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Qatar-EU air & Emir meets GECF Secretary-General Qatar’s AG meets FBI sea freight lane Director, US Senator to grow faster QNA SATISH KANADY The EU-Qatar air WASHINGTON: Attorney THE PENINSULA freight lane is General of the State of Qatar, H E Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, DOHA: The Qatar-EU trade forecast to grow who is currently on his lane has been projected as one by 39.4%, while official visit to Washington, of the busiest routes, both in Qatar-EU sea freight met with the Director of US terms of air and sea freight air lane is projected Federal Bureau of Investi- lanes, in the Emerging Market. gation (FBI), Christopher The EU-Qatar air freight to expand by a Wray. lane is forecast to grow by 39.4 whopping 121.7 During the meeting, both percent, while Qatar-EU sea percent. the parties discussed a freight air lane is projected to number of issues pertaining expand by a whopping 121.7 to common concern on percent. which they cooperate, as The annual Emerging EU-Ukraine (+40.9 percent), well as ways of dealing with Markets Logistics Index, EU-Qatar (+39.4 percent), EU- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meeting with Secretary General of Gas Exporting Countries some other issues. released by global logistics Angola (+38.3 percent), US- Forum (GECF), Yury Sentyurin, in his office at Al Bahar Palace, on the occasion of the latter assuming his According to reports, the leader Agility described Qatar Ecuador (+33.3 percent) and US- duties, yesterday. At the outset of the meeting, the Emir congratulated Yury Sentyurin on assuming the Attorney General also met as the “surprise GCC Index Russia (+30.8 percent). office of GECF Secretary-General, and wished him success in his duties. Both sides discussed means of with the US Senator Lindsey darling this year”, with its score Emerging markets sea freight supporting and strengthening cooperation between Qatar and GECF, in addition to a number of issues Graham of South Carolina, improving by 0.24 points to exports are much more diverse of mutual interest. where they discussed a 6.02, ranking it No. 11. Qatar compared to imports, which are number of issues of common made significant gains in Com- overwhelmingly comprised of interest. patibility as economic diversi- agricultural goods. The five fication progressed and non- trade lanes forecast the fastest tariff barriers were judged to growth in 2017 are Qatar-EU be less of a burden, while Con- (+121.7 percent), Nigeria-EU nectivity improved thanks to (+78.9 percent), Egypt-US (+75.0 More study on permanent residency ID card better liner shipping percent), Ukraine-US (+70.9 connections. percent) and Morocco-US (+58.1 THE PENINSULA Advisory Council held it’s first member states, which was held them in various fields. The index that evaluates the percent). meeting at the 46th ordinary in Tehran on Tuesday and The Advisory Council wel- performance of 50 emerging Qatar stood second in the DOHA: The Advisory Council session, yesterday. Wednesday. comed the final communique of markets globally, found Qatar Compatibility sub-index, which referred a draft law on the The Committee began to H E Al Mahmoud also briefed the 13th Conference of the Par- improving its overall index is effectively a measure of market permanent residency identifi- study the draft law on ‘Per- the Council on the meetings liamentary Union of the OIC ranking by one spot to (No.11). accessibility and the ease of cation card to the Council’s manent Residence ID Card’, and which he and the accompanying member states. Qatar jumped two spots to No.8 doing business. Qatar, which Internal and Foreign Affairs decided to continue deliberation delegation held with President The Council praised the in the infrastructure/transport halved the gap last year, has Committee for further study. in its next meeting. of Islamic Republic of Iran Dr position of the communique, in category and maintained its caught up even more as eco- The Council decided to refer At the outset of the meeting, Hassan Rowhani, and with a particular, the rejection of the grip on No. 2 for business con- nomic diversification progresses the draft law after extensive dis- the Committee unanimously number of heads of the councils principle of imposing sanctions ditions. Qatar leapt past Chile and non-tariff barriers diminish. cussions held during the regular elected member Abdullah bin of the OIC member states par- of any kind on any of the Islamic to rank as the No. 2 emerging The Agility report noted that weekly session of the council Fahad bin Abdullah bin Ghorab ticipating in the conference. countries and calling for their market for countries with less Qatar’s improvement should be held yesterday under the chair- Al Marri as its Rapporteur for this The meetings focused on the abolition, and the assertion on than $300bn annual GDP. treated cautiously as the data has manship of Speaker of the session. The Speaker of the role of the councils in supporting the centrality of the Palestinian Malaysia remained the leader not yet got a chance to combine Advisory Council H E Ahmed bin Advisory Council briefed the Islamic issues, as well as the cause and Al Quds Al Sharif as for smaller emerging markets. several factors. Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud. Council on the outcome of the bilateral relations between Qatar the capital of the independent The five fastest-growing The Internal and External 13th Conference of the Parlia- and these countries and means Palestinian state and the third of trade lanes in 2017 are →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Affairs Committee of the mentary Union of the OIC of enhancing and developing the two holy mosques.

Milaha gets largest Flying Survey on immigration, traffic container vessel demo DOHA: Milaha, a Qatar-based and unified services begins maritime and logistics THE PENINSULA continuation of the series of regarding the reception of An instructor conglomerate, announced surveys carried out by The clients, the speed of com- giving wind yesterday acquisition of its DOHA: The Planning and Planning and Quality pletion of their transactions largest container vessel to tunnel Quality Department at the Department in various depart- and the response to their date, Majd, a 3,768 TEU demonstration Ministry of Interior has started ments of the ministry. inquiries by staff and officers, vessel. to attract a survey on views about the The survey teams dis- QNA reported. The new vessel will be kids during services provided by the tributed the questionnaires Questions about facilities one of the 17 container vessels a Fun Fair at General Directorate of Borders prepared by the adminis- provided by the departments that the group operates, and Mall of Qatar, Passports and Expatriates tration, which included a including the provision of is part of the ongoing yesterday. Affairs, the unified services number of questions about suitable and convenient expansion of the group’s department at the Mesaimeer the procedures carried out by waiting places for the visitors, overall fleet. PIC: SALIM Service Center, and the the Department of Expatriate car parking, and services for MATRAMKOT/ General Directorate of Traffic Affairs, the Department of people with special needs are THE PENINSULA →REPORT ON PAGE 20 in Madinat Khalifa-South. The Standard Services, and the also included. survey will run until today. General Directorate of Traffic. Katara concludes This survey is a The questions were →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Winter Festival DOHA: The Cultural Village Foundation - Katara yesterday Saudi official defames Kuwait minister for Qatar visit concluded its fifth edition of the Winter Festival which ran from THE PENINSULA and Adviser to the Saudi Royal under the umbrella of position money’’. Al Sheikh’s defamatory The delegation headed by January 18 to 22 by the beach. Court, used twitter to pour out and is also goes against proven tweet came after the Kuwaiti the minister also thanked Qatar The festival saw a large number DOHA: A Saudi official has his frustration against Kuwait’s facts. Minister Khalid Al Roudhan for agreeing to move the 23rd of attendees from different launched a scathing and defam- Minister of Commerce and This mercenary will not thanked the Emir H H Sheikh Gulf Cup to Kuwait. backgrounds and nationalities. atory attack on a Kuwaiti Industry and Minister of State for affect the historical relations Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, The tweet, which was in a The fest comes as part of the Minister after he visited Qatar Youth Affairs Khalid Nasser Al between Saudi Arabia and its during his recent visit to Doha, bad taste, shows the current foundation’s goals to diversify and met with Emir H H Sheikh Roudan after their meeting with sister Kuwait and what he has for his support and contribution social media climate in the coun- its events and activities which Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. the Emir in Doha on Sunday. said only represents him as to lifting FIFA’s suspension of tries blockading Qatar. is suitable for all the community Turki Al Sheikh, Chairman Al Sheikh tweeted: “Al Modar poet said: If you want to Kuwait Football Association last with its different interests. of the General Sports Authority Roudan, in brief, is a mercenary know the souls, throw them month. →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 02 HOME TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 Defence Minister meets Malian counterpart Turkish entrepreneurs seek tie-up with Qatar counterparts

IRFAN BUKHARI greater than investments made in THE PENINSULA other sectors. “For example, in the real estate sector your ROI can be threefold DOHA: As economic relations but in tech startups it can be 10 times between Qatar and Turkey are or more,” he added. touching new heights, Turkish entre- Dereli said that the investors preneurs too want to build new part- from Europe and the US had invested nerships with their Qatari counter- huge sums in Turkish tech startups. parts to boost startup ecosystem in “During this expo, I met many Qatari both countries. businessmen who expressed their Erdem Dereli (pictured), founder interest in investing in Turkish and Chairman of Entren (Entrepre- startups.” neurship Expert Network) with second He said that from the platform of and third generations of leading com- Entren, Turkish entrepreneurs wanted panies in Turkey, told The Peninsula to develop relations with Qatari entre- on the sidelines of Expo Turkey by preneurs. “For this purpose, I am Qatar 2018, recently concluded in “The startups in Turkey planning to establish an office of Doha, that his organisation wanted to are working on artificial Entren here in Doha,” he said, adding establish its branch in Qatar to expand that startup ecosystem in Qatar was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin relations between entrepreneurs of intelligence, automation, also very good. Mohamed Al Attiyah, met in his office yesterday with Malian Minister of Defence, both countries. software systems and He also lauded the role and efforts Tiena Coulibaly. They discussed strengthening bilateral relations in defence and “I am here not only to attract of Qatar Business Incubation Center military fields and ways to enhance them, as well as enhancing counter-terrorism other digital solutions. investments for technology startups There is great scope for for supporting entrepreneurs and and anti-extremism efforts. Chief of Staff of Qatar Armed Forces and a number of Turkey but we also want to develop companies. “We also want to host of senior Qatar Armed Forces officers attended the meeting. long-lasting relations with Qatari Qatari investors to launch Qatari entrepreneurs in Turkey for entrepreneurs and startups,” Dereli joint ventures with Turkish exchange of knowledge and said. entrepreneurs,” Chairman experiences.” Dereli is a member of Musiad and He said that Entrepreneurship also Chairman of working group of Entrepreneurship Expert Network used to arrange lec- “Young Entrepreneurs Council in Expert Network said. tures in colleges and schools of Turkey CCQ students visit Ashghal’s R&D centre Istanbul” that works under TOBB to promote entrepreneurship in the (Union of Chambers and Commodity country. THE PENINSULA During the students’ visit to Ashghal’s Exchanges of Turkey). “Entren aims to create value Centre, they met with Eng Khaled Al Emadi, He said that Turkey with its youth scope for Qatari investors to launch addition in an innovative manner for DOHA: As part of its efforts to implement Ashghal’s Quality and Safety Department population, having proclivity and joint ventures with Turkish entrepre- all stakeholders of the ecosystem its community outreach programme to Manager, and Ali Al Marri, Head of Labo- expertise in information technology, neurs,” he said. with its own programs, projects and keep different segments of the public ratories section, who presented an had a great ecosystem for startups and Dereli has two startup companies, activities. It aims to bring the quality informed about the current works on the overview of the Centre and its main labs. by investing in those startups, Qatari Argecon and Restroid; both tech- of the global standard for entrepre- ground, the Public Works Authority The visit included a meeting with a investors could gain maximum profits. nology-focused companies. “We are neurship ecosystem to the local (Ashghal) received about 45 students number of quality experts and a field tour in “The startups in Turkey are working with conglomerate corpora- stakeholders in Turkey,” he said, from Community College in Qatar (CCQ) the Centre. El Emadi awarded a trophy from working on artificial intelligence, tions in Turkey.” adding: “We want to collaborate with (Quality Section) in Ashghal’s Centre for Ashghal to the CCQ represented by Dr Khalid automation, software systems and He said that return on investment Qatar’s Entrepreneurship Research and Development. Bazid, Professor of Public Administration. other digital solutions. There is great (ROI) in technology startups was far Ecosystem.” Quick action and technology save patient’s life at HMC

THE PENINSULA a testament to the skill and resource- fulness of our dedicated team and we DOHA: The quick response of a multi- are all thrilled that he is doing so well,” disciplinary team from Hamad Medical said Dr Hassan. Corporation (HMC) and a revolutionary The ECMO technology provided the technology are being credited with time needed to stabilise the patient’s saving the life of a young man who condition until he could be transferred recently had a nearly fatal heart attack to Heart Hospital, HMC’s specialist car- while playing basketball. diology and cardiothoracic surgery hos- The patient, a 33-year-old-man, lost pital. Once at Heart Hospital, the patient consciousness and collapsed after underwent open heart surgery and two having a sudden full cardiac arrest while weeks later was discharged in good playing basketball with his colleagues. health. His colleagues called an ambulance and Speaking during a Grand Round (a began performing first aid (cardiopul- formal meeting at which physicians monary resuscitation). The ambulance discuss the clinical case of one or more arrived within five minutes and trans- Dr Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan patients) held last week at HMC, Dr ferred the man to Hamad General Hos- Hassan recognised the skill and quick Members of the team who helped save the patient’s life during the Grand Round. pital’s Emergency Department. pumping oxygenated blood to vital organs. action of the clinicians involved, stating Dr Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan, Director, “The ECMO technology acts as the that international research indicates positive outcome demonstrates the staff and clinicians from the Emergency, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Deputy patient’s lungs and heart, ensuring they only a small proportion of patients who power of working together as a cohesive Anaesthesiology, and Surgery Depart- Medical Director, Ambulance Service, and get enough oxygen by circulating their experience a sudden cardiac arrest team to deliver comprehensive care. ments at Hamad General and Heart Hos- Clinical Lead, Corporate ECMO Program, blood outside of the body. HMC is one outside the hospital survive. He said the Dr Yousef, together with the ECMO pital who cared for the patient. said the combination of a skilled multi- of only a handful of health systems in poor survival rate is largely the result of team, led by Dr Abdul Salam Saif, Dr HMC first began using ECMO tech- disciplinary team and an innovative tech- this region that uses the technology, delays in calling for an ambulance, not Abdul Rahman El Arabi, Consultant Car- nology four years ago. To date, around nology saved the patient’s life. The tech- which requires specialised training to providing proper first aid, and lack of diologist, Dr Amr Salah, Anaesthesiol- a hundred patients have benefited nology, called ECMO (Extracorporeal operate. This technology, coupled with access to technology such as ECMO. ogist and Critical Care Consultant, and from the lifesaving treatment. The Membrane Oxygenation), was able to take the teamwork of clinicians from across Dr Alhady Yusof, a Senior Con- Dr Abdul Wahed Al Mulla, Consultant highly-specialised therapy requires a over the functions of the heart and lungs, HMC, was instrumental in saving the sultant, Medical Intensive Care at Hamad Cardiac Surgeon were part of the multi- multidisciplinary team of specialised essentially breathing for the patient by patient’s life. His successful recovery is General Hospital, said the patient’s disciplinary team of Ambulance Service physicians and nurses. Road closure on Khalifa Street Qatar-EU trade lane THE PENINSULA to grow faster

