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Amir holds Iftar banquet for heads of diplomatic missions

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held an Iftar banquet at the Amiri Diwan in honour of Their Excellencies heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Qatar. The banquet was attended by H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Personal Representative of H H the Amir. →SEE ALSO PAGE 2

Unjust siege violates human MoPH outlines precautionary rights: European Parliament measures against Nipah virus THE PENINSULA RAMADAN TIMING SIDI MOHAMED Todays Iftar: 6:23 pm The National Human to livestock, real estate, human- DOHA: Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced that it has Tomorrow’s Imsak: 03:05 am THE PENINSULA Rights Committee itarian cases, religious rites and taken a number of precautionary measures in cooperation with (NHRC) has welcomed many other types. other relevant authorities in the country regarding virus Nipah DOHA: The European the decision of the Regarding the issue of the in the light of the outbreak of the virus in Kozhikode and Malap- Parliament has affirmed the European Parliament, European Parliament statement, puram districts in the southern Indian Kerala State. human rights violations caused which affirmed the rights the NHRC noted in a statement In a statement, the ministry said it has tightened monitoring by the ongoing unjust siege on violations caused by the yesterday that the confirmation and control measures at state ports, urging citizens and resi- Qatar which started on June 5 unjust siege imposed on of the decision on the impact of dents to temporarily avoid unnecessary travel to Kerala state last year. the sanctions imposed by Saudi in India during this period, until the outbreak is contained in Paramedic volunteer the State of Qatar by the The National Human Rights Arabia and other countries India, urging all travellers from Kerala go to the nearest health Saudi Arabia and other martyred, 100 others Committee (NHRC) has wel- against the State of Qatar in the center or hospital in case they show any symptoms of fever comed the decision of the blockading countries. field of human rights at the local within six weeks of returning from travel. ijured in Israel fire European Parliament, which and regional levels, and the The Joint Commission for the Control of Human Food has affirmed the human rights vio- pointing out serious human report’s content on the impact of also adopted a temporary ban on the importation of fresh and GAZA: A Palestinian para- lations caused by the unjust rights violations by the Saudi- the Gulf crisis on human rights frozen fruits and vegetables from the state of Kerala for the medic volunteer martyred siege imposed on the State of led quartet. In Qatar, the Com- issued by the United Nations High current period until the epidemiological situation stabilizes and 100 others injured with Qatar by the Saudi Arabia and pensation Claims Committee Commissioner for Human Rights there. The decision comes as a precautionary measure and gunfire and teargas fired by other blockading countries. since it was formed on July 9, in December 2017. follow-up of the situation in India and the implementation of Israeli occupation forces at Before this recent affir- 2017 has received thousands of The resolution also affirmed international organizations’ recommendations. participants in the Great March mation by the European Par- complaints (more than 10,000 the arbitrary detention and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines emphasise of Return on the eastern border liament, a number of global ) from individuals and com- forced disappearance of Qatari the necessity of washing and peeling fruit before consumption. of the Gaza Strip. organisations have been panies affected by the blockade. national Nawaf Talal Al Rasheed, The Ministry of Public Health also published the basic guideline Palestine news agency pointing out these gross human The siege separated families who did not follow the legal pro- of symptoms, Handling cases and infection control, and circu- (Wafa) reported that Razan rights violations committed by and violated the rights of people cedures in accordance with the lated these guidelines to liaison officers in all hospitals and Najjar, 21, a volunteering the blockading countries. to education, to work, to move statement of the High Commis- health centers to ensure the rapid reporting of any suspected paramedic, was shot in the In November 2017, repre- freely, and their right of residency. sioner for Human Rights, in cases. This comes in the light of the Ministry of Public Health chest and killed by Israeli sentatives from the United For the second year, Qataris and addition to calling on the Saudi raising of the preparedness level to monitor and follow up devel- snipers while she was pro- Nations’ Office of the High Com- residents are not able to perform authorities to put an end to opments in the outbreaks in the areas where the cases were viding first aid to the missioner for Human Rights Haj and Umrah and the losses of incitement to hatred and discrim- registered by the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak wounded at the border fence (OHCHR) visited Qatar, where 40 Qatari companies operating ination against all individuals and Alert and Follow-up Network, in addition to the continuous east of Khan Younes, in they met with some 20 govern- in Haj and Umrah during the last groups who are subjected to evaluation of preventive measures in coordination with other southern Gaza Strip. mental and civil society groups, and this year seasons are esti- human rights violations by Saudi competent authorities. as well as people who had been mated at QR200m. Arabia, including foreign The transitional diseases team in the Ministry of Public →SEE ALSO PAGE 4 affected by the blockade. In Most of the individuals nationals from other countries. Health receives reports and queries relating to transitional dis- January this year, OHCHR complaints to Compensation eases around the clock on the numbers 66740948 or 66740951. Trump: North Korea released report on siege of Qatar Claims Committee are related →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Summit in Singapore on June 12 is back on

WASHINGTON: US President Member states laud Qatar’s active role as chairman of TRIMs Donald Trump has announced that a 12 June GENEVA: The State of Qatar Economy and Trade at the World The member states partici- Uruguay Round, applies only to or Article XI (quantitative summit with Kim Jong-un will chaired yesterday the meeting Trade Organization (WTO) in pating in this meeting also measures that affect trade in restrictions). go ahead as planned in of Agreement on Trade-Related Geneva, Sheikh Ali bin Al Waleed expressed appreciation for the goods. Recognizing that certain The State of Qatar took over Singapore. This came after Investment Measures (TRIM) of Al Thani, focused on a number of active role played by the State of investment measures can have the chairmanship of the Com- Trump’s meeting with North the World Trade Organization topics related to international Qatar during its chairmanship of trade-restrictive and distorting mittee on Trade and Investment Korean Leader’s top aide, Kim (WTO) at the organization’s trade and investment, as well as the Committee in facilitating its effects, it states that no Member last year in the first session in Yong-chol, who handed Trump headquarters in Geneva. comments by some member states work and in addressing and com- shall apply a measure that is pro- which Qatar chairs a committee a message from Kim Jong-un. The meeting, chaired by Rep- on investment policies and pleting the issues on its agenda. hibited by the provisions of GATT in the World Trade resentative of the Ministry of legislation. TRIMs, negotiated during the Article III (national treatment) Organization. →SEE ALSO PAGE 12 02 HOME SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 Amir holds Iftar banquet for heads of diplomatic missions

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held yesterday an Iftar banquet at the Amiri Diwan in honour of Their Excellencies heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Qatar, Their Excellencies Ambassadors of the State of Qatar abroad and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the occasion of the Holy Month of Ramadan. The banquet was attended by H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Personal Representative of the Amir, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

Ministry honours 226 Students of Holy Quran memorisation centres MEC extends THE PENINSULA In addition, 37 Qatari students period of were honoured for completing classes DOHA: The Ministry of Awqaf and of the Holy Quran and 110 others who disbursement Islamic Affairs honoured the students presented outstanding performance of the Holy Quran memorisation in the preparatory stage according to centres in the annual ceremony held the curriculum of the Qur’anic centres of flour at Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaid Al affiliated to the Ministry of Awqaf and THE PENINSULA Mahmoud Hall in the presence of a Islamic Affairs. number of Ministry’s officials, super- The value of the awards presented visors of centres and students’ to the honourees this year reached DOHA: The Ministry of parents. nearly half a million riyals. Economy and Commerce The ceremony, held recently Mal Allah Al Jaber, Director of the (MEC) has announced under the patronage of H E Minister Department of Da’wah and Religious extending the period of of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Dr Guidance, praised the efforts made disbursement of flour with Ghaith bin Mubarak Al Kuwari, hon- by the Quranic centres during the past the food supplies until the oured 226 students, including 70 stu- year, which resulted in the graduation end of the holy month of dents from different nationalities who of a number of memorisers of the Ramadan, for cards that have completed memorising the entire Holy Quran and the achievement of not received flour sacks The officials of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs honour a student of a Holy Quran Holy Quran during the past year along advanced positions in international during the month of May. memorisation centre at Sheikh Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Hall. with 9 Qatari students. Quranic competitions. The quota will be trans- ferred electronically to the month of June so that the cit- izens benefiting from the ini- tiative can get a sack of flour in addition to the monthly Ooredoo hosts Garangao quota of other food items, said a statement. The Ministry had earlier celebrations at Katara announced the addition of flour within the food supplies during the month of THE PENINSULA Ramadan only, where the citizens who benefit from DOHA: Ooredoo drew a huge this initiative will receive a crowd at Katara Cultural Village, 50kgs sack of flour in as the company hosted its annual addition to the monthly Garangao celebration. ration of other food The special event, which dis- supplies. Children collect Garangao bags during the celebrations. tributed special goody bags to Beneficiaries can receive children, was part of the ‘#Ram- their quota through the adanWithOoredoo CSR’ activities. Director PR and Corporate Com- their child along to the event and various branches of Al Meera The Garangao bags were made munications, Ooredoo Qatar, said: helped us show true Ramadan Consumer Goods Company. by “NAMA” Centre in Qatar, and “Once again this year we wanted spirit.” They can also request included nuts, sweets and a to make sure that children from For more details on Ooredoo’s their quota through the greeting for the children from across Qatar’s communities could Ramadan offers and CSR events application of the Ministry of Ooredoo. enjoy the essence of the night. I follow the #RamadanWithOo- Economy and Commerce on Artistes perform during the annual Garangao celebrations. Manar Khalifa Al Muraikhi, thank every parent who brought redoo on Ooredoo’s social media. smart devices (MEC-Qatar). SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 HOME / MIDDLE EAST 03 Polls predict Erdogan’s victory in Turkish presidential election

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ANKARA: Polls yesterday predicted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) is the most likely candidate to win Turkey’s pres- idency in elections scheduled for June 24. Opinion polls, according to Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, indicate that in the first round of elections, Erdogan will win with more than 50 percent of the vote. The poll also predicted that 20% to 22% of the votes will Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the AK go to Muharram Engha, Repub- Party’s rally in Adiyaman, Turkey, yesterday. lican People’s Party candidate, while for the candidate Maral Akchner, Chairman of the I government spokesperson Bekir parliament passed a proposal to Party votes will not exceed 15%, Bozdag expressed his expec- the Justice and Development The month of Holy Quran followed by Selahattin tation that President Erdogan party and the Nationalist Worshippers reading Holy Quran at a Masjid in Mamoura, Doha, yesterday. Demirtash, candidate of the would receive 54% of the vote Movement Party to hold presi- PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA Democratic People’s Party, by and win the presidential election dential and parliamentary elec- about 10%. from the first round. tions on June 24 instead of On Thursday, Turkish Last April, the Turkish November 2019.

US Vetoes UN Siege violates human rights: European Parliament resolution on CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the blockade. Meanwhile, the European rights violations resulting from the siege protect the people’s rights. protecting Parliament called for further measures imposed on the State of Qatar. It has succeeded to solve many The NHRC noted this positive step by and steps to condemn the siege countries The Compensation Claims Committee problems of the students issues in collab- Palestinians the European Parliament, which is in and determine their legal responsibility is chaired by the Attorney General and oration with the Ministry of Education and AFP addition to the positions of the High Com- for violations and redress of victims. includes representatives of the Ministry Higher Education and other authorities missioner for Human Rights and the The National Human Rights Com- of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of concerned. Some students joined Qatar Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations mittee (NHRC) also called on EU coun- Justice as members with the possibility of university and Qatar Community College UNITED STATES: The United on their condemnation of the unilateral tries to support the European Parliament’s coordination with several bodies in the and some transferred to neighbor coun- States vetoed yesterday an measures taken by the siege countries of position and exert pressure to stop human State. The committee was established to tries depends on their desire. Arab-backed UN draft reso- lution calling for measures to protect the Palestinians after more than 100 were killed by Israeli fire during protests at 17 civilians dead in the border with Gaza. Ten countries including China, France and Russia offensive on Libya: UN voted in favour of the draft put forward by Kuwait on AFP the city. Haftar’s self-proclaimed behalf of Arab countries at the Libyan National Army (LNA) Security Council. Four coun- TRIPOLI: At least 17 civilians launched an offensive on May 7 tries — Britain, Ethiopia, the have been killed in an offensive to “liberate” the eastern coastal Netherlands and Poland by military strongman Khalifa city, home to about 150,000 — abstained. Haftar’s forces to take the last people. A draft resolution requires city in eastern Libya beyond his Derna is controlled by a nine votes to be adopted in control, the United Nations said ragtag coalition of Islamist mil- the 15-member council and yesterday. itants, including groups close to no veto from the five per- “The escalation of fighting in Al Qaeda, hostile to both Haftar manent members -- Britain, Derna has reached unprece- and the Islamic State group. The China, France, Russia and the dented levels during the past coalition, the Mujahedeen Shura United States. US Ambassador week, with fighting further Council, was formed to drive IS Nikki Haley told the council encroaching into densely popu- from the city in 2015, after it had the measure was “wildly lated areas,” the UN Support taken over Derna the previous inaccurate in its characteri- Mission in Libya said. year. zation of recent events in “Since 16 May, at least 17 Haftar’s forces entered the Gaza” by condemning Israel Muslim migrants have their iftar meal during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at a detention civilians, including two children, city’s suburbs last week and have for the violence. centre in Tripoli, Libya. were killed and another 22, tightened the noose on their The Kuwait-drafted text including seven children, were opponents with the help of air had called for “measures to injured in the conduct of hostil- strikes and heavy artillery. shortages continue to worsen” authorities vying for control. outside the west. Four Libyan guarantee the safety and pro- ities.” The mission called on all LNA forces have besieged and said “electricity and water Haftar supports an adminis- leaders, including Haftar, agreed tection” of Palestinian sides to “exercise maximum Derna for nearly two years, are intermittently cut off”. tration based in the east of the on Tuesday to hold elections on civilians in Gaza and the restraint” after seven civilians making it difficult for residents Libya has been wracked by country and opposes a UN- December 10 after a peace con- occupied West Bank, and were killed and seven wounded to access humanitarian aid. chaos since a 2011 uprising that backed unity government based ference in Paris aimed at uni- requested a UN report to by an explosion on May 30 as The UN mission warned that toppled and killed long-time dic- in the capital Tripoli that has fying the war-torn north African propose an “international they were attempting to leave “severe food and medicine tator Kadhafi, with two rival struggled to assert its authority nation. protection mechanism.” ‘Military coalition assault on Yemen port would be disaster’ REUTERS “Thousands of civilians are International Committee of the - and Iran, which is allied to the diplomacy on both sides”. “We is very difficult given the con- fleeing from the outskirts of Red Cross (ICRC), said. Shiah Houthis, to help avert dis- are now in a race against the tinued severe restrictions on fuel GENEVA: As forces of the Hodeidah which is now a battle “It’s a densely-populated aster. “The situation is clock, to really get enough sup- and other imports by the military coalition close in on the zone.” area where any military sce- screaming for more robust plies in through Hodeidah which coalition. main Yemeni port city of “We cannot have war in nario will risk coming at a huge Hodeidah, aid agencies fear a Hodeidah, it would be like war human cost.” The coalition is major battle that will also shut in Rotterdam or Antwerp, these carrying out air strikes in Yemen down a vital lifeline for millions are comparable cities in in support of restoring the inter- of hungry civilians. Europe.” Troops from the United nationally-recognised gov- Senior aid officials urged Arab Emirates and Yemeni gov- ernment, while Houthis have Western powers providing arms ernment are believed to lead launched missiles into Saudi and intelligence to the coalition coalition forces massing south Arabia. Some 10,000 people to push the mostly Sunni Muslim of the city of 400,000, another have been killed and 3 million Gulf Arab allies to reconvene UN aid official said, declining to be displaced. talks with the Iran-allied Houthi named. Yemen traditionally imports movement to avoid a bloodbath Last week UN aid chief Mark 90 percent of its food, mainly and end the three-year war. Lowcock urged the Saudi-led through Hodeidah where UN A coalition spokesman said coalition that controls Yemen’s inspectors check ships to ensure on Tuesday that forces backed ports to expedite food and fuel they do not carry weapons. by the coalition were 20kms imports. He warned that a “It remains a lifeline for the from the Houthi-held city of further 10 million Yemenis could highlands where close to 70 Hodeidah, but did not specify face starvation by year-end in percent of Yemenis live. It’s whether there were plans for an addition to 8.4 million already about the need to have com- assault to seize the Red Sea port, severely short of food in the mercial imports,” Mardini said. long a key target. world’s worst humanitarian “Despite all the measures “The coalition ground forces crisis. put in place by the Coalition to are now at the doorstep of this “Hodeidah, the so-called big improve imports, what is heavily-fortified, heavily-mined battle, has been looming now reaching Hodeidah is very short port city,” Jan Egeland, Sec- for 18 months with ups and of the needs.” Egeland called for Yemenis check the wreckage of an armoured vehicle after clashes between fighters and Houthi rebels, retary-General of the Nor- downs,” Robert Mardini, Middle Western powers - led by Britain, near the coastal town of Hodeida. wegian Refugee Council, said. East Regional Director for the the United States and France 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian paramedic

AP The health ministry said Razan Najjar, 21 (left), was fatally shot in the chest, JERUSALEM: A Palestinian and over 100 people were injured, 40 woman was killed by Israeli fire of them by live fire. Witnesses said yesterday during mass protests in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Najjar was a volunteer paramedic Health Ministry said. who took part in treating wounded Thousands of Palestinians protesters during the weekly thronged to the Israeli border in demonstrations. the eastern Gaza Strip, marking the 10th weekly protest aimed at drawing attention to the crippling a statement that Palestinian pro- positions in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli-Egyptian blockade and testers attacked the border fence largest operation in the Gaza Strip demanding the right for Pales- during yesterday’s protests and since a 2014 war with Hamas. tinians to return to former homes troops responded with “riot dis- Egyptian mediation efforts in what’s now Israel. persal means.” The army also said successfully restored the cease- Palestinian worshippers pray outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque compound The health ministry said that a military vehicle came fire that has largely held since the on the third Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan. Razan Najjar, 21, was fatally shot under fire, and a grenade planted end of a 50-day war between in the chest, and over 100 people on the fence exploded. No Israeli Israel and Gaza militant groups were injured, 40 of them by live troops were injured. in 2014. Israel has come under heavy Hamas forcibly seized control blocking a U.S. bid to condemn fire. The military released a video Yesterday’s protests were the international criticism for its use of the coastal enclave in 2007 Gaza rocket fire at the Security Witnesses said Najjar was a in which an explosion can be seen latest in a series of demonstra- of live fire on unarmed protesters, after winning legislative elections Council earlier this week. volunteer paramedic who took adjacent to the fence during the tions orchestrated weekly by with rights groups accusing the a year earlier - is lifted. They also Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas part in treating wounded pro- protests. Hamas since late March. Tensions military of acting illegally by using called for a high turnout for Tues- official who joined the protest testers during the weekly Friday’s protest comes days soared on May 14, when the US deadly force from a distance day’s protests, which mark the east of Gaza City, praised the demonstrations. after an intense round of cross- relocated its embassy to con- when soldiers’ lives are not 51st anniversary of the Six Day turnout despite Ramadan, the The crowds gathered at five border violence, in which Hamas, tested Jerusalem. Over 60 Pales- immediately threatened. Israel War, in which Israel captured Muslim holy month in which the tent camps near the border fence the militant group ruling Gaza, tinians were killed that day. accuses Hamas of using the dem- Gaza, the West Bank and east devout observe a dawn to dusk separating Israel and the Gaza. and Islamic Jihad fired dozens of Since March 30, Israeli fire onstrations as cover to carry out Jerusalem. Israel withdrew from fast. Dozens of youths approached the mortar shells and rockets into has killed more than 115 Pales- attacks. the Gaza Strip in 2005. “Those who bet on dwin- fence, burning tires and hurling Israel, wounding three soldiers. tinians, most of them unarmed Organizers of the protests Demonstrators at Friday’s dling participation are proved rocks at Israeli troops behind the Israel responded with dozens protesters, according to the Pal- vowed to continue them until protests waved Kuwaiti flags to to be wrong today,” he told fence. The Israeli military said in of airstrikes targeting militant estinian Health Ministry. the blockade - imposed after thank the Persian Gulf state for reporters.

