When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very stand- WIN 3 CARS ard. Angela M agrees! AND 300 @realDonaldTrump GOLD COINS! Tel: 17228888 bfc.com.bh Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Issue No. 7439 Today’s Weather 200 Fils Max Min www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh 44°C 32°C Diraz blast: JO3307_BFC_BAH_BOB_Centenary_Bonanza_Campaign_ad_67x40mm.indd25/05/2017 15:45 1 Prime suspect Ensure The attack caused the death of a policeman and vehicle nabbed the injured two others fitness DT News Network irector of Licensing Affairs [email protected] at the General Directorate Dof Traffic, Lt-Col. Abdulrahman Manama Mohammed Al Moawda ne person was arrested yesterday called on drivers to and three others were ensure the fitness of their vehicles identifiedO by the police in to drive in Summer temperature. connection with a terror blast Checks should be done to ensure last month in Diraz, in which the safety of tyres, spare tyres, a policeman was killed and engine oil level, water as well as several others were injured, sensitive spare parts that could the Interior Ministry said be damaged easily because of yesterday. The arrestee Hussain The second suspect Sayed heat. He also urged drivers to As part of counter-terrorism Abdulla (26) Mohammed Qassim (25) stick to the speed limits and operations, the security forces Ahmed Mohammed (25) Hussain Ali (31) to keep safe distance between have arrested a “dangerous earlier to life imprisonment cells,” the directorate wanted fugitives in Iran in wanted criminal Murtadha vehicles. terrorist” involved in the case, in a terrorist case and was confirmed in a statement terms of financing, planning Al Sindi,” the directorate said the General Directorate involved in a bomb blast in issued here yesterday. and execution, the directorate clarified. of Criminal Investigation and Deraz in February 2016, as DT News reported on June said in its statement. Ahmed Mohammed has also Forensic Science in Interior well as other cases related 19 that on-duty policeman The directorate further been convicted previously in P Ministry. to the manufacturing and Abdulsamad Haji, 31, was identified Hussain Ali, 31 and cases related to forming terror The 26-year-old suspect possessing of bombs. killed in a terrorist explosion Ahmed Mohammed, 25 as the cells, attacking police patrols identified as Hussain Abdullah “The investigation will that took place near one of masterminds in Iran. with homemade weapons and is in police custody. Police continue to find out if there the entrances of Diraz village The nationality of Hussain possessing bombs. 03 have also seized a Kalashnikov are any links between the in the Northern Governorate. Ali, who has been involved in “The investigation continues Shrimping rifle from his possession. He suspects and other terrorist Two other policemen were the setting up of many terror to arrest the remaining ban reduced has been convicted earlier also injured in the attack. cells and terror plots, has been suspects,” added the Ministry. for another blast in Diraz in Report any revoked by a court order. He The Directorate affirmed October 2014, in addition to Masterminds in Iran has been sentenced to life that it has taken all legal steps arson attacks and assaults on suspicious activities Interior Ministry also identified imprisonment in three cases and referred the case to the police personnel. by calling community and released photographs and was awarded a 15-year Public Prosecution. P Investigators, however, of two fugitives linked to jail term in another case. “The Interior Ministry has said that search operations hotline 80008008. All the blast with links to Iran’s “He runs terror cells and affirmed that it is going ahead are continuing to nab the calls will be treated Revolutionary Guards. works as a field coordinator with its counter-terrorism 05 second suspect identified The terror group in for the Saraya Al Ashtar operations to bring terrorists No more one year as Sayed Mohammed as anonymous. Bahrain, according to terrorist group, and has to justice and maintain the Qassim, 25, who is still on Interior Ministry investigators, operated under strong ties with the Iranian security of the nation, the safety validity on pre-paid the run. He was sentenced the direct supervision of the Revolutionary Guard and of the public and civil peace.” lines 2 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 King names new head for Court of Cassation Manama is Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa yesterday issued HRoyal Order 38 of 2017 approving the Tillerson to help retirement request of Head of Court of Cassation, Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) Deputy President Chancellor Salem bin Mohammed Salem Al-Kawari. Under the same royal order, Chancellor Abdulla bin Hassan Ahmed Al-Buainain has been appointed as Head of Court of Cassation, with the rank of resolve GCC row minister, as well as Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) Deputy President. Chancellor Ma’asuma Abdulrasul Isa has been named as Puisne Judge at the Court of Cassation. The Royal Order shall take effect from the date of its promulgation and be published in the Official Gazette. HM the King has also issued royal order 39 of 2017, appointing Chancellor Nawaf Abdulla Abdulaziz Hamza as President of the Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission (LLOC), with the rank of ministry undersecretary. Under the same royal order, Chancellor Mohammed Ahmed Ali Muqbal has been named as LLOC Deputy President. The Royal Order The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (R), receiving US shall take effect from the date of its Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City promulgation and be published in the Official Gazette. Kuwait City Islamist extremist groups and Shiite- initially supported longtime US defeating terrorism... then he may S Secretary of State Rex dominated Iran. ally Saudi Arabia, but his stance have some chance,” said Partrick, Tillerson arrived yesterday in As they met in Egypt last week, was later contradicted when the US who focuses on Gulf politics. UKuwait, the key mediator between Saudi Arabia and its allies said they Department of State took a more But despite strong mediation Britain’s arms Qatar and its Arab neighbours, for planned to tighten sanctions against neutral position. efforts by Kuwait and others, talks aimed at defusing the Gulf’s the gas-rich emirate, after Qatar Tillerson’s impact largely depends governments across the region say exports to Saudi worst crisis in years. refused to comply with a list of on whether regional officials they may remain deadlocked for the Tillerson will shuttle between demands. “believe that the secretary of state is foreseeable future. ‘lawful’: court Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia A spokesman for Tillerson said fully backed by President Trump”, “No diplomatic effort or... London from until Thursday in what is ahead of his landing in Kuwait that London-based political analyst Neil mediation will succeed without ritain’s High Court ruled the first serious intervention by it remained to be seen “if there’s Partrick said. Doha being rational, mature and yesterday that UK arms exports Washington in the Gulf crisis. even a possibility of some outcomes” “If Tillerson can convincingly realistic,” UAE state minister for Bto Saudi Arabia are not unlawful, after He immediately held talks towards resolving the crisis. frame his mission as delivering a deal foreign affairs Anwar Gargash campaigners argued the weapons with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah “Right now, after Egypt, we’re for the United States that is all about tweeted last week. (AFP) were used to violate international al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who is leading months away from what we think humanitarian law in bombing the mediation effort between the would be an actual resolution Yemen. Gulf states, the official KUNA news and that’s very discouraging,” RC Qatar failed to honour commitments “We have concluded that the Manama any doubt Qatar’s failure to meet agency reported. Hammond told reporters. material decisions of the secretary ahrain, Saudi Arabia, the its commitments and violation of Tillerson is due to discuss the of state were lawful. We therefore United Arab Emirates and its commitments,” the Quartet said. crisis later with Kuwait’s Foreign Ability to manoeuvre dismiss the claim,” Lord Justice BEgypt have emphasised that the “The four countries emphasise Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Tillerson, the former chief executive Burnett said at the court in London. documents revealed by CNN prove that the 13 demands presented Al-Sabah. of energy giant Exxon Mobil, arrives He added it was not established that that Qatar has failed to honour to the Qatari government were UK National Security Advisor in the Gulf after a stop in Istanbul, there was “a clear risk that the items pledges it made and signed in 2013 to fulfil its previous obligations Mark Sidwell, who was also received where he discussed the Syria war might be used in the commission of and 2014. and commitments. The demands by the emir, is scheduled to attend and a failed 2016 coup in Turkey. a serious violation of international “The four countries assert that were in fact points stated in the part of the meeting between Analysts say Tillerson’s success humanitarian law”. the documents published by CNN, Riyadh Agreement, its Executive Tillerson and the Kuwaiti foreign in the Gulf may be contingent on including the Riyadh Agreement Mechanism and the Riyadh minister. his ability to manoeuvre regional (2013), its Executive Mechanism Supplementary Agreement and The dispute has seen a Saudi- scepticism over conflicting stances and the Riyadh Supplementary were fully in line with the spirit of Saudi police, led alliance impose sanctions on from Washington on the crisis. Agreement (2014), confirm beyond the agreements.” Doha over its alleged ties to both US President Donald Trump civilians wounded in shootings Riyadh Bahrain, Russia aluminium cooperation discussed policeman and two civilians have Moscow cooperation in the vital been wounded in shootings in Saudi joint Bahraini-Russian aluminium industrial sector. AArabia, police said yesterday. taskforce in charge of They also signed memorandum Qatif, an eastern province in Saudi Aaluminium industrial cooperation of understanding to bolster Arabia, has been hit by a string of attacks held its fourth meeting. Industry, cooperation in the fields over the past week, some of them deadly. Commerce and Tourism Ministry of marketing and logistic Police said an off-duty officer was Undersecretary for Industrial coordination, in addition to wounded late Sunday when gunmen Affairs Osama Mohammed investment opportunities in opened fire on his car as he was driving Al-Arayyed co-chaired the the private sector. The Bahraini by private farmland. meeting with Russian Industry and Russian officials have also And two civilians were admitted and Trade Deputy Minister agreed to strengthen cooperation, with gunshot wounds early Monday to Sergey Tsyb. exchange expertise and training Delegates of Russia and Bahrain after signing a hospital in Qatif’s town of Awamiya, The two sides discussed and develop aluminium-related the Memorandum of Understanding police added. the prospects of expanding researches. All three are in stable condition. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 3

