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‘No visa regulations Thieves on the prowl Saudi denies imposing fees on for Nepal nationals’ foreign worker remittances Jeddah The statement was issued in response to “baseless and un- audi Arabia’s Ministry of founded reports” by some media Finance denied on Monday outlets. Sreports that it was planning The Kingdom is home to more to impose fees on the remittanc- than 10 million foreign workers es of foreign workers. who in 2017 sent almost $38 bil- The ministry said it was com- lion to their home countries. Mr Sundas mitted to supporting the free The ministry said keeping the movement of capital through remittances free of fees “will TDT|Manama official channels in accordance also enhance foreign investors’ Harpreet Kaur A group of thieves broke the window of a car to steal BD1,300 along with bank cheques yesterday. The car was parked in with international standards and confidence in the Kingdom’s the parking lot near The Regency Hotel Bahrain in Manama. Police have begun a probe into the incident. practices. economy and financial systems.” he claims citing a visa ban Ton Nepalese nationals for all categories of visas turned out to be inaccurate, officials confirmed to the Tribune. Reports circulating and claiming a ban on visas to the Nepalese nationals were de- nied by the Nepal Embassy Bahrainisation at slow officials. Nevertheless, of- ficials stated that there are changes being made related to permitting working visas to Nepalese nationals in the domestic worker categories. Speaking to Tribune, Pad- pace in private sector am Sundas, Nepal Ambassa- dor to Bahrain, said, “There 0.8pc was the increase in the recruitment of Bahrainis in the sector last year when compared to 2016 has been no ban on issuing visas to Nepalese nationals to them is cheap labour.” Bahrain. The reports circulat- The economic analyst However, Mr Khalifa said Bah- ing are baseless as all workers • rainisation has been a success in are coming smoothly into the said that Bahrainisation a few sectors like banking. These job fairs are not country without any hassles. has been a success in a “I think the Kingdom has really yielding results. “Moreover, Nepalese work- few sectors like banking. achieved about 95pc Bahraini- A recent job fair was ers are increasing in the King- sation in the banking sector. But attended by around dom in all fields. Labour minister had what is the point if this success 5,000 unemployed youth “However, the Government • is not emulated in other seg - of Nepal is in the process of announced that the ments?” while the jobs offered implementing new rules for national employment He said hospitality sector is there were only 1,000. the protection of rights of the in the private one segment, which could em- MR KHALIFA domestic workers.” sector has reached ploy a large number of Bahrainis. Meanwhile, a source told “But that is not really happening. compared to 20,354 Bahraini Tribune that she has been 158,400, highlighting Foreigners in droves are hired university graduates in the pri- trying to apply visa for her the remarkable in the sector, be it restaurants or vate sector. employee, who is a Nepalese improvement in the other hospitality sectors.” The national labour force in- national, but the application recruitment of Bahrainis The economic analyst also creased by 0.8pc last year, to was rejected without provid- highlighted the failure from the reach up to 158,415, compared ing a genuine reason. in the private sector. part of Labour and Social De- to 2016, when it was 157,119 “Now Nepalese citizens are velopment Ministry to create Bahraini workers, despite the finding it hard to come to the TDT|Manama enough jobs for the citizens. increase in the number of re- Kingdom as domestic work- Thamer Tayfour “These job fairs are not really tirees. ers, which is not a good news yielding results. A recent job fair Labour and Social Develop- here as many of us depend s less as 1,296 Bahrainis was attended by around 5,000 ment Minister and Chairman on expatriate workers to run were employed by the unemployed youth while the of the Board of Labour Market the show.” Aprivate sector during the ic analyst Arif Khalifa said the jobs offered there were only Regulatory Authority Jameel last year, which is an increase numbers show that the author- 1,000.” Humaidan had earlier an - of meagre 0.8 per cent when ities have failed to stimulate the Mr Khalifa also said that there nounced that the national em- compared to 2016, according to economy and generate enough is a link between unemployment ployment in the private sector the data revealed by the General jobs for Bahrainis, especially for and inflation rate which stands has reached 158,400, highlight- Authority for Social Insurance. 4.2 the youth in the Kingdom. at 2.2pc. ing the remarkable improve- DON’T MISS IT The data reveals that Bahrai- per cent was the last “The rate of growth ideally According to statistics, ex- ment in the recruitment of Bah- nisation has not been a great year’s unemployment should have been between two patriates hold 73pc of graduate rainis in the private sector. success in the Kingdom’s private rate in the Kingdom. and three per cent. The private jobs in the labour market. The The number of jobseekers in sector against what authorities companies continue to hire ex- total number of foreign employ- 2017, stabilised at 8,252, which Hidden sale of have been acclaiming. patriates for several reasons. ees having university degrees is 4.1pc of the labour force, ac- illegal tobacco Speaking to Tribune, econom- And the most prominent among in the private sector is 52,414, cording to ministry data. 03 products on a rise amidst ban FREE FALL ‘More countries to be part’ 04 of Manama Iranian rial hits record low at 128,000 to US dollar Dialogue 2018 Tehran website Bonbast.com, which effect in November. economic situation in Iran tracks the unofficial market. Last week, Iran’s parliament erupted last December, spread- Shock to expat he Iranian rial hit a re- The currency has been vol- sacked the minister of economic ing to more than 80 cities communities cord low against the US atile for months because of a affairs and finance, the latest and towns and resulting in 25 Tdollar on the unofficial weak economy, financial diffi- in a continuing shakeup of top deaths. 05 as one more market on Monday amid a de- culties at local banks and heavy economic personnel. In early Sporadic protests, led by truck commits suicide terioration in the economic sit- demand for dollars among Ira- August Iranian lawmakers vot- drivers, farmers and merchants uation and the reimposition of nians who fear the pullout of ed out the minister of labor and in Tehran’s bazaar, have con- sanctions by the US. Washington from a landmark in July President Hassan Rou- tinued since then and have oc- The dollar was being offered 2015 nuclear deal and renewed hani replaced the head of the casionally resulted in violent for as much as 128,000 rials, US sanctions could shrink Iran’s A set of US sanctions targeting central bank. confrontations with security according to foreign exchange exports of oil and other goods. Iran’s oil industry is due to take Protests linked to the tough forces. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 02 SIAC efforts to promote Islamic thoughts lauded

HM the King hailed the dedicated• efforts exerted by the council to promote Islamic thought, clarify tolerant Islamic precepts and translate Bahrain’s commitment to all that unites Muslims.

On behalf SIAC scholars, Shaikh• Abdulrahman bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa expressed deepest thanks and appreciations His Majesty receives Shaikh Abdulrahman and SIAC members. for the royal trust.

His Majesty commended the crucial preserves their interest and builds bridg- His Majesty wished current (SIAC) (SIAC) Chairman Shaikh Abdulrah- Manama role of the council since its inception es between religions, doctrines and cul- Chairman Shaikh Abdulrahman bin man bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al more than twenty years ago in the era tures, while respecting their differences. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa and Khalifa presented HM the King with is Majesty King Hamad bin Isa of late HH Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al HM the King paid tribute to late SIAC council members every success in as- the first edition of a book of reference Al Khalifa received Supreme Khalifa. Chairman His Highness Shaikh Abdulla suming his duties. written in five volumes by Imam ibn HIslamic Affairs Council (SIAC) HM the King hailed the dedicated bin Khalid Al Khalifa, who played a role He expressed thanks to scholars and re- Al-Jawzi, who died in the year 597 Hijri. Chairman Shaikh Abdulrahman bin efforts exerted by the council to pro- in establishing the council, promoting ligious preachers for their role in guiding On behalf SIAC scholars, Shaikh Ab- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa and mote Islamic thought, clarify tolerant its mission and bolstering its pioneering Muslims and promoting Islamic values dulrahman bin Mohammed bin Rashid council members at Al Safriya Palace Islamic precepts and translate Bahrain’s role in highlighting the Islamic values of which encourage learning, acquisition Al Khalifa expressed deepest thanks and yesterday. commitment to all that unites Muslims, tolerance and moderation. of knowledge and intellectual reasoning. appreciations for the royal trust.

HRH the Premier chairs the Cabinet. New academic year preparations reviewed HRH the Premier hails the Kingdom’s success at Asian Games

and future needs of the develop- letes. HRH the Prime ment process. The Prime Minister affirmed • Among other things, the ses- the government’s support for Minister extended sion lauded the ‘fruitful’ out- the United Nations Relief and congratulations to comes of the visit of the Egyp- Works Agency (UNRWA) in rec- students and the tian President, Abdel Fattah El ognition of the humanitarian administrative and Sisi, to Bahrain, and the talks he role it is playing in providing had held with His Majesty King relief, development and em- teaching staff across Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. ployment for the Palestinian the kingdom on the The Cabinet hailed the level refugees. new academic year, of the solid deep-rooted Bah- The cabinet reviewed the 2018-2019, wishing raini-Egyptian relations, and measures taken by the Ministry stressed the importance of Pres- of Labour and Social Develop- them every success. ident El Sisi’s visit in bolstering ment, following directives from bilateral ties, praising Egypt’s HRH the Prime Minister, to meet Manama status, supportive stances to- the needs of a number of villages wards Bahrain and Arab issues, and regions across the kingdom. he Cabinet chaired by His and influential strategic weight In this regard, HRH Premier Royal Highness Prime at the Arab and Islamic levels. gave directives to complete so- TMinister Prince Khalifa HRH Premier welcomed the cial projects that serve a num- bin Salman Al Khalifa yesterday landmark achievements at- ber of villages and towns dur- reviewed the preparations for tained by the kingdom at various ing 2019, including the Budaiya the new school year. sports gatherings, lauding, in Integrated Community Centre, HRH the Prime Minister ex- this regard, Bahrain’s success in a Parents’ Day Care Club in Jid tended congratulations to stu- bagging 26 medals and ranking Hafs, to be attached to the Jid dents and the administrative the first Arab country during the Hafs Community Centre, and and teaching staff across the 18th Asian Games, which con- the Comprehensive Disability kingdom on the new academic cluded recently in Indonesia. Complex in A’Ali. year, 2018-2019, wishing them The Prime Minister com - HRH Premier, while com - every success. mended the role played by the menting on a memorandum sub- The Prime Minister, while Representative of HM the King mitted by the Labour and Social commenting on a memoran- for Charity Work and Youth Af- Development Minister, also gave dum presented by the Educa- fairs, Chairman of the Supreme directives to fast-track the ex- tion Minister on the Education Council for Youth and Sports ecutive procedures to revamp Ministry’s preparations for the and President of the Bahrain the Isa Town Social Services new school year, emphasised Olympic Committee, HH Shaikh Complex project, and the Social the importance of enhancing the Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, in Care Complex project in Hamad educational process, improving supporting the youth and sports Town, as well as to build a social the quality of education and de- sector and putting in place all centre that serves the South- veloping the outputs of educa- success requirements, lauding ern Governorate’s citizens and tion to achieve the government’s the dedication and outstanding an Elderly Day Care House for aspirations and meet the present performance of Bahraini ath- women in Hoora. 03 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 big story Hidden sale of illegal tobacco products on a rise amidst ban Tribune investigation discovers the flourishing sale of paan, gutka and other tobacco products that are banned in the Kingdom

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KNOW Although they work at the cold store, in many cases selling these products is Consumption of these their primary source the products are warned of income. They pay against by healthcare a high shop rent and professionals as it is may not make enough known to cause oral profit so this is how cancer. Oral cancer risk they try to earn an was higher among those extra income. who used paan with SOURCE tobacco. Some of the banned tobacco products continue to be sold in the Kingdom (representative picture).

TDT|Manama income. They pay a high shop rent The chewing tobacco Mohammed Zafran and may not make enough profit so • this is how they try to earn an extra products are banned anned tobacco products are still income. “ to be imported or to be being sold by many Asian dealers “While these people are distribut- sold in the country. Bin Manama, Tribune investiga- ers, there are also gang leaders. They tion reveals. smuggle these items from South Asian There are many gangs Despite many crackdown efforts by countries and bring it in cartons.” • the authorities, many Asians mainly of A man was even seen standing in which smuggle these products Bangladeshi and Indian nationalities the middle of the alley and opening from South Asian countries continue to sell illegal tobacco prod- up packets and chewing on the sub- to sell them in the Kingdom. ucts, sources say. stance. A resident of the area said that The chewing tobacco products are consumers and sellers are equally a banned to be imported or to be sold in nuisance to the area. “These peo - the country. ple are a nuisance, they mislead the Most of the sellers work at cold youth into such activities that are stores; however most of them do not harmful to health and a waste of time sell the products from inside the shops. and money. Moreover, because they Instead they store the products either chew this substance, they spit it out at their apartment or at a secret loca- as well which makes the roads tion. very dirty. The authorities The tobacco products being sold need to take action against include a variety of chewing tobacco them and stop them from and snuff. Paan - a substance made of operating in this area. ” A banned tobacco product bought by this Tribune reporter from a seller in Manama betel leaf and tobacco, gutka - tobacco as part of this investigation. Consumption of these and crushed betel nuts, niswaar (pow- products are warned dered tobacco snuff ) are among those against by healthcare pro- being sold. why they keep in near the dumpster. back to hand over the prod- fessionals as it is known to “Most of the dealers are cold-store But they are watchful of their prod- uct to the customer, a trans- cause oral cancer. The link be- workers. But they do not go around ucts; they would not let anyone steal action Tribune discreetly filmed. tween its consumption and cancer offering it to anyone; they just keep in it.” “We do not know the difference be- was confirmed in several studies, most a secretive location and sell it only to While most sellers did not agree tween the products they keep at their recent of which was conducted in MNJ those who know them. to sell to Tribune as they only sell to apartment and the ones they leave Institute of Oncology and Regional “They may hide it in their apartment regular customers, one of the sellers near the trash can. It could be anoth- Cancer Center in India whose find- and invite their customers somewhere agreed to sell a piece without any fur- er, even more dangerous substance ings revealed that nearly all cases of near their residents and sell it from ther questions. “It is 300 fils a piece,” that needs to kept more secretively oral cancer were caused by smokeless there. They would only sell to those he said, and proceeded to take it from or it could be that he keeps his extra tobacco consumption. Ninety-seven who they know,” a reliable source told a box hidden in the shop. Unlike oth- stocks at his apartment and when he per cent of those patients sampled Tribune. ers, the seller did not store it outside depletes the stock near the garbage for the retrospective study showed Tribune witnessed many cold-store the shop. can he goes to collect more from his were regular consumers of smokeless workers hiding the illegal products in “Most shops do not sell it to residence.” tobacco. a box near the public trash can. When strangers. They are extremely wor- “Many of these dealers are in con- “Paan, whether or not it contained a customer visits the shop to purchase ried about inspectors either from the tact with each other so if one of the tobacco, raised oral cancer risk irre- the products, a worker rushes to the Ministry of Interior or the Ministry of places gets raided; the information spective of oral submucous fibrosis dumpster and discretely pulls out the Health busting their operation. There gets passed quickly to each other so (an oral precancerous condition). Oral illegal products and hands it over to have been crackdown efforts after it is important to have the raids in the cancer risk was higher among those the customer. authorities sent officials to inspect. entire area together.” who used paan with tobacco,” stated “They will not keep it in their shops In one of the shops, the seller was “Although they work at the cold another study conducted by medical A screenshot of a video showing a man because they are worried about in - seen going to get the product from an store, in many cases selling these researchers Anwar T Merchant and consuming illegal tobacco products in the public. spection by the authorities. This is apartment located nearby and came products is their primary source of Waranuch Pitiphat. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 04 ‘More countries to be part’ of Manama Dialogue 2018 The 14th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Regional Security Summit will be held from October 26 to 28

The International Institute for• Strategic Studies hosted a roundtable yesterday for the ambassadors of 20 2004 countries participating in the is the year in which 14th IISS Manama Dialogue Manama Dialogue Regional Security Summit. was first hosted by the Kingdom. The forum’s first day will feature• the opening ceremony and a televised plenary debate. Roundtable

