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BY RAYNALD C RIVERA SERIOUSLY INJURED

DOHA: At least 11 people were Some of those seriously injured, some seriously, when a injured were standing ready Karwa bus ploughed into com- muters at the waiting area of to board the bus while the the Mowasalat bus terminus in bus was still on its way. Al Ghanim yesterday. The bus driver acciden- tally stepped on the accelera- operating buses eight years ago. tor instead of the brakes which The bus terminus receives from caused the mishap, say sources. 80,000 to 100,000 commuters on The bus suddenly zoomed at a a daily basis and the number speed so high that it tore down increases during weekends and two steel benches where some of national holidays. the victims were sitting, said an “Nobody expected it to hap- eyewitness. The waiting shed also pen. I think the driver was quite nearly crashed due to the strong stressed out. It has been a busy A multiple exposure picture taken in the early hours of yesterday shows a Perseids meteor shower in the sky, near the municipality of La Hiruela, impact of the collision. week for us because of Eid Al on the mountains of the Sierra Norte de Madrid, in Spain. Among those injured were a Fitr,” said another bus driver. Filipino, some Bangladeshis and An eyewitness said some of Nepalese, who were immediately those seriously injured were rushed to the hospital, according standing ready to board the bus to sources. while the bus was still on its way. “The freak accident happened “Commuters should stay far Two youth sentenced to death for murder at around 5pm and since it was from this area and wait several still Eid holidays, a lot of people metres away until the bus makes DOHA: A lower criminal court told the security guard that a ball guard had died, the three young- showroom, so they drew up a plan were waiting in the area,” said an a full stop. Only then they should has handed out the death sen- they were playing was acciden- sters dragged his body to one of and acted on it. They said they eyewitness working in a nearby approach the bus,” advised one of tence to two young men for tally lodged inside the showroom. the brand new cars on display in went to the showroom carrying a shop. the bus drivers, “but this rarely killing in cold blood a security The unassuming guard, taking the showroom and locked it in. knife which they didn’t use. The bus, which was driven by happens because everyone rushes guard of a famous automobile their story to be true, took them They then made their way to The defence has gone in appeal an African national according to to get a seat in the bus.” showroom and stealing a brand in, while one youngster stayed out another brand new car and drove pleading that their sentences be eyewitnesses, was numbered 11 This newspaper tried to con- new car for a fun ride. keeping a watch. it out. They later managed to get changed into jail terms. and was plying around the Matar tact the Philippine Embassy Another two youngsters who As soon as the three youth were hold of a scrapped number plate The defence, according to Al Qadeem area route. regarding the Filipino who was were minors and accomplices in inside, they locked the door of the which they used on this stolen car. Sharq, has argued that the inten- “The driver might have mis- injured but the Embassy said the hair-raising crime, have been showroom from inside and began They drove the car briefly and tion of the convicts was not to kill takenly stepped on the accelera- it was not yet informed of the sentenced to five years in jail by a kicking the security guard. They later abandoned it in a deserted but to steal the car. tor instead of the brakes,” said a incident. juvenile court, Al Sharq reported forced the guard on to the ground area. Also the fact that they had a bus driver. Mowasalat officials were also yesterday. and one of them began strangling The youth were caught and knife but didn’t use it to kill the This was the first time such an not available for comment. The foursome, according to him as the other two kept kicking said during interrogation that security guard showed they had incident happened in the bus ter- THE PENINSULA details of the case, went to the him until the guard died. they were friends and had decided no intention of killing him, said minus since Mowasalat started Pictures on page 2 showroom when it was closed and After making sure that the to steal a car from the famous the defence. THE PENINSULA

Indian stabbed to death at labour camp Mursi camps face action CAIRO: Egyptian police step along the way,” an interior DOHA: A 31-year-old Indian are expected to start taking ministry general said. Once the expatriate died, reportedly action against supporters of siege begins, the protesters will after being stabbed by an Asian ousted President Mohammed be “surrounded”, no one will be let man in a labour camp in Al Mursi today who are gathered into the sit-ins and the protest- Sailiya area on the outskirts in crowded protest camps in ers will be given several warnings of Doha a little after midnight Cairo, security and government to leave, another security official on Saturday. The deceased has sources said, a move which could said. been identified as Shameer, who trigger more bloodshed. “State security troops will be hailed from the southern Indian The sites are the main flash- deployed around the sit-ins by state of Kerala and was based points in the confrontation dawn as a start of procedures that here for the past five years. between the army, which toppled will eventually lead to a dispersal,” Full report on page 3 Mursi last month, and supporters a senior security source said, add- who demand his reinstatement. ing that the first step will be to The dispersal of Cairo sit-ins surround the camps. Israel expands West will be “gradual”, with protesters Army chief General Abdel Bank settlements given “several warnings” before Fattah Al Sisi has come under police moves in, senior security pressure from hardline military JERUSALEM: Israel moved officials said. officers to move against the pro- forward yesterday with plans “There will be a series of grad- testers, security sources say. Supporters of deposed President Mohammed Mursi chant slogans at Rabaa Adawiya Square yesterday. to build nearly 1,200 homes for ual steps. We will announce every AFP/REUTERS Jewish settlers, holding fast to a defiant settlement policy as cab- inet ministers met to approve a release of Palestinian prisoners ahead of a new round of peace talks. Full report on page 5 Norway PM turns taxi driver to find out ‘what people think’

Curfew in Colombo OSLO: Norwegian Prime taxi,” he said in a video posted on — one afternoon in June and recognised Stoltenberg urged Asked by tabloid Verdens Minister Jens Stoltenberg Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. picked up passengers in a black him to do something about “the Gang if he would like to be a taxi after mosque attack revealed yesterday that he The video was released while Mercedes in the Norwegian salaries of bosses”, complaining driver if he lost the elections, COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police has gone undercover as a taxi campaigning was in full swing capital. that “they should not make mil- Stoltenberg said: “I think that clamped a fresh curfew on a driver for an afternoon, in for the September 9 general elec- A hidden camera fitted in the lions like that”. the country and Norwegian taxi Colombo neighbourhood yester- a bid to find out voters’ real tion, which Stoltenberg’s ruling cab recorded reactions from the Beyond revelations from the passengers are better served if I day, a day after a Buddhist-led concerns. leftist coalition appears likely passengers, including one who clients, Stoltenberg himself had were a prime minister and not a mob vandalised a mosque in an “It’s important for me to hear to lose, according to the latest remarked: “From this angle, one to give away, admitting to a taxi driver.” incident that raised religious what people really think. If opinion polls. he really looks like the prime passenger who recognised him According to the tabloid, the tensions and sparked US con- there’s one place where people Stoltenberg wore an Oslo Taxi minister.” that he had not driven in eight passengers did not have to pay cern. Full report on page 10 say what they think, it’s in the uniform — complete with a badge An elderly woman who also years. for their journeys. AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

11 hurt in freak bus accident

The damaged Karwa bus and (right) the waiting area of the Mowasalat bus terminus in Al Ghanim after an accident yesterday. At least 11 commuters were injured after the driver accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brakes. Expat workers upset over closed cinemas Holidays without fun as Doha, Gulf theatres are yet to open

BY AZMAT HAROON as there were no seats left for them. One cinema supervisor said that some malls DOHA: Thousands of movie buffs, especially low- increased security around cinema halls to deal with income single foreign workers, are sore as the the crowd during holidays. twin Doha and Gulf cinemas show no signs of reo- Some cine-goers quarrelled with mall officials pening soon. The theatres have remained closed when they were told that no more seats were for the seventh month. available. The cinema complex was frequented by expats, “We stopped advance booking because people and it was arguably the most popular and cheapest reserved seats one day in advance and those who A file photo shows expat workers at one of the ticket windows at the Doha Cinema. source of entertainment for them. waited in long queues fought with us when we told The theatres were closed on January 31 for main- them that the theatre was full,” Syed Ghulam Afridi tenance and officials said at the time that they would from The Mall Cinema said yesterday. reopen soon. He said that apart from Indian films, cartoon films Tickets at both cinemas cost between QR15 and such as Smurfs 2 and Despicable Me 2 saw the larg- QR25, the lowest in the country, as tickets at cin- est turnout. “We only have three theatres and each emas now start at QR35. can seat 136. But even other cinemas that have at Attempts to contact Doha and Gulf Cinema offi- least 11 screens were packed to capacity during Eid,” cials for comments failed. Afridi said. With both cinemas remaining shut, Indian film Some workers complained about the shortage of enthusiasts were left with no options during Eid theatres in Qatar. holidays as most theatres screening Indian films “I went at 3pm to buy a few tickets for Pacific Rim were fully booked. at the Villagio Cinema on the first day of Eid. But Most shows of the Indian film Chennai Express, for there were no seats available for any of the shows example, were full at the Villagio Cinema during Eid, for the day,” said Khalid Ali. with a ‘sold-out’ board displayed outside the theatre. He said that the following day his friends got seats Cinemas across Qatar see huge rush of people for the 1am show, which was also full. during Eid holidays, and most theatres are packed “The last shows at the cinema were around 2am to capacity. for Red 2 and Pacific Rim and even they didn’t have Many workers said they had to wait in long queues any good seats left, which are usually at the back or for tickets, while some returned home high and dry in the middle,” Ali added. THE PENINSULA

City Center food court reopens after fire

The upgraded west food court at City Center Doha.

DOHA: City Center Doha’s west food court which the refurbished court only boasts of cozy attractive was closed down after a small fire in March last ambience but also provides new and varied seating year, has reopened with a new look. for people who dine individually or in groups. Four of over a dozen food chains in the court have “At least I won’t anymore go to Villaggio to enjoy been serving customers since Friday. They include my favourite food,” said a customer who lives in the KFC, Hardees, Attila and Shater Abbas. nearby West Bay. Other stalls yet to open include Burger King, The west food court had been popular with food McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Arby’s. lovers and served more customers than the east food “We opened on Friday just in time for Eid holi- court since it is just beside the Grand Cine Center, days,” said an employee of one restaurant, adding where 14 cinemas are located. they served many customers during the first three But after it closed, stalls at the east food court days after opening because of Eid holidays. witnessed good business, especially during weekends. The court was shut after fire broke out in the The reopening of the court is an additional treat kitchen of one stall. Nobody was reported injured. for food lovers as a couple of new stalls, including The cinema was also closed for a while. Broaster and Captain Billy’s Fish and Chips, have The long closure was due to general facility joined the line-up of restaurants to provide diners upgrades and many said it was worth the wait as with more options. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Multi-level plans to raise water, power production Government agencies sign deals to meet targets of utilities by 2016

DOHA: Qatar is set to aug- meet projected demand in 2030. generate solar power for the of the World Bank and the ment its water and elec- A feasibility study on linking farm sector as part of an agri- Arab League. tricity production capacity Qatar’s water network with the culture production project To boost existing electricity by launching new projects GCC is also underway. launched by Qatar National transmission network, Qatar and enhancing existing A survey to identify ideal Food Security Programme has enhanced the capacity of infrastructure. locations for new plants and and to increase the production 162 transformers, spending Government agencies have transmission lines is fast capacity to meet water demand about QR20m. signed agreements to meet progressing. in emergency situations. Qatar Water and Electricity production and distribu- The report said an agency Qatar’s water and electricity Corporation (Kahramaa) tion targets of the utilities by had been tasked to study the sector is working along with its has completed its consulting 2016, according to a 2012-2013 possibility of producing potable GCC counterparts to develop services with agencies ahead report released by the General water from sea water through a long-term strategy for water of distributing power to its www.swiss-belhotel.com Secretariat of the Council of reverse osmosis technology and production and distribution. major subscribers in North Tel Ministers. oversee implementation of a It is also engaged in finalis- Doha, Barwa Village, Barzan The report said a separate model to verify the success of ing a draft study on linking the and Lussail and at New Doha Fax study is underway to boost the technique. GCC electricity network with International Airport. production of the utilities to Another study is afoot to the Arab network with support THE PENINSULA

Tel Fax Condolence cables sent Indian stabbed to death Tel to Morocco Fax DOHA: The Emir H H at Al Sailiya labour camp Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Tollfree Al Thani sent a cable of DOHA: A 31-year-old Indian saying they were not authorised condolences to His Majesty expatriate died, reportedly to interact with the media. The Fax King Mohammed VI of after being stabbed by an Indian embassy said it hadn’t Morocco following the death Asian man in a labour camp been informed of the tragic of Royal Guards members in Al Sailiya on the outskirts incident. “We will find out Tel in a road accident in east- of Doha a little after midnight details in the morning (today),” Fax ern Morocco on Saturday. on Saturday. an official said late last evening. The Prime Minister and The deceased has been iden- The body of the deceased has Interior Minister H E Sheikh tified as Shameer, who hailed been kept at HMC mortuary Abdullah bin Nasser bin from the southern state of and is to be flown home for the Tel Khalifa Al Thani sent a simi- Kerala and had been based here last rites. Fax lar cable. for five years. Shameer hailed from Shameer was allegedly Omassery in Kozhikode dis- Chad president stabbed by a Nepalese worker trict. He had been working as in the presence of his brother. a heavy vehicle driver with a Tel greeted The duo had been to the private company, staying in Al Fax camp to enquire about a friend Murra, with his brother. DOHA: The Emir H H staying there after they heard Shameer. Shameer was married, with www.doha.hilton.com Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad that he had a brawl with a a girl child. The tragic incident Al Thani sent a cable of con- group of workers. succumbed to injuries on the happened as he was preparing Tel +974 44233333 gratulations to the President Shameer was stabbed with way. The alleged attacker and to visit his family back home of Chad, Idriss Déby, on his a sharp instrument as his some others from the camp are next week. “His last visit to Fax +974 44233000 country’s Independence brother Saleem watched in hor- reported to have been arrested Kerala was about nine months Day. The Prime Minister ror, people close to them told by police. ago. He had built a new home in and Minister of Interior H E The Peninsula yesterday. Contacted, Capital Police his native town and was looking Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser He was rushed to the emer- asked this newspaper to speak forward to occupying it during bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent gency unit of Hamad Medical with Industrial Area Police, his next visit,” said a source. a congratulatory cable to the Corporation (HMC) but who refused to comment, THE PENINSULA president. QNA

Tel Bahrain deports Fax Gunmen kill five Yemeni soldiers US teacher over ADEN: Suspected Al Qaeda Total, was one of two energy tar- Islamist insurgents in the south. website articles militants killed four Yemeni gets that suspected Al Qaeda mil- “The checkpoint they attacked Tel soldiers in their sleep early yes- itants had been plotting to attack. is one of many leading up to the ABU DHABI: Bahrain Fax terday in an attack on forces Washington stepped up drone gas facilities,” said the source, who has deported a US nurs- guarding the country’s only liq- strikes on suspected Al Qaeda spoke on condition of anonymity. ery school teacher it says uefied natural gas (LNG) export targets in Yemen which killed at “The militants know that it’s wrote articles on social terminal, a local official said. least 15 people in three days. impossible to penetrate all of the media sites linked to rad- Tel The assault follows an escalat- US ally Yemen, one of the poor- checkpoints and that’s why they ical groups and for violat- Fax ing campaign of drone strikes est Arab countries, is the base for didn’t attempt to go further. They ing the terms of her work by the United States over the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula just wanted vengeance.” permit as the kingdom past two weeks and warnings of (AQAP), one of the most active He said there are usually up to intensifies crackdown on militant attacks that prompted branches of the network founded 1,800 Yemeni soldiers guarding oil dissent. Washington to close embassies by Osama bin Laden, and mili- and gas facilities in Shabwa and The Ministry of State Tel across the Middle East and evac- tants have launched attacks from the number has been increased for Communications did Fax uate some staff from Yemen. there against the West. in recent weeks. The Yemeni not identify the woman but The official said the gunmen The Balhaf facility, the largest government said last week that said she wrote under a pen infiltrated a checkpoint guarding industrial project ever under- it had foiled a plot by Al Qaeda name and had broken the the Balhaf LNG terminal in the taken in Yemen, opened in 2009. to seize the Al Dabbah oil export law by working as an unac- Tel southern Shabwa province, killed It is heavily guarded by Yemeni terminal in Hadramout and the credited journalist. one soldier and then entered a troops. It supplies gas cooled to Balhaf gas export facility. Plans The teacher wrote arti- Fax cargo container where four more liquid for export by ship, under for such an attack will have raised cles for online publications troops were sleeping and shot long-term contracts to GDF Suez, alarm bells in Washington. including As Safir news- them dead. The attackers fled in Total and Korea Gas Corp. In January, Islamist gunmen paper, which is linked to a vehicle, he said. A private security source work- attacked an Algerian gas plant, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Tel A Yemeni government spokes- ing for oil and gas firms in Yemen seizing hundreds of hostages Shia group Hezbollah, Fax man said last week that the $4.5 said Sunday’s killing appeared before the army stormed it four and the outlawed Bahrain billion gas facility, jointly man- to be in retaliation for recent days later. Dozens of foreign Center for Human Rights aged by Yemen LNG and France’s drone strikes that killed scores of workers were killed. AGENCIES newsletter, the state news agency said on Saturday. No one at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights was available for comment. The ministry had Eight militants die in Sinai air attacks received a complaint Tel about the woman who used Fax CAIRO: Egyptian air strikes in the Sinai Militants based mainly in north Sinai near Israel’s Twitter and other social Peninsula killed at least eight militants and border have escalated attacks on security forces and media to write articles destroyed a weapons depot, the military and local other targets since July 3, when the army ousted “deemed to incite hatred residents said yesterday. Islamist president Mohammed Mursi and installed against the government Tel The overnight strikes against “a terrorist group” a new government in Cairo. and members of the Royal Fax responsible for killing police and army troops in The Egyptian army has been engaged in a cam- family, as well as spread- north Sinai left “25 people dead and injured”, army paign to curtail the surge in violence and rein in ing misinformation and spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said. militant activity in the lawless Sinai. encouraging divisions in www.renaissancedoha.com He said a weapons and ammunition depot “which An Egyptian militant group, Ansar Beit Al Bahraini society based on was being used for terrorist acts against the armed Maqdis, said four of its members belonging to Sinai religious sect”, it said. Tel +974 44195000 forces and police, terrorising the innocent citizens Bedouin tribes were killed by Israeli drones on In February 2012, two Fax +974 44195100 of North Sinai” was also destroyed. Friday. Egypt, which has a 1979 peace treaty with American rights activists A military source said 15 people were killed in Israel, denied the report. were deported for trying the attack that saw Egyptian military helicopters “There is no truth whatsoever to any Israeli to report on events mark- target militants near the village of Touma, close to strikes inside Egyptian territory and the claim ing the first anniversary of Sheikh Zuwayed. that there is Egyptian and Israeli coordination on demonstrations for demo- In Touma, witnesses confirmed eight people killed, the matter is utterly baseless,” military spokesman cratic reforms. with their funerals held Sunday. Colonel Ahmed Aly said. AFP AGENCIES MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST 100 killed in Playing for Mursi fresh Darfur fighting Rival Arab tribes clash in the east

KHARTOUM: Fighting between tribal allies known as Janjaweed. two Arab tribes has killed 100 With the situation changing, the people in Sudan’s Darfur region, United Nations Security Council where hundreds had already died called last month for a review of the in worsening unrest this year, one UNAMID peacekeeping mission. of the combatants said yesterday. Non-Arabs in Darfur began a The battle between a group of rebellion 10 years ago against what Rezeigat and the rival Maaliya tribe they saw as the domination of Sudan’s happened near Adila in East Darfur power and wealth by Arab elites. state on Saturday. In response, the government- “We clashed with Maaliya... and we backed Janjaweed militia shocked the destroyed a compound of theirs and world with atrocities against them. killed 70 of them,” said a Rezeigat Although the rebellion continues, source, who declined to be named. analysts have warned since at least “We lost 30 of our men. 2010 that relations were souring “There is still high tension and between Khartoum and the Arab men from both sides are gathered,” tribes it armed to fight the insurgency. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi gathered in northeastern Cairo’s Rabaa the source said. Tribal disputes have been driven by Al Adawiya square play a football match at Al Nahda Square yesterday. Both tribes said the fighters used conflict over resources including land, Land Cruiser vehicles, while the water and mineral rights, observers Maaliya accused their opponents say. of employing “heavy weapons” — a A Rezeigat source said the latest common allegation in Darfur’s tribal violence too is linked to a land dispute. fighting. There had been tension between Iraqis blame govt for not stopping attacks A Maaliya source said the Rezeigat the Rezeigat and Maaliya for days. “attacked” and burned villages, but Their tribal councils had appealed BAGHDAD: Gun attacks forces for failing to prevent much better than dozens of violence since 2008 when Iraq he declined to say how many from for peaceful resolution of the land and a bombing killed at least the 16 car bombings and other political parties, even if they say was slowly emerging from bru- his side had died. dispute, the Sudanese Media Centre, six more people in Iraq yes- attacks which killed 74 peo- we are in a dictatorial regime, tal bloodletting. “We still expect more fighting which is close to the security appa- terday, police said, after a day ple, 47 of them in Baghdad on because it is much better than The US, Britain and the UN today,” the source said, claiming ratus, reported last week. of carnage aimed mainly at Saturday. dozens of people being killed condemned the latest attacks, that the Maaliya “killed 40” of their Prior to this year’s surge of vio- Shia Muslims celebrating the “There will not be any each day,” said Shammari, 35, with Washington reiterating a adversaries. lence, there were already 1.4 million end of Ramadan. improvement in the Iraqi situ- a cigarette seller. $10m bounty for information Inter-tribal and inter-ethnic fight- people in camps for those uprooted Iraqis angrily blamed the ation,” said a man who gave his “I will never vote for another leading to the killing or cap- ing has been the major source of vio- by the conflict in Darfur. authorities for failing to head name as Abu Samer, near the person again,” the father-of- ture of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, lence in Darfur this year, where an While the number of displaced has off attacks that killed 74 people site of a twin car bombing in three continued. “How long the head of the Islamic State estimated 300,000 people were dis- risen, the United Nations said last as they marked the Eid Al Fitr Shaab, north Baghdad, where should we live in this situation of Iraq and the Levant, an Al placed in the first five months alone, Tuesday that it has had to reduce its holiday ending Iraq’s deadliest eight people were killed. because of politicians?” Qaeda front group. the African Union-UN peacekeeping humanitarian assistance because per- Ramadan in years. “I cannot trust any politi- Security forces tightened “These attacks ... are clearly mission in Darfur (UNAMID) says. mits for some UN international staff The international commu- cians, because they make many searches at checkpoints in the intended to fuel sectarian strife East Darfur had been relatively in Darfur have not been renewed by nity roundly condemned the promises, and the result of capital, causing long queues of and destabilise the country,” free from the tribal violence, much the government. violence, which also wounded their work is what happens in traffic, a measure often used Alistair Burt, a minister at of which has occurred in Darfur’s Permits for 20 of the 37 Darfur- more than 320 people, but our country each day.” after deadly attacks, but which Britain’s Foreign Office, said. north and west. based international staffers of the almost all senior Iraqi officials, The 64-year-old retired agri- came too late for the dozens of “I call on all political, reli- Late last month in North Darfur UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR), including Prime Minister Nuri cultural engineer said he hoped victims. gious and community leaders state, another branch of the Rezeigat which provides emergency shel- Al Maliki, made no mention of to send his children overseas, And yet there was fresh vio- to work together to combat this inked a peace deal to end a separate ter and other aid, have not been the attacks. “far from what is happening in lence yesterday with attacks type of violence,” he added. conflict with rival Arabs from the extended, the UN said. It was the latest in months Iraq and Baghdad.” south of Baghdad, north of the Human Rights Watch, mean- Beni Hussein group. France condemned the “unjusti- of bloodshed that have sparked In east Baghdad, at the site capital and in the northern city while, urged Iraqi authorities A member of parliament said their fied” expulsion of the 20 from Darfur. fears of a return to the all-out of another car bombing, Ali of Mosul killing six people, offi- to “end draconian responses” battles killed hundreds over several Sudanese President Omar al- sectarian war that peaked in Al Shammari said Iraq’s long- cials said. to attacks, including torture of weeks. Bashir is wanted by The Hague-based 2006 and 2007 and left tens of running political deadlock was More than 800 people were suspects, coerced confessions In another conflict, the Misseriya International Criminal Court for thousands dead. to blame. killed during the Muslim fast- and convictions based on secret and Salamat Arab tribes less than war crimes, crimes against human- Iraqis voiced frustration with “The presence of one party ing month of Ramadan, which testimony. two weeks ago announced that they ity and genocide allegedly committed the government and security and another opposed to it is ended last week, in the deadliest AFP had reached a tentative ceasefire in Darfur. after fighting which one of them said Defence Minister Abdelrahim had killed more than 200 people. Mohammed Hussein is also sought by These battles reflect the altered the court, on 13 counts of alleged war dynamics of a decade-old conflict in crimes and crimes against humanity which, observers say, the government in the region. can no longer control its former Arab AFP Somali Islamists stole $750,000 of aid

LONDON: Members of the concerns about how Britain is had provided funding to deliver in this year’s accounts because Shebab Islamist group have spending its foreign aid at a projects and programmes”. the investigation was only com- stolen £480,000 ($750,000) time of budget cuts at home. “DFID’s partners had no pleted in the past 12 months. worth of British government- The accounts describe the prior warning of the confis- Britain’s aid budget is pro- funded humanitarian materi- “theft between November 2011 cations being carried out and tected from the government’s als and supplies in Somalia, it and February 2012, by Al Shebab therefore had no time to pre- austerity programme and has emerged yesterday. in southern Somalia, of DFID- vent the loss by relocating recently reached the United The theft, revealed in the funded humanitarian materials goods,” the report said. Nations target of 0.7 percent of fine print of the Department and supplies from the offices The loss, out of more than gross national income, accord- for International Development’s and warehouses of partner £80m of aid allocated for ing to ministers. annual accounts, is likely to fuel organisations, to which DFID Somalia in 2012-2013, appears Gerald Howarth, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party, said the theft raised concerns about how this money was being spent. “There is huge public concern at the relentless increase in overseas aid. Incidents like this, where British taxpayers’ money is diverted into people fighting against us, are not acceptable,” he told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. A spokesman for DFID said there were always risks working in unstable countries such as Somalia, but it was doing everything it could to stop such thefts from occurring. “DFID works in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including Somalia, because tackling the root causes of pov- erty and instability there ensures a safer world and a safer UK,” he said. “Working in conflict- affected and fragile states carries inherent risk. DFID does all it can to mitigate against this but, on occasion, losses will occur.” AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