A statement released The charges include by Head of the Northern criminal responsibility for Jailed for Governorate’s Public violating regulations, and Prosecution said that the similar offences under verdict can be appealed by the international laws. spreading defendant before the Court He was later referred to of Appeal as guaranteed by the criminal court and the fake news Bahrain’s laws. case was deliberated in the The Pubic Prosecution presence of the defendant’s Manama said that the defendant was lawyer. he Lower Criminal Court remanded into custody The head of the yesterday sentenced a after confronting him with prosecution pointed out that manT to two years in jail for evidence in the presence of the accusation attributed to disseminating false news, his lawyer. the defendant was not related statements and rumours “All legal guarantees” were to human rights activities and about the internal situation of provided to the defendant, the did not affect the right to free Shrimping the Kingdom. statement added. opinion and expression. Three years jail for setting house alight DT News Network him to burn the property and “I took out a lighter and set Manama the vehicle. a rug kept next to the cage on he High Criminal Court The culprit was accompanied fire. We saw a CCTV camera sentenced a man to three by another man, whose identity installed in the house and Tyears behind bars for setting is still unknown. The owner of destroyed it before fleeing,” he a lady’s house and car on fire, the house was outside Bahrain added. causing damages worth BD2000. at the time of the incident. It’s worth noting that the According to court files, the “We climbed the fence and defendant was found guilty defendant, a Bahraini man, entered the house to rob the previously in 31 cases, in aged 20, wanted to steal pet birds. However, we found only which he was handed down a birds from the house, but his an empty cage,” the defendant combined total of more than 20 A vendor carrying failure to do so reportedly led told prosecutors. years in prison. ban a tray of shrimps in Manama Central reduced Fish Market DT News Network fishermen earlier made pleas September 15. [email protected] to reduce the ban period as it “The Premier’s directives was claimed having a negative are in response to the calls he government has impact on their livelihoods. made by fishermen, and in decided to reduce the As per the directives line with his keenness to six-monthT ban on shrimping issued, shrimping ban this ensure their livelihoods. 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JO3307_BFC_BAH_BOB_Centenary_Bonanza_Campaign_PressAd_DT_QP_180mmX128mm.indd 1 5/25/17 3:47 PM 4 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Cabinet condemns terror attacks in Saudi, Egypt Manama More Parking lots is Royal Highness HRH the Prime Minister Prime Minister Prince gave directives to create HKhalifa bin Salman Al more car parking lots in old Khalifa extended deepest neighbourhoods, including thanks and appreciation those in Muharraq. to the Representatives and Instructions were also given Shura councils for their to acquire five sites in Galali fruitful cooperation with the to be used as public parking government in preparing the lots and requested the Works, General State Budget 2017- Municipalities Affairs and 2018. Urban Planning Minister to He also praised the issue necessary acquisition consensus reached by the edicts. Executive and the Legislature on the principles and strategic Beach cleanliness priorities related to the HRH Premier directed to budget. pay more attention to the This came as HRH the cleanliness of beaches and Prime Minister chaired the harbours and ensure they are regular weekly cabinet session waste-free. at the Gudaibiya Palace The Cabinet gave yesterday. instruction to remove waste, The Cabinet strongly Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa during the Cabinet session held yesterday at the Gudaibiya Palace if any, from there, including condemned and denounced the session which expressed Minister was informed municipal services, as well Affairs and Urban Planning the area surrounding the the terror attack which Bahrain’s solidarity with about the progress of the as public facilities, roads and and the Minister of Housing, Bandar Al-Dar Port. Ministry targeted an on-duty security brotherly Egypt and its implementation of his sanitation. of the technical steps of Works, Municipalities patrol in the Saudi Qatif support for its measures aimed directives to service ministries The Prime Minister taken so far to commence Affairs and Urban Planning Province, reiterating Bahrain’s at maintaining its security and to meet the needs of Duraz, took note, through reports the implementation of has been directed to take full-fledged support to sisterly stability. A’ali, Muharraq and Hamad submitted by the Minister the required executive necessary measures to ensure Saudi Arabia and backing After that, HRH the Prime Town regarding housing and of Works, Municipalities programmes. that the contracts of the of all measures it deems cleaning companies are still necessary to fight terrorism Other decisions valid. and safeguard its security and The session agreed that youth aged between 15 and Labour camps stability. Shabu narcotic 29 are the category targeted by the Youth and Sports It also reaffirmed the Affairs Ministry through its programmes, activities and Referring to labour camps, Kingdom’s principled stance he Cabinet approved Psychotropic Substances services. HRH the Prime Minister in rejection of all forms and a proposal to consider Law 15/2007. stressed the need to ensure manifestations of terrorism, a shabuT as a narcotic rather The move is in line with The session endorsed the Kingdom’s hosting of the that health, security and post-session statement by the than as psychotropic keenness to tighten the first meeting to draft an Arab strategy for the use of safety requirements are met Cabinet Secretary-General, substances. penalties on the use and cloud computing in education, to be organised by the in the collective residence of Dr Yasser bin Isa Al-Nasser Decision has also been importation of narcotics. Arab Organisation for Education, Science and Culture workers. The Cabinet tasked said. taken to move it to the The competent authorities (ALECSO). the relevant authorities to The terrorist attack which second group in the table of have been requested to take The session referred three air service agreements signed review the contracts of the targeted a security checkpoint narcotic substances referred the necessary procedures in between Bahrain and Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and workers’ accommodation in North Sinai, Egypt, was to in the Narcotic Drugs and this regard. Brazil to the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs and continue working on the also strongly condemned by bachelors’ residence. CSB to monitor Health Ministry staff attendance DT News Network or leave early before official duty hours the circular mentioned. [email protected] end. The document, which was leaked on According to a circular issued by the internet, was issued on July 9. It Manama Human Resources and Services also read, “All must adhere to working he attendance monitoring system Undersecretary in Health Ministry, the hours and biometric system to avoid of Health Ministry will be linked electronic attendance system in the any salary deductions.” toT that of the Civil Service Bureau ministry “ITAAC” will be automatically The ministry issued similar directives (CSB), starting August 1, it was linked with CSB’s “HORISON” system, last February, banning the use of mobile announced. starting August 1. phones, calling or texting, during This means that automatic salary “Salary deductions will be duty hours. The announcement came deductions will be activated for automatically activated for absence, late to “ensure the quality of healthcare employees who show up late to work and attendance and early dismissal,” services in the Kingdom”. 4 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 5 Garden show theme announced Harpreet Kaur/DTNN and continued support of small areas within their houses [email protected] Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim for agricultural purposes in Cabinet condemns terror Al Khalifa, Wife of the King modern and innovative ways.” Manama of Bahrain and President of ood Safety and Human the Consultative Council for The exhibits Health will be the theme the National Initiative for Hall 1 -The Marketplace- will Fof the Bahrain International Agricultural Development be dedicated to the marketing Garden Show 2018, it was (NIAD). of various agricultural announced yesterday. The event will be organised products such as flowers, attacks in Saudi, Egypt Announcing the decision by National Initiative for plants, agricultural tools, pots, at a press conference held at Agricultural Development garden furniture, machinery, Manama More Parking lots the Bahrain International (NIAD). lighting equipment and all is Royal Highness HRH the Prime Minister Exhibition and Convention Zahra Abdulmalik, agricultural products and Prime Minister Prince gave directives to create Centre, Shaikha Maram Bint Isa chairperson of the Bahrain services. From left, Shaikha Maram Bint Isa Al Khalifa and Zahra Abdulmalik during the press conference HKhalifa bin Salman Al more car parking lots in old Al Khalifa, Secretary-General Garden Club, said, “We Hall 2 will be dedicated Khalifa extended deepest neighbourhoods, including of NIAD told DT News, “The “Each year, the show sector in the Kingdom. visitors and 155 exhibitors. are continually working for raising awareness and thanks and appreciation those in Muharraq. upcoming show will focus on highlights a theme that is critical “The show continued to The 2018 edition of the show on providing farmers and education. It will include to the Representatives and Instructions were also given the safety of foods that meet to the field and showcases grow and develop over the will be held at the Bahrain garden enthusiasts with both official and educational Shura councils for their to acquire five sites in Galali international quality standards, information and best practices past years, as its exhibiting International Exhibition and comprehensive information institutions and civil society fruitful cooperation with the to be used as public parking starting from the production to improve existing systems, as area reached more than 7,000 Convention Centre from 22nd about diseases and pests organisations. It will showcase government in preparing the lots and requested the Works, stage, to storage and processing well as alternative methods and square meters,” Shaikha to 25th February 2018 under that harm plants and how to their services, programmes, General State Budget 2017- Municipalities Affairs and until the food product reaches solutions that contribute to Maram added. The last show the patronage of His Majesty combat them properly, as well and latest agricultural 2018. Urban Planning Minister to the consumer’s table”. the growth of the agricultural witnessed more than 45,000 King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, as encourage them to utilize innovations. He also praised the issue necessary acquisition consensus reached by the edicts. Executive and the Legislature on the principles and strategic Beach cleanliness priorities related to the HRH Premier directed to budget. pay more attention to the This came as HRH the cleanliness of beaches and Prime Minister chaired the harbours and ensure they are Now just regular weekly cabinet session waste-free. at the Gudaibiya Palace The Cabinet gave yesterday. instruction to remove waste, The Cabinet strongly Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa during the Cabinet session held yesterday at the Gudaibiya Palace if any, from there, including condemned and denounced the session which expressed Minister was informed municipal services, as well Affairs and Urban Planning the area surrounding the the terror attack which Bahrain’s solidarity with about the progress of the as public facilities, roads and and the Minister of Housing, Bandar Al-Dar Port. Ministry targeted an on-duty security brotherly Egypt and its implementation of his sanitation. of the technical steps of Works, Municipalities 100 days! patrol in the Saudi Qatif support for its measures aimed directives to service ministries The Prime Minister taken so far to commence Affairs and Urban Planning Province, reiterating Bahrain’s at maintaining its security and to meet the needs of Duraz, took note, through reports the implementation of has been directed to take full-fledged support to sisterly stability. A’ali, Muharraq and Hamad submitted by the Minister the required executive necessary measures to ensure Saudi Arabia and backing After that, HRH the Prime Town regarding housing and of Works, Municipalities programmes. that the contracts of the of all measures it deems cleaning companies are still necessary to fight terrorism Other decisions valid. and safeguard its security and The session agreed that youth aged between 15 and Labour camps stability. Shabu narcotic 29 are the category targeted by the Youth and Sports It also reaffirmed the Affairs Ministry through its programmes, activities and Referring to labour camps, No more one Kingdom’s principled stance he Cabinet approved Psychotropic Substances services. HRH the Prime Minister in rejection of all forms and Ta proposal to consider Law 15/2007. stressed the need to ensure manifestations of terrorism, a shabu as a narcotic rather The move is in line with The session endorsed the Kingdom’s hosting of the that health, security and year validity on post-session statement by the than as psychotropic keenness to tighten the first meeting to draft an Arab strategy for the use of safety requirements are met Cabinet Secretary-General, substances. penalties on the use and cloud computing in education, to be organised by the in the collective residence of Dr Yasser bin Isa Al-Nasser Decision has also been importation of narcotics. Arab Organisation for Education, Science and Culture workers. The Cabinet tasked pre-paid lines said. taken to move it to the The competent authorities (ALECSO). the relevant authorities to The terrorist attack which second group in the table of have been requested to take The session referred three air service agreements signed review the contracts of the DT News Network targeted a security checkpoint narcotic substances referred the necessary procedures in between Bahrain and Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and workers’ accommodation so the customer is left with BD2 demand will likely drop because [email protected] in North Sinai, Egypt, was to in the Narcotic Drugs and this regard. Brazil to the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs and continue working on the as his credit while keeping the customers may just opt to fill also strongly condemned by bachelors’ residence. validity. BD1 was our charge credit monthly with the official Manama for the service” a shopkeeper method. There may be others elecom companies are no said. who are still offering the service longer providing the year The service, which is not by providing the three month longT validity on prepaid mobile recognised by any of the telecom validity but many have stopped phone lines following regulations service providers or the TRA, it altogether,” a shop keeper told CSB to monitor Health from Telecommunications had become popular among DT News Regulatory Authority (TRA). pre-paid line users. Despite not When contacted, telecom According to the new rule being officially acknowledged by service providers confirmed that telecom companies can only the companies or the authority the maximum validity provided provide a maximum of hundred the service is sometimes even during refilling credit has been Ministry staff attendance days of validity for prepaid lines. advertised outside stores. cut short to hundred days. The most affected from the new “One year validity available “From Tuesday onwards, the DT News Network or leave early before official duty hours the circular mentioned. regulations is the ‘Mobile credit here” signs outside the shops maximum validity you can [email protected] end. The document, which was leaked on transfer’ service provided at is a common sight in the receive with a recharge is hundred According to a circular issued by the internet, was issued on July 9. It mobile shops and cold stores market. days, because regulations from Manama Human Resources and Services also read, “All must adhere to working which helped customers extend While the ‘one year validity’ TRA has changed,” a customer he attendance monitoring system Undersecretary in Health Ministry, the hours and biometric system to avoid their telephone line validity has come to an end, many of the care representative from Batelco of Health Ministry will be linked electronic attendance system in the any salary deductions.” for a year by paying BD2 to shopkeepers have also chosen to told DT News. “You can receive toT that of the Civil Service Bureau ministry “ITAAC” will be automatically The ministry issued similar directives BD3. end the credit transfer service a validity for 100 days by (CSB), starting August 1, it was linked with CSB’s “HORISON” system, last February, banning the use of mobile “Customers used to pay us altogether, at least temporarily. refilling for BD30 but this is announced. starting August 1. phones, calling or texting, during BD3 and we transfer BD20 to “I decided to stop the service the maximum validity you can This means that automatic salary “Salary deductions will be duty hours. The announcement came their account to give them a because the line validity is only receive, “ a Viva representative deductions will be activated for automatically activated for absence, late to “ensure the quality of healthcare validity of one year. We would three months it may not be as said. A Zain representative also employees who show up late to work and attendance and early dismissal,” services in the Kingdom”. transfer BD18 to our account beneficial to the users and the confirmed the same. 6 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 London’s Camden Lock Market ablaze Turkey detains 42 over London “The fire was moving very eventy firefighters battled fast,” witness Joan Ribes, 24, a large fire in a building said. Shousing many boutique shops He said the fire “was in London’s popular Camden flying through the air to the alleged links to Gulen Lock Market yesterday. surrounding areas”. Istanbul The authorities issued The emergency service said “People were watching, but urkey detained 42 staff of detention warrants for eight it had sent 10 fire engines to we were scared the building two Istanbul universities staff from Bogazici University the scene and the fire was could explode at any time includingT a prominent and 64 staff from Medeniyet extinguished within around since there are restaurants with academic as part of an University including 19 of its three hours with no casualties kitchens nearby,” he said. investigation into the group professors from the medical reported. The market area has around blamed for last year’s failed school, Dogan news agency “The first, second and 28 million visitors a year. coup, state media reported said. third floors, plus the roof, of A London Ambulance yesterday. Meanwhile, the Ankara a building within the market Service spokeswoman said they Authorities issued a total of chief public prosecutor issued are alight,” the London Fire were called to a fire at 00:07 72 arrest warrants for people arrest warrants for 43 people Brigade said on Twitter after am (2307 GMT Sunday), but suspected of links to the including six staff currently the fire broke out. that they had not treated any group of US-based Muslim working at the prime Fire brigade spokesman patients. cleric Fethullah Gulen, state- minister’s office and related David Reid said: “Crews worked A spokeswoman for Market run news agency Anadolu institutions, Anadolu reported hard to get the fire under Tech, the major shareholder reported. yesterday. control and to stop it from in the market, said the fire was One of those detained was The agency said “some” spreading to neighbouring isolated to one building. academic Koray Caliskan, had been detained during buildings.” “While a small section of main opposition People’s Fethullah Gulen (file photo) an operation after it Images shared on social Camden Lock Market will be Republican Party (CHP) oust President Recep Tayyip accused of using the encrypted was suspected they used media showed tall flames and closed off to the public until lawmaker Oguz Kaan Salici Erdogan but Gulen strongly messaging app, ByLock, which Bylock, which authorities a burnt-out building at the further notice as a precaution, said on Twitter. denies the charges. Ankara claims was especially have frequently cited by as north London market, which the rest of Camden Lock Ankara accuses Gulen of The staff from Bogazici and created for Gulen supporters, “evidence” of alleged links to is popular with Londoners and Market... will be fully open,” ordering the failed plot to Medeniyet universities are Anadolu reported. Gulen. (AFP) tourists. she said. Thousands flee wildfires in California, British Columbia

