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Indonesia plane crash 2 Pittsburgh synagogue 2 Soccer Cup, coach says 15 films session in Tehran16 Istanbul trio conclude summit with joint statement At the end of the Sixth Trilateral Meeting Arbaeen trek, a march of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Re- public of Iran and the Republic of Turkey, the foreign ministers of these countries issued a joint statement. The full text of the statement follows as reported by the See page 2 towards unanimity Iranian Foreign Ministry website. 2 Jahangiri calls for stronger ties with Iraq, invites Salih for visit

POLITICS TEHRAN — The deskIranian first vice pres- ident, who is also the head of Iran-Iraq Joint High Commission, had a telephone conversation with Iraqi president Barham Salih on Tuesday, discussing the expansion of the two countries’ cordial relations on different arenas. 2

Non-oil exports up 13.3% in 7 months on year ECONOMY TEHRAN— The value deskof Iran’s non-oil exports

Salam Dabagh rose 13.3 percent during the seven-month period from the beginning of current Ira- nian calendar year (March 21) to October 22, compared to the same period of time in the previous year, the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ (IRICA) announced. 4 ARTICLE The secret behind Arabs normalizing ties with Tel Aviv ARTICLE Pang Sen By Farzad Farhadi with the Al Jazeera called “fear of losing seats three days. First, the participation of the Israeli Martin Love Ambassador of the People’s TEHRAN — The recent development in normali- of power” the motive behind Arab’s opening up delegation in the Qatari sports competition; Political analyst from Republic of China to Iran zation of relations of Persian Gulf Arab states with relations with Israel, saying that relationship with second, the presence of the sports team of the North Carolina Tel Aviv has been described as “unprecedented” Israelis is the gateway to American friendship. Abu Dhabi emir, headed by Mirie Rigio, the by the Zionist Radio Correspondent Simon Aran. The Arab world knows all too well that to have racist minister of culture of Arabs, and third, Uphold The relationship between Arab and the Zionist friendly relations with Americans they have to the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ignorance is the regime goes a long way and history is a testimony cozy up to Washington’s friend, Israel. Netanyahu’s visit with Sultan Qaboos who multilateralism and to some of those secretive meetings, and some, Political analyst Jihad Harb reasoned with a received the Israeli delegation warmly. This bane of humanity that were out in the open like their recent meetings French news agency, that the division and discord normalization has nothing to do with U.S. promote common in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. among Palestinians have weakened them and pressure on Israeli-Palestinian peace process .S. citizens will likely not anytime Arabs today are moving towards apparent acted as a green light to the Arab states to cozy but has all to do with the ‘free peace process’ soon hear the end of the horrible prosperity normalization of relations with the criminal and up to Israel and establish ties with the occupied between Israel and Arab states to prepare the Utale of the gunman who last week racist Zionist regime with no fear. It seems that regime. ground for the imposition of other clauses of went into a Pittsburgh, Pa., synagogue and ince the international financial crisis Netanyahu has succeeded in tempting the Arab Abdel Bari Atwan in an article in Ray al- the deal of the century. killed 11 Jews who were worshipping there. in 2008, the world has been undergo- states to establish ties with Israel. Youm newspaper referred to the movement A deal that is translated to taking advantage The gunman was a crazed white na- Sing major changes. A noticeable and But what is the reason behind this normal- of the southern countries of the Persian Gulf of the Arab official’s weaknesses to do away tionalist terrorist who no doubt had been worrying phenomenon is the resurgence of ization of relations? on normalizing relations with the Zionist re- with the Palestinian cause, in hope of ending listening to Trump for too long, but they unilateralism, populism, protectionism, and Hassan Kharisha, deputy chairman of the gime and said, “The Arab world’s dignity was the Arab-Israel conflict, and recognizing Israel don’t call what he did “terror”, which it isolationism. Voices against globalization Palestine Legislative Council in an interview blown with three painful strikes over the past as a brotherly Middle Eastern country. 7 is. Trump hardly appears as an anti-Sem- is gathering momentum. Some countries ite given his overweening love affair with have turned more inward-looking. Regional the Zionists, but his views generally are integration has slowed down and suffered Defense firms see only hundreds of new U.S. jobs from Saudi deal bound to stir up ignorant, racist whites, setbacks. The international situation is fac- Every time the United States President Donald said if the Saudi regime order were executed it a prominent critic because he did not want to even neo-Nazis. It’s important to note that ing more instability and uncertainty. The Trump mentions the $110bn arms deal he nego- could help to sustain about 10,000 U.S. jobs, endanger the massive arms deal. officially nothing is labeled “terror” unless international system and order established tiated with the House of Saud regime last year, but the number of new jobs created would be a Trump’s 500,000 figure has been greeted with some incident happens to be done by an in the aftermath of the Second World War he quickly follows up, saying “It’s 500,000 jobs.” small percentage of that figure. widespread skepticism given the five biggest U.S. “Islamist”, according to directives (since are experiencing severe challenges. Debates But if he means new U.S. defense jobs, an Lockheed Martin Corp. declined to comment defense contractors, who make nearly every item Trump took office) by the U.S. Department and concerns about global governance and internal document seen by Reuters news agency on the Saudi package. Raytheon Co.’s Chief Fi- on the Saudi list, now employ 383,000 people. of Homeland Security. future development intensified. Various ideas from Lockheed Martin forecasts fewer than 1,000 nancial Officer Toby O’Brien said last week that Documents seen by Reuters and interviews The very name of this governmental and proposals have surfaced. positions would be created by the defense con- hiring overall is growing, but he did not pin it to with defense industry sources familiar with the “department” established after 9/11 reeks In the face of profound changes in tractor, which could potentially deliver around any particular program. arms package suggest that between 20,000 and of pretensions of “empire”: the notion that current international situation, we need $28bn of goods in the deal. The White House did not immediately respond 40,000 current U.S. defense industry workers the U.S. physically is the “homeland” and to ask ourselves, multilateralism or uni- Lockheed instead predicts the deal could to a request for comment. could be involved in the Saudi-bound production everywhere else the U.S. has a presence, lateralism, which is the right option to create nearly 10,000 new jobs in Saudi Arabia Jobs are important to Trump. He campaigned if the whole $110bn package goes through. especially a military presence, are mere address the complex global challenges while keeping up to 18,000 existing U.S. workers on his ability to create American jobs, especially Existing workers typically are experienced, satellites – not truly sovereign nations. and promote the security and welfare of busy if the whole package comes together - an high-paying manufacturing ones. skilled, who can be redeployed more easily than The concept is quite “Nazi” as with Ger- mankind? History has proven that the outcome experts say is unlikely. Meanwhile, he has limited his criticism of new hires who would require significant upfront many under Hitler. And it is abhorrent, continuous expansion and interconnec- A person familiar with Raytheon’s planning the Saudi regime leadership over the killing of investment in their training. 13 as is the U.S. under Trump. tion of human activities is an irreversible I anyway posted a note to “Facebook” trend. With advancement of industrial bewailing the fact that what the Zionists/ revolutions and rapid development of Israelis have been doing is “terror”, too, science and technology, especially the and the same for what the Saudis have information technology today, the flow been doing to Yemen. “Friends” agreed, of people, goods, and information across but then I don’t literally have “friends’ the globe has reached an unprecedented Tehran: who are ignorant about the truth. Later, scale, resulting in the increasing globali- I posted a response to a Twitter conver- zation and interdependence of nations. sation by a bunch of Zionist American While greatly promoting the development March of Jews where I questioned whether what of the world, globalization also produced happened in Pittsburgh might be related complex impacts on the internal gov- to Zionist actions in the Mideast? The ernance, stability, culture, interests and response was furious and immediate: I external relations of various countries. Arbaeen was labeled “anti-Semitic scum.” The benefits from globalization and the My first response to this was: “I was Thousands of people who did not attitude towards it differ among nations. working and living in a kibbutz in Israel have the privilege to travel to Kar- China believes no country can address before you were even born.” (Actually, bala to visit the oly shrine of Imam the multiple challenges facing mankind during summer 1969.) That shut them Hossein to mark the Arbaeen ritual, single-handly. Countries need to work up temporarily. But then someone noted in a symbolic move took the streets together in a responsible spirit so that that I had been writing columns for the of the capital city of Tehran and common interests could be preserved. Tehran Times, as stated on my Twitter Mehran Riazi Mehran marched toward Shahr-e Ray in Politically, we should respect each other. page. And I got this response: south-west Tehran. The March, re- Discussion of issues of common concern “Iran just directly funds Hizballah, sembling the “Arbaeen Trek”, took should be conducted on an equal footing. Cold takes American citizens captive, attacks place at 6:30 a.m. from Tehran’s War mentality and power politics should be its neighbors, threatens Saudi and tries Iconic Imam Hossein Square to abandoned for the sake of building a world of to get nuclear weapons. They aren’t called

Tehran Times/ Tehran Times/ the shrine of Abdul Azim Hassani, lasting peace, based on partnerships, equality the Mad Mullahs for nothing. And you are in Shahr-e Ray. and mutual-understanding. 7 on their payroll. Shame on you.” 7 I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y POLITICS OCTOBER 31, 2018 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS Rouhnai offers Tehran, Ankara, Baku see eye condolences over Indonesia plane crash to eye over region: Iran FM POLITICS TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani deskon Monday extended his condolences to POLITICS TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister desk his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, over a passenger Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday plane crash with 189 people on board, Press TV reported. that Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan have common stance on In his message to the Indonesian president, Rouhani said regional issues and are determined to cooperate. he was deeply saddened by the tragic incident, which led to “Tehran, Ankara and Baku’s cooperation in developing the the death of the country’s nationals, including a number of region, improving the living standards and also boosting peace government officials. and security in the region, which is facing many challenges, is The Lion Air Boeing 737 crashed into the sea on Monday very important,” he said during a joint press conference with as it tried to circle back to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Elmar Mammadyarov, the Turkish from where it had taken off minutes earlier. and Azeri foreign ministers, in Istanbul. Zarif said that regional problems should be solved through peaceful ways and based on the international law. Zarif condemns He also said that the three countries have many capacities to expand cooperation in various spheres. terrorist attack He also praised Turkey and Azerbaijan for supporting the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan on Pittsburgh of Action, after the U.S. withdrawal in May. synagogue ‘Turkey to continue cooperation with Iran de- spite U.S. sanctions’ POLITICS TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said that Turkey will continue cooperation with desk Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned Iran despite U.S. sanctions. terrorist attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh which left 11 He said that Ankara is holding consultations with the Euro- people dead. pean countries to find ways to continue cooperation with Iran. “Extremism and terrorism know no race or religion, and U.S. President Donald Trump reintroduced sanctions on Zarif was in Istanbul to attend sixth trilateral meeting to Mogherini announced that the bloc was creating a new pay- must be condemned in all cases. The world deserves better Iran in August. The second wave of sanctions, which targets discuss matters of common interest. ment mechanism to allow countries to transact with Iran than to have to live with weaponized demagoguery. Thoughts Iran’s oil exports and central bank, is due to start in early EU’s mechanisms to be operated in few days, while avoiding U.S. sanctions. and prayers with victims of terrorist attack on Pittsburgh November. Zarif says Zarif noted that the U.S. will not reach its economic and synagogue and their loved ones,” he tweeted on Monday. ‘Baku to expand relations with Tehran, Ankara Upon arrival in Istanbul, Zarif said that the European political objectives. A gunman burst into a busy Pittsburgh synagogue on in transportation’ Union’s mechanisms to allow countries to transact with Iran The mechanism, a so-called special purpose vehicle (SPV), is Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people and injuring six Mammadyarov said that Baku seeks to expand relations while avoiding U.S. sanctions will be operated in few days. designed to circumvent the sanctions, under which Washington others. After exchanging gunfire with police, 46-year-old with Tehran, Ankara in area of transportation. On September 25, European Union foreign policy chief can cut off any bank that facilitates oil transactions with Iran. Robert Bowers surrendered and was taken into custody.

