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SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 • 10 Ramadan 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6474 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Kuwait, Tunisia attacks kill 64 27 killed, 227 wounded as bomber targets Kuwait Shia mosque  Gunman kills 37 at Tunisia beach KUWAIT CITY: From a mass wounded to hospital. shooting at a Tunisian beach IS named the bomber Abu resort, a suicide bomber tar- Qatar slams Suleiman Al Muwahed and said in geting a mosque in Kuwait a statement on social media that and a decapitated body in a he had targeted a “temple of the French town, a wave of grisly attacks rejectionists” — a term it gener- attacks yesterday claimed at DOHA: Qatar condemned ally uses to refer to Shias whom least 64 lives and injured over attacks in Kuwait, Tunisia it regards as heretics. 250, shocking the world days and France and said the crim- On Tuesday, IS had urged fol- after the Islamic State (IS) inal acts are contrary to moral lowers to step up attacks during urged supporters to carry out and human values and contra- Ramadan against Christians, Ramadan attacks. dict religions and teachings Shias and Sunnis fighting with There was no apparent link of Islam and its principles of a US-led coalition against the between the attacks, but IS tolerance. ultra-hardline jihadist group. claimed the suicide bombing at In a statement, the Foreign The health ministry said the Shia mosque in Kuwait in Ministry reiterated Qatar’s Kuwait’s blood bank had opened which 27 people were killed, and solidarity with the countries additional centres to receive Islamist flags found at the site of and their people and support donations and urged citizens the French attack. for all security measures taken with non-urgent medical needs The suicide bomber blew him- to preserve their security and to avoid emergency units. self up in the packed mosque stability. Kuwait declared a day of in Kuwait city during Friday The ministry reiterated mourning today. Emir H H prayers, the health ministry and Qatar’s stance which rejects vio- Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah witnesses said, the first suicide lence in all its forms and mani- visited the mosque and said the bombing at a Shia mosque and festations whatever its motives bombing violated the sanctity of worst militant attack in the coun- and causes. Ramadan and Islamic law forbid- try for many years. It extended Qatar’s condo- ding the shedding of the blood of Shias comprise between 15 and lences to the families of the innocents. “National unity is a 30 percent of the predominantly victims, the governments of protective fence for the security Sunni state, where members of Kuwait, Tunisia and France and of the nation,” he said. Security forces and worshippers gather outside Imam Sadeq Mosque following the blast in Al Sawaber, Kuwait both communities are known to their people. QNA Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber City, yesterday. live side by side with little appar- Al Mubarak Al Sabah visited the ent friction. The IS, which on suicide bomber’s body that he was wounded at Emiri Hospital and and wounding 36 in the country’s RIU group said most of 565 to the beach he used his weapon.” Monday marks the first anniver- young. He walked into the prayer condemned the bombing as an worst attack in recent history. guests were from Britain and In Saint-Quentin Fallavier sary of its “caliphate” straddling hall during sujood (kneeling in attempt to jeopardise Kuwait’s There was no immediate claim “central European countries”. in France, a delivery man with Iraq and Syria, claimed respon- prayer). He looked ...in his 20s, national unity. of responsibility for the attack. British Foreign Secretary Philip known Islamist connections sibility for the attack, which also I saw him,” he said by telephone. Minister of Justice, Religious Witnesses described scenes of Hammond said in London five beheaded his boss and left the wounded 227 people according to “The explosion was hard. The Endowments and Islamic Affairs panic after the shooting at the Britons had been killed and body, daubed with Arabic writing, the interior ministry, in the dis- ceiling and wall got destroyed,” Yaqoub Al Sanea said that despite five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba warned that the toll could rise. at the site of a US-owned gas fac- trict of Sawaber in the eastern he said, adding over 2,000 people the attack, “Kuwait will remain Hotel on the outskirts of Sousse, In Dublin, Foreign Minister tory in the southeast before try- part of the Kuwaiti capital. from the Shia Ja’afari sect were an oasis of security for all groups about 140km south of Tunis. Charles Flanagan said an Irish ing to blow up the complex. MP Khalil Al Salih, who was praying. The mosque preacher of Kuwaiti society and all sects. “There are 37 dead and 36 woman was among the dead. He rammed his delivery van at the mosque when the attack was quoted by state news agency The government is taking pro- wounded. Some of the wounded Secretary of State for Security into a warehouse containing occurred, said worshippers were KUNA as saying the attack tar- cedures to protect prayers and are in a critical condition,” health Rafik Chelly told Mosaique FM gas canisters, triggering an ini- kneeling in prayer when the geted worshippers at the back of mosques”. ministry communications chief that the gunman was a Tunisian tial explosion, and was arrested bomber walked into Imam Al the mosque towards the end of In Tunisia, a man pulled a gun Chokri Nafti said. Interior min- student unknown to authorities. minutes later as he tried to open Sadeq Mosque and detonated his the prayer. hidden inside a beach umbrella istry spokesman Mohamed Ali “He entered by the beach, dressed canisters containing flammable explosives, destroying walls and Security forces sealed off the and opened fire at the packed Aroui said: “The assailant was like someone who was going to chemicals, prosecutors said. the ceiling. perimeter of the mosque while Mediterranean resort of Port el killed.” swim, and had a beach umbrella AGENCIES “It was obvious from the rescue workers carried the Kantaoui, massacring 37 people A spokesman for Spain’s with his gun in it. When he came See also pages 5 & 8

RAF hosts community Iftar Lankan president Qatar ranked third in world sacks parliament COLOMBO: Sri Lanka natural gas reserves President Maithripala Sirisena DOHA: Qatar ranks third in the world in terms of natural gas yesterday ordered the imme- reserves, said a report by British Petroleum (BP). According to BP’s diate dismissal of parliament, ‘Statistical Review of World Energy’ report, Qatar holds about 13.1 clearing the way for a snap elec- percent of the world’s total proven gas reserves. tion 10 months ahead of sched- Iran possesses the world’s largest proven natural gas reserves with ule, a government spokesman 18.2 percent. Russia has the second largest gas reserves with 17.4 per- said. cent and the Middle East holds about 42.7 percent of total gas reserves. “The president signed a The report said global energy consumption slowed sharply to an gazette notification a short while increase of 0.9 percent last year. Slow growth of energy demand was ago, dissolving parliament with largely due to China’s economy moving away from energy-intensive effect from midnight,” Rajitha sectors. THE PENINSULA Senaratne said. AFP Vatican in deal with ‘Palestine State’

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican signed its first treaty with the “State of Palestine” yesterday, calling for “courageous decisions” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and backing a two-state solution. The treaty, which made official the Vatican’s de facto recognition of Palestine since 2012, angered Israel, which called it “a hasty step (that) damages the prospects for advancing a peace agreement”. Israel also said it could have implications on its future diplomatic Members of Sri Lankan community attend an Iftar organised by RAF at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha yesterday. relations with the Vatican. Report on page 2 Kammutty VP The accord, which concerns the Catholic Church’s activities in areas RAMADAN controlled by Palestinian Authority, also confirmed the Vatican’s proac- TIMING tive role in foreign policy under Pope Francis. See also page 4 Todays Iftar: Hadi government rejects new talks 06:31pm Aljazeera cameraman killed in Syria SANA’A: Air strikes by Saudi-led forces hit military bases in Tomorrow’s Imsak: DOHA: A 19-year-old Aljazeera Daraa, where the uprising against of Aljazeera. We have lost a Yemen yesterday and the country’s foreign minister was quoted as 03:06am cameraman was killed yes- President Bashar Al Assad’s young man full of life and hope,” saying there was no need to convene another peace summit after terday while covering fight- regime erupted in 2011. Al Asfer’s said Yasser Abu Hilala, General the first round of talks failed. ing in the Syrian province of father was killed in the early days Manager, Aljazeera. Talks in Geneva last week ended without a resolution to the con- Daraa, news channel said in a of the uprising and his brother Al Asfer represented “a com- flict, as the Iran-allied Houthi movement and Saudi-backed President statement. was later killed in regime air plete generation of Syrians who Abdrabbu Mansur Hadi refused to back down. Reyad Yassin Abdulla Mohammed Al Asfer “was strikes on Daraa, Aljazeera said. dream of freedom and dignity, and said his government had no interest in organising a new meeting in martyred after being wounded Al Asfer was wounded early in the were banned by the regime even Geneva. as he was covering the battles in uprising while covering clashes from the right to stay alive.” The Houthis reject United Nations Security Council resolution 2216, Manshiya” village between the as a stringer for Aljazeera before Four more Aljazeera journalists which calls for them to withdraw from cities under their control, return opposition and regime forces, said officially joining the pan-Arab have been killed in Syria since the seized arms and allow Hadi to return from his Riyadh exile. the statement. news channel. uprising began, mostly in Daraa. See also page 4 Al Asfer was an activist in “This is a sad day in the history AFP AGENCIES SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME RAF hosts over 2,000 Sri Lankans for Iftar

Ali Yusouf Al Kuwari (right), Head, Public Relations Department, RAF, presents a ‘Thank You’ certificate to Nazeem Yakoob, President, Sri Lankan Majlis - Qatar as Abdul Wahab from the Ministry of Interior looks on and (Right) community members attend Iftar at Al Arabi Stadium. KAMMUTTY VP

DOHA: The Sheikh Thani RAF is organising the pro- Bin Abdullah Foundation for gramme for the fifth consecutive Humanitarian Services (RAF) year as part of its Ramadan char- yesterday organised its first ity activities. community Iftar this Ramadan, Some 2,200 Muslim and non- Sri Lankan Islamic scholar deliv- Ali Yusouf Al Kuwari, Head, As part of ‘Iftar and the relationship and promote hosting more than 2,000 Sri Muslim members of the Sri ered the lecture, while the quiz Public Relations Department, Brotherhood with Expat brotherhood among members Lankans. Lankan expatriate community contests were held separately RAF, and Abdul Wahab from the Communities Programme’, RAF of communities in Qatar and The event was organised in attended the event at Al Arabi for Muslims and non-Muslims. ministry, were among the guests. will host 1,800 Nepalese on July provide opportunity to raise cooperation with the Ministry Sports Club. Winners received prizes from Al Kuwari presented a certifi- 3 and 2,500 Indians and 700 awareness about issues related of Interior as part of their ‘Iftar A religious lecture and two quiz RAF. Also a security, safety and cate of appreciation to Nazeem Filipinos on July 10. with their religions, safety and and Brotherhood with Expat competitions were also held. traffic awareness programme was Yakoob, President, Sri Lankan Through community-based ini- security. Communities Programme’. Sheikh Agar Mohammed, a held. Majlis Qatar (SLMQ). tiatives RAF aims to strengthen THE PENINSULA Qatar Mission to Ooredoo volunteers visit eldery at Ihsan DOHA: As part of its Ramadan campaign ‘The best time to share our best’, UN holds event Ooredoo volunteers visited Qatar Foundation for Elderly Care (Ihsan) to bring joy to some of the people supported by the foundation. on future of Syria Volunteers spent time with some of the residents, learned GENEVA: Qatar’s Permanent of a fair democracy in Syria to break more about their lives and Mission to the United Nations the tyranny of extremism and dic- spread joy in this special time Office in Geneva organsied an tatorship and the need to remind of year to those in need. event ‘Syria after tyranny: The the international community that After breaking fast together, achievement of a democratic and to reach a lasting political solution volunteers presented gifts to multi-Parties future’. to the war, obstacles to account- the elderly and congratulated It was held in collaboration with ability must be overcome and those the organisation for its work. the permanent missions of France, responsible for various crimes held Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, accountable. Director, Community & Public Belgium, the US, and ‘No Peace Qatari Acting Charge d’Affaires Relations, Ooredoo, said: “The Without Justice’ organisation on Mohannad Al Hammadi stressed foundation is dedicated to the sidelines of the 29th session of confidence in the ability of the Syrian improving the lives of seniors, Human Rights Council which runs people to achieve victory and get rid advocating their rights, increas- until July 3. of the authoritarian Assad regime ing awareness on issues facing Speakers included Hisham Marwa, which has persistently committed the elderly and guiding their Deputy Chairman, Syrian National crimes and violation of all rights of families. Coalition, Hussein Al Sabbag, the Syrian people. “This is a subject that should Eldery citizens at the event at Ihsan. Secretary-General, European- He said there would be no fear be close to everyone’s hearts Syrian Democratic Forum, Imad Al about the future of Syria after the during this time of reflection Din Rashid, Head, Political Office, demise of tyranny and removal of the and Ihsan plays a vital role in in all categories of society and develop further to ensure a during Ramadan across the National Syrian Movement, Basma Assad regime. Qatar.” provide them with a better better life for the seniors,” he country. Customers can fol- Kodmani from Arab Initiative for Al Hammadi expressed Qatar’s Khalid Abdullah, Senior quality of life. “The visit was added. Volunteers were received low Ooredoo’s Ramadan cam- Reform, Amir Kazkaz from the cen- belief in the ability of the Syrian Director, Public Relations and part of a special, long-lasting by a group of employees and paign via Ooredoo’s Facebook, tre documenting violations in Syria, people to work on the leadership Information, said the visit con- and growing relationship we patients. Instagram or Twitter page and and Alison Smith, Legal Adviser to of the transitional political process, tributed to the foundation’s have with the company, and The visit was part of com- hashtag #SharingOurBest ‘No Peace Without Justice’. eliminate extremist and terrorist efforts to integrate the elderly we hope our cooperation will munity and charity activities THE PENINSULA It highlighted means of obtaining groups backed by the regime which victims’ rights, accountability mecha- have wreaked havoc and terror and nisms, civic participation as a prereq- provide appropriate conditions for uisites to ensure the establishment solutions. QNA UCQ to train healthcare professionals

DOHA: University of Calgary Development Accreditation in Qatar (UCQ), the coun- Project Coordinator, UCQ, QTA begins inspection try’s sole academic institution said: “We are excited that the for the nursing profession, council has granted us provider has been awarded approval approval. The mandatory sys- from Council for Healthcare tem of the programme licen- of Ramadan tents, Practitioners (QCHP), to pro- sure of healthcare professionals vide Continuing Professional for Qatar is an ambitious and Development programme. unique national initiative, and The programme contributes we are proud to be part of it. events at hotels to the quality of care for eve- “With provider status, we DOHA: Qatar Tourism Authority raising standards of the hospitality ryone by providing training for can proceed to plan courses (QTA) has begun inspection of sector and preserving local heritage healthcare professionals. relevant to and based on the Ramadan tents, hotels and other in places frequented by tourists,” This allows nurses and other needs of healthcare profession- tourism establishments to assess said Mohamed Al Ansari, Head of professionals to constantly als, but as a nursing university, quality and compliance with local Licensing, QTA. build skills in line with Qatar’s there will be a natural focus on customs and traditions. “Evaluation in this period specifi- National Health Strategy 2011- nurses.” Inspectors are ensuring hotels cally are based on metrics developed 2016 and Qatar National Vision In realising its vision for and similar establishments are tak- by our specialists to ensure licensed 2030. the programme in Qatar ing into account the special nature establishments are in line with spe- “We are honoured by this Healthcare providers attend a training session. and to design and implement of Ramadan and are considerate cial practices of the holy month” he opportunity to provide pro- a customised Continuing towards Muslim tourists and resi- said. fessional development and continuing professional devel- Development programme Professional Development dents throughout the holy month. Al Ansari said evaluations con- acknowledge QCHP’s initiatives opment of nurses and health- reflects the widely acknowl- programme accreditation QTA representatives are also tribute to the selection process at for the programme as impor- care practitioners in Qatar, we edged imperative of lifelong system, the council is consult- inspecting the quality of food, diver- Annual Tourism Awards hosted by tant to Qatar’s goals in health- feel we have more opportunity learning for professionals in ing Canada’s Royal College of sity of dishes and their presentation QTA. care,” said Dr Kim Critchley, to support Qatar’s healthcare the healthcare industry. Physicians. Once enrolled in the at Iftar and Suhour banquets. The authority has issued a memo Dean and CEO, UCQ. vision.” Through the programme programme, local healthcare Décor, lighting, quality of enter- to hotel and tourism establishments “As the only nursing univer- UCQ has trained many cur- commencing this fall, UCQ will professionals will undertake tainment and how popular local with instructions to assist it in sity in Qatar, our bachelor and rent healthcare profession- contribute to enhancing health- course work at UCQ in support dishes feature on the menu are also ensuring experiences that are appro- Master’s nursing programmes als through its Bachelor of care in Qatar and extend its of Qatar’s seven health strategy being surveyed. priate to religious and national holi- have delivered gold-standard Nursing and Master of Nursing educational portfolio. goals, including a world-class “We evaluate hotel and tour- days as part of its efforts to develop Canadian nursing education programmes. Christine MacDonald, healthcare system and a skilled ism establishments on an ongoing hospitality and tourism regulations. for almost a decade. Its latest initiative to pro- Senior Nursing Instructor national workforce. basis to ensure we are consistently THE PENINSULA “Now as a provider of vide Continuing Professional and Continuing Professional THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 High insurance costs discussed Minister inaugurates Fereej Aspire DOHA: The Services and Facilities Committee of the Advisory Council discussed Programmes highlight Qatari culture and heritage until 19th of Ramadan sharp increase in the cost of health insurance schemes under Seha due to lack of monitoring. The issue of high health insurance cost was part of reports prepared by members of the committee, Al Arab reports. The National Health Insurance Company (Seha) is a government-owned entity that manages and operates Seha, the national health insurance scheme. It provides mandatory insurance coverage through a network of public and private providers . According to a senior official, the committee discussed rea- sons behind the steep increase in the prices and its impact on government’s budget. Committee members, in pre- vious meeting, had raised the issue of rising cost of health Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari with other officials and (RIGHT) children take part in one of the activities. insurance. The panel will now make a DOHA: Minister of Culture, of activities for the holy month, event features activities, offering programme in collaboration with a traditional neighbourhood report with recommendations Arts and Heritage H E Dr Qatar News Agency reports. visitors the chance to practise Qatar Charity to revive Qatari or community, allows visitors by members. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Dr Al Kuwari toured the venue traditional Qatari sports, sample traditions. to enjoy Qatar’s heritage and The report will be submitted Kuwari inaugurated activities and was briefed on its compo- traditional Qatari food and dis- The programme includes lec- traditions. to council and will be submitted of ‘Fereej Aspire’ cultural and nents, including tents hosting cover the art of traditional sto- tures, forums, traditional com- The event, in partnership to the government after getting heritage, organised by Aspire traditional crafts and attended a rytelling and crafts. petitions and tents such as Al with Vodafone Qatar and Sports approval from the council. Zone Foundation. performance of songs by children There are additional activities Akass, Al Nawakhda, Al Durzi, Corner, is open daily from 9.30pm THE PENINSULA The event runs until the 19th and traditional Qatari games. and opportunities to win prizes. Al Khraz and Al Meqnas. until midnight. of Ramadan on July 6 as part Aspire Zone officials said the Activities include the ‘Sloom’ The Fereej, which means THE PENINSULA Qatar, Sudan emerge victorious in first round of Embassies Tournament DOHA: The first round of Aspire Zone Embassies Tournament being held as part of Ramadan Sports Festival in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry, drew to a close with fierce competition. On the second, Mexican Ambassador Francisco Niembro participated and his team beat the French embassy 9-2, entering the second round. Niembro said: “I A volunteer hands over an Iftar box to a motorist. arrived in Qatar a month ago and I think the tournament is a great idea. I’m impressed with facilities Jaidah Automotive, RAF at Aspire Zone and I’m glad I’m able to celebrate Ramadan with such great activities. It’s important for people at embassies to interact distribute 300 Iftar meals with colleagues like this. I’d like Officials with one of the winning teams. DOHA: Jaidah Automotive has illustrations and messages. to thank Aspire Zone Foundation partnered with Sheikh Thani Khaled Samir, Director, for organising the tournament and people together and spread peace second round. The final stage will indoor pitch.” Bin Abdullah Foundation for Operations, Jaidah Automotive, I’m looking forward to the final and joy.” see three teams play against each Men’s football tournament: Humanitarian Services (RAF) said: “We are excited to launch match.” On the third day, Sudan played other on a points system, and the Al Waab secured a 3-0 win against on an Iftar project. the project. The unique campaign The second match also saw Ethiopia in the first match, hit- final will be held on June 30 at Al Malky and Maizar Stars beat As part of its corporate social includes new and creative ideas strong competition between ting the back of the net 13 times Aspire indoor pitch. Al Wadi 5-0. responsibility, the company is to increase road safety aware- Morocco and Syria, with the while the Ethiopian team could Banks tournament: In the Junior competitions: In the distributing 300 Iftar meals at ness. I would like to thank RAF former winning 5-3 and going to put two goals past the goalkeeper. Banks Tournament, Masraf Al junior futsal tournament, Brazil sunset to motorists at the most for its contribution and support the second round. The Qatari team beat the Tunisian Rayan beat Qatar International beat Blackstars 4-1 and Galaxy crowded traffic lights in Doha to to the campaign, which aims to Syrian Coalition Ambassador team 7-4, entering the second Bank 4-0 and Qatar National Bank beat Al Ameed with the same break fast. The campaign during ensure safer roads during the holy Nizar Al Hiraki joined his team. round alongside Sudan, Morocco, (QNB) defeated Doha Bank 2-1. result. All competitions begin at the holy month aims to spread month and throughout the rest of He said: “We’re happy to be par- Mexico, the UAE and India. Khalid Al Hail, Manager, Awael 9.30pm and last until midnight. road safety awareness among the year.” ticipating in the tournament. This Twelve teams are participating Zone, QNB, said: “We are also The festival is being held in part- motorists through an innovative The company hopes that the has been well organised and we’re in the first tournament, distrib- participating in other competi- nership with Vodafone Qatar, and non-traditional approach. new approach will be effective in glad to meet fellows from other uted into two groups of six teams. tions, but we consider this one of Sport Corner, Women’s Sports A team from Jaidah Automotive reaching out to a wider audience, embassies. The tournament rep- Losers from each match are elimi- the most important. This is the Committee and Paralympic and RAF is give away meal boxes and raising awareness among the resents Qatar’s efforts to bring nated and winners qualify for the first time we’ve played on a cooled, Committee. THE PENINSULA with ‘Why Risk It’ campaign youth. THE PENINSULA Gulf English School wins ‘Most Active Eco School’ Award DOHA: Gulf English School (GES) has won ‘The Most Active Eco School’ Award at the annual award ceremony for ‘Green Programme for Schools’. Having joined the programme this February, GES students have worked hard to promote a greener school as part of the school’s ‘Save the Earth’ initiative. Commercial Bank officials with the two winners of the summer loan campaign. They have been learning about global warming and pollution and made aware of changes needed to protect the Earth. Bank names campaign winners The programme raises glo- bal eco awareness by providing DOHA, QATAR: Commercial the period have the opportunity added benefits of a payment schools with tools to remind stu- Bank has announced the sixth to participate. For details on how holiday of up to six months for dents to turn off lights when not pair of winners of its summer to enter the draw, call 4449 0000 Qataris and up to three for expa- using, not to waste water and to loan campaign, which offers or visit your nearest bank branch. triates, same day approvals and reuse plastic bottles. customers the best deals for Customers can enjoy the sum- 24-hour banking support. Sarah Dickins, Deputy Head personal, vehicle and mortgage mer loan campaign until July-end, Dean Proctor, EGM Chief Pastoral for GES Juniors, said: loans. benefitting from personal loans Consumer & Private Banking, “By reducing the amount of elec- Jose Jr Alquintillo Penafiel and with repayment rates as low as said: “The bank continues to offer tricity we use, reusing our plas- The team with the award. Akahome Emmanuel Ikpotokin 3.99 percent reducing interest exceptional value to customers. tic bottles and thinking more entered into the weekly prize rate (equivalent to 2.15 percent To give them more benefits over about what we throw away, we the school’s vision and mission to school and delivered an assembly draw by taking out a personal flat interest rate), vehicle loans the summer months we will con- have become a more eco-friendly provide a well-rounded education address to the school to explain loan. They each won travel vouch- as low as 1.99 percent flat inter- tinue to offer two customers the school – and this is just the start. to our students so they achieve the programme. ers worth QR15,000 to spend est rate (equivalent to 3.69 per- chance to win travel vouchers “We are delighted to have their personal best and become They also spoke to the classes however they choose and at any cent reducing interest rate) and worth QR15,000 every week until received the award for being the responsible global citizens.” they represented to set up recy- destination they desire. mortgage loans with repayment the end of the campaign. “I would most active eco school and our The student council of those cling areas and introduced a There are two winners every rates starting from 3.99 percent like to congratulate this week’s students are thinking of new and aged 7-11 brought enthusiasm suggestions box in reception to week during the campaign and reducing interest rate (equivalent winners and look forward to next innovative ways to help our school and energy to bear to set up the collect ideas from students and customers who take a personal, to 2.15 percent flat interest rate). week’s announcement.” become greener. programme. They placed green staff about going green. vehicle or mortgage loan during These loans come with the THE PENINSULA “The programme chimes with awareness stickers around the THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST AKP speaker US proposes six nomination fuels Vatican inks first treaty South Sudan leaders coalition talk for UN sanctions ANKARA: Turkey’s govern- ing AK Party nominated its UNITED NATIONS: The United States low-profile defence minister for with ‘State of Palestine’ has proposed six rival commanders from parliamentary speaker yester- South Sudan be the first people blacklisted day, in a sign it could be willing by the United Nations Security Council for to cede the post to the opposi- Hasty step damages prospects for peace: Israel threatening the peace and stability of the tion in return for a deal to form world’s newest state. a coalition government. VATICAN CITY: The Vatican signed The council’s 15-member South Sudan In picking Ismet Yilmaz, the its first treaty with the “State of sanctions committee operates by consensus, AKP opted for a veteran back- Palestine” yesterday, calling for “cou- so if there are no objections by 3 p.m. EDT bencher lacking the name rec- rageous decisions” to end the Israeli- (1900 GMT) on Wednesday, a global travel ban ognition of the rival Republican Palestinian conflict and backing a and asset freeze will be imposed. Britain and People’s Party (CHP) candidate, two-state solution. France co-sponsored the proposal. According Deniz Baykal, a former head of The treaty, which made official the to the proposal, the government leaders tar- the party and parliament’s old- Vatican’s de facto recognition of Palestine geted are: Major-General Marial Chanuong Yol est deputy. since 2012, angered Israel, which called Mangok, commander of President Salva Kiir’s “The most important thing that it “a hasty step (that) damages the pros- guard unit; sector one commander Lieutenant- strikes us about Ismet Yilmaz is pects for advancing a peace agreement”. General Gabriel Jok Riak; and third division that he is not a high-profile can- Israel also said it could have implica- commander Major-General Santino Deng Wol. didate,” said Inan Demir, chief tions on its future diplomatic relations On the rebel side, the men named are: economist at Finansbank. with the Vatican. Major-General Simon Gatwech Dual, chief of “This makes us think that the The accord, which concerns the general staff for the opposition forces; AKP may be amenable to a com- Catholic Church’s activities in areas Major-General James Koang Chuol, com- promise with opposition parties, controlled by the Palestinian Authority, mander of the opposition special division; and whereby potential junior coalition also confirmed the Vatican’s increasingly Major-General Peter Gadet, the deputy chief partner gets the post of the par- proactive role in foreign policy under of staff of operations for the oppositions forces. liament speaker.” Pope Francis. Last year, it brokered the South Sudan plunged into civil war in historic resumption of ties between the December 2013 when a political crisis sparked United States and Cuba. fighting between forces loyal to Kiir and rebels Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the allied with his former deputy Riek Machar. Saudi-led jets Vatican’s foreign minister, said at the The conflict has reopened ethnic fault lines signing that he hoped it could be a “stim- that pit Kiir’s Dinka people against Machar’s bomb Yemen ulus to bringing a definitive end to the ethnic Nuer forces. long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Several ceasefires have been agreed but bro- SANA’A: Air strikes by Saudi- which continues to cause suffering for ken. Talks to try to end the conflict in the led forces hit military bases both parties”. Vatican’s Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher (right) shakes hands with world’s youngest country, which seceded from across Yemen yesterday, and He called for peace negotiations held Palestinian Foreign minister Riad Al Malki after the signing of a historic accord with Palestine, Sudan in 2011, are set to resume in mid-July. the country’s foreign minis- directly between Israelis and Palestinians in Vatican yesterday. In the sanctions listing proposal, govern- ter was quoted as saying there to resume and lead to a two-state solu- ment commander Chanuong is accused of was no need to convene another tion. “This certainly requires courageous the Roman and Greek Melkite rites in Some 135 members of the United leading “the slaughter of Nuer civilians in peace summit after the first decisions, but it will also offer a major Israel and the Palestinian territories, Nations recognise Palestine, nearly 70 and around Juba, many who were buried in round of talks failed. contribution to peace and stability in the most of them Palestinians. percent of the total. By comparison, mass graves.” One grave was purported to con- Talks in Geneva last week region,” he said. Gallagher said the agreement “may 160 of the UN’s 193 members recognise tain 200 to 300 civilians. Rebel commander ended without a resolution to the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al serve as a model for other Arab and Israel. Gadet’s forces are accused of targeting “civil- conflict, which has claimed more Malki said he hoped it would help “rec- Muslim majority countries” with regard Last October, Sweden became the first ians, including women, in April 2014 during an than 2,800 lives, as the Iran-allied ognition of the right of the Palestinian to freedom of religion and conscience. major European country to acknowledge assault on Bentiu, including targeted killings Houthi movement and Saudi- people to self-determination, freedom The UN General Assembly adopted a Palestine, a decision that drew condemna- on the basis of ethnicity.” backed President Abdrabuh and dignity in an independent state of resolution in 2012 recognising Palestine tion from Israel and has since led to tense The Security Council has long threatened Mansur Hadi refused to back their own, free from the shackles of as an observer non-member state. This relations between the two. to blacklist anyone undermining security or down. Ten people were killed occupation”. was welcomed at the time by the Vatican, The European Union as a whole does interfering with the peace process in South in air raids in Jawf, a northern The Vatican is particularly keen to have which has the same observer non-mem- not recognise Palestine, taking the same Sudan. Kiir said in March that the threat of province bordering Saudi Arabia, a greater diplomatic role in the Middle ber status at the United Nations. view as the United States that an inde- international sanctions would not keep him residents said. Fighter jets also East, from where many Christians have Since then the Vatican has de facto pendent country can emerge only via from retaliating against his rival. struck the capital Sanaa, the fled because of conflicts in Syria, Iraq and recognised a “State of Palestine” and the negotiations with Israel, not through a The United States and the European Union Houthis’ northern stronghold other countries. pope referred to it by that name when he process of unilateral recognition. have already imposed sanctions on some rival in Saada, as well as the prov- There are about 100,000 Catholics of visited the Holy Land last year. REUTERS commanders. REUTERS inces of Marib, Shabwa, Bayda and Aden in the centre and south of the country. Hadi’s foreign minister Reyad Fire in Cairo Yassin Abdulla said his govern- ment had no interest in organ- ising a new meeting in Geneva, France, Spain for UN action Saudi newspaper Asharq Al Awsat reported yesterday, and would instead work with all parties to implement United Nations to end Syria barrel bombings Security Council resolution 2216. UNITED NATIONS: France French Ambassador Francois follow up measures” such as sanc- and Spain pledged yesterday Delattre said the meeting was tions and an arms embargo,” he to launch a new effort at the the “starting point in the process added. Pressure has been mount- Libya talks at UN Security Council for action for us to use every option, tool, ing on the Security Council to to stop barrel bomb attacks venue at our disposal” to end the overcome its divisions and work to crucial stage in Syria, which rights groups attacks. end the horrific violence in Syria describe as a leading killer in The ambassadors, however, as the United Nations marks its SKHIRATE, MOROCCO: the war. did not specify which measures 70th anniversary. Libya’s two main rival factions The council adopted a resolu- may be under consideration and The conflict has claimed about restarted UN-backed peace tion in February 2014 demanding it remained an open question 230,000 lives, with some 70 dying talks in Morocco yesterday an end to the bombings that the whether Russia would allow steps on average per day, UN envoy with negotiations at a crucial West says are carried out by the that would punish the Damascus Staffan de Mistura told the coun- stage over a power-sharing pro- Damascus regime using helicop- regime. cil meeting in a video message. posal that negotiators call the ters to drop barrels rigged with Some 6,589 people have been Last week, 70 countries signed best chance for peace. explosives on civilian districts. killed by barrel bombs in the war, a letter to the Security Council, Four years after an uprising But there has been no action to now in its fifth year, and more expressing outrage over the use of ousted strongman Muammar enforce the measure by the coun- than half of those -- 3,831 -- have barrel bombs and demanding an Gaddafi, Western and regional cil, where veto-wielding Russia died in attacks carried out since end to attacks targeting civilians. powers are pushing for an end to has blocked resolutions targeting the resolution last year, according It called on the Security Council fighting between the two compet- President Bashar Al Assad. to Human Rights Watch. “to advance its efforts” on pre- ing governments vying for control During a meeting yesterday, Barrel bomb attacks are not venting the Syrian air force from of the North African country and council members heard three only “ongoing, but in many areas carrying out barrel bombings. its oil. human rights groups describe the have intensified,” said Nadim The letter, organized by Nearly three weeks after UN heavy toll from barrel bombing Khoury, a deputy director from Belgium, Luxembourg and the envoy Bernardino Leon handed and appeal for action to stop the Human Rights Watch. Netherlands, was signed by them a final draft, negotiating violence. The people of Syria are “des- European countries, Canada and teams were in Morocco to ham- “The international community perate for the Security Council the United States, and regional Egyptian civil protection forces try to extinguish fire around Al Kasr El mer out amendments, even as is, with a single voice, saying ‘Stop to give meaning to its words,” he powers including Saudi Arabia Aini hospital and Grand Nile Tower hotel at Cornish in downtown Cairo hardliners on the ground kept Barrel Bombs’,” said Spanish said. and Turkey. yesterday. The cause of the fire has yet to be confirmed and no casault- fighting for a military victory. Ambassador Roman Oyarzun “What we are expecting are Neither China nor Russia made ies have been reported. AGENCIES Marchesi following the meeting. not more words. We are expecting the list. AFP Big hurdles to Iran nuclear deal as deadline looms

