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World leaders, top officials meet Amir to pay respects

Prince of Wales, UAE VP, Qatari Father Amir, US and ministers offer condolences

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met yesterday with world lead- ers and senior US, Iranian and Saudi officials, who separately paid respects over the passing of late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf received late yesterday Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, who arrived in Kuwait to offer condolences on the pass- ing of late Amir Sheikh Sabah. Earlier yesterday, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum met HH the Amir to express his condolences. HH Sheikh Nawaf also received Qatar’s Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al- Thani yesterday, who offered condolences over the passing of late Amir Sheikh Sabah. Saudi Crown Prince called Deputy Chief of Kuwait’s National Guard Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Saturday to offer his condolences. Several Saudi KUWAIT: (Left) Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, meets HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to offer condolences yesterday. (Right) regional governors travelled to Kuwait yesterday to UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum meets HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf to offer condolences do the same. yesterday. — Amiri Diwan Continued on Page 2

by the ministry of education, but there New academic are concerns too, especially regarding Trump makes primary and kindergarten students. year begins at “My feeling today is a mix of wariness calls, tweets and happiness because schools finally reopened. But I am not very con- schools vinced with online classes. I don’t from hospital know whether my kids will be able to By Ben Garcia learn,” said Mariam Al-Zankawi, a mother of four young children. KUWAIT: The new 2020-2021 aca- “I still prefer traditional schooling demic year began yesterday at public because kids are on the school cam- and private Arabic schools, with pus and are instructed by teachers. classes held remotely due to the coro- They can learn quickly because they navirus pandemic. At some schools, compete with their peers,” she told teachers conducted online classes Kuwait Times. “One of my children is from classrooms, while other teachers in grade 1, so I know he will need help taught students from home. The new once in a while. I am working at a school year at non-Arabic private ministry, so that’s a problem. But my KUWAIT: Arham Al-Khateeb, an Arabic teacher at Fajr al-Sabah School in BETHESDA, Maryland: This White House hand- schools began weeks ago. eldest daughter is 21 and waiting to be Salmiya, observes a moment of silence in memory of late Amir Sheikh Sabah out photo released yesterday shows US Many teachers, parents and stu- employed, so she is supervising her Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah while conducting an online class in an empty President Donald Trump working in the dents expressed their support for the brother during online classes. classroom on the first day of school yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National new virtual learning system adopted Continued on Page 2 Military Medical Center on Saturday. — AFP

Kaaba, a cubic structure towards which WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump Pilgrims return Muslims around the world pray. has resumed making calls and tweeting from The umrah, the pilgrimage that can be hospital, but doctors say his progress yesterday undertaken at any time, usually attracts will be crucial to see if he develops a more to Makkah as millions of Muslims from across the severe form of COVID-19. Trump posted a globe each year but it was suspended in video Saturday from the business suite in umrah resumes March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Walter Reed medical center near Washington, It is being revived in three phases, with saying he was improving and would be “back MAKKAH: Mask-clad Muslims circled Saudi Hajj Minister Mohammad Benten soon” - but that the crucial coming days would Islam’s holiest site along socially dis- saying last week that 6,000 pilgrims per be “the real test”. tanced paths yesterday, as Saudi author- day would be allowed in the first stage to Yesterday, his deputy campaign manager ities partially resumed the year-round perform the umrah “meticulously and Jason Miller told ABC he had spoken to Trump umrah pilgrimage with extensive health within a specified period of time”. for a half-hour Saturday and that the president precautions adopted after a seven- “In an atmosphere of faith and with was eager for political news with the Nov 3 month coronavirus hiatus. Thousands of assured hearts... the first batch of pil- MAKKAH: Saudis and foreign residents circumambulate the Kaaba in the election less than a month away. He was even worshippers entered the Grand Mosque grims begin the pilgrimage in accor- Grand Mosque complex as authorities partially resumed umrah for a limited “cracking jokes,” Miller said. in the holy city of Makkah in batches to dance with the precautionary measures number of pilgrims yesterday. —AFP National security advisor Robert O’Brien perform the ritual of circling the sacred Continued on Page 2 also said Trump was doing well, telling CBS that any discussion of a potential transfer of power to Vice President Mike Pence - as has happened was found dead in June in his Mumbai the same brush. “With a hand on my heart, when other presidents underwent surgery or Akshay admits apartment, with police saying he took his how can I lie and say that this (narcotics were sedated - was “not something that’s on the own life. and drugs) problem doesn’t exist in our table” for now. Bollywood has The investigation into the 34-year-old’s industry,” Kumar, 53, said in Hindi in a Pence has been close to some of those test- death has expanded into a massive drugs video watched more than 2.5 million times. ing positive but says he has regularly tested probe, with his former girlfriend, actress “It exists in our profession the same way negative. As Trump has had to freeze or rework drug ‘problem’ Rhea Chakraborty, arrested earlier this problems exist in every other profession. his campaign, the vice president is continuing a month for allegedly buying cannabis for him. But to say that everyone in every profes- NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Akshay Indian media has also joined calls for a sion is involved in all its problems would busy schedule of appearances. But serious Kumar acknowledged on Saturday a drug wider investigation into the multibillion-dol- be wrong.” questions linger over the timing and severity of problem within India’s film industry, follow- lar film industry’s so-called “drugs mafia”. Several high-profile actresses including the president’s illness - and whether he might ing a growing narcotics probe surrounding In an almost four-minute video posted 34-year-old superstar Deepika Padukone, have exposed dozens of others to Covid-19 the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. on his Twitter account on Saturday, Sara Ali Khan, Shraddha Kapoor and even after a close aide tested positive. Movie-obsessed India has been gripped by Kumar called on the industry’s fervent Rakul Preet Singh have been hauled in for Continued on Page 2 the saga around the death of Rajput, who fans not to tar everyone in Bollywood with questioning. — AFP Akshay Kumar 2 Established 1961 Monday, October 5, 2020 Local US administration’s representative offers condolences to Kuwait Amir

Qatar’s Father Amir offers condolences to Kuwait Amir

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Qatar’s Father KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets US Defense Secretary Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. — KUNA Mark Esper. — KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait yesterday at the Amiri Terminal Qatar’s Father Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at the Amiri air- National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- port yesterday representative of the US administra- Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al- the accompanying delegation who offered Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness tion and Defense Secretary Mark Esper who Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad condolences over the passing of late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, arrived in Kuwait to offer condolences on the pass- Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Sheikh Sabah A-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah ing of late Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Sheikh Hamad also offered condolences to Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and other fig- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Esper also offered con- Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq ures. — KUNA dolences to Speaker of the National Assembly Al-Sabah, and other figures. — KUNA

Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saudi CP Saud, the Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Kuwait Amir hosts Saudi Minister and Minister of Defense, expressing condolences on the demise of the late Amir officials offering condolences condoles with Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Saudi Crown Prince addressed prayers for Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad’s soul. Sheikh Mishal Sheikh Mishal reciprocated, expressing deep gratitude to the Saudi Crown Prince for his brotherly sentiments, KUWAIT: Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber also voicing good wishes for the Custodian of Al-Sabah, the Deputy Chief of the National the Two Holy Mosques (the Saudi King) and the Guard, received on Saturday a phone call from . — KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Prince Fahad bin KUWAIT: Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (right) and Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Al Saud, the Amir of ’s Tabuk Region. — KUNA Abdulaziz Al Saud. — KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- consolations to National Assembly Speaker Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday a del- Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad her children are ready for online classes. She said egation of Saudi Amirs who arrived in the country Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Deputy Chief of the National New academic since she is not working, she will be by the side of to extend condolences on the demise of the late Guard, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, her students. “We are all experiencing a new and Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- extraordinary era and things are not easy for par- His Highness the Amir hosted the Saudi officials at Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- year begins at... ents, teachers and students, but we have to do what the Amiri Terminal. The entourage included Prince Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and His Highness the is right. My students are in high school and they Fahad bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Amir of Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Continued from Page 1 know what to do,” said Kandari, whose daughters Tabuk Region, Prince Khaled bin Bandar bin Sabah, as well as a number of Sheikhs. The delega- are in grade 11 and 10 and son in grade 8. Abdulaziz Al Saud, Adviser of the Custodian of the tion arrived shortly earlier to extend condolences on Many families facing a similar problem have “For me, it’s a blessing, as I can help them Two Holy Mosques, Prince Meshaal bin Majed bin the demise of the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad entrusted supervision of their children to their because I will be at home all the time. It’s also Abdulaziz Al Saud, Governor, Prince Turki Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Upon their arrival at the Terminal, housemaids,” Zankawi said. restful because usually I take them to school every bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Aseer Amir, and the Saudi officials were welcomed by the Deputy “Before the start of classes today, the school day,” she told Kuwait Times. Kandari’s husband Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs, Sheikh Mohammad conducted ample training for teachers and stu- died a few years ago and she is raising her three Prince of Medina. The Saudi officials also expressed bin Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. — KUNA dents, so I know everything will be okay. We are children alone. “I am not working anymore, but all prepared, but we all have to understand the situa- of my kids are supported by the Kuwaiti govern- tion right now,” she said. “We can use desktop ment,” she added. who has been hospitalized after being diagnosed computers, laptops or tablets for the online classes Classes for kindergarten will be held from 8 am World leaders, with coronavirus, was “recovering and well”. Esper and must have a speedy Internet connection. So I to 9:30 am, with four classes daily of 15 minutes thanked him for his “expression of concern”. bought devices for my three children. We were each. Elementary students will have four 30-minute In a divided region, Sheikh Sabah cultivated a told to select a quiet and comfortable place and all classes for each subject from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. top officials... role as a go-between and mediator, a status illus- distractions must be removed from the room. We Intermediate students will have four 30-minute trated by yesterday’s visitors. Iranian Foreign were also told to guide our children if needed,” Continued from Page 1 classes daily from 8 am to 10:30 am, while second- Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif met HH the Amir added Zankawi. ary students will also have four classes daily from Sheikh Nawaf and his Kuwaiti counterpart to pay Sarah Abdullah Al-Kandari, a single mother, said 10:40 am to 1:30 pm. The late Amir balanced Kuwait’s ties between larg- his respects. Zarif “congratulated them on the elec- er neighbors Saudi Arabia and Iran and kept a strong tion of the new Amir of Kuwait and stressed the relationship with the , which led a coali- support of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, the Iranian tion that ended Iraq’s 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait. foreign ministry said in a statement. Zarif also laud- ber of umrah pilgrims will be increased to 15,000 “He will be remembered as a great man and a ed the late Amir for fostering “moderation and bal- Pilgrims return per day. Visitors from abroad will be permitted in special friend to the United States,” US Defense ance”. Iranian state media later carried a message the third stage from Nov 1, when capacity will be Secretary Mark Esper said in comments tweeted by by President Hassan Rouhani to HH the Amir: “I am raised to 20,000. A maximum of 40,000 people, the US Embassy during his visit to extend condo- confident that, as in the past, we will see a growing to Makkah as... including other worshippers, will be allowed to lences of the US administration. HH Sheikh Nawaf expansion of friendly and fraternal ties between the Continued from Page 1 perform prayers at the mosque in the second said he was glad that US President Donald Trump, two countries.” — Agencies stage and 60,000 in the third, according to the laid out,” the hajj ministry said on Twitter. A raft interior ministry. widespread sympathy but also fueled a sense among of precautions have been adopted to ward off any The decision to resume the pilgrimage was tak- Trump makes some that he was paying a price for months of consis- outbreaks, according to state media. The revered en in response to the “aspirations of Muslims home tently downplaying the severity of the pandemic. He Black Stone in the eastern corner of the Kaaba - and abroad”, the ministry said last month. It said mocked Biden’s mask-wearing during their debate which it is customary but not mandatory to touch the umrah will be allowed to return to full capacity calls, tweets... Tuesday, even as Trump family members in the audience violated rules requiring masks. during the pilgrimage - will be out of reach, and the once the threat of the pandemic has abated. Until Continued from Page 1 Miller said yesterday that Trump had urged him to Grand Mosque is to be sterilized before and after then, the health ministry will vet countries from convey a message to the American people about the each group of worshippers. which pilgrims are allowed to enter based on the A confusing timeline provided by Trump’s advisors importance of wearing masks and taking other pre- Each group of 20 or 25 pilgrims are to be health risks. and doctors suggested that he met with more than 30 cautions - a message many Democrats said rang hol- accompanied by a health worker and medical At midnight, tens of registered pilgrims wearing donors on Thursday in Bedminster, New Jersey even after low. “You can’t just say we need to do something but teams will be on the ground in case of an emer- face masks prepared to enter the Grand Mosque in learning that close aide Hope Hicks had tested positive - we’re going to let the virus run free. Now it has even gency, Benten said. Thermal sensors have been small groups. “This year has been heavy and full of and just hours before he announced his own positive test. run free in the White House,” House Speaker Nancy installed to measure the body temperature of the tragedies. I am praying for God’s forgiveness for all All this came in a week when one poll - taken in the Pelosi told CBS. pilgrims, Makkah authorities said. The safety, com- mankind,” said Eman, a Pakistani national who two days after a bruising presidential debate with In a video released Saturday, the 74-year-old fort and health of the pilgrims is a priority for the resides in Saudi Arabia, accompanied by her Democratic rival but before news emerged of Trump said: “I feel much better now,” adding, “I think kingdom, the general presidency for the affairs of daughter. Some enjoyed a respite from the usual Trump’s illness - showed his approval rating hitting a low I’ll be back soon.” He has thanked those sending him point for the year. The Wall Street Journal/NBC survey get-well messages. Dozens of Trump supporters have the two holy mosques said, calling them the crowding. “This is the easiest umrah I have ever gave Biden a significant a 53-39 percent lead among reg- gathered outside the hospital, many waving pro- “guests of Allah”. made,” said a Saudi who identified himself as Abu istered voters. News of Trump’s hospitalization has drawn Trump signs and banners. — AFP Under the second stage from Oct 18, the num- Fahd. — Agencies Established 1961 3 Local Monday, October 5, 2020 Iranian presidency’s representative offers condolences to Kuwait Amir Iraq parliament speaker offers condolences

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Iraq’s Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mohammad Al-Halbousi. — KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Iran’s Foreign Minister Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif. — KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Guard Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at the Amiri Terminal yesterday (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al- Al-Sabah received at the Amiri Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al- Representative of the Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani, Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Terminal yesterday Iraq’s Speaker of Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al- Foreign Minister Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif who offered Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh the Council of Representatives Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His condolences on the passing of the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Mohammad Al-Halbousi and the Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Zarif also offered condo- Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- accompanying delegation. Halbousi Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His lences to Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al- Sabah, and other figures. — KUNA offered condolences on the passing Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak of late Amir His Highness Sheikh Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Japan foreign The Iraqi official also offered condo- Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and oth- lences to Speaker of the National er figures. — KUNA minister offers condolences Kuwait Amir receives former KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at the Amiri Lebanese Premier Terminal Representative of the Japanese government and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and the accompany- ing delegation. Motegi is in Kuwait to offer condolences over the passing of His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. He also offered con- dolences to Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- meets Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. — KUNA Hamad Al-Sabah, and other figures. — KUNA Arab League Secretary General offers condolences

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets former KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Al-Hariri.— KUNA Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at the Amiri Terminal Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Aboul-Gheit. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Aboul-Gheit and the accompanying delegation are here to Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Deputy Chief of the Kuwait National offer condolences on the passing of late Amir Sheikh Sabah Sabah received yesterday at the Amiri Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The top Arab League official Terminal former Prime Minister of Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al- also offered condolences to Speaker of the National Lebanon Saad Al-Hariri and the accom- Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait panying delegation. Hariri was in Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al- National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwait to convey his condolences over Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the passing of His Highness the late Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Aboul-Gheit. — KUNA Al-Sabah. Hariri also offered condo- Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- lences to Speaker of the National and other figures. — KUNA Hamad Al-Sabah, and other figures. — KUNA

Sudanese figure offers Comoros president Palestinian PM offers condolences to Kuwait Amir offers condolences condolences to Kuwait Amir

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets meets Palestinian Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Dr Mohammad Head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. — Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Shtayyeh. — KUNA KUNA the Amiri Terminal President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani and the accompanying delegation who KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir of the National Assembly Marzouq arrived to offer condolences on the passing of late KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir the National Assembly Marzouq Al- Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait Al-Sabah received at the Amiri Kuwait National Guard (KNG) Jaber Al-Sabah. President Assoumani also offered Sabah received at the Amiri Terminal National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Terminal yesterday Head of the Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, condolences to Speaker of the National Assembly yesterday representative of the Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al- Sudanese Sovereignty Council Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Kuwait Palestinian Presidency, Prime Minister, Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh National Guard (KNG) Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- and Minister of Interior Dr Mohammad Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- the accompanying delegation. Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al- Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al- Shtayyeh and the accompanying dele- Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Burhan is in Kuwait to offer condo- Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad gation. Shtayyeh is in Kuwait to offer Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- lences over the passing of late Amir Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- condolences over the passing of late Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Burhan Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Shtayyeh Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and other also offered condolences to Speaker Sabah, and other figures. — KUNA Al-Sabah, and other figures. —KUNA also offered condolences to Speaker of figures. — KUNA 4 Established 1961 Local Monday, October 5, 2020

