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Drawing foreign investment for Iran’s oil sector will continue to be a top priority during President Hassan Rouhani’s second term in office, said Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Sunday. top priority: Zanganeh “Attracting foreign investment and technology is China urges halt to 3 a priority for us in the oil industry, whether in shared US-South Korea military drills fields or for increasing the production of oil at fields that are already operational,” he said in a live television interview on state TV, Reuters reported. Zanganeh, who won parliamentary approval on Sunday to remain oil minister, has been credited for increasing Iran’s crude output since many global sanc- tions were lifted last year following an international deal on Iran’s nuclear program. He has also won praise for a multibillion-dollar deal with France’s Total to develop South Pars, the world’s largest gas field. Total will be the operator with a 50.1 percent stake, alongside Chinese state-owned oil and gas company Persepolis looks to change 11 CNPC with 30 percent and National Iranian Oil Co. subsidiary Petropars with 19.9 percent. fortunes on Asian level The project will cost up to $5 billion and production is expected to start within 40 months, Iran’s Oil Minis- try said in a statement last month. ZZarif:arif: IIranran wwillill wworkork Continued on Page 4 ttoo ssustainustain nnuclearuclear ddealeal Barcelona terror attack driver ‘arrested’ Stars pay tribute to ‘King 12 The main suspect in the Barcelona terror attack has of Comedy’ Jerry Lewis been arrested, Spanish media said on Monday. Younes Abouyaaqoub is believed to be the driver who plowed a rented white van down the popular tourist promenade of Las Ramblas in central Barce- IRIB NEWS lona on Thursday. oreign Minister Mohammad Javad When it started being implemented ners to urge against American non-perfor- A total of 13 people were killed while more than Russian airstrikes Zarif said his top priority is to en- some six months after conclusion, the mance but has said it is prepared for any 120 were injured. Fsure that a 2015 nuclear deal be- deal terminated all nuclear-related sanc- scenario. Another man was found dead in his car, stabbed to tween Iran and six other countries will tions against Iran in return for certain death, after the terrorist is believed to have hi-jacked kill over 200 Daesh stand. measures by the Islamic Republic to limit Relations, economic diplomacy the car after the van’s airbag set-off, disabling the Speaking in a televised interview on its nuclear program. vehicle’s electrics. terrorists in Syria Sunday night, Foreign Minister Zarif said But the new US administration has Elsewhere in his Sunday interview, Za- A woman in the coastal town of Cambrils, south the ministry, under his watch, would work been unhappy with the deal, which was rif said the enhancement of relations with of Barcelona, was also killed by five men police be- The Russian Air Force killed a large number of first and foremost to keep the Joint Com- negotiated under the administration of Iran’s neighbors and activating economic lieve were part of the same group as the Barcelona Daesh terrorists and destroyed their vehicles and prehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in former president Barack Obama. The new diplomacy were two other major priori- attack. large caliber weapons as they were heading to the place, Press TV reported. White House occupant has attempted to ties. Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, the Russian Defense Min- “Priority number one of the diplomatic undo every one of Obama’s major policy “We are in a region, where, unfortu- istry said. apparatus will be to sustain the JCPOA achievements. And that includes the Iran nately, there are upheavals and turbu- and to prevent America’s deal-breach- deal. lence stemming from the wrong policies ing,” he said. “We must not allow Amer- Trump has adopted a hostile posture of [certain] regional countries, danger- ica to execute or violate the deal at Iran’s toward the JCPOA even as his adminis- ous foreign interventions, and a surge in cost.” tration has certified Iranian compliance extremism,” he said. “Our region needs He said the JCPOA had been built on twice so far, allowing for the continued calm.” distrust and envisaged the necessary waiving of certain sanctions against Iran. He also said Iranian diplomacy had to rules to deal with non-performance by After the second certification, Trump as- facilitate the country’s development. parties. signed a team of his White House con- “In the past,” he said, “foreign pol- On Sunday, Zarif received a favorable fidants to search for, and offer to him, icy was not only incapable of helping vote of confidence in Parliament to work “options” to potentially decertify Iranian our development but also incurred REUTERS as foreign minister in President Hassan compliance. He had wanted the State De- costs, because of pressure by foreign The ministry further noted that more than 200 ter- Rouhani’s second term. During a final partment to search for such options pre- powers.” rorists have been killed in the strikes, RT reported. debate in Parliament, President Rouhani, viously, but the department had come up Things had changed under President The strikes on the terrorist column destroyed who was in attendance to defend his cabi- empty-handed. Rouhani, he said. around 20 SUVs armed with large-caliber weapons net picks, stressed the preservation of the Also during a recent summit of the G20 The Iranian foreign minister suggested and mortars. Russian jets have also taken out a num- JCPOA. in Germany, Trump attempted to urge Eu- that the JPCOA had removed barriers in At the same time as Abouyaaqoub’s arrest, anoth- ber of armored vehicles, including tanks, the minis- The JCPOA, a major foreign policy ropean countries not to do business with the way of trade with Iran by removing er man wearing an explosive belt was shot down in try added. The ministry noted that Daesh terrorists, achievement of President Rouhani’s first Iran. That activity by the US president United Nations Security Council