VOL XXXIX No. 48 (GGDN 024) SATURDAY, 7th MAY 2016 200 Fils/2 Riyals ABC Ad new logo QRcode 6cm x 4col rev.pdf 1 4/18/16 11:37 AM www.gdnonline.com https://www.facebook.com/GulfDailyNews/ gdnonline @GDNonline 66710017 Blaze guts bakery 14 T: +973 1729 3131 F: +973 1729 3400 M: +973 3438 2289 / +973 3959 1419 / +973 3415 0308 E: [email protected] n King for greater Egypt tourism ties MANAMA: His Majesty King Hamad has directed Bahrain’s tourism officials to strengthen links with Egypt. The two countries MUMTALAKAT plan to open travel and tourism offices and moves are underway to intensify interaction between their travel agencies, Bahrain Authority for Tourism and Exhibitions chief executive Shaikh Khalid bin Humood Al Khalifa said. He also revealed plans to set up an Ice City at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sanabis, as part of the authority’s plans for Eid Al Fitr festivities this summer. n MANAMA: Bahrain’s sovereign recommendations to come out of the parliamentary tiple boards. Role of Press praised PROBEprobe into Mumtalakat. SHOCKThey also include merging all companies operat- MANAMA: His Royal Highness Prince wealth fund paid its board members Parliament is also set to vote on whether public ing in the same field, such as aviation. Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown BD15,000 annual bonuses despite Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and companies operating under the wealth fund should In a written response to parliament, Gulf Air re- First Deputy Premier, yesterday praised the being in the red, according to a par- receive financial support from the government. vealed that it had trimmed 1,266 employees from role of Bahrain’s Press in protecting national liament probe. Chaired by Ahmed Qarata, the panel said in its an original workforce of 3,850 since 2012. interest and highlighting the country’s They were also entitled to BD500 for each report that BD3.717m were paid in bonuses to However, the state-owned national carrier re- development. In a statement marking board members between 2008 and 2014. fused to give details on employees who earned Bahrain’s Press Day today, he hailed His board meeting, it said. Majesty King Hamad’s address on World Members of the probe have told parliament in If MPs vote to stop government funding, the more than BD2,500 a month, claiming it was ir- Press Freedom Day last week as a roadmap writing that Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Compa- Cabinet would be obliged to implement it within relevant. to ensure the diversity and openness in the ny had lost BD560 million by the end of 2014. six months. It also asked MPs not to compare it with other media. Freedom of expression is enshrined Mumtalakat had also borrowed BD586m in Other recommendations include perfor- regional airlines and claimed it was now in a better in the nation’s constitution and is an loans between 2006 and March last year, accord- mance-related bonuses for board members at such position than previously, having reduced its losses. essential cornerstone of Bahrain’s reforms, ing to the report. companies, which would be linked to profits, and Meanwhile, the government’s real estate invest- he said. MPs are scheduled to vote on Tuesday on 23 preventing one person having membership on mul- ment wing Edamah in another written response refused to disclose details n First Muslim mayor about its 65 properties, LONDON: Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus stating it would harm driver, became London’s first Muslim mayor n The car stuck under the truck yesterday, seeing off a Conservative challenger plans to attract invest- who attempted to link him to extremism after the crash on Zallaq Highway. ment. Picture: ABDUL AMEER AL SALATNA and securing a much-needed victory for his The parliamentary com- opposition Labour Party. The Labour legislator Bahraini dies mittee, which was set up replaces Conservative Boris Johnson, who to probe financial and has run the city of 8.6 million people for eight in accident administrative condition years. London has also become the first major of Mumtalakat, said the Western capital to elect a Muslim mayor. MANAMA: A Bahraini Full report – Page 15 driver died yesterday company which was es- after his car smashed tablished 10 years ago has into the boundary wall so far contributed nothing n Erdogan warns EU of a home in Al Quds to state revenues. ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Avenue in Isa Town. Mumtalakat was es- yesterday warned the EU that Turkey would His was one of three tablished in June 2006 as not change an anti-terror law for the sake of accidents in the king- a deal on visa-free travel and migrant flows, dom during the day. an independent holding throwing up a major potential stumbling Another driver had a company to actively man- block a day after his prime minister said he lucky escape when his age and grow a diverse was stepping down. car rammed and got portfolio of commercial In a typically combative speech just stuck under a truck assets. 