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SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 • 9 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6502 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Obama begins Skills of 14,000 landmark Kenya visit govt employees NAIROBI: US President Barack Obama dined with his step grandmother, sister and other extended family mem- bers after arriving in Kenya for to be enhanced his first presidential visit to his father’s homeland last evening. He will co-host a conference on 40 huge halls arranged for training boosting entrepreneurs in Africa before travelling on to Ethiopia. DOHA: The Ministry of programmes this time. After being greeted by Administrative Development Al Khayarin said: “The insti- President Uhuru Kenyatta and is to enhance professional tute is bringing in foreign exper- other top Kenyan officials, Obama skills of a large number of gov- tise to implement the training was whisked through the capital. ernment employees ahead of programme. The experts are In Nairobi, Obama will preside their promotions. from different Arab countries. at a Global Entrepreneurship The Institute of “The ministry has made elab- Summit, pay tribute to victims Administrative Development orate arrangements for the pro- and survivors of the 1998 US under the ministry will help gramme. Training materials are US President Barack Obama waves to reporters as his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta looks on, at Jomo embassy bombing and dine with hone skills of nearly 14,000 in place and have been reviewed Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi last evening. Kenyatta. employees as part of its 2015- by specialists. REUTERS 2016 training programme. “Equipped with modern train- The programme will cover ing gadgets, 40 huge halls have employees of various ministries been arranged to conduct train- and government agencies. ing,” he added. According to a Cabinet deci- Training is important for the After Ooredoo, sion, it is mandatory for the employees as it includes evalu- employees to undergo the min- ation by trainers whether the Vodafone cuts Turkey strikes IS in Syria istry’s extensive professional individual employees is capable training programme to be eligi- of handling possible challenges India call rates ANKARA: Turkish warplanes from a base in Diyarbakir, south- 300 people in raids against sus- ble for promotions. he might face in the next level attacked Islamic State (IS) tar- eastern Turkey, and hit two IS pected IS and Kurdish militants, “This year’s programme is of his career. DOHA: The price war between gets in Syria for the first time bases and one “assembly point” Davutoglu said after vowing to different from the previous There will also be sessions on the two telecom firms has ben- yesterday in two missions, before returning, the prime min- fight all “terrorist groups” equally. year in terms of the number of self-assessment. Feedback will efitted expat customers with with President Recep Tayyip ister’s office said. Local media reported that attendees and the number of be collected from the trainees Vodafone Qatar yesterday Erdogan promising more deci- Earlier, warplanes bombed helicopters and over 5,000 offic- programmes. regarding value addition, Al announcing a 10 dirham calling sive action against the jihadists three targets controlled by IS ers, including special forces, were “Last year, we covered over Khayarin said. rate per minute to India as a and Kurdish militants at home. up to 14km inside Syrian terri- deployed in the operation. 9,000 employees. This time the He said almost 98 percent of fixed rate. Ooredoo on Thursday Turkey has long been a reluc- tory, the official Anatolia news Anti-terror police raided more number is bigger. Nearly 700 the employees who took part announced that its ‘Hala India tant partner in the US-led coa- agency said. It said a three-storey than 100 locations across Istanbul. programmes have been designed in 2014-15 training programme Key’ subscribers will be able to lition against IS, emphasising building used as a meeting place One official said: “This morn- for the trainees this time com- said the programme had added call India for 10 dirhams per instead the need to oust Syrian for jihadists in El Tabiye was ing’s air strike and operation pared to 500 in the previous value to their professional skills. minute with a subscription fee of President Bashar Al Assad and hit 14km inside Syria from the against terrorist groups domesti- year,” said Hadi bin Sayed Al According to Al Khayarin, QR0.50 per week permanently. saying Syrian Kurdish forces also Turkish border, an IS headquar- cally are steps taken as preventive Khayarin, Director, Institute of the 2015-2016 programme will Earlier, it charged a subscrip- pose a grave security threat. ters in El Zahiriye district about measures against a possible attack Administrative Development. not cover professionals such as tion fee of QR1 per week and the But yesterday’s attacks, which 11.5km and a similar building in against Turkey from within or The training programme aims doctors, engineers, pharmacists facility to call India for 10 dirhams officials said were launched from Burgi, about 4km inside Syria. from outside. to improve professional skills of and other professionals in the per minute was offered during Turkish air space, signalled that It said a Joint Direct Attack Turkey has repeatedly said it individual employees to enable government agencies. promotions. Ankara would crack down on IS Munition guidance system was will take any “necessary meas- them to face professional chal- Since these are specialised Vodafone Qatar informed its cus- across the Syrian border, while used to help the bombs to find ures” to protect itself from attack lenges awaiting them in their areas, the concerned institutions tomers through SMS that the call- pursuing the banned Kurdistan their targets. Prime Minister by IS and Kurdish militants. The next level of career. have been directed to conduct ing rate to India has been fixed at Workers Party (PKK) — which Ahmet Davutoglu said the strikes air strikes follow a phone con- With the support of expertise programmes. 10 dirhams per minute. Vodafone is Ankara describes as a separatist were “100 percent” successful and versation between Erdogan and in the concerned fields, the min- Continued on page 2 not charging any subscription fee. organisation — at home. eliminated their targets. US President Barack Obama on istry has designed 699 extensive THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Three F-16 fighter jets took off Police also rounded up nearly Wednesday. AGENCIES

US gunman kills two, self in theatre Timings extended for LAFAYETTE: An Alabama drifter opened fire inside a crowded movie theatre, kill- several health centres ing two women in Lafayette, Louisiana, police said, in the DOHA: The Primary Health be open from 7am to 2pm and latest act of random gun vio- Care Corporation (PHCC) has 4pm to 11pm, including Al Rayan, lence to shock the US. extended working hours of sev- Madinat Khalifa, Al Muntazah, Gunfire erupted during a 7pm eral health centres, an Arabic Mugolina, Abu Backar Al Sidiq, showing of the film Trainwreck. daily reports. Omar bin Khatab, West Bay and Two died in the hail of bullets Some health centres working in Mesaimeer. However, the centre before the 59-year-old suspect, double shifts now have one shift in Mesaimeer will be closed on identified as John Houser, killed from 7am to 11pm. Friday mornings. himself with a .40 calibre hand- Health centres in Al Khor, Al The dental clinics at health gun as officers rushed to the Shamal and Al Wakrah will work centres will work from 7am to scene, Lafayette Police Chief Jim from 7am to 11pm. Earlier, they 2pm and 4pm to 10pm. Craft told a press conference. were closed between 2pm and Some centres have the on-call The shootings took place 4pm. system to attend to emergencies. almost three years to the day Following Eid Al Fitr holi- The service is available at centres after 12 people were killed at a days, primary healthcare centres in Al Jameliya, Al Kahban, Al cinema in Aurora, Colorado, and resume working at regular shifts Guwiariya, Um Baab, Um Salal, follows several mass shootings in from tomorrow, with changes in Al Dhain, Al Mathar, Al Kharana, the US in recent weeks. timings of some centres. Al Gharafa, and Abu Nakla. Authorities said seven people Majority of health centres will THE PENINSULA were wounded, three critically. One person underwent sur- gery and “was not doing well,” Craft said. Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who Iran foreign minister to visit Qatar went to Lafayette to meet law TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Arabia have voiced concern over enforcement and victims, said: Minister Mohammad Javad the deal they say could bolster “This is a normal movie theatre Zarif will visit Kuwait, Qatar their Shia-dominated adversary in a normal part of a normal Investigators stand outside a movie theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana, where the gunman opened fire and killed and Iraq today, the ISNA press accused of interfering in countries town. This is Anywhere, USA. two women, yesterday. agency said, following a land- such as Iraq, Syria and Yemen. This just shows these senseless mark nuclear deal between Zarif is also expected to visit acts of violence can literally hap- Craft said, adding the man had that he was intent on shooting Alabama, and had no recent Tehran and world powers. the holy Shia town of Najaf in pen anywhere.” “pretty old” criminal history. and escaping,” he said, add- criminal record, Craft said. “We The accord, struck on July 14, Iraq tomorrow before heading to The deceased were identified as Craft said Houser tried to ing Houser’s car, a blue Lincoln don’t know why he chose to stop imposes certain controls on Iran’s Baghdad. Mayci Breaux, 21, from Franklin, sneak out of the theatre with Continental, was parked outside and stay in Lafayette.” Police nuclear programme in exchange He will return to Tehran next La. and Jillian Johnson, 33, from the crowd after the shooting. the theatre near an exit. found disguises, including wigs for a lifting of crippling economic week to host talks with EU foreign Lafayette. Police did not immedi- He was forced back inside by Houser was “kind of a drifter” and glasses, in his motel room. sanctions and is expected to form affairs chief Federica Mogherini ately offer a motive. “The shooter the quick arrival of police, before who had moved to Lafayette REUTERS the basis of discussions during before meeting his French coun- is dead. We may never know,” shooting himself. “It is apparent recently from Phenix City, See also page 8 Zarif’s trip. terpart Laurent Fabius. Gulf countries led by Saudi AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Hot, humid weather to continue

www.swiss-belhotel.com Tel Fax Traditional dhows anchored off the Corniche against the backdrop of a hazy Doha skyline. ABDUL BASIT

DOHA: The weather will be Maximum temperature is knots inshore. and Dukhan is expected to be Tel hot and humid today. expected to hover around 42 Southeasterly-northeasterly around 40 degrees, with Doha Fax The day will be hot with degrees Celsius and minimum wind will move at a speed of likely to experience around 41 slight dust at times and humid temperature is likely to be 28. 03-12 knots offshore, reaching degree during day time. by evening with haze and some Northwesterly-northeasterly 15 knots at some places today. The maximum temperature clouds, according to the weather wind is expected to move at a The maximum temperature in forecast in Ruwais is 38 degrees. bureau. speed ranging between 05-15 Messaied, Al Khor, Al Wakrah THE PENINSULA Tel Fax

Tel + 974 44298888 QA looks for stake in India’s SpiceJet Fax DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) is in ‘exploratory talks’ with Tel India’s SpiceJet to pick up a substantial stake in the low- Fax cost Indian carrier. QA is willing to buy up to 49 percent, the maximum allowed Tel by India’s FDI rules for foreign Fax firms in domestic airliners. However, SpiceJet is not keen to offload 49 percent at present, a section of Indian Tel media reported yesterday. Fax According to Bloomberg TV India, SpiceJet sources con- www.doha.hilton.com firmed that it is in “exploratory talks” with QA but refused to Tel 44233333 974+ give details saying the company is scheduled to come out with Fax 44233000 974+ Q1 financial results next week and hence it can’t comment on A file picture of Qatar Airways’ first A350 flight from Doha arriving in Frankfurt. speculative aspect of business. However, the report said QA did not respond to a query the Gulf carrier picking up a expand into regions where it Airport, said a source. emailed by Bloomberg TV stake in the Indian airline. cannot fly nonstop with its Places such as Istanbul, India. If a deal takes place, it will be Boeing 737s. Cairo, Amman, Najaf, Erbil and “The civil aviation ministry the second in recent years after “Talks were held recently others are of key interest to will firm up its views on a pos- Etihad Airways picked up a 24 and a consensus was achieved SpiceJet where a stop in Doha sible deal between SpiceJet and percent stake in Jet Airways. on an interline arrangement,” would ensure seamless trans- Tel the Gulf-based airliner. Negotiations will initially said a SpiceJet executive who fer of passengers from various “The government’s view is involve SpiceJet signing an did not want to be identified. points in India to these destina- Fax crucial to an eventual SpiceJet- interline agreement with QA, “It was decided to resume tions via Doha. Qatar Airways transaction,” making Doha its international discussions after the Eid holi- Talks between QA and Bloomberg quoted an official hub and funnelling passengers days and talks will resume SpiceJet first took place in familiar with the development originating from India through again in a week’s time,” the March and a second meeting Tel as saying. to the Gulf carrier. Indian daily quoted sources as happened recently. Fax India’s most reputed finan- QA has been looking to saying. There was no response to an cial daily The Economic Times expand its presence in India A stake purchase could lead email sent to QA. A SpiceJet reported that SpiceJet and QA as it lags behind Emirates and to SpiceJet, emerging from a spokesperson did not com- are in early stage talks to nego- Etihad. crisis stemming from a cash ment on the matter, the daily Tel tiate a commercial agreement SpiceJet is keen to use Doha crunch, getting easy access to reported. Fax that could eventually lead to as an intermediate point to slots at Hamad International THE PENINSULA

e-Service in Urdu Tel Training to Fax cover only administrative Tel Fax employees

Continued from page 1 Tel The training pro- Fax gramme by the insti- tute will cover only the administrative staff of the ministries and gov- ernment agencies. It has been designed to cover nearly 14,000 employees in three lev- els, according to their Tel professional hierarchy. Fax A total of 208 pro- grammes has been designed for the employees in grades one Tel to four. Fax An estimated 4,160 staff take part. About 3,960 employ- www.marriottmarquisdoha.com ees in grades five to seven will attend 198 Tel + 974 44195000 programmes. Fax + 974 44195100 Nearly 80 pro- grammes have been designed for employees in grades eight to 11. A total of 1,580 The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has begun to provide e-Services in Urdu language after updating staff will attend these its website. The services are available in smartphone apps through Android and iPhone. programmes. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 HOME / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Qatar Pavilion hosts workshop at Milano Expo

Qatar Pavilion at Milano Expo 2015 organised an ‘Innovative Recycling’ workshop on special activities. A large number of visitors, including children, took part and displayed their artistic skills in using recycled materials, including metals and drawing.

Man found Al Furjan to cover five Ministry to digitalise dead in labour camp millions of documents DOHA: The body of a man was found yes- areas in third phase terday in a labour camp in Al Wakrah, a for online services local Malayalam daily DOHA: The third phase of access shops locally so they don’t Planning and Qatar Chamber. DOHA: The Ministry of Justice is People will have easy access to serv- reports. the Al Furjan market project have to come all the way to Doha. Also commercial streets are being to digitalise millions of documents ices and accurate information will be The deceased has been is to be implemented in places The first two phases are over built in connection with the shops. to allow people to access services available once all documents of the identified as Abraham outside Doha, according to the and work on the third continues. In the third phase of the online. ‘real estate and authentication serv- Joseph, 44, a resident Ministry of Municipality and In the first phase, 12 centres project, streets will be connected Around six million transactions ices re-engineering and development’ from the Malapuram Urban Planning. with 122 shops and in the second to main roads in Al Shamal, Al and legal documents at the real estate known as SAK is digitalised, the min- district of the southern In its third and final phase, phase 176 shops at 18 centres Juweiliya, Semaisima, Um Salal and authentication services depart- istry said. Indian state of Kerala. the project will open shops in Al were built. and Al Wakrah. ment will be digitalised, followed by It will provide a single window for He was running a read- Shamal, Al Juweiliya, Semaisima, In three phases, there will be In the first phase of the project, 250,000 real estate documents. the public to access services from any ymade garment business, Um Salal and Al Wakrah, among centres in 44 places spread across four centres each were opened Estimated to be completed in 18 place. and had three shops in others, an Arabic daily reports. geographical zones. The total in Al Thumama, Al Merab, Ain months, the first phase of the project Also, real estate companies will Najma and Al Wakrah. As part of the project, small number of shops in all 44 centres Khalid and Al Ebb, six in Raudat was implemented recently, Al Sharq have access to some information and His body was found in the shopping centres are set up with will be 645 — one centre on aver- Qadeem, seven in Al Laqtifia, reports. The first phase will cover 30 transactions through the website. camp where his employ- laundries, barber shops, baker- age will have 15 shops. three each in Hazmul Markhiya percent of the documents related to All services will be made avail- ees live. The father of two ies, restaurants, pharmacies, The project is being imple- and Jariyan Najeema and nine in real estate registration. able in coordination with ictQatar had been living in Doha meat and tailoring outlets, among mented by the Ministry of Raudat Al Hammam. The second phase will include and will be linked to the Ministry for more than 20 years. others. Economy and Commerce Each centre also has ATMs, transactions and legal documents, and of Interior, the Supreme Council of His family has left for Al Furjan (neighbourhood in in collaboration with Qatar post office, e-Kiosks to make once completed, the public will be able Heath and the Ministry of Economy Kerala for summer vaca- Arabic) was launched last year to Development Bank, the Ministry payments for services and a taxi to access services through the website and Commerce. tion. THE PENINSULA help residents in remote areas to of Municipality and Urban stand. THE PENINSULA or with an app on smartphones. THE PENINSULA

Protest in Al Aqsa US prepares to free convicted Somali, AU troops Israeli spy Pollard: WSJ capture another

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is pre- town from Shabaab paring to release Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy intelli- MOGADISHU: Somali troops dozens of civilians killed. gence officer convicted of spy- backed by African Union forces “The number of civilians we ing for Israel, the Wall Street yesterday captured the Al have counted so far is over 50, Journal reported yesterday, Shabaab stronghold of Dinsor, but there are more still missing citing US officials. the second town seized from Al after they have been arrested,” The release would end a dec- Qaeda-affiliated Islamists this said elder Abdulahi Isgowe. “We ades-long fight between Israel week, the defence minister said. have never witnessed such a mass and the US over Pollard, 60, While Dinsor fell without a killing before.” who was convicted of spying for major fight, with Al Shabaab gun- “I have buried about 21 victims Israel and sentenced in 1987 to men fleeing ahead of the assault, near Burhduhule and we have life in prison. witnesses have reported heavy sent people to help bury others The Journal said some US casualties in the week-long offen- killed,” said Abdulahi Mohamed, officials hope the move will sive with civilians caught up in the an elder, adding women and smooth relations with Israel fighting. Village elders reported children were among the dead. following the Iran nuclear deal, that dozens of bodies have been “Everyone is fleeing.” which Israel opposes. A young Palestinian raises a copy of the Holy Quran during a protest against blasphemy after the Friday prayers buried. “Our forces have secured Bakool governor Mohamed Some officials are pushing for at Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city yesterday. control of Dinsor, and the insur- Abdi said authorities were “sorry Pollard’s release in a matter of gents have fled after losing the for any civilian casualties” but weeks. battle... troops are now conduct- said he had not had any reports But others expect it could ing security operations to clear of the killings. take months, possibly until the town,” General Abdulkadir “The phone network is down his parole consideration date ‘Embarrassing’ if Congress Sheikh Ali Dini told reporters. so that I don’t have details about in November, the Journal The fall of Dinsor, in the south- what happened,” he told reporters. reported. western region and near the border AMISOM troops were accused A US official said she was not with Kenya and Ethiopia, comes on Tuesday of killing civilians aware that he would be released rejects Iran deal, says Kerry after the capture by AU troops of during fighting in the southern before he is eligible for parole the nearby town of Bardhere on port of Merka, but dismissed wit- in November. NEW YORK: US Secretary of approval in the House and Senate. backs on a very legitimate pro- Wednesday. The two towns were ness reports of “several” deaths as Pollard’s supporters say he is State John Kerry said yester- “Do you think that they’re going gramme that allows us to put their some of the last remaining Al a “devious allegation”. being punished far too harshly day it would be embarrassing to to sit there and other people in the programme to the test.” Shabaab strongholds. The Al Shabaab is fight- since Israel is a US ally. him and a blow to US credibility world are going to say, ‘hey let’s go He faced criticism on Thursday Witnesses confirmed the takeo- ing to overthrow Somalia’s They say that much of on the world stage if Congress negotiate with the United States, that he had been “fleeced” and ver of the southern town, saying Western-backed government the classified information he rejects the Iran nuclear deal. they have 535 secretaries of state’? “bamboozled” by Tehran, as he Al Shabaab fled ahead of govern- propped up and protected by the passed on caused no damage “Do you think the ayatollah is “I mean, please. I would be defended the Iran nuclear deal ment and Ethiopian troops with 22,000-strong AMISOM force. to Washington and that it was going to come back to the table if embarrassed to try to go out. publicly on Capitol Hill. the AU force, pulling out of the Efforts to defeat the Al Shabaab intelligence that Israel previ- Congress refuses this and negoti- What am I going to say to people He encountered a tsunami of town on Thursday afternoon. will be a key part of talks US ously had access to. ate again?” he told the Council of after this as secretary of state? scepticism from Republicans on “Most of the residents fled so it President Barack Obama, who Pollard’s supporters also say Foreign Relations think tank in ‘Come negotiate with us.’ ‘Oh, Can the Senate Foreign Relations looks like a ghost town,” said resi- arrived in Kenya last night, will he should be released because of New York. you deliver?’ Please.” Committee during a four-and-a- dent Mohamed Added. “There are hold with officials. Deployed to his poor health, with his attor- Kerry has spent recent days Kerry warned that if Congress half-hour hearing. very few people remaining, most Somalia since 2007, AMISOM ney saying he suffers from dia- trying to sell the deal to scepti- rejected the deal, it could make Kerry said it would be a huge of them elderly.” The AU Mission has helped push back Al Shabaab betes and high blood pressure. cal Americans as the Republican- Israel and the US more isolated. mistake if Israel decided to take in Somalia, or AMISOM, last across much of the country’s Israeli Prime Minister majority, 535-member House of “Our friends in Israel could unilateral military action against week launched Operation Jubba south, retaking towns and terri- Benjamin Netanyahu has per- Representatives, has 60 days to wind up being more isolated and Iran over its nuclear programme. Corridor — an offensive to flush tory the group had held for years. sonally pressed for years to review the deal. more blamed, and we would lose “That’d be an enormous mis- the insurgents out of rural areas US drone strikes have taken their get the US to release Pollard, Congress can pass a motion of Europe and China and Russia take, a huge mistake with grave in southern Somalia, involving toll on Al Shabaab, killing sen- who is serving time in a fed- disapproval and President Barack with respect to whatever mili- consequences for Israel and for Ethiopian and Kenyan forces. ior commanders, including the eral prison in Butner, North Obama can veto it. An override tary action we might have to take the region, and I don’t think it’s In the southern Bakool region, group’s leader Ahmed Godane in Carolina. REUTERS of the veto requires two-thirds because we will have turned our necessary,” he said. AGENCIES elders in five villages reported September. AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Border fences rise Tunisia is planning to build a wall along its border with Libya to counter the threat from jihadist militants. The move comes after a deadly June beachfront attack in Sousse carried out by a Libya-trained gunman across the region Tunis GREECE Sicily (ITALY)

Rising threat of jihadist violence rattles leaders MEDITERRANEAN MALTA CAIRO: As they confront the has placed concrete shields build a wall, you have to use the SEA rising threat of modern jihad- around areas of regime support time it buys to deal with problems Sousse ist violence, many of the nations in Homs. Fences offer a quick fix, and not sit behind it forever and Wall to cover about one-third most at risk are retreating though they are costly and may hope they’ll go away.” of 500km border by end of 2015 Crete behind one of the oldest forms ultimately do little to solve the In Tunisia, where European Zuwara of defence. problems, analysts say. holidaymakers were gunned down Tunisia became the latest to Of the Middle East’s most- at a beach resort in June, mili- TUNISIA Tripoli Ras al-Hilal invest in a border barrier after famed physical defences, the tancy is being fanned by poverty Bayda Misurata dozens of foreign tourists were majority failed. Jerusalem’s away from a prosperous north- Tobruk killed in two attacks by Islamist ancient walls did little to halt eastern coast. Benghazi militants trained in neighbour- a succession of conquerors, and While governments in Tunis ing Libya and armed by smug- Byzantine Constantinople’s elabo- have vowed to tackle radical Sirte Derna glers. The fence and watch towers rate fortifications didn’t thwart preachers and stem travel to Gharyan ordered by Prime Minister Habib the Ottomans. Libya’s war zones, activists say Essid will for now stretch 100 Though modern barriers may little has been done to end eco- Ghadames Zintan Ajdabiya miles inland from the coast along curb trafficking and illicit cross- nomic marginalization, and pro- the most vulnerable stretch of the ings in the short term, they tests demanding change have Ras Lanuf shared frontier. almost never deliver prolonged been met with police repression. From Morocco to Saudi Arabia, security without cross-frontier Hardship in border zones can boundaries are being fortified at a cooperation. even be exacerbated by barri- rate not seen since the months fol- ers and the people who profit lowing the September 11 attacks. SEPARATION BARRIERS the most are smugglers, said Brak “The Middle East and North “Israel’s barriers have worked Elisabeth Vallet, a scholar at the Ubari Africa is now the most walled well for them so far,” said Brent University of Quebec in Montreal Oil and gas fields region in the world,” said Sterling, author of Do Good Fences and author of “Borders, Fences LIBYA and pipelines

Said Saddiki, a professor of Make Good Neighbours? and a pro- and Walls.” Sabha EGYPT International Relations and fessor at Georgetown University. Construction, meanwhile, International Law at Al-Ain Long- term, though, they remove comes at a price. Saudi Arabia’s University of Science and the incentive to try and reach “Great Wall” separating its north Technology in Abu Dhabi. They a permanent accord with the from Iraq includes observation SAHARA Kufra range from “fences inside cities to Palestinians, he said. towers with cameras and motion DESERT anti-migrant walls and separation In the fight with jihadist move- detectors, part of a $3.4 billion ALGERIA barriers to counter-insurgency” ments, where would-be militants security system. Tunisia expects barricades, he said. are often homegrown and indis- to pay at least $81m for the first The builders have often been cernible from the crowd, and phase of its fence. Barriers have 300km spurred by fear of Islamic State, instruction or indoctrination can to be maintained and patrolled. Areas of control after its conquests in Iraq and be doled out over the Internet, “If we spent money on acquir- NIGER CHAD 200 miles Syria and the group’s ability to barriers are especially ineffec- ing good intelligence or address- as of June 2015 inspire Islamist extremists else- tive. Saudi Arabia, which has ing some of the social and where, or concern over failed or strung heavily militarised fences economic problems that create it Government Anti-government Jihadists failing nations next door. along its land borders, saw sui- rather than building walls, we’d Libyan army Libyan Dawn Islamic State Abu Salim The jihadist group has built cide bombings at two mosques be economically, socially and its own walls to fend off attack- this year. morally much better off,” said Toubou militias Amazigh Ansar al-Sharia brigade ers and keep people from escap- “Wall builders are just trying to Liza Schuster, a former lecturer (Berber) militias ing, including around the Iraqi improve their leverage and hope at City University London, who Tuareg militias Jihadist-controlled countryside cities of Tal Afar and Mosul. for the best,” Sterling said. “They studies the issue. Syria’s embattled government aren’t a panacea, and if you do WPOST-BLOOMBERG Sources: Pieter Van Ostaeyen, wire agencies © GRAPHIC NEWS Carter hails peshmerga as model for Iraq Croatian is

