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UAE inaugurates embassy in Israel HM King hails Tel Aviv national P2 he UAE yesterday be- press Tcame the first Gulf state to open an embassy in Israel. Its envoy hailed the trade and investment opportuni- Al Shaiji elected BJA president ties that closer ties would TDT | Manama bring at a flag-raising cere- mony also attended by Isra- el’s president. l Ayyam Editor-in-Chief The UAE and Bahrain nor- AIssa Al Shaiji was elect- malised relations with Israel ed president of the Bahrain last year under the “Abra- Journalists Association (BJA) ham Accords” crafted by the yesterday. administration of then-US The Election Supervision Al Shaiji President Donald Trump. Committee announced that Sudan and Morocco have Al Shaiji won the position by Sarah Najib from Al Ayyam, since also moved to establish acclamation. Yahya Al Omari from the Min- ties with Israel. The eight board seats were istry of Information Affairs, The opening of the UAE won by Abdul Rahman Al Ahmed Karim and Jassem Al Embassy, which is situated Midfa from the Ministry of Yousef from Al Bilad, and Mu- in the Tel Aviv Stock Ex- Information Affairs, Rashid Al hammad Al Sa’i from Akhbar change, followed the inau- Hamar, Muhammad Bahr and Al Khaleej. guration of Israel’s embassy in the UAE last month. Israeli President Isaac Herzog called the opening of the embassy “an important milestone in our journey towards the future, peace Healthy environment for all prosperity and security” for the Middle East. 40 municipal projects worth BD22m underway
TDT | Manama Projects and Infrastructure Pro- jects. BAHRAIN orty pioneering projects at Present were ministers, com- an estimated cost of BD22 mittee members and officials ACTIVE CASES Fmillion are being imple- from the ministries and relevant mented all over the governo - government service agencies. 998 rates of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Part of the meeting was devot- The municipal projects aim to ed to reviewing a presentation DEATHS raise the living and social stand- made by the Minister of Works, ards of the population and sup- Municipalities Affairs and Ur- 1378 port the government’s efforts to ban Planning, Eng. Essam bin DISCHARGED achieve a healthy environment Abdullah Khalaf, on municipal for all. affairs projects for the current 265129 This was discussed during fiscal year 2021-2022. An artist’s impression of intersection NEW CASES yesterday’s weekly meeting of Eng. Khalaf also briefed them and coastal projects the Ministerial Committee for on the government’s other stra- The remaining percentage is for 105 Development and Infrastruc- tegic projects with extended projects under study at a cost of ture Projects, held remotely and implementation until next year. BD3.42 million. 210 fils (includes VAT) chaired by the Deputy Prime He indicated that 65% of the The municipal projects con- Minister, His Highness Shaikh projects, at a cost of BD15 mil- sist of establishing 10 parks, two Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa. lion, are either under imple - coasts, five walking tracks, and HH Shaikh Khalid is also mentation or under tendering, beautifying 10 intersections. Chairman of the Ministerial while 23% of them, at a cost of Committee for Development BD3.41 million, are under design. (Continued on Page 2)
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is Majesty King Hamad Hbin Isa Al Khalifa sent a cable of congratulations to urban development Bahrain Journalists Associ- ation (BJA) President Isa Al Shaiji and board members Deputy Prime Minister lauds remarkable public-private sector partnership marking their election unop- | Manama posed. TDT HM the King hailed the BJA president and board members’ (Continuation from Page 1) press competence, wishing them success in achieving the ll of the municipal projects goals of the association and aim to increase the per serving the press community HM the King Acapita share of green spac- in Bahrain. objectivity, professionalism, es in the Kingdom in line with the HM the King pressed the piv- praising journalists’ dedicated internationally approved standard otal role of the press in serving efforts to serve the nation and by the World Health Organisation. society, promoting national citizens. They also seek to increase the issues and defending Bahrain’s In the cable, HM the King density and number of trees, en- security, stability and interests lauded the outgoing BJA pres- hance the aesthetic shape of the and highlighting development ident and board members’ ef- Kingdom, improve air quality, strides. forts and dedication in serving and provide the necessary shade He commended the na - the national press and jour- to reduce rise in temperature. tional press for its credibility, nalists. The municipal projects also include the establishment and The Deputy Prime Minister meets the Ministerial Committee members online development of eight markets. tions offered by municipal af- the best practices gained from the financial model used in munici- All these projects will be built fairs to invest in their projects. long accumulated experience of pal affairs has proven successful on a development area of 1.2 The Deputy Prime Minister more than a century, which was in terms of its ability to achieve Foreign Minister receives million square metres. mentioned in particular the oper- strengthened by joint coordina- what is known as self-financing NIHR Chairman Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime ation and management of popular tion with the Capital Municipality for new and existing municipal Minister, His Highness Shaikh and central municipal markets and municipal councils,” said the projects alike, by allocating budg- Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa distributed over the various re- Deputy Prime Minister. ets during one financial cycle in emphasised the government is gions of the Kingdom, and leasing “The elected representatives, favour of establishing, maintain- committed to supporting urban owned lands to establish parks and which are one of the pillars of the ing and developing parks, beau- development with pioneering recreational projects and commer- reform project, launch community tifying intersections and main projects that are implemented cial complexes, among others. initiatives at the level of individu- streets, and establishing walking according to best practices. “The esteemed government has als and the private sector. Their tracks, waterfronts, coasts and Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani yesterday HH Shaikh Khalid commend- been able to translate its national projects aim to raise the social and other projects, which reflects the received the President of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), ed the remarkable partnership policies that support the concept living standards for all residents, extent to which the revenues gen- Ali Ahmed Al Derazi. During the meeting, the Foreign Minister commended between the public and private of urban development locally, and support the Kingdom’s efforts erated from municipal services the royal order appointing members of the NIHR’s Board of Commissioners, sectors, thanks to the flexibility through pioneering projects su- to achieve a sustainable healthy fees enjoy good management, congratulating him on being elected by the Board of Commissioners as of long-term contracting and pervised and implemented by mu- environment for all.” investment and efficiency in col- President of the Institution. the quality of competitive op- nicipal affairs in accordance with His Excellency added: “The lection.”
Foreign Minister receives WHO Representative’s credentials Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani yesterday received Dr Tasnim Atatrah, who submitted her credentials as World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to the Kingdom of Bahrain. The meeting was also attended by Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh. Dr Al Zayani welcomed Dr Atatrah, congratulating her on holding this important international position, praising the WHO efforts to mitigate the repercussions of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
Thailand Ambassador meets TDT Chairman and CEO Thailand Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Thanis Na Songkhla, centre, meets P Unnikrishnan, The Daily Tribune (TDT) Chairman and Managing Director, and Chief Executive Officer Abdul Jaleel Abdulla, right, as they discussed issues of mutual interest.
BDF Commander-in-Chief receives New Zealand Military Attache Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa received New Zealand Military Attache accredited to Bahrain Brigadier General Anthony Hayward. The meeting discussed issues of sharedinterest. The Commander-in-Chief praised the relations between the two countries, and the progress they have witnessed in various fields. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 03 HM King praised by Al Azhar Grand Imam For His Majesty’s charitable and humanitarian action in Bahrain and abroad
Cairo Hamad for his paternal care and great interest in the families and he Grand Imam of Al children of the Royal Humani- Azhar Al Sharif, Dr tarian Foundation for the unlim- TAhmed Al Tayeb, has ited royal support. praised the humanitarian ef- He also expressed deep appre- KNOW WHAT forts of His Majesty King Hamad ciation of the generous support bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Honorary that the Foundation enjoys from President of the Royal Human- the government led by His Roy- itarian Foundation (RHF), and The Grand Imam lauded HM al Highness Prince Salman bin HM’s interest in charitable and Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown humanitarian action in Bahrain the King’s full support to the Prince and Prime Minister, and and abroad. needy and afflicted in various praised HH Shaikh Nasser’s ef- The Grand Imam lauded HM countries in a manner that forts in leading charitable work the King’s full support to the guarantees human dignity and through the RHF. needy and afflicted in various development through projects. Al Sayed conveyed the greet- countries in a manner that guar- HM the King Al Sayed, right, receiving the Best Pioneering Personality Award 2021 ings and appreciation of Bah- antees human dignity and devel- follow-up to ensure the safety of honouring of the RHF as the best vices in the field of humanity, rain’s leadership, government opment through projects. implementation, which makes it leading institution in humanitar- management and the dissemina- and people to Egypt, praising What distinguishes the RHF a role model among charitable ian work in the Arab world by tion of science and culture. and their wishes to the Grand the depth of their distinguished from other institutions is that Institutions in the Arab world the National Academy for Stud- Al Sayed conveyed the greet- Imam and to Al Azhar Al Sharif of historical relationship and high- it has leadership and manage- and a source of pride, he said. ies and Development (NASD). ings of HM King Hamad and of success in spreading the true and lighting Egypt’s great role in serv- ment styles that combine crea- The Grand Imam was speak- The NASD also honoured Al the HM the King’s Representa- tolerant image of Islam. ing Arab issues and spreading tive thinking, strategic planning, ing as he received RHF Secre- Sayed with the Best Pioneering tive for Humanitarian Work and In his speech during the hon- science and culture as well as its project implementation on the tary-General Mustafa Al Sayed Personality Award for 2021 in Youth Affairs His Highness Shai- ouring ceremony, Al Sayed ex- great strategic depth for the Arab ground, action and serious field who was in Cairo to attend the recognition of his lifelong ser- kh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, pressed gratitude to HM King and Islamic nations.
Bahraini man Enhancing cooperation to HH Shaikh Isa inaugurates disfigures preserve environment divorcee’s face Bahrain Fine Arts Exhibition TDT | Manama
Bahraini man is stand- Aing trial before the High Criminal Court for disfiguring his divorcee’s face by using a chemical compound. The defendant reportedly poured acid on the victim’s face following disagree- ments. It caused permanent Special Envoy for Climate Affairs and Chief Executive of the Supreme Council wounds in her face which for Environment (SCE), Dr Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina, yesterday received was deemed as 15% disability. the member of the Public Utilities and Environment Committee at the The incident happened Representatives Council, MP Khalid Buong, with whom he discussed ways to while the woman was at the enhance SCE-Representatives Council cooperation. Dr Bin Daina lauded the defendant’s family house. great role played by lawmakers to push the development process further “I was sitting at his fam- in all fields, including the environment, affirming the SCE’s keenness to ily house and he requested strengthen its cooperation with the Council of Representatives to meet the me to go with him to the aspirations of the Bahraini people and the vision of the kingdom to achieve kitchen to show him to use sustainable development and preserve the environment. the cooker. He locked the HH Shaikh Isa at the ribbon-cutting ceremony door when I entered and he Royal Highness at the exhibi- Highness for sponsoring the asked me about the nature 57 artists present tion, noting that talent identi- exhibition and to HH Shaikh of my relationship with one HM King’s Media Affairs • fication and promotion serve Isa for inaugurating it, noting of the men,” the woman told different artistic styles as a basis of development, led that support for Bahraini arts prosecutors. Adviser receives author by His Majesty King Hamad bin helps promote and extend ar- “I denied knowing him Advisor to His Majesty the King TDT | Manama Isa Al Khalifa. tistic reach at a time of unprec- and he tried to kiss me. I for Media Affairs Nabil bin The exhibition, which en- edented global challenges. refused, and I sat down. I Yacoob Al Hamer, pictured left, n behalf of His Royal High- compasses 57 artists presenting Shaikha Mai further noted cried and I screamed for received Bahraini author Karim Oness Prince Salman bin different artistic styles, displays that the special exhibition is a help. However, he attacked Khalifa Bouarki who presented to Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown a special exhibition entitled: fitting tribute to the memory me and attempted to stran- him a copy of his book on human Prince and Prime Minister, His “Khalifa bin Salman – A Pres- of HRH Prince Khalifa and his gle me. I pushed him and he relations. The Advisor praised Highness Shaikh Isa bin Salman ence Renewed with Love from personal support for the arts. poured an agent on my face.” the role of Bahraini writers and bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Chair- 1972-2020”, dedicated to the The winners of this year’s ex- “I touched my face and I researchers and their good efforts man of the Rashid Equestrian late HRH Prince Khalifa bin Sal- hibition are Mariam Al Noaimi was shocked to find my skin to enrich the cultural and literary and Horse Racing Club’s High man Al Khalifa. winning the Al Dana Award, and was melting. I discovered that scenein the Kingdom, wishing Committee, inaugurated the Bahrain Authority for Cul- Ahmed Anan and Jumana Al Qa- he poured acid on my face.” Bouarki further success. Bouarki r 47th Annual Bahrain Fine Arts ture and Antiquities ( BACA) ssab receiving awards for second The defendant said, how- expressed his appreciation of the Exhibition. President Shaikha Mai bint Mo- and third place, respectively. ever, that he was holding a advisor’s keenness to support and HH Shaikh Isa expressed his hammed Al Khalifa extended Senior officials were also in glass and it fell by mistake encourage Bahraini researchers honour in representing His her appreciation to His Royal attendance. from his hand. and writers.