26 Palestinian Israel to expand settlements prisoners to Housing plan seen as aimed at overcoming opposition to release of Palestinian prisoners be released JERUSALEM: The Israeli JERUSALEM: Israel moved government approved late yes- ahead yesterday with plans to terday the release of 26 veteran build nearly 1,200 homes for Palestinian prisoners, an official Jewish settlers, holding fast statement said, ahead of renewed to a settlement policy as cabi- peace talks between the sides set net ministers met to approve a for later this week. release of Palestinian prisoners “Following the government ahead of peace talks. decision to renew peace talks Israel has made a push on set- with the Palestinians and appoint tlements since the resumption on a ministerial committee to free July 30 of US-brokered talks on prisoners during negotiations... the Palestinian statehood, signal- committee approved the release of ling its intention to continue to 26 prisoners,” a statement from build in major enclaves it wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin to keep in any future peace deal. Netanyahu’s office read. While condemning settle- According to the statement, the ment expansion, Palestinians names will be published on the have stopped short of threat- Israel prison service’s website early ening outright to abandon the on Monday, “after the bereaved negotiations, which are due to go families will receive notice”. into a second round in Jerusalem “On the list approved are 14 on Wednesday after a session in prisoners who will be transferred Washington. to Gaza and 12 from Judaea and Israeli media, in unconfirmed Samaria,” the biblical term for reports, have suggested yes- the West Bank, the statement terday’s housing plans were continued. disclosed to Washington in “Eight of the prisoners on the list advance and were aimed partly were set to be freed in the upcom- at overcoming opposition within ing three years, two of them in the the pro-settlement cabinet to next six months,” said the state- prisoner releases designed to ment. “The release of the prison- spur negotiations halted three ers will take place at least 48 hours years ago. after publishing the list.” The Housing Ministry said According to the statement, on its website that tenders were the three ministers on the panel Palestinians carry the body of 30-year-old Hussein Awadallah during his funeral in the Nusairat refugee camp, northeast of Deir Al Balah, central Gaza issued for building 793 new -- Defence Minister Moshe apartments in areas of the West Strip, yesterday. Awadallah was shot dead overnight by Israeli troops as he approached the no-go security area at the border. Yaalon, Justice Minister Tzipi Bank that Israel annexed after Livni and Science and Technology capturing the territory and the Israeli Finance Minister Yair Bank gave preliminary approval Minister Yaakov Peri, a former eastern part of Jerusalem in the Lapid, whose centrist party on Thursday for the construc- head of the Shin Bet security 1967 Middle East war. is right-wing Prime Minister tion of more than 800 new set- Netanyahu undergoes surgery agency -- stressed that “if one of Plots for the construction of Benjamin Netanyahu’s biggest tler homes — some of them in JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu those released returned to hostile 394 more units were being sold in partner in the governing coali- isolated settlements — but said was released from hospital yesterday hours after undergoing activities against Israel, he will be Ariel, Efrat, Maale Adumim and tion, called the decision to issue it needed government approval successful hernia surgery, but doctors said he would require returned to complete his sentence.” Betar, settlements in areas Israel the settlement housing tenders before building could begin. several days’ rest to make a full recovery. The 26 constitute the first has said it aims to retain in any “unhelpful to the peace process”. Most world powers regard all During the overnight procedure, which took around an hour and batch of a total of 104 long-term land-for-peace accord. Mark Regev, an Israeli gov- the settlements as illegal and required general anaesthetic, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon tem- Palestinian and Israeli Arab pris- “We shall continue with con- ernment spokesman, dismissed Palestinians say the enclaves porarily assumed the 63-year-old premier’s powers, Netanyahu’s oners, in jail since before the 1993 struction, everywhere,” Housing the criticism saying: “The con- could deny them a viable and office said in a statement. Oslo peace accords, who were to Minister Uri Ariel of the struction decided upon today in contiguous state. Yuval Weiss, director of the Jerusalem hospital where the sur- be freed in four stages, depending far-right Jewish Home party Jerusalem and in the settlement “The international commu- gery took place, said the operation was ordered at short notice on progress in the talks. said at the formal relaunch blocs are in areas that will remain nity must stand with this peace as a precaution against Netanyahu’s condition deteriorating. According to media reports, of an Israeli housing project part of Israel in any possible process and must stand shoul- Netanyahu’s office said he had been diagnosed after complaining most of them were involved in in East Jerusalem yesterday. future peace agreement. This in der to shoulder with us and hold of abdominal pain. attacks that killed Israelis, and the Ariel said his party would vote no way changes the final map of Israel accountable for its con- A statement from Netanyahu’s office said he had reassumed his families were expected to appeal to against the release of Palestinian peace. It changes nothing.” tinuing settlement activities,” powers of office, and a short time later he was released from the the High Court of Justice against prisoners, saying he was “against Drawing Palestinian anger, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb hospital, where a statement quoted him as saying, “I’m feeling fine.” the impending release. freeing terrorists. It goes against Israel’s military-run Civil Erekat said. REUTERS AFP our security interests”. Administration in the West REUTERS

Shia gunmen kill Tunisia Islamist leader Syrian rebels pass on abducted Sunni in Lebanon to meet union chief Kurds to jihadists: NGO ‘revenge’ ambush BAALBEK: Shia gunmen TUNIS: The head of Tunisia’s BEIRUT: Syrian rebel fight- in northern and northeastern focused on protecting its areas killed a Sunni man in an ruling Islamist party Ennahda Businesswoman ers kidnapped 13 Kurds in the Syria, where the minority hopes and strengthening autonomous ambush yesterday in eastern is to meet the powerful UGTT northern province of Aleppo on to establish an autonomous zone. rule. Lebanon in apparent revenge trade union chief today on the denies will head Sunday, turning them over to The clashes have intensified Ties between the jihadist for a deadly attack on local Shia crisis sparked by the killing of jihadist fighters already holding since mid-July, when Kurdish groups and other rebel organisa- clan members in June, a mili- an opposition politician. alternative cabinet 250 abducted Kurds, an NGO fighters pushed jihadists out of tions are also complex. tary source said. The UGTT said that its said. the village of Ras Al Ain and its In some areas, rebel groups Four people were also wounded head, Houcine Abassi, would TUNIS: Media had reported The Syrian Observatory for adjacent border crossing with work alongside the jihadist in the ambush, including the head meet Ennahda leader Rached that Wided Bouchamaoui, Human Rights said the 13 were Turkey. groups, but in others, including of Arsal municipality, a Sunni dis- Ghannouchi and Mustapha Ben 52, the first woman presi- snatched at a roadblock in the The fighting has left dozens of in Idlib province of the north, trict in the area, local residents Jaafar, speaker of the National dent of Tunisia’s Chambers Sfeira region of Aleppo and dead on both sides, according to tensions between the two sides and the military source said. Constituent Assembly. of Commerce and Industry, passed them on to Al Nusra the Britain-based Observatory. have erupted into open, deadly “Their car was attacked in an Nearly 500,000 Tunisians are said yesterday she was not Front, a jihadist group affiliated In Tall Aren and Tall Hassel, at conflict. ambush while they were return- members of the UGTT, and the interested in becoming prime with Al Qaeda. least 26 Kurds, including 10 fight- Rebel groups largely welcomed ing from Arsal after participat- union can paralyse the country minister, playing down spec- Al Nusra and the Islamic State ers, were killed by jihadist groups the arrival of jihadist organisa- ing in a hostage exchange,” the with strike action. ulation she might head an of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), between July 29 and August 5, tions like Nusra, which includes source said. The planned meeting comes alternative cabinet that the another Al Qaeda-linked group according to the monitoring foreign fighters among its ranks, He said the attack was carried after Ben Jaafar announced the opposition plans to announce operating in Syria, have abducted group, which relies on a network in the early days of their armed out by members of the Shia Jaafar suspension of the assembly’s work this week. more than 250 Syrian Kurds since of activists, doctors and lawyers uprising against the regime that family as the car passed the town drawing up a new constitution “I thank all those who con- the end of July. on the ground. has cost more than 100,000 lives of Labwe. while the Islamist-led govern- sidered me able to take a politi- The majority were taken hos- Syria’s Kurds have incurred since March 2011. The exchange of hostages was ment and the opposition hold cal responsibility. I confirm that tage as the two groups overran the wrath of many rebel fight- But initial enthusiasm for the between Arsal residents and talks on ending the political crisis. I am not interested in any posi- two Kurdish villages, Tall Aren ers, jihadists and more moder- supplies and fighting skills of the members of another Shia clan, Ben Jaafar has proposed the tion or political responsibility,” and Tall Hassel, at the end of ate factions, for failing to openly groups has waned amid accusa- the Moqdads. UGTT as mediator for the talks. Bouchamaoui said in a state- July. side with the uprising against tions of abuses by members of Arsal municipality head Ali The union has called for the ment. “My efforts are aimed at Syria’s Kurds have been bat- President Bashar Al Assad. Nusra and ISIS. Hojeiri was lightly wounded in resignation of the Islamist- ensuring the economy survives tling jihadist fighters for months Instead, the minority has AFP the ambush, the source said. dominated cabinet and its this critical stage,” she added. The attack was believed to be replacement by a government of REUTERS an act of revenge for the June 15 technocrats. killing of three Lebanese Shias Ennahda has rejected the pro- made up of parties from across and a Turkish citizen. The four posal so far. the political spectrum, has men were killed as they smug- Ghannouchi said on Facebook refused to meet Ennahda until a gled fuel in the region, a security on Saturday that he had met the new government is formed. source said at the time. head of employers’ organisation Hundreds of opposition sup- Members of the Jaafar fam- Utica, Wided Bouchamaoui. Utica porters have kept up pro- ily, to which two of the slain men too has called for the formation of tests every night in front of belonged, responded furiously and a cabinet of technocrats. the assembly but on August 6, the Lebanese military called for Meanwhile, Tunisia’s Tamarod, tens of thousands took part in calm in the area, which is home a movement that has modelled demonstrations. to both Shia and Sunni regions. itself on the one in Egypt that led The opposition is hoping to While the deaths were believed to the army ousting the elected raise the pressure on the govern- to be linked to control of the Islamist president, said five of its ment with a new demonstration lucrative smuggling trade in the activists were on hunger strike in on August 13 to mark the anni- region, they come amid new ten- front of the constituent assembly versary of the promulgation of sions between Lebanon’s Sunni to demand its dissolution and the the Personal Status Code in 1956 and Shia communities sparked by resignation of the government. under Tunisia’s first president, the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Tamarod Tunisia says on its Habib Bourguiba. Lebanon’s Sunnis, including Facebook page that it has col- The code gave Tunisians une- Arsal residents, are largely sym- lected 1.6 million signatures in qualled rights in the Arab world pathetic to the Syrian uprising, support of both measures. The fig- at the time, and the country’s rul- which is dominated by Sunnis. ure, which has not been verified, ing Islamists have regularly been Shia Lebanese, however, back would amount to some 15 percent accused of trying to roll them Damaged military vehicles, including a tank, which belonged to the Syrian army, are seen at the Minnig military the regime of Syrian President of the country’s population. back. airport, the main military airport near the border with Turkey, which has been seized by rebels. Bashar Al Assad. Tunisia’s opposition coalition, AFP AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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REPORT from Baghdad says Iraqis are furiously blaming their government for its failure to stop a string of attacks during Eid Al Fitr holidays in ABaghdad that killed 74 people and injured more Is Berlusconi the victim than 320 people. The attacks were the latest in months of bloodshed that have sparked fears of a return to the all-out sectarian war that peaked in 2006 and 2007 and left tens of thousands dead. of political judges? Iraqis voiced frustration with the government and security forces for failing to prevent the 16 car bombings and BY BARRY MOODY other attacks. That terrorists were able to carry out attacks might have made him a more tempting Lawyers say Berlusconi has contrib- target, political bias could not explain uted to the problem by passing laws for on a massive scale without any hindrance point to a massive ILVIO Berlusconi says he is the all his legal difficulties. Berlusconi him- his own protection, including drastically security failure. With Iraqis venting their fury at their victim of politicised judges, his self listed in 2008 a toll of 577 visits by shortening the statute of limitations for elected government, the Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki Senemies that he has finally been police, 2,500 court hearings and 174 mil- white-collar crimes, which gives defence owes them an answer. It’s easy to blame the terrorists for nailed after two decades evading the lion euros he had paid in laywers’ bills. lawyers an incentive to drag out cases. the violence, but questions must be asked about the role of law. Either way, the fate of Italy’s domi- “Berlusconi has been judged by so “The judges are fine for Berlusconi nant politician highlights deep problems many magistrates and more recently when they do what he wants,” said the police force. Only inefficiency of colossal proportions on with the country’s judicial system. the supreme court that it is difficult to Roia, adding that his control of a media the part of the security forces and intelligence services can Ever since he entered politics in 1994, believe that all of them were biased in empire enables him to turn the public give terrorists a free hand for such coordinated attacks. the four-times prime minister has railed analysing these crimes,” he said. against his judicial enemies. The great- The Eid Al Fitr attacks came just weeks after assaults on against the judges, and he rounded on Nevertheless, the media mogul’s accu- est disagreement on reform is over prisons near Baghdad, claimed by an Al-Qaeda front group, them again last week after the supreme sations strike a chord with many voters demands to change the way magistrates freed hundreds of prisoners including leading militants, court confirmed a one-year jail term for in a country where politics is still col- are regulated, supervised and appointed. tax fraud, his first definitive conviction oured by beliefs dating back to the Cold They currently govern themselves. prompting warnings of a surge in violence. The prison attack in dozens of trials. War, when for 50 years the Christian “We are extremely favourable to too was due to a security lapse. A country which has been Much of the centre-right leader’s Democrat party ruled, and the most reforms. But when they speak of the unstable and witnessed a surge emotional video address after the sen- powerful communist party in the West reform of justice, they mean reforming in sectarian violence should have tence was a bitter attack on “uncontrol- was in permanent opposition. the magistrates, and these are two dif- The wave of taken adequate precautions to lable” magistrates The 1992-1994 “Bribesville” investiga- ferent things,” Roia said. protect its jails where criminals who had hounded tion into massive political graft swept Judges were “extremely opposed bombings in him for 20 years away that old order, including the and sceptical” to giving up their con- are kept. for political ends. Christian Democrats. stitutionally protected independence, Iraq during Eid The international community The fate of On Sunday, as In his address last week, Berlusconi because this could subordinate them to has condemned the violence. the 76-year-old called that probe the “abnormal action” political power, he said. Al Fitr holidays The US said those who had Italy’s dominant billionaire wept at of magistrates who had destroyed a “With our political class, unfortu- attacked civilians during Eid A a rally of his sup- political bulwark against communism nately, there would be the risk that only has raised politician porters in Rome, to hand power to the left. poor people would be prosecuted and -Fitr festivities were “enemies questions about he returned to the Ironically, he owes his rise to not white-collar criminals,” he said. “In of Islam”. These terrorists are highlights theme. “We must Bribesville, because he filled the vacuum a different constitutional situation we the ability of a shared enemy of the United deep problems together wage left by the Christian Democrats. He still would never have convicted Berlusconi.” States, Iraq and the international this battle for paints himself as an anti-communist Respected political analyst Angelo Nouri Al Maliki community, the State with the country’s democracy and warrior, more than 20 years after the Panebianco said in a commentary in Department said in a statement. freedom, to make Italian Communist Party was dissolved. Corriere della Sera daily this week that to govern. judicial system. Italy a country This has strong resonance for right- at the heart of Italy’s problems is an Several other countries too where people are ist voters who still bitterly remember imbalance between a powerful judiciary condemned the attacks. But not afraid of finding themselves in jail Bribesville, especially the dozens of and weak, discredited politicians. foreign governments and agencies for no reason.” suicides of suspects and the way pros- The solution is to reinforce poli- need to exert pressure on the Iraqi government to improve Lawyers and judges give his accusa- ecutors threw people into jail to elicit tics by restoring its legitimacy, but the security in the country and get tough with the terrorists. tions short shrift. a confession, which many judges now he supported one of the main reforms One of the biggest threats facing Iraq is a lack of serious “You only have to think how many concede was an abuse. Whether or not demanded by Berlusconi, the separation different magistrates judged him in so you buy Berlusconi’s line, there is wide- of the careers of prosecutors and judges. governance. The government in Baghdad has the power many different situations to say that spread agreement that Italy’s judicial Critics of the current system say the and resources to stem the current sectarian bloodshed and from a statistical point of view it is system is a mess. The system is noto- fact that judges and prosecutors have bridge the differences between various sectarian groups. impossible that they are all from the riously Byzantine and subject to huge the same training, work in the same But the prime minister has been accused of siding with one left,” said senior Milan judge Fabio Roia, delays for both criminal and civil cases, buildings and can transfer between the group to the detriment of others, and bombings have been on member of a politically centrist magis- the latter seen as a significant disincen- two professions, means that there is col- trates’ association. tive to foreign investment. lusion that disadvantages the defence. the rise. It’s true that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups The five supreme court judges were There is a backlog of about 9 million They also want to curb the powers of are powerful and it’s difficult to prevent all attacks. But politically conservative, and public pros- cases. A civil case takes on average more prosecutors, who run the police inves- some attacks can be prevented. Leaders of sectarian groups ecutor Antonello Mura has led the most than seven years to settle and a crimi- tigation of a crime, but Roia and oth- must be called for talks and the intelligence services must be right-wing magistrates’ association. nal case five. Even minor offences like ers say the independence of prosecutors strengthened. Defence lawyer Markus Wiget said falsifying a bus ticket or driving without from political control is a strength. What the government lacks is the will, not the way • that while Berlusconi’s prominence a licence are eligible for two appeals. REUTERS The other side Quote of Of surveillance transparency the day ARACK Obama is walking a abuse and pledged appropriate reforms distanced themselves from the espirit policies, and given the history of abuse tight rope as he tries to defend to guarantee greater oversight of con- de corps principle and warned the pub- by governments, the peoples, right to US surveillance programmes troversial spying programmes. Not only lic about such underhand activities by question these programmes is justified. Band at the same time uphold did he vow to introduce legislation to the state machinery has earned them It is now going to take a while before Well reforms are peoples right to privacy. ensure more transparency in such a constituency, per se. Thus, it is lit- the debate in the United States, and taking shape, That was closely reflected as he policies but also pledged to appoint a tle known as to what impact Obama’s the civilised world at large, takes a con- went on to stand with the snooping lawyer to challenge the government at self-assessment policies and proposed crete shape as to what and how much and for that, the policies of his intelligence department, the nation’s secretive surveillance court. reforms would have in rehabilitating the influence that changing technological and therein make room for more trans- The reason as to why Obama has to confidence of the masses in transparent advancements should have in public President and parency as far as civil society’s right to take so much pain to brief and debrief accountability and good governance. life — and what minimum deterrent question is concerned. He said, “the himself before the nation on espionage Obama’s words, nonetheless, serve and exclusivity should the state exer- people of the United American people need to have con- activities in people’s private lives, at the as the much-desired intervention in tak- cise on behalf of its sovereigns. Tapping States and around fidence in these programmes,” as he behest of technological advancement, ing the public along and making them of phones, shadow teasing opponents referred to eavesdropping on phone are the Edward Snowden and Bradley realise the thin line between state secu- and encroaching upon civil liberties for the world owe and Internet data. Manning’s conduct, who had raised the rity and civilian freedom. He was apt in long had been state’s prerogatives in Edward Snowden a The liberal, that he is, spoke his stakes for civil society by acting as hon- saying that the US ‘can and must be’ the name of national security. Julian Assange mind for upholding safeguards against est whistleblowers. The fact that they more transparent about its snooping Khaleej Times debt of gratitude. WikiLeaks Founder MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 How democracy can prevail in Egypt Democracy is the only viable path to lasting stability, national reconciliation, sustainable economic growth and the return of investment and tourism in Egypt.

BY JOHN MCCAIN and LINDSEY economic growth and the return of invest- GRAHAM ment and tourism in Egypt. And democracy means more than elec- e travelled to Cairo tions. It means democratic governance: this week to support an inclusive political process in which all a US and interna- Egyptians are free and able to partici- tional effort to help pate, so long as they do so nonviolently; Egyptians end their the protection of basic human rights Wpolitical crisis. We met with leaders from through the rule of law and the constitu- the civilian government, armed forces, tion; and a state that defends and fosters political parties, civil society and the a vibrant civil society. Muslim Brotherhood. This is the kind of democratic future We returned convinced that time is that we believe most Egyptians want. quickly running out to resolve this crisis, But the danger now is that extremist and but that there is still a chance to do so if reactionary forces, some in the Egyptian Egyptians of goodwill come together for state and some among Mursi’s supporters the sake of their country, which is the in the streets, want to drag the country heart of the Arab world and home to a down a dark path of violence, oppression quarter of its people. and revenge. We are longtime friends of Egypt and This is doomed to failure for both sides; its armed forces. We have fought as hard it would make all of Egypt’s problems as anyone over many years to maintain infinitely worse and ultimately threaten our vital foreign assistance to Egypt. We the national security interests of the were early supporters of the 2011 revo- United States and our allies. lution and have consistently spoken up It is worth remembering — especially Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi wave national flags during a protest near Cairo airport. for the democratic aspirations of the when the American mind has refocused Egyptian people. on the real and persistent threat posed meetings, and we have urged all sides to they will need to move out of the streets It means ensuring that credible We were among the strongest critics by Al Qaeda — that its leader, Ayman back up their good words with construc- and into the political process, because Egyptian and international organisa- of former president Mohammed Mursi’s Al Zawahri, is a former member of the tive actions. We have urged them to do there is no good or effective alternative tions are able to observe the upcoming undemocratic actions, and we sympa- Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who was so quickly, because time is running out. to advance their interests. campaigns and elections. And it means thised with the millions of Egyptians radicalised during the violent crackdowns It is essential for all people and par- At the same time, it is essential for the releasing political prisoners, including who took to the streets to protest Mursi’s and detentions of Brotherhood leaders by ties in Egypt to look forward, to resolve civilian government and armed forces to Mursi’s supporters. abuses of power. But as we said again previous Egyptian regimes. their differences peacefully through an recognise that, no matter how much they What happens in Egypt over the com- this week in Cairo, we find it difficult to Repeating the worst mistakes of the inclusive dialogue and to make the dif- may dislike Mursi’s supporters, they are ing weeks could have a decisive impact describe the circumstances of Mursi’s past now will only condemn Egypt to a ficult compromises and painful sacrifices Egyptians, too, and it is neither realistic on the future of the country and on the removal from office as anything other future of protracted instability and stag- that are necessary to save their country. nor right to try to exclude them from the broader Middle East. At its best, Egypt than a coup. Unsuccessful leaders in a nation, while creating a new generation It is essential for Mursi’s supporters, life of their nation. has been a leader among its neighbours. democracy should leave office by losing of radical recruits for terrorist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, to This means dealing with them mag- We still believe Egypt can serve as a elections. such as Al Qaeda. accept that his actions generated massive nanimously, not vindictively. It means model of inclusive democracy that can Our main message in Cairo was sim- We believe there are still many people public discontent and that he will not setting a specific timetable to achieve the inspire the region and the world, and, in ple and straightforward: Democracy is of goodwill and patriotism on all sides be reinstated as president of Egypt; that transition to democracy and enabling all this great endeavour, the United States the only viable path to lasting stabil- who want a better future for Egypt. We they must refrain from acts and incite- Egyptians to participate in amending the must continue to offer its support. ity, national reconciliation, sustainable heard much that was encouraging in our ment of violence; and that eventually constitution. WP-BLOOMBERG UK needs to start thinking about itself It’s time to shake up figures on the decline of party membership. Politicians must be far The immediate problem for England if the vote goes against the union is what hap- US higher education more responsive to the pens to our politics. How does Westminster work and what will its relations with Wales BY RICHARD VEDDER and Northern Ireland be? How on earth do English mood in the we accommodate an English parliament at resident Barack Obama keeps declaring war on rising college Westminster — a very popular idea that does costs. In a speech at Knox College last month, he vowed to light of the troubling not depend on the result of the Scottish vote? unveil an “aggressive strategy to shake up the system, tackle Will the loss of 41 Scottish MPs, as opposed Prising costs and improve value.” He said something similar in to just one Conservative, be disastrous to his 2012 State of the Union address, so I’m a little sceptical that much figures on the decline Labour? It makes an overall majority much will happen. harder to achieve, yet not impossible. Tony As students get ready to go to college this month, let me suggest ways of party membership. Blair would still have won in 1997, 2001 and to “shake up the system” and “tackle rising costs.” In doing so, I would 2005, but in times of hung parliaments Labour point out that two things lead to higher prices: rising demand and fall- BY HENRY PORTER will be at a big disadvantage. ing supply. Any efficient solution to the explosion in college tuition and The three main parties are satisfied that fees must either damp demand or increase supply. With that in mind, avid Cameron made himself unusu- the polls cannot be turned round in a year, here is a five-point federal-action plan. ally available to the media last week, even by one of the best British politicians of First, scale back federal student loans and related government pro- popping up to comment on badger the last half century. Alex Salmond looks like grammes. The increased demand for higher education in recent decades Dculling, a judge’s remarks on a pae- a man who straddles a secret weapon, but in partly results from the explosive growth of these programmes. They were dophile case, fracking and bullying on social Westminster they’re confident that union is originally intended to help poor people gain access to college, yet they have networks. It was surprising he didn’t have not over yet. probably had the opposite effect, pushing up the sticker prices of colleges something to say about the panda pregnancy What makes this complacency so frustrat- substantially. The easy money has helped fuel an academic arms race that at Edinburgh zoo , but maybe that would come ing is that whatever the result of next year’s provides amenities such as climbing walls and luxury student centres that too close to the profoundly important issue of vote — full independence, maximum devo- entice kids from higher-income families but scare poor students away. Scotland’s future. Is Tian Tian a British asset Prime Minister David Cameron. lution or, even, status quo — the union will The proportion of recent college graduates from low-income backgrounds or a purely Scottish one and, if a cub is born change. The loyalty to the idea of Britain and has fallen since the federal student-assistance programmes became large. (panda pregnancies are usually Scotch mist), the UN security council and the future of Britishness is in rapid decline, markedly so Cut out loans to affluent parents. Eliminate the federal tuition tax will Alex Salmond make political capital out the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent. in England. An IPPR report, The Dog That credit. Put stricter time limits on student borrowing. Ultimately, the of the happy event? The panda is awkward — The state would suddenly seem absurdly top Finally Barked, concluded: “The English elec- goal should be for the federal government to get out of the student-loan don’t go there, the prime minister’s aides no heavy with the apparatus of a great power. torate desire an English dimension to the business altogether. doubt cautioned. Without Scotland, the country would appear country’s institutions of government. Second, require colleges participating in federal student- assistance The Scottish vote is a just year away and if less coherent, a lot less impressive and some- This important insight has met with lit- programmes to share some costs associated with high loan-default rates. on Friday 19 September 2014 we wake to find how less stable. Foreign governments would tle serious response in Westminster since Some colleges admit students they know have low probability of academic that after a surge of nationalistic optimism, wonder about the Lesser Britain’s identity and the report was published 18 months ago. We success and into majors that employers aren’t interested in. One-third of which has largely ignored worries about what purpose. This is to say nothing of how the hear only about the Scottish vote — never the loans are either delinquent or in default. This means despair for borrow- currency the new state uses and its relation- English — expansionist colonisers for the last equally passionate nationalist upwelling south ers and burdens on taxpayers but revenue for colleges accepting many ship with the EU, Scotland has voted for full 400 years — will think of themselves after the of the border. marginal students. If they had to cover some of the cost of defaults, schools independence, the shock to England will be break. To leave a relationship is one thing, to The parties ignore this mood at their peril, would be encouraged to accept fewer students, reducing demand and the every bit as great as the jubilation north of be left quite another. unless they want to hand chunks of their ability to raise tuition. the border. The Scots could forge a bold new future, support to Ukip’s Godfrey Bloom and the Third, substantially improve consumer information. Lots of students Forget the polls, which currently show a while the English might easily turn inwards appalling members of the Traditional Britain enter college based on bad advice, often from guidance counsellors and large majority for a no vote. It could just hap- and allow the present mood of chippy isola- Group. And there is no attempt to address school marketing efforts. Politicians make things worse with a “college pen and, if it does, no one is less prepared tionism, which holds Scotland, the European the problems that arose after devolution — for all” mantra, implying life will be a failure without a college degree to than the English political classes, who have Union and pretty much everyone else in con- the anomaly, for example, that allows Scottish provide the ticket to the moderately affluent middle class. not begun to get their heads round the psychic tempt, come to dominate. MPs to vote on English laws, while English Fourth, develop new ways to demonstrate potential workplace compe- and political upheaval that will follow. The counterbalance of Scotland in English MPs have no say in Scotland. tence. Colleges are screening devices; a diploma is meant to convey that This is not just about Scotland’s future, but life would be missed much more than the I hope the Scots don’t vote for independ- a person who holds a degree is likely to be smarter, more knowledgeable, most acutely about England’s, too. And the English appreciate, and the birth of Lesser ence, but I have to concede that a slow divorce more disciplined and even more honest on average than others of the same debate will occupy so much of next year that Britain might easily prompt the rank flow- has been underway for some time and we need age. Fifth, expand supply by eliminating barriers to entry. The previous it is bound to bring into focus the way the ering of Little England. In the past couple to manage the separation wisely and with dig- ideas largely lower prices by dampening demand for traditional degrees. English are governed; the growth of English, of weeks, there have been glimpses of this nity. Maybe Abraham Lincoln is not the man But there are barriers to entry that lower competition and thus supply. rather than British consciousness; the future unpleasantness — Ukip’s Godfrey Bloom’s to quote, given he violently opposed the seces- The single largest obstacle is the dysfunctional accrediting system, of the Westminster parliament and the gath- shameless xenophobia, the vans touring sion of the south, but what he said in 1862 which is rife with conflicts of interest and gives consumers little informa- ering disillusionment with politics and the London urging illegal immigrants to go home applies to us: “The dogmas of the quiet past tion. The crude nature of its assessments (colleges either are or aren’t parties south of the border. and Jacob Rees-Mogg attending the dinner of are inadequate to the stormy present. The accredited, with not much in between) discourages new providers. But it would seem from the prime minister’s a plainly racist organisation, the Traditional occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we Arguably, we should eliminate accreditation as such, with the govern- comment feed last week that no one is doing Britain Group. must rise with the occasion. ment simply defunding programmes that fail to meet minimum stand- the hard thinking about what this all means The rise of English consciousness, which As our case is new, so we must think anew ards (such as institutions with student-loan-default rates greater than for England, let alone the union. What will the think tank IPPR has identified as one of and act anew. We must disenthrall our- graduation rates). Lesser Britain feel like? the key political developments of the past few selves, and then we shall save our country.” The list above isn’t exhaustive. But it suggests measures that col- A vote for full independence may seem years, is paired with hardline, intolerant poli- Leadership is what is needed in Britain, not lectively might reduce the college-cost gap — a widening divide that unlikely now, but such a result would bring tics. Politicians must be far more responsive to chat about trolls and badgers. is worsening national inequality and is unsustainable in the long run. into question Britain’s permanent seat on the English mood in the light of the troubling THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Mandela Malians pick making ‘slow but steady’ president in progress JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela is making “slow but steady” progress back to health, crucial run-off although he remains critically ill, the office of the South African president said yesterday. Torrential rain hits early turnout The 95-year-old former presi- dent and anti-apartheid icon has BAMAKO: Malians voted yes- towns of Koulikoro and Kayes. been in hospital for more than terday in a presidential election “The rain is trying to ruin our two months with a recurring lung run-off expected to usher in a day. I hope it stops, otherwise infection. new dawn of peace and stability they will have to extend the vot- “Former president Nelson in the conflict-scarred nation. ing hours,” said Oumar Toure, one Mandela continues to receive An electorate of almost seven of the few voters who had turned treatment in hospital in Pretoria million was urged to choose up at the opening of a polling sta- and doctors have indicated to between former premier Ibrahim tion in a city centre school. President Jacob Zuma that the Boubacar Keita and ex-finance Both Keita and Cisse have former president is making a slow minister Soumaila Cisse to lead declared themselves confident of but steady improvement,” a state- Mali’s recovery following a mili- victory in the run-off, called after ment from the presidency said. tary coup that ignited an Islamist none of the 27 candidates in the “The medical team also reiter- insurgency and a French-led mili- first round achieved an outright ated that although his health was tary intervention. majority. improving steadily, Madiba still The election, the first since The two men separately remained in a critical condition,” 2007, is crucial for unlocking appealed for calm among the it added, referring to Mandela by more than $4bn in aid promised population in Mali’s post-elec- his clan name. after international donors halted tion recovery period after casting Zuma asked South Africans to contributions in the wake of last their ballots in Bamako. pray for Mandela’s recovery and year’s coup. The rivals have faced off before, Mali’s presidential candidate Soumaila Cisse (centre) casts his ballot next to his wife Astan Traore (second right) good health, the statement said. Torrential rain hit early turnout, losing the 2002 presidential elec- and his twins in second round of election at a polling station in Bamako yesterday. The South African president is however, with many polling sta- tion to Amadou Toumani Toure, technically the only person author- tions in the capital Bamako report- who was overthrown by a military Cisse, 63, had complained “My first priority would be the widespread poverty has contrib- ised to give public updates about ing smaller numbers than during junta in March last year as he was about widespread fraud in the reconciliation of the country,” uted to unrest in the north, with Mandela’s health, and had not the first round, when a turnout of preparing to end his final term first round while more than Keita said on Friday. “After the several armed groups vying for issued a statement since July 31. nearly 50 percent was seen as a in office. 400,000 ballots from a turnout of trauma that it has suffered, a new control in the vacuum left when Mandela’s youngest daughter key sign that the electoral process The return to democratic rule around 3.5 million were declared start is needed.” the Islamists fled. Zindzi Mandela said Friday that would be viewed as credible. will allow France to withdraw spoiled. A UN peacekeeping mission The region is home predomi- the anti-apartheid hero was “not The rain had stopped by most of the 4,500 troops it sent Mali’s Constitutional Court integrating more than 6,000 nantly to lighter-skinned Tuareg going anywhere anytime soon” lunchtime and reporters across to Mali in January to oust Al rejected the fraud allegations, African soldiers is charged with and Arab populations who accuse and was now able to sit up unac- the capital witnessed a steady Qaeda-linked extremists who had however, confirming that Keita ensuring security on Sunday and the sub-Saharan ethnic groups companied. He was “more alert, stream of voters heading to poll- occupied the north in the chaos had won 39.8 percent, while Cisse in the months after the election. that live in the more populous and more responsive,” she said. ing booths. that followed the coup, impos- attracted a 19.7 percent share. By the end of the year it will have prosperous south of marginalis- And his former wife Winnie A network of some 2,000 inde- ing a brutal regime of sharia law Keita claims to have the sup- grown to 11,200 troops and 1,400 ing them. Madikizela-Mandela told Sky pendent Malian observers issued a characterised by executions and port of most of the candidates police. In the northern districts of News on Thursday that he was statement welcoming the smooth amputations. eliminated in the first round and The country of more than 14 Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal, poll- “now breathing normally.” running of the poll but it noted Keita, 68, who is considered the is backed by Mali’s influential reli- million remains the continent’s ing began in an atmosphere of Doctors had managed to con- that fewer voting booths were favourite, was more than 20 per- gious establishment, while Cisse third-largest gold producer, but calm, with reports of strong voter tain his lung infection but kept able to open on time due to the centage points ahead of his rival has been endorsed by Adema, its $10.6bn economy contracted turnout. “draining fluid from the lungs,” rain in Bamako and the southern in the first round. Mali’s largest political party. by 1.2 percent last year, and AFP she said. AFP

