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19 fancy car numbers fetch over QR400m

DOHA: More than QR400m has been collected in the first online auction for 19 fancy car numbers, organised by the Traffic Department. The biggest bid was for 336633 at QR200.43m, followed by 333355 (QR200.4m) and 337337 (QR12.312m). Brigadier Mohammed Saad Al Kharji, Director-General of the department, said the winners should collect their numbers on Sunday and Monday after submitting cheques for the amount. If they fail, they will forfeit the earnest deposit of QR20,000 and the right to their numbers. Sources told local Arabic daily Al Raya that auctions for 10,000 fancy numbers in batches are planned. Participation starts with a minimum bid of QR100,000. Bids are made through the Ministry of Interior’s Metrash2. Buyers have to enter their ID numbers and expiry date. Govt loses QR761m on infrastructure projects

DOHA: Reviews of infrastructure projects by State Audit Bureau show that contractors had to pay QR761m ($209m) in compensations and fines for delays during 2013-14 but the money was never recovered. The government has yet to receive the amount, the local Arabic daily Al Raya reported yesterday, citing Annual Achievement Book released by the General Secretariat of the Cabinet. The bureau reviewed hundreds of contracts awarded and projects com- pleted and made over 1,200 observations. Some 43 percent of observations were THE ISSUE about weak supervision and internal control systems. Five percent of obser- vations were about poor planning and poor asset/project management, five The private healthcare sector due to their inadequate infrastructure the noose on their operations. percent were about extra money spent, in Qatar is witnessing rapid facilities and shortage of skilled manpower. Their complaints range from proce- and some two percent about failure to For several years, private clinics have dural delays in issuing licences to newly- recover arrears for the government. growth, reflected in the opening been facing criticisms from citizens and recruited healthcare professionals to Design: Abraham Augusthy of many clinics across the expatriates for their allegedly exorbi- authorities’ failure to ensure availability Dermatology OPD to country. The ambitious National tant fees and poor services, forcing the of several life-saving medicines in the local Supreme Council of Health ( SCH) to market. have five more rooms Health Insurance Scheme (Seha) impose a price freeze until Seha is fully They also feel they should be given is expected to give a further implemented. more freedom and opportunities for medi- DOHA: The Department of boost to the sector, providing The national insurance scheme is cal practice to effectively compete in the Dermatology is adding five more expected to unify and standardise fees of market. rooms to its outpatient department citizens and expatriates with private healthcare facilities and raise their There is a need for more private clinics (OPD) at Hamad General Hospital easy access to all public and standards. and hospitals to meet the requirements to cater to an increasing number of SCH has laid down rules and regula- of the burgeoning population and address patients. In the total daily turnout of private healthcare providers. tions for private facilities and practition- crowding at a few public hospitals. patients at various OPDs, the derma- ers and updated them from time to time. In the years to come, Qatar is expected tology (skin diseases) department has espite the recent growth in num- A strict monitoring system is in place to see a positive competition between pri- a share of 15 percent. Dr Mohamed bers, private clinics/hospitals to ensure healthcare providers abide by vate healthcare providers who will also be Mohiuddin, Skin Diseases Consultant, are suffering many problems. rules and regulations. allowed to compete with public hospitals Hamad Medical Corporation, told Al D Many facilities that have However, many providers feel authori- and health centres currently dominating Sharq that there are 19 dermatology joined Seha are struggling to cope with a ties need to do more to address their prob- the sector. clinics in Qatar. He said skin diseases sudden increase in the number of patients lems and concerns, apart from tightening See also page 2 are tackled with latest methods and technologies. THE PENINSULA

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Not all well with private healthcare Shortage of life-saving medicines, licence and procedural delays cited as major problems

he healthcare sector in Qatar remains aggravate with a major reduction in the prices heavily dominated by the public sector of medicines recently imposed following a GCC but a gradual shift in favour of private decision to unify import prices. Tclinics and hospitals is expected to hap- “Reducing prices is a good move but authori- pen with full implementation of the National ties should ensure that dealers do not stop Health Insurance Scheme (Seha). importing medicines they may find not profit- Questions have been raised as to what extent able,” said Dr Moopan. private clinics and hospitals are prepared to Apart from the shortage of drugs, some clinics take up challenges lying ahead. The other side have problems with some private insurance pro- of the issue is whether they have been given a viders which are “selective” in their approach. free hand to effectively compete. They allegedly choose some clinics and refuse The Peninsula spoke to doctors and officials to serve others. from private healthcare facilities to know their “Why are they selective? The Supreme views on problems and challenges facing them. Council of Health (SCH) has not graded any Almost all admitted that there are issues that clinics for such purposes,” Dr Kalandan said, need authorities’ immediate attention. expressing dismay. A major problem pointed out by most respond- He said some international medical insurance ents is the severe shortage of some life-saving companies operating in Qatar are resorting to (emergency) medicines in the market and their such practices. non-availability in private pharmacies, which “This practice may continue even if national often makes treatment difficult. insurance is implemented because these compa- They cited Sorbitrate, a tablet commonly used nies would be providing additional insurance as to provide temporary relief to patients suffering a rider to basic insurance under Seha,” he added. from chest pain and heart problems. It should He said there are some private and semi-gov- be kept under the patient’s tongue. ernment companies that refuse to accept sick “This tablet is not available in private phar- leave certificates from certain clinics. macies. As per rules, doctors are not permit- “If they have a complaint against any clinic ted to stock medicines. Non-availability of such issuing bogus certificates, why can’t they go to drugs could be a real problem for doctors while SCH? Why discriminate against clinics,” he treating patients. asked. “Suppose a heart patient with chest pain Dr Kalandan hoped authorities would inter- is waiting in a clinic for a Hamad Medical vene to address such issues. Corporation (HMC) ambulance. The doctor can Most officials praised rules and regulations However, some complained about “procedural be extremely cautious about making mistakes,” give him temporary relief if required medicines being imposed by SCH to raise the standards delays” in issuing licences to newly-recruited said Al Ajji. are available,” said Dr Sameer Kalandan, who of private clinics and hospitals. doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. He, however, feels that National Health runs a private clinic in Doha. “We are facing problems in getting licences. Insurance Company is working with facilities Metoclopramide and Stemetil to treat nausea We have been trying to obtain a licence for a to help address such issues. and vomiting were also cited as examples. new doctor for several months now but we are “We have a good communication with authori- “The problem is that licensed dealers do not still waiting,” said an official of Qatar Medical ties in this regard,” he added. import such medicines, probably because they Center. Despite problems and challenges, all officials are not profitable. This should not be allowed He said such delays could cause major losses sounded optimistic about a better future for to happen. Authorities should ensure suffi- to healthcare providers because new recruits private healthcare facilities, especially with the cient supply of such life-saving drugs,” said Dr are not permitted to start work until they have introduction of Seha. Kalandan. a licence from SCH. Scores of private clinics have come up in the Dr Sameer Moopan, CEO, Aster DM We are required to keep “Licensing procedures for new staff take a country in the past few years and many more Healthcare that runs six polyclinics in Qatar, an ‘emergency cart’ in long time. We have been asked to produce some are in the pipeline. went further and said, “We are required to keep documents again and again. There is also a com- No new private hospital has been opened for an ‘emergency cart’ in clinics but what is the clinics but what is the use munication problem in this regard,” said an offi- several years but this is going to change with use of it without the essential medicines? We are cial of Al Shefa Polyclinic. SCH giving the green signal to private investors forced to buy them from HMC at higher prices, of it without the essential According to Dr Moopan, talents and experi- to go ahead with their projects. in limited quantities.” ences of some doctors cannot be fully utilised The Seha network includes three private hos- For many other medicines, only limited ver- medicines? We are forced due to the different criteria adopted by SCH in pitals, more than 40 clinics and several specialist sions/options are available in the local market. defining the functions of general practitioners, dental facilities. “A wide range of eye drops are used in oph- to buy them from HMC at specialists and consultants. The launch of Seha that covers all citizens in thalmology but only five or six are available in “The coding system under Seha requires the current phase has given a boost to private Qatar. The same is the case with antibiotics. We higher prices, in limited defining the job of each of these categories facilities in terms of the number of visitors. cannot import them directly because the medi- clearly. But some criteria used for this classifi- Seha may not have helped reduce crowding at cines have to be registered in Qatar,” he added. quantities. cation need to be reviewed. For example, under Hamad General Hospital, the largest healthcare Dr Moopan said the problem is likely to the current system, an ENT specialist cannot provider, but several private clinics and hospi- treat a disease like sinusitis,” he said. tals in the network are also struggling to cope He felt that some highly experienced doc- with the rush created by a sudden surge in the tors are denied surgical privileges because they number of Qatari patients. are not members of Arab Board of Medical As a policy shift, Qatar’s healthcare strategy Specialities or similar bodies recognised by SCH. is giving high importance to the private sec- SCH continues to revise and update rules tor, reflected in the rapid rise in the number and regulations but decisions are not properly of facilities. SCH has also announced plans to communicated to healthcare practitioners and involve private companies in the management providers. of some primary healthcare centres. He said some private health facilities are also A main challenge identified is to develop the facing problems in getting visas to bring quali- required infrastructure and provide quality care, fied people, especially technicians and paramed- as mandated by Seha. ics from other countries. “Seha will be a boon for the private sector that He said finding qualified professionals is a is going to play a vital role in the health sector. major challenge for private clinics and hospitals “However, HMC would continue to be the due to the increasing costs. leading player,” Dr Kalandan said, adding his Isam Al Ajji, Director, Human Resource, Al clinic has applied to join Seha and is waiting Hayat Medical Center, highlighted the issue of NHIC’s approval. the Qatari ID. “We have joined Seha recently and are ready “Every time a patient visits a clinic he/she has to take up challenges with our expanding net- to produce the ID, even if we have recorded it work. We are getting full support from SCH,” in our files. They may be denied treatment for said Dr Moopan. failing to produce the ID and it is difficult to He said in the long run private healthcare convince them about the reason,” said Al Ajji. facilities will be able to meet the needs of the He said the clinic has been receiving 400 burgeoning population, working side by side with to 500 patients daily since it joined the Seha public facilities. network. Some doctors refused to express views or to “We still are not able to solve the issue of long be quoted for fear of falling foul with authorities. waiting list for appointments. We should also THE PENINSULA Home NOVEMBER 15, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

GCC chief hails FIFA report on Qatar bid International boat show ends today RIYADH: The GCC Secretary- General, Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani, welcomed the report of the FIFA Ethics Committee’s 40-metre-long Floating House from Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Waves is largest exhibit Adjudicatory Chamber, which affirmed the integrity of Qatar’s DOHA: A 40-metre-long equipped with latest technologies, 2022 World Cup bid. Floating House from Abu machines and tools available in the Dr Al Zayani said the decision Dhabi-based Emirates Waves shipbuilding industry. proved the righteousness of the is the largest boat displayed “I am delighted to welcome bidding process and the integ- at the second edition of Qatar you to the shipyards and show rity of voting. He said the deci- International Boat Show which you our facilities used for build- sion refutes malicious accusations concludes today at Mourjan ing superyachts, commercial ships and false allegations sought to stir Marinas, Lusail City. and naval craft in steel, aluminium up confusion and distort Qatar’s The boat has six bedrooms, or modern fibre-reinforced plastic bid to host the World Cup. He with private bathrooms, optional (FRP),” said Managing Director, expressed confidence that the Jacuzzis, two master living rooms, Rino Brugge. world will see a distinguished a cinema, an upper flybridge, out- The facility is capable of build- sports event in Doha in 2022. side platforms for dropping jetski ing ships using steel, aluminium or small boats, among others. or FRP, with a length of up to ‘A Flower Each The fibre-glass hulled boat has 170-metre. It has two travel lifts a top speed of around 16 knots. It capable of lifting 1,100 tonnes Spring’ from today took about 18 months to build and and 300 tonnes respectively – the costs around QR12m. former being the largest such DOHA: The 17th edition of The show is featuring 70 boats, hoist in any boatyard worldwide. ‘A Flower Each Spring’ pro- one of which is a Lagoon 39 cata- Fourteen major refits of yachts, up gramme starts today in Al Khor maran from the Beneteau Group, to 80-metre in length were carried and will introduce another represented by Tan Services in out since the start of the operation. Qatari natural plant, Thanoun, the Gulf. The Lagoon 39 has been The Floating House. The shipyards is building two ‘the Cistanche phelypaea’. sold to a Qatari, while a Lagoon 71.5-metre fast diving vessels. Dr Saif Ali Al Hajari, Chairman, 38 was recently sold in Dubai and The high-speed vessels are being Friends of the Environment a Lagoon 52 to a Saudi. Yachts, including six boats from To highlight Qatar’s increasing (NDSQ), Ras Laffan, as one of the equipped with facilities, including Centre (FEC) and Head of ‘the Gulf Craft, a major manufac- 40-foot to Majesty 101, a 30.8- role in the international maritime special events as part of the expo. a decompression chamber, to sup- programme, praised support turer of luxury yachts and fiber- metre boat with 91 tonne displace- industry, representatives of the The shipyards, at Erhama Bin port offshore diving. The show is extended by H H Sheikha Moza glass boats, is participating in ment, which is one of the largest world’s media were taken on a Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard, has open from 3pm until 9.30pm. Entry bint Nasser to the program which the expo with a range of Majesty yachts in this year’s show. tour of Nakilat Damen Shipyards access to world-class facilities is free. THE PENINSULA was launched in 1999. It aims to introduce Qatar’s flora in their natural habitats to the local com- munity to promote protection and German ambassador growth. Dr Al Hajari said activities, including field visits and festivals, will be organised. This year, new visits boat show activities related to water and electricity conservation will be DOHA: German Ambassador have been manufacturing high added to promote rational con- Angelika Renate Storz-Chakarji quality boats since 1877 and 1875, sumption. He said about 300 peo- visited the Qatar International respectively. ple and several schools will attend Boat Show at Mourjan Marinas, The ambassador also visited the inauguration ceremony and Lusail City, north of downtown a super-dhow from Al Mannai the programme will continue Doha. Marine — a unique design which until May. Cistanche is a genus She visited the Blohm + Voss looks like a traditional dhow from of holoparasitic desert plants in and Lurssen stands to show sup- outside, but gives the feeling of the family of Orobanchaceae. port for the German boat yards. a superyacht inside. “The high The genus Cistanche includes 16 Both are acknowledged as two of quality build of the boat, which species. They form an attractive the world’s leading superyacht combines tradition and modern group of phanerogamic root para- shipyards. technology is astounding,” she German Ambassador Angelika Renate Storz-Chakarji (right), accompanied by officials, tours the exhibition. sites. QNA Blohm + Voss and Lurssen said. THE PENINSULA Qatar submits draft resolution on Syria rights violations to UN

NEW YORK: Qatar, on behalf continues to deteriorate. assistance, the differentiation of nearly 60 UN members, has She stressed the need to con- between civilian and military tar- submitted a draft resolution to demn indiscriminate killings and gets, and the issue of accountabil- the General Assembly on the deliberate targeting of civilians ity for violations of international situation of human rights in as a violation of international law, she said. Syria. humanitarian law. Sheikha Alia said the draft also Ambassador Sheikha Alia The resolution, she said, highlights extremism and terror- Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, Qatar’s expresses alarm over the escala- ism and condemns terrorist acts Permanent Representative to the tion of violence and its victims, and violations of international UN, presented the resolution including refugees, and violations law by any party to the conflict, to the Third Committee of the of human rights and interna- especially the so-called Islamic Assembly, concerned with social tional law, particularly the Syrian State in Iraq, and Syria and mili- and human rights, on behalf of authorities using heavy weapons, tia fighting for the regime, ter- the states which have adopt the air strikes and explosive barrels rorist groups linked to Al Qaeda draft. and starving civilians. and other extremist groups. In a statement, she said the The draft also addresses The committee is expected resolution aimed to address seri- issues such as sexual violence, to vote on the draft next week ous violations of human rights child abuse, forced disappear- and submit it to the General and international law in Syria, ances, arbitrary detention, tor- Assembly for vote next month. where the human rights situation ture, prevention of humanitarian QNA

22,000 avail of Ashghal to start QR24.3bn govt services projects over three months in 2013-14 DOHA: The Public Works has also completed improvement DOHA: The government pro- Authority (Ashghal) will exe- work on roads linking Doha and vides 170 services through its cute infrastructure projects Umm Sayed and Al Shamal and various centres. involving over QR24.3bn Doha. During 2013-14 (April 2013 to over the next three months, Among the building projects, March 2014), some 22,000 peo- according to the Annual State Ashghal has completed and ple benefited from the services in Achievement report. handed over 10 kindergartens, Mesaimeer, Al Wakra, Umm Salal Road projects at a cost of over two schools in Al Shahaniya and and Al Zubara. QR12.4bn, sewage projects at Al Shamal and four in Group- Al Wakra topped the list of more than QR9.89bn and build- Three category in Fereej Kuleb service centres in terms of turn- ing projects at a cost of about and Waidi Al Banat. It also devel- out as it accounted for 42 percent QR2bn will be implemented, Al oped play areas in 20 schools. of the total. Raya reports. The total cost of Among the projects in vari- The Mesaimeer Service projects awarded during 2013-14 ous phases of development, the Complex ranked second with a crossed QR38bn, including road sewage network in Ain Khaled share of 37 percent in the total, projects worth over QR33bn, has been completed 86 percent, Umm Salal’s share was 18 per- sewage projects (QR276.5m) and rehabilitation of the sixth stage cent and Al Zubara’s was three building projects (QR4.2bn). of pumping stations 81 percent percent. Ashghal has initiated the sec- and the sewage project for the Citing details from the Annual ond phase of a sewage plan in Al fish market in Abu Hamour 41 Achievement Book released by Khor and operated and conducted percent. Ashghal is working on a the Secretariat-General of the maintenance on 25 new pumping water treatment plant in north of Cabinet for 2013-14, the local stations. It has also completed Doha and has completed 87 per- Arabic daily Al Raya said some sewage networks in Al Wakra cent of it while expansion of the eight ministries and depart- and other areas, including Doha, second phase of a sewage treat- ments provide services through Salwa Road and Al Shamal Road. ment plant has been completed these centres in addition to Qatar It has finished work on inter- 84 percent. Plants in Al Jamelia, General Electricity and Water sections and roundabouts in Al Shamal camp, Industrial Area, Corporation (Kahramaa). Doha and developed roads in Al Al Khor and South Doha are in THE PENINSULA Thumama and Bin Hajir. Ashghal various stages. THE PENINSULA 04 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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he biggest players in the maritime industry Tare exhibiting their boats in the second edition of Qatar International Boat Show. Palmer Johnson from the US, Blohm and Voss from Germany, Esen Yacht from Turkey and Grupo per Mare Amer Yachts from Italy are showcasing some of the largest yachts in the show this year. Nakilat Damen Shipyard, Qatar (NDSQ), too has a presence. A joint venture of two blue chip companies, Nakilat and Damen, NDSQ is the only super yacht builder in Qatar. More than 75 boats are on show during the five-day event at Mourjan Marina in Lusail City. The show concludes today. NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Home / Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY 7,000 attend diabetes walkathon World Diabetes Day marked

DOHA: More than 7,000 resi- “The most recent estimates by dents yesterday took part in the International Diabetes Federation fifth annual walkathon to cre- indicate that 8.3 percent of adults ate awareness about diabetes. or 382 million people have diabe- The event was organised by the tes, and the number is set to cross Landmark Group, the region’s 592 million in less than 25 years,” largest retail and hospitality con- said Dr Al Hamaq. glomerate, and Qatar Diabetes “QDA annually celebrates Association at Aspire Park. World Diabetes Day which falls Dr Abdulla Al Hamaq, (seventh right) Executive Director, Qatar Diabetes Association, Santosh Pai, (sixth right), COO, Landmark Group, and other officials It was held under the patron- on November 14, with the rest of inaugurating the fifth Annual 'Act Now to Beat Diabetes’ Walkathon at Aspire Park yesterday. (Below) Participants begin the walkathon. KAMMUTTY V P age of Dr Abdulla Al Hamaq, the world by organising a walka- Executive Director, Qatar thon to attract the attention of Diabetes Association, Qatar all members of the community to Foundation, and Santosh Pai, the seriousness of the disease,” he COO, Landmark Group Qatar. said. Farhan Alsuwaidi, PR Manager, A large number of families, Landmark group, led participants along with groups represent- in the two-km event, sporting ing organisations cheered loudly blue ‘Beat Diabetes’ T-shirts. in support of the walkathon and “Every year, this platform helps posed for group photos, while remind people of the magnitude of children lined up to have their the threat posed by diabetes and faces painted. the simplicity with which the con- Fitness First led a pre-walka- dition can be managed,” said Pai. thon mass warm-up session, fol- “Through the ‘Beat Diabetes’ lowed by Pai and Dr Al Hamaq initiative, Landmark Group releasing blue and white bal- encourages people to stay proac- loons — colours symbolising dia- tive about their health and the betes awareness — to start the well-being of their loved ones. walkathon. “We want people to make a At the end of the event, par- conscious effort to lead healthier ticipants were treated to a com- lifestyles and regularly monitor plimentary healthy breakfast and their blood glucose levels,” he fresh fruit. added. To reinforce the core message “The incidence of diabetes is of early detection, free blood glu- on the rise all over the world and cose testing booths were set up countries are struggling to keep at the venue. pace. THE PENINSULA Expert: Change eating habits to WISH focuses on diabetes DOHA: The World Innovation help guide policymakers and oth- Summit for Health (WISH), ers responsible for the prevention control obesity, avoid diabetes a global initiative of Qatar and management of diabetes. Foundation for Education, Results, findings and recom- DOHA: Obesity is one of the first of a three-year (2014-16) focus your diet for a year? Or serving Science and Community mendations from the forum will best documented risks of devel- on healthy living and diabetes. It yourself vegetables on half your Development (QF), is highlight- be presented for discussion at the oping diabetes — and the only was under the slogan ‘Diabetes: plate every time you have dinner? ing risks diabetes poses to the summit. cause that could be controlled by Protect our future’. Or not snacking at all? Or stop region’s health and lifestyle. Professor Lord Darzi of individuals, says an expert. The campaign focuses on pro- soft drinks all together? As a disease particularly preva- Denham, Executive Chair, WISH, People should change their eat- moting ‘make healthy food the easy “That’s much harder, but unfor- lent in the Gulf, the incidence of and Director, Institute of Global ing habits to avoid getting the choice’, ‘healthy eating: Make the tunately steps like these are the diabetes is as high as 12-18 percent Health Innovation, Imperial lifestyle disease or delay its onset, right choice’ and ‘healthy eating ones that make a difference in the in the Middle East, with Qatar, College of London, said, “World according to Herluf Nis Thomsen, begins with breakfast’. “Obesity long-term fight against obesity.” Saudi Arabia and Oman among Diabetes Day offers the chance to Senior Project Manager, Action on comes from two main factors: Bad Meanwhile, several activities the top 10 most affected coun- highlight to the countries in the Diabetes. “You can’t change your eating habits and lack of exercise. are being held to screen diabetes tries, according to International Middle East that it is a looming genes or your family history. But If we want to fight obesity, target- and create awareness about the Diabetes Federation. global health crisis. obesity is something you can do ing either is not enough. It goes condition which is common among WISH is focusing on this “The policy report we will pub- Professor Lord Darzi of Denham, about,” he told this daily. hand in hand to be efficient. And 17 percent of people in the country. health priority ahead of present- lish on diabetes in February will Executive Chair, WISH, and Director, International Association for it takes real sustained changes to Visitors to Katara can have check- ing exclusive insights at the sec- provide recommendations for pol- the Study of Obesity has predicted habits,” said Thomsen. ups today at the ‘Screening Village’ ond summit in February 2015. icymakers to more effectively pre- Institute of Global Health Innovation, that 73 percent of women and 69 On healthy eating habits, he from 4pm onwards. The Fourth Professor Stephen Colagiuri, vent diabetes in their countries, Imperial College of London, percent of men will be obese by said, “It is (relatively) easy to Annual Diabetics Screening WISH’s Diabetes Forum Chair, and ensure effective treatment for 2015. eat salad for a week, because you Village is organised by Action on will work with a team of experts those with the illness. some recommendations for the World Diabetes Day 2014 com- know it’s only for a week. But what Diabetes and sponsored by Mearsk from around the world to produce “It is our hope that healthcare benefit of their populations,” he memorated yesterday marked the about taking white bread out of Oil. THE PENINSULA evidence-based research that can leaders from the region will adopt added. THE PENINSULA

