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SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 • 23 Rajab 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6782 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

El Jaish lift Qatar Cup Oil edges back New winter from 2016 highs market to open AFP NEW YORK: Oil prices pulled back a tick yesterday from 2016 peaks, capping a fourth straight in Al Shamal week of gains as the market pushed higher supported in part by a weaker dollar. Traders seemed bent on look- we are decided to open one in Al ing past the global supply glut and Shamal.” media reports of higher Opec pro- The new market will add “This year we have extended the duction in favour of optimism that to the current markets season to seven months, instead of eventually the market will find a selling agricultural six, and the result was excellent balance that would stabilize prices, which means it has succeeded, and which have slid from mid-2014 products which are all the vegetable quantities were peaks above $100 a barrel. spread in three locations locally produced,” added Al Khulaifi. US benchmark West Texas across the country “The aim of the early opening, Intermediate (WTI) slipped 11 cents namely Al Mazroua, which was November 2015 running till to $45.92 a barrel on the New York now was to encourage local farmers Mercantile Exchange. In London, Al Khor and Dakhira to produce early, and we succeeded. Brent North Sea crude for delivery and Al Wakra. The markets also provides an oppor- in June, the European benchmark, tunity for farmers to sell their products President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani presenting the lost only one cent at $48.13 a bar- directly to the customers without Qatar Cup trophy to El Jaish captain Abdulrahman Abakar Mohammad at Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. rel. Over the course of the week, intervention from middlemen.” El Jaish defeated defending champions Lekhwiya 2-1 in the final to claim the title. WTI rose 5.0 percent and Brent 6.7 By Sidi Mohamed The winter vegetable farm- Pic: Baher A/The Peninsula → See also page 23 percent, pushing the month’s gains The Peninsula ers’ markets 2015/2016 season saw to around 20 percent for both. growth in sales. The Al Mazroua yard sold 1,779.3 tonnes of vegeta- bles, while Al Khor and Dakhira yard DOHA: The Agricultural Affairs sold 1156.7 tonnes, and Al Wakra Department at The Ministry of Munic- yard achieved sale of 1,140.1 tonnes. Kahramaa launches water security initiative ipality and Environment is gearing In the previous season, Al Maz- up to open a new winter market in Al roua yard sold only 1421 tonnes Shamal from next season, an official of vegetables while Al Khor and from the Ministry said. Dakhira yard sold 1,078.1 tonnes, and Mohammed Osman Water consumption in Qatar rose management practices continue means every person has enough The new market will add to the Al Wakra yard sold 1,118.5 tonnes of The Peninsula to 535 million cubic metres in 2015 without change, we will face serious safe, affordable water to lead a current markets selling agricultural vegetables, Al Khulaifi said. from 195 million cubic metres in and structural threats to our eco- clean, healthy and productive life. products which are spread in three As in this season, the next win- 2005. “Qatar is known for its scar- nomic growth, human well-being, Kahramaa has developed its water locations across the country namely ter vegetable season (2016/2017) is city of renewable water resources and and national security,” he added. system where there is an improved Al Mazroua, Al Khor and Dakhira expected to start in November or DOHA: With water demand in Qatar during the last decade pressure on Al Kuwari said that to mitigate the quality of life for all, as increasing and Al Wakra. may be earlier. The markets are open growing by an annual average of 10.6 water resources has increased sig- above impacts Kahramaa is improv- water security has become a devel- Yusuf Khalid Al Khulaifi, during Thursdays, Fridays and Sat- percent over the past 11 years and nificantly, due to Natural climatic ing the efficiency of use of water opment imperative,” said Al Kuwari, Director of Agricultural Affairs urdays from 7am to 5pm. They offer a expected to reach about 902 mil- conditions, population increase, resources to support high standards Kahramaa provides very high Department at the Ministry of wide variety of vegetables and poul- lion cubic metres in 2025, the Qatar and intended level of agricultural of living for current and future gen- quality and reliable water supply Municipality and Environment told try products from Qatari farms at General Electricity and Water Cor- and industrial development,” said erations by promoting competition, with 100 percent open access to water The Peninsula: “There is a coordi- attractive prices. Some 77 local poration (Kahramaa) has launched Al Kuwari, addressing the Water trade and investment, new regulation supply and 99.8 percent coverage by nation with some municipalities to farms participated this time includ- major initiatives to achieve water Security Forum at Qatar University and strengthening demand manage- Kahramaa water networks. open new yards. There are plans to ing 33 in Al Mazroua, 22 in Al Khor security in the country, says its pres- recently. ment for water resources. open two markets and as of now and Al Dakhira and 22 in Al Wakra. ident Eng Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari “If business-as-usual water “Water security system in Qatar → Continued on page 2

US and Russia working to revive Syria truce 10,000 Filipino expats

Reuters cast their votes in Qatar

By Raynald C Rivera DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON: The United The Peninsula States said yesterday it was in discussions with Russia about trying to renew the ces- sation of hostilities in Syria following the DOHA: The Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) deadly bombing this week of a hospital in for the Philippine national elections achieved Aleppo. yet another milestone yesterday crossing the “Our hope is by refreshing this agree- 10,000-mark, ten days to the final day of ment ... we can build momentum again overseas voting. toward a broadly observed cessation of “This morning we reached 10,000 voter hostilities,” White House spokesman Josh turnout. We will try our best to hopefully Earnest told a briefing. reach more than 15,000 by the end of the Efforts to push for an immediate halt elections,” Consul Gonaranao B Musor, Deputy to fighting came amid a surge in fighting Head of Mission, told The Peninsula yesterday. between Syrian government forces, backed Forty-eight-year-old Zenaida Ramos Canoy by Moscow, and opposition groups sup- became the 10,000th voter to cast vote during ported by a US-led coalition. this year’s OAV in Qatar. Yesterday witnessed A senior State Department official said 940 voters casting their votes, bringing the total the United States was seeking to halt fight- A Syrian family runs for cover amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following voter turnout to 10,657 which is 23.78% of the ing in Latakia and eastern Ghouta near an air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Al Qatarji in the northern Syrian total number of registered Filipino voters in Damascus as a test case to trying to revive city of Aleppo, yesterday. Qatar, a far cry from the total voter turnout in the cessation of hostilities throughout the the last elections which was 2,800. country, including in Aleppo. “We are proud that we were able to exceed Consul Gonaranao B Musor (left) with “This is all something of a test, obvi- hopefully in the end it will be open-ended,” and eastern Ghouta. The official said the the 2013 senatorial election with very large Zenaida Ramos Canoy, the 10,000th voter. ously, that we want to work, and we are the official told a conference call, referring United States was also trying to stop the margin, and now there is a possibility that working hard to make sure that it works, so to the planned halt to fighting in Latakia fighting elsewhere in the country, partic- we will reach the 15,000 mark,” said Consul turnout of 35%. “We predict that there will ularly in Aleppo, which has been the scene Musor. The success this year’s OAV is witness- be surge in the number in the last days of the of the worst recent violence. ing this early, he believes, was “due to a very election,” he said. Arab League condemns hospital bombing “We are working on all of the areas, lively campaign, interesting candidates, the The embassy is open every day to receive it’s not just about Latakia and eastern social media and the fact that Overseas Fili- voters, from 8am to 5pm from Sunday to CAIRO: The Arab League condemned yesterday the bombing that targeted Al Quds Ghouta, but also about Aleppo and other pinos’ vote could be a swing vote.” Thursday and from 9am to 5pm on Friday hospital in Syrian city Aleppo and led to the murder and injury of dozens of people. areas where we see problems or poten- With over 1.8 million Overseas Filipino and Saturday (no lunch break). On May 9-the Arab League Secretary-General Dr Nabil el Araby said in a statement that the peo- tial problems that we’re trying to get this voters across the world, it is believed that final day of OAV- voters can cast votes from ple responsible for the crime must be punished. He stressed on the need for more effort cessation of hostilities back on track,” the this would influence the results of this year’s 7am to 12 noon. The embassy will be open to sustain a ceasefire and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into areas suffering official added. US Secretary of State John elections. Absentee voting in Qatar is doing tomorrow, Labour Day which is a holiday in from armed struggle. Al Araby renewed the Arab League’s call for pursuing a politi- Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei very good along with Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Philippines to receive voters. It will be cal resolution to the crisis, saying it was the only option to stop the destruction of Syria Lavrov, discussed ways to strengthen the Jeddah, according to Consul Musor. He was closed for consular services on May 8, 9 and and carry out a political transition in light of the Geneva communique. ceasefire during a phone conversation on optimistic the Embassy will achieve its target 10 to accommodate overseas voting. Friday, US and Russian officials said. 02 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 HOME Turkish PM visits QU, highlights historical ties with Qatar

historical context of the Qatari-Turk- ish relations, noting the long-standing Prime Minister Ahmet relationship of goodwill and broth- Davutoglu gave a erhood that Qatar and Turkey share. He also observed the key areas of lecture on “Turkey- this model relationship between the Qatar Cooperation: two countries — politic and security Regional Challenges, dimensions, economic cooperation, humanitarian ethics, and mentality. He Broader Horizons”. also stressed the importance of adopt- ing a new approach in the education system to address the multidimensional challenges in the region, and to shape a The Peninsula new generation which voices the val- ues of Islam such as tolerance, fairness and mutual respect. Dr Davutoğlu also spoke about the DOHA: Qatar University (QU) yes- issues ongoing in the region touching on terday hosted a visit by the Prime Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu Yemen, and the status of refugees flee- during which he gave a lecture on ing to Turkey. Students fielded questions “Turkey-Qatar Cooperation: Regional on issues related to Syrian refugees in Challenges, Broader Horizons”. Turkey, terrorist movements in the Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu (left) and Qatar University President Dr Hassan Rashid Al Derham speak during the event on Thursday. The Prime Minister was welcomed region, among others. by QU President Dr Hassan Rashid Al On the sideline of his visit, an Derham, VPs, deans, heads of depart- agreement was signed between QU on establishing research projects and Turkey, which is strengthened by experience in all fields, and take recognise the Turkish culture, through ment, faculty and over 100 students. president Dr Hassan Rashid Al Der- studies, and joint curricular and extra- leaders of both countries and which it as a model at the regional and learning the language, and also from Minister of Education and Higher Edu- ham and Istanbul University (IU) rector curricular activities. reflects the thinking of our respective international level. Today’s lecture the efforts of the Anatolian Club at cation H E Dr Mohammed bin Abdul Prof Dr Mahmut AK to establish collab- In his welcome remarks, Dr Al- peoples who are eager for more con- “Turkey-Qatar Cooperation: Regional QU, which reflects the pulse of Tur- Wahed Ali Al Hammadi, diplomatic oration in education and research. The Derham spoke of the eagerness with structive and strategic cooperation Challenges, Broader Horizons” will key’s young people. “In turn, we are dignitaries, heads of diplomatic mis- terms of the agreement include collab- which the Prime Minister’s visit was in economic and political fields. The discuss the key issues and ideas on pleased at the deepening interest of sions and media representatives were oration on doctoral student exchange awaited by QU members, coming a relationship between both countries is the relationship between the two Turkish students to learn the Arabic present. and co-supervised doctoral theses, few months after that of Turkish Pres- an expansion of the history they share countries and their communities, language which is the language of Prime Minister Davutoğlu the exchange of students, researchers ident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who also over the years, and is currently at its and will undoubtedly contribute to Islam, and also to acquaint themselves expressed his pleasure in being in his and faculty as well as academic pub- gave a lecture. “You are well aware peak. strengthening relations. with Qatari customs and traditions, second home, Qatar University and lications and scholarly documents. of the breadth of the relationship We look in admiration and appre- Dr Al Derham said that it was which resemble Turkish values in Qatar. He went on to highlight the Both institutions will also cooperate of brotherhood between Qatar and ciation of the success of the Turkish important that students in Qatar many respects”, he said.

Philippine Halal Tourism Project Harvest season 97 Indians die in four months: eyes more Qatari travellers Embassy

By Raynald C Rivera City, and Siargao Island. The Philippines only placed 47th The Peninsula The Peninsula Gonaranao B Musor, Deputy among 100 countries ranked in the Head of Mission and Head of eco- 2015 Global Muslim Travel Index nomic and political section, said the (GMTI) produced by Crescent Rating. project was launched to further tap “The DOT recognizes Qatar and DOHA: Indian embassy registered DOHA: The Philippines is poised to the Muslim tourism market and is the rest of the GCC and Middle East as deaths of 97 Indians in Qatar in welcome more Qatari tourists and an important part a major initia- a potential market for tourism,” Con- April, the mission said on Thurs- other travellers from the Middle East tive to develop the country’s halal sul Musor told The Peninsula. day. The number of total deaths with more tourism-related establish- industry. Based on latest figures, tourist of Indians registered last year was ments at major destinations offering Apart from the DOT, the NCM F arrivals from Qatar, though small 279. The same number of deaths halal food as part of the recently which was mandated to develop the in number, witnessed the biggest were registered during 2014 as launched Philippine Halal Tourism industry is collaborating with other growth among Middle Eastern coun- well. Project. concerned agencies such as the tries, with 19.02% increase in January The details were released fol- Initially, a total of 43 hotels, Department of Agriculture and the and February this year compared to lowing the monthly open house resorts, restaurants and other tour- Department of Trade in Industry on the same period last year. held at the embassy premises. ism –related establishments have other areas such as halal banking, The Philippine Embassy in Doha Ambassador Sanjiv Arora, been halal-certified under the project according to Consul Musor. and other Philippine posts in the GCC Deputy Chief of Mission R K Singh undertaken by the Philippines’ Through the initiative, the Philip- are collaborating to organize famil- and other officials met Indians Department of Tourism (DOT) and pines aims to partake in the vibrant iarization trips for travel agencies attending the event, discussed the National Commission on Muslim global halal market which is worth and journalists to further promote their problems and promised Filipinos (NCMF). $200bn. the country’s tourism, according to to follow up on their cases with The recently released list includes Recent data released by Crescent Musor. Qatari authorities. Arvind Patil, establishments located in a number Rating-a Singapore-based authority “Cebu Pacific and Philippine Air- President, Indian Community of key tourist destinations including on Muslim travel-project 117 million lines have already expressed interest Benevolent Forum (ICBF), was Manila, Cebu, Boracay, Davao, Bohol, Muslim travelers to grow to 168 mil- in supporting this project. Hopefully, also present. Zamboanga City, General Santos City, lion by 2020 making the region a this will be implemented this year,” The Labour and Community Koronadal, Cotabato City, Surigao vital tourist market. he added. Welfare Section of the embassy received a total of 1,482 complaints from Indian workers since the beginning of this year. The number CMU-Q students explore internships & jobs of complaints received during 2015 Dates start to ripen as the mercury rises in the region with summer was 4,132. On the basis of requests received from Qatari authorities months fast approaching. Pic: Kammutty VP/The Peninsula for travel documents for Indian DOHA: More than 100 students of expatriates in the Search and Fol- Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar low Up Department, the embassy (CMU-Q) recently explored intern- issued 33 Emergency Certificates ships and job opportunities offered by (ECs) in April. Also the embassy 40 local and international organiza- Conference to focus on diabetes, obesity also issued19 air tickets to Indian tions representing various industries. nationals distress for their return The ‘Network to Get Work’ to India. gathering hosted by CMU-Q and sup- DOHA: Prevalent diseases such as diabetes and obesity related illnesses Officials at the Indian embassy ported by Nestlé made technical and will be discussed today at the first Annual Qatar Metabolic Institute Con- visited the central prison and the business line managers available so ference at the Sheraton Hotel. Search and Follow Up Department students could discuss in detail their The conference is a Category 1 Accredited Group Learning Activity as to enquire about the welfare of specific qualifications. defined by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners - Accreditation Indians there. Currently there are CMU-Q’s Career Development Department and is approved for a maximum of 5 hours. held in Doha. 129 Indians in the Central Prison Office (CDO) provides career-related International speakers from the US and the U.K. as well as locally based and 103 Indians in the Search and support for students and alumni experts will address upwards of 500 medical professionals on the collab- Follow Up Department. through career coaching sessions, orative efforts required to combat and prevent the proliferation of these ICBF continues to help Indian workshops and presentations, and employment landscape in Qatar and also an excellent opportunity for metabolic diseases. workers through various welfare events. what sort of career path they would organizations to meet our students The conference, co-hosted by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and measures, including provision of “Networking events allow stu- like to pursue,” said Ilker Baybars, and see how talented and accom- the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) will target strategies and air tickets, financial assistance and dents to get a better sense of the dean and CEO of CMU-Q. “This was plished they are.” approaches towards prevention and disease management. medical help. Kahramaa launches five major programmes to maintain water security in Qatar

→ Continued from page 1 five major initiatives: Construction of its Mega at the entrances of desalination plants on the pioneering awards celebrate the achievements a PhD from the University of Waterloo, with a Reservoirs project to add the needed strategic sea sides. of the five recently-graduated Masters and focus on natural gas processes; Yousef Al-Jaber “While efficiency on the demand side is storage capacities for normal and emergency “Desalination plants have evolved rap- PhD students – four of whom are Qataris – – Recently obtained an Executive Masters in important in order to reduce water use, more conditions; Recharging of the undergrounds idly during the last two decades to extract along with their dissertation advisers. Energy and Resources from Hamad Bin Khal- efficiency can be achieved by improving public aquifer fields (Northern and Southern Fields); fresh water from the sea. Currently, approx- The winners are: Dhabia M. Al-Mohannadi ifa University in Partnership with Georgetown supply networks and Kahramaa has reduced Starting the three-dimensional water moni- imately 150 countries rely on desalination to - Pursuing a PhD at Texas A&M University, University, Texas A&M University and HEC Paris. its network leaks (Real Losses) to below 5 per- toring alert system using remotely operated meet their fresh water requirements. Therefore with a focus on sustainable design and proc- “The brightest minds in Qatar will spear- cent and total Non-Revenue Water Losses to underwater vehicles (ROVs) on reservoir, to developing efficient technologies and scalable ess integration; Jassim Al Mejali – Recently head the country’s mission to become a about 19 percent with a target of 10 percent maintain the Water Quality in Existing and infrastructure to meet potable water demands graduated with a first class honours Masters in knowledge economy by 2030. These awards for its Non-Revenue Water Losses by 2018,” New Mega Reservoirs; Equipping the exist- is therefore among the main priorities of Qatar Material Science and Technology from Qatar are a crucial step in recognizing that Qatar is said Al Kuwari. ing underground water reservoirs with solar and GCC governments,” said Al Kawari. University; Tejvir Singh – Pursuing a PhD in on the right path and will succeed,” said Dr For enforcing and maintaining water power to rum its pumps in emergency cases; The winners of the ORYX GTL Student Sustainable Energy at Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- Hassan Rashid Al Derham, President of Qatar security in Qatar, Kahramaa has launched Installation of sensors for radiation monitoring Awards 2016 were honoured at the forum. The versity; Saad Ali Al-Sobhi – Recently obtained University. MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 03

Kuwait deports 14,400 Iran moderates expats this year: Report

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has stepped up deportations of expatriate workers this year, a newspaper in the eye more gains Gulf emirate reported yesterday, with most expelled for outstaying their residency permits but others sent home for traffic offences. In the first four months of the year, authorities deported 14,400 expats, com- pared with 26,600 in the whole of 2015, Al Anba in run-off polls newspaper reported. Expatriates make up some 70 percent of Kuwait’s 4.3 million population, greatly outnumbering its 1.3 elect the next Supreme Leader, but million citizens. In April 2013, then labour minister they failed to win a majority of the Thekra Al Rashidi announced plans to deport around Rowhani’s moderate 290-member assembly. 100,000 expatriates each year for the next decade to and centrist allies made Interior Minister Abdolreza reduce the number of foreigners living in the emir- big gains in elections Rahmani Fazli, speaking on Ira- ate by one million. The government made a string of nian state television, said people traffic offences punishable by deportation, includ- on February 26 for would vote on 68 undecided seats ing skipping red lights and driving without a licence. Yemeni security forces inspect unexploded ordnance confiscated from Al Qaeda militants parliament and a clerical in constituencies where candidates body that will elect the failed to get 25 percent of votes cast in the Lahj province, east of the southern port city of Aden, yesterday. next Supreme Leader. in the first round. “We will start counting the Policeman injured in Saudi votes immediately after the voting Thousands march in Yemen to call ends. The results are expected to be roadside bomb attack announced on Saturday,” he said. Reuters The current parliament is domi- for truce; police officer shot dead DUBAI: A roadside bomb attack on a police patrol nated by hardline allies of Supreme car in Al Ahsa in east Saudi Arabia wounded a police- Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Agenceis known as Houthis, who resi- a colonel in Yemen’s second man on Thursday evening, Saudi state news agency moderates won all 30 seats repre- dents and aid groups say have city Aden yesterday, a day SPA reported yesterday. The attack was in a parking ANKARA: Iranians voted in a senting Tehran in the first round of been indiscriminately shelling after the temporary capital’s lot and in caused damage to five cars, SPA reported, second round of parliamentary elections. Gains by Rowhani’s allies SANA’A: Thousands of Yem- Taiz and blocking humanitar- police chief escaped a suicide citing a statement by an interior ministry spokesman. elections yesterday, with allies of outside Tehran were more limited enis are taking to the streets ian aid deliveries. bombing. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but reformist President Hassan Rou- in the first round. to call for an end to the fight- In the city of Zinjibar, res- The unidentified gunmen the attack resembled previous ones by Islamic State on hani seeking to wrest more seats Reformist former President ing in the country’s conflict. idents say hundreds marched on a motorbike opened fire at security forces or Shias, who the jihadist group consid- from hardliners. Mohammad Khatami last Sunday In the city of Taiz, resi- to demand the withdrawal of the traffic police chief, Colonel ers to be heretics. The oil-producing Eastern Province Rowhani’s moderate and cen- called for a high turnout in the sec- dents say they marched by Al Qaeda forces. All residents Marwan Abdulalim, as he was is home to Saudi Arabia’s Shia community. trist allies made big gains in ond round of elections to “repeat the thousands after Friday spoke on condition of ano- in his car going to the weekly elections on February 26 for par- the epic”, a reference to moderates’ prayers. The city has been nymity for fear of reprisals. Friday prayers in central Aden, liament and a clerical body that will big gains in February. besieged for months by rebels, Meanwhile, gunmen killed a security official said. Iran complains to UN about US ruling on assets

UNITED NATIONS: Iran told the United Nations that Aleppo lost one of its last paediatricians in hospital bombing it reserves the right to take “counter-measures” in response to a US court decision to use Tehran’s fro- zen assets to compensate US victims of terror attacks. Washington post it was the death of Muhammad Waseem Quds hospital mostly overnight, often after of the hospital carrying the babies’ incuba- In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Maaz that seemed to draw attention spe- long day shifts at Aleppo’s Children’s Hos- tors in order to protect them,” the hospital Iran said the Supreme Court ruling last week was cial attention to the quickly deteriorating pital. He started working in the city in 2013, director said. “outrageous robbery disguised under a court order.” situation in the city. according to Doctors Without Borders. The attack has shed a renewed spotlight “It is in fact the United States that must pay long ALEPPO: Tributes began coming in yester- “Like so many others, Dr Maaz was “He was friendly, kind and he used to on the risks doctors all over Syria face to overdue reparations to the Iranian people for its persist- day after one of the last paediatricians in killed for saving lives. Today we remem- joke a lot with the whole staff. He was the save their patients’ lives. Doctors Without ent hostile policies,” wrote Foreign Minister Mohammad the embattled city of Aleppo was killed in ber Dr Maaz’s humanity and his bravery. loveliest doctor in our hospital,” Hatem said Borders supports approximately 150 hos- Javad Zarif. Iran “reserves the right to take appropriate airstrikes in rebel-held areas of the Syrian Please share his story so others may know of his late friend. According to Hatem, air- pitals in the war-torn country - Al Quds lawful action, including necessary and proportionate city. Air raids in the city late on Wednes- what medics in Aleppo and across Syria are strikes targeting the area near the hospital in Aleppo was one of them. Nearly half of counter-measures, to restore and protect the rights of day left dozens dead, including patients facing,” the director of the Children’s Hospi- had become more frequent recently. Syria’s hospitals have been destroyed since Iranian people against such persistent unlawful con- and staff at Al Quds hospital, which was tal in Aleppo, Dr. Hatem, said in a statement “When the bombing intensifies, the the beginning of the conflict, according to duct by the United States,” he said. supported by international aid groups. But posted on Facebook. Maaz worked in the Al medical staff run down to the ground floor the United Nations. 04 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES

N Korea tightens I have no illegal security ahead of party congress wealth as Reuters