7 Turkish sites on Unesco’s tentative 41% of Syria refugees in Netherlands bear mental scars heritage list ANATOLIA regarded as having mental health issues, been subjected to ill-treatment and har- status-holders take part in the Dutch edu- for example frequently feeling anxious, assment during the trip, while a large cation system, it added. ANATOLIA THE HAGUE: Over 40 percent of Syrian down, or depressed,” according to the number had to pay huge sums of money Moreover, 20 percent of Syrian ref- refugees living in the Netherlands still report. to human traffickers, according to the SCP. ugees who took part in the survey said ANKARA: Seven more suffer from psychiatric illness despite The survey was conducted among It stated that refugees have limited they wanted to return to their home Turkish sites have been added having left war-torn Syria more than Syrians who were granted a temporary access to metal treatment facilities in the country once the war ends. to Unesco’s tentative World two years earlier, according to a new asylum residence permit in the Nether- Netherlands, a country where an average Turkey, the largest host country of Heritage List, the Culture study. lands between January 2014 and July 2016. of 13 percent of its citizens have psycho- Syrian refugees, has been praised by the Ministry said yesterday. The Netherlands Institute for Social A total of 44,000 Syrians have been logical problems. international community for providing In a statement, the min- Research (SCP) along with several other granted such permits. The survey also spotlighted the low top care and protection to more than 3 istry said the number of sites bodies published a report on Syrians in It said the negative things they had participation of Syrian refugees in the million refugees. from Turkey on the Unesco the Netherlands detailing the poor mental, experienced during their year-long Dutch education system, as almost no Along with shelter, food, and educa- list was now 78. social, and educational support in the journey from Syria to Europe was one of refuges have earned Dutch educational tional support, Turkey offers psycho- Among the cultural her- European nation. the chief causes of their trauma. certification. logical and social support to refugees itages are the Priene archae- “41% of Syrians in this study can be Thirty-three percent of refugees had Only 15 percent of Syrian asylum facing deep trauma. ological site (in the Aegean province of Aydin), Sarikaya Roman bath (in central Yozgat province), Harput historic Maher Zain releases new song for Erdogan city (in eastern Elazig Kenya orders polygraph tests of province), Justinianus bridge ISTANBUL: A Muslim singing star has released a new song for in western Turkey, as well as Turkey’s president ahead of the country’s June 24 presidential eastern province of Tokat - public servants in graft crackdown elections. Maher Zain, a Lebanese-born Swedish singer, song- an early cultural heritage of writer, and music producer who has sung in English, Arabic, and Anatolian Turkish civilization NAIROBI: Kenya’s president control. Dozens of the suspects a statement quoted him as Turkish, recorded the song “Harvest Time” for President Recep as well as Niksar, the capital ordered all state procurement remain at large, while 24 were saying at a ceremony marking Tayyip Erdogan. of Turkish Danishmend personnel to undergo lie- arrested and pleaded not guilty Kenya’s independence from The president has used the song — which has a video showing dynasty that ruled north- detector tests as part of in court on Tuesday. Britain in 1963. him meeting with people — on the campaign trail. central and eastern Anatolia measures to tackle graft after “All heads of procurement While Kenyatta pledged to Speaking to Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview, Zain in the 11th and 12th dozens of officials and business and accounts in government min- stamp out graft when first said Erdogan is “well loved by all Muslims around the world.” centuries. people were detained for alleged istries, departments, agencies and elected in 2013, critics say he has “When you judge a leader, you judge him on decisions he Underground waterworks theft of public funds. parastatals will undergo fresh been slow to pursue top officials. makes in difficult situations. I think President Erdogan has shown called kastel and livas in On Monday, 54 people - vetting including polygraph No high-profile convictions tremendous global leadership when it comes to dealing with southeastern Gaziantep including the public service testing, to determine their have occurred since he took some of the major humanitarian challenges of our times,” Zain province and wood roofed ministry’s principal secretary - integrity and suitability,” Pres- office. On Thursday, the director said. and wooden posted mosques were named to face charges ident Uhuru Kenyatta said in par- of criminal investigations said Zain also stressed Turkey’s “incredible support” for Syrian in Anatolia including, Esre- related to the stealing of nearly aphrased quotes released by his 10 financial institutions had refugees. “To host over 3 million refugees and spend billions of foglu in Konya, Kastamonu $100 million at the National office. “Those who shall fail the come under investigation on dollars hosting them and looking after them is no easy task for Mahmut Bey, Sivrihisar Ulu, Youth Service (NYS), a state vetting will stand suspended. I suspicion of handling the any country. It shows a unique moral stance driven by compassion Afyonkarahisar Ulu as well agency that trains young people expect this exercise to be con- missing funds, including KCB for humanity,” he said. as Ankara’s Arslanhane to work on projects ranging cluded before the start of the Group, and Standard Char- Mosque. from construction to traffic new financial year (2018/2019),” tered’s Kenyan business. Air strike kills 12 militants in Somalia: US WASHINGTON: A US air strike in Somalia killed 12 militants from the Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliate that launches regular attacks Tunisia to raise fuel prices, hold off wage increase on targets in the African nation, the United States Africa Command said yesterday. It said US forces conducted the strike on Thursday in conjunction with Somalia’s government about 30 miles southwest REUTERS economy with steps to cut of Mogadishu. chronic deficits and trim The Shabaab was pushed out of Somalia’s capital in 2011, and TUNIS: Tunisia will raise fuel bloated public services, but subsequently from other towns and cities, by soldiers from the prices in the coming days but progress has been slow. African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). hold off increasing public wages The IMF delegation visited But the Islamists still hold sway in large parts of the coun- this year to meet terms of the Tunisia this week to review with tryside. They launch regular gun and bomb attacks on government, International Monetary Fund for officials the next tranche worth military and civilian targets in Mogadishu as well as ambushes on its next loan tranche, a around $250m which, if military convoys and outposts. government official and diplo- approved, would bring total pay- matic sources said. ments since 2016 to $1.2bn. Tunisia has dropped into a The government official Nigerian health workers end strike: union deep economic slump fol- said fuel prices would rise by lowing the overthrow in 2011 0.070 dinar ($0.027) a litre in LAGOS: Nigerian health workers have called off a six-week strike of autocratic leader Zine El the coming days, the third hike over pay and conditions that paralysed services in state-run Abidine Ben Ali. Although its A gas station attendant pumps fuel into a customer’s car at a gas this year but less than the 0.100 hospitals and health centres, a union leader said. successful democratic tran- station in Tunis, Tunisia, yesterday. dinar the IMF had asked for, as “We have suspended the strike because of the sympathy the sition since then contrasts with the government has whittled unions have for the suffering Nigerian masses and also to pave other “Arab Spring” countries, ruling coalition of secularists and from the powerful labour union down subsidies on imported way for further negotiations,” the chairman of the Joint Health nine governments have failed moderate Islamists -- over the UGTT and people tired of aus- fuel. Workers Union (JOHESU), Biobelemoye Josiah, said. “All the striking to cut the budget deficit and extent of reforms and a possible terity, galloping inflation and For 2018, Tunisia had workers have been directed to return to their duty posts by Monday revive an economy hit by a lack cabinet reshuffle -- that coin- political instability. budgeted 1.5bn dinars in sub- 4th June,” he said. of investment and militant cided with a visit this week from Tunisia agreed with the IMF sidies but with a recent rise in The decision to resume work followed the intervention of attacks on tourists. an IMF delegation. in December 2016 on a loan global oil prices it would have to Senate president Bukola Saraki, who is also a trained medical Loan talks have been com- The new austerity measures programme worth around spend 4 billion to avoid a rise in doctor. He promised to raise a parliamentary committee to mediate plicated by a row inside the are likely to meet resistance $2.8bn to overhaul its ailing pump prices, he said. in the row with the government. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 ASIA 05 India, Singapore agree to upgrade economic ties IANS The two sides signed development.” Stating that air traffic between India and Sin- SINGAPORE: Indian Prime eight agreements gapore is increasing rapidly, the Minister Narendra Modi across different Indian Prime Minister said that yesterday said that India and sectors after the the two countries will soon sign Singapore will soon upgrade summit. “We are an air services agreement. their Comprehensive Economic He also said that both coun- Cooperation Agreement (CECA) happy with the tries are putting a lot of emphasis following a bilateral summit with second review of on defence and security in terms his Singaporean counterpart Lee the Comprehensive of tactical cooperation. Hsien Loong here during which Economic Cooperation Congratulating the navies of both sides called for regional the two countries for the 25th peace and stability. Agreement,” Modi said year of the Singapore India The two sides also signed Bilateral Maritime Exercise eight agreements across different (Simbex), he said trilateral exer- sectors after the summit. He also said that as the cises will also be started soon. “We are happy with the current chair of the Association “In the times to come, our second review of the Compre- of Southeast Asian Nations cooperation in terms of cyber hensive Economic Cooperation (Asean), Singapore will work security, and fighting extremism Agreement,” Modi said in a joint with India in the regional and terrorism will attain more address to the media with Lee. security architecture. importance,” Modi said. “But both our countries agree Modi said that while Sin- “We agree these are the that this is not our target, but just gapore is a significant source of biggest threats to our two coun- another milestone,” he said. foreign direct investment for tries.” Modi said that he and “Officials from both our India, the southeast Asia city Prime Minister Lee also dis- countries will soon discuss how state is also a top destination of cussed regional and global issues. to upgrade this agreement.” India Indian investments. “We reviewed our respective and Singapore signed the CECA “I am happy that Indian com- views on maritime security and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, during a joint in 2005. Singapore is the first panies use Singapore as a spring- reiterated our commitment to a press conference at the Istana Presidential Palace in Singapore, yesterday. country with which India signed board to expand to other Asean rules-based order,” he said. such a treaty. countries,” he said. “We have agreed that an regional stability through the nomic Partnership (RCEP). - Australia, China, India, Japan, On his part, Lee said that “Investments by Singapore open, stable and suitable inter- Asean institutions. RCEP is a proposed free trade South Korea and New Zealand. bilateral trade between India and companies in India are rising. national trade regime should be He also said that he reit- agreement between the 10 Asean The agreements signed yes- Singapore has doubled to $25 There are unparalleled oppor- maintained.” The Indian Prime erated Indian’s commitment to member states and the six states terday included those on naval billion since the CECA came into tunities for Singapore companies Minister also stressed on the a quick conclusion of the with which this regional bloc has cooperation, cyber security and effect. in significant sectors in India’s unity and centrality of Asean and Regional Comprehensive Eco- existing free trade agreements mutual recognition on nursing.

Centre notifies Cauvery Water Management Authority Farmers’ 10-day stir begins in IANS Cauvery Tribunal Award after the implementing the Tribunal consonance with the dictum and accepted and the Court, in its government placed the scheme award, as modified by the directions in the Award, as mod- judgement, has brought out the several states NEW DELHI: The Centre following the completion of Kar- Supreme Court, shall be final and ified by the court and also in con- entire scheme actually Asked yesterday notified the Cauvery nataka assembly elections. It had binding on all states, the notifi- formity with Section 6A of the about further steps, Singh said IANS Water Management Authority earlier taken the stand that it was cation said. Water Resources 1956 Act. It asked the Centre to the ministry will be writing to the (CWMA) for implementation of not in a position to formulate the Secretary UP Singh had told IANS take the scheme forward to its states concerned to nominate the Cauvery Water Tribunal scheme in view of the sensitivity earlier that the ministry’s noti- logical end in accordance with their representatives on the CHANDIGARH: Farmers in Award on sharing of waters of the state elections. fication for setting up CWMA and law with utmost dispatch and authority and the Cauvery Water agrarian states of Punjab and between Tamil Nadu, Kara- CWMA will consist of a Cauvery Water Regulation Com- notify it before the monsoon Regulation Committee. Haryana yesterday joined the nataka, Kerala and Puducherry. Chairman, two whole-time mittee (CWRC) will come out season sets in on June 1. “I have also requested Sec- 10-day protest call given by The action comes less than a members, two part-time yesterday. Replying to a question, the retary, Ministry of Agriculture to various farmer organisations fortnight after the Supreme Court members and four part-time On May 18, a bench of the Water Resources Secretary said nominate their officer and there in different states, dumping gave its nod for CWMA for the members from states concerned Supreme Court had observed what was being notified was are a few officers to be nomi- their produce, milk and other implementation of the 2007 and its decisions for that the draft scheme was in what the Supreme Court had nated by our ministry. food items on the roads. Such reports were received from Faridkot, Sangrur, Hoshiarpur and other places in Punjab and a Karnataka Cabinet to few places in neighbouring Haryana. be expanded on June 6 The protesting farmers, under the banner of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), IANS be made ministers will be said they will impose a 10-day announced before June 6. blockade on movement of BENGALURU: Congress, the “As agreed by the leaders of agriculture produce, including major partner in the coalition the respective parties, the Con- vegetables and fruits, from with JD-S in Karnataka, will gress will have 22 ministers, rural areas to cities and towns have 21 more ministers while including Deputy Chief Minister as a mark of protest. the party led by Chief Minister G. Parameshwara and JD-S 12 The farmers’ organisa- H D Kumaraswamy will get 11 ministers, including the Chief tions are demanding imme- more and all of them will be Minister, in the 34-member diate implementation of the sworn in June 6 in the first ministry,” Venugopal said. Swaminathan Commission expansion of the Cabinet. Congress President Rahul report on farming, giving While the Janata Dal- Gandhi and JD-S supremo H.D. minimum support price to Secular (JD-S) will keep Finance Deve Gowda have approved the farmers for their produce, portfolio, the Congress will get sharing of the portfolios waiving loans and helping Home among other between the coalition partners. farmers make agriculture departments. Accordingly, the Congress, Protest against Citizenship Bill cost-effective. The details of the ministries which has 78 legislators, will get Activists of the North East Women Front taking part in a torch light procession in protest against and portfolios to be shared by the Home, Irrigation, Bengaluru the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 proposal to provide citizenship or stay rights to minorities two parties were disclosed by the Development, Industries, Three Nigerians Congress in charge for Karnataka Health & Family Welfare, from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan in India, in Guwahati, yesterday. found dead in K CVenugopal at a press con- Revenue & Muzrai, Urban ference here attended among Development, Rural Devel- Delhi flat others by former Chief Minister opment, Agriculture, Medical AP Siddaramiah and party leaders Education, Women & Child Mallikarjun Kharge, Veerappa Welfare, Environment & Kerala Health Minister warns of new Nipah outbreak Moily and D K Shivakumar. Forests, Mines & Geology, Social NEW DELHI: Three Nige- “The Governor (Vajubhia Welfare, Food & Civil Supplies, rians were found dead, of IANS Vala) has fixed 2 p.m. on June 6 Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Noting that all those in tionary steps should be taken. suspected drug overdose, in for the swearing-in of all the 32 IT, Biotechnology and Science contact with the affected are still “We had indicated at the a rented accommodation here Cabinet Ministers. The venue & Technology and Sports & KOZHIKODE : With two more in the incubating period of the outset itself, there could be a yesterday, police said. for the ceremony will be Youth Affairs. The JD-S, which deaths in the past two days in virus and hence utmost caution possible second outbreak and Two of the dead, Chris- decided soon,” Kumaraswamy has 36 legislators, will have this Kerala district, the death toll has to be maintained, Shailaja, the vulnerable are those who topher David, 36, and Greece told the media. The alliance Finance & Excise, Information, from Nipah virus has risen to 16 in the statement, underlined that would have in come in contact Ben, 33, lived in different flats partners have decided on the Intelligence, General Adminis- as state Health Minister K K even though there need be no with the affected. All such in the same building in Mohan portfolios to be shared and the tration, Planning & Statistics Shailaja yesterday warned of a fear or panic, as a matter of people have to be closely Garden area of Uttam Nagar names of the 32 legislators to and Public Works Department. possible second outbreak. caution, all possible precau- watched. in west Delhi. Their landlord told police that the third victim, David, used to visit them often. “He (landlord) didn’t Court orders Tamil Nadu to explain Thoothukudi firing know much otherwise. “He informed us after he IANS senior police and other gov- Palaniswami told the media that deaths,” he said. According to an to preserve law and order failed. felt a foul smell coming out of ernment officials for the firing people in Thoothukudi had been FIR lodged by Thoothukudi police, As per the FIR, Sekar said he the apartment,” Deputy Com- CHENNAI: The Madras High and also setting up a Special protesting peacefully for long a Deputy Tehsildar has claimed had at first warned the protesters missioner of Police, Dwarka, Court’s Madurai Bench yesterday Investigative Team (SIT). against the company, alleging that he had ordered police firing that force would be used and Shibesh Singh said. ordered the Tamil Nadu On May 22, police fired at that it was causing health hazards on May 22 against the anti-Sterlite when his request was defied, he As per business visas government to state the reasons, people protesting against the and depleting the water table, but Copper protestors. ordered a baton charge. When recovered from their flats, by June 6, for the May 22 police Sterlite Copper smelter plant in this time, the opposition and The FIR filed by the police on this proved inadequate and the they were Nigerian citizens. firing in Thoothukudi which left Thoothukudi killing 13 and “anti-social elements” had turned May 22 says that Sekar, Deputy crowd kept surging forward “It hadn’t been too long since 13 persons dead. injuring over 60 persons. The the movement violent. Tehsildar in Thoothukudi, menacingly and attacked the they came to India,” he said, The court’s order came as it government was asked to submit “It is because of this instigation admitted that it was he who had police personnel, he had ordered adding that Christopher heard a petition demanding reg- its report by June 6. that so many people have died. ordered the police firing at the the firing of tear gas shells after David came here in March istration of murder cases against Earlier Chief Minister K. And we are really saddened by the protesters after all the other steps due warning. and Ben in April. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018

UN expert says Top court allows Manila’s judiciary under attack ex-Pakistan FM AP

MANILA: A UN expert says the unprecedented to contest polls expulsion of the Philippine chief justice after she was ANATOLIA On April, 26, the lambasted by the president Islamabad High Court is an attack on judicial ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top disqualified the then independence that could court yesterday overturned the imperil the country’s lifetime disqualification of foreign minister democracy. former Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammad UN Rapporteur Diego Khawaja Mohammad Asif, local Asif as member of Garcia-Sayan, who looks into media reported. parliament for life threats to the independence According to Express News, of judges and lawyers a local broadcaster, a three- for hiding assets worldwide, said in an Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain (third right), administers the oath to Nasirul Mulk as caretaker member bench of the Supreme and not disclosing interview that he has sent Prime Minister at the President House in Islamabad, yesterday. Court, led by Justice Umar Ata his employment in a questions to the Philippine Bandial, nullified the Islamabad government about the cir- High Court’s earlier verdict and UAE-based company. cumstances leading to the declared Asif eligible for Former chief justice Nasirul May 11 ouster of Chief Justice upcoming general election, Maria Lourdes Sereno from which are scheduled to be held Mulk takes oath as caretaker PM the 15-member high court on July 25. Asif remarked on Twitter after and expects a response in 60 On April, 26, the Islamabad the announcement of the days. AP High Court disqualified the then judgment. President Mamnoon Hussain Muslim League party remains He said there is no formal foreign minister as member of Usman Dar, the petitioner administered the oath of office the strongest in parliament. UN investigation into Sereno’s parliament for life for hiding and a rival candidate of Asif, ISLAMABAD: A former Paki- at a ceremony attended by the Both the PML and the oppo- ouster but he wanted to assets and not disclosing his who lost the 2013 general elec- stani chief justice was sworn in political and military leadership. sition had agreed on Mulk, who engage the Philippine gov- employment in a UAE-based tions, congratulated him after yesterday as the caretaker prime Incumbent Prime Minister served as Pakistan’s chief justice ernment in a dialogue to help company. the court verdict minister for an interim period Shahid Khaqan Abbasi resigned from 2014 to 2015, as interim strengthen the country’s Asif, a close aid of former “I accept the court verdict of two months, hours after Paki- at midnight on Thursday, ending premier. Pakistan’s constitution judicial independence and premier Nawaz Sharif, was dis- and congratulate Khawaja Asif,” stan’s president dissolved the a brief but turbulent tenure since mandates new elections to be foster checks against abuses qualified under article 62-1F of Dar told reporters. powerful lower house of July 2017 when he replaced held within 60 days. and human rights the constitution, an article Last year, a five-member parliament. Nawaz Sharif who was dis- Mulk’s main job will be to violations. under which Sharif was ousted Supreme Court bench disqual- It was only the third time in missed by the Supreme Court supervise the July elections. On in July last year by the country ified Sharif for life in the Pakistan’s history that the for concealing financial assets Sunday, candidates will begin top court. Panama Papers scandal for National Assembly finished its abroad, a disclosure stemming submitting their nominations for Taliban rejects Later, Asif had filed appeal hiding his work visa. five-year term. Nasirul Mulk, from leaked documents known the National Assembly and pro- against the verdict in the The three-time premier who has a reputation as a as the Panama Papers. vincial assemblies. They have US commander’s Supreme Court. blames the country’s estab- defender of democratic institu- Sharif is now on trial for cor- until June 6 to register. “Thanks God, it’s a blessing lishment -- a term commonly tions, will run the government ruption and has been barred Whoever wins majority in remarks on talks on me and I am really grateful used for the powerful army -- pending results of July 25 par- from running for office. parliament will name the next AP to judiciary for today’s verdict,” behind his ouster. liamentary elections. However, his ruling Pakistan prime minister.