New joint Bahrain-Saudi committees, investor centre for Bahrainis TDT | Manama ers and investors from Bahrain and Saudi and take commercial ahraini-Saudi Joint Busi- cooperation to new heights. Bness Council yesterday Nass expressed confidence announced forming new joint in the prospect of the Bah - committees to consolidate and raini-Saudi Council in translat- coordinate efforts and eliminate ing the visions and aspirations hurdles facing business owners of His Majesty King Hamad bin and investors in both countries. Isa Al Khalifa and the Custodian The newly formed commit- of the Two Holy Mosques King tees are the Stalled Investments Nass at the council executive committee meeting Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Committee, the Transport and ing, inaugurated by Sameer Ab- Bahrainis in Saudi Arabia. man bin Saleh Al Otaishan Chair- Nass told the meeting that more particularly concerning step- Land Ports Committee and the dulla Nass, the Chairman of the The meeting at the premises of man of Asharqia Chamber, and joint committees and business co- ping-up trade and partnerships Industrial Committee. Bahrain Chamber, also proposed Asharqia Chamber in Dammam other committee members from alitions are needed to streamline and pushing economic coopera- The executive committee meet- establishing an investor centre for was in the presence of Abdulrah- the Bahraini and Saudi sides. the endeavours of business own- tion to its optimal level. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 04 Scholarship plan for RERA, iGA launch ‘NRED’ project outstanding students
Bahraini high school graduates with GPA of 90% eligible to apply Shaikh Mohammed and Al Qaed at the remote launch of the project
ed remotely by Shaikh Mo - TDT | Manama Education Minister hammed bin Khalifa Al Khal- endorses• initiative ifa, CEO of RERA, and Mo - The allocation of he Real Estate Regulatory hammad Ali Al Qaed, CE of TAuthority (RERA), in coop- iGA. Graduates to receive scholarships and eration with the Information & RERA is partnering with the free• tuition fees tuition fees are based eGovernment Authority (iGA), iGA, to develop the National on the students’ GPA launched yesterday the Na- Real Estate Databank solution tional Real Estate Databank that will deliver a publicly TDT | Manama because of the inability to hold exams and (NRED) project. accessible portal, which will personal interviews It will provide key stake - contain real estate market in- ducation Minister Dr holders such as government telligence with different levels Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi due to the spread of the entities, investors, real estate of information, granularity and Eyesterday endorsed the coronavirus (COVID-19) practitioners and financial access levels based on the re- scholarship plan for the univer- and the need to adhere institutions with timely, ac- spective types of audiences. sity year, 2021-2022. to the precautionary curate, valid and relevant in- The portal’s backend will He affirmed the Ministry’s measures formation on the performance be powered by the Bahrain keenness to continue offering and trends in the Bahrain real National DataLake, which is EDUCATION MINISTER DR MAJID BIN ALI AL scholarships and study grants NUAIMI estate market. developed and operated by the for Bahraini high school gradu- In turn, it will facilitate more Information & eGovernement ates with a grade point average informed decision-making by Authority (iGA), and will uti- (GPA) of 90% or more to com- of the coronavirus (COVID-19) labour market, in general. High school graduates with a government policy makers, lise the Amazon Web Service pete on, in accordance with the and the need to adhere to the He extended sincere thanks GPA of at least 90% and wishing investors, valuers and other (AWS), and the first phase of terms and standards in force. precautionary measures. and appreciation to His Majesty to vie for the scholarships allo- stakeholders, and will improve the project will take one year Dr Al Nuaimi pointed out He affirmed that all King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa cated for 2021-2022 are required Bahrain’s attractiveness as an to be completed, from the date that allocating scholarships and top-achieving high school grad- and His Royal Highness Prince to visit the websites (www.moe. investment location. of its launched. tuition fees are subject to the uates, from government and pri- Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, gov.bh) or (www.bahrain.bh) for NRED project is one of the Speaking at the launch cer- terms and conditions set by the vate schools, will receive schol- the Crown Prince and Prime registration between Thursday strategic initiatives of RERA to emony, Shaikh Mohammed Scholarships Committee at the arships or tuition fees based on Minister, for their unwavering and Sunday. The Ministry also enhance the real estate sector said: “RERA and iGA, through Education Ministry. their GPA. care and support for the edu- called on students who still have and will achieve the third pil- this launching, will continue The Minister noted that this Dr Al Nuaimi said that the cation march, as well as their not received their passcodes to lar of the National Real Estate their ongoing cooperation to year, they are based on the stu- annual scholarship plan is pre- constant interest in outstanding register for scholarships and Plan 2021-2024 which is pro- develop the National Real Es- dents’ GPA because of the inabil- pared based on the needs of the and top-achieving students, be- tuition fees to contact the tech- viding up-to-date and reliable tate Databank “NRED”, which ity to hold exams and personal Education Ministry, in particu- ing the pillars of the Kingdom’s nical support during the official information. is the first online platform of interviews due to the spread lar, and those of the Bahraini progress and prosperity. working hours only. The launch was conduct- its kind in the region.”
1,000 advertisements Highest rating success in regulating telecommunications sector removed for violations ad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and to His Bahrain rises to Royal Highness Prince Salman columns. • bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Al Fadala called on the ad- fourth generation the Crown Prince and Prime vertisers to adhere to the reg- classification Minister. ulations and laws in publishing According to Shaikh Nasser, their advertisements, noting TDT | Manama this achievement validates the that some are placed illegally Kingdom’s advancements in and without licences. both the field of telecoms, and Al Fadala explained that he Kingdom of Bahrain has excellence in enabling environ- Al Fadala the campaigns against adver- Trisen to the fourth genera- ment of digital transformation, tisement violations are con- tion classification in the levels valuing the wise leadership’s TDT | Manama tinuing, in parallel with the of information and communi- guidance in expanding Bahrain national awareness campaign cation technology (ICT) regu- for all countries. The sector’s 1.82% of GNI p.c, which is be- and shaping it into a regional he Municipality of the aimed at creating a generation lation, according to a recently regulatory flexibility is one of low the UN affordability target, telecom and ICT hub, seeking TNorthern Region has re- aware of the importance of published International Tel- the most important influences therefor allowing Bahrain to to continue efforts to develop moved 1,000 unlawful adver- maintaining regulations and ecommunication Union (ITU) on ICT service prices. meet and outperform the Sus- the telecommunications sector tisements during the first half laws to preserve the beauty of study. As found by the ITU study, tainable Development Goal tar- in Bahrain. of the year. regions and the environment. The fourth classification is Bahrain amongst Arab coun- get before 2025, holding prices Shaikh Nasser said: “The The Municipality’s General She said that the spread of the highest level in the classifi- tries, is ranked second for pric- below two percent of GNI per regulatory environment’s re- Manager, Eng. Lamia Al Fada- billboards and posters in the cation that was recently issued ings in regard to mobile broad- capita. silience is a significant facili- la, said that it took legal proce- streets and various areas is one during the Global Telecommu- band services, as it maintains af- In praising exerted efforts, tator of both ICT adoption and dures and imposed fines on the of the forms of visual pollution. nication Development Forum fordable fixed broadband rates Shaikh Nasser bin Mohammed price reduction. Regulators in violating companies. It has increased dramatical- (GSR21) last June. yet a large – scale data capacity. Al Khalifa, Acting General Di- this sector play a significant The violations included ad- ly, which negatively affected The ITU study measures and In addition, Bahrain’s mobile rector of TRA Bahrain, congratu- role in safeguarding consum- vertisements on lighting poles the aesthetics of the areas and tracks ICT regulation, and meas- broadband prices account for lates and credits the Kingdom’s ers benefits through regulat- and big billboards and posters their civilised image, she add- ures developments and regula- 1.51% of GNI p.c., whereas fixed evolution in regulatory frame- ing competitiveness between in the streets, buildings and ed. tory oversight on ICT markets broadband prices account for work to His Majesty King Ham- Operators.” Kuwaiti official elected to GCC Trash bag machines to be available soon in Capital Governorate commercial arbitration body TDT | Manama TDT | Manama arbitration and management make the process smoother for will have a positive impact on rash bag machines will be citizens. uwait’s representative the Centre’s work. Tavailable soon in the Capi- “We have imported the ma- Providing these machines comes as part of our KTareq Al Shumaimry has Al Shumaimry has a num- tal Governorate, officials at the chines and we are waiting for desire to innovate our services and create an been elected as secretary gen- ber of memberships, the most Capital Municipal Council con- them to arrive. We expect them effortless experience for all the citizens. The eral of the Commercial Ar- important of which is at the firmed. to be soon available for the cit- current practice, where citizens come to our bitration Centre for the Gulf International Federation of Bahrainis used to attend per- izens,” a source at the Capital premises to collect their bags, will be stopped Cooperation Council Centre. Journalists (Brussels) since sonally at the Capital Governo- Goveroante told Daily Tribune. The announcement was 2003. He was also a member rate premises to collect their “Providing these machines once the machines are available made following the approval of the Arbitration Committee free quota of trash bags monthly. comes as part of our desire to SOURCE AT THE CAPITAL GOVEROANTE of his election by the Centre’s (Canada) and the Arbitration However, the process will be innovate our services and create Board of Directors. Centre of the Kuwait Society made easier and more conven- an effortless experience for all chines are available.” “The places of the machines Its chairman, Sami Zainal, of Engineers. ient at the highly populated gov- the citizens. The current prac- The source revealed the ma- will be selected carefully as we said that the scientific level He has attended judicial, ernorate with the existence of tice, where citizens come to our chines will be spread across the want to provide easy and fast and practical experience of economic and financial cours- trash bag machines which will premises to collect their bags, Governorate in public places to access to all of them,” the source Al Shumaimry in the field of es in Kuwait and abroad. remove time constraints and will be stopped once the ma- allow easy access to them. concluded. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 05 DANAT names new board, Chairman Ahli United Bank launches e-Cheque Yaser Abduljalil Alsharifi takes over as chairman Service for retail and corporate clients TDT | Manama gemstones. We will continue to work towards strengthening TDT | Manama book issued or even activate ahrain Institute for Pearls DANAT’s position as an inter- the service,” AUB said. and Gemstones “DANAT” national leader in pearl testing hli United Bank yesterday Corporate clients can ini- Bannounced naming new and establish Bahrain as the Aannounced the launch of tiate e-Cheques by talking to Board of Directors chaired by centre of excellence for pearl its e-Cheque service as part of their Relationship Managers, Yaser Abduljalil Alsharifi. and gemstone testing,” Alsharifi a move to digitise the bank’s who will take it from there. New directors include Ra- said. entire service portfolio. The initiative, AUB said, shad Redha Faraj, Amal Ishaq DANAT Chief Executive Of- The service is available to highlights its support for the Alkooheji, Yusuf Abdulrahman ficer, Noora Jamsheer, added both individuals and corpo- Kingdom’s drive to be the Fakhro, Mohamed Abdulrazaq that the executive management rate clients, the bank said in torchbearer in the wide adop- Shirazi, Danielle Pasquarelli at DANAT is committed to trans- a statement, adding that the tion of FinTech technologies Algosaibi, Khaled Mohammad lating the Board of Director’s new facility “will allow them across the region. Mattar, Latifa Yousuf Salahud- strategic vision into action to issue and receive cheques In recent years, Bahrain has din and Amna Ali Alarayedh. We will continue We will continue through innovative initiatives with just a few clicks”. pioneered the field by creating Members, DANAT said, rep- to work towards to introduce and and projects designed to en - “Through seamless integra- an ecosystem that facilitates resent a wide range of exper- strengthening adopt international hance DANAT’s competitiveness tion with the BenefitPay app, the fast-paced development tise with diverse and in-depth DANAT’s position standards in this regionally and internationally e-Cheques negates the need to and implementation of Fin- knowledge and experience in as an international field, which will positioning Bahrain as a leading visit the bank to have a cheque Tech solutions. the jewellery and gemstones leader in pearl undoubtedly boost destination for pearl testing. sector, in addition to leadership testing and establish consumer confidence Jamsheer said, “Today, DANAT and business skills. is stepping into a new phase of Alsharifi expressed his en- Bahrain as the centre in DANAT as the development and growth. We thusiasm to continue the jour- of excellence for world’s leading pearl will continue to provide the in- ney alongside his fellow Board pearl and gemstone testing laboratory dustry with innovative services members and successfully steer testing NOORA JAMSHEER such as pearl classification and and execute Danat’s strategy to YASER ABDULJALIL ALSHARIFI. origin determination. We will solidify its leading position in continue to introduce and adopt Abu Dhabi pearl testing internationally, in international standards in this line with the Kingdom of Bah- Bahraini gemologists who use gemmologists are backed up by field, which will undoubtedly rain’s 2030 vision. cutting-edge analytical and sci- a research team that is constant- boost consumer confidence in “DANAT is home to an inter- entific instruments to test pearls ly on the lookout for the latest DANAT as the world’s leading nationally accredited group of from various origins. DANAT’s methodologies to test pearls and pearl testing laboratory.” leads Gulf Armenian state fund and Air Arabia LuLu deals make Eid Festive to launch Armenian higher low cost airline shopping rewarding Reuters | Dubai
