Mobily’s REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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NEW YORK: Boston’s trou- bled bid for the 2024 Olympics ended on Monday amid financial fears and local opposition, leav- ing the US Olympic Committee to seek a replacement candidate by mid-September. Boston’s bid was in trouble almost as soon as the USOC chose the New England city in January ahead of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. It died for good shortly after Chicago White Sox centre fielder JB Shuck (left) high fives right fielder Avisail Garcia (centre) after defeating Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Monday. he wouldn’t commit taxpayers to financing any cost overruns for the quadrennial spectacle. Vocal groups of Boston resi- dents opposed to the games had MLB: Hosmer, Morales guide argued that taxpayers could well end up footing the bill, and US Olympic Committee chief execu- tive Scott Blackmun said resist- Kansas to commanding win ance was too great to overcome Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker speaks during a press conference before the September 15 dead- following the announcement that the USOC selected Boston as its NEW YORK: Eric Hosmer had as the Chicago White Sox earned line for submitting a bid city applicant city to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Boston, three hits, including a home run Baseball Results a 10-8 win over the Boston Red to the International Olympic in this January 9, 2015 file photo. The USOC announced on Monday that and four RBIs, and Kendrys Baltimore 2 Atlanta 1 Sox in the opener of a four-game Committee. the Boston bid is withdrawn. Morales had three hits and Chicago White Sox 10 Boston 8 series at Fenway Park. “We have not been able to three RBIs as the Kansas City The designated hitter, who Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 2 get a majority of the citizens of Royals routed the Cleveland missed Sunday’s finale in Boston to support hosting the a mutual agreement to withdraw Garcetti was quick to say Indians 9-4 at Progressive Field. Kansas City 9 Cleveland 4 Cleveland with a shoulder injury, 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Boston’s bid,” Blackmun said. The Southern California city was still Hosmer’s three-run home run NY Yankees 6 Texas 2 tied the game at 7-7 with a double Games, therefore, the USOC does failure of Boston’s bid leaves the interested, although his office has in the first inning off right-hander Chicago Cubs 9 Colorado 8 in the sixth and singled in the go- not think that the level of sup- USOC in the humbling position not spoken to members of USOC. Cody Anderson set the tone, and St Louis 4 Cincinnati 1 ahead run an inning later. port enjoyed by Boston’s bid would of having to pull together a short- “I continue to believe that Los the Royals rolled over the reeling Arizona 4 Seattle 3 Chicago (47-50) won their allow it to prevail over great bids notice plan to offer against their Angeles is the ideal Olympic city,” Indians. Cleveland have lost five fourth straight and pounded out San Francisco 4 Milwaukee 2 from Paris, Rome, Hamburg, global rivals. Garcetti said. “I would be happy in a row and have been outscored 15 hits while feasting on a shaky Budapest or Toronto,” Blackmun The United States has not to engage in discussions with 35-9 over the stretch. start from Red Sox right-hander said in a statement. hosted the Summer Games since the USOC about how to present Rays 5, Tigers 2 Orioles a 2-1 victory over the Joe Kelly, who did not make it out “Boston 2024 has expressed 1996 in Atlanta and has not hosted the strongest and most fiscally Rays starter Nathan Karns Atlanta Braves in an interleague of the third inning. confidence that, with more time, the Winter Olympics since 2002 responsible bid on behalf of our took a one-hitter into the seventh match-up on Monday. Yankees 6, Rangers 2 they could generate the public at Salt Lake City.“The USOC city and nation.” inning and catcher Curt Casali Cardinals 4, Reds 1 Alex Rodriguez hit a home run support necessary to win the bid would very much like to see an It was not immediately clear hit two home runs to lead Tampa Lance Lynn helped the St. on his 40th birthday, and short- and deliver a great Games. They American city host the Olympic if Washington or San Francisco Bay to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Louis Cardinals earn their eighth stop Didi Gregorius set a career also recognise, however, that we and Paralympic Games in 2024,” would be interested in reviving Tigers in the opener of a three- win in 10 games since the All Star high with four RBIs, as the New are out of time if the USOC is Blackmun said, adding that offi- their bids, and Blackmun said game series at Tropicana Field. break with a 4-1 victory over York Yankees pounded the Texas going to be able to consider a bid cials “understand the reality of the USOC wouldn’t comment on The Rays (50-51) had gone the Cincinnati Reds at Busch Rangers 6-2. from another city. the timeline that is before us.” a potential new candidate before 13 consecutive games without Stadium. Second baseman Kolten Designated hitter Rodriguez “As a result, we have reached Los Angeles Mayor Eric next month. AFP scoring more than four runs but Wong provided all the backing added an insurance run in the ended that streak when Casali hit Lynn needed with a fourth-inning sixth inning with his solo homer a two-run homer in the eighth. grand slam. to right. The home run off Texas Orioles 2, Braves 1 (11 innings) White Sox 10, Red Sox 8 starter Matt Harrison made Expectant Almaty eyes 2022 Matt Wieters led off the bot- Adam Eaton hit a game-open- Rodriguez just the fourth player tom of the 11th inning with a ing triple and collected three hits in the majors to homer in his Games bid win over Beijing home run that gave the Baltimore and a pair of RBIs in his return teens and his 40s. AGENCIES

ALMATY, Kazakhstan: In energy-rich Kazakhstan starry- eyed excitement bumps up Wilson signs Cardinals praised for against cynical apprehension as residents of the bustling Central Asian hub Almaty prepare to four-year find out on Friday whether their hiring first female coach city can edge out Beijing to host contract with the 2022 Winter Olympics. NEW YORK: The Arizona make me better, I don’t care if Kazakhstan’s capital before Cardinals were being hailed as you’re the Green Hornet, man, glitzy Astana took over its mantle Predators groundbreakers yesterday after I’ll listen.’” in 1997, Almaty is the less-fancied hiring the National Football Welter, who has a Ph.D. in competitor in a two-horse race NEW YORK: The Nashville League’s first female coach. psychology, joins the Cardinals’ which will be voted on by 90+ Predators signed restricted free The Cardinals on Monday hired staff after playing for the Texas International Olympic Committee agent Colin Wilson to a four- Jen Welter, a 37-year-old former Revolution of the Indoor Football (IOC) members on July 31. year, $15.75m contract to avoid pro football player, to be a coach- League. She became the first “Beijing is still the favourite arbitration. ing intern during training camp female non-kicker to play in a but it is getting closer to call Wilson will be paid $3.75m in this year, working with inside men’s pro league when she took as the announcement nears,” 2015-16, and $4m in 2016-17, 2017- linebackers. the field as a running back for the Christoph Becker, a sports edi- 18 and 2018-19 for an average Football fans took to Twitter Revolution in 2014. tor for Germany’s Frankfurter annual value of $3.9375m. to express their sentiments about “Thank you @AZCardinals & Allgemeine Zeitung, said. Wilson, 25, set career highs in Welter’s hiring. @BruceArians & everyone here Last month both candidate China’s Zhang Haidi, vice president of the bid committee (left), speaks at goals (20) and points (42), while “#NFLTrainingCamp in #Phoenix,” Welter tweeted. “I cities presented their concepts a news conference about the Beijing 2022 bid for the Winter Olympics at tying a personal best in assists hasn’t even started and the @ am honored to join this amazing to the IOC in Lausanne, with a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. (22) in 2014-15. AZCardinals are already win- #footballfamily.” the Kazakhs, who have limited The Buffalo Sabres named ning,” The Dude (@Calicardsfan) NFL spokesman Greg experience hosting international Russ Brandon as president after said. Aiello responded with a tweet, sport events, presenting their bid represents another opportunity to Olympics will improve the inter- former president Ted Black and Cardinals coach Bruce Arians “Welcome. We are honored too.” as “keeping it real” with an abun- shed the “Borat” tag popularised national image of our country,” the team “mutually agreed to part said the internship would be a Welter won two gold med- dance of natural snow in winter by British comedian Sacha Baron said Eldana Bukumbayeva, a ways.” great opportunity that could als playing for Team USA in and magnificent snow-capped Cohen’s 2006 hit mockumentary. 