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Duterte pays respects UK defense secretary His Highness the Amir also received a message of KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad condolences from Philippine President Rodrigo Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah received UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Duterte on the demise of the late Amir. The Philippine Wallace and the delegation accompanying him yesterday. Sheikh Ahmad hosted president praised the late Amir for boosting bilateral secretary Wallace and his entourage at the foreign Ministry’s reception Diwan on relations. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf sent the sidelines of their visit to the country to pay respects for the passing of the late him a message in reply, expressing deep gratitude for Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Sheikh Ahmad his solace on the grave event, also addressing good KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Foreign and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al- expressed gratitude for Wallace’s visit and paying homage for Kuwait’s loss, wishes for him and his nation. Mohammad Al-Sabah meets UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace. — KUNA reflecting the strong ties between both countries. Topics of common interests and Chad sends condolences the latest development of the region and the rest of the world were discussed during their meet. Present at the meeting was Deputy Chief of the General Staff Affairs Ambassador Saleh Al-Logani, and a number of high ranking MPs. Also Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Lt Gen Khaled Al-Sabah, the Foreign Minister’s Assistant for European Affairs attending were Britain’s Ambassador Michael Davenport and the Embassy’s Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received a cable of con- Ambassador Waleed Al-Khubaizi, Deputy Assistant for the Office of Foreign Defense Attache, Captain Paul Mulvaney of the Royal Navy. — KUNA dolences from Chad President Marshal Idriss Deby Itno over the demise of His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In turn, His Highness Sheikh Nawaf sent a reply cable thanking Kuwait FM hosts the president for his kind words and sentiments. Kuwait FM hosts US Defense pays tribute Iranian counterpart His Highness the Amir also received a cable of condolences from Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Secretary Zewde on Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad’s demise. In the KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting cable, the Ethiopian leader expressed heartfelt sym- KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Dr Ahmad pathies over the death of the late Amir, lauding his Minister of Defense Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah met yester- outstanding contributions to boosting peace and Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah met yester- day the visiting Representative of the stability on both regional and international levels. day US Administration’s representative Iranian Presidency, Foreign Minister Dr She prayed to Allah Almighty to grant solace and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his patience to His Highness the Amir and the Kuwaiti Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif was in accompanying delegation. Esper and the Kuwait to offer condolences on the passing people. In reply, His Highness the Amir sent a cable delegation were in Kuwait to offer condo- to the Ethiopian leader, expressing appreciation for of late Amir His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- lences on the passing of late Amir His Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. During the her sincere sympathies and wishing her everlasting Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- good health. meeting, the Iranian envoy expressed Jaber Al-Sabah. During the meeting, the deepest sympathy and sorrow over the loss US official expressed deepest sympathy Consolation from Paraguay of His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah. and sorrow over the loss of His Highness In the meantime, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Zarif and Sheikh Dr Ahmad also discussed the late Amir Sheikh Sabah. Esper and Nawaf received a cable of condolences from issues of common concerns and latest Sheikh Dr Ahmad also discussed issues of Paraguay President Mario Abdo Benitez on the regional and international developments. A common concerns and latest regional and demise of the late Amir. In turn, His Highness the Amir KUWAIT: Foreign Minister and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Dr number of Kuwaiti and Iranian officials also Sheikh Nawaf addressed in a cable to Paraguay international developments. A number of Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al-Sabah meets US Secretary of Defense attended the meeting. — KUNA leader his thanks, expressing gratitude for the sincere Kuwaiti and American officials also Mark Esper. — KUNA consolations on the painful event. — KUNA attended the meeting. — KUNA

Sheikh Sabah, describing him as a “Head of the demise of the late Amir. His Highness the Amir receives State of rare personal and political character- Amir Sheikh Nawaf addressed a cable in reply istics.” “The great wisdom and efforts made to to Komsic, expressing gratitude for the sincere condolences from lead the Gulf region towards a peaceful and consolations on the sad event. stable future will remain in our memories, German Chancellor through a patient work of mediation,” the min- Belarus sends cable ister said. “In our memories will remain also the Moreover, His Highness the Amir got a cable KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh contribution that he was keen to make to our of condolences from Belarusian President Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received bilateral relations politically, economically and Alexander Lukashenko over the passing of Saturday a condolence cable from German culturally, consolidating the traditional relations Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad. In the cable, President Chancellor Angela Merkel on the demise of of friendship and appreciation that bind our Lukashenko expressed sincere sympathies to His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- two countries.” His Highness the Amir and the Kuwaiti people Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In the cable, over the late Amir’s demise. His Highness the Merkel expressed sincere consolations to His Swiss President consoles Amir sent a cable in reply, thanking President Highness the Amir, noting Sheikh Sabah’s His Highness the Amir also received a cable Lukashenko for the sincere sympathies and prominent role in resolving many conflicts as of consolation from President of the Swiss wishing him everlasting good health. well as praising the outstanding contributions Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga on the with his wisdom for strengthening relations demise of the late Amir. She praised the late Tatarstan pays tribute between Germany and Kuwait. In response to Amir for his noticeable efforts in the Arabian In addition, His Highness the Amir received the cable, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Gulf and his prominent role for boosting peace a cable of condolences from Tatarsatn’s expressed his appreciation for the sincere in the region. His Highness the Amir Sheikh President Rustam Minikhannov on Sheikh condolences and wished her good health as Nawaf addressed a cable in reply to the Swiss Sabah Al-Ahmad’s passing. In the cable, well as for Germany to progress and prosper. president voicing gratitude for her sincere President Minikhannov voiced heartfelt sym- sentiments of consolation and expressing pathies to His Highness the Amir over the death Netherlands sends condolences good wishes for her and her nation. of the late Amir, extolling his path that was full Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir received of giving. In reply, His Highness the Amir sent a a cable of condolences from King of the Bosnia offers tribute cable to President Minikhannov, expressing Netherlands Willem-Alexander on the demise In the meantime, His Highness the Amir appreciation for sincere sympathies, and wish- of the late Amir. His Highness the Amir Sheikh received a cable of condolences from member ing him everlasting good health and his country Nawaf addressed a cable in reply to the Dutch of the Bosnian Presidency Zeliko Komsic on further progress and prosperity. — KUNA king, expressing gratitude for the sincere con- solations on the painful event. Italy mourns Nepal President offers condolences Italian President Sergio Mattarella expressed condolences on the passing of His KATHMANDU: President of Nepal Bidya perity of his people and played an impor- Highness Sheikh Sabah, saying that Kuwait Devi Bhandari sent a message of condo- tant role in fostering understanding and has lost “a heedful and farsighted leader that lences to His Highness the Amir Sheikh cooperation in the region. has allowed the country, in all these years, to Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on the Separately, Nepal’s Prime Minister K P transform itself into a modern nation and passing of late Amir His Highness Sheikh Sharma Oli also sent a message of condo- increasingly focused on regional integration.” Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. lences to His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- He added that His Highness Sheikh Sabah In the message, President Bhandari Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Prime was able “with wisdom and determination” to extended heartfelt condolences to the Minister of Kuwait, expressing deep sad- make Kuwait a central actor for the persever- members of Al-Sabah family, the govern- ness on the passing of His Highness Sheikh ance of dialogue and stability in the region ment and people of Kuwait. President Sabah Al-Ahmad. In the message, Prime and in our common neighborhood. Italian Bhandari said that the late Amir was a Minister Oli stated that Nepal has lost a Minister of Foreign Affairs and International visionary statesman who made significant true friend and well-wisher with the Cooperation Luidi Di Maio expressed “deep contribution for peace, progress and pros- demise of the late Amir. sadness” on the passing of His Highness International MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 Kyrgyzstan holds election marked by voter Thousands protest coronavirus curbs in Germany over weekend Page 6 disillusion and party splits Page 7 Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies

Azerbaijan’s second-largest city bombarded

STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan: tory,” said Hikmet Hajiyev, an advisor to New Caledonia Armenian and Azerbaijani forces Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. He exchanged rocket fire as fighting intensi- said Armenian forces had also used rejects independence fied over Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, heavy artillery and rockets against the with the breakaway region’s capital and towns of Terter and Goradiz in NOUMEA, France: The French South Pacific territory Azerbaijan’s second-largest city bom- Azerbaijan. of New Caledonia narrowly rejected independence in a barded. referendum yesterday, the archipelago’s high commis- Armenia said that Nagorno- ‘Decisive moment’ sion said after a partial count of the votes. The anti- Karabakh’s main city Stepanakert, which Karabakh’s separatist forces said they independence vote fell to 53.3 percent, according to the has been under artillery fire since Friday, had targeted and destroyed an airbase in 70 percent of ballots counted, down from 56.7 percent was hit again yesterday and AFP jour- Ganja, but Baku denied this as a “provo- in a previous referendum two years ago, it said. nalists said there were regular explo- cation” and said civilian infrastructure Turnout was high at 85.5 percent, the commission sions and clouds of black smoke rising in and housing had been hit. Azerbaijan’s said, reflecting enthusiasm of voters who had formed parts of the city. Azerbaijan’s defense ally Turkey accused Armenia of “target- long queues to cast their ballots. Yesterday’s referen- ministry said Ganja, a city of more than ing civilians” in Ganja and reiterated dum was part of a carefully negotiated decoloniza- 330,000 in western Azerbaijan, was also support for its fellow Turkic and Muslim tion plan agreed in 1998, which ended a deadly con- “under fire”, while Armenian-backed country as “one nation, two states”. flict between the mostly pro-independence indige- separatist forces claimed to have Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan GANJA, Azerbaijan: Emergency personnel work in a damaged area of this city nous Kanak population and the descendants of destroyed an airbase there. warned that it would now consider following a rocket strike yesterday during ongoing fighting between Armenia European settlers. The two sides accused each other of “military facilities in Azerbaijan’s big and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. —AFP Another referendum can be held by 2022 so long targeting civilian areas, as the conflict cities” as legitimate targets. “I call on as the poll is requested by at least a third of the local appeared to be widening a week after the residents of these cities to immedi- legislature. heavy fighting broke out in the ately leave,” Harutyunyan said in a post with AFP saw residents picking through which considers Karabakh under Enthusiasm was high and authorities said turnout decades-old dispute over the ethnic- on Facebook. Harutyunyan announced the rubble of destroyed homes. “I was Armenian occupation-says Armenian was about 80 percent an hour before voting ended-a Armenian region. on Saturday that he was heading to the baking bread when I heard explosions, I forces must fully withdraw before a full six points higher than in its first independence refer- opened the door and saw that bombs ceasefire can be brokered. Karabakh’s Armenia and Azerbaijan have resis- front to join the fighting. Azerbaijani endum held in 2018 — leaving people to form long were falling right into the yard,” said declaration of independence from ted international calls for a ceasefire officials claimed Sunday that he had queues to cast their ballots. and clashes have intensified in recent been “seriously wounded” while in a one woman, showing journalists the Azerbaijan during the collapse of the “I waited 45 minutes. It’s very important for me to days, with both sides claiming victories bunker hit by bombing, but his office blown-out windows and partially col- Soviet Union sparked a war in the early vote,” said retiree Germaine Le Demezet in the capital on the front and saying they are inflict- denied this. lapsed roof of her home. 1990s that claimed 30,000 lives. Noumea. “I have children and grandchildren here, the ing heavy losses. Azerbaijan claims to have made gains Talks to resolve the conflict have Sirens were sounding and explosions in Karabakh in recent days, with its Praying for peace made little progress since a 1994 cease- future needs to be clear and we need to know what’s were heard at regular intervals in defense ministry saying that 14 settle- In Armenia’s majority-Christian cap- fire agreement. going to happen to us.” Stepanakert, where residents were tak- ments have been taken as well as a ital Yerevan, residents gathered in The breakaway province is not It will take several hours for the votes to be tallied ing shelter including several families in strategically important plateau. churches for services Sunday to pray acknowledged as independent by any and the result to be announced. Yesterday’s referendum the basement of a church. Armenia’s for- In an address to the country on and light candles. “The situation in the country-including Armenia-and is part of a carefully negotiated de-colonization plan eign ministry said Stepanakert and the Saturday, Prime Minister Nikol country is very critical,” Aytsemik Karabakh said Saturday that interna- agreed in 1998, which ended a deadly conflict between Karabakh town of Martakert were under Pashinyan said Armenians were facing a Melikyan told AFP outside the church tional recognition was “the only way the mostly pro-independence indigenous Kanak popu- rocket attack and accused Azerbaijani “decisive moment” and called for the Saint Sarkis Church. “I came to ask towards peace and security in the lation and the descendants of European settlers in the forces of “the deliberate targeting of the nation to come together. Armenia on God for peace, for our country and our region”. Armenia has accused Turkey 1980s. That violence culminated in a bloody, drawn-out civilian population”. Saturday announced the deaths of 51 soldiers.” of dispatching mercenaries from Syria hostage crisis in 1988 that saw 19 separatists killed on It said the Azerbaijani air force was more separatist fighters, taking the Russia, the United States and France- and Libya to the fighting-an allegation one side, and six police and special forces on the other. also involved. Drones could be heard number of reported fatalities on both who co-chair a mediation group that has confirmed and denounced by Russia New Caledonians voted against independence in the flying over Stepanakert. sides above 240, including more than failed to bring about a political resolu- and France. referendum two years ago, with “no” securing about 57 Azerbaijan said Ganja was under fire, 30 civilians. Azerbaijan on Sunday said tion to the conflict-have called for an The Britain-based Syrian percent. But the result marked a shift towards pro-inde- including from areas outside of two more civilians had been killed in immediate halt to the fighting. Observatory for Human Rights, a moni- pendence sympathies, raising campaigners’ hopes that Karabakh. “Armenian forces struck shelling on the southern town of Armenia has said it is “ready to toring group, says more than 70 Turkey- this time it could manage to break free. —AFP Ganja with rockets from Armenian terri- Beylagan, where a journalist working engage” with mediators but Azerbaijan- backed fighters have been killed in the 6 Established 1961 International Monday, October 5, 2020 Thousands protest coronavirus curbs in Germany over weekend India seeks up to 500 million virus vaccine doses by July

BERLIN: Thousands of demonstrators in southern the Reichstag parliament building, some of them Germany protested against coronavirus restrictions holding far-right Reichsflagge. The images went over the weekend, police said yesterday, although around the world and were condemned by leading organizers failed to mobilize enough people for a German politicians. Germany so far has managed the planned human chain around Lake Constance. COVID-19 pandemic relatively well by keeping Thousands of counter-demonstrators in infections and deaths low compared to other Constance also turned out to show support for the European countries during the firstwave in spring. government’s measures to contain the coronavirus But infection numbers are rising again and authorities while also protesting against right-wing supporters are mulling further restrictions which could limit pub- in the other group, police said. Overall, police count- lic life and slow down the economic recovery after ed between 10,500 and 11,000 people taking part in Germany suffered its worst recession on record in the different demonstrations on Saturday and the the first half of the year. two-day protests continued on Sunday with sunny Meanwhile, India hopes to receive up to 500 weather likely to draw in million doses of coron- further participants, a avirus vaccine by July to police spokesman said. inoculate about 250 mil- “So far, the situation is lion people, health minister calm,” the police India records Harsh Vardhan said yester- spokesman added. day, as infections in the Organizers of the 6.55 million world’s second-worst protests against coron- infections affected country continue avirus curbs had initially to surge. hoped to mobilize more India’s has recorded than 200,000 people. some 6.55 million infec- Local authorities had tions, with 75,829 in the imposed restrictions such past 24 hours, while as respecting social distancing to avoid further infec- COVID-19-related deaths have totaled 101,782, KONSTANZ: People take part in a protest against masks and virus restrictions during the ongoing tions. They also banned the use of Germany’s imperi- health ministry data showed. “There is a high-level Covid-19 pandemic (novel coronavirus) in Konstanz, southern Germany yesterday. —AFP al Reichsflagge, a symbol used by neo-Nazis and expert body going into all aspects of vaccines,” other far-right groups as an alternative to the forbid- Vardhan wrote on Twitter. “Our rough estimate and den swastika flag. the target would be to receive and utilize 400 to India has set up committees to look into various The South Asian nation, second only to the United The marches have attracted a mixed crowd of civil 500 million doses covering (200 million-250 mil- aspects of the vaccine supply chain, including avail- States in caseload, has scope for higher infections as rights activists and people who oppose vaccinations, lion) people by July 2021.” Serum Institute of India ability timelines for various vaccines, while obtaining a large chunk of the population remains unexposed as well as neo-Nazis and members of far-right and private companies have been teaming up with commitments from manufacturers to ensure the max- to the virus, a survey showed on Tuesday. groups including the opposition party Alternative for organizations from the Bill & Melinda Gates imum doses are available, Vardhan said. He said the To prioritize the distribution of coronavirus vac- Germany (AfD). Foundation to US drug developer Novavax Inc in a federal government is committed to taking all meas- cines, the health ministry aims to prepare a list of key During mass marches against coronavirus curbs in scramble to secure vaccines for the country of 1.3 ures to ensure “fair and equitable” distribution of personnel, such as frontline health workers, by the Berlin in late August, protesters stormed the steps of billion people. vaccines once they are ready. end of the month. —Reuters