ARBIL: Pentagon chief Ashton and someday in Syria, that can in coordination with US and in support of peshmerga forces Iraqi forces are upping the kidnapped Carter said during a visit to do” what the peshmerga have coalition air power”, a Pentagon fighting IS. On Thursday alone, pressure on IS in its stronghold of Kurdistan yesterday that the achieved, Carter said. statement said. Several high- coalition aircraft conducted 19 Anbar, a vast Sunni province which autonomous region’s peshmerga He was speaking in the Kurdish ranking Kurdish military officials strikes across Iraq, including 10 stretches from the outskirts of in Egypt force was a model for the rest of capital Arbil in front of members attended the talks with Carter. in areas where peshmerga fight- Baghdad to the borders with Syria, Iraq in its fight against jihadists. of the US-led coalition deployed in The threat posed to Arbil by an ers are involved in the battle. Jordan and Saudi Arabia. ZAGREB: A Croatian work- The US defence secretary, on Kurdistan to help push back the IS advance early last August was More than 1,200 peshmerga Iraqi troops and paramilitary ing for a French company has the second day of his first visit to Islamic State group. one of the reasons cited days later have been killed fighting IS, which forces have largely encircled been kidnapped in Cairo, the Iraq since taking office earlier this Earlier, he met Kurdish by US President Barack Obama last year swept into several areas Ramadi as well as Fallujah, the Croatian foreign ministry said year, praised the efforts of what is President Massud Barzani. Carter for announcing US air strikes. controlled by the Kurds, who are province’s other main city, paving yesterday. the region’s de facto army. “commended President Barzani An international coalition has now trying to take them back. the way for major offensives. The 31-year-old man, iden- “We are trying to build a force on the battlefield successes since developed and carried out The coalition has repeatedly Relations are strained between tified only by his initials T S throughout the territory of Iraq, they’ve achieved on the ground thousands of air strikes, many stressed that air strikes were the federal government in was abducted by gunmen on useful only if carried out in sup- Baghdad and the autonomous Wednesday when travelling to port of well-organised ground administration in Kurdistan. work in a car, the ministry said. offensives. Barzani, whose forces have de “The armed group stopped his Carter had expressed his frus- facto seized several oil-rich, con- car, forced the driver out and tration in May after Iraqi govern- tested areas on the back of last drove away in an unknown direc- ment forces, who had held on for year’s IS offensive, has threat- tion,” it said without elaborating. almost 18 months in Ramadi, the ened to organise a referendum A police official in Cairo said capital of the western province on independence. that the kidnapping was not likely of Anbar, completely buckled and Carter stressed during his to be terrorist-related and that a lost the city. “We have an issue meeting with the veteran Kurdish probe was ongoing. with the will of the Iraqis to fight leader Friday that Washington’s The foreign ministry in Zagreb ISIL and defend themselves,” he assistance to Kurdistan as part said it was in contact with said at the time, using another of the war against IS would not Egyptian authorities, as well as acronym for IS. bypass Baghdad. the man’s family. According to Carter was in Baghdad on “The secretary also noted Croatian media reports, the kid- Thursday and said the United that the United States would napped man was working for the States was ready to do more to continue working by, with, and French energy company CGG. help government forces reconquer through the government of Iraq AFP the ground they lost last year but to support Kurdish forces in the added that the army needed to fight against ISIL,” the Pentagon ‘Jihadist’ killed, 16 shape up. “We are willing to do statement said. After his meet- more... when and if (the Iraqis) ings in Kurdistan, Carter left arrested in Tunisia develop capable, motivated forces Iraq, the last stop of a week-long of their own that can take and tour of the Middle East that also TUNIS: Tunisian forces killed US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter (second left) and Iraqi Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani (second retain territory,” he said as he took him to Israel, Jordan and one suspected jihadist and right) during a meeting in Erbil yesterday. met some of the 3,500 US mili- Saudi Arabia. arrested 16 others in a series of tary trainers and advisers in Iraq. AFP operations, the government said yesterday, as lawmakers stud- ied tougher anti-terrorism laws following a spate of attacks. Security forces launched an oper- ation Thursday in Sejnane, in the Fighting stops aid reaching starving South Sudan kids: Charity northern Bizerte region, “against terrorists preparing terrorist acts”, said the interior ministry. It added NAIROBI: Fighting in northern South It has been able to make only one delivery from the vicinity of the airport.” by grenades and others had bullet wounds,” that 13 suspects had been arrested Sudan is preventing lifesaving aid from of food and medical supplies to the centre Malakal has changed hands many times MSF said. Thousands of people have been and that one person was killed when reaching thousands of people living in in the past six weeks, it said. “There is cur- since South Sudan was plunged into war in killed and more than 2.2 million — around they tried to flee the scene. “inhumane conditions”, including starving rently no way to resupply them with essen- December 2013 when fighting between rival one in six of the population — displaced Another raid was launched yes- children, the medical charity Medecins tial ready-to-use therapeutic food,” it said. factions of the army broke out in the capi- since the war broke out. terday at dawn in the town of Menzel Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Malakal airport has been closed for tal, Juba. It is now virtually empty apart Both sides have been accused of human Bourguiba, resulting in three further It called for warring parties to allow aid over two weeks as government forces try from a heavy military presence, MSF said, rights abuses and indiscriminate killings, arrests. The ministry said weapons into Malakal, a town in Upper Nile State in to secure the area from rebels, military and fleeing civilians have come under fire. often along ethnic lines, with former vice including explosives, ammunition the north of the country, which government spokesman Philip Aguer told the Thomson The town’s population was estimated at president and rebel leader Riek Machar’s and several assault rifles were seized forces recaptured from rebels on July 6. Reuters Foundation by phone. “There are around 140,000 in 2010. Nuers pitted against President Salva Kiir’s during the operations. Almost 80 children with severe acute fears of clashes around Malakal and this Five children were among 36 wounded powerful Dinka community. Hunger is at Authorities have pledged to malnutrition, which is usually fatal without is why the airport is not working; the river civilians who were brought to MSF’s its worst since independence. Nearly 70 crack down on extremism and medical care, cannot receive treatment at transport is not working,” he said. Malakal hospital on July 19 and 20 after percent of the population — 7.9 million lawmakers have this week debated MSF’s health centre in Wau Shilluk, on the “The rebels are still around the town. being attacked by an armed group while people - are expected to face hunger dur- a bill aimed at beefing up powers outskirts of Malakal, because of the fight- They don’t have the ability to take it again travelling in a truck, it said. ing the current rainy season, the United to confront the jihadist threat. ing, MSF said in a statement. from us, but we want to push them away “Some had multiple blast injuries caused Nations said. AFP AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Too early to hold Geneva 3 talks: Syria FM Iran’s support to continue: Muallem

BEIRUT: Syria’s foreign min- on Syria agreed three years ister said yesterday it was too ago - which called for politi- early to hold another United cal transition but left Assad’s Nations-backed peace confer- role unresolved - needed to be ence on Syria, indicating the dim revitalised. prospects for diplomacy as a UN Battlefield defeats for Assad this envoy wraps up three months of year had led some Western officials consultations on the war. to believe it might be possible to Walid Al Muallem also reiter- reach an agreement that would see ated his government’s view that him eventually leave power and end Iran’s support for Damascus the war that has killed a quarter of would continue after its nuclear a million people. deal with world powers includ- But the setbacks also trig- ing the United States, which says gered renewed pledges of sup- President Bashar Al Assad must port for Assad from Iran, his leave power. main regional ally, which has He was speaking at a “con- not shown any change in stance ference against terrorism” in towards Damascus. Hezbollah has Damascus, sharing the podium said there is no political solution with the visiting Iranian minis- in the foreseeable future. ter of culture and Islamic guid- Moualem said Iran’s position ance and the deputy head of the towards Syria would not change, Lebanese group Hezbollah, which though “there are those in the is fighting alongside the Syrian West, foremost among them the army in the four-year-old war. United States, that believe this UN Syria envoy Staffan de agreement will enable the West Mistura, who met Muallem in to influence Iranian positions Damascus on Thursday, is due to towards the Syrian crisis”. brief the Security Council next Assad’s other main foreign week about his discussions with ally, Russia, is trying to bring parties involved in the war. about rapprochement between Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al Muallem (centre), the Deputy Secretary General of Lebanese Hezbollah, Naim Qassem (left), and the Iranian Culture The UN has hosted two major the Syrian government and Minister, Ali Janati, attend the opening session of the International Media Conference for Combating Terrorism at the Dar Al Assad for Culture and Arts conferences on Syria since 2011, the regional states hostile to it — in Damascus yesterday. Some 130 media, Arab and foreign delegates are taking part in the two-day conference. The conference will discuss the role of last of which brought together the including Saudi Arabia and media and the means of forming an international coalition to combat terrorism. government and representatives of Turkey. The stated aim is to the opposition. Those talks ended forge an alliance to fight Islamic in failure early last year. State, which has seized large “We think that going to Geneva areas of Iraq and Syria. Opposition groups agree Assad must go 3 is premature unless the Syrians Late last month, President address their issues among them- Vladimir Putin said Russian BRUSSELS: Syria’s two main regime and all its leaders, pillars in Brussels after talks there. “They beholden to outside interests. selves,” Muallem told a televised contacts with Turkey, Jordan opposition groups settled long- and security agencies.” should be brought to justice and Meanwhile, Syrian insurgents conference in Damascus. and Saudi Arabia had showed standing differences yesterday They said they had now “agreed not be rewarded by being involved said they intensified shelling of a He said the Syrian govern- all agreed on fighting the hard- to agree that President Bashar a road map for the salvation of in any transitional body,” he said. major army and security area in ment welcomed the idea of more line Islamic State group in Syria. Al Assad must step down in any Syria, including the basic prin- NCCDC executive bureau central Deraa yesterday in a new talks with members of the Syrian Putin called on Syria to begin a deal to end the country’s bloody ciples of a political settlement, member Khalaf Dahowd said the bid to capture government-held opposition hosted by Russia. Two dialogue with such countries. conflict. to be adopted by their respective most important thing was the parts of the strategic city along such rounds of talks were held Muallem reiterated his view The issue has dogged efforts to competent bodies.” This would be overall agreement, not Assad’s the border with Jordan. in Moscow earlier this year but that forging such an alliance in get the exiled but widely recog- based on the 2012 Geneva accord role. “We have a political agree- Last month, the Southern were not attended by the main the short term required “a mira- nised Syrian National Coalition which envisaged a transitional ment which gathers all the politi- Front group attacked to drive Western-backed opposition coali- cle”. But he held open the possi- and the National Coordination government of national unity with cal camps. We do not think these remaining government forces tion or any of the armed groups bility in the medium term, saying Committee for Democratic full powers to run the country and things should prevent us from from the city but the assault was fighting Assad. the threat of terrorism would Change (NCCDC), which is tol- organise elections. finding common ground.” beaten back by well entrenched In Brussels, members of that force neighbouring states into an erated by the Syrian authorities, Up to now, the NCCDC had His colleague Safwan Akkash government forces. coalition and another opposition alliance with Damascus. to agree a common platform. appeared to leave the door open said “Assad’s role is secondary” Like Aleppo, Deraa city is group said they were working on Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon The two groups said in a state- for Assad to play a role in a while the fate of other members already partially under rebel their own a “roadmap” for ending brought up the idea of the coali- ment after a meeting in Brussels transitional government but the of the regime “will be discussed.” control and largely surrounded the war. tion in comments published on that peace “can be achieved National Coalition was bitterly The NCCDC, which is by insurgent-held countryside. “The international community Friday, saying Moscow wanted through a political process under- opposed and restated that posi- also known as the National Southern Front group’s spokes- needs to force the regime to the to bring Syria and Saudi Arabia taken by the Syrians themselves, tion again yesterday. Coordination Body, is part of the man Isaam Al Rayyes said the negotiating table,” said Hadi Al closer together. Asked about such under the auspices of the UN”. “We do not see any role for country’s “tolerated” opposition, latest offensive targeted a secu- Bahra, a member of the National efforts, Alexander Zaspikin told This solution would involve “a Assad or members of his gov- operating inside Syria but under rity zone in the centre of the Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary Lebanese daily Annahar: “We are fundamental and comprehensive ernment in a transitional body,” tight restrictions. It has often city, which the Syrian army had and Opposition Forces. Bahra said still at the beginning.” change of the current political Hisham Marwa of the National been at odds with the National turned into a fortified base. an international communique REUTERS regime, including the head of the Coalition told a press conference Coalition, accusing it of being AGENCIES Tiny Palestinian village facing demolition fights for survival SUSIYA: The bulldozers could its historic zone. It says a High Israeli courts. “We are worried, arrive at any moment to tear Court order denying the request always under pressure since the down the tiny Palestinian village, of residents to delay the demoli- ruling by the High Court,” said but this time those who call it tion must be obeyed. resident Nasser Nawajaa. “We are home say they will not leave. UN humanitarian officials say scared that the army is coming to “Even if they push us out by however that Palestinians face destroy everything.” force, we will come back the next long odds of being granted build- Residents say the Israeli day,” said Jihad Al Nawajaa, the ing permits in a large portion of authorities want them to move to head of the Susiya village council. the West Bank, and rights activ- Yatta, which lies in the part of the The Israeli authorities’ plans ists point out Susiya is far from West Bank that falls under what to demolish Susiya, located in the the only Palestinian village at risk. is known as Area A — meaning it south Hebron hills and home to Slogans against the demolition is completely under the control of about 340 people, have drawn con- have been painted on tents in the the Palestinian Authority. demnation and made it a symbol of village, located near the city of Susiya is located in Area C, the occupation of the West Bank. Hebron and which relies on agri- which is controlled by the Israeli The village has been torn down culture and herding. If the resi- authorities. More than 60 percent before and its homes are mainly dents are forced out, it would by of the West Bank lies in Area C. tents, caves and makeshift struc- no means be the first time. The divisions were meant to tures, along with a children’s play- Some 30 years ago, Susiya resi- be temporary arrangements set ground. The United States and dents were expelled from their vil- up under the Oslo Accords while Anti-terror police detain alleged members of jihadist terror militia referring to itself as Islamic State (IS), in Istanbul European nations have urged Israel lage and later rebuilt their houses a long-term peace was negoti- yesterday. In all, 251 people were arresred as part of a series of raids in 13 provinces targeting members of IS not to move ahead with demolition. sightly further away on farm- ated. According to the UN, less and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. US State Department spokes- land. There have been two other than one percent of Area C has man John Kirby recently said expulsions, according to Rabbis been reserved for Palestinian demolition of the village would be For Human Rights, which has development. Turkey-US airbase deal envisages “harmful and provocative”. “Such defended Susiya for years before AFP actions have an impact beyond those individuals and families who are evicted,” he said. Syria no-fly zone along border “We are concerned that the demolition of this village may ISTANBUL: A landmark deal other jihadists to discourage a so, it said. The agreement does not worsen the atmosphere for a between Turkey and the United new flow of refugees to Turkey, it foresee the arrival of any American peaceful resolution and would set States for US warplanes to use said. The agreement comes after ground troops in Turkey but an a damaging standard for displace- a Turkish airbase to attack months of negotiations between additional contingent of up to 50 ment and land confiscation, par- Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Ankara and Washington. US military staff will be allowed ticularly given settlement-related Syria foresees a no-fly zone Where necessary, US-led in for technical support. activity in the area.” along part of the Syrian border, coalition forces could conduct The agreement only covers use The nearby Israeli settlement a report said yesterday. reconnaissance and assault oper- of the Incirlik air base, which is of the same name has added to The agreement for US planes ations in the area, Hurriyet said. close to the city of Adana just tensions. Israeli rights group to use Incirlik base in southern “US planes equipped with bombs east of the Syrian border. But US B’Tselem says that “based on past Turkey envisages a 90km no-fly and missiles will be able to use the warplanes will be able to use the experience, if the residents are zone between the Syrian towns of Incirlik Air Base” for raids against Batman, Diyarbakir and Malatya forced to leave their land, settlers Marea and Jarabulus to the east, IS, the agreement says according to air bases in eastern Turkey in the will take it over with the support the Hurriyet daily said. The no-fly Hurriyet. Turkey could back up the event of an emergency, it said. of the state”. zone would back up a planned safe air raids with artillery. Without giving a precise date, For the defence ministry unit zone on the ground that would War planes of the regime of Hurriyet said the Incirlik base that oversees Israeli activities in Israeli, foreign and Palestinian activists take part in a march to protest extend up to 50km inside Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be opened for the US forces the Palestinian territories, Susiya against the demolition of the Palestinian village of Susya, south-east of The safe zone would aim at will not be able to enter the no-fly to use in raids on Syria “very soon”. does not have a permit and has Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, yesterday. preventing infiltration by IS and zone and will be targeted if they do AFP expanded illegally and outside of SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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URKISH jets bombed Islamic State targets in Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Syria for the first time, opening an important new front in the war against the militants. In an Tequally significant move, the Turkish government has finally agreed that the US can use Turkish bases for its missions against the IS. After watching for many months the rise and rampage A better Iran deal? of IS in Syria and the Middle East, Ankara has been forced to rethink its policy on IS. The decision to bomb the IS was inevitable, and though it has come a little late, the government in Ankara will be able to achieve its objectives by striking at the root of militants. History suggests no The strikes early yesterday came after US and Turkish officials said Turkey had agreed to allow the United States BY PHILIP GORDON produce nuclear weapons. Critics of influence in Iraq. More to the point, the to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State from Turkish that deal, including in a newly elected Iraq case demonstrates that even dev- territory, a major strategic shift aimed at facilitating more HE debate over the July 14 Republican Congress, objected to the astating sanctions and a highly cred- nuclear agreement with Iran provision of fuel oil and light-water ible threat of force do not necessarily extensive attacks against the militants in their northern has come down to a ques- reactors to North Korea, insisting lead a regime to accept a “better deal.” Syria strongholds. The Turkish police also detained 251 Ttion of alternatives. President that its bad behavior should not be Republican presidential candidates such people in coordinated nationwide raids against suspected IS Barack Obama and other defenders rewarded. Then, after years of North as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham jihadists and Kurdish militants following a wave of deadly of the agreement argue not that it is Korea’s foot- dragging, the incoming seem to believe that just telling the violence in the country. If Turkey continues its operation, perfect, but that it is far better than Bush administration said in 2001 that Iranians that “if you want a war, you’re the air campaign against IS will be strengthened and the any realistic alternative, and certainly the Agreed Framework as drafted was going to lose it” will lead them to let us better than the use of military force. no longer on the table and focused on simply dictate our terms. The Iraq and flow of people, money and arms through Turkey to IS in Critics, on the other hand, deny that further isolation of a country already North Korea precedents suggest this is Syria will be curtailed. Supporting the revolution against the alternative to this deal is war. They far more economically squeezed than a fantasy. the dictatorial regime of Bashar Al Assad is not the same contend that increasing economic pres- Iran is today. The result? Over the next What about the case of Iran itself? as supporting IS which is now in sure on Iran, backed by a credible threat several years, North Korea restarted its In fact, we’ve already tried the “alter- the forefront of this revolution. The of force, would yield a better diplomatic plutonium-producing nuclear reactor, native” approach there, too, and it’s Ankara was Syrian struggle for freedom needs to deal. revealed a covert uranium-enrichment what brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately, program, conducted advanced ballistic When the Bush administration came forced to take be taken away from the IS and the political science missile tests and began producing and into office, Iran had only just launched Turkish raids will help immensely in does not lend testing nuclear weapons. its enrichment program and had no action against achieving this objective. We can look at itself to control- There is, of course, no guarantee known operating centrifuges. We had the IS after Ankara decided to act against results produced led experiments, that any enduring deal could have been an administration that was hardly seen the IS once it realized that the and we cannot done with the erratic and unpredictable as reluctant to use force and, after 2003, test these com- regime in Pyongyang, whose attempts to 150,000 US troops on Iran’s Western realising that terrorist group was posing a threat by the proposed peting hypothe- cheat on the Agreed Framework under- border and a demonstrated willingness the militants to its security. Turkey had refrained alternative — ses over the next score the importance of verification. But to use them. The Europeans wanted were posing a from full participation in the counting on 10 to 15 years to what is certain is that the absence of to take advantage of this leverage and US-led coalition against the Islamic pressure and the see which yields even an imperfect agreement resulted cut a deal to limit Iran’s nuclear pro- threat to its State since last summer, citing a a better result. not in capitulation but in a dangerous gram, but the United States insisted range of concerns that the Obama threat of force We can, however, and unstable nuclear weapons state. on better terms. What came next? security. look at results Iraq’s recent history also provides Not an Iranian agreement to aban- administration’s strategy did not to get everything produced by the some lessons. After years of crippling don its enrichment program forever adequately address the complexity we want — in proposed alter- international sanctions and growing while accepting intrusive inspections, of the Syrian war. Recent events, native — count- frustration with Saddam Hussein’s but the program’s massive expansion, including gains by both the Islamic State and Syrian Kurds similar cases in ing on pressure dissimulations, the Bush administra- along with the construction of a pluto- along the Turkish border, as well as signs that the Islamic the recent past. and the threat of tion again decided that only pressure nium-producing heavy-water reactor, a State is gaining a deeper foothold inside Turkey, appear to force to get eve- and a credible threat of force could get growing stockpile of enriched uranium, rything we want the dictator to come clean. The United more advanced centrifuge work and the have galvanized Turkey to act. On Thursday, Islamic State — in similar cases in the recent past. States deployed massive military force enrichment of uranium to more danger- fighters shot and killed a Turkish soldier on the border, Doing so makes the current nuclear deal to the region and gave Hussein an ulti- ous levels. prompting Turkish troops to retaliate with artillery fire look pretty good. matum requiring him to abandon his None of these cases proves that the and then airstrikes. Reports also said intense pressure from Take, for example, North Korea, illicit programs and allow unfettered current deal with Iran will be effective, Washington also contributed to the Turkish shift. another insecure, authoritarian state inspections or face invasion and removal though it is far more detailed and com- with a nuclear program and problem- from power. Hussein refused — even prehensive than any of the failed agree- There is no doubt that with the action against the IS, atic foreign policy. In 1994, the Clinton though in this case he did not even have ments that came before it. What these Turkey will get entangled in the fight against terrorism. administration and its regional part- the weapons in question. The result has, cases do suggest, however, is that there Problems in the neighbouring countries have caused an ners tried to deal with that program to be sure, left Iraq without a nuclear is little basis to believe that merely infiltration of terrorists into its territory, who can be with something called the “Agreed weapons program, but at astronomical increasing sanctions and threatening expected to retaliate. Ankara should not mix its Kurdish Framework,” which provided modest financial, human and diplomatic costs force will lead to a better deal than the problem with the IS and must treat the latter as a threat to economic benefits to North Korea in and unintended consequences, includ- one on the table. exchange for eliminating its means to ing, ironically, vastly increased Iranian WASHINGTON POST global peace and must help uproot it once and for all. The other side Quote of Stable Chinese stock market good for world the day ITH the benchmark crisis and Chinese economic growth in the monetary institutions. community should feel relieved that Shanghai Composite is catching wide attention, the deci- Moreover, the fast-spreading pes- the Chinese authorities have quickly Index successfully siveness of the Chinese authorities in simism from the depressed stock stepped in to prevent systemic risks at leveling off above 4,000 taking all means possible to stop the market would have dealt a heavy blow home and add certainty to the global Wpoints nowadays after plummeting spread of stock market risks has been to the healthy growth of China’s real economy. more than 30 percent in weeks, the invaluable. economy. The initial stabilization of the Chinese authorities have seemingly If the irrational dive in share prices As the world holds its breath over Shanghai and Shenzhen stock mar- Visiting Kenya as succeeded in shoring up investors’ had not been halted, the resulting panic Greece struggling out of its debt cri- kets has fully justified the decision by a private citizen confidence. would not only have created havoc in sis, a runaway fall in the Chinese stock China to press the risk management The fact that China’s trillion-dollar the stock market but also applied the market valued at 10 times the total button and proven China’s determi- is probably more securities market has stopped hemor- brakes to the ongoing transformation Greek gross domestic product would nation and capability in financial gov- meaningful to me rhaging speaks volumes about China’s of the Chinese economy. have led to undesirable consequences. ernance. The solid progress over the capability and determination to main- Tens of millions of retail investors More importantly, the fragile glo- couple of weeks has also showcased than visiting as tain the market’s healthy development. would have suffered huge losses from bal recovery has to survive the tre- the vitality and validity of the world’s president. At a time when the global econ- sharp irrational drops in share prices, mendous uncertainty that the United second-largest economy and its finan- omy is witnessing its slowest growth while the further spread of market risks States’ looming rise in interest rates cial system. Barack Obama rate since the 2008 global financial could have triggered systemic danger will bring about. The international China Daily US President SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Yemen war frontlines in favour of Riyadh

