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England have won their maiden Cricket World Cup in a dramatic style, beating New Zealand by boundary countback after both the super over and 50-over game were tied. Chasing 16 to win in the extra over, Jimmy Neesham FINALLY, IT’S and Martin Guptill took 14 from Jofra Archer’s first five balls before Guptill was run out by Jos Buttler following a Jason Roy throw as he came back for the second run on the last ball. It meant England won the game after scoring nine more boundaries than the Black Caps, thanks in part to the heroics of super over batsmen Ben Stokes and Buttler. However, even the end of the regular match was marked by drama as Stokes hit 84 not out and COME HOME! both teams finished on 241. With 15 required off four balls, Stokes launched Trent Boult over the mid-wicket boundary for six. See Page 16

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nformation Affairs Min- Iister Ali Al Romaihi cau- tioned against social media Deal on the brink accounts run from abroad, which are seeking to un - dermine national unity, European powers ‘deeply troubled’ by shipping attacks, warn nuclear deal could collapse drive wedges, threaten civic peace and social fabric and escalation of tensions in the Ara- said. US President Donald Trump’s subvert security and stabil- US President Donald bian Gulf region and a risk of “We believe that the time has administration says it is open ity in the Kingdom. • Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal falling come to act responsibly and to to negotiations with Iran on a He said that the suspi - Trump’s administration apart, calling for dialogue be- look for ways to stop the esca- more far-reaching agreement cious accounts, including says it is open to tween all the parties to resume. lation of tension and resume on nuclear and security issues. the “Repentant MP” which negotiations with Iran. The European nations said in dialogue. But Iran has made any talks features the picture of His a joint statement that following “The risks are such that is is conditional on first being able Royal Highness Prime Min- Iran has made renewed sanctions by the United necessary that all the parties to export as much oil as it did ister Prince Khalifa bin Sal- • States on Iran, and Iran’s deci- take a pause and think about the before the United States with- man Al Khalifa, have noth- any talks conditional sion to no longer respect some possible consequences of their drew from the nuclear pact with ing to do, whatsoever, with on first being able to of its obligations, the deal signed actions,” it added. world powers in May 2018. HRH the Premier. export as much oil. on this day four years ago could We believe that the This comes as Iranian Pres- “We have always believed in collapse. time has come to ident Hassan Rouhani said in talks ... if they lift sanctions, end “The risks are such that it is a televised speech on Sunday the imposed economic pressure Paris act responsibly and necessary for all stakeholders to that Tehran is ready to hold and return to the deal, we are pause, and consider the possible to look for ways to talks with the United States if ready to hold talks with America rance, Britain and Ger- consequences of their actions,” stop the escalation Washington lifts sanctions and today, right now and anywhere,” of tension. DON’T MISS IT many said yesterday they the joint statement released by returns to the 2015 nuclear deal Rouhani said in his Sunday Fwere preoccupied by the the French president’s office MACRON it exited last year. speech. Call for new TOO PERSONAL horizons in 02 Bahrain-Britain relations Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’ Proposal to build New York to the US in 2018 to stick with the contacts with State Department deal. The latest leak came despite this morning suggest no sort of first park for onald Trump abandoned the Met Police warning against plan for reaching out to partners 03 diffabled citizens the Iran nuclear deal to publication. and allies, whether in Europe or in Muharraq Dspite Barack Obama, ac- The first memos criticising the region.” cording to a leaked memo written President Trump’s administra- Scotland Yard’s Assistant Nurse acquitted by the UK’s former ambassador tion, which emerged a week ago, Commissioner Neil Basu warned in the US. prompted a furious reaction from media organisations against pub- 04 in robbery trial Sir Kim Darroch described the the US president and resulted in lishing leaked government docu- 210 fils (includes VAT) move as an act of “diplomatic van- Sir Kim resigning from his role. ments, saying it “could be a crim- dalism”, according to the Mail on According to the paper, in his Trump Obama inal matter”. Sunday. memo to Mr Johnson, Sir Kim everyone short of the president; ideological and personality rea- His comments came as a The paper says the memo was wrote: “The outcome illustrated but on the substance, the admin- sons - it was Obama’s deal. criminal investigation was written after the then Foreign the paradox of this White House: istration is set upon an act of dip- “Moreover, they can’t articu- launched into the initial leak of Secretary Boris Johnson appealed you got exceptional access, seeing lomatic vandalism, seemingly for late any ‘day-after’ strategy; and Sir Kim’s emails. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 02 Call for new horizons in Bahrain-Britain relations Kingdom keen on further enhancing ties with UK, says HRH the Premier

HRH the Premier stressed• the need to exchange expertise between the two countries. His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa yesterday received Adel Essa Al Marzouq who presented a copy of his book titled “Khalifa Bin Ambassador Salman: The Nation’s Glory”. HRH the Premier commended the efforts • of the journalist and author enlightening public opinion to connect with Martin expressed his national issues. His Royal Highness stressed the key role of media figures deep appreciation and intellectuals in raising community awareness to share in building the to the Government homeland and safeguarding its security and stability, and pointed out that led by the Premier. the cultural movement in the Kingdom, constitutes one of the distinctive features of the Bahraini community. Manama

trong bilateral ties were in focus as His Royal High- BCCI-Commerce Ministry talks set Sness Prime Minister Prince TDT | Manama meetings in allowing seamless Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa communication between the yesterday received the outgoing HRH the Premier holds talks with Mr Martin. he Bahrain Chamber of business community and gov- British Ambassador to Bahrain Commerce and Indus- ernment officials, and encour- Simon Martin. He reaffirmed Bahrain’s keen- United Kingdom’s expertise in mier’s attention and care to Ttry (BCCI) is organising aged its members to attend the HRH the Premier lauded the ness to further consolidate its ties various fields. strengthen Bahraini-British re- an open meeting with the Min- meeting and seize the oppor- ever-growing historic relations with the United Kingdom and He also hailed the efforts of lations in various fields. istry of Industry, Commerce, tunity to directly address their between the two countries based open new horizons for co-oper- the British ambassador during The ambassador conveyed and Tourism tomorrow from concerns, inquiries, and make on mutual comprehension, re- ation that will serve the interests his diplomatic term in Bahrain to his country’s appreciation of 5:00 to 6:30 pm at Al Majlis proposals. spect and keenness on bolstering and meet the aspirations of the bolster bilateral ties, wishing him Bahrain’s support for the Unit- Hall of Bait Al Tijjar. It hailed the keenness and co-operation and partnership in two countries and the welfare of success in future assignments. ed Kingdom and for all that en- The meeting, which will be co-operation exerted by the various fields. both friendly peoples. Ambassador Martin expressed hances security and stability in held in Arabic, will host offi- public sector represented by HRH the Prime Minister He added that he was looking his deep appreciation to the Gov- the region. cials from the ministry, who the various ministries and au- praised the role of the United forward to closer bilateral rela- ernment, under the chairman- He expressed his satisfaction will deliberate about recent thorities to the private sector Kingdom in supporting efforts tions in the economic, commer- ship of His Royal Highness the with the time he spent in Bah- laws and regulations relevant in true manifestation of suc- to spread security, stability and cial and investment sectors. Prime Minister, for all the servic- rain, where he touched on the to the private sector and ad- cessful public-private part- peace in the world, considering HRH the Premier stressed the es and facilities that contributed extent to which the Bahraini so- dress the participants’ inquir- nership, and vowed sparing no its influential and effective po- need to exchange expertise be- to the success of his diplomatic ciety enjoys a civilised approach ies. effort to streamline the private sition in the international deci- tween the two countries and en- missions during his tenure. and openness on different cul- In this regard, BCCI rein- sectors’ development and rein- sion-making process. hance ways to benefit from the He also praised HRH the Pre- tures. stated the importance of such force its vitality.

The President of the Republic of Iraq, Barham Salih, received, at Al Salam Palace here yesterday, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Republic of Iraq, Salah Ali Al Malki, marking the resumption of his duties. The Ambassador conveyed the greetings of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to the President, and his wishes of progress and Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Dr Abdulhussain Mirza received a delegation from Nexant International, led by Dr prosperity to the President and the brotherly Republic of Iraq. Ambassador Salah Ali Al Malki expressed his thanks Babul Patel, Regional Director of the Energy Sector. Executive Vice President of Distribution and Customer Services at and appreciation to the President of the Republic of Iraq for the efforts exerted by the Iraqi Government on the attack the Electricity and Water Authority Adnan Mohammed Fakhro and Alexander Al Samahiji, Acting Executive Director of on the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the Republic of Iraq, praising the keenness of the Republic of Iraq on the Sustainable Energy Centre were present. Nexant is a company that specialises in providing technical consultancy in protecting its diplomatic missions and embassies, making it easier for them to carry out their tasks. various fields including electricity, water and renewable energy.

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oyal Bahrain Hospital is Prominent general The Embassy of pleased to announce the Pakistan in Bahrain visit of Dr Hussein El organised “Pakistan R Food Festival” in Bernawi, Consultant, General surgeon visits RBH Surgery, until the 28 of Septem- collaboration with ber 2019, the hospital said in a tions, which include Gastric Mega Mart and AD Global, Bahrain. statement issued. Bypass, Sleeve, Gastroesoph- The three-day event Dr Hussein is the head of the ageal reflux, anal conditions, was opened by General Surgery Department Ventral and Inguinal Hernia, Afzaal Mahmood, in KIMS Oman Hospital and Colonic Resections, Adrenal Ambassador of has 20 years of experience in and Spleen surgery. Pakistan to Bahrain, the field of advanced Laparo- To book appointment with at Macro Mart Riffa scopic Surgery and Mini Inva- Dr Hussein El Bernawi, pa - on 11 July, 2019. sive techniques, the statement tients have been urged to call Hundreds of people added. 17246800 or book online on visited the Festival He is a postgraduate from www.royalbahrainhospital. on the opening day the Royal College of Surgeons com. to buy Pakistani in Ireland and has obtained They can now also download mangoes, apricots, his Masters in mini-invasive Dr El Bernawi the Royal Bahrain Hospital Mo- peaches, melons, surgery in the University of bile App to book appointments watermelons, Catania, Italy. ble for consultation on various and more on iOS and Android jamuns and Dr Hussein will be availa- surgical and laparoscopic solu- devices. seasonal vegetables. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 03

Municipal service needs Proposal to build first park for discussed Manama

ndersecretary Ufor Works Affairs diffabled citizens in Muharraq Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Khayat along with the respective constituency Municipal council forwards proposal to Works Ministry representatives to the Northern Municipali- ty, has paid a field visit It has been suggested in several areas and met • This is a much needed residents, roads develop- to name the park after ment specialists and the Muneera Bint Hindi. facility and will benefit a co-ordinating committee large number of the of the ministry. A parliamentary differently-abled Al Khayat said such proposal• has been population who miss visits come at the minis- ter’s directives to meet made earlier to double out on these kind of entertainment. the citizens requests, sug- the disability welfare gestions of the Council of payments made by MR AL DOY Representatives and the the government. said that the amount is too low municipal councils in the for the disabled to pay for their interest of the public. treatment or even to pay for their The discussed topics in- TDT | Manama day-to-day expenses. cluded the building of an Mohammed Zafran He said that it is time for the entrance on King Hamad government to review the situa- Avenue near Fatima Al- uharraq could have the tion. “The special needs person shaker Hall in block 1203, first dedicated park for sometimes represent the sole building car parking lots Mdifferently-abled cit- breadwinner of the family and as well as other infra - izens and residents if a recent they struggle to meet expenses.” structure works. proposal gets approved. “The Constitution of the King- It also focused on re - The proposal was made by dom guarantees social security pairing drainage channels Deputy Chairman of Muharraq for all citizens including the sick, as well as a few network Municipal Council, Hasan Al Doy. Labour Minister Jameel Humaidan greets a group of diffabled individuals at a sporting event. those struggling with old age, of roads. It has been proposed to allocate unemployed, orphans and the By the end of the vis - a large area in the second constit- ly-abled Bahrainis. tion who miss out on these kind of raise the disability payment to disabled. It is time to increase the it, on behalf of residents, uency of Muharraq and build a The proposed park would in- entertainment,” Mr Al Doy said. BD200 per month. monthly payment to BD200,” he Abdullah Al Thawadi and park after earmarking BD40,000 clude a basketball ground, toi- He pointed out that there is Parliamentarians have called on pointed out. Yaseen Zaynal expressed in budget. let-seating facilities and office enough resources in the 2019- to increase the current allowance MP Mohammed Al Ansari also gratitude and apprecia- Mr Al Doy said the proposal has space. 2020 budget to allot to the park. amount, citing the difficulties voiced his support for the propos- tion to the Undersecre- been forwarded to the ministry “The park would have many Meanwhile, a parliamentary faced by the disabled and their al. “I personally know many fam- tary and the engineers of concerned. different play-areas with different proposal has been made earlier to families. ilies, who have disabled children the ministry for always It has been suggested to name games suited for the differently double the disability welfare pay- They said that in many cases and are trying their best to take keeping in touch with the park after Muneera Bint able. This is a much needed facil- ments made by the government. the disabled are the sole bread- care of them, but are struggling the demands of the peo- Hindi, paying tribute to one of ity and will benefit a large number The proposal, which was unan- winners of the families. financially. They urgently need ple and aspiring to fulfil the most inspirational different- of the differently-abled popula- imously approved by MPs aim to MP Mohammed Buhamood had more financial support.” them as soon as possible.

Preparations for Kingdom’s banking sector Hi-tech diagnostic system centenary celebrations reviewed

Mr Al Mutawa chairs the meeting.