24-year-old intern at an interna- Brandon, also named alternate “open some doors” for Welter. the International Federation Tien Shan mountains surround- “I hope Almaty wins. The tional financial company. AFP governor for the Sabres, will con- “Coaching is nothing more than of American Football Women’s ing Almaty. tinue as managing partner/presi- teaching,” Arians said in a state- World Championship in 2010 and That was widely seen as a side- dent of the Buffalo Bills. ment after the team announced 2013. ways dig at Beijing – where offi- Brandon will oversee all aspects Welter’s hiring on Monday. “S/O (shout out) to @jwel- cials admit they would have to IOC signs $14bn of of the business operations for both “One thing I have learned from ter47....Welcome to AZ coach,” resort to artificial snow for many the Sabres and Bills organizations players is, ‘How are you going tweeted Cardinals linebacker events – as well as a nod towards and report directly to owners to make me better? If you can Kevin Minter. REUTERS the sustainability focus the IOC deals in 17 months Terry and Kim Pegula. itself has emphasised during the The Colorado Avalanche signed bidding process. KUALA LUMPUR: The The IOC has also signed up forward Joey Hishon to a one- “Almaty is the city with the International Olympic Bridgestone and Toyota as top year contract. hardware for a winter Olympics,” Committee (IOC) has signed level sponsors and renewed Hishon, who was a restricted said Becker. $14bn in deals since the Sochi existing accords with Atos, free agent, appeared in 13 games “It actually has proper Winter Olympics last year, Panasonic and Samsung. for the Avalanche last season, tal- Jen Welter mountains.” a spokesman said yesterday IOC spokesman Mark Adams lying one goal and one assist. will work with By contrast, China, the second highlighting the sports body’s said the deals “represent a sig- The New York Rangers and the Arizona largest economy in the world, has financial strength. nificant contribution to the long- restricted free agent center Cardinals’ vast reserves of cash to spend on Eighteen contracts signed in term financial stability of the Derek Stepan avoided an arbi- inside the event and the memorable the past 17 months include 13 Olympic movement up to 2032. tration hearing on Monday when linebackers Olympic Games it held in the broadcast deals, one for $7.65bn “The establishment of this they agreed to terms on a multi- throughout summer of 2008 in its favour. with US broadcaster NBC televi- strong and stable financial foun- year contract. training camp The ex-Soviet state, which is sion to show the Olympics in the dation allows the IOC to redis- Financial terms were not dis- and the also busy planning the sustain- United States up to 2032. tribute more than 90 per cent of closed, but the NY Daily News able energy-themed EXPO-2017 Discovery Communications its revenues to support athletes reported the deal is for six years preseason. in Astana, places an increasing of the United States bought the and sport around the world - the and worth $39m for an average amount of importance on show- 2018-2024 broadcasting rights equivalent of 3.25m dollars a day, annual value of $6.5m. Stepan casing an economically growing for most of Europe for a huge every day of the year,” Adams had an average annual value of nation of 17 million. sum of $1.45bn. added. AFP $3.075m in the two-year contract For many citizens the event he signed in 2013. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Great Britain Team for World Ennis-Hill to participate Championships in Beijing LONDON: Great Britain team for the World Championships in Beijing, August 22-30, at World Championships announced yesterday. Men 100M: James Dasaolu, Richard Kilty, Chijindu Ujah Farah and Rutherford also in British squad for Beijing event 200M: Zharnel Hughes, Daniel Talbot 400M: Jarryd Dunn, Rabah Yousif 800M: Kyle Langford, Michael Rimmer LONDON: Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis- 1,500M: Charlie Grice, Chris O’Hare Hill has announced that she is to 5,000M: Mo Farah, Tom Farrell compete in the World Athletics Britain’s Mo 10,000M: Farah Championships in Beijing next Farah pays 110M Hurdles: Lawrence Clarke month. homage to 400M Hurldes: Niall Flannery “My coach and I have made the Jamaica’s High Jump: Robbie Grabarz decision that I’m going to make Usain Bolt as Long Jump: Dan Bramble, Greg Rutherford myself available ... for the world he crosses champs,” she said on her Twitter the line to Pole Vault: Steve Lewis account yesterday. win 3,000m Hammer: Mark Dry, Nick Miller Ennis-Hill returned to the final event 20km Walk: Tom Bosworth sport in May following the birth during 4X100M Relay: Kilty, Ujah, Talbot, Harry of her son. the IAAF Aikines-Aryeetey, James Ellington, Adam Gemili The 29-year-old produced Diamond 4X400M Relay: Dunn, Yousif, Jack Green, her three best displays since the League Martyn Rooney, Conrad Williams, Delano London Olympics when she fea- Anniversary Williams tured at the Anniversary Games Women 100M: Asha Philip in the capital at the weekend. Games 200M: Ennis-Hill takes her place in athletics Margaret Adeoye, Dina Asher-Smith, Bianca Williams a 62-strong British squad for meeting at the August 22-30 event in China the Queen 400M: Christine Ohuruogu, Anyika Onuora alongside the likes of fellow Elizabeth 800M: Jenny Meadows, Shelayna Oskan- Olympic champions Mo Farah Olympic Park Clarke, Lynsey Sharp and Greg Rutherford. Stadium in 1,500M: Laura Muir, Laura Weightman Farah, who has been dogged by Stratford, 5,000M: Steph Twell the recent doping allegations sur- west London, 10,000M: Kate Avery rounding coach Alberto Salazar, in this July 100M Hurdles: Cindy Ofili, Tiffany Porter will look to retain his world titles 2015 file 400M Hurdles: Meghan Beesley, Eilidh Child over 5,000 and 10,000 metres. photo. High Jump: Morgan Lake, Isobel Pooley He also won gold in the 5,000 RIGHT: Great Long Jump: metres in 2011. Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Shara Proctor, Lorraine Ugen Olympic, Commonwealth and Jessica European champion Rutherford Ennis-Hill in Pole Vault: Holly Bradshaw is aiming to add the only missing action during Hammer: Sophie Hitchon major gold medal to his long jump Javelin: Goldie Sayers collection. the women’s Heptathlon: Jessica Ennis-Hill, Victory at the iconic Bird’s long jump Johnson-Thompson Nest stadium would also help him event at become the fourth Briton, after the IAAF 4X100M Relay: Philip, Asher-Smith, Bianca Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell three huge global competitions, Neil Black. “I’m very confident Diamond Williams, Louise Bloor, Desiree Henry, Jodie Williams, Darryll Neita and Jonathan Edwards, to hold with the Olympics in Rio next we have selected a team who can League. simultaneously all four titles. year and the home world cham- be successful in Beijing as well as 4X400M Relay: Adeoye, Child, Ohuruogu, “Beijing is a hugely important pionships in 2017,” said British use it as a platform on to further Onuora, Kirsten McAslan, Seren Bundy-Davies, event to us, yet this is the first of Athletics performance director Olympics.” REUTERS Laviai Nielson India’s Chand eyes Olympics after reprieve by CAS