he Armenian Nation- TDT | Manama Tal Interests Fund and Middle East budget carrier amilies in Bahrain are pre- Air Arabia said yesterday Fparing for the grand Eid Al they planned to launch a Adha festival next week and new budget airline with LuLu Hypermarket has un - Armenian capital Yerevan veiled a trolley full of super fes- as its base. The new carrier tive deals to help them do that. 24, 2021. 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Emirates my’s recovery from the COV- Reuters NBD Bank rose 1.5% ID-19 pandemic strains the Outside the Gulf, Egypt’s supply chain. The producer UAE says agreement with OPEC+ on oil supply deal not yet reached ost major Gulf mar- blue-chip index closed 1.6% price index for final demand Reuters kets closed higher higher as the country’s largest increased 1.0% last month ing its position on an extension ters reported that the UAE and Myesterday with Abu lender Commercial Interna- after rising 0.8% in May. A of an oil supply deal. Saudi Arabia reached an com- Dhabi stocks leading gains, tional Bank added a further 1% 0.8% increase in the cost of he United Arab Emirates’ “Deliberations and consulta- promise giving Abu Dhabi a as Mubadala-backed satellite to Tuesday’s gain following a services accounted for near- Tenergy minister said in a tions between concerned par- new production baseline to operator Al Yah Satellite Com- 24% increase in second-quar- ly 60% of the increase in the statement on Wednesday that ties are ongoing,” the statement allow the extension of the sup- munications (Yahsat) listed af- ter net profit. PPI in June. 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Saudi Aramco added 0.7%, KUWAIT 0.2% to 6,905 “THE HUMAN RACE HAS ONE TODAY 1099 1381 1799 1955 QUOTE REALLY EFFECTIVE WEAPON, AND IN OF THE THAT IS LAUGHTER” City of Jerusalem is cap- John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyp- 18 Nobel laureates sign the DAY HISTORY tured and plundered by hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of tian village of Rosetta by French Captain Mainau Declaration against MARK TWAIN Christian forces during Richard II of England Pierre-François Bouchard during Napole- nuclear weapons, later co- THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 the First Crusade on’s Egyptian Campaign signed by 34 more laureates
News in brief u Virus-wracked Indonesia COVID cases found at Olympic hotel in Japan as IOC hails ‘historic’ Games posted record daily infections topping 54,000 Reuters | Tokyo TOP on Wednesday as the highly judo athletes, are in a “bubble” The coronavirus Members of the Global interest in the Tokyo With spectators barred infectious Delta variant rips coronavirus cluster at a Jap- in the hotel and separated from cluster at the Bra- South African rugby Olympics is muted, an Ipsos poll from all Olympic events across the archipelago, catapulting Aanese hotel where dozens of other guests and have not been zilians’ hotel was team are in isolation of 28 countries showed, amid in Tokyo and surround- TWEETS4 it ahead of India as Asia’s Covid-19 Brazilian Olympic team mem- infected. found during routine after arriving, as they concerns over COVID-19 in Japan ing regions officials are epicentre. The Southeast Asian nation Indonesia bers are staying has raised new The host city Tokyo, where a asking people to watch has been battered by a virus explosion concern about infections at what state of emergency has been im- screening required are believed to be and withdrawals of high-profile that overwhelmed hospitals, leaving scores new ‘epicentre the world’s top Olympics official posed until after the Games end KNOW WHAT before staff started close contacts with a athletes, with the host country the Games on television 01 to die at home, while desperate relatives of Asia’ as virus promised on Wednesday would on Aug. 8, also recorded 1,149 new work, said city official case on their flight among the most disinterested and keep their move- hunt for oxygen tanks to treat the sick. On be “historic” Games. COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, Yoshinobu Sawada. ments to a minimum. Wednesday, Indonesia’s health ministry cases skyrocket Just over a week before the the most in nearly six months. posted its highest-ever 54,517 new cases and 991 deaths in 24 hours -- recent opening ceremony, new cases Highly contagious virus vari- daily mortality rates are as high as 10 times the numbers in early June.But the linked to the Games and spik- ants have fuelled the latest wave movement of staff servicing the International Olympic Com- so many challenges in the last from a deadly earthquake, tsuna- official data is widely believed to be a severe undercount due to low testing rates ing infections in the host city of infections, and failure to vac- Games can create opportunities mittee (IOC) President Thomas couple of years, the great east mi and nuclear accident in 2011. and poor contact tracing. highlight the risks of staging cinate people faster has left the for infection. Bach praised the organisers and Japan earthquake and now the Japanese leaders had hoped Greenpeace Activists the world’s biggest sports event population vulnerable. The Olympics, postponed last the Japanese people for staging coronavirus pandemic,” Bach told the re-scheduled Games this dump 625kg of plastic Amount of u India’s first coronavirus during a pandemic even without Medical experts are worried year as the virus was spreading the Games in the midst of the reporters after meeting Prime year would be a celebration of waste outside #Was - plastic dumped patient, a student spectators in sports venues. that Olympic “bubbles”, imposed around the world, have lost much pandemic. Minister Yoshihide Suga. the world’s victory over the coro- teminster to deliver @ in Med to double Seven staff at the hotel in Police officers and security personnel stand guard at the entrance of the Athletes Village ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic by Tokyo 2020 Olympic officials public support in Japan because “These will be historic Olym- When Japan was awarded the navirus but those celebrations are BorisJohnson a message. who was in the Game in 20 years Chinese city of Hamamatsu city, southwest of in an effort to keep out COVID-19, of fears they will trigger a surge pic Games ... for the way how Games in 2013, they were expect- on hold as many countries strug- Stop dumping UK plastic Wuhan, has tested Tokyo, had tested positive for the coronavirus, a city official said. But a 31-strong Brazilian Olym- pic delegation, which includes might not be completely tight as of infections. the Japanese people overcame ed to be a celebration of recovery gle with new surges of infections. waste on other countries. positive for a second time, a medical official said. The 21-year-old woman from This is the same amount the southern state of Kerala has no symptoms but is in isolation at her home, of plastic the UK dumps Thrissur district medical officer Reena KJ said. The woman tested positive again overseas every 30 sec- during a routine check ahead of a trip to New Delhi.“Health teams are in constant Taliban seize border crossing Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins on onds. 1/7 touch with her,” Reena said. The patient was among Indian medical students who @GreenpeaceUK fled Wuhan in January 2020 after the virus first appeared in the Chinese city. She with Pakistan in major advance Singapore cruise developed mild symptoms and tested positive on January 30, becoming India’s Reuters | Singapore first Covid-19 patient. Pakistan Genting Cruise Lines ship 02 S.African Aon a “cruise to nowhere” u More bus blast kills has returned to Singapore after than a dozen 13, some Chinese a confirmed case of COVID-19 people, workers in a passenger, and the nearly including 3,000 passengers and crew on Chinese nationals and Pakistani soldiers, were killed in a blast targeting a bus board were confined to their in a remote region of northern Pakistan yesterday. That’s according to multiple crowds cabins through most of yes- sources, who said the toll could rise. It was not immediately clear whether the terday. blast was the result of a roadside device or something planted inside the bus. The 40-year-old passenger am delighted to be in- u Alcohol consumption was linked to 4 % of all new global tested positive onboard and Iaugurating a conven- cancer cases last year, according to a study published Wednesday, as the result was confirmed after tion centre Rudraksh in researchers warned of an urgent need to alert people of the risks. Men accounted rampage the person was taken to hospi- Varanasi. Constructed for more than three quarters of the estimated cases, which were mainly linked to tal once the ship docked early with Japanese assistance, risky or heavy drinking, although one in seven of these alcohol-related cancers on Wednesday, the Singapore fied as a close contact of a con- this state-of-the-art cen- were linked to moderate consumption of around two drinks a day. The study, A member of the Afghan Special Forces directs traffic during the rescue Tourism Board said, following firmed case on land, and was tre will make Varanasi an published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, estimated that there were more mission of a policeman besieged at a check post surrounded by Taliban, in the detection of the suspected immediately isolated as part attractive destination for than 6.3 million cases in 2020 of mouth, pharynx, voice box larynx, oesophageal, Kandahar province, Afghanistan case. of onboard health protocols,” conferences thus drawing colon, rectum, liver, and breast cancer -- all of which have established links to “The passenger was identi- the board said in a statement. more tourists and busi- alcohol. They estimated that 4 percent (741,300) of all new cases of cancer around Reuters | Kabul The takeover forced Paki- nesspersons to the city. the world in 2020 were associated with alcohol consumption, stan to seal parts of its border @narendramodi Alcohol with men accounting for 77% (568,700 cases) of these and with Afghanistan after heavy linked to 1 women 23%. The study found that the number of new cancer aliban fighters in Afghan- fighting between Taliban and Masks to remain mandatory in 25 global cases linked to alcohol consumption varied widely across the Tistan said on Wednesday Afghan forces around Wesh. 03 cancer world, with the highest rates seen in East Asia and Central and they had taken control of one Afghan officials said gov- Eastern Europe and the lowest in North Africa and Western of the main border crossings ernment forces had pushed on London transport after cases: study A self-armed local looks for looters inside a supermarket following protests that have widened into looting, in Durban, South Africa Asia. with Pakistan, perhaps the back the Taliban fighters and BETTER national rule easing most strategic objective they were in control of the Spin COVID-1:9 Countries worst affected have captured so far in a rapid Boldak border district in Kan- Protests triggered by the tographer saw several shops public hospitals already with guns, many of them Country Total cases Total advanceacross the country as dahar province. But civilians Some 40,000 jailing of ex-president Ja- being looted in the town under strain from Africa’s KNOW from South Africa’s white U.S. forces pull out. and Pakistani officials said the cob Zuma for failing to ap- of Hammersdale, Kwazu- worst COVID-19 epidemic, minority, blocked off streets deaths Global tally • he humanitarian cri- A Pakistani official said Taliban controlled the Wesh businesses had been pear at a corruption inquiry lu-Natal, on Wednesday. said it was running out of to prevent further looting, sis in the Central Af- 1 USA 34,811,545 623,475 fighters had taken down the border posts. hit by the unrest last week have widened into Local TV stations mean- oxygen and drugs, most Reuters TV footage showed. T rican Republic continues Afghan government flag from “Wesh, which has great im- looting and an outpouring while showed more looting of which are imported Zuma, 79, was sen- One man shouted “go home 2 India 30,986,803 412,019 188,806,829 to worsen. Aid workers atop the Friendship Gate at portance in Afghan trade with of general anger over the of shops in South Africa’s through Durban, as well as tenced last month for and protect your homes”. Reuters | Johannesburg need safe & unimpeded 3 Brazil 19,152,065 535,924 the border crossing between Pakistan and other countries, hardship and inequality largest township Soweto, food. Other residents gath- Deaths defying a court order access to the population. the Pakistani town of Chaman has been captured by the Tali- that persist 27 years after and in the Indian Ocean “The impact of the loot- ered outside supermarkets 4 Russia 5,857,002 145,278 to give evidence at an A ceasefire is crucial to and the Afghan town of Wesh. ban,” said a Pakistani security rowds looted shops and the end of apartheid. port city of Durban. ing and destruction is hav- waiting for them to open inquiry investigating save lives & more fund- 5 France 5,829,724 111,413 4,068,854 The crossing, south of Af- official deployed at the border offices in South Africa Shopping malls and ware- Soldiers have been sent ing dire consequences on so they could stock up on C high-level looting ing is needed to meet ghanistan’s main southern city area. Officials in Chaman said yesterday, defying govern- houses have been ransacked onto the streets to help hospitals,” the NHN said. essentials. 