Manama bust and maintained its stabili- BAB board chairman extend- ty, thus enabling Bahrain to be ed sincere thanks and appreci- s part of the ongoing a leading financial and banking ation to HRH the Prime Minis- preparations to cele- hub in the region. ter for patronising the event, brate the centenary of The Cabinet Affairs Minis- which, he said, is a living proof The Ministry of Health (MoH)’s medical supplies department has received two of the latest hi-tech medical diagnostics A systems. The BD100,000 precision ECHO device enables to detect children’s congenital heart disorders, cardiac the banking sector in the King- ter stressed that over the past of the Premier’s interest in the dom, to be held under the aus- 100 years, the banking sector in sector and success in putting rhythm and blood circulation while the BD 31,000 digital X-Ray device helps in detecting bone fractures in the limbs, spinal column and joints. Both medical devices were purchased through the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s unified pices of His Royal Highness Bahrain has presented a success in place a robust banking and procurement system. Prime Minister Prince Khalifa story of Bahrainis’ ability to put financial system in the King- bin Salman Al Khalifa in De- forward an advanced and flex- dom. cember, Cabinet Affairs Min- ible banking system that paved He asserted that the celebra- ister, Mohammed Al Mutawa, the way for the national econo- tion should bring to light the held a meeting, at HRH Pre- my to flourish, commending the long history of the banking and GCC man loses appeal in $25,000 forgery case mier’s Court, in the presence of contributions of the national financial sector in the Kingdom, TDT | Manama Shaikh Hussam bin Isa Al Khal- banking competencies in this as well as the key role played ployee of the exchange company ifa, and Bahrain Association of regard. by the government, led by HRH said. Banks (BAB) Board of Directors He added that the celebration Premier, in developing it and young GCC man convicted “I took bills worth $1,000 from Chairman, Adnan Ahmed Yusif. would provide an opportunity strengthening Bahrain’s distin- of attempting to exchange them to cross-check in order to The meeting discussed the to highlight the sector’s success guished regional and interna- Acounterfeited $25,000 know if they weren’t counter- latest arrangements to hold strides over history, and to hon- tional standing in the banking has had his appeal rejected. 1,000 feited. They were all fake notes. Bahraini dinars in fine the celebrations in a way that our its national pioneers. industry. The defendant is said to have were imposed on the “I told them this and they fled would reflect the long history of In this regard, he com - He stressed that thanks to the approached an exchange com- convict by the lower the scene. I directly contacted the sector in the Kingdom, and mended Bahrain Association advanced laws and legislation pany at Bahrain International court. the airport police,” he explained. the crucial role played by HRH of Banks’ efforts to prepare and the suitable investment Airport to convert a bag full of Only the defendant was ar- the Prime Minister in boosting for the celebration, as well as atmosphere provided by the US dollars, which turned out to rested as his accomplice is still the sector. its endeavours to develop the government for banking and be fake notes. at large. The meeting stressed that banking sector, increase its con- financial sector, Bahrain has He fled from the airport as He was sentenced to five years thanks to the sound fiscal pol- tributions to the national econ- strengthened its position as a soon as he was told that the notes I was on duty. They told me that behind bars along with a BD1,000 icies adopted by the govern- omy and enhance its ability to springboard for investment op- weren’t genuine but was arrested they had $25,000 in the bag and fine. ment, led by HRH Premier, the generate job opportunities for erations and incubator for var- later. they wanted to exchange them He will be deported once he banking sector has become ro- Bahrainis. ious investments in the region. “Two men came to me while into Bahraini dinars,” the em- completes his jail time. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 04

Witnesses fined BD50 each for not attending court session TDT | Manama

he First High Criminal The staff checked the Nurse acquitted Court has fined two em- visa that was printed Tployees of a government on the man’s passport company BD50 each for failing to attend a court session to give and discovered that it their testimonies before the was also forged. judges. PROSECUTORS Both Bahrain Airport Ser- vices (BAS) employees were di- The first defendant told the rected to attend the trial of two police that an Iranian man he in robbery trial Turkish men, who attempted had met in Turkey helped him to travel to the United King- with the issuance of the fake dom using fake passports from passport, adding that the latter Court rejects case, citing lack of adequate proof Bahrain International Airport. advised him to travel to the UK According to court files, a fe- through Bahrain as the pro- cosmetic centre due to lack of and compensate her in exchange male employee at BAS notified cedures here were easy and The court said pieces evidence. of her annual leave. the police at the airport when less complicated compared to • The nurse was put on trial after “My client received an appre- she suspected that the first de- Turkey. of proof provided not her ex-employer accused her of The ex-employer ciation letter from the owner fendant’s passport was fake. The second defendant told enough to hold the robbery following her resigna- was trying to thanking her for her efforts a The woman also checked the the police a similar story. defendant guilty. tion from the clinic. pressurise month prior to filing the case visa that was printed on the The Public Prosecution ac- She had won a case against her to give up against her as he was trying man’s passport and discovered cused both men of entering An-ex colleague of him after he failed to settle her BD2,000, which to pressure her to give up the that it was also forged, accord- wrong data into the system of • indemnity. BD2,000 she was entitled after ing to Prosecutors. the General Directorate of Na- the defendant testified Supporting the clinic owner’s she was entitled leaving the centre,” Al Jindi said. The second suspect was ar- tionality, Passports and Resi- against her in the trial. claim was an ex-fellow nurse to receive from “He didn’t even mention the rested separately, but he was dence Affairs to enter Bahrain. who told prosecutors that she him. details of the equipment or how travelling on the same flight. They were also accused of TDT | Manama saw the defendant receiving MS AL JINDI she stole them,” she added. A different BAS employee sus- forging passports, in co-oper- money from patients, which was The court said in its ruling pected him as his passport had ation with an unknown third “not handed over to the cashier that the pieces of proof provid- a seven-month visa printed on part, and using the faked docu- he Lower Criminal Court at the clinic”. cious, citing a dispute arose be- ed against the defendant lack it. ments to illegally enter Bahrain. has acquitted an Asian However, the lawyer of the tween the owner and the defend- weren’t solid enough and didn’t Further investigation proved The court adjourned the case Tnurse accused of stealing accused, Nadia Al Jindi ar - ant who, according to the court convince the judges to hold the that the visa was fake and the to July 24, 2019, to hear wit- equipment and cash from a local gued that the case was mali- files, failed to increase her salary defendant guilty. case was reported to the police. nesses statements.

Training progress of 1,300 operators at new terminal building stressed TDT | Manama employees with the new building prehensive programme, we have are so vitally important. When achieved significant progress in ngoing preparations to the new facility opens, employ- a relatively short period of time. train more than 5,800 ees should be fully prepared to “Of course, there is still much OBahrain International ensure that passengers enjoy a to be done in the coming months, Airport stakeholders (BIA) on transformed travel experience. but through our concerted ef- how to effectively operate the “Team members from BAC, forts and with continued co - new Passenger Terminal Build- Bahrain Airport Services (BAS), ordination and support among ing are progressing on sched- the Labour Market Regulatory our partners at the airport, I am ule, the Minister of Transpor- Authority (LMRA), Hala Bah- confident that we will be able tation and Telecommunications rain, Gulf Air, airlines operating to overcome any challenges as- and Bahrain Airport Company out of BIA, and the Ministry of sociated with a project of this Kamal Ahmed has announced. Interior’s (MoI), Airport Police magnitude and complexity.” Since the launch of the famil- Directorate, Customs Affairs, He added: “Ensuring the ef- iarisation and contractor train- and National Passport and Resi- fective operation of the new ing programmes three months dence Affairs have attended 170 Passenger Terminal Building’s ago, more than 1,300 employees familiarisation training sessions advanced equipment and com- have been trained, making up 27 to date.” munications networks is one of per cent of the overall number of The minister added that in the major challenges we face stakeholders set to participate in addition to the training plan de- because it requires an in-depth the lead up to the new terminal’s veloped by FRAPORT, the ORAT understanding of how these launch. consultant, the programme is systems operate in an integrat- A group of operators, who underwent training, during a photocall. The minister said: “The new expected to accelerate over the ed manner. These contractors’ Passenger Terminal Building’s next three months to include training sessions and pro - advanced systems and state-of- more staff and cover all required designed to test the new facility’s holders to demonstrate their Mohamed Yousif Al Binfalah grammes will help airport staff the-art equipment requires con- technical aspects. information and communication in-depth understanding of the said: “Thanks to the hard work to make full use of the features siderable skill to operate, which To date, more than 500 key technology (ICT) and baggage new systems and highlight any of the national Operations Readi- provided by these advanced sys- is why these training sessions members of staff from BAC, BAS, handling systems (BHS). potential issues to the respective ness and Airport Transfer (ORAT) tems, ensuring passengers enjoy to test the readiness of systems, and the MoI have participated in The sessions provide an excel- contractors. training team and all the stake- a travel experience of the highest processes, and the familiarity of 70 contractor training sessions lent opportunity for BIA stake- BAC Chief Executive Officer, holders involved in this com- standards.”

Over 40 exhibitors to participate in Bahrain HRH Premier’s support for human resources praised Manama National Pavilion at GITEX 2019 es, thanks to HRH the Prime TDT | Manama Minister. “We have recently seen Ama- he International Fed- During the meeting, IFTDO zon in Bahrain as a regional base, eration of Training and Secretary-General, Uddesh ahrain Technology and we expect this to be a major TDevelopment Organi- Kohli, quoted HRH Premier as Companies Society breakthrough in the ICT sector, sations (IFTDO) has extended saying during one of their meet- B(BTECH) announced that especially towards bringing and thanks and appreciation to His ings: “I am with you wherever more than 40 Bahraini ICT com- localising global expertise in the Royal Highness Prime Minister you are to promote knowledge panies will participate in the fields of cloud computing, major Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al of the power of the human re- Bahrain Pavilion at GITEX 2019. data and more.” Khalifa for his multi-faceted sources around the world.” The event will also feature the From his side, Ahmed Al Hu- support, adding that the Pre- The board discussed IFTDO’s participation of 20 Bahraini ICT Supporters and participants of the Bahrain Pavilion at GITEX attended the seminar. jairi, Senior Adviser of BTECH mier’s belief in the importance future strategy, including rais- entrepreneurs. and the organiser of Bahrain of investing in human resources ing awareness on the impor- BTECH and WorkSmart for of the (BTECH), paying tribute to standards and regional market Pavilion at GITEX, explained that has inspired many world lead- tance of sustainable human de- events management joined Tamkeen’s support for Bahrain needs,” Mr Al Ubaidly added. this meeting along with the sup- ers. velopment among some coun- hands for setting up the Bah- pavilion at GITEX over the past At the seminar organised porters, partners and exhibitors This came as Assistant Un- tries in Africa, Eastern Europe rain Pavilion at the biggest tech 12 years. by BTECH, which was attended aim to develop Bahraini partici- dersecretary for Information and Asia, as well as on the need show in Mena and South Asia, “Through GITEX, we can look by supporters and participants pation in this global technology and Follow-up at HRH Pre- to invest in the capabilities and GITEX, happening on October at the latest developments in the of the Bahrain Pavilion at GI- event. mier’s Court, and IFTDO Board skills of their citizens and build 6th to 10th, 2019 at Dubai World global technology sector, enter TEX, Mr Al Ubaidly said that this “It is essential we meet with Chairman, Dr Ibrahim Al Dos- communities with inexhaust- Trade Centre. into fruitful deals and partner- pavilion is a good platform for everyone to discuss opportu- sari, chaired IFTDO’s Board of ible resources through them. “Participation in GITEX re- ships and explore the best ways development and show the ICT nities and how to strengthen Directors meeting in Sarajevo, The meeting also agreed that flects the development of the to develop companies in Bahrain sector’s growth strategies in the Bahrain’s presence at the biggest Bosnia and Herzegovina. the next IFTDO conference ICT sector in Bahrain,” said for its services and products in presence of stakeholders from technology event happening in The minutes of the meeting would be held in New Delhi, Ubaidly Al Ubaidly, President accordance with international the public and private sectors. Dubai,” he said. included, in its opening claus- India. 05 MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 world

in the balance EU opens new mission in Kuwait Kuwait City, Kuwait

he EU’s diplomatic chief TFederica Mogherini said yesterday the bloc is increasing its engagement in the Middle East, as she opened a new mission in Kuwait City. The office in Kuwait’s tallest skyscraper is the third such EU mission in the Gulf, after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. “This also sends a mes- sage to the whole region; the European Union is in- creasing its presence and engagement in the Middle East,” Mogherini said at the opening ceremony. “What happens to the A truck blocks the path to a bridge in Morgan City, Louisiana ahead of Tropical Storm Barry Gulf matters to Europe and what happens to Europe matters to the Gulf,” she added. The ceremony in the Al Barry batters Louisiana Hamra Tower, which is also home to the French embas- sy, was attended by Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Sa- US warnings of heavy rain, tornadoes from weakening Barry bah Khaled Al-Sabah. Nueva Orleans, United States “In a moment of regional Mayor LaToya Cantrell urged today,” the NHC said. and global tensions, Kuwait residents not to be complacent. Pete Gaynor, acting adminis- is a voice of wisdom and ropical Storm Barry “We are not in any way out trator of the Federal Emergency force of peace and this is A mobile crane lifts a camel to be loaded into a waiting truck headed to the buffeted the US state of the woods,” she said, adding Management Agency, told Fox what made us natural part- border with Egypt where the animal was meant to be sold, at El-Molih camel of Louisiana yesterday, that flash flooding could still News “there are still life-threat- ners,” Mogherini said. market west of the Sudanese capital’s twin city of Omdurman. In El-Molih, T bringing warnings of heavy rain occur into Sunday. ening conditions that exist” as a vast swathe of desert about 100 kilometres (63 miles) from the Sudanese and possible tornadoes even as President Donald Trump Barry moves north. capital, dozens of camel traders remain untouched by the country’s biggest it weakened. warned of “major flooding in “The rain is the threat,” he political upheaval in decades. El-Molih is well known among tourists visiting After briefly becoming the large parts of Louisiana and all added, not only while it falls but Canada says the northeast African country, with its daily camel market a hit among first hurricane of the Atlantic across the Gulf Coast. in a couple of days when flood- visitors. Some camels are to sent to slaughter houses, while the priced ones season, Barry was downgraded “Please be very careful!” he waters move back down the another citizen in the Gulf countries to take part in races. to a tropical storm after making said on Twitter. Mississippi River to the Gulf detained in China landfall Saturday. It neverthe- Louisiana Governor John Bel of Mexico. Montreal, Canada less packed a serious punch as Edwards said Saturday that the Tornadoes were possible in it moved inland, though there storm would intensify into Sun- parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Major 7.3 quake hits remote Malukus in were few indications of wide- day, with many areas seeing western Alabama and eastern hina detained another spread flooding. more rain overnight than they Arkansas, the NHC said. CCanadian citizen amid eastern Indonesia Flights in and out of the air- had during the day. Rainfall estimates had been sour relations between the Labuha, Indonesia port in the state’s biggest city “Don’t let your guard down lowered to between six and 12 two countries, Canada’s for- the town of Ternate in North New Orleans resumed Sunday thinking the worst is behind inches (15 to 30 centimeters) eign ministry said on Satur- Maluku province at 6:28 pm after all were canceled a day us,” he told a press conference. over south-central Louisiana day, though the reason for major 7.3-magnitude (0928 GMT), according to the earlier. Thousands of people At 8:00 am (1200 GMT), the but rivers and canals across the the jailing remains unclear. Aearthquake hit the remote US Geological Survey. had abandoned their homes, storm packed maximum sus- state’s south were full. “Global Affairs Canada is Maluku islands in eastern In- “The earthquake was quite tens of thousands lost pow - tained winds of 45 miles (72 The heavy winds scattered aware of the detention of a donesia yesterday, sending strong, sending residents to er and first responders were kilometers) per hour and was tree branches across roads and Canadian citizen in Yantai, panicked residents running flee outside,” said local disaster poised for action. located southeast of Shreveport knocked over road signs, and in China,” a spokesman said.. into the streets, but no tsunami mitigation official Mansur. Fears that the levee system in western Louisiana, moving St. John’s Parish next to New He added that “Canadi- warning was issued. Officials were assessing the in New Orleans could be com- north at six miles per hour, Orleans, local television footage an officials are providing The shallow quake struck situation but there were no promised eased after the Army the National Hurricane Center showed some areas under two consular assistance” but no about 165 kilometres (100 immediate reports of casual- Corps of Engineers voiced con- said. “Barry is forecast to weak- or more feet (60 centimeters) further details could be dis- miles) south-southwest of ties, he said. fidence that it would hold, but en to a tropical depression later of water. closed due to privacy laws. Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds Dahshur, Egypt