In contrast to previous celebrations, the Sufi pilgrims begin Mourides will hold no official ceremony this year, and will stream conferences online. Worshippers will also have to wear facemasks, and queue in sin- to converge on gle file to enter the lavish Great Mosque of Touba. Ethiopia’s Oromo More than 90 percent of Senegal is Muslim and Senegal’s holy city most of the faithful follow Sufi brotherhoods, which celebrate tense retain considerable economic and political clout in DAKAR, Senegal: Hordes of pilgrims in Senegal the nation of 16 million people. have begun to converge on the holy city of Touba, thanksgiving ahead of a giant traditional celebration tomorrow Holy city known as the Grand Magal, despite the threat of The Magal-when means ‘celebration’ in the BISHOFTU, Ethiopia: Thousands of people from coronavirus. Wolof language-celebrates the life and teachings of the Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, cele- brated their thanksgiving festival in Bishoftu city The religious festival of the Mouride brother- Sheikh Amadou Bamba, the Mouride Brotherhood’s Hordes of pilgrims in Senegal have begun to converge amid tight security yesterday after the authorities hood, a powerful Sufi Muslim order, celebrates the founder who died in 1927. A peaceful opponent of on the holy city of Touba, ahead of a giant traditional date French colonial authorities exiled its leader colonialism, French authorities exiled him to Gabon celebration on Tuesday known as the Grand Magal, said they had seized weapons and foiled attacks in Sheikh Amadou Bamba, known as Serigne Touba. from 1895 to 1902, and then to Mauritania from despite the threat of coronavirus. previous days. The Irreecha festival has been the It is one of the most important dates on the reli- 1903 to 1907 before he was allowed to return to scene of violent protests before by the Oromo, gious calendar in Senegal, and usually attracts hun- Senegal, where he was placed under house arrest who have long complained of political exclusion. dreds of thousands of worshippers from across the at his home in the north of the country. “If your recommendations are followed to the Recent unrest, including the killing of a popular West African country. But this year’s Magal marks The religious leader founded the holy city of letter, we can hope for a risk-free Magal,” local singer in June and the arrest of prominent Oromo the first mass festival of its kind in Senegal since Touba, in the centre of Senegal, in 1888. It has press reported Senegalese President Macky Sall as politicians, heightened concern of violence at the the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, raising since grown to be Senegal’s second-largest after telling the current Mouride leader in Touba on two-day festival. fears of a potential superspreader event. Religious the capital Dakar, with some 1.5 million inhabitants. Monday. On the eve of the festival, forces from both authorities are confident they have the situation in As well as being a religious festival, the Magal Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr-who is due regional and federal police, as well from the army, control, however. has a political dimension too, with senior politicians in Touba on Thursday-has also said he was “reas- descended on Bishoftu in large numbers. There “We can be reassured because Serigne Touba often making an appearance. Health officials will sured,” adding that he will deploy 5,000 ministry were at least 10 checkpoints by the main lakeside will erect a shield between the disease and us,” the be keeping a close eye on the huge crowds this officials to the city. Senegal’s Sufi brotherhoods ini- site of the celebrations, and only those with special brotherhood’s spokesman told local media this year, but the government has endorsed the brother- tially cancelled gatherings in March, when the coro- badges could enter. month. hood’s ability to manage the event. navirus pandemic reached the country. —AFP “Irreecha has been a platform used by people to express their anger and outrage...that is why this time around they deny people to celebrate this year,” tests it carried out found that the 44-year-old was said Abdi Fikadu, 26, a health professional. Suspected Russian poisoned with the Soviet-era deadly nerve agent On the eve of celebrations, police officials in Novichok. France and Sweden have corroborated the Bishoftu stopped a group of youths at a bar singing finding, which activists say puts responsibility for the and dancing to songs by Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, the hitman on trial murder attempt squarely on Moscow. Merkel’s gov- musician killed in June, a Reuters witness said. Others ernment has not ruled out pushing for sanctions from were prevented from attending the festival. Dawit over Berlin killing the European Union over the attack. Dugama, 25, came all the way from Addis Ababa along with nine friends to take part the festival. They BERLIN: A Russian man goes on trial Wednesday FSB link? were told they could not join the crowds without a accused of assassinating a former Chechen command- With tensions running high, Wednesday’s trial will badge. “We were told that we can’t be part of the cel- er in a Berlin park on Moscow’s orders, a case that has likely be closely scrutinized for details about Moscow’s ebration because we don’t have badge. This is the cast a pall over ties between Russia and Germany. involvement. Investigative website Bellingcat named government’s way to suppress peoples’ voices,” he Vadim K, also known as Vadim S, stands accused of the suspect as 54-year-old Vadim Krasikov, who grew said. At the festival in 2016, more than 50 people gunning down a Georgian national identified by up in Kazakhstan when it was part of the Soviet Union were killed in a stampede triggered when police used German authorities as 40-year-old Tornike K, in before moving to the Russian region of Siberia. He BERLIN: This file photo taken on Aug 23, 2019 shows teargas and shot in the air to disperse anti-govern- Kleiner Tiergarten park on August 23 last year. received training from Russian intelligence service FSB forensic experts of the police securing evidences at ment protesters. the site of a crime scene in Berlin’s Moabit district, German prosecutors, who do not release the full and was part of its elite squad, the website said. Days The festival passed without incident in the capital where a man of Georgian origin was shot dead. —AFP names of suspects ahead of criminal trials, have said before the killing, he had posed as a tourist, visiting Addis Ababa on Saturday, again amid very tight the contract killing was carried out at the behest of sights in Paris including the Eiffel Tower before travel- security. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed thanked organ- Russia, prompting Berlin to expel two Russian diplo- ling to Warsaw, according to a separate report in Der away from the chancellery and the German parliament. izers and participants for celebrating peacefully in a mats. Moscow has denied the allegations, taking tit- Spiegel weekly. He also toured the Polish capital before Investigators later found his mobile phone and a Facebook post yesterday. for-tat action against Berlin. vanishing on August 22, without checking out from his return flight ticket for Moscow in August 25 in his Police and intelligence services foiled what they Chancellor Angela Merkel said in May that the hotel, the report said. A day later, riding a bicycle in hotel room in Warsaw, Spiegel reported. said were plans to incite violence in Addis Ababa and killing “disrupts a cooperation of trust” between Berlin Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten park, the suspect Russian President Vladimir Putin had described the other parts of Ethiopia ahead of the festival, state- and Moscow and some analysts have suggested the approached the victim from behind, firing a Glock 26 victim as a “fighter, very cruel and bloody” who had affiliated Fana Broadcasting reported on Friday. murder has led to a change in her approach towards pistol equipped with a silencer at the side of Tornike fought with separatists against Russian forces in the A day earlier, Oromiya’s regional police arrested Russia. The German leader has always stressed the K.’s torso, German prosecutors said. After the victim Caucasus and also been involved in bombing attacks 503 people on accusations they planned to cause importance of keeping dialogue open with her Russian fell to the ground, the accused fired another two shots on the Moscow metro. Moscow also said it had been violence during the festival and seized guns and hand counterpart Vladimir Putin, but she has sharpened her at his head that killed the Georgian on the spot. seeking his extradition. Named as Zelimkhan grenades. Dressed in traditional white costumes, tone in recent months. The trial comes at a time of He was seen throwing a bag into the nearby Spree Khangoshvili by German media, the victim had sur- some wearing masks to prevent the spread of European anger with Russia over the poisoning of river from where police divers later recovered the vived two assassination attempts in Georgia. Following COVID-19, people marched chanting slogans while Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is receiving treat- Glock handgun, a wig and bicycle. The suspect was that, he sought asylum in Germany and had spent the flashing the Oromo protest gesture. —Reuters ment in the German capital. Germany has said that arrested after the killing, which took place just minutes past years in the country. —AFP

Biden is reportedly in relatively good health at 77 he is the tion.” Even during the Civil War between the North and candidate in either scenario. In the case of the Democrats, What happens if oldest Democratic nominee ever. Here is a look at some of South, the 1864 election was held as scheduled with a new presidential nominee would be selected by the near- the potential scenarios in the event a nominee exits the race: Abraham Lincoln winning another term. ly 450 members of the Democratic National Committee. a US candidate Delay the presidential election? Can a candidate be replaced? Can a replacement candidate be on the ballot? Unlikely. Congress set the date for the election and this Trump’s Republican Party and Biden’s Democratic Probably not. “The problem at this point is that we are exits the race? one has already been scheduled, as per US law for the Party both have rules outlining how to fill a vacancy on the so far along in this 2020 election that not only have people Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Both the presidential ticket should one occur. In the case of Trump’s cast ballots, ballots have already been printed,” Cafaro said. WASHINGTON: A US presidential nominee has never Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-majori- GOP, the 168 members of the Republican National “You really don’t have enough time to reprint ballots which died or had to withdraw from a White House race this close ty House of Representatives would have to agree on a Committee could vote to select the replacement. say Mike Pence or Kamala Harris,” she said, referring to the to an election. But President Donald Trump’s hospitalization postponement. “I don’t see it happening,” said Capri The RNC could also reconvene its national convention Republican and Democratic vice presidential nominees for coronavirus just a month from the November 3 vote has Cafaro, a former Democratic member of the Ohio state of more than 2,500 delegates to select a new candidate respectively. More than 3.1 million Americans have already raised the question of what happens if such an event should senate who teaches at American University. “It is unlikely a but time pressure probably makes this unworkable. A sim- cast their ballots, according to a tally kept by the US occur. Trump is 74 years old and while his opponent Joe Democratic majority would want to postpone the elec- ple majority would be all that is needed to choose a new Elections Project at the University of Florida. —AFP Established 1961 7 Monday, October 5, 2020 International Kyrgyzstan holds election marked by voter disillusion and party splits Coalition uncertain about president’s ability to forge new alliances BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan held a parliamentary election cerns. The European Bank for Reconstruction and supportive of homosexuality, which is deeply frowned yesterday with many voters disillusioned with the politi- Development expects Kyrgyzstan’s gross domestic on in the conservative country. The opposition parties cal elite and anxious about the worst economic crisis in product to plunge 9.5 percent in 2020 due to the pan- targeted in the video said this was an attempt to smear two decades. demic and take years to recover. “The economic situa- them ahead of the vote. President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s supporters look tion is terrible,” said a businessman, who identified him- likely to win a significant number of seats in the legisla- self only by his first name Kanat, speaking at a polling Political drama ture in the Central Asian country, a close ally of Russia. station where officials let in voters in small groups after Popular uprisings unseating two authoritarian presi- But the current pro-presidential ruling coalition is cer- measuring their temperature as a coronavirus precau- dents in the space of five years were seen as the driving tain to be upset due to internal splits in the two major tion. “We need to establish the rule of law.” force behind a fresh constitution to curb authoritarian political groups, testing the president’s ability to forge The country of 6.5 million people has a history of excess and contain political in-fighting in 2010. new political alliances. political turmoil: in the past 15 years, two presidents Electoral laws dictate that no one party can take more have been toppled by revolts and a third is in prison than 65 seats in the legislature. after falling out with his successor. Presidents are limited to a single six-year term-a Further instability would be a concern to Russia. departure from the strongman trend seen in neighbor- Vote-buying Moscow operates a military airbase in the former Soviet ing China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. charges mar republic and is already dealing with major crises involv- Tensions between the president and his predecessor ing its allies Belarus and Armenia. Two parties that won BISHKEK: Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov Atambayev grew following Jeenbekov’s electoral vic- campaigning more than a half of the seats in the 2015 election have wearing a face mask casts his ballot at a polling sta- tory in 2017, peaking last year with a shootout at split ahead of yesterday’s vote, and some of their MPs tion during parliamentary election in Bishkek yester- Atambayev’s residence between the former presi- including Jeenbekov’s closest allies are seeking reelec- day amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. — AFP dent’s armed supporters and state security forces try- tion under new banners. ing to arrest him. Atambayev was detained on The Birimdik (Unity) party is viewed as loyal to sparked indignation after comments emerged from last charges of illegally releasing a crime boss from jail “There is less and less democracy, systemic opposi- Jeenbekov and includes the president’s brother and for- year of him saying it was “time to return” to Moscow’s and jailed for 11 years in June. He has also been tion is virtually non-existent,” Nasyrbek Attokulov, a mer parliamentary speaker Asylbek Jeenbekov among fold. Rivals accused him of undervaluing Kyrgyz inde- charged in the murder of a special forces officer who 50-year-old university lecturer, said after casting his its candidates. Its main rival, Mekenim Kyrgyzstan (My pendence. In a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir died during the raid. — Agencies ballot in Bishkek. Homeland Kyrgyzstan), is associated with a powerful Putin in Sochi ahead of the vote, Jeenbekov warned of The campaign was marred by allegations of vote- clan whose figurehead Rayimbek Matraimov-a former “forces” that wanted to “drive a wedge into the buying, and an August opinion poll ordered by the US- customs service official-was the target of anti-corrup- (Kyrgyz-Russian) alliance”-an apparent reference to a backed International Republican Institute showed that tion protests last year. pro-sovereignty rally held in opposition to Amankulov’s News in brief 15 percent of respondents favored the idea of voting Both parties have spoken in favour of further inte- comments in the capital Bishkek last Sunday. against all parties. A total of 16 parties are contesting gration with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union On Friday, the state prosecutor said it was investi- Colombia rebel killings 120 seats in the single-chamber parliament. If none of bloc, which has raised the status of hundreds of thou- gating a video widely distributed on messaging apps. them wins more votes than the “Against all” option, a sands of Kyrgyz migrants working in Russia since The video, which purported to show two male stu- BOGOTA: Former FARC rebels on Saturday took new election would have to be called. Bishkek joined in 2015. dents from a top university secretly filmed in a hotel responsibility for six murders including that of The economy and corruption topped voters’ con- But Birimdik’s party chairman Marat Amankulov room, appeared to imply that opposition parties were Alvaro Gomez, a Colombian ex-presidential candi- date killed in 1995, in a letter sent to a special court for peace. Justice for Peace (JEP), which is investi- gating crimes committed during the conflict 12-year ‘rag picker’ between the ex-guerrillas and the government, said in a statement that the letter it received September buried at Indian 30 sought to “tell the truth, clarify the facts and take responsibility” for several killings. In addition to the murder of Alvaro Gomez, on November 2, 1995, dump found dead they included the killing of a retired general, Fernando Landazabal, in 1998, and of former peace AHMEDABAD: Indian rescuers on Saturday found adviser Jesus Antonio Bejarano in 1999. —AFP the body of a 12-year-old “rag picker” under a moun- tain of trash which collapsed on her last week. Neha Vasava was scavenging at the biggest garbage dump in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, last Saturday when a Solomon Islands virus case huge wall of garbage collapsed on her and a seven- year-old boy who was with her. HONIARA, Solomon Islands: The Solomon The boy was saved by the locals and other so- Islands announced they have lost the battle to stay called ragpickers, as his head was still visible. An esti- free of the coronavirus, leaving just nine small, mated four million Indians-many of them children- remote territories that have not reported a single case. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the NEW DELHI: National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (center) speaks to supporters before being allowed to move work in filthy, dangerous conditions, sifting through trash for metal and other materials to sell. “We have Pacific island nation in a televised address that a with his sister Priyanka Gandhi and other party leaders towards the Uttar Pradesh state to meet the relatives of the student who recently arrived from the Philippines 19-year-old allegedly gang-raped victim, at the Delhi Noida Direct flyway toll plaza on Saturday. — AFP found the body of the 12-year-old girl,” a fire depart- ment official told AFP. on a repatriation flight carrying 96 passengers had The official said the decomposed body had been returned a positive test. “It pains me to say that we parties to speak with the family of the dead woman. sent for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of death. have lost our Covid-19-free status despite our col- India’s federal police Public criticism grew after the family of the victim said Rescuers had faced difficult conditions during the lective effort to prevent the pandemic from entering her body had been cremated by police without their con- search, with packs of roaming feral dogs and tons of our country,” Sogavare said Saturday. He urged the sent, an allegation officials deny. suffocating garbage. The Ahmedabad dump, which population of 600,000 in the archipelago to remain calm and said contact tracing and other measures to to probe gang-rape On Saturday, hundreds of police officers barricaded a receives about 3,500 tons of garbage a day from the prevent the spread of the virus had been activated highway connecting the capital New Delhi to Hathras. city of 5.6 million people, is home to several hundred and there was no need for a lockdown. — Reuters of Dalit woman Several opposition leaders also drove out to meet the impoverished families who work as rag pickers. victim’s family. In India’s eastern Kolkata and According to UNICEF, well over 41 million children Bhubaneswar cities, political parties and women organi- aged under 12 are forced to work in South Asia. NEW DELHI: India’s federal investigators will take over zations marched in protest against the incident and India’s coronavirus lockdown is thought to have the probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a demanded justice for the woman, video footage from pushed more children into work after their parents fell Widodo defends COVID record low-caste teenaged woman that has sparked nationwide ANI news agency showed. into poverty, experts say. — AFP outrage and days of protests. The 19-year-old woman JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo defended his record of fighting the COVID-19 pan- from the marginalized Dalit community was attacked in Reprisal fears mid-September in northern Uttar Pradesh state and died demic, asking for no “polemics” or “commotion” Meanwhile, a court in India has ordered police to pro- amid criticism that he is putting the economy over on Tuesday, in the latest case highlighting India’s epidem- tect the family of the Dalit woman gang-raped and killed ic of sexual violence. The Dalit woman died of her injuries public health. The video statement late on Saturday by four high-caste men, as her brother said they feared came as the world’s fourth-most populous country’s earlier this week, triggering protests by both opposition reprisals over the accusations. With her home village in political parties and the public in New Delhi and else- COVID-19 caseload rose to 299,506. Its 11,055 the northern state of Uttar Pradesh barricaded by hun- coronavirus-related death toll is among the highest where against atrocities against a community often ostra- dreds of police, the victim’s brother on Thursday told cized under India’s centuries-old caste system. India is in Asia. The government’s handling of the pandemic Indian television they were frightened. since March has drawn criticism from some public one of the world’s most dangerous places for women, “We’re not safe in this village. They can do anything to with a rape occurring on average every 15 minutes based health experts for prioritizing economic over public us. We don’t trust the police or the administration. Our health concerns. - Reuters on federal data. In December 2012, the gang rape of a 23- fears have increased now,” he said. “We’re on their radar year-old woman sparked nationwide outrage and led to a more than ever before. They won’t let us live. We might tough new anti-rape law. have to leave the village. We don’t trust politicians.” An Indian woman weeps as rescuers on Saturday found Five senior police officers have already been suspend- The state’s high court on Thursday ordered authorities the body of a 12-year-old “rag picker” under a mountain Black woman to lead Canada party ed over the investigation amid criticism of law enforce- to “ensure that no coercion, influence or pressure is of trash which collapsed on her last week. — AFP ment’s actions-including the cremation of the woman’s exerted upon the family members of the deceased in OTTAWA: Toronto lawyer Annamie Paul was body in the middle of the night against the wishes of her any manner, by anyone.” — Agencies Saturday named head of the Green Party, becoming family. The chief minister of the state-India’s most popu- the first Black woman to lead a national political party lous with 200 million people-announced the decision to Cambodia razes in Canada. The 47-year-old mother of two, the transfer the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean, late Saturday. “We are committed to giving the strictest Myanmar volunteers US-funded described herself as a “descendant of slaves.” Paul punishment to the people responsible for this incident,” under strain as hailed her victory as a “historic moment” during her Yogi Adityanath, who is from the ruling Bharatiya Janata speech after the announcement of the results of the Party (BJP), wrote on Twitter. defense facility internal ballot in Ottawa. “We have done something The police have arrested four high-caste men on the virus toll grows that has never been done before in Canadian politics,” charges of gang-rape and murder. Local authorities bar- YANGON: As Myanmar’s coronavirus infections soar, PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Cambodia has razed a said the Jewish lawyer, who has reported being the ricaded the village after the cremation to block opposi- victim of anti-Semitic attacks on social media. — AFP tion politicians and media from meeting the victim’s fami- the work never seems to stop for volunteers who have US-funded defense facility on its southern coast, the ly. The decision was reversed Saturday after widespread stepped in to help carry those suspected of symptoms to deputy prime minister confirmed yesterday, the latest criticism. The involvement of leaders of the opposition quarantine centers or hospitals. “The situation is not move in the ongoing controversial expansion of a good. Our ambulances and crews can’t even get a Congress party, Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi, in several strategically crucial naval base being developed with Outrage over Montreal death demonstrations has sparked accusations from the BJP break,” said Kyi Myint, 66, who leads a volunteer group Chinese aid. The Wall Street Journal reported last year in Yankin township, one of the worst hit in Myanmar’s on a secret draft deal allowing China to dock warships that they were politicizing the issue. The young woman’s MONTREAL: Thousands of demonstrators main city, Yangon. at the Ream naval base near the kingdom’s coastal city death comes months after four men were hanged for the marched Saturday in Montreal to denounce what Myanmar’s thousands of volunteers are a crucial ele- of Sihanoukville. 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New they said was systemic racism, after an indigenous ment of the COVID-19 response in a country with one of But Cambodia-awash in recent years with Chinese Delhi, in a case that shook the nation. An average of near- woman filmed herself being insulted by nurses the world’s weakest health systems. Myanmar appeared investments-has strenuously denied the report, although ly 90 rapes were reported in India every day last year, before dying in the hospital. Shouting “Justice for according to data by the National Crime Records to have avoided the worst of the pandemic with only strongman premier Hun Sen has said aid from Beijing seven deaths a month ago - but a surge of infections has Joyce!” and “Racism is a virus,” the protesters Bureau, but large numbers are thought to go unreported. will fund the naval base’s development. Satellite images demonstrated peacefully in the city’s downtown India’s 200 million low-caste Dalits have long faced sent now the death toll to 371 from more than 16,500 released by the Center for Strategic and International cases. According to Reuters data, Myanmar’s death toll against a backdrop of drums and traditional song. discrimination, and campaigners say attacks have Studies this week showed a US-funded facility on Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman increased during the coronavirus pandemic. has doubled in 7.8 days - faster than any other country Ream’s naval base had been demolished, raising ques- recording more than five deaths. More than 45,000 and mother of seven, died earlier this week at The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, which is tions “about rumoured Chinese access”, said the Joliette Hospital in Montreal under controversial cir- ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, has people, including COVID-19 patients, those yet to be Washington-based think tank. But Tea Banh, tested, their close contacts and returning migrant work- cumstances. In a video lasting several minutes, asked federal police, the Central Bureau of Investigation, Cambodia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, which she filmed from her hospital bed on her cell to investigate the alleged rape, which occurred in its ers, are being housed in buildings from schools and dismissed concerns yesterday. “We relocated the facili- monasteries to government offices and tower blocks. phone and posted to Facebook, Echaquan is heard Hathras district, a government statement said. Uttar ty to a new spot. We cannot keep it anymore and the calling for help and screaming in pain, as two hospi- Most of those are run by volunteers, who generally get Pradesh’s Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has faced criti- building is already old,” he told AFP, confirming that it tal staff insult her. — AFP cism in recent days for not allowing media and opposition no compensation. —Reuters was knocked down last month. —AFP Established 1961