6 Turkey 5,493,244 50,324 the acute humanitarian Recovered: Kandahar, is the landlocked the Taliban had suspended all ment calls to end a week or set ablaze in several cit- outnumbered police con- “And the epicentre of the during his nine years in The poverty and inequal- needs of the people. 7 UK 5,233,207 128,530 country’s second busiest entry travel through the gate. of violence that has killed ies, mostly in Zuma’s home tain the unrest and order pandemic is within the af- office until 2018. ity fuelling the unrest has @antonioguterres point and the main link be - “The mujahideen have cap- more than 70 people and in KwaZulu-Natal province, was being restored in some fected provinces currently been compounded by se- 8 Argentina 4,682,960 99,640 172,538,244 People wearing protective masks board a bus near Leicester Square tween its vast southwest and tured an important border wrecked hundreds of busi- and the financial and eco- places on Wednesday, such under siege.” Staff in affect- He also faces trial in a vere social and economic 9 Colombia 4,548,142 113,839 New cases Pakistani ports. Afghan gov- town called Wesh,” Taliban nesses. nomic center Johannesburg as the northern Johannes- ed areas were unable to get separate case on charges restrictions aimed at curb- system to keep down infec- 04 including corruption, fraud, Reuters | London 10 Italy 4,275,846 127,831 ernment data show it is used spokesperson Zabihullah Mu- The unrest, the worst and surrounding Gauteng burg township of Alexan- to work, it said, worsening ing COVID-19. The United tions. Whilst the government by 900 trucks a day. jahid said in a statement. in South Africa for years, province. dra, local TV reported. shortages caused by a third racketeering and money Nations in South Africa ex- cites Britain’s vaccination 11 Spain 4,041,474 81,043 +225,104 also disrupted hospitals Overnight it spread to The National Hospital wave of infections. laundering. The former pressed concern that dis- asks will remain manda- drive as having largely broken struggling to cope with two other provinces - Mpu- Network (NHN), represent- As authorities in Durban president pleaded not ruptions to transport for tory on London’s public the link between cases and se- 12 Germany 3,746,169 91,810 guilty in court in May. His M New deaths a third wave of COVID-19 malanga, just east of Gaut- ing 241 seemed powerless to workers from the riots transport network after July rious illness or death, some foundation said on Tuesday 13 Iran 3,440,400 86,391 and forced the closure of a eng, and Northern Cape, stop looting, vig- would exacerbate jobless- 19, the city’s mayor said on scientists and public health of- Pope Francis returns to Vatican that violence would continue 14 Poland 2,881,046 75,179 +3,503 refin- ery. police said. ilantes armed until his release. ness, poverty and inequali- Wednesday, as Prime Minister ficials are urging greater cau- Reuters | Vatican City A Reuters pho - ty. Boris Johnson’s government tion amid fears daily infections Figures as of closing plans to lift most COVID-19 could reach 100,000. housands of young Middle East ope Francis returned to the restrictions from that date in “I’m not prepared to stand Tpeople experience Country Total new Total New Total Active PVatican on Wednesday, 11 England despite rising cases. by and put Londoners, and our bullying every day. No cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases days after surgery to remove The public will be expected, city’s recovery, at risk,” Khan one should have to face it part of his colon, starting a rather than compelled by law, said in a statement. alone. If you’re a parent, period of near-total rest and to wear masks in indoor en- “This is why, after careful carer or teacher find out Egypt 283,320 16,412 219,525 47,383 rehabilitation expected to last closed spaces across the coun- consideration, I have decid- what you can do to help: Saudi 504,960 +1,226 8,020 +14 486,011 10,929 at least two weeks. try from next week, as rules ed to ask TfL to retain the http://dontfaceitalone. Arabia The 84-year-old pontiff left decided upon by the Conserv- requirement for passengers com Rome’s Gemelli hospital un- ative administration are eased. to wear a face covering on all @BorisJohnson UAE 654,813 +1,529 1,880 +4 632,775 20,158 announced, leaving by a side But in the capital, operator TfL services when the national Kuwait 379,076 2,147 359,025 17,904 door and travelling through Transport for London (TfL), regulations change.” Rome in a simple blue car with which is chaired by Mayor Ridership on Underground Disclaimer: (Views expressed Oman 288,138 +1,084 3,484 +12 262,174 22,480 a small retinue of Vatican and with darkened windows after Sadiq Khan from the Labour trains stands at roughly 40- by columnists are personal and Italian security. staff had put a wheelchair in Party, will continue to require 45% of pre-pandemic levels need not necessarily reflect our Qatar 223,780 +134 599 221,665 1,516 Photographers saw the pope the trunk of a secondary ve- face coverings on buses, trains whilst on buses the figure is at editorial stances) leave the hospital in the car hicle. Smoke rises from burning trucks after violence erupted following the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma, in Hillcrest, South Africa and other parts of the transit around 60-65%. “THE HUMAN RACE HAS ONE TODAY 1099 1381 1799 1955 QUOTE REALLY EFFECTIVE WEAPON, AND IN OF THE THAT IS LAUGHTER” City of Jerusalem is cap- John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyp- 18 Nobel laureates sign the DAY HISTORY tured and plundered by hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of tian village of Rosetta by French Captain Mainau Declaration against MARK TWAIN Christian forces during Richard II of England Pierre-François Bouchard during Napole- nuclear weapons, later co- THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 the First Crusade on’s Egyptian Campaign signed by 34 more laureates
News in brief u Virus-wracked Indonesia COVID cases found at Olympic hotel in Japan as IOC hails ‘historic’ Games posted record daily infections topping 54,000 Reuters | Tokyo TOP on Wednesday as the highly judo athletes, are in a “bubble” The coronavirus Members of the Global interest in the Tokyo With spectators barred infectious Delta variant rips coronavirus cluster at a Jap- in the hotel and separated from cluster at the Bra- South African rugby Olympics is muted, an Ipsos poll from all Olympic events across the archipelago, catapulting Aanese hotel where dozens of other guests and have not been zilians’ hotel was team are in isolation of 28 countries showed, amid in Tokyo and surround- TWEETS4 it ahead of India as Asia’s Covid-19 Brazilian Olympic team mem- infected. found during routine after arriving, as they concerns over COVID-19 in Japan ing regions officials are epicentre. The Southeast Asian nation Indonesia bers are staying has raised new The host city Tokyo, where a asking people to watch has been battered by a virus explosion concern about infections at what state of emergency has been im- screening required are believed to be and withdrawals of high-profile that overwhelmed hospitals, leaving scores new ‘epicentre the world’s top Olympics official posed until after the Games end KNOW WHAT before staff started close contacts with a athletes, with the host country the Games on television 01 to die at home, while desperate relatives of Asia’ as virus promised on Wednesday would on Aug. 8, also recorded 1,149 new work, said city official case on their flight among the most disinterested and keep their move- hunt for oxygen tanks to treat the sick. On be “historic” Games. COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, Yoshinobu Sawada. ments to a minimum. Wednesday, Indonesia’s health ministry cases skyrocket Just over a week before the the most in nearly six months. posted its highest-ever 54,517 new cases and 991 deaths in 24 hours -- recent opening ceremony, new cases Highly contagious virus vari- daily mortality rates are as high as 10 times the numbers in early June.But the linked to the Games and spik- ants have fuelled the latest wave movement of staff servicing the International Olympic Com- so many challenges in the last from a deadly earthquake, tsuna- official data is widely believed to be a severe undercount due to low testing rates ing infections in the host city of infections, and failure to vac- Games can create opportunities mittee (IOC) President Thomas couple of years, the great east mi and nuclear accident in 2011. and poor contact tracing. highlight the risks of staging cinate people faster has left the for infection. Bach praised the organisers and Japan earthquake and now the Japanese leaders had hoped Greenpeace Activists the world’s biggest sports event population vulnerable. The Olympics, postponed last the Japanese people for staging coronavirus pandemic,” Bach told the re-scheduled Games this dump 625kg of plastic Amount of u India’s first coronavirus during a pandemic even without Medical experts are worried year as the virus was spreading the Games in the midst of the reporters after meeting Prime year would be a celebration of waste outside #Was - plastic dumped patient, a student spectators in sports venues. that Olympic “bubbles”, imposed around the world, have lost much pandemic. Minister Yoshihide Suga. the world’s victory over the coro- teminster to deliver @ in Med to double Seven staff at the hotel in Police officers and security personnel stand guard at the entrance of the Athletes Village ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic by Tokyo 2020 Olympic officials public support in Japan because “These will be historic Olym- When Japan was awarded the navirus but those celebrations are BorisJohnson a message. who was in the Game in 20 years Chinese city of Hamamatsu city, southwest of in an effort to keep out COVID-19, of fears they will trigger a surge pic Games ... for the way how Games in 2013, they were expect- on hold as many countries strug- Stop dumping UK plastic Wuhan, has tested Tokyo, had tested positive for the coronavirus, a city official said. But a 31-strong Brazilian Olym- pic delegation, which includes might not be completely tight as of infections. the Japanese people overcame ed to be a celebration of recovery gle with new surges of infections. waste on other countries. positive for a second time, a medical official said. The 21-year-old woman from This is the same amount the southern state of Kerala has no symptoms but is in isolation at her home, of plastic the UK dumps Thrissur district medical officer Reena KJ said. The woman tested positive again overseas every 30 sec- during a routine check ahead of a trip to New Delhi.“Health teams are in constant Taliban seize border crossing Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins on onds. 1/7 touch with her,” Reena said. The patient was among Indian medical students who @GreenpeaceUK fled Wuhan in January 2020 after the virus first appeared in the Chinese city. She with Pakistan in major advance Singapore cruise developed mild symptoms and tested positive on January 30, becoming India’s Reuters | Singapore first Covid-19 patient. Pakistan Genting Cruise Lines ship 02 S.African Aon a “cruise to nowhere” u More bus blast kills has returned to Singapore after than a dozen 13, some Chinese a confirmed case of COVID-19 people, workers in a passenger, and the nearly including 3,000 passengers and crew on Chinese nationals and Pakistani soldiers, were killed in a blast targeting a bus board were confined to their in a remote region of northern Pakistan yesterday. That’s according to multiple crowds cabins through most of yes- sources, who said the toll could rise. It was not immediately clear whether the terday. blast was the result of a roadside device or something planted inside the bus. The 40-year-old passenger am delighted to be in- u Alcohol consumption was linked to 4 % of all new global tested positive onboard and Iaugurating a conven- cancer cases last year, according to a study published Wednesday, as the result was confirmed after tion centre Rudraksh in researchers warned of an urgent need to alert people of the risks. Men accounted rampage the person was taken to hospi- Varanasi. Constructed for more than three quarters of the estimated cases, which were mainly linked to tal once the ship docked early with Japanese assistance, risky or heavy drinking, although one in seven of these alcohol-related cancers on Wednesday, the Singapore fied as a close contact of a con- this state-of-the-art cen- were linked to moderate consumption of around two drinks a day. The study, A member of the Afghan Special Forces directs traffic during the rescue Tourism Board said, following firmed case on land, and was tre will make Varanasi an published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, estimated that there were more mission of a policeman besieged at a check post surrounded by Taliban, in the detection of the suspected immediately isolated as part attractive destination