NEW DELHI: Indian sprinter suffering and humiliation. Now the country in comments to the Dutee Chand said yesterday I want to forget everything and Press Trust of India news agency. she was “super excited” about start afresh,” said Chand, now 19, Injeti Srinivas, the head of the In this returning to athletics after a her voice choked with emotion. Sports Authority of India, said he photograph landmark ruling on the validity Chand, who missed the was delighted with the verdict. taken on of so-called gender tests. Commonwealth and Asian Games “(Our) faith in fair play and July 7, 2013, Chand’s hyperandrogenism – a due to the ban imposed last year, Dutee Chand’s endurance have condition that produces high tes- had challenged the rule, which she finally paid off. She can now pre- women’s 200 tosterone levels – meant she fell said did not take into account ath- pare (for events) without any metres bronze foul of International Association letes who were “born this way”. uncertainty,” he told PTI. medal winners of Athletics Federations (IAAF) “I never took any drugs, I was Chand, who is currently from India, rules on gender. born like this. I really want to training at a sports academy in Dutee Chand But in a ruling Monday, the thank the judges,” said Chand, Hyderabad, said she had to deal waves to the Court of Arbitration for Sport the third of seven children born with insensitive questions over crowd after (CAS) suspended the contro- to weavers in rural India. her sex with little regard for her the race on the versial regulation for two years, “It is not only me, many more privacy. fifth and the allowing her to compete again. athletes like me will benefit from She said the ruling meant she final day of the The CAS also said the rule this landmark ruling.” Critics could now focus on qualifying for Asian Athletics would be scrapped permanently say so-called gender testing is next year’s Olympics and improv- Championship if the IAAF failed to prove that arbitrary and psychologically ing her timings in her favourite 2013 at the enhanced testosterone levels damaging. 100 and 200-metre races. Chatrapati led to improved performance in The IAAF introduced the rule “It is going to be very tough Shivaji hyperandrogenic athletes. after a controversy over the treat- because my form has gone down. Stadium in “I am very happy and relieved,” ment of South African runner But it is not impossible, I still Pune. India’s reigning under-18 100 Caster Semenya, whose ban was have seven months to recharge metres champion said by tel- lifted following an investigation. and recoup,” added the excited ephone from the southern city of India’s Sports Minister athlete. Hyderabad. Sarbananda Sonowal called the “I am super excited. I think I “I have gone through a lot of ruling a “tremendous victory” for have God’s blessings.” AFP

Nadal battles past Verdasco Injured South Africa stars may face Argentina next month Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns the ball during JOHANNESBURG: Injured the Rugby World Cup kicks off Meyer, though, is No. 8 Duane his first round match South Africa rugby stars Jean mid-September in England. Vermeulen, who underwent neck against Spain’s de Villiers, Fourie du Preez and They travel to Buenos Aires surgery this month and is racing Fernando Verdasco at Willem Alberts could be availa- to tackle the South Americans against the clock to be fit for the ble to face Argentina on August again one week later in a Test World Cup. the ATP tournament 8, the national team doctor said that ends the Springbok match Twice champions South Africa in Hamburg, northern yesterday. preparations for the global rugby are in Pool B at the World Cup Germany yesterday. Du Preez and Alberts have not showcase. While coach Heyneke with Japan, Samoa, Scotland and Top seed Nadal bidding played for the Springboks this Meyer will be cheered by the the United States. to rediscover some season while skipper De Villiers medical updates on three key cogs British bookmakers have semblance of his came off the bench against a in his squad, there were also some installed the Springboks and former all-conquering World XV this month before disappointing reports. England as second favourites form recovered from continuing his recuperation at a Tighthead prop Jannie du behind title-holders New Zealand losing the first set lower playing level. Plessis and flanker Francois Louw, to lift the trophy. to beat the fellow “These players have worked who were hurt in a 27-20 home Meanwhile, Australian National Spaniard 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 hard during their rehabilitation loss to New Zealand last weekend, Rugby League team Manly Sea and reach the second and although we still have to put will miss the Championship Test Eagles yesterday sacked coach round. them through a final assessment in Indian Ocean city Durban. Geoff Toovey, with Trent Barrett next Monday, I’m hopeful,” said Veteran lock Victor Matfield to take over next season. Craig Roberts. and winger JP Pietersen – una- The announcement ended South Africa host the Pumas vailable for the All Blacks clash in months of speculation after a on August 8 in the final round of Johannesburg – have been ruled disappointing year for Manly, a Rugby Championship trimmed out of both matches against the who are languishing 11th on the from six rounds to three because Pumas. The biggest concern for 16-team ladder. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Great South African all-rounder Rice dies CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s death of Clive Rice. He was first captain of the post-isola- an inspiration to me as a tion era Clive Rice died yes- young player and a fantastic terday after battling a brain example,” former Proteas open- tumour, the country’s cricket ing batsman and coach Gary board said. Kirsten tweeted. The 66-year-old had appeared Rice led Nottinghamshire to be in remission after visiting to the County Championship India earlier this year to receive titles in 1981 and 1987, and was robotic radiation treatment in named Wisden Cricketer of the Bangalore. Year after the first championship Rice’s family confirmed his success. death to South Africa’s Eye He returned to Trent Bridge Witness News, saying he was as the newly appointed cricket admitted to hospital on Sunday manager in 1999, a position he with severe stomach pains. held until 2003. The all-rounder captained It was during that time he South Africa at the age of 42 on was credited with helping per- their historic post-isolation lim- suade Kevin Pietersen to qualify ited overs tour of India in 1991, to play international cricket for but was left out of the squad for England. the World Cup in Australia and Compatriot and International New Zealand the following year. Cricket Council (ICC) chief He also briefly represented executive David Richardson paid Scotland before the Proteas’ tribute to the all-rounder. readmission to international “Clive Rice was a giant of the cricket. game, not just in South Africa, England’s captain Alastair Cook (left) and Ian Bell take a break during a training session at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Monday. “Clive was our first captain but across the cricketing world,” and we knew him to be a great Richardson said in a statement. fighter all his life,” Cricket South “Though his international Africa CEO Haroon Lorgat said appearances for the Proteas in a media release. were limited to just three ODIs, “Even during his last few years Clive was a hugely inspirational he put up a typically courageous figure for those of us who had Edgbaston Test stirs and inspirational fight against the privilege to represent our the illness that had threatened country. him for a lengthy period of time.” “Clive was hugely regarded Rice played in 482 first-class across the world game as a matches for Transvaal, Natal player, but later as a coach and and Nottinghamshire, scoring mentor where he inspired the 2005 Ashes memories 26,331 runs at an average of likes of Lance Klusener, Shaun 40.95. He also took 930 wickets Pollock and Jonty Rhodes, and at 22.49 apiece before retiring in he will be greatly missed by It would be a fantastic anniversary to win here: Cook 1994. those who knew him,” he added. “Devastating news on the REUTERS