DOHA: The Public Works Authority Continued from page 1 with the country’s Sohar Port set (Ashghal) announced the closure of one It added that the country is to benefit from an increase in lane on both directions of Khalifa Street, well-equipped to endure the volumes. between Post Intersection (Known as blockade. In the wake of the crisis, Al Maha Intersection) and TV Inter- “Firstly, the country can Qatari logistics group Milaha section. The proposed closure is rely on highly developed air Maritime & Logistics designed in coordination with the and sea infrastructure. Hamad announced the launch of a General Directorate of Traffic and will International Airport in Doha regular direct service from last until February 20. is the second-largest air cargo Sohar to Hamad, whilst During this period, the closure will hub in the region, after Dubai Maersk Line commenced be implemented in several sections and International, and handled feeder services from Salalah time intervals to avoid any traffic dis- 1.7m tonnes of goods in 2016. on June 19. Other container ruptions. The other two lanes will Hamad Port became fully lines soon followed. remain open for traffic. operational in December 2016 As for air freight connec- The closure aims to enable con- and has an annual capacity of tions, cargo shipments only face struction works as part of a project to 2m TEUs, 1.7m tonnes of lengthened flight times if they develop Khalifa Street and convert TV general cargo, 1m tonnes of are connecting to or from Roundabout to an intersection. grain and 500,000 vehicles. If southern Europe, North Africa The Public Works Authority will necessary, Qatar can also revive or the Horn of Africa. Routes to install road signs advising motorists of operations at Doha Port, which northern Europe and North the closure. Ashghal requested all road Hamad has replaced.” America generally pass over users to abide by the speed limit, and Oman was rapidly identified Turkey and Iran, and are thus follow the road signs to ensure their as the main alternative to the unaffected, as are flights from safety. UAE for container transshipment, Asia. TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 HOME 03 Al Sulaiti meets Kenyan Ambassador Dar Al Sharq and Qatar Chamber hold symposium on social responsibility

SIDI MOHAMED importance to this concept and THE PENINSULA strengthen it, especially after the unjust siege imposed on the country. DOHA: Dar Al Sharq and Qatar Regarding the social responsibility Chamber organised yesterday a award, he said that it aims to highlight symposium on “Social Responsibility the importance of social responsibility 2018 and Beyond” which stressed on among companies and institutions in the need of the social responsibility Qatar and also aims to create competi- after the blockade. tion among them to provide projects and They also announced that the fifth practices that benefit people and society. conference and awards for Social Abdullatif Al Mahmoud, CEO of Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti has held Responsibility for 2017 will be held Dar Al Sharq Group, pointed out the talks in Doha with Kenyan Ambassador to Qatar Galma Mukhe Boru. They discussed next month under the theme ‘respon- fifth conference has a special impor- aspects of cooperation between the State of Qatar and Kenya in the fields of sibilities despite challenges’. tance because it will be the first con- transport and communications, and means of enhancing them. The symposium was organised by ference to be held after the unjust the Social Responsibility Committee blockade on Qatar. at Dar Al Sharq in collaboration with Al Mahmoud also mentioned that Qatar Chamber. The website of the the conference’s meetings and activ- Social Responsibility Committee was ities will show Qatar’s efforts in facing launched during the event. Abdullatif Al Mahmoud, CEO of Dar Al the blockade. Northwestern University Speaking at the symposium, Sharq Group, speaking at the event. “All the sectors have performed Sheikh Dr Thani bin Ali Al Thani, their responsibility and increased their Chairman of Social Responsibility and loss are no longer the sole deter- products to meet the country’s devel- officials to visit Qatar Committee, said that the upcoming minant of the performance of com- opment strategy, which contributed conference will witness increase in panies. Rather, there are other aspects to overcoming the repercussion of the activities related to enhancing aware- that contribute to the advancement of blockade,” he noted. ness about social responsibility. society and its members. Cultural and The annual conference was campus at Education City “The Committee is satisfied with social values and social responsibility launched in December 2013. the success achieved by the confer- have become one of the most impor- The aim of the conferences is to THE PENINSULA The scholars will meet with ence during the past years, which con- tant factors used to measure the per- educate and spread awareness about tributed to raising awareness about formance and contributions of com- social responsibility among compa- DOHA: The dean of Northwestern faculty at NU-Q to discuss social responsibility and its impor- panies and institutions in society. nies through encouraging initiatives University’s School of Education and joint research projects, tance in the society,” he added. Al Thani also pointed out that and highlighting the companies Social Policy, David Figlio, and his pedagogical development, The economic aspects like profit there is an urgent need to devote more achievements in this field. colleague Professor James Spillane, will and learn more about the visit the University’s Qatar campus in Education City to discuss collaboration programs they teach. opportunities in education, research, and academic development. “Dr Figlio and Dr Spillane are among dialogue about the role of education in the best-known researchers in their national development. respective fields of education and lead- “Both professors expressed great ership,” said Everette E Dennis, Dean interest and were very impressed by Qatar’s and CEO of Northwestern University in approach to education and the develop- Qatar. ment of a knowledge-based economy,” “Their work has had a significant said Dennis. impact on improving education and “Their expertise in the field of edu- human development in the US and inter- cation contributes to the very essence nationally. It is a wonderful opportunity of NU-Q and Education City’s vision to for NU-Q to access this expertise for our educate the next generation of young campus.” professionals in a variety of During their visit, the scholars will industries.” meet with faculty at NU-Q to discuss joint Figlio is one of the nation’s most influ- research projects, pedagogical develop- ential researchers on education and social ment, and learn more about the programs policy and has advised the governments they teach. In addition, they will meet with of several US states, and nations on five Abdullatif Al Mahmoud, Jaber Al Harami, Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Chairman of Qatar officials from Qatar Foundation to discuss continents, on the design, implementa- Chamber, and Sheikh Dr Thani bin Ali Al Thani, with other officials during the symposium. collaboration efforts and engage in tion, and evaluation of education policy. PIC: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA QU workshop discusses antimicrobial Survey on immigration, traffic and unified services begins susceptibility testing and surveillance Continued from page 1 Survey teams of Brigadier Abdul Rahman the Department of THE PENINSULA National One Health Surveil- Majid Al Sulaiti, Telecommu- Planning and Quality lance System. nications Department Director DOHA: The Bio-medical University of Bristol Pro- said that the Ministry of Inte- will take the views of Research Center (BRC) at Qatar fessor of Antimicrobial Thera- rior attaches great importance the clients to know University (QU) held four days peutics Dr Alasdair MacGowen to such surveys as an impor- the extent of their workshop on “Antimicrobial and Senior Clinical Scientist at tant measurement mechanism, knowledge about the susceptibility testing and the Antimicrobial Reference because it has an effective role surveillance” which started Laboratory-Bristol Dr Karen in supporting the decision- availability of services yesterday Bowker discussed the role of making process and identifying performed by the three This workshop aimed to antibiotics testing in clinical the efficiency of the services departments. build national capacity in the care and phenotypic provided to the public. field of testing antimicrobial sus- approaches of susceptibility He said the survey is also ceptibility. The workshop aligns testing. aimed at identifying the ease level of the electronic transactions with the National Action Plan for Senior Consultant of Micro- and the obstacles faced by the users during the completion of trans- Combating Antimicrobial Resist- biology and Infectious Diseases actions in order to facilitate and simplify the procedures in view of ance 2017-2022 approved by the at Al Wakra Hospital Dr Nasser quality and accuracy in the completion of transactions and to Ministry of Public Health Al Ansari introduced the audi- improve the quality of performance, and provide the best services (MoPH). ence to the national and inter- to the clients with a high level of technology and modernity, The event drew the partici- national surveillance and con- Al Sulaiti added that the survey teams of the Department of pation of over 150 human and trol programmes. Planning and Quality will take the views of the clients to know the animal health clinicians, Head of HMC Microbiology extent of their knowledge about the availability of services per- researchers, pharmacists and and Virology Division, Dr Emad formed by the three departments in order to motivate them to com- laboratory technologists from Ibrahim, highlighted the recent plete their transactions online and to further develop all services institutions in Qatar. technologies used in the clinical performed by the departments of the ministry in various It was organised in collabo- and research settings to run sus- disciplines. ration with MoPH Healthcare ceptibility testing. The workshop Quality and Patient Safety was moderated by BRC Assistant Department, Hamad Medical Professor of Infectious Diseases, Corporation (HMC), Department Dr Hadi Yassine. Saudi official defames Kuwait of Laboratory Medicine and Following the theoretical Pathology (DLMP), and Bristol session, the participants Minister for Qatar visit Antimicrobial Reference Unit, attended the practical hands-on UK. session provided by Dr Karen Continued from page 1 The opening session was Bowker and Dr Allen Noel, clin- Many officials and media analysts in the siege countries are attended by QU College of ical scientists at Antimicrobial Researchers during the workshop. using foul language and fake news to defame other citizens of the Health Sciences (CHS) Dean and Reference Unit, North Bristol Gulf countries. BRC Director Prof Asma Al- NHS Trust. will ensure the standardisation institutions around Qatar. I Recently a US-based firm admitted, in a filing before the Thani and BRC faculty, They highlighted the inter- and reliability of antimicrobial trust this will be a successful authorities, that they were paid by the United Arab Emirates researchers, and staff. national basic techniques used data as antimicrobial resistance workshop and I hope that eve- government to spread the anti-Qatar news on social media. In her presentation, MoPH to measure microbes suscep- and surveillance is a keystone to ryone would take the outcomes Kuwaiti social media users were seen expressing their anger Medical Microbiologist and tibility to antibiotics with the the national antimicrobial stew- and the experience gained from at the Al Sheikh tweet targeting their minister. Infection Control Specialist, Dr aim to standardise the meth- ardship program. this program to participate in “Khalid Al Roudan is a minister and his father was a minister Nahla Sharaf discussed the odology of susceptibility testing “We are delighted to developing our regulatory and his grandfather was a minister, and from a well known wealthy National Action Plan for Com- in Qatar. accommodate practical system to reduce the burden of family in Kuwait, before Saudi Arabia was established, and he is bating Antimicrobial Resist- In her remarks, Prof Asma training for more than 30 indi- antimicrobial resistance in our not a mercenary as you said,” Abdullah Jahlan from Kuwait said ance 2017-2022 and the Al Thani, said: “This workshop viduals representing 19 community.” in his tweet. 04 HOME TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 Ooredoo to launch SAP cloud services THE PENINSULA Ooredoo can package and applications can optimise costs, reduce manage SAP business complexity, and let organisations DOHA: Ooredoo, one of the region’s explore new technologies,” he said. leading ICT providers, announced solutions, from analytics As part of the managed cloud part- yesterday a partnership with digital to enterprise resource nership, Ooredoo can also bundle infra- transformation enabler SAP to deliver planning, delivered via an structure and hosting services, along cloud solutions that can enable Qatar’s OpEx consumption model with application life cycle management, business competitiveness and fuel security, and business consulting serv- economic growth. whether on-premise or via ices. By bundling the technology solu- Supporting Qatar’s organisations in the Ooredoo Data Centre. tions together, Ooredoo can reduce the adopting SAP’s enterprise application complexity of their customers’ IT infra- Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser Al Thani, Chief Business Officer of Ooredoo solutions, Ooredoo will offer managed structure, and accelerate customer Qatar, and Fokion Angelopoulos, Country Manager for SAP Qatar, at the event. cloud solutions through private hosted enable new digital business models. The deployments. cloud. Ooredoo can package and cloud is now a must-have for Qatar’s “By partnering with Ooredoo, SAP of cloud, as these CIOs ramp up private packaged solutions for more than 25 manage SAP business solutions, from organisations,” said Yousuf Abdulla Al is enabling Qatar’s organisations to more cloud adoption to support larger work- industries. analytics to enterprise resource plan- Kubaisi, Chief Operating Officer, readily adopt private cloud solutions to loads and more applications,” said Business customers can leverage the ning, delivered via an OpEx consump- Ooredoo. reach new levels of business competi- Fokion Angelopoulos, Country Manager Ooredoo Advantage, making Ooredoo tion model whether on-premise or via “By using a budget-friendly opex- tiveness, and to support Qatar National for SAP Qatar. “Best for Business”, thanks to its breadth the Ooredoo Data Centre. based model, Qatar’s organisations can Vision 2030’s economic growth goals. SAP is one of the world’s leading and depth of talent, best fixed and “Our partnership with SAP lever- become more agile, scale up quickly and In the next several years, the biggest cloud companies, with more than mobile networks, broadest portfolio of ages our leading network infrastructure easily, and add on applications that meet opportunity will come from Qatar’s 365,000 customers in 180 countries ICT services and solutions, and trusted with SAP’s global cloud experience to their business needs. Cloud-based organisations that were only light users worldwide. The company offers partner for 60 years. Updated services in new Kahramaa app

THE PENINSULA services where the customer can upload the including self-meter reading where the cus- required documents and select the date of tomer can enter meter reading regularly, DOHA: Qatar General Electricity and Water service connection for one or multiple view due bills, apply for water connection to Corporation (Kahramaa) has launched a new premises or to move in to the new premises. farms, certificates, view service centre maps version of mobile application for smart The customer receives SMS to pay or and book a visit, report service disconnec- phones with a package of updated services retrieve insurance, and follow up status tion among more. and options. It comes within Kahramaa where the request is completed within one Kahramaa invites all customers to reg- endeavour to provide high quality smart serv- to three working days. ister or update their data via KAHRAMAA ices as per the highest quality standards. As well, the new version includes update website km.qa or KAHRAMAA mobile appli- The new version of Kahramaa App to service tracking, and tariff. Kahramaa cation to complete services online and avail includes update to move in and move out mobile application includes various services of the smart services package. DFI Cinema unveils new ‘Contemporary Releases’ programme THE PENINSULA for their craft and narrative strength, and have pushed DOHA: Doha Film Institute Cinema (DFI Cinema) boundaries to turn stories has unveiled its new ‘Contemporary Releases’ into brilliant and inventive programme, which aims to bring a unique selec- cinema. With our ‘Contem- tion of the latest internationally and regionally porary Releases’ program- acclaimed films for audiences in Qatar. ming series, we are pre- The programme debuts with Finnish director senting the latest works by Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope, a film regional and international that portrays the struggles of an asylum-seeker filmmakers that have in a heart-warming manner, coupled with received critical acclaim, humour and the spirit of human kindness. Fin- and offer our discerning land’s best-known screenwriter and film director, audiences in Qatar with the Kaurismäki debuted as independent director with opportunity to catch up with Crime and Punishment (1983) and gained world- some of the most powerful wide attention with Leningrad Cowboys Go films of our time.” America (1989). The story of two people Winner of the 2017 Silver Bear for best director searching for a place to call at Berlin International home, The Other Side of Film Festival, The Other Hope is a heart-warming Side of Hope was also drama set in Helsinki, where selected to screen at the displaced Syrian Khaled 2017 Toronto, New York (Sherwan Haji) lands as a and Telluride film festi- stowaway. Meanwhile, vals. It also won the middle-aged salesman FIPRESCI Film of the Wikstrm (Sakari Kuos- Year prize at the San manen) leaves behind his Sebastián International wife and job and buys a Film Festival 2017. Audi- clearly unprofitable seafood ences in Qatar will have restaurant. After Khaled is opportunity to enjoy the denied asylum, he decides film with screenings on not to return to Aleppo, and Thursday at 4.30pm and the paths of the two men on Friday at 4.30pm and cross unexpectedly. 7pm, at the Museum of Tickets to the screenings Islamic Art Auditorium. are available at www.doha- Fatma Al Remaihi, filminstitute.com or at the Chief Executive Officer DFI Ticket Outlet at the MIA of DFI, said: “The DFI Auditorium, and are priced Cinema series provide QR35 with a QR10 discount an opportunity to local for students and Culture audiences to watch films Pass by Qatar Museums that have set standards holders.