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 Business Energy majors slash oil exploration Pandemic slams oil demand and prices

LONDON: The coronavirus pandemic percent and by 30 percent off the coast current $40 per barrel level, a further that has slammed oil demand and of Norway, according to research group 150 such companies could be lost by prices is forcing energy majors to Westwood. US oil giant ExxonMobil 2022, estimates research group Rystad tighten their belts on exploration, even has cut its total exploration plans by 30 Energy. “Drilling programs will be ham- if finding new deposits remain essential percent, or an investment reduction of pered in the near-term, in particular in to their existence. $10 billion (8.4 billion euros). US shale areas but also elsewhere, While the sector is increasingly European rivals ENI, BP and Equinor because of immediate cost-cutting diversifying into greener energies such have carried out similar moves, which measures,” said JBC Energy analyst as electricity and wind power, its core have in turn hurt subcontractors includ- Raphaela Hein. business remains oil and gas. ing French oil services group CGG, “In the past, we have seen that mas- “Questions abound over whether it is sive capital expenditure cuts to still profitable to look for oil given majors’ budgets did not really subdued demand growth prospects impact their future production. “As and a low-price environment,” such, we think that they will con- Stephen Brennock, analyst at oil bro- Focus now on tinue to look for new fields-maybe kers PVM, told AFP. to a slightly lesser extent... and Compared to pre-virus plans, the energy sector has slashed exploration projects in UK North Sea waters by 70 percent and by 30 percent off the coast of Norway, according to “The answer seems not, judging green energy keep production within their long- research group Westwood. — Reuters by the recent spate of massive term plans. hydrocarbon asset writedowns. portfolios “Of course this will contribute to “Set against this backdrop, I don’t ensuring their survival,” she added. ‘Markets don’t believe’ “For how long we’ll have reduced expect a rebound in drilling in the Hein however said that Arctic While oil prices rebounded strongly drilling depends on the oil price,” he medium-term. “Instead, oil majors projects appeared to be “economi- after briefly turning negative in the added. Even so, the administration of will be forced to beef up their green cally unviable”. early days of the coronavirus pandem- US President Donald Trump in August energy portfolios in order to survive,” which expects revenue to slump 40 per- This despite the vast area forecast to ic, the world’s main oil contracts Brent approved oil and gas drilling in Brennock said. cent this year. In the United States, have 13 percent of the world’s oil North Sea and West Texas Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife more than 30 oil exploration and pro- reserves and 30 percent of its undis- Intermediate have failed to build on Refuge, angering environmentalists in Slashed projects duction companies have this year filed covered natural gas. In July, Russia’s those gains-and last week fell heavily the process. While the oil price crisis is Compared to pre-virus plans, the for bankruptcy, according to Texan law Gazprom Neft and Anglo-Dutch giant to under $40. “Markets right now do making the realization of such projects energy sector has slashed exploration firm Haynes & Boone. Shell announced a partnership to not believe there is a future for oil,” unlikely, “political will may still trump” projects in UK North Sea waters by 70 If oil prices remain stuck around the explore in the Arctic. said SEB analyst Bjarne Schieldrop. that, said Hein of JBC energy. — AFP

Washington, heart UK ‘can prosper mightily’ of US power, frozen under no-deal Brexit: PM by pandemic LONDON: Prime Minister Johnson said of the scenario. Boris Johnson said yesterday “I think that we can prosper WASHINGTON: Behind the giant bay that Britain “can prosper mightily under those circum- windows of the World Bank, security mightily” without a post-Brexit stances,” he said. guards remain at their posts, but idle. trade deal with the European Outside, the sidewalks of Washington DC Union, the day after agreeing to Entrenched positions are largely empty. extend stalled talks with London and Brussels had The bank is open, ready to host but its Brussels. Johnson, who accept- pinpointed a European summit twice annual meetings with international A view of the White House on Friday evening after US President Donald Trump left the White ed prolonging negotiations in a on October 15 as the latest an financial institutions. But the meetings are House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. —AFP video-call Saturday with EU agreement could be reached all virtual these days. Next door, at the HQ2 chief Ursula von der Leyen, told for it to be ratified in time to building of the International Monetary Fund the BBC he believed a deal is take effect by 2021. Reports (IMF) a sign says “temporarily closed.” It attendance and visitation to Washington, rants of K Street-the central artery where “there to be done” before suggest the talks could now has been hanging there for six months. not only with congresses and meetings, but busy lobbyists and lawyers used to grab Britain leaves the bloc’s regula- continue for the rest of With just a month to go before the presi- of course, also with the leisure market... and lunch-have not re-opened and struggle to tory regime in 2021. October, but British officials are dential election, Washington, the hub of the international markets,” said Elliott attract local business. But he cautioned the EU stressing the need for clarity on American politics, is still in the social and Ferguson, director of Destination DC. That is because the thousands of govern- needed to understand that his whether a deal is feasible by economic deep freeze it was plunged into And that activity all stoked the local ment and institutional workers-including the government is “utterly serious the summit. by the COVID-19 outbreak that began six economy. “We were on pace to do well over 9,000 of the World Bank, excluding its con- about needing to control our Neither side appears ready months ago. The 12,000 people due to take 25 million visitors to the city, over 42 large sultants-are all working from home until the own laws and our own regula- to make a big shift in their part in upcoming meets at the World Bank congresses,” he said. Now the city is end of the year. tions”, including its fisheries entrenched positions. Johnson- and IMF will not stroll the sidewalks of the expecting some 11 million visitors. The white-collar workers who filled the policy. a key figure in the lengthy and spruced-up city center, which before the offices of the nerve center of US and inter- Britain formally left the bloc divisive process to take Britain pandemic had been touted as example of Working from home national politics have overwhelmingly cho- in January but remains bound out of the bloc-said Sunday he the regeneration of US downtowns. For sure, some of the trendier districts of sen to carry on with remote work. And by most of its rules until the hoped the EU would “agree to Instead, they will be sitting at home, in the city have bounced back to life. they have the backing of Democratic end of the year under the terms the deal that we’ve set out”. front of their laptops. As well as its political Restaurants have opened up outdoor ter- Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has implement- of its Brexit divorce. The cur- Following his call with von der activities, the city had billed itself in the races and rooftop dining and have started ed one of the strictest regimes of restric- rent 11-month transition phase Leyen, an EU source told AFP past two decades as a hub for international to fill up in the late summer, thanks to local tions in the country to keep the virus death was intended to allow the two the bloc was waiting for conventions and conferences. Before the clientele. But in the downtown area, not far toll down to 629 deaths and more than sides to agree their future trad- London “to really start negoti- pandemic, “we were experiencing record from the White House, the fast food restau- 12,250 infections. — AFP ing relationship after nearly five ating on the big issues”. decades of economic and polit- German Chancellor Angela ical integration. However, nine Merkel, who meets the bloc’s Trump, Biden outline between the Republican-controlled Senate scheduled rounds of negotia- chief negotiator Michel Barnier and the Democrat-controlled House. With tions ended Friday with both on Monday, said Friday she polls showing the former vice president ahead parties saying significant believed a deal was still possi- competing visions and many key Senate races leaning toward the obstacles to an agreement ble, though warned the coming Democrats, analysts are cautiously warming to remain, prompting Johnson and days were crucial. for US economy the possibilities offered by a Biden victory- von der Leyen’s intervention. Britain and Europe have so assuming Democrats win the Senate. The two leaders, who last far found no way to overcome WASHINGTON: One US presidential candi- “Democratic control of the House, Senate held Brexit talks in June, asked fundamental disagreements date wants to raise taxes, the other lower and White House would produce the largest their negotiators to “work over how to assign future fish- them. One will pursue an ongoing trade war, changes in policy, but if Republicans retain the intensively in order to try to ing rights in UK waters and the other may throttle back tensions. And nei- Senate or White House, we expect limited new bridge those gaps”. how to maintain a level playing ther will get much done without Congress’s federal policies, fiscal or otherwise,” JP President Donald Trump (left) and former vice But fears are growing of field in business and state sub- approval. The proposed economic policies of Morgan said in a note. president Joe Biden (right) have competing travel and trade chaos if sidy regulations. Meanwhile the President Donald Trump and Democratic chal- visions for the US economy if they win the progress is not made and a so- atmosphere has been soured by The race upended lenger Joe Biden offer starkly different views November elections, but controlling Congress called no-deal Brexit ensues. “I London taking steps to over- of the world’s largest economy and its global Biden’s economic platform has centered on is seen as key to their success. don’t want the Australian, WTO turn parts of the divorce agree- role, ahead of the tense November 3 election. the slogan of “build back better,” with promis- (World Trade Organization)- ment struck last year, prompt- Biden’s agenda is aimed at poorer es of creating jobs via infrastructure and ing, a plethora of other social programs and a type outcome particularly, but ing Brussels to launched legal Americans and includes a number of policies clean-energy improvements funded by $4.1 larger economy,” Zandi and Yaros wrote. A we can more than live with it,” action this week. —AFP that would mark a sharp departure from trillion in taxes over the next decade, most of it Trump presidency would likely see the exten- Trump’s time in office, while building on the levied on big business and the rich. Trump has sion of tax cuts passed by Congress in 2017, policies of Barack Obama, whom he served vowed to restore what he calls “the greatest and “the benefits largely go to higher-income as vice president. Trump, by comparison, has economy in history,” the period from his 2017 households and businesses, while government offered what analysts complain are few inauguration up until March; after a decade of spending is scaled back on healthcare and a details on his plan, other than a vow to bring economic expansion, unemployment was at a range of social programs,” they wrote. back the comparatively good economy and 50-year low. If the Democrats manage to take Congress the record low employment Americans expe- Polls have shown voters thus far siding with and the White House, Moody’s predicts that rienced until March, when the coronavirus Biden as the United States grapples with the full employment, as seen before the pandemic, pandemic ended that. world’s worst coronavirus outbreak. Then on could return as soon as the second quarter of “I would categorize the Biden plan as really Friday the race was upended when Trump 2022. If Republicans get the same control, full being about an expansion of existing social reported he had contracted the virus. The two employment would be restored only in early programs,” said John Ricco, a senior analyst at men’s platforms appear aimed at benefiting 2024. However, Moody’s most likely scenario is the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton different sectors of the economy, said Mark that neither Trump nor Biden wins the White Budget Model. “In contrast, the Trump plan, to Zandi and Bernard Yaros, economists at House and Congress, and employment isn’t the extent that such a plan exists, is... sort of Moody’s Analytics. restored until sometime in 2023. While much taking the same themes that the administration Biden’s platform is targeted at the poor and of their economic policies are aimed at win- LONDON: In a handout picture released by the BBC shows Britain’s pursued in the last four years.” middle class, whose “tax bill will remain ning individual Americans, businesses are eye- roughly the same as it is today, but they are Prime Minister Boris Johnson gesturing as he appears on the BBC The extent to which either candidate can ing the two candidates’ differing approaches political program The Andrew Marr Show in London yesterday. — AFP get what they want will depend on which par- significant beneficiaries of increased govern- to trade and in particular to China, with which ty controls Congress, which is currently split ment spending on education, healthcare, hous- Trump has pursued a trade war. — AFP 9 Business Monday, October 5, 2020 Markaz: Most GCC markets positive despite mounting concerns on economic recovery