TDT|Manama The International Institute for Strate- Mohammed Zafran gic Studies hosted a roundtable yester- day for the ambassadors of 20 countries ore countries will be part of participating in the 14th IISS Manama this year’s Manama Dialogue Dialogue Regional Security Summit. Mwhen compared to its previ- They discussed how to make best use ous editions, organisers revealed yes- of the Summit in the interests of the terday. participants and the event. The 14th International Institute for The half-day roundtable covered the Strategic Studies (IISS) Regional Secu- overarching theme of the event ‘The rity Summit: The Manama Dialogue Re-ordering of the Middle East’ and 2018 will be held from October 26 to 28. the detail of each of its sessions. It ex- The organisers have described the amined countries’ key delegates lists so forum as a platform for some of the most Former US Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at one of the previous editions of Manama Dialogue. that Ambassadors are better equipped powerful policymakers from the Middle to arrange bilateral meetings for their East and beyond to find ways to address well by the Kingdom of Bahrain. We, of be the forum it is. I am happy to say in the Middle East’, ‘Stabilization and Governments’ delegations. Important the region’s most pressing challenges. course, take pride in what we bring to that Bahrain’s contribution is signif- Reconstruction in the Middle East’ and logistic aspects were also explained. IISS Middle East executive director the Kingdom. The Kingdom’s conven- icant.” Preventing and Countering Transna- Mr Beckett, pointed out, “We have Lieutenant General (Retired) Sir Thom- ing power, its soft-power for bringing The forum’s first day will feature tional Threats. three sessions that will elicit discussions as Beckett yesterday revealed further people in is very much an aspect for the the opening ceremony and a televised The third day will have four simul- on global and regional foreign policies details of the event. Dialogues’ success. plenary debate. The second day’s ple- taneous special sessions which are, and practices as they affect the Middle “We have a list of key delegates from “If it weren’t for the efforts and con- nary sessions include ‘US Policy in a ‘Defence Modernization and Indus- East. We will also look at the nature of last year who are returning this year. tributions from the Ministry of Foreign Changing Middle East’, ‘Shifting Re- trialization in the Middle East’, ‘The the region’s power and influence.” There will be more participating coun- Affairs and the support of His Majesty lationships and the Emerging Middle Horn of Africa and the Security of the He added, “By hosting this round- tries we are also aiming for more of- and the Crown prince, this would not Eastern Order’, ‘Conflict and Diplomacy Bab Al-Mandeb’, ‘ Cyber Threats and table, we revive a tradition of helping ficials from the ministerial level this Cyber Defence’ and ‘Nuclear Energy ambassadors convey to their capitals time,” he said. and Non-Proliferation in the Middle accurate information about the Sum- When asked how many countries East’. mit so that they can contribute to their are participating this time, he said Describing this year’s event, the Delegations’ participation and, conse- that the final participator’s list has not organizers stated, “This year’s summit quently, reap the most benefits possible been drafted. “We are still close to two This year’s summit will see will see a diverse group of prime min- from their on-site and post-Summit months away so we are expecting more a diverse group of prime isters, defence ministers, foreign min- interactions.” participants to confirm as the time gets ministers, defence ministers, isters, national security advisers, and The Kingdom of Bahrain has host- closer.” foreign ministers, national military and intelligence chiefs gather ed the Manama Dialogue since 2004, He said that the event will enable security advisers, and for three days of debate on ways to ad- and since 2010, the IISS Middle East bilateral talks between governments military and intelligence dress the Middle East’s most pressing office. Also known as the IISS Regional “A ‘bilateral manager’ is provided to chiefs gather for three days security challenges. Inspiring fresh Security Summit, this track 1.5 event assist Ministers or key delegates from policy thinking, the Dialogue provides is the largest security event in the re- different governments to meet. The of debate on ways to address opportunities for government leaders gion, bringing together government and event is a concentrated opportunity for the Middle East’s most to engage directly with the leading ex- non-government participants to discuss government officials to conduct bilater- pressing security challenges. perts in the region, and facilitates pri- the most topical defence, foreign policy al engagements,” he said. MR BECKETT vate bilateral and multilateral meetings and security challenges of the Middle “The IISS has been hosted incredibly between participating states.” East. Bahraini attacks Asian Bahraini faces trial for for overtaking his car buying gun from friend TDT|Manama “I was working with him (the Ali Tarif me,” the Asian man said. The three men second man),” the 27-year-old “He drove his car fast and are• scheduled to said in his statement after he 22-year-old Bahraini intercepted us. He stopped He told me that was arrested for possessing a allegedly attacked an And finally when and got out of his vehicle and appear before the weapon without a licence. he managed he was in need of AAsian man because he headed towards me. I opened High Criminal Court money because he “He told me that he had a tried to overtake his car. to overtake the window to hear what he on September 11. gun which he wanted to sell for The Asian man, who was the Bahraini’s would say. But he punched me wanted to bring a BD450. He revealed that he was with four of his friends, told car, he drove directly with a punch ring. He maid. I decided to in need of money because he police that the Bahraini man then went to his car and drove TDT|Manama buy the gun to help wanted to bring a maid. I decid- fast and Ali Tarif was driving his car slowly in intercepted my away,” he added. him. ed to buy the gun to help him.” Salmabad, and he didn’t allow The defendant was later ar- ACCUSED The third man was arrested him to overtake. car and started rested, but he claimed that his 27-year-old Bahraini man because he delivered the gun to “And finally when he man- attacking me. victim behaved with him in an will stand trial for try- the man from the second man. aged to overtake the Bahraini’s VICTIM impolite manner, leading to the Aing to help a friend, who He was charged with failing to car, he drove fast and intercept- attack. didn’t have enough money to a bid to support his friend, also report a crime. ed my car. The defendant was put on bring a maid, by buying a gun Bahraini, financially. The three men are sched - “He was driving in the middle wouldn’t allow me. While over- trial for assaulting the victim from him. The move got the two men in uled to appear before the High of the road, but slowly. I at - taking, I looked at him to un- as well as possessing a punch The Bahraini man revealed the dock in addition to a third Criminal Court on September tempted to overtake him, but he derstand why he did that to ring. that he chose to buy the gun in Bahraini man. 11, 2018. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 05 Bahrain-UK strong relations stressed Manama Helen Flewker. dor expressed his pride and appre - During the meeting, the Assistant ciation of the bilateral relations of he Assistant Foreign Minister, Foreign Minister affirmed the deep cooperation between the two friend- Abdulla Al Doseri, received in historical ties between the Kingdom ly countries, praising their constant This office at the Ministry’s Gen- of Bahrain and the United Kingdom, development at all levels, wishing eral Court yesterday, the Deputy Am- stressing the keenness of the Kingdom both countries further progress and bassador of the United Kingdom to the of Bahrain to strengthen these friendly prosperity. Kingdom, Maqbool Ali, and the Joint relations in various fields to meet the During the meeting, a number of Head of Gulf Team at the Middle East common aspirations of the two coun- issues of common concern were also and North Africa Directorate of the tries and peoples. discussed. Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mr Al Doseri receives Mr Ali and Ms Flewker at his office. For his part, the Deputy Ambassa- Shock to expat communities as one more commits suicide The number of suicide cases among expatriates has witnessed a steep increase this year

The body of the• deceased was transferred to Salmaniya Medical Centre (SMC) morgue and police vehicles and an ambulance were seen at her residence yesterday.

Indian national •Nizamol Kannankara Nizar was found dead in her apartment in Gudaibiya. According to sources she ended her life by hanging. The locality in Gudaibiya where Nizamol lived. Police vehicles were seen in the area since yesterday morning. TDT|Manama Mohammed Zafran that is where many people know Relief Fund or any concerned have committed suicide this will not be able to help them. We her, recently she switched her authority for help regarding her year, none have approached the are ready to help, and want to job to work at a school” condition. authorities for help. When we help but were never approached xpatriates in the King- “People knew her as a bold “In the cases where people are not approached for help, we for help by them.” dom have been left shell- and courageous person. She Eshocked as yet another was intent on improving her case of suicide was reported situation by leaving the job at yesterday. a restaurant and choosing to The number of suicide cases work at a school.” among expatriates this year has “She was not married and edged close to 30. lived with a friend. She and Kingdom of Bahrain Indian national Nizamol Kan- her friend shared an apart- nankara Nizar was found dead ment with a family on a shar- Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities in her apartment in Gudaibiya. ing basis. Directorate of Maintenance & Services According to sources she ended The deceased Nizamol. A shopkeeper in the area her life by hanging. said that she was seen vis- The Directorate of Maintenance & Services invites quotations for the following tender : “She was found hanging in ibly upset in the past few the morning. Everyone at her weeks. “She comes to my Tender Title Tender Initial Tender Closing Date place went to sleep as usual and shop from time to time and No. Bond Fees after the roommates woke up The information on of late she has been frantic Day Date Time in the morning they found her in her behavior. I assumed it the LMRA website Maintenance of Fire Alarm, 24 dead. Her body looked like it to be something personal so CCTV & Other Systems Installed does not reflect her at P6/2018 BD 500/- BD 15/- Monday September 9:00 am was a bit stretched of because I never asked her anything Bahrain Authority for Culture & 2018 of the long hours hanging” the actual occupation about it. Antiquities Buildings & Sites source said. because she is a free “We have seen her with visa worker. She used The body was transferred to her friends who work with • Those who are Capable and want to participate in the above tender has to call the Administration Services Section Salmaniya Medical Center (SMC) to work at a bar and her. But we do not know (Tel: 17298734) or (17299876) or (17299875) or (17299878) during the working hours on 04/09/2018. Last date morgue and police vehicles and that is where many more about them,” a resi - for collection Tender documents is 24/09/2018 and to Enclose with his offer the Initial Bond for the amount an ambulance were seen at her people know her. dent said. specified above, or at the rate of 1% of the tender value whichever amount is lesser, provided that no initial bonds residence yesterday. The number of suicide cas- value shall be less than BD. 100/- . The initial bond should be in the form of a Certified Cheque, Bank Guarantee, SOURCE No official confirmation has es has witnessed a steep up- cash or Insurance Policy valid for the duration specified in the tender documents. come as the Ministry of Interior tick this year. Several deaths • Offers should be deposited in the tender box provided at Bahrain National Museum. is yet to issue a statement on the attributed to suicide were death, however, Tribune learnt reported almost every month • This tender should comply to the provisions of the General Tenders Regulations, no. (36) for the year 2002, and it’s that an investigation has been this year while the previous executive Regulations No. (37) for the year 2002. launched. In the cases where month witnessed one of the According to the information people have most number of cases. Na- • In addition these conditions has to be considered: on the Labour Market Regula- committed suicide tionalities of those who have tory Authority website, the de- committed suicide include 1. Enclose copy of the Commercial Registration Bill, for the current year, and has to be included/matched with ceased worked as an accountant this year, none have Indians, Filipinos, Nepalese the tender subjects. at ‘Garaif for Demolition’. approached the and African. 2. Form no. (TB 02) is to be filled completely, mentioning the Total Tender Value and Unit Price (accordingly). However sources told Tribune authorities for help. World Non-Resident Indi- 3. Enclose a certificate of compliance with the employment percentages for Bahraini manpower issued by the that she was a free visa worker ans Council ad-hoc director Ministry of Labour. When we are not 4. All tender documents ( Original / Copy ) which has been submitted with the offers should be stamped with at a school. “The information approached for help, for the Middle East Sud - the companie’s Stamp. on the LMRA website does not we will not be able to heer Thirunilath said that reflect her actual occupation the woman had never ap - help them. • This advertisement is considered to be a supplementary to the tender Documents. because she is a free visa worker. proached the Indian Embas- She used to work at a bar and MR THIRUNILATH sy or the Indian Community TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 06

HH Shaikh Nasser, HH Shaikh Khalid congratulated for Asian Games success Manama various medals in the 18th Asian Games Governor Salman Bin Hindi marking recently concluded in Jakarta. Bahrain’s sport achievement in the 18th is Royal Highness Prince Salman HRH the Crown Prince paid tribute Asian Games recently concluded in Ja- bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown to their highnesses’ efforts to upgrade karta. HPrince, Deputy Supreme Com- the national youth’s sport performance, 26 The Governor extended sincere mander and First Deputy Prime Minister, which boosted Bahrain’s international medals were won by congratulations on the historic sport congratulated Representative to HM the sport standing. Team Bahrain at the achievement. King for Charity Works and Youth Affairs, HRH the Crown Prince also extend- Asian Games 2018 held He highlighted that the sport achieve- Chairman of the Supreme Council for HH Shaikh Nasser, HH Shaikh Khalid ed appreciation to administrative team in Indonesia. ment would have not been made without Youth and Sports and President of Bahrain and the BOC for equipping the athletes the royal support, HH Shaikh Nasser Olympic Committee, HH Shaikh Nasser bin Association and President of West Asian with success requirement, welcoming the and HH Shaikh Khalid’s efforts, which Hamad Al Khalifa, and First Deputy Chair- Athletics Association, HH Shaikh Khalid Bahraini athlete’s high performance that also boosted Bahrain international sport man of the Supreme Council for Youth bin Hamad Al Khalifa, on the outstanding brought the achievement. He wished the HH Shaikh Nasser yesterday received a standing, wishing Bahrain more suc- and Sports, President of Bahrain Athletics sport achievement as Bahrain secured 26 Bahraini sport more successes to come. cable of congratulations from Muharraq cesses to come.

Fake bomber SCW set to offer special training appeals jail for potential women candidates sentence The defendant• was Training will be provided on legal, political and media aspects of elections arrested after finding their Manama as the election process. fingerprint The move is aimed at The move is aimed at supporting matching with • he Supreme Council for Wom - would-be women candidates, which will supporting would-be women en (SCW)’s general secretariat boost their competitiveness to delve into the ones obtained candidates, which will Tyesterday announced the official political action and effectively participate from the scene. boost their competitiveness launch of “Pre-election Consultations in public life. to delve into political Programme for Women” in cooperation Also, the woman candidates will get TDT|Manama with the Bahrain Institute for Political to know the specific technical support Ali Tarif action and effectively Development (BIPD). which they can obtain from the pro - participate in public life. The SCW called on Bahraini women gramme experts during the one-on-one who would like to stand for the 2018 or group consultations. he High Appeals The SCW is organizing the parliamentary and municipal elections The programme will also be useful to TCourt began yes- programme• in co-operation to attend a meeting on Thursday at the the election campaign crews as well. terday hearing the Supreme Council’s main premises. The SCW said that registration for this case of a Bahraini man with the Bahrain Institute Details on how to benefit from the experts will provide the would-be can- programme is possible from 8 am until who was jailed for five of Political Development. programme are available at the SCW gen- didates with relevant advice pertaining 8 pm by calling the following numbers: years for planting a fake eral secretariat and the BIPD where the to legal, political, media aspects as well 17417158-17417190 – 17417169. bomb on a public road as well as rioting. According to court files, the defendant was among the saboteurs who rioted on Shaikh Asian man ‘who ran car over Bahrain Day to be Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sub- ah Avenue. celebrated in Hungary They also pelted po- his friend’ pleads not guilty lice officers who arrived Manama to bring order with fire- The 32-year-old suspect was initially ques- bombs before they fled, Police officers suspected that tioned and detained for 24 hours after the acci- he Bahrain Day will held in leaving behind them a • dent before he was released as the victim wasn’t the city of Baja in Hunga- strange-looking device there was a criminal motive behind able to speak. Try on Wednesday. The Isa made of a plastic cylin- the accident, although the defendant Police officers suspected that there was a Cultural Centre will organise the der which was connect- said that he fled the scene because criminal motive behind the accident, although event as part of its participation ed to four pipes. he wasn’t accustomed to dealing the defendant said that he fled the scene because as a Guest of Honour at the Seven It was initially he wasn’t accustomed to dealing with these kind Hills International Film Festival thought that it was a with these kind of situations. of situations. (SHIFF). bomb, according to They questioned the victim’s colleagues and Bahraini Maestro Waheed Al court files, and bomb TDT|Manama an eyewitness at the scene, all of whom con- Khan will stage a concert as part Bahrain’s rich experts were called to Ali Tarif firmed that the crash was deliberate. of Bahrain Day, accompanied history and dismantle it. One of the victim’s workmates revealed that by Bahraini musicians and a re- landmark However, it turned n Asian man accused of killing his friend the defendant once came to their workplace and nowned Hungarian orchestra achievements will out to be a fake bomb. by running car over him pleaded not threatened he would murder him. to perform tunes of his album, be showcased at The defendant was Aguilty to murder charge before the court Police officers wanted to obtain a statement ‘Return’, translating the values the event. arrested after finding yesterday. from the victim, but he died one week after and memories inspired by the their fingerprint match- The incident happened on February 8, 2018 the incident. And doctors confirmed that the reality of co-existence in Bah- DR SHAIKH KHALID ing with the ones ob- and it was initially considered a hit-and-run injuries he suffered were owing to a predeter- raini society in the present and tained from the scene. accident. mined hit. the past. Al Khalifa said that an exhibi- The defendant was But further investigations into the case found It was later discovered that the defendant Vice Chairman of the Board tion showcasing photographs earlier sentenced to five that the 32-year-old man had deliberately run didn’t just crash his victim with his car, but of Trustees and Executive Di- and paintings, made by brilliant years behind bars. But over the victim who was riding a motorcycle in reversed over his body too to make sure of his rector of the Isa Cultural Centre, Bahraini talents, and showcasing he decided to appeal an effort to kill him, according to court sources. death. and Board of Trustees Chairman Bahrain’s reality, landmarks and the verdict. The victim died, succumbing to serious inju- He was charged with premeditated murder. of the King Hamad Global Cen- rich history will be presented His next hearing is ries, including a lower-body paralysis, fractured His court hearing has been scheduled for Sep- tre for Peaceful Co-existence, in the gallery to be held on the scheduled for Septem- ribs and a buildup of fluid around the lungs. tember 24, 2018, to hear the closing argument. Dr Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa sidelines of the ‘Bahrain Day’. ber 11, 2018. IDB support for Pearl Road project hailed President of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, yesterday held a coordination meeting with a delegation of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) of Jeddah. The BACA President praised the IDB’s support for cultural infrastructure projects and activating the concept of social responsibility and joint work with social institutions. She hailed the IDB’s support for the Pearl Road project, which will be opened next November under the royal patronage to coincide with Bahrain’s celebrations of Muharraq as Capital of Islamic Culture. A brief presentation of the progress of the Pearl Road project was given. The IDB’s delegation welcomed the ongoing cooperation between the two sides, lauding the BACA’s role in promoting the cultural activities locally and regionally. 07 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 business

Panel set up to support banking forum on FinTech TDT| Manama Finastra joins FinTech Bay

ahrain Association of together in one place to inspire BBanks (BAB) has set up Membership in innovation. Finastra and Fusion- a steering committee com- • Fabric.cloud will play a key role prised of a diverse group FinTech hub will Our platform for in the ecosystem, enabling our of BAB members and part- open up collaboration open innovation, Fintechs to collaborate, develop ners to support its annual opportunities with FusionFabric.cloud, new applications at speed and banking forum which will other partners and is well positioned to low cost, and make these ser- be held on October 31 under industry players help the ecosystem vices easily accessible to banks the auspices of the Central in its transition and and financial institutions in the Bank of Bahrain. will play a key role region, and around the world.” The forum is entitled TDT| Manama Bahrain FinTech Bay was es- “FinTech: Opportunities in doing so tablished earlier this year as part & Challenges in Bahrain’s inastra, the UK-based fi- WISSAM KHOURY of a continued push in Bahrain banking industry.” nancial software develop- MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR MIDDLE to create the region’s leading The steering committee Fer, has joined Bahrain Fin- EAST AND AFRICA startup ecosystem. The hub cur- aims to provide logistic Tech Bay. Through the member- rently counts over 50 partners, support to the forum and ship, Finastra will have access Wissam Khoury Khalid Saad including banks, corporates, ensure the event achieves to key industry events and Bah- government bodies, universities its goals. rain FinTech Bay’s own events and Fintechs. The committee consists on Blockchain, InsurTech and Africa at Finastra said, “Now open banking architecture. Our global Fintech force on board. With one of the most diverse of eight members who rep- RegTech, and collaboration op- couldn’t be a better time to be platform for open innovation, Becoming a partner of Bahrain and dynamic networks across resent banking, the FinTech portunities with other partners part of this community as the FusionFabric.cloud, is well po- Fintech Bay will allow Finastra the Middle East and Africa, the and other related areas, and industry players. The com- Bahrain Fintech scene heats up. sitioned to help the ecosystem to increase collaboration with Fintech hub brings together fi- namely: Al Baraka Banking pany will also become a resident Working with Bahrain FinTech in its transition and will play a the local financial services eco- nancial institutions, banks and Group, Bahrain FinTech of Bahrain FinTech Bay to be at Bay will allow us to further col- key role in doing so.” system. With such a versatile investors, Fintechs, developers, Bay, BIBF, BAB, and Finmark the heart of the ecosystem. laborate with local Fintechs and Khalid Saad, CEO of Bahrain community, it is crucial for us industry bodies and academics Communications, the Fo- Wissam Khoury, Managing banks, as the financial services FinTech Bay, said, “We are de- to have partners that share our to drive innovation and create rum’s organizer. Director for the Middle East and landscape moves towards an lighted to welcome Finastra, a vision of bringing all the actors new opportunities for growth. “The Steering Committee aims to ensure delivering a comprehensive program of high-profile sessions and interactive platform for BisB teams up with expertise and viewpoints Minister Mirza receives exchange,” said Afrah Ajaj, Members Affairs Manager, Royal Ambassador BAB. Norwegian delegation Conference on role of women in boosting Saudi economic ties

