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S Special Representa- Utive for Iran Brian Hook United called on the United Nations Security Council to extend the Iran arms embargo and travel ban on some of its elite Quds force, in response to the attacks on that Saudi oil facilities that he said were against conducted by Iran. “We know based on intelli- gence and open source anal- ysis that these attacks were conducted by Iran,” Mr Hook told the Asia Society in New York on Monday. He didn’t reveal the intelligence that US threats has gathered nor the origin of the attack, but expected that once the UN-led investigation and site examinations in Sau- Saudi Arabia’s security is di Arabia are concluded, the UN will announce “the origin inseparable part of Bahrain’s of the attack”. security, says His Majesty His Majesty with King Salman at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah.

Thomas Cook and status as well as threaten its all levels. HM the King and the security and stability. The King also praised King collapses • His Majesty also affirmed Salman’s wise stances in dealing London Custodian of the Two Bahrain’s unwavering support with regional issues and main- Holy Mosques reviewed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia taining security, describing the he world’s oldest travel solid fraternal relations in all measures taken to preserve Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a Tfirm Thomas Cook col- between both countries. its security and the safety of the pillar for stability and the bul- lapsed on Monday after fail- people on its territory. wark of regional security given ing to secure $250 million in HM the King extended heart- its strategic role at the regional rescue funding, forcing the King Salman hosted felt congratulations to the Cus- and international level. cancellation of bookings for a• lunch banquet in todian of the Two Holy Mosques His Majesty also commended more than 600,000 global honour of HM the King and Saudi Crown Prince on the Saudi Arabia’s pivotal role in holidaymakers. on the occasion of his National Day, wishing the King- defending Arab issues and pro- The British government dom of Saudi Arabia continuous tecting the supreme interests of said the return of the firm’s visit to the Kingdom. security, growth and prosperity the Arab nation. 150,000 British customers under the leadership of King King Salman hosted a lunch now abroad would be the Jeddah Salman. The King also thanked banquet in honour of HM the largest repatriation in its the Custodian of the Two Holy King on the occasion of his visit peacetime history. The pro- is Majesty King Hamad Mosques for the gracious wel- to the Kingdom. cess began Monday and offi- bin Isa Al Khalifa yes- come and hospitality. The lunch banquet was at- cials warned that delays are Hterday held a meeting The Saudi King expressed tended by members of the Saudi inevitable. with the Custodian of the Two thanks and respect to HM the royal family, members of the The Civil Aviation Au- Holy Mosques, King Salman bin King for his fraternal feelings, delegation accompanying HM thority said Thomas Cook Abdulaziz Al Saud at Al Salam lauding the unwavering hon- the King and senior officials. has ceased trading, its four Palace in Jeddah. ourable stances of the King - Earlier yesterday, His Majesty His Majesty being received by HRH Prince Khalid. airlines will be grounded, and His Majesty expressed Bah- dom of Bahrain which affirm the King was received at the its 21,000 employees in 16 rain’s condemnation over the deep-rooted relations between and ways of consolidating them King Abdulaziz International countries, including 9,000 in subversive terrorist attack on both countries. at all levels. Airport by His Royal Highness the UK, will lose their jobs. Aramco oil facilities in Buqayq He asserted ability of the They also discussed the latest Prince Khalid Al Faisal, Advisor and Hijrat Khurais, describing it Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to deal Bahrain supports Saudi regional developments as well as of Custodian of the Two Holy as a grave escalation and a major with the repercussions of the Arabia in all measures regional and international issues Mosques and Governor of Mak- threat to regional security and criminal act that targets regional taken to preserve its of common concern. kah Region, Shaikh Humood bin stability as well as oil supplies security and stability and inter- HM the King expressed thanks Abdullah Al Khalifa Ambassa- to international markets. national oil supplies. security and the safety and respect to the Custodian of dor of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, HM the King also underlined HM the King and the Custo- of the people in its the Two Holy Mosques for the Saleh bin Ali Al Turki, Governor DON’T MISS IT full support of the Kingdom to dian of the Two Holy Mosques territory. historical stances of the King- of Jeddah, and Ibrahim Al Mus- Saudi Arabia against any attempt reviewed solid fraternal rela- HIS MAJESTY dom of Saudi Arabia in support- sallamani, Consul General of to encroach on its sovereignty tions between both countries ing the Kingdom of Bahrain at Bahrain in Jeddah. Give preference to Bahraini ACTION ON 02 contractors, ministries told Premier orders Works Ministry to prepare for rainy season Cultivating TDT | Manama Ahmed Al Khalifa and a number tobacco, a major of officials were present at the 03 ‘violation of UN is Royal Highness the meeting. convention’ Prime Minister directed Attendees stressed the impor- the various bodies in the tance of protecting houses that Kingdom joins HMinistry of Works, Municipalities were damaged in the past year Affairs and Urban Planning to and finding appropriate solutions global call to prepare early for the rainy season as much as possible to ensure that 04 protect freedom and take the necessary measures they will not be damaged again. of religions to prevent water-logging across HRH the Premier An emergency team has been Heavy rains caused floods in many areas across the Kingdom last year. roads and streets. set up in each governorate to start 210 fils (includes VAT) This came as His Royal High- preparations for the upcoming work, make sure of preparations, The team was also directed cleaning activities during the past ness Prime Minister Prince Khal- rainy season. start visiting sites and identify to ensure the safety of sewage months. ifa bin Salman Al Khalifa chaired Undersecretary for Works the needs. Hotlines have been networks through a field visit by Water suction tankers will the weekly Cabinet yesterday. Affairs, Ahmed Al Khayat and allocated to receive reports on officials during the next two days parked near to schools, hospitals Meanwhile, the top ministry Undersecretary for Municipal water-logging in the four munic- and present a report on the follow and residential areas that were officials met yesterday to discuss Affairs, Shaikh Mohammed bin ipalities and public streets. up of the sewage channels and submerged by floods last year. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 02 Give preference to Bahraini contractors, ministries told The move is in line with HRH the Premier’s keenness to provide more support to Bahraini companies

matter was referred to the Min- The Cabinet isterial Committee for Financial, • Economic and Fiscal Balance endorsed a plan to Affairs to study it and submit operate a round-the- the necessary recommendations clock health centre on it. in Hamad Town. The session was notified by the Minister of Works, Municipali- ties Affairs and Urban Planning HRH the Premier about the 271 decisions and rec- gave• directives to the ommendations made by munic- Ministry of Housing to ipal councils during the first ses- study increasing need sion of the fifth municipal term. One-hundred and twenty-four for housing units in the decisions have been approved by Southern Governorate. the Works Ministry, while 112 are HRH the Premier chairs the Cabinet. being studied by other service Manama ministries, the minister said. Among other things, HRH the The same committee was also HRH the Premier lauded the he Cabinet chaired by His Premier gave directives to the Support for shrimpers requested to study financing the outcomes of the visit of His Roy- Royal Highness Prime Ministry of Housing to study establishment of a new health al Highness Prince Salman bin Minister Prince Khalifa increasing need for housing units he Cabinet yesterday decided to purchase the assets and centre in Qalali, as part of the Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Tbin Salman Al Khalifa yesterday in the Southern Governorate, Tequipment of shrimpers, including fishing boats (banoush government’s efforts to ensure Prince, Deputy Supreme Com- gave directives to give prefer- while taking into account the boats) for those who wish to do so, or to convert shrimp fishing the citizens’ access to non-stop mander and First Deputy Prime ence to Bahraini contractors in governorate’s specific social and licences into fishing licences. The session decided to allocate a health care and medical services, Minister, to the United States of the government’s construction historical features, as well as the special budget for this purpose and instructed the Ministerial as highlighted in a memoran- America. projects, in line with the interna- need to preserve the environ- Committee for Financial, Economic and Fiscal Balance Affairs dum submitted by the Minister The Prime Minister praised tional trade regulations and the ment there. to follow up on the necessary procedures, in the light of the of Health. HRH Crown Prince’s fruitful Kingdom’s obligations. The Prime Minister also in- recommendation submitted for this purpose by the same com- The session discussed increas- talks with US President, Donald The move is in line with HRH structed the Ministry of Works, mittee and presented by the Deputy Premier and committee ing the financial support granted Trump, and senior officials in the Premier’s keenness to pro- Municipalities Affairs and Urban chairman. by the government to disabil- his administration, as well as the vide more support to Bahraini Planning to provide more spaces, ity-related public and private agreements signed between the companies. facilities and parks that consti- As part of efforts to imple - a round-the-clock health centre centres to improve the academic two countries on the sidelines of The Ministerial Committee for tute an outlet for the local citi- ment HRH Premier’s directives in Hamad Town, and requested and professional rehabilitation of the successful visit in the politi- Financial, Economic and Fiscal zens, requesting the Ministerial to study and implement service the Ministerial Committee for people with special needs. cal, military and economic fields, Balance Affairs was requested to Committee for Development and projects across the kingdom’s Financial, Economic and Fiscal Outlined in a memorandum a post-session statement by the submit the necessary recommen- Infrastructure Projects to follow villages and regions, the Cabi- Balance Affairs to provide the presented by the Labour and So- Cabinet Secretary-General, Dr dations in this regard. up on the matter. net endorsed a plan to operate necessary funds. cial Development Minister, the Yasser Al Nasser, said.

‘Bahrain-China ties set to grow further’

Mr Anwaer speaks at the event. A cake was cut in the presence of royal family members, envoys and dignitaries to mark the occasion.

TDT | Manama and stability. from HRH the Premier to the Abhitab Kumar “The development of our bi- leadership and people of China lateral cooperation has brought on this occasion, wishing the riendship between China benefits to our two peoples, friendly state further progress and Bahrain dates back and will also promote strategic and prosperity. Fto ancient times and will co-operation between China and HRH the Premier’s Advisor continue and grow, Chinese Am- GCC countries and make contri- hailed growing relations binding bassador to Bahrain Mr Anwaer butions to the peace, stability Bahrain and China in all fields, said yesterday. and prosperity of the region. I which reflects joint coordination This came as he addressed believe that with the joint efforts regarding regional and interna- senior government officials and of our two countries, the future tional issues. He reiterated Bah- dignitaries at an event held at of our bilateral relations will be rain’s keenness on expanding The Diplomat Radisson Blu Ho- more beautiful,” he pointed out. joint co-operation. tel marking the 70th anniversary His Royal Highness Prime The Chinese envoy extended of the founding of the People’s Minister Prince Khalifa bin Sal- deepest thanks to HRH the Pre- Republic of China. man Al Khalifa deputised his mier and hailed his keenness on “Over the past 30 years, the Advisor His Highness Shaikh bolstering joint co-operation, high-level exchanges have be- Chinese cultural shows added special charm to the evening. Salman bin Khalifa Al Khali - stressing his country’s drive to come more frequent, the polit- fa to attend, in the presence of strengthen cooperation towards ical mutual trust has been con- tion have achieved great success. source and sixth export desti- found and complicated chang- Bahrain Basketball Association meeting the aspirations of the stantly strengthened, the eco- “In 2018, the bilateral trade nation of Bahrain,” the envoy es. China firmly supports Bah- (BBA) Chairman HH Shaikh Isa two friendly countries and peo- nomic co-operation has been volume has reached $2.21 billion pointed out. rain to choose its own develop- bin Ali Al Khalifa, the ceremony. ples, wishing the Kingdom of rapidly promoted and the cul- and China has become the sec- “The Middle East and Gulf ment path and adopt all meas- HH Shaikh Salman Khalifa Bahrain further development tural exchanges and co-opera- ond trade partner, first import region are undergoing pro - ures to safeguard its security Al Khalifa conveyed greetings and progress. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 03