Firefighters pass a car that was destroyed by the Whittier Fire near Santa Barbara, California. Los Angeles yesterday morning, according around 200 blazes of varying ore than a dozen to the California Department degrees of intensity have been wildfires were raging of Forestry and Fire Protection reported. Macross California yesterday known as Cal Fire. The Alamo fire, which began forcing thousands of residents More than 1,200 fire four days ago, has spread of the most populous US state personnel were battling the to Santa Barbara County, to flee their homes. Alamo blaze, Cal Fire said, approximately midway Further to the north, the adding that hot and dry between San Francisco and Canadian province of British conditions were expected to Los Angeles, and is currently Columbia was under a state of continue for the next several the state’s largest active fire, emergency as fire crews there days and the inferno has been according to Cal Fire. also battled blazes fuelled by only 15 per cent contained so Fire containment efforts searing temperatures and high far. were particularly aimed at winds. The California fires have guarding mountain peaks The worst of the brush fires in forced the evacuation of around holding vital infrastructure California was the Alamo fire in 8,000 people while another such as a high-voltage line that San Luis Obispo County, which 10,000 have fled their homes delivers power to nearby cities, had burned nearly 29,000 acres in British Columbia, Canada’s according to the Los Angeles (117 square kilometres) as of westernmost province, where Times newspaper. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 7

Smoke plumes billowing in the Austria bars Turkish economy Old City of Mosul during the offen- minister over rally plans sive by the Iraqi Vienna force to retake ustria said yesterday it had barred Turkish Economy the embattled city Minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to from Islamic State Aattend a rally marking the anniversary of last year’s failed coup (IS) group fighters attempt in Turkey. “He has been barred because his visit was not planned as part of a bilateral exchange, but was about his public appearance at an event marking the coup attempt,” foreign ministry spokesman Thomas Schnoell said. Zeybekci’s attendance at the “large event” would have represented a “danger for public order”, Schnoell added. “The Turkish government wants to exert its political influence in Austria. We won’t allow that,” Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern told Oe1 public radio. Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu hit back at Vienna in a statement, accusing the Austrian authorities of demonstrating they were “not sincere in defending democratic values”. The rally is scheduled to take place in Vienna on Sunday. It is being organised by the Austrian branch of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD), a pro-Ankara group present in several European Union countries. UETD spokesman Ramazan Aktas called Vienna’s move “undemocratic”.

US rebuilding ‘lost trust’ with Turkey: Tillerson Istanbul Iraqi forces push to he United States is starting to rebuild trust that was lost in its relationship with key NATO ally Turkey after a series ofT disputes, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday after meetings with Turkish leaders. Tillerson had held several hours of talks the day earlier with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, hoping to smooth clear last of Mosul out the two countries’ ties. Mosul with aid groups warning that shells and rubble littering the battle was near its end. He acknowledged that the United States’ relationship with raqi forces fought to Iraq’s humanitarian crisis was streets. Lieutenant General Sami Turkey had “been under some stress for some time.” eliminate the last pockets of far from over. Soldiers armed with al-Aridhi of Iraq’s elite “I hope we are beginning to put it on the mend,” he told staff IslamicI State group resistance Prime Minister Haider machineguns and sniper Counter-Terrorism Service members at the US consulate in Istanbul in a speech to wrap up in Mosul yesterday after the al-Abadi visited Mosul on rifles fired from atop ruined said the jihadists had been his two-day visit. premier visited the devastated Sunday and hailed Iraq’s structures in the Old City reduced to an area of the Turkey’s relations with Washington plummeted in the final city to congratulate troops on “heroic fighting forces” after yesterday, and air strikes sent Old City of about 200 by 100 months of Barack Obama’s administration but Ankara has securing victory. months of difficult battles that plumes of smoke rising over metres (yards). hoped for an improvement under President Donald Trump. With the jihadists have left much of the city in Mosul’s historic centre. “They do not accept to But ties are still being eroded by disputes ranging from Syria surrounded in a sliver of ruins. A senior commander said surrender,” Aridhi said. to the extradition of the alleged organiser of last year’s failed territory in Mosul’s Old City, The Old City in particular on Monday that Iraqi forces But “operations are in their coup to the fate of a US pastor jailed in Turkey since October. attention was turning to the has been devastated, with were engaged in “heavy” final stages,” and “it is likely Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobil chief, said he believed that huge task of rebuilding the many buildings reduced fighting with the remnants of that (the fighting) will end each time he met Erdogan “things are getting a little better in city and of helping civilians, to little more than concrete jihadist forces, but that the today”, Aridhi said. (AFP) terms of the tone between us.” “I think we’re beginning to rebuild some of that trust that we lost in one another, they lost our trust to a certain extent, World’s ‘oldest’ hippopotamus we lost theirs. Bertha dies at Philippine zoo Yemen cholera outbreak tops Manila far beyond the 40 to 50 year 300,000 suspected cases: ICRC ertha, believed to be lifespans which are typical for Geneva the world’s oldest the species in the wild and in cholera outbreak in Yemen has now surpassed 300,000 Bhippopotamus, has died captivity respectively, Dichaves suspected cases, the Red Cross said yesterday as the war- aged 65, the Manila zoo said said. Atorn country reels from disease as well as the threat of famine. yesterday, having beaten the Zoo officials believed Bertha The International Committee of the Red Cross said the typical lifespan for the mostly was the oldest living hippo cholera epidemic “continues to spiral out of control” since it herbivorous mammals by in captivity at the time of her erupted in April. decades. death. “Today, over 300,000 people are suspected to be ill,” it said in The 2.5-tonne female was Donna, who died in 2012 a Twitter post. ICRC spokeswoman Iolanda Jaquemet said the found dead Friday in her at the age of 62 at the US death toll now stood at more than 1,700. enclosure, with a post mortem Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic ICRC regional director Robert Mardini said about 7,000 new examination concluding Garden in Evansville, Indiana, cholera cases were being recorded daily in the capital Sanaa and that Bertha, the zoo’s oldest was previously said to be the three other areas. resident, had died from world’s oldest hippo, according The collapse of Yemen’s infrastructure after more than two multiple organ failure, zoo ‘Bertha’ being fed in her enclosure in Manila (file photo) to media reports at the time. years of war between the Saudi-backed government and Shiite director James Dichaves said. any offspring,” he said. lost the records of where she Two years ago, an adult rebels who control Sanaa has made for a “perfect storm for “Bertha was among the A seven-year-old Bertha came from, Dichaves said. male hippo named Bertie was cholera”, according to the World Health Organization. pioneer animals here. Her mate arrived at the zoo in the Fed a diet of grass, fruit, and euthanised at the Denver Zoo Cholera is a highly contagious bacterial infection spread died sometime in the 1980s and Philippines’ capital the year it bread in a 1,000 square-metre in Colorado at the age of 58, through contaminated food or water. the couple failed to produce opened in 1959. The zoo has (quarter-acre) pen, Bertha lived the reports said. 8 BUSINESS Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 BUSINESS 9 Suzuki, Fiat Chrysler in emissions data probe Apple to invest $900mn in Danish data plant “The war in Syria is destroying the The Hague Stockholm institutions and systems that societies Alba launches Line 6 safety awareness campaign need to function, and repairing them will utch vehicle authorities said yesterday that carmakers pple yesterday said it would invest six billion Danish Suzuki and Fiat Chrysler were being referred to the public kroner ($920 million, 810 million euros) in a data centre be a greater challenge than rebuilding Dprosecutor for possibly misusing Ain Denmark, its second in the infrastructure -- a emissions software. country to run entirely on clean challenge that will The Netherlands Vehicle energy. Ground-breaking at the only grow as the war Authority (RDW) revealed its plant in Aabenraa, which will continues,” findings in its second report employ between 50 and 100 since the so-called Dieselgate people, will start in the final Hafez Ghanem scandal erupted two years quarter of 2017, with construction ago. due to be completed in early 2019. World Bank Vice President for MENA Alba launches Safety Awareness Campaign for Line 6 Contractors Manama Contractors at the Alba Oasis of the Undersecretary of Tim Murray in the presence This tailored campaign aims event features a number of luminium Bahrain (Alba) Hall. Bahrain’s Ministry of Labour of Alba Executives, Directors, to improve the contractors’ presentations delivered launched a new safety Organised by Alba and in and Social Development, and Managers as well as Line awareness towards safety and by speakers from Alba, Aawareness campaign “My partnership with the Ministry Subah bin Salem Al Doseri. The 6 Contractors’ Officials, in health during the summer Ministry of Health as well as Health ... My Responsibility” of Health, this two-day event campaign was inaugurated by addition to representatives months especially heat Ministry of Labour and Social yesterday targeting Line 6 was held under the patronage Alba’s Chief Executive Officer, from both ministries. stress and dehydration. This Development. KHCB names Qatar Petroleum and Total to launch joint venture Oil, gas key to future Doha coast and lies over the North Al Waffer’s tate-owned Qatar Field, one of the world’s largest Petroleum and French oil and gas fields. Senergy giant Total will formally While the contract was Kuwait Finance House-Bahrain (KFH-Bahrain), has announced launch a 25-year joint venture announced last year, the launch its new ‘Libshara’ Savings Account promotional campaign. to develop the Al Shaheen oil comes amid the worst crisis to field this week, the companies hit Qatar, in years. June winner energy: Aramco boss Hessa gets BD500 monthly salary for 10 years said yesterday. Central bank Governor Istanbul that electric cars would also The North Oil Company, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud il and gas will remain still need time to take off. to be launched today, will al-Thani also told US media Three grand prizes remain: a luxurious Porsche, USD 200,000 and 1 million US Dollars central to the world’s With the global economy be made up of a 70 per cent at the weekend that Qatar supplyO of energy for decades forecast to grow sharply as stake from QP and a 30 per has $340 billion in reserves to The “Libshara” Savings Investment Account is a Sharia’a Manama to come, despite a surge populations increase, he said cent stake from Total, which weather the crisis. compliant scheme that offers clients valuable prizes on haleeji Commercial Bank of interest in renewables, it is a “mistaken assumption is taking over operations from The signing of the Total a monthly and quarterly basis. For every BD50 saved, K(KHCB) has named the chief executive of giant that alternatives will be rapidly Maersk Oil, according to a contract also comes amid clients are entitled to one raffle entry and can increase Hessa Isa Mohammed as producer Saudi Aramco Amin deployed”. statement released by Qatar reports that Saudi Arabia their chances in winning one of the many exciting prizes the winner of the Al Waffer Nasser said yesterday. “Rising demand for all Petroleum. and the UAE may pressure by growing the total amount invested and also optimiz- account Grand Prize for the Oil major bosses and energy sources of energy -- with The site it will develop is international companies to ing the duration of their investment period. month of June, which is a ministers are meeting at the oil and gas at the heart of located some 80 kilometres (50 either do business with them monthly salary of BD 500 for World Petroleum Congress the mix -- will be the reality miles) off Qatar’s northeast or with Qatar. ten years. in Istanbul, with the outlook for decades to come,” he The draw took place at the clouded by low crude oil prices said. headquarters of KHCB in and exacerbated by the drive Nasser said that despite the Kuwait airline says laptop ban lifted The bank will reward nine Bahrain Financial Harbour, towards renewables which clear importance of oil and gas winners with nine luxury under the supervision have driven down investment Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser in the future energy mix, the Kuwait City devices larger than a mobile apartments in Marrasi Al of a representative from to record lows. compromised.” “petroleum will continue to be outlook was harmed by the uwait Airways said Sunday phone in the cabins of direct Bahrain, one of the pro- the Ministry of Industry, Nasser stressed the need Meanwhile, the decision the heart of the energy mix.” tens of billions lost in deferred that a ban on laptops flights to the US from 10 jects located within Diyar Commerce and Tourism to ramp up investment in announced last week by Volvo He said that while and cancelled investment Kand tablets in the cabins of airports in Turkey, the Middle Al Muharraq. and the presence of relevant underlining the continuing to phase out petrol-only cars “expectations for alternatives since the current spate of low its US-bound flights had been East and North Africa, only department representatives. energy importance of oil and from 2019 in favour of electric are through the roof” history oil prices began. lifted by Washington. allowing them in hold Expressing her immense gas. has also sent ripples of concern shows that energy transitions The downturn has blown “Now our passengers flying luggage. pleasure at winning this “Financial investors are around the industry. to different sources tend to be a major hole in the budgets from Kuwait International Dubai-based Emirates, valuable prize, Hessa said: Hessa (middle) receiving her prize from KHCB’s representa- shying away from making The chief of the Saudi “long and complex processes”. of key OPEC and non-OPEC Airport to in #NY will be able Turkish Airways, Qatar “Winning this prize is like tives Abdulrahman Al Suwaidi (left) and Mohammed Bu much needed investment,” Arabian energy giant said “The renewables still have producers reliant on robust oil to use all of their personal Airways and Saudi Arabia’s a dream, which I thank Zuboon (right). he said, warning that without that there is “widespread major challenges, they do not prices for healthy finances. electronic devices,” the national airline have all said Khaleeji Commercial Bank higher investment levels agreement” that even as the compete with oil. It takes a “New discoveries are also emirate’s flag carrier said on their passengers are now for realizing.” USD 200,000 and 1 million being USD 1,000,000. As for “energy transition and world moves to greater use of long time for new fuels to seize on a major downward trend,” Twitter. allowed to bring personal Tawfeeq Mohamed US Dollars. We look forward September, the lucky winner energy security may be fatally renewables over fossil fuels, market share,” he said, noting Nasser added. (AFP) The United States in electronics on board direct Bastaki, Acting CEO of to announcing the winners in of the fourth Grand Prize will March barred all electronic flights to the US. KHCB, congratulated the the coming months,” added win the luxurious Porsche lucky winner of the June Bastaki. Macan, while the fifth Grand draw, mentioning the extent The eighth edition of Prize winner will receive of client interaction Al Al Waffer account will USD 200,000. Gulf Air IT Data Centre achieves tier 3 standard compliance Waffer account received in realize an account holding The bank also announced Gulf Air recently celebrated its newly renovated its new edition for 2017. client’s dream of becoming it has reduced the minimum An additional 85 winners IT Data Centre achieving tier 3 standard com- “Three grand prizes a millionaire with the sixth deposit amount from BD50 will avail from total monthly pliance classification. Gulf Air Chief Executive remain which are a Porsche, grand prize for December to BD25. Officer Maher Salman Al Musallam visited prizes worth USD140,000; the IT Data Centre, formally inaugurating the this includes a grand prize upgraded facility which allows the airline to of USD50,000; two prizes ensure that their hosted mission-critical servic- of USD10,000; and another es are continuously available. Commenting on two prizes of USD5,000. “We are delighted to offer nine luxury CBB Treasury Bills subscribed 100pc Furthermore, 40 winners this achievement Gulf Air Director Information Manama of Bahrain. price for the issue was 99.421pc will receive USD1,000 apartments at Marassi Al Bahrain Project Technology Dr. Jassim Haji, said: “Achieving his week’s BD70 million The issue date of the bills is with the lowest accepted price each and 10 winners from which embodies absolute luxury in living this classification confirms our compliance with issue of Government 12th July 2017 and the maturity being 99.403pc. the Libshara ‘special’ seg- best practice and standards as we continually standards and services available.” TreasuryT Bills has been date is 11th October 2017. This is issue No. 1660 ments, ‘Our Ladies’, ‘Our strive to improve the airline’s business sustain- - Khalid Rafea, subscribed by 100 per cent. The weighted average rate of (ISIN BH00024A63S6) of Children’, ‘Our Savers’ and ability, continuity and commitments.” Above, The bills, carrying a interest is 2.30pc, compared to Government Treasury Bills. ‘Our Cards’ - will receive Executive Manager and Head of Retail Maher Salman Al Musallam (centre) and Dr. maturity of 91 days, are issued 2.33pc for the previous issue on With this, the total outstanding USD500 each. Jassim Haji are seen alongside members of Gulf Banking Group at KFH-Bahrain by the CBB, on behalf of the 05th July 2017. value of Government Treasury Air’s Information Technology Department Government of the Kingdom The approximate average Bills is BD 1.910 billion. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 BUSINESS 9 Suzuki, Fiat Chrysler in emissions data probe Apple to invest $900mn in Danish data plant “The war in Syria is destroying the The Hague Stockholm institutions and systems that societies utch vehicle authorities said yesterday that carmakers pple yesterday said it would invest six billion Danish need to function, and repairing them will Suzuki and Fiat Chrysler were being referred to the public kroner ($920 million, 810 million euros) in a data centre be a greater challenge than rebuilding Dprosecutor for possibly misusing Ain Denmark, its second in the infrastructure -- a emissions software. country to run entirely on clean challenge that will The Netherlands Vehicle energy. Ground-breaking at the only grow as the war Authority (RDW) revealed its plant in Aabenraa, which will continues,” findings in its second report employ between 50 and 100 since the so-called Dieselgate people, will start in the final Hafez Ghanem scandal erupted two years quarter of 2017, with construction ago. due to be completed in early 2019. World Bank Vice President for MENA KHCB names Al Waffer’s