for than 6.3 million cases in 2020 of mouth, pharynx, voice box larynx, oesophageal, Kandahar province, Afghanistan case. of onboard health protocols,” conferences thus drawing colon, rectum, liver, and breast cancer -- all of which have established links to “The passenger was identi- the board said in a statement. more tourists and busi- alcohol. They estimated that 4 percent (741,300) of all new cases of cancer around Reuters | Kabul The takeover forced Paki- nesspersons to the city. the world in 2020 were associated with alcohol consumption, stan to seal parts of its border @narendramodi Alcohol with men accounting for 77% (568,700 cases) of these and with Afghanistan after heavy linked to 1 women 23%. The study found that the number of new cancer aliban fighters in Afghan- fighting between Taliban and Masks to remain mandatory in 25 global cases linked to alcohol consumption varied widely across the Tistan said on Wednesday Afghan forces around Wesh. 03 cancer world, with the highest rates seen in East Asia and Central and they had taken control of one Afghan officials said gov- Eastern Europe and the lowest in North Africa and Western of the main border crossings ernment forces had pushed on London transport after cases: study A self-armed local looks for looters inside a supermarket following protests that have widened into looting, in Durban, South Africa Asia. with Pakistan, perhaps the back the Taliban fighters and BETTER national rule easing most strategic objective they were in control of the Spin COVID-1:9 Countries worst affected have captured so far in a rapid Boldak border district in Kan- Protests triggered by the tographer saw several shops public hospitals already with guns, many of them Country Total cases Total advanceacross the country as dahar province. But civilians Some 40,000 jailing of ex-president Ja- being looted in the town under strain from Africa’s KNOW from South Africa’s white U.S. forces pull out. and Pakistani officials said the cob Zuma for failing to ap- of Hammersdale, Kwazu- worst COVID-19 epidemic, minority, blocked off streets deaths Global tally • he humanitarian cri- A Pakistani official said Taliban controlled the Wesh businesses had been pear at a corruption inquiry lu-Natal, on Wednesday. said it was running out of to prevent further looting, sis in the Central Af- 1 USA 34,811,545 623,475 fighters had taken down the border posts. hit by the unrest last week have widened into Local TV stations mean- oxygen and drugs, most Reuters TV footage showed. T rican Republic continues Afghan government flag from “Wesh, which has great im- looting and an outpouring while showed more looting of which are imported Zuma, 79, was sen- One man shouted “go home 2 India 30,986,803 412,019 188,806,829 to worsen. Aid workers atop the Friendship Gate at portance in Afghan trade with of general anger over the of shops in South Africa’s through Durban, as well as tenced last month for and protect your homes”. Reuters | Johannesburg need safe & unimpeded 3 Brazil 19,152,065 535,924 the border crossing between Pakistan and other countries, hardship and inequality largest township Soweto, food. Other residents gath- Deaths defying a court order access to the population. the Pakistani town of Chaman has been captured by the Tali- that persist 27 years after and in the Indian Ocean “The impact of the loot- ered outside supermarkets 4 Russia 5,857,002 145,278 to give evidence at an A ceasefire is crucial to and the Afghan town of Wesh. ban,” said a Pakistani security rowds looted shops and the end of apartheid. port city of Durban. ing and destruction is hav- waiting for them to open inquiry investigating save lives & more fund- 5 France 5,829,724 111,413 4,068,854 The crossing, south of Af- official deployed at the border offices in South Africa Shopping malls and ware- Soldiers have been sent ing dire consequences on so they could stock up on C high-level looting ing is needed to meet ghanistan’s main southern city area. Officials in Chaman said yesterday, defying govern- houses have been ransacked onto the streets to help hospitals,” the NHN said. essentials. 6 Turkey 5,493,244 50,324 the acute humanitarian Recovered: Kandahar, is the landlocked the Taliban had suspended all ment calls to end a week or set ablaze in several cit- outnumbered police con- “And the epicentre of the during his nine years in The poverty and inequal- needs of the people. 7 UK 5,233,207 128,530 country’s second busiest entry travel through the gate. of violence that has killed ies, mostly in Zuma’s home tain the unrest and order pandemic is within the af- office until 2018. ity fuelling the unrest has @antonioguterres point and the main link be - “The mujahideen have cap- more than 70 people and in KwaZulu-Natal province, was being restored in some fected provinces currently been compounded by se- 8 Argentina 4,682,960 99,640 172,538,244 People wearing protective masks board a bus near Leicester Square tween its vast southwest and tured an important border wrecked hundreds of busi- and the financial and eco- places on Wednesday, such under siege.” Staff in affect- He also faces trial in a vere social and economic 9 Colombia 4,548,142 113,839 New cases Pakistani ports. Afghan gov- town called Wesh,” Taliban nesses. nomic center Johannesburg as the northern Johannes- ed areas were unable to get separate case on charges restrictions aimed at curb- system to keep down infec- 04 including corruption, fraud, Reuters | London 10 Italy 4,275,846 127,831 ernment data show it is used spokesperson Zabihullah Mu- The unrest, the worst and surrounding Gauteng burg township of Alexan- to work, it said, worsening ing COVID-19. The United tions. Whilst the government by 900 trucks a day. jahid said in a statement. in South Africa for years, province. dra, local TV reported. shortages caused by a third racketeering and money Nations in South Africa ex- cites Britain’s vaccination 11 Spain 4,041,474 81,043 +225,104 also disrupted hospitals Overnight it spread to The National Hospital wave of infections. laundering. The former pressed concern that dis- asks will remain manda- drive as having largely broken struggling to cope with two other provinces - Mpu- Network (NHN), represent- As authorities in Durban president pleaded not ruptions to transport for tory on London’s public the link between cases and se- 12 Germany 3,746,169 91,810 guilty in court in May. 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Masih Alinejad was released, said she was in a can 11.45 PMcontact 33109342 or “ 11.15 has PM a vacancy for the occupation 6.30applicants + 8.30 + 10.30 can PM contact 39617647 or [email protected] RUBEENA CONTRACTING for the occupation of OFFICE stunner said no to the trip up next to his dead body and perks up, smiles and laughs. [email protected] of SEAMAN , suitably qualified [email protected] In recent years, Iranian in - said.ESTABLISHMENT has a vacancy stateWORKER of shock. 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BY RASHEED AL-FAWAZ has [email protected] CENTRE : 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + [email protected] for the occupation of PLUMBER 11.30 PM continued. “It herself reacting “I’m so happy The Bahrain Petroleum CompanyEuropean BSC (Clos ed) hCleaningereby invite Servicess tender fo r the following: Adaa SPACE Building JAM: A NEW Solutions LEGACY W.L.L . aSEEF vacancy (II) :12.30 + 5.45for + 11.00the PM occupation There are many gossip Elham Al-Fadala and Shehab Johar , suitably qualified applicants can SEEF (II) : 6.00 + 9.00 + 12.00 MN would have been to the news of right now,” she Bahraini Partnership Company has (PG) a (ADVENTURE/COMEDY/FAMILY)vacancy for the occupation (NEW) of SECURITY GUARD , suitably UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONS has and many stories. My She wrote in a comment ac- Johar.” another month her own nomina- gushed. MOHAMED ABDULNABI ALI TENDER INITIAL TENDER contact TENDER 17404866 SUBMISSION or DOWNTOWN@ PAWN has a vacancy for the occupation of (ENGLISH CONSTRUCTION PRINT) WORKER qualified applicants can contact THEa vacancy CONJURING: for THEthe DEVIL occupation MADE of divorce, nor about companying the photo: “Praise It prompted Ilham to confirm of news saying tion, and the out- “First timer (RIHANNA ALRASULTENDER TITLE / 12140) No. BOND FEES BATELCO.COM.BH (PG-13) (KOREAN/DRAMA/COMEDY) (NEW) of WORKER , suitably(BD) qualified (BD) DAY DATE TIME , suitably LEBRON qualifiedJAMES, DON CHEADLE, applicants KHRIS can 17822228 or HRGUARDS@ ME DO IT DONG-IL SUNG, HA JI-WON SHOVEL OPERATOR , suitably my tragic life that I be to God, by whose grace good the news through a video she that they are dat- standing comedy over here,” the has a vacancy for the occupation DAVIS 5 YEARS PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR applicants27983 can contact 66999599 or contact 17210147 or ADAA. SECURICORE.BH (15+)(HORROR/THRILLER)qualified applicants can contact deeds are done.. my marriage shared on Snapchat, in which ing.” series nomina- actress wrote in of SEAMAN , suitably qualified 500/- 15 .750 ABNA 24-August-2021ZUHAIR TRANSPORT SUBTITLED ARABIC & ENGLISH) lived through, even if PROVISION OF MAINTENANCE SUPPORT [email protected] CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the [email protected] OASIS JUFFAIR: (KIDS CINEMA):11.00 AM + 1.30 17620673 VERA FARMIGA, PATRICKor SKDGRPCO@WILSON took place on Shehab Johar.” she said, “There are many gos- The pair were first tion earned by the post’s caption. HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS FOR LOADING ARMS SEEF (II) :3.30 + 8.45 PM I open my mouth and applicants can contact 39466236 or + 4.00 + 6.30 PM REDX INDUSTRIES CO. W.L.L. OASISBATELCO.COM.BH JUFFAIR: 3.15 + 8.45 PM The news of Elham and sip and many stories. My di- spotted together in “The Flight At- “Thank you @tel- occupation of HEAVY DRIVER , say, they will become [email protected] NASSER SAEED AL-HAJRI GREENCITY CENTRE:10.30 SKENAR AM + 1.00 +ELECTRIC 3.30 + 6.00 + has a vacancy for the occupation of CITY CENTRE:12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM Jawhar’s marriage sparked vorce, nor about my tragic life Provence, France, tendant.” evisionacad for a The above public tender is issued through Bapco’s EAM (Oracle) system. Bapcosuitably invites qualifiedinterested Vendors applicants can 8.30 + 11.00 PM BLACK WIDOW with proven experience in providing the above services to participate in the above tender. Registered WORKSHOP SPC OWNED BY STEEL CHIPPER , suitably qualified bombs, not in Kuwait widespread controversy on so- that I lived through, even if I in June to celebrate In the first moment I will CORPORATION W.L.L has a contact 17591881 or AMZUHAIR@ ¤ (PG-13) (ACTION/ ADVENTURE) SEEFABJAD (II) :9.15 PMELECTRONICS + 11.45 PM has a A BDULAHUSAIN suppliers with Bapco’sKHUDHUR EAM system can log in with their username and password and purchase the tender. SARBJEETSEEF (II) :11.00 SING AM + 1.30 has + 4.00a vacancy + 6.30 + 9.00 for applicants can contact 77454545 or but in the whole world, cial media, after Mai Al-Aidan open my mouth and say, they West’s 44th birthday, clip, the paja- never forget. 9 Tender documents can be downloadedvacancy after payingfor the the tenderoccupation fee. of HOTMAIL.COM + 11.30 PM SCARLETT JOHANSSON, FLORENCE PUGH vacancy for the occupation of &AHMED AND YOUSIF SNOS OF the occupation of WORKER , suitably [email protected] AL-BAAD LA YAZHAB LIL-MAAZOUN I was patient and published a photo of the duo will become bombs, not in Ku- drumming up a flur- ma-clad “Big nods for team PIPE-FITTER , suitably qualified WADI AL SAIL: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 PM OASIS JUFFAIR :11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 MARATAYENSALESMAN , suitably qualified ALI AHMEDUnregistered has a suppliersvacancy canfor theregister by visiting the following website: qualified applicants can contact and wrote: “Congratulations wait but in the whole world, I ry of headlines that Bang Theo- @flightattend- applicants can contact 17312220 or DOWN TOWN CONSTRUCTION ( ARABIC PRINT) + 11.30 PM (PG-15)applicants (ARABIC/COMEDY) can contact (NEW) 17332078 or patient occupation of CLEANERhttps://www.bapco.net/doing-business-with-us.html#prequalifications , suitably 33161222 or SARBJEET2003@ Al Rayah For Safety Items WLL Ilham Al-Fadala and Shehab was patient and patient.” they were an item. ry” alum sits antonmax.” [email protected] COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for OASIS JUFFAIR : 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 PM CITY CENTRE:(12.30 MN THURS/FRI) [email protected] KARIM ABDULAZIZ, DINA EL SHERBINY ELHAM AL-FADALA Under prequali cation, please select new supplier registration and complete the steps. YAHOO.COM has a vacancy for the occupation Irina Shayk Kaley Cuoco qualified applicants ¢ can contact the occupation of STEEL CHIPPER CITY CENTRE:12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 8.00 + 10.30 PM CITY CENTRE:(ATOMS) : 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 36636622For further or clari cationERAPROJECTS@ you may contactSa Bapconsaf Procurement Trading DepartmentCo.W.L.L at thehas Re nery , on suitably qualified applicants can of 9.00 +SECURITY 12.00 MN GUARD , suitably CITYAre CENTRE:11.45ena Contractor AM + 4.30 Group + 9.15 PM Co. S.P.C Telephone 1775 5845, 1775 7054, 775 2995 or 17755684 TIP SEEF TOP (II) :10.30 SALOON AM + 1.00 + 3.30S PPM C has BATELCO.COM.BH a vacancy for the occupation contact 17404866 or DOWNTOWN@ qualified CITY CENTRE (VIP applicants II) : 11.30 AM + 5.15 can + 11.00 contact PM SEEFhas (II) a:10.30 vacancy AM + 3.30 for + 8.30 the PM occupation Submission of the Tender is online through ¡ EAM system, but the Initial Bond is to be submitted in original. a vacancy for the occupation 17712700 or RASHEED@ of WORKER , suitably qualified BATELCO.COM.BH ¡¡ GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE SEEF (I) :11.45 AM + 2.45 + 5.45 + 8.45 + 11.45 PM of WORKER , suitably qualified Initial Bond shall be payable by a Certi ed Cheque, Cash, Manager cheque, letter of guarantee or insurance of BARBER , suitably