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SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 • 18 SHAWWAL 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6866 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Over 1.28 million Qatar committed to global peace & security: FM visited Qatar QNA DOHA: Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani took part in the Ministerial Meeting during Jan-May of the Global Coalition to Counter Terrorism, hosted by the US State Department in Washington, DC. with most of the growth generated The meeting dealt with ways to by Saudi Arabia, according to Qatar strengthen joint international coor- GCC visitors Tourism Authority. dination and cooperation to combat constituted a major The number of Saudi tourists terrorism. visiting Qatar in the first quarter The Foreign Minister stressed chunk at 598,702. of the year increased by 16 percent Qatar’s commitment to continue to 280,255 compared to the same working with the international com- period last year. munity to promote international Tourist arrivals totalled 2.93 peace and security. By Sachin Kumar million last year, over a third of He warned that the continu- The Peninsula whom were from Saudi Arabia and ation of the crisis in Syria and the India. absence of a political horizon to Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and other officials taking part in the The total number of tourist resolve it would hamper interna- Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter Terrorism in Washington, DC. arrivals last year was 3.7 percent tional efforts to eradicate terrorism. DOHA: The total number of visitors up over the previous year, while He said these efforts should con- international law and human rights supporting humanitarian projects national institutions of the commu- to Qatar in the first five months of the average annual growth between form to international laws, norms of and highlighted the importance of and the empowerment of local and nities affected by terrorism. the current year reached over 1.28 2010 and 2015 was 11.5 percent. million, a rise of 21 percent com- Some 855,555 Saudis visited pared to the first four months. Qatar last year. Indians were the According to Ministry of Devel- second-largest group of tourists, opment Planning and Statistics data, totalling 375,910. Tyre warranty extended to one year around 1.05 million people visited Tourists from the UK (135,645) Qatar between January and April. were the third-largest group nation- Visitors from the Gulf Coop- ality-wise, followed by Bahrain By Sidi Mohamed that the decision is aimed at improv- He said customers must check or more in hot countries. eration Council (GCC) region (132,913). The Peninsula ing the quality of tyres and giving important specifications on tyres “So we cannot allow such tyres to constituted a major chunk — Tourism is one of the fastest consumers enough time to discover such as temperature category which be used here as they can explode any 598,702. Over 294,983 people growing sectors in Qatar and play- any manufacturing defects or storage should be A or B which can with- time,” Al Kuwari told The Peninsula. from other Asian region, including ing an increasing role in diversifying problems as a six-month warranty is stand high temperatures of up to 80 He said drifting in summer is not Oceania region, and 199,170 from the national economy, shielding it DOHA: The Qatar Standards not enough. degrees Celsius. The tyre must carry allowed, specially in July and August, Europe visited the country during from oil market fluctuations. and Specifications Authority has “The decision was taken after we a minimum speed code of S which is due to the high asphalt temperature. the period. Qatar welcomes visitors in extended the warranty on tyres from studied cases referred to us, and we 180kmph. The customer must ask for He advised people driving to Visitors from the GCC coun- world-class, high- standard hotels. six months to one year. discovered that six-month warranty and keep the warranty certificate. neighbouring countries or within tries dominate the tourism inflow The average hotel occupancy Dr Mohammed bin Saif Al is not enough for consumers to dis- “Tyres imported from the US and Qatar to stop every two to three in Qatar. The first quarter of the rate last year was 71 percent, with Kuwari, Assistant Undersecretary cover defects,” he added. Europe or any cold country which hours and said that since manu- year saw an 11 percent increase in the total number of hotel rooms for Standards and Specifications Al Kuwari said the warranty also don’t meet GCC standards should not facturing defects are difficult to the number of visitors from all GCC being 20,713. at the Ministry of Municipality and applies when travelling abroad as be used here because “the maximum discover, people must check tyres countries (403,023) compared to Environment, said during Taraheeb long as it is proved that a defect is a asphalt temperature in cold countries they want to buy ensure they have the first quarter of 2015 (361,660), → Continued on page 2 programme on Al Rayan Channel manufacturing defect. is 35 degrees Celsius and 76 degrees no cracks. Turkey detains 283 presidential guard members National anti-smoking plan

AFP army, powerful Interior Minister saying he learned about the coup Deputy Prime Minister Numan The Peninsula the issue. The programme is Efkan Ala said, the state-run Ana- from his brother-in-law. Kurtulmus said there would be no expected to be implemented in dolu news agency said. Authorities imposed a state of curfews, and special measures may November and will see collabora- The gendarmerie, which looks emergency on Thursday, strength- last 45 days. “We want to end the tion between the Ministry of Public ANKARA: Turkey yesterday detained after domestic security, had always ening powers to round up suspects state of emergency as soon as pos- DOHA: A team from the Ministry Health, Primary Health Care Cor- about 283 members of President been part of the military and its behind the putsch and suspending sible. This is not a declaration of of Public Health and concerned poration, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s guard and removal is a blow to the armed the European Convention on Human martial law,” he said. authorities are working on a Foundation and several hospi- began shaking up the security forces forces’ clout after the coup. Rights. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag national anti-smoking programme tals and private clinics, Al Sharq one week after a failed coup, as US Erdogan held a two-hour meet- “Turkey is a state of law and does told CNN-Turk that the period of to unify efforts of institutions on reports. President Barack Obama denied ing with the head of National not act by revenge,” said Prime Min- pre-charge detention would be having any prior intelligence of Intelligence Agency (MIT), Hakan ister Binali Yildirim as he visited lengthened. the putsch. There are at least 2,500 Fidan, at the presidential palace, a military centre in Golbasi out- Turkey also asked its nationals members of the guard. Turkish television said. side Ankara, where bombings on living abroad to report people and The government cancelled 10,856 Fidan, a key figure in mod- the night of the coup killed dozens organisations that support the US- passports mainly of state officials ern Turkey, is under pressure after of people. Turkey will not do what based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, Qatar national anthem “due to flight risk with the holders Erdogan identified intelligence they (the plotters) have done. We whom Erdogan has accused of mas- in custody or on the run,” an offi- weaknesses during the coup bid. will act with justice but not a single terminding the failed coup, Swedish cial said. The gendarmerie would Earlier, the president admitted drop of blood spilt will remain with- Radio said. composer Al Obaidan dies be part of the ministry and not the there had been “intelligence failures”, out consequences.” → See also page 3

QNA 8 dead in German mall DOHA: Legendary Qatari com- poser and musician Abdulaziz shooting rampage Nasser Al Obaidan (pictured) died yesterday, at the age of 64, after AFP police spokesman said, adding they a courageous battle with illness. were at large. The Bild newspaper Al Obaidan was the composer said a gunman ran through the mall of the national anthem of Qatar. MUNICH: At least eight people were near the Olympic stadium, firing In 1966, when he was 14, killed in a shooting rampage in a on people before fleeing towards a Al Obaidan founded Al Adwa shopping centre in the southern Ger- metro station. The shooting started “lights” band as the first troupe He was also a member of the man city of Munich yesterday. at around 1600 GMT at a McDonald’s of the theatre and music with a Board of Trustees of the Academy Three assailants were involved, a restaurant. The OEZ shopping centre group of gifted youth in Doha. He of Music in Qatar and represented was surrounded by armed police who played a remarkable role in the the country as a member on the were hunting for the attackers, while establishment of music and sing- Executive Council of the Arab Ministry alert a helicopter flew overhead. ing monitoring section at Qatar Society of Music. A collection of DOHA: Qataris in Germany on Emergency vehicles were seen Radio in 1968. Al Obaidan gradu- his lyrical and music albums was vacation or for treatment should in the streets outside, as shoppers ated from the Higher Institute for recorded and published. take extra care and avoid visiting rushed away, some carrying children Arab Music in Cairo with honours He was awarded several public places until the situation in their arms. “Attention — avoid the in 1977. From 1980, he served as prizes, including the Golden Opera returns to normal, the For- neighbourhood around the OEZ. Stay comptroller-general of music and Prize in special Oscars for opera eign Ministry said on its Twitter in your homes. Leave the street,” the singing for the General Authority and classical singing ceremony in account. police tweeted. for Radio and Television. Doha in 2014. Police secure the entrance to a subway station near a shopping mall. → See also page 11 02 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 HOME / MIDDLE EAST

Civic inspection Simple objects make STEM easy

with teaching concepts and tests. “People have decided what must US STEM expert be done that teachers don’t have a says using simple choice anymore.” He believes learn- ers must be encouraged to ask objects that can be questions, be creative and think out manipulated has of the box in the educative process. proven effective in “We have all of man’s knowledge but kids don’t’ know what to do with making teaching and them. They don’t know how to ask learning of complex questions because they don’t think about the world. topics fun and easy. “Kids today just know how to take the test because they have to pass it, but there are lots they don’t know and they don’t ask why.” By Raynald C Rivera Altman advocates the use of The Peninsula manipulatives which are objects which can be manipulated by hands Al Rayyan Municipality conducted 813 inspection visits last month STEM education innovator and multi-awarded educator Thomas C in teaching. and registered 79 violations, destroyed 80 sheep and collected Altman demonstrates the use of magic spring in teaching concepts “It’s better for kids to work on a total of QR130,100 in fines. It also issued 26 commercial DOHA: Using simple objects that can across various fields and levels. Pic: Baher A / The Peninsula something that can be manipulated temporary permits. The Public Parks Department at the Ministry be manipulated has proven effective by the hands because it hits a differ- of Municipality and Environment distributed saplings, plants and in making teaching and learning of ent part of the brain, rather than just seasonal flowers to people and planted 6,136 small trees and 875 complex topics fun and easy, accord- “It is very important to teach companies to focus on his passion in look at the computer screen,” he said. seasonal flower plants. ing to an American expert in Science, them to be fascinated with the world teaching which lasted over 35 years. With the decline in the number of Technology, Engineering and Math- around them. I don’t teach science. He has featured in many confer- students interested to pursue STEM- ematics (STEM) education. I teach amazement,” said Altman, ences around the world and lectured related careers in some countries, STEM education innovator and who is in Doha for a week-long sum- students from various cultures. Altman believes STEM should be multi-awarded educator Thomas C mer camp at Qatar Scientific Club “Children all over the world are given priority in the design of cur- Altman uses simple items and toys where he is organising activities for the same. They are all curious and ricula as it is crucial in other fields. Visitors had more options such as magic spring, glow in the children. get amazed by certain objects. They “It is connected to other fields dark and rainbow glasses, to teach Altman’s visit is part of the US want to learn in a fun way. When because it’s about innovation. They simple and complex topics in physics Embassy’s year-round educational they are amazed about something, always want new methods on how to to choose hotels last year and maths from elementary to uni- and cultural exchange programme they ask more questions.” better solve problems from econom- versity levels. in which experts from the US are Education is becoming so reg- ics to government,” he said. The use of ordinary objects as invited to Qatar to deliver lectures imental that it impedes creativity To reach out to more audiences, Continued from page 1 hospitality sector because it will teaching tools fascinates learners, to students in various fields. among teachers, he said. Altman has a YouTube channel con- support growing tourism sector. acts as an excellent motivation for Altman, who specialises in “You want everybody to pass the taining over 300 videos which have Residents in Qatar and tourists Qatar has emerged as an impor- them to ask questions and promotes nuclear physics, turned down test and you cannot afford to do the generated more than 3.5 million coming here got more options to tant destination in terms of business creativity. employment offers from big other way, but learning doesn’t stop views. choose hotels last year. tourism because of the increasing Qatar’s hospitality sector saw number of business events. Qatar the opening of 13 new hotels last is hosting many international exhi- year, mostly four- or five-Star. bitions, seminars and conferences Increasing supply of hotel rooms attracting professionals from across in the country is good news for its the globe. Tunisia’s ruling parties set to oust PM

Reuters calm social tensions. Essid, who has liberal parties in the ruling coalition. change in the Arab world since the been in the post since early last year, “There is an agreement between 2011 uprising that overthrew auto- Soldier dead in Tunisia refused to resign, but instead called the parties and organisations on the crat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. a vote of confidence in his govern- need for change,” said Ennahda chief But political progress has out- TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament looks ment for July 30. Rached Ghannouchi. paced the economic liberalisation set to sack technocrat Prime Minis- “We decided not to give con- “Habib Essid will not be the new demanded by foreign lenders to landmine blast: Ministry ter Habib Essid next week after the fidence to Habib Essid in the prime minister, and his government tackle high unemployment, a partic- parties in the ruling coalition said parliament,” said Sofiane Toubel, a has become a caretaker government ularly acute problem among Tunisia’s they would not back him in a con- lawmaker in Essebsi’s Nidaa Tounes since the president launched his ini- youth. AFP The army and security forces fidence vote. Essid has been under party. tiative,” he said. “It is time for a change, and for have been fighting extremist pressure to quit after President Beji Ennahda, the biggest party in The ruling coalition parties audacity. We need a more coura- groups in the area for several years. Caid Essebsi called last month for a parliament, also said it would vote hold more than 150 seats out of 217 geous alternative that can apply The militants have responded by new unity government that could against the prime minister, as did in parliament. Tunisia has emerged the law and fight unemployment,” TUNIS: A landmine planted by launching ever more ambitious push through economic reforms and Afek Tounes and UPL, two small as a political model for democratic Essebsi said last month. “terrorists” killed a Tunisian sol- attacks. dier yesterday during a operation In March 2015, jihadist gunmen to track down militants in the coun- killed 21 tourists and a policeman try’s mountainous west, the defence at the National Bardo Museum in ministry said. Tunis. The following month, 30 Libyan forces claim gains in fighting against IS “Around 1pm a soldier was mar- Britons were among 38 foreign tyred by the explosion of a mine laid holidaymakers killed in a gun and by terrorists,” said the ministry’s grenade attack on a beach resort spokesman, Belhassen Oueslati. near the Tunisian city of Sousse. Reuters May, but have faced lethal resistance and air strikes. The brigades, made He said shelling continued late The mountainous area around the Tunisia has been in a state of from snipers, suicide bombers and up mainly of fighters from the into Thursday night, but it was quiet impoverished town of Kasserine has emergency since November 24, mines as they have closed in on the western city of Misrata, said in a on Friday morning. become a rear base for a jihadist when a suicide bombing claimed city centre. statement that they had captured a Nearly 50 bodies of Islamic State insurgency that has killed dozens of by the Islamic State group killed 12 SIRTE: Libyan forces said yester- Sirte had been under the com- hotel on the eastern front line used fighters killed during Thursday’s police, soldiers, and civilians since presidential guards in central Tunis. day that they had edged further plete control of Islamic State since by Islamic State snipers, and also clashes were counted, the state- the 2011 overthrow of longtime dic- Several thousand Tunisians have into the centre of Sirte as they seek last year, becoming its most impor- taken control of part of the “Dollar” ment from the government-backed tator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. joined extremist groups including to recapture the city from Islamic tant base outside Syria and Iraq, and neighbourhood. forces said. At least 22 brigade mem- Kasserine is the prime hideout the Islamic State group in Syria, Iraq State, following heavy battles until its loss would be a major setback for They said they had foiled three bers were killed and 175 wounded, for the Okba Ibn Nafaa Battalion, and neighbouring Libya. late the previous evening that left the group. attempted car bomb attacks and according to Misrata’s central hos- a group linked to Al Qaeda. In late Earlier, Tunisian authorities dozens dead. After a lull in fighting earlier this destroyed an armoured vehicle. A pital. Since the campaign for Sirte May, a landmine blast killed two dismantled a cell linked to the IS Forces aligned with Libya’s week, the government-backed forces Reuters witness saw a tank belong- began in May, more than 300 fighters women and wounded a third close militant group that was planning United Nations-backed govern- launched a fresh assault on several ing to the brigades being blown up, from the brigades have been killed to nearby Mount Sammama, the attacks against sites in the coastal ment in Tripoli advanced rapidly on fronts in Sirte, after first pounding though it was not clear what caused and more than 1,300 wounded, a ministry said. town of Sousse, Islamic State’s Libyan stronghold in Islamic State positions with artillery the explosion. spokesman for the forces said.

Palestinian arson survivor back home Non-Resident Nepali Association forum begins

AFP of his parents and brother and had made a trip from the hospital to visit their graves. He said that the boy would be NABLUS: A six-year-old Palestin- going to school in September and ian who survived an arson attack returning to his home surroundings by Jewish extremists a year ago that would hopefully help him start to put wiped out his immediate family was his shattered life back together. discharged from hospital yesterday “The doctors felt that Ahmed’s and returned to his village. return to us would help his recovery, The July 2015 firebombing of the both physical and mental,” he said. family home in the Israeli-occupied The Duma killings brought West Bank village of Duma killed global condemnation and drew Ahmed Dawabsha’s (pictured) renewed attention to Jewish extrem- 18-month-old brother and fatally ism, including accusations Israel had injured his parents, who later died not done enough to prevent such vio- in Israeli hospitals. lence. In January, a court charged “Ahmed has left the Israeli hos- two Israeli settlers over the fire- pital where he was and has come bombing after slow progress in the back to Duma and from now on he Professor Asher Barzilai, the hos- case led to criticism from human will live with us,” his uncle, Nasser pital director, said that Ahmed was rights groups and Palestinians. The Dawabsha said. near death when he was admitted. trial has yet to begin. “He will go back to the hospital “We are certainly, certainly “Indictments have been made, FROM LEFT: Bigyan Raj Sharma, AIG, Nepal Police; Krishna Prasad Acharya, CEO, Employees Provident once a week to continue his laser happy when a child, who arrived but the perpetrators of this terrible Fund; Dr Shesh Ghale, President, NRNA ICC; Satrughan Prasad Pudasini, Director-General, Foreign treatment.” with close to zero chances of sur- crime have yet to face justice,” UN Israeli media said that Ahmed viving at all, leaves here on his feet,” Mideast envoy Nickolay Mladenov Employment Department; DB Chhetri, Regional Coordinator, Presiding Officer; and Maniratna Sharma, had undergone 10 skin grafts dur- he told Israeli army radio. Nasser said on Wednesday after a fire -- Acting Ambassador and Chief Guest, at the opening ceremony of the 5th Middle East Regional Meeting ing his year in the Safra children’s Dawabsha said that his nephew had from unknown causes -- damaged of Non-Resident Nepali Association at the Millennium Hotel, yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula hospital, near Tel Aviv. been told previously of the deaths another home in Duma. MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 03 Turkey rebuffs EU on death penalty

Islamic State and in the European Union’s be emerging. With this new structure, I efforts to stem the flow of refugees from Syria. believe the armed forces will get fresh blood,” Growing concern in Erdogan accuses Fethullah Gulen, a char- Erdogan said. West about rights during ismatic US-based cleric, of masterminding Speaking at his palace in Ankara, which emergency period. the plot against him, which crumbled early was targeted during the coup attempt, he last Saturday. In a crackdown on Gulen’s sus- said a new putsch was possible but would pected followers, more than 60,000 soldiers, not be easy because authorities were now police, judges, civil servants and teachers more vigilant. have been suspended, detained or placed “It is very clear that there were signifi- Reuters under investigation. Bozdag said that armed cant gaps and deficiencies in our intelligence, Gulen supporters had infiltrated the judici- there is no point trying to hide it or deny it,” ary, universities and the media, as well as Erdogan told Reuters. the armed forces. Erdogan also said there was no obstacle ANKARA: Turkey rebuffed the European Erdogan said late on Thursday he would to extending the state of emergency beyond Union yesterday over the death penalty, while restructure the military and give it “fresh the initial three months — a comment likely President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to blood”, citing the threat of the Gulen move- to spark concern among critics already fearful restructure the military and give it “fresh ment, which he likened to a cancer. about the pace of his crackdown. Emergency blood”, signalling the scope of a shake-up Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile powers allow the government to take swift yet to come under a state of emergency. in the United States for years, has denied any measures against supporters of the coup, in There is growing worry in the West about role in the attempted putsch, and accused which more than 246 people were killed and Turkey’s widening crackdown against thou- Erdogan of orchestrating the coup himself. over 2,000 wounded. sands of members of the security forces, Turkey wants the US to extradite the cleric. Emergency rule will also permit the pres- judiciary, civil service and academia after Turkish commandos take part in an operation to search for missing military personnel Washington says Turkey must give clear evi- ident and cabinet to bypass parliament in last week’s failed military coup. On Wednes- suspected of being involved in the coup attempt, in Marmaris, Turkey, yesterday. dence first. enacting new laws and to limit or suspend day, Erdogan announced a state of emergency, rights and freedoms as they deem necessary. a move he said would allow the government 2004 as part of its bid to join the bloc and to assess that demand from the standpoint on SUPREME COUNCIL Germany called for the measure to end to take swift action against coup plotters. European officials have said backtracking law, and not according to what the EU says,” Erdogan said the government’s Supreme as quickly as possible. An international law- The possibility of Turkey bringing back on the death penalty would effectively put Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told broadcaster Military Council, which is chaired by the yers’ group warned Turkey against using it capital punishment for the plotters of the an end to the EU accession process. Erdogan CNN Turk. prime minister, and includes the defence min- to subvert the rule of law and human rights, attempted coup that killed more than 246 says the death penalty may need to be brought His comments are likely to spark further ister and the chief of staff, would oversee the pointing to allegations of torture and ill-treat- people and wounded more than 2,100 has back, citing the calls for it from crowds of sup- unease in the West, where there is growing restructuring of the armed forces. ment of people held in the mass roundup. put further strain on Ankara’s relationship porters at rallies. worry about instability and human rights “They are all working together as to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogh- with the EU, which it seeks to join. “People demand the death penalty and in the country of 80 million, which plays an what might be done, and ... within a very erini said the reaction to the coup must not Turkey outlawed capital punishment in that demand will surely be assessed. We have important part in the US-led fight against short amount of time a new structure will undermine fundamental rights. IS uses civilians as human shields in Syria: Coalition

AFP and vehicles.” Afterward, the spokes- appealed to forces loyal to President man said, the coalition received both Bashar Al Assad to abide by interna- internal and external reports “that tional humanitarian law. there may have been civilians in the More than 200,000 people liv- WASHINGTON: The Islamic State area who are mixed in and among ing in opposition-controlled parts group is using civilians as human the Daesh fighters.” of the battered northern city have shields in Syria, a US military offi- Garver said the first phase of been effectively living under siege cial said yesterday, at a time when the investigation — what he called for more than two weeks. the coalition has been accused of a “credibility assessment” — would Residents have reported food killing dozens of civilians in strikes take no longer than a week and a and fuel shortages and skyrocketing near Manbij. half. Coalition officials will then prices. “Syrian government forces The Syrian Observatory for determine whether a more inten- are repeating the terrible siege tac- Human Rights accused the coalition sive inquiry is required. tics in densely populated eastern of killing 56 civilians, including 11 The spokesman said the jihad- Aleppo that devastated civilian pop- children, as they fled Tuesday from ists had been mounting exceptionally ulations in other towns in Syria,” a village near Manbij, a strategic fierce resistance in Manbij, an IS HRW’s deputy Middle East director waypoint between Turkey and the bastion. Fighting has grown more Nadim Houry said. jihadist stronghold of Raqa. intense as SDF units move into the “Syrian authorities should allow The Britain-based rights mon- city, he said, “which is sort of differ- aid in and permit civilians wishing itor relies on a network of sources ent than what we saw in Ramadi and to leave to do so safely.” inside Syria. what we saw in Fallujah,” Iraqi cit- The United Nations says that The coalition has opened an ies from which jihadists were ousted nearly 600,000 Syrians already A man takes pictures with his mobile phone at a place devastated by an air strike in the rebel-held Douma investigation in the matter. this year. live under siege countrywide, most The Islamic State “used civilians “It’s a fight like we haven’t seen surrounded by government forces neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, yesterday. as human shields and as bait” in an before.” though rebels and jihadist groups effort to draw the fire of the Syrian Garver estimated that the SDF also employ the brutal tactic. Democratic Forces (SDF) toward had taken back roughly half the city, “We haven’t seen vegetables in the civilians, Colonel Chris Garver, an area still housing at least 2,000 weeks and the air strikes are not UN eyes fresh intra-Syrian peace talks a coalition spokesman, said by video civilians. giving us a break,” Feras Badawi, conference from Baghdad. The SDF An SDF-allied unit said that on a journalist in eastern Aleppo city, is a US-backed Kurdish and Arab Thursday it had given IS fighters 48 told HRW. On Thursday, at least 15 Reuters before a meeting with German that has rocked Turkey. “The next alliance. hours to leave the city, but Garver civilians including six children were Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stein- three weeks are going to be extremely Garver said the attack Tuesday said that “as of right now, I’m not killed in government bombardment meier. The envoy said US Secretary Of important to give a chance for not only came after SDF fighters “observed confirming that.” of two rebel-held districts in the city, BERLIN: The United Nations hopes to State John Kerry and Russian officials intra-Syrian talks, but also for some a large group of Daesh fighters in a according to the Syrian Observatory convene a new round of intra-Syrian had agreed to take some “concrete possibility of reducing violence,” he convoy who appeared to be ready- HRW plea to let in aid for Human Rights. peace talks in Geneva in August, the steps” in addressing the situation in said. ing for a counterattack” against SDF Human Rights Watch yesterday “It is a crisis situation in our city... UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Syria, which could be helpful. De Mistura said progress in US- troops in the area. Daesh comes from urged Syrian regime forces to imme- The lines of people at shops to stock Mistura said yesterday. He said Turkish officials also Russian talks on Syria would get the the Arabic language acronym for the diately let desperately needed aid up on rations are extremely long. We “We are determined to actually assured him during a meeting in next round of intra-Syrian talks off to IS group. into besieged districts of Aleppo and are really expecting a famine in a look for a proper date in August for Ankara this week that they remained a good start and could help the war- “A strike was called in on Daesh. to allow civilians to leave the city. few days,” said Ibrahim Abu Al Laith, relaunching the intra-Syrian talks in committed to working toward peace ring parties take “credible, real steps The strike was against both buildings The New York-based group a rescue worker in east Aleppo. Geneva,” de Mistura told reporters in Syria despite a failed coup attempt in the direction of political transition.” Syrians use Pokemon Go to depict their plight