Campaign against Islamists in Egypt Sudan calls Darfur UN mission head Iraq-Kurd deal ‘eases over ‘mass rape’ threat to Iraq unity’ KHARTOUM: Sudan sum- moned the head of the BAGHDAD: A preliminary Mladenov hailed the deal as “a UN-African Mission in Darfur deal between Iraq and its very important first step.” (UNMAID) yesterday over Kurdish region on long-running “The agreement will allow pub- reports government troops had financial disputes has reduced lic sector employees in the gov- carried out a mass rape in the a threat to national unity, Oil ernorates of Arbil, Dohuk and war-torn region, a foreign min- Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi Sulaimaniyah to begin receiving istry official said. said yesterday. salaries. It will also allow the UNAMID said in an inter- Baghdad has long opposed Kurdistan Regional Government nal report this week that the the three-province autonomous to resume contribution to the fed- Sudanese military had sought to region’s independent export of oil, eral budget at a time of national intimidate villagers to suppress while Kurdish leaders have criti- crisis,” he said in a statement. allegations that over 200 women cised Iraq for withholding budget The deal was reached at a and girls were raped. payments. In a first move to end meeting in Kurdish capital Arbil It has reported finding no evi- the disputes, both sides agreed for between Mahdi, Kurdish regional dence of last month’s alleged rape Iraq to pay $500m to Kurdistan in premier Nechirvan Barzani and during a visit to the area. exchange for 150,000 barrels of oil his deputy, Qubad Talabani, the “We summoned the chief of per day to the federal government. Kurdish government said. UNAMID to clarify the situa- The crisis “created a rift that “Barzani will head a delega- tion and I told him the general threatens not only economic, tion to Iraq in the coming days prosecutor in Darfur is carry- security and political interests, to reach a comprehensive, fair ing out an investigation” into but also national unity,” Mahdi and constitutional solution to all the rape claims and the source said in a statement. differences,” it added. of the reports, said Abdullah Al The dispute was harming The budget dispute has lasted Azraq, Under-Secretary for the both sides, with Iraq losing oil almost a year and had led to a Foreign Minister. The Sudanese revenue and the Kurdish region sharp deterioration of relations government has repeatedly not receiving federal budget pay- between the federal government denied its troops carried out the ments, Mahdi added. and the Kurdish region. A reso- alleged rapes. UNAMID did not A supporter of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi shouts slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood and The agreement, while not final, lution of the budget feud is an comment on whether its Acting other Islamist groups in downtown Cairo. S upporters are campaigning to collect one million signatures for a “opens the way” to permanent essential step in improving coop- Head Abiodun Oluremi Bashua petition for the prosecution of opposition activists living overseas. solutions, he said. eration at a time when both are had been summoned. AFP UN Iraq envoy Nickolay battling the Islamic State. AFP 06 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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HE relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan can be described as a rollercoaster. It has its ups and downs, and sometimes the downs are deeper. For two Tneighbours battling the common enemy of terrorism, this lack of steadiness in ties, which sometimes plunges into Judge Hamas on measures outright hostility, has been a major problem, a fact which officials on either side of the border would agree with, though they might disagree on the reasons for the same. it takes for its people In this context, the visit of Afghanistan’s new president Ashraf Ghani to Islamabad assumes significance. Pakistan BY AHMED YOUSEF is one of the first countries Ghani has chosen to visit after Hamas is a Palestinian liberation impose beliefs that others don’t share. taking office, which underlines his diplomatic and foreign movement that uses traditional Islamic All we seek is to be given our rightful policy priorities. The visit is born of a realization that T REALLY doesn’t matter what teaching as its point of reference. Israeli place among the family of nations. Afghanistan’s battle against the Taliban can’t be won without political party you belong to in media and many of the western chan- When Hamas decided to engage fully Islamabad’s wholehearted support, and absolute peace with a Palestine because every single one nels that mimic it have far too easily in the political process we did not aban- key neighbour is needed before focusing energies on the more Ihas first to deal with Israeli occu- succumbed to the Israeli establishment’s don our legal and moral right to resist pation, settlements, theft and expro- propaganda that the group is akin to occupation and the daily Israeli aggres- stupendous challenges. Secondly, Islamabad’s relations with priation before it can begin to campaign al-Qaida and/or a front for Iran and/ sion. This we hold in common with many Ghani’s predecessor Hamid Karzai weren’t rosy, and were about public policy on jobs, healthcare or a combination thereof. Were pun- other liberation movements around the often acrimonious. There is a desire for change on either side and the economy. Despite this stark dits to truly scrutinise Hamas’s actions world. The price we have paid for this and this has triggered optimism. reality, the question I have faced most since its inception, they would find not is exclusion by many western countries The potential and scope for cooperation between the two frequently since returning to Gaza in a single official statement or position that at the same time chose to over- sides are endless and what is lacking is the political will. 2006 is this: does the Hamas charter, that is based on denigrating another look the brutal and illegal actions of which contains passages deemed offen- faith, certainly neither Judaism nor our Israeli occupiers. The right of the In recent weeks Pakistan’s foreign minister, its army chief sive to Jewish people, truly represent Christianity. Nor can anyone produce occupier to purportedly defend itself and new spy chief have all visited Kabul carrying messages the movement’s vision and political a shred of evidence that Hamas formally trumped our right to exist in peace. of support and cooperation. The army offered to help train goals? Diplomats, journalists, academics, encourages prejudice against anyone’s We have been condemned for firing Afghan soldiers and provide parliamentarians and politicians from ethnicity. And the group has been far home-made rockets in protest at a siege equipment for an entire infantry numerous nations have empathised with more conscious of avoiding civilian cas- that is aimed at depriving over a million brigade. That’s an offer, which, Palestinians; yet ualties than the Israelis. We in Gaza and a half people of the basic necessi- they all seem to are witnesses to the deaths of scores ties of daily life: electricity, clean water, Afghan President if accepted, can give a huge fillip struggle with this of our children, while Israeli television medical drugs and equipment. We are to ties because both are fighting document. has largely been able to parade only the also blocked from importing everyday Ashraf Ghani’s against Taliban and a military Hamas’ charter The question is coffins of soldiers. building, industrial and farming materi- visit to Pakistan cooperation can lead to a common understandable Hamas is simply a movement resisting als necessary to provide jobs and develop strategy. Pakistan has been accused was never given how fre- occupation and besiegement. The cause a viable economy. Our students and our quently much of of our conflict with the Israelis is their sick are denied the right to travel for may create a of covertly assisting the Taliban intended to be the foreign media desire to make of us a servile minority their education and healthcare. The list new chapter in and other insurgent groups by a governing refers to it. The or an emigrant memory and they have is endless and yet we are the ones who relations between Afghanistan, and Pakistan has reality, however, done nothing that would grant us the are condemned. When we enter into accused its neighbour of supporting instrument, is that one would dignity of self-determination. Even now, ceasefires and our forces impose months the two countries. be hard pressed to it is the Israelis who issue a Palestinian of calm despite no change in the sta- terrorists. India and China are nor the guiding two dominating presences in the find any member his or her identity card under the terms tus quo, we see no tangible results – the political vision of of Hamas who is of Oslo. Hamas draws inspiration from relentless, dehumanising weight of the region, which are hugely influencing fully versed in faith; yet religion has little to do with siege continues unabated. Why, then, the policies of both Islamabad and our movement. the content of our struggle. Our faith determines our is the world surprised when we resist? Kabul. The rivalry and competition the charter – a values, not our platform. What every What people on this planet would sit qui- between the two great powers is muddying waters. Kabul Our actions show treatise that was Palestinian – Muslim or Christian and etly and allow themselves to bleed out a and Islamabad need to find a way of insulating their relations that we don’t actually never uni- of every political hue – struggles for is slow death without fighting for survival? from extraneous influences and avoid getting caught in the versally endorsed dignity and freedom, for the right to be Judge Hamas on the measures it denigrate any by the movement. recognised in our own land, a struggle takes for its people. Do not rely on the crossfires. Earnest stu- for our political and economic rights, a words of a document – the charter – Despite the initial enthusiasm and optimism, everything faith. dents of Palestine struggle for sovereignty and the right written under entirely different circum- would depend on how far Ghani and Sharif are willing to go to should consider to govern ourselves. stances. Declare it dead, some have said; bring real changes. More than Sharif, Ghani needs to proceed the context. This Palestinians are no different from and yet, to do so would be to succumb boldly as he is facing more formidable challenges. His very was a text written in the early days of any other people around the globe. But to yet another Israeli demand. We do the first intifada. Our youth rebelling we certainly are less capable than the what is right, not what we are told by survival depends on his ability to defeat Taliban and no other against the Israeli occupiers needed a Israelis of manipulating the media. First an occupier. We will continue to resist so country can help him in this mission than Pakistan. rallying cry – a written expression of they rallied the world against commu- long as the injustices inflicted upon the Ghani will join Sharif in watching a cricket match between their resolve. The charter was designed nism, then they labeled the nationalists Palestinian people go unaddressed. But teams representing the two nations. That’s a good beginning. to be that inspirational document and it terrorists; and now Islamists are the we will also continue to look for ways to The game should convince them of the need to create a level was never intended to be the governing true villains. Yet look beneath the rheto- move forward and to address the core playing field, and unlike in the game, no single side should instrument, the guiding principle or the ric with a just eye and you will discover issues of our conflict with the Israelis. political vision of the movement. that we are not fanatics who want to THE GUARDIAN think of winning. It must be a win-win for both. The other side Quote of Let Abbas disengage from false talks the day

ALESTINE is getting Haram Al Sharif, which will allow Jews than seven years. It is time Abbas is the boycott movement and put more more dangerous daily onto the site. forced to recognise that Netanyahu effective economic sanctions on Israel and Palestinian President In so doing, it is trying to trick the is using all the noise and drama to through the international community PMahmoud Abbas has failed Palestinians into responding violently distract attention from Israel’s real that is increasingly vocal and more will- President Abbas to find any effective resistance to and thereby stopping or at least slow- purpose of expanding colonies and ing to engage. For example, a large Israeli provocation. Israeli Prime ing the European wave of support for building new ones all over the West number of companies have refused to and I... discussed Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is and recognition of Palestine. It is time Bank so that its occupation becomes deal with entities that are active in the constructive steps, deliberately inflaming the situation by for Abbas to make a dramatic shift in permanent. Abbas should give up on Occupied Territories and it is significant allowing Israeli radicals to roam the policy. He has been ineffective in lam- his commitment to negotiations with that Netanyahu has expressed his wor- real steps — not Occupied Territories at will while they basting Israelis who are now carrying a government that openly laughs at ries about this trend, while remaining rhetoric but real commit crimes designed to create out crimes on a daily basis. This will Palestinians and is treating them as a calm about any recent Palestinian pro- more tension. Yet another mosque add to Abbas’s growing lack of legiti- tool to distract the international com- test. But why is the Arab world silent on steps that people was burned in an arson attack on macy after he continued as president munity from the deepening occupation. Palestine? Despite the latest regional Wednesday and after weeks of rioting by presidential decree for a third term, The Palestinians should declare upheavals, the Arab world must not can take — in order and provocative visits to Al Haram Al despite having only been elected for themselves a state, seek full recogni- forget about Palestine, which is the to de-escalate the Sharif by Israeli troublemakers, Tel Aviv one term, while the Palestinian parlia- tion from the United Nations and all heart and soul of this region. John Kerry is hinting that it will force a division of Al ment has not been in session for more international bodies, work closely with Gulf News situation. US Secretary of State NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Oil slide pushing petrostates towards China

its cratering relations with the risk-averse Chinese leadership A risk-averse Chinese leadership West by sidling up to Beijing. In will not address the geostrategic May, the two countries completed issues and security concerns that will not address the strategic issues a 30-year, $400bn gas deal after go hand in hand with energy pro- Russia dropped its asking price; duction in volatile Eurasia and the they inked additions to that agree- Middle East. While Washington and security concerns that go hand ment over the weekend. doesn’t have a formal strategy to Two structural changes will intervene on behalf of American in hand with energy production in accelerate Russia’s tack to China energy companies, US engagement in the years to come. First, as does coincide with these linkages. Russia continues to wield its For example, robust energy ties volatile Eurasia and the Middle East. energy as a political weapon, it between the United States and will alienate European consum- Saudi Arabia have underpinned BY IAN BREMMER compromise on both sides — not ers who will actively seek out the strategic alliance. That will oil forcing Iran to capitulate. new supplies of natural gas that not be the case with China as it lummeting oil prices Nothing will deter Vladimir don’t carry such a hefty geopoliti- increasingly inherits the United — down more than 25 Putin in his bid to destabilise and cal price tag. Second, the North States’ role as the world’s prin- percent since June to maintain influence over Ukraine. American unconventional energy cipal energy importer. China will Pthree-year lows — should Russia can stomach the economic revolution will help provide that work to engage commercially relieve pressure on consumers at consequences inflicted by Western source — and undermine Russia’s with no strings attached: it will the pump. But is it pushing oil- sanctions and cheaper oil for the pricing power by offering alterna- gladly ink sweetheart energy deals exporting regimes past the break- foreseeable future. Despite mas- tives and boosting global supply. with Russian leadership, but that ing point? sive capital flight and a battered The North American uncon- doesn’t commit Beijing to any The answer is no. Despite their ruble, Putin still has the will, the ventional energy revolution (from deeper geostrategic engagement. reliance on oil revenue, the gov- foreign reserves, and the popular fracking, tar sands and other That is a very different style of ernments of Russia, Iran, Saudi support — his approval ratings are sources) will rattle geopolitics in “partner” indeed. Arabia, and Venezuela are not near historic highs — to continue the Middle East above anywhere China will likely choose to teetering. This is no “oil Arab his offensive. else. The US Energy Information maintain this more transactional Spring,” where cratering prices For the time being, Saudi Administration predicts that by approach to diplomacy, contribut- topple governments. In fact, the Arabia remains the oil supplier of 2020, more than four-fifths of the ing to an expanding power vacuum price drop won’t even change their last resort. It can cut and expand oil the United States consumes in these regions. Interventionist stances on the geopolitical issues production to alter global supply- will come from the Western hem- diplomacy beyond the Asia Pacific Washington cares most about. demand dynamics. Riyadh has isphere. By that point, America region is new for the Chinese, and Cheaper oil won’t shift Iran’s amassed an enormous rainy day could be the world’s largest oil meddling in distant countries is posture in nuclear negotiations. fund to weather storms such as producer, and energy self-suffi- particularly troublesome for a Despite the looming deadline, this. Saudi Arabia will participate cient by 2035 (according to the leadership that so adamantly there is still a huge gulf between in Washington’s anti-Islamic State International Energy Agency). A believes sovereignty is sacrosanct A fuel station of Russian state oil firm Rosneft in St Petersburg. the two sides. Iran refuses to elim- campaign only insofar as it aligns reduced reliance on energy from as it safeguards its own inter- inate most of its existing stockpile with its own aims. A sectarian the Middle East will make the US nal affairs against outside inter- of enriched uranium and centri- anti-Shia stance is the guiding sales and changing the terms of stability, don’t read much into this less dependent on the world’s most vention. The only thing more fuges; Washington insists that force in Saudi Arabia’s foreign its loans with China. Caracas can price drop just yet. volatile region — and less inter- problematic than an absence of any proposal without those con- policy; cheaper oil will have no handle the economic pain for now, But there is an overarching ested in getting involved in its geo- leadership could be an inconsist- cessions would be stillborn. Yet, bearing on that. without ushering in social dislo- trend affecting all of these pet- political flare-ups. Meanwhile, to ent and opaque Chinese presence. Iran doesn’t feel pressured to cede Lower oil prices are an addi- cation or political upheaval that rostates: a shifting energy land- feed its expanding economy and Don’t overestimate the near- ground, particularly when Moscow tional strain on Venezuela’s ailing would make the military withdraw scape will make them dramatically growing middle class, China will term impact of oil prices in has offered support to Iran if there economy. But $75-80 oil won’t send its support for Maduro. more dependent on China. become increasingly attached to free fall. Yet, even if cheaper oil is no sanctions relief. And Iran’s the country into default. President Longer term, it’s very clear that It’s already on display in Russia Middle Eastern energy producers doesn’t upend these regimes — or economy has stabilised somewhat: Nicolas Maduro is committed to these regimes’ overdependence on and Venezuela. Venezuela relies on — and vice versa. align them with Washington — since President Hassan Rowhani servicing Venezuela’s external oil revenue could threaten their loans from China that it repays Petrostates’ tectonic shift away it will accelerate their deepen- took office last year, inflation has debt and he has room to manoeu- survival. But each regime faces in future oil exports; pushing for from the United States towards ing dependence on China. That dropped from 40 percent to 21 vre: Venezuela will likely imple- unique stresses, and the breaking more lenient terms of these loans China will have far-reaching is a recipe for greater instability percent. A deal could still hap- ment a managed devaluation of points, should they come at all, are is part of Caracas’ strategy for ramifications for these govern- and a more volatile global energy pen, but it would be the result of its currency and unlock additional neither imminent nor intercon- dealing with the recent oil price ments, their neighbourhoods, landscape. creative diplomacy and deeper liquidity from things like asset nected. When it comes to regime drop. Moscow has hedged against and the global energy picture. A REUTERS Are Israeli settlements here to stay? Is the US really against BY DIMI REIDER