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line with our aim to to offer TDT| Manama a flexible range of financing solutions to suit our clients’ Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Dr. Abdulhussain Mirza with the Norwegian delegation ahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) needs and help them invest MR. Ammar Bhas signed a joint venture in their future,” said Dalal Al TDT| Manama to open joint cooperation in ernment pays great attention to agreement with Royal Ambas- Qais, General Manager, Retail existing and future projects in encouraging clean energy. The sador Property Management, Banking, BisB. lectricity and Water Affairs renewable energy and energy company’s strategic partner, TDT| Manama a real estate property man - “This agreement will open EMinister Dr. Abdulhussain efficiency. Hadi Al-Alawi was present at agement company, to provide doors for Bahrainis, GCC na- Mirza received a delegation The minister gave the visitors the meeting. lwane Bahrain Society private financing for potential tionals and foreigners who Jacobsen Elektro, a Norwegian a presentation on the plans and The visitors thanked the min- Awill hold a conference residents at the Fontana Pro- want to own our projects,” company specializing in renew- projects of the government and ister and officials for the wel- on “The role of women in ject, enabling nationals and said Eman Al Mannai, General able energy. The minister was praised the company’s efforts come and the hospitality.Acting promoting Bahraini-Sau- expatriates in the Kingdom, Manager of Sales and Business briefed on the activities and aimed at activating sustainable Director of the Sustainable En- di economic cooperation”, or the GCC to buy residential Development, Royal Ambas- programmes of the 100-year and environmentally friendly ergy Unit Alexander Al Sama- in September. Representa- units. “The agreement is in sador Property Management. old company, and their desire energy use. He said the gov - hiji also attended the meeting. tives from Bahrain and Sau- di Arabia will address the conference. Ammar Awachi, chairman of Alwane Socie- ty, said that this conference aims to discuss best ways in Panel reviews preparations for 2018 e-Govt Forum promoting Bahrain among Saudi families and specifi- TDT|Manama Head of Quality Assurance Sal- cally Saudi women, raising man Yousif Salman. cooperation between Saudi he Executive Committee The panel has finalized prepa- businesswomen and their Tof Bahrain Internation - rations, including the coordina- Bahraini counterparts into al eGovernment Forum 2018 tion of hosting around 20 speak- joint ventures and establish- held a meeting to discuss the ers from Bahrain and overseas, ing more Bahraini business- preparations for the 9th edition the supervision of the delegates es capable of meeting Saudi to be held from October 7 to registration, and promoting the businesswomen’s needs, fol- 8 under the patronage of His Forum via various media chan- lowing structural changes Highness Shaikh Mohammed nels in collaboration with spe- taking place in the Saudi Bin Mubarak AlKhalifa, Deputy The Executive Committee of Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2018 during the meeting cial teams. economy. “The meet will Prime Minister and Chairman The forum will present papers discuss all questions about of the Supreme Committee for on the latest ICT developments. the Bahraini economy that Information & Communication The committee consists of the Al Hamid, CEO of T-Linx Waleed Director, Change Management More than 450 participants are will benefit from allowing Technology. Vice Chairman Ahmed Naeemi Khalaf. & Business Process Reengineer- expected to take part and be- Saudi women to drive: such The executive committee was from Bahrain Institute of Bank- The committee members also ing Donia Faisal Sarhan, Acting come familiar with the diver- as hospitality, health, auto- chaired by Lulwa Sami Ebrahim, ing and Finance, Digital Trans- consists of iGA members; Policy Director, Government Systems sified experiences in IT and motive and service sectors,” Acting Director of Communica- formation Specialist and Manag- and Research Consultant Dr. Support and Maintenance Hes- innovative programmes in the he said. tion and Marketing at iGA. ing Partner in Intermid Abdulla Nasser Mohamed Lori, Acting ham Ebrahim Alhashemi and field. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 08

Japan to halt Iran oil imports AFP| Tokyo Heavy Oil Congress opens apan’s major oil whole- Jsalers are preparing to General of Planning and Stud- suspend crude oil imports More than 3,000 ies at Oman’s Ministry of Oil & from Iran in October, amid • Gas, highlighted the Sultanate’s fears Washington will sanc- international industry growing role on the global stage tion countries importing professionals are in spearheading innovation to Iranian crude, local media participating in the maximize heavy oil production. reported. three-day event being “The world is awash with US President Donald heavy and extra heavy oil depos- Trump in May pulled out held in Muscat its, in excess of 1 trillion barrels. of a 2015 nuclear deal with It currently accounts for 12-15pc Iran and last month began TDT| Mucat of total global production and reimposing sanctions that r. Mohammed bin Ham- there is significant recovera- block other countries from ad Al Rumhy, Minis- ble potential to be unlocked. trading with Iran. Dter of Oil & Gas of the Technology and collaboration A second phase of sanc- Sultanate of Oman, and Shai- will be the key,” expressed Dr. tions targeting Iran’s cru- kh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Al Gheithy. “Heavy oil and en- cial oil industry and banking Khalifa, Minister of Oil of the hanced oil recovery form an im- sector will be reinstated on Kingdom of Bahrain, officially Mohammed bin Hamad Al Rumhy and Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa opening the 2018 edition of the World portant part of Oman’s oil mix. November 5. opened the 2018 edition of the Heavy Oil Congress and Exhibition in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, yesterday. It is anticipated that by 2025 Japan has been seeking a World Heavy Oil Congress and about 25pc of PDO’s production waiver that would allow it Exhibition (WHOC) at the Oman the right decision to focus on in- which will run until Wednesday, will come from EOR projects. to continue importing Ira- Convention & Exhibition Cen- vestment and that has helped us where regional and internation- We’ve partnered with Omani nian oil, but it appears un- tre, Muscat, yesterday. in the end.” He added, “Both the al NOCs, IOCs, service and tech- universities and institutions to likely to win one, Jiji Press More than 3,000 industry pro- public and private sector have a nology providers are showcasing develop and further advance agency and other local me- fessionals are deliberating on responsibility. With greater pri- Within the region, the best technologies, products our research and development dia reported in recent days. the transformation of the heavy vate sector participation and the Oman was the first and services for the heavy oil programs.” As a result, Japanese oil oil value chain and the future of optimization of ecosystems of sector. Notable exhibitors in- The Strategic Conference companies are preparing the world’s energy mix during our economy versus prioritizing to invest in heavy clude Petroleum Development continued with a session on ‘Re- to halt imports of Iranian the three-day event. profits, we can together further oil and we have a lot Oman (PDO), Eni SPA, China Na- thinking the Energy Operation crude and researching ways In his opening remarks, Al advance our industry forward.” to learn from them. tional Offshore Oil Corporation, Model: Agility, Adaptability & to increase imports from Rumhy said, “Oman did not slow Shaikh Al Khalifa said, “With- Heavy oil could be Bahrain Petroleum Company, Global Cooperation in Rede- elsewhere to make up the down during the 2014-2018 oil in the region, Oman was the first in heavy demand, Kitsnet, Badr EOR, Albpetrol, fining the Future of E&P’. The shortfall, the reports said. drop. The fear was always that to invest in heavy oil and we at least in the short RGL Reservoir Management Ltd, speakers included: Dr. Bakheet the reduction in investment, have a lot to learn from them. term, as a result SoluForce, HP Well Screen, and Al Katheeri, CEO of Mubadala specifically in exploration, was Heavy oil could be in heavy de- Salamander to name but a few. Petroleum, Luca Bertelli, Chief going to hit us hard but we mand, at least in the short term, of implications of Welcoming participants from Exploration Officer of Eni, Steve Tech billionaire stayed the course and proceed- as a result of implications of the the light tight oil all around the globe, Congress Kelly, President and General ed with our previous plans with light tight oil phenomenon in phenomenon in Chairmen Dr. Ali Al Gheithy, Manager of Occidental Oman, returns to China the support of the government, North America.” North America Petroleum Engineering Func- Amran Marhubi, Technical Di- shareholders, and oil and gas The Ministers along with tion Director at Petroleum De- rector of Petroleum Develop- after US arrest SHAIKH MOHAMMED BIN KHALIFA AL companies operating in the a high-level delegation from KHALIFA velopment Oman, and Dr. Saleh ment Oman and Steven Moss, AFP| Beijing country. As a country, we took WHOC toured the exhibition, MINISTER OF OIL bin Ali Al Anboori, Director CEO of GlassPoint Solar.

ech billionaire and TJD.com founder Rich- ard Liu has returned to Chi- na, the company said yester- Turkey inflation surges to Admission begins for aircraft day, following a brief arrest in the US over allegations 15-year high in August of criminal sexual conduct. maintenance engineering course “He has been released interest rates. without any charges and Consumer prices The figure was higher than TDT| Manama without requirement for • the Bloomberg consensus fore- bail,” a spokeswoman for rose 17.9pc in August cast of 17.6 percent. AS Aircraft Engineering the company said in a state- compared to the same The lira was worth 6.6 BTraining Centre (BAETC) ment. period in the previous against the US dollar, a loss has started accepting appli- “Mr. Liu has returned to year, up from 15.85 of nearly 1.5 percent on the cations for 2018-2019 entry, a work in China.” day after 0930 GMT, rallying press release said. JD.com, the company percent in July. slightly after the central bank’s The Center, part of Bahrain which Liu founded in 1998, indication that it would act Airport Services (BAS), provides is an e-commerce jugger- AFP| Ankara at the next monetary policy a four-year highly specialized naut in China and the main committee meeting on Sep- programme in aircraft main- competitor to industry lead- urkey reported its highest tember 13. tenance engineering, in which er Alibaba. Tinflation rate in 15 years The highest annual rise in students acquire both theoret- Liu, also known by his yesterday fuelled by a spectac- the month was in the cost of ical and practical experience. Chinese name Liu Qiang- ular drop in the Turkish lira, as transport, up 27.13 percent, The Center is open daily for dong, was arrested over the analysts predicted that worse while prices for food and those who want to register, with The Center is open daily for registration misconduct allegations late is probably to come. non-alcoholic drinks were up easy access to study theoretical Friday and released Satur- Consumer prices rose 17.9 19.75 percent, TUIK said in a and practical training methods day afternoon in the mid- percent in August from the statement. in BAETC, and to acquire the a high school certificate is not on a monthly basis over four western US city of Minneap- same month in the previous Last month the Turkish lira EASA Part 66 license, which is a prerequisite, as only applied years. BAS strategy is belief in olis, records from Hennepin year --their highest increase was sent into a tailspin by a the most recognized license science is required to learn how the importance of supporting County Jail showed. since late 2003 -- up from 15.85 bitter diplomatic spat with the in aviation maintenance in the to maintain aircrafts. education and training in the percent in July, according to United States over Turkey’s world.The students wishing to In order to make it easier for Kingdom of Bahrain, and it is the Turkish statistics office detention of an American pas- study must be older than 18 and students and parents, BAS com- eager to help and encourage (TUIK), increasing pressure tor for almost two years on have to pass the entrance exams pany has announced the possi- Bahrainis’ to be competitive in EU must challenge on the central bank to hike terror-related charges. and interviews. He stressed that bility of paying the related fees the labour market. PayPal, Apple: ECB

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uropean Union coun- Tech nostalgia on show at Berlin’s IFA tech show Etries must foster pay- ment services that work AFP| Berlin that not so long ago appeared as Henze. Unlike digital pho- across the continent to near death. Known as the One tos trapped under smartphone boost its financial sector or many consumers, rewind- Step+, the snapper looks exactly glass, “you can frame it, put it and reduce dependence Fing cassettes, carefully plac- like a traditional Polaroid from on the wall, offer it or put it in a on third countries like the ing a needle on a record or shak- the outside -- but offers Blue- scrapbook,” he points out. United States, a top Euro- ing dry a Polaroid photo may all tooth connectivity to sync up pean Central Bank official feel like long-forgotten gestures with Android and iPhone apps. Audiostalgia said yesterday. from a bygone era. Competitor Kodak also has an In the music world, audio pur- “Large non-European But they’re everywhere to be instant camera, the Printomatic, ists and those looking for a more companies now play a sig- seen again at Berlin’s IFA tech on offer, claiming less than 40 “instagrammable” way to listen nificant role in the provision show, albeit it with an unmis- seconds to develop a photo in are met with ever more options of payment services in Eu- takable digital touch. colour or black-and-white. for playing cassettes and vinyl rope, while European banks The “new trends” section of “For the new generation, it’s records. Manufacturers have are focused solely on serv- the fair, which often showcas- totally new. They have no idea hard data to back up their turn ing their national market,” es upcoming Christmas-season how to take a picture like this, to the past, with 33 RPM discs ECB board member Yves blockbusters, is dominated by a without a screen, or to wait a accounting for some 14pc of US Mersch told a Paris finan- stand belonging to Polaroid, the week for it to get developed”, album sales in 2017, compared cial regulation conference. household-name camera firm A DUO record player on display at the IFA electronics fair in Berlin. -AFP said Polaroid spokesman Tobi- with 11pc the previous year. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 09

Argentina scraps Oil closes higher on govt ministries in Iran sanction fears austerity push Saudi bourse snaps Reuters | London Reuters| Buenos Aires il prices rose yesterday, Osupported by concerns rgentina slashed the that falling Iranian output Anumber of government will tighten markets once US ministries to 10 from 19 as 3-day losing streak sanctions bite from Novem- part of an austerity push, ber, but gains were limited the government said in a Reuters| Dubai by higher supply from OPEC statement yesterday, add- Closing Bell and the United States. ing that former Treasury audi Arabia’s stock market SAUDI  0.4% » 7,942 Brent crude oil LCOc1 was Minister Nicolas Dujovne’s rose yesterday, recovering up 60 cents at $78.24 a bar- DUBAI  0.4% » 2,830 title would change to Econ- from three consecutive rel by 1345 GMT. US crude S ABU DHABI  0.1% » 4,938 omy Minister.Most of the declines, while other markets CLc1 was 15 cents higher at current cabinet will remain were weak amid concerns over QATAR  0.7% » 9,800 $69.95.The two benchmarks in the government as sec- the impact that trade disputes KUWAIT  0.9% » 5,225 have risen strongly over the retaries, rather than minis- involving the United States last two weeks with Brent ters. Cabinet Chief Marcos could affect the global economy BAHRAIN  0.2% » 1,335 gaining more than 10 per- Pena will remain in his role, and equities. OMAN  0.2% 4,428 cent on expectations that while former Moderniza- The Saudi index added 0.4 EGYPT  0.2% » 15,822 global supply will tighten tion Minister Andres Ibar- percent, recovering from three later this year. ra was named vice cabinet straight days of declines that US sanctions are already chief. The statement did not sent the largest Arab bourse Other markets declined amid curbing exports from Iran. say whether the two current down 1.5 percent; however trad- lacklustre trading on select “Exports from OPEC’s vice cabinet chiefs, Mario ing volumes remained low, due stocks.Dubai index lost lost 0.4 third-biggest producer are Quintana and Gustavo Lo- to global concerns and as many percent as property developer falling faster than expected petegui, would remain in investors are still away from the Emaar retreated about 0.6 per- and worse is to come ahead the government. market. cent.In Abu Dhabi, the index of a looming second wave of “I have decided to make “The global economic situa- A Saudi trader observes the stock market on monitors at Falcom stock exchange shed 0.3 percent amid weak US sanctions,” said Stephen my team more compact, to tion is worrying for the markets, agency in Riyadh.- REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser (File photo) trading with only four gainers Brennock, analyst at PVM focus on our agenda,” Pres- wealth managers have been and three losers led by First Oil Associates. “Fears of an ident Mauricio Macri said. reducing exposure to equities Abu Dhabi Bank which fell 0.5 impending supply crunch over the past month, that’s why vestors has been dampened by a Free Trade Agreement. percent. are gaining traction.” Brent negative sentiment is spreading US-China trade row while con- Al Rajhi Bank rose 0.8 per- Qatar followed suit, with the was “supported by the no- across the region;” said Mazen tentious trade talks between cent, petrochemical giant SAB- index losing 0.4 percent. Qa- tion that US sanctions on al-Sudairi, head of research at the United States and Canada IC added 0.6 percent and real tar Commercial Bank fell 1.7 Iranian crude oil exports EU lifts curbs Al Rajhi Capital. ended on Friday with no deal estate developer Jabal Omar percent and Masraf Al Rayan will eventually lead to con- on solar panels Sentiment among global in- to revamp the North American jumped 1.3 percent. declined 0.9 percent. stricted markets. from China AFP| Brussels he European Union will World stocks on edge over trade worries Tend its five-year-old re- strictions on solar panel im- AFP| London Key figures around 1540 GMT ports from China, officials said yesterday, as Brussels lobal stock markets di- London - FTSE 100  1.0% at 7,504.60 points (close) and Beijing increase their Gverged yesterday, with a Frankfurt - DAX 30  0.1% at 12,346.41 (close) own trade cooperation weak pound lifting London’s Paris - CAC 40  0.1% at 5,413.80 (close) in the face of protection- benchmark index, and trade war ist steps from the United concerns weighing on equities EURO STOXX 50  0.1% at 3,394.76 States. elsewhere. In the eurozone, New York - CLOSED for public holiday The European Commis- Frankfurt stocks dipped and Tokyo - Nikkei 225  0.7% at 22,707.38 (close) sion, the EU’s executive Paris rose a touch as US Presi- arm, suggested the decision dent Donald Trump eyed fresh Hong Kong - Hang Seng  0.6% at 27,712.54 (close) would boost the bloc’s re- tariffs on a swathe of Chinese Shanghai - Composite  0.2% at 2,720.73 (close) newable energy goals as it goods -- while NAFTA talks with Euro/dollar  at $1.1622 from $1.1602 at 2100 GMT rejected an appeal from the Canada appeared to hit a wall. European solar industry to “Stock markets in Europe Pound/dollar  at $1.2879 from $1.2960 reconsider the move. have had a good session consid- Dollar/yen  at 111.07 yen from 111.03 yen Share prices on LSE jumped by one per cent yesterday “The EU anti-dumping ering the multitude of ongoing and anti-subsidy measures issues,” said CMC Markets UK on solar panels from China analyst David Madden. “Pres- deals. He has proven once again European markets of the guid- on a negative note, with Tokyo don equities jumped by 1pc on will expire today at mid - ident Trump has reverted to that he is unpredictable.” ance and trading volumes that closing down 0.7pc, Hong Kong Monday on the back of a slide night (2200 GMT),” the com- a tough stance with both the US markets were closed for Wall Street usually provides. losing 0.6pc and Shanghai shav- in the pound which boosted the mission said. EU and Canada regarding trade the Labor Day holiday, depriving Asian stocks opened the week ing 0.2pc off its key index. Lon- share prices of multinationals.