resolu- Subirats, west of Barcelona. having suffered heavy losses in Raqqa and Homs term, was finalized between the Islamic constituted a violation of the text of the tions that had been imposed under Chap- There was some confusion over whether the two provinces, are now trying to make their last stand Republic on the one side and the United JCPOA, according to Iran. ter VII of the UN Charter. incidents are the same thing. in Deir Ezzor. The defeat of Daesh in the province States, the UK, France, Russia, China, All of that Trump administration rheto- Zarif said that would also help a revi- Police would only confirm an operation was ongo- will probably mark the defeat of the entire terrorist and Germany on the other in July 2015. ric and action has strengthened specula- talized Iranian role in international or- ing in Subirats. organization. Zarif was Iran’s chief negotiator in the tion and concern that the US may want to ganizations on the issue of human rights. A person is believed to have called the police after “The defeat of Daesh in the Deir Ezzor region multilateral talks that culminated in the unilaterally pull out of the deal. Iran has He said Iran had to play that role more seeing Abouyaaqoub in a petrol station in Subirats, will be a strategic defeat for the international terror- deal. been in contact with its European part- strongly now. Spanish media said. ist group in the Syrian Arab Republic,” the Defense The other suspects have been killed by police or Ministry underlined, echoing the words of Russia’s detained following last week’s attacks in Barcelona Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. and the seaside resort of Cambrils. Daesh claimed Just over a week ago, Shoigu said the fall of US suspends issuing nonimmigrant responsibility for the assaults, believed to be its first Daesh in Deir Ezzor might signal the end of the ter- in Spain. ror group’s self-proclaimed kingdom. visas for Russians The suspected terrorists had been preparing bombs “Today there are key points, including Deir Ez- for “one or more attacks in Barcelona,” regional po- zor. I would say, first of all, Deir Ezzor. There have The US Embassy in Russia said Monday it US to cut its embassy and consulate staff in employees. lice chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters, reveal- been military actions for more than one year. Peo- would suspend issuing nonimmigrant visas Russia by 755, or by two-thirds, heightening The US Embassy said on Monday that ing that traces of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) – a ple bravely fight there. Regularly, two or three, or for eight days from Wednesday in response tensions between Washington and Moscow Russia’s decision to cut its staff “calls into homemade explosive that is a Daesh hallmark – had it happens, four times a week, food, medicine, am- to the Russian decision to cap embassy after the US Congress approved sanctions question Russia’s seriousness about pursu- also been found. munition are being delivered there,” Shoigu said. staff. against Russia for the alleged intervention in ing better relations.” It insisted however The suspects accidentally caused an explosion at “This is perhaps the main point at the Euphrates, The embassy made the decision after the the 2016 US election and for its activities in that it will able to maintain adequate staff- the house on the eve of Thursday’s attack in Barcelo- which will in many ways indicate the end of the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered a cap on Ukraine and Syria. ing “to carry out essential elements of our na – an error that likely forced them to modify their fight against Daesh.” the number of US diplomatic personnel in President Vladimir Putin said that Mos- mission.” plans. Although Damascus remains in control of most Russia, it said in a statement, adding that it cow felt forced to reciprocate to the new Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a Instead, they used a vehicle to smash into crowds parts of the city, including its airbase, Daesh terror- would resume issuing visas in Moscow on package of sanctions against what he dis- news conference the decision to cut visa op- on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas Boulevard as it was ists have for years tried to break the government and Sept. 1, but maintain the suspension at con- missed as “unfounded accusations,” but that erations aims to make Russians feel discon- thronged with tourists, killing 13 people and injuring territorial defense force’s resistance inside the encir- sulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and it would hold off on further steps against the tent with their own government. about 100. cled municipal center. Vladivostok indefinitely, AP reported. US. Asked about a possible Russian reaction, Several hours later, a similar attack in the seaside While thousands have fled over the years, an esti- Nearly a quarter of a million Russian tour- The vast majority of the more than 1,000 Lavrov said Russia will “study” the embas- town of Cambrils left one woman dead. Police shot mated 125,000 civilians are still living in Deir Ezzor ists visited the US last year, according to employees at the various US diplomatic mis- sy’s announcement, adding that unlike the and killed the five attackers in Cambrils, some of as the army continues their push to liberate the city Russian tourism officials. sions in Russia, including the embassy in US government Russia “is not going to take whom were wearing fake explosive belts and carry- from the siege. Earlier this month, Russia ordered the Moscow and the three consulates are local it out on US citizens.” ing knives. Aug. 22, 2017 Call for compensation Iran’s Judiciary said the US must pay around $245 million in damage to victims of chemical attacks conducted under Iraq’s Saddam Hussein during the imposed 2 war, because of Washington’s technical, intelligence and other kinds of support. National