Jobs show opens today Manama

Cultivating tobacco, a major t the directives of His ARoyal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Jobs Show takes place today at the Labour and Social Develop- ‘violation of UN convention’ ment Ministry’s premises in Zayed Town. Organised under the pa- Proposal against WHO guidelines and rules, says anti-tobacco body tronage of Labour and So- cial Development Minister are tobacco free and that their Jameel Humaidan, the Career Move, a clear activities and participants are Exhibition aims to expedite • not sponsored by tobacco com- the momentum of the inclu- violation of the panies. sion of jobseekers into the UN Convention on The world must unite to halt labour market. Tobacco Control. the tobacco industry’s aggres- Jobseekers will be able to sive marketing of its products, meet, between 8 am and 1 The WHO that cause addiction, suffering pm, with human resources • and millions of deaths each year, officials and learn about the Framework Convention the World Health Organisation various available positions in seeks a commitment to recently stated. the participating entities and protect public health How can we This renewed call came in the ministry’s Vacancies Bank. policies with respect light of reports of tobacco com- Mr Humaidan recently convince a patient panies aiming to establish new stressed the positive results to tobacco control. to stay away from partnerships with governments of the National Employment smoking when to sponsor events or pavilions in Programme (NEP), which was TDT | Manama he sees that his world expos. launched following the direc- country is growing The WHO Framework Con- tives of HRH the Premier and he Bahrain Anti-Smoking tobacco? vention on Tobacco Control in- HRH the Crown Prince. Association has strongly cludes in Article 5.3, a commit- The programme aims DR AL QASEM Trejected the proposal on Smoking cigarettes can have many adverse effects on the body, including life- ment to protect public health through its four initiatives cultivating tobacco in the King- threatening complications. policies with respect to tobacco to boost employment, reha- dom, stating that it is a clear control from commercial and bilitation and integration of violation of the UN Convention totally hurt by the decision.” The President of the Society, are more aware of the dangers other vested interests of the to- citizens, in the labour market. on Tobacco Control. “The proposal discussed in Dr Ghada Al Qasem, said that of smoking on the respiratory bacco industry. It also seeks to give priority The Kingdom’s authorities the parliament is against World the Kingdom has made great system, veins, arteries, heart, This commitment is reflected to Bahraini nationals and sup- wants to allow the planting and Health Organisation’s regula- strides in the field of promoting colon, skin and all organs in the Memorandum of Under- port them to become the first production of tobacco, as well tions and rules on controlling public health and goes against and functions. How can we standing of 2011 between WHO choice in employment while as the commercial production of use of tobacco. the Kingdom’s health strides. convince a patient to stay away and the Bureau International maintaining the market’s flex- alternative nicotine substances “We are carrying out an Dr Al Qasem pointed out that from smoking when he sees des Expositions (BIE), which ibility, being a cornerstone for – such as vape juice. awareness campaign against the the Kingdom is one of the first that his country is growing to- “bans” sponsorship of expos sustainable development in Authorities have already use of tobacco and whatever GCC countries to issue a law ban- bacco?” by tobacco companies or their Bahrain. drafted legislation that would happening now is contradicting ning smoking in indoor areas As called for in the WHO agents or affiliates. The minister revealed that enable tobacco companies to set our efforts.” to implement the Kingdom’s Framework Convention on To- Governments must proactive- the number of vacancies has up commercial operations here. Echoing a similar view, the health policy to combat smok- bacco Control, Governments ly aspire to reduce the number gone up by 35pc after the In a statement presented Bahrain Society of Physicians ing and preserve the safety of must comprehensively enforce of people starting and continu- launch of NEP, at an average to House of Representatives has also warned against the citizens and residents from the bans on tobacco advertising, ing smoking, to promote health of 83 vacancies on daily ba- Speaker Fawzia Zainal, the as- move, warning that the call for danger of secondhand smoke. promotion and sponsorship at and preserve future generations, sis, compared to the months sociation said: “The association tobacco cultivation would ad- “As doctors, the first question international expos and con- the WHO has been frequently preceding the launch of the was founded to combat smoking versely affect health achieve- we ask the patient is whether ferences, in order to ensure proposing to authorities across programme (an average of 60 habits in the Kingdom. We are ments. he smokes or not, because we their events and programmes the world. vacancies on daily basis). GCC strategic health plan 2020-2022 reviewed Manama eration apart from regulating many changes in the last cou- players in the health industry. ple of years, we have reevaluat- ealth Minister Faeqa Al According to National Health ed regulations and procedures. Saleh received Direc- Regulatory Authority CEO Mar- Work flow processes such as Htor-general of the Gulf iam Al Jalahma, the regulator’s professional and facility licens- Cooperation Council (GCC)’s vision is to provide safe, trusted, ing, medical devices clearance Health Council Suleiman Al high-quality healthcare to the and drug registration were re- Dakhil, in presence of Assis - people of Bahrain. We regulate vised to make them more in line tant Undersecretary for Pub- the healthcare system to ensure with international standards of lic Health and GCC Executive that the people of Bahrain ex- efficiency and effectiveness. Health Board member Dr Mar- perience a service that protects “This move has been seen iam Al Hajeri. and promotes health. very favourably by our clients They reviewed the GCC Stra- “One of our fundamental roles and stakeholders in the King- tegic Health Plan 2020-2022, as a steward of the health care dom. Our achievements in the including capacity building, re- Ms Al Saleh receives Mr Al Dakhil in the presence of Dr Al Hajeri. system is to ensure the sys - past year have been made pos- search and awareness focusing tem delivers the best possible sible through the commitment on preventative health, develop- The minister praised the GCC health services in the Arabian shared interest and the coopera- healthcare outcomes for the and professionalism of the ded- ment and investment in health health board’s role and keen- Gulf countries. tion to boost the comprehensive people of Bahrain.” icated staff at NHRA, all of whom cadres. ness on the provision of the best They also reviewed topics of GCC-integrated health co-op- “NHRA has gone through work.”

Saudi National Day marked

The Nationality, Passport and Residence Affairs within the Interior Ministry yesterday held special celebrations marking the Saudi National Day. Saudi nationals received a warm welcome on King Fahad Causeway as the day reflected unity and shared heritage between both countries. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 04

Seminar on fourth industrial Kingdom joins global call to revolution protect freedom of religions Mr Anand Shaikh Khalid stresses Bahrain’s keenness to further develop co-operation with United Nations TDT | Manama

he Bahrain Chapter of For his part, TICAI will be conducting • a seminar on the Impact the President of of Fourth Industrial revo- UNGA hailed the lution on Finance and Au- development of the diting on Wednesday, 25th Kingdom in various September 2019. Commenting on it, Chair- fields, commending person CA Maheshkumar its efforts in achieving Narayan said the seminar the sustainable will discuss how artificial development goals. intelligence, robotics and automation will define the Shaikh Khalid also way in which finance and • auditing professionals will participated in the function in the near future. High-Level Meeting CA Anand Jangid, an ex- on Universal Health perienced fintech enthusi- Coverage and the ast will be the speaker. United Nations Climate Action Summit. Premier thanked Manama New York US President Donald Trump addresses the session. is Royal Highness Prime he Minister of Foreign HMinister Prince Khalifa Affairs, Shaikh Khalid al Assembly, Tijjani Muham- bin Salman Al Khalifa has re- Tbin Ahmed bin Moham- mad-Bande, in the presence of ceived cables of thanks from med Al Khalifa, participated in a the President of Bahrain Author- the Kuwaiti Crown Prince, high-level event entitled “Global ity for Culture and Antiquities, Bahrain has been HH Shaikh Nawaf Al Ahmed Call to Protect Religious Free- Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed striving to enhance Al Jaber Al Sabah, in reply to dom”, hosted by the President Al Khalifa. co-operation with the the Premier’s condolences of the United States of America, The minister extended his over the demise of the late Donald Trump, at the United Na- congratulations to Mr Mu - countries of the world Shaikh Talal Nasser Athbi Al tions Headquarters in New York. hammed-Bande on being elected to achieve major UN Sabah, and the demise of the The minister expressed ap- as the President of the current goals. late Shaikha Anwar Faisal Al preciation for the President of session of the General Assembly, SHAIKH KHALID Saud Al Sabah. the United States for hosting the wishing him success in fulfilling The Kuwaiti Crown Prince event, which reflects his keen- his tasks in enhancing the role ing global co-operation to over- expressed sincere thanks and ness to reinforce international of the UNGA for the benefit of all come all challenges. The meeting appreciation to HRH Premier co-operation in order to guaran- countries. also discussed the main issues for his heartfelt consolation tee religious freedom in all parts Shaikh Khalid stressed the and topics enlisted in the current and fraternal feelings. of the world. keenness of the Kingdom to UNGA agenda. Shaikh Khalid at the session. HRH Premier also received He also stressed the impor- further develop co-operation Shaikh Khalid also participat- a cable of thanks from his Ku- tance of enhancing the efforts with the United Nations due to ed in the High-Level Meeting Shaikh Khalid affirmed that ventive health services of high waiti counterpart, HH Shaikh aimed at consolidating intercul- its vital role in establishing in- on Universal Health Coverage the Kingdom of Bahrain attaches quality and efficiency in accord- Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad tural openness and communi- ternational peace and security and the United Nations Climate great importance to universal ance with the best international Al Sabah, in reply to his con- cation. The event aims to sup- and enhancing sustainable de- Action Summit. health coverage, which comes standards and practices. dolences over the demise of port religious freedom, combat velopment. The Minister of Foreign Af- at the forefront of its strategic The Minister of Foreign Af- the late Shaikha Anwar Faisal various forms of persecution, For his part, the President fairs expressed his sincere ap- priorities to achieve the sustain- fairs also pointed out that the Al Saud Al Sabah. address attacks on places of wor- of UNGA hailed the develop - preciation to the Secretary-Gen- able development goals related Kingdom has launched many HH Shaikh Jaber Al ship, and ensure respect for the ment of the Kingdom in various eral of the United Nations, Antó- to health. initiatives to protect the envi- Mubarak expressed pride cultural and religious heritage fields, commending its efforts in nio Guterres, for his role and He added that the King - ronment and preserve its natural in and appreciation of HRH of states. achieving the sustainable devel- efforts in holding such high-level dom has a distinct experience resources, as it also strives to Premier’s sincere initiative Separately, Shaikh Khalid, met opment goals. meetings that discuss important in providing primary health enhance co-operation with the and feelings, praying to Allah the President of the 74th session He also noted the Kingdom’s issues to the international com- care services, and is keen to countries of the world to achieve the Almighty to protect HRH of the United Nations Gener- policy which focuses on support- munity. provide therapeutic and pre- these goals. the Prime Minister from evil.

Conference to focus on universal health coverage BJA to probe into complaints over ‘non-credible news’ TDT | Manama Pradeep Puravankara to practise the profession of journalism. A distinction must “The press means the in - he Bahrain Journalists be made between stitutionalisation of work in Association (BJA) will accordance with the rules pre- Tsoon launch a probe the constitutional scribed by the laws, including Lt General Shaikh Mohammed with the delegation from the International Health Co-operative Network. into complaints filed by many right to express and obtaining licences from the journalists over ‘news theft’ as the legal right to official authorities concerned, Manama received a delegation from the achievements thanks to the tre- well as fake news, especially disseminate opinion and the result is the establish- International Health Co-oper- mendous support of His Majesty on social media and other on- by word or writing, ment of a commercial com- ahrain is set to host the ation Network. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, line platforms. and to practise pany subject to the rules of annual conference of the He expressed the kingdom’s His Royal Highness Prime Min- Journalists say that this theft business and to allow it to pub- Joint Learning Network pride in hosting the annual con- ister Prince Khalifa bin Salman of content is totally illegal, and the profession of lish ads to finance its activity B journalism. for Universal Health Coverage ference to discuss the best inter- Al Khalifa and His Royal High- goes against the existing laws and the payment of salaries of from December 2 to 7, through national experiences and prac- ness Prince Salman bin Hamad governing the functioning of JOURNALISTS its employees,” the journalists co-operation between the Su- tices in comprehensive health Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Dep- the media organisations in the observed. preme Health Council, the Min- coverage. Representatives from uty Supreme Commander and Kingdom. “Some social media news istry of Health and the Inter- 34 countries will participate in First Deputy Premier. “Journalism is a noble pro- that are issued or broadcast by accounts are stealing contents national Health Co-operation the event. He emphasised Bahrain’s fession. This profession is ex- electronic means. or quotes of personalities pub- Network. The Supreme Health Council keenness on upgrading the pressed by the issuance of a “A distinction must be made lished in local newspapers President of the Supreme President stressed that choosing health system to ensure sustain- newspaper, magazine or any between the constitutional without even giving a refer- Health Council Lieutenant Bahrain to host the conference ability of comprehensive health other publication issued in right to express and the le - ence. The authorities should General Shaikh Mohammed bin is an international recognition coverage according to the best one name and periodically, in- gal right to disseminate opin- put an end to this practice,” Abdullah Al Khalifa yesterday of the kingdom’s major health international standards. cluding electronic newspapers ion by word or writing, and they urged. 05 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 world

40 civilians killed in anti- At least 20 killed, dozens Taliban raid: Afghan officials injured in Papua unrest

Afghans transport the body of a woman who was killed during a raid conducted by Afghan special forces, in the southern Helmand province

AP | Kabul, Afghanistan ty provincial councilman, said About 300 people most of the dead were women • and children who were who were arrested in nti-Taliban raids by Af- were at a wedding ceremony connection with Aghan forces backed by US in Musa Qala district. An addi- yesterday’s protests airstrikes killed at least 40 ci- tional 12 civilians were wound- vilians attending a wedding ed and were hospitalized in AFP | Wamena | Indonesia party in the southern Helmand Lashkar Gah, the capital of province, Afghan officials Helmand province, Akhund said. said. t least 20 people were The civilian deaths in Sun- The civilian deaths occurred killed and dozens more day night’s raids on Taliban during the second of two raids Ainjured as fresh unrest A building burns in Wamena in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province after fresh protests hideouts further rattled Af- undertaken in different areas erupted in Indonesia’s res - ghanistan amid an upsurge in of Musa Qala, Attahullah Af- tive Papua region yesterday, “Most of them died in a fire,” from rubber bullet wounds, au- ments made by a teacher, but violence that’s followed the ghan, head of the provincial with some victims burned to said Papua military spokesman thorities said, without elabo- police have disputed that ac- collapse this month of US-Tal- council, said. death in buildings set ablaze Eko Daryanto. rating. count as a “hoax”. iban peace talks to end Amer- The operations killed 22 Tal- by protesters, authorities “The death toll could About 300 people were ar- Indonesia routinely blames ica’s longest war. iban fighters, including for- said. go up because many were rested in connection with Mon- separatists for violence in Pap- “We are saddened and di- eigners, Afghanistan’s defense Papua, on the western half of trapped in burning kiosks,” he day’s protests, Daryanto said, ua, its easternmost territory, vested to hear that civilians ministry said in a statement. New Guinea island, has been added. adding that about 65 people had and conflicting accounts are have lost their lives in an in- Fourteen people were arrest- gripped by weeks of violent Among the victims, 13 were been injured. common. cident in Helmand despite ed, including five Pakistani na- protests fuelled by anger over non-Papuans and three were The clashes in Papua had qui- Demonstrations broke out President Ghani’s repeated tionals and one Bangladeshi. racism, as well as fresh calls for Papuans, Daryanto said, adding etened down in recent days, but across the region and in other call for extra cautions in con- The statement said large ware- self-rule in the impoverished that a soldier and three civilians flared up again as hundreds took parts of the Southeast Asian ar- ducting military operations,” house of supplies and equip- territory. also died in provincial capital to the streets -- and houses and chipelago after the mid-August said Sediq Sediqqi, President ment was also destroyed. Sixteen people were killed in Jayapura, where security forces stores went up in flames. arrest and tear-gassing of doz- Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman. “The foreign terrorist group Wamena city where hundreds and stone-throwing protesters Yesterday’s protests in ens of Papuan students, who He added that Helmand’s was actively engaged in or- demonstrated and burned down clashed yesterday. Wamena -- mostly involving were also racially abused, in In- provincial governor has been ganizing terrorist attacks,” the a government office and other The soldier was stabbed to high-schoolers -- were report- donesia’s second-biggest city, instructed to send an investi- statement said. buildings, authorities said. death, while three students died edly sparked by racist com - Surabaya. gation team to the area. The US military said no Af- Abdul Majed Akhund, depu- ghan or US forces were killed.

