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Advisory Council Amir reviews exhibits at Milipol Qatar to convene on November 6 The Ministry of Interior signed contracts worth DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh QR527.5m during the three- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani day exhibition, which issued yesterday Decree No. concluded yesterday. 58 of 2018 inviting the Advisory Council to hold its 47th Ordinary Session on THE PENINSULA Tuesday 28th of Safar 1440 corresponding to November 6, 2018. The Decree is DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin effective as of the date of Hamad Al Thani visited yesterday issue and is to be published morning the 12th International Event for in the official gazette. Homeland Security and Civil Defense (Milipol Qatar 2018), held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, to learn Cabinet approves about the latest technologies and global defence and security industries. Ministerial Group for H H the Amir toured the pavilions and supervising NDS sections of the exhibition, which witnessed the participation of several international companies and others from the DOHA: The Cabinet, which State of Qatar. During the tour, H H the met yesterday with Prime Amir reviewed the latest products of these Minister and Interior Minister companies in the field of safety, defence H E Sheikh Abdullah bin and internal security, especially cyberse- Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani in curity and security management of major the chair, approved a draft events, communications software, airport decision by the Prime Minister security systems, and others. to form the ministerial group H H the Amir visited several sections for general supervision and of the Ministry of Interior and the pavilion follow up of the completion of of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya). the National Development His Highness was also briefed on the Strategies (NDS). command and control unit of Hamad Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during a visit to the Milipol Qatar. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Under the draft decision, Medical Corporation. H H the Amir was also Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani was also present. a committee called the “Min- briefed on a number of security, safety, and isterial Group for Public surveillance applications designed by young and the value of deals signed during three- Fahad Al Thani said: “A total of 8,487 vis- of the MoI and member of Milipol Qatar Supervision and Follow-up of Qataris for individuals and institutions. H day exhibition by the Ministry of Interior was itors attended the exhibition which is an Committee Brigadier Saud Al Shafi said that National Development Strat- H the Amir was accompanied by Prime Min- worth QR527.5m, which included the different increase of 39 percent compared to the the last contract signed by the MoI was a deal egies” shall be established. The ister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh sectors of the Ministry such as security, infor- 2016 expo.” He also said that the 13th worth QR48m with a company working in committee will be entrusted Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. mation, services and others. edition of Milipol Qatar will be held in the field of cyber security. with a number of functions. Meanwhile, over 8,000 people visited During a press conference, President 2020 from October 26 to 28. Milipol Qatar 2018 which concluded yesterday of Milipol Qatar Major General Nasser bin Assistant Director of logistics department `CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 `CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Qatar capable of defending itself: Al Attiyah

QNA of defending it, as it is capable of plans and strategies, and works defending itself, this is its phi- to be ready, whatever the size DOHA: Deputy Prime Minister losophy and its military and type of threat and from any and Minister of State for Defence doctrine. side comes. Affairs H E Dr. Khalid bin On the role of technology in On Qatar’s accusation of ter- Mohamed Al Attiyah has war and combating terrorism, rorism, he said: “We have faced affirmed that Qatar is an the Deputy Prime Minister and violent and strange attacks from economically strong country Minister of State for Defence some countries that started this and has its role and weight in Affairs stressed the importance imaginary charge of terrorism the world economy with huge of this issue, noting that all the in a desperate attempt to offend resources of oil and gas, but he equipment and systems that Qatar on the international scene, noted that attention to the Qatar buys are modern and stressing that the State of Qatar defence dimension is an advanced, including means and has a vision and goals, and that insurance policy, stressing that systems of cyber defence, no one can affect its vision, we Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin adding that Qatar is doubling its must trust in ourselves to Hamad Al Thani seeks to efforts to build its defence capa- achieve the interests of our support and strengthen Qatar’s bilities to be ready at any time. nation and serve our people. defence capabilities and stability The Deputy Prime Minister On how countries deal with of the region. and Minister of State for Defence their fighters returning from Speaking in a discussion affairs stressed that “the State areas of war and conflict, His session yesterday at the Forum of Qatar does not care about any Excellency stressed that the on'Returning Foreign Fighters', threats and from which side it State of Qatar has contained, H E Dr Al Attiyah said that Qatar come, but always sees itself, provided rehabilitation, edu- has allies but has never thought prepares its people, develops its cation and then integration.

Combined profit of QSE-listed firms up 6.74% SATISH KANADY made a major turnaround MPHC was up by 27.54 percent. THE PENINSULA recording an increase of 386.37 The Services and Consumer percent growth in the profit. Goods sector posted a total profit DOHA: The combined profit of Banking major QNB was up by 5.57 of QR1.40bn, up 6.84 percent com- Qatar’s publicly traded percent, While QIB and Masraf Al pared to the previous year. companies rose by 6.74 percent Rayan recorded 12.9 percent and The Insurance companies’ to QR31.13bn for the nine months’ 4.48 percent growth, combined profits rose by 41.59 period ended September on respectively. percent from a year ago, by year-on-year. The growth in the Companies in the industrials delivering a total of QR624m. net profit was mainly driven by sector collectively delivered While the total profits of real Industries and Banking sectors. QR6.98bn profit during the estate companies fell by 36.71 Qatar’s big banks delivered a period, up 27.41 percent on year- percent to QR1.9bn, telecom was combined net profit of a solid on-year. The net profit of bell- down by 8.85 percent. The total QR17.76bn, up 8 percent from wether Industries Qatar (IQ) profit of transportation sector QR16.4bn posted during the same surged 62.27 percent. GISS profit was up by 9.28 percent to period in 2017. Commercial Bank jumped by 77.77 percent and QR1.23bn. 02 HOME THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 Amir visits Milipol Qatar, reviews latest defence technologies

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani visited yesterday the 12th International Event for Homeland Security and Civil Defence (Milipol Qatar 2018), held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, to learn about the latest technologies and global defence and security industries. H H the Amir was accompanied by Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani.

Amir receives credentials of ambassadors

DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received the credentials of two new ambassadors accredited to the country. H H the Amir received the credentials of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Janusz Janke and the Ambas- sador of the Kingdom of Spain, Maria Belen Alfaro Hernandez. The ambassadors conveyed to H H the Amir greetings of their countries’ leaders and their wishes of further progress and prosperity to the Qatari people. For his part, H H the Amir welcomed the new ambassadors and wished them success in their duties and for the relations between Qatar and their respective countries more development and growth. The ambassadors arrived earlier at the Amiri Diwan where Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain, Maria Belen Alfaro Hernandez (left), and the Ambassador of the Republic of they were accorded an official Poland, Janusz Janke, at the Amiri Diwan, yesterday. reception ceremony. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 HOME 03 Sheikha Moza meets President of Nepal Nepal President visits QF, QNL

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DOHA: Qatar Foun- dation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) yesterday welcomed the President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari, to Education City. As part of the visit, Machaille Al Naimi, President of Community Development, QF, accompanied the delegation to the open-air viewing platform on the eighth floor of QF Head- quarters, and highlighted the various edu- The President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari, visiting the Qatar cation, science and Foundation at the Education City, yesterday. research, and community development entities of Education City. Concluding the tour, Al Naimi presented H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and a gift to the president, Community Development (QF), and Chairperson of Education Above All (EAA), met with the who then signed QF’s President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari. During the meeting, visitors book to com- they discussed areas of potential collaboration in education and research with Qatar Foundation, memorate her visit. and explored ways to increase education access for out-of-school children in Nepal through EAA’s The President was projects. H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice-Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation, also given a tour of attended the meeting. Qatar National Library (QNL) yesterday by its Executive Director, Dr Sohair Wastawy, which highlighted the library’s wealth of resources and Prime Minister sends message to Greek counterpart facilities. QNL has welcomed QNA message to Prime Minister of State of Qatar to Greece, more than 370,000 vis- Greece Alexis Tsipras, pertaining Abdulaziz Ali Al Neama, itors, and registered DOHA: Prime Minister and to bilateral relations and means during a meeting with the more than 100,000 Interior Minister H E Sheikh of boosting them. Assistant Director of the Prime members, since opening The President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari, at the Qatar National Library Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa The message was handed Minister’s Office, Ioannis V. to the public in yesterday. Al Thani has sent a written over by the Ambassador of the Giorgakakis. November 2017.

Cabinet approves Ministerial Group High demand for Spanish agro-food products RAYNALD C RIVERA for supervising NDS Qatar grew by 63 percent “There has been an food sector. THE PENINSULA compared to 2016 and in the increasing demand for “It is interesting that the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 first eight months of 2018 the Spanish products especially agro sector which we are The functions include DOHA: Demand for Spanish growth rate is around 49 after the blockade and I feel bringing here in the Spanish general supervision, follow- agro-food products in Qatar percent, breaking all records,” happy we are contributing to pavilion at Hospitality Qatar up and evaluation of the per- has seen meteoric rise as agro he said. the development of the is very much representative formance indicators and rates exports of Spain to Qatar The main categories of country bringing the products of what is happening in our of achievement of the National increased 49 percent in the agro products Spain is needed in Qatar,” he added. bilateral relations,” he said, Development Strategy to first eight months of this year, exporting to Qatar which are Fajardo believed the 36 adding seven Spanish firms ensure the achievement of Miguel Angel Fajardo, currently available in the percent increase in bilateral are taking part at the event Qatar National Vision’s pillars. Commercial Attaché at the market include meat trade between Qatar and offering meat, olive, vege- It also will ensure that plans, Spanish Embassy, has told products, fruits and vege- Spain last year compared to tables, and other products programs, projects and imple- The Peninsula. tables, beverage and oils, as 2016 is expected to receive that are presently in demand mentation mechanisms are “From an economic point well as animal feed which had further boost this year and in the Qatari market. aligned with the goals and pri- of view and in trade terms, seen huge growth because of even next year as the number He mentioned some orities of the National Devel- the agro-food sector is one of Qatar’s strategy to bring live- of Spanish exporters increase ongoing efforts to promote opment Strategy. the most dynamic chapters of stock to the country, along with the frequency of Spanish agro-food products Following the Cabinet Spain’s exports to Qatar. Since explained Fajardo. export. and gastronomy in Qatar. meeting, Minister of Justice 2012 agro-food sector export “I think Spain is meeting Fajardo was speaking to “This weekend we are and Acting Minister of State for from Spain to Qatar had an the demand for new products The Peninsula on the side- bringing some Spanish chefs, Cabinet Affairs H E Dr Hassan annual growth rate of 40 here from the agro sector. We lines of the press conference one of them with 2-Star bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al percent in 2013,” said Fajardo. are very much competitive in on Tuesday to announce the Michelin which is the highest Mohannadi stated that the “Our agro-food sector is terms of prices and quality in fourth edition of Hospitality level of recognition awarded Cabinet reviewed topics on its growing faster than the rest response to the standards Qatar in which Spain is par- to a chef, at the Spanish Miguel Angel Fajardo, Commercial Attaché meeting’s agenda. of the chapters of our exports. demanded by the Qatari ticipating bringing in com- Extravaganza in W Doha at the Spanish Embassy. PIC: BAHER AMIN / The Cabinet also approved Last year, our agro export to market,” he said. panies engaged in the agro- Hotel,” he said. THE PENINSULA draft decision by the Minister of Municipalities and Envi- ronment on the quota system for the import of Hydrochlo- rofluorocarbons (HCFCs). Woqod opens new petrol National campaign on The Ministry of Municipal- ities and Environment pre- Right to Education begins pared the draft resolution station in Al Froosh area within the framework of com- QNA pleting the issuing of the nec- This came in a speech given THE PENINSULA essary decisions to activate the by Dr Al Sulaiti at the beginning provisions of Law No. 19 for DOHA: The National Campaign of the launching ceremony of 2015 on the issuance of the DOHA: Qatar Fuel ‘Woqod’ on Right to Education began the international campaign for common system on ozone- opened Al Froosh petrol station yesterday at the national level the right to education at the depleting substances for the yesterday, taking the total count within the framework of coop- national level, which was held GCC countries, and in of its petrol stations in the eration and coordination today at the Intercontinental accordance with the provi- country to 74. between the concerned author- Doha Hotel, in the presence of sions of the 1985 Vienna Con- Woqod’s CEO, Eng. Saad ities in the State of Qatar and the the Secretary-General of NHRC vention for the Protection of Rashid Al Muhannadi, said: “We United Nations Educational, Mariam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah, the Ozone Layer and the 1987 are pleased to open new fixed Scientific and Cultural Organi- Director of the Unesco Regional Montreal Protocol on Sub- petrol station in Al Froosh. Woqod zation (Unesco) and the ongoing Office in Doha, Dr Anna Paolini, stances that Deplete the Ozone aspires to expand its petrol station efforts of the State to support and the Executive Director of the Layer. network in the country to meet and disseminate education at a Education Above All Foundation The Cabinet moreover the rising demand for petroleum wider level to millions of Fahd Hamad Al Sulaiti . approved a draft agreement products and achieve the goal of children around the world. For her part, Dr Anna Paolini for economic, trade and tech- providing customers with access Dr Hamda Al Sulaiti, Sec- praised the support of the State nical cooperation between to best-in-class products and retary General, Qatari National of Qatar for achieving the Edu- Qatar and of Somalia. services at their convenience and Committee for Education, cation 2030 agenda. She The newly-opened petrol station in Al Froosh area. The Cabinet reviewed the comfort.” Culture and Science, said that expressed hope that the two comments by Their Excel- “Woqod has recently accel- Qatar is one of the first countries sides would work to encourage lencies the Ministers and erated the process for the con- Al Froosh is spread over an cylinders, in addition to sale of to launch a national campaign the community to participate some entities about the pro- struction of new petrol stations area of 1,500 square metres and gasoline and diesel products for for the right to education at this actively in this campaign to posals of the committee con- to meet the fuel and energy needs has three lanes with six dispensers light vehicles. level, stressing that education ensure that all of its members cerned with studying the phe- of the country. Woqod team that will serve Al Froosh and its Also he pointed out that contributes positively to the rap- have the right to a good nomenon of bad cheque would like to extend their grat- neighbourhood. Woqod, in furtherance of cus- prochement and communi- education. writing, and the views of the itude to the all concerned govern- The new petrol stations offer tomer’s satisfaction, opened One cation among cultures and civ- Aisha Al Tawar Al Kuwari, Ministry of Justice in this mental and private entities that round-the-clock services to res- Mobile station in Fereej Al Soudan ilisations and enhances Chairperson of the Right to Edu- regard. The Cabinet then took contributed/are contributing to idents, include Sidra convenience for Gasoline to reduce the vehicles common human values, human cation Campaign Committee the appropriate decision the completion of this project,” he store, Manual Car wash, Oil congestion as many private sta- rights and the principles of truth, said that the campaign would thereon. added. change and tire repair, sale of LPG tions closed recently. justice, peace and tolerance. continue until next April. 04 HOME THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 HMC opens Sealine Medical Prime Minister meets Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Clinic for 9th consecutive year THE PENINSULA season. medical conditions. “Today’s opening of the “The clinic is located very DOHA: Today, Hamad Medical Hamad Medical Clinic at Sealine close to the seashore, on the Corporation (HMC) officially signals the beginning of what same site where it has been opened its Sealine Medical will no doubt be another busy located for the last four years. Clinic, located in the southern camping season. Our annual The clinic is located close to part of the country near operation of this clinic demon- popular camping areas to facil- Mesaieed City. strates HMC’s commitment to itate easier access should This is the ninth consecutive providing the best possible healthcare services be required year that the healthcare organ- healthcare to campers in the by residents or visitors,” said Al ization has operated the clinic, Sealine and surrounding areas,” Khater. which will begin receiving said Al Khater, who is also Chair He thanked the Ministry of patients at 3pm today of the Ministry of Public Health’s Municipality and Environment Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met yesterday (Thursday) and will remain open Healthcare Communications for its continued commitment with Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, and his accompanying delegation, on the until mid-April. Committee. to the clinic, noting recent Ali Al Khater, Chief Commu- Al Khater noted that HMC improvements such as the occasion of their visit to Qatar to attend Milipol Qatar 2018. The meeting reviewed relations of nications Officer at HMC and and the Ministry of Municipality paving of the road leading to the cooperation between the two countries and ways of developing and enhancing them in various ﬁelds, Project Manager for the Sealine and Environment collaborate clinic which has allowed for especially in the security ﬁeld, in addition to discussing a number of regional and international issues. Medical Center, said HMC each year to establish the clinic. easier access. Al Khater also operates the clinic each year to He said the location of the clinic urged campers and others who ensure medical care, and spe- provides easy access for both frequent the area to respect cifically emergency medical campers and other visitors and safety and security procedures services, are available for resi- efficient transfer to hospital for and to take the necessary pre- Message handed over to UN Secretary-General dents during the busy camping patients with more serious cautions when enjoying recre- ational activities. DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim Dr. Hamid Ghareeb, Con- bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a sultant at HMC’s Medical written message to Secretary- Administration Department General of the United Nations and Medical Supervisor of the Antonio Guterres, inviting him Sealine Medical Clinic, said the to attend the annual ceremony clinic will operate every of His Highness’ Anti-Corruption weekend during the camping Excellence Award. season, opening each Thursday The message was handed at 3pm and remaining open over by Attorney-General H E until Saturday at 5pm. The Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, who clinic, which will also provide is also the United Nations services during public hol- Special Advocate on Anti-cor- idays, will receive patients ruption, during his meeting with with minor health concerns, as Antonio Guterres, in New York Guterres praised the efforts of The meeting was attended well as emergency cases. He yesterday. During the meeting, HH the Amir to combat cor- by Permanent Representative noted there is also a helicopter the Attorney-General also con- ruption and establish the foun- of the State of Qatar to the landing area to transfer veyed the greetings of HH the dations of the rule of law, United Nations H E Sheikha Alia patients who have urgent Amir to HE the Secretary expressing his full support for Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, and the HMC’s Ambulance Service is ready to transport emergency cases medical needs or severe General of the United Nations. the State of Qatar in its efforts delegation accompanying the from the desert. injuries to hospital. For his part, HE Antonio in this field. Attorney General. NAMA launches ‘Mulhemen’ platform

AMNA PERVAIZ RAO promising entrepreneurs with successful entrepreneurial ecosystem in Qatar and THE PENINSULA entrepreneurs in presence of elite fostering a culture of innovation and investors under one roof. The initiative’s entrepreneurial spirit among Qatari DOHA: Social Development Center- main idea aims to present the successful entrepreneurs.” NAMA - has launched “Mulhemen” projects by their owners to motivate “The platform will contribute to the platform for entrepreneurs to pitch their anyone looking to become a young transfer of successful entrepreneurial business ideas to secure the deal. entrepreneur. experiences both locally and globally to The new initiative addresses small This unique opportunity will build entrepreneurs including ideas owners or and micro entrepreneurs, with the aim strong relationships that serve their startups. A group of successful entrepre- of strengthening the entrepreneurial eco- projects and ideas, as well as to create neurs will be invited to an interactive system in Qatar and fostering a culture potential partners through networking session that will be organized each month, of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. and business dinner in addition to the which will showcase success stories of The launching ceremony of Mul- unique opportunity that will allow the inspiring models to take advantage of and FROM LEFT: Khalifa Saleh Al Haroon, CEO of iloveQatar; Bilal Sheikh, Assistant hemen included a distinguished group of platform to present youth projects to a catalyze participants in the platform.” Manager of Careem; and Abdulla Al Khinji, co-founder of Meddy, during the launch speakers who included, Khalifa Saleh Al group of investors interested in investing Al-Mohannadi stated that the plat- of Mulhemen program at InterContinental The City yesterday. Haroon, CEO and Founder of “I Love in small and micro enterprises. form’s programs focus on very important PIC: AMNA PERVAIZ RAO / THE PENINSULA Qatar” webpage, Bilal Sheikh Assistant In his comment, Saoud Essa S A Al- aspects in order to provide a full oppor- General Manager (Qatar & Oman) at Mohannadi, Entrepreneurship Manager tunity to pave the way for young entre- Careem, Abdullah Al Khinji and Hares at NAMA said: “Mulhemeen platform will preneurs. The project presentation aspect will be able to present their business ideas which is very important for young entre- Aghandi, Founders of Meddy. include a unique set of programs that will is one of the most important ones of the to get the required investment, as well preneurs to build productive working “Mulhemeen” platform will gather contribute to strengthening the success of any project. The participants as networking and business dinners, relationships.