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TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 HOME 05 170 tonnes of waste removed from beaches in northwest THE PENINSULA “Now fourth phase of the campaign is being imple- DOHA: Under a massive beach mented in beaches stretching 2017: A year of achievements for Cleanliness Department cleaning campaign, the from Umm Al Maa to Umm Ministry of Municipality and Hayish are being cleaned,” said THE PENINSULA P A total of 8,273 requests Environment represented by Al Shafi. for cleaning submitted by the General Cleanliness He stressed that such pro- DOHA: The General Cleanliness Department the people through various Department removed 170 gramme for cleaning beaches at the Ministry of Municipality and Environ- media sources were tonnes waste from 65km cover all areas of the country, ment made many important achievements entertained. stretch of beaches located at adding that the programme is during 2017, which can be summarised as P General cleaning serv- the northwest part of the being implemented smoothly follows: ices were provided to country. without any impact on daily P A total of 10,209 new garbage containers 2,370 winter camps set up The beach cleaning cam- routine work of the were placed across the country. under camping season paign, which started on Jan- Department. P In all, 170 new shaded cleaning trolleys 2016-2017 across the uary 1, was implemented in The Ministry of Munici- were provided to protect workers from country for a period of six several phases, said Director pality and Environment gives sun. months in coordination of General Cleanliness Depart- high importance on main- P 250 garbage containers were placed at with the authorities con- ment, Safar Al Shafi in a taining hygiene at beaches and the beaches of the country. cerned in the Ministry of statement. islands because they are picnic P The waste sorting programme was organ- Municipality and He said that, in the first spots. ised in 200 schools and government insti- Environment. phase, about 30 tonnes of gar- The Ministry provided all tutions. Under the programme, many P Cleaning campaigns are bage including carcass of ani- necessary support including activities were held to educate students being held daily and on mals like dolphin and sheep workers and equipment to about waste sorting. weekly basis at all beaches, were removed from beach maintain hygiene at these P A total of 80 billboards were installed at islands and ports in the areas from Abu Zaluf to Al places throughout the year as beaches in different locations of the Safar Al Shafi, Director of General Cleanliness Department. country, where waste in Arish. they received big number of country. large quantities like wood, “At least 70 tonnes of waste visitors especially during the P An advanced system of high-tech wire- used refrigerators, steel and carcasses of turtles were weekend and official less communication devices for general removed 879,916.91 tonnes of household barrels, fishing nets are removed. Wastes removed from beach areas holidays. cleaning operations was installed and it waste, 367,585.74 tonnes of solid waste, floating on the sea surface was also from Al Arish and Al Zubara The Director of General was connected to the internal network 70,619.16 tonnes of construction waste, removed and abandoned boats were during the second phase of the Cleanliness Department has of the Ministry of Municipality and and 364,598.44 waste of trees and other issued warning. campaign,” said Al Shafi. urged visitors to cooperate Environment. waste and sent them to the waste man- P A total of 19 boats, six traditional boats He added that in third with the Ministry in main- P An underground garbage container agement centres. (sanabik) and 75 gargur boats were phase, beach areas from Al taining hygiene at beaches system was implemented as a pilot P The General Cleanliness Department removed from Al Shamal Port. Zubara to Umm Al Maa were and islands by throwing gar- project. removed 91,649 used tyres. P Cleaning services were provided to all cleaned where 70 tonnes of bage on designated places and P The General Cleaning Complex was P The General Cleanliness Department venues hosting National Day celebration waste of different kinds were dustbins but not on the opened in the Industrial Area, which con- removed 5,565 carcasses of the programme and picnicking places during picked up. beaches. tains five residential buildings for animals. the Eid as well as to sport avenues. workers, nine housing units with the capacity to accommodate 1,320 individ- uals, a separate building for single employees and 24 family flats, parking lots to accommodate 679 machines and equipment in addition to an administra- tive building and some other service facilities. P North and northwest beaches were cleaned were oil residues and other waste were removed from a stretch of over 65km. This two-month cleaning campaign is still going. P Cleaning services were provided to a total of 85,089 assembly points across Doha. P A total of 1,462 violations of the law of public hygiene were caught and the vio- lators were referred to the municipali- ties concerned for legal actions. P The General Cleanliness Department The new shaded cleaning trolleys provided to protect workers from sun. Cleaning campaign at the Northwest Coast. 06 HOME TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 QRCS gives 187 tonnes of food items in South Sudan

THE PENINSULA The project worth famine in several parts of the $300,000 was country, and 270,000 children DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent already suffer severe Society’s (QRCS) relief team in conducted in malnutrition. South Sudan has completed the partnership with QRCS’s team held a meeting distribution of 187 tonnes of food Kuwait Red Crescent with officials of the South Sudan supplies to 8,000 victims of Society and the World Red Cross, the International famine in the Unity State. Federation of the Red Cross and The project worth $300,000 Food Programme. Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), was conducted in partnership and the International Committee with Kuwait Red Crescent of the Red Cross (ICRC), to dis- Society (KRCS) and the World KRCS representative. A presen- cuss the workflow of joint Food Programme (WFP). tation was given about WFP’s humanitarian operations there. Four batches of maize and activities in South Sudan, and They also visited WFP’s Scientists at HBKU’s Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute with a weather balloon as cereals were airdropped by how QRCS and KRCS can utilize therapeutic nutrition centre in part of Near Space Anthem Project. United Nations aircraft over the its resources to facilitate their Juba, which takes care of mal- target inaccessible districts, humanitarian operations. nourished children, mothers, where the team collected and The distributions were hap- and pregnant women. HBKU scientists & Qatar Academy students distributed them to the pily welcomed by the benefici- Another visit was made to beneficiaries. aries and community leaders, one of WFP’s 22 centres imple- During the handover cere- who thanked Qatar and Kuwait menting a food security pro- work on Near Space Anthem Project mony at WFP’s district ware- for their noble initiative to send gramme for vulnerable urban house in Juba, a press confer- this much-needed food aid. populations of Juba. Through THE PENINSULA Scientists from QEERI’s Air scientists. Jason Maraku, a teacher ence was attended by Hussein The project comes in these centers, vulnerable fami- Quality and Climate Change at Qatar Academy Doha and a Maar Nyuot, Minister of Human- response to the several human- lies receive cash transfers to DOHA: Scientists at Hamad Bin research portfolio are supporting coordinator for the Gifted and itarian Affairs and Disaster Man- itarian appeals issued by the purchase their food needs, as Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Qatar various stages of the project and Talented Program, said, “For our agement, Simon Cammelbeeck, South Sudan Red Cross to save well as community education Environment and Energy have been helping students students, this project is a unique Deputy Country Director, WFP, thousands of lives at risk of star- sessions about nutrition, Research Institute (QEERI) are understand the science involved learning experience in various Hassan Al-Abbassi, QRCS rep- vation. More than 100,000 hygiene, food security, and working closely with students by providing the necessary hard- disciplines. We have been resentative, and Jassem Qanbar, people are facing a widespread livelihood. from Qatar Academy, a member ware and software, as well as working on this idea for a while. of Qatar Foundation, to launch the organising a test run. The activi- Having QEERI on board has cat- Near Space Anthem Project. ties align with QEERI’s mandate alysed the project and made it a The project, which recently to inspire young minds and pro- reality. Their input have been had its practice session at the mote creative applications that invaluable to our students.” HBKU Research Complex in Edu- encourage innovative thinking Usama Usman, a Grade 12 cation City, involves sending out and novel design tactics among student who is also one of the par- a weather balloon to capture a students. Dr Luis Ackermann, ticipants, described the experi- video of the national flag research associate at QEERI, said, ence of working with QEERI’s sci- descending from near space to “It is a pleasure to work with these entists as both inspiring and Qatar, with an audio of students high school students. Such a educational. “This session with singing the national anthem. project not only helps them the scientists has been all that we The 10 participating students understand the theory involved, expected, and even more. It is from Qatar Academy’s Gifted and but also gives them firsthand interesting to see how science is Talented Program are involved practical experience. We are truly applied in real life, and how we in all facets of the project, impressed with the solutions that can actually apply the scientific including project design, balloon the students have developed for principles we learn about in class. launch, data analysis, photog- the complex design issues they I look forward to more informa- raphy and filmography. It is an encountered.” tive sessions with the scientists.” interdisciplinary project bringing The idea for the project orig- The Near Space Anthem together science, research, music inated in 2016 but only material- Project is expected to conclude in The joint team members of Qatar Red Crescent Society and Kuwait Red Crescent Society. and documentary. ized after meeting with QEERI April 2018.

Innovation & entrepreneurship contest winners announced Vodafone introduces THE PENINSULA would directly benefit Qatar’s economy. The participating International DOHA: The 5th Annual Innova- teams were required to present tion and Entrepreneurship their business ideas in front of a Add-Ons Contest 2017 winners were panel of judges. The presented announced at the ceremony held ideas covered many areas such THE PENINSULA at Qatar University (QU) colleges as information and communi- of Engineering (CENG) and Busi- cations technology (ICT) and DOHA: Vodafone Qatar has ness and Economics (CBE) technology-based projects, busi- launched International recently. ness services, social enterprises, Add-Ons accessible to all It drew the participation of health sciences, and energy and Vodafone Business customers, 152 students from various disci- environment. that for only QR35 per month plines — 45% from CBE, 27% Dr Khalifa Al Khalifa, CENG grants them a pre-set number from CENG, and 28% from other Dean said: “The College of Engi- of minutes to make interna- QU colleges. The contest aimed neering is involved in this impor- tional calls to either Egypt, to enhance students’ entrepre- tant competition based upon our Nepal, Sri Lanka, Philippines, neurial skills, to raise their belief in the importance of sup- Pakistan or Bangladesh. awareness on the importance of porting students to lead and “At Vodafone we spend a entrepreneurial activities, and develop the business sector in lot of time speaking to cus- to help them discover the needed the future. Additionally, the col- tomers about their needs and techniques and tools to create lege is committed to engaging these new Add-Ons are a result business plans. students in entrepreneurial and of many customers telling us First-place winners were innovative activities, which will they wanted a cost effective students Yousef Al Nuaimi and contribute to producing the way to call their business con- Jamal and Jamil Hanoun (CENG). future generation of high-qual- tacts and loved ones in specific Second-place winners were stu- ified engineers to pursue an countries. We are committed dents Rawda Al Marzouqi, Reem exciting career within the engi- The winners and other participants at the 5th Annual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest 2017. to using our global expertise Babaker and Amna Al Sheeb neering industry.” and experience to support the (CBE) while students Yazan Qab- “We are delighted to support QNB Assistance General translation of an important Al Naemi thanked the Col- growth and success of busi- lawi, Majd Abduljabbar, Yousef our students to advance their Manager of SME Khalid Majid Al- aspect of our strategy that lege of Engineering and the Col- nesses in Qatar with services Orabi and Raslan Abu Shnina knowledge and experience Naemi said: “QNB Group’s sup- focuses on achieving the con- lege of Business and Economics and solutions to help them (CENG) won the third place. towards their future success as port for the fifth edition of the cepts of innovation, diversity, at QU for the successful organi- achieve their goals,” said This year’s competition main entrepreneurs,” said Dr. Khalid Innovation and Entrepreneur- entrepreneurship and the impor- zation of the competition for the Mahmud Awad, Chief Business theme was to create ideas that Shams Al Abdulqader, CBE Dean. ship Contest is an effective tance they represent. fifth year in a row. Officer, Vodafone Qatar. TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 07 Abbas seeks EU recognition for Palestine

AFP Abbas told EU the way of negotiations” and diplomatic chief committed to “fighting terrorism, BRUSSELS: Palestinian leader violence and extremism locally, Mahmud Abbas yesterday urged Federica Mogherini regionally and internationally”. the EU to “swiftly” grant official that the Palestinians But as expected, recognition recognition to the state of Pales- were still committed for Palestine was not forth- tine as he sought support in Brus- coming and there was also no sels amid a bitter row with to the stalled Middle discussion of an “association Washington over the US plan to East peace process agreement” with the bloc -- move its embassy to Jerusalem. and urged the bloc to mooted beforehand as a way of Abbas told EU diplomatic take a more “political” giving Abbas something to take chief Federica Mogherini that the away. Palestinians were still committed role. Mogherini said the focus had to the stalled Middle East peace been on how the EU could help process and urged the bloc to “We truly consider the Euro- relaunch direct talks between the take a more “political” role. pean Union as a true partner and Israelis and Palestinians. His mission to meet Mogh- friend, and therefore we call its She added that debate about erini and the 28 EU foreign min- member states to swiftly recog- a possible association agreement isters came as US Vice President nise the state of Palestine and we would go on within the bloc in Mike Pence told the Israeli par- confirm that there is no contra- the coming weeks. liament that Washington would diction between recognition and The Italian said the two sides move its embassy from Tel Aviv the resumption of negotiations,” needed “to show more than ever to Jerusalem “by the end” of Abbas told reporters on Monday. before their engagement with the 2019, a step fiercely opposed by The 82-year-old Abbas met international community” to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Federica Mogherini, EU High representative for foreign Palestinians. Mogherini for one-on-one talks work for peace. policy, arrive at a lunch with EU foreign ministers in Brussels, yesterday. In an interview with AFP on before joining the bloc’s foreign After Washington froze Sunday in Brussels, Palestinian ministers for lunch on the side- funding to the UN agency for Pal- Washington’s decision. leadership has said it will not a multilateral process and there foreign minister Riad al-Malki lines of their monthly meeting, estinian refugees, Mogherini told The EU and its member accept the Trump administration does appear to be a greater will- said the EU recognising the state after Israeli Prime Minister Ben- Abbas he could count on the EU states are collectively the Pales- as a mediator in peace talks with ingness on the EU side to look at of Palestine would be “a way to jamin Netanyahu made a sim- to continue its financial backing, tinians’ largest donors, Mogherini Israel and wants an internation- such a process,” said Hugh respond” to US President Donald ilar trip last month. but warned it was “not possible said, with nearly 359 million ally led process. “The Palestin- Lovatt, Israel Palestine Project Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem Abbas said the Palestinians to imagine” the bloc could cover euros ($439 million) in support ians are looking to move away Coordinator at the European as the Israeli capital. were still “keen on continuing on the shortfall resulting from given in 2017. The Palestinian from a US-led process to a more Council on Foreign Relations.

Weah sworn in as Liberia President 24 held over comments on AFP many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other,” Weah said, as he Syria in Turkey MONROVIA: To the cheers of a crowd fired thanked Sirleaf for “laying the foundations by his promise to bring them jobs and pros- on which we can now stand in peace.”His REUTERS perity, former football star George Weah was first priorities, he said, would be to root out sworn in as president of Liberia yesterday, corruption and pay civil servants “a living ISTANBUL: Turkish police completing the country’s first transition wage,” and encourage the private sector. have detained 24 people for between democratically-elected leaders “United, we are certain to succeed as a “spreading terrorist propa- since 1944. nation, divided we are certain to fall,” he ganda” on social media Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate declared. Crowds queued for kilometres related to Ankara’s military Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who over 12 years (miles), singing, dancing and waving the operation against Kurdish steered the country away from the trauma Liberian flag as they waited for their hero, fighters in northern Syria, and of a civil war, although prosperity eluded who rose from the slums of Monrovia to the the capital city’s governor has her. Weah was sworn in as president by the nation’s highest office. “Today is one of the banned all protests. chief justice of the Supreme Court, Francis most exciting days of my life,” said Benjamin The interior ministry did Korkpor, at a packed sports stadium near Bee, a 21-year-old student at the University not give details on the 27 the capital, Monrovia. of Liberia as he waited in line with thou- arrests. Separately, state-run The presidents of Gabon, Ghana and sands of others. “The man I’m supporting Anadolu news agency earlier Liberia’s President and former football star George Weah (centre), the country’s Sierra Leone, along with friends and fellow now, President Weah, is an icon, he is my said prosecutors in the south- former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (right), the country’s new Vice-President African football stars, including Cameroo- role model. Today is not just an inaugural eastern city of Diyarbakir had Jewel Taylor (left) and Weah’s wife Clar Weah attend Weah’s swearing-in nian legend Samuel Eto’o, watched as he programme for us Liberians, but signifies issued arrest warrants for 17 ceremony in Monrovia, yesterday. took the historic oath of office. “I have spent that Liberia has found itself.” people who shared material “to provoke citizens of Kurdish origin and encourage them to go into the streets”. Police seized a pump- Turkey steps up assault on Kurdish militia in Syria action rifle, a pistol and ammunition in related raids AFP The Turkish military on Sat- tanks, aims to oust the People’s “We are determined. Afrin strongholds and the Kurdish in Diyarbakir, Anadolu said. urday launched operation “Olive Protection Units (YPG) militia will be sorted out. We will take militia now holds much of Syr- The moves come after HASSA: Turkey yesterday inten- Branch”, its second major incur- from its enclave of Afrin. no step back,” Erdogan said in a ia’s north. France has called for police used pepper gas to dis- sified its offensive against sion into Syrian territory during Turkey considers the YPG to televised speech in Ankara, a UN Security Council meeting perse pro-Kurdish protesters Kurdish militia targets in Syria the seven-year civil war. be a terror group and the Syrian adding that Russia had given its Monday to discuss concerns over in Ankara and Istanbul. as President Recep Tayyip The operation, where offshoot of the Kurdistan backing. flashpoint areas in Syria Authorities were also inves- Erdogan vowed there would be Turkish war planes and artillery Workers’ Party (PKK) which has But the operation is hugely including the Turkish offensive. tigating social posts about the no stepping back in a campaign are backing a major ground waged a bloody three-decade sensitive as Washington relied Ground forces had already taken military operation allegedly that has stoked concern among incursion launched with Ankara- insurgency against the Turkish on the YPG to oust Islamic State 15 villages and other locations in by HDP lawmakers. Ankara’s allies and neighbours. backed Syrian rebels and Turkish state. (IS) jihadists from their Syrian their advance into Syria.