KABUL: The Taliban say they “categorically reject” a statement made this week by Biographer: Animosity towards US drives Duterte the US commander of coalition forces in Afghan- istan about “off stage” AP the country’s former colonial extrajudicial killings during Miller’s book notes that contacts and dialogue taking power. Duterte’s signature war-on- Duterte has publicly derided place between the Kabul CANBERRA: The author of the China’s greatest appeal to the drugs policy despite the pres- Obama, Pope Francis and the government and the insur- first biography of Rodrigo 72-year-old Philippine leader for ident withdrawing his country author with a favored “son of a gents. Duterte (pictured), says the a realigned relationship was from the court’s jurisdiction. A whore” insult, while declaring Taliban spokesman Zabi- maverick Philippine president money, Miller said. Filipino lawyer has complained his approval for President hullah Mujahid said in a was gravitating towards China “The Chinese have actually that the anti-drugs campaign Donald Trump. statement distributed to the partly because of a personal promised a lot of investment and could amount to crimes against In Canberra, Miller described media yesterday that Gen animosity towards the United although Duterte in the past has humanity. Miller suspects the Duterte as an admitted liar, thin- John Nicholson’s remarks, States and its criticisms of his not been known for his infra- slayings of suspected drug users skinned, narcissistic, vengeful, made to reporters at the Pen- human rights record. structure work, there are few and pushers “represents the angry and deeply misogynistic. tagon from his Kabul office, Jonathan Miller, Asia corre- countries in Southeast Asia that largest loss of life in Southeast The book cites a 1998 psy- were a “baseless claim.” spondent for Britain’s Channel 4 are in more need of investment Asia since Pol Pot,” the leader of chologist’s report used by Nicholson said on News, spent more than a year and infrastructure than the Phil- the genocidal Khmer Rouge Duterte’s former wife in a mar- Wednesday that “mid-level, interviewing Duterte’s family, ippines - they need rail and road regime that killed millions in riage annulment court appli- senior-level Taliban leaders” Cabinet members, supporters transport desperately,” Miller China, which aggressively con- Cambodia in the late 1970s. cation that described Duterte as are “engaging with Afghans,” and critics to compile a biog- told The Associated Press in Can- tests the Philippines’ territorial More than 4,000 mostly having a narcissistic personality adding that unspecified inter- raphy largely in the words of Fil- berra during a book signing. claims in the South China Sea. urban poor suspects have been disorder with aggressive fea- national organisations, ipinos. It’s called “Duterte “He’s looking for a lot of “The move toward China killed by police - a staggering tures. The diagnosis was drawn foreign governments and Harry,” a nickname Duterte Chinese money in that, but he’s alarms a lot of Filipinos who love death toll officials blame on the from the wife’s testimony. His other interested parties also earned during 22 years as the also doing it to punish the U.S. America more than any other suspects fighting back. Human daughter Sara Deturter-Carpio are involved. gun-toting mayor of southern and he’s got a personal chip on country in the world,” Miller said. rights watchdogs have cited much told the author that her father Mujahid said that Davao city. It’s also a play on the his shoulder over the United Duterte’s gripes with the higher numbers of fatalities, which had been chivalrous in not con- “American General Nicholson Clinton Eastward movie title States, which has criticized him United States include being the government disputes. testing the report and allowing is making such fabricated “Dirty Harry.” for his human rights abuses,” refused a visa, apparently Duterte denies condoning the marriage to end in a country statements to divert attention The British journalist said Miller said. “He values China because of State Department summary killings and has lashed does not recognize divorce. from his failures and keep the Duterte would like the Philip- because they don’t criticize his alarm at death squads that out at critics, including former Miller approached Duterte Washington media busy with pines to be part of new sphere human rights stuff,” he added. operated in Davao when he was President Barack Obama, to be interviewed for the biog- false claims instead of that included China and Russia Many Filipinos are unsettled mayor, Miller said. The Interna- Western governments and U.N. raphy. Duterte referred Miller to exposing the failed Trump and abandon the old alliances by Duterte moving away from tional Criminal Court is con- human rights officials who have staff to set an appointment, but (administration’s) strategy” in including with the United States, the United States and closer to ducting a preliminary probe into raised alarm over the killings. staff never did. Afghanistan.

Vietnam banker gets $700m fine, EU, West urge Maldives to hold 30-year jail term transparent presidential poll for embezzlement REUTERS REUTERS 2015 and sentenced to 13 years European Union said. in prison after a controversial “We urge authorities to HANOI: A court in Vietnam MALE: The European Union and and widely criticised trial. demonstrate genuine com- has sentenced a former some Western nations yesterday Although Nasheed cam- mitment to a credible, trans- banking executive to 30 years urged the Maldives to hold a paigned from Sri Lanka to win parent, and inclusive election in prison and ordered that she credible and transparent pres- 43,922 of the 44,011 votes cast process.” In a statement, pay more than $700m in idential poll after police in Wednesday’s election, the Nasheed said it was inspiring to damages caused at a domestic executing a court order Elections Commission declined see Maldivians rising up with the bank, state media reported disrupted an opposition effort to accept the results and vowed belief that “Democracy must yesterday. to pick a candidate for the to take action against the MDP. prevail, despite the atmosphere Hua Thi Phan, 71, September election. In a joint statement, the of military rule and repression” embezzled $278m from the The Maldives, home to ambassadors of the European imposed by President Abdulla Vietnam Construction Bank, 400,000 people and best known Union, France, Germany, Italy, Yameen. formerly known as Great as a tropical paradise for the Netherlands, Romania, the Yameen’s administration Trust Commercial Joint Stock tourists, has experienced United Kingdom, Canada and has rejected a demand by a U.N. Bank, where she had been a political unrest since Mohamed the United States said they had human rights watchdog to let senior board advisor. Nasheed, its first democrati- followed the deterioration of the Nasheed stand for the presi- The court, in its late cally-elected leader, was forced situation with increasing dential election. Thursday ruling, ordered Ramadan charity to quit amid a mutiny by police concern. The opposition has accused Phan to return the money and in 2012. “Legitimate opposition is a the government of locking up pay additional interest, com- Thai Muslims carry packages of food they received from local Nasheed, the sole candidate vital part of any healthy most of its leaders who could pensation and fines totalling government officials in the southern province of Narathiwat, in this week’s primary election democracy, and it is critical that challenge Yameen’s bid to be re- over $700m, according to yesterday during the holy month of Ramadan. held by his Maldivian Demo- authorities respect fundamental elected for a second five-year Tuoi Tre, another state cratic Party (MDP), was con- freedoms, including freedom of term, a charge the government newspaper. victed of terrorism charges in assembly and speech,” the denies. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 ASIA 07 Two Koreas agree to talks on military, family reunions

REUTERS The meeting in the an early launch of a liaison office border village of in the North Korean border city SEOUL: The two Koreas agreed Panmunjom in the of Kaesong, where they at a high-level meeting operated a factory park until its yesterday to hold talks this demilitarised zone closure during tension in 2016, month on military issues and that separates North they said in a statement. reunions of families divided by and South Korea is Cho and Ri also agreed to the 1950-53 Korean War, they hold regular meetings to said in a statement. the latest in a flurry expedite various working-level The meeting in the border of diplomatic activity talks which would include coop- village of Panmunjom in the intended to sustain a eration on railways, forests and demilitarised zone that sepa- thaw in relations with culture. rates North and South Korea is During the talks, Ri blamed the latest in a flurry of diplo- the isolated North. Cho for having brought about a Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (left) accompanied by his deputy Wan Azizah Wan Ismail matic activity intended to “grave situation” that led to the (centre) and politician Anwar Ibrahim, arrives for a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. sustain a thaw in relations with North’s cancellation of last the isolated North. Panmunjom, and a separate month’s talks. Ri did not give North Korea had called off session on sports exchanges on specific information but a planned meeting with the the southern side on June 18, the Pyongyang has lashed out at Australia ‘complicit’ in South last month in protest two sides said. Seoul for allowing Thae Yong against US-South Korean air Talks about reunions of Ho, a former North Korean dip- combat exercises before South families divided by the war, lomat to Britain who defected Malaysia corruption: Anwar Korean President Moon Jae-in which ended in a truce, not a to the South in 2016, to launch and North Korean leader Kim peace treaty, would be held on a book in parliament in which Jong Un put the process back on June 22 at the Mount Kumgang he describes Kim as “impatient, AFP the high-profile case of a the truth and let a new trial that track during a surprise second resort north of the border. impulsive and violent”. policeman, now in Australian is clearly transparent and just to summit on Saturday. Family reunions are an The North also demands the SYDNEY: Leading Malaysian custody, who fled Malaysia after proceed.” While the two Koreas work emotional issue that could help repatriation of a dozen North politician Anwar Ibrahim being sentenced to hang for the Sirul has claimed he was to improve their ties, North restore trust but they have been Korean restaurant workers, who claimed yesterday that Australia killing of a Mongolian model ordered by “important people” Korea is in talks with the United stalled in the absence of political came to the South in 2016 via was complicit in alleged linked to a Najib government in 2006 to murder model Alt- States on a proposed summit engagement, said Elhadj As Sy, China. The North says they were corruption by the former bribery scandal. antuya Shaariibuu — the mis- between Kim Jong Un and U.S. secretary general of the Inter- abducted by the South, but it government as he called on “It’s time Australia accepts tress of a Najib associate accused President Donald Trump, ten- national Federation of Red Cross says they defected freely. Canberra to send home a the fact that some of their of arranging kickbacks for the tatively set for June 12 in and Red Crescent Societies, who “We don’t talk about what policeman implicated in a foreign policy clearly has been purchase of French Singapore. was in Seoul to discuss plans for happened in the past. You just murder scandal. tainted, has been perceived by submarines. Yesterday’s talks were led reunions and other issues. need to not repeat it again,” Ri Former opposition leader many Malaysians as complicit, Anwar, the presumptive by South Korea’s Unification “With more engagement said. Anwar slammed Canberra’s or tolerant, of the crimes of cor- successor to 92-year-old Prime Minister Cho Myoung-gyon and and political openings, many Ri also said an unspecified “tainted” policy towards ousted ruption and also criminal Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the hurdles will be lifted,” Sy told issue had become “a source of prime minister Najib Razak’s actions,” the 70-year-old told said he was willing to move on North’s committee for the Reuters in an interview. mistrust” and would determine administration, which was sen- ABC radio. as relations with Australia need peaceful reunification of the The federation hopes that “whether a mood of reconcili- sationally ousted in last month’s “So I think the Australian to be “extremely cordial”. country, and were a follow-up North Korea will allow it to ation and cooperation, or mis- election. authorities need to do their Australian Foreign Minister to an agreement reached during provide more aid. An estimated trust and confrontation is Anwar, who was jailed by utmost to make sure that this is Julie Bishop defended Can- the first summit between Kim 10 million North Koreans or 40 created between the North and Najib in 2015 and released after corrected and that means berra’s previous relationship and Moon in April. percent of the population need South”. the election, said Australia had (former police officer Sirul Azhar with Najib and said she was Military talks between the humanitarian assistance, Sy “It is a very serious always made “extremely sup- Umar) should be allowed to “looking forward to a close and old rivals will take place on June said. problem,” Ri said. He did not portive” statements about come back. “(He should) be productive relationship” with 14 on the northern side of Both Koreas also agreed to elaborate. Najib’s administration. He cited given security protection, to say the new government.