Leader highlights role of new Baqeri warns against Iraq generation in revolution Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Monday highlighted the role of new generation political geography change in defending Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. Today, many hief of Staff of the Iranian Armed young are ready to Forces Major General Moham- give up their com- Cmad Baqeri warned that any fortable life and at- change in the political geography of the tend the frontlines of region would create tensions across the Jihad for defending Middle East. the Islamic values, “Any geographical change in the re- the Leader said in a gion, given the differences among the reference to Mohsen Kurds and the central Iraqi government Hojajji, 25-year-old about [the country’s northern province young Iranian mili- of] Kirkuk and other areas, can start ten- tary advisor in Syria sions and conflicts inside Iraq and this is- beheaded by Daesh sue will never be confined to Iraq’s geog- recently. raphy,” Baqeri told reporters on Monday, khamenei.ir Ayatollah Khame- Press TV wrote. nei called for the elevation of revolutionary spirit among the Pointing to the outcomes of his recent younger generation and urged use of all capacities to impede visit to Turkey, Baqeri said the Iranian the enemy’s harmful propaganda. and Turkish military officials reached Iranian people and officials have always commemorated good agreements about boosting security the sacrifices of all Iranian military advisors, known in Iran as along their border. ‘Defenders of Shrines’, including Mohsen Hojajji by holding The military chief added that the two ceremonies for them. countries also held “useful and complete” Following a US strike against the Iraqi Popular Mobiliza- discussions about regional security, par- tion Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi), Daesh used the opportunity ticularly in Syria and Iraq, and the role of to attack the Syrian troops deployed along the borders with Iran and Turkey in establishing peace and Iraq in which Mohsen Hojajji, an Iranian military advisor was security in the two war-ravaged coun- taken hostage by the terrorist group elements and beheaded tries. later on camera. Baqeri said Tehran and Ankara have a common stance that the political geog- FARS NEWS AGENCY raphy of regional countries, including Region and the central government in Erdogan, his Turkish counterpart, Gen- Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul before Iran’s new minister says missile Iraq, must never change and that any talks Baghdad. eral Hulusi Akar, and Defense Minister a visit to Jordan. about Kurdistan’s independence and the The Iraqi government has rejected the Nurettin Canikli. Turkey has been fighting against the program will continue unabated central government in Baghdad must be planned referendum as being “unilateral” It was the first visit by an Iranian chief outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party held, based on Iraq’s Constitution. and unconstitutional. Turkey, Iran and of staff of the Armed Forces to Turkey (PKK) militants for decades. Iran’s new Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said The president of Iraq’s semi-autono- Syria, which together with Iraq have siz- since the victory of the Islamic Revolu- Iran is also fighting PJAK, a PKK off- the missile program of the Islamic Republic will push ahead re- mous Kurdistan Regional Government, able Kurdish communities, also oppose tion in 1979. shoot, in its northwestern border region lentlessly, vowing to continue activities of the country’s defense Masoud Barzani, announced on Twitter an independent Kurdistan. Erdogan also said on Monday that a with Turkey. Iranian forces killed five industry. “Missile program will proceed according to the ap- in June that the northern territory would The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed joint Turkish-Iranian operation against PJAK terrorists in an ambush there last proved plans,” Hatami told reporters on Sunday following the hold an independence referendum on Forces paid a three-day visit to Turkey Kurdish (PKK) militants was “always on June. first cabinet session of the newly-formed Iranian government, ac- September 25 not only in the three prov- last week at the head of a high-ranking the agenda.” PJAK randomly carries out hit-and- cording to Press TV. inces that make up the Kurdish region, politico-military delegation. “It is always on the agenda to carry out run attacks on Iranian targets, after which In response to a question about some foreign countries’ pres- but also in the areas that were a bone of He met with the country’s top authori- a joint operation with Iran against those they retreat to their lairs in Iraq and Tur- sure on Iran to stop its missile program, he added that such activi- contention between the Iraqi Kurdistan ties, including President Recep Tayyip terror organizations which pose a threat,” key. ties “would not be affected by any type of pressure.” The minister vowed to continue activities related to the coun- try’s defense industry “with utmost power” and emphasized that Qassemi: US attempts to sway IAEA reporting on Iran futile the Islamic Republic “will not allow any suspension in the work of the Defense Ministry even for one day.” The United States’ potential attempts to certification. certain limits to its nuclear program in re- ment of ties. All but one of President Hassan Rouhani’s proposed min- sway the reporting of the United Nations’ The US has also said that it is conduct- turn for the termination of all nuclear-re- “Relations are always two-way; they isters, the nominee for the Ministry of Energy, won the Iranian nuclear agency with regards to Iran will ing a review of the deal to see whether lated sanctions on the country by the UN, are not unilateral. We have taken the nec- Parliament’s vote of confidence on Sunday. The president has not get nowhere, said the Iranian Foreign continued sanctions relief – a US com- the US, and the European Union. essary steps,” he said, hoping that Saudi presented his nominee for the post of the minister of science, re- Ministry. mitment under the agreement – is in the Given the fact that the JCPOA is mul- Arabia could do a better analysis of mat- search and technology. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram US’s national interest. tilateral and that the other parties to the ters. “It is now Saudi Arabia’s turn to take The new minister of defense received the highest number of Qassemi, said during a regular press brief- A US official said on August 9 that UN agreement continue to support it, Qas- more steps.” votes, with 261 lawmakers supporting him. Only 10 MPs voted ing on Monday that the US was mak- Ambassador Nikki Haley would be trave- semi said, “It is believed that attempts In the meantime, he said, Iran would against him while 13 others abstained. ing “futile” efforts if it was seeking to ling to Vienna later this month to discuss by America’s representatives in making always be ready to help boost ties with re- Briefing a group of lawmakers on his future plans on Saturday, hinder the implementation of a nuclear Iran’s nuclear activities with IAEA offi- contacts with the agency cannot be very gional countries. Hatami said the current situation was special as the enemies had deal between Iran and six other countries cials as part of the review. effective.” imposed sanctions on Iran’s military in a bid to weaken it, pledg- through contacts with the International Qassemi, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Without elaborating, he said problems Mediation between Tehran, Riyadh ing to continue boosting the country’s missile program. Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Press spokesman, was asked about that trip dur- could, however, be caused in certain ar- “The enemy is stationed in the region, brings weapons to the TV reported. ing the briefing. eas. Responding to a question about poten- region and tries to damage the country’s defense might, but we The IAEA monitors the technical as- “The contacts of the US government or In the face of the US administration’s tial mediation by third countries between have set objectives in our plan to counter the move,” he added. pects of the deal – officially titled the representatives with the IAEA are their hostile posture toward the JCPOA, Iran Iran and Saudi Arabia, Qassemi said Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action own business. If they are making efforts has taken up the task of safeguarding the had never rejected mediation, but added (JCPOA) – and regularly reports Iranian to cause problems for the JCPOA, I think deal. that Riyadh had to take more action for compliance. It has consistently confirmed that is a futile and pointless effort, since any enhancement of ties to materialize. Iran’s compliance with its end of the bar- the Agency will at the end of the day fol- Saudi Arabia-Iran ties He said some parties, which he did gain in several reports so far. low its responsibilities with precision, not name, had come forward, offering to Mohammad Ali Rajabi The administration of US President and future reports will [continue to] con- Asked about relations with Saudi Ara- mediate but had not been practically suc- Donald Trump has been skeptical of the firm this [Iranian compliance] as well,” bia, which has severed diplomatic ties cessful. deal, however, and while it has twice cer- Qassemi said. with Iran but is in contact with the Islam- Qassemi seemed to put the blame on tified Iranian commitment in notifications Iran reached the deal with the US, Brit- ic Republic over this year’s Hajj pilgrim- Saudi Arabia for the failure. “The Riyadh to the US Congress, it has reportedly been ain, France, China, Russia and Germany age, Qassemi said a set of actions had government has to learn the realities of seeking ways to potentially avoid future in July 2015. Under the deal, Iran applied been taken by Iran toward the enhance- the region and try harder,” he said. Leader’s top aide: Tehran welcomes Riyadh’s change of behavior

Iranian Leader’s top aide for international affairs Ali Ak- Nimr’s execution caused international outrage and bar Velayati underlined that Tehran welcomes Riyadh’s sparked anti-Saudi demonstrations in many other coun- change of approach and behavior towards the regional tries. issues and Iran. Riyadh has been attempting to rock the boat in rela- “What is emphasized is the regional countries’ good tions between Iran and other world states and has spared neighborliness and if a country doesn’t abide by the prin- no efforts to pressure Tehran. ciples of good neighborliness, but later returns to the In April 2017, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took right path, the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes it,” Saudi Arabia responsible for the darkened relations be- Velayati told reporters in Tehran on Monday when asked tween the two countries, saying that the root cause of Ri- about the Saudi officials’ demand from Iraq to mediate yadh’s hostile behavior should be found in its failures in for improvement of Riyadh-Tehran ties, Tasnim News Syria and Yemen. Agency wrote. “The fault is not on us but the distance has been cre- “The Islamic Republic of Iran always welcomes good ated by them (the Saudis),” Rouhani told reporters in a neighborliness among neighbors so that trans-regional TASNIM press conference in Tehran. parties and their mercenaries don’t find an opportunity to Saudi Arabia to reduce tensions. King Salman had also He referred to the tragic Mina incident on Septem- interfere in regional issues,” he added. earlier raised such a demand. We believe that friendly ber 24, 2015, the execution of prominent cleric Sheikh Earlier this month, an Iraqi minister said that Saudi relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia will help the re- Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia in January 2016 and the Arabia has asked Baghdad to play a mediatory role be- gional security,” al-Araji said in a meeting with his Ira- angry people’s attack against the Saudi embassy in Teh- tween Riyadh and Tehran to resume bilateral relations. nian counterpart Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli in Tehran. ran (which was condemned by the Iranian officials), and Iraqi Interior Minister Qassim al-Araji, who was on a Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran in said, “Apparently, Saudi Arabia had prepared itself for visit to Saudi Arabia recently, announced that the Saudi January 2016 following demonstrations held in front of an incorrect behavior towards Iran whose root cause, I officials have urged the government of Prime Minister its embassy in Tehran and its consulate in Mashhad by personally think, can be traced in its failures in Syria and Haider al-Abadi to mediate between Riyadh and Tehran. angry demonstrators protesting the execution of promi- Yemen.” “Mohammed bin Salman (the Saudi crown prince) of- nent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Riyadh on Janu- He, meantime, underscored Iran’s readiness to im- ficially demanded me that Iraq mediate between Iran and ary 2. prove ties with Riyadh. Aug. 22, 2017 PM plan Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation on Monday, saying he planned to run for the presidency in 3 a hotly-contested poll in the ex-Soviet Central Asian country in October. International