Iran lawyer raises concern ANC confirms talks on Zuma exit JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s ruling party confirmed over missing woman protester yesterday that discussions were under way on President Jacob Zuma’s departure from office, possibly signalling the coming AFP Enghelab Street” after the area end to his scandal-tainted nine-year reign. in central Tehran where she Zuma has been under growing pressure to resign since TEHRAN: A renowned Iranian staged the protest, and using he was replaced as head of the African National Congress lawyer raised concern the hashtag “Where_is_she?” (ANC) in December by his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa. The party yesterday over the fate of a Nasrin Sotoudeh, a famous executive “discussed this matter... there will be interaction woman she said was arrested human rights lawyer who has between officials, President Zuma and (party) president Ram- for posing without a headscarf been arrested and barred from aphosa,” ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule told reporters. in Tehran in an image that went working on several occasions viral around the world. over the years, said she went to The woman has not been Enghelab Street on Sunday to Kenya airport blast: four acquitted seen in public since she stood investigate. AFP on a pillar box on one of the Sotoudeh said could not city’s busiest thoroughfares find out the woman’s name, but NAIROBI: Four Somali men charged over an explosion at a without a headscarf or long coat was told she was 31 years old coffee shop at Nairobi’s international airport in 2014 were required under Islamic law. and had a 19-month-old baby. acquitted yesterday due to lack of evidence. The images posted on social “The witnesses on the scene The men had denied they were members of the Somalia- media showed her waving a who saw her being taken away based Al Shabaab Islamist group and had carried out the white scarf -- an apparent ref- and even accompanied her to attack, which came four months after militants struck the erence to so-called “White the police station gave me this capital’s Westgate mall, killing at least 67 people. Wednesday” protests against information. I have no contact mandatory clothing rules for with her family.” Sudan sets journalists free women. Sotoudeh said the woman’s They are thought to have protest appeared to show KHARTOUM: Sudan yesterday freed Agence France-Presse’s been taken on December 27, a someone “at the end of their reporter in Khartoum, Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali, and a day before economic protests tether because of all the con- Reuters journalist who were arrested last week while covering broke out across the country, trols placed on her body over protests. which helped the images go the 31 years of her life”. Idris Ali, a 51-year-old who has worked for AFP in Khar- viral even though they were The incident came on the toum for nearly a decade, was covering the protests on apparently unconnected. same day that Tehran’s police Wednesday in the Sudanese capital’s twin city of Omdurman, Thousands of social media chief indicated security forces where riot police broke up a demonstration of about 200 users have shared messages, were taking a softer line on protesters against rising food prices. He had been arrested dubbing her the “Girl of Islamic rules. along with a journalist from Reuters and a third colleague. 08 VIEWS TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 Davos forum to tackle economic obstacles ESTABLISHED IN 1996 QNA

HE 48th World Economic Forum CHAIRMAN will kick off on today under the SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI theme “Creating a Shared Future Tin a Fractured World” in Davos, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Switzerland. This prominent forum will run from DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI January 23 to 26, with the attendance of a [email protected] number of high end political and economical figures from around the world. ACTING MANAGING EDITOR It will include different discussions with decision makers to talk about the most MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED prominent global issues, currently taking [email protected] place. Annually, presidents, prime ministers, financial ministers and board directors of major international companies take part in the forum. The attendees vary from members, which are almost 1,000 who represent large economical countries from EDITORIAL around the world and representatives of civil society groups, as well as those interested in global economy. Leaders from the G7 will also participate. This year the forum hosts 3,000 Water security participants, 70 of which are presidents and prime ministers, 38 are heads of major ater is one of the most basic needs of international organisations. This includes all. It is a strategic resource which plays UK Prime Minister Theresa May, in order to a key role, not only in the well-being of discuss topics related to strengthening people, but also in the stability of a global cooperation, revive economic The participants of the forum will for rule-based multilateralism. Despite Wcountry. Hence providing enough potable water for its growth, reform capitalism and prepare for contribute to various agendas, including growing political concerns, the people is one of the fundamental priorities of a nation. the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is also the global program to support efforts to environment has topped the list of For a country like Qatar, with a vast geography of planned for the Indian Prime Minister improve global governance mechanisms threats, with the worst weather being desert land, water security is of supreme importance. Narendra Modi to deliver the keynote and to promote major multilateral the most serious threat in 2018 a year Water Security Mega Reservoirs Project is a speech at the plenary session, as his processes, for example, the United after unusual storms in the Atlantic, testament to the fact that Qatar considers water country is one of the fastest growing Nations goals for sustainable including Hurricane Maria, which security as a fundamental prerequisite for the emerging economies in the world. development. devastated Puerto Rico. progress of its people. The first phase of the project, This year’s forum will see the The economic agenda is in support of With the recovery of global growth, being implemented by the Qatar General Electricity participation of the US President Donald multi-stakeholder efforts to achieve concerns about the economy have fallen and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) is designed to Trump, which has been met with the sustainable and inclusive economic sharply, but the report has described increase water storage capacity by a week during “Trump not welcome” campaign in development in the face of low growth income inequality as a “devastating normal times and several months in case of an Switzerland. It is planned for the US rates, low productivity and skill gaps, and problem” in many countries, as well as emergency, is nearing completion. President to say a speech on the closing day a regional agenda that will undertake an complacency about the economic In order to provide multiple water resources to of the forum. Donald Trump will be the in-depth study of socio-economic climate due to high levels of debt and ensure enough potable water is available for daily use, second US president to ever attend this transformations occurring in all regions. low rates of savings and inadequate Kahramaa has readied ground water wells, a network forum after Bill Clinton in 2000. In addition to an industry and business retirement conditions. “The growing of water desalination plants connecting different The forum will be attended by agenda that discusses the contribution to economic recovery gives us an areas of the country and is all set to add a giant water International Monetary Fund (IMF) the formation of new industrial opportunity we can not afford to waste,” reservoir facility. Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who ecosystems and help industries and said Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO of Kharamaa President Issa bin Hilal Al Kuwari said will officially present the IMF’s annual government leaders prepare for the the World Economic Forum. “We must recently: “Water security is very important because report on the world economy the day Fourth Industrial Revolution. take the risk of a collapse of global Qatar is geographically located in a desert and dried before the forum. The event will also be A few days ago, the Davos World systems seriously,” he said. land where rainfall is low attended by Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Economic Forum warned of the The Davos Forum is a non-profit, and groundwater stock is Solberg. growing threat of political and non-governmental organisation based in relatively low.” So the More than economic confrontation between Geneva, Switzerland, founded by country, instead of 1,900 leaders major powers, including military Professor Klaus Schwab in 1971. This depending on a single from the private conflicts. The global risk report forum serves as a meeting place for source, is tapping sector are highlighted a number of major threats elites from 1000 representatives of The Qatar multiple sources The forum aims to planned to in 2018, including environmental risks major multinational corporations and including desalination of attend, as well as due to weather, unusual temperatures, political leaders to discuss the economic government sea water, which is set a work agenda nearly 900 economic disparities and cyber attacks. and political problems facing the world decided to available aplenty. to encourage more heads of NGOs The report, made by nearly 1,000 and means to solve them. implement the The government has joint work between will be attending experts from governments, companies, The Forum holds its annual meetings Mega Water plans to set up more multi-stakeholders as well as more academics and non-governmental in Davos, where joint economic plans desalination plants to than 1,000 organisations, indicated that 93 and projects are drafted, and although Reservoirs Project, meet the growing to meet the political, company percent expect political or economic officially “non-governmental, non-profit the largest concrete demand for water. But as economic and social managers will be confrontation between major powers and open to those who wish”, the terms water storage sea is a single source any challenges of our attending. Four to increase in 2018, of them 40 percent of membership require that the facility in the world contamination that may time. hundred panel said these risks have increased sharply. company’s income be at least USD 1 happen will affect the discussions will Meanwhile, about 79 percent of billion per year. at a cost of QR14bn entire water supply be held around respondents said there was a growing The Swiss government annually in the first phase. system of the country and the four risk of military conflict between two allocates about 5,000 troops to secure one option to circumvent following topics: establishing intelligent states. Besides the risk of conflict on the high-profile event in Davos, but the this possibility is to governance of technology, lead sustainable the Korean Peninsula, the report entire unit is rarely used. The CHF 9 ensure a strategic reserve economic progress, navigate a multi-polar warned of the risk of new military million security cost is paid by the of water. Keeping this in mind the government decided and multi-talented world, and overcome confrontations in the Middle East. Confederacy, the Canton of Graubunden, to implement the Mega Water Reservoirs Project, the divisions in society. The report cited an increase in the the city of Davos and the World largest concrete water storage facility in the world at a The forum aims to set a work agenda to so-called “charismatic strongman Economic Forum, but the security costs cost of QR14bn in the first phase. It will add 1,400 encourage more joint work between multi- policy” worldwide, saying political, of the Davos Forum are expected to rise million gallons to the existing 1,000 million gallons stakeholders to meet the political, economic and environmental risks are this year as President Trump is attending water. economic and social challenges of our time. exacerbated by the decline in support in light of the anti-presence campaign. Ground water is precious for Qatar and it is with utmost prudence that the country taps ground water, with strict regulations controlling its exploitation. The country aims to achieve water and food security without harming ground water reserve. A well- How to get rid of US government shutdowns established system, which is regularly tested for efficiency, manages the use of ground water with wells RAMESH PONNURU has treid for years to enact shutdowns, according to the for tweaking Portman’s idea. equipped with tanks and linked to pumping stations. THE WASHINGTON POST such a law. During the last former senator, was not to Congress could set a different With the completion of the Mega Water Reservoirs shutdown, in 2013, he got a change the budget rules but default rule for what happens Project it is sure that the people of the country will not HE US has had four floor vote on an amendment to agree on time to when there’s no agreement go thirsty in an emergency. partial shutdowns of for an “automatic continuing appropriations bills. She on budget bills. Maybe it’s one Tthe federal government resolution.” If no appropri- added that Portman’s idea that keeps spending flat, or in the last 25 years. Each time, ations bill were signed into was not just unnecessary but keeps it growing at the we debate who’s responsible: law, the affected programs dangerous. It would be average pace of the previous which party is the formal would keep running at their “draconian” to let those 1 few years. QUOTE OF THE DAY cause of it, which is being less existing spending levels for the percent cuts compound. The point would be to reasonable in budget next 120 days. If no bill had The first argument does avoid shutdowns. The threat negotiations. Maybe it’s time passed by then, spending not make sense on its own: of shutdowns has not proven We truly consider the instead to debate doing away would be cut by 1 percent. The amendment concerned an effective way to force European Union as a with the possibility of Another 1 percent cut would be what should happen in case of timely political agreements true partner and friend, shutdowns. made every 90 days after that. a failure to agree on time. But over the budget. Shutdowns and therefore, we call There’s no law of nature The amendment was it makes more sense in light of aren’t even effective in getting its member states to that requires the federal defeated on a nearly party- the second argument. Put the Congress to enact reforms - government to run at partial line vote, with Portman’s two together, and you can see be they the abolition of swiftly recognise the capacity when Congress and fellow Republicans how the amendment would Obamacare that Republicans state of Palestine and the president can’t agree on a supportive and the shift fiscal politics in a sought in 2013 or the amnesty we confirm that there is budget bill. Long ago Democrats opposed. Senator Republican direction. If it for illegal immigrants brought no contradiction between Congress could have passed, Barbara Mikulski, the were in place, the most here as minors that recognition and the and a president could have Maryland Democrat who at conservative Republicans Democrats want now. resumption of negotiations. signed, a law stipulating how the time ran the Appropri- would have an incentive to Shutdowns serve no good the government would ations Committee, made two keep appropriations bills from purpose. So let’s finish the operate in case of such a main arguments against the passing on time so that they current round of fighting and Mahmoud Abbas disagreement. idea. could see the automatic cuts then resolve to get rid of Palestinian President Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, The real solution to happen. That’s an argument them. TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 OPINION 09 In search of the ‘merits’ of colonialism