Warne banned from driving after multiple speeding offences Russia gives definitive approval to Paris London clocked at 47 mph early on Au- deputy district judge Adrian climate accord ustralia Test great Shane gust 23, 2018. Turner. Reuters | Moscow AWarne was yesterday Warne, second on the all-time “There are 15 points to take to a legal nuance. Medvedev banned from driving for 12 list of Test wicket-takers with into account together with the ussia said it would imple- said Moscow would adapt the months after his sixth speeding 708 scalps, had 15 penalty points three I must impose today. Be- Rment the 2015 Paris Agree- accord to existing legal norms. offence in a two-year period. on his licence at the time for five tween April 2016 and August ment to fight climate change It was unclear what, if any, the The former leg-spinner ad- previous speeding offences. last year Warne committed six after Prime Minister Dmitry legal implications of failing mitted breaking a 40-miles- Warne, who lives in west Lon- speeding offences. Medvedev yesterday approved to technically ratify the pact per-hour (64 kilometres-per- don, was also ordered to pay a “It may well be that none on a government resolution signi- were. hour) limit in a hired Jaguar in total of £1,845 ($3,000) to the its own were particularly seri- fying Moscow’s final accept- Russia is the world’s fourth London last year, a magistrates’ court. ous but for points disqualifica- ance of the deal. largest emitter of greenhouse court heard. “The purpose of disqualifica- tion purposes the triviality of The same resolution said gases and the biggest emitter The 50-year-old, who was not tion is to punish and to protect the offences is not to be taken Russia would not technically not to have ratified the land- in court for the hearing, was Australia Test great Shane Warne the public and to deter,” said into account. ratify the accord however due mark global climate deal. Filipinos give thumbs up to Duterte’s ‘excellent’ drugs war: poll Reuters | Manila isfied, because they believed the more than 6,700 suspected drug against this administration,” conducting a preliminary exam- hilippine citizens are over- drug trade was still flourishing dealers who all resisted arrest, Panelo said on Monday. ination to determine if there are Pwhelmingly satisfied with and there were too many killings and deny involvement in the “It’s not true that policemen grounds to investigate Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte’s and police abuses. The survey mysterious murders of thou- just kill at will, they cannot do He has responded by cancelling bloody war on drugs, a survey conducted by the independent sands more drug users. that,” he added. the Philippines membership of showed, giving a boost to a gov- pollster in late June had 6% un- Police reject allegations by The 47-member Council ap- the court. ernment outraged by an inter- decided. human rights groups that they proved a resolution in July to Phil Robertson, deputy Asia national push to investigate al- It was released two days after have executed targets, falsified compile a comprehensive report director of Human Rights legations of systematic murders the leak of a presidential memo reports and tampered with evi- on the killings, which Manila’s Watch, said domestic surveys by police. ordering departments and state- dence and crime scenes. foreign secretary said will not showing support for Duterte The quarterly poll of 1,200 run firms to decline loans or aid Presidential spokesman, be permitted in the Philippines. and his campaign were exactly Filipinos by Social Weather Sta- from the 18 countries of the Salvador Panelo, said the poll Panelo said domestic inves- why an international probe was tions returned a rating of “excel- United Nations Human Rights showed that the international tigations had been undertaken needed. lent” for Duterte’s three-year Council (UNHRC) - among them community had a warped under- already, and the U.N. resolution “It’s ridiculous to say there is campaign, with 82% satisfied Spain, Britain and Australia - standing of what was happening. was “not only unfair, it’s an in- any sort of serious national in- due to a perception of less drugs that backed a resolution to in- “If it’s true that there are hu- sult.” vestigation into these crimes. It’s and crime in the country. vestigate Duterte’s crackdown. man rights violations then the The International Criminal laughable,” he told news channel That compared to 12% dissat- Police say they have killed Rodrigo Duterte people of this country will rise Court has since last year been ANC. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 06 Upcycling shot buses to ease water shortage Taez | Yemen outbreak in 2014. find spare parts on the market,” five years old. explained technician Mohamed Cholera is an intestinal infec- nce a bus wreck pep - Filled with rainwater Amin. tion caused by eating or drink- pered with bullet holes, Taez’s 600,000 people have “We can’t order them from ing products contaminated with Othe pristine white water remained under the control of Sanaa” or provisional capital bacteria which cause serious tanker parked in front of a Yem- government forces, while Huthi Aden, he said. dehydration that can prove fatal en university now delivers water fighters backed by Iran have be- The tankers are filled from if left untreated. to students in the war-torn and sieged the city. what little rainwater falls in the After parking one of his cre- cholera-hit south. The Huthis have tested the area and from the boreholes still ations, Rebasi climbs onto a Sitting among still bat - resolve of the city’s residents under government control. pre-transformation bus without tle-scarred buses, the tanker was by seizing control of areas that The scheme costs the uni - windows and examines the torn repurposed by student welfare include the principal wells sup- versity 700,000 Yemeni riyals leather seats interspersed with officer Nashwan el-Rebasi, who plying the city and restricting a month ($2,700 at the official mounds of junk. has made a mini fleet of water access to the essential resource. rate, $1,300 on the black mar- On another vehicle, the words A man drives a university bus transformed into a water tanker in Yemen’s third transporters for the university at “Eighty percent of the buses at ket). “Taez University” could still be city of Taiz the foot of the Taez mountains. the university were destroyed,” seen despite the dilapidated “The idea was born out of the said Rebasi from behind the ‘Nothing is impossible’ state of the bus, complete with water shortages in the region wheel of one of his tankers, The United Nations special a windscreen speckled with bul- and the total lack of a reser - which he created by working envoy for Yemen Martin Grif- let holes. voir at the university,” said the “tirelessly” for a fortnight. fiths wrote this week that “this is “We’ve lost friends, family 35-year-old. In an open air workshop, uni- a conflict the international com- members. The wars have de - Taez, Yemen’s third city lo- versity technicians dismantle munity can resolve. And because stroyed everything. If people cated in the country’s moun - other buses, leaving only the we can, we must”. aren’t killed, then they’re dis- tainous southwest, has been driver’s seat and the chassis “Let us be clear: Yemen cannot placed,” Rebasi said. rocked by violent clashes be - onto which tanks are attached wait. And moreover, Yemen need But he believes that his project tween pro-government forces in place of passenger benches. not wait. And neither should shows that “nothing is impossi- and Huthi rebels, as well as be- Four passenger buses have we.” ble, everything can be fixed”. tween different loyalist factions. been reincarnated as water tank- Two million suspected cas- “What’s important is that peo- The ongoing civil war has rav- ers in total, to help 200 dormi- es of the waterborne infection ple want to do it, to reflect on aged Yemen since tory-dwelling students out of have been recorded by the World how they can resolve what the its the university’s 40,000-strong Health Organization, while wars have destroyed,” he said. student body. cholera has killed at least 3,500 “We’ve had several assembly people, roughly two-thirds of issues and have struggled to whom were under

The war-scarred passenger buses of a Yemeni university have been repurposed into water tankers

A Yemeni student welfare officer has made a mini fleet of water transporters from battle-scarred passenger buses ‘How dare you?’ Greta Thunberg asks Mugabe died of cancer, says Zimbabwe media world leaders at United Nations Harare United Nations | United States understood the situation and imbabwe’s founding pres- still kept on failing to act, then Zident Robert Mugabe had visibly angry Greta Thun- you would be evil, and that I “advanced cancer” when he Aberg berated world leaders refuse to believe.” died in hospital in Singapore as she addressed a UN climate Thunberg, who often appears on September 6, the state- summit yesterday, accusing uncomfortable in the limelight owned newspaper reported them of betraying her genera- and is seen as a reluctant leader, yesterday. tion by failing to tackle green- then detailed the various targets The former guerilla lead- house gas emissions and asking that were being missed, height- er, who died aged 95, came “How dare you?” ening the risk of “irreversible to power at the end of white Mugabe died less than two years The Swedish teen, who has chain reactions beyond human minority rule in 1980 and ruled after being forced from office become the global face of the control.” Zimbabwe uninterrupted for growing youth movement She also took aim at the sum- 37 years and seven months. Mnangagwa during an address against climate inaction, be- mit called by Secretary-General He was toppled on Novem- to party supporters in New gan by telling her audience: Antonio Guterres to ask coun- ber 2017 in a military-backed York on Saturday, according “My message is that we’ll tries to expand their commit- coup, ending an increasing- to the paper. be watching you,” eliciting ments saying: “There will not be ly iron-fisted rule marked by “Doctors had stopped treat- laughter. any solutions or plans presented political oppression and eco- ment... because of age and also But it was soon clear that the in line with these figures here nomic ruin. because the cancer had spread tone of the message would be Youth Climate activist Greta Thunberg accused world leaders of betraying her today because these numbers Mugabe’s health deteriorat- and it was not helping any - generation through their inaction on reducing greenhouse gas emissions very serious. are too uncomfortable, and you ed rapidly after the ousting more,” said Mnangagwa, cited “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t are still not mature enough to and he made regular trips to by the Herald. be up here. I should be back at and my childhood with your growth. How dare you!” tell it like it is.” Singapore to seek treatment. The family had previously school on the other side of the empty words, yet I’m one of the She added that in her talks “You are failing us,” she con- “Mugabe had advanced downplayed Mugabe’s fre- ocean,” the 16-year-old, who is lucky ones. People are suffering, with leaders, she had been told cluded. “But the young people cancer, and had to be taken quent trips to Singapore as taking a year off from her stud- people are dying, entire ecosys- that the youth were being heard are starting to understand your off chemotherapy treatment necessary for cataract treat- ies, said. tems are collapsing. and the urgency was under - betrayal. because it was no longer ef- ment. “You come to us young people “We are in the beginning of stood. “The eyes of all future gener- fective,” said The Herald yes- Mugabe is expected to be for hope. How dare you?” she a mass extinction, and all you “But no matter how sad and ations, are upon you, And if you terday. buried next month at a mon- thundered. can talk about is the money and angry I am, I do not want to be- choose to fail us. I say, we will The information was re- ument for national heroes in “You have stolen my dreams fairy tales of eternal economic lieve that, because if you really never forgive you!” vealed by President Emmerson Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 07 Trump visits key states with Modi, Morrison

When I met him for the first time, he said to me ‘India has a true friend in the White House. Mr. President, this morning in Houston, you can hear the heartbeat of this great partnership in this celebration of the world’s two largest democracies