diplomat said Saleh was “gambling, as The capture of Aden ever, but now less for power than for survival”. by thousands of He backed the Houthis when they seized the capital Sana’a in September and pressed south towards Aden along- anti-Houthi forces side his forces, triggering the Arab inter- vention on March 26. was made possible “They’re speaking to him to extract him from the country, because they real- ise that while he cannot again rule, he in part by a military can still destroy the country,” a Yemeni politician said. effort prepared for Aden is likely to be a base for any expansion of the Gulf Arab-backed ground campaign, and commanders see many weeks by Gulf their training of Yemeni forces as essen- tial to its success. Arab states which “The most important was the reor- ganisation of the army on a modern and trained and supplied patriotic footing, and training by the (Gulf) coalition of its ranks in fighting and equipping it with modern armoured Yemeni recruits for vehicles, artillery and machine guns,” the official said. the task. Morale, at least for the moment, is high. “The situation has been turned upside down after the battle for Aden, BY NOAH BROWNING and and will be so across the whole south MOHAMMED MUKHASHAF soon,” said a senior commander in the anti-Houthi forces said. he tide of Yemen’s war has Another offensive, he added, was unexpectedly turned, handing a planned in the coming days somewhere morale boost and possibly deci- in the north, where battles are also rag- Tsive military momentum to Gulf Yemenis shop at a market in the old city of Sana’a yesterday. ing between Gulf-backed fighters and the Arab-backed forces bent on ending the Houthis. ascendancy of the Houthis, a powerful But the momentum may slow if the militia they see as a puppet of Iran. rapprochement between Washington and made common cause last year against said negotiations between the ex-pres- fight approaches the Houthi-controlled The loss of the strategic southern port Tehran. “In this zero-sum game, the bal- shared enemies. ident’s representatives and the US, Sana’a, as Yemen’s centre and north are of Aden in a few days is a spectacular ance of power in the region has swung to The move, typical of Yemen’s con- Britain and the UAE “to find a peaceful a bulwark of support for the group and reversal for the Houthis, a once obscure the Gulf states’ advantage, after this net stantly shifting political landscape, solution to the crisis... have made signifi- full of its heavily-armed backers. rural group that won national impor- loss for Iran in Yemen.” gave the Houthis a decisive edge on the cant progress”. The Gulf-backed forces have ended a tance last year before gaining the upper The capture of Aden by thousands of battlefield. Contacted, a Western diplomat played tight Houthi blockade of Aden that cut hand in the four-month civil war. anti-Houthi forces was made possible Diplomats and Yemeni politicians say down the significance of the contacts, off badly-needed supplies of food and fuel. At stake in what happens next is the in part by a military effort prepared for representatives of Saleh, whose army saying they were part of regular discus- Four cabinet ministers arrived last stability of a country that is a cockpit of many weeks by Gulf Arab states which loyalists laid siege to Aden alongside the sions with Yemeni officials. week “as part of an initiative to revi- rivalry between regional powers Saudi trained and supplied Yemeni recruits for Houthis in March and April, are negoti- Saleh’s party denied any meetings in talise the state, repair infrastructure Arabia and Iran, sits on leading inter- the task. ating with UAE diplomats. an statement, and a party official tweeted and renew institutions wrecked by the national shipping routes and provides The Gulf Arabs, including Saudi Arabia If successful, the gambit may deliver a that Saleh was opposed to quitting the attacks on the city,” the Yemeni politi- a haven for Al Qaeda’s boldest interna- and the UAE, have deployed some of their critical impetus to US-allied Gulf states, country. cian said. tional wing. special forces, backing up the effort with which intervened militarily in March to A politician from Yemen’s government But the Arab coalition, especially the Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political sci- hundreds of air strikes. restore to power President Abdrabbu said talks focused on the departure of UAE local fighters say has taken a lead entist in the UAE, said Gulf Arab states But the advance may also have ben- Mansur Hadi, a Saudi and US ally, and Saleh, an arch survivor who balanced role in the Aden offensive, has made sac- saw Yemen as a proving ground for their efited from efforts to weaken a key pil- beat back Iran’s influence in the region. nimbly between rival armed and tribal rifices to cement the advance. resolve to confront Iran, and last week’s lar of Houthi power — an alliance with “Gulf countries have been working on groups during his three decades in office. At least two Emirati soldiers have capture of Aden proved they could hold former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who military training and arms supplies that Despite being forced to step down in fallen, while advising the local militias their own. has the loyalty of army units that are drove the events in Aden, but it’s simulta- 2012 under a Gulf-brokered transition in Aden, and the rare spectacle of a flag- “If America and Iran are now on good probably the country’s toughest military neously working through the backdoor to plan following mass protests against his draped coffin disembarking from a mili- terms ... this is a show of things to come force. split Saleh from the Houthis,” said Farea rule, Saleh has remained a powerful polit- tary plane in the country underscored its — we are ready to defend our own turf,” The tie-up is rooted in tactics rather Al Muslimi, a Yemeni researcher with ical player operating behind the scenes, commitment — now bearing fruit — to he said, referring to an Iranian nuclear than ideological sympathy — Saleh and Carnegie Middle East Centre. enjoying immunity under the deal. reverse the campaign’s flagging fortunes. accord that could open the way to a the Houthis were sworn enemies but Adel Shuja, a leader of Saleh’s party, His fortunes are again in question. A REUTERS Derna expulsion shows IS limits in Libya Strong-arm tactics BY ULF LAESSING and AYMAN AL WARFALLI get results in France he Islamic State (IS) jihadists have exploited widespread chaos to gain a BY ANDREW CALLUS Tfoothold in Libya, but their ejection from an eastern city suggests they may not ess than a year since France abandoned its “ecotax” on truck- achieve a Iraq-style takeover due to strong ers after protesters destroyed the equipment built to collect it, local rivals and the absence of sectarian Lsimilar strong-arm tactics look to be working for the farmers, divisions. cab drivers and ferry workers. Last month, local Islamist fighters rein- Livestock producers struggling with low prices won a hastily assem- forced by civilians ousted IS militants from bled package of loans and debt relief this week after blocking motor- Derna on the eastern Mediterranean coast, ways and dumping manure outside supermarkets. one of two bastions the jihadists had estab- Socialist President Francois Hollande, keen to avoid such outbursts lished in the North African oil-producing of anger coalescing into a wider anti-government campaign, met farm- country. ers’ leaders and urged processors and distributors to raise the prices It was the first setback in Libya for the they pay producers. ultra-violent jihadist movement that has sent Weeks earlier, authorities forced the closure of the Uber ride-hailing in combatants and clerics from Tunisia, Yemen app and summoned its bosses to court after taxi drivers furious at and other Arab states to try to repeat its suc- low-cost competition overturned cars and injured police. cess in Iraq and Syria, where it has captured Ferry workers who have repeatedly blocked the Channel Tunnel vast territories and proclaimed a “caliphate” entrance with burning tyres, paralysing traffic between Britain and based on medieval religious precepts. the continent, won government intervention to help secure their jobs IS has benefited from Libya’s anarchy. Two after their ships were sold to a Danish buyer. rival governments are fighting each other and Members of the Libyan pro-government forces aim a weapon during their deployment in Lamluda, Now the men and women who run licensed tobacco stores are hood- unable to gain the upper hand while former southwest of the city of Derna. ing roadside radars with bin liners at night to deprive the government rebel groups that helped topple Muammar of revenues from speeding fines to make it drop plans to ban brand Gaddafi in 2011 compete for power, creating near Sirte and stormed a luxury hotel in the losing control of Tripoli a year ago to a rival names from cigarette packs. a security vacuum. capital Tripoli, killing five foreigners. group said they had surrounded Derna. “IS Hollande’s critics say his concessions to lawlessness are typical of But IS was driven out of Derna after seven Toaldo said he expected the jihadists would aren’t many and don’t have petrol to move a leadership style that avoids confrontation — and painful decisions. people were killed during a protest against the try to set up checkpoints at a strategic central around,” said Abdul Karim Sabra, a local mili- Some note he helped broker a European bailout deal for Greece that influx of foreign jihadists and the killing of a junction where the east-west coastal highway tary spokesman. “They don’t have military includes far tougher reforms than anything he has chosen for France. commander of the local Abu Salim Martyrs links with a passage to Sabha, a city in far vehicles either. They get around in fertiliser His predecessors’ record was not much different. “France has had a Brigade, allied with a former anti-Gaddafi southern desert. “They would be able to ask trucks.” long history of demonstrations, protests, and strikes in some of these militia in the town. for a lot of protection money (there),” he said. But clashes between IS and eastern army sectors, especially transport,” said Kerstin Hamann, a political sci- Several angry residents joined Abu Salim Unlike in Iraq and Syria, IS has been unable units aligned with the internationally rec- ence professor at University of Central Florida who has analysed the Martyrs to help them expel IS from Derna, an to earn millions by selling oil on the black ognised government outside Derna, and car outcome of strikes in Western Europe from 1980 to 2009. Islamist hotspot even during Gaddafi’s 42-year market because it is dominated by Libyans. bombs going off inside the city, killing 10 peo- Supporters of the ecotax — a pro-environment levy on heavy goods rule in which he suppressed political Islam. So IS relies on ransoms for abducted prison- ple and blamed by residents on IS, suggest the vehicles that has won broad parliamentary support — predicted that The Sunni IS has drawn grassroots support ers and state salaries paid to local members military encirclement has not been effective. its withdrawal would encourage copycat campaigns. in Iraq and Syria by milking long-standing in Libya where most adults remain on the IS can always seek refuge in the Green “It’s because such tactics work — and they are doing so again,” said Sunni-Shia sectarian enmities. But this does state payroll. Mountain hinterland, a hideout for independ- Alistair Cole, a professor of politics and France specialist at Sciences not work in Libya, a Sunni country where local IS might also try to tap into grievances in ence hero Omar Al Mukhtar for years when Po university in Lyon. armed factions and tribes regard IS as an infil- the impoverished south. Neither rival govern- fighting the then-Italian colonial regime. Although steeped in a tradition of direct action dating back before trator and competitor. ment has any authority in the remote, desolate Since the eastern army units and Abu Salim the 1789 revolution, France has no monopoly on effective acts of protest, “People had had enough of Daesh,” said a area where dozens have been killed in clashes fighters treat each other as enemies, and as civil disobedience and withdrawal of labour. In neighbouring Britain, Derna resident, using an Arabic acronym for between the Tuareg and Tebu tribes. long as these regional military forces do not riots and mass non-payment that followed the introduction of a “poll IS, also known as ISIS and ISIL. “Abu Salim “IS-linked militants may seek to take try to venture into Derna, it may remain a tax” for households in 1989 led to its swift withdrawal. Brigade has enjoyed support going back to the advantage of feelings of marginalisation in the playground for radical Islamists. France has near the lowest rate of union membership of OECD and (anti-Gaddafi) revolution.” southwest, particularly among members of the “It’s a crowded field,” said Frederic Wehrey, European Union member states, with fewer than 10 percent of work- Mattia Toaldo, policy fellow at European Tuareg ethnic group, to recruit fighters and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for ers affiliated. Yet the country lost the most work time to strikes in a Council on Foreign Relations, said IS would hold territory,” said Geoffrey Howard, Middle International Peace. “Everything in Libya is selection of 17 European countries between 2008 and 2012, a European probably focus on its other Libya power base East and North Africa analyst at London- fragmented, everything is localised, so it’s dif- Commission report showed. Apart from France, only Denmark showed — Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown on the central based Global Risk Analysis. ficult for any group to expand.” It also remains an increase on the previous five years. coast where IS has won support from Gaddafi As for Derna, IS has confirmed in a video to be seen whether life will improve for people The 2014 study also distinguished between strikes waning generally loyalists opposed to the jostling new rulers. that it has pulled out its fighters. But the in Derna. “Shops and banks have reopened in Europe, and other forms of protest on the rise. It is these sectoral IS insurgents have attacked oil fields south fighting is not over. (since IS pulled out) but there is lack of medi- protests and the accompanying maximum mayhem tactics that are of the central city, kidnapped some nine for- Military units loyal to the internationally cine in hospitals,” said a local resident, wishing seen as a French speciality. eign workers, executed 21 Egyptian Christians recognised government based in the east since anonymity for his safety. REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS Motive eludes investigators in Louisiana theatre rampage

LAFAYETTE: A jobless 59-year- preparations for a quick getaway. bear arms, protected under the who joined the Tea Party. He was 2012 following 29 years of marriage, old man whose estranged fam- Disguises including wigs and Second Amendment of the US described as a “gadfly” who voiced court records show. According ily feared him was identified by glasses were later uncovered in Constitution. his views on talk radio and ran for to the clerk of court’s office the authorities yesterday as the gun- his motel room. “It is apparent President Barack Obama, who local political office. divorce had not been finalised. man who fatally shot two people that he was intent on shooting was traveling to Kenya, received In April 2008, he was ordered Craft, the police chief, said in a rampage at crowded movie and escaping,” Lafayette Police a briefing about the shooting dur- not to contact his wife, daughter records indicated that Houser, theater in central Louisiana Chief Jim Craft said. ing a refueling stop in Germany, and other relatives after they filed who is white, had no arrests in the before turning the gun on him- Houser, who police said came said White House spokesman a request for a protective order last 10 to 15 years, but previously self as police closed in. from Phoenix City, Alabama, Josh Earnest. “The thoughts and against him in Carroll County, had an arson and a misdemeanor The suspected gunman, John never made it back to his car, prayers of everyone at the White Georgia. In the request, Houser’s arrest, possibly involving the sale R Houser (pictured), who police instead shooting himself as police House, including the President and estranged wife, Kellie Houser, said of alcohol to a minor. described as a drifter from swarmed the Grand 16 Theatre, First Lady, are with the commu- she feared for his “volatile mental A LinkedIn page that appears Alabama who was staying at a a multiplex located along main nity of Lafayette, Louisiana, espe- state” after he threatened to stop to have belonged to Houser local motel, opened fire with a thoroughfare in Lafayette. Police cially the families of those who the wedding of his daughter and describes him as an entrepre- .40 caliber handgun about 20 said they did not know why the were killed,” a statement said. her boyfriend, according to court neur with a specialty in invest- minutes into the film Trainwreck, suspect launched the attack in Authorities said seven were records. She said her husband was ment management. He helped run sending panicked theatre-goers enforcement and victims. “This Lafayette, roughly 90km south- wounded in the rampage, three on daily medications for manic- two bars in Georgia from the late ducking behind seats and run- just shows these senseless acts west of Baton Rouge. of them critically. The two victims depression and bipolar disorder 1970s to 2000, the page says. His ning for the exits. One woman of violence can literally happen “Certainly it exists out there were identified as Mayci Breaux, at the time. education included a law degree pulled the fire alarm. anywhere.” that we may not find a motive 21, from Franklin, Louisiana, It was unclear if Houser had from Faulkner University in 1991, “This is a normal movie the- Before purchasing a ticket for but that’s not our goal right now,” and Jillian Johnson, 33, from any other children. The protective and a BBA in accounting from atre in a normal part of a nor- the 7pm show, Houser parked his Colonel Mike Edmonson of the Lafayette. Two of the wounded order was granted after Houser Columbus State University. mal town. This is Anywhere, blue Lincoln Continental, having Louisiana State Police said. victims were teachers, Jindal said. was released from an involuntary He said he was a member of the USA,” said Republican Louisiana switched its licence plates, near The shooting is likely to heat Houser had a volatile relation- commitment requested by his Tea Party, according to Tea Party Governor Bobby Jindal, who the theatre’s exit and stashed up a festering political debate ship with his family, who said he family, according to the petition. Nation.com, and worked as guest went to the crime scene in the a set of keys on the tyre in in the United States over access had a history of mental illness. He Houser’s wife filed for divorce host on a now-defunct political city of Lafayette to meet with law what police said appeared to be to weapons and the right to was also a political conservative in March after they separated in commentary show. REUTERS

Christie campaigns in Iowa France to push Britain needs EU for milk price increase PARIS: France will push for an increase in milk market inter- to stay in EU, vention prices at a European Union council of farm minis- ters on September 7, French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said. The summit was says Obama requested by France, which faces pressure for action on prices from dairy and livestock farmers who have blocked roads with tractors Eurosceptic lawmakers irked and taken other direct actions to highlight their grievances. In LONDON/WASHINGTON: about the UK and the EU,” John France skim milk powder prices US President Barack Obama said Redwood, a lawmaker from have now fallen below interven- he wants Britain to stay in the Cameron’s Conservative Party, tion levels at ¤1,660 euros a tonne European Union and help main- said on his website. He accused on Wednesday. The EU interven- tain the post-war transatlantic Obama of lecturing Britain. tion price is ¤1,698. partnership, prompting angry “If letting foreign countries responses from Eurosceptic law- impose laws on you, levy taxes Azeri reporter makers in London. on you, and spend your money Republican presidential hopeful New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks to guests gathered for a campaign “Having the United Kingdom is such a good idea why doesn’t event at Jersey Grille in Davenport, Iowa, yesterday. A recent poll had Christie trailing most of his Republican in the European Union gives us he create an American Union so rivals in Iowa. Christie is hoping to gain support with several campaign stops scheduled in the state. goes on trial much greater confidence about Mexico can have common borders the strength of the transatlan- with the U.S.?” he said. BAKU: A top Azerbaijani inves- tic union,” Obama said in an The opposition Labour Party, tigative journalist and anti-graft interview with the BBC. He said which wants Britain to remain in campaigner, who accused the Britain being inside the EU had the EU, also seized on Obama’s country’s president of corrup- helped make the world a safer remarks, saying Cameron’s tion, went on trial yesterday on and more prosperous place since “weakness and indecision are US Justice Department weighs charges she denounced as politi- World War Two. putting our country’s future cally motivated. Considered “We want to make sure that international influence and pros- the energy-rich country’s most the United Kingdom continues to perity at risk”. request to probe Hillary emails prominent journalist, Khadija have that influence. Because we Cameron’s planned EU vote and Ismayilova faces up to 12 years believe that the values that we British cuts to military spending in prison if convicted on a string share are the right ones, not just in recent years have caused con- NEW YORK: The US Justice from political opponents that she although her staff have recently of charges including embezzle- for ourselves, but for Europe as a cern in Washington. But Obama Department said yesterday had sidestepped transparency and acknowledged there are gaps in ment and tax evasion. She has whole and the world as a whole.” congratulated the government that it is weighing a request by record-keeping laws. the records she retained. been in pre-trial detention since British Prime Minister David on committing to Nato’s defence two government inspectors to Clinton, the front-runner to Reports about a possible inves- December. “I am being perse- Cameron is seeking reforms to spending pledge of two percent of look into the possible mishan- represent the Democratic Party tigation into the emails caused cuted for exposing corruption Britain’s ties with the EU ahead GDP for the next five years. dling of classified information in the November 2016 presidential confusion. The New York Times in Aliyev’s family,” she told the of a membership referendum by The United States is Britain’s in Hillary Clinton’s private election, has repeatedly said she originally reported that two gov- court in the capital Baku, refer- the end of 2017, a bid to appease second biggest trade partner email account from when she broke no laws or rules by eschew- ernment inspectors general had ring to President Ilham Aliyev. Eurosceptic voters and law- behind the EU and has been its was secretary of state. ing a standard government email asked the Justice Department to She told the judge that the makers within his own party. closest military ally for more than The department said it “has account for her State Department open a criminal investigation into charges against her were “falsi- He has said he wants to stay in a century. received a referral related to the work in favor of her private Clinton’s use of her private email fied and politically motivated”. a reformed EU, but has ruled Cameron’s office defended the potential compromise of clas- account. She also said she sent account It altered its report on its nothing out if his renegotiation decision to hold a referendum. sified information.” A Justice no classified information by email. website overnight without explana- Belgium arrests 2 is unsuccessful. “It’s right for Britain to have this Department official said the “refer- Clinton spokesman Nick tion to suggest she personally was Obama has previously said it renegotiation and this referendum ral” is not a request for a criminal Merrill said in a statement she not the focus of a criminal referral. ex-Gitmo inmates was hard for him to imagine the to address the concerns that the investigation into Clinton’s emails, “followed appropriate practices in Then, the Justice Department European project working with- British people have about Europe thousands of which she handed dealing with classified materials.” said the inspectors general had BRUSSELS: Belgium has out Britain or Britain prosper- and to make sure the British people over to the State Department after The former first lady said she requested a criminal investigation arrested two former detainees of ing outside the union. His latest have the final say about whether resigning in 2013. handed to the State Department into the emails, before backtrack- Guantanamo prison on charges intervention in the debate over a we stay in a reformed European Clinton’s use of a private email last year all the work-related ing and saying that there was a of terrorism, saying the men are possible British exit from the bloc Union or leave,” a source from his account for her work as America’s emails she had, amounting to request for a probe but not a suspected of seeking recruits to angered some politicians. office said. top diplomat came to light in some 55,000 printed pages cov- criminal one. fight in Syria, the federal prose- “President Obama is wrong REUTERS March and brought criticism ering her four-year tenure, REUTERS cutor’s office said yesterday. The two men, who were held at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval base in Cuba between 2001 and 2005, Anti-corruption rally in Kiev were under police surveillance and were arrested on Thursday Malaria vaccine gets regulatory nod in Antwerp. The two men accused are Moussa Zemmouri, a LONDON: The world’s most advanced Next, the WHO must decide whether to 37-year-old Belgian of Moroccan malaria vaccine got the nod yesterday recommend Mosquirix’ use in vaccination origin, and an Algerian whom from European regulators, despite mixed programmes — after which it will be up to the prosecutor’s office identified trial results, for eventual use in children national regulators to licence the drug. as Soufiane A. in African countries plagued by the killer WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said the disease. UN’s health body should make the decision Six men guilty in UK Dubbed Mosquirix or RTS,S, the drug by November. received a “positive scientific opinion” from Developed by GlaxoSmithKline, Mosquirix child sex abuse case the European Medicines Agency (EMA) fol- is the first malaria vaccine to reach the stage LONDON: Six men were found lowing decades of research and millions of of being assessed by a regulatory agency. guilty yesterday in Britain over dollars of investment. “The EMA assessment is not a recommen- the repeated rape of two teenage But it has yet to pass a final World Health dation to use this vaccine,” Hartl underlined. girls, one of whom was forced to Organisation (WHO) hurdle, and may not The WHO has yet to “look at how the have sex with more than 60 men. become available before 2017. vaccine is produced and if it is produced One of the victims, who cannot Mosquirix is the most clinically-advanced well enough and under proper manufactur- be identified for legal reasons but vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease ing conditions so that we can have faith in was aged 12 or 13, told police she that infects some 200 million people and kills ordering it for the UN system,” he told jour- was “passed around” between about 600,000 every year, more than 75 per- nalists in Geneva. the men but complied because cent of them children under five. Mosquirix may become the first licenced they were “making your life a bit In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the plas- vaccine against a parasitic disease, but Hartl more exciting”. The schoolgirls modium parasite kills about 1,200 children underlined: “We understand that 2017 is the both came from troubled back- on average per day, according to the WHO. earliest that this may occur.” grounds and were groomed by An activist stands next to mannequins with burning hats which represent the Prosecutor The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Developed with funding from the Bill & the men, who gave them alcohol, General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin (left) and his deputies Vladimir Guzyr and Yuri Products for Human Use had analysed the Melinda Gates Foundation, Mosquirix was food and drugs in the town of quality, safety and efficacy of the drug, and the first candidate malaria vaccine to reach Aylesbury, northwest of London, Stolyarchuk during an anti-corruption rally in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. its benefit-to-risk ratio, “for use outside the Phase III clinical testing — the final stage the trial heard. European Union”. before market approval. AFP AGENCIES SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Malaysia suspends two Taiwan protests China drill dailies for news on graft Military exercise video showed Taipei Presidential palace as a target KUALA LUMPUR: The in Malaysia, has been reporting Malaysian government’s crack- extensively on the allegations TAIPEI: Taiwan said yester- ministry spokesman David Lo. tap reservoirs that extend into Chinese administration are “com- down on the media and dissent- directed at 1MDB. day it had filed a protest with The Chinese authorities played Japanese territory. pletely appropriate and legal”. ers widened yesterday, as the 1MDB, with debts of over $11bn, China over a military exer- down the event. Patrol ships and aircraft from “China and Japan have not yet home ministry suspended pub- is being investigated by authori- cise it slammed for portraying “These are regular annual exer- both countries have been shadow- delineated maritime boundaries lication of two leading financial ties in Malaysia for financial the island as a target, despite cises. They are not aimed at any ing each other in the area over in the East China Sea, and China newspapers over their report- mismanagement and graft. The improved ties between the two particular target,” China’s defence the past couple of years, raising does not recognise the Japanese ing of alleged graft at the coun- state-owned firm’s advisory board former bitter rivals. ministry said. fears of a confrontation and clash. side’s unilateral marking out of a try’s troubled state investment is chaired by the prime minister. Chinese state channel CCTV Although ties between China In an escalation of the latest so-called ‘median line’,” the min- fund. The Edge Media Group said broadcast a video clip earlier this and Taiwan have improved dispute, Japan released aerial istry said in a statement. The Edge Weekly and The Edge that the ministry issued a notice month showing fully armed sol- markedly since Ma took office in photographs of China’s construc- China's position is that it had Financial Daily were suspended that claimed the two publications’ diers of the People’s Liberation 2008, fears of a Chinese invasion tion in the area, accusing it of a 200 nautical mile exclusive for three months from July 27, reporting of 1MDB was “prejudi- Army running towards a red remain. unilateral development and a economic zone, and its continen- just days after authorities blocked cial or likely to be prejudicial to building with a silhouette similar Taiwan split from China in 1949 halfhearted attitude towards a tal shelf in the East China Sea access to a website that has cov- public order, security or likely to to that of Taiwan’s Presidential after a civil war, but China sees 2008 agreement to jointly develop extends to the Okinawa Trough, ered the scandal and has been alarm public opinion or is likely Office. it as part of its territory await- resources there. it added. critical of Prime Minister Najib to be prejudicial to public and The footage has sparked a ing reunification -- by force if China resumed exploration in In a separate statement, China’s Razak’s government. national interest”. backlash from the island’s media necessary. the East China Sea two years ago, Foreign Ministry said that it Two opposition lawmakers said The Centre for Independent and politicians because of the According to Taiwan’s defence Japan said. In 2012, Japan's gov- was “extremely concerned" Japan this week that they had been Journalism (CIJ), a Malaysia- similarities to the building in the ministry, China has more than ernment angered China by buying had allowed a visit by former issued travel bans in connection based non-profit group, con- heart of the capital Taipei. 1,500 ballistic and cruise missiles a disputed island chain there from Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, with investigations into the debt- demned the suspension. It came against growing pub- trained on the island. private owners. a man despised by Beijing for laden state fund 1MDB. “For the government to censor lic concern over China's grow- Meanwhile, China said yester- Before then, China had cur- asserting the self-ruled island's Najib has also been weigh- a newspaper in this manner is an ing influence on Taiwan under day it had every right to drill in tailed activities under an agree- sovereignty. ing legal action against the Wall extremely heavy-handed meas- the current Beijing-friendly the East China Sea close to waters ment with Japan to jointly develop “Lee Teng-hui is a stubborn Street Journal which reported ure and a breach of freedom of Kuomintang leadership. disputed with Japan, adding that undersea resources in disputed Taiwan splittist. The Japanese that investigators looking into expression and media freedom in “Through the contact mecha- it did not recognise a “unilateral” areas. side ignored China's stern rep- 1MDB had traced close to $700m particular,” it said. nism, we’ve lodged a solemn Japanese median line setting out The platforms are being erected resentations and provided con- of deposits moving into his per- Najb's government has been protest,” Wu Mei-hung, spokes- a boundary between the two in on the Chinese side of a median venience for him to visit Japan sonal account. Najib denied taking under pressure from the oppo- woman for Taiwan's Mainland the waters. line delineating the exclusive eco- and engage in Taiwan separatist any money for personal gain and sition, and also from influential Affairs Council said yesterday. Japan this week called on China nomic zones of the two countries, activities,” it said. said the corruption allegations are former Prime Minister Mahathir “This hurt the feelings of peo- to halt construction of oil-and- according to a Japanese ministry China claims self-ruled part of a malicious campaign to Mohamad, to explain allegations ple on both sides of the Taiwan gas exploration platforms in the official said. Taiwan as its own and has never force him out of office. of graft in the state fund 1MDB Strait and it is unacceptable to East China Sea close to waters China's Foreign Ministry said renounced the use of force to The Edge Media Group, which that were raised by the media. people inTaiwan or the interna- claimed by both nations, con- its drilling activities in waters bring it under its control. has a staff of around 350 people REUTERS tional community,” said defence cerned that Chinese drills could which are not disputed and under AGENCIES