The S&P GCC composite index gained 2.5% in September 2020

KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre Boursa Kuwait, following its success- “Markaz” recently released its ful IPO, surged more than 10 times in Monthly Markets Review report for its trading debut this month, as it the month of September 2020. became the third publicly traded Markaz report stated that, most GCC exchange in the Middle East after the A Biden victory equity markets ended the month in Dubai Financial Market and Tel Aviv green despite concerns of economic Stock Exchange, respectively. recovery amid threat of second wave Moody’s has downgraded Kuwait’s could weigh on of COVID-19 and fall in oil prices. sovereign ratings by two notches The report stated that Kuwait mar- from Aa2 to A1, citing liquidity risk on market’s winners kets were positive, with the Kuwait back of fast depleting liquid reserves All Share index registering a gain of and weak institutional strength due to 2.9 percent in September. On 29th its inability to adjust fiscal policy as : Investors on Wall Street can September 2020, the Kuwait All the expenditure structure remains add another layer of uncertainty to a market Share index fell by as much as 3.4 rigid. S&P rating agency estimates already unnerved by last month’s sell-off, percent during trading but trimmed Kuwait’s GDP to fall by 7.0 percent in stalled fiscal stimulus, and by President the losses to 2.2 percent at trade 2020 and economic recovery to gain Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, which close. The fall was due to concerns momentum in 2022. weighed on stocks on Friday. A higher capital over the condition of the Emir’s Saudi Arabian equity market gains tax that could accompany a win by health, whose demise was confirmed gained 4.5 percent in September fol- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden later in the day. Regionally, the S&P lowed by , which gained 3.9 is also emerging as a potential counterweight GCC composite index gained 2.5 per- percent. Saudi Arabia has partially to this year’s powerful rally in stocks. cent, with all markets except Abu lifted travel bans since mid- Biden has proposed taxing capital gains Dhabi and Oman ending the month in September and plans to scrap all and dividends as ordinary income, which positive territory. travel restrictions for citizens on among the GCC blue chip companies, ban is yet to be implemented as it would increase the tax rate from 20 percent Among Kuwait sectors, insurance January 1, 2021. The country’s econo- Ezdan Holding (Qatar) increased by faces legal hurdles. The UK (FTSE to 39.6 percent for individuals and couples was the top gainer, rising 8.3 percent, my contracted by 7 percent in Q2 38.4 percent in September. FTSE 100) markets lost 1.6 percent for the earning over $1 million, the highest tax while consumer goods index saw the 2020, with the non-oil sector con- Russell has upgraded the company month. Eurozone economies have bracket. That policy - which would likely be biggest decline, down 3.6 percent for tracting by 8.2 percent and oil sector from its midcap index to large cap renewed some lockdown restrictions easier to enact if Democrats also win the the month. Among blue chips, Kuwait contracting by 5.3 percent. Moody’s index. Abu Dhabi National Energy due to spike in COVID-19 cases. Senate and retain control of the House - may Finance House (KFH) gained the most has affirmed Qatar’s ratings at Aa3 Company (UAE) decreased by 6.1 Emerging markets decreased by 1.8 push some investors to lock in gains ahead of at 5.6 percent, followed by Agility citing exceptionally high per-capita percent in September. percent for the month. December if Biden emerges the winner in the Public Warehousing gaining 5.3 per- income and proved hydrocarbon The performance of global equity Oil prices closed at $41.0 per bar- Nov. 3 vote, fund managers said. cent, while Mobile reserves. S&P has opined that markets was negative, with the MSCI rel at the end of September 2020, Tax-motivated selling would likely be Telecommunications (Zain) lost 2.7 Bahrain’s property prices would fall World Index losing 3.6 percent in posting a monthly loss of 9.6 per- most pronounced in technology and other percent for the month. Fitch has at an accelerated pace while banks September on the back of concerns cent. Persisting COVID-19 fears, momentum stocks and could push the affirmed KFH’s ratings at A+ with will face pressure on profits towards over economic recovery due to renewal of some lockdown restric- broad S&P 500 index lower between stable outlook. Agility has signed a the end of 2020, but the deteriora- threat of second wave of COVID-19 tions in the Eurozone and expecta- November and the end of the year, said PPP agreement for an investment tion would remain broadly manage- and fading stimulus measures. US tion of lower oil imports by China Eddie Perkin, chief equity investment offi- project in Sabah Al-Ahmed City. able. GCC governments have issued market (S&P 500) declined by 3.9 have led to fall in prices. OPEC and cer at Eaton Vance. “If you have enough Kuwait All Share Index’s PE ratio was bonds amounting to $42 billion so far percent in September, led by losses IEA have also revised their demand people looking to harvest gains, that has an at 13.1 by the end of the month. in 2020, as they try to raise funds in in tech stocks. US sought to ban two forecast for 2020 downwards. Saudi impact on the stocks that have led the mar- Market liquidity in September as the market to plug record deficits Chinese apps - TikTok and WeChat, Arabia’s energy minister has said ket, and the big tech stocks could be where indicated by the average daily traded due to the oil price crash and the renewing US China tensions. While that OPEC+ will complete all com- people choose to sell at the end of the value has increased by 44 percent COVID-19 crisis. TikTok is in discussion with US pensations for oil overproduction year,” he said. — Reuters over previous month to $165 million. Markaz report also stated that investors and other stakeholders, the before the end of the year.

Mughal Mahal honors frontline workers in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Popular Indian Restaurant Mughal Mahal held a ceremony recently to honor the frontline workers in Kuwait. In a first of its kind commemo- ration, Mughal Mahal painted the entire facade of its restaurant in Sharq with Indian Ambassador Sibi George images of frontline workers. The mural, painted by a prominent Kuwaiti artist, is Ashok Kalra presenting a memento a tribute and a mark of gratitude to all those who risked their lives and served both Kuwaitis and expatriates during the early stages of the Covid-19 pan- demic in Kuwait. A small ceremony held at the restau- rant included some of the frontline workers, as well as Mughal Mahal man- agement. The chief guest on the occa- sion was Indian Ambassador Sibi George and Guest of Honor was Dr Hussain Al-Dashti, Head of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine. Addressing the gathering, Ashok Kalra, Managing Partner of Mughal their wholehearted support to all the Ambassador George, in his address to Mahal, extended a warm welcome to the communities during the pandemic, and the gathering, also expressed his appre- acknowledge and thank the entire of the project and was honored to be guests and expressed immense gratitude for rising to the occasion in one of the ciation for the gesture and congratulated Mughal Mahal team for their gesture of associated with Mughal Mahal. She per- to all the frontline warriors who served most difficult periods faced by the peo- Mughal Mahal for taking such an innova- gratitude. He appreciated the role of sonally thanked managing partners the country during the crises. He said this ple in the country. tive initiative in expressing gratitude on Mughal Mahal over the past 35 years in Ashok Kalra and Jatinder Suri for their significant but small gesture was an Elaborating, Kalra noted that credit behalf of the entire expatriate communi- bringing people closer through their encouragement. Dr. Alia Hussein, from attempt to honor and thank them. for the genesis of this entire Art from the ty. Pointing at Mughal Mahal’s long- delicious food. Jaber Hospital, which was at the center of Mughal Mahal, which is situated in the Heart project went to his partner, standing reputation for serving authentic Mughal Mahal, which opened its first treating COVID patients, said this was in heart of the city and located right next to Jatinder Suri. “What began as a concept Indian cuisine, which is well loved by branch in Sharq almost 35 years ago has fact a surprise that she never anticipated the tallest building in Kuwait, Al-Hamra in his mind steadily evolved through his locals and expatriates, Ambassador become a household name for quality and expressed her sincere thanks for the Towers, is currently adorned by beautiful enthusiastic efforts into the marvelous George added that Mughal Mahal had Indian food over the years. Having intro- kind consideration and recognition that images of frontline workers, all designed mural that will leave our facade resplen- also indulged in food diplomacy by duced Mughalai cuisine in Kuwait the has been given to frontline workers in and painted by Kuwaiti artist Dr Reham dent. He was ably supported in this ven- bringing people and communities closer restaurant has over the past several such a beautiful way. Al-Raghaib and her team. Kalra also ture by the Mughal Mahal team especial- with the love for their food. years expanded to 10 branches all over Dr Brookes from Al-Jahra hospital thanked the government of Kuwait for ly Gaurav, Prashish and Shivang. For his part, Dr Dashti was quick to Kuwait and gained a reputation for was also overwhelmed with the show of being the most popular Indian restaurant gratitude and said he was thankful for the in the country. recognition and wished Mughal Mahal Khalid Jumiyan, former minister of all the very best. The event, which was social affairs and telecommunication, and held in line with social distancing norms chairman of Mughal Mahal Group, and adhering to all health protocols, was emphasized in his address that Mughal attended by select businessmen, ministry Mahal would always be at the forefront representatives and doctors who were of community service and this was one honored by the recognition and gratitude such gesture of support. Artist Al- bestowed on them Plaques of apprecia- Ragaib, who transformed the Mughal tion were given to some of the frontline Mahal management’s idea into reality, warriors by managing partners Ashok said she was extremely happy to be part Kalra and Mukesh Kumar. 10 Established 1961 Business Monday, October 5, 2020 Huawei unveils new most elegant, thin and light Huawei MateBook X in Kuwait New laptop provides a smarter way to work with multi-screen collaboration

KUWAIT: Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) pearl and glitter powder, Huawei MateBook X elevates yesterday announced in Kuwait the Huawei MateBook CMF design to an artform with two glitter-infused col- X, the latest addition to the Huawei MateBook lineup, orways: Silver Frost and Forest Green. transforming how consumers can work in this new era of mobile productivity. Featuring the series’ signature 3K Infinite FullView Display provides an expan- aesthetics, the Huawei MateBook X launches with sig- sive canvas for limitless creative expressions nificant enhancements to portability due to its Ultra- The new Huawei MateBook X is the first laptop to light and thin body that weight just 1kg, innovations for feature the Infinite FullView Display , realized with a an immersive experience like the 3K Infinite FullView borderless design that offers a 90 percent screen-to- display with full touch screen and latest 10th genera- body ratio. The unobstructed screen delivers an tion processors and an overall smart experience with immersive experience whether the user is working, Multi-Screen Collaboration as a part of Huawei Share. creating content or binging on movies. Jason Jiang, the General Manager of Huawei (CBG) The display is also multi-touch-enabled with ges- Kuwait, said: “Under the All-scenario Seamless AI Life ture support, such as Fingers Gesture Screenshot, strategy, Huawei focuses on offering the most intelli- which lets users quickly take a screenshot by swiping gent experiences in five major scenarios: smart home, downwards on the screen with three fingers, as easy as smart travel, smart productivity, smart health and mul- it is on a smartphone. Huawei offers two eye care fea- timedia. In the PC category, Huawei is taking the lead tures on the HUAWEI MateBook X: Eye Comfort to steer the industry towards intelligent solutions.” mode effectively filters out blue light emissions to pro- The new Huawei MateBook X will be available from vide eye strain relief during long sessions of use, and 15th October 2020 for a price of KD 439.900 with Brightness adjustment algorithms ensure a consistent Featuring a wide range of innovative technology, advanced audio algorithms to virtualize surround bundle of free gifts of worth KD 78.90. Pre-orders will viewing experience no matter the device is used Huawei MateBook X is designed to inspire creativity sound, delivering an immersive experience with any begin from 08th October 2020. indoors or under direct sunlight. on all fronts, anytime and anywhere. Huawei MateBook music, movie or game. A dual-microphone array on the X is the first to feature a clickpad with Huawei Free edge incorporates algorithms to support long distance Touch. The improved clickpad offers a more expansive sound pickup for better voice capture that improves space for navigation and creative expressions, and the user experience in video calls and virtual confer- supports haptic feedback for a more tactile experi- ence meetings. User privacy is protected by the An immersive ence. The Huawei Share tag is now incorporated within Fingerprint Power Button, which combines the finger- viewing the clickpad, providing easy access to the Multi- print reader with the power button to securely authen- Screen Collaboration feature. ticate user identity when the device is switched on, experience effectively replacing the login password on the Stay creative and productive anytime, anywhere Windows Welcome screen. Further on privacy, the Inside, the sleek and portable Huawei MateBook X unique recessed camera design affords peace of mind delivers the performance that consumers need to for users by embedding the camera into a key cap that Smarter cross-device experiences smoothly tackle day-to-day tasks. Featuring a 10th is easily accessible and pops up only when the users The multi-screen Collaboration feature in Huawei Generation Intel(r) Core(tm) i5 processor and up to have a need for it. Share enables seamless collaboration between smart- 16GB RAM, the Huawei MateBook X delivers the The Huawei MateBook X is also joined by the phones and PCs. Once a smartphone is connected to essential performance to support a smooth experience Huawei MateBook X Pro, which boasts an Ultra Huawei MateBook X, the smartphone screen is inte- across typical productivity and multimedia use cases. FullView Display in a sleek and elegant unibody grated into the laptop with a picture-in-picture win- Wi-Fi 6 support ensures Internet connection stays fast design. The Huawei MateBook X Pro also comes in an Stay mobile and productive, artistically dow. In addition to easy drag-and-drop file transfer, and stable even in crowded locations, with speeds up elegant color of Emerald Green and packs innovative The ultra-portable experience is redefined by the this feature allows the PC to directly open and edit to three times of Wi-Fi 5. features like Multi-screen collaboration as a part of compact laptop, which packs everything in a light- files on the smartphone. Instant Hotspot provides one- While staying incredibly compact, Huawei Huawei Share. In addition to this, it also comes with weight body that is as light as 1kg and measures just step access to Internet via tethering . And during MateBook X still offers incredible battery life with its 10th generation CPUs for professional performance 13.6mm at the thickest part . Every interaction is a joy break-time at work, users can catch up with family and 42Wh (rated capacity) battery working together with and an all-day long battery life with a portable with the lightweight laptop, and with a 13-inch body, it friends by video or audio calling them conveniently Huawei’s smart battery management solution to sup- charger. The power button also doubles as a finger- fits easily in any backpack like a magazine, always at from the laptop. To facilitate a smarter mobile office port up to 9 hours of local media playback or typical print sensor for easy login while the recessed camera the ready for the next adventure. experience, Huawei introduces new upgrades to Multi- productivity scenarios. provides privacy protection when not in use. This is The latest Huawei laptop’s slim form factor comes Screen Collaboration. The improved Multi-Screen all topped off with a Quad-speaker setup for immer- at no expense to durability. Featuring a lightweight Collaboration not only allows you to mirror your Improved innovations offer smarter experiences sive audio along with 4 mics for a better listening aluminium unibody, it is built with robustness in mind. smartphone screen to your laptops’s display, but also Transform any location into a personal cinema with experience. The Huawei MateBook X Pro on the oth- An advanced spraying process is also employed to lets you open up to three mobile apps at the same time the powerful quad-speaker system with split-frequen- er hand, will be available from 15th October 2020 for produce a smooth finish on the surface, adding elegant for multitasking, resulting in greater efficiency and cy setup delivering rich 3D audio directly from under a price of KD 549.900 with Bundle of Free Gifts of style to function. Inspired by the iridescent mother-of- productivity. the keyboard. 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Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and will operate Jazeera Airways flights on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Kuwait and Wednesdays and Thursdays from Dhaka: launches direct Rohit Ramachandran, CEO Jazeera Airways said, Best opportunity “We are extremely pleased to be able to open up a route to Dhaka as we climb back out of the difficult flights to Dhaka times we have all been through. It shows the strength to invest in gold of our airline that we are able to expand our network at this time. We are now able to serve the Bangladeshi at MG&D KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways yesterday announced the community in Kuwait with a direct service and look launch of service to the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, forward to increasing our frequencies in the future.’’ KUWAIT: Gold continues to reaffirm its promi- offering direct flights between Kuwait and Dhaka as Jazeera Airways appointed the Galaxy Group in nence as an investment, asset and adornment well as transit flights to cities in the Middle East. Bangladesh to handle local sales. Managing Director even during the unprecedented situation we con- Served on the A320neo aircraft, the airline will land at Ahmed Yusuf Walid said, “We are delighted to partner tinue to face globally. Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one among the largest jewellery retailers globally with a strong retail network of over 250 outlets with Jazeera Airways. We see a huge opportunity for spread across 10 countries, is providing cus- flights to Kuwait but also connecting our customers to tomers with the best opportunity to invest in Saudi Arabia and other destinations in the region.’’ gold, through the Gold Rate Protection offer, be Jazeera Airways has taken every safety and precau- it for personal use or as an investment, at the best tionary measure on its aircraft and at Jazeera Terminal rates. T5 in Kuwait to ensure passengers fly safely. All pas- Customers can just pay 10 percent advance sengers are required to wear face masks and gloves for their favorite jewellery and block the gold throughout their journey. The airline also offers the rate until November 15th protecting themselves ‘Duo Seat’ feature that enables passengers to book the from the increase in gold rate during this period. middle seat next to them in addition to their seat when If gold rate increases at the time of purchase, travelling, giving passengers more comfort and securi- customers can avail the booked rate and if it ty on their flight. reduces they can still draw mileage of the reduced rate i.e. a customer intending to buy gold jewellery worth KD 1000 just needs to factory. Many residents commute to Jackson, the not been accompanied by economic progress. A pay KWD 100 to avail the advance booking Legacy of slavery largest city in the state, about 90 minutes away by car, stone’s throw from his house is a cotton field where the offer and in turn get protected from the increas- or to jobs in Louisiana on the other side of the buds are just starting to flower, giving it the appear- ing gold rates. This offer will be valid until 15th endures in US Deep Mississippi River. Many have no work at all. Katina ance of a woolly white blanket. Like other large-scale November across all Malabar Gold & Diamonds Hawkins, 61, survives on food stamps and said she operations, it is owned by a white family. “It’s hard for outlets in GCC, Far East and USA. can’t afford to visit her son who is incarcerated at the Blacks to have this magnitude of crop-growing because of the lack of space, the lack of equipment to “Gold prices typically rise at times of uncer- South county other end of the country. work the farm, the lack of the finance to purchase the tainty as it is considered as the safe haven by “I haven’t got money, I haven’t got a job, I haven’t FAYETTE, US: All that remains of what was once a fertilizer, the seed and all of that,” Cruel said. “So you investors across the globe. Hence, this offer has got anything,” Hawkins said as she stacked recyclable Civil War-era cotton plantation is a crumbling building cans she collects and trades in for 20 cents a pound. don’t have Black farmers of this magnitude here now in been designed in such a way that our customers overgrown by weeds. But the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County. As a matter of fact, I don’t know of are not affected by the increase in gold rates, by Hawkins said she hasn’t had much time to think about Jefferson County in the Deep South US state of the November 3 presidential election between Trump any Black people that farm cotton here in Jefferson providing them with an option to block the rate, Mississippi remains clearly visible. Eighty-five percent and Democrat Joe Biden but she will cast her ballot. “I County at this time,” he added. by just paying just 10 percent of the value, and of the population of Jefferson County is African- have to vote,” she said. “I am a US citizen.” get gold rate protection until November 15th. American, making it the county with the largest Black In the Deep South, African-Americans were long ‘Never really went away’ The main attractiveness of this campaign is that population in the entire United States. disenfranchised by segregationist laws which were Jessica Crawford of the non-profit Archeological the customer always gets the benefit of lower It is also one of the poorest with average household only dismantled in the 1960s by the civil rights move- Conservancy, said “it was never easy for African- gold rate, during purchase”, said Shamlal income of just over $20,000, one-third of the national ment. When he was younger, Roosevelt Cruel took Americans to own their own land.” The Archeological Ahamed, MD - International Operations, average. Following the deaths of a number of Black part in that struggle. The now 70-year-old Cruel said Conservancy has purchased the former cotton planta- Malabar Gold & Diamonds. Americans at the hands of the police, a national reck- he regrets that political gains for Black Americans have tion in Jefferson County in a bid to learn more about Gold being a reliable investment is one of the oning on racism has become a fixture of the November the slaves who once worked there. intrinsic reasons for people buying gold jewellery election campaign. After the Confederacy was defeated in the 1861- while also serving as an adornment. It is the ease While large US cities have been rocked by protests 1865 Civil War, the slaves of “Prospect Hills”-as the to liquidate the metal for cash without losing for racial justice, the debate has a different flavor in plantation was called-were freed. “But the system of much value during these difficult times that fur- Jefferson County. “Racism, we all know it exists, but slavery never really went away,” Crawford said. “It just ther increases its dependability. While all other we don’t feel a major impact because of our area being evolved and changed. They simply shifted to tenant assets like currency, oil, stock markets, real estate a predominantly Black area,” said Bruce Walton, who farming. “Someone who was formerly a planter would etc. have steeply declined in value, gold value has heads the Board of Supervisors of Jefferson County. lease out or rent a little bit of land to someone who appreciated in the last one year. This consistent “Unless it’s economic,” Walton said. “Economic had usually been enslaved on that plantation,” she said. performance of gold as an appreciating and impact.” Jefferson County is a Democratic enclave in “This person would have to produce a certain moveable asset has led to individuals with excess Mississippi, a largely Republican state, and only 12 amount of cotton to pay for his rent.” cash reserves beginning to acquire gold. Being percent of its 7,000 residents voted for Donald Trump As agriculture became less profitable, many whites the only investment to offer all these benefits, in 2016. Walton said people mostly just feel abandoned left the county but a statue honoring Confederate sol- while also being a prestigious lifestyle article, by the federal government. “We don’t receive a whole diers still stands outside the courthouse in Fayette, the gold jewellery is expected to attract new buyers lot of funding,” he said. ‘I haven’t got anything’ county seat. In June, a group of young people held a in the immediate future. The needs in Jefferson County are readily apparent. march demanding it be taken down. “It was awesome,” said Walton, and the Board of Supervisors has since Farming has been declining for decades and no indus- A deserted gas station in Fayette, Mississippi. —AFP try has taken root to replace it other than a lumber begun the process of having it dismantled.—AFP 11