MODI TOLD TRUMP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump shake hands after introductions during the “Howdi Modi” President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speak as Pratt Industries chairman Anthony Pratt, center, watches during a tour of Pratt Industries, “This great state of Ohio is complete with a packed venue partial trade deal, which would About 50,000 Indian open for business,” Trump told Trump says ‘May come to India’ and a roaring crowd, and Trump let the president score a victory • the cheering crowd at a new Houston treated it that way at times. as he campaigns for reelection Americans attended Pratt Industries plant still under Next week thousands in Mum- He ticked off his accomplish- in November 2020. A partial the “Howdy Modi!” construction. bai will watch the first-ever ments in office, highlighted a deal could include Washington rally in Houston “If it wasn’t for your presi - peaking at the mega “How- NBA game in India..am I in - drop in the unemployment rate reinstating India’s special tariff dency, this mill would not be Sdy, Modi!” event in Hou- vited, Mr Prime Minister? I among Indian Americans and status in exchange for conces- Trump said US-India here today,” Pratt said, praising ston, Texas, US President Don- may come, be careful I may extolled their contributions to sions related to access to Indian • the Trump administration’s eco- ald Trump on Sunday gave come,” Trump said while the US as he pitched for their markets, possibly in dairy and bonds are expanding nomic and tax policies. hints that he may visit India speaking at NRG Football vote in a traditionally Republi- medical devices. Other issues are despite tensions over Earlier, in Texas, Trump joined next week. Stadium. can state that Democrats have thwarting efforts to sign a larger India’s trade surplus Indian Prime Minister Narendra The POTUS said that very The NBA India Games 2019 visions of pulling into their col- trade deal. Modi to highlight the growth soon India will have access to will feature Indiana Pacers and umn next year. In an address in Hindi to “my The US and India of US exports to India and bil- the National Basketball Asso- the Sacramento Kings who will Trump said Modi invited him family,” Modi briefly mentioned • lions of dollars spent by India ciation (NBA). The first-ever play two pre-season games on to the rally — one of the largest the trade talks and expressed are discussing ways on US defence equipment. Nei- NBA game will be held in Oc- October 4 and October 5 at the US gatherings of the Indian dias- hope that an announcement can to negotiate at least ther mentioned trade tensions. tober in Mumbai. Dome, NSCI, SVP Stadium in pora in history — when they met be made while he and Trump a partial trade deal Deafening drums marked the “Very soon India will have Maharashtra’s Mumbai. This last month in France, and Trump participate in the U.N. gathering. entrance of Trump and Modi as to access to another world- will mark the first-ever games seemed to explain his decision to Modi said that while Trump Trump is also they clasped hands and walked class American product-NBA from a North American sports attend by saying “I love India.” has called himself a “tough ne- • across the stage in a packed Tex- basketball. Wow, sounds good. league in India. Earlier this year, Modi won gotiator,” he has learned a few scheduled to meet this as stadium, sending a message of the biggest reelection India has things from Trump about the week with Pakistani unity between the world’s two seen in years and his support for art of making deals. After the leader Imran Khan largest democracies. Trump could help the president speeches, Modi asked Trump The president also discussed at the polls next year. The two to walk hand-in-hand around border security, an important are to meet Tuesday on the side- the perimeter of the stadium AP | Wapakoneta, Ohio campaign issue for Texas, which lines of the annual U.N. General floor, looking up to the stands of shares a border with Mexico. Assembly. cheering fans. resident Donald Trump’s “We are taking unprecedented Trump is also scheduled to In Texas, Trump also was run-up to the U.N. General action to secure our southern meet this week with Pakistani briefed on recent storm flood- PAssembly was a dash on border and stop illegal immigra- leader Imran Khan, who recent- ing in the southeastern part Sunday through two key politi- tion,” Trump said. ly solicited the president’s help of the state when he stopped cal states with two world leaders About 50,000 Indian Amer- mediating the Pakistan-India at a nearby US Coast Guard at events that felt like his rau- icans attended the “Howdy conflict over Kashmir. India’s station. cous campaign rallies. Modi!” rally in Houston, where government has stripped the Hundreds of homes and oth- In Wapakoneta, Ohio, Trump the crowd chanted “Modi! Modi! disputed Himalayan region of its er buildings across a region ex- and Australian Prime Minister Modi!” as he took the stage to in- semi-autonomy and launched a tending eastward from Houston Scott Morrison visited a recycled troduce Trump as “my friend, a security crackdown last month. and across the Louisiana border paper factory being opened by friend of India, a great American Trump said US-India bonds were damaged by Imelda, as the Anthony Pratt, an Australian president.” are expanding despite tensions one-time tropical storm slowly businessman who is investing Modi even used Trump’s po- over India’s trade surplus with churned across the Gulf region, billions of dollars in the Unit- litical slogan to say the president the US In June, the US canceled dumping more than 40 inches ed States to create thousands had a strong resolve to “make special trade privileges that had (102 centimeters) of rain in some People look on as President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the “Howdy of manufacturing jobs. Ohio - America great again.” Modi: Shared Dreams, Bright Futures” event with Indian Prime Minister allowed India to export certain areas. ans crowded into a hot facto - “When I met him for the first Narendra Modi at NRG Stadium goods with lower tariffs. India Authorities blame the storm ry chanted “USA. USA” when time, he said to me ‘India has a responded by slapping tariffs on for at least five deaths. Trump talked about products true friend in the White House,’” hear the heartbeat of this great mocracies.” more than two dozen US goods. Trump will spend most of the emblazoned with the words Modi said. “Mr. President, this partnership in this celebration The event had the feel of one The US and India are discuss- week in New York participating “Made in America.” morning in Houston, you can of the world’s two largest de - of Trump’s campaign rallies, ing ways to negotiate at least a in the UN General Assembly . Royal couple condemn violence against women in South Africa Cape Town the township is crippled by gang between April 2018 and March women’s rights long before mar- rince Harry yesterday spoke violence and the highest murder 2019. President Cyril Rama- rying Harry in 2017, congratulat- Pout against gender-based vi- rate in the country. phosa has vowed to crack down ed girls “standing up for what’s olence in South Africa as his wife After landing earlier aboard a on perpetrators after protests right in the face of adversity”. Meghan hailed girls who had commercial flight from London, flared up across the country this “Your commitment to stand chosen to “stand up for what is the Duke and Duchess of Sussex month. “Touching on what your up for what is right is energising right”. surprised young girls who were President said last week -– no and inspiring,” said the Duchess. The British royal couple vis- in the middle of a self-defence man is born to cause harm to “While I’m here with my ited Cape Town’s tough Nyanga class. They then addressed the women,” said Prince Harry. husband and as a member of township as part of a 10-day tour crowd, stressing the need to roll “It’s about redefining mascu- the royal family, I am here as of southern Africa -- their first back gender violence and em- linity, it’s about creating your a mother, a wife, a woman of official visit as a family since power women. own footprints for your chil - colour and your sister.” Demon- their son Archie was born in South Africa is one of the dren to follow in, so that you strations have been mounting May. world’s most dangerous places, can make a positive change for over the rising toll of murders, Situated on the outskirts particularly for women, with the future.” rapes and abuse of women and of a city known for it pristine The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met members of the Justice Desk, a rights group more than 40,000 incidents of Meghan, a mixed-race Amer- girls, and a sense of impunity beaches and rolling vineyards, in Cape Town’s Nyanga township rape were reported to the police ican who has been advocating that surrounds it. NO MAN SUCCEEDS WITHOUT A GOOD WOMAN BEHIND HIM. TODAY 1996 2005 2007 2008 QUOTE WIFE OR MOTHER, IF IT IS DAY IN OF THE BOTH, HE IS TWICE BLESSED Representatives of 71 nations Hurricane Rita makes landfall in Between 30,000 and 100,000 Thabo Mbeki resigns as president DAY HISTORY sign the Comprehensive Nucle- the United States, devastating por- people take part in anti-gov- of South Africa INDEED. ar-Test-Ban Treaty at the United tions of southwestern Louisiana ernment protests in Yangon, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 GODFREY WINN Nations. and extreme southeastern Texas. Burma, the largest in 20 years.

HUSSEIN IBISH US says was orchestrated by Teh- There is no doubt that if ing: “I’m somebody, who would ran, other countries must set aside the confrontation with like not to have war.” Iran S President Donald Trump whatever resentments and doubts Iran becomes a conflict, US Given the emphasis the US pres- might see himself as the an- they might harbour because Iran forces would have to take ident has put on the “burden-shar- Utithesis of his predecessor has now targeted global oil sup- ing” by his partners and his aver- TOP Barack Obama, yet he often seems plies and energy markets. the initiative fairly quickly. sion to using military force unless should not to follow his example and even Because of a growing diplomat- American interests have been di- 4 amplify his policies. During the ic momentum against Iran and rectly attacked or Americans have TWEETS 2011 Nato intervention in Libya, significant steps towards con- been killed, he certainly seems to for example, Mr Obama, who was structing a broad international be sending the strong message that underestimate then president, was described by coalition to thwart its destabilis- he hopes, or even expects, Saudi 01 White House officials as “leading ing activities – beginning with an Arabia and other regional allies from behind”. The phrase was increasing number of participants to take the lead in any military quickly seized upon by his polit- in the US-led naval force to protect retaliation. Donald Trump ical opponents as a derogatory international shipping in the Gulf There is no doubt that if the metaphor for his foreign policy, – it’s heartening that Washing- confrontation with Iran becomes suggestive of shirking responsi- ton and Riyadh have reacted with a conflict, US forces would have bility and allowing others to take calm and deliberate assembling to take the initiative fairly quick- If regime leaders in Tehran the initiative. of the evidence and a measured where Israel has been striking ly. But Mr Trump rightly wants f you are motivated by In the unfolding confrontation response to Iran’s provocation. pro-Iranian militias and Islamic to avoid such a dangerous devel- Ia wish to help on the conclude they are dealing with a with Iran, Mr Trump appears to The next battlefield will be the Revolutionary Guard Corps instal- opment and putting the onus on basis of kindness, com- be seriously attempting to “lead UN General Assembly in New York lations and assets. regional allies to take the military passion and respect, then paper tiger, they will be making from behind” when it comes to this week, where Washington and Since the attack on Abqaiq and lead initially might help him avoid you can do any kind of military actions. Washington has Riyadh will work to build a coali- Khurais on September 14, Mr being drawn into an over-hasty work, in any field, and a grave miscalculation spearheaded a “maximum pres- tion broad and committed enough Trump has sent unmistakable clash. function more effectively sure” sanctions campaign against to restore deterrence without a signals that he also expects Saudi Even more than Mr Obama, with less fear or worry, Tehran that continues to intensify major military retaliation. The Arabia to take the lead militarily, then, Mr Trump might have dis- not being afraid of what and the US administration is di- hope is that it might still be pos- at least at first. covered the real virtue in leading others think or whether recting its diplomatic and political sible to thwart Iran without being He tweeted that the US military from behind. you will ultimately reach efforts to isolate and stigmatise drawn into the military clash that was “locked and loaded” but was But if regime leaders in Tehran your goal. Iran. Tehran is trying to provoke, and “waiting to hear from the King- conclude that, because Mr Trump @DalaiLama Indeed, its central role in build- thereby maintain prospects for dom” before determining “under would rather avoid conflict for po- ing a strong global coalition to ad- negotiation. what terms we would proceed”. litical reasons and prefers regional dress Iran’s misconduct has been The paramount goal at this stage At the very least, this suggested partners to take the lead, they are 02 complicated because Mr Trump must be to restore deterrence, giv- that until Saudi Arabia publicly dealing with a paper tiger, they will has alienated much of the inter- en that attacks on the Saudi oil blamed Iran, and therefore ac- certainly rue that miscalculation. national community, including sites demonstrate an outrageous cepted responsibility for what- Even those who see the world close US allies in Europe, who degree of presumed impunity by ever subsequently unfolded, the in “America First” terms must are still trying to salvage the 2015 Iran and a dangerous sense that US would not consider military understand that if the US cannot nuclear deal after he withdrew the US and Saudi Arabia either retaliation. quickly restore deterrence with from it last year. cannot, or will not, retaliate. Tehran, then military force might that it is “winning” and, worse, is And that is where Mr Trump ing from behind”. He is signalling taliations. Later the president noted: “That Iran, its status as a Middle East- But given the recent attack on If diplomacy and international eventually be required to correct dealing with countries incapable appears to be leaning strongly to- that he wants US allies to take the This pattern has already been was an attack on Saudi Arabia, and ern and even a global power will e cannot just sit key Saudi oil facilities, which the coalition-building fail to persuade Iran’s evident misapprehension of striking back. wards a genuine version of “lead- lead in any necessary military re- developing in Syria and Iraq, that wasn’t an attack on us,” add- be all but over. Wback and watch as priceless endangered species like the African elephant, the black rhi- no and the pangolin are wiped off the face of the CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE earth. We are ramping up UK efforts to save the UNGA 2019 comes when co-operation at its weakest point natural world. #UNGA #TeamUK India tax cut, a @BorisJohnson TOM FLETCHER Promising careers can be broken The UN might not be for Education, a platform that by a graveyard speaker slot or an perfect and the cast has aims to mobilise more than $13 03 his week the global foreign uncomfortable seating arrange- a tendency to inauthentic billion via a consortium of public policy elite are relocating ment. Countries such as Israel, and private donors and inter- welcome move Tto New York for the an - Iran, the US and Saudi Arabia hyperbole, yet no one national finance institutions to nual jamboree of statecraft, the face the protocol nightmare of has yet come up with a ensure 200 million more young UN General Assembly, now in its proximity. better idea for global co- people get the opportunities they 74th year. The unspoken reality in the existence. crave. Despite being hosted in New corridors this year is that what Preparing humanity’s future York, the city that never sleeps, the United Nations represents also means accelerating the effort n my way to the UNGA can often feel sleepy. The – a system based on states, hier- to respond to the challenges and OUnited Nations. To- rooms have too little air and the archies and the status quo – is at opportunities posed by technol- day I’m speaking in the speeches too much of it. Every a weak point. Nationalism and ogy. One example is the Global General Assembly at the The United head of delegation gets a turn at populism are more fashionable Tech Panel, which meets again in Climate Action Summit. the microphone, many including than consensus and co-opera- New York this week to develop a This is such a crucial day, Nations needs platitudinous nods to regions of tion. We are only just beginning response to the growing threats world leaders are gather- conflict. Occasionally there is a to see how digital connectivity posed by lethal autonomous ing at the UN in New York to rise to the rogue showboat intervention. I will tear through the post-1945 weapons. Time is very short and to decide on our future. remember watching former Lib- global infrastructure. The pace tivity for progress. the tech community is clear that The eyes of the world challenges yan dictator Muammar Qadd- of technological change means Secondly, can the UN still act it is creating risks faster than we will be upon them. afi ripping up the UN Charter, that the internet has often been as a means of reducing friction can manage them. @GretaThunberg posed by and then Venezuelan president something that happens to the on key international tensions? The UN and governments alone technology Hugo Chavez talking of the “smell global architecture, not a force The risk of further escalation cannot crack these issues. They of sulphur” at the podium after marshalled fully in support of and provocation between Iran require the mobilisation of new, 04 and speak a George W Bush speech. But our collective objectives. All this and Saudi Arabia tops this year’s creative coalitions between citi- whether there is sound or fury, is at a time when Donald Trump’s long list. The UN Security Council zens, civil society and businesses. to a younger most speeches end up signifying presidency has orphaned the must show that it will not be para- But the UN is often the only or- nothing. rules-based international system. lysed by vetoes, as it has too often ganisation that can bring together ndia has had among the while it is not growing as fast generation Away from the podium, jet - But don’t get me wrong. The UN in the past. Diplomacy is hard, those alliances. So these are the highest corporate tax rates as it should. lagged officials stagger from might not be perfect and the cast patient, frustrating work but the issues on which the UN can begin Iin the world and the recent So encouraging consumers meeting to meeting. This is the ep- has a tendency to inauthentic hy- alternative is always worse. The the fightback, securing not just move by Nirmala Sitharaman, to buy products will be key to icentre of diplomatic speed-dat- perbole, yet no one has yet come aspirations of the UN’s Respon- relevance but influence. the finance minister, to reduce giving it a kickstart. he Ministry of Edu- ing. Encounters are ranked and up with a better idea for global sibility to Protect doctrine were It is easy to be cynical about it from 30 per cent to 22 per Government would be smart Tcation will carry out prioritised carefully, from plenar- co-existence. Beyond the proto- buried in the rubble of Syria. the hashtags, the celebrity tweets, cent is a wise one. It will cer- to put purchasing power back an audit to ascertain the ies, pull-asides and pool sprays; to col, preening and pinball diplo- Thirdly, can the UN show that the vanity photos and the “now tainly help lift the mood in the in the hands of consumers by safety of all school build- bilaterals and brush-bys; to “grip macy, the tedium and tantrums, it can deal with tomorrow’s or never” cliffhanger campaigns corporate sector. rationalising the rates of in- ings countrywide to avert and grins”. Most are carefully what happens in the corridors challenges, not just those of to- that will dominate social media Hopefully, this will spur in- come taxes and, perhaps, also incidents that put the choreographed, but not all. At one this week really matters to all of day? This means putting real around the UN again this year. But vestment in the country and lowering the goods and ser- lives of learners at risk. UNGA, I organised an ambush of us. And we – and the UN – do not energy into the effort to secure we all need the UN to rise to these encourage corporations to vices tax – introduced in 2017 @WilliamsRuto a South African president who have the luxury of waiting for a long-term finance for global ed- challenges: we have subcontract- cease laying off personnel and – from the highest point of 28 wanted to avoid a difficult meet- US president with a more enlight- ucation. Once again, the world’s ed to it many of the biggest chal- closing factories. per cent to a maximum of 20 ing with the British prime min- ened world view. leaders will be given the chance lenges facing humanity. And we This is also a good time for per cent. Disclaimer: (Views expressed ister. At another, I had to bundle So I think there are three tests Firstly, can it respond – with climate crisis? Under an ener- Greta Thunberg and her growing narrowing. But the activists and to support creative new mech- ourselves need to rise to the chal- government to reduce income These steps will spur con- by columnists are personal and the British prime minister into a for the UNGA this year if it is to practical actions, not just fine getic new communications chief, army of determined campaigners. the UN now need to turn this into anisms such as the Education lenge too, so let’s not subcontract taxes, which can be as high as sumption and provide a much need not necessarily reflect our side room to avoid an unwanted reverse several years of agonising words – to the extraordinary mo- the UN has sought to ally itself The gap between those inside and real pressure on those resisting Cannot Wait global fund and the our ingenuity, our survival in- 30 per cent. The Indian econo- needed boost to the economy. editorial stances) encounter with Robert Mugabe. decline. bilisation of young people on the with 16-year-old Swedish activist outside the conference rooms is change. We must not mistake ac- International Finance Facility stinct and our consciences. my is confronted with low GDP Rajesh Kuchal