gypt on Saturday opened Etwo ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of new- ly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told reporters the Bent A sarcophagus, part of a new discovery carried out almost 300 meters south of Pyramid of King Sneferu, the King Amenemhat II’s pyramid at Dahshur necropolis, first pharaoh of Egypt’s 4th dynasty, and a nearby pyramid pyramids. ary masks as well as tools dating would be reopened to visitors for “Several stone, clay and wood- back to the Late Period -- which the first time since 1965. en sarcophagi were found and spanned almost 300 years up to He also said a team of archae- some contain mummies in good Alexander the Great’s conquest ologists had uncovered sarcoph- condition,” the antiquities min- of Egypt in 332 BC -- used for agi and the remains of an ancient istry said in a statement. cutting stones, the ministry said. wall dating back to the Middle The ancient wall stretches Egypt has in recent years Kingdom some 4,000 years ago. some 60 metres and is situat- sought to promote archaeo - The finds were made during ed south of the pyramid of 12th logical discoveries across the excavation work in the royal ne- dynasty pharaoh King Amen- country in a bid to revive tour- cropolis of Dahshur on the west emhat II, also in the Dahshur ism, which took a hit from the bank of the Nile River, in an area People gather during an inaugural ceremony in front of the Bent pyramid of King Sneferu, the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 4th necropolis. turmoil that followed its 2011 home to some of Egypt’s oldest dynasty, in the ancient royal necropolis of Dahshur on the west bank of the Nile River, south of the capital Cairo The finds also included funer- uprising. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 06

Iman Haddo (C), a 20-year-old musician, plays a semsemia fan during a music session at the Canal 20 cultural museum in the northeastern city of Port Said at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal ‘Semsemia’ summons Ancient Pharaonic harp strums along to new tune Port Said, Egypt the Suez Canal through the Si- chipped away at making sem- launched an attack in 1956 af- semsemias. I live through the all-female semsemia choir nai Peninsula. This year marks semias for over a decade, but to ter then president Gamal Ab- craft,” he said. called Amwag (waves). hen Mohamed Gha- 150 years since the canal was no avail. del Nasser had nationalised the “In our local folk culture, girls ly’s workshop was officially inaugurated. Weeks later, however, Gha- canal, Egyptians wrote nation- ‘Not just for men’ would dance and perform to Wreduced to rubble in The semsemia is normally ly secured a new venue for El alistic songs inspired by their Iman Haddo, 20, is part of the the tune of the semsemia but February, he could never im - played in a dhamma (gathering) Toratheyah -- a folk arts associ- defence of the canal. young crowd that gathers at Ca- they weren’t ever expected to agine that a new cultural cen- with a tabla (an Arabic drum) ation he founded in 2005 dedi- The semsemia became a mu- nal 20, where Ghaly displays play so I thought why not start tre dedicated to an instrument and a riq (tambourine) accom- cated to the instrument. sical weapon of national resist- old photographs of semsemia a girls’ band,” she said. with Pharaonic roots would panying as the musicians sing. Canal 20, his new incarnation, ance. legends. They practice three times a thrive just months later. Ghaly, 52, convened a final is a cultural museum standing Port Said, a cosmopolitan trad- She instantly fell in love with week at Canal 20 and have been The semsemia, similar to dhamma flanked by bulldoz- just a stone’s throw away from ing hub on the Mediterranean the semsemia when she was a invited to play at music festivals. a harp and made of beechwood ers as his workshop in the city’s Port Said’s majestic harbour. that once boasted sizeable com- teenager after attending a local “We want to show music lov- with steel strings, is believed to famous fish markets was de - Its mission is to teach munities of French, Greeks, concert with her father. ers that the semsemia isn’t just have ancient Egyptian roots. It molished to make way the woodshop craft and Jews and Italians, was “I heard the semsemia for the for men, that women can play appears on ornate engravings for a new shopping pass on the semsem- destroyed during first time about seven years ago. it well and be successful at it,” on tombs. mall. ia’s musical heritage the Suez crisis. It was very strange for me, I’d she said. Ghaly, a carpenter by trade, Mostly men of to a new generation. In 1967 never seen it before and you nev- “We also want to save our her- is one of the last craftsmen in all ages played when Israel er see it around really,” she said. itage.” Egypt keeping the cultural herit- and sang through ‘Palpable spirit’ occupied the “I also questioned why it was age of the instrument alive. the night dancing Firefighter Ibra- Sinai, Ghaly’s family only boys playing and asked “It’s an enchanting instru- on the rubble. him Awad, 35, was among thousands where are the girls,” Haddo ment that summons you in a He had implored a semsemia fan of residents displaced to said. way, and I answered its call,” the authorities from an early age, other parts of Egypt. Semsemia players he said. to save his work - was there on the But he never forgot his Port are mostly older In the last century, the trian- shop, where mu - si- emotional night Saidi roots. men. gular lyre-lookalike with cians jammed when Ghaly had to “I used to hear it on the radio Strumming the a round bottom has be- and he close up shop. and that made me fall in love semsemia’s strings come associated with had “What I love is there with it. Here I was a Port Saidi came naturally to the coastal towns dot- isn’t a band with a away from my home -- so that her, and a year ted around the Suez leader but a palpable left a mark on me,” he said. ago, Haddo Canal, especially spirit you can feel...it’s He started tinkering around started the Port Said. really interactive,” he with making his own semsemias Arab It was brought said. in the 1980s. over by Nubian When British, French After a musician asked Ghaly workers who dug and Israeli troops to make him one, he enjoyed the challenge of putting his carpen- Mohamed Ghaly try skills to good use and has adds the finishing professionally been crafting touches on a them since 2003. semsemia fan “When I am crafting it, I’m that he made either in a really good mood at the Canal 20 or a bad one. When I’m really cultural museum upset, I actually make the best world’s first

The semsemia, a triangular lyre- lookalike instrument with a circle at the bottom and made of beech wood with steel strings, is believed to have ancient Egyptian roots, appearing on ornate engravings on tombs. In the past century, it has become associated with the coastal towns dotted around the Suez Canal, especially Port Said, when it was brought over by Nubian workers who dug the canal. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 06 0 Power outage plunges Manhattan into darkness

Iman Haddo (C), a 20-year-old musician, plays a semsemia fan during a music session at the Canal 20 cultural museum in the northeastern city of Port Said at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal

Times Square’s billboards are seen black after a power outage hit Manhattan in People sit and wait on the sidewalk after being evacuated from Row NYC hotel People celebrate on 6th Ave after the lights came back on after a major power New York City during a power outage that hit Manhattan in New York City outage affecting parts of New York City

‘Semsemia’ summons darkness, brought subways to a ed services across the United to keep traffic flowing, while in the way that they transmit Broadway theater district. About 42,000 halt and flicked off billboards in States’s most-populous city, with people strolled nonchalantly on power from one part of the city Most Broadway shows were • Times Square. New York’s Metropolitan Trans- streets that were temporarily to another to address demand,” canceled, including hit musi- customers lost electricity About 42,000 customers lost portation Authority on Twitter closed to vehicles. said de Blasio. cals “Hamilton” and “The Lion Ancient Pharaonic harp strums along to new tune electricity in the early evening, encouraging “everyone to avoid The mayor was not in New King,” while a choir performing ‘Blackout’ Port Said, Egypt The blackout according to power utility Con below-ground subway stations,” York but rather Iowa, where he at Carnegie Hall moved out to the Suez Canal through the Si- chipped away at making sem- launched an attack in 1956 af- semsemias. I live through the all-female semsemia choir disru• pted services across Edison, which didn’t indicate a which account for most of the At the Row NYC hotel on 8th was pursuing the Democratic the sidewalk to continue their nai Peninsula. This year marks semias for over a decade, but to ter then president Gamal Ab- craft,” he said. called Amwag (waves). the United States’s cause of the power failure. city’s rail network. Avenue, dozens of guests were nomination for president de- show. hen Mohamed Gha- 150 years since the canal was no avail. del Nasser had nationalised the “In our local folk culture, girls The power returned around Firefighters said they re- sitting on the sidewalk outside spite low poll numbers -- which It took place on the anniver- ly’s workshop was officially inaugurated. Weeks later, however, Gha- canal, Egyptians wrote nation- ‘Not just for men’ would dance and perform to most-populous city 10:00 pm (0200 GMT), accom- sponded to numerous requests the property. did not escape the notice of New sary of a 1977 power cut that af- Wreduced to rubble in The semsemia is normally ly secured a new venue for El alistic songs inspired by their Iman Haddo, 20, is part of the the tune of the semsemia but panied by applause that could be for help, particularly from peo- Hotel staff had asked them Yorkers. fected virtually all of New York February, he could never im - played in a dhamma (gathering) Toratheyah -- a folk arts associ- defence of the canal. young crowd that gathers at Ca- they weren’t ever expected to Mayor Bill de Blasio heard throughout the formerly ple trapped in elevators, and the not to go inside as there were “Drop out of the presiden- as it was struggling through an agine that a new cultural cen- with a tabla (an Arabic drum) ation he founded in 2005 dedi- The semsemia became a mu- nal 20, where Ghaly displays play so I thought why not start said• on Twitter that darkened streets. strobes of police cars and ambu- no lights for them to see by and tial campaign,” one commenter economic crisis. tre dedicated to an instrument and a riq (tambourine) accom- cated to the instrument. sical weapon of national resist- old photographs of semsemia a girls’ band,” she said. the outage was caused Mayor Bill de Blasio said on lances were some of the few to the elevators weren’t working, wrote on Twitter. “You clearly Looting and vandalism then with Pharaonic roots would panying as the musicians sing. Canal 20, his new incarnation, ance. legends. They practice three times a Twitter that the outage was stand out in a city where light is 16-year-old Spanish tourist Alba have to be in the city to -- you broke out, affecting more than thrive just months later. Ghaly, 52, convened a final is a cultural museum standing Port Said, a cosmopolitan trad- She instantly fell in love with week at Canal 20 and have been by a “manhole fire” caused by a “manhole fire,” but rarely in short supply. Moreno said. know -- do your job.” a thousand businesses before The semsemia, similar to dhamma flanked by bulldoz- just a stone’s throw away from ing hub on the Mediterranean the semsemia when she was a invited to play at music festivals. later told CNN it was under in- New Yorkers in general took Con Edison said it would have The cut affected the west- the lights came back on 25 hours a harp and made of beechwood ers as his workshop in the city’s Port Said’s majestic harbour. that once boasted sizeable com- teenager after attending a local “We want to show music lov- New York, United States vestigation. Saturday’s outage in stride, with most of its customers back on- ern chunk of Manhattan, par- later. with steel strings, is believed to famous fish markets was de - Its mission is to teach munities of French, Greeks, concert with her father. ers that the semsemia isn’t just Earlier in the day, dozens of passersby manning intersections line by midnight, but there were ticularly the have ancient Egyptian roots. It molished to make way the woodshop craft and Jews and Italians, was “I heard the semsemia for the for men, that women can play powe r outage tha t people posted photos on so- to direct traffic and a disrupted few details about the cause of Hell’s Kitch- appears on ornate engravings for a new shopping pass on the semsem- destroyed during first time about seven years ago. it well and be successful at it,” gripped New York’s cial media of streets, subways Carnegie Hall concert continu- the outage. en neighbor- on tombs. mall. ia’s musical heritage the Suez crisis. It was very strange for me, I’d she said. AM anhattan ended on and apartments shrouded ing in the street. “This appears to be something hood and the Ghaly, a carpenter by trade, Mostly men of to a new generation. In 1967 never seen it before and you nev- “We also want to save our her- Saturday after it plunged Broad- in darkness. Officers shouted “let’s that just went is one of the last craftsmen in all ages played when Israel er see it around really,” she said. itage.” way theaters into The blackout disrupt- go!” at drivers as they tried wrong Egypt keeping the cultural herit- and sang through ‘Palpable spirit’ occupied the “I also questioned why it was age of the instrument alive. the night dancing Firefighter Ibra- Sinai, Ghaly’s family only boys playing and asked “It’s an enchanting instru- on the rubble. him Awad, 35, was among thousands where are the girls,” Haddo ment that summons you in a He had implored a semsemia fan of residents displaced to said. way, and I answered its call,” the authorities from an early age, other parts of Egypt. Semsemia players he said. to save his work - was there on the But he never forgot his Port are mostly older In the last century, the trian- shop, where mu - si- emotional night Saidi roots. men. gular lyre-lookalike with cians jammed when Ghaly had to “I used to hear it on the radio Strumming the a round bottom has be- and he close up shop. and that made me fall in love semsemia’s strings come associated with had “What I love is there with it. Here I was a Port Saidi came naturally to the coastal towns dot- isn’t a band with a away from my home -- so that her, and a year The sun sets behind 42nd Street in Manhattan during a power outage in New York City ted around the Suez leader but a palpable left a mark on me,” he said. ago, Haddo Canal, especially spirit you can feel...it’s He started tinkering around started the Port Said. really interactive,” he with making his own semsemias Arab It was brought said. in the 1980s. Clashes at latest Hong Kong Armed man dead after At least 50 dead in Nepal’s over by Nubian When British, French After a musician asked Ghaly workers who dug and Israeli troops to make him one, he enjoyed the anti-extradition march attacking US immigration jail monsoon challenge of putting his carpen- Mohamed Ghaly try skills to good use and has adds the finishing professionally been crafting touches on a them since 2003. semsemia fan “When I am crafting it, I’m that he made either in a really good mood at the Canal 20 or a bad one. When I’m really cultural museum upset, I actually make the best world’s first