ursts of Israeli settlement con- torture? It’s hard to tell struction in the occupied West BBank and East Jerusalem, once BY ELISA MASSIMINO Many Americans don’t regard torture as the the subject of intense news coverage, immoral and illegal act it is. have become almost routine. resident Barack Obama brought the The Bush administration’s embrace of tor- Just the other week, 500 housing US commitment against torture into ture after September 11 broke the national units were cleared for construction in Psharper focus this week. For a presi- consensus against it. And it remains broken. the Ramat Shlomo neighbourhood of dent who prohibited torture as one of his first Unless it is repaired, it’s entirely possible that East Jerusalem. Another 400, in the official acts, this shouldn’t be news. But it is. a future president could re-authorise torture Har Homa neighbourhood, are likely At issue is Washington’s interpretation — and undo Obama’s executive order with the to be green-lighted soon. Settler fami- of the United Nations Convention Against stroke of a pen. lies continue to move into Palestinian- Torture. Seeking to exempt American abuse of Obama’s decision not to prosecute the per- majority neighbourhoods in the city, detainees overseas, President George W Bush petrators or authors of the previous admin- and in August, nearly 1,000 acres of had broken with his predecessors and claimed istration’s torture policy, coupled with the West Bank land were confiscated by that the treaty didn’t apply outside the United apparent ambiguity in the Obama administra- the Israeli state, all in violation of States. This strained reading flew in the face of tion’s legal interpretations of the treaty, make international law. American values, the rule of law and the text it even more critical that the White House Settlement construction, at various of the 1987 treaty. seize the opportunity presented by the Senate rates and through various means, has Despite Obama’s early executive orders in Select Committee on Intelligence’s landmark been the consistent policy of every sin- 2009, the administration had never officially report on the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” File photo of a Jewish settler placing a rock as he builds an illegal outpost at Tel gle Israeli government since the West repudiated that position. But on Wednesday, programme to rebuild the national consensus Haim, east of the West Bank settlement of Beit El, close to Ramallah. Bank was occupied in 1967. Still, no as a US delegation prepared to appear before against torture. A bipartisan majority of the prime minister in the past 20 years can the UN committee that monitors treaty com- committee voted to adopt the report, declassify rival Benjamin Netanyahu, who seems Rivlin has replaced the theme of par- solution lies with the Palestinians, pliance, the White House announced it would it and release it. determined to break even his own ear- tition championed by his predecessor, however. Any proposal that seeks to reaffirm that the agreement applies beyond But the president was slow to back the lier records for new settlement homes. Shimon Peres, with that of a shared create one state can only be practica- US borders. report’s release and instead allowed the CIA to Is there any chance that these set- partnership and joint future for Israelis ble if it comes from the people whose The devil, however, is in the details. The decide on all redactions — despite the agency’s tlements will be dismantled? and Palestinians — values that would land the settlements are actually built administration’s statement says the treaty conflict of interest and possible illegal monitor- Consider that over eight percent of underpin a one-state solution rather on. The Palestinians are also the only applies to “places outside the United States ing of the intelligence committee staff. Israel’s Jewish population already lives than a two-state one. ones who can legitimise any one-state that the US government controls as a govern- Release of the report’s findings has been beyond the Green Line, the armistice In an interview with the New Yorker, alternative to evicting the settlements, mental authority.” That sounds reasonable — delayed for months as the CIA tussles with line separating Israel from the territo- which came out this week, Rivlin whether desegregation, compensation unless it means that torture at CIA black sites, Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the ries it occupied in 1967. Those who do defended the settlements. “It can’t for land lost, or both. or at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, would Senate intelligence panel, and other committee not live there have family, friends and be ‘occupied territory’ if the land is Since the 1980s, Palestinian poli- be exempt because the United States wasn’t members over the redactions. Feinstein insists relatives who do. your own,” he said. Rivlin advocates a tics has been dominated by a vision the “government authority” in those places. that some CIA redactions have no national- Key posts in the Israel Defence Greater Israel, in which Palestinians of a majority nation-state, alongside Such strategic ambiguity was exploited by security rationale and “eliminate or obscure Forces and in other branches of gov- would have equal rights. When I Israel. This, combined with the well- Bush administration lawyers to give the veneer key facts that support the report’s findings ernment are occupied by settlers, and interviewed him in 2010, Rivlin, then documented discrimination by Israel of legality to abusive interrogation techniques. and conclusions.” the settlements themselves appear speaker of the Knesset, mused about against its Palestinian citizens, makes After the Bush administration’s trip to the The good news — for Obama’s anti-torture ever more normal to the Israeli eye. a Belfast-like power-sharing agree- it likely that any offer of citizenship dark side, engaging in “enhanced interroga- legacy and the nation — is that the president The Israeli real estate bubble, which ment, referring to the peace process from the Israeli side will be seen — jus- tion techniques” and other cruelty after 9/11, can still ensure that the report’s findings are has fuelled a rising gap between prices in Northern Ireland. He also reflected tifiably so — as a means of cementing the Obama administration can’t afford to be released. There are signs that the White House within the Green Line are those out- on the possibility of a rotation-based Israeli domination and control. nuanced on the subject. has removed CIA redactions in some sections. side it, makes the dismantling of set- government, where a Jewish prime There have always been dissent- Other countries will likely view any ambigu- Ultimately, however, Obama should defend tlements seem all the more unlikely. minister and his Palestinian deputy ing voices, and a growing number of ity in the administration’s position as a hedge. the right of all Americans to see the truth So how will the settlements affect would switch roles after set terms. Palestinian activists and intellectuals And after the incidents at Abu Ghraib and CIA about what their government did in their name the direction the peace process takes? Of all the right-wing leaders, Rivlin have already started calling for a one- black sites, who can blame them? — despite the CIA’s efforts to hide it. He needs The reality is that the settlements is perhaps the most pro-democratic, state solution. But widespread, popular To reclaim moral standing, Obama needs to to act fast, however. Senator Richard Burr, make the chances of a genuinely inde- and contends with strong opposition support among Palestinians for such an show the world — and Americans — that the who is on record defending torture, is due to pendent Palestinian state in the fore- close to home. Right-wing activists idea — bold as it is — would be difficult US government is unconditionally opposed to become chairman of the intelligence committee seeable future virtually non-existent. have responded with increasing vit- to muster so long as senior Palestine torture in all contexts, and that it is prepared when Republicans take control of the Senate Some settlers and their right-wing riol to his criticism of racism within Liberation Organisation activists, to face up to what it did in the years after in January. If given the chance, he will likely allies have come forward in favour of Israel, and most right-wing politicians personally and politically invested in 9-11, to ensure that it never makes the same ensure that the report never sees the light a one-state approach. While some see who support a one-state solution don’t the two-state solution, dominate the mistake again. of day. it as a way of unilaterally cementing share Rivlin’s ideas on power-sharing. Palestinian political arena. Yet Obama’s stated desire to “look forward, Running out the clock appears to be the Israeli control, others among them are Still, the very fact that an Israeli But any Israeli initiative can only not back” has been central to denying the CIA’s plan as well. But CIA Director John asking how one could reconcile non- president is giving voice to a vision of be offered in response to a Palestinian public reckoning that the nation needs. In the Brennan works for Obama. If the report gets partition with long-term peace and one-state partnership will help open one. Otherwise, even the most promis- absence of such a reckoning, polls shows sup- buried, the president may well be remembered security for both peoples. the space for a diversity of approaches, ing peace plan will be seen as continu- port for torture has increased. The public has as the leader who brought our country back The newly elected Israeli president, both from the right and left. ation of occupation by other means. come to see torture as a viable policy option from the dark side — but left the door open. Reuven Rivlin, is one such politician. Ultimately, the success of a one-state REUTERS — one that Bush was for and Obama is against. REUTERS 08 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Houthis seize Campaign for Marzouki key district from Al Qaeda Army backs Shia outfit in Yemen

SANA’A: Yemeni Shia Houthi Tribal sources said the Houthis fighters backed by government had met stiff resistance as they forces drove the local wing of pushed towards the village of Al Qaeda from one of its last Khobza district using Katuysha strongholds in central Yemen rockets and heavy artillery. yesterday in intense fighting They said at least 25 Houthis that killed at least 35 people, and 10 Ansar Al Sharia and tribal tribal sources said. fighters had died in the fighting, The Houthis’ Ansarullah which began on Thursday after- movement has become the main noon. Ansar Al Sharia and its allies political force in Western-allied withdrew to Yakla district, on the Yemen since capturing Sana’a border with Maarib province. in September and then pushing The fighting has given Yemen’s south and west into the Sunni strife a sectarian slant as Sunni Muslim heartland of Al Bayda tribes have lined up with Ansar province, where Ansar Al Sharia Al Sharia, the local affiliate of Al has allied itself with local tribes. Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen has been in turmoil (AQAP), which views Shi’ites since 2011, to the dismay of such as the Houthis as heretics. neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the On Thursday, the Houthis, who world’s top oil exporter, and of had for years complained of dis- the Western powers who want to crimination against their north- prevent instability in the Arabian ern homeland, endorsed a new peninsula threatening their crude government in Sanaa to replace A supporter of Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki distributes leaflets encouraging people to re-elect Marzouki in the upcoming presidential elec- supplies or giving al Qaeda a base the one they had forced to step tion, in Tunis yesterday. Twenty-seven candidates, including one woman, are running in the vote, due to take place on November 23. for overseas attacks. down. REUTERS Sudan warplanes bomb South border zones: Reports Algeria’s Bouteflika JUBA: Sudanese warplanes holds peace talks with rebels. Khaled denied the reports. an “urgent” ceasefire. Earlier this secession, including the frontier. have bombed South Sudan, South Sudan army spokesman “This allegation is completely month the presidents of Sudan Both countries are also battling wounding six civilians in areas Philip Aguer told the independ- incorrect and we didn’t bomb any and South Sudan agreed to restart internal conflicts that spill over in hospital bordering war zone regions ent Radio Tamazuj that bombs area inside South Sudan’s terri- work to demarcate their contested their borders. Civil war broke out where Khartoum is trying to were dropped on Wednesday in tories, and we have no links with border, a dispute that boiled over in South Sudan in December. LYON, FRANCE: Algerian crush rebel fighters, reports said. the Maban district of Upper Nile such a thing,” he said. into war between the countries in Sudan’s army has been fight- President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Sudan however rejected the state, which hosts over 125,000 Khartoum officials are meet- 2012. South Sudan split from the ing for more than a decade war who suffered a stroke last year, claims of fresh bombing raids, refugees who fled from fight- ing in Ethiopia with rebels from north in 2011 following a peace in the western Darfur region, and was hospitalised in the Alpine which not only raises tensions ing in neighbouring Sudan’s war-torn Blue Nile and South agreement ending decades of civil for the past three years, rebellions city of Grenoble on Thursday, a between the former civil war Blue Nile state. Sudanese army Kordofan, with African Union war, and the two remain at odds in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. French police source said. foes, but also comes as Khartoum spokesman Colonel Al Sawarmy mediator Thabo Mbeki calling for over unresolved issues from the AFP “He was taken into care at Grenoble mutualist clinic yester- day,” the source said yesterday, although he did not have details on why Bouteflika had been hos- pitalised. Algerian officials were Saudi Arabia urged to not immediately available for comment but two government sources denied the report with- free cyber activists out giving any further details. Algeria’s Echorouk TV, seen as close to the government, cited DUBAI: Media watchdog 28 of women’s rights campaigner a presidential source as saying Reporters Without Borders Suad Al Shammari, who is Bouteflika was at home and his (RSF) urged Saudi authori- accused of insulting Islam. She health normal. ties yesterday to drop charges was arrested in the Red Sea city A veteran of Algeria’s inde- against dissidents jailed in of Jeddah “after being questioned pendence war against France, recent months over their about some of her tweets. Bouteflika, 77, suffered a stroke Internet activity. In September, a Saudi court in early 2013, forcing him to be The latest sentence was handed upheld a sentence of 10 years rushed to hospital in France. He down to prominent human rights in prison and 1,000 lashes for has since returned to France for activist, Mikhlif Al Shammari, Badawi, also for insulting Islam. several check-ups. who was jailed for two years “We condemn the Saudi govern- Under Bouteflika, a veteran of by a special criminal court on ment’s repressive policies towards the war that ended with inde- November 3 and given 200 lashes. dissidents who are increasingly using pendence in 1962, the OPEC pro- Shammari, a 59-year-old Sunni the Internet,” RSF deputy pro- ducer has become a partner in Muslim known for his attempts to gramme director Virginie Dangles Washington’s campaign against improve Sunni-Shia relations in the said. The watchdog urged authori- Al Qaeda-linked militancy in the kingdom, has faced several trials on ties to “reverse these decisions, to Maghreb and a supplier of about various charges linked to his activ- release all the netizens and human a fifth of Europe’s gas imports. ism, according to rights groups. rights activists who are being denied But Bouteflika’s frail health “He was convicted and sen- their right to freedom of expression has left questions about what hap- tenced just two weeks after and information, and to abandon all pens next, who replaces him if he being summoned to the General judicial proceedings against them.” cannot govern for the entire term Intelligence Directorate in Al In February, RSF said that Gulf and how that would affect politi- Khobar and ordered to close monarchies, fearful of unrest, have cal and economic reforms and oil his Twitter account (@mikhlif) stepped up efforts to monitor and investment in the North African within 48 hours in connection with control the media, particularly country. French media showed another complaint,” RSF said. online. Saudi Arabia is on the pictures and video footage of the The media watchdog also con- group’s “Enemies of the Internet” area around the clinic being cor- demned the arrest on October list. AFP doned off by police. REUTERS

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Security personnel gather at the site of a bomb blast in Al Marj, east of Libya’s Benghazi, yesterday. Three people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries that resulted from the explosion caused by a homemade bomb which was thrown at the checkpoint by an unknown individual. NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Hamas warns of explosion if Israel eases Al Aqsa restrictions Israel blocks Gaza rebuilding ‘Firm commitments’ to maintain the status quo at the compound, says top US official JERUSALEM: Israel eased each practical step. It is more RAFAH: The military wing of restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al important they be done in a quiet the Palestinian Islamist move- Aqsa mosque yesterday after and effective way,” Kerry said. ment Hamas warned of renewed US Secretary of State John “It is clear to me that they violence unless Israel allows the Kerry announced agreement on are serious about working on reconstruction of the war-bat- steps to reduce tensions at the the effort to create de-escalation tered Gaza Strip. flashpoint compound. and to take steps to instil confi- “We are saying to all sides — if The site, which is holy to Jews dence that the status quo will be the siege on Gaza and the obsta- as well as Muslims, has been upheld.” cles for reconstruction remain, the focus of months of unrest in Kerry also met separately in there will be a new explosion,” annexed Arab east Jerusalem, Amman with Palestinian presi- said Abu Obeida, spokesman of that has spread to the occupied dent Mahmud Abbas, who he the Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades. West Bank and Arab communi- said also committed to help calm A devastating 50-day war ties across Israel, raising fears of emotions. between Israel and Hamas that a new Palestinian uprising. “President Abbas and I... dis- ended on August 26 killed more The Palestinians have been cussed constructive steps, real than 2,140 Palestinians, most infuriated by a far-right Jewish steps — not rhetoric but real of them civilians, and 73 on the campaign for prayer rights at Al steps that people can take -- in Israeli side, mostly soldiers. Aqsa that threatens an ultra- order to de-escalate the situa- Gaza has been under a strin- sensitive, decades-old status quo. tion and create a climate where gent Israeli blockade since 2006, The violence prompted Kerry we can move forward in a positive with construction materials to holds a flurry of meetings with and constructive way,” Kerry said. tightly restricted for fear mili- the two sides in neighbouring “President Abbas strongly tants could make use of them to Jordan on Thursday, after which restated his firm commitment to forge arms or build fortifications. he announced unspecified confi- nonviolence, and he made it clear The United Nations brokered a dence-building measures to ease that he will do everything possible deal allowing the delivery of con- the underlying tensions. to restore calm and to prevent struction materials to Gaza by Men of all ages were allowed the incitement of violence and to ensuring they will not be diverted entry for the main weekly Muslim try to change the climate.” by Hamas militants. prayers at Al Aqsa for the first Netanyahu has said repeatedly Last week, the UN announced time in “months”, an Israeli police that his government has no plans Israeli soldiers shooting tear gas against Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. the temporary reconstruction spokesman said. to change the status quo at the mechanism was to be launched “No age limit on the Temple compound which allows Jews to under the auspices of a newly- Mount, we’re hoping things will visit but not pray. formed Palestinian unity be calm and quiet today,” spokes- But his reassurances have government. man Mickey Rosenfeld said. failed to calm Palestinian anger Despair fuels violence “We hold the enemy fully He was using the Jewish term that has also been fuelled by his responsible for an explosion if the for the Old City holy site that has government’s vigorous expan- JERUSALEM: The stench Israeli teenagers in the West “This is collective punishment,” reconstruction does not begin,” been the scene of repeated dis- sion of Jewish settlements on of tear gas, burnt tyres and Bank. Then a 50-day war in Gaza Abu Riyaal said, noting the dif- Abu Obeida said at a rally in Gaza turbances. He added that “extra occupied Palestinian land. Israeli “skunk” riot control liquid fills between Israel and Hamas killed ficulties the town’s 3,000 youths City, warning that “the fight is not police units were deployed in Public Security Minister Yitzhak the air in an east Jerusalem nearly 2,200 Palestinians, almost now face on their way to high over.” Jerusalem this morning to pre- Aharonovitch said on Wednesday district shaken by months of a quarter of them children, as school. Residents have appealed Hamas official Khalil Al Haya, vent any incidents in and around he would order the installation of clashes between Palestinian east Jerusalem was rocked in to Israel’s supreme court against also speaking at the rally attended the Old City.” metal detectors at the entrances youths and Israeli forces. protest. Local activist Raed Abu the closure, with the state due to by dozens of gunmen and around Rosenfeld linked the decision to the compound along with Along with the foul odours Riyaal said that since July, 150 file its response by Wednesday. 1,500 people, called for renewed to lift age restrictions to Kerry’s facial-recognition technology. there is a sense of despair in youths — including minors — had A surveillance balloon, recently dialogue between his movement talks in Jordan with Prime Sheikh Azzam Al Khatib, head Issawiya, a neighbourhood of been arrested for violent clashes launched by the Jerusalem and rival Palestinian faction Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Islamic Waqf which runs 20,000 people where a lack of with police. municipality, loomed in its fixed Fatah. and King Abdullah II. the compound, rejected the idea. prospects for young Palestinians Fearing a wider outbreak, police spot overhead. Hamas and Fatah earlier this “Firm commitments” were An Israeli human rights group fuels frustration and violence. have combined forces with the A senior policeman was tell- year signed a reconciliation deal made to maintain the status quo on Friday accused the police and “The youths here have no Jerusalem municipality to crack ing local leaders in Arabic that to end seven years of bitter and at the compound, Kerry said at a paramilitary border police of future. The town has no future,” down, fining residents for previ- parents were responsible for their at times bloody rivalry which press conference with Jordanian “serious irregularities” in dis- local council member Mohammed ously ignored misdemeanours, children and they must keep has left the West Bank and Gaza Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. persing Palestinian protests in Khader Abu Al Hummus said. from parking and traffic to busi- them at home to prevent clashes. ruled by separate administrations. Israel and Jordan, which has east Jerusalem. An 11-year-old Issawiya, which lies in a valley ness and construction violations. Residents of the district had But Palestinian leader Mahmud custodial rights at the com- Palestinian boy was wounded in east of the Hebrew University on But far from quelling tensions, the traditionally been farmers, but Abbas after a series of bombings pound, also agreed to take steps the Issawiya neighbourhood on Mount Scopus, has been the scene Israeli measures — along with the Israeli expropriations of lands in Gaza last week targeting prop- to “de-escalate the situation” Thursday when a so-called sponge of near-daily clashes since July, police closure of three of the dis- for nearby settlements and roads erty of his Fatah party accused in Jerusalem and to “restore round fired by police hit him when Jewish extremists burned trict’s four entrances with concrete have reduced their lands from Hamas of trying to destroy unity confidence”. between the eyes during clashes, alive a Palestinian teenager in blocks — are perceived as unjust 3,100 acres (1,250 hectares) to efforts. AFP “We are not going to lay out medics said. AFP revenge for the killing of three punishment for the youth uprising. 500 on which they live. AFP

Jordan takes IS Iraq forces retake strategic town of Baiji battle to Internet

KIRKUK: Iraqi forces retook entering the town on October 31. and mosques the strategic northern town of Multiple security force divisions AMMAN: Jordan is cracking Baiji, near the country’s larg- collapsed in the early days of the down on firebrand preachers est oil refinery, yesterday after IS-led offensive, and Baghdad’s and online extremism to tackle more than two weeks of fight- troops subsequently struggled to jihadists after joining US-led ing with the Islamic State (IS) regain ground. air strikes on the Islamic State group, officials said. But backed by US-led air group. Baiji, which had been out of strikes, supported by Shiite mili- The desert kingdom shares government control for months, tias and Sunni tribesmen, aided borders with conflict-hit Iraq lies on the main highway to Iraq’s by international advisers and with and Syria, and is struggling to IS-controlled second city Mosul, signficant reshuffling of top offic- cope with hundreds of thousands and its recapture further isolates ers, Baghdad’s forces have begun of Syrian refugees, adding to its militants in the city of Tikrit, to to perform better. own problems with homegrown the south. The IS on Thursday had Islamists. It is the largest town to be released a defiant audio record- Its decision in September to recaptured by government forces ing it said was of chief Abu Bakr join the anti-IS coalition has put since IS-led militants overran Al Baghdadi, after air strikes on Jordan in even graver danger, but much of the country’s Sunni Arab jihadist leaders in Iraq sparked authorities insist its borders are heartland in June, and their vic- rumours he had been wounded secure and have launched a sweep tory is one of the most significant or killed. against jihadists that extends to in the conflict so far. In the 17-minute message, the the Internet. “Iraqi forces were able to regain man purported to be Baghdadi “Jordan is waging a war against complete control of the town of vowed that IS, which has over- jihadist ideology and amended the Baiji,” Ahmed Al Krayim, the run swathes of Iraq and Syria, anti-terrorism law... because the head of the Salaheddin provincial will continue to expand despite Internet has become the main council, said. international air strikes, and that tool for mobilising and recruit- An army major general, a its opponents will be drawn into a A member of Islamic State (IS) group securing a street in central Mosul, northern Iraq, yesterday. Iraqi government ing” militants, said analyst Hasan police colonel and an army major ground war. AFP troops have dislodged the militants and are now in full control of the oil refinery town of Biji in northern Iraq. Abu Haniya. all confirmed that the Baiji was Since joining the anti-IS fight, retaken. State television also “130 IS sympathisers have been reported that the town was back arrested, most of them members in government hands. IS commanders liable for mass war crimes: UN of Salafist groups,” said defence “Iraqi forces are on their way lawyer Mussa Abdalat, referring to the Baiji refinery,” north of the GENEVA: Islamic State (IS) egregious violations of binding the UN panel, told a news con- its radical interpretation of to adherents of a strict Sunni town, where security forces have commanders are liable for war international humanitarian law ference that its findings would Islamic law through “morality interpretation of Islam. held out against repeated jihadist crimes on a “massive scale” in and the war crime of murder on add to a secret list of war police”. “Only 50 of them have been attacks, Krayim said. northeast Syria, where they a massive scale,” said the report. crimes suspects from all sides in These ordered lashings and brought to trial before the state Breaking through to the mas- spread terror by beheading, Foreign fighters have swollen Syria’s civil war, in which some amputations for offences such security court... while the rest sive refinery, which once filled 50 stoning and shooting civil- the group’s ranks and dominate 200,000 have been killed since as smoking cigarettes or theft; are still awaiting prosecution,” percent of the country’s demand ians and captured fighters, UN its leadership structure, the March 2011. one female dentist in Deir Al Zor Abdalat said. for refined petroleum products, investigators said yesterday. report said. Since US-led air strikes had been beheaded for treating But for those already convicted would be another significant win Their report, based on over A separate UN report has said began targeting Islamic State patients of both sexes. or facing trials at military tribu- for the government in Baghdad, 300 interviews with witnesses 15,000 foreigners have gone to in Syria in late September, its “IS has beheaded, shot and nals, the charge has often been although it would take time and victims, called on world fight in Syria and Iraq. fighters have begun taking up stoned men, women and children the same: spreading the ideol- before it could be brought back powers to bring the commanders “The commanders of IS have positions in civilian houses and in public spaces in towns and vil- ogy of a terrorist group on the online. before the International Criminal acted wilfully, perpetrating these farms, leading to civilian casual- lages across northeastern Syria,” Internet. The operation to retake Baiji Court for both war crimes and war crimes ... They are individu- ties, the report said. the report said. “Witnesses saw Wary of Salafists, authorities began more than four weeks ago crimes against humanity. ally criminally responsible,” the It found that Islamic State, scenes of still-bleeding bodies have also moved to bring some when security forces and pro-gov- “In carrying out mass killings report added, saying the group’s also known as ISIS, was hanging from crosses, and of of the country’s nearly 6,000 ernment fighters began advanc- of captured fighters and civil- leader, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, depriving 600,000 people in heads placed on spikes along park mosques under tighter control ing towards the town from the ians following military assaults, wielded “absolute power”. the north of deliveries of food railings.” by weeding out preachers who south, slowed by bombs militants IS members have perpetrated Paulo Pinheiro, who chaired and medical aid, and enforcing REUTERS deliver fiery pro-jihadist sermons. had planted on the way and finally AFP NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com International