VIENNA: As a June 30 dead- military dimensions (to Iran’s But despite the major obsta- to keep calm and have a lot of well, along with European Union only after confirmation that Iran line for a final nuclear deal nuclear activity) and sanctions cles to overcome, a senior US energy,” the senior Western dip- foreign policy chief Federica has met its commitments. approaches, major differences remain extremely problematic. official suggested to reporters lomat said. “At this stage it’s not Mogherini. Iran rejects allegations from remain between Iran and world We can find an agreement on on Thursday that an agreement clear that Iran is ready to make The difference on some issues Western powers and their allies powers on several key issues some points, but on major issues could be within reach. the choices.” are vast. Officials close to the that it is seeking the capability to including sanctions relief and there are still big differences.” “Despite these tough issues, U.S. Secretary of State John talks say they have yet to agree produce nuclear weapons under UN access to Iranian sites, a Iran and six major powers set here’s really what it’s all about. Kerry arrived in Vienna on on the speed and scope of lifting cover of a civilian atomic energy senior Western diplomat said themselves an end-June deadline We can truly see a path forward Friday, still on crutches after his sanctions, how Iran will reduce programme. yesterday. for a long-term deal that would that gets us to a very good agree- May 31 cycling accident. its stockpiles of low-enriched The real deadline is not June 30 “The most difficult subjects lift sanctions crippling the Iranian ment here. We know what the Iranian Foreign Minister uranium, the future extent of but July 9, diplomats say. need to be resolved in the coming economy in exchange for limits on pieces of it are,” the official said Mohammad Javad Zarif was due Tehran’s enrichment-centrifuge The US delegation must present days,” the diplomat told report- Tehran’s nuclear programme that on condition of anonymity. to arrive on Saturday morning, research and development pro- the deal to Congress by July 9 if a ers on condition of anonymity would remain in place for at least Western and Iranian officials when he and Kerry were to meet gramme, and access for UN mandatory congressional review in the Austrian capital, where a decade. But diplomats said the say the chances of success in to discuss progress and sticking inspectors to military and other period before President Barack talks between the United States, talks would likely run into July. Vienna are greater than the like- points in the talks. Also arriving sites, as well as UN access to Obama can begin suspending Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Senior Iranian negotiator lihood of failure. But there is still on Saturday is French Foreign Iranian nuclear scientists. sanctions is to be limited to 30 China and Iran have entered their Abbas Araqchi told Iranian no guarantee they will get a deal. Minister Laurent Fabius. Iran wants sanctions lifted days. After July 9, the review will final phase. reporters that the current nego- “The next few days will be British, German, Russia and immediately, though diplomats last 60 days, according to a law “The questions of access and tiations were a “slow and difficult extremely difficult. There will Chinese ministers are expected say they will be eased gradually passed recently by US legislators. transparency, PMD (possible process.” be overnighters and we will need to join in the coming days as in accordance with a schedule and REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 IS bomber kills 27 at Kuwait mosque 227 wounded in the first ever suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Kuwait KUWAIT CITY: An Islamic State (IS) condemned. Parliament speaker Marzouk suicide bomber struck a Shia mosque Al Ghanem also called the attack “black in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday terror”, adding that the unity of Kuwaitis prayers, killing 27 people as the Gulf would foil any plot. state declared an “all-out confronta- The two mainstream Sunni groups, the tion” with terrorism. Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) Health Minister Ali Al Obaidi told the and the Islamic Salaf Alliance, denounced state-run Kuwait Television the number of the attack. The ICM, political arm of the dead had risen to 27 in addition to 227 Muslim Brotherhood, decried the bomb- wounded in the first ever suicide attack ing as a “low criminal attack targeting on Shia mosques in the oil-rich emirate. the mosque”. The toll in the attack, carried out in A statement from the second group the holy fasting month of Ramadan, is said: “The Islamic Salaf Alliance strongly one of the largest in Kuwait’s history. deplores this heinous crime which is car- The cabinet announced after an emer- ried out only by traitors.” gency meeting that all security agencies Kuwait’s leading Sunni cleric, Sheikh and police have been placed on alert to Ajeel Al Nashmi, said on Twitter that confront what it called “black terror”. the bombing was a “criminal act aimed “The cabinet stresses that it will take at sowing seeds of discord, and undoubt- whatever measures necessary to root out edly Shias and Sunnis will foil the ter- this scourge, and declares a relentless all- rorists’ plot”. Independent MP Sultan Al out confrontation with these terrorists,” Shemmari called on the government to said a statement after the meeting. “hit the terrorists with an iron fist”. It also declared Saturday a day of Over the past few weeks, Kuwaiti mourning. courts have tried a number of people on The IS-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia, charges of belonging to IS and sentenced calling itself Najd Province, said militant at least one to several years in jail. Abu Suleiman Al Muwahhid bombed the Several countries and organisations mosque which it claimed was spreading deplored the bombing. Shia teachings among Sunni Muslims. The White House condemned “heinous IS, a radical Sunni group, considers attacks” in France, Kuwait and Tunisia, Shias to be heretics. expressing solidarity and vowing to “fight The Najd Province group has claimed the scourge of terrorism”. similar bombings at Shia mosques in Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. said that “terrorist gangs are a threat After the attack, a security official said to all, and countries in the region and “it is a suicide bombing”, and witnesses Medics and security forces gather inside Imam Sadiq Mosque following a suicide bombing in Al Sawaber, Kuwait City, yesterday. the world must seriously contribute to said a suicide bomber entered the mosque fighting them”. during weekly noon prayers. Al Sabah, immediately visited the site, A number of hospitals declared states incident. Iran said “terrorist” attacks are the The mosque’s senior cleric, Abdullah and footage on state-run television of emergency to deal with the wounded, Local media reported that security main threat to regional security and sta- Al Mazeedi, told Kuna news agency the showed him visibly moved by the carnage. and the central blood bank appealed for authorities have rounded up an unspeci- bility. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation bombing targeted the rear rows of wor- He later said that the “criminal attack donations. fied number of suspects, but this could Council (GCC), to which Kuwait belongs, shippers who numbered around 2,000 is a desperate and evil attempt targeting Kuwaiti Shias make up around one not be confirmed. Three weeks ago, the called the attack an attempt to under- altogether. He said the blast damaged Kuwait’s national unity”. third of the country’s native population ministry said it had boosted security mine national unity and the stability of the interior and caused several chande- The channel broadcast footage of the of 1.3 million. around mosques following the bombings its members. There was also condemna- liers to fall. destruction, and people posted online hor- The interior ministry said it has in neighbouring Saudi Arabia. tion from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Russia The emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad rific pictures of the dead and wounded. launched a full investigation into the Yesterday’s attack was widely and Spain among others. AFP Tunisia beach resort massacre kills 37

PORT EL KANTAOUI, TUNISIA: A man Ali Aroui said: “The assailant was killed.” Secretary pulled a gun hidden in a beach umbrella and of State for Security Rafik Chelly told Mosaique FM opened fire at a packed holiday resort yesterday, the gunman was a Tunisian student unknown to the massacring 37 people in Tunisia’s worst attack authorities. “He entered by the beach, dressed like in recent history. The carnage at the popular someone who was going to swim, and he had a beach Mediterranean resort of Port el Kantaoui came umbrella with his gun in it. Then when he came to the same day as a suicide bomber killed 27 peo- the beach he used his weapon,” Chelly said. ple at a Shia mosque in Kuwait and a suspected Islamist attacked a factory in France. BULLETS WHIZZING There was no immediate claim of responsibility British tourist Ellie Makin saw the attack unfold. for the Tunisia attack, but the Islamic State (IS) “All I saw was a gun and an umbrella being group, which Monday marks the first anniversary dropped,” she told ITV television. of its “caliphate” straddling Iraq and Syria, said it “Then he started firing to the right hand side of was behind the Kuwait bombing. us. If he had fired to the left I don’t know what would Witnesses described scenes of panic after the have happened, but we were very lucky.” shooting at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba The shooting was the worst in modern-day Hotel on the outskirts of Sousse, about 140km south Tunisia and followed a March attack on Tunis’s of Tunis. Bardo National Museum that killed 21 foreign tour- “There are 37 dead and 36 wounded. Some of the ists and a policeman. IS claimed responsibility for the wounded are in a critical condition,” health ministry Bardo attack, although Tunisia says it was carried Security forces stand in front of the Imperial hotel in the resort town of Sousse, a popular tourist destination 140km communications chief Chokri Nafti said, revising an out by an Algerian militant. British tourist Gary south of Tunisian capital Tunis, following a shooting attack yesterday. earlier toll of 28 dead. A spokesman for Spain’s RIU Pine told Britain’s Sky News television yesterday’s group said most of the 565 guests were from Britain shooting happened at around midday (1100 GMT) my wife and myself were shouting for him to get out “been shot in the stomach in front of her”. and “central European countries”. when the beach was packed. He said he thought it the sea quick and as we ran up the beach he said: ‘I “She got dragged away by hotel reps trying to get British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said was “firecrackers going off”. “Only when you could just saw someone get shot’.” her to safety but she was a complete mess. She was in London five Britons had been killed and warned start hearing bullets whizzing around your ear do Holidaymaker Susan Ricketts said people were in hysterics,” she said. that the toll could rise. you realise it was something a lot more serious than “running and screaming... crying and going hysteri- “All she said was that he’d been shot and that he In Dublin, Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan said firecrackers.” “There was a mass exodus off the cal”. Briton Olivia Leathley, 24, heard “loud bangs” was there bleeding on the beach and he was just say- an Irish woman was among the dead. beach,” said Pine, adding he heard 20 or 30 shots. and when she went to the lobby to find out what was ing, ‘I love you, I love you’, and then his eyes rolled Tunisian interior ministry spokesman Mohamed “My son was in the sea at the time and of course happening, she saw a woman whose husband had back into his head.” AFP IS kills 164 civilians in Syria’s Kobane: Monitor

BEIRUT: The Islamic State The assault — in which 42 IS the town. They just came to kill civilians waited on the Syrian with Kurdish militia, launched not yet involved in the fighting. (IS) group killed 164 civilians fighters and 10 Kurds also died — the highest number of civilians side of the frontier with Turkey air strikes. At least 20 jihadists The militants previously in its offensive on the Kurdish began on Thursday when three in the ugliest ways possible,” he yesterday, carefully watched by and 30 pro-government fighters advanced to the southern edge of town of Kobane, in what a mon- IS suicide bombers blew up vehi- said. Turkish troops and police. were killed when IS captured Hasakeh in May but were pushed itor yesterday called one of the cles at the entrances to Kobane, Kurdish activist Arin Relatives who had made it southern parts of Hasakeh. back by government forces. “worst massacres” in Syria. a symbol of Kurdish resistance. Shekhmos said: “Every family in across the border cried in despair, An IS suicide bomber also Information Minister Omran The killing spree, which took Women were among civil- Kobane lost a family member on a photographer reported. killed at least 20 regime troops Zohbi urged “anyone who is capa- place mostly inside Kobane itself, ians whose bodies were found Thursday.” Kobane was the scene of one of yesterday, when he targeted the ble of carrying a gun” to “pro- was widely seen as vengeance for in homes and on the streets, the The jihadists entered Kobane IS’s most dramatic defeats when criminal security headquarters in tect Hasakeh”, official Sana news a series of defeats inflicted on the Observatory said. at dawn Thursday disguised as Kurdish militia backed by US-led the city’s south, the Observatory agency reported yesterday. jihadists by Kurdish militia in “According to medical sources Kurdish People’s Protection air strikes ousted the jihadists said. Pictures posted online by IS In southern Syria, a rebel alli- recent weeks. and Kobane residents, 120 civil- Units (YPG) fighters, Ali said. in January after four months of show what appear to be the bod- ance has been pressing an assault At least 120 civilians were ians were executed by IS in their They took up positions in heavy fighting. ies of soldiers as well as weapons since Thursday on the city and killed in a 24-hour rampage on homes or killed by the group’s buildings in the south of the Kurdish fighters have gone on and ammunition they claimed to provincial capital of Daraa that Kobane, and another 26 were rockets or snipers,” Observatory town, using civilians as “human to seize Tal Abyad, another bor- have seized. has killed 70 people, 40 of them executed in a nearby village, the director Rami Abdel Rahman shields”. der town farther east, in a blow On Thursday, the UN rebels, said the Observatory. Syrian Observatory for Human said. “There are at least 70 civilians to the jihadists’ supply lines. Office for the Coordination of President Bashar Al Assad’s Rights said. The bullet-riddled “When they entered the town, in these various neighbourhoods IS has hit back against Kurdish Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) regime has already lost two pro- bodies of 18 people — including the jihadists took up positions in that have been taken hostage by victories with an offensive against said the Hasakeh clashes had vincial capitals in the four-year- children — were found yester- buildings at the southeast and IS,” Ali added. Hasakeh in the northeast, capital displaced an estimated 60,000 old civil war: IS-held Raqa in the day in the streets of Kobane, the southwest entrances, firing at “The YPG has sent reinforce- of the mainly Kurdish province of people, including 10,000 who fled Euphrates valley and Idlib in the Britain-based Observatory said, everything that moved.” ments and have encircled the the same name. north towards Amuda. northwest, which is held by a adding that they had been shot Kurdish journalist Mostafa buildings, but the situation is Abdel Rahman said IS had Shekhmos said civilians from rebel alliance including Al Qaeda. “at close range”. Ali said there was no military difficult. The YPG doesn’t want seized two neighbourhoods in the southern neighbourhoods had At least 230,000 people have “The body of one child bore the dimension to the assault. to hurt the women and children city’s south as government forces, fled to Kurdish-controlled parts been killed since Syria’s conflict impact of five bullets,” it said. “IS doesn’t want to take over there.” More than 1,000 fleeing who jointly controlled the city of the city, but that the YPG was erupted in 2011. AFP SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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or a world already used to terror attacks and Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate merciless killings by the Islamic State, the three attacks in three countries yesterday – in Kuwait, FTunisia and France -- came as a rude shock. The attacks show the reach and growth of the Islamic State tentacles, their capabilities to strike at will at multiple sites Egypt’s golden Middle simultaneously and also reveal the extent of the perversion of their ideology. The attacks were gruesome. Twenty-seven people were killed and 227 wounded in the first ever suicide attack on Shia mosques in Kuwait. A gunman opened fire at a packed holiday East opportunity resort in Tunisia, massacring 39 people in the country’s worst attack in recent history. In Lyon, France, at least one attacker BY DAVID MAKOVSKY and long-suffering population is also being and thus harm the Palestinian national beheaded an individual at a US-owned factory. The attacks GHAITH AL-OMARI hurt, and Egyptian officials are worried movement. came days after a call by the IS. An audio message posted about another war that would under- That’s why Egypt — respected by online from Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the spokesman for E ARE reaching the first mine Egyptian as well as Israeli national Israel, feared by Hamas and needed by anniversary of the 2014 security. That has created a convergence Abbas — is well positioned to lead. As it the Islamic State, urged followers to kill infidels and Shia Gaza war. This was the of views between Cairo and Jerusalem: did during the Gaza war, Cairo should Muslims. Wthird war between Israel namely that there must be a way to help work with like-minded Arab govern- The attack on a Shia mosque in Kuwait has ominous and Hamas in six years, and it lasted Gaza without helping Hamas. Recent ments to publicly deprive Hamas’ armed consequences for our region where peace and stability have 51 days. The gaps between the wars are gestures by Israel and Egypt to increase control over Gaza of any legitimacy. It prevailed until now. getting shorter, and the wars are getting the flow of cement for Gaza reconstruc- should also impress on Abbas that it The Shia-Sunni schism is beginning to cut deep in our longer. If nothing changes, there may be tion should not be seen as a tilt toward will not tolerate his inaction. Egypt can another one. The key to breaking the Hamas. Rather, they point to a simple restate its willingness to open the entry region. Kuwait has a huge Shia population, but both sides cycle lies not only in Jerusalem and Gaza desire to ensure that Gaza does not from southern Gaza into Egypt at Rafah have coexisted peacefully and differences of opinion have City but also in Cairo and Ramallah. explode. once the PA takes control. Moreover, been aired respectfully inside parliament and outside. Public As the largest Arab country and The cease-fire agreement ending last just as Jordan trains PA forces in the debates and arguments had always been Gaza’s southern neighbor, Egypt has summer’s war provided a formula: The West Bank, so too can Egypt train The terror within the borders of modesty and love. historically been a pivotal actor with Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority these forces for Gaza. The PA’s takeo- The militants are trying to rupture this regard to Gaza, (PA), led by Mahmoud Abbas and the ver can be endorsed by the Arab League. attacks and Egyptian secular Fatah movement, would assume Controlling border crossings and recon- in three unity. Yesterday’s attack doesn’t mean President Abdel control over the border and lead a $5.4 struction funds, along with Egyptian and they have succeeded, but it shows they Fatah al-Sissi has billion reconstruction effort designed to Arab backing, would give the PA signifi- countries can, coming as it does after similar Egypt, as a ended a pattern of prevent Hamas from reaping political cant leverage against Hamas. yesterday attacks on Shia worshippers in Saudi previous Egyptian dividends from the work. However, the Egypt would also be well positioned to Arabia and the unrest in Bahrain where regional leader, neglect of that deal was never successfully implemented. ask Israel to play its part in the recon- border. Cairo The problem is that Abbas has been struction process and take steps such show that it’s the Shias are fighting the government. now has an has vociferously unwilling to take control of Gaza crossing as allowing 100,000 Gazan workers into time for the The world will need to unite against opportunity to charged Hamas, points as long as 15,000 Hamas militants Israel, matching the number of West the Islamic State and countries and world and bring the West the Gaza affili- have not been disarmed. According to Bankers already working there. The our region to agencies which have been accused ate of the Muslim Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, this United Nations has said in the past that of aiding this terrorist group will Bank and Gaza Brotherhood, with stance has damaged Abbas politically, every Gazan worker feeds 10 people. This unite against have to rethink their strategy. More deadly attacks as it is viewed by many Palestinians as is a way to put money into the hands of under united against Egyptians reflecting indifference toward the plight regular Gazans, not Hamas. the IS. importantly, the Gulf countries need to and launched a of regular Gazans. It has also affected his A resolution of the entire Israeli- unite in their fight against militants and leadership. The systematic cam- credibility in Egypt, which went out of Palestinian conflict is beyond reach formulate a coordinated policy. Security alternative is a paign to shut its way to secure PA control of the cross- today, but the reconstruction of Gaza of Shia mosques must be beefed up; the Sunni religious leaders down the tunnels ings as part of the cease-fire agreement. and its restoration to the jurisdic- must condemn the attacks in unequivocal terms and the continuation of used to smuggle If no way is found to improve the tion of the PA would be a positive step message of peace and coexistence must be spread through goods, weapons humanitarian situation and restart and should be a key focus. Egypt, as a the miserable and even people reconstruction in Gaza, Hamas is bound regional leader, now has an opportunity Friday sermons. Sectarianism and divisive ideologies have no status quo — from Egypt into to take the initiative. The organization is to bring the West Bank and Gaza under place in the Gulf countries which are also home to millions of Gaza. That should floating suggestions that it would be will- united leadership. The alternative is a expatriates from all over the world. and more Gaza set the stage for a ing to negotiate a long-term cease-fire continuation of the miserable status quo Kuwait has already taken steps to defeat the terrorists. wars. broader initiative. with Israel in exchange for measures to — and more Gaza wars. The cabinet announced after an emergency meeting that Hamas — des- open up Gaza, and the Israelis are lis- David Makovsky was an adviser to ignated a terror- tening. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Secretary of State John Kerry during all security agencies and police have been placed on alert to ist organization by the United States said that he has not ruled out such talks the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and confront what it called “black terror”. “The cabinet stresses — has felt Egypt’s sting. The smuggling with the group, even though it is sworn Ghaith al-Omari is a former adviser that it will take whatever measures necessary to root out income generated by the Gaza tunnels to Israel’s destruction. Qatar has report- to Palestinian Authority President this scourge, and declares a relentless all-out confrontation was a crucial component of Hamas’ edly sought to mediate between Israel Mahmoud Abbas. They are senior fel- with these terrorists,” said a statement after the meeting. revenue stream, and Egypt’s crack- and Hamas. The legitimacy that would lows at the Washington Institute for Citizen committees have been formed and the government is down has greatly contributed to its be bestowed by an Israeli-Hamas agree- Near East Policy. inability to pay its workers. But Gaza’s ment could further entrench Hamas WASHINGTON POST determined to root out terrorism. The other side Quote of Stay out of the blacklist the day FTER five years, the European refused to cover European travelers from a region that is one of the biggest air connectivity with the world. The Commission has finally going to the Philippines. sources of tourists. Philippines must also exert extra effort allowed all Philippine carriers As the country’s carriers were barred Europeans account for a hefty chunk to lure European travelers because it is Ato enter European airspace from European airspace, foreign car- of tourist arrivals in other Southeast far from the main country grouping of again. The smaller airlines can now riers scrapped their direct flights to Asian countries. In 2013, Thailand Southeast Asia. join flag carrier Philippine Airlines and the Philippines because of what they received 26.5 million visitors, making More direct flights will stimulate budget carrier Cebu Air Inc., operator described as onerous taxes and fees. In that country the 10th top tourist desti- trade. It will also benefit the millions of Criminal attack of Cebu Pacific, in flying to Europe after early 2012, the last holdout, KLM Royal nation in the world. Malaysia got 25.7 Filipinos who are working in Europe as the Philippines was taken out of the Dutch Airlines, ended its 14-hour direct million visitors in the same year, while well as the seafarers who transit for a is a desperate European Union Air Safety List following Manila-Amsterdam flight. tiny Singapore had 11 million. Indonesia few weeks or months while waiting for a review conducted last April. With the travel industry raising a received 8.8 million visitors and Vietnam their ships to leave port. and evil attempt The ban was imposed in 2010 howl, President Aquino enacted a 7.5 million. Even Cambodia may soon It has been a difficult path to the targeting Kuwait’s after the Civil Aviation Authority of the law in 2013 exempting foreign airlines overtake the Philippines. Last year, lifting of the EU ban. The Philippines Philippines failed to implement reforms from the common carrier tax. Now, Cambodia received 4.5 million visitors, must ensure that the country stays out national unity. Sheikh Sabah Al in the aviation system as required by the with the lifting of the European ban just slightly behind the Philippines’ 4.8 of the ban and gets the full benefits International Civil Aviation Organization. on Philippine carriers, the government million. Among the biggest reasons for from improved air access to Europe. Ahmad Al Sabah Philippine tourism took a hit, as insurers must work double-time to lure travelers those figures is our neighbors’ better The Philippine Star Kuwait Emir SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Why China can’t fight the US globally