SEOUL: North Korea has tight- alleged: Duterte ened security ahead of a ruling party congress, South Korea said yesterday, with authorities keen to Trillanes said earlier this week avoid any “mishap” at the gather- that the money in the joint bank ing at which advances in the drive Duterte authorised account, belonging to Duterte and for nuclear weapons will likely be his lawyer to go to his daughter, was not included in his hailed. annual declaration of assets and lia- Thousands of delegates the bank on Monday bilities in 2014 as required by law, are expected in the capital, to explain to his adding that the mayor should explain Pyongyang, from May 6 for the how he obtained the funds. first congress in 36 years at which accuser that he did Trillanes said he would resign as young leader Kim Jong Un is not commit any a senator if his disclosure was wrong. expected to cement his leadership Duterte’s spokesman initially and formally declare the country wrongdoing. denied there was such a bank a nuclear-armed state. A diver checking the bleached coral at Heron Island. account. The mayor, however, “Strengthening security can acknowledged its existence on Fri- be seen as a measure to prevent day but denied he had committed mishaps over the party congress,” AP any wrongdoing, although he did not Cheong Joon-hee, spokesman at explain where the money came from. South Korea’s Unification Minis- “I will admit there is money in Large parts of Great Barrier Reef try, which oversees dealings with that account,” Duterte told report- the North, told a briefing. MANILA: The Philippine presiden- ers, saying it was less than the 211 North Korea has in the past tial race front-runner said yesterday m pesos that Trillanes had alleged, taken such steps ahead of major that he has no ill-gotten wealth after based on bank records obtained by could be dead within 20 years events and has at times also shut a senator alleged that he had more the senator. down its border with China for the than $4.2m in a bank account in 2014 “If you say ill-gotten, I have none same reason, Cheong said. that he failed to declare publicly as of that,” Duterte said. “I’ve been AFP for Climate System Science said in a “These extreme temperatures N Korea announced the Work- required by law. mayor for 22 years. Did you see any study that if greenhouse gases keep will become commonplace by the ers’ Party congress in October but Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of case of corruption?” rising, similar events will be the new 2030s, putting a great strain on the only confirmed the May 6 starting southern Davao city said in a news Duterte demanded that Tril- normal, occurring every two years ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef,” date on Wednesday. conference that he authorised his lanes sign an affidavit identifying SYDNEY: Large parts of Australia’s by the mid-2030s. Given reefs need said lead author Andrew King. The Daily NK, a website run lawyer to go to the bank on Mon- the person who gave him the bank Great Barrier Reef could be dead some 15 years to completely recover “Our research showed this year’s by defectors with sources in North day to explain to his accuser that records. The senator refused, saying within 20 years as climate change from bleaching of this magnitude, the bleaching event is 175 times more Korea, said that since mid-April, he did not commit any wrongdo- he needed to protect his informant. drives mass coral bleaching, scien- centre said “we are likely to lose large likely today than in a world where free movement in and out of the ing. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said A rival candidate, former Inte- tists warned yesterday. parts of the Great Barrier Reef in just humans weren’t emitting green- capital has been stopped and he was ready to meet Duterte’s law- rior Secretary Mar Roxas, said he The World Heritage-listed reef a couple of decades”. house gases. We have loaded the security personnel have been yer at the bank. has signed a waiver authorizing anti- is currently suffering its worst Researchers found climate odds against the survival of one of summoned from the provinces to The tough-talking Duterte has graft officials to look into his bank bleaching in recorded history with change had added 1.0 degree Celsius the world’s greatest natural wonders.” step-up domestic surveillance. led voter preference polls ahead of accounts and challenged Duterte 93 percent of corals affected due to (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming Bleaching is a phenomenon that The congress will be closely the May 9 elections on a promise to to do the same. Another rival, Vice warming sea temperatures. to the ocean temperatures off the turns corals white or fades their col- watched for any new policies and rid the country of crime and corrup- President Jejomar Binay, issued the Experts from the government- Queensland coast in March, when ours as they expel tiny photosynthetic for how North Korea presents its tion within six months if he wins. same demand to the mayor. backed ARC Centre of Excellence corals were first noted turning white. algae, threatening biodiversity. pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Up in arms Pacquiao now a political heavyweight

AFP It’s my feeling right now,” he said. are anchored in his desire to help Pacquiao, who has served two terms the poor. as a congressman, is running for a He is promising to increase the seat in the 24-member Senate as part salaries of teachers, offer schol- SAN PABLO CITY: Boxing leg- of a long-term strategy to become arships to poor students and give end Manny Pacquiao smiles as he president, a not unrealistic ambi- subsidies to farmers, selling himself soaks up the sounds of adoring fans tion given his wild popularity. as a beacon of hope for millions of screaming his name, their cheers Boosted by his success against poor who have not felt the benefits of heralding a new career as one of the Bradley this month, Pacquiao is now stellar economic growth under Pres- Philippines’ most powerful politi- in third place in the Senate race and ident Benigno Aquino. cians. After winning his farewell fight a near certainty to take one of the 12 “I tell them not to be discour- against Tim Bradley, the eight-time seats available, according to the latest aged because our life was worse world champion hit the campaign survey from a major pollster. than theirs. We did not have our own trail this week in a bid to secure a There was no sign of rancour. house, our own land and sometimes seat in the Senate when Filipinos go Vendors and tricycle drivers mobbed even food,” Pacquiao said. “I experi- to the polls on May 9. Pacquiao as he got off a flatbed truck, enced what it was like to sleep on the Pacquiao’s rise from desperate eager to touch their hero and pose streets. I want to serve so they will street kid to boxing superstar has for selfies. be proud that Manny is for the poor.” made him one of the nation’s biggest A high school drop-out, Pacquiao Many in San Pablo said they were heroes and, in a nation where celeb- entered boxing to feed his family, drawn to Pacquiao’s message, as they rities often become lawmakers, he is and he says his political ambitions talked about their own hardships. effortlessly translating sporting suc- Students practice Yoga on campus in Jinan, Shandong province, China, yesterday. cess into the political ring. Surveys show Pacquiao is vir- tually guaranteed to win a Senate seat and his journey through shanty towns near Manila, where he threw caps and other souvenirs to joyous Vietnam tells Taiwan firm to dig up waste pipe fans holding life-sized posters of him, appeared more a victory lap than an effort to convince sceptical voters. Reuters environmental disasters. Environ- pollution. Public outrage was also “I’m happy campaigning right ment Minister Tran Hong Ha declared evident on social media, the only real now. So many people are shout- illegal the waste pipe operated by channel through which Vietnamese ing, cheering for me. I’m glad with Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh, a get to vent in a country tightly con- the warm welcome in every rally. I HANOI: Vietnam has told owners of a unit of Formosa Plastics, after offi- trolled by the Communist Party. really didn’t expect that,” Pacquiao Taiwanese-built steel plant to dig up a cials examined water samples around In a statement on Friday Ha said on Thursday during a break from controversial waste pipe, even after it the site. admitted the government lacked the festivities. With constant spec- found no evidence tying its discharge “We propose to have measures in experience in dealing with disasters ulation that another mega-bucks to mass fish deaths that have trig- place to monitor this system after it and had been slow to act. He called bout against American rival Floyd gered health fears and public anger. is elevated, for easy access and sur- it a “very huge and serious envi- Mayweather might lure him out of Huge numbers of dead fish have veillance,” Ha told Formosa officials ronment disaster”. The government retirement, Pacquiao insisted he was appeared at farms and on beaches and reporters. Ha’s comments sug- has banned sale and distribution of enjoying “retired life” and that he was in central Vietnam since April 6, gest the government retains doubts non-living aquatic products in four not thinking about boxing at all. impacting 200km of coastline, with despite tests that show Formosa, a affected provinces. When algae “I’m now a full-time politician. I Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao throws T-shirts and candies no known cause of what the govern- major investor leading the $10.6bn blooming at an abnormal rate pro- remember when I dedicated myself to to supporters during a campaign sortie in Calamba town, Laguna ment is calling one of its worst ever steel project, was not behind the duce toxins, may have killed the fish. be a boxer and become a champion. province, south of Manila. Taiwan summons representative of Japan as sea dispute escalates

AFP and finally seized earlier this week, $54,000 as demanded by the Japanese have no right to seize the fishing boat,” Taipei pledged to protect its fishing encroached upon by Japan was not some 150 nautical miles from Okino- authorities, Taiwan’s foreign ministry he told reporters. Okinotori-shima is boats and said it would send patrol only the rights of Taiwan’s fishermen tori-shima, an atoll administered by said in a statement. an uninhabited atoll in the Philip- vessels to the area tomorrow. “Don’t but also those of fishermen from the Japan. The seizure of the “Tung Sheng Taiwan’s Foreign Minister David pine Sea which is mostly submerged ever think we’ll be weak (on this other countries,” he said. “This should TAIPEI: Taiwan summoned Japan’s Chi 16” prompted protest from Taipei, Lin expressed the island’s displeas- at low tide. issue). Don’t test our determination,” be condemned by international soci- representative yesterday to protest its which said Japan had no authority in ure to Mikio Numata, who handles The Japanese EEZ claim has also an angry Chang told reporters. Presi- ety.” The remarks come more than seizure of one of the island’s fishing the area and demanded the release relations with Taipei in the absence been rejected by China and South dent Ma Ying-jeou also blasted Japan, three years after coastguard vessels boats in an area where Tokyo claims of the ship and 10 crew. They were of official diplomatic ties. “We’ve Korea, although neither country has accusing the country of violating the from Taiwan and Japan converged exclusive rights. later freed, but tensions remain as told them we’ve never recognised made its own claim. Taiwan’s out- United Nations Convention on the Law and duelled with water cannons in The 50-tonne Taiwanese boat was the release came only after the ship’s the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) going Premier Chang San-cheng of the Sea, to which it became a sig- a stand-off over a chain of islands in chased for hours by a Japanese vessel owner paid a “lawsuit deposit” of 6 around Okinotori-shima and they issued a stern warning to Japan as natory in the 1990s. “What has been the East China Sea. ASIA / AFRICA SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 05 Australia at odds over harsh immigration policy

emergency talks. PNG announced at the camps have drawn wide criti- this week the closure of the deten- cism inside and outside Australia and The asylum seekers tion centre it operates on behalf of have become a major headache for planned to seek Australia, which has pursued a hard- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm line immigration policy criticised by Turnbull during campaigning for July potentially billions the United Nations and international national elections. of dollars in human rights organisation. Domestic opposition to the policy The closure of the Manus Island was stirred even more with confir- compensation, as facility - which holds asylum seekers mation that a 23-year-old man, who Australian officials fleeing violence in the Middle East, set himself on fire earlier this week Afghanistan and South Asia - has in protest against his treatment prepared to travel to the two South Pacific neighbours at on Nauru, had died. Turnbull has PNG for emergency loggerheads at a politically sensitive warned against being “misty-eyed” talks. time for Australia. Each says respon- over immigration and Australian sibility for the detainees’ welfare rests Immigration Minister reiterated there with the other. The number trying to would be no policy change. Dutton reach Australia is small compared suggested one option was to transfer with Europe, but immigration has those held on PNG to the Nauru facil- Reuters long been a sensitive political issue. ity. New Zealand, repeated an earlier Under Australia’s policy, asylum offer to accept 150 of the refugees but seekers intercepted trying to reach that was again rejected. “Settlement the country by boat after paying peo- in a country like New Zealand would SYDNEY: Lawyers for 850 asylum ple smugglers are sent for processing be used by the people smugglers as seekers held in a controversial deten- to camps in Manus Island or the tiny a marketing opportunity,” Turnbull tion centre in Papua New Guinea Pacific island of Nauru, which holds said. Lawyers in PNG will go the said yesterday that they planned to another 500 people in detention. country’s Supreme Court on Monday seek potentially billions of dollars They are told they will never set- to argue for the immediate release of Protesters from the Refugee Action Coalition hold placards during a demonstration outside the offices of in compensation, as Australian offi- tle in Australia. The harsh conditions Manus Island detainees back to Aus- cials prepared to travel to PNG for and reports of systemic child abuse tralia, as well compensation. the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Sydney, yesterday. N Korea sends US citizen to prison Nguema re-elected with

AP 93.7% vote in E Guinea Five killed in gun attack in AFP firing squad, was seen as a shoo-in. PYONGYANG: North Korea yester- Commission chief Clemente Burundi capital day sentenced a US citizen of Korean Engonga admitted to anomalies in heritage to 10 years in prison after some of the results, with the number NAIROBI: Five people convicting him of espionage and sub- MALABO: Africa’s longest-serving of votes cast in some areas exceed- were killed in a gun and version, the second American it has leader, Equatorial Guinea’s President ing the number of registered voters. grenade attack in a dis- put behind bars this year. Teodoro Obiang Nguema, extended Engonga explained this by say- trict of Burundi’s capital Kim Dong Chul (pictured) had his 36-year rule yesterday after ing some voters had “probably” been which is stronghold of been detained in the North on sus- being re-elected with 93.7 percent travelling on election day and voted opposition to President picion of engaging in spying and of the vote, according to provisional outside of their constituencies. Pierre Nkurunziza, police stealing state secrets. He was sen- results. “These were the worst elections said. tenced to 10 years in prison with The results announced by the ever organised in this country,” Tit-for-tat attacks hard labour after a brief trial in National Election Commission unsuccessful candidate Bonaven- between Nkurunziza’s Pyongyang. North Korea’s Supreme showed his two closest rivals, Bon- tura Monsuy Asumu said, adding security forces and his Court found Kim guilty of crimes and aventura Monsuy Asumu and Avelino that the vote had been marked by opponents have escalated espionage and subversion of under last October. South Korea’s National spies to overthrow its government Mocache Mehengap, trailing far widespread fraud. Running for the since April 2015 when he Articles 60 and 64 of the North’s Intelligence Service, the country’s to enable the US-backed South behind with 1.5 percent each in last fourth time, he told AFP he had vis- announced a disputed bid criminal code. main spy agency, has said Kim’s case Korean government to control the Sunday’s vote. ited polling stations where no ballot for a third term. He won Further details were not immedi- wasn’t related to the organization in entire Korean Peninsula. Some for- Turnout in the oil-rich west Afri- slips were to be found on polling day. re-election in July. Thurs- ately available. When he was paraded any way. Kim’s sentencing comes eigners previously arrested have can country was also 93.7 percent, The Democratic Opposition day night’s attack struck before the media in Pyongyang last on the heels of a 15-year sentence read statements of guilt they later according to the results which are Front (FOD) coalition of dissident a bar in Bujumbura’s month, Kim said he had collab- handed down on Otto Warmbier, an said were coerced. Most of those who subject to confirmation on May 2 by groups had boycotted the vote, Musaga neighbourhood, orated with and spied for South American university student who the are sentenced to long prison terms the constitutional court. saying it would be rigged. Obiang, where protests were Korean intelligence authorities in North says was engaged in anti-state are released before serving their full Seven candidates ran for the top heading a coalition of 10 parties held against the presi- a plot to bring down the North’s activities while visiting the country time. In the past, North Korea has job but 73-year-old Obiang, who has that includes the ruling Democratic dent last year, said deputy leadership and had tried to spread as a tourist earlier this year. held out until senior US officials or ruled with an iron fist since 1979 Party of Equatorial Guinea, had said police spokesman Moise religion among North Koreans North Korea regularly accuses statesmen came to personally bail when he ousted his uncle Francisco on Sunday that his country was “a Nkurunziza. before his arrest in the city of Rason Washington and Seoul of sending out detainees. Macias Nguema and had him shot by benchmark in democratic terms”. Among the dead were a three-year old child and an unarmed soldier who was in civilian clothes, he said. China & Russia rap US Joy of fishing “It was around 10.10 pm last night when four armed men in civilian clothes attacked a small defence plan in S Korea pub... killing five peo- ple,” he said. “As they were fleeing, the attack- ers threw a grenade at AFP “We both are gravely concerned a small army base just about the US’s likely deployment of nearby which didn’t do the THAAD system in South Korea,” any damage.” The United Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Nations says more than BEIJING: China and Russia yes- said at a briefing with his visiting 400 people have been terday rapped US plans to put a Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. killed since last April and missile defence system on the “The move goes beyond the close to 260,000 have Korean peninsula, less than 24 hours actual defence needs of relevant fled the country. after Pyongyang tested twice rock- countries,” Wang said. “It will ets thought to be capable of reaching directly affect the strategic secu- American territory. A series of mis- rity of China and Russia respectively Seoul reports sile tests and nuclear blasts by North if it is deployed,” he added. Lavrov Korea have pushed Seoul into talks condemned Washington for using third case of with Washington about deploying the North’s tests as “an excuse, as the United States’ sophisticated Ter- a pretext” to deploy what he called Zika virus minal High Altitude Area Defence Washington’s “global antiballis- System (THAAD), which fires pro- tic missile defence”. This week’s SEOUL: South Korea jectiles to smash into enemy missiles. N Korean rocket tests failed, but Dragon dance performers arrive by boat for celebrations of the Tin Hau Festival at the Joss House has confirmed its third Beijing fears that the presence of Pyongyang has now made three bids Zika virus infection, local more US hardware on its doorstep in 2 weeks to test-fly a Musudan mis- Bay Tin Hau temple in Hong Kong, yesterday. Tin Hau is the patron saint of fishermen. Locals flock to health authorities said will further tip the balance of power sile, which is capable of striking US more than 70 temples to pray for safety, security, fine weather and full fishing nets in the coming year. yesterday. in the Pacific towards Washington. bases on the Pacific island of Guam. The brother of a man diagnosed with the infec- tion two days earlier has tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus. On Wednesday, a 20-year-old Zuma should face almost 800 graft charges: Court man, whose identity has not been disclosed, was confirmed to have been AFP that cleared the way for Zuma to be in the case. The recordings, which Ultimately Jacob Zuma must face formally withdrawn... and as such infected by the virus after elected president just weeks later. became known as the “spy tapes”, prosecution,” Maimane said after there is no pending litigation before showing flu-like symp- “The decision... to discontinue were kept secret but finally released attending the court hearing. court against President Zuma,” the toms upon his return from the charges against Mr Zuma is irra- in 2014 to the main opposition party, “We are deeply, deeply delighted. presidency said in a statement. the Philippines. He was PRETORIA: South African President tional and should be reviewed and the Democratic Alliance (DA), after a Jacob Zuma must have... his day in “The President has noted the traveling in the Southeast Jacob Zuma should face almost 800 set aside,” Pretoria High Court judge five-year legal battle. court.” The DA called for the National decision of the court and will give Asian country from April corruption charges that were dropped Aubrey Ledwaba said. “Mr Zuma DA leader Mmusi Maimane said Prosecuting Authority to immediately consideration to the judgement and 10-14. in 2009, a judge said yesterday, pil- should face the charges as applied.” Friday’s court ruling was a major revive the 783 charges of corruption, its consequences.” The president The latest case raises ing further pressure on the embattled The prosecutor had justified drop- blow against the president, who has racketeering, fraud and money laun- last month lost another major legal the number of confirmed leader. ping the charges by saying that tapped faced months of criticism over various dering dating back to 1999. case when the country’s highest infections in South Korea The charges, relating to a multi- phone calls between senior officials in corruption scandals and the coun- But the legal wrangling is set to court found he violated the consti- to three. billion dollar arms deal, were dropped then-president Thabo Mbeki’s admin- try’s dire economic outlook. “Today continue, with the ruling likely to tution over the use of public funds to by the chief state prosecutor in a move istration showed political interference is a great victory for the rule of law. go to appeal. “These charges were upgrade his private residence. 06 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 PAKISTAN

Australian aid World Dance Day EOS to be worker abducted completed by next month in Jalalabad city ISLAMABAD: The World Economic Forum, in part- nership with Mishal of Jalalabad city.” Pakistan, will complete He added that the kidnappers, the nationwide ‘Execu- Foreign Minister Julie disguised as police, took her at 4am tive Opinion Survey’ (EOS) Bishop said Canberra from a home in which she was stay- in Pakistan by mid of next ing. Nangarhar police chief Zrawer month. was working to Zahed confirmed the abduction by The Executive Opin- secure the release “unidentified gunmen” not long after ion Survey, ‘The Voice of she arrived on Wednesday evening. the Business Community’, of Katherine Jane Bishop said she had been in started in early February Wilson, but insisted contact with Wilson’s family. “The and is a major component details of the reports are still being of the Global Competitive- Australia does not confirmed but the Afghan authorities ness report. pay ransoms for certainly believe she has been kid- The survey gathers hostages. napped,” she told reporters. valuable information on “Our priority is to ensure that she a broad range of varia- is well, that she’s being treated well, bles for which hard data sources are scarce or and so that’s what we’re focusing our Pakistani famous classical dancer Sheema Kirmani (centre) performs with her group on the evening AFP non-existent. efforts upon, working with the local of the “World Dance Day” at the Alliance Francaise in Karachi, yesterday. authorities. This is the long- Our embassy in Kabul of course est-running and most is deeply involved in this matter.” extensive survey of KABUL: An Australian woman Asked if Canberra would pay a business conditions working for a charity in Afghanistan ransom if one was demanded, she worldwide, capturing has been kidnapped, the country’s replied: issues that are highly foreign minister said yesterday. “The Australian government US defends sale of eight F-16s relevant to national Julie Bishop said Canberra was does not, as a matter of policy, pay competitiveness. working to secure the release of ransom for kidnappers.” Wilson’s Katherine Jane Wilson, but insisted 91-year-old father Brian Wilson Australia does not pay ransoms for said his daughter had worked in Internews Ambassador Richard Olson argued question about the status of the deal 4 more cheap hostages. Wilson, who also uses the the region with charities related to that the administration was support- at a hearing, Olson explained that the first name Kerry, was grabbed in the women’s rights and water security ive of the F-16 sale to Pakistan. said targets were the Pakistani Tali- bazaars to be city of Jalalabad, close to the bor- for more than 20 years, and made “This has been developed ban who attack Americans. der with Pakistan, on Thursday, a an emotional plea for her release. ISLAMABAD: The Obama adminis- between our military coordinating “We applaud the actions that the set up in Lahore government official in the area said. “I feel extremely worried tration has once again defended its groups over the course of time that Pakistanis have been taking against “She visited the city of Jalalabad indeed,” he told the Australian decision to sell eight F-16 fighter jets is consistent with our overall pro- their domestic terrorism threat, even LAHORE: The city district for a women’s embroidery project,” Broadcasting Corporation. to Pakistan, amid strong resistance gramme of support for the Pakistani as we call upon them to take more government of Lahore said Ataullah Khogyani, a spokes- “But I presume she’s a hostage, from some lawmakers. military, which is based on counter- robust action against those groups (CDGL) has decided to man for the governor of Nangarhar and that they’ll do their best to keep Various powerful members of the insurgency and counter-terrorism,” that threaten their neighbours.” The increase the number of province, of which Jalalabad is the her alive and not harm her, simply US House Committee have backed he said. “Pakistanis have developed House Foreign Affairs Committee and cheap bazaars for Holy capital. because they want to have some- the Senate members’ move to put a a precision strike capability that they members of subcommittees sat down Month of Ramazan from “And unknown masked gunmen thing or other in return and it’s not hold on the sale of eight fighter jets use in the F-16s they have right now to review continued foreign financial 27 to 31, an official said abducted her from Police District 2 very good having a dead hostage.” to Pakistan on subsidised price, but to take out targets.” Answering a assistance to Pakistan. yesterday. He said CDGL teams would inspect the bazaars to review secu- rity arrangements and to ensure the availability of Cooling off Seminaries boom in the items. He said town adminis- tration had been directed to make proper security absence of govt checks and parking arrange- ments. He said the CDGL had identified sites for Internews the writ of government in Islam- setting up the bazaars in abad,” Sahibzada Abdul Mustafa Allama Iqbal Town, Gul- exclaimed. berg Town, Nishtar Town, He said that there were around Ravi Town, Aziz Bhatti ISLAMABAD: While the Pakistani 9,000 madressahs affiliated with the Town, Shalimar Town and government’s plan to streamline the Barelvi school of thought, imparting Wagha Town. registration and monitoring of reli- religious education to more than 1.3 gious seminaries appears to be a million students. pipe dream, the number of madres- He said that there has been an Repatriation of sahs in the country, as well as the increase of 10pc in the number of number of students enrolled in them, seminaries and students as com- profits by foreign has been on the rise. pared to the previous year. firms jump Even though seminary boards “To my understanding, the main offer different reasons for the reason for the proliferation of sem- KARACHI: Repatria- growing number of students and inaries and seminary students is tion of profits by foreign institutions in the country, the due to the growing population and companies operating administrators of all five main- a rise in poverty, since people can- in Pakistan rose 27 per stream seminary boards believe that not afford to send their children cent to $1.271bn in the A youth cools off in a stream during a hot day at the outskirts of Islamabad, yesterday. a lack of a clear policy was augment- to schools,” said Mufti Munee- first nine months (July ing negative growth as well. bur Rehman, head of the Ittehadul to March) of this fiscal “The government is not doing Tanzeemat-i-Madaris-i-Deenia, year from $1.001bn, the anything, but it wants the five boards an umbrella body of the five main- State Bank of Pakistan and the seminaries registered with stream madressah boards in the said. us to be as perfect as a polished country. During the same Pakistan among 8 fast growing economies shoe,” said Sahibzada Abdul Mus- Four of the boards belong to the period, the inflow of for- tafa Hazarvi, nazim-i-ala of the Barelvi, Deobandi, Shia and Ahle eign direct investment Tanzeemul Madaris Ahle Sunnat, Hadith schools of thought, while (FDI) was $957m. Internews jing, he said that Pakistani nation was economic corridor would help build the board for seminaries affiliated the fifth, Rabtatul Madarisul Islamia, The biggest outflow, united on the agenda of economic modern transport infrastructure with the Barelvi school of thought. administers institutions affiliated at $293m, was observed development and there was no threat in the country and make Pakistani “It was only due to misconduct with the Jamaat-i-Islami. from the financial sector of political instability in the country. economy competitive in the inter- that Wifaqul Madaris al-Arabia de- “There are around one million compared to an inflow of ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among He termed the CPEC a historic national market. Pakistan offered listed Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad in students in over 1,000 seminaries $19.6m during the nine the eight fast growing economies of opportunity and said it would cast attractive opportunities to Chinese 2007, in wake of anti-state political and that is because they are large months. In most cases, the world due to structural reforms a far-reaching impact on Pakistan’s investors in minerals, agriculture, activities. But what have the author- institutions,” said Maulana Abdul the inflow of FDI was introduced by the incumbent govern- economy. It offers equal oppor- infrastructure, technology and indus- ities done? Maalik, nazim-i-ala of Rabtatul lower than the outflow ment, federal Minister for Planning, tunities of economic uplift to all trial sectors. Chinese technology and The seminary still continues Madaris. as profits and dividends. Development and Reforms Ahsan provinces and regions of the country. experiences in industrial sector cou- to hold classes, is increasing its “The number of students is on The highest inflow Iqbal said yesterday. Addressing the Under the CPEC, energy sec- pled with Pakistan’s location and low branches, enhancing the number the rise because Western propa- ($471m) was noted in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor tor had been prioritised in the first cost of production could revolution- of students and even criticises the ganda has prompted citizens to learn power sector. (CPEC) Investment Conference in Bei- phase, Iqbal said, adding that the ise the industrial sector o board for not registering it - this is more about Islam,” he added. Shrinking US presence in Afghanistan creates security concerns: Report