BIRMINGHAM, UK: England and Australia face each other Squad England back in the third Test at Edgbaston starting today a decade on from Probable teams and officials for the third Ashes Test between England Bell to succeed when the Birmingham ground and Australia at Edgbaston today staged one of the most thrilling England (probable): Alastair Cook (capt), Adam Lyth, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben at number three contests in Ashes history. Stokes, Jos Buttler (wkt), Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood, James Anderson. Back in 2005, England — who Australia (probable): David Warner, Chris Rogers, Steven Smith, Michael Clarke (capt), Adam BIRMINGHAM: England cap- at the time hadn’t won an Ashes Voges, Mitchell Marsh, Peter Nevill (wkt), Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, tain Alastair Cook has backed series since 1986/87 — came to Nathan Lyon. Ian Bell to return to form follow- Edgbaston 1-0 down after a defeat Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), Chris Gaffaney (NZL) ing the veteran batsman’s pro- in the opening match of the series TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA) motion to number three for the at Lord’s. third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI) There was a drama even before Bell, England’s most experi- a ball was bowled at Edgbaston, Weather Forecast: Top temperature of 16 degrees Celsius, humid, cloudy and with a slight chance enced batsman, having made his with Australia paceman Glenn of rain. Test debut 11 years ago, has strug- McGrath ruled out on the morn- Pitch Conditions: Much will depend on whether the grass covering is left on or shaved. Generally gled for runs during the Ashes ing of the game after injuring a good batting surface, but England have made clear their desire for a classic ‘seamer’ after a slow thus far with scores of one, 60, one himself treading on a stray ball surface at Lord’s played into Australia’s hands. and 11 in the first two matches. on the outfield. at Edgbaston on the back of a years to win here after losing at There had been speculation That was the start of an 405-run thrashing by Australia at Lord’s. that, with England repeatedly extraordinary sequence of events Lord’s which left the five-match “It would be brilliant to go 2-1 suffering top-order collapses, which culminated with Australia series all square at 1-1. up and it’s certainly an inspiration Bell might be dropped for the No. 11 Michael Kasprowicz caught But 2015 has also seen Alastair in one way to know it’s possible. third Test at his Warwickshire behind down the legside by Cook’s side follow every Test “Even for the stress levels, I home ground starting today after wicket-keeper Geraint Jones off defeat they’ve suffered with a would take (a series win by the Australia levelled the five-match fast bowler Stephen Harmison as victory and the England captain margin of)3-2.” series at 1-1 with a crushing 405- England, who had been on course said the lesson of a decade ago, Australia captain Michael run win at Lord’s. for a comfortable victory, won by when he was a fledgling batsman Clarke, one of only two survivors But despite two failures in the just two runs. with Essex, was that anything was from that celebrated match along second Test, Bell has been pro- The sight of England all- possible. with England batsman Ian Bell moted to number three after rounder Andrew Flintoff putting “I think we (Essex) were at who will be playing this week, had England dropped Gary Ballance a consoling arm round the shoul- Southend in a one-day game when a less rosy view. and brought in Jonny Bairstow to ders of not out tailender Brett that final wicket went down,” “I don’t have a great memory. I bat at five. Lee, who had so nearly guided Cook told reporters at Edgbaston remember it more because of the “He’s delighted to be back at Australia to a stunning success, yesterday. footage I’ve seen over the years,” three,” Cook said yesterday of became one of cricket’s great “We were warming up and the said Clarke. Bell. enduring images. crowd were watching on the TVs “I remember that tour and it “It’s a great opportunity to England went on to win the and there was a big cheer. was certainly one of the best I’ve get in and make his mark on the series 2-1 in what was widely “Whether I was watching live been involved in during my career. game. He’s a proven international regarded as one of the most thrill- or the highlights, it was one of “Unfortunately we didn’t get player and I think he’ll relish the ing campaigns, let alone Ashes the great summers of cricket,” the result we wanted but it was a chance to bat at three. series, in more than a century of he said. wonderful series played the right “Also being at his home ground Test cricket. Cook added: “It would be a way, with tough cricket on the is a really great opportunity,” South African cricket legend Clive Rice practising in Johannesburg. This year, England have arrived fantastic anniversary of those 10 field.” AFP Cook said. AFP Nevill gets nod ahead of Clarke opts for new-style Haddin for third Ashes Test helmet after Rogers injury

BIRMINGHAM, England: match at Lord’s for family reasons. Clarke paid tribute to the out- BIRMINGHAM, UK: The months trying to get used to it.” Peter Nevill has got the nod That paved the way for Nevill of-form Ian Bell who will move injury suffered by team-mate But what finally persuaded ahead of Brad Haddin as to make his debut in Australia’s up one place in England’s batting Chris Rogers has finally con- Clarke, who gave a moving eulogy Australia’s wicketkeeper for series-levelling win during which order following Gary Ballance’s vinced Australia captain at Hughes’s funeral, of the need to the third Ashes Test against the 29-year-old took seven exclusion. Michael Clarke to wear one of change helmets was the sight of England at Edgbaston starting catches and scored a brisk 45 in “Belly’s been a class player for a the new-look helmets developed Rogers getting hit by Anderson. today. the first innings. long period so I don’t think mov- following the death of Phillip “Obviously the Hughesy stuff Captain Michael Clarke said Clarke said he had yet to speak ing up to number three is going to Hughes, he said yesterday. is still on the front of my mind selection chairman Rod Marsh to Chris Rogers after the opening bother him too much,” he added. Former Australia batsman and then next morning Bucky and coach Darren Lehmann had batsman survived a stiff examina- “Adam Lyth might feel a little Hughes died after being struck on (Rogers) came out and got hit spoken to him about their deci- tion from his bowling team mates more pressure because he hasn’t an unprotected area of the neck right on the same spot,” Clarke sion to play Nevill but refused in the nets on Monday. played as much test cricket as while batting during a first-class said. to rule out a possible return for Rogers, 37, had to retire in the someone like Belly,” said Clarke of domestic Sheffield Shield match “I got rid of my old helmet Haddin, 37, in the future. second innings at Lord’s after suf- the opening batsman who has also in Sydney in November. there and then and made up my “He’s a great man Hadds...I’ve fering a dizzy spell. struggled for runs in this series. His death prompted Masuri, Australia’s Michael Clarke attends mind I am using the new one.” really loved having him as vice- “I haven’t seen him today so I’m “Belly’s a helluva player who one of the leading manufactur- a press conference at Edgbaston With top batsmen having the captain and he’s performed looking forward to seeing how he has been extremely successful ers, to develop a helmet with a in Birmingham yesterday. same reverence for their equip- exceptionally well,” Clarke told pulls up after he batted really well over a long period of time,” said clip-on foam guard that provides ment as a concert violinist has for reporters yesterday. in the nets yesterday,” said Clarke. Clarke. additional protection and comes a more serious injury. a cherished Stradivarius, this was “He’s still working hard and “It’s important for us to run “Whether he makes runs in with an adjusted face grille. Clarke, who had struggled a significant change on Clarke’s will now wait for his opportunity with this momentum while we this test or not I’m certain it’s not Rogers, struck by a James to get used to the attachment, part. whether that be through injury or have it, take confidence from the end of his career. After this Anderson bouncer while making said: “Obviously what happened “My gear hasn’t changed for my getting another chance.” Lord’s but also remember how series I’d like to see him go on and a Test-best 173 during Australia’s to Hughes, as soon as those new whole career,” he said. Haddin, who has 66 Test caps, disciplined England were in make plenty more hundreds but 405-run win over England at helmets and ear pieces came out “My pads are the same, gloves played in the opening game in Cardiff. We know how good an in this series I’d like to keep his Lord’s this month, credited the I thought I am going to try this are the same, so you are used to Cardiff but sat out the second opposition they are.” runs to a minimum.” REUTERS new stem guard with preventing “I have just spent the last six what you are used to.” AFP WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Putting