Teenager, housewife Singapore seeks clarification from Malaysia on high-speed rail link among 15 suspected REUTERS said he was cancelling the If Malaysia terminated the understanding of our two The project, valued by analysts militants held in project to link the capital, Kuala project, Singapore would study peoples,” he added. at about $17 billion and set to SINGAPORE: Singapore has Lumpur, with Singapore. He said the implications and exercise its While Singapore continued have been completed by 2026, Malaysia requested clarification regarding Malaysia would talk to its rights, including any right to to support the project, it would would have cut travel time REUTERS Malaysia’s position on a high- southern neighbour about any compensation for expenses only be tenable if Malaysia was between Kuala Lumpur and speed rail link between the two compensation it had to pay. incurred, under their agreement, also supportive and willing to Singapore to about 90 minutes countries, a minister in the “We have informed the he said in a statement. fulfil its end of the agreement, from four or five hours by road KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia wealthy city-state said yesterday, Malaysian government that Sin- “We still believe that a high- added Khaw, who is also the now. has detained 15 suspected following media reports its gapore is continuing to incur speed rail link between Sin- coordinating minister for infra- Mahathir estimates Malaysia Islamist militants including a neighbour had decided to cancel costs on this project as it awaits gapore and Kuala Lumpur would structure. Yesterday, Malaysia’s could cut almost a fifth of its teenager and a housewife the plan. Malaysia’s clarification,” said be in our mutual interest, eco- finance minister said the project $250bn national debt and liabil- accused of plotting separate Malaysian Prime Minister Singapore transport minister nomically, as well as in terms of was terminated for now, but ities by scrapping such big “lone wolf” attacks on places Mahathir Mohamad this week Khaw Boon Wan. the friendship and mutual could be revisited in the future. projects. of worship around the capital, Kuala Lumpur, police said. Police rounded up the 15, including nine foreigners, in several security operations Indonesia’s Merapi volcano between March 27 and May 9, Inspector-General of Police ejects towering column of ash Mohamad Fuzi Harun said in a statement. AP Airport is still open to flights. They included a 17-year- The mountain is about old secondary school student JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Mount 30km from center of suspected of being a member Merapi shot a towering plume Yogyakarta city on the densely of Islamic State, who had of ash about 6km high populated island of Java. allegedly planned “lone wolf” yesterday in an eruption About a quarter million attacks on churches, enter- authorities said lasted two people live within a 10-kil- tainment centers and Hindu minutes. ometer (6-mile) radius of the temples around Kuala The National Disaster Mit- volcano. Lumpur. igation Agency said the vol- Merapi’s last major eruption The student had made six cano’s alert status, raised last in 2010 killed 347 people. petrol bombs and tested one month from the lowest level, is Indonesia, an archipelago of them, Mohamad Fuzi said. unchanged and a 3km no-go of more than 250 million “The suspect had sur- zone around the crater remains people, sits on the Pacific “Ring veyed and filmed the target in force. of Fire” and is prone to earth- locations, as well as recorded It said the eruption at quakes and volcanic eruptions. a video warning of the 8.20am caused no panic and Indonesian government seis- impending attacks,” he said, People watch as Mount Merapi volcano erupts from Purwobinangun Village, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, nearby Adi Sucipto mologists monitor more than adding that the video was yesterday. Yogyakarta International 120 active volcanoes. uploaded to four Islamic State-linked mobile chat- rooms shortly before the suspect was arrested. China dispatches low-level Another detained suspect Faulty Takata air bag kills 7th person in Malaysia was a 51-year-old housewife who was arrested on May 9, officials to security conference AP Lumpur. It was the second death automaker’s database had not the day Malaysia held a BEIJING: China has dispatched a low-level military delegation to this year after a Malaysian driver been updated. general election, police said. an annual security conference in Singapore that has dwelled heavily KUALA LUMPUR: Japanese died in a crash on New Year’s Honda said the passenger The woman was sus- in past on Chinese activities in the South China Sea. carmaker Honda said yesterday Day, also in a 2004 Honda City airbag inflator also ruptured pected of planning to drive a China’s presence at the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting this another person has died in car. but didn’t say if it deployed car into non-Muslim voters at weekend is being led by Lt. Gen. He Lei, vice president of the Peo- Malaysia after a flawed Takata Honda said the car in the properly. a polling center on the out- ple’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Science. airbag inflator exploded, raising latest incident was included “Honda records indicate that skirts of Kuala Lumpur. The move follows a recent pattern of not sending high-level the number of deaths linked to in a 2015 recall to replace the recall replacement was “The suspect had also officials to the three-day forum, in an apparent attempt to deflect the defect in the Southeast Asian flawed air bags on the driver never completed and the vehicle planned to crash into non- attention from China’s shoring up its claims to virtually the entire country to seven. and passenger side but was not serviced in Honda Muslim houses of worship South China Sea. At last year’s meeting, US Defence Secretary Jim Honda said in a statement several letters sent to the authorized dealers,” the using a car fitted with a gas Mattis sharply criticised what he called Beijing’s disregard for that the driver was killed when original owner did not reach statement said, No further tank to be used as an international law by its “indisputable militarization” of artificial the 2004 Honda City car the new owner after the car details were immediately explosive,” Mohamad Fuzi islands in disputed areas of the South China Sea. crashed on May 27 in Kuala was sold because the available. said. 08 EUROPE SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 Britain may give Northern Ireland joint UK, EU status REUTERS The idea would be to from the border and hide a hard create a 16km wide border in a buffer zone.” LONDON: The United Kingdom DECADES OF VIOLENCE EU could propose giving Northern trade buffer zone diplomats and officials also Ireland joint UK and European along the border for voiced scepticism about the Union status so it can trade local traders such as idea. “We haven’t heard it from freely with both, in an attempt dairy farmers after them. But it doesn’t seem like to break the deadlock in Brexit something that would work for negotiations, a government the UK leaves the us,” one official said. official said. bloc, said the official. EU negotiators have The idea would be to create become, if anything, more con- 16km wide trade buffer zone vinced than they were when an along the border for local Irish border “backstop” was first traders such as dairy farmers of EU negotiators’ attempts to drafted six months ago that after the UK leaves the bloc, said keep us in the Customs Union there is no real alternative to the official, who spoke on con- and the Single Market, we are creating a separate economic dition of anonymity. leaving,” Democratic Unionist regulatory system in Northern Journalist and broadcaster Eamonn Holmes, (second right), with his wife Ruth Langsford (second The plan is one of several Party MP Sammy Wilson said in Ireland, aligned with the EU and left), his son Jack (left) and daughter Rebecca, poses with his medal after he was appointed Officer being discussed and may not be a statement. therefore different from the proposed to the EU, the official “Instead of moving from one British mainland. of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to broadcasting, by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said. set of half-cooked ideas to the But the devolved Scottish II during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, yesterday. Inspiration for the dual-reg- other, it is now time for the gov- government voiced concern that ulatory system has been taken ernment to put down its foot and the proposed arrangement from Liechtenstein, which is make it clear to EU negotiators would result in different able to operate both the Swiss that the Prime Minister stands treatment for Northern Ireland, Latvia rejects EU’s post-Brexit budget proposal and the EU-linked European by her commitment that no deal and said that Westminster had AFP Economic Area regimes at the is better than a bad deal.” previously ruled out a similar increasingly wealthy eastern economic conditions in the same time. Martina Anderson, a member of proposal it had put forward for states. Latvia stands to get 13 28-nation bloc’s traditionally But a lawmaker from the the European Parliament for Scotland. “This apparent U-turn RIGA: Latvia’s Prime Minister percent less in cohesion funds poorer eastern countries up to Northern Irish party that sup- Sinn Fein, the main Irish nation- from the UK Government... yesterday “categorically” in the post-2020 spending plan, the higher western levels. ports Britain’s minority gov- alist party in Northern Ireland, would leave Scottish businesses rejected the European Commis- while Poland and Hungary stand Kucinskis also objected to ernment dismissed the idea as said the proposal would not at significant economic disad- sion’s proposal to slash cohesion to lose more. “This is unac- the proposal to identify spending at best contradictory and said it solve the border issues. vantage if they were imple- funds and spending priorities for ceptable to Latvia,” Prime Min- priorities that member states had not been raised with the “Once again this shows the mented only in Northern the Baltic eurozone state in its ister Maris Kucinskis said, would be expected to follow party. lack of knowledge of border Ireland,” said Mike Russell, Scot- next multi-year budget. quoted by the BNS Baltic News during the next budget period. “These convoluted arrange- areas and the concerns they land’s Europe spokesman. “The The EU proposed spending Service, adding that Latvia “cat- “Since we know that a reduction ments only arise because of the face,” Anderson said. “The cre- UK Government must urgently more on Italy and other member egorically rejects the existing can be expected... we want some government’s failure to make it ation of a buffer zone would clarify its position and guarantee countries hit by the economic proposal”. Cohesion or devel- flexibility regarding the pro- clear to the EU that regardless merely move the problem away that Scotland will not lose out.” and migrant crises and less on opment policy aims to bring grammes,” Kucinskis said. French far-right Kiev seeks to reassure party getting new name to West over staging of boost its appeal AP journalist’s murder AFP PARIS: French far-right informed of the details as far leader Marine Le Pen as possible during the criminal announced a name-change KIEV: Ukrainian law investigation. yesterday for her National enforcement chiefs yesterday Diplomats attended from Front party, founded by her met Western diplomats to brief the Group of Seven countries father nearly a half-century them on Kiev’s decision to stage — Germany, Canada, the United ago. It is expected to become a contract-style killing of States, France, Britain, Italy and the National Rally to appeal Russian journalist Arkady Japan — as well as Australia, to a broader range of voters Babchenko, which has Norway, and the European ahead of next year’s European prompted widespread criticism. Union and Council of Europe. election. Around a dozen diplomats Vasyl Grytsak, the head of The profile of Le Pen, a went to Ukraine’s Prosecutor- Ukraine’s SBU security service nationalist once at the centre General’s Office for a meeting which organised the special of France’s political limelight, behind closed doors that lasted operation also took part. has dimmed since she was nearly two hours. Ukrainian police trounced by pro-globalist The diplomats were told announced on Tuesday evening A flooded area at the Zoo in Luenebach, western Germany, is pictured yesterday, after heavy rainfalls Emmanuel Macron in the that staging Babchenko’s that Babchenko, a Russian hit southern and western parts of the country. presidential election a year murder over more than 12 emigre journalist known for his ago. hours from Tuesday to outspoken anti-Kremlin views, She announced a Wednesday — with law had been shot dead, only for rebranding of the National Fear of big cats ‘zoo break’ sparks enforcement officials and even him to reappear alive and well Front at its March congress. the country’s president issuing at a news conference at the SBU Members were asked to vote false statements — allowed headquarters the following day. by mail on the proposed new lockdown in German town them to “prevent the journal- The SBU and the Prose- name with results announced ist’s death,” the Prosecutor- cutor-General’s Office then AFP at a meeting of the party in Luenebach, much of which widespread devastation in the General’s Office said. revealed that the leadership. was under water after huge region, where many residents The Ukrainian authorities announcement of his death, Le Pen hopes that Italy’s BERLIN: A flood-hit German thunderstorms overnight. were yesterday clearing muddy were also able to “fully doc- which prompted a grief- new populist government — town was locked down for A bear which had broken water from their cellars and ument the organiser’s criminal stricken reaction around the the first in western Europe — several hours yesterday over free from its enclosure was removing downed trees. actions,” gaining information world, had been made as part that was sworn in yesterday fears that five dangerous big cats however shot dead, a Part of a local motorway had on “possible potential victims, of a sting operation. will boost her anti-immi- had escaped a local zoo before spokesman for local authorities been blocked off due to high against whom it is likely terror Kiev has said the move was gration party’s fortunes in the they were found hiding in their said. The big cats were only waters, and a train was derailed attacks and murders were justified to foil a real plot to country next door. Matteo soggy enclosures. found after the water began although no injuries were being planned,” the statement assassinate Babchenko and Salvini, the head of Italy’s A drone deployed to find the receding, said mayor Andreas reported. The Eifel zoo, owned said. confirm the link between the right-wing League party, missing beasts — two lions, two Kruppert from the town located by the Wallpott family, is home Prosecutor-General Yuriy killer and the organiser. which joined in a government tigers and a jaguar — finally close to the Luxembourg border. to around 400 animals, also Lutsenko had announced the It claims the murder plot coalition with Italy’s anti- located them within their caged Heavy rainstorms overnight including a Siberian tiger. meeting on television on was organised by the Russian establishment 5-Star areas, said regional authorities. had sparked flash floods. At the In an earlier zoo incident Thursday, saying that he secret services and envisaged Movement, is a friend of Le During the frenzied search for zoo, which is located on a riv- two year ago, two lions broke wanted to “explain everything killing not only Babchenko but Pen. “Nothing will stop the the predators, involving police erbank, the water was out of their cages at the Leipzig that could be explained given also some 30 others. return of the people to the and the fire brigade, authorities knee-high. zoo. One was captured, the other the undercover nature of the The way the murder was stage of History!” she tweeted had cautioned residents to stay Official were now exam- shot dead. In 2015, an orang- investigation”. staged has attracted much crit- in a bravo. indoors and keep doors and ining whether the animals utan was shot dead while on the He told diplomats his icism, particularly from organ- But Le Pen’s niece, a windows shut. As it turned out, should be moved to another zoo run from the Duisburg zoo, and officers had carried out a isations representing jour- rising star in the National the cats had never left the while clear-up operations con- a bear escapee from Osnabrueck “large-scale and complex oper- nalists, which questioned the Front until she abruptly left sprawling 30-hectare Eifel Zoo tinue. The storm had caused suffered the same fate in 2017. ation” and the public would be need for such extreme tactics. the party after the 2017 pres- idential defeat, stands in the shadows of her aunt’s hoped- for revival, threatening to steal the show. Catalonia revamps cabinet list, paving way for Madrid to end direct rule Marion Marechal-Le Pen, REUTERS a former lawmaker, recently The news coincided with the after sacking its government fol- parties - was triggered primarily Madrid is obliged to devolve dropped the family moniker departure of Mariano Rajoy as lowing an independence refer- by a long-running corruption power back to the Catalan gov- from her last name. Her MADRID: Catalan authorities Spain’s prime minister. endum that Spanish courts trial involving members of his ernment once it is fully consti- political ambitions remain announced their new cabinet Sanchez said on Thursday declared illegal. centre-right party. tuted and its cabinet members undefined but no one doubts yesterday, paving the way for that, if his party’s motion of no- His failure to resolve the The Catalan government said named. she has them. She spoke at Madrid to end direct rule over confidence against Rajoy suc- political crisis caused by the in a statement yesterday Catalan leader Quim Torra the annual conference of US the region by excluding four ceeded, he would resume dia- standoff contributed to dissatis- afternoon that its new cabinet included candidates either in conservatives in February, nominees under investigation for logue with the government of faction with him, though the no- members would take office exile as a consequence of the taking the podium right after their role in its independence Catalonia. Rajoy imposed direct confidence vote - backed by today at 11:30am. independence bid or under Vice-President Mike Pence. drive. rule on the region in October Catalan pro-independence Under the terms of its rule, investigation for their role in it. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 EUROPE 09 Conte sworn in as Italian premier REUTERS a solid majority in both houses Conte, a little-known of parliament, where the gov- ROME: Giuseppe Conte was 53-year-old law ernment will now face confi- sworn in yesterday as Italy’s professor, is backed by dence votes early next week in Prime Minister, heading western the 5-Star Movement order to be fully empowered. Europe’s first anti-establishment Italy hosted the European government bent on overhauling which grew out of a Union’s founding Treaty of Rome European Union rules on budgets grassroots protest 60 years ago, but the once enthu- and immigration. network, and the siastically pro-EU Italians have Conte, a little-known right-wing League progressively become disen- 53-year-old law professor, is chanted with Europe, blaming backed by the 5-Star Movement who have issued its fiscal rules for two decades of which grew out of a grassroots a budget-busting economic stagnation. protest network, and the right- agenda of sweeping The disaffection has grown wing League who have issued a in recent years as hundreds of budget-busting agenda of tax cuts and higher thousands of migrants have sweeping tax cuts and higher welfare spending. landed on Italy’s shores from welfare spending. north Africa, fuelling support for The government was formed major western European the League which accuses the EU after three months of political country. of abandoning Italy to deal with deadlock following inconclusive Conte made no comment to the influx on its own. March 4 elections, with the pre- reporters after his swearing-in Italy’s future in the euro zone election rivals striking a last- ceremony in the president’s 16th has dominated the political minute deal on Thursday to avert century palace in Rome, in a uncertainty of the last week, with Italy’s newly appointed Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (right) receives a silver bell from former prime a fresh vote in high summer amid room with a huge gilt mirror President Sergio Mattarella minister Paolo Gentiloni, signifying the start of the first cabinet meeting, at Chigi palace in Rome, growing market turmoil. flanked by Italian and EU flags. vetoing the coalition’s original Widespread voter disen- “I admit that I am choked up choice for economy minister, the yesterday. chantment has seen anti-estab- and happy,” League leader eurosceptic economist Paolo lishment parties upset main- Salvini said in a tweet which Savona. leaders. Ironically, after the with him at a reception in its this week, have recovered in the stream politics across the con- showed him for once formally That sparked a breakdown swearing in at the Quirinale manicured Renaissance gardens last two days. Italy’s blue-chip tinent, including Germany and dressed with his top shirt button of the coalition’s first attempt to Palace, politicians who early this to mark the Feast of the Republic. share index was up more than 1 France, but it is the first time they done up for the occasion. form a government and a furious week were calling for Matta- Financial markets, which percent on the day and Italian will run the government of a 5-Star and the League have reaction from the coalition rella’s impeachment will mingle sold Italian assets heavily early bond yields fell.