UK demands action from tech giants Xi offers $60 bn Africa aid, says ‘no strings attached’ over child abuse AFP| Beijing He added that Africa’s least AFP| London developed, heavily indebted and resident Xi Jinping told Af- poor countries will be exempt ritain warned Monday Prican leaders yesterday that from debt they have incurred in Bthat internet giants China’s investments on the con- the form of interest-free Chinese could face new laws if they tinent have “no political strings loans due to mature by the end fail to tackle online child attached”, pledging $60 billion of 2018. abuse content, revealing in new development financing, that up to 80,000 people in even as Beijing is increasingly ‘New colonialism’ the country were deemed to criticised over its debt-heavy A study by the Center for Global pose a threat. projects abroad. Development, a US think-tank, “The threat has evolved Xi offered the funding at the found “serious concerns” about quicker than industry’s re- start of a two-day China-Africa the sustainability of sovereign sponse and industry has not summit that focused on his cher- debt in eight Asian, European kept up. I am not just asking ished Belt and Road initiative. and African countries receiving for change, I am demanding The money -- to be spent over Belt and Road funds. it,” British interior minister the next three years -- comes on But South African President Sajid Javid said in a speech top of $60 billion Beijing offered China’s President Xi Jinping with African leaders during a group photo session at the Forum in Beijing yesterday.- AFP Cyril Ramaphosa defended Chi- in London. in 2015. na’s involvement on the conti- “I’ve been impressed by The massive Belt and Road nent, saying FOCAC “refutes the the progress the likes of scheme is aimed at improving massive debt. are not to be spent on any vanity a scheme to form an exclusive view that a new colonialism is Google, Facebook, Micro- Chinese access to foreign mar- “China’s investment in Africa projects, but in places where club or bloc against others.” taking hold in Africa as our soft, Twitter and Apple have kets and resources, and boosting comes with no political strings they count the most.” Later, at the start of the Forum detractors would have us be- made on counter-terror- Beijing’s influence abroad. attached,” Xi told a high-level But Xi admitted there was a on China-Africa Cooperation lieve.” ism. China has poured billions in dialogue with African leaders need to look at the commercial (FOCAC), Xi announced $60 bil- During a visit to China last “Now I want to see the loans for roads, railways, ports and business representatives viability of projects and make lion in funds for eight initia - month, Malaysian prime minis- same level of commitment and other major infrastructure ahead of the summit. sure preparations are made tives over the next three years, ter Mahathir Mohamed warned from these companies and projects in Asia and Africa. “China’s cooperation with Af- to lower investment risks and in areas ranging from industrial against “a new version of coloni- others for child sexual ex- But critics warn that the rica is clearly targeted at the ma- make cooperation “more sus- promotion, infrastructure con- alism”, as he cancelled a series of ploitation,” the Home Sec- Chinese leader’s pet project is jor bottlenecks to development. tainable”. struction and scholarships for Chinese-backed infrastructure retary added. burying some countries under Resources for our cooperation Belt and Road, Xi said, “is not young Africans. projects worth $22 billion. CALM MIND BRINGS INNER STRENGTH AND SELF- TODAY 1948 1970 1972 1998 QUOTE DAY IN OF THE CONFIDENCE, SO THAT’S VERY ?? Queen Wilhelmina of the ?? Salvador Allende is elected ?? Mark Spitz becomes the first ?? Google is founded by Larry DAY IMPORTANT FOR GOOD HEALTH. HISTORY Netherlands abdicates for health President of Chile. competitor to win seven medals Page and Sergey Brin, two stu- reasons. at a single Olympic Games. dents at Stanford University. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 DALAI LAMA