2019 Ooredoo Doha Marathon Exhibits at Milipol Qatar registration now open reviewed THE PENINSULA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 DOHA: Ooredoo has announced yesterday that the Another contract worth registration for the 2019 QR20m was signed with Ooredoo Doha Marathon is Diyar Al Sharq Al Awsat, a officially open now. cyber security company. The seventh annual Brigadier Saud Al Shafi Ooredoo Marathon will take announced the details of place on January 11, in Doha some contracts and said that and the company has said the the Ministry signed 15 deals exact route will be announced worth approximately in the coming weeks. Ooredoo QR527m. He added that these began the Ooredoo Marathon were the deals of the ministry event to inspire Qatar’s com- alone, not including any other munities to get fit and raise state authority or money for a good cause. institutions. The company said that He said that the final day 100 percent of the registration deals were worth QR125.73m. fees for the Ooredoo Doha These deals included a Marathon will be donated to An Ooredoo official speaks at a press conference about Ooredoo QR9.37m contract with Ideal charity and fees will range Doha Marathon at Ooredoo Tower yesterday. PIC; BAHER AMIN / Solutions, for providing depending on the selected THE PENINSULA vehicle-tracking systems. course and age of the runners from around the categories, based on age and There were also other participant. world.” gender. projects for updating doc- Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, This 2019 Ooredoo Doha Anyone interested in ument readers. In addition, a COO Ooredoo Qatar, said: “I’m Marathon will feature courses running the 2019 Ooredoo deal worth QR3.15m with delighted to announce that for runners of all abilities - Marathon can find more infor- Orbis Systems for using eye registration is now open for including a 10km run, half- mation and register at https:// fingerprint. the 2019 Ooredoo Marathon! marathon, full marathon, 5km www.premieronline.com/ On the last day of expo, a This event promises to be our run and a special children’s event/ooredoo_doha_mar- number of seminars were most diverse ever, as we are 1km fun run. athon_2019_3912 or follow also held on the sidelines of inviting all of Qatar’s commu- Prizes will be awarded to the #RunWithUS on Ooredoo’s the Milipol Qatar covering nities to take part, as well as the best runners in a range of social media pages. multiple security subjects. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 HOME 05 Milipol Qatar Committee honours sponsors, ﬁrms THE PENINSULA The event of this cerned departments in the Min- year covered an area istry of Interior. DOHA: The Milipol Qatar of more than 9,000 He added that the event of Committee honoured the this year covered an area of more sponsors and major participating square meters with than 9,000 square meters with companies in the 12th Interna- the participation the participation of 219 com- tional Event for Homeland of 219 companies panies from 24 countries as well Security and Civil Defence, Milipol from 24 countries as as 8 countries participating in the Qatar 2018. Milipol Qatar for the first time. Director of Public Security well as 8 countries The companies presented their Staff, Major General Saad bin Jassim participating in the latest equipment in the field of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Dr. Khalid bin Mohamed Al Al Khulaifi, attended the event and homeland security and civil Milipol Qatar. Attiyah attending the ‘Returning Foreign Fighters’ forum in Doha yesterday. The Greek Minister of honoured Chairman of the General defense. Customs Authority and former He stressed that the Milipol National Defence Panos Kammenos (second right) is also present. Separately, both the ministers member of Milipol Qatar Com- President of Milipol Qatar Com- Qatar 2018 was specialized by held a meeting and discussed relations between the two friendly countries and means of enhancing mittee, Ahmed Abdullah Al Jamal, mittee, Major General Nasser bin combining the exhibition of them in different military ﬁelds besides the latest developments in the region. The meeting was for his valuable efforts during his Fahd Al-Thani, said that the 12th homeland security and the exhi- attended by a number of senior officers of Qatari Armed Forces. membership period. Director of International Event for Homeland bition of civil defense under one Public Security also honored the Security and Civil Defense (Milipol roof, as well as the included sem- sponsors and major companies Qatar 2018) has achieved great inars that discussed significant Returning Foreign Fighters forum participating in the 12th session of success by the efforts of all parties, topics of security such as cyber Milipol Qatar 2018. especially of the sponsors, exhib- security and security of major Speaking on the occasion itors, national bodies and con- events and civil defense. calls for combating violent extremism

THE PENINSULA State of Qatar for hosting the considerations. He also called Forum, and thanked the organ- for the fight against terrorism, DOHA: Participants in the izers for the good organization which is also a global challenge ‘Returning Foreign Fighters’ and preparation of the Forum, in a legal framework. forum recommended the need which led to its success. For his part Executive to combat violent extremism The forum addressed a Director of Programs at Silatech and to help communities deal number of topics and themes, Foundation Faisal Mohamed Al with the challenges of terrorism and witnessed lively discussions Emadi, presented the organiza- and the return of fighters. on the return of foreign fighters tion’s definition, methodology, They also stressed the need and the challenges of terrorism projects, such as the depart- for concerted efforts by all con- and extremism, the need to ments of studies, research, cerned parties, including civil respect international law and entrepreneurship and society organizations, to combat human rights and provide employment, and their efforts violent extremism in line with employment opportunities for to help youth and provide jobs Security Council resolutions, the young people so as not to fall for them wherever they are in rule of law and human rights, victim to terrorist crimes. Arab countries, stressing that Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaiﬁ (right), Director of Public Security Staff, honouring Chairman stressing the need to develop The forum also focused on now they are working in 16 Arab of the General Customs Authority and former member of Milipol Qatar Committee, Ahmed Abdullah programs to deal with returnees the challenges of dealing with countries including Turkey, Al Jamal, for his valuable efforts during his membership period. from the battlefields, and to children and women, especially where they are assisting Syrian prevent them from joining war those who came from margin- refugees there, and he predicted and conflict zones again, and alized areas to join terrorist that the scope of its work will provide an environment con- groups. include more countries next ducive to their rehabilitation, A number of participants, year. education and integration into including Greek Minister of Al Emadi said that the Foun- MoI inks Letters of Intent society, and to find suitable jobs National Defense Panos Kam- dation has 300 partnerships for them and for future menos, talked about the chal- with private and government generations. lenge facing his country because entities, and now has one with Nepal and Mexico Participants in the forum, of the influx of migrants across million jobs, and seeks to reach which started on Tuesday, the border and how it treats 3 million jobs by the end of THE PENINSULA expressed their thanks to the them with respect within legal 2022.

DOHA: The Ministry of Interior yesterday signed a Letter of Intent with Nepal Police. The Letter of Intent was signed by Director of Qatar Public Security, Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khu- laifi, and Inspector General of Nepal Police Sarbendra Khanal. The LoI intended to enhance security cooperation in combating crimes and training The Director of Qatar Public Security, Staff Major General Saad courses and programs. bin Jassim Al Khulaiﬁ, and Inspector General of Nepal Police, Another Letter of Intent was signed between Qatar Ministry Sarbendra Khanal, after signing the Letter of Intent. of Interior and Mexican Secre- tariat of Interior, aiming at exchanging experiences in the Director of Qatar Public Security cooperation in the areas of field of securing major events, Staff, Major General Saad bin cyber-security, combating especially during the FIFA Jassim Al Khulaifi and Ricardo money laundering and human World Cup in Qatar 2022. Eduardo Aranda, Commissioner trafficking, as well as The LoI was signed by of the Federal Police, Mexico.

Thousands visit Unlimited local calls and Lekhwiya’s pavilion at data for three months Milipol Qatar with Ooredoo eSIM THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA DOHA: Over 4,000 visitors of the 12th International DOHA: Ooredoo announced Event for Homeland yesterday that all customers who Security and Civil Defense make the switch to eSIM technology (Milipol Qatar 2018) took will enjoy a reward of free unlimited part in a test of their local calls and data for three shooting capabilities in the months. field which was organized To reward new and existing by “Lekhwiya” in its customers for switching to eSIM pavilion and supervised by with Qatar’s biggest mobile network the special unit of on a compatible device, Ooredoo is “Lekhwiya”. offering unlimited local calls and The shooting included data for three months to all post- the 9mm Squeezers and the paid and pre-paid Ooredoo MP5 rifle. The Special Unit customers. officers guided the partici- Ooredoo will offer eSIM technology for both its post-paid and pants in the best way to use pre-paid customers and has the only self-service digital eSIM feature the weapons accurately. available in Qatar and the region. Lekhwiya is specialized eSIM technology allows a mobile phone to work without a in combating terrorism, lib- physical SIM card and enables users to use both their private and erating hostages, raiding business numbers at the same time and switch between them seam- and arresting drug dealers lessly without needing to physically swap SIM cards. Currently, only and outlaws in cooperation the latest generation of Google Pixel and iPhones are eSIM enabled with the concerned in Qatar, and Ooredoo is working with a host of manufacturers to departments. enable the software, so that every customer can use their numbers simultaneously or switch between them seamlessly as needed. 06 HOME THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 HOME 07 Experts discuss clash of technology & tradition HBKU to host 2018

AMNA PERVAIZ RAO Middle East Environment THE PENINSULA Law Scholars Conference DOHA: Northwestern University THE PENINSULA in Qatar (NU-Q) recently held a panel discussion on ‘Social Media and the Majlis: Tech- DOHA: Building on its nology Confronts Tradition’ mission to address envi- during a session of the Qatar ronmental issues and Media Industries Forum (QMIF). policies from a legal How the traditional Majlis in perspective, Hamad Bin Qatar and the Gulf region is Khalifa University’s influenced by social media was (HBKU) College of Law and explored and analyzed by a Public Policy (CLPP) is set panel of communication experts. to host the 2018 Middle The forum, convened twice East Environment Law annually by Northwestern Uni- Scholars Conference in versity in Qatar, reported that Doha. the Majlis is the most important The conference, which source of communication in will be held from Dr Damilola S Olawuyi, associate Qatari society. The use of social NU-Q Professor Banu Akdenzili listens to Mohamed Jaidah, owner of 60 Degrees and group executive November 4 to 5 under the director at Jaidah Group, at a recent Qatar Media Industries Forum. professor at HBKU’s College of Law and media is shaping discourse in theme of ‘Law – Envi- Public Policy, is this year’s conference family and society. ronment – Middle East: chair. The forum also provided Each year, advances and widespread use The panelists also acknowl- Innovations for a Green clues as to how this key feature Northwestern of social media on majlis edged the willingness of people Economy,’ comes against of public life, and its influence, University in Qatar interaction. to speak more openly and a backdrop of a series of events interest and require swift yet will evolve in the future. hosts forums bringing There was broad agreement frankly in private, face-to-face previously hosted by CLPP to studied and deliberate action.” The panel, moderated by that media sources have always settings. address environmental prin- Throughout the two-day Banu Akdenzili of NU-Q, agreed industry leaders influenced the content of dis- “A majlis is a positive and ciples and policies affecting the conference, attendees will that the Majlis is changing and together to exchange cussion in majlises, but that private place where I feel com- MENA region and the world. address various topics including in different ways. Weighing in ideas, advice, and social media had broadened dis- fortable and can share ideas. The conference, sponsored ‘Environmental Law Teaching with striking examples and data experiences across a course and led to a widening of Digital media is a platform by the United Nations Envi- in the Middle East’, ‘Green were panelist business leader perspectives. where we can discuss many ronment Programme and the Economy Transition’, ‘Building Mohamed Jaidah, owner of 60 broad range of topics. Nonneman argued that there things, and a person might feel Qatar National Research Fund, Capacity for the Green Degrees and group executive are many types of majlises more comfortable confronting will bring together environ- Economy’, ‘Agriculture and director at Jaidah Group; Manar across the region ranging from someone from behind the mental law lecturers, practi- Food Security’, and ‘Climate Al-Muraikhi, director of com- a broad range of topics. some organized by families and scenes,” Al-Muraikhi said. tioners and researchers to Change Impacts on the Middle munity and public relations at “The Forum offered a community groups to others that In addition to digital tech- explore the implementation East’. Ooredoo; and Gulf expert Gerd cutting-edge perspective com- are quasi-governmental entities, nologies, the panelists also con- and application of multilateral The conference will also see Nonneman, professor and bining a respect for the tradition cautioning against too much sidered the influence of other environmental agreements the official launch of the Associ- former dean at Georgetown of the Majlis with the added generalization. factors on the nature of a majlis, (MEAs) relating to environ- ation for Environmental Law University in Qatar. Jaidah is influence of social media,” said The disruptive, detrimental including the changing size and mental protection, water, Lecturers in Middle East Univer- also a founding member of Everette E. Dennis NU-Q’s dean concept of technology con- structure of the surroundings, energy and food security in the sities (ASSELLMU) as an umbrella QMIF. and CEO who has convened the fronting tradition in the Majlis and the impact of rapid devel- region. The conference will association for all full-time aca- QMIF provides media QMIF since 2012. was rebuffed by Nonneman who opment around the country. place specific emphasis on the demics who conduct research, leaders in the Arab Region with While most majlises are for noted that: “Because Qatar is so Jaidah commented: “Fifty or role of law and policymakers or teach environment-related a platform to explore topics of men, there has also been a rise connected, everyone is con- sixty years ago when I hear my in shifting to a green and sus- law courses at an academic insti- critical importance to Qatar’s of the female majlis as well. One stantly on Twitter and social parents talk about it, everyone tainable economy. tution in the Middle East. emerging media and communi- panelist noted that some family media. This has brought in knew each other. Nowadays, the High-level attendance is Dr Damilola S. Olawuyi, cation industries. majlises include both men and plenty of discussion. I’ve been in city has become bigger. The expected on the opening day and associate professor at CLPP and Each year, Northwestern women. plenty of majlises when the dis- groups are much smaller and Elizabeth Mrema, director of the conference chair, said: “Drawing University in Qatar hosts forums During the broad-ranging cussion has focused on questions this creates sub-communities. Law Division at the United on the expertise of regional law bringing industry leaders discussion, the panelists like ‘Have you seen the latest on That’s not social or digital media Nations Environment Pro- practitioners will enable us to together to exchange ideas, described the positive and det- that?’ There is a level of real- doing this. It’s a reflection of the gramme will deliver a keynote collectively debate and delib- advice, and experiences across rimental impact of technological time interaction.” times.” address. Day two of the con- erate on topics of both interest ference will feature a keynote and relevance nationally and lecture by Dr. Nilufer Oral, globally. CLPP maintains its member of the United Nations long-standing goal of being both International Law a driver and harnesser of ideas Famous Italian designer visits Commission. regarding energy innovation, Speaking ahead of the event, environmental governance, and Fashion & Arts Academy Susan L. Karamanian, dean of global best practices in the field.” the College of Law and Public The conference will be held THE PENINSULA setup and amazing fashion cur- Policy at HBKU, said: “This year’s in partnership with The Abdullah riculum started in Qatar. conference is of utmost rele- Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah Interna- DOHA: On the sidelines of 14th , impressed by the academy, vance and importance as the tional Foundation for Energy and Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition proposed to come back again to region works to address envi- Sustainable Development, Lex- 2018, CEO of Made in Italy - Qatar and sharing her knowledge ronmental challenges and the isNexis Middle East and North Luxury Brands and famous with IMB-Qatar students and their laws that govern them. Africa, Qatar Environment and fashion designer of Italy Valeria faculty. “Speaking from a vantage Energy Research Institute, and Mangani visited Qatar-based The young and energetic point, the conference’s experts Qatar Green Building Council. Italian Fashion & Arts Academy fashion designer, Jessica couldn’t will be exploring current oppor- The 2018 Middle East Envi- “Istituto di Moda Burgo” along stop praising the Institute and the tunities, challenges, best prac- ronment Law Scholars Con- with Anna Marchetti (owner of Dean of IMB-Qatar Meenu Prasad tices and innovations in teaching ference will be held on Italian luxury fashion group ‘Anna for her vision and aptitude for environmental law in univer- November 4-5, from 8am to Marchetti’ and and Jessica passing on the passion she has for sities in Qatar and beyond. 5pm, at the Minaretein Building Meenu Prasad (right) welcomes Valeria Mangani CEO Made in Giuliani ( Italian fashion designer fashion education. Matters of governance as they (formerly known as the College Italy - Italian Luxury Brands, fashion designer, Anna Marchetti, for Anna Marchetti Group). IMB Qatar offers international pertain to environmental deg- of Islamic Studies Building) in owner of Italian luxury fashion group “Anna Marchetti” and During their visit at IMB- masters, diploma and short cer- radation, global warming, and Education City. The conference Jessica Giuliani, Italian fashion designer for Anna Marchetti group Qatar, Valeria expressed her tificate courses in fashion, which building resilient economies will be conducted in English to IMB Qatar International Fashion Academy. appreciation for the management are open for all the citizens of within the ecological boundaries with simultaneous Arabic PIC: QASSIM RAHMATULLAH / THE PENINSULA of IMB-Qatar for their exceptional Qatar to enroll. of this region are of worldwide translation. Qatar Charity honours partners of ‘Soqya’ program THE PENINSULA Public Relations Department of low-income people, especially the Ministry of Municipality and workers, in recognition of their DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has Environment, Ezdan Mall, Vil- continuous efforts In the con- concluded the fourth season of laggio Mall, Souk Waqif, Aster struction of the urban renais- its annual “Soqya” program and Medical Centre, O Type and sance in the State of Qatar honoured its partners during a Qatari Awareness initiatives, He also pointed out to the ceremony held on this occasion, Boom Construction, Manateq, services provided under the in recognition of their efforts in and other companies. program, which included giving raising awareness on the impor- The charity also honored cold water and juices to workers tance of water and supporting those who cooperated with it as in their workplaces and holding workers within the country. part of the program, including health workshops to raise Ali Al Gareeb, Director of Mohammed al Yafie, a profes- awareness on the importance of The representatives of Qatar Charity partner organizations for Soqya programme attending the ceremony. Programs and Public Relations sional photographer, Anwar drinking an adequate amount of Department at Qatar Charity, Amin Al-Tairi, Razan Tariq water to maintain the health. handed over the shields of Khawaja, Rind Mohammad He noted that the charity has Network, talked about her expe- scarcity in some poor countries taken by the participants in the appreciation to the partners of Abdul Rahman, Siwar Saad Al- organized many awareness lec- rience during the relief journey as well as on QC’s “555” cam- photography workshops held as the program, and presented the Shayeb and Iman Ahmad al- tures and activities for adults and organized by the charity to the paign for drilling wells in needy part of ‘Soqya’. certificates of thanks to those Qashaibi, in addition to those children in the commercial com- poor areas, where she saw the countries around the world, and It is worth mentioning that cooperated in this regard and to who participated in Soqya’s pho- plexes and Souq Waqif, adding people in dire need for water, as urged the good doers to con- the activities of the ‘Soqya’ the participants in the photog- tography workshop. that the community has inter- they travel dozens of kilometers tribute to it. program for the current year raphy workshops organized by Speaking at the ceremony, acted with the program by to get them, and often they find The ceremony also included 2018 have been implemented the charity as part of “Soqya”. Ali Al Greeb, director of Pro- donating 40,000 water bottles for water unsuitable for drinking. a presentation on all the activ- over a period of three months The list of partners honored grams and Public Relations the workers. He thanked the pro- She also stressed the importance ities held as part of the program with the aim of providing water by the charity included Public Department at Qatar Charity, gram’s partners and all those who of water conservation. that benefited thousands of to workers, serving birds, raising Relations Department of the said the charity has been imple- contributed to it or supported it. Adel Abdullah, a member of workers, children and adults awareness on the environmental Ministry of Administrative Devel- menting this program for four At the ceremony, Nadine Al- QC’s Social Network spoke on during the year, in addition to the and health issues in order to opment, Labor and Social Affairs, years, with the aim of supporting Bitar, a member of QC’s Social the importance of water and its presentation of the photographs benefit the local community. 08 MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 ‘Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered’ AFP Saudi authorities had made no such statement about local col- Khashoggi murder violated ISTANBUL: Journalist Jamal laborators, the Istanbul prose- Khashoggi was strangled as soon cutor’s office said. international law: Pompeo as he entered the Saudi The Saudi prosector’s office consulate in Istanbul and then meanwhile invited Fidan and his WASHINGTON: The murder of journalist dismembered as part of a delegation to Riyadh “along with Jamal Khashoggi inside Saudi Arabia’s premeditated plan, Turkey’s the evidence they have consulate in Istanbul was a violation of inter- chief prosecutor said yesterday, obtained”, it added. national law, US Secretary of State Mike making details of the murder The case has sorely strained Pompeo (pictured), said yesterday. public for the first time. relations between the kingdom The top US diplomat nonetheless stressed The revelations came just and the West. that he wanted to preserve the decades-old hours after Saudi Arabia’s chief France said yesterday that alliance with Saudi Arabia and declined prosecutor left Istanbul, and the “not enough” was being done to explicitly to criticize Crown Prince Turkish prosecutor’s office said find those responsible for the Mohammed bin Salman, who has been con- it was “obliged” to reveal the murder of Khashoggi, who was solidating power. “It’s an awful thing that details after the talks produced an insider in Saudi royal circles took place,” Pompeo told conservative talk show host Brian “no concrete results”. “In accordance with plans made in advance, before going into self-imposed Kilmeade. “The killing, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the con- Gruesome reports in the Jamal Khashoggi was strangled to death exile in the United States last sulate in Turkey violates the norms of international law. That much Turkish media had previously immediately after entering the Consulate year. is very, very clear,” he said. Pompeo, who was not asked directly alleged that Khashoggi, a General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul on October “This crime has to be pun- about the Turkish findings, said the United States “won’t rely on 59-year-old Washington Post ished and the perpetrators iden- others” but would “develop our fact pattern” based on information contributor critical of the pow- 2, 2018. The victim’s body was dismembered tified. The truth needs to come it receives. erful Saudi crown prince, had and destroyed following his death by out,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves been killed and cut into pieces suffocation — again, in line with advance Le Drian said. Five Republican senators urge Trump by a team sent from Riyadh to plans,” said a statement from the office of In an editorial published on silence him. His body has not Tuesday, the Washington Post to suspend Saudi nuclear energy talks been found. Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Irfan Fidan. accused Riyadh of “deflecting “In accordance with plans questions by pretending to made in advance, the victim, investigate” the murder. WASHINGTON: Republican senators urged USPresident Donald Jamal Khashoggi, was strangled near unprecedented scrutiny on afternoon without making a It said the administration of Trump yesterday to suspend negotiations on a nuclear energy to death immediately after Saudi Arabia. public statement. US President Donald Trump was agreement with Saudi Arabia. Senators Marco Rubio, Todd Young, entering the Consulate General However, a senior Turkish After initially insisting “playing along” and “pretending Cory Gardner, Rand Paul and Dean Heller said in a letter sent to of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul on official said earlier yesterday Khashoggi left the consulate to believe that the Saudis can Trump that even prior to the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, October 2, 2018 for marriage that Saudi officials seemed “pri- unharmed, then saying he died conduct a credible probe -- even the lawmakers had “serious reservations” about bringing nuclear formalities,” said a statement marily interested in finding out in a brawl during an interview though a chief suspect is the technology to the kingdom. from the office of Istanbul chief what evidence Turkey had gone wrong, the Saudi regime kingdom’s own autocratic ruler”. prosecutor Irfan Fidan. against the perpetrators”. has since admitted he was killed The editorial also urged the Khashoggi couldn’t have been murdered “The victim’s body was dis- “We did not get the by a “rogue operation” and US Congress to impose sanctions membered and destroyed fol- impression that they were keen arrested 18 people. on those responsible -- without high-level order: AK Party lowing his death by suffocation on genuinely cooperating with Turkish President Recep “including, if the available evi- — again, in line with advance the investigation,” the official Tayyip Erdogan has urged the dence points to him, Mohammed ANKARA: The murder of journalist Jamal plans,” it added. said on condition of Saudi regime to reveal the bin Salman - and reshape US Khashoggi could not have been carried out “Despite our well-inten- anonymity. location of Khashoggi’s body and relations with Saudi Arabia”. without instructions from “high-level” author- tioned efforts to reveal the truth, After arriving on Sunday, who ordered the hit. The affair has tarnished the ities in Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for Turkey’s no concrete results have come Saudi Arabia’s Attorney General Erdogan has also called on image of the crown prince, who ruling party said yesterday. “Who gave the out of those meetings.” Sheikh Saud Al Mojeb met with Riyadh reveal the identity of has positioned himself as a Saudi command? This is not an action that could be Riyadh sent the head of its Fidan twice, visited the con- local “co-conspirators” that reformer. He has denounced the carried out without instruction from high-level” investigation to Istanbul this sulate and spoke with Turkey’s media reports claimed had dis- murder as “repulsive” and officials in Riyadh, Omer Celik (pictured). told week seeking to draw a line MIT intelligence agency. posed of Khashoggi’s body. strongly denied any reporters. under a crisis that has brought He flew out of Istanbul last However, Mojeb said that involvement. Swiss halt Saudi arms parts trade over Khashoggi case