Kuwait Finance House-Bahrain (KFH-Bahrain), has announced its new ‘Libshara’ Savings Account promotional campaign. June winner Hessa gets BD500 monthly salary for 10 years Three grand prizes remain: a luxurious Porsche, USD 200,000 and 1 million US Dollars

The “Libshara” Savings Investment Account is a Sharia’a Manama compliant scheme that offers clients valuable prizes on haleeji Commercial Bank a monthly and quarterly basis. For every BD50 saved, (KHCB) has named clients are entitled to one raffle entry and can increase KHessa Isa Mohammed as their chances in winning one of the many exciting prizes the winner of the Al Waffer by growing the total amount invested and also optimiz- account Grand Prize for the ing the duration of their investment period. month of June, which is a monthly salary of BD 500 for ten years. The draw took place at the headquarters of KHCB in The bank will reward nine Bahrain Financial Harbour, winners with nine luxury under the supervision apartments in Marrasi Al of a representative from Bahrain, one of the pro- the Ministry of Industry, jects located within Diyar Commerce and Tourism Al Muharraq. and the presence of relevant department representatives. Expressing her immense pleasure at winning this valuable prize, Hessa said: Hessa (middle) receiving her prize from KHCB’s representa- “Winning this prize is like tives Abdulrahman Al Suwaidi (left) and Mohammed Bu a dream, which I thank Zuboon (right). Khaleeji Commercial Bank for realizing.” USD 200,000 and 1 million being USD 1,000,000. As for Tawfeeq Mohamed US Dollars. We look forward September, the lucky winner Bastaki, Acting CEO of to announcing the winners in of the fourth Grand Prize will KHCB, congratulated the the coming months,” added win the luxurious Porsche lucky winner of the June Bastaki. Macan, while the fifth Grand draw, mentioning the extent The eighth edition of Prize winner will receive of client interaction Al Al Waffer account will USD 200,000. Waffer account received in realize an account holding The bank also announced its new edition for 2017. client’s dream of becoming it has reduced the minimum An additional 85 winners “Three grand prizes a millionaire with the sixth deposit amount from BD50 will avail from total monthly remain which are a Porsche, grand prize for December to BD25. prizes worth USD140,000; this includes a grand prize of USD50,000; two prizes of USD10,000; and another two prizes of USD5,000. “We are delighted to offer nine luxury CBB Treasury Bills subscribed 100pc Furthermore, 40 winners Manama of Bahrain. price for the issue was 99.421pc will receive USD1,000 apartments at Marassi Al Bahrain Project his week’s BD70 million The issue date of the bills is with the lowest accepted price each and 10 winners from which embodies absolute luxury in living issue of Government 12th July 2017 and the maturity being 99.403pc. the Libshara ‘special’ seg- standards and services available.” TreasuryT Bills has been date is 11th October 2017. This is issue No. 1660 ments, ‘Our Ladies’, ‘Our - Khalid Rafea, subscribed by 100 per cent. The weighted average rate of (ISIN BH00024A63S6) of Children’, ‘Our Savers’ and The bills, carrying a interest is 2.30pc, compared to Government Treasury Bills. ‘Our Cards’ - will receive Executive Manager and Head of Retail maturity of 91 days, are issued 2.33pc for the previous issue on With this, the total outstanding USD500 each. Banking Group at KFH-Bahrain by the CBB, on behalf of the 05th July 2017. value of Government Treasury Government of the Kingdom The approximate average Bills is BD 1.910 billion. 10 BUSINESS Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Mideast shares up, strong Q2 boosts Saudi Representational image

Dubai recommended a cash iddle East markets dividend of 1.05 riyals per followed global shares share for the first half of this Closing Bell Mhigher yesterday and Saudi year, almost double the cash COUNTRY/CURRENCIES BUY SELL Arabia’s stock index was distributed in the prior year SAUDI ARABIA rebounded 1.0pc to 7,237 points. bolstered by strong quarterly period. AUSTRALIA 0.2944 0.2921 reports and dividend Egypt’s blue-chip index DUBAI added 0.5pc to 3,418 points. BANGLADESH 0.00497 0.00468 announcements. added 1.1pc, recovering from CANADA 0.2991 0.2948 In Saudi Arabia, shares of a small drop on Sunday. DENMARK 0.0609 ABU DHABI fell 0.3pc to 4,398 points. EGYPT 0.0234 0.0217 United Electronics Company Shares of media conglomerate EURO 0.4381 0.4339 (Extra) surged by their 10pc Orascom Telecom gained QATAR gained 1.0pc to 8,995 points. HONGKONG 0.04983 0.04943 daily limit to 36.90 riyals, 3.0pc after it reported first- INDIA 0.00599 0.00589 their highest close since quarter net income of 388.5m EGYPT rose 1.1pc to 13,483 points. INDONESIA 0.00003074 0.00002884 January 2016. The company Egyptian pounds ($21.74m) IRAN TUMAN 0.000323 had earlier reported second- versus 48.73m pounds in the KUWAIT added 0.4pc to 6,749 points. IRAQI DINAR 0.000304 quarter net income of 43.4 same period a year ago. JAPAN 0.00346 0.003390 million riyals ($11.57m), up Shares of the largest BAHRAIN fell 0.1pc to 1,308 points. JORDAN 0.5350 0.5351 287.5pc from the prior year listed lender Commercial OMAN rose 0.5pc to 5,159 points. KOREA 0.00037870 period. International Bank rose 1.8pc. KUWAIT 1.249 1.249 In a separate statement, Qatar’s index climbed MALAYSIA 0.0905 0.0900 the board approved a cash 1.0pc, with four-fifths of the explorer Dana Gas fell 1.4pc the instruments were issued NEW ZEALAND 0.2798 0.2785 dividend of 0.75 riyals per total market turnover coming on profit taking. four years ago. NORWAY 0.0474 share for first half of 2017, from local investors, bourse Shares of the commodity The index edged down NEPAL 0.00384 0.00366 0.3pc in relatively thin OMAN 0.97962 0.98327 the company’s first dividend data showed. company have been volatile PAKISTAN 0.00370 0.00359 distribution since 2015. Twenty-six of the traded since late June when Dana trade. PHILIPPINES 0.00778 0.00746 The Riyadh index added companies rose, including declared it would not make Dubai’s index rose 0.5pc QATAR 0.10381 0.10376 1.0pc as all 12 of the listed heavyweight Qatar National payments on $700m of Islamic as shares of developer Union SAUDI ARABIA 0.10058 0.10066 banks rose. Banque Saudi Bank, which added 1.9pc, bonds maturing in October Properties climbed 1.7pc. SINGAPORE 0.2773 0.2753 Fransi surged 8.7pc in while 11 shares declined. because Islamic finance Twelve other shares rose SOUTH AFRICA 0.02970 0.02960 heavy trade after the board In Abu Dhabi, natural gas standards had changed since while 11 declined. (Reuters) SRI LANKA 0.00270 0.00246 SWEDISH 0.0478 SWITZERLAND 0.4000 0.3951 SYRIA 0.001740 0.0018 TAIWAN 0.012700 THAILAND 0.011300 0.011280 TURKEY 0.1124 UNITED KINGDOM 0.4957 0.4909 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 0.102810 0.102810 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0.37780 0.37800 YUAN 0.056800 0.056800 Rates are for indication purpose only. For firm rates or for currencies not listed above please call Bahrain Financing Company. Telephone: 17228888, Website: www.bfc.com.bh