RITISH newspapers regional merchant capital (not colonialism on one side of the than its agricultural advances. agricultural prosperity, these days bristle imperial investment), using ledger. On the other side, they Whatever innovations have technological innovation, and with opinion pieces local workers, some of whom acclaim the railways, the occurred in that sector have economic development of which Bwaxing sentimental were forced into bonded, parliaments, the infrastr- come out of massive Israeli the Israeli boasts has been the about Britain’s colonial past. indentured or corvee labour. uctures, and the modern military investment in result of abuse of underpaid, One Oxford don who is If anything, throughout the bureaucracies. technologies of repression. exploited, heavily controlled LALEH KHALILI launching a research project to British colonies, imperial Another false claim of a Smart city algorithms, Palestinian labour force (whether AL JAZEERA celebrate the ethical merits of intervention stunted economic colonial ‘success’ story facial recognition software, from the Occupied Territories or the British empire admonishes growth, introduced limitations The colonisation of drones, robotics, surveillance citizens of Israel). the readers of The Times to not and barriers to already existing Palestine is an exemplary applications, wiretapping These Palestinian workers, “feel guilty about our colonial trade, and brutally exploited instance of the reality of systems, data-mining even those holding Israeli history”. workers, peasants, sailors, colonialism belying successive programmes used to collate citizenship, are paid far less than After all, remembering soldiers and the like for profits colonial regimes’ claims of open-source data about their Jewish counterparts and can imperial atrocities could stop shipped to banks in London; their developmental aims. The ordinary people, all these be fired at will. the British from tackling the not to mention the use of oft-repeated Zionist cliche that technologies were either The prosperity of one people in world’s problems, presumably Singapore’s port as a glorified the European settlers developed by the military’s Israel is predicated on the continued at the point of bayonets or fuel depot for colonial navies, colonised “a land without a intelligence research arm, or colonial control of another people, under an umbrella of aerial and the deployment of military people” and “made the desert via incubators paid for by the the Palestinians, on their enduring bombardment. force in and around the colony bloom” ignores that the Israeli military. economic exploitation, and on the Another opinion piece, to quash any resistance to the earliest colonies were abjectly The Israeli government has continued violence against them. woefully ignorant of empire. failed experiments in in turn exported these More than a decade ago, Paul Singapore’s history or of And more often than not, agriculture. technologies to some of the Gilroy caustically and accurately British imperial ventures more colonialism has left behind It was only after the early most repressive regimes described a British attachment to “a generally, tells us that hardened sectarian and ethnic 20th century colonists began around the world, including resolutely air-brushed version of “Singapore shows us that divisions and racialised class observing and taking lessons Arab states with which it colonial history in which gunboat colonialism can work”. structures. The authoritarian from Palestinian peasants and supposedly does not have any diplomacy was moral uplift, The colonisation The author does mention rulers to whom the colonial farmers that they were able to relations. Gaza and the West civilising missions were completed, of Palestine is its rise on the back of opium masters handed the keys to the adapt their methods to the Bank have been repeatedly the trains ran on time and the an exemplary trade, but does not seem to city pay lip service to semi-arid ecological used as laboratories in which natives appreciated the value of instance of know that Singapore, like so democracy but stifle political conditions in a countryside instruments of colonial stability.” many other Indian Ocean port participation by unruly with which they were suppression could be forged. The intervening time has only the reality of cities, was ruthlessly exploited publics; and in this they are unfamiliar. Beyond technology, brick- made this nostalgia more fervent, colonialism by the British, and if the colony supported by former colonial From very early on, the and-mortar techniques of as memories of the catastrophic belying successive became prosperous, it was not masters who value their colonists planted foreign military control have been the US and European interventions in colonial regimes’ because of the glories of “stability” and loyalty. species of plants throughout bread and butter of Israeli Iraq have begun to fade, and as imperial management or Apologists for empire put the parts of the country colonisation of Palestine. The Brexit has brought out the worst claims of their economic liberalism. the economic and ecological occupied in the 1948 Nakba concrete wall that encircles of Little Englander xenophobia developmental The Victorian buildings the devastation, de-development, (“Catastrophe”). This sowing of Palestinian enclaves in the and fantasies of past glory (which aims. author praises were exploitation, and global alpine vegetationaccelerated Occupied Territories is a prime only ever existed for a sliver of constructed by local and inequalities wrought by after the establishment of the example. Interestingly, the the British population at any Israelis state on lands and idea of using a wall as a rate). territories from which the counterinsurgency measure However, the continued majority of its Palestinian was a gift given to the Israeli colonisation of Palestinian, an early inhabitants were forcibly military by their early colonial 20th century instance of British expelled between 1947 and sponsors. The British colonialism morphed into Israeli 1949. Mandatory government, with settler colonial project, shows that These pine forests the help of the Jewish labour colonialism is anything but the deliberately erased the union, Histadrut, was the first glorious developmental mission its footprints of demolished governmentto build a wall in advocates acclaim. Palestinian villages. In parts Palestine in the 1930s, as a of the country, they also means of quelling rebellion by proved to be a drain on the Palestinians. country’s aquifers, more The Israeli military has suited to hardy species of even used supposedly non- flora and trees adapted to military infrastructures such as D-RING ROAD surviving the semi-arid roads as a means of expanding POST BOX: 3488 conditions of the settlements in the West Bank DOHA - QATAR Mediterranean landscapes. territorially and as a way to Israeli politicians today control the movement of [email protected] boast more about the Palestinians there. 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ITCOIN breaks my heart. Not What followed was the short-lived called WebPay. In the early 2000s, e-gold MANAGING EDITOR because I missed the great “information wants to be free” era. emerged as a potential solution, until it TEL: 4462 7505 run-up (though I did) and not Napster, which was founded in 1999, used turned out that it was being used primarily Bbecause I fear that the Bitcoin peer-to-peer technology that allowed by criminals. In 2008, its founder pleaded DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR bubble will end badly (it will, but that’s not music lovers to download songs illegally. guilty to money laundering. TEL: 4455 7769 my problem). Rather, it is because I have Newspapers didn’t have paywalls, and According to the website 99bitcoins. been waiting for decades for someone to many people came to assume that news com, there are 89 companies that claim to LOCAL NEWS SECTION invent a purely digital currency, a shouldn’t cost anything. I saw my own accept Bitcoin as currency, including TEL: 4455 7743 currency for online purchases that wasn’t children downloading music and even Subway, the Massachusetts Institute of linked to a credit card. It was the killer app movies, and when I would tell them they Technology bookstore, and the Museum of BUSINESS NEWS SECTION (as we used to say) that no one ever were violating the law, they would tell me the Coastal Bend in Victoria, Texas. But I TEL: 4462 7535 figured out. I didn’t understand how the world worked can’t imagine anyone actually using it to Thus when Bitcoin first emerged, I had in the Internet age. pay for something. Who would use Bitcoin SPORT NEWS SECTION hoped that it would be The One. In “Digital At the same time, as e-commerce took for a purchase when it might go up by TEL: 4455 7745 Gold,” his book about Bitcoin’s origins, hold, the only means of payment was a $500 in the next 10 minutes? And who JOE NOCERA Nathaniel Popper quotes an email from credit card. It was a real commercial would accept Bitcoin when it could go ONLINE SECTION BLOOMBERG Satoshi Nakamoto, the cryptocurrency’s friction point: Every time you wanted to down by $500 in the next 10 minutes? TEL: 4462 7501 mysterious and possibly apocryphal buy something you had to fill out your Whatever the original intention, [email protected] credit card information, plus your billing Bitcoin has morphed into an asset whose address and, if it was different, your only purpose is speculation. “There is PUBLIC RELATIONS shipping address as well. And once you simply no way to predict what it will be TEL: 4455 7613 Bitcoin fans: Digital had done that, your information would be worth,” said Pete Kight, a fintech investor [email protected] vulnerable to hackers. who founded Checkfree in 1981. That is its Electronic currency could have solved fatal flaw as an electronic currency. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT currency is still a dream both these problems. If my children had Or, rather, that is one of them. The TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 had access to a digital currency — maybe other flaw is the very quality that many of FAX: 4455 7870 their allowance! - Napster could have its adherents love most about it: It [email protected] inventor: “I’ve been working on a new struck deals with the record companies operates separately from the electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to- and charged for songs. They would have government’s fiat currency. “I call it the CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT peer, with no trusted third party.” happily paid. And e-cash would have tyranny of brilliance,” said Kight. “When TEL: 4455 7857 That’s how all the early Bitcoin made internet commerce pretty darn close you work in fintech, you often see [email protected] enthusiasts thought of it: It was a currency, to frictionless. By 2000, I quoted the chief engineering genius get out of synch with one that allowed consumers to buy things, executive of an internet bank in a Money what works in the real world.” SUBSCRIPTION & DISTRIBUTION while sidestepping both the banking magazine article saying, “We’ve reached In the case of Bitcoin, he said: “There is TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 system and national governments. What the point where the internet economy this thing called the Federal Reserve. Its FAX: 44557819 the Bitcoin bubble shows, however, is that needs e-cash.” first job is to protect the financial system [email protected] Bitcoin is just another e-currency failure. It never happened. Instead, of the United States. For a cryptocurrency Whatever But I’m getting ahead of myself. entrepreneurs and companies created a to be successful, it has to work out with the I first began thinking about digital series of work-arounds, some better than Fed how it won’t undermine the banking All thoughts and views the original currency in the mid-1990s when I met a others. The best-known was PayPal, system.” intention, brilliant cryptographer and mathematician which essentially accessed your bank or I can imagine that after the bubble expressed in these Bitcoin has named David Chaum, who had invented credit-card account to make purchases or bursts, Bitcoin will continue to be traded. columns are those of the morphed into what he called electronic cash, or e-cash. send money. Apple and Amazon have also Maybe a few of the other cryptocurrencies writers, not of the It did exactly what Bitcoin purports to do: made it much easier to pay for things; will have similar trajectories (though most newspaper. an asset whose allowed people to use virtual money, when I want to pay for my monthly will dissolve into nothingness). I can see it only purpose stored on their computer, to make Washington Post subscription, I hit the reflecting the larger economy in some is speculation. purchases and send money to other “Amazon Pay” button and it’s done. Even way, rising in certain environments and All correspondence “There is people. so, we still spend an awful lot of time falling in others. In the best case, Bitcoin regarding Views and Chaum was way ahead of his time. He filling out credit card information when might come to be seen as the digital Opinion pages should be simply no way founded his company, DigiCash, five years we want to buy something online. equivalent of gold. to predict what before the creation of either Netscape, Meanwhile, every effort to come up There’s nothing wrong with that. But send to editor-in-chief it will be worth. which populariswed the browser, or with an electronic currency foundered. I we’ll have to wait a little longer for an office or mailed to the Amazon. By 1998, DigiCash was bankrupt. remember one called Qpass and another electronic currency that works. [email protected] 10 ASIA TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 Apex Court to study full records of Loya case

IANS “Matter is serious. Maharashtra, saying that it was “not fair” for him to appear for NEW DELHI: The Supreme Let us look at full the state government after Court yesterday said the contro- records. Let it never appearing for BJP President versy surrounding the death of be on our conscience Amit Shah, and that he has Special CBI court judge BH Loya that we did not look “done enough damage to the is “serious” and it will look into institution” and “there is a con- the circumstances leading to his at what we should flict of interest”. death in November 2014. have,” the bench “We are on the circum- Judge Loya was holding the said as it directed stances leading to the death of trial into the staged shootout Judge Loya. Let us not comment deaths of Sohrabuddin Sheikh all the parties to file who is appearing for whom,” and two others. whatever material said Justice Chandrachud. “Matter is serious. Let us they have relating to In a face-off between Dave look at full records. Let it never Loya’s death and the and Salve, Dave said: “Entire Anil Kapoor opens Malabar Gold Rajkot showroom be on our conscience that we did institution is trying to protect Bollywood Star Anil Kapoor inaugurating Malabar Gold & Diamonds’ relocated and renovated showroom not look at what we should circumstances leading one man - Amit Shah and Amit at Rajkot, Gujarat, India, in the presence of Asher O, Managing Director - India Operations, Malabar Gold have,” the bench said as it to it and set the Shah alone” whom he described & Diamonds; Nishad A K, Group Executive Director, Malabar Group; Subair M P, Regional Head, Malabar directed all the parties to file as “politician of great next hearing for Gold & Diamonds; and other management team members on January 20. whatever material they have February 2. excellence”. relating to Loya’s death and the At this, Salve objected, circumstances leading to it and saying: “What is this Amit Shah, set the next hearing for February Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said Amit Shah. You are blaming 2. allowing both the sides to file somebody in the court behind Senior counsel Dushyant whatever documents they had his back. You can’t caste asper- 2008 Gujarat blasts mastermind held Dave, appearing for the Bombay in their possession. sion on somebody. You can’t Lawyers Association, and Indira The bench of Chief Justice jump three steps and pass com- IANS terrorists of SIMI-Indian Muja- old associates. He is accused of Jaising, appearing for an inter- Dipak Misra, Justice ments just because he happens hideen, Abdul Subhan Qureshi plotting the serial blasts in vener, said that the records A.M.Khanwilkar and Justice to be a prominent politician.” NEW DELHI: An Indian Muja- (was) arrested after a brief of Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008 being produced by the Mahar- Chandrachud also transferred Dave raised the pitch, the hideen operative, termed the exchange of fire,” Deputy Com- when as many as 21 bombs ashtra government were not to itself two petitions pending court intervened, saying that all “Bin Laden of India” and the missioner of Police Pramod planted in tiffin boxes and motor complete as they pointed to before the Bombay High Court the counsel appearing in the allegedly mastermind of the Singh Kushwaha told reporters cycles went off in busy markets some documents they had and its Nagpur bench relating matter should assist it to 2008 Gujarat serial blasts that here. Qureshi, 39, was arrested and bus stations. Over 200 per- accessed through RTI. to the matter. “examine the documents objec- killed 56 persons was arrested from Gazipur area in east Delhi sons were also injured. The toll “There is no question of At the outset of the hearing, tively” and assuring that it here after a brief gunfight, Delhi on Saturday night following an could have gone up but 29 of the restricting the records. Prepare Dave objected to senior counsel would order the probe if Police said yesterday. exchange of fire when he came improvised explosive devices a compilation of the record,” Harish Salve, appearing for needed. “One of the most wanted to meet one of his failed to explode.