Trumpet of protests China accuses US of trying to influence Philippines' sea case BEIJING: China’s Foreign Daniel Russel told a conference “This is inconsistent with Ministry said yesterday the in Washington this week that as the position the US side claims United States was trying to both Beijing and Manila are sig- to uphold on issues concerning influence a South China Sea natories to the UN Convention on the South China Sea disputes,” arbitration case filed by the the Law of the Sea, legally they the ministry added, calling on Philippines after a senior US have to abide by the tribunal's Washington to live up to its prom- official said China would be decision. ises and not take sides. obligated to abide by the tribu- China issued a position paper China claims almost the entire nal’s decision. in December arguing the dispute South China Sea, believed to be China has for years insisted was not covered by the treaty rich in energy deposits, where that disputes with rival claim- because it was ultimately a mat- about $5tn in ship-borne goods ants to the South China Sea be ter of sovereignty, not exploitation pass every year. Brunei, Malaysia, handled bilaterally. rights, and the Foreign Ministry the Philippines, Vietnam and But this month, its claims said it stood by that. Taiwan also have conflicting came under international “Attempting to push forward claims. legal scrutiny for the first time the arbitration unilaterally China has become increasingly when the Permanent Court of initiated by the Philippines, assertive in the South China Sea Arbitration in The Hague began the US side just acts like an with rapid reclamation around hearing a suit the Philippines filed ‘arbiter outside the tribunal’, reefs in the Spratly archipelago in in 2013. designating the direction for the particular sparking concern, both China has refused to take part arbitral tribunal established at in the region and in the United Protesters blow shofars during a rally in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati city in Manila yesterday. in the case. the request of the Philippines,” States. China called on the Philippines to withdraw a case it has filed at a UN arbitration tribunal over rival claims in US Assistant Secretary of State it said. REUTERS the South China Sea and return to bilateral negotiations. Thai general, 71 others indicted for human trafficking Jail for online threat to US SEOUL: South Korean police The man was arrested on July BANGKOK: Thailand yes- trafficking trade which had until more than a dozen state officials charged with complicity in peo- said yesterday they had arrested 14 following a tip off from the US terday said it would indict 72 recent months flourished through of all levels. ple smuggling, an issue that has a 33-year-old man for threaten- Embassy in Seoul. On his confis- people including a senior army its southern provinces and onto Among the suspects is Lt raised eyebrows among rights ing to kill the US Ambassador cated laptop, records of access officer over human traffick- Malaysia -- the desired destina- General Manas Kongpan, charged groups who say it is unlikely such to Seoul, Mark Lippert, who to the White House homepage ing after the plight of desper- tion of Myanmar’s persecuted with being a major smuggling an influential officer would have was the victim of a vicious knife were found, as well as a draft of ate Myanmar and Bangladesh Rohingya Muslim minority. kingpin in the lucrative trade. acted alone. attack in March. the posting and a screen capture, migrants stranded at sea trig- Yesterday a spokesman for the His alleged involvement raises None of the suspects will be A senior official at the Seoul police said. gered an international outcry Office of the Attorney General awkward questions for junta chief bailed, while a further 47 suspects Metropolitan Police Agency said Lee, who police described as over the grim trade. (OAG) of Thailand said it had Prayut Chan-O-Cha. -- mostly Thais but also includ- the man, identified by his sur- jobless, living in seclusion and The kingdom has long been issued an order to indict 72 peo- Manas was promoted while ing Bangladeshi and Myanmar name Lee, had included the threat spending most of his time surfing accused of ignoring official com- ple charged on 16 counts mostly Prayut was army chief. He nationals -- are still on the run. in a post written on the White the Internet, denied authorship of plicity in the multi-million dollar over human trafficking, including remains the only military officer AFP House website. the posting. AFP

Tokyo’s giant fish tank Ugandan jihadists kill One killed in Philippine night three Congolese women club explosion GOMA: Ugandan rebels have ADF rebels, who attacked a mil- ZAMBOANGA: A powerful killed three women during an itary position” and then “killed explosion tore through a night overnight raid in the north- three women and burned about club in the strife-torn southern east of Democratic Republic of 10 homes.” Philippines, killing one per- Congo, a research group and The Congolese army, which has son and wounding nine others, the provincial governor said launched operations against the police said yesterday. yesterday. insurgents infamous for mass kill- The blast punctured the ceil- “ADF jihadists,” Muslim fight- ings of civilians, battled the ADF ing of the two-storey club and ers in the Alliance of Democratic forces, Paluku said. threw bar stools into the streets Forces from neighbouring The village of Mayi-Moya lies of Zamboanga City late Thursday Uganda, attacked Mayi-Moya in 45 kilometres (29 miles) north evening, police spokesman strife-prone North Kivu province of the equatorial market town of Alexander Mabalot said. on last Thursday evening, the Beni, where some contingents of The club's cashier was killed. Study Centre for the Promotion the large UN peacekeeping force Six female bar staff and three of Peace, Democracy and Human in the country are based. male patrons were wounded and Rights (Cepadho) said. Suspected ADF rebels mas- brought to hospital for treatment, “During this attack, the terror- sacred nine civilians on July 14 Mabalot said. ists killed three civilians (women) in the Beni territory, where the Investigators sifted through and burned down four build- Islamic extremists are accused debris yesterday searching for ings, including a home and three of killing more than 400 people, bomb fragments. The southern shops,” the statement said. mostly by hacking them to death. Philippines has long been wracked North Kivu’s governor Julien Government troops launched Visitors watch some 800 fish transported from Okinawa during the opening day of the 48th Sony Aquarium in by violence carried out by Muslim Paluku said that “yesterday an offensive against them last separatist guerrillas, Al-Qaeda- Tokyo yesterday. The 45-day-long summer exhibition opened to display Okinawa’s sea creatures in a 14-ton around 7:00 pm (1700 GMT) Saturday. linked extremists and extortion fish tank as well as videos using Sony technology. there was an incursion by the AFP gangs. AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Afghan talks next week US air strike kills top Next round of talks with Taliban likely in China; officials call for ceasefire Al Qaeda leader KABUL: A US air strike in “We will continue to counter KABUL: Afghan officials ceasefire.” be part of negotiations,” he told allegiance to IS chief Abu Bakr Afghanistan killed a senior violent extremism in the region said yesterday they will meet But another HPC official said AFP, highlighting a growing split al-Baghdadi instead of the invis- Al-Qaeda commander in charge and the world,” Carter said. Taliban insurgents next week discussions over a possible venue within insurgent representatives ible Mullah Omar. of suicide bombing and two Already struggling with the for a second round of talks were still ongoing. in Quetta and Qatar, where the The agreement between the other militants, the Pentagon rise of rival jihadists from the aimed at ending 13 years of war, “The talks... are set for July 30 Taliban set up a political office in Taliban and Afghan govern- said yesterday. Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda pledging to press for a ceasefire but discussions and consultation 2013. ment to meet again in the weeks The attack, which occurred in has suffered a series of setbacks in in negotiations likely to be held are ongoing between Afghanistan, Earlier this month the Taliban’s following the first talks drew Paktika province on July 11, killed recent months with several com- in China. Pakistan, the United States and reclusive leader Mullah Omar praise from Islamabad, Beijing, Abu Khalil al-Sudani, a “high- manders reported killed. The Afghan government con- China on where to host the meet- hailed as “legitimate” peace talks Washington and the United ranking Al-Qaeda operational US-led NATO forces ducted its first face-to-face talks ing,” said HPC deputy chairman aimed at ending the war, in his Nations. commander”, the Pentagon said in ended their combat mission with Taliban cadres on July 7 in Abdul Hakim Mujahid. first comments on the nascent But despite the willingness to a statement released to reporters in Afghanistan in December, Murree, a Pakistani hill station China, which shares only dialogue, easing concerns that it engage in peace talks there has in Iraq who were travelling with leaving local forces to battle mili- north of Islamabad, which were a 76 kilometre border with lacked the leadership’s backing. been no let-up in militant attacks US Defense Secretary Ashton tants alone, but a 13,000-strong supervised by American and Afghanistan, has reaffirmed its But divisions have apparently on foreign and government tar- Carter. residual force remains for train- Chinese representatives. commitment to help end the grown within the fractured group gets, leaving Afghan forces “Al-Sudani was one of three ing and counter-terrorism They agreed to meet again in Taliban insurgency as it frets after the first round of talks, stretched on multiple fronts and known violent extremists killed in operations. the coming weeks but the venue about the Islamist militant with some commanders openly inflicting a heavy blow on civilians. the strike. The death of al-Sudani Despite the drawdown, coali- remains unconfirmed and it was threat in its own restive western questioning the legitimacy of the A suicide bomber on Wednesday will further degrade Al-Qaeda tion forces carried out 106 mili- unclear whether the nascent dia- Xinjiang region. Taliban negotiators in Murree. killed 19 people including women operations across the globe,” the tary air strikes in June, a sharp logue was widely endorsed within The Taliban so far have not The split within the Taliban and children in a crowded mar- statement said. jump compared to the previ- the ranks of the Taliban, riven by officially commented on Friday’s between those for and against ket in the northern province of The Pentagon described Sudani ous month when it carried out internal divisions. announcement but cracks within talks has been made worse by the Faryab, as insurgents intensify as a senior member of the group’s 41 strikes, according to NATO “The second round of talks... insurgent ranks over the fragile emergence of a local branch of the their annual summer offensive “shura”, or council, and head of statistics. is set for July 30 or 31,” said negotiations are visible. Islamic State group, the Middle launched in late April. Al-Qaeda’s suicide and explo- But that figure is still signifi- Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, a “This time, if the talks are Eastern jihadist outfit that last And earlier this month 33 sive operations, and said he was cantly lower than previous years. member of the Afghan High Peace held and representatives from year declared a “caliphate” across people were killed in a suicide directly linked to plotting attacks US President Barack Obama Council (HPC), the government’s our political office of Qatar do large areas of Iraq and Syria that attack at a military base in the against the United States. has backpedalled on plans top peace negotiating body. not attend, these negotiations it controls. eastern province of Khost, while “He also directed operations to shrink the US force in “This meeting will most prob- will be unacceptable to us,” said The Taliban warned IS recently a few days later 25 civilians were against Coalition, Afghan and Afghanistan this year by nearly ably be held in China... and will be a source from the Quetta Shura, against expanding in the region, wounded in a bombing inside a Pakistani forces, and maintained half, agreeing to keep the current supervised by the US and China. the Taliban’s governing council. but this has not stopped some mosque in northern Baghlan a close association with Ayman level of 9,800 US troops until the We will insist and put pressure “This time our delegation fighters, inspired by the group’s province. al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s leader,” end of 2015. in the meeting for a temporary from Qatar political office should success, defecting to swear AFP the statement said.” AFP China submarines Pakistan to shut down sold to Pakistan BlackBerry ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and (CSOC). China yesterday agreed to a Finance Secretary Waqar over security multi-billion dollar deal that Masood and Economic Affairs would see Beijing provide eight Secretary Saleem Sethi assisted KARACHI: The Pakistani submarines to the Pakistan Dar. Chinese Ambassador Sun government plans to shut down Navy, in an agreement that Weidong also participated in the BlackBerry Ltd’s secure mes- analysts are calling the largest- negotiations. saging services by December ever defence deal China has CSOC is the trade arm of 1 for “security reasons”, the agreed to with any country. China Shipbuilding Industry Pakistan Telecommunication Despite the magnitude of the Corporation (CSIC) and its main Authority said yesterday. deal, government officials did not business is the manufacture, Pakistan, a nuclear-armed provide any details, even declining repair, lease, and sales of military nation of 180 million people, is to confirm the size of the transac- ships and submarines. plagued by militancy, criminal tion. However, the composition of Sources in the finance min- gangs and drug traffickers. the Chinese delegation with which istry said that the agreement is “PTA has issued directions the agreement was reached sug- still subject to final review from to local mobile phone operators gests that the arrangements have higher authorities in Beijing, fol- to close BlackBerry Enterprise been struck for purchase of eight lowing which a formal agreement Services from November 30 on submarines. will be signed. The press release security reasons,” an official with “Pakistan and China have issued by the ministry after the the Pakistan Telecommunications reached an understanding on event was vague. According to the Authority said in a text message. matters of defence coopera- release, Dar said that the visit by He asked not to be named due tion relating to Pakistan Navy,” the CSOC delegation to Pakistan to the sensitivity of discussing announced the finance ministry would enhance and further Pakistani villagers wade through floodwaters in the Layyah district of Punjab province yesterday. communications and intelligence. after a meeting with Chinese strengthen their bilateral eco- BlackBerry was not immedi- authorities. “Financial arrange- nomic and defence cooperation. ately available to comment. ments to this effect were also The release quoted Xu thank- A report released this week by concluded.” ing Dar for his contribution in British-based watchdog Privacy According to a briefing that the concluding the arrangements, Flash floods kill 28 in Pakistan International said Pakistan’s pow- defence ministry gave to parlia- saying it was reflective of the deep LONDON: Flash flooding “Some villages have been cut this week. erful military intelligence agency, ment in April this year, Pakistan rooted China-Pakistan friendship. caused by torrential monsoon off from the rest of the district,” The heavy rains started fall- the Inter-Services Intelligence was negotiating a deal for acquisi- Last month, both the countries rains has killed at least 28 in said Shah Fahad Ali Khan, 27, ing on July 15, and continued (ISI), was seeking to dramati- tion of submarines from China. had also signed an agreement for Pakistan and affected hundreds a university lecturer living in over the next week throughout cally expand its ability to inter- Sources said, Pakistan would construction of six patrol ves- of thousands of people, accord- Zargrandeh, a village in Chitral. the country, causing some urban cept communications. make down payments to China in sels for the Pakistan Maritime ing to aid agencies, with fur- People in flood-prone areas flooding in Lahore, Islamabad and BlackBerry encrypts data such four installments and the delivery Security Agency (PMSA). The ther downpours expected in the have been shifted to safer ground, Rawalpindi, the Pakistani Red as emails and its BlackBerry of the submarines will be made in agreement had been signed by coming days. he said on Friday in an online Crescent said in a statement. Messenger messages sent between the coming years. China Ship Trading Company In Chitral in the northwest, message. Deadly flooding is common in a user’s phone and public net- The financial arrangements (CSTC) and the Pakistani defence roads, bridges and crops were Heavy rains are expected over Pakistan’s monsoon season, which works, ensuring greater privacy were agreed during a meeting production ministry. badly damaged, with more than the weekend, which may cause runs from June to September. for users but making life harder between Finance Minister Ishaq Four ships will be constructed a quarter of a million affected, more flash flooding and could Last September dozens of peo- for police and intelligence agencies. Dar and Xu Ziqin, President of in China while the remaining will the EU’s humanitarian office trigger landslides in Khyber ple in Punjab and Kashmir were The company has faced similar the Chinese state-owned China be built at Karachi’s Shipyard said. Pakistan’s poorest province, Pakhtunkhwa province, which killed when flash floods caused problems in the past in India, the Shipbuilding and Offshore under a transfer of technology Baluchistan in the southwest, was includes Chitral, Pakistan’s mete- their homes to collapse. UAE, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. International Company Limited agreement. REUTERS also badly hit. orological department said earlier REUTERS INTERNEWS

Roadside beauty Imran suffers blow as panel dismisses ‘2013 poll rigging’

ISLAMABAD: With the for wasting people’s time by hold- And this was brought home by unveiling of the judicial com- ing a sit-in. the recent defections of some PPP mission report, yesterday, one Undoubtedly, many observers members to the PTI. question dominated discussions: agree that the JC’s response to The PML-N also recognises how were its findings going to the three Terms of References this. Senior PML-N leaders in impact Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (ToRs) in the conclusion of the their private meetings accept (PTI)? report has served a severe blow to that their political battles - for Now that the party’s sweeping the popularity of the PTI chair- the time being - will be fought allegations of widespread rigging man, who relentlessly clamored against the PTI. in the 2013 elections have been that the last general elections A senior office bearer of the dismissed by the commission, were rigged and then failed to ruling PML-N said that the will the PTI’s popularity suffer provide any proof. party expected a serious challenge a knock from which it will not However, this observation came from the PTI in the coming local recover? with a caveat that despite its fol- government elections, “We have This is what yesterday lies over the alleged rigging and already started organizing the evening’s discussions seemed to the dharna, in Punjab the PTI will party for the contest.” imply. Many opposition politi- continue to be the main contender For Rasul Bakhsh Rais, the cians and commentators lashed to power and the major rival to “dharna was a historic effort that out at the PTI for making unveri- the PML-N. allowed Khan and his party to fied allegations; there were end- With the PPP still struggling to send his political message across A Pakistani family looks at the art work on a wall on a street in the southern port city of Karachi. For years, less requests for Imran Khan to figure out its role in the Punjab, the country. It helped transform Karachi’s walls have been spattered with the bloodstains of murder victims and scrawled with graffiti touting apologise to the nation for mak- the PTI is providing the only PTI into a national level party.” everything from sectarian hatred to quack cures for erectile dysfunction. ing allegations without proof and opposition to the ruling party. INTERNEWS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Rights activist claims Bus accident toll rises Modi govt vendetta I am targeted for speaking against Gujarat riots: Teesta

MUMBAI: A long-time critic of get us into custody? Why this access to the media, don‘t have Prime Minister Narendra Modi attempt to stop our movements to access to the public, don‘t have over religious riots 13 years Gujarat just when the Zakia Jafri speech and then your life is in ago says an investigation into case is about to begin?“ she asked. danger,“ she added. allegations she received illegal Jafri is challenging a 2013 court Setalvad said she was co-oper- funding is a “vendetta“ designed decision that cleared Modi and ating with the CBI and that her to silence her. other high-ranking Gujarat offi- organisation‘s arrangement with Activist Teesta Setalvad said cials of any responsibility for the the Ford Foundation was “per- she was being targeted by the riots which left some 2,000 people mitted under law“. government because of her fierce dead, most of them Muslims. Officers have spent several days criticism of Modi following deadly Her husband was among scores questioning her and her husband, violence in Gujarat state in 2002 of Muslims burnt alive when a who had their application for when he was chief minister. Hindu mob torched a housing col- anticipatory bail, in the expecta- “It‘s nothing short of a vendetta ony in Ahmedabad that became tion of being arrested, rejected by because even if it were to be seen known as the Gulbarg Society a court on Friday. as an offence, it‘s an economic massacre. The CBI said in a statement it Rescue workers at the site where a bus fell into a gorge near Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, last Thursday. According offence if at all, and it should be Modi was effectively blacklisted had opened its investigation after to news reports, at least nine people died and 22 others are missing when a bus carrying pilgrims to a Sikh examined by the courts,“ she said. by a number of foreign powers in a complaint from India‘s Ministry shrine fell down a gorge and into the Parvati river, near Kullu in the state of Himachal Pradesh. India‘s Central Bureau of the aftermath of the riots. of Home Affairs. Investigation (CBI) registered The European Union and then The CBI “is legally bound to a case against Setalvad and her the United States only ended investigate (that includes search husband Javed Anand on July 8 their boycott of the right-wing and questioning of the accused and raided their home and offices Hindu nationalist when it became persons) every aspect of the Mobile phone offices attacked a week later. clear he could be elected leader allegations,“ the statement said, The agency is looking into of the world‘s largest democracy. noting that the sum involved was SRINAGAR: Four serial destroyed the centre‘s furniture down in the city. whether Setalvad‘s non-govern- Setalvad has campaigned over ‘10 m ($160,000). attacks here yesterday to dis- and fixtures. As police said they had launched mental organisation Sabrang for victims of the riots through Setalvad, 53, is also accused rupt mobile phone services have An autorickshaw driver, a manhunt to nab the attackers, a received funding from the United Sabrang and her other organi- by Gujarat police of embezzling thrown service providers into Shahnawaz Ahmad, was injured BSNL tower was attacked with a States-based Ford Foundation sation Citizens for Justice and donations meant for riot victims, panic and security agencies into in this explosion and admitted to grenade in the Shaheedgunj area, without government permission. Peace. “The 120 convictions that allegations that she strenuously a tizzy. the nearby hospital for treatment. adjacent to the civil secretariat Setalvad described the raid as we managed to get is through the denies. Officers are investigating The first attack happened Minutes after this, another that houses all the top offices of “an abuse of state power“ timed courts, but it has been at a price a complaint filed by residents of in the morning when unidenti- group of the attackers forced the state government including to prevent her from helping the so you have to take one day as it the Gulbarg society that Setalvad fied attackers forced entry into staff out of the Vodafone service/ those of the chief minister, his widow of former Congress MP comes and fight it out,“ she said and others misappropriated funds an Aircel service centre in the sale centre adjacent to the Karan cabinet colleagues and all the Ehsan Jafri in her legal battle at her lawyers‘ offices in Mumbai. designed to build a museum busy commercial hub of Karan Nagar area and exploded another senior bureaucrats. over his killing in the riots. “I think this whole attempt is to honour those killed in the Nagar, forced the staff to stop hand grenade inside, sending a Another civilian was injured in “Why this kind of personal to silence me somehow. If you get massacre. business and leave before hurling clear message that they wanted this explosion. hounding? Why this attempt to me into custody you don‘t have IANS a powerful hand grenade that mobile phone services to be shut IANS

President completes third year No bail for Left Love affairs, impotency behind leader in RSS farmer suicides, says minister activist murder KANNUR (KERALA): A NEW DELHI: Dowry, love respectively. “callousness“ towards farmers‘ court yesterday denied antici- affairs and impotency were The figure up to June 2015 is suicides, which occured due to patory bail to senior Kerala among the reasons for the 263, the reply said. “unprecedented debt crisis“ faced CPI-M leader P Jayarajan, who deaths of over 1,400 farm- Meanwhile, the minister‘s reply by them and demanded that the was questioned by the CBI ers in 2014, union Agriculture triggered a storm with opposition central government take steps to last month in the murder of a Minister Radha Mohan Singh parties accusing the government come to their rescue. Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh said yesterday. of “insensitivity“. Janata Dal-United leader K.C. (RSS) activist. “According to the National Congress vice president Rahul Tyagi said apart from insensitiv- The Tellichery district sessions Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Gandhi demanded that Prime ity, the statement was an “insult“ court pointed out that anticipa- causes of (farmer) suicides Minister Narendra Modi ask his to the country‘s farmers. He tory bail could not be consid- include family problems, illness, ministers to visit the houses of threatened to move a privilege ered as the case had been filed drugs...dowry, love affairs and farmers to “see what is going on“. notice against the minister for under the Unlawful Activities impotency,“ he said in a writ- Samajwadi Party leader Naresh “misleading“ parliament. (Prevention) Act. ten reply in the Rajya Sabha to a Agrawal demanded an apology Facing a political storm, Radha Jayarajan, 62, is on leave from question on what had caused the from the minister, terming his Mohan Singh sought to down- the post of Communist Party of death of so many farmers in the remarks “irresponsible“ while play the controversy, saying the India-Marxist (CPI-M)‘s Kannur country. Communist Party of India- answer was based on a NCRB district secretary since being The minister‘s reply, however, Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury report, which the government hospitalised following a heart did not rule out debt as one of dubbed as “ridiculous“ the reasons cited in the replies. ailment. the reasons. given for the farmers suicides Of the total 5,650 farm- Counsel for Jayarajan told The minister also cited NCRB while the ground reality, he said, ers who committed suicide in reporters after his application data to show that the total was different. 2014, maximum numbers were was rejected that they would now number of suicides committed by He said that the number of dis- from Maharashtra, Telangana move the Kerala High Court for persons working in the farming tress suicides had gone up by 26 and Chhattisgarh, official data anticipatory bail. Currently out or agriculture sector were 13,754, per cent in the last one year since revealed. on bail in another murder case, 11,772 and 5,650 in 2012, 2013 and the NDA alliance came to power According to ‘Accidental Jayarajan is a former legislator. 2014 respectively. at the Centre and the reply was Deaths and Suicides in India 2014’ Jayarajan was questioned for The number of suicides by meant to “divert attention“ from report released by the bureau, of over four hours by the Central farmers due to agrarian dis- the actual reasons for suicides. the 5,650 farmers who committed Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tress, as reported by the state Communist Party of India suicide, 5,178 were men and 472 last month in connection with the President Pranab Mukherjee waves to the media after the inaguration of a governments, was 1,066, 890 and leader D Raja said the reply were women. murder of Kathirur Manoj last restored clock tower inside The President‘s estate in New Delhi yesterday 1,400 during 2012, 2013 and 2014 showed the government IANS year. IANS to mark the completion of the third year of his presidency. Floating beds Maharashtra sets weight Policemen hurt limit for schoolbags in raid on mafia MUMBAI: Children struggling “But we have found bags that GHAZIABAD: Two consta- under the weight of an oversized weigh 20 to 30 percent due to bles were critically injured schoolbag is a common sight the thick notebooks, textbooks, when members of a liquor mafia world over, but now one Indian unrequired stationery and even attacked a police team who state has ordered parents to cosmetics. raided their hideout here. ensure kids lighten their load. “This is harmful. It causes The incident occurred last The government of spine and joint problems as well as Thursday night in the city‘s Maharashtra, in the west of India, stress and fatigue. They adversely Nandgram locality. has passed a resolution saying no affect the well being of the child,“ Police said following a tip off child must carry to school a back- he added. the police team raided the hideout pack that exceeds 10 percent of Given the intense competition in Nandgram, where the mafia their body weight. for higher education places in stocked liquor smuggled from Five-year-olds in grade one are India, children often feel under Haryana. When the liquor mafia being asked to pop their satch- immense pressure to perform well realised that the police team had els on weighing scales when they at school, with materials for extra identified their place and were at arrive for class so teachers can tuition in the evening often add- the gate, its members attacked check they don‘t exceed 2.5 kilo- ing to the weight of their bag. the team from two sides in a grams (5.5 lbs). The government ruling said narrow lane. Not able to defend Grade eight pupils aged 12 are teachers should stagger home- themselves, some of the policemen limited to carrying 4.2 kilograms, work and timetables so children ran away but some were beaten all in a bid to prevent lasting don‘t need to carry several text- up by the goons. injury, the state government said books to school every day. Two constables sustained seri- in a resolution passed earlier this It also asked parents to ensure ous injuries and were rushed to a week. children do not pack unnecessary government hospital where their “As a rule of thumb the bags items. condition was said to be critical. must be ten percent of the child‘s The order did not mention Police have registered a crimi- body weight,“ local education sec- any punishment for violating the nal case against 15 to 20 uniden- Priests pull wooden beds, which are tied, through the flooded banks of river Ganga after heavy monsoon rains retary Mr Nand Kumar wrote in weight restriction. tified liquor smugglers under in northern India caused rise in water levels, in Allahabad, yesterday. the executive order. IANS sections of the IPC. IANS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Goa’s BJP MLAs speed up bribe PM can’t take farmers’ land: Rahul investigations PANAJI: The BJP legislators Also demands special status for AP in Goa yesterday passed a reso- lution seeking speedy investi- ANANTAPUR: Targeting the after the fight of farmers, which gation into the $976,630 Louis NDA government over the land was fought by the Congress,” he Berger bribery case, in which bill, Congress vice president added. a minister and bureaucrats are Rahul Gandhi yesterday said he On his first visit to Andhra under a cloud. would not allow Prime Minister Pradesh after the bifurcation of The resolution also sought Narendra Modi to take farm- the state, Gandhi also hit out at quick investigation into all cor- ers’ land easily. Modi over special status to the ruption cases filed in connection Addressing a public meeting state. with scams committed during the in Obuladevara Cheruvu vil- “The PM wanted to take away rule of the erstwhile Congress-led lage as part of his ‘padyatra’ to land of farmers and also the spe- coalition government. highlight the problems faced by cial status and Polavaram away The Crime Branch of Goa farmers, he assured the farming from people of this state,” he Police has started investigations community that Congress will said while alleging that the NDA into the bribery allegations, with stand by them. government is going back on the police not ruling out the involve- “The PM of India is under the commitment to accord special ment of more than one minister impression that he can take away status to the state. in the bribery case. the lands of the farmers but we Gandhi, whose visit is seen Top officials of US-based Louis will not let him take farmers’ land as an effort to strengthen the Berger have pleaded guilty to easily,” said Gandhi. party’s base in the state after it offering bribes of $3.9m to secure “We have not even shown 10 drew a blank in last year’s assem- contracts in Asian countries such percent of the strength of farm- bly and Lok Sabha elections, as India, Vietnam, Indonesia and ers of India. And the PM suddenly told the rally that Kuwait. Louis Berger was part understood that he cannot push the Congress is fully committed of a consortium that eventually the farmers of this country,” he to special status and Polavaram won a contract to execute a multi- said in an obvious reference to the project. billion dollar water and sewer- government’s proposal to amend He also targeted Chief Minister age project in Goa funded by the the land bill to break the impasse N Chandrababu Naidu and main Japan International Co-Operation in parliament. opposition YSR Congress Party Agency, which was paid `6.3 crore He said the Congress took a for not fighting for special status Sikh farmers sit on the road during a protest against the land acquisition bill in New Delhi yesterday. by the Congress-led coalition gov- stand in parliament that it will for the state. “I can fully under- ernment in 2011-12. not let the government take away stand the intention of the prime special status and for Polavaram,” Gandhi undertook a 10km pady- Gandhi had addressed a meet- Deputy Chief Minister Francis the land of farmers that easily. minister. But, what I do not he said. atra in the drought-prone dis- ing in 1979. He interacted with D’Souza said all corruption cases “The Congress and the farmers of understand is the intention of the Accompanied by Congress state trict. He kicked off his padyatra farmers, agricultural labourers, filed in connection with scams in this country decided to show a lit- chief minister of this state and unit president Raghuveera Reddy, from Obuladevara Cheruvu vil- artisans and women’s self-help the erstwhile government should tle bit of their power to the prime other party. I do not understand other leaders and a large number lage, where his grandmother and groups and enquired about their be probed quickly. IANS minister. He changed his mind why these parties do not fight for of party workers and supporters, former prime minister Indira problems. IANS Fishermen net 100kg Opposition walks out as Chandy backs AG THIRUVANANTHA- advocate general, adding that the government,” said Chandy. “One should not forget the python near Mumbai PURAM: The opposition yes- the AG office should be closed Chandy asked the opposition to responsibilities of the position one terday walked out of the Kerala down since it was not function- get their facts right and not sim- holds and only then can one do THANE: When Mahesh Patil A local snake expert, Kishore assembly in protest against the ing properly. ply put signatures on notice for justice to society. If one functions and Gokul Patil drew their fish- Gaikwad, from nearby Dunge chair’s ruling against a discus- “Minutes after the court made an adjournment notion without otherwise, it will be counterpro- ing nets from a nearby creek to village and his associate Hitesh sion on the high court’s observa- the remark, the state saw the verifying. ductive,” he said. see what all they had netted, the Mehta rushed to the spot. They tions against Advocate General absolute defence of the advocate Chandy said they do not have to However, Leader of the two fishermen least expected a conducted a thorough examina- K P Dhandapani. general by Chandy who gave him learn how the Tamil Nadu advo- Opposition, V S Achuthanandan, “heavyweight” lurking among tion of the reptile and found no The opposition walkout came a clean chit. All of us are baffled cate general functions. said the high court’s observation their catch - a python. physical injuries. Later, the snake after Kerala Chief Minister by the act of the chief minister,” “The Tamil Nadu advocate was a “slap on the face of the The three-metre long reptile was measured and weighed. Oommen Chandy criticised the he said. general said rape cases should be Chandy government” and led the - later identified as an Indian With the help of curious fisher- remarks of the Kerala high court Chandy then hit out at the compromised. We do not agree opposition out of the house in pro- rock python - weighing a hefty folk and other villagers, Gaikwad judge who was hearing a case on court and also the Left opposition. with the view. It was turned down test against the chair’s order not 100 kg somehow got trapped in carried the python to a nearby last Thursday and expressed full “Ever since this advocate gen- by the apex court. Hence, we do to allow discussion on the issue. the nets after heavy rain on last petrol pump and later sent her faith in the advocate general’s eral took over, the Kerala govern- not wish to learn from them,” said Communist Party of India Wednesday. to Sanjay Gandhi National Park in functioning. ment has not lost a case. During Chandy. leader C Divakaran asked Chandy Both surprised and scared, the Borivali (Mumbai), where many Earlier, Left’s opposition the Left rule (2006-11), you Without naming the high court not to vent his anger on the oppo- two fishermen from Bhiwandi pythons abound. legislator Mathew T Thomas brought very expensive lawyers judge, Chandy referred to a case sition for raising the issue. town in Thane district immidi- The snake must have been sought leave for an adjournment to argue for the state, but so far where he said in the open court “You can get the adverse ately dropped the nets again into washed into the creek by flood motion to discuss the high court’s we have used the experience of a that he knew the petitioner. remarks revoked. Please don’t the muddy waters and rushed waters following last Wednesday’s remarks against Dhandapani. senior lawyer only twice because “What do judges normally do in vent your anger on us,” said back ashore to summon help on downpour in the region. Thomas said the court had our AG is doing a neat and clean such cases?” the chief minisiter Divakaran. last Thursday afternoon. IANS come down heavily on the job and winning all the cases for asked. IANS