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Models present creations by designer Alexandre Mattiussi as part of his Spring/Summer 2021 ready-to-wear collection show for his brand AMI, during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France. — Reuters

rench fashion label AMI pushed might usually invite - included “Game of Fthe boat out for its latest fashion Thrones” actress Maisie Williams, who show in Paris on Saturday - hosting also watched Christian Dior’s show earlier its catwalk display on the banks of the in the week. French actress Emmanuelle Seine river at dusk. The brand, founded Beart also attended. — Reuters just under 10 years ago by designer Alexandre Mattiussi, is one of a reduced number presenting collections with physical events this season, after some labels opted for digital displays and videos for Paris Fashion Week. Models, including some regular Parisians, paraded AMI’s latest looks on the quay by the river, as guests looked on from a barge, surrounded by Paris’s romantic bridges where passersby stopped to watch. Multiple screens inside the boat allowed the audience to have a closer look at the runway. The collection was the first major womenswear one for the brand, which first erupted on the scene with men’s clothing. Looks included long black dresses, beige suit ensembles, check- ered shorts and pencil skirts, while sev- eral models wore ruffled pastel dresses with a Pierrot-style collar. “We need to celebrate a little bit, when you have this kind of crisis, it’s very easy to fall into a kind of depression,” Mattiussi said in an interview before the show, adding he was keen to return to the catwalk despite the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel like there is a challenge and responsibility to look up and look at the light and maybe to participate in this kind of ‘beginning again”.” Masked guests, who were offered alcohol gel upon arrival - with 140 in attendance compared to the 600 or AMI

Models present creation by Hermes during the Womenswear Spring Summer 2021 as part of the Fashion Week in Paris on Saturday. — AFP photos Established 1961 13 Lifestyle Features Monday, October 5, 2020

This picture shows a bartender making a cocktail in a A bartender making a cocktail in a non-alcoholic bar A non-alcoholic drink placed on a table as Rei Azezaki, A bartender (right) making a cocktail in a non-alco- non-alcoholic bar in Tokyo. — AFP photos in Tokyo. 21, visits a bar in Tokyo. holic bar in Tokyo.

t a trendy Tokyo cocktail bar, cus- over 4,000 members within months of high-profile teetotaller. “Congratulations tails infused with ingredients including their 30s drank the equivalent of two or Atomers sip brightly coloured bev- him creating it. Some cite health rea- on the birth of a geko prime minister!” basil, mascarpone cheese, seaweed, more glasses of wine, at least three erages with sophisticated flavor sons, or pregnancy, while others dislike one user wrote, while another speculat- and berries. days a week-half the number in both profiles, designed for a small but grow- alcohol or its effects on them, and some ed about the pressure Suga must have Among the customers one Saturday age groups from a decade earlier. ing market in hard-drinking Japan: teeto- like drinking but have decided to cut faced to join drinking parties while rising evening was Rei Azezaki, 21, who is Naoko Kuga, a senior researcher at NLI tallers. At “0%”, all the cocktails are non- back-a group that is growing in other up the ranks. “Overcoming this to allergic to alcohol and had brought Research Institute, has studied the alcoholic, but the bar is still something of parts of the world and is sometimes become a prime minister is impressive.” along her boyfriend, who is a drinker. changing alcohol market in Japan and an anomaly in Japan, where drinking is termed “sober curious”. popular and considered an important part of business culture. With alcohol as ‘Lonely and discriminated against’ a lubricant, the formality that can govern For centuries, alcohol has played an the Japanese workplace slips away, and important social role in Japan-feudal drinking-often heavily-with colleagues is lords used it to bond with subordinates seen as important to career advance- and sake was brewed in some temples. ment for some. More recently, it has been seen as a way There’s even a word for drinking with for co-workers to speak more freely than colleagues: “nominication”, a portman- is sometimes possible in often deeply teau of the word for drink-nomi-in hierarchical workplaces. This means that Japanese and the English word commu- non-drinkers can struggle, said Fujino, nication. That has long put non-drinkers with many feeling their career progres- like Hideto Fujino, a 54-year-old fund sion may in part depend on drinking. “In manager, at a disadvantage, but he and the office, sometimes senior staff only others like him are speaking out-and take out those who can drink,” he said. finding they are not alone. “There are “You’re told ‘we didn’t ask you to come many times that non-drinkers feel because you can’t drink’-this makes you uncomfortable,” he told AFP. “You some- feel lonely and discriminated against.” times hear statements like ‘you can’t get Fujino coined the term “gekonomist” promoted if you can’t drink alcohol’,” for people like him-combining the word Customers Rei Azezaki, 21, (left) and Yuto Takahashi, 24, (right) drinking in a non-alcoholic bar in Tokyo. said Fujino, who started a Facebook for people allergic to alcohol “geko” with group for non-drinkers. Fujino doesn’t “nomi” and the English suffix “ist”. On his Drop in young drinkers “Usually I drink a lot of alcohol,” said says young people increasingly have a drink because he cannot process alco- Facebook group, fellow gekonomists Mayumi Yamamoto, who started 0%, Yuto Takahashi, 24. “But here I enjoy different relationship with alcohol, par- hol well-like about five percent of swap recipes for non-alcoholic drinks said she was inspired to offer better non- drinks more slowly, it’s like I’m appreci- ticularly around colleagues. “Young Japanese, and many other east Asians, they enjoy and share stories about their alcoholic drinks by her own experience ating the atmosphere more. I like it very people don’t want that old ‘nominica- he lacks some of the enzymes that break experiences. “Today, I tasted this,” one as a teetotaller. “I thought it would be much.” Similar booze-free bars are tion’ with superiors that lasts hours,” down the toxic byproducts of alcohol. member commented with a photo of a great if there were drink menu options cropping up elsewhere in Japan, with she told AFP. “They’ll choose what they Those with the genetic disposition glass of a drink resembling whisky. “Of other than tea and carbonated water for their locations enthusiastically shared on want as the first glass, and it might well suffer various side effects including course, it’s non-alcoholic, with the scent people like me who can’t drink much Fujino’s Facebook group, and health be non-alcoholic.”— AFP flushed cheeks and feeling sick when of a cypress tree!” alcohol,” the 31-year-old told AFP. The ministry data suggests heavy drinking is they drink. But there are plenty of other The group also exploded with com- bar in the popular nightlife area of falling among young people. reasons that people don’t drink, said ments on the election of Japan’s new Roppongi, famous for clubs and drinking In 2017, just 16 percent of men in Fujino, whose Facebook group attracted Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, a rare holes, offers vegan food alongside cock- their 20s and 25 percent of those in

n the sweltering heat of a greenhouse, Ancestral techniques IBrooke Bridges inspects long rows of Adding to the economic inequities tomato plants, pleased to see a bounti- are persistent prejudices. Justin Butts, on Bon Jovi hits the hot-button ful harvest growing. Once ripe, the crop who is in charge of sheep, pigs and Jsocial issues of America in “2020”, will be picked and packed, then deliv- fowl at Soul Fire Farm, faced the skepti- his 15th studio album - the coron- ered mainly to poor Black and minority cism of white colleagues in avirus pandemic, race relations, and families around Albany, the capital of Pennsylvania when he took up farming. police violence - but he says he’s asking New York state. “A beautiful box of pro- “Other farmers didn’t believe that I was questions, not taking sides. “I say it’s duce can spark something in them and a farmer and was legitimate,” said topical instead of political... that I don’t remind them of who they are as a Black Butts, a former naval officer. “Or they take sides,” he told Reuters TV. But he person in America,” said the 29-year-old would tell me that Black people don’t added: “I tried to consider myself a wit- Bridges, who gave up an acting career in farm-when I was a young person just ness to history. And if I was just witness- California to move to the New York coun- beginning the farm. And it was very ing history, I could write down the facts tryside. This young Black woman is one insulting.” The issue has drawn little and maybe I could pose a question. But of seven employees working for Soul Fire political attention, though Democratic that’s where I wanted to leave it.” The Farm, which calls itself a “BIPoC-cen- Brooke Bridges, who works at the Black-owned Soul Fire Farm near Albany, New York, presidential candidate Joe Biden has rock group Bon Jovi, inducted into the tered community farm”-the acronym inspects an abundant crop of tomatoes. — AFP photos promised to support the rights of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, was standing for Black, Indigenous and indigenous farmers and those of color. formed in 1983 and remains one of the People of Color. lence and racism in American cities, ry practices was that of “redlining”-refus- As they work to build a healthier rela- biggest acts in the US music industry. The 80-acre (32-hectare) farm was racial injustice in the farming sector ing credit to poor people, many of them tionship to the earth, the members of founded in 2011 by an African-American remains less well-known. Blacks are Black, living in certain defined areas. It Soul Fire Farm have embraced farming activist, Leah Penniman, and her hus- clearly under-represented on US farms. remains difficult even today for African- traditions used by their ancestors-tech- Bon Jovi band Jonah Vitale-Wolff. It specializes in There are only 45,000 Black farmers — Americans in many parts of the country to niques like no-till farming, intercropping medicinal herbs, such as mint, bee balm, 1.3 percent of all agricultural producers. obtain the bank loans they need to buy and mulching. The farm also holds St John’s wort and calendula, and veg- Black people are about 13 percent of and develop a farm. “We all realize that training seminars and history talks that etables, with the goal of helping fight the population, according to census while we don’t have a physical knee on draw thousands of budding farmers racial injustice. That cause gained data. And yet, a century ago nearly 15 our neck, Black farmers have had an each year. “It’s not something that urgency and became a focus of the pres- percent of American farmers were economic knee on their neck since the we’ve gotten to experience in centuries idential election campaign after nation- black, reflecting reforms that followed end of slavery,” said Dewayne Goldmon, because of how our ancestors were wide protests that followed the death in the end of slavery in the 1860s. But executive director of the National Black brought here, how they were stripped of May of the African-American George during the 20th century, racial segrega- Growers Council, a group advocating for their land,” said Brooke Bridges. “It Floyd, who was asphyxiated under the tion, discriminatory Jim Crow laws and black farmers. “What makes it worse in was extremely traumatic, but our ances- The band recorded the album in knee of a white police officer. the many obstacles to farm ownership rural America, and certainly in the farming tors made it. Their Black lives really March of 2019 in Nashville, with plans to forced many Black people to leave the community, is that that knee that was on mattered.” — AFP release it in May 2020. But it was post- An economic ‘knee’ rural South in search of work-often in the neck of my grandfather still impacts poned to Oct 2 and two new songs were While the Black Lives Matter move- factories-in the North. me today,” said Goldmon, who runs a added, “Do What You Can,” which fea- ment has drawn attention to police vio- One of the most common discriminato- family farm in Arkansas. tures a masked Bon Jovi celebrating workers on the frontline of the pandemic, and “American Reckoning,” about the death of George Floyd, a Black man, under the knee of a Minneapolis police- man. The song “Brothers in Arms” nods to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate when he protested against racial injustice by kneeling as the US national anthem played before games. Asked if he was concerned about backlash from singing about issues that have divided Americans, especial- ly ahead of the Nov 3 election, Bon Jovi said he was “aware” but not afraid. “I’ve definitely opened myself up to criticism,” he said. “But there are moments in my day, to be honest with you, that I sit around and I think I’m afraid of what the reaction to the record is going to be and what are Justin Butts, livestock manager at Soul Fire Farm, checks on the animals in his charge. African-American farmers like those who operate the Soul Fire Farm account for only 1.3 per- people going to think of me.—Reuters cent of the rural US population. 14 Established 1961 Sports Monday, October 5, 2020