AFP smoke rising from the blackened car- Go has sparked a worldwide frenzy “I wanted to draw world attention cass of a car. among users who have taken to the to the suffering of the Syrians in this A child walks across the rubble streets with their smartphones. war,” the 26-year-old said. BEIRUT: A sad-eyed Pikachu Poke- strewn throughout the street, atop The free app uses satellite Tahhan, from Damascus province, mon Go character sits amid the rubble which sits the yellow Pikachu char- locations, graphics and camera capa- left Syria in December 2011, shortly on a Syrian street, while a Charizard acter, his tall ears flopping down. bilities to overlay cartoon monsters after the conflict began, seeking ref- dragon from the smash hit game is In another image, a boy wheels on real-world settings, challenging uge first in Egypt. perched alongside gun-toting jihad- his bicycle down a devastated street, players to capture and train the crea- In August 2014, he took to the seas ists. with the turquoise-green Vaporeon tures for battles. like thousands of Syrian refugees, The striking montages are the character by his side. But some Syrians see it as a landing in Italy before continuing work of Syrian Khaled Akil, who is “The idea came to me when I was chance to redirect attention to the onto Denmark, where he now lives. one of several activists and artists reading the news and saw the news conflict that began in March 2011, Syrian opposition activists inside using the international frenzy over about Syria was mixed with the news which has often fallen out of the the country have also sought to har- Pokemon Go to draw new attention about Pokemon Go,” Akil told AFP. headlines despite a spiralling death ness the craze over the game, posting to the plight of their battle-scarred “I searched for photos of destruc- toll and the displacement of more a series of images online this week country. tion in my city Aleppo and I imagined than half the Syrian population. showing children holding posters of In the images posted on Akil’s the Pokemon Go game in Syria and Syrian graphic designer Saif individual characters. website, characters from the wildly the impact of the war on these crea- Aldeen Tahhan posted images on his “I am in Kafr Nabal in Idlib prov- popular smartphone app are placed tures,” he added. Facebook page showing users holding ince, come and save me,” reads the into news photographs of scenes from “My goal with this simple project smartphones and seeking not Poke- text underneath a Pikachu on a poster the conflict in Syria, which is now in is to shed light on what is happening mon but medical care, school books held by a young boy. its sixth year and which has killed in Syria,” said Akil. or undamaged homes. Kafr Nabal is a rebel-held town in more than 280,000 people. “Unfortunately, after five years of One image depicts a smartphone northwestern Idlib province, which A boy holds a banner depicting a Pokemon character in Syria. The One image appears to show the war, the Syrian death machine has in front of a rubber dinghy carrying is mostly held by an opposition alli- aftermath of bombardment, with the become ordinary, everyday news.” refugees at sea, with the user trying ance that includes Al Qaeda affiliate banner reads, “I am trapped in Douma in Eastern Ghouta. Help me.” facades sheared from buildings and Since its global launch, Pokemon to capture a life ring. Al Nusra Front. 04 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Possible North Korean nuclear site identified

widespread expert assessments that Uranium enrichment carries a it was part of a much larger network far smaller footprint than plutonium The suspected plants of smaller-scale plants. and can be carried out using cen- would be “critical” In its report yesterday, ISIS said it trifuge cascades in relatively small may have identified one of the plants buildings that give off no heat -- to the success of that could have served as an impor- making it far harder to detect. any future deal on tant facility in the development of The possibility that North North Korea’s gas and centrifuge Korea has, or will have, undeclared dismantling country’s programme in the 1990s and early uranium enrichment facilities nuclear weapons 2000s. squirrelled away across the coun- Collating reports from Chi- try would undermine the credibility programme: ISIS nese sources, a high-ranking North of any future aid-for-denuclearisa- Korean defector and input from tion deal with Pyongyang. satellite imagery analysis and In 2008, North Korea destroyed AFP “knowledgeable” US government the most visible symbol of its nuclear South Korean and US activists holding a big banner reading "all humanity condemns the nuclear-obsessed officials, ISIS pointed the finger at weapons programme – the cooling an air force base around 45km west tower at its main atomic reactor in Kim Jong-Un who squeezes the blood of his own people to fire rockets!" as they launch 10 large balloons SEOUL: A US think-tank said yes- of Yongbyon. the complex. carrying anti-North Korea leaflets near the Demilitarised Zone dividing the two Koreas. terday it may have identified a The most likely site of the gas The implosion was witnessed by secret North Korean gas centrifuge centrifuge facility, it said, was an a number of international journal- plant used in the early stages of the underground complex southeast of ists and diplomats. Activists launch anti-Kim leaflets nuclear-armed country’s illicit ura- the air strip. The demolition of the 18m-tall nium enrichment efforts. While it may once have held up cooling tower, which carried off The Institute for Science and to 200-300 centrifuges, ISIS said it waste heat to the atmosphere, is AFP tensions, with the North respond- The FFNK has staged similar International Security (ISIS) said had “no information” to suggest it a response to United States con- ing angrily to the announced balloon launches for years, despite identifying suspected hidden was still functioning as an enrich- cessions after the North delivered deployment of a sophisticated US warnings of North Korean retaliation. plants involved in the production of ment plant. a declaration of its nuclear pro- SEOUL: South Korean and US anti-missile system in South Korea. The leaflets usually criticise the weapons-grade uranium would be North Korea’s enrichment activ- grammes to be dismantled. activists said yesterday they had “About 20 activists from the North’s ruling Kim family and urge “critical” to the success of any future ities are believed to date back to the The United States paid the US$2.5 balloon-launched hundreds of thou- Seoul-based Fighters for Free people in the isolated country to deal on dismantling North Korea’s early 1990s when it received sub- million demolition fee. sands of leaflets over the border into North Korea (FFNK) and New York- “rise up.” nuclear weapons programme. stantial assistance from Pakistani During 2008 tensions resurfaced North Korea, criticising leader Kim based Human Rights Foundation The latest launch came days after The North first revealed the experts who, according to ISIS pres- between North Korea and the US Jong-Un and Pyongyang’s latest bal- launched 10 large balloons -- car- the North test fired two Scud missiles existence of a gas centrifuge enrich- ident David Albright, essentially due to disagreements over the six- listic missile tests. rying 300,000 anti-North leaflets and one intermediate-range Rodong ment programme at its Yongbyon provided Pyongyang with a “cen- party talks disarmament process. The exercise on Thursday came -- across the heavily-fortified bor- missile in violation of existing UN nuclear complex in 2010, but denied trifuge starter kit.” resumed. amid heightened cross-border der,” the groups said. resolutions. Filipina excluded from next Philippines’ oil still in disputed sea round of executions: Official Reuters way, the Philippines will have a hard said a big factor in the Philippines’ time finding much-needed foreign decision to pursue arbitration in 2013 Chinese village Reuters executions by firing squad. expertise willing to risk upsetting was China’s obstructions around A Philippine maid, Mary Jane MANILA: The Philippines, eager to China, officials and experts say. Reed Bank. head charged Veloso, got a last-minute reprieve resume development of vital oil and According to US oilfield services “Every time we send a survey INDONESIA: A woman from the last year, following a request gas reserves off its coast, will likely company Weatherford, one conces- ship there, Chinese coastguard ves- over bribes Philippines convicted in Indonesia from Manila after an employ- need to reach an accord with a Chi- sion - SC 72 - contains 2.6-8.8 trillion sels harass our survey ships,” he told for drug smuggling and sentenced ment recruiter, whom Veloso had nese government infuriated by last cubic feet of natural gas. That would news channel ANC. “That’s why we BEIJING: The chief of to death will not be among the accused of planting drugs in her lug- week’s ruling that granted Manila a be as much as triple the amount dis- had to do something.” a village that became first round of executions carried gage, gave herself up to police in the big victory in the South China Sea. covered at the Malampaya project, The US Energy Information a symbol of resistance out when capital punishment is Philippines. The Philippines relies over- an offshore field that powers 40 per- Administration believes that beneath against corruption has resumed after a lull, the attorney “Not yet,” Attorney General H whelmingly on imports to fuel its cent of the main island of Luzon, the South China Sea could be 11 been charged for alleg- general said yesterday. M Prasetyo said when asked about fast-growing economy. That reli- home to the capital Manila. billion barrels of oil, more than Mex- edly accepting bribes, Indonesia imposed a morato- Veloso. ance will grow further in a few years Malampaya, which was devel- ico’s reserves, and 190 trillion cubic Chinese authorities rium on executions for five years “We are still waiting on the legal when the main source of domestic oped by Royal Dutch Shell and feet of natural gas. said, over a month after before resuming them in 2013. It process in the Philippines, which we natural gas runs out, so the clock began operations in 2001, is Most foreign firms with capital his detention sparked provoked international outrage in have to respect.” is ticking for it to develop offshore approaching the end of its produc- and technology needed to develop protests. April last year with the execution Prasetyo has said 16 prisoners fields that China shows no sign of tive life. Its only viable replacements those reserves, however, don’t want Lin Zulian was elected of eight drug traffickers, seven of will be executed this year, including loosening its grip on. are in waters that China insists it will to risk being caught up in spats over head of Wukan village them foreigners. nationals from Nigeria and Zim- Beijing has refused to recognise not cede. jurisdiction and have avoided con- in rare open polls after After the outcry, authorities said babwe, but has declined to give a the ruling by the Permanent Court “Malampaya is going to run out cessions offered in disputed waters. residents expelled local they were postponing executions specific time frame. That number of Arbitration that granted the Phil- of gas in 10 years so there is urgency Manila’s state-run Philex Petro- officials in a mass 2011 while the government focussed on will be more than doubled next year, ippines sovereign rights to access for us to develop the Reed Bank,” leum has the controlling stakes uprising, drawing world- reviving he economy. he said. offshore oil and gas fields, including said Antonio Carpio, a supreme court in two stalled concessions, the wide attention. But Indonesian President Joko Indonesia has declared a “drug the Reed Bank, a shallow tablemount associate justice. 880,000-hectare SC-72 at the Reed The government Widodo’s administration has emergency” and vowed no mercy some 85 nautical miles off its coast. Carpio was part of the legal team Bank and the 616,000-hectare SC-75 of Shanwei city in the this year pledged to resume the for drug traffickers. And as long as things stay that that made the case in The Hague and off the island of Palawan. southern province of Guangdong, said Lin had been formally arrested and charged by local prosecuting authorities on suspicion of taking bribes. The case was under ‘further investigation’, it said. ‘No terror link’ in Australia police station scare

SYDNEY: Terror links were ruled out yesterday after a man set his car alight and rammed it into a police station in Aus- tralia, as officials vowed People protesting against restarting the construction of helipads for US forces clash with riot to review security after police in Higashi-son, Okinawa prefecture, yesterday. the scare. The man was seen parked in the driveway Japan sues officials over US base of the Merrylands Police Station in Sydney’s west late Thursday with the car AFP residents want the base moved minister, reiterated that Ona- going up in flames when off the island altogether. ga’s decision was illegal and the officers approached. In yesterday’s suit, Prime government would make its case It was then driven into TOKYO: A lawsuit demanding Minister Shinzo Abe’s gov- in court. an underground carpark local bureaucrats stop blocking ernment asked the court in “Governor Onaga’s deci- security door. the construction of a US mili- Okinawa’s capital city Naha sion to cancel the approval was Police said petrol and tary base in Okinawa was filed to declare that a move by the illegal. We will argue that the a gas bottle were found by Japan’s central government region’s governor to block con- infrastructure minister’s order inside by officers who yesterday, the latest in the spat struction for the base is illegal. (for him to reverse his move) is risked their lives to extin- between Tokyo and the south- “The national govern- appropriate,” Nakatani said. guish the blaze and pull ern island. ment’s hardline attitude toward More than half the 47,000 out the man, who suf- Tokyo wants to move the Okinawa’s US base issue is American troops in Japan under fered serious burns. No unpopular US airbase in a extreme,” Okinawan governor a decades-long security alliance one else was injured. crowded residential district Takeshi Onaga said. “I have no are stationed on Okinawa, the A motive has yet to be on Okinawa’s main island to choice but to call it a far cry from site of a major World War II bat- established but terrorism a sparsely populated area in democracy,” he said. tle that was followed by a 27-year was ruled out. its northern part, but many But Gen Nakatani, defence US occupation of the island. ASIA / AFRICA SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 05 Nigerian militants deny Search for MH370 to be suspended AFP

PUTRAJAYA: Hope of finding flight talks to end oil attacks MH370’s final resting place is “fad- ing” and the massive three-nation search for the doomed jet will be said on Thursday his administra- companies, the general public and suspended if nothing turns up in the tion was negotiating with the rebels the international community.” suspected crash zone, Malaysia, Aus- Rebels say if there through oil companies and security Meanwhile the Ijaw Youth Coun- tralia and China said yesterday. is any such deal, it agencies. cil (IYC), an umbrella body for youths With the designated search But the NDA said on its website in the southern Niger delta region, area due to be fully scanned within means the president that the “truth is that we are not also dismissed the government’s weeks, transport ministers from the is talking to their aware of any peace talks”. claim of dialogue. three countries held talks to discuss mercenaries set to “If there is any such peace talk, “President Buhari and the federal the future of the unprecedented it means the president is talking to government of Nigeria should stop deep-sea sonar hunt for the Malay- disturb the genuine their mercenaries set to disturb the deceiving Nigerians and the interna- sia Airlines passenger plane. struggle. genuine struggle of the agitators,” tional community about talks with “Ministers acknowledged it added. Niger Delta militants on how to stop that despite the best efforts of all The rebels have previously attacks on oil facilities in the Niger involved, the likelihood of finding Relatives of passengers missing on Malaysia Airlines MH370 hold scoffed at claims they are involved Delta region as this is highly ridic- the aircraft is fading,” Malaysian placards after a joint press conference of the Ministerial Tripartite AFP in back-channel discussions and ulous and laughable,” the IYC said Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai Meeting at the Malaysian federal administrative centre in Putrajaya, accused the government of not being in the southern port city of Warri. said after the talks in the country’s outside Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. sincere. The group said it was “embar- administrative capital Putrajaya. WARRI: Militant group the Niger “If we are to engage in any peace rassing” for Buhari to say oil majors He was joined by Australia’s information pointing to a crash site the aircraft completely abandoned. Delta Avengers (NDA) yesterday talk we made it clear that the inter- were negotiating on behalf of gov- Darren Chester and China’s Yang emerges, Liow said. “The suspension does not mean denied being in talks with Nigeria’s national community must be part of ernment as “the issues at stake are Chuantang. The use of the term “sus- the termination of the search,” the government to end attacks on key it,” the statement added. completely beyond the capacity of Unless “credible new evidence” pended” was an apparent nod joint ministerial statement said. oil facilities that have cut output and “The president knows our oil companies to resolve”. is found by the current opera- to anguished families who have “Ministers reiterated that the hammered revenue. demands. So they should stop The rebels want oil majors to tion, “the search would not end, stepped up pressure on authori- aspiration to locate MH370 has not President Muhammadu Buhari deceiving the international oil leave the Niger delta. but be suspended” until solid new ties not to declare efforts to locate been abandoned.” Opposition hails war veterans’ Mugabe rebuke 20 die and 40 hurt as town of Kidal fighting AFP relevance and should immediately of dictatorial tendencies, personi- The MDC called on the 92-year- proceed to resign,” it said. fied by the President and his cohorts old leader “to take heed of the very In a sign of growing opposition to which have slowly devoured the val- clear advice that he has been freely threatens peace deal HARARE: Zimbabwe’s main opposi- Mugabe, the war veterans who have ues of the liberation struggle in utter given by his erstwhile comrades, the tion yesterday praised war veterans in the past supported the nonage- disregard of the constitution”. The war veterans”. for “finally seeing the light” after the narian leader, on Thursday issued a war veterans vowed not to support “Mugabe remains the single big- Reuters lopsided in their own favour and long-time allies of President Robert strongly-worded statement denounc- Mugabe if he seeks re-election. gest threat to Zimbabwe’s national could not be independently verified. Mugabe denounced him as “dicta- ing Mugabe and his regime for brutal A rare surge of public demonstra- stability as well as economic pros- Mali’s government, which has torial”. attacks on his opponents and for pre- tion has forced many onto the streets perity,” said the MDC. BAMAKO: Up to 20 people not had a military presence in Kidal The Movement for Democratic siding over a failing economy. of the southern African country in Opposition to Mugabe’s rule has were killed and at least 40 oth- since clashes between the army and Change (MDC) “would like to whole- The Zimbabwe National Libera- recent weeks, triggered by an eco- grown in recent months as the coun- ers wounded, according to health Tuareg rebels killed 50 soldiers heartedly thank and salute (the) war tion War Veterans’ Association said nomic crisis that has left banks short try’s economic troubles mount while workers, in two days of fighting there in 2014, urged both sides to veterans for publicly acknowledging they had noted “with concern, shock of cash and the government strug- his ZANU-PF party is in turmoil over in northern Mali between Tuareg end the fighting. that Robert Mugabe has outlived his and utter dismay the entrenchment gling to pay its workers. his succession. rebels and pro-government mili- “The government of the Repub- tia threatening a shaky year-old lic of Mali considers that the peace deal. situation created by these clashes The Tuareg-dominated Coordi- constitutes a serious threat to nation of Azawad Movements (CMA) the implementation of the peace Preventing dengue and rival Gatia militia fighters, who accord,” it said in a statement. had peacefully shared control of the MINUSMA said it had stationed town of Kidal since February, clashed troops in heavily populated areas for a second day yesterday before pro- to protect civilians. government fighters withdrew. The UN also deployed drones to Ghana to hold Both groups signed a United monitor the fighting, and a region- Nations-backed deal a year ago wide French counter-terrorism elections on with the government in Bamako, mission used helicopters to patrol the the capital in southern Mali, that skies above the town, said MINUSMA December 7 was meant to end a decades-long spokeswoman Radhia Achouri. cycle of uprisings and let the army “Our main concern is that civil- focus on defeating jihadist groups ians are in the line of fire,” she ACCRA: Ghana’s presi- in the desert north. said, adding that some town resi- dential elections will now A nurse at the main health cen- dents had taken shelter inside the be held on December 7, tre in Kidal, one of the largest towns MINUSMA camp overnight. after parliament voted in northern Mali, said she had seen The gunfire had largely subsided against an amendment to about 20 dead, both at the clinic and by mid-afternoon yesterday, as the push the vote forward by on the town’s streets. CMA claimed to have driven Gatia one month, the electoral “There are wounded people eve- fighters from Kidal, a traditional commission said. rywhere. Forty wounded, with four stronghold of the Tuareg separa- Lawmakers rejected a bad cases. One of them was shot tist movement. bill seeking to change the in the throat, another in the back, “We control the town in its date for the polls from another in the abdomen,” a doctor entirety along with the surrounding December 7 to the first at the health centre told Reuters by areas. Calm has returned,” said CMA Monday of November for telephone, asking not to be named. spokesman Almou Ag Mohamed. every election year. Red Cross volunteer Ahamed Ag Two officers in the pro-govern- “Despite of our pre- Mohomedine said he had counted ment militia confirmed that Gatia paredness to deliver a over 15 bodies, adding many had withdrawn from the town. credible and world-class wounded had been taken to the “We decided to draw back from elections on the proposed Kidal base of Mali’s UN peacekeep- Kidal, but we are in the process of A health worker fumigates an area in an effort to curb dengue in a neighbourhood in Colombo, Sri November 7 date, parlia- ing mission MINUSMA. reorganising,” one of the officers ment in its wisdom has Lanka, yesterday. Both armed groups gave death said, asking that his name not be decided not to pass the tolls from the fighting that were used for his protection. amendment,” the electoral commission said. One dead in Ivory Coast Singapore govt bans Kenya jails ivory ‘kingpin’ for 20 years protest IS-linked newspaper AFP

ABIDJAN: At least one Reuters Arabic, is also distributed in Bru- MOMBASA: A Kenyan court sentenced person was killed and nei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, an ivory trafficking “kingpin” to 20 about 10 others wounded and southern Thailand, the Straits years in jail yesterday, a symbolically by gunfire in central SINGAPORE: Singapore yesterday Times newspaper said this month. heavy penalty in a nation where major Ivory Coast during violent banned the distribution and pos- “ISIS is a terrorist group which poachers are rarely punished. clashes yesterday with session of Al Fatihin, a newspaper poses a serious threat to the security Feisal Mohamed Ali, a Kenyan authorities at protests linked to the Islamic State militant of Singapore,” the ministry added. national, must be made an “exam- over a hike in electricity group, after government officials “Al Fatihin is yet another step by ISIS ple (of) for those behind the poaching rates. repeatedly warned against terror to spread its propaganda abroad, menace in the country,” magistrate “About 10 wounded threats. with a clear intention to radicalise Diana Mochache said at the sentenc- people were taken to The wealthy city-state saw its and recruit Southeast Asians.” ing in Kenya’s second city Mombasa. the hospital,” a hospital first case of terrorism financing this The newspaper is published in Prosecutors presented Ali as the sourcesaid. month, with four Bangladeshi men the Indonesian language, which is head of an organised crime network “One person jailed for terms ranging from two very close to Malay, Yaacob Ibra- that spanned African wildlife parks succumbed in the emer- to five years for funding attacks in him, Singapore’s minister in charge and buyers in Asia, the primary des- gency department to his their South Asian homeland. of Muslim affairs, it said. tination for poached ivory. A Kenya's wildlife service officer holds one of the ivory tusks used as injuries. The wounds are “The Singapore government has Anyone convicted of possessing Investigators believe he ben- an evidence on a case against Feisal Mohamed Ali at the Mombasa from gunshots.” zero tolerance for terrorist propa- or distributing the newspaper faced efitted from the protection of High Court, yesterday. A journalist saw the ganda and has therefore decided to a fine or imprisonment, or both, it high-placed officials in east Africa. body of the 29-year-old prohibit Al Fatihin,” the Ministry of added. He was arrested in Tanzania in Africa is home to between Kenya carried out the larg- dead man at the morgue. Communications and Information The fine can range up to $7,380, 2014 in connection with two tonnes 450,000 to 500,000 elephants, est-ever torching of ivory in April, He had been shot in the said in a statement. and the jail term up to three years of ivory -- 228 whole tusks and 74 but more than 30,000 are killed including 105 tonnes from thousands stomach during the pro- Launched in the southern Phil- for a first offence, rising to four pieces -- found in a Mombasa ware- every year on the continent to sat- of dead elephants, in a grand gesture test in the city of Bouake. ippines on June 20, the paper, whose years for subsequent offences, the house. Authorities put the value of isfy demand for ivory in Asia, where aimed at shocking the world into name means “The Conqueror” in Straits Times newspaper said. the ivory at $4.2 million. tusks sell for around $1,000 a kilo. stopping the slaughter of the animals. 06 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 ASIA / PAKISTAN