Kashmiri nomads CBI court rejects Suicide bomber alert Teesta’s bail plea

MUMBAI: A CBI Court yes- for Modi’s Bihar visit terday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of social activist Teesta PATNA: A day ahead of Prime the prime minister during the Setalvad and her husband Javed Minister Narendra Modi's visit, the official added. Anand, paving the way for her Bihar visit, the intelligence Modi is scheduled to arrive immediate arrest. Soon after, agencies have warned of a possi- here to launch Pandit Deen Dayal her lawyers moved the Bombay ble “human bomb attack” on the Upadhayay Rashtriya Gramin High Court for relief. lines of former prime minister Joyti Yojna and inaugurate the Setalvad, Anand and some Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, a new campus of IIT-Patna. others have been charged by the top police officer said. He would also attend two other Central Bureau of Investigation Modi is scheduled to visit functions in Patna before leaving with fraud and irregularities Patna today and address a rally for Muzaffarpur, around 70 km under the Foreign Contributions in Muzaffarpur. from Patna, to address a public Regulation Act on foreign dona- “The Intelligence Bureau (IB) meeting. He is likely to launch tions received by the activist’s has alerted Bihar government and the Bharatiya Janata Party's cam- Sabrang NGO. the Special Protection Group offi- paign for the forthcoming state On July 8, the CBI had reg- cials camping in the state to be on assembly polls from Muzaffarpur. istered a case against them for high alert for a possible human Though Modi's security is accepting foreign donations from bomb attack against Modi during looked after by the Special the Ford Foundation without his visit to Patna and Muzaffarpur Protection Group, the Bihar seeking prior permission of the today,” a top police official said. government has directed senior concerned authorities. The CBI Stating that the attack could be officials to make special security followed this up with raids at similar to Rajiv Gandhi's assas- arrangements for his rally, the Setalvad’s residence and offices sination by the LTTE in 1991, the official said. Kashmiri nomads rest inside a tent at a temporary camp after heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Srinagar yes- for allegedly diverting funds from IB alert has specified that well Modi's rally at Gandhi Maidan terday. Nomads travel with their livestock and trek through the state’s rugged mountaineous terrain to reach the foreign donors to her organi- trained women Maoists may be here was rocked by two bomb sation. IANS pasture areas where they spend the summer months in the mountains and the winter in the shelter of valleys. used as a human bomb to target blasts on October 27, 2013. IANS Congress-BJP faceoff in parliament witnesses role reversal NEW DELHI: The ongoing Not just the opposition, the and External Affairs Minister Communist Party of India Reiterating the demand for the The two houses on average battle in parliament appeared government also appeared equally Sushma Swaraj of “suffering a leader D Raja, however, said: “One resignations of External Affairs worked for only 61 percent of the to be witnessing a role reversal aggressive, countering din with collective loss of memory”. cannot help but draw a parallel... Minister Sushma Swaraj and the allotted time. of sorts between the ruling din, and slogans with slogans Sharma said that the BJP but the issues and situation are chief ministers of Rajasthan and The newly elected NDA gov- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday, the Modi government, should remember how it had dis- different. Government is here giv- Madhya Pradesh, CPI-M General ernment has had a good track and the Congress with both the staring at a completely washed rupted parliament over various ing tit for tat instead of listening Secretary Sitaram Yechury said record of running parliament so parties blaming each other for out monsoon session, blamed the demands during its 10 years in to the opposition. They are also the yardstick was set by the BJP far, with the budget session this the stalemate yesterday. Congress for being an irresponsi- opposition. creating a ruckus, parliament when it was in opposition. year being the most productive Similar to the logjam witnessed ble opposition. Renuka Chowdhary, Congress can’t function this way”. During the UPA rule, disrup- in recent years, according to PRS during the Congress-led United The Congress was quick to MP from the Rajya Sabha, said: As compared to the last few tions over issues like the allocation Legislative Research. Progressive Alliance (UPA) gov- remind the BJP how it disrupted “There is no similarity... we don’t parliament sessions of the UPA, of 2G spectrum, coal blocks, FDI During the budget session, Lok ernment’s days when many par- parliament for weeks in the 15th want to disrupt parliament. We the National Democratic Alliance in retail, demand for Telangana, Sabha’s working hours compared liamentary sessions were washed Lok Sabha. have given the government a government had seen better pro- and the Commonwealth Games to scheduled hours took the pro- out, no major business could be Congress leader Anand Sharma choice. Our demand for resigna- ductivity in its first year in office had marred the 15th Lok Sabha, ductivity to 123 percent, while transacted in the first four days accused the BJP and especially tion to ensure fair probe is natu- as far as legislative business was making it the least productive Rajya Sabha had 101 percent pro- of the monsoon session. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ral justice.” concerned, according to statistics. session in 50 years. ductivity. IANS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Iran offers state assets Brent, US crude to foreigners prices at lowest Govt to reduce role in economy since April NEW YORK: Brent and US VIENNA: Iran offered to sell through joint ventures — includ- crude fell yesterday as both con- state assets to foreigners, said ing those in the banking sector tracts headed for their fourth it would cut the government’s — and direct investment, such as straight weekly declines as role in the economy and pledged participation in tenders to buy weak economic data from China a tight monetary policy as it stakes in state companies, he said. added pressure on oil prices. sought to attract billions of dol- The national oil company will be US crude losses follow lars of investment from abroad off-limits to investors but petro- Thursday’s fall into bear market after over a decade of isolation. chemical and refining firms may territory, with it $48.45 a barrel At a business conference in be partly sold off, and parliament settlement off 21 percent from Vienna this week, the first such has given permission for the sale of the June 10 close at $61.43. A 20 event since last week’s deal assets or projects such as hospitals, percent downturn is considered between Tehran and world pow- schools and highways, he added. by many traders to constitute a ers on its nuclear programme, top Over the past decade, the gov- bear market. Iranian officials outlined an eco- ernment has sold off stakes in state China’s factory sector con- nomic policy package designed to companies worth tens of billions of tracted by the most in 15 months win foreign investment. dollars. But its privatisation pro- in July, a preliminary private sur- The package was strikingly gramme has not been fully effective vey showed yesterday, a worse- pro-market — many of the poli- because most of the stakes have than-expected result that follows cies would not have been out of gone to state-linked bodies such a stock market slide that began place in a centre-right European as pension funds and foundations. in June. government. If implemented, they Iranian bankers believe that if Brent September crude was could move Iran’s economy well foreign investors are allowed to down 74 cents at $54.53 a barrel at beyond the tight restrictions and enter the Islamic Republic, they People line up outside the Deposits and Loans Fund to request loans settlements or proceed with bank transactions, 1600 GMT, near its $54.40 intraday heavy state involvement that fol- will end up buying assets from the in Athens yesterday. low, the lowest front-month price lowed its 1979 Islamic Revolution. cash-strapped funds and founda- since early April. US September “The government, the parlia- tions, completing the privatisa- crude was down 25 cents at $48.20, ment are trying to remove all the tion process. During the sanctions with the $47.96 session low the low- obstacles for free investment and years, the government often Greece partially relaxes capital est price since April 1. for reducing interference of gov- favoured state firms over private Oil traders awaited fresh oil ernment in private investment,” ones on the grounds of economic rig data from Baker Hughes Inc said Minister of Industry, Mines survival. Nematzadeh said this was controls on foreign payments to see if the price declines con- and Trade Mohammad Reza ending, and parliament had agreed tinue to curb drilling activity. The Nematzadeh. that all firms would be treated ATHENS: Greece yesterday cash from the Greek financial sys- of foreign payments authorised by world’s top oil companies are set With a young, well-educated equally for tax purposes. partially relaxed the capital tem, companies have been forced the government over the last few to report second-quarter earnings population of just under 80 mil- For privatised companies to controls introduced nearly a to wait for a government commis- weeks has been “very close to what showing another drop in profits lion and some of the world’s larg- succeed, however, they may need month ago to protect the debt- sion to approve foreign transfers, the Greek economy performs in that could force more spending est energy reserves, Iran looks to reduce staff. This might put crippled country from financial a process that has proved so slow monthly imports normally”. cuts, according to analysts. likely to provide huge invest- them in conflict with Iran’s strict collapse, giving some much- that some suppliers have begun The central bank said ¤1.5bn “We feel that US production ment opportunities. Officials said labour rules, a legacy of the revo- needed relief to firms that do demanding payment in advance. worth of bill payments were could begin to show significant Tehran had identified nearly 50 lution; a complex, unpredictable business abroad. “The lifting of the ceiling approved by the government slippage while oil rig counts post oil and gas projects worth $185bn legal system adds to risks for for- Bank of Greece chief Yannis to ¤100,000 covers 70 percent between June 29 and July 23, new lows,” Jim Ritterbusch, presi- that it hoped to sign by 2020. eign companies. Stournaras said the country’s of demands from profession- across sectors from food and dent at Ritterbusch & Associates, Under the nuclear deal, sanc- Iranian officials at the confer- commercial banks, which have als,” Vassilis Korkidis, presi- energy to pharmaceuticals and said in a note on Friday. tions that have stifled Iran’s ence did not describe in detail any seen their services severely lim- dent of the Greek Merchants’ raw materials. The dollar’s strength also economy are to be lifted when plans for labour or legal reforms, ited since the capital controls Federation (ESEE), said. “It Greek companies have contin- applied pressure, as a stronger US the International Atomic Energy which would be politically sensitive were brought in on June 29, could came into force today. It’s a posi- ued to express concern over the dollar makes greenback-denomi- Agency verifies that Iran is hon- and could cost President Hassan now authorise bill payments to tive move; we’ll be able to see the capital controls — which have nated oil more expensive for con- ouring its side of the bargain. Rouhani some of the public support other countries of up to ¤100,000 effects of it next week.” been put in place with no specific sumers using other currencies. Nematzadeh said Iran expected he has won with the nuclear deal. ($110,000), up from ¤50,000. Committees to authorise com- end date — complaining that they Brent and US crude have posted verification in under three But they did outline plans for “In the next ten days, we will panies’ payments to other coun- could face shortages if they are double-digit losses in July. With months, and that it believed it a conservative monetary and fis- resolve the problems created” by tries will also be created in all of unable to replenish their stocks U.S. crude off more than 18 per- could rejoin the SWIFT global cal policy which could reassure the capital controls, Stournaras the banks to speed up approvals from foreign suppliers. cent, it could challenge the 19.4 electronic payments system — a investors. One of the big eco- said after meeting with employ- by the central government com- Professional associations have percent loss in December. Signs of key step to enable inflows of for- nomic risks that Iran will face ers’ representatives and finance mission, Stournaras said. reported that thousands of ship- economic slowdown in China have eign money — three months after after sanctions are lifted is how to ministry officials, according to a Despite the continuing restric- ping containers remain stuck pressured oil and metals, with sanctions were repealed. keep the economy stable as money statement. tions on banking services, he in Greek ports due to unsettled industrial feedstock copper slump- Foreigners will then be wel- flows back into the country and As part of the measures intro- pronounced the situation “quite bills and suppliers’ demands of ing to the lowest levels in six years. come to enter Iran’s economy growth accelerates. REUTERS duced to stop a panicked flight of satisfactory”, adding that the level increased cash payments. AFP REUTERS

Starbucks net income rises Nikkei vows WTO strikes deal to cut to respect tariffs on IT products

FT’s editorial GENEVA: The World Trade products, needed to bring it into Organisation finalised a list force for all 161 WTO members. independence of 201 information technology “The majority have already products to be freed from import confirmed their participation. We TOKYO: Top Nikkei execu- tariffs in a $1.3 trillion deal yes- expect those participants who tives yesterday vowed to respect terday, but said it was still short didn’t, that they will soon,” Azevedo the Financial Times’ editorial of the critical mass of countries said. “And others who haven’t even independence after its surprise needed to put it into force. participated before have expressed $1.3bn takeover raised fears The first global tariff-cutting their interest in joining.” about the Japanese media giant’s deal in 18 years will mean consum- The five who had not yet signed plans for the prestigious paper. ers should pay less for products up had different reasons for doing “We have no intention of such as computers, touch-screen so, such as needing more time to changing the content or form devices, games consoles and hi-fi consult with their ministries or of the Financial Times,” Tsuneo systems, while companies will see because key officials were trav- Kita, the Nikkei’s chairman, told cuts in the cost of machine tools elling, he said. US Ambassador A February 2013 file photo shows Starbucks staff members posing for a photo during the opening ceremony reporters at a press briefing here. and components, giving a boost to Michael Punke said he was confi- of the first Starbucks cafe in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The global coffee giant yesterday posted record sales Naotoshi Okada, the Japanese economies globally. dent that those who had not signed business bible’s chief executive, “Today’s agreement is a land- up would join soon. “This was the for the third quarter that boosted net income by 22 percent from the year before to $626.7m. added: “We’re going to preserve mark,” WTO Director-General best possible outcome,” he said. editorial independence... that is Roberto Azevedo said in a state- US Trade Representative Michael what we’ve told (them)”. ment, adding that the value of Froman said more than $100bn of The unlikely cross-border mar- trade involved was worth 7 per- US exports alone would be cov- riage announced Thursday has cent of the global total, more than ered by the updated agreement sparked concerns about inter- world trade in cars. The product and industry estimates showed the Gold slides again by over 1pc ference from the new owners at list includes new-generation removal of tariffs could support up the storied salmon-pink business semi-conductors, GPS navigation to 60,000 additional jobs. LONDON: Gold slid more than an ounce at $1,082.40. exchange-traded fund, the SPDR paper, which was founded in 1888. systems, medical products which “ITA’s expansion is great news 1 percent yesterday to its low- Gold has been hurt this year Gold Trust, fell for a sixth day on Those fears were amplified by include magnetic resonance imag- for the American workers and est since early 2010 as fresh by expectations that the Federal Thursday to 684.6 tonnes, the comments from Japan’s economy ing machines, printed circuits and businesses that design, manufac- strength in the dollar prompted Reserve is on track to raise inter- lowest since September 2008. The minister Akira Amari, who said satellites, the WTO said. ture and export state-of-the-art another wave of selling, putting est rates for the first time in nearly fund is on track for its biggest the deal would translate into Once in force, the agreement technology and information prod- the metal on course for its big- a decade, boosting the opportunity weekly outflow since early May. “more accurate” stories about will update the WTO’s 18-year- ucts, ranging from MRI machines gest weekly loss in nine months. cost of holding non-yielding bullion Data from the IMF showed that his country to an international old Information Technology to semiconductors to video game Prices have been under pres- while lifting the dollar. Germany trimmed its official sec- audience. Agreement and add the 201 prod- consoles,” he said. sure since tumbling more than 3 “In the short term, inves- tor gold holdings last month, while Japanese media are routinely ucts to the list of goods covered EU Trade Commissioner percent in Asian trading hours tor sentiment is what actually Russia and Kazakhstan added to criticised as timid in pursuit of by zero-tariff and duty-free trade. Cecilia Malmstrom said: “This on Monday, their biggest one- moves prices,” Capital Economics reserves. Physical demand in Asia investigative news, raising fears Removing tariffs on trade worth deal will cut costs for consumers day drop in nearly two years, in analyst Simona Gambarini said. remained lacklustre amid modest that the Nikkei’s tendency to shy $1.3 trillion is expected to give a and business — in particular for a selloff accompanied by heavy “It’s now likely that the Fed will premiums in top gold consumers away from criticising big business $190bn boost to the world economy. smaller firms, which have been hit trading volumes in New York and hike rates this year, most likely India and China. could affect future FT stories. However, five of the 54 WTO especially hard by excessive tar- Shanghai. in September ... (and) investors Gold is expected to struggle for “I’m worried that the Financial members that negotiated the iffs in the past.” General Electric Spot gold hit a low of $1,077.00 are already showing that in their the rest of this year after sliding Times could become like the deal — Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Co, Intel Corporation, Texas an ounce on Friday and was positioning. They’re becoming to five-year lows on expectations Nikkei, and I hope that will not Colombia and Mauritius — failed Instruments Inc, Microsoft Corp down 0.7 percent at $1,082.72 at more bearish on gold.” of higher US interest rate, though be the case,” said Goushi Kataoka, to sign up, leaving the deal short and Nintendo Co are among com- 1418 GMT. US gold futures for As gold prices slump, holdings platinum is expected to fight back, an economist at Mitsubishi UFJ of a quorum, measured as 90 panies expected to benefit from August delivery were down $11.70 of the world’s biggest gold-backed a poll showed. REUTERS Research. AFP percent of world trade in those the deal. REUTERS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Asian LNG spot prices set to drop further Supplies flood market

TOKYO: Asian spot prices for of the nuclear units in August and liquefied natural gas (LNG) October, Tamamizu said. already 60 percent off a record The picture is similar in South hit last year are set to fall fur- Korea, where all 23 nuclear reac- ther in the second half of 2015 tors are running after some were as slowing demand comes up shut due for safety concerns, with against a flood of supplies and a new one scheduled to start soon. oil prices remain weak. That means less demand for LNG The average import price into in the No.2 buyer of the fuel as top LNG buyer Japan fell to its well. lowest in nearly six years in June, In China, the government to just above Asian spot prices is trying to encourage higher also holding near multi-year lows. domestic production of natural With oil prices less than half gas by raising wholesale prices, of last year’s peak, Japan — but that has weakened demand which buys most of its gas on for LNG in a slowing economy. contracts linked to oil and takes “The enthusiasm to import about a third of global LNG ship- spot LNG is weaker than last ments - will have little incentive year. Lower domestic demand to turn to spot cargoes, analysts and the lack of access to receiving An employee at Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) looks at his computer screen while working at the KEB headquarters in Seoul yesterday, when the South and traders said. terminals are behind that,” said a Korean won dropped to a fresh three-year low against the US dollar. “Long-term prices are likely senior LNG trading source with to head lower, reflecting a sharp an independent importer based fall in crude prices since the sec- in Beijing. ond half of last year,” said Junzo And with Asian utilities fully European stock markets fall; euro dips Tamamizu, managing partner of stocked and Australia ramp- Clavis Energy Partners. ing up output that will see it LONDON: European stocks a pall over growth in the world’s country’s fragile economy. best, with the Greece crisis not “Japan’s spot LNG demand is pass Qatar to become the big- fell yesterday as poor data out second-largest economy. That Shares in other miners yet fully resolved. also on the decline with spot needs gest LNG exporter within the of China sent a chill through hit prices of many commodities were hit: copper specialist European markets rallied after for summer in the doldrums,” he next three years, low prices are markets about the prospects of which are used in manufacturing. Antofagasta fell 6.3 percent the outlines of the bailout was said, adding there were few short- expected to continue to plague a global economic recovery. “The issue of falling commodi- to 589 pence, while diversified agreed on July 13 and the Greek term cargoes due for delivery in LNG producers. London’s benchmark FTSE ties has replaced Greece and companies Glencore dropped 4.5 parliament has supported the August, typically the middle of the Adding to the glut, the United 100 index of top companies shed Chinese equity volatility as the percent to 210.15 pence and BHP major tax hikes and spending cuts hot season. States is expected to begin exports 1.13 percent to end the day at centrepiece of the capital mar- Billiton shed 3.8 percent to 1,123 that must be made. The average import price to of LNG later this year or early in 6,579.81 points, the CAC 40 in kets,” said Chris Weston, chief pence and BHP Billiton lost 3.5 Soaring Amazon shares after Japan fell to $8.65 per million 2016, bringing cheap shale gas to Paris retreated 0.58 percent to market strategist at traders IG. percent to 2,400.5 pence. a surprise profit report failed to British thermal units (mmBtu) new markets. 5,057.36 points, and Frankfurt’s Anglo American reported heavy Shares in Air France-KLM lift US stocks. in June, trade data showed. Over In a likely sign of poor demand at DAX 30 fell 1.43 percent to first half losses and announced caught an updraft, rising 0.59 per- In midday trading the Dow the same month, spot prices of home, Japanese utilities are seek- 11,347.45 points. staff numbers would drop by cent to ¤6.63, after it announced Jones Industrial Average had shed $7.30-$7.70 per mmBtu were just ing to sell cargoes they are com- In foreign exchange, the euro 6,000, with the global mining firm it would add a further 300 million percent to 17,637.55 points, while up from a five-year low of $6.70 mitted to taking from US projects, slipped to $1.0967 from $1.0985 hit by the weakness of iron ore euros to a previously announced the broad-based S&P 500 gave up reached in February. as well as looking to buy import late in New York on Thursday. prices. Its shares rose had risen ¤1.5bn cost-cutting programme as 0.47 percent to 2,092.33. The tech- Japan’s imports of LNG broke capacity at European LNG termi- “European markets were under over two percent at one point in it revealed first-half losses of ¤619m. rich Nasdaq Composite Index slid successive annual records fol- nals, trading sources said. pressure on Friday after manu- the day, but they finished with a Meanwhile a survey by Markit 0.22 percent at 5,134.92 points. lowing the Fukushima nuclear Weaker demand in Asia is also facturing data in China, France loss of 3.52 percent to 778 pence. found that private sector busi- Amazon shares jumped 15.2 disaster of 2011 that led to the adding to the woes of the LNG car- and Germany dented hopes of a Shares in Lonmin tanked over ness activity in the eurozone percent to $555.32 on the online shutdown of the country’s reac- rier market, where a glut of new recovery in global growth,” said 17 percent to 62.35 pence after had dipped in July, but was still retail giant’s unexpected swing tors, pushing power utilities to tankers could further undercut CMC Markets UK analyst Jasper the world’s third-largest plati- expanding, which many analysts into profit in the second quarter. the brink of financial ruin as spot freight rates at five-year lows and Lawler. num producer said it was set to showed it was holding up against Asian shares mostly fell on the prices surged. force ship operators to idle ships, A key gauge of Chinese manu- cut 6,000 jobs in South Africa the Greek crisis. disappointing Chinese data and But demand is likely to start maritime industry executives said. facturing activity tumbled to a owing to falling prices and high Nevertheless, the eurozone is the strong US dollar. shrinking with the restart of two REUTERS 15-month low in July, throwing costs, dealing another blow to the set for only modest growth at AFP