Photo of the day Eagle lifts England’s Reid to LPGA lead in New Jersey NEW YORK: Mel Reid fired an eagle and three birdies in a five-under par 66 on Saturday to seize a one-shot lead going into the final round of the LPGA ShopRite Classic. England’s Reid, who was one off the pace head- ing into the round, had 15-under par total at the Seaview resort in Galloway New Jersey, and was one in front of Americans Jennifer Song and Jennifer Kupcho, who both shot 65. It’s the second straight event that Reid, a six-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, has held the 54-hole lead in search of a first LPGA Tour title. She was two-up through three rounds in Portland but finished tied for fifth in a tournament won by com- patriot Georgia Hall in a playoff. “Another great opportunity this week to get it done,” Reid said. “Tomorrow I’m going to take my time a little bit more, and hopefully it will make a bit of a difference.” Reid put herself in position again with a quick start at Seaview, where she birdied the first and third. She was on the green in two at the par-five ninth and two-putted for birdie and a birdie at the 10th put her alone atop the leaderboard. “I knew it was always in me to do this,” Reid said. “I wasn’t sure how to get there. It has just taken me a lot more years than I expected it to.” Kupcho and Song both birdied the par-five 18th to close the gap. Kupcho’s four-foot birdie attempt wobbled a bit but dropped in the right side as she capped a bogey-free round. The 23-year-old had drained a daz- zling birdie putt at the 13th, her effort from the tier above the pin breaking wide and curling back toward the hole, finally dropping in the back side of the cup. “It was just Sean Garnier is seen in front of the Kuwait Towers in Kuwait. —Photo taken from www.redbullcontentpool.com curling and it just back-doored in,” Kupcho said. Song also played without a bogey, grabbing three birdies on each side for her share of second. —AFP Kitata sprints to London Marathon win as Kipchoge suffers rare defeat Favorite Kipchoge fades to eighth after suffering cramp

LONDON: Ethiopian Shura Kitata outsprinted running as the field began to realize that, perhaps, marathons - the blip being a second place behind a Kenya’s Vincent Kipchumba to win a thrilling Kipchoge was struggling. They were right. The then-world record in his second outing over the London Marathon yesterday as a stunned world favorite, whose face never usually gives any indica- distance in Berlin in 2013. “I’m really disappointed, I record holder Eliud Kipchoge faded late in the race tion of suffering, was showing the occasional gri- had a problem with my right ear after it blocked, to suffer his first defeat since 2013. In cold, wet con- mace and he lacked his usual smoothness. At one and then I really cramped and had problems with ditions, 24-year-old Kitata edged clear in the final point the leaders clocked a five minute mile, a virtu- my hip from about the last 15 km,” he said. “It’s real- metres to win by one second over Kipchumba in a al jog at elite level. Then, as never previously seen ly cold but I don’t blame the conditions and I’m still relatively slow two hours, 05.41 minutes. during his all-conquering career, Kipchoge, 35, there to come back again.” Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia was third in 2:5.35, with broke, dropping back from a pack of six with just Earlier, Kenyan world record holder Brigid Kipchoge, the hot favorite, who in his last race a over three miles to go. Kosgei was a comfortable winner of the women’s year ago became the only man to break the two As the pace eventually picked up it was down to race in 2:18.58 as American Sara Hall produced a hour mark for the distance, eighth in 2:06.49 having three, shoulder to shoulder, as they entered The great finish to snatch second from Ruth suffered cramp and a blocked ear. In the absence of Mall in a finish more like an 800m race than a Chepngetich. The races, originally postponed from injured Kenenisa Bekele, Kipchoge was widely marathon. The tall Kipchumba looked as if he would April because of the COVID-19 pandemic, were run expected to lift a fifth London crown but was never do it as he edged ahead, but Kitata fought back over almost 20 laps of a fenced-off course in a able to impose his usual speed in the relentless cold magnificently to take the tape. Kitata, who finished “controlled secure biosphere” around St James’s rain. He was in a pack who went through halfway in second in London in 2018, thanked his missing com- Park. Although there was no mass field this year, just under 63 minutes - very pedestrian in relation patriot for his victory. “Kenenisa Bekele was helping around 40,000 people are running the distance at to his recent races, not least his official world record me for this race and he advised me how to run,” he venues of their choice through the day. They will LONDON: Winner, Ethiopia’s Shura Kitata poses with of 2:01.39 set in Berlin two years ago. said. “I trained for the same course, I am very happy receive official finisher’s medals and raise millions of his trophy in front of Buckingham Palace after the Ethiopians Lemma and Tamirat Tola, both sport- to win.” pounds for charities hard hit by the cancellation of elite men’s race of the 2020 London Marathon in cen- ing woollen hats to stave off the cold, took up the Kipchoge had won 12 of his 13 previous the April race. —Reuters tral London yesterday. —AFP

rain throughout the week in Paris has turned the ground Enable bids for Arc at Longchamp into a real challenge for her. Dettori described the going as “heavy” after riding there on Saturday with fellow jockey Christophe Soumillon going Patriots-Chiefs NFL history, O’Brien further and saying it was the “most gruelling” he had ever game postponed experienced at the track. withdraws runners ‘A very calm horse’ PARIS: Enable bids to become the first horse to win the Enable’s trainer John Gosden mused it was “Nature’s after COVID tests Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe three times on Sunday, boosted way of getting back at us (humans)” after years of neglect- ing it. The 69-year-old Englishman, who along with Dettori NEW YORK: Yesterday’s scheduled NFL game by the shock withdrawal of Aidan O’Brien’s four runners. Frankie Dettori and Enable will now face just 10 rivals with is bidding for their fourth win in six editions of the Arc, between the New England Patriots and Kansas City fears the race is going to turn into a grim test of endurance. Chiefs was postponed by the league on Saturday the rain-affected ground at Longchamp racecourse the main obstacle to her making history. O’Brien withdrew his “She (Enable) doesn’t much like that ground. She prefers after positive COVID-19 tests by Patriots quarterback the easy side of good, so she can show her class, but it is PARIS: Italian jockey Frankie Dettori riding horse Cam Newton and Chiefs reserve Jordan Ta’amu. The quartet - which included the fancied Mogul and Epsom ‘Enable’ - reacts after finishing second during the Derby champion Serpentine - late on Saturday after they going to be a bit of a slog,” said Gosden. “It is drying up NFL postponed the contest to Monday or Tuesday in now and it is tacky, but you might get another shower or 2019 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe flat race at the the wake of the positive tests for the reigning Super tested positive for a banned substance. ParisLongchamp race track in Paris. —AFP It is believed the substance may have been in contami- two. “It is Longchamp, by the River Seine - it is deep.” Bowl champion Chiefs, who closed their facility Enable would not have been running but for seeing her according to the NFL Network, and Patriots, who nated horse feed. Leading English trainer Roger Varian hopes of a third successive Arc triumph last year dashed Stradivarius but he dislikes the ‘bottomless ground’ even altered plans to travel to Kansas City for the game. withdrew all seven runners he had racing in England on when runner-up having been collared by Waldgeist in the more than Enable. Winning the Arc has been the dream of “In consultation with infectious disease experts, Saturday due to using the same feed. Various batches of dying strides. “I think Prince Khalid (Abdullah her owner Japanese turfistes for decades but their one runner Deirdre both clubs are working closely with the NFL and the Gain Equine Nutrition feeds have been found to be con- and breeder) was brave in saying we’ll try again,” Gosden has been in poor form this year. Enable’s greatest dangers NFLPA to evaluate multiple close contacts, perform taminated with a prohibited substance. “Unfortunately the told English broadcaster ITV. “We’re here and we’re trying. appear to be the Jean Claude Rouget-trained duo Sotsass additional testing and monitor developments,” the results of the urine samples taken from the horses yester- We care about the filly in every way, she’s a gorgeous filly and Raabihah and Francis-Henri Graffard’s German Derby league said in a statement. “All decisions will be made day have come back positive from the French laboratory,” to be around and she’s been with us for five years. winner In Swoop. Graffard says those who back In Swoop with the health and safety of players, team and game- read a tweet from O’Brien’s Ballydoyle Stables account. “Let’s hope she gets a great run round - and if she wins, should not be unduly alarmed if he is trailing behind the day personnel as our primary consideration.” The “There is a possibility that the contaminant may have left marvellous, if she doesn’t, she couldn’t have done more for other runners early on. “He’s by nature a very calm horse, Chiefs-Patriots clash marks the second game original- their system by the time of racing tomorrow. racing. “She reminds me of the great jumping legends who which can almost give the impression that he’s not engaged ly set for this weekend postponed by COVID-19 posi- “However we have no guarantee of this, and in order to had tremendous popular appeal Denman, Arkle, Desert mentally in his race,” said Graffard. “He only really hit full tive tests. The Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh protect the integrity of racing we have decided to with- Orchids - she’s that kind of feeling.” Gosden is two-handed stride in the final 200 metres of the race (the German Steelers contest was moved to October 25 after first draw all our horses from racing tomorrow (Sunday).” as he runs his legendary three-time Ascot Gold Cup winner Derby) before going on to win.” —AFP being delayed to Monday or Tuesday by the NFL Enable may be unaffected by the feed furor but the heavy before additional positive results were returned. If the Chiefs (3-0) are forced to play Tuesday, ed, when the Heat trailed by as many as 32 points. through the first two games, and James is just the Patrick Mahomes-led squad would be looking at Banged-up Heat Jimmy Butler led the way with 25 points, 13 assists behind at 29 and 11. The dynamic duo has elicited three games in nine days with their next contests set and eight rebounds in playing 45 minutes, and comparisons to Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, for October 11 at home against Las Vegas and four Kelly Olynyk was a surprise off the bench with 24 who combined to win three consecutive champi- days later at Buffalo. The first sign of trouble came remain defiant points and nine rebounds. The Heat may need that onships for the Lakers from 2000-02. “To be in the when the Patriots announced a player had tested positive, his identity later confirmed as star run- again and more Sunday as Adebayo and Dragic- conversation with those two guys, myself and AD, is pass threat Newton when he was placed on despite 2-0 deficit two of the team’s top three scorers these playoffs- just very humbling, because I grew up watching COVID-19 reserve, ensuring he would not play this are both listed as doubtful. those guys,” James said. “... It’s very humbling that weekend. Newton replaced Tom Brady as the signal LOS ANGELES: Down 0-2 and expecting to be “We’re never giving up,” said Butler. “We’re we can be even mentioned with those greats.” caller for the Patriots (2-1) this season after Brady without two key starters, the Miami Heat remain going to fight, and we’re going to ride with this Prior to the Finals, the Heat hadn’t lost two spent 20 years with New England, winning six defiant as they look to Game 3 of the NBA Finals thing ‘til the wheels fall off. It’s not over. We’re just consecutive games all postseason. Miami entered Super Bowl titles. against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night in down 0-2; we got to do something special.” For the series 12-3 after powering through the “Late last night, we received notice that a Patriots the NBA bubble near Orlando. “We don’t give a s- the Lakers, the key is doing more of the same. Los Eastern Conference. The last time a team came player tested positive for COVID-19,” the Patriots what everybody else thinks,” Heat coach Erik Angeles has been dominant the first two games, back from 0-2 to win the Finals was in 2016, when said in a statement. “The player immediately entered Spoelstra said in the aftermath of the 124-114 outscoring and outrebounding Miami. The James’ Cleveland Cavaliers accomplished the feat self-quarantine. Several additional players, coaches Game 2 loss Friday. “What will it take? Whatever Western Conference champs have been potent against the Golden State Warriors. As such, Los and staff who have been in close contact with the is necessary. Simple as that. If you want something both in the paint and from long range, and they Angeles isn’t ruling out Miami yet. “Until we win player received point of care tests this morning and badly enough, you’ll figure it out. Our group is show little sign of slowing down with LeBron four games, we haven’t accomplished our goal,” all were negative for COVID-19. “We are in close stubborn and persistent, and we just need to fig- consultation with the NFL as well as our team of James and Anthony Davis leading the way. “Those Lakers guard Alex Caruso said. “It’s been over a independent doctors and specialists and will follow ure out how to overcome this opponent.” guys are playing at an extremely high level, and year together, and we’ve talked about the same their guidance regarding our scheduled trip to Kansas Without Bam Adebayo (neck) and Goran hopefully we can get two more wins,” said coach goal from Day 1. We’re still here chasing that City and game against the Chiefs.—AFP Dragic (foot) on Friday, Miami showed grit in Frank Vogel. same goal. Until we get four wins, we’re staying avoiding being blown out the way Game 1 unfold- Davis is averaging 33 points and 11.5 rebounds hungry.” —Reuters Established 1961 15 Monday, October 5, 2020 Sports Skipper Kohli hits form in Bangalore’s big IPL victory IPL info leak attempt sparks corruption probe

DUBAI: Skipper Virat Kohli hit form with his first couple of times and that can happen. “But what Emirates. Earlier, leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal because of the coronavirus pandemic. half-century of this Indian Premier League sea- helped was that he got us over the line in the returned impressive bowling figures of 3-24 from All eight teams are confined to separate “bio- son as he led Royal Challengers Bangalore to a super over to finish the game against Mumbai his four overs to restrict Steve-Smith’s Royals to bubbles”. “A player has been approached. He himself comfortable win over Rajasthan Royals on Indians (on Monday). It was only a matter of time 154 for six while batting first. immediately reported it,” anti-corruption chief of Saturday. Kohli, who came into the match with before he gets runs in the middle.” In the second game of the day, Delhi Capitals the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Ajit scores of 14, one and three, remained unbeaten Bangalore lost Aaron Finch - trapped lbw off outplayed Kolkata Knight Riders by 18 runs after Singh told AFP. “We know who has approached... on 72 as Bangalore chased down a target of 155 Shreyas Gopal for eight - but the left-handed posting a mammoth 228 for four at the short- We are on the case.” Singh said the “relatively to win by eight wickets in Abu Dhabi. Padikkal and Kohli made sure their team recorded boundary Sharjah cricket ground. Skipper unknown” player, whose identity was not released, He put on a key second-wicket partnership of their third win. Padikkal was bowled by Royals’ Shreyas Iyer hit an unbeaten 38-ball 88 before was asked to leak some information about his team. 99 with in-form opener Devdutt Padikkal, who England paceman Jofra Archer. South African England’s limited-overs captain import Eoin He did not release further details about the incident. made 63 - his third IPL fifty in four matches for veteran AB de Villiers hit the winning boundary Morgan gave Delhi a scare with his 44 off 18 Singh told AFP before the tournament started that last years wooden spooners. Kohli, 31, started as Bangalore won in 19.1 overs. “It’s a different deliveries for Kolkata. South African quick Anrich the bio-bubbles would make it easy for any illicit cautiously before finding his touch to smash sev- feeling (batting with Kohli), I’ve watched him Nortje claimed three wickets including the prized approaches to be noticed. en fours and two sixes in his 53-ball stay in this from home so much since I was young and to bat scalp of Morgan to help Delhi take top spot in the The BCCI last month struck a deal with Sportradar, year’s first afternoon game of the Twenty20 tour- with him is an unreal feeling,” said the 20-year- eight-team table. a technology company that tracks online betting. The nament. The players had to deal with tempera- old Padikkal. money-spinning IPL has a long history of corruption tures that hit 34 celsius. “I was getting tired, cramping up, but he IPL info leak attempt and match-fixing since it started in 2008. Bangladesh “Virat Kohli’s fitness is second to none. And the pushed me. He said I need to see the team Meanwhile, a player taking part in the ongoing all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was suspended last year way he controlled that innings in the chase was through. That’s how he bats and he was convey- Indian Premier League tournament said he was for failing to report corrupt approaches, one of them great to see,” Bangalore’s head coach Simon ing that to me too.” Kohli’s knock took him past asked to leak information about his team, the coun- involving the IPL. A 2013 scandal caused the Chennai Katich told reporters. “The way we see it, we 5,500 IPL runs to extend his lead at the top of try’s cricket anti-corruption chief said yesteray. The Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals to be suspended in don’t look at Virat being out of form at all. We the scoring chart in the absence of second-placed world’s richest cricket league, long plagued by cor- 2015 for two seasons. The matches are being played in thought he looked magnificent in the first game, Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings) who pulled ruption, is in its third week and is being played Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with the 53-day league unfortunately he holed out, and then missed out a out of the tournament in the United Arab behind closed doors in the United Arab Emirates ending on November 10. —Agencies