Car slams into Sharif’s party wins polls in divided Kashmir Bangkok shrine, injures four Reuters opponents’ incessant diatribe against Kashmir dispute or on its dealings relations with US, China, United Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,” said with India. Kingdom, European Union, Singa- The party claims that the party’s regional chief, Raja Sharif stressed the need to pore, Malaysia, and Organisation of MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani Prime the electoral win is Farooq Haider. improve relations with India in his Islamic Cooperation, and India. AFP Minister Nawaz Sharif’s ruling party “It is not merely a win. It is a successful campaign for the last gen- In 1999, the party’s government swept local elections in Pakistan- a proof that voters landslide,” Sharif’s daughter, Mar- eral election in 2013 but the powerful successfully signed the Lahore Dec- administered Kashmir, according reject opponents’ yam Nawaz Sharif, an increasingly army, which oversees security and laration with India. BANGKOK: Four people were to unofficial results yesterday, giv- attack against PM. influential member of her father’s foreign policies, is seen as wary of The Pakistan Muslim League injured yesterday when a driver ing the premier a boost after months party, said on her Twitter page. making big concessions quickly. remains sceptical about the coun- had a seizure and her car of pressure from his opponents. The disputed Himalayan region The criticism of Sharif from his try’s role in war on terror, although ploughed into a Hindu shrine in Sharif has faced criticism since of Kashmir was split between India political opponents and occasional it is firmly opposed to religious Bangkok hit by a fatal bomb last documents released as past of the League party won 31 seats in the and Pakistan in 1948, after they strains in his relations with the army extremism and terrorism in all its year, police said. Panama Papers data leak showed region’s 41-seat assembly in Thurs- fought a brief war over it. It remains have raised questions about pros- manifestations. The light blue sedan veered his children owned several off- day’s vote, said Tariq Mahmood Butt, at the heart of animosity between the pects for his government. During its previous tenure from off a major road in the heart of shore companies and used them to spokesman for Pakistani Kashmir’s nuclear-armed neighbours. Pakistan’s next general election 1997 to 1999, the PML government the capital and slammed through buy properties in London. election commission. The win by Sharif’s party in is due in 2018. took a series of measures to control a gate onto the grounds of Erawan He denies wrongdoing, as do his “This win is proof that our vot- the region will not have any direct The party has been long advo- terrorist groups by establishing the Shrine, the site of a bombing in children. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim ers have completely rejected our bearing on Pakistan’s stand on the cated for broader and stronger Anti-Terrorism Courts. August 2015 that left 20 dead and scores injured. “It was an accident,” Lumpini police commander Pornchai Chal- odet said. Anti-violence protest “A lady had epilepsy while Hong Kong arrests driving and couldn’t control the car which went into Erawan Shrine. Four people were injured,” he said. alleged triad boss The shrine, a popular stop for East Asian tourists, was thronged with worshippers at the time of the accident, according to a AFP reporter at the scene. “We were praying and then suddenly we heard a big noise HONG KONG: An alleged triad and we saw a car coming inside. boss known as “Shanghai Boy” has We ran like crazy. It was very been arrested after arriving at Hong scary. At I first thought it was a Kong airport from Thailand, months car bomb but everyone was very after he hit the headlines for being calm around us,” Kristy, a 21-year- punched in the face at the city’s old tourist from Vietnam said. most famous luxury hotel. Police said they could not con- Kwok Wing-Hung (pictured) firm the nationalities of those was detained Thursday night for injured. “conspiracy to commit criminal Two Uighur men from west- intimidation, conspiracy to wound had been punched in the face by ern China are on trial for the 2015 with intent and conspiracy to black- a mystery attacker while hav- bombing that stunned the country. mail”, police said yesterday. ing afternoon tea at Hong Kong’s They have both denied Famed for his ever-present Peninsula Hotel. After treatment at involvement in the attack. 70s-style sunglasses and swept- a private hospital, Kwok brushed Pakistan residents in Sri Lanka protest against the violence in India-administered Kashmir outside Erawan Shrine is a popular forward bowl haircut, Kwok, 58, off the incident, saying that he had the United Nations office in Colombo on Thursday. worship attraction, it often fea- had dropped off the radar for seven bumped into at table corner. tures performances by resident months, according to local media. Local media said the attack was Thai dance troupes. He had been put on a police related either to a dispute over his wanted list and was arrested at mistress, or to financial problems Hong Kong airport by officers from with his Macau business. the Organised Crime and Triad Days after the attack, Kwok Bureau, the South China Morning called a much-anticipated press Post reported. conference but failed to show up. Judicial Commission appoints 2 top court judges Video from the Oriental Daily While Hong Kong prides itself on showed Kwok, wearing a dark suit, rule of law and being a vital regional being escorted by officers into a financial hub, it has never been able Internews Sessions Judge Muhammad Ibrahim Amendment in the Constitution and it Muhammad Ishtiaq Ibrahim, who police van at the city’s airport after to shake off a darker side to its rep- Khan and senior Supreme Court law- will send the names recommended for has also been recommended as addi- reportedly arriving from Phuket. utation as a hotbed for organised yer Muhammad Ishtiaq Ibrahim, for the PHC and Balochistan High Court tional PHC judge, is a senior Supreme Controversial businessman Chinese criminal networks. ISLAMABAD: The total number of the PHC. to the Parliamentary Committee on Court lawyer. Born in a respecta- Kwok’s public profile rose in 2012 That reputation came to the fore Peshawar High Court (PHC) judges The Judicial Commission Judges Appointment for approval. ble family of Khazana village near after he was reportedly seen din- once more during 2014’s mass pro- would reach 17 after appointment discussed appointments of five addi- Born in a respectable family of Peshawar on December 2, 1969, he ing with a campaign director for the democracy protests. of two new judges recently recom- tional judges in the PHC and four in Swabi in April 15, 1962, Muhammad received his early education from city’s current leader Leung Chun- The police and the government mended by the Judicial Commission Balochistan High Court. Chaired Ibrahim Khan received his early edu- University Public School, Peshawar. ying, who was then a candidate for were forced to deny allegations of Pakistan. by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Anwar cation from Cadet College Kohat and He did his graduation from Gov- chief executive. that they were working with crim- However, the PHC is still short Zaheer Jamali, the meeting was FG College for (Men) No. 1 Islamabad. ernment College Peshawar and got That led to questions over inals after masked thugs attacked of three judges as the sanctioned attended by four senior judges of He obtained graduation from Khyber law degree from University of Pesha- whether Leung and his team were protesters at a demonstration posts are 20. The Judicial Com- the apex court and a representative Law College, University of Peshawar, war in 1992. He was enrolled as an in collusion with the triads. camp in Mong Kok -- a working- mission of Pakistan on Monday of Pakistan Bar Council. in May 1984 with distinction as gold advocate of the lower courts in 1993, Kwok was back in the headlines class district known for its triad recommended appointments of The Judicial Commission medallist/presidential award win- the high court in 1995 and Supreme in December after reports that he gangs. two additional judges, District and was constituted under the 18th ner. Abbottabad. Court of Pakistan in 2008. Relatives demand truth in Taiwan bus fire Afghan brothers launch

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TAIPEI: Grieving relatives of 24 AFP that contains batteries, computer Chinese tourists who died in a bus hardware and software and a glo- inferno in Taiwan have demanded bal positioning system. answers from authorities, after the EINDHOVEN: Former refugees A robotic arm slung under- worst road accident ever to hit main- Massoud and Mahmud Hassani neath is fitted with pincers that can land visitors. stunned the world three years ago remotely be opened and closed. The The first group of 46 relatives with an invention like a dandelion pincers can carry a metal detector arrived in Taiwan on Thursday to puffball that sought to rid the world or a small explosive charge, which identify the bodies of their loved of landmines. the brothers say can be used to ones, and many broke down in Now the Afghan brothers are destroy a landmine.The on-board tears as they visited a funeral par- back with their latest creation: a GPS allows it to plot its course via lour where the victims’s bodies are low-cost drone to detect and destroy computer. being kept. mines, which each year claim thou- Massoud explains that the drone Emotions were high at a brief- sands of lives. works in three stages: mapping, ing hosted by Taiwanese officials, Ridding the world of their child- detecting and destroying. with distraught relatives demand- hood horror has become the life When deployed, a 3D map- ing to know the cause of the tragedy work of the Hassanis, who now live ping system scans the section that and questioning why no one was able in the Netherlands. needs to be demined. Secondly, to escape when fire ripped through In 2013, they won worldwide the mapped area is meticulously the bus. acclaim for the “mine kafon” -- a sweeped by the drones carrying a “The relatives demanded the giant ball shaped like a dandelion- metal detector on a pre-programme truth and asked about the res- seed head that rolls around with the path. Finally, the plan is to destroy cue process. Some of them wanted wind, its plastic stalks tripping land- the mines by using the drone to Chinese experts to take part in mines in the process. place a small charge on every mine the investigation,” said Tang Wen- Chinese relatives mourn the loss of victims of a bus crash at Chungli funeral parlour in Taoyuan, northern Inspired by their childhood to detonate it. chi, a Tourism Bureau official who Taiwan, on Thursday. toys, the kafon -- short for “kafon- “We believe this way mines can attended the meeting on Thursday. dan” which in the Hassanis’ native be cleared almost 20 times faster than “Why is there no truth after so the island tour, tailor-made for Chi- Investigators are probing the accidents involving tourists from Dari language means “something what they are now,” Massoud said. many days? Why can’t we find any- nese tourist groups, typically costs cause of the accident and say the fire China in recent years. that explodes” -- drew high praise So far the duo have built three one to take responsibility?” Taiwan’s less than $625. started at the front of the bus, near “Relevant government agencies from anti-landmine organisations. working prototypes, and have car- United Daily News quoted unnamed The bus was just a few kilometres the driver’s seat. are taking measures to review and Now their latest mine-hunting ried out demonstrations before the relatives as saying. away from Taipei’s Taoyuan air- Questions are still swirling over improve travel safety to ensure that device combines drone technol- Dutch military, who say they are The report said some relatives port, for passengers to catch a flight why no one was able to escape via similar accidents will not happen ogy, 3D printing and robotics with willing to help with further testing. questioned whether the low cost of home Tuesday, when it was engulfed the emergency exits. again,” said tourism official Tang. a metal detector to find and ulti- “Clearing minefields is an the tour had increased safety risks, as in flames and careered through an Chinese officials have demanded Since the accident authorities mately destroy landmines. incredibly time-consuming proc- drivers for such tours reportedly often expressway barrier, killing all 26 on Taiwan take measures to ensure have increased inspections of tour- Hinged on six arms with rotors ess,” Major Fred de Vries of the work over-time, leading to fatigue. board, including a Taiwanese driver the safety of mainland visitors to ist buses and tour operators will be that creates lift, the 4.5kl drone con- Dutch army’s explosives ordinance The price for an eight-day around and guide. the island, after a number of fatal fined if safety doors are not working. sists of a blue hard plastic casing disposal unit said. INDIA SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 07 IAF plane with 29 people on board missing

at Port Blair at 11.30am, officials said. frigate INS Sahyadri, guided-mis- “The aircraft departed at 8.30am sile destroyers INS Rajput and The aircraft departed and was due at Port Blair at 11.30am. Ranvijay, corvettes Kamorta, Kirch, at 8.30am and was The aircraft has not reached. Search Karmuk, Kora, Kuthar, fleet tankers operations are on,” a senior IAF offi- INS Shakti, and INS Jyoti, amphibi- due at Port Blair at cial said over telephone from New ous warfare vessel INS Gharial and 11.30am. It has not Delhi. patrol vessel INS Sukanya, the Indian “The last contact with the air- Navy said. reached and search craft was at 60 nautical mile from the The incident comes a year after operations are on: shore. We have deployed our ships, a Coast Guard Dornier aircraft with aircraft to search for the plane. The three crew members on board on a Official search is happening around 200 nau- routine surveillance flight went miss- tical miles from the shore,” an Indian ing. The search team found its black Coast Guard official said. box nearly after a month and later The Russian-made AN-32 aircraft the skeletal remains and personal IANS was on a “courier flight” with serv- belongings of the crew members ice personnel on board. It is capable were recovered from the sea bed off of flying continuously for four hours Tamil Nadu coast. without refuelling. The IAF at present has a fleet of CHENNAI: An AN-32 transport air- A major search and rescue opera- over 100 AN-32s in service. craft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) tion has been launched by the Indian The Russian-origin aircraft is with 29 people on board went miss- Navy and IAF in the Bay of Bengal. known for its excellent take-off char- ing over the Bay of Bengal yesterday, Indian Navy spokesperson DK acteristics in hot and high conditions, Defence Ministry officials said, Sharma said a P-8I surveillance and is suitable for use as a medium adding that a full-scale search and aircraft, a Dornier and several ships tactical military transport. The twin- rescue mission has been launched. have been deployed in the search and engine aircraft is primarily used for The aircraft took off from Tam- rescue operation. transporting cargo, passengers, baram Air Force Station in Chennai Ships deployed for the search including skydivers or paratroop- An Indian air force AN-32 (front) transport aircraft at Yelahanka Airforce Station in Bangalore. at 8.30am and was expected to land include Shivalik-class stealth ers, as well as in fore-fighting. One dead in Gujarat communal clash SC refuses to put IANS number and opened indiscriminate attacked a vegetable shop owner, fire at Imran Kataria, a butcher. identified as Sanjay Bhadani from He sustained bullet wounds in the Patel community, who was pass- Youth beaten, AHMEDABAD: An uneasy calm the throat and leg and was shifted to ing by, in the Old Market Yard of the on hold Adarsh prevailed yesterday in Gondal city a government hospital in Gondal, 40 city. He died on the spot. humiliated in Gujarat after a communal clash km from Rajkot. The incident took Acting swiftly, the police chased overnight left one person dead and place on Thursday night. the black SUV, intercepted it and in Bihar another injured, officials said. Police said this provoked the arrested its five occupants. Police Police sources said half a dozen other community to retaliate. Soon, have now launched a manhunt for PATNA: Two Dalit youths demolition were badly beaten and persons came menacingly in the a mob of over 100 people came two persons allegedly involved in city’s Chordi Darwaza area in a together in a jeep and motorcycles killing Bhadani, while security has urinated upon by some black SUV without any registration armed with weapons. The irate mob been tightened. men allegedly for stealing IANS furniture that some of the flat a motorcycle in Muzaffar- owners had kept in their flats after pur district of Bihar, said getting the possession too would be an FIR filed by the mother handed over to the representatives of one of the victims. Art of fishing NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of the society. The possession let- The incident took yesterday refused to put on hold, for ters were later cancelled. place at Babutola under now, the demolition of the contro- Initially the bench had said that Paru block in Muzaffar- versial Adarsh Cooperative Housing it will ask the central government to pur district on Wednesday Society building in Mumbai and take the possession of the building night when the two Dalit told the director of military estates and maintain and protect it. How- youths went there to (army) to take the custody of build- ever, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar attend a rural fair during ing and secure it. urged the court to hand over the ongoing Annapurna- Asking the army estate branch possession of the building to Naval Mahayagya, said the first to take the possession of the build- command in the area. information report (FIR) ing and the land on which it has The court order came in the filed by Sunita Devi. been constructed, the bench of course of the hearing of a plea by the “In her FIR, Sunita Justice J Chelameswar and Jus- Adarsh Co-operative Housing Soci- Devi said her son Rajiv tice Abhay Manohar Sapre said an ety challenging the April 29 Bombay Kumar Paswan and his inventory of documents currently High Court judgment directing the friend Munna Paswan kept in the office of the building demolition of the controversial were caught on July 20 society would be prepared under building which it held was illegally by Mukesh Thakur and supervision of the registrar of the constructed. his henchmen, when they Bombay High Court before being The high court had also ordered were roaming in the fair,” handed over to the society office the initiation of criminal proceed- a district police official bearers . ings against the politicians and said. The two were locked The bench said that the posses- bureaucrats for misusing their in a room and later badly sion of the Adarsh building would positions. beaten on the charge of pass on to director of military While court asked the director stealing a motorcycle. estates or his nominee by August of military estate to take the pos- A man casts a fishing net in a flooded salt pan in Mumbai, yesterday. 5 and simultaneously the docu- session of the building and secure ments would be handed over to the it, senior counsel Shekhar Naphade representatives of the Adarsh Co- expressed the apprehension that Australia to operative Housing Society. Mumbai Municipal Corporation While issuing notice and refus- may go ahead with the demolition return stolen ing to pass any interim order on the of the building as directed by the FIR lodged against Mayawati in Lucknow plea for the stay of the April 29 judg- High Court. Buddha statue ment of the Bombay High Court But the bench sought to dis- ordering the demolition of the con- pel the apprehension expressed CANBERRA: An IANS Daya Shakar Singh’s wife Swati said she was terribly traumatised troversial building, the bench said by Naphade saying that they have 1,800-year-old Buddha and his mother Tetra Devi lodged by the developments over the last that the government would take its directed the director of military statue which was dis- the FIR against Mayawati, senior two days. Saying that if her husband possession. estate to take the custody of the played in the National LUCKNOW: An FIR was lodged BSP leader and former state min- has done something wrong, the mat- The court gave the custody of building and secure it. Gallery of Australia (NGA) against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, state ter should be legally handled, Swati the Adarsh building to the director However, the matter was put to is being prepared for its chief Mayawati and three others party President Ram Achal Rajbhar Singh, a professor at Lucknow Uni- of military estate, after ascertain- rest after the Solicitor General told return to India, after it by the family of former BJP Vice and Secretary Mewalal for using versity, pointed out that no one had ing that none of the flats in 31-storey the court: “We will secure the build- was found to have been President Daya Shankar Singh at foul and objectionable language the right to abuse and terrorise her building was occupied. ing and the land and there will be purchased from an ille- Hazratganj police station yesterday. against their family. Swati Singh and her family. The court also said that the no demolition.” gal antiquity trafficker, authorities said yesterday. The second-cen- tury statue stands at 1.3 metres tall, and was pur- Gadkari calls for massive skill development in maritime sector chased from Asian art specialist Nancy Wiener by billionaire Ros Packer, IANS one crore jobs,” Gadkari pointed out. “Twelve Emphasising on the need to promote ease of on behalf of the NGA, major ports are being modernised and mecha- doing business, Gadkari urged the members of in 2007. However docu- nised, three new ports are coming up soon, 111 the NSB to study the best practices in the mar- ments revealed that NGA inland waterways are being developed across itime sector from across the world. staff simply accepted NEW DELHI: Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari the country and coastal shipping is also poised “Look at successful experiments and Wiener’s story of how she (pictured) yesterday called for a massive effort for major growth. All this will open up many administrative reforms, be in constant dia- came to be in possession to enhance skill development in the Indian employment avenues, so we need to train our logue with stakeholders and then come out of the antiquity, una- maritime sector. According to the minister, a youth so that they can take advantage of the with recommendations for an integrated devel- ware that it was in fact large number of employment opportunities are job opportunities.” opment of the maritime sector,” the minister stolen from an archaeo- expected to be generated from the shipping and Further, Gadkari called for the expansion elaborated. “Suggest ways to improve policies, logical site in Mathura, in allied sectors in the coming years. of training modules to enable Indian seafar- remove obstacles and bring about adminis- the Indian state of Uttar Gadkari was speaking at the 129th meet- ers to go in for multi-tasking as well as making trative changes through cost effective and Pradhesh. NGA director ing of the National Shipping Board (NSB) which them the preferred choice for companies in the eco-friendly means.” On the occasion, Gad- Gerard Vaughan said that was held here. sector to hire. kari released the logo of the NSB. This was the sculpture would likely Addressing the meet, the minister informed Data furnished by the NSB showed that Gadakri’s first meeting with the NSB after he be returned to Indian gov- about the need to expedite necessary reforms India ranks poorly in terms of the number of took charge of the shipping portfolio. The NSB ernment officials when needed for the institutions to impart train- seafarers it supplies to the sector. The board is the highest advisory body on matters related they visit Australia for an ing in a wide range of disciplines in the Indian explained that one of the main reasons for to Indian shipping and matters arising out of Indian cultural festival in maritime sector. “The prestigious Sagarmala this was the inability of Indian seafarers to do the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958. The board September. Programme itself is expected to throw up about multi-tasking. was established on March 1, 1959. 08 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Big talk Make Republicans epublican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, was full of bluster. whole again! But that is what has brought him so much of the way so far. Unsurprisingly yet shockingly, the New York Rtycoon said things which were politically incorrect, and he knows it means to be a Republican. who has been slow in warming Ken Cope, a Texas delegate that. Yet, the marauding Trump preferred to be on the wrong side By Ginger Gibson and Emily In public and in private the to Trump. who had backed Cruz for presi- Stephenson of what is politically correct by blasting Hillary, repeating his Trump campaign tried to win over “What do you say that we unify dent but will vote for Trump, said Reuters skeptics who feel the New York this party at this crucial moment the New York businessman needs pledge to block illegal immigrants and quash multilateral trade businessman and celebrity TV star when unity is everything?” Ryan to “swallow his pride” and stress deals. does not represent the party’s val- asked thousands of convention the contributions his 16 defeated Ripping into Hillary Clinton like never before, Trump accused ues. It took a harder stance against attendees on Tuesday night. It rivals made to the primary process the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of a legacy ed Cruz was recounting to opponents, for example shutting was the biggest applause line of instead of belittling them. of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.” With an eye an audience how he had down a desperate last-minute bid his speech - delegates cheered, “He’s a prideful man and he’s on November 8 elections, the shrewd Republican has started outlasted most of his 16 on the convention floor early in clapped and waved signs. proud of what he is but we’re in a rivals for the Republican the week to stop his nomination. But US Senator Mike Lee of general election campaign and it’s queering the pitch for the former US Secretary of State. The email Tpresidential nomination when a “It’s like a slow crawl,” former Utah, one of the “never Trump” going to take all of us pulling on controversy triggered by her use of a private email server for top plane carrying the man who had Republican National Committee holdouts, is still not convinced. the rope if we’re going to pull the secret official communication rocked won it all, Donald Trump, flew over- Chairman Michael Steele said of the “Federalism and separation ship to the final line,” Cope said. the campaign after the Benghazi head, interrupting him mid-speech. unity drive as he made the rounds of powers - if he focuses on that, Still others said Trump needed embassy attack uproar had left her “All right, that was pretty at the convention. “You’re kind of he brings along a lot of conserva- to be more disciplined. Trump campaign shaken. Though Trump’s well-orchestrated,” said Cruz, doing it. You’re kind of looking tives like me who haven’t been sold Trump supporter John Whit- campaign hasn’t been controversy a Republican US senator from around to see if anyone else is doing yet,” Lee told. “He needs to make mer, a delegate from Wichita, has come Texas who waged a bitter cam- it,” he said. that a distinct part of his message.” Kansas, said Trump made a mis- so far by free, Hillary’s weak points have been paign against Trump. But almost from the start there Trump and his surrogates have take by going on Fox News on torn into mercilessly by the real estate Hours later Cruz would take were blatant signs of party disunity. offered scant policy details so far Monday night to rail against Kasich parading his baron. He was recently reported to be his revenge, refusing to endorse Ohio Governor John Kasich, who at the convention, nor have they as speakers were lauding his can- impracticable neck and neck with the former US First Trump and urging Republicans lost to Trump in the nomination been able to put to rest questions didacy at the televised convention. ideas, and Lady in poll ratings. to vote their conscience during a fight and disagrees with Trump on about whether they are capable “You just stepped on your best Trump raised a plethora of points in prime-time speech on the floor a host of issues, declined to attend of mounting a sophisticated pres- act,” Whitmer said. “I get that you there’s no of the Republican National Con- the convention held in his own state. idential campaign to take on his want to talk about Kasich, but eve- his acceptance speech that wound up stopping him. vention in Cleveland. He left the Instead, he greeted his supporters Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. rybody needed to be watching what the Republican National Convention. podium to a chorus of boos, and his at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The convention has been was going on there.” He said he wants to put ‘America first.’ wife was escorted off the floor as close to the convention arena to the overshadowed, for example, by After Wednesday night, the best It is unclear what he means by that. the convention erupted in rancor. blaring tune of The Who’s “Baba controversy surrounding his wife hope for the Republican Party to Anyone occupying the exalted chair of Susan Hutchison, chair of O’Riley” with lyrics like, “I don’t Melania’s convention speech - come together may rest on Clinton, the president of the United States would do that. Would Hillary the Washington state delegation, need to fight to prove I’m right.” which included lines uttered by who was frequently vilified at the want to put America second or last? said she confronted Cruz after his Trump campaign manager Paul first lady Michelle Obama at the Cleveland convention this week. speech and called him a “traitor to Manafort told reporters that Kasich Democratic convention in 2008 She will be formally nominated as The question of migration raised by Trump at the beginning the party.” So much for party unity. was “embarrassing his state” by - and the campaign’s initial reluc- the Democratic presidential nom- of the campaign had taken the world by storm. His take on it Over three days in Cleveland refusing to get on the Trump train. tance to admit the plagiarism. inee at her party’s convention in remained the same — no America for illegal immigrants. While this week, Republican leaders His remarks were a reminder of the Some Republicans thought it Philadelphia next week. this is a saner issue, it is juvenile to say it can be handled by sought to sell a story of unity. They sort of insults that many Republi- was an unnecessary distraction When asked if the party was building a wall. He, however, has to do some explaining by what repeatedly said the party was get- cans had hoped would disappear at a time when the party should unified, former Speaker of the he meant by Hillary’s legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism ting ever closer to rallying behind after a brutal primary season that be focused on selling itself and its House of Representatives and Trump, who is running on the slo- was characterized by Trump’s often new leader to Americans. close Trump adviser, Newt Gin- and weakness.” gan “Make America Great Again!” personal attacks on his opponents. Others said that if Trump was grich, replied: “No, but we will be The maverick Republican, as is his wont, presented a dark and whose candidacy has divided The pleas for unity were fre- really serious about uniting the by the end of Philadelphia.” picture of America by raking up the Islamic State threat, racism many and exposed deep discon- quent in Cleveland, led by House party he would reach out to his “Trump will get us to 90 per- related violence, weak infrastructure, and so-called unfair tent among Republicans with their of Representatives Speaker Paul vanquished foes on the campaign cent unity. She’ll get us the rest of multilateral trade agreements. The businessman in Trump tried leaders. But in a few minutes on Ryan, the top elected Republican, trail, including Cruz and Kasich. the way.” to rally the crowds by saying he alone can fix the system as he Wednesday night that show of knows it. Trump is gradually creeping up Hillary’s ratings with unity was blown apart in spec- tacular fashion. his rhetorical approach. That he has grabbed the nomination Cruz’s non-committal speech without a value-based approach is worrying. However, what is of infuriated Trump supporters among more concern is that he has come up all the way in the election the thousands of delegates cram- race without a serious approach to vexed issues and his dubious ming the floor of the Quicken Loans track record. Arena in Cleveland. But their angry jeers triggered recriminations from other delegates. “They talk about unity and then they act like that. That is not going to get us to unify,” said Man- Quote of the day ette Merrill, a Cruz delegate from Washington state. Our hearts go out to those Trump will get the opportunity who may have been injured. to rally the party when he formally accepts its nomination on Thurs- It’s still an active situation, day night in a speech expected to and Germany’s one of our be watched by millions of Amer- closest allies, so we are going icans, including undecided and to pledge all the support that independent voters. One of Trump’s key goals going they may need in dealing with into this week’s convention was these circumstances. to unite the party after a roughly 18-month primary season that was Barack Obama marked by personal attacks on can- US President didates, sometimes violent rallies, Former Republican US presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz speaks during the third night of and deep disagreement over what the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Civilians still manage to live there. They would rather die at home than live in a tent or drown in a boat, or they are sim- ply too poor, too crippled, too sick or too defiant to leave their homes. The hospital where I worked has been attacked so many times by airstrikes that it has been driven literally underground - with a ramp leading into the basement. Scalpels are dull, anesthesia is a luxury, sterility is an approximation. Inside, the scenes are grim. On July 1, a rocket hit a nearby mar- By Samer Attar ketplace. The hospital shook from the The Washington Post blast. The victims were not terrorists or soldiers. They were civilians shopping for the upcoming Eid celebration. Twenty- five people were killed. Dozens more lease don’t cut off my leg,” a were injured. There were not enough Syrian man pleaded. He had beds, so patients were placed on floors “Pbeen shopping when a mis- smeared with blood and body parts, with sile hit a crowded market. The blast barely a place to step. Dead bodies were seared off his hair and charred his face. piled into the street to make room for He could not see that his leg was hang- incoming wounded. ing by a thread of flesh and could not be The screaming never let up. Children saved. His screams were amplified by the covered in blood and dust and pock- echoes of the dozens just as horrifically marked with shrapnel screamed for their injured around him. parents and siblings. Some would be reu- I am an American surgeon who nited whole; others would learn whom recently spent two weeks working in they had lost, or which of their children’s an underground hospital in eastern limbs were missing or mutilated. Some Aleppo, Syria. I have been there a few had the bone shards of disintegrated times, and each time I go, I descend into bystanders embedded in their skin - rou- lower depths of hell. It’s shocking how the tine findings after such attacks. very same inhuman conditions have been I saw a child, breathing but silent, allowed to continue for years. with severe burns and his intestines The path to this hell is Castello Road protruding from his belly. His skin and - which was the last remaining road lead- hair were burned off. He died a couple ing into rebel-held Aleppo when I was of days later. A 5-year-old had just died there. The road smells of burned metal before him due to respiratory failure - and rotten flesh, and it is littered with shrapnel from a bomb cut his spinal cord charred vehicles. Plumes of smoke scatter and paralysed him from the chest down. the horizon. Gutted homes with pancaked One surgeon cut open a man’s chest in a roofs, exposed wires and twisted rebar last-ditch effort to clamp a bleeding ves- line the sides. At every moment, you feel sel near the heart. It worked temporarily, you may be hit by a bomb or a rocket. but the man had lost too much blood, and Inside the city, the screech of jets, there was no more blood to give him. Syrian men evacuate babies following a reported air strike on the besieged town of Douma, a flashpoint east of the the whirring of helicopters, the vibrat- Two children would later bleed to death capital Damascus, yesterday. ing blasts of mortar shells and barrel in the operating room for similar rea- bombs, the incessant ricochet of bullets sons. I did an above-knee amputation on - these sounds and sensations rarely stop. a stretcher in a hallway because all the terrorism I saw in Aleppo came from anything that moves. Before, passage supply line to hundreds of thousands of operating rooms were full. Others whose helicopters and jets in the sky. was a roll of the dice. Now it is a death people in eastern Aleppo. It must pressure limbs were traumatically amputated in I asked one nurse if he ever gets sentence. and threaten the Syrian government to do the attack had to sit with tourniquets scared and how he manages the exhaus- I had to say goodbye to my Syrian the same. It must enforce a no-fly zone, until an operating room opened. We later tion. He replied, “This is Aleppo. We don’t friends and colleagues knowing that using coalition air power already in place Innocent people are dying on all learned that a child had been decapitated have time to be scared. We are being soon they would be cut off from the out- and in force against the Islamic State. All sides in Syria, but it is time to let the by the blast. crushed like bugs daily, and the world side world, left to suffer and starve. I have sieges must be lifted in accordance with Such slaughter occurred daily. Here, has abandoned us. Pretty soon we may no other words to describe the fear, the UN Security Council resolutions. The Cas- Syrian government know that the innocent civilians being blinded, ampu- be permanently sieged, cut off. But it is horror and the urgency of what I wit- tello Road must remain open. world will act upon a red line against tated, burned, paralysed, crushed and our duty to be here, and who will help nessed there. Innocent people are dying on all sides mutilated by bombs is the routine. Here, these people if we leave them?” I plead with the Obama administra- in Syria, but it is time to let the Syrian its disproportionate crimes and the world has shown little solidarity with A few days after I left, the Castello tion to act. It must boldly confront Russia government know that the world will act atrocities. innocents being massacred. This was Road was cut. Russian jets and Syrian to halt the bombardment of Aleppo and upon a red line against its disproportion- not the work of the Islamic State. The government soldiers bomb and shoot Castello Road, the only humanitarian ate crimes and atrocities. Nigeria’s corruption has been stealing public funds forever

