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FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 14 DHUL HIJJA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6921 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Life expectancy Emir and UK Premier discuss global issues in Qatar highest QNA LONDON: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met with the UK Prime Minister Theresa May at the British Prime Ministry here yesterday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed a host of in the region regional and international issues, especially the develop- ments in the Middle East region, most notably the situation in Syria and the need to lift the blockade and sufferings of to provide a general assessment of Syrian people as well as the need to stop the forced displace- the situation. World Health Statistics ment and the importance of activating the international Life expectancy in Qatar 2016 has measured life expectancy solutions and putting them into effect. The meeting also — 78.2 years — is higher based on each country’s mortality discussed terrorism with its serious repercussions and wors- compared to more than rates at all ages, and all health and ening threat to the security and stability, as well as the need health-related programmes con- to address the causes of this issue on both regional and 20 countries in the East tribute to it. international levels. Mediterranean The report shows that all GCC Earlier, Theresa May welcomed the Emir, stressing region, including states have a high life expectancy that the visit is an important step in the development rate. The UAE comes next to Qatar of bilateral relations in various fields and looking for- other GCC states, with a life expectancy of 77.1 years, ward to advance the future cooperation at various according to World Health followed by Bahrain (76.9), Oman levels. Statistics 2016 Report. (76.6), Kuwait (74.7) and Saudi Ara- The Emir expressed pleasure at the meeting, bia (74.5). The report suggests that pointing out that the Qatari-UK relations are strong, Qatar has the highest proportion strategic and historic, adding that the two countries are of births attended by skilled health tied with joint cooperation in various fields. The Emir By Fazeena Saleem personnel (100%) and the highest reiterated Qatar’s openness and keenness on promot- The Peninsula skilled health professionals density ing these relations. per 10,000 population in the East- The Emir and the UK Premier discussed bilateral ties ern Mediterranean Region. and means to further develop them in the fields of educa- DOHA: Qatar has the highest life Under-five mortality and neo- tion, research, development, economy and investments in expectancy rate in the Eastern natal mortality rates per 100,000 addition to the importance of utilising the investment and Mediterranean Region, accord- live births is 8.3 and maternal mor- trade opportunities to cement the relations and achieve their ing to a latest international health tality ratio per 100,000 live births is common interests. The meeting was attended by Their report released by the World Health 13 in Qatar. Road traffic mortality Excellencies members of the official delegation accom- Organisation (WHO). rate (per 100,000 population) is 15, Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the British Prime Minister Theresa May in panying the Emir. On the British side it was attended ‘World Health Statistics 2016 which is less compared to neighbour- London, yesterday. by a number of ministers. – Monitoring for the Sustainable ing countries such as Kuwait, Saudi Development Goals (SDGs)’ report Arabia and Oman. has estimated life expectancy in the “The data shown represent offi- country as 78.2 years, which is higher cial WHO statistics based on the compared to more than 20 countries evidence available in early 2016. in the region, including other GCC They have been compiled primarily Database on public parks launched states. The report also shows that the using publications and databases AL SHAMAL average life expectancy of women in produced and maintained by WHO The Peninsula http://www.mme.gov.qa/cui/view. Salata, Frij Al Ali, Nuaija, Al Mar- Qatar (80 years) is higher by about or United Nations groups of which dox?id=336&siteID=1. ona, Muroob, Klaib, Park 65 and two-and-a-half years, compared to WHO is a member. A number of Doha municipality has the high- Park 67. AL KHOR men (77.4 years). statistics have been derived from est number of parks (22) followed by Parks in Rayyan include Al Laqta,

The World Health Statistics data produced and maintained by DOHA: The Ministry of Municipal- Al Rayyan municipality (12). Al Khor- Bu Hamour, Al Gharafa, Muaidir, New AL DAAIN series is WHO’s annual compila- other international organisations,” ity and Environment has launched Dakhira, Al Wakra and Al Shamal Rayyan, Al Sailiya, Az Ghawee, New tion of health statistics for its 194 according to the report. a comprehensive database on pub- municipalities have four parks each. Al Gharafa, Al Jumaila, Muaidir Park 1 UMM SALAL member states. World Health Statis- The global average increase in lic parks in Qatar, which can be Umm Salal has one park while Al and Rayyan Park 11. The four parks in AL RAYYAN tics 2016 focuses on health related life expectancy at birth since 2000 accessed at the ministry’s website. Daain municipality has two parks. Al Wakrah municipality are Al Wakra DOHA SDGs (Sustainable Development exceeds the overall average rate of life The database in Arabic includes Public parks in Doha include Al Public Park, Al Uwaina, Al Jaww and Goals) and associated targets. It expectancy increase achieved by the names of 49 public parks and gar- Remaila (formerly Al Bida), Dahl Al Ghasham. The parks in Al Khor- represents an initial effort to bring best-performing countries over the dens in different municipalities in Hammam, Dafna (formerly Sher- Dakhira municipality are Al Khor together available data on SDG past century. The world as a whole the country, with detailed informa- aton Park), Bu Samra, Museum, park, Al Khor Corniche, Al Dhakira AL SHIHANIA health-related indicators. At present is catching up with those countries tion about their location and facilities. Old Ghanim, Onaiza, Al Mamoura, and Al Kabaan city park. AL WAKRA due to the absence of official indi- and improvements in outcomes for Visitors can also access photographs Al Ghariya, North Medinat Khal- cators, measures such as (healthy) all major causes of deaths have con- of each park as they surf the link ifa, South Medinat Khalifa, New → Continued on page 2 life expectancy are used in the report tributed to these huge gains.

Netanyahu’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ UN pleads for aid video outrageous: UN chief access after Syria truce extended Reuters AFP

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yes- terday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ALEPPO: The United Nations “ethnic cleansing” video as an “unacceptable and outrageous” urged Syria’s government yes- portrayal of people who oppose Israeli settlements in the West terday to allow immediate aid Bank, home to more than 2.7 million Palestinians. deliveries to hunger-stricken Ban told the United Nations Security Council: “Let me be absolutely civilians after a fragile ceasefire clear: settlements are illegal under international law. The occupation, was extended for 48 hours by Rus- stifling and oppressive, must end.” He said Netanyahu’s statement sia and the United States. was disturbing. In a video message posted on Facebook last Friday, In a sign of renewed tensions Netanyahu said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a between the two powers, who Jewish population and called it “ethnic cleansing.” back opposing sides in the conflict, The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state in key regime ally Moscow accused the occupied West Bank along with the Hamas-controlled Gaza A view of fireworks at Katara marking the end of Eid Al Adha celebrations, yesterday. Washington of failing to meet its Strip and East Jerusalem as its capital. Israel captured the West obligations under the truce. The Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. UN said 20 trucks loaded with Last Friday after viewing the video, US State Department aid had crossed into a buffer zone spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau called the Israeli leader’s Katara Eid festivities wow audience between Turkey and Syria, voicing words “inappropriate and unhelpful.” hope the supplies could be delivered “We obviously strongly disagree with the characterisation that to besieged rebel-held districts of those who oppose settlement activity or view it as an obstacle to The Peninsula The musical show “Sinbad” featur- Shuraim said: “The overwhelming turnout Aleppo city today. peace are somehow calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the ing the adventures of the brave sailor of crowds that flocked to Katara during “They’ve been waiting and West Bank. We believe that using that type of terminology is inap- in three performances on Katara the four-day Eid festival renews the trust sleeping at the border now for propriate and unhelpful,” she said. Most countries view Israeli West waterfront, the Eidia gift-giving to between us and the community and is 48 hours. So they could go on a Bank settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace. DOHA: Cultural Village Foundation- visiting children and the breathtak- a proof of our success as pleasing large minute’s notice,” said Jan Egeland, Israel’s hardline Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has Katara’s Eid extravaganza 2016 concluded ing fireworks display wowed children number of crowds of various age catego- head of the UN humanitarian ordered a boycott of a UN special envoy after his criticism of yesterday after offering audiences from and families. ries isn’t an easy job.” taskforce for Syria. Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank, Israeli all ages four days of exciting shows and Katara’s Public Relations and Com- media reported. activities. munications Director Malika Mohamed Al → Continued on page 2 → See also page 4 02 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Emir congratulates President of Water parks a El Salvador

DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim big draw during bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to El Salvador’s President Salvador Sanchez Ceren on his country’s Independence Day. Eid holidays Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior Minis- ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser more visitors until today before bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent sim- schools open next week. ilar cables to President Ceren. New rides attracting The Splash Water Park at Katara thousands as the is also receiving hundreds of guests The Civil Defence signal-controlled intersection. since it opened last week. Emir greets heat slowly subsides. “We surpass 1,000 guests every day during Eid and lots of Saudi President of families have been coming on Civil Defence Roundabout converted board,” Hatim Aboussid, Business Nicaragua By Raynald C Rivera Development and Events Manager The Peninsula at Alaqat, told this daily. DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Alaqat is organising the park, to signal-controlled intersection bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent which is initially planned to oper- a cable of congratulations to Nica- ate for two months, in partnership ragua’s President Daniel Ortega on DOHA: Water parks in Qatar have with Katara and Qatar Tourism The Peninsula widening all streets leading to Civil Intersection. A third lane has added his country’s Independence Day. proved a big draw during the Eid Authority. Defence Intersection to become four to the left-bound route for the Deputy Emir H H Sheikh holidays, luring thousands of peo- The temporary inflatable water lanes instead of three, as well as motorists coming from the Sports Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and ple with new rides as the heat slowly park’s main attraction, which is relocating utilities including power, Roundabout towards the Television Prime Minister and Interior Minis- subsides. Qatar’s first zipline, has been draw- DOHA: The Public Works Author- sewerage and drainage lines. Roundabout. ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser While indoor shows in malls ing visitors in search for adventure ity (Ashghal) completely opened the To increase road capacity, Reconfigurations come as part bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent sim- and nightly spectacles at Katara and adrenaline rush. Civil Defence Intersection to traffic the Medical City Intersection has of the Development of Intersections ilar cables to President Ortega. and other venues were a big hit, “The zipline is attracting lots of on Wednesday as scheduled, after been upgraded through widen- and Roundabouts Project in several many people chose to have a dip in people who want to try it. Between converting it from a roundabout to a ing the left-bound route to three areas in Greater Doha to enhance the water and try some adventure 500 and 600 have tried it since we signal-controlled intersection. lanes, for those heading for Hamad traffic flow and reduce congestion Ministry shares rides in water parks. opened, which is around 100 a day,” Reconstruction included Medical City via the Civil Defence in major areas. “We had between 7,000 and said Aboussid. link of database 8,000 visitors in the first three days There has been a revision in of Eid, not so strong compared with timing and fees. The park is open on Facebook last year but a significant increase of from 2pm to 10.30pm. Entry fee is 60 to 80 percent compared to ordi- QR100 from 2pm until 6pm and Qatar calls for enhancing rights of elderly nary days,” Mohamed Firdaus Raj, QR50 when water rides are closed Continued from page 1 General Manager, Aqua Park Qatar, from 6pm until 10.30pm. Umm Salal also has four parks told The Peninsula yesterday. “Those who wish to try the QNA Al Sada was speaking during rights. She said Qatari laws guar- — Ain Sinan, Al Shamal city park, Though there was no influx of zipline will have to pay QR50,” he a dialogue with UN independent anteed their elderly social security, Aba Daloof and Al Ruwais. visitors from neighbouring GCC said, adding price changes were expert Rosa Kornfeld-Matte on the housing, work and legal protection. Al Kharitiyat is the sole park countries, Raj said many tourists based on people’s request. enjoyment of all human rights by Al Sada said Qatar has estab- in Umm Salal while Al Daain has from Saudi Arabia came to the park While the Aqua Park is the first DOHA: Qatar stressed yesterday the older persons (HROP). lished institutions, including the two parks — Laibib and Al Kheesa. as in the previous Eid holidays to water park in Qatar and has been a need to benefit from human rights She praised Kornfeld-Mat- Centre of Empowerment and Care Al Shihania Municipality has enjoy offerings, including the lat- major leisure destination since its agreements to enhance the rights of te’s efforts towards promoting the Elderly (Ihsan). The centre works on no parks. est ride-the Stingray surf machine, launch in 2010, the Splash Water the elderly people. rights of the elderly and report on providing healthcare, mental and The ministry has shared a link which is the first of its kind in Qatar. Park is the latest valuable addi- This came during a speech the matter. social services to the elderly citizens. of the database on its Facebook “The machine is becoming pop- tion to varied attractions at Katara, delivered by Nour Ibrahim Al Sada, Al Sada said it’s important that Ihsan also works with government page inviting people to spend ular and we hope more people will further cementing its reputation Second Secretary at Qatar’s perma- the elderly enjoy their full human institutions and NGOs on enhanc- leisure time in parks across the come to try this ride in the coming as a main tourist attraction in the nent delegation to the UN Office in rights, especially in the absence of ing the contribution of the elderly country during weekends. days,” he said, adding they expect country. Geneva. any specific documents on their to society. Qatar ‘a favourite tourism destination for GCC nationals’ Ministry warns motorists against improper parking Continued from page 1 The Peninsula An advisory posted by the Gen- Al Shuraim added: “We’ve paid eral Administration of Coasts and close attention and spent time lis- Boarders Security on the ministry’s tening to views, notes and feedback Facebook page said the scooter must by our guests who in many cases DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has be registered with the Ministry of requested us to extend the Eid fes- warned motorists against parking Transport and Communication and tival expressing satisfaction with the haphazardly at public places and registration number plate placed shows and services we offer to them. shopping complexes. on the front and rear view of the “The Cultural Village’s pro- “Some motorists resort to wrong scooter. Life Jackets are to be worn grammes are not restricted to and random parking near malls and at all times while riding. entertainment as cultural and shopping complexes which block The ignition key should be educational messages are always traffic or close the way in front of attached to the driver’s wrist. present in all our events. other vehicles,” said the ministry in Scooters mustn’t access restricted “The festival was an opportu- a post on its Facebook page. swimming, diving or beach and nity for children to recapture the “Wrong parking is a violation of marine events areas and restricted great adventures of Sinbad, and a traffic laws. Motorist should ensure zones. They must stay away from platform for our foreign guests to proper parking in designated areas private property and hotels on sea learn more about rich traditional so that it won’t affect traffic or block sides. Arabic stories, literature and myths way in front of others,” it added. Proper navigation lights should where some of these masterpieces Motorists have also been be installed (green on the right, red have made it to the international Visitors enjoying one of the shows at Katara. warned against parking in slots on the left, white on the back) and scene as part of humanity’s distin- reserved for people with disability scooter users should avoid mak- guished traditions and epics.” times of the year at Katara Eid fes- Every time I come here I notice a organisers for efforts and all indoor and to be alert about pedestrians ing acrobatic manoeuvre which Visitor Ahmed Sarrie said: “I tival. My friends and I used to hit lot of progress and more services and outdoor technical and light- crossing roads. With an increase in can endanger the safety of others haven’t missed any of the shows Katara beach since 9am and stay offered to guests and their families. ing systems introduced during the sea-goers during the Eid holidays, in the water. The scooters mustn’t staged by Katara during the festi- until night to enjoy the fireworks Qatar has become a favourite tour- event.” Katara once again man- the ministry has urged safe use of be operated by minors or inexpe- val. The Sinbad show and fireworks colouring the sky of the Cultural ism destination for GCC nationals.” aged to bring communities together jet skis and water scooters. rienced users. were amazing and my family and I Village.” Meqbil Al Judaie, another vis- where smiles, greetings and gifts had a really good time.” Bandar Al Outaibi, who are at itor, said: “I liked very much the were exchanged and Eid blessings Khalid Al Ayadi, another visi- the festival, said: “This is my third arrangements made for the fes- shared in an atmosphere of love, tor, said: “I’ve spent one of the best visit to Katara during Eid season. tival and would like to thank the peace and fun. Crackdown on chicken shops

McDonald’s Qatar partners with MoI for Eid festivities The Peninsula prevent insects, rodents and dusts. It should have automated doors. “We also inspect whether outlets The Peninsula social responsibility by giving back have enough ventilation and lighting to the community under the minis- DOHA: The Health Monitoring Unit (natural and tube light) and exhaust try’s patronage. at Al Khor-Al Dakhira Municipal- fans to prevent insects. “At McDonald’s Qatar we are ity has launched a crackdown on “The shops should have sepa- DOHA: McDonald’s Qatar, in collab- more than just a store. We are pio- outlets selling fresh chicken in Al rate water tank with enough water oration with the Ministry of Interior neers in charitable endeavours and Khor city. for drinking and cleaning after (MoI), celebrated Eid Al-Adha with we remain dedicated to partnering The drive, ‘Salamtek Aham slaughtering chickens. Cleaning events on Monday and Tuesday. with Qatar’s government to reach out Awliyatuna’ (your safety our top pri- and sterilisation materials should Activities aimed at recognising and provide leadership, guidance ority) aims at ensuring that chicken be stored properly. The toilet should and giving back to foreign labourers and support in all matters of philan- shops are abiding by health rules. not be inside the shop,” he said. through fun-filled programmes and thropy. We also remain committed “The shops are not allowed to Live chickens should be kept in entertainment at the Wakra Sports to fostering a corporate culture that sell slaughtered fresh chickens as multi-layered cages made of rust- Club and in Asian Town in the Indus- inspires our employees to volunteer it should be slaughtered in front of proof materials which could be trial Area of Doha. and participate in community serv- customers and handed on the spot,” cleaned easily. The celebrations brought ice programmes. said Dr. Ahmad Shadi, veterinary The hot water of boiler should together thousands of expa- “We believe that it’s important to doctor at the municipality. be changed several times a day oth- triate workers of different empower our staff to bring positive “Showcasing and selling slaugh- erwise it could transmit germs and Officials from McDonald’s Qatar honouring one of the workers. nationalities. Guests participated in changes in the lives of people every tered chickens out of shops are also diseases. engaging attractions and many took day,” said Kamal Saleh AlMana, Man- prohibited. Chicken shop should be Tools for slaughtering chick- the opportunity to interact with staff Highlights included raffle draws This latest community outreach aging Director, AlMana Restaurants built of cemented block in an area ens should be made of rust-proof of McDonald’s and thanked them for where visitors had a chance to win initiative underscored McDonald’s & Food Co. — owner and operator of of 15sqm. The entrance should be materials, should be cleaned and support for Asian workers. special prizes. . Qatar’s commitment to corporate McDonald’s restaurants in Qatar. made of aluminium and glass to sterilised several times daily. ISLAM FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 03 For those who could not make it to Haj

Like any other article of faith, the pilgrimage can become meaningless if it is regarded as an end in itself rather than a means for the attainment of a meaningful life.

By Majd Arbil

he Pilgrimage to Makkah, is one of the essential elements of the Islamic faith. It is obligatory on all believers provided they have the financial Tcapability and physical ability to endure the challenges of the pilgrimage. According to Islamic tradition the Kaaba, a simple square cube structure in Makkah, was the first house of worship established to remind humanity of the One Supreme God. The structure was reconstructed by Prophet Abraham and his son Prophet Ishmael. And when We made the House (at Makkah) a destination for humankind and a sanctuary, (saying): Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray). And We imposed a duty upon Abra- ham and Ishmael, (saying): Purify My house for those who go around and those who med- itate therein and those who bow down and prostrate themselves (in worship). Quran 2:125 The gathering of millions of faithful in Makkah during the days of annual pilgrimage, Haj is a fulfillment of Prophet Abram’s prayer. Pilgrims performing farewell Tawaf around the Kaaba in Makkah’s Grand Mosque to complete their Haj, yesterday. And, lo, Abraham prayed: “O my Sus- tainer! Make this a land secure, and grant its you know how many people have come for such a lot of weight. On reaching Damascus, first place. While talking to the cobbler he Ali continued: “On hearing this, my heart people fruitful sustenance — such of them Haj this year?” Abdullah bin Mubarak inquired if anyone could feel a certain purity in his heart. Islam bled with tears. I got up and went home, col- as believe in God and the Last Day.” .. Quran The other angel replied: “Six hundred knew a cobbler named Ali bin al-Mufiq. The regards greatness not in wealth or in power, lected the three thousand dinars I had saved 2:126 thousand have come for Haj.” town people directed him to a house. When but in civility, in good manners and the good- for Haj, and gave my neighbor the money. I too The pilgrimage to Makkah is a sign of Abdullah bin Mubarak had also gone for a man appeared from the house Abdullah bin ness of heart. had to go hungry but that was to save money supreme significance. It was Prophet Abra- Haj that year. Mubarak greeted him and asked his name. Abdullah bin Mubarak further asked: for Haj, but I thought helping my neighbor ham’s unconditional commitment to God The first angel asked: “How many peo- The man replied “Ali bin al-Mufiq”. “why could you not go on Haj?”. In order not during his difficult times was more impor- that led him to leave his wife Hagar and his ple’s Haj has been accepted?” Abdullah bin Mubarak asked: “What do to disclose the reason, Ali again replied “it tant. Although I still desire to go for Haj if infant son Ishmael in this desolated desert. The second replied: “I wonder if anyone’s you do for a living?” was Allah’s will”. Allah wills.” Prophet Abraham was reward for his unwa- Haj has been accepted at all.” Ali replied: “I am a cobbler”. Then Ali When Abdullah bin Mubarak persisted, Ali Abdullah bin Mubarak was greatly inspired vering submission to God, by a promise from Abdullah bin Mubarak was grieved to asked the stranger’s name that had come revealed: “Once I went to see my neighbuor’s by the cobbler’s story and told the cobbler of Him to make this uninviting land into a place hear that. He thought, “So many people looking for him. house. His family was just sitting down for his dream. God is merciful and shows mercy of promise and plenty. have come from all over the world, cross- Abdullah bin Mubarak was a very well- dinner. Although I was not hungry I thought to those who do likewise to his creatures. This Muslims who visit Makkah for Haj become ing so many obstacles like rivers, jungles, known scholar of Islam, when Abdullah bin my neighbor would invite me to sit down for act of compassion on the part of the cobbler part of God’s promise to Prophet Abraham. mountains, suffered so many hardships, and Mubarak introduced him self, the cobbler was dinner out of courtesy but I could see that was so pleasing to God that it not only earned Like any other article of faith, the pilgrimage meeting so many expenses. Would their effort anxious to find out why such a well known my neighbor was grieved about something him the reward of Haj but was extended to all can become meaningless if it is regarded as be wasted? Allah does not let anyone’s effort scholar was seeking him out. and wanted to avoid inviting me for dinner. the people who came for Haj. an end in itself rather than a means for the go to waste”. When Abdullah bin Mubarak asked Ali After some hesitation the neighbour told Haj is a journey that can ignite the soul attainment of a meaningful life. He had thought only so far when he heard to tell him if he had made any plans to go for me: “I am sorry I cannot invite you for food. to be reminded of the time it was created The following story reminds us of the the other angel speak: “There is a cobbler Haj. Ali replied “For thirty years I have lived We were without food for three days and I and takes it beyond the dimensions of this spirit of Haj. in Damascus. His name is Ali bin al-Mufiq. in the hope of performing the Haj. This year could not bear to see the pain of hunger of life to the time it will meet the creator. The It is related that a noted Muslim scholar He could not come for Haj, but Allah has I had saved enough to go for Haj, but Allah my children. I went out looking for food today sincere performance of Haj can transcend a Abdullah bin Mubarak, had a dream while accepted his intention of Haj. Not only will did not will it, so I couldn’t make my inten- and found a dead donkey. In my desperation I person’s day to day life into a spiritual awak- he was sleeping near the Kaaba. he get the reward for Haj, but because of him, tion translate into action. cut out some meat from the dead animal, and ening of the highest magnitude. A successful Abdullah bin Mubarak saw two angels’ all the Hajis will be rewarded. Abdullah bin Mubarak was eager to find brought it home so that my wife could cook Haj experience connects us to our creator and descend from the sky, and start talking to When Abdullah bin Mubarak woke up, he out how could this man’s Haj be accepted this meat. It is halal (lawful or permitted) for the greater compassion of humanity. each other. decided he would go to Damascus and meet and blessed for all the people who went for us because of our extreme condition of hun- One of the angels asked the other: “Do that cobbler whose Haj intentions carried Haj that year when he didn’t go for Haj in the ger, but I cannot offer it to you.” www.islamcity.com The most beloved one