chiefly instrumental to their progress Lak penalty save to the semis, was also fined $10,000 News in brief for his slant-eyed gesture, considered sends Persepolis a serious racial offence. “The Asian Atalanta on scoring spree Football Confederation (AFC) into Asian final Disciplinary and Ethics Committee BERGAMO: Irrepressible Atalanta kept up their has banned Issa Alekasir, of record of scoring at least four goals in every DOHA: Hamed Lak produced a diving Persepolis FC, from taking part in any game this season as they dispatched Cagliari 5- save off Maicon Rocque as Persepolis kind of football-related activity for six 2 on Sunday to maintain their 100 percent beat Al Nassr 5-3 on penalties to months for violating Article 58.1 of the record in Serie A. Luis Muriel, Alejandro Gomez, reach the final of the Asian Champions AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Code Mario Pasalic, Duvan Zapata and Sam Lammers League for the second time in three (2019 Edition),” the AFC said in a shared the goals in another hugely entertaining years on Saturday. Both teams had statement. “The ban will take effect Atalanta performance while Diego Godin and played out a tense 1-1 draw after 120 immediately,” the continental body Joao Pedro replied for the Sardinians, whose minutes of action forcing the match added goalkeeper Alessio Cragno spared them further into the tie-breaker at the Jassim bin Article 58.1 states “anyone who damage. The Bergamo side, Serie A’s top scor- Hamad Stadium. offends the dignity of a person or ers with 98 goals last season, have nine points But it was the Iranians who group of persons through contemptu- from three games after previously winning 4-2 emerged as the top team in Asia’s ous, discriminatory or denigratory at Torino and 4-1 at Lazio. Muriel ran on to Jose DOHA: Persepolis’s goalkeeper Hamed Lak saves a shot in the shoot-out west zone as they scored off all their words or actions concerning race, Luis Palomino’s through ball to score the first skin color, gender, disability, language, during the AFC Champions League semi-finals match between Saudi’s Al- five penalties, while Saudi giants Al Nassr and Iran’s Persepolis on October 3, 2020. —AFP after seven minutes, but Cagliari replied when Nassr watched in agony from the age, physical appearance, religion, Uruguay captain Godin headed in from a corner sidelines as their Brazilian defender political opinion, wealth, birth or any on his debut after joining the club from Inter Rocque’s shot, his team’s fourth, was other status, sexual orientation, or goal in the 36th minute following chances before Lak came up with his Milan. —Reuters saved by Lak, leaping to his right. A ethnic, national, or social origin has Bashar Resan’s foul on Khalid al- decisive save in the shootout to put few hours before the match Persepolis committed an offence.” On Saturday, Ghannam. But Persepolis needed only his team against a team from Asia’s were dealt a blow when the Asian however, Al Nassr, who were hoping six minute to draw level, Abdi Mehdi east, who are yet to be determined. Football Confederation banned their to reach the final for the first time, producing an excellent header past Al The event, which was halted in Doubt on Serie A fixtures star striker Issa Alekasir for six couldn’t make the most of Alekasir’s Nassr goalkeeper Brad Jones off a February following the coronavirus months for a “discriminatory gesture” absence or the fact that Persepolis cross from Resan. Luck came to Lak’s outbreak, resumed in a bio-secure MILAN: Confusion reigned over one of the top while celebrating his goal against had lost Ehsan Pehlevan just before rescue immediately after the break as bubble in Doha last month with the Serie A fixtures of the season on Sunday as Uzbekistan’s Pakhtakor in the quarter- half-time after he received his second Hamdallah produced a brilliant free- matches packed into a tight schedule Juventus prepared as usual to host Napoli, finals on Wednesday. yellow card. kick only for the ball to thud into the and the knockout phase doing away while local media reported that the visitors had In addition to the ban, the 30-year- The Saudis were first to score crossbar after the goalkeeper was with the double-legged format. The been unable to travel due to an order from old, who scored four times in his side’s though, Abderrazzak Hamdallah fox- thoroughly beaten. tournament’s matches in the east are their local health authority. Juventus, who said last three matches in Doha and was ing goalkeeper Lak with a ‘Panenka’ Both teams had their share of yet to be announced. —AFP on Saturday that they would take the field, wrote simply “Matchday” in a post on Twitter accompanied by a photograph of forward Cristiano Ronaldo and the time and venue of Bahrain royal team in the match. However, Sky Sport Italia and other media said that Napoli, where two players have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last four season’s first Nepal days, had not left for Turin and were preparing to go into a team quarantine. The reports said Himalayan summit that the local health authority in Naples had not allowed Napoli to travel as a precaution KATHMANDU: A team of climbers including a following the positive cases. There was no offi- Bahrain prince has completed the first summit of a cial comment from either the team or the Nepal Himalayan peak this season after being given health authority, however. —Reuters permission despite a coronavirus ban on tourist arrivals. The group, which includes members of the Bahrain Royal Guard and three Britons, climbed the 6,119-metre (20,075-foot) Lobuche, expedition Lens beat Saint Etienne 2-0 organiser Seven Summits Treks told AFP. It was not revealed if all 18 members of the team PARIS: Lens secured a 2-0 win over nine-man reached the summit, a precursor to them next tack- Saint Etienne and moved up to second place ling the 8,163-metre Manaslu, the world’s eighth- in Ligue 1 thanks to goals from Gael Kakuta highest mountain. Tourists and climbers are official- and Florian Sotoca after the visitors were hit ly barred from the country until mid-October. The with red cards for Timothee Kolodziejczak team arrived in Nepal in mid-September and quar- and Wahbi Khazri on Saturday. Kolo was the antined in the capital Kathmandu for a week before first to be sent off after conceding an early heading to Everest base camp and on to Lobuche. penalty with a clumsy tackle that injured More than 50 Sherpas are part of the expedi- Ignatius Ganago. Referee Bastein Dechepy tion, but the identity of the royal climber was not viewed a replay of the incident before bran- disclosed. The group plans to climb Everest next dishing the red card at the 29-year-old year. Nepal closed its borders in March and defender, with Kakuta firing Lens into the grounded international flights just ahead of the lead with the spot kick. Saint Etienne sent busy spring climbing season, devastating the local Khazri on in the second-half but his first tourism sector. The country of 28 million people appearance of the season was a short-lived has recorded an average of 1,300 daily infections affair as he was dismissed in the 64th minute since August, for a total of more than 86,000 cases LOBUCHE, Nepal: An 18-member party of the Bahrain Royal Guard mountaineering team including a Bahraini for a lunging tackle on Jonathan Gradit as the and 535 deaths. Limited international flights prince and three Britons pose as they head to summit Mount Lobuche East, 6,119-metre high northeast of two raced for a long ball. —Reuters resumed last month, but only for citizens and for- Kathmandu. - AFP eign diplomats. —AFP

one game against the Romanian at the same stage in Paris January. Yesterday’s early shocks mean that only four seeds Swiatek shocks last year, swept off court in just 45 minutes. “Last year I remain in the women’s draw-third seed Elina Svitolina, wasn’t experienced enough, it was my first match in a big fourth-seeded Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, two- stadium so I was a little stressed, but now I can handle the time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, seeded at seven, and Halep; Nadal eases pressure.” Halep had arrived in Paris with claycourt titles Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, the 30th seed. Nadal defeated from Prague and Rome and had demolished Amanda American qualifier Sebastian Korda 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, staying into 14th quarter-final Anisimova, who shocked her in Paris last year, for the loss of comfortably on course for a 13th French Open title and one game in 54 minutes in the third round. record-equalling 20th Grand Slam crown. Second seed PARIS: Polish teenager Iga Swiatek shocked top seed and “She played really well, it was her match today,” admit- Nadal racked up his 97th win at the tournament against just title favorite Simona Halep to reach the Roland Garros last ted Halep who said she’ll quickly get over her disappoint- two defeats since his title-winning debut in 2005. eight yesterday as 12-time champion Rafael Nadal breezed ment with her season now at an end. “I will have a chocolate He goes on to face either German sixth seed Alexander into the quarter-finals for the 14th time. Swiatek, just 19 and and I will be better tomorrow.” Swiatek will face Italian Zverev or Italian teenager Jannik Sinner in what will be his ranked 54 in the world, triumphed 6-1, 6-2 on the back of 30 qualifier Martina Trevisan for a place in the semi-finals after 42nd career appearance in the last eight of a Grand Slam. winners and not allowing 2018 champion Halep a single the 26-year-old, world number 159, registered a 6-4, 6-4 Korda, the world number 213 and son of 1998 Australian break point. “I am surprised I could do this,” admitted victory over fifth seed Kiki Bertens, a semi-finalist in 2016. Open champion and 1992 Roland Garros runner-up Petr PARIS: Poland’s Iga Swiatek serves the ball to Swiatek after ending the 17-match winning streak of Halep, Trevisan is the first qualifier to make the last eight since Korda, never really recovered from slipping quickly to a 5-0 Romania’s Simona Halep during their women’s sin- the overwhelming favorite in the absence of 2019 champion Yaroslava Shvedova in 2012. Trevisan had saved two match deficit in the first set. The 20-year-old, who was so in awe gles fourth round tennis match on Day 8 of The Ashleigh Barty and US Open winner Naomi Osaka and fol- points in her win over Greek 20th seed Maria Sakkari. “I’m of Nadal when he was growing up that he named his cat Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis tournament lowing the injury-enforced withdrawal of Serena Williams. living in a dream,” said the Italian whose other appearance after the Spaniard, had the consolation of breaking serve yesterday. —AFP It was a stunning turnaround for the Pole who won just in the main draw of a major came at the Australian Open in once in the third set. —AFP Established 1961 Sport

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MANCHESTER: Tottenham Hotspur’s French midfielder Tanguy Ndombele (left) shoots to score his team’s first goal past Manchester United’s Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea (right) to equalize during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur yesterday. — AFP

LONDON: Jose Mourinho humiliated his former club Kane grabbing Tottenham’s third in the 31st minute after games as they look to return to Champions League foot- leapfrog Leicester to move joint top of the table alongside Manchester United as Tottenham swept to a stunning 6-1 stealing Eric Bailly’s weak pass. United were in disarray ball for the first time in five years next season. But the Merseyside rivals Everton if they win at Aston Villa later. win at Old Trafford, while Arsenal moved into the Premier and Serge Aurier crossed for Son’s close-range finish in Gunners were fortunate to take all three points at the West Ham manager David Moyes was again taking charge League’s top four with a 2-1 victory against Sheffield the 37th minute. Emirates as they had an early escape when David Luiz from home after testing positive for coronavirus. But just United yesterday. Tottenham boss Mourinho was sacked Aurier drilled home in the 51st minute and Kane made escaped a red card for a pull on Oli Burke. Mikel Arteta’s as in a 4-0 win over Wolves last weekend, the Hammers by United in 2018 after a turbulent reign, but it was his it six with a 79th minute penalty. It was just the third time men got going after the break and a fine team move did not miss his presence as goals from Michail Antonio, successor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who was left red faced United had conceded six goals in the Premier League era opened the scoring on the hour mark when Bukayo Saka Pablo Fornals and Jarrod Bowen gave the visitors a full after a shambolic display from the hosts. Despite taking started in 1992. Solskjaer’s team have lost their first two headed home Hector Bellerin’s cross at the far post. deserved three points. the lead through Bruno Fernandes’ second minute penalty, home games for the first time since 1986 and sit just two Bellerin was the provider again moments later as Nicolas At St Mary’s, Southampton won their second succes- United collapsed as they conceded four goals in the first places above the relegation zone after their heaviest home Pepe drove forward to curl the ball in off the far post. sive game by seeing off lowly West Brom 2-0. Ralph half of a league match for the first time since 1957. defeat since Manchester City beat them 6-1 in 2011. David McGoldrick halved the deficit seven minutes from Hasenhuttl’s side dominated throughout but had to wait Tanguy Ndombele equalized in the fourth minute after Tottenham are up to fifth place after their second league time with the Blades first league goal of the season, but until the 41st minute to open the scoring when Moussa dismal defending from Harry Maguire and South Korea win this term, ending a run of four games in eight days that they remain without a point. Djenepo’s clever drag-back eluded Jake Livermore before forward Son Heung-min made it two from Harry Kane’s included knocking Chelsea, another of Mourinho’s old the winger stroked his finish into the bottom corner. Oriol seventh minute quick free-kick. United were reduced to clubs, out of the League Cup on Tuesday. Leicester rocked Romeu met Stuart Armstrong’s cross with a brilliant volley 10 men when Anthony Martial was harshly sent off in the Leicester’s perfect start came to a shuddering halt with from the edge of the area in the 69th minute. Wolves beat 28th minute for his reaction to a push from Erik Lamela. Saka shines a 3-0 defeat at home to West Ham, just a week after the Fulham 1-0 at Molineux as Pedro Neto’s 56th minute goal That opened the floodgates as United surrendered, with Arsenal have taken nine points from their opening four Foxes thrashed Manchester City 5-2. Liverpool can now clinched their second league win of the season. — AFP

mark, five minutes after Uruguayan defender Diego Atalanta cruise and Godin had pulled Cagliari level on his debut since mov- Real Madrid gather ing from Inter Milan. Mario Pasalic and Duvan Zapata also scored in a five-minute spell before the break. Joao Inter held in Serie A Pedro reduced the deficit for the Sardinians after the momentum after break but Sam Lammers marked his first home game MILAN: Papu Gomez extended his scoring streak to with an impressive solo effort with nine minutes to go. Levante victory give high-flying Atalanta a third consecutive win 5-2 Atalanta have the maximum nine points, two ahead of against Cagliari yesterday as title rivals Inter Milan were Sassuolo and Inter. In Rome, Lautaro Martinez gave stalled 1-1 in a bad-tempered game against Lazio in Antonio Conte’s side the advantage after half an hour off MADRID: Real Madrid moved to the top of La Liga yes- Rome where both teams finished a man down. a deflected Ivan Perisic effort but Sergej Milinkovic- terday as Vinicius Junior and Karim Benzama both scored Champions Juventus’s clash against Napoli later was in Savic headed in the equalizer ten minutes into the sec- in a 2-0 win over Levante. Vinicius, who had proved deci- doubt with the southerners having not travelled to Turin ond half. Immobile was sent off after 69 minutes for hit- sive in Madrid’s win over Real Valladolid on Wednesday, because of two coronavirus cases. “No, everything is like ting out at Arturo Vidal with Inter’s Stefano Sensi also looked set to see off Levante as well, before Benzema VILA-REAL: Real Madrid’s Spanish defender Sergio Saturday,” a Napoli spokesman told AFP asked about a seeing red with minutes to go. Hellas Verona fell to their notched his first goal of the season late on. Madrid have Ramos (right) vies with Levante’s Portuguese possible departure for Turin, hours before kickoff. The first defeat of the season with Jasmin Kurtic scoring after now recorded three clean sheets from their four opening defender Ruben Vezo (2nd left) during the Spanish Lega Serie A insisted all the health protocols were in just one minute to give Parma a first win this campaign. games, although a draw away at Real Sociedad has given League football match between Levante UD and Real place for the match to safely go ahead as scheduled for an early advantage to Barcelona, who played away at Madrid CF yesterday. — AFP Turin at 1845 GMT. Napoli risk forfeit Sevilla later. In Bergamo, Atalanta struck hard in their first home In Turin, confusion reigned over whether Napoli Madrid and Barca had earlier played out the first ever goal in two games. game this season, bringing their tally to 13 goals in three would line out, after midfielder Eljif Elmas and Poland women’s Clasico after Madrid finally launched their female He could have made it two but overhit a pass intended games played, to sit top of the Serie A table. But Inter international Piotr Zielinski contracted the virus. The team this season. Yet Barcelona showed their superiority for Benzema and then Levante hit the crossbar, Nikola dropped points for the first time this campaign despite team have not left Naples because of measures of in a 4-0 rout. But the men’s team have become something Vuckevic at the back post almost capitalizing on some playing 20 minutes with a player more after Lazio’s Ciro regional health authorities, despite the Lega Serie A of a defensive juggernaut under Zidane after their solidity hesitation from Thibaut Courtois. Levante found it difficult Immobile was sent off. “The score could have been much insisting conditions were safe. “The protocol pro- and resilience formed the basis of their successful title bid to cope with Madrid’s pressing and Benzema and Vinicius bigger,” said Atalanta Gian Piero Gasperini. “Now the vides... rules, which allow the playing of league match- last term. They have 10 points from 12 available, after three both should scored when twice they won the ball back in (international) break interrupts this momentum. es even in the event of a positive tests, fielding the consecutive wins. Levante, meanwhile, have managed only dangerous positions. Sergio Ramos also had a headed Hopefully we’ll pick up where we left off.” players who tested negative,” Serie A said. These one victory from first four matches and this defeat means goal ruled out for offside but Levante went close to a late Gasperini’s side were four goals up at the break with measures are “applicable to the situation of Napoli, they drop into the relegation places. Vinicius gave Madrid equaliser as Clerc and Enis Bardhi both tested Courtois. Luis Muriel opening after seven minute. Gomez blasted which has two positive players for Covid-19,” the Liga the lead after 16 minutes when Levante failed to clear a But Benzema tore away on the break in injury-time and in the second from a distance just before the half hour Serie A added. — AFP corner and the Brazilian calmly curled in for his second finished to complete a convincing win. — AFP