In fact, corruption is a potent threat Boko Haram terrorists. National Petroleum Corporation has been sporadic. Nigeria can gener- former officials. to Washington’s efforts to support For comparison, US military and long been corrupt and mismanaged, ate enough power to meet the needs The country’s senate president is socioeconomic development, tackle police aid to Nigeria totalled $45.4 according to the Natural Resource of a population of just half a mil- currently standing trial for false asset security issues and improve govern- million from 2010 to 2014, accord- Governance Institute. Though the lion - similar to that of the city of declaration and other corruption- ance in Nigeria. ing to Security Assistance Monitor. government has spent $14 billion Edinburgh. related charges. At least five former Systemic corruption threatens Corruption is endemic in the since 1999 to develop a modern The Economic and Financial governors are facing trial for graft. democracy and good governance petroleum and power sectors, the power sector to serve all of Niger- Crimes Commission, Nigeria’s main And several senior election officials in Nigeria. In “This Present Dark- two chief drivers of the Nigerian ia’s 183 million people, growth in anti-corruption body, is actively allegedly accepted millions of dol- ness: A History of Nigerian Organized economy. The state-run Nigerian the national electricity supply has investigating dozens of sitting and lars in bribes, posing a threat to the Crime,” the late Stephen Ellis quotes integrity and credibility of Nigeria’s Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in 1950 elections. By Matthew Page decrying “the twin curses of brib- Given the scope and scale of The Washington Post ery and corruption which pervade Nigeria’s corruption and the threat it every rank and department” of poses to specific areas where Wash- government. ington devotes considerable time and The Nigerian League of Bribe resources - security, development n Nigeria, billions of dollars Scorners, a civil-society organ- and governance - stronger anti- each year flow illegally from ization at the time, likewise corruption policies could be a force public coffers into private complained that “bribery with its multiplier, amplifying the impact of hands. Nigeria’s kleptocracy allied corruption is deeply planted US assistance to Nigeria. undermines the regime’s abil- in this country.” Tafawa Balewa, I argue that three quite feasible Iity to combat Boko Haram, a deadly who became Nigeria’s first post- policy actions could achieve this: terrorist movement that has dis- independence prime minister in establishing an inter-agency work- placed two million people in the 1960, was later assassinated in a ing group on Nigerian kleptocracy, country’s war-ravaged northeast. coup planned by five officers who stationing an FBI investigator in the In a new Council on For- claimed Nigeria’s civilian govern- capital, Abuja, and promulgating an eign Relations corruption brief, ment was too corrupt. executive order restricting financial “Improving US Anticorruption Pol- Over the next six decades, cor- transactions by corrupt Nigerian icy in Nigeria,” I argue that the United ruption thrived under both civilian officials and freezing, or even seiz- States could help deter corruption and military-led governments, ing, their assets. in Africa’s largest economy and implicating leaders of all ethnic These steps could significantly most populous country. Following and religious affiliations. Yet offi- reduce illicit financial outflows from Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 pres- cial corruption rose to new heights Nigeria, estimated at more than $178 idential election victory, senior US under Buhari’s predecessor, Presi- billion from 2004 to 2013, accord- policymakers saw an opportunity dent Goodluck Jonathan. ing to Global Financial Integrity. to support his aggressive anti-cor- Corruption in the security, Without a dedicated FBI investiga- ruption efforts. Thus far, US efforts petroleum and power sectors tor at the US Embassy, for example, have consisted mostly of modest was particularly prolific. Jonath- deepening bilateral cooperation on assistance programs for police inves- an’s national security adviser, for corruption cases will be difficult. But tigators and civil-society watchdogs. example, is on trial for his role in tougher scrutiny of Nigerian trans- Here’s the problem, from a pol- diverting more than $2 billion in People stand to meet musician Ado Dahiru Daukaka at his home after his release in Yola, in northeastern actions into US accounts will help icy perspective: Corruption is treated security funds while poorly armed Nigeria, on June 30. A popular musician, Daukaka was kidnapped days after releasing a scathing anti- discourage kleptocratic behaviour as a secondary, stand-alone issue. government troops battled against corruption song but was freed on June 29. from Nigerian officials.

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 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 INDIA Fresh violence in Minister-level Kashmir ahead talks with Dhaka on July 28 of Rajnath’s visit NEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh will hold Home Minister level talks mob in Awantipora, 20km from here on July 28, it was here, in Pulwama district. Three announced yesterday. The latest death people received bullet injuries. Senior government toll has risen to One of them, Mushtaq Ahmad, son officials from both side of Bashir Ahmad, was declared are likely to participate 46. Thousands of brought dead at a hospital here. The in the talks. A delega- protesters have been other injured civilians were said to tion led by Home Minister be critical at the S.M.H.S Hospital of Bangladesh Asaduz- injured and many are in Srinagar. zaman Khan will be on still being treated in With the latest death, the toll a three-day visit to India various hospitals of in the ongoing violent agitation in beginning from July 27, an the Kashmir Valley has risen to 46. official statement said. the valley. Thousands of protesters have been The two sides held the injured and many are still being last such talks in India in treated in various hospitals of the December, 2012, and in valley. The fresh violence took place Bangladesh in January IANS after two days of relative calm in 2013. Kashmiri protesters throw stones at troops during clashes in Srinagar, yesterday. the valley and a day before Rajnath Singh is scheduled to visit Jammu and Kashmir. SC dismisses SRINAGAR: A civilian protester was The home minister, according as engaging with separatist leadership The meeting called “for inclusive Valley following the July 8 killing of killed in a clash with security forces to government sources, is expected and Pakistan - to resolve the prob- engagement of all the stakeholders Hizbul Mujahideen commander Bur- plea against in south Kashmir yesterday, a day to take forward the initiative on lems of Jammu and Kashmir and its in Jammu and Kashmir for carrying han Wani and two of his aides. before Home Minister Rajnath Singh Kashmir, resolved at an all-party people. The main opposition National forward the peace and reconciliation As the valley stayed tense, stone- Aamir Khan is set to arrive here to review the sit- meeting by Chief Minister Meh- Conference stayed away from the key process”, according to a resolution. throwing protests erupted after Friday uation in the state. booba Mufti on Thursday. meeting but it was attended by the It was the first political initia- prayers at many places with people NEW DELHI: The Supreme Police sources said that secu- The meeting called for involving Communist Party of India-Marxist tive in the days of deadly unrest that defying prohibitory orders that have Court yesterday dismissed rity forces fired at a stone-throwing “all the stakeholders” - largely seen (CPI-M), CPI, BJP and Panthers Party. gripped almost the entire Kashmir been in place since July 9. a petition by NGO Arrive Safe Society seeking action against Bollywood star Aamir Khan for alleg- edly misusing the national Guru Purnima festival emblem in his programme Uproar in Parliament “Satyamev Jayate”. Dismissing the plea, the bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur over AAP MP’s video said that there was no merit in it. As Chandigarh resident Harman S Sidhu, IANS in 2001. “Some action needs to be representing the NGO, taken, I agree. I will consider the told the court of alleged matter,” she said. However, mem- misuse of the national bers remained unsatisfied and emblem by the actor, the NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha proceed- demanded immediate action against bench said that if he had ings were adjourned till Monday the member. any specific grievance, by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan after R.K Singh of BJP said the AAP then he can go to police. pandemonium in the House as MP should be suspended immedi- members, rising above party lines, ately as Mann has told the media demanded immediate action against that he would “again put such Khattar inducts AAP member Bhagwant Mann for video footage” on social network- circulating a video of security zones ing websites. three new in Parliament’s premises. B. Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal) said As the House reassembled after the matter was more serious than ministers 12 noon, members were up on their mere breach of privilege and secu- feet demanding action against the rity as he believed the video was not CHANDIGARH: Haryana lawmaker from Sangrur in Punjab circulated “out of mere foolishness Chief Minister Manohar while the Speaker allowed tabling or ignorance”. Lal Khattar expanded Hindu devotees pray to seek blessings from their spiritual leader during the annual festival of “Guru of papers by ministers and mem- “A separate committee must his 21-month old min- Purnima” inside an ashram in Ahmedabad, bers as listed in the day’s agenda. be set up by the Speaker,” he istry yesterday with Amid noisy scenes, the Speaker demanded. He recalled that 13 the induction of three said she has received separate people had laid down their lives new ministers. He also notices of privilege against Mann protecting Parliament premises dropped two ministers. as also requests for adjournment and members on December 13, 2001 The new ministers are of House proceedings to raise the when terrorists attacked the temple Vipul Goel (Faridabad), issue. of democracy. m“The matter was so Manish Grover (Rohtak) Set up board in foetus case: SC Mahajan said among others Kirit serious that Sonia Gandhi who was and Banwari Lal (Bawal). Somaiya, Maheish Giri, Udit Raj (all not present in the House then had Governor Kaptan Singh BJP) and Prem Singh Chanduma- called up the then Prime Minister Solanki administered the IANS Mishra asked the victim to appear AIIMS to be examined by a medical jra (Akali Dal) had given privilege Atal Behari Vajpayee and enquired oath of office and secrecy before the board at 10am today board on Saturday and based on motion notices against Mann while about the incident,” Mahtab said. to the three BJP legisla- so that she could be examined to its opinion, a decision can be taken Biju Janata Dal leader B. Mahtab has Congress floor leader Mal- tors at a ceremony held at ascertain whether the foetus can on Monday. However, the court given a complaint note against the likarjun Kharge too echoed the the Raj Bhavan here. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court be terminated or not. referred the matter to KEM Hospital AAP member. same sentiment of the members Khattar also dropped yesterday directed the Maharash- The bench said that the report by in Mumbai as senior counsel Colin Other members including and maintained that such actions two ministers of state - tra government to set up a medical the medical board would be placed Gonsalves, appearing for the peti- Chandrakant Khere (Shiv Sena) should not be allowed to go on as Ghanshyam Saraf and board at KEM Hospital in Mumbai before it on Monday morning, turn- tioner, told it that she was in Mumbai demanded time to speak on the it concerned the security of parlia- Bikram Singh Theke- to examine the rape victim seek- ing down a suggestion by Solicitor and given her condition, it would not issue in the House. ment and democracy. dar - from his ministry. ing termination of her 24-week-old General Ranjit Kumar to take up the be possible for her to travel to Delhi. Speaker said the matter raised “Such actions should be con- Both ministers had sub- pregnancy on grounds of an abnor- matter on Tuesday. The bench then asked the Solici- by members was “very serious” demned and actions taken as Indian mitted their resignations mal foetus and submit a report on At the outset of the hearing, tor General to assist the court on the as Parliament had earlier wit- Parliament is the place where rep- to the chief minister ear- Monday. The bench of Justice Jag- Ranjit Kumar told the court that question of law, saying: “The issue is nessed a terror attack where 13 resentatives of 125 crore Indians lier which were forwarded dish Singh Khehar and Justice Arun the matter could be referred to the not as simple as it appears.” security personal had been killed come,” Kharge said. to the governor for acceptance. Six dead in Day off for people in Chennai as ‘Kabali’ sparks frenzy Madhya Pradesh accident AFP Fans cut their hair in the style of Absolutely no disappointment,” Rajinikanth’s character and some he told the NDTV news channel. TIKAMGARH: Six people even had his face tattooed on their Rajinikanth famously worked as a were killed and eight oth- arms as they awaited the release. bus conductor in the southern Indian ers were injured yesterday CHENNAI: Fans of the wildly pop- In Chennai fans set off firecrack- city of Bangalore before heading to in a collision between a ular Indian film star Rajinikanth ers, gave out sweets and poured Chennai in 1973 to pursue his pas- vehicle supplying news- queued overnight for a 4am milk over giant posters adverting sion of acting. His last major film, the papers and a truck in screening of his new movie yes- the movie -- a tradition that derives science fiction epic “Endhiran”, was Tikamgarh district of Mad- terday in the southern city of from the ritual bathing of Hindu idols one of India’s most profitable releases hya Pradesh, police said. Chennai, where many companies in milk. ever, grossing a record-breaking The injured have been abandoned hope of staff com- Several companies in the city, $13.8 million globally on its open- admitted to various hos- ing to work and closed for the day. a burgeoning IT hub, said so many ing weekend in 2011 -- including $4.4 pitals. Four of them are Tickets for “Kabali”, which stars staff had asked yesterday off that million in the United States alone. in a serious condition, Rajinikanth as an ageing gangster, they had decided to simply close for Its performance stoked global Digora police station sold out well before the release and the day. “The story line is too good, ambitions for the Tamil-language chief Waheed Khan said were changing hands on the black it’s very emotional,” said one fan who film industry, nicknamed “Kolly- reporters. The collision market for up to 5,000 rupees ($75) had watched the 4am screening in wood” after the Kodambakkam took place near Barmatal -- a huge sum for most Indians. Chennai. district of Chennai where many stu- village while the newspa- The 65-year-old Tamil language “It has emotions, it has fights, dios are based. Most of Tamil Nadu’s per supply vehicle, also cinema icon inspires an almost god- it has all those things that a Rajini chief ministers have had connections carrying a large number like adulation in the southern Indian fan expects and it has those super to the industry and the incumbent, of people, was travelling Fans pour milk to bless a cut-out image of Bollywood star Rajinikanth state of Tamil Nadu, where fans refer moments where every Rajini fan Jayalalitha Jayaram, was once a lead- from Jhansi to Tikamgarh. to him simply as “The Superstar”. will start clapping and whistling. ing actress. in Chennai, yesterday. EUROPE SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 11 Migrants in Serbia start march to Hungary

daily entries to a maximum of 30, because EU countries cannot find a creating a bottleneck in Serbia. joint solution.” A group of around A group of around 300 men, mainly Unlike in 2015, when countries 300 men marched from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, tried to organise the orderly passage marched across the main bridge of migrants, the closure of Balkan across the main between Belgrade’s city centre and route prompted many to cross bor- bridge between the Novi Beograd area, with a police ders illegally or through human Belgrade’s city centre car leading the column. There were no trafficking networks. women or children in the group. Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime and the Novi Beograd A police officer said the migrants Minister Viktor Orban rallied sup- area to underline had started a march to the Hungar- port among ethnic Hungarians in ian border, around 200km to the central Europe as he pushd for the their demand for north. “We are here to guarantee rejection of European Union migrant passage to western their safety and prevent accidents quotas in a referendum on October 2. Migrants are evicted from a makeshift camp by French gendarmes, in Paris, yesterday. en route,” he said. At home, Orban, 53, is running Europe. Earlier in the day, the group a billboard campaign urging Hun- also announced a hunger strike, garians to vote against what his said Vladimir Sjekloca, a manager government has called a danger- Reuters of Belgrade’s Asylum Info Centre. ous European Commission proposal Paris dismantles migrants’ camp “They want to go to Hungary, they to distribute migrants and refugees want borders open,” he said. “Most across EU member states. of them spent the night in the park.” For Orban, the quotas represent AFP had been living in tents or sleep- work and don’t know where to live.” BELGRADE: Hundreds of migrants To cope with the inflow of over a challenge to Hungary’s sovereignty ing rough on mattresses on a strip Migrant support groups complain from the Middle East and Asia 100,000 migrants that passed and an attempt to change the ethnic of ground underneath an elevated of a dire shortage of accommoda- marched through Belgrade yes- through Serbia so far this year, and cultural make-up of the coun- railway. They were taken by bus to tion for asylum-seekers, saying the terday on their way to Hungary the country’s police and army last try against its will. He hopes the vote PARIS: Police in Paris yesterday reception centres around the country. 20,000 spaces created in the past two and announced a hunger strike to week formed joint border patrols. will give him a mandate to challenge dismantled a tented camp under a Last weekend, riot police inter- years are insufficient in the face of a underline their demand for passage More than 650,000 people passed Brussels. railway housing over 1,000 people vened at the site to break up a fight constant stream of new arrivals. to western Europe. through Serbia last year on their way But for the referendum to be from Afghanistan and east Africa, between some of camp’s occupants. Over the past year, squalid camps Last month Hungary, Serbia’s to the EU. valid, Orban will need half of all eli- part of an ongoing move to clear The head of the French Immigra- have repeatedly cropped up in north- northern neighbour and an Euro- Yesterday, Aleksandar Vulin, gible voters, or at least 4.23 million camps sprouting up around the tion and Integration Office, Didier ern Paris—with the police intervening pean Union member, allowed Serbia’s minister for social affairs, people including ethnic Hungarians French capital. Leschi, said some were passing each time to dismantle them. police to send back illegal migrants said as many as 3,000 migrants were outside the country, to cast a vote - a The operation in northern Paris through France and were planning In May, the city’s mayor Anne detained within eight kilometres stranded in the country. high bar after referendums on Hun- was the 26th of its kind over the past to seek asylum in other European Hidalgo announced plans to create (five miles) of its razor wire-fenced “Serbia cannot allow that,” Vulin gary’s EU and Nato membership year in the city, which is struggling to countries. a refugee camp with proper facili- frontier with Serbia. was quoted as saying by the Tan- failed to break above the 50 per- accommodate asylum seekers. Others, had already been granted ties, scheduled to be up and running It has also limited the number of jug news agency. It will not suffer cent turnout. Between 1,200 and 1,400 people asylum in France “but cannot find in September. Greek MPs approve Munich mall gunmen still on the run: Police lower voting age Reuters “Many shots were fired, I can’t say people in the shopping centre. We are German Justice Minister Heiko how many but it’s been a lot,” said a trying to get the people out and take Maas told Bild newspaper’s before the shop worker hiding in a store room care of them,” the spokeswoman said. mall attack that there was “no reason Reuters reflexes’ among youngsters. inside the mall. The woman, who Munich police said on Facebook to panic but it’s clear that Germany The reforms, which were a pre- MUNICH: Gunmen attacked a busy asked not to be identified, said she had that witnesses reported three differ- remains a possible target”. election pledge of Prime Minister shopping mall in the German city of seen a shooting victim on the floor who ent gunmen armed with rifles. Yesterday was also the five-year Alexis Tsipras, may heighten polit- Munich yesterday evening, spraying appeared to be dead or dying. A video posted onlineshowed anniversary of massacre by Anders ATHENS: Greece’s lawmakers voted ical uncertainty in a country which bullets as people fled in horror for A worker at a different shop, Harun a man dressed in black outside a Behring Breivik in Norway. Breivik to revamp electoral law and abolish has held four snap elections since safety from what police said was a Balta, said: “We are still stuck inside McDonald’s by the roadside, draw- is hero for far-right extremists in a system of bonus seats, in a move 2012. They produced no outright terrorist attack. the mall without any information, ing a handgun and shooting towards Europe and America. authorities say will better reflect winners but fragile coalitions in a Police said six people were we’re waiting for police to rescue us.” members of the public. The Munich assault was also public opinion. fractious political landscape. killed and the attackers were still at Munich police spokeswoman said Police said witnesses had seen reminiscent of Islamist militant At present, a bonus of 50 seats “If one considers that under large. They told the public to get off six people were killed and an undeter- shooting both inside the mall and on attacks in a shopping mall in Nai- is offered to the party that wins the present circumstances grand coa- the streets as the city — Germany’s mined number wounded. No suspects nearby streets. robi, Kenya, in September 2013 and most votes in a national election, litions are pretty remote, it’s obvious third biggest — went into lockdown, had been arrested yet, she said. There was no immediate claim in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. irrespective of how thin or wide the new law creates more uncer- with transport halted and highways “We believe there was more than of responsibility but supporters of US President Barack Obama the margin of victory is. tainty because three or more parties sealed off. one perpetrator. The first reports Islamic State celebrated the rampage pledged support to Germany in wake The law also lowers voting age by would be required to create a viable As special forces rushed to the came at 6pm (1700 GMT), the shoot- on social media. “Thank God, may of a shooting rampage, as officials a year to 17, a move the Interior Min- government,” said political analyst scene, some people remained holed ing apparently began at a McDonald’s God bring prosperity to our Islamic said they were working to determine istry said will ‘sharpen democratic Costas Panagopoulos. up in the Olympia shopping centre. in the shopping centre. There are still State men,” read one tweet. if any US citizens were affected.