White House Britain to seize intruder review reveals string passports of blunders WASHINGTON: An internal review of the security lapses that allowed an intruder to from jihadists scale a fence and enter the White House has revealed a string of Secret Service blun- ders, reports said. New Counter-Terrorism Bill soon The New York Times cited a Department of Homeland Security CANBERRA: Prime Minister passports cancelled to prevent review which said “performance, David Cameron yesterday out- them travelling to Iraq and Syria, organisational and technical” fail- lined plans to seize passports as concerns mount that they ures had allowed Iraq war veteran from British jihadists and stop could return home and commit Omar Gonzalez to evade security them returning from fighting violence. and make his way into the build- overseas, while proposing land- At least 71 Australians are cur- ing in September. ing bans on airlines that fail rently fighting in the two nations, The review said 42-year-old to comply with London’s no-fly the government says. At least 15 Gonzalez, who was carrying a lists. have been killed — two of them as knife during the incident, could Some 500 radicalised Britons suicide bombers — and Canberra have been stopped by a Secret are estimated to be fighting in recently passed a law criminalis- Service officer who was supposed Iraq and Syria, both of which are ing travel to terror hotspots with- to be stationed on the North facing a major offensive from the out good reason. Lawn with an attack dog. Islamic State (IS) militant group. The new powers could cause However, at the time Gonzalez “We will shortly be introducing legal wrangles over fears of scaled the fence and bolted across our own new Counter-Terrorism civil liberty contraventions, the lawn, the officer in question Bill in the UK,” Cameron said in but Cameron said they were was sitting in his van making a a speech to Australia’s parliament necessary. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond meets party members at the Scottish National Party’s annual conference personal call on his cellphone. before travelling to the G20 lead- “We listen carefully to what the in Perth, Scotland, yesterday. Because of this lapse, the attack ers’ summit in Brisbane, adding police and security services advise dog was unable to “lock onto” that there was “no opt-out from us,” he said at a press conference. Gonzalez and “may not have seen” dealing with this”. “We think about the civil lib- Scotland may seek new vote if him at all, the review said. The bill will create “new powers erty implications, we think about The intrusion was the most seri- for police at ports to seize pass- the effect on other countries, but ous incident in a string of security ports, to stop suspects travelling at the end of the day I make the lapses involving President Barack and to stop British nationals choices on what I believe is nec- UK delays devolution: Salmond Obama, which ultimately led to returning to the UK unless they essary to keep the British public the resignation of Secret Service do so on our terms”. safe and I think this new power is PERTH, Scotland: Scotland days before the September 18 ref- of full independence, an issue that director Julia Pierson in October. There would also be “new rules important in that regard.” may seek another independ- erendum that threatened to break Cameron said had been settled for Obama and his family had left to prevent airlines that don’t Cameron added that as well as ence vote if Britain’s rulers fail it apart, Britain’s three main a generation or even a lifetime by the White House shortly before comply with our no-fly lists or handling the extremist threat, the to honour their pledge to grant political parties promised to give the referendum. the intrusion took place. security screening measures from root cause must be dealt with. it further autonomy, outgoing more powers to Scotland. “Scotland will become an inde- The review found authorities landing in the UK,” he said. “It’s not exclusion from the Scottish National Party leader “If the Westminster gang pendent nation,” said Salmond, 59. had also failed to properly inves- British media reports said the mainstream. Of course we have Alex Salmond warned yester- reneges on the pledges made in “The dream is alive and well and tigate Gonzalez after he had come legislation would block individuals more to do, but we are both suc- day, less than two months after the campaign, they will discover will succeed.” to the attention of law enforce- from returning from Syria and cessful multicultural democracies Scots spurned independence. that Hell hath no fury like this Since the vote, the SNP’s ment months earlier, The Times Iraq to Britain for at least two where opportunities abound,” he Salmond, in his final speech as nation scorned,” Salmond told the support has surged. A poll by reported. years unless they comply with told parliament. party leader, told members that party conference in Perth, 725km Ipsos-MORI last month said the strict measures. “And it’s not foreign policy. No, Scotland would eventually secure north of London. party, which won just six seats Prince William, These could include being the root cause of the challenge we his dream of independence from Since the vote, in which Scots in London’s House of Commons escorted back to Britain and face is the extremist narrative. So London. He also delivered a warn- voted 55-45 percent to preserve at the last election, had enough Kate to visit US then facing prosecution, bail-style we must confront this extremism ing to British Prime Minister the 307-year-old union with backing now to win 54 of the 59 reporting conditions and deradi- in all its forms. David Cameron: England, London politicians have Scottish seats in 2015. in December calisation courses. “We must ban extremist “Let the message be very clear bickered over what amounts to a That could turn it into Britain’s Border guards and airport preachers from our countries. We from this hall and from this coun- full-scale overhaul of the way the third party, able to decide which LONDON: Britain’s Prince police would also be given new must root out extremism from try ... Prime Minister — delay, United Kingdom is ruled. of the UK-wide parties could form William and his wife Kate, who powers to seize passports from our schools, universities and pris- prevaricate, block or obstruct the Party leaders insist they will a government to rule the country is pregnant with their second those they suspect of planning to ons. “As we do so we must work implementation of what Scotland grant the promised powers to it tried to leave. child, will make a quick visit to travel abroad for terrorism, the with the overwhelming majority was promised, and Scotland will Scots and the British government “In 2015, the Westminster elec- the United States next month reports said. of Muslims who abhor the twisted take matters into our own, demo- says they will be implemented after tion offers a real possibility of which will include a visit to the Australia is facing a similar narrative that has seduced some cratic, hands.” the national election next May. putting Scotland in the driving September 11 memorial in New scenario to Britain with at least of our people.” In a last-ditch attempt to shore But Salmond made clear that seat,” Salmond said. York City, Kensington Palace 73 of its nationals having their AFP up support for the United Kingdom he had not given up on his dream REUTERS said yesterday. Their son Prince George, who was born last July, will not be going with them on the December 7-9 trip, which will take the cou- ple to New York for the first time. The son of heir to the throne Australia, Britain tell Putin to stop being a bully Prince Charles and his first wife Diana, William will also go to CANBERRA: Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Abbott said the warned Russia it faced further place of an uneasy ceasefire. Ukraine is unacceptable,” Cameron Washington DC to attend an faces an icy reception at the appearance of the four Russian sanctions if it did not com- The West’s relations with told reporters in Canberra before anti-corruption conference on G20 summit with Britain’s vessels, which include a heav- mit to resolving the conflict in Moscow have grown increas- heading to Brisbane. the smuggling of wildlife parts David Cameron telling the ily armed cruiser and destroyer, Ukraine, calling Moscow’s actions ingly tense since the downing of “If Russia takes a positive and the illegal ivory trade. Russian leader to stop bullying were “part of a regrettable pat- “unacceptable”. a Malaysia Airlines jet over ter- approach towards Ukraine’s free- Kate will stay in New York smaller states and Australia’s tern” of growing Russian military “It is a large state bullying a ritory controlled by pro-Russian dom and responsibility, we could where she will be accompanied by Tony Abbott accusing him of bullishness. smaller state in Europe. We’ve separatists in eastern Ukraine in see those sanctions removed. If the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio, trying to relive the “lost glories Russia in turn yesterday warned seen the consequences of that July, killing 298 passengers and Russia continues to make matters Chirlane McCray, on a visit to a of tsarism”. France of “serious” consequences in the past and we should learn crew including 38 Australian citi- worse, we could see those sanctions local child development centre. The Russian president was due unless Paris this month delivers a the lessons of history and make zens and residents. increase. It’s as simple as that.” In New York, the couple, known in Brisbane later Friday for the warship whose handover has been sure we don’t let it happen again,” Kiev and the West claim the The European Union, the officially since their 2011 wedding as weekend summit of world powers delayed by the Ukraine crisis — Cameron said. plane was blown out of the sky United States and Australia are the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at a time of heightened tension setting the stage for confrontation Russia on Thursday dismissed with a missile supplied by Russia, among those that have imposed will also attend a basketball game to with host Australia, which has sent with French President Francois the West’s claims that it has been an allegation Moscow denies. sanctions on Russia for what they promote cooperation between the three ships to its northern coast Hollande in Brisbane. sending fresh military hardware Abbott told Putin to “come clean see as Moscow’s desire to redraw NBA and organisations in Britain after a flotilla of Russian navy ves- Britain’s prime minister, speak- into eastern Ukraine, which could and atone” for the shooting down modern Europe’s borders. of which they are patrons. sels appeared there this week. ing to the Australian parliament, fuel a return to all-out conflict in of Flight MH17. “Russian action in AFP AGENCIES

Search stepped up for tiger in Paris

MONTEVRAIN, France: Montevrain is a stone’s throw to stay indoors and use cars to Scores of French police armed from the popular Disneyland pick their children up from school. with tranquiliser guns and Paris but owners insist that tigers Experts were sure the animal assisted by a helicopter resumed are not among the theme park’s on the loose was a tiger. “There is the search for a tiger on the attractions. no doubt, it’s a tiger,” said Robert loose near Paris yesterday, as Authorities have also made Picaud, the head of a local group authorities ordered residents to enquiries at a big-cat wildlife park responsible for regulating pests, stay home. 30 kilometres away. and who took part in the search. A dozen or so soldiers from a Suspicion initially fell on a cir- “The footprints are real and nearby army base prepared to join cus that had set up its big top they were not made by a man. the hunt for the fearsome beast in the supermarket car park a These prints and photos leave no which has eluded all attempts few days ago, but town mayor room for doubt.” at capture since being spotted Christian Robache said it “did Police were also using thermal prowling around a supermarket not have a tiger”. cameras in a bid to find the big car park on Thursday morning. A local woman sounded the cat, estimated to weigh around A chopper equipped with ther- alarm early on Thursday morn- 70kg, according to Robache. mal imaging equipment circled ing after spotting the animal in A dog trained in tracking bears over the search zone, a wooded the supermarket car park. and large game was also brought area near the small town of Several more people later came in to help with the search effort. Montevrain, some 40km east of forward saying they had seen the As darkness fell, officials sus- Paris. tiger on the prowl. pended the search until daybreak. And police guarded the More than 100 police offic- The helicopter with thermal entrance to schools as children ers and firefighters armed with imaging continued through the arrived on Friday morning. tranquilising guns spent the day night but “the search proved Meanwhile, authorities were combing the area in the Seine-et- fruitless,” a police source said. still scratching their heads as to Marne district near the French Authorities have said they hope M embers of the police animal brigade and firefighters search for an alleged escaped tiger in Montevrain, France, where the tiger could have come capital, without success. to catch the tiger alive. yesterday. from. Authorities ordered residents AFP NOVEMBER 15, 2014 11 Asia / Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY Obama backs Suu Kyi on changing statute US president calls for inclusive constitution amendment

YANGON: US President a constitutional clause ruling out “The majority of our people Barack Obama urged Myanmar anyone with foreign spouse or chil- understand that this constitution yesterday to hold “free, fair and dren from the presidency. cannot stand as it is,” if democracy inclusive” elections as he threw Her late husband and two is to be achieved, the democracy his weight behind a bid by oppo- sons are British and the democ- figurehead added. sition leader Aung San Suu Kyi racy champion is seeking an The pair spoke in the garden to change a constitution that amendment. of Suu Kyi’s villa in a reprise of bars her from the presidency. Using strong language, Obama their landmark meeting in 2012, Obama held talks with fellow took up the issue, telling report- which saw the US leader throw his Nobel laureate Suu Kyi at her lake- ers that “the amendment process political might behind Myanmar’s side villa in Myanmar’s commer- needs to reflect inclusion rather transition from junta rule. cial capital Yangon, after arriving than exclusion.” After talks with his counter- from the capital Naypyidaw, where “I don’t understand the provi- part Thein Sein late on Thursday, he discussed the nation’s troubled sion that would bar somebody from Obama expressed cautious opti- reform process with President running for president because of mism for the once-cloistered Thein Sein. who his (someone’s) children are.” nation that balanced out earlier Youths try to reach and shake hands with US President Barack Obama after his speech at a Young Southeast Speaking at a joint press con- Suu Kyi, whose National warnings on the risks of “backslid- Asian Leaders Initiative event at Yangon University yesterday. ference he warned Myanmar’s League for Democracy (NLD) ing” on the transition. reforms since shedding outright party is expected to sweep polls “We recognise change is hard treatment of Myanmar’s minor- Their talks at Suu Kyi’s lake- laughter as a relaxed Obama took military rule in 2011 were by “no in late 2015, branded the conten- and you do not always move in a ity groups — especially the Muslim side family home came almost off his jacket and bantered with means complete or irreversible” tious clause as “unfair, unjust and straight line but I’m optimistic,” Rohingya. four years to the day after she the mainly young audience. and called for “free, fair and inclu- undemocratic” adding “it is not Obama said. Obama was whisked from was released from years of house Several among the crowd briefly sive” elections in the nation, where right to discriminate against one During his two-night trip to Yangon airport to tour the British arrest. held up banners reading “reform Suu Kyi and her party are set to particular citizen”. Myanmar the US leader has also colonial-era secretariat building He later moved to a university is fake”, prompting a riposte from contest crucial polls next year. The issue is being debated in raised alarm over the direction in the city’s downtown where Suu compound for a town hall-style the US leader who said “Oh we Suu Kyi, who has publicly parliament, where 25 percent of of reforms, however, citing the Kyi’s father, independence hero question-and-answer session have some signs... that’s why we stated her desire to be president, the seats are ring-fenced for the cramping of freedom of expres- General Aung San, was gunned where the serious political discus- are here, to talk”. is barred from the top office by military. sion, ongoing conflicts and the down by political rivals in 1947. sion was punctuated by peals of AFP Taiwan leader calls for better China ties N Korea’s Kim sending TAIPEI: Taiwanese president protesters in Hong Kong. would continue talks under a the island being a member, due Ma Ying-jeou has said relations “We believe that (cross- broad cross-strait economic to arm-twisting by Beijing. with China should quickly get strait relations) should rapidly framework and on talks to allow Taiwan’s top delegate to previous special envoy to Russia back on track after a rocky get back on track,” Ma said, mainland air travellers to trans- Apec meetings have been either six months, adding support to according to a transcript of an fer in Taiwan. business leaders or retirees. SEOUL: North Korean leader “soon”, without elaborating further. Beijing’s recent call to set aside interview with Japanese media Ma’s remarks follow the Asia- Ma riled China last month Kim Jong Un is to send a personal A statement on the Russian differences. released yesterday. Pacific Economic Cooperation when he urged Beijing to move envoy to Russia, state media said Ministry of Foreign Affairs website Chinese President Xi Ma characterised the China- (Apec) meeting in Beijing, where toward a more democratic style yesterday, the latest in a series of said Choe would visit Moscow on Jinping last Sunday called on Taiwan relationship in the past the Chinese president held of development and reiterated diplomatic moves by the isolated Monday, followed by a visit to the Taiwan to set aside differ- six months as being “a bit tumul- meetings with senior Taiwanese his support for demonstrators in country as it fends off accusations far eastern cities of Khabarovsk and ences after strained ties that tuous”, said the transcript on the officials. Ma and his predeces- Chinese-ruled Hong Kong who of crimes against humanity. Vladivostok before ending his trip on saw Beijing rebuke the island presidential office website. sors have never been able to were calling for full democracy. North Korean diplomats have been November 24. for supporting pro-democracy But he said the two sides attend an Apec summit, despite REUTERS on a vigorous campaign in recent A UN inquiry concluded in a months to counter a UN resolu- February 17 report that North tion urging the country’s referral to Korean security chiefs and possibly the International Criminal Court, a even Kim himself should face inter- Earthquake drill move which it has dismissed as part national justice for ordering system- of a US-led plot to destroy its politi- atic torture, starvation and killings. 14 killed as cal system. Russia shares a short, remote land The short one-paragraph dispatch border with North Korea and has in Philippine said Choe Ryong Hae, a high-rank- recent years completed the refurbish- ing member of the ruling Workers’ ment of a railway line and seaport in troops clash Party widely seen as a close con- the north east of North Korea. with militants fidant of Kim, would visit Russia REUTERS

MANILA: Philippine troops clashed yesterday with Islamist militants on a remote southern island and 14 people were killed in the first major encounter since the army launched an offensive almost a month ago, mili- tary officials said. Militants from the Abu Sayyaf group had been avoiding contact with secu- rity forces on the island of Jolo since the release of the two German captives last month after ransom was reportedly paid. Army rangers killed nine rebels in a four-hour gun Filipino policemen cover their heads during a nationwide earthquake drill, in Manila yesterday. The Philippine battle after the soldiers government holds the drill to test local communities’ disaster risk reduction and management plans. raided a camp where 300 of the Al Qaeda-linked militant were based, said army spokesman Captain Rowena Muyuela. Pope to visit China identifies ‘dozens’ He said five soldiers were killed and 26 wounded. typhoon-hit city “As of now, the fighting of Uighurs in Thailand is over, it’s already dark VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis but we are pursuing them,” will visit the Philippines region BEIJING: Chinese officials and discovered “dozens” of them Colonel Allan Arrojado, devastated by Typhoon Haiyan last in Thailand have identified were Uighur. commander of an army year, with four million people still “dozens” of Uighurs from the But it did not know the brigade on the island, told homeless, when he makes his first Chinese region of Xinjiang who nationality of women and chil- reporters. trip to Asia in January, the Vatican were rescued by Thai police dren who are with the group, the Soldiers have been said yesterday. from a human- smuggling newspaper said. hunting the militants on During the January 12-19 trip he camp and those confirmed “Once we confirm that they the island since the two will spend two days in Sri Lanka, from China will be sent home, are Chinese, they would be sent German captives were where Catholics are a tiny minority in a Chinese newspaper said back to China,” a Chinese dip- released on October 17. But the mostly Buddhist country, before yesterday. lomat surnamed Qin told the until yesterday, they had moving on to the Philippines, Asia’s Thai police had previously newspaper. found only several aban- largest Roman Catholic country. said that the roughly 200 people In 2009, 20 Uighurs were doned camps, he said. Francis will spend five days in the rescued in March were believed deported from Cambodia to The Abu Sayyaf are Philippines, all but one in the capital, to be Uighurs, a Muslim people China despite the objections of known as one of the most Manila, according to a Vatican pro- from the western Chinese region the United Nations and human brutal Muslim rebel fac- gramme of the trip. who speak a Turkic language, rights groups, who said they tions in the south of the He will devote one day to Tacloban, many of whom chafe at govern- faced lengthy jail terms upon Philippines. where 6,300 people died last year ment restrictions on their cul- their return. The government signed a when Typhoon Haiyan smashed into ture and religion. Chinese Foreign Ministry peace deal with the largest the country. He will celebrate a Mass, The Global Times, a tab- spokesman Hong Lei, however, Muslim rebel group, Moro meet survivors and inaugurate a new loid published by the Chinese told a daily news briefing in Islamic Liberation Front, in Church-run centre for the poor. Communist Party’s People’s Daily, Beijing that he could not con- March, promising to grant Haiyan destroyed 90 percent of the said China’s consulate in the firm that any of the people in autonomy in the south and city of Tacloban. southern Thai city of Songkhla southern Thailand were Uighur. end a 45-year conflict. REUTERS had identified some of the men REUTERS REUTERS 12 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Ghani kicks off two-day visit to Islamabad Security inextricably linked: Army tells Afghan president

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s mil- programme - everything is on the is awaiting any requests from the itary told new Afghan President table,” she said. Afghan government that might Ashraf Ghani that the security One of Pakistan’s chief con- help kick-start the moribund of the two countries was “inex- cerns is the growing influence of Afghan peace process. tricably linked” yesterday as its arch rival India in Afghanistan Both nations accuse each other Ghani kicked off a two-day trip as Nato troops pull out this year. of allowing militants to shelter aimed at rebuilding damaged India has trained hundreds of in the border regions and launch ties between the two countries. Afghan security officers under a bloody attacks that threaten Relations have been harmed bilateral agreement. regional stability. by regular accusations from both Earlier this month, the Former Afghan president countries that the other is har- Pakistani military offered a bri- Hamid Karzai routinely accused bouring anti-government insur- gade-level training package to Pakistan of continuing to fuel the gents who cross the porous border the Afghan military. Such offers Taliban insurgency to destabilise and mount deadly attacks. have been made before, but the his country as a hedge against The trip is Ghani’s first state Afghans declined amid suspicions Indian influence there. visit to Pakistan. that Pakistan was sheltering Islamabad denies the charge but A tweet from Pakistan’s Major Afghan insurgents. its support, and that of its power- General Asim Bajwa, head of the Ghani met yesterday with ful military, are seen as important military’s public relations wing, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, and for peace in Afghanistan as Nato said Ghani’s trip took place amid the two set a goal of doubling pulls out its combat troops. a positive atmosphere and that two-way trade to $5bn within two Pakistan was one of only three Afghan President Ashraf Ghani receiving a bouquet from a Pakistani youth on his arrival at the Nur Khan air base border cooperation was “in focus”. years, an Afghan statement said. countries to recognise the hard- in Rawalpindi yesterday. “Tribute to Pak sacrifices, Ghani, who took power in line Taliban regime that ruled Bodes well for region,” he said. September following a protracted Kabul from 1996 until 2001, when forces” to destabilise Afghanistan. base in Rawalpindi, Islamabad’s economist has made trips to Saudi “Security, stability a shared goal. election dispute, has sought a role it was deposed by a US-led inter- Pakistan has long been con- twin city, yesterday and was Arabia and China, two key allies Our security inextricably linked.” for China in mediating peace national military coalition. cerned about the influence of greeted by Sartaj Aziz, Sharif’s of Pakistan. Pakistan Foreign Office spokes- negotiations with the Afghan Despite repeated visits to arch-rival India in Afghanistan, special advisor on foreign A Western diplomat said woman Tasnim Aslam said dis- Taliban. Pakistan by the former president, fearing “encirclement” on its affairs. Ghani had used the visits to ask cussions between Ghani and China enjoys good relations there was little palpable improve- western border. Ghani, who emerged as presi- Riyadh and Beijing to encourage Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz with both Afghanistan and ment in relations during Karzai’s But diplomats say that Ghani’s dent after a long dispute over Pakistan to support peace efforts Sharif, who took power last year, Pakistan, which also faces a 13-years in power. presidency, which started in fraud-mired elections, has said in Afghanistan. would be wide-ranging. Taliban insurgency, and is con- The long-running tensions September, offers a major oppor- that seeking peace is his first pri- According to the diplomat, “Peace and stability, everything cerned about Islamist militancy between the two countries were tunity at a time when US-led ority after decades of conflict in two approaches to dealing with to do with bilateral coopera- in its Xinjiang region. underlined by a US Pentagon Nato troops are withdrawing Afghanistan. the Taliban are currently being tion, political engagement, eco- Aslam says Pakistan welcomes report last week that said from the fight against the Taliban. Since taking power the considered by Afghanistan. nomic cooperation, the training an expanded role for China and Pakistan continued to use “proxy Ghani arrived at Chaklala air 65-year-old former World Bank AGENCIES