Britain confident of moving China urges halt to second phase of Brexit talks Britain is confident its Brexit talks with the European Union are making sufficient progress to move to a second phase in the negotiations to discuss its future partnership by October, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Mon- to US-South Korea military drills day. hina on Monday renewed its call for the United States and South CKorea to suspend joint military drills as the two nations began annual war games that have infuriated nuclear-armed Pyongyang. “The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly sensitive and fragile, which requires the directly concerned parties including South Korea and US to make joint efforts to ease the tensions,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, AFP reported. Beijing has pleaded for a resumption of AFP long-dormant six-nation talks to peace- fully resolve the nuclear crisis. She also told reporters the government was considering a “We don’t think the joint exercise will “number of precedents” in its proposals on how to resolve any be conducive to easing the current ten- future disputes after Britain leaves the jurisdiction of the Eu- sions. And we urge relevant parties to seri- ropean Court of Justice in March 2019, Reuters reported. ously consider the suspension-for-suspen- “We are confident that we will have made sufficient pro- sion proposal,” Hua told a regular press gress by October to be able to advance talks to the next briefing. phase,” she said. “That’s our aim and we are confident that we Tens of thousands of South Korean and are working at pace and will be able to get to that point ... The US troops are taking part in the “Ulchi prime minister’s view is that both sides need to demonstrate a Freedom Guardian” joint military drills, a dynamic and flexible approach to each round of the negotia- largely computer-simulated exercise that tions.” runs for two weeks in the South. Around 17,500 US troops will partici- pate in the drills – a cutback from last year. LEE SANG-HAK/YONHAP VIA REUTERS Floods, landslides kill When asked to comment on the troop A US Air Force U-2 Dragon Lady takes part in a drill at Osan Airbase in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on August 21, 2017. cutback, Hua said that China has “noted more than 800 across South Asia the reduction of the US forces,” but reiter- Only weeks ago it said it was consider- That sparked a grim warning by Presi- North Korea tested ballistic missiles at ated that military exercises would not help ing firing a salvo of missiles towards the dent Donald Trump that Washington could an unprecedented rate during 2016. The Widespread floods have killed more than 800 people and dis- to reduce tensions. US Pacific territory of Guam. rain “fire and fury” on the North. country has been under UN sanctions placed over a million in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, with aid The annual drills are viewed by Pyong- Pyongyang tested two intercontinental Leader Kim Jong-un last week delayed since 2006 over its nuclear and ballistic workers warning of severe food shortages and water-borne yang as a highly provocative rehearsal for ballistic missiles (ICBM) last month that the Guam strike plan, but warned it could missile tests. diseases as rains continue to lash the affected areas. invasion, and it always meets them with appeared to bring much of the US within go ahead depending on Washington’s next It says it needs such weapons to defend Seasonal monsoon rains, a lifeline for farmers across South threats of strong military counteraction. range. move. itself against US aggression. Asia, typically cause loss of life and property every year be- tween July and September, but officials say this year’s flood- ing is the worst in several years, Reuters reported. US-led strikes kill 27 civilians At least 115 people have died and more than 5.7 million are Ten sailors missing after US affected in Bangladesh as floods submerged more than a third destroyer collision off Singapore in Syria’s Raqqa of the low-lying and densely populated country. Ten US sailors were missing and five injured in the Spratly Islands, sparking a furious re- US-led coalition strikes killed 27 civil- The coalition, which operates in both after their destroyer collided with a tanker sponse from Beijing. ians in part of Syria’s Raqqa city held Syria and neighboring Iraq, says it takes near Singapore Monday, tearing a large hole The vessel is named after US Senator by the Daesh, the so-called Syrian Ob- all possible measures to avoid civilian in its hull in the second accident involving John McCain’s father and grandfather, who servatory for Human Rights monitor casualties. an American warship in two months. were both admirals in the US Navy. said on Monday. In August, it acknowledged the The badly damaged USS John S. Mc- President Donald Trump initially said Seven children were among the deaths of 624 civilians in its strikes in dead in the Sunday strikes that “hit the Syria and Iraq since 2014, but rights densely-populated Al-Badu area in the center of the city,” the observa- tory director Rami Abdel Rahman AMIT DAVE/REUTERS said on Monday, “The water level has gradually dropped. The flood situation AFP reported. will improve if it does not rain upstream any further,” Sazzad Once a terrorist Hossain, executive engineer of Bangladesh’s Flood Forecast- stronghold, more ing and Warning Center, told Reuters. than half of Raqqa With some rivers running above danger levels, 225 bridges city has been tak- have been damaged in Bangladesh, disrupting food and medi- en by the Syrian cine supplies to people displaced from their homes, said aid Democratic Forc- workers. es, an alliance of In the Indian state of Assam bordering Bangladesh, at least Kurdish and Arab 180 people have been killed in the past few weeks. ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP armed groups that AFP Torrential rains have also hit the northeastern states of The USS John S. McCain with a hole on its port side entered the city in Picture for representational purpose only Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur, killing at least 30 Cain limped into port in the city-state in the “that’s too bad” in response to reporters’ June. people. The floods have since killed more than 350 animals, afternoon under escort after the dramatic shouted questions about the collision, as The SDF is heavily backed by the groups say the number is much high- including 24 endangered one-horned rhinoceros, five ele- predawn accident, which sent water flooding he arrived back at the White House after US-led coalition, which has regularly er. phants and a tiger. “We are facing a wildlife disaster,” Assam into the vessel, AFP reported. a holiday. He followed up with a Tweet: launched airstrikes that have reportedly The UN’s humanitarian point Forest Minister Pramila Rani Brahma told Reuters. A major search involving ships and air- “Thoughts & prayers are w/ our sailors killed scores of civilians. man for Syria, Jan Egeland, has said Meanwhile, in the eastern state of Bihar, at least 253 people craft from three countries was launched for aboard the where search & rescue efforts are According to the Britain-based ob- Daesh-held territory in Raqqa is now lost their lives where incessant rains washed away crops, de- the missing sailors after the collision with underway.” servatory, at least 125 civilians have “the worst place” in the war-torn stroyed roads and disrupted power supplies. the Alnic MC in the Singapore Strait, near Ridzwan Rahmat, a naval expert at Janes been killed in a week of US-led strikes country. A senior official in Bihar’s disaster management depart- the Strait of Malacca. by IHS Markit, said initial indications sug- on Raqqa city, including those who died The UN estimates there are up to ment, Anirudh Kumar, said nearly half a million people have The US Navy said there was “significant gested the US warship may not have been on Sunday. 25,000 civilians trapped inside the city, been provided with shelter. damage to the hull” of the warship in the lat- obeying rules designed to separate maritime “There are civilians killed each day with food and fuel supplies short and In Nepal, 141 people were confirmed dead, while thousands est collision, which led to flooding of crew traffic passing through the Singapore Strait. in coalition strikes... the closer the prohibitively expensive. of survivors returned to their semi-destroyed homes. sleeping areas, machinery and communica- With the accident coming soon after the fighting gets to the densely-populated Tens of thousands of civilians have “Their homes are in a state of total destruction,” said Fran- tions rooms. freedom of navigation operation, it raised city center, the more civilian deaths also fled the city, risking Daesh sniper cis Markus from International Federation of Red Cross and “Damage control efforts by the crew halt- questions “whether there is crew fatigue set- there are,” Abdel Rahman said. fire and landmines in the process. Red Crescent Societies. ed further flooding,” they said in a statement ting in, whether or not the tempo of opera- after the John S. McCain arrived at Changi tions by the US Navy in this region is getting Naval Base in the city-state. too fast,” he told AFP. America First protesters face off with opponents in California A helicopter took four of the injured to a Singapore, Malaysia and US ships and Singapore hospital with injuries that were aircraft were all involved in the hunt for the Anti-immigration demonstrators faced off lottesville which killed a woman when a sus- not life-threatening while the fifth did not missing sailors. against a much bigger crowd of counter-pro- pected white nationalist drove into the crowd. need further medical attention, the navy The tanker involved in the collision, testers in the Southern California town of La- Dozens of anti-immigration protesters ral- said. which was used for transporting oil and guna Beach, as police kept the opposing sides lying behind President Donald Trump’s cam- The 505-foot (154-meter) vessel could chemicals and weighed over 30,000 gross apart. paign slogan “America First” were escorted by still sail under its own power after the colli- tons, sustained some damage but no crew Around 2,500 people in total showed up for police through opposing demonstrators who sion with the Liberian-flagged tanker, which were injured, and Singapore said there was what became a raucous shouting match but did chanted: “Shame” and “No white supremacy”. was slightly bigger at 600 feet. Two other no oil pollution. not descend into the kind of violence seen at Trump’s opponents blame him for boosting vessels escorted it into port, AFP journalists In June seven American sailors died when this month’s clashes at a white nationalist rally far-right sentiment, forcing the president to saw. the destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one person deny he tacitly supports racists. The warship had been heading for a rou- a Philippine-flagged cargo ship in a busy was killed. Police later declared the remaining protesters SANDY HUFFAKER/REUTERS tine stop in Singapore after carrying out a channel not far from Yokosuka, a gateway Police erected barricades along the ocean- an unlawful assembly and forced them to dis- Demonstrator Johnny Benitez (L) faces off with peace activist Jared Hughes during an America First rally in “freedom of navigation operation” in South to container ports in Tokyo and nearby Yo- front to deter car attacks like the one in Char- perse. They made three arrests. Laguna Beach, California, on August 20, 2017. China Sea earlier in August around a reef kohama. Aug. 22, 2017 Iron ore production Iran produced 12.49 million tons of iron ore concentrate during March 21- July 22, registering a 28.3-percent growth compared to the figure for the 4 same period last year, IRNA reported. Domestic Economy