uslims often talk about their love of abandoning anything that differs with it. him more than we love ourselves? Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon We clearly see this in the following Hadith, Abdullah ibn Hisham, a companion of the him). In their ordinary speech, many which associates loving the Prophet with loving Prophet, reports: “We were with the Prophet (PBUH) refer to him as ‘our beloved one’, rather God. It is again a highly authentic Hadith in which and he held Umar ibn Al Khattab’s (may Allah’s Mthan mention him by name. Others use different Anas quotes the Prophet as saying: mercy upon him) hand. Umar said to him: ‘Mes- titles and adjectives, always indicating how greatly “There are three qualities which are certain senger of God! I love you more than anyone and they value, respect and love him. When people to give anyone the sweetness of faith: to love God anything else, apart from myself.’ The Prophet said of other religions realise this, they often express and His Messenger more than anyone else, to to him: ‘By Him who holds my soul in His hand, shock or surprise. They wonder why should we love a person for no purpose other than for God’s this will not do, unless you love me more than you feel such love for someone who died some 1,400 sake, and to hate to relapse into disbelief after love yourself.’ Umar said: ‘Well, now you are indeed years ago. We all remember how the publication of God has saved him from it as much as to hate to dearer to me than my own self.’ The Prophet said: the Danish cartoons insulting the Prophet stirred be cast in the fire.” (Related by Al Bukhari, Mus- ‘Now, Umar, you have got it right.’” a worldwide reaction among Muslims. This was lim and Al Nassaie). (Related by Al-Bukahri). extremely surprising to people in the West. Yet In this Hadith loving the Prophet is seen as It is important to realise that Umar’s words such love is to us the mark of true faith. We do not part of loving God. This is not surprising because were genuine. He did not say words simply to really believe in Islam unless we love the Prophet it was through the Prophet that we learned who please his interlocutor, who in this case was the more than anyone else. God is, His attributes, our position in relation to Prophet himself. He was expressing his feelings Such love is a requirement of the Islamic faith. Him, what concept to formulate of Him and what in a direct manner. At first, Umar thought that It must be genuine love, not a merely verbal state- God wants from us. Thus, as God’s Messenger, no one can ever love anyone else better than ment. The Prophet is quoted by Anas as saying: Muhammad (PBUH) has given us everything we his own self. Hence, his first statement. The “None of you is a true believer unless I am need to know about God, delivered His message Prophet explained to him the fact that every dearer to him than his parents, children and all and guided us through practical example along Muslim should know. Nothing could take prec- others.” (Related by Ahmad, Al Bukhari, Muslim, the way that is certain to earn for us God’s accept- edence ahead of the Prophet in any Muslim’s Al Nassaie and Ibn Majah). ance and to ensure that in the life to come we will feelings, not even one’s person or interests. These Uttered by anyone other than Prophet be in ultimate bliss. He has taught us every good should be sacrificed when set against what the Muhammad (PBUH), such a statement may be ill thing we need to know in our life. Prophet requires. considered or misunderstood. From him, however, When someone does us a good turn, we feel Umar understood this perfectly. Hence, his it must be treated as part of the education he gave grateful. If the good turn is bound to spare us rejoinder that the Prophet was now dearer to his followers. He was no seeker of any position exposure to some detriment, we feel heartily him than his own soul. This is not merely a word in this world. He looked for nothing that people touched. If it brings us some happy feeling, we uttered. It is a question of balance. Umar was now could give. He aspired to no status other than the are ever so excited. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) aware that the Prophet’s orders took precedence one given to him by God. He was God’s Messen- did us the best turn anyone can ever have, pre- over everything else and he accepted this. Hence, ger, and his role was to deliver His message and senting to us divine guidance at its purest and his statement that the Prophet was dearer to him educate people in how to accept it and conduct most complete. He has spared us the worst than his own soul. their lives on its basis. The statement quoted above calamity that can ever befall anyone, which is The love these Hadiths speaks of is not a mere should be viewed in this light. What it tells us is that incurring God’s anger and punishment. He has feeling. It must be supported by the right action. when something is contrary to what the Prophet given us the faith that is bound to fill us with the Otherwise, the Prophet would not have accepted says or orders, we must never hesitate between the happiest feelings mankind can experience in this Umar’s last statement until it was put to test. two; we must always take what the Prophet says life. If we realise all this, how can we fail to love www.arabnews.com 04 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Russia wants UN UN blames regime for blocking aid to Aleppo to endorse Syria deal with US deal, after tapering violence. However, de Mistura said the Syr- Clashes in Deir El ian government had not provided AFP Zour province held the necessary “facilitation letters,” or permits, to allow for convoys to by Islamic State kill reach opposition areas, disappointing UNITED NATIONS: Russia wants seven. even Russia, the Syrian president’s the UN Security Council to adopt key backer. a resolution endorsing the deal Russia’s military announced last hammered out between Moscow evening that the Syrian military was and Washington to halt fighting AP beginning to withdraw from a con- in Syria and jointly target Islamist tested route to Aleppo, suggesting a rebels, its ambassador said yes- breakthrough to the deadlock could terday. be coming. Russian Ambassador Vitaly BEIRUT: Syria’s military began with- In the eastern province of Deir El Churkin said there were discus- drawing from a major artery into Zour, clashes and shelling over the sions at the United Nations on the Aleppo last evening, shortly after past 24 hours between government proposed resolution that could be the UN envoy for Syria blamed Pres- forces and the Islamic State group adopted on Wednesday when the ident Bashar Al Assad’s government in the provincial capital, also called Security Council holds a special for obstructing aid access to the con- Deir El Zour, have killed at least three meeting on Syria. tested city. people, including a child, according “We are working on it,” Chur- With the US-Russian brokered to activists and state media. kin told reporters. “I think we ceasefire for the war-torn country Elsewhere in the same prov- need to adopt it on the 21st.” holding for its third straight day, calls ince, an air strike yesterday on the US Secretary of State John intensified to have the government IS-held town of Mayadeen killed Kerry and Russian Foreign Min- permit aid access to besieged oppo- at least four people and wounded ister Sergei Lavrov will attend the sition areas. dozens, said opposition activists high-level council meeting, held The UN says it has 40 trucks and Deir El Zour 24, an activist on the sidelines of the annual ready to distribute aid in the coun- collective. General Assembly meeting. try, and it would prioritise delivery The Syrian Observatory for Churkin said the resolution to the embattled, rebel-held eastern Human Rights monitoring group would provide “endorsement of neighbourhoods of Aleppo. said the air strike killed seven peo- the agreement” reached last week In Geneva, the UN’s envoy to ple. It wasn’t known who carried out that allowed a ceasefire to go into Syria, Staffan De Mistura, called the air strike. effect on Monday, paving the way A boy drives a vehicle on the last day of Eid Al Adha celebrations in the rebel-held town of Hamouriyeh, humanitarian access the “second The ceasefire does not cover ter- to aid deliveries and a possible dividend” of the US-Russia cease-fire ritory held by the Islamic State group. eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, yesterday. resumption of peace talks. The cessation of hostili- ties was holding yesterday, but another key provision of the agreement — the delivery of aid to besieged areas — had yet to be US faces challenges in cooperating with Russia on deal implemented. Some 20 trucks loaded with aid to be delivered to the battle- AP experts will be needed to identify and approve Russia, which it says it distrusts. coordinating these air strikes and that’s going ground city of Aleppo remained in airstrikes against the Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat Senior US defence and military officials to require additional effort and additional time.” a buffer zone between Turkey and Fatah Al Sham. The US has rarely bombed the familiar with the planning spoke on condition He added, however, “What really matters Syria yesterday, awaiting a green WASHINGTON: The US military will have to group, previously known as the Nusra Front, of anonymity because they weren’t authorised here is that the president of the United States light from Damascus to begin shift surveillance aircraft from other regions and the targeting is trickier because the mil- to talk about the matter publicly. supports this agreement, and our system of gov- their journey. and increase the number of intelligence ana- itants are often intermingled with other Under the deal, if the ceasefire holds for ernment works in such a way that everyone Addressing the council, US lysts to coordinate attacks with Russia under US-backed Syrian rebels. seven days and humanitarian deliveries are follows what the president says.” Ambassador Samantha Power the Syria ceasefire deal partly in order to tar- Making matters more complicated are US allowed into areas besieged by the Syrian army, US defence officials said they have begun said that the deal “is not an get militants the US has largely spared, senior military concerns about Russian targeting. the US and Russia would set up a so-called Joint working out some of the details, even though agreement based on trust and officials say. Unlike the US, which uses precision-guided Implementation Center to focus on the mili- they are hamstrung by existing US law that pro- promises.” Senior defence and military officials told munitions, Moscow has predominantly used tants and share basic targeting data hibits any military-to-military relations with “It is an agreement based on The Associated Press that they are sorting out so-called dumb bombs in its airstrikes over State Department spokesman Mark Toner Russia, as a result of Moscow’s annexation of reciprocal actions, halting attacks how the US-Russia military partnership will Syria. acknowledged the scepticism. the Crimea region of Ukraine. and allowing for deliveries of take shape and how that will change where US The Syria ceasefire deal struck by US Sec- “I don’t think that anyone in the US govern- Defence Secretary Ashton Carter must sub- assistance,” Power said. equipment and people will be deployed. They retary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign ment is necessarily taking at face value Russia’s mit a waiver to Congress along with a report Under the deal, the United said, however, that they will need to take assets Minister Sergey Lavrov is designed to pause the or certainly not the Syrian regime’s commit- detailing why military cooperation with Rus- States and Russia will set up a joint from other parts of the world, because US mil- civil war so that the superpowers’ militaries ment to this arrangement,” Toner said. sia is necessary. implementation centre to coop- itary leaders don’t want to erode the current can be jointly concentrated against the Islamist “I also think some of the comments from US officials said Carter hasn’t done that yet, erate in the targeting of Islamist US-led coalition campaign against the Islamic extremist groups operating within the chaos on the Department of Defence were just about and he likely won’t until the required cease- rebels while President Bashar Al State group in Iraq and Syria. the ground. The concerns reflect the US mili- speaking to the fact that there’s logistical chal- fire and humanitarian aid conditions are met Assad’s government grounds its More military planners and targeting tary’s broader scepticism about partnering with lenges of setting up the JIC (joint center) and for the seven days. planes and helicopters, she added.

Shimon Peres’ For the cold season Houthis studying US condition truce proposal for better: Doctor Yemen: Negotiator AFP

Reuters Saudi authorities have now RAMAT GAN: Former Israeli agreed to allow the negotiating team president and Nobel Peace Prize to return to Yemen in a UN airplane, winner Shimon Peres saw “real he said. improvement” yesterday but DUBAI/SANA’A: A US official has Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab remained in serious condition presented a proposal for a compre- allies launched a military cam- after the 93-year-old suffered a hensive ceasefire in Yemen to the paign in Yemen in March last year major stroke, his doctor said. country’s dominant Houthis at a to support the exiled government of The country has been on edge meeting in Oman, a member of the Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur over the condition of the elder Houthi negotiating team said yes- Hadi, and have declared the coun- statesman, Israel’s last remain- terday. try’s airspace a “restricted zone”. ing founding father, after he was Negotiators will return to Peace talks foundered after the admitted to hospital on Tues- Houthi-controlled Sana’a today Houthis and the GPC announced the day feeling unwell and suffered carrying the plan offered by US formation of a 10-member govern- a stroke with internal bleeding Undersecretary of State for Politi- ing council on August 6, ignoring a while there. cal Affairs Thomas Shannon in talks UN warning that such a move would Prime Minister Benjamin A worker prepares wool for production in a factory in Beheira Governorate of Egypt. in Muscat, he said. violate UN Security Council resolu- Netanyahu, criticised by Peres Shannon met the Houthi team, tions on how to solve the conflict. in recent years, visited the hos- officials of the allied General Peo- In a statement on the Kerry pital on Wednesday night, saying ple’s Congress (GPC) party and an proposal yesterday, the governing “we feel some relief... because this Omani mediator in Muscat earlier council reiterated that its willing- evening he is better than he was this week to discuss how to end a ness to restart peace talks depended yesterday evening”. Former Israeli PM says reckless war which has killed over 10,000 on implementation of a full cease- He could not enter Peres’s people and displaced more than fire, including the lifting of the room in intensive care and was three million. no-fly zone and siege imposed by given a briefing outside due to the Netanyahu harmed US aid US officials had no immediate the Saudi-led coalition. sensitivity of his condition. comment on the report. Forces allied to the Houthis Peres’s personal physician and The negotiating team mem- attacked across the border into son-in-law Rafi Walden told AFP AFP security but far less than what could President Barack Obama. ber did not disclose details of the Saudi Arabia’s southern Jizan prov- yesterday that “there is another have been obtained before the prime Frosty relations between the proposal. US Secretary of State ince yesterday, with both sides real improvement today,” describ- minister chose to blatantly interfere two leaders went into a deep chill John Kerry said in Saudi Arabia on claiming victory and giving con- ing his condition as serious but JERUSALEM: A former Israeli prime with US politics.” last year, after Netanyahu appeared August 25 he had agreed in talks flicting casualty tolls. stable. minister yesterday said incum- The United States on Wednesday before the US Congress to lobby with Gulf Arab states and the United Sources in the Saudi-led coali- He said it was likely his con- bent premier Benjamin Netanyahu promised Israel $38bn between 2019 against the Iran deal. Nations on a plan to restart peace tion said Saudi forces at the Jabal dition would remain that way in eroded national security and the size and 2028 to buy advanced planes The White House viewed the talks on Yemen with a goal of form- Dukhan mountain repelled the the coming days. of US defence aid by “irresponsible” and weaponry and boost its missile appearance as unprecedented inter- ing a unity government. attack by Yemeni Republican Guard Peres was still breathing with handling of relations with Washing- defence shield, the biggest pledge of ference by a foreign leader. The Houthi negotiating team troops loyal to former president Ali the help of a respirator, but was ton. military aid in US history. “Expressing our opposition to the has been in Oman since the col- Abdullah Saleh, killing about 25 and able to respond when his seda- “Netanyahu’s reckless conduct Barak and other critics say that Iran nuclear deal was certainly legit- lapse of United Nations-led peace wounding 30. tion was lessened as he had the has... undermined Israel’s security,” an even more generous deal could imate,” Barak wrote. talks last month, after Saudi In the Yemeni capital Sana’a, previous day. Ehud Barak wrote in a Washington have been achieved if Netanyahu “But instead of holding a candid authorities in control of Yem- a Houthi official said the clash He has not been able to speak Post op-ed. had not campaigned so publicly dialogue behind closed doors with en’s airspace refused to grant the resulted in the Houthi capture of the due to being intubated, Walden “Israel will receive $3.8bn a year and vociferously against a nuclear President Obama, Netanyahu went Houthi team access to Sana’a, the mountain as well as a place called said. — an important contribution to our agreement with Iran backed by US behind his back.” Houthi source added. Al Romaih. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 05

Family of three Niger becoming new Boko Haram target die in grenade attack in Burundi AFP town of Bosso in June in which at Musab Al Barnawi -- the son of Boko The upsurge in attacks in Niger least 26 soldiers were killed. Haram’s founder Mohammed Yusuf was an indication Boko Haram may Experts warned “Before Boko Haram allied with -- had replaced Abubakar Shekau as have already begun to regroup, con- Reuters MAIDUGURI: Niger is increasingly of escalating raids the IS, it did carry out cross-border head of the group, which now styles tradicting the military’s version that becoming a target for Boko Haram attacks outside their core territory of itself Islamic State West Africa Prov- it was on the run and struggling, attacks, as the Islamists come under across the border, north eastern Nigeria,” said Matthew ince (ISWAP). Henman said. sustained military pressure in Nigeria especially in Niger. Henman, head of IHS JTIC. Barnawi has criticised Shekau He also said the jihadists’ aim BUJUMBURA: A former army while reeling under a leadership “But since 2015, the number of for the indiscriminate killing of fel- appeared to be to undermine the officer and his family were killed struggle, analysts said yesterday. cross-border operations rose dra- low Muslims: at least 20,000 people Multi-National Joint Task Force of in a grenade attack on their home Despite a decline in the frequency matically as the group retaliated have been killed in northeast Nigeria Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and in Burundi, a government offi- of attacks this year in northeast- of the most insecure territories in against the West African coalition in a wave of raids, suicide attacks and Benin, which is operating in the Lake cial said yesterday, the latest ern Nigeria, the experts warned of northeastern Nigeria.” fighting to defeat them.” bombings since 2009. Chad region against them. episode in political violence that escalating raids across the border, IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insur- Henman said the Bosso attack The shadowy Shekau has main- The regional force, whose has plagued the central African especially in Niger. gency Centre (JTIC) said Boko Haram -- and subsequent strikes against tained he is still in charge but there deployment has been long delayed, country for more than a year. “Niger’s southern border with carried out 22 attacks into Cameroon, government and other military tar- have been recent reports of clashes depends on coordination and coop- Dismas Bashirahishize, Nigeria represents a relatively soft Chad and Niger in 2014 and 62 in gets in the region -- indicated a shift between rival factions in the north of eration between countries not known a pro-government former flank for Boko Haram, particularly in 2015, when it aligned with the IS. in Boko Haram to IS methods. northeast Nigeria’s Borno state. for working together or sharing officer, and his wife and child its eastern stretches,” Roddy Barclay, There were 41 cross-border This focused “less on the indis- JTIC said it still expected attacks mutual trust, said Henman. were killed when a grenade intelligence analyst at consultancy attacks this year until the end of criminate killing of fellow Muslims on civilians from the Shekau camp “IS has been very good at picking was hurled into their house on firm Africa Practice said. August with Niger bearing the brunt and more on targeting regional secu- to continue, while those aligned with apart alliances and coalitions, pitting Wednesday, the governor of “The porous national border is of the violence, including a raid on a rity forces”. Barnawi would conduct operations allies against one another. They will Bururi province, Christian Nku- under-policed and adjoins some military base near the southeastern IS announced in August that Abu against the military and government. try to sow discord in that coalition.” runziza said.

Debris found in Tanzania High Court disbars top prosecutor confirmed from MH370 seen as Zuma ally AFP “As such, the experts have con- cluded that the debris, an outboard JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s flap, originated from the aircraft High Court disbarred deputy pros- 9M-MRO, also known as MH370,” ecutions chief Nomgcobo Jiba as KUALA LUMPUR: A piece of air- a ministry statement said. an advocate, leading to opposition craft wreckage found in June off “Further examination of the calls for the immediate sacking of Tanzania has been confirmed as debris will continue in hopes that a senior legal figure widely seen as coming from the doomed airliner evidence may be uncovered which an ally of President Jacob Zuma. MH370, Malaysia said yesterday. may provide new insight into the In a scathing ruling relat- The debris, found on Pemba circumstances surrounding flight ing to the National Prosecuting Island off the Tanzanian coast, is MH370.” Authority’s failure to prosecute the latest piece of wreckage to be Authorities had earlier said the a senior police officer, the court linked to the Malaysia Airlines jet, piece of debris was “highly likely” said Jiba had “flouted every rule whose disappearance remains a to have come from MH370. in the fight against crime” and mystery. However, the confirmation was “no long fit and proper” to Malaysia’s transport ministry appears to have so far shed no fresh be an advocate. said the piece of debris, which had light on the plane’s fate. The Democratic Alliance (DA) been taken to Australia for expert The Malaysia Airlines jet was and domestic media have described analysis, was found to have part carrying 239 passengers and crew Jiba as close to Zuma, who is facing numbers, date stamps and other when it disappeared en route from the possible reimposition of hun- Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks about the junta’s two year accomplishments, at the identifiers confirming it came from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March dreds of criminal charges relating Government House in Bangkok, yesterday. the Malaysia Airlines jet. 8, 2014. to an arms deal in the late 1990s.

Thai PM defends rights record Kenya denies abuse of refugees Reuters House, days before he travels to New foreign governments expressed con- York to attend a session of the UN cern over the deteriorating rights in push to close Somali camp General Assembly. situation in Thailand. “Foreigners have to understand Prayuth, a former army chief, BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minis- what we’re going through... Every said he took control of the country in Reuters information about the risks they than 300,000 mostly Somali ref- ter Prayuth Chan-ocha yesterday country has gone through rough an attempt to calm months of politi- face in Somalia. ugees, by November, following defended his country’s rights record times. We’re just a little late. Don’t cal crisis. He has repeatedly said he “Our timeline is November deadly attacks on Kenyan soil by since he seized power in a 2014 coup, tell us that we abuse rights, you also does not want to hold on to power 30th for closure of the camp,” Somali Islamist group al Shabaab. saying he acted to end months of abuse the rights of others. You cre- longer than 2017 when a general NAIROBI: Kenya reaffirmed yes- Karanja Kibicho, principal secre- The government says al political instability. ate problems too.” election is expected to take place. terday its plan to close the world’s tary for Kenya’s interior ministry Shabaab has used the camp as a Thailand has faced a deep- Southeast Asia’s second-biggest The military government on largest refugee camp by Novem- said. recruiting ground for its attacks. ening rights crisis since the coup economy is slowly recovering from Monday said it will prosecute cases ber, rejecting allegations by Human “We are trying to restore san- Kenya softened its stance in with political activity and peaceful the events of 2014, when months of concerning national security and Rights Watch (HRW) that it is har- ity in matters of refugee affairs. We June, following an outcry from gatherings banned, say activists. Mil- street protests and the coup almost royal insult in civilian courts instead assing and intimidating Somali are a sovereign country that is try- rights groups who said much itary courts have been used to try brought economic activity to a of military courts, a change a rights refugees to return home when it ing to address a security concern of Somalia was not yet safe for national security cases, including standstill. group said was “window dressing” is not safe to do so. and we are as humane as possible.” return, and agreed a goal of halv- cases involving civilians, and rela- Since then, dozens of junta crit- before a UN review. The rights group said Kenya A spokesman for UNHCR in ing Dadaab’s population by the end tions with some western countries, ics have been held incommunicado Thailand’s defence minister also is not giving the refugees a real Kenya said the agency would of 2016. including the US, have frayed. in military detention, although the spoke at Government House yes- choice between being repatriated have to study HRW’s report before Somalia continues to face an “Those who evoke human rights exact number of people detained terday and said bombings in Thai or staying, and that the United responding. Islamist insurgency and is strug- and democracy, look at what hap- remains unknown. tourist towns last month were not Nation’s refugee agency, UNHCR, Kenya announced in May that it gling to rebuild after decades of pened in the past,” Prayuth said in During a UN Human Rights linked to Muslim separatists, contra- is not giving refugees accurate would close Dadaab, home to more conflict. a speech at Bangkok’s Government Council review of Thailand in May, dicting an earlier police statement.

DR Congo to form interim govt with US senator blasts Suu Kyi’s response on trafficking oppn members Reuters and slavery,” said Corker, chair- Myanmar abuzz over man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. end of US sanctions Reuters Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize WASHINGTON: A US senator said laureate, spent many years under on Wednesday that he was “some- house arrest for her opposition to AFP what appalled” by Aung San Suu the military junta that ruled Myan- KINSHASA: Backers of DR Congo Kyi’s reaction to her country’s mar for decades. President Joseph Kabila and record on human trafficking, The United States placed Myan- part of the opposition agreed on underscoring concerns about mar, formerly known as Burma, on YANGON: Myanmar cheered a US Wednesday on the sequence of human rights that are shadow- its list of the worst human traffick- promise to end sanctions yesterday, a series of upcoming elections, ing the Myanmar leader’s visit to ing offenders in June for failing to with residents in its commercial cap- potentially removing a major Washington. do more to curb widespread abuses, ital clamouring for American brands obstacle to breaking a danger- “While we certainly appre- hoping to prod its new government while politicians and business moguls ous political impasse. ciate the work Aung San Suu Kyi and its powerful military to address heralded a new era of transparency The opposition had insisted has done to ensure a democratic the issue. and trade. the presidential election be the transition in Burma, I am some- “Obviously, it’s not an issue US President Barack Obama next poll held. what appalled by her dismissive that she displays much of a con- vowed to scrap the trade limits dur- The government said local reaction to concerns I raised this cern for, and I expressed my strong ing Aung San Suu Kyi’s first visit to elections should take place first, morning about the problem of disappointment at her dismissive the White House since her party took US President Barack Obama talks to the media as he meets Myanmar's likely further delaying the presi- human trafficking in her country,” response,” Corker said in an inter- power in March, ending decades of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at the Oval Office of the White House dential vote. US Republican Senator Bob Corker view later on Wednesday. military domination. in Washington, DC. While the agreement set said in a statement after a break- Although Corker said he sup- The move marks a milestone in no specific dates, the two sides fast meeting with Suu Kyi and Vice ported sanctions relief for Myanmar the country’s rapid transformation agreed the presidential vote President Joe Biden. as a way to support its young from an international pariah into “I want Apple to officially come markets, there are no official Apple would be combined with legis- “After witnessing her lack of democracy, he said he would look Asia’s fastest-growing economy to Myanmar,” the 32-year-old said. “I stores in the country. lative and provincial elections, regard for Burma’s dismal track for ways to convey the importance under the leadership of the Nobel am crazy about the Apple brand and I The US sanctions, imposed 20 with local polls to be held later. record on this issue, I plan to pay of the trafficking issue to the United laureate. want Apple to come here as an Amer- years ago in a bid to put pressure on Despite the apparent advance very close attention to her govern- States. But Soe Naung Win, who owns a ican brand.” the former military regime, bar Amer- in the negotiations, efforts to ment’s efforts to prevent innocent “I am going to explore ways to mobile phone shop in Myanmar’s bus- While iPhones are widely avail- icans from dealing with anyone on its broker a peaceful exit from human beings from being traf- cause them to care a little bit more,” tling economic capital of Yangon, had able in Myanmar, one of the world’s blacklist of more than 100 people and power for Kabila remain fragile. ficked and sold into forced labor he said. more immediate concerns. fastest-growing mobile phone companies linked to the former junta. 06 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Witness links Duterte to death-squad orders

National Bureau of Investigation that The self-described was blocking a road on the southern city of Davao. assassin testified The agent ran out of bullets and under oath that was wounded in a shootout before Rodrigo Duterte, the Davao mayor he and a group at the time, showed up armed with of policemen and a submachine gun, Matobato said yesterday. ex-communist rebels “Mayor Duterte was the one who killed about 1,000 finished him off.... He emptied two people between 1988 Uzi magazines on him.” “I didn’t kill anyone unless and 2013 on Duterte’s ordered by Charlie Mike,” he said, orders. telling the senate it was the death squad’s coded reference to city mayor, referring to then-mayor Duterte. AFP Matobato’s testimony fleshed out Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed former hitman, holds up a roll of tape, the type of which he claims he used on his victims, during a senate in gruesome detail for the first time hearing on drug-related extra-judicial killings, in Pasay city, Metro Manila, yesterday. RIGHT: Senator Allan Peter Cayetano gestures as he talks long-running allegations Duterte was behind the killings of more to Senators Leila De Lima and Antonio Trillanes during a senate hearing in Manila, yesterday. MANILA: Rodrigo Duterte shot dead than a thousand petty criminals, a justice department employee and including minors, in Davao, where ordered the murder of opponents, 1988 and 2013 on Duterte’s orders -- Edgar Matobato, 57, made the and fabrications”, adding Matobato on Human Rights, Senator Leila de he was mayor for most of the past a former death squad member told one of them an alleged kidnapper fed allegations before the Senate, which “is obviously not telling the truth”. Lima, told the inquiry Matobato had two decades. parliament yesterday, in explosive alive to a crocodile. is investigating alleged extrajudi- Duterte aides said the govern- surrendered to the investigatory body “Our job was to kill criminals, allegations against the Philippine Others were garroted, burned, cial killings in Duterte’s anti-crime ment’s Commission on Human Rights in 2009 and had until recently been pushers, and snatchers. That’s what president. quartered and then buried at a quarry crackdown that police said has left had already investigated the allega- in a witness protection scheme. we did. We killed people almost on a The self-described assassin testi- owned by a police officer who was 3,140 people dead in his first 72 days tions but did not file charges while his Matobato recounted a 1993 death daily basis” between 1988 and 2013, fied under oath that he and a group of a member of the death squad. Oth- in office. son, Paolo Duterte, called the testi- squad mission that was uninten- said Matobato, adding they also killed policemen and ex-communist rebels ers were dumped at sea to be eaten Justice Secretary Vitaliano mony “mere hearsay” of “a madman”. tionally impeded by the vehicle of Duterte family foes and an “interna- killed about 1,000 people between by fish. Aguirre called the allegations “lies The then head of the Commission an agent of the justice department’s tional terrorist”. HK journalists Activists launch anti-N Korea leaflets after nuke test