US equipment Electronic voting more prone to rigging: ECP official to check ISLAMABAD: An official and other forms of wireless con- The panel was told that though US, Canada, Australia, France, confirmed by Nadra representa- of the Election Commission nectivity. In fact, he told members India had conducted three general Austria, India and Estonia. tive Qaboos Aziz. smuggling of of Pakistan (ECP) surprised that the machines could even be elections on EVMs; in 2004, 2009 The committee was told that In addition, it was revealed that members of the parliamentary tampered with while in storage. and 2014, criticism of the voting advantages of using EVMs included there was a 10-15 percent margin committee on electoral reform Aziz, who delivered a technical machines had been severe and speed and accuracy, and elimina- for error in the biometric data IED material yesterday, when he told them briefing on the merits and demer- the credibility of the process was tion of ‘rejected votes’ -something as the thumb ridges of individu- that electronic voting machines its associated with EVMs and bio- questionable. that sparked controversy in dozens als involved in manual labour, or ISLAMABAD: The United (EVMs) were just as prone to metric technology, said that it was The ECP official said that dur- of constituencies in previous gen- those suffering from skin-related States yesterday provided fraud — if not more so — as tra- a myth that EVMs could make ing an interaction with the Indian eral elections, where the number diseases, would not have match- equipment worth millions of ditional polling methods. the electoral exercise 100 per cent election authorities, it emerged of such votes was more than the ing biometrics. Old age also makes dollars to the FBR for tracking ECP’s Director General fair and transparent. that there was no mechanism difference of votes polled to the biometric verification through fin- down terrorists involved in the Information Technology Khizar He cited the examples of six available to ascertain if an EVM winner and the runner-up. gerprints more difficult, he said. smuggling of material used in Aziz candidly told the parliamen- European countries, which had had been tampered with. They On biometrics, the panel was The committee directed Nadra to improvised explosive devices for tary body that the software used switched back to conventional said it was not possible to check informed that the National obtain the missing biometrics of the conducting attacks. by EVMs could be manipulated to voting methods after abandoning 1.4 million machines to ascertain Database Registration Authority over one million people of KP and The Homeland Security affect the results. EVMs because of a lack of trans- which ones were manipulated, (Nadra) did not have com- also sought details of the estimated Investigation (HSI) of USA and He said that EVMs installed at parency and trust. The Supreme Aziz told the committee yesterday. plete biometric data for 10 to costs of introducing EVMs and bio- Pakistan’s Customs authorities polling stations were vulnerable Court of Germany had also declared EVMs were currently in use 12 per cent of all voters from metrics verification processes. had agreed in 2008 to establish to hacking via Bluetooth signals EVMs unconstitutional, he said. in eleven countries, including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This was IANS close liaison and cooperation between the two countries. Under this initiative, the US has now handed over crucial Kabul birds bazar equipment for effective enforce- ment at all entry and exit points Maryam Nawaz told to of the country through Customs authorities. US Ambassador Richard Olson handed over the keys of 80 VIGO consider three options vehicles, 10,000 chemical testing kits, five first defenders, night ISLAMABAD: Pakistan close to Maryam have suggested vision goggles worth millions of Muslim League Nawaz (PML- her to consider three options. dollars to chairman FBR Tariq N) leaders who politically First,the federal government Bajwa at a ceremony held at the groomed Maryam Nawaz have should make proper mechanism FBR’s headquarters yesterday. proposed her three options, for appointment of PMYP and The ambassador said he including fresh application for to advertise its position. Maryam was impressed by Pakistan’s the chairpersonship of the Prime should apply for the PMYP posi- commitment. Minister Youth Programme tion through formal procedure this Pakistan, he said, is becoming a (PMYP) through advertisement. time. The complainant in the LHC regional leader among the World However, Prime Minister also argued that the appointment Customs Organisation (WCO) Nawaz Sharif will take a final was made without inviting applica- for taking steps towards the decision in this regard after his tions and being properly advertised. desired direction. The coopera- return, it was learnt. The sources said the other tion between US and Pakistan will Maryam on Wednesday suggestion given by senior lead- continue in this regard, he added. resigned from PMYP chairper- ers was for Maryam to replace The chairman FBR said that sonship after Lahore High Court PML-N’s Women Wing head Pakistan’s economy suffered heavy Judge Syed Mansor Ali Shah held Senator Nuzhat Sadiq. The third losses to the tune of $100-150bn out a choice to Maryam to either option is that she should replace in the war against terror. Now a resign as chairperson or he will her husband MNA Captain (retd) counter strategy is required by issue ruling on Friday. Muhammad Safdar as president the FBR not only for ensuring tax Well-placed sources in the of PML-N’s Youth Wing. collection but also for ensuring PML-N said that party leaders IANS security of the bordering areas A man sells birds at a Ka Fraushi birds bazar in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. of the country, he added. The US has provided 80 VIGOs each costing Rs4.5m, first five defenders having price of $50,000 each and US will be providing 64 more. It has also provided a hand- Most Pakistanis blame sheer bad luck for poverty held laboratory to identify differ- ent chemicals at all other entry ISLAMABAD: Not many think it is because they did not go poor because of bad luck, 40 per- asked “What are the reasons for of the respondents named other and exit points. blame bad governance or poor abroad for employment. cent believed it was because they people being poor?” Responding factors as the reason for poor Under an initiative of Global policies of the previous govern- There are 20 percent who think were born in a poor family. to this question, 17 percent people being poor. Shield, the end user verifica- ments for poverty in Pakistan. that it is because they do not earn This data was released by respondents said it was because Apart from decline in respond- tion is under way to track down For majority in Pakistan, they through illegitimate means, while Gallup Pakistan History Project they were not hard workers, 50 ents who named illiteracy as the thousands of clients of fertiliz- are poor because of sheer bad 11 percent attributed their pov- which aims to release histori- percent said it was because of reason for poverty, results for all ers within Pakistan. Fertilizer is luck. erty to illiteracy whereas only cal empirical polling data to bad luck, 40 percent said it was other factors were almost the being used to make IEDs. According to a Gallup Pakistan one percent of the respondents wider audiences. The objective because they were born in poor same in both surveys with “Just There are two fertilizer plants National Survey, 43 per cent to Gallup Pakistan survey named is to sustain and encourage families, 13 percent said it was bad luck” and “They were born in in the country and their clients believe it is because of bad luck other factors as the reason for empirical decision making in because they did not go abroad a poor family” once again being at wholesale and retail stage will that they remained poor. Around poor people being poor. Pakistan. for employment, 18 percent said mentioned by a high percentage be tracked down by Pakistan’s tax 15 percent think it is because they The same survey was con- Thirty-three years ago, a it was because they did not earn of respondents. Gallup Pakistan authorities and for mobility purposes are not hard workers, 44 percent ducted in 1981 (33 years ago). At nationally representative sam- through illegitimate means, while has been polling in Pakistan since the handed over vehicles would be say that it is because they were that time 50 percent Pakistanis ple of men and women, from 31 percent attributed their pov- 1979 (over 35 years). used throughout the country. born in poor families, 9 percent believed that poor people were across the four provinces was erty to illiteracy. Five per cent IANS IANS NOVEMBER 15, 2014 13 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY

Parts of Kashmir Modi meets Cameron, Abe, EU chief missing from map, official Take advantage of new economic environment in India, prime minister tells EU delegation protests BRISBANE: Ahead of the yoga’s benefits and to commem- BRISBANE: An improper G20 Summit, Indian Prime orate an International Day of Indian map with parts of Minister Narendra Modi held Yoga, in response to Modi’s call Jammu and Kashmir missing, his first bilateral meetings with for holding such an event. put up during Prime Minister European Union President His meeting with Cameron was Narendra Modi’s visit to the Herman Van Rompuy and another highlight of his engage- Queensland University of British Prime Minister David ments at Brisbane. Cameron, who Technology (QUT) here yester- Cameron where economic coop- is meeting the Indian prime min- day, was drawn attention to by eration was top on the agenda. ister for the first time, told him Indian officials accompanying He ended the day with a din- that relations with India were at the prime minister. ner hosted by Japanese Prime the “top of the priorities of UK’s Foreign Secretary Sujatha Minister Shinzo Abe. foreign policy” and also “Your’s is Singh, accompanying the prime Modi, who flew down here ear- a very inspiring vision, UK wants minister, “raised the issue and lier yeterday for the G20 Summit to partner in any way we can”, received an unqualified apology” that begins today, first visited according to tweets posted by the from the university authorities, the Queensland University of external affairs ministry. said a ministry of external affairs Technology (QUT) here and lis- Though he was meeting the tweet. The issue figured promi- tened keenly to the latest devel- British prime minister for the first nently on Twitter. opments in agricultural research, time, the ground for an upscale in The Samajwadi Party, with the and also mingled with students bilateral relations was laid dur- photograph of Chief Minister and researchers. ing the visit by British Foreign Akhilesh Yadav on its Twitter Modi held talks with an EU Secretary Phillip Hammond and handle, asked external affairs delegation headed by Rompuy later Defence Secretary Michael ministry spokesperson Syed who conveyed that the bloc was Fallon to India in the past few Akbaruddin: “Kashmir miss- keen to “re-engage” with India in months. Britain is pushing for ing in the Map shown during all areas, especially trade. Modi the European Consortium to bag @PMOIndia visit to @QUT @ told him that the “EU should take the multi-billion dollar Indian MEAIndia any objection raised?,” advantage of the new economic deal for 126 fighter jets with its asked @SamajwadiSocial. environment in India”. Eurofighter Typhoon in case The spokesperson tweeted back: An India-EU free trade agree- the Modi government’s nego- “Yes, immediately lodged strong ment is yet to be concluded. tiations for the French Rafale protest & received an unqualified Negotiations are still stuck on jets fall through. The European Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks at genetically modified plants during a visit to Queensland University of regret from the organisers.” To key points, including the EU’s Consortium comprises Britain, Technology campus in Brisbane yesterday. more tweets from others as well demand for significant duty cuts in Germany, Italy and Spain. as @SamajwadiSocial, the spokes- automobiles and tax cuts on wines Modi will have bilateral meet- person said “Yes, immediately and spirits and dairy products and ings with German Chancellor lodged strong protest & received also a demand for a strong intel- Angela Merkel and also Spain’s PM visits Australian varsity an unqualified regret from the lectual property rights regime. The Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy organisers.” value of EU-India trade grew from on the sidelines of the G20. He BRISBANE: Research is the which also includes a large relationship between develop- Modi visited the QUT in his ¤28.6bn in 2003 to ¤72.7bn in 2013. will also meet French President mother of development, visiting number of those of Indian origin. ment journey of humankind and first engagement after landing Modi’s proposal of having an Francois Hollande, who is likely Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi was asked to write a research. Increasing dominance of here yesterday. In Australia, Modi international Yoga Day, which he to push for negotiations to clinch wrote on an agricultural robot message on the agricultural science and technology in the field is to attend the G20 Summit in had proposed at the UN, got fur- the multi-billion dollar deal for developed by the Queensland robot, and he wrote in Gujarati of agriculture will surely prove to Brisbane Nov 15-16 and also hold ther impetus with Rompuy tell- the Rafale, which was selected University of Technology (QUT) “research is the mother of devel- be beneficial to farmers and to the talks with Australian Prime ing him that the 28-member bloc two years ago for the 126 Medium during a visit to the university opment”, according to a tweet by field of agriculture as a whole. It Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra supported his initiative for a Yoga Multi-Role Combat Aircraft here yesterday where he also the ministry of external affairs is an important endeavour for the during his five-day stay here. Day. “EU supports your initiative (MMRCA) project. undertook a tour of an QUT- spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin. welfare of mankind. Best wishes for a Yoga Day @UN A- EU Prez The dinner diplomacy with India project to develop iron-rich Curious students gathered for your effort.” Herman Von Rompuy to PM @ Abe was the high point of the bananas. In his first engagement around the robot to read what The Agro Robot is a lightweight Court extends narendramodi,” tweeted the min- day as the Japanese prime min- at Brisbane, where he landed the Indian prime minister had machine that performs the func- istry of external affairs. ister escorted Modi to the repast earlier in the day on the sec- written. A translation of the tions of a large tractor, including Ma’dani’s bail The support comes as about 130 where strengthening of India- ond leg of his three-nation visit, entire message was posted by the weeding. Modi was given a tour countries have joined as co-spon- Japan economic ties and exchange Modi visited the QUT. university. of The Cube, one of the world’s sors to an India-led UN General of views was high on the agenda. There was palpable excitement It read: “Research is key to largest interactive learning and by four months Assembly resolution recognising IANS among the student community, development. There is ongoing display spaces. IANS NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday extended the bail term of People’s Democratic Remembering Nehru Party (PDP) leader and an accused in the 2008 Bangalore Andhra seeks Singapore’s serial blasts case, Abdul Nasser Ma’dani by four months on health grounds. help to build state capital While hearing the case, the apex court also directed the HYDERABAD: Andhra model of clearances”. Karnataka government to com- Pradesh Chief Minister N If a request was not responded plete the trial in the case within Chandrababu Naidu yesterday to within 30 days, that means the four months. The court, however, invited investors from Singapore approval was deemed to have been rejected Ma’dani’s plea to shift to invest in the state and partici- given. He told investors that the him to a hospital in Kerala for pate in building the state capital. government will appoint escort his eye treatment On the third and final day of officers for major investment Earlier in the day, the his visit to Singapore, he met projects. It will be the officer’s Karnataka government, in an heads of top business corporations responsibility to get clearances. affidavit, urged the Supreme and gave a PowerPoint presenta- Stating that he would create a Court to cancel his conditional tion on investment opportunities massive land bank for industries, bail. The affidavit has also claimed in the state. the chief minister said this will Ma’dani has tried to influence the According to a statement pave way for creating industrial witnesses. Ma’dani was on July from the chief minister’s office, townships. One of the industrial- 14 released from jail after he was he assured investors that there ists has evinced interest to invest granted an interim bail by the wouldn’t be any electricity prob- in coffee, dairy and cashew plan- apex court on health grounds. He lem. “My target is to provide tation. Naidu later visited the has been suffering from various 20-30 Mbps high-speed broad- Jurong Island that has over 100 diseases, including diabetes and band connection to every house- companies. He then attended vision-threatening ailment. hold in the next two years and a meeting with the Singapore Ma’dani was arrested Aug upgrade speed further.” He said Tourism Board. 17, 2010 in connection with the the state had plans to create Naidu also delivered key-note Bangalore bomb blast. smaller airports to connect them address at the 9th international He had earlier undergone nine- to major airports. conference on “The State of South year incarceration in the 1998 A schoolboy cries as he and schoolmates, dressed up as first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, pose during a Naidu also told industrial- Asia” at the Institute of South Coimbatore bomb blast case in photo event for Children’s Day celebrations at a school in Amritsar yesterday. ists that his government was Asian Studies in Singapore. which he was finally acquitted. working on a “deemed approval IANS AGENCIES Police search drug factory linked to sterilisation deaths

RAIPUR/BILASPUR: When yesterday, some clutching medi- behind a wall at the single storey had an annual turnover of around doctor, saying the strips showed recommended chemical analy- police visited Sumit and Rajesh cine strips from Mahawar and blue and white building. In the $130,000. Nearly 28,000 tablets the medicine was made in Raipur. sis. Another medicine on the Mahawar’s pharmaceutical complaining of vomiting, dizziness cinders were medicine packets, of Ciprocin manufactured by At least two patients have died state government’s banned list plant two days ago, the father and swelling, a doctor at the dis- including for Mahawar Pharma’s Mahawar were confiscated in due to faulty drugs, officials said, was Ciprocin made by Regain and son locked the doors from trict’s main public hospital said. Ciprocin 500 mg pills. Bilaspur yesterday, Siddhartha bringing the confirmed number of Laboratories, halfway across the the inside. A few hours later, At least one of the strips of The state government has now Pardeshi, the district’s chief deaths to 15 and drawing investi- country in the state of Haryana. after the police left, witnesses antibiotics was from the same banned the sale and distribution administrator, said. gators’ attention away from the In Gujarat, another state, medi- reported smoke rising from batch as those handed out at of all medicines from Mahawar, it But adding to the mystery, a appalling sanitary conditions at cine quality control authorities medicines burning behind the the mass sterilisation held on said yesterday. preliminary post mortem report the camp where Dr R K Gupta have put Regain at the top of an building. Saturday in the same district in Speaking in police cus- for Shiv Kumari, one of the conducted one tubectomy every 2 offenders list for failing to meet Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, run Chhattisgarh state, one of India’s tody, Ramesh Mahawar, man- camp’s victims, said she had died minutes in a two-hour sterilisation standards. from an upscale residential street poorest. aging director of Mahawar of septicemia, suggesting surgical drive. Regain Laboratories direc- in the eastern city of Raipur, is Police say they entered the Pharmaceuticals, said he and his infection. Since then, women operated tor Mohit Bhatia did not now at the centre of a probe into Mahawar factory on Wednesday son were innocent. He said the The new patients arriving in on by other doctors at different answer repeated calls to his cell more than a dozen deaths in east- with the help of a security guard, deaths and illness had only hap- Bilaspur hospitals over the last camps have also been hospitalised phone yesterday. The deaths in ern India after 83 women were but at first found nothing wrong. pened in Bilaspur, while his medi- two days did not take part in the after consuming the same drugs. Chhattisgarh have drawn unflat- sterilised at a government-run Drug inspectors returned the cines have been sold elsewhere. sterilisation camps and had con- More than 100 remain in hospital, tering attention to India’s mass family planning camp. next day and shut it down, but not “The situation has been twisted sumed the drugs separately, the several in a critical condition. sterilisation programme, as well More possible victims arrived before two men were seen lighting in a wrong manner. We are just doctor and another official said. One of five doctors who have as weak quality control standards at hospitals from villages in a pre-dawn fire out back. being harassed,” said Mahawar, “It looks like most of the steri- conducted autopsies since for drugs procured by state gov- Bilaspur district, about 100km A reporter found a pile of ash who has been making drugs for lisation patients might be affected Saturday’s deaths said the post- ernments. from Raipur, on Thursday and surrounded by spilt white powder 35 years and said his company due to this medicine,” said the mortems were inconclusive and REUTERS 14 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Venezuela still Oil prices to keep sliding: IEA mulls fuel price hike, takes Weak demand and increased shale production to drag down prices well into 2015 hit on oil fall PARIS: Oil prices are expected part caused the global glut. to keep sliding well into 2015, As pressure mounts on Opecto CARACAS: Venezuela is still held down by weak demand and slash output, Ibrahim Ali Al considering raising domestic increased shale production, the Nuaimi, oil minister of the car- fuel prices that are the world’s International Energy Agency tel’s kingpin Saudi Arabia, said cheapest, and is taking a big hit said yesterday. that “talk of a price war is a sign in revenues due to the global fall Global prices have collapsed of misunderstanding — deliberate in oil prices, President Nicolas by some 30 percent since June, or otherwise — and has no basis Maduro said. and crude futures slumped on in reality”. The South American Opec Thursday to lows not seen since “We do not seek to politicise nation receives 96 percent of its September 2010, diving well below oil, nor do we collude against any- foreign currency revenues from the $80-per-barrel mark. body. For us, it is a question of oil, so the plunge in global oil The IEA said while there had supply and demand. It is purely prices to four-year lows has left it been speculation that the high business,” he said on Wednesday. in a quandary at a delicate time of cost of shale extraction “might In a report to the G20 group of probable economic recession and set a new equilibrium for Brent leading industrial powers ahead of foreign debt maturities. prices in the $80 to $90 range, a summit in Brisbane this week- “There’s been a huge fall in supply/demand balances suggest end, the International Monetary the oil (price),” Maduro said in a that the price rout has yet to run Fund said the “recent appreciable speech late on Thursday. its course”. fall in oil prices, if sustained, will “We’ve lost 30 percent of “Our supply and demand fore- boost growth”. our dollar revenues, in this last casts indicate that barring any But the lower prices are hurting month. That’s not a trifle,” he new supply disruption, downward some crude exporters, including added, without elaborating. price pressures could build further Venezuela, Iran and Russia. The Maduro’s government has pre- in the first half of 2015,” it added. latter two are also struggling with viously suggested it could hike the Prices were unlikely to reverse the impact of Western sanctions. heavily subsidized price of gaso- course anytime soon, as there are The IEA noted that production line, which sells for the equivalent “deep structural changes” trans- at current or even lower prices of less than six US cents per gal- forming the industry. may not be uneconomical, but “it lon, or about 1.4 US cent per liter, China, which in recent years may take a toll on social stability at the official exchange rate, and has had a voracious appetite for and thus indirectly affect produc- less than 1 US cent a gallon at the energy, is now entering a less oil- tion prospects”. black market rate. intensive stage of growth, while Prices had touched a high in A general view of the offshore Kristin oil and gas platform in the North Sea, east from Kristiansund. Norway looks Officials say the subsidy costs technological innovations have June of $115.71, when the Islamic set actually to benefit from the oil price crash as its energy sector is forced to relax its stranglehold over much of some $12bn per year. unlocked shale resources in North State organisation’s offensive in the economy and non-oil firms profit from more favourable business conditions. Analysts estimate Venezuela America. Iraq had pushed up costs. But will lose around $700m of export “A return to previous price abundant supplies, tepid demand estimated 92.4 million barrels a low, supported by speculation Algeria and Venezuela will revenue per year for every $1 drop highs may not be a close prospect, and the strong dollar have forced day, the IEA said. that the prospect of even lower join forces to defend prices, in the price of oil. as it is increasingly clear that we them back down. “Relatively weak Chinese prices may nudge OPEC produc- Venezuela’s Foreign Minister was Maduro, however, has repeat- have begun a new chapter in the Supply growth also shows few demand growth, coupled with ers towards cutting output at a quoted on Thursday as saying. edly said that both foreign debt history of the oil markets,” the signs of abating. On Thursday, US large absolute declines in both meeting in two weeks. “I think Algeria and Venezuela payments and social spending, IEA said. production hit a new record. European and OECD Asia Brent hit an intra-day low of are saying that they are willing especially on the socialist govern- Dealers were also betting that The world is awash in oil even Oceania, curb the upside momen- $76.76 earlier in the session, the to commit if the rest of Opec is ment’s popular welfare programs the 12-nation Opec cartel, which as both Iraq and Libya—the two tum otherwise provided by gains lowest since September 2010, willing,” Bjarne Schieldrop, chief known as “missions”, will be guar- is meeting on November 27 in countries responsible for Opec’s in other non-OECD economies before climbing back up to $79.10 commodity analyst at SEB in anteed going forward. Vienna, would decide against cut- recent recovery in supply growth and the US,” it said. as of 1417 GMT. US crude was up Oslo, told the Reuters Global Oil ting output quotas. — are both in the throes of Accelerating global momentum 58 cents at $74.79. Forum. This is because Opec is bat- conflicts. is seen lifting demand growth to Global benchmark Brent is “Hopefully we will have enough Virgin America tling to maintain its foothold in Demand growth is meanwhile reach 1.1 million barrels a day to down from $115 in June and has pain ahead of the Opec meeting the US market against the flood expected to remain at the five- 93.6 million barrels a day. dropped for eight weeks in a row, in order for Opec to become Opec soars in of oil being extracted domestically year low rate of 680,000 bar- Oil rose to $79 a barrel yester- its longest weekly losing streak again.” from shale rock — which had in rels a day in 2014, reaching an day having earlier hit a four-year since records began in 1988. AGENCIES market debut