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There is no doubt that if ing: “I’m somebody, who would the confrontation with like not to have war.” Iran becomes a conflict, US Given the emphasis the US pres- ident has put on the “burden-shar- forces would have to take ing” by his partners and his aver- TOP the initiative fairly quickly. sion to using military force unless American interests have been di- rectly attacked or Americans have TWEETS4 been killed, he certainly seems to be sending the strong message that he hopes, or even expects, Saudi Arabia and other regional allies 01 to take the lead in any military retaliation. There is no doubt that if the confrontation with Iran becomes a conflict, US forces would have to take the initiative fairly quick- where Israel has been striking ly. But Mr Trump rightly wants f you are motivated by pro-Iranian militias and Islamic to avoid such a dangerous devel- Ia wish to help on the Revolutionary Guard Corps instal- opment and putting the onus on basis of kindness, com- lations and assets. regional allies to take the military passion and respect, then Since the attack on Abqaiq and lead initially might help him avoid you can do any kind of Khurais on September 14, Mr being drawn into an over-hasty work, in any field, and Trump has sent unmistakable clash. function more effectively signals that he also expects Saudi Even more than Mr Obama, with less fear or worry, Arabia to take the lead militarily, then, Mr Trump might have dis- not being afraid of what at least at first. covered the real virtue in leading others think or whether He tweeted that the US military from behind. you will ultimately reach was “locked and loaded” but was But if regime leaders in Tehran your goal. “waiting to hear from the King- conclude that, because Mr Trump @DalaiLama dom” before determining “under would rather avoid conflict for po- what terms we would proceed”. litical reasons and prefers regional At the very least, this suggested partners to take the lead, they are 02 that until Saudi Arabia publicly dealing with a paper tiger, they will blamed Iran, and therefore ac- certainly rue that miscalculation. cepted responsibility for what- Even those who see the world ever subsequently unfolded, the in “America First” terms must US would not consider military understand that if the US cannot retaliation. quickly restore deterrence with And that is where Mr Trump ing from behind”. He is signalling taliations. Later the president noted: “That Iran, its status as a Middle East- appears to be leaning strongly to- that he wants US allies to take the This pattern has already been was an attack on Saudi Arabia, and ern and even a global power will e cannot just sit wards a genuine version of “lead- lead in any necessary military re- developing in Syria and Iraq, that wasn’t an attack on us,” add- be all but over. Wback and watch as priceless endangered species like the African elephant, the black rhi- no and the pangolin are wiped off the face of the CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE earth. We are ramping up UK efforts to save the UNGA 2019 comes when co-operation at its weakest point natural world. #UNGA #TeamUK India tax cut, a @BorisJohnson The UN might not be for Education, a platform that perfect and the cast has aims to mobilise more than $13 03 a tendency to inauthentic billion via a consortium of public and private donors and inter- welcome move hyperbole, yet no one national finance institutions to has yet come up with a ensure 200 million more young better idea for global co- people get the opportunities they existence. crave. Preparing humanity’s future also means accelerating the effort n my way to the to respond to the challenges and OUnited Nations. To- opportunities posed by technol- day I’m speaking in the ogy. One example is the Global General Assembly at the Tech Panel, which meets again in Climate Action Summit. New York this week to develop a This is such a crucial day, response to the growing threats world leaders are gather- posed by lethal autonomous ing at the UN in New York weapons. Time is very short and to decide on our future. tivity for progress. the tech community is clear that The eyes of the world Secondly, can the UN still act it is creating risks faster than we will be upon them. as a means of reducing friction can manage them. @GretaThunberg on key international tensions? The UN and governments alone The risk of further escalation cannot crack these issues. They and provocation between Iran require the mobilisation of new, 04 and Saudi Arabia tops this year’s creative coalitions between citi- long list. The UN Security Council zens, civil society and businesses. must show that it will not be para- But the UN is often the only or- lysed by vetoes, as it has too often ganisation that can bring together ndia has had among the while it is not growing as fast in the past. Diplomacy is hard, those alliances. So these are the highest corporate tax rates as it should. patient, frustrating work but the issues on which the UN can begin Iin the world and the recent So encouraging consumers alternative is always worse. The the fightback, securing not just move by Nirmala Sitharaman, to buy products will be key to aspirations of the UN’s Respon- relevance but influence. the finance minister, to reduce giving it a kickstart. he Ministry of Edu- sibility to Protect doctrine were It is easy to be cynical about it from 30 per cent to 22 per Government would be smart Tcation will carry out buried in the rubble of Syria. the hashtags, the celebrity tweets, cent is a wise one. It will cer- to put purchasing power back an audit to ascertain the Thirdly, can the UN show that the vanity photos and the “now tainly help lift the mood in the in the hands of consumers by safety of all school build- it can deal with tomorrow’s or never” cliffhanger campaigns corporate sector. rationalising the rates of in- ings countrywide to avert challenges, not just those of to- that will dominate social media Hopefully, this will spur in- come taxes and, perhaps, also incidents that put the day? This means putting real around the UN again this year. But vestment in the country and lowering the goods and ser- lives of learners at risk. energy into the effort to secure we all need the UN to rise to these encourage corporations to vices tax – introduced in 2017 @WilliamsRuto long-term finance for global ed- challenges: we have subcontract- cease laying off personnel and – from the highest point of 28 ucation. Once again, the world’s ed to it many of the biggest chal- closing factories. per cent to a maximum of 20 leaders will be given the chance lenges facing humanity. And we This is also a good time for per cent. Disclaimer: (Views expressed narrowing. But the activists and to support creative new mech- ourselves need to rise to the chal- government to reduce income These steps will spur con- by columnists are personal and the UN now need to turn this into anisms such as the Education lenge too, so let’s not subcontract taxes, which can be as high as sumption and provide a much need not necessarily reflect our real pressure on those resisting Cannot Wait global fund and the our ingenuity, our survival in- 30 per cent. The Indian econo- needed boost to the economy. editorial stances) change. We must not mistake ac- International Finance Facility stinct and our consciences. my is confronted with low GDP Rajesh Kuchal

Hon. Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Editor-in-Chief Mahmood AI Mahmood | Chairman & Managing Director P Unnikrishnan | Advertisement: Update Media W.L.L | Tel: 38444692, Email: [email protected] | Newsroom: Tel: 38444680, Email: [email protected] Subscription & circulation: Tel: 38444698/17579877 | Email:[email protected] | Website: www.newsofbahrain.com | Printed and published by Al Ayam Publishing 10 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 business Saudi to restore full oil output by next week Saudi said it would ensure full Saudi’s oil production oil supply commitments to its • customers. The kingdom ships from its Khurais plant more than 7 million bpd to global is now at more than 1.3 destinations every day, and for million barrels per day years has served as the supplier KNOW WHAT of last resort to markets. The kingdom has Saudi Arabia’s ability to quick- • ly restore oil production after the Aramco is getting ready managed to recover attacks, which hit at the heart of supplies to customers the Saudi energy industry, would for an initial public of- demonstrate an important de- fering possibly later this The kingdom gree of resilience to potentially year ships• more than 7 very damaging shocks, Moody’s said last week. million bpd to global Aramco has a meeting with destinations every day analysts scheduled today at products. the company’s headquarters in Europe’s exports of gasoline Reuters | London Dhahran, two sources said. and blending components to Saudi Arabia averaged 60,000 Europe gasoline exports to bpd in the first five months of audi Arabia has restored Mideast surge the year, according to data ana- more than 75 per cent of Over 400,000 tonnes of gaso- lytics firm Vortexa. Scrude output lost after at- Workers are seen at the damaged site of Saudi Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq line and gasoline blending com- “A flurry of gasoline book- tacks on its facilities and will ponents have been booked in the ings that emerged this week for return to full volumes by ear- of the kingdom’s biggest, caused September. past week for loading between Europe to Middle East voyages ly next week, a source briefed raging fires and significant dam- The kingdom has managed to Sept. 21 and Sept 26 out of north- could see more European gaso- on the latest developments age that halved the crude output recover supplies to customers to west Europe with Mideast Gulf line make its way to Saudi Ara- yesterday. A flurry of gasoline of the world’s top oil exporter, by the levels they were at prior to delivery options, shipping data bia,” Vortexa said in a note. Saudi’s oil production from bookings that emerged shutting down 5.7 million barrels the attacks by drawing from its shows. The flow is the equiva- Traders said the rise in ship- its Khurais plant is now at more this week for Europe per day of production. huge oil inventories and offering lent of around 500,000 barrels ping bookings was related to a than 1.3 million barrels per day, to Middle East voyages Saudi Energy Minister Prince other crude grades from other per day. sharp increase in demand fol- while current production from could see more Abdulaziz bin Salman and the fields, Saudi officials said. It is unclear where the car- lowing attacks on Saudi Ara - its Abqaiq plant is at about 3 European gasoline make chief executive of state oil No casualties were reported at goes will end up, but traders said bia’s oil infrastructure on Sept. million bpd, the source said. its way to Saudi company Aramco, Amin Nass- the sites even though thousands that Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil 14, which knocked out around The Sept. 14 attacks on the er, have said the output will be of workers and contractors work company Aramco is seeking to 1 million bpd of Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq and Khurais plants, some DATA ANALYTICS FIRM VORTEXA fully back online by the end of and live in the area. buy large volumes of refined oil refining capacity. India’s tax cut to boost smartphone manufacturing: executives

segment. ufacturing industry further,” The new tax “It will directly affect a com- said a spokeswoman for Bei - • pany’s profitability, help fuel jing-based Xiaomi, India’s top rate brings it at par consumption — but more im- smartphone player. with other leading portantly it also reflects India’s It makes 99pc percent of its manufacturing ambitions.” devices locally through contract economies such as The trade war between Bei- manufacturers and recently jing and Washington has led to helped its supplier Holitech — a the US and China higher tariffs on goods worth maker of camera modules and tens of billions of dollars and other parts — to set up a plant India slashed its disrupted global supply chains, in northern India. headline• corporate pushing companies to look at The tax cut will help draw tax rate to 22 per newer markets to escape higher makers of components like tariffs. phone display panels, lithium cent from 30pc And India has already begun cells and camera modules, in- stepping up efforts to attract dustry executives and analysts The country is investment, especially in la - said, also citing a jump for In- currently• vying with bour-intensive electronics man- This is a clear signal dia in a global index that ranks from the government rivals like Vietnam to ufacturing. countries by ease of doing busi- New Delhi last week scrapped to boost investors’ ness. attract global firms a tax on imports of open cell TV confidence in “Earlier, India’s corporate panels, used to make television India’s economy. tax rate was among the highest • New Delhi last displays, in a move likely to boost It will directly in the world. The new tax rate week scrapped a tax television manufacturing in the affect a company’s brings it at par with other lead- on imports of open country. ing manufacturing economies profitability, help fuel such as the US and China,” said cell TV panels Investing in India consumption — but one of the smartphone industry The arrival of global players more importantly it executives, who asked not to be The trade war has made India the world’s No. also reflects India’s named due to company policy. between• Beijing and 2 mobile phone maker and the ambitions “The central bank now needs to smartphone industry is central cut lending rates by 75-100 basis Washington has led VIKAS AGARWAL to Prime Minister Narendra points to fuel growth.” to higher tariffs on Modi’s ambitious “Make in In- INDIA HEAD OF ONEPLUS While it is hard to calculate goods worth tens of dia” drive. the benefits for individual com- Friday’s announcement also panies, the lower tax rate will billions of dollars US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a cut taxes for any manufacturing mean better profit margins for “Howdy, Modi” rally celebrating Modi at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas firm incorporated on or after companies such as Apple and Reuters | Mumbai from 30pc on Friday in a sur- ence. China’s trade tussle with Oct. 1 and beginning production too early to speculate about how OnePlus which sell high-value prise gambit aimed at wooing the United States, which is push- by March 2023 to an even lower much more money their compa- phones, Rushabh Doshi of tech- ndia’s lower corporate tax rate manufacturers and boosting in- ing smartphone makers to seek rate of 17pc — less than rival nies would commit to investing nology research firm Canalys Iwill help its smartphone in- vestment in Asia’s third-biggest alternative markets, is giving countries. following the tax cut. said. dustry expand, fuel research and economy, where unemployment that fight an additional edge. That should help charm con- But Indian smartphone maker “Right now is the window of development (R&D) investment has surged as growth sinks to “This is a clear signal from tract manufacturers that do not Lava and China’s Xiaomi said opportunity for India to come and attract higher-value com- six-year lows. the government to boost in - already have a presence in the the cut would help them gener- up with as many incentives as ponent makers to the world’s The country is currently vy- vestors’ confidence in India’s South Asian country, such as ate more employment and step possible to draw attention,” second-biggest smartphone ing with rivals like Vietnam economy,” said Vikas Agarwal, Taiwan’s Pegatron and other up investments in local R&D. Shih-Chung Liu, vice chairman market, four top industry exec- to attract global firms such as India head of China’s OnePlus, firms which make higher-end “We are hopeful that we will of Taiwan’s External Trade De- utives said. Apple and encourage contract which makes its smartphones electronics components. be able to bring more of our velopment Council, said. India slashed its headline cor- manufacturers like Foxconn and locally and rivals Apple for a The four senior smartphone component suppliers to India “This is a good start, but it is porate tax rate to 22 per cent Wistron to step up their pres- share of India’s premium device industry executives said it was and help boost the local man- just one major incentive.” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 11 Thomas Cook collapses, 600,000 stranded

