Raising Hopes PAGE In UK election campaign Britain’s home secretary Priti Patel promises new, faster World 9 visas for doctors from India DECCAN CHRONICLE SATURDAY | 9 NOVEMBER 2019 | HYDERABAD 35 TRAPPED IN GERMAN POTASH MINE Berlin, Nov. 8: Around One of the 35 mine staff were responsibilities of trapped about 700 meters below ground, the state is to two of them injured, after an unexplained ensure public blast in a potash mine in order and security eastern Germany, a — Pinera Sebastian spokesman with the state mining authority Chile president was cited as saying. The local broadcaster MDR reported that a res- IN BRIEF cue operation had begun. The staff were located Missing tourist in a safe sector of the mine in Teutschenthal, hand inside shark about 150 km southwest Saint Denis: The hand of a of Berlin, and were missing Scottish tourist has being supplied with oxy- been discovered in the stom- gen. ach of a tiger shark caught The mining authority off the coast of Réunion. said one of the injured The 44-year-old man, who was in a serious condi- has not been named, disap- tion, the other only peared while snorkelling off lightly injured, and that the coast of the Indian there was a possibility Ocean island. His wife identi- that they could be fied his wedding ring recov- brought to the surface ered during an autopsy of through a shaft that was the shark. The shark was one intact. The mine is no of five caught for research longer active but is purposes in the Indian being used to deposit Ocean. It was found about mining waste from else- four miles from the lagoon where. — Reuters where the victim was last seen. It is not known whether the man was eaten by the shark after being IRAN DOWNS drowned. UNKNOWN Brazil court ruling Protesters light candles to pay homage to Chow Tsz-Lok, who fell off a parking garage after police fired tear gas during clashes with anti-government protesters, died in a rare FLYING OBJECT fatality after five months of unrest. — AP may free Lula Tehran, Nov. 8: The Braslia: Brazil’s supreme Iranian army shot down court voted to overturn a an unidentified drone ruling requiring convicted near the port of Bandar- criminals to go to jail after e Mahshahr on the Gulf losing their first appeal, Student death fuels unrest in HK coast on Friday, ISNA paving the way for leftist news agency reported. icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva The unmanned aircraft to be freed. The decision Thousands of Hong Kongers hold vigils for Chow, first student fatality since outrage was downed over means thousands of convicts Iranian territory with a could be released from Hong Kong, Nov. 8: A stu- “He was a nice person. of Hong Kong people,” domestically manufac- prison, including Lula, who is dent at a Hong Kong uni- Students have been at He was sporty. He liked calling for a postponement tured Mersad surface-to- among dozens of political versity who fell one floor the forefront of the playing netball and basket- of the lowest-tier district CHINA BRANDS HONG KONG air missile, said Tasnim. and business leaders caught in a parking lot during lakhs who have taken ball,” friend and fellow council elections set for The incident which up in a sprawling corruption pro-democracy protests at to streets to press for UST student Ben, 25, said Nov. 24, a move which PROTESTERS MOBSTERS comes amid soaring ten- probe. They would remain the weekend died on in tears. “We played net- would infuriate those call- sions between Tehran free until they had exhausted Friday, the first student greater democracy, ball together for a year. I ing for democracy. Beijing, Nov. 8: China a serious criminal act but and Washington since their rights to appeal their death in months of demon- among other hope he can rest in peace. I Protesters have thrown has slammed radical pro- also pure election vio- President Donald Tru- conviction — which critics strations in the Chinese- demands, and rally really miss him.” petrol bombs and van- testers in Hong Kong as lence,’ Xu Luying, mp unilaterally aban- say could take years in cases ruled city and a likely trig- against perceived Students and young peo- dalised banks, stores and ‘mobsters’ using violence spokeswoman for the doned a landmark 2015 involving people with deep ger for fresh unrest. ple have been at the fore- metro stations, while to influence upcoming Hong Kong and Macau nuclear deal last year pockets. Lula’s lawyers said Chow Tsz-lok, 22, an Chinese meddling in front of the hundreds of police have fired rubber local elections, after a affairs office of China’s and reimposed crippling they would seek the ‘imme- undergraduate at the the Asian financial thousands who have taken bullets, tear gas, water pro-Beijing lawmaker central government, said. sanctions. diate