NEW YORK: Shares of Virgin America Inc, a low-cost air- line partly owned by Richard Malaysian Branson, soared almost 30 per- India-US breakthrough revives trade talks: WTO cent in its market debut, under- scoring the buoyant mood in an growth slows industry that is emerging from BRISBANE: A breakthrough breathed new life into the WTO,” “until a permanent solution Azevedo has said the agree- a long spell of turbulence. to 5.6pc in agreement between India and he told reporters, adding that he regarding this issue has been ment — which the organisation’s US airline stocks hit a 13-year the United States in a bitter felt an agreement on the stalled agreed and adopted”. 160 members failed to reach high this week as they gained row over food subsidies has Bali package trade agreement was Ahead of the resolution, agreement on in July — is crucial momentum from lower oil prices third quarter “breathed new life” into the in reach within weeks. Azevedo said the impasse had to ensuring the WTO’s relevance. and increased travel spending World Trade Organisation, The dispute between India and “effectively paralysed the mul- He said on Friday that the by Americans in an improving KUALA LUMPUR: Growth Secretary-General Roberto the US had left trade talks at an tilateral negotiations in the US-India agreement represents a economy. in Malaysia’s economy slowed Azevedo said yesterday. impasse for months. organisation”, calling it the “most “significant step” in efforts to get The company’s IPO is the first to a “moderate” 5.6 percent in Azevedo, in Australia for the India had refused to endorse serious crisis the WTO has faced”. the Bali package back on track. for a US airline since May 2011, the third quarter as exports G20 meetings of world leaders the Trade Facilitation Agreement But in Brisbane the WTO chief “Yesterday I received very posi- when Spirit Airlines Inc went decelerated, the central bank in Brisbane this weekend, was (TFA) in July unless its food stock- said he strongly welcomed the tive news that the US and India public. said yesterday, but it added that upbeat after Thursday’s deal, piles were exempted from possible development, which paves the way had reached an understanding Virgin America’s shares rose to domestic demand was expected which also follows an understand- punitive measures, prompting the for progress on the TFA. that will help us overcome the a high of $29.74 on Friday, valuing to support steady expansion. ing between the US and China US to accuse it of taking the WTO The TFA was hammered out stalemate,” he said. “I strongly the company at about $1.3 billion. Southeast Asia’s third-larg- to reduce tariffs on information “to the brink of crisis”. last December during tough welcome this development and I “I think it’s a buy-and-hold est economy depends heavily on technology trade. But both sides agreed on negotiations at a World Trade applaud the leadership that has story,” said Josef Schuster, founder exports but in recent years has “I commend the leadership that Thursday that India’s food secu- Organisation conference in Bali been shown by India and US to of Chicago-based IPO investment increasingly leaned on domestic has been shown on all fronts in rity programmes would not be — the WTO’s first global accord move the process forward.” firm IPOX Schuster LLC. demand as demand in key over- recent days — it certainly has challenged under WTO rules since its 1995 founding. AFP AGENCIES seas markets stutters. In the three months through September, private-sector activ- ity “remained the key driver of Vietnam Airlines IPO growth”, while exports expanded at a “slower pace” of 1.5 percent, Petrobras plummets Bank Negara said. The latest figure compares with 6.5 percent in the previous three months and 6.2 percent in 5pc amid graft probe January-March. Third-quarter growth in 2013 RIO DE JANEIRO: Shares of results for the third quarter puts was 5.0 percent. Brazil’s Petrobras plummeted the world’s most indebted oil com- “While risks to growth have five percent yesterday after pany at risk of a technical default increased, the Malaysian econ- the state-run oil firm delayed on tens of billions of dollars in omy is expected to remain on releasing its results amid a bonds. a steady growth path,” Bank police investigation into corrup- Analysts warned that the Negara said. tion that has already ensnared investigation and postponed “Going forward, domestic a former senior executive. earnings statement could result demand will remain the key Hours after the third-quarter in the company being stripped of driver of growth.” earnings delay was announced its investment grade by ratings Inflation averaged 3.0 percent late Thursday, police arrested agencies and prompt it to write in the third quarter, down from 18 people suspected of involve- down fixed assets. 3.3 percent in the second. ment in a money laundering Petrobras shares opened over Malaysia is planning to intro- and bribery scheme centered an hour and a half after the rest duce a six-percent goods and on Petrobras. They raided of the Bovespa index, with the services tax next year, which Brazilian construction and chief executive of the bourse, economists say in necessary to engineering companies and Edemir Pinto, saying at an event help lower one of Asia’s highest seized potentially incriminat- in Sao Paulo the delay was to debt-to-GDP ratios, but the plan A Vietnam Airlines aircraft prepares to land at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi yesterday. The national flag carrier ing documents. ensure time for the market to remains controversial. raised $51.2m by selling 3.47 percent of the company in an initial public offering (IPO) yesterday. Investors are concerned the digest the news. AFP postponed publication of audited REUTERS NOVEMBER 15, 2014 15 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY

New Delhi trade fair Gold slides Weak growth below $1,150 as dollar weighs on strengthens LONDON: Gold fell more than one percent yesterday, breaking below chart support at $1,150 an euro, stocks ounce, as the dollar hit a four- year high against a currency basket after upbeat US retail sales data. Germany, France skirt recession The Commerce Department said US retail sales rose 0.5 per- LONDON: Sluggish economic economy, grew by a slender 0.1 cent in October, a sign American growth in eurozone heavy- percent in the period from July consumers were spending with weights Germany and France to September, after shrinking by more gusto and could help keep weighed on the European single 0.1 percent in the preceding three the economy growing at a brisk currency and the region’s stock months. pace. markets yesterday. And the French economy grew Spot gold hit a session low of Official data showed France 0.3 percent in the third quarter, $1,146.64 after the report and was and Germany only narrowly following a contraction of 0.1 per- down one percent at $1,149.95 an avoided a new recession in the cent in the second quarter. ounce at 1402 GMT. US gold third quarter, while the broader The technical definition of a futures for December delivery 18-nation eurozone also faced recession is two successive quar- were down $12.50 an ounce at anaemic growth. ters of falling economic output. $1,149.00. “There is a clear message The broader eurozone economy Gold, which is priced in the that much work still needs to be grew by just 0.2 percent in the US unit, has struggled to recover done to stimulate the flagging third quarter. Indian Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra (right) inspects a handloom at Khadi from last week’s 4-1/2-year low eurozone economy,” said analyst The euro remains weighed pavillion during the 34th Indian International Trade Fair in New Delhi yesterday. Mukherjee inaugurated the of $1,131.85. Mike McCudden at online broker down from expectations that the fair at Pragati Maidan, where over 6,500 companies from India and abroad are expected to participate. “We have dollar strength trig- Interactive Investor. European Central Bank could gered by the stronger retail sales “The euro will no doubt remain expand its asset purchasing pro- numbers from the United States, under pressure as investors antic- gramme in 2015, dealers said. and on the investment side we ipate fresh stimulus intended to “We’re clutching at straws here see ongoing outflows from physi- drag the region out of the mire.” on the GDP data,” said Societe India’s inflation rate hits five-year cally backed gold products,” Julius In late morning deals, the Generale analyst Kenneth Broux, Baer analyst Carsten Menke said. shared single currency dipped to who highlighted that French busi- “This is clearly an environment $1.2463 from $1.2476 late in New ness investment has now dropped which is weighing on prices.” York on Thursday. for the last four quarters. low, fans rate cut speculation Gold, set to fall for a third week Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index of “It won’t change bearish senti- in four, has suffered from percep- top companies edged up 0.04 per- ment vis-a-vis euro/dollar, given NEW DELHI: India’s inflation Businesses have been clam- rates as early as the next mon- tions that the US recovery is out- cent to 9,252 points and the CAC budding speculation of a widen- rate has hit a new five-year low, ouring for a cut in India’s steep etary policy meeting set for pacing that of other economies. 40 in Paris gained 0.22 percent ing of asset purchases by the ECB official data showed yesterday, interest rates which they say have December 2. “An early start to That has led to bets that US to 4,196.98. next year,” he said. fanning speculation the central discouraged investment and con- the Reserve Bank of India’s policy interest rates will rise faster than London’s benchmark FTSE 100 Meanwhile, in company news bank could finally start cutting sumer spending and mired the loosening cycle still looks on the others. Rising rates weigh on gold index meanwhile fell 0.07 percent on Friday, European aerospace interest rates and spur stum- country in its longest period of cards, possibly as soon as next as they lift the opportunity cost of to 6,630.51 points compared with giant Airbus said quarterly net bling economic growth. sub-five-percent growth. month,” said Capital Economics holding non-yielding assets. Thursday’s close. profits nearly halved, as it ran Inflation as measured by the The hawkish central bank has analyst Shilan Shah in a research “We maintain a view of lower “Any positive market impact into headwinds from adverse for- Wholesale Price Index or WPI, resisted such appeals, determined note ahead of the latest data. gold prices based on the progres- will be limited and temporary,” eign exchange moves. which contains India’s biggest to break the back of inflation, a But many economists still sive economic recovery and the Daiwa Capital Markets economist Earnings after taxation sank 41 basket of goods, fell to 1.77 per- chronic problem in India that worry that when the low year- outlook for higher interest rates Chris Scicluna said. percent to 264 million euros ($329 cent in October from a year ear- causes misery for hundreds of ago base effect drops out of the next year in the States,” Menke “Despite modest upside sur- million) in the third quarter from lier — marking a second straight millions of the country’s deeply price data, inflation will again said. prises to today’s GDP (gross a year earlier, Airbus announced five-year low—as the fuel-import- poor citizens. start rising. Holdings of the world’s top domestic product) data, the in a statement. reliant nation benefited from fall- The latest wholesale price data “We still expect the Reserve gold-backed exchange-traded story of broad stagnation in the However, Airbus shares jumped ing global oil costs. came two days after official figures Bank of India to remain on hold fund, SPDR Gold Shares, fell 2 euro area including Germany is 2.60 percent to 48.94 euros as The decline in India’s annual showed consumer price inflation as risks remain to the six-percent tonnes on Thursday, an eighth unchanged.” investors cheered a big improve- wholesale inflation rate, had dropped to 5.52 percent last inflation target for January 2016,” straight day of outflows, to a six- “Compared to economic condi- ment in the group’s cash flow. which stood at 2.38 percent in month, below the central bank’s said Goldman Sachs economist year low of 720.62 tonnes. tions in the United States—where In London foreign exchange September, was helped by falls in six-percent goal for January 2016, Tushar Poddar. Buying interest in Asia picked monetary tightening is still likely deals, the British pound retreated prices of both oil and food, includ- and down sharply from double- Poddar and other economists up this week, though Japanese by the end of the first half of 2015 to $1.5670, down from $1.5708 on ing onions — a staple in Indian digits last year. suggest that the central bank consumers sold gold jewellery — the euro area economy is in a Thursday. The euro rose to 79.54 cooking. Wholesale price inflation With inflation falling faster could keep its trend-setting lend- and bars as yen-priced bullion hit terrible state.” British pence from 79.43. was riding at over six percent in than expected, some economists ing rate steady into 2015. three-month highs. Germany, Europe’s biggest AFP May. say the central bank could cut AFP REUTERS

China liquidity woes Starbucks’ ‘very Ailing Philippine Airlines low’ Dutch tax deal may be seeks new investors MANILA: Struggling Corp’s 49 percent interest in the illegal, says EU Philippine Airlines said yester- airline for a reported $1 billion. day it is looking for new inves- Bautista said PAL is reviewing BRUSSELS/LONDON: A tax tors to help fund an expansion a massive refleeting programme deal the Netherlands cut with programme that would see initiated by the previous man- Starbucks Corp may be ille- Asia’s oldest airline buying agement, which had ordered 64 gal state aid, European Union more long-haul jets. planes from Airbus for more than regulators said yesterday, part “I would prefer an airline with $7 billion after San Miguel won of a crackdown on members more destinations so we can management control of the airline attracting investment by help- expand our presence,” newly- in 2012. ing companies to avoid tax. installed president Jaime Bautista The airline’s listed parent PAL Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta, said. Holdings disclosed last month it Belgium, Cyprus and Gibraltar He added that the company was “seriously studying” the pos- are also facing scrutiny over tax may take another airline, or a sibility of deferring aircraft deliv- deals they have struck with mul- company with interests in the avi- eries, complaining that “too many tinational companies. ation sector, as an equity partner. orders” had been made. The inquiries have overshad- Under Philippine law a for- PAL will take delivery of 10 owed the early days of the new eign airline may acquire up to Airbus A321s this year and European Commission led by 40 percent of a carrier like PAL, another 10 of the same model in Jean-Claude Juncker, prime Bautista said, while stressing 2016, Bautista said yesterday. minister and finance minis- there were no ongoing talks at Some of the 28 Airbus planes set ter of Luxembourg for more this point. for delivery after 2016 may be con- than two decades, and inten- Labourers work on a construction site in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. China’s state-backed developers “There are names we are look- verted to long-haul jets, he said, sified calls among lawmakers are making unprecedented investments in Guangzhou, as the private firms that have dominated the wealthy ing at, but we are not at liberty to without giving further details. and EU countries for a more southern city for decades grapple with tight liquidity and Beijing’s corruption crackdown. disclose (them) at this time,” he “We’ll have to study this very care- harmonised tax system in the told a news conference. fully. It’s easy to buy airplanes but 28-country bloc. Bautista said the carrier plans difficult to dispose,” he added. The European Commission said to buy long-haul planes over 10 “We will take advantage of the it suspects the Dutch tax ruling years—either by converting a refleeting programme to improve allows Starbucks, the world’s previous order for narrow-body our service, reboot costs and biggest coffee chain, to lower its China lending drops sharply aircraft from Airbus into bigger hopefully, become a profitable taxable profit, and thereby its tax planes or taking up Boeing’s pro- airline.” PAL will now focus its bill, in a way that is at odds with BEIJING: China’s bank lend- The drop in credit came after should first consider cutting posal to sell it 777 jets. European operations on its newly- accepted accounting rules. ing tumbled in October and some banks reported bad loans reserve requirement ratios (RRR) PAL is to open new local and opened London route and add “The Commission’s preliminary money supply growth cooled, rose at their fastest clip in two for all banks to encourage them to international routes over the next more flights to Honolulu, while view is that the advanced pric- raising fears of a sharper years over the summer, while lend more, although cutting inter- three years, including Manila- scaling down Middle East opera- ing arrangements in favour of slowdown in the economy and deposits shrank, limiting their est rates remains an option. New York from March 2015, he tions due to lower-than-projected Starbucks Manufacturing EMEA prompting some economists to ability to lend and highlighting Broad M2 money supply rose added. After struggling with losses demand, he said. BV constitutes state aid,” the EU urge the government to ratchet growing strains on the financial 12.6 percent in October from amid competition from budget car- Its new fuel-efficient Airbus executive said. up stimulus measures, includ- system as the world’s second- a year earlier, trailing market riers, high fuel costs and a labour jets will allow PAL to compete Deputy Finance Minister Eric ing cutting interest rates. largest economy cools. expectations of 12.9 percent and dispute, PAL returned to profita- better when Southeast Asian Wiebes said that the Starbucks Chinese banks made a much “The downward pressure on the the second slowest growth rate bility this year, posting a net profit nations ease air traffic restric- deal “is fully in line with inter- less-than-expected 548.3bn yuan economy will increase if we don’t in 2-1/2 years. Other data on of 1.49bn pesos ($33m) in the three tions next year, he added. national transfer pricing stand- ($89.5bn) worth of new loans in step up policy support,” said Wang Thursday also showed that China’s months to June. The company will also be “more ards, is consistent with the policy October, down 36 percent from Jun, senior economist at China economy lost further momentum Lucio Tan, one of the aggressive” domestically and may framework applied by the govern- September, central bank data Centre for International Economic in October, with factory growth Philippines’ richest men, named reopen its hub in Cebu, the com- ment in its efforts to create an showed yesterday, pointing to Exchanges (CCIEE), a well-con- dipping and investment growth Bautista to lead the airline after mercial capital of the central attractive business climate”. deepening economic weakness in nected think-tank in Beijing. hitting a near 13-year low. regaining control of PAL in Philippines, said Bautista. REUTERS the fourth quarter. Wang said the central bank REUTERS September, buying out San Miguel AFP NOVEMBER 15, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds ON SATURDAY 16

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DUBAI: Fiery Australian Sobers trophy, named after exceptionally proud of,” added paceman Mitchell Johnson the former West Indian great, the phenomenal fast bowler. Australian cricketer was named Cricketer of the after winning the award in Johnson beat the Sri Lankan Mitchell Johnson Year by the International 2009. duo of Kumar Sangakkara in action at the Cricket Council yesterday, His former captain Ponting and Angelo Mathews and first ODI against matching his countryman also won the coveted prize South Africa’s AB de Villiers, South Africa in Ricky Ponting’s feat of win- twice in a row, in 2006 and who were also nominated last Perth, yesterday. ning the award twice. 2007. “Some of the greats of week. Johnson was named He also won the ICC Test the game have been nomi- De Villiers won the ICC Cricketer of the Year Player of the Year award. nated and won this award one-day international and Test Cricketer Johnson, 33, spearheaded and it’s a very special honour,” cricketer of the year while of the Year by the Australia’s attack during a Johnson said. England’s Gary Ballance was International Cricket 5-0 Ashes sweep of England “For me it’s nice to be able named the ICC emerging Council (ICC). last year and then helped to contribute to the team and cricketer of the year. his team beat South Africa do the job that I have always Australian opener Aaron 2-1, picking up 59 Test wick- thought I have been able to Finch’s 156 runs off 63 balls Associate and Affiliate crick- Richard Kettleborough of ets between August 2013 to do,” he was quoted as saying against England in 2013 won eter of the year. England’s the Elite Panel of the ICC September 2014. in an ICC statement. him the ICC Twenty20 per- wicketkeeper-batter Sarah Umpires win David Shepherd This is the second time “This is something that I’ll formance of the year award, Taylor also scooped the ICC Trophy for ICC Umpire of the the left-arm paceman has be able to look back on in time while Scotland’s Preston women’s one-day cricketer year for the second consecu- picked up the Sir Garfield when my career is over and be Mommsen was named the ICC of the year award. England’s tive year. AFP

Australia pip SA by Poulter leads as bad weather stops 32 runs in first ODI play in Turkey