Dean-turned-dealer Germany to host meeting gets up to 26 years on Ukraine for maiming student conflict REUTERS AP Rodriguez said. On the day of the shooting, the pair arranged BERLIN: German Foreign BOSTON: A former high school to meet at a gas station where Minister Heiko Maas has dean and anti-violence Harrison was supposed to hand invited his counterparts from advocate nicknamed “Rev” for over some drugs. France, Russia and Ukraine his pastor-like influence was Harrison shot the student for a meeting in Berlin on sentenced yesterday to up to in the back of the head and fled June 11 to discuss the conflict 26 years in prison for shooting on foot, prosecutors said. The in eastern Ukraine, a and nearly killing a student he bullet entered Rodriguez’s spokesman said yesterday. had recruited to sell drugs for head just under his right ear. It It will be the first meeting him. just missed his carotid artery, under the “Normandy format” Shaun Harrison, 58 was broke his jawbone and caused negotiations since February sentenced a day after a Suffolk nerve damage and hearing 2017, and the issue of Superior Court jury convicted loss. deploying a UN peacekeeping him of armed assault with Rodriguez said he was mission in the conflict zone Spain’s new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (second left) acknowledges applause after a vote on a intent to murder and other saved by occupants of a will be on the agenda. no-confidence motion at the Lower House of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid, yesterday. charges. passing car, who called 911. Chancellor Angela Merkel Harrison, a dean at Boston Bruce Carroll, Harrison’s said during talks with Russian English High School, recruited attorney, asked during the trial President Vladimir Putin in Spain’s Rajoy forced out as 17-year-old Luis Rodriguez to why Rodriguez did not imme- Sochi last month that a sell drugs for him at the school diately identify his client as the meeting of the leaders of and shot him on March 3, 2015, shooter even though he was Russia, Ukraine, France and because he believed the conscious and alert. Germany on ending the con- Socialist rival takes over student was not generating Carroll urged the judge flict could only take place enough sales and withholding Friday for a sentence of about after progress was made on AFP majority of lawmakers as a new page in the history of money, prosecutors said. Har- eight years to ensure Harrison a UN mission. diverse as Catalan separatists democracy in our country,” rison, who had worked as a doesn’t die in prison, noting he All sides back a UN and Basque nationalists had Sanchez told parliament prior dean at the school for five has no prior criminal record. peacekeeping mission in MADRID: Spain’s parliament pledged their support for the no- to the vote. years, was fired after the But the judge said Harri- eastern Ukraine, but they dis- yesterday ousted Prime Minister confidence motion. But PP lawmaker Rafael shooting. son’s conduct requires a stiff agree on its mandate. Mariano Rajoy in a no-confi- “It’s been an honour -- there Hernando told him he would be Rodriguez sat in the back penalty, saying Harrison acted Germany and France dence vote sparked by fury over is none bigger -- to have been entering the prime minister’s of the courtroom and cried as an “assassin” and viewed want UN troops to be his party’s corruption woes, with Spain’s prime minister,” he told office “through the back door” quietly along with his family Rodriguez’s life as “worthless.” deployed in all areas con- his Socialist arch-rival Pedro parliament, with lawmakers after failing to win 2015 and as his aunt took the stand to “He will be scarred emo- trolled by Russia-backed Sanchez taking over. from his conservative Popular 2016 general elections. describe the pain of almost tionally and impaired physi- rebels, including on the An absolute majority of 180 Party (PP) giving him a standing “For the first time we may losing him. cally for the rest of his life,” Ukraine-Russia border. lawmakers voted for the motion ovation. Sanchez, Spain’s get a prime minister who didn’t “If (Harrison) has the said Judge Christopher Muse, Russia opposes this idea. to loud applause and shouts of 46-year-old opposition leader, win elections,” he retorted. opportunity, I believe from the who sentenced Harrison to 23 Speaking during a visit to “Yes we can,” even if Sanchez instigated the no-confidence The Socialists, who hold just bottom of my heart he would to 26 years behind bars. the government-held port faces a tough road ahead as he motion last week after a court 84 of parliament’s 350 seats, had abuse his power and do this Rodriguez had told hospital city of Mariupol in eastern will govern with an even smaller confirmed that a vast system of to cosy up to parties they had again,” Diana Rodriguez said. staff he was shot by one of his Ukraine, Maas said he was not minority than Rajoy. bribes given to former PP offi- previously clashed with, like “May God forgive you sir marijuana customers during a aware of discussion within The veteran bespectacled cials in exchange for lucrative Catalan separatists and the anti- because we will not,” she said. botched drug deal, Carroll said. the European Union on lifting 63-year-old leader got up and public contracts was imple- establishment Podemos. As Rodriguez, now 20, tes- “It took me a while to get sanctions imposed by the bloc shook hands with Sanchez mented between 1999-2005. such, even if he has pledged to tified during the trial that he all my thoughts back together on Russia over its backing of before leaving the lower house After years of anger over the govern long enough to restore came from a dysfunctional after being shot in the head, the rebels. Germany, France, without a word. scandals tainting the PP, cor- “institutional stability” before family and trusted Harrison, sir,” Rodriguez said during Russia and Ukraine have pre- Rajoy had already admitted ruption finally got the better of calling early elections, Sanchez’s who students nicknamed cross-examination. “I was in viously held talks in an effort defeat minutes before the vote, the party and sealed Rajoy’s new government will likely be “Rev.” “He was my counselor. such denial. I knew who did it. to end the fighting that has knowing that an absolute downfall. “Today we are signing highly unstable. I went to him for everything,” Of course I knew who did it.” killed over 10,000 people. Anti-immigrant party set to make gains in Slovenia vote AP It pits former Prime Minister parliament, with negotiations to chief immigration opponent, was 500,000 migrants passed Poland. Analysts, however, Janez Jansa’s right-wing oppo- form a coalition government a guest at an election rally. through Slovenia on their way to believe that, despite being the SLOVENIA: Slovenian voters go sition Slovenian Democratic likely after the balloting. “Security is Slovenia’s biggest western Europe in 2015. The flow front-runner, Jansa won’t be able to the polls this weekend in a Party (SDS) against a new party Jansa’s rising popularity is challenge,” Jansa declared, eased in part when countries to return to power. More likely, parliamentary election expected led by an ex-comedian and seen as a reflection of a wider insisting it is Slovenia’s job to along the so-called Balkan route other groups will form a coalition to produce no clear winner but several moderate groups from surge in right-wing populism in protect the European Union’s beefed up border controls. and keep him out of government. which could see strong gains by the outgoing ruling coalition. central and eastern Europe amid border-free Schengen zone from In Hungary, Orban put up “Everybody started to talk about an anti-immigrant party backed The latest opinion polls the influx into Europe of the mass entry of migrants like two rows of razor-wire fences (migrants), although statistically by Hungary’s firebrand prime predict Jansa’s SDS could get migrants from the Middle East in 2015, when a million migrants on the country’s southern there isn’t even a problem with minister, Viktor Orban. around 25 percent of the votes, and Africa. reached Europe. borders and toughened immi- that in Slovenia,” Zovko Sunday’s vote is formally a followed by the former satirist Jansa, who has twice served “Slovenia failed the test once gration laws, drawing fierce crit- explained. Foreign Minister Karl snap ballot called a few weeks Marjan Sarec’s list, the Social as prime minister and spent and we are all dealing with con- icism from EU officials. Erjavec has voiced concerns earlier than the regular four-year Democrats and Cerar’s Modern months in jail on corruption alle- sequences of this failure now,” Jansa’s hard-line rhetoric about Orban’s attempt to spread span following the sudden res- Center Party. gations, has been stoking immi- he said, in comments remi- and his links to Orban have his political model in the country. ignation in March of outgoing None of the parties are gration fears. His campaign niscent of Orban’s anti-immi- fueled fears that Slovenia, a tra- “Should this happen in Slovenia, Prime Minister Miro Cerar over expected to gain an absolute posters featured a stop sign for grant stance. “We will not allow ditionally moderate nation, could it would be a disaster,” Erjavec a failed railway project. majority in the 90-member immigrants. Orban, Europe’s this to happen again.” Some shift right like Hungary and said. 10 VIEWS SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 Israel lets Jews protest the occupation. ESTABLISHED IN 1996 It doesn’t let Palestinians.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected] MAIRAV ZONSZEIN ACTING MANAGING EDITOR THE WASHINGTON POST MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] he images and video of Israeli soldiers shooting live ammu- nition into masses of mostly DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Tunarmed Palestinians on the MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI other side of the Gaza border fence [email protected] over the past several weeks horrified observers around the world. Starting March 30, Israeli troops suppressing protests in Gaza killed 118 people and wounded more than 13,000, including 1,136 children. The deaths and injuries, Israel EDITORIAL Defense Forces international spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus lamented recently, have “done us a tremendous disservice, unfortunately, Standing on firm footing and it has been very difficult to tell our story.” Now Israel’s government is ne year after imposition of siege, Qatar today stands moving to make sure there are no stronger defeating all odds created by the block- more videos of mass shootings in the Oading countries including their moves to harm future - not by ordering a stop to the country economically by creating one hurdle after another. shootings, but by considering a law All attempts of the Saudi-led quartet to damage Qatar’s that would ban anyone from filming or economy through currency manipulation or other neg- photographing any military operations ative tools were also thwarted by the Qatari leadership. “with the intention of undermining the Qatar is standing on firm economic footing today and spirit of IDF soldiers and Israel’s is moving forward steadily, smoothly due its prudent fiscal residents.” policies and sound financial position. These facts are being Even if that bill never becomes barricades to herd people into one detainees in Haifa, told me that the recognized by the international organizations as well law, the fact that the Knesset is con- spot and then shoving them, punching beatings in the station were extreme. loudly and clearly. templating it underscores the current them and rounding them up. Seven of While Farah was in the hospital, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its latest state of freedoms in Israel: Main- those arrested had to be hospitalized Knesset member Ayman Odeh, who report has said that substantial financial buffers, prudent taining its decades-long occupation after being beaten by police, heads the Joint List (a political alliance fiscal policy and sound financial sector of Qatar has helped depends on systematic suppression of reportedly most while in custody. Jafar comprising Israel’s Arab parties and the country successfully adjust to lower hydrocarbon prices dissent on both sides of the boundary Farah, a prominent civil-society one Arab-Jewish party) was barred and the unjust siege imposed by some countries. fences. Just as activist and director of an organization from visiting him. Israel Defense Min- The executive board of the International Monetary Israel exer- that promotes equal rights for Pales- ister Avigdor Liberman tweeted at the Fund (IMF) further said that Qatar’s growth performance cises varying tinian citizens, had his knee broken by time: “Every day that Ayman Odeh and remains resilient and is able to deal with the direct eco- levels of an officer at the police station. One his partners are roaming free and nomic and financial impact of the siege. The near-term control detainee testified that an officer called cursing police is a failure of law growth outlook is broadly pos- between the him a “terrorist” and told him: “Go to enforcement. These terrorists belong itive and GDP growth of 2.6 In the West Jordan River Gaza. This is a Jewish state.” The in jail, not in the Knesset. It’s time they percent is projected for 2018, Bank and East and the Med- arrestees, two of whom were Jewish, paid a price for their actions.” Such the report showed. Jerusalem, Israeli iterranean were all released by a district judge nonchalant incitement against Pales- After concluding Article IV security forces Sea, it also after spending more than 48 hours in tinian members of parliament mirrors consultation with Qatar, permits detention. This was effectively extra- the government’s attitude toward the Qatar is standing directors concurred that Qatar typically use what varying levels judicial punishment for exercising civil rights of Palestinian citizens. on firm economic has ample fiscal space to con- they categorize of dissent and their freedom to protest. In the West Bank and East Jeru- footing today and tinue with gradual fiscal con- as “nonlethal” criticism Meanwhile, several hundred salem, Israeli security forces typically is moving forward solidation to ensure sufficient weapons to quell depending on Israelis, predominantly Jews, had use what they categorize as “non- saving of the hydrocarbon who you are, gathered in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv a lethal” weapons (primarily tear gas steadily, smoothly wealth for future protests. But what you are couple of days earlier, also to protest and rubber bullets, which, when shot due its prudent generations. in Gaza, lately protesting Israeli military tactics in Gaza. Not a at the upper body, sometimes prove fiscal policies and They welcomed Qatar’s they have used and where. single arrest was made, and no police lethal) to quell protests. But in Gaza, sound financial continued commitment to Within brutality was reported. They even lately they have used live bullets, shot prudent economic and live bullets, shot Israel’s 1948 blocked roads, but police did not in very high numbers at men, women, position. financial policies, which are in very high borders, for interfere. children, journalists and paramedics. important to sustain the econ- numbers at men, the most part, There has always been police vio- Israeli officials and their supporters omy’s resilience and promote women, children, when Jewish lence against Palestinian demonstra- just utter the magic word “Hamas” to diversified and inclusive growth. citizens tions in Israel. The most notorious justify the mass shooting of thousands Qatar’s banking sector remains healthy overall, journalists and protest, it’s came when protests nationwide in of people who are attempting to call reflecting high asset quality and strong capitalisation. As paramedics. tolerated; October 2000 (some of which turned attention to the fact they live in an at end-September 2017, banks had high capitalisation when Pales- into rioting) ended with an incident in open-air prison. (capital adequacy ratio of 15.4 percent), high profitability tinian citizens which police killed 12 Palestinian cit- Hamas’s attempt to piggyback off despite recent moderation (return on assets of 1.6 percent), protest, it’s “disturbing the peace” or izens and one Gaza resident. An Israeli the recent Great Return March, as its low non-performing loans (ratio of 1.5 percent), and rea- worse. Days after the events in Gaza, commission investigated and found organizers - who demanded nonvi- sonable provisioning ratio of non-performing loans (85 for instance, Israeli police violently there was no justification for live fire, olent resistance - called it, does not percent). Liquidity has been generally comfortable, with arrested 21 protesters - most of them but not a single officer was indicted. It absolve Israel of its responsibility to a liquid asset to total asset ratio of 27.3 percent, though Palestinian citizens - as they demon- also censured the government for sys- treat protesters fairly. Nor does the bank reserves have declined since 2015. strated in the northern Israeli city of tematic discrimination against Pales- fact that dozens out of tens of thou- Last month, the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2018, Haifa against the mass shootings. tinian citizens. But Fady Khoury, a sands of demonstrators were armed ranked Qatar at number 5 globally in economic per- Video, images and testimonies from lawyer with the rights group Adalah (and many of them only with wire formance. Published by the International Institute for Man- the protest show police using who recently represented the cutters). agement Development (IMD), the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2018 also ranked Qatar at number 14 out of 63 most high-income countries, which also confirms Qatar’s strong performance across various fields. This ranking has been positively influenced by many Unchecked atrocities, again factors including strong economic performance as rep- resented by, Qatar’s low unemployment rate, and the high BLOOMBERG virtually no consequences for what measure would almost certainly result percentage of gross fixed capital formation (capital invest- human rights groups and senior U.N. in another big margin in favor. ments) and saving to GDP, the high percentage of trade aving engineered a horrific officials describe as blatant crimes The measure is nevertheless in balance to GDP, and the high level of overall campaign of ethnic cleansing against humanity. The State Department danger of stalling. The Senate Armed productivity. against the Muslim Rohingya labeled the campaign against the Services Committee has not attached Hminority, the Myanmar mil- Rohingya “ethnic cleansing,” but the the Myanmar sanctions to the annual itary has turned its attention to another Trump administration has so far defense authorization act, as hap- persecuted group. An offensive against imposed sanctions on just one general; pened last week in the House. Mean- the mostly Christian Kachin people we’re told that 10 others have been while, the stand-alone legislation, QUOTE OF THE DAY near Myanmar’s northern border is identified by State, but there has been no sponsored by Sens. John McCain, underway, backed by aircraft and follow-through. China has blocked R-Ariz., and Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., The period following artillery. As the Wall Street Journal action by the U.N. Security Council. If has been held up by Majority Leader the formation of a new reported, the attack is employing some President Donald Trump is aware of the Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Cardin is government will be of the same military units that earlier crisis, he hasn’t shown it. expected to offer a floor amendment focused on addressing burned villages and committed mass The relative good news is that to the defense bill, but that could be economic and social killings and rapes in Rakhine state, there has been a concerted and bipar- blocked by a single senator. conditions, as well as driving 680,000 Rohingya across the tisan movement in Congress to McConnell, a longtime champion of border to Bangladesh. The State demand accountability from the Myanmar’s Nobel Prize-winning on maintaining security Department’s ambassador on religious Myanmar military. Last week the civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is stability and following up freedom this week said there had been House passed, in a lopsided 382-to-30 said to be wary of measures that might on the return of Syrian a doubling down on the persecution of vote, legislation to require the admin- weaken her elected government. But, refugees to their country. Myanmar’s non-Buddhist citizens. “The istration to compile a list of Myanmar as has become increasingly clear over situation,” Sam Brownback said, “is officials involved in the ethnic the past 10 months, when it comes to dire.” cleansing and impose sanctions on the assault on the Rohingya, Aung San Michel Aoun The Tatmadaw, as the military is them. The Senate Foreign Relations Suu Kyi is part of the problem. She has Lebanese President known, feels free to pursue this geno- Committee approved a similar bill in failed to condemn the ethnic cleansing, cidal policy because it has suffered February. A Senate floor vote on either and occasionally even defended it. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 OPINION 11 The Gulf crisis: How it all started s the first anniversary of the alignment between Abu Dhabi and cable news network founded a year 1981. His attempt to find “rap- blockade on Qatar Riyadh that has attempted to overturn after Sheik Hamad became emir. prochement among the brothers” approaches, the main pro- the traditional security architecture in In 2002, an indignant Saudi lead- has earned him the praise of the tagonists have settled into a the region. Central to this has been an ership, furious at Al Jazeera for pro- international community but has A viding a platform for the kingdom’s modus vivendi of sorts. attempt to replace a defensive achieved little so far. After overcoming the initial psy- security model based around the GCC dissidents, withdrew its ambassador This impotence was amply chological and financial shock, Qatar with a more offensive approach based from Doha in a diplomatic spat that demonstrated last December when RORY MILLER has doubled-down on security rela- on the pro-active ratcheting up of lasted five years. Qatar’s Sheik Tamim was the only AL JAZEERA tions with the US and Turkey and tensions with opponents and the Though the UAE and Qatar also GCC leader to accept an invitation expanded diplomatic and trade ties break-up of existing regional clashed over Al Jazeera and were to attend the first GCC summit with partners old and new across the structures. involved in their own territorial since the crisis began. That the world. In these terms, the launch of the dispute, they often cooperated inside rulers of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, The blockading nations led by blockade last June by the UAE-Saudi the GCC to close the power gap with Bahrain and Oman stayed away Saudi Arabia and the United Arab axis was intended to diminish Qatar’s Saudi Arabia. In a highly symbolic from Kuwait City was bad enough. Emirates (UAE) continue to blame political autonomy and economic inde- move staunchly opposed by Riyadh, Worse, just hours before the ill- Doha for this breakdown in intra-Gulf pendence, as it was perceived as an in the early 2000s, they even fated meeting began, the Saudi and relations, though increasingly they obstacle to these wider strategic ambi- announced their plan to build a UAE governments announced the also look to downplay its importance. tions. That such a move was deemed causeway over the Khor al-Odeid launch of a new joint economic and After overcoming the Speaking in Cairo in March, Saudi necessary, as much as the blockade waters that, if completed, would have military cooperation committee. initial psychological Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman itself, has exposed the deep cleavages enabled them to bypass Saudi ter- The message was clear - going and financial shock, described the ongoing standoff as a that have undermined and over- ritory, demonstrating their inde- forward these two Gulf power- “very trivial” matter that merits shadowed intra-Gulf cooperation for pendence from their larger neighbour. houses would no longer use Qatar has doubled- almost no attention back home. decades. Yet, as their foreign policy paths existing GCC structures to discuss down on security The clash with Qatar may not be Saudi Arabia is not only home to increasingly diverged, the UAE moved important regional matters. relations with the the top priority in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi Islam’s holiest sites. It is also home to closer to Saudi Arabia in its confron- The GCC has a far-from-perfect US and Turkey and or Cairo, but it is not trivial. Its fault the Gulf’s largest territory, population, tation with Qatar. This crystallised record, failing in particular to insti- lines run deep, it is unprecedented in economy and army, as well as much during the Arab Spring, when they tutionalise military and security expanded diplomatic its scope, and its implications are of its oil. This explains why its Gulf found themselves on opposing sides cooperation. But for almost four and trade ties with far-reaching. neighbours, who after 1981 became its in several major issues, including the decades prior to the blockade, it did partners old and new It underscores the rising influence partners in the GCC, have been con- revolution in Egypt, the rise of the provide an effective mechanism for across the world. of ambitious crown princes in Riyadh sistently preoccupied with the Saudi Muslim Brotherhood and the future of members to chisel out a united and Abu Dhabi who do not feel bound threat. post-Qaddafi Libya. These tensions response to regional crises. This was by the more cautious and conserv- They have been particularly wary illuminated contrasting Qatari and evident during the brutal and ative foreign policy approaches of of Saudi attempts to achieve regional Saudi-Emirati visions for the future of destructive 8-year war between their predecessors. dominance in the security sphere. A the Middle East that were greatly Iran and Iraq in the 1980s and fol- Instead, having consolidated Abu majority of GCC members have exacerbated by the parties varying lowing Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in Dhabi’s position as the dominant repeatedly vetoed Saudi-sponsored perceptions of “smallness”. 1990, the American invasion of Iraq force in the UAE, Crown Prince proposals for a Gulf-wide security Qatar never saw its tiny popu- in 2003, and the start of anti-gov- Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is framework since the 1980s. This cul- lation and territory or its lack of mil- ernment protests in Bahrain in 2011. pushing ahead with plans to minated in December 2011, when the itary might as a barrier to an inde- The GCC was also a forum transform the federation into a stra- Riyadh Declaration, the Saudi attempt pendent foreign policy or regional through which its members could tegic, as well as economic, actor of the to transform the GCC into a fully influence. Saudi Arabia and the UAE contain and resolve major disagree- first rank. fledged union with a joint GCC mil- disagreed and, after the turmoil of the ments between each other before Since becoming the key player in itary command, was backed only by Arab Spring, they pushed for Qatar to they escalated, including the 2014 Saudi Arabia following his father’s Bahrain. accept its subordinate status. withdrawal of ambassadors from accession to power in January 2015, In 1992, the same year that Sheikh This explains the brief withdrawal Doha. This was a key reason why Mohammed bin Salman has demon- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani became of ambassadors from Doha by the members never militarised their dif- strated a similar willingness to take de facto ruler, border clashes between UAE and Saudi Arabia (and Bahrain) ferences beyond localised and big risks to project power and extend Qatari and Saudi troops over a long- in 2014, a move intended to send a irregular clashes over the last 40 influence well beyond the Gulf. running territorial dispute resulted in clear message to Doha that its dis- years. The upshot has been a novel two deaths. In the summer of 1995, parate policies would no longer be relations deteriorated further as Saudi tolerated by its bigger Gulf partners. Arabia took a stance against Sheikh Traditional hierarchies, as much Hamad when he took over from his as tribal identities, are still a source of father. This failed intervention shaped power in the Gulf. 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If you cross this border [email protected] gration, but the critics say is cruel to cross the US-Mexico border and unlawfully, then we will prosecute The White House is migrants fleeing violence in Central immediately turn themselves in to you,” Sessions said. drawing accusations America. authorities asking for asylum. “If you are smuggling a child, then “These families are not trying to They are part of a broader we will prosecute you and that child All thoughts and views of human rights sneak in, they’re coming to the rebound in illegal immigration that will be separated from you as abuse over a policy borders, presenting themselves, and has deeply angered Trump. required by law,” he said, adding: “If expressed in these columns the government asking for our help,” said California In April alone, 50,924 people you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle are those of the writers, sees as a necessary Congressman Jimmy Gomez at a rally were detained after crossing the children over our border.” not of the newspaper. Thursday in Los Angeles. border without papers, including In the two weeks after Sessions’ deterrent to illegal “There is nothing illegal about 4,314 unaccompanied children and announcement, authorities arrested immigration, but the coming to our border and asking for 9,647 family units, according to the US 658 children together with 638 All correspondence critics say is cruel asylum.” Customs and Border Patrol. adults, according to Richard regarding Views and to migrants fleeing The backlash has placed Pres- With detention centers and the Hudson, deputy chief of operations Opinion pages should be ident Donald Trump, who has court system already overwhelmed, at the US Border Patrol. But Hudson, send to editor-in-chief violence in Central promised to halt illegal immigration, the Obama presidency processed testifying last week to Congress, did America. on the defensive. He blames the pre- asylum requests and released the not say whether the families were office or mailed to the vious administration of president applicant families together into the separated. [email protected] 12 AMERICAS SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 Trump: June 12 summit with N Korea’s Kim is back on REUTERS The President said he up its nuclear weapons. North expected a number Korea, whose nuclear ambi- WASHINGTON: President of summits would be tions have been a source of Donald Trump said yesterday tension for decades, has made a nuclear arms summit with needed to settle all advances in missile technology North Korean leader Kim Jong outstanding issues. in recent years but Trump has Un that the United States pulled sworn not to allow it to develop out of will now go ahead as nuclear missiles that could hit scheduled on June 12 in envoy visited former President the United States. Singapore, adding another twist Bill Clinton in 2000. He delivered He wants North Korea to to a high-stake diplomatic a letter from Kim Jong Un to “denuclearise,” meaning to get dance. Trump. The President said he rid of its nuclear arms, in return “I think it’s probably going expected a number of summits for relief from economic sanc- to be a very successful, ulti- would be needed to settle all out- tions but the leadership in mately a successful process,” standing issues. Pyongyang is believed to regard Trump told reporters on the “Frankly, I said, ‘Take your nuclear weapons as crucial to White House lawn after time,’” Trump said. its survival and has rejected meeting with a senior North After exchanging threats and unilaterally disarming. Korean official in the Oval insults since Trump became “I look forward to the day Office. President last year, the United when I can take the sanctions Kim Yong Chol, a close aide States and North Korea have off of North Korea,” Trump said. to the North Korean leader, was been trying to set up the summit Trump canceled the the highest level figure from the between their leaders. Trump summit late last month, citing US President Donald Trump speaks with North Korean Kim Yong Chol (left), on the South Lawn of the secretive state to hold talks at wants to use the meeting to North Korea’s “tremendous White House in Washington DC, yesterday as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) looks on. the White House since a senior pressure Pyongyang into giving anger and open hostility.” Cuba and US Brazil strike boosts far right Puerto Rico agency restore postal services candidate’s shot at presidency sues government to permanently REUTERS obtain death data REUTERS BRASILIA: Far-right presi- AP dential candidate Jair Bolsonaro He said the institute previ- HAVANA: Cuba and the went out on a limb to support a ously won a similar lawsuit it United States are making the truckers strike that paralysed SAN JUAN: Puerto Rico’s filed in 2010 to obtain mortality re-establishment of postal Brazil and forced the Institute of Statistics announced data from the health services permanent after a government to reinstate costly yesterday that it has sued the department amid accusations trial run, the state-run Cuban fuel subsidies, and the strategy US territory’s health that the government was not News Agency reported may have helped his chances of department and demographic properly counting or classifying yesterday, as cooperation in beating one of several pro- registry to obtain data on the overall deaths. some areas inches forward business reform candidates in number of deaths following “Given the doubt that has despite a chill in relations October’s election. Hurricane Maria as a growing arisen around the world...we under the Trump adminis- The scale of the truckers’ number of critics accuse the recommend a higher level of tration. stoppage overwhelmed Pres- government of lacking trans- transparency,” Marazzi-San- The former Cold War foes ident Michel Temer’s unpopular parency. tiago said. Federal deputy Jair Bolsonaro, a pre-candidate for Brazil’s presidential first restored direct mail government, which was pres- The lawsuit was filed on Government officials have election, is greeted by supporters as he arrives at Luis Eduardo service as a pilot program in sured into granting truckers’ Thursday, the same day Puerto said they cannot release mor- December 2015 as part of the demands as airports ran out of Magalhaes International Airport in Salvador. (File picture) Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello told tality data post-Maria because policy of detente pursued by fuel, grocery shelves emptied CNN that there would be “hell it is under review as ordered by former US President Barack and drivers waited hours to fill taxes levied by Temer’s waiting in a line of cars at a gas to pay” if officials don’t release the governor. Obama with then Cuban their tanks. “corrupt” government. Ahead of station in Brasilia. “Bolsonaro mortality data. Many believe A Harvard study published President Raul Castro. Despite these disruptions, the Oct. 7 election, Bolsonaro gained points by backing the the official toll of 64 deaths is a earlier this week estimates that Since taking office in truckers won support from had just under 20 percent truckers.” severe undercount, and anger there were up to 4,600 more January last year, President many Brazilians angry at a surge support, giving him the lead in The protest, which wound is building across the island as deaths than usual in the three Donald Trump has struck a in diesel prices since state oil polls that exclude jailed leftist down this week after Temer the families of victims seek months after Hurricane Maria, more hostile tone towards the company Petrobras scrapped ex-president Luis Inacio Lula da reintroduced subsidies, demon- answers. although some independent Communist-run island and subsidies under Temer. An Silva, who received 32 percent strated the unpopularity of “We demand that they tell experts questioned the methods has rolled back parts of the opinion poll on Wednesday support in one poll even though Temer’s efforts to liberalize us everything,” said Lucy and the number in that study. normalization of relations, found that 87 percent of Bra- he cannot run due to a graft Latin America’s largest Landro, who lives on the island Previous studies have found making trade and travel more zilians supported the strike. conviction. economy. of Vieques off Puerto Rico’s east that the number of direct and difficult once more. Centrist candidates such as Bolsonaro’s strong support Many Brazilians, tired of coast and lost her elderly uncle indirect hurricane-related But Trump has left in former Sao Paulo governor in a crowded field has alarmed violent crime and corruption after the hurricane hit. “People deaths is higher than the official place key Obama-era Geraldo Alckmin and ruling moderate politicians and among mainstream parties, should know the reality that all toll, including a 2017 report that changes such as restored dip- party candidate Henrique unnerved some investors. But have been drawn to Bolsonaro’s towns are facing. We in Vieques said there were nearly 500 lomatic relations, regular Meirelles did not come out in with Brazil slow to recover from hardline pledges. aren’t the only ones who are more deaths than usual on the flights from the United States support of the truckers when its most painful recession in For instance, the candidate suffering.” island in September. and cruise ship visits. Bilateral they blocked Brazil’s main decades, many voters believe said he would appoint five gen- The institute’s director, A spokeswoman for the talks continue on cooperation highways. There has been no Temer’s government has erals to his cabinet and would Mario Marazzi-Santiago, told island’s health department, in areas of mutual interest poll on voter intentions yet to ignored the hardships of give police “carte blanche” to kill The Associated Press that the which oversees the demo- such as security. show whether lack of support ordinary people. This has led delinquents who shoot at them. information requested should graphic registry, did not “The re-establishment of for the strike hurt these politi- analysts and politicians to say Brazil has some 60,000 gun- be public and is urgently respond to a message for this service allows to send cians, who back further fiscal this year’s election may come related deaths a year. needed so Puerto Rico’s gov- comment. post in direct flights between belt-tightening that many voters down to a choice between the Congressman Major ernment can help prevent In February, Puerto Rico’s Cuba and the United States,” oppose but investors would like far left and the far right. Olimpio, one of Bolsonaro’s deaths in the event of another governor said a team of experts the Cuban Post Office said in to see. During the strike, many campaign managers, told storm, noting that the Atlantic at George Washington Uni- a statement. Bolsonaro, 63, a former truckers displayed placards Reuters the strike was a vote hurricane season began on versity would lead an inde- Direct mail service army captain turned con- expressing support for Bol- winner for his candidate who Friday. pendent review to determine between the United States gressman running on an anti- sonaro. “The government had emerged as “the only “We want to make sure that the number of deaths caused and Cuba was suspended graft platform, praised the handled this strike so badly,” credible politician”, whereas when the next hurricane by Maria. A preliminary report since 1963. Despite the ban, truckers in social media mes- said Lorivan Carvalho, a federal Temer’s free-market policies arrives, we don’t have a repeat was due in May, but the team letters and other mail still sages for fighting “extortionist” employee who spent two hours were blamed for the crisis. of this situation,” he said. was granted more time. flowed between the United States and the island nation 145 km away through other countries such as Canada, Mexico and Panama. US blocks UN health panel from backing taxes on sugar drinks AP fight against such diseases is a said, noting that the panel’s was not strong enough that the policies and to make tricky priority for WHO’s director- mandate was to make “bold” tax would not reduce the obesity public health decisions. Last 2 missing after GENEVA: The Trump adminis- general, Tedros Adhanom recommendations. “Taxes on epidemic,” she said. month, a separate WHO expert tration has torpedoed a plan to Ghebreyesus. sugary drinks is not new, bold, Commission members said group decided that Congo’s collapse of Sao recommend higher taxes on Dr Sania Nishtar, co-chair of or innovative.” they decided to press ahead with Ebola outbreak did not warrant sugary drinks, forcing a World panel, said most of its 26 She also claimed that “evi- the report, leaving open the pos- being designated as an interna- Paulo building Health Organisation panel to members supported a tax on dence is lacking that such a tax sibility that the commission tional emergency, a decision back off the UN agency’s sugar sweetened beverages but produces positive health could strengthen its call in the WHO accepted as its own. previous call for such taxes as a one commissioner - whom she outcomes.” future. The independent com- Yet only two years ago, Dr. AP way to fight obesity, diabetes and did not identify - hampered The US provides a significant mission, created last year by Douglas Bettcher, who heads other life-threatening conditions. drafting stronger language. percentage of WHO’s yearly Ghebreyesus, did recommend WHO’s non-communicable dis- SAO PAULO: Brazilian The move disappointed Eric Hargan, the US deputy budget. The sweetened-drink taxes on tobacco and alcohol. eases department, said that con- authorities say two squatters many public health experts but secretary for Health and Human industry has come out strongly Decisions made by the sumption of free sugars who occupied a Sao Paulo was enthusiastically welcomed Services, reported he was that against any such tax but Nishtar Trump administration have often amounted to a “major factor” in building that caught fire and by the International Food and member, arguing it was not clear said she was not aware of any run afoul of US allies and com- the global increase of people suf- collapsed one month ago are Beverage Alliance - a group that that imposing taxes on sugary industry lobbying of the petitors alike. fering from obesity and diabetes. still missing. represents companies including drinks like sodas and fruit juices commissioners. On Thursday, the US gov- He insisted that taxes on sugary The Sao Paulo Public Coca-Cola, PepsiCo. and would improve public health - Commission member Ilona ernment announced new steel drinks would enable govern- Security Department said in Unilever. even though WHO has argued Kickbusch, a former WHO staffer and aluminum tariffs against ments to “reduce suffering and a statement yesterday that the The revelations came yes- exactly that over the last two who directs the Global Health allies like Canada, Mexico and save lives.” missing squatters are a terday as a WHO panel on non- years. Center at the Graduate Institute the European Union. Last year, But instead of explicitly rec- 42-year-old woman and a communicable diseases issued “Deputy Secretary Hargan in Geneva, said the United States President Donald Trump rejected ommending a sugar tax, the 53-year-old man. It said that a report that aimed to cut down opposed endorsing increasing “made it clear” that it did not the landmark Paris accord to WHO commission said yesterday the remains of seven other on diseases like diabetes, cancer taxes on sugary drinks in the want more regulation. fight global warming. that countries themselves should people found beneath the and obesity, which kill about 40 commission report,” HHS “They (the Trump adminis- WHO often convenes expert decide if they want higher taxes rubble have been identified. million people each year. The spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley tration) felt that the evidence panels to ultimately set its own on sugary drinks. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS 13 Venezuela begins releasing 39 jailed opposition activists