The semsemia, a triangular lyre- Police officers tear the shirt of a protester during a clash inside a shopping There had been protests outside the Tacoma facility immigration in 2018 lookalike instrument with a circle at arcade in Sha Tin of Hong Kong added. with riot police ensued. Los Angeles, United States The assailant was identified Nepali army along with emergeny and airport personnel are seen next to a Hong Kong, China Hong Kong has been rocked by police as 69-year-old Wil- Yeti Airlines aircraft after it skidded off the runaway during landing at the the bottom and made of beech wood Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu by more than a month of huge n armed man who at- lem Van Spronsen. with steel strings, is believed to have olice and protesters largely peaceful protests -- as Atacked a US immigration He had previously been con- Pclashed again in Hong well as a series of separate vio- detention facility with “incen- victed of obstructing a police Kathmandu, Nepal Nepal police spokesman ancient Egyptian roots, appearing on Kong yesterday as unrest lent confrontations with police diary devices” has been shot officer after an altercation Bishwaraj Pokharel said 33 caused by a widely-loathed -- sparked by a law that would dead after a confrontation with during a protest outside the loods and landslides people are missing while over ornate engravings on tombs. In the plan to allow extraditions to have allowed extraditions to police in the northwestern city facility last year, according to Fcaused by torrential mon- 1,100 people have been res- mainland China showed no mainland China and other of Tacoma, authorities said. local media reports. soon rains have killed at least cued. past century, it has become associated sign of abating. countries. Officers arrived at the None of the officers involved 50 people across Nepal while “We have mobilised all re- Police used pepper spray Last month, parliament Northwest Detention Center in the shooting was injured. All dozens more are missing, offi- sources in the country for with the coastal towns dotted and batons against small was trashed by hundreds of early Saturday after a report four men were placed on ad- cials said yesterday. search, rescue and relief groups of protesters who took masked, youth-led protesters the man -- armed with a rifle ministrative leave in line with Northeast India has also and have been able to reach around the Suez Canal, over a road on the sidelines in unprecedented scenes. -- had set a car on fire and had regular department policy, po- been hit by floods with 11 all affected areas,” Pokharel of another huge rally in Sha The bill has since been post- attempted to ignite a large pro- lice said. Immigration has been deaths recorded as rivers burst said. especially Port Said, when Tin, a district that lies between poned, but that has done little pane tank, the city police de- the subject of a divisive politi- their banks. Authorities said river levels it was brought over by the main urban sprawl around to quell public anger which partment said in a statement. cal battle in the US, which has Heavy rains since Thurs- are expected to return to nor- the harbour and the Chinese has evolved into a wider move- The man, who was carrying struggled for more than a year day have hit several districts mal from Monday. Nubian workers who dug border. ment calling for democratic re- flares and a satchel bag in ad- with a migration crisis on its in Nepal, especially in the Monsoon rains from June to Masked protesters respond- forms, universal suffrage and a dition to his weapon, died of southern border as thousands country’s eastern region and September cause widespread the canal. ed by building barricades from halt to sliding freedoms in the gunshot wounds after officers of people travel to the US each the southern plains, affecting death and destruction across metal fencing and a stand-off semi-autonomous hub. arrived on the scene, police month. thousands. South Asia each year. TIME AND HEALTH ARE TWO PRECIOUS ASSETS THAT WE DON’T RECOGNIZE AND TODAY 1996 1997 1998 0000 QUOTE DAY IN OF THE APPRECIATE UNTIL THEY A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules Fashion designer Gianni Versace is Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh HISTORY DAY HAVE BEEN DEPLETED. carrying the Royal Netherlands murdered by spree killer Andrew Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is pleads guilty to supplying aid to the Army marching band crashes on Cunanan outside the front gate of killed by a claymore mine. enemy and to possession of explosives MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 DENIS WAITLEY landing at Eindhoven Airport. his Casa Casuarina mansion. during the commission of a felony.

Iran only a threat if the world allows it to be Diplomatic crisis, a reflection TOP Tehran’s predatory leaders have 40 years’ experience of exploiting the weaknesses of crisis-wracked states of the chaos of Brexit Britain TWEETS4

bined force capacity exponentially The ayatollahs are exhilarated greater than Tehran’s puny armed by their high-risk game of divide 01 forces? This is not pluckiness. Just and conquer against the interna- like Hizbollah’s Hassan Nasral- tional community; leaving the US lah during the 2006 conflict, the looking highly isolated in its max- ayatollahs would flee into their imum pressure policy, while turn- BARIA ALAMUDDIN underground bolt-holes, leaving ing the heat on individual states long-suffering Iranians in the line like the UK when they do try and he Iranian Army’s Brig of fire. Nasrallah in recent days has get tough. However, by triggering rump tells Oca - Gen Alireza Fard said this been bellowing similarly bellicose sharp rises in oil prices, increased Tsio-Cortez and oth- Tmonth: “Our deterrence and hyperbole: “Any war will be big- risks to shipping and threats to er female progressives secret weapons have stopped the ger than the 2006 war for Israel global energy security, Iran is bit- to ‘go back’ to ‘original’ filthy enemy 200 miles away in the and it will put it on the brink of ing the hands that feed it. Does countries Strait of Hormuz.” extinction.” But what about the Tehran truly believe that ener- @guardian President Hassan Rouhani has civilian populations caught up in gy-hungry states like China will said: “The White House’s actions the middle of Nasrallah’s frenzied be sympathetic to its obstructions The real mean it is mentally retarded.” apocalyptical fantasies? of shipping? IRGC aerospace commander Tensions were ratcheted up fur- None of us want war, especially story behind 02 Amirali Hajizadeh claimed: “An ther last week when, in compli- not the Iranian people and cer- aircraft carrier that has at least 40 ance with international sanctions, tainly not Trump, who roars like Sir Kim to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces British authorities in Gibraltar im- a lion in his tweets but bleats like Darroch’s gathered within it was a serious pounded an Iranian tanker illegally a lamb when it comes to holding threat for us in the past, but now conveying oil to the Assad regime. that Boris Johnson is the favourite The recent spat between The recent spat between Britain Tehran accountable. Yet the cur- resignation it is a target and the threats have Iran improbably threatened to re- to be prime minister, the UK by far Britain and the US over and the US over leaked deprecat- rent pattern of provocations takes switched to opportunities. If they taliate by seizing a British ship. is not yet Syria or Yemen. leaked deprecating ing comments about Trump by us down a path where some form lies not ormer Obama make a move we will hit them in Within hours, they tried their luck Despite the US administra- the British ambassador demon- of confrontation (whether limited FDHS Secretary Jeh the head.” against a British tanker passing tion’s clumsy attempts to project comments about Trump strates how brittle relations with strikes or extended conflagration) in the US Johnson on @realdon- Islamic Revolutionary Guard through the Strait of Hormuz, but strength on the international are- by the British ambassador the Trump administration can becomes inevitable. For China, Ja- aldtrump’s tweets this Corps (IRGC) deputy commander the IRGC’s wannabe hijackers were na, Western nations have never demonstrates how brittle be. If Britain wants to protect its pan, Russia, Germany and France, capital but in morning: “I cannot be- Ali Fadavi added on Thursday: “No sent packing by a naval frigate. Ira- looked more divided and ineffec- relations with the Trump shipping and overseas assets from sitting on the fence and waiting lieve a president of the one dares to fire even a single bullet nian Foreign Minister Mohammed tual — with the Europeans seeking administration can be. terrorism and Iranian threats, it is to see how things play out isn’t a Westminster Britain’s ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, attending the Trump-May press conference at the White House in Washington. United States would at our country.” Javad Zarif blusteringly denied to undermine the US by preserving compelled to fall back on its tra- sensible option. Through naked make a comment about And IRGC commander Qassem the incident ever happened. Al- the 2015 nuclear deal at all costs. ditional international alliances. economic necessity, these powers foreign born members of Soleimani has said: “We are near though Britain is currently further US President Donald Trump’s con- European states have habitually must, sooner or later, sign up to GAVIN ESLER one of two candidates left in But perhaps the rules have special relationship” was used bitions by threatening to go to Congress suggesting they you, where you can’t even im - beefing up its Gulf presence, it has fused vacillations about his own stood together when threatened, multilateral efforts to neutralise the battle to become our next changed, although the by American presidents only court if the next prime minister go back from where they agine... Come. We are ready. If you indicated its readiness to release policies haven’t helped: Tweets despite self-defeating British at- Iranian sabre-rattling. n his early work The Mid- prime minister and he accused when “they want to tickle the suspends British parliament came from.” begin the war, we will end the war.” Iran’s tanker — if Tehran pledges signalling that the nuclear issue is tempts to render itself the black On the international stage, Iran night Palace, the novelist Mr Trump of being “disrespect- British sense of humour Brits on the belly”. without dissolving it, or, in po- @FaceTheNation These are just a few of the pug- no repeat trips to Syria. This is the only bone of contention contra- sheep of the family. is an insignificant irritant. Yet, ICarlos Ruiz Zafon wrote ful and wrong”. But Mr Hunt’s helps us through the storm. A key skill of ambassadors litical jargon, “prorogues” it, nacious recent threats by Iranian somewhat equivalent to giving a dict the administration’s exertions This crisis furthermore draws just as the black rat spread the that he hoped there would be rival and the frontrunner, the British wits have suggested is to make friends. Mr Trump to deliver a no-deal Brexit. Sir officials, alongside the Foreign serial killer his knife back on con- against Iranian regional aggres- attention to Iran’s reliance on dis- bubonic plague and the humble forgiveness “for the harm I may former foreign secretary Boris that the new British is skilled at making – and in - John said that would be “utterly Ministry insisting that “foreign dition of promises of future good sion through paramilitary proxies. for protecting Arabian Gulf ship- puted islands and waterways, from mosquito carries malaria, when have inflicted on you by telling Johnson, effectively sank Sir ambassador to Washington deed, needing – enemies. But and totally unacceptable”. Mr powers should leave the region.” behaviour. Ceaseless new rounds of sanctions ping. A US military expert told me which it has staged attacks and global decision-makers fail to in- you exactly what happened”. Kim’s career by refusing to of- should be someone Mr the real story about all this is Johnson’s beleaguered team 03 The mullahs have become so iso- Tehran’s predatory leaders have are subject to the law of diminish- that there would also be a rapid where it hoards offensive weapons. troduce appropriate preventive It is a piece of wisdom which fer real support during a Tory Trump loathes. not in Washington. It is here in shot back that Sir John “has lated from the real world that they 40 years’ experience of exploiting ing returns, while a leading Iranian upgrading of surveillance of IRGC What if the international commu- measures, tiny parasitic menaces works in fiction and perhaps leadership debate and Sir Kim Westminster. At first sight, Mr gone completely bonkers” and are deluding themselves with their the weaknesses of crisis-wracked export market — Iraq — has again activities: “We’ll deal with them nity was to retaliate by confiscat- are capable of bringing the world also in real life. There are times resigned. Johnson might appear to have had “clearly been driven com- own fantastical propaganda of be- states. They sniffed blood in the been granted sanctions waivers. before they even get close.” Al- ing these maritime launch pads to its knees. when people are punished very There are now various inves- been the beneficiary of the leak. pletely mad by Brexit”. ing all-conquering, globe-strad- water, with Britain enmeshed in a The lack of international consen- though the operation may benefit and restore them to their rightful severely because they have told tigations into who the leaker He boasts that as prime minis- And so, welcome to Brexit (Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning US dling warlords. deteriorating political crisis over sus gives China, India and others from command and control, Khaleeji owners? The risk of losing journalist and broadcaster in the Middle the truth – by saying “exactly might be, why he or she acted ter, he could secure strong rela- Britain: civil war in the Con - Who do Iran’s leaders think they its relationship with the EU. How- a green light to ignore oil sanctions. given that much of the shipping prime waterside real estate would East and the UK. She is editor of the what happened”. That certainly in this profoundly disloyal way, tions with Mr Trump and mend servative party; an honourable ndia is headed to are — threatening and provoking ever, while British politics has de- The final touches are being put is destined for Asian markets, this certainly make Iran’s leaders think Media Services Syndicate and has inter- applies to the fate of the Brit- and who might benefit. But the fences. Other strong Brexit ex-prime minister accused of Ithe Moon! Wishing NATO members who enjoy a com- scended into such shambolic farce to a multinational naval strategy must be a broad coalition. twice. viewed numerous heads of state.) ish ambassador to the US, Sir overarching political question supporters connected with being insane by “friends” of the #Chandrayan2 total Kim Darroch, who resigned on is why someone wanting to be quick wit, excellent communi- Ms Oakeshott also claim to be man who wants to be his suc- success. My salute to Wednesday. In what were sup- prime minister would fail to cation skills – and none of them close to Trump. In one famous cessor; an honourable ex-am- the scientists and engi- CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE posed to be highly confidential back an esteemed British am- could be described as “wacky” photograph, Mr Farage stands bassador forced out of his job – neers of Hindustan who dispatches to the Foreign Office bassador who was simply do- or “very stupid” or “pompous with Mr Trump in front of the for doing his job. And a “special have made this possible. in London, Sir Kim described ing his job, as honestly as he fools”. Quite the reverse. They fake gold elevators at Trump relationship” between the US Bharat Mata ki Jai. You Donald Trump’s administra- could. Which leads us back to were all smart and great compa- Tower. But whoever was behind and the UK worryingly close to make us proud. tion as “inept” and “dysfunc- Ms Oakeshott. She is very close ny. They made you like them – a the leak, Mr Johnson’s supine being a master-servant relation- @TarekFatah A great heritage honour for the Kingdom tional”. This is hardly news. to leading Brexit advocates, in- wonderful skill in itself – but attitude has made him look ship, in which British ambassa- American newspapers and cluding Brexit Party leader Ni- they were also very blunt when extremely weak. Nick Boles, a dors can be easily destroyed by CNN have broadcast much the gel Farage, Leave campaign do- they needed to be. former Conservative MP, de- a few tweets and the whims of ne of the most impres- mun, as Bahrain was then known, was listed in 2012. The efforts of city of Saar is remarkably well nowhere else in this region hosts speculated that diets of oysters same analysis since Mr Trump nor Arron Banks, businessman I remember being in the am- scribed Mr Johnson as “Donald the White House. sive features of Bahrain’s rose and fell as the pattern of wid- the Bahrain Authority for Culture preserved and is currently going so many of these structures in may have led to the discovery of was inaugurated as president and Leave campaigner Andy bassador’s residence, a stunning Trump’s poodle”. Conservative Sir John’s intervention re - 04 Odesert landscape are the er civilisations evolved. Whenev- and Antiquities are commendable through a process of restoration, such high density. Many burial pearls and therefore the origins of in 2017. There are 175 foreign Wigmore and Lord Michael Lutyens building dating back MP Alan Duncan more politely minds me that when he was thousands of large burial mounds er the Arabian Gulf increased as in preserving the rich culture and so that it can be developed for grounds date back to the second Bahrain’s famed pearling industry. embassies in Washington and Ashcroft, the former deputy to 1928, when the then ambas- said “the respect held for Boris prime minister, he had a terrible which in some locations stretch the primary trading route then history of Bahrain and putting the tourism and artefacts from the and third centuries BC, but some The Bahraini government is Sir Kim is certainly not the only chairman of the Conservative sador tore into journalists for Johnson has taken a serious no- personal relationship with then out as far as the eye can see. Many Bahrain’s fortunes rose. This is Kingdom’s popular sites on the site can be exhibited. are around 2,000 years old. The looking to make Bahrain a des- ambassador to offer this insight party, among others. She was describing America’s relation- sedive” among Tory MPs. US president Bill Clinton. “Don’t mounds are around 40 metres evident in the patterns of building international map. The Saar site is encircled by tall oldest and largest burial mounds tination for heritage tourism. At into the Trump administration. the ghostwriter for a book cel- ship with the UK as “the special Polls suggest Mr Trump is worry,” a very senior British in height. Before many were and wealth accumulation in key It was only relatively recent- and thick stone walls and there - the “Royal Tombs” - are found at the Bahrain National Museum He lost his job not because ebrating some of their activities relationship”. The ambassador regarded as a poor president by diplomat told me. “The pres- destroyed by development pro- sites on the Bahraini islands; not ly, during the mid-20th century, are well-preserved foundations Aali; some measuring up to 15 me- you can see a wealth of artefacts of what he did but because, called The Bad Boys of Brexit. vigorously insisted that Amer- two-thirds of British people. ident and prime minister are jects, there were perhaps around least in styles of tomb building. that it was proved that the land of temples and homes with in- tres in height and 45 metres wide. from Bahrain’s ancient civilisa- through no fault of his own, Why did the leak end up in ica, being a superpower, had He is a reservoir of jokes for fated to get along.” eepest condolences 100,000 of these across Bahrain in Given how much of this burial of Dilmun – praised by the Mes- tact ovens, shops, and even res- A major urban site of ancient tions, and historical sites are be- it became public. A damaging her hands? We don’t know. special relationships of many British comedians and satiri- “Why?” I asked. “Because Dto the families who the early twentieth century. heritage has been lost as a result opotamians as a wealthy place of taurants. Saar and several other Dilmun is at Qal’at al-Bahrain ing renovated to make them more leak of his sensitive communi- What we do know is that as kinds, with many countries. He cal magazines as well as main- it’s the rules,” the diplomat lost their loved ones in The Dilmun Burial Mounds of urban development, the UN- “sweet water” and pearls – was locations – notably Barbar – boast (Bahrain Fort), which was oc- accessible. Bahrain’s abundance cations came to a journalist, Is- a police inquiry begins, some went through a long list, begin- stream journals. Moreover, the laughed. the tragic road accident were listed as a UNESCO world ESCO recognition is a welcome definitely the islands of Bahrain. temple sites, where altars and cupied since 2,300BC. This was of ancient sites is one of the rea- abel Oakeshott. We’ll hear more leading Conservatives have at- ning with Mexico and Canada, bullying – for that is how it is But perhaps the rules have in Portugal. Our Embassy heritage site on 6 July 2019. They development for securing their Archaeologists now know evidence of animal sacrifice have much later the site of a substan- sons why it has become a UNESCO about her in a moment. When tacked their likely future leader, because they shared borders seen – from Mr Trump comes changed, although the Brit - @IndiainPortugal is in consist of 21 principal archaeolog- preservation and gaining greater ancient Bahrain to have been a been found. tive Portuguese fort which stands regional headquarters. the story broke, Mr Trump, Mr Johnson, for being weak with the US; Israel; Ireland; Ja- when the biggest decision in ish sense of humour helps us constant touch with lo- ical sites, the oldest dating back to global awareness of their histori- wealthy trading centre. It was The belief system seems to have there to this day. However, un- With abundant sweet water notoriously thin-skinned, be- and craven in kowtowing to Mr pan; Saudi Arabia; France for our lifetimes, over Brexit, has through the storm. British wits cal authorities and com- around 2,200 BC. The graves are cal significance. Bahrain National one of the few locations on major had a lot in common with Meso- derneath the Portuguese fort can flowing from its springs, Dilmun gan one of his Twitter tirades. Trump. They know that British its role in helping the Ameri- still not come to a conclusion. have suggested that the new munity leaders. We are of different styles, sizes and be- Museum has an excellent set of trading routes between Mesopo- potamia and ancient Egypt: Bur- be found the ruins towns built on was also an important centre for He accused Sir Kim of being ambassadors in Washington are can colonies win independence, Ironically, Brexit enthusiasts British ambassador to Wash- extending all assistance long to different eras, these sites displays where people can go to tamia and the Indus Valley where ial of the dead with tools, food, top of each other over subsequent agriculture, an oasis of fertility in “wacky … a very stupid guy … generally outstanding individu- and so on. He said we could speak of “taking back control” ington should be someone Mr to the bereaved families include around 11,700 historical learn more about Dilmun’s burial ships could stop and obtain fresh weapons and gold indicates a periods, as well as a Greek city a mainly desolate region. Hence a pompous fool,” and that has als. I have not met Sir Kim but say Britain has “a” special re- from Brussels while apparently Trump loathes – Sadiq Khan, in this tragic time. mounds. Seventeen of these are traditions, as well as the lifestyles water; as well as loading up on belief in the afterlife. However, dating back to 200BC. the legend that Bahrain is the exploded into a nasty political I got to know five or six of his lationship with the US, based condoning their (most likely) the first Muslim to become @DrSJaishankar known to be royal mounds. of ancient islanders and their role supplies. Dilmun merchants also there is much that is unknown Excavations have now found biblical Garden of Eden. row within the British govern- predecessors during the decade on shared values, shared sac- next prime minister for barking mayor of London. As in the the At the time when these graves in the global trading system. had a monopoly of trade in cop- about this early Dilmun civili- evidence for Neolithic commu- We hope that greater awareness ment and Conservative party. that I worked in Washington as rifice and shared intelligence on command when he hears his novel by Ruiz Zafon, I would began to appear, over 4,000 years The Dilmun burial mounds are per, shipped from the mines of sation, including what language nities in Bahrain since 5,000BC, of Bahrain’s spectacular history The current prime minister, the BBC’s chief North America on defence matters. But talk of master’s voice. like to tell you “exactly what Disclaimer: (Views expressed ago, Bahrain was becoming a pros- the third Bahraini site to be listed Oman. these ancient Bahrainis spoke. along with stone tools and the and culture will bring more vis- Theresa May, defended Our correspondent. They all had “the” special relationship was The former Conservative happened” in all this but things by columnists are personal and perous and vital central hub of a as a UNESCO world heritage site Archaeologists have uncov- Bahrain is also home to some scattered remains of animal bones itors to our modern-day Garden Man in Washington. So did Sir very different personalities but a foolish British delusion. An prime minister Sir John Major are so bonkers at Westminster need not necessarily reflect our growing international maritime following the Bahrain Fort site in ered impressive cities and tem- 170,000 burial mounds in honey- and shell fish – indicating their of Eden! Kim’s boss, the Foreign Secre- shared the same accomplish- American State Department of- has thrown another spanner right now, the truth may be editorial stances) trade system. The fortunes of Dil- 2005 and the Pearling Trail which ples across Bahrain. The ancient comb-shaped burial complexes; dietary preferences. It has been Citizens for Bahrain tary Jeremy Hunt. Mr Hunt is ments – a first-rate brain, a ficial said to me the phrase “the into Mr Johnson’s grand am- stranger than fiction.