AFP exports to Saudi Arabia in 2009, Fabian Maienfisch, a spokesman reverse the decision in the future. made details of the murder team sent from Riyadh to silence with the exception of spare at the economic affairs Khashoggi, a 59-year-old public for the first time him. His body is still missing. GENEVA: The Swiss government weapons parts, as well as muni- department, told AFP in an email. Saudi journalist and Washington Wednesday, divulging that the After initially insisting that decided yesterday to halt deliv- tions for air-defence systems and “This is just a temporary Post contributor critical of the journalist had been strangled as Khashoggi left the consulate eries of spare weapons parts to firearms for private use. measure,” he said, acknowl- powerful Saudi crown prince, soon as he entered the unharmed, then saying he died Saudi Arabia amid concern over But the government, known edging that the decision came “in was killed after entering the consulate. in a brawl during an interview, the murder of journalist Jamal as the Federal Council, has now the wake of the Khashoggi case.” Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Gruesome reports in the the Saudi regime has since Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate decided that already authorised He emphasised that the gov- October 2 to obtain paperwork Turkish media had previously admitted he was killed by a in Istanbul. exports of spare weapons parts ernment would follow develop- ahead of his upcoming wedding. alleged that Khashoggi had been “rogue operation”, and arrested Switzerland halted weapons will not be delivered for now, ments and could potentially Turkey’s chief prosecutor killed and cut into pieces by a 18 people. Oman minister meets Abbas Netanyahu pick for Jerusalem after Netanyahu talks mayor ousted in

AFP obstacles to Israeli attempts to ﬁrst round win official recognition from AFP RAMALLAH: An Omani minister countries in the region. met Palestinian president But there has long been talk Mahmoud Abbas yesterday and of under-the-radar contacts, JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime delivered a letter about Israeli particularly regarding Iran, Minister Benjamin Netan- Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- which is the enemy both of Israel yahu’s pick for Jerusalem yahu’s surprise visit to the Gulf and Gulf states. Only two Arab mayor has failed to make it sultanate last week, official Pales- countries — Egypt and Jordan — past the first round of polling, tinian media said. have full diplomatic relations local election results showed Yusuf bin Alawi, Minister in with Israel. yesterday. charge of Foreign Affairs, gave Netanyahu’s October 25 visit None of the six candi- Abbas the letter from H M Sultan to Oman, which was not dates for mayor, all Jewish, Qaboos, official Palestinian news announced beforehand, was a won the 40 percent of votes agency Wafa said. major coup for the Israeli required to be elected in the It gave no further details on premier. first round held on Tuesday. their discussions in Ramallah, in Abbas had also visited Oman A runoff between the top the occupied West Bank. The Pal- in the days before Netanyahu’s two will be held on November estinians have been concerned by trip. Israel also achieved other 13. Minister for Jerusalem Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas with Omani Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Israel’s bid for rapprochement milestones in its regional efforts Affairs Zeev Elkin, a member Abdullah, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. yesterday. with Gulf countries. in the days after the premier’s of Netanyahu’s right-wing Frozen peace efforts and Oman visit. Likud party and who received Israel’s continued occupation of Israeli Sports Minister Miri Zayed mosque, Israel’s com- a speech in Dubai and the at a judo competition in Abu the premier’s endorsement, Palestinian territory have been Regev toured the UAE’s Sheikh munications minister delivered Israeli national anthem played Dhabi. won only 20 percent of the vote.Moshe Leon, another right-winger, garnered the most votes with 33 percent, according to official figures. US-backed Syria force suspends anti-IS attacks after Turkey hits Leon has the backing of hawkish Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and of AFP “temporary halt” to their oper- what it called the “coordination” under the cover of a sand storm, since been deployed on the out- ultra-Orthodox Jewish fac- ation, launched in eastern Syria of Turkey’s attacks with a forcing a retreat. skirts of the IS holdout of Hajin. tions. The ultra-Orthodox, BEIRUT: A Kurdish-led force on September 10, and fightback by jihadists and According to the Syrian On Tuesday, two days after who make up some 10 percent backed by a US-led coalition said condemned Turkey’s “provoca- warned of “a prolonged halt to Observatory for Human Rights, another round of shelling of of Israel’s population, wield yesterday it was suspending oper- tions”. our military operation” against the IS counter-attack killed at Kurdish posts in northern Syria, particular influence in Jeru- ations against the Islamic State (IS) Yesterday, Turkish shelling IS if Ankara keeps up its strikes. least 72 fighters from the SDF, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip salem, and the city has previ- group after Turkey shelled of Kurdish positions in the Backed by coalition air which is dominated by the Erdogan said his country had ously had an ultra-Orthodox Kurdish militia posts in northern Kobane sector of northern Syria strikes, the SDF aims to expel IS Kurdish People’s Protection completed preparations for a mayor. In comparatively Syria. The Syrian Democratic killed four fighters, according to from a holdout on the Iraqi Units (YPG). The monitoring new operation to “destroy” the liberal Tel Aviv, Labour mayor Forces, joint Arab-Kurdish units Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news border, but the jihadists staged group said hundreds of Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara has Ron Huldai was elected to a led by the Kurds, announced a agency. The SDF condemned a vicious fightback last week fighters, men and women, had branded a terrorist group. fifth five-year term. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 MIDDLE EAST 09 US urges end to devastating Saudi-Iran proxy war in Yemen

AP The renewed push for a political solution in Yemen comes amid growing criticism of US WASHINGTON: The Trump military support for Saudi Arabia’s Yemen air administration is calling for an urgent halt to the Saudi-Iran campaign and American arms sales to the Saudis. proxy war in Yemen and the start of negotiations in Khashoggi case, lawmakers Mattis was more specific November towards a political stepped up demands for than Pompeo in his call for settlement of a conflict that has responses to the murder and to urgent movement towards a pushed millions to the brink of the crisis in Yemen. political solution to the fighting, starvation in the Arab world’s Secretary of State Mike under peace talks being urged poorest country. Pompeo urged a cease-fire, spe- by UN Special Envoy Martin The renewed push for a cifically citing both missile and Griffiths. Mattis said a cease-fire political solution in Yemen drone strikes into Saudi Arabia should take effect within 30 comes amid growing criticism and the United Arab Emirates days. of US military support for Saudi by Iran-backed Houthis and the “We’re calling on all the Arabia’s Yemen air campaign airstrikes in populated areas of parties, specifically the Houthis South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar (centre), arrives to Juba international airport with his wife and American arms sales to the Yemen by the US-backed Arab and the Arab coalition, to meet to attend a peace ceremony in Juba, South Sudan, yesterday. Saudis, in the aftermath of the coalition. in Sweden in November and to killing of Saudi writer Jamal “The time is now for a ces- come to a solution,” Mattis said. Khashoggi in a Saudi Consulate sation of hostilities,” Pompeo Mattis called for demilitari- in Turkey. said in a written statement zation of Yemen’s border with South Sudan rebel leader Machar A top Turkish prosecutor shortly after Defence Secretary Saudi Arabia “so that the Saudis said yesterday that Khashoggi, Jim Mattis made similar state- and the Emirates do not have to a US resident, was killed and ments in an appearance at the worry about missiles coming dismembered in a premeditated United States Institute of Peace. into their homes and cities and back in Juba after two years murder at the consulate, putting The secretary of state urged the airports.” He also said measures an even greater spotlight on implementation of “confidence- should be taken to “ensure that AFP said, according to UN radio al-Bashir, Ethiopia’s newly Washington’s close relationship building measures” to address all Iranian-supplied missiles to Miraya, repeating words often appointed President Sahle- with Riyadh. As the adminis- the underlying issues of the the Houthis” are put under JUBA: South Sudan rebel leader heard but not followed through. Work Zewde, Somalia’s head of tration weighed responses to the conflict. “international watch.” Riek Machar returned to the In a goodwill gesture, the state Mohamed Abdullahi capital Juba for the first time in president announced the release Mohamed and Ugandan Pres- more than two years yesterday yesterday of former rebel ident Yoweri Museveni. UN aims to relaunch for a ceremony to welcome the spokesman James Gatdet Dak, South Sudan gained inde- Saudi-led coalition masses latest peace accord for the war- to be followed Thursday by the pendence from its northern Yemen peace talks ravaged country. freeing of William John Endley, neighbour Sudan in 2011 after a troops near Hodeidah Machar, who under the a retired South African colonel 22-year civil war pitting rebel ‘within a month’ terms of the September deal is and ex-adviser to Machar. groups against Khartoum. to be reinstated as vice pres- Both men were sentenced “Sadly, the hopes and dreams REUTERS AFP ident, had not set foot in the city to death by a Juba court in of that moment were lost in the since he fled in July 2016 under January. UN Mission in South outbreak of the war that has ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition has massed thousands of troops DUBAI: The United Nations said a hail of gunfire when an earlier Sudan (UNMISS) chief David plagued this country for five near Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah, local military sources yesterday it aims to relaunch peace pact collapsed. The new Shearer hailed the moment of long years,” Shearer said. said yesterday, in a move to pressure Iranian-aligned Houthi insur- Yemen peace talks “within a deal aims to end a civil war that cooperation and said in a “This ceremony is a chance gents to return to UN-sponsored peace talks. month”, shortly after the United erupted in the world’s youngest statement that building trust for the leaders here today to The United States and Britain have called for an end to the States called for the warring country in December 2013 and would be crucial.“To see parties restore that hope and to secure 3-1/2-year war that has driven impoverished Yemen to the verge parties to come to the negoti- uprooted about four million that have previously been divided a peaceful and prosperous of famine, raising pressure on Saudi Arabia as it faces a global ating table. people -- roughly a third of the by violence coming together here future for their people.” outcry over the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal UN envoy Martin Griffiths population. The rebel chief was in Juba, in a public sign of unity, The deal has encountered Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. welcomed calls for an imme- welcomed at Juba’s airport by sends a strong message to the cit- delays on several issues The military alliance of Sunni Muslim states led by Saudi Arabia diate resumption of talks and a President Salva Kiir, Machar’s izens of this country that you are including the reactivation of a and the United Arab Emirates has deployed forces around 30,000- ceasefire in Yemen. former ally turned bitter enemy. genuinely committed to end the joint committee on borders and strong south of Houthi-held Hodeidah and near its eastern Sweden’s foreign minister The two rivals then joined suffering and build durable the number of regional states. entrance, pro-coalition Yemeni military sources said. said that Griffiths has asked regional leaders at the cer- peace,” he said. It was not known how long “Thousands of Yemeni soldiers trained by the coalition have Sweden to host such talks. Grif- emony to publicly welcome the Several thousand people Machar would remain in Juba, been sent to the outskirts of Hodeidah in addition to modern fiths welcomed the US calls for most recent agreement, signed gathered for the ceremony at the as his aides have expressed weaponry including armoured vehicles and tanks... in preparation immediate resumption of the under international pressure on John Garang Mausoleum, built concern for his safety in the city. for a big operation in coming days,” said one source. political process and said the September 12 in the Ethiopian in honour of the independence Lam Paul Gabriel, a spokesman Residents said the Houthis had also deployed forces in the UN remains committed “to capital Addis Ababa. hero killed in a helicopter crash for Machar’s SPLM-IO rebel centre of Hodeidah city, at the port and in southern neighbour- bring the Yemeni parties to the “I want to reiterate in front in 2005. Among regional group, said Tuesday Machar hoods in anticipation of an onslaught. The coalition and the Houthis negotiations table within a of you that the war in South leaders attending were would be accompanied by about have not commented on the military movements. month.” Sudan has come to an end,” Kiir Sudanese President Omar 30 political figures.

South Africa home Cape Town mayor quits amid minister lied under row in South Africa opposition oath: Watchdog AFP AFP JOHANNESBURG: The mayor of South Africa’s second city of JOHANNESBURG: South Cape Town resigned yesterday, amid a bitter dispute roiling the Africa’s public standards country’s main opposition in the runup to 2019 elections. Patricia watchdog said that the home De Lille vowed she would vacate her office at 7pm, ending uncer- affairs minister had violated the tainty about her future following several conflicting statements. constitution when he lied under The 67-year-old had first announced in August that she would oath in court, triggering imme- step down at the end of October but appeared to backtrack in diate calls for him to resign. recent weeks. She also announced her resignation from oppo- Malusi Gigaba, 47, was sition Democratic Alliance (DA), which had tried unsuccessfully investigated by the public pro- in recent months to strip her of her membership. “I can no longer tector ombudswoman after stay in this abusive relationship. When people abuse you, you must testifying last year in a court walk away,” she told reporters. “It’s my long walk to freedom... case filed by a company con- I’m free, free from oppression,” she said, describing the DA as trolled by the wealthy Oppen- “rudderless” and “leaderless”. heimer family. Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane in her DR Congo ‘executed’ 92 in September: UN report recommended that Pres- Calling for leader’s release ident Cyril Ramaphosa take dis- KINSHASA: A UN rights group said yesterday that armed groups Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria gesture during a march to demand the release of their ciplinary action against the min- and security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo had carried Nigerian leader Ibrahim Zakzaky, along a street in Abuja, yesterday. ister for “telling an untruth out 92 “extra-judicial executions” in September. The Joint UN Office under oath and before a court for Human Rights (BCNUDH) recorded 623 human rights violations of law”. The allegations were in the sprawling central African country last month, up from 620 probed after a complaint from in August and 515 in July. “State agents are responsible for 52 percent the opposition Democratic of the documented violations, including the extra-judicial execu- Alliance (DA) party. Cameroon blames militants for missionary’s murder tions of at least 25 people,” the BCNUDH’s monthly report said. It “The DA has repeatedly added that 48 percent were perpetrated by fighters from armed AFP called for constitutional Bamenda, the latest violence to Bambui, 14 kilometres (nine groups, including the summary executions of at least 67 people. delinquent Gigaba to be rock the country’s English- miles) from Bamenda after a Most were committed in the conflict-wracked eastern provinces sacked, yet inexplicably he YAOUNDÉ: An American speaking areas. group of militants attempted to of North and South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. has remained a fixture in the missionary gunned down in Defence minister Joseph attack the university and a gen- cabinets of both Jacob Zuma Cameroon’s northwest anglo- Beti Assomo called the shooting darmerie, according to Beti Swedish woman accused of IS link cleared and Cyril Ramaphosa,” the phone region was killed during a “terrorist ambush” in a Assomo. party said in a statement. clashes sparked when militants statement broadcast on state “Immediately pursued by BAGHDAD: A court in the Iraqi capital yesterday cleared a Swedish The court case hinged on attacked security forces and a radio, adding that an inquiry had defence and security forces, the woman of allegations that she belonged to the Islamic State group whether Gigaba had given the university campus, Cameroon’s been opened. armed terrorists fire back, which due to lack of evidence, a judicial source said. Under Iraq’s anti- Oppenheimers’ approval to defence minister said His comments came amid provokes a clash between them terrorism law, courts can sentence to death anyone found guilty have a private terminal at yesterday. speculation by separatist sup- and the forces positioned of belonging to IS, including non-combatants. Victoria Lazar, a Johannesburg airport. Gigaba Charles Wesco, 44, was porters on social media in the around the university,” he said. Swede of Serbian origin in her late 20s, was acquitted of the charge served as finance minister for travelling with his wife, son and English-speaking regions — the Four militants were killed, “for lack of sufficient evidence”, the judicial source said. But she a year under Jacob Zuma, a driver, when they came under site of an uprising by armed several wounded, he said, was sentenced in a separate case to six months in prison for ille- who was ousted as president fire on Tuesday. He died of his secessionists — that the Cam- adding that a student and a gally entering Iraq, the source added. During questioning, Lazar in February over mounting wounds in hospital later the eroon army was behind the soldier were injured in the had told interrogators she had come to Iraq with her husband and graft scandals. same day in the regional capital killing. The attack happened in crossfire. their three children, now aged five, four and three. 10 VIEWS THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 Turkey remembers defiant ESTABLISHED IN 1996 WW1 battles, not defeat CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