COUNTRY 1 US DLR 1 UK STG 1 SFR 100 YEN BAHRAIN 0.3770 #REF! 0.3920 0.3317 KUWAIT 0.2855 32.4471 0.2968 0.2512 OMAN 0.3849 0.3702 0.4002 0.3387 A meeting took place yesterday at the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), where Rasheed Al Maraj, Governor of the CBB received Masood Bader, General Manager at Bahrain National Insurance Company accompanied by recently promoted employees QATAR 3.6420 3.5029 3.7867 3.2046 Eman Salem Mujali and Enas Ismail Akbar. The Governor welcomed the guests and congratulated the employees on their new UAE 3.6730 3.5327 3.8189 3.2319 posts as Deputy and Assistant General Managers. Also, present at the meeting were Dr. Huda Al Maskati, Executive Director of Corporate Services, Fouad Abdul Wahid, Director of Insurance Supervision and Nayla Al Khalifa, Head of Communications SAUDI 3.7500 3.6068 3.8989 3.2996 at the CBB. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11 Audi A8’s Advanced Suspension System It’s high noon for Tesla as Model 3 rolls off udi’s next-generation A8 will feature an adaptive camera- he time has come for Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk to linked suspension system, said to offer exceptional ride fulfill the promise of moving from niche automaker to Aand handling composure. This system is just one of the myriad providerT of affordable, all-electric cars to the masses. of new features expected to debut on the A8. The fully After nearly a decade of producing premium, low-volume active suspension uses advanced camera technology vehicles, the first production Model 3 — starting at about linked to individual electric motors for each $35,000 — was expected to have rolled off the assembly line wheel, thus adapting to changes in the road Friday, at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif. surface and providing a fine balance Tesla faces unprecedented, if not unbelievable, targets to between maximum comfort ramp up Model 3 production to 20,000 units a month by and dynamism. year end — a key to Musk’s plan to produce 500,000 (carscoop) vehicles in 2018 and about 1 million by 2020. (autonews)

‘Dieselgate’ arooq Motors, a UAE- expands travel to 45 cm based manufacturer, courtesy of Dakar-grade investigators hasZ unveiled its first model Intrax dampers, a lightweight – the SandRacer 500GT – racing chassis, built-in roll target Porsche two years after presenting cage, meaty tires and racing the car in concept form at harnesses. employees the 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand It also offers plenty of Frankfurt Prix. “We are very excited to refinement with a hand- nvestigators in Germany see our supercar perform on stitched leather interior by said yesterday they are roads as on sand, following Mansory, an LCD screen, probingI employees of our initial vision”, said sound system, and air- luxury sports car maker Bruno Laffite, one of Zarooq conditioning. Having and Volkswagen subsidiary Motors’ founders. What spent the past 18 months Porsche over emissions began as a high-performance fine tuning the car, the cheating. dune buggy has developed SandRacer 500 GT looks Prosecutors in the into something that’s just at more aggressive with southwestern city of Stuttgart, home on the road and track distinctive rear diffusers a car industry bastion, as it is on the sand. and a more radical design, said in a statement they Designed by Anthony there’s more power than had opened a probe against Jannarelly, the same man initially intended, and the “persons unknown working who crafted the Lykan interior offers more luxury. for the car maker and a US Hypersport and the Fenyr “All supercars look fantastic, subsidiary”. Supersport, the SandRacer feature luxurious racing- The investigation into 500GT is a two-seater, mid- inspired interiors and are “suspicion of fraud and false engined machine with a exclusive high performance advertising” stems from carbon-fiber body and 6.2- machines, but their common “possible manipulation of liter V8 that sends 518 hp denominator is that they exhaust treatment in diesel and 487 lb-ft of torque to are suited to racetracks and vehicles from Porsche the rear wheels via a five- certainly not designed for AG”. (AFP) speed sequential gearbox. speed bumps. Weighing in at just 1,200 kg, Zarooq Motors makes the SandRacer offers brutal supercars that are unique Lexus LS: performance, especially since you can take them on in the desert (as the name a week-end track day or for Don’t call it suggests) with two a luxurious commute in the suspension height city but also on any off-road ‘self-driving’ settings (road terrain, even the toughest Tokyo and sand) dunes of the Arabian Desert he new-generation 2018 that where they were born” Lexus LS arriving in the says Mohammed Al Qadi, UST early next year showcases Zarooq Motors’ executive. the brand’s latest, greatest Sales have already begun, automated safety technology. with a 35-unit limited- But the brand won’t call it self- edition run priced at driving. $450,000 a pop in the UAE. What the car will do and will Deliveries will start later this not do required some careful year. (carbuzz) wording, Lexus says. The flagship luxury sedan gets a complex shutdown system to safely guide the car to a stop when the driver is incapacitated or just lulled into complacency behind the wheel. Dubbed Driver Emergency Stop Assist, the technology aims to keep drivers engaged when the LS is cruising down the highway in lane-tracing mode. That new cruise control system allows the car to stay centred in its lane and automatically steer around curves at low and high speeds. (autonews) 12 Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa received at Gudaibiya Palace yesterday President of Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa who presented him with a copy of a book on the recent Bahraini achievements in basketball thanks to BBA’s development schemes. HRH the Prime Minister lauded the momentum spearheaded by Shaikh Isa to develop Bahraini basketball and boost its presence at the regional and international level. The Premier also praised the efforts of BBA President to promote Bahrain’s honourable participation in GCC, Asian, Arab and international competitions.

Minister of Health Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh presided over the fourth meeting of the National Committee on Combating Non-Contagious Diseases. Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Undersecre- tary for Primary and Public Healthcare, Dr. Mariam Al Hajeri, ministry officials and members of the committee including representatives of governmental and private institutions attended the meeting. The meeting discussed the combating of non-contagious diseases as per the recommendations of the WHO. Separately, the Minister received Dr. Kazhim Al Halwachi’s book on quitting smoking and recovering from tobacco addiction. The minister received a delegation from Bahrain Anti-Smoking Society, in the presence of Health Ministry’s Undersecretary for Primary and Public Healthcare, Dr. Mariam Al Hajeri

Capital Governor Shaikh Hisham bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa received outgoing Sudanese Within its current European tour, the delegation of the National Institution for Human Ambassador Abdulrahman Khalil Ahmed. They discussed strong fraternal relations between Rights (NIHR), led by Saeed Al Faihani, met, at the European Parliament (EP) headquarters both countries and their development at all levels. The Capital Governor lauded the Suda- in Strasbourg yesterday, EP member, representing the Czech Republic, Miroslav Poche. Al As part of the activities of the second day of 9th Royal Academy of Police (RAP) summer camp that is organised in coordination with Tamkeen, the students were involved in education and sports activities and visited a number nese ambassador’s role in bolstering bilateral relations and presented him with a commemo- Faihani reviewed the role of the NIHR in promoting the human rights culture, as well as in of organisations, including the National Institute of Human Rights and the Public Security Officers Club. The students also took part in a workshop on debating to enhance the self confidence of the participants. They were rative gift, wishing him success in his future diplomatic duties consolidating and protecting those rights also involved in an event that promote children to read more and attended lectures on social media, leadership and education Tuesday, July 11, 2017 13

On the sidelines of the 8th International Industrial Exhibition INNOPROM 2017 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani and the Bahraini delegation accompanying the minister participated the main strategic session “Smart Production” in presence of GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdula- tif Alzayani, UAE Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, General Manager of Kuwait Industry Authority Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa received at Gudaibiya Palace yesterday President of Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa who presented him with a copy Abdulkarim Taqi. They touched several of a book on the recent Bahraini achievements in basketball thanks to BBA’s development schemes. HRH the Prime Minister lauded the momentum spearheaded by Shaikh Isa to develop Bahraini basketball and boost topics and inputs related to advanced its presence at the regional and international level. The Premier also praised the efforts of BBA President to promote Bahrain’s honourable participation in GCC, Asian, Arab and international competitions. industries

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ctress Lily James, who is currently starring in ‘Baby Driver’, said she wants to play edgier roles in films. The 28-year-old star has previously worked in movie ‘Cinderella’ and TV series ‘Downton Abbey’. AThough she doesn’t regret her roles, she says she went through a phase where all the best parts she was offered were quite similar, “’Baby Driver’ has been a breath of fresh air. There are equal challenges in all of my projects but I’ve really, really loved doing something contemporary and I want to do much more along that route,” James said. “I wanted something a bit more rock and roll, yes. But you do what seems, at that moment, to be the best challenge or the best character or Los Angeles the best filmmaker.” (TOI) scar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio was reportedly boasting about his physique to someO girls at a party in Malibu, but they didn’t find it attractive. The “Shutter Island” actor was overheard boasting about his lack of exercise to some models, reported aceshowbiz.com. Adele planning “It was a party at private estate, he was drinking his beer and bragging to these models about how he doesn’t work out... to move back and the girls were like, ‘Does he think that is attractive? It’s not like he is in ‘Titanic’ shape anymore’,” a source told New York to London Post. (IANS) Los Angeles inger Adele is planning to leave the US and shift to her hometown London. The “Someone like Syou” hitmaker, who purchased a $7 million mansion in Hidden Valley, Beverly Hills, last year, is giving it up to return to London and live there permanently with her husband Simon Konecki and their four-year-old son Angelo, reports dailystar.co.uk. “Adele feels Los Angeles is not quite the place she thought it was. Back here in London, she has her family and close friends who are so important to her,” John Henson said a source. This comes after the 29-year-old pulled out of her final shows in July 11, 1967 London last month due to damaged vocal cords. Prior to this, Adele was considering Performer and media personality who became moving to London when Donald known as a co-host of ABC’s hit game show Trump won the election last year and became the US President. “Wipeout.” He also had a small recurring role as a (IANS) local newscaster on My Name Is Earl. 14 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 15

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Los Angeles inger Amy Lee says she will go to a Los Angeles ceremony if she has been nominated, irector Christopher but she thinks stars who just go to Nolan has been in talks show off like a “pony” are trying to with the “James Bond” ctress Lily James, who is currently starring in ‘Baby Driver’, attractS attention for the wrong reasons. producers over the said she wants to play edgier roles in films. The 28-year-old “I get invited to award shows so much and Dyears and could be in line to direct star has previously worked in movie ‘Cinderella’ and TV people are like, ‘Oh my God, you don’t want to the next film. series ‘Downton Abbey’. go! Why Not!’ But it’s a lot of pressure and I just Asked if he would ever tackle AThough she doesn’t regret her roles, she says she went through a feel like it puts a lot of pressure on the wrong a “James Bond” movie, Nolan phase where all the best parts she was offered were quite similar, thing, they’re like ‘What are you wearing’. I just told Playboy magazine: “A Bond “’Baby Driver’ has been a breath of fresh air. There are equal don’t care about that stuff. I care because I want movie, definitely. I’ve spoken to challenges in all of my projects but I’ve really, really loved doing people to see and hear our music,” Lee told BANG the producers Barbara Broccoli something contemporary and I want to do much more along that Showbiz, reports femalefirst.co.uk. and Michael G Wilson over the route,” James said. She added: “It’s cool if you’re being nominated years. I deeply love the character “I wanted something a bit more rock for an award, it’s exciting, but to go just to do the and I’m always excited to see what and roll, yes. But you do what seems, dog and pony show, it’s not my thing.” they do with it. at that moment, to be the best The 35-year-old singer also penned the song “Maybe one day that would challenge or the best character or called “Speak to me” for “Game of Thrones” star work out. You would have to be Los Angeles the best filmmaker.” (TOI) Emilia Clarke’s upcoming thriller “Voice from needed, if you know what I mean. scar-winning actor the Stone”, but it has taken the “Everybody’s Fool” It has to need reinvention; it has Leonardo DiCaprio was hitmaker a long time to get her work noticed and to need you. And they are getting reportedly boasting she has had a lot of her work rejected. (IANS) along very well.” (IANS) about his physique to someO girls at a party in Malibu, but they didn’t find it attractive. The “Shutter Island” actor was overheard boasting about his lack of exercise to some models, reported aceshowbiz.com. Adele planning “It was a party at private estate, he was drinking his beer and bragging to these models about how he doesn’t work out... to move back and the girls were like, ‘Does he think that MOVIES... COMING SOON... next week is attractive? It’s not like he is in ‘Titanic’ shape anymore’,” a source told New York to London Post. (IANS) Los Angeles inger Adele is planning to leave the US and shift to her hometown London. The “Someone like Syou” hitmaker, who purchased a $7 million mansion in Hidden Valley, Beverly Hills, last year, is giving it up to return to London and live there permanently with her husband Simon Konecki and their four-year-old son Angelo, reports dailystar.co.uk. “Adele feels Los Angeles is not quite the place she thought it was. Back here in London, she has her family and close friends who are so important to her,” John Henson said a source. This comes after the 29-year-old pulled out of her final shows in July 11, 1967 London last month due to damaged vocal cords. Prior to this, Adele was considering Valerian and the Girls Trip Landline The Midwife The Emoji Movie Performer and media personality who became moving to London when Donald known as a co-host of ABC’s hit game show Trump won the election last year and became the US President. City of a Thousand Director: Malcolm D. Lee Director: Gillian Robespierre Director: Martin Provost Director: Tony Leondis “Wipeout.” He also had a small recurring role as a (IANS) Planets Stars: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Stars: Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Stars: T.J. Miller, Anna Faris, Sofía local newscaster on My Name Is Earl. Director: Luc Besson Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Finn Wittrock, Edie Falco Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Vergara, Patrick Stewart Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Haddish Dolmaire Delevingne, Clive Owen, Elizabeth (www.imdb.com) 16 Tuesday, July 11, 2017