amphibious assault on Taiwan — China is not a global military power. In Beijing still acquires mostly short- range, defensive weaponry. fact, right now it doesn’t even want to be Which is how China can possess the world’s second-biggest fleet of one. But that doesn’t mean the world’s jet fighters after the United States — 1,500 jets versus Washington’s most populous country doesn’t pose 2,800 — but only a mere handful of the aerial tankers that refuel fighters in mid-air, allowing them a threat to the planet’s wealthiest and to fight battles far from their bases. most powerful one. The US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps together operate BY DAVID AXE China has no interest in deploy- more than 500 tankers. Because ing and fighting across the globe, America fights all over the world. oth these statements are as the United States does. Beijing Similarly, China’s navy is huge. true: is preparing to fight along its With some 300 warships, it is sec- 1) China pos- own borders and especially in the ond in strength only to the 500 ves- Bsesses a rapidly improv- China seas, a far easier task for its sels in service with the US Navy ing military that, in certain local inexperienced troops. and Military Sealift Command, or regional engagements, could Because, with all its military which operates America’s trans- match — and even defeat — US handicaps, in its own region China port and spy ships. But the Chinese forces in battle. could be capable of beating US navy, like its air force, is a short- 2) In military terms, China forces in battle. range force. Beijing’s fleet includes is a paper dragon that, despite its The critical question is just how just six logistics ships capable of apparent strength, is powerless to much the Pentagon should care. refuelling and resupplying other intervene in world events far from The brutal Japanese invasion ships at sea, extending their sail- its shores. and occupation of China during ing range. Seeing the distinction between the 1930s and 1940s had a pro- America’s fleet includes more these two ideas is the key to under- found effect on modern China’s than 30 such vessels. standing China’s strategic aims, its development. Prior to the mid- The upshot of Beijing’s emphasis military means and the threat, if 1980s, China’s military strategy on short-range forces is that the any, that the country poses to its was focused on one great fear farther its troops fight from the neighbors, the United States and — another invasion, in this case Chinese mainland, the less effec- the existing world order. an overland attack by the Soviet tive they will be. It doesn’t help Beijing’s goals include “secur- Union. that Beijing has few close allies, ing China’s status as a great Commensurate with the threat, which means virtually no overseas People’s Liberation Army Navy frigate Yueyang during the Rim of the Pacific Exercise in 2014. power and, ultimately, reacquir- Beijing’s military organization bases it can count on during con- ing regional preeminence,” accord- emphasized short-range, defensive flicts. The Pentagon, by contrast, that China would have a huge that became Taiwan in 1949, is too. And on China’s turf, where ing to the 2015 edition of the US ground forces. In essence, a Great maintains many hundreds of over- numerical advantage over the firmly within China’s current defi- Beijing’s short-range forces are Defence Department’s annual Wall of men and metal. seas facilities. United States in any aerial battle nition of its core interests. most useful. report on Chinese military power. The danger from the Soviet Chinese forces simply cannot near Taiwan. The size of the advan- China also claims islands in the Fighting in its own region, China is not a global military Union ebbed and, in 1985, the cross the ocean to confront the US tage would depend on whether US East and South China seas that China is a military power to power. In fact, right now it doesn’t Chinese Communist Party revised military in America’s own back- forces staged from Kadena Air Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, be reckoned with. Fighting far even want to be one. its war strategy. The “active yard. Nor does Beijing even want Base in Japan or Andersen Air the Philippines and Brunei are from home against US troops, But that doesn’t mean the defence” doctrine sought to move to do so. Meanwhile, US forces Force Base in Guam. “China could claiming. The islands themselves the Chinese would be hopelessly world’s most populous country the fighting away from the Chinese routinely patrol within miles of enjoy a 3:1 edge in fighters if we are essentially beside the point; it’s outmatched, assuming they could doesn’t pose a threat to the plan- heartland. It shifted attention China’s airspace and national can fly from Kadena,” the analy- the waters around them, and the even reach the battlefield. et’s wealthiest and most powerful from China’s western land bor- waters, and Washington has taken sis warned, “about 10:1 if forced oil and natural gas below that the The trick for the United States one. Yes, the United States and der to its eastern sea frontier — it on itself to be the decisive if not to operate from Andersen.” The countries are so eager to secure is to avoid going to war with China China are at odds, mostly as a including Taiwan, which in the dominant military power on every report goes on to note that while for themselves. on China’s terms without also result of China’s expanding defi- eyes of Beijing’s ruling Communist continent. American warplanes are generally Though those disputes are not surrendering the western Pacific nition of what comprises its ter- Party is a breakaway province. In the western Pacific, however, technologically superior to their new, as China’s economy and mil- to Chinese control. That means ritory in the western Pacific, and But the new strategy was still China does threaten US military Chinese counterparts, they’re not itary have developed, its claims talk — backed up by the threat of how that expansion threatens US largely defensive. “We attack only standing. The flipside of possess- 10 times superior. have grown more assertive. In force. “The United States seeks to allies and the post-war economic after being attacked,” the Chinese ing a defensive, short-range navy But if China’s strategy is defen- late 2014, China greatly escalated develop a constructive relationship order Washington was instrumen- navy asserted in its contribution to and air force is that Beijing can sive, this argument goes, then the these territorial disputes when with China,” the Pentagon states tal in creating. the official active-defence doctrine. quickly concentrate numerous United States would only risk it began dredging isolated reefs in its China report, “that promotes China, however, still could not It’s worth noting that, in the par- forces across a relatively small defeat in battle with the Chinese in contested waters, piling sand security and prosperity in Asia meet and match the US military ty’s view, a formal announcement geographic area. The large num- if Washington attacked first. And into artificial islands, atop which and around the world.” on a global battlefront. Beijing of full independence by Taiwan bers help China compensate for America wouldn’t ever attack it built piers, airstrips and other The report continues: “At the lacks the expertise, military doc- would be an “attack” on China’s the poor quality of its forces. China, right? military facilities, transforming same time, the strategy acknowl- trine and equipment to do so. The integrity, justifying a retaliatory By contrast, the United States The depends on the definition the islands into outposts. edges there will be areas of com- Chinese military has no recent attack on the island nation. — because it must project forces of “attack.” Assault the Chinese The outposts make it increas- petition, and underscores that the combat experience and, as a con- Thirty years later, Beijing is over great distances and usually mainland? Most certainly not. But ingly unlikely the claimant United States will manage this sequence, its training regimens are still pursuing its offshore defence, is in the process of doing so all the United States and most other countries will find easy, peaceful competition with China from a unrealistic. if at a greater distance. It now around the world — can usually countries equate an attack on solutions to their conflicts. position of strength.” Beijing’s army, navy and air encompasses island territory that deploy only a small number of their interests with an attack on The United States maintains But there’s a bluff in this force may be flush with new equip- China dared not actively claim ships and planes to any particular their soil. And increasingly, China military alliances with Japan, the approach. In the only region where ment, but much of it is based on until recently. Still, the strategy place at any given time. Because is expanding the definition of its Philippines, Taiwan and, to a lesser China’s actions pose a serious designs that Chinese government remains the same. they would be badly outnumbered, interests and the extent of its soil. extent, Vietnam. Washington is threat to US interests, Washington hackers and agents stole from the Which is why, for all the hun- it might not matter that US ships For one, if Taiwan ever formally also committed to maintaining struggles to maintain a position United States and other countries. dreds of billions of dollars Beijing and planes are generally superior announced its independence — freedom of navigation for com- of strength. Beijing has carefully Most of it has never been exposed has spent on its armed forces since to their Chinese counterparts in a and make no mistake, Taiwan is mercial ships in international matched clear and restrained to the rigors of actual combat, so the Chinese economy really took one-on-one fight. already fully independent — China waters — a key factor of global free strategic goals with more than it’s unclear how well it would actu- off in the late 1990s and 2000s In a landmark analysis in vows it would invade. Because trade. If any of the above coun- adequate military means. ally work. — and even taking into account 2008, the RAND Corporation, a the integrity of historical China, tries goes to war with China, the That’s a powerful combination. But that might not matter. equipment optimized for an California think tank, concluded including the island of Formosa United States could get drawn in, REUTERS Obama looks abroad to secure his legacy BY ANDREW HAMMOND decades. Since his 2012 campaign (T-TIP) — a trade and investment against Republican Mitt Romney, deal with the 28 European Union t a moment when much Obama has achieved very little states. This deal would represent of the world is watch- domestic policy success. the largest regional free trade and Aing Greece, one of the His gun control bill was investment agreement in history, most critical moments in Barack defeated and looks unlikely to be with the United States and Europe Obama’s presidency is also fast rejuvenated despite this month’s accounting for more than 50 per- approaching. tragic shooting in Charleston. cent of the world’s gross domestic Within a few days, the president Comprehensive immigration product. could secure not just a historic reform faces significant opposi- In addition to these trade deals nuclear deal with Iran, but also tion in the Republican-controlled and a nuclear agreement with sign into law domestic legislation House of Representatives. And Iran, Obama could bolster his that could enable two potentially the prospect of a long-term presidential legacy with other landmark international trade budgetary “grand bargain” with international achievements. In agreements — allowing the coun- Congress in 2015 or 2016 looks Iraq and Syria, a US-led mili- try to help write what US offi- very unlikely too. Implementation tary coalition is trying to weaken cials have called “the rules of the of his landmark healthcare initi- Islamic State, while a reduced US road” for the 21st Century world ative was widely seen as botched. force remains in Afghanistan to economy. Many re-elected presidents in stabilise the new national unity Together with an Iran the post-war era have, like Obama, government, the victim of recent deal, the success of a Trans- struggled to acquire domestic Taliban attacks. Pacific Partnership (TPP) and policy momentum, in large part In Europe, meanwhile, the the Transatlantic Trade and because their parties, as with Obama administration is help- Investment Partnership (T-TIP) the Democrats now, often hold ing to bolster Ukraine after — which would link the economies a weaker position in Congress. Russia annexed Crimea. If Greece of countries that generate 40 per- Thus Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, defaults on its international debts A file photo of US President Barack Obama meeting in New York with representatives of the five Arab nations that cent and 50 percent, respectively, Richard Nixon in 1972 and Bill and decides to leave the eurozone, of global gross domestic product — Clinton in 1996 were all re-elected contributed to air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. the White House may have to play could be the high point of Obama’s alongside Congresses where both a greater diplomatic role in the second term, embedding US influ- the House of Representatives and opportunity to push domestic approaching. Despite domestic law domestic legislation, Trade continent to manage the political ence in Asia-Pacific, the Americas Senate were controlled by their policy forward, the president’s US and international criticism of Promotion Authority and Trade and economic fallout. and Europe. These victories would partisan opponents. focus on foreign policy may only such a deal, securing a compre- Adjustment Assistance, which Obama is entering into a mas- become a major part of his presi- While Congress can signifi- grow for his remaining period in hensive nuclear agreement would will enable the Trans-Pacific sively important period of his dential legacy as his tenure in the cantly influence the course of office, especially if the US econ- be a major victory for the White Partnership. The TPP reflects presidency, with several major White House begins to wind down. Obama’s foreign policy — the omy continues to recover. House. An Iran deal also has the Obama’s desire to reorient US potential foreign policy objec- The fact that Obama’s second- legislature, for example, will The Iranian deal is being bro- potential to transform the wider international policy towards the tives that will help to define his term legacy is being defined on the vote on any deal that is ulti- kered amidst frenetic diplomacy, geopolitics of the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific region and other stra- legacy. With his domestic policy foreign policy front, rather than mately brokered with Iran — it with a June 30 deadline — set by help with Obama’s broader goal of tegic, high-growth markets. stalling in Congress, his focus on by domestic policy, has become generally has less latitude over the so-called P5+1 (United States, enhancing global nuclear security. The president also wants to key international issues may only a relatively common pattern for international issues, compared China, Russia, United Kingdom, On the trade policy front, secure the Transatlantic Trade intensify. re-elected presidents in recent to domestic issues. So with little Germany and France) — fast the president hopes to sign into and Investment Partnership REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE Beheading, explosion at French factory Delivery man beheads boss in suspected terrorist attack at US-owned gas factory in southeast France

PARIS: A delivery man with to our country’s ability to protect as Muslims. “My heart is about emergency services. known Islamist connections itself and remain vigilant,” he to give out.” French television Air Products said its crisis and beheaded his boss and left the said, announcing a tightening of filming outside Sahli’s apartment emergency response teams were body, daubed with Arabic writ- national security to levels he said showed pictures of police leading “working closely with all relevant ing, at the site of a US-owned were unprecedented in recent out a woman, her head covered authorities”. gas factory in southeast France decades. by a blanket, into a waiting car. The company’s chairman and before trying to blow up the Hollande said there were Forensic police were carrying chief executive is Seifi Ghasemi, complex. inscriptions on the headless body, out searches on the ground-floor who in 2011 testimony to a US The assailant rammed his and police sources said they were apartment. Senate committee described delivery van into a warehouse in Arabic, but officials did not “They are a very normal fam- himself as Iranian-born. Mainly containing gas canisters, trigger- reveal their content. ily,” a neighbour who gave her Shi’ite Iran is a sworn enemy of ing an initial explosion, and was name as Brigitte said. “I only Sunni-dominated Islamic State. arrested minutes later as he tried FATHER OF THREE talked with madame, he didn’t say According to French regula- to open canisters containing flam- No group claimed responsibil- hello or goodbye,” the 46-year-old tions applicable to zones where mable chemicals, prosecutors said ity for the French attack and the housewife said. gases and chemicals are han- yesterday. motive was unknown. The attack underlined again dled, the site would have been Police found the head of the The attacker was injured in the difficulty for authorities required to implement security victim, the 54-year-old man- the blast and arrested on the site. across Europe and elsewhere of arrangements at the low end of ager of the transport firm which His wife, sister and a third per- protecting so-called “soft” targets the European Union’s so-called employed the suspect, dangling son were taken into custody for against strikes by assailants oper- “Seveso” scale, named after the from a fence. questioning. ating by themselves or in small location of an industrial accident “The head was discovered Interior Minister Bernard undercover cells. in northern Italy in 1976. hanging on the factory’s wire Cazeneuve named the suspect as Prosecutor Molins said closed- fence, framed by two flags that Yassin Sahli. He said Sahli did not UNPRECEDENTED THREAT circuit TV images showed the included references to the sha- have a criminal record but had France, which has contrib- attacker arriving at the site. hada, or (Muslim) profession been under surveillance from uted aircraft to the international Because his vehicle was author- of faith,” Paris public prosecu- 2006 to 2008 on suspicion of hav- coalition fighting Islamic State ised to make deliveries, it was tor Francois Molins told a news ing become radicalised by Islamist insurgents in Iraq, has long been allowed through the gates. conference. associates. named on Islamist sites as a pri- The CCTV cameras lost track France is still coming to terms The attack happened at an mary target for attacks. of his movements for several min- with attacks by Islamist gunmen industrial zone near the town of In January, gunmen killed 17 utes, then picked up the van again who killed 17 people in January at Saint-Quentin Fallavier to the people in the offices of the Charlie as it accelerated towards a ware- a satirical weekly newspaper and south of the city of Lyon. Its air, Hebdo satirical weekly and a house within the premises. A loud a Jewish foodstore. rail and road links have made it Jewish food store. explosion was heard. The latest attack occurred on one of Europe’s major logistics In April, Prime Minister When emergency services the same day that a gunman hubs, with through-traffic of 5,000 Manuel Valls said no fewer than arrived a few minutes later, they killed at least 37 people at a trucks a day. five attacks had been thwarted in found the headless body of the vic- Tunisian beachside hotel and Sources close to the investiga- the country since then. tim by the van and a knife nearby. an Islamic State (IS) suicide tion said Sahli was a 35-year-old Noting that hundreds of They overpowered the suspect as bomber killed two dozen and professional driver who lived in French nationals are in Syria he was opening bottles of acetone, wounded more than 200 at a the Lyon suburbs. Europe 1 radio where they risked being radical- a flammable liquid chemical. mosque in Kuwait. interviewed a woman they identi- ised by Islamist fighters, officials Cazeneuve said the government “There is no other link other fied as his wife. have long said France has never had ordered security to be stepped than to say that terrorism is our “In the morning he left for seen a higher threat level. up around all sensitive sites and common enemy,” said President work and didn’t come home The site of yesterday’s attack Hollande announced that security Francois Hollande, returning between noon and 2. I was wait- belonged to Air Products, a US arrangements in the region would to Paris from an EU summit in ing for him,” she told Europe 1 industrial gases and chemi- be placed at their highest level for Mediamen and police gather at the scene of a suspected terrorist attack Brussels. radio, saying she and her family of cals company. It was immedi- the next three days. outside the Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southern France, “There should be no doubt as three children lived normal lives ately ringfenced by police and REUTERS yesterday. Italy raises At least five Britons killed in Tunisia attack: Govt

terror alert LONDON: Five British citizens “protect and reassure” people. tourist population in this part The death toll was announced children that their daddy loves have been killed in the gun mas- “We have had reports from of Tunisia we have to assume as more harrowing testimonies them’.” after attacks sacre at a packed holiday resort families of those involved in the that a high proportion of those emerged from British survivors, Matthew James, 30, survived in Tunisia yesterday, Foreign incident that allow us to con- killed and injured will have been including from one woman who but is in intensive care in hospi- ROME: Italy raised its ter- Secretary Philip Hammond firm that at least five Britons British.” described how her fiance was shot tal, added Wilson. “You just can’t ror alert level yesterday after said, warning that the toll could have been killed in this incident,” Prime Minister David Cameron, three times — in the shoulder, explain how terrible it was. It was deadly attacks in France, rise. Hammond said after chairing who earlier branded the massacre chest and hip — while trying to chaos with screaming and gun- Tunisia and Kuwait. He said a “high proportion” a meeting of the government’s and other attacks in France and protect her. shots. I’m just so glad Matthew “No country is without risk, we of the 37 people killed and 36 emergency response committee Kuwait on Friday as the fruit of “I owe him my life because he is alive because so many other have raised the level of alert to wounded in the attack at the in London. “perverted ideology”, offered his threw himself in front of me when people are dead,” she said. re-sensitise those units charged popular Mediterranean resort of “But I should warn that we condolences. the shooting started,” 26-year-old Hammond said Britain had a with protecting sensitive places,” Port el Kantaoui were expected must expect that there will be “My heart is with the families holidaymaker Saera Wilson, from consular team on the ground in Interior Minister Angelino Alfano to be British. more reports of fatalities as of all the British victims of the Wales, told the BBC. Sousse, the beach resort where said. Meanwhile, police said they we establish the detail on the Tunisian terror attack. We are to “He was covered in blood from the attack occurred, with two “Today has seen three attacks were stepping up security for a ground.” help and support them,” he said the shots, but he just told me further “rapid response teams” with dozens of dead carried out number of high-profile events He added: “Because of the on Twitter, adding that he was to run away. He told me: ‘I love arriving overnight. in three different places around across Britain this weekend to nature of the composition of the “sickened” by Friday’s events. you babe. But just go — tell our AFP the world, linked by one thing: violence and terror,” he said. Italy had raised its alert level to the third-highest in January, Flooded street after the jihadist attacks in Paris. Alfano did not specify to what Migration plan exposes grade he had increased the level yesterday, after a massa- cre at a beach resort across the Mediterranean in Tunisia and a rifts among EU members grisly Islamist attack in southeast France. BRUSSELS: Hours of late- between Mediterranean states, Alfano shot down claims that night squabbling in Europe’s notably Italy, which have borne would-be jihadists may be enter- highest council of state left EU the brunt of growing numbers of ing Italy via migrant boats cross- leaders licking political wounds refugees and economic migrants, ing the Mediterranean from yesterday and preparing for and poorer ex-Communist coun- Libya, hidden among the over weeks of hard bargaining over tries in the east, who feared costs 60,000 people who have washed a plan to cope with a flood of and disruption from EU proposals up on the country’s shores so far migrants from the south. to force them to take in a share this year. German Chancellor Angela of those in transit. “We will win the terror chal- Merkel called finding a common It also strained the institutional lenge only if we do not allow our- EU solution to the hundreds of architecture of the bloc, with selves to be conditioned by fear,” thousands fleeing by sea and land member states furious at a move he said, adding that “there is no from Africa and the Middle East by Jean-Claude Juncker, who proof that there has been a rise in the “biggest challenge” Europe heads the executive European crime as a consequence of the rise had faced in her decade in power - Commission, to set mandatory in immigration”. Earlier Friday, a greater than the Greek and wider quotas for governments to take Pakistani accused of organising a euro zone debt crises and Russian in a share of 40,000 Syrian and 2009 bomb attack on a Peshawar action against Ukraine. Eritrean refugees now being market that killed more than 130 Donald Tusk, the former Polish housed in Italy and Greece. people was detained in Italy. A member of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations operates a boat with two men onboard on a flooded premier who chaired the two-day Tension came to a head around AFP street in Sochi, Russia, yesterday. Flash floods brought the Black Sea resort of Sochi to a standstill and killed European Council in Brussels, the summit room near midnight at least one person as it halted trains and left cars half-submerged. echoed that, saying he could recall on Thursday in sharp exchanges few other EU summits that had between Juncker, a veteran been more difficult. prime minister of Luxembourg, Migration is fuelling public and Tusk, whose job is to broker hostility to open borders and to common positions among the 28 the EU project as a whole, even as national leaders in the European Danish Liberals to form minority govt many recognise a need for immi- Council. The two men, both in gration to support their ageing office since late last year, dis- COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s just 34 seats out of 179 in par- and two smaller parties. “After Such a small cabinet would populations. missed any personal conflict in Liberals Party, which won an liament. They will be banking on the discussion tonight, it’s my leave Denmark in an unusual How leaders reconcile compet- joint news conferences. Both dif- election last week with other support from other centre-right judgement that it will be pos- situation. Only one government, ing national interests to deal with fer from their predecessors by a centre-right parties but has parties vote by vote in parliament, sible to form a Liberal govern- in 1973, had fewer members in a problem they agree needs a joint more forthright style in pushing been unable to form a govern- even though they have not man- ment under my guidance which parliament, with 22 seats. That response may prove a defining their institutional power without ment with them, will estab- aged to reach a compromise on a will enjoy support in parliament,” cabinet lasted 14 months. moment. “This will be the trans- waiting for EU consensus. lish a minority cabinet alone, government programme. Rasmussen told reporters on Sources previously said DF, formative issue for the Union for Juncker, wearied by a week the party’s leader, Lars Lokke Rasmussen was speaking after Friday evening. right-wing in most aspects in its the next decade,” one senior EU of round-the-clock talks on the Rasmussen, said yesterday. a last-minute meeting with par- He said he expected to inform policies, had refused to back down diplomat said. Greek debt crisis, admitted to Despite the victory of the cen- ties on the right, including the Queen Margrethe of the con- on its demand that state spending The summit came two months an outburst of undiplomatic lan- tre-right bloc, the Liberals had eurosceptic Danish People’s clusion of talks on Saturday, be increased, especially on health- after the deaths of about 800 guage but insisted his “I don’t give their worst election in a quarter of Party (DF), a former fringe party a formality in the Kingdom of care. That runs counter to the people on a single boat headed a damn” referred only to details of a century. A government consist- which ended up with more seats Denmark. Parliament would still policies of the Liberals and others. for Italy. how to share out burdens. ing of the party alone would have in parliament than the Liberals, need to approve the government. REUTERS It exposed sharp differences REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Mexico Obama joins Charleston mourners president has Thousands gather to honour pastor gunned down at black church gallbladder