• UK government Owes Tunisian hotels 60 m euros hired planes to bringing Reuters | Tunis Tuesday with the British Em- home more than 150,000 bassy in Tunisia and the hotel British customers abroad homas Cook owes Tunisian owners to see how debt could over the next two weeks Thotels 60 million euros be redeemed,” Trabelsi said. ($66 million)for stays in July Some British tourists said a and August, Tourism Minis- hotel in Tunisia briefly stopped Largest repatriation ter Rene Trabelsi said yester- them leaving on Saturday night, in• peacetime history day, adding that 4,500 British demanding they settle bills that Thomas Cook customers are Thomas Cook owed for their Shutdown leaves still in the country. stay. The Tunisian government 22,000• global employees “I will have a meeting on said it was a misunderstanding. without a job

Tunisian tourism 25,000 bookings cancelled: Egypt minister• Rene Trabelsi Reuters | Cairo said that 4,500 Thomas homas Cook operator Blue Sky Group said that 25,000 Cook customers are still Treservations in Egypt booked up to April 2020 had been on holiday in Tunisia cancelled. Blue Sky currently has 1,600 tourists in Egypt’s Hugharda resort, CEO Hossam El-Shaar said in a statement sent. Turkish Ministry of• Tourism said it will provide support Pensions to be assessed by for local companies Passengers are seen at Thomas Cook check-in points at Mallorca Airport after the world’s oldest travel firm collapsed affected by the Thomas stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation British lifeboat fund Cook collapse effort in British history, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain Reuters | London of people on Thomas Cook’s AFP | London launched emergency plans to a mass repatriation plan code- defined benefit, or final salary, • Spanish Airport bring some 150,000 UK holiday- named Operation Matterhorn ritain’s Pension Protection schemes. operator Aena says ritish travel firm Thomas makers back home from destina- which began immediately. BFund (PPF) said yesterday After the assessment, 46 flights operated Cook collapsed into bank- tions including Bulgaria, Cuba, Launching Britain’s “larg- it would assess the funding which typically lasts about by Thomas Cook Bruptcy yesterday, leaving Turkey and the United States. est repatriation in peacetime levels of Thomas Cook’s re- 18-24 months, the pensions some 600,000 holidaymakers history”, Transport Secretary tirement schemes. PPF is an could enter the PPF or the have been cancelled stranded and sparking the UK’s ‘No choice’ Grant Shapps added that the industry-funded scheme set up risk could be taken over by an in Spanish airports biggest repatriation since World Thomas Cook said in a state- government and UK Civil Avia- to protect the pensions of em- insurer. War II. ment that “despite consider- tion Authority had hired dozens ployees in failing companies. Thomas Cook pension Cyprus says The 178-year-old debt- able efforts”, it was unable to of charter planes to fly home “We await notification that schemes have in aggregate a 15,000• Thomas Cook plagued group, which had reach an agreement between Thomas Cook customers. the associated schemes have surplus of 100 million pounds struggled against fierce online the company’s stakehold - “All customers currently entered PPF assessment,” ($124 million) above levels customers are stranded competition for some time and ers and proposed new money abroad with Thomas Cook who a spokeswoman said in an needed to secure PPF benefits, on the island blamed Brexit uncertainty for a providers. are booked to return to the UK emailed statement, adding PPF a spokesman for the Thomas recent drop in bookings, failed to “The company’s board has over the next two weeks will be would protect the pensions Cook pension trustees said. A Greek tourism secure £200 million ($250 mil- therefore concluded that it had brought home as close as possi- • lion, 227 million euros) from no choice but to take steps to en- ble to their booked return date,” ministry official said private investors and collapsed ter into compulsory liquidation the government said. executive Peter Fankhauser. in Britain -- out of a job. that about 50,000 in the early hours. with immediate effect,” it added. Both a tour operator and an “This marks a deeply sad day Chinese peer Fosun, which tourists are stranded Yesterday’s bankruptcy, which The long-troubled group has airline, the travel giant’s key des- for the company,” he added in was already the biggest share- followed a lengthy period of also been blighted by enormous tinations were in Southern Eu- the statement. holder in Thomas Cook, had Thomas Cook says chronic financial turmoil after a costs arising from its disastrous rope and the Mediterranean but agreed last month to inject £450 • disastrous 2007 merger deal, left 2007 merger with MyTravel, a it offered also holidays in Asia, 22,000 jobs lost million into the business as part there are roughly some 600,000 tourists stranded deal which left it plagued with North Africa and the Caribbean. As well as grounding its of an initial £900 million rescue 140,000 holidaymakers worldwide according to Thomas huge levels of debt. “It is a matter of profound re- planes, Thomas Cook has been package. currently traveling Cook, while its 22,000 staff are The UK government said yes- gret to me and the rest of the forced to shut travel agencies, In return, the Hong Kong-list- with its German units now out of a job. terday it had hired planes to fly board that we were not success- leaving the group’s 22,000 global ed conglomerate was to acquire The British government home British tourists, in ful,” said Thomas Cook chief employees -- 9,000 of whom are a 75 percent stake in Thomas Cook’s tour operating division Thomas Cook and 25 percent of its airline unit. Cabinet maker Thomas Cook created The tour operator’s demise caps “Fosun is disappointed that the travel firm in 1841, transporting grew into a huge Thomas Cook ran operation but fell a dramatic fall from grace for a • Thomas Cook Group has not temperance supporters by train between company which was ejected from hotels, resorts and been able to find a viable solu- British cities. into massive debt despite recent London’s prestigious FTSE 100 airlines for 19 million tion for its proposed recapitali- annual turnover shares index in 2010 -- and from sation with other affiliates, core It soon began arranging foreign trips, being the the second-tier FTSE 250 last year. people a year in 16 KNOW WHAT first operator to take British travellers of £10 billion from countries lending banks, senior notehold- on escorted visits to Europe in transporting about ers and additional involved par- 1855, followed soon after by 20 million customers ties,” the Chinese group said in destinations further afield worldwide. a statement yesterday. Falls into massive debt Falls into massive ‘Absolutely gutted’ - demise of Thomas Cook wrecks travellers’ plans Reuters | Mallorca, Spain back to Glasgow said they now “Must be awful for them as left in limbo. expected to head to the central well, coming up to Christmas “There’s a sign saying that olidaymakers stranded by English city of Birmingham, 400 as well. Yeah, I feel very sorry Thomas Cook customers should Hthe collapse of Thomas km (250 miles) away. for them... I wish the govern- get in touch with their agency, Cook, the world’s oldest travel “I’m very anxious because I ment had maybe stepped in... It but you don’t get through to an- firm, desperately scrambled for have sore legs so I don’t know could have been done I think, ybody because it doesn’t exist. information yesterday on how to how... I’m going to get to Glas- but there’s nothing we can do So how can you do that?” said get home, as Britain mounted its gow if they take us to Birming- now. Just have to go home and David Midson, holidaying on the largest peacetime repatriation ham or somewhere else. So it’s make the most of it.” island of Corfu. effort. going to be very difficult and a Many travellers complained of Even if additional flights are At airports around the world long day and I’m very tired,” said a lack of information. being laid on, there is no news travellers scoured mobile one woman in a wheelchair. “Obviously the customer ser- about airport transfers to get phones or quizzed officials for “We’re absolutely gutted, vices you couldn’t get a hold of. them there, he said. travel updates as they waited we’ve looked forward to this for The travel company we were “We’ve only got tomorrow to in long queues beneath flight a long time, had the wedding in travelling with, you can’t get a try and make plans to get to the boards showing flights delayed Passengers are seen at Enfidha-Hammamet International Airport, Tunisia. - July so it’s been another couple hold of them,” said Steve Tar- airport,” he said. “I wish I had or cancelled. Reuters of months waiting for this,” said rant, who had planned to fly to brought a driving licence, be- “Nightmare, nightmare, Simon, who had been due to go Cancun, Mexico, from Manches- cause I can’t get a taxi.” stressed,” said British holiday- lost their jobs, so we’re not as ern English city of Newcastle on on honeymoon with his wife ter Airport. His wife Lianne said the cou- maker Nick, as he awaited in- bad (off ) as some other people,” Sunday evening but now hoped Polly from London’s Gatwick “So we just took it upon our- ple had happily holidayed three formation at Palma airport on he said, with two young children to fly to Manchester on Monday Airport. selves to book another flight,” times with Thomas Cook. the Spanish island of Mallorca. - an 18-month-old and 12-year- evening and then to travel the He said he felt very sorry for he said, at an extra cost of 1,200 “We haven’t had any issues “Not what we wanted really old - in tow. 240 km (150 miles) back to their the staff at his local Thomas pounds. with them before. You get your before going home. But what He and his family had been home city by coach. Cook travel agency who he said British tourists stranded in odd holiday wobbles anyway but can you do? Other people have due to fly back to the northeast- Scottish tourists hoping to fly had been helpful. Greece also complained of being nothing like this.” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 12

Egypt extends losses one day since November 2012, EGX 100 hits its causing trading to be suspend- • ed due to European shares slide lowest in over 2 years a 5pc swing for the first time London since 2016. All but one property In Dubai, the index snapped stocks• gain in Dubai a four-day losing streak to rise uropean stock markets 0.7pc, led by property and fell yesterday after a key banking stocks. survey pointed to weak- Reuters E Blue-chip developer Emaar ness in the eurozone economy Properties gained 1.1pc and while some travel and tourism gyptian stocks closed low- Dubai Islamic Bank added stocks benefitted from the col- Eer yesterday, stretching 1pc. lapse of British giant Thomas last session’s sharp fall over Property developer Deyaar Cook. the weekend. Development advanced 1.2pc Both Frankfurt and Paris fell The blue-chip stock index after an update on a court by around one per cent after fell 1.5 per cent with Commer- judgement in a land purchase data from a closely watched cial International Bank declin- dispute that came in favour of survey showed that Brexit and ing 3.5pc and Talaat Mostafa the company. trade war fears drove eurozone Holding plunging 7.6pc. Abu Dhabi’s index was down business growth to its lowest The fall added to the index’s 0.9pc, with market heavy - level in six years in September. previous session loss of 5.3pc, weight First Abu Dhabi Bank IHS Markit’s composite eu- its biggest single-day fall since slipping 1.4pc and Emirates rozone PMI, seen as a key indi- mid-2016 with all its stocks Telecommunications Group cator of business confidence, slipping into the red. dropping 1.1pc. fell to 50.4 in September, down Non-Arab foreigners were net Extending losses for a fourth from 51.9 in August -- the lowest sellers, according to the stock straight day, Qatar’s index end- reading since June 2013. exchange. ed 0.8pc lower with the Gulf’s It warned that the single cur- The collapse of British travel firm was a headache for many its customers, but the shares of some of its rivals rose on the The broader stock index EGX largest insurer Qatar Insur- rency area’s economy was “close news 100 also traded 1.7pc lower, ance Company declining 4.5pc, to stalling”. hitting its deepest trough since while Mesaieed Petrochemical Market analyst David Mad- Key figures around 1530 GMT doubt on any early agreement. April 2017. was down 3.3pc. den at CMC Markets UK said “Investors remain un - London - FTSE 100:  0.3pc at 7,326.08 points (close) The EGX 100 index slumped Saudi Arabia’s stock market “disappointing manufactur- convinced that a trade deal is 5.7pc on Sunday, the most in was closed for National Day. ing and services reports from Frankfurt - DAX 30:  1.pc at 12,3 (close) about to see the light of day France, in addition to Germany, Paris - CAC 40  1.1pc at 5,630.76 (close) soon, and that’s likely to put has weighed on European stock a cap on any further gains in EURO STOXX 50 -  0.9pc at 3,539.27 markets.” risk assets,” said Hussein Sayed, Investors now need to weigh New York - Dow:  less than 0.1pc at 26,942.75 chief market strategist at FXTM. India’s biggest carmaker “German recession odds against Tokyo - Nikkei 225: Closed for a public holiday “I’m not looking for a partial central bank support”, added deal. I’m looking for a complete Hong Kong - Hang Seng:  0.8pc at 26,222.40 (close) Maruti sees higher sales Fawad Razaqzada, market ana- deal,” Trump told reporters at lyst at Forex.com. Shanghai - Composite:  1.0pc at 2,977.08 (close) the White House. Reuters | New Delhi The euro also slid lower. Euro/dollar:  at $1.0996 from $1.1021 at 2100 GMT He added that he did not Pound/dollar:  at $1.2437 from $1.2476 see the need for an agreement ndia’s biggest automaker, Thomas Cook fallout before the 2020 presidential IMaruti Suzuki India Ltd, Some rivals of British trav- Euro/pound:  at 88.44 pence from 88.33 pence election. expects sales of its cars in Sep- el giant Thomas Cook, which Dollar/yen:  at 107.47 yen from 107.56 The remarks tempered re- tember to be higher than the declared bankruptcy after last- Brent North Sea crude:  29 cents at $64.57 per barrel cent optimism on the talks and previous month, its Chairman ditch re-financing attempts the possibility of a quick piece- R.C. Bhargava said yesterday. failed, saw their shares rise West Texas Intermediate:  37 cents at $58.46 meal deal, though they came as August domestic sales sharply. China hailed progress in pre- at Maruti Suzuki fell 34.3 Chairman R.C. Bhargava TUI shares, listed in London, paratory discussions ahead of a per cent, one of the biggest shot sixpc higher. Iran warned the presence of US pending parliament for an ex- planned high-level meeting next monthly drops in sales in re- an improvement over August,” Ryanair gained 1.4pc and forces in the Gulf was causing tended period as he pushes for month. cent times. Indian auto sales Bhargava said. “The booking easyJet 4.5pc, but British Air- instability in the region. Brexit on October 31. “The hot and then cold and fell for the 10th straight month levels have gone up compared ways parent IAG shed 1.3pc. Meanwhile the pound sank then hot and cold again US-Chi- in August, marking one of the to last month, have gone up In Hong Kong, China’s Fosun against the dollar at the start of ‘Hot and cold’ na trade vibes continue to rattle worst slowdowns in the indus- substantially, and the expecta- International lost 1.5pc after a crucial week for Britain with Stock markets were also buf- markets,” said Rodrigo Catril at try’s history. tion is that the 29th and 30th the collapse of Thomas Cook, in the Supreme Court to decide feted after President Donald National Australia Bank. “We expect that retail sales of this month will probably which it is the top shareholder. whether Prime Minister Boris Trump ruled out a partial trade US stocks were largely flat in in September would witness witness very high retail sales.” The price of oil rose after Johnson acted legally in sus- deal with China, casting fresh late morning trading. Keeping the thread alive at a Vietnam silk village Nam Dinh | Vietnam