AFP weapons before the wellbeing of his official KCNA news agency published Conservative South Korean people, were launched with helium a commentary describing Park as activists, including many North ‘detained and balloons from the border city of Paju. “human scum without an equal in Korean defectors, have been car- The propaganda exercise, the world.” rying out leafleting exercises using SEOUL: South Korean activists organised by North Korean defec- KCNA said the balloon launch giant helium balloons for years -- a launched tens of thousands of anti- tor-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak, was a desperate response to the suc- practice that infuriates Pyongyang beaten’ in China Pyongyang leaflets across the border came amid surging military tensions cess of last week’s test, and a bid by which has threatened military strikes into North Korea yesterday, denounc- on the divided Korean peninsula Seoul to “stoke confrontation” over in response. ing its latest nuclear test and defying following the North’s fifth and larg- the holiday period. Park Sang-Hak said strong winds AFP Kong reporters were on Wednes- threats of retaliation. est-ever nuclear test last week. The launch came in the middle of at the border had restricted yesterday’s day evening. The leaflets, criticising leader Hours before the balloon launch the three-day Chuseok harvest fes- event to the launch of around 150,000 “At least 20 people knocked Kim Jong-Un for putting nuclear was scheduled to begin, the North’s tival holiday. leaflets -- half the planned number. on the door, broke it down and HONG KONG: Hong Kong journal- requested us to kneel down. One of ists covering violent protests in the the reporters didn’t manage to kneel rebel Chinese village of Wukan said down and was shoved to the floor. they were detained and beaten by Another reporter was punched and Philippines is not ‘little brown police as state press slammed “for- I was slapped twice,” the unnamed eign media” for stoking the tensions. male reporter said. Lin Zulian, who played a key They were then taken to the role in those protests, was detained local police station for interro- brother’ of US: Foreign minister in June and sentenced to three years gation, he said, where they were Typhoon Meranti in prison last week. asked about how they had entered lashes China after Chinese authorities said they the village, who they had con- Reuters The latter patrols, aimed at pre- had detained 13 residents Tuesday tacted and were asked to write a serving the territorial integrity of the pounding Taiwan for “disturbing public order”, which letter promising not to visit the area Philippines, “must continue because triggered a new round of protests. again. this is our commitment to the US,” Online footage running in Hong Hong Kong’s South China Morn- WASHINGTON: The Philippines Yasay said. BEIJING: Typhoon Meranti Kong local media and reported to ing Post newspaper said its reporter is firmly committed to its alliance The Philippines and the US battered southeastern be filmed by villagers showed was one of the others detained at with the US but will not be lectured share concern about China’s pur- China with heavy winds them throwing bricks and stones the villager’s home. on human rights and treated like a suit of broad territorial claims in and torrential rain yes- at police with riot shields. Images “The Post is highly concerned “little brown brother,” the country’s the South China Sea, which overlap terday, cutting power, also showed bloodied villagers, with about the incident and condemns Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay (pic- with the claims of Manila and other ripping up trees and reports police had fired tear gas and the detention of journalists,” the tured) said yesterday. neighbours. smashing windows, a day rubber bullets. newspaper said. Speaking in Washington after The minister rejected criticism after lashing Taiwan. Law enforcement officers were Two other Hong Kong reporters recent remarks by the Philippines’ of Duterte’s war on drugs, in which The super typhoon, “hitting the villagers, even the old”, were stopped just outside Wukan outspoken new President Rodrigo thousands have been killed, and said packing winds of 170km wrote one resident, Zou Shaobing, and were held in a police station for Duterte that have strained rela- relations with Washington should be per hour made landfall on a micro-blog. around five hours where they had tions with the US, Manila’s main ally, way while Philippine forces under- based on mutual respect. around 3am near the city Reporters were also then their phones investigated and fin- Yasay said some of Duterte’s remarks took an offensive against Abu Sayyaf “I am asking our American of Xiamen before heading targeted. gerprints recorded. had been misunderstood. militants. friends, American leaders, to look at inland, state media said A reporter from Hong Kong’s One of them said that they had He said Duterte had explained Yasay also said Duterte’s oppo- our aspirations,” he said. “We cannot recently. liberal Ming Pao newspaper told to sign forms admitting they were that his call for the withdrawal of sition to joint maritime patrols with forever be the little brown brothers Images from Xiamen local broadcaster Cable TV a group conducting “illegal reporting” and US special forces from the southern the US only concerned the Philip- of America. ... We have to develop, showed flooded streets, had broken into a villager’s house that they would never do so again Philippines was only a temporary pines’ “exclusive economic zone”, not we have to grow and become the big uprooted trees, and traf- where he and another two Hong in the area. measure to keep them out of harm’s joint patrols within 12 nautical miles. brother of our own people. fic signs torn from their posts by the violent winds. There were no reports Two dead and 18 injured of any casualties. Half-Taiwanese to lead Japan in Bali tourist boat blast opposition

AFP and Spain were also among the said, adding the vessel had been TOKYO: Japan’s main passengers. about 200 metres from the port. opposition party chose It appeared to be an accident with One woman died from head inju- a half-Taiwanese former the explosion occurring in the fuel ries soon after the blast while the model and TV anchor- DENPASAR: An explosion on a tank. The bomb squad was initially Austrian woman died later in hos- woman as its new leader, speedboat in Bali left two foreign- deployed to the scene on an island pital, he said. as it looks to reboot its ers dead and 18 other tourists injured that has suffered bloody Islam- Sudarso said he believed a mal- fortunes after four years yesterday, sparking dramatic scenes ist militant attacks in the past, but functioning battery near the fuel tank in the political wilderness. as rescuers rushed to haul stunned authorities quickly ruled out an may have caused the accident. The telegenic Renho, a and bloodied holidaymakers off the attack. “Based on the testimony (from 48-year-old who goes by vessel. Indonesia has a poor maritime passengers) and from what I saw at only one name, trounced Dazed passengers, many cov- safety record and regularly suffers the scene, the explosion came from Police and investigators examine a ferry boat which was carrying her opponents -- includ- ered in cuts and bruises, were taken fatal boat accidents but serious inci- the fuel tank,” he said. tourists from the island of Bali to Lombok following an explosion on ing a former foreign to medical centres on the Indonesian dents around Bali -- which attracts “Above it was a battery, maybe board at Padangbai port, Bali, Indonesia, yesterday. minister -- to take the holiday island after the blast, with millions of foreign visitors each year there was a short circuit that affected helm of the beleaguered TV footage showing them being car- -- are rare. the fuel tank.” injured when small explosions hit growing in Indonesia that radicals Democratic Party. ried on stretchers to ambulances and The speedboat, which was carry- The British embassy in Jakarta a ferry crossing between Bali and who have headed to fight with the The one-time journal- lying in hospital beds. ing some 30 foreign tourists and four said it was providing assistance to the neighbouring holiday island of Islamic State group in the Middle East ist earned the nickname An Austrian woman was killed crew, had just left Padang Bai port British nationals affected by the Lombok. could encourage supporters back “Hissatsu” for her style of along with a second female for- in Bali yesterday morning en route explosion. The explosions, determined to home to mount attacks, or may do grilling bureaucrats over eigner, whose nationality was still to the holiday island of Gili Trawan- The Indonesian archipelago of be an accident, were thought to have so themselves on their return. public waste, in a coun- being verified. gan when the blast occurred. more than 17,000 islands is heavily come from the fuel tank of the ferry, In January, a gun and suicide try where the media are Two German citizens were “The explosion happened five dependent on ferry services but the which was carrying 129 passengers, bomb attack claimed by IS in the often criticised for pulling injured while nationals from Briton, minutes after the boat departed,” industry has a poor safety record. most of them tourists. capital Jakarta left four attackers their punches. France, Italy, Portugal, Ireland local police chief Sugeng Sudarso Last year, dozens of tourists were However, fears have also been and four civilians dead. ASIA / PAKISTAN FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 07 Ex-Afghan leader attacks new US combat rules

support. “How could the US presi- bombing of a Medecins Sans Fron- blood will be shed,” he said. dent authorize US troops to launch tieres hospital in Kunduz last year in Despite suspicions among some Hamid Karzai also attacks on their own in Afghanistan?” which 42 people died. close to the government that he wants called on the Taliban Karzai said, referring to Barack Calling Afghanistan the victim of to destabilize Ghani, Karzai said he Obama’s June decision to alter the a 21st century version of the “Great expected the US-backed government to be more realistic rules of engagement for the Amer- Game” between competing powers to serve its full five-year term. in demands that have ican military. on the 19th century borders of Brit- This is even though parliamen- hampered progress in “Don’t we have a government ish India, Karzai blamed the United tary elections and a special “loya here? Aren’t we a sovereign country?” States and Pakistan for “a war that jirga”, or gathering of Afghan leaders peace talks. The new authorities, which US is not ours”. and elders, have not materialised as officials say were agreed with the However, he added that he wanted scheduled within the first two years. Afghan government, affect ground to reshape the partnership between “The government should know operations where US troops pro- Kabul and Washington, not end an alli- that no one is going to ask them to go Reuters vide support to Afghan forces as ance which brought him to power over away. We want them to complete their well as air combat, and Karzai has a decade ago and still ensures billions term, we want them to complete the long been critical of US air strikes in of dollars in aid and military support five years,” he said. “But the country KABUL: Former Afghan President Afghanistan, be they by fighter jets, each year. Karzai was succeeded by needs a voice, the country needs to Hamid Karzai has sharply criticised helicopters or drones. Ghani two years ago. regain its confidence.” new authorities giving the US mili- He would ban them altogether, “I want to be allies with the To do that, he called for a loya tary greater freedom to fight Taliban even though the Afghan armed United States, I want to be partners jirga. “The loya jirga is an expression insurgents, saying they were a further forces, struggling to contain the with the United States,” he said. “But of authority of the Afghan people. erosion of the country’s sovereignty. insurgency, say they could not cope it must be a partnership, not a mas- Things must return to the ownership In an interview, Karzai, who without support from the skies and ter-and-slave relationship. “We must of the Afghan people,” said Karzai, continues to exert considerable want more. remain the owners of this house, the who has a deep network of political behind-the-scenes influence on The former leader’s opposi- United States of America, a guest.” Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai speaks during an interview in connections throughout the country. Afghan politics, also called on the tion reflects broader unease among As for the Taliban, Karzai said Kabul, Afghanistan. “It’s an institution for a time of cri- Islamist militant movement to be Afghans who believe innocent people he saw little change in tactics since sis and we are in crisis.” more realistic in demands that have have been killed in air attacks targeting the death of former leader Mullah despite frequent denials, is blamed He added that they had to be The 58-year-old dismissed sug- hampered progress in peace talks. militants, unease that may grow with Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike by Afghanistan for supporting the more realistic in their demands to gestions that such a gathering, His comments on American new powers granted to the US military. on Pakistani soil in May. insurgency. make peace talks possible. including opponents and allies of the involvement in the war were at odds The US says its air strikes sup- He appealed to the Taliban “as “I would call on the Taliban to be “When they say that foreign government, could undermine sta- with the government of his successor, port Afghan operations and it takes fellow Afghans to recognize that this free from foreign influence - in this forces must leave first and then we bility and weaken an administration President Ashraf Ghani, which has extreme care to avoid civilian casu- is their country” and to break free case Pakistan, the Pakistan intelli- will talk, then I tell them that if they that has struggled to overcome inter- welcomed US political and military alties, despite incidents such as the of the influence of Pakistan, which gence and military,” Karzai said. keep waiting for that, a lot of Afghan nal rivalries.

Woman and boyfriend China launches hanged in ‘honour killing’ second space lab

AFP AFP “It has the basic technological capacity of a space station,” Zhou MULTAN: A Pakistani mother- said. of-three and the man she was “Once the space lab mission allegedly having an affair with BEIJING: China launched its second comes to an end, China will start were hanged from a tree yes- space lab yesterday, official media building our own space station,” terday, with police blaming her said, as the country works towards he said, adding this could start in husband, brother and father for setting up its own manned space as early as 2017. carrying out the killings. station by 2022. In April 2017, China’s first space The grisly murders occured in The Tiangong-2 blasted off cargo ship Tianzhou-1 will be sent the village of Chak 56 around 55 just after 10:00 pm (1400 GMT) “in towards the space lab, providing kilometres northeast of the cen- a cloud of smoke” from the Gobi fuel and other supplies. tral city of Multan. desert, the official news agency Xin- China is pouring billions into its Hundreds of so-called “hon- hua reported. space programme and working to our killings”, in which the victim, State television CCTV broad- catch up with the US and Europe. normally a woman, is killed by cast images of the Long March-2F It hopes to have a crewed out- a male relative or relatives for rocket’s engines igniting in tandem post by 2022. bringing shame to the family before slowly lifting into the air and China’s first space lab, Tian- are carried out in Pakistan every exiting the Jiuquan Satellite Launch gong-1, was launched in September Pakistani residents gather beside the wreckage at the site of the collision of two trains on the outskirts year. Centre, leaving a long trail of flames 2011 and ended transmissions in “A woman and her alleged of Multan yesterday. in its wake. March this year. It is expected to fall boyfriend were hanged to death The 8.6 tonne Tiangong-2 — or back to Earth in the second half of by the woman’s father, brother Heavenly Palace-2 — will initially 2017. and husband after the woman orbit at a height of around 380 kil- Beijing sees its military-run was caught on a date with her Four dead and 100 injured ometres (240 miles) above earth, space programme as symbolising boyfriend in the backyard of her Xinhua cited Wu Ping, deputy the country’s progress and a marker house,” Sardar Afzal Dogar, chief director of China’s manned space of its rising global stature. of the local police station said. engineering office, as saying. The nation’s first lunar rover The victims were named as as trains collide in Pakistan It will then move slightly higher was launched in late 2013, and Khalida Bibi, who was in her late to allow the Shenzhou-11 mission while it was beset by mechanical twenties, and Mukhtiar Muham- to transport two astronauts to the troubles it far outlived its expected mad, who was around 19. facility, where they will stay for 30 lifespan, finally shutting down only He said all three suspected AFP “I thought that some bomb had treated on the spot. days. last month. murderers were arrested and had exploded,” he said. “I came out of A three-day public holiday for Once inside Tiangong-2, the two But for the most part China has confessed to their crimes, adding my house and saw a passenger train the festival of Eid ul-Adha ended astronauts will carry out research so far replicated activities that the the woman’s husband had brought had piled up on a goods train. I heard on Wednesday, and many Pakista- projects related to in-orbit equip- US and Soviet Union pioneered dec- the alleged affair to the attention MULTAN: At least four people were people crying in pain and many lying nis are returning from their family ment repairs, aerospace medicine, ades ago. of the others. killed and more than 100 injured outside the train. homes to the cities where they work. space physics and biology, atomic As well as building a Chinese The incident was confirmed by when two trains collided in central “Survivors and locals were pull- Train accidents are common in space clocks and solar storm space station, it intends to even- other local officials at the police Pakistan early yesterday, officials ing out wounded people who were the country, which inherited thou- research. tually put one of its citizens on the station. said. stuck in the wreckage.” sands of miles (kilometres) of track Zhou Jianping, chief engineer of surface of the moon. “They were beaten up before The accident occurred when the Local state-run rescue service and trains from former colonial China’s manned space programme, It announced in April it aims to being strung up in the tree and Karachi-bound “Awam Express” spokesman Abdul Jabbar told AFP power, Britain. said Tiangong-2 also aimed to verify send a spacecraft “around 2020” to hanged,” another official said. passenger train rammed into a goods that more than 100 people had been The railways have seen decades technology involved in the con- orbit Mars, land and deploy a rover Pakistan’s law minister in train that had stopped after running hurt. of decline due to corruption, mis- struction of the space station. to explore the surface. July announced that bills aimed over a man near the city of Multan. Railway official Saima Bashir management and lack of investment. at tackling “honour killings” and Rescue workers used metal- blamed the accident on the passen- Last November, 19 people were boosting rape convictions would cutting equipment to try to reach ger train driver, saying he failed to killed in southwestern Baluchistan soon be voted on by parliament, injured passengers still trapped in heed a red signal that went up after province after a train’s brakes following a slew of high pro- the mangled wreckage, according to the goods train had stopped. failed and it sped down the side of file cases including the killing of an AFP reporter at the scene. Cranes and ambulances filled a mountain. racy social media starlet Qandeel Mohammad Javed, 35, a shop- the area as troops also raced to the In July 2015, at least 17 people Baloch by her brother. keeper who lives near the site of the scene to help. Rescue official Khalid were killed when a military train A young British Pakistani crash said he had been woken up by Hussain 28 people had been taken fell into a canal after a bridge par- woman, Samia Shahid, was also “a huge blast”. to hospital, while scores more were tially collapsed. murdered in July, with her husband blaming her family for orchestrat- ing the killing. The perpetrators of honour killings often walk free because Japan to boost South China Sea role they can seek forgiveness for the crime from another family member. Reuters International Studies think-tank that “In this context, I strongly The new law, which aims to do Japan’s increased engagement in the support the US Navy’s freedom-of- away with the clemency option, area, where Japan shares US concerns navigation operations, which go a has not been made available to the about China’s pursuit of extensive ter- long way to upholding the rules- public and no firm date has been WASHINGTON: Japan will step up its ritorial claims, would include capacity based international maritime order,” set on when it will be tabled. activity in the contested South China building for coastal nations. she said. Observers say the govern- Sea through joint training patrols with Inada, whose country has its own “Japan, for its part, will increase ment is fearful of blowback from the United States and bilateral and dispute with China over territory in the its engagement in the South China the religious right who believe multilateral exercises with regional East China Sea, said that if the world Sea through, for example, Maritime being able to forgive a murder in navies, Japanese Defence Minister condoned attempts to change the rule Self-Defence Force joint training China’s Tiangong 2 space lab is launched on a Long March-2F rocket exchange for blood money is an Tomomi Inada said yesterday. of law and allowed “rule bending” to cruises with the US Navy and bilat- essential component of Islamic Inada said in a speech at Wash- succeed, the “consequences could eral and multilateral exercises with from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, in Gansu law. ington’s Center for Strategic and become global.” regional navies,” she said. province, yesterday. 08 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Netanyahu’s game America loves halal food — so sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again mocked the world with his statement that opposition to much for clash of civilisations Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories is tantamount to ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu never gets tired of making fun of those who think his right-wing government is Itrampling on the rights of Palestinians. officer of American Halal Co, esti- the 20th century, partly because it mates that as many as 80 percent was “too garlicky” and associated In a video message posted on Facebook last week, Netanyahu of consumers who buy his Saffron with criminal activity. said the Palestinians wanted to form a state devoid of a Jewish Road brand aren’t trying to follow Durrani and Amanullah both population and called it “ethnic cleansing.” Islamic law — they’re just food-lov- recall being served kosher food Accusing Palestinians of ethnic cleansing – when their land ers who want better frozen meals. when they were growing up: halal is being confiscated by Israelis, when the peace process is dead, Saffron Road is a star performer was hard to find, and for their fam- when their hope of setting up an independent state is dying, when at Whole Foods, and is also sold at ilies it was the next-best thing. Now, branches of Kroger Co, Safeway Inc it’s easily available to diners-out, as they have no rights and power in their own land – can only be and Giant Food Stores, among more well as eaters-in. Some of the credit called outrageous and cruel. And among those who think so is UN than 12,000 locations. goes to Halal Guys, which started as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. By Jeff Greenand Craig growing categories, with double- The market still hasn’t reached a street cart serving meat dishes in The UN chief said that the Israeli prime minister’s statement Giammona digit sales growth in each of the last enough of a tipping point for some New York City. They proved so pop- was “unacceptable and outrageous”. “I am disturbed by a recent Bloomberg five years. It’s been running Ram- of the big names in packaged food ular that the company plans 300 statement by Israel’s prime minister portraying those who oppose adan promotions since 2011. to fully commit. Mondelez Interna- sit-down restaurants across the US settlement expansion as supporters of For early-adopting retailers, tional Inc., the global snack giant, is in the next several years. there’s been some flak — espe- a player in predominantly Muslim New York is home to people The ethnic cleansing,” Ban told the Security ometimes, culinary trends cially in the corners of social media countries like Indonesia and Saudi from all over, of course. So is Chi- Council during a meeting on the Israeli- move in sync with politi- where Islam comes under regu- Arabia, where halal is the stand- cago, where the second Halal Guys international Palestinian conflict, adding: “Let me be cal ones. Sauerkraut was lar criticism. Amanullah said his ard. So far it only sells a handful of outlet opened. But the third was in community absolutely clear: settlements are illegal renamed “liberty cabbage” “where-to-find-it” website is often halal products in the US Nestle, the small-town California. must under international law. The occupation, when the US was at war used in such circles as a “who-to- world’s largest food company, has “Costa Mesa is in a strip-mall stifling and oppressive, must end.” Swith Germany, and a more recent boycott” guide — though he said 151 halal factories, from Malaysia to plaza, which couldn’t be farther condemn falling-out with the French led to the such efforts typically backfire and Pakistan, and distributes hundreds of from the corner of 53rd and 6th in Washington too found it difficult to support Israeli prime invention of “freedom fries”. end up helping his business. certified products across the world. midtown Manhattan,” said Andrew its closest ally in the Middle East. The US But sometimes they move When Whole Foods ran its ini- But in America, Nestle mainly sells Eck, head of marketing. Of halal, he minister over State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth in mysterious ways. In an elec- tial Ramadan campaign, it was the food through its healthcare unit, said: “It’s not just city people that his ethnic Trudeau called the Israeli leader’s words tion season dominated by Donald criticised for failing to tout other which supplies hospitals. like it. It’s not suburban people that cleansing “inappropriate and unhelpful.” Trump, Muslims haven’t always religious holidays. Rick Findlay, glo- Something similar applies with like it. It’s not Muslim people. It’s a The fact that the Israeli leader chooses been made to feel welcome in bal grocery coordinator for Whole retailers: Wal-Mart features halal mix of cultures and background.” remark. to make such statements while aggressively America. Meanwhile sales of halal Foods, says the company wasn’t products at about 400 of its 4,600 The Halal Guys have tapped into food, prepared according to Islamic deterred. “People look to Whole stores, and Kroger carries them something that transcends demo- carrying out settlement construction law, are surging — and not just Foods to be that trend setter,” he only where there’s local demand. graphics: taste. On a recent Friday at speaks eloquently of his scant regard for international laws. The among the fast-growing US Muslim said, “We’re happy to be on that It’s possible that halal could lunch hour, about 20 people, a mix of international community, including the United Nations (despite population: Adventurous millen- cutting edge and take some risks.” be “held back by the stigma” that office workers and tourists, waited to Ban’s expressions of outrage) has failed miserably to stop Israel from nial foodies are embracing it too. A look at the demographics some Americans attach to Islam, order at the original Halal Guys food seizing Palestinian land. With the region in turmoil and the world Shahed Amanullah could makes halal seem less of a risk. said Krishnendu Ray, associate truck in New York. powers busy battling crises on their own soil or on their borders, the only find about 200 places that There were 3.3 million US Mus- professor of food studies at NYU They said they’d come for lamb served halal food in 1998, when he lims last year, but the number’s Steinhardt. “Or, it could eventually and chicken over rice, not because of Palestinian issue has been pushed to the bottom of their agenda. launched a website to help Amer- projected to grow to 8.1 million by be like kosher, which is identified religious dietary restrictions. Halal Netanyahu is aiming at stifling all opposition to settlement icans find it. Today, he’s tracking 2050 — and about halfway through as fresher, more virtuous food.” Guys has actually stopped serving building. The international community has a duty to expose his 7,600, and he says halal is making that time, Muslims will surpass Ray is the author of the 2016 lamb, but customers still insist on game and make him accountable. The “Quartet” sponsoring the inroads even among people who Jews as the largest non-Christian book “The Ethnic Restaurateur,” ordering it, Eck said. “It’s a must spot to stalled Middle East peace process, which includes the United are wary of Muslims. “Food is a religious group in the US, accord- which examines a long history of eat in New York,” said Alejandro Nova, States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, great medium for cultural shar- ing to Pew Research Center. immigrant influence on American 30, who was there with a friend visit- are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the annual gathering ing,” Amanullah said. And that’s not the whole story. cuisine. Italian food, he says, was ing from Colombia. “It has nothing to There’s a well-trodden path Adnan Durrani, chief executive frowned upon around the turn of do with how they treat the animals.” of world leaders at the United Nations next Thursday, and the in America’s food culture, leading meeting must take up the issue seriously. from ethnic-specialty status to the At the same time, Israeli leaders are growing increasingly mainstream. It happened long ago intolerant and hostile to international criticism. For example, with Italian cuisine, and to some Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered a boycott of a UN extent with kosher food, which special envoy after his criticism of settlement building in the offers a closer parallel to halal. Like the Jewish equivalent, Islamic occupied West Bank. rules mandate humane treatment of animals as well as other special preparations. At every level of the US food chain, halal already occupies a small but rapidly expanding Quote of the day niche. In grocery and conven- ience stores and similar outlets, I am proud to have research firm Nielsen estimates that sales reached $1.9bn in the 12 created the largest months through August, a 15 per- left-wing party in Latin cent increase from 2012. Overall, from restaurants to supermarkets, America. halal sales are projected at $20bn this year, up by one-third since 2010, according to the Islamic Food Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Nutrition Council of America, Ex-Brazilian president which certifies halal food and pro- motes education on the topic Whole Foods Market Inc, which has been among the pio- The Halal Guys food cart on West 53rd Street in New York. neers, ranks halal among its fastest

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represent a genuine opposition. Held during an economic crisis which has eroded living standards, the vote is seen as a dry run for Putin’s expected re-election campaign in 2018. Putin has said it’s too early to say if he will seek another term. Pro-Kremlin officials are casting the parliamentary election as the fairest con- test of its kind in modern Russian history. A new head of the central elec- tion commission has been appointed and regional and Kremlin officials have been fired in the run-up, creat- By Andrew Osborn ing the impression that the ruling elite Reuters is renewing itself. The authorities have also resur- rected an old voting system viewed as more equitable, which means that half of parliament will be decided by people ays before an election voting for individuals with the other half expected to extend Krem- drawn from party lists as usual. lin dominance over Russia’s Few doubt United Russia will win, parliament, the sole liberal though its margin of victory could be opposition member, Dmitry slimmer than in recent elections with DGudkov, is waging what he fears is a los- some opinion polls showing apathy levels ing battle for political survival. are high and its support lower in places. His re-election campaign ran out Some pollsters privately predict it will of money this week, he cannot get TV increase its support nonetheless. air time, his meetings are disrupted by Gudkov says low turnout will play people shouting him down, and a fake into the Kremlin’s hands because it can newspaper handed out to voters has cast rely on state workers, whose livelihoods him as a US stooge involved in a shad- depend on its largesse, delivering a size- owy Jewish-Ukrainian conspiracy to Member of the Just Russia political party Gennady Gudkov (left), accompanied by his son Dmitry, gives an interview able vote. The lower the turnout, the seize power. in Moscow on May 24, 2012. greater the proportional significance of Before the funding dried up, Gudkov this bloc. thought he had an even chance of re-elec- establishment insider turned rebel to tie him up in legal actions. around $350,000 so far. That, he says, is tion to the 450-seat Duma, or lower house — underlines how difficult it is for any- at least 3 million roubles ($46,000) short WAITING GAME of parliament, on Sunday despite what he one outside what the Kremlin regards FIGHTING THE TIGER of what was needed to finish his cam- Politically-related financial calls a dirty tricks campaign. as the political mainstream to have In past elections, anti-Kremlin candi- paign properly. problems are something Gudkov But after several promised big cam- their voice heard in a tightly-control- dates have complained of coming under He has used social media to spread says he and his family are used to. paign contributions failed to materialise, led system. the kind of pressure that Gudkov says he his message and, until the money ran out, Gennady, his father, says he was 36-year-old Gudkov — who used to It also shows how the liberal opposi- is now experiencing. had hundreds of young people handing forced to sell the family business represent the Just Russia party before tion is struggling to compensate for a lack A tall former journalist, Gudkov is out leaflets on his behalf. — a sprawling private security it expelled him in 2013 for helping to of access to money, state media, and tacit running for re-election as a candidate of Before the funding dried up on firm which employed 4,000 peo- organise anti-Kremlin protests — is not official support by trying to run grass- the Yabloko (Apple) party, a liberal oppo- Wednesday, Gudkov told Reuters why ple — for a small fraction of its real so sure. roots campaigns. sition group which had some success in his fortunes mattered. “Russian dem- value in 2012 after coming under “Some donors are not picking up Opinion polls suggest Sunday’s elec- the 1990s. It had no seats in the outgoing ocrats need a success story,” he said. Kremlin pressure for his opposition the phone, others have refused. Some tion, the first to the Duma since a similar Duma however, where Gudkov sat as an “Young politicians in the regions who activities. have been got to, others have taken vote in 2011 led to street protests in Mos- unaffiliated member. really want change don’t know how to The Kremlin denies it uses offi- fright,” he said on social media on cow over allegations of ballot rigging, is Gudkov likens the Kremlin to a bring it about. We need a win to show cialdom to pressure businessmen Wednesday. “We’ll have to wind up unlikely to alter parliament’s current tiger. At a recent voter meeting outside them it’s possible.” or politicians into selling assets to the campaign headquarters. There’s makeup radically. a crumbling Moscow supermarket in settle political scores. Gudkov jun- no more money. I will continue to hold Gudkov, whose father Gennady the shadow of drab Soviet-era tower FAMILIAR FACES ior demurs. voters’ meetings ... but this is unlikely was expelled from parliament in 2012 blocks, he told a small audience of pen- As things stand, the ruling United “It was revenge for our activities on to be enough for victory.” after taking part in protests against sioners he had to contest the elections Russia party, led by Putin loyalist Prime the street,” he says of the sale. “Since we His struggle — that of a former President Vladimir Putin, has been despite the odds. Minister Dmitry Medvedev, has a major- supported people taking to the streets we holding five voter meetings a day in “People tell me these elections ity in the Duma and can easily pass any have faced problems in business, in pol- the northwest Moscow district he is are not fair so why bother playing laws it wants. itics, and in parliament.” contesting. with this tiger,” he said. “I say I’m not The other three parties in parlia- On Wednesday, Gudkov made what Always accompanied by two playing, it’s not a game, it’s about our ment — the Communists, Just Russia and he said was a last gasp appeal for cam- Few doubt United Russia will win, bodyguards after men he called lives. I would be delighted to partic- the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia paign donations. though its margin of victory could be provocateurs tried to draw him into ipate in fair elections but they don’t — are formally designated as opposition But he says time is on his side. “I fights at election meetings, he tells exist, so I’ll take part in the elections parties. But when it comes to major leg- don’t believe the current system has slimmer than in recent elections with voters he wants a change in Russia’s we have.” islation United Russia can rely on their a future because we need to carry out some opinion polls showing apathy leadership and a return to genuine A drunk woman with a black eye support. economic reforms. But that’s impos- political debate, with less money regularly tried to shout him down, Kremlin critics say they are all pro- sible without carrying out political levels are high and its support lower spent on defence and more on health screaming out her support for rival can- Kremlin and exist only to create the reforms too and Putin doesn’t want to in places. Some pollsters privately and education. didates, while others subjected him to illusion of a multi-party democracy in share power. predict it will increase its support Gudkov accuses his rivals of being hostile questioning about the source of what is a de facto one-party state. The “That means the system’s days are behind the dirty tricks but is careful his financing. leaders of the three parties, two of whom numbered. Their time is coming to an end nonetheless. not to name names, apparently con- Gudkov has been crowd funding his have been familiar faces to voters for the whereas we are younger. I hope we’ll live cerned this would give them an excuse campaign and estimates he has spent last 20 years, reject that and say they to see change.” For some ‘Jungle’ migrants, France isn’t that bad after all