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Mrs Clinton.” “constructively” with Russia Trump’s eldest son was “It quickly became clear despite confronting Vladimir reportedly joined by the US that she had no meaningful Putin over alleged election president’s son-in-law Jared information,” he said, adding US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi meddling, as reports broke Kushner and then-Trump that the lawyer then began Jinping (R) pose prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the that his eldest son met a campaign chairman Paul discussing the adoption Mongolian businessman and G20 Summit in Hamburg Kremlin-linked Russian Manafort for the June 2016 of Russian children by martial arts expert Khaltmaa Beijing Germany. lawyer during the 2016 meeting in New York with the American couples under Battulga was sworn in as hina said yesterday the It recalled Trump’s campaign. Kremlin-connected lawyer, a program Putin had president, vowing to pur- United States apologised initial wavering on the The New York Times, the earliest such contact yet suspended. sue relations with countries afterC Beijing officially “One China” policy, which citing advisers briefed on the reported. The president’s son outside its giant neighbours protested a White House underpins relations between meeting, reported that Donald The younger Trump said said he gathered that the Russia and China. statement that mistakenly Washington and Beijing by Trump Jr. attended the in a statement to the Times adoption issue was “the true described Xi Jinping as the acknowledging there is only meeting after being promised that the lawyer, Natalia agenda all along and that the Militants force kids, president of the “Republic of one China and Taiwan is “damaging information” Veselnitskaya, “stated that claims of potentially helpful hostages to fight China”. part of it. about his father’s Democratic she had information that information were a pretext for Children and hostages are Xi is president of the Ties were also initially rival Hillary Clinton -- the individuals connected the meeting.” (AFP) being forced to fight along- People’s Republic of China, stymied by a protocol- side pro-Islamic State gun- while the Republic of China busting phone call between men waging a seven-week is the official name for the Beijing-sceptic president battle for a Philippine city, Taiwan, which Beijing claims Taiwanese President Malaysia foils bid to smuggle the country’s military said. as a breakaway province Tsai Ing-wen and Trump awaiting reunification. following his election victory. Chinese deities end SE The error was made in Then last month, the ‘bearded dragons’ an official readout of US US administration further Asia luxury tour President Trump’s remarks provoked the ire of Beijing Kuala Lumpur A statue of a Chinese goddess before a bilateral meeting when it approved $1.3 billion alaysia has foiled an pictured flying business class with Xi during last weekend’s worth of arms sales to the attempt to smuggle for a Southeast Asian tour has G20 summit in Hamburg, self-ruling island. Mdozens of bearded dragon headed home after putting lizards and tortoises into the her feet up at a premium air- country from neighbouring port lounge in Singapore Thailand to be sold as pets, authorities said yesterday. Afghanistan enacts law Twenty tourists robbed at Two Thais and one to control cyberspace Malaysian were arrested as they Paris airport hotel drove an SUV with the animals Afghanistan’s President Paris robbed the French, American hidden inside, according to Ashraf Ghani has signed into asked men armed with and Moroccan tourists of local border security chief Syed law a cybercrime bill target- tear gas robbed around their luggage and personal Basri Syed Ali. ing online crime and mili- M20 tourists who were waiting belongings on Saturday, the Authorities found 58 tancy by groups such as the for shuttle buses outside a sources said. bearded dragons and eight Seized bearded dragon lizards inside a container Taliban and Islamic State. Paris airport hotel at the Hotels around the airport African spurred tortoises. trio -- who were arrested help investigators probing pet For more, catch us weekend, sources close to the as well as the motorway Both animals are popular Thursday -- could be jailed for smuggling. online at: investigation said yesterday. leading to Charles de Gaulle pets in Malaysia but it is illegal up to 10 years, said Syed Basri. “This case could potentially The black-clad thieves and Le Bourget -- Europe’s to bring them into the country Kanitha Krishnasamy, acting uncover connections to the www.newsofbahrain.com arrived in at least two busiest private jet airport -- without the correct permits. regional director for wildlife exotic pet trade that appears /nobonline vehicles at the hotel near are frequently targeted by If found guilty of breaking trade monitoring network to be booming in Malaysia,” /newsofbahrain Charles de Gaulle airport and thieves. wildlife protection laws, the Traffic, said the discovery could she said. 20 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Actress abduction: Kerala actor arrested Kochi month for 13 hours in the case be behind the abduction She was reported to have alayalam actor Dileep and was let off. of the young actress on been molested enroute. was arrested yesterday Yesterday, he was questioned February 17. The police probe team Mevening by a Kerala Police at an undisclosed location near On that day, the hugely arrested Pulsar Suni and his team probing the abduction of here, and after five hours the popular actress was travelling aides, who effected the kidnap, a popular actress in February police probe team recorded the from Thrissur to Kochi by a week after the incident. this year. arrest of the actor. road when she was abducted. The conspiracy angle The office of Kerala Chief In the evening Dileep was After almost two hours she surfaced ever since Dileep and Minister Pinarayi Vijayan brought to the Aluva Police was dumped near the house of his close aide, actor-turned- confirmed the news of the club from the place where he director-turned-actor Lal, who director Nadir Shah, was Malayalam actor Dileep arrest to the media. was questioned. upon hearing her harrowing questioned for 13 hours last Dileep was questioned last Dileep is understood to experience, informed police. month. (IANS)