CHARLESTON, United and his daughter Malana wrote removed States: Thousands of mourn- messages of remembrance in the ers gathered yesterday in program. MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s Charleston to honour a pas- “We believe that your life mat- President Enrique Pena Nieto tor who was among nine black tered. It mattered to us, and it had his gallbladder removed people gunned down last week will forever change the culture yesterday morning, was recov- in his church by a white alleged and mindset of the world,” said ering well and due to return to supremacist in an attack that his wife. work on Monday, his office said shocked America. “I love you so much!” wrote in a statement. President Barack Obama was Malana. “Post-operational developments to give the eulogy for Clementa Another mourner, 56-year- have been very favourable,” the Pinckney, who was also a state old medical assistant Mary Lee, Mexican presidency said, adding senator in South Carolina, in a 56, said she welcomed moves to that Pena Nieto had left the oper- speech to be watched closely in a remove the Confederate bat- ating room about an hour after nation still reeling from a violent tle flag from the grounds of the operation. act meant to tear open its racial South Carolina’s state house in Pena Nieto, who took office in divide. Columbia. December 2012, had a successful The city of Charleston has tried “A lot has already happened operation in July 2013 to remove to come together after the kill- since the tragedy,” she said. a benign nodule on his thyroid ings, and 6,000 people gathered The banner, once flown by the gland that had been detected for the ceremony at a univer- rebel army of the slave-owning some years earlier. sity arena a short distance from South, is seen by some as a symbol Pena Nieto had been due to the Emanuel African Methodist of regional heritage and by many visit Guatemala yesterday, but Episcopal Church, the scene of more as an ugly reminder of rac- was taken to hospital after feel- the crime. ism’s cruel legacy. ing unwell in the morning. The young man charged with In the wake of the attacks, His office said a news confer- the murders, 21-year-old Dylann many government bodies and ence would be held in the military Roof, published a white suprema- private firms have moved to take hospital at noon. The 48-year- cist manifesto before the attack, it from view, and several politi- old’s term in office is due to con- including pictures of him with the cians have spoken out against its clude at the end of November controversial Confederate flag, use. Several major retailers have 2018. seen by many as a symbol of hate. stopped selling flag merchandise. US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama step off Air Force One upon arrival at Charleston “He wanted to start a race war As well as stirring debate about Air Force Base yesterday. Ex-congressman but he came to the wrong place,” America’s racial divide, the mas- church Bishop John Richard sacre also fed the frustration felt Democratic presidential can- expression of love and fellowship, Thursday after images of him indicted on Bryant told mourners, eliciting by many at the country’s failure didate Hillary Clinton received to really see people come out and wearing Confederate flag under- cheers. to control its gun culture. wide applause when she arrived be a part of this unfortunate situ- wear circulated online, an ABC tax charges Some arrived in the early hours Obama, having seen previ- at the arena. ation,” said former state repre- affiliate reported. under a blistering summer sun, ous initiatives to control gun On Wednesday, thousands filed sentative Curtis Brantley, a friend In Washington, US Attorney CHICAGO: Former US forming long lines and anxious to ownership fail in Congress, has past Pinckney’s open coffin at of Pinckney. General Loretta Lynch said ear- Representative Mel Reynolds, secure seats for the event. expressed anger and declared that the South Carolina legislature in “I’m hoping the president will lier this week it was too early to already convicted of having sex “We need to come together,” “at some point” America would Columbia, where he had served simply share with us the impor- say whether Roof will face federal with an underage campaign said 66-year-old Rose Marie have to act. as a senator. tance of our getting along and civil rights charges. worker, was indicted again for Manigault, who made the short Along with Obama and his wife Services for the other victims, understanding that people are A hate crimes investigation is failing to file income tax returns trip from Mount Pleasant to pick Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden all of whom were black, are sched- people, regardless of their race, unfolding, she said, but “it’s sim- for 2009 through 2012, federal her spot just before dawn broke and Republican House Speaker uled throughout the weekend and creed or color.” ply premature” to say how Roof prosecutors said yesterday. over the gathering throng. John Boehner were expected to into next week. Meanwhile, a police officer might be charged. Reynolds, 63, who was charged Pinckney’s widow Jennifer attend Friday’s service. “It’s just an overwhelming in North Charleston was fired AFP on Thursday, faces up to a year in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the four counts against him, according to a statement from the US Attorney’s office in 15 Clinton Chicago. US Supreme Court allows gay marriage nationwide He will be arraigned next Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Chicago emails before US Magistrate Judge WASHINGTON: The Supreme equal dignity in the eyes of the There are currently 13 state defined as between one man and Maria Valdez, according to a missing: State Court ruled yesterday that the law. The Constitution grants bans in place, while another state, one woman. court representative. US Constitution provides same- them that right.” Alabama, has contested a court Reaction came swiftly. Reynolds, a Rhodes scholar sex couples the right to marry, Kennedy, a conservative who ruling that lifted the ban there. President Barack Obama, the first and one-time promising star of Department handing a historic triumph often casts the deciding vote in The ruling is the Supreme sitting president to support gay the Democratic Party, was first to the American gay rights close cases, was joined in the Court’s most important expan- marriage, said on Twitter, “Today elected to Congress in 1992. WASHINGTON: The State movement. majority by the court’s four lib- sion of marriage rights in the is a big step in our march toward In August of 1994, he was Department acknowledged it The court ruled 5-4 that the eral justices. United States since its landmark equality. Gay and lesbian couples indicted for having a relation- could not find any record of Constitution’s guarantees of due In a dissenting opinion, con- 1967 ruling in the case Loving now have the right to marry, just ship with a 16-year-old campaign part or all of 15 emails from process and equal protection servative Justice Antonin Scalia v. Virginia that struck down like anyone else.” worker, though he was re-elected Hillary Clinton dating from her under the law mean that states said the decision shows the court state laws barring interracial Hillary Clinton, the front- again in 1994 in his Chicago dis- time as secretary of state, cop- cannot ban same-sex marriages. is a “threat to American democ- marriages. runner for the 2016 Democratic trict without opposition. ies of which have been given to With the ruling, gay marriage will racy.” The ruling “says that my The ruling is the latest mile- presidential nomination, wrote He was convicted in 1995 on US lawmakers. become legal in all 50 states. ruler and the ruler of 320 mil- stone in the gay rights move- on Twitter she was “proud to sexual assault and child pornogra- A stash of thousands of emails Justice Anthony Kennedy, lion Americans coast-to-coast is ment in recent years. In 2010, celebrate a historic victory phy charges and resigned. Before has been turned over to a congres- writing on behalf of the court, a majority of the nine lawyers on Obama signed a law allowing for marriage equality.” Until his release in 1997, he was con- sional panel investigating the 2012 said that the hope of gay people the Supreme Court,” Scalia said. gays to serve openly in the U.S. 2013, she had long said she was victed of bank fraud and misusing attack on a US mission in Libya intending to marry “is not to be Conservative Chief Justice John military. In 2013, the high court opposed to same-sex marriages, campaign funds for personal use by longtime Clinton confidante condemned to live in loneliness, Roberts also read a summary of ruled unconstitutional a 1996 U.S. but said her view had since and had to serve additional time. and friend Sidney Blumenthal. excluded from one of civilization’s his dissenting opinion from the law that declared for the purposes “evolved.” He was released in 2001. But in comparing the oldest institutions. They ask for bench. of federal benefits marriage was REUTERS AGENCIES Blumenthal cache with some 30,000 emails Clinton has given to the State Department, officials admitted there were “a limited On the trail of prison escapees number of instances, 15, in which we could not locate all or part of Obamacare ruling puts the content of a document from his production within the tens of thousands of emails she gave us.” “The substance of those 15 apex court on hot seat emails is not relevant to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi,” the State WASHINGTON: Infuriated by during his 2005 Senate confirma- Department official stressed, ask- a US Supreme Court ruling that tion hearings. Roberts had spent ing not to be named. kept President Barack Obama’s only about two years as a federal The email correspondence has healthcare programme intact, appeals court judge, which meant triggered a political row after conservative activists and a sparse paper trail illuminating Clinton — now bidding to be Republican presidential candi- his judicial philosophy. elected America’s first woman dates vowed to make the role of In opening remarks during his president in 2016 elections — the high court a central issue in confirmation hearing before the revealed she had used a private the 2016 presidential election. US Senate judiciary committee server and email address during Conservative ire was trained in 2005, Roberts spoke neutrally, her time as secretary of state particularly on Chief Justice John noting that “Judges are not politi- from 2009 to early 2013. Roberts, who wrote the majority cians who can promise to do cer- A first slew of 296 emails relat- opinion that preserved the sub- tain things in exchange for votes” ing to Libya and the 2012 attack sidy regime underpinning the and vowing to “confront every on the US mission in Benghazi Affordable Care Act, even though case with an open mind.” in which four Americans were another Republican appointee, “We wanted to be supportive, killed was made public in May Justice Anthony Kennedy, also but there were these nagging after a judge ordered that they voted with the majority. doubts,” said Carrie Severino, be released. Law enforcement personnel prepare to head out on a search for convicted murderers Richard Matt and Roberts, who was appointed to policy director of the conserva- AFP David Sweat in Chasm Falls, New York, yesterday. Matt and Sweat were discovered missing from a prison the court by Republican President tive Judicial Crisis Network. “You in nearby Dannemora on June 6. George W Bush, has voted with can’t assume someone is going to court conservatives on many land- go south, but it appears the con- mark cases, including ones involv- cerns were warranted. It’s what ing campaign-finance laws and happens when you nominate voting rights. But he also enraged someone who doesn’t have a clear US opens probe of Ford F-150 brake failures opponents of the Affordable Care record.” Act three years ago when he cast Levey said that the pres- a deciding vote in rejecting a dif- sure will now fall on Republican DETROIT: US safety regu- The agency says in documents wrote that the problem happens In all the complaints, no dash- ferent legal challenge to the law. presidential hopefuls to spell out lators are investigating com- posted on its website Friday that when they first start the trucks. board warnings were issued “He’s let down the movement,” in detail their views on court plaints that the power brake it has 32 complaints alleging that One wrote about losing power before the problem happened. The said Curt Levey of the Committee appointments . assist can fail on some Ford electric vacuum assist pumps can brakes while backing up at 5 miles agency says the complaint trend is for Justice, which advocates for “It might have been enough F-150 pickup trucks. fail, causing loss of power brakes per hour and crashing into a tree. increasing, with about 60 percent conservative judicial nominees. before today for presidential can- The National Highway Traffic and increased braking effort in “Cannot park in garage as may coming in the past nine months. “He may feel he has no obligation didates to spout the usual things Safety Administration says the traffic. Two crashes were reported hit house or garage or kids when Investigators will look into the to the movement.” about appointing someone who probe covers about 250,000 pick- but no injuries. backing out,” another person cause of the problem and how Some conservatives have been interprets rather than writes ups from the 2011 and 2012 model Ford’s F-Series trucks are the wrote. People who file complaints often it happens. The probe could skeptical of Roberts from the start, the law. I think you’ll have to say years with 3.5-liter six-cylinder top-selling vehicles in the US. are not identified in NHTSA’s lead to a recall. saying he was maddeningly opaque more now,” he said. turbocharged engines. Many of the people complaining public database. AP about his judicial philosophy REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA South Korea enacts law to curb MERS Quarantine restrictions tightened; jail for defiance

SEOUL: South Korea has and close contaminated facilities, scaring away tourists and forc- introduced a new law designed with offenders who refuse to fol- ing consumers to stay home. to curb a MERS outbreak, tight- low their orders also facing two The finance ministry slashed ening quarantine restrictions years in prison or a $18,000 fine. its growth forecast for this year and imposing jail sentences on The number of state health to 3.1 percent from an earlier pro- those who defy anti-infection workers in charge of preventing jection of 3.8 percent. measures in a crisis that has outbreaks and tracing them will The ministry said the MERS now left 31 dead. also be doubled to more than 60. outbreak could pare up to 0.3 Meanwhile, a South Korean The legislation comes as South percentage points off annual eco- man who had become China’s Korea’s government is facing nomic growth. only confirmed case has been criticism for failing to stop the Two new fatalities were cured and discharged yesterday, MERS outbreak, which has now reported yesterday, the health the Health Ministry here said. become the largest outside Saudi ministry said -- both women, Under the new law, passed in Arabia. aged 79 and 80, who had existing parliament late Thursday, people Critics say the lack of coor- health conditions. infected with the virus who lie dinated control among health A doctor at Seoul’s Samsung to state investigators about how authorities, hospitals and local Medical Center, the hospital to they came into contact with the governments, combined with an which nearly half of all infec- disease will face a fine or a prison inadequate number of quarantine tions have been traced, was also sentence. experts and shortfalls in expertise, confirmed to have contracted the “False testimony would entail are responsible for the failure to disease. up two years in prison or 20m stem the virus in the initial stage The hospital earlier this week won ($18,000) in fines,” said the of the outbreak. decided to extend indefinitely Health Ministry about the new Health authorities also came a 12-day suspension of normal South Korean lawmakers passing a new law to control the MERS outbreak, in Seoul, on Thursday. law. under fire for withholding the services as patients, doctors and It replaces the maximum two- names of health facilities where visitors continued to be diagnosed people diagnosed with the deadly A 44-year-old South Korean travelled on to Guangdong by bus. million-won fine that could be the virus has been traced to, let- with the disease. virus since the first case emerged man who was diagnosed on May Two more deaths were reported meted out to anyone who did ting infected people go “doctor One patient, a 55-year-old on May 20. 29 and had been treated in the yesterday, along with a new case not tell the truth under previous shopping” -- visiting different ambulance driver at the Samsung Of those diagnosed, aside from southern Chinese province of that put the total number of peo- legislation. hospitals to obtain second or hospital, continued to go to work the deceased, 81 have recovered Guangdong was released from ple diagnosed with the disease at “Interviewees will (now) feel third opinions, furthering the via subway for days after develop- and 69 are still being treated, hospital after testing negative 181. Among them was a doctor compelled to provide honest spread o the disease. ing symptoms in early June, com- including 13 listed in critical for the virus for three times, the from Seoul’s Samsung Medical answers,” the ministry said in a The country on last Thursday ing into contact with nearly 500 condition. South Korean health ministry Center, which has accounted for press statement. announced a $14bn stimulus people. Currently, a total of 2,931 peo- said in a press statement. nearly half of all infections here, The new law also strength- package to boost the economy as The latest fatalities brought ple are in isolation, including He flew to Hong Kong on May Yonhap news agency quoted ens officials’ power to restrict the outbreak further dampened the total death toll to 31, the 759 in hospital and 2,172 at their 26, a day after his father was Ministry of Health and Welfare the movement of infected people the already sagging economy, health ministry said, with 181 homes. diagnosed in South Korea, and as saying. AFP US criticises Myanmar military veto S Korea curbs on arms

YANGON: The United States which a proposed amendment to percent of lawmakers must sup- to do so.” The country’s military said yesterday that an effec- the veto provision failed to gain port the amendment. With 25 has not given any indication trade with North tive legislative veto held by the necessary support, showed percent of Myanmar’s parliament when it might consider stepping Myanmar’s military was the military has no immediate seats reserved for unelected mili- back from its powerful political SEOUL: South Korea imposed statement. undemocratic and reiterated plans to give up its powerful influ- tary MPs, the bloc has an effective position. financial sanctions yesterday on Three Taiwanese individu- calls for changes to the con- ence over public affairs. veto power. Myanmar’s seven-point road a Syrian research centre as well als, including Tsai Hsein-Tai, Su stitution, a day after lawmak- “There are provisions in A proposed amendment voted map for a “disciplined democ- as six Taiwanese individuals Lu-Chi and Chang Wen-Fu, were ers from the armed forces bloc Burma’s constitution, such as would have seen the threshold of racy” was first laid out more and companies for their alleged also put on the blacklist, it said. rejected any significant amend- the lack of civilian control of the support lowered to 70 percent, than a decade ago and former involvement in arms trading The sanctions forbid South ments to the charter. military and the military’s veto but failed, as expected, to gain strongman Than Shwe stepped with North Korea. Korean individuals and compa- Washington has re-engaged power over constitutional amend- enough support with lawmakers. aside in 2011, but military offi- The South has previously nies from doing business with with Myanmar since a quasi- ments, that contradict funda- Military MPs said that while cials have shown little will to imposed sweeping sanctions those blacklisted. civilian government took power mental democratic principles,” a they did not opposed changing move away from politics. Five of against companies based in the Violators face a prison term of in 2011, ending 49 years of mili- spokesman from the US Embassy the constitution in the future, the the 11 members of the country’s North, but this is the first time up to three years or a maximum tary rule, with President Barack in Yangon said. time was not right and doing so high-level National Defence and such measures have been taken of 300m won (US$270,000) in Obama investing substantial per- “It will be important to the ulti- now might risk instability. Security Council are also active against a group or individual out- fines. sonal effort and prestige in pro- mate success of Burma’s demo- “We are making the country’s military members. A proposed side the Korean peninsula. Under UN sanctions, South moting democratic reform. cratic transformation that the situation stable by putting 25 per- change to a separate section of the Syria’s Scientific Studies and Korea has blacklisted 12 individ- The United States has pushed constitution be amended to make cent military MPs in the parlia- constitution, which includes a pro- Research Center and three uals and 20 organisations in the for the country’s military to be it appropriate for a democratic ment,” said Brigadier General Tin vision that bars opposition leader Taiwanese companies -- Global North over the years, following reined in, submitting to civil- nation.” San Hlaing, a military MP. Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming Interface Company Inc, Trans a series of nuclear and missile ian control and stepping back In order for proposed changes “If these articles really need to president because her children are Merits Co and Trans Multi tests staged in violation of inter- from the political arena. But last to the military-drafted constitu- be amended, the military rep- foreign citizens, also failed to pass. Mechanics Co -- were blacklisted, national resolutions. Thursday’s parliamentary vote, in tion to be accepted, more than 75 resentatives would not hesitate REUTERS Seoul’s foreign ministry said in a AFP

Thailand halts rights report launch Somali militants Nearly 127,000 BANGKOK: Thai police in Bangkok. But undercover sol- expression in Thailand under Burundians forced a rights group to cancel diers and police turned up at club the military government of Prime the launch of a report alleg- to shut down the event, a FCCT Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. attack African Union flee unrest: UN ing Vietnam’s persecution of official said, declining to be named. Prayuth, who as army chief an ethnic minority yesterday, Thai police said they acted took power in a May 2014 coup, GENEVA: Nearly 127,000 saying it could harm relations pre-emptively after receiving said on last Thursday he was not Burundians have registered between the Southeast Asian a request from the Vietnamese afraid of the press, days before peace-keepers’ base as refugees in neighbouring neighbours. government. the government is to hold a meet- countries and many more have The launch of the 33-page “Vietnamese officials had sent a ing to teach journalists how to ask MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab of Baidoa. likely fled under the radar from report by the New-York based request to the Royal Thai Police questions that won’t offend him. militants battled with African “There is still heavy fighting the troubled central African Human Rights Watch outlin- to pay attention to the event,” Police Colonel Kittiporn Union (AU) troops in Somalia between Burundian forces and nation, the United Nations said ing Vietnam’s persecution of Police Colonel Pornchai Chalordet, Boongsong, who was at the scene, yesterday after exploding a car al Shabaab at the Burundi base yesterday. ethnic Montagnard Christians superintendent of the Lumpini said that police had only asked bomb at a peacekeepers’ base in Leego town,” he said, adding it Since Burundi’s political tur- in the Central Highlands was police station in Bangkok, said. for “cooperation”. He said that south of Mogadishu at dawn, was “too early to know casualties.” moil started in April, the UN due to take place at the Foreign The cancellation came as the junta did not order the event’s military officials and a rebel The peacekeeping force is made refugee agency said it had seen Correspondents’ Club of Thailand concerns grow over freedom of cancellation. REUTERS spokesman said. up of troops mainly from Kenya, 62,000 Burundians register as ref- The attack in Leego, some Uganda and Burundi. ugees in neighbouring Tanzania, 130 km (80 miles) south of the Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, 45,000 in Rwanda, 10,590 in the Somali capital, came as residents a spokesman for the al Qaeda- Democratic Republic of Congo, Free to fly gathered for morning prayers. It aligned group, said the militants 8,855 in Uganda and 400 in was the latest of several assaults had rammed the car bomb into Zambia. since the Islamic holy month of the base and that “heavy fight- “Many more Burundians are Ramadan began a week ago. ing goes on inside the base.” He thought to have left the country The Islamist militants fight- said the militants had killed 35 but have not registered as refu- ing to overthrow the Western- soldiers. The group often gives gees,” UNHCR spokesman Adrian backed Mogadishu government higher death tolls than officials do. Edwards told reporters in Geneva. have often launched attacks Last week, al Shabaab attacked The exodus has come as around during Ramadan and officials an African Union convoy with 70 people have been killed in had deployed additional security Ethiopian soldiers along the same weeks of brutally suppressed because of the heightened secu- route. street protests. rity risk. It also launched two attacks in The central African nation “A car bomb rammed into the Mogadishu in the past week. On was plunged into turmoil in late AU base,” Somali Major Nur Olow last Sunday, militants stormed a April when President Pierre said. “AU forces opened fire at the national intelligence agency train- Nkurunziza launched his drive speeding car bomb (but) the car ing site and on last Wednesday to serve a third consecutive five- forced its way in.” targeted military instructors year term. Opposition groups say “AMISOM confirms there is from the United Arab Emirates they will boycott both parliamen- an ongoing attack at their Leego with a car bomb. No Emirates tary elections, due to be held on Somalia base that started this citizens were killed but at least Monday, and the presidential vote morning,” the African Union three Somali soldiers died in that on July 15. Mission in Somalia peacekeeping attack. Several top officials -- includ- force (AMISOM) said on Twitter. An AMISOM and Somali army ing the deputy vice-president, The fighting was still raging offensive last year pushed al members of the election commis- three hours after the assault Shabaab out of its major strong- sion and constitutional court -- as began, said Abdikadir Mohamed holds. But the group still controls well as numerous journalists and Sidi, governor of the Lower some rural areas and stages regu- activists are among those who Shabelle region where Leego is lar attacks in Somalia and neigh- have fled poverty-stricken and The European Union yesterday lifted a five-year ban on commercial airlines from the Philippines, allowing the located on the main road connect- bouring Kenya. landlocked Burundi. country’s air carriers to fly over European skies. ing Mogadishu and the inland city REUTERS AFP SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 People throng border Heatwave eases after 1,150 deaths with India for Baba Experts call for long-term strategy to combat natural calamities

KARACHI: Sea breezes considerations in all development brought cooler temperatures plans. Chamliyan’s festival yesterday to ease a heat wave According to these experts the that killed more than 1,150 wave can also be attributed to the ISLAMABAD: For once in a Sector in the Samba district of people over a week around increasing concrete cover and an year, instead of trading machine India. Hundreds of people belong- Pakistan’s teeming port city acute lack of parks and green gun fire and mortar shells, ing to the entire Sialkot region of Karachi during the Muslim belts in the city as such spaces, Chenab Rangers and Indian braved overcast skies and light fasting month of Ramadan. they say, help lower the tempera- Border Security Force men rain to come to the Zero Point The extreme heat of up to 44 ture of an area. exchanged sweets to mark the to participate in the annual mela. degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) - “The heatwave disaster is a festival of popular local saint The people, including women, the hottest since 1981 - coincided wake-up call for the public and Baba Chamliyan Wala Sarkar. children, youth and elderly, with power failures and triggered the government. There is need The three-day annual urs cele- reached there after travelling long sharp criticism of the govern- to create awareness on how to brations of Baba Chamliyan began distances on motorcycles, cars, ment’s response in the city of 20 cope with severe hot weather and on Yesterday at a far-off border- buses, horse carts, rickshaws, million people. help high-risk populations protect ing village, Tulsipur-Charwah, tractor trolleys and even by foot. By yesterday, the daily high themselves against it,” said Rab near Zero Point of Sialkot An extraordinary hustle-bustle of temperature was about 36 degree Nawaz currently serving as the Working Boundary. people was witnessed along the Celsius (97 Fahrenheit), accord- Sindh regional director of World Baba Dalip Singh Manhas, pop- Sialkot working boundary. ing to Dr Mohammad Hanif of Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan ularly known as Baba Chamliyan, Thousands of devotees on the Director National Weather A heatstroke victim is treated at a government hospital in Karachi yesterday. (WWF-P). lived about 300 years ago and either side of the border par- Forecasting Centre. The impact of climate change, came to be revered by people ticipate in the separate fairs held The power outages left many - illustrates how ill-prepared lessons, instead of getting into the especially a rise in temperature, because of his saintly qualities every year in Pakistan and India. without fans, water or light at many developing nations are for blame game.” he said, have become very appar- and spiritual powers. A sea of humanity with the the beginning of Ramadan, when the extreme weather conditions Pakistan’s national and local ent in Pakistan over the last dec- A special ceremony was held at hope of peace was witnessed along many Muslims do not eat or drink that scientists say will accompany political parties have blamed ade and the current situation no-man’s land along the working the borders. “Borders have divided during daylight hours. global climate change in coming one another for the crisis, while in Sindh, especially Karachi is boundary. Senior officials of the the land into two parts but the “By yesterday, at least 1,150 decades. much of the relief was provided worrisome. Chenab Rangers presided over blessings of Baba Chamliyan still people have died in the govern- “These type of events are taking by the powerful military and pri- “Though carbon emissions the ceremony. enables us to see each other due ment-run hospitals,” said Anwar place across the world ... we need vate charities such as the Edhi from Pakistan are very low Later, the participants handed to this festival,” Muhammad Asif, Kazmi of the Edhi Foundation, a to prepare ourselves and develop Foundation. and not contributing to climate over a chaddar to the officials a resident of Sialkot city, told the private charity that runs a net- our strategy,” said Qamar uz Experts have called upon the change, the country is ranked of Indian Border Security Force visiting newsmen from Sialkot. work of ambulances and morgues. Zaman Chaudhry, the Islamabad- provincial government to develop among the top 10 countries most (BSF) for laying it as wreath on He said that no one wants borders The crisis - following a based special adviser for Asia to a strategy involving communities vulnerable to its adverse impact,” the grave of the Baba Chamliyan setting humanity apart. heat wave in India last month the UN-World Meteorological to prevent a repeat of the disas- he said. in the neighbouring Ramgarh INTERNEWS that killed about 2,500 people Organization. “It’s time to learn ter and integrate climate change AGENCIES