Nasheed Disqualification of MLAs: AAP to file fresh plea accuses China of seizing land IANS an earlier plea that sought a stay MLAs. Following the President’s Bharadwaj told IANS that the after the EC said it had already on the Election Commission’s approval, the Law and Justice ruling party will file the fresh sent its opinion to the President NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi (EC) recommendation to Presi- Ministry on Sunday issued a noti- plea in the High Court. on January 19, before the MLAs AFP Party (AAP) will file a fresh plea dent Ram Nath Kovind to dis- fication that the President has Earlier in the day, Justice moved the court. in the Delhi High Court today to qualify 20 MLAs for holding held that the 20 members of the Rekha Palli of the High Court The EC also informed the COLOMBO: Exiled Maldives challenge the decision to office-of-profit as Parliamentary Delhi Assembly stand disquali- said the plea moved by six AAP court that the notification on dis- opposition leader Mohamed disqualify 20 party MLAs in an Secretaries in Delhi. fied under Section 15 (1) (a) of the legislators had become infruc- qualification was issued on Jan- Nasheed yesterday accused office-of-profit case, a party On Friday, the EC made the Government of National Capital tuous as the President has uary 20. These MLAs’ counsel China of seizing land in the leader said yesterday. recommendation, since Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act. already issued a circular to dis- said they wanted to withdraw politically-troubled Indian The move comes after the approved by the President, for Yesterday, AAP Chief qualify all 20 MLAs. the plea and will examine the EC Ocean archipelago and AAP MLAs withdrew on Monday disqualification of the 20 AAP Spokesperson Saurabh The court’s decision came orders. undermining its sovereignty. Nasheed said Chinese interests had leased at least 16 islets among the 1,192 scat- Indian researchers to get special Australian visas tered coral islands and were Start of Rohingya return building ports and other IANS finance and awareness and number of initiatives to reform infrastructure there. delayed, says Bangladesh other logistical barriers as a few Indian economy, Make in India The 50-year-old former NEW DELHI: The Group of of the obstacles hampering the being of foremost importance, president said the increased REUTERS “There are many things Eight (Go8), which comprises vice versa flow of Ph.D we have looked at how Indian Chinese presence could remaining,” he told Reuters by Australia’s eight research students. companies and Australian com- threaten the Muslim-majority PALONG KHALI: Bangladesh phone. “The list of people to be universities, has advocated The report also recom- panies based in India can jointly nation of 340,000 and the has delayed the repatriation of sent back is yet to be prepared, relaxed visa norms between mended to the Australian gov- sponsor Indian students to stu- wider Indian Ocean region. Rohingya Muslim refugees to their verification and setting up Australia and India for students ernment to establish a “special dents to study on Ph.D projects During a visit to Colombo, Myanmar, set to start today, of transit camps is remaining.” seeking to do Ph.D in either class of visa for researchers and relevant to their businesses,” where his Maldivian Demo- because the process of A Bangladesh Border Guard country. Ph.D graduates”. “As the Indian Vicki Thomson, Go8 CEO, said cratic Party activists are compiling and verifying the list official said it could be months The body identified lack of government has launched a at the launch. based, Nasheed called the of people to be sent back is before the transfers begin. Chinese action a “land grab.” incomplete, a senior Bangla- The International Organi- desh official said. sation for Migration says the The decision comes as ten- number of Rohingya who fled 2nd Rohingya sions have risen in camps to Bangladesh since late August holding hundreds of thousands now stands at 688,000. The leader murdered of refugees, some of whom are exodus began when the opposing their transfer back to Myanmar military launched a in refugee camp Myanmar because of what they crackdown following insurgent say is a lack of guarantees of raids on security forces on Aug. AFP their security. 25. The head of the UNHCR, Myanmar and Bangladesh said more time was needed to BALUKHALI: Attackers agreed earlier this month to prepare the return of the yesterday killed a Rohingya complete the voluntary repa- Rohingya refugees to Rakhine, representative in a Bangla- triation of the refugees within and urged the two governments desh refugee camp, the two years, starting on Tuesday. to involve it in their efforts to second such death in three Myanmar says it has set up two resolve the refugee crisis. days as tensions mount over reception centres and a tempo- The UNHCR, which is the planned repatriation of rary camp near the border to helping to administer the ref- some 750,000 refugees to receive the first arrivals. ugee camps, is not involved in Singapore PM in Sri Lanka Myanmar. But Abul Kalam, Bangla- the repatriation process. Grandi Sri Lankan Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayaka (second right) greets Singapore Prime Sources said the dead desh’s refugee relief and reha- said it was especially important Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a welcoming ceremony at the Bandaranaike International Airport man Yusuf Ali was a camp bilitation commissioner, said on to set up a monitoring mecha- in Katunayake, yesterday. He is on an official visit to Sri Lanka until tomorrow. leader at the Balukhali camp Monday the return would have nism in northern Rakhine for on the border with Myanmar. to be delayed. the returning people. Mohammad Yusuf, a leader in the neighbouring Thaing- khali camp, was shot dead last Friday. Yusuf Ali, 60, was stabbed US forcing China to accelerate S China Sea deployments: Report to death, district police chief Iqbal Hossain said. Another REUTERS came within 12 nautical miles of cooperation in dealing with wantonly provoking trouble is said. The commentary was pub- police official described him Huangyan island, which is better North Korea’s missile and singleminded to the point of lished under the pen name as a Rohingya “majhi” or BEIJING: China’s top newspaper, known as the Scarborough Shoal nuclear programmes. recklessness,” the paper said. “Zhong Sheng”, meaning “Voice camp leader. decrying Washington as a and is subject to a rival claim by The ruling Communist Par- “If the relevant party once of China”, which is often used to The Dhaka Tribune trouble-maker, said yesterday the Philippines, a historic ally of ty’s official People’s Daily said in more makes trouble out of give the paper’s view on foreign described the earlier victim, US moves in the South China Sea the United States. a commentary that, with the sit- nothing and causes tensions, policy issues. The widely read Mohammad Yusuf, as a pro- like last week’s freedom of navi- It was the latest US naval uation generally improving in then it will only cause China to Global Times tabloid, published repatriation leader gation operation will only cause operation challenging extensive the South China Sea, it was clear reach this conclusion: in order by the People’s Daily, said in an His wife Jamila Khatun, China to strengthen its deploy- Chinese claims in the South that the United States was the to earnestly protect peace in the editorial on Monday China’s con- 35, said some 20 armed and ments in the disputed waterway. China Sea and came even as one militarising the region. South China Sea, China must trol of the South China Sea is masked men stormed their China’s foreign ministry said President Donald Trump’s “Against this backdrop of strengthen and speed up the only growing and it is well placed home and and shot her hus- the USS Hopper, a destroyer, administration seeks Chinese peace and cooperation, a US ship building of its abilities there,” it to react to US “provocations”. band in the head. TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 ASIA 11 Pakistan awaits Afghan decree against TTP & affiliates INTERNEWS is the revelation by the official to honour its commitment,” the not sufficient enough to cover statement in order to send a countries,” the official that the Afghan government official said while pointing out Afghanistan. positive message. The Afghan lamented. ISLAMABAD: In October last was just telling ‘half-truth.’ that Pakistan had already made Giving rare insight into the president instantly agreed. But the story did not just year, Army chief General The official, who requested good on its promise by securing recent high-level discussions But the moment, the high- end there. Qamar Javed Bajwa traveled to not to be named because of the a religious decree recently from between the two neighbours, powered talks concluded According to the official, the Kabul as part of efforts to sensitivity of the subject, said around 1,800 scholars against the Pakistani official revealed between the two sides, Ghani Afghan government was also improve strained ties between that it was a ‘mutual commit- the suicide bombings. how Afghanistan dragged its was surrounded by his aides reluctant to respond positively Pakistan and Afghanistan. One ment’, meaning that both the Afghanistan, however, is feet on certain commitments. and others to question how he to a Pakistan proposal, envis- of the decisions, according to sides would seek fatwa from not convinced with Pakistan’s To substantiate his claims, could make such a commitment aging establishment of different Kabul, reached during the visit their respective religious move, insisting that Pakistani the official cited the firsthand with Pakistan. working groups not only to was that Pakistan would seek scholars against suicide fatwa should have explicitly account of a meeting between “And the rest was history. remove trust deficit but also a ‘fatwa’ or religious decree bombings. mentioned Afghanistan. Afghan President Ghani and his His (Ghani) positive sentiments enter into a cooperative from its religious scholars Therefore, it was not just President Ashraf Ghani said delegation with the army chief were never allowed to reflect relationship. against suicide bombings inside Pakistan but also Afghanistan, the Pakistani fatwa should have last October. in a joint statement,” the offi- The different working Afghanistan. which agreed to obtain a ‘fatwa’ included the entire Muslim During the meeting, the cial said in order to explain groups covered the entire Pakistan officially never from its religious scholars, world including Afghanistan. official said, the Afghan presi- that how certain elements gamut of relationship - acknowledged if the army chief declaring suicide attacks being Foreign Minister Khawaja dent spoke highly of Pakistan within the Afghan government including security, military, made any such commitment. perpetrated by outlawed Asif, however, clarified that the calling Afghanistan and Paki- were running the show in intelligence, political and eco- However, now a senior official, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan suicide bombing was un- stan as “inseparable brothers”. Kabul. nomic between the two who was privy to the outcome (TTP) and its affiliates inside Islamic “whether it takes place On Ghani’s encouraging “Of course, those were the estranged neighbours. of Gen Qamar’s visit to Kabul, Pakistan as un-Islamic. on the moon or in any part of remarks, the army chief same elements who never “The dithering on part of confirmed the development. “But, we have yet to see any the world” in an effort to dispel requested the Afghan president wanted any improvement in the Afghanistan is incomprehen- What is significant, though, effort by the Afghan government the impression the move was to make this part of a joint relationship between the two sible,” regretted the official. Malaysia arrests 2 ‘IS-linked militants planning attacks’

AFP country that has never before succeed, police said. There has suffered a major assault. been an outpouring of sympathy KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian The latest arrests took place towards the Rohingya in police have arrested two in separate police operations in Malaysia since hundreds of suspected militants with links January and December, with a thousands fled to Bangladesh to the IS group, who were alleg- Malaysian teacher from a reli- from Myanmar, their mainly edly planning attacks on enter- gious school detained as well as Buddhist homeland, in the wake tainment outlets and national the construction worker. of a military-led campaign in police headquarters, officials The men were “suspected Rakhine state. said yesterday. of being involved with the The suspect, who was not One of the suspects, an Daesh (IS) terrorist group”, said named, had been in contact Indonesian construction national police chief Mohamad with a senior IS leader and had worker, had previously wan- Fuzi Harun in a statement. raised a flag of the jihadist group dered around Kuala Lumpur The 23-year-old Indonesian at the construction site where with a knife in an unsuccessful was detained in the capital last he worked, police said. attempt to attack Buddhist week and had allegedly been The Malaysian teacher, 25, monks in revenge for atrocities planning to attack police head- was detained outside Kuala against Rohingya Muslims in quarters and other police sta- Lumpur and had been planning Myanmar, police said. tions to steal weapons that attacks on entertainment out- Funeral for Afghanistan bomb attack victim Hundreds of suspected could be used in attacks. lets around the capital, police extremists have been arrested In November he had said, without giving further Afghan mourners offer funeral prayers to Mufti Ahmad Farzan, a member of the High Peace Council, in Muslim-majority Malaysia in scouted an area of downtown details. who died during an attack which killed at least 22 people at Kabul’s Intercontinental hotel, in Kandahar recent times, as fears grow that Kuala Lumpur with a knife, He previously served an province, yesterday. IS is encouraging would-be mil- allegedly planning to target 18-month jail term under tough itants to launch attacks in a Buddhist monks, but he did not internal security laws.

Philippines Three dead as busy market struck Japan’s Abe avoids to deport Hamas ‘rocket by bomb in southern Thailand timeline for amending scientist’ AFP popular with Buddhists and blamed “insurgents”, saying the pacifist constitution Muslims may indicate that mil- motorbike laden with explo- AFP THAILAND: A motorcycle itants are once more aiming sives fits their modus bomb killed three civilians and attacks at civilian targets. operandi. REUTERS upper house election next year - MANILA: The Philippines said wounded two dozen others At least two bodies lay “The bombing shows the but the outlook for a referendum yesterday it would deport an yesterday at a bustling morning slumped over debris in the insurgents never stop trying to TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister remains murky. elderly Iraqi man described as market in Thailand’s insur- narrow alleyway, surrounded indiscriminately destroy lives Shinzo Abe opened a new session Abe has proposed an amend- a scientist for Hamas and gency-hit south, the first such by chunks of torn corrugated and property,” Pramote Prom- of parliament yesterday with ment that would retain Article 9’s accused of helping the Pales- attack on a “soft target” in the roofing, destroyed motorbikes in said, adding the attack aimed familiar promises for economic first clause renouncing the right tinian militant group lob Muslim-majority region for and market stalls. “The suspects to undermine faith in “the state reform and stronger defence, but to go to war and a second clause missiles at Israel. months. parked the motorcycle in front security system”. steered clear of setting a time- banning a standing military while Iraq tipped off the Philip- A rebellion against Thai rule of a stall selling pork in down- But later the regional army line for his goal of revising the adding a specific reference to the pines about the presence of in the country’s culturally dis- town Yala, it detonated 10 min- chief instead blamed “powerful post-war, pacifist constitution. “Self-Defense Forces” (SDF), as Taja Mohammad Al Jabori, who tinct “Deep South” bordering utes later,” the policeman said, local families” intent on dis- The push by the conserva- Japan calls its military. was arrested on Sunday, Malaysia has left nearly 7,000 requesting anonymity. “Three rupting the peace for financial tive Japanese leader to fulfil his Those in favour of his pro- national police chief Ronald dead—the majority civilians— civilians were killed. It’s the first gain -- without naming his chief long-held ambition coincides posal say it would just codify the Dela Rosa told reporters. since 2004. big attack in downtown Yala in suspects. with rising concerns about North status quo. Opponents argue it However, the arrest was The death toll in 2017 from two years.” Thailand, which colonised Korea’s nuclear and missile pro- would make it easier for Japan’s due to visa problems rather the insurgency was 235, the Two of the dead were Bud- the ethnically Malay south grammes and China’s military military to take part in overseas than any evidence of militant lowest in 13 years of conflict as dhists—the other was Muslim— roughly a century ago, has for assertiveness. conflicts. A Mainichi newspaper activity, the police chief peace talks edged forwards and while 24 people were wounded, decades been confronted by Abe’s wariness over setting survey published yesterday emphasised. the Thai junta boosted its secu- according to an official at Yala fighters seeking more a timeline reflects the delicate showed 31 percent agreed with “He’s an illegal alien, his rity lockdown on the region. hospital. autonomy, but the conflict task he faces amending the con- Abe’s proposal, while 12 percent visa is expired so he has to be But yesterday’s bomb in An army spokesman for the flared up into its bloodiest phase stitution’s Article 9, which if supported a more drastic pro- deported right away,” Dela Yala town at a packed market region confirmed the toll and in 2004. taken literally, bans a standing posal that would delete the Rosa said. military. second clause while adding a ref- “He admitted being a Successive governments erence to the SDF. member of Hamas. He’s a have interpreted Article 9 to Twenty-one percent chemist and he has been allow a military exclusively for opposed any change and 27 per- responsible for improving the self-defence. cent said they didn’t know. rocket technology of Hamas in But Abe, aiming to build a A public vote on the consti- firing their missiles from their lasting legacy as he enters a sixth tution could end up a referendum area towards the other side, for year as prime minister, wants to on Abe, whose support last year Israel.” The police chief said it add a clause making clear that fell sharply due to suspected cro- was the first time Philippine the armed forces are nyism scandals. authorities had dealt with an constitutional. The Mainichi poll put support alleged member of Hamas, a “I hope each party will for Abe at 44 percent, though group labelled a terrorist submit concrete proposals to only 37 percent want to see him organisation by the United parliament deepen debate and win a third term as LDP leader States, the European Union and move forward,” Abe said in his in September, a win that would Israel. speech to parliament. “For the put him on track to become Hamas does not recognise sake of our grandchildren, isn’t Japan’s longest serving Israel, with which it has fought now the time to make progress premier. three wars, and has vied with toward building a new country?” All of which means Abe may the rival Fatah movement for Amendments require decide not to rush and risk rejec- control of Palestinian territory. approval by two-thirds of both tion. “Abe is flexible. He might The handcuffed detainee did houses of parliament and a aim for an amendment around not speak while being made to majority of voters in a refer- 2020,” Harukata Takenaka, a stand beside the Philippine endum. Abe’s ruling bloc has a professor at the National Grad- police chief at a press A Thai forensics unit scours the aftermath of a motorcycle bombing which killed three civilians and two-thirds “super majority” in uate Institute for Policy Studies, conference. wounded others at a market in the restive southern Thai province of Yala, yesterday. both chambers - at least until an told reporters recently. 12 EUROPE TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 German nurse charged with 97 more murders AFP Niels Hoegel, a him with 97 additional murders Amid the media publicity, a German male nurse on top of the six he has been woman then contacted police, BERLIN: A German male nurse serving a life term convicted of, while saying tox- voicing suspicion that her serving a life term for killing six icology tests did not find con- deceased mother had also fallen hospital patients with lethal for killing six hospital clusive proof in three more victim to the killer nurse. drugs out of “boredom” will face patients, told fellow cases. Hoegel meanwhile told trial for another 97 murders, inmates and then a Of the newly discovered fellow inmates and then a psy- prosecutors said yesterday. cases, 62 patients died in the Del- chiatrist that he had committed The third trial of Niels psychiatrist that he menhorst hospital near the scores of more killings. Hoegel, 41, accused of being the had committed scores northern city of Bremen and 35 He was jailed for life in 2015, worst serial killer in German of more killings. in a clinic in Oldenburg. but at the time it was clear he post-war history, is expected to The revelations date back to had murdered many more start later this year, a court 2005, when a female nurse wit- patients, with investigators spokesman in the northern city superiors. nessed Hoegel trying to inject a admitting they may never know of Oldenburg said. In a case police have called patient at the Delmenhorst the true number as some remains Hoegel has admitted to “unique in the history of the A file photo of German former male nurse known as Niels H. hiding hospital. had been cremated. injecting patients with drugs that German republic,” he earlier tes- his face behind a folder during his trial at court in Oldenburg, The patient survived and Separate investigations are cause heart failure or circulatory tified that at times he acted out northwestern Germany. Hoegel was arrested. looking at the clinics in Delmen- collapse so he could then try to of “boredom”, feeling euphoric In 2008, he was sentenced horst and Oldenburg and revive them and, when suc- when he managed to bring a killings in two earlier trials, but dreds more exhumed bodies. to seven and a half years in jail whether superiors there had cessful, shine as a saviour before patient back to life. investigators have pushed on Yesterday, Oldenburg pros- for several cases of attempted cause to suspect foul play in the his medical peers and He was found guilty of six with toxicology tests on hun- ecutors said they had charged murder. high number of patient deaths.