touch has Woods frustrated but will deserted me: Poulter WOBURN, England: Less not going to win tournaments. I’ve than three years after his mag- had great times and won great ical putter inspired a ‘miracle’ tournaments but my putting has stick to comeback plans Ryder Cup victory for Europe, held me back. Ian Poulter (pictured) says his “I need to work harder on that, touch on the greens has tempo- put in even more hours. It’s time ‘I just need a couple shots here and there to turn the tide’ rarily deserted him. for me to put more emphasis The world number 33 has on my putting,” added Poulter, missed the cut in his last two as he hosted an annual event at GAINESVILLE, US: A frus- outings, the Scottish and British his home course of Woburn that trated Tiger Woods never Opens, and he puts his sub-stand- includes junior golfers wearing imagined it would take so long ard performances down to a lack his signature clothing collection to regain top form after back of belief with the shortest club in (www.ijpdesign.com). surgery and swing changes, but the bag. Next on the agenda for he will stick with his comeback Tiger Woods “I’m not disappointed how I the 39-year-old is the WGC- plan. of the USA played because I thought I played Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, “Is it frustrating to not win golf reacts during good but I’m disappointed I didn’t Ohio starting on Aug. 6, immedi- tournaments? Yeah. But I know hole my fair share of putts,” ately followed by the year’s final a press how close it feels. I just need a Poulter said in an interview. major, the US PGA Championship conference couple shots here and there “It’s back to the drawing board at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. to turn the tide,” Woods said at Robert now, I’ve got to try to visually see “Akron is not a good course yesterday. Trent Jones my lines. for me so I prob- Woods serves as host for this Golf Club in “Some weeks you ably won’t play week’s US PGA National at the Gainesville, just can’t see the more than three or par-71 Robert Trent Jones Golf Virginia, right lines, you can’t four holes in prac- Club, a 7,385-yard layout last USA, visualise the ball tice but I’ll spend a used by top stars for the 2005 yesterday. going in the hole, day on the putting Presidents Cup. The Quicken and that puts the green on the Woods, a 14-time major cham- Loans rest of your game Wednesday,” said pion whose last major title came National under pressure to Poulter, who is still at the 2008 US Open, has fallen runs from hit it close.” searching for his to 266th in the world rankings as July 30 to Poulter showed first win in a major. he struggles to rebuild his game. August 2. nerves of steel “Sometimes you He has not won a title since he when he sank five stand over a putt, world number one at Firestone birdie putts in as you visually see the in 2013, a two-year drought with many holes on the line and you hit the a “perfect storm” of back surgery penultimate day to line. It sounds silly and swing change struggles set- haul Europe out of trouble before to say but you just don’t have that ting him back. the team went on to secure their feeling all the time. “I didn’t think it would take ‘Miracle of Medinah’ triumph “Something is not quite right this long, but I thought I would rounds, and shared 32nd at the golf tournament. He was only a faces and you look down the range over the United States in 2012. whether it’s in my setup, my pos- have my short game, which I Greenbrier only to finish a woe- couple putts off.” Spieth is playing and don’t recognize anybody,” The US led 10-4 at one point ture, my grip, my eyeline, once didn’t at the beginning of the ful 147th of 156 over the first 36 like Woods once did and as Woods Woods said. “I go to the (50-and- during the Saturday four-balls I find that comfortable feeling year,” Woods said. holes in the British Open at St. hopes he might again in two over) Champions Tour and I know before a Poulter-inspired Europe again the putts will just start to “Things are starting to come Andrews, where he twice won the weeks in the PGA Championship every guy. It’s the nature of the stormed to a 14 1/2-13 1/2 victory go in. Some of the world’s leading together. I’m sticking with the Claret Jug. at Whistling Straits. game. Our careers are so long against their shell-shocked hosts. golfers have a specialist putting process and trying to make Woods took a week off in the “Do I want to be in that posi- now. The guys I practiced against The Englishman said he must coach to help them out with their progress every day. Bahamas without touching a tion again? Absolutely,” Woods are all gone.” now knuckle down on the practice stroke but that is not an idea that “Is it fun going through this? club, snorkeling and fishing with said. “I’ve had chances to make Woods, whose 79 career titles putting green to get the right feel Poulter wanted to exploit. No, it’s hard. I’m not scoring. his children while Jordan Spieth those runs. I just haven’t done it. are only three off Sam Snead’s back in his stroke. “I’m happy to do it myself,” he Rounds that should be 70s are narrowly saw his bid for a third It’s a matter of making a big putt all-time PGA record, will play “I need to go above and beyond, said. “In 14 years, I’ve been out of turning into 74s if not worse.” major title of the year spoiled by here or there.” alongside fellow Americans Bill I need to find the time to put the the top 50 in the world just once, Woods, 39, has missed the cut Zach Johnson. Woods, who says he has no Haas and Nick Watney in the first hours in, put the reps in, before so I’d say that’s pretty good. in three of his eight starts this “For him to play St. Andrews pain in his swing and has not two rounds. Defending champion the next event,” said the Florida- “Who knows whether it would year, including the US and British for the first time, see it under consulted a sports psychologist Justin Rose is in the group behind based Poulter, who has 15 interna- help or not if I brought some- Opens, with his best result a share different winds and play it that about his poor play, marvels at him starting Thursday after- tional victories to his name. one in, or would it mess me up? of 17th at the Masters. well, it was very impressive,” the top young players he sees at noon alongside Sweden’s David “We all rely on putting, we all I guess we’ll never know because He shot 82 at Phoenix and 85 Woods said of youngster Spieth. PGA events now. Lingmerth and American Jimmy hit it well from tee to green but I’m never going to allow that to at the Memorial, his worst pro “Unbelievable chance to win the “You see all these new, fresh Walker. AFP unless you hole the putts you are happen.” REUTERS

World Championships ‘Dead in water’ US squad Results World swimming championships expects slow start in Kazan results yesterday: Women’s 10km open water KAZAN: USA Swimming was you have from the trials heading be eager to prove that last year’s 1. Aurelie Muller (FRA) 1hr 58min 04.3sec rubbing its hands with glee into a championship format. woes are behind him. 2. Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED) 1:58:06.7 when it announced a squad “We’re going to have to gener- Winner of 11 Olympic med- 3. Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA) 1:58:26.5 packed full of gold medal win- ate that, we’re kind of starting als, Lochte heads to Kazan com- ners and record breakers for dead in the water.” ing off what he described as the 4. Rachele Bruni (ITA) 1:58:27.9 the 2015 world championships, There may be some uncertainty worst season of his swimming 5. Krapivina Anastasiia (RUS) 1:58:28.6 but that was a year ago and the about what to expect from the career and will compete in just 6. Poliana Okimoto Cintra (BRA) 1:58:28.8 team that lands in Kazan may 47-strong squad but even so, the two individual events, the 200 7. Isabelle Franziska Harle (GER) 1:58:30.0 need time to fire on all cylinders. United States is still expected to metres individual medley and 8. Kalliopi Araouzou (GRE) 1:58:30.6 Twelve months can be an eter- take home a lion’s share of the 200m freestyle. Women’s 1m diving nity in the pool and while Katie medals. “I had a really bad year last 1. Tania Cagnatto (ITA) 310.85 Ledecky and Ryan Lochte take The Kazan championships will year, it was probably my worst in huge reputations to Russia, the also provide a valuable litmus swimming but that was my fault,” 2. Shi Tingmao (CHN) 309.20 form they were in then and where test for a team heading to Russia he said during a pre-champion- 3. He Zi (CHN) 300.30 they are now are likely to be poles without talisman Michael Phelps, ship teleconference. 