AFP forces at the start of 2015, US troop a dangerously fragile time for Afghan assessment that neither the United left not only with their own capability for waste and corruption. Spoko said numbers have dropped to 9,800 -- security. States nor its Afghan allies know gaps in air support, signals, intelli- Congress has appropriated approx- and are set to fall further still to 5,500 Despite 15 years of war, the Tal- how many Afghan soldiers and police gence, and other areas highlighted imately $113bn for Afghanistan by next year. iban remain a major threat and has actually exist, how many are in fact by US commanders, but without the reconstruction. About $10bn remains WASHINGTON: The dwindling US “With fewer forces in theatre, the hit local troops hard, including in available for duty, or, by extension, ability to call on US and coalition mil- to be disbursed. troop presence in Afghanistan is ham- United States military has lost much the brief capture of the major city of the true nature of their operational itary components for help,” the report “The reconstruction effort in pering the Pentagon’s ability to train of its ability to make direct observa- Kunduz, jolting confidence Afghan capabilities,” the SIGAR report states. states. Sopko has been a vociferous Afghanistan is in a perilous state,” and monitor local security forces, a tions, provide tactical mentoring, and government forces can hold their own. In addition, America’s shrinking critic of United States efforts to restore Sopko said. government watchdog report warned, collect reliable information on ANDSF The United States estimates about presence means US troops are less security to Afghanistan, especially “Afghanistan has had the lead yesterday. capability and effectiveness,” John 5,500 Afghan security forces were able to have an impact on the ground, through reconstruction. responsibility for its own security Since local Afghan National Sopko, the Special Inspector Gen- killed last year alone and, Sopko while at the same time the capabil- He has penned multiple reports for more than a year now, and is Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) eral for Afghanistan Reconstruction warned, no one seems to know ity of local forces has not risen to fill blasting bureaucrats for shoddy struggling with a four-season insur- assumed responsibility for their coun- (SIGAR), wrote in his quarterly report exactly how many are left. the gap. record keeping and oversight, and gency, high attrition, and capability try’s security, taking over from Nato to Congress. Sopko’s report comes at “More troubling is SIGAR’s “The ANDSF will be increasingly has criticized the Afghan government challenges.” INDIA SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 07

BJP and Congress again ‘Namma Metro’ inauguration in Bengaluru spar over AgustaWestland

IANS leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for “lying” The Narendra Modi that the then Congress-led govern- ment had blacklisted helicopter government said it maker AgustaWestland and its Ital- NEW DELHI: The BJP and the Con- was determined to ian parent company Finmeccanica. gress again indulged in political Swamy said in a tweet that the recriminations on the AgustaWe- bring those guilty of breach of privilege notice under stland VVIP chopper deal both in bribery in the deal Rule 187 was against Azad “for parliament and outside yesterday, wilfully telling a lie to RS (Rajya with BJP chief Amit Shah targeting to justice and denied Sabha) on AW (AgustaWestland) Congress president Sonia Gandhi. that National Security blacklisting”. Members of both parties in the Swamy said before entering par- Rajya Sabha moved privilege notices Adviser Ajit Doval or liament that Azad “lied” about the on the issue. Prime Minister’s key blacklisting. The Congress too gave The Narendra Modi government aide Nripendra Mishra a breach of privilege notice against too said it was determined to bring Defence Minister Manohar parrikar A policeman takes a snapshot of a train of the ‘Namma Metro’ (Our Metro), also known as Bangalore those guilty of bribery in the deal were involved in any and his ministry. Metro Phase-I, in the Vidhana Soudha under-ground station during its inauguration, in Bengaluru to justice and denied that National way. Congress members Husain Dal- Security Adviser Ajit Doval or Prime wai and Shantaram Naik, citing rules yesterday. The Namma Metro Phase-I consists of 42.3km out of which 8.8km are underground. Minister Narendra Modi’s key aide and procedure, said that when par- Nripendra Mishra were involved in “The tender had the condition liament is in session an important any way. that only original equipment man- statement on an issue has to be made In a direct attack on Sonia Gan- ufacturers could file the tender. Still, in the two houses of parliament and dhi, Shah asked at whose behest the AgustaWestland — despite not being not outside. contract terms in the chopper deal an original equipment manufacturer The defence ministry on Thurs- were tweaked. — was allowed to file the tender. Now day issued a clarification on the Govt does u-turn on EPF and “When the AgustaWestland chop- my question to Sonia Gandhi is — on issue through the Press Information per deal was being finalised, Sonia whose behest this tampering with Bureau. Meanwhile, the Congress Gandhi was the Congress president the original conditions was done,” accused the BJP of levelling false cor- and the Congress-led United Pro- he said. ruption charges against its leaders. agrees to 8.8% interest rate gressive Alliance was in power. Their BJP leader Subramanian Swamy Senior party leader Ghulam Nabi ministers were negotiating the deal,” submitted a breach of privilege notice Azad said the ruling party should the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said. in the upper house against Congress either prove the allegations or stop IANS “The protest was successful with employees provident fund interest defaming political rivals. workers across the country partici- rate cannot be immune is not sus- “Had they been in the opposition, pating in it,” Centre of Indian Trade tainable. “The corpus belongs to the I would have understood their lim- Union (CITU) president A K Pad- workers and the interest is paid out itations of not having any agencies NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: Bowing to manabhan said. Padmanabhan is of income from the corpus,” he said. (at their disposal) to prove or investi- persistent pressure from trade unions also a member of the Central Board As the government decided to gate something. But they are in power and political parties, the Centre yes- of Trustees (CBT) of EPFO. agree to 8.8 percent interest rate, and have all the (government) agen- terday increased the interest rate Most trade unions had protested Padmanabhan said this is the third cies to probe whatever they want to,” on employees provident fund (EPF) the decision and the issue was also time the BJP-led central government Azad told the media at Parliament deposits to 8.8 percent from 8.70 per- raised by political parties both in par- is backtracking on its decision faced House here. cent announced earlier for 2015-16. liament and outside. Trade unionist with strong opposition. Azad, Leader of Opposition in “I am happy to tell you that the and Communist Party of India-Marx- According to the new norms pro- the Rajya Sabha, said the Bharatiya EPF rate has been increased to 8.8 ist MP Tapan Kumar Sen had also posed earlier this year, subscribers Janata Party had deputed the entire percent,” Labour Minister Bandaru raised it in the Rajya Sabha. would not be allowed to claim with- government machinery to come up Dattatreya told reporters here. Trade unions had threatened to drawal of PF after attaining 54 years with all sorts of charges against Con- The provident fund rate was 8.75 intensify their agitation from Sep- of age, and would have to wait till 57. gress president Sonia Gandhi and percent in 2014-15 and the Central tember if the government did not The earlier norms allowed con- vice president Rahul Gandhi. Board of Trustees (CBT) had recom- comply with the demand of higher tributors or subscribers to claim “They are out to defame the Con- mended to make it 8.8 percent for this EPF interest rates. According to 90 percent of their accumula- gress. They are doing this to divert fiscal. However, the finance minis- Padmanabhan, the argument that tions in their PF account at the age All India Mahila Congress supporters shout slogans as they protest public attention (from develop- try had rejected the recommendation interest rates on public provident of 54 years, and the final claims to against the ruling BJP government, accusing them of defaming the ment work promised by them). We and had approved only 8.70 percent fund (PPF) and other small savings be settled just one year before their Congress Party in parliament, in New Delhi yesterday. denounce this propaganda,” he said. interest, citing lower earnings. schemes have come down and the retirement. Charges ‘preposterous’; I’m in forced exile: Mallya Bihar bans daytime cooking as hundreds die of heat IANS reasonable debt settlement.” stands. The filings before the debt well. “All I can say is that the manner Questioning the amount of recovery tribunal indicate some in which my passport was revoked Rs9,000 crore attributed as wilfull £500m. The rest is toward unap- and then suspended was unprece- AP around 44 degrees Celsius. debt against him, the 60-year-old plied interest. I’ve never been able to dented and was done in extraordinary That’s about 4-5 degrees Celsius LONDON: Industrialist Vijay industrialist said by taking away his understand where this Rs900m fig- haste. I came to know of the facts by hotter than normal for April, accord- Mallya, at the centre of a contro- passport or arresting him, the Indian ure came from,” he said. email,” he said, adding the notice ing to state meteorological official Y versy in India over alleged loan government and banks won’t be able He said he has issued a sworn of suspension of his passport came PATNA: With sizzling tempera- K Reddy. He predicted the situation default of Rs9,000 crore, has termed to get any money out of him. affidavit to the Supreme Court and on holiday and that his reply was tures claiming more than 300 lives would only get worse in May, tradi- the charges against him as “prepos- “I definitely would like to return the right position will come to light ignored. this month in India, officials said tionally the hottest month in India. terous” and said he was in “forced to India. Right now things are flying if a proper probe is conducted. “If He further said if he has proposed yesterday that they were banning Andhra Pradesh is running ads exile” here from which he would at me fast and furious. My passport’s the government decides to audit the a settlement offer to the Apex Court, daytime cooking in some parts of on TV and in newspapers urging like to return to his country. been revoked. I don’t know what the accounts of Kingfisher airlines, they it had to be serious. Mallya said he the drought-stricken country in a people to stay indoors during the “I’m absolutely not guilty of any of government will do next. I’ve always are not going to find anything -- tried all that was possible to save bid to prevent accidental fires that hottest hours. Construction and farm the preposterous charges of diverting said I will like to reach out to the because that is the truth.” Kingfisher Airlines, but in vain. “But have killed nearly 80 more people. labourers are advised to seek shade funds from Kingfisher Airlines and bankers of Kingfisher and make a Mallya said “extraordinary pres- I have currently businesses in India, Bihar this week took the unprec- when the sun is directly overhead. buying properties,” Mallya said in settlement,” he said. sure” was being exerted on him, but and I wish to continue with them. edented step of forbidding any Huge numbers of farmers, mean- an interview to the Financial Times. “Notwithstanding the legal pro- he can’t give preference just to banks They are doing very well. I’m cur- cooking between 9am and 6pm, while, have migrated to nearby “I’m in a forced exile, willing to reach ceedings, my offer for settlement since there were other creditors as rently in forced exile.” after accidental fires exacerbated by cities and towns in search of man- dry, hot and windy weather swept ual labour, often leaving elderly and through shantytowns and thatched- young relatives behind in parched roof houses in villages and killed villages. This is the second consecu- 79 people. They included 10 chil- tive year southern India has suffered Nominations to Kerala assembly Bipasha Basu to tie the knot dren and five adults killed in a fire from a deadly heat wave, after some sparked during a prayer ceremony 2,500 people died in scorching tem- polls to exceed 1,400 in Bihar’s Aurangabad district last peratures last year. week. This year, Bhubaneshwar and People were instead told to cook Nagpur joined Ahmedabad in THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Over 1,400 nominations are likely to have to night. Hoping to prevent more launching a heat wave programme to filed for the May 16 Kerala assembly elections, said officials as the dead- fires, officials have also barred burn- educate people on how to stay cool, line for filing papers ended yesterday. Till Thursday, the total nominations ing spent crops or holding religious provide shelters and train medical received had crossed 900 and there was a heavy rush on the last day too. fire rituals. Anyone defying the ban workers on dealing with heat-related The final figures are expected to come later. The total nominations in the risks up to a year in jail. illnesses like sun stroke and dehy- 2011 assembly polls had stood at 1,363. Scrutiny of nominations would take Much of India is reeling under a dration. But most cities and states place today and on Monday (May 2) is the last day for withdrawal of nom- weeks-long heat wave and severe lack such programmes. ination. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy filed his nomination papers in drought conditions that have deci- This week, more than 150 leading Kottayam yesterday and so did several others from various political par- mated crops, killed livestock and left Indian economists, rights activists and ties besides independents in various parts of the state. at least 330 million Indians without academics expressed their “collective enough water for their daily needs. anxiety about the enormous suffering Rivers, lakes and dams have of the rural poor” in an open letter to Fifth phase of Bengal polls today dried up in parts of the western Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, letter says the official response to the KOLKATA: The fate of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would be decided and overall officials say that ground- crisis has been “sadly listless, lacking alongside that of several Trinamool Congress leaders allegedly caught accepting water reservoirs are at just 22 in both urgency and compassion,” illegal money in the Narada sting video as the West Bengal poll caravan moves percent capacity. and urges Modi to restore funding for to its fifth and penultimate phase today, involving 53 constituencies spread over In some areas, the situation is so a government program guaranteeing an area considered the citadel of the state’s ruling party. In all, 31 constituen- bad the government has sent tank- 100 days of paid work a year for the cies in South 24 Parganas, 18 in Hooghly district and four in Kolkata South, all ers of water for emergency relief. poor and unemployed. known bastions of the Trinamool, are going to the hustings. Nearly 1.24 crore Monsoon rains are still weeks away, While the monsoon is not (1,23,97,832) voters across 14,642 polling stations, including 77 auxiliary booths, expected to start only in June. expected until June, weather experts are eligible to decide the fate of 349 candidates — 43 of them female. The Elec- At least 300 people have died hope there would be brief spells of tion Commission will use 16,838 EVMs and 1,024 Voter-verified paper audit of heat-related illness this month, light rain sooner. “The effect would trail. The Trinamool and the BJP are contesting in all the seats. All eyes will be Bollywood actors Karan Singh Grover (left) and Bipasha Basu including 110 in Orissa, 137 in Tel- last a few days, before temperatures on south Kolkata’s Bhawanipur, where Mamata Banerjee is facing a challenge pose for a photograph during their mehendi marriage ceremony angana and another 45 in Andhra start rising again,” Indian Meteoro- from Left Front-backed Congress nominee Deepa Dasmunshi and Netaji Sub- in Mumbai yesterday. Pradesh where temperatures since logical Department spokesman B P has Chandra Bose’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose of the BJP. the start of April have been hovering Yadav said. 08 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 EUROPE / UK

Poland denies Paris police arrest 24 after violence entry to Russian motorbikers gatherings dubbed “Up All Night”, but on Thursday protesters, who Around 100 numbered around 1,000, were “especially violent allowed to stay only until midnight, AFP the police said. demonstrators” The new violence followed clashes forced their way during protests against France’s hotly WARSAW: Poland yesterday said contested labour laws that left 24 it had banned a group of Russian through a police policemen injured, three seriously. motorbikers from crossing its ter- barricade at the Place At least 170,000 workers and ritory on their way to Berlin on students had taken to the streets concerns that some may belong de la Republique. nationwide to press demands for the to the infamous pro-Putin Night withdrawal of proposed labour law. Wolves club. Interior Minister Bernard Caze- The bikers want to cross cen- neuve visited an officer at a Paris tral Europe on their way to the AFP hospital, saying he remained in seri- German capital to celebrate the ous condition. Police said he was a 71st anniversary of World War II plainclothes officer who was hit in the victory on May 9. head by a projectile. Poland’s foreign ministry said PARIS: Several dozen youth protest- Speaking to reporters outside the it was necessary to “guarantee ers clashed with police in the early hospital, Cazeneuve praised the “great public order” in a statement on its hours yesterday in a central Paris professionalism” of security forces in website, after sending a diplomatic square after refusing orders to dis- bringing protests under control while note saying the same to the Rus- perse, police said. “violent groups” sowed disorder. sian embassy in Warsaw. Police detained 24 people over- But he rejected demands for an Last year, the Night Wolves French anti-riot police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration against the French government’s night after scenes of violence that saw outright ban on demonstrations from were also banned from enter- protesters hurling chunks of concrete politicians who argue that France proposed labour reforms in Paris. ing Poland amid tense relations at riot police and torching vehicles. remains under state of emergency between Moscow and Warsaw. Around 100 “especially violent since November attacks in Paris. To unions who accused police of “police violence” while the right-wing unrest through an excessive show “After what they said, we demonstrators” forced their way “Those who try to exploit this heavy-handedness in quelling pro- Republicans party has called for the of force. “With this kind of deploy- may to some extent believe it’s a through a police barricade at the period for political ends by suggesting tests, Cazeneuve said charges served Up All Night (“Nuit Debout” in French) ment (of security forces) you know ‘patriotic’ trip,” Polish Senate head Place de la Republique, police said. we ban everything are both ignorant only to heighten tensions and did “not protests to be banned. exactly what it will incite,” he said. Stanislaw Karczewski told private The square has been the venue of the law and ignorant of the state of show a great spirit of responsibility.” Trade unionist Olivier Besancenot “You can create conditions for things news channel Polsat News. for the past month of nightly emergency,” the interior minister said. The far left has also denounced accused the government of inviting to go wrong.” “But on the other hand, the Russian side provokes us as well as Europe so we have to be care- ful,” he added. 2 Birmingham The Russian foreign ministry UK foreign minister begins two-day Cuba visit called the ban a “malevolent and cynical gesture,” designed to “pre- men accused of vent a group of Russian citizens from paying a tribute to Soviet sol- funding Brussels AFP Hammond is also to sign a “That is why Cuba and the UK are diers killed while liberating Europe “bilateral agreement restructuring set to reach new cooperation agree- from fascism.” bomb suspect Cuba’s debt to the UK” and agree ments on energy, financial services, “It is particularly outrageous on future cooperation in a range education and culture, to the benefit because Russian authorities LONDON: Britain’s foreign minister of areas from financial services to of both our nations.” allowed Poland to organise a AP Philip Hammond (pictured) reached energy and education. Hammond will also meet repre- commemorative ceremony in Cuba in the first such visit since 1959, He also hopes to raise the issues sentatives from Cuban civil society Smolensk, Russia in April” at the to hold talks on cooperation in “finan- of social and economic changes and British business community in site of the 2010 plane crash that LONDON: Two Birmingham men cial services, energy, culture and in Cuba, human rights, trade, and Havana. European Union foreign pol- killed Polish president Lech Kac- were accused in court Friday of education”, London announced. response to issues such as Zika virus. icy chief Federica Mogherini became zynski and a host of the country’s giving money to a key suspect in His two-day visit follows last “Britain and Cuba have outlooks the highest-ranking EU official ever high-ranking officials, the ministry the Brussels and Paris bombings month’s landmark visit by US Presi- on the world and systems of gov- to visit Cuba when she travelled to added in a statement. Russia has in a case that may link British res- dent Barack Obama as part of a historic ernment that are very different,” Havana in March. also summoned Poland’s ambas- idents to those plots, prosecutors rapprochement between Cuba and the and where it sees its future,” Ham- Hammond said in the statement. During her trip she signed a deal sador in Moscow and addressed a said yesterday. United States after 50 years of enmity. mond said in a statement. “But as Cuba enters a period of to normalise relations with Cuba, formal protest to her over the ban. Prosecutors said in West- “As the first British Foreign Sec- He will hold a series of meetings significant social and economic including an agreement on the del- Established in 1989, shortly minster Magistrates Court that retary to visit Cuba since the Cuban with his Cuban counterpart Bruno change, I am looking forward to dem- icate issue of human rights, in yet before the break-up of the Soviet Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zaka- Revolution in 1959, this is an oppor- Rodriguez and other government onstrating to the Cuban government another step towards ending the com- Union, the Night Wolves comprise ria Boufassil, both 26, allegedly tunity to hear for myself what Cuba leaders, according to Britain’s For- and people that UK is keen to forge munist country’s status as a pariah 5,000 members from across the ter- gave more than £3,000 pounds thinks about its present challenges eign and Commonwealth Office. new links across the Atlantic. in the West. ritory of the former eastern empire. ($4,400) to suspect Mohamed Abrini in Birmingham in July. The two suspects are charged with violating Britain’s Terrorism Act by providing someone with Golden Hours Portugal taxi drivers stage money that they knew, or had reason to believe, would be used for terrorism, the prosecutors told protest against Uber the court. Abrini, who is in custody, was the “man in the hat” seen on video footage moments before the deadly AFP “The government has to stop March 22 bombings at Brussels air- Uber’s operations, which repre- port that killed 16 people. He was sent unfair competition with the also wanted in the November 13 taxis,” said Antral president Flor- attacks on Paris that claimed 130 LISBON: Thousands of taxi drivers encio Almeida. “We don’t need state lives. A third suspect from Bir- disrupted traffic across Portugal yes- subsidies, but we want the law to be mingham, Soumaya Boufassil, terday as they protested against US enforced,” he added. 29, was also charged along with cab giant Uber, which they accuse of Portugal’s Socialist government Ahmed with preparing acts of illegally undercutting their business. last month announced €17m ($19.4m) terrorism between January1, 2015 In the capital Lisbon, between of funding to boost the taxi sector in and April 8. 3,000 and 4,000 cabbies were driv- a bid to placate drivers angry at the She wore a burka in court and ing at a snail’s pace through the city, rise of Uber, but the protesters say spoke only to confirm name, date according to the two main industry this is not enough. “They are not sub- of birth and address. The two men bodies organising the protest, Antral ject to the same laws as us, and they also provided personal details but and the Portuguese Taxi Federation. don’t respect the rules,” said Lisbon no other information. Some 1,000 protesters were also driver Rui Pinto. “If the government The three were arrested in Bir- out in Porto, while around hundred doesn’t prevent Uber from operating, mingham on April 14-15 and were mobilised in southern resort of Faro. they must be forced to pay insurance charged on Thursday evening. The Technicians hold a painting titled “Golden Hours, 1864,” by artist Frederic Lord Leighton(£3-£5m) on Lisbon taxi drivers adorned their fees like us.” Another protester, Anto- next hearing is set for May 13 at display for Christies 250th anniversary celebrations at Christie’s in London. cabs with black ribbons to signal a nio Nunes, said the company was London’s Old Bailey courthouse. profession in “mourning”. They stuck guilty of “theft” for not paying more posters to their windows reading tax in Portugal. “Uber go home”, “Uber is illegal” and Uber transfers its earnings to the “Uber is a national crime”. Netherlands under complex inter- Access to Lisbon airport was national tax arrangements, though LuxLeaks whistleblower ‘shocked’ by tax breaks temporarily blocked by parade of it pays VAT in Portugal. The Portu- protesting cabs as it headed slowly guese Taxi Federation says business towards parliament, and tourists had has dropped 20 percent since Uber to make do with the city metro. arrived in the country in July 2014. AFP “I now take responsibility for my “It was me who decided which nationals, each face up to 10 years actions,” said Halet, who appeared companies and which documents” in jail if convicted in the case. tired after repeated questioning. were leaked, Halet said. The LuxLeaks of around 30,000 He said he decided to act after He explained his earlier state- pages of documents from PwC LUXEMBOURG: A whistleblower seeing a report by French journal- ments blaming the journalist by exploded onto the world stage in who helped expose LuxLeaks scandal ist Edouard Perrin on state-owned saying that under a confidential November 2014, exposing “sweet- told a court yesterday he had decided France 2 television in 2012, which it agreement with PwC in Decem- heart” deals that saved firms to do his duty as a citizen after he was later turned out was based on leaks ber 2014, after he was identified as including Apple, IKEA and Pepsi bil- “shocked” by Luxembourg’s huge tax by another PwC employee, Antoine one of the sources, he agreed to give lions of dollars in taxes. breaks for multinational firms. Deltour. “In our team we were pretty details of the leaks. The agreement They were particularly contro- Raphael Halet, one of three peo- surprised and shocked by the report,” said Halet would have to pay the versial as the deals were made when ple on trial over the theft of thousands Halet said. “I was surprised that it company €10m if he broke the con- Jean-Claude Juncker, now president of documents from accounting firm was possible. After the report, I was fidentiality clause. of the European Commission, was PwC, retracted an earlier statement able to better understand the content Deltour and Halet are both prime minister of Luxembourg. that he was asked for documents by of the documents that we saw pass- accused of stealing documents from LuxLeaks was the biggest expose a journalist. ing (at PwC). the database of the firm, revealing of its kind until this month’s publi- Instead the 40-year-old French- “These were practices that business secrets, violation of profes- cation of the Panama Papers, which man told the court that he had taken shocked me. I realised that my work sional secrets and money laundering. revealed links between a number of the decision by himself to carry out went against my convictions.” Perrin is charged with acting as international leaders and offshore A policeman looks on as taxis drive during a slow convoy in Lisbon his “duty to alert” the tax practices in The whistleblower said he then an accomplice in those crimes. shell companies that can be used to yesterday. the tiny EU state as a “citizen”. made contact with the journalist. The three, who are all French hide or launder wealth. EUROPE SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 09 Helicopter crash off Norway coast leaves 13 dead

the rescue services said. seeing the aircraft spiral downwards, “We presume that all 13 are dead,” followed by a powerful explosion, and The Super Puma Sola rescue centre spokesman Borge people were seen in the sea. chopper went down Galta told reporters in Oslo. “There was an explosion and Search and rescue operations a very peculiar engine sound, so I around midday in were called off late yesterday after- looked out the window. I saw the the archipelago off noon.The aircraft was carrying 11 helicopter falling quickly into the Norwegians, one Briton and one Ital- sea. Then I saw a big explosion,” the coast of Bergen, ian, the rescue services said. an island resident told a local daily Norway’s The cause of the accident was not Bergensavisen. immediately known. “Pieces (of the helicopter) flew into second-biggest city. The helicopter broke into pieces the air,” she said, adding that she saw near a small island and debris was the rotor detach. found scattered on land and at sea, The crash was the deadliest heli- the officials said. Part of the chop- copter accident in Norway since 1978, AFP per was resting on the seabed under when a chopper plunged into the sea, five to seven metres of water, around killing 18 people. 20 metres from land, the rescue offi- “Horrible reports of a helicopter cials said. crash,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg OSLO: A helicopter transporting Another Sola rescue centre tweeted. North Sea oil workers crashed off the spokesman, Anders Bang Andersen, Live footage shortly after the coast of western Norway yesterday, told reporters that the chopper had crash showed leisure boats rushing killing all 13 people on board, rescue been on its way to Bergen’s airport toward the scene, where thick black services said. when it crashed with 11 passengers smoke was billowing into the sky. Rescue personnel search waters off the site of helicopter crash, west of Bergen, yesterday. The Super Puma chopper went and two crew members on board. More than an hour after the crash down around midday in the archipel- It was returning from the Gullfaks boats could be seen criss-crossing the ago off the coast of Bergen, Norway’s B platform, in one of Norway’s biggest water as helicopters hovered over- Puma built by Airbus Helicopters and the helicopters of the same model, On August 23, 2013, a Super Puma second-biggest city. Eleven bodies offshore oil fields, which is operated head. Divers were seen at the site, and operated by the CHC Helikopterserv- while Statoil had set up an emergency AS332 L2, an older model of the same have been recovered and the two by state-owned Statoil. ambulances were parked on the shore. ice for Statoil, media reports said. help centre in Bergen for families of helicopter, crashed into the North Sea remaining people are presumed dead, Several witnesses described The chopper was an EC225 Super Norway said it had grounded all the victims. near the Shetland Islands, killing four.