Sopranos actor kicks off India, US, Japan start Nepal fire truck expedition naval exercises New Delhi ndia began holding naval exercises with the United StatesI and Japan off its south US actor Michael Imperioli, star of TV series “The coast yesterday, seeking to Sopranos”, and Nepali Bollywood star Sunil Thapa (C) forge closer military ties to talk with Nepali fire chief Kishor Kumar Bhattarai (L) at counter growing Chinese the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu influence in the region. The exercises come as Indian Kathmandu and Chinese troops face off opranos star Michael Imperioli kicked off an expedition in a remote and strategically Monday that will see a motley crew of celebrities drive 10 sensitive part of the Himalayas Sfire trucks on Nepal’s hair-raising roads for charity. where India, China and Bhutan Imperioli and around two dozen other celebrities -- meet. including actor Malcolm McDowell and British explorer Sir India has a longstanding Ranulph Fiennes -- will drive 480 kilometres (300 miles) from territorial dispute with its the India-Nepal border in November to the capital where the northern neighbour, which trucks will be donated to Kathmandu’s fire brigade. is also expanding its naval “I got involved in the project first of all because I just presence in the region. think it’s a great idea. I think it’s going to save lives and save It is the fourth consecutive properties and bring benefit to a lot of people,” Imperioli said. year Japan’s Maritime Self- US and Japanese (R) Navy ships docked at a harbour in Chennai The Emmy Award-winning actor was joined at Kathmandu’s Defence Force (MSDF) has of shared threats to maritime activities in the Indian Ocean New Delhi. Boudhanath Stupa by Nepali Bollywood star Sunil Thapa and taken part in the Malabar security in the Indo-Asia in recent years, building ports Troops from the two one of the donated fire engines. Exercise, conducted annually Pacific”. in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and nuclear-armed neighbours by the US and India in the Bay The US navy is fielding Pakistan. have for weeks been engaged of Bengal since 1992. the USS Nimitz, the world’s The area also features heavily in a stand-off on a disputed No girls allowed: Japan’s In a statement, the US said largest aircraft carrier, for in Beijing’s new One Belt section of land high near what the exercises had “grown in the drills which go on till One Road initiative to revive is known as the trijunction, island gets UNESCO nod scope and complexity over the July 17. ancient trade routes from Asia, where Tibet, India and Bhutan years to address the variety China has stepped up its which has caused concerns in meet. (AFP) A Shinto priest holding a ritural ceremony at Okitsugu shrine of the Munakata Indian woman claims to be Indira Taisha in Okinoshima Gandhi’s granddaughter island Tokyo New Delhi the controversial state of men-only island in Japan where women are banned and n Indian woman emergency imposed by Indira male visitors must bathe naked in the sea before visiting who claims to be the Gandhi in 1975, a period of Aits shrine, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Asecret granddaughter of the deep unrest which saw civil The tiny landmass of Okinoshima is permanently manned murdered former prime liberties being suspended by a Shinto priest who prays to the island’s goddess, in a minister Indira Gandhi has across the country. tradition that has been kept up for centuries. gone to court to block a new “The film is 70 percent Limited numbers are permitted to land on the island in the Bollywood movie that she says fiction and 30 percent fact. I Sea of Japan (East Sea) -- this year it was 200 -- for a yearly shows the dynasty in a bad can’t stay quiet if somebody festival that lasts just two hours, but they must adhere to strict light. points a finger at my father rules. Priya Singh Paul, 48, told a or grandmother,” said Paul in Most importantly, they must be men, but they must also press conference yesterday she New Delhi. strip off and take a purifying dip in the ocean before they are had been adopted as a baby Priya Singh Paul gestures at a press conference in New Delhi “I am not ashamed, I am not allowed to set foot on the sacred ground of the shrine. and only told after she grew afraid. I am not after power, Despite its inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage list up that her biological father She is fighting a legal to make her claim public wealth or property. I just want -- often the prelude to a leap in tourist numbers -- shrine was Indira’s eldest son Sanjay, battle for access to her birth after watching a trailer for the to establish my identity and officials say they are now considering banning future travel for who died in a plane crash in certificate and adoption upcoming “Indu Sarkar”. protect my family name which anyone apart from priests, partly out of fears the island could 1980. papers, but said she decided The movie deals with is being sullied.” be “destroyed” by too many visitors. SPORTS Tuesday, July 11, 2017 21 Urban Slice BOC edge out Ryf wins again in Roth DT News Network the new run course her lack of Alpha Fire Manama preparation started to tell. DT News Network aniela Ryf of Switzerland “The legs got heavier and Manama and representing Bahrain heavier and I was not sure if rban Slice BOC edged out DEndurance 13 overcame they will carry me till the finish Alpha Fire by eight runs in soaring temperatures and line. And at the finish I felt Uthe final of the Bahrain Cricket gusty headwinds to win the exhausted, but the amazing League (BCL) T20 at the Awali Challenge Roth in Germany for atmosphere in the stadium Oval ground. a second time. made me feel like I was born After losing the toss, Urban After coming back from a again,” Daniela Ryf said. Slice were put into bat and back injury that had limited The reigning world managed to score 197 for eight her training in the lead-up to champion won the only way in its 20 overs thanks to a fine the iconic triathlon, Ryf racing she knew how: by giving unbeaten knock by Obaid (107 against a field of accomplished everything she had. “I’m really off 57 deliveries, 16x4, 2x6) long-distance competitors at happy I raced even knowing with good support from Yousif the race, the speedster however the record would be nearly (36), while Arfan (three for led the race from the gun and impossible. More important 36) returned the best bowling never looked back. than records is enjoying the figures. By the finish tape, Ryf had race, challenge yourself and In reply, Alpha Fire fell just a clear 11-minute lead over bring out the max what you short of the target in scoring the rest of the field to win in can that day,” Ryf added. 189 for nine in 20 overs despite eight hours:40 minutes and 33 Bahrain Endurance fine efforts by opener Asitha seconds, but was way behind Daniela Ryf celebrates teammate Terenzo Bozzone Thilini (66) and Prashanth (37) Chrissie Wellington’s world challengers to the Roth title. minute, and set the tenth- While Ryf clocked a sub-4:05 finished in 8:11:34, taking fifth with Junaid (three for 30) being record (8:18:13), but more She did break Wellington’s fastest women’s time over the minute km at the start of the place in his maiden appearance the pick of the bowlers. than enough to hold off the bike course record by one iron distance. marathon, by the 15th km on at Challenge Roth. Raza gives Zimbabwe Porsche GT3 Cup: Plans well in historic triumph Hambantota Graeme Cremer (11 not out) motion for a spectacular return ikandar Raza starred with hung on for an unbeaten DT News Network the bat and ball to help 29-run stand as the perennial Manama SZimbabwe edge out Sri Lanka underdogs erupted in ollowing the eighth edition by three wickets and clinch a celebrations. of the Porsche GT3 Cup historic series victory in the “Happy that Sikandar came FChallenge Middle East, plans fifth one-day international to the party. It turned around are already well in motion for yesterday. very quickly but happy we a spectacular return for Season Taking the series 3-2 in pulled it off in the end,” an 9 later on this year. Hambantota, the 11th-ranked elated Cremer said following This announcement comes Zimbabwe registered their their win. midway through the global maiden series win in Sri “This win is very special, motorsport calendar and Lanka and first overseas fans must be jumping around whilst some of the drivers that triumph in eight years. back home. We knew we’re competed in the Middle East Off-spinner Raza claimed playing good enough cricket over the winter period, are three wickets to restrict the to put them under pressure.” battling it out in the hosts to 203-8 after Zimbabwe Earlier the Pakistan- prestigious Porsche elected to field first. He then born Raza Mobile 1 Supercup New Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car 2017 anchored a tense chase with returned with across Europe this the return of Bashar Mardini Challenge Middle East was Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge an unbeaten 27 as the visitors impressive summer. after a successful debut outing established with the vision of Middle East. It was always won with 71 balls to spare. figures of Championship organiser last season, with further offering drivers from the region our dream to create a series Zimbabwe opener 3-2. (AFP) Lechner Racing has revealed potential for new talent to join a pathway to compete on the that could fulfil the ambitions Hamilton Masakadza heightened interest from the grid, hopeful to follow in international stage and at the of drivers in the region. Now top-scored with a drivers keen to be a part of the footsteps of previous local highest level of motorsport. in one glance at the starting fluent 73 before the future schedule, thanks champion Jeffery Schmidt Several drivers have grid of the Porsche Mobil 1 rookie off-spinner to the regional debut of the and Saudi Arabia will hope to emerging through the Supercup and the motorsports Akila Dananjaya brand-new Porsche GT3 see the return of experienced championship to reach the world can see that dream struck back with Cup cars in Season 9 and driver Bandar Alesayi after pinnacle of one-make racing, become a reality. Al Faisal Al four wickets the continued commitment to many successful years in the the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Zubair, Zaid Ashkanani, Ryan to rattle the deliver a world-class series to championship, with further as founder and manager of Cullen, Dylan Pereira are all Zimbabwe nurture racing talent in the potential for new talent to join the series, Walter Lechner, graduates of our Middle East middle-order. Middle East. the grid this season. explained: “2017 has felt like series and perfect examples of The visitors The UAE will hope to see The Porsche GT3 Cup a watershed moment for the what is possible.” slipped from 137-1 to 175-7 -- losing six wickets KCA-BFC cricket reach q-final Everton is no ‘retirement home’ for 38 DT News Network groups at its premises in Liverpool having broken another United runs Manama Segaiya. ngland’s record goalscorer icon Bobby Charlton’s mark -- but he Kerala Catholic The line-up is Shaheen Wayne Rooney insists last season. Raza Association (KCA)- Group taking on Riffa EvertonE is ‘not a retirement The 31-year-old believes he and BahrainT Financing Company Stallions, Husaifa Restaurants home’ after making an can bring back success to a club skipper (BFC) Summer Cricket against Dawani Bahrain, Gujjar emotional return to Goodison who have not lifted a trophy Tournament which started play Leo X and concludes with Park. since winning the FA Cup in on 16 June has reached the Rising Star against Awan CC. Rooney rejoined his boyhood 1995. The former England quarter final stage following Semi-finals are scheduled club on Sunday after 13 years at captain is of the view that he Zimbabwe cricketer Sikandar Raza (R) is watched by Sri the completion of qualifying for tomorrow evening with the Manchester United where he can continue to enjoy success Lankan wicketkeeper Niroshan Dikwella as he plays a shot involving 45 teams in four final on Thursday evening. was also the record goalscorer back at his first club. (AFP) 22 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Tuesday, July 11, 2017 23 Quintana has ‘no regrets’ over Giro- Aru says Froome Tour double Kerber crashes, Périgueux rather than the exception. olombian climber Nairo Recent attempts to double Quintana insisted he had up have always failed, with noC regrets over attempting Alberto Contador coming as strong as ever a demanding Giro d’Italia- fifth in the Tour in 2015 Bergerac be as strong as before, he has the yellow jersey -- that’s Tour de France double, after winning the Giro, and hris Froome is as strong the answer.” despite admitting yesterday Vincenzo Nibali managing Cas ever, according to his But Aru suggested he and Astana team-mate Jakob to feeling exhausted. only 30th in the Tour last Venus oldest in principal Tour de France rival Fuglsang would still be looking to attack Froome. It is almost 20 years since year after his second Giro Fabio Aru. “As always we’ve got maximum respect (for Froome) a rider successfully won success. Questions have been asked of but we’ll stick to our tactic as always,” he added. the Giro-Tour double and “I don’t regret having done Froome’s form this year as for Astana have been the only team to really attack that was in a dark period the Giro,” said the 27-year- the first time since he Froome so far, with Aru riding away to win the fifth in cycling’s history where old Quintana, who finished started dominating the stage at La Planche des Belles Filles last Wednesday, doping was the norm second to Dutchman Tom world’s greatest bike while Fuglsang got clear on Sunday’s final climb, the Dumoulin in May. race, he came into Mont du Chat, before being pegged back just before “It was a gamble, something last-eight the Tour without a the summit. different we wanted to try. London runner-up. Pliskova will be the new number one stage race victory all But their strong showing has left them second and “We have a lot to learn ngelique Kerber crashed out of The 29-year-old, who lost to despite losing in the second round. Title favourite season. fifth on the standings, and they’re the only team with from what’s happened and AWimbledon and lost her hold Serena Williams in the final 12 Muguruza, the 2015 Wimbledon Seven-time major winner And although two riders fighting for overall victory. what we’ve done, so we can on the world number one ranking, months ago, has failed to make the runner-up, goes on to play Russian Venus, who clinched the he holds the race That was something they used to great affect improve.” while five-time champion Venus last eight at any of this year’s three seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova for last of her Wimbledon titles leader’s yellow during last month’s week-long Criterium du His Movistar team decided Williams became the oldest All Grand Slams. a place in the semi-finals. in 2008, will hope to emulate Venus Williams jersey after nine Dauphine, which Fuglsang won as Froome to tackle the Giro-Tour double England Club quarter-finalist in 23 Kerber was unfazed by her Former US and French Open Navratilova, who went on to stages, his lead over finished fourth and Aru fifth. this year, believing Quintana years yesterday. ranking blow, saying: “I know the champion Kuznetsova, 32, reached reach the final 23 years ago. Aru is a slender 18 “We hope we can use it as an advantage, to be better during his Amid a scheduling row that saw feeling already to be No. 1. I know her first Wimbledon quarter-final “I’m playing pretty solid. defeat seconds and he has it’s been our idea from the beginning,” second Grand Tour of the accusations of sexism aimed at the feeling to be No. 2, in the top 10. in 10 years with a 6-2, 6-4 win Winning never gets old at any stage Ukrainian yet to win a stage said Fuglsang, who is 1min 37sec back year than his first. Wimbledon chiefs after they put just “It was the best match for a long over Polish ninth seed Agnieszka in your career, ever,” said Venus, world or strike a decisive from Froome. But he admitted to two women’s matches on the main time for me, so I think I’m still on a Radwanska. who expressed sympathy for Kerber number five blow to his rivals “Also from what we saw in the feeling the effects of May’s show-courts, Williams wasn’t the good way even though I lost.” With Centre Court and Court over her court row. Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) on tiny -- unlike previous Dauphine, it was an advantage.” efforts already within the only star savouring a historic last 16 Kerber, who had taken the One largely taken up by four men’s “I’ve been in that position before. Court 12. years. At La Planche de Belles Filles, first week of the Tour. triumph. top ranking from Serena matches, Kerber was exiled to the Similar,” Venus Ostapenko, the 2014 junior But Aru denied Froome had chosen not to follow Aru’s “Right now there’s more Johanna Konta, the bookmakers’ in March, will be less grand Court Two. added. Wimbledon champion, joined the the 2016 Froome attack but said afterwards he would Colombia’s will than power,” admitted favourite for the title, became the replaced at number It was a decision that brought Williams plays sexism row as she admitted she was is any weaker have to watch the Italian more closely Nairo Quintana Quintana.