Iran denounces Jahangiri calls for stronger ties with Iraq, invites Salih for visit killing of Shiite 1 At the head of a delegation, Es’haq Jahangiri fillment of their goals. possible manner.” has traveled to Iraq to attend Arbaeen rituals along with Pointing to the strong ties between the two counties in Jahangiri also invited Salih on a visit to Iran. mourners in over two million Iranian pilgrims. The Arbaeen mourning political, economic, cultural and scientific arenas, Jahangiri Welcoming the invitation of the Iranian vice presi- ceremony commemorates the 40th day after the martyr- expressed hopes that Iran-Iraq relations and cooperation dent, Salih noted, “Iran and Iraq are two neighboring Nigeria dom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS), the third Imam expand all the more in these areas. and amicable countries that have enjoyed longstanding POLITICS TEHRAN – Iran has strongly denounced of Shiite Muslims. On the other end of the line, Salih expressed gratitude bilateral relations, and we look forward to expanding and deskthe recent deadly incident in Nigeria in In this conversation, Jahangiri appreciated the Iraqi to Jahangiri for his attendance in the Arbaeen rituals, bolstering the ties in all aspects.” which several Shiite mourners were killed by security forces. government and nation for hosting Arbaeen pilgrims, adding “The Iraqi government and officials deem it as The Iraqi president remarked that he would take a trip “We have received conflicting news about the incident, according to ISNA. He also wished the new president, their honor as well as their responsibility to cooperate to Iran at the earliest opportunity in order to hold talks with and we are closely monitoring relevant developments and his administration, and Iraqi people prosperity and ful- in holding the Arbaeen mourning ceremony in the best Iranian officials, especially with President Hassan Rouhani. news, waiting for the different dimensions of the incident to come to light,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qa- ssemi said on Monday, according to the ministry’s website. “Initial information about the incident shows clashes Istanbul trio conclude summit with joint statement erupted between police forces and mourners which left a 1 At the invitation of H.E. Mr. Mevlut Underscored the significance of Joint infrastructure to take full advantage of their enterprises; emphasized the importance of number of demonstrators dead and wounded. While con- Çavu?oglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) transit potential and better integration to cooperation among the public, private sector demning this killing, we sympathize with the families of Republic of Turkey and with participation of which reflects the success of the multilateral the international transit system; and academia of the three countries in the those killed,” he added. H.E. Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of negotiations and diplomacy; acknowledged Stressed the importance of large-scale field of digital transformation; Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbai- that the successful implementation of JCPOA projects for increasing interconnectivity be- Stated the importance of conducting tri- jan and H.E. Mr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, requires the complete fulfilment of the obli- tween the three countries; and encouraged lateral research, development, innovation MP: Europeans Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic gations by all the parties for allowing them the full utilization of the potential present- and knowledge-based technological projects, Republic of Iran, the Sixth Trilateral Meet- to fully enjoy benefits provided in JCPOA; ed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway that in the field of science and technology among determined to ing of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs was Taking into account the Islamic Republic would be beneficial for the three countries, the relevant institutions of Azerbaijan, Iran work with Iran held on October 30th, 2018 in Istanbul, the of Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA as con- and underscored the importance of taking and Turkey; Republic of Turkey. firmed by the International Atomic Energy necessary steps for the earliest completion of Underscored the importance of cooper- The Ministers, Agency which is a part of the Resolution 2231 Rasht-Astara railway, as well as encouraged ation in the humanitarian sphere, including Emphasized their commitment to the (2015) of the UN Security Council, recalled to make use of the full capacity of the ports culture, education, science, health care, youth POLITICS TEHRAN – Chairman of the Majlis Na- Urumieh, Nakhchivan, Van, Ramsar and the commitments of all the UN members to for the benefit of the three countries; exchange, tourism and sports and expressed desktional Security and Foreign Policy Com- Baku Statements adopted in the previous contribute to the implementation of JCPOA; Recognizing internationally combined their readiness to initiate and promote joint mittee says the Europeans have shown great determination Trilateral Meetings of the Ministers of For- in this regard condemned unilateral sanctions transport as one of the means of facilitating projects and events in these spheres; to cooperate with Iran, but their ability to do so is still in eign Affairs; as they negatively affect trade and commercial the orderly expansion of trade, underlined Agreed to encourage relevant Ministries question. Stressed their strong will to further soli- development among their countries; the need to stimulate the development of and Agencies to enhance trilateral cooperation “The Europeans feel that if they react negatively to the darity and cooperation among the peoples of Reiterated their firm commitment to smooth, economic and efficient multimodal aimed at practical implementation of the participative approach of the Iranians, the Iran-Europe the three countries based on common history, strengthen their cooperation on the basis transport services to meet the requirements provisions of this and previous Statements relations will enter a challenging atmosphere which by no culture, religion and traditions; of the relevant international instruments of the promotion of trilateral trade; and make efforts towards their fulfillment; means would be to their benefits,” ICANA on Tuesday quoted Agreed to continue close consultations on in the fight against terrorism, violent ex- Expressed their willingness to enhance Taking into account that the timetable for Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh as saying. issues of common interest at different levels tremism and separatism in all their forms commercial cooperation in the field of energy; implementing the Trilateral Sectoral Coop- Falahatpisheh further said European countries regard and platforms and within the framework of and manifestations, transnational organ- Agreed to strengthen economic coopera- eration Action Plan will be expired up to the Iran as the “island of stability” in the Middle East, which international and regional organizations, with ized crime, illicit trafficking in narcotic tion, to use existing potential for promotion end of 2018, agreed to extend the timetable can prevent the deterioration of the situation in the region. a view to enhancing regional and international drugs and precursors, illicit trade in arms, of investment and trade, and to enhance for another three years up to the end of 2021; peace, security and stability; human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, cooperation by implementing the joint Considering the proposals exchanged Stressed their commitment to principles money laundering, cybercrime, crimes against projects and programs such as in the fields among the three countries in the fields Iran rejects news of international law, in particular, respect cultural and historical heritage, and other of renewable energy, transport, border and elaborated in the Trilateral SectoralCoop- of and support for sovereignty, territorial transnational security threats; customs, banking, telecommunication, indus- eration Action Plans, agreed to determine of Rouhani’s integrity, inviolability of internationally Agreed to positively evaluate the candida- try, agriculture, tourism and environment; their representatives promptly after the sixth mobile phone recognized borders, peaceful settlement of tures of the three countries in the international Encouraged the establishment of a Trilat- meeting with a view to holding first sessions all disputes, as well as non-interference in and regional organizations; eral Business Forum to further strengthen of subcommittees in Iran as soon as possible; being tapped internal affairs; Underlining the favorable geographical the economic and trade relations and create Reiterated the importance of holding Reiterated in this regard the importance of location of the three countries situated on new opportunities among the business circles regular meetings in the trilateral format to POLITICS TEHRAN – The Passive Defense Organ- important international transit corridors, of the three countries; supported the im- continue coordination and cooperation on desk the earliest resolution of Armenia-Azerbaijan ization’s Public Relations Department in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of encouraged further efforts to increase co- provement of the economic and commercial regional and global issues; a statement dismissed as “false” recent remarks attributed the above-mentioned principles; operation for the development of transport cooperation between the small and medium Agreed to hold the next meeting in Iran. to the head of the organization, according to which “Presi- dent Hassan Rouhani’s mobile phone was tapped recently.” “Recently, some media outlets have published remarks by Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali which were taken Iran FM: U.S. sanctions won’t work out of context with regard to the president’s mobile phone being tapped, which is strongly denied,” the statement read, “U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, Israel emboldened them for atrocity” Mehr reported on Tuesday. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that With the nuclear deal under huge pressure following “But the United States is continuously and persistently It added that in the interview, General Jalali had warned although U.S. sanctions on Tehran hurt, they will not work. the U.S. withdrawal back in May, and the Iranian economy on the wrong side,” the Iranian top diplomat asserted. that “unencrypted” phone calls made by the country’s officials “Sanctions will have an economic impact, but they will suffering when many had hoped it would be thriving under Zarif said the U.S. had emboldened Saudi Arabia and while in other countries are vulnerable to being intercepted. not change policy. The United States must learn that,” Zariff eased sanctions, it’s been a rocky year in Iran. Israel to stage their atrocities by providing the regimes with told CBS News in Tehran on Sunday. “The U.S. has an addic- “Everybody believes that the impact of those sanctions “blanket support.” tion to sanctions and they believe that the sanctions are the have already affected the economy,” Zarif told CBS News. “I think the blanket support that the U.S. provides to Saudi ‘Mechanism to panacea that resolve all the problems. They don’t. They in As his country continues trying to pave a pathway forward Arabia and to Israel has enabled them to carry out atrocities save Iran-EU fact hurt people and we have an obligation as a government with Europe and other parties to the nuclear deal, Zarif was that would not have happened, had there not existed this to minimize the impact on the people. But sanctions never adamant that no talks -- on or off the record -- were still blanket support,” he said. financial ties change policy.” taking place with Washington. The remarks came as the kingdom has come under mount- “It is the first time that the Europeans are not only making “U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, Israel embold- ing criticism for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Washington underway’ statements against U.S., policy but are developing a mech- ened them for atrocity” Post columnist and notable critic of Riyadh’s policies, who POLITICS TEHRAN – A spokesperson with the Eu- anism to avoid these sanctions and to compensate for the Zarif also told CBS News that the United States’ choices was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul deskropean Union (EU) says a special financial sanctions,” Zarif said of impending U.S. sanctions set to be are to blame for the Middle East’s disasters. on October 2. mechanism aimed to save Iran-EU financial transactions is launched against Iran on November 4. “The United States’ choices in the Middle East are wrong, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said recently that the in the process of implementation. “I didn’t spend two and a half years in negotiating this and these wrong choices lead to the disaster in our region,” kingdom would not have proceeded with the killing had it Speaking to Deutsche Welle on Tuesday, the spokesperson, deal [the 2015 Iran nuclear deal] in order to simply walk Zarif said. not been in receipt of U.S. support. who was not named, said the EU is determined to salvage away from it, because I know that there won’t be a better “We knew that the invasion of Iraq was the wrong choice, Washington is separately under pressure from high-pro- the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, IRNA reported. deal. There will never be a better deal for the United States,” although Saddam Hussein was our enemy. We knew that the file rights groups to axe its arms sales to the kingdom and “The decision to launch such mechanism was made in Zarif said. attack against Afghanistan was the wrong choice although logistical support for the war on Yemen, which has killed the meeting of EU foreign ministers on the sidelines of the “I can assure President Trump with all his negotiating Taliban were our enemy,” he added. thousands since its onset. UN General Assembly in New York,” the spokesperson skills that this is the best deal that was possible. The best “We know that the invasion and attack, bombardment of The U.S. is also Israel’s oldest and strongest ally, which said, adding that the decision was then referred to the EU deal for us. The best deal for Europe. The best deal for the Yemen are wrong choices,” Zarif noted, referring to Wash- has almost invariably blocked efforts at the United Nations member states. United States the best deal for Russia and China and the ington’s support for the 2015-present Saudi Arabia-led war to hold the regime responsible for its excesses across Tel best deal for the international community.” on the Arab world’s poorest nation. Aviv-occupied Palestinian territories. I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 31, 2018 INTERNATIONAL Saudi regime public prosecutor holds 2nd round Saudi regime-led coalition of talks in Istanbul, visits Riyadh’s consulate sends 10,000 of troops to by staff & agencies Hudaydah ahead of new Amid investigations into the murder of dis- sident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the regime’s public prosecutor holds a second round of talks with Turkish officials in Is- tanbul before visiting Riyadh’s consulate, where the crime took place. Saud al-Mojeb sat down with Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, at the city’s main courthouse for a second time on Tuesday. The meeting lasted around an hour. Mo- jeb and the delegation accompanying him then headed to the Saudi regime consulate in Istanbul, where Khashoggi was killed this month. Turkish broadcaster TRT reported that Mojeb had on Monday asked to be given the full findings of the Turkish investigation into Khashoggi’s death, including all images and audio recordings. Turkish investigators, however, reject- The House of Saud regime-led military coalition has sent 10,000 ed the request and instead urged the Saudi of troops to Yemen’s Hudaydah ahead of a fresh offensive against regime prosecutor to reveal information the blockaded port city, a report says. about the location of Khashoggi’s body, the Leading a coalition of its allies, including the United Arab report added. Khashoggi, an outspoken critic House of Saud regime authorities responsible oil exporter into crisis. Erdogan: No point in protecting Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in March 2015 in of the House of Saud regime Crown Prince for his recent murder in Istanbul, slamming There are reports that the journalist was culprits in Khashoggi murder an attempt to reinstall Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), vanished at the United States president for paving the about to disclose details of Saudi Arabia’s use Separately, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Mansur Hadi, who resigned amid popular discontent and fled Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2. way for Riyadh to cover up the crime. of banned chemical weapons in its imposed Erdogan called on Saudi Arabia’s chief pros- to the kingdom. Riyadh initially claimed that the journalist Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of Khashog- war on Yemen days before he was killed. ecutor to find out who ordered the murder of Since the onset of the imposed war, the Yemeni army, backed by had walked out of the mission. gi, said she was disappointed with the U.S. British Sunday Express weekly reported Khashoggi, and not spare “certain people” fighters of the country’s popular Ansarullah (Houthi) movement, Later, however, it said that Khashoggi was President Donald Trump’s response to the that a close friend of Khashoggi, speaking in his investigation. has been defending the impoverished nation against the brutal killed accidentally in a “fist fight” with a Saudi killing, suggesting the U.S. business ties with on condition of anonymity, had told it on “Now we have to solve this case. No need to aggression. The coalition is also resolute to crush the movement hit squad. Most recently, Mojeb said that the Riyadh had influenced his approach to the Saturday night that he was about to obtain prevaricate, it makes no sense to try to protect as another goal in its war on Yemen, which is teetering on the killing of the Washington Post columnist was case. “President Trump should help reveal “documentary evidence” from his murdered certain people,” he told reporters in Ankara. edge of famine. “premeditated” by Saudi operatives. the truth and ensure justice be served. He friend proving claims that Riyadh had used Erdogan said the Turkish prosecutor had told More than three and a half years into the war, the Saudi regime The kingdom announced the arrest of should not pave the way for a cover-up of my banned chemical weapons in its brutal ag- his Saudi counterpart that the 18 suspects has achieved neither of its objectives. Riyadh had declared at 18 Saudi suspects in the murder and the fiancé’s murder. Let’s not let money taint gression against Yemen. in the case could be tried in Turkey. Saudi the start of the invasion that the war would take no more than sacking of two top officials. Ankara called our conscience and compromise our values,” Khashoggi, 59, entered the Saudi consulate officials also needed to reveal the identity of a couple of weeks. for the extradition of the suspects, an appeal she told a memorial in London for the slain in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork a local cooperator said to have been involved Back in June, coalition forces, backed by armed militia loyal to rejected by Riyadh. Washington Post columnist. necessary for his upcoming marriage to Cengiz, in Khashoggi’s disappearance, he said. Hadi, launched a full-scale offensive against the Ansarullah-held Turks receive testimonies from Cengiz said she and the Turkish nation a Turkish national. He did not walk out of Susan Rice, the former U.S. national se- Hudaydah, which is currently under a tight siege imposed by the 18 Saudi suspects want all of those responsible including those the consulate. Cengiz first raised the alarm. curity adviser during Obama’s second term, invaders. The so-called liberation operation, however, failed to The developments followed as the Saudi who gave the order to those who carried it UN rights chief calls for has lashed out at the Saudi regime’s Crown achieve its objective, which is overrunning the vital port and prosecutors have handed over the testimonies out, from the bottom to the top to be tried international role in Khashoggi inquiry Prince MBS, in an opinion piece in the New defeating Ansarullah fighters, backed by those from the Popular by the 18 suspects of the killing of Khashoggi and to receive the necessary punishments Elsewhere, the United Nations human York Times. In the op-ed, Rice said that the Committees. to Turkish officials, a source in the Turkish according to international law. rights Chief Michelle Bachelet called for inter- “brazen murder of Jamal Khashoggi raises a Citing an unnamed military official from Hadi’s so-called Attorney General’s office told Al Jazeera. She also noted that she wanted “the role of national experts to take part in an independent critical question that the Trump administra- government, AFP reported on Tuesday that the pro-Hadi coa- The move comes after sources told Al Ja- the political leadership in this brutal killing investigation into the killing of Khashoggi, tion plainly wants to avoid: Can the United lition would deploy reinforcements to the Red Sea coast ahead zeera that Istanbul’s chief prosecutor’s office to be brought to light” and asked the inter- with access to evidence and witnesses. States continue to cooperate with Crown of a new offensive on Hudaydah “within days.” was left “unsatisfied” following a meeting national community to assist in holding “the Bachelet also urged Saudi Arabia to reveal Prince Mohammed bin Salman?” The official further claimed that they would “secure areas with the Saudi regime’s top prosecutor over perpetrators and their masters to account.” the whereabouts of Khashoggi’s body, adding “The young prince’s almost certain culpa- liberated” from Ansarullah fighters, adding that Sudanese forces Khashoggi’s killing. The death of Khashoggi – a critic of Saudi that a forensic examination and autopsy were bility in Mr. Khashoggi’s killing underscores had moved in to “secure” areas around the city, through whose Trump paves way for Saudis to Arabia’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mo- crucial in the ongoing investigation into the his extreme recklessness and immorality, while docks over 70 percent of Yemen’s imports used to pass. cover up Khashoggi’s murder: Fiancée hammed bin Salman (MBS) – has sparked “shockingly brazen crime” carried out in the exposing him as a dangerous and unreliable Over the past several month, humanitarian organizations have Meantime, Khashoggi’s fiancée has held the global outrage and pitched the world’s top Saudi consulate in Istanbul. partner for the United States.” warned that military operations against Hudaydah threaten to cut off essential supplies to millions of Yemeni people. More than 70 percent of Yemen’s imports pass through Hudaydah’s docks. The coalition claims Ansarullah movement is using Hudaydah Thousands rally in Colombo in support of sacked Sri Lanka PM for weapons delivery, an allegation rejected by Ansarullah fighters. Tens of thousands of supporters of Sri Lanka’s deposed Prime sacked Wickremesinghe and suspended parliament, breaking Yemenis target Saudi base in Asir Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have protested in the capital, up a fragile coalition governing the South Asian country. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite Colombo, as political turmoil on the island enters its fifth day. Parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya has warned that television network, citing a military source, reported that Yemeni Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP) workers the crisis could lead to a “bloodbath” on the streets unless forces had targeted a new military base in Saudi Arabia’s south- staged the protest on Tuesday outside his official residence, Sirisena ends the suspension of parliament to let MPs choose western province of Asir with a short-range Badr-1 missile, adding where he has remained since President Maithripala Sirisena between Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa. that the projectile had struck the designated target with precision. dismissed him last week and appointed former president Wickremesinghe has demanded that parliament meet The official also said that the retaliatory missile strike had Mahinda Rajapaksa as his replacement. so that he can prove he has majority backing. inflicted heavy human and material damage. “We are against the sacking, the people did not vote for Some of Wickremesinghe’s removed ministers have re- The aggression initially consisted of a bombing campaign, Sirisena to act in this manner,” Wickremesinghe told sup- fused to accept his sacking. On Sunday, former oil minister but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment porters from a makeshift stage. Arjuna Ranatunga attempted to enter his office, leading to of ground forces to Yemen. “We will resist what the president has done,” he said, violence that left two dead. Jamal Khashoggi was to disclose use of chemical weapons by as crowds chanted “down with the rogue PM”, referring to Sirisensa named a new cabinet on Monday with Rajapaksa the Saudi regime in Yemen, a source says. Rajapaksa, and “respect the mandate, recall parliament.” in charge of finance. Sri Lanka is a key state in the battle for Yemen death toll five times higher than UN estimates Effigies of Sirisena were torn up in a symbolic protest influence in South Asia between traditional ally India and Elsewhere, a report says the number of casualties in Yemen against the president’s move, which has been described by party color, took part in the hurriedly arranged rally that China. The Chinese government is one of the few to congrat- remains unreported due to the media blackout imposed on the many local newspapers as a “constitutional coup”. forced the closure of several roads. ulate pro-Beijing Rajapaksa on becoming prime minister. war-torn country by Saudi and Emirati invaders, putting the death Large crowds, many wearing caps in green, the UNP Sri Lanka was plunged into crisis on Friday when Sirisena (Source: agencies) toll among Yemenis at around 56,000 since early 2016 -- over five times higher than the figure reported by the United Nations. Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning columnist for The Inde- U.S. President Trump plans to end birthright citizenship: Axios pendent, said in a recent article that understating the number of The United States government is planning Trump’s comments come ahead of the people killed in the war on Yemen has enabled Saudi Arabia and to end birthright citizenship for babies of U.S. midterm elections that he has sought to its allies to avoid a public outcry over their offensive. non-citizens and undocumented immigrants focus on his hardline immigration policies. He cited a toll of 56,000 by a nonprofit conflict-research or- born on the U.S. soil, President Donald Trump Seeking to energize his supporters and ganization that is five times higher than the regularly reported said in an interview on Tuesday. help Republicans keep control of Congress, figure of 10,000. In an interview with “Axios on HBO”, the U.S. president has stoked anxiety about a “We estimate the number killed to be 56,000 civilians and Trump said he is working with legal counsel caravan of Central American migrants making combatants between January 2016 and October 2018,” said to put an end to the practice, which stipulates its way to the U.S.-Mexico border. Andrea Carboni, who researches Yemen for the Armed Conflict that citizenship is automatically granted to He is dispatching additional troops and Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). any person born within the U.S. territory. saying he’ll set up tent cities for asylum seekers. Cockburn said Carboni had told him that he expects a total Revoking birthright citizenship would lead In the final days before the November 6 toll of 70,000-80,000, when he completes research into the to a court fight over whether the president has midterm elections, Trump has emphasized casualties by taking into account the number of victims between the unilateral ability to change an amendment immigration, as he seeks to counter his rival March 2015 -- when the Saudi regime and its allies began a war to the Constitution. The 14th Amendment Democratic party’s campaign. on the country -- and the end of that year. guarantees that right for all children born in Trump believes that his campaign pledges, Carboni was further quoted as saying that the number of the U.S. Asked about the legality of such an including his much vaunted and still-unful- the Yemenis being killed is increasing by more than 2,000 per executive order, Trump said, “they’re saying in the world where a person comes in, has The first line of the 14th Amendment states: filled promise to quickly build a U.S.-Mexico month as fighting intensifies around the port city of Hudaydah. I can do it just with an executive order”. “It’s a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen “All persons born or naturalized in the United border wall, are still rallying cries for his base The House of Saud cregime has finally admitted “mistakes” in ridiculous and it has to end ...” of the United States for 85 years with all of States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and that this latest focus will further erode a recent airstrike which killed children on a school bus in Yemen, It’s unclear how quickly he would act on those benefits,” Trump told the Axios HBO are citizens of the United States and of the the opposition support. but still insisted that the vehicle was carrying Ansarullah fighters. an executive order. “We’re the only country series, which debuts on Sunday. state wherein they reside.” (Source: agencies) Yemeni forces shoot down Saudi reconnaissance drone over Hudaydah The Yemeni army has shot down a Saudi regime unmanned Lion Air crash: Investigators hunt for black-box answers aerial vehicle (UAV) as it was on a reconnaissance mission in Search teams scoured the sea off Indonesia on Tuesday for miracle,” spokesman Yusuf Latif said. Yemen’s western coastal province of Hudaydah. any signs of life and evidence to determine what brought The agency said on Tuesday that 10 intact bodies, as well Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television net- down a Lion Air flight with 189 people on board. as body parts, had been recovered. work, citing a military source, reported that the “big” drone was Divers hunted for the main fuselage and deployed un- Lion Air Chief Executive Edward Sirait said on Monday shot down as it was flying in the skies north east of Durayhimi derwater beacons to trace the flight’s black box recorders in the plane had encountered an unspecified “technical issue” district in the province on Monday. order to find out what caused one of the deadliest aviation on its previous flight, which was from the resort island of The report added that another Saudi regime spy drone had incidents in Indonesia’s history. Bali to Jakarta, but that it had been “resolved according to also been intercepted and shot down by Yemeni forces as it was The search was stopped for the night although sonar procedure”. flying in skies of border areas of Saudi Arabia’s southwestern vessels and an underwater drone continued hunting for “We don’t dare to say what the facts are, or are not, yet,” region of Jizan early on Saturday. the downed airliner. he told reporters. “We are also confused about the why since Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular “Hopefully this morning we can find the wreckage or fuse- it was a new plane.” Committees and fighters from the Ansarullah movement, have lage,” Soerjanto Tjahjono, the head of Indonesia’s transport The Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliner was flying from the capital so far managed to shoot down over a dozen Saudi regime drones safety panel, told Reuters news agency. to the city of Pangkal Pinang at 1,113 meters above sea level over the Yemeni territories and in the skies of border areas of Lion Air’s airplane was almost brand new though it crashed when it lost contact with air traffic controllers. Saudi southern provinces. shortly after take-off from the airport in Jakarta after the The crash was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia The United Nations humanitarian chief says the war on Yemen pilot reported he needed to return the aircraft to the ground. before Monday’s flight by an engineer who is a specialist in since an AirAsia flight plunged into the sea in December has rendered as many as 8.4 million people in the Arab world’s The Boeing 737 was flown for the first time on August Boeing models. Indonesia’s search-and-rescue agency said 2014, killing all 162 on board. already most miserable nation needful of urgent food aid. 15, and the airline said it had been certified as airworthy there was little hope of finding survivors. “[It] would be a (Source: agencies) (Source: agencies) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 4 ECONOMY OCTOBER 31, 2018

STOCK MARKET South Korea asks U.S. for ‘maximum TEDPIX 183219.5 IFX 2040.28 Sources: tse.ir, Ifb.ir flexibility’ on Iran sanctions waiver

South Korea has asked the United States for “Minister Kang requested the U.S. side “maximum flexibility” on its request for a exert maximum flexibility so that South Korea CURRENCIES waiver to prevent South Korean companies can secure an exemption to minimize the USD 42,000 rials from being affected by renewed U.S. sanc- damage to our companies,” the ministry said. tions against Iran, the foreign ministry said. Pompeo said he noted Seoul’s position EUR 48,494 rials The sanctions against Iranian crude oil and would continue discussions on the mat- exports are set to take effect on Nov. 5 as part ter, the ministry said. GBP 55,053 rials of President Donald Trump’s efforts to force The exemption issue is the latest sign of AED 11,430 rials Tehran to accede to a more restrictive deal strain between Seoul and Washington over on curbing its nuclear programs. a range of issues, especially the enforcement Source: iribnews.ir South Korea, a U.S. ally and one of Asia’s of sanctions aimed at limiting North Korea’s biggest buyers of Iranian oil, has already nuclear and missile programs. stopped crude imports from Iran. South South Korea and Japan have been in talks Korean building firms have also cancelled with the United States in a bid to avoid adverse COMMODITIES energy-related contracts in Iran due to fi- impacts from the reimposition of U.S. sanc- WTI $65.67/b nancing difficulties. tions on Iran. Both countries won waivers Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha asked during the previous round of sanctions that Brent $75.62/b for the exemption in a telephone call with ended in 2016, but Washington has adopted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late on a more aggressive stance this time. OPEC Basket $75.71/b Monday, the ministry said in a statement. (Source: Reuters) Gold $1,225.00/oz Silver $14.49/oz Iran’s intl. auto part exhibition to host India, Russia, Iran to meet Platinium $841.40/oz 180 foreign companies on North-South Corridor on Nov. 23 Sources: oilprice.com, Moneymetals.com ECONOMY TEHRAN – Over 180 their latest achievements and products India, Russia and Iran will hold a trilat- important initiative taken by India, Rus- deskforeign exhibitors and in a variety of areas including passenger eral meeting on the International North sia and Iran to promote transport coop- NEWS IN BRIEF 510 domestic participants are going to and heavy auto spare parts, related South Transport Corridor (INSTC) on No- eration and to enhance connectivity with participate in the 13th edition of Iran machinery, maintenance and cleaning vember 23 to make the 7,200-km-long ship, central Asian countries. TSE’s worth of International Auto Parts Exhibition products, in addition to after-sales, road, and rail route operational soon, an “The INSTC is the shortest multimodal which is due to be held on November decorative and tuning as well as techni- official statement said on Monday. transportation route linking the Indian trades rises 73% in 12-15 at Tehran Permanent International cal and engineering services, and etc. Union Commerce and Industry Min- Ocean and Persian Gulf via Iran to Rus- a month Fairgrounds, ILNA reported. Holding 12 conferences and work- ister Suresh Prabhu, in a meeting with a sia and North Europe,” the Ministry of Com- So far, France, Greece, Turkey, Chi- shops with the presence of engineers, Russian business delegation on raising merce and Industry said in the statement. na, Taiwan, South Korea, India, Italy specialists and university professors, investments and business between the two “The estimated capacity of the corridor and Poland are among the countries as well visits from several international countries on Saturday, said “all issues may is 20 to 30 million tons of goods per year ECONOMY TEHRAN — The value of trades in Tehran Stock which are taking part in this year’s industrial and commercial delegations be resolved in order to operationalize the and will reduce time and cost by 30 percent deskExchange (TSE) has risen 73 percent during the event. have been also planned as side pro- route as early as possible”. to 40 percent,” it added. past Iranian calendar month of Mehr (September 22-October 22) The exhibitors will be showcasing grams for this exhibition. Prabhu informed that the corridor is an (Source: Business Standard) from its previous month, Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. Some 64.928 billion shares worth 310.327 trillion rials (about $7.388 billion) were traded through 5.250 million deals during Mood sours as euro zone economic growth slows while Italy stagnates the past month. The euro zone economy grew less than expected risen sharply in recent months. Number of deals in Mehr shows 43 percent rise as well. in the third quarter as the public mood turned That suggests price pressures will not be TEDPIX, the main index of TSE, also gained 27,241 points, or darker, with signs of distress in Italy highlight- a major factor in shifting ECB decisions at 17 percent, during the past month. ing concerns that the bloc’s third-ranked state this stage. is becoming one of its weakest links. Confidence on the slide Tuesday’s data, suggesting the slowdown Of more concern to policymakers in Frank- Intl. electricity has further to run, will make uncomfortable furt will be indications that the bloc’s economic exhibit to kick reading for the European Central Bank as it slowdown could worsen in the final quarter. moves toward ending in December the program The European Commission said on Tuesday off in Tehran on of asset purchases it introduced in 2015 to boost that euro zone economic sentiment dropped Friday inflation and economic growth. in October for the tenth consecutive month. Economists said the quarterly growth dip The indicator of managers’ and consum- to 0.2 percent from 0.4 percent in the second ers’ morale - which rose steadily in 2017 - fell ENERGY TEHRAN – To be hosting 483 foreign and quarter was unlikely to change those plans, to 109.8 points from 110.9 in September, its deskdomestic companies, the 18th Iran Interna- though it might push back the date of the ECB’s biggest dip since March though still above its tional Electricity Exhibition (IEE) is due to be opened on Friday first post-stimulus hike in interest rates. long-term average. at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds, IRIB reported. “We expect the ECB to stick to its plans to In October the largest fall was recorded in As reported, some 415 domestic exhibitors along with end asset purchases this year, but the recent retail services as managers held “much grimmer 68 foreign companies from 18 countries including Austria, run of weak data suggests that the bank will views on the present and expected business Germany, Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, China and the stress that policy tightening will depend on the situation,” the Commission said, and the in- United States will attend this four-day event to showcase their incoming figures,” Jessica Hinds, economist People wearing signs that read “We want dignity for workers” (R) and “We have work dicator of selling price expectations dropped. latest achievements and products in the electricity industry. at Capital Economics, said. but no salary” protest in front of the Italian Ministry of Labour office in Rome, Italy, Confidence in industry and services also The exhibitors are active in various sectors of power indus- Tuesday’s preliminary flash GDP reading October 16, 2018. went down, while consumer sentiment im- try including wire, cable, electrical equipment, automation, from European statistics office Eurostat, which over a 2019 budget draft that breaks EU rules. too, although the country’s jobless total fell proved slightly. instrumentation systems and etc. sent the euro EUR= to an intraday low against “With budget discussions already tense in October and employment hit a record high Morale fell in Germany, France and Italy the dollar, was worse than expected. between Rome and Brussels, this stagnation in September. while it grew in Spain. Economists polled by Reuters had expected will only add to concerns,” Bert Colijn, econo- Meanwhile, inflation in Germany’s most In Italy the downward trend began in July, a 0.4 percent rise in the 19 countries sharing mist at ING, said. populous regions accelerated in October to the month after a eurosceptic government took Non-oil exports up 13.3% in 7 the euro. The 0.2 percent reported was the Quarterly growth in France, the bloc’s second well above 2 percent, reaching the highest level office in Rome. lowest growth pace in more than four years. biggest economy, also missed forecasts at 0.4 in many years. Outside the euro zone, Britain recorded a months on year Eurostat does not provide national data percent though growth accelerated, data from That compares with an ECB target of close slight increase of economic sentiment, driven 1 Foroud Asgari said 67.362 million tons of non-oil goods in its flash estimates, but figures from Italy’s the INSEE statistics agency showed on Tuesday. to but below 2 percent, though Tuesday’s Ger- up by more optimism in retail trade and ser- worth $27.229 billion were exported to the destination markets statistics agency ISTAT showed growth there An estimate for Germany, the bloc’s largest man data was not harmonized to compare with vices which more than offset a fall in industry during the seven-month period of this year, IRNA reported. stagnated in the third quarter, as the govern- economy, is not yet available but economists other euro zone countries and did not strip out confidence. The IRICA head put the country’s non-oil imports at 18.929 ment pursues a war of words with Brussels foresee growth is likely to have slowed there volatile elements such as oil prices, which have (Source: Reuters) million tons valued at $26.303 billion in the mentioned time span, with 8.6 percent fall in weight and 11.7 percent decrease in value compared to the same period of time in the previous year. Trump says he expects ‘great deal’ with Singapore trade min. warns of ‘double Gas condensate, liquefied propane, low-density oils and their by- whammy’ to global economy products except for gasoline, methanol and polyethylene film grade China, but more tariffs if not were the major exported products and corn as livestock food, auto parts, rice and soy bean were the main imported goods during the seven-month period of this year, Asgari said. IRICA has previously put the value of Iran’s non-oil exports at $46.931 billion in the past Iranian calendar year of 1396 (ended on March 20), with 6.56 percent growth from $44.42 billion in its preceding year. Iran’s imports of the non-oil products during the past calendar year stood at $54.302 billion, indicating 24.31 percent increase from the figure of its preceding year.