Mitsubishi to end production in US Turkish lira US new home sales weakens by at seven-month low

almost 4pc WASHINGTON: New US also are helping. A report on single-family home sales fell Wednesday showed home resales ISTANBUL: The lira’s weekly in June to their lowest level in jumped to a more than eight-year losses against the dollar reached seven months and May’s sales high in June. almost 4 percent yesterday as were revised sharply lower, in Data last week showed build- Turkish air strikes on Islamic what appeared to be a minor ing permits near an eight-year State insurgents in Syria and setback for the housing market peak in June and housing starts nationwide police raids on mili- recovery. increasing solidly. tants fuelled investor concerns Other data yesterday showed New home sales increased 28 about Turkey’s security risks. manufacturing activity nudged percent in the Northeast after Fears of a snap election if efforts up in July after slowing for three soaring 78.6 percent in May. to form a coalition government straight months. Sales fell 17 percent in the West fail also weighed on sentiment, New home sales dropped and were down 11.1 percent in with the two-year benchmark 6.8 percent to a seasonally the Midwest. In the South, sales bond yield rising above 10 percent adjusted annual rate of 482,000 slipped 4.1 percent. for the first time since mid-June. units, the lowest level since The stock of new houses for Central bank steps to support last November, the Commerce sale increased 3.4 percent to Vehicles displayed outside Mitsubishi Motors Corp’s headquarters in Tokyo. Japanese media reported yes- the lira provided some support Department said. May’s sales 215,000 last month, the highest terday that Mitsubishi Motors will end production in the United States. The carmaker will instead concentrate to markets. The lira hit 2.7425 pace was revised down to since May 2010. Supply remains against the US currency by 1450 517,000 units from the previ- less than half of what it was at on growth markets in Asia. GMT, marking a 3.4 percent loss ously reported 546,000 units. the height of the housing boom on the week — far underperform- “You never want to see the and is not keeping up with rising ing the currency’s emerging-mar- data regress, but we remain household formation. ket peers and the biggest weekly optimistic that we’re still on a At June’s sales pace it would loss since the June 7 election. long-term upward trajectory,” take 5.4 months to clear the sup- Recovery takes hold at Vodafone The lira rebounded temporar- said Tom Wind, vice president ply of houses on the market, the ily during the morning after the of home lending at EverBank in most since last November. That central bank cut its US dollar Jacksonville, Florida. was up from 4.8 months in May. LONDON: Vodafone said an one and then to have another with an update which confirms one-week deposit rate to 3 per- Economists had forecast new The median price of a new home acceleration in quarterly sales improvement in the second half of its ongoing improvement,” cent from 3.5 percent and raised home sales, which account for fell 1.8 percent from a year ago growth should continue through the year,” Chief Executive Vittorio said Richard Hunter, Head of the remuneration rate which it 8.1 percent of the market, to be to $281,800. the year, showing its recov- Colao told reporters. Shares in Equities at Hargreaves Lansdown pays on forex required reserves unchanged last month. Sales were In a separate report, finan- ery is moving on to a stronger Vodafone were up 3.4 percent in Stockbrokers. Involved in some to 0.21 percent from 0.15. Bankers up 18.1 percent compared to June cial data firm Markit said its footing and boosting its shares afternoon trading, topping the of the biggest corporate deals in said such measures alone would not of last year. preliminary US Manufacturing yesterday. FTSE 100 Index leader board. recent decades, Vodafone is again be enough to eliminate selling pres- Prices for US government debt Purchasing Managers’ Index The world’s second-largest Three-month service revenue, caught up in a period of change. sure but it was important that the rose after the data and the dol- rose to 53.8 in July from a read- mobile operator by customers, a key measure that strips out Having revealed in June it was bank showed it was ready to act. lar pared gains against a basket ing of 53.6 in June, which was which reported a return to quar- acquisitions and currency moves, in talks with Liberty Global about The latest central bank moves of currencies. U.S. stock indexes the slowest pace since October terly sales growth for the first grew 0.8 percent on an organic exchanging selected assets, Colao came after it kept key interest were trading lower. 2013. time in nearly three years in May, basis, ahead of the 0.1 percent it said there was no update on the rates on hold for a fifth straight Despite two straight months of A reading above 50 indicates has been hit by weak consumer recorded in the fourth quarter talks. The group also declined to month on Thursday, avoiding any declines in new home sales, the expansion in the sector. Job cre- spending in its big European and ahead of analysts’ average say whether it would go ahead mention of political uncertainty overall housing market recovery ation, however, slowed in July markets and price cuts imposed forecast of 0.5 percent. with an initial public offering of and focusing on food and energy remains intact. with the index at 53.7, its weak- by regulators around the world. Vodafone, with 449 million its Indian business, which is one prices. The two-year benchmark est level since April, compared But a steady recovery in Europe, customers around the world in option being considered. bond maturing on June 14, 2017 LENDING TERMS EASED with the final June reading of helped by consumers paying for markets ranging from Albania, Galvanised by stronger trading, rose to 10.03 percent in early trade, Housing is being supported 55.5, Markit said. superfast 4G tariffs and the offer Australia and Turkey, said service however, Colao ratcheted up the its highest since mid-June, com- by a tightening labour market, The index’s flash output com- of new services such as pay-TV, revenue in Europe fell 1.5 percent, pressure on BT, accusing Britain’s pared with Thursday’s close of 9.83 which has unleashed demand ponent rose to 55.4 from the final helped the British firm to beat marking an improvement on the dominant telecoms provider of percent. The 10-year benchmark from young adults. Steps by June reading of 53.9. The June forecasts for first-quarter under- 2.6 percent fall from the previous holding the country to ransom by bond maturing on March 12, 2025 the government to ease lending final output level was the lowest lying sales growth yesterday. three months. abusing its position at the heart went as high as 9.76 percent before conditions for first-time buyers since January 2014, according to “We ... expect the second quar- “Vodafone has bucked the of the industry to fend off tougher finishing at 9.7 percent. through mortgage finance firms Markit data. ter to be similar to the current trend of a weak wider market regulation. REUTERS REUTERS Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac REUTERS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Negative income tax fights Why Berlin’s tech hub poverty, encourages work

BY NOAH SMITH

uppose we want the government to help poor people. I think is no Silicon Valley most of us do want to do this, to some degree. How do we best go about doing it? Economists have been debating this BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY their postal code, got a list of are sorry to inform you that we delivery service. Entering infor- Sfor centuries, and the debate isn’t about to end soon. But the nearest supermarkets, and have decided to put our German mation for the 10,000 products one solution in the US has stood out in recent decades as the most n March, the long-vacant paid a fee of 4.90 euros ($5.40) operation on hold and focus on listed in Shopwings’ catalog was efficient method: the earned income tax credit, known by its even commercial space on the for delivery. other countries.” a hassle the start-up didn’t want less elegant abbreviation, EITC. ground floor of my apart- I made my first order the It’s easy to see what happened. to take on. First, some background. The main problem with just giving poor ment building in Berlin was day after the Shopwings office Shopwings used freelancers. According to the 2014 edi- people money is that it tends to discourage them from working. taken over by Shopwings, opened in my building. A har- The 4.90 euros fee wasn’t suf- tion of the German Startup There are at least two reasons we’d like people to work -- first, Ian online grocery-delivery serv- ried “personal shopper” showed ficient compensation for the Monitor, 63.3 percent of start- work produces useful stuff, and second, work gives people a sense ice developed by Rocket Internet, up within two hours. Some items time spent shopping and deliv- up entrepreneurs say this atti- of dignity. the flagship company of the city’s were missing, the wine I had ering orders. The company tried tude is widespread in German If you simply mail everyone below the poverty level a check, hot start-up scene. This week, asked for had been replaced with to price products higher than society. Instead of fighting on in you’re providing a strong incentive for people not to work, because the space was empty again. The a kind I didn’t want, but hey, all the supermarkets it purchased Berlin and Munich, and trying working would put many people over the poverty line. At that story of the company’s rise and services have kinks in the early from. But in Germany, the land to expand Shopwings to other point the checks would stop coming. fall helps explain why Berlin, or days. of the grocery discounter, shop- German cities as originally An alternative is the minimum wage. This has the benefit of any European start-up hub, is I placed a second order the pers have a good idea of how planned, Rocket pushed it to rewarding workers, while removing the incentive not to work. not Silicon Valley. following weekend. This time, much food costs, so the mark- try other countries and regions. But minimum wages, like all price controls, bring distortions, Rocket Internet, a start-up everything went wrong. I waited ups couldn’t be large. Shopwings This week, it announced a locking some people out of the job market and pushing up factory run with an iron hand for more than three hours and counted on supermarket chains 550m euro convertible bond issue unemployment. by the three Samwer brothers, about half the stuff I wanted to pay a percentage for the busi- that can be exchanged for 6.2 Maybe this distortion is small, in which case minimum wage went public in October 2014. wasn’t delivered. When I pointed ness it drummed up for them, percent of the company’s stock. hikes like the ones being implemented by Seattle, New York and The offering, the biggest in out the problems to the courier, but they weren’t interested. For The announcement caused the other cities won’t cause unemployment to rise very much. But German tech in 14 years, val- he told me to call the customer one thing, profit margins are stock price to tank. Rocket, there is still going to be some limit to the amount that minimum ued the company at $8.4Bn. At hotline. already thin, and for another, which lost money last year, now wages can be raised before some low-skill people get thrown out that point, Shopwings was just Two weeks ago, a neatly hand- if my experience is anything to trades 19 percent below its IPO of work. a concept. Here’s what the IPO written letter from Shopwings go by, Shopwings couldn’t drive price. There is, however, a third option, which is more subtle and prospectus said: Shopwings is landed in my mailbox: It thanked enough volume to entice mam- This setback to to the biggest complicated than welfare payments or a minimum wage. This is a grocery shopping platform me for being one of the first moth retailers such as Lidl, Aldi company on the Berlin start- up the so-called negative income tax, a policy invented in the 1940s that allows customers to order clients and asked why I’d been and Edeka. scene, a city that accounts for by a British politician and popularized by the famous American groceries online with same-day using the service “less fre- There was another peculiarly 39 percent of all start-ups in economist Milton Friedman. Just as income taxes take away a delivery through personal shop- quently.” I’m a sucker for the European twist to Shopwings’ Germany, isn’t an inspiring suc- certain percentage of your earnings, negative income taxes mean pers selected by Shopwings. It is personal touch, so I described my failure in Germany. Since cess story. Europe’s regulatory the government pays you a certain percent of your pay, on top of expected to launch in the fourth previous experience in an e-mail January, European Union laws barriers, capital constraints, what you earn in the market. And just as income taxes discour- quarter of 2014. and prepared to give Shopwings require all food sellers to clearly ingrained habits -- and often the age people from earning more, negative income taxes encourage The website, a clone of the another try. display an item’s ingredients and penchant for slavishly imitating people to earn more. successful US service Instacart, Too late. Six days ago, an nutritional value. Shopwings US success stories -- put even Of course, negative income taxes have to be phased out at some began operations soon after the e-mail from Shopwings said it failed to prove to the German its most advanced tech hubs at earnings level; otherwise there’s no way to raise money for the tax! IPO. Customers would enter was “time to say goodbye.” “We regulator that it was just a a disadvantage. BLOOMBERG Not to mention that Warren Buffett doesn’t exactly need poverty relief. But for poor people, the negative income tax provides money to live and an incentive to work. It really is a Goldilocks policy. Created in 1975 and expanded a number of times since then, the EITC is a big win for economic policy engineering. There is still the question of how strong the work incentive is. Will people really toil more just to earn a few hundred extra dol- lars from the government? Some new evidence suggests that the incentive is large. Using the quasi- experimental techniques that have recently become the gold standard in empirical economics, Hilary Hoynes and Ankur Patel show that increases in the EITC pay off big and that even modest increases in EITC payouts cut poverty while boosting employment. That confirms the basic result of previous studies. So the verdict is in: The EITC accomplishes both of its goals -- it gives poor people the money they need to live, and it encour- ages them to work. The EITC does have one major problem: the way it’s administered. EITC is embedded in the tax code, which means that you have to file a return in order to claim it. That involves paperwork and hassle. It also means that poor people, who often don’t file taxes at all (because they earn too little), will be unfamiliar with the tax system and therefore fail to claim the credit. It also means that many people won’t even be aware that the EITC exists, since the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t exactly do a good job of educating the public about how to use the tax system. For this reason, the Tax Policy Center recently found that 26 million Americans are eligible for the EITC but fail to claim it. One solution to that problem might be to restructure EITC as a wage subsidy -- in other words, to have employers claim the credit and pay it out in the form of higher wages. The problem here is that many poor people tend to work multiple part-time jobs, which will make the system overpay them because it will treat each part-time job as the recipient’s only source of income. A better solution may be to send more workers and volunteers into poor communities to make sure everyone knows about the EITC. In any case, the verdict of both theory and evidence is clear: The EITC is a good policy. The U.S. should use it more. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Financial Times is Nikkei’s acquired prestige

BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY right-hand corner. That didn’t 720,000 digital subscribers, and adjusted operating income. The of the Economist, which, with journalists and establish relation- quite reflect Pearson’s revenues that amounted to 70 percent of FT Group’s adjusted operat- only a slight stretch of the ships with advertisers. t’s easy to understand why -- 52 percent from the education its paying audience. ing profit was down to just 22 imagination, can be described Despite the FT’s successful London- based Pearson got business and 20 percent from the That is a remarkable achieve- million pounds -- insignificant, as an educational product. All effort to transform itself -- it’s rid of the Financial Times, news organization -- but the FT ment, however, a standard online especially as the education busi- in all, a good trade for the FT’s ridiculous to apply the word Ieven though the newspaper -- was still the flagship, Pearson’s subscription to the Financial ness boomed. Pearson now runs prestige. “legacy” to the smoothly run- I should probably say the “website strongest global brand. Times costs 5.35 British pounds for-profit colleges, and has made It’s the prestige that Japan’s ning, fast-paced digital product and app family” -- is much better What’s more, the FT Group ($8.30) per week. a big push into online courses; Nikkei, the paper’s new owner, that is today’s FT -- the paper known than its parent company. contributed a third of Pearson’s All kinds of discounts (such it’s a high-tech education con- has acquired. The biggest media hasn’t been acquired for its busi- Despite one of the most success- operating profit, more than any as those for corporate clients) glomerate, not merely a pub- group in Japan, a private com- ness potential. Nevertheless, ful digital transitions among what other division. It was a goose probably bring the annual sub- lisher, as it was in 1999. In the pany, Nikkei doesn’t have a stel- Financial Times staffers -- and the kids call legacy media, the FT that laid golden eggs. Both sub- scription price down to $300. past five years, the e-learning lar reputation among journalists: to some extent my former col- has stopped making money for scription and advertising rev- Assuming the subscriber base industry has grown at a 9.2 per- It’s said to be too soft on the leagues at Vedomosti, since a 33 Pearson. And what with the ongo- enue showed strong growth. in 2014 was about 600,000 cent annual rate, while the news Japanese corporate establish- percent stake in the Russian busi- ing technological revolution in the The Internet was on everyone’s (the mid-point between its size industry has struggled to replace ment. You can get a flavor of ness news outlet will now pass to education business, the company mind, of course, but FT execu- at the beginning and at the end its legacy revenue streams. No its kind of business journalism Nikkei -- can take heart that the needs cash more than it needs the tives thought they could keep of the year), that would mean wonder Pearson sees its future from its English-language Asian acquisition isn’t the philanthropic FT’s prestige. ft.com free for readers. (That $180 million in digital subscrip- in education, not news. Its capi- Review. Many of the stories act of some Internet billionaire Back in 1999, when I became was a major ideological difference tion revenue -- more than the tal expenditure in 2013 and 2014 read like press releases, and the who likes the FT’s journalism but the editor of Vedomosti, the FT’s between them and their some- $169m the New York Times was all in the education business, FT probably wouldn’t have run may soon become disenchanted. Russian joint venture with arch- what wary partners in our ven- extracted last year from its much and its need for capital has been them. Although Nikkei President The FT has built a news business rival the Wall Street Journal, ture, the managers at Dow Jones, bigger base of 910,000 paying growing. Tsuneo Kita says the “philoso- that feels right in the 21st cen- here’s how Pearson’s annual who were even then experiment- subscribers. phy and values of the FT are tury, and it did so within a com- report presented its business: ing with paywalls.) Yet that wasn’t a big source exactly the same as ours,” he pany that hasn’t been interested The Financial Times Group Just 15 years later, in 2014, of joy for Pearson. In 2012, the The deal with Nikkei fills that must be aware of the quality enough to invest in it. Nikkei is was at the center of this scheme, Pearson’s annual report no longer last year the FT Group’s rev- need. Pearson will receive 844m difference. Owning a flagship likely to show more enthusiasm and Pearson Education, which broke out the FT Group. Its first enues were reported separately, pounds ($1.3bn) in cash for the like the FT should ease Nikkei’s for its new global icebreaker. I, produced textbooks and teach- mention came on Page 25, with the news operation contributed FT, 38 times the FT Group’s planned international expan- for one, expect more bang for my ing aids and designed educational no financial results disclosed. The just 6.9 percent of Pearson’s 2012 operating profit, and it will sion: It’ll make it easier to talk subscription dollars. programs, was down in the lower report said only that the FT had revenue and 2.7 percent of its get to keep its 50 percent share to politicians and regulators, hire BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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CAPE TOWN: Chad Le Clos knows he is under the pressure of expectation. It happens every Michael Phelps swims during the finals of the Men’s 200M Butterfly in the evening session of Day 3 at the time he hits the pool deck. George F Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara, California in this June 2014 file photo. Phelps is The young South African, after not taking part at the World Championships in Kazan this week. all, beat Michael Phelps in the 200 South Africa’s metres butterfly at the London Chad Le Clos Olympics, relegating the most smiles on the successful Olympian of all-time to podium after Absentees add to uncertainty silver and stopping the American winning the from winning the event at three successive Games. gold medal in That expectation will crystal- the men’s 50m butterfly final at World Championships lise even further at the world championships in Kazan, with during the 12th SINGAPORE: The absence of Japan’s Kosuke Hagino, who to spend a week in detention the 23-year-old expecting them FINA Short a handful of the world’s best has emerged as one of the major after crashing a car that he had to provide a valuable insight to Course World swimmers, including Michael threats to Phelps in the indi- driven without a licence. next year’s Rio Olympics. Swimming Phelps, has added an air of vidual medley events, withdrew In 2014, he secretly served a “There is a lot of pressure for Championships uncertainty to the 16th World earlier this month after slipping three-month ban after testing sure, especially after the rocky at Hamad Aquatic Championships, start- over on his way to training and positive for a banned stimulant. time I have had with injury Aquatic Centre ing in Russia. fracturing his elbow. He could have faced a much and illness,’ Le Clos said in an in Doha in this Taking place in Kazan from The spotlight for the men’s longer penalty but Chinese dop- interview. December July 25-August 9, the champi- events in Kazan is now likely to ing officials ruled that Sun had “This is the most important 9, 2014 file onships were meant to be a full fall on South Africa’s Chad le made an innocent mistake and event outside of the Olympics, picture. dress rehearsal for next year’s Clos and China’s Sun Yang. never intended to cheat. everything after this is just Olympics in Rio but a spate of One of the few men to have Unfazed by the extra atten- warm-ups. high-profile withdrawals has beaten Phelps at the Olympics, tion, Sun is targetting the 200m, “I’ll be racing against the same diluted the competition. Le Clos will defend the 100m and 400m, 800m and 1,500m individ- people as next year in Rio so it is The highest-profile no- 200m butterfly titles he won at ual freestyle events, plus relays, important for me to show my best show is Phelps, who came out the 2013 world championships in a feat no other swimmer has form to gauge where I am. of retirement in 2014 but was Barcelona and is also targetting achieved. “So the world championships subsequently banned from rep- the 50m, hoping to complete a “When I was little, I watched will be a vital test for me.” freestyle to his programme in in Rio on becoming the most dec- resenting the United States at unique treble. Michael Phelps compete in five or Le Clos has been blighted with Russia, an event he thinks he orated male Olympian from the the world championships after “This is the most important six events at a worlds, so I want injury and illness in the last six can excel in, but will need to show African continent, topping the being convicted of drink driving event outside of the Olympics, to try it as well,” he said. months, but is confident after a huge improvement to be in medal three gold and one silver medal late last year. Australia’s James everything after this is just American Katie Ledecky is two-month training and racing contention. of Ethiopian long-distance runner Magnussen, who won the 100 warm-ups,” said the 23-year-old . also trying to win the same four programme in the Middle East “It will be the first time that I Kenenisa Bekele. metres freestyle gold at the last Sun, the undisputed king of freestyle events in Kazan. and Europe he is in good shape am swimming long-course inter- Le Clos would need at least two two world championships, will men’s long distance swimming, The 18-year-old has been to contest the 50, 100 and 200 nationally in the freestyle, short- golds from Rio to equal Bekele, also be missing after electing to has been in the spotlight for smashing world records at will metres butterfly. course is usually my game. whose compatriot Tirunesh undergo shoulder surgery, giv- all the wrong reasons since he for the last year and seems a “I have already told my fam- “It’s important for me to per- Dibaba has won three gold and ing up his chance to become the became the first Chinese man to sure bet to win the three longer ily there is a realistic possibil- form well but I know that just to two bronze medals and is the first man to win the blue-riband win an Olympic swimming gold races, but the 200m is her tough- ity I could come back with three make the semi-finals I will prob- most decorated African Olympian sprint three times in row. medal at London in 2012. est challenge. silvers in the butterfly, or three ably need to set a personal best overall. France’s Yannick Agnel, the In 2013, he was suspended by Among Ledecky’s big rivals bronze or three fourths,” said the time. “I just want to be the best that I reigning world and Olympic Chinese swimming officials from will be her team-mate Missy swimmer. “Getting to the final will be can be and if I win two gold med- champion for 200m freestyle, is engaging in commercial activi- Franklin, who won four gold “But I also believe I can get really tough, but once you are als in Rio then I will become the also skipping the world cham- ties after missing training and medals at the London Olympics three golds. The butterfly is such there anything can happen.” most decorated (male) African pionships, because of a lung breaching team rules. as a 17-year-old. an open game at the moment.” Whatever his fortunes in Olympian of all time,” he added. infection. Later that year he was ordered REUTERS Le Clos will also add the 200 Kazan, Le Clos has set his sights REUTERS