Restoration works Kosovo leader’s Ex-Auschwitz guard ally surrenders

PRISTINA: An ally of Kosovo’s says sorry at trial powerful President Hashim Thaci who was sought by police in a major organised crime probe Reuters that I deeply regret having been surrendered before the authorities part of a criminal organisation that yesterday, his lawyer said. is responsible for the death of many Azem Syla, is a deputy from the innocent people, for the destruction ruling Democratic Party of Kos- DETMOLD, GERMANY: A 94-year- of countless families, for misery, tor- ovo (PDK). old former Auschwitz guard on trial ment and suffering on the side of the Six people were arrested on in Germany apologised in court to victims and their relatives”. Wednesday in an operation that tar- victims yesterday, telling them he “I have remained silent for a long geted 40 suspects. Syla was not at regretted being part of a “criminal time, I have remained silent all of my home, as some 350 police searched organisation” that had killed so many life,” he added. 42 locations, and had remained at people and caused such suffering. Just before, his lawyer, Johannes large until his surrender. “I’m ashamed that I knowingly Salmen, had given a detailed account But his attorney said Syla was let injustice of the defendant’s not fleeing justice as he was with happen and view of his life and his family out of the country. “He did nothing particularly his time was in Albania for vacation and to oppose it”, in Auschwitz. found out from relatives that he said Rein- In this 22-page has been chased,” Tome Gashi said. hold Hanning long declaration, According to prosecutor the (pictured), a Hanning admitted An interior view of the restored Hall of Mirrors at the Rheinsberg Palace, in Rheinsberg,Germany. A new network under Syla was involved in former Nazi having known about temporary exhibition entitled ‘Rheinsberg 25 - The Rediscovery of a Mark Brandenburg Residence’, money laundering, abuse of power SS officer, mass murder in the will run from May 1 to October 31, which will take stock of the comprehensive restoration work on and bribery, illegally acquiring pub- seated in a death camp in Nazi- the palace. lic property in Kosovo worth an wheelchair occupied Poland. estimated €30m ($34 m). in the court in “I’ve tried to Detmold. repress this period Hanning for my whole life. is charged Auschwitz was a with being an nightmare, I wish Iodine pills for people living near Dutch N-plant accessory to I had never been the murder of there,” the lawyer at least 170,000 people. cited Hanning as saying. AFP under 18 and pregnant women liv- after Belgium announced it planned to up in a potential accident, including Holocaust survivors, who The accused was sent there ing within a 100km radius of a plant, distribute iodine pills to its entire pop- “tourists, visitors and workers”. detailed their horrific experiences after being wounded in battle and health ministry spokeswoman Edith ulation in case of a nuclear accident. Belgium’s creaking nuclear plants at the trial which opened in Febru- his request to rejoin his comrades Schippers said. Until now, the tablets Dutch authorities said they would have been causing safety concerns for ary, have pleaded with the accused on the front had been rejected twice, THE HAGUE: The Dutch government have been available within 20km of a “follow how (the Belgians) carry some time after a series of problems to break his silence in what could be he said. has ordered 15 million iodine pills to plant, to everyone aged 40 and under. out the distribution of these pills ranging from leaks to cracks and an one of the last Holocaust court cases “I accept his apology but I can’t protect people living near nuclear The Netherlands has only one and where they will be available— unsolved sabotage incident. in Germany. Hanning finally broke forgive him,” said Leon Schwarz- plants in case of an accident, offi- nuclear power plant—at Borssele in whether people will have to go and Last week Germany asked that the silence he kept over the course baum, a 95-year-old Holocaust cials said yesterday, as concerns rise the southwest—but the expansion find them at a pharmacy or at a local the 40-year-old Tihange 2 and Doel of 12 hearings, each limited to two survivor and co-plaintiff. over ageing reactors across the bor- will also see pills given to people liv- health service,” Schippers said. 3 reactors be turned off “until reso- hours due to his old age. She said Hanning should have der in Belgium. ing in border areas near Germany’s Once tablets were distributed to lution of outstanding security issues”, Reading in a firm voice from a recounted everything that hap- The iodine pills, which help Emsland plant and two Belgian facil- children and pregnant women, the which Belgium rejected, saying the paper he took out of his grey suit pened in Auschwitz and “what he reduce radiation build-up in the ities, Doel and Tihange. rest of the supply of 15 million could plants were subject to “the strictest pocket, he said: “I want to tell you took part in”. thyroid, would be given to children Dutch announcement came a day be made available to everyone caught possible safety requirements”.

EU opposes call for easier suspension Italy struggles to house migrants of visa-free travel Reuters following a total 153,000 arrivals in to take in more immigrants, he said. 2015 and 170,000 in 2014. “The shelter system is still inade- BRUSSELS: A proposal by Ger- The numbers are expected to rise quate,” said Giovanna Di Benedetto, a many and France to make it this year because countries along the spokeswoman for Save the Children easier to suspend visa-free travel CALTAGIRONE, ITALY: When police “Balkan route” —starting with a short in Sicily. “There are not enough places to the European Union from coun- arrested Lamin Darboe’s father two boat ride from Turkey to Greece and for everyone. So the network of shel- tries such as Turkey drew a frosty years ago, the 16-year-old had to quit continuing on land up to Austria— ters must be expanded and some of reception from the executive Euro- his studies and work on his uncle’s have shut their borders. That may them must improve their standards.” pean Commission yesterday. farm in Gambia. Desperate to go back cause more migrants to sail from Daniele Cutugno, a psychologist In what was seen as a move to to school, he stole his uncle’s bull to Libya to Sicily, the closest part of Italy. who manages the centre, said red tape make visa liberalisation for Turks, pay his way to Europe. Many of the new arrivals move and lack of central coordination for Ukrainians and Georgians more “I sold his bull ... before he found swiftly to wealthier northern Europe, the shelters is slowing the asylum acceptable, Berlin and Paris wrote out, I was gone,” said Darboe, who still although Austria has said it may shut process and clogging up the system. to EU partners calling for a tougher does not know how his father fell foul down its main border crossing in the “There are many actors, but eve- safeguard mechanism in case of a of the law. “I want to have a future, Alps to them. Already 113,000 are ryone has their own script,” Cutugno spike of asylum requests, overstays and become someone responsible in housed in Italy. said. “There needs to be greater coor- or readmission refusals. the future,” he said at an old villa in The situation is acute for minors dination of who does what.” Under their plan, which would the hilltop Sicilian town of Caltagirone like Darboe, who Italian law requires On Wednesday, the humanitarian have to be formally put forward by that now shelters 50 minors. be treated with extra care and be inte- group Terre des Hommes said it was the Commission, any member state Darboe is just one of thousands of grated quickly into the school system. “very concerned” about the unhy- would be allowed to suspend visa- migrants who have risked the deadly More than 2,700 unaccompanied gienic conditions in a “hotspot” in free travel from any country for six boat journey from North Africa to minors arrived in Italy during the first Pozzallo, a port on Sicily’s southern months unless EU states voted by Italy this year, piling pressure on a three months of the year. coast, that is used to quickly identify a qualified majority to overrule it. shelter system that is bursting at the Italy is seeking to expand the shel- migrants when they first touch Euro- The proposal came in midst of seams even before the expected sum- ter network to house 150,000 adults pean soil. a debate about whether to extend mer spike in arrivals. and minors this year, Mario Morcone, After four boatloads of migrants A woman walks along a rail track past tents at a makeshift camp for visa liberalisation to Ankara by end About 27,000 boat migrants have who manages Italy’s immigration arrived in April, the Pozzallo hotspot of June under a deal to curb flow of reached Italy since January 1, slightly system, said last week. But some has been hosting more than 300 migrants and refugees near village Idomeni at Greek-Macedonian refugees and migrants to Europe. up on the same period last year and regional governments do not want migrants. border yesterday. 10 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 VIEWS

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DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR HUSSAIN AHMAD [email protected] FROM LEFT: First Vice-President of South Sudan and former rebel leader Riek Machar, President Salva Kiir and Second Vice-President James Wani Igga shake hands after the formation of the new cabinet of the Transitional Government in Juba, yesterday.

EDITORIAL Peace in South Sudan How France sank Japan’s $40bn

eople of South Sudan can now look forward to a period of peace and progress if their leaders show a Australian submarine dream bit of determination to put the past behind them and Pcease their hostilities. In a major development that brought relief to South Sudan and the international By Tim Kelly, Cyril Altmeyer assertiveness in the South China comply, two sources with knowl- connections came into play. Cru- community, the country’s transitional unity government took and Colin Packham Sea and beyond. edge of the conversation said. cially, in April 2015, DCNS hired office yesterday after several months of squabbling and tension Reuters Still, France saw an oppor- Yet, convinced the deal was Costello, who had earlier that year between the rival tribes. President Salva Kiir was sworn in under tunity to get into the game. In still in the bag, Japan’s bidding lost his job as chief of staff of Aus- November 2014, DCNS CEO group dithered. “Even though we tralia’s Defence Ministry in the a deal that would see him share power with ex-rebels. Under Herve Guillou prevailed on French were in the competition we acted as wake of Johnston’s resignation. A the terms of an August 2015 peace deal, 30 ministerial posts N 2014, a blossoming Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le though nothing had changed,” said former navy submariner who had will be divided between Kiir, former rebel chief turned first vice friendship between Aus- Drian to visit Australia and start one Japanese government source also been the general manager for president Riek Machar, opposition and other parties. This was tralian Prime Minister the pitch for France. Le Drian trav- involved in the bid. “We thought we strategy at state-run Australian a moment the country and the world had waited for. The UN Tony Abbott and his Jap- elled to Albany in the country’s had already won, so why do any- submarine firm ASC, Costello was Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the formation of the anese counterpart Shinzo remote southwest, where officials thing to rock the boat?” ideally placed to lead a bid. Abe looked to have all but had gathered to commemorate the The Japanese did not attend a Had the Japanese called first, cabinet an ‘important milestone’ in the peace process. Kiir shook sewn up a $40bn submarine deal. 100 year anniversary of the first conference for the Future Subma- Costello would have likely have hands with his chief rival Machar after taking oath and promised I Then French naval contractor sailing of Australian soldiers to rines project in March, failing to accepted an offer to head their bid, to work together for the progress of their DCNS hatched a bold and seem- fight on France’s Western Front understand the importance of the according to a source who knows country which is the world’s youngest ingly hopeless plan to gatecrash during World War One. crucial lobbying event and leav- Costello. “They didn’t pick up the nation, which has been wracked by the party. The poignant shared history ing the field to their German and phone,” he said. Costello declined People of violence and instability two years after Almost 18 months later, France opened the door to discussions French rivals, sources within the to speak publicly about the bid. South Sudan its formation in 2011. this week secured a remarkable about the submarine contract, a Japanese bid said. Costello’s team drew up a list come-from-behind victory on one source close to the French Minis- Japan’s belated attempt to of a dozen tasks DCNS needed to can now look Civil war erupted in 2013 when of the world’s most lucrative defense try of Defence said. “The French engage with potential local complete to win the deal, includ- forward to President Salva Kiir sacked his deputy deals. The result: Tokyo’s dream of minister wished to be there for suppliers at a follow up event in ing the critical job of winning over Riek Machar, accusing him of plotting fast-tracking a revival of its arms this important event. There, he held August 2015 went badly. Com- U.S. defence companies Lockheed a period of a coup which the latter denied. What export industry is left in disarray. talks with his Australian counter- panies complained Tokyo was Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, one peace and followed was a conflict which was Interviews with more than a part David Johnston and with ... unwilling to discuss substan- of which will eventually build the characterized by gross human rights dozen Japanese, French, Austral- Abbott,” said the source, who along tive deals. Having only ever sold submarine’s combat system. progress if ian and German government and with other officials asked not to arms to Japan’s military because In a final coordinated push, a violations. Tens of thousands of people their leaders industry officials show how a series be identified because he was not of a decades-old ban on exports huge delegation of French govern- have been killed and more than two focus on of missteps by a disparate Japanese ment and business leaders visited million were driven from their homes. group of ministry officials, corpo- Australia a month ago, touting the governance Ethnic rivalry and divisions were played rate executives and diplomats badly economic benefits of their bid. and not to their extreme. The rivalry between undermined their bid. Finally stung to action, Japan hostility. the two sides was so deep-rooted and In particular, Japan misread ramped up its campaign in Septem- fighting so intense that mediation the changing political landscape in ber 2015. Senior defence bureaucrat Australia as Abbott fell from favour. Masaki Ishikawa stepped in to unite efforts failed for a long time. The Japanese group, which included what had until then been a dis- Machar has now been sworn into the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) jointed approach spread around post of vice president, a position he was sacked from five months and Kawasaki Heavy Industries various ministries, the Japanese before war broke out.The current transitional government is to (KHI), also failed to clearly commit ambassador in Canberra, Sumio remain in place until October 2018, by which time all sides are to providing skilled shipbuilding Kusaka, and MHI. Japan began expected to work towards a permanent solution. But keeping jobs in Australia. And Tokyo real- talking about investment and ized far too late its bid was being development opportunities beyond the transitional government alive will not be easy. Two years of outflanked by the Germans and defence, including the possibility of relentless fighting have driven a deep wedge and intense mistrust particularly the French, the sources opening a lithium-ion battery plant between the tribes representing Kiir and Machar, which means involved in the bid said. in Australia, while MHI opened an either side will have to work sincerely and whole-heartedly to France, on the other hand, Australia unit. make this formula succeed. “We must learn how to forgive and mobilised its vast and experi- In a last ditch attempt to woo enced military-industrial complex An employee walks past a poster showing a Barracuda submarine Australia, Japan sent one of its we must learn how to apologise,” Machar said. This is a gesture at the industrial site of the naval defence company and his rivals must reciprocate, and the international community, and hired a powerful Australian Soryu submarines to Sydney this submarine industry insider, Sean shipbuilder DCNS in La Montagne near Nantes, France. month. But as it sailed home on especially the African Union, must be on alert for signs of friction Costello, who led it to an unex- Tuesday, Turnbull announced the in the truce which can lead to the collapse of the government. pected victory. authorized to speak to the media. that Abe lifted in 2014, neither deal had gone to DCNS. In an echo Reports say sporadic fighting still continues between the rival Japan’s loss represents a major Soon after, however, Aus- Japanese company had any of his first Albany trip, Le Drian tribes, causing concern. setback for Abe’s push to develop tralia’s political instability would Australian military industrial heard of France’s win on Mon- an arms export industry as part of erode Japan’s advantage with partners. day as he attended an Anzac Day a more muscular security agenda the old guard. In December 2014, And unlike France and Ger- service for Australia’s war dead in after decades of pacifism. Johnston, the Australian defence many which quickly committed northwestern France. “We put our utmost effort into minister, was forced to resign after to building the submarines in Aus- For Tokyo, another big inter- the bid,” the head of the Ministry disparaging the skills of Austral- tralia, Japan initially only said it national defence competition that of Defense’s procurement agency ian shipbuilders. would follow the bidding rules, could help Japan develop the arms Quote of the day Hideaki Watanabe said after the South Australian lawmakers, which required building in Aus- export industry that Abe envisaged result was announced on Tuesday. worried that Abbott had quietly tralia as just one of three options. is unlikely any time soon. A more We are currently reviewing “We will do a thorough analysis of agreed to Japan supplying the new “The Japanese had been invited likely tack will be joint development how we can continue our what impact the result will have submarines, insisted the govern- in on a handshake deal and were projects with overseas partners to on our defense industry.” ment look at options to build them left trying to compete in an inter- embed Japanese companies in mil- engagement and perhaps By the end of 2014, Japan was in their state. They pressured the national competition having no itary industrial supply chains. That even bolster it... in order to still comfortably in the driving prime minister into holding a experience in doing such a thing,” might even include components for ensure the security of all seat thanks to the relationship competitive tender which DCNS an Australian defence industry Australia’s French submarines, one (Nato) states, particularly in between Abe and Abbott, which and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp source said. By September 2015, source in Tokyo said. had begun soon after Abbott’s Marine Systems quickly joined. Japan’s key ally Abbott had been Other Japanese officials still the East. 2013 election and strengthened In February 2015, Abbott deposed by Malcolm Turnbull, want Australia to explain why quickly. called his “best friend in Asia”, as blowing the competition wide open. they lost so they can learn from Japan and Australia - key he had previously described Abe, Industry officials said all the painful and bewildering expe- Angela Merkel allies of the United States - had to tell him about the new bid- of the sub offerings had some rience. “We thought up to the end German Chancellor wanted to cement security ties ding process. Abe sympathized drawbacks, meaning other fac- that we could have won,” another to counter to China’s growing and said he would do his best to tors including experience and source in Japan said.

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HEN British Con- that trade and sul General Leigh investment Turner (pictured) arrived in Istan- between Britain bul for the first time on a hot and Turkey had WAugust day in 2012, he got lost. He had just been appointed to the position and steadily increased had arrived in Istanbul for four weeks to learn Turkish, and he was desperately in the last four trying to locate his new home - on foot - in Baltalimani neighbourhood on the years at a time European side, a picturesque area on when economic the Bosphorus. “I couldn’t find the house,” he recalls. development has “So I was looking for it in the dark, it was very hot, and there were lots of been difficult. dogs chasing me around and my phone wasn’t working because I just arrived that day and so I looked in every street in Baltalimani.” An hour-and-a-half later of trudging through the uphill streets and slopes that Diyarbakir to Aegean Mugla. characterize Istanbul, he finally found “I love Istanbul but the whole of Tur- the house. Thus began the love affair key is actually full of remarkable history, between the 58-year-old British diplo- archeology, fantastic tourist sites and I mat and Istanbul. think that all of the Turkish people can As Leigh Turner prepares to leave his be really proud of this history going right post in July, he leaves behind the mani- more than 15,000 followers. More it is all true; people like that and it means great place to live’,” Turner said. back to Gobeklitepe,” he says, referring to festation of his deep admiration for the specifically, he has used the popu- I have more followers when I tweet out Turner, who grew up in Nigeria, the site in southeastern Turkey of one of city, as well as the country as a whole, in lar #reasonstolikeistanbul hashtag to something about how good British cars Lesotho and Swaziland in Africa, before the world’s oldest temple. the form of a blog and a Twitter account. showcase more than 600 pictures about are or tweet out something about growing going to Manchester Grammar School and “Likely, for me to see Turkey was an Leigh Turner has indeed attracted Istanbul. trade and investment between our coun- Cambridge University, was already speak- important priority because to do my job local media’s attention with his @leight- “I am quite proud of my work on social tries,” he says. ing French, German, Russian, as well as well, it helps to understand the country urnerFCO Twitter account, which boasts media where I think we have been try- Turner says that trade and investment some Ukrainian and Spanish, before he as well as it is possible for an outsider,” ing to show people in Turkey that British between Britain and Turkey had steadily took on Turkish. he says. people are interested in Turkey,” he says, increased in the last four years at a time His efforts to learn the language have “Many things have gotten better”, since sitting on a reddish sofa in the consulate. when economic development has been paid off as evidenced by his bilingual blog. his arrival, says Turner. “In particular, One day, a tweet about a craftsman in difficult. (Not to mention the fact that he managed what I noticed here in Istanbul in trans- the city’s historical Grand Bazaar. Another “The United Kingdom is the biggest to finish 2014 thriller Death of a Journalist port infrastructure is steadily improving,” day, a picture of an inventive hairdresser foreign country investing in Turkey,” he by Elcin Poyrazlar... in Turkish.) he adds. “Not everything in every country As Leigh Turner prepares sign that reads “Barber of Seville”. An notes. “We are beginning to see Turk- In Turkish and in English, he covers is perfect of course,” he says. “I think the escapade to one of Istanbul’s traditional ish companies, which want to grow from a multitude of topics - from contempo- phase of reforms in Turkey has unfortu- to leave his post in July, teahouses also warrants its own tweet. being regional brands to being a global rary arts to historic heritage in Turkey. nately slowed down compared with the “The advantage of social media is that brands - they are beginning to invest in His engaging writing style owes perhaps period of about 2000 and 2007,” he says. he leaves behind the you reach out very quickly to a lot of peo- the United Kingdom too.” quite a bit to his time, between 2002 and The British Foreign Ministry manifestation of his deep ple and not just the traditional people who “We can say that we increased our 2006, when he was on unpaid leave in announced Turner’s appointment as are close to the consulate, close to embas- trade between 2010 and 2015 by well over Berlin looking after his two children while ambassador to Austria and UK perma- admiration for the city, as sies,” he says. 70 percent between our two countries, a working as a freelance journalist for the nent representative to the United Nations The British diplomat who is also really good figure actually,” Turner adds. Financial Times, the Boston Globe and in Vienna last December. He has already well as the country as a Director-General for Trade and Invest- One of the reasons for Turner to apply other German and US newspapers. tweeted #adiosistanbul as a farewell to ment for Turkey, Central Asia and the for the Istanbul job was a 2012 Financial The blog has been lauded by Turkish the city. “I will miss the beautiful sur- whole, in the form of a blog South Caucasus, also explains how being Times readership survey that gave a top media and is a source not only for for- roundings, Istanbul is a really beautiful active on social media positively affects mark to Istanbul as the best city in the eigners visiting the country but also for city and it is very historic. There are many and a Twitter account. his work. world to live in. “I read with a great inter- local Turks. Since his first day, Turner has nice teashops and little places I like to go. “If I tweet out #reasonstolikeistanbul, est and thought ‘yep, that’s sound like a travelled across Turkey from southeastern And I will miss all of those things.” Innovation needed to turn on climate cash tap for the poor

local community is not a burden on the government, that we are also implementing solutions,” she said. As climate change effects like sea-level rise and drought strengthen around the world, finding ways to channel money to on-the-ground adaptation is becoming increasingly urgent. Officials at the Green Climate Fund — which by 2020 is hoping to handle much of a promised $100bn a year in funding to help poorer By Laurie Goering nations adopt clean energy and Reuters cope with more extreme weather and higher seas — have said it will channel half its cash to adaptation projects. HEN residents of the It is also working to provide low-lying Del Rosa- poorer countries in need of money rio slum settlement with “direct access” to funds though A December 2015 file picture shows people riding on a delivery truck to cross a flooded road after heavy in Valenzuela City institutions they choose, rather than rain at Candaba town, Pampanga province, north of Manila. in the Philippines routing much of the funding through Wnoticed floodwater was lapping half large banks, as has happened with a finger’s length higher up their homes most climate finance up to now. funding are underway in many places. adaptation in poorer countries is to with the London-based International each year, they decided it was time to But creating such a shift is hugely But simply finding developing-coun- make sure the blizzard of projects Institute for Environment and Devel- do something. challenging, experts told a meeting try ministries, NGOs or other bodies carried out by different donors and opment, said getting more money Officials at the They began contributing to a on community-based adaptation to willing to undertake the gruelling at different levels of government is into the hands of communities may Green Climate community savings fund so they could climate change this week in Dhaka. accreditation process is tough, at least better planned, said Margaret Bar- require rich-country consultants and pay to raise the flooded cement paths Smaller governments and organ- in Nepal, Chhetri said. ihaihi of the Africa Climate Change organisations to step back from seek- Fund — which by that link their homes to drier land isations face the same dauntingly “The process takes lots of time Resilience Alliance. ing so much of the pot for their work. 2020 is hoping to nearby, and try to buy the plot where complex paperwork and approval and money, and there’s no guaran- The alliance has so far helped Donors seeking to get more cash they were squatting to build safer, processes as big ones, even though tee you will get accredited,” he said. countries such as Mozambique, Ethio- directly to poor communities should handle much of a higher and more permanent homes. they are usually seeking much less “It’s a huge investment for an organ- pia and Uganda set up a coordination consider giving to innovative funds promised $100bn City officials, impressed by cash. And as the Green Climate Fund isation to commit to this.” To ease the system for adaptation projects so such as the Urban Poor Fund Inter- their initiative, agreed to carry out strives to meet an ambitious goal of problem, he believes poor countries that they reach the right areas, avoid national, which pools savings of a year in funding a boundary survey of the area for pushing out $2.5bn in 2016, it will be seeking less money should face sim- duplication, meet the goals set by slumdwellers to provide loans for to help poorer them, and ultimately issued permits easier to fund fewer large projects pler and less stringent accreditation communities, and focus on the coun- anti-poverty projects, Colenbrander for new homes once the group of 96 than many smaller ones, experts say. requirements in the early rounds of try’s top priorities. said. nations adopt clean residents managed to buy their tiny Funding for a first group of eight funding, with standards tightening as “We are preparing governments, Putting seed money into such energy and cope patch of flood-prone land. projects approved in 2015 is being they learn and seek larger amounts. so they will have a system that can funds can provide much-needed with more extreme Uniting communities to start the channelled mainly through big insti- “You can’t put a 25-year-old, a absorb money,” Barihaihi said. “If we capital for community adaptation work that needs to be done to adapt tutions, in part because few others 16-year-old and a 5-year-old at the get this right, projects will be flowing.” projects, like the one to reduce flood weather and higher to climate change impacts — rather have been approved to work with the same starting line for a race,” he said. At the same time, too much risk in Del Rosario slum, she said, and seas — have said it than just waiting for help — can be fund yet. “There are lots of challenges “It’s not fair. “If it fails, it fails. But let government control can be a risk, can potentially leverage government crucial to persuading governments to really access these resources,” said us make an effort, so that in the long particularly if there is perceived to and international finance. will channel half its to step in, said Ruby Haddad of the Raju Pandit Chhetri, director of the run we do not always rely on interna- be political bias in how projects are “It makes a big difference to go cash to adaptation Homeless People’s Federation Phil- Kathmandu-based Prakriti Resources tional institutions. We want to open managed, warned Binita Maharjan, to an official saying, ‘We can bring ippines, which helped organise the Centre. “So much has to be in place.” that door,” he added. representative of a ward-level disas- this much money - we need your help projects. Del Rosario community. Efforts to help poorer countries Another way to help ensure ter management committee in Nepal. and technical resources,’ rather than “It’s very powerful to show the develop the capacity to qualify for money is spent more effectively on Sarah Colenbrander, a researcher just going with open hands,” she said.