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ACTING MANAGING EDITOR STUART WILLIAMS AFP MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] orld War I ended with the Ottoman Empire DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR vanquished and facing MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI imminent collapse, its Wdoomed alliance with Imperial [email protected] Germany costing hundreds of thousands of Ottoman lives and dealing a death blow to the already creaking empire. But 100 years after the surrender of the Ottomans to the Allied powers EDITORIAL at Mudros on October 30, 1918, the Great War is in no way seen as a pointless waste or even a defeat by modern Turkey under President Recep Beating extremism Tayyip Erdogan. Rather than focusing on the four ince the 1960s, terrorism has been vexing countries years of devastating conflict that across the world in some way or the other making it a ended in the capitulation and eventual Sglobal phenomenon. Despite the fact that every country dissolution of the empire, Turkey is spending millions of dollars and resort to modern tech- remembers key individual battles nological advancements, extremists still strike causing where Ottoman forces, often against destruction and deaths. Without renewed, unbiased and huge odds, defied the Allies and helped determined international cooperation and concerted global forge a new Turkish national identity. efforts, we will not be able to live in peace and be safe whether Chief among them is the 1915-1916 at the comfort of our homes or outside. Battle of Gallipoli, but other episodes In this context, the speech given by the Deputy Prime like the siege at Kut al-Amara in Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed modern Iraq and the Battle of Sari- bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the Forum on ‘Returning Foreign kamis against the Russians are also Fighters’ recently is thought-provoking. The Deputy Prime marked with increasing emphasis. Minister reiterated Qatar’s globally-accepted stance in the Gursel Goncu, the editor-in-chief fight against terrorism rejecting it in all its forms and man- of the monthly Turkish history mag- Constantinople and helped lay the of defiance, though Western historians ifestations. The Deputy Prime Minister said that the issue of azine #tarih, said the empire’s defeat foundations of the modern state that lambast the Ottoman commander terrorism is a high priority for the State of Qatar, citing the was not would be formed in 1923 by Mustafa Enver Pasha for needlessly sending continuous development of the country’s legislations and its something Kemal Ataturk, a key commander at troops to their deaths. Enver is related institutional entities against terrorism and the imple- that existed Gallipoli. despised by Armenians, who see him mentation of United Nations resolutions in this regard and in the Erdogan, who refers to the battle as the instigator of the 1915 massacres. the country’s active involvement in the international coop- memory of as the Canakkale Victory, has urged “For the sake of a higher and more eration against terrorism. contem- Turkish soldiers to remember the meaningful victory, our army did not The Deputy Prime Minister 100 years after porary heroism of their forebears as they give in to the enemy or to nature,” rightly said that this menace the surrender of Turkey. prepare for battle. Erdogan said this year, revealing his cannot be confronted and elim- the Ottomans to “We, the “The aim is the same, the spirit is own grandfather has been “martyred” inated unless the international the Allied powers Turks, the same and the faith is the same,” at Sarikamis. However the 1916 siege community united its efforts remember Erdogan said in March as he sent in Kut al-Amara was successful, The Deputy Prime through a persevering and at Mudros on and talk troops on a cross-border mission into ending in the surrender of thousands Minister said inclusive approach based on October 30, 1918, about that Syria to help seize the Afrin region of British and Indian soldiers. It is that the issue cooperation and participation the Great War is period from Syrian-Kurdish militia. regarded as one of the most humili- of terrorism is among all states, international in no way seen as through the “At Canakkale, a nation filled with ating Allied defeats of the war. and regional organisations, civil Gallipoli a history of victories awakens from a “We try to understand World War a high priority society organisations and aca- a pointless waste victory and centuries-old sleep, and rising up from I through rare victories such as Gal- for the State demic and research entities. or even a defeat the triumph the ashes, embraces the spirit of lipoli, epic tragedies or personal heroic of Qatar, citing In the fight against terrorism, by modern Turkey of the siege of unity,” he added. stories, without considering the the continuous it is imperative to find out the root Kut al- There is no room in this narrative reasons for such failures,” said Tuncay cause and eliminate it. Most of under President Amara. The for the fate of the empire’s Armenian Yilmazer, a WWI researcher and development the terrorists, whether they Recep Tayyip devastating citizens, whose leaders and prominent editor of the website Geliboluyuan- of the country’s belong to the Middle East, Asia or Erdogan. defeat of intellectuals began to be rounded up in lamak.com. legislations Europe, are young people who 1918, on the 1915 just as the Gallipoli campaign “We need to review our under- lack the ideology of right thinking. other hand, is started. standing of such a great event that led and its related They belong to the oppressed still being interpreted as the ‘treason’ Armenians contend they were the to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire institutional communities or economically of the authorities at the time,” he said. victims of the first genocide of the and transformation into a modern entities against isolated, they lack livelihood Erdogan increasingly gives these 20th century at the hands of Ottoman nation state,” he said. terrorism. opportunities and education with brief triumphs prominence, tracing a forces but Turkey rejects this, insisting Goncu noted that WWI was part of weak job opportunities. It is the line of continuity through the cen- far smaller numbers perished in a con- more than a decade of devastating duty of respective governments turies of great events in Turkish flict that saw atrocities on both sides. warfare endured by the Turks that to provide their people with at history from the pre-Ottoman era into Every January, thousands of began with the Balkan Wars of 1912 least the basic needs to live a decent life such as food, shelter, the modern republic right up to the Turks brandishing national flags brave and ended with victory in the War of education and job. defeat of an attempted coup against freezing temperatures to march Independence in 1923. As the world has become a global village, it has become him in 2016. through snow in the northern Kars “We have recalled and commem- easier to spread extremist ideologies and violence using The president sees these battles as region to mark not a victory but a orated the victorious moments and the modern means of communications and technology. The world a defiance of the West and defence of famous retreat of Ottoman forces in heroes of this 10-year long struggle, countries collectively should keep a watch over the commu- territory which was historically in Tur- 1915 after a disastrous defeat inflicted and we still do,” Goncu said. nication channels and take extra caution to see that tech- key’s natural sphere of influence. by better-prepared Russian forces at “As regards defeat and agony, nology and know-how that help make weapons are not The Ottoman resistance at Gal- Sarikamis. well, they are to be forgotten!” accessed by trouble-makers. lipoli prevented the conquest of The retreat is seen as another act The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that terrorism cannot be and should not be linked to any religion, nationality, civ- ilisation or ethnic group, and it is important not to confuse terrorism with legitimate resistance. Instead of blaming others, each state should shoulder the responsibility of Europe’s budget rules need smart enforcement weaning its people away from extremist ideologies and violence. Terrorism should never be used as a means to settle BLOOMBERG promised to end its bond-buying will spread, putting other countries at scores with other countries, ethnicity or groups. program at the end of this year, which risk. s it does each year, the puts more of the burden of main- Italy, though, is an extreme case. European Commission is taining macroeconomic stability on France’s budget deficit will rise a little digging into the budgets of fiscal policy. No question, the euro next year to 2.8 percent of output, but QUOTE OF THE DAY euro-zone member states to area should take the rules seriously that’s because of a temporary fall in seeA if they comply with the bloc’s fiscal and use the recovery to reduce public revenues caused by a change to the tax rules. The recent slowing of the debt - but this doesn’t mean turning a system; the underlying cyclically European economy complicates this blind eye to the risk of a renewed adjusted budget deficit will fall I would be happy work - or ought to. It suggests that slowdown. regardless (albeit by a bit less than the to give evidence Brussels should not be overly strict. As part of its review, the com- commission had required). The same to the committee The commission needs to sanction mission has asked for further clarifi- is true of the other countries under when a Brexit deal serious violations, but it can afford to cation of the budget plans submitted examination (except for Slovenia, be lenient with borderline cases. by Belgium, France, Portugal, Slovenia which hasn’t yet submitted a full is ﬁnalised, and The commission’s current fore- and Spain. budget for 2019). currently expect casts say that output in the euro area In one case - Italy - it took the The commission ought to maintain 21 November to be will expand by around 2 percent this unprecedented step of telling the gov- the credibility of its fiscal rules by pun- year and next. But the most recent ernment to submit a new plan. This ishing serious violations. But cracking suitable. signs are less encouraging. Growth is was right: Rome’s first attempt didn’t down on unimportant deviations, faltering. The upsurge in U.S. protec- so much break the rules as repudiate especially if the European economy Dominic Raab tionism threatens Europe’s exporters. them, and Italy’s enormous public turns out to be decelerating, would be Britain’s Brexit Secretary And heightened volatility in financial debt leaves no room for error. bad economics and worse politics. If markets is undermining confidence. Investors are alarmed about the plans, the rules are to command support, The European Central Bank has rightly and there’s a danger that the mood they need to be enforced - judiciously. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 OPINION 11 Legal hurdles cloud outlook for Japan-S Korea forced labour row

LINDA SIEG & HYONHEE SHIN cooperating “for the future oriented spectrum, Koreans feel Japan has inad- overseen by South Korean dictator REUTERS development of the relationship”, equately addressed the wounds of the Park Chung-hee. South Korea’s foreign ministry said. past,” he said. Few funds went to individuals, apan and South Korea will try to The two countries need to coop- “Japan feels it has already resolved and forced labourers began to keep a row over World War Two erate to rein in North Korea’s nuclear the issue legally and they don’t want to come forward in the 1990s. forced labourers from spiralling and missile programmes, and they also show flexibility because it would open In 2000, the German gov- Jinto a crisis, after a court ruling have close business ties. Japanese firms up a Pandora’s box of claims” against ernment and companies set up a forced the US allies to confront hard- invested $1.84 billion in South Korea other Japanese firms. forced labour fund to compensate ening public opinion and divergent last year, its second largest foreign There are 14 similar lawsuits Hitler-era victims, a format some views of history. investor, Korean data show. pending against firms including Mit- experts said could be a model for South Korea’s top court ruled yes- But relations have long been subishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Mitsui Japan - although whether Japanese terday that Japan’s Nippon Steel & plagued by the legacy of Japan’s Mining and Smelting Co Ltd. firms would be willing to con- Sumitomo Metal Corp. must com- 1910-45 colonisation of the peninsula Two are class action suits with a tribute is not clear. The two countries pensate four South Koreans for their and the war, including the matter of total 752 plaintiffs. South Korean officials need to cooperate to wartime forced labour, a binding “comfort women”, a euphemism for South Korea says there were nearly expressed doubts. The legally rein in North Korea’s verdict Japan denounced as girls and women forced to work in Jap- 150,000 victims of wartime forced binding nature of the Supreme nuclear and missile “unthinkable” while expressing hope it anese wartime military brothels. labour, 5,000 of whom are alive, but Court ruling appears to restrict the would not hurt the uneasy neighbours’ “The sentiments of compromise are families of those who have died can scope for diplomatic manoeuvring, programmes, and cooperation on North Korea. in short supply in both countries,” said also make a claim. while on both sides there’s a risk of they also have close South Korean Foreign Minister Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asia Japan has threatened to seek inter- public anger. business ties. Kang Kyung-wha and her Japanese studies at Temple University’s Japan national arbitration of the dispute, but “Any Japan-related historical counterpart, Taro Kono, stressed in a campus. Kono told reporters it would wait to see legacy issues are highly political telephone call the need to keep “Basically, across the political what steps South Korean President and could rekindle anti-Japan sen- Moon Jae-in’s government takes. timent,” said former South Korean “We’re just starting to explore next national security adviser Chun steps, with a task force to be created Yung-woo. under the prime minister with private “There would be heated debate experts too,” a South Korean gov- as to what responsibilities the government official told Reuters on con- ernment and those companies that dition of anonymity due to the sensi- benefited from the Japanese funds tivity of the matter. decades ago bear,” he said. “It’s really difficult, but we need to A rightward shift in Japan mir- come up with a wise idea that can min- rored in Prime Minister Shinzo imise the consequences.” OPTIONS Abe’s conservative agenda could Japan says the compensation issue was also hamper a solution. settled by a 1965 treaty normalising “Unfortunately, the present ties. government in Japan is run by Past South Korean governments people who believe the post-war is have agreed, but the Supreme Court over and therefore they see said the treaty left open the door for remembering the unpleasant past individuals to seek recompense. as damaging to the dignity of the Moon’s government has said it state,” said Andrew Horvat, a vis- would respect the court’s decision. iting professor at Japan’s Josai Some experts in Japan said one International University and expert option could be for South Korea to in historical reconciliation issues. create a fund to compensate former “Their support base is clear on labourers, perhaps with financing from that.” (Writing by Linda Sieg; addi- companies in both countries. tional reporting by Josh Smith and Lee Choon-shik, a victim of wartime forced labor during the Japanese colonial period, arrives with supporters holding South Korean firms benefited from Jeongmin Kim in Seoul and Kiyoshi portraits of fellow deceased laborers in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. Japanese aid under the 1965 treaty, Takenaka in Tokyo.

he victory of Brazil’s far-right - chose him as an insurance policy to political science professor at the elite presidential candidate Jair keep the PT from returning to power. University of Sao Paulo, is not tough Bolsonaro has battered the Brazilian hip-hop icon Mano enough to take on Bolsonaro. country’s leftist Workers Brown chastised party leadership as Gleisi Hoffman, currently the D-RING ROAD TParty, which is now looking for a way being out of touch with voters at a president of the party, had resisted POST BOX: 3488 to rebuild. star-studded concert and PT rally in putting Haddad at the top of the ticket DOHA - QATAR BRAD BROOKS After defining Brazilian politics for Rio de Janeiro just days before Sun- until Lula told her to fall in line, [email protected] REUTERS much of the past two decades, the day’s wipeout. according to party members familiar party is still ruled by its imprisoned “There is no reason for us to cele- with the internal debate. brate,” Brown told the crowd as The news for the PT is not entirely EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: stunned dignitaries, including Haddad dismal. 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: and famed singer-songwriters The party won the most seats in +974 4455 7758 Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque, the lower house on Sunday. It also looked on. “If you can’t speak the peo- took four governorships, more than MANAGING EDITOR As Brazil shifts right, TEL: ple’s language, you’re going to lose any other party, although all were 4462 7505 big.” ‘Corruption in Brazilian politics concentrated in Brazil’s poor existed long before the PT was formed northeast, a traditional PT stronghold. DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR its leftists search for a TEL: in 1980 to unite union workers, artists After the shock of Bolsonaro’s big 4455 7769 and intellectuals to help end Brazil’s win dissipates, the PT will unify and LOCAL NEWS SECTION way forward 1964-1985 dictatorship. embrace its role as the resistance, TEL: 4455 7743 All of the country’s major political with Haddad at the helm, predicted parties, not just the PT, are implicated Alberto Almeida, the founder of Bra- BUSINESS NEWS SECTION 73-year-old founder, threatened by in the so-called Operation Car Wash silis, a political and social analysis TEL: 4462 7535 internal divisions and concentrated in investigation that ensnared Lula. PT firm in Sao Paulo. a region far from the center of eco- loyalists say he and Rousseff were the “After all, he did win 45 million SPORT NEWS SECTION nomic power. victims of a right-wing “coup” that votes,” Almeida said. TEL: 4455 7745 The damage goes beyond the sought to discredit their leadership He said the PT’s mission will be to drubbing voters delivered to the and undo social programs that lifted confront a challenge not seen since ONLINE SECTION party’s presidential candidate millions from poverty and gave Brazil’s return to democracy three TEL: 4462 7501 Fernando Haddad, who lost by a minorities a seat at the table. decades ago: combating an “extreme- [email protected] 10-percentage-point margin in Sun- But even some PT stalwarts admit right leader.” “In that way, the PT’s its rise from an opposition party to a role is similar to what the Democrats day’s election. PUBLIC RELATIONS governing one caused it to lose touch in the U.S. are facing with Trump,” For millions of Brazilians, the PT, TEL: 4455 7613 with its roots. Horse trading in the Almeida said. as the Workers Party is known, has [email protected] become synonymous with corruption capital Brasilia became paramount for Haddad signaled as much in his concession speech in Sao Paulo, and mismanagement. PT govern- the party to stay on top, said Carlos ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT issuing a rallying cry to a movement ments in recent years presided over Alberto Libanio Christo, a Roman TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 the biggest bribery scandal in the Catholic priest and founding member in disarray. FAX: 4455 7870 nation’s history and the worst eco- of the PT who is known in Brazil as “All of us here, who helped build [email protected] nomic downturn since the Great Frei Betto. one of the world’s largest democ- Depression. Street crime has also “Gradually, the PT traded its racies, must maintain it in the face of CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT exploded. project for Brazil in favor of a project provocations and threats,” Haddad TEL: 4455 7857 The backlash has been severe. for power,” said Frei Betto, who spent said. “Have courage. The key to life is [email protected] Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da four years imprisoned during the dic- courage.” Silva - whom Barack Obama once tatorship. “The party disappeared SUBSCRIPTION & dubbed “the most popular politician from the countryside and the poor DISTRIBUTION on Earth” - sits in a prison cell, serving urban outskirts.” Another major chal- TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 a 12-year sentence for graft and lenge is that the PT is dwarfed by the FAX: 44557819 money laundering. Lula’s hand- towering presence of Lula, who still [email protected] After deﬁning picked successor, former President runs the show from jail. Brazilian politics for Dilma Rousseff, was impeached for Barred from running for another After the shock of fudging public accounts. term due to his felony convictions, much of the past Bolsonaro’s big win Angry voters responded by Lula tapped Haddad, the former All thoughts and views two decades, the throwing their support to Bolsonaro, mayor of Sao Paulo, as his stand-in, a dissipates, the PT will expressed in these columns party is still ruled including sizeable numbers of low- gambit that failed miserably. unify and embrace its are those of the writers, by its imprisoned income workers, Afro-Brazilians and Lula loyalists, including Wash- role as the resistance, university students who were long the ington Quaquá, the head of the PT in not of the newspaper. 73-year-old founder, PT’s core supporters. The bombastic Rio de Janeiro state, are sticking with with Haddad at the threatened by former Army captain tapped into their Haddad despite his resounding defeat. helm, predicted All correspondence internal divisions fury, vowing to crack down on crim- “Haddad came out of this election Alberto Almeida, the regarding Views and and concentrated inals, be they in the streets or in the a great leader,” Quaquá said. “He halls of Congress. emerged with the stature needed to founder of Brasilis, Opinion pages should be in a region far Even some voters nervous about be our national leader.” But a militant a political and social send to editor-in-chief from the center of Bolsonaro - who has urged police to faction of the PT is pushing for more analysis ﬁrm in Sao office or mailed to the economic power. shoot to kill and vowed to jail or drive aggressive leadership. Some grouse Paulo. his political foes out of the country that Haddad, a mild-mannered [email protected] 12 ASIA THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 India inaugurates world’s tallest statue AFP

SARDAR SAROVAR DAM: India inau- gurated the world’s tallest statue yesterday with fireworks, folk dances and floral tributes, deploying tight security amid an outcry by local groups over the soaring cost of the 182-metre (600-feet) sculpture of an independence hero. Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially opened the statue of Sardar Valla- bhbhai Patel describing the completion of his pet project as “a day that will be remembered in the history of India”. Air force jets flew over the giant figure and clouds of rose petals were dropped from helicopters onto its head as Modi bent in front of the statue on the ground. Modi hailed Sardar Patel’s “strategic thinking” in bringing together the dis- parate country after independence in 1947 and described the Statue of Unity Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveils the “Statue of Unity” portraying Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, during its inauguration in as “a symbol of our engineering and technical prowess”. More than 5,000 Kevadia, in the western state of Gujarat, yesterday. armed police guarded the huge site in a remote corner of Gujarat state, with chances in case community groups the 3,500 workers involved in its inauguration. Posters of Modi with size of New York’s Statue of Liberty and Anand Mazgaonkar, a community group staged protests to condemn the decision construction. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani were also dwarfs the 128-metre (400-feet) leader in Narmada district, accusing to spend 29.9bn rupees ($400m) — Drones and helicopters kept watch torn down or had their faces blackened high Spring Temple Buddha in China, plain clothes officers of detaining 12 much of it public funds — to build the on the area, according to police, after at the weekend. Police guarded new the world’s next-biggest statue. It is people late on Tuesday. Police denied statue over a nearly four-year period. the chiefs of 22 villages signed a letter posters put in their place. made up of nearly 100,000 tonnes of the claims. But the authorities took no Hundreds of Chinese have been among calling on Modi to stay away from the The statue is more than twice the concrete and steel.