Friday prayers Re-polling ordered in over 250 stations after irregularities ISLAMABAD: Election of the village council, neighbour- in the May 30 LG polls have been authorities in Pakistan have hood council, tehsil/town council given an opportunity to join a decided to hold fresh poll- and district council in all those political party. ing at hundreds of polling sta- areas. The ECP has asked the inde- tions in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Under the K-P local govern- pendents to provide a letter of (KP) that witnessed large-scale ment act, each voter is given acceptance from the leader of a irregularities in the May 30 ballot papers of seven different party they have joined or wish to elections. categories for voting. In what was join in the future. Yesterday, the Election a very complicated exercise which Under the law, those who are Commission of Pakistan (ECP) took a voter around 15 minutes elected as independents to a leg- notified more than 250 polling to poll his/her votes under the islature can join a political party stations across the province, scorching heat. Violence was also within three days of notification where re-elections will be held reported in many areas of the of wining an election. on July 5. province on the polling day. According to Rule 74(7) of An ECP official said that re- Other than the polling stations the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Local elections had been ordered since and constituencies where re-polls Government Act, 2013, the total there was irrefutable evidence of have been ordered, the ECP has number of seats by a political irregularities from these polling asked the complainants of other party would include independent stations such as snatching of bal- areas to approach post-election returned candidates who may lot boxes, ballot papers and use tribunals with their complaints. A duly join such a political party of force to influence the election total of 92 tribunals have been set within three days of the publica- process on the polling day. up in K-P for LG elections related tion in the official gazette of the The new order will have an complaints. names of returned candidates. impact on directly contested seats Those elected as independents INTERNEWS Afghans offer Friday prayers at Pul-e-Khishti Mosque in Kabul yesterday. Time frame for Administration hides verdicts set ‘Bang! and down’: Awesome for Pakistan’s financial irregularities judiciary ‘superhero’ of Afghanistan behind insecurity ISLAMABAD: The Supreme KABUL: He is called a super- Court (SC) of Pakistan on yes- hero and feted with financial PESHAWAR: Militancy and Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad terday handed down a landmark rewards from Afghan politi- insecurity have become conven- Khan during his visit to the area judgment which would mitigate cians, but the lionisation of the ient excuses for the administra- last year had directed to carry out the sufferings of litigants due soldier who singlehandedly tion in Pakistan’s northwestern assess impact of several initiatives to an inordinate delay in ver- killed six attackers in parlia- tribal region to camouflage the completed under SPDP in differ- dicts as the apex court bound ment belies bubbling discontent financial irregularities, commit- ent tribal agencies through inde- the high courts and subordi- over deteriorating security. ted by it in execution of develop- pendent monitors. nate judiciary to give judgments Essa Khan Laghmani, 28, was ment projects in the area. SPDP deals with cultivation within the time prescribed by plucked from obscurity and cata- Given the situation, independ- of dry land horticulture which the judgment. pulted to national fame this week ent monitors are afraid to visit includes irrigation, cultivation The judgment was authored after he shot dead the Taliban Fata and carry out inspection of and harvesting in remote areas of by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar. In insurgents who on Monday schemes in its different parts. Fata. The federal government had the judgment, the civil courts are launched a gun and grenade That impression serves the allocated Rs50 million for several directed to deliver their judg- assault on the legislature, send- political administration and line initiatives under the programme. ments within 30 days after the ing terrified lawmakers scurrying departments well as they have The report submitted to sec- conclusion of the trial. for cover. found a handy cover in the great retary planning and develop- Similarly, the district courts “Taq Chapako!” -- “Bang! and veil of secrecy that has engulfed ment Fata stated that the team will have to deliver their judg- down” in Dari -- meanwhile Fata to hide their ineptitude. members visited walnut farm in ments within 45 days and the became an Internet meme after Afghan soldier Essa Khan Laghmani (left) explains how he shot and killed The visitors, dependent on the Malikhel area near Afghan border time frame for high courts has he used the phrase in television six Taliban inside the Afghan Parliament in Kabul yesterday. local administration for their in upper Kurram Agency having been prescribed as 90 days. interviews to describe how he mobility inside Fata, don’t have a more than 80,000 healthy fruit It is important to mention here effortlessly knocked down his tar- named a major thoroughfare after Afghan user on Facebook. choice but to stick to an itinerary plants. that an undesirable practice was gets as though they were skittles him andAfghanistan’s starstruck “Khan has become a rich man. planned by the officialdom. That The third party validation followed by the subordinate judici- in a bowling alley. youth have posted poems on social We saw MPs donating cash and means selective visits to projects report said that large and well- ary with litigants having to wait Laghmani’s feat offered a rare media to extol his “heroism”. their salaries to him. This assist- that are ‘safe’ to inspect and planned orchards were estab- for months. glimmer of good news during the “He killed six terrorists with ance is not to honour his patriot- propagate and avoid those that lished by pooling disintegrated The judgment states that Taliban’s annual summer offen- six bullets. He saved the lives of ism but to reward him for saving are not. wasteland parcels. without a judgment, there is no sive, which has sent civilian and MPs,” defence ministry spokes- their own lives.” The reports based on these vis- It quoted some farmers as concept of justice and the fruit- military casualties soaring and man Dawlat Waziri said. “His War-weary Afghans are in for its eulogise the ‘good work’ done saying that they were getting ful outcome of litigation which, threatened major cities for the bravery deserves to be celebrated.” the bloodiest fighting season in a by authorities but what about the Rs50,000 per acre per year without any fear of contradic- first time in a decade. But the celebration of decade, experts say, with the stub- initiatives that don’t exactly fall in income from their orchards. tion, means that the state lacks President Ashraf Ghani Laghmani -- or unnecessary glo- born Taliban insurgency spread- the ‘model project’ bracket. “SPDP worked in highly remote, an effective justice system. awarded him a three-bedroom rification, depending on who you ing inexorably northwards beyond According to an official report insecure and heard areas of Fata In such a situation, the Supreme apartment, former warlord ask -- glosses over growing public its traditional southern and east- a team of independent monitors and achieved its objectives,” it Court also observed if the judge/ General Dostum gifted him a angst over a 13-year war that is ern strongholds. comprising teachers and stu- said. the court did not pronounce a pickup truck and some lawmak- inflicting a heavy toll on ordinary Afghan security forces, dents of University of Agriculture, However, local administration judgment for resolving the legal ers pledged him a month of their Afghans. stretched on multiple fronts Peshawar visited Kurram Agency kept monitors in the dark and did and factual issues involved in a salaries and other cash rewards “By hyping Essa Khan, the and facing record casualties, are for the validation of activities not facilitate them to inspecting dispute, the very purpose of the to offer their gratitude. Afghan government (is trying) struggling to rein in the militants carried out under Sustainable community farm in Lalmay vil- judicial branch of the state would That’s not all. to hide its inability to prevent even as the government makes Plains Development Programme lage, apparently to conceal handi- be frustrated and eroded. His posters are splashed around attacks on such a high-profile repeated efforts to jump-start (SPDP). work of the SPDP staff. INTERNEWS Kabul, a provincial governor has target in the capital,” said one peace negotiations. AFP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa INTERNEWS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Congress moves poll For human rights panel against MP CM Chouhan accused of granting favours to BJP leader NEW DELHI: The Congress prestige, including yours and would want the EC to send the has written to the Election mine, would go down ... I would tape to a forensic lab to get its Commission (EC) demanding make you. I know you were also authenticity checked. “The BJP action against Madhya Pradesh equally eligible (to get the ticket has said the tape is fake. I want Chief Minister Shivraj Singh for the seat). After election, I will that the Election Commission Chouhan for allegedly induc- look after your interests,” the should send it to a forensic lab ing a local BJP leader to mus- chief minister is heard telling and see whether it is fake. I take ter support for today’s by-poll in Choudhary. The chief minister is full responsibility of this tape if it Garoth assembly constituency also heard saying that he knew is found fake,” he told reporters after promising him favours. about the local leader’s aspiration in New Delhi. “This is how the An audio tape containing a to contest the election for the seat BJP works. Accusations against purported conversation between for which he could not secure the them are wrong and against us the chief minister and local BJP official nod. are right ... This shows their men- leader Rajendra Choudhary has The BJP, however, denied the tality,” he said. “This is against gone viral on various social web- allegations, saying the audio tape the electoral code of conduct. sites. In the tape, given to the was just part of Congress General We have demanded an Election EC by the Congress, Chouhan is Secretary Digvijay Singh’s dirty Commission probe. They have heard asking BJP leader Rajendra politics. “It is a non-issue, just assured us that they will probe Choudhary to support the party’s a part of Digvijay Singh’s dirty the matter,” he said. A del- nominee for the Garoth assembly politics. Congress makes efforts egation comprising senior lead- by-poll in Mandsaur district. He to malign image of Shivraj Singh ers Digvijay Singh and Mohan is also heard offering Choudhary Chouhan before every election,” Prakash and Congress legal cell a position in the government in BJP leader Vishwas Sarang told secretary K C Mittal met the College students take part in a demonstartion on the occasion of United Nations International Day in Support return for the task. reporters in Bhopal. Speaking on Election Commission yesterday of Victims of Torture in Bengaluru, yesterday. “We must not lose. Everybody’s the issue, Digvijay Singh said he afternoon. IANS Congress targets Raje Mars Orbiter survives eclipse, emits signals BENGALURU: India’s maiden activities after being on autono- or deviation, which otherwise have relayed data of their find- with Portuguese MoU Mars Orbiter Mission survived mous mode,” Kiran Kumar said would have consumed precious ings. India created history by a 15-day solar eclipse (June on the margins of a a global con- fuel though provision was made becoming the first country to NEW DELHI: Continuing C P Joshi said: "The impression 8-22) and emitted signals back ference on “Science for Society” for such occurrence. Noting that have a craft enter the Martian its attack on Rajasthan Chief that people are getting is that the to earth, the space agency chief by alumni of the Indian Institute the mission’s objective of explo- orbit in maiden attempt after a Minister Vasundhara Raje, (Narendra) Modi government is said yesterday. of Science (IISc). ration would continue till the nine-month voyage through the the Congress yesterday said running a conglomerate of tainted “Our Orbiter spacecraft has Noting the spacecraft had spacecraft survives, Kumar said inter-planetary space. an agreement inked by her ministers. "The prime minister is survived the blackout in the withstood a crucial phase of the Orbiter had completed about It also became the first Asian government with Portugal's not saying whether it is a policy Martian atmosphere when sun nine months after reaching the 100 revolutions around the country to have entered Mars’ Champalimaud Foundation was decision by him that the British came in between the red planet Martian orbit, he said the Orbiter planet and its five experiments sphere of influence (gravity) in "one-sided" and was a "quid-pro government should give travel and the earth and was cut off would continue to spin around had transmitted enormous data maiden attempt, as a similar mis- quo". documents to Lalit Modi on from us. Coming out of the eclipse the red planet for years as it to the space agency’s deep space sion by China failed to succeed The Rajasthan government humanitarian grounds," he said, phase, it is communicating sig- had saved enough fuel since its network near here. “As a bonus in 2011. The `450 crore ($70m) reportedly signed a Memorandum adding that: "Big Modi is helping nals,” Indian Space Research November 5, 2013 launch from of its extended life, we will col- Mars mission was launched of Understanding with the private small Modi." Organisation (ISRO) chairman Sriharikota spaceport. lect more data and information November 5, 2013 on board a Portuguese biomedical research Terming the MoU signed with A S Kiran Kumar told reporters “Though the Orbiter’s initial on the seasons on Mars and its polar rocket. It had 855 kg fuel organisation in October 2014 fo the Champalimaud Foundation here. lifespan was intended to last images. Our payloads have found but consumed about 800 kg the setting up of a state-of-the- as totally "one-sided", he said: The 1,340 kg spacecraft was six months after entering the out many things during the since then for its orbit-raising art cancer institute in Jaipur. "It is a clear-cut deal of quid under solar conjunction from Martian orbit (on September 24, last six-nine months, which are exercises undertaken during its The MoU was inked with the pro quo, signed in the pres- June 8 when it went behind the 2014), it has been extended since being validated,” he added. The nine-month long journey and Lisbon-based organisation about ence of Vasundhara Raje. "The sun and away from the earth due March and is likely to survive Orbiter’s Mars Colour Camera on entering the Martian sphere. two months after former IPL chief MoU states that government of to solar eclipse, which occurs once many years as it is hardly using had transmitted about 400 images Scientists at the mission con- Lalit Modi's wife Minal under- Rajasthan will provide land and in 26 months over the red planet. any fuel,” he said. Lauding the sci- of the red planet till date to the trol centre here monitor its orbital went medical treatment there. will incur the financial manage- “The Orbiter’s communication entists for the mission’s success, space agency’s telemetry tracking movement and check health of its Reiterating the demand for the ment of the hospital. The chief signals that were disrupted by the he said from the Orbiter’s launch and command network (Istrac) instruments round-the- clock. resignation of Raje and External minister of Rajasthan used sun’s corona (outer atmosphere) till its insertion after a 10-month in the city, while its spectrom- Orbiter takes 3.2 earth days Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj resources of the state to help during the fortnight-long eclipse voyage through the inter-plane- eter, Lyman Alpha photometer, or 72 hours, 51 minutes and 51 for their alleged help to Lalit them. got activated and its five payloads tary space, the mission did not thermal infrared imaging spec- seconds to go around Mars once. Modi, Congress general secretary IANS (scientific instruments) resumed encounter any untoward incident trometer and methane sensor IANS

Friday prayers at Moti Masjid Five kids killed Heavy rainfall kills in Kerala as tree falls on bus 81 in Gujarat KOTHAMANGALAM AHMEDABAD: At least 81 said. “Floods too cannot be ruled (KERALA): Tragedy struck people have died in Gujarat over out at the moment,” he added. yesterday evening when a huge the past four days in the heavy Three people died in Bhavnagar tree fell on a private school rainfall, which has created flood- district and five each in Rajkot bus killing five school kids and like situation in many areas of and Bharuch districts lost their injuring ten other people. the state, officials said yesterday. lives in the heavy rainfall. The victims, all from junior Amreli district is the worst hit, The Gujarat government has classes, included two girls. with 33 deaths reported in the announced a compensation of `4 A school teacher told media past 48 hours,” an official at the lakh each to the families of those persons that two trees on either Gujarat disaster management who have perished in the rain and side of the road to Munnar fell authority in Gandhinagar said. floods. onto the road and one of them The meteorological centre in “We have decided to give a came crashing down on the school Ahmedabad yesterday forecast compensation of `4 lakh each to bus. “Since it was the last trip moderate to heavy rainfall in the families of all the deceased. In from the school, there were only coming days. addition, we have also decided to 15 children on board ... the fire “The southwest monsoon give cash doles for the next ten department officials and locals has covered the entire Gujarat. days to people in affected areas,” had to work very hard to res- Monsoon is active over Gujarat Gujarat Health Minister Nitin cue the trapped kids,” said the region and vigorous over Patel announced on his official teacher. Saurashtra,” an official at the Twitter account. “The condition of the 10 injured Ahmedabad meteorological centre IANS children, being treated in two pri- vate hospitals, is reported to be stable,” said Kothamangalam leg- Punyabhushan award islator T U Kuruvilla. However, the condition of the conductor of the school bus was reportedly serious. Muslims offer Friday prayers at the Moti Masjid, in Bhopal, yesterday. IANS for Sakal group chief

PUNE: President Pranab privilege of conferring ‘Padmashri’ Mukherjee yesterday presented on Pratap Pawar to recognise his the ‘Punyabhushan’ award contribution in various areas of to media personality Pratap public service. Through ‘Sakal’, Pawar at a function here. he has played a major role in edu- All set for crucial Kerala assembly bypoll The ‘Punyabhushan’ (Jewel of cating and awakening the masses,” Pune) is awarded every year to the president said. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All arrange- There are a total of 16 candidates in the fray three candidates who are engaged in an unu- an eminent personality from the “Media plays a very important ments were in place yesterday for a crucial in the constituency, where the total electorate sually silent campaign, Sabarinathan said it field of arts, music, culture, sci- role in our democracy. It by-poll to Kerala’s Aruvikara assembly con- in the constituency stands at 1,77,594 — up was a novel experience for him but victory ence, industry, social service, or helps in creation of awakening stituency and all three major candidates from 1,65,638 in 2011, when Karthikeyan won would be his. sports at a special public function amongst the vast multitude of expressed confidence about their victory. with a margin of over 10,000 votes. Vijayakumar also said that he was trying to here. masses through dissemination Polling will take place on Saturday at 153 The ruling Congress has fielded meet as many people as possible and his party The president congratulated of information. It helps shape polling booths from 7am to 5pm in the con- Karthikeyan’s 31-year-old son K A “has no doubt on the outcome as the electors Pawar for being the recipient of ideas and opinions,” he said stituency and counting of votes will take place Sabarinathan, the Communist Party of India- will vote us to victory”. the award this year and said his adding that democracy is on Tuesday. Marxist has nominated 67-year-old former Superstar Suresh Gopi, the chairman- contributions to the Indian media not just a government of The by-poll was necessitated following speaker and minister M Vijayakumar and the designate of the National Film Development through the Sakal Media Group, the people, for the people and by the the death in March of sitting member and Bharatiya Janata Party has pitted its regular Corporation and campaigning on behalf to the industrial development of people. It can be institutionalized Assembly speaker G Karthikeyan, who had warhorse, 85-year-old O Rajagopal, in the fray. of Rajagopal, said: “People definitely seek a the region and to social activi- only through constant dialogue. represented this constituency for 24 years. When media persons caught up with the change and it’s visible.” IANS ties were well known. “I had the IANS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 BJP red-faced over Lalit Modi singes Congress sting on ex-minister Ex-IPL chief says he met Vadra, Priyanka at a restaurant in London MUMBAI: Maharashtra's rul- Modi and Amit Shah as "the two ing Bharatiya Janata Party was power centres in the country". NEW DELHI: The Lalit Modi Modi is embroiled in a row left red-faced yesterday when a He alleged that the business controversy yesterday appeared over alleged financial irregulari- purported sting operation on a community in the country is to taint the Congress, with ties when he was the IPL chief. former minister led to airing of unhappy over certain decisions of the former IPL chief claim- The Enforcement Directorate has some embarrassing revelations the Modi government, including ing that he had "bumped" into built up a case against him. The on various issues and individu- the move to unearth black money. party president Sonia Gandhi's government had also cancelled his als and has sought an explana- "Half the country's economy daughter Priyanka and her hus- passport. tion from him. runs on black money... I interact band Robert Vadra in a London Modi also tweeted that the The 'sting' on influential daily with the top businessmen. restaurant last year. Gandhi couple was with Timmy Mumbai legislator Raj Purohit, a Don't interfere in everything. Let He did not imply any wrong- Sarna who is with DLF Brands former minister in the Shiv Sena- things continue as they are..." he doing on their part, but the Ltd "They can call me. Will tell BJP government 1995-1999, was advises in the video. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), them what I feel about them carried out by unidentified people Throwing open hints at Chief smarting from several damaging exactly," he said in the tweet. and aired on several local televi- Minister Fadnavis' alleged nexus revelations by Lalit Modi, imme- Meanwhile, the BJP asked sion channels besides going viral with the builder lobby, Purohit diately sprang into an attacking Sonia Gandhi to explain why on various social networking sites. claimed that the money power mode. Priyanka and Vadra met Modi, Hours after the videos were of Lodha Builders had prevented "The Congress must explain. as claimed by him, since her aired in which Purohit's no-holds- him from becoming a minister in Why is Mrs Gandhi silent," asked Congress party was demanding barred 'Mann ki Baat' shows him the current government. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra. the resignation of Rajasthan Chief raising questions on the style of "I am suffering lot of injustice...I The Congress asserted that Minister Vasundhara Raje over functioning of Prime Minister was a kingmaker...I am a very Priyanka Gandhi and Vadra had her help to Modi. Narendra Modi and BJP presi- dangerous MLA...I am one of the "committed no crime". Party Surjewala, though, said that dent Amit Shah, the BJP leader senior-most persons. Yes, I could spokesperson Randeep Singh Lalit Modi was trying to come to denied making any such state- have been senior-most next to Surjewala said there was no BJP's rescue by creating "red her- ments and demanded a forensic (Eknath) Khadse only...But I "social interaction" of any nature rings and diversionary tactics". investigation as the voice in the was not made minister," Purohit between them. "Looking at each He asked the government to clips is not his. claimed. other in a restaurant is neither release records of discussions Lalit Modi "I have greatest respect He said that the late union a crime nor morally improper." the former finance minister for Prime Minister Narendra minister Gopinath Munde never The BJP has been facing fire P. Chidambaram had with the Terming all allegations against The MOU is meant to pro- Modi, BJP president Amit Shah favoured an alliance with the Shiv over Rajasthan Chief Minister British government demanding Raje as politically motivated, vide better facilities for cancer and Chief Minister Devendra Sena and "wanted to be chief min- Vasundhara Raje's reported con- that Lalit Modi be handed over Parnami said Raje has never management in Rajasthan, he Fadnavis is an ideal leader under ister right from the beginning". nections with Modi. She is alleged to India. deposed before any court in observed. whom the state is on the route to The legislator added that if to have signed documents sup- Meanwhile, Rajasthan BJP Britain nor presented any affida- "There are over 1.30 lakh can- progress," he said. Munde had not died in a car crash porting Modi's application for yesterday came all out to sup- vit before any legal authorities. cer patients in Rajasthan and Taking strong note of the and become the chief minister, residency in Britain even though port Chief Minister Vasundhara "The document is just a draft establishment of this institute utterances, BJP state president Fadnavis would have been just a he was said to be a fugitive from Raje who is embroiled in a con- statement, which is not legal," he will provide better facilitates to Raosaheb Patil Danve said: "I have minister. India. troversy over helping former IPL said while addressing a press con- those who presently have to travel summoned him for personal dis- On his relations with another Lalit Modi tweeted earlier chief Lalit Modi. ference here. to Mumbai for medical care," cussions on the matter. We will senior BJP leader, the late Pramod in the day: "Happy to meet the On the documents being shown Defending the Memorandum Rathore said. first inquire about the genuine- Mahajan, Purohit said they were Gandhi family in London. I had by media as carrying Raje's sig- of Understanding (MOU) signed The Vasundhara Raje-led ness of the video CDs, and then "closest" to each other,To a ques- run into Robert and Priyanka nature on the last page, state BJP with Champlimaud Foundation BJP government entered into a the party would take appropriate tion on Lodha Builders - who, like separately in a restaurant." president Ashok Parnami said: of Portugal, state Medical and Memorandum of Understanding action." legislator M P Lodha, are also the "If I remember correctly, it "The document is not in official Health Minister Rajendra on October 2, 2014 with In the sting, Purohit contends BJP's prominent functionaries was last year and the year before. format of any UK court." Rathore said the MOU was signed Champlimaud Foundation of there is "no collective decision- - Purohit said they spent lot of Doubt whether reported it to any- "The signed document is not a after studying which institute or Portugal where Lalit Modi's wife making in the BJP" and calls it a money during elections, running one. They were in power then," witness statement and it was not hospital provides better facilities underwent medical treatment. 'dhokha' (fraud), while describing into "crores of rupees". IANS he said. presented in a court," he added. for treatment of cancer. IANS

Congress leader claims 'Go slow' claim Orders on TDP MLA's bail plea in false: Naqvi

he got death threats PANAJI: Union Minister of cash-for-vote scam on June 30 State for Parliamentary Affairs MUMBAI: Congress leader has sought a report from the Muktar Abbas Naqvi yester- HYDERABAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) that there was nothing more the Sachin Sawant who filed a com- state government on the day rubbished accusations that Hyderabad High Court yester- was yet to ascertain from where agency can elicit by keeping him plaint of corruption against complaint. the government led by Prime day posted to June 30 orders on the accused planned to arrange in custody. Maharashtra's Women and The ACB complaint pertains Minister Narendra Modi wants bail petition of TDP legislator A the remaining Rs.4.5 crore for He said he had no objections if Child Development Minister to the minister -- daughter of to "go slow" in the Malegaon Revanth Reddy in the cash-for- a Rs.5 crore deal to induce a the court grants bail with certain Pankaja Munde yesterday the late union minister Gopinath blast case. vote case. nominated legislator to vote for conditions. claimed to have received multi- Munde who was killed in a road Naqvi was in Panaji to The court reserved its orders a TDP-BJP candidate. Revanth Reddy's two aides ple death threats. accident in New Delhi last year address party workers on the after hearing arguments from Revanth Reddy, deputy leader were also arrested in the trap "Since Thursday evening, I have -- allegedly sanctioning contracts occasion of the 40th anniver- both the public prosecutor and of TDP in Telangana state leg- laid by the ACB on a complaint got around 40 anonymous threats, for buying food-items, water fil- sary of the Emergency imposed Revanth Reddy's counsel. islative assembly, was arrested by Stephenson. The entire episode mostly threatening to kill me," ters, medical kits and books for by then prime minister Indira Telangana Advocate General by the ACB on May 31 when he was also recorded on a camera. Sawant, the spokesman of the children without inviting e-ten- Gandhi. Ramakrishna Reddy opposed was trying to give Rs.50 lakh as The FSL, after examining the state unit, said. Mumbai police ders, as is mandatory. "I am not accusing anyone... the bail plea on the ground that, bribe to nominated MLA Elvis video and audio tapes and the have provided him security. Besides Sawant's complaint But this is a part of the conspir- if released,l the accused could Stephenson to induce him to vote call data from the mobile phones "Police have temporarily with the ACB, former chief min- acy of levelling allegations against tamper with the evidence and for the TDP-BJP candidate in the of the accused, submitted its posted two constables from the ister Prithviraj Chavan demanded the government every now and influence the witnesses as he is Telangana state legislative council preliminary report along with the local police station at my resi- a Central Bureau of Investigation then," he added. a legislator in Telangana and his elections. tapes in a sealed cover to he ACB dence. I shall lodge the detailed probe into the issue. Rohini Salian, the special Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is in Ramakrishna Reddy said horse court.Meanwhile, the ACB court written complaint tomorrow Chief Minister Devendra public prosecutor in the case, power in Andhra Pradesh. trading was a serious issue as yesterday opened the sealed cover morning," said Sawant, who had Fadnavis has said that there is earlier this week alleged that He submitted to the court that buying 10 MLAs could lead to the and examined the report and on last Wednesday filed a for- no "prima facie evidence" of any she was asked by the National the Forensic Science Laboratory government's fall. other contents. mal complaint with the state wrongdoing by his cabinet col- Investigation Agency to go slow in (FSL) report on video and audio The MLA's counsel Siddharth The ACB has filed a memo Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) league, but was open to a probe the Malegaon blast case in which tapes in the case was still awaited. Luthra argued that the ACB has seeking a copy of the FSL report accusing Munde of irregularities after examining the issue in some members of radical Hindu The advocate general already questioned him and two to proceed further in the case. in awarding contracts worth detail. groups stand accused. also told the judge that the other accused in the case and IANS `206 crore (`2.06bn). The ACB IANS IANS

Prayers at Jama Masjid Methanol Zero Tolerance exercise dealer held in liquor tragedy by Gurgaon police MUMBAI: The Mumbai police GURGAON: Gurgaon police into custody. have nabbed a Gujarat-based chief Navdeep Singh Virk “We are establishing details of chemical supplier in connection yesterday said a recent Zero other impounded vehicles after with the recent Malwani hooch Tolerance exercise in the city which more arrests will be made,” tragedy that claimed 103 lives, proved to be good and it would said Virk, adding that Zero officials said here yesterday. be executed at least once in a Tolerance checking drive will be He has been identified as month. repeated at least once a month. Kishore Patel, who supplied the Nearly 14,900 ‘challans’ or tick- He said Gurgaon traffic police’s methanol which was used to pre- ets for traffic offences were served record of issuing 14,896 ‘challans’ pare the deadly brew. With his by police here in 14 hours on last or tickets for traffic violations in arrest, the total number of arrests Wednesday (June 24), which Virk a single day will be included in the in the case is nine so far. said was a record in the country. Limca Book of Records. He was arrested late Thursday Nearly 500 vehicles including The fines were part of an and brought to Mumbai for two-wheelers and four-wheelers intensive traffic drive after police investigations after his name were impounded during the drive. decided to mark Zero Tolerance was revealed by the kingpin, On fear of being checked, some Day on June 24.No one was Mansoor Latif alias Atique, who unidentified people abandoned an spared -- even Gurgaon mayor was nabbed from Delhi earlier SUV near the Sahara Mall on the Vimal Yadav was flagged down this week. Gurgaon-Mehrauli Road here. near Hero Honda Chowk here According to the investiga- Later, it was found that the on Wednesday evening. tors, Patel supplied the methanol registration papers of the SUV The Motors Vehicle Act, 1988, to a bootlegger Francis D'Mello were fake. lists 72 traffic offences but police who allegedly prepared the killer In another incident of check- were instructed to focus pri- brew by mixing it with water ing, crime unit-9 chief Rajkumar marily on breaking speed limit, and sold it local liquor outlets in and his team arrested Taufik and using cell phone while driving, Malwani. Jadul near Subhash Chowk here. jumping traffic signals, driv- Patel will be produced before Eighteen mobile sets and a pis- ing without seat-belt, smoking, a magistrate later yesterday for A man offering Friday prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque) in the tol were recovered from a Swift wrong-side parking and driving remand. old quarters of Delhi, yesterday. Dzire car in which they were in wrong lane. IANS travelling and both were taken IANS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Creditors offer Greece bailout extention Oil prices fall as market Crucial eurozone meeting today awaits Iran BRUSSELS: Greece’s inter- quickly disburse ¤1.8bn in finan- national creditors on Friday cial aid to help Athens meet a talks outcome offered Athens a five-month, 1.5 billion euro IMF debt repay- ¤12bn ($13.4bn) extension of its ment due on June 30 as long as LONDON: Oil prices fell yes- bailout programme but said it the Greek parliament approves terday as investors awaited must seal a deal this weekend to disputed reforms. the outcome of Iranian nuclear avoid an IMF default next week. German Finance Minister talks which could lead to a German Chancellor Angela Wolfgang Schaeuble said the big increase in Iranian crude Merkel urged Athens not to chances for a deal stood at about exports at a time when the mar- waste an “extraordinarily gener- “50-50”. ket is already over-supplied. ous” offer that would see Greece Eurozone stock markets pushed Dealers also kept an eye on handed vital cash until November higher on news of the new offer negotiations to try to avert a 30 in exchange for major reforms for Greece. Greek debt default and avoid Greece has so far resisted. In their short meeting, Tsipras Greece’s exit from the euro. But Greek Prime Minister told Merkel and Hollande he could A Greek default would be likely Alexis Tsipras said he refused any not understand their “harsh” to strengthen the dollar against take-it-or-leave-it offers from his stance and asked for leeway. the euro, providing headwinds for EU partners and vowed to remain But the eurozone’s two most oil and other commodities priced true to his anti-austerity princi- powerful leaders insisted that in dollars, economists say. ples despite the financial abyss today’s eurozone meeting was Brent crude for August was looming just days away. “crucial and decisive and that it down 50 cents at $62.70 a barrel “Europe’s principles are not was vital now to work towards a Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives at the EU Council headquarters at the start of a European Union by 1345 GMT after ending the based on blackmail and ulti- deal,” a source said. leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday. previous session down 29 cents. matums,” Tsipras said after a Syriza party leader Tsipras US crude was down 70 cents two-day EU leaders summit dom- was elected in January on an “Tomorrow it really has to as the Greek parliament has but only if certain conditions at $59 a barrel after finishing inated by the Greek debt crisis. anti-austerity platform and has happen, for the simple reason approved with a resolution the are met, underscoring differ- Thursday down 57 cents. “In these crucial hours, nobody resisted the creditors’ demands that it has to go through parlia- agreement with the (creditor) ences between Europe and the Analysts and traders said the has the right to put these princi- for pensions cuts and VAT hikes ment, first the Greek then of sev- institutions and adopted a first Washington-based lender which market was being pressured by a ples at risk.” in return for unlocking bailout eral member states,” the Dutch set of legislative actions.” wants Greece’s huge debt moun- mix of bearish factors, including Tsipras spoke after a short funds finance minister told journalists Later payments, including tain to be reduced. the possibility that Iran may strike meeting with Merkel and France’s An extension to Greece’s mas- in The Hague. money to cover huge payments Greece also wants debt cut a deal with Western powers to end Francois Hollande on the eve of sive ¤240 bn bailout to the end The proposal by the three owed the ECB this summer, would as part of a solution to the five economic sanctions. A resumption a “decisive” meeting of eurozone of November would be the third main creditors — the European come from the EU’s firefight- months of bitter negotiations over of Iranian crude exports would finance ministers aimed at finding since December and allow more Commission, ECB, and ing rescue fund, the European the unlocking of the final ¤7.2bn exacerbate a global over-supply. a deal to end the crisis. time for heavily indebted Athens International Monetary Fund — Stability Mechanism, as well as ($8.1 bn) payout from its current “A significant amount of The eleventh-hour offer fol- to negotiate future financing from said a “five-month extension of cash currently dedicated to sup- extension, which expires on June unneeded oil will flow into the lowed a week-long series of talks its European partners. the current programme ... would port Greece’s banks. 30. global markets in a relatively to end the stand-off between the Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head be feasible during which a total of The plan has already been sent The stakes could not be higher. short time frame as Iran has creditors and Tsipras’s leftist gov- of the Eurogroup of eurozone 12 billion euros of financial sup- to German parliament members “Every day that passes brings a large volume of oil sitting in ernment, which has balked at fur- finance ministers, said a deal port would be provided.” who will vote on the measures if us closer to the inevitable ... floating storage that is likely to ther reforms-for-cash after five had to be clinched on Saturday An immediate ¤1.8bn disburse- the Greek government accepts a form of chaos, of disorder,” hit the market very quickly,” years of economic hardship. or there would not be enough ment — profits from Greek bonds the deal yesterday, sources said. French Finance Minister Michel said Dominick Chirichella of the According to the proposals seen time for it to get parliamentary held by the European Central The IMF could also contrib- Sapin said. Energy Management Institute. by AFP, the creditors are ready to approval. Bank — would be paid “as soon ute to the bailout extension, AFP REUTERS