24 hours after Prime Minister Ahmet at a roundabout on The fund manages its Davutoglu said he would surrender his Zallaq Highway. positions of premier and ruling party chief, A Bahraini escaped portfolio with the objec- tive of enhancing the per- Erdogan vowed to put to a referendum his unhurt after smashing controversial plan of a presidential system into another car and formance and returns of in Turkey as “quickly as possible”. then plunging into its assets. Furthermore, it Davutoglu had championed the landmark the wall of a building actively seeks to invest in March deal with the European Union under under construction in commercially sound and which Turkey would help reduce the flow Juffair. sustainable opportunities of migrants to the bloc in exchange for Full report – Page 3 locally, regionally and in- incentives including the promise of visa- ternationally. free travel for Turks to the passport-free n BD130m owed in Schengen Area. unpaid power bills – 4 Full report – Pages 16-17 OBAMA TELLS TRUMP: IT’S NOT A REALITY SHOW – PAGE 2 l TERROR ARMS DEPOT DUO ON TRIAL – PAGE 3 2 Gulf Daily News Saturday, 7th May 2016 10 Al Qaeda operatives killed in Yemen air strikes says Pentagon WASHINGTON: US air strikes in Ye- Yemeni and Arab Coalition forces – “This is of great interest to us. It ing camp that killed more than 70 district of Mansura where the prison men have killed 10 Al Qaeda oper- especially the UAE – in recent weeks does not serve our interests to have fighters. is located. atives, and the US has been helping as they pushed Al Qaeda from the port a terrorist organisation in charge of AQAP is regarded by Washington The incident comes a week after Gulf-backed forces as they target the city of Mukalla, which had been under a port city, and so we are assisting in as the network’s most dangerous a similar attack claimed the life of a jihadists, a defence official said yes- AQAP control since April last year. that,” Davis said. branch, and it has carried out deadly police colonel in the city. terday. The support included a “very small AQAP took advantage of the chaos attacks on the West in the past. A bomb exploded also yesterday in “We have conducted four counter- number” of US military personnel – of fighting between pro-government Meanwhile, gunmen yesterday a qat market in Yemen’s loyalist-held terrorism strikes against AQAP (Al as well as intelligence, surveillance, forces and Iran-backed rebels to killed the chief of the main prison in city of Marib, killing three civilians Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) since planning, maritime security and medi- expand its control in southern Yemen. Yemen’s southern port city of Aden and three soldiers and wounding sev- April 23, killing 10 Al Qaeda opera- cal help, Davis said. Davis said the recent air strikes were where jihadists remain active, a secu- eral others, a local official said. tives and injuring another,” Pentagon He said the troops were helping separate from operations in Mukalla. rity source said. The official said the bomb was spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis with the Emiratis with “intelligence The US periodically conducts such Wahab Nejib Ahmed Aoun and a planted at the entrance of the market told reporters. support,” but declined to say if they attacks on AQAP targets in Yemen, relative were gunned down by two by unknown individuals who appar- He added the US had been helping are special operations forces. including a strike in March on a train- men on a motorbike in the central ently wanted to target loyalist forces. This is not a reality show... n Trump is joined by wife Melania, right, daughter Ivanka, left, and son Eric at a news conference in New York WASHINGTON : US Yesterday, Trump took aim President Barack Obama at Clinton for her use of a pri- warned yesterday that occu- l Obama takes a swipe at Trump vate email server while in of- Kim hails pying the Oval Office “is not fice. Clinton has said she did a reality show,” in a swipe not send or receive information at outspoken Republican public to weigh past became the party’s For Trump, finding unifying marked as classified. The FBI nuclear candidate Donald Trump statements by the Re- presumptive nomi- enemies like Obama and like- is investigating whether laws publican but did not nee this week when ly Democratic nominee Hillary were broken. who is vying to replace him point to any specific two Republican Clinton could help rally Repub- in the White House.