4. Olena Fedorova (UKR) 286.95 apart. banned by US Swimming from Only 18 and the world’s most 5. Esther Qin (AUS) 280.50 Normally US teams arrive at competing at the world’s after dominant swimmer, Ledecky will 6. Nadezhda Bazhina (RUS) 273.45 major global meets battle hard- being convicted of a drink driv- be much busier in Russia, com- 7. Nora Subschinski (GER) 265.25 ened and razor sharp from do- ing offence late last year. peting in four individual freestyle or-die qualifying events but for Natalie Coughlin, who shares events as she defends world titles 8. Kim Suji (KOR) 258.50 Kazan, a group picked from the distinction of being the most in the 400m, 800m and 1500m, Men’s 10km open water results at last year’s national and decorated American women’s and adds the 200m free to her 1. Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) 1:49:48.2 Pan Pacific championships has Olympic swimmer of all time, will program. 2. Ferry Weertman (NED) 1:50:00.3 left swimmers idling. also be a spectator, having failed Franklin, winner of six gold 3. Spyridon Giannotis (GRE) 1:50:00.7 “It is going to be a big challenge to earn a spot on the team. medals at the 2013 Barcelona 4. Sean Ryan (USA) 1:50:03.3 for this group, we don’t come off a Even with those notable absen- world championships, will have Aurelie Muller of France celebrates her gold medal on the podium after 5. Jack Burnell (GBR) 1:50:05.8 selection meet,” men’s head coach tees, the US squad does not lack another full program in Kazan, winning the women’s 10km Open Water Swimming race at the FINA Dave Durden said. for depth or quality, with the racing in the 100m and 200m 6. Marc-Antoine Olivier (FRA) 1:50:06.4 Swimming World Championships 2015 in Kazan, Russia, yesterday. Muller “This team has been 12 months record-smashing Ledecky and freestyle as well as the 100m 7. Simone Ruffini (ITA) 1:50:09.1 won ahead of second placed Sharon Van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands in the making, so we kind of lose Missy Franklin spearheading the and 200m backstroke and three and third placed Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil. 8. Richard Weinberger (CAN) 1:50:19.9 a little bit of the momentum that women’s effort, while Lochte will relays. REUTERS

Dutch Formula One Verstappen to take driving lessons driver Max Verstappen of LONDON: While Formula season reached the halfway point in Hungary but increased his lead every intention of getting away Scuderia Toro One rivals head to the sea or in Hungary. over Mercedes team-mate Nico from the office and relaxing. Rosso is seen mountains at the start of the “With the F1 schedule it has Rosberg to 21 points, was already There are important decisions at the starting August break, Max Verstappen been difficult to fit everything in enjoying his break. to take, not least concerning Kimi grid before has some driving lessons on the so I’ve had to wait for the break. The Briton posted a picture of Raikkonen’s future if that has the 2015 horizon. “You need a minimum six or himself on Twitter tucking into a not already been fixed, but driver Formula One The Dutch 17-year-old, fourth seven hours driving under the hearty al fresco breakfast. moves can wait. Grand Prix for Toro Rosso in Sunday’s laws in Belgium, where I live, and “It’s officially summer break, “Our goal now is to focus on of Malaysia Hungarian Grand Prix, will have I hope that’s all I need. We’ll see.” and the only day I can eat what- the car. We have time to talk in Sepang, to wait for his 18th birthday in The conversation between driv- ever I want,” he said. about the driver,” Arrivabene Malaysia, in September before he can pass his ing instructor and a pupil more “So that calls for pancakes and told reporters after the race at this March test but he can at least get the used to reaching speeds in excess bacon.” the Hungaroring. 2015 file tuition in. of 300kph and braking as late as Ferrari team boss Maurizio “During the summer break photo. “I’m doing my lessons in the possible can only be imagined. Arrivabene heads into the holiday you are swimming, climbing... summer break,” the youngest World champion Lewis fresh from celebrating Sebastian not deciding. Otherwise it’s not a ever Grand Prix driver said as the Hamilton, who had a nightmare Vettel’s win in Hungary and with break,” he added. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Tottenham expect tough test from MLS All-Stars DENVER: Tottenham launch — the Galaxy’s latest high profile their final preparations for acquisition — will all be available the fast-approaching Premier to MLS All-Star coach Pablo League season today when they Mastroeni. take on a Major League Soccer Gerrard was selected for the All-Stars side featuring former team along with Frank Lampard Spurs striker Robbie Keane as one of two commissioner’s in the US league’s mid-season picks by MLS chief Don Garber exhibition. — before either had kicked a ball “It’s going to be a tough in league competition. game and that’s what we want,” Gerrard has since made a 21-year-old striker Harry Kane solid debut for the Galaxy, while said Monday in Denver, where Lampard’s debut for NYCFC is he and his team-mates have been on hold because of a nagging calf training since the weekend. injury that will also see him miss “It’s not long until the season Wednesday’s contest. starts, and we need to see what Another former Tottenham we need to work on,” Kane said. player, American Clint Dempsey, “For me, it’ll be my first game will be available for the hosts, the of the pre-season, so I’m looking Seattle Sounders having just won forward to it.” top-scorer honors in the Gold Keane, a three-time MLS Cup despite the United States’ champion with the Los Angeles disappointing fourth-placed Galaxy, has received his third finish in the North American All-Star nod, but had to miss the regional tournament. 2013 and 2014 editions because Kyle Walker said he and his of injury. fellow Tottenham defenders will The Republic of Ireland have to be on their toes against Bayern Munich’s new signing Arturo Vidal poses in his new jersey during a press conference at the Allianz Arena in Munich yesterday. great is especially eager to get the talent-laden MLS side. his chance against the club he “We’ll have to be on our game,” starred for in two spells between he said. “It will be a good test 2002 and 2011. for us and it’s one I’m definitely “The All Star game is a big looking forward to.” occasion for the league and Whatever the outcome, something you see over here in Tottenham coach Mauricio Bayern confirm Vidal basketball, baseball and NFL,” Pochettino said there would be Keane told tottenhamhotspur. no repeat of the post-game inci- com. “Every player in the MLS vility shown last year by Bayern wants to be involved in this Munich manager Pep Guardiola game. in refusing to shake hands with “This is a special one for me his counterpart Caleb Porter switch from Juventus because it’s against Tottenham, after the All-Stars’ 2-1 triumph. my club, the club where I felt I Guardiola was displeased with made my name and had a big the physicality of the contest, impact ... this is a big deal for particularly a rough tackle on Chilean to replace Schweinsteiger in Munich midfield me.” Bastian Schweinsteiger. Spanish forward David Villa “We expect a very tough BERLIN: Bayern Munich Bayer Leverkusen. “The chance With his collection of tattoos also overshadowed by an arrest of New York City FC, Brazilian game,” Pochettino said. “But I confirmed yesterday they to do that, I see most likely at FC and eye-catching hairstyle, the for drink driving after he crashed Kaka of Orlando and former would never not shake hands have signed Chile midfielder Bayern. I want to support the Chilean will bring some glamour his Ferrari as he was returning Liverpool star Steven Gerrard with the opposing coach.” AFP Arturo Vidal from Juventus on team and win trophies. to the Bavarian giants. to the capital Santiago after an a four-year deal with Bastian “For me, this is a dream come “He is a guy who likes to win evening at a casino. His wife, Schweinsteiger’s replacement true.” and has an excellent mentality,” who was with him in the car, was reportedly costing 35m euros Vidal is Bayern’s second major said Bayern’s sporting director injured. ($38.6m, £24.8m). signing of the close season after Matthias Sammer, who added He is unlikely to play in The 28-year-old Vidal has been Brazil winger or striker Douglas Vidal has the option of an extra Saturday’s German Super Cup brought in by the German cham- Costa was signed from Shakhtar year after his contact expires in final at Wolfsburg, but Vidal says pions to bolster their options in Donetsk earlier this month. 