Euro loses Unfazed by Greece, some fund managers stay bullish on Europe ground against NEW YORK: The prospect of with broad European stock mar- of these fund managers say that quantitative easing program to euro’s decline. dollar, yen Greece defaulting on its debt kets up by 15 percent or more for they are ready to double down on lower interest rates, helping spur Testorf, whose fund has been has long been viewed as the the year to date, his fund is up European stocks should the mar- economic growth and leading to an trimming its holdings of Japanese TOKYO: The euro lost ground recipe for a global stock market 17.1 percent over the same time, ket start to sell-off if Greece does 11 percent drop in the euro against stocks to have cash available to against the dollar and the yen in disaster. Yet some fund manag- a performance that ranks among indeed default. the dollar in the first quarter. buy European stocks on declines, Asian trade yesterday as hopes ers are prospering by ignoring the best international funds and “People are starting to react Combined with lower oil prices, is planning on increasing his hold- for a Greek debt deal began to the risks of another financial leaves the 2.5 percent gain in U.S. to headlines, and that’s when the ECB now expects eurozone ings of Italian banks such as Intesa recede. crisis and moving more money stocks far behind. we start buying,” said Michael GDP to grow by 1.5 percentage Sanpaolo and Banca Popolare di Greece’s emergency negotia- into European stocks. At a time when the average Testorf, a co-portfolio manager points in 2015 and 1.9 percentage Milano in the event of a selloff. tions with its creditors ended Brian Burrell, co-portfo- international fund tracked by of the $53.8m RSQ International points in 2016. The eurozone econ- Both companies should benefit abruptly on Thursday, pushing lio manager of the $11.5bn Lipper has dropped its holdings Equity fund. omy rose by an annual rate of one from increased consolidation in the the crisis toward a critical week- Thornburg International Value of European stocks by 1 per- Chief among their reasons for percent in the most recent quarter. Italian banking sector over the next end meeting in a bid to avoid a fund, increased the percentage of centage point, to an average of bullishness: the conviction that To be sure, the significant 12 months, he said, which will give default by Athens and its poten- European stocks such as French 43 percent, fund managers like Greece’s debt standoff, now drawn decline in the value of the euro has the companies more pricing power. tial exit from the eurozone. materials maker Compagnie de Burrell that went the other way out for four years, has given eaten into the returns for some “We’ve been long-term believ- Talks will resume today, just Saint-Gobain and French con- are outperforming. Europe’s financial system enough dollar-based investors. Burrell, ers in the repair of Europe, and days before the June 30 deadline struction company Vinci in his Now, with Greece and the so- time to prepare, preventing the the Thornburg fund manager, said you’re starting to see it in the for cash-strapped Greece to make portfolio by 10 percentage points called “Troika” of primary credi- sort of panic that sent stocks that his portfolio had partial cur- economic numbers. We are confi- a ¤1.5bn payment to the IMF and since the end of 2014, making tors - the European Commission, tumbling in 2008 when Lehman rency hedges in place during the dent that you’re going to see GDP the day its huge EU bailout will European stocks 65 percent of the European Central Bank and Brothers fell. early part of the first quarter, but growth of over 2 percent in the expire. his total assets. the International Monetary Fund At the same time, the European that the fund no longer has cur- eurozone by 2016,” he said. Without a deal with its credi- Now, he’s reaping the rewards: - once again at an impasse, several Central Bank has expanded its rency hedges in place after the REUTERS tors — the EU, ECB and IMF — to unlock the remaining 7.2 billion euros of Greece’s bailout, the country risks crashing out of the single currency and even the EU. The news rattled the single Tesco shows signs currency, which fetched $1.1184 and 137.89 yen in afternoon Tokyo, down from $1.1206 and 138.53 yen in New York. of British recovery The dollar was changing hands at 123.30 yen against 123.62 yen LONDON: Price cuts and bet- Tesco also said 180,000 more in US trade. ter service helped Tesco to customers shopped at its UK German Chancellor Angela win back shoppers in the first stores in the quarter, with Merkel said a meeting of eurozone quarter of its financial year, the volume of goods sold up finance ministers on Saturday Britain’s biggest retailer said 1.4 percent on a like-for-like would be “decisive” for finding a yetserday, suggesting new boss basis and transactions up 1.3 debt deal for Greece. Dave Lewis’s turnaround plan percent. “We have to keep working is starting to bear fruit. “Stemming the defection of because time is pressing and the Tesco has had a horrendous 18 consumers is the first, and argu- Eurogroup (eurozone finance months, with competition from ably the most important, battle to ministers) on Saturday will have fast-growing discounters Aldi and be won,” said Neil Saunders, man- a decisive importance,” Merkel Lidl compounded by an account- aging director of retail research- told a news conference at an EU ing scandal that drove it to a ers Conlumino. summit in Brussels. record annual loss. Tesco’s shares, down 21 percent The Greek debt crisis “contin- But former Unilever executive over the last year, rose as much as ues to be the focus (for investors) Lewis has cut prices on popular 4.4 percent to a one month high through this weekend,” Shinichiro grocery brands, improved product of 227.35 pence. Kadota, a Japan-based forex ana- availability and put more staff in While welcoming the improve- lyst at Barclays Bank, said in a store. ments, however, some investors note to clients. Sales at British shops open for cautioned Tesco faced a battle to As the crisis in Europe dragged more than a year fell 1.3 percent continue its recovery in the teeth on, traders barely reacted to in the 13 weeks to May 30, Tesco of an industry price war. Japanese economic data issued said, partly reflecting a drop in “The price driven competition on Friday. food prices across the industry. we are seeing across UK food Japanese consumer prices But that was better than ana- retailing has made a tough busi- grew a tepid 0.1 percent year- lysts’ forecasts for a fall of 1.6-3.0 ness tougher,” Richard Marwood, on-year in May, while household percent, an improvement on the senior investment manager at spending rose for the first time previous quarter, and also better AXA Investment Managers, one in more than a year, official data than recent figures from major of Tesco’s 30 largest sharehold- showed. A Tesco supermarket in south London. The British supermarket giant said performance was improving following rivals Asda, J Sainsbury and Wm ers, said. AFP a better annual customer footfall. Morrison. REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 HSBC ends Greek bailout sponsorship of key emerging hopes lift market indexes BEIJING: Banking giant HSBC has ended its five-year sponsorship of a closely watched Europe stocks series of business activity sur- veys, financial research group Markit, which compiles the data, said yesterday. Asian markets decline again The HSBC Markit Emerging Markets monthly purchasing LONDON: Eurozone stocks eve of a “decisive” meeting of managers’ indexes (PMI) are seen posted moderate gains yes- eurozone finance ministers aimed by economists as a key gauge of terday after creditors offered at finding a deal to end the crisis. manufacturing activity in China Greece an extension to its The plan would include an and other developing countries, bailout with an additional immediate disbursement of 1.8 with the results frequently shak- ¤12bn ($13.4bn) to keep it from billion euros to help Greece meet ing world stock markets. defaulting. a payment of ¤1.5bndue to the The companies’ China PMI in The CAC 40 in Paris climbed IMF on Tuesday. particular is scrutinised for clues 0.35 percent to 5,059.17 points and Without help, Greece will likely to the health of the world’s second Frankfurt’s DAX 30 added 0.17 default on that payment, setting biggest economy — despite often percent to 11,492.43 points. off a process that could end with contradicting the official gauge Milan rose 0.67 percent and a messy exit from the eurozone released by Beijing. Madrid gained 0.57 percent. and even the EU. “HSBC’s sponsorship of Meanwhile, Athens’ main index Tsipras did not directly reject Markit’s Emerging Market PMIs posted a strong 2.03 percent gain the offer but said: “Europe’s prin- A general view of Madrid’s stock exchange where the IBEX 35 broke the generalised downward trend of the has been a successful relationship to 797.52 points. ciples are not based on blackmail European markets to rise 0.02 percent and set at 11,300 basis proints in Madrid yesterday. over the past five years,” Teresa But outside the eurozone, and ultimatums.” Chick, a spokeswoman for Markit, London’s benchmark FTSE 100 In foreign exchange, the euro 100-year history of £5.74bn ($9.03 was preparing “3,000 ground crew having soared more than 140 per- said. index dropped 0.79 percent to slid to $1.1148 from $1.1206 late bn) in the year through February. departures and 300 among pilots”. cent in the previous 12 months. “The sponsorship arrangement 6,753.70 points. in New York on Thursday. Britain’s largest retailer is also Asian markets sank again yes- Hong Kong lost 1.78 percent, is now coming to an end and we “After a poor start, European Away from Greece, Britain’s facing a fraud probe after a huge terday as the Greek talks dragged Sydney shed 1.54 percent, and will announce replacement spon- markets gained yesterday despite biggest retailer, supermarket accounting scandal that saw it out, while Shanghai collapsed on Tokyo slid 0.31 percent. sors soon,” she said. no resolution to the crisis in group Tesco, shot to the top of overstate profits by £263m due to fears Chinese stocks are overval- Meanwhile, Seoul added 0.25 on HSBC was not immediately Greece with positive rhetoric London’s FTSE after it reported errors stretching back to before ued after a year-long advance. hopes that a new $14bn stimulus reachable for comment. from officials ... helping to abate improving numbers following a 2013. Shanghai plunged 8.5 percent package would help boost the sag- According to several finan- concerns,” said market analyst record annual loss. Meanwhile in Paris on Friday, at one point, its biggest loss in ging economy, which has been hit cial media outlets, Beijing had Jasper Lawler at CMC Markets “Although Tesco has seen shares in Air France-KLM edged eight years, as investors that had by the deadly MERS outbreak. become unhappy with the HSBC UK. (quarterly) sales drop by 1.3 per- up 0.03 percent to 6.48 euros flooded the market on margin US stocks traded mixed, with index, which frequently comes Greece’s international creditors cent this is better than expected after its Air France unit denied trading — borrowing cash to buy the Dow Jones Industrial Average in below the government fig- on Friday offered Athens a five- and an improvement on last year’s a report that it was preparing to stocks — ran for the door. rising 0.51 percent to 17,981.92 in ures, depicting a much gloom- month, 12-billion-euro extension fall of 4.0 percent,” noted Alastair lay off 3,300 employees as part Chinese equities, which more midday trading, getting a lift from ier situation than that posited of its bailout programme but said McCaig, market analyst at IG of continuing cost cutting at the than doubled in value in the year strong earnings at Nike. by China’s National Bureau of it must seal a deal this weekend to trading group. French flag carrier. to June 12, eventually closed down The broad-based S&P 500 Statistics. avoid an IMF default next week. Tesco, whose shares rallied 2.71 An email sent by the com- 7.40 percent, or 334.91 points, at added 0.12 percent to 2,104.90, Last month, the official Chinese Angela Merkel and Francois percent to 223.65 pence in Friday pany said Air France “formally 4,192.87, its lowest point since the while the tech-rich Nasdaq PMI suggested a significant Hollande discussed financing trading, is seeking to overhaul denies information published in start of May. Composite Index dropped 0.35 increase in manufacturing activ- plans with leftist Greek Prime its business after reporting the the press” yesterday, when the Le The benchmark index has percent to 5,094.08. ity in May, with its index at 50.2, Minister Alexis Tsipras on the biggest annual loss in its almost Monde daily reported the airline fallen almost a fifth in two weeks, AFP the highest level in six months, while the index calculated by Markit and published by HSBC showed a sharp contraction, at 49.2. In both indexes a reading above China developers aim small as high prices lift mini-flat demand 50 marks an expansion in activity, while a level below this threshold indicates a contraction. HONG KONG: Tiny is the new Vanke Co Ltd and Evergrande Shenzhen rose between 1.1 and 6.6 2,000 flats released in the project southern Guangdong industrial The difference may also big for Chinese property buyers Real Estate Group — China’s two percent on the previous month have received initial deposits, heartland, has seen the built-up be explained by the fact that who are snapping up smaller, biggest developers by sales — to after the central bank cut inter- Vanke added. The 13sqm flats, area of small flats surge four-fold Markit’s survey focuses on small more affordable apartments as develop some mini-flats, a sector est rates for the third time to which the company displayed on in the first five months of the and medium-sized enterprises, property prices in big, busy cit- that has so far been the domain revive a property sector key to a truck bed, even have a balcony year to 275,785 square meters particularly from the private sec- ies rise, fuelled by scarce land of provincial firms. the growth of the world’s second and cost 260,000 yuan ($41,878), from the same year-ago period, tor, while the government gauge and a surge in demand due to today, Vanke is due to launch largest economy. or about a fifth of the city’s 1.5 data from property researchers mainly covers large state-run lower borrowing costs. sales of a 13sqm flat, which prop- Vanke, which is launching the million yuan average home price. CRIC shows. groups. The studio flats commonplace erty agents say is China’s smallest. 13 sq m flat in Guangdong, said Wang Dong Chuan Mao, a While that is a fraction of the The move by HSBC to end the in New York, Paris or London — “These apartments are a it was targeting recent gradu- 24-year-old engineer who bought total area being built up in city, tie-up comes as the bank carries as well as in space-starved Asian solution to the high price hous- ates and young professionals who a 40sqm, one-bedroom flat in property agents say small flats are out a radical cost-cutting over- cities like Singapore, Hong Kong ing problem,” said Alan Cheng, would be shut out of the housing Guangzhou this year for about also attracting well-heeled buyers haul, saying earlier this month it and Tokyo — remain a novelty in a general manager for realtor market otherwise. 760,000 yuan, said the size, and seeking investment opportunities. plans to cut its global workforce China, where larger units are still Centaline in the southern city of “MiCool satisfies the hous- price, suited his needs. “More people are investing by up to 50,000 in an attempt to the most sought after. Shenzhen. “You don’t have enough ing needs of city youngsters and “I’m still young, I may go back in service apartments lately - a boost lacklustre growth. But as real estate prices con- cash, so you have to buy a smaller entrepreneurial youngsters,” the to grad school. If I went for a big studio, or a single room, and they The bank is also exiting Brazil tinue to rise in more developed living space.” company told Reuters about its apartment it’d be too much for me look for 6 to 8 percent returns,” and Turkey and considering relo- cities, demand for units smaller Last month, official data 5,000 unit project, which includes to pay the down payment as well said Centaline general manager cating its headquarters back to than 50 square metres (538 square showed home prices in Beijing, units as big as 38 sq m. as mortgage,” he said. Cheng. Asia from London. feet) is also rising, enticing China Shanghai, Guangzhou and Almost all the first batch of Guangzhou, capital of the REUTERS AFP

Gazprom may Ukraine, creditors exchange take part in Iran LNG blows ahead of debt talks

KIEV: A vicious fight broke Jaresko said the first two lines in a statement released to AFP. projects out in the open Friday between of the international rescue had “Since 9th May the Ministry of Ukraine’s cash-strapped gov- already been secured. Finance has been in possession of MOSCOW: Russia’s top natu- ernment and its foreign credi- The IMF has vowed to proceed a full, comprehensive restructur- ral gas producer, Gazprom, may tors over billions of dollars in with payments on its $17.5bn loan ing proposal that meets all IMF take part in liquefied natu- debt that are up for negotiation to Ukraine even if no immediate criteria and offers nearly $16bn of ral gas projects in Iran once next week. solution to the commercial debt relief for Ukraine.” sanctions against Tehran are Ukraine’s US-born finance debate is found. The sides’ failure to find a debt lifted, Gazprom’s deputy Chief minister accused the powerful Other “official lenders”— compromise carries unpredictable Executive Officer Alexander group of US investors of stone- Ukrainian allies stretching from consequences for Kiev’s Western- Medvedev said yesterday. walling excruciating talks aimed the European Union to Japan — backed leadership—already under “Gazprom does not rule out its at helping Kiev plug a yawning have also pledged to deliver $7.2bn pressure from Moscow and domestic participation in these projects budget hole and avoid slipping in new assistance by 2018. discontent with the lingering war. under certain conditions,” into technical default. Ukraine’s international com- The IMF promises to support Medvedev told reporters. “The The lenders shot back with a mercial creditors, “represented Ukraine as long as it remains sanctions should be lifted first.” quickly-drafted statement accus- by the Ad-hoc Committee, is the committed to an unpopular but Russia has stepped up efforts ing Ukraine’s portrayal of events only one of the three groups which much-delayed break with its com- to strengthen ties with Iran and as “inaccurate”. The exchange has so far refused to contribute to munist-era subsidies programme announced an oil-for-goods pro- set an ominous tone for IMF-led Ukraine’s recovery,”Jaresko said in and tradition of sweetheart business gramme in which the Islamic debt restructuring negotiations a statement. deals. Jaresko said she hoped to see Republic would export up to Ukrainian Finance Minister “For three months, despite the the Fund’s next payment of $1.7 bil- 500,000 barrels of oil per day to Natalie Jaresko has decided to urgency of our situation, they lion approved “in the coming weeks”. Russia in exchange for goods, skip — a surprise announcement have refused to engage in sub- Kiev’s international allies are including grain. made Thursday that further stantive negotiations on the terms pitching in as part of their own Iran and six countries, includ- dampened hopes of progress. of a debt operation meeting the effort to keep the strategic east ing Russia, reached an interim Franklin Templeton and three three targets established in the European nation from slipping agreement in early April and are other US financial titans own IMF programme.” back into its historic reliance working towards a final deal by about two-thirds of the debt upon The so-called Ad-hoc on Russia — an uneasy neigh- the end of this month that could which Ukraine is trying to find Committee of Noteholders to bour that denies involvement in see sanctions lifted. savings of $15.3bn (¤13.7bn) over Ukraine—owed $8.9 billion of the Ukraine’s separatist war. An abundance of conden- the coming four years. money under dispute—responded But a technical default sparked sate and natural gas liquids in That target is part of a $40bn within three hours of Jaresko’s by the lack of a commercial debt Iran make Iranian LNG export global package the International unusually blunt charge. compromise would make the projects potentially highly com- Monetary Fund patched up to “The Committee regards longer-term cost of borrowing petitive, even as supply swells due help the ex-Soviet nation weather Minister Jaresko’s comments even more expensive and push to US shale gas and big finds off an economic implosion that was that international creditors have back Ukraine’s prospects for a East Africa. A general of the headquarters of Gazprom during the annual meeting of only exasperated by the pro-Rus- ‘refused to contribute to Ukraine’ quick return to growth. REUTERS the company’s shareholders in Moscow yesterday. sian revolt in its industrial east. as inaccurate,” the US group said AFP SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

China’s latest financial How national culture reform changes nothing BY WILLIE PESEK determines work hours hen the Chinese government proposed this week to end its decades-long policy of capped bank lend- BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY The finding was unexpected much people work: Attitudes the number of hours worked in ing, there was good reason to be skeptical about its even to Prescott himself. “I am toward work and leisure. To Belgium would increase by 4 Wmotives. China had just had its biggest weekly stock hy do people surprised,” he wrote, “that vir- do so, they used an ingenious percent. plunge since 2008. The new policy -- which would scrap a rule in some coun- tually all the large differences device: a sample of 7,000 sec- “Leisure culture” has a limiting bank lending to 75 percent of deposits -- seemed like the tries work between the US labor supply and ond-generation immigrants liv- smaller effect than taxes on peo- government’s latest attempt to artificially sustain economic growth more hours? those of Germany and France ing and working in 26 European ple’s desire to work more than at 7 percent. The most are due to differences in tax countries. These people are in taxes, in part because the effect That suspicion may be entirely justified. But it’s too soon to Wcommon explanations have to systems. I expected institutional the same tax and regulatory varies significantly for men and know for sure. Removing restrictions on bank lending could also do with labor regulations and constraints on the operation of environments as native-born women, Mocan and Pogorelova turn out to be a big step by President Xi Jinping toward interna- taxes, but anyone who travels labor markets and the nature of workers, but they are likely to determined. Apparently, men tionalizing China’s financial system and putting it on more solid frequently will notice that work the unemployment benefit sys- be “infected” with their parents’ respond more strongly to finan- long-term footing. and leisure are valued differently tem to be of major importance.” attitudes toward work and lei- cial stimulus, while for women, But that will hinge on whether Xi has the courage to go one in different places. If this sounds Because of its simplic- sure, imported from their home the rest of their lives are no less step farther, by ditching the government-imposed ceiling on like prejudice, consider the find- ity, Prescott’s conclusion has countries. important. deposit interest. Such a shift, which China’s central bank calls ings of two US-based economists often been challenged. Olivier Mocan and Pogorelova relied Mocan and Pogorelova’s find- one of the “riskiest” the country must consider, would prove Xi in a new working paper for the Blanchard, the chief economist on the data from the World ings add a dimension to the way is willing to put market forces in control of the country’s National Bureau of Economic of the International Monetary Values Survey and the European policy makers should approach financial system. Research. Fund, wrote a paper in 2006 Values Study, which has asked growth. Giving people tax incen- In that paper, Naci Mocan showing that the tax theory people in many countries about tives to work more will probably HIGHER BORROWING COSTS and Luiza Pogorelova, both of didn’t always explain labor sup- these attitudes over the years, help, but only until these incen- Removing the cap on interest rates that lenders pay on Louisiana State University, show ply variations: There was too with questions such as: “Indicate tives run into cultural obstacles. deposits would show the Communist Party is prepared to tolerate that among European nations, a much complexity. how important leisure time is The number of hours worked the uncertain effects of an open competition for cash. While “culture of leisure” is an impor- Mocan and Pogorelova’s in your life,” “Do you agree with will stop growing at some point it would mark a vital step toward internationalizing the yuan, tant determinant of how much work focuses on the differences the statement: People who simply because people value it would also be a financial Pandora’s Box. The increase in people work. among European countries, won’t work turn lazy?”, “Do you their leisure too much. Then, the volatility in the banking system could mean higher borrowing In 2004, Edward Prescott, based on recent statistics from agree that work should always economy can only grow faster costs for companies, including the state enterprises that dominate who was awarded the Nobel the Organization for Economic come first even if it means less if the population increases, if China and enrich the Communist Party bigwigs looking over prize that year, showed that Cooperation and Development, spare time.” Comparing the dif- workers become more produc- Xi’s shoulder. the higher the effective mar- and they confirm the link ference in these attitudes and tive, or both. That’s why Xi’s party would probably prefer to put off reforming ginal tax rate on labor income between tax rates and work. the difference in hours worked In countries such as France, interest rates for a few more years. But in the absence of a such -- that is, the share of each next For example, Belgians, bur- between the second-generation Denmark, the Netherlands and a shift, Tuesday’s lending-cap proposal will only serve to gin up dollar earned that the govern- dened with a marginal tax rate immigrants and the native-born Belgium, where productivity stock prices -- at least until the stock bubble bursts. ment chooses to redistribute -- of 57 percent, worked an aver- workers, Mocan and Pogorelova is 93 percent to 96 percent of Yesterday’s 3.5 percent plunge in the Shanghai Composite the fewer hours people put in. age of 989 hours in 2012; the found a statistically valid rela- the US level and immigration suggests investors are beginning to sense China’s rally is Importantly, the tax rate in this Portuguese, with a 41 percent tionship between “leisure cul- is lower, economic growth is mostly driven by momentum, not corporate earnings. Xi’s team equation includes the employer’s tax rate, worked 1,237 hours. tures” and the hours people put naturally slower because of the hasn’t backed up the 124 percent surge in Shanghai shares over the part, and companies, too, are less The researchers, however, in at work. cultural constraint. That’s fine: past 12 months with structural changes to the Chinese economy. interested in getting more work managed to isolate something For example, if Belgians’ taste Going faster would hardly make Moves to rein in state-owned enterprises have been vague and out of people if they have to give else in the complex web of for leisure was brought down people happier. modest. The shadow-banking system Beijing pledged to curtail up more of the resulting income. motives that determines how to the level of the Portuguese, BLOOMBERG still churns out untold trillions of dollars of credit. Economic policy still favors smokestack industries that blacken China’s skies over services. China’s worsening debt profile makes the stock boom look even more ephemeral. For a sense of the scale of China’s debt problem, consider Bloomberg’s recent reporting on the northern port city of Tianjin. The city had planned to build its own Manhattan skyline dotted with ultra-modern skyscrapers, riverside parks and six-lane highways. Today, it looks more like the set of a post-apocalyptic zombie movie. Local-government debt alone now exceeds the $3.7tn of currency reserves Beijing has spent the last 15 years amassing. The Communist Party underwrote this mania by cutting the cost of opening trading accounts and creating new avenues for margin lending. It also mounted a huge PR offensive to cloak share ownership in patriotic terms.