SPECIAL NEWS Domestic Economy Desk BMI opens branch in Iraq’s Najaf EEuropeurope bbecomesecomes Bank Melli of Iran (BMI) opened a branch in the city of Najaf in Iraq in a bid to resolve the problems of the Iranian pilgrims, a senior banking official said. The BMI’s branch in Najaf will solve one of the major prob- lems of the Iranian pilgrims who visit the holy shrine of Imam IIran’sran’s ppetchemetchem customercustomer Ali (PBUH), the first Shia Imam said Iran’s Consul General Abderrahim Sadatifar in the bank’s opening ceremony on Monday, Fars News Agency reported. In relevant remarks in mid-June, Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi underlined that his country will assist Iraq in fur- ther strengthening its economy. “As we brotherly stood beside the Iraqi nation and govern- ment in fighting against terrorism and other crises, we will stand beside our brothers in the economic field too,” Masjedi told Iranian and Iraqi economic activists in Baghdad. Calling on the Iranian firms to increase their presence in Iraq, he asked the Iraqi officials to pave the ground for their participation in Iraq’s development by removing the obsta- cles. His remarks came after Secretary General of Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce Hamid Hosseini underlined that $500 million has been allocated for financing projects undertaken by Iranian companies in neighboring Iraq. “Iraq is a big regional market for Iran and it needs differ- ent products and services, specially railway construction, tel- ecommunications, electricity, oil swap and tourism develop- ment,” Hosseini said. He underlined that Iran’s Resistance Economy Headquar- ters has recently allocated a 500-million-dollar budget to sup- ply the Iranian companies in Iraq. In February, Iran agreed with Iraq to help the Arab country design and build industrial townships in some Iraqi provinces.

IRNA Iran awaits more crude cargoes ran’s petrochemical products have found new custom- Plan of Action (JCPOA), Shana reported. chemical products were exported to Europe during the ers in European countries in the post-sanction era. They Obstacles to exporting petrochemicals have been re- sanction era. to officially resume Iinclude Spain, Turkey, Romania and Belgium. moved with the implementation of the JCPOA. Iran’s top customers for petrochemical products are Production and export of petrochemical products is said to Iran exported 7.1 million tons of petrochemical India, Turkey, China and Belgium, according to the have witnessed a growth of 25 percent since the implementa- products valued at $3.4 billion in the four months from Managing Director of Mahabad Petrochemical Compa- Caspian deal soon tion of Iran nuclear deal, also known as Joint Comprehensive March 21. Only 10 percent-14 percent of Iran petro- ny Mohsen Majidi.

Iran is set to receive another nine crude oil cargoes as part of a Caspian oil swap deal which is due to officially resume soon, government officials said. Total boosts business with $7.5b Maersk oil deal Hamid Hosseini, the director of the north region at Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company, said official Total is buying Maersk’s oil and gas Moller Maersk will get $4.95 billion in resumption will start once there is enough crude oil, Platts re- business in a $7.45-billion deal which Total shares and Total will assume $2.5 ported on Monday. the French energy major said would billion of Maersk Oil’s debt. “So far, three tankers have entered Neka port. Nine other strengthen its operations in the North Maersk said it plans to return a “mate- tankers are on the way so that the stocks reach a level that can Sea and boost earnings and cash flow. rial portion of the value of the received be pumped into the pipeline and swap operations can start of- Maersk is in talks with Iran to develop Total S.A. shares” to shareholders in ficially,” Hosseini was quoted as saying. the oil layer of the South Pars Gas Field, 2018 and 2019 in the form of extraordi- Iran’s swap involves receiving crude oil from neighboring which is shared with Qatar. nary dividend, share buyback or distri- Caspian states at Neka port on the Caspian Sea to be processed Last month, Total signed a major bution of shares in Total. at its northern Tabriz and Tehran refineries. In return, Iran de- deal with Iran to develop the gas part of Soren Skou, who took charge of Mae- livers the same amount and quality of oil to customers of ex- South Pars, Reuters reported. rsk last year, has embarked on a major porting countries from its southern oil terminal of Kharg in the For Danish company A.P. Moller restructuring to concentrate on its trans- Persian Gulf. Maersk, the sale of Maersk Oil, with re- port and logistics businesses and sepa- serves equivalent to around one billion rate its energy operations in the face of a barrels of oil, fits with a strategy of fo- drop in income. cusing on its shipping business and other Skou said he had not decided whether activities announced last year. to take up the offer of a seat on the Total The world’s top oil companies have board. been back on the takeover trail over the Analysts at Jefferies said the price was last year, helped by signs of a recovery five percent ahead of its estimates and 18 in the oil market. percent more than consensus of $6.3 bil- Total expects its biggest oil deal since REUTERS lion. it acquired Elf in 2000 to generate finan- downturn stronger than some of its ri- current prices of $50 per barrel most The Danish oil company has access to cial synergies of more than $400 million vals. majors are simply struggling to bal- high-quality fields in the Norwegian and per year, in particular by combining as- “It was time for us to