BELEK, Turkey: Britain’s Ian Pacer Coulter-Nile shines with four-wicket haul Poulter was leading the way when a thunderstorm caused play to be suspended midway PERTH: Paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile took through the second round of four wickets to fire Australia to a 32-run vic- the $7m Turkish Airlines Open tory over South Africa in the first ODI in Perth yesterday. yesterday. Forecasters expect the bad Australia captain Michael Clarke was ruled out weather to last for the rest of midway through the match after re-aggravating the day and organisers said it was his hamstring but stand-in skipper George Bailey unlikely that play would resume scored a telling 70 to help drive the hosts to 300 for in the four hours of daylight that eight wickets after a mid-innings collapse. was left. Newly crowned ICC cricketer of the year Mitchell Poulter, chasing his first victory Johnson gave Australia the perfect start in defend- of the season, was 13-under-par ing the total, the fast bowler removing openers through 14 holes when lashing Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock with just 18 rain and high winds sent the play- runs on the board. ers scurrying off the Montgomerie South Africa captain AB de Villiers and middle- Maxx Royal course in southern order batsman David Miller (65) combined for 126 Turkey. runs to drive the tourists past 200, but Coulter- The 38-year-old Englishman Nile broke the partnership when Miller miscued to started round one behind Spain’s Mitchell Marsh at mid-on with 14 overs left. Miguel Angel Jimenez but a run of De Villiers smashed 80 off 76 balls but was run six birdies, and a solitary bogey at out by some sharp fielding by Steven Smith, who the 12th, meant he surged three came in for Clarke and threw down the stumps at strokes ahead of Zimbabwean the non-striker’s end. Brendon de Jonge who had played Reeling at 202 for six wickets, Coulter-Nile 13 holes. REUTERS struck again to remove Ryan McLaren for a duck and Dale Steyn for six, both caught behind by wick- etkeeper Matthew Wade, included in the team for Australian batsman George Bailey hits a six during the first ODI against European Tour the injured Brad Haddin. South Africa in Perth, yesterday. In between, paceman Josh Hazlewood dismissed Turkish Open Scores Vernon Philander for one run, and though the tail wagged for another 46 runs, part-time spinner Scores from the European Tour Glenn Maxwell had Imran Tahir caught at long- Scoreboard Turkish Open at the par-72 course on Friday in Antalya off for 22 to seal the result. AUSTRALIA SOUTH AFRICA David Warner (46) and Aaron Finch (35) earlier D Warner c McLaren b Philander...... 46 H Amla c Wade b Johnson ...... 8 -13 Ian Poulter (Britain) 14 64 saw off a fiery early spell from Steyn to compile A Finch c de Kock b Philander ...... 35 Q de Kock c Wade b Johnson ...... 2 -10 Brendon De Jonge (Zimbabwe) 13 65 94 for the first wicket before seamer Philander S Watson c M Morkel b Tahir...... 13 F du Plessis c M Marsh b Watson ...... 31 -9 Brooks Koepka (US) 15 69; Wade removed them both in the same over. M Clarke c de Kock b Steyn ...... 11 F Behardien c Finch b Coulter-Nile ...... 20 Ormsby (Australia) 16 65 Clarke gloved a catch for 11 and Watson, recalled G Bailey c du Plessis b Steyn ...... 70 A de Villiers (run out) ...... 80 -8 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 14 63; for his first one-day match after a long lay-off with M Marsh b Philander ...... 10 D Miller c M Marsh b Coulter-Nile ...... 65 Branden Grace (South Africa) 12 67 injury, managed only 13 before sweeping Tahir to M Wade c (sub) b Philander ...... 35 R McLaren c Wade b Coulter-Nile...... 0 -7 Hennie Otto (South Africa) 12 67; Morne Morkel at fine leg. G Maxwell c du Plessis b M Morkel ...... 29 V Philander c Wade b Hazlewood ...... 1 Thongchai Jaidee (Thailand) 10 All-rounder Marsh also went cheaply to leave M Johnson (not out) ...... 13 D Steyn c Wade b Coulter-Nile ...... 6 69; Shane Lowry (Ireland) 14 70; Australia reeling at 144-5 but Bailey, Wade (35) and N Coulter-Nile (not out) ...... 9 M Morkel (not out) ...... 22 Alejandro Canizares (Spain) 8 69 Glenn Maxwell (29) defied the South Africans to Extras (B-1 LB-14 NB-1 W-13) ...... 29 I Tahir c Warner b Maxwell ...... 22 -6 Tyrrell Hatton (Britain) 16 65; Andy drive Australia to a competitive score. Total (for 8 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 300 Extras (B-1 LB-1 W-9) ...... 11 Sullivan (Britain) 13 67; Stephen Meanwhile, Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has been Fall of wickets: 1-94, 2-94, 3-112, 4-130, Total (all out in 48.1 overs) ...... 268 Gallacher (Britain) 10 67 ruled out of all five matches against South Africa, 5-144, 6-236, 7-256, 8-276. Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-18, 3-53, 4-76, 5-202, putting him in further doubt for next month’s Tests Did not bat: J Hazlewood 6-202, 7-207, 8-215, 9-222, 10-268. -5 Danny Willett (Britain) 9 67; Romain against India, Cricket Australia said. Haddin badly Bowling: D Steyn 10-0-62-2(w-2); V Philander Bowling: M Johnson 10-1-38-2(w-5); J Hazle- Wattel (France) 11 67; Darren Fichardt injured his shoulder while behind the stumps in 10-0-45-4(nb-1 w-3); M Morkel 10-1-56-1(w- wood 10-0-50-1(w-2); N Coulter-Nile 10-0-48- (South Africa) 10 68; Emiliano Grillo Australia’s 2-0 Test series loss to Pakistan in the 2); R McLaren 9-0-63-0(w-6); I Tahir 10-0-54- 4; M Marsh 7-0-50-0(w-1); S Watson 6-0-48- (Argentina) 10 68; Raphael Jacquelin UAE and is battling to be fit for the first Brisbane 1; F Behardien 1-0-5-0. 1(w-1); G Maxwell 5.1-0-32-1. (France) 8 68; Martin Kaymer Test, starting on December 4. AGENCIES (Germany) 13 68

Avalanche Grizzlies edge out Kings claim close win NEW YORK: D o w n 15 p oi nt s at over Rangers the start of the fourth quarter, NBA Results the Memphis Grizzlies rallied Memphis 111 Sacramento 110 NEW YORK: Centre Nathan for a most improbable 111-110 Chicago 100 Toronto 93 MacKinnon and Alex Tanguay victory over the Sacramento Dallas 123 Philadelphia 70 scored during a shootout to pro- Memphis Kings on an almost impossible Golden State 107 Brooklyn 99 pel the Colorado Avalanche to a shot yesterday at FedExForum. 4-3 victory over the New York Grizzlies’ Still two points behind with 0.2 Meanwhile, Forward Pau Gasol Rangers at Madison Square centre Marc of a second showing on the clock, scored 27 points and grabbed 11 Garden. Gasol (33) Grizzlies guard Vince Carter rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls Right winger Kevin Hayes, shoots over threw an overhead inbounds snapped the Toronto Raptors’ center Derek Stepan and defense- Sacramento pass from the side of the court to five-game winning streak with a man Dan Girardi scored for the Kings’ under the hoop, where Courtney 100-93 victory. Rangers, AGENCIES forward Lee appeared to catch it before The Bulls, who took com- Jason throwing it in for the winning mand of the game by outscoring NHL Results Thompson basket. Toronto 35-14 in the third quar- Colorado 4 NY Rangers 3 (34) during The officials spent several ter, improved their road record Winnipeg 3 Carolina 1 their game at minutes reviewing the play. to 5-0. FedExForum, The Kings’ bench believed that Guard Jimmy Butler had 21 Montreal 5 Boston 1 yesterday. Sacramento center Ryan Hollins, points, nine rebounds and six San Jose 2 Tampa Bay 1 who was guarding Carter, tipped assists for Bulls, and Derrick Rose St Louis 4 Nashville 3 the pass. added 20 points. Forward Mike Minnesota 6 Buffalo 3 However, the play stood and Dunleavy scored 14, and forward Calgary 5 Arizona 3 Memphis improved its record Taj Gibson had 10. Guard Kyle Ottawa 4 Edmonton 3 to 8-1 and won its 18th straight Lowry led Toronto with 20 points regular-season home game. and eight assists. AGENCIES Dallas 2 Los Angeles 0 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY Gaultier survives Doha scare Top seed fights back to down Egyptian qualifier, Qatar’s Tamimi falls after spirited show

DOHA: Top seed Gregory Gaultier of France and two- PSA World time champion Ramy Ashour Championship 2014 registered contrasting wins to advance into the second round 1-Gregory Gaultier (France) bt Andrew Wagih of the PSA World Championship Shoukry (Egypt) 6-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-3; 2014. Nafiizwan Adnan (Malaysia) bt Mazen Hesham Yesterday, at the Khalifa (Egypt) 13-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-5; Karim International Tennis and Squash Ali Fathi (Egypt) bt Mohamed Abouelghar Complex Frenchman Gaultier, (Egypt) 11-8, 1-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-7; 9-Omar who has finished runner-up four Mosaad (Egypt) bt Abdulla Mohd Al-Tamimi times, rallied from behind to (Qatar) 11-8, 11-8, 10-12, 11-5; 16-Mathieu register a 3-2 win over Egyptian Castagnet (France) bt Rex Hedrick (Australia) qualifier Andrew Wagih Shoukry. 11-3, 11-2, 11-8; Alister Walker (Botswana) No top seed has ever lost in the bt Aamir Atlas Khan (Pakistan) 10-12, 11- first round, but when the 31-year- 7, 11-4, 11-6; Cameron Pilley (Australia) bt old stood 6-6 in the fourth game Joe Lee (England) 11-6, 7-11, 11-7, 6-11, against Shoukry there looked a 11-9; 7-Peter Barker (England) bt Chris real possibility it would happen. Simpson (England) 11-8, 6-11, 11-7, 11-5; Gaultier worked patiently Greg Lobban (Scotland) bt Henrik Mustonen towards safety and to a 6-11, 9-11 (Finland) 11-4, 11-4, 11-4; Fares Dessouki 11-6, 11-7, 11-3 victory in a mature (Egypt) bt Farhan Zaman (Pakistan) 11-8, and considered recovery by the 11-0, 6-11, 11-9; 13-Marwan Elshorbagy man from Aix-en-Provence. (Egypt) bt Olli Tuominen (Finland) 11-7 retd; Shoukry, one of a record 14 12-Miguel Angel Rodriguez (Colombia) bt Egyptians in the main draw, Shaun Le Roux (South Africa) 11-4, 11- played pressure-free and tena- 6, 11-6; Adrian Grant (England) bt Piedro Schweertman (Netherlands) 9-11, 11-4, ciously excellent squash, but Qatar Squash Federation (QSF) President Nabil Ali bin Ali ( fifth from left) attends 11-2, 11-7; 4-Ramy Ashour (Egypt) bt Ivan Gaultier’s ability to analyse what the opening ceremony of the PSA World Championship 2014 along with other Yuen (Malaysia) 11-5, 14-12, 11-5; Zahed was happening and to adapt was officials at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. decisive. Mohamed (Egypt) bt Ben Coleman (England) 11-8, 11-8, 11-9; 6-Borja Golan (Spain) bt RIGHT: Andrew Wagih Shoukry (right) of Egypt, in action against Gregory Gaultier “I had no patience when my of France during the opening day of the tournament. PICTURES BY: KAMMUTTY VP shots weren’t working,” Gaultier Leo Au (Hong Kong) 11-5, 11-8, 11-9. admitted. Today’s Matches “I had to find patience, and get [3] Nick Matthew (Eng) vs [Q] Raphael Kandra (Ger) at 17.30 on GC a few things going. I thought ‘just Gregoire Marche (Fra) vs Alan Clyne (Sco) at play as if it’s 0-0’ at the start of 12.00 on GC the third game, and once I got Nasir Iqbal (Pak) vs [Q] Charles Sharpes ontop in the third I thought (Eng) at 12.00 on C1 [14] Saurav Ghosal (Ind) vs Steven Finitsis ‘that’s it”. (Aus) at 13.00 on C1 Gaultier next plays Mohamed [15] Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) vs Abdullah Nafiizwan Adnan of Malaysia, Al Mezayen (Kuw) at 14.00 on C1 who beat Mazen Hesham, a prom- Max Lee (Hkg) vs [Q] Farhan Mehboob (Pak) at 15.00 on C1 Qatar’s Abdulla Al ising young Egyptian, 13-11 11-7 Nicolas Mueller (Sui) vs Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) 9-11 11-5, and could go on to a last at 13.00 on GC Tamimi stretches 16 meeting with Omar Mosaad, [5] Amr Shabana (Egy) vs Adrian Waller while playing a (Eng) at 19.30 on GC shot in his first the ninth-seeded Egyptian, who [8] Daryl Selby (Eng) vs Stephen Coppinger ended a spirited performance by (Rsa) at 20.30 on GC round match local wild card player Abdulla Al Ong Beng Hee (Mas) vs [Q] Peter Creed against Omar Tamimi 11-8, 11-8, 10-12, 11-5. (Wal) at 14.00 on GC Mosaad of Egypt. Eddie Charlton (Eng) vs Tom Richards (Eng) Tamimi lost the first two games at 17.30 on C1 by identical scores but rallied [10] Tarek Momen (Egy) vs Omar Abdel back to take the third game from Aziz (Egy) at 18.30 on C1 the ninth seed. [11] Simon Rösner (Ger) [Q] vs Danish Atlas Khan (Pak) 19.30 on C1 The Aspire Academy product Campbell Grayson (Nzl) vs [Q] Lucas Serme tried to make a fight in the fourth (Fra) at 8.30 on C1 game but a knee injury with the Mahesh Mangaonkar (Ind) vs [Q] Lance score reading 7-2, in the favour of Bedoes (Nzl) at 3.00 on GC [2] Mohamed Elshorbagy (Egy) vs [Q] Muhd the Egyptian, added to his woes. Asyraf Azan (Mas) at 5.30 on GC The 19-year-old returned to the court after getting medical atten- point a bit in the 4th. But happy advanced, defeating Ivan Yuen of it 14-12 but wrapped the third at said the 27-year-old. “One thing the event,” said Ashour, who won tion but Mosaad wrap up things. overall, hopefully I can do better Malaysia in 32 minutes. 11-5. “ which I have tried to change is the World Championship in 2008 “I’m feeling happy with my next time,” said Tamimi. Another The fourth seed survived a I need to be consistent if I my mental composure. I want to and four years later repeated the performance, even if I rushed the Egyptian Ashour also made it to scare in the second game winning need to win the championship,” remain calm in order to do well in feat. THE PENINSULA

Rich haul for Qatari shooters Kite Course Racing Asian Championship at 11th Arab Championships

DOHA: Qatari shooters had a was intense as Aisha tried her Ali Al Qahtani scored 181.4 point Action from the rich haul on day four of the 11th best in the fourth and sixth round to clinch 50m Rifle Prone bronze 2014 Formula Kite Arab Shooting Championships but she failed to overtake Matara. medal. The gold was won by Course Racing Asian winning two gold, one silver and “It is a very good day for me. I Oman’s Said Hamed Al Khatri Championship, two bronze medals at the Losail knew it will be a tough competi- (204.9), while Saudi Arabia’s organised by the Shooting Range yesterday. tion as everybody was targeting Saad Abdulrehamn Al Juhaydili Qatar Sailing and In the women’s section, Sarah podium finish, so I was well pre- grabbed silver. Rowing Federation Mohamed won the skeet gold pared for the competition. I am Al Qahtani also led the host (QSRF), under way shooting down 66 targets points, very happy with my achievement to the team event bronze. Al at the Qanat Quartier while Matara Al Aseiri clinched and hope to continue my form in Qahtani and his team-mates beach area of Pearl- the Rifle Prone gold ahead of the other future events,” Matara Abdulla Al Maadeed and Ali Al Qatar. BELOW: compatriot Aisha Al Mutawa for said. Muhannadi fired 1828.2 points the host. Sarah won the skeet gold to finish third behind Oman and Fans watching the Matara collected 613.9 points in defeating Kuwait’s Eman Al Saudi which won the gold and sil- proceedings of the the 60-shot event to finish ahead Shamaa by one point. ver, respectively. event yesterday. of Aisha, who won silver with “It is very satisfying win in the The other members of the 610.3 points. keenly contested event,” Sara victorious Oman team, which Kuwait’s Maryam Arzouqi said. scored 1843.9, were Said Hamed bagged the bronze. Qatar’s “The presence of experienced Al Khatri, Sinan Al Nasri and Mahbubeh Akhlaghi finished Kuwaiti shooters made it very Mohamed Al Hattali. Saudi team fourth. Matara took the lead in tough. I hope this win will inspire comprised of Hussain Al Harbi, the first series and maintained it me to win more medals for my Faiz Al Anazi and Khalid Al Anazi till the end. The contest for the country,” she said. secured the second spot with gold between the countrywomen In the men’s section Qatar’s 1834.4 points. THE PENINSULA

The members of Qatari squad including the medal winners pose for a group photo with the officials on day four of the Arab Shooting Championships in Doha, yesterday. 20 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Djokovic beats Berdych, seals No.1 ranking LONDON: Novak Djokovic (pictured) added another proces- sional victory to the lengthening list at the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-2, 6-2 demolition of subdued Czech Tomas Berdych yesterday. The world number one was virtually guaranteed a semi-final berth before walking on court at the O2 Arena, but made doubly sure by cruising past Berdych in little more than an hour. A day after Roger Federer dropped only one game beating home favourite Andy Murray to win Group B, Djokovic was also in ruth- less mood to top Group A and guarantee ending the year ranked as world number one for the third time. The Serb has now won 30 indoor matches in succession since the ATP World Tour Finals in 2012. Of the 11 round-robin matches played at the tournament this year only one has gone to a deciding set. Djokovic, looking for a third consecutive title at the London year- ender, will face Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals today when Roger Federer will be up against fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka unless he loses heavily to Croatia’s Marin Cilic later on Friday. REUTERS Year-end ATP World Number Ones Since 2004 German rider Daniel Deusser in action with his horse Pironella on the second day of the Longines Global Champions Tour at Al Shaqab Arena in Doha LONDON: Here is how the yesterday. Deusser and Pironella won the feature class. RIGHT: Deusser is seen at the presentation ceremony. PICS: BAHER AMIN big three in men’s tennis have dominated the past decade. 2004 Roger Federer (Switzerland) 2005 Roger Federer 2006 Roger Federer 2007 Roger Federer Deusser wins as riders 2008 Rafael Nadal (Spain) 2009 Roger Federer 2010 Rafael Nadal 2011 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 2012 Novak Djokovic 2013 Rafael Nadal eye the big prize in Doha 2014 Novak Djokovic Final day of the season at Al Shaqab Arena today

DOHA: German rider Daniel Murray hurting Deusser combined with trusted A celebration of partner Pironella to claim the top prize of €151,000 at Al Shaqab Arena last night. the finest Arab As the heat of the day faded after poor show and the sun set on the stunning horses in Doha Al Shaqab Arena, Deusser and LONDON: Andy Murray (pic- Pironella won the CSI5* 1.55m DOHA: A display of some of tured) conceded his humiliating class ahead of Ireland’s Denis the finest Arab horse blood- exit from the ATP Tour Finals Lynch and All Star 5. lines in the world took place was a suitably downbeat way Germany’s Marco Kutscher last night at Al Shaqab in the to end one of the most difficult with the consistent Liberty Son spectacular main arena. years of his career. finished in third spot. Al Shaqab stands as an Murray’s hopes of salvaging a Defending Longines GCT enduring tribute to the frustrating campaign by winning Champion Scott Brash of Great Arabian horse and the tradi- the prestigious season-ending Britain was the first rider to tion of equestrian excellence event for the first time were shat- jump clear in the first round that has co-evolved with this tered as Roger Federer thrashed though many experienced com- breed in Qatar. the Scot 6-0, 6-1 to hand him the binations collected four faults, The range of equine disci- joint worst defeat of his career. including American No1 Kent plines and programmes that Al The 27-year-old’s second defeat Farrington and Uceko, 2014 World Shaqab promotes ensures that from his three group matches was Championship Team Silver med- the cultural legacy and appre- more than enough to condemn allist Simon Delestre of France ciation of the Arabian breed are him to a premature exit from and Ryan des Hayettes. lovingly handed down in Qatar Qatar’s Faleh Suwayed is seen in action at Al Shaqab Arena on the London’s O2 Arena and bring the Of the 40 starters, 16 went from generation to generation. second day of the Longines Global Champions Tour event. curtain down on an 11-month tale through to the final jump-off. Between the first round and of woe. The World No1 last night once jump-off of tonight’s CSI5* Only once before, against again set the standard as first €151,000 showjumping com- Novak Djokovic in Miami in 2007, to go in the jump-off, producing petition the following Arabian had Murray taken such a beat- qualify for the Tour Finals, he still a very classy round with Lady horses were presented: ing, and on that occasion he had finished the year without a win Harris and Lady Kirkham’s excit- Mayyasa Al Shaqab - (Al the excuse of being less than 100 against Federer, Rafael Nadal and Germany’s ing up-and-coming mare Hello Adeed Al Shaqab X Alhambra percent fit. Novak Djokovic. M’Lady in a time of 38.73secs to El Dakar) Marco To his credit, Murray refused He knows that record will have eventually take 4th. Abha Myra - (Al Adeed Al Kutscher, to play the blame game after to improve dramatically if 2015 is Brash has been widely tipped Shaqab X Gazala Al Shaqab) the third- being blown away in 56 minutes to be more fulfilling. by fellow riders to retain his Ghasham Al Shaqab - place rider, by Federer. “The first three or four months Championship title today if he (Marwan Al Shaqab X Ze clears an “It’s very disappointing. I would were hard. Going through surgery can put in a top five finish in the Ludjkalba) obstacle at have hoped to have done a lot bet- isn’t easy. Maybe I didn’t appre- dramatic final Grand Prix of the His Highness The Father Al Shaqab ter but when he’s extremely loose ciate that so much at the time. I season. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Arena in like he was tonight he was able to found it quite frustrating at the Drawn late, Marco Kutscher Khalifa Al Thani established Doha last try some shots he might not in beginning of the year,” Murray and Denis Lynch did what was Al Shaqab in 1992 to enjoy his night. other situations. Everything he said. “Obviously in the middle of needed to each grab the lead for passion for Arabian horses, tried came off. He has the ability that period I switched coaches a time, clocking in at 38.43secs to honor the courageous war to do that,” Murray said. and stopped working with Ivan. and 37.97secs, respectively. horses ridden by victorious “After tonight it’s quite clear It was a difficult time.” Second last to go, in-form Qatari knights of the past, and I’m quite a long way from that The pain of being embarrassed Deusser knew exactly what was to assure the Arabian horse level. I won’t be able to tell you if by Federer on home ground will required, taking the tightest lines would continue to play a lead- it’s affected my confidence until I linger throughout the off-season and sharpest turns with his fleet- ing role in the cultural heritage start the new year. But it’s not a and Murray, who failed to reach a footed mount to stop the clock at of the Qatari people. nice way to finish the year. Grand Slam final this year, made 37.24secs. His vision was to increase “I know I’m going to have to it clear he is determined to use With their star Grand Prix the number of superior Arabian put a lot of work on the tennis that angst to fuel his bid to return horses resting this evening, horses in Qatar, improve the court, a lot of work on my game, if to peak form. Denis Lynch Championship leader Germany’s quality of Arabian show horses, I want to start the season with an “I’m not going to try and for- of Ireland Ludger Beerbaumand his clos- and to preserve the finest opportunity to win in Australia.” get about it. When I think about est rival Rolf-Göran Bengtsson Arabian horse families of the in action at An emotional season had what happened I’ll try and use it of Sweden did not compete past. Al Shaqab clearly taken its toll on Murray. positively, as motivation for the yesterday. His greatest hope was for Al Arena in He had battled a longer than off-season, to make some changes Tension is mounting as the last Shaqab to make a valuable con- Doha. expected recovery from last year’s to things,” he said. test of the season fast approaches tribution to the Arabian breed, Lynch back surgery, suffered a surprise “I would normally take a break and all eyes will be on the top not only in Qatar, but around finished split with coach Ivan Lendl, then now but I also need time to work three, Beerbaum, Brash and the world. the feature controversially hired former on things. I’ll try to get back on Bengtsson, to see who will be Al Shaqab’s breeding philos- competition women’s number one Amelie the practice court sooner than I named 2014 Champion today ophy is to preserve the Arabian in second Mauresmo, lost his Wimbledon would have done. A lot can change evening. breed and to produce horses spot. title in tame fashion and briefly in tennis in a matter of weeks and Qatar’s Ali Yousef Al Rumaihi that are beautiful, athletic, and fell out of the top 10 for the first months. I’m not happy to finish astride Gunder finished in fifth have great moral character and time in six years. the year with that result but over spot yesterday with an impressive kindness, experts say. Even after winning three five sets I tend to play better ten- time of 39.37secs. THE PENINSULA low-key tournaments in the last nis and I hope come Australia I’m THE PENINSULA six weeks in a successful bid to a much better player.” AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