Railways take on airlines with 16 ex-policemen get life term ED opposes Chidambaram’s discounted fares for 1987 Hashimpura massacre anticipatory bail plea IANS NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) yesterday requested a Delhi court to reject the anticipatory bail plea of IANS NEW DELHI: In a bid to take The 38 victims, all Muslims, were picked former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis on airlines, the Indian up from the Hashimpura neighbourhood money laundering case and pressed for his custodial interro- Railways plan to lure more NEW DELHI: The Delhi High by the 41st Battalion of the PAC during a gation. The ED submission came in a reply to Chidambaram’s passengers by revoking the Court yesterday sentenced to life anticipatory bail plea. The ED filed the reply before Special flexi-fare scheme in some imprisonment 16 former troopers search operation, taken away in trucks, Judge O P Saini who is scheduled to hear the plea today. On trains and offering discounts of the Uttar Pradesh Provincial lined up and shot dead in cold blood. The October 8, the court had extended interim protection from in others.The move comes Armed Constabulary (PAC) for bodies were dumped in a canal. arrest to Chidambaram and his son Karti till November 1 in the just at the start of the festive killing 38 people in 1987, calling Aircel-Maxis deal case. Citing various top court judgements, season, when the airlines’ it a targeted massacre of unarmed the ED pressed for custodial interrogation of the former Minister. load factor is packed due to and innocent people from Muslim before November 22. If they against all the accused. discount schemes. community. failed, then the concerned The Delhi High Court said: Sidhu, wife summoned by commission The railways plan to give Justices S Muralidhar and Station House Officer (SHO) “...the relatives of the victims graded discounts in fares for Vinod Goel reversed a 2005 were ordered to take them into who died as a result of the brutal probing Amritsar train tragedy all classes of current flexi-fare judgment of the trial court, custody. Vibhuti Narain Rai, the and bone-chilling action of the trains, four days prior to the which had acquitted the 16 men then Superintendent of Police PAC remained in the dark about CHANDIGARH: Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu scheduled date of the train on charges of murder and other in Ghaziabad who registered the not only the fate of the victims and his wife Navjot Kaur have been summoned by a one-man starting from the originating crimes, and held them respon- first FIR in the case on the night themselves but also about the commission conducting an inquiry into the Amritsar train station. Flexi fares increase sible for criminal conspiracy, of May 22-23, 1987, said: “This steps taken to investigate the tragedy in which 60 people were killed on October 19. Senior the price of tickets as occu- kidnapping, murder and disap- was the first and biggest cus- case and unearth the truth. IAS officer B Purushartha, who is conducting the inquiry in pancy increases. pearance of evidence. todial massacre in independent “Indeed, their 31 years of Amritsar, has asked the Sidhu couple to appear before the The railways would give The High Court was hearing India. “There was a similar waiting for justice may have commission tomorrow. Navjot Kaur, a former legislator and a discount of up to 20 per cent pleas challenging the trial court carnage in Nellie (Assam) but eroded their faith in the state ex-chief parliamentary secretary, was the chief guest at the in the fares of premium trains decision. “The present case is yet that was not in police custody machinery. “This case involves Dussehra festival near Joda Phatak when the DMU (diesel with occupancy of 70 per another instance of custodial unlike this.” the killing of around 38 innocent multiple unit) train crushed those standing on the railway tracks. cent, while a discount of up killing where the legal system The Hashimpura victims, all persons in cold blood by Sixty people lost their lives and an equal number were injured to 10 per cent will be given in has been unable to effectively Muslims, were picked up from members of an armed force, the in the train tragedy. Opposition leaders and locals alleged that the trains which have a prosecute the perpetrators of the Hashimpura neighbourhood PAC. The gravity of the crime is Navjot Kaur fled the scene after the train mowed down the booking rate of 70-80 per gross human rights abuses,” the by the 41st Battalion of the PAC obvious. “We are conscious that people. There are allegations that the event was organised cent.However, there will be court said. “The prolongation during a search operation, taken for the families of those killed, without mandatory permissions, which had to be given by the no discount on the fares of the of the trial for over two decades, away in trucks, lined up and shot this (punishment) is perhaps too municipal corporation which falls under the local government premium trains which have compounded by the endemic dead in cold blood. The bodies little, too late,” the court said. department headed by Sidhu. an occupancy rate of more systemic delays, have frustrated were dumped in a canal. Former police officer Rai, than 80 per cent. the attempts at securing The men shot at were said who later brought out an inves- Two dead in Varanasi mall ﬁring According to a Railway effective justice for the victims.” to be 42 but four of them tigative book on the massacre, Ministry senior official, the The High Court held that this escaped by pretending to be recalled that it was one and a half scheme has been discontinued amounted to targeted killings by dead. The charge sheet was filed hours after the killings that they VARANASI: Two persons were killed and two others injured in 15 trains, where the average an armed force “of the unarmed, before the Chief Judicial Magis- got to know about the mass when a man opened fire at them at a mall here last evening, police uni-directional monthly occu- innocent and defenceless trate in Ghaziabad in 1996. killings by the PAC. “We could said. The assailant fled the crime scene as frightened people ran pancy was less than 50 per cent members of a particular com- The case was transferred to rescue one person, Babudin. It for cover. The deceased have been identified as 26-year-old Gopi throughout the year. munity” and called it a dis- Delhi in September 2002 on the was on his description of the mas- Kanaujia (salesman) of a showroom in the JHV Mall where the “The decision would turbing aspect of the case. Supreme Court’s orders fol- sacre that we registered the FIR.” incident took place and Sunil Gaur (tailor), 45. Their bodies have increase occupancy by over 15 There were originally 19 lowing a petition by the families He said the Muslim young- been sent for post-mortem examination. According to eyewitness per cent due to lower fares,” accused but three died during of the victims and the survivors. sters were randomly picked up accounts, the assailant was a student named Alok Upadhyaya the official, who declined to be the prolonged trial. All the 16 A sessions court here in July from the Hashimpura locality, from a local educational institution and he was drunk. He, along named, said.The official said from the PAC are now retired. 2006 framed charges of murder, taken through Ghaziabad and with two of his friends, had first gone to a Pizza outlet in the mall that the railways had decided The High Court directed the attempt to murder, tampering thrown into water canals after and then to a shoe store brandishing a pistol. to discontinue the flexi-fare in convicts to surrender on or with evidence and conspiracy being indiscriminately shot at. a pre-defined lean period of three months in 32 trains with uni-directional monthly occupancy between 50-75 per cent throughout the last fiscal. Apex Court seeks pricing of The decision assumes sig- nificance as it will enable the railways to lure more pas- Rafale jet deal with France sengers that it had lost to other means of transport, AP especially the aviation sector. his party was in power before Modi In addition, the flexi-fare became prime minister in 2014. scheme will continue in over NEW DELHI: India’s top court ordered The government has refuted the claim, 100 trains in which uni-direc- the government to provide pricing details but says a secrecy clause governs the deal’s tional monthly occupancy is of 36 Rafale fighter jets it is buying from pricing. It hasn’t even informed Parliament more than 75 per cent France. The court said the government about the cost of the 36 planes.The court throughout the year. The must bring details of the decision- was hearing petitions by former ministers official also said that the making process of the deal into the public Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha and changes shall be made on an domain, except those that are confi- some others who demanded a court-mon- experimental basis for six dential and have strategic importance. itored probe by a federal investigating months. “Decision to con- The court said those can be provided in agency in the deal. Gandhi also accused tinue it will be taken after a “sealed cover” within 10 days. Modi’s government of favoring the accessing its outcome,” the The deal has become a major company owned by industrialist Anil official added. On September political issue with the leader of the main Ambani, Reliance Group, when choosing 9, 2016, the railways had Heavy rain lashes Chennai opposition Indian National Congress an Indian partner for Dassault. India’s gov- introduced flexi-fare for party, Rahul Gandhi, accusing Prime ernment has denied any wrongdoing. Das- premier trains: 44 Rajdhanis, An motorist rides during heavy monsoon rains along a street in Chennai, in the Minister Narendra Modi’s government sault Aviation recently said that it “has 52 Durontos and 46 Shatabdi southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, yesterday. of buying the aircraft at nearly three freely chosen to make a partnership with Express trains. times the price being negotiated when India’s Reliance Group.” THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 ASIA 13 Protests after Pakistan frees woman on death row REUTERS Asia Bibi, a mother- of-four, had been Prime Minister ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Paki- living on death row stan’s Supreme Court yesterday declares verdict freed a Christian woman from a since 2010, when constitutional death sentence for blasphemy she became the against Islam and overturned her ﬁrst woman to be INTERNEWS conviction, sparking angry sentenced to death protests and death threats from an ultra-Islamist party and cheers by hanging under ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister from human rights advocates. Pakistan’s blasphemy Imran Khan, in a televised Asia Bibi, a mother-of-four, laws. address to the nation, fully had been living on death row since backed the judges in Asia Bibi 2010, when she became the first case. “I’m here only because a woman to be sentenced to death religion condemns injustice and Supreme Court verdict was by hanging under Pakistan’s blas- oppression. announced today and the way phemy laws, which critics say are In overturning her conviction, a small section reacted to it and too harsh and often misused. She the ruling said the evidence against the language that they used...I’m was condemned for allegedly Bibi was insufficient. Bibi did not forced to address you,” Khan making derogatory remarks about appear in the courtroom and her said. “The decision of the judges Islam after neighbours objected whereabouts were a closely held is according to the constitution to her drinking water from their secret for fear of attacks on her and Pakistan’s constitution is glass because she was not Muslim. and her family. Many have spec- according to the teachings of Bibi has always denied committing ulated they will be forced to leave Islam.” A supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami chants slogans with others after the Supreme Court overturned the blasphemy. The case has outraged the country, but there was no con- “Saying that the judges of conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, during a protest in Karachi, yesterday. Christians worldwide and has firmation of their plans. Her the Supreme Court are ‘Wajib been a source of division within lawyer called the court ruling ul Qatl’ and that the army chief Pakistan, where two politicians “great news” for Pakistan. immediately condemned the called for the death of Nisar, the By late afternoon, two other is a ‘non-Muslim’, and calling for who sought to help Bibi were “Asia Bibi has finally been ruling and blocked roads in major chief justice, and the two other religious movements, including a revolt against the chief justice assassinated. served justice,” lawyer Saiful cities, pelting police with stones in judges on the panel. one headed by Hafiz Saeed, who and army chief...This is unac- Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, who Mulook said. “Pakistan’s Supreme the eastern city of Lahore. “They all three deserve to be has a $10m US bounty on his ceptable,” he said. headed a special three-judge Court must be appreciated that it Street protests and blockades killed. Either their security should head for his alleged involvement “How can a government or bench set up for the appeal, cited upheld the law of the land and of major roads were spreading by kill them, their driver kill them, or in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a country be run when indi- the Holy Quran in the ruling, didn’t succumb to any pressure.” mid-afternoon, paralysing parts their cook kill them,” TLP co- announced that they would also viduals stand up and call for the writing that “tolerance is the basic Supporters of Islamist political of Islamabad, Lahore and other founder Muhammad Afzal Qadri join the protests. execution of judges,” he principle of Islam” and noting the party Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) cities. One of the TLP’s top leaders told a protest in Lahore. questioned.

Punjab ministers told to improve Sri Lanka’s A-G performance refuses to endorse INTERNEWS dismissal of PM LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has set a deadline AFP Wickremesinghe has of two months for provincial refused to leave the prime min- ministers in Punjab to COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ister’s official residence and improve performance and Attorney-General yesterday demanded Sirisena reconvene urged them to either perform refused to endorse the Presi- Parliament so MPs can vote for or get ready to be sent home. dent’s dismissal of the prime a leader and end the constitu- According to Punjab minister for a former tional crisis. Housing Minister Mian Meh- strongman accused of rights Sirisena had resisted inter- moodur Rashid, Khan warned abuses, the clearest sign yet the national pressure to revoke his the ministers that if their per- move may be unconstitutional. suspension of Parliament for 20 formance did not improve, The country has been days while his appointee the Cabinet would not be Seven dead in suicide attack near Kabul prison locked in a tense standoff Rajapakse has assumed his reshuffled and instead the between two rivals claiming to duties, naming a new Cabinet non-performing ministers Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, yesterday. Seven people were head Sri Lanka’s government and addressing bureaucrats at would be sent home. killed when a suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan’s biggest prison. since Prime Minister Ranil the finance ministry. PM Khan paid a short visit Wickremesinghe’s shock The two rivals are also jock- to the city on October 30 sacking last Friday. eying for power behind the during which he addressed The President and Parlia- scenes, battling to tempt law- the parliamentary party and mentary Speaker held emer- makers from opposing sides to held a meeting with Chief gency talks yesterday in a bid bolster their numbers if a vote Minister Sardar Usman 25 dead after Afghan army helicopter crashes to work out a compromise and is held. Buzdar and Punjab Assembly avoid a showdown, official “Having regard to the role AP Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz after taking off from the moun- insurgents had downed the hel- sources close to both sides said. of the Attorney-General under Elahi. tainous Anar Dara district icopter but failed to provide evi- The crisis talks came after the constitution, I am of the Rashid said PM Khan was KABUL: An Afghan army heli- heading toward the nearby dence. Defence Ministry Attorney General Jayantha view that expressing an opinion monitoring performance of copter crashed yesterday in bad Herat province. spokesman Ghafor Ahmad Jayasuriya cast fresh doubt on on the said questions would be the provincial Cabinet. He weather in the western Farah On board were the corps Jawed rejected the Taliban claim the legality of President deemed inappropriate,” said said the PM believed that 90 province, killing all 25 people commander, Gen. Naimudullah of responsibility as “totally Maithripala Sirisena’s actions, Jayasuriya, the government’s percent bureaucrats con- on board, including the deputy Khalil, and two members of the wrong.” This was the second declining to endorse them. top legal advisor. sidered themselves as corps commander of the Farah provincial council, its army helicopter crash in as Jayasuriya’s refusal bol- Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary employees of the state and western zone, a provincial chairman, Farid Bakhtawar, and many months in Farah. In Sep- stered Wickremesinghe’s claim Speaker had asked Jayasuriya followed the rules. spokesman said. Jamila Amini, one of only two tember, five crew members died that the President acted outside to provide his legal opinion as Mohammad Naser Mehri, women on the nine-member when their helicopter crashed. the constitution by dumping pressure builds on Sirisena to spokesman for the Farah gov- council. Investigators blamed the crash him for Mahinda Rajapakse, a resolve the nearly week-long 5 workers dead ernor, said the helicopter Taliban spokesman Qari on a technical failure, without former president who ruled impasse that has left one dead in Gwadar attack crashed around 9:10am, shortly Yusuf Ahmadi claimed the elaborating. with an iron fist for a decade. in clashes. AP

QUETTA: Pakistani police say Myanmar officials try to convince Rohingya to return, accept ID cards gunmen riding on a motor- REUTERS cycle have shot and killed five yesterday. “We are here to meet with the workers at a construction site Rohingya and other Muslims people from the camps so that I in the country’s southwestern DHAKA/YANGON: Myanmar in three townships suffer hardship can explain what we have pre- Baluchistan province. officials visited camps for and economic vulnerability due pared for their return and then I Police officer Abdul Rohingya Muslim refugees in to restrictions on their movement can listen to their voices,” he told Hafeez says yesterday’s Bangladesh yesterday in an effort and the prevailing sentiment is reporters in Cox’s Bazaar. attack took place in the to kick start a process to repatriate “fear and mistrust”, he said. Bangladesh handed over an coastal town of Gwadar. He hundreds of thousands who fled A group of about 60 Rohingya additional list of more than 22,000 says two other workers were an army crackdown last year. community leaders met a dele- Rohingya refugees to be verified critically wounded and that More than 700,000 Rohingya gation of about a dozen Myanmar by Myanmar, Relief and Repatri- the death toll could rise. refugees crossed into Bangladesh officials in the Kutupalong camp, ation Commissioner Abul Kalam The attackers fled the from western Myanmar, UN the largest refugee settlement in said. Rohingya leaders said after scene and an investigation is agencies say, after Rohingya the world in Bangladesh’s Cox’s the meeting that they were uncon- underway. No group has insurgent attacks on Myanmar Bazaar district, said two Rohingya vinced about the proposed repa- immediately claimed respon- security forces in August 2017 trig- men who were present. triation. “They told us we don’t sibility for the drive-by gered a sweeping military Myanmar says it has been have to stay (in a camp) for long, A Rohingya refugee woman speaks to Myanmar’s Foreign Secretary shooting. Baluch separatist response. ready to accept back the refugees but when we asked for how many Myint Thu and Myanmar’s envoys during their visit to a Rohingya groups have claimed past Officials said after meetings since January, and has built camps days they could not say,” said refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, yesterday. such attacks on labourers, in Dhaka on Tuesday returns near the border to receive them. Mohib Ullah, an influential usually from other parts of would begin next month, but the Myint Thu, permanent sec- organiser in the camps, reflecting group. Many in the Buddhist- citizenship. Many Rohingya reject the country, working in UN refugee agency said conditions retary at Myanmar’s Ministry of what the officials said. majority country call the Rohingya the cards, which they say treat Baluchistan. in Rakhine state were “not yet Foreign Affairs and leader of the Mohib Ullah said Rohingya “Bengalis”, suggesting they belong them as foreigners. Baluchistan has been a conducive for returns”. Myanmar delegation, said leaders wanted Myanmar to rec- in Bangladesh. Those with “national verifica- scene of a low-level insur- The agency had completed the Myanmar had verified about ognise them as an ethnic group A pamphlet given to refugees tions cards” — known as NVCs — gency by Baluch separatists second phase of assessment in 5,000 names of refugees and that with the right to Myanmar citi- by Myanmar officials on would be guaranteed “socio-eco- who demand a greater share Rakhine, but its access remained repatriation would begin with a zenship before they return. Wednesday, seen by Reuters, nomic development”, but those of the province’s natural gas “limited”, UNHCR spokesman first batch of 2,000 returnees in Myanmar does not consider encourages them to accept new without will be “stateless”, the and mineral resources. Andrej Mahecic said in Geneva mid-November. the Rohingya a native ethnic identity cards as a “first step” to pamphlet says. 14 ASIA THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018