Bitcoin steady after worst day in nearly 3 weeks U.S. President Donald Trump said he thinks Lu Kang said China and the United States Ongoing trade tensions that have hit market economic recovery when activity stagnates A day after suffering its biggest 24-hour decline in nearly three there will be “a great deal” with China on trade, have all along been in communication about sentiments towards the end of the current and growth slows down. weeks, the bitcoin market has righted the ship early Tuesday. but warned that he has billions of dollars worth exchanges at all levels, including a possible business cycle could deal a “double whammy” Stock markets around the world have A single bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.31% was last changing hands of new tariffs ready to go if a deal isn’t possible. Xi-Trump meeting in Argentina, though he to the global economy, said Singapore’s Min- tumbled in recent weeks as investors are at $6,272.85, up 0.1% since Monday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on “I think that we will make a great deal with gave no details. ister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing. increasingly rattled by developments includ- the Kraken exchange. China and it has to be great, because they’ve If the United States is not willing to promote Chan’s comments came amid an escalating ing rising interest rates, weakening global Monday’s weakness brought the total value of all crypto- drained our country,” Trump told FOX News win-win cooperation with China then China trade conflict between the world’s two largest economy and waning earnings prospects. currencies back towards $200 billion, according to data from Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Monday. is fully confident in being able to continue economies: The U.S. is reportedly preparing The International Monetary Fund earlier CoinMarketCap. Trump said in the interview he would like with its reforms and develop itself, Lu added. new tariffs against all remaining Chinese this month cut its global growth forecasts as Yellen downbeat on bitcoin to make a deal now, but that China was not The United States has already imposed imports if upcoming trade talks between trade tensions between the U.S. and trad- Speaking at the Canadian FinTech Forum in Montreal on ready. He did not elaborate. tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping break down. ing partners have started to hit economic Monday, Janet Yellen, the former chairperson of the Federal Bloomberg news reported on Monday and China has responded with retaliatory “The most important thing is whether activity worldwide. Reserve, said bitcoin lacks some key components to make it a that Washington was preparing to announce duties on $110 billion worth of U.S. goods. this will lead to a global loss of confidence Singapore is a tiny Southeast Asian sustainable means of payment. “It has long been thought that for tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by “And I have $267 billion waiting to go if and investment,” Chan told CNBC’s Sri economy that is highly dependent on trade — something to be a useful currency it needs to be a stable source early December if talks next month between we can’t make a deal,” Trump said. Jegarajah at the Singapore International making it vulnerable in a worsening conflict of value, and bitcoin is anything but,” said Yellen, according to Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping fail to Trump has long threatened to impose Energy Week on Tuesday. between the U.S. and China. Its exports of Kitco.com. ease the trade war. tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports into “And if this global loss of confidence and goods and services in 2017 were almost “It’s not used for a lot of transactions, it’s not a stable source Both Trump and Xi are expected to attend the United States if Beijing fails to meet U.S. investment coincides with what we call the 200 percent of its roughly $300 billion of value and it’s not an efficient means of processing payments,” next month’s G20 summit in Buenos Aires, demands for sweeping changes to Chinese late cycle issues on the financial markets, gross domestic product, according to the she said, according to the report. where they could meet. trade, technology transfer and industrial then we might have a double whammy,” he World Bank. (Source: The Market Watch) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman subsidy policies. (Source: Reuters) added. “Late cycle” refers to a stage in an (Source: CNBC) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 31, 2018 ENERGY 5

Oil prices slip on rising Rosneft’s Iraqi Kurdistan oil and gas play angers Baghdad

When the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan went looking for supply, trade tensions someone brave enough to pump billions of dollars into developing its large oil and gas reserves, it found a man who has never been accused of lacking courage: Igor Sechin, an old friend of Russian Oil prices slipped on Tuesday, depressed by Oil is also under pressure from rising president Vladimir Putin. concerns that the U.S.-China trade dispute output by the world’s biggest producers, The chief executive of Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned oil company, will dent economic growth and by signs of Russia, the United States and Saudi Ara- has ignored fears of conflict, criticism from western powers and rising global supply despite upcoming sanc- bia, which is helping to replenish global navigated a web of regional, religious and political associations to tions against Iran. oil inventories after more than a year of emerge as Iraqi Kurdistan’s single biggest financier. In the process Benchmark Brent crude oil was down stock draws. he has moved a U.S. military stronghold much closer to Moscow. 15 cents a barrel at $77.19 by 0835 GMT. Oil production from these three producers Rosneft, the world’s largest publicly listed oil producer, says U.S. light crude was unchanged at $67.04. reached 33 million barrels per day (bpd) the investments are just good business, and have nothing to do Both contracts have recovered ground for the first time in September, Refinitiv with politics. But the Kurdistan projects will produce just 10,000 over the last week but are around $10 a Eikon data showed. barrels of crude per day by the end of this year — only 0.2 percent barrel below four-year highs reached in the That’s an increase of 10 million bpd since of its total daily production: low on output and high on symbolism. first week of October. the start of the decade and means these “Like any company, Rosneft seeks out deals that make com- Oil has been caught in the global finan- three producers alone now meet a third of mercial sense, but energy is one of Moscow’s most powerful tools cial market slump this month, with equities global crude demand. and its geopolitical priorities are a major factor in Rosneft’s choice under pressure from the trade war between The United States is set to impose sanc- of commercial partners,” said Chris Tooke, principal analyst for the world’s two largest economies. tions on Iranian crude from next week and Russia at GPW, a political risk consultancy. “Kurdistan is an example Financial markets found some support exports from the Islamic Republic have al- where Russia’s geopolitical and commercial aims go hand in hand.” on Tuesday from reports that U.S. President ready begun to fall. Kurdistan has long been considered a close ally of the U.S. But Donald Trump thinks “a great deal” with But there appears to be no significant the recent expansion of the Kremlin-controlled oil major has given China is possible on trade. shortage of crude. Saudi Arabia and Russia Russia a significant foothold in Erbil. This is part of a trend mirrored But for now the dispute between Wash- a time of slowing global economic activity. an energy conference in Singapore. have said they will pump enough to meet across the Middle East as Moscow responds to a shrinking of U.S. ington and Beijing goes on and looks set “There are two downward pressures on Consultancy JBC Energy said the oil demand once U.S. sanctions are imposed. influence by stepping up its relations with countries such as Saudi to curb global economic growth and fuel global oil demand growth. One is high oil price weakness was “probably driven by Iran’s seaborne crude exports have fallen Arabia and Iran. demand. prices, and in many countries they’re direct- the wider negative market sentiment amid from a 2018 peak of just over 2.5 million Rosneft in May signed an agreement with the Kurdistan regional The International Energy Agency (IEA) ly related to consumer prices. The second speculation about additional U.S. tariffs on bpd in May to around 1.5 million bpd in government to explore the potential of developing its natural gas said on Tuesday high oil prices were hurting one is global economic growth momentum Chinese imports, should upcoming talks fail September and October, Eikon data showed. reserves and building a gas pipeline. This could in theory carry ex- consumers and could dent fuel demand at slowing down,” IEA chief Fatih Birol told to produce the desired results”. (Source: Reuters) ports to Europe in one of a string of deals made between Sechin and Erbil over the past two years. Over the past 18 months, the Russian company has paid about High oil prices hurt consumers, dent fuel demand: IEA chief $3.5bn to the Kurdistan administration including: $400m to develop High oil prices are hurting consumers and could also have Southeast Asia as demand is rising fast but production is 500 billion cubic meters per day (bcm) by 2023, growing five exploration blocks; $1.8bn for control of the region’s export adverse implications for producers, the executive director falling, resulting in the region becoming a net importer of by a third in the coming five years. pipeline, and a $1.2 loan in pre-payment for oil produced by com- of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday. oil, gas and coal, Birol said. Birol said just three countries, Qatar, Australia and panies other than Rosneft. Major emerging Asian economies such as India and Despite the possibility of a slowdown, Birol said the the United States, would supply 60 percent of global LNG While that has provided a financial lifeline to the region’s gov- Indonesia have been hit hard this year by rising crude oil general outlook for fuel consumption was for continued by 2023. ernment, it has angered the Iraqi administration in Baghdad, which prices, which despite falls this month are up by around 15 growth. LNG demand is primarily driven by growth in China, says Erbil does not have the right to sign commercial deals with percent since the start of 2018. While the rise of electric vehicles is expected to result in where an anti-pollution program is driving a massive shift foreign oil companies without its blessing. Fuel import costs have been pushed up further by a slide peak demand for products like diesel and gasoline within from coal to natural gas. “In accordance with our constitution, only the central, Bagh- in emerging market currencies against the dollar, denting coming years, a consumption boom in products such as But demand is also expected to grow fast in Southeast dad government has the authority to sign such contracts and so growth and even triggering protests and government fuel plastic as well as fuel demand growth from aviation have Asia, where Birol said the power sector needed $50 billion those ones are illegal,” said Iraq’s ambassador to Moscow, Haidar price controls in India. triggered large-scale refinery investment into petrochemical of investment by 2040, more than twice the current level, Mansour Hadi. “Many countries’ current account deficits have been products and high quality products like jet fuel. to keep up with consumption. After Kurdistan held an independence referendum in September affected by high oil prices,” IEA chief Fatih Birol said at “Global oil Demand will continue to grow even amid the Despite this growth potential, the LNG sector faces 2017 — condemned by the EU, U.S. and Turkey but not Russia — an energy conference in Singapore. rise of electric vehicles as they are governed by petrochemicals, increasing competition from renewables and storage Baghdad sent troops to seize control of major Kurdish oilfields, “There are two downward pressures on global oil demand aviation, among others,” he said. technology, which are cleaner than fossil fuels and becoming disrupting the region’s critical oil production and exports. growth. One is high oil prices, and in many countries they’re LNG booming much cheaper. That makes Rosneft’s control of the export pipeline, which pumps directly related to consumer prices. The second one is global More so than oil, Birol said demand for liquefied natural In many countries, Birol said solar power was on track Kurdish crude to Ceyhan on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, a key economic growth momentum slowing down.” gas (LNG) would boom. to become the cheapest source of new electricity. lever in relations between Erbil and Baghdad, and places the Russian The effect of high oil prices will be compounded in The IEA chief said that global LNG trade could pass (Source: Bloomberg) company at the center of talks between the two. Despite the military intervention last year, and the legal war of words over his already-signed deals, Sechin doubled down in May Cracking margins pilot Asian sweet crude oil grades amid tepid year-end buying with the gas pipeline agreement. If Rosneft were to go ahead with the pipeline, which could carry billions of cubic meters of gas to The Asian sweet crude oil complex kicked which was around $3.75/b to Platts Dated Turkey and Europe, the Russian company would have unrivalled off Monday on mixed sentiments, as an Brent. control over the region’s energy exports. oversupply of condensates and an influx of “There is quite an ample supply of regional “This is a key project in the monetization of the exploration and Vietnamese crudes weighed down on trading grades, so I feel it won’t be as strong compared production opportunities Rosneft has been evaluating since signing a outlook, while strong middle distillates and to last month, but refining margins are quite gas co-operation agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government fuel oil cracks and firm freight rates lent good now, so it won’t collapse too much,” of Iraq,” the company said in a statement. “Following the outcomes support to other regional crude oil grades, a trader said. of the integral development plan in terms of the attractiveness and said sources. Fuel oil cracks were at multi-year highs, efficiency of the options, Rosneft will decide on how to participate Last week, Asia’s sweet crude market saw the December 380 CST FOB Singapore cargo in the regional gas business.” activity mainly from Vietnam’s spot and term crack against Dubai was at minus 71 cents/b Kurdish natural gas — alongside Rosneft’s 30 percent stake in tenders, market participants were awaiting last Friday, and it was last higher on January Egypt’s massive Zohr gasfield— also gives Sechin an opportunity to the announcement of Brunei OSPs and fresh 27 2012, when it was minus 55 cents/b, showed compete in the European market against domestic rival Gazprom Neft. tenders for the heavy crude grades. S&P Global Platts data. But analysts say that whatever the potential financial pay-offs, “The cracks are good [for the heavy crude Conversely, ebbing strength and excess Rosneft’s Kurdish projects are more than just canny business deals, grades] but on the other hand, physical supply for crude condensate grades and and that where other international oil companies see political risk, sentiment itself is a bit weaker than last naphtha kept sentiment bearish. Arbitrage Sechin sees political opportunity. month. The December Chim Sao result of barrels from the West of Suez continued to “This is definitely part of Russia’s larger Middle East play,” said low to mid $3s/b is lower than November, enter this region, sources said. Tooke. “Uniquely for a world power, Russia has successfully built as there are a lot of spot cargoes available. “There are many condensate cargoes ties with a broad range of the most divisive countries in the region China isn’t buying aggressively like they did available for October, November and Northwest Europe naphtha crack, which Energy awarded four of its Sakhalin Blend such as Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.” for November loading cargoes, and typically December loadings -- the crack is so bad had plunged to fresh multi- year lows. The grade for January arrival to Japanese and “In Iraq, Russia is looking to leverage its strong position for a refineries tend to keep inventories low end- and condensate still have a long way to go front-month NWE crack fell to the lowest South Korean end-users at a premium of broader political role and become an indispensable player in the December for year-end financial reporting,” to match the economy of using heavy full since January 2015 to minus $7.70/b on around low-mid $3s/b to the Mean of Platts country, just as it has done in Syria and is looking to do in the Middle a trader said. range naphtha,” a North Asian refiner said. Friday. The crack was last lower at minus Dubai assessments, CFR North Asia, sources East more broadly,” he added. Vietnam’s PV Oil sold December-loading A supply overhang lingered in the Asian $7.90/b on January 9, 2015. said. In comparison, December-delivery (Source: Financial Times) Chim Sao crude at around low to mid $3s/b naphtha physical market and spot buying Some traders were also no longer focused Sakhalin Blend cargoes were heard sold to Platts Dated Brent assessments, lower than interest was slow, sources said. The Asian on trades for December barrels, having settled at premiums of around $4.15/b to Dubai the level for the November-loading barrels, naphtha crack was tracking a weakening it earlier in the year, sources said. Sakhalin assessments. (Source: Platts) Germany moves to bankroll LNG plant in Canada to Big Oil won’t spend despite fat profits secure gas imports to Europe Higher oil prices are expected to leave the flung places. oil industry flush with cash, but the “capital However, modest spending also flies in The German federal government has announced its willingness discipline” mantra remains. Market watchers the face of what some analysts are asking for to provide $1.5 billion loan guarantee to Goldboro LNG, a lique- have wondered whether top oil executives in the long-term. A September report from fied natural gas plant project in Canada run by Pieridae Energy. would eschew with tight-fisted spending Wood Mackenzie said that the oil industry’s Earlier, Berlin also offered $3 billion loan guarantees for the plans once their pockets fattened up again. spending restraint could sow the seeds of a project, with the total sum of loan guarantees therefore reaching “We’re laser focused on disciplined free supply crunch in the 2020s. “The warning $4.5 billion. cash flow generation and strong execution. signs are there – the industry isn’t finding “This confirmation not only satisfies a critical condition leading Discipline means, we’re not chasing higher enough oil,” WoodMac said in its report. to the completion of Pieridae’s acquisition of Ikkuma as contem- prices by ramping up activity,” ConocoPhillips’ The oil consultancy said that by the mid- plated by the arrangement agreement entered into between the CEO Ryan Lance told investors on an earn- 2020s, a supply gap emerges, rising to 3 Company and Ikkuma on August 23, 2018, but also marks an ings call. “By staying disciplined, we generate million barrels per day by 2030. By 2035, important milestone in advancing the integrated Goldboro LNG strong free cash flow, which we then allocate the supply gap jumps to as much as 7 mb/d. project towards a final investment decision,” Pieridae Energy in a shareholder-friendly way.” He went on “Barring technology breakthrough beyond said in a statement. to stress how committed the company was what we already assume, we’ll need new oil The LNG plant, which is expected to have an estimated annual to boosting the quarterly dividend and share discoveries,” WoodMac concluded. output of about 10 million tons, is set to be built in Nova Scotia buyback program. The IEA has repeatedly warned of a similar near the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline which runs from Canada Conoco beat analysts’ estimates, earning problem. The sharp downturn in spending to the United States. $1.36 per share in the third quarter, eight times following the market bust in 2014 has barely The German investment is aimed at ensuring that “a specified the earnings from the $0.16 per share a year we’re as profitable today as we were then, industry seeing higher oil and gas prices, recovered. But, as the earnings reports indi- amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced annually from the earlier. Conoco also saw soaring production despite prices being 25 percent lower and now is the time we must show discipline cate, Big Oil is now back to making money in proposed Goldboro LNG facility over a term of twenty years will in the big three shale areas – the Permian, volumes being 20 percent lower,” Lance told and protect the structural improvements a big way, even with spending at a fraction be delivered to, and be regasified in, Europe,” the company added. Eagle Ford and Bakken – with output up 48 investors. “So bigger isn’t always better. That’s we have achieved over the last four years,” of pre-2014 levels. At the beginning of its term, Merkel’s Cabinet has tasked itself percent to 313,000 bpd. Lance said that the why we’re focused on per share growth and Christian told investors on an earnings call. However, profitability is not the same with reducing Germany’s dependence on natural gas imports via company still wants to “optimize” its portfolio, value, not absolute volume growth.” Equinor, despite the improved performance, thing as the global oil industry having enough pipelines from Russia and Norway. The new government plans which includes $600 million in asset sales. Norwegian oil company Equinor (formerly announced that it was lowering its capex supply to meet demand. WoodMac and the “to create infrastructure for liquefied natural gas (LNG)” from Conoco’s experience highlights an im- Statoil) echoed that sentiment. After laying out guidance by $1 billion for the year. IEA, among others, are concerned that the scratch as a part of its energy and climate program. portant industry trend, which is prioritizing the company’s earnings, CFO Lars Christian The same words of “capital discipline” capital discipline mantra will lead to a supply According to Germany’s Economy and Energy Ministry, Merkel profits over growth and size. Lance pointed said “you have to go all the way back to first along with a focus on “capital distribution” disaster in the middle of the next decade. endorses all initiatives which support the further diversification out that the last time earnings were this good quarter 2014 to find strong results, and then – i.e. payouts to shareholders – are evident The oil majors are not concerned about of the gas supply — whether from different regions or the means was back in 2014. “Brent was over $100 per remember the oil price level above $100.” But in just about every earnings call. This is what that right now. Investors are happy that the of transporting gas, while the government strongly backs private barrel and our production was almost 1.5 again, that doesn’t seem to have triggered investors are demanding, not a return to quarterly figures are strong again. initiatives to build LNG terminals, which Germany now lacks. million barrels of equivalent oil per day. So a new aggressive approach. “With the E&P reckless spending on megaprojects in far (Source: oilprice.com) (Source: Sputnik) ساعت: 17:00 امضاء صفحه آرا: ساعت: امضاء مسئول صفحه: ساعت: امضاء ادیتور: ساعت: امضاء سردبیر:

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Ambassy of the Republic of The folly of MBS Cuba in Tehran By Dominique Moisi Saudi Arabia’s Western partners and allies Press release from the Embassy have long hoped that the Kingdom would embrace modernization, which is why they of Cuba in the Islamic Republic rolled out the red carpet for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But with the brutal of Iran, on the economic, murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, commercial and financial the true nature of the Saudi regime can no longer be denied. blockade imposed by the United What should come first in international politics: values or interests? For the West, States of America against Cuba. this dilemma has been thrown into sharp relief by the murder of the self-exiled Saudi October 29, 2018 journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi death squad in Turkey. Saudi Arabia, after all, is a major purchaser of Western For almost 60 years, twelve U.S. administrations have arms, a leading oil producer. Moreover, imposed on Cuba the cruelest and prolonged economic, the Kingdom is a key player in an ongoing financial and commercial blockade in history. Its found- power struggle in the Islamic world. And, ing purpose, reflected in a report by the State Department until Khashoggi’s murder, it had appeared on Foreign Affairs of the United States in 1960, has not to be on a path toward serious reform. changed until today: In 1979, the Islamic Revolution that tri- “The majority of Cubans support Castro ... the only umphed in Iran failed in Saudi Arabia. For foreseeable way of internal support is through the dis- two weeks in November and December of enchantment and dissatisfaction that arise from the that year, a group of armed zealots seized economic malaise and the results of the materials ... we the Grand Mosque in Mecca (Islam’s holi- must find all possible means to weaken the economic est site) and called for the overthrow of the life of Cuba “... A line of action (is) to deprive Cuba of Saudi government. Ultimately, they were money and supplies, to reduce financial resources and overpowered by the Saudi military. But the real wages, to provoke hunger, despair and the overthrow episode left the Saudi leadership far more of the Government”. inclined to compromise with, and even di- Until now, MBS has considered himself above the law. In addition to The enemies of the Cuban Revolution insist on demon- rectly assist extremists. strating that the blockade is a measure of bilateral “em- Then came June 2017, when Mohammed enjoying the tacit protection of the Trump court, he knows that the bargo” and that the difficulties of the island are due to the bin Salman (MBS) was suddenly named world is still heavily dependent on Saudi oil. inefficiency of its socialist model and the incapacity of its crown prince and heir apparent to the Saudi leaders. Against this lie, so many times repeated, every throne. To many observers, Saudi Arabia The message of the Khashoggi murder Turkish intelligence was able to follow the power between the two countries has shifted year the world rises in support to the Cuba´s report on the finally seemed to have a leader who would is no less clear: Dissidents and opposition gruesome act “live,” and then disclose it decidedly in the U.S.’s favor. damages of that policy, which already reach the amount confront the entrenched interests that had figures should know what awaits them if they gradually to the rest of the world. The irony As the Khashoggi spectacle has unfolded, of 933 678 million dollars. long prevented the country from modern- continue to criticize the new regime. Dream- of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an the two biggest political losers have been Many in the world (friends even) think that with the izing. Western countries, and particularly the ing of democracy in the Arab world is fine, singling out his young Saudi rival has been MBS and Trump. For his part, MBS will now restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, had been waiting for decades so long as one understands that reform will lost on no one: Journalists may be jailed by have to fight off mounting opposition within U.S., the blockade disappeared or its perfidious actions to see such a shift in the Kingdom’s politics. come only from the top. the hundreds in Turkey, but at least they are the royal family. Even if business as usual diminished. Nothing further from the truth. At first, it was hard for Western leaders Whether MBS’s behavior is driven by im- not dismembered! continues, his domestic opponents can now The imposition of multimillionaire fines to banking not to be seduced by MBS and his ambi- pulsiveness, immaturity, his close relationship Until now, MBS has considered himself make the case that, far from modernizing his entities, states, and companies, for having operations tious reform agenda. Egypt had effectively with America’s First Family – particularly above the law. In addition to enjoying the country, he is leaving it isolated and weaker with Cuba, is common practice of the U.S. Government. opted out of the regional-influence game, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared tacit protection of the Trump court, he knows than it was before he came to power. The Obama administration imposed 56 fines to U.S. and and Turkey, though a member of NATO, Kushner – or all of the above, there can be no that the world is still heavily dependent on Trump, meanwhile, must now clean up foreign entities for a value of 14 thousand 396 million was a difficult partner. For an American doubt that he has gone too far. One cannot Saudi oil. As Canada recently learned, MBS’s the political mess that he and his family have 883 thousand 576 USD. The Trump government has president bent on breaking from his pre- assassinate a Washington Post columnist regime will not hesitate to play the oil card created for themselves by forging warm per- imposed 3 fines worth 527 thousand 778 USD while it decessor’s more balanced approach to the and expect nobody to mind. And the fact that in response to criticism about its record on sonal ties with foreign despots. To be sure, has significantly reversed the bilateral progress made region, MBS was a godsend. the crime was committed within the terri- human rights. MBS has nothing to do with North Korean with its predecessor. But MBS soon showed himself to be far tory of a rival like Turkey only compounds But MBS was wrong to assume that he leader Kim Jong-un. But there is a pattern Just to mention another example, in July 2017, the from perfect. He took unnecessary risks by the folly. After the attacks of September 11, would never be challenged on that issue. The emerging, and no one will be surprised when American International Group, an international insurance escalating his war in Yemen, and now has a 2001, the world is in no way ready to tolerate business imperative of maintaining good ties Trump’s relationship with Kim blows up in and financial services company, agreed to pay $ 148,698 significant amount of civilian blood on his 15-member Saudi death squads carrying out with the Kingdom still stands. Yet the ta- his face, too. to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to direct hands. He kidnapped the prime minister operations abroad. bles have turned: Saudi Arabia is now more Diplomacy is an art, not a science. It re- civil liability that may arise from 555 “alleged violations” of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, and detained a Moreover, the sheer barbarity of the mur- dependent on the U.S. than vice versa. The quires perspicacity, prudence, and, above all, of the program of the origins of said office, as regards Iran, host of wealthy Saudis in the Ritz-Carlton der was not just shocking, but also shockingly growth of U.S. shale oil means that America experience. Trump has pursued diplomatic Sudan and Cuba. in Riyadh, releasing them from their forced naive. It should have been obvious that the can withstand a cut in Saudi supplies. The outcomes with a kind of sublime careless- Since 1992 and uninterruptedly, 26 voting have been retreat only after they had parted ways with Saudi consulate in Istanbul would be wired Saudis, on the other hand, cannot function ness. In MBS, he may have met his match. taken at the United Nations against the blockade. Only much of their wealth. with surveillance devices. As we now know, militarily without U.S. arms. The balance of (Source: Project Syndicate) the U.S., Israel and some other ally, never more than four countries, have opposed or abstained from this global con- demnation. Regrettably, these resolutions of the General Assembly have not had an effect on the position of the Trump, ‘purveyor of hate speech’, not welcome in Government of the United States, demonstrating its total disregard for the international community. The U.S. blockade against Cuba, limits trade or aid that can be established or received by any country in the world. Pittsburgh, says former synagogue leader November 27, 2017, Investment Credit Bank of Chile, Ed- wards Bank, Bank of Chile, ITAN, BBVA, and the State Bank refused to transfer funds to Cuba for the Solidarity Lynette Lederman says she does not want the president to visit Pittsburgh with Cuba movement for the recovery of damages caused by Hurricane Irma. These institutions argued that Cuba and will rely on local political leadership was subject to the regulations of the United States block- ade and because of this they were not allowed to carry out A former president of the synagogue in Pittsburgh where 11 these transactions. people were murdered on Saturday has said Donald Trump In February 2018, the Sheraton Addis Hotel, in Ethio- would not be welcome in the city and labelled the president pia, for the indications received from its parent company a “purveyor of hate speech”. in the USA, denied the reservation of rooms for a Cuban Lynette Lederman, of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel delegation visiting the country, under the pretext of the Hill, told CNN on Monday she would rely on local political regulations of the blockade against Cuba. leadership in the aftermath of the mass shooting and did In public health millionaire damages are caused by the not want the president to visit the city. impossibility of acquiring in the U.S. markets medicines, “We have people who stand by us, who believe in values reagents, spare parts for diagnosis and treatment equip- – not just Jewish – but believe in values, and those are not ment, medical instruments and other necessary supplies the values of this president and I do not welcome him to for the sector. In March 2018, the Indian company Aculife Pittsburgh,” she said. refused to ship the drug levofloxacin directly to Cuba. This The comments followed an open letter signed by a coali- refusal was due to the fact that the bank that operates the tion of local Jewish leaders and published by the Pittsburgh account of said company in India was opposed to crediting chapter of Bend The Arc, a progressive advocacy group, that the payments made by Cuba, since the shipping docu- also called for the president to avoid the city. ments that justified this payment had as final destination “President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh a blocked country. until you fully denounce white nationalism,” the letter states. In these years of struggle against the blockade, Cuba Trump, who labelled the shooting an “anti-Semitic”, is set is proud of the unwavering support of the Islamic Re- to visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the White House confirmed public of Iran, whose people suffer in their own flesh on Monday afternoon. As the administration continues a system of unjust and immoral sanctions, imposed to face criticism over the president’s polarizing rhetoric in by the same imperialist power that wants to make our the aftermath of the Pittsburgh shooting and a series of at- revolutions disappear. tempted bombings against prominent Democrats and critics The Report of the Secretary General of the United Na- of Trump last week, Trump used Twitter again on Monday tions on the Blockade 2018 clearly states: Cuba and Iran morning to label the media as “the true Enemy of the People”. are the two countries most affected by blockades imposed “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by by the United States. inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The “President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until The United States of America have not achieved their Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop you fully denounce white nationalism,” the letter states. historic objective of destroying the Cuban Revolution, the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & but they have caused many shortcomings and enormous fairly,” Trump tweeted, shortly after Lederman spoke to CNN. cal candidates and people in public life literally repeat the more than $90,000 while a fundraiser led by a graduate economic damage to our people, and have prevented their The 11 victims of the shooting were named as suspected rhetoric of white supremacists,” Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL student in Washington had taken in nearly $545,000 by full development. However, the blockade is a failed policy gunman Robert Bowers was charged with 29 federal crimes, chief executive, told ABC News on Sunday. Monday morning. that has not been able to yield to the Cuban people, nor including 11 counts of murdering victims exercising their As the faith leadership in Squirrel Hill prepared funeral Three congregations were conducting Sabbath services prevented the island from continuing to offer its solidarity religious beliefs. The shooter, who traded gunfire with law arrangements for those killed, the Tree of Life rabbi Jef- at Tree of Life when the attack began on Saturday morning. with more than 50,000 health specialists in around 66 enforcement officers during the massacre, was released from frey Myers told CNN on Monday he would welcome the The shooter is accused of tearing through the building with countries on all continents. It has not managed to reduce hospital on Monday and is expected in court later in the day. president to the city. an AR-15 assault style rifle and three handguns, shouting the high health, education and social security rates enjoyed The victims, eight men and three women, ranged in age “I don’t really foist blame upon any person,” Myers said. anti-Semitic slurs. He also appears to have posted anti-Semitic by Cubans, nor has it been able to break the unity of the from 54 to 97 and included a husband and wife, two broth- “Hate does not know religion, race, creed political party – it’s rants on social media shortly before the attack. people around its Revolution. ers, professors, a dentist and a physician. not a political issue in any way shape or form. Hate does not According to law enforcement officials speaking anony- In a few days (October, 31) the world will vote again The Anti-Defamation League [ADL] said the shooting know any of those things, it exists in all people.” mously to the Associated Press, the suspect purchased all against the blockade in the United Nations. The U.S. was the most deadly attack against Jewish people in America He added: “The president of the United States is always of his firearms legally and was licensed to carry firearms. pressures are being fierce and shameless, however we and came amid an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the welcome to come. I’m a citizen, he’s my president. He’s The suspect, who had worked as a long-haul trucker, have no doubt that again, we will defeat them and the U.S. The ADL reported a 57% rise in reported incidents of certainly welcome.” injured six other people, including four police officers as international community will raise its voice in support anti-Semitic harassment and violence in 2017. A number of fundraising efforts have driven financial sup- they exchanged gunfire. He had no previous criminal record, of Cuba. “We are seeing an environment in which anti-Semitism port to the grieving community. A crowd funding campaign authorities said. Embassy of Cuba in the Islamic Republic of Iran. has moved from the margins to the mainstream as politi- called Muslims Unite for Pittsburgh Synagogue has raised (Source: The Guardian) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 31, 2018 ANALYSIS & INTERVIEW 7