Russia reinstates imperial name Spain may ask UN for support over Gibraltar: Report to St Petersburg MADRID: Spain may take its or adhere to certain agreements, Assembly or the International David Cameron had agreed to try back with tougher border checks row with Britain over the dis- but taking the matter to interna- Court of Justice, it said. and calm tempers over the disputed and threats of a ¤50 fee for people train station puted territory of Gibraltar to tional courts would mark a change A Spanish foreign ministry territory, though both sides have crossing the Gibraltar border. the United Nations, stepping up of tack and increase tensions. official said he could not immedi- been reluctant to back down on In an interview on Spanish tel- MOSCOW: Russian Prime its actions in the conflict, El Pais Spanish Foreign Minister Jose ately comment on Spain’s plans to their positions. Gibraltar, the tiny evision on Saturday, Margallo said Minister Dmitry Medvedev has newspaper reported yesterday, Manual Garcia-Margallo will also seek UN involvement in Gibraltar, rocky promontory near the south- the entry fee would not be imposed reinstated the imperial name citing diplomatic sources. take advantage of a September which was also reported yesterday ern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on workers who frequently cross of a train station outside Saint Centuries of friction over trip to Argentina, which is serv- by right-leaning Spanish newspa- has been a source of on-off tensions the border for their jobs and Petersburg that is used by tens Gibraltar, a British overseas ter- ing a term on the UN Security per La Razon. since Spain ceded the territory to pledged aid to the fishermen whose of thousands of tourists visiting ritory to which Spain lays claim, Council, to seek its support Spanish Prime Minister Britain in the Treaty of Utrecht livelihood is being hit by the reef. the former palaces of the tsars, flared up this month after Spain against Britain over Gibraltar, Mariano Rajoy threatened uni- 300 years ago. Travellers as well as residents of state media said yesterday. complained that an artificial reef the sources told the newspaper. lateral measures over the spat on The latest dispute arose last both Spain and Gibraltar continued Medvedev ordered the train being built by Gibraltar would Argentina is immersed in its Friday, while British navy ves- month when Gibraltar’s boats to endure long queues at the border station to use its original name of block its fishing vessels. own dispute with Britain over sels were heading to Gibraltar dumped concrete blocks into the over the weekend due to Spanish “Tsarskoe Selo” (Tsar’s Village), The sources did not specify the sovereignty of the Falkland for what both Spain and Britain sea to create a reef for fish at the authorities’ increased checks on which it lost almost a century ago whether Spain would ask the Islands. Aside from the Security have played down as a routine, mouth of the Mediterranean. vehicles entering and leaving the in 1918 shortly after the Bolshevik United Nations to back a request Council, Spain could also take scheduled visit. Spain said the reef would territory. revolution and the fall of the for Britain to give up sovereignty the matter to the UN General Rajoy and his British counterpart restrict its fishing boats and hit REUTERS Romanov dynasty, according to a government decree. Since 1918, the station had been known as “Detskoe Selo” Bignick (Children’s Village), a more neu- tral name as the Communists Drowned migrants Zimbabwe wanted to steer clear of anything that could glorify the deposed tsars. denies report The station is the stop-off were Egyptians: Italy point for the crowds of tourists of secret Iran who visit the spectacular imperial palaces and park in the adjacent ROME: The six migrants who the premier said at a press con- town, which is one of Russia’s top drowned off a tourist beach in ference, but “there has to be a uranium deal tourist attractions. Sicily were Egyptians whose long-term European strategy.” HARARE: Zimbabwe’s gov- The town’s name also had a boat was abandoned at sea by a Pope Francis, who last month ernment yesterday denied a complex history — previously larger vessel, Italian police said visited the migrant-flooded island report in the British newspaper known also as Tsarskoe Selo, it yesterday. of Lampedusa on his first trip out- The Times that it had reached was also renamed as Detskoe Selo The six victims who jumped side Rome, expressed his “great a secret uranium export deal after the revolution. from a trawler thinking they had concern” following the tragedy in with Iran. In 1937, the town was again arrived onshore were identified Sicily, said his spokesman, Father The Times story published renamed Pushkin after Russia’s as being between 17 and 27 years Federico Lombardi. on Saturday quoted outgoing national poet although the train of age. While on Lampedusa, where deputy minister of mines Gift station kept the name Detskoe The 27-year-old was trying for thousands of African migrants Chimanikire that Zimbabwe Selo. a fifth time to get into Italy, inves- have arrived since the beginning signed a deal with Iran to sup- The station’s name change will tigators said. of the year, the pope criticised ply the Islamic republic with the be a relief for tourists wanting A fishing trawler illegally trans- the world’s “indifference” to their raw materials needed to develop to visit Tsarskoe Selo and bewil- porting some 100 migrants hit a plight. a nuclear weapon. dered by the lack of any station sandbank about 15 metres from Investigators believe that But Mines and Mining bearing its name. the shore at dawn on Saturday, the fishing boat was transport- Development Minister Obert Mpofu Post-Soviet Russia has a close to a diving centre that some ing more than 100 Egyptians said the report was a “fiction”. complex attitude towards the of the migrants managed to reach and Syrians, 94 of whom were “That’s fiction because I have never Romanov dynasty, whose last by swimming. accounted for Sunday. Three been asked by the Iranian govern- Tsar Nicholas II was murdered Others were rescued by the smugglers escaped by jumping ment or anyone from Iran for min- by the Bolsheviks in 1918 along Italian coastguard, but those into the sea. ing concessions,” Mpofu said. “They with his family. who drowned could not swim and According to “reliable” evi- never applied for mining licences After years being dispar- jumped into the water believing dence gathered by the police and whether to mine uranium or any aged by the Communists, the they had arrived at their final investigators, the migrants had other mineral. The country is not Romanov dynasty has enjoyed a destination. been travelling for seven days mining uranium. If Chimanikire new upsurge of interest, with sev- Italian Prime Minister Enrico and had set off from the north of told the reporter about an agree- eral exhibitions this year marking Letta, on a visit to Azerbaijan, Egypt, probably in a large vessel ment to export uranium to Iran its 400th anniversary. expressed his “deep sorrow” before transferring to a smaller maybe it was in a dream.” The town of Puskhin/Tsarskoe about the deaths and called for a trawler. Zimbabwean police are look- Selo was the summer residence “new approach” in Europe to the This old wooden boat carrying ing for two Times journalists, of the Tsars and particularly migrant phenomenon. the migrants was towed by the Jan Raath and Jerome Starkey, favoured by Nicholas II. The train He said that the Greek and “mother ship” then abandoned who are wanted for “spreading line from Saint Petersburg was People picknick on a huge picknick blanket, on the Ruggisberg near Italian presidencies of the EU some 36 hours before it was found falsehoods” in the uranium deal the first ever built in Russia and Roggwil, Switzerland, yesterday. The picknick blanket is an art instal- in 2014 would call for a “fresh off the coast of Catania, eastern story, according to Zimbabwe’s was opened in 1837. lation called Bignick by the artist twin brothers Frank and Patric Riklin. approach”. Sicily, according to police. state newspaper The Sunday Mail. AFP “Italy is a welcoming country”, AFP AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Labour party Father, lawyer says Tesco and Next shun local of Snowden workers LONDON: Britain’s opposi- tion Labour party is to accuse supermarket giant Tesco and to visit Russia clothing retailer Next of turn- ing away British workers where possible to exploit cheaper Only deal is true justice: Lon migrant labour. In a speech that will drag the WASHINGTON: The father of Snowden said on ABC. firms into a politically-charged Edward Snowden, the fugitive Snowden’s father added that he immigration debate ahead of a former US spy agency contrac- is “not open” to a plea deal that 2015 election, senior Labour law- tor, has received a Russian visa would allow his 30-year-old son to maker and immigration spokes- and will travel there to see his return to the United States. man Chris Bryant will accuse the son “very soon,” the family’s “The only deal will be true companies today of deliberately lawyer said yesterday. justice,” he said, repeating his excluding British people. Attorney Bruce Fein said in concern that his son won’t be “It is unfair that unscrupu- a television appearance that he treated well because his right lous employers whose only inter- and Lon Snowden were sceptical to a fair trial has been compro- est seems to be finding labour as about President Barack Obama’s mised by public criticism by US cheaply as possible, will recruit pledge to limit government sur- officials. workers in large numbers in low veillance programmes, and they “When you consider many of wage countries in the EU, (and) remain doubtful that young the statements made by our lead- bring them to the UK,” Bryant Snowden can receive a fair trail ers, leaders in Congress, they will say, according to advance in the United States. are absolutely irresponsible and A US naval medic holds liquid food supplement force fed to hunger strikers at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo extracts of his speech. “We have visas. We have a date, inconsistent with our system of Bay, Cuba. Polls show immigration is which we won’t disclose right now justice,” said Snowden. one of the subjects that wor- because of the frenzy” over the “They have poisoned the well, ries British voters the most and affair, Fein told the ABC News so to speak, in terms of a potential any perception that retailers programme “This Week,” on jury pool,” he said. Guantanamo braces for uptick are deliberately disadvantag- which they both appeared. They Washington’s inability to per- ing locals could damage Prime will travel to Russia “very soon,” suade Russia to return Snowden Minister David Cameron’s he said. to the United States has curdled in unrest after Ramadan truce Conservatives as well as the “We intend to visit with US relations with Russia. firms themselves. Edward and suggest criminal Obama canceled a planned US NAVAL BASE AT which has been widely condemned out, many will take that opportu- Cameron is trying to stop an defence attorneys who have got summit in Moscow with President GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba: by rights groups. nity,” said Durand, who reported exodus of voters to the anti-immi- experience in Espionage Act pros- Vladimir Putin, although the two The end of Ramadan has left The number of prisoners on a calmer atmosphere in the camp gration UK Independence Party ecutions,” Fein said. countries held high-level political authorities at the Guantanamo hunger-strike has fallen, possi- during Ramadan. before the 2015 vote. The younger Snowden was and defense talks in Washington Bay military jail preparing for bly as a result of Ramadan, when Guantanamo commander John Bryant will accuse Tesco of stuck at a Moscow airport for on Friday. an uptick in unrest at the con- authorities traditionally offer to Bogdan said detainees were gen- favouring workers from Eastern more than five weeks before A senior US lawmaker from troversial prison, US officials wipe clean the slates of inmates erally more compliant during Europe over British ones and of Russia granted him a year’s asy- Obama’s Democratic Party told say. facing disciplinary proceedings. Ramadan. relocating one of its distribution lum on August 1. the ABC programme that it The annual fast is tradition- Guantanamo public affairs “The detainees tend to be a lit- centres in a way that discouraged Lon Snowden said in an inter- seemed Washington was more ally regarded as an unofficial chief Captain Robert Durand said tle more cooperative during the local employees to continue work- view on Wednesday that he has interested than Putin in forging truce at Guantanamo, where it “remained to be seen” whether month,” Bogdan said. “It doesn’t ing for the firm. not spoken to his son since the a productive relationship. some inmates have been held for inmates would resume their hun- stop all their assaults but it He will also accuse Next of former National Security Agency “It seems to me that as we’ve around a decade without trial. ger-strike now that Ramadan was reduces significantly. bussing in workers from Poland contractor left the United States tried to restart this relationship However, officials expect the over. “We’ve had several detainees to skirt British labour laws that for Hong Kong, just before news several times, that maybe now end of Ramadan and the festival “We did begin Ramadan with over the last several few months would make hiring comparable broke in June of the disclosures he is a moment to pause and think of Eid Al Fitr will be the cue for what we call a Ramadan pardon,” that have been very compliant fol- local workers more expensive. made about the US surveillance about how we’re going to move trouble at Guantanamo, which he explained. “Some welcomed lowing the rules that we began to programs. forward with Russia,” Senate has witnessed an unprecedented that opportunity; for some of them offer them — communal opera- Yesterday, the elder Snowden Foreign Relations Committee six-month hunger strike this year. it was not a matter of two days tions again, living together in Brazil’s military criticized the Obama administra- Chairman Robert Menendez told Some inmates at Guantanamo before they began insulting guards. groups instead of individual cells,” tion’s handling of his son’s case ABC. have taken advantage of a tailored “We’re not expected to see a mas- the camp commander added. regime spied and dismissed the president’s Putin’s government is “unre- menu to observe the Eid holiday. sive disturbance but we will see The vast majority of vow on Friday to improve over- sponsive” to US concerns about This weekend inmates were an uptick in misbehaviours as we Guantanamo prisoners have been on neighbours sight of surveillance, transpar- issues such as the civil war in offered halal chicken, halal beef, come out of Ramadan,” he added. detained in individual cells since ency and other efforts to restore Syria, nuclear disarmament and lamb, dates, honey, says kitchen “Misbehaviour” can take differ- a major protest on April 13 which SAO PAULO: Brazil’s 1964- public trust in the government’s draconian Russian legislation manager Sam Scott. ent forms, from hurling urine and led to rubber bullets being fire 1985 military dictatorship spied programs. against gays and lesbians, said Some 38 other hunger-striking faeces and spitting to punching. after several surveillance cameras on its Latin American neigh- “I believe much of what he Menendez. inmates, however, will continue to “If there’s a window of oppor- were broken. bours and feared a conflict suggested is superficial,” Lon REUTERS be force-fed by tubes, a practice tunity for a detainee for acting AFP with Argentina, a Sao Paulo daily reported yesterday, cit- ing declassified armed forces documents. The disclosure by Estado de Sao Paulo came as Brazil is fuming over allegations of US electronic Kidnapped teenager to reunite with father after rescue spying on its territory. Foreign Minister Antonio SALMON, Idaho: A California Lee DiMaggio, 40. The FBI rescue the state capital. Authorities were manhunt, declined to confirm or triggered a massive search on Patriota plans to raise the alle- teenager rescued from the came after a two-day manhunt by withholding details about the deny if she was there. foot, horseback and air by federal, gations, based on leaks from Idaho wilderness after an FBI more than 150 law enforcement shooting pending a required FBI The search of Western states for state and local law enforcement. former National Security Agency agent shot and killed her sus- agents in the rugged mountains investigation. the pair narrowed to Idaho last week “Hannah is safe, and that’s the contractor Edward Snowden, in pected abductor was expected for DiMaggio, who was wanted in It was unclear if DiMaggio was after a group of backcountry horse- best outcome we were hoping for, a meeting with his US coun- to be reunited with her father the killing of Anderson’s mother, armed or if he shot at officers dur- back riders reported seeing them on our top priority,” said Andrea terpart John Kerry in Brasilia yesterday, authorities said. Christina Anderson, 44, and her ing the rescue. The girl suffered a trail near Morehead Lake. The Dearden, a spokeswoman for the tomorrow. Hannah Anderson, 16, was air- brother Ethan, 8. no apparent injuries but was to Frank Church wilderness stretches Ada County Sheriff’s Office in Boise. Estado said the documents lifted on Saturday evening from DiMaggio, a longtime friend of be evaluated at an area hospital, across 2.3 million acres of towering Anderson, her mother and her from the Armed Forces General an alpine lake in west central the Anderson family, was killed Mary Rook, head of the FBI’s Salt peaks, alpine forests and wild and brother were last seen on Aug. Staff showed that Brazilian mili- Idaho after a rescue in the rough by an FBI agent after he and Lake City office, said on Saturday. scenic rivers in central Idaho. 3. The next day, DiMaggio, a tel- tary attaches and diplomats were terrain of the Frank Church the teenager were spotted at a Hospitals in Boise said Police found DiMaggio’s car, ecommunications technician, is tasked with collecting military River of No Return Wilderness primitive campsite on Saturday Anderson was not among their covered with brush and stripped suspected of setting his home on and strategic secrets of Latin that culminated in the death of afternoon near Morehead Lake, patients. The medical centre in of license plates, at a trailhead at fire in San Diego. American countries. her suspected kidnapper, James about 145km northeast of Boise, Cascade, a small town nearest the the edge of the wilderness. That REUTERS AGENCIES

Flower power Prince Harry Argentine president visits Angola LONDON: Britain’s Prince faces election test Harry is in Angola to see land- mine clearance work by a char- BUENOS AIRES: Argentine term, but talk persists that her ity championed by his late President Cristina Fernandez congressional allies want the con- mother Princess Diana, the faces a mid-term primary elec- stitution changed to allow her to charity and royal officials said tion test on Sunday that will show run again. yesterday. whether she has enough popular For that to happen, Fernandez The HALO Trust said Harry, support to push for a constitu- would have to increase her con- 28, was touring minefields that tional change allowing her to run trol of Congress in October, when remain from Angola’s brutal 1975- for a third term in 2015. half the seats in the lower house 2002 civil war, as well as meeting Candidates for legislative elec- will be up for grabs along with a beneficiaries of the charity’s work. tions in October were being cho- third of the Senate. The fourth-in-line to the sen in yesterday’s open primary Fernandez’s allies would need British throne is also visiting the but, with no competition among a two-thirds majority in both remote southern Angolan town candidates on the lists presented chambers to get debate started of Cuito Cuanavale, believed to be by each party, the vote serves on permitting a third term. the most densely-mined town in more as a giant opinion poll on “She doesn’t have that now and Africa, the charity added. Fernandez’s six years in power. she won’t have it after October,” A spokeswoman for Harry’s The leftist leader has delivered said Ignacio Labaqui, a Buenos residence Kensington Palace steady economic growth and won Aires-based analyst for emerg- declined to give details of when re-election easily in 2011. But ing markets consultancy Medley he arrived in Angola or how long heavy government spending has Global Advisors. he was staying, saying the prince fuelled annual inflation to over 20 “But if the ruling party gets 40 was on a private visit. percent, one of the world’s highest percent or better at the national Princess Diana, a vocal cam- rates, while her combative style level, it could still claim to have paigner against the use of land- has upset investors and many a strong enough mandate to mines, visited Angola with HALO voters in Latin America’s third- pressure the opposition into a in 1997. She died later the same Flower growers, known as silleteros, wait in the town of Barro Blanco before the annual flower festival in biggest economy. bargain allowing the third-term year in a car crash in Paris. Medellin, Colombia yesterday. Fernandez, 60, says she is not amendment.” AFP thinking about a possible third REUTERS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA Curfew in Colombo after mosque attack Authorities deploy more police and commandos to keep situation under control; incident sparks US concern

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police with impunity should be totally “With this attack, we are wor- clamped a fresh curfew on a eradicated from the public per- ried again and we see this (anti- Colombo neighbourhood yes- ception that has now taken root Muslim) trend continuing. We terday, a day after a Buddhist- in our society,” the ministers said condemn this attack.” led mob vandalised a mosque in a joint statement. Farook noted that the latest in an incident that raised reli- President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s violence came five months after gious tensions and sparked US coalition includes the Sri Lanka the torching of two Muslim-owned concern. Muslim Congress, the country’s businesses just outside the capi- Police announced that a 13-hour largest Muslim political party. tal. Three Buddhist monks and curfew would be reimposed, start- The US embassy in Colombo 14 others who were arrested in ing at 6:00 pm (12:30 GMT) across expressed concern at the violence connection with the arson attacks the residential and commercial and urged authorities to prose- in March were later freed when areas of Grandpass district, which cute those responsible. police and the victims did not remained under tight security fol- “This incident is particularly press charges. lowing Saturday’s attack that left troubling in light of a number In another incident, radical four people wounded. of recent attacks against the Buddhists recently forced Islamic Witnesses reported scattered Muslim community in Sri Lanka,” clerics to withdraw halal certifica- stone-throwing in the neighbour- the embassy said in a statement. tion from food sold locally, claim- hood yesterday as authorities “Targeting any place of worship ing that it offended the majority deployed more police and para- should never be permitted and we non-Muslim population. military commandos to keep the urge calm from all sides.” The Sri Lanka Muslim Council, situation under control. The US, which in March initi- an umbrella organisation of Soldiers armed with automatic ated a UN Human Rights Council Muslim civil society groups, also rifles were deployed at key junc- resolution against Sri Lanka over expressed concern at Saturday’s tions in an upscale area of the alleged war crimes against Tamil attack. capital as government leaders Tiger rebels in May 2009, also A security official said Buddhists held talks with Muslim politicians urged Colombo to ensure religious had objected to the new mosque, on ways to ease tensions. freedom. Local Islamic clerics which was constructed to replace Muslim ministers in the rul- expressed concern in the wake of an older place of worship ear- ing coalition, including Justice Saturday’s attack, which followed marked for demolition. Minister Rauf Hakeem, said fail- Buddhist objections to the open- “The Buddhist temple had People hold wooden poles as they stand next to police officers in Colombo yesterday. ure to take stern action against ing of the new mosque. objected to the relocation of the those responsible for similar “We were surprised because mosque and the troubles started attacks in the past had brought we thought things were settling during Saturday evening prayers constables guarding the mosque, throwing stones and beating up Buddhism, while Muslims are the about a breakdown in law and down,” Fazin Farook, spokesman at the mosque,” the official said, remained in hospital yesterday. worshippers. Several homes in the second largest religious minority order. for the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul asking not to be named. Residents said temple bells area were also damaged, they said. with just under 10 percent after “The notion that there are ele- Ulama, Sri Lanka’s apex body of All four people injured in summoned dozens of men who Seventy percent of Sri Lanka’s Hindus who make up about 13 per- ments in our society who can act Islamic clerics said. the attack, including two police stormed the mosque and started 20 million population follow cent. Others are Christian. AFP