By Matthias Blamont in Calais in the belief they will have a to persuade them. critics say echoes US Republi- for a return to the Elysee palace, Reuters better life in Britain than on the Euro- “A few months back, when you can presidential nominee Donald former President Nicolas Sarkozy pean mainland. asked people about whether they Trump’s talk of a wall along the says Britain should open an asy- With unemployment roughly half wanted to go to England or stay Mexican border. lum centre on its territory to deal the French rate of almost 10 percent, put in France, a majority would At the same time, almost 150 with the Calais migrants. fghan national Sajjad had jobs are relatively plentiful in Britain answer England. That’s now reception centres have been built Interior ministry data shows dreamt of a new life in Brit- and many hope friends and family changing,” said Stephane Duval, nationwide and teams of social work- migrants filed 80,075 requests for Aain, but the teenager is among already there will help them to start who heads a state-run shelter built ers deployed to the Jungle and other asylum in France in 2015, up 24 a growing number of migrants holed anew. with shipping containers within improvised camps including in the percent on the year before. No break- up in a squalid camp in Calais to Thousands have therefore used the camp. capital Paris to persuade migrants down on where those requests were decide that France might not be such the northern port city for making The EU’s failure to draw up a to file asylum requests. made is provided, but charity work- a bad second choice. clandestine attempts to reach Britain, coherent response to the broader Asked what message the social ers in the camp said they too see the The Shia Muslim who says he fled which lies only about 35km across migration crisis has invigorated anti- workers were taking to migrants in shift in ambitions. with his family from the Taliban last the water. immigration, euro-sceptic parties the Jungle, a spokesman for the Pas- Anne-Lise Coury, an aid worker year, said that the perils of repeated Often this involves trying to stow across the bloc including France’s de-Calais area said: “The border at with Medecins Sans Frontieres, said attempts to smuggle his way across away on trucks taking the ferry to own far-right National Front. Calais is closed. France can welcome that for many migrants it was tough Fleeing war and the English Channel had persuaded the English port of Dover, or cutting With most opinion polls show- you in reception centres. Go there, to accept Britain was beyond reach. poverty in Africa him to give up on the idea. through security fences to clam- ing the National Front leader rest and reflect on what you want “They are feeling increasingly frus- “My life is more important than ber aboard trains using the Channel Marine Le Pen winning the first from life. And this could be a life in trated. Many are considering other and the Middle East, England,” said the 19-year-old, who Tunnel. round of the presidential poll, France.” options, but we see increased lev- an overwhelming is learning French at the camp’s Most of the attempts end in though not a run-off, the deeply An increasing number of els of depression in the camp,” she makeshift library. “It’s become too failure, and a number of migrants unpopular President Francois migrants now recognised Calais said. majority of migrants dangerous, so we’ve ended up seek- have died in the process. To be Hollande is under pressure to shut was a dead-end, the spokesman Standing outside a run-down car- have arrived in ing asylum here.” sure, many of the 7,000-9,000 down the Calais camp. said, with more than 5,000 opting avan, Sajjad said it was a meeting Called “the Jungle”, the camp and migrants in the camp nestled Earlier this year his government to head to a reception centre in the with a social worker that persuaded Calais in the belief its inhabitants are at the centre of a behind sand dunes still target the sent in bulldozers to clear the camp’s past year. “Previously we had more him to give up on his British dream. they will have political debate that has intensified lights along Britain’s southern southern half. Now Interior Minis- places in reception centres than Four months ago he went to the a better life in since Britain’s vote to the exit the coast visible at night. ter Bernard Cazeneuve promises to applicants. Now we have more local immigration office and filed European Union and before France’s But interviews with migrants, dismantle the rest, though no time- requests than available places,” his request for asylum. Britain than on the wide-open presidential election next charities inside the camp and local frame has been set. he said. Sajjad said he was still awaiting European mainland. April. officials reveal a shift in the ambi- Meanwhile, Britain is to finance Immigration has already a response, as is 44-year-old Suda- Fleeing war and poverty in Africa tion of others, due partly to the a new security wall along a one- become a hot election cam- nese asylum-seeker Khalid Mansour. and the Middle East, an overwhelm- tough security measures blocking km stretch of the Calais port’s paign issue. Portraying himself “France is the future for anyone who ing majority of migrants have arrived their path and a French initiative approach road, a move that some as tough on migrants in his quest thinks about it,” said Mansour.

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 INDIA SC raps Tamil Nadu & Karnataka for violence Ways suggested to governments to take preventive steps to curb violence and agitations, assess damage to public Pakistan to speed Police foiled attempted rail and private property and make those respon- blockades across southern sible to account for it. up 26/11 trial The court issued notices to both states and Karnataka; shutdown in posted the next hearing on Tuesday to take up Tamil Nadu today. the main matter. New Delhi: With the The top court by its September 12 order had 26/11 trial continuing asked Karnataka government to release 12,000 to drag, India has sug- cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu daily gested ways to Pakistan IANS until Tuesday after modifying its September to expedite the trial of 5 order directing the release of 15,000 cusecs perpetrators of the 2008 daily for 10 days. Mumbai terror attacks, Meanwhile, amid tight security, police foiled a senior official said NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday attempted rail blockades across southern Kar- yesterday. rapped the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka govern- nataka by mobs protesting against the state Foreign Secretary S. ments for failure to stop large-scale violence releasing the Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu. Jaishankar has written to that erupted after its order on sharing of Cau- “We have arrested about 100 pro-Kannada his Pakistani counterpart very river waters. activists, including their leaders, in the city cen- Aizaz Chaudhry to expe- On being told that there was bandh and ‘rail tre and stopped them from going to the main dite the trial, External roko’ in Karnataka yesterday and there would railway station for ‘rail roko’ (blockade),” said Affairs Ministry spokes- be a bandh today in Tamil Nadu, the bench of Bengaluru Additional Commissioner of Police person Vikas Swarup told Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Uday Umesh K. S. R. Charan Reddy. “The activists were taken reporters. “The Mumbai Lalit said, “People can’t be a law to themselves. into custody as the ban order under Section 144 Armed policemen stand guard on a street in Bengaluru. terror attack trial in Paki- It is obligatory on the part of the states of Kar- of Criminal Procedures Code against assembling stan has not progressed nataka and Tamil Nadu to prevent such actions. of more than five people in public places and Bangarapet-Bengaluru passenger train at into preventive custody and thwarted from expeditiously although it “We are compelled and constrained to say populated areas has been extended until Sep- Kolar station, 70km from here, after entering blocking trains on the Bengaluru-Belagavi route. will soon be eight years,” it is the duty of the state that no such agitation, tember 25 to maintain law and order.” the platform and staging a protest against the Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara Swarup said. damage and destruction to public and private About 50 protesters, including farmers state government and Tamil Nadu. said the situation was under control and peace- “To bring the guilty property takes place,” the bench said in its order. and traders, were detained and whisked away Similarly, about 50 activists were rounded ful across the city and normalcy prevailed. to book, our foreign sec- It also said bandhs and agitations could not be at Mandya station, about 100km from here, up outside the Mysuru station to prevent them “Paramilitary forces, state and central reserve retary has written to allowed in pursuant to the orders of the court. to prevent them from entering platforms to from barging onto the platforms, staging pro- police forces will remain in the state until fur- his counterpart in Paki- The court said while hearing a pub- block trains between Bengaluru and Mysuru, tests and blocking trains. Several protesters ther orders, as the Cauvery row remains an stan suggesting ways lic interest litigation (PIL) by a social activist 150km away from here. Police thwarted KRV in Shivamogga, Hubballi and Dharwad in the issue with the people and the states,” he told in which the trial could from Kanyakumari seeking directions to both activists from holding up and delaying the state’s central and northern regions, were taken reporters. be expedited by coop- eration through the legal channel,” he said. He was responding to reports of the acquit- Nepal PM arrives to boost relations Modi’s birthday bash aims tal by a Pakistani court of a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist involved in the to set 3 Guinness records horrific attacks. Agencies Ansari leaves for IANS aids to 1,000 hearing-impaired NEW DELHI: Nepal’s new Prime people. The previous record was NAM Summit Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made in Australia. ‘Prachanda’ arrived yesterday on a As many as 1,500 oil lamps NEW DELHI: Vice-Pres- four-day state visit to India. NEW DELHI: Celebrations in will be lit simultaneously at a sin- ident Hamid Ansari External Affairs Minister connection with Prime Minister gle location to establish another yesterday left for Vene- Sushma Swaraj received him at Narendra Modi’s 66th birthday record. zuela to attend a two-day the airport, ministry spokesper- on September 17 in Navasari dis- The event will be monitored Non-Aligned (NAM) Sum- son Vikas Swarup tweeted. trict in Gujarat will aim to set three by officials from Guinness World mit to be held from Prachanda, elected on August 4, Guinness World Records and one at Records. tomorrow. This will be has come to India at the invitation of the national level, organisers said “The programme is inspired by the first time after 1979 Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is yesterday. the Ventral government’s ‘Accessi- that the Prime Minister accompanied by his wife Sita Dahal. The celebrations, to be organ- ble India’ campaign. won’t be attending a NAM The couple will stay at the Rash- ised by the Gujarat government, “People with disability will be Summit. trapati Bhavan as state guests. will see distribution of 17,000 kits given hearing aids, wheelchairs The summit is Prachanda is scheduled to meet to a total of 11,223 differently-abled and tricycles, chairs meant for cer- expected to bring Modi today. people. ebral palsy patients, calipers and together leaders from He will also call on President The organisers aim to break prosthetics and multi-sensory inte- 120 developing coun- Pranab Mukherjee and several a world record for maximum grated educational development tries that are members union ministers during his visit number of people in wheelchairs kits,” the official said. of NAM. It is expected to which concludes on Sunday. “I am who form an image or a logo. They will also receive cheques deliberate issues of con- confident that the visit would not The previous record was made under the National Award for the temporary relevance and only normalise relations that expe- in the US by 346 wheelchair-bound Empowerment of Persons With concern such as terrorism, rienced some bitterness in the past, people in 2010. Disabilities. UN reform, the situa- but also build a strong foundation Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is received by Minister for The new record bid will involve Union Social Justice and tion in West Asia, threats for mutual trust,” Prachanda said External Affairs Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi yesterday. 1,000 people. Empowerment Minister Thawar to peace and security, earlier. Another record expected to be Chand Gehlot will be present at UN peacekeeping oper- Both sides will discuss more Embassy in New Delhi. Jhakri hydropower project. Dahal set will be by providing hearing the celebrations, organisers added. ations, climate change, support for reconstruction in the Today, he is scheduled to hold will be Nepal’s second head of sustainable development, wake of the April 2015 earthquake talks with Union ministers Sushma, government to visit India in eight economic governance, in Nepal, and agreements related to Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal and months. South-South cooperation, hydroelectricity and a postal high- tomorrow he will meet Union Home His trip aims at repairing ties, refugees and migrants, way. Prachanda is also scheduled Minister Rajnath Singh. which deteriorated following a Theyyam artist and nuclear disarmament. to meet Nepal citizens in India and Prachanda will also visit months-long border blockade that attend a reception at the Nepalese Himachal Pradesh to see the Nathpa paralysed the country last year. 2 held for 1,000 iPhones theft

Ministers to meet today as diseases death toll hits 32 NEW DELHI: Two peo- ple have been arrested from Mahipalpur area of IANS As part of coordinated efforts to of nine patients. Sir Ganga Ram Hos- south Delhi for allegedly tackle the vector-borne diseases, the pital and Shalimar Bagh Fortis also robbing a truck carry- Delhi government said several reli- reported the death of one elderly ing over 1,000 iPhone gious institutions, including temples, patient each. Both tested positive for 5s mobile phones worth NEW DELHI: As the death toll of mosques and churches, will maker chikungunya through rapid PCR test. Rs2.25 crore, police said patients suffering from dengue and appeals to the public for support In a letter to Nadda, Delhi Health yesterday. The accused chikungunya rose to 32 yesterday, to ensure that the diseases can be Minister Satyendar Jain said the have been identified as Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda curtailed. Delhi government was making best Mehtab Alam, 24, and said he would convene a meeting ASSOCHAM said tourism and efforts to coordinate with the Union Arman, 22, both residents with state health ministers of neigh- aviation industries were heavily Health Ministry and its hospitals to of Mahipalpur. Alam was bouring states today to review the getting affected due to the outbreak tackle the outbreak of dengue and A ‘Theyyam’ artist with his face painted waits to perform during arrested from Mahipalpur situation. of chikungunya and dengue, and chikungunya. the ‘Kummati Kali’ as part of the annual Onam festival celebrations while Arman from Rang- Monitoring the situation, World the rising deaths triggered by the Jain, who has inspected over a in Thrissur district of southern Kerala yesterday. The Theyyam puri area. Health Organisation (WHO) said it disease. dozen hospitals since returning from worship rituals are part of several thousand year-old traditions The police recovered is important that the fever-related All India Institute of Medical Sci- Goa, said many beds were vacant in and customs celebrated in Kerala state. over 900 iPhone phones data is well-represented. ences (AIIMS) confirmed the death many government hospitals. and the car used in the crime. The robbery took place on Tuesday, when the truck was carrying the phones from Okhla area Kashmir paralysed for 69th day SC sets aside Kerala man’s death penalty of South Delhi to Dwarka in southwest Delhi. The two, along with IANS public transport, main markets and IANS Govindaswamy had been con- her and threw her out of the mov- their accomplices, held other businesses have remained victed and sentenced to death by a ing train. He alighted from the train the truck driver cap- shut. All schools, colleges and uni- trial court, which was confirmed by and molested the unconscious and tive before robbing the versities remained closed along with the Kerala High Court. badly injured victim. The crime took phones near Rajokri fly- SRINAGAR: Heavy deployments train services between Baramulla NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Govindaswamy had molested place between Vallathol Nagar Rail- over. The robbers then of security forces were made by town and Jammu’s Bannihal town. yesterday set aside the death sen- and murdered the victim when she way Station and Shornur. She died a dumped the driver near authorities yesterday in Srinagar Internet facilities since Monday tence to a Kerala man accused was travelling by train from Ernaku- few days later. Dwarka Link Road. Rob- and other places in the Kashmir was down in the valley. Calling was of molestation and murder of a lam to Shornur on February 1, 2011, “The sentence of death for com- bers Bhola and Pradeep Valley where life remained para- only allowed on BSNL postpaid. 23-year-old woman in 2011, exon- to attend her betrothal ceremony the mission of offence under Section 302 were former drivers of lysed for the 69th consecutive day. All separatists leaders were erating him of murder charges but following day. He first tried to rob her IPC is set aside ...,” said the bench of the truck and had left The separatists continued their placed in the preventive detention said he would undergo life impris- in a deserted ladies compartment, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Prafulla their jobs two weeks ago. protest shutdown because of which in Srinagar. onment for rape. and when she resisted he assaulted C. Pant and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit. EUROPE FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 11

Britain approves French & German Hinkley Point FMs in Ukraine nuclear deal AFP

for peace push LONDON: Britain finally gave the go-ahead yesterday for Hinkley Point, its first nuclear plant in a generation, but set conditions to create conditions for pulling back address concerns over China’s role the conflicting sides’ troops from in a flagship project for Europe’s Ayrault, Steinmeier several areas. nuclear sector. meet Ukrainian Ayrault said that securing the The announcement, welcomed truce and pulling back troops by its French and Chinese back- President should help set the ground for the ers, came two months after Prime Poroshenko. next phase of the settlement, in Minister Theresa May caused which the Ukrainian parliament shockwaves by ordering a review would adopt constitutional changes of the £18 billion (€21bn, $24bn) giving a special status to the rebel deal brokered under her prede- AP regions and call elections there, cessor, David Cameron. Interfax said. China has a one-third stake The Minsk deal envisaged that in the project and analysts had Ukraine gets back control of the warned that Britain could have MOSCOW: French and German rebellious regions’ border with jeopardised relations with the foreign ministers visited Ukraine Russia, widely seen as a conduit world’s second-largest economy yesterday in a bid to shore up a for weapons, after granting them if it scrapped the deal while critics French President Francois Hollande (right) accompanies German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their 2015 peace deal that has floundered broad autonomy and holding local said it could give China the power amid continuing fighting in eastern elections there. meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, ahead of a European Union Summit in Bratislava, yesterday. to turn off the lights. Jean-Bernard Ukraine. That provision of the Minsk Levy, chief executive of the French Jean-Marc Ayrault and Frank- deal has drawn strong criticism state-owned power company EDF, Walter Steinmeier met with from Ukrainian nationalists, and said the move “relaunches nuclear Ukraine’s President Petro Poro- an attempt to push it through par- Hollande and Merkel urge clear vision power in Europe”. shenko to discuss ways to secure a liament would heap pressure on EDF’s board had already durable ceasefire and implement Poroshenko. When the Minsk deal approved its participation in the the political provisions of the Minsk was first struck, many accused him for addressing Europe’s weaknesses project in southwest England in agreement, which was brokered by of betraying the motherland, so he July when May’s government sud- France and Germany. has dragged his feet on seeking the denly announced it was pausing it. The conflict in eastern Ukraine parliament’s approval for the explo- Reuters anti-immigration, eurosceptic par- Bratislava, he said. “The first priority “We have decided to proceed between Russian-backed separatist sive issue. ties. “It is now about applying an is security ... our border security, our with the first new nuclear power rebels and Ukrainian government Ukraine has accused Russia of agenda for Bratislava that makes security against external threats,” station for a generation,” Britain’s troops has killed more than 9,500 failing to withdraw its troops and PARIS: German Chancellor Angela clear we are determined to react Hollande said. Business Secretary Greg Clark said people since it began in April 2014. weapons from the east, but Mos- Merkel and French President Fran- together to the weaknesses, to the Germany and France have out- in a statement, while pledging fresh The February 2015 deal helped end cow has denied it has any presence cois Hollande said yesterday that it tasks we face,” Merkel told report- lined plans to deepen European measures “to enhance security”. large-scale battles, but smaller there. The Kremlin, in turn, has was crucial an upcoming European ers in Paris after meeting Hollande military cooperation as Britain’s He told parliament that the plant’s clashes have continued to claim argued that Ukraine has failed to Union summit, the first since Britain ahead of Friday’s summit. departure removes one of the big- construction would create 26,000 lives and a political settlement has meet its end of the Minsk deal by voted to leave the bloc, addressed Hollande said Britain’s vote to gest obstacles to stronger EU defence jobs and guarantee seven percent stalled. not providing autonomy for the the EU’s weaknesses with a plan for divorce with the EU had triggered in tandem with NATO. of Britain’s electricity needs for 60 Separatist rebels on Tuesday eastern regions and call elections reforms. a crisis that threatened bloc’s very Merkel said France and Germany years. It will be “a huge boost to the declared a unilateral ceasefire, and there. Britain’s Brexit vote sent shock- existence and pressed on the 27 would ask the Council to pursue economy”, he said. Steinmeier said at a news confer- Ayrault and Steinmeier will waves through the European member states due in the Slovak their proposals but added: “We want One of Downing Street’s prime ence that Ukraine agreed to observe travel to Ukraine’s east on Thurs- Unions long deemed by many vot- capital to establish a calendar and to work inclusively so all of the 27 concerns was over the security the truce starting midnight Wednes- day, but are expected to stay at a ers to be overly bureaucratic and road-map for reforms. member states should of course have implications of allowing China to day, according to Interfax. He added safe distance from the areas con- unresponsive to their concerns, Security would be one of three the opportunity to take part and to take such a large stake in a criti- that if the cease-fire holds, it would trolled by the separatists. while energising the continent’s key themes under discussion in decide on things together.” cal infrastructure project.

UK doubles ocean protection Protests over labour reforms turn violent in Paris

around overseas AFP against measures aimed at loos- The turnout nationwide was ening France’s notoriously rigid however far lower than at the start territories employment laws, the 14th such of the rallies six months ago, when demonstrations in six months. they brought hundreds of thousands PARIS: French riot police fired A demonstration in the western of people onto the streets. AFP tear gas and stun grenades yester- city of Nantes also turned violent, One of the focal points Thursday day during clashes in Paris with with police there using tear gas and was the eastern city of Belfort where opponents of labour reforms who water cannon against protesters. the government is locked in a bat- LONDON: Britain yesterday threw molotov cocktails, the latest Scores of flights in and out of tle with train-building giant Alstom announced plans to double the outbreak of violence over the con- France were cancelled as air traffic over the future of a locomotive fac- area of ocean under marine troversial new laws. controllers went on strike to pro- tory threatened with closure. protection around the coun- At least one demonstrator and five test the law that makes it easier to Belfort’s history is intertwined try’s overseas territories to a size police were injured — including one fire workers during downturns and with that of Alstom, which produced greater than the landmass of India. officer with burns — as thousands ral- for bosses to negotiate directly with its first steam train there in 1880. The Fully protected marine lied against the law forced through by employees on working time. plant now assembles high-speed reserves are to be set up around the Socialist government in July after “We will show them that, law or TGV train locomotives. the Pitcairn Islands in the South months of often violent protests. no law, we will always stand against Last week, Alstom had announced Pacific and St Helena, Tristan da Twelve people were arrested them,” Francois Roche, a member of it would close the plant due to a lack of A man bleeds after being injured following clashes with French riot Cunha and Ascension islands in in the capital, where around the hardline CGT union demonstrat- orders and move production to a site police during a demonstration against the controversial labour reforms the South Atlantic. 13,000 people took part in the rally ing in Marseille, told AFP. 200 kilometres (120 miles) to the north. of the French government in Paris, yesterday. The plans impose a permanent ban on commercial fishing in an additional one million square kil- ometres (386,100 square miles) of ocean, preserving important Art amid ruins marine life, according to the For- German far-right thugs and eign Office. Britain will also provide £20 million (23.5 million euros, $26.4 million) over the next four years asylum seekers in mass brawl to fund the implementation, management, surveillance and enforcement of the new Marine AFP remove the face veil. Christian Schulz, the Protected Areas (MPAs). owner of the Seekrug restaurant, rejected “Protecting four million square charges of racism and defended his actions, kilometres of ocean is a fantas- telling Bild daily he did it “because it gives sev- tic achievement, converting our BERLIN: Clashes broke out between dozens eral guests an uncomfortable feeling to have historic legacy into modern envi- of asylum-seekers and far-right extremists in fully veiled women in their midst”. ronmental success,” said Foreign an eastern German city, forcing police to call He added that he was far from xenophobic Office minister Alan Duncan. in reinforcements to quell the violence, police as several of his staff are foreigners — includ- The announcement came said yesterday. ing from Turkey, Ghana, Pakistan or Egypt. shortly before US Secretary of Around 20 migrant youths sparked the vio- In Bautzen, police chief Kilz said the group State John Kerry was due to kick lence Wednesday night in the city of Bautzen, of asylum seekers, identified as unaccom- off the two-day “Our Ocean” con- police chief Uwe Kilz said, when they flung panied minors, also threw projectiles at the ference in Washington, which will bottles and wooden slats at around 80 young 100 officers sent in to stop the clashes, add- bring together governments, sci- German men and women from the far-right ing that police used pepper spray and batons entists, business leaders and NGOs scene. The right-wing extremists, many of to separate the groups. The battling sides from around the world. whom were drunk, returned the abuse with subsequently left the scene, but the far-right Britain’s plans include the stones and bottles, he added, in the latest inci- extremists broke up into smaller groups and designation of protected areas dent to hit the small former communist town, chased the migrants to a refugee shelter. around St. Helena and Pitcairn which has been the scene of several eruptions The migrants fled into the building, while and a commitment to designate of hostility toward refugees. officers formed a cordon to prevent attacks, marine protection zones around The arrival of around one million asylum- police said, adding that three other shelters Ascension by 2019 and Tristan da seekers in 2015 has deeply polarised Germany had to be protected by security forces over- Cunha by 2020. and fuelled a surge in support for right-wing night. In a video circulating on social media, The ocean around St Helena populists AfD, which has run an anti-migrant the far-right group could be heard chanting is home to a wide range of marine and Islamophobic campaign. “we are the people”. life including whale sharks, hump- Tourists pose next to the sculpture “Lapidarium — Waiting for the Barbarians” by Illustrating the tensions, a restaurant Meanwhile an ambulance sent for an backs and turtles while Ascension owner in northern Germany sparked a heated 18-year-old Moroccan man, who was found Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves, next to the Colosseum in central Rome yesterday. Island hosts the largest green tur- social media debate when he told a woman with a gash on his arm, was also pelted by tle rookery in the South Atlantic. wearing a niqab to leave after she refused to stones by the German extremists, said police. 12 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 EUROPE / AMERICAS Hillary back to campaign after pneumonia bout