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The ayatollahs are exhilarated by their high-risk game of divide 01 and conquer against the interna- tional community; leaving the US looking highly isolated in its max- imum pressure policy, while turn- ing the heat on individual states like the UK when they do try and get tough. However, by triggering rump tells Oca - sharp rises in oil prices, increased Tsio-Cortez and oth- risks to shipping and threats to er female progressives global energy security, Iran is bit- to ‘go back’ to ‘original’ ing the hands that feed it. Does countries Tehran truly believe that ener- @guardian gy-hungry states like China will be sympathetic to its obstructions The real of shipping? None of us want war, especially story behind 02 not the Iranian people and cer- tainly not Trump, who roars like Sir Kim a lion in his tweets but bleats like Darroch’s a lamb when it comes to holding Tehran accountable. Yet the cur- resignation rent pattern of provocations takes us down a path where some form lies not ormer Obama of confrontation (whether limited FDHS Secretary Jeh strikes or extended conflagration) in the US Johnson on @realdon- becomes inevitable. For China, Ja- aldtrump’s tweets this pan, Russia, Germany and France, capital but in morning: “I cannot be- sitting on the fence and waiting lieve a president of the to see how things play out isn’t a Westminster Britain’s ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, attending the Trump-May press conference at the White House in Washington. United States would sensible option. Through naked make a comment about economic necessity, these powers foreign born members of must, sooner or later, sign up to GAVIN ESLER one of two candidates left in But perhaps the rules have special relationship” was used bitions by threatening to go to Congress suggesting they multilateral efforts to neutralise the battle to become our next changed, although the by American presidents only court if the next prime minister go back from where they Iranian sabre-rattling. n his early work The Mid- prime minister and he accused when “they want to tickle the suspends British parliament came from.” On the international stage, Iran night Palace, the novelist Mr Trump of being “disrespect- British sense of humour Brits on the belly”. without dissolving it, or, in po- @FaceTheNation is an insignificant irritant. Yet, ICarlos Ruiz Zafon wrote ful and wrong”. But Mr Hunt’s helps us through the storm. A key skill of ambassadors litical jargon, “prorogues” it, just as the black rat spread the that he hoped there would be rival and the frontrunner, the British wits have suggested is to make friends. Mr Trump to deliver a no-deal Brexit. Sir bubonic plague and the humble forgiveness “for the harm I may former foreign secretary Boris that the new British is skilled at making – and in - John said that would be “utterly mosquito carries malaria, when have inflicted on you by telling Johnson, effectively sank Sir ambassador to Washington deed, needing – enemies. But and totally unacceptable”. Mr global decision-makers fail to in- you exactly what happened”. Kim’s career by refusing to of- should be someone Mr the real story about all this is Johnson’s beleaguered team 03 troduce appropriate preventive It is a piece of wisdom which fer real support during a Tory Trump loathes. not in Washington. It is here in shot back that Sir John “has measures, tiny parasitic menaces works in fiction and perhaps leadership debate and Sir Kim Westminster. At first sight, Mr gone completely bonkers” and are capable of bringing the world also in real life. There are times resigned. Johnson might appear to have had “clearly been driven com- to its knees. when people are punished very There are now various inves- been the beneficiary of the leak. pletely mad by Brexit”. severely because they have told tigations into who the leaker He boasts that as prime minis- And so, welcome to Brexit (Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in the Middle the truth – by saying “exactly might be, why he or she acted ter, he could secure strong rela- Britain: civil war in the Con - East and the UK. She is editor of the what happened”. That certainly in this profoundly disloyal way, tions with Mr Trump and mend servative party; an honourable ndia is headed to Media Services Syndicate and has inter- applies to the fate of the Brit- and who might benefit. But the fences. Other strong Brexit ex-prime minister accused of Ithe Moon! Wishing viewed numerous heads of state.) ish ambassador to the US, Sir overarching political question supporters connected with being insane by “friends” of the #Chandrayan2 total Kim Darroch, who resigned on is why someone wanting to be quick wit, excellent communi- Ms Oakeshott also claim to be man who wants to be his suc- success. My salute to Wednesday. In what were sup- prime minister would fail to cation skills – and none of them close to Trump. In one famous cessor; an honourable ex-am- the scientists and engi- posed to be highly confidential back an esteemed British am- could be described as “wacky” photograph, Mr Farage stands bassador forced out of his job – neers of Hindustan who dispatches to the Foreign Office bassador who was simply do- or “very stupid” or “pompous with Mr Trump in front of the for doing his job. And a “special have made this possible. in London, Sir Kim described ing his job, as honestly as he fools”. Quite the reverse. They fake gold elevators at Trump relationship” between the US Bharat Mata ki Jai. You Donald Trump’s administra- could. Which leads us back to were all smart and great compa- Tower. But whoever was behind and the UK worryingly close to make us proud. tion as “inept” and “dysfunc- Ms Oakeshott. She is very close ny. They made you like them – a the leak, Mr Johnson’s supine being a master-servant relation- @TarekFatah tional”. This is hardly news. to leading Brexit advocates, in- wonderful skill in itself – but attitude has made him look ship, in which British ambassa- American newspapers and cluding Brexit Party leader Ni- they were also very blunt when extremely weak. Nick Boles, a dors can be easily destroyed by CNN have broadcast much the gel Farage, Leave campaign do- they needed to be. former Conservative MP, de- a few tweets and the whims of same analysis since Mr Trump nor Arron Banks, businessman I remember being in the am- scribed Mr Johnson as “Donald the White House. was inaugurated as president and Leave campaigner Andy bassador’s residence, a stunning Trump’s poodle”. Conservative Sir John’s intervention re - 04 in 2017. There are 175 foreign Wigmore and Lord Michael Lutyens building dating back MP Alan Duncan more politely minds me that when he was embassies in Washington and Ashcroft, the former deputy to 1928, when the then ambas- said “the respect held for Boris prime minister, he had a terrible Sir Kim is certainly not the only chairman of the Conservative sador tore into journalists for Johnson has taken a serious no- personal relationship with then ambassador to offer this insight party, among others. She was describing America’s relation- sedive” among Tory MPs. US president Bill Clinton. “Don’t into the Trump administration. the ghostwriter for a book cel- ship with the UK as “the special Polls suggest Mr Trump is worry,” a very senior British He lost his job not because ebrating some of their activities relationship”. The ambassador regarded as a poor president by diplomat told me. “The pres- of what he did but because, called The Bad Boys of Brexit. vigorously insisted that Amer- two-thirds of British people. ident and prime minister are through no fault of his own, Why did the leak end up in ica, being a superpower, had He is a reservoir of jokes for fated to get along.” eepest condolences it became public. A damaging her hands? We don’t know. special relationships of many British comedians and satiri- “Why?” I asked. “Because Dto the families who leak of his sensitive communi- What we do know is that as kinds, with many countries. He cal magazines as well as main- it’s the rules,” the diplomat lost their loved ones in cations came to a journalist, Is- a police inquiry begins, some went through a long list, begin- stream journals. Moreover, the laughed. the tragic road accident abel Oakeshott. We’ll hear more leading Conservatives have at- ning with Mexico and Canada, bullying – for that is how it is But perhaps the rules have in Portugal. Our Embassy about her in a moment. When tacked their likely future leader, because they shared borders seen – from Mr Trump comes changed, although the Brit - @IndiainPortugal is in the story broke, Mr Trump, Mr Johnson, for being weak with the US; Israel; Ireland; Ja- when the biggest decision in ish sense of humour helps us constant touch with lo- notoriously thin-skinned, be- and craven in kowtowing to Mr pan; Saudi Arabia; France for our lifetimes, over Brexit, has through the storm. British wits cal authorities and com- gan one of his Twitter tirades. Trump. They know that British its role in helping the Ameri- still not come to a conclusion. have suggested that the new munity leaders. We are He accused Sir Kim of being ambassadors in Washington are can colonies win independence, Ironically, Brexit enthusiasts British ambassador to Wash- extending all assistance “wacky … a very stupid guy … generally outstanding individu- and so on. He said we could speak of “taking back control” ington should be someone Mr to the bereaved families a pompous fool,” and that has als. I have not met Sir Kim but say Britain has “a” special re- from Brussels while apparently Trump loathes – Sadiq Khan, in this tragic time. exploded into a nasty political I got to know five or six of his lationship with the US, based condoning their (most likely) the first Muslim to become @DrSJaishankar row within the British govern- predecessors during the decade on shared values, shared sac- next prime minister for barking mayor of London. As in the the ment and Conservative party. that I worked in Washington as rifice and shared intelligence on command when he hears his novel by Ruiz Zafon, I would The current prime minister, the BBC’s chief North America on defence matters. But talk of master’s voice. like to tell you “exactly what Disclaimer: (Views expressed Theresa May, defended Our correspondent. They all had “the” special relationship was The former Conservative happened” in all this but things by columnists are personal and Man in Washington. So did Sir very different personalities but a foolish British delusion. An prime minister Sir John Major are so bonkers at Westminster need not necessarily reflect our Kim’s boss, the Foreign Secre- shared the same accomplish- American State Department of- has thrown another spanner right now, the truth may be editorial stances) tary Jeremy Hunt. Mr Hunt is ments – a first-rate brain, a ficial said to me the phrase “the into Mr Johnson’s grand am- stranger than fiction.