ocoons bob in boiling water Cas silk is rapidly teased out, spinning on reels skilfully oper- ated by women in Vietnam’s Co Chat village, where households have been making thread for more than a century. The village in Nam Dinh prov- ince, two hours south of the cap- ital Hanoi, is nearing the end of silk production season. Dozens of workers, mostly women, in the bustling work- shops stir the vats, gently un- winding the fibre from the co- coons through clouds of rising steam. Once the yellow and white fi- bres are spun onto wooden reels, workers hang them in the sun Around 30 kilograms of cocoons are processed every day by each silk worker in Vietnam’s Co Chat village The final silk threads produced in Co Chat village in Vietnam are sold to traders to dry. exporting to Laos and Thailand “Production from the silk- porting to Laos and Thailand. as “precarious”. “If the market worm cocoons depends 90 per- While a few households have price goes up, then we make cent on the weather,” says work- invested in modern silk-reeling some profit. Otherwise, it’s only shop owner Pham Van Ba, whose machines, the majority choose to enough to cover our expenses,” family has been spinning thread unwind the cocoons using chop- the 37-year-old says, sitting next for three generations. sticks, even if it means sweat- to baskets of yellow cocoons, “Our products will be ruined” ing through the summer heat in waiting to be sorted. if it’s not dried under the sun, stuffy workshops. Like others in the village, she he tells AFP, explaining that Doing it manually makes it worries about the future of the even good quality thread can be easier to salvage usable silk industry with many youngsters marred by inclement weather. thread from cocoons even if they lured by a city lifestyle in nearby Around 30 kilograms of co- are not good, Ba says. Nam Dinh. coons are processed by each Dozens of workers in Vietnam’s silk workshops Each labourer earns around “My kids tell me this job is too worker every day, and the final Once the yellow and white silk fibres are spun onto wooden reels, gently unwind the fibre from silkworm cocoons $10 a day, but worker Tran hard,” she says. “They will find threads are sold to traders ex- workers hang them in the sun to dry through clouds of rising steam Thi Hien describes the work other jobs instead.” 13 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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MOVIE REVIEW CHANGE OF NAME I, AFROZ SHARIFF , FATHER OF NUHA BANU , holder of Diego Maradona: A soccer player who got his kicks Indian PASSPORT NO. M 5580842 , issued at Hyderabad on 22-01-2015, permanent Asif Kapadia, director of Amy and Senna, captures all the euphoria and catastrophe in a gripping resident of H.NO : 8-1-399/48/2, documentary about the ‘hand of God’ megastar JANAKI NAGAR COLONY, TOLICHOWKI, HYDERABAD, TELANGANA-500008 ,(full postal address in India to be given) and Asif Kapadia turns presently residing at Flat no :1, Maradona’s• life into a Building no : 1056, Block no : 911, remarkable film for the ages Road no : 1119, East Riffa,Bahrain , (full postal address in Bahrain) do KNOW WHAT hereby change my daughter name The filmmaker, who won an as (given name) NUHA (surname) Oscar• for “Amy”, cuts through SHARIFF . Objection(s), if and may the filler of conventional be forwarded to Embassy of India, P. O. BOX 26106, Al-SEEF, KINGDOM sports documentaries Documentary wizard Asif Kapadia tries to do for the OF BAHRAIN. iego Maradona is a 2019 British Argentine football legend Die- documentary film directed by go Maradona what he did for I, AFROZ SHARIFF , FATHER Asif Kapadia about the Argen- the fallen idols of ‘Amy’ and OF UMAYMAH KHADIJA BANU D , holder of Indian PASSPORT NO. tine footballer Diego Maradona with ‘Senna.’ But in this case, more never before seen archival footage. It M 5580261, issued at Hyderabad of his video-verite approach on 22-01-2015 , permanent was screened out of competition at the becomes less resident of H.NO :8-1-399/48/2, 2019 Cannes Film Festival. A still from ‘Diego Maradona’ JANAKI NAGAR COLONY, A British venture, the film was pro- TOLICHOWKI, HYDERABAD, duced by On The Corner Film, in as- 2012, producer Paul Martin contact- archival footage was discovered in the dona was screened out of competition at TELANGANA- 500008 , (full sociation with Film 4 with Altitude ed the director after discovering ar- home of Maradona’s ex-wife Claudia in the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May postal address in India to be given) Film serving as distributor. The film chival footage but after the release of a trunk untouched for 30 years. 2019. The UK premiere was screened as and presently residing at Flat was theatrically released in the United Senna the idea was pushed back. Mar- On review aggregator website Rotten the opening night film at the 26th Shef- No. 1,Building No. 1056, Block Kingdom on 14 June 2019. tin and Gay-Rees met with someone Tomatoes, the film holds an approval field Doc/Fest on 6 June 2019. no:911, Road no: 1119, East Riffa, The concept of producing a documen- outside of Naples who owned private rating of 87% based on 52 reviews, with It was released in the United King- Bahrain , (full postal address in tary film about Maradona came after the material. an average rating of 7.74/10. The web- dom on 14 June 2019 by Altitude Film Bahrain) do hereby change my director released the film Amy in 2015. The idea to document Maradona’s life site’s critical consensus reads, “Diego Distribution. It will have a theatrical daughter name as (given name) Due to difficulty on finding a story with began in 1981 by his first agent Jorge Maradona traces the arc of a standard limited release in the United States UMAYMAH (surname) SHARIFF. a beginning and an end, the director opt- Cyterszpiler. This led to two Argen - sports documentary, but illuminates on 20 September and it will be availa- Objection(s), if and may be ed on Naples as being the centrepiece tine cameramen recording hundreds of its subject with uncommon clarity and ble on HBO on demand and HBO part- forwarded to Embassy of India, P. O. for the film. hours of film. However, the film never depth.” ners streaming platforms on 1 October BOX 26106, Al-SEEF, KINGDOM During the London Olympics in got produced. In Buenos Aires more The world premiere of Diego Mara- 2019. OF BAHRAIN. 14 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 Stars hit Emmy red carpet

Jodie Maisie Comer Natasha Lyonne Williams Michelle Williams Naomi Watts Sophie Turner Kendall Jenner Vera Farmiga

Julia Garner beats GoT stars to win ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Fleabag’ take top first Emmy Los Angeles Emmy honors on night of upsets

ctress Julia Gar- Los Angeles Emmy for comedy writing. Aner beat “Game of “This is just getting ridiculous!,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Thrones” stars, including edieval drama “Game Waller-Bridge said as she accept- ‘Fleabag’ wins big at Emmys Sophie Turner, Lena Head- of Thrones” closed ed the comedy series Emmy. Los Angeles ey, Maisie Williams, to win Mits run with a fourth “It’s really wonderful to know, her first Emmy in Support- Emmy award for best drama se- and reassuring, that a dirty, angry, ctress Phoebe Waller-Bridge won Lead ing Actress in a Drama Se- ries while British comedy “Flea- messed-up woman can make it Actress in a Comedy Series trophy at ries category at the 2019 bag” was the upset winner for to the Emmys,” Waller-Bridge Athe 71st Primetime Emmy Awards gala Emmy awards here. best comedy series on Sunday on added. here for her role in “Fleabag”, The first-time Emmy a night that rewarded newcom- Already the most- awarded which was also named as the nominee was in contention ers over old favorites. series in best comedy series. with Gwendoline Christie Billy Porter, the star of LGBTQ The Emmys are Hollywood’s Emmy “This is just getting ridicu- (“Game of Thrones”), Head- series “Pose,” won the best dra- top honors in television, and the history lous,” Waller-Bridge said as she ey (“Game of Thrones”), matic actor Emmy, while British night belonged to Phoebe Waller- with accepted the honour for best com- Fiona Shaw (“Killing newcomer Jodie Comer took the Bridge, the star and creator of 38 wins, edy series. Eve”), Turner (“Game of Emmy for her lead actress role as Amazon Studios’ “Fleabag” who HBO’s “Game of “’Fleabag’’ started as a one-woman Thrones”) and Williams a psychotic assassin in the quirky also created “Killing Eve.” Thrones” went show at Edinburgh Festival in 2013, (“Game of Thrones”). BBC America drama “Killing Eve.” Waller-Bridge took the tro- into Sunday’s and the journey has been absolutely “I am so overjoyed to have phy for best comedy actress, awards mental to get here,” added Waller- lived long enough to see this beating out six-time “Veep” ac- show as the Bridge, who has also created the Stan Lee, Luke day,” said Porter, 50, crowning a tress winner Julia Louis-Drey- clear front show. standout year in which he made fus as well as last year’s Emmy runner, despite “Fleabag’’ bested out “Barry”, Perry remembered waves on red carpets at the Os- champ Rachel Brosnahan for a fan uproar over “The Good Place”, “The Marvelous at Emmys 2019 cars and the Met Gala for his “The Marvelous Mrs. Mais- the conclusion of Mrs. Maisel”, “Russian Doll”, “Schitt’s gender-fluid outfits. el.” Waller-Bridge also won an the series. Creek” and “Veep” for the honour. Los Angeles

ate icons including Amy Jackson and George Nicole LStan Lee, Luke Per- ry and Valerie Harper blessed with a baby boy! Kidman feels her were honoured at the London kids chose Scientology 71st Primetime Emmy Awards with a moving odel-actor Amy Jackson and fiance George Panayi- over her tribute. otou on Monday welcomed a baby boy and named Los Angeles Taking a break from Mhim Andreas! The 27-year old shared the good celebrating the best of the news on Instagram with a captivating picture of the family ctress Nicole Kidman says her children small screen, the star-stud- of three. “Our Angel, welcome to the world Andreas,” she with former husband Tom Cruise chose ded audience took a mo- wrote. AScientology over her. ment to remember the Soon after, her post got bombarded with wishes Kidman adopted Isabella, now 26, and Connor, stars that Hollywood lost and blessings for the little one. now 24, with Cruise. Kidman grew apart from over the past year with the The model in August announced on the pic- them when they followed Cruise into the Church “In Memoriam” segment. ture-sharing platform that she will be welcom- of Scientology. She is now trying to heal the rift. ing a baby boy and “Motherhood is about the journey. There are wrote, “It’s a boy.” going to be incredible peaks and valleys, wheth- She first made er you are an adopting mother or a birth moth- the announce- er. What a child needs is love. They have ment in March made choices to be Scientologists. It’s our where the actor job as a parent to always offer uncon- zeroed in on a ditional love,” Kidman said in an love-filled pho- interview to The Sun. to of herself Amy and her beau Jackson with a dreamy sunset in the Reese is proud of wrinkles backdrop. Los Angeles Amy can be signs of herself ageing seen flaunt- on screen, reports fema- ing her baby ctress Reese lefirst.co.uk. bump along- Witherspoon “Now, I can play wom- side George, Asays she likes en who have lived more who her wrinkles be- and gone through a lot of seemed cause she has changes, not simply be- planting earned them. cause I’m in my 40s but a kiss on The 43-year- because I’ve gone through her fore- old actress likes that kind of evolution my- head. to witness the self,” she added. 15 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 sports

Benzema header breathes Neymar saves PSG life back into Real Madrid Neymar scored a late winner to claim all three points for PSG at Lyon