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All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 12 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 AMERICAS Violence at US Army names first female Trump’s rally infantry officer WASHINGTON: Captain Kristen Griest became the US Army’s first female infantry officer this week, in California the Army said, in a mile- stone for the US military as it opens up combat in and other protests sprayed graffiti roles for women. on a police car and the Pacific Amphi- Griest was one of two Costa Mesa police theatre’s marquee. women who made history arrest around 20 Dozens of cars — including those last year after becom- of Trump supporters were stuck in the ing one of the first female people. street as several hundred demonstra- soldiers to pass the tors blocked the road, waved Mexican Army’s grueling course to flags and posed for selfies. qualify for the elite Rang- Police in riot gear and on horse- ers unit. AP back pushed the crowd back and Protesters hold up signs during a rally against US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in away from the venue. There were no major injuries and police did not use Burlingame, California. Lawmakers reject any force. The crowd began dispers- COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA: Rau- ing after the speech ended. honour for ‘racist’ cous protesters and supporters of Earlier, a half-dozen anti-Trump Trump praises Democratic Sanders John Wayne Donald Trump violently confronted protesters taunted those waiting to each other in California as the Repub- get into the venue. Trump support- lican presidential contender brought ers surrounded one man who waved Los Angeles: California his campaign to Orange County. a Mexican flag and shouted “Build Reuters talking points from Sanders’ speeches such as criticism of Wall Street and lawmakers voted down a Dozens of protesters were mostly that wall! Build that wall!” — a refer- criticising Hillary to use in a possible international trade agreements, resolution aimed at hon- peaceful during the speech. Late in ence to Trump’s call to create a barrier matchup with the former secretary of there is only limited crossover appeal ouring legendary actor the evening, however, the demon- between the United States and Mexico state in the general election. between the two candidates. John Wayne, after oppo- stration grew rowdy and spilled into to stop illegal border crossings. WASHINGTON: As Donald Trump “He said some things about her Among voters who back Trump, nents accused him of the streets. At one point, seven women moves closer to clinching the Repub- that were so incredible - and so just 12 percent said Sanders would being a racist. Approximately 20 people were entered the square outside the lican presidential nomination, he incredibly bad,” Trump said, adding be their second choice if Trump The resolution would arrested by Costa Mesa police, amphitheater. They said they were has offered lavish praise for Bernie Sanders had “been telling the truth.” were not in the race, slightly higher have declared May 26 according to a tweet from Orange protesting Trump’s lack of engage- Sanders, who faces increasingly Yet data and interviews with than the 7 percent who said Clinton —the screen icon’s birth- County Sheriff’s Department. One ment on issues of gender equality and slim chances in his battle with Hil- Sanders supporters suggest that win- would be their next pick. Just 8 per- day—“John Wayne Day,” Trump supporter had his face blood- women’s rights. lary Clinton in the Democratic race. ning over large numbers of them may cent of Sanders supporters said they but several Latino and ied in a scuffle as he tried to drive out “I feel like he wants to make Trump has begun calling for be difficult for the New York billion- would vote for Trump as their second black lawmakers objected of the arena. One man jumped on a America great again, but certainly not Sanders to run as an independent aire businessman. choice, roughly the same as the por- to the proposal, citing police car, leaving its front and rear for women or for the lower class,” said if he does not win the Democratic Even though Trump, and Sand- tion of voters who listed Ted Cruz and comments by Wayne windows smashed and the top dented one of the women, Tiernan Hebron. nomination and said he may borrow ers, emphasise some common themes John Kasich as their second choice. they said were racist toward blacks and Native Americans. Venting out anger Mexico’s chief FBI paid under $1m investigator to unlock iPhone probed Mexico City: Mexico’s head of criminal investi- Reuters contents of the iPhone in the hope gations faced calls to be they will help fill gaps in their fired as the attorney gen- investigation of the shooting last eral’s office launched December which killed 14 people a probe into his han- WASHINGTON: The FBI paid under and wounded 22. dling of a crime scene in $1m for the technique used to unlock The FBI are also trying to under- the disapperance of 43 the iPhone used by one of the San stand what the shooters were doing students. Bernardino shooters—a figure during an 18 minute gap in a time- Tomas Zeron, the smaller than the $1.3m the agency’s line investigators have put together head of the criminal chief initially indicated the hack cost, tracking their movements on the day investigations agency, several US government sources said. of the shootings, the sources said. was led that day by a The Federal Bureau of Investiga- Meanwhiile, the US Supreme suspect to the San Juan tion will be able to use the technique Court approved a rule change that river, in which the burnt to unlock other iPhone 5C models would let US judges issue search remains of students were running iOS 9 - the specifications of warrants for access to computers allegedly tossed by a the shooter’s phone - without addi- located in any jurisdiction despite drug gang. Hundreds of students from the state public schools attend a demonstration against diversion of funds tional payment to the contractor who opposition from civil liberties groups for school meals in Sao Paulo, Brazil. provided it, these people added. who say it will greatly expand FBI’s FBI Director James Comey last hacking authority. week said the agency paid more US Chief Justice John Roberts Canada detains to get into the iPhone than he will transmitted the rules to Congress, make in the remaining seven years which will have until December 1 to man posing as and four months he has in his job, reject or modify changes to federal young student Mexican general jailed for over 52 years suggesting the hack cost over $1.3bn, rules of criminal procedure. If Con- based on his annual salary. gress does not act, the rules would The Justice Department unlocked take effect automatically. Magistrate Ottawa: Canadian AFP The victim was taken to a mili- general ordered the defence minis- the iPhone in March with help of a judges can order searches only within authorities detained a tary installation, where he was tied try to offer a public apology, accept contractor after Apple Inc refused to the jurisdiction of their court, which 30-year-old South Suda- up and soaked in water to receive responsibility and vow that such acts bypass the device’s encryption fea- is typically limited to a few counties. nese man for lying about electric shocks, while other suspects will not be repeated. The general and tures on grounds it could undermine The US Justice Department, his age, saying he claimed MEXICO CITY: A Mexican army gen- were being interrogated. defense ministry were ordered to pay security for all users. which has pushed for rule change to be 17 in order to play eral has been sentenced to 52 years The torture began in early hours $14,500 to relatives of the victim. The FBI, not the contractor, has since 2013, described it as a minor high school basketball. and six months in prison for ordering of July 28, 2008, and ended when Local media identified the gen- physical possession of the mech- modification needed to modernise According to an Immi- torture of a suspect and incineration the victim died, “very probably” of a eral as Manuel Moreno Avina. anism used to open the phone but criminal code for the digital age, and gration and Refugee of his body, authorities said. heart attack resulting from the elec- Mexico’s armed forces and police does not know details of how it has said it would not permit searches Board hearing transcript, The Federal Judicial Council tric shocks, the council said. have faced a slew of torture accusa- works, one of the sources said. or seizures that are not already legal. Jonathan Nicola received said the general, whose name was The general then ordered that the tions amid a decade-long drug war. The identity of the contractor is Google, and civil liberties groups a full athletic scholarship not released, ordered the suspect body be driven to a ranch, where it The general and police official so closely-held inside the FBI that such as American Civil Liberties Union to play basketball at a be tortured for several hours to get was “incinerated in a clandestine apologized this month after a video not even Comey knows who it is, one and Access Now contend the change school in Windsor. information about a soldier’s death manner,” the council said. surfaced showing federal officers and of the sources said. would expand FBI’s ability to conduct in July 2008 in Chihuahua. The court that sentenced the soldiers torturing a woman. The FBI is still examining the mass hacks on computer networks. Drug trafficking network Venezuela oppn claims million signatures against president dismantled Bogota: Police in Colom- AFP The speaker of the opposition- The socialist president has bia dismantled a criminal controlled National Assembly, Henry already blocked several bills brought network that specialised Ramos Allup, said government must by the opposition by challenging them in smuggling illegal drugs remove Torres after two-thirds of the in the Supreme Court. His critics say to Asia and Australia. CARACAS: Venezuela’s opposition lawmakers approved a no-confidence he controls the court and the elec- “After a year-and-a- tried to sack the food minister for motion against him. toral authorities. half-long investigation, shortages and claimed a million peo- But Maduro retorted: “No one will The political tension, shortages the National Police suc- ple backed its call for a referendum to remove the minister.” He vowed to and now enforced electricity black- ceeded in locating an remove the president. pass new emergency measures to outs that started this week have raised organisation that focused President Nicolas Maduro rejected head off attempts of “sabotage” by fears of unrest. Looting and clashes on sending drugs to the demand to replace the govern- lawmakers. He even threatened to were reported in towns including the China and Australia,” said ment over a crisis that has families cut the power to the legislature, as country’s second-biggest city Marac- Ricardo Alarcon, head of queuing up for food rations. part of widespread blackouts he has aibo after daily power cut-offs were the force’s anti-narcotics “We are facing the worst food imposed to save power. formally launched on Monday. unit. The network some- emergency in Venezuela’s history,” Senior opposition leader Henrique To save power the government times secreted drugs said Ismael Garcia, the lawmaker Capriles said more than a million peo- has also slashed the workweek to two inside computers and A member of National Guard guards a shop in Maracaibo city. Shortages leading the motion to sack minister ple had signed a petition calling for a days for state employees and ordered other electronic devices. Rodolfo Marco Torres. recall referendum. schools to close on Fridays. and enforced blackouts have raised fears of unrest in Venezuela. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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New Mercedes factory S&P keeps UK on Combined assets of triple-A rating Qatar banks rise by AFP

PARIS: Britain kept its coveted top- QR26bn to QR1.14trn grade triple-A credit rating from Standard and Poor’s yesterday, with the agency saying it expected the country to ultimately vote to remain Qatar banks’ total assets (and in the European Union. Standard Total domestic liabilities) increased by QR26.7bn and Poor’s said “our affirmation of to QR1.14trillion compared with the rating reflects our assumption private sector QR1.11trillion by the end of February that, by a small majority, the refer- deposits in local 2016. Total banks deposits at Qatar endum will deliver a vote to remain Central Bank increased by QR2.1bn in the EU”, citing polls which show banks by the end of to QR34.3bn. a slim majority planning to vote on March increased by Total domestic private sector June 23 to stay in the EU. deposits in local banks by the end However, the ratings agency QR0.4bn. of March increased by QR0.4bn to kept the top-grade rating, which reach QR327.4bn, in addition to generally allows a nation to bor- deposits worth QR9.8bn by non- row at lower rates, on negative banking financial institutions. outlook over the possibility vot- The Peninsula Total domestic loans and credit ers would choose to leave the bloc, Mercedes B-Class cars on the assembly line in the car manufacturing plant of Mercedes-Benz after the facilities provided by banks to the or “Brexit”. private sector increased by QR2.6bn foundation stone laying ceremony of the new compact car chassis manufacturing factory in Kecskemet, It added Brexit could also DOHA: Government and pub- to QR415.2bn. This is in addition to 85km southeast of Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. dampen economic growth and lic sector deposits in Qatar banks loans and facilities worth QR16.3bn curtail investment. increased by QR5.4bn in March for the non-banking financial on month-on-month to reach sector. QR209.4bn. The sector’s total Banks investments in securities loans increased about QR3.5bn to outside Qatar increased by QR0.2bn QR255.7bn, a reading of the banks’ to hit QR21.9bn. A breakdown of the consolidated balance sheet by amount shows bonds and Sukuk Oil set for biggest monthly rise in 7 years the Group Security Company has worth QR18.4bn and QR3.5bn in revealed. shares and others. The government deposit in Qatar Local banks assets with banks Reuters Investment bank Jefferies said Countries - due to climbing Iranian contract year on year in April or May banks stood at QR62.2bn and gov- outside Qatar increased by QR13.4bn the market “is coming into better bal- output and following outages in Iraq, for the first time since 2013. ernment institutions at QR115.1bn to QR79.6bn. Bank loans to foreign ance” and would flip into undersupply Nigeria and the UAE. A weakening dollar also sup- by the end of March. The deposits parties increased by QR0.4bn to in the second half of the year. Saudi output is expected to edge ported oil by making dollar-priced of semi-government institutions reach the level of QR89.5bn. LONDON: Brent crude was heading But others warned that the rally up by 350,000 barrels to around crude cheaper for holders of other touched QR32.1bn. In March, gov- In contrast, foreign banks lia- for its biggest monthly rise in seven was happening too soon, driven in 10.5 million barrels per day, sources currencies. ernment sector loans increased by bilities on banks in Qatar decreased years yesterday, touching 2016 highs large part by investors taking spec- told Reuters, just as tankers filled There are growing risks that pro- 1.5bn to QR94bn. QR3.6bn to reach the level of as a weak dollar and falling US pro- ulative positions. “The issue is that with unsold oil are at sea seeking duction in OPEC member Venezuela Government institution loans QR186.6bn while the indebtedness duction tempered concerns about an we haven’t seen price rallies ... corre- buyers. Still, falling production out- could decline. Risk consultancy Eur- was up by QR0.8bn to QR139.6bn, of local banks to foreign parties in excess of physical oil. late with fundamentals,” said Hamza side OPEC, notably in the US, raised asia Group said the state was running while semi-government institu- the form of bonds and certificates A looming rise in Middle East Khan, senior commodity strategist at hopes that the worst of the nearly out of cash to keep its pumps running. tions’ total loan slipped by QR1.2bn of deposit increased the level of output capped gains, but investor ING. “The fundamentals - high stocks, two-year excess of oil was over. “Mounting problems will probably to reach QR22.1bn in March. QR35.3bn. The balance of foreign sentiment held the optimism that has high production - haven’t changed.” Analysts polled by Reuters lead to a decline of 100,000-150,000 The balance of govern- deposits at Qatari banks increased helped lift oil futures nearly 80 per- A Reuters survey showed that raised their average forecast for bpd this year,” Eurasia Group said. ment bonds and bills with banks QR16.9bn to QR114.9bn. cent higher than January lows. OPEC’s oil output rose in April to the Brent in 2016 to $42.30 per barrel, Nigerian output fell due to the decreased about QR4.5bn to reach By reconciling assets at home Brent futures were trading at highest in recent history as produc- the second consecutive month of continued lack of Forcados crude QR107.3bn. The total domestic pub- and abroad with liabilities, The $48.26 a barrel at 1351 GMT, up 12 tion increases in Iran and Iraq offset increases. exports and a brief disruption to ship- lic debt (government, government Group Securities finds that the cents from their last close. US crude outages elsewhere. Bank of America Merrill Lynch ments of another stream, Brass River. institutions, quasi-governmen- banking sector debts to the outside was up 57 cents at $46.60 a barrel, Deutsche Bank said it expected said in a note that “non-OPEC oil sup- Repairs on a pipeline to the Forcados tal institutions, bills and bonds) world has increased about QR19.4bn with both contracts hitting 2016 highs a rise in production by the Organi- ply is indeed hanging off a cliff”, and terminal will take until June, the gov- decreased by QR1.0bn to QR 363bn. in March to reach QR165.4bn. earlier in the session. zation of the Petroleum Exporting estimated that global output would ernment said. BA owner trims expansion plans Comcast to buy DreamWorks

AFP travel. “As a result, IAG has moder- Animation in $3.8bn deal ated its short-term capacity growth plans.” But the company said it still LONDON: International Airlines expects to deliver a rise in operat- AFP chief executive of Comcast unit The deal represents consolidation Group, owner of British Airways and ing profits this year, as it did in 2015. NBCUniversal. in a sector which is being challenged Iberia, said yesterday it was scaling On March 22, Brussels was hit Under the deal, the animation by the emergence of new Internet- back plans to raise its flights offer- by suicide bombings claimed by the studio will become part of NBCU’s based video services such as Netflix ing, blaming the move on last month’s extremist Islamic State group that WASHINGTON: DreamWorks Ani- Universal Filmed Entertainment and Amazon, which are boosting Islamist attacks in Brussels. targeted the city’s airport and a metro mation, the studio behind family Group, which includes Universal their original programming. The announcement was made station, leaving 32 people dead. blockbusters “Kung Fu Panda” and Pictures. It aims to strengthen NBCU pro- alongside news that IAG had swung In the first quarter, IAG reported the Oscar-winning “Shrek,” is being Upon completion, the studio’s gramming for family and children in into a net profit in the first quarter a net profit of 104m euros ($118m), snapped up by US entertainment and chief executive Katzenberg will film, television and on-demand video compared with a year earlier, thanks which compared with a loss after tax cable giant Comcast in a $3.8bn deal become chairman of DreamWorks -- potentially challenging the Walt to its recent purchase of Aer Lingus of 26m euros one year earlier. Fuel announced on Thursday. New Media, which will include some Disney Co., which owns the Pixar and lower fuel prices. However IAG costs were down 30 percent at con- Originally part of the Dream- NBCU television operations. animation studio. was the biggest faller on London’s stant currency levels. Works group created in the 1990s “Having spent the past two dec- In addition to hit movie series benchmark FTSE 100 index, slump- “The group was the biggest blue IAG has been boosted by its pur- by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen ades working together with our team “Shrek,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “Madagas- ing 4.45 percent to 526.50 pence. The chip faller in early trading despite a chase last year of Aer Lingus -- a and former top Disney executive to build DreamWorks Animation car” and “How to Train Your Dragon,” FTSE was down 0.9 percent overall. strong first quarter.” move aimed at increasing its share Jeffrey Katzenberg, the studio was into one of the world’s most beloved Comcast will acquire a string of pop- “British Airways parent IAG went In an earnings statement, IAG of the lucrative transatlantic market. spun off as a separate company in brands, I am proud to say that NBCU- ular franchises such as “Shark Tale” into a tailspin as it scaled back short said that in the current second quar- Airlines are meanwhile bene- 2004. niversal is the perfect home for our and “Monsters vs Aliens.” term capacity plans in the aftermath ter, “revenue trends... have been fitting from much lower costs for jet “DreamWorks will help us grow company; a home that will embrace The animation studio has of the Brussels terror attacks,” said affected by the aftermath of the Brus- fuel that is refined from crude oil our film, television, theme parks the legacy of our storytelling and released 32 feature films that Russ Mould, (pictured) investment sels terrorist attacks, as well as some -- a commodity whose prices have and consumer products businesses grow our businesses to their fullest together have pulled in more than director at AJ Bell. softness” in demand for premium plunged since a year ago. for years to come,” said Steve Burke, potential,” said Katzenberg. $13bn in global box office receipts. 14 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 BUSINESS Eurozone economy at pre-crisis peak as growth surges

albeit having taken eight years to on an annualised basis in the first is mostly because of improvements in which excludes volatile energy Heading into the second quarter, Blowing past both recover. The bloc also slipped back quarter, implying only slightly more the job market.” and food prices, also slowed, rais- the euro zone appears to remain on into deflation in April. than 0.12 percent for the three Indeed, unemployment in the ing fears that low energy prices are solid footing. the US and British Blowing past both the US and Brit- months. euro zone, though still high, fell to feeding into the price of other goods Indeed, sentiment improved economies, the ish economies, the latter weighed Annual euro zone growth held 10.2 percent in March from 10.4 per- and services. more than expected in April, driven down by uncertainty over possi- steady at 1.6 percent, more than cent a month earlier, its lowest in over The ECB is especially worried by across the board optimism among eurozone growth bly leaving the Europe Union, euro three times the US rate in the same four years, with Spain among the most about this so-called second round industry, services, construction sec- doubled from the zone growth doubled from the pre- period. improved. effect of low crude prices because tor and households. vious quarter, beating even the most The numbers defied expectations The news was not all positive, once they feed into wages, breaking Preliminary purchasing manag- previous quarter. optimistic expectations on healthy for a slowdown and were as improved however, as fresh inflation data the cycle of low inflation becomes ers’ data and Germany’s Ifo business household consumption and a sentiment, plunging energy costs and showed the bloc was back in deflation especially difficult. climate index also pointed to contin- rebound in investments. a slow but steady fall in unemploy- in April, giving the European Central Still, ECB chief economist Peter ued expansion as did fresh lending But the surge, a welcome relief ment and buoyed spending. Bank its single biggest headache as it Praet defended the bank’s measures data showing the most robust expan- Reuters less than a year after Greece was “The first months of the year were struggles to boost prices. on Friday, arguing that only a sig- sion since 2011. nearly ejected from the bloc, may tumultuous with large stock market Consumer prices fell by 0.2 per- nificant worsening of the inflation Growth could also get a fresh be just a blip; Europe is still weighed declines, growth concerns in the US, cent compared to a year earlier, outlook would warrant more stimulus. boost from the ECB’s corporate bond down by high debt, weak bank profits, China and many emerging markets moving down from an unchanged “Deploying negative rates again buys and new round of ultra cheap BRUSSELS/BERLIN: Overcoming high unemployment and vast excess and plummeting confidence among reading March, even after the ECB in the future would require a distinct loans. years of poor health and crisis, the capacity in the economy. businesses and consumers,” ING unveiled fresh stimulus in Decem- worsening of the inflation outlook,” Still, the first quarter could ulti- euro zone economy grew at its fastest Nonetheless, growth among the economist Bert Colijn said in a note. ber and March in hopes of boosting Praet told Spanish newspaper Expan- mately turn out to be a peak for pace in five years in the first quar- 19 countries sharing the euro jumped “Clearly, businesses and con- inflation, which has undershot its 2 sión. “I don’t think we’re going to see growth, with most projections indi- ter, driven by unlikely stars such as 0.6 percent on the quarter, well past sumers have not acted on their gut percent target for more than three these conditions materialising in the cating flatlining growth over the France and Spain. expectations for 0.4 percent and feelings,” Colijn said. “Domestic years already. near future.” next several years as Europe remains It now stands larger that in did at ahead of Britain’s 0.4 percent. strength in the Eurozone economy is In a perhaps more worrying sign “We shouldn’t be talking of new weighed down by the legacy of its its peak before the financial crisis, The US economy grew 0.5 percent key to current economic growth. This for policymakers, core inflation, instruments,” Praet added. crisis. Transatlantic Thyssenkrupp warned trade talks claim progress over steel merger talks