One Belt One Road seeks Iran’s regional electricity hub plan

prosperity for all By Omid Shokri Kalehsar By M.A. Saki Hainan pilot free trade zone Washington-based energy security analyst Mr. Wang elaborated on pilot free trade zone in Hainan BOAO, HAINAN PROVINCE, CHINA — The Chinese Province which he serves as vice governor. People’s Daily hosted the 2018 Media Cooperation Forum He said under the master plan Hainan is set to become on Belt and Road Media Forum on Oct. 29-30 in the city of the largest free trade zone among other 11 FTZs in China. Despite its huge oil and gas reserves, Iran has been unable to play Boao, Hainan Province. Over 200 people, including jour- According to the decision by top Chinese authorities, an important role in regional and international energy market. nalists and entrepreneurs, participated in the conference. Hainan is set to become the largest hub of internation- The limitations placed on its industry, the high growth of annual Senior journalists from all corners of the world were present, al tourism, healthcare, research, education, modern domestic consumption, and the general disruptions caused to from Mexico, Argentina and Canada in South and North technology, foreign banks, and foreign investment in oil exports have all caused consternation among policymakers, America up to Southernmost Easternmost countries in Asia. the country. especially in the absence of a broad, multi-tiered strategy. Iran The most important theme of the conference is to promote Gifted by natural beauties, the island province of Hainan needs to promote a smarter energy and foreign diplomacy if it economic, cultural and civilizational interactions among the is now the window of opportunity in China. As the only wishes to increase regional cooperation and export electricity nations along the ancient Silk Road which today is called tropical island province, it has distinctive tourism resources. to generate the funds necessary to shift toward renewables. Any One Belt One Road or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It is home to more than 4000 plant species, of which 2000 future sanctions against Iran’s energy sector would have little The BRI was first proposed by Chinese President Xi in 2013. can be used as herbal medicine. It is also habitat for wild effect if the country increased the role of renewables in its energy Keynote speeches were made by Ji Bingxuan, one of the animals including black bear and clouded leopard. basket. An improved investment climate and improved relations Vice Chairmen of China’s Standing Committee of the National Mr. Wang said it is planned to make Hainan the best with neighbors would help Iran attract foreign capital and the People’s Congress, and Hainan’s vice governor Wang Ku. another lecturer at the forum, said it is true that BRI has been FTZ in the country by providing all financial, maritime, technological know-how to achieve this goal. Mr. Ji, who was addressing the forum under the title of proposed by China but Beijing’s policy is not to put “China first”. and aerial services. Exporting electricity is better than exporting raw materials “Contribution by All Benefits for All”, said the revitalization Mr. Li said, “We should put aside prejudices against the Invitation to establish consulate in Hainan such as natural gas. At present, Iran produces a daily amount of of the Silk Road is to bring “prosperity” and “connectivity” initiative and revive ancient history.” All other dignitaries The vice governor went on to invite foreign countries to 700-800,000 cubic meters. With the completion of five phases between nations. Li Baoshan, the president of People’s Daily, insisted on achieving “common prosperity”. establish consulate in the tropical island province. of the South Pars Field, the country could increase production by 150,000 cubic meters before March 2019. Its huge natural gas reserves allow Iran to use natural gas to generate electricity Uphold multilateralism and promote common prosperity to export to neighbors. According to 2018 statistics released by the Energy Ministry, 1 In the security field, we should should be encouraged. Dialogue among civ- China meddles in its internal affairs and is expected to import $10 trillion of goods Iran exported electricity to seven neighbors. In 2017, Iran ranked commit ourselves to settling disputes and ilizations should be promoted with a view elections, stealing American intellectual and service, attract $600 billion of foreign fourteenth among the world’s largest electricity suppliers, as differences through dialogue. We need to to strengthening the bond of friendship and property, launching cyber-attacks against investment and make $750 billion of out- well as constituting one of the countries with the lowest rates of join hands in the response to traditional and peace. America, and bringing Debt Trap to devel- bound investment. Chinese tourists will make accidents in the power sector. At present, Iran exports 12 billion non-traditional threats, and oppose terrorism Ecologically, we should adopt environ- oping countries. Such remarks confuse the 700 million oversea visits. China has set up kilowatt-hours of electricity, while importing around 4 billion in all its forms. A new concept of common, ment-friendly strategy, cooperate to tackle right and wrong and reveal deep-rooted more than 80 overseas economic and trade kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. This means earnings of comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable climate change, and protect our planet for cold-war mentality. China’s development cooperation zones with countries along the anywhere between $900 million and $1 billion per year. Iran is security should be fostered. the sake of human survival. is mainly owed to Chinese People’s hard “Belt and Road”, and created 244,000 job interested in drawing up long-term contracts to increase elasticity Economically, we should promote trade The world peace, stability and develop- work and mutually beneficial cooperation opportunities in these countries, among which with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, as according to Iranian and investment liberalization and facilita- ment require extensive cooperation in good with countries around the world. The Chi- more than 130,000 jobs every year in Africa. officials, these countries are also interested in boosting electricity tion. To extend its benefits to all peoples, faith among nations and effective func- nese government has neither the time nor China is resolute in opening its door wider imports from Iran. For the first time in Iran’s history, the Iranian economic globalization needs to be more tioning of international establishments. interest in meddling in U.S. internal affairs to the world. As a major move in opening government has recently allowed foreign companies to export open, inclusive, and balanced. Multilateral Unilateral actions such as withdrawal from and elections. its market, the first China International Im- part of the electricity generated in the country to attract more trade system should be preserved to build international organizations and regimes Since the implementation of reform port Expo will be held in November 2018 foreign investments in renewables, an open world economy, and North-South have caused serious concerns of the inter- and opening-up policy in 1978, China has in Shanghai. It’s China’s firm belief that its During the period of U.S. and EU sanctions against Iran’s energy development gap must be narrowed. national society. Recently, while provoking made remarkable achievements. Over the development and the peace and prosperi- sector, Iranian oil and gas production capacity dropped dramatically, Culturally, we should respect the diversity trade conflicts with many countries, the years, China has contributed around 30% ty of the world at large depend on an open causing decision makers to reconsider renewables in the future of of civilizations. The coexistence, exchange U.S. on various occasions made unwar- of global economic growth, ranking the first global economy and a multilateral approach the country’s energy basket. Presently, renewable energy represents and mutual learning between civilizations ranted accusations against China. It claims in the world. In the coming five years, China to world affairs. less than 1 percent of electricity production, along with about 6 percent coming from hydroelectric. The government has insisted, at least on paper, that boosting renewables is a priority. The secret behind Arabs normalizing ties with Tel Aviv Hamid Chitchian, Iran’s former energy minister, has also declared that Iran’s energy diplomacy should focus on expanding 1 This is perhaps the most important plan for inter- particularly in the Yemeni and Syrian wars and before those electrical cooperation with neighbors. Post-sanctions Iran must preting the reasons that led to the destruction of Iraq, and the Iraq war and kept a balanced relationship with Iran. apply changes to the configuration of its electricity generation, then Syria, Libya and Yemen, and Egypt, and without the Oman didn’t give in to the anti-Iranian plans of the U.S. So transmission, and distribution. According to the former minister, destruction of these countries, there were no false pretexts it is quite difficult to discover the reasons that led Sultan of “Iran’s main priorities for the post-sanction era include use of for implementing this plan. Oman to meet with a war criminal like Benjamin Netanyahu modern technologies, plant efficiency, smart electrical grids, reo- Qatar and Oman opened Israelis commercial offices in when Palestine is faced with the heinous blockades and acts pened credit lines, and foreign investment in the power industry.” their capitals in 1996 and welcomed Israeli officials such as of the Zionists. Although Iran’s exports of electricity in the region outweigh Isaak Rubin in 1994 in Muscat and Shimon Peres in Muscat We expected that the Israeli Prime Minister would go to its imports, the country still hasn’t realized Article 60 of its Sixth and Doha in 1996. The states said that the invitation is in line Riyadh in his first meeting, considering their close relations, Development Plan, which declares the country’s aim to become a with encouraging a peace process between the Palestinians but the meeting in Muscat has shocked us. Although I believe regional electricity hub. Article 60 of the Sixth Plan for Economic and Israelis and providing a conducive forum for dialogue, this trip paves the way for other travels and opening of Israeli Development demands steps be taken to establish a regional especially since the Palestine Liberation Organization signed embassies in the Arab world. The process of normalization electricity market from the first year of the program. Iran’s ge- the Oslo accord in September 1993, followed by Jordan the of relations gradually begins and then ever so slowly creeps ographical situation and electricity transit systems give it the Wadi Arabi Convention. in and brings about the main change. perfect opportunity to connect to other markets in Russia via However, in October 2000, interestingly, the Sultanate We do not hesitate to condemn and oppose any attempt Azerbaijan, Europe via Turkey, and the MENA region through Iraq. of Oman took action and shut down the Israeli commercial at normalization of relations with Israel, and we blame the However, the active involvement of the private sector and the office. Subsequently, on October 12, 2000 the Oman Foreign Israel declared Jerusalem as its Jewish capital, and U.S. Palestinian authority, which opened up the door of compro- encouragement of foreign investors will be a pre-requisite for the Ministry announced: ‘We have closed the Israeli commercial President Donald Trump recognized it as the permanent mise to other constituents. It is clear the Palestine Liberation construction of power plants and the development of electricity office for the sake of protection and endorsement of Pales- Jewish capital of the world. Then a week later, Jason Green- Organization is not representative of the Palestinian people, transmission networks. tinian cause, and we continue our policy on the legitimate blatt announced the century deal, which with it carried the and its stance is not supported by the Palestinians who will From a political and security perspective, electricity exports, rights of the Palestinian people. A fair and comprehensive coffin of the Palestinian cause and promoted the Jewish never surrender and will not waive their rights, even if some in contrast to conventional gas exports, could promote greater peace is accepted by the Sultanate of Oman, but with the settlement. of their brothers would be willing to do so. connectedness to the region and neighboring countries. standards that the oppressed triumphs, the sanctities are Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi announced, I am deeply sorrowed that some of the Persian Gulf Arab Currently, Iran has an electrical connection with all neighboring preserved, and the rights will be returned to the oppressed.’ Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas had come to Muscat at the states are to normalize relations with the fascist Zionist re- countries (except for Gulf states). In addition, the presence of expert The question here is what has changed now? invitation of Sultan, but Oman does not mediate, as the U.S. gime, and hope that the Arab nations never come to accept and skilled human resources in Iran and high levels of self-reliance The Sultanate of Oman and Qatar have closed the Israeli plays a major role there, and Israel is one of the countries in a normalized relation with Israel as many of our brothers in the power industry and the construction of electrical equipment business offices in protest of the Israeli incursion into the the Middle East [West of Asia]. These statement suggests that and sisters in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, Somalia, in the Middle East and Central Asian region are a relative advantage. Palestinians area and their atrocities against the people of the issue be more than just a normal trip; it is not unlikely Sudan, Libya, Aljazeera, and Yemen would hurt or killed. As part of the Paris agreement, Iran has voluntarily committed Palestine. Now, the wave of normalization of the Persian that Netanyahu will return to Muscat in the coming days What is certain is that Arab nations, particularly Pal- itself to installing the means for generating 7,500 megawatts Gulf states is happening as the Israeli military carries out to open the Israeli embassy there as well as in Doha, Abu estinians, won’t tolerate normalizing ties with Israel and of renewable energy by 2030. Iran has also passed new laws more and more criminal acts against people of Gaza. On the Dhabi, Manama and possibly Riyadh, because the talks are resist any compromising measures with the occupied regime. and regulations aiming to attract more foreign investment and other very day Netanyahu and his wife went to Muscat, six about bilateral and normalizing relations. They struggle to fight for independence and freedom until technology in electricity generation. innocent Palestinians were killed in Gaza and many Arab Millions of Arabs are fans of the Sultan of Oman, and we they establish an independent Palestinian state with Quds A look at price changes applied to the country’s gas and elec- states are on the brink of famine and disease. are too, as the country has kept itself at a neutral position as its capital. tricity exports in recent years shows that the price of gas is more dependent on the price of oil than the price of electricity, and therefore revenues from electricity exports are more stable than gas-export earnings. Ignorance is the bane of humanity Iran can and should aim to become an energy hub for the region, 1 This comment revealed more abys- and other Mideast countries. It was interesting as it is able to receive cheap electricity from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan mal ignorance and I continued responding: that after I had posted my responses to their and other countries to export to more wealthy buyers in Turkey, Iraq, “Iran is not perfect. No country is. Hiz- personal attacks, they went quiet, realizing that the UAE, and Pakistan, which bid for electricity at a significantly ballah has protected Lebanon from repeated they were dealing with someone who knew far better price. According to Iranian officials, Iran’s growing energy Israeli offensives and even occupations. It more than they about the Mideast, and had relations with neighbors have helped it to develop the infrastructure has no direct nuclear weapons program. actually spent significant time in the region, needed to expand its electricity export destinations and put it in a Such a program has been a myth for many including Israel. But the key point is that the position to realize its goals. However, vast improvements are needed years. And Israel even takes dissident Jewish attitudes expressed by these virulent people to the transport infrastructure and connectivity of countries of the American captives sometimes. And NO, I are so deeply entrenched that it is difficult to region, as well as the development of maternal industries, such as take no salary as a writer.” imagine how they can ever be relieved of their the electricity industry and energy exports. “We know why Iran has been sanctioned. ignorance, and not just about Iran. Still, one Still, after more than a decade, Iran has not put forward any But Iran has not on offense attacked another must try when given the opportunity. specific operational plans for improving the conditions of the country in over 200 years. It also has the sec- For beleaguered Iranians under U.S. eco- country to become the hub of the region. The failure to develop ond largest Jewish population in the Middle nomic sanctions, and for people of many other this infrastructure means that renewed sanctions against Iran’s East. Jews are treated far better in Iran as nations under sanction, it remains important energy sector will bring major challenges. All the foreign firms a minority than Arabs of whatever religion to realize that many, many better-informed once active in Iran’s oil and gas fields, as well as any foreign energy are treated west of the Jordan River, and Americans do NOT agree with U.S. govern- companies that have signed agreement with Iran, left the coun- they are not even a minority there. Duhhh.” ment postures even if they cannot really do try after the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement. “It’s not Iran that is the pariah nation much about them except vote, as during the Iran signed an agreement with Turkey’s Unit International to now. The pariah nations are Israel and Saudi upcoming mid-term elections to Congress build a number of 5,000 megawatt power plants, but progress Arabia and even the U.S.” on November 6th. The world will see how has stalled. Iran hopes that foreign capital and technology will One response I received amid the verbal that goes soon enough. produce more natural gas for electricity generation and greater flurry was: “I don’t see Israel sanctioned by Meanwhile, magine the U.S. government export elasticity with neighbors mean that it may finally get back the U.S. for terrorism. I see Iran….” This for themselves the human rights abuses and Aramco Magazine and learned to despise under Trump as the Titanic headed inexo- on its feet in the energy market. Iran must decrease domestic response to my comments above demonstrat- war crimes perpetrated by the IDF. And I the Saudis, and that their variant of Islam rably and generally towards an iceberg, a natural gas consumption and try to renew electricity infrastructure ed extreme ignorance with the implication also stated that the Saudis were corrupt and was a “bloody joke”. reckoning, and perhaps incapable of turning if it wishes for any chance of success in the regional electricity that any country the U.S. sanctions has to cruel, that the Khashoggi murder was just At any rate, it was clear what I was dealing away before disaster strikes. No country has market. However, the main obstacle to this will undoubtedly by be doing wrong. I further followed up with a one instance of such. And Khashoggi was with: Some American Jews (and others, but not probably ever been so badly advised by ig- foreign policy and negotiating solutions with neighbors, not to comment that American Jews ought to visit a beloved Washington Post writer, etc. I all) who had bought hook, line and sinker the norant counsel and propaganda as the U.S. mention the interlinked issue of attracting foreign investment. the West Bank and Gaza and see first-hand added that I had been an editor for a bit for Zionist and Neocon propaganda about Israel this century. (Source: lobelog) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 8 ADVERTISEMENTS OCTOBER 31, 2018