North Korean mobile phones Heatwave kills Fonterra pulls out milk powder four in Japan TOKYO: A heatwave stifled Japan yesterday as the tem- perature topped 40 degrees from Sri Lanka; disputes tests Celsius (104 Fahrenheit ) in two cities, leaving at least four WELLINGTON/COLOMBO: Spierings told Television New Sri Lanka is the fifth big- people dead over the weekend, New Zealand-based dairy giant Zealand. gest importer of Fonterra milk officials and reports said. Fonterra Co-operative Ltd said He said Fonterra’s own testing powder. The Japan Meteorological on Sunday it had withdrawn and that of independent bodies “There’s always tension in the Agency said the temperature milk powder under orders from had shown the milk powder was market because it’s price control- reached 40.6 C in Kofu, 100 the Sri Lankan authorities for safe. led by the government, and dairy kilometres (60 miles) west of showing traces of the toxic Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health, prices are at the high level. They Tokyo, in mid-afternoon. agricultural chemical dicyan- however, said it has solid evidence want to support fresh farming, The weather agency had diamide (DCD), although it to prove the presence of DCD. so there’s always some tension warned early yesterday that disputed the accuracy of the “The tests were done by there.” the temperature would soar testing. Industrial Technology Institute New Zealand Prime Minister past 35 C in 39 of the country’s It said two batches of milk (ITI) of Sri Lanka and they have John Key also doubted the accu- 47 prefectures. It warned people powder had been removed from submitted a report on this. That racy of the Sri Lankan tests. to drink plenty of water and use shops last month after Sri is the evidence we have. We can “The sort of numbers that they air-conditioners. Lanka’s Ministry of Health had prove it in the case of a legal bat- we’re talking about were off the On Saturday the mercury said they tested positive for DCD, tle,” a health ministry official said charts and just don’t bear any topped 40 C for the first time in a nitrate inhibitor used in ferti- on condition of anonymity. resemblance to anything else we Japan since August 2007, when lisers. Sri Lanka also imposed a The Sri Lankan recall fol- have ever seen,” he told reporters, it had reached an all-time high ban on advertising by Fonterra’s lows last week’s withdrawal by referring to Sri Lanka’s tests. of 40.9 C in two separate cities. Anchor powder brand. Fonterra and several of its cus- In February, the presence An 84-year-old woman and But Fonterra’s chief executive tomers of infant formula, sports of DCD in low levels in some a 66-year-old man in western said the product was clean and drinks, and animal feed in nine Fonterra products was revealed, Japan died from heat stroke on safe and it was contesting the Sri countries because of fears of con- four months after the chemical Saturday after they were found Lankan results and the ban. tamination of a whey ingredient was detected, causing widespread collapsed in fields, Kyodo news “We are definitely fighting with a bacteria that can cause concern in China and Taiwan. agency said. it, because we have clear cer- botulism. It is said to pose no health tificates — DCD-free, stamped, Spierings said Sri Lanka’s threat to humans in small quanti- when it was exported, when it action could be related to the ties, but is no longer used in New Activist arrested North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (centre) inspecting the production was imported - all clear,” Theo price of dairy products there. Zealand fertiliser. REUTERS process of new touch-screen mobile phone ‘Arirang’ at the May 11 for subversion factory at an undisclosed location in North Korea. BEIJING: China has Bomb site inspection arrested an activist on a charge of subversion, his Taiwan’s Ma brother and a rights group Evacuations from Jakarta said yesterday, the second such arrest in less than two starts foreign tour months and the latest sign TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President island after volcano erupts that the authorities are hard- Ma Ying-jeou departed yester- ening their stance toward day for a tour of Paraguay and JAKARTA: Indonesian rescu- and a group of “traumatised” dissent. the Caribbean but has tried to ers battled yesterday to evacu- inhabitants had already left the Yang Lin, 45, a critic of keep a US stopover low-key to ate thousands from an island island, Eduardus Desa Pante, a China’s one-party system who avoid upsetting China, officials where a volcanic eruption killed local disaster management agency lives in the southern province said. six people the previous day, official said. of Guangdong, was arrested Ma’s office was tight-lipped with the volcano still spewing Bakri Kari, one of the team, on a charge of “inciting sub- about what will be his first stop- out rocks and ash at “dangerous said rescue efforts were difficult version of state power”, his over in New York since he took levels”. as roads were blocked by ash and brother, Yang Mingzhu, said office in 2008. He was re-elected Mount Rokatenda, on tiny people were reluctant to leave by telephone. in January 2012. Palue island in East Nusa their homes. In China, an inciting sub- “It is not convenient for us to Tenggara province, was sending “It was tough trudging through version charge is commonly give details of President Ma’s large clouds of red-hot ash up to hot ground covered in ash that levelled against critics of one- itinerary in New York,” Ma Wei- 600 metres (almost 2,000 feet) was 10 to 20 centimetres thick,” party rule. It carries a maxi- kuo, deputy spokeswoman for into the air. he said. mum penalty of five years in his office said. Ma’s predecessor “The activity... remains high “Everything was burnt by the jail, though lengthier sentences Chen Shui-bian of the China- and at dangerous levels. There lava. have been handed down. sceptic Democratic Progressive are no signs it will stop erupting As the volcano began to rumble Party made high-profile US any time soon,” Surono, an offi- into life last year, the authorities transit visits which sparked pro- cial from the state vulcanology set up the exclusion zone, with Soldier shot tests by Beijing to Washington. agency, said. people living inside urged to leave China opposes any overseas On Saturday the volcano threw and all activities within the area while on patrol visits by officials from Taiwan, rocks and ash 1.2 miles into the banned. KUALA LUMPUR: The which it still regards as part of sky and sent torrents of molten Pante said 127 people had shooting of a soldier patrol- its territory awaiting reunifica- lava onto a beach, killing three already been sent by motor boat ling the Malaysia-Thai bor- tion. Washington switched dip- adults and three children as they to a temporary shelter on Flores der here yesterday could lomatic recognition from Taipei slept. island, south of Palue. be linked to smuggling to Beijing in 1979. Activity had been increasing Rescuers had recovered the syndicates. Local media said Ma plans to at Rokatenda, one of numer- bodies of the adults killed on the Inspector-General of Police meet New York Mayor Michael ous active volcanoes in the vast beach but the children had still Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said Bloomberg as well as US con- Indonesian archipelago, since not been found, he said. police had sought the help of gressmen and entrepreneurs. It October and there had been a Some 2,000 people had already their Thai counterparts in said he would visit the Ground series of small eruptions before been evacuated to Flores before investigating the incident, Zero Memorial, Chinatown and Saturday. Saturday’s eruption, leaving which left soldier Azamruddin New York University, where he A rescue team was seeking to around 8,000 people still on the Azizan, 26, with five gunshot Thai security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack by suspected mil- received his law school master’s evacuate some 2,000 people inside island. wounds. AGENCIES itants at a gas refilling factory in Narathiwat province, Bangkok, yesterday. degree. AFP a three-kilometre exclusion zone AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Thousands flee as soldiers, rebels clash Fresh fighting between government forces and renegade militants despite progress in peace talks

PIKIT: About 2,000 farm- Fighters (BIFF), said provincial peace talks, and the government ers have fled their homes in governor Emmylou Mendoza. alleges the group is mounting the southern Philippines after “We have about 2,000 people armed actions in a bid to derail renewed fighting between gov- who have sought shelter at a local the peace talks. ernment forces and renegade high school,” Mendoza said. On Thursday, President Muslim rebels, officials said The local military spokesman, Benigno Aquino said a series of yesterday. Army Colonel Dickson Hermoso, deadly bombings in Mindanao Families carrying bags of confirmed the operation but that claimed 14 lives and left more clothes and cooking implements would not provide details. than 70 other people injured may dragged their water buffalo and “This is an operation against have been launched by groups he cattle into the rural hamlet of lawless elements,” he said. did not name to relieve military Nalapaan on Mindanao island Mendoza said the fighting was pressure on the BIFF. on Saturday as exploding mor- centred in villages near the town Police reported two other tar rounds could be heard in the of Aleosan on Mindanao, the violent incidents elsewhere in distance. southern homeland of the large Mindanao in the past 24 hours, “We can hear the fighting from Muslim minority in the Catholic including a grenade blast outside here,” said Tibungko Abdul, vil- Philippines. a house that injured four people in lage chief of Nalapaan. “The soldiers are protecting the the town of Kabacan late Friday. “As of now we feel we are highway. We cannot afford to have An improvised explosive went safe here, but if this worsens we it fall into the rebels’ hands, oth- off at a roadside near the town of may have to leave for the town erwise the economy of Cotabato North Upi early Saturday, injur- centre as well,” he added, refer- and other provinces will be para- ing no one, while police disarmed ring to Pikit, the town nearest lysed,” she added. a second device nearby. to Nalapaan and to the villages The government is in advanced The bombs were “most likely” where the evacuees had come peace talks with the Moro Islamic meant for military convoys from. Liberation Front, the largest of that use the road, said Senior The villagers fled late on Friday the insurgent groups, to end the Superintendent Rodelio Jocson, from fresh fighting between decades-old conflict that had police chief of Maguindanao government forces and the claimed 150,000 lives. province. Soldiers patrol the hills of Aleosan, North Cotabato on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom However the BIFF opposes the AFP

Poll registrar summons 47 Hostage recounts escape from militants candidates KUALA LUMPUR: A on the Straits of Malacca that our legs chained to the wooden two other workers were at their three months. There was no run- SAN CARLOS CITY: Malaysian plantation man- he escaped in heavy rain from a pillars,” Tung was quoted as palm oil plantation in Sabah’s ning water or electricity, Tung Subpoenas were issued ager held hostage by Philippine bamboo hut in the jungle when his saying. Lahad Datu district in November added. “They were planning to by the city election regis- Muslim extremists said he abductors, about 20 gunmen, went “After my cousin was taken when about half a dozen men -- shoot us or just dump us at sea” trar to 47 candidates in the escaped before dawn under the for pre-dawn prayers. away, I began using a fork to cut some armed with machine guns after securing ransom, he said, Sangguniang Kabataan elec- cover of a tropical downpour He and his 34-year-old cousin through a link in the iron chain. I -- appeared and ordered them to adding they overheard their cap- tions for submitting ques- after almost nine months in Wei Fei, who suffered from hyper- succeeded after almost a month... walk to the beach. tors’ discussion. tionable documents during abysmal conditions, reports said tension, had been taken away in I waited another month. And then While the two workers were “It was very traumatising,” the registration last month. yesterday. April with the abductors, who I got the chance to escape,” he freed, the cousins were ordered New Straits Times quoted him as Election lawyer Jennifer 26-year-old Tung Wei Jie, demanded ransom from the fam- said. aboard a speedboat. saying. Balarbar said those issued who was seized in the Malaysian ily, claiming they would bring him Tung said he prayed for rain to They later boarded another Tung’s uncle said he only spoke subpoenas on Thursday were state of Sabah on Borneo island to a hospital. escape unnoticed, adding he ran boat to a small island, where briefly to his son, Tung’s cousin, told to appear for clarification last November together with his Tung said he did not know “through dense jungle for hours they stayed five days, before being in January and Tung on April 18. at Sangguniang Panlungsod cousin, was found in the southern what happened to his cousin. and hours” taking only short taken to Jolo, a known strong- Philippine police have blamed session hall on August 13. Philippine island of Jolo early this Philippine police said on Tuesday breaks until reaching a village. hold of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu the kidnapping on the Abu Sayyaf Balarbar said of the 47 candi- week and returned to Malaysia on that he died from illness. Exhausted and dehydrated, he Sayyaf militant group. group, responsible for multiple dates, 12 had registered twice; Saturday. “The hut was in the middle collapsed until the next day when While in captivity, they were bombings and mass kidnappings 16 were underage and 17 over- Tung told local media in his of nowhere. It was infested with a villager alerted the police. only fed plain rice and some fried of foreigners. age; one had no supporting uncle’s home in Port Dickson mosquitoes. We each had one of Tung said he, his cousin and fish and not allowed to bathe for AFP documents while another did not appear during registra- tion. The lawyer said authori- ties would they would find out how the candidates commit- ted such offences. Manila braces for Typhoon Utor Six held with $46m drug Firecracker MANILA: The Philippines make landfall in the north- strong waves, as the police, mili- MANILA: Police arrested six people and seized about $46m worth sparks blasts yesterday braced for the arrival eastern agricultural province of tary and emergency relief author- of methamphetamine at a former US naval base north of the capital of Typhoon Utor, warning of Aurora early morning today, he ities were placed on high alert. Manila Sunday, a police spokesman said. ZAMBOANGA CITY: A heavy rains and potential floods said, adding that heavy rains The Philippines is hit by about The six were caught as they were loading travel bags and boxes series of blasts rocked this in what is expected to be the are likely to cover a larger area 20 storms and typhoons each year, at the port of Subic. The bags and boxes contained about 200kg of port city when a pyrotech- strongest storm to hit the coun- including the capital Manila. some of them devastating. the stimulant methamphetamine hydrochloride, said Chief Inspector nics shop exploded on Friday try so far this year. Utor, moving west-northwest Nearly 2,000 were killed or Roque Merdegia. night, triggering panic The typhoon, packing gusts of at 19 kilometres per hour, was went missing in flash floods and Subic is a former US naval base that was converted into a freeport among residents, authorities up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) forecast to dump up to 25 mil- landslides when Typhoon Bopha shortly after the Americans pulled out in 1992. said yesterday. No one was per hour, was 160 kilometres limetres of rain an hour within cut across the southern island of Merdegia put the street value of the seized drugs at two billion pesos hurt from the blasts, which northeast of the nation’s east- a 600-kilometre diameter of the Mindanao in December last year. (about $46 million). sparked a fire that razed a ernmost island Catanduanes as typhoon, the bureau said. About 850,000 people were The raid was the result of five months of undercover operations, two-storey building hous- of 0200 GMT, the state weather “Residents in low lying and also displaced, and many of them Merdegia said, although no other details were made available. ing the pyrotechnics shop, a bureau said. mountainous areas... are alerted remain in temporary shelters Western governments have tagged the Philippines a major trans- flower shop, and a bakery in “This is forecast to be the against possible flash floods months after the typhoon. shipment point of illegal drugs in the region. Barangay Guiwan at about strongest storm to make land- and landslides,” it stated in an The Hong Kong Observatory The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has in the past acknowl- 9pm. The two-storey resi- fall so far this year,” bureau head advisory. had classified Utor as a “severe edged that drug lords have been known to finance the election cam- dential building adjacent to Vicente Malano told reporters. The bureau also warned sea- typhoon” on its website yesterday. paigns of local officials in remote provinces. the blast site was completely The typhoon is expected to farers to remain at port due to AFP AFP gutted, while a jeep parked in front of the pyrotechnics shop was damaged. The explosions Oiled crabs were so powerful that they ripped metal trashes, beams and walls of the building Mercury spurs patients’ transfer owned by a local Mary Omar. Terminal 3 MANILA: Forty patients were According to Tayag, Fabella is question now — how they store moved from the paediatric ward one of the hospitals that discon- mercury at Fabella. If they keep work on track at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial tinued the use of mercury-con- it properly, according to the Hospital after mercury spilled taining devices after the DOH guidelines issued by the DOH, MANILA: The P1.9bn from a broken container in ordered the gradual phase-out the chance of spillage or theft ($45m) rehabilitation of the a storage room adjacent to of these devices in all health care is small,” said HCWH Safer Ninoy Aquino International the ward last August 8, the facilities from 2008 to 2010. Chemical Campaigner Faye Airport Terminal 3 is on Department of Health (DOH) The spilled mercury, an alloy Ferrer. track and expected to be said yesterday. used in dental fillings, was being She claimed that under the completed by the third quar- DOH Assistant Secretary Dr stored temporarily by Fabella until guidelines, plastic should be the ter of next year, accord- Eric Tayag said a “chemical spill the Department of Environment “primary, secondary and tertiary ing to the Department clean-up was already under- and Natural Resources (DENR) containers” for mercury to avoid of Transportation and way” after “unacceptable levels can collect it for proper disposal. breakage. Communications. The com- of ambient mercury” had been Ona “laments that this incident Ferrer also urged the DENR to pletion of the project is seen detected in and around the stor- happened and ordered a review of scale up its collection and disposal to double the capacity of the age room. proper and safe storage and dis- systems for mercury from health terminal to 13 million passen- “We do not know the actual posal of harmful chemicals, par- care facilities. gers per year. Transportation circumstances (yet),” he said, ticularly mercury, in all hospitals “Mercury is a complicated issue Secretary Joseph Emilio adding that they will wait for to prevent a similar incident from in terms of storage because this Abaya said the government the report of the Bureau of Fire happening again,” Tayag said. chemical cannot be destroyed. has reached an agreement Protection’s hazardous materials The DOH is also monitoring But since the ban was issued in with Takenaka Corp to com- unit, whose members were called the health of around 30 people 2008, the DENR should already plete the project in 12 months upon to determine the extent of who may have been exposed to have a procedure on how it can and make it operational by the chemical spill and initiate the spilled mercury. reinforce the in-house storage of August 2014. The project “remediation procedures.” Non-government organisa- DOH,” she added. includes integration of airport Tayag said Health Secretary tion Health Care Without Harm Ferrer maintained that DENR, systems like baggage handling, Enrique Ona had directed hospital (HCWH) has expressed concern by this time, should have already flight information displays, officials to prioritise the patients’ over the incident, saying this sped up the process of establish- computer terminals, gate A boy shows crabs he collected along the shores tainted by oil in Rosario safety. He also said the hospital should have not happened if the ing regional, city or municipal- coordination, and fire protec- town, Cavite province. Philippine coast guard dispatched divers to deter- will continue to accept and care for chemical was properly stored at based storage systems for the tion systems, among others. mine the origin of spillage of over 50,000 litres of diesel that has affected patients as experts assessed that Fabella. hazardous chemical. AGENCIES some 300 square kilometres of Manila Bay. there is no need for evacuation. “That is the most important THE PHILIPPINE STAR MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Flash floods batter Afghanistan; 22 die Unseasonal rains leave knee-deep water in Kabul

KABUL: At least 22 people in of rescuers to the area and taken “Twenty people, including sev- Afghanistan were killed and people out to safety,” he said. eral children and a woman, were farmland was damaged when Several people were injured and killed in Shakardara,” Farouq flash floods hit a plain near the about a dozen homes were washed said. capital, officials said yesterday. away. “One person was killed in Normally arid Afghanistan gets Many irrigation canals and Paghman and more than 20 heavy rain during summer. wells, as well as orchards and houses were destroyed in Kabul Last week flooding in six east- fields were also damaged, he said. city.” ern and southeastern provinces Some victims were visiting Three schools and some crops and some districts of Kabul killed relatives for Eid Al Fitr holiday, were also damaged by the torren- more than 40 people, destroying he said. tial downpours. hundreds of hectares of farmland Two women were killed and Harsh winters and heavy snow- and displacing hundreds of people. four men were injured in flooding falls often cause swollen rivers Fresh floods followed hours elsewhere, said Ghulam Farouq, that lead to floods in the moun- of torrential rain and hail on an official at the Ministry of tainous country in spring and Saturday, with the Shomali plain Disaster Preparedness. summer. north of Kabul and a mosque, The flooding hit the Shakardara But Afghanistan has had one of particularly hard hit. and Paghman districts to the its hottest summers in decades, Six of the dead were children, north and west of Kabul after and the sudden storms quickly said senior Kabul police officer, unseasonal rains left knee-deep overwhelmed Kabul’s poor drain- Sayed Ekramuddin Jalal. water across many parts of the age systems. Two of the homes damaged by flash floods outside Kabul. “We have already sent teams war-battered city. AGENCIES US-Afghanistan Soldiers help Chinese after Three US troops killed in ambush deal ‘a priority’ KABUL: General Joseph KABUL: Three US soldiers rarely involved in combat opera- org website, which recorded 402 Dunford, Commander of escape from kidnappers were killed in Afghanistan’s tions since handing over security deaths in 2012. the US-led International eastern borderlands yesterday, responsibility to Afghan security “Three International Security Security Assistance Force KABUL: The Chinese national found alive after Thursday’s attack US and Nato officials said, the forces earlier this year. Assistance Force service mem- in Afghanistan, said the in central Kabul had escaped and received help from US troops, first Nato combat deaths this They now primarily train their bers died following an enemies signing of a security agree- the Chinese embassy said in a statement carried by the state-run month. Afghan colleagues. The Nato-led of Afghanistan attack in east- ment between the US and Xinhua news agency yesterday. The soldiers, from the Nato-led mission has about 100,000 inter- ern Afghanistan today,” an ISAF Afghanistan is a priority. Three Chinese nationals were killed and two had gone missing in the International Security Assistance national troops in Afghanistan, of statement said. Both countries have been attack. Later, one of the missing Chinese was found alive and moved Force (ISAF), were killed by whom 68,000 are American. In line with ISAF policy, negotiating the deal to allow to a safe place by the embassy. insurgents in Paktia province, a The numbers are expected to nationalities were not given and the presence of foreign troops According to the embassy, the Chinese man was forced into a car US official said. The last Nato sol- reduce sharply before the official casualty identification was left to beyond 2014. It is believed driven by Afghan nationals heading out of Kabul in the wee hours of dier to be killed in action was late end of the Nato-led combat mis- the concerned country. they would be about 9,000 Friday. last month. sion on December 31, 2014. International military casual- troops from the US and 6,000 The man untied himself and jumped out of the car and reached a Paktia is one of several prov- More than 2,100 US soldiers ties have fallen in recent months from its allies. There are nearby US military base for help. inces that border Pakistan have died during the war in as the Afghan army and police about 100,000 troops from US troops offered assistance and took him to the embassy. and have endured some of the Afghanistan. take the lead in the battle to 48 countries in Afghanistan, Search for the other Chinese was still underway. highest levels of fighting dur- Yesterday’s deaths bring the thwart the Taliban insurgency. including 66,000 Americans. The five Chinese are self-employed business people. The motive ing the US-led 12-year war in number of fatalities among foreign But areas of the south and east behind the attack on their apartment in the Afghan capital is still Afghanistan. troops this year to 114, according remain highly dangerous. Ban to visit unclear. AGENCIES US soldiers based in Paktia are to the independent icasualties. AGENCIES Pakistan Play time ISLAMABAD: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Eight rebels linked to attacks Islamabad on a two-day visit tomorrow state media said yesterday. He will discuss in Baluchistan gunned down steps for polio eradication and promotion of education, QUETTA: Pakistani security by people shopping for Eid Al Fitr. especially women’s educa- forces gunned down eight sepa- Regional administration official tion, with the leadership, ratist rebels linked to attacks Syed Waheed Shah confirmed the Radio Pakistan reported. that killed 17 people earlier in insurgent death toll. Ban will met President Asif the restive southwestern prov- The bodies of six insurgents Ali Zardari, Prime Minister ince of Baluchistan, officials were brought to Quetta, but so Nawaz Sharif, his foreign said. far nobody had claimed them, affairs and national secu- Provincial Home Secretary Durrani said. rity adviser, the speaker of Akbar Durrani said six insur- The rebels have been fighting in National Assembly, women gents were killed during shoot- Baluchistan since 2004 for politi- parliamentarians and other out with paramilitary troops in cal autonomy and a greater share officials. Ban will also take the Mach area of Bolan district, of profits from the region’s oil, gas part in Independence Day 70km southeast of provincial cap- and mineral resources. celebrations on August 14. ital Quetta. Baluchistan is also a flash- He said troops surrounded the point for surging sectarian vio- Tribal leader rebels’ hideout and asked them lence between Pakistan’s majority to surrender but the insurgents Sunnis and Shias, who account for dies in blast Afghan children play with plastic toy guns in Herat. opened fire. around a fifth of the country’s 180 The separatists were linked to million people. ISLAMABAD: A road- an attack on Tuesday that killed On Friday gunmen opened fire side bomb blast killed 14 people, including three security on worshippers leaving a mosque Baluchistan’s tribal leader AFC condemns attack on football match personnel, after stopping vehicles on the outskirts of Quetta after Zra Khan and injured his two at a fake check-point. Eid prayers. The attack outside guards in the Dera Bugti dis- KUALA LUMPUR: Asian football chief Sheikh enjoying a game,” the Asian Football Confederation Meerak Baloch, a spokesman the Sunni mosque came a day trict, Dawn News reported Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa condemned the (AFC) president said. for the Baluch Liberation Army, after a Taliban suicide bomber yesterday. Khan was going attack on a football match in Pakistan this week. Despite violence, Sheikh Salman said AFC had had earlier claimed responsibility killed 38 people at a police funeral to Sawai from Patokh when At least 11 fans were killed and 24 injured decided to allot the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship for the killings. in the city. Violence has continued the bomb exploded. It was when a blast hit the football ground in Karachi on qualifiers to Pakistan due to the rising popularity of Two separatists were shot dead in the country since the new gov- a remote-controlled blast Wednesday. the sport in the country. by para-military forces in the ernment took office in June. The which also destroyed his car. He said sport should be used as a tool to promote “We are following the rise in popularity of football neighbouring Mastung district, US has reiterated a long-standing Security officials cordoned off peace. in Pakistan and we are confident that the AFC U-16 Durrani added, where a bomb on warning to its citizens to avoid all the area. “Football is popular around the world and brings Championship qualifiers will give a further boost to Wednesday killed a woman and non-essential travel to Pakistan. people together. It’s shameful to attack those efforts of Pakistan Football Federation. AGENCIES two children in a market thronged AGENCIES Four Afghan cops killed KABUL: Four Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb ripped Pakistan accuses India of firing on border posts through their patrol vehicle in Afghanistan’s northern ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday province. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif blamed Pakistani militants for the attack. province of Faryab. Officials accused Indian forces of firing on its “Indian Border Security Forces resorted tried to ease tensions by urging both sides More than a dozen armed rebel groups said the blast happened in border posts in disputed Kashmir and to unprovoked firing on Pakistani Rangers to work swiftly to shore up a 10-year cease- have been fighting Indian forces since 1989, the Dawlat Abad district of neighbouring Punjab province, where it posts near Pukhlian, Head Marala in fire threatened by recent attacks. demanding independence for Kashmir or the province, about 450km sparked an “intermittent exchange of Sialkot sector,” a military official said. But Pakistani military officials on its merger with Pakistan. northwest of the capital fire”. “Intermittent exchange of fire continues. Thursday made fresh allegations, accusing The Indian BSF claimed one of its guards Kabul. They said the remote- The fighting is the latest in recent No loss has been reported so far,” he said, Indian troops of opening fire and seriously was wounded after Pakistan Rangers controlled bomb was deto- cross-border skirmishes between the two adding that after the exchange of fire in wounding a male civilian in the Tatta Pani opened fire on a post in Kanachak, some nated as the policemen were nuclear-armed neighbours who have fought Punjab, Indian troops resorted to unpro- sector along the LoC. 40km southwest of Jammu, the winter cap- travelling on the Faryab- three wars since independence from the voked firing at the 740km Line of Control The Himalayan territory of Kashmir is ital of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state. Jawzjan highway. They were British rule in 1947, two over the Muslim- (LoC) in Nakial sector near Kotli in the divided between India and Pakistan by the “It was an unprovoked firing on an carrying logistics for police majority region of Kashmir. disputed Kashmir region. UN-monitored LoC, the de facto border, international border post from the other checkpoints in the area. Tensions have flared up in the heavily Indian Defence Minister A K Antony but is claimed in full by both countries. side. However, we responded with utmost Syed Abdul Salam Nizhat, militarised Kashmir valley with both sides on Thursday hinted at stronger military A deadly flare-up along the LoC in restraint,” the BSF said. Governor of Dawlat Abad dis- accusing each other of cross-border firings. action along the LoC after Delhi accused January brought peace talks to a halt. It said soldiers were patrolling violence- trict, said police commander But the first of yesterday’s incidents took Pakistan’s army of involvement in a deadly They had just resumed after a three- hit districts and the administration had Khalid Mohammad was place near the border close to the east- overnight ambush on Monday that killed year hiatus sparked by the 2008 attacks blocked mobile data services to stop the among the dead. AGENCIES ern city of Sialkot in neighbouring Punjab five Indian soldiers in the Poonch region. in Mumbai that killed 166 people. India spreading of any rumours. AGENCIES MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Pleasant day Modi flags off BJP’s poll campaign in Delhi, rain expected today CM woos AIADMK by showering praise on Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: It was a pleasant day in the capi- HYDERABAD: Invoking his this was the cause for the ongoing tal yesterday with a cloud slogan ‘India First’, Gujarat protests in Seemandhra over the cover and intermittent show- Chief Minister Narendra Modi decision to carve out a separate ers through the day in some yesterday flagged off the BJP’s state. areas. Rain has been forecast campaign for 2014 elections Modi appealed to people of both for Monday. with a call to rid the country of the regions to live peacefully as According to India the Congress even as he sought brothers and not to get provoked Meteorological Department to attract support from parties despite the Congress ‘games’. He (IMD), the city received 4.5mm like the TDP and AIADMK. accused the Congress of adopting rain from Saturday 8.30am to Addressing a mammoth public a divide-and-rule policy. 8.30am yesterday. meeting, the first after he took Eminent personalities of The maximum temperature over as chairman of Bharatiya Telugu film industry and people of 33.2 degrees Celsius and Janata Party’s campaign com- from various walks of life called minimum temperature of 26.1 mittee, Modi said development on Modi, who also addressed degrees Celsius were average was the foundation of his vision a meeting of office-bearers of for this time of the year, an of India. BJP’s Andhra Pradesh unit before IMD official said. Unveiling his vision of the gov- winding up his day-long visit. The humidity hovered ernment, Modi, who is seen by Modi ended his 45-minute- between a high and low of 92 many as BJP’s prime ministerial long address at the public meet- and 73 percent. candidate, said its only religion ing by repeating Barack Obama’s Today’s maximum and should be ‘India first’, its mantra famous words ‘Yes we can’. He minimum temperatures are should be the Constitution, its asked the audience to repeat with expected to hover around belief should be ‘Bharat Bhakti’, him “Yes we can. Yes we will do”, 33 and 26 degrees Celsius its power should be people’s power “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” and “Vande respectively. and its worship should be the wel- Mataram”. “The skies will remain gen- fare of 125 crore people. Thousands of people, mostly erally cloudy with rain and Modi invoked Telugu Desam youth, attended the meeting at L thundershower in some parts Party (TDP) founder N T Rama B Stadium. It was the first of 100 of the city,” said an IMD official. Rao to woo the party for his such meetings planned by BJP in Since the monsoon’s arrival efforts to form non-Congress gov- the run-up to the polls. in June, Delhi has received ernment at the centre. He said The Gujarat chief minister said Chief Minister of Gujarat state and national election campaign chief of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, 515.6 mm of rain, 37 percent TDP, which claims legacy of NTR, the path of development alone can Narendra Modi, addresses the 'Navabharata Yuvabheri' meeting at the Lal Bahadur stadium in Hyderabad yesterday. more than average. has the responsibility to fulfil his change India’s destiny. dream. “Solution to all our problem lies In an attempt to woo in development and in the wel- called its all-round failure, cor- had said if such an incident takes happening in Kashmir Valley for UPA hopes to pass AIADMK, Modi also praised the J fare of all sections of people but ruption and vote bank politics. place again, we will give fitting last three decades. He said the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Congress is not ready to tread on Modi said last week’s incidents reply to Pakistan. This week Jammu and Kashmir government food bill next week Nadu for its schemes. this path,” he said. shocked the country and people Pakistani soldiers gun down our stopped BJP leader Arun Jaitley NEW DELHI: With the He accused the Congress of Stating that Congress has lost faith in the UPA govern- men. People are asking the gov- from visiting Kishtwar to sup- first week of the monsoon creating a wedge between the peo- become a burden on the country, ment. Targeting the government ernment why Pakistan is contin- press the facts. session — which started ple of Telangana and Seemandhra he said an atmosphere to rid the for its foreign policy, he came uing the excesses and why this Modi had a dig at the food secu- August 5 — lost to disrup- (Rayalaseema and Andhra) country of Congress party was down heavily on Prime Minister country of 125 crore is silently rity bill, saying the Congress had tions, the government hopes regions of Andhra Pradesh. prevailing with awareness among Manmohan Singh for his silence tolerating,” he said. to bring it as it impoverished the to get the food security bill He said despite promising youth, farmers and poor. over the killing of Indian soldiers On the violence in Kishtwar, people. He said the party was now passed in parliament before a Telangana state in 2004, the Modi slammed Congress- by Pakistani army. Modi said this was not a small using the word inclusive growth August 15, informed sources Congress failed to build a capital led United Progressive Alliance “When two Indian soldiers incident but could be a conspir- because it always excluded people said yesterday. for Seemandhra. He hinted that (UPA) government for what he were beheaded the prime minister acy to repeat in Jammu what is from development. IANS “We hope to pass the food bill before Aug 15,” said an offi- cial adding that the bill will be debated and passed in the Hindu festival Lok Sabha today. It will then be taken to the Rajya Sabha Hundreds run GJM to continue its stir, says tomorrow or on Wednesday. Once passed by both the houses, the bill, a pet legisla- in Bangalore ultimatum not Mamata’s tion of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will be sent to DARJEELING: Noting the to enforce it while essential serv- the president for his approval. to help victims 72-hour ultimatum set by Chief ices will not be interfered with”. Since the bill was introduced Minister Mamata Banerjee was “In keeping with the highest in the lower house last week, of Uttarakhand not a West Bengal government democratic traditions, the GJM Congress leaders have been deadline but a court order, the supporters will continue to exer- appealing to all parties to pass BANGALORE: Hundreds of GJM yesterday said it will con- cise their freedom of expression, the welfare legislation. people from all walks of life, tinue its indefinite shutdown in speech and their right to assemble including expats living in the the Darjeeling Hills, but without peacefully without arms to press city, yesterday participated in violating the court’s directive. for their demand for Gorkhaland,” Delhi boy beaten 5-10km marathon here to raise “The 72-hour deadline set by said Gurung. funds and collect household the government is not their dead- With the GJM already in talks to death by friends goods for victims of the disas- line, but it is the court’s deadline with the central leadership, ter-hit Uttarakhand. requiring the state to respond and Gurung ruled out any talks with NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old “We are touched by the file a report. the state government. boy was beaten to death by overwhelming response of “We reiterate that the Gorkha “This matter concerns the three of his juvenile friends Bangaloreans to the ‘Snapthon’ Janmukti Morcha respects the centre and we do not want talks after he complained to an run for the rehab of thousands of court orders and will comply with with the state government. The accused’s mother about their Uttarakhand victims and families it. The Morcha will use no force decision has to be taken by the bid to extort money for smok- who suffered a trail of death and or picketing in the forthcoming centre,” he said. ing, police said yesterday. destruction in mid-June,” organ- programmes in Darjeeling,” said The GJM announced a Sandeep, a Class 9 student, iser and Snap Fitness founder B GJM supremo Bimal Gurung said. 24-hour relaxation in the shut- was assaulted in Pandav Nagar M Vikram said. Armed with a Calcutta High down Thursday on the occasion in east Delhi Saturday night, About 2,000 people, includ- Court order asking the state of Independence Day and kept police said. Sandeep, who suf- ing boys and girls flocked to the government to prevent forcible the courts out of the ambit of fered severe internal injuries, Freedom Park in the city centre shutdown, Banerjee Saturday had the shutdown. It has also called succumbed while being taken for the run on a cloudy and breezy given the deadline to the GJM to an all party meeting Monday fol- to hospital, police said. day. While the young men and withdraw the shutdown or face lowed by a meeting of its central All three attackers, residents women, including techies and vol- “strong action”. committee where it will decide its of the same neighbourhood, unteers opted for the 10km mara- The order, a copy of which the future course of action. were detained, police said. thon, the elderly folks opted for GJM leadership received Sunday, “We have invited all parties in Police said the accused used the 5km-run. was made by the court in a public the hill,” was central committee to extort money from young “We raised about Rs.75,000 in interest litigation seeking preven- leader Raju Pradhan’s reply on if boys of the area for smoking. cash during the four-hour event tion of forcible shutdown. the Trinamool Congress will be a They earlier demanded from the public by way of con- The GJM asserted it would part of the meeting. money from Sandeep and tributions en-route and collected continue the stir Monday followed Meanwhile, the Banerjee thrashed him but he refused foodgrains, groceries, utensils, by a peoples’ curfew beginning administration continued its to oblige them. On that day, clothes, mattresses and quilts in Tuesday but assured “no force or crackdown on the movement Sandeep made a complaint about 30 carton boxes kept at our Hindu devotees queue to offer prayers on the occasion of the Nag coercion or picketing will be used arresting GJM leaders. IANS to the mother of one of the fitness centres across the city,” Panchami festival, outside the Nagvasuki temple in Allahabad yesterday. accused. IANS said an elated Vikram. The fund and rehab materials will be sent at the earliest to the Uttarakhand government for dis- tribution through Goonj, a non- government organisation, whose India to launch indigenous aircraft carrier today volunteers coordinated the event. “Though we have been conduct- KOCHI: Its flight deck is over The aircraft carrier will be will be about 2,500km of power engines, gear box and other heavy the fifth country after the US, ing marathons in the city over the twice the size of a football field, launched into water today by cabling and 1,000km of other machinery. Russia, Britain and France to last three years for wellness or its power unit can light up the Elizabeth Antony, wife of Defence cabling and it will have power Major outfitting work is have the capacity to design and fitness and other social issues, this entire Kochi city and the cabling Minister A K Antony. It will be generation capacity of 24MW expected to be completed by 2016 build aircraft carriers of 40,000 was the first time a long run on is enough to cover the distance redocked for erecting the island which must be the peak power after which extensive sea trials tonnes and above. a voluntary basis was held for a between here to Delhi. superstructure (for flight control load of Cochin city,” Sen said. will be conducted. The carrier is The aircraft carrier has been humanitarian cause of rebuilding India’s first indigenous aircraft systems) above its flight deck and He said IAC can deploy over 30 expected to be delivered to the designed by Indian Navy’s design the lives of the affected families,” carrier (IAC), to be launched here the remaining underwater work. aircraft and helicopters. navy by the end of 2018. organisation. Vice Admiral K Snap co-founder Srileka Reddy today, is the biggest warship to be The indigenous Light Combat Standing majestically at the CSL chairman Commodore K. R Nair, controller, Warship said on the occasion. built in the country and will make Aircraft (LCA), MiG-29K combat CSL here with its ski-jump Subramaniam said that several Production and Acquisition, said Among the noted persons who it the fifth country to have capac- jets and a range of helicopters will (on the flight deck) giving it a innovations have gone into mak- every Indian will feel a sense led the marathon were Arjuna ity to build such huge vessels. be deployed on the carrier. muscular appeal, the IAC will ing the warship including special of pride that the country has award winner Reeth Abraham Being built at Cochin Shipyard The IAC, to be christened have approximate displacement grade high tensile steel and pon- launched an aircraft carrier. and former Indian women cricket Limited, the IAC is expected to INS Vikrant, will be 260m in (weight) of 18,500 tonnes at its toons to provide additional float “For people like us who have captain Pramila Bhat, a few celeb- be a centrepiece of Indian Navy’s length and 60m in breadth and launch. at the time of launch. been associated with the produc- rities from the tinsel world and power in the coming years and can attain speeds in excess of 28 The warship is decorated with “IAC is a big step towards self- tion, the feeling (of pride) is that scores of techies from Indian IT will be equipped with modern knots (56kmph), said Commodore flags, colourful umbrellas and reliance. Only handful of coun- much more,” he said. firms and multinationals. weapons systems including long Saibal Sen, additional principal buntings in an apparent reflection tries operate such vessels and IAC’s long take-off strip will Winners of the marathon were range surface-to-air missiles (LR director, Naval Design. of the joy of personnel who have only a few who can build them,” be 206 metres and short-take-off awarded Rs.10,000 and Rs.5,000 in SAM) and close-in weapons sys- “It’s flight deck is over twice strived for years to put in place its Subramaniam said. would be 145m. It will have a crew both categories. IANS tem (CIWS). the size of a football field. There structure and install gas turbines, Navy officials said India will be of about 1,450. IANS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Policemen detain Engineer Rashid, an independent lawmaker demanding protection to Muslims in Jammu, during a protest in Srinagar, yesterday. RIGHT: Policemen move a burnt-out vehicle off the road on the outskirts of Jammu. Curfew extended in Kashmir after clashes Tensions rise after two people killed, dozens injured; CM says everything will be done to restore calm