Toronto lure Baseball Results NY Yankees 9 Baltimore 3 Seattle 3 Detroit 2 Lamoriello Toronto 5 Oakland 2 Minnesota 3 LA Angels 0 away from Pittsburgh 7 Washington 3 LA Dodgers 3 NY Mets 0 Chicago White Sox 8 Cleveland 1 Devils Katherine Kirk of Australia St Louis 4 Kansas City 3 watches her drive on the Houston 5 Boston 4 TORONTO: Lou Lamoriello ninth hole during the first Arizona 8 Milwaukee 3 was hired as the new general round of the Meijer LPGA Miami 4 San Diego 0 manager of the Toronto Maple Classic presented by Kraft Leafs, ending an almost three at Blythefield Country decade stint with the New Jersey Club on Thursday in Devils, the National Hockey Grand Rapids, Michigan. Cardinals, League teams announced. Lamoriello, 72, resigned as president of the Devils and was Blue Jays introduced later Thursday as the general manager of the Maple Leafs. earn wins “I have worked with Hall of Fame coaches, and players and a NEW YORK: John Lackey shut great staff, all of whom contrib- down the Kansas City Royals in uted to our success. In the end, his last six innings to lead the it’s about the people which makes St Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 win. this decision so difficult.” Lackey (9-5) allowed six hits His new task is to turn around and two runs in seven innings one of the league’s Original Six and 110 pitches, walking two and franchises. Toronto hasn’t won a striking out five. Stanley Cup since 1967. Brilliant Kirk shares lead at Meijer He had given up two runs in The Devils won three Stanley the first inning then gave up just Cup titles during Lamoriello’s 28 GRAND RAPIDS, US: The best part of Salas’ bogey- three hits afterwards, mowing years there, but they missed the Former Women’s British Open Tour’s Meijer Tour’s Canadian free round was an eagle at the down 10 of the last 11 hitters he play-offs each of the last three runner-up Katherine Kirk got par-five 11th hole to go along with faced. years and four times in the past off to an electrifying start on Classic Scores Open Scores five birdies. Starter Chris Young (8-6) five seasons. Lamoriello first Thursday to fire a seven-under 64 Katherine Kirk (AUS), Dori Carter, Lizette 64 Emiliano Grillo (ARG) “It felt good, to end on a note lasted just three innings for joined the Devils as president and 64 for a share of the lead after Salas 65 Vaughn Taylor, Brian Harman like that is really positive,” said Kansas City (57-37). general manager in 1987 and his the first round of the Meijer 65 Jaye Marie Green, Hsu Wei-Ling (TPE) 66 Erik Compton, Steve Wheatcroft, Tyrone Salas of her consecutive birdies Blue Jays 5, Athletics 2 first draft choice was number two Classic. 66 Kris Tamulis, Jane Rah, Ilhee Lee (KOR), Van Aswegen (RSA), a-Ryan Ruffels to finish her round. RA Dickey won a battle of overall pick Brendan Shanahan, The 33-year-old Aussie is tied Baek Kyu-Jung (AUS) “I plan to just kind of go out on replacement starting pitchers who is now the president of the with Americans Dori Carter and 67 Sarah Kemp (AUS), Alison Lee 67 Chad Campbell, Robert Garrigus, the practice area today, focus on over Drew Pomeranz, throwing Maple Leafs. Lizette Salas as all three took 68 Pat Hurst, Alena Sharp (CAN), Sarah Jane Johnson Wagner, Eric Axley, Alex Prugh, the greens and really try to keep 8-1/3 innings in the Toronto Blue Meanwhile, Glendale city offi- advantage of the calmer condi- Smith, Belen Mozo (ESP), Oh Ji-Young William McGirt, Jim Herman, Chesson it going the next three days,” she Jays’ 5-2 victory over the Oakland cials are scheduled to meet to vote tions that greeted the morning (KOR), Sandra Changkija, Katy Harris, Hadley, JJ Spaun added. Athletics. on a possible settlement with the starters to post low scores at the Amy Anderson, Laetitia Beck (ISR), 68 Stewart Cink, Jim Furyk, Neal Lancaster, Hsu was among the players Pomeranz was summoned out Arizona Coyotes. Blythefield Country Club course Brooke Pancake, Kim Kaufman Heath Slocum, Ricky Barnes with afternoon tee times who had of the bullpen when Oakland dealt The Coyotes and the city said in the US state of Michigan. to deal with more wind. scheduled starter Scott Kazmir to they have reached an agree- “I drove it pretty well and I LPGA Tour event. The group at and 17. Kirk, who finished sec- Top-ranked Inbee Park was the Houston Astros a few hours ment on an amended lease for think I hit 16 greens and made 66 included Kris Tamulis, Baek ond at the 2010 Women’s British part of a large contingent tied before the game. Gila River Arena that will keep quite a few birdies and an eagle,” Kyu-Jung, Ilhee Lee and Jane Open, made a birdie at the first. for 37th after opening with a 70. Dickey, meanwhile, was the team in Glendale for at least said Kirk, who is seeking her Rah. After rattling off three consecu- The 2014 tournament runner- pushed up a day in the rotation two more years. According to third win on the US Tour. Kirk was red-hot right from tive pars she drained her sixth up got off to a slow start in the when Drew Hutchison withdrew the revised agreement, the city’s “So I got off to a good start and the beginning as she started birdie of the round at the fifth. first round with three bogeys on because of an illness. arena management fee to the kind of just kept it going, which on the back nine. The Brisbane She then went par-bogey before the front nine. Park lost in a play- The knuckleballer overcame team would drop from $15m a was nice.” native was four-under through capping her round with another off to Lee Mi-Rim last year. two early runs and was two outs year to $6.5m, and the team would Jaye Marie Green and the first four holes which included birdie at the ninth. Chella Choi, who won the from his second complete game keep all revenue from ticket sur- Taiwanese rookie Hsu Wei-Ling an eagle on the par-five 11th. Carter posted eight birdies, Marathon Classic last weekend of the season before hitting des- charges, parking and naming were tied behind the leaders at 65 After a bogey on 15, Kirk fash- including three in a row on num- in Ohio, shot an even-par 71. ignated hitter Billy Butler with a rights. AGENCIES after the first 18 holes of the $2m ioned back-to-back birdies on 16 bers four through six. AFP pitch. AGENCIES SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Great Britain’s Christopher Froome Nibali wins 19th stage, celebrates his overall leader yellow jersey on the podium at the end of Froome retains lead the 138 km nineteenth stage of the 102nd edition Tour de France: Quintana wins 2nd spot to reignite battle of the Tour de France, LA TOUSSUIRE, France: yesterday. Reigning champion Vincenzo Nibali won the 19th stage of the Tour de France yester- day as Nairo Quintana clawed back time on race leader Chris Froome. Italian Nibali went some way to rescuing what has been a dif- ficult Tour defence by claiming a stunning solo victory on the 138km stage from Saint Jean de Nibali’s behaviour not in Maurienne to La Toussuire. Quintana took second on the stage at 44sec but finished 30sec ahead of third-placed Froome to the spirit of Tour: Froome perhaps reignite the yellow jersey battle. LA TOUSSUIRE: Race leader but he chose the moment I had a Colombian Quintana is now Chris Froome hit out at defend- mechanical to make his move and 2min 38sec back from the Briton ing Tour de France champion I’ve heard from other riders that ahead of Saturday’s 20th stage Vincenzo Nibali for launch- he turned and attacked. In my finish on Alpe d’Huez. ing his stage-winning attack opinion it’s very unsportsmanlike. But it was the return of the just when the Briton suffered a “It’s not in the spirit of the ‘Shark of Messina’ that most mechanical problem yesterday. Tour de France.” animated an enthralling day in The incident was reminiscent Nibali, not a threat to the yel- the Alps. of that on the 2010 Tour when low jersey after dropping out “It has been a very difficult Alberto Contador attacked Andy of contention in the first block year, the start of the Tour was Schleck as the Luxembourg rider, of racing, went on to win the difficult for me, I had some bad then wearing the yellow jersey, stage ahead of Colombian Nairo luck and wasn’t in the best shape,” had problems with his chain. Quintana and Froome, who were said 30-year-old Nibali. The Spaniard then went on second and third respectively. “I only found my form at the to win the race although he was Some riders believe the wearer end. This is a great victory, I’m later stripped of the title following of the yellow jersey should not be delighted. a positive dope test with Schleck attacked if he suffers a mechani- “The fans pushed me and moti- Astana Pro team rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy celebrates while crossing the finish line to win the 19th stage of promoted from second to take the cal problem or a crash. vated me, there were a lot of of the 102nd edition of the Tour de France 2015 cycling race over 138km between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and honours. Nibali, however, said he did not Italians supporting me. This is a La Toussuire - Les Sybelles, France, yesterday. “It’s pretty self explanatory see the incident. great win for me, for my family really, going up to the col de la “I had turned around to talk to and for Italy.” Croix de Fer I had a mechanical my team mate Tanel Kangert,” Nibali attacked out of a group Having suffered badly in the his move with 5.5km left on the Froome during the Tour. More problem,” said Froome after the said the Italian, who is now fourth of leaders on the hors category Pyrenees and dropped out of final climb and steadily eked out a importantly, perhaps, Froome’s 19th stage. overall 6:44 off the pace. Col du Croix de Fer with almost overall contention, Nibali has gap on Froome, who was the only Sky team-mates cracked early “A piece of asphalt got stuck Froome went to confront Nibali 60km remaining. fought his way back up to fourth rider able to react. on, showing signs of weakness in between my brakes and my rear after the finish. He reeled in lone escapee following his fifth Tour stage win The 30sec gained still leaves the Briton’s hitherto impregna- wheel and the rear wheel just Asked what he was told by the Pierre Rolland on the next climb – he took four stages 12 months Quintana with a huge task on ble armoury. Alejandro Valverde jammed up. I had to stop and get Briton, Nibali replied: “It can’t be and then dropped the Frenchman ago on the way to the yellow jer- today’s final Alpine stage but sig- remains third over all at 5min it out before I could continue. repeated.” on the final ascent of La Toussire. sey, in the race. nificantly it was the first time 25sec but Nibali is now only 1min “It seems to me that Nibali Froome said: “I told him what Behind him, Quintana made he managed to take time off 19sec off a podium finish. AFP had the whole climb to attack I thought of him.” REUTERS Tour de France Stage 19 Results Results from Tour de France ‘Shark’ attack pays dividends for Nibali (Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - La LA TOUSSUIRE, France: Scarponi then the next breaka- “He was still strong and tomor- Toussuire, 138 km) yesterday. Vincenzo Nibali reminded eve- way we had (Tanel) Kangert,” row (Saturday) we’ll try again, 1. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy/Astana) 4:22:53” ryone why he is the reigning said Nibali. although certainly from further 2. Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) +44” champion by claiming victory “Our aim was to attack on the out.” 3. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) +1:14” on the Alpine 19th stage of the Col de la Croix de Fer, I went hard With today’s final chance to 4. Thibaut Pinot (France/FDJ) +2:26” Tour de France yesterday. to try to gain time in the stand- make a difference, Quintana does 5. Romain Bardet (France/AG2R) The “Shark of Messina” ings and also to try to win the at least have hope that he can do 6. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) attacked with just under 60km stage. something on the 110km stage remaining in an act of pride and “It wasn’t easy but the best from Modane to Alpe d’Huez, 7. Bauke Mollema (Netherlands/Trek) defiance following a difficult Tour idea was to attack from a long although beating Froome by more 8. Robert Gesink (Netherlands/LottoNL) defence that disintegrated in the way out.” than two and a half minutes – 9. Alberto Contador (Spain/Tinkoff - Saxo) Pyrenees. Chris Froome finished third on there are also time bonuses on 10. Samuel Sanchez (Spain/BMC Racing) But the Alps have been far the stage to maintain his overall the line – remains a tall order. Points Classification kinder to the 30-year-old Sicilian lead but Nairo Quintana delivered And Froome is supremely 1. Peter Sagan (Slovakia/Tinkoff - Saxo) whose victory on the 138km stage a minor blow to the Briton and confident. 420 from Saint Jean de Maurienne to sparked hope -- albeit minimal -- “I can’t wait for tomorrow, it’s La Toussuire moved him up to that this year’s Tour de France is going to be an absolutely amazing 2. Andre Greipel (Germany/Lotto) 316 fourth overall and just 1min 19sec not over. stage,” he said. 3. John Degenkolb (Germany/Giant) 281 off a podium finish. Quintana was second at 44sec “It’s the most iconic climb (Alpe 4. Mark Cavendish (Britain/Etixx - Quick- Nibali said his move had from Nibali but crucially took d’Huez) of the Tour de France Step) 192 been the proud reaction of the 30sec out of Froome and now sits and the final test in terms of the 5. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) 128 defending champion, as well as at 2min 38sec. general classification. 6. Bryan Coquard (France/Europcar) 122 an attempt to win the stage and “I thought today the time “I imagine it’s going to be an 7. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) 90 move up in the standings. gaps would be greater,” admitted amazing atmosphere up there. Astana rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy celebrates as he crosses the finish 8. Thomas De Gendt (Belgium/Lotto) 85 “All three really. Today my Quintana. I’m in a great position with a two line to win the 138-km (85.74 miles) 19th stage of the 102nd Tour de team was brilliant. We always had “We did what we thought we and a half minute advantage and 9. Tony Gallopin (France/Lotto) 85 France cycling race from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire-Les someone in the breakaway. On had to do but (Froome) defended I can’t wait to get up there now,” Sybelles in the French Alps mountains, France, yesterday. 10. Thibaut Pinot (France/FDJ) 83 the first climb it was (Michele) very well. he said. AFP

Heavy rain washes out 4th day’s play in Chittagong Australia’s Cummins strikes as Nevill looks to keep Test place

DERBY, UK: Australia’s Pat appeared to increase after he Cummins had been sidelined Cummins marked his return to was given the gloves against from first-class cricket with back first-class cricket after nearly Derbyshire. and foot problems since playing two years out with a wicket Nevill took seven catches on his for Australia A against South against Derbyshire on the sec- debut and made a quick 45 in his Africa A in July and August 2013. ond day of the three-day tour only innings as Australia thrashed But the New South Wales fast match at Derby yesterday. England by 405 runs in the second bowler, who took seven wickets in But he bowled just six overs Test at Lord’s last week to level his lone Test against South Africa in yesterday’s morning session the five-match Ashes series at 1-1. at Johannesburg in 2011, looked before rain meant no play was First-choice gloveman Brad lively in a spell of one for 20 in six possible after lunch. Haddin didn’t play at Lord’s after overs against Derbyshire. Derbyshire were 81 for two in withdrawing for “family reasons”. Cummins ended a composed reply to Australia’s first innings Australia played both keepers opening stand of 49 by the Second 413 for nine declared – a deficit against Derbyshire. Division side when he had New of 332 runs – when the umpires But it was Nevill, Haddin’s dep- Zealand’s Hamish Rutherford abandoned play for the day at uty at New South Wales, who took caught behind by Nevill for 14. 3:00pm local time (1400 GMT). the gloves on Friday with Haddin Derbyshire’s 49 for one become Wayne Madsen, the Derbyshire in the outfield. 55 for two when all-rounder captain, was 14 not out and Scott The 22-year-old Cummins Shane Watson, dropped for the Elstone 13 not out. was called up late into the squad second Test in favour of Mitchell A general view shows covers on the playing surface of the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong Australia wicket-keeper Peter after Ryan Harris’s injury- Marsh, induced a top edge from yesterday, as rain stops play during the fourth day of the first cricket Test match between Bangladesh and South Nevill’s prospects of retaining his induced retirement on the eve Ben Slater (20) which was caught Africa. Rain washed out the entire fourth day’s play. place for next week’s third Test of Australia’s 169-run first Test by a back-pedalling Adam Voges against England at Edgbaston defeat in Cardiff. at first slip. AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Hamilton shines again as Kvyat surprises in Hungary Briton tops both practice sessions, Red Bull showcase improvement Maria Sharapova BUDAPEST: Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton Hungarian Grand topped the times ahead of Daniil Sharapova and Kvyat of Red Bull in yester- Prix Free Practice days second free practice ses- sion ahead of this weekend’s Times Dimitrov reach Hungarian Grand Prix. On an eventful day, just 72 BUDAPEST, Hungary: hours after the funeral of Jules Hungarian Formula One break point Bianchi, Hamilton led the way Grand Prix free practice times SOFIA: Russian five-times as the drivers demonstrated yesterday: Grand Slam champion Maria their respect for the 25-year-old 2nd practice Sharapova has split with Frenchman who died last Friday 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1:23.949, Bulgarian boyfriend Grigor by pulling down their visors and 2. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Red Bull 1:24.300, 3. Dimitrov after a nearly showing total commitment. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:24.451, three-year relationship. In searing heat that reached 50 4. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1:24.668, “Our paths split,” 24-year- degrees Celsius on the pit wall, 5. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:25.134, 6. old Dimitrov, currently number Hamilton, who is seeking a record Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Toro Rosso 1:25.599, 16 in the ATP rankings, told fifth Formula One win on one of 7. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:25.660, Bulgarian media yesterday. his favourite circuits, recorded a 8. Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren “We experienced wonderful best lap time of one minute and 1:25.752, 9. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Williams moments together. I wish her 23.949 seconds to outpace the 1:25.881, 10. Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams much happiness and success in Russian by 0.351 seconds. 1:25.920, 11. Max Verstappen (NED) Toro life and in tennis. “That was very good fun,” said Rosso 1:25.935, 12. Jenson Button (GBR) “Now I’m concentrated Hamilton. McLaren 1:25.994, 13. Pastor Maldonado entirely on the game and I’m “But I cannot tell you how (VEN) Lotus 1:26.090, 14. Felipe Nasr (BRA) sure the results will soon be hot it is out there. The heat is Sauber AG 1:26.379, 15. Romain Grosjean seen... This is the summer of so intense. It is like driving in a (FRA) Lotus 1:26.442, 16. Marcus Ericsson the new beginning for me.” sauna with this racing suit on, (SWE) Sauber 1:26.831, 17. Roberto Merhi Dimitrov, who climbed to and the thermal underwear, and (ESP) Marussia 1:29.113, 18. Will Stevens number eight in the world so hot! (GBR) Marussia 1:29.115, 19. Sergio Perez last year after reaching the “And it is not easy. This is a (MEX) Force India, 20. Nico Hülkenberg Wimbledon semi-finals, has challenging circuit and that is Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives during the first practice session of the Hungarian (GER) Force India. had a lean year and is still to how it should be, but it would be F1 Grand Prix at the Hungaroring Circuit, near Budapest in Hungary, yesterday. 1st practice reach a final. good if it is not so hot on Sunday 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1:25.141, Sharapova, 28, announced for the race. I feel I must have 2. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1:25.250, that her and Dimitrov lost at least a kilo out there in Rosberg, in fourth place. Asked white smoke pouring from the teenager Max Verstappen of 3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:25.812, 4. were a couple in May 2013. that session.” about seeing the two Red Bulls rear of his car after an apparent Toro Rosso and Jenson Button, Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:26.053, REUTERS Hamilton won at the separating him from Rosberg, engine failure. the 2009 champion, in the second 5. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Red Bull 1:26.070, 6. Hungaroring track in 2007, his Hamilton smiled. “That’s good - The incident caused the ses- McLaren. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:26.395, 7. debut season in F1, 2009, 2012 the more the merrier!” sion to be red-flagged and halted The day had started with a Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Toro Rosso 1:26.727, and 2013 and, with four wins, Rosberg was in a subdued briefly while the car was cleared dramatic morning session that, 8. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:26.776, Tomic spurns has the same total of victories mood, as were many of the driv- out of the way. Kimi Raikkonen, in addition to Raikkonen’s inci- 9. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Williams 1:26.825, as seven-time champion Michael ers in cars and helmets that car- who had caused a red-flag inter- dent, saw Mexican Sergio Perez 10. Max Verstappen (NED) Toro Rosso Tennis Australia Schumacher. ried special tributes to Bianchi, ruption in the morning session of Force India survive unhurt 1:26.934, 11. Fernando Alonso (ESP) The 30-year-old Briton leads after he had continued to struggle when the front wing of his car fell and walk away from a spectacu- McLaren 1:27.272, 12. Jenson Button (GBR) his Mercedes team-mate Nico for his best form, notably with his off, was fifth fastest for Ferrari lar crash. McLaren 1:27.308, 13. Nico Hülkenberg olive branch Rosberg by 17 points in the title brakes. ahead of Carlos Sainz Junior of The team withdrew him (GER) Force India 1:27.317, 14. Felipe Massa race. “Not a good day for me and I Toro Rosso, four-time champion and team-mate German Nico (BRA) Williams 1:27.381, 15. Felipe Nasr SYDNEY: Bernard Tomic’s Kvyat’s lap was an endorsement was chasing it all the way with Sebastian Vettel in the second Hulkenberg from the second (BRA) Sauber AG 1:27.409, 16. Marcus rift with Tennis Australia of Red Bull’s improved showing under-steer and over-steer, but I Ferrari and two-time champion practice session. Ericsson (SWE) Sauber AG 1:27.732, 17. looks unlikely to end any time on the tight, twisty and technical can pull it back tomorrow,” said Fernando Alonso who was eighth The Lotus team joined the fray Pastor Maldonado (VEN) Lotus 1:28.568, soon after the player said he circuit that suited their car. Rosberg. for McLaren. in the morning after making a 18. Will Stevens (GBR) Marussia 1:29.693, had no interest in clear-the-air His team-mate, Australian Ricciardo’s strong performance The two Williams men, Valtteri last-hour payment to Pirelli for 19. Fabio Leimer (SWI) Marussia 1:30.631, talks until the governing body Daniel Ricciardo, was half a sec- came in a session that saw him Bottas and Felipe Massa, were their tyres. AFP 20. Jolyon Palmer (ENG) Lotus. resumed funding of his sister, ond adrift to take third ahead of pull off the track with plumes of ninth and 10th ahead of Dutch Sara. Tomic was dumped from the Davis Cup quarter-final against Kazakhstan after he launched a Raikkonen says he still has public attack on Tennis Australia (TA), who have withdrawn fund- Russian driver ing from both Tomics because Daniil Kvyat of the uncooperative attitude of of Red Bull the speed that Ferrari need their father, John. Racing gets The Australians came from 2-0 out of his BUDAPEST: Kimi Raikkonen times champion Sebastian Vettel, or not. There is no contract, but down to win the tie 3-2 and set car during believes he still has the speed however, and are weighing up how there is an option now,” he added. up a semi-final against Britain, the second that Ferrari need despite to proceed. “I have made it very clear to and TA reached out to their top practice reports that the Formula One Vettel, who joined this season the team what I would like to ranked men’s player on Tuesday, session of the team are lining up a replace- from Red Bull, is currently third happen, and it is to be here next offering talks to hammer out Formula One ment for 2016 in fellow-Finn overall and has scored 59 points year.” their differences. Hungarian Valtteri Bottas. more than his team mate. Raikkonen has not won a race The 22-year-old, apparently Grand Prix “Everybody has their own view, Reports in Italy last week sug- since he was at Lotus in 2013 uncowed by his arrest in Miami but I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t gested Bottas was set to switch but the Finn, the most popular last week for refusing to turn on the think I had the speed,” the 2007 from Williams but neither Finn driver in Formula One according down the music during a party Hungaroring world champion told reporters indicated that was anything more to a recent global fan survey, was at his penthouse suite in a hotel, Circuit in at the Hungarian Grand Prix than speculation. second in Bahrain in April. said there was no point. Mogyorod, yesterday. “I don’t know any more than I Bottas, 10 years younger, has “Until I am satisfied TA is com- near “There is no point to be racing, knew at the start of the year,” said been on the podium once this mitted to funding the develop- Budapest, if I didn’t believe I have, and I am Raikkonen. “For me, the whole season when he finished third in ment of junior Australian talent, Hungary, sure I have (the speed),” added thing hasn’t changed for months. Canada in June. including my sister Sara, on a yesterday. the 35-year-old, who is out of con- If I knew I would easily say, unfor- “Obviously there are a lot of non-discriminatory basis, I do not tract with the Maranello team at tunately I don’t know. rumours,” Bottas said when asked believe there is any point in meet- the end of the season. “Somehow I end up every year about his situation. “For me there ing,” he told the Herald Sun news- Ferrari have an option on in the same position, and it makes is nothing new to tell you since I paper from Colombia, where he retaining him alongside four no difference if I have a contract was asked last time.” REUTERS is competing at the Claro Open. “I am always ready, willing and able to play for Australia. It is my honour and privilege to do so.” “Importantly, I would like to thank previous TA administrators for their financial support in the Kovalev puts three titles on line against Mohammedi past. Current TA administrators sacked me from the Davis Cup for LAS VEGAS: Knockout put his WBO, WBA and IBF titles in a row and became Kovalev’s Sergey comments I made at Wimbledon. king Sergey Kovalev may be a on the line against Frenchman mandatory opponent following Kovalev I stand by those comments.” heavy favourite against Nadjib Mohammedi who enters his a seventh-round knockout of of Russia Australia needed the experi- Mohammedi, but he won’t third fight with new trainer Abel Anatoliy Dudchenko in June. celebrates ence of Lleyton Hewitt to res- be taking the challenger for Sanchez. Mohammedi grew up poor cue them from defeat against after granted in their light heavy- The 32-year-old Kovalev is in France but managed to turn Kazakhstan in Darwin last week- knocking out weight fight today at the originally from Chelyabinsk, his life around after getting into end, the 34-year-old replacing Mandalay Bay casino. Russia but recently moved from boxing. Ismayl Sillakh Thanasi Kokkinakis to clinch the Kovalev, who has been a wreck- Florida to Los Angeles. “My life prepared me to fight of Ukraine deciding singles match. ing machine in his last dozen He has bulldozed his way because I have had to fight for a during their Another young gun, Nick fights by knocking out 10 of those through the 175-pound division. living and work hard since I was World Boxing Kyrgios, was replaced for the final opponents, sees this fight as the Of his last 11 opponents only very young,” he said. Organisation day of singles by big-serving Sam next step in his goal of holding all Bernard Hopkins made it to the “This is my shot and I am (WBO) light Groth, who kept his country’s four light heavyweight belts. final bell last year. But it was a ready.” heavyweight hopes alive with a victory over “My desire is to get all four one-sided decision for Kovalev Mohammedi is the underdog title boxing Kazakhstan’s number one Mikhail titles,” the undefeated Kovalev who knocked Hopkins down twice but he is undaunted by the long match at Kukushkin. said. and took his two titles. odds in front of him. the Colisee Tomic, ranked 29th in the Kovalev hopes to eventually Kovalev followed up in March He has one ace up his sleeve – in Quebec world, would undoubtedly be a land a unification fight with with an eighth-round knockout his corner man Abel Sanchez used City, in this boost to the Australia team when Canadian Adonis Stevenson, who of former world champion Jean to be the trainer for Kovalev. December they travel to England to take has the one belt (WBC) that the Pascal in Montreal. “He knows the style of Kovalev. 2013 file on a Britain team led by Andy Russian doesn’t. The 30-year-old Mohammedi He knows his talent and his mis- photo. Murray on September 18 to 20. Kovalev (27-0-1, 24 KOs) will (37-3, 23 KOs) has won 13 fights takes,” Mohammedi said. AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 FIFA to meet Hulk pulls out of World Cup draw disgruntled sponsors Brazilian had complained of ‘gross and ugly’ racism in Russian soccer SAINT PETERSBURG: FIFA will meet with key sponsors ST PETERSBURG: Zenit St Ronaldo (Brazil), Diego Forlan Visa, McDonalds and Coca-Cola Petersburg striker Hulk (pic- (Uruguay), Fabio Cannavaro next month as world football’s tured) has pulled out of today’s (Italy), Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) governing body continues to World Cup qualifying draw, only and Oliver Bierhoff (Germany). come under pressure following days after complaining of “gross Russia, 2018 World Cup hosts, a series of corruption scandals. and ugly” racism in Russian have repeatedly been criticised Just 24 hours before the first football. for failure to tackle racism in official event for the Russia 2018 The Brazil forward will be domestic soccer and Hulk com- World Cup with the qualifica- replaced as a draw assistant by plained bitterly about the issue tion draw in Saint Petersburg, former Russia captain Alexey on Monday. Secretary General Jerome Valcke Smertin, FIFA said in a state- “It happens at almost every said the three major sponsors had ment before adding the player match in Russia but the world written to express their concern. had withdrawn due to club does not hear about it because The parties are expected to commitments. they try to keep it quiet,” he told meet in August to discuss the Zenit visit FC Ural in a league reporters. reform procedures outlined by match on Sunday but there Hulk, whose real name is “I see it happening all the time. outgoing FIFA President Sepp have been no alterations to the Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, told I used to get really angry about it Blatter this week. fixture list since soccer’s ruling Zenit’s website: “It was a great but now I just send a kiss to the “There will be a meeting next body announced on Wednesday honour for me and the club to be fans and try not to get angry.” month in August between all the that Hulk would take part in the invited to the draw. The problem again came under FIFA partners and FIFA along World Cup event. “Every player in the world the spotlight when Ghanaian with the legal and marketing “We found out the coach of would be happy to be a part of Emmanuel Frimpong said he departments,” said Valcke. Zenit (Andre Villas-Boas) made a such an important event,” added was racially abused in a match at “The issue is to make sure from decision based on purely sporting the 28-year-old who joined from Spartak Moscow. their side that the reform proc- reasons to withdraw this player Porto in 2012. Frimpong, who plays for Ufa, ess ongoing should be through an from taking part,” organising “It is with great regret I have to was sent off and later suspended independent body.” committee chief executive Alexey inform I will not be able to attend for two league matches after rais- Blatter’s proposed reforms Sorokin told a news conference. the draw because of the ongoing ing a finger to fans who he said include limits on terms for lead- “I reiterate this decision was training process and upcoming had made monkey chants. ers, tougher background checks purely of a sporting nature away match...long flight and time On Wednesday, the Russian on executive committee members because Zenit has a game on zone changes make it impossible Football Union rejected the rac- Volunteers take pictures of the 2018 World Cup logo at the Konstantin and the publication of salaries of Sunday in Yekaterinburg so the for me to be present.” ism allegations, a ruling Frimpong (Konstantinovsky) Palace, the venue of the preliminary draw for the 2018 top officials. coach decided the team need to Other former players who will said was “beyond a joke”. World Cup, in St Petersburg yesterday. However, VISA Chief Executive leave together.” take part in today’s draw include REUTERS Charlie Scharf believes that meaningful reform can only be carried out by an independent The 2018 World Blatter in Russia body and take place once Blatter Cup Qualifying FIFA Secretary General Valcke on first foreign is removed. AFP Draw Explained World Cup The qualifying draw for the 2018 says he will leave with Blatter visit since crisis World Cup will take place today in Saint Petersburg with 141 ST PETERSBURG: FIFA 2018 schedule nations across five confedera- ST PETERSBURG: Jerome President Sepp Blatter arrived tions waiting to find out their Valcke, FIFA’s often-outspoken in St Petersburg on Thursday on fate. Secretary General, all but con- his first official trip abroad since unveiled This is how the 32 participat- firmed yesterday that he will The he announced on June 2 that he ing nations in the finals in three be leaving his job when Sepp Secretary would step aside amid the worst SAINT PETERSBURG: years’ time in Russia will be Blatter is replaced as President General crisis in his federation’s history. The schedules for the 2018 determined: of world soccer’s governing body of FIFA, Blatter will be at today’s draw World Cup in Russia and the Who can qualify? next February. Jerome for the 2018 World Cup qualify- 2017 Confederations Cup were Of the 208 FIFA eligible nations, Valcke, a 54-year-old Valcke, at ing competition, an extravaganza unveiled yesterday by FIFA Frenchman, has been in the job which Russia President Vladimir in Saint Petersburg ahead of 183 can still qualify and 141 will a press since 2007. Putin is also due to attend. the qualification draws for the be involved in today’s draw with conference the Asian confederation the “If I was the next President of Since May, he has missed the competition today. at the only absentee as their qualify- FIFA then I would have a new world under-20 championships in Kazan, Saint Petersburg, ing process has already begun. Secretary General, so yes, who- Constantine New Zealand, the women’s World Sochi and Moscow’s Spartak Russia are the only already qual- ever becomes the next FIFA Palace in St Cup in Canada and the Copa Stadium will be the hosts for ified side thanks to their position President should have a new Petersburg, America in Chile, tournaments the Confederations Cup and the as hosts. Secretary General,” he told a Russia, he would routinely have attended. four World Cup quarter-finals. What happens at the draw? news conference in Russia before yesterday. A FIFA spokesperson con- It had already been decided In all there will be six draws. today’s preliminary round draw firmed that Blatter had arrived. that the Luzhniki Stadium in One for each of the European for the 2018 World Cup. A worldwide TV audience of Moscow will host the open- (UEFA), African (CAF), “It is the most important rela- around 100m people in 170 coun- ing game, a semi-final and North and Central American tionship for any organisation, been any wrong-doings by the preparations for the 2014 finals. tries will watch as the two men the final with Saint Petersburg (CONCACAF), South American one of the key functions in any administration and I don’t think He also said that World Cups open proceedings at the draw also hosting the other (CONMEBOL) and Oceania institution, and so regarding the I’m involved or have anything to were easier to organise in coun- for the competition, which will semi-final. (OFC) confederations with an future I could have some privacy do in this case. tries ruled by a dictator and involve 206 of FIFA’s 209 mem- The group stages will see additional draw determining from whatever questions you Valcke has had a chequered became deeply involved in the ber nations. four games take place at all which confederations will be are asking,” he added, appearing career at FIFA which he origi- 2011 “bribes for votes” scandal Blatter said in a shock 12 stadiums across the 11 host paired in the two inter-confed- almost relieved. nally joined in 2003 as Marketing when he said Qatar, which had announcement on June 2 that he cities. eration playoffs. “And anyway, whoever will Director but was fired in won the right to stage the 2022 would lay down his mandate, only Saint Petersburg’s How are the remaining 31 become the next Secretary December 2006 for his part World Cup, had “bought” the four days after being elected for Zenit Arena will host the places allocated? General should be happy as we in botched sponsorship nego- tournament, a comment he later a fifth term as FIFA President. Confederations Cup final on Russia will be joined by 13 have a World Cup being very well tiations with credit card rivals said had been misunderstood. He will remain in office until a July 2, 2017. European sides, five African organised in Russia.” MasterCard and Visa. The most recent controversy successor is chosen at an extraor- Former world champions nations, four from the Asian con- FIFA is in the throes of the big- He was dismissed when a New he faced was in 2008 when a let- dinary Congress on Feb 26. France and Italy face a poten- federation, four South American gest crisis in its 111-year history York court ruled that FIFA had ter to Valcke was published which His decision came less than one tial tricky task just to make it countries and three from North with the FBI and Swiss authori- “lied repeatedly” during World requested him to transfer a $10m week after 14 sports marketing to the finals, though, as they and Central America. ties investigating allegations of Cup sponsorship negotiations payment from South African offi- executives and soccer officials, were confirmed as second seeds The remaining two places will be corruption going back decades. with MasterCard, but eight cials to CONCACAF, the confed- including several from FIFA, were for the European qualifying filled by two play-offs between Oceania’s best side and the fifth- “As the head of the adminis- months later he was re-hired as eration for North and Central indicted in the United States on draw. best sides from Asia and South tration I can be proud of what Secretary General. America and the Caribbean. bribery, money laundering and England and Wales are America as well as the fourth- the administration has done and He has since had responsibility It was alleged that the payment wire fraud charges. Seven of those among the nine top seeds along- placed side from CONCACAF. I don’t think we have ever been for, among other things, organis- was a bribe to disgraced former accused were arrested by Swiss side Germany, Spain, Portugal, When and where does the part of the stories around FIFA ing the World Cup, and he made CONCACAF President Jack police in a dawn raid on a Zurich Belgium, the Netherlands, draw take place? including the commercial agree- headlines in March 2012 when Warner in exchange for votes hotel two days before the FIFA Romania and Croatia. ments we have signed,” Valcke he said Brazil needed a “kick for South Africa to host the 2010 Congress where Sepp Blatter was The top seeds are based on Today at 1500GMT at the Konstantin Palace in St said. “I don’t believe there have up the backside” to improve its World Cup. REUTERS re-elected. REUTERS the FIFA world rankings from Petersburg June. AGENCIES Dwyer sets Pan Am mark in 200m; siblings win four medals TORONTO: Jamaican sprinter His time was also the third Damian Warner, who wanted In waterski and wakeboard, Rasheed Dwyer broke a 44-year- fastest non-wind assisted mark to experience what it was like to one of the eight Pan Am sports old Pan American Games in the world this year. Only compete in front of a home crowd not part of the Olympics pro- record on Thursday, a Canadian American Justin Gatlin, a four- despite its proximity to next gramme, a pair of siblings com- brother and sister won a com- times Olympics medallist, has month’s world championships, bined to win one gold medal and bined four medals and a sexa- gone faster. took gold in the men’s decathlon three silver. genarian qualified for the Rio Mexico’s Brenda Flores also set and broke a 19-year-old Canadian Canadian water-skier Whitney Rasheed Olympics in equestrian. a Pan Am record in the women’s record in the process. McClintock combined for three Dwyer of Ian Millar, a 68-year-old 10,000m final where she crossed The United States, buoyed by of the medals as she triumphed Jamaica Canadian competing in his 10th the line in 32 minutes, 41.33 seven gold medals on Thursday, in the women’s slalom event and competes consecutive Pan Am Games, led seconds, comfortably ahead of strengthened their lead atop the then took silver in the tricks and in the his country to a gold medal in American Desiree Davila (silver) table with 83 gold and 224 overall. jump finals. men’s team equestrian to give Canada and Canada’s Lanni Marchant Canada remained in second with Her gold medal marked the 200m an automatic berth in the 2016 (bronze). 69 gold and 186 overall. 65th of the Pan Am Games for round one Rio Olympics. In pole vault, Cuba’s Yarisley The United States beat Canada Canada, beating the previous during “We wanted this so badly for Silva cleared 4.85m, the highest in the men’s fencing team sabre mark of 64 set in 1999 with three the 2015 our team and our country,” said of any women this year, to win final while Argentina’s Ricardo days of competition remaining. Pan Am Millar, who has also competed in the gold. Brazil’s Fabiana Murer Bustamante overcame a bout of McClintock’s brother, Jason, Games in a record 10 Summer Olympics. grabbed silver while American sickness to help his team capture won silver in the men’s slalom Toronto “It’s not necessarily the same Jenn Suhr, a favourite at next the bronze. and narrowly missed the podium on team that will go to Rio next month’s world championships, “The doctors couldn’t give me in the tricks competition later in Thursday. year, although I have a suspicion took bronze. anything because I was compet- the day. it might just be.” The Dominican Republic’s ing, so I just had to keep up with “Having friends, family and Dwyer qualified for Friday’s Luguelin Santos, who won a silver it - that’s it. It really affected me,” also seeing so many gold medals men’s 200 metres final in style as medal in the men’s 400m at the said Bustamante. coming in for Canada built some he broke the oldest Pan Am ath- 2012 London Olympics, went one “I usually don’t fence that badly pressure,” said Whitney, who also letics record by crossing the line better in Toronto as he captured or with that stress. I managed to won gold in Wednesday’s women’s in 19.80, eclipsing the 19.86 posted the gold in the same event with a overcome the difficulties and here overall. “But at the same time it by Jamaican Don Quarrie in 1971. season-best time of 44.56 seconds. I am with a medal.” fueled me.” REUTERS Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 PROTHOM ALO WEEKLY SPORT Published every Thursday 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Available in all leading stores in Qatar       Tel: 4465 0600 Email: [email protected] Oman qualify for World Twenty20 for first time DUBLIN: Oman’s fairytale Canada, the Netherlands and rise as a cricket nation con- Afghanistan, all far more expe- tinued on Thursday when rienced associate or non-Test they qualified for next year’s cricket nations, at the qualify- Twenty20 World Cup in India. ing tournament. A five-wicket win over Afghanistan sealed the other Namibia at the ICC qualifying qualifying spot on offer on event in Malahide near Dublin Thursday with a six-wicket win saw the Gulf minnows reach over Papua New Guinea. their first major international It was the fourth successive tournament. time that Afghanistan — who Victory also saw the competed at this year’s 50-over International Cricket Council World Cup in Australia and New grant Oman, coached by former Zealand — had qualified for the Sri Lanka captain Duleep World Twenty20. Mendis, and with ex-England The 16 teams who will compete all-rounder Derek Pringle in the finals phase of the World recently recruited as a tech- Twenty20 are the 10 Test sides, nical advisor, full Twenty20 plus qualifiers Scotland, Ireland, status. Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Oman had previously beaten Afghanistan and Oman. AFP