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Common drugs lead to millions Surgeons carry out spine surgery in the womb of cases of lung disease In a condition known as spina bifida, children are born with an exposed spinal cord, which causes numerous physical and Common drugs that doctors prescribe to The drugs were: Bleomycin, Gemcitabine, developmental issues. Usually, surgeons will operate on spina treat heart problems, arthritis, and cancer Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Panitumumab, bifida after birth, but a complex in utero surgery can allow the can actually pose a threat to lung health, Cetuximab, Everolimus, Temsirolimus, baby to develop better while still inside the mother’s womb. and this problem “affects a considerable Sirolimus, Ipilimumab, Nivolumab, Prenatal spina bifida surgery can improve the child’s de- number of people.” This is the conclusion Pembrolizumab, Atezolizumab, Avelumab, velopment more than procedures performed after birth. of a new review of the literature conducted Durvalumab, Irinotecan, Pemetrexed, In a United Kingdom first, a team of specialists from Uni- by researchers from the United Kingdom. Methotrexate, Infliximab, Etanercept, versity College London (UCL), University College London Hos- Drug-induced interstitial lung disease Adalimumab, Golimumab, Leflunomide, pitals (UCLH), and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) affects more people than experts had thought. Amiodarone, Nitrofurantoin, Distamycin, performed surgeries on two different babies with spina bifida Sometimes, drugs that treat one health and Carbamazepine. while they were still in their mothers’ wombs. problem can, in time, lead to another. The researchers note that many of the The specialists conducted the two surgeries over the sum- This is the case for many common studies that they analyzed were of poor quality. mer and now report that both mothers and both babies are medications that may contribute to the Despite this, they were able to establish that doing well. development of lung disease. worldwide, doctors diagnose between 4.1 This was the first time that surgeons have conducted the A new systematic review has assessed and 12.4 million cases of DIILD each year. procedure in Britain, where only postnatal operations had studies looking at the risks associated with Moreover, DIILD appears to account for been possible up to this point. 27 common drugs over time. approximately 3–5 percent of all cases of Over the summer, however, the British surgeons teamed It found that, in more cases than interstitial lung disease. up with specialists from the University Hospitals Leuven in previously thought, they have negative effects Some of the papers under review reported Belgium to make the intervention more widely available. on lung health and can cause a condition mortality rates of more than 50 percent, and known as drug-induced interstitial lung 25 percent of the total number of participants disease (DIILD). passed away due to lung-related problems. Scientists from the Universities of The investigators also note that people Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield, as well Millions of cases diagnosed per year problems with breathing, pulmonary fibrosis typically treat DIILD using steroids, but their as the National Institute for Health Research The researchers analyzed data from 6,200 (scarring), and inflammation. However, a overall effect on health outcomes remains Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and participants, which they collected from 156 person may not know that they face exposure unclear. the European Organization for Research and specialized papers. Their effort is part of a large to lung disease for many years after they have “Though this area is not well-researched, Treatment of Cancer, conducted the research. project supported by the European Union and started taking the medication that causes we can say that the side effects of drugs on The team’s findings now appear in the the Innovative Medicine Initiatives, whose the problem. the lung are much more widespread than Journal of Clinical Medicine. purpose is to develop imaging techniques In this review, the investigators looked at previously thought,” says study co-author “Doctors need to be aware and vigilant for DIILD. 27 drugs that treat cardiovascular problems Prof. John Waterton. to the possible lung toxicities and harm that Some of the symptoms of DIILD include or cancer, as well as other health issues. “We do know it affects a considerable can be caused by some drugs,” says Dr. Nazia number of people, which is why we want to Chaudhuri, one of the researchers involved The research found that, in more cases develop better imaging tests to pick up any in this review. than previously thought, they have lung problems before they become serious. “With newer drugs coming on the market It’s important to stress that patients can safely this is an increasing yet under-recognized negative effects on lung health and can continue to take their medication — but it’s The U.K. experts explain that babies who receive the cor- problem and we need better ways of detecting cause a condition known as drug-induced also important that doctors monitor and assess rective intervention in utero are more likely to develop better these side effects before they cause harm,” them closely for side effects in the lung.” than those who receive postnatal procedure. she warns. interstitial lung disease (DIILD). (Source: newstrolley.com) “In spina bifida, the spinal canal does not close completely in the womb, leaving the spinal cord exposed from an early stage in pregnancy,” explains lead neurosurgeon Dominic Thompson, from GOSH. Mental health conditions on the Probiotics: When good “This results in changes to the brain, as well as severe per- rise among U.S. students bacteria turn bad manent damage to the nerves on the lower half of the body,” he adds, which means that the child may often need additional As more and more people discuss mental for depression by 3.2 percent, and those As the popularity of probiotics grows, scientists surgical interventions later in life. health issues in public forums, it seems to for panic attacks by 2.8 percent. are turning more of their attention to these However, tackling the problem as early as possible — ideally be lifting some of the stigma surrounding Students are also more willing to seek tiny particles. With the spotlight intensifying, while the baby is still in the mother’s womb — may allow it to the topic. New research reveals that the help using the on-campus facilities. By some researchers suspect that their impact avoid some of these developmental problems. number of students seeking help for mental the end of the study period, almost one- may not be beneficial for everyone. A complex surgical procedure health problems has risen considerably fifth of students said that they used their A new study investigates the interaction The prenatal surgery is complex and difficult to perform, between 2009 and 2015. university’s mental health facilities, which between the immune system, gut bacteria, but the British surgeons were keen to make it accessible to a Anxiety, depression, and panic attacks represented an increase of over 4 percent and inflammation. larger number of people. are on the rise among U.S. college students, from 2009. In brief, probiotics are living microor- “Operating in the womb suggests a new study. Additionally, almost three-quarters ganisms that people are now consuming This was the involves opening the uter- Sara Oswalt, from the University of of respondents said they would use the as a way of influencing their gut bacteria. first time that us, exposing the spina bi- Texas at San Antonio, is the lead author services in the future, which represents The concept of people improving their fida without delivering the of the new study, which was published in an increase of over 6 percent. intestinal health by eating live organisms is surgeons have baby, closing the defect, and then repairing the uterus to the Journal of American College Health. ------Universities should not a new one but dates back almost 100 years. Study lead Hyun Jung Kim explains why conducted the leave the baby safely inside,” According to estimates that the scientists examine their culture Today, however, the idea is mainstream. designing such a model is important: procedure in says lead fetal surgeon Jan cite, around 26 percent of people aged 18 Oswalt comments on the potential mech- Grocery stores across the United States sell “By making it possible to customize Deprest, who works with and above in the United States live with a anisms behind the new findings, saying a range of products that contain probiotics specific conditions in the gut, we could Britain, where both UCLH and University mental health condition in any given year. that they might be a combination of in- and offer the promise of improved gut health. establish the original catalyst, or onset in- only postnatal Hospital Leuven. Moreover, it is believed that half of all creasingly poor mental health, an increased Despite their growing popularity and im- itiator, for the disease,” Kim says, adding, operations had “Closure of spina bifi- serious adult psychiatric conditions — awareness of mental health services, and pressive claims, research into the potential “If we can determine the root cause, we da in the womb using this such as major depressive disorder, anxiety the reduced stigma surrounding mental health benefits of probiotics is still relatively can more accurately determine the most been possible method is an alternative disorders, and substance abuse disorder health problems. sparse and not entirely positive. appropriate treatment. up to this point. to postnatal surgery, and — start as early as the age of 14. Around As for what may drive the deterioration For instance, a recent study — which re- The researchers concluded that the main has been shown to improve three-quarters of serious mental health of mental health in the first place, the au- searchers did not design specifically to test driver of gut inflammation is the health of short and medium-term outcomes. While neither intervention issues start by the age of 25. thor says, “We don’t know that the college the efficacy of probiotics — has uncovered the intestinal epithelium — specifically, its is fully curative, in fetal surgery, the defect is closed earlier, How has the prevalence of mental health environment is causing or even contributing some rather negative news about them. permeability. which prevents damage to the spinal cord in the last third of issues among young people evolved over to the increase in these conditions, but University of Texas engineers carried out The intestinal epithelium is a thin layer pregnancy.” time? Does the fact that mental health campuses are going to have to address it.” the study at the Cockrell School of Engineering of cells that have a protective role — namely, The surgeon also notes that he and his colleagues are hard problems are discussed more openly lead “Higher education institutions want in Austin, using cutting-edge, organ-on-a- to prevent toxins and bacteria from the gut at work to see whether a specialized endoscopic procedure to an increase in diagnosis? students to be successful in college, but chip technology. leaching out into the rest of the body, where called fetoscopy would be useful in correcting spina bifida. New research aimed to shed some light if mental health issues aren’t adequately This type of investigation allows scientists they could cause harm. This type of intervention is minimally invasive and would on these questions by examining the data addressed, it will make student success to attach human cells to microchips and, How do probiotics fit in? allow the doctors to operate on the fetus without opening the on almost half a million U.S. undergraduate more difficult to achieve,” she continues. depending on the cell type they chose, watch As part of their study, the scientists mother’s uterus. students between the years 2009 and 2015. “Universities should first examine the over- them mimic any organ in the body. considered the impact of probiotics. They “We are [...] researching the minimal access (fetoscopic) Trends in 12 mental health all culture surrounding mental health on Specifically, the scientists were interested found that so-called good bacteria might be technique through the GIFT-Surg Project framework and, if conditions their campus.” in understanding why inflammation arose healthful for some people but have a nega- we can show it to have equal benefit, we will be offering this Oswalt and her colleagues studied the “If the overall culture is not one that in the digestive system. tive health impact for others. It seems that option to patients,” Deprest says. trends in diagnosis and treatment for a promotes health, that will need to be con- They recently published their work in their influence depends on the integrity of The intervention makes a crucial difference dozen mental health conditions: “anorexia, sidered before step two, which is providing the Proceedings of the National Academy the intestinal epithelium. The British surgeons had been working closely not just anxiety, attention deficit and hyperactivity support for prevention in a variety of areas. of Sciences, in a study that marks the first “Once the gut barrier has been damaged, with the Belgian specialists, but also with experts from the disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, bulimia, This may include sleep instruction, stress time that an organ-on-a-chip has modeled probiotics can be harmful just like any other Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, where depression, insomnia, obsessive-compul- reduction, and exercise. Step three needs the development of a disease. bacteria that escape into the human body the prenatal procedure for spina bifida was first devised, and sive disorder (OCD), panic attacks, pho- to be adequately staffing counseling and Gut inflammation through a damaged intestinal barrier.” where such surgeries have taken place since 2011. bia, schizophrenia, and substance abuse/ health centers so those in need of services To date, scientists have found it challeng- Shin, a biomedical engineer who worked “We have been working for 3 years to bring this service to addiction.” can be seen.” ing to understand exactly why and how gut with Kim on the project, continues, “When the U.K. patients through the creation of a Centre for Prenatal The researchers applied statistical tools “If institutions don’t have counseling inflammation develops. gut barrier is healthy, probiotics are benefi- Therapy at UCL, UCLH, and GOSH,” notes Prof. Paolo De Coppi, to a large dataset obtained from the Amer- services, then partnering or identifying The process involves communication be- cial. When it is compromised, however, they from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. ican College Health Association, looking at community resources is critical to sup- tween the epithelial cells that line the gut, can cause more harm than good. Essentially, “Our resolve to offer this service was based on the findings the use of mental health services available porting their students,” she adds. the immune system, and the microbiome. ‘good fences make good neighbors.’” of a large, multicenter, randomized control trial in the United on campus and the willingness to use them She concludes, “Each institution will These physiological components engage Dysfunction of the epithelial membrane States which compared prenatal closure to postnatal closure, in the future. need to develop strategies that work for their in a chemical dialogue that involves a dizzying — sometimes referred to as a leaky gut — ap- and the observation that fetal surgery could be safely repro- Overall, the study found the greatest culture and location, and solution-focused array of secretions — and deciphering the pears to play a role in a wide range of health duced in Europe by proper training,” he adds. increases in diagnoses of anxiety, depres- conversations need to happen with the high- interactions is difficult. conditions, including inflammatory bowel The findings of the study that Prof. De Coppi cites are con- sion, and panic attacks. Specifically, treat- est levels of administration to adequately The current investigation wanted to disease, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, vincing, and they point to a considerably higher rate of improve- ments and diagnoses for anxiety rose by implement and support these strategies.” understand whether the organ-on-a-chip food allergies, and celiac disease. ment in the babies that received the surgery while in the womb. 5.6 percent between 2009 and 2015, those (Source: flipboard.com) approach might help yield some answers. (Source: parallelstate.com) “The U.S. trial authors found that prenatal closure was associated with a 50 [percent] reduction in the need for sur- gical shunt placement in the newborn baby and a significant Dogs can sniff out malaria, study shows improvement in motor function at 30 months of age,” explains New research shows that sniffer dogs can diagnose malaria toms determine diagnosis, but, ideally, the CDC recommend odors even when it’s just on an article of clothing worn by Prof. De Coppi. quickly and accurately, even when people do not exhibit any that laboratory tests — such as microscopic analyses of blood an infected person.” “The reduction in need for shunts is particularly impor- symptoms. smears — should confirm the symptoms. Dogs sniff out 70 percent of malaria cases tant,” he adds, “as long-term follow-up of children that have Dogs can pick up odors that develop on human skin due New research, however, shows that dogs can diagnose the As the study’s lead author explains, the research began undergone prenatal closure in the womb suggests that brain to malaria parasites. infection quickly, accurately, and in a noninvasive way. Steven in The Gambia, where specialists tested hundreds of school function, mobility, and total independence were higher in Malaria was responsible for 445,000 global deaths in 2016, Lindsay, a public health entomologist at the Department of children for malaria parasites and gave them a pair of socks nonshunted than shunted children aged 5.” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In total, Biosciences at Durham University in the United Kingdom, to wear overnight. Thanks to generous funding offered by U.K. nonprofit or- 216 million infections were registered worldwide that year. is the lead investigator of the new study. The researchers collected the socks the next day, sorted ganizations, particularly GOSH Children’s Charity and UCLH In the United States, doctors diagnose about 1,500 cases Lindsay summarized the findings at the American Society them according to the children’s status of malaria infection, Charity, the in utero procedure for spina bifida will be available of malaria each year, according to the Centers for Disease of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting, and stored them in a freezer for several months. Lindsay free of charge for the first few expectant mothers who solicit it. Control and Prevention (CDC). which this year took place in New Orleans, LA. and colleagues only collected socks from children who had “These vital funds have provided training for the surgical Although the number of infections is relatively small, a “People with malaria parasites generate distinct odors on malaria but did not develop fever, as well as children who team and will fund surgery for the first 10 patients,” says Prof. delay in diagnosis is the primary cause of death among people their skin, and our study found dogs, which have an incred- did not have the parasite. Donald Peebles, the UCLH clinical director for Women’s Health. with malaria in the U.S. Currently, a person’s physical symp- ibly sensitive sense of smell, can be trained to detect these (Source: Medical News Today) (Source: med234.com) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 10 TECHNOLOGY OCTOBER 31, 2018 Tehran to host CIMUSET annual Startups being supported on development track: official conference in 2020 TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Iran Science and Tech- TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — The vice presidency for science desk desk nology Museum will play host to the and technology paves the way for startups with 48th annual conference and meeting of the International providing support and approving laws, the head of management Committee for Museums and Collections of Science development department of the vice presidency for science and and Technology (CIMUSET) in 2020, ISNA reported technology Alireza Daliri said, Mehr reported on Monday. on Tuesday. World economy has shifted recently onto providing science CIMUSET is composed of museum professionals and technology infrastructures and Iran is not an exception in from the fields of science and technology. this regard, he said. It is one of 26 international committees belonging to the International Council of Museums (ICOM); each devoted to a particular type of museum or a specific museum-related discipline. CIMUSET membership is open to all people working in museums of science and technology and in science centers, working primarily to popularize and promote science and technology among children and young peo- ple all over the world. The CIMUSET aims to carry out a program of activ- ities related to the preservation of the cultural heritage within science and technology and dissemination of knowledge within this field and to provide a forum for communication, co-operation and information exchange between museums, professional workers and others concerned with preservation of the cultural heritage within science and technology and dissemination of Nowadays startups and knowledge-based companies active knowledge of this field. in different fields of innovation including biotechnology and The 46th CIMUSET conference was held at the In- nanotechnology are developed in the country, he added. genium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation “We should support emerging startups with correct investment in Ottawa from October 15 to 19. not giving loan, which make them financially weak,” he said. Tokyo will host the annual conference in 2019 and He said that 15 venture capitals has been already established the executive board selected Iran as the 2020 host of in Iran and there are several ones in line for beginning their work. the event. In early July, Daliri announced that Iran has provided 120 tril- The other nominees for holding the 48th annual lion rials (2.8 billion dollars) facilities for 1,400 knowledge-based meeting and conference were China and South Korea. A view from Iran Science and Technology Museum companies during past five years. He said that during the previous Iranian calendar year 1396 (March 2017-2018) knowledge-based companies received 38 Ground broken for energy trillion rials (about $905 million) facilities from banks. It is predicted that facilities worth 50 trillion rials (about $1.2 billion) will be allocated to the companies until the end of the innovation, technology center in current Iranian calendar year, he said. Anzali FTZ TECHNOLOGY TEHRAN — Con- between China, Kazakhstan and Iran, deskstruction of an energy he added. innovation and technology center started There is a great capacity for improve- during a ceremony on Sunday in Anzali ment of knowledge-based companies in Self-driving taxis to launch in Free Trade Zone, northern Gilan province, Anzali Free Zone, which attracts these London by 2021, firm says IRNA reported. firms from other provinces as well, he said. The vice president for science and Despite great capacity of Gilan pProv- technology Sourena Sattari said on the ince, there is a little development in startups Plans have been unveiled to launch self-driving taxis in London sidelines of the ceremony that the place is and knowledge-based companies in this by 2021. a center for supporting knowledge-based region, Sattari lamented. Taxi firm Addison Lee Group says it has struck an agreement companies, startups and accelerators in Gilan boasts of different universities with Oxbotica, an Oxford-based startup specialising in auton- the field of energy. and talented people which can provide omous software. The center is planned to back energy great infrastructure for the innovation The companies plan to create digital maps of more than 250,000 management NGOs as well as holding ecosystem, he added. miles of public roads in and around the capital. professional exhibition in the field of The Anzali FTZ was inaugurated in They will include the position of every kerb, road sign, landmark energy and environment, he highlighted. 2005. It is the only free zone in the south- and traffic light, in readiness for the deployment of autonomous The vice president for science an technology Sourena Sattari breaks ground for an energy in- The vice presidency also facilitates ern part of the Caspian Sea, measuring cars in the city. novation and technology center in Anzali Free Trade Zone, northern Gilan province on Sunday transporting energy-based products 9,400 hectares, according to its website. How to be an entrepreneur with no money You having a great idea and you want to translate it into opening a business. There is one big caveat, you are short on cash. And for most aspiring entrepreneurs, getting hold of the much-needed capital is usually the biggest challenge. So how to start your own business without any money? Lack of funds, should not deter you from pursuing your entrepreneurial dreams. With confidence in your idea and a clear vision of how you are going to execute it, you can do it. Once you have that covered, getting the funds to support your dream may not be as difficult as it seems. Opening a business There are tens of millions of small business in the US alone, and starting a new business to compete in this segment will Addison Lee is aiming to gain a share of the autonomous require hard work and dedication. If you know how to run vehicle technology market, which the government forecasts to a business and you have taken the right steps to starting a be worth £28bn in the UK by 2035. business, money shouldn’t stop you. Addison chief executive Andy Boland said the company in- Keep your present job tended to be at the forefront of change within a transport industry Being practical is extremely important when you are toying anticipating the introduction of self-driving services. with the idea of starting a business. You need a steady source He said: “Autonomous technology holds the key to many of of income before you can set up your business, so it’s advis- the challenges we face in transport. able to hold onto your current job. By retaining your present “By providing ride-sharing services, we can help address job, you will be more secure when you need to take risks. congestion, free space used for parking and improve urban air You will, of course, need to spend extra hours and work hard- quality through zero-emission vehicles.” er. But the transition from being an employee to a business Chancellor Philip Hammond has championed autonomous owner will be far smoother as you won’t have additional cars, saying that he wants “genuine driverless vehicles” on Brit- expenses to worry about. ain’s roads within three years. Work on your business idea The government has asked the Law Commission to carry out Coming up with a great business idea is just the beginning of a detailed review of driving laws to ensure the UK is at the fore- your journey as an entrepreneur. There are many more steps front of the sector. that you need to take before you can get started. Fleshing Thousands have signed our petition for an Independent out your business idea is one of them, and it’s very critical Leaders’ Commission to organize election debates – have you? to the success of your venture. you should focus on evaluating your funding requirements. You can start on a small scale by giving away some freebies Addison Lee’s announcement comes days after Sky News learned Is your business idea really unique? What value will it gen- How much do you need to get started? How exactly are you to a few people in your target audience group to see how that the company? had begun talks with investment banks about erate? 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Whether you want to sell a new software tool or If you are planning to get into a completely new business, it In a bid to keep up with Uber, Addison Lee has expanded You have a brilliant idea that you know will definitely work, set up an organic noodle bar, you can get people to invest would really help if you got a second opinion from someone rapidly into the US, snapping up rival Flyte Tyme as well as but what about your competition? Will it be difficult for a in your business. who knows the market and the challenges involved. boosting its global reach by buying Tristar Worldwide, which rival to copy your idea and repackage it in a better way? A Network with people A business idea that looks good on paper may not be that operates in 80 countries. potential investor will ask you this when you approach them When you don’t have money to start your business, it’s es- attractive when you actually get into it. An expert’s opinion Owned by US private equity firm Carlyle Group, Addison for funding. It’s very important to understand the market sential you find the right people who can help. You may may help you look at things from a different perspective and Lee was founded in Battersea, London in 1975 and has grown you operate in and your competition. attend events and trade shows where you can find potential gain more knowledge that you may lack. to become Europe’s largest private hire car service company, You should first look at the trends and identify challenges that investors. You may also join various online forums on social Secure a small business loan if necessary carrying out 10 million journeys per year. your business may face. The next step is to understand how networking sites where you can find useful tips and resources There are several loan programs aimed at helping first-time Its pact with Oxbotica comes at a challenging time for the taxi you are going to address those challenges to stay profitable. to bring your business to life. entrepreneurs set up their business. The Small Business firm, which swung to a loss last year after it was hit by investment Assess your capital needs Most venture capitalists and investors are quite active on Administration (SBA) operates the loan programs offered by and acquisition costs of almost £20m. You require money to start your business, but how much social media, so if you can wow them with your idea you the U.S. government. To qualify for the loan, your business The group posted a pre-tax loss of £20.8m in the year to August do you really need? Without a clear idea you run the risk of may find a great way to get started on your business dream. must meet some criteria such as your business must operate 2017, compared to a profit of £10.5m the year before, attributing coming up with an unrealistic valuation of your business, Run a trial in the United States, your business must qualify as a small the fall to “intense long-term investment”, acquisition integration which will put off investors and get your loan application Want to be sure if your business idea is indeed unique? Run business according to SBA guidelines, you must operate for and reorganization, which led to £18.6m in exceptional costs. rejected. a test and find out. A pilot will give you the confidence you profit and you should have a good credit score. (Source: news.sky.com) So before you start wondering how you should raise money, need to take your idea to the next level and mitigate risk. 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Researchers reclassifying tigers to Chimpanzees react faster to cooperate than make selfish help save them from extinction choices, team finds When it comes to cooperation, there’s no monkey business in Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild. many researchers believe, are evolution’s how some chimpanzees respond. New research aims to give conservationists intermediary steppingstones on the path to These primates often make decisions faster that benefits others an improved understanding of their genetics fully formed species. than themselves, according to a newly published University of in order to help save them. Armed with more affordable and robust Michigan study. After years of debate, scientists report genomic technologies, Dr. Luo and her col- For decades, social scientists and biologists have sought to in the journal Current Biology that tigers leagues strengthened their original findings. study primates because they are humans’ closest living relatives. comprise six unique subspecies. One of those Previously, just one complete tiger genome Chimpanzees can also be very cooperative in the wild--forming subspecies, the South China tiger, survives had been sequenced. In the new study, the alliances with friends or hunting together in groups. only in captivity. researchers undertook whole-genome se- “Chimpanzees are an important comparative model for human The “results presented in this paper are quence analysis of 32 preserved wild tiger cooperation,” said Alexandra Rosati, U-M assistant professor of important because they contradict the cur- specimens from around the world. A statistical psychology and anthropology. rently accepted international conservation analysis of 1.8 million DNA variants across Rosati, the study’s lead author, and colleagues at Harvard classifications for tigers,” said Uma Ramakr- the specimen tigers’ genomes finalized the University examined how chimpanzees from the Republic of ishnan, a molecular ecologist at the National breakdown into six distinct subspecies. Congo think about cooperative decisions and the response Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, Model organisms time in situations involving prosocial behavior, which involves India, who was not involved in the study. “While genomic methods have been applied how one’s actions benefit others, such as giving time, effort A system recently proposed by some sci- extensively to humans and model organisms, or resources. entists that would classify the world’s tigers their use to study endangered species remains Donation task: The chimpanzee could provide food to both into two subspecies would harm the world’s under-exploited,” Dr. Ramakrishnan said. himself and a partner at no cost, or choose to only get food for remaining tigers rather than benefit them, said The analysis also offered a window into himself. Chimpanzees were more likely to pick the prosocial Shu-Jin Luo, a geneticist at Peking University the evolutionary history of tigers. Fossil ev- option if they made a fast choice -- as though their gut reaction who led the study. Preserving what is left of idence indicates that the predator evolved was to cooperate with the partner. If they took longer to decide, tigers’ genetic diversity will require ensuring roughly two million years ago in Asia. The however, they were more likely to keep the food for themselves. that all remaining subspecies are taken into new study revealed that tiger subspecies last Helping task: The chimpanzee could give a partner an object account, she and her co-authors argue. shared a common ancestor relatively recently, that was out of reach. Individual chimpanzees that were more Genetically homogeneous about 110,000 years ago, likely in modern-day likely to lend a hand were also the fastest to respond to their “If you think that all tigers are genetically matran, Indochinese and Malayan. Scientists subspecies is sometimes hazy. Although two Southeast Asia and southern China. As the partner’s problem. In general, this supports situations in which homogeneous, you might say if you lose the also believe that three additional subspecies different subspecies can mate and produce climate changed, tigers expanded west to cooperative individuals tend to make prosocial choices faster Amur tiger, you still have the Bengal tiger — — Caspian, Javan and Bali tigers, described viable offspring, subspecies often are sep- India, north to China and Siberia and south than selfish people. (Source: eurekalert.org) and that’s O.K. because they’re very similar,” in the 1930s — already have been lost to ex- arated by distinct habitats, different envi- to Indonesia and Malaysia. Dr. Luo said. “But that’s not O.K., because tinction. ronmental adaptations and unique genetic In the tens of thousands of years since, now we know that tigers are not all alike.” The distinction between species and and morphological features. Subspecies, tigers have evolved into subspecies with Dr. Luo hopes that their new findings put distinct genomic signatures. For example, Blood-sucking sand flies to rest a decade-long debate over whether “While genomic methods have been the researchers found that Sumatran tigers tigers constitute six, five or two subspecies. In — which live on a single island in Indonesia, love munching on weed, 2004, she and her colleagues first presented applied extensively to humans and model and were the first to diverge from the other study suggests research that tigers constitute six living sub- organisms, their use to study endangered subspecies — possess genes associated with species, based on partial genomic analyses. smaller body sizes relative to most tigers on the An international team of scientists found that in proportion But other researchers soon challenged the species remains under-exploited,” mainland. This lines up with morphological to its abundance, Cannabis sativa was consumed by sand flies findings. the molecular ecologist, Dr. Uma observations and ecological expectations, much more frequently than expected, suggesting it was highly The latest analysis confirmed six living Dr. Luo said. attractive to the insects. subspecies: Bengal, Amur, South China, Su- Ramakrishnan, says. (Source: The NYT) According to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the findings could have implications for controlling the spread of diseases that sand Mountain birds on ‘escalator to extinction’ Improving climate models to account for flies — which are found across the globe — transmit. Female sand flies suck the blood of vertebrates in order to as planet warms, scientists say plant behavior yields ‘goodish’ news provide the necessary protein for their eggs to mature. During this process, the flies can transmit pathogens to humans, causing Climate scientists have not been properly A meticulous re-creation of a three dec- diseases such as bartonellosis and leishmaniasis — which infect accounting for what plants do at night, ade-old study of birds on a mountainside between 4 million and 12 million people around the world, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A in Peru has given scientists a rare chance resulting in 20,000 to 50,000 deaths annually. new study has found that plant nutrient to prove how the changing climate is push- In addition to sucking on blood, both females and males uptake in the absence of photosynthesis ing species out of the places they are best eat sugars from plants as a source of energy. These meals may affects greenhouse gas emissions to the adapted to. come in the form of sugary solutions such as nectar or plant atmosphere. Surveys of more than 400 species sap — which the flies can access by piercing leaves and stems Climate scientists have not been of birds in 1985 and then in 2017 have with their needle-like mouthparts. properly accounting for what plants do at found that populations of almost all had As a result, the availability of their preferred plants can a mountain slope in southeastern Peru, night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. how increasing global carbon dioxide declined, as many as eight had disappeared influence where and when sand flies are distributed. This, con- aiming to catalog the habitat ranges of A new study from the Department of emissions will affect the terrestrial carbon completely, and nearly all had moved to sequently, helps researchers to identify areas that are at higher tropical bird species that lived there. Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National sink, which is estimated to currently be higher elevations in what scientists call risk of infection from the diseases they transmit. His team spent several weeks trekking Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that between 0 and 11 gigatons of CO2 per an “escalator to extinction.” For the study — led by Ibrahim Abbasia from the Institute up and down the Cerro de Pantiacolla, plant nutrient uptake in the absence of year, including land-use change, with “Once you move up as far as you can go, for Medical Research Israel-Canada and the Hebrew University using fine nets called mist nets to catch photosynthesis affects greenhouse gas large inter-annual variability. A further there’s nowhere else left,” said John W. of Jerusalem — the researchers used next-generation gene-se- and release birds, and keeping detailed emissions to the atmosphere. complication involves terrestrial nitrous Fitzpatrick, a study author and director of quencing techniques to determine the types of plant meals that journals of birds they caught, spotted or In a study, lead author William Riley oxide, which is a powerful greenhouse the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. “On the flies were eating. heard chirping in the forests. demonstrates how to improve climate gas naturally released from land and by this particular mountain, some ridgetop (Source: Newsweek) bird populations were literally wiped out.” Photos of mountain views models to more accurately represent land agricultural and industrial activities. In It’s not certain whether the birds shifted Two years ago, Fitzpatrick passed his biogeochemical dynamics. Using a new other words, to what extent will plants ranges because of temperature changes, journals, photos and other records to Ben- global land model they developed and be able to ameliorate increases in or indirect impacts, such as shifts in the jamin Freeman, a postdoctoral fellow at integrated in DOE’s Energy Exascale anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions? Scientists have found the ranges of insects or seeds that they feed on. the Biodiversity Research Centre at the Earth System Model (E3SM), Riley and Non-growing season Survey of birds University of British Columbia. Freeman, his team found that plants can uptake The new Berkeley Lab study found largest deep-sea nursery, These findings, published Monday in who has been researching tropical birds for more carbon dioxide and soils lose less that by not properly accounting for what with over 1000 octopuses the Proceedings of the National Academy more than a decade, set out to recreate the nitrous oxide than previously thought. plants do at night and during the non- of Sciences, confirm what biologists had journey in August and September of 2017. Their global simulations imply weaker growing season, climate models may be In the waters off the coast of California, marine scientists are finding long suspected, but had few opportunities Using old photos of mountain views, his terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks with the underestimating the terrestrial carbon a whole world of cephalopod wonders: in the latest instalment, it’s to confirm. The existence of a 1985 survey team located the same basecamp. atmosphere than current models predict. sink and overestimating nitrous oxide a vast number of octopuses huddling over their eggs in the crevices of birds on the same mountain gave sci- Freeman largely recreated Fitzpatrick’s Anthropogenic CO2 emissions release, the latter by 2.4 gigatons of CO2- of an extinct underwater volcano. entists a rare and useful baseline. path and methodology to see what had “This is goodish news, with respect to equivalent per year. With an estimated over 1,000 ockies spotted, the area at the Past research has documented hab- happened in the intervening years, a period what is currently in the climate models,” Plants’ ability to take in carbon Davidson Seamount has now been confirmed as the largest deep- itats of birds and other species moving when average mean temperatures on the said Riley, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s dioxide is limited by the availability sea octopus nursery every discovered. up in elevation or latitude in response to mountain rose 0.76 degrees Fahrenheit Earth & Environmental Sciences Area. of soil nutrients, especially nitrogen “This has never been discovered on the West Coast of the U.S., warming temperatures. But Mark Urban, (0.42 degrees Celsius). Because the moun- “But it’s not good news in general -- and phosphorus. The more abundant never in our sanctuary and never in the world with these numbers,” director of the Center of Biological Risk tain lies at the edge of a national park, the it’s not going to solve the problem. No nutrients are, the more plants can take Chad King, a lead scientist on the exploration vessel Nautilus, told at the University of Connecticut, who was area hadn’t been disturbed. matter what, plants will not keep up with advantage of increasing atmospheric KQED News. not involved in the study said it was the In addition to unfurling 40-foot (12-me- anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; carbon dioxide. Microbes in the soil first to prove what climate change models ter) mist nets on the slopes, Freeman’s it’s just that they might do better than are a factor too because they compete predicted: that rising temperatures will team placed 20 microphone boxes on the current models suggest.” with plants for nutrients. lead to local extinctions. mountain to record the chirps of birds Humans have emitted a record-setting Microbes, in fact, play an important A “study like this where you have that might not easily be seen. 34 gigatons of CO2 per year, averaged role in the carbon cycle, and interactions historical data you can go back to and “We found that the bird communities over the past decade. Roughly half of that between plants, soil, and microbes are compare is very rare,” said Urban. “As were moving up the slope to reach the remains in the atmosphere, while the rest complex, presenting a challenge to climate long as the species can disperse, you will climate conditions to which they were is absorbed by oceans and land (through scientists. Most climate models assume see species marching up the mountain, originally adapted,” said Freeman, the photosynthesis); the latter amount, called that plants compete for nutrients in the until that escalator becomes a stairway lead author of the study. Near the top of the the terrestrial carbon sink, varies year soil only when they’re demanding it for to heaven.” mountain the bird species moved higher to year depending on factors such as photosynthesis, and not, for example, at In 1985, Fitzpatrick established a ba- by 321 feet (98 meters), on average. fires, drought, land use, and weather. night or in non-growing seasons. As they moved their remotely operated underwater vehicle Her- secamp alongside a river running down (Source: wjla.com) Scientists are trying to understand (Source: Science Daily) cules through the water at a depth of 3.2 kilometers (2 miles), the scientists spotted never-before-seen aggregations of Muusoctopus robustus octopuses. Mystery source of already banned ozone-depleting substance discovered An estimated 99 percent of them appeared to be brooding mothers, huddling upside down to protect the eggs they’d laid in The darker colors in the map represent the collaborated to quantify the emissions in East Coauthor Dr. Matt Rigby notes that while crannies in the rock. areas with the highest carbon tetrachloride Asia using both ground-based and airborne their research answers a big question, there are “We went down the eastern flank of this small hill, and that’s emissions. This reveals a concentration of the atmospheric concentration data from 2010 still gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed, when - boom - we just started seeing pockets of dozens here, dozens already-banned substance in eastern China. to 2016. such as the exact industries that are responsible. there, dozens everywhere,” King told National Geographic. The mystery source behind the continued Significant emissions In addition, it is still unknown whether the The scale is unprecedented. Octopuses are largely known as emissions of an already-banned ozone-depleting What researchers found was that there are emissions were produced intentionally or solitary animals, and it’s rare to spot a group of them in one place substance is finally discovered. Instead of still ongoing significant emissions coming from inadvertently, perhaps as a byproduct of (although recent evidence suggests they might not be as solitary declining after the ban, emissions are even eastern China which accounts for a large sum producing other chemicals such as chlorine. as we thought). found to have increased in certain regions. of the missing global estimates. In addition, “Studies such as this show the importance of Earlier this year, the discovery of a deep Pacific Ocean octopus It was in 2010 that the production of carbon the carbon tetrachloride emissions from East continued monitoring of ozone-depleting gases. nursery of 100 or so animals on the Dorado Outcrop off the coast tetrachloride was banned worldwide because of Asia were even found to be significantly larger There is a temptation to see ozone depletion of Costa Rica was huge news - not least because it provided marine its destructive properties on the Earth’s ozone than previously thought. as a problem that has been solved. But the scientists with a fascinating glimpse into deep-sea octopus brooding layer, which protects us from harmful ultraviolet Furthermore, they also found no evidence of monitoring of man-made ozone-depleting gases behaviors. radiation. However, recent studies revealed that decrease in emissions in the region since 2010. in the atmosphere is essential to ensure the At the Davidson Seamount, the researchers noticed that the water despite the ban, there are still about 40,000 In fact, the data even shows a slight increase in continued success of the phase-out of these seemed to ‘shimmer’ around the octopuses; it could be an indication tons of the substance still being emitted into scientists, so researchers from the University of emissions from the region since 2010, as well compounds,” said lead author Dr. Mark Lunt that warmer water is seeping out from inside the volcano, although the atmosphere every year. Bristol, along with researchers from the United as a new source of emissions from Shandong of the University of Bristol. we’ll need temperature measurements to make sure that’s the case. The source of the emissions was a mystery to States, South Korea, Switzerland, and Australia province in China after 2012. 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Hurricane Walaka washes Arbaeen trek, a march away Hawaii Island where endangered animals nest An intense hurricane has wiped a remote Hawaiian island off the towards unanimity map, prompting fears for two endangered species which inhabit the remote spit of land. By Maryam Qarehgozlou Scientists were studying East Island before Hurricane Walaka hit, and four researchers had even planned to stay there during Once again pilgrims of different colors, race and religions the storm. When the storm became too intense, they evacuated, set off on a long, peaceful march to show the world the over- and drone footage obtained after the storm revealed the island whelming love they have for the third Shia Imam and all the had disappeared. virtues he stood for. Over the past few years, solemn procession of mourners from a variety of ethnic backgrounds begin a long trek days prior to Arbaeen, the 40th days of Imam Hossein (As) martyr- dom in the battle of Karbala in 680 AD, to revisit their pledge of support to the grandson of prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The trek symbolizes of a peaceful utopia where no one is hungry or homeless. People are giving away free food and drinks, offering their houses to the pilgrims, and pilgrims themselves are treating one another like brothers and self- lessly regardless of their social class, race, color, religion, etc. Thousands of mawkibs, stalls providing free of charge foods, beverages, accommodation, and medicines, are set up along the way to Karbala and the holy shrines as many believe that taking care of pilgrims of Imam Hossein (AS) Hurricane Walaka was one of the most intense tropical cyclones and serving them is a religious duty. on record, but it did not directly hit any major land masses or Arbaeen pilgrimage is a large congregation of people and result in any known human fatalities. Research suggests that not just a specific group of people, everyone is welcomed climate change has a direct impact on hurricanes, making them to join. Toddlers, elderlies, even people with disabilities on longer, more frequent, and more intense. wheelchairs participate in the march. Critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals and green sea Imam Hossein’s love seems to have redrawn all cultural turtles, on the other hand, may suffer from their loss of habitat. boundaries and even after some 1400 years from his mar- Both species had already left for the season, so the hurricane tyrdom in the hands of the tyrant Umayyad forces is now a did not affect them, the Honolulu Civil Beat reported. Still, the symbol of universal compassion and freedom. island was an important site for sea turtles to nest and for seals While the gathering is religious in essence many nonre- media blackout especially in the West now over 20 million companions, and in better words to peace and justice, attend to bear their young. ligious people also do take part in it. And that’s why despite people whose heart goes out to Imam Hossein and his loyal one of the biggest gatherings of the world. East Island was the largest of the French Frigate Shoals, which are small islands that continue westward off the main Hawaiian Islands. Most of the world’s green sea turtles nest in the French Frigate Shoals, and more than half of those nested on East Island, Motor vehicle fatality rate WWF reveals wildlife has making it the area with the highest density of green sea turtles up by 1.7% in H1 declined 60% in 40 years in the world. Now, the turtles will have to find elsewhere to lay their eggs. SOCIETY TEHRAN — Road traf- Efforts to preserve nature are way off what desk It is too soon to say how severe the impact on the animals will fic accidents death rate is required, and a “global deal” in the mould be. The turtles and seals may find other, nearby areas hospitable in Iran increased by 1.7 percent over the of the Paris climate agreement is needed for their offspring, but there is a limit to their resilience. Scientists first half of the current [Iranian calendar] to bring it back from the brink, a report plan to continue to study the endangered animals and see how year starting on March 21, compared to has warned. they fare next year. the corresponding period last year, IRIB Populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, Scientists had known that the island was at risk of going un- reported on Monday. amphibians and fish have fallen off a cliff – derwater due to the rising tides of climate change, but they had Iran’s forensics organization recent re- dropping by 60 per cent in just over 40 years. hoped that it would last at least another few decades. port indicated that 8,841 individuals lost To combat this, WWF says there must (Source: The Independent) their lives in accidents over the aforesaid be a dramatic re-think of the status quo, period. as conservationists can no longer afford Men constituted 6,864 of the deaths, to merely recommend “more of the same” LEARN ENGLISH the report added. ple die each year as a result of road traffic nature reserves and programmes to save ulations is a warning sign that nature is Provinces of Fars with 765 deaths, Tehran crashes. Road traffic injuries are the leading individual species. dying. But instead of putting the world on with 624 deaths and Khorasan Razavi with cause of death among people aged between In their latest Living Planet Report, the life support, we’re using a sticking plaster.” Job Hunting 611 deaths were the regions with highest 15 and 29 years. environmental group singles out overex- However, Professor Ken Norris, director number of traffic-related deaths. In early October, Emergency Medical ploitation of the planet’s resources and the of Science at Zoological Society of London, A: This just might be the start of the rest of my life! On the other hand, Ilam, Kohgiluyeh Services director Pir Hossein Kulivand said food system specifically as the biggest issues who helped compile the report said despite B: What happened? and Boyer-Ahmad, and Bushehr provinces that leading cause of death among teenag- that must be addressed. the shocking figures “all hope is not lost”. A: I’m in the market for a job! I went on a website with hun- with 70, 103 and 123 deaths were among ers aged 15 to 17 in Iran is traffic-related “Right now the destruction of nature is “We have an opportunity to design a dreds of job listings in the area and browsed through them the areas with lowest number of deaths accidents. seen as the price of development, and we new path forward that allows us to co-ex- until I got the names of a few employers I would like to work reported. He also said that since the beginning of cannot continue like that,” Tony Juniper, ist sustainably with the wildlife we depend for. I have the resume I wrote for English class last month About 6,000 of the deaths occurred in the current [Iranian calendar] year, some WWF’s executive director told The Inde- upon,” he said. and a cover letter will be a piece of cake to write. I’ve even intercity roads, the report asserted. 7,000 individuals were killed in traffic-re- pendent. An explosion of human activity, includ- done my research and found the names of the managers so Sadly 194,298 were injured in road lated accidents in the country and that road Familiar British animals like puffins ing overfishing, deforestation and pesticide I can address the letters personally. And you know I can be crashes which shows an 8.1 percent in- crashes are the third and fourth leading and hedgehogs joined more exotic species use, has been at the heart of many species’ charming in interviews. Goodbye my penniless days! Hello crease compared to same period last year. cause of death among children aged 10 to like elephants, rhinos and polar bears on declines. salary and a career! In the month of Shahrivar (August 14 and 5 to 9 years old respectively. the list of species that have dropped in However, the report warned that all eco- B: Ben, we’re fifteen. What kind of job are you looking for? 23-September 22), which normally set the Moreover WHO explains that from a numbers massively between 1970 and nomic activity depends on nature, with nat- A: Oh, just for a position as a gas statio attendant. You know, record high for the most number of summer young age, males are more likely to be in- 2014 – the most recent year for which ural resources estimated to provide services starting at a simple lowly job, just like all the greats before they trips, 1,783 died in car accidents which also volved in road traffic crashes than females. data is available. worth $125 trillion (£97 trillion) every year. made it big in the world. shows a rise of 2.1 percent compared to the About three quarters (73%) of all road traffic These declines have been particularly To preserve this value for future gener- B: Uh-huh. same period a year before. deaths occur among young males under the pronounced in tropical regions and fresh- ations, WWF called for a game-changing A: But I’m just in it for the money, right? How else am I going to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop- age of 25 years who are almost 3 times as water habitats. Just a quarter of the planet’s commitment backed by governments and be able to afford to keep going to the movies? Besides, I love the ment has set an ambitious target of halving likely to be killed in a road traffic crash as surface is free from human activity, and this businesses around the world to preserve smell of gasoline, don’t you? the global number of deaths and injuries young females. is expected to shrink to a tenth by 2050. the Earth’s biodiversity. Key vocabulary from road traffic crashes by 2020, World Speeding, driving under the influence This habitat loss, combined with poach- “We need a new international agreement, in the market: be interested in buying Health Organization (WHO) wrote on its of alcohol and other psychoactive sub- ing, pollution and climate change, have all a new global deal for nature, to enable coun- job listing: database containing an ordered array of job items website. stances, nonuse of motorcycle helmets, contributed to a crisis that experts think tries to get at the root causes of this,” said browse: to search for and read hypertext It also warns that without sustained ac- seat-belts, and child restraints, distracted can no longer be handled using conven- Mr Juniper. employer: a person or firm who employs tional tactics. tion, road traffic crashes are predicted to driving, unsafe road infrastructure, unsafe Though the suggestion has echoes of resume: a summary of your academic and work history become the seventh leading cause of death vehicles, inadequate post-crash care, and “We are the first generation to know we the Paris agreement put in place to limit cover letter: a written document submitted with a job appli- by 2030 and that road traffic crashes cost inadequate law enforcement of traffic laws are destroying our planet and the last one global warming, Mr Juniper said such a cation explaining the applicant’s credentials and interest in the most countries 3% of their gross domestic are to blame for high number of traffic-re- that can do anything about it,” said Tanya solution for nature would have to be even open position product. lated deaths specifically in low and middle Steele, chief executive at WWF. more all-encompassing. a piece of cake: something is easily to be done Worldwide more than 1.25 million peo-1397/income3755 countries. “The collapse of global wildlife pop- (Source: The Independent) manager: person who manages an organization or company address: to direct a speech or written statement to someone charming: delightful; pleasant; attractive $35m allotted to cooling, interview: a conversation with or questioning of a person First Announcement Permit No.1397/3755 penniless: very poor; almost totally without money heating systems in salary: money paid by the employer each month career: profession that someone does for a long time underprivileged schools Invitation For Prequalification N.I.S.O.C position: job, occupation SOCIETY TEHRAN — The government N.I.S.O.C gas station: place where gasoline is sold deskhas allocated some 1.5 trillion attendant: a person employed to provide a service Invitation For Prequalification rials (nearly $35 million) for equipping schools in TENDER NO. : 08-38-9640015 lowly: humble or low in position underprivileged areas with cooling and heating sys- TENDER NO. : 08-38-9640015 greats: person with importance or distinction in their field tems, director of schools renovation, development NationalNational Iranian Iranian South South Oilfields Oilfields Company Company intends intends to purchaseto purchase the thefollowing following goods goods make it big: make a great success and equipment organization has said. uh-huh: a less emphatic variant of yes gasoline: petroleum fuel Description UNIT Quantity. Supplementary vocabulary WIRE LINE, SPOOLED ON IRON REEL H2S, CO2 AND headhunter: an employment recruiter, sometimes referred CHLORIDE TRIM to as executive search MATERIAL:SUPA-75 OR SANICRO-26 DIAMETER&LENGTH job agency: a company that helps both employers and job ap- ASSPECIFIED: RL 10 plicants find a position REF”SANDVICK”OR OTHERSTANDARD APPROVED CV: Curriculum Vitae; a summary of academic and professional EQUIVALENT SIZE 0.108 INCH X 20000 FEET. history and achievements no brainer: something that is easy or not challenging By the end of the current [Iranian calendar] year Vendors who intend to participate in the A/M tender are requested to send their resume & tendency letter easy as pie: something that is easy or not challenging (March 20, 2019) some 10,000 classes will be ready via fax/ mail to the following address not later than 14 days after the second announcement. 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Defense firms see only hundreds of Israeli film dropped from Iraqi Kurdish festival new U.S. jobs from Saudi deal competition 1 One significant caveat to any the U.S. defense budgets, which account for predictions on job creation is whether all the majority of their sales, coupled with a Authorities in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan re- of the missile defenses and radars, ships, record backlog of orders suggest little risk gion have withdrawn an Israeli movie from the annual Duhok tanks, software, bombs and other equipment that workers would face layoffs if the Saudi International Film Festival “due to regional complications and listed in the full Saudi package get delivered. sales package failed to materialize. considerations.” Interviews with people familiar with other Certainly, for each defense manufactur- major defense contractors’ plans and esti- ing job, other adjacent jobs are supported mates reflect similar dynamic as Lockheed’s indirectly by higher demand for defense and Raytheon’s plans - relatively minor ad- products. ditions to their U.S. workforce and more But Heidi Garrett-Peltier, a research significant build-up in Saudi Arabia. fellow at the Political Economy Research Since Trump’s trip to the Kingdom last Institute, estimated that for this type of year, little economic activity has taken place industry the highest multiplier would be beyond Lockheed’s work on four frigates just below 3.2. the Saudis have ordered. Given that, 20,000 to 40,000 sustained The order will yield nearly 10,000 jobs or new jobs could generate between about in the Saudi regime ports for maintenance 64,000 to 128,000 jobs in related industries, workers, but only 500 new U.S. jobs will Reuters calculations show, bringing the total be created, according to documents seen of sustained and new jobs to between 84,000 by Reuters. and 168,000. Executives at the several of top U.S. de- In short, 500,000 jobs Trump keeps fense companies say Riyadh had wanted bringing up is at least three to five times “Due to regional complications and considerations, Duhok much of the military equipment as a way to higher than what one could expect from International Film Festival unwillingly withdraws the film The both develop new domestic industry and to the Saudi deal, given the estimates from Dive by Yona Rozenkier from the world cinema competition al- create new jobs and local expertise as a part The arms package Trump announced in defense contractors have been working to the companies themselves, plus the most though the film was screened in the festival program,” the festival of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s May 2017 came under renewed scrutiny after prevent a backlash that could imperil what generous use of the indirect multiplier. website of the festival announced in a statement. (MBS) Vision 2030 initiative to wean the the October 2 killing of Washington Post Trump has called a “tremendous order” and By its own math, the U.S. State Depart- It added, “Duhok International Film Festival deeply apologizes country off oil dependency. columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi 500,000 jobs. ment said in May 2017 that the Saudi deal for this incident.” The House of Saud regime has set a goal regime consulate in Istanbul. Industry executives have argued that with- could support “tens of thousands of new Jury president Kristian Feigelson said in a separate statement of creating 40,000 defense industry jobs The killing provoked international out the Saudi package coming through they jobs in the United States.” that the withdrawal of the film, which portrays three brothers by 2030. outrage and both the administration and would have fewer orders to fill, but robust (Source: Reuters) carrying out their father’s last wish, was the result of “political pressure coming officially from Baghdad.” The Iraqi culture ministry, however, roundly denied inter- fering in the festival. German ex-nurse admits at trial to killing 100 patients “We have not been contacted by the organizers of the festival and we have not been involved at any level in the holding of this A Germany former nurse accused of killing 100 patients pital in Oldenburg where he worked, and about 64 more at event,” a ministry spokesman told AFP. in his care admitted on Tuesday to the murders on the a clinic in nearby Delmenhorst, between 2000 and 2005. The Duhok International Film Festival has been held annually first day of his trial in the biggest serial killing case in the More than 130 bodies of patients who died on Hoegel’s since 2011. It boasts a host of productions by filmmakers from all country’s post-war history. watch have been exhumed, in a case investigators have called over the world, including Armenians and Iranians, but its main Asked by the presiding judge at the court in the northern “unprecedented in Germany to our knowledge”. focus is on Kurdish cinema. city of Oldenburg whether the charges against him were One of the more than 100 co-plaintiffs in the trial, Chris- Iraq does not formally recognize Israel, and Baghdad and Tel accurate, Niels Hoegel replied, “Yes.” tian Marbach, said it was a scandal that Hoegel had been Aviv are technically still at war. “What I have admitted took place,” the 41-year-old told allowed to kill with impunity for such an extended period Israel has far warmed relations with the Kurdistan Regional the courtroom crowded with dozens of grieving relatives. of time without hospital authorities or law enforcement Government (KRG) authorities, and was the only party to support Hoegel has already spent nearly a decade in prison on a intervening. the semi-autonomous region’s controversial secession referen- life term for other patient deaths, and is accused of inten- Caught in 2005 while injecting an un-prescribed medi- dum, which antagonized the central government in Baghdad as tionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he cation into a patient in Delmenhorst, Hoegel was sentenced well as neighboring countries like Turkey and Iran. could bring them back to life at the last moment. in 2008 to seven years in prison for attempted murder. (Source: agencies) As the proceedings began in the northern city of Old- A second trial followed in 2014-15 under pressure from enburg, presiding judge Sebastian Buehrmann said the alleged victims’ families, who accused prosecutors of drag- main aim of the trial was to establish the full scope of the ging their feet. each time, first injecting a medication that triggered cardiac murder spree that was allowed to go unchecked for years He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder arrest, followed by an often futile attempt at resuscitation. Russia: White Helmets at two German hospitals. of five other victims and given the maximum sentence of Prosecutors say he was motivated by vanity, to show off “We will do our utmost to learn the truth,” he said. “It 15 years. his skills at saving human lives, and by simple “boredom”. begin filming fake chemical is like a house with dark rooms - we want to bring light It was then that Hoegel confessed to his psychiatrist at The choice of victim appears to have been entirely ran- into the darkness.” least 30 more murders committed in Delmenhorst. That dom, with their ages ranging from 34 to 96. attack in Syria After a minute of silence for the victims, the bearded, prompted investigators to take a closer look at suspicious Killing in itself was never his aim, according to one psy- heavyset Hoegel listened impassively, his head lowered, deaths in Oldenburg. chologist who evaluated him. Russia says it has received information showing that a West- as public prosecutor Daniela Schiereck-Bohlmann read Investigators say the final toll could top 200, but fear When he managed to revive a patient, he was sated, ern-backed so-called aid group is preparing to stage a false flag out the name of each dead patient and the charges against they might never know for sure because the bodies of many but only for a few days, the expert said, adding: “For him, chemical attack in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo the defendant. potential victims were cremated. it was like a drug.” to incriminate Damascus. Prosecutors say at least 36 patients were killed at a hos- Hoegel appears to have followed a similar procedure (Source: AFP) The Defense Ministry said the “White Helmets,” which according to Moscow and Damascus cooperate with Takfi- ri terrorist groups in the country, have already started the filming process for the attack, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported on Monday. Nigerian police open fire on Shia mourners commemorating Arba’een “The Russian center for reconciliation [in Syria] received Nigerian security forces have once again reports said the protesters responded by sion in Zuba in Gwagwalada area of Abuja. tained during the brutal raid by security information from residents of Aleppo that they are preparing opened fire on supporters of the Islamic hurling rocks at the heavily-armed security Amnesty International said reports that forces on the cleric’s IMN headquarters in another provocation with the use of toxic agents to accuse the Movement in Nigeria (IMN) during an an- operatives in the area. troops were firing live bullets at protesters December 2015. government forces of using chemical weapons against the local nual religious procession near the capital IMN sources earlier said the group will were “very disturbing.” “Firing live bullets During the raid, Nigerian forces killed population,” said Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko, the head of the Abuja, one day after they killed nearly 20 go ahead with plans for “Arba’een Symbolic at unarmed protesters is unlawful.” nearly 300 Zakzaky’s supporters, including center, according to the ministry. protesters. Trek” and expected that more than a million Rights groups have accused Nigeria’s three of his sons, and later buried them in They arrived in Aleppo from the neighboring Province of According to local residents and witness- would turn up for the march. military of killing more than 300 IMN sup- mass graves. Idlib, bringing along containers holding toxic agents, he added. es, police fired live bullets and tear gas at On Monday, soldiers opened fire on a porters and burying them in mass graves Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife, who were The group, the official said, sought to stage artillery shellfire thousands of members of the IMN as they protest in Abuja by IMN. during the 2015 confrontation, a charge the shot and injured during the raid, were taken with the containers and also meant to provoke the Syrian mil- took part in the peaceful procession to com- IMN protesters say the army killed at military strongly denies. into custody. itary to retaliate. memorate Arba’een, the 40th day since the least 18 of their members in the Monday Nigeria’s crackdown on IMN followers A Federal High Court had ordered The White Helmets group, projected by the West as “civil martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein shootings, but the military has said only three began in December 2015, when the army Zakzaky’s unconditional release in 2016, defense workers,” was founded by former British Army of- (peace be upon him), the third Shia Imam. people died and four soldiers were injured. attacked a religious ceremony in the city but the Nigerian government has so far ficer James Le Mesurier in 2014. The self-styled volunteer The IMN supporters were also demand- At least 10 people were killed in an attack of Zaria in the northern Nigeria. Nigerian refused to abide by the ruling. rescue group has been repeatedly accused of acting as the ing the immediate release of their leader, by Nigerian security forces against Muslims forces later raided the house of IMN leader A spokesman for the Islamic movement media arm for Takfiri groups, and charged with staging false Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, while marking on Saturday. Reports in local Nigerian media Sheikh Zakzaky and arrested him after killing stated back in March that the government flag chemical attacks in a bid to prompt Western military Arba’een. The clashes took place as police said scores of people had also been injured those attempting to protect the prominent in Abuja was planning to indefinitely hold intervention in Syria. attempted to stop IMN members as they after Nigerian security forces opened fire on Muslim cleric. the cleric and his wife in custody. In April, the United States, France, and Britain launched missile headed towards the center of Abuja. Some Muslim worshipers gathering for a proces- Scores of Zakzaky’s followers were de- (Source: Press TV) strikes against multiple targets around Syria after alleging that “video evidence” provided by the White Helmets had pointed to an earlier chemical attack in the city of Douma in the country’s southwest. Bulldozing the past: Myanmar erasing evidence on Rohingya Subsequent investigations showed the video had been fake. Myanmar’s government has been destroying vil- two years. The repatriation, however, was delayed Earlier in the year, Israel transported several hundred members lages in Rakhine State and the physical evidence due to a lack of preparation as well as protests staged of the group from southwestern Syria to Jordan overnight at the of state-sponsored violence committed against the by Rohingya refugees against the plan to send them request of the U.S. and European countries, as Damascus was Rohingya Muslims there, a report says. back to Myanmar while conditions were not safe for preparing to launch counter-terrorism operations in those areas. The Guardian reported on Monday that Myanmar their return. U.S.-led coalition uses white phosphorus authorities were destroying areas where thousands of Kyaw Soe Moe, the administrator of Inn Din, said, bombs against Syrian city Rohingya Muslims lived before either being killed or “I don’t think the Muslims will come back.” Meantime, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar fleeing to Bangladesh amid deadly government-spon- Myanmar can’t avoid accountability al-Ja’afari says the so-called international coalition led by the sored violence in Rakhine. Meanwhile, a member of the UN fact-finding United States has once again used white phosphorus bombs “Bulldozers and backhoes are parked beside mission said Myanmar’s destruction of evidence against Hajin city in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr new, blue-roofed homes, built by a government won’t help it avoid accountability as there is al-Zawr. agency chaired by state counsellor Aung San Suu other evidence that crimes occurred and were Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, the Kyi,” the report said, referring to Myanmar’s de systemic. Syrian senior diplomat further condemned the use of banned facto leader. “The [land] clearance is certainly destroying weapons by the U.S.-led coalition against the small city. According to the newspaper, the authorities plan evidence, including of probable graves and sites of His comments came a few hours after Syria’s official news to settle non-Rohingya individuals in the new homes. that could be used in a potential tribunal. burning bodies, but it does not prevent accounta- agency SANA, citing local sources, reported that earlier in the Inn Din village administrator Kyaw Soe Moe said Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were bility because of the great mass of other evidence,” day, the so-called coalition had shelled several localities in during a government-organized media tour of northern killed, injured, arbitrarily arrested, or raped by My- Christopher Sidoti said. Hajin, some 110 kilometers east of Dayr al-Zawr, with white Rakhine late last month that the new homes would anmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs mainly between Sidoti added that he and his colleagues had man- phosphorus munitions that can maim and kill by burning to soon be occupied by “Rakhine, Chin, Bamar, and Hindu November 2016 and August 2017, when many of the aged to collect sufficient witness and victim evidence the bone. people from other parts of the country.” surviving members of the community started fleeing to compile pre-prosecution briefs, which could one On October 13, SANA also reported that the U.S.-led The United Nations (UN) Independent Interna- to Bangladesh en masse. day be used by prosecutors. coalition, purportedly fighting the Takfiri Daesh terrorist tional Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, whose Doctors without Borders, (MSF/Médecins Sans The UN Human Rights Council has also created group, dropped internationally-banned white phosphorus report last month called for the country’s military Frontières), has estimated that at least 6,700 Rohingya an “independent mechanism” to collect evidence bombs on Hajin. leaders to stand trial for “genocide” against minority were killed between August 25 and 24 September — which links individuals to specific crimes — for On September 8, two F-15 warplanes of the U.S. Air Rohingya Muslims, said the purpose of the bulldozing 2017, but less than 100 bodies have been recovered. a future tribunal. Force targeted the same Syrian city with white phospho- and construction was “the removal of the Rohingya The UN says nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims Kingsley Abbott from the International Commis- rous bombs. and all traces of them and their replacement with have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine sion of Jurists said damaging evidence is treated as a In June last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that non-Rohingya.” State since August 2017. separate offence and may leave Myanmar’s leaders the U.S.-led coalition was deploying white phosphorous bombs The Guardian further said that the construction Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in January to more vulnerable. in both Iraq and Syria. boom also aimed to destroy the physical evidence complete a voluntary repatriation of the refugees in (Source: Press TV) (Source: Press TV) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y 14 WORLD SPORTS OCTOBER 31, 2018