SRINAGAR: Authorities each other yesterday of fresh fir- part of Pakistan, in a conflict from the committees. “One option militarised Line of Control but “Indian Border Security Forces extended a curfew in a town in ing between their two borders. that has killed tens of thousands available to us is to ask people to both the nuclear-armed South resorted to unprovoked firing Indian Kashmir for a third day The fighting is the latest in a of people, mostly civilians. deposit all licensed weapons in Asian rivals claim the Himalayan on Pakistani Rangers posts near yesterday as tensions rose after spate of recent cross-border skir- Authorities extended the cur- the nearest police stations,” he territory in full. Pukhlian, Head Marala area, in two people were killed and doz- mishes between the two nuclear- few and deployed the army to said. In the latest round of cross- Sialkot sector,” a senior military ens wounded in Hindu-Muslim armed neighbours who have prevent further outbreaks of Shops and other businesses border firing, Indian officials said official said. clashes in the disputed region. fought three wars since inde- violence after reports of fresh remained closed all weekend in one of their soldiers was wounded “Intermittent exchange of fire Stores and buildings were pendence from the British rule clashes emerged late Saturday, Jammu, Indian Kashmir’s winter Sunday when Pakistani troops continues. No loss reported so torched in Friday’s clashes, which in 1947, two over the Muslim- Abdullah said. capital, in response to shutdowns fired along the Jammu border far,” the official added on condi- erupted in Kishtwar town, 150km majority region of Kashmir. Kishtwar residents have alleged called by the Hindu nationalist near the town of Samba, 172km tion of anonymity because he is southeast of Kashmir’s summer The violence in Kishtwar members of the Village Defence Bharatiya Janata Party. south of Srinagar. not authorised to talk to media. capital Srinagar after prayers broke out when several hundred Committees, controversial semi- Businesses also stayed shut “One Border Security Force The official also added that marking the end of Ramadan. Muslims staged a march and official local groups drawn mostly in Srinagar in response to a (BSF) soldier injured from sniper after exchange of fire on the Omar Abdullah, the state’s shouted slogans attacking India from the Hindu community and strike over the clashes called shots fired by the Pakistan sol- border in the Punjab province, chief minister, addressed a press and demanding “freedom” before armed by the government to fight by a top separatist leader, Syed dier. We retaliated and the fir- the Indian troops then fired at conference yesterday and said being assaulted by Hindus who militants in their neighbourhood, Ali Geelani, who had demanded ing went on for some time,” N S the Line of Control (LOC) in the local authorities would do “eve- objected to the demonstration. used weapons during Friday’s “peaceful protests” following Jamwal, a BSF official said. disputed Kashmir region. rything possible to restore calm Rebel groups have been bat- clashes. what he branded as “state ter- Pakistan yesterday also accused “Indian troops also resorted in the region”. tling Indian forces since 1989, Abdullah said the government rorism” after Eid prayers. Indian forces of firing on its bor- to unprovoked firing at LOC in The curfew extension came as calling for the territory to be was considering options, includ- Kashmir is divided between der posts close to the eastern city Nakial sector near Kotli,” he said. Pakistan and India both accused made independent or become ing a possible recall of weapons India and Pakistan by a heavily of Sialkot in Punjab province. AFP

TV channels splash old photo of Chandy and arrested woman

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Some TV channels in Kerala yesterday night aired a pic- ture of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy with Saritha S Nair, a woman arrested for allegedly role in a scam related to solar panels. The picture was telecast hours before the Left opposition’s pro- posed indefinite “secretariat siege”, demanding Chandy’s res- ignation over the scam. The state secretariat is the seat of the Kerala government and the Left opposition has announced that starting Monday, no one will be allowed to enter until Chandy resigns over the solar scam. Nair and her business partner in the controversial “Team Solar company” had allegedly duped Border Security Force officers talk with soldier who was wounded after numerous investors of Rs7 crores Pakistan Rangers opened fire on a post in Kanachak, in Jammu yesterday. and the scandal has come to be known as the “solar scam”. The telephone call records of Nair showed that she had been in frequent touch with members of Border Security trooper the chief minister’s personal staff, police said. The alleged wrongdoings of the injured in Pakistani firing company became public in June and since then the Left opposi- SRINAGAR: A Border than a week after the killing of tion has been demanding the Security Force (BSF) trooper five Indian Army soldiers in an resignation of Chandy. Nair and was wounded in firing by ambush at the Line of Control her partner are both behind bars Pakistani soldiers in Kanachak (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, is along with Teny Jopan, the former sector of Jammu district on the the third violation of the ceasefire personal assistant of Chandy. international border, Indian agreement by Pakistan in the last After the chief minister’s photo officials said yesterday, while the 48 hours. with Nair was splashed across Pakistan foreign office accused In Islamabad, the Pakistani for- TV channels, his party colleague Indian troopers of resorting to eign office, however, said Indian Sooranad Rajasekharan said the unprovoked firing in the Sialkot troops fired at its paramilitary picture did not mean much. sector. forces along the LoC in the “Chandy is accessible to any- Pawan Kumar, in his early 20s, Kashmir region. one and anyone can meet him was shot in his chest around 7.40 “Indian border security forces and say anything to him, so this am yesterday. He was deployed on resorted to unprovoked firing does not mean anything,” said an observation tower 200m from upon Pakistan Rangers (para- Rajasekharan. Chandy earlier the border, a BSF officer said in military force) in the Sialkot said in the Kerala assembly that Srinagar. sector this morning (Sunday),” he was told by his party workers The BSF personnel fired at Xinhua quoted Pakistani that Nair was also present at a Pakistani soldiers in retalia- Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz function in Kottayam district and tion, he said. Pawan Kumar was Ahmad Chaudhry as saying in a this picture was taken there. taken to a government hospital statement. Communist Party of India- in Jammu where his condition Pakistani forces “responded Marxist politburo member was critical. He would be taken with restraint and responsibility”, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said to All India Institute of Medical Chaudhry said. Chandy should resign at the ear- Sciences in Delhi for treatment. No one was injured in the inci- liest. IANS The incident, coming less dent of firing, he said. IANS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

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ATHENS 33/25 Clear 33/25 Clear LOS ANGELES: The life and Directed by Joshua Michael and drinking only fruit and car- understand. One, Steve Wozniak WASHINGTON 30/23 Chance of storm 29/19 Chance of storm times of Apple co-founder Steve Stern from a script by Matt rot juice — a regimen that led to is being paid by another movie Jobs will be immortalised on Whiteley, Jobs paints a broadly excruciating pain and a trip to studio to help support their Steve SYDNEY 27/08 Chance of rain 23/10 Clear the big screen next week as favourable portrait of the man hospital two days before filming Jobs film, so he’s gonna have an LONDON 21/13 Partly cloudy 21/14 Partly cloudy the first of two planned biopics who gave the world such ground- was set to start. opinion that is connected to that, PARIS 22/13 Chance of rain 22/13 Partly cloudy about the visionary computer breaking gadgets such as the iPod Kutcher’s film has, however, somewhat,” Kutcher said. ISTANBUL 27/21 Partly cloudy 28/21 Clear guru lands in theatres. and iPad. been greeted coolly by Apple co- “Two, the biggest criticism MANILA 30/24 Chance of storm 32/25 Chance of storm Almost two years after Jobs But it also touches on the more founder Wozniak, who has taken that I’ve ultimately heard is that DHAKA 32/25 Cloudy 33/26 Chance of storm lost his long battle with cancer, controversial chapters of his life, exception to certain scenes in he wanted it to be represented — DELHI 34/26 T-storms 31/25 Chance of storm Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher including his abrupt break-up the movie, including one scene his contribution to Apple — fairly. ISLAMABAD 32/23 T-storms 32/22 T-storms as the iconic computer industry with his pregnant girlfriend and in particular where Jobs outlines And, in all fairness, the movie’s titan, is to be released on Friday. his later refusal to acknowledge his grand vision for computers. called ‘Jobs.’ And it’s about Steve The independent film opens paternity of the couple’s daughter. “Steve is lecturing me about Jobs and the legacy of Steve Jobs, ahead of a bigger-budget project During the annual MacWorld/ where computers could go, when and so I think it focuses more ... on Jobs planned by Sony that is iWorld conference in San it was the other way around,” on what his contribution to Apple being put together with the sup- Francisco in January, Kutcher Wozniak told the Los Angeles was.” Marvel superheroes, port of Apple’s other co-founder acknowledged being intimidated Times. Sony and Wozniak’s movie is to Steve Wozniak. by the task of playing Jobs. “Steve never created a great be based on the Apple co-found- Jobs was screened at the pres- “Playing a guy which everyone computer. In that period, he had er’s official biography penned by tigious Sundance International will have judgment of or criticism failure after failure after failure. Walter Isaacson. Angelina Jolie Film Festival earlier this year about was really, really scary,” the He had an incredible vision, but Heavyweight Hollywood where it received a lukewarm 35-year-old said. he didn’t have the ability to exe- screenwriter Aaron Sorkin reception from critics. Kutcher, an avowed geek who cute on it,” he said. (The Social Network) has been The film charts Jobs’ early life, has also invested in a slew of “I would be surprised if the entrusted with the adaptation. bewitch Disney expo including his famous launch of technology start-ups, spent hours movie portrays the truth.” Sorkin has already indicated Apple in a garage in 1976 through poring over old videos of Jobs in Kutcher, meanwhile, defended that he plans to tell the story of ANAHEIM: Angelina Jolie Feige screened footage from both to his triumphant return to the an effort to replicate the Apple Jobs from Wozniak’s criticisms in Jobs in three phases tied to three cast a spell on the crowd at the sequels, including two never- company in 1996 after earlier chieftain’s mannerisms and voice. an interview with The Hollywood of the inventor’s best known D23 Expo. before-seen clips, and teasers for being ousted from the company He also got into character by Reporter. products. The star of the upcoming film both The Avengers: Age of Ultron in a boardroom coup. adopting Jobs’ strict diet of eating “A couple things you have to AFP Maleficent appeared on stage at and Guardians of the Galaxy. the Disney extravaganza for a The clip for The Dark World Saturday presentation promoting showed Portman’s human charac- the company’s upcoming assort- ter Jane being examined on Thor’s Most men wish ment of live-action films. home realm of Asgard, while the “Since I was a little girl, rough Winter Soldier footage show- women would Maleficent was always my favour- cased a stealth assault on a naval Popular singer Eydie Gorme dies ite,” Jolie told the crowd of 4,000 ship by Cap with plenty of boomer- fans about her role as a real-life anging shield action. LOS ANGELES: Eydie Gorme, When the programme became on her own with the Grammy- help pay date tab rendition of the Sleeping Beauty Other films previewed on a popular nightclub and televi- NBC‘s “Tonight Show” in 1954, nominated “Blame It on the Bossa villainess. “I was terrified of her, Saturday included the globe- sion singer who performed as a the young couple went with it. Nova.” The bouncy tune about a NEW YORK CITY: Two out but I was so drawn to her. I wanted trotting Muppets sequel Muppets solo act and as a team with her They married in Las Vegas in dance craze at the time was writ- of three men think women to know more about her.” Most Wanted, fairytale musical husband, Steve Lawrence, has 1957 and later performed for audi- ten by the Tin Pan Alley song- should help pay for a date, Jolie said her daughter, Vivienne, Into the Woods, live-action retell- died. She was 84. ences there. Lawrence, the cou- writing team of Barry Mann and although most feel guilty who turned five years old last ing of Cinderella and the myste- Gorme, who also had a huge ple’s son David and other loved Cynthia Weil. about accepting their money, month, was cast in the film as a rious Tomorrowland, which stars solo hit in 1963 with “Blame ones were by her side when she Her husband had had an a US study suggests. young version of Princess Aurora, George Clooney and is inspired by It on the Bossa Nova,” died on died, Bragman said. equally huge solo hit in 1962 with Of the 64 percent wanting mostly because she was the only contents from a box found in the Saturday at Sunrise Hospital in “Eydie has been my partner “Go Away Little Girl,” written by to split the bill, 44 percent said child who wasn’t afraid of Jolie in Disney archives. Las Vegas after a brief, undis- onstage and in life for more than the songwriting team of Gerry they’d even ditch a love inter- her horned attire on the set. Tomorrowland filmmakers closed illness, her publicist, 55 years,” Lawrence said in a Goffin and Carole King. est who never doled out any “One little kid even said, Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof Howard Bragman, said. statement. “I fell in love with her She scored another solo hit in dollars. ‘Mommy, please tell the mean showed off some items from the Gorme was a successful band the moment I saw her, and even 1964, but this time for a Spanish- That said, 76 percent of men witch to stop talking to me,’” said box on stage. singer and nightclub entertainer more the first time I heard her language recording. felt bad about pocketing pay- Jolie. “They want us to pull Clooney when she was invited to join the sing. While my personal loss is Gorme, who was born in New ments from possible partners. Other stars that appeared at out of the box,” said Lindelof. “It’s cast of Steve Allen‘s local New unimaginable, the world has lost York City to Sephardic Jewish The findings are based on California’s Anaheim Convention not gonna happen, guys.” York television show in 1953. one of the greatest pop vocalists parents, grew up speaking English research led by psychologist Center included a few allies of The items included a blueprint She sang solos and performed of all time.” and Spanish. When she and her David Frederick of Chapman “Marvel’s The Avengers.” of the “It’s a Small World” ride, duets and comedy skits with Although usually recognised husband were at the height of University in California. Tom Hiddleston, Natalie a doctored photo of Walt Disney Lawrence, a rising young singer for her musical partnership with their career as a team in 1964, the He oversaw a team that Portman and Anthony Hopkins with Amelia Earhart and a large who joined the show a year earlier. Lawrence, Gorme broke through president of Columbia Records, combed through data from from Thor: The Dark World and silver disc that the pair said con- Goddard Lieberson, suggested more than 17,000 people to see Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan and tained the remnants of an ani- she put that Spanish to use in the how changing gender norms Anthony Mackie from Captain mated film. recording studio. have impacted on time-hon- America: The Winter Soldier were “In 20 short years, we will share The result was “Amor,” oured notions of courtship. on hand to tout their upcoming this extraordinary place with the recorded with the Mexican combo Eighty-four percent of men, sequels. entire world, so would you like to Trio Los Panchos. and 58 percent of women, Hiddleston apologised for not see it?” a booming narrator said The song became a hit reported that men pay for most wearing his Loki costume, which at the end of the clip, which began throughout Latin America, which dating expenses. he donned earlier this summer at with an animation of cave paint- resulted in more recordings for Fifty-seven percent of Comic-Con International in San ings and ended with a futuristic the Latino market, and Lawrence women claimed they had Diego. cityscape. and Gorme performed as a duo offered to pay for a date — “I’m not gonna get this crowd Saturday’s presentation con- throughout Latin America. although 39 percent confessed to kneel,” he said. “We’re at cluded with several clips from “Our Spanish stuff outsells our they hoped the man would Disneyland.” Saving Mr. Banks, which tells the English recordings,” Lawrence reject their offer to chip in. Later, when the Captain story of Walt Disney’s collabora- said in 2004. “She’s like a diva to In any event, over time, the America crew came on stage, tion with Mary Poppins author P the Spanish world.” vast majority of participants, Evans comically invited the audi- L Travers, and a performance of The couple had an impressive both male and female, said ence to join him at the theme park Go Fly a Kite from B J Novak and career in English-language music, they shared dating expenses in across the street. Jason Schwartzman, who portray as well, encompassing recordings the first six months of seeing “Anyone wanna go?” the Captain Mary Poppins songwriters Richard and appearances on TV, in night- someone exclusively. America star joked. “Let’s go!” and Robert Sherman in the film. A file picture of singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. clubs and in concert halls. AFP Marvel Studios president Kevin AP AP Monday 12 August 2013 5 Shawwal 1434 Volume 18 Number 5789 Price: QR2