Trump’s doctor yesterday, Trump’s former secretary of state. Less than team appeared to take a swipe at two months from Election Day, that Democratic nominee Clinton’s brief absence from the has contributed to a race that is releases doctor’s campaign trail. tighter than many expected. “We are pleased to disclose all of Clinton was campaigning report. the test results which show that Mr yesterday in Greensboro, North Trump is in excellent health, and has Carolina, and speaking to a His- the stamina to endure — uninter- panic group in Washington. Those rupted — the rigours of a punishing are her first public appearance AP and unprecedented presidential since Sunday, when she abruptly campaign and, more importantly, left a 9/11 memorial service in New the singularly demanding job of York after becoming dizzy and president of the United States,” the dehydrated. WHITE PLAINS, NY: Hillary Clin- campaign said in statement. Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s ton returned to the campaign trail Trump first provided a summary communications director, said the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the Economic Club of New York yesterday after a bout of pneumo- of a recent physical to Dr Mehmet candidate’s break from the cam- nia that sidelined her for three days Oz while taping an episode of Oz’s paign trail helped her “sharpen luncheon in Manhattan, New York, yesterday. and revived questions about both TV show. He said on the show that the final argument she will present Donald Trump’s and her openness he gets exercise during the cam- to voters in these closing weeks.” regarding their health. paign by delivering speeches at Clinton’s remarks yesterday were Trump and Clinton running neck and neck “I’m really glad that I did finally rallies, calling them “a lot of work” to focus on lifting up children and follow my doctor’s orders and take and requiring “a lot of motion.” families, as the campaign tries to some days to rest instead of just Until now, the main source of break through with a more posi- AFP When third party candidates Gary Republicans have kept a steady level trying to keep powering through, information about Trump’s health tive message. Johnson and Jill Stein were included, of enthusiasm. which I think is a common expe- has been a widely mocked let- Meanwhile yesterday, Trump the race was tied among likely voters A total of 64 percent of registered rience for people,” Clinton told the ter from his longtime physician delivered a speech in New York WASHINGTON: Less than two weeks — at 42 percent each — while Clin- Democratic voters said they felt at “Tom Joyner Morning Show” in declaring he would be the health- in which he vowed to boost the before their first debate, Donald ton had a slight edge (41 to 39 percent) least somewhat enthusiastic about an interview broadcast yesterday iest president in history. Clinton nation’s economy by at least 3.5 Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a among registered voters. voting — a drop from 77 percent in morning. released information from her percent — well above current pro- very tight race for the White House, a A Quinnipiac University poll out a August — and just 38 percent said Clinton and Trump both doctor more than a year ago and jections — and create 25 million national poll showed yesterday. day earlier, on Wednesday, found that they were very enthusiastic, down released letters from their doctors provided updated information new jobs over a decade. The CBS News/New York Times results were too close to call when from 47 percent a month ago. this week with additional details Wednesday following her pneu- The heart of his plan is a revised survey found Clinton had just a third party candidates were included, Trump voters specifically were about their health, including their monia diagnosis. tax code, which includes a pledge two-point edge (46 to 44 percent) with Clinton at 41 percent and Trump more enthusiastic than those sup- cholesterol levels, blood pressure The Clinton campaign’s that no business should pay more over her Republican rival in a two- at 39 percent. porting Hillary — with 45pc of the and current medications. Both can- handling of her pneumonia under- than 15 percent of its income in way matchup among likely voters. The CBS/NYT poll also found billionaire real estate investor’s back- didates’ physicians declared them scored her penchant for privacy, taxes, a major drop from the cur- Among registered voters, the Demo- diminished voter enthusiasm, with ers saying they felt very enthusiastic fit to serve as president. something that has contributed rent 35 percent highest corporate cratic nominee was five points ahead, Democrats less enthusiastic about about voting, compared to 36pc of the In releasing a letter from to the public’s lack of trust in the tax rate. at 46 to 41 percent. voting now than a month ago, while former top US diplomat. Polish officers Trump interrupted and heckled in visit to Flint church join UK police AP embolden those in the sparse crowd. April 2014. More than 100,000 had interrupted him. Others began to congregating at work, serving and One woman shouted that Trump had their water contaminated after the heckle the GOP presidential nominee. volunteering among the people of patrol after used discriminatory housing prac- city left Detroit’s water supply and The pastor stepped in and silenced Flint as we work through this crisis of tices in his buildings, causing the started using improperly treated Flint them too, saying that Trump “is our national impact,” read the statement. FLINT: Donald Trump was cut off, celebrity businessman to respond, River water. guest” who should be honoured. “We cannot let this story drift from murder chastised and then heckled after he “Never, you’re wrong. Never would.” Trump did address the crisis, But when Trump abruptly ended national attention for any reason.” attacked rival Hillary Clinton during Trump abruptly ended his saying at the church “We will get it his speech, a few more in the crowd But later at a rally in Ohio, Trump AFP what was supposed to be a speech on speech, which had lasted six min- fixed and it will be fixed and effec- yelled at him as he walked off stage. insisted he was undeterred by the helping where the government had utes. More heckling followed him out. tively and Flint will come back. Most One black woman, Reneta Rich- tough reception and would be “will- failed the people of Flint, Michigan. The visit was part of the cam- importantly, we’ll bring jobs back.” ard, yelled at him “What do you ing to campaign anywhere, even if LONDON: Two Polish officers “Mr Trump, I invited you here to paign’s effort to persuade voters He also bemoaned that previ- mean, ‘African-Americans have voters openly oppose me somewhere.” have joined British police in the thank us for what we’ve done in Flint, that the celebrity businessman can ously “cars were made in Flint and nothing to lose?’” repeating back to “Some people in those com- town of Harlow where a Polish not give a political speech,” said the appear empathetic and presidential you couldn’t drink the water in Mex- Trump his recent call for African- munities aren’t planning on voting man was killed in a possible hate Rev Faith Green Timmons, the pas- in a crisis. Trump also has his eye on ico. Now cars are made in Mexico and Americans to turn their back on for me and that’s ok — I will be the crime incident last month, police tor of the Bethel United Methodist a good showing in the industrial Mid- you can’t drink the water in Flint.” Democrats and vote for him. president for all Americans,” Trump said yesterday. Church. west, though polls have him down in Trump visited the tradition- The reverend had said in a state- said in front of rowdy crowd of about They are being deployed in the The Republican nominee quickly Michigan, which last went Republi- ally African American church in ment distributed to reporters that 5,000 people in Canton. “I’m running Essex town for a week to reassure stopped, then said “Ok, that’s good, can in 1988. the impoverished city to pay trib- the visit “in no way” represented an to bring hope to Flint.” local people following a surge in Then I’m going to go back to Flint” The trip was the Republican ute to the city’s resiliency. But then, endorsement of Trump’s candidacy. The visit to Flint, where most res- reported attacks against foreign- and its water crisis that had sickened presidential nominee’s first visit to he attacked Clinton, saying “eve- “What we pray is that it conveys idents are African-American, comes ers since Britain’s vote to leave its citizens. the poverty-stricken city since lead rything she touched didn’t work a fine example of a faithful, intelli- as Trump has increased his outreach the European Union, which was But the interruption seemed to was detected in its water supply in out.” Timmons then stepped up and gent, historically African-American to minorities. driven in large part by concerns about immigration from within the bloc. “There are two Polish police officers accompanying our offic- New prosecutor vows ers. They are wearing police uniforms but they have no police powers, they have no powers of arrest,” a spokesman for Essex fair Kosovo probe Police told AFP. Poland has urged London to protect Poles living in Britain, of AFP 100 court staff and an independ- whom there were about 831,000 ent panel selects a roster of judges. in 2015, following the Brexit vote The 2010 Council of Europe on June 23. report accused Thaci of heading Foreign Minister Witold THE HAGUE: The new prosecutor a mafia-style network involved in Waszczykowski flew to London for a special tribunal set up to try assassinations, unlawful deten- along with Interior Minister Mar- crimes arising out of the late 1990s tions and even trafficking captives’ iusz Blaszczak this month after Kosovo conflict pledged yesterday organs during and after the war as two Poles were attacked outside there would be “no unnecessary the guerrillas fought for independ- a pub in Harlow, northeast of Lon- delays” in bringing charges. ence from Serbia. don, on September 4. As court officials gave their Thaci has strongly denied the The assault followed the mur- first ever press conference, David charges, telling AFP earlier this der of 40-year-old factory worker Schwendiman vowed he would year “we have nothing to hide” and Arkadiusz Jozwik, known as Arek, investigate cases “without fear or has vowed to cooperate with the in the same town on August 27. favour” but stressed “there is more tribunal. Six teenagers have been to do, more to come” before he can The officially-named “Kosovo arrested on suspicion of Jozwik’s make any decisions about bringing Relocated Specialist Judicial Insti- Russian President Vladimir Putin (centre) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev meet with workers as murder and released on bail, formal charges. tution” is being established under although police have yet to decide they visit the construction site of a bridge across the Kerch Strait, which will link Russia and the Crimean “My message is that no one Kosovan law, but situated in The whether the incident was a hate Peninsula, in Kerch yesterday. should doubt that this is a very seri- Hague to protect witnesses in what crime. European Commission head ous undertaking. It is happening,” are highly sensitive cases. Jean-Claude Juncker referenced he added. Made up of international judges, the attacks in his annual State of Putin exhorts Russians to vote Speculation is rife about the it will try serious crimes allegedly the Union speech on Wednesday, future of Kosovo’s President Hashim committed from 1998-2000 by the warning that they threatened fun- Thaci, the former political leader KLA against ethnic minorities and damental European values. AFP “I call on you to come to poll- standoff with the West in decades. of the guerrilla Kosovo Liberation political opponents. “We Europeans can never ing stations, to vote, to express your But those dramatic events have Army (KLA), which led a fight by Schwendiman refused to be accept Polish workers being position,” Putin said in a televised had little play in the campaign and the majority ethnic Albanian ter- drawn on how many people were harassed, beaten up or even mur- MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin address. widespread apathy means voter ritory for declaring independence being investigated and who could dered on the streets of Essex,” he yesterday called on Russians to cast “I am certain that no matter turnout could likely be low. from Serbia. figure among those eventually said in Strasbourg, to applause. their ballots in parliamentary elec- which political opinions we hold, The authorities have permitted The tribunal, funded by an EU charged. He added: “The free move- tions on Sunday even though the participation in the voting is a civil more opposition candidates as they budget of ¤29.1m for its first year, “I’m not going to tell you exactly ment of workers is as much a polls are not expected to challenge duty for each of us, a manifestation have worked to clean up the image is being set up to investigate and who. I’m not going to mention common European value as his political dominance. of our sincere feelings towards our of the polls after mass protests last eventually prosecute allegations whether there is or isn’t anyone who our fight against discrimination The nationwide polls — which country and care for its future. time round in 2011 over vote-rigging made in an explosive 2010 report is on and off the table,” he stressed. and racism.” Juncker’s com- include the annexed Crimea penin- “Make your choice, vote for Rus- provided a major challenge to Putin’s which fingered Thaci for alleged Appointed earlier this month, ments provoked criticism from sula for the first time — come with sia,” he added. dominance. war crimes. his role was not to vindicate the Harlow MP Robert Halfon, who Putin’s approval ratings at around The past few years have been Putin insisted that candidates Court officials said yesterday the report “but to determine whether said he resented the implication 80 percent despite Russia suffering tumultuous for Russia as the Krem- had been provided with “equal con- aim was to be able to start “judi- evidence exists that can be used in that Essex was full of murdering the longest recession of his 16-year lin annexed Crimea from Ukraine ditions for an open, fair competition” cial activities” in The Hague within a courtroom, sufficient so that I’m racists. rule. in 2014 and plunged into its worst in the run-up to the vote. the first half of 2017 as they recruit comfortable charging anyone.” AMERICAS FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 13

Strict vigil ICC to prosecute US police shoot environment offences dead boy, 13, Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO: The Interna- tional Criminal Court (ICC) said carrying air gun yesterday it would start focusing on crimes linked to environmental destruction, the illegal exploita- tion of natural resources and police said. “One of the officers unlawful dispossession of land shot and struck the suspect multi- in a move hailed by land rights 13th police-involved ple times.” activists. shooting in Columbus The other suspect was not Company executives or injured, nor were any of the offic- politicians could now be held so far this year. ers. Police are still searching for the responsible under international other suspects. law for illegal land deals which “Crime Search Unit detectives violently displace residents fol- AFP processed the shooting scene and lowing the shift, campaigners and collected what appeared to be a lawyers said. handgun. Upon further inspection, it Since it was set up under the was determined to be a BB gun with 1998 Rome Statue, the Hague-based CHICAGO: An officer respond- an attached laser sight,” police said. court has focused on prosecuting ing to a robbery report shot dead a BB guns have small ball muni- four main crimes: genocide, crimes 13-year-old boy in Columbus, Ohio, tions, typically made of steel with against humanity, war crimes and after he drew what turned out to be copper or zinc coating. the crime of aggression. a low-powered air gun, police said. “Officers carry a gun that looks Environmental crimes will The Columbus Police Depart- practically identical to this weapon,” now be considered in investiga- ment said it was investigating the police chief Kim Jacobs said at a Police search the bag of a child in one of the access points to Zocalo Square, before the “Cry of tions of cases that fall within the late Wednesday death of Tyree King, news conference yesterday. Independence” ceremony to mark the 206th anniversary of the day rebel priest Manuel Hidalgo set ICC’s existing remit, according to the latest in a string of shootings of “It turned out to not be a fire- the path to independence in Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday. Global Diligence LLP, a London- African Americans by law enforce- arm... that fires real bullets. But as based human rights law firm. ment that have fuelled protests and you can see, it looks like a firearm national debate about policing tac- that could kill you.” tics in US cities. Mayor Andrew Ginther said the It marked the 13th police- incident was a “call to action for our involved shooting in Columbus so entire community.” Lula says graft charges aim to destroy him politically far this year, five of which have “Why is it that a 13-year-old resulted in deaths of suspects would have nearly an exact replica and another that killed an officer, of a police firearm on him in our AFP President Michel Temer, her vice administration helped tens of mil- his wife received the equivalent of 3.7 according to officials. neighborhoods? An eighth grader president-turned-nemesis. lions of Brazilians escape poverty. million reais ($1.1m) in bribes. King was pronounced dead involved in a very, very dangerous Lula said both cases aimed to “I’m proud to have created the Among the allegations is that at Nationwide Children’s Hospi- conduct.” SAO PAULO: Brazil’s former pres- sideline the powerful Workers’ Party largest left-wing party in Latin Lula received a beachside apart- tal after being shot multiple times Jacobs urged calm, promising to ident Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva he co-founded in 1980. America,” said Lula, 70, wearing a ment and upgrades to the property after he pulled out a BB gun during investigate the case “thoroughly,” defended himself against corrup- “Like a soap-opera intrigue, they red Workers’ Party shirt beneath a from a major construction company, a confrontation in an alley, a police and said that a grand jury would tion charges yesterday, saying the created an epilogue: They elected gray blazer. OAS, which was one of the players in statement said. decide whether criminal charges case against him was an attempt to Temer, removed Dilma from office... Tearing up, he said he considered the Petrobras scheme. Officers were dispatched after a should be filed against the police destroy him politically ahead of 2018 and now they want to destroy Lula’s his greatest accomplishment to be The allegations are not new but report of an armed robbery involv- officer who shot the boy dead. elections. political life,” he said, flanked by sup- that even poor Brazilians “can walk now go before Judge Sergio Moro, ing multiple suspects who allegedly The officer was identified as Brian Speaking a day after prosecu- porters at a news conference in Sao with their heads held high.” head of the Petrobras investigation, approached the victim, one of them Mason, a white, nine-year veteran tors accused him of masterminding a Paulo. The gravel-voiced, charismatic who will decide whether to accept brandishing a gun and demanding of the department who had recently massive pay-to-play scheme at state Lula, a former shoeshine boy and leader is still seen as potential come- them, forcing Lula’s case to trial. money. been assigned to the neighbourhood oil company Petrobras, the popular steelworker who remains a hero to back material in Brazil — or was until Prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol The officers spotted three males where the incident took place. leftist said Brazilian “elites” were many poor Brazilians, presided over recently. singled out Lula — who was presi- who fit the suspects’ description, He has been placed on admin- plotting his downfall along with that eight years of prosperity from 2003 Polls show him to be a favour- dent during much of the time that but two of them fled as the officers istrative leave pending the of his recently impeached successor, to 2011. ite for returning to power in the next Petrobras was being systematically approached them. investigation, in accordance with Dilma Rousseff. The boom turned to bust under presidential elections in 2018. fleeced by a network of corrupt The officers followed the two to local rules. The police involved in Rousseff, who was convicted Rousseff, and Brazil is now stuck in But his political project is in tur- executives and politicians — as the an alleyway “and attempted to take the incident were not equipped with in the Senate on unrelated charges its worst recession in 80 years. moil after Rousseff’s impeachment scheme’s “supreme commander.” them into custody when one suspect body cameras and no images of the of accounting irregularities, was But Lula recalled how social and his own legal troubles. Lula challenged prosecutors to pulled a gun from his waistband,” confrontation have yet to emerge. replaced on August 31 by centre-right programmes launched during his The charges allege that Lula and prove his alleged crimes. Canada meet Family of woman found aims to raise $13bn for fight dead in Texas jail reaches against AIDS $1.9m settlement

AFP Reuters Safety said it had not settled litiga- tion regarding Bland and was not a party to any agreements between MONTREAL: International donors the plaintiffs and Waller County gather in Montreal this weekend AUSTIN, TEXAS: The family of defendants. with a goal of raising another a black motorist found hanged in Lambert said that in the set- $13bn for the fight to eradi- her Texas jail cell after being held tlement, the Department of Public cate AIDS and two other major in police custody following a traffic Safety, whose liability is capped by deadly diseases — tuberculosis stop has reached a $1.9m settlement state statutes, will pay $100,000 and and malaria — by 2030. in a wrongful death suit against law the jail will pay $1.8m. Canadian Prime Minister enforcement, their lawyer said yes- Bland, 28, was found dead in her Justin Trudeau is chairing the con- terday. cell three days after her July 2015 ference, held every three years to The Texas Department of Pub- arrest, with a trash bag around her raise money for the Global Fund lic Safety and the Waller County Jail, neck. Critics said race was a factor to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and run by the local sheriff, will pay the in her being pulled over while driv- Malaria. family of Sandra Bland, Chicago- ing, and for her arrest, which they Among those expected to based lawyer Cannon Lambert said said was sparked by the trooper US President Barack Obama speaks at the Our Ocean Conference held at the State Department in attend are UN Secretary General in an interview. escalating tensions. Ban Ki-moon, a dozen heads of Washington, DC, yesterday. The county jail will also step up The Waller County Sheriff’s states and US billionaire Bill Gates. staff training and inmate monitor- office said an agreement had been Created in 2002 as a public- ing, and have a nurse or emergency reached but was not yet final. It private initiative, the Global Fund medical technician available for all said the deal’s details were still has so far spent $30bn on pro- Obama declares new marine shifts as part of the settlement, he confidential. grammes to fight the three deadly said. “This is the beginning, not the “The Waller County defend- diseases around the world, with end,” said Lambert, who added ants also emphasise they vigorously most of it going to Africa. that Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed- deny any fault or wrongdoing, and It has been credited with help- reserve at ocean conference Veal, had insisted that jail reform be the potential settlement does not ing to save 22 million lives and included in the settlement. involve any such admissions,” it preventing 300 million infections The Texas Department of Public said in a statement. over the past decade as it pursues AFP effects of climate change. “If we’re going to leave our chil- a UN target of eradicating AIDS And they heard Obama’s dren with oceans like the ones that by 2030 and the other diseases announcement of the 4,913-square- were left to us then we’re going to even sooner. WASHINGTON: US President Barack mile Northeast Canyons and have to act, and we’re going to have But it needs to raise another Obama announced the creation of Seamounts Marine National to act boldly.” Former Gitmo inmate out of coma $13bn to fund its operations over a new marine reserve yesterday as Monument. The new US national monument the next three years through 2019. Washington hosted a major world This is an area off the Atlantic follows Obama’s recent expansion AFP and liquids. Dr Julia Galzerano said Early pledges have already summit on protecting the planet’s coast of New England with three of the huge Papahanaumokuakea Diyab came out of his coma, then brought the Global Fund to within oceans. deep undersea canyons and five Marine National Monument off removed the IV tube through which 85-90 percent of that objective, Obama addressed the first day submerged mountains, home to rare Hawaii, and 20 other countries are MONTEVIDEO: A former Guantan- health workers had been adminis- Global Fund spokesman Seth Fai- of the Our Ocean conference, where deep-sea coral and whales. to declare new reserves. amo inmate resettled in Uruguay tering fluids. son told AFP. ministers and envoys from some 90 Commercial fishing will be “These are problems we can but demanding to be reunited with “We saw him today. We exam- The United States, which has countries are meeting with envi- restricted in the area, where sci- solve. And part of the power of his family has resumed a hunger ined him and explained what would provided nearly one-third of the ronmental experts to announce entists have warned that warming conferences like this is to insist on strike after coming out of a coma, happen if he removed his hydration total funding so far, has pledged conservation measures. ocean temperatures are a threat human agency, to not give in to his doctor said yesterday. tube. He listened very politely,” she another $4.3bn, he said. Building on two previous annual to stocks of salmon, lobster and hopelessness,” Obama said. Jihad Diyab, a 45-year-old Syr- said, describing his condition as The second biggest donor, meetings, delegates brought plans scallops. “Nature’s actually resilient if ian, went into what doctors called stable. Diyab is being treated at his France, announced in June it will to protect the marine environment “I grew up in Hawaii. The ocean’s we take care to just stop actively a “light coma” Wednesday after residence in the Uruguayan capital provide $1.2bn. from pollution, overfishing and the really nice there,” Obama said. destroying it. It’ll come back.” more than 20 days of refusing food Montevideo. 14 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 CLASSIFIEDS

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11:35 10:30 Innovation Nation 08:00 We’ll Never 08:00 Criss Angel: 11:20 Delhi Safari Mindfreak Abandoned Have Paris 10:00 Jack And The 15:00 15:20 Innovation Nation 10:00 Freaks Of Mountain Men - 15:50 Cuckoo Clock Closest Calls Machine Nature Heart 16:40 Impossible 16:00 Confessions Of 11:45 Pawn Stars 17:10 Pim And Pom: The 17:10 Officers And Science Of Stupid A Shopaholic Big Adventure 17:40 Blow Your Mind 18:00 Krippendorf’s 18:00 Gentlemen 19:30 Jock The Hero Dog 18:50 Hunting Hitler No Man Left Tribe 20:00 Heart Of The Oak 19:40 Behind 20:00 The Hitchhiker’s 21:30 Grave Trade 21:20 The SpongeBob 20:55 Alone Innovation Nation Guide To The SquarePants Movie 23:50 23:10 Mygrations Galaxy 23:00 American 01:00 00:00 Pim And Pom: The Restoration I Wouldn’t Go 10 Things I Hate Big Adventure 01:05 In There: WW2 About You 02:30 American Pickers 02:00 The Adventures Of 01:55 Lost Worlds Special Jack Don Quixote

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NOVO SHOWING AT Bridget Jone’s Baby (2D/Comedy) 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER 9:40pm & 12:00midnight TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 Taht El Tarabiza (2D/Arabic) 11:00, 11:30am, 1:10, 3:20, 4:00, 5:30, 7:40, 8:30, 9:50pm & 12:00midnight Sully (2D/Drama) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm Lights Out (2D/Horror) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00pm & 12:00midnight Bilal (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pm Ben-Hur (2D/Action) 12:10, 4:40 & 9:10pm Sheep & Wolves(2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm Mechanic:Resurrection(2D/Action) 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Pete’s Dragon (2D/Adventure) 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 & 7:00pm Blood Father (2D/Action) 9:00 & 11:00pm Snowden (2D) 10:30am, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 & 11:50pm Sully (IMAX/Drama) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm

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Pete’s Dragon (2D/Adventure) 4:15, 6:00 & 7:45pm Bridget Jone’s Baby (2D/Comedy) 12:00noon & 5:45pm Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2D/Animation) 12:00noon Sheep & Wolves (2D/Animation) 2:15 & 4:00pm Ben-Hur(2D/Drama) 1:30 & 11:45pm Pink (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 9:30pm Freaky Ali (2D/Hindi) 3:30pm Taht El Tarabiza(2D/Arabic) 5:45, 7:45 & 9:45pm Sully(2D/Drama) 8:00 & 11:45pm Light’s Out (2D/Horror) 9:45pm Iru Mugan (2D/Tamil) 11:15pm

ROYAL PLAZA ALL IN THE MIND Pete’s Dragon (2D/Adventure) 9:30am, 3:45, 5:30 & 7:15pm Sheep & Wolves (2D/Animation) 2:15 & 4:00pm Bridget Jone’s Baby (2D/Comedy) 12:00noon & 5:45pm Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2D/Animation) 12:00noon Pink (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 9:30pm Ben-Hur(2D/Drama) 1:30 & 11:45pm Freaky Ali (2D/Hindi) 3:30pm Taht El Tarabiza (2D/Arabic) 5:45, 7:45 & 9:45pm Sully (2D/Drama) 8:00 & 11:45pm Light’s Out (2D/Horror) 9:45pm Iru Mugan (2D/Tamil) 11:15pm ASIAN TOWN

Iru Mugan (Tamil) 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 7:30, 8:45, 10:30, 11:45pm & 01:00am Pink (Hindi) 12:45, 5:30 & 10:30pm Ann Maria (Malayalam) 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm & 01:00am Pretham (Malayalam) 3:15, 8:00pm & 01:15am AIRBED, BACKPACK, BATTERIES, BINOCULARS, CAMPFIRE, CAN OPENER, CANVAS, COMPASS, FIRELIGHTER, AL KHOR FIRST AID KIT, FLASK, FOOD, FUEL, GRIDDLE, GROUNDSHEET, HIKING BOOTS, KINDLING, Iru Mugan (3D/Tamil) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm LANTERN, MAPS, MOSQUITO NET, PANS, Bridgete Jones (3D/Comedy) 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm PEDOMETER, POTS, ROPE, STOVE, TENT, & 12:00midnight TINDER, TOOLS, TORCH, WATER. Blair Witch (Horror) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm

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The path leading to Purple Island was yesterday covered with water, preventing many families from getting into the island, which is a popular destination during weekends and holidays. It takes about an hour drive from Doha to reach the island’s which is 63km from the city. Pic: Qassim Rahmatullah / The Peninsula Eid festivities at Lagoona Mall

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AFP The BBC’s budget is in focus days country’s greatest achievements” being forced to make savings at a Monday’s news that “Bake Off” accuse it of concentrating too much after it lost one of its top shows, “The but needed to be more transparent time when it faces increasing chal- — in which amateur chefs compete on commercial successes that other Great British Bake Off”, which was and make more “distinctive” pro- lenges from streaming services like to create the best cakes and pastries, private channels could provide. LONDON: Britain’s government bought by a commercial rival. grammes. “By making the BBC more Netflix and Amazon Prime. regularly drawing over 10 mil- Lorraine Heggessey, a former unveiled plans yesterday to force the News of the switch caused such transparent, it will help deliver sav- It is cutting hundreds of jobs after lion viewers — had been bought by head of the broadcaster’s main chan- BBC to reveal the salaries of more of shock that it dislodged ex-prime min- ings that can then be invested in even agreeing to make over £700 million Channel 4 has dominated this week’s nel BBC One, wrote this week that the its star journalists and presenters as ister David Cameron’s announcement more great programmes,” she added in savings by 2021-22 after accepting headlines in Britain. institution was being asked to do part of reforms of the public broad- he was quitting politics as the front in a statement. the cost of providing free content to The broadcaster said it would not “more and more with less and less.” caster. The BBC would be forced to page lead of Britain’s most-read The proposed reforms stop far people aged over 75, which was pre- meet the financial demands of the The loss of Bake Off “does spark name all stars earning over £150,000 newspaper, The Sun, on Tuesday. short of more radical changes to its viously covered by the government. private production company behind concerns over what the future is for (180,000 euros, $200,000) per year, Announcing the pay reforms on role and funding model that were The BBC — nicknamed “Auntie” the programme. The decision goes to one of our most treasured institu- extending transparency in a move Thursday, Culture Secretary Karen once mooted under Cameron’s gov- — is largely financed through an the heart of a long-standing debate in tions if it can’t hang on to a hit that it designed to generate cost-savings Bradley told the House of Com- ernment. But the world leader in annual licence fee of £145.50 paid Britain about the role of the BBC as a helped create,” she wrote in The Mir- for the institution. mons that the BBC was “one of this journalism and entertainment is by all households with a television. public broadcaster. Critics regularly ror newspaper this week.