West in denial about the ‘Hezbollahization’ of Iraq TOP TWEETS4 terrorism. forces were already active, having precedent. These militants also belatedly joined efforts to broker With Hezbollah acting as a their readiness for deployment Admissions about hostage-tak- played a substantive role in cre- claim to be manufacturing their a center ground coalition. Even if mercenary force in Syria and as a regional force. For decades, ing, murder and terrorist attacks ating the toxic sectarian climate own rockets. Exactly as hap - Al-Hashd only obtains a foothold dominating the state infra- Lebanese citizens and foreign should have been sufficient to that gave birth to Daesh. These pened with Hezbollah, Tehran’s in government, such as retaining diplomats bought into the fiction lock Al-Khazali up permanently. events simply allowed Al Maliki ayatollahs hope to discreetly the interior ministry, this would structure, it is perhaps too that Hezbollah served a national 01 Instead, he was transferred to Ira- to formally add these militias to build up these arsenals, provid- maintain its dominance over the late for Lebanon. But there agenda as a bulwark against Isra- BARIA ALAMUDDIN qi custody in 2010 and released the state payroll. ing the capacity to strike Arab, security forces, while blocking is still time to take Iraq away el. With Hezbollah now acting as at the behest of Prime Minister Barack Obama’s squeamishness Israeli or Western cities — just the pressure for paramilitary de- from Iran’s embrace. a mercenary force in Syria and or those familiar with Iraqi Nouri Al-Maliki. Al-Khazali and about putting boots back on the as hundreds of Iranian missiles mobilization. dominating the state infrastruc- America militant Qais Al Khazali’s hundreds of other militant lead- ground in Iraq inspired him to have been fired into Saudi Arabia Soleimani has been energeti- ture, it is perhaps too late for Flong, bombastic speeches ers freed by Al-Maliki and the unofficially franchise the fight by Houthi proxies. cally sabotaging Al-Sadr’s efforts Lebanon. However, there is still and the and TV appearances, the deluge Americans immediately returned against Daesh out to Shiite mil- These militias have recently to form a government, includ- time to take Baghdad away from fghan FM Rabbani of information he unloaded upon to paramilitary activities, with itants responsible for the deaths been keeping a relatively low ing through undermining Prime Tehran’s embrace. Acalled FM Qureishi. West have American interrogators will be of many traveling to fight for Bashar of 500 coalition troops and thou- profile to avoid exclusion from Minister Haider Abadi’s elec- As the reimposed US sanctions FM reiterated Pakistan’s little surprise. Assad. sands of Iraqis. These paramili- the political process. Once a gov- toral alliance. Abadi just sacked bite, Iran is consolidating its re- commitment towards a blind spot Transcripts of these 2007 Al Khazali’s thugs — known as taries proved largely ineffective in erning coalition is formed, they National Security Adviser Falih gional gains and mobilizing its peace and stability in testimonies were published in Asa’ib Ahl Al Haq — were useful urban combat and dedicated their will feel little such constraint Al-Fayyadh after he went be - proxies in an offensive posture. Afghanistan. Both sides concerning copious detail last week, with to Al Maliki for breaking up pro- energies to sectarian cleansing from returning to sectarian kill- hind Abadi’s back and realigned These sanctions threaten to agreed on continued co- Al Khazali revealing all about test camps and attacking political campaigns against Sunnis. ings and striking Western tar- his faction with Al-Hashd. To es. Impoverished citizens living make Tehran’s leadership even operation under APAPPS Iranian- his relationship with the Quds foes. Al Khazali even capitalized America and the West have gets. If Al-Hashd factions win win over Kurdish and Sunni par- on top of immense oil reserves more ruthless in exploiting its and to resolve security is- Force’s Qassem Soleimani, weap- on his relationship with Al Ma- a blind spot concerning Irani - Cabinet seats, they will have a ties, Al-Hashd began a unilateral are dying of infectious diseas- transnational paramilitary as- sues concerning Pakistan sponsored ons smuggling from Iran, and liki to enter politics. Al Maliki’s an-sponsored terrorism. Despite pre-eminent position for con- withdrawal from all disputed es due to a lack of clean water, sets. Is the world ready for when Consulate in Jalalabad attacks against American troops. patronage of sectarian militias, Hezbollah being responsible for solidating their stranglehold on territories, only for Abadi to while politicians compete over veteran terrorists like Al-Khaza- @ForeignOfficePk terrorism These documents show how while undermining the military the 1980s killing and kidnapping Iraq. If they fail to obtain po - prohibit these redeployments. A ministerial posts offering the li, Soleimani and Hassan Nasral- Al Khazali spent hours plotting by distributing commanding of hundreds of Westerners, and decades serving Tehran’s agen- sonal experience what these mili- of a US soldier by an Iranian-pro- sitions, they will enjoy greater succession of mysterious explo- most potential for corrupt gain. lah stage a return to what they 02 with his US captors about how posts to his corrupt cronies, pre- its current role in the global nar- da. Don’t buy into their televized tants were capable of. So why did duced explosive device late last freedom to undermine the status sions recently destroyed weap- Militant encroachment into do best? to undermine his former patron, cipitated the army’s disintegra- cotics trade, many regard it as a platitudes — look at their actual nobody take the risk of empower- year is an unambiguous message quo through a return to terror- ons depots belonging to Al-Sa- the economic and reconstruc- Muqtada Al-Sadr. Al-Khazali’s tion. legitimate political actor. Com- record of war crimes and ter - ing an army of known terrorists that a return to such attacks is a ism and insurgency. dr’s “Peace Brigades.” tion sector, and social, theolog- (Baria Alamuddin is an award-win- paramilitary colleagues must, Although Al Hashd Al Shaabi placent Western mandarins keep rorism. seriously? These militia leaders genuine prospect. After months of America’s It is little surprise that the Shi- ical and propagandistic activ- ning journalist and broadcaster in the meanwhile, be furious at his de- supposedly came into existence assuring me that figures like Hadi US generals David Petraeus, even boast that “confrontation Reports that Iran is supply- Baghdad envoy cozying up to Al- ite south recently erupted in pro- ities are further steps toward Middle East and the UK. She is editor of tailed exposure of their com - after Daesh’s 2014 invasion of Al-Amiri are committed Iraqi na- George W. Casey and Stanley A. with the American forces may ing offensive ballistic missiles to Hashd warlords like Al-Amiri, tests, with anger directed against the “Hezbollahization” of Iraq. the Media Services Syndicate and has plicity in Tehran-sponsored Mosul, the principal Al Hashd tionalists, despite spending four McChrystal all warned from per- begin at any moment.” The killing these militias set a further lethal senior US official Brett McGurk the offices of Iranian proxy forc- These proxies have also declared interviewed numerous heads of state.) appy Labor Day! HOur country is do- ing better than ever be- CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE fore with unemployment setting record lows. The U.S. has tremendous up- The religion of whiteness becomes a suicide cult Strict action needed side potential as we go about fixing some of the worst Trade Deals ever against serial burglars made by any country in A wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics puts the world in grave danger the world. Big progress being made! @realDonaldTrump lating once again between the core powerful whites and those rendered quell mutinous natives. Mr. Murray, the British century’s imperial archive of racial have been residing in Bah- which basically means that and periphery of the greatest modern superfluous by industrial capitalism. A broad range of figures in the An- journalist, thinks Mr. knowledge, according to which the Irain with my family for the they were observing us and empire. “The fundamental question Exclusion or degradation of non - glosphere’s establishment, including swarthy enemy was subhuman, in- last 13 years. I have been happy keeping a track of our daily 03 of our time is whether the West has white peoples seemed one way of se- some of Mr. Trump’s most ostenta- Trump is “reminding the viting extreme and lawless violence. living in this beautiful country activities. This scares me to the will to survive,” President Trump curing dignity for those marginalized tious critics today, contributed ma- West of what is great about The rapid contraction of suffrage enjoying the many privileges the core to know that me and said last year in a speech hailed by the by economic and technological shifts. nure to the soil in which Trumpism ourselves.” The Canadian rights witnessed in early-20th-centu- the country offered. I would my family are been constantly PANKAJ MISHRA British journalist Douglas Murray, The political climate was prepared flourishes. Cheered on by the Mur- YouTube personality Jordan ry America is now mimicked by Re- always believe that my family watched by some bad guys. the Canadian columnist Mark Steyn by intellectuals with clear-cut racial doch press, Tony Blair tried to deep- Peterson claims that publican attempts to disenfranchise was safe and secure. My happy 2. They didn’t break-in to hite men,” an obscure and the American editor Rich Lowry. theories, such as Brooks Adams, a en Britain and America’s “special his loathing of “identity nonwhite voters. The Australian law- and safe world came to a stand- our house, but they broke the Australian academic More recently, Mr. Trump tweeted Boston Brahmin friend of Roosevelt, relationship” in Iraq. Leaders of Aus- politics” would have driven maker who recently urged a “final still in July when I walked into cup-board. They exactly went once told someone “Wnamed Charles Henry (falsely) about “large-scale killing” and Charles B. Davenport, the leading tralia and Canada also eagerly helped him to vote for Mr. Trump. solution” for Muslim immigrants my house that was burgled. to the place where the jewel- Iquite senior at Face- Pearson predicted in his 1893 book of white farmers in South Africa — a American exponent of eugenics. In with the torture, rendition and exter- was only slightly out of tune with On July 13, we went out for lery was kept and didn’t dis- book that I didn’t use “National Life and Character: A Fore- preoccupation, deepened by Rupert Australia, Pearson’s social Darwin- mination of black and brown brutes. public debate about immigration in dinner. We left the house at turb any other room, probably the product much. Their cast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, Murdoch’s media, of white suprem- ism was amplified by media barons Not surprisingly, these chieftains of Australia. Hate crimes continue to 8.15pm and were back at 11 pm. they would have been interact- reply; “but how do you and perhaps even thrust aside” by acists around the world. like Keith Murdoch (father of Ru - white settler colonies are fierce cul- rise across the United States, Britain We saw the front door open; it ing with our maids and house- keep in touch with your people they had long regarded as To understand the rapid main - pert and a stalwart of the eugenics tural warriors; they are all affiliated and Canada. More ominously, de - never crossed our mind that keepers and getting informa- global community?” This their inferiors — “black and yellow streaming of white supremacism in movement) and institutionalized in with private donors who build plat- mographic, economic and political our house could be burgled as tion directly or indirectly. really baffled me. I said races.” China, in particular, would English-speaking liberal democra- a “White Australia” policy that re- forms where political correctness, decline, and the loss of intellectual we always believed to be liv- For a family like mine living I don’t have one. I have be a major threat. Pearson, prone cies today, we must examine the ex- stricted “colored” migration for most Islam and feminism are excoriated, Mr. Trump is “reminding the West of hegemony, have plunged many long- ing in a safe and secure place. in a foreign country, leading friends, and family. to terrors of racial extinction while perience of unprecedented global of the 20th century. Anti-minority and Canada not only humiliated the knowledge and technologies that the facts of injustice and inequality what is great about ourselves.” The term winners of history into a venge- Then my husband went to the a middle class life, this is our @BenedictEvans living in a settler colony in an Asian migration and racial mixing in the passions in the United States peaked many Asians and Africans demanding animated white men’s countries and denied, chests thumped about a su- Canadian YouTube personality Jor- ful despair. bedroom to see to his utter life savings. These savings are neighborhood, thought it was imper- Anglosphere in the late 19th century: with the 1924 immigration law (much self-determination; they also jointly their strategies of exclusion, depor- perior but sadly imperiled Western dan Peterson claims that his loathing A century ago, the mere suspicion shock that the cupboard was the fruit of our sweat and toil. 04 ative to defend “the last part of the countries such as the United States admired by Hitler and, more recently, defeated an attempt by Japan, their tation and segregation.” Mr. Trump, civilization, and fraternal sympathy of “identity politics” would have driv- of being thrust aside by black and broken and our entire gold I find it very hard to accept world, in which the higher races can and Australia where, as Roosevelt by Jeff Sessions), which impeded wartime ally, to have a racial equality for instance, has chosen Australia’s extended to Israel, the world’s last en him to vote for Mr. Trump. yellow peoples sparked apocalyp - jeweler was stolen. Never in it that this is just a burglary live and increase freely, for the higher wrote admiringly in 1897, “democ- Jewish immigrants and barred Asians clause included in the Covenant of brutal but popular immigration pol- active settler-colonialist project. Other panicky white bros not only tic visions of “race suicide.” Today, my wildest dream did I think and I have lost all my savings. civilization.” racy, with the clear instinct of race entirely. By the early 20th century, the League of Nations. icies as a model: “That is a good idea. Emotional incontinence rather virulently denounce identity politics the “preponderance of China” that that our house will be burgled. I shall provide all assistance His prescriptions for racial self-de- selfishness, saw the race foe, and kept violence against indigenous peoples, The exposure of Nazi crimes, fol- We should do that too,” he said in than style or wit marks such gilded and political correctness — code for Pearson predicted is becoming a re- It’s been over a month, we the authorities need to inves- fense thunderously echoed around out the dangerous alien.” It is in the immigrants and African-Americans lowed by decolonization and civil January 2017 to Malcolm Turnbull, networks of white power. For the An- historically scorned peoples’ daring ality, and the religion of whiteness don’t have any updates. As the tigate this case and shall do the white Anglosphere, the commu- motherlands of democracy rather reached a new ferocity, and nativist rights movements, generally discred- Australia’s prime minister at the time, glosphere originally forged and unit- to propose norms about how they increasingly resembles a suicide cult. police were carrying out their everything within my limits nity of men with shared historical than in fascist Europe that racial and racist demagogues entrenched a ited quasi-scientific racism and stig- as he explained his tactic of locking ed by the slave trade and colonialism are treated; they also proclaim ever Mr. Trump’s trade wars, sanctions, investigation, I was doing try- to find justice. I request all you ery much worth ties to Britain. Theodore Roosevelt, hierarchies first defined the modern politics of dispossession, segregation matized overt expressions of white up refugees on remote islands. “You is in terminal crisis today. Whiteness more rowdily that the (white) West border walls, deportations, denatu- ing to gather as much as infor- to be vigilant and to provide Vreading, by @Dan- who held a complacent 19th-centu- world. It is also where a last-ditch and disenfranchisement. supremacism. In our own time, global are worse than I am,” Mr. Trump told denoted, as Du Bois wrote, “the own- was, and is, best. “It is time to make ralisations and other 11th-hour bat- mation from my end. I found your assistance to make our ielJHannan. “The danger.. ry faith, buttressed by racist pseu - and potentially calamitous battle to Seeking to maintain white power capitalism has promised to build a Mr. Turnbull. ership of the earth forever and ever.” the case for colonialism again,” Bruce tles seem to push us all closer to the out that my house was not the community a safer place. is that American conserv- doscience, that nonwhite peoples preserve them is being fought today. globally, Roosevelt helped transform colorblind world through econom- If right-wing Australian politicians But many descendants of the land- Gilley, a Canadian academic, recently “terrible probability” James Baldwin only house that was burgled in Since these robbers are not atives will abandon their were hopelessly inferior, reported This “race selfishness” was sharp- the United States into a major im- ic integration. But as revolts erupt were among the first to mainstream lords of the earth find themselves asserted and promptly shot to mar- once outlined: that the rulers of the the recent times. There have caught, each time they are get- traditional elevation of to Pearson the “great effect” of his ened in the late 19th century, as the perialist power. Woodrow Wilson, against globalization in its latest, a belligerent white nationalism, the besieged both at home and abroad, tyrdom in the far-right constellation “higher races,” “struggling to hold been similar incidents where- ting bolder and encouraged to character, civility and de- book among “all our men here in elites of the “higher races” struggled too, worked to preserve, as he put more disruptive phase, politicians periodicals and television channels of their authority as overlords, police- as a victim of politically correct criti- on to what they have stolen from in the robbers have entered attempt a bigger crime. They cency in the name of pro- Washington.” to contain mass disaffection gen - it, “white civilization and its dom- and pundits in the Anglosphere are Rupert Murdoch have worked over- men and interpreters of the globe cism. Such busy recyclers of Western their captives, and unable to look the house and stolen the gold are moving around freely tecting a man who cannot In the years that followed, politi- erated by the traumatic change of ination of the planet” even as he again scrambling to rebuild political time to preserve the alliance between increasingly challenged. supremacism, many of whom uphold into their mirror, will precipitate a jewelry and other valuables. probably we are seeing them or remain in power for more cians and pundits in Britain and its globalization: loss of jobs and liveli- patented the emollient rhetoric of communities around what W. E.B. Du capital and mob in the Anglosphere. Mr. Trump appears to some of a disgraced racial pseudoscience, chaos throughout the world which, if Here are some of the things rather interacting with them than a few short years.” settler colonies of Australia, Canada hoods amid rapid economic growth liberal internationalism that many Bois in 1910 identified as “the new Indulged by Mr. Murdoch’s news - these powerful but insecure men remind us that history often repeats it does not bring life on this planet to that are worth noting:- on daily basis………..It’s really @BillKristol and the United States would jointly and intensified movements of capital, in the American political and me - religion of whiteness.” papers, writers like Bernard Lewis, as an able-bodied defender of the itself as intellectual farce. an end, will bring about a racial war 1. These robbers they tar- scary and something that can- forge an identity geopolitics of the goods and labor. For fearful ruling dia establishment still parrot. At the The intellectual white web orig- Niall Ferguson, David Frum, Andrew “higher races.” The Muslim-baiting The low comedy of charlatanry, such as the world has never seen.” get their victims. We hadn’t not accepted. This should be Disclaimer: (Views expressed “higher races.” Today it has reached classes, political order depended post-World War I Paris Peace Confer- inally woven in late-19th-century Sullivan and Andrew Roberts repeat- British Conservative politician Boris however, should not distract us from planned our dinner that night, taken up seriously. by columnists are personal and its final and most desperate phase, on their ability to forge an alliance ence, which Wilson supervised, the Australia vibrates once more with edly urged American neoconserv- Johnson says that he is “increasing- the lethal dangers of a wounded and so nobody knew about it, Leeba Chendurty need not necessarily reflect our with existential fears about endan- between, as Hannah Arendt wrote, leaders of Britain, the United States, what the historians Marilyn Lake atives after the Sept. 11 attacks to take ly admiring of Donald Trump.” Mr. swaggering identity geopolitics. The (Pankaj Mishra, a contributing opinion editorial stances) writer, is the author, most recently, of “Age gered white power feverishly circu- “capital and mob,” between rich and Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Henry Reynolds termed “racial up the aging white man’s burden and Murray, the British journalist, thinks war on terror reactivated the 19th of Anger: A History of the Present.”) Letters to editor can be sent at [email protected]. Hon. Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Editor-in-Chief Mahmood AI Mahmood | Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ahdeya Ahmed | Chairman & Managing Editor 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 TODAY 1948 1970 1972 1998 DAY IN ?? Queen Wilhelmina of the ?? Salvador Allende is elected ?? 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West in denial about the ‘Hezbollahization’ of Iraq TOP TWEETS4 precedent. These militants also belatedly joined efforts to broker With Hezbollah acting as a their readiness for deployment claim to be manufacturing their a center ground coalition. Even if mercenary force in Syria and as a regional force. For decades, own rockets. Exactly as hap - Al-Hashd only obtains a foothold dominating the state infra- Lebanese citizens and foreign pened with Hezbollah, Tehran’s in government, such as retaining diplomats bought into the fiction ayatollahs hope to discreetly the interior ministry, this would structure, it is perhaps too that Hezbollah served a national 01 build up these arsenals, provid- maintain its dominance over the late for Lebanon. But there agenda as a bulwark against Isra- ing the capacity to strike Arab, security forces, while blocking is still time to take Iraq away el. With Hezbollah now acting as Israeli or Western cities — just the pressure for paramilitary de- from Iran’s embrace. a mercenary force in Syria and as hundreds of Iranian missiles mobilization. dominating the state infrastruc- have been fired into Saudi Arabia Soleimani has been energeti- ture, it is perhaps too late for by Houthi proxies. cally sabotaging Al-Sadr’s efforts Lebanon. However, there is still These militias have recently to form a government, includ- time to take Baghdad away from fghan FM Rabbani been keeping a relatively low ing through undermining Prime Tehran’s embrace. Acalled FM Qureishi. profile to avoid exclusion from Minister Haider Abadi’s elec- As the reimposed US sanctions FM reiterated Pakistan’s the political process. Once a gov- toral alliance. Abadi just sacked bite, Iran is consolidating its re- commitment towards erning coalition is formed, they National Security Adviser Falih gional gains and mobilizing its peace and stability in will feel little such constraint Al-Fayyadh after he went be - proxies in an offensive posture. Afghanistan. Both sides from returning to sectarian kill- hind Abadi’s back and realigned These sanctions threaten to agreed on continued co- ings and striking Western tar- his faction with Al-Hashd. To es. Impoverished citizens living make Tehran’s leadership even operation under APAPPS gets. If Al-Hashd factions win win over Kurdish and Sunni par- on top of immense oil reserves more ruthless in exploiting its and to resolve security is- Cabinet seats, they will have a ties, Al-Hashd began a unilateral are dying of infectious diseas- transnational paramilitary as- sues concerning Pakistan pre-eminent position for con- withdrawal from all disputed es due to a lack of clean water, sets. Is the world ready for when Consulate in Jalalabad solidating their stranglehold on territories, only for Abadi to while politicians compete over veteran terrorists like Al-Khaza- @ForeignOfficePk Iraq. If they fail to obtain po - prohibit these redeployments. A ministerial posts offering the li, Soleimani and Hassan Nasral- of a US soldier by an Iranian-pro- sitions, they will enjoy greater succession of mysterious explo- most potential for corrupt gain. lah stage a return to what they 02 duced explosive device late last freedom to undermine the status sions recently destroyed weap- Militant encroachment into do best? year is an unambiguous message quo through a return to terror- ons depots belonging to Al-Sa- the economic and reconstruc- that a return to such attacks is a ism and insurgency. dr’s “Peace Brigades.” tion sector, and social, theolog- (Baria Alamuddin is an award-win- genuine prospect. After months of America’s It is little surprise that the Shi- ical and propagandistic activ- ning journalist and broadcaster in the Reports that Iran is supply- Baghdad envoy cozying up to Al- ite south recently erupted in pro- ities are further steps toward Middle East and the UK. She is editor of ing offensive ballistic missiles to Hashd warlords like Al-Amiri, tests, with anger directed against the “Hezbollahization” of Iraq. the Media Services Syndicate and has these militias set a further lethal senior US official Brett McGurk the offices of Iranian proxy forc- These proxies have also declared interviewed numerous heads of state.) appy Labor Day! HOur country is do- ing better than ever be- CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE fore with unemployment setting record lows. The U.S. has tremendous up- The religion of whiteness becomes a suicide cult Strict action needed side potential as we go about fixing some of the worst Trade Deals ever against serial burglars made by any country in A wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics puts the world in grave danger the world. Big progress being made! @realDonaldTrump quell mutinous natives. Mr. Murray, the British century’s imperial archive of racial have been residing in Bah- which basically means that A broad range of figures in the An- journalist, thinks Mr. knowledge, according to which the Irain with my family for the they were observing us and glosphere’s establishment, including swarthy enemy was subhuman, in- last 13 years. I have been happy keeping a track of our daily 03 some of Mr. Trump’s most ostenta- Trump is “reminding the viting extreme and lawless violence. living in this beautiful country activities. This scares me to tious critics today, contributed ma- West of what is great about The rapid contraction of suffrage enjoying the many privileges the core to know that me and nure to the soil in which Trumpism ourselves.” The Canadian rights witnessed in early-20th-centu- the country offered. I would my family are been constantly flourishes. Cheered on by the Mur- YouTube personality Jordan ry America is now mimicked by Re- always believe that my family watched by some bad guys. doch press, Tony Blair tried to deep- Peterson claims that publican attempts to disenfranchise was safe and secure. My happy 2. They didn’t break-in to en Britain and America’s “special his loathing of “identity nonwhite voters. The Australian law- and safe world came to a stand- our house, but they broke the relationship” in Iraq. Leaders of Aus- politics” would have driven maker who recently urged a “final still in July when I walked into cup-board. They exactly went once told someone tralia and Canada also eagerly helped solution” for Muslim immigrants my house that was burgled. to the place where the jewel- Iquite senior at Face- with the torture, rendition and exter- him to vote for Mr. Trump. was only slightly out of tune with On July 13, we went out for lery was kept and didn’t dis- book that I didn’t use mination of black and brown brutes. public debate about immigration in dinner. We left the house at turb any other room, probably the product much. Their Not surprisingly, these chieftains of Australia. Hate crimes continue to 8.15pm and were back at 11 pm. they would have been interact- reply; “but how do you white settler colonies are fierce cul- rise across the United States, Britain We saw the front door open; it ing with our maids and house- keep in touch with your tural warriors; they are all affiliated and Canada. More ominously, de - never crossed our mind that keepers and getting informa- global community?” This with private donors who build plat- mographic, economic and political our house could be burgled as tion directly or indirectly. really baffled me. I said forms where political correctness, decline, and the loss of intellectual we always believed to be liv- For a family like mine living I don’t have one. I have Islam and feminism are excoriated, Mr. Trump is “reminding the West of hegemony, have plunged many long- ing in a safe and secure place. in a foreign country, leading friends, and family. the facts of injustice and inequality what is great about ourselves.” The term winners of history into a venge- Then my husband went to the a middle class life, this is our @BenedictEvans denied, chests thumped about a su- Canadian YouTube personality Jor- ful despair. bedroom to see to his utter life savings. These savings are perior but sadly imperiled Western dan Peterson claims that his loathing A century ago, the mere suspicion shock that the cupboard was the fruit of our sweat and toil. 04 civilization, and fraternal sympathy of “identity politics” would have driv- of being thrust aside by black and broken and our entire gold I find it very hard to accept extended to Israel, the world’s last en him to vote for Mr. Trump. yellow peoples sparked apocalyp - jeweler was stolen. Never in it that this is just a burglary active settler-colonialist project. Other panicky white bros not only tic visions of “race suicide.” Today, my wildest dream did I think and I have lost all my savings. Emotional incontinence rather virulently denounce identity politics the “preponderance of China” that that our house will be burgled. I shall provide all assistance than style or wit marks such gilded and political correctness — code for Pearson predicted is becoming a re- It’s been over a month, we the authorities need to inves- networks of white power. For the An- historically scorned peoples’ daring ality, and the religion of whiteness don’t have any updates. As the tigate this case and shall do glosphere originally forged and unit- to propose norms about how they increasingly resembles a suicide cult. police were carrying out their everything within my limits ed by the slave trade and colonialism are treated; they also proclaim ever Mr. Trump’s trade wars, sanctions, investigation, I was doing try- to find justice. I request all you ery much worth is in terminal crisis today. Whiteness more rowdily that the (white) West border walls, deportations, denatu- ing to gather as much as infor- to be vigilant and to provide Vreading, by @Dan- denoted, as Du Bois wrote, “the own- was, and is, best. “It is time to make ralisations and other 11th-hour bat- mation from my end. I found your assistance to make our ielJHannan. “The danger.. ership of the earth forever and ever.” the case for colonialism again,” Bruce tles seem to push us all closer to the out that my house was not the community a safer place. is that American conserv- But many descendants of the land- Gilley, a Canadian academic, recently “terrible probability” James Baldwin only house that was burgled in Since these robbers are not atives will abandon their lords of the earth find themselves asserted and promptly shot to mar- once outlined: that the rulers of the the recent times. There have caught, each time they are get- traditional elevation of besieged both at home and abroad, tyrdom in the far-right constellation “higher races,” “struggling to hold been similar incidents where- ting bolder and encouraged to character, civility and de- their authority as overlords, police- as a victim of politically correct criti- on to what they have stolen from in the robbers have entered attempt a bigger crime. They cency in the name of pro- men and interpreters of the globe cism. Such busy recyclers of Western their captives, and unable to look the house and stolen the gold are moving around freely tecting a man who cannot increasingly challenged. supremacism, many of whom uphold into their mirror, will precipitate a jewelry and other valuables. probably we are seeing them or remain in power for more Mr. Trump appears to some of a disgraced racial pseudoscience, chaos throughout the world which, if Here are some of the things rather interacting with them than a few short years.” these powerful but insecure men remind us that history often repeats it does not bring life on this planet to that are worth noting:- on daily basis………..It’s really @BillKristol as an able-bodied defender of the itself as intellectual farce. an end, will bring about a racial war 1. These robbers they tar- scary and something that can- “higher races.” The Muslim-baiting The low comedy of charlatanry, such as the world has never seen.” get their victims. We hadn’t not accepted. This should be Disclaimer: (Views expressed British Conservative politician Boris however, should not distract us from planned our dinner that night, taken up seriously. by columnists are personal and Johnson says that he is “increasing- the lethal dangers of a wounded and so nobody knew about it, Leeba Chendurty need not necessarily reflect our ly admiring of Donald Trump.” Mr. swaggering identity geopolitics. The (Pankaj Mishra, a contributing opinion editorial stances) writer, is the author, most recently, of “Age Murray, the British journalist, thinks war on terror reactivated the 19th of Anger: A History of the Present.”) Letters to editor can be sent at [email protected]. Hon. 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Duterte apologises for cursing Obama Reporters jailed in Myanmar AFP | Jerusalem Two Reuters journalists have been sentenced to 7 years in jail for reporting on a Rohingya massacre hilippine leader Rodri- Pgo Duterte has apolo- AFP | Yangon, Myanmar gised to former US president Barack Obama for calling wo Reuters journalists him a “son of a whore” in accused of breaching The trial was a 2016, which sparked a new TMyanmar’s state secrets travesty of justice. low in their nations’ long law while reporting on a mas- It sends a message alliance. sacre of Rohingya Muslims were to all journalists in Duterte lobbed the in - jailed for seven years yesterday, Myanmar that they sult in response to steady fuelling international outrage a criticism from the United week after the army was accused cannot operate States over his violent drug of genocide. fearlessly, but crackdown, which has been Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe must rather make a target for international Oo, 28, who have been held in a choice to either condemnation. Yangon’s Insein prison since self-censor or risk However, the Philippine their arrest in December, were prosecution president said his nation’s charged with violating the Of- UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HU- relationship with America ficial Secrets Act, a draconian MAN RIGHTS MICHELLE BACHELET has since improved under British colonial-era law which President Donald Trump, carries a maximum sentence of who he described as a “good 14 years. ‘Sad day for the press’ friend” who “speaks my lan- The case, which sparked an guage”. international outcry, was seen Reuters journalist Wa Lone (C) arrives in court in Yangon on August 27, 2018 to face verdict after months of trial since he Defence lawyer Khin Maung “It would be appropri- as an attempt to muzzle report- was detained on December 12, 2017 Zaw said an appeal would be ate also to say at this time ing on last year’s crackdown by lodged as soon as possible to Mr. Obama that you are Myanmar’s security forces on They had told the court they act,” he told the packed Yangon ant statements on the court against the verdict, which Reu- now a civilian and I am sor- the Muslim Rohingya minority were arrested after being invited court. steps. ters denounced as based on ry for uttering those words,” in Rakhine state. to dinner by police in Yangon, “They are sentenced to seven “The government can detain “false charges”. Duterte said Sunday in a Army-led “clearance opera- who handed them documents. years in prison each,” he said. us in the prison but... don’t close “Today is a sad day for My- speech before Filipinos in tions” drove 700,000 Rohingya As they left the restaurant, the the ears and eyes of the people,” anmar... and the press every- Israel. into Bangladesh, carrying with pair were detained for possess- ‘Face verdict with courage’ Kyaw Soe Oo said. where,” Reuters editor-in-chief them widespread accounts of ing classified material. Kyaw Soe Oo’s wife Chit Su Win Wa Lone, whose wife gave Stephen J. Adler said, adding atrocities -- rape, murder and But Judge Ye Lwin was un- wept after the judge delivered birth to a baby daughter less that the outcome was “designed arson -- by Myanmar police and moved, also choosing to dis - the verdict, collapsing on the than a month ago, gave a defiant to silence their reporting and ‘Very strong’ troops. regard a whistleblowing po - ground in tears as she filed out thumbs up to the massed ranks intimidate the press”. The reporters denied the liceman’s testimony that cor- of the sweltering courtroom of reporters. The UN, the US, the European typhoon Jebi on secrets charges, insisting they roborated their version of along with other shell-shocked “We will face it (the verdict) Union and EU members Britain course to hit Japan were set up while exposing the events. family members, reporters and with stability and courage,” he and France condemned the ver- extrajudicial killing of 10 Ro- “The culprits intended to diplomats. said, before the pair were bun- dict and reiterated calls for the AFP | Tokyo hingya Muslims in the Rakhine harm the interests of the state. The handcuffed pair, both dled into a waiting police van reporters’ release, while rights village of Inn Din in September And so they have been found Myanmar nationals with young and taken back to the notorious groups added their voices to the typhoon that forecast- last year. guilty under the state secrets children, gave brief but defi - Insein prison. chorus of outrage. Aers warned could be the strongest to hit Japan in 25 years barrelled directly to- wards western part of the country yesterday, sparking Eight civilians killed in warnings of violent winds UAE announces names of its and prompting rail opera- Iraq in IS attacks tors to scrap services. Typhoon Jebi is expect- first astronauts to go to space AFP | Samarra, Iraq (15 miles) west of Kirkuk, a ed to make landfall around multi-ethnic city north of midday Tuesday near areas AFP | Dubai uspected Islamic State Baghdad, an official told AFP. still recovering from deadly Sgroup jihadists have killed A police officer was wound- record rains last month. he United Arab Emirates eight people and wounded ed in that attack, which also If it maintains its current Thas selected its first two four others in two attacks in saw jihadists raid a curren - strength of 216 kilometres astronauts to go on a mission to northern Iraq, security offi- cy exchange office and steal (135 miles) per hour, Jebi the International Space Station, cials said yesterday. $20,000 (17,225 euros) before would be the first “very Dubai’s ruler said yesterday. The extremist group has fleeing, he added. strong” typhoon to make Sheikh Mohammed bin stepped up its attacks since Late on Sunday, a man was landfall on Japan since 1993, Rashed al-Maktoum named the release of a purported shot dead and three oth - according to the country’s the new astronauts as Hazza new audio message late last ers were wounded outside a weather bureau. al-Mansouri, 34, and 37-year- month from IS leader Abu Bakr mosque north of Baghdad. old Sultan al-Neyadi. al-Baghdadi. The attack took place in Writing on Twitter, he said Yesterday “seven civilians the village of Khanouka near the duo “raise the bar of ambi- were killed when jihadists Ash-Sharqat, one of the last tions for future Emirati gener- fired on houses in the village areas retaken by government Insider attack ations”. of Albu Shaher”, 25 kilometres forces from IS last year. kills US soldier in Sheikh Mohammed, the UAE’s vice president and prime minis- Afghanistan ter, last year vowed to send four AFP | Kabul Emirati astronauts to the space A photo released by NASA taken from the International Space Station on station within five years. October 7, 2014 UAE postpones Da Vinci US soldier was killed The UAE has its sights set unveiling at Louvre Abu Dhabi Aand another wounded on space with a programme space was Saudi Arabia’s Sultan in an “apparent insider at- worth 20 billion dirhams ($5.4 bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew AFP | Dubai da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi” in tack” in eastern Afghani- billion), according to Sheikh BETTER on a US shuttle mission in 1985. a tweet. stan yesterday, NATO said, Mohammed. Two years later, Syrian air force he UAE said yesterday it “More details will be an - marking the sixth American The oil-rich Gulf nation has pilot Muhammed Faris spent a Thad postponed the unveil- nounced soon,” it said. service member death in the already announced plans to KNOW week aboard the ex-Soviet Un- ing of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s The “Salvator Mundi”, a war-torn country this year. become the first Arab country ion’s Mir space station. most prized acquisition -- a portrait of Jesus Christ paint- The so-called “green-on- to send an unmanned probe to Mansouri and Neyadi, who painting attributed to Leon- ed in 1500, was the only one blue” attack was the latest orbit Mars by 2021, naming it The first Arab were among more than 4,000 ardo da Vinci, bought for a re- of the fewer than 20 paintings in a series of incidents in “Hope”. Emiratis to apply for the pro- cord $450 million. believed to be the work of the which Afghan forces have The astronaut programme in outer space gramme, were chosen after a The painting, which was famed Renaissance Old Master turned their weapons on would make the UAE one of only was Saudi Ara- rigorous vetting procedure. bought last year, had been due still in private hands when it international troops with a handful of states in the Middle bia’s Sultan bin In the long-term, the UAE to be unveiled on September went under the hammer, and whom they are working. East to have sent a person into Salman Al-Saud, says it is planning to build a 18. sold, at Christie’s in November. The last time a US soldier space, as it looks to make good who flew on a US “Science City” to replicate life But Abu Dhabi’s culture and The painting was declared was killed in an insider at- on a pledge to become a global shuttle mission on Mars and aims to create the tourism department yesterday authentic six years ago, after tack was on July 7 in the leader in space exploration. in 1985 first human settlement on the announced “the postponement long being dismissed as a copy country’s south. The first Arab in outer red planet by 2117. of the unveiling of Leonardo by one of Da Vinci’s students. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 13