Real Madrid’s players celebrate their victory over Manchester City in the final match of the International Champions Cup, at the MCG in Melbourne yesterday. Ronaldo dazzles as Real Madrid rout Man City Spanish giants hammer English club 4-1 in Melbourne

MELBOURNE: Cristiano “It’s important to win and to hand-ball as he jostled with Manchester City’s record sign- Ronaldo turned on a show as Real play well is a positive thing for Raheem Sterling. ing Raheem Sterling had a quiet Madrid demolished Manchester the future.” Yaya Toure slotted home the night and was well contained City 4-1 before a record crowd French striker Karim Benzema spot kick for City to trail 3-1 at by Ramos before he was substi- in the International Champions put the Spanish giants ahead with the break. tuted midway through the second Cup at the Melbourne Cricket a spectacular finish in the 21st Russian Denis Cheryshev made half. Ground yesterday. minute. it four when he stabbed home an City paid for the absence of World footballer of the year Benzema hooked in Gareth Isco cross with 17 minutes left. key central defenders Vincent Ronaldo showcased his sublime Bale’s cross over his left shoul- City’s night was further soured Kompany, who left the tour early skills and was among the goals- der in a brilliant piece of finish- when new signing Fabian Delph to be with his pregnant wife, and Omani players celebrate after defeating Namibia in a World T20 corers as Real ripped apart the ing following a fine run down the injured his left hamstring and was Frenchman Eliaquim Mangala, 2014 English Premier League right wing by Daniel Carvajal in carried off after just 18 minutes to who became ill on the morning Qualifier, in Dublin on Thursday. champions in a blistering first half the lead-up. be replaced by Jesus Navas. of the match. performance before more than Ronaldo pounced four minutes Manager Benitez made four In their place Pellegrini used 99,000 fans at the vast stadium. later, bringing down German Toni changes at halftime bringing off Belgian Jason Denayer and It was the MCG’s biggest ever Kroos’s long pass with a sublime Benzema, Luka Modric, Carvajal youngster Cameron Humphreys crowd for a football-only event. first touch before poking home. and Pepe, while Manuel Pellegrini in the heart of the defence. Tokyo unveils 2020 The 10-time European cham- England goalkeeper Joe Hart left his Man City team unchanged. “We knew before the game that pions revelled in the atmosphere, was unable to keep the ball from Ronaldo, world football’s high- it would be difficult to play against opening up Man City with daz- crossing the line for a double Real est paid player, turned on his such a team of good attackers zling touches, flicks and clinical sucker punch after shaky City party tricks for the appreciative and missing three centre-backs,” Olympic Games logo finishing for three goals in the defending as Ronaldo thrilled the MCG crowd, with his cheeky ste- Pellegrini said. first half. crowd with his trademark goal povers and flicks, and was nar- “Mangala was sick this morn- TOKYO: Tokyo’s Olympic com- The logos were unveiled with “I’m really pleased to see the celebration. rowly out when he was released ing and he couldn’t play and after mittee unveiled the official logos fanfare as the Games face con- team play well and winning the It got worse for City when cen- by Gareth Bale only to put an Delph went off injured we had to for the 2020 Games yesterday, troversy, with Japan ditching its trophy,” Real manager Rafael tral defender Pepe scored Real’s audacious attempt just wide. make some changes but after days after the Japanese Prime original plans for the new Olympic Benitez said. third with an unmarked thump- Edin Dzeko, the subject of that it was more about our weak Minister ordered plans for the stadium amid public anger over “It is really good for everyone ing header off Isco’s corner just transfer speculation, got his first defence.” new stadium to be scrapped its huge cost. when you are working so hard, minutes before half-time. run of the tournament for City, Real Madrid now head to China over the huge $2bn price tag. Iraqi-British architect Zaha when the players are having Deep in first-half stoppage time coming on in the 64th minute as where they will play Italian clubs The logos for the Olympic and Hadid’s futuristic design had been double training sessions and you City got one goal back through Toure, Ronaldo and Ramos came AC Milan and Inter Milan from Paralympic games are based met with fury by many Japanese could see the commitment. a penalty for a Sergio Ramos off at the same time. July 25-30. AFP around the letter “T” for Tokyo architects. What began as a cos- and an upended “=” sign to rep- metic row gave way to widespread resent equality. discontent and public bickering “The black colour of the cen- over finances. USA begins fightback against Panama tral column represents diversity, Construction costs for the new the combination of all colours,” National Stadium had nearly PHILADELPHIA: Still recov- The Americans have plenty of the Tokyo 2020 Organising doubled to 252bn yen ($2.03bn), ering from a shock semi-final work left this year, including home Committee said in a statement. which would have put it on track loss to Jamaica, the United friendlies against Brazil and Peru “The red of the circle repre- to become the world’s most States seeks redemption against in September, the Confederations sents the power of every beating expensive stadium. Panama in todays Gold Cup Cup playoff and Olympic qualify- heart.” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe third-place consolation match ing for some younger team mem- The letter “T” represents told reporters last week: “I have with an eye on key upcoming bers in October and the start of “Tokyo”, “Tomorrow” and “Team”, decided we must go back to the contests. the penultimate round of North it said. drawing board.” AFP The Americans were beaten American regional qualifying 2-1 on Wednesday by the “Reggae for the 2018 World Cup in early Boyz” while Mexico needed extra November. time and two penalty kick goals to But for US coach Jurgen subdue 10-man Panama 2-1. Klinsmann, playing best in those That set the stage for a con- matches starts with playing well solation match replay of a against Panama. US-Panama group stage meeting “Finishing off in style Saturday that ended in a 1-1 draw, although in front of our fans, being third both teams suffered intense USA’s head coach Jurgen Klinsmann reacts during his side’s Gold then and doing that with the right losses. Panama coach Hernan Cup semi-final match against Jamaica at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, attitude and right approach — you Dario Gomez called his team’s loss Georgia, on Thursday. owe that to fans and the tourna- a robbery thanks to poor referee ment,” Klinsmann said. calls while the Americans deal Dutch and 2-1 at reigning World Sunday’s final for a berth in the “Then we keep building, keep with a humbling loss to a team Cup champion Germany, to say 2017 Confederations Cup, a key progressing, we keep working that had beaten them only once the loss was not a spirit crusher warmup event in Russia for the hard in order to go toward World in 22 prior meetings. for the Americans. 2018 World Cup. Cup qualifying by the end of the “There’s no choice but to move “It’s disappointing, but we will “It’s a loss in a tournament that year and it starts all over again.” ourselves forward,” US captain pick ourselves up. It doesn’t make was very important for us, but A player Klinsmann said has Michael Bradley said. “Obviously us a bad team,” Guzan said. “It now we’ve got to pick ourselves made strides during the Gold Cup it’s a disappointment. But we will doesn’t erase a lot of the good up and make sure we’re ready for is striker Aron Johannsson. be back at it. There’s no other way stuff we’ve done. Just as when the playoff,” Guzan said. “Aron made another step for- to go.” we beat Holland and Germany, “We want to make sure we go ward in this tournament, with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee staff celebrate as the official US goalkeeper Brad Guzan a single game doesn’t define us.” in and put together a good per- group and also within the hierar- emblems of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are unveiled pointed to road wins last month What it will do is force the formance and finish this Gold Cup chy of the team,” Klinsmann said. at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building in Tokyo yesterday. against top-10 foes, 4-3 at the US team to play the winner of on a high.” AFP SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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Angelina Jolie Soap bubble plans to direct Cambodia war film for Netflix LOS ANGELES: Actress- turned-director Angelina Jolie is to make a film about Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime seen through the eyes of a war-scarred child for Netflix, the streaming giant said yesterday. The Oscar-winning Hollywood A-lister will adapt First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, a harrow- ing memoir by Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung about surviving the deadly regime. “I was deeply affected by Loung’s book,” said Jolie, cited in a Netflix statement. “It deepened forever my understanding of how children experience war and are affected by the emotional memory of it. “And it helped me draw closer still to the people of Cambodia, my son’s homeland,” said the 40-year-old, speaking of Maddox, her adopted son with megastar husband Brad Pitt. Netflix said Maddox Jolie-Pitt, A girl chases after a giant soap bubble at the Roemerberg in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, yesterday. RIGHT: Frankfurt’s city hall, the so-called ‘Roemer’ is mirrored in a soap bubble. The 13, the Hollywood couple’s eld- medieval building complex in the old part of the city is one of Frankfurt’s landmarks and houses the city hall since the 15th century. est child, will be involved in the production. Jolie will direct and produce the film from a script she co-wrote with Ung. Acclaimed Cambodian director Rithy Panh, nominated for an Oscar for 2013’s The Missing Picture, will also serve ‘Titanic of the Med’ wreck lures divers to Cyprus as a producer. Netflix Chief Content Officer LARNACA: An iron and steel the Zenobia is easily accessible, trucks, rusty but still intact, while Additional training, experience fishing ban around the Zenobia Ted Sarandos said: “We are proud colossus that sank on a summer’s only a 10-minute boat ride from the more experienced enter the and equipment is often recom- to preserve what has turned into to be working with Angelina Jolie night 35 years ago off Cyprus is the coastal resort of Larnaca. dark caverns of the sleeping hulk mended, particularly when pen- the biggest coral reef off Cyprus. in bringing this emotionally pow- now considered one of the world’s Like the Titanic which sank in or the upper car deck and accom- etrating deep inside a wreck. Diving enthusiasts stress the erful and ultimately uplifting best shipwreck dives. the Atlantic in 1912, the Zenobia modation area, some even making Luckily for less experienced tourism potential, lauding the des- story exclusively to Netflix mem- Thousands dive down each year came to grief on its maiden jour- it to the engine room. divers there is plenty to see from tination as a rival to popular des- bers around the world. to see the Zenobia — the “Titanic ney on its way to the Syrian port “You can still see the carpeting the outside of the Zenobia, which tinations including Egypt’s Red “Loung Ung’s incredible jour- of the Mediterranean” — which of Tartus. of the upper deck and even the has also become a magnet for Sea. Jonathan Wilson, who runs ney is a testament to the human is slumped on its port side at a On June 2, 1980, shortly after tables in the restaurant area,” said marine life, an aquarium of brown a diving firm in Limassol, another spirit and its ability to transcend depth of 40 metres (130 feet) off midnight, the captain of the list- diving instructor Hatte Clasen of groupers and barracudas. Cypriot resort on the south coast, even the toughest circumstances,” the island. ing vessel sent out an SOS. the wreck, which extends over 172 Andrei Pligin, a 16-year-old estimated the Zenobia brings in he added. The roll-on, roll-off Swedish Trawlers went to the rescue metres of seabed. enthusiast, re-surfaces from what ¤14m ($15m) a year. The movie will be released on ferry, named after a third-cen- from Cyprus but to no avail and Although no one died when was his 206th dive to rave about Sheltered from the chaos and Netflix in late 2016. Jolie’s fea- tury queen of ancient Palmyra, the Zenobia went down five days Zenobia sank, the wreck has since his latest experience. insecurity of Arab countries across ture film debut was 2011’s In the is the top wreck dive in Europe, later, without loss of life but with claimed the lives of several scuba “The weather is good. You don’t the water, recession-hit Cyprus Land of Blood and Honey set in the competing with sites in the Red around 100 articulated lorries divers. “The wreck is treacherous: have any currents. So you just relies heavily on revenues from Bosnian war. Her 2014 Unbroken Sea, Asia and off Australia. loaded with cigarettes, cables and some divers take risks and lose get pleasure going all around the tourism, a sector which accounts was nominated for three Oscars. “It’s so big you can dive a few one million eggs still on board. themselves in rooms in which they ship,” said the young blue-eyed for around 12 percent of GDP. She won an Oscar for best days and not get bored,” said Mat Theories for the cause of the dis- should not enter,” Clasen said. Russian, an annual visitor to the With recovery on the horizon supporting actress for 1999’s Howell, who works for a British- aster range from navigation errors, Entering wrecks carries Mediterranean’s third-largest following a 2013 bailout of its Girl, Interrupted. She also won based scuba diving holiday firm ballast problems and an insurance greater risk because of the dan- island. The site alone attracts banks, Cyprus says arrivals for the Academy of Motion Picture and was in Cyprus for the annual scam to sabotage because of an ger of entanglement or getting 45,000 visitors each year, accord- the first six months of this year Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt “Zenobia Week” at the end of alleged secret consignment of arms. trapped, as well as the extra time ing to local authorities. passed the one million mark for Humanitarian Award last year. June to promote the site. Over three decades later, divers needed to reach the surface in the They have been campaigning the first time in a decade. AFP Unlike many other wrecks, zig-zag between the sunken event of a problem. for the government to impose a AFP

Jurassic World is third biggest box From cats to rhinos, Greek office hit ever

LOS ANGELES: Dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic World crisis takes toll on animals has stomped its way up the box office rankings to become ATHENS: Hundreds of cats horse biscuits, but it isn’t ideal.” Madden-Kanellopoulou explained the third biggest global hit of are loose on the streets, and The zoo feeds most of its animals over a chorus of plaintive mewing. all time, analysts said. food is running low for some with local meat and vegetables, “A few years ago there really was The fourth film in the residents of Athens’ zoo. It isn’t but it also spends some ¤80,000 money in Greece — people started popular Jurassic Park series just humans who are suffering ($87,000) a year on imported food buying these expensive cats, like has earned $1.522bn world- as Greece tries to claw its way for its more fussy residents. Lesuer Persians. Now they cannot face wide, eclipsing The Avengers out of economic crisis. said the amount may sound like the costs, or they don’t want to — ($1.520bn) to take third spot “I’ll have to call the bank again,” “peanuts”, but for some species, the vet, the grooming — so they in the global box office. sighed Jean-Jacques Lesueur, the “it’s a question of life or death.” dump them.” It is now second only to 2009’s founder of Athens’ only zoo. The The dolphins eat fatty fish With a quarter of the popu- Avatar ($2.79bn) and 1997’s Frenchman had been trying for impossible to find in Greece. lation unemployed, few Greeks Titanic ($2.19bn), not account- days to place a ¤6,000 ($6,600) Then there’s the anteaters, who want to adopt abandoned cats. ing for inflation, according to order of frozen fish for the zoo’s love digging their snouts into a The charity relies “quite a bit on figures confirmed by box office six dolphins. Without fresh sup- special imported powder that expats,” Madden-Kanellopoulou tracker Exhibitor Relations. “I plies from abroad, he feared he replaces the termites they would said as she reached into a bag don’t think anyone thought would have to put them on a diet. eat in the wild. of cat food. “But with the crisis, ‘Jurassic World’ had any shot Normally the order would be A gaggle of delighted toddlers more and more of those leave at this record coming into the simple enough, but Greece imposed watched as the two large crea- Greece.” summer,” Exhibitor Relations strict capital controls on June 29 tures snacked on some worms. Strays are a common sight analyst Jeff Bock said. as panicked account holders began The zoo, under the slogan “we in this country. Loukanikos, a “It just goes to show you that emptying the nation’s banks. stay together during tough times,” sandy-coloured stray dog whose super heroes have nothing on All bill payments to foreign is offering free entry to children name means ‘sausage’, became an dinosaurs, probably because countries must be approved by a this summer on weekdays. unofficial mascot to anti-auster- they actually walked the earth government commission, a proc- But Lesueur has had to increase ity riots in Athens in 2010 as he at one time, something that ess that is proving so slow that ticket prices for adults after tax charged alongside protesters. has intrigued all ages for eons.” distrustful suppliers are now ask- rises took effect this week. Evgenia Mataragka, of the But he pointed out: “Not to ing Greek firms to pay in advance. In a park in central Athens, charity Animal Action Greece, worry, Avengers will reassem- Lesueur, who is in his seven- Cordelia Madden-Kanellopoulou said she had seen a “huge increase” ble pretty quickly... as in next ties, finally managed to get the looked down and exclaimed to in the number of abandoned pets summer in Captain America: dolphin food payment approved a black cat at her feet: “Hello over the last six months. Civil War,” the next big out- late on Thursday. But he’s still beauty, who are you?” “In big cities they do not starve ing for the Marvel film jug- unable to pay for a shipment of The feline was a new addition to usually,” she said. “But on the gernaut franchise. Directed mealworms, beloved of the zoo’s the group that the Englishwoman, islands, especially for the cats, by Colin Trevorrow and two giant anteaters, and nutri- who is married to a Greek, feeds it is difficult. Once the tourists executive produced by Steven tional supplements for the rhinos. along with other volunteers from are gone, many die of starvation.” Spielberg, Jurassic World has “They eat a kind of local clo- the charity Nine Lives. Their Others get poisoned when they eat earned $614.3m domestically An employee of the Attica Zoological Park plays with a bottlenose dolphin in ver, but we also feed them special members, many of them elderly things they shouldn’t, she added. in the United States, becom- Spata, near Athens, yesterday. Between a zoo struggling to import food for imported biscuits,” Lesueur said Athens residents, feed around 450 The cats are not neutered, said ing only the fourth film to its animals and associations overwhelmed by the abandonment of cats, the as he watched the three rhinos stray cats in the Greek capital. Mataragka, contributing to an ever pass $600m. crisis in Greece, in addition to its cruel human impact, also affects animals. lazing under a tree. “Provisionally “What we really see more are explosion in the stray population. AFP we might be able to give them pedigree cats being dumped,” AFP