Alli pens new six-year deal at A coach? Real Madrid weigh up Tottenham every small detail Tottenham’s England midfielder Dele Alli has signed a new con- tract that will keep him at the club until 2024. Acoach from the school of Johan Cruyff, who The 22-year-old joined Spurs from MK Dons for £5m in 2015 uses rondos as his password, or a coach with and has scored 48 goals in 153 competitive matches. the stamp of Jose Mourinho, who calls on He has played in six Premier League games this season - in- his cavalry to play on the counter attack. cluding Monday’s loss to Manchester City - but has not scored A coach who admires Pep Guardiola, who since the opening day. “I’ve loved my time at Spurs so far,” Alli strokes the ball around the pitch, or a master said on Instagram. “I’m very excited to see what the future holds.” like Jurgen Klopp, who orders his teams to Alli signed for Spurs from his boyhood club after making his crush the opposition by pressing the ball. debut aged 16 in November 2012. A coach that defends the 4-3-3 system, The attacking midfielder came on as a substitute in the 1-0 a technician who opts for a 4-4-2 with a defeat to Pep Guardiola’s side having not played since September’s midfield wall to stop the opposition, or a Carabao Cup win against Watford because of a hamstring injury. manager who considers the 3-5-2 formation Alli follows team-mates Harry Kane,Harry Winks,Son He- as non-negotiable, with three centre backs ung-min and Erik Lamela in signing new long-term contracts playing out from the back. in recent months. A coach that instils a military-like disci- (Source: BBC) pline, who watches over your diet and prohibits untimely trips away, who lives in Valdebebas, or an open minded trainer who doesn’t estab- lish an internal regime, who makes friends, and never compromises the team. A Spanish CAS clears Konakbayev to run coach, who controls the labyrinths of LaLiga Santander, who even knows the names of the for AIBA presidency referees, or a foreigner, whether he’s Italian, Brazilian or German, who doesn’t know who The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday upheld an appeal Emilio Butruagueno is. by hopeful Serik Konakbayev against his exclusion from next A coach with in-house experience, who knows month’s vote to elect the new president of international boxing the aches and pains of the Estadio Santiago association AIBA. Bernabeu, who has seen videos of Jose Anto- AIBA has been beset by serious financial and governance nio Camacho and Gregorio Benito with their problems which have put its spot at the 2020 Olympics in jeop- heads bandaged, or a coach who is alien to the and is elegant, or a low profile coach, who does when the parties arrive. James or Stephen Curry, meat or fish, Lewis ardy with the International Olympic Committee telling it to fix organisation, who arrives with a clean outlook, not remove his tracksuit except by obligation A coach who accepts a six-month con- Hamilton or Fernando Alonso, vinyl or CD, the current problems by next month or face an Olympic exit. who needs GPS to arrive in Spain. and who has not written newspaper columns tract, who can adhere to the transfer situation Lionel Messi or Diego Maradona. Anything CAS ordered AIBA to include Konakbayev, an AIBA vice-pres- A coach who has a lavish record, with several or commentated on television. without any problems, or a coach who wants goes. Why choose? ident who had been banned from running against the only can- Champions League titles on the mantle, or a A young trainer, on social media, who two years, with the power to order around Real Madrid don’t care. If you don’t have a didate — interim president Gafur Rahimov — in the list of those coach who has not won anything relevant, who uses the latest mobile phone, who holidays the dressing room and have the final say plan, look for another. Madrid want a coach. standing for election at the next congress, on Nov. 2-3 in Moscow. has hunger in his belly, but has never managed in Formentera with celebrities or a veteran on comings and goings. Pop music or rock And to win. That is the model. For now, with Konakbayev, a Kazakh, who also heads the Asian boxing con- an elite team. A coach who can form nice par- trainer, a gentleman with grandchildren who music, Samsung or Apple, Netflix or HBO, Santiago Solari. federation, had been told by the AIBA election committee at the agraphs, who knows how to speak in public have to call him sir, who retreats to his town John Lennon or Paul McCartney, LeBron (Source: Marca) time that he had not acquired the necessary 20 letters of support from federations. CAS said the election committee had wrongly refused to consider some nominations of support for Konakbayev. Police say drone not cause of Leicester Lewis Hamilton seals fifth title after “Therefore, the Panel acknowledged that Serik Konakbayev reached the threshold of 20 nominations supporting his candi- helicopter crash as black box found finishing fourth in Mexico dature for the AIBA Presidency within the relevant time limit,” it said in a statement. “In conclusion, the CAS Panel came to the conclusion that the appeal should be upheld and that Serik Konakbayev should be allowed to participate in the election for the role of AIBA President.” AIBA has been in turmoil for several years. Its former president Wu Ching-kuo was suspended in 2017 before stepping down over governance and finance issues and was briefly replaced by Franco Falcinelli before Uzbek businessman Rahimov became interim president in January. (Source: Reuters)