Airport rush Late rock legend Bowie tipped for posthumous Mercury Prize

AFP haunting tribute to the pioneering the world’s environmental failures musical icon at the London ceremony that shifts sharply from the artist’s combined with videos of Bowie. “His earlier work with its synthpop sound. LONDON: Late rock legend David search was never sated,” awards pre- She performed the track “Drone Bowie’s final album is hotly-tipped to senter Shaun Keaveny, a BBC music Bomb Me” in full body paint with claim the prestigious Mercury Prize broadcaster, said of Bowie. “We are left blood-like red strokes coming from yesterday, when it goes up against with this magnificent album,” he said. her head, signing the lyrics: “Blow fellow critics’ favourites including The Mercury Prize was established in my head off/ Explode my crystal Radiohead and Anohni. 1992 to recognise the top album by a guts/ Lay my purple on the grass”. Bowie is in the running for British or Irish artist and has raised the Anohni, born in Britain but “Blackstar,” an album infused with profile of bands such as Elbow as well raised in the United States, saw her jazz and a dark lyricism that fore- as individual artists including James career rise after her band Antony shadowed his death in January just Blake and Badly Drawn Boy. and the Johnsons won the Mercury two days after the album’s release, Radiohead, who hold the Mer- Prize in 2005 for the bleak and following an undisclosed cancer cury record for most nominations deeply personal “I Am a Bird Now.” battle. Bowie, who never won the but have never won the prize, were Other nominees this year include prestigious British music prize in shortlisted for “A Moon Shaped Pool,” pop singer Bat for Lashes with “The his lifetime, would be the first art- in which the experimental rockers Bride,” a concept album about a ist to win it posthumously. inch back to their guitar-rock ori- woman’s fiance dying on the way to Hamad International Airport was busy yesterday with families returning after the summer holidays Actor Michael C. Hall, star of TV gins. Anohni was nominated for the wedding, and the latest works by as schools are reopening on Sunday. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula series “Dexter” and of Bowie-created “Hopelessness,” a searing political punk revivalists Savages and dance- stage show “Lazarus”, performed a indictment of US foreign policy and able alternative rockers The 1975. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,534.10 -100.8 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,230.05 +195.28 PTS Boeing plans Stung by failed mergers, to develop two FTSE100 6,730.30 +56.99 PTS Nokia CEO accelerates new jets BRENT $43.86 +$0.28 Alcatel integration

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GCC’s Islamic banks compliant with Basel-III norms

tries typically exhibit strong LCRs due a retail base comparable to those of to their large base of core retail cus- Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Moody’s report tomer deposits and low reliance on According to the report, further says GCC countries market-sensitive wholesale funding. development of domestic sukuk mar- Five of the six GCC countries are kets will continue to be positive in including Qatar, Basel III compliant and have intro- improving the availability of high- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, duced LCRs, namely Saudi Arabia, quality liquid assets (HQLAs) for Bahrain and Oman are Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. Islamic banks, particularly in GCC The report said only UAE has countries. Islamic banks globally face compliant with yet to adopt a LCR framework for its a greater challenge than their con- Basel III liquidity banks. In Kuwait, Islamic banks out- ventional peers in sourcing HQLAs, perform their conventional peers in in view of the continued scarcity of coverage ratio. terms of LCRs while, in Saudi Ara- Shariah-compliant instruments in bia, the reverse is true. And, in Qatar, the market. Islamic and conventional banks show The large amounts of cash and no material differences in this area bills held by Islamic banks are pos- By Sachin Kumar In GCC countries, retail custom- itive from an LCR standpoint, but The Peninsula ers tend to be more Shariah aware, negative from a profitability per- resulting in a large base of low-cost said Simon Chen, a Moody’s Vice The report noted Islamic banks 40 percent and 29 percent of the sys- spective. However, the governments retail savings deposits at Islamic President and Senior Analyst. “How- in GCC countries have become sys- tem, respectively; higher than 23 of Malaysia, Indonesia and Qatar are banks and hence a lower reliance ever, banks with a greater proportion temically important and continue to percent in Malaysia and just over 5 regular sukuk issuers, providing a DOHA: Islamic banks key Asian on short-term wholesale funding, of retail deposits that are consid- increase their market penetration, percent in Indonesia. more supportive environment for and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) added the report. “In the report, we ered more ‘sticky’, typically display outpacing conventional banks. In Qatar, the segregation of their Islamic banks. Looking ahead, countries are compliant with the highlight that a key driver of LCR stronger LCRs,” added Chen. In Saudi Arabia, where even Islamic and conventional banking liquidity for Islamic banks will con- Basel III liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) performance is the funding profile In Asia, the retail funding of conventional banks offer Islamic operations since 2011 has helped tinue to benefit from the expansion requirements of their respective of banks and, in this context, over- Islamic banks is constrained by their products, Islamic finance assets Islamic banks to build solid fran- of their retail businesses, while the regulators. In a report released yes- reliance on corporate deposits and small branch networks, which results represent more than 50 percent of chises with loyal retail customer development of domestic sukuk terday, Moody’s Investors Service said unsecured wholesale funding means in weaker LCRs when compared to system financing. In Kuwait and bases. However, the Islamic banks markets will improve their access to retail-focused banks in GCC coun- higher potential liquidity pressures,” their conventional peers. Qatar, such assets account for around are not yet large enough to establish HQLAs, further bolstering their LCRs. World Bank chief Kim Bank of England sticks with rate cut signal heads for 2nd term Reuters keep their government bond-buying economy will grow by 0.3 percent But overall economic growth target at August’s new, higher level in the July-September period, bet- of 0.3 percent would still be half of £435bn ($574bn) and to stick with ter than their previous forecast in the second quarter’s pace, and the a new plan to buy up to £10bn worth August of a slowdown to 0.1 percent. Bank said it was hard to say what as no other nominees LONDON: The Bank of England of corporate debt. Data published earlier on Thurs- the better-than-expected perform- said yesterday it was still likely to August’s stimulus was Britain’s day showed retail sales edged down ance in recent weeks meant over the cut interest rates to just above zero largest since the global financial only slightly last month after the longer-term. later this year, even though the ini- crisis. But since then a string of indi- strongest July in 14 years. Retailer “The Committee’s view of the AFP tial Brexit hit to Britain’s economy cators have rebounded from July’s John Lewis said the EU vote had had contours of the economic outlook was proving less severe than it had slump, leading some lawmakers to little impact but the full effect was following the EU referendum had predicted only last month. chide BoE Governor Mark Carney for not yet clear. not changed,” the minutes said. The BoE’s rate-setters voted being alarmist about the Brexit vote. A Reuters poll of economists If the November forecasts were WASHINGTON: World Bank Pres- unanimously to keep Bank Rate at “A number of indicators of near- showed that Britain is likely to nar- “broadly consistent” with August’s, ident Jim Yong Kim (pictured) 0.25 percent, the lowest level in the term economic activity have been rowly avoid a recession, in contrast to “a majority of members expected to effectively won a second five-year BoE’s 322-year history, after cutting somewhat stronger than expected,” forecasts a month ago that the econ- support a further cut in Bank Rate term after nominations to lead the it in August for the first time since the Bank said in minutes of the Mon- omy was poised to contract. to its effective lower bound at one of global development bank closed 2009 to tackle the shock of Britain’s etary Policy Committee’s September The Bank also said inflation the MPC’s forthcoming meetings dur- Wednesday with no other candi- vote to leave the European Union. meeting. would rise more slowly this year than ing the course of the year,” they said, dates proposed. Policymakers also voted 9-0 to Central bank staff estimated the it previously thought. reiterating the message of August. The World Bank executive board said in a statement that, following official procedures, it would for- mally meet with Kim as a candidate “with the expectation of complet- Apple at 2016 high on ing the selection process by the 2016 Annual Meetings,” which take place on October 7-9. Kim, 56, a Korean-American also contended for the presidency. strong iPhone sales medical doctor who has focused But no rivals surfaced during the the World Bank on programs to three-week nomination period reduce extreme poverty, earned this time around, leaving Kim vir- solid backing for a second term from tually assured of continuing in the AFP/AP The stock added $32.96, or 2.6 the United States, France, Germany, job when his first term ends on June percent, to $114.73, its highest price China, and other major sharehold- 30, 2017. In an open letter in August, of 2016. The stock is up 11 percent so ers of the bank. the 15,000 member World Bank far this week. But as with his first nomina- Group Staff Association called for NEW YORK: US stocks opened Other technology companies also tion in 2012, the bank was criticized a more open and focused search and slightly higher yesterday helped by rose. Hewlett Packard Enterprise from inside and outside for not truly selection process that did not repeat Apple’s jump on reports that some gained 55 cents, or 2.6 percent, to opening the selection process to all “decades of backroom deals which, of its newest iPhones have sold out $21.91 and Global Payments picked comers and not managing it in a 12 times in a row, selected an Amer- even before they are due to arrive up $2.07, or 2.8 percent, to $75.59. fully transparent mode. ican male.” at stores. The Dow Jones industrial aver- Following an unwritten rule, Kim’s first term has been Apple jumped 2.6 percent, its age rose 132 points, or 0.7 percent, since the World Bank was cre- marked by his campaign to erad- fourth straight increase, as reports to 18,166 as of 1:20 p.m. Eastern time. ated in the wake of World War II to icate extreme poverty by 2030; the continue to point to strong demand The Standard & Poor’s 500 index help rebuild the global economy, its bank’s leadership in a 2014 cam- for the new iPhone 7, which are due jumped 16 points, or 0.8 percent, to leader has always been an Ameri- paign to halt the deadly outbreak to arrive in stores today. 2,141. can chosen by Washington. of Ebola in West Africa; and its ini- Apple made its fourth strong gain The index had fallen five days out In 2012, Kim did face com- tial resistance to, and then tentative in a row as investors became more of the last six. The Nasdaq compos- People sit in queue for the release of Apple’s new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus petition when Nigerian Finance partnership with, the China-created optimistic about early sales of its ite added 59 points, or 1.1 percent, to in front of the Apple Store in Tokyo’s Omotesando shopping district Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala rival Asian Infrastructure Bank. newest iPhone models. 5,232. yesterday. 18 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS Boeing plans to develop two new jets

to soar over the next five years. is finally breaking even on the 787 production rates for the 777 and “We’re thinking through the busi- The US planemaker is deep in Dreamliner after a decade of pro- the costs of developing the initial ness case right now, talking with The US planemaker talks with customers over ways to fill duction and about $30bn in deferred 777X, David Strauss, an analyst at customers.” is deep in talks with the gap in its offerings between the costs. The Chicago-based company’s UBS Group AG, said in a Septem- The new, longer jet would need a narrow-body 737 and wide-body 787 research and development spending ber 12 report. He estimates the 777X relatively uncomplicated new landing customers over ways Dreamliner families, as Airbus Group should peak this year, Muilenburg will burn $7bn to $8bn prior to ini- gear and would benefit from a per- to fill the gap in its SE grabs sales with the A321neo jet. said, as Boeing starts to make the tial delivery in 2020. “We think BA formance upgrade that increases offerings between Talks are focused on two poten- first 787-10, prepares for the 737 cash generation will come through the thrust of the Leap-1B engines tial planes: the so-called Max 10, a Max’s debut next year and finalizes below expectations as 787 progress developed for the latest 737 models. the narrow-body 737 stretched version of the largest 737 design for the 777X, which is targeted is offset by initial 777X investment, Boeing also is studying a more exten- and wide-body 787 model that could reach the market by for a 2020 market entry. tougher pricing in the backlog, pen- sive revamp of the aircraft that would decade’s end, and the first of a fam- Since he took over as chief execu- sion, customer advances and cash use a larger engine created for Airbus Dreamliner families. ily of mid-range jets to debut about tive last year, Muilenburg has sought taxes,” Strauss wrote. by CFM, which is a venture of General five years later. to improve efficiency within Boeing’s Muilenburg is confident Boeing Electric Co and Safran SA. “We could potentially do both,” sprawling factories and through its could develop a new narrow-body The engineering and design work Muilenburg said at a Morgan Stanley supply chain. Raising profit margins quickly and without much strain on the proposed models would come Bloomberg conference, noting that sticking with to the “mid-teens” by decade’s end on its resources if there is sufficient as Boeing wraps up the most inten- its current portfolio is also an option. would give the aerospace company interest from airlines and lessors. sive planning for the planes already “We’re looking across all of those the means to invest in products while The new model, dubbed the Max 10, in its new-product pipeline. scenarios. We don’t see any of those still handing over a cash bounty to would enter service by 2019 or 2020 “I like the sequencing,” Muilen- CHICAGO: Boeing Co Chief Executive changing our R&D and capex pro- shareholders. and be a “relatively minor develop- burg said. “If we need to, we can do Officer Dennis Muilenburg (pictured) file over the five-year time period But Boeing could be hard-pressed ment programme,” he said. a Max stretch or a middle-of-mar- says he can add two more jetliners to because of the timing.” to hit cash-flow targets as it counts “That’s a viable option and a ket airplane or both and they would an already bulging product-develop- Keeping new airplane spending on the 787 Dreamliner and higher potential opportunity for us in the feather in very nicely and give us a ment effort without causing spending in check is crucial for Boeing, which narrow-body output to offset lower marketplace,” Muilenburg added. nice, stable R&D profile.”

Job Fair for Veterans in Los Angeles British retail Murray & Roberts of sales edge slightly lower South Africa mulls in August US oil and gas deal AFP

Bloomberg from the two cases, the CEO said. LONDON: Retail sales in Britain The building and infrastruc- fell 0.2 percent in August from ture businesses contribute little to July, official data showed yester- earnings and will probably be sold day, with no real indication that JOHANNESBURG: Murray & Rob- to a South African black-owned the Brexit vote outcome was hurt- erts Holdings Ltd, the South African company, Laas said. A change of ing spending. engineering and construction- ownership will increase the units’s “Regarding the EU referen- projects company in talks to sell its opportunities as the government dum in late June, our data on retail building and infrastructure units, prioritises the award of contracts sales since the vote show little evi- said it’s evaluating a US oil and gas to entities controlled by people dence of a departure from recent acquisition and will probably seek discriminated against during apart- trends,” the Office for National a larger international deal in years heid, he said. Statistics said in a statement. to come. More than 90 percent of the Murray & Roberts, which built company’s profit is derived from the The ONS added that the larg- landmarks such as Johannesburg’s oil and gas and underground-min- Albert Dorado (centre), who served in the Marines, looks over forms while attending the first Los est contribution to August’s Carlton Centre, Africa’s tallest ing businesses, the bulk of which is decrease in sales by volume came Angeles International Airport (LAX) Job Fair for Veterans in Los Angeles yesterday. More than 20 building, is working to transform generated outside of South Africa, from non-food stores, which was airport employers were on hand with airport officials to support local veterans in seeking employment. itself into an international oper- Laas said. As the company expands backed up yesterday by disap- ator specialising in underground internationally, investors are ask- pointing earnings updates from mining, oil and gas, and power and ing whether it makes sense to add major UK clothing and home water projects. The mining-indus- a second listing on a stock exchange goods stores John Lewis and Next. try division has units operating in alongside Johannesburg, he said. Britain voted on June 23 to Australia, South Africa, Canada and “I think it’s something that will exit the European Union, spark- the US, and the next step will be to probably happen,’’ Laas said. “If we ing warnings, including from the extend the geographic reach of the find a suitable acquisition target, if IMF board approves $1bn loan Bank of England, that the country oil and gas business, which oper- it is a listed entity maybe that is a could fall into recession. ates primarily in Australasia, Chief catalyst’’ for achieving another list- Consequently, the BoE last Executive Officer Henry Laas said ing, he said. month decided to cut the cen- in an interview. Murray & Roberts shares, have disbursement to Ukraine tral bank’s main interest rate to a “We want to be a lot more active gained 57 percent this year in record low 0.25 percent and pump in Indonesia and a lot more active in Johannesburg and rose 0.6 percent tens of billions of extra pounds the US and Canada,’’ Laas, 56, said to 12.54 rand a share at 2:35 pm on Reuters less than the roughly $1.7bn antici- the economy. “The positive decision (dollars/euros) around the UK at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office. Tuesday, giving it a market value pated, after some reforms required by the IMF is evidence that the world economy. The central bank is not “Those businesses need to grow.’’ of 5.6bn rand. The stock declined by the fund had stalled. But the IMF recognises that reforms are happen- expected to announce any new The company is doing due dili- in both of the previous two years, said in a statement that the board had ing in Ukraine, that real and positive action later Thursday following gence on a potential target in the US falling a combined 70 percent over WASHINGTON: The Interna- approved waivers for Kiev’s failure to changes are happening in Ukraine, the conclusion of its latest mon- that would add the ability to con- the period. Attributable earnings tional Monetary Fund said its board meet criteria related to international and that the country is moving in the etary policy meeting. struct oil and gas projects in the decreased by 15 percent to 753m approved a long-awaited loan dis- reserves targets, external pay- right direction,” Poroshenko said. Indeed, BoE governor Mark world’s biggest economy, Laas said. rand in the year through June. bursement to Ukraine of about $1bn ments arrears and foreign exchange Last week, Ukrainian Finance Carney last week claimed the While the value of that transaction While oil and gas spending is after a review of the country’s bail- restrictions. Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk said the UK economy was holding up well won’t be “too material,’’ the com- constrained and miners are priori- out programme. Ukrainian President Petro IMF decision should clear the way for thanks in part to the bank’s emer- pany will probably be looking for tising investment at existing projects The IMF has agreed to pump Poroshenko said the disbursement the sale of about $1bn in US-guaran- gency action taken in August. a larger, international deal in a few rather than starting new ones, Mur- $17.5bn into Ukraine’s economy in a would clear the way for an addi- teed bonds by the end of September. Sales have meanwhile been years’ time, he said. First it needs to ray & Roberts is confident that both four-year bailout, releasing the funds tional $1bn US loan guarantee and The IMF cash and external loans helped by a weaker pound in the resolve outstanding claims related businesses will eventually pick up. in installments subject to the govern- a new €600m loan from the Euro- should boost foreign currency wake of the Brexit vote. The latest to its work on the Dubai Interna- “We believe that the long-term ment making progress on economic pean Union. In a statement, he said reserves to $17.2bn by the end of the official retail sales data “provides tional airport and the Gautrain rail demand for energy must increase, and anti-corruption reforms. To date, a Russian attempt to undermine the year, a central bank deputy gover- further evidence that the UK is project linking Johannesburg and energy consumption must go up,’’ Ukraine has received about $7.62bn IMF’s decision had failed, and that nor, Oleh Churiy, said, welcoming the weathering the near term effects Pretoria. It’s hoping to recover at Laas said. “Commodities are cycli- in the programme launched in March the funds’ release would help keep IMF decision as a positive signal for of the Brexit vote well”, said ING least a combined 1.5bn rand ($104m) cal and the market will come back.’’ 2015. The latest disbursement was the hryvnia currency stable and aid domestic and foreign investors. bank economist James Knightley. McDonald’s gets final bids for China and Hong Kong outlets

Reuters Group, which owns British of about 2,400 restaurants in are recovering from a series of department store House of Fra- China and Hong Kong. The food-supply scandals in China ser, also made an offer for the CITIC-Carlyle team is seen as that have undermined their assets, one of the sources said. the front runner to win the auc- performance. Some analysts HONG KONG: Fast-food giant The company has previously tion, one of the sources said. have said teaming up with local McDonald’s Corp has received said it was teaming up with Bei- Carlyle and TPG have taken partners will help foreign fast final bids from at least three jing Tourism Group. on only minority stakes in the food operators to navigate sup- groups for its China and Hong Based on the final bids, bidding vehicles as McDonald’s ply issues. Kong outlets, with global pri- McDonald’s may end up work- has said it prefers long-term Foreign firms can also have vate equity firms Carlyle Group ing with the unlikeliest of partners, whereas buyout problems dealing with govern- and TPG Capital separately franchise partners. Both iron- firms typically cash out after ment and finding suitable real teaming up with Chinese part- ore to financial conglomerate a few years. Beijing Capital estate, said Alex Wong, a direc- ners for the business worth up CITIC and real estate to technol- Agribusiness Group, which tor at Ample Finance Group. to $3bn, sources said. ogy group Sanpower have little is McDonald’s current China “With the involvement of Carlyle has joined with Chi- experience in the restaurant partner, and China Cinda Asset Chinese partners, it will make nese state conglomerate CITIC business. Illinois-based McDon- Management Co Ltd were previ- thing easier,” he said. Group, while TPG has teamed ald’s announced in March it was ously in the running, though it Earlier this month, Yum, up with mini-market oper- reorganising its Asian opera- was not clear if they had made best known for KFC, Pizza Hut ator Wumart Stores on their tions, bringing in partners as it final offers by the close of bid- and Taco Bell brands, agreed to separate bids for the 20-year switches to a less capital-inten- ding. The planned deal comes sell a $460m stake in its China franchise, said the sources, who sive franchise model. at time when fast food opera- unit to investment firm Primav- declined to be named. The company had hired tors including McDonald’s and era Capital and an affiliate of Customers stand outside of a McDonald’s store in downtown Shanghai. Real estate firm Sanpower Morgan Stanley to run the sale arch-rival Yum Brands (YUM.N) Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BUSINESS FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 19 Facebook chooses New Mexico for data centre

and her economic development team New Mexico officials have pitched the sparsely populated state appeared eager to please Face- Decision to build as a good place to do business. book after the state was hit hard by facility in Los Lunas New Mexico wasn’t on the radar a downturn in the oil and natural before that August 2015 meeting. gas sectors. Computer chip maker comes after a “With the improvements we’ve made Intel, meanwhile, has been steadily roller-coaster over the past several years, New Mex- unwinding a major manufacturing contest between ico is finally competing again, and in plant that was an early benefici- this case, it’s a big win for the people ary of similar property tax breaks New Mexico and Utah. of our state and our economic future,” using industrial revenue bonds. Los the governor said. Lunas economic development direc- While the project has enjoyed tor Ralph Mims dismissed criticisms broad political support in New Mex- of the package state and local offi- AP ico, local leaders in Utah pushed back cials created to woo Facebook to New against a tax-incentive plan they saw Mexico. as too generous. “If you want to bring business in, Utah supporters said the project you have to offer incentives,” Mims ALBUQUERQUE: Facebook has would bring a high-tech cachet that said. “This is the biggest thing since chosen a village on the edge of New could draw other companies to West Intel and you have to look at the eco- Mexico’s largest metropolitan area Jordan, but critics said the cost was nomic development spillover. It’s not as the location for its new data cen- too high for land that could attract just about the data center.” tre, an announcement that spread other development. Data centres are key to the boom- quickly on Wednesday as elected offi- The village of Los Lunas, mean- ing cloud-computing economy, but cials celebrated a hard-fought win while, agreed to give up all property they typically bring few local jobs. that could have ripple effects for the taxes for 30 years in exchange for Officials hope Facebook con- state’s struggling economy. annual payments from Facebook that struction will spill over into other News of the social media giant’s start at $50,000 and top out at less parts of the economy, including three decision to build in Los Lunas, just than $500,000. industrial-scale solar power plants south of Albuquerque, comes after The complex economic devel- Adam Mosseri (left), Vice-President of Product Management for Facebook, speaks with Josh Constine of that would be built to offset electricity a roller-coaster contest between opment agreement also involves tax TechCrunch during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. consumed by the data center. New Mexico and Utah to attract the breaks on billions of dollars in com- Los Lunas officials have said the facility. puter equipment over time. centre would be a $1.8bn construction The courting of Facebook began In Utah, an initial $240m tax- looked dormant, if not dead. project would have been an economic will walk away from a bad deal. We’re project creating 300 direct tempo- more than a year ago with a meet- break plan publicly fell apart after West Jordan Mayor Kim Rolfe said boon, he said. not so desperate that we’re willing to rary jobs and just 50 permanent jobs. ing between Republican Gov. Susana several leaders said the lure was too he’s disappointed his city wasn’t cho- A critic of the Utah plan, Salt Lake give everything away,” he said. Construction is expected to start Martinez and Facebook executives. rich. Despite talks being revived, Utah sen and the tax-break package was County Mayor Ben McAdams, said the The cost-benefit analysis is dif- next month, with the center coming During a visit to California, Martinez Gov. Gary Herbert later said the deal unfairly maligned. The billion-dollar cost to taxpayers was too steep. “We ferent for New Mexico, he said. online in late 2018. Jobless rate in Stung by failed mergers, Nokia Biffa to raise Australia dips to $358m from lowest in almost CEO accelerates Alcatel integration London listing three years