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Moroccan potter Houda Oumal (R) and her mother Fatima Harama from the Moroccan potter Aicha Tabiz, also known as Mama Aicha, holds one of her Houda Oumal (L) paints with natural pigments on one of her pieces of pottery M’tioua tribe work on pottery works Instagram changed their lives Social media rescue Morocco’s last woman potters Moroccan potter Fatima Harama from the M’tioua tribe works on pottery near the village of Ourtzagh in the region of Taounate

Ourtzagh, Morocco Their goal is to used clay pots and bowls for dai- boutique in the tirely illegally, learn how to shape clay pieces ly life and my mother sold them capital Rabat. Set up last year, Sumano pro- the principal source of income eautiful handcrafted pot- by hand, dry them in the sun, fire at market, but today everyone But the most famous is un - motes Moroccan tribal women’s of the Rif. She began to mould tery made by Mama Aicha them in a large open pit filled prefers plastic,” said Mohamed doubtedly the artistic director handicrafts. clay at the age of seven, but she rarely sells in Morocco an- with wood and polish them with Tabiz, 53, Aicha’s eldest son. of Dior, Italian Maria Grazia does not read or write. There B New designs ymore, but thanks to social me- stone before decorating them Researchers, collectors, en- Chiuri, who recently put the are five mosques in the com - dia her ancient techniques are with natural pigments. thusiasts are among the many Rif potters in the spotlight at a With a twinkle in her eye, munity, but not a single school. drawing students from around Like everywhere in the Rif that have warned for decades of haute couture fashion show in Mama Aicha patiently guides “This craft allows us to make the world to the foothills of the mountains, women potters from the disappearance of this craft Marrakesh. her students in the studio set up a good living, we need to make Rif mountains. the Sless tribe, to which Aicha once passed down from gener- But, it is thanks to Instagram next to the family farm. our expertise known so that it “When I heard about the Tabiz’s family belongs, are van- ation to generation. that Mama Aicha’s work has Papers tacked to the wall list becomes profitable”, she said workshop on Instagram, I ishing. “We wanted to establish a gained a global reputation. useful words in the local dialect with a timid smile. signed up immediately because The tribe counted around museum in the village,” Tabiz “It’s used a lot by potters, - terms for pottery and tools, Recently, the young wom- the practice is disappearing,” 90 potters at the end of 1990s. said, but “the local authorities everyone posts photographs of common phrases such as “can an began to sign her creations said Mirna Banieh, a young Now, only a half-dozen remain. weren’t interested”. their pieces (and) exchanges you help me?” and “what do you with her initials, adding more artist who travelled to Moroc- “The youth here don’t want to The most scholarly of those tips and advice”, said Kim West, think of this?” graphic designs and new shapes co from the West Bank town of dirty their hands with clay. They calling attention to the tradi- a 33-year-old British workshop The master potter teaches to “diversify her work and stand Ramallah. dream of being officials with tion’s decline, German anthro- participant. mainly using gestures. Like the out”. “Mama Aicha is old and her fixed salaries,” said the grand- pologist Rudiger Vossen, criss- Through this global word-of- majority of women from remote “For us, these pieces are knowledge must be passed mother, everyone affectionately crossed Morocco in the 1980s mouth promotion, the work- parts of Morocco, she dedicated works of art, they have real val- down,” she added. calls Mama Aicha. and 90s to catalogue the tech- shops advertised on the website her life to her fields, her live- ue”, Valdeon said. Banieh’s four fellow students The ancestral knowledge that, niques and designs used by each of a new association, Sumano, stock and her children. The Sumano association plac- sit cross-legged on mats, their according to some experts dates tribe. have seen staggering success. At 27, Houda Oumal, from the es orders with the potters, buys hands covered in clay learning back to the Bronze Age, is being Volunteers from the “Terre “All the spots were filled two neighbouring tribe M’tioua, is the works, transports them to from the 82-year-old potter. lost little by little due to a de- des Femmes” (Women’s Earth) days after registration opened, one of the few to want to “follow Spain and sells them at 20 times They came from London and cline in the market. association have travelled to the we had a waiting list with appli- in the footsteps of her mother”. the local price on its website, Nairobi to a remote hamlet at Rif for years, collecting pottery cants from across the globe,” said She lives with her parents at promising to redistribute the in- the end of a rocky trail for a Going plastic from isolated farms and sell - Martha Valdeon, 42, a co-found- the top of a mountain amid the come locally “when the business week-long initiation. “When I was young, everyone ing it to tourists from a small er of Sumano from Spain. cannabis fields that make up, en- becomes profitable”. MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 12 Facebook’s Libra currency under fire willing to use Libra?” asked the (the) economy,” she said said Sarah Jamie Lewis, head of “In the long run, people may Libra will be moderator at an event at Lon- Last week’s gathering came non-profit research organisa- realise that Libra is not a cryp- • don’s recent ‘FinTech Week’. one month after Facebook an- tion Open Privacy. tocurrency,” Bennett said at the co-managed by 100 In the room, filled with about nounced to the world its plans Libra has meanwhile raised FinTech Week event. partner firms, including 100 experts and media who for the virtual currency. In the long run, eyebrows among the world’s fi- “A true cryptocurrency should Facebook’s newly- closely track the sector, about Libra, which is widely regard- people may realise nancial regulators, including the be resistant to attacks by all minted financial services two-thirds of participants raised ed as a challenger to dominant that Libra is not a Bank of England, the European parties, from sovereign states their hand to express distrust at global player Bitcoin, is expected cryptocurrency Central Bank and the US Federal to global corporations,” he said, division Calibra the upstart currency. to launch in the first half of 2020. Reserve. adding that “cryptocurrency is Helen Disney, founder and Whereas Bitcoin is decentral- But Disney believes that Libra a type of money used to transfer London, United Kingdom boss of Unblocked Events, ised, Libra will be co-managed JAMES BENNETT will finally force regulators to value over the internet that can- which promotes the blockchain by 100 partner firms, including HEAD OF CRYPTOCURRENCY RESEARCH present clear regulation guide- not be stopped, confiscated or acebook’s planned virtual technology that powers many Facebook’s newly-minted finan- FIRM BITASSIST lines, as demanded by the cryp- destroyed by any single entity”. unit Libra, already un- cryptocurrencies, acknowl- cial services division Calibra. tocurrency community itself. ‘Based on thin air’ Fder heavy attack from US edged growing doubts over who The companies behind Libra “We have been waiting for a President Donald Trump and exactly would oversee and regu- -- which will be backed with a long time for a clearer signal Trump has meanwhile un- global regulators, faces scepti- late Libra’s operation. basket of real-world currencies (regarding) the regulation of leashed a vicious attack on vir- cism among the wider crypto- -- include payment giants Visa, cryptocurrencies and digital as- tual currencies, slamming them currency community as well. Power to the people MasterCard and PayPal, as well sets,” she said. for their alleged shadowy nature One theme -- besides Brexit People are “concerned about as taxi-hailing services Lyft and But James Bennett, head of and arguing that Libra had no -- dominated discussion among how the governance... would Uber. also been plagued by privacy cryptocurrency research firm standing nor dependability -- the movers and shakers from work”, Disney said. To access Libra on smart - concerns that could make users Bitassist, argues that Libra unlike the dollar. London’s financial technology “The cryptocurrency commu- phones, users will go through hesitate. should not be seen in the same “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and or FinTech industry as gathered nity is very libertarian in think- a virtual wallet that will also be “Can’t wait for a cryptocur- light as Bitcoin. other cryptocurrencies, which for their annual get-together: ing,” its “about giving power to named Calibra. rency with the ethics of Uber, are not money, and whose value the future of virtual currencies. the people, democratisation of While Facebook boasts an the censorship resistance of is highly volatile and based on “Can I just ask you finance, keeping away from enormous customer base dot- Paypal, and the centralisation thin air,” Trump tweeted Thurs- to raise your hand if big banks and com- ted across the globe that should of Visa, all tied together under day. you would not be panies who control facilitate Libra’s uptake, it firm the proven privacy of Facebook,”

Libra has I am not a fan of Facebook and some two dozen raised eye- Bitcoin and other partners released a prototype of brows among cryptocurrencies, Libra as an open source code for the world’s which are not developers interested in weaving financial it into apps, services or businesses KNOW WHAT money, and whose regulators, value is highly ahead of a rollout as global digital including volatile and based money next year. the Bank of on thin air England

Paris clashes follow Macron’s Pakistan to pay foreign firm military parade Paris, France

rench President Emma- $6 billion over mine closure Fnuel Macron yesterday showcased European mili- tary cooperation in a Bastille The project came Day parade but the glittering • event was tarnished by violent to a standstill in 2011 clashes between police and Members of the Gendarmerie stand protesters. in front of fences Local government Key EU leaders, including refused• to renew the German Chancellor Ange- nished by clashes that subse- consortium’s lease la Merkel and Dutch Prime quently erupted between pro- Minister Mark Rutte, joined testers and police that recalled Macron in Paris to watch the violence seen at the peak of the Islamabad, Pakistan annual parade that included “yellow vest” protest move- representatives of nine other ment earlier this year. akistan will have to pay al- European armies in a show Protesters tore down securi- Pmost $6 billion in damages of unity. ty barriers and set fire to rub- to a foreign gold mining firm But the celebrations of bish bins and portable toilets, whose dig was shut down by the France’s national day were tar- a correspondents said. government in 2011, the World Bank said yesterday. The consortium Tethyan Copper company -- of which Canadian gold firm Barrick and Syria gas pipeline hit by Chile’s Antofagasta Minerals control 37.5 percent each -- is sabotage attack: state media the largest Foreign Direct In- vestment mining project in the country. More than a decade ago the group found vast gold and cop- per deposits at Reko Diq, in the turbulent southwestern Baluch- istan province, and had planned a hugely lucrative open-pit mine. The Reko Diq project site ( Courtesy of Tethyan Copper Company Pakistan) But the project came to a Syrians walk past destroyed cars standstill in 2011 after the local the decision “with disappoint- rights until the conclusion of Taliban, sectarian and separatist Damascus, Syria a bomb blast targeted the government refused to renew ment”. The country’s legal ex- this dispute,” consortium chair- violence. pipeline in the Badiya desert, the consortium’s lease, and in perts were “studying the Award man William Hayes added. The provincial government new sabotage attack has where the Islamic State jihad- 2013 Pakistan’s top court de- and reflecting upon its finan- It comes weeks after prime is also a sleeping partner in the Ahit a gas pipeline in Syria, ist group is present. clared it invalid. cial and legal implications,” the minister Imran Khan secured a Reko Diq project with a 25 per- state media reported yester- The pipeline transports gas On Friday, the World Bank’s statement continued. $6 billion bailout from the IMF, cent stake. day, putting it out of service in from the government-con- international arbitration tribu- Ivan Arriagada, Antofagasta’s amid devaluations of the rupee Mining in Baluchistan is the latest setback to the coun- trolled Shaer field, the coun- nal committee awarded $5.84 Chief Executive Officer, said: and soaring inflation. dominated by small companies try’s troubled energy sector. try’s largest, in the central billion in damages to Tethyan, “We are pleased to reach this Barrick and Antofagasta say focused primarily on marble The official news agen - province of Homs to the Ebla according to a statement from milestone after more than seven the proposed plant could pro- and granite, experts say, which cy SANA denounced what it plant, according to SANA. the company, because of the years of arbitration.” duce 600,000 tons of copper waste up to 80 per cent of po- called a “terrorist act”, with- “The gas pipeline... was put government’s decision to shut “We remain willing to discuss and 250,000 ounces of gold a tential because of poor extrac- out identifying the suspected out of service by a terrorist down the mine. the potential for a negotiated year. tion techniques. perpetrators. act,” the agency said, add- Pakistan’s attorney general, settlement with Pakistan and But the mine is in Chagai dis- Experts have called for more According to the Syrian Ob- ing that “technical teams are Anwar Mansoor Khan, said will continue to protect our trict, one of the most deprived transparent policies to allow servatory for Human Rights, working to repair it in the com- in a statement they had noted commercial interests and legal parts of Pakistan and rife with mining to flourish. a Britain-based war monitor, ing hours.” 1 MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019