STIMULUS GAINING TRACTION The good news is that Xi still has a window to get serious about putting China’s financial house in order. Two private- sec- tor gauges of economic activity -- HSBC’s purchasing managers’ index and a survey from advisory firm China Beige Book -- suggest the government’s stimulus efforts are gaining traction. Recent moves to ease monetary policy and bolster provincial finances have increased the odds economic growth will approach Beijing’s target for the year. Even property “has started to show signs of improvement after 11 consecutive months of price decline,” says Liu Li-Gang of Australia & New Zealand Bank. All this should give Xi breathing space to pursue more ambitious reforms, including on deposit interest. Still, as long as China’s stock gains are outpacing its fundamen- tals, there’s reason to fear a massive fallout. At the moment, there are two ways for financial turbulence in China -- whose $10 trillion economic output is now roughly double Japan’s and nearly eight times South Korea’s -- to reverberate around the globe: a debt crisis or plunging equities. Policy makers from Seoul to Brasilia can only hope both don’t crash at once. With his shift on bank lending policy, Xi may be signaling that he’s ready to create a more rational economic system. All the rest of us can do is hope the skeptics are wrong. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Big economic discovery! Booms may be cause of busts

BY NOAH SMITH technology. But this steady course model that they still mostly use Paul Beaudry and Franck other people invest affects the Maybe the old macroeconom- is disturbed by unpredictable today. But since the grand deba- Portier are two such research- amount I want to invest, but I ics, which critics had long said o economic booms cause events -- “shocks” -- that tem- cle of 2008 and 2009, there has ers. They are famous for a 2006 can only adjust my investment needed to be tossed out, really economic busts? porarily slow growth or speed it been a lot of pressure on macr- theory saying that news about slowly. When you have feedback was smashed by the crisis. If this To a lot of people, this up. The shocks might last for a oeconomic theorists, from both future changes in productivity effects like this, you’re going paper is any indication, it means Dseems like a silly ques- while, but a positive shock today within academia and without (but could be what cause recessions to get instability in your model macroeconomists are casting tion to even ask. Of course booms doesn’t mean a negative shock mostly from without), to discard and booms. That model never economy, and that’s exactly what around for big new ideas, which in cause busts, they say. Excessive tomorrow. Recessions and booms old ideas and try new ones. really caught on -- it always had the authors find -- the economy turn means that they have real- greed or optimism or easy credit are like rainy days and sunny days So a small handful of macr- some issues with the data, and it experiences booms and busts in ized that they don’t know what’s leads to overinvestment, soaring -- when you look back on them, oeconomists are turning back definitely didn’t seem to be able to a chaotic, unstable way. going on. asset prices and unsustainable it looks like they alternate, but to the old idea that booms cause explain the Great Recession. But To reproduce the randomness The second thing it shows borrowing binges. What goes up really they’re just random. busts, and vice versa. “About it inspired further research, and found in the real economy, is that if you add even a little must come down, and the surest Why did macroeconomists time,” you might say. But aca- it was an interesting and novel the authors simply add in bit of the right kind of feed- sign of a bust tomorrow is a boom arrive at this conclusion? First demic research paradigms idea. some random “shocks” to back into an economic system, today. of all, the most simple theory are very difficult ships to turn Now, Beaudry and Portier, along productivity. it becomes unstable. Heterodox So many people instinctively of booms and busts -- that the around, and researchers are often with co-author Dana Galizia, are Now, this exercise will be macroeconomists have long been believe this that it would aston- economy is like a wave, peaking less like captains and more like going after bigger fish. They want infuriating to some “heterodox” yelling that this is the case, but ish most people to learn that for and plunging at regular intervals prisoners chained below decks. to resurrect the idea that booms macroeconomists, who have been now some heavy hitters in the the last half-century, this hasn’t -- doesn’t hold up. The occur- Publish some pathbreaking cause recessions. conducting similar exercises in mainstream are finally starting been the way macroeconomists rence of booms and busts is highly theoretical idea, and you might In a new paper called obscurity for decades, largely to catch on to the idea as well. -- the type working as university irregular. Some people tried become a hero, but it’s even “Reviving the Limit Cycle View ignored by the mainstream of the Unfortunately, the fact that a lit- professors, anyway -- think about to compensate by making the more likely that you will just get of Macroeconomic Fluctuations,” profession. But it’s an interesting tle bit of feedback can totally send the business cycle. models very complex and chaotic, your paper rejected, especially if Beaudry and Portier try to think exercise nonetheless, for two main models off the rails doesn’t bode For the past half-century, the but the math got too hard, and there isn’t some extremely con- of reasons whybooms might cause reasons. well for our ability to understand academic macro story has gone in the end, chaotic systems usu- vincing empirical support. For the busts. The mechanism they come The first thing it shows is that recessions. It looks like macr- something like this: There is a ally just end up looking random most part, only the most famous up with is pretty simple. You academic macroeconomists are oeconomists are going to continue general trend of rising growth anyway. and well-established research- have a whole bunch of people -- starting to question their most to scratch their heads for years and prosperity in the US economy, At this point macroeconomists ers can get radical ideas taken basically, companies -- who invest basic, fundamental assumptions to come. caused by steady improvements in turned to the “trend-plus- shocks” seriously. in their businesses. The amount about how the economy works. BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 CLASSIFIEDS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

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[email protected] SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Dempsey gets two-year ban Confusion time in Zurich from Open Cup NEW YORK: Seattle Sounders Sepp Blatter adds to speculation that he may ‘stay on’ as FIFA boss striker Clint Dempsey has been banned from the US Open Cup for at least two years after an ZURICH: Sepp Blatter has conference. “I have not resigned, Blatter, who was re-elected in incident in which he was sent added to speculation he may try rather I am offering my mandate May, is under pressure to leave FIFA President off for ripping up a referee’s to stay on as head of world soc- at an extraordinary congress,” sooner rather than later as US Sepp Blatter notebook. cer’s governing body but a source Blatter was quoted as saying in and Swiss authorities investigate poses with a United States international said yesterday the 79-year old the article published yesterday. suspected bribery and corruption worker for a Dempsey has already been sus- still intends to stand down as A FIFA spokesman said by at FIFA. selfie during pended for three games by Major FIFA president. email: “We can confirm the quotes Blatter has not been charged an event for League Soccer (MLS) after the Blatter’s comments to Swiss in Blick are accurate. They are with any wrongdoing. workers building incident in which he was given a newspaper Blick -- in which in line with the speech of the Domenico Scala, the official the planned red card. he said he had not resigned -- President on June 2.” overseeing the choice of a new FIFA museum The United States Soccer seemed to be less final than on A former Blatter adviser had president, has said Blatter’s in Zurich on Federation said in a statement June 2 when he said he would step said previously that the long- departure is an “indispensable” Thursday. Blatter that Dempsey had been banned down as FIFA president and call serving FIFA president could part of planned reforms to soc- has told a Swiss for “a total of six US Open Cup a leadership election in the wake go back on his promise to stand cer’s governing body. newspaper he matches or the next two years of a corruption scandal. down from his role. Blatter spoke at an event for has not quit as of US Open Cup competition, However, a FIFA source close FIFA said at the time that workers building the planned whichever is greater. In addition, FIFA president, to the story said yesterday that Klaus Stoehlker, who advised FIFA museum in Zurich, Blick Dempsey has been fined an undis- leaving the door Blatter’s stance has not changed. Blatter during this year’s FIFA reported. closed amount.” “He is going,” the source said. election campaign, was no longer Also yesterday, one of seven open to stay The former Fulham and “He did not use the word resign working with Blatter. soccer officials arrested in Zurich on as head of Tottenham Hotspur forward has on June 2 but he did say he was Fuelling scepticism over last month on suspicion of rack- world soccer’s waived his right to appeal the laying down his mandate and that Blatter’s departure was his deci- eteering following a US extradi- governing body decision which related to the US is exactly what he intends to do.” sion to stand for re-election in tion request had a request for bail that is gripped Open Cup match between Seattle Blick said Blatter was speak- 2015 after pledging not to run rejected, with a Swiss court say- by a corruption and the Portland Timbers on June ing on Thursday in his first public again in the run-up to his 2011 ing he posed a “risk of flight”. scandal. 16. appearance since the June 2 news victory. REUTERS Dempsey lost his cool after the Sounders’ Michael Azira was Bayern to begin sent off, leaving Seattle with eight players. title defence at He took referee Daniel Japan face Aussies, Canada Radford’s notebook and threw it home to Hamburg to the ground, earning a yellow card for dissent. BERLIN: German champions Dempsey then tore up the Bayern Munich will begin their notbeook, drawing a straight red meet England at World Cup defence of the Bundesliga title card for abuse. at home to Hamburg on Friday, Since MLS clubs enter the US VA NCOU V ER: The Women’s August 14, after the fixtures Open Cup in the later rounds, World Cup heats up this week- for the 2015/16 season were Dempsey could miss more than end with Australia challeng- announced. two years of the competition. ing holders Japan and hosts Pep Guardiola’s side won 8-0 “Due to the suspension, Canada up against England in in last season’s corresponding Dempsey cannot play in any US the quarter-finals. fixture against Hamburg, who Open Cup matches in 2016 or The rerun of last year’s needed to beat Karlsruhe in a 2017, and possibly longer depend- Asian Cup final at Edmonton’s play-off to avoid being relegated ing on the number of tournament Commonwealth Stadium will see from the Bundesliga for the first games in which Dempsey’s team temperatures of 31 degrees cel- time. participates in those years,” said sius, with the heat at ground level Before the opening league the statement. set to swell closer to 50 degrees game, Bayern will face Cup win- The Sounders have appeared in celsius due to the synthetic play- ners Wolfsburg in the Super Cup five of the last six US Open Cup ing surface. on August 1. REUTERS finals, winning four. REUTERS Canada will then go head-to- head with England in Vancouver’s BC Stadium later today, where west coast temperatures are also UAE rubber-stamped as soaring. But Australia coach Alen France’s players walk at Mount Royal Park before the quarter-final match against Germany at the 2015 FIFA Asian Cup hosts Stajcic believes his young side, ranked 10th, can cool the spirits Women’s World Cup at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) were of fourth-ranked Japan, a team rubber-stamped as hosts for the expanded Asian Cup in 2019 the Matildas have played often. won all their games so far -- an just have to play a little smart.” within out grasp. We just have to after signing an official agreement with the Asian Football “We played Japan twice in the unmatched feat for the remain- Sinclair scored three goals on reach up there.” Confederation (AFC). Asian Cup and we fought back ing teams. Canada’s way to their best World “This game now feels like the The UAE previously held the event in 1996 but they will be the to 2-2 in the first game,” he said. “We’re used to playing Cup finish of fourth place in pressure is off. It just feels differ- first to host 24 teams, up from the 16 who competed in Australia “They played us in the final and Australia,” said Sasaki. “But 2003, which was her first major ent. We were expected to win the in January. they managed to beat us 1-0 on a Australia now is a completely dif- tournament. other games. England are a very The change was made “in order to give teams from AFC’s Member set piece. ferent team, they have improved a “I was a kid and thought it good team but our team is a very Associations more international exposure and matches, and to help “We’ve got a big assignment lot and are technically superior.” was easy to make the semi-final. good team as well.” them develop football in their country”, an AFC statement said on our hands. We’re up against Olympic bronze medallists’ Now I know it’s not easy,” said the England’s Fara Williams said yesterday. a very good team, but we’ve been Canada, ranked eighth, face sixth- 32-year-old. they would be counting on team The desert state was unveiled in March as the next destination very dangerous as well in this ranked England, which beat them Canada’s English coach, John spirit to pull them through for the Asian Cup, and is now confirmed after Thursday’s signing tournament and there’s no reason 1-0 in this year’s Cyprus Cup final Herdman, said that competing after achieving their first win of an Organising Association Agreement. why we can’t be dangerous again but who lost to the hosts in a pre- in the World Cup particularly at in a World Cup knockout round Oil-rich UAE has a tough act to follow after this year’s tournament against Japan. tournament friendly. home was a “once in a lifetime against 1995 champions Norway. in Australia set new attendance records and was widely viewed on “We’ve evolved greatly on and “It’s going to be a good game. opportunity”. “Whoever is on the pitch, eve- TV and social media. off the field. We’ll be a new propo- Every time we play them it’s “You’re not meant to have fun. ryone on the bench is right behind The UAE were one of the most exciting teams in the competition sition for Japan. It’s going to be close,” said Canada captain If you climb Everest it’s not fun, us. It’s such a nice thing to have and they finished third after wins against holders Japan and 2007 hot, 31 predicted, which will be a Christine Sinclair, who has to be you have a lack of oxygen, it’s all 23 people together and behind champions Iraq. The 2019 edition will take place just three years challenge for both teams. careful not to pick up a second tough, but when you look back each other,” said the 144-times before Gulf neighbours Qatar are due to host the World Cup in 2022. “I’m confident we can beat them yellow card, which would ban her you can see what you did for your capped midfielder. It will be the first time that a FIFA World Cup is going to be held but it’s going to be an extremely from Canada’s next match. country. “It just shows what great shape in the Middle East. The 2011 edition of the Asian Cup was held in tough match.” “I don’t consider myself as “It’s almost like we can see we’re in. The spirit is fantastic.” Qatar. REUTERS Norio Sasaki’s Japan have a dirty or physical player. You the summit,” he continued. “It’s REUTERS Funding for women’s soccer closely monitored: FIFA

VA NCOU V ER: Funds allocated to the strict guidelines on where money from percent is allocated before we give them only committing 15 percent to women’s have obviously increased that. “We see development of women’s soccer will be a Financial Assistance Program (FAP) more funding from the women’s Football programs. “The number (15 percent) that member associations are investing closely monitored with random audits would go and how it would be spent. Development Program. is an encouragement, it is just a mini- more-and-more of that financial assist- to ensure the money is going where it “The Financial Assistance Program is “For every member association it is mum percent,” she said, adding that 177 ance into women’s football.” should, world soccer’s governing body very well monitored, every year before compulsory they do an audit. countries invest over $38 million in the She also pointed to a growing number FIFA said yesterday. the funds are released the member asso- “Also FIFA does a random audit on a women’s game annually. of specific programmes for women, with With FIFA engulfed in corruption, ciations have to submit the project where number of countries to be sure the fund- “It started in 2004 at five percent ...and FIFA unveiling a leadership course dur- bribery and money laundering scandals, they want to spend this funding,” said ing goes to the right place.” it was a message from FIFA that funds ing the ongoing women’s World Cup in Mayrilian Cruz-Blanco, FIFA’s senior Cruz-Blanco. “A minimum 15 percent FIFA invests about $900m a year in had to be invested into women and girls. Canada, while a three-day symposium women’s football development man- they must be able to allocate (to women’s soccer projects around the world, though “At the time there was not so much will be held in Vancouver ahead of the ager, told a news conference there were soccer projects) ... and we check that 15 Cruz-Blanco defended the practice of interest but interest has grown and we July 5 final. REUTERS Maradona’s father, ‘Don Diego’, dies West Ham complete signing BUENOS AIRES: Diego Maradona’s father “Don Diego” of Marseille star Payet passed away on Thursday, local media reported, with the 87-year-old failing to recover LONDON: West Ham United “West Ham really showed that goals for Marseille last season and from long-standing coronary have completed the signing of they wanted me to come. That’s was the leading assist-provider in and respiratory difficulties. France international playmaker very important for me,” Payet told Ligue 1 with 16. Argentina World Cup winner Dimitri Payet from Marseille West Ham’s official website. Payet becomes West Ham’s Diego Maradona had been at his on a five-year contract, the “I was also keen to sign up to a third close-season signing fol- father’s side in a Buenos Aires Premier League club announced clear project. West Ham’s is very lowing the captures of Spanish hospital since flying in from his yesterday. interesting and matches perfectly midfielder Pedro Obiang from Dubai home on June 2. The East London outfit said with my ambitions.” Sampdoria and Ireland goal- “Don Diego”, a popular figure they had paid “an undisclosed The 28-year-old from the keeper Darren Randolph from throughout Argentina, had been eight-figure fee” for Payet, but Indian Ocean island of Reunion Birmingham City. admitted to the private clinic in reports in France have said that won his 15th cap for France in The Hammers have also the country’s capital for the third Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona speaks to journalists during Marseille accepted an offer of 15m a friendly in Albania earlier this appointed a new manager in the time in the last year. the funeral of his father Diego Maradona at a cemetery in Buenos Aires, euros (£10.6m, $16.8m). month. shape of Croatian Slaven Bilic, Maradona’s mother “Tota” yesterday. Diego died on Thursday at a hospital in Buenos Aires. Payet’s contract comes with the Formerly with Nantes, Saint- who replaces Sam Allardyce. passed away in 2011. REUTERS option of a further, sixth year. Etienne and Lille, he scored seven REUTERS SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Bhamara becomes first India-born NBA player NEW YORK: Teen big man Bhamara, a 7-foot-2 (2.18m) big and could become only the third was Serbian Nikola Milutinov, Karl-Anthony Towns was man, became the first player in Latvian to play in the NBA. a center for Partizan Belgrade chosen by the Minnesota a decade taken after not playing Since Yao was taken first over- selected 26th overall by San Timberwolves with the first pick for a US college or overseas pro all by Houston in 2002, there have Antonio. in Thursday’s NBA Draft, while team, instead playing for the IMG been 19 international players Minnesota opened the second Satnam Singh Bhamara made Academy squad. taken with lottery-decided picks round by picking Macedonian history as the first India-born Likely bound for a develop- and none have become all-stars. forward Cedi Osman, who played selection. mental team to hone his skills, Orlando selected fifth and the in Turkey last season, while Towns averaged 10.3 points, he follows in the footsteps of Magic took Croatian swingman Philadelphia selected Spanish 6.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocked Canadian-born Sim Bhullar, who Mario Hezonja, who played last big man Guillermo Hernangomez, shots a game last season for a became the NBA’s first player of season at Barcelona, making him who played for Sevilla, four picks University of Kentucky squad Indian descent after playing for the highest-ever pick from his later at 35th. that went unbeaten until losing the Sacramento Kings last April. homeland. Argentina forward Juan to Wisconsin in the national col- Bhamara could open the door Another Kentucky big man, Vaulet was taken 39th overall by lege tournament semi-finals. to the NBA into cricket-loving center Willie Cauley-Stein, was Charlotte while Lithuanian center “This is what you live for,” India much the way Yao Ming did taken sixth by Sacramento. He Arturas Gudaitis was taken 47th Towns said. “I’m going to go in for the league in China. was among a record 13 US college overall by Philadelphia. right away and be as versatile as I “I think I can open the door freshmen taken in the first round. Shooting guard Marcus can be. I’m coming with a winning for everyone to come here and Emmanuel Mudiay, a point Eriksson was taken 50th overall attitude. I’m not coming to look play so it’s good for India and all guard from the Democratic by Atlanta while Spanish forward for individual success. I’m coming the players, it is good for me and Republic of the Congo, who played Daniel Diaz was chosen four picks to look for team success.” my country,” Bhamara told the for China’s Guangdong Southern later by the Utah Jazz. The Timberwolves, who won Washington Post after a workout Tigers last year, went seventh to Haitian-born center Cady last month’s NBA Draft Lottery with the Washington Wizards the Denver Nuggets. Lalanne, who grew up in Orlando, to claim the top overall pick, have earlier this year. Satnam Singh Bhamara at a press conference following his selection Mudiay, who came to the was taken 55th by San Antonio not reached the play-offs since The Los Angeles Lakers landed by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2015 NBA Draft. Singh created history United States in 2001 at age five, while Serbian guard Nikola 2004. Ohio State guard D’Angelo Russell by becoming the first Indian-born player to be drafted into the NBA, on averaged 18.0 points, 6.3 rebounds, Radicevic went 57th to Denver. Bhamara, a 19-year-old center with the second pick while center Thursday. 5.0 assists and 1.6 steals for the Greek 20-year-old for- from a small Punjab village, Jahlil Okafor was taken third by Tigers last season. ward Dimitrios Agravanis of went 52nd overall to the Dallas the Philadelphia 76ers. “I’m just going to be myself, Olympiakos went to Atlanta with Mavericks, the same NBA club “It’s a surreal moment,” Russell Sevilla last season, was selected announced after already enduring show what I’m about, my com- the 59th pick while Philadelphia that in 2001 made Wang Zhizhi said. fourth overall by the New York a 17-65 season. Porzingis became petitive spirit,” Mudiay said. selected Serbian forward Luka the first Chinese player in an Latvian power forward Knicks, whose host-city fans only the second player from his The only other international Mitrovic with the 60th and final NBA game. Kristaps Porzingis, who played for booed loudly when the choice was homeland to be taken in the draft player taken in the first round selection. AFP

Astros blank In-form Rossi claims pole NY Yankees, Cardinals pip in record time at Dutch GP Marlins NEW YORK: Left-hander Dallas Keuchel pitched his Italian outpaces Espargaro and Marquez; Zarco grabs Moto2 pole second shutout of the season and third of his career, toss- ing a six-hitter in the Houston ASSEN, Netherlands: World Astros’ 4-0 win over the New championship leader Valentino York Yankees. Rossi will start on pole position Keuchel (9-3) struck out a at today’s Dutch MotoGP in career-high 12 and walked one. Assen after recording the fast- He retired 15 consecutive batters est time in qualifying yesterday. before Yankees (39-34) designated The Italian, on a Yamaha, edged hitter Alex Rodriguez singled out Spanish duo Aleix Espargaro with two outs in the ninth. (Suzuki) and Marc Marquez Cardinals 5, Marlins 1 (Honda). The St. Louis Cardinals com- Jorge Lorenzo, who has won the pleted their first road sweep of last four races and trails Rossi by the season, defeating the Miami a single point in the overall stand- Marlins 5-1. ings, could only manage eighth on Right-hander Lance Lynn the grid. (5-4) came off the disabled list Rossi is bidding this weekend to and got the win after six shutout win at Assen for the seventh time innings for the Cardinals (48-24), and break the tie for six victories who have the best record in MLB. he currently holds with legen- Miami (30-44) fell a season-low dary Italian compatriot Giacomo 14 games below .500. Agostini. Giants 13, Padres 8 He had earlier been the fastest First baseman Brandon Belt in practice, beating the lap record lashed two of the San Francisco set by Dani Pedrosa a day earlier Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy steers his bike during Giants’ four triples, highlighting on Thursday. the last qualifying session at the TT Assen Grand Prix at Assen, the a 19-hit attack that produced a “Assen is always special for me, Netherlands yesterday. 13-8 victory over the San Diego because I have great memories Padres. here,” said Rossi after his fine Right-hander Chris Heston run. pitched seven innings for his “I have won here in the past Dutch Grand Prix Grids eighth win, the most among and a lot of important races in my ASSEN, Netherlands: Grids for today’s Dutch Motorcycling National League rookies, helping career took place at this circuit,” Grand Prix after yesterday’s qualifying at Assen: the Giants (40-34) stay a game he added. MotoGP behind the Dodgers in the NL “I love this track, because it’s West. 1. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 1min 32.627sec (lap record) 2. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Suzuki) fantastic. There’s already a lot of Nationals 7, Braves 0 at 0.231sec, 3. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 0.259, 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.360, 5. Pol crowd assembled here and this is Ian Desmond hit a two-run Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha Tech3) 0.386, 6. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 0.389, 7. Cal Crutchlow a good moment, because it gives homer and starter Doug Fister (GBR/Honda LCR) 0.401, 8. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 0.415, 9. Maverick Vinales (ESP/ you a special feeling when you threw seven shutout innings as Suzuki) 0.449, 10. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 0.485, 11. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/Ducati Pramac) get the pole position, especially the Washington Nationals rolled 0.499, 12. Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha Tech3) 0.609. for me, because it doesn’t happen to their sixth straight victory, a that often. Moto2 7-0 rout of Atlanta. “Getting pole position is vital. 1. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 1min 36.346sec (lap record), 2. Tito Rabat (ESP/Kalex) at 0.287sec, The Nationals (40-33) com- Today’s result is important 3. Sam Lowes (GBR/Speed Up) 0.532, 4. Simone Corsi (ITA/Kalex) 1.047, 5. Jonas Folger (GER/ Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi of Italy celebrates pole position pleted a three-game sweep of Kalex) 1.088, 6. Xavier Simeon (BEL/Kalex) 1.163, 7. Alex Rins (ESP/Honda) 1.197, 8. Thomas because I wanted to start more following the qualifying session at the TT Assen Grand Prix at Assen, the Braves (35-38) and have won Luthi (SUI/Kalex) 1.239, 9. Lorenzo Baldassarri (ITA/Kalex) 1.245, 10. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/ in front, because we always strug- Netherlands, yesterday. eight straight against them. gle a lot when qualifying on the Kalex) 1.252, 11. Axel Pons (ESP/Kalex) 1.258, 12. Julian Simon (ESP/Speed Up) 1.286. Dodgers 4, Cubs 0 second and third row,” said the The Los Angeles Dodgers Italian rider. struck early with four runs in the Lorenzo refused to rule himself first two innings and five pitchers out of contention for a fifth suc- combined for a shutout in a vic- cessive win despite having to start QMMF’s Simon excels at Assen tory 4-0 over the Chicago Cubs. from eighth spot. White Sox 8, Tigers 7 “The challenge for tomorrow ASSEN: Despite being held up do a good job in the race,” added Carlos Sanchez rifled Joba is to make a good start,” said the with a technical problem at the Simon. Chamberlain’s hanging slider into Spaniard. beginning of the session, the Meanwhile, his team-mate the right-field corner for a three- “The race is very long so the QMMF Racing Team’s rider Anthony West also improved his run triple with two outs in the most important thing is that Julian Simon finished qualify- lap time and rode faster around 10th inning to give the Chicago there won’t be any rain and I ing for the Dutch MotoGP on a the sweeping 4.5 kilometer-circuit White Sox an 8-7 victory over the think that with some patience we high note, grabbing 12th place than ever before in his career, but Detroit Tigers. AGENCIES can little by little make our way and a fourth row position on the still had to settle for 23rd on the to the top.” Moto2 grid. grid. In the Moto2 category, world As his fastest lap was spoiled It is the same position he had Baseball Results championship leader Johann by traffic, the real pace of the last year before battling his way Chicago White Sox 8 Detroit 7 Zarco of France will start from 28-year-old Spaniard is even bet- to an incredible victory in the Baltimore 8 Boston 6 pole ahead of Spain’s Esteve ter again, which boosts Simon’s rain. Oakland 6 Texas 3 Rabat and Britain’s Sam Lowes confidence about his chances to The 33-year-old Australian after beating the lap record set achieve a good result in the race. now hopes for another miracle NY Mets 2 Milwaukee 0 by Marc Marquez in 2012. “Unfortunately, I had some result regardless of the weather LA Dodgers 4 Chicago Cubs 0 Simone Corse and Jonas Folger traffic in the last corner during conditions. QMMF’s Racing Team’s Julian Simon (left) speaks with his team members Colorado 6 Arizona 4 claimed the following positions. my fastest lap, otherwise I could “The bike felt a lot better than during qualifying at the Dutch Grand Prix at Assen on Thursday. San Francisco 13 San Diego 8 In Moto3, Enea Bastianini of have been higher up,” said the yesterday. I have more confidence Washington 7 Atlanta 0 Italy, secured pole on a Honda fol- rider. in the front under braking and I Cincinnati 5 Pittsburgh 4 lowed by Spain’s Jorge Navarro “But even from the fourth can push now, which resulted in a “Obviously, it’s still not enough to and consistency goes, it’s feeling St Louis 5 Miami 1 and Karel Hanika ended on third row on the grid, I believe in my lap time that is a lot better than be closer to the top in qualifying, quite solid and quite strong,” he position. AFP chances and I think it’s possible to what I did here last year,” he said. but as far as feeling for the bike added. 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Roger Federer of Switzerland attends a training session for the All England Recharged Djokovic Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, set for test on grass yesterday. . Defending champion favourite for title at Wimbledon