2019. he wants to play if Bayern coach the middle after Germany captain German daily Bild say Vidal will “He’ll be good for us with his Pep Guardiola gives him the nod: Schweinsteiger joined Manchester earn 10 million euros per season strength in one-on-ones, his eye “if the trainer wants me to, I’m United earlier this month. at Bayern. for goal and his flexibility.” ready to play”. “I wanted to make another “I am delighted to be back in Vidal converted a spot-kick in German champions Bayern will big step in my career, I want to the Bundesliga and of course, I Chile’s 4-1 penalty shoot-out win start the new Bundesliga season develop myself further as a player hope to win it,” added the player over Argentina earlier this month at home to Hamburg on Friday, and win titles like the Champions who helped Juventus reach last that saw them win the Copa August 14 and will be bidding to League,” said Vidal in Spanish, season’s Champions League final America and he was also named make history by becoming the despite having already spent after claiming the Italian league in the team of the tournament. first team to win four consecu- four seasons in Germany with and cup double. However, his tournament was tive Bundesliga titles. AFP Cavani hit with Mexico fire coach Herrera for two-match allegedly punching reporter Uruguay ban MONTEVIDEO: Uruguayan MEXICO CITY: Mexico striker Edinson Cavani (pic- coach Miguel Herrera was tured) has been suspended for fired yesterday, a day after he two matches over his flare-up allegedly punched a reporter with Chilean defender Gonzalo at the Philadelphia airport Jara at the Copa America, who had criticised his team’s the South American Football Copa America and Gold Cup Confederation announced. performance. The ban means he will miss his Kyle Walker of Tottenham Hotspurs signs autographs after a training at Christian Martinoli, a sports country’s first World Cup qualify- the Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, yesterday. journalist for Mexico’s TV Azteca, ing tie away to Bolivia in October. said on Monday that Herrera Cavani, who plays for French threatened him and hit him in champions Paris Saint-Germain, the neck as the Mexican team was sent off Barcelona, Bilbao fined over were heading home after win- midway through ning the CONCACAF Gold Cup the second half tournament. of Uruguay’s whistling at Spain’s king “Of what Miguel and I dis- stormy 1-0 cussed, the only thing I can say is Copa America MADRID: Spanish authorities on Monday moved to fine FC that it was very tough for Miguel,” quarter-final Barcelona 66,000 euros ($67,000) and Athletic Bilbao 18,000 euros Decio de Maria, President of the The President of the Mexican Football Federation, Decio de Maria defeat for a sec- over last season’s Cup final where fans of the Catalan and Basque Mexican Football Federation Serrano, announces the dismissal of Mexico’s national football team ond yellow card sides whistled Spain’s King Felipe VI. (FMF), told a news confer- coach Miguel Herrera during a press conference in Mexico City yesterday. after he flicked The state Higher Sports Council proposed the sanctions for “behav- ence as he announced Herrera’s a hand into iour whose aim was to transform the sporting event into a stage for departure. to the Netherlands in the last 16 The arch-rivals will meet on Jara’s face. political demands through intolerant acts”. “We have taken the decision after leading for nearly all of the October 9 at the Rose Bowl in But Cavani These included “whistling the national anthem and His Majesty the to relieve national coach Miguel second half. Pasadena to see whether the and the Uruguayan camp claimed King”, patron of the cup, the council said in a statement. Herrera of his duties. Our values Nicknamed “El Piojo”, Herrera’s 2013 or 2015 Gold Cup winner he had been the victim of provo- It also proposed a 123,000-euro fine for the Royal Spanish Football and principles must be main- animated, energetic persona made represents the North American cation which should have been Federation as organiser of the Copa del Rey final at Barcelona’s Nou tained regardless of results,” De him a star of the tournament, region at the eight-team World spotted by the match officials. Camp ground on May 30, which Barca won 3-1. Maria said. but his team performed poorly Cup warm-up event in Russia. Video footage appeared to show Fans of both sides drowned out the Spanish national anthem with The FMF President did not in the Copa America, the South “It’s clear we’re looking toward Jara attempting to goad the star boos and whistles at the start of the match as Felipe stood solemn-faced. name a successor and said: American championship in Chile September and those two friendly by inserting a finger into his The controversy came at a time of high political sensitivities, with “Sacking Herrera was a tough in June, failing to win a game. games to build things in order to backside. Catalan leaders campaigning for independence from Spain ahead of a decision.” Martinoli had strongly criti- be prepared for the play-off in Jara was initially suspended for key regional election expected in September. “However, violence has no place cized Herrera during the team’s October,” Klinsmann said. three matches, which was later The sports council’s Antiviolence Commission set various admin- in society, in the family and even group stage exit from the Copa The Americans would have reduced to a two-game ban on istrative fines for the whistling and for alleged security shortcomings less so in our sport. I believe that America. clinched the spot in Russia in appeal. including the burning of flares. Miguel perfectly understands the TV Azteca’s parent company, 2017 has they repeated as Gold But he still missed Chile’s Those targeted by the fines can appeal against them to the state reason for this decision...all this Grupo Salinas, had called on the Cup champions. “We didn’t use semi-final against Peru and the authorities, who will hear their claims before making a final ruling, a has made him suffer a lot.” FMF to launch an immediate that opportunity to finish things final victory 4-1 on penalties over council spokesman said. Herrera took charge of a strug- investigation into the incident. off in this tournament so we Argentina. The fine against Barcelona consisted of 6,000 euros for failing to take gling Mexican team in 2013 and Meanwhile, Mexico will face have to finish it off in October. Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez sufficient action beforehand against groups that called the protests, won praise for his management the United States in an October If there’s a rise in expectations, has been handed a three-match and 60,000 for security breaches. at the 2014 World Cup, when his play-off for a 2017 Confederations that’s totally cool,” Klinsmann touchline ban over the incident FC Barcelona called the council’s decision “unjust and unacceptable” side suffered an injury time loss Cup berth. said. AGENCIES for insulting the referee. AFP and said it would challenge both parts of the fine. AFP Wednesday 29 July 2015 13 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6506 Sport Price: QR2