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CAIRO: Egypt’s smaller com- “The other story is that given panies have struggled since uncertainties about the economy the uprising that pushed aside and the strength of the Egyptian Hosni Mubarak in 2011. But in pound, people are moving to real a few corners of the economy, estate as a sort of safe haven businesses are doing just fine. investment,” Gargour said. Against a background of unrest, Lecico’s net profit jumped 28 access to credit and foreign cur- percent year-on-year to 16.3 mil- rency has dried up. Government lion Egyptian pounds in the first officials have stopped taking deci- quarter of 2013, while revenue sions and security has all but dis- climbed 15 percent to 331.9 mil- appeared from the streets. lion pounds. Factories and workshops have Hussien Mansour, chief execu- been hit by interruptions in sub- tive of Aller Aqua Egypt, a maker sidised diesel and gasoline and of extruded feed pellets for fish by regular power outages as the farms, says the business environ- government runs low on the dol- ment has become insufferable. lars it needs to import petroleum “Egypt’s currency problem An aircraft prepares to land at the International Ngurah Rai Airport on Indonesia’s popular tourist island of Bali yesterday. Indonesian growth slipped products from abroad. makes it harder to import,” below six percent last quarter as exports and investment fell in Southeast Asia’s top economy due to global weakness. Angry workers routinely shut Mansour said. “The diesel short- down plants and block ports. age is hurting production. Wages Gross domestic product grew at are rising and security on roads an annualised rate of just 2.3 per- has become a problem.” cent in the nine months to end- As the government borrows to Brazil’s energy March, well below the 6 percent a finance a steadily growing budget Bundesbank report on Greece year thought necessary to absorb deficit, private borrowers are giant bribed party new entrants to the labour force. being crowded out. But for many in food produc- Banks are giving fewer loans, raises pressure on Merkel officials: Report tion, building supply and other demanding more rigorous guar- businesses, even though the econ- antees and setting more condi- SAO PAULO: Brazil’s state- omy may have slowed, people keep tions. They now typically charge BERLIN: German opposition preferred partner, the business- able to fund itself on the capital run energy giant Petrobras fun- demanding services. 18 percent interest on loans, plus parties accused Chancellor friendly Free Democrats. markets by then to avoid the need neled kickbacks to officials from “Last year we had in sales vol- administrative costs and fees, Angela Merkel yesterday of Aware that German voters are for additional aid. political parties, the weekly ume terms and in value terms our Mansour said. lying before elections next sceptical about more bailouts, she In early June, the IMF admit- Epoca news magazine reported best-ever year in the Egyptian The lack of access to credit month about the risks of a new has repeatedly played down sug- ted that mistakes had been made yesterday. market, and this year will be even means businesses have to prepay bailout for Greece, after a mag- gestions Greece may require extra in the first Greek bailout, sealed Epoca cited evidence from lob- better,” said Taher Gargour, man- with cash, which ties up capi- azine reported the Bundesbank aid, or debt relief, despite conflict- in May 2010, drawing a rebuke byist Joao Augusto Rezende, a aging director of sanitary ware tal and is painful for companies expects it will need more ing views from experts, including from the European Commission. former head of BR Distribuidora, and tile-maker Lecico Egypt. whose products have an expiry European aid in early 2014. at the International Monetary In particular, the IMF said a Petrobras subsidiary. “We’re selling more at higher date. Der Spiegel quoted an inter- Fund (IMF). Opposition politicians international lenders should Augusto told the weekly he prices than we’ve done in any “The collection time that used nal document prepared by the seized on the report, with Social have considered restructuring handled all Petrobras’s foreign year, even the best years of the to take a week can now take two German central bank as saying Democrat budget expert Carsten Greece’s privately-held debt in contracts and collected a “fee” Mubarak economy when overall months. This is affecting very big that Europe “will certainly agree Schneider accusing Merkel of lying 2010. Instead, they waited two from the companies involved. GDP growth was at its peak.” companies as well as small com- a new aid programme for Greece” to ordinary Germans due to fears years to do so, a delay which The lobbyist for the Brazilian At a time when mainstream panies,” he said. by early next year at the latest. of an election backlash. allowed private investors to sell Democratic Movement Party contractors were suffering for Yet this hasn’t stopped Aller The Bundesbank, which “There will be a rude awaken- their Greek bonds and shift the (PMDB), which is part of lack of business, Lecico has been Aqua, an Egyptian-Danish part- declined comment, also described ing after the election,” Schneider burden to euro zone governments President Dilma Rousseff’s rul- supplying toilets and tiles to small nership, from taking advantage of the risks associated with the said in a statement. “By disput- and their taxpayers. ing coalition, said between 60 to and individual builders who were the economic downturn to build existing aid package for Greece ing the need for additional aid for A paper published by 70 percent of the graft money was taking advantage of a breakdown a new factory in Sixth of October as “extremely high”, according to Greece, the Chancellor is lying to the Peterson Institute for passed on to the PMDB. in government zoning rules. City west of Cairo. the report, and said the approval people before the election.” International Economics ear- Joao Vaccari Neto, the rul- Across the country, skylines “Lots of contractors are suf- last month of a ¤5.8bn aid install- The Finance Ministry declined lier this month is also critical, ing Workers Party’s finance have turned brick-red as people fering because the market is bad. ment to Athens had been “politi- comment on the report. describing European taxpayers secretary, meanwhile received add illegal floors and build con- Many have suspended opera- cally motivated”. As Europe’s largest economy, as “the main holder of Greek the equivalent of $8m in kick- crete and fired-brick buildings on tions,” Mansour said. The report could not come at Germany has the largest exposure sovereign risk”. “There is no pri- backs from Brazilian construc- agricultural and other restricted Egypt is a world leader in tila- a worse time for Merkel, who is to Greece, which has received two vate ‘buffer’ left at this point that tion conglomerate Odebrecht as land. The building boom has also pia farming, mostly on the Nile favoured to win a third term in European Union/IMF bailouts could protect the European tax- part of a Petrobras international been driven by Egypt’s bulge of Delta, where fish are typically the parliamentary election but totalling ¤240bn. The loan pack- payer from the consequences of contract during Rousseff’s 2010 young adults at marriage age reared in flooded rice fields. could fall short of the votes she age is due to expire at the end a deterioration of the crisis,” the presidential campaign, Epoca also seeking a place to live. REUTERS needs to retain power with her of 2014, meaning Greece must be paper says. REUTERS reported. AFP

Investors gain in high-end US luxury homes

LOS ANGELES: Jan Brzeski $3.295m. “People will come in here Hills and Bel Air. And he is not bought nearly every foreclos- stands in a sun-filled, beauti- and fall in love,” Ryan said, with alone. There has been a surge ure in sight, mostly to rent. The fully refurbished living room a house flipper’s standard issue in high-end and luxury flipping Blackstone Group, for example, high in the Hollywood Hills, optimism. “This is an emotional nationwide. Between 2011 and spent $5.5bn on 32,000 homes looking out at a swimming sale. If it takes a week to sell, I today, flips of homes valued at across America, according to the pool and, miles below, stunning will be surprised. There are a lot $1m or more have risen almost firm. American Homes 4 Rent, the views of Los Angeles. of young, wealthy people here, and 40 percent across the United California-based real estate invest- Brzeski is a private money a lot of money out there.” States, according to RealtyTrac, ment trust founded by self-storage lender running an investment Eighteen months ago, Brzeski the housing data company. billionaire Wayne Hughes, spent firm in Los Angeles that provides and his firm, Arixa Capital Between 2011 and 2012, high- $3.3bn, on over 19,000 houses. loans to house flippers, investors Advisors, were lending investor end flipping rose 456pc in Phoenix “These Wall Street guys who buy a home, refurbish it, and money to flippers on very different (150 properties from 27); 867pc in employed huge dollars,” Brzeski sell it on at a profit. Many flippers properties: $250,000 single fam- Orlando (29 homes from 3); and said. “These firms came to the go to money lenders because they ily homes in southern California’s to 73 properties from 10 in Las courthouse steps and bought can’t get banks to provide such up-and-coming low to middle class Vegas, according to RealtyTrac. everything in sight. So the low to short-term, quick financing. blue-collar neighbourhoods. Most To qualify as a flip for the figures, mid-market dried up.” Standing with Brzeski is Scott of the deals involved foreclosed a home has to be bought and sold Brzeski said he had originally Ryan, the realtor who bought homes that were totally refur- within six months. been wary of the high-end mar- this four-bedroom, five-bathroom bished, and then sold quickly. Brzeski says two main factors ket, because of the much bigger house in December 2012 for $1.5m No more. Brzeski now focuses combined to send him upmarket sums involved and thus greater — with money lent by Brzeski on developers working on in the projects he lends on. risk. But then in 2011 he financed — and has transformed it with high-end flips of mansions and Newly flush Wall Street inves- the purchase of a house in West A Tudor-style home is being renovated for resale in the Silver Lake another $600,000. This week the townhouses in exclusive neigh- tors moved into the mid-market Hollywood that brought him a lot neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California. property will go on the market at bourhoods, such as the Hollywood with so much money that they of profit. REUTERS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS French banks Irrigating a dream shine after a bad year Top banks show good results PARIS: French banks are back and sold its stake in US asset in the good graces of investors manager TCW. after turning in surprisingly The three banks also scaled strong quarterly results that back their corporate and invest- appear to show they have put ment bank operations, and the worst of the eurozone crisis reduced their holdings of risky behind them. stocks and bonds. Top French bank BNP Paribas At the same time they launched turned in a 4.7 percent drop in cost-cutting programmes: ¤900m earnings to ¤1.76bn for the April over three years at Societe to June period, a much smaller Generale, ¤650m over three years fall than had been expected by the at Credit Agricole and BNP is market. aiming for ¤2bn over four years. Meanwhile, Credit Agricole The results for the first half of reported that its second-quar- this year thus looked favourable ter profits soared 60 percent to compared with outcomes for the ¤1.39bn and Societe Generale same period last year, when the also largely beat expectations at banks were forced to book excep- ¤955m. tional charges. “They are good results in gen- But with business activity by eral for the three banks” even if these banks holding steady, or the asset sales and writedowns even growing, despite the reces- Sudanis work on a tractor in an experimental rice field that is cultivated as part of the Japanese-backed Gezira rice programme in Wad Medani, they undertook last year to react sion in France, investors were south of Khartoum. Newly planted rice shoots poking out of the Sudanese soil are as tiny as blades of grass, but they symbolise a big dream to to the eurozone crisis made pleased. turn around one of the world’s largest irrigated farming schemes. for difficult comparisons, said The banks also managed to Gabriella Serres, an analyst at keep under control their provi- Aurel BGC brokerage. sions for loans that risk not being The price of shares in BNP repaid, another closely watched Paribas has risen by 3.4 percent figure by investors in tough eco- since the reporting season began nomic times. two weeks ago, while Credit “The good news of the quarter Buyout uncertainty adds to Dell worries Agricole’s shares rose by 12.4 per- is the level of provisions, because cent, and Societe Generale’s shot instead of what one could expect SAN FRANCISCO: Months of around in the longer term, said twice to try to win over major Pucillo-Dunphy said. up by 17.4 percent. with the economy doing a bit public bickering, secretive back- Michael Gavaghen, vice president investors. A shareholder vote Icahn, who with 8.9 percent of Meanwhile the overall CAC 40 worse, we have seen quite a few room negotiations and eleventh- of sales and marketing at Florida- has been scheduled for September the company is now its second- index has risen by 2.7 percent. units post provisions lower than hour deals for control of Dell Inc based Dell reseller SL Powers. after being delayed three times. largest shareholder, has said little “Whether you look at the in the first quarter, which is very belie the fact that the combat- Sales are taking longer to close Morale within the company is about what future he envisions direction of the results or capital reassuring” said Meilland. ants are vying for a company as well, he said. stable for now, say some employ- for the company beyond that it base, the results held up pretty He said the improvement was facing steadily declining sales “We hold their hand and gently ees, though they add that could has promising prospects based on well, especially in comparison in part due an improvement in prospects. say to just table the purchasing change rapidly if Icahn has its large base of PC customers, with the rest of Europe,” said the economic outlook, but also to The tussle between Chief decision another few weeks,” said his way and were to reshuffle and that it should remain partly Cyril Meilland, a bank analyst at the way banks had managed their Executive Michael Dell and fire- Gavaghen. He stressed, however, management. public. Pucillo-Dunphy said cus- Kepler Cheuvreux brokerage. balance sheets and loan portfolios brand activist investor Carl Icahn that customers are “not fleeing John Pucillo-Dunphy, senior tomers are not overly concerned Between maintaining new capi- since the crisis began. is also starting to spook some by any means.” engineer and owner of Miracle about the drama. “For the most tal adequacy requirements, mar- But Serres said that although customers. The cacophony surrounding Networking Solutions, a Dell part, they kind of have that men- kets roiled by the eurozone crisis the banks had made progress on It’s the last thing a company, the $25bn buyout bid proposed reseller based in Middleboro, tality that (Dell is) too big to fail.” and economic slowdown, French reducing costs, they still have grappling with the ever-darken- by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Massachusetts, said he sup- The company declined to banks have been under pressure some way to go with reducing ing global outlook for personal Partners has picked up over the ports Dell’s going private and is comment on the issue. Michael to trim their sails. risky loans and improving rev- computers, needs. IDC estimates past month. Icahn threatened to more comfortable with Michael Dell sent employees an email on In 2012 Credit Agricole sold at enues. And the IMF in its latest Dell’s PC shipments slid 4.2 per- wage a campaign to replace the Dell’s leadership since it remains Thursday exhorting the troops to a loss its Greek unit Emporiki report on France, released this cent in the second quarter, com- CEO and his board, and sued the unclear what Icahn’s long game is. stay focused. He followed that up and parted with its brokerage past week, warned that “low bank pared to a year earlier. company in Delaware to try to “I have seen the emails on Friday with a similar assur- Cheuvreux. Societe Generale also profitability remains a risk factor” Some customers have begun force an earlier shareholder vote. from Michael Dell. I haven’t ance for customers. offloaded its Greek unit, Geniki, to the country’s economy. AFP asking if Dell is even going to be Michael Dell raised his offer seen anything from Icahn,” REUTERS

Fruits of reform French minister denies change Movil bid for KPN may lead in growth to European consolidation forecast PARIS: The bid by Mexican tel- as the states gradually reduce more services. “There is obvi- ecom operator America Movil their role. ously a need for consolidation PARIS: French Finance for Dutch KPN could signal The Dutch government sold its in Europe,” said the chief of one Minister Pierre Moscovici said the start of consolidation in the last shares in KPN in 2006. European operator. yesterday that there has been highly fragmented and competi- “In the United States, there Europe had “gone too far in “no change” in the country’s tive European market, analysts are three major operators for competition with infrastructure” 2013 growth forecast, after it and insiders say. the entire country. In Europe that has seen operators forced appeared the figure had been The ¤10.2bn hostile offer by there are many more and four to make huge investments, he revised downward. America Movil, owned by tycoon just in France,” said Guillaume added. “There was no change in the Carlos Slim, for the 70 percent Garabedian, an analyst at But if the big European opera- growth forecast as I have read stake, is the first by a foreign Meeschaert Gestion Privee asset tors are favourable to a consoli- it,” the minister told journalists rival for a former state-owned management company. dation, they must also take into in Paris. European operator. The current situation is not account the view of the European “I have not made any revision on This leaves other European tel- favourable for European opera- Commission. the forecast of growth in France,” ecoms, smaller and less profitable tors as the high fragmentation “The big question is to know he said. Moscovici was responding than foreign rivals, looking nerv- and competition in the market whether the European authori- to reports of an interview published ously over their shoulders that has crimped earnings, with the ties want three or four operators on Saturday with Nice Matin news- they could be the next target or share prices and market valua- per country. For the moment, it’s paper in which he estimated that that the sector could finally begin tions also sliding. four,” said Iatrides. growth of France’s gross domestic to consolidate. “Overall in Europe, the valu- And while the European product (GDP) this year would end The head of Orange, Stephane ations are fairly weak. There Commission has repeatedly said up somewhere between -0.1 per- Richard, said last month he is the feeling it’s impossible to it favours the creation of a single cent and 0.1 percent. “We know doesn’t believe the sector is on exploit data in Europe while telecoms market in the 28-nation the trends and this year growth the cusp of a consolidation as in the United States and Latin bloc, it seems to put the interests will be weak and between -0.1 and European governments “still have American the operators have suc- of consumers above all. 0.1 percent,” he told the paper. stakes in the big operators and ceeded in doing so and stabilised Neelie Kroes, EU Digital Previous forecasts had shown that would put up roadblocks to hos- their average revenue per user”, Agenda Commissioner and the French government expected tile offers.” said Oddo Securities analyst vice president of the European to present a modest growth of Others see an inevitable move- Alexandre Iatrides. Commission, recently said the around 0.1 percent. ment towards consolidation in Data gained on clients use of tariffs for mobile phone calls At the same time Moscovici Farmers wait for retailers to buy from them at a wholesale market in Europe which has more than a the Internet has helped US and still diverged too much between insisted France was out of reces- Havana. After 50 years and due to President Raul Castro’s economic hundred telecoms operators, and Latin American operators sell countries. AFP sion. Also yesterday he told RTL reforms, the wholesale trade has been reborn in Cuba. radio that the growth forecast of between -0.1 and 0.1 percent made reference to figures “totally within the public domain” and which “reflected the consensus of economic institutes”. The min- South Korean company to build Myanmar airport ister said he stood by the figure of 0.1 percent but added however YANGON: Myanmar has Corp (IIAC) was chosen as the of this year, Seoul’s Transport investors. The country’s main air Hanthawaddy International — that there may be a new figure picked South Korea’s state-run preferred bidder to construct Ministry said in a statement yes- gateway Yangon International to be located about 80 kilometres on September 25, when France airport operator to build a new the Hanthawaddy International terday confirming the successful Airport, which is also set for northeast of downtown Yangon — presents its next budget. international hub near its main Airport as a second hub for the bid. Myanmar, which emerged expansion, currently has a capac- will be capable of handling about In its annual report on the city, as the once-isolated nation country’s commercial centre from outright military rule in ity of only 2.7 million passengers 12 million passengers a year, the French economy, the IMF esti- sees booming tourist and busi- Yangon, Myanmar’s Department 2011, has seen a surge in tourist annually and authorities warned South Korean Transport Ministry mated that Paris had begun to ness visitor numbers. of Civil Aviation said. and business arrivals as reforms last year that the number of said. The consortium will build “stabilise deficits” but should slow A consortium led by the The final contract for the $1.1bn in the former pariah state lure arrivals was set to exceed that the airport by 2018. down the pace of austerity. AFP Incheon International Airport project will be signed at the end holiday makers and potential level. AFP MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Aeroflot plans budget airline Low-cost subsidiary by disaster-plagued Soviet carrier faces many hurdles in strict Russian regulatory regime MOSCOW: A Russian budget 20 percent. Russian authorities have allowed airline? The thought may fill EasyJet in March launched its Wizz Air and EasyJet to fly into some travellers with dread but first flights between Moscow and the country but hasn’t levelled the Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot London while Hungary-based regulatory playing field so Russian is now taking serious steps to Wizz Air will follow in September companies can use the same busi- launch the country’s first sus- with flights between Budapest ness model. tainable low-cost airline. and Moscow. The Russian authorities appear Aeroflot has made huge strides “Aeroflot’s move, in our view, is however to have understood the in recent years to lay to rest its strategically sound given strong necessity of acting after President image as a disaster-plagued Soviet demand for cheap domestic Vladimir Putin gave his agree- carrier, becoming a member of flights, including from passengers ment in principle to the creation the Sky Team alliance and win- who currently travel by train,” of a low cost airline last October. ning international awards for its Sberbank Investment Research But changes have been slow to service. said in a note to clients. come. And now it wants to take “It is better to jumpstart the According to consultancy Bain another step by creating a process rather than wait for com- & Company, all attempts to create Russian equivalent to EasyJet petitors to lead the way in this a low-cost airline in Russia have or Ryanair, whose success trans- promising market segment,” it failed until now and the price of formed travelling habits and the added, warning however of the tickets is three to five times more aviation industry in Europe. “high risks for Aeroflot”. than those offered by European Aeroflot announced the plan for Aeroflot is seeking to count budget airlines. a budget subsidiary after a board on a tried-and-trusted method One tentative attempt to create meeting in late July. But cru- to set up its budget airline -- a budget airline, Sky Express, lost cially, setting up the budget air- reduce costs to a minimum, sell its licence in 2011 due to finan- line is still dependent on changes non-refundable tickets and only cial difficulties. It was absorbed by to Russia’s aviation regulations through the Internet, as well as another operator, Kuban, which which are stricter than in Europe. charging for checked-in bag- itself went bankrupt at the end The airline, which still controls gage and food. The problem is of 2012. 40 percent of the Russian aviation that currently Russia’s strin- In 2009, the Alfa holding of market, is hoping from 2014 to gent aviation regulations outlaw billionaire Mikhail Fridman launch its first budget routes from many such aggressive cost-saving and American fund Indigo Moscow to Saint Petersburg and practices. Russian law also for- opened the Avianova airline to cities in the south of Russia. bids the hiring of foreign pilots, but it grounded its aircraft in According to the daily newspa- a major problem in a country October 2011 after becoming per Vedomosti, the new Aeroflot whose aviation boom had led to heavily indebted and plagued by subsidiary, whose name has yet a pilot shortage and consequent a shareholder conflict. to be unveiled, plans to eventually high salaries. Analysts at VTB Capital said serve international destinations People sit on board an Aeroflot Airbus A330 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. “As long as the law does not that given past experience, it including Kiev, Yerevan, Istanbul change, absolutely nothing is seemed that Aeroflot still had an and Barcelona with a fleet that tempted to fly if the prices are UTair is also planning to set up executive Andrei Martirossov told going to fly. We are not going to uphill struggle to get the airline will comprise 40 planes starting lower. its own low cost carrier, pointing Vedomosti. take the risk,” Aeroflot’s chief off the ground. with Boeing 737s. The budget Aeroflot would to a clear market demand. Russian companies are also executive Vitaly Saveliev told “The low-cost airline model Analysts point to the fact that likely be based at Domodedovo in “People consider more and keenly aware that low-cost state television. does not currently work in Russia, many Russians are still making the south of Moscow as opposed more that their time is precious European airlines are already “Aeroflot is not going to invest as the track record demonstrates, long journeys across the vast to the airline’s main hub at and they are going to want less establishing themselves on the $100m in a project which is not and we doubt this idea will be country by train — often lasting Sheremetyevo airport. and less to spend two or three Russian aviation market that is going to make us money.” implemented any time soon.” several days — and may be easily Russia’s third biggest airline days to get anywhere,” its chief enjoying annual growth rates of He called it a “paradox” that AFP

PayPal keen to join hands with Car sales in US, Europe show signs of revving up PARIS: Car industries in the Chrysler into bankruptcy in the unemployment if plants are shut a trend will not be available until market this year from the already developers for United States and Europe are wake of the 2008 financial crisis down. September. depressed level last year. showing clear signs of getting and which forced the American Earlier this month, BMW said An up-tick would do wonders Industry forecaster IHS back on track after severe set- auto industry to undergo massive weak European markets and for car makers such as France’s Automotive said it does not expect cash-free furture backs during the financial and restructuring. higher competition would con- PSA Peugeot Citroen, which is the French market to return to debt crises. Both GM and Ford last month tinue to provide challenges in the still highly dependent on Europe pre-crisis levels until 2017, and SAN FRANCISCO: Online The US auto market returned reported better-than-expected second half of the year. and which has managed to cut its forecasts sales in Spain and Italy financial transactions titan to pre-crisis levels in July and the results for the quarter while In July, registrations in quarterly debt in almost half. to remain at very low levels. PayPal says it is keen to collabo- slump in European sales seemed Chrysler inflated the earnings of Germany rose by 2.1 percent, The group, which has in effect Aside from the US market, rate with others as it strives for to ease. its parent company Fiat. while Spain experienced a 14.8 been rescued via government help hope is mainly pinned on emerg- a cash-free future. US car sales reached the best The Japanese — key players percent rise, although this was for its credit arm, said it was pull- ing markets and in particu- “We are all about working levels for seven years as American on the US car market — are also with the help of government sub- ing out of the worst part of its cri- lar China — the world’s biggest with developers to let them take consumers are being encouraged faring well. Boosted by a fall of sidies for the replacement of an sis and had no plans now to raise auto market now dominated by advantage of the heavy lifting by low interest rates and a boom the yen, the leading world auto- old car with a new one. new capital. But other European American, German and Japanese we’ve done when it comes to in the shale oil and gas industry. maker Toyota raised its annual Such temporary schemes in players which focused more on car makers. moving money around the world,” A closely watched indicator, forecast despite a fall in global other European countries to sup- the international market are In the first half of the year, Hill Ferguson, the company’s vice the sales adjusted annualised rate sales. Nissan, on the other hand, port the auto industry after the still doing better, such as French sales there surged by 12.3 percent president of global product, told (SAAR), gave a reading of 15.67 confirmed its targets even though financial crisis were followed by a firm Renault and in particular to 10.78 million. Russia, which in a AFP. million units, allowing the sector its number of registrations fell. slump in sales. German auto manufacturers like few years could overtake Germany PayPal — founded 15 years ago to return to the volumes it knew Europe has also experienced But overall, the latest numbers Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen — to become Europe’s biggest mar- with a vision of becoming a global before the 2007 global financial a sunnier spell, even though the may mean that the drop in EU all reporting solid second-quarter ket and last year accounted for currency — has also been working crisis that crippled the sector. debt-burdened continent has registrations is slowing down. In results. a record 2.93 million car sales, with stores in the United States It’s a stunning recovery from a been much slower to restructure the first quarter, the figure fell by Still, analysts and car makers has experienced a drop in sales and abroad to let people pay for deep and painful downturn which its auto sector as governments 6.6 percent compared with a year alike are preparing for a near for several months as economic almost anything with Internet- pushed General Motors and pull the breaks in fear of higher earlier — but numbers to confirm 5-percent drop on the European growth in the country slows. AFP Age digital wallets. The trend is proliferating around the globe, according to Ferguson. Hope for shoemaking trade “People use their identities to represent themselves when they Banks shut 5,500 outlets want to buy something, and mer- chants get easier ways to know who their customers are and focus on the personalised experi- in Europe last year ences,” he said. “We really see the future of LONDON: Banks cut 5,500 The trend is expected to continue money as being completely dig- branches across the European into 2013 as Piraeus shuts some ital — bringing the experience to Union last year, 2.5 percent of of the 312 branches it snapped up the front and the payment to the the total, leaving the region from stricken Cypriot lenders in background,” he added. “Right with 20,000 fewer outlets than March. now, it is just the opposite.” it had when the financial indus- Spain, where massive loan Ferguson spoke on the sidelines try was plunged into crisis in losses have put banks under fierce of San Francisco’s Outside Lands 2008. pressure to cut costs, lost 4.9 per- Music and Arts Festival, where Last year’s cuts come after cent, or 1,963, of its branches in PayPal had quite a setup to tune 7,200 branches were axed in 2011, 2012. people into the prospect of going according to data analysed by Ireland’s branch network con- cash-free. Reuters from European Central tracted by 3.3 percent and is For one, a mock police force Bank statistics. expected to shrink again in 2013, patrolled for “visible wallet bulge” Banks across Europe have been while Italy’s network was 3.1 per- as the crowd jammed to the Red closing branches in a bid to trim cent smaller by the end of the Hot Chili Peppers and other acts operating costs and improve their year. in Golden Gate Park. battered earnings. Consumer Branch numbers were on the “A music festival is a place take-up of online and telephone rise in some eastern European where you shouldn’t have to carry banking services has accelerated countries including Poland (up 4 cash and worry about your wal- the trend. percent), the Czech Republic (up let,” Ferguson said. The data show EU banks cut 2.3 percent) and Lithuania (up 1.8 “That is the future of com- 8 percent of branches in aggre- percent). merce, and we want to show that gate in the four years to the end In Britain, the ECB data and share that with the rest of of 2012, leaving 218,687 branches, showed the number of branches the world.” or one for every 2,300 people. remained little changed at 11,870. The popularity of PayPal and Last year’s sharpest cuts were The ECB gathers data on rival Square, brainchild of Twitter largely contained to the embattled lenders’ branch networks across co-founder Jack Dorsey, suggest periphery. the EU, and the data Reuters people are growing increasingly Crisis-stricken Greece saw reviewed included the 27 EU comfortable with the idea of one of the biggest contractions member states at the end of 2012. A student attends a shoemaking lesson in Florence. A stone’s throw from the Duomo in Florence, stu- smartphones and tablets being a in 2012, shedding 5.7 percent of Croatia has since become the 28th dents from around the world are learning the art of shoemaking from an Italian master and bringing new way transact business. its outlets, as mergers of local member. fresh hope to an artisan trade in crisis. AFP banks led to 219 branch closures. REUTERS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Starbucks’ Customer A world without debt BY EDWARD HADAS bets on future inflation rates. Sometimes In contrast, equity only works if the com- borrowers gain, sometimes lenders do, but panies that receive the funds can be trusted Appreciation Day may have a dream: A world without debt, either way a totally unnecessary risk is cre- to make fair judgments on how much to pay and with much more equity. It’s not ated. The most important problem with investors. Within families and other tight- just that summer holidays are a good debt is the so-called economic mismatch: knit groups, the tug of loyalty and the desire go off and backfire time for fantasising. The fifth anni- the interest payments on loans vary much to avoid shame promote the necessary hon- versary of Lehman Brothers’ bank- less than borrowers’ cashflows. Temporary esty. Much more is needed for shares in Iruptcy is a month away, and regulators have difficulties can lead basically sound com- enterprises run by strangers to be trust- BY BY ROB COX recently forced both Deutsche Bank and panies to skimp on economically valuable worthy: bureaucratic competence, effective Barclays to issue more shares. investments, or to default. governments and powerful auditors. or most companies, the prospect of thousands of custom- Some regulators’ beach thoughts may Banks are supposed to be able to absorb Today’s developed economies meet those ers thronging its stores to celebrate its corporate poli- drift to the magic numbers of bank capital the losses from defaults. They charge requirements, but they still rely extensively cies would be regarded as ambrosia from the retail gods. ratios. My approach is less technical and riskier borrowers higher interest rates, a on debt. The refusal to relegate this obsolete FBut it’s hard to imagine that Starbucks sees this week’s more philosophical. I wonder why the finan- burden which makes default more likely. tool to the dustbin of history helps explain spontaneous “Customer Appreciation Day” by gun-toting Second cial system relies so much on debt. Loans They also have a hierarchy for taking losses. the peculiar vulnerability of modern econo- Amendment absolutists as quite such a blessing. and bonds are poorly designed for their pri- Shareholders lose out first, followed by hold- mies to financial distress. The Seattle-based caffeine chain has been the target of gun mary economic purpose — investment. ers of subordinated debt. In most countries, With a more resilient financial system, safety advocates for some time over its refusal to adopt a corporate This observation may sound shocking. the government comes to the rescue when it would not take more than five years to policy that would ban patrons from carrying loaded guns into its Interest-bearing debt is considered totally losses get really large. recover fully from the failure of a single stores. That’s why gun rights groups exhorted their supporters normal. Financial theory unquestioningly The arrangements are complicated and big bank. to holster up and pop into their local Starbucks on Friday to treats risk-free debt as the standard instru- uncertain — thus the debate over how much Indeed, with an equity-based financial order frappuccinos. ment. Savers usually compare all invest- capital banks need. system, leverage — effectively building large Thus far, everyone seems to be acting within their obvious con- ments to a similar standard: safe bank The problem, though, is largely created debt structures on small equity foundations stitutional rights. Starbucks is following applicable state gun laws accounts which pay a steady interest rate. by the duality of loans: either good or bad. — would be almost impossible. — including “open carry” regulations — which permit customers But a little reflection on the real economy If borrowers’ payments were more flexible Instead of making unrealistic promises of to bring weapons into stores. Opponents of the idea of sipping shows that the typical debt arrangement is — lower and higher depending on economic safe nominal returns, banks would offer a lattes next to folks carrying Bushmaster AR-15’s also have the an unfortunate holdover from a more primi- conditions — banks could have financial plausible commitment of fair real returns. right to voice their dissent. tive age. Loans are unnecessarily distant structures which were both simpler and They would fail far less often than now, and Still, the economic downside for Starbucks may be much greater from economic reality. If we were start- sounder. far less spectacularly. than the company has let on. The current furore could explode ing now, we would never rely on such rigid What is needed? Financial instruments Common stock in its current form is not into a nationwide call for a boycott — something that many gun instruments to fund investments. which have no maturity, which are pro- a suitable replacement for debt. Something control organisations are now publicly embracing, particularly To start, loans carry a maturity mis- tected from inflation and which have vari- new is needed; call it flexi-debt. Unlike following an insensitive, though legal, call by one gun rights group match, because temporary debt funds per- able payments. There’s nothing fantastic shares, flexi-debt would not give funders for its members to parade their weapons at the Starbucks in manent investments. Depositors can take about that wish list. Common shares tick voting rights. Newtown, Connecticut — where 20 children and six educators money out of banks, banks can pull lines of all the boxes. And while dividends on shares are dis- were massacred in an elementary school last December by a gun- credit and loans are supposed to be repaid Then why don’t common shares, or some- cretionary, flexi-debt payments would be man wielding an assault weapon with high-capacity magazines. or refinanced at maturity. But the factories thing like them, dominate finance? Well, the indexed — to GDP, income or some other The truth is, Starbucks and its shareholders may have more to the credit finances cannot then be unbuilt. disadvantages of debt are clear, but it has objective variable. There is many winters’ lose than gain by resisting the adoption of a policy like the one it has The research cannot be undone and the one crucial advantage: a crude but clear worth of work to be done before flexi-debt for its own corporate headquarters that asks gun owners to check people cannot be untrained. duality. It is easy to tell whether counter- could replace standard debt. Education, them at the door. Corporate embargoes are a common business risk. The way that interest rates are usually parties are living up to the loan terms, so financial design, law and experiment are The classic modern example was a consumer movement against fixed in advance is another problem. Unless strangers can deal with each other relatively all required. But stable finance need not be Nike products in the late 1990s over the sweatshop conditions at its both sides agree on floating rates, loans are easily. a pipe dream. REUTERS suppliers’ factories. Fearing this would damage its reputation and brand — and thereby the bottom line — Nike helped create the Fair Labour Association to help protect workers’ rights. Similar fears guided Apple’s decision two years ago to allow the FLA to conduct special audits of its suppliers’ factories in China. Northwestern University Professor Brayden G King studied boycotts like the one that prompted Nike’s change of policy. In a 2011 paper on the subject he concluded that the “increasing importance of reputation and positive media coverage appears to have changed the mechanism of a boycott’s greatest influence, thus making it an attractive tactic.” Social media, he noted, may “further enable movement disruption.” So how does this apply to Starbucks? It’s not clear what a shift in its policy, towards asking customers to leave their weapons behind, would do to its business. We can, however, take a guess by analysing its customer base. Starbucks declined to detail how many of its stores are located in rural communities as compared to urban and suburban ones, where national polls show Americans to be more favourably dis- posed to increased regulation of firearms. However, according to the company’s website, Starbucks has a far larger share of its stores in those states that have recently passed more stringent firearm laws than it does in states that have taken the opposite tack. That stands to reason given popula- tion differences. But the numbers illustrate the potential harm a nationwide boycott might inflict. Last year, Starbucks had 504 company-operated and licensed stores in New Jersey — whose Republican Governor Chris Christie signed into law a raft of gun reforms this week — Maryland and Connecticut, both of which also strengthened firearms rules since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. By contrast, Starbucks listed 100 stores in Montana, Utah and Wyoming, where some legislators have pushed for rules that would encumber the ability of the federal government and police to enforce certain restrictions on gun owners. The point is, Starbucks appears to make more of its money from states where certain restrictions on guns — which do not infringe upon the Supreme Court’s reading of the Second Amendment of the Constitution — are favoured by a majority of its customers. In the end, whatever Chief Executive Howard Schultz decides to do about guns, it will almost certainly be a matter of business, not politics. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate For my generation, cheap home seems impossible