Reuters compatible with Thyssenkrupp’s - AFP in Europe. But Thyssenkrupp’s works council, which represents 28,000 FRANKFURT: Thyssenkrupp’s steelworkers, has made clear it NEW YORK: Negotiators on the powerful labour chief warned its will resist any move that could cost ambitious TTIP transatlantic trade leaders not to go ahead with steel jobs or see the firm abandon its pact said they had made significant merger talks without consulting its 200-year-old steelmaking roots, a progress in New York this week works council first, saying steel- view also aired by some top German and hope for a deal in 2016, despite workers were ready to fight for their politicians. popular opposition on both sides. future. “We showed impressively with Both sides said they would not Wilhelm Segerath, who rep- our steel action day that steelwork- be deterred by increased attacks resents the works council on ers are ready to fight for their future,” on the Transatlantic Trade and Thyssenkrupp’s supervisory board, Segerath said, referring to demon- Investment Partnership, and did was responding to media reports strations earlier this month in which not plan to water it down despite that the German industrial group is half of Germany’s steelworkers took vocal objections from politicians in exploratory talks with other steel- part. and the public on both sides. makers including Tata Steel. Labour representatives consti- “The United States has no Segerath said he did not believe tute half the members of German interest in a ‘TTIP light’ that would concrete talks were happening yet, companies’ supervisory boards, and not fulfil the economic promise of and demanded that Chief Executive in the case of steel companies have the ambitious agreement that we’re Heinrich Hiesinger explain to the special rights that mean they can seeking,” said Dan Mullaney, the works council why a merger would effectively veto strategic decisions. The letters ‘Mc’ and the flag of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic are seen on the roof a US Trade Representative’s front make sense before embarking on Thyssenkrupp’s Hiesinger said man in the talks. “A TTIP light.. building, which before housed a McDonald’s restaurant in Luhansk, Ukraine, yesterday. any such negotiations. this month he would go to the rele- is not workable for the US or for “Consolidation talks cannot vant committees, which include the the Europeans,” said Ignacio Gar- and will not take place without us, works council, if and when man- cia Bercero, the lead negotiator for McDonald’s probes copycat the works council, and trade union agement believed it had a “viable” the European Commission’s Direc- IG Metall,” Segerath said yesterday. concept. Segerath questioned the torate General for Trade. “If they are taking place, which I rationale for merging Europe’s steel- US and EU negotiators told burger joint in east Ukraine don’t believe, then there will be big makers, which he said would only journalists that there were still trouble.” lead to an increase in imports from significant sticking points. While Steel-to-elevators group Thys- China, do nothing for the environ- 97 percent of tariff issues had been senkrupp has said it wants to play a ment and have little impact on global covered, three percent -- the most Reuters from the restaurant. restaurant selling food wrapped in role in any consolidation of the Euro- overcapacity. challenging, including for farm On the outside of the building, the McDonald’s branded packaging, but pean steel market, which is plagued A key gripe of European steel- products, remained and could be McDonald’s sign had been doctored Reuters could not immediately ver- by excess production capacity and a makers is EU environmental some of the last things to deal with. to leave only the letters “Mc”, and the ify their authenticity. weak demand outlook. legislation, which they say puts Other key challenges are on the MOSCOW: The McDonald’s fast blue-red-and-light blue flag of the Yesterday, the packaging being Expectations of such mergers a high price on carbon emissions opening of the EU services sector food chain said its lawyers were self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s used carried no McDonald’s brand- were stoked by Tata Steel’s deci- and makes European steel more and better European access to US investigating after entrepreneurs in Republic was attached to the roof. ing, and customers were instead sion to sell its loss-making British expensive to produce, leading to government procurement projects. separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine “Our lawyers are working on being offered plain white plastic bags business, leaving it with just its prof- the import of more steel made in “Quite substantial work is still ahead started selling McDonald’s-style this issue,” said a spokeswoman for in which to take their orders home. itable Dutch operations - which are laxer regimes. of us,” said Garcia Bercero. hamburgers out of a restaurant that McDonald’s in Ukraine. The spokeswoman for McDon- After nearly three years of the company shut down two years The region around Luhansk and ald’s Ukrainian operation said no one talks, he said progress on access ago. the neighbouring city of Donetsk are had asked the company if they could to US government procurement The company said it pulled out under Kiev’s rule in the eyes of inter- re-open the branch in Luhansk. lags other issues, suggesting that of the Ukrainian city of Luhansk in national law but are de facto under “The illegal use of trademarks, Delta orders A321 for $4.2bn Washington needs to make more May 2014 for security reasons after the control of separatist administra- names and images of products that concessions on allowing European pro-Russian insurgents mounted an tions which are not internationally belong to McDonald’s is an exam- firms to compete equally in con- armed uprising there against Kiev’s recognised. ple of the violation of the company’s AFP retirement of Delta’s 116 MD-88s in tracts from US public authorities. rule, and unilaterally declared the The US and EU imposed sanctions intellectual property rights,” she a capital efficient manner,” Delta’s The US meanwhile wants to see region’s independence. on many of the separatist leaders, added. “In such cases, the corpo- incoming chief executive Ed Bastian Europe’s services sector opened But since then, the company said, and their backers in Russia, alleging ration reserves the right to resolve was quoted as saying in an Airbus wider to American companies. the restaurant premises in Luhansk they colluded to unlawfully seize the questions of the illegal use of the PARIS: Delta ordered yesterday 37 statement, referring to its McDonnell Both sides said they need to was unlawfully taken over. Photo- territory. The separatists and Moscow company’s names or images using of Airbus’ medium-haul A321 air- Douglas aircraft which date from the open those doors wider rather than graphs sent to Reuters by a witness said they had to act to protect their the means set out by law.” craft with a catalogue price $4.2bn late 1980s to early 1990s. leaving the most politically diffi- on Friday showed the restaurant was regions from persecution by Kiev. The It was not clear who was oper- as the US airline seeks to quickly The order is for A321s equipped cult issues untouched. now open and selling fries and burg- region’s unrecognised status makes ating the business in the McDonald’s retire older planes. with standard engines as opposed to “We shouldn’t reserve sig- ers that look similar to those served enforcing property rights enshrined restaurant in Luhansk. People “The order for the A321s is an newer more fuel-efficient version for nificant amounts of space to in McDonald’s restaurants worldwide. in international law difficult. answering the phone at two numbers opportunistic fleet move that ena- which Airbus has a huge backlog of discriminate against each other,” All McDonald’s branding and Photographs posted on social listed for the restaurant said they had bles us to produce strong returns orders, and follows previous orders said Mullaney. logos had, however, been removed media this week showed the Luhansk no connection to the business. and cost-effectively accelerate the in 2013 and 2014. Royal Bank of Scotland widens losses

AP £1,193m to the UK government,” RBS to post an operating profit of £421 mil- said. In morning deals following the lion, but it does appear that the recent results, RBS shares were among the market volatility and low interest rate LONDON: Britain’s state-rescued biggest fallers in London, losing 3.2 environment that has blighted the Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday said percent to 237 pence, with analysts performance of its sector peers has net losses more than doubled in the pointing to the higher-than-expected also hit” RBS, he added. first quarter owing to an exceptional net loss. The capital’s benchmark The Edinburgh-based lender payment back to the government. FTSE 100 index was down 0.7 per- remains around 73 percent owned Losses after tax in the first three cent overall at 6,279.1 points. by the British government after it was months of the year stood at £968m “The big question is whether there saved with £45.5bn of taxpayers’ cash ($1.4bn), which compared with a is light at the end of the tunnel, and at the height of the 2008 global finan- net loss of £459m in the first quar- Howard Davies, Chairman, RBS whether RBS has turned the corner, cial crisis -- resulting in the world’s ter of 2015, RBS said in an earnings or whether the days of over promising biggest banking bailout. statement. Pre-tax profits came in at allow the bank to begin paying divi- and under delivering are set to con- “The company has now racked £421m, up from £37m. dends again. tinue,” said Michael Hewson, chief up more than £50bn in losses since However the bottom-line net fig- “An attributable loss of £968m analyst at trading group CMC Markets. the crisis -- more than the £45 billion ure was hit by RBS having to pay the included payment of the final Divi- “There is some good news in that forked out to save it,” said Joe Rundle, A Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sign in central London. government almost £1.2bn in order to dend Access Share (DAS) dividend of the underlying business did manage head of trading at ETX Capital. BUSINESS SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 15 Hedge fund managers say Brexit would help London

ain’s withdrawal from the European Union, the economic fabric of member countries, includ- City of London Corporation and pro-EU Brit- strengthen its lead as the world’s largest City bosses said getting main Brexit campaign group said yesterday. ing high youth unemployment. Many of us ish ministers that an exit would undermine international financial centre, and continue In a letter released by the Vote Leave worry that the eurozone’s problems may prove London. to make a major contribution to the UK econ- out of the EU would help group ahead of a June 23 referendum, the insurmountable.” Many financiers say a British exit would omy and employment, outside the EU but with strengthen London’s City bosses said getting out of the EU would The list of signatories included Odey, a sap London of its wealth, hammer sterling, continued access to its capital markets,” the help strengthen London’s position as the only founding partner at Odey Asset Management, undermine the world’s fifth largest economy letter said. position as the only financial capital to rival New York. Marshall, chairman of Marshall Wace, Peter and prompt some traders to move their busi- Since British exchange controls were financial capital to rival The investors said that while membership Hargreaves, a founder of investment firm Har- ness to other financial centres such as New scrapped in 1979, London has thrived as a cen- had been good for Britain and London since greaves Lansdown and Michael Geoghegan, York and Singapore. tre for everything from foreign exchange and New York. 1973, it no longer made sense as the EU had a former CEO of bank HSBC. But the signatories of the Vote Leave let- bonds to derivatives and fund management, failed to support innovation and was now tied Other signatories included Dominic Burke, ter said continued EU membership was now making it the largest net exporter of financial to a euro zone which many signatories feared group CEO at Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Peter a threat to London’s prosperity. services in the world. Reuters was doomed. Cruddas, chief executive at CMC Markets, and “We worry that the EU’s approach to “Far from the picture of doom and gloom “There is scant evidence that the EU Luke Johnson, founder of Risk Capital Part- regulation now poses a genuine threat to painted by the Government, it is clear that will foster or support the kind of innova- ners. All 100 names were not supplied by Vote our financial services industry and to the the City of London would not only retain its tion which is essential if Europeans are Leave. competitiveness of the City of London,” the pre-eminence as the world’s most impor- LONDON: More than 100 executives from tocompete with the rest of the world,” the The message that London would pros- letter said. tant financial centre, but would also thrive Britain’s financial services industry, including signatories said. per after a British exit contrasts with a host “Assuming good political leadership after freeing herself from the EU’s regula- hedge fundmanagers Crispin Odey and Paul “The EU is now shackled to the euro, of warnings over recent months from US and an effective regulatory environment, tory shackles,” said Vote Leave boss Matthew Marshall, have signed a letter backing Brit- a project doing damage to the social and investment banks, the Bank of England, the we believe that the City is most likely to Elliott.

A million people ADB conference urge Bayer to Google likely to face stop bee-killer first EU fine in 2016 pesticides

Reuters high. Some rivals are convinced AFP that any fine is effectively a cost of doing business and it has more to gain in profit from its existing BRUSSELS: Google is likely to face business model than conceding to its first European Union antitrust complaints. FRANKFURT: German agrochem- sanction this year, with little pros- Google and the European Com- icals and pharmaceuticals giant pect of it settling a test case with mission both declined to comment. Bayer was presented yesterday the bloc’s regulator over its shop- “From a pure profitability per- with a petition of more than one ping service, people familiar with spective, it is better off dragging million signatures urging it to stop the matter said. out the competition case, contin- manufacturing pesticides that There are few incentives left uing its practices for as long as are blamed for the decline in the for either party to reach a deal in possible, and ultimately paying a world’s bee populations. a six-year dispute that could set a fine that will be smaller than the “Bee killing is not really precedent for Google searches for profits it generates by continuing something that a company that is hotels, flights and other services and the conduct,” Thomas Vinje, a law- looking toward the future should tests regulators’ ability to ensure yer who advises several of Google’s do,” Anne Isakowitsch, an activist diversity on the Web. competitors, said. Flags flutter before the annual conference of the Asian Development Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, for Sum of Us, an environmental- Alphabet Inc’s Google, which However, some sources said they yesterday. The governors of all 67 member countries meet for the 49th time in order to decide on ist campaign group, said. was hit by a second EU antitrust see last week’s low-key pact with the direction of the Asian development financing. More than 3,000 international policiy makers from Bees help pollinate around 80 charge this month for using its arch-rival Microsoft to withdraw all percent of all species of flowering Asia, Europe, the US and Canada are expected for the conference between May 2 and 5, 2016. dominant Android mobile oper- regulatory complaints against each plants. And so without them, many ating system to squeeze out rivals, other as a signal that Google might fruits and vegetables would be shows little sign of backing down in time choose to strike a deal with unable to reproduce, which would after years of wrangling with Euro- Brussels. have catastrophic consequences pean authorities. By doing so it would avoid a for the food chain. Several people familiar with the repeat of Microsoft’s damaging fight Hence Berlin-based Isakow- Sanofi vows hostile bid for Medivation matter said that after three failed com- with the European Commission and itsch travelled to Bayer’s annual promise attempts since 2010, Google by settling at least its dispute with shareholder meeting in Cologne has no plan to try to settle allegations the EU over Internet shopping might on Friday to present the maker of AFP of $52.50 a share, declaring that it designed to seize for Sanofi value that that its Web search results favour its also head off possible actions by agricultural chemicals with a peti- “substantially” undervalued the com- rightly belongs to our stockholders,” own shopping service, unless the EU other regulators. To date, Google has tion of 1.4 million signatures. pany and was not in the interests of Medivation chief executive David watchdog changes its stance. Such a a mixed record in taking on regula- The campaigners are calling shareholders. The San Francisco- Hung said in a statement. change of heart appears unlikely, with tors globally, winning some battles on the group -- best known for its PARIS: French pharmaceutical giant based biotech firm accused Sanofi, Undeterred, Sanofi vowed to European Competition Commissioner and losing others. Aspirin painkiller -- to stop sell- Sanofi vowed to open a hostile take- France’s largest drugs company, of take its offer directly to Mediva- Margrethe Vestager -- a Dane whose However, Microsoft offers a sal- ing two substances, clothianidin over battle yesterday after its $9.3bn making a shrewd grab for its riches. tion’s shareholders despite the board’s team is leading the Google investi- utary lesson to those who want to and imidacloprid, that are con- offer for US cancer drug maker Medi- The US group said its Xtandi drug opposition. gation -- showing little interest in take on the Commission, Ioannis tained in the pesticides believed vation was dismissed for being too has racked up $2.2bn in worldwide “Sanofi is a disciplined acquirer reaching a settlement where there Kokkoris, a law professor at Queen to be responsible for killing bees. cheap. annual net sales and it has other and has a strong acquisition track- is no finding of wrongdoing or a fine Mary University of London, said. The European Union has Sanofi, warning that has a strong potential big-selling medicines in the record,” the group warned. against the company, other people Microsoft ended up with already placed a moratorium on record in takeovers, said it will not pipeline such as Talazoparib, which “While to date Medivation has said. fines of more than $2.5bn after sales of the chemicals, which are give up its pursuit of the reluctant aims to treat a broad range of can- chosen not to enter into discussions Underpinning Vestager’s tough a decade-long battle with the classed as neonicotinoids, since American prey, manufacturer of the cer conditions. regarding this value-creating trans- approach, and the Commission’s Commission. the end of 2013. high-priced, blockbuster prostate “Sanofi’s opportunistically-timed action, Sanofi remains committed to case, are scores of complaints from “You are entering a long bat- Also affected are thiame- cancer medication Xtandi. proposal, which comes during a the combination and looks forward companies, big and small, on both tle, an expensive battle. And if you thoxam made by Swiss giant Medivation said its board had period of significant market dislo- to engaging directly with Mediva- sides of the Atlantic. go to court, the outcome would Syngenta and fipronil by another unanimously rejected Sanofi’s cation, and prior to several important tion shareholders with regard to our For Google, which has denied not necessarily be better,” Kokko- German rival, BASF. unsolicited, non-binding cash offer near-term events for the company, is proposal.” any wrongdoing, the stakes are ris said. Wage increases remain ExxonMobil earnings plunge 63% on falling oil subdued in first quarter AFP

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NEW YORK: US energy giant ExxonMobil reported yesterday that its first-quarter earnings dived 63 WASHINGTON: Worker pay rose as percent to $1.8bn due to plunging oil prices. forecast in the first quarter, showing ExxonMobil’s upstream division, usually a cash the steady drop in unemployment cow that explores for and produces petroleum, has yet to prompt employers to suffered a $76m loss. That was partially offset by sweeten paychecks. higher earnings in the oil giant’s chemical division. The 0.6 percent advance in the Revenues tumbled 28 percent to $48.7bn. employment cost index from the The results are the latest in a wave of petroleum prior three months followed a 0.5 industry results to reflect the battering effect of low percent increase in the fourth quar- get,” said Scott Brown, (pictured) prices. Earlier this week, both BP and ConocoPhil- ter that was smaller than previously chief economist at Raymond James lips reported losses for the quarter. estimated, the Labor Department Financial Inc. in St. Petersburg, Flor- ExxonMobil said its upstream business boosted said Friday. Total compensation, ida. “There’s still a lot of slack in the oil and gas production by 1.8 percent from the year- which includes wages and bene- job market.” ago period to 4.3 million barrels per day. fits, climbed 1.9 percent over the The advance in the ECI matched Oil companies have slashed capital spending past 12 months, the smallest gain in the median projection in a Bloomb- in response to low prices. However, in some cases, two years. erg survey of economists. Forecasts they have been able to keep production high as sup- Years of impressive employ- ranged from increases of 0.4 percent pliers and oil-services companies have charged ment gains have only led to gradual to 0.8 percent. The gauge measures less for services. ExxonMobil’s earnings translated The logo of ExxonMobil Corporation is shown on a monitor above the floor of the New York pay increases that are contributing employer-paid taxes such as Social into 43 cents per share, 12 cents more than analyst to more restrained rates of spend- Security and Medicare in addition expectations. Stock Exchange in New York. ing and economic growth. Federal to the costs of wages and benefits. Standard & Poor’s had stripped ExxonMobil of Reserve policymakers earlier this Wages and salaries typically its triple A rating on Tuesday, saying the oil giant’s the world’s fifth largest, had held the triple-A rat- The ratings agency also expects ExxonMobil week pointed to further labor-mar- account for about 70 percent of total rising debt and weaker earnings outlook meant ing since 1930. The downgrade leaves just two US will continue to return large sums to sharehold- ket strengthening as a reason to be employment expenses. it no longer qualified for the highest credit grade. companies with triple-A credit ratings, Microsoft ers through dividends and stock buybacks, further optimistic about incomes. The ECI data help color the out- The one-notch cut was the latest ripple effect on and Johnson & Johnson. pressuring its financial position. “The job market has been, by all look for worker pay after the March the oil industry from crashing crude prices, which S&P noted that ExxonMobil’s capital debt has “Despite the favorable effect of lower service counts, pretty strong, but we really employment report showed hourly have forced a number of smaller producers into more than doubled in recent years as it executes costs and improved efficiencies, we believe that haven’t seen the kind of pickup in earnings increased 0.3 percent from bankruptcy. a number of major exploration and production maintaining production and replacing reserves wage growth that we’d normally the prior month. ExxonMobil, the largest US oil company and projects to increase oil and gas output capacity. will eventually require higher spending,” S&P said. 16 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

Real estate relic is Mitsubishi Motors has cash painful reminder of Italy’s bad debts to weather mileage scandal

By Stefano Bernabei lenders managing to sell non-per- and Isla Binnie forming loans, the Bank of Italy Reuters said, underlining how important these sales are. Around 66 percent of Monte dei Paschi’s €10bn in bad debts N unfinished hotel and are secured by property like the empty swimming pool sit Tosteto spa, which it can seize and sadly on the lush hillside sell to avoid losses if clients stop of Pitigliano in Tuscany, paying. But these guarantees are Awhere they should have welcomed worth little unless someone will the holidaymakers who flock to buy the property. central Italy. But the Tosteto spa sits Sergio Gambassi, the original even more heavily on the balance developer at Tosteto, said he never sheet of Banca Monte dei Paschi went bankrupt but Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which lent €11m to the changed the terms of the mortgage developer before declaring him in and asked for money earlier than he default eight years ago, and is still expected. He said he sold his house trying to recoup some of this cash. by the sea and looked in vain for Monte dei Paschi is one of other funding. “I squeezed myself the weakest banks in a sector like a lemon,” he said. Renzi’s new saddled with €200bn ($227bn) decree is expected to let creditors in loans unlikely ever to be paid seize other assets aside from the back. These are holding back lend- property pledged as security for loans, ing in the eurozone’s third-largest while also trying to help companies economy and strangling growth avoid crises in the first place. The company logo of Mitsubishi Motors is seen at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. after a three-year recession. Pressure to resolve the bad debt Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is problem has mounted this year By Naomi Tajitsu automakers which may otherwise disap- the company’s restructuring and improved set to approve an emergency decree as bank stocks have plunged 30 Reuters pear to continue to survive for decades,” said governance following previous scandals aimed at stabilising the industry by percent. Earlier in April, the gov- James Chao, Asia-Pacific managing director had helped its performance. “However, we cutting the time it takes to recover ernment persuaded major banks of research at IHS Automotive in Shanghai. recognize that the fraudulent testing is debts. Until recently, Italian banks to set up a fund to buy bad loans Demand for Mitsubishi cars has weak- evidence of a significant problem in the took seven to eight years on average and subscribe to cash calls. ITSUBISHI Motors’ (MMC) ened, particularly at home, where the maker company’s management and governance,” to recoup bad loans. That is down The head of the ABI banking market value and Japanese of the Outlander SUV and Delica mini-van they said. to three and a half, and a proposed association told parliament this orders have halved since it sold just 102,000 vehicles in the year through Analysts estimate MMC could have to reform could reduce that to seven to month that making credit recovery admitted last week to rig- March, half the number it sold less than a pay close to $1bn to compensate Japanese eight months by creating a fast-track cheaper and easier would contrib- ging fuel economy tests, but decade ago. With annual sales of around mini-vehicle customers for ‘eco-car’ taxes system, a central bank source said. ute “decisively to launching the with more than $4bn in cash 1m vehicles, MMC is a minnow in the global and extra fuel costs. And, Nomura Securi- But the Pitigliano development market for bad debt”. Mand low debt, the automaker should con- market, and has surrendered market share to ties analysts say, costs associated with the highlights the slog lenders still face An entire section of the decree tain the potential damages. The scope of its rivals including Honda , Mazda and Hyundai. non-compliant Japanese testing system calling in old debts, which could is dedicated to encouraging banks cheating also now seems more limited than Shares in MMC rose more than 6 percent may add an additional 24bn yen ($224m) strengthen their balance sheets, and their clients to reach agree- at first feared, improving the prospects that yesterday ahead of a market holiday, but are to the bill, resulting in a possible 150bn satisfy European capital require- ment before starting litigation, a one of Japan’s smaller automakers can sur- down 48 percent since the company said it yen in extraordinary losses in the year to ments, and free them up to lend. source close to the matter said. vive a third scandal in recent years. manipulated mileage test data on four mini- next March. Monte dei Paschi, which The Treasury is keen to avoid That history of scandals though, could put vehicle models, wiping $3.7bn off its market A slump in new car orders will be an declined to comment for this article, the courts getting involved in credit its longer term survival at value. A nagging concern for investors had been additional hit, and halting production of seized the spa in 2010, according recovery, but the Justice Ministry risk given the latest bat- whether MMC also rigged data for cars sold the eK Wagon and eK Space mini-vehicles, to a local court document. Six auc- is more cautious and is dragging tering to its branding. In in the United States. While MMC sold fewer along with the Nissan Dayz and Dayz Roox tions have failed to attract a buyer, its feet, another source said. 2004, it was saved from than 100,000 cars there last year, it’s a more will also bite. Making cars for Nissan has partly because the original devel- ABI says reducing recovery collapse by other Mitsubi- litigious marketplace and could have meant been a driver for domestic sales as MMC’s oper still holds rights to the land. times by just one year would shrink shi companies. significantly higher damages. MMC says mile- branded vehicles have lost market share. Pitigliano’s mayor, Pierluigi the gap between prices buyers are “The firm has repeated age ratings on its U.S. vehicles were correct. Mitsubishi Motors produced 202,000 Camilli, described the abandoned willing to offer for non-performing the same kind of wrong- Mitsubishi’s balance sheet shows it has mini-vehicles in the year to end-March, hotel as a “relic”. “It is there dete- loans and what banks will accept doing, so the situation is cash — 453.4bn yen ($4.23bn) — to cover of which around 144,000 were for Nis- riorating because we cannot find by 10 percent. not good,” said a govern- potential costs, and with debts of just 27bn san. MMC has said it has stopped making a way to give it a future,” Camilli For a seventh auction next month, Mitsubishi’s balance ment source who didn’t yen and no outstanding term loans, it has the four models affected by its test rigging. said. “When the permits (to develop) the valuation for the Tosteto spa has want to be named due to room to borrow if necessary. Its shareholder A year’s production halt could cost it up were issued it looked like it could been cut to €4.6m from €8.9m at sheet shows it has the sensitivity of the issue. equity to assets ratio, at 48 percent, has grown to 250 billion yen, analysts estimate, in boost the local economy.” its first auction. There is already an cash — 453.4bn yen The survival of steadily. “We’ve been building up our finances addition to any compensation payments Long plagued by low profita- eighth auction scheduled for October, ($4.23bn) — to cover companies like MMC over the past 2-3 years,” Managing Director to Nissan for lost sales. bility, weak governance and high suggesting the sellers are not hope- highlights the difficulty of Yutaka Tabata said. “Our financial struc- The next question MMC needs to answer costs, any further risks to the sta- ful. Unless someone can be found potential costs, and shaking out weak players ture is strong.” is whether its fuel economy claims for cars bility of Italy’s banks could hinder to take the whole project forward, with debts of just in a cut-throat industry MMC has prioritised bolstering its finances sold elsewhere in Asia - accounting for a the euro zone’s bid to get over a debt Gambassi said, “it will stay there, if management avoids since previous scandals involving hiding cus- third of its total - were legitimate. Asia, ex- crisis that has haunted it since 2009. a white elephant crumbling over 27bn yen and no tough decisions to down- tomer complaints and secret recalls led to the Japan, sales have risen from around a fifth A small reduction this year in time. The municipality won’t have outstanding term size, merge or liquidate, arrest of former executives, and its bail-out. four years ago as MMC focused on selling the bad loans that built up in the the money to demolish it and I don’t industry observers say. That may have seen governance and com- SUVs and trucks in emerging markets. The downturn has been thanks to some have the money.” loans, it has room to “This creates an envi- pliance take a back seat. company has said it is checking to see if its borrow if necessary. ronment where inertia is S&P analysts, who placed MMC’s credit rat- vehicles sold in Asia and in Europe were the norm, which allows ing on negative watch, said they had thought compliant. Analysts say oil rally is not just about hedge funds