qualified SECURICORE.BH SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW SUDOKU CROSSWORD Prestige policy. Class The Office Initial bond for shall moving remain applicants valid throughout can contact the 33921167tender period or speci ed in the relevant tender (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER/ADVENTURE) (NEW) WADI AL SAIL: 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + applicants can contact 17245222 or applicants can contact 39888293 or (18+) (CRIME/THRILLER/HORROR) documents (6 months from the [email protected] of submission). Initial Bond can be submittedMAGIC SHINE at old CLEANINGBBK Building CO. SPC KAREN GILLAN, LENA HEADEY, 11.00 PM [email protected] Across home and office furniture has [email protected] MODERN KNOWLEDGE CHRIS ROCK, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, (Procurement Department – Tendering Unit) located outside the re nery, nearhas North a Gatevacancy between for 9:00the amoccupation 1- Deities; 5- Steinbeck: East of _____; 9- Back muscle, briefly; 12- Molecular component; 13- a vacancy for the occupation OASIS JUFFAIR :6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM SCHOOLS MESH ANA has a vacancy for the MORGAN DAVID JONES Unit just above a yard; 15- Arizona river; 16- Peru’s capital; 17- Raucous sound; 18- Lounge; Yesterday’s solution and 11:00 am on Sundays and TuesdaysGULF only. ASIA CONTRACTING of WORKER , suitably qualified Al Rayah For Safety Items WLL of DRIVER(HEAVY VEHICLE) ¡ ISTARCITY CENTRE:12.30 Bahraini + 3.15 + 6.00partnership + 8.45 + 11.30 PM occupation(PG-13)(ARABIC/COMDY) of ADMINISTRATOR CITY CENTRE:2.15 + 7.00 + 11.45 PM 19- Cherrylike fruit; 21- Like sea life; 23- Low card; 24- Part of UNLV; 25- Prize; 28- Fifth This tender is subject to the provisionsCOMPANY of Legislative WLL has Decree a vacancy No.36 offor 2002 applicants with respect can tocontact Regulating 17345051 or SEEF (I) : 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 has a vacancy for the occupation day of the week; 33- Mall frequenters; 34- Scraps; 35- Indian exercise method; 36- Actor , suitably qualified applicants company has a vacancy for the , suitably TAMER HOSNI, qualified HALA SHEHA applicants can Holbrook; 37- Hackneyed; 38- Pouch; 39- “Hard ___!” (sailor’s yell); 41- Cry; 42- First letter of Government Tenders & Purchases andthe theoccupation Legislative of DecreeSAFETY No.37 OFFICER of 2002 [email protected] respect to the Tender Law’s + 12.00 MN WRATHof SECURITY OF MAN GUARD , suitably can contact 39787837 or occupation of WORKER , suitably contact OASIS JUFFAIR 17727712 :12.30 + 3.00 or + 5.30 MKSA51@ + 8.00 + the Hebrew alphabet; 44- A house away; 46- Fix beforehand; 47- Barracks bed; 48- Domain; implementing regulations. WADI AL SAIL: 9.00 PM + 11.30 PM 49- City SE of Los Angeles; 53- Distribute the wrong cards; 57- Unhurried gait; 58- ___, I’m [email protected] , suitably qualified applicants can ¢ 10.30 PM (PG-15)qualified (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) applicants can contact qualified applicants can contact BATELCO.COM.BH Adam; 60- Dies ___; 61- Toronto paper; 62- Journalist Pyle; 63- Director Ephron; 64- ___ the The following conditions shall be compliedcontact 17312220with: or pradeep@ VISSION CONSTRUCTION has 17712700 JASON STATHAM, HOLTor MCCALLANY, RASHEED@ 36171122EL ARIF :or AWDAT ROUSHUTHAHA222@ YOUNIS CITY CENTRE: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + land of the free...; 65- Quartz grains; 66- Departs; 1. Enclose a copy of the Commercialrpgroup.ae Registration Certi cate valid for the currenta vacancy year, and befor in the occupation 9.00 + 11.30 PM JOSHSECURICORE.BH HARTNETT ALKHABBAZ COLLECTION OF GMAIL.COM(PG-15) (ARABIC/ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) ALMATALA CONTRACTING conformity with the subject tender. of WORKER , suitably qualified SEEF (II) :10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 Down COOKING 2. Enclose OIL has a copy a vacancy of Certi cate for the of CompliancePowered withAccess the Employment Platforms Percentage for Bahraini Manpower AHMED EZZ, AHMAD FAHMY ESTABLISHMENT has a vacancy CITY CENTRE:11.15 AM + 4.30 + 9.45 PM applicants can contact 39300177 or ¢ + 11.00 PM STYLO PHONE has a vacancy 1- Big bash; 2- Auricular; 3- Cupola; 4- Improve in appearance; 5- Symbol; 6- Postpone; occupation issued of WORKERby the Ministry , suitably of Labour. Bahrain W.L.L has a Majorca Cafe has a vacancy for for the occupation of HEAVY SEEF (II): 12.15 + 4.45 + 9.15 PM 7- Greek vowel; 8- Emperor of Rome 54-68; 9- Hero; 10- ___ want for Christmas...; 11- Apply 3. Submit quotations on Tender Submission Form [email protected] OASIS JUFFAIR :10.30 AM + 3.30 + 8.30 PM WADI AL SAIL: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + the occupation of LABOURER , DRIVER8.45 + 11.15 PM , suitably qualified for the occupation of SALESMAN powder to oneself; 14- Person who lives in seclusion; 15- Like expressionless eyes; 20- qualified 4. Ensure applicants to stamp withcan the contact o cial vacancy seal on allfor the originalthe occupation documents andof copies thereof, which form CITY CENTRE:10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + THE ICE ROAD Minerals; 22- Corn unit; 25- One of the Allens; 26- Bobby of the Black Panthers; 27- Old-style suitably 9.15 + 12.00 qualified MN applicants can applicants can contact 39458212 , suitably qualified applicants can 39299322 part or ofABOSAJAD234567@ the o er. TECHNICIAN(MAINTENANCE) , ABRAJ ALKHAMIS TRADING S.P.C (PG-13)(THRILLER) How to play fax; 28- Judge, e.g.; 29- URL starter; 30- Prescribed amounts; 31- Slack-jawed; 32- Cruising 5. Award of Purchase Agreement to a Contractor who is not on Bapco’s Approved List of Contractors will contact 33363151 or MOHAMMED. orHITMAN’S ABDULAZIZJABER4455@ WIFE’S BODYGUARD contact 39150389 or Mahammad. vessel; 34- Black-and-white cookie; 37- Double-cross; 40- One engraving; 42- Ancient suitably qualified applicants can has a vacancy for the occupation SEEF (I) :12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM Place a number in the empty boxes in such ICLOUD.COM be subject to successful pre-quali cation. [email protected] HOTMAIL.COM (15+) (ACTION/ COMEDY/CRIME) LIAM NEESON, LAURENCE FISHBURNE, a way that each row across, each column Athens’s Temple of ___; 43- Directing; 45- Forest female; 46- Charged; 48- At full speed; 49- [email protected] down and each 9-box square contains all Likewise; 50- Short letter; 51- On ___ with; 52- Roman god of war; 54- Switch back?; 55- Swiss contact 17840787 of WORKER , suitably qualified JOLT RYAN REYNOLDS, SAMUEL L. JACKSON HOLT MCCALLANY • This announcement is to be read as part of the Tender Documents. of the numbers from one to nine. river; 56- Meadows; 59- It’s in the genes; (18+) (ACITON/COMEDY/CRIME) (NEW) OASIS JUFFAIR : 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM CITY CENTRE: 2.00 + 7.15 PM 09 THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021
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Courteney Cox finally Jennifer Lopez to develop, star in Broadway musical projects lands an Emmy ANI | Washington musicals will be based on the ation with Skydance and Con- merican sing- Concord Theatricals library, cord in reinterpreting some of Aer and song- which includes the Rodgers and the most classic musicals and writer Jennifer Hammerstein catalog. bringing them to life in new nomination for ‘Friends’ Lopez has part- Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ways for a new generation.” nered with Hol- famed musicals include ‘Car- Skydance already had a deal Fox | Los Angeles lywood pro- ousel’, ‘South Pacific’, ‘The King in place with Concord and has Byrne’s American grateful to the Acade- ducer David and I’, ‘The Sound of Music’, been working on a TV series ctress Courteney Cox Utopia.’ my for this honor and Ellison’s pro- ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Oklahoma!’ version of ‘Oklahoma!’ from finally earned an Cox was the especially thankful duction outfit, among others. ‘The Blind Side’ director John AEmmy nomination for only member of for @mrbenwinston Skydance, and Variety reported that Lopez’s Lee Hancock and ‘This Is Us’ “Friends.” the “Friends” and his entire team Oracle scion Nuyorican Productions will de- writer Bekah Brunstetter, that “Friends: The Reunion” was cast that had for their outstand- to develop velop the projects with Sky- would be set in modern times. nominated Tuesday in the out- not been nom- ing achievement,” musical pro- dance, and Lopez will star in at As per Fox News, Elaine standing pre-recorded variety inated for an Cox wrote jects for TV least one of the projects. Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny special category. Other shows Emmy until along- and film. In a statement, Lopez said, Medina, who are both Lopez’s nominated for the award in- now. Other side a Accord- “Musicals were a part of the producing partners will ex- clude “8:46: Dave Chappelle,” co-stars have pho- ing to Fox tapestry of my childhood. We’re ecutive produce the musical “A West Wing Special To Ben- received nomi- to of News, these so excited to begin our associ- projects. efit When We All Vote,” “Bo nations. Jennifer the Jennifer Lopez Burnham: Inside” and “David Aniston landed cast. five, Lisa Kud- Cox row earned six previously Kanye West and Irina and Matt LeBlanc opened up Shayk are cooling off Emmy-nominee Kaley Cuoco garnered three. about her David Schwim- Emmy snub one month after they gets emotional over first-ever mer received one in an inter- sparked dating rumors nod for ‘The Flight Attendant’ KNOW WHAT nomination. view with Fox | Los Angeles Following Howard Stern Fox | Loa Angeles the news, in June. the actress “It always hurt id their relationship aley Cuoco is in a celebra- Cox was the only took to In- my feelings … when Donly last “fourfivesec- Ktory mood. Thank you @ member of the stagram to every single cast onds?” The 35-year-old actress is televisionacad for “Friends” cast that express her member was nom- Sources tell Page Six that among those in Hollywood gratitude. inated but me, it Kanye West asked Irina to have been honored with an a moment I will had not been nomi- “The one definitely hurt my Shayk to go to Paris for a Emmy nomination Tuesday never forget. 9 nated for an Emmy where we feelings,” Cox told couture show with him, morning. Cuoco was recog- nods for team @ until now are incredibly Stern. but the gorgeous model and nized for her work in HBO flightattendantonmax Courteney Cox mom turned him down. Max’s “The Flight Attendant,” KALEY CUOCO “She likes him as a friend, The show sees her play a but doesn’t want a relation- jet-setting partier who, after on a couch watching the nom- Elham Al-Fadala confirms the news of her marriage ship with him,” says our a night out on the town with ination announcement, and TDT | Manama source, explaining that the one of her passengers, wakes when her name is called, she stunner said no to the trip up next to his dead body and perks up, smiles and laughs. in order to avoid the no memory of what happened She then turns to the camera uwaiti actress Elham headlines. the night before. and in a raspy voice, says, “I KAl-Fadala announced “She doesn’t want Despite getting an early start have no voice to say how hap- her marriage to artist Shehab the association in Hollywood as a young star, py I am!” She then continues Jawhar via Instagram. that they are Tuesday’s Emmy nomination to laugh, cheer and clap. Al-Fadala shared a photo of dating, which was Cuoco’s first. Emmys In the second clip, the star them from the scenes of the is what would are considered a top-tier melts to the floor and rests last series that brought them have run in award in the television her head on the couch together in which she appears the press if industry. cushion when “The in a wedding dress. she showed To celebrate her big Flight Attendant” is list- up [in Paris day, the actress took to ed among the nominees with him],” Instagram to share for outstanding com- the source a pair of videos of edy series. continued. “It herself reacting “I’m so happy There are many gossip Elham Al-Fadala and Shehab Johar would have been to the news of right now,” she and many stories. My She wrote in a comment ac- Johar.” another month her own nomina- gushed. divorce, nor about companying the photo: “Praise It prompted Ilham to confirm of news saying tion, and the out- “First timer my tragic life that I be to God, by whose grace good the news through a video she that they are dat- standing comedy over here,” the lived through, even if deeds are done.. my marriage shared on Snapchat, in which ing.” series nomina- actress wrote in I open my mouth and took place on Shehab Johar.” she said, “There are many gos- The pair were first tion earned by the post’s caption. The news of Elham and sip and many stories. My di- spotted together in “The Flight At- “Thank you @tel- say, they will become Jawhar’s marriage sparked vorce, nor about my tragic life Provence, France, tendant.” evisionacad for a bombs, not in Kuwait widespread controversy on so- that I lived through, even if I in June to celebrate In the first moment I will but in the whole world, cial media, after Mai Al-Aidan open my mouth and say, they West’s 44th birthday, clip, the paja- never forget. 9 I was patient and published a photo of the duo will become bombs, not in Ku- drumming up a flur- ma-clad “Big nods for team patient and wrote: “Congratulations wait but in the whole world, I ry of headlines that Bang Theo- @flightattend- ELHAM AL-FADALA Ilham Al-Fadala and Shehab was patient and patient.” they were an item. ry” alum sits antonmax.” Irina Shayk Kaley Cuoco
SUDOKU CROSSWORD Across 1- Deities; 5- Steinbeck: East of _____; 9- Back muscle, briefly; 12- Molecular component; 13- Unit just above a yard; 15- Arizona river; 16- Peru’s capital; 17- Raucous sound; 18- Lounge; Yesterday’s solution 19- Cherrylike fruit; 21- Like sea life; 23- Low card; 24- Part of UNLV; 25- Prize; 28- Fifth day of the week; 33- Mall frequenters; 34- Scraps; 35- Indian exercise method; 36- Actor Holbrook; 37- Hackneyed; 38- Pouch; 39- “Hard ___!” (sailor’s yell); 41- Cry; 42- First letter of the Hebrew alphabet; 44- A house away; 46- Fix beforehand; 47- Barracks bed; 48- Domain; 49- City SE of Los Angeles; 53- Distribute the wrong cards; 57- Unhurried gait; 58- ___, I’m Adam; 60- Dies ___; 61- Toronto paper; 62- Journalist Pyle; 63- Director Ephron; 64- ___ the land of the free...; 65- Quartz grains; 66- Departs;