REUTERS Leopoldo Lopez, former mayor opposition boycotted the May of the Caracas district of Chacao election on the grounds that it CARACAS: Venezuela yesterday who is the best known of was rigged. They say Maduro began releasing a group of Maduro’s critics to be jailed. has trampled on basic demo- opposition activists jailed for Lopez, originally arrested cratic freedoms and is leading protesting against President in 2014, was granted house the country into a hyperinfla- Nicolas Maduro, a move that the arrest last year. tionary economic collapse. government said would foster “The Truth Commission has Legislators from the oppo- dialogue but that critics made this recommendation at sition-controlled National dismissed as a token gesture by the request of President Nicolas Assembly, which has had most a dictatorship. Maduro,” said Delcy Rodriguez, of its powers stripped by the Opposition critics and rights president of the all-powerful Supreme Court since Maduro’s groups say Maduro’s gov- Constituent Assembly, in tele- ruling Socialist Party lost its ernment is still holding hun- vised comments. majority in 2016, called the dreds of political prisoners who “He said that this is the prisoner release a farce. were jailed for leading anti-gov- path, the path of dialogue, the “Right now the government ernment street demonstrations, path of unity, the path of is staging a political show with primarily in 2014 and 2017. peace.” Maduro was re-elected the release of prisoners, but in About 170 people died during on May 20 for a six-year term, Venezuela all Venezuelans are the protests. and last month called for a prisoners,” said legislator Tomas A group of 39 opposition prisoner release to foster good Guanipa. “We are happy for the activists will be released from will. political prisoners who have prison including Daniel He says the country is been freed, but there are 30 Ceballos, former mayor of the victim of an “economic war” led million Venezuelans.” restive western city of San by the opposition with the Venezuelan legislators were Cristobal, according to a list backing of the United States in the Colombian border city of published by Supreme Court and that opposition protests Cucuta on Friday for a meeting president Maikel Moreno. were in fact efforts to over- of congressional delegations The list, posted on Moreno’s throw him. from around Latin America to Facebook page, does not include The vast majority of the discuss Venezuela’s crisis.

The president of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly, Delcy Rodriguez (fourth left), holds a meeting with opposition governors at the Foreign Ministry in Caracas, after the release of imprisoned opponents, yesterday.

Right-wing Duque leads Petro in Colombia election: Poll REUTERS The run-off will pit the two top finishers from the May BOGOTA: Colombian right- election and means Duque and wing presidential candidate Petro are now seeking support Ivan Duque is holding onto his from backers of candidates no long-time lead over leftist longer in the race. Gustavo Petro, ahead of the Duque, who was hand- country’s run-off election on picked by former President June 17, an opinion poll Alvaro Uribe and whose published yesterday showed. original coalition included the Duque, who has promised Conservative party and his to overhaul the 2016 peace deal own Democratic Center party, Nicaragua with the Revolutionary Armed will also count on the support Forces of Colombia (FARC) and of the Liberal party in the elections chief cut taxes, won the most votes second round. in the first round election on The left-wing Democratic resigns May 27, with 39 percent. Pole party, which had backed AP Ahead of the run-off, Duque third-place finisher Sergio has 55 percent support, yester- Fajardo in the first round, said day’s Centro Nacional de Con- on Thursday it will now MEXICO CITY: The Organi- sultoria poll said. support Petro. sation of American States says Petro, a former member of The Green Party, also part that Nicaragua’s elections the M-19 rebel group and ex- of Fajardo’s coalition, has chief has agreed to resign as mayor of Bogota, has 35 percent urged its supporters not to vote part of efforts to reform the support, according to the for Duque. country’s electoral system. survey, which has a margin of Fajardo has said he himself Roberto Rivas (pictured) error of 3 percent. will hand in a blank ballot, a had held the top post on Nic- Petro, who has promised to popular form of protest voting aragua’s Supreme Electoral fight inequality, safeguard the in the Andean country. Council for more than a FARC peace deal, ban open-pit Meanwhile, current Pres- decade. Many accused him of mining and shift state-run oil ident Juan Manuel Santos’ cen- orchestrating electoral frauds company Ecopetrol to focus on trist U Party has told its sup- that kept President Daniel renewable energy, won 25 porters they are free to vote as Ortega in power. percent in the May vote. they please. In December, the United States added Rivas to its list of corrupt actors under the Magnitsky Act, barring his access to the US financial system. It said Rivas had amassed a fortune that afforded him multiple prop- erties, private jets, luxury vehicles and a yacht despite his official salary of $60,000 per year. The OAS statement Thursday said Rivas’ resig- nation was part of its work Colombian presidential candidates Ivan Duque (left) and Gustavo with Nicaragua to guarantee Petro. free and fair elections. 14 CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018

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Washington also is removing aluminum tariffs that took effect and Japan at a coastal mountain That’s exactly what happened in exemptions for Mexico and yesterday. resort in Canada, with raw dif- the 30s,” he added. Canada because negotiations to President Donald Trump’s ferences dominating that atmos- En route to the G7 meetings, revise the 24-year-old North decision Thursday not to extend phere and Mnuchin likely to French Finance Minister Bruno American Free Trade Agreement exemptions for Canada and the receive an earful. Le Maire said his country, and are “taking longer than we had European Union, the largest Normally the scene of com- other European nations, would hoped” and there is no “precise sources of foreign aluminum and promise and trade promotion, not negotiate while the sanctions date” for concluding them, Ross steel respectively for the US, the G7 meet took on an air of were in effect. said. In response, Canada upended the agenda for talks futility as hopes for common “We cannot enter into any announced Can$16.6bn ($12.8bn) among Group of Seven foreign ground threatened to vanish. kind of discussion under the in retaliatory duties on US goods, ministers underway in Canada. “I’ll be stating very clearly pressure,” Le Maire said. including potentially on beef, As Brussels, Ottawa and our disagreement with the The White House, however, coffee, candies, plywood and Christine Lagarde(right), Managing Director of the International Mexico City vowed to impose actions they’ve taken,” Canadian said Thursday the tariffs first surprisingly, maple syrup, as well Monetary Fund, during the opening of the G7 Finance Ministers and counter-tariffs on billions in US Finance Minister Bill Morneau imposed in March -- 25 percent as steel and aluminum. goods, France said it would not told reporters earlier on duties on steel and 10 percent on Mexico said it would impose Central Bank Governors conference in Whistler, British Columbia. negotiate while the tariffs were Thursday. aluminum -- have had “major, retaliatory duties on a variety of in effect, lawmakers in Trump’s “I have every expectation positive effects on steel and alu- US goods, including steel and a coming hours counter-balancing Meanwhile, South Korea Republican Party denounced the that our other allies around the minum workers and jobs.” host of agricultural goods, measures” in response to the US negotiated a steel quota, while move as a threat to prosperity table will express the same And the administration’s including pork, apples and action. Brussels previously Argentina, Australia and Brazil and global stock markets sank. sentiments.” actions “underscore its com- various cheeses. threatened to slap tariffs on US have arranged for “limitations In a call late Thursday, Macron told journalists at mitment to good-faith negotia- EU chief Jean-Claude products including bourbon, on the volume they can ship to French President Emmanuel the Elysee Palace that he tions with our allies to enhance Juncker said the 28-nation bloc motorcycles and blue jeans, as the US in lieu of tariffs,” Macron told Trump the tariffs deplored the American decision. our national security while sup- “will announce in the next well as other products. according to Ross. Petrobras CEO resigns raising China stands up for questions over Brazil economy free trade on eve of US AP argue that bucking to truckers’ Parente said the strike had set commerce chief’s visit demands would not interfere off an intense debate over REUTERS RIO DE JANEIRO: The pres- with Petrobras’ ability to set Petrobras’ pricing policies but today to press China to commit ident of Brazilian state oil prices, a key part of the com- little reflection about the real- to buying more US agriculture, company Petrobras resigned pany’s rebuilding plan after a ities of world fuel prices. BEIJING: China reiterated its energy, and other products to yesterday, the latest fallout from massive corruption scandal. “My remaining as president commitment to the global trade narrow the $375bn trade deficit. a crippling truckers’ strike over They also said Petrobras of Petrobras would not con- order yesterday, hours after While US officials have sent fuel prices that has widespread CEO Pedro Parente (pictured), tribute positively to the alterna- Washington imposed new conflicting signals during the implications for the future of widely respected in financial and tives the government must come tariffs on imports from key dispute with China, one person Latin America’s largest economy. government circles in Brazil and up with going forward,” he contrast to Petrobras’ approach allies and a day before US familiar with planning for Ross’ The dayslong strike led to beyond, would remain in place. wrote. since Temer took over from Commerce Secretary Wilbur visit said the aim was to keep massive shortages of supplies The markets, however, were The development raises President Dilma Rousseff when Ross was due in Beijing for talks dialogue going. ranging from food to medicine, not convinced that the future questions about the future of one she was impeached and to avert a trade war. Ross is “going there to tread shuttered thousands of public was bright. Petrobras’ stock of Brazil’s most important removed from office in 2016. While many countries share water”, the person said, schools and grounded numerous price dropped sharply in the last companies. As part of a series of reforms US frustration over Chinese declining to be identified due flights. two weeks, reversing large gains Ultimately, truckers and aimed at pulling Brazil from a trade and economic practices, to the sensitivity of the matter. It ended earlier this week made in recent years. many other sectors in Latin deep recession, Temer’s admin- critics of US policy under Pres- What had appeared to have when the government Yesterday, Petrobras stock America’s largest nation want a istration said there would no ident Donald Trump have been a trade truce between announced plans to subsidize a prices tumbled further, trading permanent return to the recent longer be interference in warned that Washington risks Beijing and Washington was 10 percent drop in the price of 17 percent lower from the close past, when the government and Petrobras pricing. Parente, who alienating the European Union, upended this week when the diesel for 60 days. President on the most recent day of trading Petrobras would set fuel prices had served in key Cabinet posi- Canada and Mexico with 25 White House said it would Michel Temer and several min- in Brazil. that were heavily subsidized. tions in previous governments, percent tariffs on steel and 10 follow through on its threat of isters went to great lengths to In his resignation letter, However, that stands in stark was brought in. percent on aluminium. tariffs on $50bn worth of “All countries, especially the Chinese imports, as well as major economies, should res- restrictions on Chinese invest- olutely oppose all forms of ments in the United States and trade and investment protec- tighter export controls. Brent premium over WTI hits new three-year high tionism,” foreign ministry Washington and Beijing spokeswoman Hua Chunying have threatened tit-for-tat REUTERS inland. The spread between the difficult to anticipate as it does barrel drop in US crude stock- told a regular media briefing, tariffs on goods worth up to two benchmarks, which climbed not necessarily react to news, piles last week. when asked about the US move. $150bn each. “The more Trump LONDON: The spread between above $11.50 a barrel, had nar- headlines,” Petromatrix said in Global benchmark Brent ini- This weekend’s trade talks is irritating allies and asking Brent crude oil futures contracts rowed slightly by 1355 GMT to a note. tially stayed within Thursday’s come as Washington is engaged Chinese to buy stuff, the better and US WTI hit a fresh three- about $10.54 as Brent erased “One can be long or short on range but then fell 62 cents to in fragile negotiations towards off they are, because he’s not year high yesterday with the some of its earlier gains. either of the benchmarks and be $76.94 per barrel. It was still set what would be a historic sitting there and attacking the latter set for a second consec- US crude production has stopped-out by the volatility of to rise 0.6 percent for the week. summit between Trump and hard issues,” the person said. utive week of declines as US oil been rising to record levels since the Brent-WTI.” Sources said Opec and North Korean leader Kim Jong Those hard issues include output comes close to matching late last year. In March, it jumped WTI fell 45 cents to stand at Russia were discussing boosting Un, whose main diplomatic what the US complains is that of top producer Russia. 215,000 barrels per day (bpd) to $66.59 a barrel. For the week, output by about 1 million bpd to backer is China. rampant theft of intellectual The premium doubled in 10.47 million bpd, a new monthly WTI was on track for a 1.9 compensate for losses in supply Ross, who was preceded in property, as well as Beijing’s about a month as a lack of record, the Energy Information percent fall, adding to last week’s from Venezuela and to address Beijing this week by more than support for cutting-edge tech- pipeline capacity in the United Administration said on Thursday. near 5 percent decline and concerns about the impact of US 50 US officials, is expected nologies under its Made in States traps much of the output “The move on that spread is shrugging off a 3.6-million- sanctions on Iranian output. during a two-day visit starting China 2025 policy. 16 BUSINESS SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018

US unemployment falls to 3.8% MarketWatch in May, lowest in 18 years QSE FTSE100 DOW BRENT 8,880.51 7,701.77 24,635.21 $65.73 AFP The jobless rate fell release time, but were delighted -35.31 PTS +23.57 PTS +219.37PTS -1.31 to 3.8% from 3.9% afterwards. 0.40% 0.31% 0.90% Dow & Brent before going to press WASHINGTON: The US unem- in the prior month, US stocks surged after the ployment rate fell to its lowest opening bell, and mostly con- level in 18 years in May, the the lowest level since tinued upward, with the tech- Labour Department reported April 2000. rich Nasdaq gaining 1.25 percent. Malaysia on the yesterday, showing the world’s The Dow, however, was off its Fiat Chrysler to form biggest economy remains robust highest point of the session. hook for $13bn even as it stands on the prec- of available workers -- defined With robust hiring con- ipice of an all-out trade war. as those working or actively tinuing, well beyond the of 1MDB’s debts: US finance arm; in The jobless rate fell to 3.8 looking for work, continued to monthly average of 179,000 for percent from 3.9 percent in the decline, which was the main the past three months, Finance Minister prior month, the lowest level driver behind the lower unem- employers have been reporting talks with Santander REUTERS since April 2000. ployment rate. the need to increase salaries and BLOOMBERG With a shortage of workers Trump broke with protocol benefits to attract workers and reported throughout the country by tweeting about the report an keep them from being poached KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and across many industries and hour before release time, hinting by competitors. will have to pay about 50 NEW YORK: Fiat Chrysler skill levels, the latest data con- the figures would be positive. The report shows average billion ringgit ($12.57bn) of Automobiles plans to form its firmed wages are rising. “Looking forward to seeing hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent beleaguered state fund own financing business in the The economy added the employment numbers at last month to $26.92, which is 1MDB’s dues, Finance US and has started discussions 223,000 non-farm jobs last 8:30 this morning,” he said on 2.7 percent higher than a year Minister Lim Guan Eng with partner Santander month, stronger than the con- Twitter. ago. (pictured) told reporters Consumer USA Holdings Inc, sensus forecast of economists, The data are kept strictly With wage gains finally yesterday. which it has an option to buy and better than the increase of confidential and subject to tight above the Federal Reserve’s two The country’s new gov- out. 159,000 in April. security to prevent early release percent inflation target, the ernment has vowed to find That would allow Fiat And the jobless rate for since investors worldwide are central bank will be watching out how funds went missing Chrysler to “participate more buyout “is a low probability,” black or African American waiting to trade on the carefully to see if rising salaries from 1 Malaysia Development fully in capturing value from he said, adding “we would be workers dropped sharply in the information. translate into accelerating price Berhad, set up nearly a emerging platforms,” Chief buyers” of Santander based on month to 5.9 percent from 6.6 The report is given to the increases. decade ago by former prime Financial Officer Richard the news. percent, the lowest since the White House a day in advance, However, the Fed signaled minister Najib Razak, a dis- Palmer (pictured) said yes- Sergio Marchionne, the government began keeping although officials never hint at clearly that it is willing to tol- appearance it says led to the terday in a presentation near automaker’s chief executive records in 1972. the contents. erate inflation slightly above two finance ministry having to Turin, Italy. officer, told investors yesterday President Donald Trump has White House economic percent for a short period. bail out the fund a year ago. Buying out Dallas-based he’ll institute a dividend for the been touting that figure as a adviser Larry Kudlow confirmed The central bank is widely Last week, Lim said the Santander Consumer could add first time since Fiat and major accomplishment of his he told Trump about the data expected to raise the benchmark government had guaranteed $500m to $800m in incre- Chrysler merged in 2014. The economic policies. Thursday night, but noted that lending rate at its meeting later 38 billion ringgit of 1MDB’s mental pretax earnings within firm said it aims to double profit “We have reached yet one the tweet did not reveal any in June, the second increase of debt at the end of 2017. The four years, Palmer said. Fiat over the next five years, gener- more historic milestone with 3.8 information. three or four expected this year. government had also already could also start its own ating about ¤30bn ($35bn) in percent unemployment just “He didn’t give any Hiring was strong across paid 7 billion ringgit of the business, in which case the industrial free cash flow in that announced, and another all- numbers,” Kudlow said. multiple sectors, although there fund’s dues since April 2017. automaker envisions about span. Fiat Chrysler has no plans time record low African- By law, no government offi- was a slowdown in manufac- “If you look at the loans $100m in incremental profit, he to spin off its Alfa Romeo and American unemployment,” cials can comment on the jobs turing . that we have to pay, we are said. Maserati brands. Trump said at an event shortly report until one hour after The manufacturing sector looking at ballpark number Fiat Chrysler exiting its deal Santander has struggled to after the data were released. release, something Trump added 18,000 workers, the least 50 billion ringgit. Again, is “would require some payment reach market share targets that “We’re very honored by that. administration officials have since September 2017, retailers that the whole picture?” Lim above book value” to Santander it set along with Fiat Chrysler And by way, for the women out done on various occasions. added 31,000, while health care said, raising the possibility Consumer, Kevin Barker, a as part of the 10-year financing there, the lowest unemployment Markets did not appear to rose 29,000 and construction that the liabilities might Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst, said agreement the two companies in 19 years.” However, the pool react to the tweet ahead of 25,000. exceed that figure. in a note. Given the cost, a full signed in 2013.