Kangaroo on the loose in Austria Raging fire tears through AFP | Vienna kangaroo is on the loose Aand has been spotted in forests and meadows in Austria, police said yester- day. prized Rio Museum The animal -- not a na - tive to the central European AFP | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil covered in Brazil, which was country -- has been seen nu- named “Bendego” and weighed merous times since late last massive fire on Sunday 5.3 tons. week in Hellmonsoedt dis- ripped through Rio de Pieces covering a period of trict in Upper Austria state. AJaneiro’s treasured Na- nearly four centuries -- from Police, who have identi- tional Museum, one of Brazil’s the arrival of the Portuguese in fied it to be a kangaroo from oldest, in what the nation’s pres- the 1500s until the declaration photos and videos they re- ident said was a “tragic” loss of of the first Brazilian republic in ceived, are trying to find out knowledge and heritage. 1889 -- were also stored there. who the animal belongs to. The majestic edifice stood “We have called all the engulfed in flames as plumes ‘Culture is grieving’ zoos and kangaroo breed- of smoke shot into the night Brazil’s minister of culture, ers around us, but no one sky, while firefighters battled to Sergio Sa Leitao, tweeted that is missing a kangaroo. We control the blaze that erupted “there will be little or nothing hope the owner will come around 2230 GMT. left of the palace and the ex - forward,” a Hellmonsoedt Five hours later they had man- hibits.” police official told AFP. aged to smother much of the “The loss is irreparable,” he “It sounds unbelievable, inferno that had torn through said. “Culture is grieving. The but it’s true.” hundreds of rooms, but were country is grieving.” Police cannot say what still working to extinguish it A deputy director at the muse- breed the kangaroo is but completely, according to an AFP um, Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, believe there is little to photographer at the scene. voiced “profound discourage- worry about for now -- the By morning the extent of the ment and immense anger” as kangaroo is a “shy animal” loss was still unclear. An aerial view of Rio de Janeiro’s treasured National Museum the day after a massive fire ripped through the building the treasured institution burned, so is unlikely to cause any Firefighters were poised to accusing Brazilian authorities of damage, and “its survival enter the charred ruins to see a “lack of attention.” chances (in the wild) are what might be salvageable, a football stadium, was closed to ed in 1818 by King Joao VI and is lable,” he said. He said the museum, a former perfect”, the official said. fire department spokesman told the public when the fire sparked considered a jewel of Brazilian The collection included art palace that was once the official AFP, adding that it would be dan- from a yet unknown cause. culture, with more than 20 mil- and artifacts from Greco-Ro- residence of the Portuguese roy- gerous. The fire “spread very quickly; lion valuable pieces to its name. man times and Egypt, as well as al family, had never had neces- “The facade is resistant, but there is a lot of inflammable ma- “This is a tragic day for Bra- the oldest human fossil found sary support. Residents trapped a lot of material fell from the terial,” a spokesperson for Rio’s zil,” President Michel Temer within today’s Brazilian borders, “We fought years ago, in dif- roof,” he said. “We are going to fire department told AFP, adding said in a statement. “Two hun- known as “Luzia.” ferent governments, to obtain as clashes rage in proceed with great care, to see if that there were no reports of dred years of work and research The museum also housed the resources to adequately pre- Libya’s Tripoli we can save something.” victims so far. and knowledge are lost.” skeleton of a dinosaur found in serve everything that was de- The museum, located in the The natural history and an- “The loss of the collection of the Minas Gerais region along stroyed today,” Dias Duarte told AFP | Tripoli city’s north near the Maracana thropology museum was found- the National Museum is incalcu- with the largest meteorite dis- journalists. lashes raged yesterday Con the outskirts of Lib- ya’s capital Tripoli trapping residents indoors and ham- Egypt unearths one of its pering rescue efforts, emer- Duterte visits Israel’s gency services said, after oldest Nile Delta villages more than a week of deadly fighting. Clashes since August 27 Holocaust memorial between rival militias in the southern suburbs has AFP | Jerusalem killed at least 47 people and wounded 129 others, most hilippine President Rodri- of them civilians, according Pgo Duterte, who has apol- to an updated toll put out by ogised for comparing himself the health ministry Sunday to Hitler, visited Israel’s Holo- night. caust memorial on Monday and said he hoped the world learned lessons from the “horrific” pe- riod in history. Boko Haram A newly discovered site believed to be one of the oldest known villages on The controversial leader held the Nile Delta talks with Prime Minister Ben- military base attack jamin Netanyahu on the second death toll hits 48 of a four-day visit to Israel, with AFP | Cairo northeastern Egypt, the min- defence deals and other areas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with the AFP | Kano, Nigeria istry said Sunday. of cooperation on the agenda. president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte ne of the oldest villages Similar structures dating to All visiting leaders pay their orty-eight soldiers were Oin the Nile Delta has been the period between 4,200 BC respects at Yad Vashem Holo- He spoke twice during his would like to say that we are Fkilled in a Boko Haram discovered after archaeolo- and 2,900 BC “have never been caust memorial in Jerusalem, visit to the solemn memorial one in saying that this will not attack in remote northeast gists unearthed artefacts dat- found in that region,” said Ay- usually without much fanfare. perched high in Jerusalem’s happen again.” Nigeria, military sources ing to the fifth millenium BC, man Ashmawy, the ministry’s But Duterte’s Hitler remarks hills, saying he “could not im- He later read out what he said yesterday, in the latest Egypt’s antiquities ministry antiquities chief. and other controversial actions, agine a country obeying an in- wrote in the memorial’s guest strike that raises questions has said. The only similar discovery including his internationally sane leader”. book, saying “may the world about the group’s apparent Remains of the village were has been the village of Sais, in condemned drug crackdown “And I could not ever fathom learn the lessons of this horrific resurgence and troops’ abil- uncovered by a French-Egyp- the Gharbia governorate north that has killed thousands, had the spectacle of a human being and benighted period of human ity to fight back. tian team at Tel Samara, in of Cairo, Ashmawi added. led to increased attention. going into a killing spree... I history.” Scores of jihadist fighters in trucks stormed the base on Thursday in Zari village in northern Borno state and briefly seized it after a fierce battle. Russian TV launches new show as Putin’s ratings fall Boko Haram, which has been waging a deadly insur- AFP | Moscow inates state news bulletins but Dmitry Peskov said yesterday. gency in northeast Nigeria Rossiya 1’s hour-long show “It is important for us that since 2009, has intensified ussian Kremlin-controlled “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” pro- information about the president attacks on “hard” military Rtelevision has launched a vides a new format to showcase and his work schedule is shown targets in recent months, new weekly show dedicated to his activities. correctly and without distor- undermining repeated President Vladimir Putin in an The previously unannounced tion,” he said. claims by the military that apparent attempt to stem a ma- show comes as Putin faces a re- Peskov added that Putin him- they have the upper hand. jor fall in his approval ratings. cord fall in his approval ratings self does not plan to take part in Troops have even protest- The first episode, which aired as a result of a deeply unpopular the programme. ed that they are stretched to Sunday on the Rossiya 1 channel, pension reform that saw thou- But Peskov did take part in breaking point by constant showed the long-serving leader sands of Russians take to the the first episode, interviewed by security duties and the at- picking mushrooms in Siberia streets in protest. pro-Kremlin presenter Vladimir tacks that analysts tracking and in meetings with miners and “This is the project of (state Solovyev, and praised Putin’s the conflict say have be - schoolchildren. TV company) VGTRK, not the personal and professional come more sophisticated The president already dom- Russian President Vladimir Putin Kremlin’s,” Putin’s spokesman achievements. and planned. 14 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 features Breaking the gender stereotype

Femapalooza, a comedy show for Indian women, has held more than 35 shows in different cities over the past three years, providing what its founder Jeeya Sethi calls a safe and friendly environment An Indian stand-up comedian Naomi Barton performs at Femapalooza, an Indian women-only comedy show, in New for women comics Delhi. - AFP

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en are strictly banned at Femapalooza, a comedy show for In- dian women where the punchlines range Mfrom breasts and bras to equal pay and censorship. They are not allowed to attend, per- form, or even check tickets at the most recent show at a New Delhi club. For Femapalooza founder Jeeya Sethi, humour just for women is a way to make progress in deeply patriarchal India, where rape and gender bias are hot-button issues and women are wide- ly expected to adhere to conservative stereotypes. “Men only talk about men, (Indi - an Prime Minister Narendra) Modi Women laugh during a show. - AFP A woman in splits applauds during ahead of a show in New Delhi. - AFP and masturbation, or they make sexist jokes,” said Sethi, a stand-up comic herself. lore. audiences. of women to have made an impression the women-only events, even calling Femapalooza has organised more Women-only shows such as “Led- “The energy in the room is different,” in India’s male-dominated comedy them sexist, Sethi said. than 35 shows in different cities over dis Night” by online magazine Ladies she said. “Women are always told they scene. In response, her company Comedy the past three years, providing what Finger and “Disgust Me” by stand-up are not funny and that is not true at all.” Mittal has a special affection for Ladder organised an event where both Sethi calls a safe and friendly environ- comedian Sumukhi Suresh have been women-only shows. men and women performed. ment for women comics. widely acclaimed. No pressure “Many men think women are doing The show introduced men as male “Stand-up is all about being una - At Femapalooza’s New Delhi show, 13 First-time performer Naomi Barton stand-up comedy because they are so comics on stage and women simply as bashed. When there are comedians, aged between said she is more comfortable sharing desperate for attention... Some even say comics, Sethi said, to show “how weird women around you can 17 and 37, tried out their her jokes with a women-only crowd, ‘don’t you get enough attention from it sounds”. say anything at all and jokes on an audience of with no pressure to please men. your boobs’,” quipped Mittal, the first Femapalooza’s audience has grown not be judged,” she said. around 30 women in an in- “When I talk about PMS (premen- Indian woman to get her own special as word has spread. It does not always Rights activists have Stand-up is all timate, dimly lit room. strual syndrome) and how it affects my on Netflix. get a five-star rating, however. campaigned for years for about being Some appeared nervous, mental health, landing me in funny situ- Comedy in India can be a boys’ club, “It was a novel concept but only a few greater access to public unabashed. but the crowd revelled in ations, a woman will get it,” said Barton, acknowledged leading male stand-up interesting performances... there were and performing spaces every woman-friendly gag. a digital publisher with a major firm. Rohan Joshi, a member of the popular many first-timers,” said Deepshikha for women in India -- When there are Priya Elias vented her As in many countries, public discus- All India Bakchod sketch group. Singh, a communications professional and their safety, given women around frustration with thongs. sion of menstruation and sexuality is “We live in a culture where for years in the New Delhi audience. the record of violence you can say “Women don’t enjoy wear- replete with euphemisms. women’s opinion has never been val- As the evening drew to a close, fa- against women in the anything at ing thongs... I am pretty At the New Delhi show, Sethi asked ued. This is at the heart of comedy,” said thers and husbands lined up outside the vast South Asian nation. all and not be sure a man invented them,” some teenagers if they understood her Joshi. Platforms such as Femapalooza club to drive members of the audience Some have emerged in judged the former lawyer joked. joke about “the bedroom toy”. have helped bring more women onto back home, partly out of concerns for recent years, with simi- She told AFP that her As the teenagers blushed and smiled, the comedy circuit, but there have been their safety -- a stark reminder that for JEEYA SETHI lar comedy events held FEMAPALOOZA FOUNDER content is received much she introduced the surprise act of the objections about its format. many women in India, life is often no in Mumbai and Banga- more warmly by all-women evening: Aditi Mittal, one of the handful Male comics have complained about laughing matter. 15 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 entertainment

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Aries Upsets in the home or neighbourhood could lead to a sudden decision to move, causing a great deal of activity. You might not yet be sure where you’re going. Organization and discipline are vital at times like this. It might be helpful to make lists and cross off each task as you finish it. Don’t panic. Taurus You could get upsetting news regarding your job. There could be a shakeup in the hierarchy or someone in a position of authority could abruptly leave. You and your co-workers could have some momentary fears about job security, but the they’re probably unwarrant- ed. Your security will survive these events. Gemini Expect to fall in love at first sight today. Someone new will come on the scene and you’ll feel an instant attrac- pipe; 46- “Fighting” Big Ten team; 47- City on the Rhone; 48- tion. Whether it turns into anything lasting or not isn’t Afternoon affairs; 49- Contemplation; 54- Silent; 55- Mellow certain, but whatever happens, you’ll remember this Mel; 56- Fortuneteller’s start; 57- French summers; 58- Did a person for a long time! You may also have a sudden blacksmith’s job; 59- Preserve with salt; interest in new forms of artistic expression. Down Cancer Across 1- Coal scuttle; 2- Hail, to Caesar; 3- Kind of reaction; 4- Level; 5- The wonders of technology may come to your home Clockwise; 6- Caper; 7- Mai ___; 8- DDE’s bailiwick; 9- Condemn today. You might purchase some new equipment like 1- Witches; 5- Outmoded; 10- Pitchfork-shaped letters; 14- Egg; publicly; 10- Flat-bladed oar; 11- Ladderlike; 12- Like some vbs.; a computer or phone, or decide to go for a state-of- 15- Related on the mother’s side; 16- Area of 4840 square yards; 13- Have a feeling about; 18- Nostrils; 22- Shoppe sign word; 23- the-art home entertainment centre. Whichever it is, 17- Explosion; 19- Mend socks; 20- Watering hole; 21- Large Diving bird; 24- Brother of Moses; 25- Sparkle; 26- Swedish im- expect a lot of activity in and around your home as quantity; 23- Pertaining to the stomach; 26- Sewage; 27- Ja- ports; 28- Flash of light; 30- Entreaties; 32- Street show; 33- Dadaist friends come to see your new toys. cob’s favorite wife; 28- Male goose; 29- Great Lakes tribesmen; Max; 35- Foretells; 36- Pert. to the sense of hearing; 38- Z ___ zebra; 30- Position; 31- Wrath; 34- City on the Rhine; 35- Common 39- Cop ___; 41- Sounds; 42- Cured, in a way; 43- Blackjack request; Leo person of ancient Rome; 36- At a distance; 37- Med. specialty; 44- Aboriginal Alaskan; 45- Serious wrongdoing; 47- Farming pre- Valuable and interesting information could come your 38- Bailiwicks; 39- Squirrel’s prize; 40- Pants measurement; 42- fix; 50- That’s gotta hurt!; 51- Terre Haute sch.; 52- ___ the fields way through modern technology. You might discover Future ferns; 43- Saltlike compounds; 45- Ornamented tobacco we go...; 53- Miss-named?; new information online that awakens an exciting new interest in you, perhaps related to the sciences, occult, BEETLE BAILEY or metaphysics. You could even discover a talent for astrology. Group activities may also be appealing now. Virgo Finances could take on a new dimension as you look to technology to help you increase your bank balance. You could decide to invest online or try some new means of recordkeeping. Whatever you try will bode well for your financial future. Expect a lucky break or two as well. Libra Bizarre, unexpected developments might turn your life upside down today. Money could be involved. New people could arrive who open doors that eventually lead to a new life. You could even fall in love at first sight. It isn’t easy to make predictions for a strange day like this. Scorpio WORD OF THE DAY Today you might be fascinated with movies, music, and video. You could discover a new interest in film- making, sound engineering, or videography that you want to pursue. You might decide to read about these ancient Greece. In Homer’s epic The Odys- complete the education of young Telema- fields and apply what you learn to the movies you see Mentor sey, Odysseus was away from home fighting chus, she visited him disguised as Mentor and the music you hear. Definition: and journeying for 20 years. During that and they set out together to learn about his 1 : a trusted counselor or guide time, Telemachus, the son he left as a babe father. Today, we use the word mentor for Sagittarius 2 : tutor, coach in arms, grew up under the supervision of anyone who is a positive, guiding influence You could have a strong urge to seek adventure. You Did You Know? Mentor, an old and trusted friend. When in another (usually younger) person’s life. might want to take a spontaneous trip to an exotic We acquired mentor from the literature of the goddess Athena decided it was time to place, meet new people in exciting fields, or try new pastimes, perhaps as outrageous as skydiving. Go for it if you want, but this urge could indicate boredom in SUDOKU some part of your life. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Capricorn An unexpected career break could come your way. It should be exciting and encouraging - and a little scary! Don’t let apprehension get to you. You won’t want to let this opportunity pass you by. Your good fortune could arouse envy in some of your co-workers, but don’t let this bother you either. Aquarius A trip by air may be in the offing. You may be planning to tour distant states or foreign lands. You could be going with friends or a group you’re associated with. Unusual new interests could capture your attention, enticing you to further study. You might enroll in a workshop. You’re looking toward expanding horizons.