Mayweather should fight The helicopter crash that killed Leicester City hour after the end the match. It wasn’t an easy afternoon for Lewis radio afterwards. Nurmagomedov in UFC - White soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Police named the other victims of the Hamilton, but not even tire trouble or In the end, it mattered not. Titles are not was not caused by a police drone, Leicester- crash as passengers Izabela Roza Lechow- a great drive by Sebastian Vettel could won in a day, and Hamilton had no problem Boxer Floyd Mayweather should step into the octagon to face shire Police said on Monday, as investigations iczas, Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn stop him from winning his fifth drivers’ settling for a cautious cruise in order to Khabib Nurmagomedov in a “real fight”, says UFC president continue into how the accident happened. Punpare, and pilot Eric Swaffer. championship. secure the title. Ferrari teammate Kimi Dana White. UFC lightweight champion Nurmagomedov has Thai businessman Srivaddhanaprabha The Italian maker of the helicopter, Hamilton’s success puts him in a Raikkonen finished in third after Daniel suggested he could follow in Conor McGregor’s footsteps and died along with four others when his heli- Leonardo SpA, said it was ready to assist prestigious Formula One club alongside Ricciardo, the man on pole, pulled up nine try boxing, with Mayweather encouraging the bout. copter crashed and then exploded outside the investigation. Juan Manuel Fangio, with only sev- laps before the end. But White wants to see the fight happen in a mixed martial the club’s King Power Stadium on Saturday Vichai’s family, including his son and wife en-time champion Michael Schumacher Verstappen won his fifth career arts arena. “Listen, if Mayweather wants to fight, come fight. after a Premier League match against West Aiyawatt and Aimon, arrived at the stadium ahead of him. Hamilton has now won race 17.108 seconds ahead of Vettel. You fight in the UFC,” White told TMZ. Ham United. The Air Accidents Investiga- on Monday to lay flowers among the mass of championships in 2018, 2017, 2015, The Dutchman is fifth in the drivers’ “We’re not boxing again. We did that once, that’s over. You tion Branch (AAIB) said it had recovered tributes already left by the club’s supporters. 2014 and 2008. championship and is considered the want to fight? You come fight - a real fight.” the flight data recorder and would remain Hundreds of people had queued since the Max Verstappen won the race, and never future of the sport. Nurmagomedov and Mayweather’s exchange began with the in the city until the end of the week before morning to lay toys, scarves and bouquets looked like losing it, but all eyes were on The present though is very much Russian calling out the former five-weight world champion after transporting the wreckage to its facilities to remember the much-loved owner who Vettel and Hamilton. The Ferrari driver about Lewis Hamilton. The first black defeating McGregor on the Irishman’s return to UFC earlier this in Farnborough. “Today, our inspectors took over the club in 2010 and oversaw delivered a strong drive and worked hard driver in Formula One and now a five month. Mayweather beat McGregor himself in August 2017 in a in Farnborough will start working on the their incredible rise from the second tier to get into second but had to win to keep time champion, Hamilton has become fight that generated more than £450m and earned the 41-year- recorder, which was subject to intense to Premier League title winners in 2016. his title hopes alive. one of the all-time great drivers. After old American £210m. The boxer told Nurmagomedov to “come heat as a result of the post-accident fire,” Players and staff from the club were Hamilton enjoyed a great start, nearly an emotional congratulation from Vet- into my world”, with the 30-year-old responding by saying he according to a statement from the AAIB, also at the stadium to pay their respects. taking the lead at the first corner. But it tel, Hamilton said: “It’s a very strange was keen for the bout to happen in Moscow. Nurmagomedov which investigates all civil aircraft accidents Leicester City’s first-team squad had a quickly became clear that the Briton’s tires feeling, a very humbling experience. To is currently serving a ban issued by the Nevada State Athletic in Britain. The cause of the crash remains short training session on Monday morning weren’t right and he needed two pitstops complete this when Fangio did it as well, Commission as it investigates the brawl that followed his world unclear. Leicestershire Police said on Twitter but the club’s fourth round League Cup tie to stand even a chance of keeping up his it’s a very surreal feeling.” title win over McGregor. And UFC president White says he should that their drone was not in flight when the with Southampton, scheduled for Tuesday pace. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said After that, he ran back to the Mercedes face American lightweight Tony Ferguson on his return. helicopter left the stadium. at the King Power, was postponed because afterwards the team had had a very bad garage to embrace his teammates one “Tony Ferguson is the right fight,” he added. “It’s the fight to It came down in a car park outside the of the accident. race, and that he was so upset with it that by one. make. It obviously depends on the suspension and what hap- ground shortly after 1930 GMT, about an (Source: Mirror) he didn’t say anything to Hamilton on the (Source: DW) pens - we’ll see.” (Source: BBC) Death of chairman adds to King Power uncertainty as Thai duty-free changes loom The death of Leicester City soccer club owner Vichai Srivad- SUCCESSOR dhanaprabha adds to challenges his King Power Interna- While it is not immediately clear who will take over from Thompson breaks Curry’s tional empire faces as its dominance of the lucrative Thai Vichai, analysts and sources say Aiyawatt, Vichai’s young- duty-free industry comes under scrutiny. est son and chief executive officer of King Power, and his NBA record Vichai, the founder of King Power, was killed on Saturday widow Aimon are most likely to run the family business. along with four others when his helicopter crashed and Aiyawatt’s nickname is Top. exploded outside the King Power Stadium in the central “Top has been his father’s apprentice for more than 10 Golden State Warriors’ Klay Thompson broke team-mate Steph England city after a Premier League match. years so he must have learnt a lot of his trade,” said a politi- Curry’s NBA record for three-pointers in a single game in a win His death comes just weeks before Thailand plans to hold cian who has close ties with the Srivaddhanaprabha family. over the Chicago Bulls. The 28-year-old shooting guard scored 14 an auction for its duty-free and commercial concessions, King Power declined to comment on who will succeed three-pointers in a 52-point performance during a 149-124 victory. threatening to end King Power’s near monopoly of the sector. Vichai as group chairman. Vichai’s four children and his Curry, 30, held the previous record of 13, achieved in November State-owned Airports of Thailand Pcl (AOT), which wife are part of the executive team of the company. 2016 against New Orleans Pelicans. grants the concessions, may consider awarding licenses Reuters, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the A descendant of Chinese immigrants, Vichai founded “I was so anxious because any time there’s an NBA record at to multiple operators, analysts said. Unlisted King Power subject. “AOT has not been convincing enough in defending what became the King Power empire in 1989 with a store stake, you get a little nervous,” said Thompson. currently controls more than 90 percent of Thailand’s du- this model so it will be a tough sell for them to come up in Bangkok selling duty free goods and souvenirs. “I’m just so blessed to play with the guys that I do. It was an ty-free market, being a sole operator with concessions in with a bidding terms or process that limits competition.” His business took off in 2006 when it was granted a amazing night I’ll hopefully never forget.” all major airports in the country until 2020. AOT, which has said the current system is important to concession at the new Suvarnabhumi Airport under the Thompson gave a hint of what was to come in the opening AOT also plans to expand Bangkok’s main airport, which provide continuity, declined to comment on the bidding government of then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. quarter when he scored 22 points to help the reigning NBA cham- will increase commercial and duty free space up for auction by process. “(King Power) has a successful history in duty free Even after Thaksin’s ouster that year, Vichai’s close re- pions to a 44-28 lead. By half-time the Warriors had increased around 70 percent, increasing competition among retailers. retailing and the travel industry, now the question is how lationship with the royal family and a knack for winning their advantage to 42 points as they led 92-50. Tourism is booming in Thailand, which received nearly effective King Power can be in engaging the government people over helped King Power navigate political turmoil. Thompson drew level with Curry’s record in the third quarter 35 million visitors last year, most funneled through the other stakeholders without Vichai’s leadership, especially Vichai became the country’s fifth-richest person with an before breaking it with five minutes remaining, and later revealed airports where King Power is ubiquitous. But public debate in upcoming auction for concessions in Bangkok, Phuket, estimated net worth of nearly $5 billion. his team-mate had encouraged him to do so. has increased over the single duty-free operator structure. Pattaya and Samut Prakan,” said Nattabhorn Juengsan- For the group, which has been expanding into sports, “Before I went out for the second half, Steph just looked at “If there is more competition from others and this new guansit, Director at Asia Group Advisors, a government winning the upcoming duty-free license auction has become the box score and said ‘go get it’,” Thompson said. generation of leadership (at King Power) is not as effective as affairs consultancy. more crucial to get steady cash flow and fund heavy invest- “That shows the unselfishness that’s within him.” Vichai’s generation, then there could be changes (in the way “Winning the upcoming bid is crucial for King Power’s ments to acquire athletes and managing staff. (Source: BBC) the licenses are granted),” a senior government official told business and the future of Leicester football club.” (Source: Reuters) I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y OCTOBER 31, 2018 SPORTS 15