Bloomberg equipment, internet routing prod- Inderes in Helsinki who has a reduce Reuters Bloomberg ucts, old-fashioned fixed lines, cable rating on the stock. “The integration and cloud software. is going to take a couple of years “Are we there yet? Not fully, but — for now it’s better to stay on the BERLIN: After gaining control of I think we are absolutely, in the first sidelines.” LONDON: Waste management SYDNEY: Australia’s unemploy- French network-equipment rival nine months, talking a lot less about Suri, who describes his phi- firm Biffa Plc is eyeing gross pro- ment rate fell to the lowest in Alcatel-Lucent SA in January, Rajeev integration and talking a lot more losophy as valuing “pragmatism ceeds of about £270m ($358m) almost three years in August as Suri (pictured) put his team at Nokia about the next development steps over perfection,” is guiding the lat- from a London listing, marking fewer people sought work, while Oyj on a tight schedule: in just 90 of the company,” Suri said. est incarnation for a 151-year-old the biggest initial public offer in the economy unexpectedly shed days they had to hash out which Nokia has raised its cost-sav- company that has its origins in the the UK since the country voted on jobs. Employment dropped 3,900 products to keep and what to jettison. ings targets and sped the timeline paper industry, then moved into rub- June 23 to leave the EU. from July; economists forecast While Nokia’s 48-year-old chief for their implementation — evidence, ber boots and tires and ultimately The British firm, which was 15,000 gain Jobless rate declined executive officer admits he’s no fan Suri says, that it’s becoming the com- became a household name for its forced into an emergency finan- to 5.6 percent from 5.7 percent; of indecision, “procrastinated discus- pany he envisions, with a balance of mobile phones. Nokia dominated cial restructuring after the 2008-9 economists forecast 5.7 percent sions” and office politics, that pace entrepreneurial drive, innovation, that market for a decade before suc- financial crash, said it would use full-time jobs rose by 11,500; part- was extreme even for the fast-mov- structure and discipline. cumbing to competition from Apple the IPO proceeds to repay debt time employment fell by 15,400 ing world of technology. But Suri’s Not all signs are positive. Nokia’s Inc and Samsung Electronics Co, sell- and also expenses related to a participation rate, a measure of urgency had a purpose. He didn’t second-quarter revenue dropped ing the handset business in 2014 to accumulated more than $10bn in government claim. labour force as a share of popula- want to repeat the mistakes of past 11 percent on a pro forma basis as Microsoft Corp. for more than $7bn. losses after the 2006 combination Biffa was expected to be val- tion, declined to 64.7 percent from mergers at the two network suppli- phone-carrier spending slowed. Suri, a native of India, says his as executive changes and restructur- ued at more than £1bn. Biffa, the 64.9 percent; economists predicted ers that dragged on for years and led Customers in key markets such as decision-making is guided by expe- ing efforts failed to restore growth. second largest waste management 64.9 percent. to billions of dollars in losses. the US have largely built so-called riences as a Nokia regional manager Suri has sped along the current services provider by revenue in The drop in unemployment is a “The world does not wait for fourth-generation networks, and the in Asia during the company’s pain- integration by limiting the team of the UK, collects, processes and gift for a government struggling to you,” Suri said in an interview at next round, dubbed 5G, isn’t ready ful effort to jointly operate a network people on the project to fewer than disposes waste and recyclables assert its authority in a parliament the Finnish company’s headquarters for wide deployment. Industrywide venture with Siemens AG set up in 100, versus the thousands he says for over 95 percent of UK postal where it holds a razor-thin major- nestled in the forest outside Helsinki. wireless-network equipment sales 2007. The business posted losses for were involved at Nokia Siemens. codes, servicing 2.4 million house- ity; yet the rise in people leaving “If you miss that window, then the are set to shrink 9 percent this year, five years and only became profita- Nokia has raised the annual cost- holds. The company is aiming for the labour force suggests a level customers diverge.” according to Deutsche Bank AG. ble after Suri was promoted to head savings target to €1.2bn by 2018 a consolidation of the fragmented of discouragement that points to The company that resulted from The market malaise has led to the JV and implemented a program from €900m by 2019 when the Alca- UK waste market, which has seen plenty of slack. The central bank the $18bn deal is jelling sooner than a 26 percent drop in Nokia’s shares to slash nearly a quarter of the work- tel deal was announced. challenging trading conditions has eased policy twice since May he expected, Suri said. In an indus- this year, while Ericsson has plunged force. Nokia eventually bought out “You want to be inclusive but over the past few years. as it tries to boost inflation and try beset by sliding revenue, time is 31 percent. The Swedish company Siemens in 2013 for $1.9bn. you can’t be to the extent of hav- Volatility triggered by Brexit tame an elevated local dollar; the truly of essence as he works to form ousted its CEO in July. Alcatel-Lucent — created through ing so many people involved that it has depressed the London listing picture is further clouded by the a competitor to Huawei Technolo- “Nokia is a good quality com- a merger of Alcatel with US-based slows you down,” Suri said. “We’ve market, with sources sayingthat hiring of 38,000 people for a pop- gies Co. and Ericsson AB — a global pany but there are major risks,” Lucent Technologies — was arguably seen this movie before. We have to the planned listing of TI Automo- ulation count. player whose products span wireless said Mikael Rautanen, an analyst at an even greater failure. The company learn from the mistakes of the past.” tive was facing a delay. The “fall in employment in August is probably even worse than it looks as employment last month was boosted by peo- ple being temporarily employed Argentina Business and Investment Forum Hong Kong Airlines buys 9 to conduct the census,” said Paul Dales, chief Australia and New Zealand economist at Capital Airbus aircraft for $2.31bn Economics Ltd. “Even so, the for- ward-looking business surveys are consistent with employment con- tinuing to grow.” AFP Hong Kong Airlines was estab- Still, monthly hours worked lished in 2006 and operates an decreased by 3.9 million in August all-Airbus fleet made up of 11 A320s and the underemployment rate and 22 A330s. climbed to 8.7 percent. The partic- HONG KONG: Hong Kong Airlines Its international destinations ipation rate in Thursday’s data was said yesterday it had bought nine include Bangkok and Osaka, and it the weakest since May last year, Airbus aircraft, for a catalogue will be launching a route between helping reduce unemployment to price of $2.31bn, seeking to bolster Hong Kong and Auckland, New Zea- the lowest level since September its Asian network as an expanding land in November of this year. 2013. The local dollar edged lower Chinese middle class takes to the The purchase comes as China as the market digested the data, skies. was on Tuesday predicted to become trading at 74.60 US cents at 12:25 The Hong Kong-based air- the world’s first trillion-dollar avia- p.m. in Sydney, from 74.76 cents line, which serves a wide range of tion market, with mainland Chinese before its release. mainland Chinese cities as well as residents travelling by air in ever Australia’s economy has international routes, said the nine greater numbers. been showing resilience against A330-300 aircraft would cover a China is expected to add more a difficult global backdrop, with wide range of destinations in Asia. than 6,800 new aircraft to its com- industries like construction, tour- “Today’s announcement under- mercial fleet worth $1.03 trillion by ism and education helping soak up scores our plan to operate an 2035, US manufacturer Boeing said unemployed miners as a resource extensive regional network in Asia,” in its annual China Current Market boom is three-quarters wound Hong Kong Airlines president Zhang Outlook Tuesday. Passenger traffic down. Still, a rebounding local Kui said in a statement published is estimated to increase 6.4 per- dollar — up about 9 percent since yesterday. cent annually in China over the Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri (right) shaking hands with the Director of Airbus Group mid-January — risks the compet- “The A330’s flexibility also next 20 years as the country reforms itiveness of currency-sensitive International, Christian Scherer, during a meeting at the Argentina Business and Investment Forum allows us to further deploy these its economy to rely more on con- service industries and could mute 2016 in Buenos Aires. aircraft to some long-haul routes sumption and the service industry a record-low 1.5 percent cash rate. in the future,” Zhang said. to drive growth, Boeing said. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016

Hedge funds across Focus on Fed hike’s globe cut fees in battle for investors timing is a distraction

By Simon Jessop and have seen returns hit by the Lawrence Delevingne impact of low interest rates. Reuters Funds have also cut per- formance fees, from an average of 18.77 percent across the global industry in 2007 to 16.69 percent edge funds across the today, said Eurekahedge, an inde- globe are cutting their pendent research firm which management fees as provides databases for funds they struggle to attract and investors. Hinvestors in the face of weak Caxton wrote to investors on returns, industry data shows. Tuesday to say it was cutting fees US-based Caxton Associates from the beginning of next year, this week became the latest firm on a sliding scale depending on to tell investors it would reduce how much money a client had its fees, joining the likes of Och- invested with them. Ziff Capital Management and It came weeks after direc- Tudor Investment Corp which tors of BlackRock’s UK Emerging have also cut charges this year. Companies Hedge Fund said in These recent, high-profile a stock exchange filing that they examples are not isolated cases had reduced the fee payable on though, and reflect a wider global its institutional share class to 1 trend in place for several years, percent from 1.75 percent. data compiled from more than Others to cut management 2,600 funds in Europe, the Amer- fees this year include $39bn US- icas and Asia shows. based fund firm Och-Ziff Capital The average annual manage- Management, which cut fees in ment fee charged by these funds its multi-strategy funds by 25 has fallen to 1.39 percent of the basis points for existing clients, value of a client’s assets, from a source with knowledge of the The facade of the US Federal Reserve building is reflected on wet marble during the early morning hours in Washington. 1.44 in 2015 and 1.68 about a dec- matter said. ade ago, according to the data Tudor Investment Corp, from industry monitor Eureka- which has $11.6bn of assets under By Mohamed El-Erian terminal value is determined by a much prospects for financial asset prices? hedge. The move by Caxton and management, lowered the 2.75 Bloomberg broader set of economic and financial var- Probably yes. In theory, the most sen- its peers to cut fees this year coin- percent management fee and a iables that are largely independent of the sitive assets would be shorter-maturity cides with a sharp slowdown 27 percent performance fees on timing of the next hike. They include pro- bonds and exchange rates, though the in the growth of assets under its flagship Tudor BVI fund to two ductivity, the structure of the economy, impact should not be large and systemic management. separate lower-fee classes, said t is unfortunate to see market par- the depth of financial intermediation and given the three preceding points. In practice, The hedge funds in the a source with knowledge of the ticipants and observers obsess so the interactions with the rest of the world. however, higher volatility could ensue given Eurekahedge data have added matter: to 2 percent and 25 per- much over the exact timing of the There is also growing recognition, both the excessive dependence of markets on a total of just $14.7bn so far this cent for institutions, and 2.25 Federal Reserve’s next interest rate within and outside the Fed, that the prob- central bank support, and thus could bring year, compared with $108.7bn in percent and 25 percent for other hike. Speeches and comments by Fed able terminal value (somewhere in the 2-3 a wider set of asset classes into play. This 2015 as a whole and $343bn in investors. Igovernors and regional presidents are dis- percent range) will be notably below his- is particularly true because markets are 2007. The figures illustrate how In a sign of the struggle the sected for any hint: Will it be next week or torical averages. still attaching too low a probability to the many funds are struggling to industry faces to attract and will central bankers wait until December? Will the timing of the next hike influ- likelihood of a rate hike next week, despite prove their worth and how the retain money, several big pen- Although this focus creates unnecessary ence the path of the cycle? repeated indications to the contrary from balance of power is increasingly sion schemes, most recently financial volatility — especially the closer Again, the answer is no; and, again, several central bank officials. tilting from managers towards New Jersey’s state pension fund, we get to the September 20-21 Open Market there is now broad recognition that this Will the timing of the next rate hike investors. have flagged plans to scale back Committee meetings — a calm examina- cycle will be atypical in historical terms: affect the economy? “There isn’t a manager out investments in hedge funds. The tion of lasting drivers of economic activity It will be very shallow and unusually There could be some immediate spillo- there who isn’t thinking about world’s wealthy individuals and and asset prices tells us that the timing of elongated, and the increases will occur at ver from higher financial volatility, but it is lowering fees,” David Saun- families — the other big capital the next rate hike shouldn’t matter that irregular intervals, and could occasionally likely to be temporary and contained. Eco- ders, Chief Executive Officer of pool for funds — are also show- much. Moreover, the be reversed. nomic prospects are much more dependent K2 Advisors — which has about ing signs of frustration. extent to which the Fed Will the timing alter what other system- on three other factors that are outside the $10bn invested with hedge funds The average proportion of can have an impact on ically important central banks do? control of central banks:The likelihood of a on behalf of its clients — said on total investments allocated to economic and financial It’s highly unlikely.As they contemplate policy pivot away from excessive depend- the sidelines of the Alpha Hedge hedge funds by “family offices” prospects depends on a additional stimulus, both the European ence on central banks and toward a more West conference in San Francisco — firms that oversee the invest- much broader array of Central Bank and the Bank of Japan have comprehensive policy stance that, at a last week. ments of wealthy families - fell factors, an increasing much more important considerations to minimum, would set in motion fiscal and The industry’s average return 0.9 percent in 2015 and was number of them out- take into account that are a lot closer to pro-growth structural reforms;Productivity on investment so far this year is likely to fall further, a survey of side the central bank’s home — including the possibility of weaker trends, including the role of innovation and up slightly from the 2015 aver- 242 family offices by Campden Although the focus direct purview. economic activity and a renewed deflation infrastructure investment in countering age, to 2.6 percent, but is still a Wealth and UBS published this creates unnecessary So, as tempting as risk, as well as the need to assess the unin- the overall sluggishness;Developments in far cry from the returns of more month showed. “A lot of people financial volatility, it is to partake in the tended consequences of negative rates and China and Europe. than 13 percent recorded a dec- invested in hedge funds ... and timing mania — here the concern that monetary policy become All of this leads back to a concern that ade ago, the data showed. they’ve all been rather disap- a calm examination are five major issues to may become a lot less effective or, in the has preoccupied me for some time: Not only Hedge funds were tradition- pointed about the performance,” of lasting drivers of watch to help maintain case of the Bank of Japan, counter-pro- have markets become overly dependent on ally known for a ‘2 and 20’ fee said Oliver Muggli, partner at our individual and col- ductive. Meanwhile, the Bank of England is continuous liquidity support — via share model before the financial cri- multi-family office Mandorit, economic activity lective sanity: trying to find a path through the yet-to-be- repurchases by companies or, more impor- sis — an annual management fee which advises on investments and asset prices tells Will the exact tim- fully defined modalities of implementing tantly, through central banks maintaining of 2 percent plus a 20 percent cut of more than €1.5bn. ing of the next Fed hike the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. ultra-low rates and, in the case of Europe of any profits. “It’s an asset class which prob- us that the timing have an impact on And the People’s Bank of China is deal- and Japan, extending and expanding their But those days have gone ably will face more challenge and of the next rate hike where policy rates are ing with issues of its own as the country large-scale asset purchase programs. for most funds which, like oth- more outflows in the next one or likely to settle at the navigates a complex “middle-income” They also have grown accustomed to the ers across the financial industry, two years.” shouldn’t matter that end of the cycle, the so- development transition. idea that monetary policy will continu- much. called terminal value? Will the timing — and, in particular, ally be held hostage to the risk of financial No, it won’t. The a September hike — alter the short-term volatility. Japan banks on wildest ride since global crisis

By Min Jeong Lee and Gareth Allan Investors have been whipsawed ahead of gauge has now lost 30 percent this year, private. “It seems that the costs of monetary Bloomberg next week’s BoJ meeting. The central bank heading for its biggest annual decline since easing, not the contention that policy has is reviewing its monetary policy after more 2008. reached its technical limits, are going to be than three years of unprecedented easing It hasn’t been all downhill. Mitsubishi stressed as the rationale for modifying the failed to revive the economy and prices. UFJ Financial Group Inc, along with peers current policy framework,” Ryutaro Kono, apan’s bank stocks are the most volatile Its introduction of negative rates in Janu- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc and chief Japan economist at BNP Paribas SA in Jrelative to the broader equity market since ary was aimed at lowering borrowing costs Mizuho Financial Group Inc, helped stage a Tokyo, wrote in a note on September 9. He the financial crisis as investors wrestle with and persuading banks to use more of their comeback for the industry in July and August, expects the BOJ will implement a more flex- whether the central bank’s next move will spare cash sitting at the BoJ. Yet lending has as Japan’s long-term bonds began to offer a ible range for JGB purchases. be a help or a hindrance to lenders. since slowed, the yen has surged and banks bigger yield advantage over shorter-matu- Bond investors are signaling that the Speculation that the Bank of Japan may remain reluctant to take on more risky assets rity debt. Banks profit from making loans at steepening of the gap between 30- and act to steepen the sovereign yield curve, as profit slides. higher interest rates than what they paid for 10-year yields may be close to a peak. For- Speculation that the which would make lending more profita- The direction for bank shares may point their funding, meaning a wider yield spread ward-curve data compiled by Bloomberg Bank of Japan may act ble, helped fuel a 30 percent rebound for the the way for the rest of the market, as lend- provides fatter margins. Brokerages includ- late Tuesday show that the spread between Topix Banks Index this summer. That rally ers were among the main groups leading the ing Haitong International Securities Group interest rates on the two maturities will nar- to steepen the sovereign has faded, while there is also talk of a deeper broader Topix index in its plunge to a bear Ltd, Macquarie Group Ltd and Daiwa Secu- row to 47 basis points in a year’s time, from yield curve, which would push into negative interest rates. Investors market in February, and also paved the way rities Group Inc have upgraded ratings or 53 late Tuesday. have already seen how that plays out in the for the summer’s rebound. price targets for some of the largest banks And bank stocks have struggled of late. make lending more equity market: the introduction of below- Volatility measured against a 50-day in September. The Topix Banks Index has lost more than 6 profitable, helped fuel a zero deposit rates early this year sparked period for bank stocks in Japan’s Topix The BoJ is considering either a tweak to percent this month, more than the Topix’s 1 the biggest selloff in bank shares since 2008. index is at the highest since 2009 relative or an abandonment of its guidance on the percent decline. 30 percent rebound for “There’s no real direction, the volatility is to the benchmark gauge. Gyrations contin- range of government bonds that it buys, Investors are also speculating on the the Topix Banks Index this just very high,” said Kentaro Kogi, a Tokyo- ued this week as the nation’s banks tumbled according to people familiar with the dis- odds for an extra rate cut. BoJ chief Haruhiko summer. based bank analyst at Citigroup Inc. “This is amid a global equity selloff. The Topix Banks cussions. Any shift would reflect a desire Kuroda conceded last week that negative the kind of phase we’re in at the moment — Index tumbled as much as 2.4 percent early by policy makers to give themselves greater rates have hurt banks’ profits, while also sig- it’s the back and forth in expectations over Wednesday after the Nikkei newspaper flexibility as they continue with the unprec- naling that he has room to take them further BoJ policy rather than fundamentals that reported that the BoJ will explore delving edented scale of debt purchases, the people below zero if the benefits to the economy have been driving share prices.” deeper into negative rates. The 87-stock said, asking not to be named as the talks are outweigh the costs. FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 21

Graeme Hick named as ECB set for Big Bash-style Australia’s batting coach

Reuters current role with Cricket Australia and have worked with some great T20 cricket league in 2018 young up and coming players during my time heading-up the under-19 MELBOURNE: Former England programme,” Hick said. batsman Graeme Hick (pictured) “To take the next step up with Majority of counties has been appointed as Australia’s the men’s team and getting the new fulltime batting coach after ini- opportunity to work with some give go-ahead tially working with the team on a of the best players in the world is for eight-team temporary basis. something I am really looking for- Hick has signed a contract until ward to.” tournament which March 2020, Cricket Australia said M e a n w h i l e , F a s t b o w l e r M i t c h - will run in addition yesterday, having spent time with ell Starc has had an operation on his the side in the Caribbean earlier this left leg after a freak training ground to the existing year after Michael Di Venuto took up accident, Cricket Australia (CA) said Twenty20 Blast the head coaching role with English yesterday. competition involving county side Surrey. The 26-year-old hit his left shin “Graeme worked with us dur- on a piece of equipment during a all 18 first-class sides ing the recent ODI tour in the West training drill in Sydney and required Indies and we were really impressed 30 stitches. with what he brought to the group,” Starc was rested from Austral- Australia head coach Darren Leh- ia’s one-day international tour of AFP mann said in a statement. South Africa, which begins later this “With an ICC Champions Trophy, month, but CA remains ‘hopeful’ he an Ashes Series and an ICC World will regain fitness before they host Cup all to be played in England the Proteas in November at the start LONDON: A new city-based in the near future, his knowledge of a heavy home schedule. Twenty20 tournament to rival Aus- of those conditions will also be “Mitchell was taken to St George tralia’s Big Bash and India’s IPL is set invaluable.” hospital in an ambulance this after- to be introduced into English domes- Zimbabwe-born Hick will take noon suffering a deep laceration tic cricket in 2018 to ramp up interest up his post before Australia host to his left shin after colliding with in the sport. South Africa for three Tests later some training equipment,” CA chief Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner (second right) gestures as he celebrates his team’s victory The new eight-team tournament, this year. Australia’s batting group medical officer John Orchard said. which hopes to attract leading play- against Royal Challengers Bangalore during the IPL final at The M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, in struggled on their recent tour of “Fortunately there were no bone ers from around the world, will run this May 2016 file photo. England are also set to start a T20 competition to rival IPL and Australia’s Big Bash. Sri Lanka, where the hosts’ spin fractures or tendon damage to his in addition to the existing Twenty20 bowlers flummoxed them on turn- leg and he underwent surgery this Blast competition involving all 18 ing pitches to sweep the three-Test afternoon to clean the wound and first-class counties and is designed to looking at how we can use domes- was less certain, telling Talksport is a rigorous process,” said Graves. series. received approximately 30 stitches.” draw in a new generation of cricket tic T20 for an even bigger purpose, Radio’s Cricket Week: “Everybody “The next steps for us all, as a Hick, who was prolific at first fans. especially getting more young peo- says we play too much cricket and game, will be to extend the discus- class level in England, played 65 One of the biggest hurdles to ple to play.” we’ve just added yet another compe- sions and get valuable input from Tests and 120 one-day internation- the new tournament getting off the Graves added: “This format (T20) tition into a packed county season.” players, members and other key als for his adopted country. drawing board was cleared when it was invented here and is successful There are still two formal hur- voices across the game.” The right-handed batsman, received backing from a majority of worldwide. dles the new tournament needs to According to a report in the Daily however, struggled to convert his counties. “It can excite new fans, attract get rid of. Telegraph, each of the 18 counties first-class form into the interna- Unlike other similar tourna- the best players and fuel the future The ECB will have to consider the would share in the potential finan- tional arena. ments elsewhere in the world such of the game on and off the pitch,” proposal at its next board meeting cial gains from a new tournament He scored 136 first-class centu- as the Indian Premier League, it is added Graves, following a reported and a subsequent further vote will arising out of television rights, mar- ries at an average of 52.2 but only envisaged the new event will see 16-3 vote in favour by the counties be required to change the govern- keting and the sponsorship. six centuries at Test level, averag- proceeds ploughed back into the and MCC, the owners of London’s ing body’s constitution. Estimates are that a modestly ing just 31.32 runs. 18 first-class counties and not into Lord’s Cricket Ground. It presently states that any pro- resourced side such as Derbyshire, The 50-year-old, batting coach the hands of privately operated Former England coach David fessional competition under its who are unlikely to see one of the at Cricket Australia’s high perform- franchises. Lloyd said even counties not directly authority must include the first-class teams in the new tournament based ance centre in Brisbane since 2013, England and Wales Cricket Board involved would welcome the new counties. in their county boundaries, could joined the Australia team on their (ECB) chairman Colin Graves, who tournament, tweeting they will get “The need to grow interest and be in line for a £1.5m windfall ($2m, one-day triangular series in the once labelled the Blast “mediocre”, “a shed full of money”. participation in the game we love is 1.8m euros), which would be a huge Caribbean in June. said on Wednesday: “We’ve all been But Surrey captain Gareth Batty at the core of our thinking, and this boost to the Midlands club. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my

‘Revolutionary’ Singapore Grand Prix: Drivers prepare new format to debut in Perth

for toughest challenge in F1 season AFP

SYDNEY: A “revolutionary” new Reuters golf format was unveiled yester- day involving a matchplay finish after three strokeplay rounds in a Contador to join bid to broaden the sport’s appeal, SINGAPORE: Since its inaugural race with its debut set for Perth next Trek-Segafredo in 2008, the Singapore Grand Prix year. has gained a reputation for being the The PGA Tour of Australa- toughest challenge in Formula One, sia and European Tour initiative, next year providing drivers with an extreme test called the World Super 6 Perth, of endurance in the trickiest condi- will feature 54 holes of traditional AFP tions. stroke play. Raced under floodlights on a tight, The top 24 players will then 23-turn 5.065-km street circuit in battle it out in a series of knock- MADRID: Two-time Tour de downtown Singapore, the 61-lap out, matchplay shootouts played France winner Alberto Contador trawl in tropical heat just north of the over six holes on the final day in (pictured) will join US cycling equator has been won by three men -- a change that organisers hope team Trek-Segafredo next year Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and will be big hit. “This is an excit- from current side Tinkoff, the US Lewis Hamilton. ing day for international golf as we team said yesterday. The exclusive triumvirate is made launch the World Super 6 Perth, “I am thrilled about the oppor- up of world champions, suggesting a golf tournament which is set to tunity that is in front of me. only the very best can master the change the way people view golf,” Trek-Segafredo is a very attrac- Marina Bay circuit, but four-times said PGA Tour of Australasia chief tive and ambitious project that winner Vettel believes luck can play Brian Thorburn. really inspires me,” the 33-year- as large a part as skill. Under the new format, a reg- old Spaniard said in a statement “It’s a race I have enjoyed but it’s ular cut will fall after 36 holes released by Trek-Segafredo. always very long,” said the German before the field is further reduced “I had some excellent con- who triumphed last year. to 24 after three rounds, with any versations with the team ties for 24th place decided by a management and we have a lot of play-off. The remaining players An aerial view of the street circuit for Singapore Grand Prix. goals and priorities in common. take part in the six-hole shoot- The big objective is to try and win out, with tied matches settled on a the most important races on the 90-metre, purpose-built knockout calendar -- first and foremost the “You can be lucky or unlucky Sunday, said there was no escape breeze but here, no. It’s a track that hole which shares the 18th green. Tour de France.” Contador, who with the safety cars, which is not from the stifling heat in the cockpit you can’t. The knockout hole will be won cycling’s showpiece race in what you hope for as a driver, you and drivers got little respite for the “If you come here unprepared played once and if there is still no 2007 and 2009, had made the prefer it to be fair and square,” added duration of the race. then you can’t luck into a good result. winner, competitors will return Tour de France his main goal of Vettel who also won the race from “It’s similar in heat and humid- You’ve got to come ready to go,” he for a one-shot decider, where the the season, skipping the Giro to 2011-13. ity to Malaysia but you’re surrounded added. Finn Valtteri Bottas said driv- ball nearest the pin wins. focus on the Tour this summer. “If it plays in your favour then by just the city and a lot of concrete ers needed maximum concentration The World Super 6 Perth, But crashes forced him to you take it and if it works against so it’s the one race I feel where you to ensure they survived unscathed. which replaces the Perth Inter- retire early from race. He won you, it’s quite annoying but that’s open your visor to get some air and “Physically at least it is the national, will be played at Lake Vuelta in 2008, 2012 and 2014 the nature of a street circuit,” he told you’re not getting any reward for toughest race. Mentally, I think it Karrinyup Country Club from but a fall and severe grazing down reporters yesterday. that,” the Australian said. feels a bit like Monaco. It’s very February 16-19 as part of the 2017 one side of his body hampered his Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo, who “It’s just heat and stale air. In intense and needs to be zero European Tour Race to Dubai and form this edition, which was won was second behind Vettel a year ago Malaysia there’s a bit of circulation, mistakes,” the Williams driver the PGA Tour of Australasia Order by Colombia’s Nairo Quintana. Lewis Hamilton and is hoping to go one better on even though it’s hot you get a bit of a explained. of Merit. 22 FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT

Title-seeking All Blacks Records fall, attendance face Springboks in much awaited ‘big battle’