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First top names confirmed Morgan returns to lead for BRAVE CF’s return England in Pakistan T20s event in Kazakhstan Eoin Morgan back in full-strength England squad after Covid outbreak
The three-match series• begins at Trent Bridge on Friday KNOW WHAT AFP | London TDT | Manama Only four of the Eng- RAVE Combat Federation’s BETTER oin Morgan has been land players involved Bsecond show in Kazakhstan cleared to lead England is beginning to take shape with in an upcoming Twen- in the world champion- the first fighters confirmed to E ship success have been KNOW ty20 series against Pakistan it be in action on August 21st, in was announced yesterday after retained for the three Almaty. In association with he missed their one-day inter- T20s against Pakistan Octagon League, BRAVE CF 53 national clean sweep following will bring some of the top in- BRAVE CF 53 will mark Eoin Morgan looks on during a match (file photo) a Covid-19 outbreak within the players after their period of iso- ternational fighters to face off the second time the hosts’ camp. Jos Buttler has also been in- lation.” with Kazakhstan’s finest. fastest-growing MMA England had to select an en- cluded following a calf injury. The former England paceman In the first round of an - organization in the tirely new squad for the ODIs Stokes, however, has been added: “Additionally, we have nouncements, Featherweight world will organize an against Pakistan after several The Royal London rested ahead of a five-match rewarded some of the players Tae Kyun Kim has been re - event in Kazakhstan players and support tested pos- Series success against Test series at home to India involved in the 50-over series vealed as taking part of BRAVE itive for the coronavirus, with Pakistan showcased the starting in August, with bowl- win with selection which al- CF 53. Undefeated in his pro- the rest of those originally se- exciting depth of talent ers Mark Wood, Chris Woakes lows us to manage multi-format fessional career, the South their quarter-final bout back lected all forced to self-isolate as and Sam Curran absent as well. players as we prepare for the Korean star is coming off the at BRAVE CF 42. Queiroz trains star all-rounder Ben Stokes was we have developed Assistant coach Paul Colling- much-anticipated Test series biggest win of his career - as he under former BRAVE CF Light- rushed back from a finger injury in men’s white-ball wood will be in charge, with against India. TKO’d previously fellow unde- weight world champion Lucas to captain the new-look side. cricket. We have England supremo Chris Silver- “I would like to express my feated fighter Husein Kadima- ‘’Mineiro’’ Martins at the Cap- But the 50-over world cham- selected a T20 squad wood taking some family time thanks to Ben Stokes and the gomaev at BRAVE CF 47. ‘’Ares’’ ital da Luta gym. pions still enjoyed a 3-0 se - that sees the return out after cutting short an in - players for their efforts over is one of the brightest talents BRAVE CF 53 will mark the ries whitewash of Pakistan, of many of our most tended break to oversee the ODI the last week, and the counties coming out of South Korean second time the fastest-grow- culminating with a dramatic experienced players campaign. for their support in getting this and has established himself as ing MMA organization in the three-wicket win at Edgbas- “The Royal London Series series on.” one of the top Featherweight world will organize an event in ton on Tuesday that featured after their period of success against Pakistan show- England squad: stars at BRAVE CF. Kazakhstan. The first time was James Vince’s maiden England isolation cased the exciting depth of tal- Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Tae Kyun Kim is joined by back in March of 2017, when century. ENGLAND SUPREMO CHRIS SILVERWOOD ent we have developed in men’s Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Flyweight Flavio de Queiroz, BRAVE CF 6 was headlined But only four of the England white-ball cricket,” said Silver- Tom Banton, Jos Buttler (wkt), who is one of the top Brazil- by future Super Lightweight players involved in that success ory and Matt Parkinson have wood in an England and Wales Tom Curran, Lewis Gregory, ians in his weight class. Flavio champion Eldar Eldarov, who have been retained for the three all been included in a 16-man Cricket Board statement. Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, impressed in his last outing, as earned the second victory of T20s against Pakistan, with squad after starring in the ODIs, “We have selected a T20 Saqib Mahmood, Dawid Malan, he took BRAVE CF Flyweight his BRAVE CF career when he Vince omitted. with T20 regular Dawid Malan squad that sees the return of Matt Parkinson, Adil Rashid, tournament finalist Velimurad stopped Henrique Rasputin in Saqib Mahmood, Lewis Greg- keeping his place. many of our most experienced Jason Roy, David Willey Alkhasov to the distance in the first round.
Wolves ‘keeper Rui Schick’s long-range strike against Patricio becomes Scotland voted goal of Euro 2020 Wimbledon matches probed over Mourinho’s first Roma signing potential irregular betting patterns AFP | London
wo matches at this year’s TWimbledon are being in- vestigated by the International Tennis Integrity Agency over potential irregular betting pat- terns. Rui Patricio The ITIA, which is respon- AFP | Rome sible for safeguarding the in- tegrity of professional tennis ortugal international worldwide, received two alerts Pgoalkeeper Rui Patri- from the betting industry dur- cio has signed a three-year ing the grass-court Grand Slam contract with Serie A club Patrik Schick unleashes his long-ranger for Czech Republic in south London. Roma from Premier League AFP | Rome The matches were reported side Wolverhampton Wan- by German newspaper Die Welt Wimbledon logo is seen outside a court derers, the Italian club an- to be an early-round singles tie nounced. zech Republic striker BETTER and a men’s doubles contest. analysis of a match alert does The 33-year-old becomes CPatrik Schick’s stunning On the singles match, a suggest corrupt activity, the new Portuguese coach Jose long-range effort against Scot- five-figure sum was reportedly ITIA conducts a full and confi- BETTER Mourinho’s first signing in a land in the Euro 2020 group KNOW place at the end of the second dential investigation.” deal which runs until June stage has been voted the goal set on the exact result. The ITIA said it was not able 2024 and is worth an ini- of the tournament, European During the doubles match, a to provide more details on the tial 11.5 million euros ($13.5 soccer’s governing body UEFA winning bet was placed as the KNOW matches being investigated. million) plus bonuses, the said yesterday. At 49.7 yards (45.45 favourites, who eventually lost, “The integrity of the sport club said. Having spotted goalkeeper m), Patrik Schick’s took the first set. is of the utmost importance to “In Jose Mourinho we David Marshall stranded far effort was officially Alerts can be for match-fix- The International Ten- everyone at Wimbledon,” an are talking about one of off his line, Schick fired a curl- the furthest recorded ing, but also incorrect odds-set- All England Club spokesper- the greatest coaches in the ing, looping effort from just ting, well-informed betting, nis Integrity Agency son said. distance from which (ITIA) was established world and I am excited to inside the Scotland half to find a goal was scored at player fitness, fatigue or form “We continue to invest in ad- start working with him and the back of the net. as well as playing conditions in January by the gov- ditional measures to support doing everything I can to At 49.7 yards (45.45 m), the the Euros and personal circumstances. erning bodies of tennis the integrity operation onsite help the team,” said Patricio. Bayer Leverkusen striker’s ef- “Any alert reported to the (ATP, WTA, ITF and during the Championships and “Roma is a big club and fort was officially the furthest second, while Croatia’s Luka ITIA is recorded, assessed and Grand Slam Board) as we work closely with the ITIA a new challenge and I’m recorded distance from which Modric was third with his out- followed up as an indicator both at the Championships and excited to try and help the a goal was scored at the Euros. side-of-the-boot effort against that something inappropriate a fully independent throughout the year.” club achieve its targets.” UEFA said Schick’s goal re- Scotland. may have happened,” an ITIA body to safeguard the The ITIA banned Argentina’s Euro 2016 winner Patri- ceived nearly 800,000 votes, Schick finished the tourna- spokesman said. integrity of profes- Franco Feitt for life in April af- cio, who has 97 caps for Por- with Frenchman Paul Pog - ment as joint top scorer with “It is important to note that sional tennis world- ter he admitted nine incidents tugal exited in the last-16 of ba’s strike into the top corner five goals alongside Portugal’s an alert on its own is not evi- wide of match-fixing over a four-year Euro 2020 to Belgium. against Switzerland coming in Cristiano Ronaldo. dence of match-fixing. Where period. 11 23 JULY - 8 AUGUST OLYMPIC GAMES THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021
Thomas Bach says 85 per cent of all residents in Olympic Village and almost 100 per cent of Olympics IOC members and staff arriving in Tokyo have been vaccinated • Olympic officials stressed that just a tiny BETTER percentage of the people chief coming into Japan for the event had tested KNOW positive for the virus vows to AFP | Tokyo Tokyo is under emergen- cy restrictions to curb lympics chief Thomas Bach rising infection numbers pledged yesterday “not to that yesterday hit highs Obring any risk” to Japan with the Games, seeking to reassure a The US softball team moved into minimise sceptical public as virus cases surge the Olympic Village yesterday, local just over a week before Tokyo 2020 media said, the day after the com- begins. pound opened without any of the Fans have been banned from welcome ceremonies or media op- A couple pose in front of the Olympic Rings in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district Olympic events in the capital, which portunities often seen at the Games. virus risk is under emergency restrictions to the Japanese people, so many chal- a tiny number of Olympic events But the arrival of the Refugee curb rising infection numbers that lenges.” last week, following repeated warn- Olympic team was delayed after an yesterday hit highs not seen since Japan has seen a less severe ings from experts about the risk of official tested positive in Doha, the January. Covid-19 outbreak than many oth- crowds gathering as infections rise. IOC said. All the team’s athletes test- As more athletes arrive in Japan er countries, with around 15,000 ed negative. While in Japan, athletes to Japan and move into the Olympic Village, deaths overall, but experts warn Doubts ‘every day’ will face strict virus rules and are International Olympic Committee another wave driven by more infec- In an exchange with major global banned from eating at local restau- chief Bach promised a safe summer tious variants could stretch medical press agencies later yesterday, Bach rants or interacting with the public. Games. facilities. said his team had strived to maintain Olympic officials yesterday “We are making all our efforts Around 20 percent of the popu- a confident stance after Tokyo 2020 stressed that a tiny percentage of and the Japanese people have all lation are fully vaccinated, and To- was postponed in March last year. the people coming into Japan for our commitment to contribute in kyo’s emergency measures, mainly “In these 15 months, we had the event had tested positive for the best way to fight this virus and limiting alcohol sales and restau- doubts every day. This was a situ- the virus. not to bring any risk to the Japanese rant opening hours, will be in place ation of high uncertainty,” he said. Of the more than 8,000 people people,” Bach told reporters after throughout the Games. “Quite honestly, it was way, way who arrived between July 1 and 13, meeting Prime Minister Yoshihide Yesterday there were 1,149 new more complex than we thought it three tested positive after arrival Suga. cases recorded in Tokyo, the highest would be when we agreed on this and were isolated, with their close Bach said “85 percent of all the since January 22. postponement.” contacts also “subject to the relevant residents in the Olympic Village In opinion polls, the Japanese But by projecting confidence and quarantine measures”, the IOC said. and almost 100 percent of the IOC public have consistently expressed taking decisions seriously, the IOC While Tokyo 2020 will not have members and staff coming here to apprehension about Tokyo 2020, kept other parties on side, from ath- the same celebratory atmosphere Tokyo arrive vaccinated. which was postponed by a year due letes to sports federations and local of previous Olympics, Bach said au- “This is why I’d like to humbly ask to the pandemic and will finally authorities, Bach said. dio of crowds at past Games will be International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas the Japanese people to warmly wel- open on July 23. “Only because they all stayed on played to encourage athletes, while Bach (C) bows to Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (R) come the athletes from all around Organisers announced the deci- board, we can be here now, nine days TV audiences worldwide can con- during a courtesy call to the latter’s official residence in Tokyo the world who have overcome, like sion to ban spectators from all but before the opening of the Games.” tribute to a virtual “clapping” map.