15-SABIE AL BOROMBA (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY) *-VERA FARMIGA, MCKENNA GRACE, MADISON ISEMAN 4-AND THE OSKAR GOES TO (PG-13) (MALAYALAM) OASIS JUFFAIR *-RAMEZ GALAL, BAYOUMI FOUAD, JAMEELA AWAD DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM NEW DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 3.00 + 7.15 + 11.30 PM *-TOVINO THOMAS, ANU SITHARA, NIKKI RAE HALLOW 1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ 11-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 4.00 + 9.00 PM ADVENTURE) NEW 16-CASABLANCA (PG-15) (ARABIC/ACTION/CRIME/ *-WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD *-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA THRILLER) DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.30 + 5.15 + 8.00 + 10.45 PM *-AMIR KARARA, GHADA ADEL, EYAD NASSAR SAAR DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 2.45 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 12.45 + 5.00 + 9.15 PM 12-MOHAMMED HUSSAIN (PG-15) (ARABIC/COMEDY) DAILY AT (ATMOS): 10.15 AM + 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + *-MOHAMED SAAD, MAI SALEEM, MOHHAMED THARWAT 1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ 11.45 PM DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 + 12.00 ADVENTURE) NEW DAILY AT (VIP): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM SEEF (II) MN *-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA DAILY AT (3D):12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.30 + 3.30 + 5.15 + 6.15 + 8.00 1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ 13-MEN IN BLACK INTERNATIONAL (PG-13) (ACTION/ + 9.00 + 10.45 PM + 11.45 PM 2-ALMAMAR (PG-13) (ARABIC/DRAMA/WAR) NEW ADVENTURE) NEW ADVENTURE/COMEDY/FANTASY) *-AHMAD EIZ, HIND SABRI, AHMAD RIZIK *-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA *- TESSA THOMPSON, CHRIS HEMSWORTH, REBECCA 2-ALMAMAR (PG-13) (ARABIC/DRAMA/WAR) NEW FERGUSON DAILY AT: 11.00 AM. + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT: (12.45 MN THURS./FRI.) *-AHMAD EIZ, HIND SABRI, AHMAD RIZIK DAILY AT: 1.15 + 6.30 + 11.45 PM DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 3.15 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM 3-TOY STORY 4 (G) (ANIMATION/ DVENTURE/COM- 2-PLAY OR DIE (18+) (THRILLER/ HORROR) NEW 14-JOHN WICK 3 - PARABELLUM (15+) (ACTION/ 3-TOY STORY 4 (G) (ANIMATION/ DVENTURE/COM- EDY) *-CHARLEY PALMER ROTHWELL, ROXANE MESQUIDA, LAETI- THRILLER/CRIME) *-TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN, JOAN CUSACK TIA CHAMBON EDY) *-KEANU REEVES, HALLE BERRY, IAN MCSHANE DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 10.45 AM. + 12.45 + 5.30 + 7.30 + DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 3.30 + 7.30 + 11.30 PM *-TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN, JOAN CUSACK 9.30 PM DAILY AT: 2.00 + 6.45 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 PM DAILY AT: 2.15 PM 3-I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD (18+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW 15-THE HUSTLE (PG-15) (COMEDY/CRIME) 4-ANNABELLE COMES HOME (15+) (HORROR) 4-ANNABELLE COMES HOME (15+) (HORROR) *-AIDAN DEVINE, AVA PRESTON, JESS SALGUEIRO *-ANNE HATHAWAY, REBEL WILSON, ALEX SHARP *-VERA FARMIGA, MCKENNA GRACE, MADISON ISEMAN *-VERA FARMIGA, MCKENNA GRACE, MADISON ISEMAN DAILY AT: 1.30 + 5.30 + 9.30 PM DAILY AT: 1.00 + 5.30 + 10.00 PM DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 6.15 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM 4-CLARITA (15+) (FILIPINO/HORROR/DRAMA) NEW 16-GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (PG-13) (ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER/FANTASY) 5-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) 5-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) *-RICKY DAVAO, ALYSSA MUHLACH, JODI STA. 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THURS/FRI) *-KEANU REEVES, HALLE BERRY, IAN MCSHANE ER/ROMANTIC) NEW DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM *-JUHI CHAWLA, PRIYA BANERJEE, KARANVIR BOHRA 2-ALMAMAR (PG-13) (ARABIC/DRAMA/WAR) NEW CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 3.15 + 7.30 + 11.45 PM *-AHMAD EIZ, HIND SABRI, AHMAD RIZIK WADI AL SAIL 9-ANNA (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM 1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ *-SASHA LUSS, HELEN MIRREN, LUKE EVANS 9-TOY STORY 4 (G) (ANIMATION/ DVENTURE/COM- 1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ ADVENTURE) NEW EDY) ADVENTURE) NEW DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 + 12.00 MN 3-ONE DAY: JUSTICE DELIVERED (PG-15) (HINDI/ *-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA *-TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN, JOAN CUSACK CRIME/THRILLER) NEW *-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. 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MOVIE REVIEW ‘Nightmare Cinema’ is an incoherent horror anthology played by Mickey Rourke, who The film offers ties the five segments together. • That Rourke is introduced fol- a mishmash of lowing a story of botched cos- horror mischief metic work is its own sly joke; if you enjoy that riff, you’re already priest, a piano prodigy, tuned to “Nightmare Cinema’s” a stressed-out mother, a vibe. Acar crash survivor and a cheerleader-type walk into an empty movie house. They each watch as their CHANGE OF NAME greatest fears are played out on screen in “Nightmare Cinema,” I, MOHAMMED JUNAD S/O a scattered but amusing horror NABEEL AHMED, holding anthology that gives five direc- Indian Passport No. L3416052, tors a whack at telling short, dated 06.02.2014 issued at BAHRAIN having permanent residence at (full address in India) VILL. KAMAL PUR, PO. DATAWALI, PS. MEDICAL MEERUT, U.P. , presently residing at (full KNOW WHAT A scene from ‘Nightmare Cinema’ address in Bahrain) Flat No – 203, Building No – 2048, Road contained tales of terror, “Creep- rector Alejandro Brugués has a battle with a group of Catholic chapter here, with Elizabeth 106, Block No - 1033, Malkiya, show”-style. trick or two up his sleeve as the school kids. Reaser as a mother struggling will henceforth be known Each filmmaker brings “Nightmare Cinema” opens tale unfolds and takes an unex- “Dead” finds “Critters 2’s” with reality after her husband as (Given name) JUNAD something truly with “The Thing in the Woods,” pected turn midway through. Mick Garris taking on the tale of leaves her. (Surname) MOHAMMED. unique and different a clever riff on a wooded mas- “Mashit,” from “Midnight a child flirting with the afterlife “Gremlins” director Joe Dante Objection(s) if any, may be to the table in this sacre tale with Sarah Elizabeth Meat Train” director Ryuhei after his parents are killed; “This weighs in with “Mirare,” a tale of forwarded to Embassy of India, Withers as a terrorized, blood- Kitamura, takes a hilariously Way to Egress,” from “Bander- nightmare plastic surgery. It’s af- P.O Box 26106, Bldg 1090, long-awaited horror soaked co-ed on the run from a gruesome turn as a Father Ben- snatch” director David Slade, is ter this chapter where we get the Road 2819, Block 428, Al Seef, anthology maniac in a welding mask. Di- edict (Maurice Benard) goes to the darkest, most accomplished first glimpse of the Projectionist, Kingdom of Bahrain. 14 MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019

Jennifer Lopez’s Lea Michele pays tribute to Jessica Simpson opens up about ex Cory Monteith on his sixth life after having 3 children NY concert death anniversary Los Angeles “Three kids is no joke. It is cancelled after Los Angeles Monteith’s character on Glee. definitely constant, and the “I love working with Cory, merican actor-sing- biggest challenge for me is power outage, ctor Lea I always have,” Michele told er Jessica Simpson trying to be present when I am rescheduled for Michele on Sat- PEOPLE at Glee’s season 4 Aopened up about pulled in so many directions,” Aurday paid trib- premiere shortly after Mon- motherhood she told People. utes to her late boyfriend teith’s death. “He really, really and how man- Simpson added: “They are Monday Cory Monteith on his sixth inspires me, and he motivates aging three all in such different phases death anniversary. The me and I think he’s just so tal- children is now.” Los Angeles ‘Glee’ actor died ented.” a hercule- Simpson and her husband, on July 13, 2013, an task. former NFL player Eric inger Jennifer Lopez’s sold- after an acci- Johnson, are proud parents out concert at the Madison dental drug Jessica to three children: daugh- Square Garden witnessed overdose. Simpson S ter Maxwell, 7; son Ace, a major power failure following Michele 6; and their newborn which the show came to a halt, who cos - 3-month-old Birdie leaving fans in dismay. tarred with Mae, who the cou- Following the unexpected Monteith in ple welcomed in incident, Lopez addressed her fans ‘Glee’ met the late ac- May, reported on Instagram via a video where she is tor on the set in 2009 and by Fox News. heard saying, “Hi guys, so we’re backstage, was in a relationship with The sing- they just told me to get off stage. I was wait- him until his death. er shared ing there when all the power went out in the The ‘Scream Queens’ with the city here at Madison Square Garden while we actress took to Twitter magazine were in the middle of our show.” to honour him on his that her Dealing with the situation anyhow, the ‘Papi’ death anniversary. young- singer asserted that the show will be rescheduled “The light al- est baby and asked fans to stay safe. ways remains,” she girl is “so “The power is out in NYC and at MSG. Heart- captioned the post. precious” broken to say tonight’s show is cancelled. We will Michele’s tribute on Sat- -- especially reschedule. Love you all!!! Stay safe!” Lopez wrote. urday reflected the sentiment when she shows In another clip which she posted a few moments of her post last year, when she off her dimples. later, Lopez expressed that she is “devastated and commemorated the fifth anni- “Birdie is so pre- heartbroken”. versary of his death, reported cious. She is a little “I don’t even know what to you. I just want you guys People. “There are some who smiley angel these to know that we are going to come back and going to bring a light so great to the days. It is the best do an amazing show,” Lopez said. world, that even after they thing in the world However, in her latest video she confirmed that have gone, the light remains,” to see and feel she will be back on Monday with the show: “Looks she wrote. her smile. It fills like if everything goes fine and power comes back on Earlier this month, Michele the room,” she tomorrow, I have said that I’ll come back on Monday got a tattoo bearing the name told the magazine. before my show in Boston on Tuesday, to do the show that Finn, which was the name of we didn’t do tonight.”

Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson posts piece of advice for Taylor Margot Ringo Starr reunite Swift amid Scooter Braun controversy Robbie says working onstage in LA Los Angeles with husband Tom a ‘huge advantage’ Los Angeles Margot inger Kelly Clarkson Los Angeles Robbie posted a wise piece In an interview with eatles bandmates Paul of advice for Taylor Psychologies magazine, BMcCartney and Ringo SSwift amid her ongoing argot Robbie the 28-year-old actor Starr reunited onstage at controversy with music Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun rejects the said her personal rela- Dodger Stadium on Satur- manager Scooter Braun. Mnotion that one tionship with her spouse day in Los Angeles. Swift accused Braun of purchasing her The ongoing battle be- should not work with their Tom Ackerley adds to their professional Starr joined McCartney entire music catalog after the latter ac- tween the two has divid- family members in Holly- collaboration. for a few songs near the end quired Big Machine Records which holds ed the industry with some wood. The Oscar-nominated actor “I’ve been told by many peo- of his concert. He played the rights to the singer’s first six albums. supporting Swift while the believes collaborating with her hus- ple in showbiz that it’s a really drums for two songs, ‘Sgt. Clarkson suggested Swift re-record the others going for Braun. band, Tom Ackerley was a “huge bad idea to work with loved Pepper’s Lonely Hearts songs with some new kind of art in it. She Singer Justin Bieber advantage” for her. ones or close friends but I Club Band’ (Reprise), and added that fans will then no longer buy slammed the ‘ME!’ singer in a The couple, who got married in don’t see it that way at all. I ‘Helter Skelter’. the old songs and even she would be one statement issued in wake of the 2016, are the founders of Lucky- think it’s a huge advantage There was a big grin on of her buyers! controversy. He said “Scooter has Chap Entertainment produc- for me to be able to work Starr’s face throughout “Taylor Swift just a thought, U should had your back since the days you tion banner through which with Tom. We know each the performance. He then go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t graciously let me open up for you.! they have made films such other so well and we en- threw his sticks into the au- own the masters on exactly how U did As the years have passed we haven’t as “I, Tonya”, “Termi- joy being able to develop dience and grabbed at Mc- them but put brand new art & some kind crossed paths and gotten to communi- nal” and the upcom- and work on projects Cartney’s bass as if he were of incentive so fans will no longer buy the cate our differences, hurts or frustrations. ing “Birds of together,” Rob- going to throw that into the old versions. I’d buy all of the new versions So for you to take it to social media and get Prey”. bie said. crowd. just to prove a point,” she tweeted. people to hate on Scooter isn’t fair.”