LONDON: Defending cham- triumph. “He has put himself back pion Novak Djokovic’s prepara- in the mix,” triple Wimbledon tions for Wimbledon have been champion John McEnroe said of laid back in the extreme. the Scot’s resurgence after a lack- The world number one has not lustre 2014. played a competitive match since a “I think overall he is 10 to 15 gut-wrenching defeat by Stanislas percent better and that is a sig- Wawrinka in the French Open nificant amount at his level.” final at the start of the month, Twice champion Nadal will opting out of the Wimbledon war- arrive under the radar. mup events in what has been an Seeded 10th after a mediocre extended grasscourt swing. year, dethroned French Open king Djokovic even posted a pho- Nadal won his first grasscourt tograph of himself apparently title for five years in Stuttgart asleep on one of the All England a few days later and then lost to Club lawns this week but do not Alexandr Dolgopolov at Queen’s be deceived. Once the Serb walks but no one will want to face him. on to Centre Court on Monday “I think in certain ways it’s to begin his quest for a third not about the shots, it’s more Wimbledon title he will flick the about what’s inside his head, how switch and the warrior instincts healthy he is,” said McEnroe. are sure to return. Last year’s tournament saw Djokovic made it a mission this Grigor Dimitrov oust defending year to complete his career grand Spain’s Rafael Nadal poses for a picture with a spectator at Stoke Park, champion Murray, Australian slam at Roland Garros and after Buckinghamshire yesterday. trailblazer Nick Kyrgios ham- back-to-back wins against Rafa mered Nadal and Milos Raonic Nadal and Andy Murray in the fell to Federer in the semi-finals quarter-finals and semi-finals his needed some time away to rest eighth Wimbledon crown to move and that trio will return with high moment seemed to have arrived. and relax and get his head right,” past American Pete Sampras in expectations. An inspired Wawrinka said Wimbledon third seed Andy the all-time list. The unpredictable Kyrgios, 20, slammed the door shut though. Murray. ‘Murray Mania’ will pump up has the ‘wow’ factor to shake up It was a heartbreaking defeat Djokovic’s most likely title to full volume over the next couple the establishment, according to for Djokovic but a fortnight in the rivals, Murray and 17-times of weeks with the in-form Briton fellow Aussie Darren Cahill who English country garden setting of Grand Slam champion Roger being tipped to win his first slam once coached former champion the All England Club, with some Federer, have been busy sharp- since beating Djokovic on Centre Lleyton Hewitt. expected warm weather too, will ening their grasscourt tools. Court in 2013. “There are going to be highs provide the perfect antedote for Murray breezed to a fourth He has lost eight in a row to and lows with Nick because he’s any lingering disappointment. Queen’s Club title while Federer’s Djokovic since then and such so young and goes for broke but “He was very close to achiev- eighth Halle crown in Germany is Djokovic’s reliability that it he clearly likes the biggest stages ing something that very few backed up the belief that, even at is likely Murray will have to and that makes him dangerous,” players have done ... he probably 33, the second seed could win an solve that conundrum if he is to said Cahill. REUTERS Williams must avoid drama to complete Serena Slam

LONDON: Twelve months on needs to avoid the kind of drama drama, like at the French Open,” in the list of all-time slam win- from making the most bizarre witnessed in her last appearance Evert told a teleconference organ- ners, Williams knows that she has of exits from Wimbledon, drama at Wimbledon or even at the ised by ESPN. only limited time left to climb on queen Serena Williams will be French Open this month. “She can’t afford to have any top of that list. back at the All England Club Twelve months ago a dizzy and more drama like at the French “She’s chasing history in terms next week eager to complete the disorientated Williams cut a sorry Open. of her Grand Slam titles. She’s Denmark’s “Serena Slam”. figure as she walked off the hal- “It wouldn’t surprise me if she going for a Grand Slam, which Caroline As the holder of the US, lowed turf in tears after serving won. At the same time it wouldn’t is obviously so rare,” said John Wozniacki Australian and French Open a whole game of double faults in surprise me either if she had a McEnroe. during titles, the American is seven wins a doubles match. bad loss.” “That should be significant a press away from holding all four majors It was a case of deju vu at this Two of those bad losses came motivation.” conference at the same time -- a feat she last year’s French Open when a clearly at Wimbledon over the past two With so much focus on after she achieved as a 21-year-old. out-of-sorts Williams again years -- to Sabine Lisicki in the Williams, it is easy to forget retired from A dozen years later, the struggled to stay on her feet dur- fourth round in 2013 and Alize that 127 of the world’s fittest her semi- 33-year-old is ready and primed ing her semi-final against Timea Cornet in the third round 12 women athletes will be out to try final match to trample over anyone who dares Bacsinszky. months later. and steal the spotlight from the to stand in the way of another While her desire to win at all “At Wimbledon the monkey is American. at Aegon clean sweep. costs allowed the American to on my back because I have not Chief among them will be International, “I would never have expected keep alive her dreams of complet- done well there in a couple of holder Petra Kvitova and five- Devonshire at this time in my career to win ing a non-calendar Grand Slam, years. Considering how well I have times Grand Slam champion Park, three grand slams in a row. This tennis great Chris Evert believes done there for so many years, I Maria Sharapova. Eastbourne. for me is unbelievable,” the world Williams cannot afford such slips- now consistently do terrible there With all of the main contenders number one said after winning ups at Wimbledon, where the so that is the one I really want opting not to play competitively her 20th major at Roland Garros. slick surface can be unforgiving. to do well in,” said Williams, during the extended three- “I’m really excited ... I’ve got “When she is at her best she is who captured the last of her five week build-up to the grasscourt a Serena Slam and I’m close to better than anybody else. But at Wimbledon titles in 2012. major, it will be battle on when another.” the same time we’ve seen some With only Steffi Graf (22) and Wimbledon swings open its gates To achieve that, however, she hiccups and we’ve seen some Margaret Court (24) ahead of her on Monday. REUTERS Eastbourne International Wozniacki’s back issues WTA Results

EASTBOURNE, United send Bencic to the final Kingdom: Results from the sixth day of the Eastbourne EASTBOURNE, UNITED problem she suffered during a fall way I wanted to and felt pain. I International WTA grass- KINGDOM: Double junior on court the day before. felt really bad for the crowd and court tournament yesterday Grand Slam winner Belinda “This is definitely not the way everyone who had come out, but (x denotes seeding): Bencic will be aiming for the I wanted to win, of course.” said there’s nothing really I could do Britain’s Andy first WTA title of her career the 2013 Roland Garros and about it. Murray plays Semi-finals: Agnieszka after injured opponent Caroline Wimbledon junior champion. “It’s all about for me now just a shot during Radwanska (POL x9) bt Wozniacki quit their semi- “I’m also a little bit disap- to look ahead for Wimbledon and a practice Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-1, final after 13 minutes at the pointed we couldn’t play a proper just get as much treatment as 6-7 (3/7), 6-2; Belinda Bencic session Eastbourne International semi-final. possible and be ready for my first (SUI) bt Caroline Wozniacki ahead of the yesterday. “I didn’t know anything (about round there. (DEN x2) 3-0 – retired. Wimbledon The second seed and former Wozniacki’s problem) before the “I’m definitely planning on Championships number one withdrew trailing match. Of course I also fell down playing Wimbledon.” at the All 3-0 with back pains as a precau- a little bit yesterday, so I was Radwanska survived multiple Nottingham ATP England Tennis tion, with Wimbledon starting on more thinking of myself in that momentum shifts in the wind Club, in south- Monday. moment, so I didn’t notice any- against Stephens. But the Pole Results west London, Wozniacki called for the trainer thing she had. proved to be the more durable. yesterday. after the third game and follow- “My fall was a little painful in “I’m very happy to be in this NOTTINGHAM, United ing consultations with the tourna- the beginning, but I think it’s just final again,” said the 26-year-old. Kingdom: Results from the ment doctor, decided to pull out. a muscle a little bit stretched, but “It’s been a long time. sixth day of the Nottingham Switzerland’s Bencic, ranked I think it’s a normal thing with “Today it was so tough with the ATP grasscourt tourna- 31st in the world, will face tennis player. wind. it’s the worst thing for play- ment yesterday (x denotes off today against Agnieszka “I’m fine, I have a taping just ers. It was a struggle form start seeding): Radwanska, who reached the for prevention.” to finish.” final for the first time since 2008 Wozniacki is hoping to be ready Radwanska made a stand Semi-finals: Denis Istomin with a defeat of Sloane Stephens for Wimbledon after her decision early in the match as she denied (UZB) bt Marcos Baghdatis 6-1, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2 in a windswept to quit the semi-final so as not to Stephens on ten break points in (CYP) 1-2 - retired; Sam showdown. do any more damage to her back. two service games before finally Querrey (USA x12) bt Bencic was surprised at the “I’ve had a slight back problem gaining control of the opening set. Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr sudden turn of events, with the the whole week, basically. Radwanska will be seeking (UKR) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. 18-year-old saying she was more “Today it stiffened up more, her first title since Canada last concerned about a minor knee and I felt like I couldn’t move the August. REUTERS Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

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Leg-spinner bags five wickets, hosts build 166-run lead Australia’s Mitchell Johnson COLOMBO: Leg-spinner the first day but did not take the Yasir Shah claimed five for 95 field yesterday, leaving Pakistan celebrates as Pakistan halted Sri Lanka’s one strike bowler short. after taking march towards a big first Yasir, whose seven-wicket haul the wicket of innings lead in the second Test in Sri Lanka’s second innings Kent’s Ben at the P Sara Oval in Colombo fashioned Pakistan’s 10-wicket Harmison on yesterday. victory in the first Test in Galle, second day Shah made up for the absence once again tormented the rival of their four- of injured pace spearhead Wahab batsmen. day practice Riaz to keep Sri Lanka down to He had Lahiru Thirimanne match ahead 304-9 by stumps on the second caught at short-leg by Azhar Ali of Ashes in day in reply to the tourists’ mod- for seven before lunch, and then Canterbury. est 138. bowled both Dinesh Chandimal Opener Kaushal Silva top- (one) and Kithuruwan Vithanage scored with 80 and skipper Angelo (three) in the afternoon session. Mathews made 77, but Sri Lanka Yasir’s dismissal of Mathews lost six wickets for 112 runs after gave the leg-spinner his 50th at one stage being 191-3. wicket in only nine Tests, making Rangana Herath (10) and last him the fastest among Pakistani man Dushmantha Chameera (0) bowlers to reach the mark. will resume on the third day with Yasir said he derived his confi- their team leading by 166 runs dence from an encouraging tweet on a pitch that is giving spinners by Australian leg-spin legend plenty of bounce and turn. Shane Warne, whom he regards Pakistan missed Wahab, who as his idol. has been ruled out for the rest of Warne had tweeted last year the series with a hairline fracture after watching Shah bowl on tel- in his left hand that he received evision: “I like the look of this leg- while batting on Thursday. gie Yasir Shah, plenty of energy Johnson strikes early on Wahab bowled nine overs on and nice variations of pace.” “His words actually put me Scoreboard under pressure to live up to his appreciation and it has been good Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah appeals during the second day of the Australia’s Ashes tour so far,” the 29-year-old Yasir said. PAKISTAN (I INNINGS): ...... 138 second Test against Sri Lanka at the P Sara Oval Cricket Stadium in “The focus remains on bowling CANTERBURY, UK: Test batsman, with an average of SRI LANKA (I INNINGS): Colombo yesterday. a good line and length and control Mitchell Johnson gave England over 56. Australia, who had been D Karunaratne c Sarfraz b Junaid ...... 28 my variations. One needs to be a reminder of what they can sent into bat, resumed on 348 K Silva (run out) ...... 80 patient in Test cricket and that score to 191-3 when three wickets Pakistan and one against India expect in the upcoming Ashes for three after openers Mitchell K Sangakkara c Shafiq b Babar ...... 34 is what I am trying to do.” crashed in the space of 11 runs to in August. series by taking a wicket Marsh (114) and Chris Rogers L Thirimanne c Azhar b Yasir ...... 7 Yasir said losing the services open up the tail. Silva was run Sri Lanka were tottering at with just his sixth ball during (84), vying for a place alongside A Mathews lbw Yasir ...... 77 of Wahab hurt his team, but he out when he drove Zulfiqar Babar 202-6 when tailender Dhammika Australia’s tour opener against the rested David Warner come D Chandimal b Yasir ...... 1 remained confident that the Test to mid-on and charged down the Prasad helped Mathews add 73 Kent in Canterbury yesterday. the first Test against England in K Vithanage b Yasir ...... 3 was not out of Pakistan’s reach. wicket for a sharp single, only for runs for the seventh wicket to Left-arm fast bowler Johnson Cardiff on July 8, as well as cap- D Prasad lbw Hafeez ...... 35 “We are a bowler short because Mathews to send him back. boost the total. was one of England’s chief tor- tain Michael Clarke (56) had all R Herath (batting)...... 10 of the injury and the need is to Kumar Sangakkara, who Both batsmen were dismissed mentors with 37 wickets at under spent time in the middle. T Kaushal c Misbah b Yasir ...... 18 contain Sri Lanka’s lead,” he said. resumed on 18 at the team’s over- in successive overs as Prasad was 14 apiece as Australia completed Smith was 71 not out and fel- D Chameera (batting) ...... 0 “The pitch is still playing well, but night score of 70-1, made 34 when trapped leg-before by Mohammad a 5-0 home Ashes whitewash in low all-rounder Shane Watson Extras (B-6, LB-3, NB-1, W-1) ...... 11 it will offer more for the spinners he attempted a big hit off left-arm Hafeez for 35 and Mathews fell in 2013/14. unbeaten on eight. Total (for 9 wkts) ...... 304 on the last two days.” spinner Babar and was caught at similar fashion against Yasir. And bowling at decidedly sharp The only time Smith looked Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-98, 3-119, 4-191, Silva, who hit a century in long-on by Asad Shafiq. Hafeez, who was reported after pace, he had Kent’s Daniel Bell- in any trouble was on 99 when 5-194, 6-202, 7-275, 8-275, 9-303 Galle, once again anchored the Sangakkara, 37, has still not the Galle Test for a suspect action Drummond lbw with a full-length he charged down the pitch to Bowling: Wahab 9-2-19-0 (nb1), Junaid team’s brittle batting. responded to media speculation and is likely to be tested next delivery off the last ball of the Australia-born seamer Mitchell 27.2-5-80-1 (w1), Babar 32-8-82-1, Yasir Silva and Mathews put on 72 that he will retire after play- week, sent down 10 economical opening over of the hosts’ first Claydon and missed with an 40-5-95-5, Hafeez 10-2-19-1. for the fourth wicket to take the ing the first two Tests against overs that cost only 19 runs. AFP innings. expansive drive. But Kent, bottom of the Second However, he soon whipped Division in England’s County Claydon off his pads and beyond Championship, fought back well the mid-wicket rope to complete Rahat, Azam to join Pakistan squad to be 72 for one at tea on the sec- a 151-ball hundred featuring 11 ond day of four. fours and a six. Joe Denly was 32 not out and That shot came amidst a run KARACHI: Pakistan cricket The 20-year old Azam has yet Rob Key, a former England Test of three successive fours before selectors yesterday announced to feature in a Test but made his batsman, 38 not out. the 26-year-old Smith, who medium-pacer Rahat Ali one-day debut against Zimbabwe Earlier, Steven Smith showed could have represented England and batsman Babar Azam as in Lahore last month. just how far he had come in through his English-born mother, replacements for injured fast The third and final Test will be eight years with a century in decided he had had enough bat- bowler Wahab Riaz and spin- played in Pallekele from July 3. Australia’s first innings 507 for ting and walked off. ning allrounder Haris Sohail for Frequent injuries in the eight declared. Watson, however, fell for a mod- the Test series in Sri Lanka. Pakistan cricket team have been Meanwhile 21-year-old Kent est 21 when well caught by Denly Left-arm fast bowler Riaz widely criticised by former play- paceman Matt Hunn completed at backward point off Hunn. injured his bowling arm on the ers and experts, while PCB chair- a notable maiden five-wicket And the right-arm fast- first day of the ongoing second man Shaharyar Khan described haul, in just his fourth first-class medium bowler had a fifth wicket Test in Colombo on Thursday and the fitness levels in national play- match, on his way to figures of five when he dismissed Mitchell was subsequently ruled out of the ers as the “worst in the world.” for 99 in 27 overs. Marsh (30) with a swinging deliv- match and the following third and Rahat Ali Babar Azam As many as five players fell In 2007, the teenage Smith ery that uprooted the off-stump. final Test. injured before and during the played a handful of matches for Brad Haddin (35) was well Sohail had injured his knee morning,” said a Pakistan Cricket regular bowler in the longer Bangladesh tour last month. Kent’s 2nd XI and spent the sea- caught at slip by Adam Ball after ahead of the second Test so was Board (PCB) release. format for Pakistan since Pakistan and Sri Lanka will son with local club side Sevenoaks edging an intended drive against also unavailable to play. Riaz will return after the sec- 2013, missed the two Tests in also play five one-day matches Vine, where he was viewed as a off-spinner Adam Riley before the “Azam and Rahat will replace ond Test match concludes on Bangladesh last month after suf- and two Twenty20 internation- hugely promising leg-spinner who exit of Ryan Harris, caught by injured Sohail and Riaz for the Monday while Sohail has already fering a hamstring injury. als after the Tests, the squads could also bat. diving wicket-keeper Sam Billings Test series against Sri Lanka. returned home. Selectors said Rahat has now for which will be announced next Roll on to 2015 and Smith is off Ball, prompted Clarke’s decla- Both will leave on Sunday early The 26-year-old Rahat, a fully recovered. week. AFP now ranked as the world’s leading ration. AFP Powell in command, Bolt out of 100m picture

KINGSTON: With Usain Bolt and hopefully I can run a really (pictured) a notable absen- good time here,” said Powell, tee, Asafa Powell threw down whose season best of 9.84 is bet- the gauntlet at the Jamaican tered only by American Justin national senior trials on Gatlin. Thursday by running a blis- “I’m not putting too much pres- tering 9.98 seconds to qualify sure on myself so now I’m just Jamaica’s Asafa for the semi-finals of the 100 going to relax and do what I’m Powell (centre) metres. supposed to do. competes in the Bolt, the world record holder at “It’s very important because men’s 100m during 100 and 200m, has struggled this this is home so I definitely always the national trials at year and his absence on Thursday want to win in front of my home the National Stadium sparked concerns about his fitness five metres behind after a horrid crowd just to show them that I’m in Kingston, Jamaica ahead of this year’s world champi- start. Powell said his coach had still here to stay.” on Thursday. onships in Beijing, where he is set told him to power out to 40m and London Olympic double sprint to defend his sprint titles. control the race from there. silver medallist Blake, who is Former world record holder “I’m in very good shape,” said continuing his return from an Powell blasted out of the blocks in Powell. 11-month injury layoff, was grate- lane five and built a commanding “I’ve not had the best condi- ful to recover from a poor start lead by halfway before cruising tions so far in my races this sea- and closed well in a time of 10.24. home, with Yohan Blake trailing son but I know I’m in good shape REUTERS Guardian (2D/Action) Romantic) 12:30, 2:30,4:30,7:10,9:10&11:10pm Kaaka Muttai Premam Eli (2D/Tamil) SCREEN 3 Jurassic World SCREEN 2 Guardian (2D/Action) Stranded (2 SCREEN 1 Out OfTheDark(2D/Horror) SCREEN 2 Jurassic World SCREEN 1 Forbidden Empire SCREEN 3 Just TheWay You Are (2D/Tagalog/Romantic) Just TheWay You Are (2D/Tagalog/Romantic) SCREEN 3 Jurassic World Forbidden Empire SCREEN 2 Guardian (2D/Action) Stranded (2 SCREEN 1 SCREEN 10 SCREEN 9 San Andreas SCREEN 8 (2D/Action) Survivor SCREEN 7 Cinderella (2D/Adventure) SCREEN 6 Paddington (2D/Adventure) SCREEN 5 Love &Mercy (2D/Drama) SCREEN 4 Forbidden Empire (2D/Action) SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 1 Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and RickKirkman Scott by Jerry Baby Blues Syndicate York New Times /The International Arts Cartoon Sudoku. a normal like solved is Sudoku aHyper Otherwise, once. only appear 1to 9can from numbers the regions Inall regions). standard nine the with overlap regions 13 (four unlike Sudoku regions has Sudoku Hyper A cells. blank 1 to 9intofrom the numbers by the filling solved is Puzzle Sudoku A Hyper Sudoku: Hyper play to How HYPER MALL NOVO ROYAL PLAZA LANDMARK ASIAN TOWN (2D/Malayalam)

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Disney bans Crazy garden selfie sticks at theme parks ORLANDO: Walt Disney Co of time, including on Wednesday will ban selfie sticks starting when a roller coaster was shut next week at its theme parks down at Disneyland, frustrating around the world, the com- other guests. pany said yesterday, joining a Starting next week, security growing list of attractions that personnel will ask Disney guests restrict the camera accessories who arrive with selfie sticks at for safety reasons. the parks to stow them at a stor- Beginning Tuesday, the com- age facility or return the sticks to pany will not allow selfie sticks their hotels or cars, the company — extension rods used for tak- said. ing self-portraits with smart- Major museums worldwide, phones — at Walt Disney World including those in the Smithsonian in Orlando, Florida, or Disneyland Institution in Washington, have in Anaheim, California. The ban banned the sticks. Other major will begin on Wednesday at parks tourist destinations such as the in Hong Kong and Paris. Palace of Versailles outside Paris “We strive to provide a great and the Colosseum in Rome as experience for the entire family, well as music festivals such as and unfortunately selfie sticks Coachella and Lollapalooza have have become a growing safety also prohibited them. concern for both our guests and Universal Studios also bans cast,” Disney spokeswoman Kim selfie sticks on rides in its parks, Prunty said in a statement. spokesman Tom Schroder said. Disney tried allowing selfie SeaWorld Entertainment Inc sticks in the park but not on allows selfie sticks in the compa- rides, according to Prunty. But ny’s parks but not on rides or over violators were forcing park staff animal habitats, spokeswoman to stop rides for extended periods Becca Bides said. REUTERS A woman photographs the ‘Dormanron’, a natural sculpture imagined by illustrator Claude Ponti and built by the green spaces team of the city on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The crazy garden’ (‘Le jardin dejante’), in the botanical garden of Nantes, France. Japanese firm promises AMY gives ‘organic’ shooting stars on demand picture of Winehouse CANNES: A documentary about the late British singer Amy TOKYO: Fancy a meteor centimetres in diameter, at a time. on the ground,” Okajima said. Winehouse hits cinemas next week amid a dispute between its shower racing across the night These balls — whose chemical “Making the sky a screen is makers and her father, who has called the film misleading. sky to mark your birthday? formula is a closely-guarded secret this project’s biggest attraction Mitch Winehouse has disassociated himself from AMY, which One Japanese start-up is hop- — will race through the atmos- as entertainment. It’s a space follows the Grammy Award winner from her childhood to her death. ing to deliver shooting stars on phere at around 7-8 kilometres a display.” The biopic uses home videos, photos, reports and performances demand and choreograph the second, glowing brightly from the Tests on the space pellets carried to show Winehouse’s path to a career as an acclaimed singer. She cosmos. friction created by smashing into out with Shinsuke Abe, aerospace died from alcohol poisoning aged 27 in July 2011. And, say scientists, it’s not just the air. engineering associate professor The film, narrated by the singer herself as well as by friends, fam- about painting huge pictures on Although it sounds fast, that at Nihon University, show they ily and colleagues, premiered in Europe at the Cannes Film Festival the night sky that would be vis- is considerably slower than natu- would even burn brightly enough in May and had its US premiere on Thursday. ible to millions of people; artificial rally-occurring meteors — chunks to be seen over the light-polluted “All of these people are part of her life, in one way or another they meteors could help us under- of material that either broke away metropolis of Tokyo. were all very close to her ... but at times unfortunately they were stand a lot more about Earth’s from a planet or never managed Unless, of course, it’s cloudy. pulling her in different directions,” director Asif Kapadia said in a atmosphere. to form one in the first place — But, says Okajima, the release promotional interview in Cannes. Lena Okajima, who holds a which can hurtle through the can be called off up to 100 min- “When she wasn’t particularly well, I think it made it more dif- doctorate in astronomy, says her atmosphere at up to 80 kilometres utes before the appointed launch ficult and complicated for her to manage.” Women flock company — ALE — is intending to a second. — perhaps allowing party organis- Mitch Winehouse has said he was not happy with the way the launch a micro satellite that can Tinkering with the ingredients ers to reschedule for another night film-makers had portrayed him and that they had missed details eject shooting stars at exactly the should mean that it is possible to when the weather is better. such as an interview given by the singer’s boyfriend, Reg Traviss. to zoo to see right time and place to put on a change the colour of each bright Beautiful it might be, but it “You can’t keep everyone happy but what I will say is the vast celestial show. streak, says Okajima, offering the won’t come cheap; each shooting majority of people who knew her well and who have seen the movie “I’m thinking of streams of possibility of a multi-coloured flo- star would cost around a million really like it,” producer James Gay-Rees added. ‘hunky’ gorilla meteors that are rare in nature,” tilla of shooting stars. yen ($8,100), as the company tries “Quite frankly the movie isn’t about Reg, it isn’t about Mitch, it’s TOKYO: A giant gorilla with Okajima said in an interview. The stars are expected to shine to make back more than one bil- about Amy and I deny anybody to tell me she doesn’t come out of brooding good looks and rip- “It is artificial but I want to for several seconds before they lion yen price tag for the devel- the movie brilliantly because she does ... it’s a much more organic pling muscles is causing a stir make really beautiful ones that are completely burned up — well opment and launch of the micro whole representation of who she was.” at a Japanese zoo, with women can impress viewers,” she said. before they fall low enough to pose satellite. Winehouse was seen as one of the most talented musicians of flocking to check out the hunky In collaboration with scientists any danger to anything on Earth. That satellite, which is at the her generation. She struggled with drinking and drug problems pin-up. and engineers at Japanese univer- “People may eventually become design stage, is a 50 centimetre throughout much of her career. Shabani (pictured), an 18-year- sities, the ALE team is developing tired of seeing shooting stars cube that will orbit the Earth at “She was able to sing jazz, R&B and had a killer voice but also old silverback who tips the scales a satellite that will orbit the Earth if they come alone. But they an altitude of around 400-500 kilo- had a modern perspective,” her ex-manager Nick Shymansky said at around 180 kilos, has become and eject dozens of balls, a few could be coupled with events metres. AFP at the premiere. AMY hits UK and US cinemas on July 3. the star attraction at Higashiyama REUTERS Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, striking smoulder- ing poses the movie model in Zoolander would be proud of. “He often rests his chin on his Vienna’s Spanish Riding hands and looks intently at you,” zoo spokesman Takayuki Ishikawa said yesterday. School turns 450 “He is more buff than most gorillas and he’s at his peak VIENNA: As the master of Fischer, who attended Thursday’s physically. We’ve seen a rise in the Lipizaners, the world’s most rehearsal performance, said he the number of female visitors — distinguished horse breed, the was “smitten” by the horses. women say he’s very good-looking.” Spanish Riding School in Vienna “I think there are several insti- Shabani, who has been at the is celebrating its 450th anniver- tutions in Austria, which mean zoo since 2007, shot to fame after sary with gala performances and everything to Austrians. Among being made the campaign model a glittering summer ball this them is the Spanish Riding for the zoo’s spring festival earlier weekend. School,” he said. this year, Ishikawa said, adding First founded in 1565, the clas- Friday’s spectacle will be that the ape’s paternal skills were sical dressage institution has crowned by the so-called Fete also a big hit with women. become globally renowned for its Imperiale, the riding school’s tra- “He’s a father and he always noble white stallions which, guided ditional summer ball and a high- protects and looks over his chil- by straight-backed riders in tail- light on the social calendar of dren,” he said. “Zoo-goers think coats, canter and pirouette to the Vienna’s high society. his kindness is attractive too.” sound of music. At least 10,000 visitors are Women have taken to social To mark the anniversary, two expected to attend the anniversary media to swoon about Shabani’s dozen Lipizaners were to dem- celebrations, which will also fea- rugged looks, describing him as onstrate their stylised jumps and ture broodmares and their foals. “ikemen” — or a hunk — and lik- other perfectly controlled move- The Lipizzan lineage dates ening him to a male model. ments yesterday and today in back to the 16th century, when it “He will look you in the eye and front of the old imperial Hofburg was developed exclusively by the sometimes if you’re taking pho- Palace, in the heart of the city. Habsburg monarchy. tos it will look like he’s posing for Spain’s Royal Andalusian The breed is a cross between you like a model,” said Ishikawa. School of Equestrian Art will Spanish, Arabic and Berber “But he’s the head of a group of share the limelight and partake horses. Estimates put the number Horses from Vienna’s Spanish Riding School participate in a public gala rehearsal in front of the Hofburg Palace five gorillas so it’s likely he’s just in the evening parades. of Lipizaners worldwide at less at Helden Square in Vienna. watching out for them and keep- Austrian President Heinz than 3,000. AFP ing an eye on you.” AFP