AFP rises at Paralympics CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand and South Africa revisited one of rugby’s most notorious incidents yesterday and prom- August 7, but officials said demand ised a fierce battle as the All Blacks bid to wrap up the Rugby picked up and they had sold nearly Championship with two games to spare. Four visually impaired their goal of 2.4 million. That is partly The world champions are runaway Rugby Championship runners clock better a result of the price for many tickets, leaders and a fourth straight bonus-point win on Saturday -- times than the last only 10 Brazilian reals ($3) — an entic- provided Australia beat Argentina in Perth -- would be enough ing offer in a country that is mired in its to regain the southern hemisphere title. month’s 1500m Olympic worst recession in decades. But despite the unbeaten All Blacks’ fearsome form, they champion as ticket sales The Paralympics are more than a have history with South Africa and coaches Steve Hansen benign version of the Olympics. In fact, and Allister Coetzee said recent results would mean little in reach 2.4 million a few performances have been better Christchurch. than the Olympics. Hansen recalled the second Test in 1970, when Syd Nomis The top four runners in the men’s notoriously lost several teeth when he was felled by All Blacks 1,500-meter event on Sunday — in fullback Fergie McCormick -- who was roughed up so much AP the T13 class for visually impaired — in the third Test that he couldn’t start the fourth. all had better times than the Olympic “One thing I’ll never forget is Fergie McCormick’s tackle champion in last month’s Rio Olym- on Syd Nomis and what happened afterwards,” Hansen said. pics, American Matthew Centrowitz. “The reason it sticks out is because, whilst it’s not what RIO DE JANEIRO: The Paralympic Abdellatif Baka of Algeria won in 3 would happen in today’s game, it’s the ferociousness of how Games are in the home stretch, hav- minutes, 48.28 seconds. Centrowitz ran both teams attack each other and play and then afterwards ing overcome budget problems to stage 3:50.00 in an admittedly slow, tactical it’s shake hands.” a highly successful competition that has race. Ethiopia’s Tamiru Demisse in sec- Coetzee described All Black-Springbok Tests as “a big bat- seen higher-than-expected attendance ond, Kenya’s Henry Kirwa at third and tle the world stops and looks at. and a slew of record-setting perform- Algeria’s Fouad Baka in fourth also beat “It’s going to be a physical battle, it’s going to be a battle of ances. Centrowitz’s time. attrition and skill sets that will be tested,” he said. About 4,350 athletes are compet- In many countries, Paralympi- To underscore their physical approach to the match, the ing, each with unique differences that ans get significantly less support than Springboks have stacked their bench with six forwards and have to be classified. Lines have to be Olympians. The US Olympic Commit- only two backs with a clear plan to use their muscle up front drawn to group similar impairments, or tee awards athletes $25,000 for a gold to starve the expressive All Black backs. impairments that yield similar results. medal. American Paralympic athletes In their three Tests so far the All Blacks have scored 128 There are 10 impairment groups based get $5,000. points including 18 tries, and conceded just 39 points. South on physical, visual and intellectual cri- One sport at the Paralympics that Africa, coming off a loss to Australia, have scored only seven teria. But the 22 Paralympic sports doesn’t appear in any form at the Olym- tries, with 71 points for and 72 against. adjust the groups to suit their individ- pics is goalball, in which athletes with Hansen has made only one injury-forced change to the ual events, swelling the classifications visual impairments wear masks to All Blacks, with Ardie Savea winning his first Test start fol- to hundreds. completely block their vision. The ath- lowing a hamstring injury to Sam Cane. The games needed a bailout from letes try to throw or roll the ball past Savea’s explosive running has made him one of the stand- Brazil’s government of almost $80m the end line with opposing defenders out players for Super Rugby champions Wellington Hurricanes, David Behre of Germany races to a silver medal finish in the Men’s 400m - to make it to the starting line. Only trying to block the ball. The ball con- but Hansen warned his priorities are different at Test level. 200,000 tickets had been sold a few tains a bell so the athletes are able to T44 Final during the 2016 Rio Paralympics at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Despite thrashing Argentina 57-22 last week, the All Blacks weeks before the opening ceremony react to the shot. Janeiro, Brazil yesterday. were exposed defensively around the ruck and that is to be Savea’s focus against South Africa. The All Blacks walloped the Wallabies in the first two rounds of the championship, and the Australians then beat South Africa. But Hansen said the sequence of results would Kyrgios, Tomic fire up the Springboks rather than intimidate them.The last Murray hopes to time the All Blacks played the Springboks they narrowly won forget feud to 20-18 in the World Cup semi-final at Twickenham last year. take on Slovakia build on best AFP season of career Powerful Pumas SYDNEY: Nick Kyrgios has set to test Australia’s recovered from a hip injury and apparently buried the hatchet with Bernard Tomic resurgence after he was named yesterday in Australia’s Davis Cup team Great Britain’s Andy to play Slovakia. Murray in action during Reuters Australia’s temperamen- a practice session at tal number one has been the Emirates Arena feuding with the equally trou- in Glasgow, Scotland SYDNEY: Argentina gave the All Blacks something of a fright ble-prone Tomic, but they will ahead of their Davis last weekend and if they can maintain their intensity for a full unite in an attempt to secure Cup semi-final clash 80 minutes this weekend, a first Rugby Championship win a spot in the top-tier World against Argentina. over the Wallabies on Australian soil could be in prospect. Group -- and take a shot at The Pumas took the game to New Zealand with an explo- the title -- next year. sive mixture of forward power and backline expansiveness The play-off will mark the for a full 50 minutes in Hamilton last weekend before suc- first time in three years that AFP want to make the most of the opportunity cumbing 57-22 to the best team in the world. 21-year-old Kyrgios, who and we want to do it again this year if possi- ITF bans 2 Coming on the back of a victory over South Africa in Salta retired from the US Open last ble. It’s going to be hard and I want to win all in their previous outing, the display sent out a clear message week with a hip problem, and the events I can. “It’s been the best year of my that Argentina are a significant threat to an Australia team Tomic had played in the same GLASGOW: Andy Murray says he is hoping to career so far and I hope I can keep it going.” umpires still finding their confidence. Davis Cup team. build on the best year of his career by leading Murray is expected to partner big brother “They’re good around the field, their offload play’s bril- Kyrgios, the world number Great Britain past Argentina to their second Jamie, who clinched his second Grand Slam liant and they’re just a different outfit,” said Wallabies flanker 15, will take on Andrej Mar- consecutive Davis Cup final. of the season with the men’s doubles title Michael Hooper. tin in Friday’s opening match, The Scot spearheaded Team GB’s charge in New York, in the doubles as he looks set for life “It’s something we’re getting more used to but not some- while 21st-ranked Tomic takes to Davis Cup glory last year when their defeat to play three times in three days against thing we’re fully across yet.” on Jozef Kovalik. Both Slova- of Belgium in the final saw them claim vic- Argentina. Australia coach Michael Cheika’s focus this week has, as kian players are outside the tory in the competition for the first time in Smith is still to decide on his second sin- AP always, been on his own team, who snapped a six-match losing top 100. 79 years. gles player with his squad in such fine form. streak with their 23-17 victory over the Springboks in Bris- Australian doubles spe- The 29-year-old is in the form of his Kyle Edmund impressed many with a bane last Saturday. cialists Sam Groth and John career having already won a second Wim- solid run to the fourth round at the US Open, LONDON : The Interna- Their hopes of retaining the Rugby Championship title Peers will play Martin and Igor bledon title, a second Olympic gold medal while he stepped up in Murray’s absence to tional Tennis Federation says effectively disappeared with the back-to-back losses to the Zelenay on Saturday, ahead of and reached the final of the Australian and claim two singles matches victories in the Uzbekistan umpires Sherzod All Blacks with which they opened their campaign. the reverse singles on Sunday. French Opens this season. quarter-final defeat of Serbia in the sum- Hasanov and Arkhip Moloty- There was promise enough in the nervy win over South Tomic said he was look- Captain Leon Smith’s team go into this mer. However, Dan Evans was also in good agin have been banned for life Africa last weekend, however, to suggest that the Wallabies ing forward to teaming up weekend’s semi-final clash against Argentina form in New York as he succumbed to even- after being found guilty of bet- can extend their 11-match winning streak on home soil against with Kyrgios, his sometime at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena as favourites tual champion Stan Wawrinka following a ting-related offenses. the Pumas at Perth Oval. doubles partner with whom to progress to the final where they will face five-set battle in the third round. The ITF said Wednesday that Cheika has retained Dean Mumm, who shored up Aus- he had a falling-out over the either France or Croatia. The key rubber of the tie will pit Murray Hasanov and Molotyagin were tralia’s lineout at Lang Park, in his back row and kept intact Davis Cup earlier this year. The best-of-five tie opens with two against a resurgent Juan Martin Del Potro found guilty of using a mobile the playmaking axis of scrumhalf Will Genia, flyhalf Quade “The last few days has singles rubbers on Friday, followed by the just weeks after the Scot defeated his Argen- phone to communicate scores of Cooper and inside centre Bernard Foley. been a good experience. I’m doubles rubber on Saturday and the reverse tine rival to Olympic gold following an epic matches which they were offi- It is Australia’s defensive effort, which was sometimes woe- really excited to be a part of it singles on Sunday. battle in Rio. Del Potro hasn’t played a sin- ciating to a third party at an ITF ful against the All Blacks, that seems likely to decide whether from Friday with Nick,” Tomic Murray goes into the tie having suffered gles rubber in the Davis Cup for four years Futures event in Tiberias, Israel the powerful Pumas can be kept at bay, however. Number eight said. “I experienced some- the disappointment of being knocked out following three wrist operations that almost in September 2015. Facundo Isa, who has more carries than any other player in thing last year. We were in in the quarter-finals of the US Open by Kei saw him quit the game. It also said the pair delayed the championship this year according to Opta statistics, led the semi-finals against the UK Nishikori in New York last week, but the The 27-year-old’s ranking is still recover- putting scores into their mobile the full frontal assault on New Zealand’s defensive line which and we had a chance there. I world number two says he will dig deep for ing following two years away from the game electronic devices to allow a third was so effective in Hamilton. would love nothing more one “one more big push” to help his side as they and he finds himself ranked below team- party to place bets on matches in The 22-year-old will be joined tomorrow by Juan Manuel day than to be a Davis Cup bid to successfully defend their title. mates Federico Delbonis and Guido Pella. which they were officiating, and Leguizamon, who returns to the Argentina back row in one champion with these guys and “I took a few days off after New York and Argentina captain Daniel Orsanic has still to manipulated scores by using of four changes to the side after a leg injury kept him out of it’s all going to take a big team came here and I’ve been practising since decide whether he will face Murray in Fri- “fictitious deuce games” while the All Blacks test. -- not just myself. Sunday. I get a little break after I’m finished day or Sunday’s rubber but Del Potro, who officiating at other ITF Futures A 70-cap veteran of three World Cups, Leguizamon said Australia have won 28 here so one more big push this weekend,” lost out to eventual champion Wawrinka in events over a seven-month Argentina had to be wary of the Wallabies however poor their Davis Cup titles, making them Murray said. the quarter-finals of the US Open, said he period. recent form. the second most successful “At the end of last year, Davis Cup for all would be ready The ITF’s Futures tour is the “We made a great effort against the All Blacks, but against team behind the United States. of us was a priority but I don’t think at the Argentina are looking to win their first federation’s lowest competition this type of team that is not enough,” he said. But it is 13 years since they last beginning of the year we expected to win Davis Cup having suffered three defeats in level and has been identified as “Australia are a very unpredictable opponent. Although lifted the trophy. the event. the past ten years to Russia in 2006 and to a major area of concern for cor- some may think they are not at their best, they are a team “But as you get closer and closer you Spain in 2008 and 2011. ruption in the sport. that defends to perfection and so it proved in the World Cup. SPORT FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 23

Brazil back Morata’s goal earns Madrid win into top

Striker scores in five of FIFA stoppage time as Ronaldo also nets late rankings as the Spanish club overcome spirited AF P

Lisbon 2-1 PARIS: Brazil climbed back into the top five of the latest FIFA rank- AFP ings released yesterday. Two World Cup qualifying victories over Ecuador (3-0) and Colombia (2-1) saw Brazil draw MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo and level with the latter in joint fourth Alvaro Morata struck in the clos- position. ing minutes to seal a stunning Real South American rivals Argen- Madrid comeback to beat Sporting tina remain atop the rankings Lisbon 2-1 to start their Champions ahead of Belgium, Germany and League defence on Wednesday. Colombia. Madrid looked to be heading for Wales on the other hand man- their first home defeat in the com- aged to climb above Spain and petition for five years after Bruno clinched the tenth spot after their Cesar’s low effort three minutes into massiive success in the the Euro- the second-half handed Sporting a Real Madrid’s forward Alvaro Morata (left) celebrates after scoring past Sporting Lisbon’s goalkeeper Rui Patricio (Right) during their UEFA pean cup of nations that was held thoroughly merited lead. Champions League football match played at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid on Wednesday. in France. However, in a frantic finale, Ron- aldo’s free-kick levelled the game in normal time before Morata met James Rodriguez’s cross deep into to the delight of the boisterous trav- Jorge Jesus’s joy was short-lived as Ronaldo looked to have missed Rodriguez’s in-swinging cross with a FIFA RANKINGS stoppage time to complete a dra- elling thousands from Lisbon. he was sent to the stands for protest- his chance to net against his boyhood bullet header to deny Sporting in the 1. Argentina matic fightback. Real’s star front three of Ron- ing a dubious yellow card for William club when he smashed against the cruellest of circumstances. 2. Belgium The clash pitted two of Europe’s aldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Carvalho. Instead it was Jesus’s oppo- post with eight minutes remaining. Next up for Madrid is a mouth- 3. Germany most in-form teams against one Benzema started together for the site number Zidane who turned the However, the portugese, who watering trip to face Borussia another with Madrid having won first time this season, but all three game in Madrid’s favour with three was given a rousing reception by the Dortmund in a repeat of the 2013 4. Colombia 15 La Liga games on top of claiming looked rusty. vital substitutions in the final quar- Sporting fans before kick-off, curled semi-final that Dortmund won 4-3 5. Brazil their 11th Champions League in May, Sporting finally got their reward ter of the game. home a free-kick that just had too on aggregate. 6. Chile whilst Sporting are on a 13-game just three minutes into the second- Zidane sacrificed Bale, Benzema much power for his Portuguese inter- The Germans got their Euro- 7. Portugal winning streak in Portugal. half when Luka Modric and Sergio and Toni Kroos for Lucas Vazquez, national teammate Patricio. pean campaign off to a flying start 8. France Yet, it was the visitors who looked Ramos failed to clear and the ball Morata and Rodriguez as Madrid Ronaldo refused to celebrate his with a 6-0 thrashing of Legia War- 9. Uruguay by far the more confident as they fell kindly for Cesar to curl into the piled on the pressure in the final 20 goal, but there was no shortage of joy saw in the other game in Group F on bossed Madrid for the opening hour, far corner. However, Sporting boss minutes. just moments later when Morata met Wednesday. 10. Wales

Kiev to stage 2018 CL final Mahrez leads Leicester to victory in Bruges

AFP for the Foxes, but this was an accom- stepped up to curl a tremendous left- AFP plished, clinical performance in their EPL CHAMPIONS CLAIM foot strike into the top-left corner of first European outing since losing to 3-0 VICTORY the net with Butelle helpless. Red Star Belgrade in the UEFA Cup The quarter of an hour between ATHENS: The 2018 Champions first round in 2000. that stunning strike and the half-time League (CL) final will be held BRUGES: Riyad Mahrez scored in Ranieri handed a debut to Alge- on goal, and Leicester made them pay whistle could have brought more in Kiev despite Ukraine’s battle each half as Leicester City enjoyed rian club record signing Islam by seizing the lead just two minutes goals for the English side, but Mah- with Russian-backed separa- a dream debut in the Champions Slimani and also brought in another later. rez curled another effort just wide tist rebels, UEFA’s executive League on Wednesday, cruising to a summer recruit, Luis Hernandez A Hernandez long throw from the after a one-two with Slimani just out- committee decided Thursday, 3-0 win over Club Brugge in Belgium. starting at right-back with Danny right caused chaos in the penalty box, side the box. officials said. Voted England’s player of the Simpson declared unfit. with Club Brugge goalkeeper Ludovic Danny Drinkwater then forced The final will be held only year for his role in Leicester’s This, though, was largely the Butelle racing out only to miscue his Butelle to tip over from a 35-yard left- a few weeks before rival Rus- remarkable Premier League title Leicester team that won the Premier punch, and the ball was flicked on by foot volley and Vardy ran through to sia stages the next edition of triumph last season, it was appropri- League against all the odds. Hans Vanaken for Albrighton to con- test the French goalkeeper with the World Cup. ate that the Algerian winger should Their new status manifestly vert into the empty net. interval approaching. Ukraine, which was co- be so central to their victory in this failed to impress the locals, with With their team in front so soon Goal number three duly arrived host of the 2012 Euros with Group G clash. empty seats dotted all around the Jan into their first ever Champions just after the hour mark, Mahrez Poland, submitted its official However, it was Marc Albrighton Breydelstadion, but the Foxes will not League game, it was little wonder making no mistake from 12 yards bid to stage the final at the who opened the scoring inside five care about being considered unfash- the Leicester fans in two corners of after Vardy had once again burst into 70,000-seat Olympic stadium minutes at the Jan Breydelstadion ionable in Belgium. They may have the stadium were delirious. the box only to be brought down by earlier this year. before Mahrez whipped in a won- had a poor start to their domestic title Now Ranieri’s side were able to the outrushing, hapless Butelle. “We have been making derful free-kick just before the defence but Club Brugge have also play to their strengths on the coun- “We’re just too good for you”, was sure the security all stands up half-hour. been struggling for form and there ter-attack, and the Club Brugge the chant from the away supporters, and the decision was taken He then converted a 61st-minute was a yawning gulf in class between defence could not cope with the sear- before Izquierdo struck the post as Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez with confidence,” a UEFA exec- penalty to seal a perfect night for the sides. ing pace of Jamie Vardy. the Belgian champions pushed for a utive member said after the greets the fans as he leaves the Claudio Ranieri’s side, who are The hosts should have been in The England striker provoked a consolation goal. meeting, speaking on condi- pitch during the UEFA Champions already top of the section after Porto front inside three minutes, but rapid free-kick on the edge of the penalty Leicester could have won by tion of anonymity. League match against Club and FC Copenhagen drew 1-1 in the Colombian winger Jose Izquierdo box when he was chopped down by more, though, Robert Huth heading “Ukraine will host the Brugge in Bruges, Belgium on other game. dragged his shot wide after a Hans the hosts’ 39-year-old captain Timmy just wide from an Albrighton corner UEFA Champions League final Wednesday. Much tougher tests surely await Vanaken pass sent him clean through Simons, who was booked. Mahrez late on. on May 26 2018,” said a state- ment released after the first executive meeting under new UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin who won an election on Wednesday. Aguero’s triple gives Manchester City belated lift-off Conflict between the Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the AFP The only change to the two teams east of the country erupted in announced for Tuesday’s game was City’s inclu- April 2014. sion of Ilkay Gundogan in place of David Silva, A further worry is who was rested “as a precautionary measure”. Ukraine’s track record on rac- MANCHESTER: Sergio Aguero scored a hat- Having been sidelined by a knee injury ism, with UEFA having fined trick as Manchester City outclassed Borussia since signing from Borussia Dortmund for and imposed a three-match Moenchengladbach 4-0 in their rearranged 20 million pounds ($26.5 million, 23.5 mil- stadium ban on Dynamo Kiev Champions League opener at the Etihad Sta- lion euros), it was Gundogan’s first outing in after their fans’ racist behav- dium on Wednesday. a City shirt. iour, notably when four black The game had been carried over from Tues- City attacked the game in a manner akin men were assaulted in the day due to a thunderstorm and Aguero made to their slick first-half display in Saturday’s 2-1 Olympic Stadium during a up for lost time with his second treble of the win at Manchester United and it took them less Champions League match campaign after his hat-trick against Steaua than nine minutes to go in front. against Chelsea last season. Bucharest in the play-off round. Aleksandar Kolarov fizzed a cross into the The Estonian capital of Tallin Aguero, currently serving a domestic ban, box from the left and Aguero darted in front of will hold the UEFA Super Cup struck twice in the first half and once in the Andreas Christensen to stab home and end a final on August 18, 2018. second before giving way to Kelechi Iheana- five-game Champions League scoring drought. The venue for the 2018 cho, who netted City’s fourth. Gundogan won the penalty that brought Europa League final will be It gave Pep Guardiola a handsome victory City’s second goal when he was caught on the decided later, UEFA said. UEFA in his first group-phase game as City manager. back of the leg by Christoph Kramer, although said its executive had “con- With his former club Barcelona, as well as contact may have occurred just outside the box. firmed” that acting general Celtic, lying in wait in Group C, Guardiola had Aguero sent Sommer the wrong way, tak- secretary Theodore Theo- warned his players that a strong start in the ing his tally for the campaign to eight goals in doridis would take the job competition was imperative. all competitions. Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring their first goal against Borussia permanently after Ceferin’s It was a third successive defeat against City Sommer also had to beat away a shot from Monchengladbach in the UEFA Champions League Group C opener played at Al Etihad election. for Andre Schubert’s Gladbach, who lost twice Gundogan, but Gladbach improved after Schu- Stadium, in Manchester, England on Wednesday. Theodoridis took over the to the English side in last season’s group stage. bert sacrificed Kramer for Julian Korb and post on an interim basis after After Tuesday’s postponement, Gladbach switched from a back three to a back four. City initially had to work a bit harder for Sommer before rolling in his hat-trick goal. Gianni Infantino left to become left tongue-in-cheek letters of apology to the A spectator up to that point, City goalkeeper their chances in the second half. Leroy Sane came on for his home debut and FIFA president in February. bosses of the fans who stayed on in Manchester Claudio Bravo got down smartly just before Sterling’s pass down the inside-left channel made a quick impression by teeing up Iheana- for an extra day on the seats in the away section. half-time to parry a crisp Lars Stindl effort. took Korb out of the game and Aguero rounded cho to smash home in stoppage time. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 GraemeGraem Hick named Murray hopes too as Australia build on best batting coach season of careerer

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Mashael Abdulla Umm Salal eye top four finish as Al scores a brace for Brigadiers in six-goal thriller on opening Sadd aim to end trophy drought day of QSL action

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DOHA: Umm Salal will be looking to make positive start to their Qatar DOHA: A brace from Mashael Stars league (QSL) campaign when Abdulla and a goal apiece from they take on Al Khor at the Qatar SC Mojtaba Jabari and Ndombe Mubele Stadium. helped Al Ahli to come from behind The Orange Fortress have been and trounce Al Gharafa 4-2 in the one of the most consistent sides opening match of the Qatar Stars last season with 11 draws. The pic- League (QSL). ture would have been different if The inaugural match of the the same number of matches had league proved to be a thriller pro- resulted in wins into victories, which ducing a flurry of goals, six in all. would have meant they finished Three of the six goals came in the much higher then the fifth place they first seven minutes of the match and took at the end of the season. injury time play saw two more goals. This season they will aiming The other goal came in the 75th to get into the top four positions to minute. secure an AFC Champion League A Gharafa starter the goal gush spot. by opening the scoring in the third Bulent Uygun, the head coach of Umm Salal coach Bulent Uygun (left) and Al Khor coach Jean Fernandez. minute, with Krisztian Nemeth find- Umm Salal, said that he expects of ing the back of the net. tough season ahead. But after the early success the “Its going to be a tough season against Umm Salal. Jean Fernandez Jesualdo Ferreira, the head coach Cheetahs failed to find more suc- because four teams are going down the head coach of Al Khor is trust- of Al Sadd, wants his team to get cess on the goal front. instead of two. This will create new ing his players to deliver this season, back to winning silverware as their Al Ahli goalkeeper Amer Abdulla Al Dosari leaps high to collect the The Pedro Caixinha coached challenges for every team.” “We had a very good training camp. fans are used to. team had to wait till the injury time ball in a goal mouth action during the Qatar Stars League (QSL) match “We had a really good training We have trust in our players to per- “Every year we go into every for the second goal, with Vadimir against Al Gharafa at Al Ahli Stadium in Doha yesterday. Al Ahli won camp and our players are moti- form well this season. Umm Salal is competition aiming to win it. How- Weiss pulling one back. 4-2. Picture by: Baher Amin/The Peninsula vated. The beginning of the season is a strong team and their coach is with ever, in the last few years we have But by the time Al Ahli has always difficult as Al Khor is a strong them for a long time that’s why they failed to win the league and we hope wrapped up things and had things Meanwhile, the El Jaish vs Al the QSL season. “The squad is on a team and it will be difficult to beat are a stable team.” this year we can change that.” in control having taken a 4-2 lead. Wakrah clash at the Lekhwiya sta- high following our result against Al them,” added the Turkish tactician “Of course this season is tougher Speaking about the pre- Al Ahli coached by Luka Bonacic dium on Sunday will be an exciting Nasr, we must keep this up against at a press conference on Wednesday. than last season. This season will be season preparations Ferreira did not allow the initial setbacks to affair as it will see the introduction Al Wakrah.” Umm Salal have had some very tough for Al Khor. Fighting rel- added: “We had a summer train- bother them but came strongly after of legendary Malian midfielder Sey- “We cannot be complacent as Al changes in their squad ahead of the egation is in our mind but what we ing camp in Austria and we have the early goal. dou Keita to the QSL. Wakrah are a good side and hungry new season and Uygun is hoping that have to do is to prepare a strong been training very hard in Doha Mashel scored the first of the El Jaish have made it through to to get a big result against El Jaish, we this change can lead to something team and fight to remain in the QSL,” as well. Most of my players were two goals in the fifth minute and the AFC Champions League semi- will have to be mentally prepared” positive. “Mounir El Hamdaoui and added the Frenchman. with the Qatar national team. added the second one in the sev- final. The Soldiers have also signed added the French coach. Sanzhar Tursunov were changed and In the second match, Al Sadd I am happy that they are back enth minute. a world class midfielder in Seydou Al Wakrah, who finished in change can be positive or negative take on Al Kharaitiyat at the Al training with us” Thereafter, both the teams failed Keita and they will be gunning to eleventh place last season, will be and we hope its positive,” added the Sadd stadium with both teams will “We don’t know a lot about to trouble the scorers and it was only make a positive start to the league looking to improve their position in 45 year-old head coach. be looking get the three points. Kharaitiyat this season because in the 75th minute that Al Ahli again against Al Wakrah. the table. Al Khor ended last season in Al Sadd ended last season in they got new players but my play- found the back of the net. Head coach Sabri Lamouchi The Blue Waves will be without tenth place avoiding relegation. This third place and secured their spot ers are excited to play because they Mojtaba making it 3-1 for the believes his side’s achievements on their top scorer Sacha who moved season they will be targeting for a in the AFC champions league. The haven’t played a competitive match Brigadiers.Ndombe scored the fourth Wednesday evening will boost the to UAE side Emirates in the close better position in the QSL table by Wolves will be hunting for the top in two months,” added the Portu- goal for Al Ahli. side going into the opening game of season. having a positive start to the season spot a trophyless season last term. guese head coach. Froome defends medical record after latest WADA hack

AFP Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and level sport. In a statement issued sport, but it is grossly unfair to the tennis champions Venus and Serena yesterday, the 31-year-old Froome athletes, whose personal data has Williams. said: “I’ve openly discussed my TUEs been put at risk. They said the leaks were “retal- with the media and have no issues Sapstead added: “It is important LONDON: British cyclist Chris iation” for the agency’s role in with the leak which confirms my to note that in the UK, applications Froome defended his right to a ther- uncovering “state-sponsored doping” statements. for Therapeutic Use Exemptions, apeutic use exemption (TUE) after in Russia which led the International “In nine years as a professional TUEs, are subject to a strict and becoming one of the latest athletes to Association of Athletics Federations I’ve twice required a TUE for exac- independent process. Applications have medical records with the World (IAAF), whose president is British erbated asthma, the last time was submitted to UKAD are assessed Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) leaked middle-distance great Sebastian in 2014.” by at least three independent med- by computer hackers. Coe, to ban the country’s track and Long before these leaks, concerns ics and are then referred to WADA, Froome was one of five British field team from this year’s Olympic had been raised across several sports which has further independent over- athletes together with fellow cyclist games in Rio. as to whether the TUE process was sight of applications. Bradley Wiggins, golfer Charley Hull, The five British athletes were being abused by athletes looking to “This robust process is in place to rower Sam Townsend and rugby sev- among a second batch of 25 sports- gain a competitive edge over their ensure that TUEs are granted based ens player Heather Fisher to have men and women from eight countries rivals. solely on medical need -- they are confidential medical records made to have their details leaked. While that debate continues, not an indication of doping. public without their consent. “’Fancy Bear’ (aka Tsar Team United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) “They are there to support the There is no suggestion any of the (APT28)) have leaked another batch Nicole Sapstead issued a statement clean athlete’s right to compete, five have broken doping rules. of confidential athlete data from insisting all TUEs in Britain were despite a medical condition.” On Tuesday, WADA announced WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration issued on the basis of “medical need” On Wednesday, Russia’s sports that the Russian cyber-espionage and Management System (ADAMS),” only. minister denied there had been any group Tsar Team (APT28), also WADA confirmed on Thursday. “UKAD strongly condemns Russian government involvement in known as Fancy Bears, had broken TUEs exist to allow athletes with actions of this nature and we are the hacks. “How can you prove that Gold medalist Britain’s Bradley Wiggins (right) and bronze medalist into its Anti-Doping Administration recognised medical conditions such appalled that five members of Team they are hackers from Russia? You and Management System (ADAMS) as asthma, from which Rio gold med- GB have had their private data pub- blame Russia for everything,” Vitaly Chris Froome posing for photographers during a press conference database. The hacking group allist Wiggins suffers, to take drugs lished illegally online,” she said. Mutko said through a translator on after the London 2012 Olympic Games men’s individual time trial road released information gleaned from on WADA’s banned list for their ail- “Not only does it undermine our the sidelines of a congress of UEFA, cycling event in London in this August 2, 2012 file picture. Froome the files of sports stars including US ment so they can compete in elite work and the protection of clean European football’s governing body. defended his right to a therapeutic use exemption (TUE).