Five suspects charged Striking a different chord Hundreds pay homage to slain over France truck attack Ukraine reporter

AFP The five were brought before AFP anti-terrorism judges and charged. They are Franco-Tunisian Ramzi A (22), Tunisian Chokri C (37), KIEV: Hundreds of mourners shed PARIS: Five suspects have been for- Tunisian Mohamed Oualid G (40), tears and laid flowers yesterday at mally charged over the truck attack Albanian Artan H (38), and his wife the open casket of a top reporter in the French Riveria city of Nice Enkeledja Z. who holds both French whose targetted car-bomb slay- that killed 84 people, the prosecu- and Albanian nationality. ing sent shock waves through tor said. None were known to intelli- Ukraine’s journalistic community. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who gence services, and only Ramzi A, Wednesday’s death of Pavel mowed down crowds of people enjoy- who was born in Nice, had a crim- Sheremet—columnist for Ukrain- ing a Bastille Day fireworks display, inal record, for robbery and drug ska Pravda—came 16 years after had long plotted the carnage, prose- offences. He led police to discover beheading of investigative news cutor Francois Molins said. Molins said a Kalashnikov and a bag of ammu- site’s founder that carried dark photos on Bouhlel’s phone showed he nition, however the purpose of the political overtones. had likely already staked out the same weapons was unclear. Sheremet—a Russian national July 14 event in 2015. Ramzi, Chokri and Oualid were who was born in ex-Soviet Bela- It also emerged that one of the charged with being accomplices to rus—was respected for criticising five suspects in custody, a Tunisian murder by a terror group. both the Kremlin and the mistakes named Mohamed Oualid G, had Ramzi and the Albanian couple London Mayor Sadiq Khan (second left) poses with Brad Simpson (left), James McVey (second right) Ukraine has made since severing filmed the scene the day after the are accused of providing Bouhlel and Connor Ball, members of British band “The Vamps”, to mark International Busking Day in London, ties with Moscow in a 2014 pro- carnage, as it crawled with para- with the gun he fired at police offic- yesterday. EU revolution that was followed medics and journalists. ers before he was shot dead. by a 27-month eastern separa- tist revolt. “Ukrainian journalism lost a great reporter,” 64-year-old sci- entist Kostyantyn Skrypnyk said Death in police custody sparks clashes in Paris suburbs for third day while waiting at the entrance of a Kiev conference hall at which the memorial ceremony was held. AFP Traore, 24, died shortly after being said Traore “fainted during the ride” opinion before his burial. On Tuesday night five members of Several family members arrested in Beaumont-sur-Oise. to the police station, and paramed- “The infection that Adama Traore the paramilitary police were injured and fellow reporters cried as the Authorities said an autopsy ics were called immediately but were may have been suffering from does not in clashes, and nine cars set on fire, somber procession slowly moved revealed he was suffering from a unable to revive him. explain the causes of his death,” said while several public buildings were past a large photograph of a smil- BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, FRANCE: serious infection at the time of his Jannier said the infection was the family’s lawyer Karim Achoui. damaged. One person was arrested. ing Sheremet at the hall’s entrance Violence erupted in the northern sub- death and that his body showed few “very serious” and had “impacted Traore’s twin sister, Hawa, said The unrest continued on Wednes- toward the casket inside. urbs of Paris for a third night in a row, signs of violence. several organs”, while the medical she did not believe autopsy findings day night in a series of villages “If this crime is not pun- with 15 cars set ablaze by residents He was taken into custody after examiner had found scratches but no were accurate, but called for calm. situated near each other some 30 km ished, it will only happen again,” furious over the death of a young interfering in the arrest of his brother “marks of significant violence” on the “We will find the truth. Calm north of Paris, where 15 cars were Skrypnyk said moments before man in police custody. in an extortion case, said a source man’s body. down,” she told reporters, address- set ablaze and protesters tried to set Ukrainian President Petro Poro- The unrest began on Tuesday close to the investigation. However, Traore’s family said ing those on the streets in support of a mayor’s office and a preschool on shenko appeared at the ceremony night after it emerged that Adama Local prosecutor Yves Jannier it would seek an outside expert’s her brother. fire. to pay his own respects. 12 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 AMERICAS

Hillary VP pick Donald Trump coming, Virginia senator frontrunner vows to put AFP

WASHINGTON: Presumptive Dem- ocratic presidential nominee Hillary ‘America first’ Clinton could announce her vice pres- idential pick, with reports suggesting she is leaning towards Spanish-speak- against Clinton, an answer to ing Senator Tim Kaine from the Republicans who say the best way battleground state of Virginia. The acceptance he can unify the divided party is to Clinton is scheduled to campaign speech by the New detail why the Democrat should not in Florida, but The Wall Street Jour- York businessman be elected on November 8. nal—citing people familiar with the As the crowd chanted: “Lock her former secretary of state’s selec- closed out a up” for her handling of US foreign tion process—said the news could four-day convention policy, Trump waved them off and come Friday in a text message to said: “Let’s defeat her in Novem- supporters. that underscored ber.” Thousands of supporters who A spokesman for the Clinton his struggle to were gathered in the convention hall campaign had no comment, when roared their approval. asked about the reports. heal fissures in the The acceptance speech by Kaine is seen as a leading con- Republican Party. Trump, 70, closed out a four-day tender for several reasons: he could convention that underscored his help Clinton claim Virginia, a key struggle to heal fissures in the battleground state and one her cam- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence stand with their Republican Party over his anti- paign believes is key to victory, and Reuters illegal-immigrant rhetoric and families at the end of the Republican National Convention, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. also could help cement her over- concerns about his temperament. whelming lead with Hispanic voters. The event was boycotted by many deals but instead pursue agreements knows the system better than me, Trump said policies pursued by The 58-year-old senator also has big-name establishment Republi- with individual countries. He would which is why I alone can fix it.” Clinton in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria strong foreign policy experience— CLEVELAND: Donald Trump cans, such as 2012 nominee Mitt renegotiate the NAFTA trade accord Trump portrayed himself as a had made a bad situation worse. He he currently serves on the Senate accused Democratic rival Hil- Romney and members of the Bush linking the United States, Canada and fresh alternative to traditional pol- blamed her for rise of the Islamic Foreign Relations and Armed Serv- lary Clinton of a legacy of “death, family that gave the party its last Mexico. He would penalise companies iticians, willing to consider new State militants and blasted her will- ices committees. And he is seen as destruction, terrorism and weak- two presidents. that oursource jobs and then export approaches to vexing problems and ingness to accept thousands of Syrian helping Clinton win votes from inde- ness” as US secretary of state and Trump vowed to build a “great their foreign-made products back into help working-class people. refugees. pendent male voters. vowed to be tough on crime and border wall.” He said illegal immi- the United States. “We will never sign Laying out his case against Clinton, “After 15 years of wars in the Mid- Also on the short list are: Agri- illegal immigrants in a speech grants were taking away jobs from bad trade deals,” Trump thundered. he denounced nation-building poli- dle East, after trillions of dollars spent culture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who accepting the Republican presi- American citizens and in some cases “America first!” cies that were actually put in place to and thousands of lives lost, the situ- has been friends with the Clintons for dential nomination. committing crimes. “We will stop “I have joined the political arena some extent by George W Bush, without ation is worse than it has ever been decades and is from another key bat- Trump’s speech of more than an it,” Trump said. so that the powerful can no longer mentioning by name the Republi- before. This is the legacy of Hillary tleground state, Pennsylvania; and hour was designed to set the tone As president, Trump said he beat up on people that cannot defend can president who launched wars in Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, a for the general election campaign would avoid multinational trade themselves,” Trump said. “Nobody Afghanistan and Iraq. and weakness,” Trump said. Latino seen as a true liberal. Pennsylvania Pentagon revises law of war manual after criticism of press treatment town to be sued Reuters fewer protections than combatants, journalists were being detained “These are major changes,” said forces, the manual said. for ban on such as prisoner-of-war status. worldwide, compared to 221 in 2014. Frank Smyth of CPJ. “This affirms The new manual also eliminates “Reporting on military opera- After the manual’s release last rights and practice of open and inde- language that called for journalists building mosque tions can be very similar to collecting year, news organisations met Pen- pendent reporting on the battlefield.” to seek permission from “relevant WASHINGTON: The Pentagon yes- intelligence or even spying,” one pas- tagon officials to protest the language The Pentagon eliminated the pas- authorities” for their work “to avoid terday updated its law of war manual sage of the manual said. and ask for changes. sages comparing reporting to spying being mistaken for spies.” after a previous version came under Press freedom advocates said the The revised manual provides or hostile acts, but gives specific That passage drew criticism for AFP fire for appearing to allow com- manual’s wording blurred the line greater detail on legitimate purposes examples of how an act of reporting setting an unrealistic standard for manders to treat journalists as between journalists and combatants that journalists serve and makes could result in loss of civilian status. war reporting, in which frontlines belligerents or spies. and gave commanders the authority clear that journalists have all the Journalists could still be consid- can shift quickly. To cover conflicts in NEW YORK: The US Justice The US Department of Defence to detain reporters without charge. rights of civilians. ered unprivileged belligerents, the Libya or Syria, for instance, reporters Department said yesterday it is manual, the first and most compre- They also warned that it would Press freedom groups, including manual states, if they were a mem- often have to cross borders illegally. suing a Pennsylvania commu- hensive of its kind, was first released erode US credibility abroad at a time CPJ and Reporters Without Borders, ber of a non-state armed group and Pentagon officials also said they nity for religious discrimination last June. It compared some of the when journalists are targetted by praised the revisions. Advocates said were carrying out propaganda “or would be willing to revise the man- over the town’s refusal to grant a tasks of journalism to spying or other governments and militant groups. the new manual acknowledged jour- other media activities.” ual again if needed. permit to build a mosque. hostile actions by an enemy. Sixty-nine journalists were killed nalists’ right to interview enemy Journalists could also lose their “The department’s mission is to The lawsuit alleges that The manual said some journal- for their work in 2015, according to combatants and placed the onus on civilian status in certain cases, such defend the very freedoms that jour- Bensalem Township violated a ists may be considered “unprivileged the Committee to Protect Journal- commanders to discern between as relaying target coordinates for nalists exercise,” the Pentagon’s top religious land use act when it belligerents”—a legal category with ists, up from 61 in 2014. In 2015, 199 actions of reporters and combatants. an artillery strike against opposing lawyer, Jennifer O’Connor, said. refused to grant zoning approval “to allow the Bensalem Masjid to build a mosque on three adjoining parcels of land in the township,” the Justice Department said in a Ugly truth depicted Florida probes second statement issued yesterday. The denial “imposed a sub- stantial burden on the Bensalem possible Zika case Masjid’s religious exercise,” treat- ing them “less favourably than the township treats non-religious in non-traveller assemblies,” and “discriminated against (them) on the basis of reli- gion,” the DoJ said. AFP county, a health department Bensalem Township, popula- spokeswoman told reporters the tion 60,000, is located some 30 investigation is ongoing. km northeast of Philadelphia. Few other details have been “Our Constitution protects MIAMI: A second case of Zika virus released about that possible the rights of religious commu- possibly acquired locally is being case. The Zika infection has been nities to build places of worship investigated in Florida, just days confirmed, but the mode of trans- free from unlawful interference after the first potential case was mission has not. and unnecessary barriers,” Van- announced in Miami, officials said. As of yesterday, mosquitoes in ita Gupta, head of the Justice Until now, there have been the Miami area have tested nega- Department’s Civil Rights Divi- hundreds of cases of Zika virus tive for Zika, the spokeswoman said. sion, said in the statement issued in Florida but all involved people Zika virus has spread through to the media. who were infected while travelling dozens of countries in Latin Amer- The Department “will con- to areas where the mosquito-borne ica. One way it could arrive in the tinue to challenge unjustified local virus is spreading. If confirmed, the United States is if a person who was zoning actions around the coun- Florida infections would mark the infected with Zika while travelling try when they encroach upon this arrival of the homegrown virus on elsewhere comes into the country important civil right,” Gupta said. the US continent for the first time. and is bitten by a mosquito, which There is no mosque in Bensa- An inscription on a wall in Santa Rita, 70km from Caracas, reads “Corrupt military, the people are “The Florida Department of then bears Zika and bites another lem Township. Muslim residents hungry”. Long lines, chronic shortages, hyperinflation and violent crime have left President Nicolas Health announced that it is conduct- person, spreading the infection. currently meet for Friday prayers Maduro fighting for his political life. ing an epidemiological investigation As of mid-July, there have been at a rented fire station hall. into a possible non-travel related case 1,306 cases of Zika in the continen- of Zika virus in Broward County,” said tal United States, nearly all involving a statement, referring to county north people who travelled to Latin Amer- of Miami, which includes Fort Lauder- ica and the Caribbean basin that are dale and Hollywood. affected by the current outbreak. Mexican musician decapitated, wife and son killed Health officials are working Earlier this week, a case with “mosquito control to ensure emerged in Utah in which a car- trapping, reduction and preven- egiver appeared to have been AFP singer of the tropical band Sensacion Authorities are investigating involved in illegal activities at sea. tion activities are conducted in the infected by an elderly patient, Caribu, the police said. His wife and whether the murders are linked to Officials did not specify what area of investigation,” the depart- though the exact route of transmis- 11-year-old son were gunned down. a dispute between rival criminal type of activities, but drugs are ment added. The department urged sion remains unknown. It was the second slaughter of gangs. shipped along Mexico’s Pacific coast. people living in the area and visit- President Barack Obama spoke OAXACA, MEXICO: Gunmen burst a family this week in Oaxaca. The In the previous massacre on Elsewhere in Mexico, authori- ing to respond to requests for blood by phone with Florida Governor into a musician’s home in southern state prosecutor’s office issued a sep- Monday, eight shark fishermen from ties found six bodies on a path in the and urine samples. Rick Scott and said the US Centres Mexico, decapitated him and killed arate statement saying that shots had the same family were killed in Puerto eastern state of Veracruz. “These results will help the for Disease Control and Prevention his wife and son, police said. been fired at Sanchez’s house a few Escondido, a beach resort famous The victims included a police department determine the number would be sending another $5.6m to The armed group entered fami- months ago and that a note threat- among surfers. officer who had been missing since of people affected,” it said. Florida for Zika funding, in addition ly’s home in Juchitan, Oaxaca state, ening him with death was left behind Authorities said they were inves- Saturday, three other men and two Regarding the possible non- to $2m in federal funds the state has and killed Victor Sanchez, 40, the at the time. tigating whether the fishermen were women, authorities said. travel case of Zika in Miami-Dade already received. CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 13

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Arab national caught for selling 1 cheetah NEW YORK: While the HIV epidemic continues to threaten health and well- EU relaxes trade rules with Jordan to being of a large section of the world’s 2 create jobs for Syrian refugees population, scientists have warned that new forms of the virus jumping from ani- French carmaker to build Citroens mals to humans cannot be ruled out. 3 in Iran The suggestion stems from a study in which the scientists discovered the first in vivo evidence that strains of chimpan- zee-carried simian immunodeficiency TWEET OF THE DAY virus (SIV) that virologists consider the ancestor of HIV can infect human cells. “The question was whether SIV strains that have not been found in humans have the potential to cause another HIV-like infection,” said senior author Qingsheng Li, Associate Professor at University of Participants eat chilies as they bath in ice water during a chili eating competition in Hangzhou, Nebraska-Lincoln in the US. “The answer is that, actually, they do. Zhejiang province, yesterday. They get replicated at a very high level. It’s surprising,” Li said. The researchers found that the SIV ancestor of HIV-1 M - the strain respon- sible for the global HIV pandemic - and another ancestral strain of HIV found only among residents of Cameroon can jump Bowie box set to feature Gouster from animals to humans. The researchers further discovered that the SIV ancestors of two HIV strains AFP Gouster,” the title an allusion to a album.” “The Gouster” notably opens not identified in humans also managed to fashion at the time among young with an extended, funkier version of invade human cells after multiple expo- African Americans in Chicago. “John, I’m Only Dancing,” his 1972 INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY sures in the lab. The legendary artist’s latest box single that was then considered ris- “The emergence and re-emergence of NEW YORK: David Bowie’s latest set, “David Bowie -- Who Can I Be que for its gay theme. infectious diseases has become a constant box set will feature in original form Now? (1974-1976),” will for the first The release of “The Gouster” will Sheraton Grand threat to global health, social stability, his unreleased album “The Gouster,” time include “The Gouster” in its be of interest primarily to the most Doha Resort and safety and economic systems,” Li said. recorded as the late rock icon started entirety with original artwork, label passionate of Bowie’s fans, as most Convention Hotel The experimental approach employed to experiment with soul. Parlophone said. of the songs made their way in the light up with the by the team could help assess the threat The English artist, then known “David had a long infatuation end to “Young Americans.” colour of the posed by additional SIVs and numerous primarily for his pioneering glam with soul as did I. We were fans of The three remaining tracks have French National other animal-carried viruses, lead author rock, headed in 1974 to Philadel- the TV show ‘Soul Train,’” Bowie’s all been released in the intervening flag in solidarity Zhe Yuan, doctoral student at University phia’s Sigma Sound studio to pursue longtime producer Tony Visconti said years, including on a 1991 reissue of with France. of Nebraska-Lincoln. This could prove his love of the city’s funk-infused in an excerpt from the liner notes. “Young Americans.” In 2009, two (Photo By especially vital given the dynamic nature soul scene. “We weren’t ‘young, gifted and unreleased songs apparently from Kammutty V P) of HIV and other zoonotic diseases, he The end result was his classic black,’” he wrote, alluding to the the recording sessions -- “I Am a said, many of which have caused new epi- album “Young Americans.” But the Nina Simone anthem, “but we sure Lazer” and “Shilling the Rubes” -- demics or even pandemics. initial, seven-song record was “The as hell wanted to make a killer soul appeared on the bootleg market. Honeyguide birds aid hunters in rare partnership 7 foods to boost your child’s

Reuters In the 1980s, scientists doc- immunity during monsoon umented that honeyguides seek human help by making distinctive OSLO: A small African bird that calls and flitting from tree to tree to IANS guides people to bees’ nests hoping attract attention. “We’ve found it’s to share honey and wax responds a two-way communication,” lead to hunters’ special calls in a rare author Claire Spottiswoode, an evo- NEW DELHI: Monsoon, along with providing a relief from the blazing example of a partnership between lutionary biologist who works at sun, brings along the season of cold and flu. Hot Soups: Hot soups espe- wild animals and humans, scientists Cambridge University and the Uni- cially chicken or egg soup are the best food to boost your child’s immunity, said yesterday. versity of Cape Town, told Reuters. reduce inflammation and fight infection. Addition of ginger, garlic, onions Cooperation between the greater “Humans communicate back to hon- and other whole vegetables increases the anti-bacterial property of soups. honeyguide bird and hunters was eyguides as well.” The ‘brr-hm’ call Seasonal Fruits: Monsoon fruits such as jamun, plums, cherries and first written about by a Portu- “signals to honeyguides that they peaches are a store house of anti-oxidants and vitamins that boost chil- guese missionary in 1588, but was (hunters) are eager to follow. Honey- dren’s immunity and help them fight infection. widely dismissed as pure hearsay. guides use this information to choose Nuts’ concentrated source of energy making them ideal food to fight In recent years, however, research- Yao honey-hunter Orlando Yassene holds a wild greater honeyguide partners,” she said. infection and promote growth in children. A glass of turmeric milk before ers have found ever more evidence female in Mozambique. The call doubles the chances of bed will help your child fight the common cold and flu and also help get of the bond. getting led by a honeyguide to 66 a good night sleep. In Mozambique, hunters are far percent from 33 and increased the Five to six tsp of tulsi tea/kadha every morning is a great way to keep more successful in finding honey honeyguides, the experts wrote in the insects with fire and smoke, chop probability of finding a bees’ nest to your child disease free during the monsoon. Ginger-honey juice works when they use a traditional call journal Science. Once attracted, the open the trunk, get the honey and 54 percent from 17, compared to the best when given at bed time. - a trill followed by a grunt that birds lead hunters to trees with bees, then leave behind some beeswax that use of other human or animal sounds Lastly it’s very important to include a good source of protein at each sounds like “brr-hm” - to attract relying on the humans to subdue the is a delicacy for the birds. to lure birds. meal to promote growth and build immunity. Pokemon Go craze finally hits Japan

AFP developer Niantic all declined to comment. The free app uses satellite locations, But that finally ended Friday as the game graphics and camera capabilities to over- was made available online in Japan. “We are lay cartoon monsters on real-world settings, truly happy that we have been able to bring challenging players to capture and train the TOKYO: Pikachu was welcomed home by this to Japan, where Pokemon was born,” creatures for battles. thousands of enthusiastic Japanese gamers Niantic announced on its blog. The game has given a shot in the arm to yesterday as the global phenomenon that is It attributed the delay in Japan to Nintendo’s nascent move into mobile gaming Pokemon Go finally launched in its native responses “beyond our expectations” after -- after it abandoned a longstanding consoles market. the game’s July 6 release. only policy. The smartphone app has now been “PokemonGO releeeeeeeeee- The videogame giant’s stock has more launched in more than 40 countries, including aaaaaaaaased,” tweeted @skri0709 minutes than doubled in the last couple of weeks with the US and much of Europe, but Japan -- after it hit Google Play. Another user said: its market value soaring earlier this week to where Nintendo started the mythical creature “Pokemon Go came, I cannot bother with 4.5 trillion yen ($42.5 billion), making it just franchise 20 years ago -- was kept waiting. work.” more valuable than Japan Inc standard bearer The suspense lasted for days, as interna- Since its global launch two weeks ago, Sony. Amid widespread anticipation before the tional media reports about a timeline for the Pokemon Go has sparked a worldwide frenzy official release, the government issued a rare Japan rollout kept changing, and Nintendo, the among users who have taken to the streets safety guide warning over dangers gamers A man plays “Pokemon Go” by Nintendo in Tokyo, yesterday. Pokemon Company, and the game’s US-based with their smartphones. could face, from heat stroke to online scams. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,534.40 -57.20 PTS PAGE | 20 DOW 18,548.05 +30.82 PTS Amazon set to Yahoo diaspora increase bet on Italy’s FTSE100 6,730.48 +30.59 PTS mourns company’s turnaround plan BRENT $44.07 -$0.68 decline

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Mideast M&A hits $18.7bn; JP Morgan tops in bank fees

Thomson Reuters / Freeman Con- Bolstered by a record-breaking sec- year, while debt capital markets fees Financial Group took the top spot in The largest deal with Middle Eastern sulting, the Middle Eastern debt ond quarter, Middle Eastern debt totalled $63.7m, up 48 percent from the Middle Eastern syndicated loans involvement during the half was the The investment issuance reached $32.9bn during the issuance reached $32.9bn during 2015. Fees from combined debt and fee ranking with $12.8m in fees for $3.5bn investment in United States- banking fees reached first six months of 2016, while equity the first half of 2016, a 45 percent equity capital markets underwrit- 5.6 percent of the market. based Uber Technologies by Saudi $416.8m during the and equity-related issuance totalled increase compared to the value ing accounted for 30 percent of the As for M&A deals, Outbound Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. $1.1bn during the first half of 2016. raised during the first half of 2015 overall fee pool in the region during M&A activity fell 22 percent from JP Morgan, which advised Uber first half of 2016. Nadim Najjar, Managing Direc- and the strongest first half for DCM the second quarter of 2016, up signif- first half 2015 to reach $9.2bn, the Technologies, topped the first half tor, Mena, Thomson Reuters, said: issuance since records began in icantly from the 6 percent recorded lowest first half total since 2014. 2016 announced any Middle East- “The value of announced M&A trans- 1980,” he added. during the first quarter of the year. Overseas acquisitions from Saudi ern involvement M&A league table. actions with any Middle Eastern In respect to investment bank- Powered by M&A and DCM fees, Arabia accounted for 42 percent of Jones Lang LaSalle and CBRE Hold- The Peninsula involvement reached $18.7bn dur- ing fees, Fees from completed M&A JP Morgan earned the most invest- Middle Eastern outbound M&A activ- ing, which advised BlackRock on the ing the first half of 2016, a decline transactions totalled $104m during ment banking fees in the Middle East ity, while acquisitions by companies $2.5bn sale of its Asia Square Tower to of 29 percent compared to the first the first half of 2016, a 24 percent during the first half of 2016, a total of based in Qatar and United Arab Emir- Qatar Investment Authority, ranked half of 2015 and the slowest first six decrease compared to a year ago $20.6m for a 4.9 percent share of the ates accounted for 31 percent and 11 second and third respectively. DOHA: The Middle Eastern invest- months for deal making in the region and the slowest first half for M&A total fee pool. percent, respectively. In respect to Equity Capital Mar- ment banking fees reached $416.8m since 2014.” fees since 2012. Rothschild topped the completed Domestic and inter-Middle kets, six initial public offerings raised during the first half of 2016, an 8 “Middle Eastern equity and Syndicated lending fees M&A fee rankings with 19.7 per- Eastern M&A decreased 22 percent $379.7m and accounted for 35 per- percent increase compared to fees equity-related issuance totalled accounted for just over 55 per- cent of advisory fees, while HSBC year-on-year to $6.1bn. Inbound M&A cent of first half 2016 activity in the recorded during the first six months $1.1bn during the first half of 2016, cent of the overall Middle Eastern was first for DCM underwriting, up fell 76 percent to $809.8m, a seven- region. As for Debt Capital Markets, of 2015 and the strongest period for an 80 percent decline from the first investment banking fee pool, the from second place a year ago. ECM year low. Qatar was the most active nation in investment banking fees in the region half of 2015 and the slowest opening highest first half share since 2002. underwriting was lead by Emirates Technology was the most active the Middle East accounting for 41 per- since 2014. six-month period for equity cap- Equity capital markets underwriting NBD PJSC with $4.4m in ECM fees, sector, accounting for 22 percent of cent of overall activity, followed by According to estimates from ital markets issuance since 2004. declined 77 percent compared to last or 24.4 percent share. Mitsubishi UFJ Middle Eastern involvement M&A. United Arab Emirates and Oman.