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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero is Indian action drama film written and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane under Phantom Films banner. Harshvardhan Kapoor will be playing the lead role in the film along with Priyanshu. SPORT Saturday 2 June 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 Loew to decide Pakistan collapse Neuer’s World Cup gives England early fate tomorrow edge in second Test

FRENCH OPEN RESULTS

MEN Zverev wins five-set thriller; THIRD ROUND Marco Cecchinato (ITA) bt Pablo Carreño-Busta (ESP x10) 2-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-1 Novak Djokovic (SRB x20) bt Roberto Bautista Djokovic battles into last-16 (ESP x13) 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 Fernando Verdasco (ESP x30) bt Grigor Dimitrov AFP (BUL x4) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-4 Dominic Thiem (AUT x7) bt Matteo Berrettini PARIS: German second seed (ITA) 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-2 Alexander Zverev saved a match Kei Nishikori (JPN x19) bt Gilles Simon (FRA) point in coming back to defeat 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 Bosnia's Damir Dzumhur in five Alexander Zverev (GER x2) bt Damir Dzumhur sets to reach the French Open (BIH x26) 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 fourth round yesterday, while former champion Novak WOMEN Djokovic made the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the 43rd time. THIRD ROUND World number 29 Dzumhur Barbora Strycova (CZE x26) bt Katerina Siniakova also served for the match in the (CZE) 6-2, 6-3 fourth set, but Zverev clung on Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) bt Qiang Wang (CHN) and claimed a 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 (7/3), 7-5 victory. Madison Keys (USA x13) bt Naomi Osaka (JPN Zverev, 21, who is seen as the main threat to Rafael Nadal's x21) 6-1, 7-6 (9/7) expected coronation as champion Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU x31) bt Elina Svitolina for an 11th time, endured a (UKR x4) 6-3, 7-5 nightmare outing on Court Daria Kasatkina (RUS x14) bt Maria Sakkari Philippe Chatrier that lasted (GRE) 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 almost four hours. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x2) bt Pauline He hit 73 unforced errors, dropped serve eight times and Parmentier (FRA) 6-0, 6-3 served up seven double faults. He had to save a match point in the 10th game of the decider before breaking and holding to man to beat Nadal on clay this make the last 16 for the first time year, after the seventh seed beat where he will face either French Italian Matteo Berrettini 6-3, 6-7 15th seed Lucas Pouille or Rus- (5/7), 6-3, 6-2. sia's Karen Khachanov. In the women's draw, Australian Serbia’s Novak Djokovic runs with Ball boys and girls during the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, France yesterday. The match between Pouille Open champion Caroline Wozniacki and Khachanov was one of two eased past Frenchwoman Pauline men's matches not completed as rain curtailed play at 1910 local quarter-final, although the longer Federer's tally of 60. 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-4 in his 350th Parmentier 6-0, 6-3. time (1710 GMT), before being best-of-five format has worked Djokovic, seeded 20 after clay-court match. The second seed, a quarter- This is the 43rd occassion called off for the evening an hour twice in his favour now at Roland struggling to find his best form Bulgarian Dimitrov, a two- finalist in Paris last year, will face later with the Russian leading Garros. since returning from an elbow time Grand Slam semi-finalist, Daria Kasatkina for a place in the the former champion Novak 6-3, 7-5, 1-1. Djokovic claimed a hard- injury, will take on Fernando Ver- has still never reached the second last eight after the Russian beat Djokovic made the last 16 of a "It was an amazing, high level fought 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (7/4), dasco for a last-eight place after week at Roland Garros in eight Maria Sakkari 6-1, 1-6, 6-3. Grand Slam. match," said Zverev after his first- 6-2 victory over a grieving the Spaniard knocked out fourth attempts. US Open runner-up Madison ever win on Chatrier. "It was the Roberto Bautista Agut. seed Grigor Dimitrov. Japan's Kei Nishikori made Keys saw off Japanese 21st seed first time I have won on this court The 31-year-old former The Serbian has now made short work of home hope Gilles Naomi Osaka 6-1, 7-6 (9/7), Zverev claimed a 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, and I hope there are many more world number one struggled at the second week at Roland Simon as he cruised into the setting up a last-16 tie with 31st 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 victory against to come." times on Suzanne Lenglen court, Garros for the last nine years in fourth round for the fifth time. seed Mihaela Buzarnescu. Dzumhur. Zverev, who also had to fight but eventually came through the a row. The 28-year-old, seeded 19 Buzarnescu, a 30-year-old back from two sets to one down four-set battle in three hours and Bautista Agut was playing in in his first Grand Slam since Romanian with a doctorate in Zverev is looking to become in the second round against 48 minutes. Paris despite the death of his Wimbledon last year after strug- sports sciences who had never the first German man to win Serbian Dusan Lajovic, is looking Djokovic has now made the mother last week. gling with a wrist injury, saw off won a Grand Slam match before to become the first German man last 16 of a Slam for the 43rd time, The 34-year-old Verdasco Simon 6-3, 6-1, 6-3. this week, downed Ukraine's the title since 1937. to win the title since 1937. But he tying Jimmy Connors on the all- inflicted an early exit on Dim- Nishikori will next play Aus- fourth seed Elina Svitolina with has never reached a Grand Slam time list, second only to Roger itrov, with the Spaniard winning trian Dominic Thiem, the only a shock 6-3, 7-5 victory.

Xavi receives UEFA coaching license England made to wait despite 4-0 win THE PENINSULA

TOULON: England U-21 beat Qatar 4-0 in their final Toulon Tournament group game but were made to wait to secure qualification for the semi- finals yesterday. The result was not quite enough for Aidy Boothroyd’s men to secure progress. England finished level with Mexico on goal dif- ference but scored one fewer goal. Second-half strikes from Ronaldo Vieira (58), Tammy Abraham (61) and Adam Armstrong (72), added to an earlier own goal (38 - Ahmed Suhail), rouded up the score for the reigning England’s Tom champions. Davies vies for the Al Sadd’s skipper Xavi Hernandez (centre) poses with the UEFA coaching license But the Young Lions ball with Qatar’s following a special six-week course at Spain’s National Training Base in Madrid, face a wait to discover Nasser Abdulsalam Spain yesterday. Barca legend Xavi, along with fellow Spanish greats Raul, Xabi their fate, hoping Scotland (right) during their Alonso and Victor Valdes have all received their UEFA A and B coaching diplomas lose to South Korea Toulon International after successfully completing the course. The four Spaniards were among 16 other tomorrow in which case Championship match former professionals who took part in the programme in a bid to become the next they would qualify for the played in France generation top managers. semi-finals as the best yesterday. second place. 18 SPORT SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018

England rally Loew to decide Neuer’s around Sterling World Cup fate tomorrow amid tattoo

AFP controversy everything is okay, he’ll play against “In this phase, it is AP Austria.” important to gain some BERLIN: Joachim Loew has said he will Loew has said he will only take knowledge and see some only decide tomorrow whether to take Neuer to Russia as his first-choice processes which we have LONDON: England’s players and management Germany’s captain and goalkeeper ‘keeper. worked on. are rallying around Raheem Sterling to ensure Manuel Neuer to the World Cup after Barcelona’s Marc-Andre Ter Stegen “They will the tattoo controversy surrounding the forward eight months sidelined by injury. has deputised for Neuer, who has not demand a lot from doesn’t affect his mindset heading into the Neuer is set to play his first full played for Germany since October 2016. us. “ Whether or World Cup. game since fracturing his foot last Sep- Despite months on the sidelines, the not he includes Sterling came under scrutiny this week tember, on Saturday away to Austria in Bayern Munich star has impressed in Neuer, Loew when he posted a picture of himself in an Germany’s penultimate friendly before practice games at Germany’s World Cup said he England training session with a tattoo of an the World Cup. training camp in Eppan, north Italy. knows he assault rifle clearly visible on his right calf. He After such a lengthy absence, the Neuer pulled of a string of saves still has to said it was a tribute to his late father, who was 32-year-old who is generally regarded earlier this week when he helped the disap- shot dead when Sterling was 2. as one of the world’s top goalkeepers Germany Under-20 team restrict their point “burst some World Cup Anti-gun campaigners have criticized is under pressure to prove his form and margin of defeat to the senior team to dreams”. Sterling, while The Sun - England’s biggest- fitness.t ess. just 2-0. He was only beaten by a Four names must be cut selling newspaper - has carried the story on its “The“The ffinalinal decisiondecision Thomas Mueller penalty and a Julian before the final 23-man World Cup front page. willwill proprobablybably not comcomee Draxler goal. team is submitted to FIFA on Monday England coach Gareth Southgate attempted untiluntil SuSundaynday nignight,”ht,” Loew is set to leave several World and Loew said decisions will only be to ease the focus on 23-year-old Sterling, who saidsaid GermanGermany’sy’s Cup winners out of the team for the made “late on Sunday night”. is set to be one of the country’s key players at head coachcoach LoewLoew friendly in Klagenfurt. The German federation were left the World Cup after enjoying the best season of yesterday.yesterday. ““ForFor thethe Defender Jerome Boateng, who has red-faced this week when a poster his career at Premier League champion Man- moment evereverythingything a groin strain, and midfielder Toni appeared on their website showing how chester City. is on planplan for ManuelManuel Kroos, who was rested winning the their squads’ names appear in sign-lan- “He knows he’s got our support, he under- Neuer.Neuer. Champions League with Real Madrid guage, minus defender Jonathan Tah, stands how some people have perceived the “I’ll“I’ll taltalkk last weekend, will sit out. midfielder Sebastian Rudy, goalkeeper tattoo,” Southgate said yesterday. “But in my to himhim Mats Hummels and Thomas Kevin Trapp and striker Nils Petersen. view, a tattoo is like any work of art. It’s a very tonighttonight Mueller, who are rested, are also being Team director Oliver Bierhoff individual meaning, the intent is all with the andand iiff left behind in Eppan by Loew, but for insisted the slip-up does not reflect the individual and the person. the rest of the 27-man squad this is their quartet set to miss out on a place at “What has been clear by his own statement last chance to win a place on the plane Russia. and his own experiences is that he is not to Russia. Germany play their final friendly someone who supports or wants to promote “I’m planning to use all my substi- before Russia 2018 when they host guns in the way that was perceived at first. It’s tutions against Austria,” added Loew, Saudi Arabia in Leverkusen next Friday something he’s had to get on with this week, with a maximum six permitted. with their opening World Cup match but he’s a very strong individual and he’s looking “The Under-20 team was a against Mexico in Moscow on June 17 Germany’s forward to the game.” welcome sparring partner, but Austria having also drawn South Korea and captain and England midfielder Jesse Lingard, who plays will be an important friendly and the Sweden in Group F. goalkeeper for City rival Manchester United, said he and Manuel Neuer Germany’s coach Joachim Loew result will be just a minor matter. others have “reassured” Sterling this week because “that’s what friends are for.” “This England team is a tight-knit group, we stick together through the ups and downs, the negatives and the positives,” Lingard said. “But Bosnia stun Russia-bound South Koreans at this point in time it’s all about positives vibes from our side and we’re looking at the World AFP and then in the 79th to steal second just moments before later. Son went close for South Hwang Hee-chan, flicked Cup as a big test for us.” the show in Jeonju. half-time. Korea in the 27th minute, over Sehic. But in first-half The English Football Association has already JEONJU: Edin Visca scored a It made for a low-key And Visca, who plays for when he danced past two injury time, Haris Duljevic offered its support for Sterling, who could play hat-trick as Bosnia and send-off for Shin Tae-yong’s Istanbul Basaksehir in defenders but was denied by caught the South Korean for England in a World Cup warm-up match Herzegovina condemned South Korea, who were Turkey, dashed any hopes of goalkeeper Ibrahim Sehic at defence napping with a long against Nigeria at Wembley today. South Korea to a 3-1 friendly playing their final home a late South Korean point-blank range. cross for Visca, who easily defeat in a major setback to warm-up and will face comeback when he com- One minute later, Eldar beat goalkeeper Kim Seung- their World Cup preparations holders Germany, Mexico and pleted his treble in the 79th Civic’s cross failed to find Gyu for a 2-1 lead. yesterday. Sweden in a tough Group F in minute. The teams traded Dzeko, but it deflected off South Korea exerted Brazilian pair Tottenham Hotspur Russia. After Visca opened the chances early on. Roma defender Kim Min-woo and pressure in the second half forward Son Heung-min was scoring, midfielder Lee Jae- striker Edin Dzeko fired just found Visca’s foot to make it but were wasteful in attack ruled out of unable to make an impact as Sung levelled for the hosts over the bar in the 12th 1-0 to Bosnia. The home team -- and they were made to pay Visca scored in the 28th two minutes later, only for the minute, and fluffed a one-on- bounced back near the half- when Visca struck 11 minutes warm-up match minute, just before half-time Bosnian midfielder to grab his one opportunity nine minutes hour mark as Lee, fed by from time. REUTERS

SAO PAULO: Renato Augusto and Douglas Costa will miss Brazil’s World Cup warm-up Aussies notch big win against Czech Republic friendly against Croatia in England this weekend due to injury, the Brazilian Football AFP Czechs with a goal in the 72nd Confederation said yesterday. minute. Czech Costa will travel with the squad to Liverpool SANKT POLTEN, AUSTRIA: The Czechs’ misery was Republic’s but will not play in Sunday’s match due to a Hertha Berlin winger Mathew compounded when Slavia Jan Boril (left) thigh strain. Leckie struck twice as Prague defender Jakub Jugas and Australia’s However, Renato Augusto, the Beijing Australia warmed up for the put into his own net 10 Dimitri Guoan midfielder who has been a regular World Cup in Russia with a minutes from the final whistle. Petratos vie starter under coach Tite, will stay in London 4-0 rout of the Czech Republic Australia, set to make for the ball to have physiotherapy on an injured left knee. yesterday. their fifth World Cup during their Brazil play Croatia at Anfield on Sunday in Leckie put the Socceroos appearance in Russia four international what will be their penultimate warm-up before ahead just after the half-hour years after failing to get out of friendly heading to Russia. and doubled their lead eight the group stage at Brazil 2014, football match The five-times World Cup winners also face minutes after the restart of the face tournament favourites at the NV Austria in Vienna on June 10. match played in Sankt Poelten France in their opener on June Arena in Sankt Striker and talisman Neymar, who has not in Austria. 16 in Kazan. Polten, Austria played since injuring his foot in a league match Urawa Diamonds striker Coach Bert van Marwijk’s yesterday. for Paris St Germain back in February, is expected Andrew Nabbout put the men also face Peru and to feature in both games, although reports said match beyond reach for the Denmark in Group C. he will start on the bench against Croatia.