“We’re still in the first British woman to reach the one by either criticism for Wimbledon French Open surprised not to be put on a larger Italy’s Fabio Aru than before. from then on. He did that on Sunday battle, we need to keep going quarter-finals since Jo Durie in 1984. Karolina Pliskova or organisers and Kerber was champion Jelena court. World number seven Konta “Certainly he’s but then let Fuglsang, who struggled and recover.” Kerber was beaten 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 by Simona Halep. visibly frustrated by the state Ostapenko for a defeated France’s Caroline Garcia shown himself to o n the Planche des Belles Filles Quintana cracked on the Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza Halep, the Romanian of surface after she slipped on place in the semi- 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-4 on where he’d lost more final climb on Sunday’s ninth as the German’s fourth round exit world number two, defeated several barren patches of grass finals. Court One. (AFP) than a minute to stage and lost 1min 15sec to extended a miserable run for last Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (7/3), on the baseline. Ostapenko the favourites, race leader Chris Froome, to year’s Wimbledon 6-2 and will be guaranteed top Kerber twice led by a break advanced to get away. (AFP) now sit eighth overall at 2:13. spot if she beats Konta in the in the final set, but couldn’t her first (AFP) last eight. close out the victory and she Wimbledon Porte ‘lucky’ If Halep, was quick to attack the court quarter- a two-time scheduling. final after French Granted finally despite double Tour exit yet to sink in: Thomas Open showcourt converting runner- billing, her eighth Bergerac left May’s Giro d’Italia at up, loses to Williams match eraint Thomas the end of the first week. the Briton, then didn’t hang point fracture admitted yesterday “It still hasn’t really sunk Czech world around as t o Bergerac Git was too soon to realise in. I’m sure it will be like number she crushed ustralian Richie Porte said yesterday he was “lucky” the full extent of his the Giro and when I get three 19-year-old to have come away with a fractured pelvis and disappointment after home is when it really hits Croatian Ana Konjuh Acollarbone from his horrific high speed crash at the Tour crashing out of the Tour home, so to speak,” said 6-3, 6-2 in 64 minutes on de France. de France on Sunday. the 31-year-old Team Sky Centre Court. The 32-year-old Tasmanian came down hard on a Thomas broke his rider. “The show goes on Williams made her Grand Slam wet and slippery descent during Sunday’s ninth stage collarbone in a fall pretty quickly. So I think it debut at the 1997 French Open, before careering into Irish rival Dan Martin and midway through the will hit me tomorrow and seven months before Konjuh was clattering both of them into the rock face on the side ninth stage. He was one in a few days time.” born. of the road. Australia’s of five riders to crash out Geraint Thomas Thomas, though, was And at 37 years and 29 days, Porte was taken to hospital and later diagnosed Richie Porte of the race on Sunday worse for Thomas, though, already looking forward to Venus is Wimbledon’s oldest female with fractures of both his pelvis and his collarbone, as rain made mountain was that it was the second the future and getting back quarter-finalist since Martina but having watched back footage of the crash, he descents slippery and Grand Tour of the year he’s on his stationary training Navratilova in 1994. admitted it could have been so much worse. dangerous. What was crashed out of, having also bike. (AFP) “Obviously I’ve felt much better than I do right Wimbledon results: now,” said BMC’s Porte. “(I’m in) a fair bit of pain and it’s a big Second blow for team Bora as Majka quits Women 4th rd disappointment to be honest; I was in great form Bergerac last Tuesday when the Slovak Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP x14) bt Angelique Kerber (GER x1) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and the team was really strong around me as well, so erman was disqualified for causing a Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x7) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x9) 6-2, 6-4 it’s disappointing. Gteam Bora crash that saw British sprinter Magdaléna Rybáriková (SVK) bt Petra Martic (CRO) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 “But I’ve just seen the crash, I’m lucky also that I’ve suffered a second Mark Cavendish quit the race Coco Vandeweghe (USA x24) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x5) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 come away with the injuries I have.” Tour de France blow with a broken collarbone. Venus Williams (USA x10) bt Ana Konjuh (CRO x27) 6-3, 6-2 Martin’s Quick-Step team published a picture of his helmet yesterday as climber And the German team’s after that crash with half of it missing, showing just how Rafal Majka quit due to overall hope Majka, winner Jelena Ostapenko (LAT x13) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR x4) 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) important it had been in saving him from much greater harm injuries suffered in a crash of the king of the mountains Johanna Konta (GBR x6) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA x21) 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-4 -- he escaped with superficial injuries. on Sunday. jersey in two of the previous Simona Halep (ROM x2) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 The crash happened in an instant at high speed, but Porte Bora had already lost three years, crashed badly on Spain’s Garbine Muguruza Romania’s Simona Halep said he remembers every moment. (AFP) world champion Peter Sagan Sunday. (AFP) Rafal Majka 22 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Tuesday, July 11, 2017 23 Quintana has ‘no regrets’ over Giro- Aru says Froome Tour double Kerber crashes, Périgueux rather than the exception. olombian climber Nairo Recent attempts to double Quintana insisted he had up have always failed, with noC regrets over attempting Alberto Contador coming as strong as ever a demanding Giro d’Italia- fifth in the Tour in 2015 Bergerac be as strong as before, he has the yellow jersey -- that’s Tour de France double, after winning the Giro, and hris Froome is as strong the answer.” despite admitting yesterday Vincenzo Nibali managing Cas ever, according to his But Aru suggested he and Astana team-mate Jakob to feeling exhausted. only 30th in the Tour last Venus oldest in principal Tour de France rival Fuglsang would still be looking to attack Froome. It is almost 20 years since year after his second Giro Fabio Aru. “As always we’ve got maximum respect (for Froome) a rider successfully won success. Questions have been asked of but we’ll stick to our tactic as always,” he added. the Giro-Tour double and “I don’t regret having done Froome’s form this year as for Astana have been the only team to really attack that was in a dark period the Giro,” said the 27-year- the first time since he Froome so far, with Aru riding away to win the fifth in cycling’s history where old Quintana, who finished started dominating the stage at La Planche des Belles Filles last Wednesday, doping was the norm second to Dutchman Tom world’s greatest bike while Fuglsang got clear on Sunday’s final climb, the Dumoulin in May. race, he came into Mont du Chat, before being pegged back just before “It was a gamble, something last-eight the Tour without a the summit. different we wanted to try. London runner-up. Pliskova will be the new number one stage race victory all But their strong showing has left them second and “We have a lot to learn ngelique Kerber crashed out of The 29-year-old, who lost to despite losing in the second round. Title favourite season. fifth on the standings, and they’re the only team with from what’s happened and AWimbledon and lost her hold Serena Williams in the final 12 Muguruza, the 2015 Wimbledon Seven-time major winner And although two riders fighting for overall victory. what we’ve done, so we can on the world number one ranking, months ago, has failed to make the runner-up, goes on to play Russian Venus, who clinched the he holds the race That was something they used to great affect improve.” while five-time champion Venus last eight at any of this year’s three seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova for last of her Wimbledon titles leader’s yellow during last month’s week-long Criterium du His Movistar team decided Williams became the oldest All Grand Slams. a place in the semi-finals. in 2008, will hope to emulate Venus Williams jersey after nine Dauphine, which Fuglsang won as Froome to tackle the Giro-Tour double England Club quarter-finalist in 23 Kerber was unfazed by her Former US and French Open Navratilova, who went on to stages, his lead over finished fourth and Aru fifth. this year, believing Quintana years yesterday. ranking blow, saying: “I know the champion Kuznetsova, 32, reached reach the final 23 years ago. Aru is a slender 18 “We hope we can use it as an advantage, to be better during his Amid a scheduling row that saw feeling already to be No. 1. I know her first Wimbledon quarter-final “I’m playing pretty solid. defeat seconds and he has it’s been our idea from the beginning,” second Grand Tour of the accusations of sexism aimed at the feeling to be No. 2, in the top 10. in 10 years with a 6-2, 6-4 win Winning never gets old at any stage Ukrainian yet to win a stage said Fuglsang, who is 1min 37sec back year than his first. Wimbledon chiefs after they put just “It was the best match for a long over Polish ninth seed Agnieszka in your career, ever,” said Venus, world or strike a decisive from Froome. But he admitted to two women’s matches on the main time for me, so I think I’m still on a Radwanska. who expressed sympathy for Kerber number five blow to his rivals “Also from what we saw in the feeling the effects of May’s show-courts, Williams wasn’t the good way even though I lost.” With Centre Court and Court over her court row. Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) on tiny -- unlike previous Dauphine, it was an advantage.” efforts already within the only star savouring a historic last 16 Kerber, who had taken the One largely taken up by four men’s “I’ve been in that position before. Court 12. years. At La Planche de Belles Filles, first week of the Tour. triumph. top ranking from Serena matches, Kerber was exiled to the Similar,” Venus Ostapenko, the 2014 junior But Aru denied Froome had chosen not to follow Aru’s “Right now there’s more Johanna Konta, the bookmakers’ in March, will be less grand Court Two. added. Wimbledon champion, joined the the 2016 Froome attack but said afterwards he would Colombia’s will than power,” admitted favourite for the title, became the replaced at number It was a decision that brought Williams plays sexism row as she admitted she was is any weaker have to watch the Italian more closely Nairo Quintana Quintana.“We’re still in the first British woman to reach the one by either criticism for Wimbledon French Open surprised not to be put on a larger Italy’s Fabio Aru than before. from then on. He did that on Sunday battle, we need to keep going quarter-finals since Jo Durie in 1984. Karolina Pliskova or organisers and Kerber was champion Jelena court. World number seven Konta “Certainly he’s but then let Fuglsang, who struggled and recover.” Kerber was beaten 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 by Simona Halep. visibly frustrated by the state Ostapenko for a defeated France’s Caroline Garcia shown himself to o n the Planche des Belles Filles Quintana cracked on the Spanish 14th seed Garbine Muguruza Halep, the Romanian of surface after she slipped on place in the semi- 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-4 on where he’d lost more final climb on Sunday’s ninth as the German’s fourth round exit world number two, defeated several barren patches of grass finals. Court One. (AFP) than a minute to stage and lost 1min 15sec to extended a miserable run for last Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (7/3), on the baseline. Ostapenko the favourites, race leader Chris Froome, to year’s Wimbledon 6-2 and will be guaranteed top Kerber twice led by a break advanced to get away. (AFP) now sit eighth overall at 2:13. spot if she beats Konta in the in the final set, but couldn’t her first (AFP) last eight. close out the victory and she Wimbledon Porte ‘lucky’ If Halep, was quick to attack the court quarter- a two-time scheduling. final after French Granted finally despite double Tour exit yet to sink in: Thomas Open showcourt converting runner- billing, her eighth Bergerac left May’s Giro d’Italia at up, loses to Williams match eraint Thomas the end of the first week. the Briton, then didn’t hang point fracture admitted yesterday “It still hasn’t really sunk Czech world around as t o Bergerac Git was too soon to realise in. I’m sure it will be like number she crushed ustralian Richie Porte said yesterday he was “lucky” the full extent of his the Giro and when I get three 19-year-old to have come away with a fractured pelvis and disappointment after home is when it really hits Croatian Ana Konjuh Acollarbone from his horrific high speed crash at the Tour crashing out of the Tour home, so to speak,” said 6-3, 6-2 in 64 minutes on de France. de France on Sunday. the 31-year-old Team Sky Centre Court. The 32-year-old Tasmanian came down hard on a Thomas broke his rider. “The show goes on Williams made her Grand Slam wet and slippery descent during Sunday’s ninth stage collarbone in a fall pretty quickly. So I think it debut at the 1997 French Open, before careering into Irish rival Dan Martin and midway through the will hit me tomorrow and seven months before Konjuh was clattering both of them into the rock face on the side ninth stage. He was one in a few days time.” born. of the road. Australia’s of five riders to crash out Geraint Thomas Thomas, though, was And at 37 years and 29 days, Porte was taken to hospital and later diagnosed Richie Porte of the race on Sunday worse for Thomas, though, already looking forward to Venus is Wimbledon’s oldest female with fractures of both his pelvis and his collarbone, as rain made mountain was that it was the second the future and getting back quarter-finalist since Martina but having watched back footage of the crash, he descents slippery and Grand Tour of the year he’s on his stationary training Navratilova in 1994. admitted it could have been so much worse. dangerous. What was crashed out of, having also bike. (AFP) “Obviously I’ve felt much better than I do right Wimbledon results: now,” said BMC’s Porte. “(I’m in) a fair bit of pain and it’s a big Second blow for team Bora as Majka quits Women 4th rd disappointment to be honest; I was in great form Bergerac last Tuesday when the Slovak Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP x14) bt Angelique Kerber (GER x1) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and the team was really strong around me as well, so erman was disqualified for causing a Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x7) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x9) 6-2, 6-4 it’s disappointing. Gteam Bora crash that saw British sprinter Magdaléna Rybáriková (SVK) bt Petra Martic (CRO) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 “But I’ve just seen the crash, I’m lucky also that I’ve suffered a second Mark Cavendish quit the race Coco Vandeweghe (USA x24) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x5) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 come away with the injuries I have.” Tour de France blow with a broken collarbone. Venus Williams (USA x10) bt Ana Konjuh (CRO x27) 6-3, 6-2 Martin’s Quick-Step team published a picture of his helmet yesterday as climber And the German team’s after that crash with half of it missing, showing just how Rafal Majka quit due to overall hope Majka, winner Jelena Ostapenko (LAT x13) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR x4) 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) important it had been in saving him from much greater harm injuries suffered in a crash of the king of the mountains Johanna Konta (GBR x6) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA x21) 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-4 -- he escaped with superficial injuries. on Sunday. jersey in two of the previous Simona Halep (ROM x2) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 The crash happened in an instant at high speed, but Porte Bora had already lost three years, crashed badly on Spain’s Garbine Muguruza Romania’s Simona Halep said he remembers every moment. (AFP) world champion Peter Sagan Sunday. (AFP) Rafal Majka Aru says Froome P23 as strong as ever SPORTS 2424 Tuesday, July 11, 2017 Nadal loses as Murray, Federer coast London more than an hour and a half after his first. afael Nadal’s bittersweet relationship with In a pulsating final set, which stretched to 95 Wimbledon endured another twist yesterday minutes, Nadal saved two match points in the 10th whenR he was knocked out in a five-set, fourth round game and two more in the 20th. epic by Luxembourg journeyman In between, Muller had to fight off a break point in Gilles Muller. the 13th game and four more in the 19th. Nadal’s stunning Nadal was always chasing the score and he finally 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, cracked in the 28th game of the decider when he went 15-13 defeat came long with a return. after defending “I said, ‘just give it a shot, go 100 percent’, and it’s a champion great feeling to be winning that match,” added Muller Andy Murray whose only other win over the great Spaniard also and seven- came at Wimbledon, 12 years ago. time winner Roger Federer Murray through had cruised Defending champion Murray reached a 10th into the successive Wimbledon quarter-final with a 7-6 (7/1), last-eight in 6-4, 6-4 win over France’s Benoit Paire. straight sets. World number one Murray will face Sam Querrey The four hour for a place in the semi-finals. and 48-minute “I thought I played well. Maybe a couple of sloppy stunner on service games in the first set but that was by far the Court One had best I’d hit the ball so far in the tournament. So I’m the knock-on effect really pleased with that,” said Murray. of pushing Novak Only Federer and Jimmy Connors (11 each) have Djokovic’s last-16 clash reached more consecutive Wimbledon quarter-finals against France’s Adrian than Murray. Mannarino back to Tuesday. Murray’s win meant that with Johanna Konta also Djokovic had been the last making the last-eight in the women’s tournament, match scheduled on the court it is the first time since 1973 that Britain but officials chose to postpone the has two players in tie instead of shifting it to Centre Court the quarter- where it could, if necessary, have been finals. completed under lights. Federer Britain’s Andy Murray Just weeks after winning his 10th French reached his Open title, Nadal was condemned to his fifth 50th Grand Slam exit before the quarter-finals in his last five visits quarter-final and to Wimbledon. 15th at Wimbledon “It was not my best match against a very with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 uncomfortable opponent,” said world number two win over Grigor Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 champion. Dimitrov. “Well done to him. He played great, especially in The Swiss the fifth set but I fought to the last ball.” star will now face Milos Muller tired but thrilled Raonic, the 2016 Nadal converted just two of 16 break runner-up, after Results: points, while Muller fired 30 aces and 95 the sixth-seeded Men winners. Canadian clinched a 4th rd Muller, seeded 16th, will make his first 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 win Andy Murray (GBR x1) bt Benoît Paire (FRA) 7-6 (7/1), 6-4, 6-4 Wimbledon quarter-final appearance against over Alexander Zverev Sam Querrey (USA x24) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA) 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-7 (11/13), 6-3 former US Open champion Marin Cilic on of Germany, the 10th Gilles Muller (LUX x16) bt Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 Marin Cilic (CRO x7) bt Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP x18) 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 Wednesday. seed. Raonic defeated Milos Raonic (CAN x6) bt Alexander Zverev (GER x10) 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 “Tired! It was a long match. I did really Federer in the semi- well in the first two sets then Rafa stepped finals at Wimbledon in Luxembourg’s Roger Federer (SUI x3) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x13) 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 Gilles Muller Tomas Berdych (CZE x11) bt Dominic Thiem (AUT x8) 6-3, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 it up and in the end it was just a big battle,” 2016. (AFP) said Muller, who won on a fifth match point,

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