Eurozone business growing at World should step up weakest rate economic policy since start of 2015 coordination: Keqiang Reuters

Reuters “We will maintain a basically sta- LONDON: Eurozone business ble exchange rate at a balanced level growth was at its slowest since and we will not engage in a trade or the start of 2015 this month as currency war,” he added. stronger performances in the two BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Li made the remarks at a joint big economies of Germany and called on world leaders to step up briefing with the officials, which France offset weakness in smaller macroeconomic policy coordination, also included the heads of the World countries, a survey showed yes- after meeting the heads of the Inter- Trade Organisation, the International terday. national Monetary Fund, the World Labour Organisation, the Organisa- While the survey result was Bank, and other senior global eco- tion for Economic Cooperation and not as weak as predicted in a nomic officials. Development, and the Financial Sta- Reuters poll, the slight loss of Li said the sound fundamen- bility Board. momentum may be of concern tals of China’s economy remained The comments came ahead of a to policymakers at the European unchanged despite facing strong meeting of G20 finance ministers and Central Bank who have been try- downward pressures, and that the central bank governors in China this China’s Premier Li Keqiang (centre) speaks at a news conference at the 1+6 Roundtable on promoting growth ing to stimulate faster growth. government’s debt ratio was not high, weekend. Markit’s flash composite Pur- although he added that the govern- Meanwhile, US Treasury Secre- in the Chinese and global economies at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, yesterday. chasing Managers’ Index (PMI), ment would step up regulation of the tary Jack Lew said that G20 finance seen as a good growth indicator, shadow banking sector and moni- officials do not need to take the same won’t be able to compensate for weak The world’s second-largest econ- market point to the increasing pos- dipped to 52.9 from June’s 53.1, the tor local government fiscal practices. type of massive coordinated fiscal demand, leaving China in a “liquid- omy grew 6.7 percent in the second sibility the government may need lowest reading since January 2015. The premier also addressed con- stimulus efforts as those used to com- ity trap”. quarter from a year earlier, steady to provide additional stimulus this However, a poll had predicted a cerns that China is promoting its bat recession during the 2008-2009 China’s economy grew slightly from the first quarter but still the year to hit its growth target of 6.5 to steeper fall to 52.5. exports through aggressive policy global financial crisis. faster than expected in the second slowest pace since the global crisis. 7 percent. Investors worry a further A reading above 50 indicates support with the yuan weakening Unlike many developed econ- quarter as government spending and But steadier headline growth slowdown in China, aggravated by growth. against the dollar. “Given the finan- omies, China still has ample a housing boom boosted industrial in China are accompanied by other Britain’s decision to leave the Euro- “Headline PMIs picked up cial fluctuations as a result of Brexit, ammunition left for further fiscal activity, but a slump in private invest- signs of economic imbalance. pean Union, would leave the world for Germany and France but the China will advance the market-based and monetary policy stimulus, but ment growth is pointing to a loss of An anemic private sector and more vulnerable to the risk of a glo- overall (eurozone) one fell and reform of the exchange rate,” Li said. some economists worry stimulus momentum later in the year. signs of fatigue in the property bal recession. the rest of the region combined saw the weakest rise in activity since December 2012,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. Chanel snaps up 4 companies to secure high-end silk supplies “There is a strong indication that Italy and Spain saw a deteri- oration in growth rates.” German private sector growth Reuters making to weaving and printing. Three of them carry the govern- small suppliers struggling to cover hit its highest level so far this year “Through these investments, Chanel ment-sponsored label Entreprise high production costs with artisan while French business activ- is reaffirming its commitment to the du Patrimoine Vivant, reserved for production volumes. ity held up better than expected long-term sustainability of a high- companies delivering traditional, Relentless vertical integration despite last week’s Bastille Day PARIS: French luxury goods maker quality segment and to ensuring the high-end artisan work. has made life difficult for smaller truck attack in Nice. Chanel has created a silks produc- longevity of the silk weaving indus- In recent years, every major labels such as shoe maker Pierre Further muddying the waters, tion unit by investing in high-end try in France,” Bruno Pavlovsky, luxury group including Hermes, Hardy and Lanvin, France’s oldest Britons voted on June 23 to leave specialists, it said after completing President of Chanel Fashion said a Kering, Richemont and LVMH fashion brand, which have to fight the European Union, a surprise the third deal in four months aimed in a statement. has been snapping up suppliers, to access key suppliers. outcome that sent shockwaves at strengthening its supply chain. Chanel plans major investment from tanneries to flower growers, Hermes acquired a minority through global financial markets Chanel said the four companies, in the four companies to boost their securing access to high quality raw stake this month in Pierre Hardy, Perfume Coco Mademoiselle of Chanel and means the British economy in the Loire region, were long- production capacity and modernise materials in competition that grows whose designer has been creating may slide back into recession in on display at the Nice International standing suppliers involved in every their manufacturing tools, Pav- more fierce every year. shoes for Hermes since 1990 and the coming year. Airport Terminal 1 in Nice, France. step of silk production from yarn lovsky added. Many acquisitions have involved jewelry since 2001. 18 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 BUSINESS Germany, Spain and Italy drive Vodafone growth

FTSE 100 gainers. They were trad- make sure Britain does not get dis- ing up 4.5 percent at 235.5 pence by advantaged from not being part of it.” British telecoms 0958 London time. Vodafone has switched to report- giant reported better Analysts at Citi said they saw the ing in euros from pounds - reflecting than expected group 2.2 percent rise in organic revenue the relatively bigger size of its com- to €12.3bn as a “modest beat”. “The bined euro zone businesses, which service revenues solid progress in Germany and Spain make up about half of its sales. for its mobile phone is encouraging.” In the short-term, the company Growth of 0.3 percent in Europe was seeing more shifts in traffic on its businesses in the Q1 beat analysts’ forecasts of a flat networks from the threat of terrorism despite continued result. Sales in Britain fell 3.2 per- in some tourist markets, Colao said. cent, more than expected. Holiday makers from Britain and weak performance Africa, Middle East and Asia- Germany have shifted from destina- in the UK. Pacific (AMAP) grew by 7.7 percent tions like Turkey and North Africa in the three months to end-June, also this year in favour of perceived safer beating analyst forecasts for a 7 per- locations like Spain, holiday compa- cent rise. “Our growth momentum in nies have said. Reuters AMAP remains strong, with excellent Vodafone is making less money performance in South Africa, Turkey from business and consumer calls and Egypt and ongoing recovery in when people travel after the EU cut India,” Colao said. charges at the end of April. Roam- LONDON: Spain, Germany and He said a planned listing of ing charges will be abolished in June Italy helped Vodafone to produce Vodafone’s Indian operation would 2017. But Colao said more than half of stronger than expected first-quar- provide clarity on its value, giving it calls made when travelling were now ter sales growth despite a drag from more flexibility to pursue options like included in bundles, a move that was European Union roaming charge cuts a deeper tie-up with Liberty Global, boosting overall usage and helping and a weak home market. although no talks were ongoing or to compensate for the roaming cuts. The world’s second-largest were planned. The drag on revenue from roam- mobile operator said Europe was A Vodafone store is pictured in central London yesterday. Vodafone has floated the idea of ing charges was 40 basis points in the stable, with three out of its four big- switching its home base to another quarter, although analysts at Mira- gest markets doing well. Europe only European country after Britain baud said they believed the changes returned to growth for Vodafone in new billing system. The company also improving our performance in the the sustainability of the recent return voted to leave the European Union would have a bigger impact in the the final quarter of 2015/2016 after said it was too early to tell what Brexit UK,” he said. to growth, and underpins our belief last month. second quarter. five years of contraction due to slug- would mean for Vodafone’s business. Vodafone’s performance marked that this growth profile is now top- Colao said it was too soon to have Analysts had expected Vodafone gish economies in the region. Chief Executive Vittorio Colao an eighth consecutive quarterly rise tier amongst the incumbent Telco any clarity on this. “Our position is we to report organic service revenue The notable exception was Brit- said the group was making good in its main growth measure - organic universe,” JP Morgan Cazenove said continue to care a lot for the single growth of 1.9 percent, against under- ain, where Vodafone has been trying progress in Europe, led by Germany, service revenue. “This momentum in a note. digital market,” he said. “We believe lying growth of 1.8 percent in the final to fix problems encountered with a Spain and Italy. “We are focused on should steadily raise confidence in Shares in Vodafone topped the pragmatic solutions will be found to quarter of 2015/16.

FCA finds potential mis-selling among Samsung Elec sues Huawei in Samsung invests $450m insurance agents China for patent infringement in China carmaker BYD Reuters AFP and chairman Wang Chuanfu to Reuters 18.79 percent from 20.70 percent, the statement said. LONDON: A British financial It added that Buffett’s Berkshire watchdog opened the way to BEIJING: A subsidiary of South Hathaway Energy will see its stake another possible round of costly SEOUL/HONG KONG: Tech giant Korean conglomerate Samsung decline to 8.25 percent from 9.09 compensation claims yesterday, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said will buy a $450m stake in China’s percent but remain BYD’s fourth- saying it had found evidence that yesterday it sued Huawei Technol- electric carmaker BYD, which is largest shareholder. insurance agents had falsified ogies Co Ltd for patent infringements partially owned by US investment BYD will use the proceeds to documents, faked signatures and through multiple courts in China, guru Warren Buffet, the Chinese expand its battery production and saddled people with products that escalating a legal conflict between company said yesterday. the research and development of would never pay out. the smartphone rivals. Shanghai Samsung Semicon- renewable energy cars, the state- The Financial Conduct The suits mark the latest salvo ductor has promised to pay nearly ment said. Authority (FCA), set up in 2013 in a fight between the world’s No. 1 three billion yuan for a 1.92 percent Samsung pursued a stake in to crack down on customer rip- and No. 3 smartphone makers, who stake in the company, becoming its BYD after the affiliate was among offs, said its study of 15 unnamed compete fiercely across the world in ninth-largest shareholder, BYD said a number of foreign battery makers insurance companies and their an industry that researcher IHS says in a filing with the Shenzhen stock left off a list of suppliers approved agents found widespread exam- is worth $332bn this year. Women walk past an advertisement promoting a Samsung Electronics exchange. by China, where sales of electric ples of poor practise. The South Korean firm sued smartphone at its headquarters in Seoul. The investment, at a price of 57.4 vehicles are surging and the gov- However, there was no indi- Huawei in a Beijing court about two yuan per share, is part of a private ernment has sped up construction cation of the likely size of any weeks ago for allegedly infringing property,” Samsung said. firm says infringes on its patents, placement that has raised 14.5bn of charging points, Bloomberg News compensation payouts and six of its patents, a spokeswoman An intellectual property court including Huawei’s Mate 8 and yuan from six investors including reported. whether they would be on the said. She did not elaborate on the in Beijing said on its official Weixin Honor smartphones, the court said. Samsung, according to the state- One of the world’s largest chip- scale of other scandals such types of patents or the other Chi- account that Samsung sued Huawei Huawei Technologies — also ment. The other five investors are makers, Samsung said last week as the mis-selling of payment nese courts involved. “Despite our and a department store in Bei- one of the world’s largest telecom a state-controlled industrial invest- investing in BYD would bolster their protection insurance (PPI), which best efforts to resolve this matter jing and has claimed $24.14m in equipment manufacturers — said ment fund and four Chinese fund semiconductor business for cars, the has cost the banks billions of amicably, it has regrettably become damages. Samsung asked the two in a statement it had not received management companies. report said. pounds. necessary to take legal action in defendants to stop production and a “formal complaint” but would The new share issuance will BYD shares fell 0.71 percent to The FCA cited one firm with a order to defend our intellectual sales of products the South Korean defend itself as necessary. dilute the shares of BYD founder 61.5 yuan in Shenzhen yesterday. network of motor dealer agents for example which it said had failed to discipline an agent after iden- tifying mis-selling, including the falsification of customer docu- mentation, the FCA said. Amazon set to increase bet on Italy’s turnaround plan Agents from another firm mis-represented themselves by claiming to be from the firm that Reuters initially sold the appliance to the customer, while other agents sold Zalando can withstand travel insurance to customers with pre-existing medical conditions MILAN: Online retailer Amazon. which would not be covered by com is set to announce the first in a the policy. series of investments in Italy worth Amazon threat: Kinnevik Rather than giving the sec- at least €500m ($550m), a bet on the tor time to put its house in order, government’s plan to go from lag- the watchdog ordered so-called gard to leader in digital commerce, Reuters Section 166 reviews on two firms, sources said. meaning they will have to pay for Amazon will invest €150m to an outside expert to review their build a major storage and logistics policies against mis-selling. centre outside Rome, its second in BERLIN: Swedish investment firm Kinnevik, which backs Europe’s It has told two other firms to Italy, said one source close to the biggest pure online fashion firm Zalando, is confident the retailer cease sales activities. These four matter. The new centre, due to open can withstand competition from Amazon because it caters to a dif- firms and a fifth must stop taking next year, will employ 1,200 people. ferent type of customer. on new agents. “There are wide margins of Zalando’s shares have tumbled 11 percent this year as investors The FCA did not name any of growth for small and medium busi- have expressed fears it is more exposed to Amazon’s foray into fash- the companies involved but said nesses in Italy, which are still very ion than British rival ASOS, whose shares have rallied 30 percent it had found examples of potential much behind their European coun- since the start of 2016. Kinnevik is Zalando’s biggest shareholder. mis-selling and “customer detri- terparts on e-commerce,” the source “Amazon does very well in its markets and we are very impressed ment” as a result of agents’ actions said. growing and will have almost dou- following reports by newspaper Cor- with what they are doing, and Zalando does very well in its own mar- at a third of the insurance firms It will be the biggest foreign IT bled between 2011 and the end of riere della Sera. ket and the two can co-exist happily,” Kinnevik CEO Lorenzo Grabau included in the review, meaning investment to be unveiled in Italy this year when transactions are Amazon has a share of 14 percent said after the investor reported second-quarter earnings. compensation claims are possible. since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi estimated to reach around 19 billion of Italian Internet retailing, second Grabau said Amazon is catering to consumers who are not par- Matt Browne, insurance reg- announced in April a new tactic to euros, according to national ecom- to eBay with 24 percent, accord- ticularly brand conscious and who want affordable clothes. ulatory director at consultants speed up broadband rollout across merce association Netcomm. ing to research firm Euromonitor Zalando customers, he said, want more than that. “They want PwC, said the review will likely the country. He enlisted the help of Amazon also plans to build data International. to express their personality and their happiness or their mood via come as a shock and trigger a state-controlled utility Enel to lay centres in Italy in the next 12 months It has already invested some the clothes they wear,” he said. “As a result, Zalando caters to them review of agents. fibre-optic cable alongside its exist- for its expanding cloud-service divi- €450m in the last six years in Italy, increasingly as a technology platform that allows those custom- “Some firms may have to pay ing power network. sion, housing them in old power its fourth largest European market, ers to connect with the entire fashion and accessories market in redress to customers, as evidence The European Union’s fourth- stations belonging to Enel, two after the United Kingdom, Germany Europe,” he said. of customer detriment includ- largest economy comes last in the sources said. and France. Zalando eased some concerns over the Amazon threat on Tues- ing products being mis-sold EU for Internet usage, with barely Enel Chief Executive Francesco Amazon founder and CEO Jeff day when it raised its full-year profit forecast and reported strong was found by the FCA’s review,” half of Italian households subscrib- Starace has said previously that Bezos (pictured) will visit Italy and second quarter results. Browne said, without estimated ing to fixed-line broadband. Amazon is among companies inter- is set to meet Renzi in Florence, the scale of any payouts. However, online shopping is ested in acquiring three old stations, sources said. BUSINESS SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 19

Low growth, GE profit beats weak trade sap chemical sector estimates as in Germany revenue jumps AFP FRANKFURT: Germany’s powerful chemicals sector will see a bigger decline in sales over 2016 than pre- viously thought as weak Aviation, healthcare global growth and trade and power undermine prices, the VCI businesses countered industry federation said yesterday. weak demand for “Negative factors, such oil and gas and as weak growth in the emerging economies, lit- transportation tle momentum in overall equipment. global trade, and the end of the worldwide invest- ment boom” are weighing The Edificio Espana building on the Plaza de Espana square, in Madrid. on Germany’s third-largest Reuters segment revenue, fell 1 percent to industrial sector, president $24.4bn, less than some analysts Marijn Dekkers said. expected. While production stag- Net profit was $2.73bn, or 30 nated in the six months to NEW YORK: General Electric Co cents a share, compared with a loss China’s Wanda to sell historic June, sales in the sector fell reported a sharp rise in adjusted of $1.36bn, or 13 cents a share, in to €90.4bn ($100bn) —or net income in the second quar- the year-earlier quarter. GE’s order a drop of 3.5 percent from ter, as its aviation, healthcare and backlog rose 1.3 percent to $320bn, the same period in 2015 — power businesses countered weak reflecting a 2 percent rise in services Madrid skyscraper for €272m the VCI said in its half-year demand for oil and gas and trans- orders to $233bn, while equipment report. The positive effects portation equipment. orders fell 2.2 percent to $86bn. for the sector of low oil GE, long considered a bellwether GE shares fell 2.4 percent to AFP 1950s under the dictatorship of Gen- Wang has also bought the prices and the weak euro for the US economy, posted adjusted $31.80 in premarket trading. eral Francisco Franco, in June 2014 organiser of Ironman extreme were waning. earnings of 51 cents a share, topping With the stock performing well for €265m, but its plans to develop endurance contests, Swiss sports In addition, economic the 46 cents that analysts expected. in recent weeks, the second-quar- the property into a hotel and shop- marketing group Infront, and uncertainty sparked by The figure included a gain of 20 ter results “should be sufficient to SHANGHAI: China’s property ping centre have been met with a stake in Spanish football club Britain’s June vote to leave cents a share from the sale of GE’s keep the bulls satisfied,” analyst giant Wanda, owned by the coun- hurdles from the local government. Atletico Madrid. the EU, and increased vola- appliances business to Qingdao Deane Dray at RBC Capital Markets try’s richest man Wang Jianlin, has Madrid’s new anti-auster- It burst into the international tility in both raw materials Haier Co Ltd, which closed in June. wrote in a note. “But we would not signed an MOU to sell a historic ity Mayor Manuela Carmena has spotlight in 2012 by buying US cin- prices and exchange rates The gain was offset by 9 cents in expect anything better than a flat- Madrid skyscraper to a Spanish put investors on edge by vowing ema chain AMC Entertainment for “create difficult conditions restructuring costs and other items, tish stock performance today, with developer for €272m, the company to sternly scrutinise big building $2.6bn. for solid growth in the sec- GE said. much depending on commentary” said yesterday. projects approved by the former Hugely imposing, the skyscraper tor,” said Dekkers. GE affirmed its 2016 operat- from the company conference call. Wanda plans to sell all shares conservative council. dominates one end of the Plaza de That prompted the fed- ing forecast and forecast strong During the quarter, GE returned of Wanda Madrid Development, According to Spanish reports, Espana square in western Madrid eration to downgrade its growth continuing in the second $18bn to shareholders through stock which holds the 25-storey Edificio city authorities refused to let Wanda and while it was a prized architec- sales forecast for the whole half. “The diversity and scale of our buybacks. The company shed its Espana, to Spain’s property devel- demolish the building’s facade tural jewel during Franco’s rule, of 2016 by half a percent- portfolio enabled the company to designation as a non-bank systemi- oper Baraka Global Investment, its before reconstructing it. residents of the capital are hugely age point to 1.5 percent. perform well despite a volatile and cally important financial institution listed arm Wanda Hotel Develop- The group had reportedly attached to a building few associ- Beyond economic slow-growth economy,” GE Chief after divesting most of its GE Capital ment Co said in a statement to the planned to knock down the facade, ate with the dictator. headwinds, German chem- Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt business. The change is expected to Hong Kong stock exchange. re-model the interior and build it It has stood empty since 2006 icals producers — ranging said in a statement. free about $18bn in capital, which Baraka has put down €1m as again with the same materials. — a symbol of the 2008 real estate from SMEs to global giants Revenue rose 15 percent to GE had pledged to return to share- earnest money, and the deal is Wanda has been on a high-pro- collapse that thrust Spain into a like Bayer and BASF — $33.49 billion, helped by a 31 per- holders through buybacks. expected to be executed by Octo- file overseas acquisition spree in damaging economic crisis. have seen increased cent rise in the power business. The sale of the GE Capital units ber 15, the statement said. recent years, including the $3.5bn Wang’s group also owns more competition from abroad Sales from continuing industrial also positioned GE to take on debt to Wanda bought the historic purchase of Hollywood studio Leg- than 200 malls, shopping complexes slash export figures for operations, known as organic fund acquisitions and growth. Madrid landmark, completed in the endary Entertainment in January. and luxury hotels across China. products further down the value chain, including pet- rochemicals and polymers. Dekkers said the Ger- man government was not doing enough to US banks get Brexit boost but face long-term pain stop German companies’ investment in production capacity going abroad. “The chemical industry AFP operations. “There was increased economic growth in the EU and the Relocating staff from London Dublin in some ways is a nat- definitely needs a better volatility around Brexit that I think prospect of low and negative inter- woold cost banks an average of ural choice, because English is the environment for invest- we were probably positioned for, and est rates. £50,000 per employee, said con- primary language, and the culture ment. That means reliable importantly with that volatility, cus- Yet bank executives also pointed sultancy Synechron. Moving 1,000 is more similar to the United States. political requirements and NEW YORK: Large US banks got a tomers came to us with their issues,” to a host of unknowns after the Brit- jobs to hubs like Dublin, Frankfurt But limited housing and the competitive costs,” he said. lift from the June “Brexit” vote in the said Citigroup chief financial officer ish vote. or Paris would then cost some £50m. absence of a true downtown busi- This decade has also second quarter, but could face long- John Gerspach. US banks have their European Banks have already begun infor- ness center are considered liabilities, seen much larger wage term pain from a British retreat from Morgan Stanley chief financial headquarters in London, and the five mal discussions with regulators in according to a banking source. increases for workers com- the European Union. officer Jonathan Pruzan pointed to largest US banks currently employ other European countries on pro- Paris has a vibrant business dis- pared with the slow growth Earnings released by JPMorgan a “high level of activity at the very more than 40,000 people in the city. cedures for obtaining bank licenses trict, but could suffer comparatively of the early 2000s that Chase, Citigroup and others over the end of June, primarily due to Brexit But that structure that will make and establishing compliance with from high taxes and heavy regula- boosted big exporters’ com- last week showed a pickup in some as we supported our clients.” less sense if London loses direct local capital requirements, said one tory burdens. petitiveness. By comparison, key trading businesses in the days The higher trading revenues were access to the 27 other members of banking source who spoke on the Bank executives have so far China, the United States and after the surprise June 23 vote by a factor in earnings reports that gen- the EU single market. condition of anonymity. offered few clues on their think- Saudi Arabia have become Britain to leave the EU. erally bested market expectations. If Britain withdraws from the Of the preferred cities, Frankfurt ing, emphasizing that much rests on more attractive locations Banks attributed the bounce to Some analysts say the US banks European Union, banks based in offers close access to the European negotiations between Britain and the for big investments by Ger- a rise in market volatility after the are also relatively well positioned London could no longer be allowed Central Bank, as well as the custom EU over the structure of their post- man firms. British vote, resulting in double- compared with their European coun- to freely market services to EU coun- of employing English in addition to Brexit trade relations, which could digit revenue gains in some trading terparts, which suffer from weaker tries without a presence there. German in business affairs. take years.w End of an era: VCRs headed for outdated tech heaven

AFP by consumers who have large vide- level so they stopped, which led to first launched its Betamax products otape collections that must still be our decision — we can’t make them in 1975 as a household, magnetic played on VCRs. A Gallup poll sev- without that part,” he said. video format for consumers to record eral years ago found that 58 percent Funai has been overwhelmed analogue television shows. The pop- TOKYO: The clunky videocassette of Americans still had one in their with calls from desperate Japa- ularity of Betamax tapes peaked in recorder is going the way of floppy home. nese VCR tape owners who had 1984 when some 50 million cassettes disks, eight-track tapes and camera The boxy machines — originally not transferred treasured record- were shipped. film as the world’s last manufacturer about the size of a briefcase with ings of weddings and other special However, the format, initially ends production of the once boom- a top-loading slot for videotapes occasions on to other formats, he supported by Toshiba and other elec- ing home-video technology. — entered into mainstream popu- added. tronics makers, is most remembered Japan’s Funai Electric cited a larity in the seventies and eighties, Japan may have a reputation for as the loser of a corporate battle over sharp decline in sales and trouble and spawned a new industry: tape hi-tech devices and futuristic robots, setting the de facto household video sourcing parts for its decision to stop rental stores. but many people still cling to seem- standard. making VCRs at a plant in China by But the outdated technology has ingly outdated options including fax VHS, developed by another Jap- the end of this month. long been eclipsed by DVDs and machines and flip phones. anese electronics maker that later Most of the consumer electron- other more advanced options, while Cassette tapes are also still pop- became part of JVC, won the battle. ics firm’s VCRs were sold in North once ubiquitous rental shops have all ular while major DVD rental chains But it lost the war as video cas- America in recent years, including but disappeared. can be found in Japanese cities. sette recorders were replaced later under the Sanyo brand. Panasonic pulled out of the busi- Last year, electronics giant Sony by digital formats, such as DVDs, A VHS videocassette recorder shown in Tokyo, yesterday. The Sales have plummeted from 15 ness several years ago, making Funai announced it would stop selling Bet- which have themselves largely world’s last videocassette recorder is set to roll off the factory line million units a year at their height the last VCR maker in the world, a amax video tapes, ending the storied been replaced by online streaming as the manufacturer ends production of the once booming home- to 750,000 in 2015 — although some company spokesman said Friday. history of a product that had been technology. theatre technology. Funai Electric, which says it is the world’s last may be surprised VCRs were still “A company that was making ousted years earlier by the more pop- Sony stopped making Betamax VCR manufacturer, pointed to a sharp decline in demand and trouble being made at all. parts for us said it was too tough to ular VHS tape format. recorders in 2002, but it kept mak- sourcing parts. Demand appears largely driven keep making them with sales at this The inventor of the Walkman ing tapes for die-hard fans. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016

German firms hold Yahoo diaspora mourns off UK investments ahead of Brexit talks company’s decline