Court shuts French prison guards down Navalny’s campaign fund launch strike AFP REUTERS sent into four jails to replace absent guards, a prison services MOSCOW: Top Kremlin critic PARIS: French prison guards spokesman told Reuters. Unions Alexei Navalny yesterday launched a nationwide strike said the authorities would have suffered a new blow in his bid yesterday in a showdown with to deploy additional officers as to convince Russians to President Emmanuel Macron’s other guards came off shift. boycott March presidential government over staffing levels Macron is under pressure to polls when a court ordered and violence which they say is address the unrest among prison the closure of the foundation spiralling out of control in over- staff after several recent attacks behind his political activities. crowded jails. on guards by inmates. The charismatic opposi- The strike, which kicked off The ministry has offered to tion leader used the founda- with pre-dawn pickets, marked meet another demand and sep- tion to finance his failed an escalation in protests after arate the most violent inmates attempt to run against Presi- unions this weekend rejected a from the rest of the 70,000 dent Vladimir Putin in the government proposal to recruit prison population, one of upcoming election and was 100 extra prison warders this Europe’s largest. planning on its support in his year and a further 1,000 before Macron said before protests call for a “voters’ strike”. the end of Macron’s mandate in snowballed that a plan would be Striking prison guards walk past burning tyres in front of Longuenesse prison, in northern France, yesterday. Moscow’s Meshchansky 2022. presented in February and go district court issued the ruling Guards burned tyres and pal- beyond existing pledges to build equipment to handle violent improvement on salaries which records put the number of following a request from the lets outside several of the 188 thousands of new prison cells. inmates, notably convicted mili- start at around $1,715.56 a month attacks on security staff at 4,000 justice ministry to pull the jails in France ahead of talks France’s prison population has tants and petty criminals who before tax. a year. plug on the Fifth Season of the hastily convened by Justice Min- more than doubled since the become radicalised while in Union representative Karar, “You cannot put a guard in Year Foundation citing var- ister Nicole Belloubet. 1970s. The guards say they no prison. a guard for 13 years at Fresnes charge of 100 or 150 prisoners ious irregularities, spokes- By midday, police had been longer have enough staff or They are also demanding prison on the edge of Paris, said and just give him a whistle.” woman Yulia Kotomina said. Navalny—seen by many as the only genuine opposi- tion to Putin—was barred last month from running for the Britain’s Princess Eugenie gets engaged NEWS BYTES presidency because of a fraud conviction he says was polit- AFP club manager boyfriend Jack Eugenie to Mr Jack Brooksbank,” Belgium reduces ically motivated. Brooksbank in late 2018, the Buckingham Palace said Ruslan Shaveddinov, LONDON: Britain’s Princess palace said. yesterday. security threat level spokesman for Navalny’s cam- Eugenie of York has got Eugenie, 27, is the younger “Her Royal Highness and Mr paign, said they would appeal engaged, Buckingham Palace daughter of Queen Elizabeth II’s Brooksbank became engaged in REUTERS the ruling. “Even if we have to announced yesterday, lining up second son Prince Andrew, the Nicaragua earlier this month. shutter the fund, nothing will a second royal wedding this year Duke of York, and his former “The wedding will take place BRUSSELS: Belgium stop. The campaign will con- at the church where Prince wife Sarah. in the autumn of 2018 at St reduced its national threat tinue: we are training monitors Harry will tie the knot. “The Duke and Duchess of George’s Chapel in Windsor, level yesterday, saying a mil- Jack Brooksbank and Britain’s and we are getting ready for a Eugenie, who is eighth in York are delighted to announce with further details to be itant attack had become less Princess Eugenie of York voter strike.” line to the throne, will marry her the engagement of Princess announced in due course.” likely almost two years after bombings killed 32 people in Brussels. The prime minister said yesterday that the country had Puigdemont in Denmark; no warrant issued UK to struggle to match reduced the threat level to two on a four-tier scale, indicat- AFP nia’s independence drive. Spanish prosecutors yes- Russian threat: Army chief ing an average risk. The parliamentary vote to terday sought to have a Euro- “But level 2 after the BARCELONA: The speaker of choose a new Catalan leader is pean arrest warrant for Puigde- AFP essential, “or our ability to take attacks is not the same as the Catalan parliament now due to take place by the end mont re-issued as he arrived in action will be massively con- level 2 was before the attacks,” yesterday proposed the region’s of January. Copenhagen in his first trip out- LONDON: The head of the strained”. The time to address Prime Minister Charles Michel ousted leader Carles Puigde- In a major blow to the cen- side of Belgium since he fled to British army warned yesterday these threats is now—we told a news conference mont as president of Catalonia, tral government in Madrid, sep- the country. that Britain would struggle to cannot afford to sit back.” yesterday. as a judge refused to re-issue a aratist parties once again won But Supreme Court Judge match Russian capabilities on Defence spending is under European warrant for his arrest. an absolute majority in the Cat- Pablo Llarena turned down the the battlefield, making a high- intense pressure following Roger Torrent said Puigde- alan regional parliament in a request, arguing Puigdemont profile intervention in a years of austerity, and a review Evacuation in Alps mont’s candidacy to once again snap election in December. had gone to Denmark “to pro- growing row over military launched last year has head Catalonia’s regional govern- Puigdemont wants to be voke this arrest abroad” as part spending. prompted media reports that after heavy snowfall ment is “absolutely legitimate”, sworn in from Belgium, where of a strategy to boost his argu- “Our ability to pre-empt or further cuts are on the way. even though the secessionist he fled in late October after the ments in favour of being allowed respond to threats will be General Richard Barrons, a AFP leader faces criminal proceedings Catalan parliament declared to be sworn in as president of eroded if we don’t keep up with former head of Joint Forces in Spain over his role in Catalo- unilateral independence. Catalonia again. our adversaries,” Chief of the Command, which prepares for GRENOBLE: More than General Staff Nick Carter said future conflicts, warned last 100 chalets in one of yesterday. week that another round of France’s best known ski He warned that Russia heavy reductions “would break resorts near Mont Blanc boasted capabilities that Britain the institution”. were evacuated yesterday would struggle to match, saying Prime Minister Theresa and hundreds of people it has already demonstrated its May’s spokesman said Britain were told to stay indoors use of superior long-range mis- was committed to spending two because of avalanche risks. siles in Syria. percent of its gross domestic “The situation is Carter also highlighted the product (GDP) on defence. extraordinary: we’ve had threat to Britain of cyber “The chief of general staff the equivalent of five attacks, ahead of the speech to is saying that we face a range months of precipitation in the RUSI military think tank in of threats, that we need to make just 45 days,” the mayor of London. sure we have capabilities the Chamonix resort, Eric “The threats we face are not required to address them. That’s Fournier, said. thousands of miles away but are exactly what we’re doing as Over 1,000 residents now on Europe’s doorstep.” part of the National Security had been contacted by “We have seen how cyber Capability Review” launched midday, Fournier said: warfare can be both waged on last July.” “We’re asking them to stay the battlefield and to disrupt “And we’re doing that from inside and to close up normal people’s lives. We in the a position of strength, where we shutters on the sides UK are not immune from that.” have a $50bn defence budget, exposed” to potential ava- He warned that responding which will rise to almost $55bn lanche flows. Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont arrived at Copenhagen Airport, yesterday. to these threats now was by 2020 to 2021.” TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 AMERICAS 13

EU to impose new US Senators sanctions on 7 Venezuela officials reach deal to REUTERS BRUSSELS: The European Union yesterday announced new sanctions on seven senior reopen govt Venezuelan officials, saying this was an expression of the AFP The Senate was bloc’s concern with the polit- ical crisis under President WASHINGTON: The US Senate poised to pass the Nicolas Maduro. yesterday reached a deal to compromise, but Reuters reported last reopen the federal government, the shutdown will week the EU would make the with Democrats accepting a only end formally move, which introduces a compromise spending bill to end travel ban and an asset freeze days of partisan bickering that once the House of on people in charge of secu- forced hundreds of thousands of Representatives rity forces accused of wide- government employees to stay approves the spread abuses, particularly home without pay. measure keeping the during the 2017 anti-govern- The impasse, the first of its ment protests. kind since 2013, cast a huge government funded While the EU already has shadow over the first anniver- until February 8. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) leaves a meeting with Senate Democrats on Capitol an arms embargo in place on sary on Saturday of President Hill, in Washington, yesterday. Venezuela, it has not consid- Donald Trump’s inauguration. ered imposing an oil embargo The Senate was poised to on the Senate floor, referring to breached the trust of not only the are powerless,” he tweeted, maneuver to change the cham- or blacklisting Maduro pass the compromise, but the Majority Leader Mitch Democratic senators but mem- referring to Schumer and other ber’s rules to allow passage of himself. shutdown will only end formally McConnell. bers of his own party as well,” Democratic leaders. a budget by a simple majority “Today the EU has again once the House of Representa- “We will vote today to Schumer said. But Schumer said on the of 51 votes to end the shown irrefutable evidence of tives approves the measure reopen the government.” Hopes that the shutdown, Senate floor it was time to get shutdown. its notable subordination to the keeping the government funded But he warned McConnell which began at midnight Friday, back to work, and lashed out at But Senate leaders have been racist government of (US Pres- until February 8 -- which it is that he expected Republicans to could be limited to the weekend Trump. wary of such a move in the past, ident) Donald Trump,” Vene- expected to do. make good on a pledge to were raised when a bipartisan “The great deal-making as it could come back to haunt zuela’s Foreign Ministry said in As the Senate convened for address Democrat concerns over group huddled for hours on president sat on the sidelines,” them the next time Democrats a statement. “These decisions the day, the chamber’s top Dem- the Deferred Action on Child Sunday trying to end the he said. hold a majority. show an interventionist and ocrat Chuck Schumer announced Arrivals (DACA) programme that standoff, but they ultimately The bill needed 60 votes to There have been four gov- erroneous policy toward our that members of his party would shields immigrants brought to failed to reach a deal. advance in the 100-member ernment shutdowns since 1990. country and are reminiscent of vote with ruling Republicans to the country as children from Then as Monday began, Senate, meaning Republicans -- In the last one, more than the colonial manoeuvres of end the shutdown on day three, deportation, but expires on Trump goaded Democrats from who have a one-seat majority -- 800,000 government workers outdated empires.” after a weekend of frustrating March 5. the sidelines, accusing them of could not manoeuvre on their were put on temporary leave. Oil and related products talks on Capitol Hill. There are an estimated shutting down the government own. Essential federal services and make up three quarters of Ven- “After several discussions, 700,000 “Dreamers” whose to win concessions on immigra- Over the weekend, Trump military activity are continuing, ezuela’s exports to the EU. The offers, counteroffers, the Repub- fates are up in the air. tion, in service of “their far left encouraged the Senate’s Repub- but even active-duty troops will country has the world’s largest lican leader and I have come to “If he does not, of course, and base.” lican leaders to invoke the not be paid until a deal is for- proven oil reserves but suffers an arrangement,” Schumer said I expect he will, he will have “They don’t want to do it but “nuclear option” -- a procedural mally sealed. inflation and food shortages.

US slams Russia on Syria chemical attack report Mexican oppn Senator

AFP Washington is not yet in a “Russia had failed to rid Astana and Sochi, and the eight- position to confirm the latest Syria of chemical weapons, and year-old civil war continues. joins leftist party WASHINGTON: The United report, but officials noted that they’ve been blocking chemical In 2013 the previous US States sternly criticised Russia’s Russia has hamstrung UN efforts weapons organisations. Enough administration, under president REUTERS failure to rein in its Syrian ally to probe previous allegations of is enough,” he warned. Barack Obama, balked at striking Bashar Al Assad yesterday after regime atrocities. The US has urged Russia to Syria over its alleged chemical MEXICO CITY: Mexican oppo- reports of a new regime chem- “Civilians are being killed compel Assad to take a United arms use, choosing to work with sition Senator Gabriela Cuevas ical weapons strike. and it is not acceptable,” Steve Nations-brokered peace process Moscow on a disarmament plan. (pictured) yesterday said she Rights monitors say 21 Goldstein, US assistant secretary in Geneva and Vienna seriously Obama’s successor in the will leave the centre-right people, including children, suf- of state for public affairs, said. and come to the table. White House, President Donald National Action Party (PAN) to fered breathing difficulties yes- Asked whether the United But Moscow - along with Trump, launched a cruise mis- join the campaign of leftist terday after an alleged chemical States would raise the issue at Iran and Turkey - has been run- sile strike against a Syrian air- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, attack on a besieged rebel the UN Security Council, Gold- ning a parallel peace initiative base in April 2017 in response to who leads polls ahead of July’s enclave outside Damascus. stein said: “We’ll see tomorrow.” under its own auspices out of an alleged chemical attack. presidential election. The decision by Cuevas, who is head of the Senate’s for- In a statement, the eign relations committee, rep- National Action American painter resents a win for Lopez Obrador Party (PAN) said as he seeks to oust the ruling Jack Whitten dies Institutional Revolutionary Cuevas chose to Party (PRI) in his third attempt leave after it was AFP to clinch the presidency. unable to guarantee “I’ve decided to join the her a federal NEW YORK: American movement that Andres Manuel painter and sculptor Jack Lopez Obrador has created,” representative’s Whitten has died at the age Cuevas told reporters as she position in the future. of 78, his gallery announced announced her departure from yesterday. the party she had been with The black artist was since she was only 15. distribute among leading known for continually In a statement, the PAN said politicians. evolving over his five-decade Cuevas chose to leave after it Lopez Obrador, or AMLO as career—from painting to was unable to guarantee her a he is commonly known, has sculpture and from figurative federal representative’s posi- vowed to combat inequality and to abstract. tion in the future. corruption. Born in Bessemer, Ala- The PAN has entered into But some international bama on December 5, 1939, an electoral alliance with the investors are concerned by sug- he grew up in the segrega- center-left Party of the Demo- gestions that he might reverse tionist south of the United cratic Revolution (PRD), with parts of the government’s 2013- States, where he was an former PAN leader Ricardo 2014 energy legislation, which activist in the civil rights Anaya at its head. ended a decades-long struggle, before moving to The coalition has put a monopoly by state oil firm US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (right) and Woody Johnson, US ambassador to Britain, stand the city of New York in the squeeze on the number of safe Pemex. Anaya’s coalition is outside the new US embassy in London, yesterday. year 1960. seats the PRD and PAN can each second in opinion polls. Tillerson visits new London embassy AFP opened last week, because of Kingdom, where the secretary Minnie Mouse gets star on Walk of Fame controversy over Trump’s refusal will reaffirm the US-UK special LONDON: US Secretary of State to inaugurate the new building. relationship.” REUTERS welcomed by US pop star Katy makes her a great addition to Rex Tillerson paid a discreet visit The president said he was Tillerson posed for photo- Perry. our Walk of Fame!” Ana Mar- to the new US embassy in unhappy at the cost and loca- graphs before being shown NEW YORK: Forty years after “After 90 years of serving tinez, producer of the Walk of London yesterday, after Presi- tion of the new embassy, a around the new building. Mickey, Minnie Mouse is finally looks & smiles as the polka dot Fame ceremonies, said in a dent Donald Trump cancelled futuristic cuboid building sur- Trump had been due to inau- joining her beau on Holly- queen, it’s time she got that rec- statement. plans to open it himself rounded by a moat. gurate the building in February, wood’s Walk of Fame, where ognition,” the top-selling singer It took Minnie four decades following a series of rows. But the decision came after but cancelled the visit, tweeting: the cartoon darling is poised to wrote on Twitter. longer than her boyfriend to Tillerson bucked tradition by a series of rows that have dam- “having sold perhaps the best receive a star yesterday. Perry will co-host Minnie’s receive the same accolade not holding a formal meet-and- aged the so-called “special rela- located and finest embassy in “America’s sweetheart”, as star dedication ceremony with because Disney only nominated greet at the new embassy, which tionship” between the two London for ‘peanuts,’ only to build Minnie became known, will be The Walt Disney Company’s her last year, she said. the State Department said was nations and after it became clear a new one in an off location for immortalized with the 2,627th CEO, Robert Iger. “Maybe he was more pop- due to the current shutdown of the visit would be met with mass 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. bronze star-plaque to adorn the Walk of Fame ceremony ular back in the day,” she said. the US government over a protests. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!” legendary Hollywood strip. organisers hailed the animated Other Disney children’s budget impasse in Congress. “The purpose of the trip is to US ambassador Woody The honouring of Minnie, mouse’s “fun-loving, inde- idols who have had been hon- But even before the shut- underscore our commitment to Johnson brushed off Trump’s who made her debut alongside pendent personality.” ored on the Walk of Fame down, the State Department had the transatlantic alliance,” a State criticism of the building, telling her flame Mickey in the 1928 “Minnie Mouse is a woman include Donald Duck, Winnie already played down Tillerson’s Department spokesman said. reporters: “The embassy actu- movie Steamboat Willie, was of the ages and her iconic status the Pooh and Snow White. visit to the embassy, which “First stop is the United ally is going to really work.” 14 HOME TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018 BPS principal exhorts high achievers

THE PENINSULA He guided the students with students to get rid of their anx- “Answer the questions serially some ideas related to ‘how to iety, ensure good sleep and do and follow chronological order DOHA: Birla Public School deal with stress’. He also asked not sleep late. and leave enough space to organised Principal’s meeting them not to be anxious looking He advised them not to be attend later if you don’t com- with the parents of higher at what is not done. He asked selfish but selflessly share plete a question, circle the achievers from 5:30pm – them to keep a pace in learning. important questions with question not done and solve it 6:30pm on January 8 in the He advised them not be over friends, and to have small later, copy the answer correctly school auditorium. confident so there strength meals in between rather than from working columns.” Around 150 students & their becomes weakness and asked having heavy meals (6 meals Also, he suggested reaching parents attended the session. them to analyse their strength instead of 3). the exam hall well in time. He A P Sharma, Principal and weakness in the subject He gave some important gave some tips to the parents showed the gathering a video area, chapter wise if possible. tips for the students to follow to follow like keeping things on ‘wrong education system’, He suggested training their while preparing for exam such required for exam in the pouch, which teaches a fish to fly and own brain and practising as not sit more 20 minutes con- pens, admit card etc. He called a bird to swim. ‘Here, each memory technique such as tinuously, and write “I will do upon parents to provide individual has its own unique memorising daily routine in it” on the study table and that resources required for study, merit but instead of building systematic arrangements of has to be signed by Principal. don’t tell the students your or on the innate merit, talent and happenings and suggested to He also gave instructions somebody else’s success sto- abilities, the system wreaks make clouds to recall the points regarding how to present ries in such a way that the stu- havoc with the original talent while learning. answers in exams like after dents get irritated or and merit.’ Sharma called upon the each question leave two lines, disheartened.