BY EVA WISEMAN reaches horizontally to the When possible, they move swarm of racism and anger. Baumbach’s new film Frances Ha, was charging the highest possible London suburbs and vertically into their mums’ houses; when “What a bunch of lazy, scroung- where Greta Gerwig’s character is rents on the lowest value proper- ritain is booming. House into the Internet, my friends don’t possible, their mums give them ing, teenage pregnant scum”; told by her flatmate: “You’re not ties, and remembering that you can prices in England and talk about house prices. They talk their savings. Last year, parents “Can someone knock me up poor.” Saying you’re poor, he says, get more money from four single Wales have reached their about the impossibility of paying gave their children £2bn to help please? I’m bored of paying a “is offensive to actual poor people”. LHA tenants than a family of four. Bhighest ever level, which rent. And we’re working, we’re with housing costs; Shelter has mortgage”; “How to get a coun- And yet. And yet she is living on One in 12 families in Britain is on is great news for the wealthy, the all delighted to be working. We’re launched a campaign imploring cil house? Become a Somali, have the very edge of comfort. She, like the waiting list for social housing. government and the forgetful. working in kitchens, offices, bars, the government to build more eight kids and then get a £2m so many people I know, is floating. But, increasingly, as a housing ben- Because in 2008, the last time this other people’s front rooms, and new, affordable homes, because house in London for a grand a It was a reminder that as summer efit cap is being introduced, private happened we learned quickly that the conversation when we get the current situation, it says, is month”. If their opinions didn’t 2013 fades to a close, gradations of landlords are turning down tenants booms go bust. We learned that home is never of houses but of unsustainable. The increase in the exactly mirror those of Kirstie poverty get ever murkier. on benefits, simply because they our houses should not be treated rising rents and frozen salaries. supply of mortgages and a chronic Allsopp, they certainly reflected When did social housing become won’t be able to afford the rent. as centrally heated investments, There is no point in saving, shortage of housing mean prices them in a dirty puddle. She claims the last stop, the final sigh? When And me? I have this great idea. that we should start thinking now. Not only is interest so low are rising at the fastest rate ever. that young people are “losing the did it stop being desirable, a place Where all my friends and I club about success in different ways. as to be meaningless, but, without We need more homes. We are concept that you make sacrifices of hope and gardens? Today, those together and buy an office block. We learned also, that what is a charity cheque from a deceased overheating. We are the summer to get on the ladder”. Sian Astley, claiming housing benefits are rou- And in it we build a modest uto- good news for one person can be relative or rich parent, my peers of 2008. a TV presenter, agreed. “Many tinely dismissed as scroungers, yet pia, with amazing broadband and crushingly, life-alteringly bad for will be 62 before they can afford Last Thursday, Channel 4’s twentysomethings seem to want more and more, there are clues a really good bin rota. I just want another. their own home. Largely due to provocatively named How to Get Hollywood and handbags, rather that this is a title that might bet- out of it, really, all this. All this How many of us are really foreign investors, rents have gone a Council House visited my east than pensions and property… ter fit their landlords. Landlords news that means the carpet you cheering at the rise of house up eight times faster than wages; London borough, a diverse and Hard work reaps rewards.” who are profiting from exploiting walk on is a mirage, moving. I prices? Scrolling through prop- for my generation, the threat of thick-aired place, where each People shock me, constantly. their tenants’ desperation. They don’t want to be at the mercy of erty website Zoopla is my low- homelessness feels far more real week 24,000 people hope to get Who still believes this? Who, just want a bed. hungry landlords or to scratch level self-harm. Savills says the than concerns about home-own- one of the 40 council proper- in these times of zero-hours Simon Childs, a reporter for Vice together that extra 3 percent average price of its London stock ing. Every week, more friends are ties available. To me, it painted contracts still believes that the magazine, went to the Property stamp duty on top of the £250,000 has reached £3.2m, so here are trickling down motorways from a portrait of a system that is as unemployed, the poor, the young, Investor show in London, where I’m borrowing for a tiny flat above the houses I will never own. Here their homes of over a decade, humiliating as it is impenetrable, are simply not working hard he sat through a talk by Mike a fried chicken shop. I want to are the kitchens I’ll never argue another weekend of shovelling but Twitter’s hashtag showed that enough? Who still believes that Frisby, a “housing benefit expert” sit there, in a home I can afford, in, the bathrooms I’ll never paint mattresses into vans in the awful much of Britain was seeing some- it is possible to buy a house on a with Cameron hair who teaches and eat pasta with my friends and regrettable shades of green. But tarmac sun, another forwarded thing quite different. single income, without an injec- landlords how to squeeze every wait for the bubble to burst. And mine is a sad and secretive habit. email: “Does anybody want my The hashtag #howtogetacoun- tion of family money? penny from the local housing then, we can start again. In my world, my world that wardrobe?” cilhouse revealed a humming There’s a moment in Noah allowance. Key to this, he said, THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

US PGA Championship: Saturday wrap Third-Round Scores

ROCHESTER, United States / New York: Collated scores after Saturday’s third round of the $8m PGA Furyk one clear at Oak Hill Championship at Oak Hill Country Club (par 70): McIlroy moves into contention; overnight leader Dufner in second place 201 Jim Furyk (USA) 65-68-68 202 Jason Dufner (USA) 68-63-71 ROCHESTER, New York: 203 Henrik Stenson (SWE) 68-66-69 American Jim Furyk used a 204 Jonas Blixt (SWE) 68-70-66 red-hot putter to leapfrog Jason Dufner for a one-shot lead after 205 Steve Stricker (USA) 68-67-70, Adam Saturday’s penultimate round Scott (AUS) 65-68-72 of the PGA Championship, as Rory McIlroy battled his way 207 Rory McIlroy (NIR) 69-71-67, Lee back into the tournament. Westwood (ENG) 66-73-68 Furyk, who began the round 208 Dustin Johnson (USA) 72-71-65, Kevin two shots back of Dufner in a Streelman (USA) 70-72-66, Roberto three-way tie for second, drained Castro (USA) 68-69-71 an 18-foot birdie putt on the par- four 17th en route to a two-under- 209 Marc Warren (SCO) 74-67-68, David par 68 that put him at nine-under Toms (USA) 71-69-69, Zach Johnson 201 for the year’s final major. (USA) 69-70-70, Bill Haas (USA) “Overall, I’m comfortable with 68-70-71, David Lynn (ENG) 69-69- where I’m at,” Furyk, 43, told 71, Charley Hoffman (USA) 69-67-73, reporters. Webb Simpson (USA) 72-64-73, Robert “There’s a crowded leaderboard Garrigus (USA) 67-68-74, Matt Kuchar at the top and instead of really (USA) 67-66-76 viewing it as who is leading and 210 Marc Leishman (AUS) 70-70-70, who is not, I’m really viewing it Francesco Molinari (ITA) 72-68-70, as I need to go out there tomor- Ryo Ishikawa (JPN) 69-71-70, Kiradech row and put together a good, solid Aphibarnrat (THA) 68-71-71, Rickie round of golf, fire a good number Fowler (USA) 70-68-72, Scott Piercy and hope it stacks up well.” Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy reacts as he hit out of bounds on the fourth hole during the third round of the 2013 PGA Championship golf tournament (USA) 67-71-72, Jason Day (AUS) Dufner (71) scrambled a par at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York on Saturday. RIGHT: Jim Furyk of the United States plays a bunker shot on the 11th hole. 67-71-72 on the 18th after sending his tee shot into the deep rough, but a 211 Luke Guthrie (USA) 71-71-69, Scott brilliant approach to about 10 feet from the fringe on 18 that left him headed for a sure bogey after an behind. The Australian then went the day 19 shots off the pace, in Jamieson (SCO) 69-72-70, Boo and a putt that curled around the in prime position to claim his first errant tee shot. on a string of 10 consecutive pars second-last place of the 75 players Weekley (USA) 72-69-70, Michael right lip of the cup before drop- PGA Tour win since 2010 and first “These golf courses put a lot of before driving the 318-yard par- who made the cut. Thompson (USA) 72-67-72, Marcus ping in left him alone in second. major since the 2003 US Open. stress on your game. You have got four 14th for a birdie to move back McIlroy, who was five over for Fraser (AUS) 67-69-75, Justin Rose Swede Henrik Stenson (69) was “It was nice,” Furyk said of his to be really prepared and when into the mix but his hard work the tournament at one point on (ENG) 68-66-77 a further shot back while compa- putt at 18. “I don’t think it would doubt creeps in to kind of put that was undone on the 16th. Friday and in danger of missing 212 Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP) 68-75-69, triot Jonas Blixt (66) moved into have ruined my day had it not in another spot in your mind and Kuchar also got to within one the cut, roared back into conten- K.J. Choi (KOR) 76-65-71, Graeme fourth. gone in, but it was definitely the be confident,” said Dufner. shot of Dufner with a birdie putt tion with a three-under 67. McDowell (NIR) 70-69-73, Sergio Masters champion Adam Scott icing on the cake.” “It’s kind of a tussle out there at the opening hole after his The defending champion Garcia (ESP) 69-68-75 began the day level with Furyk Dufner was cruising along with between yourself and your mind. approach from 186 yards landed capped his round in brilliant fash- and Matt Kuchar (76) but slipped a string of pars and enjoying a You’d like to get some birdies about three feet from the pin. But ion, taming Oak Hill’s infamous 213 Brandt Snedeker (USA) 70-73-70, into a tie for fifth place with Steve three-shot lead when his tee shot early so you can get a little but a double-bogey and three bogeys tough closing stretch with birdies Ken Duke (USA) 75-68-70, David Stricker (70) after a two-over 72 at the par-four fifth went into a more comfortable.” over his next eight holes hurt his at 17 and 18, including a chip-in Hearn (CAN) 66-76-71, Josh Teater that included a double-bogey six creek. Only 11 of 75 players in action chances. from behind the green at the last. (USA) 71-71-71, Brendon De Jonge at the 16th. After sending his third shot on Saturday managed to break The game’s two leading play- “The way the conditions are (ZIM) 71-71-71, Keegan Bradley (USA) Furyk managed to deal with right of the green and chipping par as sunny skies and blustery ers, Tiger Woods (73) and Phil with the swirling wind, it’s tricky 69-72-72, Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) the swirling winds best at Oak well past the hole, Dufner two- conditions combined to make Mickelson (78), both tumbled out out there,” said McIlroy, who 72-68-73, Ryan Moore (USA) 69-71- Hill as he offset two early bogeys putted for a double-bogey six that Oak Hill’s greens quicker and low of contention. was tied for seventh with Lee 73, Chris Kirk (USA) 71-69-73, Paul with a pair of birdies on the front cut his lead to one stroke. scoring at a premium. Woods started the day 10 Westwood (68). Casey (ENG) 67-72-74 nine and then grabbed the lead The PGA Championship run- Scott got off to a quick start by strokes off the pace and fin- “I felt good enough about my with a birdie on the 10th. ner up in 2011, Dufner opened draining a 20-foot birdie putt at ished 13 behind and tied for 46th. game that I could go out there and 214 Ryan Palmer (USA) 73-70-71, Brooks He traded a birdie for a bogey his back nine with a birdie before the first to move one back of play- Mickelson, who won his fifth post a good one today and at least Koepka (USA) 71-72-71, Tiger Woods over his next five holes before that making pars the rest of the way, ing partner Dufner but bogeyed major title at last month’s British give myself a chance going into (USA) 71-70-73, Martin Kaymer (GER) 68-68-78 long putt on 17 and a 15-foot par most notably at 18 when he looked the next two holes to slip further Open, fared even worse, ending tomorrow.” REUTERS