Pandemic makes Games most IOC’s DeFrantz hails sprinter Richardson unpredictable ever: Australia’s Campbell for coming clean on cannabis use Reuters | Tokyo Bronte Campbell, a former• 50m freestyle nternational Olympic Com- Imittee (IOC) vice-president world champion, Anita DeFrantz says she ad - will swim in the mires Sha’Carri Richardson relays in Tokyo for coming clean on her can- nabis use which resulted in the American sprinter accepting a Reuters | Sydney one-month ban and missing the Tokyo Games. ustralian freestyle swim- Richardson was aiming to be- Amer Bronte Campbell is come the first American wom- relishing her return to Olympic an to win the Olympic 100m competition in Tokyo later this title in 25 years but said ear- month and expects the Games lier this month she used the to be more unpredictable than banned substance to cope with ever after the COVID-19 pan- the death of her mother. demic wiped out international “I have great admiration for Sha’Carri Richardson of the US celebrates winning her women’s 100m heat events. the U.S. athlete. She is extraor- DeFrantz, who said she is a Campbell was part of Aus- Bronte Campbell of Australia reacts after winning Women’s 100m Freestyle - dinary,” DeFrantz told Politico. fourth-generation civil rights tralia’s gold medal-winning Final at Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games “With her integrity she said activist, also said athletes 4x100m freestyle relay team in water. ‘yes, I did it. Here’s what hap- should draw the line when it 2016 and will be taking part in “It is always exciting when pened, I was in a terrible po- There might be comes to using the podium as a her third Olympics at Tokyo. you walk into the arena for the sition, there was no one there a temporary use platform to make a statement. “I think the lack of interna- I think the lack first time and see the blocks for me, I just learned from a exemption available... “I’m a firm believer that we tional competition means it is of international and the water you are about to stranger that my biological but not that I know have to be able to speak up on going to be more unpredictable compete in – I love that more mother had passed away and so of, because it’s just things that we think need to than ever,” Campbell told News competition means than anything, so I’m sure when I went to the depths of despair be fixed, changed, improved in it is going to be more one of those things Corp media. the time comes we will all lift,” and I did something I should that’s considered some way,” she added. “I think it is going to make it unpredictable than she said. not have.’ “However, it’s also important one of the most exciting Olym- ever. I think it is “At the end of the day the “She’s been very clear about counter-productive. to address those thoughts to the pics you have ever seen because going to make it one Olympics are just another that. In general, athletes know In some sports you proper audience where change so much can change in a year. of the most exciting swim meet, the water doesn’t that cannabis is on the list of want to make sure and the idea of change can be “We really don’t know what Olympics you have change, the lanes don’t change, banned substances for the that you’re sharp and received. is going to happen in any given ever seen because so the distances we swim don’t Olympic Games, basically for it might not allow you “We now have 206 Nation- race, which is exactly how I change. everything, I believe. to be sharp al Olympic Committees, 206 like it.” much can change in “In my experience every “There might be a temporary different places where people Campbell, a former 50m a year Olympics has been completely use exemption available... but ANITA DEFRANTZ might have problems where freestyle world champion, will BRONTE CAMPBELL different from the one before it, not that I know of, because it’s they live... What will podiums swim in the relays in Tokyo and I’m not sure there is very much just one of those things that’s to make sure that you’re sharp become - speakers’ corners or while the 2020 Olympics will said external factors mattered the same that carries over, espe- considered counter-produc- and it might not allow you to part of a venue where excel- be a Games like no other she little when swimmers hit the cially this time around.” tive. In some sports you want be sharp.” lence is being celebrated?” THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2021 12
Bahrain’s Tokyo Olympics delegation to be 68-strong Pogacar wins again on giant Tour de France mountain Tadej Pogacar in control to win stage 17 and extend overall lead
Defending champion wins• brutal stage on Bastille Day I’m really happy to win on the hardest climb Vingegaard and of the Tour. My team Flashback...Bahrain delegation members during the closing ceremony of the Carapaz• strengthen mates gave everything previous Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016 and I owed it to them. grip on podium spots TDT | Manama To win with the yellow Noor Yusuf Taha were select- jersey on my shoulders ed by the Bahrain Swimming AFP | Paris 68-member Bahrain del- Association after Bahrain re- is something I cannot Aegation will be flying the ceived an invitation from the adej Pogacar emerged describe. Tomorrow if Kingdom’s flag later this month International Swimming Fed- above the clouds atop the we can control like we at the Tokyo Olympic Games. eration to send two top-ranked TPyrenean Col du Portet did today we can try This was confirmed yester- swimmers of each gender to to extend his overall lead and again but we will see day by an official from the Bah- compete in their respective win stage 17 of the Tour de TADEJ POGACAR rain Olympic Committee (BOC). individual events. France yesterday after an epic Bahrain is set to compete in In shooting, Bahraini Mar- struggle with his two closest It proved to be so, but Ineos five sports, including athletics, yam Hassani was entered after pursuers, Jonas Vingegaard and man Carapaz, who looked to handball, swimming, shooting getting the allocation quota Richard Carapaz. Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the finish line be struggling after the lead trio and boxing. from the International Shoot- Ecuadorian Carapaz launched fourth at 7min 17sec. smile about as FDJ’s home hope broke off from the pretenders The head of the delegation ing Sport Federation. a blistering attack 1.5km from “It was the most difficult stage David Gaudu came fourth at 8km from home, kept fighting has yet to be announced by Finally, boxer Danis Latypov the 2,200m summit finish, but of the Tour, and I dedicate this a finish line above the clouds with his late but fruitless burst. the BOC. topped the list of eligible box- was agonisingly reeled in by the win to my team who worked so in this remote bear-inhabited Before Vingegaard attacked The Olympics are less than ers from Asia and Oceania in defending champion Pogacar, hard for me here,” said Pogacar. corner of France. an elite clique on the Mont Ven- 10 days away and Bahrain’s the men’s super heavyweight for whom this was an iconic ca- “This Tour isn’t over until the Up-and-coming climber toux last week he was a relative Olympians will get right into division to secure a place at reer moment, winning a tough last lap of the Champs-Elysees,” Gaudu raced the stage with the unknown. Since then the pain- action the very next day fol- the Games. stage with the overall leader’s he said when asked if he be - French tri-colour on his helmet. fully shy Jumbo man from the lowing the opening ceremony Bahrain have won three yellow jersey already on his lieved the defence of his title Another French team AG2R remote Danish region of North on July 23. Olympic medals in the past, back. was now sealed. saw their Australian podium Jutland has emerged as a seri- Bahrain have 17 athletes including two gold and one After pulverising the field on On the French national holi- hope Ben O’Connor consolidate ous podium pretender. who have received the entry silver. The gold medals were the stage 5 time-trial the Slove- day of Bastille Day, there were fifth overall as he rounded out With his team down to four standards for their respective claimed by Maryam Yusuf nian took his second victory on almost as many Slovenian flags the day’s top five having previ- riders, he admitted that yes - events in track and field. The Jamal at the London Olym - this Tour to extend his lead over on the final climb as French ously won the Alpine stage to terday “the plan was just to handball team, meanwhile, pics in 2012 for the Wom - the surprising Dane Vingegaard one’s and a healthy smattering the Tignes ski resort. follow.” qualified for the Olympics by en’s 1,5000m and Ruth Jebet to 5min 39sec. of Basque berets were being AG2R boss Vincent Lavenu He cemented his grip on sec- winning the gold medal at the at the Rio Olympics in 2016 The discreet Carapaz climbed sported in the huge crowds that told AFP that the stage, with ond by surviving the climb up 2019 Asian Qualification Tour- for the Women’s Marathon. to third overall four seconds lined the slopes. 36km of steep climbing on the Col du Portet and said he was nament and will be sending a That same year, Eunice Kirwa back, after Rigoberto Uran final section, was a “race for sec- “relieved, happy and proud” and 16-player squad. claimed the Women’s Mara- was dropped on the final hill- Storming Bastille Day ond place and that half the pre- explained his family were at the Swimmers Abdulla Isa and thon silver medal. side. The Colombian slipped to French fans had plenty to tenders will be dropped here.” finish line. Messi to sign new five-year Equal points system for next deal with Barcelona World Test Championship: ICC AFP | Barcelona AFP | London ionel Messi is set to extend his stay at LBarcelona by signing a new five-year he International Cricket deal, with the Argentine talisman set to TCouncil yesterday said the take a wage cut, La Vanguardia newspa- next World Test Championship KNOW WHAT per and ESPN reported yesterday. will have a “simpler” equal points Messi, Bar- system to decide the finalists after ca’s all-time top the previous system came under scorer and ap- Lionel Messi Messi has agreed to take a criticism. pearance maker, cut on his yearly earnings The second championship will technically ended kick off with a five-Test series be- his 21-year associa- in order to re-sign for tween hosts England and India in tion with the club last Barcelona, and the club will August and September. month and is current- make a formal announce- The ICC switched from the ly a free agent after his ment in the coming original system of total points to previous contract expired. percentage of points won mid - Since Joan Laporta took way through the first cham - over as Barca president, the The club have been trying to pionship which was severely club has been trying to re- rebuild the squad with Junior disrupted by the coronavirus duce their wage bill in order Firpo, Jean-Clair Todibo and pandemic. New Zealand’s captain Kane Williamson (C) lifts the winner’s Mace as New Zealand to keep Messi and stay with- Carles Alena being sold to make Each match will now earn 12 players celebrate victory on the final day of the ICC World Test Championship Final in La Liga’s strict financial way for free signings Sergio points for a win, four for a draw we had to change to ranking teams control rules. Aguero, Memphis Depay and and six for a tie, the ICC said in on the points table using the per- La Liga chief Javier Te- Eric Garcia. a statement. The top nine Test centage of available points won by bas said last week that Messi, 34, won his first major nations will play six series each, We received feedback each team, since all series could Barcelona, which has a international title with Argentina three home and three away before that the previous points not be completed.” total debt of more than 1 over the weekend when they beat March 31, 2023. system needed to be Kane Williamson’s New Zealand billion euros ($1.18 billion), rivals Brazil in the Copa America “We received feedback that the beat India in the first WTC final would not be shown any final. previous points system needed to simplified. The Cricket and both teams will be among the leniency. Messi was elected the tourna- be simplified,” ICC chief executive Committee took this favourites again. Messi’s last contract, ment’s joint best player along with Geoff Allardice said. into consideration India captain Virat Kohli said: signed in 2017, was the Neymar after finishing as the tour- “The Cricket Committee took when proposing a new, “We will regroup with new energy most lucrative in world nament’s joint top goalscorer with this into consideration when pro- standardized points for the next cycle starting with sport according to a Jan- four goals while he also topped posing a new, standardized points system for each match our series against England, hop- uary report in newspaper the assists charts with five. system for each match.” ing to give our fans a lot to cheer El Mundo. He added: “During the pandemic ICC CHIEF EXECUTIVE GEOFF ALLARDICE about.”
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