Iran ready for Intercontinental Iran’s Mohajerani voted best AFC Asian Cup coach

Beach Soccer Cup, coach says Heshmat Mohajerani from Iran has been voted for all-time best AFC Asian Cup coach. SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran coach Marco He was chosen as the best coach by the fans, coming first desk Octavio Simoes Barbosa (or sim- with 93 percent. ply Marco Octavio) says that they are well prepared Taking charge of Team Melli just a few months before Iran for the Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup 2018. was to host the 1976 AFC Asian Cup, Mohajerni had an instant Team Melli have been drawn in Group B along impact, leading the team to the title for the third time, and to with three-time champions Russia, 2017 FIFA date, last time in its history. Beach Soccer World Cup runner-ups Tahiti and The same year, he helped the team qualify for the Olympic the U.S. Games for the first time in its history, taking it past the group Group A consists of the UAE (host), Brazil, stage into the quarter-final, which remains its best-ever Olympic Egypt and Spain. performance. The tournament will be held in Dubai, the UAE Mohajerani crowned his successes with Team Melli by taking from Nov. 6 to 10 in two groups of four teams. it to the 1978 FIFA World Cup, the first time in its history. Marco Octavio will start the campaign with a In 1980, he led the UAE for their maiden AFC Asian Cup match against Tahiti on Nov. 6. appearance. “We have strong opponents in the tournament Carlos Alberto Parreira (Kuwait/Saudi Arabia), Khalil Al Zayani and I believe that top eight teams will participate (Saudi Arabia), Philippe Troussier (Japan), Ange Postecoglou in the event to win the title,” Octavio said in an (Australia) and Jorvan Vieira (Iraq) vied for the accolade as well. exclusive interview with Tehran Times. (Source: the-afc) “Now, we are focusing on our first match against Tahiti. Iran held a good training camp in Portugal and our young players had the opportunity to play Portugal beach soccer clubs to gain more experience,” the Brazilian added. Persepolis trio ones to watch “We respect all the participating teams in the competition and know that they will play in the at ACL Final first leg highest level. But, we also are fully ready and well prepared for the competition,” Octavio stated. Ahead of the first of two meetings between the best clubs in the “We are very motivated for taking part at the East and West of the continent, the-AFC.com has introduced Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup since the com- some of the key Persepolis players, who could be the ones to petition is the most important beach soccer event watch at Kashima Soccer Stadium on November 3. after the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Iranian giant Persepolis is set to make history on Saturday “Iran will hold a training camp in Rio de Ja- when it takes to the field in the first leg of their first-ever AFC neiro from Jan. 24 to Feb. 3,” Octavio concluded. Champions League final against Japan’s Kashima Antlers. Jalal Hosseini Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini has led by example throughout Ex-Iran coach Ghotbi to attend FIBA U18 Asia Women: Iran storm their AFC Champions League campaign, marshaling a defense Kashima Antlers v Persepolis past Guam that conceded just three times in the group stage to advance to the last 16. The 36-year-old has since proven that his contribution is not limited to keeping things tight at the back. The defender’s late strike in the second leg of the Round of 16 against Al Jazira earned Persepolis an away-goals triumph, before he added another crucial goal in the quarter-final against Al Duhail to start a stunning comeback from 2-0 down to win 3-2. Alireza Beiranvand The 26-year-old goalkeeper rose to global fame last summer when he produced an incredible save to deny Cristiano Ronaldo from the spot in Iran’s 1-1 draw with Portugal in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. But followers of Iranian and Asian football will have already been familiar with Beiranvand who was part of the Naft Tehran side that reached the 2015 AFC Champions League Round of 16. He then went on to become a key cog for Persepolis as it SPORTS TEHRAN — Former helped the Reds win Iran Pro League for SPORTS TEHRAN — Iran defeat- Nicolas scored 21 points for Guam. reached the semi-final for the first time in its history in 2017, deskIran and Persepolis the second time. desked a hapless Guam 98-55 The top placed team from division B and topped that milestone this year where his saves were crucial coach Afshin Ghotbi will attend his One year later he took charge of Iran on the second day of the FIBA U18 Women’s gets promoted to Division A for the 2020 in taking the Tehran giant to its maiden final. former team’s clash against Kashima national football team and advanced to the Asian Championship at the Sree Kanteerava FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship for Ali Alipour Antlers. 2011 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final where Indoor Stadium in Bengaluru, India. Women. The bottom-placed team from At 19, Alipour became the youngest player to score in the The Japanese team will host Persepolis Team Melli were knocked out of the com- On Tuesday, the Iranian team advanced division A gets relegated to division B for Tehran derby against Esteghlal, before his big break arrived after of Iran at Kashima Stadium in the first leg petition with a 1-0 loss to South Korea. to the semifinals of Division B of the FIBA the 2020 championships. Mehdi Taremi left the club. of the 2018 AFC Champions League final. Ghotbi was appointed as head coach of U18 Women’s Asian Championship with The FIBA U-18 Asian Championship com- The pacey striker stepped to the fore to help Persepolis claim The second leg will be held in Tehran’s Japanese top-flight football team Shimizu two wins against Singapore and Guam and prises of eight teams each, in Division A and back-to-back league titles and earn the Iranian Pro League’s top Azadi Stadium a week later. S-Pulse. one defeat against host India. Division B. Teams from Division A compete scorer award last season. Ghotbi was appointed as head coach Most recently, he coached Chinese Captain and forward Fatemah Ghaz- for the title and to secure their qualification And, although he netted just once in the team’s run to the of Persepolis football team in 2007 and club Shijiazhuang Ever Bright. vini led Iran with 28 points, while Mia San for the 2019 FIBA U-19 World Cup. 2017 AFC Champions League semi-final, Alipour has played a vital role this season, scoring five times to lead Persepolis in continental goals. None of his strikes were more important than winning and We have great belief, says Shoma Doi converting a penalty just five minutes before the final whistle SPORTS Midfielder Shoma Doi believes Kashima he added, as Kashima roared back from conceding three in the first leg of the semi-final against Al Sadd, with the Tehran deskAntlers’ triumph over adversity has helped goals in an eight minute spell to see out the semi-final 6-5 side going on to edge the Qatari by a single goal in a 2-1 aggre- the team overcome tough situations on the field ahead of on aggregate. gate victory. Saturday’s 2018 AFC Champions League final first leg against “That really helped us overcome the adversity we faced in (Source: tha-afc) Islamic Republic of Iran’s Persepolis. the match. “And I’m sure it will looking ahead to the final.” Coming back from two goals down in a semi-final is an Mental focus and belief is also a mantra echoed by Doi’s impressive feat in itself, but doing so twice over two legs, teammate Yuma Suzuki, with the physical forward playing as Japan’s Kashima did against Korea Republic’s Suwon a key role in Kashima’s run to the tournament’ climax. Samsung Bluewings, requires an impressive degree of mental “The mood in the dressing room isn’t any different from Guardiola to call sacked resilience and self-belief - a quality needed at the highest any regular time, it’s not like we have won the title yet,” said level of the Continental game. the 22-year-old. “It was just about finishing the semi-finals Lopetegui this week And, indeed, it is this quality that Japan international and then we spoke about switching our minds to the next Doi insists has helped a battle-hardened Kashima side reach match and doing it again.” their maiden AFC Champions League final. “I really believe this will be Kashima’s year for the AFC “Not just in the semi-finals, but throughout the past year Champions League. we’ve had many tough matches,” said the 26-year-old, who and, no matter the situation, we have great belief in what “We have never won the AFC Champions League title, was part of the side that came back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits we’ve been able to do.” so winning this Asian championship would mean a lot to in the first and second legs respectively. “We got together during the second leg of the semi-final everyone.” “In both legs against Suwon we had to come from behind against Suown and we spoke about that belief in ourselves,” (Source: the-afc) Beiranvand: I want to become an ACL Champion Persepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand is in contention for the November award. fully focused on helping his side win the 2018 “It would be a big honor for me and my AFC Champions League ahead of Saturday’s country if I can make it. I hope it happens, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said he feels bad that Julen final first leg against Japan’s Kashima Antlers. because it has always been one of my wishes Lopetegui was dismissed at Real Madrid but added that “if we Beiranvand showed that in the second in life. If I can win this award, I will enjoy it for don’t win we will be sacked.” leg of the semi-final against Qatar’s Al Sadd. years to come,” said the Iranian goalkeeper. “Football I know what it is, we are still here because we win The score was 1-1 with just four minutes to Having spent his entire career so far games, if we don’t win we will be sacked,” Guardiola said when go, a goal for Al Sadd would have effectively playing for Naft Tehran then Persepolis, asked at a news conference about Lopetegui following City’s 1-0 taken them to the AFC Champions League Beiranvand’s performances over the year win over Tottenham Hotspur on Monday. final at the expense of Persepolis. The ball would have certainly attracted interest from Real Madrid fired Lopetegui on Monday after just four months was crossed for Spanish legend Xavi, who was Europe, where many of IR Iran’s finest foot- in charge, with the ex-Spain coach paying the price following left with a free header from just seven yards. ballers ply their trade, but he is postponing Sunday’s 5-1 humiliation against Barcelona in El Clasico. Nine times out of then, this play would any talk of a European switch until after the “I’m sorry for Julen because he’s a friend of mine. He’s an have resulted a goal, but as the 81,000 fans 2019 AFC Asian Cup. exceptional person,” the ex-Barcelona boss said, adding that present at Azadi Stadiums fell to complete si- “After the World Cup, my concentration they have a solid relationship stemming from their playing days lence, the Persepolis goalkeeper had different was only on Persepolis, because I was really at the Catalan club. Guardiola, while at the helm of Bayern Mu- ideas. Beiranvand produced an impossible concerned with the problems they had. nich, bested Lopetegui’s Porto in the 2015 Champions League reflex save to tip Xavi’s header behind and “I want to become AFC Champions League quarterfinals. rescue his team. champion with Persepolis, then I will con- Guardiola had sustained success over Real Madrid while That save, one of four Beiranvand made on Hejazi] are great goalkeepers that I have values. I have always learned from him. And centrate on the AFC Asian Cup. I would really managing Barcelona, with 9 wins, 2 losses and 4 ties across all the night, was as crucial to Persepolis reaching learned a lot from,” said Beiranvand, whose I like Abedzadeh a lot; his son is also my like to be the best goalkeeper in Asia with competitions. The two losses were in La Liga (2012) and Copa their first ever AFC Champions League final heroic performance at the 2018 FIFA World teammate in the national team.” IR Iran in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. del Rey final (2011). as Siamak Nemati’s 49th minute goal, but Cup Russia brought him to global fame, es- Beiranvand could, however, achieve a “After that I will have enough time to “I want to call him in the next few days,” Guardiola said. “It is the 26-year-old remains grounded, playing pecially when he saved a penalty kick from feat that none of the two greats of Iranian think about any offers, but as I always said, what it is. It’s football, nobody escapes that. When you have bad down comparisons to Islamic Republic of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo. goalkeeping did, if he is to become the AFC I would like to play for a big club in Europe results you will not continue in big, big places like Barcelona or Iran’s greatest goalkeepers. “I can never be like them. Hejazi was Player of the Year. His performances over if I leave Iran one day.” Madrid ... I wish him all the best.” “[Ahmadreza Abedzadeh and Nasser a great man, known for respecting moral the past 12 months have, arguably, put him (Source: the-afc) (Source: ESPN) Prayer Times Noon:11:48 Evening: 17:29 Dawn: 5:01 (tomorrow) Sunrise: 6:26 (tomorrow) OCTOBER 31, 2018 ART&CULTURE I N T E R N A T I O N A L D A I L Y www.tehrantimes.com Managing Director: Ali Asgari Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Ghaderi Editorial Dept.: Fax: (+98 21) 88808214 — 88808895 Iranian films win awards [email protected] Switchboard Operator: Tel: (+98 21) 43051000 Advertisements Dept.: Telefax: (+98 21) 43051450 Public Relations Office: Tel: (+98 21) 88805807 Subscription & Distribution Dept.: Tel: (+98 21) 43051603 www.eshterak.ir Distributor: Padideh Novin Co. at Duhok festival Tel: 88911433 Webmaster: [email protected] ARTTEHRAN – Three Printed at: Rooztab - ISSN: 1017-94 deskIranian films have won No. 18, Bimeh Alley, Nejatollahi St., Tehran, Iran awards at the 6th Duhok International Film P.o. Box: 14155-4843 Festival, the organizers have announced. Zip Code: 1599814713 “Life without Life” by Kaveh Moeinfar grabbed the Silver Leaf for best script, while it was also was honored with a special mention. The film is about Satiar, a music teacher whose father is fighting cancer, but amid music and death, life goes on. The New Talents Award for World Cinema was given to “Israfil” by Ida Panahandeh. In addition, “In B6 Position”, a short film by Reza Alaei, won the special jury Turin National Museum of award in the Kurdish Short section. The Golden Leaf Award for Best Cinema CEO to attend Italian Kurdish Feature was given to “Zagros” neorealist films session in Tehran by the Belgium-based Kurdish filmmaker, Sahim Omer Kalifa. ARTTEHRAN – Sergio Toffetti, president of A selection of 151 films from over 70 deskthe National Museum of Cinema in Turin, is countries were screened at the festival scheduled to attend a session that will be organized by the Film this year. Museum of Iran about Italian neorealist cinema. Iranian film editor Mastaneh Mohajer and her fellow screenwriter, Khosro Sina, were among the jury members of the festival, which ran in the Iraqi city from October 20 to 27. Iranian director Mostafa Gandomkar’s “Alan” won the Golden Leaf for Best Kurdish Short Film at the Duhok festival Right to left, jury member Mastaneh Mohajer, Iranian filmmakers Kaveh Moeinfar and Ida Panahandeh and an unidentified person last year. pose after receiving their awards at the 6th Duhok International Film Festival in Duhok, Iraq on October 27, 2018.

“Run Rustam Run” wins awards at Henrik Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Italian, Turkish events Borkman” to go on stage in Tehran Turin National Museum of Cinema president Sergio Toffetti. Roberta Basano, the director of the photo archives of the Turin museum, and Italian journalist Francesca Paci will accompany Toffetti during the trip to Tehran. Italian neorealism, a national film movement that is charac- terized by stories set among the poor and the working class, will be reviewed during a five-day session beginning on Thursday at the Film Museum of Iran. Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 war thriller “Rome, Open City” and Vittorio De Sica’s movies “Shoeshine” (1946), “Bicycle Thieves” (1948), “Miracle in Milan” (1951) and “Umberto D.” (1952) will be screened during the program. An exhibition of posters and stills from the Italian neorealist films will also be organized at the museum on the sidelines of the event.

“Bystander” honored at Russian festival A poster for the Iranian animated movie “Run Rustam Run” by Hossein Molayemi. CULTURE A poster for “John Gabriel Borkman”, which will be directed by Saeid Karimi at TEHRAN – “Bystander” by Iranian director Tehran’s Molavi Hall. deskSheida Kashi has received a diploma at Saint ARTTEHRAN – The “Run Rustam Run” was also named deskIranian animated third best animation at the 12th Istanbul ARTTEHRAN – Iranian Shadi Shahali, Faezeh Amiri, Abolfazl Vladimir, an international festival of cinema and TV films with desk spiritual and moral content in Sevastopol, Russia. movie “Run Rustam Run” directed by International Architecture and Urban director Saeid Karimi will Salahshur, Maryam Hajizadeh and Shahab Hossein Molayemi received awards at Films Festival that was held from October restage Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen’s Salehi are the main members of the cast for two international festivals held in Italy 20 to 27. penultimate play “John Gabriel Borkman” at the play, which will be on stage for about two and Turkey last week. Produced at Barfak Studio, the Tehran’s Molavi Hall on Thursday. months. The movie won the award for animated film tells the story of Rustam, a The play is about a disgraced former bank Henrik Ibsen, internationally acclaimed best animation at the Visioni Corte main character of Persian poet Ferdowsi’s manager who pads around like “a sick wolf” during his lifetime and one hundred years International Short Film Festival, which epic masterpiece Shahnameh, who travels in the cage of his home. Jailed for years, he after his death, remains among the most took place in the central Italian city of into the future and comes to Tehran in now sulks in his study while his aggrieved popular studied and produced playwrights Latina from October 12 to 20. 2017. wife prowls around downstairs. ever. Syria’s national museum reopens doors in Damascus DAMASCUS (Reuters) — Syria’s National in the capital. those of provincial museums, hiding their Directorate of Antiquities as an office, Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove A bloody army offensive this spring forced artefacts far from the battlefield. and was hit by mortar fire, but not badly of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, the rebels to surrender eastern Ghouta in In Aleppo, where the museum lay near the damaged. A scene from “Bystander” by Sheida Kashi. seven years after war forced them to close. April, and the remaining insurgents enclaves front line, the huge ancient statues outside As the rebel presence around Damascus Only part of the museum, and its near Damascus capitulated in the following were too large to transport, and were boarded weakened in recent years, some statues were The animation received the diploma for “expanding the collection drawn from the civilizations weeks. up in giant crates filled with cement against put on display to the public in the museum artistic possibilities of animation”, the organizers announced that have ruled Syria over the millennia, The fate of Syria’s ancient heritage has shrapnel damage. garden, including the Lion of Elat, a massive on last week. will be reopened immediately, its deputy hung in the balance for much of the conflict, “The masterpieces were hidden straight piece from Palmyra that was damaged by The animation tells the story of an old man who witnesses director Ahmad Deeb said. as fighting erupted in major sites such as away,” said Deeb. Army trucks carried ISIS and later restored. a revolution in his country. “We will exhibit a group of artefacts from the Old City of Aleppo and others, including antiquities from sites across the country to Other objects, recovered by the “Donetsk Vratarnitsa” by Natalia Batraeva from Russia all periods from prehistory, the ancient east the desert ruins of Palmyra. stash in safety, he said. The collection of government after they were seized by received the Grand Prix of the festival, which was held from and the classical and Islamic eras in this As the insurgency began to spread Deir al-Zor museum, isolated by fighting, insurgents or smuggled overseas, were put October 20 to 24. section,” he said. in 2011, the government evacuated the was airlifted to Damascus. on display this month in the Damascus Opera The reopening is a sign of the museum’s collection, one of the most In the capital, the empty museum House, a testament to the looting of heritage government’s attempts to restore normality important in the Middle East, along with continued to be used by the General that has characterized much of the war. French couple exhibits 3,000 objects from World War One James Cromwell: There will be blood in the streets if Trump isn’t stopped BALMA, France (Reuters) — Vases carved out of shrapnel LOS ANGELES (Variety) – Though James Cromwell Walsh were also honored at this year’s event. are displayed next to soldiers’ uniforms and a warplane fig- was honored at the fourth annual Carney Awards for his Host Patton Oswalt started the evening on a lighter note, urine made out of the remains of a Zeppelin: welcome to the work as a character actor, the industry veteran has worked catering his jokes to the crowd of character actors. If they World War One-themed home of Chantal and Serge Giudice. as a political activist his entire career. really wanted to honor character actors, he joked, they should The two French collectors are preparing to mark the 100th On the red carpet at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in have hosted the show in a single trailer in Palmdale at 4 a.m. anniversary of the end of the war by opening up to visitors Santa Monica, Calif., he candidly shared his thoughts about However, Oswalt also made sure to acknowledge the their home and the 3,000 or so objects it contains related the current political climate. accomplished careers of the evening’s honorees. Of the to the 1914-1918 conflict. “This is nascent fascism. We always had a turnkey, to- six award recipients, past characters include a turncoat The Giudices, from the town of Balma, near Toulouse in talitarian state — all we needed was an excuse, and all the futuristic revolutionary in “Matrix,” the captain of the USS southwestern France, have been collecting the souvenirs for institutions were in place to turn this into pure fascism,” Enterprise in “Star Trek” and the iconic Lucille Bluth from more than 20 years, a passion stemming from 56-year-old Cromwell told Variety on Sunday night. “If we don’t stop “Arrested Development.” Chantal Giudice’s childhood. [President Trump] now, then we will have a revolution for As Lucille, Walter said she her job was to flesh out the “Instead of playing with dolls, I’ve always been surrounded real. Then there will be blood in the streets.” storylines revolving around the show’s lead Jason Bateman, by uniforms, military equipment,” she said. “That passion Cromwell later echoed his statement during his acceptance highlighting the importance of character actors in rounding took me over and it has never left me since.” speech for one of the six Carney Awards given out that night. out many of today’s popular television shows and movies. Mannequins dressed in uniforms worn by soldiers and “We’re living in very curious times, and something is “Webster’s dictionary says that character actors specialize nurses during World War One are scattered around the house, coming up which is desperately important to this country in playing eccentric and unusual people. Not all supporting in a collection that aims to recall the violence of the era, said and to this planet, and that is an election, in which hopefully actors do that, but character actors do,” she told Variety. her husband, Serge Giudice, 66. in some measure we are going to take back our democracy,” “In a lot of shows, the character actors fill out the picture.” James Cromwell (AFF-USA/REX/Shutterstock) Posters calling on troops to head to the trenches hang Cromwell said. “We will have a government that represents In between speeches were performances from pop-singer on the walls, next to figurines carved out by soldiers in the us and not the donor class. We will cut through the corrup- Named after the late actor Art Carney, the Carney Awards Lily Meola and jazz singer Danny Most who sang during trenches from bullets and shells. tion, [and] we won’t have to do what comes next, which is recognize Hollywood’s leading character actors for their the in memoriam. The evening concluded in a town hall “With objects from the war, they succeeded in creating either a non-violent revolution or a violent one, because work in theater, film, and television. Joe Morton, Jessica discussion with all of the honorees and a cocktail party in marvelous objects, true pieces of art,” Chantal Giudice said. this has got to end.” Walter, Joe Pantoliano, Bruce Greenwood, and M. Emmet the lobby.