Australian PM North Korea urges Trump to stay involved readying N-site in Indo-Paciﬁc BLOOMBERG for inspectors CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Scott AFP “Signs have been Morrison wants President detected that North Donald Trump to keep the US SEOUL: South Korea’s spy engaged in the Indo-Pacific agency has detected signs that Korea is doing region as China’s rise chal- Pyongyang is preparing to allow some preparations lenges the status quo. international inspectors to visit and intelligence- “A strong America — cen- its nuclear and missile test sites, related activity over trally engaged in the affairs Yonhap news agency reported of our region — is critical to yesterday. a possible visit by Australia’s national North Korean leader Kim outside experts,” a interests,” Morrison plans to Jong Un has expressed his will- say at an Asia Society speech lawmaker who was Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive for a public walkabout at the Rotorua ingness to have foreign experts hosted by Bloomberg in Government Gardens in Rotorua, yesterday. inspect the facilities, as part of briefed by the NIS Sydney today, according to on-off negotiations on denu- was cited as saying. prepared remarks dis- clearisation, but there is no indi- tributed to reporters. cation as to whether invitations “We support the have been sent. to allow international observers Royals Harry, Meghan name strongest possible US The South’s National Intelli- in to verify its claims. US Sec- political, security and eco- gence Service (NIS) said it was retary of State Mike Pompeo said nomic engagement in the “closely monitoring” the that Kim had told him he was Indo-Pacific.” Morrison, who Punggye-ri nuclear test facility “ready” to allow foreign kiwi birds ‘gift’ and ‘sneeze’ took power in August after and the Tongchang-ri missile inspectors to verify the work at party infighting led to AP launching ground for possible Punggye-ri, following a meeting kiwi chicks indigenous Maori the couple attended a formal Malcolm Turnbull’s ouster, inspections. in Pyongyang earlier this month. names: “Koha” meaning “gift” welcoming ceremony and will take his first step on the “Signs have been detected The inspectors will be ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND : and “Tihei” meaning “sneeze,” luncheon and were each given global stage during summits that North Korea is doing some allowed in as soon as the two Prince Harry and wife Meghan from the Maori saying “tihei striking Maori cloaks, or in Singapore and Papua New preparations and intelligence- sides agree on “logistics”, examined the navel, nostrils and mauri ora” meaning “the sneeze “korowai.” Harry and Meghan Guinea later this month. related activity over a possible Pompeo said. whiskers on New Zealand’s of life” or the right to speak. The arrived in New Zealand on Trump plans to skip the visit by outside experts,” a law- The facility, buried inside a flightless kiwi bird and got to names were gender neutral Sunday after earlier visiting meetings and send Vice- maker who was briefed by the mountain near the border with name two tiny chicks on the because their sexes haven’t yet Australia, Fiji and Tonga. During President Mike Pence NIS was cited as saying. China, was the staging ground for final day of their 16-day tour of been identified. public walkabouts they have instead, a move that has At a summit with South all six of the North’s nuclear tests. the South Pacific. The couple also visited a been greeted by hundreds of raised questions about the Korean President Moon Jae-In US President Donald Trump and The Duke and Duchess of Maori meeting grounds or enthusiastic fans. US’s long-term commitment in Pyongyang last month, Kim Kim met in Singapore in June for Sussex visited a kiwi hatchery “marae,” went for a public walk- Prime Minister Jacinda to the region. pledged to close the Tongchang- the first-ever summit between in the town of Rotorua yesterday about and strolled through a Ardern said this week there Morrison’s speech — his ri site and allow international the two countries, resulting in and learned about the breeding redwood forest as they finally seems to be little appetite for first address on foreign experts to observe its disman- what critics say was only a vague programme for the threatened enjoyed sunny weather after changing New Zealand from a policy since becoming prime tlement. North Korea took apart commitment by the North birds, which are considered their stop in New Zealand had constitutional monarchy that minister — shows he’s not the Punggye-ri site in the coun- Korean leader towards national icons. earlier been dampened with recognizes Britain’s Queen Eliz- about to abandon Australia’s try’s northeast in May but has yet denuclearisation. They gave the 3-day-old rain. At the Te Papaiouru Marae, abeth II to a republic. decades-long crucial military and diplomatic links with the US despite Trump’s “America first” rhetoric. Still, it’s not clear how long Morrison, 50, Philippines races to free 23 trapped under landslide will be in power: His ruling coalition is trailing in opinion polls ahead of an election REUTERS than 70 people. Some 360 typhoon’s path were evacuated due next year. police, soldiers, firefighters and before the storm hit, mostly in Morrison is attempting to MANILA: Philippine rescuers public works personnel were mountainous, coastal and river walk a diplomatic tightrope worked with bare hands and digging through the mud that areas at risk of floods, storm by keeping strong relations shovels to try to free 23 people engulfed the building where 20 surges and mudslides. When it with the US, his nation’s most trapped under earth and rubble labourers, an engineer, three struck the Philippines, Yutu’s vital ally, and China, its yesterday, after Typhoon Yutu security guards and six or seven winds were half the strength of biggest trading partner. That dumped heavy rains on the residents had taken shelter. those it packed five days earlier, balancing act has become northern mountainous region, Twenty-three were believed to when as a super typhoon it piled more fraught as the US and triggering floods and deadly still be trapped. into the US Northern Mariana China engage in a trade war landslides. “It was completely buried,” islands, about 6,000km west of and tensions rise over Six people were rescued and Edgar Posadas, spokesman for Hawaii, killing one person, Taiwan and the South China two bodies pulled out from a the Office of Civil Defence, said. wounding more than 130 and Sea. Yesterday, Morrison’s building that collapsed in “Time is of the essence. The damaging critical government ratified a trade northern Mountain province, problem is not the personnel, infrastructure. deal among 11 Pacific nations part of the Cordillera region but access.” Among those killed Yutu, the 18th typhoon to hit — once envisioned as a check where authorities said 11 people were four children aged the Philippines this year, was on China’s clout but aban- were killed on Tuesday, all but between five and 11, and a man moving towards southern China doned by Trump — that will Rescuers looking for survivors after a landslide in Natonin, Mountain one of them in landslides. who drowned in an overflowing yesterday and had weakened to kick in on December 30. Aus- Province in the nothern part of the Philippines, yesterday. Typhoon Yutu swept across river. Radio reported a man was a tropical storm with winds of tralia is also expected to the main island of Luzon on electrocuted in Isabela province, 102kph, according to the US finalise a free-trade deal Tuesday with winds of 140km 230kph. It came six weeks after caused nearly 50 landslides in where Yutu made landfall. Joint Typhoon Warning Center with Indonesia later this per hour and gusts of up to Super Typhoon Mangkhut the Cordilleras, killing more Thousands of people in the in Hawaii. month. Singapore launches Indonesia gets clue of doomed jet’s black box

AFP survey on death penalty temporary removal of Lion Air’s technical director and several AFP the death penalty, had asked JAKARTA: Indonesian investi- other staff who cleared the flight, Singapore to spare the 31-year- gators said they were homing in citing government authority over SINGAPORE: Singapore will old convict on humanitarian on the black box from a crashed the aviation sector. He later gauge public attitudes towards grounds. “The Ministry of jetliner after locating its “pings” stressed that the measure meant the death penalty in a survey, Home Affairs (MHA) is con- yesterday, two days after the jet to free up the technical director the interior ministry said ducting the survey to give us a crashed shortly after take-off to help with the crash probe. yesterday, as rights groups better understanding of Sin- with 189 people on board. Aviation experts say it is too renewed calls for its abolition. gapore residents’ attitudes Retrieving the black box will early to determine what caused The city-state — which towards the death penalty,” be key to unlocking why the the accident. staunchly maintains that capital MHA said. It said the survey is Boeing 737-MAX, one of the But Lion’s admission that the punishment is a crime deterrent part of the government’s world’s newest and most plane had an unspecified tech- — executed eight convicts last “regular research on criminal advanced commercial passenger nical issue on a previous flight year, the highest number in a justice system” and involves cit- jets, nosedived into the Java sea -- as well as the plane’s abrupt decade, according to official izens and residents. so soon after leaving Jakarta. nosedive just 12 minutes after data. They had all committed “Participants were ran- Authorities said they takeoff -- have raised questions drug offences. The Straits Times domly selected based on age, believed they were closing in on about whether it had any faults said it was the first time that the race and gender, for a repre- the main wreckage and had specific to the newly released A search and rescue ship arrives at a search area for Lion Air flight government department in sentative sample of the Sin- picked up the box’s signals some model, including a speed-and- JT610 in Karawang waters, Indonesia, yesterday. charge of prisons has conducted gapore resident population,” it 30-40 metres below the surface altitude system malfunction. a survey on the subject. added. Some 2,000 of the water off Indonesia’s “The bigger picture here is Last week’s hanging in Sin- respondents will be questioned north coast, where the plane suggested the main fuselage with helicopters and ships, but that you’ve got a lot of American gapore of convicted Malaysian between October and crashed on Monday. should be nearby. authorities have all but ruled out carriers flying the same aircraft,” drug trafficker Prabu N Path- December by market research “We’ve detected the black The black box contains flight finding any survivors. Stephen Wright, aviation expert manathan sparked fresh calls consultancy Blackbox Research, box signal,” Muhammad Syaugi, data that shows the speed, The development comes as at the University of Leeds, said. to scrap capital punishment, a which the MHA has commis- head of Indonesian search and altitude and direction of the Boeing officials were due to Founded in 1999, the budget penalty that dates to British sioned for the project, the rescue agency, told reporters in plane, while the cockpit voice meet with Lion Air, after Indo- carrier capitalised on a boom in colonial rule but has been newspaper said. Rights groups Jakarta. “We could see a lot of recorder keeps track of conver- nesia ordered an inspection of Indonesia’s aviation industry, retained by the city state since said the survey is unlikely to be passengers’ belongings — life- sations and other sounds in the the US plane maker’s 737-MAX but has been plagued by safety independence. a prelude to Singapore sof- jackets, pants, clothes — under- cockpit. Dozens of divers were jets. Indonesia’s transport min- woes and complaints over unre- Malaysia, where the tening its position on capital water not just on the surface,” taking part in the 1,000-strong ister Budi Karya Sumadi took the liable scheduling and poor cabinet had decided to abolish punishment. he added, saying the debris personnel recovery effort along unusual step of ordering the service. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 EUROPE 15 Russia probes terror after teen suicide attack on FSB AFP Several minutes before the suicide blast in the northern city of Arkhangelsk, a post on MOSCOW: Russia launched a an anarchist forum warned of an imminent terrorism probe yesterday after a 17-year-old student blew explosion. Authorities have cordoned off streets himself up at regional head- around the building, with police and experts quarters of the FSB security combing the area for clues. agency, wounding three employees. Several minutes before the Investigators identified the cordoned off streets around the suicide blast in the northern city bomber as a 17-year-old local building, with police and experts of Arkhangelsk, a post on an resident. An official, who spoke combing the area for clues. anarchist forum warned of an on condition of anonymity, Attacks on police and security imminent explosion. named the suicide bomber as services are common in Russia’s Investigators said they were Mikhail Zhlobitsky, a student at restive Northern Caucasus, but checking whether the suspected a local technical college. are rare in the rest of the country. bomber was a member of any Investigators probing the President Vladimir Putin — banned organisations. An attack released a photo of the himself a former FSB officer — explosive device detonated in the suspect — a skinny young man was informed about the FSB building shortly before 9am with a backpack — inside the FSB explosion, his spokesman Dmitry (0600 GMT), authorities said. building. Authorities have Peskov told reporters, but declined to speculate on the motive. Investigators said they have opened a probe into ter- Emergencies Ministry members, law enforcement officers and investigators work at the site of an rorism and illegal possession of explosion at an office of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in the city of Arkhangelsk, Russia, ammunition. Alexander Bastrykin, the yesterday. head of the Investigative Com- mittee probing the case, said the spokeswoman for the regional decided to do this because the the past included setting police young man’s motives should be FSB said. Seven minutes before FSB has gone fucking mad. It is cars on fire and throwing established “as soon as possible.” the blast, a post in an anarchist inventing cases and torturing Molotov cocktails at the offices Investigators searched Zhlobit- forum on Telegram, a messaging people. I will most likely croak of the ruling party United Russia. sky’s apartment and questioned service, warned that the FSB in the blast,” he added. Regional Governor Igor Orlov his relatives and friends. building would be the target of “I wish you a bright future of said that the authorities were Three FSB employees were a “terror attack.” The writer of anarchist communism.” The FSB working to establish the type of hospitalised with injuries after the post, who signed as Valeryan is the main successor to the explosive used. “Things are very A still image taken from the CCTV footage, released by Russia’s the blast in Arkhangelsk, which Panov, said he would claim feared KGB agency known for serious,” he said. “We are taking Investigative Committee, shows an unnamed teenager suspected is more than 1,000km (620 responsibility for it. persecuting dissidents in the measures to increase security of of detonating a homemade bomb in the lobby of an office of the miles) north of Moscow. “The reasons are quite clear Soviet era. Attacks by anarchists all public and state buildings in Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Arkhangelsk. “One man is in surgery,” a to you,” said the post. “I have on Russian authorities have in Arkhangelsk region,” he added. Russia mulls first manned ISS launch after accident Ferry collides with crane, AFP told the RIA Novosti state news Ovchinin and Hague agencies of America, Europe, to blast the rocket into the sky, agency: “The industry is now returned safely back to Earth in Russia, Japan and Canada. before falling back to Earth, as sparking fire MOSCOW: Russia hopes to making significant efforts to their capsule, and are likely get Meanwhile, an unmanned the second and third stages con- launch three crew for the Inter- move forward the launch to their chance to go to the space Progress cargo ship will blast off tinue the journey. national Space Station (ISS) on December 3.” station in the spring, Roscosmos to the ISS on November 16 after “The reason found by the in Barcelona December 3, the first manned On the rocket destined for chief Dmitry Rogozin has said. its launch was postponed from commission (investigating the blast-off since an accident this the ISS will be Russian cos- Krikalyov said the astronauts October 30 due to the accident accident) was the abnormal MADRID: A passenger ferry month, the Roscosmos space monaut Oleg Kononenko, currently on the ISS — Alexander investigation, Krikalyov said. operation of a sensor that signals collided with a loading crane agency said yesterday. Canadian astronaut David Saint- Gerst of the European Space In the first official report on the separation of the first and in bad weather in Barcelona’s Russia, the only country able Jacques, and Nasa astronaut Agency, Nasa’s Serena Aunon- the cause of the October 11 second stages,” Krikalyov said port yesterday, causing a fire to ferry astronauts to the orbiting Anne McClain. Chancellor, and Sergey accident, Roscosmos said a at a space industry event in that activated an alert for science lab, suspended all The trio had originally been Prokopyev of Roscosmos — are sensor that indicated the sepa- Moscow. dangerous chemicals, author- launches after a rocket failed on scheduled to blast off on expected to back on Earth ration of the first two stages of The malfunction led to one ities in the northeastern city October 11 just minutes after December 20, but had their trip “around December 20.” the rocket malfunctioned. of the four boosters on the first and the ship’s Italian owner blast-off — the first such incident brought forward after the failed They had initially been The Soyuz rocket used to stage failing to detach correctly said. in the history of post-Soviet October 11 launch with Russia’s scheduled to land on December launch astronauts has three and colliding with a fuel tank of A Barcelona city spokes- space travel. Roscosmos Exec- Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA’s 13 after their stint on the ISS, a stages, or segments. The first the second stage, which woman said nobody was utive Director Sergei Krikalyov Nick Hague on board. joint project of the space stage with four boosters is used exploded. injured in the accident, and the city’s firefighters announced in a tweet that the fire had been put out hours after the ship crashed. Italy wants to reward The spokeswoman, who wasn’t authorised to be identified by name in media reports, said a dozen fire- fertile families fighting vehicles and several ambulances had been dis- patched to the port. She said with state land the flames coming from four containers that fell from the ship were tackled with foam AFP those in civil unions. Political because some of them con- commentators said that would tained hazardous chemicals. ROME: Italy’s populist not be easy, as the law provides Grandi Navi Veloci, the Italian government plans to reward civil unions with most of the company that owns the ferry, parents who have a third child same rights as marriage. said that strong winds and sea by awarding them a piece of Foreigners interested in the currents prevented the ship land, in a bid to reverse the offer would need to have been from docking, eventually country’s plummeting birth resident in Italy for at least 10 pushing it against the port’s rate, media reported yesterday. years. crane. The plan, cooked up by the According to Coldiretti, the Migrants walking to the first registration point of the German federal police after they passed the far-right League and included association of Italian agricul- Austrian-German border bridge in the small Bavarian village Simbach, southern Germany. in the draft budget for next year, tural companies, the state owns UK police charge would see the state concede half a million hectares of parcels of agricultural land for farmland worth nearly ¤10bn drug firm after 20 years to parents who have ($11.3bn). a third child between 2019 and “Why give them away Austria says it won’t sign death of babies 2021. rather than sell them, particu- “They say that Italians have larly at a moment when all that LONDON: British police have few children and that some- money could go towards the UN global migration pact charged a drugs company thing is needed to turn the trend government’s many (and costly) over contaminated food given AP around,” said Agriculture Min- pledges?” asked the Corriere Safe, Orderly and Regular Austria Press Agency reported. to premature babies, after ister Gian Marco Centinaio. della Sera daily. Migration, which won’t be “Migration is not and cannot deaths were reported. “That’s why the ministry Because “for the most part, BERLIN: The Austrian legally binding, was finalised become a human right,” added London police said yes- wants to contribute, favouring the lands are what is left at the government said yesterday that under UN auspices in July. It is Strache, the Freedom Party’s terday that ITH Pharma rural areas in particular, where bottom of the barrel,” it said, it won’t sign a global compact due to be formally approved at leader. would face seven counts of people still have children,” he adding that in some cases local to promote safe and orderly a December 11-12 meeting in “It cannot be that someone supplying a faulty medicinal told the media. councils were currently having migration, citing concerns about Marrakech, Morocco. receives a right to migration product and failing to take Italy has the lowest to shell out for their upkeep. national sovereignty as it joined Kurz and Vice-Chancellor because of the climate or adequate steps to prevent birthrate in Europe. Last year Italy’s jobless rate rose in neighbouring Hungary in Heinz-Christian Strache said poverty.” In September 2016, all patients from becoming some 464,000 births were reg- September, official data showed shunning the agreement. Austria won’t sign the document 193 UN member states, including infected. istered, a record low, leaving yesterday, adding to the eco- Conservative Chancellor or send an official represent- the United States under Pres- The investigation started Italy with a significantly older nomic gloom after poor growth Sebastian Kurz took office last ative to Marrakech. They cited, ident Barack Obama, adopted a after three babies died and 20 population and a demographic figures and with the gov- December in a coalition with the among other things, fears about declaration saying no country more needed treatment after time bomb. ernment locked in a budget nationalist, anti-migration a possible watering-down of the can manage international contracting septicemia in The land-for-children idea stand-off with Brussels. Freedom Party. Austria cur- distinction between legal and migration on its own, and 2014. is supported by Italy’s ultra- The unemployment rate rently holds the European illegal migration. agreed to launch a process The infants who died Catholic families minister jumped 0.3 percentage points Union’s rotating presidency, and “There are some points that leading to the adoption of a were treated at St. Thomas’ Lorenzo Fontana, who said to hit 10.1 percent, well above Kurz has made curbing unreg- we view critically and where we global compact in 2018. In July, Hospital in London and Rosie however that it will be limited the eurozone average which ulated migration a priority. fear a danger to our national Hungary said it would withdraw Maternity Hospital in to married couples, rather than stood at 8.1 percent in August. The Global Compact for sovereignty,” Kurz said, the from the process. Cambridge. 16 EUROPE THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018