By John Kemp barrels) and before that in June 2014 (621 mil- about the sustainability of the current rally and demand. In recent weeks, the global economic Reuters lion) as Islamic State fighters were racing across worry that it will run out of steam. outlook has also improved, compared with northern Iraq and just before prices started to But it would be wrong to assume the run-up the gloomy predictions at the turn of the year, crash. Since the start of 2015, there has been a in prices was being driven entirely by trend- which suggests the major economies will avoid close correspondence between the accumu- chasing and macro-focused hedge funds. recession. The worst of the commodity-slump- IL prices are becoming dangerously lation and liquidation of hedge fund positions Fundamentals are clearly improving on the induced shock is now probably past. Provided overheated as speculators antic- and short-term movements in oil prices. supply and demand sides of the market and the global economy continues growing, freight ipate a rebalancing of supply and The colossal net long position has increased it is now possible to identify a trajectory that demand should gradually start expanding again, demand that has barely started, the risk of a reversal in prices if the rally were will bring production and consumption back and with it, diesel consumption. according to many oil analysts. to run out of momentum and hedge funds were to balance. Petrol consumption in the United Global oil demand grew by 1.8m b/d last O“Even as oil rallies, analysts have barely to begin liquidating some of their positions. States is apparently on track for another year year, the fastest for more than a decade, out- By most estimates, oil nudged up their price forecasts as they worry Stockpiles of crude oil and refined products of exceptionally strong growth in 2016. side the immediate post-crisis rebound, and production is still running that crude’s recent gains might not be sustain- in the United States and around the world are Consumption has been steadily revised is predicted to grow by another 1.2m b/d in able,” notes the Wall Street Journal (“Analysts running at record levels and still increasing, up from a predicted increase of just 10,000 2016. Global oil supply from outside the Gulf ahead of consumption, just aren’t buying the oil rally”, April 28). albeit more slowly than a year earlier. barrels per day (0.1 percent) in December to and Russia is now falling rapidly and expected although the imbalance Many fear hedge funds are pushing up oil By most estimates, oil production is still 130,000 b/d (1.4 percent) in April. to decline at the fastest rate for more than 25 has narrowed and could prices prematurely, which will lead to a renewed running ahead of consumption, although the Vehicle buyers are increasingly choosing years in 2016. Like any commodity market, the crash when the bubble bursts, as it did after imbalance has narrowed and could reverse in larger and more fuel-hungry sport-utility vehi- oil market is forward-looking. Just as it began reverse in the second half the last big run-up in prices between January the second half of 2016 or early 2017. cles and especially crossover-utility vehicles discounting the emergence of excess supplies of 2016 or early 2017. and May 2015. In the short term, prices have been sup- rather than smaller, more energy-efficient cars. in the summer of 2014, it is now discounting the Hedge funds and other money managers ported by temporary supply interruptions in Similar trends are evident in India and China. emergence of excess demand in spring 2016. have accumulated a record net long position Nigeria, Libya and Iraq that may not last. And Warmer weather helped cut home heating Like other markets, oil is prone to overshooting; in Brent and WTI futures and options, betting even if the market rebalances and moves into a oil consumption by 45 percent in winter 2015/16 it can be argued plausibly that prices have risen on a further rise in prices equivalent to 656 small deficit, it could take several quarters for compared with the previous year. But with La too far, too fast. But it is also true that market fun- million barrels of crude. the enormous overhang of crude and product Nina conditions building up quickly near the damentals are now changing quite quickly; and The net long position has surpassed pre- stocks to fall to more normal levels. coast of Peru, there is a strong likelihood that it can also be argued plausibly that hedge funds vious peaks set this time last year (572 million So there are plenty of reasons to be cautious winter 2016/17 will be cooler and boost fuel are simply reflecting and accelerating that shift. CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 17

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Yesterday’s answer ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

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Yesterday’s answer How to play Hyper Sudoku: A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku. BABY BLUES BABY TV LISTINGS NOVO SHOWING AT The Jungle Book (2D) 11:30am, 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:20 & 10:45pm VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER Mother’s Day (2D/Comedy) 10:00, 11:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 3:20, 5:00, TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 7:20, 7:40, 9:40 & 11:40pm & 12:00midnight I Am Wrath (2D/Action) 10:00, 12:00noon, 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 5:40, 7:30 09:45 09:10 09:30 Talk To Al Jazeera Girl Meets World Treehouse Food Factory 6:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight 8:30 10:35 A.N.T. 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FIRST ROUND SELECTIONS IN DRAFT 1 Los Angeles Rams (from Titans) - Jared Goff, quarterback, California NBA: Atlanta Hawks eliminate 2 Philadelphia Eagles (from Browns) - Carson Wentz, quarterback, North Dakota State 3 San Diego Chargers - Joey Bosa, defensive end, Ohio State 4 Dallas Cowboys - Ezekiel Elliott, running back, Ohio State 5 Jacksonville Jaguars - Jalen Ramsey, cornerback, Florida State 6 Baltimore Ravens - Ronnie Stanley, tackle, Notre Dame Boston Celtics in six games 7 San Francisco 49ers - DeForest Buckner, defensive end, Oregon 8 Tennessee Titans (from Browns through Eagles through Dolphins) - Jack Conk- lin, tackle, Michigan State Atlanta Hawks forward 9 Chicago Bears (from Buccaneers) - Leonard Floyd, linebacker, Georgia Millsap stars with Kent Bazemore makes 10 New York Giants - Eli Apple, cornerback, Ohio State a shot pastor the 17 points and eight 11 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (from Bears) - Vernon Hargreaves, cornerback, Florida defending Boston Celtics 12 New Orleans Saints - Sheldon Rankins, defensive tackle, Louisville forward Jonas Jerebko rebounds in 104-92 13 Miami Dolphins (from Eagles) - Laremy Tunsil, tackle, Mississippi victory of Sweden (right) during the first quarter of their 14 Oakland Raiders - Karl Joseph, safety, West Virginia NBA Eastern Conference 15 Cleveland Browns (from Titans through Rams) - Corey Coleman, wide receiver, Baylor first round play-off series 16 Detroit Lions - Taylor Decker, tackle, Ohio State AFP game at the TD Garden 17 Atlanta Falcons - Keanu Neal, safety, Florida in Boston, Massachusetts, 18 Indianapolis Colts - Ryan Kelly, center, Alabama USA, on Thursday. 19 Buffalo Bills - Shaq Lawson, defensive end, Clemson 20 New York Jets - Darron Lee, linebacker, Ohio State LOS ANGELES: Paul Millsap had 17 21 Houston Texans (from Redskins) - Will Fuller, wide receiver, Notre Dame points and eight rebounds as the Atlanta 22 Washington Redskins (from Texans) - Josh Doctson, wide receiver, Texas Christian Hawks eliminated the Boston Celtics with a 104-92 win in game six of the 23 Minnesota Vikings - Laquon Treadwell, wide receiver, Mississippi first round play-off series on Thursday. 24 Cincinnati Bengals - William Jackson III, cornerback, Houston Al Horford and Kent Bazemore each 25 Pittsburgh Steelers - Artie Burns, cornerback, Miami scored 15 points, Kyle Korver had 14 26 Denver Broncos (from Seahawks) - Paxton Lynch, quarterback, Memphis points and Jeff Teague added 11 for 27 Green Bay Packers - Kenny Clark, defensive tackle, UCLA Atlanta, which led by as many as 28 28 San Francisco 49ers (from Chiefs) - Joshua Garnett, guard, Stanford points in the second half en route to its first play-off series win over Bos- 29 Arizona Cardinals - Robert Nkemdiche, defensive tackle, Mississippi ton in nearly 60 years. 30 Carolina Panthers - Vernon Butler, defensive tackle, Louisiana Tech “We played well here before but 31 Seattle Seahawks (from Broncos) - Germain Ifedi, guard, Texas A&M couldn’t get it done,” Horford said. “Tonight we took care of business. The shots went down for me tonight.” Atlanta will face the Cleveland Cav- NFL: Los Angeles Rams aliers in the second round, which begins Monday at Quicken Loans Arena. The Hawks lost all three meet- ings with the Cavaliers during the Cavs. Isaiah Thomas had a double- field Thursday and was held to 38 per- limited to 27 percent shooting in the name Goff as top draft regular season. Cleveland also swept double with 25 points and 10 assists to cent shooting in the series. opening half. Atlanta in four straight when the two lead host Boston in front of a crowd of “We should give the Hawks credit. Atlanta outscored the Celtics 39-26 teams met in last season’s NBA play- 18,600 at the Garden arena. Jae Crow- They are a better team. They proved in the third quarter and led 89-61 with AFP “It’s an unbelievable moment, a off semi-finals. der finished with 15 points and Marcus it over six games,” said Boston coach 9:51 remaining, but the Celtics battled once in a lifetime experience. I can’t “We know it is going to be tough Smart and Jonas Jerebko each added Brad Stevens. back to come within 96-86 with just really put it into words right now, I’m but we are looking forward to the 13 for the Celtics. The Celtics fell behind 20-17 at under two minutes remaining in the very happy and very excited to move matchup,” said Horford of facing the Boston shot 36 percent from the the end of the first quarter and were fourth quarter of the match. CHICAGO: The Los Angeles Rams on with my professional career,” Goff chose Jared Goff as the number one said. pick in the NFL draft on Thursday, Goff said he had struck up an handing the young quarterback from instant rapport with Rams officials BASEBALL RESULTS California the task of leading the ambi- after he was scouted at the NFL Com- Marlins and Cubs register wins Detroit 7 Oakland 3 tious franchise into their new era. bine earlier this year. Goff, from the University of Cali- “I felt very comfortable with their Chicago Cubs 7 Milwaukee 2 fornia Berkeley, had faced a nervous whole staff and had an immediate Philadelphia 3 Washington 0 wait to learn where he will begin his connection with them.” Agencies up one run, three hits and four walks and Baltimore 10 C White Sox 2 National Football League career. Goff posed for photographs hold- MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL striking out six in a five-inning outing. Atlanta 5 Boston 3 The Rams had stunned the NFL ing a Rams jersey and wearing a team Phillies 3, Nationals 0 Arizona 3 St Louis 0 after securing the number one pick cap after the announcement, which Cameron Rupp hit a two-run, bases- from the Tennessee Titans in a block- was watched by a crowd of fans on Miami 5 LA Dodgers 3 NEW YORK: Giancarlo Stanton and loaded double in the ninth inning to buster deal this month. giant screens gathered in downtown J.T. Realmuto homered, and the Miami hits with five strikeouts and one walk break a scoreless tie and Philadelphia The move was widely seen as a Los Angeles. Marlins earned their first four-game in 6 2/3 innings. Maeda (3-1) allowed beat Washington, sweeping the three- two doubles and knocked in a run. statement of intent by the Rams, who The 21-year-old 6ft 4in (1.93 meter) sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers with just one run in his previous four starts game series. Ian Kinsler notched his American are determined to rapidly establish quarterback is the first quarterback a 5-3 victory on Thursday at Dodger covering 25 1/3 innings. The last time the Phillies swept a League-leading 11th multi-hit game themselves as a force after returning from California to be picked in the first Stadium. Cubs 7, Brewers 2 series in Washington was in May 2009. while scoring two runs and driv- to Los Angeles from St Louis during round since Green Bay Packers star Dee Gordon’s RBI single to left initi- Jake Arrieta missed out on a second Tigers 7, Athletics 3 ing in another for the Tigers, who the close season. Aaron Rodgers was chosen in 2005. ated the comeback, plating Realmuto to straight no-hitter but was still typically Anthony Gose hit a two-run homer scored at least seven runs for the NFL commissioner Roger Good- With Goff chosen by the Rams, knot the score at 2 with two outs in the effective in a relatively short outing as to lead the revived Detroit offense and third time in four games while tak- ell announced the Rams selection in North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz, seventh. That chased Dodgers starter the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee the Tigers downed Oakland. ing the series 3-1. front of a packed house at the Audito- the other prime quarterback in the Kenta Maeda, who wound up charged Brewers 7-2 on Thursday. Gose also doubled and scored In another match Orioles down rium Theatre of Chicago’s Roosevelt draft, was snapped up by the Phila- with a season-high four runs on seven Arrieta improved to 5-0 while giving another run, and Nick Castellanos had White Sox 10-2. University. delphia Eagles as second outright pick. Day trails leader Stuard at British rider Yates not suspended rain-hit Zurich Classic after failing drug test, says UCI AFP

Reuters MIAMI: Jason Day (pictured) was This file photo taken on one of the early pace-setters but the March 6, 2016 shows world No. 1 still finished five strokes Britain’s Simon Yates back of clubhouse leader Brian Stuard LONDON: British rider Simon Yates, competing during the at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans a strong contender to make Britain’s 6,1 km individual time- on Thursday. Olympic cycling team, will not be pro- trial in Conflans-Sainte- Australian star Day fired an open- visionally suspended after failing a Honorine, during the ing round three-under 69 and is tied drugs test, the sport’s governing body, 74th edition of the for 12th at the rain-hit PGA Tour event the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), Paris-Nice cycling race. where play was delayed for nearly said yesterday. five hours on Thursday. Yates, one of the brightest pros- Afternoon thunderstorms lashed pects in British cycling, failed the test the TPC Louisiana at Avondale course “It was a good day. Definitely had due to an “administrative error” over resulting in 78 players not being able the putter working,” Stuard said. “I the use of an asthma inhaler, his team to finish their first rounds. The open- played pretty well tee to green but Orica-GreenEDGE said. ing round will resume early Friday really made some putts. The UCI said in a statement that morning and will be followed imme- “During the delay, I was just kind Yates had not been suspended because diately by the second round. of killing time and then coming back “such a substance does not entail impo- Day drained a 59-foot birdie on the out, it was a little bit different condi- sition of a provisional suspension”. par-four 16th hole to post his fourth tions. The wind was a little bit different. The Bury-born 23-year-old had birdie of the day. But all in all, a good day.” returned an adverse analytical finding Day, who is playing this event for Stuard never looked back after for Terbutaline, a common treatment the fourth time, took a week off after notching three birdies in the first for asthma, from a test conducted at finishing in a tie for 23rd at the RBC four holes, draining putts of 12, 33 the Paris-Nice stage race last month, Heritage tournament. He hasn’t placed and 23 feet. Orica-GreenEDGE said in a statement. outside the top 25 in seven of his eight Two more birdies before the turn “The substance was given in an events this season, winning the Arnold put him at five under and he began ongoing treatment of Simon Yates’ taken full responsibility for,” they of a provisional suspension. “The rider points race title at the 2013 world cham- Palmer and WGC-Match Play. the back nine with another birdie documented asthma problems,” the added. has the right to request and attend the pionships in Minsk. The most impressive opening blitz to move to eight under. Australian team said. “There has been no wrongdoing analysis of the B sample. At this stage The positive test is another blow round came from Stuard of the United JJ Henry, Derek Ernst, Charles “However, in this case the team on Simon Yates’ part. The team takes of the procedure, the UCI won’t com- to British Cycling which has been States, who shot a bogey-free eight Howell, Patrick Rodgers and Aus- doctor made an administrative error full responsibility for this mistake and ment any further.” rocked by the departure of technical under 64 to take a one-shot lead over tralia’s Geoff Ogilvy are tied for third by failing to apply for the TUE (ther- wishes to underline their support for Orica GreenEDGE added it was director Shane Sutton this week fol- South Africa’s Retief Goosen. at 67. Rickie Fowler, New Zealand’s apeutic use exemption) required for Simon during this process.” submitting documentation to the UCI lowing allegations of sexism and the The 33-year-old journeyman sunk Danny Lee and two South Koreans, the use of this treatment. In its statement, the UCI said: “As in order to clarify everything. discrimination. eight birdies and no bogeys in a flaw- Noh Seung-Yul and An Byeong-Hun, “This is solely based on a human per the UCI’s anti-doping rules, such Yates, the twin brother of fellow Yates received backing from one of less display. share eighth place at 68. error that the doctor in question has substance does not entail the imposition professional cyclist Adam, won the his British team-mates Owain Doull. SPORT SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 21

FREE PRACTICE TIMES Hamilton back on track in Sochi Free Practice Two 1. Lewis Hamilton (ENG) Mercedes-AMG 1:37.583, 2. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:38.235, 3. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mer- cedes-AMG 1:38.450, 4. Kimi Raikkonen but responded with a determined dis- (FIN) Ferrari 1:38.793, 5. Daniel Ricciardo Defending three-time play in the afternoon to outpace his (AUS) Red Bull 1:39.084, 6. Valtteri Bot- rivals. tas (FIN) Williams 1:39.185, 7. Daniil Kvyat world champion tops Four-time champion German (RUS) Red Bull 1:39.193, 8. Jenson But- second free practice Sebastian Vettel, who suffered an ton (ENG) McLaren-Honda 1:39.196, 9. electrical failure and stopped out on Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams 1:39.289, for tomorrow’s race track during the session, was second- 10. Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren- fastest for Ferrari ahead of Rosberg, Honda 1:39.400, 11. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) who was unable to find a clear lap Toro Rosso 1:39.465, 12. Max Verstap- and was third. pen (NED) Toro Rosso 1:39.501, 13. Nico Hamilton rediscovered his mojo AFP Hülkenberg (GER) Force India 1:39.795, 14. in the second session to clock a best Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:39.867, lap in one minute and 37.583 sec- 15. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Renault onds, more than six-tenths of a second 1:40.193, 16. Romain Grosjean (FRA) quicker than nearest rival Vettel. Haas 1:40.260, 17. Esteban Gutierrez SOCHI: Lewis Hamilton was back in “Not too bad,” was Hamilton’s (MEX) Haas 1:40.508, 18. Jolyon Palmer serious mode yesterday after bounc- verdict. “It went quite well, but I did (ENG) Renault 1:40.688, 19. Felipe Nasr ing back to top the times in second destroy one tyre when I had a spin. (BRA) Sauber 1:40.740, 20. Rio Haryanto free practice for this weekend’s Rus- There is no grip out there on these (INA) Manor 1:41.080, 21. Pascal Wehrlein sian Grand Prix. tyres. It is not a very abrasive surface. (GER) Manor 1:41.148, 22. Marcus Erics- The defending three-time world It’s so smooth.” son (SWE) Sauber 1:41.652 champion, trailing his Mercedes Rosberg was third in the second team-mate Nico Rosberg by 36 points Mercedes, eight-tenths off Hamil- Free Practice One in the title race, made clear he was ton’s pace, with Finn Kimi Raikkonen focused only on closing that gap and fourth in the second Ferrari. 1. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes-AMG had no time for light banter. “It’s been a solid start to the week- 1:38.127, 2. Lewis Hamilton (ENG) Mer- Talking to reporters, he said he end,” said Rosberg. cedes-AMG 1:38.849, 3. Sebastian Vettel was reluctant to make any predic- “It’s difficult to get it right at this (GER) Ferrari 1:39.175, 4. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:39.332, 5. Felipe Massa tions after a slip-sliding day on the track, as there’s only a small window (BRA) Williams 1:39.365, 6. Daniel Ric- low-grip Sochi Autodrom circuit but where the tyres work perfectly and ciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:39.650, 7. Valtteri hoped, above all, for a “clean week- a lot of places where you can easily Bottas (FIN) Williams 1:39.802, 8. Daniil end” without mishap. make mistakes. Kvyat (RUS) Red Bull 1:40.218, 9. Sergio Having seen Mercedes team-mate “I didn’t manage to hook up a full Perez (MEX) Force India 1:40.287, 10. Car- Nico Rosberg reel off three season- quick lap on the supersoft tyres, but los Sainz Jr (ESP) Toro Rosso 1:40.654, opening wins to take a commanding aside from that, it was a good day. 11. Jenson Button (ENG) McLaren- lead in this year’s title race, Hamilton “The car felt good on a quick lap British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG GP in action during the second practice session Honda 1:40.663, 12. Fernando Alonso said he was intent on closing that gap this morning and again on the longer at the Sochi Autodrom Circuit, in Sochi, Russia, yesterday. INSET: Hamilton arrives to the autograph session (ESP) McLaren-Honda 1:40.771, 13. and kick-starting his bid for a fourth runs this afternoon, so that’s very Sergey Sirotkin (RUS) Renault 1:40.898, ahead of free practice sessions. crown. encouraging.” 14. Felipe Nasr (BRA) Sauber 1:41.085, After winning both of the two pre- “We had an electrical problem,” 15. Max Verstappen (NED) Toro Rosso vious Russian events in 2014 and 2015, he said. how competitive we are. “I think that Local hero Daniil Kvyat was sev- 1:41.134, 16. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Haas he is in line to complete a hat-trick. “Obviously that’s part of the elec- Kimi did homework for the team, so RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX enth on his ‘home’ Sochi Autodrom 1:41.238, 17. Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas “I hope so!” he said when it was trical bits on the car! We don’t know -- not too bad. Also I think here we circuit in the second Red Bull ahead 1:41.385, 18. Jolyon Palmer (ENG) Renault suggested he had shown the speed yet entirely but we’ll have to see. know roughly what to expect. I think of the two much improved McLaren 1:41.671, 19. Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Sau- to challenge for his first win in seven “I’m sure we can fix it, but we we can still learn a lot from what Hondas of Jenson Button, who was ber 1:41.962, 20. Pascal Wehrlein (GER) outings. “But most of all I am hoping want to understand what happened. other people did.” eighth, and Fernando Alonso, who Manor 1:42.483, 21. Rio Haryanto (INA) for a clean weekend.” It’s a bit of a shame because we’re Australian Daniel Ricciardo was on his installation lap in the morn- was 10th, the pair sandwiching Bra- Manor 1:42.687, 22. Alfonso Celis (MEX) Hamilton was second-fastest in lacking a couple of laps, especially fifth for Red Bull, having tested the ing, with Finn Valtteri Bottas sixth for zilian Felipe Massa of Williams in Force India 1:43.432. the opening session behind Rosberg, in the long runs and race trim, to see team’s latest cockpit safety device Williams. ninth spot.