Casimir Ninga scored an• 11-minute hat-trick as Angers hammered Saint-Etienne

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eymar scored a fine late winner as Par - Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema scores their first goal Nis Saint-Germain beat Lyon 1-0 on Sunday to move “I am very happy as peo - three points clear at the top of Karim Benzema ple have been questioning us the Ligue 1 table. • a lot,” said Zidane. “But we The Brazilian finally beat An- ensures Real Madrid don’t think much about that. thony Lopes, who had pulled bounce back with We played 90 minutes at a very off numerous impressive saves, impressive win high level in a difficult stadi- with three minutes of normal over Sevilla um. We must congratulate all time to play at the Groupama the players.” Stadium. Not for the first time this It was Neymar’s second win- Neymar scores Paris Saint-Germain’s late winner against Lyon AFP | Madrid season, Zidane singled out ning goal in as many league Gareth Bale for praise. “To- games since being reinstated to saved by Lopes. He celebrated by running to- eal Madrid eased the pres- day hard work was the key,” the team following a protracted Neymar was denied again by wards the same corner of the Rsure on Zinedine Zidane he said. “The effort made by transfer saga which saw him at- another tidy Lopes stop four ground where he had earlier and delivered a resounding James, Gareth, all of them.” tempt to force through a return minutes before the break as the been taunted by the Lyon sup- response to their loss to Paris Sevilla’s newly-installed to Barcelona. Portugal international tipped porters. Saint-Germain by winning 1-0 coach Julen Lopetegui was “Neymar can do better,” said the Brazil forward’s dangerous away at high-flying Sevilla in sacked by Madrid 11 months KNOW WHAT PSG coach Thomas Tuchel. “It’s free-kick over the bar. Hat-trick hero Ninga La Liga on Sunday. ago, 139 days after taking the the second or third game in four PSG’s domination from the Earlier, Angers moved into Karim Benzema headed in job that cost him the chance months for him. He’s not at 100 first half carried over into the second place after replacement the decisive goal at the Ramon to lead Spain at the World percent capacity. PSG were without the second 45 minutes. Casimir Ninga scored an 11-min- Sanchez Pizjuan to secure an Cup. “He is not at his limit. He can attacking trio of Kylian Abdou Diallo had the pick ute hat-trick in a 4-1 thrashing impressive victory against a He insisted on Saturday do better, he will do better. He’s Mbappe, Edinson Ca- of the chances, using the wet of Saint-Etienne. Sevilla side that were unbeaten there was no desire for revenge going to get to his best level, conditions to glance a header Ninga, who joined the club and hoping to return to the top but it is hard to imagine victory with matches and decisive goals vani and Mauro Icardi from a Neymar corner over the from second-tier Caen in Au- of the table. would not have brought a little like that, it’s going to help him.” due to injuries crossbar. gust, put Angers into the lead Instead, it is Madrid that go extra satisfaction. The Parisians sit top on 15 The world’s most expensive with less than a quarter of an level on points with Athletic Zidane was asked about his points after Angers and Nice player was targeted by home hour remaining before adding Bilbao in first place after a con- own future as well, several both won over the weekend to fans when taking set-pieces two more goals by the 89th min- trolled and determined perfor- times, and while he maintained temporarily join Tuchel’s side PSG were without the attack- from the left-hand side as they ute to clinch their first home mance that was by some dis- he still feels the full backing of at the summit, and followed ing trio of Kylian Mbappe, Edin- threw plastic bottles and rolled- win over Saint-Etienne in 43 tance their best since Zidane’s the club, there was a warning up their impressive midweek son Cavani and Mauro Icardi up bin bags at him. years. return as coach in March. too. If support dwindles, he Champions League victory over due to injuries, while midfielder With 87 minutes on the clock, The defeat at Stade Raymond “We have had a quite diffi- said, “then it would probably Real Madrid with the win in Marco Verratti started on the substitute Verratti found Ney- Kopa leaves Les Verts a point cult time but the players react- be best to leave”. constant drizzling rain in Lyon. bench. mar in the box who dribbled above the relegation zone, with ed,” Zidane said. Sylvinho’s Lyon remain in The best of the early chanc- into space and finally beat Ghislain Printant’s outfit having His position had come under Lopetegui booked ninth place and are without a es fell to Neymar on 22 min - Lopes to the keeper’s left with failed to win since the opening scrutiny after Madrid’s woeful But for all the problems -- a win since mid-August. utes but his effort was superbly a low shot. day of the season. 3-0 defeat by PSG in the Cham- dreadful pre-season, signings pions League on Wednesday, and sales missed, poor perfor- a result that continued their mances against Real Vallad- bumpy start to the season, fol- olid, Villarreal, Levante and lowing a turbulent summer in PSG -- Madrid now sit second, Man City will soon score 10, says Watford’s Ben Foster the transfer market. buoyed by a display that may But this win should do won- yet prove a springboard for AFP | Manchester The Hornets felt the full registered a 9-0 and two 7-0s in or two goals. At times, if they’re ders for belief and leaves Bar- games to come. force of the champions’ attack- knockout action in 2019. on it, they are incredible. celona as Spain’s chief club in A frantic opening half an atford goalkeeper Ben ing power on Saturday as they “They will do it to somebody,” “They were scary at times. crisis, with Ernesto Valverde hour made for an engrossing WFoster says it is only a were dismantled at the Etihad Foster said. “There will be a You could see them opening us under pressure after they were contest but there were few matter of time before Man - Stadium, just four months after nine or 10 out there soon. up and the chances developing beaten 2-0 by Granada on Sat- chances, as Lopetegui earned chester City smash 10 goals in a they were overpowered 6-0 in “As a goalie, coming here in in front of your eyes. It was ab- urday. Madrid are now four himself a booking for beckon- match after being on the end of the FA Cup final. the first place it’s almost an solutely no fun. In all honesty, it points clear of the Catalans ing Gareth Bale to be shown a an 8-0 hammering. Pep Guardiola’s men have also achievement to keep it at one could have been double digits.” after five games played. yellow card. Balotelli in “great shape” before Brescia debut against Juventus

AFP | Milan The 29-year-old has been played 90 minutes, but I am in before moving to Man- iment with the eight-time getting fit during that time as great shape. The last time I was chester City where reigning champions. ario Balotelli said he was he looks to impress Italy coach at this weight, I was at Manches- he won the Premier Inter Milan push for M“in great shape” as he Roberto Mancini and earn a spot My objective is to ter City.” League title in 2012. their fifth win against prepares to return to Serie A in the Euro 2020 team. play for Italy at the Balotelli, who has 36 caps for Brescia were pro- Lazio in the San Siro, on Tuesday with his first game “My objective is to play for Ita- Euros, but my main Italy, has not crossed paths with moted to Serie A this after their derby suc- for his hometown club Brescia ly at the Euros, but my main aim aim right now is to Ronaldo in a decade since the year, after being rele- cess over AC Milan, against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Ital- right now is to get into shape as get into shape as Portuguese star was playing for gated in 2011, and are with the Romans ian champions Juventus. quickly as possible for Brescia,” quickly as possible Manchester United. 11th in Serie A after two looking to build “Mario will be there Tuesday,” Balotelli told DAZN. But he insisted: “Ronaldo’s wins in four games. on their win over confirmed coach Eugenio Corini It will be Balotelli’s third time for Brescia presence doesn’t really interest Juventus are trailing Parma. of the Italian striker whose de- playing in Italy after Inter Milan MARIO BALOTELLI me. I’ll try to score and play the leaders Inter Milan by Napoli, in third, but was delayed by a four-game and AC Milan. way I will in any game.” two points, as new coach host Cagliari suspension for a red card while “I’ve worked harder in the Liverpool striker. The Italian won three Serie Maurizio Sarri con - with AS Roma playing for former club Mar- last month and a half than in a “I’m ready. I’ve only played A titles with Inter Milan and tinues to exper- hosting Ata- seille. decade,” continued the former two friendlies, and have not the Champions League in 2010 lanta. Mario Balotelli TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 16 Team Europe retains Laver Cup Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev scored vital singles wins as Team Europe roared back to beat Team World at Laver Cup

crowd to play a superb tiebreak- Alexander Zverev er. • “Team World came once again edged Milos Raonic very close but we won the right to secure trophy points and had maybe a little bit of luck,” Swede Borg said. Reuters | Geneva, Switzerland “I’m very proud of my team, they did a hell of a job. I’m a very happy captain.” lexander Zverev snatched American McEnroe looked the Laver Cup for Team crestfallen in defeat but congrat- AEurope as he beat Can- ulated his old adversary Borg. ada’s Milos Raonic in the final “I’m getting very sick and tired rubber of a thrilling three days of you,” the American great told of action in Geneva’s Palexpo Team Europe after suffering his Arena on Sunday. third successive defeat by Borg’s With Roger Federer and Ra- men. “I’m so proud to be the fael Nadal, winners of 39 Grand captain of this team, they fought Slam titles between them, part their hearts out. World, you guys of the supporting bench, Zverev are awesome.” showed immense composure to Federer, who won his two sin- close out a 6-4 3-6 10-4 victory gles matches over the weekend and hand Bjorn Borg’s team a including a classic against Kyr- 13-11 overall win. gios, said it had been a dream to With Nadal forced out with a win the title on home soil. hand injury at the start of the day “For us, so many emotions. and Federer suffering a doubles It’s been an unbelievable roller- defeat, it looked as though John coaster,” he said, “Bjorn, you’re McEnroe’s Team World would a great captain, and Rocket (Rod claim the title for the first time Alexander Zverev and Roger Federer of Team Europe lift the Laver Cup trophy Laver), thanks for being here since the event began in 2017. today. But after Federer defeated with Federer, Nadal, Domi - roe’s team made a great start Isner, Team World would win “It makes it more special. It’s John Isner to close the gap, Ger- nic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas with Jack Sock and Isner beat- the title. Wise words been a dream weekend for me to many’s Zverev produced a flurry and Fabio Fognini celebrating ing Federer and Tsitsipas on the But with the Swiss crowd After Raonic battled back to be playing in Switzerland. Thank of superb backhands to beat the a third successive victory for charcoal-colored court. roaring his every winner, Feder- level the match and set up a you for all the noise you’ve made, big-serving Raonic in the final Europe. It had been very tight American Taylor Fritz, in for er preserved his 100% singles match tiebreak decider, Zverev I’ve loved every moment,” he rubber of the weekend. though with the World Team the injured Nick Kyrgios, then record in the event by claim - left the court with Federer and added before joining his team After crunching a forehand leading 11-7 in the middle of the extended his team’s lead by beat- ing a 6-4 7-6(3) win before set- Nadal in hot pursuit. to be presented with the trophy winner, most of the 17,000 sell- afternoon. ing Dominic Thiem 7-5 6-7(3) tling down at courtside to offer Their words of wisdom paid by Australian great Laver as blue out crowd erupted and Zverev With three points for each 10-5. high-caliber vocal support to handsome dividends as Zverev ticker-tape rained down on the was buried under his team mates rubber won on Sunday, McEn- It meant that if Federer lost to Zverev. fed off the energy from the court.

Hamilton rues poor team Two wins will end our crisis says Barcelona boss call after finishing fourth AFP | Barcelona you can plunge into a crisis in three days, and we have the AFP | Singapore arcelona coach Ernesto chance to get out of it in three BValverde has demanded days.” orld champion Lewis his side bounce back from the “This is football. We have two WHamilton felt Mercedes weekend’s embarrassing away matches and I want six points, had the car to win the Singa- defeat when they host Villarreal it’s the only way to calm the pore Grand Prix on Sunday but in La Liga on Tuesday. situation.” strategic errors in the middle The Spanish champions are in Valverde said his French of the race cost him a chance an unlikely eighth position after winger Ousmane Dembele of victory as the champion- five Liga games after the shock would be returning from in - ship leader had to settle for a 2-0 defeat at promoted Granada jury Tuesday, naming him in fourth-place finish. left the all-star outfit on seven his squad after a month on the Hamilton started alongside points, their worst league start sidelines. pole-sitter Charles Leclerc on in 25 years. Five time Ballon d’Or winner the front row with the second Lewis Hamilton ahead of the drivers’ “In my job the only thing that Lionel Messi, Urugauyan cen- Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel and parade counts is results and the coach tre-forward Luis Suarez and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen be- is always in the firing line,” said Barcelona players react to Granada’s Nigerian midfielder Ramon Azeez’s goal French World Cup winner An- hind him. Valverde, who led the club to the after only two minutes into the game toine Griezmann are all also After fighting off Vettel to Liga title in 2018 and 2019. available. slot in behind Leclerc on the “In the past two seasons we the 55-year-old. real at the Camp Nou Tuesday “Dembele can shake things opening lap, Mercedes opt- were already ahead at this stage, Barcelona have yet to win and at 10th placed Getafe at the up,” said Valverde. “We know ed to keep Hamilton out for KNOW WHAT but we have started poorly and away from home this season weekend. what he can do, its now up to longer than his rivals rather we need to put that right,” said and play seventh placed Villar- “The media being what it is him to prove it on the pitch.” than attempt an undercut to claim the lead, but the plan backfired when he emerged After fighting off from his pit stop behind the Vettel to slot in behind Ferraris and the Red Bull. Leclerc on the opening Leclerc slams ‘frustrating’ Ferrari Singapore pit strategy “It’s not been the weekend lap, Mercedes opted to we wanted at all. I was all over keep Hamilton out for AFP | Singapore one-two,” Leclerc told report- team radio during three safety Charles in the first stint and I longer than his rivals ers of Ferrari’s strategy to bring car periods late in the race, Le- think we had the pace to win rather than attempt harles Leclerc will be seek- Vettel into the pits first and the clerc said he would take time to the race today,” Hamilton told Cing answers from his Ferrari 21-year-old Monegasque one absorb the decisions made on reporters after the Grand Prix an undercut to claim team after their ‘frustrating’ pit lap later. the pit wall but would probably finished with a Vettel-Leclerc the lead, but the plan strategy prevented him from “So if it’s the case I complete- feel better about the result in a Ferrari one-two and Verstap- backfired when he registering a hat-trick of wins ly understand it, but obviously few days’ time. pen completing the podium. emerged from his pit but enabled the Italian outfit from the car it’s very frustrating. “Obviously I think during the “We discussed the possibili- stop behind the Fer- to secure a one-two finish at So I’m not completely happy but safety car I was quite often on ty of the undercut in the strat- raris and the Red Bull the Singapore Grand Prix on yeah, anyway the overall result the radio, but then as soon as egy meeting this morning and Sunday. of the weekend is very positive,” (it) went away I focused on the I wanted to take the risk but “We don’t point the finger Fresh off consecutive tri- added the Ferrari rookie, who job and tried to do the best of my then Ferrari decided to box at people, that’s always been umphs in Belgium and Italy, has outshone Vettel in his first race,” he added. (pit), so we did the opposite our philosophy and that won’t Leclerc qualified on pole for season at the team. “In the car it’s frustrating and and I stayed out. change because of one race. Singapore but was overtaken Ferrari’s driver Charles Leclerc reacts “We hoped for at least one car then as soon as I thought a lit- after finishing in second place “I pushed hard and the tyres “We’re fighting a Ferrari by Sebastian Vettel during a on the podium for this weekend tle bit more about the situation were feeling good, but after a team who are super hungry pit stop and had to settle for a viously I was not aware in the and we go back home with a after it, then you see the things few laps they started to drop and pushing very hard,” he second-place finish as his team car, but I guess if this decision one-two, which we definitely maybe a bit differently. Even off real quick. We made mis- added of the Italian outfit, who mate recorded a first victory in has been made it was for the did not expect on a track like though I still need some expla- takes tonight, but in this team, have now won the last three 392 days. good of the team and it had to this. So this is very positive.” nations just to understand fully we win and we lose together. races. “I was surprised because ob- be the only way for us to do a Venting his frustration on the why this decision was taken.