Britain intercepts France expands suspected Russian fighter aircraft probe into more REUTERS LONDON: British jets were scrambled to investigate suspected Russian fighter birth defects aircraft flying near United Kingdom airspace yesterday. “Typhoon fighters were REUTERS scrambled today as a precau- tionary measure against a PARIS: France has launched a potential incursion into UK nationwide investigation into why Public health agency area of interest by one or more babies in some parts of the unidentified aircraft,” a country have been born without Santé Publique France spokesman for the Ministry of hands or arms after several new said it had identified Defence said. cases were reported this week, the 11 additional cases Britain routinely monitors health minister said yesterday. Russian warplanes near UK Public health agency Santé of babies born with airspace and Royal Air Force Publique France said it had iden- limb defects between (RAF) fighters intercepted jets tified 11 additional cases of babies 2000 and 2014 in the flying over the North Sea last born with limb defects between rural Ain department month. 2000 and 2014 in the rural Ain Britain’s Minister of State department of eastern France, of eastern France, for the Armed Forces, Mark close to the border with Swit- where seven cases Tribute to helicopter crash victims Lancaster, spoke about “an zerland, where seven cases were were already reported ever more assertive Russia” A flag recalling Leicester City’s Premier League victory is laid with other tributes in honour already reported between 2009 between 2009 and in a speech in London in July. and 2014. and remembrance of those who died in a helicopter crash at the club’s stadium on October 27 He said the RAF has had There have also been mal- 2014. including the club’s Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha gathered outside Leicester City to scramble jets more than 80 formed births in two departments Football Club’s King Power Stadium, in eastern England, yesterday. times over the last decade to in western France: four in the Mor- Investigators will have to “go intercept Russian military bihan area between 2011 to 2013, back to the mothers and try to aircraft. and three in neighbouring Loire- understand what these families Atlantique in 2007 and 2008. Ain have in common”. and Loire-Atlantique are several “It is very complicated, we hundred kilometres apart. need to investigate the history of The reports have raised families in cases which some- alarm among the French public times date back ten years or UK eyes Brexit deal by November 21 that some kind of toxin in food, more,” she said. water or air could be The first conclusions will be responsible. made public on January 31 and a BLOOMBERG negotiations for months, but to have changed. Even so, his by a long-running disagreement “I want to know, I think all of full report is due before June Raab appeared hopeful of comments are at odds with the over how to handle the passage France wants to know,” Health 2019. LONDON: Brexit Secretary reaching a swift resolution. official position from the EU, of goods across the border with Minister Agnès Buzyn said. “It Hospital registries show limb Dominic Raab has said he “Despite our differences, we are which has so far resisted calling Ireland after Brexit. could be an environmental factor. defects occur in 1.7 of every expects a deal on the UK’s not far from an agreement on a special summit to sign off a Both sides have promised Maybe it is due to what these 10,000 births, or about 150 cases divorce from the European this issue,” Raab said in his letter Brexit deal that had been pen- to avoid the need for customs women ate, drank or breathed per year in France. Birth defects Union to be finalised by to Hilary Benn, chairman of ciled in for mid-November. checks but they still can’t agree in.” can have multiple causes, November 21. The pound rose. Parliament’s Brexit select Instead, the next time the on how to do it. In the UK, May’s An initial inquiry in early including chromosomal dis- In a letter sent on October committee. leaders of the 27 remaining cabinet is divided over how October found the incidence of orders, drug use or exposure to 24, and published yesterday, “I would be happy to give member countries in the EU are hard to push the EU for a guar- limb defects in western France toxic substances. Raab said “a great deal of evidence to the committee due to sit down with Prime Min- anteed limit on any temporary to be no greater than in other In the late 1950s and early progress” had been made in when a deal is finalized, and ister Theresa May — potentially arrangements. parts of the country, but now a 1960s, about 10,000 babies recent weeks, thanks in part to currently expect 21 November to sign the divorce terms — will Earlier, it was reported Raab wider probe has been opened. worldwide were born with mal- new British proposals for to be suitable,” he wrote. be at the European Council will be making his first visit to The investigation will be run formed or missing limbs after resolving the thorny question Although Raab gave his summit in December. the Irish border on Friday to see jointly by the health agency and their mothers received the drug of how to avoid customs checks upbeat assessment a week ago, The UK has said the nego- the challenges for himself and the sanitation, food and envi- thalidomide to treat morning at the Irish border. one British official said there was tiations are 95 percent complete inject fresh momentum into the ronment agency, Buzyn said. sickness. This issue has clogged up no reason for the positive picture but progress remains blocked talks.

Hungary acquits UK, Canada urge Facebook CEO to testify on fake news camerawoman in AP Congress and the European that you would want to take up.” committee’s hearings while the migrant skirmish Parliament. Social media companies leader of the Silicon Valley LONDON: Parliamentary The so-called “international have been under scrutiny in company declined invitations to committees in Britain and grand committee” session would Britain following allegations that attend. Joining forces with AFP Canada urged Facebook CEO be held November 27 and could political consultancy Cambridge Canada — and perhaps other Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) include lawmakers from other Analytica used data from tens of countries — seems designed to BUDAPEST: A Hungarian yesterday to testify before a joint countries. millions of Facebook accounts prod Zuckerberg and persuade television camerawoman hearing of international “We understand that it is not to profile voters and help US him to change his mind. who made headlines in 2015 lawmakers examining fake news possible to make yourself President Donald Trump’s 2016 “No such joint hearing has after tripping and kicking and the Internet. available to all parliaments. election campaign. ever been held,” the pair wrote. migrants fleeing police was Damian Collins, the head of However, we believe that your The committee is also inves- “Given your self-declared acquitted by the country’s the UK parliament’s media com- users in other countries need a tigating the impact of fake news objective to ‘fix’ Facebook, and Supreme Court. mittee, is joining forces with his line of accountability to your distributed via social media sites to prevent the platform’s malign “The video reporter was Canadian counterpart, Bob organisation directly, via globally. use in world affairs and demo- acquitted owing to the lack of Zimmer, to pressure Zuckerberg yourself,” the pair said in a letter Collins has been irate with cratic process, we would like to a violation,” a court statement to personally take part in to Zuckerberg. Facebook for sending Zucker- give you the chance to appear at said, after judges ruled that hearings, as he did before the US “We would have thought that this responsibility is something berg’s underlings to his this hearing.” Petra Laszlo had not been correctly charged by lower courts. Laszlo made headlines in September 2015 when she tripped a man who was Bulgaria charges senior sprinting with a child in his arms, and kicked another official in passport scam running child near the town of Roszke, close to the border REUTERS with Serbia. including the chief secretary of Europe was in the midst the agency who faces charges of a wave of migration during SOFIA: Bulgarian prosecutors of bribe taking and trade in which a large group had said yesterday they had charged influence. broken through a Hungarian a senior state official as part of “This is the most serious police line. an investigation into a case of high-level corruption The Supreme Court con- document scam they said had and there is no analogy in our sidered the context of “an enabled foreigners to obtain modern history because we assault by several hundred Bulgarian passports and travel have collected concrete evi- migrants fleeing a police freely in the European Union. dence of specific crimes,” intervention.” Bulgaria has made little deputy chief prosecutor Ivan It deemed that Laszlo’s progress in stamping out graft Geshev said. act, “while morally incorrect since joining the EU in 2007 Prosecutors said applicants, and illicit, was a disruption, and is under pressure from the mainly from the Western not vandalism.” European Commission to Balkans, Moldova and Ukraine, That was the charge strengthen its law enforcement had been paying up to $9,000 brought against her in lower and to prosecute and sentence to fraudulently secure certifi- courts, for which she was corrupt officials. cates that established their Bul- sentenced in January 2017 to Authorities detained Petar garian origin. three years probation. Haralampiev, head of the State Bribes were also paid to The Syrian father that she Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, speed up the process, they said, tripped and his son obtained on suspicion of taking bribes adding that more than 20,000 asylum in Spain, where the and leading an organised applications had been delayed. father landed a job with a criminal group. Haralampiev’s Prosecutors said the evi- football coaching school and Chocolate Fair lawyer said he denied the dence suggested that the his son ran with superstar Cris- Pieces of chocolate are seen at the Chocolate Fair (Salon du Chocolat) in Paris, France, yesterday. accusations. corrupt practices dated back to tiano Ronaldo onto the pitch in Some 20 others were also June 2017, a month after Har- Madrid before a match. detained in the investigation, alampiev took over the agency. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 AMERICAS 17 US President steps up anti-immigrant rhetoric

AFP argument that they do not fall under American legal WASHINGTON: US President jurisdiction. Donald Trump yesterday said “So-called Birthright And the US Supreme Court he would fight all the way to the has upheld the citizenship of Supreme Court to end a consti- Citizenship, which children born in the United tutional guarantee of citizenship costs our Country States to immigrant parents. for people born on US soil, billions of dollars and “The World is using our laws stepping up his anti-immigrant to our detriment. They laugh at offensive in the final stretch is very unfair to our the Stupidity they see!” Trump before key midterm elections. citizens, will be ended tweeted. With control of Congress at one way or the other,” Trump has also announced stake in the November 6 vote, Trump tweeted. he is sending more than 5,000 Trump has sought to energize soldiers to shore up the US- his base by portraying migrants Mexico border, but they will as a national security threat, Court!” he wrote. likely be limited to support People walk in a caravan of migrants departing from El Salvador en route to the United States, in San ordering thousands of soldiers Trump had said previously activities as they are legally Salvador, yesterday. to the southern border and pres- in an interview with Axios that barred from conducting law suring Mexico to halt groups of he would end the blanket guar- enforcement operations in the migrants headed for the US. antee via an executive order — United States. In the latest twist, he has something not included in pro- And he has called on Mexico New caravan departs Salvadoran capital vowed to eliminate the auto- visions for modifying the US to halt groups of Central REUTERS matic right to citizenship of constitution. American migrants — which he comprising about 300 people set poverty and violence in their persons born in the United Trump also asserted that has repeatedly vilified in cam- off for the US border from the homelands. States, long guaranteed — with birthright citizenship “is not paign speeches — that are SAN SALVADOR: About 2,000 Salvadoran capital. The US is in the process of few exceptions — under the 14th covered by the 14th Amendment traveling through the country to migrants began walking north A caravan estimated to sending 5,200 troops to its Amendment to US because of the words ‘subject to reach the United States. from El Salvador’s capital number at least 3,500 people, southern border as part of Constitution. the jurisdiction thereof.’” “The Caravans are made up yesterday, the latest of several which left Honduras in mid- Trump’s crackdown on illegal “So-called Birthright Citi- That phrase traditionally has of some very tough fighters and groups trying to reach the United October and is now in southern immigration. The prospect has zenship, which costs our been interpreted as meaning people. Fought back hard and States, even as President Donald Mexico, has become a major issue so far not discouraged people Country billions of dollars and people who have immunity viciously against Mexico at Trump increases pressure to halt in US congressional elections on from leaving El Salvador. is very unfair to our citizens, will from US law such as children Northern Border before the flow of people. November 6. Trump, who has threatened be ended one way or the other,” born to foreign diplomats in the breaking through. Mexican sol- The migrants departed in two The bulk of migrants caught to slash US aid to Central America Trump tweeted. United States. diers hurt, were unable, or groups, including men and trying to enter the US illegally via and close the US border with He said he would take the Trump’s administration has unwilling to stop Caravan. women pushing strollers and Mexico come from El Salvador, Mexico, said in a tweet that fight to the nation’s highest detained thousands of illegal Should stop them before they others with children on their Honduras and Guatemala. Many Mexico needs to keep up efforts court. “This case will be settled immigrants under US immi- reach our Border, but won’t!” shoulders. make the dangerous journey to discourage the migrants, who by the United States Supreme gration law, undercutting the Trump tweeted. On Sunday, a separate group north to escape high levels of he described as “tough fighters.”

Caregiver held in Trump, Democrats kick off final campaign blitz death of missing AP support to President Barack Democrats, and in his hometown the House majority, predicting a casting 1.43 million ballots com- Missouri boy Obama during his 2008 rise, will of Chicago for J.B. Pritzker, who “great night for America.” pared to nearly 1.37 million by WASHINGTON: President campaign today for Georgia is the favorite in Illinois’ race for Pelosi said in an interview registered Democrats. More than AP Donald Trump kicked off an Democratic gubernatorial can- governor. that “up until today, I would have 592,000 voters with no party eight-state campaign blitz, didate Stacey Abrams, who is Democrats are defending said, ‘If the election were held affiliation have voted. seeking to shore up Senate attempting to become the several Senate incumbents in today, we would win.’” Asked More than 1.48 million JEFFERSON CITY: A Republicans and GOP guberna- nation’s first black female Republican-leaning states in what had changed, Pelosi said, people have voted early, and caregiver has been arrested torial candidates against an governor. their quest to narrow the GOP’s “What now I’m saying is we will more than 1.9 million people in the death of a 4-year-old onslaught of Democratic surro- Obama plans to campaign 51-49 majority. The terrain is win. We will win. We will win.” have voted by mail. Missouri boy whose body was gates, including entertainment tomorrow for Abrams in Atlanta more favorable in the House, More than 3.4 million people During the last midterm found almost a week after she icon Oprah Winfrey. and in Miami to boost Florida where Democrats need a net in Florida have already voted, election, nearly 3.19 million Flor- reported him missing. Trump will crisscross the Sen. Bill Nelson and Tallahassee pickup of 23 seats to recapture surpassing the number who idians cast their ballots before Jefferson City police said nation, landing him in Senate mayor Andrew Gillum, who is the majority, and in several voted early or by mail four years Election Day. More than 6.6 in a news release yesterday battlefields such as Indiana, Mis- running for governor. states with vulnerable Repub- ago. million voted early or voted by that 26-year-old Quatavia souri and Florida along with On Sunday, the former pres- lican governors. New statistics released yes- mail in the 2016 presidential Givens has been booked into nail-biter contests for governor ident will be in Gary, Indiana, for House Democratic leader terday by the state Division of election. jail on suspicion of first- in Georgia and Ohio. Sen. Joe Donnelly, who is among Nancy Pelosi declared late Elections show registered Florida has more than 13 degree child abuse resulting Winfrey, who offered crucial the most endangered Senate Tuesday that Democrats will win Republicans still have the edge, million registered voters. in the death of Darnell Gray. No charges have been filed. Asked whether Givens had an attorney, police Lt. David Wil- liams said he couldn’t Coral reef scientist dies in Hawaii comment on her legal status. Givens reported Darnell missing from the apartment he AP coral evolution and create more Marine Science, said Gates was shared with his father in a resilient reefs. “a great inspiration” to many. public housing complex in Jef- HONOLULU: Pioneering coral Her goal was to develop “She was intelligent, profes- ferson City on October 24. reef scientist Ruth Gates, who coral that could withstand the sional and had a wonderful Police said Givens had been dedicated much of her career to devastating effects of climate sense of humour,” Van Oppen caring for the boy while his saving the world’s fragile and change. Her work was featured said. “She was a great ambas- father was at work. Police have deteriorating underwater reef in the 2017 Netflix documentary sador for the reef and a role not specified the relationship ecosystems, has died. She was “Chasing Coral.” model for women in coral reef between Givens and Darnell’s 56. Warmer ocean tempera- science.” family. No other children lived Gates died in Honolulu on tures can cause corals to go Van Oppen said it’s a shame at the apartment. Thursday, the University of through a process known as she will not be able to see the Darnell’s body was found Hawaii said yesterday. bleaching, where the animals long-term impacts of their on Tuesday in Jefferson City. The researcher, also the become weak and sick. research. “But I will work extra Authorities went door-to- Bolton’s speech to focus on president of the International Repeated bleaching events can hard to try and make it a success door, drained a retention Society for Reef Studies, was lead to coral death and the loss in her honour,” she said. pond and used a helicopter diagnosed with brain cancer in of entire reef ecosystems. Gates was known for her to search for Darnell in the Venezuela, Cuba policies May and had been on medical Gates’ colleague and partner innovative science, but she was days after he was reported leave since. in the assisted evolution project, also widely admired for her wel- missing. An $11,000 reward REUTERS former Cold War foe. Gates became known glo- professor Madeleine van Oppen coming, energetic and cheerful was offered for information Trump last month linked bally for her idea to speed up of the Australian Institute of personality. on his whereabouts. WASHINGTON: The White Venezuela’s economic collapse House is expected to give details to “its Cuban sponsors” in a about US President Donald speech to the United Nations, Trump’s Venezuela and Cuba and Bolton is expected to elab- policy today when National orate on that theme, a senior Pittsburgh shooting suspect faces Security Adviser John Bolton administration official told (pictured) travels to Miami to reporters earlier this month. more charges as funerals continue give an address on Latin America. The Trump administration REUTERS Bolton will deliver his plans to ramp up economic estate agent Irving Younger, 69; and retired remarks at Freedom Tower, a pressure on Cuba’s military and university researcher Joyce Fienberg, 75. building where Cuban refugees intelligence services, the official PITTSBURGH: Federal prosecutors added The aftermath of the tragedy still per- were welcomed in the 1960s said. more charges against the man accused of vaded life in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood after leaving the Communist- The White House also killing 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue, where the synagogue is located. controlled island. wants to increase pressure on according to an indictment filed yesterday, A grand jury voted to indict Bowers on Trump has rolled back parts Venezuela. The US government as the city held funerals for three more 44 counts, according to a filing in federal of Obama’s 2014 detente with has imposed several rounds of victims. court in Pittsburgh. He had faced 29 counts. Cuba, tightening rules on Amer- sanctions on Venezuelan mil- Eleven worshipers were gunned down The new charges included 11 counts of icans traveling to the island and itary and political figures close on Saturday morning by a man who stormed obstruction of free exercise of religious restricting US companies from to socialist President Nicolas into the Tree of Life Synagogue and opened beliefs resulting in death, and various doing business there. Maduro, who it blames for fire. charges related to his use of a gun in anti- A hearse is parked outside the Berg Shalom But Trump has maintained trampling on human rights and Mourners gathered for the funerals of religious violence. Synagogue, where a funeral will be held for diplomatic relations re-estab- triggering the country’s eco- Melvin Wax, 88, who was leading religious Prosecutors have said they will seek the the victim of shooting in Pittsburgh, yesterday. lished under Obama with the nomic implosion. services when the attack began; retired real death penalty. 18 AMERICAS THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 Hawaii upholds permit for giant telescope AP Associate Justice Michael have to rise up.” State Department of Land arrested for blocking the work. Wilson dissented but didn’t Opponents and supporters and Natural Resources Chair- A second attempt to restart HONOLULU: After years of immediately release his opinion. have been awaiting the ruling woman Suzanne Case said the construction a few months later delay, including lengthy court The court ruling said Further legal action is still because it was expected to help next steps involve telescope ended with more arrests and battles and passionate protests possible, state Attorney General determine whether the project builders submitting construction crews retreating when they from those willing to be arrested that, the advanced Russell Suzuki said. is built in Hawaii or moves to a plans. encountered large boulders in for blocking construction crews, telescope will answer There can be a motion for backup location in Spain’s The department will review the road. builders of a giant telescope plan some of the most reconsideration filed within 10 Canary Islands that is less the plans before issuing per- Scientists revere the to move forward with fundamental questions days and following that, a desirable to scientists hoping to mission to proceed. mountain for its summit above constructing the $1.4bn request can be made to the US use the instrument for ground- Plans for the project date to the clouds that provides a clear instrument on a Hawaii of the universe, and Supreme Court to review the breaking discoveries. 2009, when scientists selected view of the sky with very little mountain. Native Hawaiians will decision, he said. Henry Yang, chair of the TMT Mauna Kea after a five-year, air and light pollution. The state Supreme Court’s also beneﬁt from it. Kealoha Pisciotta, one of the International Observatory Board around-the-world campaign to The telescope will allow 4-1 ruling upholding the project’s main leaders against the tele- of Governors, said in a statement find the ideal site. astronomers to reach back 13 construction permit yesterday is scope, said she’s doesn’t know they are grateful the ruling will The project won a series of billion years to answer funda- a victory for the contentious Hawaiian “uses on Mauna Kea what their next steps will be, but allow the telescope to be built on approvals from Hawaii, including mental questions about the Thirty Meter Telescope planned have co-existed for many years she’s not hopeful that more legal Mauna Kea. a permit to build on conservation advent of the universe, touts a for Hawaii’s tallest mountain, and the TMT Project will not wrangling will help. Governor David Ige, who land in 2011. website for the project. Mauna Kea. curtail or restrict Native “The court is the last bastion said he is pleased with the Protests disrupted a ground- In December 2015, the state Opponents said the telescope Hawaiian uses,” the ruling said. in democracy,” she said. ruling, vowed to protect rights breaking and Hawaiian blessing Supreme Court revoked the will desecrate sacred land on the The advanced telescope will “The only other option is to of protesters and telescope ceremony at the site in 2014. permit, ruling the land board’s Big Island. Supporters said it will answer some of the most funda- take to the streets. If we lose the builders. “The court’s decision After that, the protests approval process was flawed. bring educational and economic mental questions of the universe, integrity of the court, then you’re will allow Hawaii to continue to intensified. That maeant the application opportunities to the state. and Native Hawaiians will also losing normal law and order, and lead the world in astronomy,” Construction stopped in April process needed to be redone, Astronomy and Native benefit from it, the ruling added. the only other option is people Ige said. 2015 after 31 protesters were requiring a new hearing.