By Michael Nienaber though there were signs invest- and Paul Carrel ment and hiring were being put Reuters on hold. New Prime Minister Theresa May says her govern- ment is formulating its position for talks that will determine the ome German companies country’s relationship with the EU, are holding off making and has appealed for time to work investments in Britain out how best to approach the com- until they know more plex Brexit negotiations. Sabout the relationship the country British officials have stressed will forge with the rest of Europe they believe investment will flow following the Brexit vote. again once foreign businesses can While big companies like see how Britain’s post-Brexit ties Siemens and Bosch have the with the EU are starting to shape deep pockets to take a longer- up. “People are not disinvest- term view about one of Europe’s ing, they are just on hold ... if by most lucrative markets, and December or March they can see a weather uncertainty about how decent landing point, they’ll move the divorce will play out, smaller ahead again,” one senior eco- firms are more cautious. nomic official told Reuters. Britain is a major market for Kemper is more exposed to Germany, accounting for around 7 Britain than most German compa- percent of its exports, and is likely nies, with the country accounting to remain so regardless of Brexit. for a tenth of its turnover, but its But Germany’s VDMA association, experience nonetheless reflects Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer at a conference in San Francisco. which represents thousands of some of the challenges the Brexit firms in the engineering industry, vote poses to Germany’s economy. said many of its members were In the first five months of 2016, By Deborah M Todd and “Until it really is over, a lot of us believe there place, pointing to a youthful energy, a cul- unwilling to make any financial German exports to Britain stag- Jeffrey Dastin will be a chance for resurgence.” ture of learning and the excitement of being commitments. nated on the year, official data Reuters She compared the emotions surround- on the front lines of the internet revolution. “Companies want to continue shows. The slowdown contrasts ing the auction to “when your parents sell “Working at Yahoo for people who to do good business in Britain sharply with last year, when Ger- your childhood home.” were young in their career was like going and most are likely now waiting man shipments to Britain surged Launched in 1994 by two Stanford grad- to a large research university,” said Dan to see how the exit negotiations almost 13 percent to just under 90 ormer Yahoo executive Dan uate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, Finnigan, a former senior vice-president of go, once they start,” said its head billion euros, a record for German Rosensweig has not worked at Yahoo in its early years was the destination Yahoo and now president and CEO of Job- Thilo Brodtmann. exports to Britain. the pioneering internet company of choice for many making their first for- vite. “People who started in media went into Family-owned industrial In 2015, Germany sold more in nearly a decade. But last week, ays into the world wide web. The company sales, people who started in sales went into manufacturer Kemper, for exam- goods only to the United States as Yahoo Inc prepared to sell its soared, and then crashed in the first dot- recruiting, people went from engineering to ple, has shelved plans to expand and France. The VDMA engi- Fcore internet business, he was sporting a com bubble — and then emerged from the product. It was highly encouraged.” its British business. neering association said German Yahoo T-shirt and, in an interview, reveled rubble as one of the few internet compa- Luanne Calvert, chief marketing officer Before the Brexit vote the exports from the sector to Brit- in memories of the company’s heyday, along nies with substantial revenues and profits. at Virgin America Inc, was at Yahoo from company, which makes air fil- ain fell by 4.2 percent in the first with the deep impact its alumni had — and The peak came in the mid-2000s, many 1999 to 2002. She credits the experience ter systems and fume extraction quarter, year-on-year. still have — in shaping Silicon Valley. former executives say, with advertisers des- with making her career. “It was pretty units for the car and construction In a further sign that polit- He recalled a workforce that believed perate for a presence in the new online amazing that you could kind of create your industries, had planned to invest ical uncertainty has harmed “they were doing something that mat- medium filling the company’s coffers. But own job” at Yahoo, as she did. “I became the in its UK marketing and servicing economic ties, German foreign tered: bringing people information,” said even then, Google was busily undermining queen bee of buzz marketing ... It changed operations this year. direct investment to Britain fell Rosensweig, the company’s chief operat- Yahoo’s core business — helping people find my life in terms of (experience that was) “We definitely won’t do that 6 percent on the quarter in the ing officer from 2002 until 2007. “I hire as things on the internet. really relevant to the future of marketing.” now,” CEO Bjoern Kemper told first three months of 2016, Bun- many ex-Yahoos as I can, because I know By 2008, Yahoo was fending off a con- Many ex-Yahoos are quick to acknowl- Reuters from his office in Vreden, desbank data show. their commitment, their talent.” tentious takeover bid from Microsoft Corp edge that the company eventually lost focus close to the Dutch border in the Markus Kerber, managing Rosensweig — now CEO of the online and struggling to define its mission. That as it grew big and bureaucratic, and came to state of North Rhine-Westphalia. director of the BDI Federation of education company Chegg Inc — is one of core question was never really answered, be dominated internally by endless meet- He said Kemper’s British German Industries, told Reuters scores of executives around Silicon Valley leading to years of management instabil- ings and powerpoint presentations. sales have fallen this year, partly it expected a significant deterio- who still “bleed purple,” as many Yahoo ity and shifting priorities. By 2010, said Shashi Seth, who arrived because customers had put off ration in economic relations with alums put it, despite the Google, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc that year as a senior vice-president, “peo- spending decisions ahead of the Britain in the coming months. company’s more recent and a host of new companies, meanwhile, ple just looked at Yahoo as a job. It wasn’t June 23 referendum, and that he “When it comes to new German instability and decline. claimed much of the territory that might their passion.” saw little prospect of a rebound in foreign direct investment, it’s In the formative have been Yahoo’s. Still, even today, the eagerness of the short term following the deci- looking bad,” he said. The imme- years of the web, Yahoo The auction of the company’s core ex-Yahoos to work with one another is sion to leave the EU. diate uncertainty is perhaps less was the biggest, rich- assets — which has drawn bids from Ver- undiminished. A Meetup group, at least The company, which has problematic for big companies est internet upstart in izon Communications Inc, AT&T Inc and two Facebook groups, a smartphone app overall annual turnover of about whose size and financial muscle Silicon Valley, and it others and is expected to conclude by the called “xY!z Network” and a LinkedIn group €40m, said it expects to lose allows them to plan further ahead. Rosensweig is one of incubated a genera- end of the month — is likely to value them with more than 15,000 members tie the around 1 million euros in UK sales Siemens said late last month tion of executives. Now, at about a hundredth of what Google-parent ex-Yahoos together. For some, connections this year as a result of economic that it was not scaling back invest- scores of executives as a sale and possi- Alphabet Inc is worth. The auction does not with fellow Yahoo alumni turned into last- uncertainty before and after the ment in a British wind power around Silicon Valley ble dismemberment include Yahoo’s valuable stakes in Alibaba ing business relationships. Brexit vote. factory due to go into production of the company looms, Group Holding Ltd, the Chinese e-com- Slack, the red-hot business messaging Little is clear about how Brexit in a few months. who still “bleed a wave of sorrow and merce juggernaut, and Yahoo Japan Corp. upstart, was founded by Flickr creator and will affect the British and German German car parts maker purple,” as many nostalgia is reverberat- Some of the 23 former Yahoo execu- former Yahoo executive Stewart Butter- economies. Bosch, which employs 5,300 peo- ing through the Yahoo tives interviewed carry other emotions, field, and financed by former vice-president The Bank of England said on ple in UK factories, said last week Yahoo alums put it, diaspora. including frustration with all the missed of Yahoo search Andrew Braccia, who is Wednesday it saw “no clear evi- that it was sticking to its plans and despite the company’s “People are sad,” opportunities, and anger over the man- now a general partner at venture capital dence” that a sharp economic intended to invest 20-25 million said Change.org Pres- agement dysfunction that has plagued the firm Accel. slowdown was yet under way euros in Britain this year, about more recent instability ident Jennifer Dulski, company for a decade. Accel has also invested in Cloudera, co- in Britain after last month’s vote, in line with last year. and decline. who left Yahoo in 2007 Still, many former employees remem- founded by former Yahoo engineering VP after nearly a decade. ber the Yahoo of a certain era as a special Amr Awadallah. Britain’s economy may need more spending after Brexit

By Andy Bruce and postponement or halting of projects, was Brexit: “Britain BOOMS after EU vote: Ignore activity across a broad swathe of Britain’s Douglas Busvine most commonly attributed in one way or the doom-mongers...it’s good news all economy may alarm the Bank of England, Reuters another to Brexit.” round,” the Daily Express has trumpeted in which is trying to decide how aggressively The readout, little more than a week a raft of bullish headlines this week. to act at its August policy meeting to cushion after Prime Minister Theresa May formed a The Markit PMIs, which give an early the shock of the referendum vote. new Conservative government, indicates the indication of how gross domestic product Sterling extended earlier losses to trade ritain’s economy is shrinking, the challenge she faces to maintain market and is likely to perform, suggest the $2.4 trillion 1 percent lower to hit fresh lows for the day broadest survey of business con- investor confidence as she embarks on what UK economy is shrinking faster than at any at $1.3095 to the dollar, while British gov- fidence since last month’s historic promise to be long and difficult Brexit talks. time since the aftermath of the global finan- ernment bond prices rose. vote to quit the European Union Hammond played down the purchasing cial crisis. Sterling’s post-referendum plunge to its Bshowed yesterday, leading finance minis- manager surveys as a measure of senti- It showed the services sector — one of lowest level against the dollar since the mid- ter Philip Hammond to pledge a loosening of ment, not of “hard activity”, but also said he the few British growth drivers — has been hit 1980s has helped manufacturing exports purse strings if the weakness endures. would act to support the economy when he especially hard by Brexit, with orders plung- expand at the fastest pace in almost two The Bank of England has also been clear announces his budget plans later in the year. ing and confidence crumbling. years, Markit said. But the pound’s fall also that easing monetary policy may be neces- “Exactly what that framework looks like A major concern among businesses is the pushed up costs for energy and raw mate- The flash, or sary. The flash, or preliminary, Markit survey will depend on the state of the economy at access Britain will have to the EU’s single rial at the fastest pace in five years. preliminary, Markit of purchasing managers — executives who the time of the Autumn (budget) statement. market after leaving. Britain insists it want “This is the first major survey showing survey of purchasing make spending decisions at 1,250 big firms The data that we see over the next three to limit freedom of movement of workers; the pace of activity through the economy — fell by the most in its 20-year history. months or so will be crucially important in the EU says such freedom is a condition of and it is soft. Taken literally it would imply managers — It was consistent with an economy con- shaping our response,” he told Sky News dur- the single market. a period of contraction in the economy,” executives who make tracting 0.4 percent in the third quarter, ing a visit to China. The PMI for the services sector fell to Investec analyst Philip Shaw said. contrasting with an actual reading of plus The International Monetary Fund has 47.4 in July from 52.3 in June, the steepest Economists said the “reset” Hammond spending decisions 0.4 percent in the first quarter. already cut its forecast for global growth drop since records began in 1996 and the had in mind may resemble the fiscal rule at 1,250 big firms — “July saw a dramatic deterioration after Brexit threw “a spanner in the works”. worst reading since March 2009, around the adopted by his Osborne in 2010 when he in the economy,” said Chris Williamson, It has slashed its UK growth forecast for 2017 low point of the global economic recession. aimed to balance the public finances within fell by the most in its Markit’s chief economist. “The downturn, by 0.9 percentage points to 1.3 percent. Economists polled by Reuters had expected five years, excluding investment spending 20-year history. whether manifesting itself in order book The darkening outlook jars with the res- a much smaller fall to 49.2. and taking into account where Britain was cancellations, a lack of new orders or the olute optimism of newspapers that backed The evidence of a sharp drop in business within the economic cycle. SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 21

England and Crawford and Phil Mickelson of the US watches his Taiwan off to drive from the third tee during his Postol face off third round on day three of the 2016 perfect starts British Open Golf Championship at in unification Royal Troon in Scotland, in this July at LPGA Crown 16, 2016 file photo. fight

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CHICAGO: Charley Hull finished eagle-birdie and Holly Clyburn LOS ANGELES: There will be closed with a match-winning plenty at stake, including a poten- birdie as England stunned the tial date with Manny Pacquiao, United States with two four-ball when Terence Crawford and triumphs on Thursday to open the Viktor Postol duke it out for junior LPGA International Crown. welterweight division supremacy The eight-nation team event today. saw seedings turned upside down And throw in the bragging at the Merit Club in suburban rights that comes with winning Chicago as the top four of South the two 140-pound world titles Korea, Japan, Australia and the that are up for grabs. US managed only one win among Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) and them. Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) meet in a Pool B leader Taiwan joined 12-round unification fight today Pool A pace-setter England with a for the World Boxing Organisation 2-0 start by sweeping the Aussies and World Boxing Council belts at while China split with favoured Day to defend PGA title as the MGM Grand Garden arena in South Korea in Pool A and Thai- Las Vegas. land had a win and a draw over Both are hoping that a victory Japan in Pool B. will land them a shot at Pacquiao The top two teams in each in the Filipino’s return to the ring, group after three days of four- likely later this year in Las Vegas. ball matches plus a wildcard Pacquiao’s promoter Bob team advance to tomorrow’s con- Mickelson eyes more magic Arum, who also promoted today’s cluding singles matches with all contest, is looking at a November points accumulated over four days 5 date for Pacquiao. deciding who captures the Crown. “I’m going to be out there trying The 28-year-old Crawford is Hull, a 20-year-old in her Stenson targets my hardest in the PGA,” he said. favoured and will be making his fourth year as a professional, another fine show Jason Day gets Day won last year’s PGA at Whis- third title defence while Postol eagled the par-5 16th to put Eng- ready to play tling Straits with a major record of will be making the first defence land ahead and birdied the par-4 after British Open his tee shot on 20-under par and is the tour’s hot- of his title. 17th to complete a victory for the the tenth hole test player over the past year. This is the biggest fight of world number 27 and 123rd- triumph this week in “I always thought I could play golf his career for Ukrainian Pos- during the first ranked Melissa Reid by 2 and 1 on a level like this,” Day said. tol. He is part of a recent wave Springfield round of the RBC over US Olympians Stacy Lewis “I can’t get too complacent with of eastern European fighters, and Gerina Piller, both in the Canadian Open where I’m at. I’m currently ranked such as Gennady Golovkin, Vasyl world top 15. golf tournament the best player in the world, but I Lomachenko and Sergey Kovalev, AFP Clyburn, ranked 114th and at Glen Abbey need to work harder than I ever have who have been taking the sport of number 92 Jodi Ewart Shad- Golf Club in before to keep that spot.” boxing by storm. off never trailed in a 2 and 1 win Oakville, Ontario, Spieth hopes momentum will Postol recorded one of his over fourth-ranked Lexi Thomp- SPRINGFIELD: Moving the 98th PGA on Thursday. ease the tension of two majors in most impressive victories in Octo- son and US veteran Cristie Kerr. Championship two weeks after the such a short span. ber when he upset big puncher Shadoff birdied the par-3 14th British Open to accommodate golf’s “It will be odd to play two majors Lucas Matthysse, winning by a and Clyburn birdied 17 to seal the Rio Olympic return has allowed sev- in three weeks. I’m sure that will be a 10th round knockout. victory. Aussie star Karrie Webb eral favourites to quickly try and different feeling,” he said. “But it’s a “I do not consider myself an birdied three of four holes to lift move on from disappointments at good feeling if you can ride any kind underdog in this fight. Terence her and Su Oh level after 12 holes, Royal Troon. of momentum and I think we can.” Crawford’s fans might consider but Tseng Ya-ni birdied 13 and 15 Australia’s world number one Baltusrol’s par-70 layout could be me as the underdog but that does and Teresa Lu birdied 14 in a 3 and Jason Day, who will defend his first just the tonic Mickelson needs to for- not bother me,” Postol said. 2 victory for the Taiwan pair. major title this week at Baltusrol, get the British Open defeat, his 11th The undercard features Oscar Candie Kung birdied the first shared 22nd at the British Open. He second-place finish in a major. Valdez versus Matias Adrian and last holes on the back nine has won seven times in the past year getting three majors in my career increased my confidence and maybe “It was probably the best I’ve Rueda in a 12-round fight for the for a 2-up win for her for her and but still seeks more major mastery. would be special. That week at PGA even relaxed me more.” played and not won. I think that’s vacant WBO featherweight title. Taiwan compatriot Cheng Ssu- “It does free you up,” Day said of Championship alone could become And then there is Phil Mickelson, probably why it’s disappointing,” chia over Aussies Minjee Lee and winning a major. “Because you don’t one of the most special weeks the 46-year-old US left-hander who Mickelson said. Rebecca Artis. want that tag of ‘best player without I’ve ever had, so that’s what we’re won the last PGA staged at Baltus- “I played what I feel was well South Korea’s Amy Yang bird- a major’ and I had that tag for awhile. focused on, grinding for that.” rol in 2005. He was a heartbreaking enough to win and yet I got beat by ied four of the first seven holes And I don’t anymore. World number two Dustin John- runner-up to British Open winner three strokes.” and she and Chun In-Gee held on “It has been a crazy last 12 son, who won his first major at last Henrik Stenson, losing a two-man “It’s not like I have decades left of for a 1-up win over China’s Feng months. I think the next step for me is month’s US Open, has 13 top-10 fin- duel for the Claret Jug to the Swede. opportunities to win majors, so each Shanshan and Lin Xiyu. to go, ‘OK, how many can I win now?’ ishes in 30 major starts, including a “I’ve got a lot of special memo- one means a lot to me. I’m happy with But China’s Yan Jing eagled and be able to shoot a goal for maybe share of ninth at Royal Troon. He will ries going back to Baltusrol in ‘05, the way I played, but even more dis- 16 to provide the difference for the career Grand Slam, even though try to be the first man to win the US and probably that we don’t have a appointed that it wasn’t enough.” her and Feng Simin in a 1-up vic- it is tough to get that, but that’s a good Open and PGA in the same year since month to wait between majors is a Spieth still sees Mickelson as a tory over Ryu So-Yeon and Kim goal to have.” Jack Nicklaus in 1980. good thing for me,” Mickelson said. threat whenever he plays. Sei-Young. Third-ranked Jordan Spieth “When I’m teeing it up in a major, “I’ll try to look at the positives “He has the utmost confidence Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn shared 30th at Royal Troon and I’m not still trying to get that first one and take that into Baltusrol and keep that he can beat anybody on any and Pornanong Phatlum edged 37th at the US Open. The US star has and I know what it takes,” Johnson my game sharp.” given day. Why wouldn’t he? He’s a Japan’s Mika Miyazato and Haru struggled since a back-nine melt- said. “I know I’ve got what it takes Stenson, who had three run- legend,” Spieth said. Nomura 2 and 1 while Ariya Jut- down cost him the Masters crown to get it done. That obviously gives ner-up efforts and six third places “I love how confident he is in the anugarn and Porani Chutichai last April. me a lot of confidence when I’m out in majors, vows to be on his game way he strikes the ball. His hand-eye halved with Japan’s Ai Suzuki and “If you win a major, it would be there playing. even after his long-sought major coordination is as good as anyone’s Manny Pacquiao Ayaka Watanabe.. pretty amazing,” Spieth said. “Just “Winning, it has definitely breakthrough. at anything in the world.” Washington Open: Isner and Monfils cruise into quarters

AFP next faces US fifth seed Steve Johnson, who forehand and get a few points that way,” ousted American qualifier Ryan Harrison Sock said. 6-4, 6-4. Johnson won his first ATP crown French fourth seed Benoit Paire outlasted last month at Nottingham. Luxembourg’s 14th-seeded Gilles Muller 6-2, WASHINGTON: US top seed John Isner and “He turned a corner and he has carried 3-6, 7-6 (7/4) and will play Germany’s Alex- French second seed Gael Monfils breezed into that confidence over,” Isner said of Johnson. ander Zverev for a semi-final spot. the ATP and WTA Washington Open quarter- “He’s playing very well. This is an extremely Zverev, 19, matched his Washington run finals on Thursday with impressive serving tough match.” last year by beating Tunisia’s Malek Jaziri 6-2, performances in straight-set triumphs. No American has won the Washington 5-7, 6-2. Isner blasted 15 aces in downing Cypriot title since Andy Roddick in 2007. Risa Ozaki, a 22-year-old from Japan who 15th seed Marcos Baghdatis 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 “Still the number one is John,” Monfils lost five of her prior six WTA matches before while Monfils fired 12 aces and won 22 of 23 said. “I will get to the final if I can. I’ve got to this week, outlasted Britain’s Naomi Broady first-serve points in defeating Croatian teen focus on my game.” 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, to reach her first tour quarter- 16th seed Borna Coric 6-2, 6-3. Neither win- Ball-bashing Ivo Karlovic, the 37-year- final, where she will face Kazak sixth seed ner faced a break point. old Croatian who won last week at Newport Yulia Putintseva. “When you win most of your points with to become the ATP’s oldest singles champion Ozaki ousted defending champion and the serve, you can focus on your shots and since 1979, smashed 21 aces in dumping Aus- second seed Sloane Stephens in her open- you feel less pressure,” Monfils said. “I’ve been tralian third seed Bernard Tomic 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. ing match. serving much better this year. I’ve changed US sixth seed Jack Sock downed Britain’s American Lauren Davis upset Puerto John Isner of the United some motions with my legs. Daniel Evans 6-1, 7-5, to book a last-eight date Rican third seed Monica Puig 6-4, 6-2 to States of America returns “I serve a lot and it’s working so I enjoy it. with Karlovic, the only men’s quarter-final- reach a quarter-final against Italy’s Camila a shot to Marcos Baghdatis I trust my serve and the court is fast so I can ist not among the top eight seeds. Giorgi, who advanced by walkover when Aus- of Cyprus during day 4 of switch from my defense to attack.” “It’s a good tournament for big servers,” trian Tamira Paszek withdrew with an upper the Citi Open at Rock Creek Monfils, the 2011 Washington runner-up, Isner said. “Myself, Karlovic is still alive, Jack respiratory infection. Tennis Center on Thursday will next meet US eighth seed Sam Quer- and Stevie. A big serve and a forehand.” French fourth seed Kristina Mladen- in Washington, DC. rey, who ousted Ukraine 11th seed Alexandr Sock hit only 44 percent of his first serves ovic beat Germany’s Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-3, Dolgopolov 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. but won 23 of 25 first-serve points. and next plays Belgian seventh seed Yanina Three-time Washington runner-up Isner “I was able to 1-2 punch, serve and Wickmayer. 22 SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 SPORT Hungarian GP: Rosberg seals deal as Hamilton crashes out

AFP is very quick, so it was a good start to the SECOND FREE weekend. “We got everything done in terms of qualifying and race simulation work and PRACTICE TIMES it’s all looking very good. I think the new sur- BUDAPEST: World championship leader face suits us, so I’m optimistic.” 1. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1:20.435, 2. Nico Rosberg celebrated signing a new two- Dutch teenager Max Verstappen was Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:21.030, 3. year contract with Mercedes by topping the fourth fastest in the second Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:21.348, 4. times after Lewis Hamilton had crashed dur- Hamilton fifth, even though he did not run on Max Verstappen (NED) Red Bull 1:21.770, 5. ing yesterday’s free practice for tomorrow’s the super-soft tyres during his brief 14 min- Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1:21.960, Hungarian Grand Prix. utes on track at the start of the 90-minute 6. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:22.058, 7. Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren 1:22.328, 8. The 31-year-old German seized his session. Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren 1:22.387, 9. chance and took full advantage after his The defending three-time champion lost Nico Hülkenberg (GER) Force India 1:22.449, team-mate and defending three-time cham- control of the back end of his car out of Turn 10. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:22.653, pion Hamilton hit the barriers only 13 minutes 11 on the tight and twisty track and hit the 11. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Haas 1:22.673, into the second practice. barriers side-on. 12. Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams 1:22.681, 13. Hamilton was unhurt, but after returning He was able to re-start and drive gingerly Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Toro Rosso 1:22.689, to the pits in his car he took no further part back to the pits, but after an inspection the 14. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Williams 1:22.773, in the 90-minute session. team decided to strip his car down. 15. Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas 1:22.864, The car was stripped down for repairs Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s German driver Nico Rosberg drives during the Kimi Raikkonen was sixth for Ferrari 16. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Toro Rosso 1:22.948, and, after a visit to the medical centre, Ham- practice session ahead of the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring ahead of two-time champion Fernando 17. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Renault 1:23.347, ilton was left as a spectator. Circuit near Budapest, yesterday. Alonso of Ferrari and his McLaren Honda 18. Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Sauber 1:23.437, “Obviously, it’s a great feeling to start the team-mate 2009 champion Jenson Button. 19. Jolyon Palmer (GBR) Renault 1:23.528, day like that with the contract being sorted,” Nico Hulkenberg was ninth ahead of his 20. Felipe Nasr (BRA) Sauber 1:23.986, 21. said Rosberg, who is to stay with Mercedes Force India team-mate Sergio Perez. Pascal Wehrlein (GER) Manor 1:23.992, 22. Rio until 2018. bouncing back on Saturday to claim pole posi- faster than nearest rival Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who won in Hungary in 2014, Haryanto (INA) Manor 1:24.265 “That was always going to be a positive tion on one of his favourite circuits, where on Ricciardo of Red Bull and nine-tenths clear said he felt that his Red Bull team were bat- boost.” Sunday he hopes to grab a record fifth win. of third-placed four-time champion Sebas- tling Ferrari for second behind the Mercedes. championship and Ricciardo said he hoped Hamilton said: “My apologies to the crew “I hope I can make up the time lost in tian Vettel of Ferrari. “If we’re close on Friday, it doesn’t change that they could make further progress this for all the hard work they have ahead and tomorrow morning’s practice session and He added: “It was an impressive day for too much on Saturday,” he said. weekend. getting it back together. Fortunately I got a come back strongly in qualifying, but obvi- us, performance-wise, but doesn’t necessarily “I would say today’s probably quite rep- “We’d like to be a bit closer to Mercedes, good feel for it in the few laps that I had and ously, not the greatest session for me today.” mean we’ll be in quite such a strong posi- resentative for now.” but at the moment we’re within reach of Fer- the pace is clearly there.” Rosberg clocked a best lap in one minute tion tomorrow, but for now it’s very positive. Red Bull has closed to within six points rari,” he said. “It’s going to be a good battle He added that he remained confident of and 20.435 seconds to wind up half a second “I’m feeling great out there and the car of second-placed Ferrari in the constructors’ and I’m looking forward to that.”

