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Baghdad Ambassador Shaikh Abdullah visits F-16 production line of Lockheed Martin in South Carolina TDT | Washington raqi political leaders including advanced avionics, Ifaced a midnight dead- weapons, and modernised cock- line yesterday to choose a mbassador of Bahrain pit. The advanced fighter offers new prime minister to run to the United States Bahrain was the an extended structural service a country shaken by months Ayesterday inspected the first country in life of around 12,000 hours. of unprecedented street production line of Lockheed “Lockheed Martin’s partner- protests that have left hun- Martin’s F-16, where work is un- the Gulf region ship with Bahrain began more dreds dead. derway on the first F-16 Block 70 to acquire the than 40 years ago and it contin- If parliament fails to for the Royal Bahraini Air Force. F-16 and the first ues today with the F-16,” said propose a candidate from Bahrain is the first country customer in the Bridget Lauderdale, vice pres- inter-party negotiations to in the Gulf region to obtain world to procure ident and general manager of replace outgoing Adel Abdel F-16 and the first country in the the advanced F-16 Lockheed Martin’s Integrated Mahdi, then President Bar- world to obtain the newest and Block 70 Fighter Group. ham Saleh has the right to most advanced F-16 Block 70. appoint a premier himself. The deal, Shaikh Abdullah bin BRIDGET LAUDERDALE Shaikh Abdullah during the visit But if lawmakers do not Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa He said the visit coincides defence cooperation agreement approve his choice and the said, is within the framework During his tour of the facility with the celebration of the Com- is a clear indication of the ongo- post remains vacant at mid- of the combat aircraft purchase in Greenville, South Carolina, memoration Day in Bahrain, ing work of Bahrain to combat night, then the constitution agreement signed during the US, the ambassador expressed which is similar to the United piracy, extremism and terror- will place Saleh himself in visit of HRH Prince Salman bin Bahrain’s pride in the strate - States Memorial Day that com- ism. 16 the role, though for just 15 Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown gic partnership with the United memorates the fallen soldiers. The US company is under con- new F-16 Block 70 days. Prince, Deputy Supreme Com- States of America, adding that He pointed out Bahrain host- tract to build 16 new F-16 Block aircraft are being The current parliament mander and First Deputy Prime the defence relations between ing the command of the US Fifth 70 aircraft for Bahrain. Lockheed made for Royal is the most divided in ’s Minister, to Washington in No- the two countries are deep and Fleet, over the past thirty years, has incorporated enhancements Bahraini Air Force recent history. On Wednes- vember 2017. distinguished. as well as joint exercises and a to the Block 70 configuration, day, deputies failed to agree on amending the electoral law -- the only significant reform proposed by author- ities to appease protester Bowing out in 2024? demands -- rescheduling it Diab new PM to its next meeting on Mon- dent, whose mandate is now day. six years long, cannot serve AFP | more than two successive terms. risis-hit Lebanon’s pres- BETTER Saudi concert After succeeding Boris Yelt- Cident said yesterday he sin and serving two terms from would name academic and for- stabbing ordered by 2000 to 2008, Putin got around mer minister Hassan Diab, as KNOW al Qaeda this by handing the presidency the country’s new prime min- to his ally Dmitry Medvedev ister, ending nearly two months Reuters | Riyadh in 2008 and then serving four of political wrangling. years as prime minister. The little-known 60-year-old The little-known man arrested for stab- Despite huge opposition engineering professor at the 60-year-old professor Hassan Diab bing three perform- protests Putin returned to the American University of Bei- at the American petent. A Vladimir Putin ers at a live show in Saudi Kremlin in 2012. rut(AUB) replaces outgoing pre- University of Beirut Lebanon has been ruled by Arabia’s capital Riyadh last But yesterday Putin said the mier amid nation- replaces outgoing the same political clans and month was operating un- Cryptic Putin word “successive” could be wide anti-government protests premier Saad Hariri families since the 1975-1990 der orders from al Qaeda in • removed from the country’s and the worst economic crisis civil war and protesters have , state television said comment reignites basic law, a move that could since Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil pushed for a technocratic gov- yesterday without citing ev- speculation rule out any such job swap sce- war. on Wednesday and his bloc did ernment. idence. nario in 2024 when his current “After binding parliamenta- not nominate its own candidate “I have strived to meet their The trial of the suspected Moscow mandate ends. ry consultations... the presi- for prime minister. demand for a government of assailant, previously iden- “As for the terms, remove the dent has summoned... Hassan A career academic, Diab held experts, which I saw as the only tified only as a 33-year-old word ‘successive’. Your hum- Diab to appoint him to form a the education portfolio from option to address the serious Yemeni resident, had begun, ussian President Vladimir ble servant served two succes- government,” the presidency 2011 to 2014 in a government social and economic crisis our the broadcaster added. RPutin may have dropped sive terms and then stepped said in a statement after the formed after brought country faces,” Hariri said in a a major hint yesterday about down and had the constitu- twice-delayed talks on Thurs- down a previous Hariri cabinet. statement. not running again in 2024, tional right to return to the day. Hariri resigned on October Lebanese media named the with a cryptic remark that the post of president... But some Aoun had launched the talks 29, nearly two weeks into a na- new frontrunner as 60-year-old wording in the constitution on of our political scientists and Thursday and met with all par- tionwide cross-sectarian pro- Hassan Diab, a vice president presidential mandates should activists do not like this and liamentary blocs before naming test movement demanding the at AUB who held the education be amended, observers said. maybe this could be removed, the new premier. wholesale removal of a political portfolio between 2011 and DON’T MISS IT By law, a Russian presi - possibly.” Hariri pulled out of the race elite seen as corrupt and incom- 2014.

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