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ZURICH: Michel Platini, South Korea’s Chung Mong- bookmakers’ favourite to suc- rivals to take however, given that the head of European soccer’s joon, a former FIFA vice-pres- ceed Blatter and last week his Qatar is part of the Asian Football governing body UEFA, is to ident, is expected to announce supporters indicated that he has Confederation. announce in the next few days his candidacy next month, picked up widespread support Three outsiders have also said that he will stand for the presi- while Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al from leaders of the continental they intend to run — Liberian dency of FIFA, a source close to Hussein, beaten by Blatter in confederations. FA chairman Musa Bility, former the former France international May’s presidential vote, is also A former protege of Blatter’s, Brazil international Zico and ex- said yesterday. considering running in next Platini turned into one of his France winger David Ginola. The 60-year-old Platini, a February’s election. biggest critics and he has said Ginola had intended to stand in former France and Juventus mid- The vote will be held at a spe- FIFA’s corruption scandal “dis- May’s vote but was unable to get fielder, has been UEFA president cial ‘elective congress’ in Zurich gusted” him and gave him “stom- the five nominations from football since 2007 and had been widely on February 26. ach trouble”. federations needed to be a candi- expected to throw his hat into the Blatter, who has been president But the Frenchman’s own crit- date — a problem Zico has con- ring to succeed Sepp Blatter, who since 1998, was re-elected for a ics will focus on his support for ceded he will probably encounter. announced his plan to stand down fifth term in May, but amidst the the 2022 World Cup to be held The deadline for candidates to two months ago. fall-out from the arrest of nine in Qatar. formally present their nomina- Platini’s impending announce- soccer officials, including some Platini, part of the FIFA execu- tions, with support, is October 26 ment, expected before the end of senior FIFA and ex-FIFA officials, tive committee since 2002, voted and they will also have to undergo the week, is likely to prompt other he said he was “laying down” his for Qatar. integrity checks, led by Domenico contenders to confirm their plans mandate. That may be a difficult line of Scala, head of the ad-hoc election UEFA President Michel Platini to stand. Platini has long been the attack for his two possible Asian committee. REUTERS

Unlucky Qatar William Buick on Brady’s four-game Blue Wave fall to Belarus (right) wins the 3:45 after tough fight Summer suspension upheld DOHA: In what could eas- Stakes ily be dubbed as the match of during the IHF Men’s Junior World the Qatar Championship, Qatar fell by Roger Goodell Goodwood against Belarus 35-36 in extra- Festival time following a thrilling Eight WASHINGTON: NFL US sports enterprise, has been at the Finals battle Championship in Commissioner Roger Goodell harshly criticized for the light Goodwood Uberlandia Sabiazihno, Brazil, yesterday upheld the four- sanctions handed to players who Racecourse yesterday. game suspension handed to have been involved in incidents in It was Hleb Harbuz’s goal in the quarterback Tom Brady for of domestic violence. A recent Hampshire last moments of final half of extra his role in a scheme to deflate agreement with retired players yesterday. time that shattered Qatar’s hopes the footballs in the conference over concussions could end up of reaching the quarter-finals. championship game that put costing the NFL $1bn. It was a sea saw battle from the the New England Patriots in The under-inflated footballs world go with the Gulf handball the 2015 Super Bowl. were used by the Patriots in giants taking a 16-15 edge in the Goodell said he affirmed the the AFC title game in January, first half. The nail-biting battle suspension in the scandal known when New England handily beat Qatar Goodwood Festival continued in the second half that as “Deflategate,” in part because the Indianapolis Colts 45-7. The was locked at 31-31, extending the of fresh revelations made during game was played in raw condi- clash to extra time before Harbuz Brady’s 10-hour appeal on June tions that tend to make footballs steered his side to the last-8 stage 23 at NFL headquarters in New more difficult to grip. opens in Hampshire with the decisive goal. Yo rk . Wells said text messages Qatar finished third in Pool B The commissioner said the between the two employees HAMPSHIRE: H E Sheikh final two furlongs and the Colt sponsorship deal ever done for following their 22-37 loss to Serbia, league discovered that the implicated Brady in the plan, Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani responded generously to take the the benefit of British racing. earlier in the championship. quarterback, a four-time Super and while the quarterback said attended the opening of the prize from Dutch Connection, The partnership results in over Meanwhile, Spain booked Bowl champion, had destroyed he was not involved in the plot, Qatar Goodwood Festival at who came in second. £2m being invested into prize the first quarter-finals spot in his cellphone weeks earlier even he refused to relinquish his the Goodwood Racecourse in This was Toormore’s maiden money for eight key races dur- Uberlandia with a win over the though he knew investigators phone to investigators, citing Hampshire here yesterday. run for Godolphin Blue. ing the Qatar Goodwood Festival Russian Federation. had requested access to text privacy concerns. Goodell on The five-day festival took off A pair of other Godolphin 2015 as well as a commitment to In other Eighth Finals match, messages stored on the device. Tuesday said that Brady had in with the Qatar Lennox Stakes, runners, Night Of Thunder and increase this year-on-year. Egypt booked their place in the “Mr. Brady’s failure to coop- fact destroyed the phone. the £300,000 Group II feature Belardo, take part in today’s Total prize money on offer for quarter-finals, thanks to a slightly erate and his destruction of The four-game suspension event of the opening day. Group I Qatar Sussex Stakes the week now totals £4.5m, with flattering scoreline of 39:36, but potentially relevant evidence are handed to Brady for the upcom- Godolphin’s Richard Hannon- worth £1m, making it one of the Qatar once again demonstrat- the result was fair in the end. significant because of the abil- ing season was meted out by the trained Toormore, ably ridden by most valuable mile races in the ing their passion and support for Sweden also advanced to the ity to conduct an investigation NFL’s vice president of football new jockey James Doyle, won the world. British racing. This makes the quarter-finals after overcoming — whether by NFL staff or by operations, Troy Vincent, and seven-furlong race. Qatar signed a 10-year partner- Qatar Goodwood Festival one of Portugal 33-30. The other Eighth independent parties retained by approved by Goodell. Doyle pushed Toormore to ship with Goodwood Racecourse, the most significant and valuable Finals were scheduled later on the the NFL — ultimately depends Goodell himself decided to stretch his rivals inside the which is the single biggest meetings in the world. QNA day. THE PENINSULA on cooperation,” Goodell said in hear the appeal, a move that has Tuesday’s ruling. been derided by the NFL Players Brady, 37, one of the National Association but within his rights Doha Goals Forum draws to a close Football League’s best known as defined by the collective bar- and highest paid players, could gaining agreement. take the case to federal court Goodell also fined the Patriots in a bid to overturn to the sus- $1m for the team’s role in the pension, as his attorneys have “Deflategate” scandal, and previously indicated he would. ordered it to surrender two draft Brady and a representative of choices, including the team’s cov- the Patriots could not immedi- eted No. 1 pick in 2016. ately be reached for comment. Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Goodell initially imposed the one of Goodell’s biggest support- penalty on Brady in May after ers, denied the team had any role Ted Wells, an investigator hired in the scandal but decided not by the league, delivered a 243- to appeal the penalty, saying the page report that said the quar- league must turn the chapter on terback was probably complicit the ordeal. in a plan to deflate the footballs After beating the Colts in the below league standards. AFC championship, the Patriots Brady has denied any knowl- edged the Seattle Seahawks edge of a plan to deflate the foot- 28-24 in the Super Bowl. balls, a scheme carried out by Scandal is not new to the two Patriots employees, accord- Patriots, having been found in ing to Wells. 2007 of illegally taping opposing The flap, which called into coaches. question the integrity of the The league fined the Patriots team destined to the Super Bowl, $250,000, head coach Bill is the latest in a series of scan- Belichick $500,000, and docked dals that have roiled the NFL the team a first-round selec- Delegates of Doha Goals Forum are honoured at the gala dinner hosted at Universal Studios Hollywood on Sunday night. The 2015 edition of the event over the past year. tion in the 2008 NFL Draft. concluded in Los Angeles on Monday. The league, the most lucrative REUTERS