Rampant Porte Bardet lights up Tour targets podium finish in Paris with victory for hosts Reuters MEGEVE: After a catastrophic start to the Tour de France, Aus- CLASSIFICATION Megeve to Morzine. “I’m on cloud tralian Richie Porte is on the Frenchman wins nine. That’s instinctive bike racing. rampage and a strong perform- AFTER STAGE 19 There was no plan. I rode up the ance in Thursday’s time trial stage 19; Froome 1 Chris Froome (Britain / Team climb as fast as I could,” said Bar- further strengthened his podium crashes but retains Sky) 82:10:37” det, whose move forced his rivals to credentials. 2 Romain Bardet (France / take risks in the descent. Porte, who was Chris Froome’s overall lead AG2R) +4:11” With the help of team mate lieutenant at Team Sky until 3 Nairo Quintana (Colombia / Mikael Cherel, Bardet led the other moving to BMC during the close Movistar) +4:27” big guns by 25 seconds at the foot of season, lost 1:45 in the second Reuters 4 Adam Yates (Britain / Orica) the last climb. stage after suffering a puncture +4:36” “Mika told me we should try in the finale and was offered no 5 Richie Porte (Australia / BMC something in the descent from support from his team-mates. Racing) +5:17” Domancy and we just went. Bike “It’s hard not to think about 6 Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) racing is a whole. You need to climb the second stage and the time we SAINT-GERVAIS-LES-BAINS: Chris +6:00” with the best but also to descend threw away,” said Porte after tak- Froome hit the deck but retained the 7 Alejandro Valverde (Spain / well,” said Bardet, one of the best in ing fourth place in Thursday’s 18th overall leader’s yellow jersey in the Movistar) +6:20” the world when it comes to down- stage, 33 seconds behind leader Tour de France on the 19th stage, a 8 Louis Meintjes (South Africa / hill racing. Froome but gaining time on the crash-marred 146-km mountain trek Lampre) +7:02” Seeing that Froome, who wore podium contenders. won by Frenchman Romain Bardet 9 Daniel Martin (Ireland / Etixx - a bandage on his right knee on the Porte is now sixth overall, five in vintage style yesterday. Quick-Step) +7:10” podium after the stage, was strug- minutes off the pace but only 1:08 The Briton fell about 13.5km from 10 Bauke Mollema (Netherlands gling, several rivals attacked but the behind second-placed Bauke Mol- the finish on a slippery descent and / Trek) +7:42” Briton gritted his teeth and limited lema, of the Netherlands, and 44 ended the stage on a team-mate’s the damage, losing only 10 seconds seconds behind third-placed bike with cuts and bruises on his of eight percent and went solo with or less on Italian Fabio Aru and Briton Adam Yates. back and right elbow. 3.5km left. Quintana. “It’s a big goal to get on to that Shortly after the 25-year-old Froome, who crossed the line Australian Richie Porte, podium,” said Porte, whose best Bardet then lit up the race with an 36 seconds behind Bardet, now Froome’s former lieutenant at Team result in a grand tour is seventh attack on the tricky descent towards leads the Frenchman, who moved Sky who now rides for BMC, also in the 2010 Giro d’Italia. the foot of the final ascent to Le Bet- up from fifth to second overall, by attacked several times but on each Porte was the best of the tex, Froome crashed on a right-hand 4:11 minutes. occasion sat up as if waiting for his big guns in Wednesday’s gruel- bend. Dutchman Bauke Mollema, who ex boss. ling mountain stage, dropping France’s Romain Bardet celebrates as he crosses the finish line at the end He was quickly back on Geraint started the day in second place over- Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, one of all the favourites but Froome Thomas’s bike and held firm in the all, also crashed and eventually lost the favourites for the Olympic time of the 146km 19th stage of Tour de France yesterday between Albertville with an attack inside the last two favourites’ group. a massive 4:25. trial in Rio next month, also crashed and Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, French Alps, yesterday. kilometres. AG2r-La Mondiale rider Bar- Colombian Nairo Quintana, with about 62km left before pulling His performance on Thursday det, who gave hosts their first win runner-up in 2013 and 2015, is now out with a “severe wrist trauma”, the mountain classification when he Frenchman Pierre Rolland and also suggested that he is one of the on this Tour, quickly caught early third overall, 4:27 off the pace with according to a race doctor. was first at the top of the Montee de Swiss Sebastien Reichenbach were freshest riders, which is crucial in attacker Rui Costa in the climb, a one competitive stage left on Satur- Pole Rafal Majka virtually Bisanne, a 12.4km climb averaging 8.2 also among those who crashed on the third week, when fatigue can 9.8km effort at an average gradient day, a 146.5-km mountain ride from secured the polka dot jersey for per cent. slippery roads. be devastating. “It was a good day but there are two more days of climbing, so I’ll be trying to gain some more time,” he said. Dumoulin the Rio time-trial favourite: Froome Froome believes he can. “In my opinion he looks like the one with the most to gain in the next two stages,” said the leader. AFP “After freshening up after this year’s Tour who has proved himself an able time-trialer as “He had some bad luck. It’s a de France he’ll be the man to beat.” On a flatter well as climber. Dumoulin sat in the hot seat shame he lost that time early on, course, three-time world time-trial champion for one and a half hours on Thursday waiting but I believe that if he continues Martin would probably be the favourite, or even to see if any rider would beat his time. the way he is, he’ll see himself on MEGEVE: Chris Froome believes Tom Dumou- veteran Fabian Cancellara, a four-time world In the end one did, the very last one, but the podium in Paris.” lin (pictured) will be the man to beat in the champion, although one whose best years are only by 21 seconds. time-trial at the Rio Olympics next month. now behind him. Even before Froome had finished, Dumou- Froome beat the Dutchman in Thursday’s But it is Dumoulin’s ability to be strong on lin had admitted it would be hard to hold onto second time-trial at the Tour de France this climbs as well as on a flat speed test that makes the lead. year, but he was bested by Dumoulin in the first him the favourite for Froome. “It wasn’t my best time-trial but also not a one last week. “He’s a great rider, he’s shown already what bad one,” he said. Thursday’s time-trial was just 17km long he can do in Grand Tours, he’s been very close “I’ve been over my limit sometimes. The GC and almost all uphill, whereas the one Dumou- to winning the Vuelta (a Espana). (general classification) riders should be able to lin won was more than twice as long and “Let’s see, he’s got great potential. Let’s see do better. In his best form, Chris Froome would although it had two climbs, most of it was flat. what he can do in Rio.” beat me.” The Rio time-trial will be 54.5km long with Dumoulin proved his versatility last year It proved to be an accurate prediction, four climbs, suiting specialist time-trial expert in coming sixth at the Vuelta, having led the although it was more surprising that none of Dumoulin. race until late on. the other specialist climbers could do likewise. And Froome, who was third in the time- He won two stages during that race, includ- Dumoulin has said before he believes he trial in London four years ago behind British ing a time-trial, just as he has done at this year’s will one day challenge for Grand Tour success team-mate Bradley Wiggins and German Tony Tour de France. but he’s not quite ready yet. Martin, believes this time around Dumoulin His best finish yet in the world champion- If he manages to keep improving his climb- will be the favourite. ships was second behind Martin in 2014, but ing, that day could come sooner rather than “He’s certainly the man to beat in Rio. He’s the mix of climbs and flat should suit Dumou- later. made it a big objective and focused a lot on it,” lin, who is getting better every year. But in the meantime, he has a special prize Richie Porte said Froome. The lumpy course will also favour Froome, to go for in Rio. SPORT SATURDAY 23 JULY 2016 23 Centurions Cook, Root dazzle for England

Captain Cook hits 29th Test ton to Indian captain Virat Kohli celebrates after reaching his first extend his own double century during day two of their first Test cricket match against West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North home record Sound, Antigua yesterday. AFP Kohli hits maiden

MANCHESTER: Joe Root’s unbeaten 141 was the centrepiece of England’s commanding 314 for four on the first Test double century day of the second Test against Paki- Alastair Cook celebrates stan at Old Trafford yesterday. his century with Joe Root. Having twice got himself out during England’s 75-run defeat by as India pile up runs Pakistan in the first of a four-Test SCOREBOARD series at Lord’s last week, a deter- mined Root did not give a chance in England (I Innings) AFP SCOREBOARD just over six hours at the crease on A Cook b Mohammad Amir 105 Friday. A Hales b Mohammad Amir 10 India (I Innings) Earlier, England captain Alastair J Root (batting) 141 M Vijay c K Brathwaite b Gabriel 7 Cook, who won the toss on a good NORTH SOUND, Antigua and Bar- J Vince c Sarfraz Ahmed b Rahat Ali 18 S Dhawan lbw b Bishoo 84 pitch and in sunny conditions ideal buda: Indian captain Virat Kohli for batting, made 105 and shared G Ballance b Rahat Ali 23 reached a maiden Test double-cen- C Pujara c K Brathwaite b Bishoo 16 a second-wicket stand of 185 with C Woakes (batting) 2 tury as he continued to plunder the V Kohli (batting) 200 Root. Extras (LB3, W5, NB7) 15 West Indies bowlers with the tour- A Rahane c Bravo b Bishoo 22

Pakistan’s left-arm pace trio of Total (4 wkts) 314 ists reaching lunch at 404 for four R Ashwin (batting) 64

Mohammad Amir, Rahat Ali and on the second day of the first Test To bat: J Bairstow, B Stokes, M Ali, S Extras (B4, LB2, NB5) 11 Wahab Riaz became increasingly at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium Broad, J Anderson threatening as the skies clouded in Antigua yesterdau. Total (119 overs, 4 wickets) 404 over late on. Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-210, 3-238, 4-311 He reached the milestone just To bat: W Saha, A Mishra, I Sharma, M Amir took two for 63 and Rahat Bowling: Amir 20-4-63-2 (1w); Rahat before the interval and resumes in Shami, U Yadav. two for 69, with both men bowling 20-3-69-2 (2w); Riaz 16-1-59-0 (7nb, England’s captain Alastair Cook watches as Pakistan’s wicket keeper the afternoon session on exactly 200 Fall of wicket: 1-14, 2-74, 3-179, 4-236. 20 overs yesterday. 2w); Shah 31-5-111-0; Azhar 2-0-9-0 Sarfraz Ahmed catches the ball on the first day of the second Test match in a fifth-wicket partnership with Bowling: S Gabriel 17-5-56-1 (3nb), J But star leg-spinner Yasir Shah, Ravichandran Ashwin (64 not out) Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez, Shan played at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester, England yesterday. Holder 24-4-83-0 (2nb), C Brathwaite who took a man-of-the-match win- Masood, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah- that has so far produced 168 runs and 22-5-67-0, R Chase 20-1-57-0, D Bishoo ning 10 wickets at Lord’s, returned ul-Haq (capt), Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed all but played a dispirited-looking 35-1-131-3, K Brathwaite 1-0-4-0. figures of none for 111 in 31 overs. (wkt), Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir, Ya- celebrated his century with several at the interval. James Vince, looking home team out of the game at such Amir had opener Alex Hales sir Shah, Rahat Ali fist pumps. for a maiden Test fifty to cement his an early stage of the scheduled five- dropped in the gully on six by Asad Left-handed opener Cook’s 29th place in the side, fell in all too famil- day contest. Notwithstanding the difficul- Shafiq. Test century saw him extend his own iar fashion when, on 18, he chased However the West Indies were ties for strokeplaying batsmen on But three balls later, having At lunch, England were 95 for England record and drew the Essex a wide Rahat delivery outside off their own worst enemies in the this surface as well, the Indian repeatedly moved the ball away from one with Cook 40 not out and Root batsman level with Australia great stump, with his edged drive caught morning session as Ashwin should skipper’s almost complete dom- Hales, Amir skilfully swung the ball 41 not out. Don Bradman’s tally. low down by wicket-keeper Sarfraz have fallen to Shannon Gabriel when inance of the bowlers continued back into the right-handed opener Root just beat Cook to the fifty Bradman, however, played just Ahmed. on 43 but Shane Dowrich, contro- through the morning as he relent- and knocked over his middle and milestone, getting there in 86 balls 52 Tests while this was Cook’s 131st What made his dismissal all the versially selected to replace the lessly marched his side forward off stumps. to the captain’s 90. match in the format. worse wast that Vince had been experienced Denesh Ramdin as with 102 runs added in the two England were now 25 for one Cook reached the landmark in More significantly, this was dropped by Younis Khan in the slips wicketkeeper for this match, grassed hours’ play from the already com- after seven overs. style with a straight-driven four -- Cook’s first century in 20 Test innings off a similar shot when on six off a straightforward chance. fortable overnight position of 302 Cook cashed in on a rare Shah a clear sign he is in top form -- off since his monumental 263 against Amir. That error only compounded for four. short ball with a pull to the mid- Shah. Pakistan in Abu Dhabi in October. Root, 87 not out at tea, went to his the Caribbean team’s woes as their In six hours at the crease so far, wicket rope. A similar stroke saw him into the But Amir then took the shine off 10th hundred in 44 Tests with his 14th bowlers, with the notable exception he has faced 281 deliveries, strik- Root, in the manner of York- 90s and raised the 150 stand. an excellent session for England by four in 167 balls when he drove Shah of Gabriel, were made to look pedes- ing 24 boundaries. shire and England great Geoffrey Cook’s two to mid-wicket off bowling Cook following an under- wide of mid-on in textbook fashion. trian especially by the excellence of Apart from the personal mile- Boycott, forced both Riaz and Amir Amir saw him to a hundred in 157 edge from a ball that kept low. Gary Ballance (23) then helped Kohli’s batting on a pitch that has stone, Kohli is the first Indian through cover-point off the back foot balls including 14 fours and the nor- That became the last delivery Yorkshire team-mate Root add on 73 almost nothing by way of encour- captain to score a Test double-cen- for fours. mally restrained Essex batsman before tea, with England 210 for two before he chopped on against Rahat. agement in pace and bounce. tury away from home. Saudi Arabia FIFA seeks to Dortmund stun Man United 4-1 relegates club ban former Thai AFP over match

federation boss SHANGHAI: New Manchester fixing United manager Jose Mour- inho saw his side get off to a poor start on their tour of China AFP AFP a fine of CHF 25,000 when they lost 4-1 to Borussia ($25,000),” the judging Dortmund yesterday. body announced. Temperatures of 35 Cel- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s football “For reasons linked sius (95 Farenheit) at the 8:00 governing body has relegated a MUNICH: FIFA’s ethics to privacy rights and pm kick-off time in Shanghai club and penalised several offi- committee yesterday the presumption of meant the International Cham- cials over match fixing in the recommended a ban of innocence until proven pions Cup match was largely kingdom’s second tier. at least four years from guilty, the adjudicatory played at a pedestrian pace The Saudi Arabian Football all football activities for chamber will not pub- with frequent breaks to take Federation (SFF) ordered the rel- former Thailand feder- lish further details at the on water. egation of Al-Mojzel to the second ation president Worawi moment,” its statement Mourinho did not include division (Saudi’s third tier) over Makudi. added. Wayne Rooney, opting to give manipulating the result of its Worawi, a FIFA exec- Thai football has his captain more time to get fit match with Al-Jeel, a statement tive committee member been mired in division after only joining the squad ear- said late Thursday. until last year, is in the and controversy after lier in the week after Euro 2016. The kingdom’s top division is dock for violating the a cascade of scandals Dortmund enjoyed the better of the Abdul Latif Jameel League, fol- Dortmund’s Felix Passlack (right) vies for the ball possession with Manchester United’s sport’s ruling body’s linked to the deposed the early skirmishes and when lowed by the first division, which “general rules” and Football Association of they took the lead in the 19th Memphis Depay during their 2016 International Champions Cup football match played in Al-Mojzel had belonged to. “forgery and falsifica- Thailand (FAT) chief. minute the United defence had Shanghai yesterday. Dortmund won 4-1. The SFF also banned Al- tion”, FIFA’s adjudicatory Worawi was found only themselves to blame. Mojzel’s president Ahmed chamber revealed in a guilty in July 2015 by a A long-range Pierre-Emer- matches last season, doubled days ago and who has had one the 57th minute. Frenchman Al-Abdallah, along with an statement. Thai court of forgery in ick Aubameyang free-kick Dortmund’s advantage from month and four games,” Mour- Dembele scored the goal of administrator and a player, from The suspension was his re-election as head was parried by inexperienced the penalty spot in the 35th inho told reporters after the the night as the summer sign- practising any football-related called for after a final of FAT. 23-year-old goalkeeper Sam minute after Antonio Valencia match. ing from Rennes turned Marcos activities for life. It also fined each report on Worawi was He has denied all Johnstone as it dipped in front handled Castro’s cross. Dort- “This was Formula One Rojo inside-out before burying of them $80,000 (72,000 euros). submitted by the inves- wrongdoing. of him. The reserve gloveman mund, playing the fifth match against Formula Three, they a right-foot shot into the corner The managers of clubs Hajer tigatory arm of FIFA’s Worawi was for was forced into a quick double of their pre-season campaign, are much sharper.” for Dortmund’s third. and Al-Feiha faced the same pen- ethics committee. years a staunch ally of save by Ousmane Dembele’s were much sharper than United United’s only chance of Two minutes later new alties along with other officials “The investigatory disgraced ex-FIFA pres- follow-up but Gonzalo Castro who had just the single outing the first half fell to Jesse Lin- midfielder signing Henrikh over unspecified violations. chamber recommends ident Sepp Blatter, who scrambled home at the third against Wigan before boarding gard on the break, but his Mkhitaryan scored his first goal The SFF said last month a ban from all football- has been banned from attempt from six yards. the plane to China. weak right-foot effort was for United -- against his old that it was probing a “suspected related activity for no football for six years over United’s woe deep- “I think after 10 minutes easily snaffled by goalkeeper employers -- when he slotted manipulation of results” insist- less than four years and ethics violation. ened when Aubameyang, you could tell who started Roman Wiedenfeller. The sec- into an empty net after being ing on the “importance of a fair who bagged 25 goals in 46 training one match and 10 ond-half exploded into life in set up unselfishly by Juan Mata. competition.” www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 Day to defend PGA Rosberg seals title as Mickelson deal as Hamilton eyes more magic crashes out

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in a decision seen as a key indicator the world athletics body IAAF, calling its next move. The IAAF banned all as the IOC debates whether to kick it part of a broader political cam- of the Russian track and field team IOC executive out the whole Russian team. paign by the West against Russia. over allegations of state-sponsored board to take final Russia is a sporting powerhouse The suspension of the track and field doping but said athletes who prove decision tomorrow whose absence from Rio would cre- team already means that star athletes they were not tainted by their coun- ate the biggest crisis in decades for like pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva try’s corrupt system could be cleared. as 45 new doping the Olympic movement and Mos- and hurdler Sergey Shubenkov will In the IAAF has only gave per- failures from cow is banking on the IOC rejecting not be in Rio. Isinbayeva -- who has mission for one Russian team a total ban. threatened to call time on her career member to compete in Rio as a neu- Beijing, London “All sportsmen who have not over the ban -- slammed the CAS rul- tral: US-based long jumper Darya Games emerge been convicted or are not under ing as a “funeral for athletics.” Klishina. suspicion of doping should have the Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko -- The IOC has appeared to back the Russia’s ban right to compete,” Kremlin spokes- who has clung on despite the scandal principle that international sporting man Dmitry Peskov said. -- said Moscow now hopes the IOC federations could clear individual will scare drug AFP “That is the decision we are will defer to individual interna- athletes in case of a blanket ban but counting on.” tional sporting federations to decide with just two weeks to go until Rio, Against the backdrop of the cur- whether other Russian squads can time is slipping away. cheats: Bolt rent doping scandal engulfing Russia compete. The CAS ruling has been the The Russian press had widely MOSCOW: Russia yesterday said the IOC yesterday reported sepa- The IOC is facing international focus of Olympic attention since an predicted that CAS would decide it expects to avoid a blanket ban at rate 45 new doping failures from pressure to act tough on Russia and independent WADA report this week against Moscow and reaction was a Reuters the Rio Games over state-run doping the last two Games, bringing the total ban the entire team over incendiary said Russia ran a “state-dictated fail- mixture of soul-searching and crit- as a fresh batch of drug test failures number of positive drug tests to 98 revelations of a state-run doping sys- safe system” of drug cheating in 30 icism over systemic failings. from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 since a retesting programme was tem that has seen the country cheat sports at the 2014 Sochi Games and “Alas, everything that is hap- LONDON: The ban on Rus- rocked the Olympics. launched. The IOC has reanalysed its way to victory. other major events. pening with our sports is the fruit sia’s track and field athletes The IOC’s executive board are more than 1,200 samples, with the Fourteen national anti-doping But Russia has found support of our own errors,” a column in the from the Rio Games will scare to hold a conference call tomorrow emphasis on medal winners, in a bid agencies including the United States, from some international sports usually pro-Kremlin tabloid Komso- drug cheats and help cleaning to discuss barring Russia from the to clean up the Olympics’ reputation. Canada and Germany sent a joint let- bodies, with the International Judo molskaya Pravda said, citing years of up the sport, Jamaica’s six- Rio Games starting on August 5 over It said it was not able to iden- ter to IOC President Thomas Bach on Federation (IJF) insisting all clean mismanagement. time Olympic gold medallist bombshell doping revelations. tify the athletes concerned or their Thursday urging him to ban Russia athletes should be allowed to take “It is far from certain that even Usain Bolt (pictured) has said. The Court of Arbitration for Sport nationalities for legal reasons but from Rio. part in Rio. the current apocalyptic storm will The ban on Russia’s track- (CAS) on Thursday rejected an appeal said 30 positives came back from Officials in Moscow have Individual Russian sports feder- force us to change our sport. Maybe and-field team going to Rio by Russia’s track and field team Beijing, including for 23 medal win- slammed the decision by CAS to ations said they were now looking only if the IOC buries our team on was imposed last November against their suspension from Rio ners, and 15 from London. reject its appeal against a ban from nervously ahead for the IOC to make Sunday,” it added. by the International Associa- tion of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after an independent report uncovered rampant state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics. NBA MVP Lee on quest for badminton redemption It was maintained in June after the IAAF Council ruled Curry regrets that not enough progress AFP The episode sidelined him had been made in trans- for eight months, however, and forming Russia’s anti-doping missing Rio he slid down the world rankings. programme. But Lee launched a gritty “This will scare a lot of Games KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian comeback after returning to the people and send a strong badminton superstar Lee Chong court a year ago, recapturing his message that the sport is Wei takes a final shot at Olym- dominant form -- and last month serious about cleaning up,” Reuters pic gold in Rio, desperate to erase the world’s top rank. Bolt told British media. past disappointments and a dop- Rio now raises the tantalising The decision by the CAS, ing episode that blotted one of prospect of another titanic clash sport’s highest tribunal, OAKLAND: Two-time NBA the great sporting names. with Lin, regarded by some as increases the possibility MVP Stephen Curry said the Malaysia has never won badminton’s greatest-ever player. that the International Olym- injuries he suffered during the Olympic gold in any sport, and The rivalry is accentuated pic Committee (IOC) will playoffs forced him to pull out the mild-mannered Lee has by their opposite personas: Lee, now exclude Russia from of the Rio Olympics, a deci- struggled with the pressure of his methodical and unassuming; Lin, all sports, not just track and sion that still does not sit well nation’s hopes, suffering crush- fiery and charismatic. field, in Rio de Janeiro. with him. ing final defeats to China’s Lin Their epic Olympic final “If they feel like banning “I wasn’t too happy with Dan in Beijing and London. battles have been credited with the whole team is the right the situation of having to pull But Rio finds the 33-year- fuelling wider interest in the action, then I am all for it. out of the games,” Curry told old back in a familiar position sport. Also in the Rio mix is formi- Rules are rules and doping the Mercury News on Thurs- -- world number one, looking dable Chinese world number two violations in track and field day during a Facebook Live strong, and an Olympic favour- Chen Long -- whom Lee recently are getting really bad, so news conference. “I wish I ite -- and he has made clear his overtook on the world rankings. thumbs up,” Bolt said. would be able to play in those. obsession to bring home gold Rizal Hashim, a sports com- Bolt was named in the I was looking forward to it.” this time. mentator with leading Malaysian In this file picture taken on Jamaican Olympic team Curry’s plans were “This is not only my dream television network Astro, said Rio in the 100m, 200m and March 7, 2012, Lee Chong derailed when he sprained but also the dream of all Malay- will either confirm Lee’s legacy 4x100m races despite an Wei of Malaysia hits a the MCL in his right knee, an sians,” Lee, 33, said this month. as an Olympic also-ran -- or as a injury that kept him from ailment he worked through “I have to make the best badminton giant. return to Wang Zhengming qualifying at trials. He was but many believe never truly preparation since this is my last Already possessing a dazzling of China during a men’s confident he will be fully fit recovered from. The Golden Olympic Games.” array of weapons ranging from singles first round match before Rio. State shooting artist was Lee’s trophy case is packed lightning-quick defence to pow- of the All England Open “My hamstring is good. I uncharacteristically inconsist- with virtually every piece of bad- erful, deep smashes, Lee spends Badminton Championships have no issue right now,” the ent for the remainder of the minton silverware available, but hours daily on those skills and on in Birmingham. 29-year-old said. post-season, which concluded no Olympic or world champion- honing his deft footwork, repeat- with the Warriors losing to the ship, failures that haunt him. edly leaving sparring partners Cleveland Cavaliers in a Game In particular, those heart- flat-footed. Seven finale of the NBA Finals. breaking losses to long-time Lee has acknowledged that “When I got hurt in the nemesis -- and close friend -- Lin once again poses his greatest playoffs and knew that the Lin of China in the thrilling 2008 obstacle and has focussed partic- Swimmer gets Rio spot after FINA U-turn recovery time over the course and 2012 Olympic singles finals ularly on his stamina and mental of summer was going to be clearly wounded Lee, and after toughness ahead of Rio, said his important for me to get ready London many began writing his coach, Indonesian former world for next year,” Curry said. career epitaph. champ Hendrawan. Reuters she had qualified for the Games after But following discussions between “I tried to give Coach K Things would get worse. Lee is a national hero in making the B standard time, was left the Greek swimming federation (Mike Krzyzewski), (USA Lee, then world number one, Malaysia, which has an other- devastated days later when the ruling (KOE), the International Olympic Basketball director Jerry Col- tested positive for a forbidden wise weak sporting history. body said her invitation was down to Committee (IOC) and FINA, Vourna angelo) and the whole USA anti-inflammatory drug at the In a sign of his status, his ATHENS: Greek 100 metres butterfly an administrative error. has been reinstated. staff more time to figure out 2014 world championships. 2012 marriage to former national champion Kristel Vourna has spo- According to FINA regulations, “It’s been a very strange couple what they need to figure out Facing a two-year ban, he singles player Wong Mew Choo ken of her “relief and joy” after an in order for two athletes from the of weeks and I’ve been through all for the roster. With the situa- fretted bleakly that his Olympic was attended by the country’s unlikely U-turn by the World Swim- same country to participate in the kinds of emotions, but now the most tion as it is now, to rest and get dream was dead. king, queen and prime minister. ming Federation (FINA) following same event both must have posted A strongest ones are relief and joy that ready for next season, to what But badminton authorities In Rio, Lee will lead the an initial blunder which means she standard times. I’m going to Rio,” Vourna said. I need to prepare my body - eventually accepted his expla- Malaysian delegation into the can participate in next month’s Rio This was not the case for Vourna, “I didn’t expect FINA to change it’s a nice mental break,” he nation that he took the drug opening ceremony, bearing the Olympics. who was behind compatriot Anna their decision at all. I was really upset said. inadvertently amid stem-cell nation’s flag and, once again, an The 24-year-old, who was ini- Doundounaki, and FINA retracted her and actually more angry than any- treatment for a thigh injury. expectant country’s hopes. tially told by FINA two weeks ago that invitation having realised its mistake. thing else.”