Pisces How to play Unusual experiences may give rise to a new interest in Place a number in the empty boxes in the sciences or occult practices like magic or alchemy. such a way that each row across, each This is an excellent time to start perusing such sub- column down and each 9-box square jects, or embark on a formal study of astrology. A lucky contains all of the numbers from one money break could come your way today. It might be to nine. a gift or a repaid loan. 16 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

KIN 9.00 + 11.00 PM + (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) CRAIG T. NELSON, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, CATHERINE KEENER (PG-15) (THRILLER/ACTION/DRAMA/SCI-FICTION) SAAR 11.30 AM + 1.30 + 3.30 + 5.30 + 7.30 + NEW 9.30 + 11.30 PM CINECO (20) 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + CARRIE COON, JAMES FRANCO, ZOE KRAVITZ 8.30 + 11.00 PM WADI AL SAIL 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + 5.45 + CINECO (20) 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM 11.45 PM + (12.45 MN THURS/FRI) OCEAN’S EIGHT Nick, Priyanka SEEF (II) 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + MILE 22 (PG-15) (COMEDY/CRIME) SANDRA BULLOCK, CATE BLANCHETT, 10.30 PM + (12.45 MN THURS/FRI) (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER) ANNE HATHAWAY MARK WAHLBERG, LAUREN COHAN, IKO UWAIS SAAR 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 CINECO (20) 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 PM CINECO (20) 11.15 AM + 1.15 + 3.15 + 5.15 + 7.15 + 11.15 PM WADI AL SAIL 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 9.15 + 11.15 PM + 11.30 PM SEEF (II) 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + 5.45 + 7.45 + THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME enjoy ‘magical’ 9.45 + 11.45 PM (15+) (ACTION/COMEDY) REPRISAL WADI AL SAIL 8.00 + 10.00 PM + 12.00 MN MILA KUNIS, SAM HEUGHAN, KATE MCKINNON (PG-15) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) NEW CINECO (20) 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + BRUCE WILLIS, FRANK GRILLO, JOHNATHON THE EQUALIZER- 2 8.45 + 11.15 PM SCHAECH (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) CINECO (20) 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + DENZEL WASHINGTON, PEDRO PASCAL, SOUQ AL GOMAA 7.30 + 9.45 PM + 12.00 MN + (12.30 MN THUR/ ASHTON SANDERS getaway ( ) (ARABIC/COMEDY) NEW FRI) (VIP I): 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 CINECO (20) 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 AMR ABDEL-GELEEL, MAHMOUD EL + 11.00 PM + 11.45 PM GENDY, DALAL ABDELAZIZ IANS | Los Angeles SEEF (II) 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + SEEF (II) 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 SEEF (II) 10.45 AM + 3.00 + 7.15 + 11.30 PM 11.45 PM + (1.00 AM THUR/FRI) + 11.15 PM ngaged couple Nick Jo- 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 SATYAMEVA JAYATE SAAR nas and Priyanka Cho- PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT (PG-15) (HINDI/ACTION/THRILLER) WADI AL SAIL 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER/CRIME) JOHN ABRAHAM, MANOJ BAJPAYEE, pra enjoyed the Labour AISHA SHARMA E + 11.15 PM TOM CRUISE, HENRY CAVILL, VING RHAMES Day weekend here at Mammoth CINECO (20) 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + SEEF (II) 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM Mountain, the singer’s favourite SLENDER MAN 11.30 PM getaway. (15+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA PHIR SE SEEF (II) 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + Labour Day in the US is a pub- JOEY KING, JULIA GOLDANI TELLES, 11.00 PM (PG-15) (HINDI/COMEDY/DRAMA) NEW JAZ SINCLAIR DHARMENDRA, SUNNY DEOL, BOBBY DEOL lic holiday celebrated on the CINECO (20) 11.30 AM + 1.30 + 3.30 + 5.30 + HOTELTRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER SEEF (I) 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 first Monday in September. 7.30 + 9.30 + 11.30 PM PM (PG) (ANIMATION/COMEDY/DRAMA) “A man and the mountains. SEEF (II) 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + ADAM SANDLER, ANDY SAMBERG, FRAN Priyanka Chopra,” Nick, 25, 10.00 PM + 12.00 MN DRESCHER STREE captioned a photo taken by his SAAR 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM CINECO (20) 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + (15+) (HINDI/ COMEDY/HORROR) NEW 6.30 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM RAJKUMMAR RAO, SHRADDHA KAPOOR, fiancee on Instagram on Sun- WADI AL SAIL 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + 5.45 + PANKAJ TRIPATHI 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM SEEF (II) 11.00 AM + 3.00 + 7.00 + 11.00 PM day, reports people.com. SEEF (I) 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM In the picture, the pop star THE LITTLE MERMAID SKYSCRAPER MISS GRANNY holds a can of beer as he gazes (PG-13) (ADVENTURE/FAMILY) NEW (PG-13) (ACTION/THRILLERA/DRAMA) at the view. His hiking back- DWAYNE JOHNSON, NEVE CAMPBELL, ( ) (FILIPINO/COMEDY/MUSICAL) NEW WILLIAM MOSELEY, POPPY DRAYTON, SARAH GERONIMO, NOVA VILLA, JAMES REID SHIRLEY MACLAINE PABLO SCHREIBER pack can be seen hung on a tree CINECO (20) 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + 5.45 + SEEF (I) 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 branch. CINECO (20) 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 + PM + 12.00 MN 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM SEEF (II) 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 SEEF (II) 1.00 + 5.15 + 9.30 PM JAWANI PHIR NAHI ANI 2 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM (PG-13) (URDU/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) SAAR 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 PM CHRISTOPHER ROBIN MAWRA HOCANE, KANWALJIT SINGH, (PG) (FAMILY/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) HUMAYUN SAEED WADI AL SAIL 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 PM EWAN MCGREFOR, HAYLEY ATWELL, BRONTE CARMICHAEL SEEF (I) 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM + 12.00 THE MEG MN CINECO (20) 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + KNOW WHAT (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER) 8.45 + 11.00 PM AL HAMRA ON THURSDAY 30TH: 12.00 + 3.00 JASON STATHAM, RUBY ROSE, BINGBING LI + 6.00 + 12.00 MN FROM FRIDAY 31ST: 6.00 + SEEF (II) 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 PM CINECO (20) (IMAX 3D): 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 (12.00 MN FRI) + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) THE DARKEST MINDS (ATMOS): 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 NARTANASALA Priyanka Chopra is Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra PM + 12.00 MN (VIP II): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + (PG-13) (THRILLER/SCI-FICTION) (TELGU) NEW the first-ever Indian 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM AMANDLA STENBERG, MANDY MOORE, NAGA SHAURYA, KASHMIRA, YAMINI, BRADLEY WHITFORD JAYAPRAKASH REDDY, AJAY actor to have her SEEF (II) (12.30 MN THUR/FRI) Meanwhile, Priyanka, 36, to escape and unwind, but CINECO (20) 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 AL HAMRA FROM FRIDAY 31ST: 12.00 NOON SEEF (I) 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM foot impression shared a vacation snapshot of it appears it is the first time + 11.30 PM IMAIKKAA NODIGAL casted in the Sal- her own. he and Priyanka are there WADI AL SAIL 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + CHARMING (TAMIL) NEW vatore Ferragamo “Magical,” the actress wrote together. 8.30 + 11.00 PM (PG-13) (ANIMATION/COMEDY) NAYANTARA, ATHARVSS, RASHI KHANNA, along with an image of the In the past, he has spent DEMI LOVATO, WILMER VALDERRAMA, SIA ANURAG KASHYAP Museum in Italy, view from inside their getaway Thanksgiving there and created EL BADLAH CINECO (20) 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 + AL HAMRA FROM FRIDAY 31ST: 3.00 PM joining the likes of (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY) 6.45 + 8.45 + 10.45 PM Audrey Hepburn and home. much of his sophomore album, TAMER HOSNY, AKRAM HOSNI, MAJED EL ANNANUKKU JEY! Mammoth Mountain has “Last Year Was Complicated” in MASRY, AMINA KHALIL SEEF (II) 1.00 + 5.00 + 9.00 PM (TAMIL) NEW Marliyn Monroe long been a place for Jonas the ski resort town. CINECO (20) 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 THE INCREDIBLES 2 ATTAKATHI DINESH, MAHIMA NAMBIAR, RJ + 10.00 PM + 12.00 MN BALAJI (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) SEEF (I) 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + AL HAMRA 9.00 PM Directing was nerve- NAME CHANGE Bono says ‘back to full I UNNI MADHAV NAYAR, S/O wrecking experience: Elba METHIL KESHAVAN NAYAR voice’, U2 tour will HOLDING INDIAN PASSPORT No. L4930268 ISSUED AT BAHRAIN AFP | Berlin IANS | Los Angeles ON 08.06.2014 HAVING PER- MANENT RESIDENCE AT 17/102, 2 frontman Bono has said ctor Idris Elba says direct- B-0- BUILTECH GREENS,NH 47, ‘Yardie’ is a small MANAPPULLIKAVU, KUNNATHUR Uhe will be “back to full Aing his first movie “Yardie” MEDU, PALAKKAD, KERALA, 678 voice” for the rest of a Euro- was a “nerve-wrecking” expe- project. It’s not 013, PRESENTLY RESIDING AT pean tour after the Irish rock rience. designed to be a HOUSE 772, ROAD 4618, BLOCK band was forced to cancel a gig “’Yardie’ is a small project. big money-making 946, AWALI, KINGDOM OF in Berlin when they were only It’s not designed to be a big film. Of course, this BAHRAIN WILL HENCEFORTH BE a few songs in. money-making film. Of course, KNOWN AS (GIVEN NAME): UNNI is a business and I Thousands of fans were this is a business and I want to MADHAV (SURNAME) NAYAR want to be proud of OBJECTION (S) IF ANY,MAY BE left disappointed on Saturday be proud of it. I think there’s a FORWARDED TO EMBASSY OF night when the band’s set was Bono misconception that the higher it. I think there’s a INDIA, P.O BOX 26106,BLDG abruptly cancelled after Bono you get, the less the success misconception that 1090,ROAD 2819, BLOCK 428,AL appeared to be unable to sing. matters. That’s not true,” Elba the higher you get, SEEF, BAHRAIN “It’s not right for you. It’s “I’ve seen a great doctor and told Irish Times newspaper. the less the success useless,” he told fans from with his care I’ll be back to full “Are you kidding me? I’ve di- matters. That’s not the stage after pausing to voice for the rest of the tour,” rected this thing. I’ve conjured true drink from a thermos be - the 58-year-old singer said. it and to watch it go out into fore the show was eventually “So happy and relieved that the public domain is great. I IDRIS ELBA called off. anything serious has been mean, it’s nerve-wrecking. But The surprise cancellation ruled out.” I can cover up my nerves by just of violence it is. left the remainder of U2’s sev- He added that his joy was ploughing on,” he added. “I had to ask, ‘What am I SITUATION en month “Experience + Inno- “tempered by the knowledge “Yardie” is based on the 1992 Idris Elba saying about this? What am I WANTED cence” tour in doubt. that the Berlin audience were novel of the same name by Vic- saying about this culture?’ The But in a statement released so inconvenienced”. tor Headley, which tells the the new movie, reports female- term ‘yardie’ is a derogatory through his publicist late Sun- But he said the band will story of a young Jamaican who first.co.uk. term in the first place. So the Office Administrator day, Bono said he had recov- return to Berlin at the end of is sent to London to facilitate a He said: “There’s a lot of vi- energy I wanted was cultural (Indian) with 12 years of ered his vocal health and that their tour to play a new gig on drug deal. olent energy in the book that I energy. I wanted to feel like I’ve experience looking for a the tour would continue as November 13th for those who Elba has been determined to was nervous about portraying just gone to Jamaica. I wanted suitable job Tel: 3358 2391. planned. missed out on Saturday. avoid glamourising violence in on screen because of the type to I feel like I’m in the 1980s.” 17 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 sports

Nishikori reaches ASEAN Games to US Open quarter- begin on Sept 7 finals Del Potro roars into TDT | Manama AFP | New York The Association of South- east Asian Nations (ASE- ei Nishikori, vying to AN) will hold ASEAN Games Kimprove on his US Open US Open last-eight 2018 in Manama which will runner-up finish in 2014, begin on September 7 with cruised into the quarter-fi- Table Tennis tournament at nals at Flushing Meadows “There were a lots of ups and the Bahrain National stadi- yesterday with a 6-3, 6-2, Dad-to-be Isner downs in the match. The at - um in Isa Town from 7am 7-5 victory over German • mosphere was like a jungle,” to 6.30pm. Philipp Kohlschreiber. keeps home hopes alive said Isner of the crowd on the The opening ceremony Japan’s Nishikori could new Louis Armstrong Stadium will include teams Parade find himself up against AFP | New York enjoying a raucous Labor Day and Lining Up by all par- Marin Cilic for a place in weekend. ticipating teams and hand- the semi-finals in a rematch ormer champion Juan Isner, 33, who will become a ing over of ASEAN com- of the 2014 championship Martin del Potro cruised father for the first time in two mittee in Manama (ACMB) match won by the Croatian. Finto the quarter-finals of weeks, said he will not fear del from the Philippines to Seventh-seeded Cilic, the US Open on Sunday with a Potro even though he has lost to Thailand. Philippine Am- who survived a five-set 6-4, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Croa- the Argentine star seven times bassador Alphonso A Ver marathon against Australi- tia’s Borna Coric. in 11 meetings. and Thailand Ambassa- an teenager Alex de Minaur The third seeded Argentine Their most recent clash saw dor Thanis Na Songkhla that went into early hours will next face John Isner, the del Potro triumph in straight will speak at the opening of Sunday morning, faced last American man standing, sets in the fourth round at Ro- ceremony. 10th-seeded Belgian David who defeated Milos Raonic land Garros this year. The ACMB was estab - Goffin later yesterday. 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, taking his “Why not me? Let’s keep go- lished after the ASEAN For- Nishikori reached a ca- tournament aces total past the ing,” said Isner after firing 56 eign Ministers approved the reer-high fourth in the 100-mark. winners past Raonic and 20 aces request for the constitution world in 2015, but tumbled Third-seeded del Potro made taking his ace count to a tourna- of the said committee by down the rankings as he was the last-eight for the sixth time ment-leading 112. the Heads of Mission of the sidelined for six months by against Croatian 20th seed Defending champion Rafael ASEAN Member-states ac- a wrist injury that kept him Coric who was playing in his Juan Martin del Potro Nadal reached the quarter-fi- credited to the Kingdom of out of last year’s US Open maiden last 16 of a Slam. nals for the eighth time where Bahrain. and eventually required Coric, 21, saw his challenge he will face Dominic Thiem, Representatives from surgery. undone by a right thigh injury and physical condition,” said years and hailed the patriotic one of only three men to defeat Bahrain’s foreign ministry But he’s made brisk pro- which needed two visits by the del Potro. tournament atmosphere as a him in 2018. also will attend the cere - gress to the quarter-finals, trainer as well as general unhap- “But every round is a battle. I “jungle.” World number one Nadal saw mony. As part of the ASEAN dropping just one set and piness with the humidity of the just hope to keep my level high Isner, the 11th seed, is at - off a battling Nikoloz Basilashvi- Games 2018 the Badminton benefitting from Gael Mon- Arther Ashe court. against John in the next match.” tempting to become the first li, the first Georgian in a fourth tournament will take place fils’s injury retirement in “To win in straight sets in Isner reached the quarter-fi- home winner since Andy Rod- round in New York, 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 on September 14 at Khalifa the second round. every round is good for the body nals for the first time in seven dick in 2003. (6/8), 6-4. Sports City in Isa Town. First Champion from Guyana to Brave CF partners with defend title at Brave 16 Indian Initiative TDT | Manama leagues in India by Brave Combat Fed- TDT | Manama eration. rave Combat Federation an - The initiative will have a signifi - uyana had its first champion Bnounced Mercury Sports Enter- cant impact in providing opportu - Gin mixed martial arts crowned tainment as its official partner and nities for the upcoming athletes as during Brave 8 hosted in Curitiba, promoter in India. well as strengthening relations to de- Brazil. Carlston Harris was crowned Brave 21 will be hosted in India on velop cultural, economic and invest- the champion in the presence of the 21 December flagging off the partner- ment opportunities between the two legend, Wanderlei Silva. ship. The contract signing was held on nations. Harris has a record of 12-3-0 and 29 August at Park Regis Hotel in the Brave Combat Federation is the only have never been submitted or knocked Kingdom of Bahrain. global mixed martial arts organization out in his 15 fight career. He will de- Mohammed Shahid, President of to host events in India till date. The fend the championship against Jarrah Brave Combat Federation made the previous edition was hosted in Mum- Al Selawe who has the longest win announcement at the press conference bai and featured athletes from United streak in the history of Brave Combat which was presided by Akbar Rasheed Kingdom, France, Brazil, Poland, Can- Federation. Drawing parallels to Har- and Vamshi Raju, Founders of Mercu- ada, Netherlands, Philippines, Mexico, ris, Al Selawe has never been submit- ry Sports Entertainment and Aditya Ps, Egypt, Thailand and India. ted in his career. President of All India Mixed Martial Brave Combat Federation is an in- Harris will be returning to action Arts Federation. itiative under His Highness Sheikh after overcoming a career threatening The proceedings were held as in- Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First injury that stopped him from com- Carlston Harris at Brave Combat Federation structed by HH Shaikh Khalid bin Deputy President of the Supreme peting for nearly a year. Currently Hamad Al Khalifa. The initiative will Council for Youth and Sports, King- training at the Renovacao Fight Team, unanimous decision thereby crowing be develop reality TV shows, gyms, dom of Bahrain and President of the Harris is set to make a statement with him as the first welterweight champi- merchandise, nutrition and multi-city West Asian Athletics Association. his championship title defence. on of the promotion. “Being a champion is not just a ti- “I never fought easy opponents, tle but a responsibility to represent. same is the case of Jarrah. He is re- Championship for me represents a KNOW WHAT spectful towards me for which I re- milestone in pursuing my passion spect him. He does not talk thrash facing every challenge that came in which is a great quality for a martial life. I am the first champion in a global artist. I am sure that in Abu Dhabi he mixed martial arts promotion from Harris has a record of 12-3-0 will have hometown support. This Guyana. I dedicated my championship and have never been submit- doesn’t matter. Life was tough for me, to all those wonderful people who ted or knocked out in his 15 for fighters like him everything went supported me in Brazil, Guyana and fight career their way, apart from may be a couple all around the world who had faith in of years of tough life. Challenges and my abilities. I will defend the title to his career. He made his promotional pain make me feel at home, to fight at Seef District too prove a point that dreams are worth debut at Brave Combat Federation odds is a part of my life and I am com- fighting for. This is about who is more against Thiago Vieira, handing over ing to Abu Dhabi to fight and give my hungry, resilient and passionate”, ex- second loss in his professional career. best. HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad plained Harris. Harris stepping into take Carl Booth Al Khalifa opened doors of opportu- Harris is the first mixed martial in a day’s notice for the inaugural nities for fighters around the world. artist from Guyana to hold a champi- welterweight championship. After It will be my honour to fight before onship title in any mixed martial arts five rounds of action, Booth was over- him to prove to him and dedicate my promotion. Harris moved to Brazil to whelmed by the wrestling game of victory to him for his birthday”, said Um al Hassan +973 17728699 Seef District +973 17364999 nurture his passion and to develop Harris which gave him the victory by Harris. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 18 Downcast Vettel retains belief in title bid