Venezuela names new spy chief REUTERS the agency’s headquarters in Venezuelan leader. Caracas. Alban was jailed on October CARACAS: Venezuela has Opposition leaders said the 5 for alleged involvement in the named a new chief of its state government provided incon- explosion of two drones in intelligence agency, according sistent accounts of the incident, August during a military parade to the Official Gazette circulated and say Alban had been tortured that the government later yesterday, following the death and later killed by security described as an attempt to of a politician in custody that forces. assassinate Maduro. was officially ruled a suicide but The incident drew global Cristopher replaces outgoing critics called a murder. condemnation, and the White Sebin chief Gustavo Gonzalez. Army General Manuel House accused President It was not immediately evident Cristopher takes over the agency, Nicolas Maduro’s government whether Gonzalez resigned or known as Sebin, just weeks after of involvement in Alban’s death. whether he would be given a the government announced that Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab new post. municipal legislator Fernando insulted opposition critics who The Information Ministry Alban had committed suicide by were taking advantage of did not immediately respond to jumping from the 10th floor of Alban’s death to criticize the a request for comment.

Brazil’s new president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, waves to supporters as he watches airplanes performing Two utility workers dead near his condominium at Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, yesterday. in rural NY copter crash AP Brazil’s president-elect to merge released from the hospital. A New York Power BEEKMANTOWN: Two utility Authority spokesman said the environment, agriculture ministries workers were killed and two two injured employees worked others were hurt when their for Northline Utilities, a con- AFP the past, saying, “Let’s be clear: does not wreck the environment, maintenance helicopter got tractor that inspects and main- the future ministry will come among other things. caught on power lines and tains power lines. RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s far- from the productive sector. We The move “will be a triple crashed in rural northeastern The New York Power Convicted Chicago right President-elect Jair won’t have any more fights over disaster,” said former envi- New York, state police said. Authority has been working with Bolsonaro will merge the envi- this.” ronment minister Marina Silva. Pieces of the aircraft the Electric Power Research police officer ronment and agriculture minis- But the former army captain “We are entering a tragic dangled from power lines late Institute to investigate auto- tries, an adviser confirmed had struck a more conciliatory time in which environmental Tuesday afternoon before mated inspection technology seeks new trial yesterday, a move activists have tone in the final days of the cam- protection will amount to falling beside cornfields in using drones, with the goal of AP warned could imperil the coun- paign, saying, “I’m open to nego- nothing. The Bolsonaro gov- Beekmantown, about 32km making transmission system try’s natural resources, including tiation on that issue.” ernment hasn’t even started and south of the Canadian border maintenance safer, more effi- the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro, who rode a wave the backsliding is already incal- near Lake Champlain. cient and less expensive. CHICAGO: Former Chicago “Agriculture and envi- of anti-establishment anger to culable,” she tweeted. The Federal Aviation Transmission line police officer Jason Van Dyke ronment will be in the same victory in Sunday’s election, Bolsonaro, who outraged Administration said the Aero- inspection and maintenance is (pictured) has returned to ministry, as we’ve said from the wants to slash the number of many with his vitriolic and intol- spatiale AS355F2 helicopter traditionally carried out by court for the first time since beginning,” Onyx Lorenzoni, ministries from 29 to 15, in the erant rhetoric during the cam- came in contact with power workers who climb tall line a jury found him guilty in the Bolsonaro’s pick for chief of name of reining in public paign, had struck a more con- lines and caught fire at 4:16pm. towers or use a helicopter with 2014 shooting death of staff, told journalists after the spending. ciliatory tone in the home The agency will investigate. a four-person crew. Both Laquan McDonald. president-elect huddled with But activists see grave conse- stretch. The helicopter is owned by Cat- methods are very risky. A judge set a December top advisers to start forming his quences in merging these two His quick reversal on the alyst Aviation, LLC of Ham- In January, two contractors 14 court date to hear motions. new government. ministries in particular: one environment ministry will likely monton, New Jersey, according died when their helicopter No sentencing date has been Bolsonaro, who is backed by responsible for the agricultural raise fears he will stick to his to state police. crashed while they were doing set. Brazil’s powerful agrobusiness industry, the other responsible for hardline conservative stance on Police said the injured transmission line inspection Van Dyke’s lawyers filed lobby, had proposed the idea in making sure that same industry other issues, too. occupants were treated and work in northwest Ohio. motions asking for a new trial and to have the verdict tossed out. They argue that there wasn’t enough evidence for Mexico City set to go a conviction. without water for days Three American authors vie for AFP won’t return to full capacity until November 8. history book prize MEXICO CITY: Millions of Maintenance will be carried AP people in Mexico City are set to out on the Cutzamala engi- be without water for at least neering works that provide part four days as authorities of the city’s water supply from LONDON: Three American undertake maintenance work Michoacan state to the west of historians are finalists for a on one of the major supply the capital. $75,000 history book prize systems. Authorities have asked cit- with books about Laura Half of the capital’s eight izens to save water and only use Ingalls Wilder, Joseph Conrad million population are expected it in moderation during the and the intersection of colo- to be affected, with a further shortage days. nialism and climate change. three million people from the “What we need is to take Finalists announced for the neighboring State of Mexico extreme care of the water, don’t Cundill History Prize are also impacted. wash clothes, bathe using a “Prairie Fires,” Caroline Fra- Authorities are preparing small bucket,” said Mexico ser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning for the huge challenge by City’s water system director, biography of the “Little House employing tanker trucks to Ramon Aguirre. “Those with the on the Prairie” author; Maya supply strategic areas such as economic means should buy Jasanoff’s look at the world that schools, hospitals and prisons. disposable dishes and cups, made Conrad, “The Dawn Mexico City is one of the take care of the water usage. Sinkhole swallows vehicle in Toronto Watch”; and Sam White’s “A largest metropolises in the “We should not exaggerate A Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) car is submerged in a ﬂooded sinkhole in Toronto, Ontario, Cold Welcome,” which world. The supply cut started the sense of crisis or catas- Canada, yesterday. explores the impact of the yesterday and last until Sat- trophe, we must simply prepare “Little Ice Age” on European urday, although the system ourselves,” Aguirre said. settlement of North America. THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018 HOME 19 Latest tech transforms patient experience at Sidra Medicine

THE PENINSULA Only a few weeks meeting with the child and following installation family before the procedure to DOHA: Sidra Medicine recently of the technology ensure understanding and activated an hybrid operating in October 2018, comfort. theater creating a step change in Dr Ashley Robinson, Acting the role Radiology and Interven- the IMRIS suite has Chair of Diagnostic Imaging and tional Radiology play in facilitated a decrease Division head of Interventional successful patient outcomes. in patient wait times Radiology at Sidra Medicine said, The Interventional-MRI- by combining multiple “Activating the service requires Surgery Suite, also known as large number of staff from dif- IMRIS features intraoperative procedures in one ferent departments. Our collab- imaging capabilities, including a setting. oration goes beyond clinical IMRIS and Radiology team at Sidra Medicine. moveable intraoperative MRI teams to involve the patient and (magnetic resonance imaging) their entire family. From multi- and capacity to run highly with general pediatrics, pediatric disciplinary discussions amongst The first two procedures and help the team at Sidra Med- October 2018, the IMRIS suite has complex interventions. Sidra surgery and multiple other sub- many medical and surgical teams performed in October using the icine to determine progress of facilitated a decrease in patient Medicine is the first hospital in specialties such as cardiology to collaboration with Support IMRIS suite were on young the disease with a high degree wait times by combining mul- Qatar to install an IMRIS suite, and neurosurgery, to provide Services, Sidra Medicine takes patients aged seven and eleven of accuracy. This in turn guided tiple procedures in one setting. which is also a first in the region. best-practice care to patients great care to ensure that the hos- years old, with vascular anom- the best course of treatment for This has also allowed the team The hospital recently performed using the IMRIS suite. Young pital visit and stay are as smooth alies (localized abnormalities in both patients, who are recov- at Sidra Medicine, to ensure the two highly complex procedures patients are prepared for the and calm as possible for the blood vessels), which can ering well from the multi-dis- safety of the procedure by per- using the latest state-of-the-art procedure with the help of Sidra child. Very few hospitals around change rapidly progress and are ciplinary care provided by Sidra forming it under the same diagnostics equipment. Medicine’s Child Life specialists the world are able to collaborate difficult to assess. The highly Medicine. general anesthetic and in one The radiology department at who assist with the diagnostic and deliver patient care in this precise IMRIS technology was Only a few weeks following space without the need to move Sidra Medicine works closely and interventional steps by manner, all under one roof.” able to better define the lesions installation of the technology in the patient. Al Jazeera, Qatar Charity sign cooperation agreement

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The over- develop a multi-product, change in transportation costs. whelmingly WEIRD research demon- DOHA: The Qatar National Research The primary faculty mentor, Dr Jack strates that key psychological findings Fund (QNRF) has awarded grants to two multi-region model of Rossbach from GU-Q said, “This project and knowledge are dominated by Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) trade, which will then be will model the economic impact of western research from western subjects. research proposals that address calibrated to match Qatar’s potential disruptions to Qatar’s trade Other under-represented groups, such important issues affecting Qatari trade ﬂows in 2015 by network. This will allow us to better as Qataris, are at a disadvantage for this society. Both grants announced were understand Qatar’s resiliency to inter- reason and much research in psychology in response to successful submissions estimating transportation national shocks and to identify products is required in Qatar and the Arab world by GU-Q’s faculty and student teams costs for each trade that Qatar may want to develop alter- to bridge this gap. for the Undergraduate Research Expe- linkage and by estimating native domestic and international The primary faculty mentor from rience Program. trade elasticities for each sources for.” Other members of the GU-Q for the project, Dr Jeremy Koons The first selected UREP project, project are GU-Q students Alisha said, “The aim of this project is threefold: ‘Investigating the Resilience of Qatar’s product, or how much Kamran and Halak Sheth. to investigate facial recognition in Trade Network,’ will examine the resil- trade ﬂows will respond The second project is titled ‘Facial Qataris using a commonly implemented ience of Qatar’s trade network. Research to a one percent change in Recognition in Qatari Nationals: Chal- face-recognition paradigm; to explore will be conducted using a global data transportation costs. lenging WEIRD Results and Exploring the effects of virtual exposure to faces set covering more than 90 million Effects of Virtual Face Exposure.’ on facial recognition in Qataris; and to bilateral trade flows in over 5,000 In collaboration with Carnegie challenge a body of research with pre- product categories during the years multi-product, multi-region model of Mellon University in Qatar, this project Dr Jeremy Koons dominantly WEIRD subjects.” 2002-2015. The research team will use trade, which will then be calibrated to examines the psychological phe- Joining Dr Koons are project the data to identify risks through a com- match Qatar’s trade flows in 2015 by nomenon known as the cross-race effect research mentor Dr Jennifer Bruder and bination of factors, both empirically and estimating transportation costs for each and facial recognition in the under- forward in breaking down the WEIRD student Nurul Nabilah Asarow, both theoretically. trade linkage and by estimating trade studied Qatari population. (Western, Educated, from Industrialized, from Carnegie Mellon University in Findings will be used to develop a elasticities for each product, or how The project aims to take a step Rich and Democratic countries) barrier Qatar. 20 MORNING BREAK THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2018

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THAMEEHLA ISLAND, MYANMAR: Peril plagues the lives of Myanmar’s baby turtles: if crabs don’t get them before they scramble from beach to sea, then poachers or fishing trawlers might finish them off instead. Myanmar’s waters boast five of the world’s seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered Spanish Extravaganza Festival opens hawksbill, the endangered green turtle and the olive A Spanish Michelin two-star dinner was hosted at W Doha Hotel in the presence of Ambassador of ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles — all listed Spain to Qatar, Belén Alfaro; Commercial Attaché, Miguel Ángel Fajardo, and several other guests as vulnerable. “If we don’t conserve the turtles properly, they yesterday. The premiere dinner marked the official opening of a four-day Spanish Extravaganza will all disappear in the near future,” head ranger Festival for the public celebrating the best of Spanish gastronomy and culture at W Doha Hotel from Phone Maw said on Thameehla island in the Ayeyar- today to November 4. It will offer amazing ﬂavours and one of a kind dinner experience by award waddy Delta. The 56-year-old has devoted most of winning Spanish Chef, Michelin Fernando Arellano. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA the last two decades to the creatures, scouring the island’s 1.5-mile long coastline three times a night for nesting females. The reptiles, which can grow to more than a metre in length and weigh as much as a large piano, lay Andrea Bocelli around 100 eggs in a hole dug with their hind flippers Neil Armstrong’s souvenir before covering the clutch with sand and returning teams up with o o to the water. collection to be auctioned 25 C 30 C Poachers are the first danger, even at this conservation site dedicated to the marine reptiles. Minimum Maximum AFP his son for Turtle eggs can sell for a dollar each, around 10 of the collection. Party cloudy to cloudy at times with weak times the price of a chicken egg. So Phone Maw and More than 2,000 lots will new duet chance of scattered rain by afternoon, his colleagues dig up the newly laid eggs and rebury NEW YORK: Talk about a pack be auctioned off today and AP mild by night. them in a protected area until they hatch 50 to 60 rat: thousands of things that tomorrow in Texas, and then

HIGH TIDE 11:15 – 00:00 LOW TIDE 02:45 – 19:30 days later. Putting them back at the right depth is Neil Armstrong saved over the again in May and November of Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department crucial. Sea turtles have temperature-dependent sex course of a career that saw him next year. NEW YORK: Italian star tenor determination — warmer temperatures produce more become the first man to walk The crown jewel will be a Andrea Bocelli has teamed up females while cooler temperatures result in more on the moon will be auctioned US flag that was taken along with singers like Luciano males. off this week. during the Apollo 11 flight to the Pavarotti, Placido Domingo Once hatched, the rangers release the baby turtles Nobody really knew the moon, although it was not and Ed Sheeran for acclaimed onto the beach and into the sea, where myriad pred- extent of the stuff Armstrong placed on its surface. It is bigger duets during his career, but ators await. AFP watched as an army of red crabs amassed during his 82 years on than the usual US flag. singing with his son Matteo is scuttled to drag away some hatchlings while more earth, not even the children of It is estimated at $75,000 something he hopes feels fortunate siblings floundered to the frothy waters, the the man who made history with by Heritage Auctions, which is extra special. first hurdle of their existence complete. his feat on July 20, 1969. Some organizing the sale, which also “I hope it is a beautiful But trawler nets are the biggest culprit in the of the mementos are from his will be held online. and enjoyable moment for turtles’ dwindling population, entangling the crea- space missions. “He did keep all the things anyone who listens to it,” tures which must surface to breathe. Armstong’s offspring found that were flown on Apollo 11. Bocelli said in an interview Days before, an autopsy of a pilot whale revealed the treasures after he died in He kept them all together,” said last week. 80 plastic bags inside. This week a WWF report 2012, tucked away at his house Armstrong’s younger son, Mark. “Fall on Me” appears on warned that unbridled human consumption had or that of their mother, his “It was fortunate because it the maestro’s new album “Si,” destroyed much wildlife worldwide, wiping out 60 ex-wife. made it easier for us to identify released last week. The song, percent of all fish, birds, amphibians, mammals and Some have historical value, those items.” The brothers were which reflects on the bond reptiles in the last half century. such as flags or medallions he in the dark about many of these between parent and child, wore during the Apollo 11 lunar souvenirs of their father, who also appears in the new mission. Others do not — like a displayed only a fraction of Disney film “The Nutcracker boy scout cap or a pin from his them at his house, perhaps to and the Four Realms,” high school football team. “He avoid overwhelming them with starring Keira Knightley, just kept everything. He didn’t his achievements. Morgan Freeman, Mackenzie throw things away,” his son “His normal manner was to Foy and Helen Mirren. It Rick said. downplay things but particu- opens in US theatres A lot of these objects have larly with us,” said Rick Arm- tomorrow. already been donated to the strong. “My mom and dad put Bocelli, 60, and 21-year- National Air and Space Museum a lot of attention on just trying old Matteo have sung many at the Smithsonian in Wash- to keep us as a normal family times together at home, so ington, DC or the Amstrong Air and not to be affected by all this recording together did not and Space Museum in Wapa- stuff.” The brothers plan to set feel strange, the veteran koneta, Ohio, Armstrong’s up a foundation and donate singer said. Matteo is studying Rangers standing near a green turtle heading back hometown. part of the proceeds from the music and likes to experiment to the sea after laying eggs at a beach on Thameehla Rick and brother Mark auction to a variety of with opera, pop and a com- Island. decided to spread out the rest organizations. bination of both - two genres his father has been extremely successful at. “Matteo needs to finish his studies to be a serious singer. Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds When you go to the doctor or to see a lawyer, you expect to AP The resurrected mission find a serious professional. became known as K2 and The same goes for singers,” CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa’s elite yielded 350 confirmed exo- said Bocelli, seated next to a planet-hunting spacecraft has planets, or planets orbiting other smiling Matteo. “But Matteo been declared dead, just a few stars, on top of what the tele- has shown he has a gift. He months shy of its 10th anni- scope had already uncovered has something you don’t versary. since its March 7, 2009, launch learn.” Matteo agrees with his Officials announced the from Cape Canaveral. father. “I know that to make Kepler Space Telescope’s demise In all, close to 4,000 exo- my dream come true I have on Tuesday. planets have been confirmed to study a lot,” he said. Already well past its over the past two decades, two- Bocelli, who is blind, has expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year- thirds of them thanks to Kepler. sold 85 million records old Kepler had been running low Kepler focused on stars worldwide and has per- on fuel for months. Its ability to thousands of light-years away formed for popes and presi- point at distant stars and identify and, according to NASA, showed dents and at events like the possible alien worlds worsened that statistically there’s at least Olympics and the World Cup. dramatically at the beginning of one planet around every star in Bocelli said it took time to October, but flight controllers our Milky Way Galaxy. find the right songs for “Si.” still managed to retrieve its latest Borucki, who dreamed up “This album was born over observations. The telescope has the mission decades ago, said time. I was looking for songs now gone silent, its fuel tank one of his favorite discoveries that are up to (the) expecta- empty. “Kepler opened the gate was Kepler 22b, a water planet tions, that are beautiful, and, for mankind’s exploration of the bigger than Earth but where it is well, it wasn’t easy to find cosmos,” said retired Nasa sci- not too warm and not too cold - them,” he said. “I hope 14 entist William Borucki, who led the type “that could lead to life.” years have been enough This artist’s conception received on March 5, 2009 shows the Kepler spacecraft. the original Kepler science team. A successor to Kepler launched (time).” Billboard reported Kepler discovered 2,681 in April, NASA’s Tess spacecraft, Tuesday that “Si” will likely planets outside our solar system the planets discovered by Kepler solar system with eight planets, Kepler was salvaged by engi- has its sights on stars closer to debut at No. 1 on its all-genre and even more potential candi- are rocky and Earth-sized in the just like ours. neers and kept peering into the home. It’s already identified albums chart next week. It dates. It showed us rocky worlds so-called Goldilocks zone. But “It has revolutionised our cosmos, thick with stars and gal- some possible planets. would give Bocelli his first No. the size of Earth that, like Earth, Kepler’s overall planet census understanding of our place in the axies, ever on the lookout for Tess project scientist Padi 1 album on the chart. might harbor life. It also unveiled showed that 20 to 50 percent of cosmos,” Hertz said. “Now we dips in in the brightness of stars Boyd called Kepler’s mission Bocelli, who says at times incredible super Earths: planets the stars visible in the night sky know because of the Kepler that could indicate an orbiting “stunningly successful.” Kepler he still suffers from stage bigger than Earth but smaller could have planets like ours in Space Telescope and its science planet. showed us that “we live in a fright, is currently on tour, than Neptune. the habitable zone for life, he mission that planets are more “It was like trying to detect a galaxy that’s teeming with which also features Matteo Nasa’s astrophysics director said. common than stars in our flea crawling across a car head- planets, and we’re ready to take onstage. They will play two Paul Hertz estimated that any- The $700m mission even galaxy.” Almost lost in 2013 light when the car was 100 miles the next step to explore those shows at New York’s Madison where from two to a dozen of helped to uncover last year a because of equipment failure, away,” said Borucki said. planets,” she said. Square Garden in December.