Baseball Results Detroit 9 NY Yankees 3 Toronto 5 Oakland 4 Thai teenager Intanon claims Chicago White Sox 5 Minnesota 4 LA Dodgers 5 Tampa Bay 0 San Francisco 3 Baltimore 2 LA Angels 7 Cleveland 2 shock title; ‘Super Dan’ wins again Washington 8 Philadelphia 5 Boston 5 Kansas City 3 GUANGZHOU, China: Thai teenager Ratchanok Miami 1 Atlanta 0 Intanon won her first badmin- San Diego 3 Cincinnati 1 ton world championship title Texas 5 Houston 4 when she upset Olympic cham- Chicago Cubs 6 St Louis 5 pion Li Xuerui in the women’s singles yesterday to end China’s Colorado 6 Pittsburgh 4 decade of domination in the NY Mets 4 Arizona 1 event. Milwaukee 10 Seattle 0 In the men’s singles, Lin Dan overcame a year off to retain his title with another closely Cycling: Wiggins to continue fought battle with old adversary Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, who comeback at Eneco Tour retired and was taken off court on a stretcher at match point down BRUSSELS, Brussels Capital Meanwhile, veteran German in the third set. Region: Last year’s Tour rider Jens Voigt, who will turn 42 Lin’s win was his fifth world de France winnner Bradley next month, has said he intends championship and China’s sixth Wiggins will be the star name to carry on in the sport until the consecutive one in the men’s sin- on the start line of the Eneco end of the 2014 season. gles but their proud run in the Tour, which begins in Koksijde “No No- no retirement yet!!” women’s event ended. on the North Sea coast of Voigt wrote on Twitter on Friday. Ratchanok, 18, beat Li 22-20 Belgium today. “I will happily ride that new bike 18-21 21-14 in Guangzhou, China, Fresh from his return from a whole new saison next year - to become the first Thai to win injury and illness at the Tour of Down Under, Europe, Asia and the world championship and Poland, which ended a week ago, again Amerika....” first non-Chinese woman since Wiggins will continue his prepa- “It will take me all of next Denmark’s Camilla Martin lifted ration for September’s World year to slowly say good bye and the title at home in 1999. Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon poses for a picture with her trophy after winning her women’s singles final against Championships, in which he is get my mind around the fact that World number one Li led 19-12 China’s Li Xuerui at World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province aiming to claim time trial gold. i will retire end of next year... in the opening set but Ratchanok yesterday. Ratchanok Inthanon won 22-20, 18-21, 21-14. RIGHT: China’s Lin Dan raises his trophy on the He is joined by a strong field But not yet!” added Voigt, of came storming back to take it podium after defeating Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei during their men’s singles final match. Lin overcame a year including Tour of Poland winner the RadioShack team, who will 22-20, the first set the Chinese off to retain his title with another closely fought battle with old adversary Lee, who retired and was taken off Pieter Weening, the recent win- carry the name Trek for the next had dropped all week. court on a stretcher at match point down in the third set. ner of the Tour fo Denmark Wilco season. Ratchanok nudged ahead 15-14 Kelderman as well as last year’s Voigt, who was born on in the tight second before Li winner of this event Lars Boom September 17, 1971, turned profes- recovered to force a decider which Ye-na and Eom Hye-won of South doubles title with a comprehen- Lin wrapped it up 21-13 to and reigning world road race sional in 1997 and has since won the Thai teenager was always in Korea. The Chinese top seeds sive 21-13 23-21 win over Danish make it one set all but Malaysian champion Philippe Gilbert. two stages on the Tour de France, control of. won 21-14, 18-21, 21-8 to retain pair Mathias Boe and Carsten media were unhappy, reporting The event, formerly known as in 2001 and 2006. Her victory comes weeks after the title they won in London two Mogensen in 33 minutes. that the air conditioning had the Tour of Benelux, takes the Elsewhere, American outfit Thailand suffered its darkest day years ago in what home fans had That brought Lin and Lee to been switched off in the venue by peloton through Belgium and the BMC yesterday announced the in the sport when former doubles predicted would be the first of the court for the showpiece men’s the Chinese organisers to Lee’s Netherlands over seven stages signing of Slovakian rider Peter partners Maneepong Jongjit and four titles for the world’s most singles and the old rivals served disadvantage. and 1,080km, including a 13.2km Velits from the Omega Pharma Bodin Issara brawled on court in populous nation. up another classic encounter. Lee, though, took a 10-6 lead in individual time trial on next team for next season. the final of the Canadian Open, However, Ratchanok then beat It was nip and tuck in the the third set and looked on course Friday’s fifth stage. Velits, 28, is the Slovakian leading to lengthy bans. Li before Chinese top seeds Chen first set between the duo, who to claim a first world champion- Although unimpressive on his time-trial champion and finished In the first final of five at the Xu and Jin Ma were beaten 21-13 contested the Olympic final last ship title after many years of near comeback in Poland, finishing second on the Tour of Spain in Tianhe Sports Center yesterday, 16-21 22-20 by Tontowi Ahmad year, with Lee breaking out from misses, only for Lin to storm back. 48th overall, Wiggins blitz to vic- 2010. controversial duo Wang Xiaoli and Liliyana Natsir of Indonesia a 13-13 tie to take it 21-16. The Chinese, known as ‘Super tory in the final stage time trial, He leaves Omega Pharma as and Yu Yang, who were kicked in the mixed doubles. Lin wasted little time levelling Dan’, went ahead 20-17 before Lee beating race-against-the-clock Alessandro Petacchi, Rigoberto out of the London Olympics in the Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra the contest as he raced ahead 12-1 called it quits to leave Lin cele- specialist Fabian Cancellara by Uran and Mark Renshaw all join play-to-lose scandal, claimed the Setiawan followed their com- in the second set thanks to a run brating a fifth world title. almost a minute over 37km. the Belgian team. AFP women’s doubles title over Jang patriots by claiming the men’s of seven consecutive points. REUTERS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Serena clinches Olympics: Nadal beats Djokovic, eighth title of the Bubka takes year in Toronto Mandela line TORONTO, CANADA/ PROVINCE OF ONTARIO: in election Serena Williams crushed to play Raonic in final Romania’s Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-0 in the final of the race women’s Rogers Cup yester- day to capture her 54th WTA MOSCOW: Pole vaulting leg- The Spaniard reaches 10th final of the 2013 season singles title. end Sergey Bubka’s (pictured Williams completely over- below) main policy in his mani- whelmed her unseeded oppo- festo to be the next president MONTREAL: Rafael Nadal nent to cruise to a one-sided of the International Olympic held off Novak Djokovic in victory in just over an hour and Committee (IOC) is to get three tense sets yesterday and claim the Rogers Cup for the young people around the world will now try and stop Canadian third time. enthused into Milos Raonic from making more Rafael Nadal of It was the world number taking up tennis history at the Montreal one’s eighth title this year and sport. Spain celebrates Masters. put her outright fifth on the all- The his win over Fourth seed Nadal, champion time list of tournament winners 49-year-old in the event in 2005 and 2008, Novak Djokovic after she had been tied with Ukrainian defeated top seed and two-time of Serbia during Monica Seles. -- one of six defending champion Djokovic 6-4, the semi-finals of Only Martina Navratilova, men vying 3-6, 7-6 (7/2) to reach his 10th the Rogers Cup at Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and to replace final of the season. Uniprix Stadium in Lindsay Davenport have won incumbent Raonic, meanwhile, became Montreal, Quebec, more WTA singles titles than Jacques the first Canadian into the tour- Canada, yesterday. Williams. Rogge when nament’s final since 1958, when Nadal won 6-4, 3-6, “There’s a lot of pressure he steps Robert Bedard won it. 7-6 (7/2) to reach and nothing is guaranteed but down on Raonic booked his place with his 10th final of the I’m happy to do well,” Williams September 10 -- quoted a line by a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7/4) victory over season. said during the on court trophy former South African president compatriot Vasek Pospisil, and presentation ceremony. Nelson Mandela to support his with the win ensured he’ll be the Cirstea had defied the odds case. first Canadian ever to reach the just to make her third WTA “Nelson Mandela, a great top 10 in the ATP world rankings. final. The 23-year-old beat two man, said ‘Sport has the power Raonic will have his work cut former world number ones and to change lives’,” said Bubka, on out against Nadal. The Spaniard two grand slam champions to the opening day of the world ath- has won all three of their prior include a dozen Grand Slams. well. He was staying closer to the in the tiebreaker -- a double- reach the decider but found letics championships in Moscow encounters, including two on Nadal has now won two of three line and picking up the returns fault and a forehand long -- gave Williams too much to overcome. of which he is the head of the hardcourts. meetings with world number one really, really well.” Raonic the chance to seal it. “I know she is capable of win- organising committee. Bubka, a Nadal’s two-hour, 20-minute Djokovic this year, including a Raonic was the winner in the “Getting to this ranking was ning big matches,” Williams six-time outdoor world champion struggle with Djokovic was a tight five-set thriller in the semi-finals first ATP semi-final between a big objective for me, but I still said. “She’s had some big upsets and holder still of both the out- affair, with small margins deter- of the French Open, just weeks Canadians since Martin have a tough final to play, said in this tournament and I didn’t door and indoor world records, is mining victory. after Djokovic had taken the Wostenholme beat Andrew Raonic, who fired 14 aces. want to be another casualty.” passionate about luring the young Nadal dominated the third- Spaniard’s Monte Carlo crown in Sznajder in Rio de Janeiro 23 Pospisil was competing in only Williams got off to a fast away from what he sees as the set tiebreaker, taking a 6-0 lead. the final. years ago. his second semi-final of any kind start, breaking the Romanian’s dangers lurking both inside and Djokovic saved two match points Djokovic’s defeat ended a “The top 10 stands out because at the ATP Tour level after losing first two service games to jump outside the family home. before falling. 13-match win streak in Canada it’s a goal that I set out this year,” last month in Bogota. out to a 3-0 lead. “This has been a passion of “I tried my best in the tie- for the Serbian, who also won the he said. “To be able to do it here “It was definitely a tough loss, I Cirstea managed to break mine for a long time. I formed the breaker,” said Nadal, winner of title in 2007 before his back-to- in Montreal is pretty amazing.” wanted to win that one, for sure. I back in the next game then held Sergey Bubka Sports Club in 1990 seven titles this season. “I had to back triumphs in 2011 and 2012. Even so, he’d like nothing bet- was really close,” Pospisil said. “I serve to pull back to 3-2, but in Ukraine,” he said. hit some fantastic shots to com- “It was a very close match, ter than to cap his campaign with had chances, then he played well Williams immediately raised “Since then members from the pete well against a big player like there were very few points that a victory, especially over a player in some moments. I made a few her level again and reeled off club have won an Olympic medal Novak. I’m very, very satisfied.” decided the winner,” Djokovic of Nadal’s caliber. mistakes I haven’t been making the next nine games in a row and a world championship medal. Nadal let the second set slip said. “I had my chances. He had “This week’s not over, by any this week.” to seal victory. “The idea was that I wanted as he lost the eighth game from his chances, at the end he played means,” Raonic said. “There’s a Raonic reached the final in his Williams broke Cirstea to to help youngsters and not have a position of strength, letting go better. lot of excitement for that chance 12th elite Masters 1000 event and lead 5-2 when the Romanian hit them left on the streets where of a 40-0 lead to drop serve and “I made a lot of double faults, I have for myself.” now stands 27-13 this season. a backhand long then clinched they could fall prey to bad people trail 3-5. which I couldn’t explain, in the Raonic needed two and a quar- His breakthrough comes three the set with a wide, slicing and become addicted to drugs, “You cannot let up against the first set especially. After that I ter hours to claim the victory on months after he started work serve. alcohol or cigarettes.” top players for even a minute,” served well in the important his first match point. Two late with Croatian Ivan Ljubicic. The American broke Cirstea’s Bubka, who broke the outdoor said Nadal, whose 57 career titles moments. But he returned quite errors from wild card Pospisil REUTERS opening service game in the world record on 35 occasions and second set with a gorgeous drop whose mark of 6.14 metres has shot while the Romanian strug- stood since 1994, has now moved Montreal Masters gled just to get a read on her on from that to trying to motivate opponent’s serve. youngsters into sport. MONTREAL: Results from “Thanks to my team for not “We must not lose a young gen- the Montreal Masters and the running away,” she said. “I know eration, we must educate them Serena Williams of WTA Toronto events: I’m not easy”. through sports and exercise the United States Semi-finals: Milos Raonic (CAN In the semi-finals, Serena instead of playing on computers,” Williams defeated Agnieszka he said. “These days diabetes and holds the Rogers x11) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) Cup after her win Radwanska 7-6 (7/3), 6-4. obesity touch much younger peo- 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4); Rafael Nadal Romanian Cirstea, who top- ple, as do heart attacks. That is over Sorana Cirstea (ESP x4) bt Novak Djokovic of Romania in the pled fourth-seeded and former why exercise is the key. When (SRB x1) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2). final at Rexall Centre French Open champion Li Na you organise big sporting events of China 6-1, 7-6 (7/5). it encourages young people to take at York University She also beat former up sport. in Toronto, Ontario, WTA Toronto event world number ones Caroline “Through a Youth Council and yesterday Semi-finals: Serena Williams Wozniacki and Jelena Jankovic, using social media we must con- (USA x1) bt Agnieszka as well as defending champion nect with young people and instil Radwanska (POL x3) 7-6 (7/3), Petra Kvitova, en route to the Olympic values. 6-4; Sorana Cirstea (ROM) bt final. “The average age of viewers of Li Na (CHN x4) 6-1, 7-6 (7/5). AGENCIES sports these days is 50. That rep- resents a gap between sports and the young generation. If we don’t engage with the young then we will lose them.” Bubka, who for all his domi- nance of his event won just the one Olympic gold in 1988, said if Hockey: Qatar mulls Arabian Dream League he becomes president of the IOC -- he would be the youngest in the DOHA: Qatar Hockey good spectator support and top history of the organisation -- he Federation (QHF) is planning sports infrastructure so there is would be the point man. to organise a new event called immense potential for growth of Pakistan captain “The IOC would take the lead Arabian Dream League featur- hockey in Qatar.” Muhammad Imran and involve governments and ing top teams from the world, a QHF recently announced plans (centre) centre is Non-Governmental Organisations senior official said yesterday. to have a new hockey stadium seen with Qatar (NGO) on how to build a road QHF Secretary General that would cater to fans and play- Hockey Federation map for the future,” he said. Mohamed Abdul Nazer said: ers of the sport. (QHF) President “The best vision can be cre- “We have plans to organise the “In fact the construction plans Hassan Al Qadi ated when you have consultation Arabian Dream League, simi- and drawings for the proposed (right) after winning between different bodies. From lar to premier leagues are that 5,000-seater international hockey the Asian Champions that you can pick out the best conducted by countries who are stadium are ready,” Nazer said. Trophy title in this ideas.” members of the International Talking about future plans for file photo take in Bubka, who also believes less Hockey Federation (IHF).” hockey in Qatar, QHF President Al Rayyan Stadium costly Olympic Games, citing Hockey will come out of the Hassan Al Qadi said: “We want London last year, are necessary in December 2012. shadows and shine in the flood- Qatar to be a hub for field hockey and would allow the Olympic Pakistan beat arch- lights if QHF succeeds in organis- in the Arab sports world. There is Movement to move into new ter- ing such a league besides hosting a lot of potential in Qatar. We are rivals India to win ritories, says he knew from per- major national and regional tour- a sport-loving country.” the title. At left is sonal experience how sport could naments in Qatar, Nazer said. Al Qadi added: “We have suc- Mohammed Abdul change a young person’s life. “If our dream turns into real- cessfully held so many major Nazer, Secretary “I came from a very simple and ity, such tournaments will spur international tournaments. We General of QHF. modest family,” he said. the development of hockey in have the best sports infrastruc- “Sport opened doors for me. Qatar as well as the region and ture. We are a small country, but I started travelling abroad from I’m optimistic that many Qatari with a big heart for sports.” 1980. I discovered that sport really youth will excel in this sport in QHF has been organising QHF staged a series between losing the final to Azerbaijan, ranking - Egypt, ranked number broke down barriers. This too the future,” Nazer said. tournaments in Qatar featuring Pakistan and Holland in 2009. ranked 39th by IHF). Holland is 24 and Oman, ranked 36th. has been borne out by the Youth Appreciating the role played by international teams at its hockey The QHF had a busy schedule currently ranked number three in QHF’s major programme later Olympic Games (Rogge’s brain- Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) stadium in Al Rayyan over the in 2012 first with Qatar national IHF’s men’s national team rank- this winter, from November 18 child and first held in Singapore in promoting the sport, Nazer last few years. team’s two matches against ings while eight-time Olympics to 22, includes the Doha Hockey in 2010). said: “QOC Secretary General Starting with the Friendship Sudan, followed by the Gulf Cup champions India ranks 11th, three Friendship Festival featuring “The young from all over the Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Hockey Series in 2008, fea- that was won by Oman and the places below Pakistan. top teams from Pakistan, India, world come and they learn that Al Thani was surprised at the turing Air India and Pakistan World Hockey League involving Germany is the current number Malaysia and Qatar. the colour of your skin is not an huge turnout of spectators at International Airlines (PIA), and hosts Oman, Turkey, Sri Lanka, one team in the world. “Eight matches in four days will issue, that different language is one of the international matches the two top teams from hockey Azerbaijan and hosts Qatar (who Only two teams from the be played at the Rayyan Hockey also not an issue and that religion which he witnessed. We have giants India and Pakistan, the finished a creditable second, Middle East figure in this elite Stadium,” Nazer said. QNA is not either.” REUTERS MONDAY 12 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Iran rout Bell ton gives England edge Philippines The batsman hits his third century of the series; hosts lead by 202 runs for FIBA gold; Qatar CHESTER-LE-STREET, 2-0 up ahead of the drawn third loose drive to wicketkeeper Brad United Kingdom: Ian Bell’s Test at Old Trafford that saw his Haddin. third hundred of this Ashes side retain the Ashes, Bell’s lat- Jonathan Trott then gloved finish sixth series rescued England from est century gave the hosts hope Harris and was well caught down MANILA: Iran routed the another top-order collapse and of securing a win in this match the legside by a leaping Haddin Philippines 85-71 to bag gold left them well-placed at stumps that would see them take the five- for 23. at the 27th FIBA Asian men’s on the third day of the fourth match series outright. Bell though late cut Peter basketball championship yes- Test at Chester-le-Street, “We needed someone to go out Siddle for four and played an even terday, powered by NBA cen- yesterday. there and get some runs, and finer variant of the same shot, tre Hamed Haddadi. England were 234 for five in that’s what I managed to do,” also for a boundary, against all- The seven-foot two-inch their second innings, a lead of Bell, only the third England bats- rounder Shane Watson. Haddadi was simply too 202 runs, with Bell 105 not out man to score three hundreds in a Pietersen ended the second much inside the paint for the and nightwatchman Tim Bresnan home Ashes series after Maurice session by cutting Siddle for four Philippine side, scoring 29 unbeaten on four. Leyland (1934) and David Gower to leave England 123 for three at points to lead all players. They’d been in dire straits at 49 (1985), told Sky Sports. tea, with both their fourth-wicket Haddadi, the first Iran-born for three when Bell, who earlier in “Now we want to go out there batsmen 37 not out. player in the US National his Test career was criticised for tomorrow (today) and do the Australia found themselves a Basketball Association, also not making runs when they were same. We’ve got to try and get as bowler down when Watson went grabbed 16 rebounds as he tow- most needed, came to the crease many as we can and then we’ve off midway through his seventh ered over his opponents. following a treble strike by fast got 10 wickets to get. over with a right hip/groin injury. The speedy Filipinos made a bowler Ryan Harris. “I’m sure the pitch will deterio- Lyon though had Pietersen valiant effort, and were playing But a fourth-wicket partner- rate on the fourth and fifth days,” caught off a leading edge by Chris without injured centre Marcus ship of 106 between Bell and the 31-year-old Warwickshire Rogers at short extra-cover. Douthit. Kevin Pietersen (44) checked right-hander added. Bairstow kept Australia at bay It was Iran’s third gold at Australia’s advance. Harris took three England top- for more than an hour. the Asian championship. The Bell then added 66 with order wickets for 18 runs in 24 After a brief interruption for Philippines are five-times Jonny Bairstow (28) before the balls. bad light, Bell cover-drove Harris champions, though their last Yorkshireman was out shortly He first bowled Joe Root (two) before the paceman, from around victory came back in 1985. before stumps, caught behind off with a superb seaming delivery the wicket, had him fending at a Iran, the Philippines and spinner Nathan Lyon. that clipped the top of off stump. steeply rising bouncer. England’s Ian Bell acknowledges the applause of the crowd as he third-placed South Korea, Having twice made 109 in And, with conditions still over- An unruffled Bell, admirably leaves the field at the close of play unbeaten on 105 runs on the third who lost to the Philippines in England’s victories at Trent cast, he had England captain straight in defence, went into the day of the fourth Ashes cricket Test match at the Riverside stadium in the semis, will go to the FIBA Bridge and Lord’s that left them Alastair Cook, on 22, nicking a 90s by off-driving Lyon down the Chester-le-Street, north-east England, yesterday. BELOW: England’s world championships in Spain ground for four. Stuart Broad (centre) leaves the field holding the ball after taking five next year. Scoreboard Then a late cut two off wickets. The Philippines trailed by Tasmania quick Jackson Bird just as much as nine points before England (I Innings): ...... 238 71-5 (2nb, 1w); Bresnan 19-3-63-1; Swann evaded Australia captain Michael clawing back to 34-35 at half Australia (I Innings): 18-5-48-2; Trott 3-0-10-0. Clarke at a wide slip before a sin- time led by point guard Jayson C Rogers c Prior b Swann ...... 110 England (II Innings): gle next ball saw Bell to his 20th William. D Warner b Broad ...... 3 A Cook c Haddin b Harris ...... 22 hundred in 92 Tests, having faced The home team played in U Khawaja c Prior b Broad ...... 0 J Root b Harris ...... 2 184 balls with 10 boundaries in front of a crowd of about 20,000, M Clarke c Cook b Broad ...... 6 J Trott c Haddin b Harris ...... 23 just over four hours at the crease. with President Benigno Aquino S Smith c Prior b Bresnan ...... 17 K Pietersen c Rogers b Lyon ...... 44 Earlier, England dismissed and other top government offi- S Watson c Prior b Broad ...... 68 I Bell (batting) ...... 105 Australia for 270, the tourists cials at courtside to cheer them B Haddin lbw Swann ...... 13 J Bairstow c Haddin b Lyon ...... 28 held to a slender first innings on. P Siddle c Cook b Anderson ...... 5 T Bresnan (batting) ...... 4 lead of 32. Meanwhile, Qatar finished R Harris lbw Broad ...... 28 Extras (B4, LB2) ...... 6 Australia resumed Sunday sixth after losing 96-85 to N Lyon lbw b Anderson ...... 4 Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 234 on 222 for five, with Rogers 101 China. The victory was good J Bird (not out) ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-42, 3-49, 4-155, not out following the 35-year-old enough for China to seal fifth Extras (B-2, LB-11, W-1, NB-2) ...... 16 5-221. left-handed opener’s maiden Test place at the 2013 FIBA Asia Total (all out) ...... 270 To bat: M Prior, S Broad, G Swann, J Anderson hundred on Saturday, made in the Championship. Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-12, 3-49, 4-76, Bowling: Harris 20-1-74-3; Bird 17.3-5-45-0; face of excellent seam bowling Prior to this year’s games, 5-205, 6-224, 7-233, 8-245, 9-258. Watson 6.3-1-22-0; Siddle 12-3-40-0; Lyon from Stuart Broad, who finished China had won 15 of the last Bowling: Anderson 25-8-65-2; Broad 24.3-7- 17-2-46-2; Smith 1-0-1-0. the innings with five wickets for 19 FIBA Asia Championships. 71 runs. AFP They are still the most success- ful team in competition history with 15 golds, a silver and two bronze medals, for a total of 18 top-three finishes. Moyes loses his Scottish Chelsea rally to It was a tight game at the start of the first, with Wang cool over Rooney Premiership beat Roma 2-1 Zhizhi building a three-point Results lead off a Yi Jianlian assist with exit repor ts in friendly 6:20 remaining, 9-6. Yesterday Free throws from Khalid Hearts 1 Hibernian 0 Suliman Abdi, followed by a con- LONDON, England: Kilmarnock 0 St Johnstone 0 WASHINGTON, District of version from Mohd Mohamed Manchester United manager Columbia: Second-half goals gave Qatar a taste of the lead David Moyes lost his patience Motherwell 1 Aberdeen 3 from Frank Lampard and at 10-9, before Yi and Wang, after being questioned about Played Saturday Romelu Lukaku lifted Chelsea fueled a 9-2 Chinese run for an unsettled striker Wayne Dundee United 0 Inverness to a 2-1 win over Roma yester- 18-12 edge. Rooney following his side’s vic- Caledonian Thistle 1 day in a friendly football match Qatar ended the first period tory over Wigan Athletic in the Ross County 1 Partick Thistle at RFK Stadium in Washington. strong though, as Daoud Mosa Community Shield yesterday. 4 Lukaku scored in the 88th Daoud canned two charities Rooney is reportedly unhappy minute to give Chelsea the vic- with two minutes to go. at Old Trafford and has been the Bundesliga tory in their final friendly before Mohammed Saleem Abdullah subject of two unsuccessful bids opening English Premier League and Mansour Elhadary then Yesterday from Chelsea during the close play next weekend. went on a 7-0 tear of their own, season. Mainz 05 3 VfB Stuttgart 2 Veteran midfielder Lampard giving Qatar a one-point lead He was left out of the squad due Schalke 04 3 Hamburg 3 had equalized for the Blues in the after one, 21-20. to a shoulder injury at Wembley, Played Saturday 60th, after Roma went ahead in Wang Zhizhi anchored a 15-4 where Robin van Persie’s brace the 20th through Eric Lamela. run to start the second, to put Hoffenheim 2 Nuremberg 2 gave United a 2-0 win, but Moyes With the victory Chelsea China up 35-25 at the 4:50 mark said media reports about his Bayer Leverkusen 3 Freiburg 1 capped a four-match US pre- after a Wang Shipeng trey. training programme have been Hanover 96 2 VfL Wolfsburg 0 season tour. The Qataris responded with inaccurate. Augsburg 0 Borussia They beat both AC Milan and a run of their own, going on “Wayne has trained, and some Dortmund 4 Inter Milan by 2-0, and fell 3-1 to a 15-5 blast punctuated by an of you might not like hearing this, Manchester United’s Dutch striker Robin Van Persie (left) and Scottish Real Madrid on Wednesday. Abdulrahman Saad long bomb Hertha Berlin 6 Eintracht but I didn’t fall out with Wayne,” manager David Moyes hold the trophy after beating Wigan Athletic to It is Mourinho’s second spell to tie the game at 40-all. Frankfurt 1 Moyes told reporters during a win the FA Community Shield football at Wembley Stadium in north with Chelsea, the team he guided Wang Shipeng and Zhu terse post-game press conference. London yesterday. Eintracht Braunschweig 0 to Premier League triumphs in Fangyu had the last say in the “Some of you wrote untruths. Werder Bremen 1 2005 and 2006. AFP second though, giving China a Wayne trained with the reserves 45-40 lead at the half. because it was his asking. He Meanwhile, Robin van Persie China continued to build on couldn’t have (physical) contact, has spoken of his desire for Striker Suarez must apologise to their lead in the third, as Wang he had a shoulder injury. Manchester United teammate Zhizhi and Guo built an 18-point “In case you don’t know, we Wayne Rooney to remain at Old advantage midway through used him as a floating player, Trafford this season, in an inter- the period. Baker Ahmad which means he doesn’t play for view published yesterday. Liverpool, says coach Rodgers Mohammed briefly trimmed the either team, he plays between Someone who is desperate for lead with 68 seconds to go in either team. him to stay is strike partner Van DUBLIN: Brendan Rodgers has told Luis Suarez supporters of this club and the players -- they the period, but Wang and Zhu “He played as a floating player Persie, who says one of the rea- (pictured) he must apologise to his Liverpool deserve more than that. completed a five-point swing to so he didn’t get injured. So any of sons he came to the club in the team-mates and the club’s fans who he insists “He’s spent some days working on his own, he’s end the third with China com- you who wrote anything else are first place was his desire to team deserve better from the controversial Uruguayan. been working very hard. When he comes back from fortably ahead, 70-55. misleading your readers.” up with the 27-year-old. The Reds boss, speaking after his side his international trip (Uruguay play a Mohamed and Mohammed Rejecting the suggestion that “Everyone wants Wayne to stay squandered a hatful of chances in their friendly in Japan in mid-week) we’ll assess made it interesting with four he had grown tired of discussing and deep down I think he feels the 1-0 friendly defeat to Celtic in Dublin, also it.” minutes left in the game, cut- the Rooney saga, Moyes added: same,” Van Persie told The Sun reiterated his stance that the striker, who Rodgers mocked reports linking Suarez ting their deficit to 11, but Wang “I’m quite enjoying talking about newspaper. is wanted by Arsenal, is not for sale under with a move to the continent, where Real and Guo Ailun did their job on it because I’m hearing so many of “One of the reasons I joined any circumstances. Madrid were said to be interested in acquir- the free throw line, establishing you (journalists) getting it wrong. Manchester United was to play And now he’s told the player to admit the ing the 26-year-old, insisting only Arsenal a 15-point lead. Back-to-back “And I know most of you, and I with Wayne. I hope he stays. Not error of his ways by showing some contri- have made a bid for the forward. hits from Mohammed and Saad think to myself, ‘I think you’re a only is he a great goalscorer, he tion ahead of the beginning of the Premier “There’s lots of speculation about all ended the game, 96-85. bit cleverer than that, you boys.’ does so much work across the League season, which kicks off with these clubs,” he said. Guo Ailun led China with But some of you aren’t acting that pitch. Liverpool’s clash with Stoke next Saturday. “I was made aware at the end of last sea- 21 points off the bench, while way at the moment.” “He hates to lose - that’s why “Luis needs to do a couple of things,” son that a number of clubs would come in Wang Shipeng and Wang Zhizhi When asked to confirm that you see him one minute pressing Rodgers said. for him, but we’ve had one that’s it. Our added 14 and 13, respectively. Rooney was still not for sale, for goal, the next minute defend- “Obviously, we need initially a recognition, an intention is to keep Luis. The story’s the same.” Mansour Elhadary had 23 Moyes replied, “Correct.” ing ferociously. He is an asset to apology to his team mates and the club. Reds owner John W Henry was in Dublin for the points, while Baker Ahmad And when he was questioned any team. “And then I’m sure once we get that, we’ll have the sell-out friendly, but Rodgers insisted there were Mohammed had 22, Mohd about the wisdom of holding onto “He will come good again. He commitment he’s ready to fight like he’s always done. no further talks on the future of the player who Mohamed and Abdulrahman an unhappy player, he snapped: is a strong lad,” the Dutch striker “From the day I walked in he fought tirelessly has dominated their entire pre-season preparations. Saad had 13 each. AGENCIES “Why are you asking me again?” added. AGENCIES for the club. But I have to protect the fans, the “No, there was nothing here,” he said. 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MOSCOW: Usain Bolt pro- duced his killer-instinct for vaporising rivals by regaining his world 100 metres crown in the Moscow rain yesterday, restoring some credibility to a sport tarnished by a plethora of doping scandals. His victory in 9.77 seconds, holding off American Justin Gatlin (9.85) and fellow Jamaican Nesta Carter (9.95), banished memories of his Daegu false-start and disqualification when he was forced to slope away from a 2011 final he did not get to contest. Two years on it was less Bolt the showman of Olympic and world record acclaim, more Bolt the serious. “I wanted to do a better time but was not able to because of the Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the 100 metres final at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow yesterday. Bolt timed a season’s best 9.77 weather,” Bolt said. “Not singing seconds, with American Justin Gatlin claiming silver in 9.85sec and Nesta Carter, also of Jamaica, taking bronze in 9.95sec. RIGHT: Bolt celebrates with fans. in the rain, but running in the rain tonight. “I’m feeling good, just a little bit championships seemingly now a that he remains sprint king of Bolt added. “I cannot forget Daegu didn’t execute the last 30 metres.” on Saturday morning when he laid tired. I need some rest.” distant memory, Bolt still ham- the track at 27. because all you guys keep remind- America’s Olympic champion down a marker with a 10.35-sec- With his world record of 9.58 mered home the message with “It was not revenge for Daegu, ing me on my false start.” Brittney Reese maintained her onds 100 metres, completing the set at the 2009 Berlin world each muscle-extending stride I just came here to win this title,” Bolt has been far from his best firm grip on the women’s long first day with the fastest 400m this season - but his best on the jump when she won her third suc- ever run in a decathlon world night - the second fastest time of cessive world outdoor title. championships. the year after American Tyson The 26-year-old posted a best He poured on the pressure Gay’s 9.75 in June - was good jump of 7.01 metres to take gold, yesterday as a 5.20 metre pole enough. while Nigerian Blessing Okagbare vault and a brave 64.83m last- Unlike his embarrassing Daegu won silver (6.99m) and Serbia’s throw javelin opened a virtually US athlete Ashton downfall, Bolt this time made no Ivana Spanovic the bronze in a unassailable lead and he made no Eaton celebrates mistake out of the blocks and new national record of 6.82m. mistake in the 1,500m finale to winning the although trailing Gatlin, directly Despite her dominance; Reese triumph with 8,809 points, decathlon event. to his left, at halfway, he surged is a long way from threaten- Germany’s Michael Schrader INSET: Brittney to the front at 60metres. ing the world record of Galina took silver with 8,670 while Reese of the US Gatlin, former world and Chistyakova of the then Soviet Canadian Damian Warner of poses with her gold Olympic champion and twice Union which stands at 7.52m and Canada got bronze with 8,512. medal on the podium banned for doping, stayed on his was set back in 1988. Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba shoulder all the way to the line, American Ashton Eaton won a third world 10,000m title. after winning the followed by Carter and two more cemented his position as the Dibaba clocked 30min 43.37sec, women’s Long Jump Jamaicans Kemar Bailey-Cole and world’s greatest athlete when he with Gladys Cherono of Kenya final. Nickel Ashmeade. won the world decathlon title, taking silver (30:45.17), and “I feel good if I’d run a perfect completing a spectacular hat- Ethiopia’s Belaynesh Oljira claim- race and got beaten I would have trick having won Olympic gold ing bronze (30:46.98). been concerned, but I didn’t run and broken the world record last Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic won a perfect race,” Gatlin said. year. the women’s discus title. “I got a little over-excited and Eaton led from the first event AGENCIES

Golf: Woods Manchester United lift Community Shield ends poor LONDON, England: New Michael Carrick, United’s man week before Manchester United manager of the match, heralded his side’s David Moyes put a testing pre- improvement, telling BBC Radio Manchester season behind him as his side 5 Live: “We looked a lot better United’s Serbian leaders tee off beat Wigan Athletic 2-0 in the today. We were in control of the defender Nemanja Community Shield at a sun- game, and we felt we could score.” Vidic (centre) lifts ROCHESTER, New York: soaked Wembley yesterday. Three months on, mean- the trophy with Tiger Woods ended a forgettable The successor to the legendary while, from their shock win over team-mates after week at the PGA Championship Alex Ferguson had to endure Manchester City in the FA Cup beating Wigan with a level-par 70 in yesterday’s transfer market frustration and final, Wigan showed enough qual- Athletic to win the final round at Oak Hill Country speculation surrounding the ity to suggest they are well placed FA Community Club, finishing well before over- future of Wayne Rooney during to bounce back from relegation Shield at Wembley night leader Jim Furyk was set a disappointing run of two wins to the Championship at the first Stadium in north to tee off. in seven friendly games. attempt. Bidding to end a five-year title London, yesterday. His luck changed in the tra- “All in all, we’re disappointed drought at the majors, Woods Manchester ditional curtain-raiser to the to lose the game, but in spells we recovered from a shaky outward English season, however, as Robin showed we could play,” said Wigan United’s Dutch nine as he came home in three- van Persie scored a goal in each manager Owen Coyle. striker Robin van under 32 but his overall total of half to give Moyes his first piece “We’ll take lessons from today Persie scored both four-over 284 left him a distant of silverware at the helm of the -- there’s one or two things we can goals in their 2-0 13 strokes off the pace. English giants. learn from -- and move forward.” victory. Woods came into this week as “I class that as another piece For his first official outing in a heavy favourite but he strug- of silverware for Sir Alex really. I the United dug-out, Moyes aligned gled on an East Course layout was in charge today, but the ones his new charges in a fluid 4-3-3 demanding accuracy off the tee going forward will be down to formation in which the peerless Frenchman’s cross. Leon Barnett turn and shot, but Coyle’s side James Perch to leave Carson and precision approaching small- me,” Moyes said. Ryan Giggs, now a player-coach, had to be alert to prevent Welbeck finished the half strongly, with wrong-footed. ish greens. The 50-year-old Scot’s atten- was the most advanced central from making it 2-0 from debutant Barnett unable to keep his header Zaha departed soon after, fol- Among those making signifi- tion will now turn to next midfielder. Wilfried Zaha’s low centre, but down after Emmerson Boyce lowing an enterprising if rough- cant early moves were Australian Sunday’s Premier League opener Van Persie led the line, dove- United received a setback in the turned Ben Watson’s free-kick edged display, while Giggs was Jason Day, four under after 10 at Swansea City, but the Rooney tailing with Danny Welbeck, and 16th minute when Rafael had to back across goal. granted a standing ovation, holes, and American Scott Piercy, questions are unlikely to subside it took the Dutchman, scorer hobble off with an injury. There was little spark to as well as a round of applause four under after nine, who each while the striker’s future remains of 30 goals last season, just six Chris Smalling came on but United’s play, but in the 59th from Moyes, as he made way for got to four under overall in a tie unclear. minutes to open his account for almost made a disastrous start minute they took the game Anderson. for seventh place. Moyes showed signs of annoy- 2013-14. when he let Stephen Crainey’s beyond Wigan with a second goal. Belatedly, United turned on the Former champion Keegan ance in his post-match press He sprayed a pass wide to hopeful chipped pass bounce A patient move culminated in style, Barnett sliding in to clear Bradley birdied six of his first 13 conference, accusing journal- Patrice Evra on the left and with over him, which enabled Wigan Welbeck slipping a pass to Van an Evra cross following a slick holes to raise hopes of shooting ists of writing “untruths” about Giggs’ run distracting the Wigan debutant James McClean to drill Persie on the edge of the box, and one-touch move, and while there the first ever 62 at a major but Rooney’s situation and repeating defence, Van Persie had time and a cross across the six-yard box. the former Arsenal man shifted were no further goals, United he bogeyed the driveable par-four his stance that the 27-year-old is space to direct a firm header into Welbeck worked Wigan goal- the ball onto his left foot before coach Moyes had already passed 14th to slip back. He is seven off “not for sale”. the bottom-left corner from the keeper Scott Carson after a neat dispatching a shot that struck his first test. AFP the pace. REUTERS