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downcast believes he can bounce back to over- Ahaul Lewis Hamilton in this year’s Formula One world championship despite trailing Alastair Cook by 30 points after Sunday’s tu- multuous Italian Grand Prix. The four-time champion Ger- man admitted that he felt he and England’s Cook to his team had let down Ferrari’s passionate tifosi by failing to win after locking out the front retire after India series row of the grid. AFP | London But, he said, he was assured by the way in which he recovered Ferrari’s German driver Sebastian Vettel’s car (R) is pictured after a crash with Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton lastair Cook announced from his first lap spin to finish during the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza Aon Monday he would re- fourth in a car damaged when tire from international crick- 12,254 Alastair Cook has he made contact with the trium- et after the fifth Test against amassed 12,254 runs phant Hamilton’s Mercedes as he said. “The points sound a lot, the place and I am happy to go India, with England’s leading at 44.88 including 32 the championship leader went but actually it doesn’t take a long there.” Test run-scorer saying he had hundreds, while his run past him at the second chicane. time to get them down.” Hamilton, who profited from “nothing left in the tank”. of 158 consecutive Test “It was unfortunate for us to As the dust settled after a a collision involving the two The 33-year-old Essex appearances is a world get spun around and have a lot breathless contest, many pad- Ferraris in Singapore last year, left-hander has amassed record of damage, but it could have dock pundits suggested Vet- proved Sunday he and Mercedes 12,254 runs at 44.88 including been also him that spins around tel and Ferrari are making too 30 are focussed and fast enough to 32 hundreds, while his run of and us carrying on,” he said. many strategic and tactical mis- Sebastian Vettel is trailing ensure a tight run-in. 158 consecutive Test appear- my face knowing I have given “I think given I was looking takes to resist the momentum behind Lewis Hamilton by His stunning drive was fuelled ances is a world record. everything and there is noth- the wrong way after four cor- of Hamilton, despite the Italian 30 points by the negative jeering and boo- But the former England cap- ing left in the tank,” the four- ners and last, finishing in fourth team clearly having a faster car. ing he received from the Italian tain, who has played in 160 time Ashes-winner added. with effectively the same strate- fans throughout the weekend, Tests in total, has struggled “I have achieved more than I gy as everybody else is a decent ‘Turning the page’ prompting him to react on so- for runs recently and averages could have ever imagined and recovery with the damage we With seven races remaining, cial media and then deliver one a meagre 18.62 from nine Tests feel very privileged to have had. however, they have the time to after the collision. of his greatest races for a re- this year. played for such a long time “When I got going again, the recover if Vettel can find the “It’s a bit of a gap now,” he cord-equalling fifth Monza win. “After much thought and alongside some of the greats car was actually quite horri - consistency needed, in tempera- conceded. “But it’s nothing that “In the arena that we are in, deliberation over the last few of the English game. “ ble to drive and I had a lot of ment as well as performance, to we didn’t do in the past. I’ve it is easy to allow it to get to you months I have decided to an- Cook said it would be tough snaps and moments. Then I got match the Briton as they scrap been in these situations. I know and allow it to have an impact on nounce my retirement from to walk away but that the tim- used to it and drove around it, it out to claim a fifth world title. what to do and I’m not going to your life, but it is also quite easy international cricket at the ing was right. but when I got out of the car “Obviously it’s a disappoint- bother too much about what to harness it and use it,” he said end of this Test series against “I have loved cricket my I was surprised myself by the ment for the weekend, for the happened (Sunday). of the Italian fans. India,” said Cook in an Eng- whole life, from playing in damage.” people here and I feel like I’ve “For sure it’s a disappoint- “That gave me so much moti- land and Wales Cricket Board the garden as a child, and will As to recovering a deficit of 30 let them down because I think ment right now, but very quick- vation. I welcome it and, if they statement. never underestimate how spe- points, he said he was not wor- they deserved a different re - ly I am turning the page and want to keep doing it, it just “Although it is a sad day, I cial it is to pull on an England ried. “I think we have the pace,” sult,” he said. “I did all I could focusing on Singapore -- I like empowers me.” can do so with a big smile on shirt,” he said. McLaren put teenager on the grid AFP | Monza, Italy

ritish teenager Lando Norris Bhas been given a dream con- To be announced tract to race in Formula 1 with McLaren from 2019, replacing as a race driver for the departing Belgian Stoffel McLaren is a dream Vandoorne. come true. Although England’s Norris, who had I’ve been part of taken part in practice at the last the team for a while two races in Belgium and Italy, now, this is a special was confirmed as McLaren’s moment, one I could new driver just minutes after the team confirmed Vandoorne only hope would would be leaving. become reality Cameron Meyer of Mitchelton Scott wins stage two after sprinting clear He will be the second Brit- LANDO NORRIS on on the 2019 grid after world champion Lewis Hamilton. Lando Norris years in the sport. Meyer wins Tour of “To be announced as a race Lando has been part of the driver for McLaren is a dream for the commitment McLaren from the drivers, engineers and McLaren young driver pro - Britain second stage come true. Although I’ve been has already shown in my devel- mechanics to give myself the gramme since early 2017, when part of the team for a while now, opment, allowing me to build best preparation ahead of next he officially joined the team as that went clear in the opening this is a special moment, one I my experience in a Formula 1 year.” test and simulator driver. Tonelli claims 15 kilometres of the 173.8-kilo- could only hope would become car in both testing and on Fri- Norris will form a new-look Since then, Lando has regu- • metre Cranbrook to Barnstaple reality,” Norris said. days during the past two race McLaren team alongside Span- larly conducted race simulation overall lead ride in Devon. “I’d like to thank the whole weekends. iard Carlos Sainz, who was work for the team and also par- Bardiani-CSF rider Tonelli team for this amazing oppor- “I’ll also be working closely signed last month to succeed ticipated in Formula 1 testing – AFP | London took a six-second time bonus tunity and for believing in me. with McLaren at every opportu- Fernando Alonso following the in Abu Dhabi in 2017, and Spain on the line which meant he “I’m also extremely grateful nity to learn as much as possible star’s decision to quit after 17 and Hungary in 2018. ustralia’s Cameron Meyer claimed the leader’s green jer- Awon the second stage of sey. the Tour of Britain yesterday “I’ve been here at the Tour as the Michelton-Scott rider of Britain six or seven years edged a sprint finish ahead ago when I was caught in the Haas appeal Grosjean disqualification at Monza of overall leader Alessandro last kilometre so I was hoping Tonelli. there was no deja vu,” Meyer AFP | Monza, Italy rari-powered American team, off the circuit. The stewards’ ruling affected Meyer, the Commonwealth told ITV 4. but rivals Renault lodged a pro- Haas team chief Guen - the result and gave the strug- Games time trial champion, “I just picked my moment to he Haas Formula One team test against the legality of his ther Steiner said: “We do not gling Williams team a double held off Italy’s Tonelli on the go across to four guys and we Thas confirmed it will appeal car, which led to the stewards’ agree with the stewards’ deci- points finish as Russian rookie finish line after a day-long had a breakaway of five. In the a stewards’ decision late Sunday decision. sion to penalise our race team Sergey Sirotkin was elevated breakaway. end it was a great bike race for to exclude Romain Grosjean The car was found to have and we feel strongly that our into the points. The 30-year-old, who last me and a thrilling finish. from the result of the Italian an irregular, non-compliant sixth-place finish in the Ital- The Haas team has until claimed a road race stage vic- “It was a bit of a shock to Grand Prix. floor design, a late and dramat- ian Grand Prix should stand. Thursday to gather informa- tory in February 2015, had take the win. We’ll see what I The French driver finished ic twist at the end of a day of We are appealing the stewards’ tion and confirm its intention to been a part of the main group can do for the rest of the tour.” sixth on the road for the Fer- near-breathless action on and decision.” make an official appeal. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 19

Barcelona’s Malcom suffers sprained ankle AFP | Barcelona Messi omitted from arcelona forward Mal- Bcom sprained his ankle in training yesterday, the club has announced. Malcom, who joined Bar- ca from Bordeaux in July, is award shortlist expected to be out for one week. times in 2009. have a combined 14 domestic A club statement read: “In Ronaldo, Salah and Messi and Ronaldo, the league titles. Monday morning’s training • world’s two best players, have Now Messi’s absence from session with the Barcelona Modric nominated for been engaged in a fascinating the shortlist opens the way for squad, Malcom suffered a FIFA best player award duel for the sport’s top Ronaldo, also a five-time winner sprain to the lateral external individual and club of the award, to move ahead in ligament of his right ankle. Deschamps, Dalic honours for over a their personal battle. The estimated recovery and• Zidane nominated decade. Portugal forward Ronal- time is one week.” Between them, do lifted a fourth Champions The 21-year-old is un - for best coach award Messi and Ronaldo League title in five years in May likely to miss any fixtures, have won the before joining Italian champi- with Barcelona’s next match AFP | London Champions ons Juventus in July. against Real Sociedad on League The 33-year-old won the September 15, after the in- ionel Messi was left off nine player of the year crown in ternational break. the shortlist for the FIFA’s times 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and Lmen’s player of the year and 2017. award yesterday as his old rival Joining Ronaldo on the Cristiano Ronaldo was named shortlist is his for- Lionel Messi Costa replaced alongside Luka Modric and Mo- mer Real team-mate hamed Salah. Modric, who en - by Aspas in Spain Messi has dominated the joyed a superb season Zlatko Dalic and Zinedine Zi- squad award along with Ronaldo over for club and country. dane were nominated as the the past decade, but the Barce- As well as his influential finalists for FIFA’s coach of the AFP | Madrid lona star has been displays in Real’s Champions year award. omitted from League triumph, the Croa- Deschamps became just the tletico Madrid’s Diego the contend- tia midfielder was the key 5 third man to win the World Cup ACosta has withdrawn ers list for the man for his country as they Cristiano Ronaldo has as a player and coach with victo- from the Spain squad ahead first time since reached their first World won the player of the year ry over Dalic’s Croatia in Russia of their upcoming games 2006. Cup final, finishing as run- crown five times (in 2008, while Zidane led Real Madrid to against England and Cro- After featuring in the ners-up to France. 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017) a third consecutive Champions atia, the national team an- top three for 11 straight Liverpool and Egypt League win in May before step- nounced yesterday. years, Messi was over - forward Salah has also ping down. Costa has pulled out for looked when the list was an- Cristiano Ronaldo impeccable credentials as The best goalkeeper prize is “family reasons” and will nounced by football’s world gov- a potential winner of the propelled Jurgen Klopp’s to the to be contested by Tottenham be replaced by Celta Vigo erning body yesterday. award. Champions League final and set and France’s Hugo Lloris, Den- striker Iago Aspas, who had The 31-year-old Argentine was Salah enjoyed a re - a host of individual club land- mark and Leicester’s Kasper been a surprise omission runner-up for the prestigious cord-breaking first marks. Schmeichel and Belgium and from Luis Enrique’s first se- prize in 2007 and 2008 before season with Liv- France’s World Cup-winning Real goalkeeper Thibaut Cour- lection as manager. winning it for the first of five erpool as his goals manager Didier Deschamps, tois.

Henderson signs new contract with Injured Lloris ruled ‘Man Utd headed in right Liverpool out of France matches AFP | London direction under Mourinho’ AFP | Clairefontaine-en-Yve- iverpool captain Jor- lines, France Ldan Henderson signed AFP | London a new long-term contract rance World Cup-winning with the Premier League Fcaptain Hugo Lloris will anchester United are leaders yesterday. miss his country’s games in Mheading in the right di- Henderson has emerged the inaugural UEFA Nations rection under Jose Mourin - as a key figure under Reds League this week due to a ho, insists the club’s legend- boss Jurgen Klopp and the thigh injury, coach Didier De- ary former goalkeeper Peter new deal is a reward for the schamps confirmed yesterday. Schmeichel despite two ear- England midfielder’s fine Lloris missed Spurs’ 2-1 de- ly-season defeats. form. feat at Watford in the English Hugo Lloris United bounced back from The 28-year-old has made Premier League on Sunday and losing to Brighton and Totten- 283 appearances for Liver- will now sit out France’s games Germany in a meeting of the ham with a comfortable 2-0 pool, scoring 24 goals, since against Germany in Munich on last two world champions. victory at Burnley on Sunday arriving from Sunderland Thursday and at home to the Areola went to the World to quell some of the mounting in 2011. Netherlands on Sunday. Cup but did not play a single tension at Old Trafford. The uncapped Montpellier game in Russia as Les Bleus Mourinho has routinely Manchester United’s Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku (L) vies with Burnley’s goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte won the trophy for the second clashed with media in recent English defender Ben Mee has been called up to the squad time. weeks, demanding more re - Furious Bayern as a replacement for Lloris. “The fact he came with us to spect for his managerial record, a second-place finish behind had a really tough awakening With Marseille’s Steve Man- the World Cup means I consid- and his superiors at the club Manchester City last season since Sir Alex and (former chief Munich president danda -- the regular back-up er him to be one of the three over a lack of transfer activity. -- United’s highest league fin- executive) David Gill left at the slams PSG director to Lloris -- also absent due to best French goalkeepers. He However, Schmeichel cited ish since Alex Ferguson’s re- same time. It left the club with- injury, Paris Saint-Germain’s knows the squad well, so this the two trophies won by the tirement in 2013 -- as signs of out a certain type of experi - Henrique Alphonse Areola is set to win is not all new to him,” said De- Portuguese during his first sea- progress. ence that the biggest club in the his first cap when France play schamps of Areola. son in charge in 2016/17 and “We are progressing, we’ve world needs,” said Schmeichel. AFP | Berlin

ayern Munich presi- Bdent Uli Hoeness, ex- asperated by two long and eventually failed transfer Brazil great Ronaldo buys 51pc of Real Valladolid negotiations with Paris Saint-Germain, fired off a AFP | Madrid Ronaldo personally acquires 51 within the game and outside it. poor condition of the club’s volley of criticism at the percent of the shares of Real “You can count on us to con- pitch at their Jose Zorrilla sta- French club’s sports direc- ormer Brazilian striker Valladolid.” solidate Real Valladolid in the dium, following a 1-0 loss to tor Antero Henrique in an FRonaldo has taken control “He is an idol that loves and top division and to keep building Barcelona. interview yesterday. of Real Valladolid after buying spreads a dream.” our dream.” Ronaldo will bring a sprin- PSG made bids for Bayern 51 percent of the La Liga club’s Ronaldo played in Spain for Valladolid earned promotion kling of stardust, with the for- defender Jerome Boateng shares, it was announced yes- Real Madrid and Barcelona, to the top tier last season and mer forward widely regarded and Portuguese internation- terday. while also winning the World sit 16th, after two draws and a as one of the game’s greatest al Renato Sanches over the At a press conference held Cup twice with Brazil. defeat from their opening three ever players. summer but the way Henri- in the city’s town hall, Vallad- “This is a very important games. He retired in 2011, having que went about his business olid president Carlos Suarez day for me,” he said. “I’ve gone La Liga also opened an in - been named Fifa World Player of left Hoeness seething. said: “Today is a starting point. through a lot to prepare both Retired Brazilian star striker Ronaldo vestigation last month into the the Year in 1996, 1997 and 2002. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 20 Serena, Stephens reach US Open quarter-finals The six-time champion relieved to emerge from tough battle with Kaia Kanepi

AFP | New York champion, being able to get to the quarter-fi- nals again, is incredible. I’m just going to try ix-time champion Serena Williams survived to keep building on that and keep going.” a spirited challenge from unseeded Kaia Sevastova, in the quarters for a third SKanepi to triumph 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 on Sunday straight year, is hoping to turn the tables and reach the quarter-finals of the US Open. on Stephens, who is trying to become the The 23-time Grand Slam champion looked set first woman to win back-to-back US Open to romp home when she seized the first set from titles since Williams won three straight Kanepi in just 18 minutes. in 2012, 2013 and 2014. But the hard-hitting Estonian, who took out “Maybe third time lucky for me,” Sev- world number one Simona Halep in the first astova said. round, settled down in the second set, shaking off the partisan crowd in a jammed Arthur Ashe ‘Interesting match’ Stadium to push Williams the rest of the way. Stephens could be headed for a semi-final “It wasn’t an easy match at all,” said Williams, meeting with Williams, although Williams who let out what she called a “Serena scream” acknowledged that in Pliskova she’ll face a after ripping a backhand cross court to hold serve player with plenty of weapons in addition to in the opening game of the third set. her big serve. “Winning a big game and a very important “She has a really good forehand. In fact, she game and a really tight game, I think it was just doesn’t do a lot of things bad,” Williams said. a relief,” said Williams, who took control with Plislkova’s runner-up finish to Kerber in a break in the next game and maintained that the 2016 US Open remains her best advantage until she fired a forehand winner on Grand Slam finish, but Williams her first match point. noted she briefly gained the Williams finished with 18 aces and 47 total number one world rank- winners. A couple of loose points gifted Kanepi a ing last year. break in the first game of the second set, however, “She got there for a and she couldn’t get back on terms. reason, she has a lot Williams double-faulted on break point to send of strong parts to her Kanepi up 5-2. The American would win the next game,” Williams said. two games, but she couldn’t find another break “It will be an interest- and after fighting off two set points saw Kanepi ing match.” knot the match on her third chance. Pliskova was look- “She’s had a lot of big wins in her career. I ing forward to it, too. was just happy to get through it to be honest,” “I know she has a Williams said. big game, but I have a Williams booked a quarter-final date with Kar- big game too. I have olina Pliskova, the eighth-seeded Czech who beat a good serve. So I Australian Ashleigh Barty 6-4, 6-4. have some weap- Pliskova defeated Wil- ons, too. For sure, liams in the semi-finals there is always a in New York in 2016. chance for me.” Defending champi- Williams heads on Sloane Stephens, the into the second third seed, eased past Elise week at Flush- Mertens 6-3, 6-3 to book ing Meadows a quarter-final rematch tracking with Latvian Anastasija Sevastova. Sevastova toppled seventh-seeded Elina t w o Svitolina 6-3, 1-6, 6-0, milestones: leaving just two of the A seventh US top 10 women’s seeds Open title would remaining. see her break out of a tie with Chris Stephens, runner-up to Evert for the Open Era record and also Halep at the French Open, was equal Australian Margaret Court’s all- looking forward to taking on time record of 24 major titles. Sevastova again in her bid She hasn’t won a major since the to push ahead in her title 2017 Australian Open. After re- defense. turning to competition in March “Obviously it won’t be after the birth of daughter easy,” she said. “Quarter-fi- Olympia last September, Wil- nals of a Grand Slam is al- liams is trying to avoid her ways really tough. A big first season since 2011 opportunity for both without a Grand Slam of us. Being de- title. fending

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