Rising Pune Smith’s Supergiants Busta knocks out top seed Simon Steven Smith ton in vain raises his bat after scoring a century AFP ESTORIL OPEN RESULTS Mayer, with Almagro leading their against Gujarat head-to-head 3-0. Lions during Quarter-finals: Benoit Paire (FRA x3) Paire, whose patchy game can as Gujarat their IPl match at bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP x5) 7-6 come and go, found it tough to adjust the Maharashtra ESTORIL: Pablo Carreno Busta pre- (7/2), 6-2; Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP x8) to faster conditions in the heat of the Cricket Association vented an all-French semi-final at the bt Gilles Simon (FRA x1) 6-3, 6-4. day after playing night matches pre- stun Pune Stadium in Pune Estoril Open by putting out tourna- viously, but was pleased to get past yesterday. ment top seed Gilles Simon 6-3, 6-4 Garcia-Lopez without too much yesterday. Simon’s return to the seaside trouble. IANS The upset sent eighth seed Car- venue outside of Lisbon for the first “It was a little tough in the begin- reno Busta into a Saturday semi time since 2011 ended in disappoint- ning, not great for the confidence,” against French third seed Benoit ment, as the world number 18 was he said. Paire, a winner over Spain’s Guill- ambushed by his 50th-ranked oppo- “But I began feeling better and PUNE: Gujarat Lions rode on a col- ermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 in nent, managing only two aces and better as the match went on. He was lective batting effort by Dwayne a hard-fought showdown on the clay losing serve twice. a tough opponent, I’m glad I won in Smith (63 off 37) and Bren- court. The bottom half of the semi-final straight sets. don McCullum (43 off 22) which Carreno Busta is into his second draw will be determined later yes- “When I was down I told myself helped them edge past Rising semi-final in the ongoing season this terday, with last year’s finalist Nick just to keep going, I’m happy to win Pune Supergiants by three wick- year. Kyrgios facing Croatian sixth seed today.” ets in a nail-biting Indian Premier The Spaniard, one of three from Borna Coric in a high-profile quar- Paire said that he is feeling some League (IPL) match at the Mahar- his nation in the last eight, is one vic- ter-final between highly-promising physical niggles as he progresses into ashtra Cricket Association Stadium tory away from a second career ATP youngsters. the weekend, with his foot, leg and here yesterday. final after losing in Sao Paulo to Pablo Spaniard Nicolas Almagro takes even a tooth bothering him after a Batting first, Steve Smith (101 Cuevas in February. on Argentine seventh seed Leonardo busy week. off 54) struck up his maiden IPL ton as Pune posted an impressive 195/3 in 20 overs. He was well supported by Ajinkya Rahane (53). In reply, openers Smith and Serena’s absence blows Madrid McCullum set the perfect platform as middle order batsmen delivered in bits and pieces as the visitors chased down the total posting to victory off the last ball. Ashok Dinda with a diving effort to run the left- tournament wide open 196/7 in 20 overs. (2-40) and Thisara Perera (2-41) were hander short of the crease. Chasing a challenging tar- the pick of the bowers for Pune. But his opening partner Rahane get of 196, hard-hitting Smith Earlier put into bat, Pune got off and incoming batsman Smith held on and McCullum got Gujarat off to to a disappointing start losing opener to not lose anymore wickets to post AFP wilderness after failing a drugs test “The balls really fly and I think a rollicking start scoring 72 runs Saurabh Tiwary (1) in the third over 48/1 after completion of powerplay at Melbourne Park in January. Wil- that the players who are just pushing without losing any wicket after itself, with Raina coming in steaming overs. liams’s conqueror at the Australian the ball don’t really have a chance to completion of powerplay. Open, Kerber, is in fine form after finish the ball.” The duo put on a 93-run stand MADRID: In the absence of world backing up her first Grand Slam by World number five Azarenka is for the first wicket, before McCul- SCOREBOARD number one Serena Williams, who retaining her title on the indoor clay the most in-form player on the Tour lum gave his wicket away trying to withdrew from the tournament of Stuttgart last week. as the Belarusian arrives in Madrid step up the scoring rate. RISING PUNE SUPERGIANTS B B McCullum c Morkel b Bhatia 43 yesterday after suffering with flu, a And the German is looking to on the back of a 14-match winning Despite losing his opening A M Rahane (run out) 53 S K Raina b Perera 34 whole host of players will be target- build on her positive start to the streak having won in Indian Wells partner, Smith played his natu- ing victory at the WTA Madrid Open European clay-court season in and Miami, as well as helping her S S Tiwary (run out) 1 K D Karthik c Rahane b Dinda 33 ral game by scoring runs at good tournament. Madrid and Rome before the French country relegate Russia in the World pace to take his team to the 100- S P D Smith b Bravo 101 D J Bravo c Dhoni b Dinda 7 Williams has played just three Open next month. Group II in the Fed Cup earlier this run mark in the ninth over itself. M S Dhoni (not out) 30 R A Jadeja (run out) 0 tournaments all season, losing in “I know I can play well on clay,” month. As he was looking set after N L T C Perera (not out) 3 J P Faulkner (not out) 9 the final of the Australian Open and said Kerber. “This is the attitude I’ll Azarenka has never won in striking nine boundaries and one Extras (LB-2, W-4, NB-1) 7 Ishan Kishan (run out) 0 at Indian Wells. take to Paris.” Madrid, but does have a good track six to take the game away from With the world’s dominant player The faster conditions than a nor- record as she reached the final in

Total (for 3 wkts in 20 overs) 195 P Kumar (not out) 0 the home side, Perera stuck in the missing for so much of the season, 16 mal clay surface in Madrid due to the 2011 and 2012 and blew three match 11th over to send Smith packing Did not bat: J A Morkel, R Bhatia, P S P Hands- Extras (W-7) 7 different women have already lifted slight altitude of the Spanish capital points against Williams in the last and have Gujarat reduced to 115/2. comb, R Ashwin, M Ashwin, A B Dinda. Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) 196 WTA titles this year, with Sloane could help Kerber even more. 16 last year before losing a final set Dinesh Karthik (33) too Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-124, 3-188. Did not bat: D S Kulkarni, S Kaushik. Stephens, Victoria Azarenka and Two-time champion Petra Kvi- tie-break. departed in the 17th over after giv- Bowling: P Kumar 4-0-37-0; D S Kulkarni 3-0- Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-115, 3-166, 4-180, Angelique Kerber the only multiple tova returns to defend her crown at Home hopes are carried by Gar- ing good support to skipper Suresh 25-0 (1w); R A Jadeja 4-0-37-0 (2w); S Kaushik 5-180, 6-193, 7-193. winners. the Caja Magica and strongly believes bine Muguruza as the world number Raina (34). That makes it hard to pick a win- the conditions favour her style. four hopes to become the first Span- 3-0-32-0 (1nb); J P Faulkner 2-0-22-0; D J Bravo Bowling: J A Morkel 2-0-30-0 (2w); A B Dinda But there after wickets fell ner for the tournament that starts this “One reason is that the altitude ish woman to win the Madrid Open. 4-0-40-1. 4-0-40-2 (3w); N L T C Perera 4-0-41-2 (1w); R one after the other but in the weekend, with Poland’s Agnieszka really helps the players who are play- However, Muguruza has had a GUJARAT LIONS Ashwin 4-0-37-0 (1w); R Bhatia 3-0-26-1; M end, James Faulkner (9 not out) Radwanska now the top seed, ing fast and aggressively,” the Czech disappointing season so far as she has and Praveen Kumar (0 not out) D R Smith b Perera 63 Ashwin 3-0-22-0. while five-time Grand Slam cham- told the tournament website in an failed to make it beyond the quarter- remained unbeaten to take team pion Maria Sharapova is still in the interview. finals in seven tournaments. 22 SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 SPORT Platini appears before CAS Barca hold slight advantage ahead of to appeal six-year ban Real Betis clash

AFP FOOTBALL: LA LIGA The suspended UEFA president MADRID: Barcelona hold the streak three ahead of Cristiano Ron- hopes to get his ban slightest of advantages in a thrill- aldo in the race to be the league’s ing three-way La Liga title race with top scorer. overturned in time just three games remaining ahead of The Uruguayan is well set to win for the Euro 2016 their trip to Real Betis today. at least that personal duel as Ronaldo The Catalans lead Atletico is expected to miss a third straight tournament Madrid solely thanks to their bet- game with a thigh injury as Real ter head-to-head record with Real travel to San Sebastian. Madrid just a point behind the lead- Karim Benzema will join the ers in third. three-time World Player of the Year Reuters However, Barca’s chances of on the sidelines after he picked up a retaining their title could be boosted hamstring injury in the first leg at by Atletico and Real’s European City. commitments as their respective In their absence Gareth Bale will LAUSANNE: Suspended UEFA pres- clashes with Rayo Vallecano and be charged with leading the Madrid ident Michel Platini appeared before Real Sociedad are sandwiched attack as he did with a double when sport’s highest tribunal yesterday to between the two legs of their Cham- they came from 2-0 down to register appeal against his six-year ban from pions League semi-finals. a ninth straight La Liga win at Rayo Former UEFA chief soccer and said he was optimistic he Atletico and Real remained on Vallecano last weekend. would win his case, with FIFA ex- Michel Platini leaves course for a second Madrid derby And Real coach Zinedine Zidane president Sepp Blatter among the the Court of Arbitration final in three years in midweek as refused to accept he will prioritise witnesses. for Sport (CAS) after Atletico will travel to Germany with the upcoming second leg with City Platini, who arrived in a taxi for his appeal hearing a 1-0 lead over Bayern Munich, while ahead of their trip to Anoeta. the hearing at the Court of Arbitra- against his six-year Real host Manchester City at the San- “It is another final. From here tion for Sport (CAS), is hoping that FIFA ban for ethics tiago Bernabeu with the scores level until the end of the season we only the ban will be overturned in time violations yesterday in at 0-0. have finals remaining,” he told for the Euro 2016 tournament, which Lausanne. By contrast, Barca have enjoyed Madrid’s website. will be held in his native France in just their second free midweek of Atletico look to have the easiest June and July. 2016 and appear to have turned task of the three title contenders CAS said a decision could even be Platini was banned for eight years FIFA’s Appeal Committee in February. not say whether the decision would the corner with 14 goals without today when they welcome strug- made as early as next week, depend- in December along with Blatter over CAS secretary general Matthieu come before it opens. “Probably I reply against Deportivo la Coruna gling Rayo to the Vicente Calderon ing on how the closed, day-long a payment of 2 million Swiss francs Reeb said that Blatter, FIFA and UEFA will know about that later today,” he and Sporting Gijon in their last two in a Madrid derby. hearing progresses. ($2.08 million) made to the French- vice-president Angel Maria Villar, and said. Blatter, whose own appeal will outings after a run of three straight Coach Diego Simeone has “Today, we’re at the beginning of man by FIFA with Blatter’s approval in Jacques Lambert, head of the Euro be heard separately at a later date, league defeats. resisted the temptation to rotate his the game, a new game, in the final ... I 2011 for work done a decade earlier. 2016 organising committee, would arrived three hours later for his tes- “There are people who say it is squad in recent weeks, but may have hope the outcome will be good,” said FIFA’s ethics committee, which give evidence. timony and said only, “I am a witness better to play every three days to one eye on the return in Munich on Platini, who was the favourite to suc- imposed the ban, said the payment, “We don’t know exactly when the in the case of Mr Platini today and I not lose the rhythm of competition, Tuesday with only six days separat- ceed Blatter as president of soccer’s made at a time when Blatter was final decision will be rendered, hope- will answer the question as a witness, others say it is better to rest, but the ing the two legs. global governing body FIFA before he seeking re-election, lacked trans- fully it could be early next week or a thank you for your interest.” most important thing is winning,” Defender Diego Godin and was banned. parency and presented conflicts of little later depending on what the par- Villar, head of the Spanish foot- Barca defender Gerard Pique said winger Yannick Carrasco are both “Of course, I am optimistic that interest. ties today tell us,” Reeb told reporters. ball federation (RFEF), arrived and on Thursday. expected to miss out through injury we are going to win,” he told report- Both men denied wrongdoing and UEFA will hold its annual Congress then left the hearing without answer- Luis Suarez scored four times with Atletico hopeful both will be fit ers, smiling and appearing relaxed. had their bans reduced to six years by in Budapest on Tuesday but Reeb could ing questions. in each of Barca’s last two games to in time to face Bayern. Bayern poised to make history

AFP Gladbach are chasing a rare home- and-away double but will be without US international Fabian Johnson, who has a leg injury. BERLIN: Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Should Gladbach shock Bayern, Munich can become the first club Borussia Dortmund will look to delay to win a fourth consecutive Bun- the Munich title party with victory desliga title by beating Borussia over last season’s runners up VfL Moenchengladbach today, amidst Wolfsburg at the Signal Iduna Park. the distraction of their Champions Dortmund are set to lose their League semi-final. third star player to Bayern in three Bayern hold a seven-point lead years after captain and defender and with three games left, a win over Mats Hummels announced he Gladbach at Munich’s Allianz Arena wants to join the Bavarian giants will confirm a fourth straight Ger- next season. man league title, a feat no other team Dortmund have said they will has achieved before. accept only “an exceptional offer” But Bayern are still smarting for the World Cup-winner, who has from Wednesday’s 1-0 Champions a market value of 32 million euros League defeat at Atletico Madrid. ($36.32m). Should he leave with a Villarreal’s forward Adrian Lopez (centre) celebrates a goal with teammates Guardiola has been criticised by year left on his contract, Hummels during their UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg football match against the German media (“Has Pep mull- will follow Goetze, who left for Bay- Liverpool FC at El Madrigal stadium in Vila-real on Thursday. ered Bayern’s final chances?’, asked ern in 2013 for 37m euros, and striker Bild”), plus ex-Bayern coach Ottmar Robert Lewandowski, who signed on Hitzfeld (“the tactic didn’t work”), for a free transfer in 2014. his selection. Dortmund have won their last Thomas Mueller, Bayern’s top- three games by a 3-0 scoreline and Lopez’s stoppage-time winner scorer in Europe, and Franck Ribery have already qualified for the Cham- both started on the bench leaving pions League. Bayern with it all to do in Tuesday’s Despite reaching the quarter- dents Liverpool’s Europa hopes return leg in Munich. Guardiola finals of the Champions League, scoffed when asked if he would rest Wolfsburg have lost their Bundes- some of his stars against Gladbach. liga bite in 2016 and are now 10th, “We still need another win, we six points away from the European AFP a third consecutive Europa League Thomas Pina forced Simon Mig- Liverpool pounced on an error from only have a few days to prepare and places. Their 2-0 defeat to Augs- final as they drew 2-2 away at Sha- nolet into a smart save low to his left Suarez and Alberto Moreno bore then we face Atletico three days burg last Saturday meant they have khtar Donetsk in the other semi-final. before a curling effort from Soldado down on goal before firing wildly later,” he said. “We have to win dropped 16 points in their previous The 96 Liverpool fans who died hit the side-netting. off target. against Gladbach first.” six games. VILA-REAL, Spain: Adrian Lopez’s at the Hillsborough tragedy 27 years Liverpool suffered a blow at half- Suarez atoned in fine fashion In the wake of the Atletico Bayer Leverkusen could take a stoppage-time winner put Villar- ago were remembered before kick- time when Coutinho was forced off to deep into stoppage time as he trapped defeat, only their fifth of the sea- big step towards a direct Champions real on the verge of reaching their off days after the biggest inquest in be replaced by Jordan Ibe. Bruno’s pass to burst through the Liv- son, Bayern are feeling the pressure League berth when they host fellow first ever Cup final with a 1-0 win English legal history found they had Villarreal were inches away from erpool defence before picking out the in their bid for a repeat of the 2013 European aspirants Hertha Berlin over Liverpool in the first leg of their been unlawfully killed. opening the scoring a minute into the unmarked Lopez for an easy finish. treble. on Saturday. Europa League semi-final on Thurs- Villarreal fans held aloft a banner second period when Cedric Bakam- In the other semi-final Vitolo got “We would make a mistake if we Leverkusen have won their last day. reading “96 You’ll Never Walk Alone.” bu’s header came off the post. Sevilla off to a perfect start when he quarrel now, I want to go to Milan,” six, conceding just two goals in the A game of few chances was Once the action got underway, However, Liverpool also hit the fired between Andrey Pyatov’s legs said chairman Karl-Heinz Rum- process, and could secure their place decided by a brilliant goal at the death Liverpool had the first chance when woodwork at the other end with their early on. menigge as the Champions League in the Champions League’s group as Denis Suarez unselfishly squared Joe Allen’s low shot from Adam Lal- best chance of the game 25 minutes The Ukrainians turned the game final will be held in the Italian city stage with a win. Fourth-placed Her- for substitute Lopez to tap home from lana’s deflected cross was placed too from time when Firmino’s low shot around before half-time through Mar- on May 28. tha have not won since March. There close range. close to Sergio Asenjo. was brilliantly turned onto the post los and Taras Stepanenko. However, Guardiola is likely to start with will be a crunch clash on Monday in Roberto Firmino fired Liverpool’s Villarreal went onto enjoy the by Asenjo. Kevin Gameiro’s penalty eight minutes Germany’s World Cup winner Mario the relegation battle when Werder best chance against the post in the better of an intense first-half short The game suddenly opened up from time gives Sevilla a huge advan- Goetze up front against Gladbach. Bremen host VfB Stuttgart. second-half as Jurgen Klopp’s men on goalmouth action. in the final 10 minutes as Mignolet tage ahead of the return at the Sanchez Defender Jerome Boateng could Stuttgart, who are 15th, are only now need another famous European Former Tottenham Hotspur producing a stunning save to prevent Pizjuan in a week’s time. Sevilla’s joy well play his first minutes since suf- two points clear of Werder and a win comeback at Anfield to reach the final striker Roberto Soldado pulled the Bakambu adding to his nine Europa was diminished, though, by a serious fering a groin injury in January. would see Bremen climb out of the in Basel on May 18. best chance of the half wide on 10 League goals this season. knee injury suffered by Danish mid- Having beaten Munich 3-1 relegation play-off spot with two Sevilla are well-placed to reach minutes. 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Jubilant El Jaish players and officials celebrate after receiving the Qatar Cup Trophy at Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. El Jaish dethroned defending champions Qatar Cup champions Lekhwiya with a 2-1 victory in a thrilling Qatar Cup finale. Pictures by: Baher Amin / The Peninsula El Jaish dethrone Lekhwiya to win Qatar Cup

semi-finals, started the game on the In the 30th minute Jaish finally got front foot and had the first attempt the goal their dominance deserved. Hamdallah’s when Sardor Rashidov whipped Rashidov swung in a free-kick last-minute penalty a free-kick inches over the bar in from the right and Tunisian mid- the eighth minute. Lekhwiya’s first fielder Mohammed Methnani headed secures thrilling 2-1 chance came in the 11th minute. into the corner after getting in front win for armymen Striker Mohammed Muntari of his marker. found space outside the box but could Lekhwiya began the second half only hit a tame shot from 25 yards. with more purpose but struggled to Muntari appeared to have another create clear-cut chances. Djamel Bel- The Peninsula opportunity a few minutes later. He madi’s men did come close in the muscled his way into the penalty area 62nd minute though when Karim but had already been flagged offside Boudiaf dribbled along the byline when his shot rebounded off the post. and produced a smart cross. Unfor- DOHA: A last-minute penalty from It was to be the striker’s final con- tunately for Lekhwiya, Boudiaf’s Abderrazzaq Hamdallah proved to be tribution before sustaining an injury delivery eluded a crowded penalty a match-winner as El Jaish dethroned and being replaced by Alain Dioko. area. defending champions Qatar Cup Shortly after Dioko’s introduc- After Romarinho hit a free-kick Lekhwiya goalkeeper Alain Dioko makes an unsuccessful attempt to make a save as El Jaish’s Tunisian champions Lekhwiya with a 2-1 vic- tion, Jaish stamped their authority wide for Jaish, Lekhwiya started midfielder Mohammed Methnani (unseen) scores the first goal of the Qatar Cup final yesterday. tory in a thrilling finale at Al Sadd on proceedings. The ever-dangerous pressing. And with 12 minutes to go Stadium yesterday. Rashidov showed superb pace before they were finally presented with a The Moroccan forward calmly checking and hitting a left-footed golden opportunity to level. Murad ball but his clever dink was bril- after being booked for a tussle Cup glory for Jaish. The victory fol- slotted the ball home after late drama shot from inside the area. Goalkeeper Naji brought down Khalid Muftah and liantly saved by Jaish goalkeeper with Hamdallah, Ahmad Sayyid lows El Jaish’s maiden Qatar Cup to secure El Jaish their second Qatar Ivanildo Rodrigues spilled the shot, Dioko stepped up to hammer his pen- Khalifa Ababacar. Lekhwiya were brought down Majid Mohamed. title in 2013, when they also beat Cup victory after Lekhwiya equal- but just as it looked as if Hamdallah alty into the bottom corner. looking likely to grab a winner but And with the clock ticking down, Lekhwiya. ised with a penalty of their own just would score, Mohammed Abdullah Just seconds later Lekhwiya Jaish mustered a counter-attack Hamdallah stepped up to score his The result, however proves that ten minutes earlier. produced a smart piece of defending almost grabbed a second. Youssef which led to a penalty being awarded 23rd goal of a memorable maiden the disappointing run in the domestic Jaish, who beat Al Sadd 3-2 in the to turn the ball behind for a corner. Msakni latched on to a cross-field in the dying moments. Just minutes season in the QSL and secure Qatar arena continues for Lekhwiya.

Qatar’s Alsaid wins bronze at Asian Weightlifting Championships

Fares Ibrahim Alsaid (right), who won the bronze medal in the men’s 85kg event at the 46th Asian Men’s Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, along with the other medal winners. The Qatari lifted a total of 341kg (150kg - Snatch and 196kg – Clean and jerk) on Thursday to bag his medal. Denis Ulanov of Kazakhstan won the gold medal when he lifted a total of 373kg while Iran’s Ayoub Mousavi who lifted a total weight of 356kg, won the silver medal.

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Emir welcomes King Mohammed NORTH CAROLINA: People with psychiatric illnesses are 1 of Morocco 66 more likely to have complications after hip replacement surgery, according to a recent analysis. This added risk is Qatar and Turkey sign something doctors and patients should discuss in advance, 2 security agreement the study team writes in The Journal of Arthroplasty. Previous studies have linked depression and other mental illnesses to Vodafone bags global business greater complications after surgery and worse outcomes for 3 continuity certification patients. In particular, patients with psychiatric disease are known to have more complications after cardiac, spine and general surgery, lead author Dr. Mitchell Klement said. To determine how mental illness might affect healing after hip TWEET OF THE DAY surgery, the researchers analyzed data from Medicare, the government insurance for elderly and disabled, from 2005 to 2011. The patients with psychiatric diagnoses were more likely than those without mental illness to be younger than 65, female and to have additional medical problems. Three months after surgery, patients with mental illness were more likely to have had 13 of the 14 medical complica- tions studied. People with mental illness may be more likely to have weaker immune systems, more body fat and diabe- tes, all factors that can have impair healing from surgery, Visitors look at sculptures by German-French artist Rotraut in the exhibition Marks, who was not involved in the study. People with anxiety or depression that’s not being treated ‘Quantengesaenge’ (Quantum Songs) in Jena, Germany, yesterday. In all, 27 pieces should discuss this with their doctor. They should be aware by the artist, born in 1938 as Rotraut Uecker, will be shown. The exhibition can be that doctors may not ask them about these issues, so they may seen in the Altes Strassenbahndepot in Jens from today until July 24, 2016. have to bring it up in order to get help, she said.“

INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY 600kg of Roman coins discovered

AFP Navarro, head of Seville’s Archeol- “certainly several million euros”. The Lekhwiya player Tae- ogy Museum which is looking after coins are stamped with the inscrip- hee Nam going head the find, told a news conference. Dat- tions of emperors Maximian and to head with El Jaish ing back to the late third and early Constantine, and they appeared not player Ali Sanad Al SPAIN: Construction workers have fourth centuries, the bronze coins to have been in circulation as they Nuaimi during Qatar found 600kg of ancient Roman coins were found on Wednesday inside 19 show little evidence of wear and tear. Cup 2016 held at Al while carrying out routine work on Roman amphoras, a type of jar, in the It is thought they were intended Sadd stadium yester- water pipes in southern Spain, local town of Tomares near Seville. pay the army or civil servants. “The day. Photo by Baher officials said Thursday. Navarro declined to give a pre- majority were newly minted and some Amin “It is a unique collection and cise estimate for the value of the haul, of them probably were bathed in sil- there are very few similar cases,” Ana saying only that the coins were worth ver, not just bronze,” said Navarro. World’s rarest parrot enjoys Rescued 33 lions to fly to S Africa

AFP north of the country. and many have smashed and bro- bumper breeding season “The lions will be in their natu- ken teeth so would not survive in ral habitat for the first time in their the wild,” ADI said in a statement. At lives,” Creamer said. “They should their new home, “the lions will enjoy LIMA: A planeload of 33 lions rescued fit right into that habitat. It’s the best large natural enclosures situated in AFP from abuse in Peruvian and Colom- environment for them.” ADI says it pristine African bush, complete with bian circuses will fly to South Africa is the biggest transfer of such large drinking pools, platforms and toys,” soon in what campaigners call the captive animals ever. it added. largest ever airlift of big cats. In the circuses the lions were ill “The lion habitats will be steadily WELLINGTON: The world’s rarest The lions, with names such as fed and trucked around in cages, the expanded over the coming months parrot has enjoyed a bumper breeding Zeus and Shakira, were freed after group said. The Colombian circuses as the lions become familiar with season in New Zealand, raising hopes the use of wild animals in circuses gave up the nine lions voluntar- their new life and are introduced to it can eventually be reintroduced to its was outlawed in Peru in 2011 and ily but police had to launch raids to each other.” The cost of the transfer native Fiordland, conservationists said Colombia in 2013. free the lions in Peru. “Almost all of is $10,000 per cat.“These lions have yesterday. They have been rounded up the rescued lions have been muti- endured hell on earth,” Creamer The kakapo, a plump green par- with the help of authorities by Ani- lated to remove their claws, one has said. “Now they are heading home rot that nests on the ground, was once mal Defenders International (ADI), lost an eye, another is almost blind, to paradise.” thought extinct but its numbers have an animal rights charity. slowly increased to 125 birds thanks to “It’s truly wonderful that these an intensive conservation programme lions, after a lifetime of suffering and dating back decades. abuse in circuses, are going home to The hard work paid off spectac- Africa,” said the president of ADI, Jan ularly this year as 36 chicks hatched Creamer. “All of the lions when they and survived during breeding season, arrive from the circuses have health well up on the previous record of 22 in problems, parasites, disease,” she 2009. “It’s the most successful breed- added. “All of their lives they haven’t A rare green kakapo parrot and chick on Codfish Island. ing season since we started in 1995 and had e ough food, so they have long- I think that’s cause for international term malnutrition problems.” celebration,” Conservation Minister populations were found in the wild, we would be looking in the thou- In recent months spent in straw- Maggie Barry said. although Barry said numbers had sands before we took it off the list lined cages in a refuge north of Lima, “It’s very rare that you have the dwindled to 45 by 1995. of endangered species,” she said. however, they have been well fed and opportunity to bring back a precious The conservation programme She said the long-term plan was are in generally good health, she said. taonga (treasure) species from teeter- involves breeding kakapo on three to re-introduce the parrot to its orig- Twenty-four lions rescued in ing on the very edge of extinction, that’s island sanctuaries that have been inal habitat, including Fiordland in Peru will be driven from their tem- what we’ve managed to do.” cleared of pests. The chicks are the South Island. porary rescue center to Lima airport The kakapo was once one of New closely monitored and weighed “The challenge for us is to breed to be picked up by a cargo plane that Zealand’s most common birds, with nightly, with any that appear to be them to numbers in the wild, so they is bringing another nine over from an early European explorer report- ailing sent to a facility in Invercargill can sustain their own populations Colombia. That contingent includes ing they could be shaken from bushes where they can receive 24-hour care. on offshore islands where there are Shakira, named after the Colombian like apples. But the flightless and slow “Unfortunately one died yes- not predators. pop singer. From one of 10 Peruvian moving species proved easy pickings terday (leaving 36 survivors), “But also to take them back circuses also comes “Ricardo, the for introduced pests such as rats, stoats illustrating the fragility of the pop- to areas they came from, which one-eyed lion” and from another and cats. ulation,” Barry said. is remote Fiordland and Stewart “Joseph, the almost-blind lion.” Male kakapo -- the name means “Frankly, if we didn’t intervene Island.” Many who have worked Together, the 33 will take a “night parrot” in Maori -- made in the way that we do the kakapo with the kakapo, including British 15-hour flight to South Africa in travel themselves even more vulnerable by would be extinct.” comedian Stephen Fry on a 2009 cages inside the plane chartered by emitting a loud booming call, telling Despite this year’s success, Barry documentary, have described them ADI. They will arrive on Saturday predators exactly where they were. said the kakapo still had a long way as full of personality. “I think the in Johannesburg where they will be An African lion born in captivity in Peru is embarked for Johannesburg, They were thought to be extinct to go before it was out of danger. kakapo are our most endearing bird, housed before being sent in October South Africa, in Lima, yesterday. in the 1970s until a few remnant “In terms of numbers, I think they’re real characters,” she said. to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in the