Kim laughs Los Angeles replied, with a smile on her face. over ribs “This waist!” Soare exclaimed, im Kardashian West, removal adding that she’s known Kim rubbishing rumours rumours, f or many years, and she had Kabout removing ribs to credits never seen the reality star’s fit into her Met Gala dress, said vegan diet body look like this. she consumed a vegan diet for thin waist “Did you remove your which helped her a lot to ribs?” she jokingly asked Kim. maintain her body. To which responded in a A close friend of the beauty mo- witty manner and said, “I think that gul, Anastasia Soare who is the honestly being a vegan now helps.” founder of the cosmetics company Kim had earlier revealed that Anastasia Beverly Hills, in an Insta- she was changing her eating hab- gram story, babbled over the size of its in April 2019. Kim’s waist. “I am eating all plant-based “Please explain to me how it’s pos- when I am home,” the ‘ Keep- sible,” Soare remarked while focusing ing up with the Kardashian’ the camera on the mother of three star wrote on her Instagram who wore a form-fitting bronze dress stories then, alongside a at the big event. picture of sweet potato “Oh come on,” Kardashian West and avocado-filled meal. 15 MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 sports Hamilton wins record sixth British GP

British driver leads Mercedes• one-two with Bottas second Bahrain team during training Charles Leclerc finishes• third, with Hosting FIVB U21 Worlds Vettel out of the points reinforces Bahrain’s Verstappen and Vettel• collide in position on global sporting Silverstone thriller map: Shaikh Nasser AFP | Silverstone TDT | Manama Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, with the unparalleled support of ewis Hamilton made H Shaikh Nasser bin Ham- HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman the most of a favourable Had Al Khalifa stressed on Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister, Lsafety car intervention on the importance of hosting and HRH Prince Salman bin Sunday to claim a record sixth international sports tour- Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown British Grand Prix victory at a naments in the Kingdom of Prince, Deputy Supreme packed Silverstone. Bahrain in order to strength- Commander and First Deputy The defending five-time Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton waves the Union flag as he celebrates in parc ferme after victory en the country’s position on Prime Minister. world champion clocking fast- The safety car was deployed ahead of Vettel, the pair delay- the global sporting map and His Highness added that est lap on his final lap to finish when Antonio Giovinazzi spun ing their stops as long as possi- to highlight its capabilities of this year’s event continues 25 seconds clear of Mercedes into a gravel trap in his Alfa Ro- ble. Then Giovinazzi beached being amongst the elite or- on the success of the past two team-mate and nearest title ri- meo – gifting Hamilton a ‘free’ his Alfa Romeo at Club. ganisers of such world-class years, when Bahrain hosted val Valtteri Bottas after an ac- first, and only, pit stop. The Hamilton took advantage and events. the FIVB Volleyball Boys’ U19 tion-packed contest. KNOW WHAT luckless Bottas, on a two stop pitted for hards, followed by His Majesty the King’s Char- World Championship in 2017 The Briton moved 39 points strategy, had already pitted be- Vettel and Verstappen, making ity Works and Youth Affairs and then the Asian Men’s U20 clear of the Finn behind in the fore the incident. a second stop. Ferrari, reacting Representative and Supreme Volleyball Championship last title race, but Bottas was un - On an overcast and cool af- slowly, called in Leclerc, who Council for Youth and Sports year. lucky with the timing of the It was Hamilton’s sev- ternoon, Justin Whiting, the emerged sixth behind Gasly and President was speaking as Bah- Tournament action is sched- safety car which effectively gave enth win in 10 races 12-year-old son of the late Char- Verstappen. All this left Hamil- rain gets set to host the FIVB uled to begin from 11.30am on Hamilton a free pit stop. this year and the 80th lie Whiting, the official Race ton leading Bottas with Vettel Volleyball Men’s U21 World Thursday. Eight matches are Charles Leclerc of Ferrari was win of his career Director who died suddenly third. Championship 2019 from scheduled each day for the first third. in Melbourne in March, start- Racing resumed on lap 23, Thursday. round. Pierre Gasly finished fourth ed the race. before a crowd of the field, backed up by Hamil- HH Shaikh Nasser said that Preparations are already ahead of his Red Bull team-mate 141,000 at Silverstone. ton, swarming like bees at the Bahrain’s staging of the world complete at the two arenas lo- Max Verstappen, whose race “What a day,” said Hamilton. As the lights went out, the re-start. championship is an embod- cated at the tournament venue was compromised by a late col- “To all the crowd, thank-you so Mercedes pair pulled clear, Bottas, on mediums, trad- iment of the directives and at Shaikh Isa Sports City in lision when Sebastian Vettel of much for coming out.” Hamilton chasing Bottas ed fastest laps with Hamilton, care given by His Majesty King Riffa. Ferrari drove into him, and Car- Hamilton, who stopped on throughout the first lap ahead knowing he had to make a sec- los Sainz of McLaren. his slow-down lap to collect a of Leclerc and Verstappen with ond stop. Verstappen, helped It was Hamilton’s seventh win British ‘Union Jack’ flag, add- Vettel fifth. by quick thinking from Red in 10 races this year and the 80th ed: “I love you Silverstone. I Bull, rose to fourth when Gasly win of his career. He had shared appreciate everything and the Oozing confidence moved over on Hangar Straight Neymar says he’s fit, posts the British Grand Prix record of opportunity to be a part of this. By lap 10, the lead was three- and began his pursuit of Vettel. wins, on five, with fellow-Briton “I couldn’t have done this tenths, Hamilton oozing con- The Dutchman caught and mischievous Barcelona video Jim Clark and Frenchman Alain without these guys or without fidence could not pass Bottas passed him at Stowe only for AFP | Sao Paulo, Brazil Both the player and his fa- Prost. my team.” slithering to protect his lead. the German to ram into the ther had insisted last week Daniel Ricciardo was seventh A glum Bottas said: “Congrats Behind them, Leclerc blocked rear end of the 007-branded eymar says he has recov- he had prior agreement from for Renault ahead of Kimi Rai- to Lewis...It wasn’t my day.” attacks from Verstappen. Red Bull, who had Bond actor Nered “almost 100 percent” PSG to stay in Brazil to help kkonen of Alfa Romeo, Daniil A much happier Leclerc said: But on lap 17, Bottas came in Daniel Craig in their garage, from the ankle injury that his foundation, the Neymar Kvyat in a Toro Rosso and Nico “It’s probably the race I’ve en- for a new set of mediums and both spinning into the gravel ruled him out of Brazil’s victo- Institute. Hulkenberg in a Renault. joyed the most in my career.” Hamilton inherited the lead but surviving to re-join the fray. rious Copa America campaign. Interviewed on the Parida The world’s most expensive Grande beach, where he took player was speaking Saturday part in a five-side tournament in Sao Paulo ahead of his be- organised by his charity, he lated return to his club Paris ducked any questions regard- Daryl Impey sprints to Bastille Day victory Saint-Germain on Monday. ing his future at PSG. PSG were upset at Neymar’s When he missed last Mon- AFP | Brioude, France jersey holder. no-show at the resumption of day’s first training session PSG “This is my greatest ever vic- training last week, an absence issued a statement declaring South African, Daryl Impey, tory, just as good as wearing the that fuelled speculation of his they would take “appropriate Awon stage nine of the Tour yellow jersey, nothing can top possible departure back to Bar- action” against the star who de France leaving local fans to this,” he said. “It was a tough, celona. joined them from Barca in 2017 settle for Frenchman Julian Al- solid day.” And later Saturday for 222 million euros ($252 aphilippe keeping hold of the Impey is a teammate of the he added fuel to the million). yellow jersey on Bastille Day. British Yates twins, with Adam fire over a possible The French champions’ Mitchelton-Scott rider Impey angling for the overall title this return to the Camp sporting director Leonardo was part of a mass breakaway year. Nou when he posted said that “Neymar can leave that quickly opened a 10-minute “There’s no way I was getting on Instagram a mis- PSG if there is an offer that gap and extended it throughout involved in a breakaway today, chievous 10-second suits everybody”. the race with the pack eventu- but I expected a select bunch video of him, a Of his state of ally trailing in 16 minutes adrift. sprint,” team leader Adam said. Barcelona shirt, fitness he told Defending champion Geraint After a frantic day over sev- his father, and Brazilian media Thomas and the other overall South Africa’s Daryl Impey (R), followed by Belgium’s Tiesj Benoot, celebrates en mountains on Saturday, the a quote from Globoesports title contenders finished to - as he wins on the finish line stage embarked from the Saint- the Bible: “No and UOL: “I’ve gether in a low-key ending after Etienne football stadium in a weapon turned recovered al- allowing the 14-man break to I’m so happy to win on July 14,” Tour de France team time-trial festive Bastille Day atmosphere against you will most 100 per- open up an uncatchable lead on said Impey. back in 2013, and a few days with many fans shouting for lo- prosper.” (Isaiah cent, all that’s the 170km run. The 2019 Tour Down Under later took the overall lead to cal man Romain Bardet as well Chapter 54, Verse missing is “That was a really tough race. winner and all-rounder won a become his nation’s first yellow as Alaphilippe. 17). training.” Neymar MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 16

• England lift first Cricket World Cup after super-over England win drama against New Zealand • The Super Over also ended in a tie, and England won their maiden World Cup on maiden title boundary count AFP | London boundaries. After defeats in previous finals ngland won the World against Pakistan in 1992, Austral- Cup for the first time as ia in 1987 and the West Indies in It’s unbelievable. Ethey beat New Zealand 1979, it was a cathartic moment I thought I’d seen in a dramatic Super Over after a for English cricket. nerve-shredding final ended in “My heart is still racing. It’s everything in cricket a tie at Lord’s yesterday. the biggest thing I’ve ever won, but that game was just After Eoin Morgan’s side fin- a great bunch of fellas, a really amazing. I don’t know ished on 241 all out in pursuit of good family to me,” Archer said. what happened out New Zealand’s 241-8, the final Stokes was in tears as Eng - there at the end. Just came down to a six-ball shootout land’s players danced joyously incredible for each team. around the pitch. England’s Ben Stokes and Jos “I’m pretty lost for words. All JOS BUTTLER Buttler took 15 off Trent Boult’s the hard work over four years, to over. get here and be champions of the Jofra Archer bowled Eng - world. It’s an amazing feeling. land’s over against Martin Gup- I’m pretty done,” Stokes said till and Jimmy Neesham, who with an expression that mixed smashed a six off the second ball. elation with bewilderment. With two runs required off the “Playing against New Zealand final ball, wicketkeeper Jos But- is always a great event. They tler and Jason Roy combined to are a seriously good team and run out Guptill as he came back really good lads. I said to Kane for the second. Williamson I’ll be apologising Both sides finished on 15 so for that for the rest of my life.” England won due to a tie-break Morgan and his teammates rule because they hit more were cheered to the rafters by England’s Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand’s Martin Guptill to win the 2019 Cricket World Cup final Champagne super over the ecstatic capacity crowd at the past six weeks, they even- pagne super over. Lord’s as they joined Bobby Following their dismal first tually justified their tag as the While England celebrated, Moore’s 1966 footballers and round exit at the 2015 World bookmakers’ pre-tournament it was another heart-breaking Martin Johnson’s rugby union Cup, England’s then director favourites to win the World Cup. loss for New Zealand, who also team of 2003 as England’s World of cricket Andrew Strauss em- It was not an easy ride for finished as runners-up in the Cup winners. barked on a root-and-branch England, whose defeats against previous World Cup in 2015 “Wow! It’s hard to sum it up, reform of their one-day interna- Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australia after losing to Australia in the what a day, what a tournament,” tional set-up. in the group stage put them on final. England batsman Joe Root said. Adopting an aggressive game- the brink of elimination. “We knew we would have to “Everyone has done plan under Morgan and Austral- But Morgan’s men kept their fire a few shots. Credit to Eng- everything asked of them. We ian coach Trevor Bayliss, Eng- cool to defeat India and New land for the way they stuck at it,” have performed under pressure, land’s rebuilding plan paid off Zealand and book a last-four New Zealand’s Neesham said. it was almost written in the stars spectacularly. spot before crushing Australia “On another day the coin may for Ben Stokes.” They had already climbed to in the semi-finals and surviv- have fallen our way. We’ll look England’s Ben Stokes (R) and England’s Jos Buttler (L) add runs in the ‘super England’s triumph was the the top of the ODI rankings head- ing one final test of their nerve back in a couple of years and over’ during the 2019 Cricket World Cup final between England and New Zealand culmination of a remarkable rise ing into the tournament and, af- against New Zealand in what say this was a pretty good ex- at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London over the past four years. ter plenty of highs and lows over will be remembered as a cham- perience.” Djokovic retains Wimbledon crown and settled by a final set tiebreak for lasted over two hours. Novak Djokovic beats the first time. “It was long and it had everything. I • Djokovic is the first man in 71 years had answers, so did he and we played Roger Federer in epic match to win the title from match points some great tennis,” said Federer. to win fifth Wimbledon title down. “I hope I give some other people at He is now level with Bjorn Borg as a 37 the feeling it is not over yet.” Djokovic saves match five-time Wimbledon winner. Djokovic’s win meant that the ‘Big points• to claim the title in “I think that if this is not the most Three’ of men’s tennis -- himself, exciting final then definitely it’s in the Federer and Rafael Nadal -- have won record-breaking final top two or three of my career against the last 11 Slams. one of the greatest players of all time, He has now won nine of his last 11 AFP | London Roger, who I respect,” said Djokovic. clashes against Federer and three of “Unfortunately in this type of match their four Wimbledon meetings. ovak Djokovic saved two match someone has to lose. It is quite unreal With William and Catherine, the points to clinch a fifth Wim- to be two match points down to come Duke and Duchess of Cambridge look- Nbledon title and 16th major back and strange to play a tie-break ing on from the Royal Box, Federer yesterday, shattering Roger Federer’s at 12-12.” carved out the only break point of the bid to become the oldest Grand Slam Djokovic is just four Grand Slam opening set. champion in the longest final ever titles shy of the all-time record held But Djokovic saved it and with serve Serbia’s Novak Djokovic (L) poses with the winner’s trophy and Switzerland’s Roger Federer (R) played at the tournament. by Federer who is more than five years dominating, the set was decided by the holds the runners up plate Despite being outplayed by the older. tiebreak. longer than the women’s final on Sat- just 25 more minutes the final was all- 37-year-old Swiss for large parts of It was incredibly tough on Federer, urday. square with Djokovic managing just the knife-edge encounter, the world chasing a ninth Wimbledon crown, Two match points saved Djokovic, however, then went com- two winners in the set. number one triumphed 7-6 (7/5), 1-6, who didn’t face a break point until the The top seed was 3-1 up, then Feder- pletely off the boil, losing his footing Federer was comfortably on top in 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, 13-12 (7/3). eighth game of the fourth set. er inched to 5-3 before Djokovic swept as he was broken in the first game of the third set, flashing winners from At 4 hours and 57 minutes, it was the He even had two match points in the the next four points. the second set. all parts of the court but was unable longest Wimbledon final ever played 16th game of the deciding set which At 58 minutes, it was two minutes Federer broke twice again and after to convert a set point in the 10th game.