MES conducts quiz contest for junior students THE PENINSULA one a rapid fire round of mixed bag. The overwhelming DOHA: A Quiz contest for the response of the audience was students of junior section of MES the highlight of the Quiz contest. Indian School was conducted at All the contestants participated the conference hall on January enthusiastically and answered 18. Five teams namely; Orion, the questions thus exhibiting the Scorpius, Lyra, Aquila and success of team work. Gemini participated in the Team Orion was adjudged competition. Each team as the winner of the contest by comprised of participants repre- virtue of its lead in points tally Opening ceremony of Zam Zam Bakery senting grades 2 to 4. followed by the team Lyra for Abdullah Ahmed Al Qahtani (left centre), Sponsor of Zam Zam Bakery (Zam Zam), and Former Minister of Helath, Indian Union Territory of There were four rounds in the runner up position. Certifi- Puducherry, E Valsaraj (right centre); jointly opening the bakery at the Souq Al Qaala, Industrial Area in Doha. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA all with the second and third cates and trophies were distrib- being audio and visual rounds uted to the winners as well as respectively, while the fourth the participants.

CROSSWORD NOVO Pearl Qatar ROYAL PLAZA VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 12 Strong (2D/Action) 10:30, 11:30am, 12:00noon, 1:00, 2:00, Aadu 2 (2D/Malayalam) 2:15 & 11:30pm 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 8:15, 9:30, 11:00, 11:15pm Bunya And Babe (2D/Animation) 2:30 & 5:00pm & 12:00midnight Gulae Bhaghavali (2D/Tamil) 2:30pm The Commuter (2D/Action) 10:00, 10:30am, 12:15, 12:45, 2:30, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 4:00pm 3:00, 4:45, 5:15, 7:00, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45, 11:30pm & 12:00midnight The Commuter 7:00pm Diwanji Moola (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:20, Downsizing (2D/Comedy) 6:00 & 9:15pm 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight The Pirates Of Somalia (2D/Drama) 7:15pm The Post (2D/Drama) 10:30am, 12:45, 3:00. 5:15, 7:30, 12 Strong (2D/Action) 8:30 & 11:00pm 9:45pm & 12:00midnight The Post (2D/Drama) 9:00 & 11:00pm Downsizing (2D/Comedy) 10:00am, 12:40, 3:20. 6:00, 8:40 & 11:20pm ASIAN TOWN The Pirates Of Somalia (2D) 10:00am, 2:45, 7:30pm & 12:10am lnsidious: The Last Key (2D/Horror) 12:30, 5:15 & 10:00pm Aadu (Malayalam) 6:45, 8:15, 9:30 & 11:00pm 12 Strong (2D IMAX/Action) 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, Nirdosh (Hindi) 5:45pm 9:00 & 11:30pm Sketch (Tamil) 11:15pm Gulae Bhaghavali (2D/Tamil) 6:00pm MALL Diwanji Moola (2D/Malayalam) 5:45, 8:30 & 11:15pm Nirdosh (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 9:30pm AL KHOR Diwanji Moola (2D/Malayalam) 4:30pm Addu 2 (2D/Malayalam) 2:15 & 11:30pm Aadu (Malayalam) 11:15am, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15 & 11:15pm Bunya And Babe (2D/Animation) 2:30 & 4:00pm The Post (2D/Drama) 10:30am, 4:00 & 9:30pm Downsizing (2D/Comedy) 5:00 & 7:00pm 12 Strong (2D/Action) 12:45, 6:15 & 11:45pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 5:30pm Ferdinand 10:30pm Thaana Serndha (Tamil) 1:00, 6:30pm The Post (2D/Drama) 7:30 & 9:30pm & 12:00midnight Downsizing (2D/Comedy) 3:30 & 9:00pm The Pirates Of Somalia (2D/Drama) 7:30pm 12 Strong (2D/Action) 9:15 & 11:30pm Gulae Bhaghavali (2D/Tamil) 11:30pm ROXY Bunya And Babe (Animation) 10:30am, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 & LANDMARK 6:30pm Diwanji Moola (Malayalam) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 & 10:00pm 12 Strong (Action) 10:30am, 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 & 9:20pm Diwanji Moola (2D/Malayalam) 2:30 & 11:15pm Aadu (Malayalam) 10:30am, 1:40, 4:50, 8:00 & 11:20pm Gulae Bhaghavali (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 11:00pm The Pirates Of Somalia (Drama) 8:30, 10:30 & 11:00pm Bunya And Babe (2D/Animation) 3:00 & 5:00pm Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2D/Action) 5:00pm Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice. Aadu 2 (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pm The Commuter 9:30pm Downsizing (2D/Comedy) 6:30pm THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA The Post (2D/Drama) 7:00 & 9:00pm The Pirates Of Somalia (2D/Drama) 7:15pm 12 Strong (2D/Action) 9:00 & 11:00pm

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PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 05.01am Qatari designer to unveil ‘Capsule’ shoe collection SHOROOK 06.20 am RAYNALD C RIVERA “I have always wanted to launch THE PENINSULA a Qatari brand. We do have lots of ZUHR 11.46 am MAGHRIB 05.13pm women here who are extremely cre- ASR 02.50 pm ISHA 06.43pm DOHA: Following her successful debut ative but, perhaps, didn’t go all the way at the Paris Fashion Week in October, to take their brands at the interna- WEATHER TODAY homegrown Qatari designer Hissa tional arena. I would love to be an Haddad is set to unveil for the first inspiration to all those women and I time in Qatar her stunning ‘Capsule’ would love to tell them they can do shoe collection tomorrow at The Gate whatever they want; they just have to Mall. do it,” said Hissa. The Qatari brand generated a lot The designer describes Hissa of good buzz when it was unveiled in Haddad as a Qatari brand created in Paris and the same excitement is Italian standard and her debut ‘Cap- expected in its Qatar launch. sule’ designs a classic collection which “The buyers and the media draws inspiration from Qatari culture expected to see brands across Europe and Islamic architecture. and they had never seen a Qatari “The cut is inspired by Islamic brand. They were interested to know architecture, the pearls depict Qatari more not only about the inspiration culture and the gold and gems are and the story behind the brand but also jewels we frequently wear,” she about Qatar and its culture,” Hissa told Qatari designer, Hissa Haddad (left), and Italian Chamber Chairperson, explained, adding she is soon meeting The Peninsula as she revealed the Palma Libotte, hold a gold-and-pearl-studded designer shoe during a press many international buyers who have design to local media for the first time conference at Marriott Marquis Hotel in Doha yesterday.PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT expressed interest in the brand. yesterday. / THE PENINSULA “There’s a lot of tradition behind Inspired by Islamic architecture the product which gives it an added and Qatari culture, Haddad’s first manufacturer, behind well-known female entrepreneurs coming to us for value. The various design elements are women’s designer shoe collection, brands, in Italian standards. assistance. I was amazed of her deter- strongly linked with culture which, I which was a product of over a year of Hissa is the first Qatari female mination, hard work and her level of think, created a lot of interest among hard work and partnership with Italian entrepreneur to partner with Italian preparation for the project. She was a Italian manufacturers,” said Libotte. Chamber in Qatar, will be launched Chamber in coming up with designer young entrepreneur who knew what Hissa said she had already final- here in five designs. It is made of high shoes created in one of the world’s she wanted and had the passion to turn ized her second collection to be o o quality materials from Italy and pro- important fashion capitals. her dream to reality,” said Italian launched at the London Fashion Week 14 C 22 C duced by a famous Italian “We don’t get a lot of Chamber Chairperson Palma Libotte. next month. Minimum Maximum

Hazy to misty / foggy over most areas at Changes in first becomes mild daytime with some Concert of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony clouds, cold by night. Mercury’s orbit

HIGH TIDE 08:45 – 21:30 LOW TIDE 01:15 – 16:15 on Saturday at Katara Opera House reveal an ageing Sun COURTESY: Qatar Meteorology Department THE PENINSULA music director of the State IANS Theatre and State Philhar- DOHA: Qatar Philharmonic monic Orchestra in WASHINGTON: Changes in the orbit of Orchestra is all set to stage a concert Nuremberg since 2011 and Mercury — the planet closest to the Sun in of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony on principal guest conductor the solar system — has demonstrated the Saturday, 7.30pm at Katara Opera of the South-West Phil- repercussions of an ageing Sun. House. harmonic Orchestra in Like humans, the Sun is losing mass The concert program to be con- Constance since 2016. as it ages, weakening its gravitational pull. ducted by Marcus Bosch (pictured) Since 2010, he has As a result, the orbits of planets in the solar includes Gustav Mahler: Symphony been in charge of the Hei- system are expanding. No. 5 in C Sharp Minor. denheim Opera Festival as In the study, scientists at the National The fifth symphony of Mahler its artistic director, and is Aeronautics and Space Administration consists of five movements divided the founder and director (Nasa) and the Massachusetts Institute of into three sections by the first and of the Festival’s orchestra, Technology (MIT) indirectly measured this last movements, which form the Cappella Aquileia. After mass loss and other solar parameters by first and last sections. The sym- his conducting debut with looking at changes in Mercury’s orbit. phony is characterized by greatness the German State Philhar- They found key details to monitor the and innovation such as sequential monic in the state of rate of solar mass loss, because it’s related musical ladders and the integration Rhineland-Palatinate at to the stability of G, the gravitational con- of the greatest musical forms in a the age of 24, this German stant. Although G is considered a fixed manner that proves his superiority during the period of his study. He conductor of Brazilian-Italian number, whether it’s really constant is still as a composer of the great works was able to form an innovative per- descent decided to pursue the tra- a fundamental question in physics. and its impact. The C Sharp Minor sonality that differed completely ditional career path of Kapell- “Mercury is the perfect test object for is a test work with the will to inno- from contemporary composers and meister followed by many conduc- these experiments because it is so sensi- vate, it walked towards a new vision has since become one of the most tors in Germany, which took him tive to the gravitational effect and activity in the cry of resurrection bearing important late-Romantic com- as music director to the state thea- of the Sun,” said lead author Antonio the realization that life is stronger posers. Mahler is generally known tres in Wiesbaden and Saarbrucken Genova, a researcher at MIT, working at than death. as the last great composer of and the State Orchestra in Halle. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Gustav Mahler is considered one German music, and enriched the From 2002 to 2012, Marcus Greenbelt, Maryland. of the pioneers of his time not only music with many immortal works, Bosch enjoyed great success as the For long, scientists have studied Mer- as a composer but also as an the most important of which is nine general music director in Aachen, cury’s motion, and have also charted a orchestra leader. He was greatly symphonies and an incomplete and has conducted numerous large road map of Mercury’s orbit, called influenced by the works of tenth. orchestras in Europe, Asia and “ephemeris” to study its closest point to Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin Marcus Bosch has been general America. the Sun and its farthest point from the Sun.

4th edition of The Color Run on Saturday THE PENINSULA With over 7,000 partici- get covered from head to toe in pants showing up at the event an array of colors. DOHA: Thousands of residents last year, the 2018 edition of The The fourth edition of The are expected to take part in the Color Run presented by Sahtak Color Run™ is presented by fourth edition of The Color Run Awalan: Your Health First is a Sahtak Awalan: Your Health on Saturday at the Qatar unique race that celebrates First, the flagship public health National Convention Centre. health, happiness and individ- campaign of Weill Cornell Med- With only a few tickets left, uality by both empowering and icine–Qatar (WCM-Q) with the and a few days to go until this encouraging participants of all theme: The Dream World Tour. extravaganza kicks off, there are ages and abilities to focus on Since its inception in 2012, still tickets available from www. their health and well-being. The Color Run has become a thecolorrun.qa. Participants can choose to global phenomenon, continuing In addition to having access run, walk, jog or skip around the to innovate the 5k paint race to a day of fun, each Color five-kilometer course with their genre each year. The Color Run Runner will receive a fun par- family and friends. The highly has been experienced by over ticipant kit, which includes a anticipated Foam Zone will six million people worldwide in German envoy visits Deutsche Bank Art Exhibition limited edition Dream World make Color Runners feel on top over 35 countries and has Tour race shirt, embroidered of the world, as they enjoy a donated a staggering $5m to German Ambassador, Hans-Udo Muzel, with visitors and staff of Firestation - Artist in Residence — headband, a fun temporary brand new color, and as always, charity to date. on the closing day of the Deutsche Bank Art Exhibition “German Encounters” on Saturday. tattoo, rainbow pencil and some awesome goodies from sponsors. Deluxe Runners will Depression downs survival rates in cancer patients receive the kit plus a Gold bib a wristband, IANS suffered greater two-year treatment side effects, quit tutu, party socks and overall mortality rates and this smoking, or maintain adequate sunglasses for the NEW YORK: Even mild depres- was especially true for those nutrition or sleep habits.To see ultimate Color sion among patients with head who did not achieve optimal if depressive symptoms might Runner look on the and neck cancer are associated response to medical treatment,” affect patients’ health outcomes, day. Runners can with poorer overall survival, a said study co-author Elizabeth researchers studied 134 patients look forward to new study has said. Cash from the University of Lou- with head and neck cancers who ending their race The findings of the study indi- isville School of Medicine. reported depressive symptoms with the Finish Fes- cated that patients should be Many patients diagnosed during the planning of their tival where the screened and treated for depres- with head and neck cancer treatment. Poorer treatment crowd will be part of sive symptoms at the time of diag- experience symptoms of response partially explained the the world famous nosis. “We observed that patients depression, which can make it depression-survival color throws. with depressive symptoms difficult for them to manage relationship.