Warriors draw first blood despite LeBron’s heroics in NBA Finals REUTERS 9-for-11 shooting by James and 12 guard George Hill missed a free Green. points from Kevin Love, who throw but team mate J.R. Smith Green mocked Thompson for OAKLAND: The Golden State returned to the starting lineup after snatched the rebound near the fouling out of the contest and Warriors overcame a 51-point effort missing the Game Seven East Finals basket. Thompson responded by shoving from Cleveland Cavaliers’ star win over the Boston Celtics with a Smith, however, thinking his the ball in his tormentor’s face and forward LeBron James before concussion. team had the lead, dribbled away was ejected by the referees. dominating in overtime to seal a The Warriors clawed their way from the hoop and ran the clock A scary moment occurred in the thrilling 124-114 Game One triumph back in the second quarter before out instead of taking a shot, sending first quarter when Klay Thompson in the NBA Finals on Thursday. In Curry tied the game at 56-56 with the game to overtime with the was upended by Smith and came a physical and at times contentious a buzzer-beating three-point shot teams locked at 107-107. up hobbling before heading to the start to the Finals, Stephen Curry to end the half and send the yellow- The Warriors (58-24 for the locker room. led the way for the Warriors with shirted sold-out crowd into a season) dominated the extra period, To the relief of the home crowd, Cleveland 29 points and nine assists, while frenzy. outscoring the Cavaliers 17-7 the sharpshooting guard returned Cavaliers forward Kevin Durant added 24 for the The Warriors opened a seven- behind timely buckets from Shaun to start the second quarter after LeBron James defending champions, point lead in the third quarter but Livingston, Klay Thompson and having his left leg taped by trainers. shoots the ball who survived a scare turnovers, miscues and the con- Curry. James was also injured when during game one from the underdog tinued dominance of James kept the The overtime blowout did not Green poked him in the eye as he of the 2018 NBA Cavs. game close throughout the fourth. prevent the game from ending in a went hard to the rim, causing the Finals against The Cavaliers The Cavs, who finished the controversial manner, however, Cavaliers forward to roll on the Golden State raced out to an season with a 50-32 record, looked with an altercation between Cavs floor in pain. A bloody spot was Warriors on 11-point lead in the in position to pull off the win when, big man Tristan Thompson and later visible on his eye but he stayed Thursday. first half behind with just seconds left in regulation, Warriors forward Draymond in the game. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018 SPORT 19 Pakistan collapse gives England early edge AFP early in the second session they lost three wickets for one run in LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM: 14 balls to be 79 for seven. Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed But Shadab, fresh from Test was left pondering his decision fifties against Ireland in Dublin to bat first after a collapse and England at Lord’s, inspired handed England the advantage a late-order revival as Pakistan’s on the first day of the second last three wickets added 95 runs. Test at Headingley yesterday. In the morning, Broad England were 106 for two at almost had opener Imam-ul- Ducati Team’s Italian Andrea Dovizioso waves during a free stumps, just 68 runs behind Haq lbw for nought before practice session ahead of the Italian Moto GP Grand Prix at the Pakistan’s lowly first-innings 174 removing the nephew of all out. Pakistan selection chief and Mugello racetrack in Scarperia e San Piero, yesterday. England captain Joe Root former Test batsman Inzamam- was 29 not out on his Yorkshire ul-Haq for a duck in any event. home ground, with night- England’s catching, as well Suzuki’s Iannone watchman Dominic Bess as their batting and bowling, had unbeaten on nought. been below standard at Lord’s The one sadness for England but after Root held a sharp, high was that Alastair Cook, their all- chance at third slip following fastest in Italian time leading Test run-scorer, fell Imam’s edged drive. Azhar Ali shortly before stumps for 46. ground out a two off 29 balls, an Earlier, Shadab Khan took innings that ended when the MotoGP practice England’s captain Joe Root bats on the first day of the second Test Pakistan to three figures as the opener was lbw to a Broad match agaisnt Pakistan at Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds, AFP teenage leg-spinner made his inswinger. Warwickshire seamer world championship leader third fifty in successive Tests. northern England, yesterday. Woakes removed Haris Sohail, Marc Marquez of Repsol Honda But the tourists’ top order who had battled his way to 28, MUGELLO, ITALY: Italy’s third best at 0.483. struggled as England’s veteran the first Test of a two-match knowing that if they avoided when the left-hander opened the Andrea Dovizioso set a new The session was red flagged new-ball duo of Stuart Broad series at Lord’s, produced a suc- defeat they would be able to cel- face and edged a simple catch Motogp speed record but twice, the first when Ducati’s and James Anderson, much crit- cession of fuller-length ebrate their first Test series win to second-slip Dawid Malan. compatriot Andrea Iannone Michele Pirro suffered a spec- icised for bowling too short in deliveries. in England for 22 years. Asad Shafiq hit five fours in topped yesterday’s two practice tacular high-speed crash. Pakistan’s nine-wicket win in Pakistan arrived in Leeds Friday’s pitch looked a good his 27 before edging a good ball sessions in a drama-filled first Italian Pirro lost control as one to bat on but humid and from Woakes to Cook at first slip. day’s action ahead of the Italian he braked while riding at about SCOREBOARD overcast conditions offered to Cook dropped several Grand Prix at Mugello. 350kmh, flying metres into the Pakistan (I innings) 7-79, 8-113, 9-156, 10-174 assist the bowlers. catches at Lord’s and needed a Ducati’s Dovizioso posted air before crashing onto the Azhar Ali lbw b Broad ...... 2 Bowling: Anderson 15-6-43-3; Broad 15-6-38-3; Sarfraz’s decision to bat was juggle to hold this one. a new top speed record of gravel and losing Imam-ul-Haq c Root b Broad ...... 0 Woakes 11-1-55-3; Curran 7.1-0-33-1 an especially bold move given Shadab, a shining light for 356.4km/h (221.5mph) to better consciousness. Haris Sohail c Malan b Woakes ...... 28 England (I innings) England made just 184 in their Pakistan, commandingly pulled the previous best of 354.9km/h The 31-year-old was Asad Shafiq c Cook b Woakes ...... 27 A Cook c Sarfraz Ahmed b Hasan Ali ...... 46 first innings at Lord’s. Woakes for four to complete an achieved by Iannone in 2016. treated trackside and later Usman Salahuddin lbw b Broad ...... 4 K Jennings c Sarfraz Ahmed b Faheem Ashraf ...29 And it was not long before impressive 48-ball fifty featuring But the 28-year-old transported by helicopter to the Sarfraz Ahmed b Anderson...... 14 J Root (batting) ...... 29 Shadab Khan c Jennings b Curran ...... 56 D Bess (batting) ...... 0 Broad was on his way to a return nine boundaries. Iannone, who has confirmed he Careggi hospital in Florence for Faheem Ashraf lbw b Anderson ...... 0 Extras (lb2) ...... 2 of three for 38 in 15 overs, with He was last man out when will leave Japanese manufac- scans. Mohammad Amir c Bairstow b Anderson ...... 13 Total (2 wkts) ...... 106 Anderson taking three for 43. dismissed by fellow 19-year-old turer Suzuki at the end of the Motogp’s chief doctor Angel Hasan Ali c and b Woakes ...... 24 To bat: D Malan, J Bairstow, J Buttler, C Woakes, S All-rounder Chris Woakes, Sam Curran as the Surrey left- season, achieved a combined Charter confirmed later that Mohammad Abbas (not out) ...... 1 Curran, S Broad, J Anderson one of a trio of changes, took arm seamer, included after Ben time of 1min 46.735sec after the Pirro had suffered concussion, Extras (LB5)...... 5 Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-104 (Cook) three for 55. Stokes was ruled out with a torn two sessions. neck, chest and back injuries Total (all out) ...... 174 Bowling: Amir 10-1-37-0; Abbas 9-4-22-0; Hasan Pakistan saw all their top hamstring, marked his Test “I won’t remain at Suzuki,” and a dislocated shoulder. Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-17, 3-49, 4-62, 5-78, 6-78, 8-2-24-1; Ashraf 7-2-16-1; Shadab 3-0-5-0 four dismissed before lunch and debut with a wicket. Iannone told Autosport.com. “He’s moving all limbs nor- “I switch to another bike, mally and his neurological sit- another manufacturer, but at uation is normal,” he added. the moment I won’t talk about The session was again my future because it’s a little bit halted when Dovizioso’s Ducati Faiz of NVBS excels in badminton tourney (like) hell.” Iannone joined caught fire. Suzuki at the start of the 2017 The Italian -- winner in THE PENINSULA Faiz has made remarkable season after losing his Ducati Mugello last year -- had been strides since he joined the bad- seat to Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo. third overall after the morning DOHA: New Vision Badminton minton training says coaches at He failed to achieve a session. Iannone posted the Sport (NVBS) trainee Faiz Ahmed NVBS and he has achieved this podium last year, finishing 13th fastest times in both sessions Anas finished runners-up in the through dedication and perse- in the championship. But at the improving in the afternoon on Under-15 doubles while verance by coming for training start of 2018 he achieved back- his morning’s performance. clinching the third place in the regularly. to-back third places in Austin “I’ve a good feeling. It’s Under-15 singles at the Kerala At NVBS he trains under and Jerez. been a very positive day,” said district level championship last coach Manoj Sahibjan. Suzuki has already signed Iannone, looking to build on week. “Faiz started his training, at Iannone’s team-mate Alex Rins back-to-back third places in In the Idikki District cham- the start of last year, and has for a further two seasons, and Austin and Jerez. pionship, the 13-year-old Faiz, managed to bring a drastic are close to securing Moto2 star Italian star Valentino Rossi who started training a year back change in his performance. He Joan Mir for its second bike in of Yamaha achieved the with NVBS, beat Mohammed New Vision Badminton Sport (NVBS) trainee Faiz Ahmed Anas is an upcoming player who has 2019. seventh fastest time. Yaseen in the quarter-finals in receiving the runners-up double trophy. captured the attention of the Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales The third practice session a three-set encounter 21-13, audience in all the tournaments bounced back after an early takes place on today morning 17-21, 21-18. and Balasurya went down category to lost to Stalin and Hari he has played in a short period,” crash to post the second best before qualifying for tomor- In the doubles section, Faiz fighting in the Under- 15 doubles 13-21,21-14,16-21. said coach Sahibjan. time at 0.387sec with Spain’s row’s race. Stage set for nail-biting finish in Kazakhstan THE PENINSULA Al-Rajhi. fastest time, as Viktor Khoro- “We got lost three times!” shavtsev (MINI John Cooper AKTAU CITY KAZAKHSTAN: The Russian duo of Vladimir Vas- Works Rally) regained seventh The fastest time on the penul- ilyev and Konstantin Zhiltsov position at the expense of Rus- timate 298.04km special stage dropped over five minutes to the sia’s Andrey Rudskoy, who fell by FIA World Cup leader Jakub stage winner and could well have to ninth overall but remained Przygonski has set up the lost their chance of outright well clear of 10th-placed Denis prospect of a nail-biting finale to victory in a MINI Cooper Krotov, Germany’s Jürgen Rally Kazakhstan. Countryman. Schröder in 11th and Shagirov The Pole and Belgian navi- They slipped to third overall (12th). gator Tom Colsoul guided their but actually closed the gap on Kirill Chernenkov dropped X-raid MINI John Cooper Works leader Al-Rajhi from 8min 05sec 58 minutes to Qatar’s Adel Rally to a time of 2hrs 48min to 6min 45sec. But the final stage Abdulla on the fourth stage but 19sec on the short timed section is short by Kazakh standards and the Kazakh extended his lead to the north of Aktau City on there will be limited opportu- over Russia’s Konstantin Ivanov Friday but, more importantly, nities to make up that kind of to 43min 49sec before the start they beat team-mate Yazeed Al- time difference. of stage five. OFF-ROAD Kaza- Rajhi by 6min 26sec. Czech driver Martin Prokop khstan’s Marat Abykayev They now trail the Saudi delivered another solid stage in retained a comfortable third Arabian driver - who suffered his Ford F-150 Evo to remain in position after Abdulla incurred navigational issues from opening fourth overall, while Frenchman further time penalties. the stage - by just 2min 12sec Luc Alphand bounced back from Adel Abdulla of Qatar competes in Rally Kazakhstan. But Chernenkov lost his heading into a MINI showdown four days of niggles to set the chance of winning the T2 cat- by the Caspian Sea on second quickest time in X-raid’s egory when he incurred 100 Saturday. MINI Buggy and consolidated got a little lost one time. The car eighth in the overall rankings. were good and we had another hours of time penalties on Przygonski said: “It was a fifth position. has great potential. We still need Hunt said: “It was a really one. Then we had some other Friday and that handed a great good stage for us because the Alphand said: “This was a to work on a few things. When it nice stage, fast and a lot of issues. There was a dead horse chance to Ivanov and plan was to win and go as fast as pretty good day. It was a nice is ready, it will be fantastic.” bumps. At the beginning it was in the road book, so we had to Abykayev. Adel Abdulla con- possible. We made good lines, stage again. We were more com- G-Force driver Boris Gadasin and sandy and there were some be careful. This is a trial for the tinued his charge and set a third great navigation from Tom and fortable in the Buggy. There was England’s Harry Hunt (PH Sport dunes in the middle before it rest of the season. We may successive fastest time, as a good rhythm. We are really a lot of sand and more jumps and Peugeot 3008 DKR) delivered became very fast at the end. We change some things on the car Ivanov completed the special happy.” that’s why the Buggy was cool. impressive stage performances had two punctures. We were for the rest of the season.” 8min 32sec behind the Qatari Everything is okay, but it was The dunes were not so difficult. to record the third and fourth good, then we had a puncture on Yerden Shagirov bounced to take a lead over Abykayev of not easy to open the road,” said We had three little stops and we fastest times and hold sixth and the back left after 70km, and we back to form with the eighth 38min 35sec into the last day. 20 MORNING BREAK SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 15 AM Superman going SHOROOK 04. 43 AM strong at eighty ZUHR 11. 32 AM MAGHRIB 06. 23 PM AFP ASR 02. 56 PM ISHA 07. 53 PM

WASHINGTON: In an era when superheroes seem WEATHER TODAY to be everywhere — there were literally dozens in the most recent “Avengers” film — the Man of Steel stands apart. Eighty years after his debut in Action Comics #1, dated June 1938, Superman is still an American cul- tural icon, the hero of reference and the undisputed star of DC Comics. And today, the comic book publisher — also known for Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Green Lantern, among others — is counting on Superman more than ever. “He is the mold people worked with, the template for the idea of a superhero,” explains Jared Smith, who works in a comic book store in Washington. “Superman is a very idealised character. They call him the Boy Scout of America. He always does the right thing and tries do to the good thing.” In Feathered companions Action Comics #1, 13 pages were dedicated to the story A girl walks among seagulls at a nameless islet located in the middle of Dukan Dam in Sulaymaniyah, of Kal-El, an alien from the planet Krypton with super- Iraq. natural strength, sent to Earth by his father before his home planet was destroyed. Superman’s debut was a smash success. A year later, DC Comics gave the Man of Steel his own book, and introduced another formidable hero: Batman. ‘Spider-Man’s Eighty years on, the formula has not changed: Endangered mountain gorilla Superman has more or less always appeared in his building’ o o red, blue and yellow suit with the “S” symbol on the population recovers: Report chest. In his appearances on the silver and small becomes Paris REUTERS 30 C 45 C screen, in comic strips and videogames, he has fought Rwanda, where most of them Minimum Maximum for truth, justice and the “American Way.” In Illinois, reside. The latest census put attraction the town of Metropolis -- which shares a name with CONGO: The population of them at 1,004 individuals: 604 AFP Hot daytime with slight dust at places at Superman’s fictional home -- organizes an annual mountain gorillas, one of the in Virunga, and 400 in Uganda’s times. Misty at places at first becomes festival celebrating the hero. world’s most endangered nearby Bwindi Impenetrable fine. This summer, on the heels of a “Man of Steel” mini- species, which survives on the National Park, Joel Wenga PARIS: Having featured as series, DC Comics will reboot the standalone forest-cloaked volcanoes of Malembe, spokesman for the the backdrop to Mamoudou

HIGH TIDE 06:00 – 19:45 LOW TIDE 02:45 – 12:00 “Superman” series. For the challenge, they tapped central Africa, has increased by Congolese Institute for the Con- “Spider-Man” Gassama’s Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Brian Michael Bendis, a legend in the genre who a quarter to over 1,000 indi- servation of Nature, said. dramatic rescue act last worked for two decades at rival publisher Marvel. viduals since 2010, wildlife The last survey found just weekend in Paris, the six- “You always feel the legacy of the character when authorities said. 786 of this endangered sub- storey apartment building has you hop on, and I’ve had that joy a couple of times, That is despite the threat species, of which 480 were in become an unlikely attraction but there’s something different about Superman,” posed by poachers and armed Virunga. “These numbers are and the city’s hottest spot for Bendis said in an interview with pop culture website groups in the Virunga Massif, a truly remarkable, far exceeding a selfie. Nerdist. “I think there’s something fascinating about spine of volcanic mountains in our expectations, and are the Since Gassama’s extraor- the fact that not only did this character invent the the western Rift Valley strad- result of a collaborative, three- dinary feat last Saturday, genre but it stayed true and became the core, soul, dling eastern Democratic country effort,” Mike Cranfield, when he scaled four floors and center of the genre for the entirety of its existence.” Republic of Congo, Uganda and of charity Gorilla Doctors, said. with his bare hands to rescue a child, crowds of Parisians have stopped by to gaze up at the balconies that have fea- tured on television screens The mother of all lizards found in Italian Alps worldwide. Seeing it for real, most AFP University of Alberta in Canada said. have been left even more That, in turn, suggested that squamates impressed by Gassama’s ath- PARIS: Scientists said they had tracked had already split from other ancient rep- leticism that saw him jump down the oldest known lizard, a tiny tiles before the Permian/Triassic mass from one floor to the next, creature that lived about 240 million extinction some 252 million years ago. each time hauling himself up years ago when Earth had a single Up to 95 percent of marine- and 75 towards the four-year-old continent and dinosaurs were brand percent of terrestrial life on Earth was boy dangling above. new. lost. Megachirella, discovered some 20 “Since Saturday, it hasn’t Scans of the fossilised skeleton of years ago buried in compacted sand and stopped,” Chantal, who lives Megachirella revealed the chameleon- clay layers in the Dolomites mountain in the bloc in the 18th sized reptile was an ancestor of today’s range in northeast Italy, was initially Arrondissement of northern lizards and snakes, which belong to a misclassified as a close lizard relative. Paris, said, giving only her group called squamates, an international The scans revealed previously first name. “Every day people team wrote in the science journal unseen physical features, including the have been coming to look at Nature. This finding dragged the group underside of the fossil, embedded in it themselves.” The Malian An artistic creation of Megachirella back in time by 75 million years, and rock. migrant, 22, arrived illegally wachtleri walking through the vegetation means that “lizards inhabited the planet The team found a tiny bone in Meg- in France in September 2017 in the Dolomites region, Northern Italy, since at least 240 million years ago,” achirella’s lower jaw that is unique to and had been working in the about 240 million years ago. study co-author Tiago Simoes of the the squamate family. construction industry before his Spider-Man-style climbing propelled him to global superstardom.

Lebanon’s spearfishers fight to preserve stocks World’s largest AFP Suddenly, one of them duck 2006, when a war between Leb- freshwater dives, piercing the surface as he anese militia Hezbollah and TRIPOLI: Hunting fish with heads vertically into the blue. neighbouring Israel rocked the pearl goes spear guns may seem like a Others watch through their country. counterintuitive way to save masks to make sure he is safe, “Fishermen stayed at home for ¤320,000 Lebanon’s dwindling marine life, as he fins a dozen metres (yards) for a month. Back at sea, they AFP but a growing community of down, clutching his spear gun. noticed fish numbers had freedivers argues it is a potent He can stay down for more increased,” he says. awareness-raising tool. than two minutes on a single “The sea’s ability to regen- THE HAGUE: The world’s At 5:00am, three men park breath. The fish populations erate life instigated my initi- largest known freshwater their car in the northern port of living off Lebanon’s northern ative,” Zock adds with a wide pearl, which once belonged Qalamun. Grabbing their fins, coastline have shrunk in recent smile. The instructor started the to Catherine the Great, was masks and spear guns, they years, fishermen say. And the Freedive Lebanon club alone, but sold in the Netherlands for board a boat and set out to sea. European Commission estimates by 2017 it had 90 members, he ¤320,000 ($374,000), Wrapped in tight camou- that 90 percent of fish species says. auction house Venduehuis flage wetsuits as they skim surveyed in the Mediterranean He insists that all members said. across the silvered water, these are overfished, it said in April have a spearfishing licence, Known as the Sleeping amateur underwater hunters 2017 following a study. which comes on condition that Lion pearl due to its dis- resemble their counterparts the The EC launched an initi- catching fish at night, or using tinctive shape, the pearl was world over. ative with non European Union Jamal Hilal, a 28-year-old Lebanese freediver, poses while holding any machine, is forbidden. likely formed in the first half Rachid Zock and his friends countries — dubbed MedFi- a Grouper fish that he hunted with a speargun, off of the coast “Many fish sleep in shallow of the 18th century in Chinese say that by promoting regulated sh4Ever — to address the issue of Qalamun in northern Lebanon, in a bid to promote regulated water at night. Spearfishing then waters, possibly even the spearfishing, they are also after a ministerial conference spearfishing and raise awareness against fast-depleting aquatic would be a knockout blow,” he Pearl River. The auctioneers defending Lebanon’s fast- last year. But Lebanon, which wildlife. says. After an hour of diving, the said the jewel weighs some depleting aquatic wildlife. had 7,000 fishermen in 2014 and spearfishermen have still not 120 grams and is almost Zock, 38, a freediving and where fishing only makes up a and decided to leave Lebanon -- says, looking up from below his caught anything, and move to seven centimetres (about 2.7 spearfishing instructor, says he tiny part of the economy, has not because of the small catches and old goggles. another spot. inches) long making it one of has seen Lebanon’s fish popula- signed up. the competition from imported “They are preventing small Soon, one of them fins up to the three largest known tions drop in the three decades Faysal Tawokji, 25, says he fish at half the price,” says the fish from growing and multi- the surface with the first catch pearls in the world. The pearl, he has been exploring its waters. has been diving to set up under- young fisherman. plying. Bigger fish that succeed of the day, a large glistening bought by a Japanese trader “I started fishing underwater water fish traps every day for 12 Retired fisherman Hassan in fleeing toward the shore to lay brown fish with rounded side for 320,000 euros, had been aged seven, and I used to see so years. “I was catching 40 kilos Mallat, 74, says Lebanon’s fish eggs are caught by traps.” fins. Beyond their community, valued 340,000 and 540,000 many fish of different shapes and (just over 88 pounds) of fish a stocks are hit by pollution, bad Spearfishing instructor Zock Zock and his fellow aquatic euros. Around 1765, the pearl sizes. But they’ve diminished day in 2016 but that decreased practices and overfishing. says that, when treated properly, enthusiasts also do their best to was shipped to Batavia, now over the years,” he says. The to half the next year,” he says. “Some fishermen have the sea’s resources replenish speak to fishermen about pre- known as Jakarta, by a Dutch divers float, head down on the His income has not deliberately tightened their net themselves. serving Lebanon’s underwater merchant of the United East water like tree leaves. improved since. “I’ve lost hope holes to grab more produce,” he He gives the example of July wildlife. Indies Company.