PROTHOM ALO WEEKLY NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Published every Thursday 21 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY Available in all leading stores in Qatar       Tel: 4465 0600 Email: [email protected] Qatar Team claims pole position Torrente cards stunning time for pole, Carella secures third spot for Grand Prix of ME

DOHA: The Qatar Team’s races paid off. Khalid Abdullah Shaun Torrente and Alex Al Kuwari and Mohammed Al Qualifying Results Carella claimed pole position Obaidly qualified in second and 2014 Grand Prix of Middle East – and third place for today’s fourth places for the first of the Qualifying Results Grand Prix of Middle East, races, with Al Kuwari missing 1. Shaun Torrente (QAT) Qatar Team round three of the 2014 UIM out on pole position by a mere 48.65sec F1 H2O World Championship, 8/100ths of a second. 2. Philippe Chiappe (FRA) China CTIC Team after a thrilling third qualifying After a battle with Australia’s 49.16sec session in Doha Bay yesterday. Briney Rigby during the early 3. Alex Carella (QAT) Qatar Team 49.56sec Carella laid down the gauntlet stages of the 20-lap race, Al 4. Jonas Andersson (SWE) Team Sweden from third place in the Q3 shoot- Kuwari found a fast late rhythm 49.86sec out with a second lap of 49.56sec, and reached the chequered flag 5. Yousef Al-Rubayan (KUW) F1 GC Atlantic despite later complaining of a in third place after closing on Team 50.39sec minor engine issue. runner-up Jan Andre Landsnes That was surpassed within over the last few laps. Germany’s 6. Marit Stromoy (NOR) Team Nautica minutes by a lap of 49.16sec Mike Szymura claimed his third 52.37sec set by Philippe Chiappe, the win from four starts and led from 2014 UIM F1 H20 Pole Position Frenchman bidding to claim his start-to-finish to extend his series Championship – positions after round 3 first ever F1 pole position. But the lead to 36 points. 1. Alex Carella (QAT) Qatar Team 41 pts Qatar Team’s Torrente was not Five of the 16 entrants from 10 2. Jonas Andersson (SWE) Team Sweden to be denied and, in fading light nations would be eliminated from 36 pts on Doha Bay, Torrente carded a the 20-minute Q1 session on the 3. Shaun Torrente (QAT) Qatar Team 32 pts stunning time of 48.65sec on his revised Doha Bay course. Kuwait’s 4. Sami Selio (FIN) Mad-Croc Baba Racing first run to claim pole position. Yousef Al-Rubayan set the early Team 30 pts “That was some finish, great target time of 51.63sec before 5. Yousef Al-Rubayan (KWT) F1 GC Atlantic to watch and very exciting,” a yellow flag was raised when Team 24 pts said H E Sheikh Hassan bin Caudwell Racing’s Ivan Brigada Jabor Al Thani, President of the stopped on the racing line. 6. Philippe Chiappe (FRA) China CTIC Team Qatar Marine Sports Federation Qatar’s Torrente and Carella 22 pts (QMSF). had already posted competitive 7. Duarte Benavente (PRT) F1 GC Atlantic “Alex maybe had a little issue times of 51.70sec and 52.12sec and Team 9 pts with his boat, but then Philippe returned to the pits to prepare for 8. Francesco Cantando (ITA) Motorglass F1 (Chiappe) posted that time of Q2. Action resumed with nine and Team 5 pts 49.16 and it looked as though a half minutes remaining. 8. Marit Stromoy (NOR) Team Nautica 5 pts that was enough. Then up stepped Al Rubayan’s earlier time 2014 Grand Prix of Middle East – F-4S Shaun and he goes under 49 sec- wasn’t surpassed and Tomas Trophy race one results onds. Incredible. It was a great Cermak, Duarte Benavente, 1. Mike Szymura (DEU) F1 GC Atlantic Team spectacle and that sets the scene Jesper Forss, Brigada and Bartek 20 laps nicely for the race tomorrow.” Marszalak were eliminated after Shaun Torrente flies high for the Qatar Team during the Grand Prix of Middle East qualifying yesterday. Torrente 2. Jan Andre Landsnes (NOR) Motorglass Qatar Team efforts to build two Cantando posted a late time of claimed pole position after carding a stunning time. new Molgaard boats for the F-4S 53.02sec to stay in the hunt for F1 Team @ 17.34sec 3. Khalid Abdullah Al-Kuwari (QAT) Qatar the shoot-out. A further five driv- claiming provisional pole with a Jan Andre Landsnes qualified Team @ 19.05sec ers would fall by the wayside in stunning time of 49.56sec. third and Mohammed Al Obaidly 4. Briney Rigby (AUS) Team Sweden @ Q2 leaving six boats to take part As the sun set over Doha, slotted into fourth. 40.33sec in a two-lap shoot-out for pole Chiappe slotted into third with “I was very happy with the time 5. Mohammed Al-Obaidly (QAT) Qatar Team position. Torrente laid down the a time of 50.37sec and stunned trials, the boat is perfect, much @ 62.66sec gauntlet with two stunning laps Carella with an awesome second better,” said Al Kuwari while 6. Bincheng Wu (CHN) China CTIC Team 1 of 50.49sec and 49.97sec to book lap of 49.16sec. expressing delight on day’s per- lap behind his place in Q3. Carella survived This left Torrente to try and formance . 7. Ronny Mathys (SUI) Mad-Croc Baba with a lap of 50.97sec, but Erik deprive Chiappe of a first ever Szymura was not to be denied Racing Team 3 laps behind Stark, Xiong Ziwei, Sami Selio, pole position and the American a third win of the season from 8. Mickus Sigitas (LIT) Team Nautica 4 laps Francesco Cantando and Filip produced a stunning opening tour four starts and, despite being behind Roms missed out. of 48.65sec to smash the opposi- pressured by Landsnes for much Marit Stromoy posted a Q3 tion and claim pole position. of the race, he reached the cheq- 2014 F-4S Trophy – latest positions target lap of 52.37sec as Jonas Mike Szymura pipped Qatar’s uered flag with a winning margin 1. Mike Szymura (DEU) F1 GC Atlantic Team Andersson took to the course Khalid Abdullah Al Kuwari to of 17.34 seconds. 75 pts for the first of his two laps and pole position for the first of the Today’s free practice precedes 2. Briney Rigby (AUS) Team Sweden 39 pts stopped the clocks on 49.86sec. Qatar races in the closing few the second time trials and UIM 3. Jan Andre Landsnes (NOR) Motorglass Al-Rubayan recorded a 50.39sec minutes before the session was F-4S race. The 2014 Grand Prix F1 Team 36 pts The Qatar Team’s Alex Carella on a charge in Doha Bay during the Grand before Carella entered the yellow flagged when Al Kuwari of Middle East takes centre stage 4. Khalid Abdullah Al-Kuwari (QAT) Qatar Prix of Middle East qualifying, yesterday. course and moved up to second stopped on the racing line with on Doha Bay from 15.30hrs. Team 26 pts with a first lap of 49.91sec before no fuel. THE PENINSULA

Winners of Oman, UAE lock horns at Gulf Cup Inter sack Mazzarri, Qatar Enduro Mancini waits in wings to be decided MILAN: An Omani player Roberto Mancini was on the verge of signing a two-and- (right) tackles expected to be confirmed as a-half year deal to take over the today UAE player during Inter Milan’s new coach after Nerazzurri. the struggling Serie A giants Although the club have yet their Gulf Cup confirmed the sacking of Walter to confirm Mancini as coach, match in Riyadh, DOHA: All the champion- Mazzarri (pictured) yesterday. former Inter goalkeeper Walter ship winners of 2014 Qatar Saudi Arabia A short state- Zenga, practically did International Enduro will be yesterday. Oman ment by the club so when he posted a decided this weekend as any of held the defending on www.inter.it said: message on Twitter the titles are decided yet. champions to a “FC Internazionale claiming that he Organised by Qatar Motor and goal-less draw. announces that had also been in the Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), Qatar who hold Walter Mazzarri has ‘frame’ for the job. the last round of the season for hosts Saudi Arabia been relieved of his “They have chosen QIE will take place today at in their opening duties as first team Mancini. I was in the Sealine. match will take coach. frame, my dream was In the E1 category, the title on Yemen in their “The club would close,” said Zenga. is between Kuwaiti riders, but second match like to thank Mazzarri for the Former Manchester City man- Mohammad Jaffar is the one who tomorrow. commitment, dedication and pro- ager Mancini has been out of has more option to get the title fessionalism he showed over his 17 work since leaving Galatasaray as he is leading with 147 points, months in charge.” last season but, if confirmed, will 30 points more than Abdullah The announcement followed be welcomed with open arms by Al Shatti who is second with 117 reports that Mancini, who won fans frustrated by Inter’s failure points. Barak Al Jasmi is third three league titles in a successful to perform to expectations under with 112 points. four-year spell with the club, was Mazzarri. AFP Regarding the E2 category, Moath Al Ansari also from Kuwait is leading with 116 points. The Emirati rider Mohamed Al Suarez scores in 3-3 draw against Costa Rica Balooshi is second with 100 points and the rider from South Africa, Matt Gilpin is in third place with MONTEVIDEO: Luis Suarez final minute. Suarez will by told reporters. Suarez is serving a his ban, took Cristian Rodriguez’s goal just missed the target in the 96 points. The Kuwaiti Fahad scored an equaliser and was mutual agreement with coach nine-match suspension from com- pass on his chest and turned to 88th minute and Costa Rica, hav- Al Musallam, with 92 point is just wide with what could have Oscar Tabarez miss Uruguay’s petitive international football for fire past Keylor Navas in the 49th ing equalised, won the Copa Antel in front of the Quads category been a spectacular winner as next friendly against 2015 Copa biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at minute. 7-6 on penalties. and Basem Abduswaielh and Uruguay were held to a 3-3 America hosts Chile in Santiago the World Cup. Costa Rica went ahead again Carlos Sanchez, who plays Mohamed Abu Issa are second draw by Costa Rica in a friendly on Tuesday. Alvaro Saborio headed Costa within a minute through Bryan for Argentine league leaders and third respectively. on Thursday. “We all know what Luis means Rica, now coached by former Ruiz before Uruguay turned the River Plate, had a fine debut for The activity will start at 9.45 The Costa Ricans, who stunned to us but we know we won’t have striker Paulo Wanchope, into match around with goals from Uruguay on the right wing how- with the Free Practice and the Uruguay 3-1 in their World Cup him at the Copa America so it’s the lead five minutes before the central defender Jose Maria ever, the coach Oscar Tabarez’s first race of the day will be at opener in Brazil in June, levelled good to look for alternatives to halftime. Gimenez and striker Edinson side, always dangerous on the 11:00. The second race is sched- match at the Centenario through get used to playing without him,” Suarez, playing at home for his Cavani. attack, were shaky in the defence uled at 14:00. THE PENINSULA substitute Johan Venegas in the Uruguay captain Diego Godin country for the first time since Suarez’s shot across the face off during the game. AFP 22 NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Break Time

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12345 6789 101112 DOWN 30 Places 1 Test pilot’s for quick 13 14 15 16 protection operations, 2 Mecca or briefly 17 18 19 Medina 32 Speaks to 3 1985 Ralph Shakespeare? 20 21 22 McInerny novel 33 Not 4 Support domestically 23 24 25 26 5 Longtime 35 “In principio airer of “Any ___ Verbum” 27 28 29 30 31 Questions?” 37 “Tell ___ 6 Place for a story” 32 33 34 35 delivery 38 Things to play with matches? 36 37 38 7 Withdrawing Yesterday’s answer words 43 Its natives are called Loiners 39 40 41 8 Withdrawing How to play Hyper Sudoku: 9 Range of sizes, 46 Master’s A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper seeker’s Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all 42 43 44 briefly hurdle, briefly regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like 10 Mathematics a normal Sudoku. 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 branch 48 Shell accessory associated with 50 Holders of many selfies How to play Kakuro: 52 53 54 fractals The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any 11 Establishing by 51 With no sparkle size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells 55 56 57 degrees 55 Flight for like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, 12 Jockey Turcotte someone some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some 58 59 60 8-Down cells will contain two numbers. 15 Many nods 56 Small power However, in a crossword the numbers reference 18 Biathlon need 61 62 63 sources clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! 19 Cádiz They denote the total of the digits in the row or condiment 57 The Rams of column referenced by the number. the A-10 Conf. ACROSS 39 Lang. in which “friends” is Within each 26 Twin Cities collection of cells 1 Did some above-average work 24-Across suburb - called a run - any 6 Doesn’t just tear up 40 Start of an intermission? 28 Jazz player of the numbers 1 10 One way to get the beat going? 41 Boo Boo Bear’s co-creator Malone to 9 may be used 13 Master, in Mysore 42 “___ name I love” (“America” but, like sudoku, lyric) each number may 14 Hostiles BOARS FERBER 43 Shop spinner only be used once. 16 “Well, well, well!” BRUNEI CORDELIA 17 He may be trying to unload 44 Campus letter Yesterday’s crates 45 Fence alternative RATEDX OPEDPAGE answer 20 “Am ___ France?”: King Lear 47 Old paper parts AVANT I LES OCH 21 Jeans reinforcer 49 Monitor option, for short NECTAR ONCD KTS 22 They’re easily fleeced 52 “___ back!” DRT POOR AEROBE 23 Chinese dish eponym 53 Kind of training done by music DENEB STEP I N Baby Blues By Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman majors 24 See 39-Across ESPO RYN ESTD 25 Magazine industry’s equivalent 54 The shorter you are? of a Pulitzer 55 Tend to work without a net MEAN I E NAGEL 27 Not nixed 58 He proclaimed “I shook up the MARG I N UV E A DPS 29 Composition of some wreaths world” A GT ICBM TSTRAP 31 Living or dead follower 59 Gervasi who directed 2012’s RHELOBAYEAYE “Hitchcock” 32 Yom Kippur War setting S ERENADE TORPOR 60 Shake in an opera house 34 Dam designer: Abbr. 61 Year Charles IX was born K EELOVER ANSELM 35 Vet 62 Rectangular paving stone I NESSE NEEDA 36 Mutating, highly resistant microbe 63 Unlikely bruiser ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Participants in a kimchi making event outside the city hall in Seoul yesterday. Kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, produced during the event is distributed among South Korea’s poorer households, and traditionally marks the start of the winter season. MUSCAT 31/22 Clear 32/24 Clear MAKKAH 33/24 Partly cloudy 34/25 Clear KUWAIT 28/12 Clear 29/16 Clear BAHRAIN 28/21 Clear 27/18 Clear SANAA 22/08 Clear 22/08 Clear Russia plans alternative to ‘Wikipedia’ RIYADH 26/14 Clear 27/14 Clear DUBAI 31/17 Clear 29/17 Clear MOSCOW: Russia plans to encyclopaedia assembled and Wikipedia has begun.” It was agency and conform to rules BAGHDAD 27/16 Mostly cloudy 26/15 Partly cloudy create its own “Wikipedia” to written by Internet users around not known whether the project applied to larger media outlets. ensure its citizens have access the world, has pages dedicated to might affect Russians’ access to And since February, state THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW to more “detailed and reliable” nearly every region or major city the existing Wikipedia in any way. authorities have been able to HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER information about their coun- within Russia’s 11 time zones, but President Vladimir Putin has block websites without a court try, the presidential library said the Kremlin library said this was branded the Internet a “CIA order. The webpages of two lead- ATHENS 18/12 Partly cloudy 18/14 Partly cloudy yesterday. not good enough. special project”, and the Kremlin ing Kremlin critics were among WASHINGTON 07/02 Clear 10/05 Chance of rain Citing Western threats, the “Analysis of this resource has said it must protect its online the first to be barred. Kremlin has asserted more con- showed that it is not capable of realm from threats from the The presidential library state- SYDNEY 23/16 Partly cloudy 30/14 Rain trol over the Internet this year in providing information about the West, as ties between the Cold ment said that 50,000 books and LONDON 13/08 Partly cloudy 12/07 Partly cloudy what critics call moves to censor region and life of the country in War-era foes have hit a new bot- archive documents from 27 librar- PARIS 13/08 Fog 12/07 Chance of rain the web, and has introduced more a detailed or sufficient way,” the tom over the Ukraine crisis. ies around Russia had already ISTANBUL 15/12 Chance of rain 16/10 Partly cloudy pro-Kremlin content similar to state news agency RIA quoted a Since August, bloggers in been handed over for the process MANILA 29/24 Chance of rain 31/25 Chance of storm closely controlled state media statement from the presidential Russia with more than 3,000 fol- of establishing the “alternative DHAKA 30/17 Clear 30/17 Clear such as television. library as saying. lowers must register with the Wikipedia”. DELHI 27/13 Partly cloudy 26/13 Clear Wikipedia, the online “The creation of an alternative Moscow’s mass media regulatory REUTERS ISLAMABAD 23/11 Clear 23/10 Clear

Chocolate festival Ban the cowbell? Swiss US plans to build world’s fastest farmers say utter nonsense supercomputers GENEVA: Holy cow! A Swiss university has sparked ire by sug- gesting that cowbells — as emblematic of the Alpine country as WASHINGTON: Secretary of chocolates, watches and Heidi — should be banned. Energy Ernest Moniz yesterday Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich announced two awards worth said the traditionally heavy bells had high decibel levels and could $425m to build two supercom- cause deafness. puters three times faster than To make things worse, cows weighed down by the bells chewed their China’s Tianhe-2, the most food for less time, they concluded, adding that to preserve their hear- powerful system in the world, as ing and healthy feeding habits, the bells should be replaced by GPS well as research extreme scale tracking devices. supercomputing technologies. The move to ban the tinkling bovines from the picturesque rolling The US government will invest pastures has angered the farmer’s lobby with a lawmaker and 27 other $325m to build “Summit” at the colleagues denouncing the doctorate thesis in a signed motion. Department of Energy’s ( DOE) The lawmaker Jacques Bourgeois, who also heads the Swiss Farmers’ Oak Ridge National Laboratory Union, accused the researchers of being ignorant of the facts on the in Tennessee and “Sierra” at its ground and uselessly questioning “our traditions, habits and customs.” Lawrence Livermore Laboratory He attacked the proposal of replacing the bells with a GPS as absurd in California, Xinhua quoted and said the cowbells helped farmers to locate their stock in bad or Moniz as saying in a statement. foggy weather. Another $100m will further The Swiss government has so far sidestepped the issue and the grow- be used to develop extreme ing controversy, while underlining the freedom of research. scale supercomputing technolo- Cowbells are an integral part of Swiss culture, with several festivals gies as part of a research and centred around it. They are also used as decorations and, according to development programme titled folklore, keep evil spirits away from pastures. FastForward 2, he said. Chocolate products are displayed on a stand during the International Chocolate and Sweets Festival at the AFP IANS Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday. The festival runs until tomorrow. Urban elite go in search of ‘pedal chic’

PARIS: Bikes with alligator comes with a price tag of ¤9,000 by one of the firm’s 1930s cars the inconvenience of traffic. skin saddles, frames adorned ($11,300). designs. “The braided leather of “They can exercise, they can with 24 carat gold leaf, or just For that, deep-pocketed cyclists the saddle and the handlebar is breathe and rediscover their free- t w o wh e e l s d e s i g n e d t o y o u r v e r y get a designer name, eight gears, inspired by the interior of the dom,” Bruno Urvoy, a marketing own personal specifications. a carbon monobloc frame and car,” Paolo Pininfarina, president expert who has also opened his From Paris to Tokyo via Milan, water-resistant taurillon leather of the business founded by his own bike shop in Paris, “En Selle designer and customised bikes saddle and handlebar grips. grandfather, said. Marcel” (On Saddle Marcel”). costing thousands of dollars are “This bike is very successful With just a limited edition of Specialising in luxury bikes, the latest must-have luxury item both with regular Hermes cus- 30, it is aimed at “bosses who live the shop sells models made by coveted by urban elites in search tomers... but also with cycling in city centres”, he said. Italian, British and German a bit of “pedal chic”. enthusiasts, who find something The bike is said to have been manufacturers A world away from the bland new in it,” Francois Dore, director invented in 1817 by the German And although they may be utilitarianism of self-service general of Hermes Horizons, said. Karl von Drais and by the middle expensive compared with other bikes, these top-end cycles are “We wanted to set out our of the 20th century it had become bikes, not all designer models becoming as much a status sym- vision of cycling as the favourite a cheap and easy means of trans- require a second mortgage. bol as the car ever was. means of transport for the mod- port for the masses all over the For 1,450 euros, you could And whether they be trendy ern citizen,” Dore said. world. acquire a Siegfried from young professionals or big names On the other side of the Alps, Today it is also a luxury acces- Schindelhauer which has a sleek in the business world, designers bespoke bike company 43 Milano sory with carmakers Mercedes- aluminium look. Or, for around are competing to woo potential turned to Pininfarina — the Benz, Porsche, Maserati, double, that you could purchase customers with their sleek, luxury Italian car design and coachbuild- Lamborghini and Ferrari all com- a Ludwig 18 that can be custom- A “Le Flaneur” bicycle designed by Hermes. models. ing firm — for its “Fuoriserie” ing out with their own top-of-the- ised according to your individual Luxury firm Hermes, which model. The chrome steel bike, range bikes. preference. These bikes have lit- of millions. But for Urvoy “the one they had as a teenager or the specialises in leather goods, priced at 8,400 euros, is equipped “With bikes, people rediscover tle in common with their more real luxury is customisation”. one their grandfather had — and is one of the market’s lead- with a discreet electric motor the independence that they had functional forerunners, which Customers can take him their ask him to replace certain parts, ing players. Its Flaneur model on the back wheel and inspired with the car, but without any of were produced in their hundreds favourite all-time bike — perhaps accessorise it or paint it. AFP