release’ of the former University of Science and hub to the streets since June to cannons and, in some was injured in a stabbing. Xu said radical protest- Trump in June autho- president after speaking to Technology, died of press for greater democra- cases, live ammunition in With Beijing and Hong ers in Hong Kong ‘intend rised a military strike him. injuries he suffered, when franchise perceived to be cy, among other demands, scenes of chaos. Kong’s unpopular leader to create a ‘chilling effect’ after Iran shot down a he fell from the third to the pro-Beijing, and rallies are and rally against per- Chow had been pursuing Carrie Lam refusing to by threatening and intim- US drone, only to call off second floor of a parking expected across the terri- ceived Chinese meddling a two-year undergraduate offer a political solution idating their candidates the retaliation at the last Auction of early lot during a police disper- tory, when violence tradi- in the Asian financial hub. degree in computer sci- to the protesters’ griev- and their supporters’, in moment. sal operation. tionally picks up. The protests, ignited by a ence. His death came on ances, violence has spi- order to ‘affect the elec- Washington insists the Mozart score Chow’s death, on gradua- “Condemn police brutali- now-scrapped extradition graduation day for many ralled on both sides of the tion results of the district aircraft was in interna- Paris: An original score of tion day for many stu- ty,” they wrote on the bill allowing people to be students at his university, ideological divide. councils and realise their tional airspace, but Iran two minutes composed by dents, is expected to fuel restaurant’s glass wall. sent to mainland China for located in the picturesque In the latest incident, a purpose of seizing politi- says it was over its terri- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart anger at police, who are Demonstraters had thro- trial, have evolved into Clear Water Bay district man holding a bouquet cal power’. torial waters. when he was just 16 is to be already under pressure nged the hospital this wider calls for democracy, on the Kowloon side of the approached pro-Beijing Xu also called for The crisis deepened put up for auction in Paris amid accusations of exces- week to pray for Chow, posing one of the biggest harbour. lawmaker Junius Ho as ‘strong punishment’ with the September 14 later this month, Sotheby’s sive force as the city grap- leaving flowers and hun- challenges for Chinese The university called for the politician was cam- against violence in Hong attacks on Saudi energy said. The asking price for the ples with its worst politi- dreds of get-well messages President Xi Jinping since an independent investiga- paigning in his con- Kong and for a ‘fair, just, giant Aramco’s Abqaiq handwritten score dating cal crisis in decades. on walls. Students also he took charge in 2012. tion. The government stituency near the border safe and orderly environ- processing plant and from 1772 has been set at The university students staged rallies at universi- Two pro-Beijing newspa- expressed “great sorrow with China. ment’ for the district elec- Khurais oilfield which 1,50,000-2,00,000 euros, trashed a campus branch ties across the former pers ran full-page ads, and regret”. The attack was ‘not only tions. — AFP halved the kingdom’s the auction house said. It of Starbucks, part of a British colony. commissioned by “a group — Reuters crude output. — AFP goes on sale on November 18. “It’s the only version,” said Simon Maguire, a spe- cialist in musical manuscripts at Sotheby’s in London. Ailing Sharif may “Mozart always wrote first Impeachment to overturn 2016 results: Ivanka versions” without subse- quently reworking them, Rabat, Nov. 8: Ivanka “unlike Beethoven who be treated in UK Trump on Friday weighed THE STORY Kent said Trump wanted to hear three Acting White House revised (his scores) endless- in on the House impeach- words from Ukraine’s president: investiga- chief of staff Mick ly,” the expert said. The min- Lahore, Nov. 8: Pak- ment inquiry of her father SO FAR Mulvaney is scheduled utes, which are types of istan’s ailing former from half a world away. tions, Biden and Clinton House to provide a deposition dances, have never been prime minister Nawaz President Donald Ex-NSA John Bolton failed to appear for an published. Sharif has heeded doc- Trump’s daughter and impeachment but is not expected to tors’ advice and given in White House adviser said investigaters interview. Democrats say they will simply use appear to his family’s request to in an interview that she have released the no-shows as evidence of the president’s fly to London for the treat- shares his oft-repeated obstruction of Congress.