do what a real ance their books. UK North Sea. sets in the North Sea. oil and gas company would do in a pe- Pouyanne said that Total had proposed Maersk has a 8.44 percent stake in Total has been betting on new rather riod such as this when prices are lower a deal to Maersk as an alternative to the giant Johan Sverdrup project led by than mature fields in the North Sea and and costs are down. Either launch new floating the business. Norway’s Statoil which is expected to the acquisition gives it further econo- projects or acquire new reserves at at- “There was a debate within Maersk start pumping 440,000 barrels per day in IRNA mies of scale by making it the second tractive prices,” Total Chief Executive and they finally accepted given that it 2019, rising to 660,000 bpd by 2022. The arrangement ended in 2010 following a decision by for- largest player in the region. Patrick Pouyanne told reporters. was attractive and also the fact that an Maersk is currently developing the mer oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi, who argued that Iran was The deal illustrates Total’s strategy The purchase also signals some oil IPO in a tense oil market would not be a Culzean gas field which is expected to losing a few dollars on each barrel. Iran also complained that of using a strong balance sheet to ac- majors are prepared to invest to re- right move,” he said, adding that no oth- start production in 2019 and which could the poor quality of the oil received under the swap was damag- quire attractive assets from competitors plenish reserves and boost production, er oil major was bidding for the assets. supply up to five percent of Britain’s gas ing its northern refineries. having emerged from the prolonged oil anticipating an oil price recovery. With Under the terms of the deal, A.P. demand. “Once there are enough oil consignments to start with, swap operations will be launched at a volume of 90,000 to 110,000 bpd,” Hosseini said. Foreign funds for Iran’s oil sector... “Swap operations in this region has not been carried out around seven years. In order to prevent erosion and damage From Page 1 I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for in the line, we were carrying out reverse crude oil transfer,” the personal support that you have given to me since my he added. Approximately $3 billion of that will go toward gen- appointment as secretary general.” Iran has previously received three crude oil cargoes from erating work for Iranian companies, Zanganeh said. President Hassan Rouhani came out in full support Turkmenistan. It could also resume its swap arrangement with Some 27 phases of South Pars will be operational by of Zanganeh in his speech to the Parliament in which Kazakhstan and Russia — the two countries that have been in spring of 2019, he added. he defended his cabinet picks. talks with Iran to this end. Iran needs approximately $200 billion for oil and He underlined that the world was already look- Separately, Iran also hoped on Saturday that it will be able gas production, development and refineries and rough- ing up to the veteran Iranian minister who has to begin crude oil sales to Russia under an oil-for-goods deal ly 65 to 75 percent of that needs to come from foreign served in various positions in almost all adminis- by early October. investment, he said. trations after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. “The contract for sales of 100,000 bpd of oil to Russia was Iran is seeking to attract $60 billion in foreign in- Zanganeh is specifically credited at home for what finalized around two to three months ago. And we hope that vestment for the oil industry by March 2018, Zan- many see as his success in raising Iran’s oil and gas purchase of oil by Russia from Iran starts as of late Septem- ganeh said. production capacity. ber or early October,” Amir Hossein Zamani-Nia, deputy oil Less than 30 percent of Iran’s 700 billion barrels He also specifically drew cheers from the lawmak- minister for international and commercial affairs, was quoted of oil reserves are currently extractable, according to ers for strengthening Iran’s ranking in OPEC. as saying. Zanganeh. “Currently you are the longest serving minister “The value of 50 percent of the mentioned export consign- On Sunday, Secretary General of the Organization in OPEC and, therefore, the most experienced, your ments will be paid to Iran in cash and the rest will be used of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Ma- reappointment is a vote for continuity, stability and to finance imports of Russian goods,” he added, with Iran to hammad Sanusi Barkindo, in a letter congratulated further productive collaboration between OPEC receive payment for the oil in euros. Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on his re- SHANA and non-OPEC,” Shana further quoted Barkindo as The deputy oil minister underlined the significance of the appointment. this role over the coming years.” telling Zanganeh in his letter. deal and said it would “expand Iran-Russia cooperation in all He wrote in his letter, “On behalf of all of the staff at the The letter continued, “I have no doubt that the construc- “I am delighted that OPEC will continue to benefit sectors”. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, please tive relationship that exists between the Islamic Republic of from your vast reservoir of knowledge and rich fountain permit me, Your Excellency, to wish you ever success in Iran and OPEC will continue to flourish during your tenure. of wisdom for many years to come.” Aug. 22, 2017 Oil dips Oil dipped on Monday, weighed down by rising US output although a 13-percent fall in US crude inventories since March indicated a gradually 5 tightening market. 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Global stock funds log first net Banks Banks helphelp toto drivedrive outflow from South Korea in 32 weeks Global equity funds have posted a net outflow from South Korea for the first time in 32 weeks amid foreign investors’ massive profit-tak- ggloballobal ggrowthrowth iinn ddividendsividends ing, industry data showed. Four international funds investing in South Korea withdrew a net 55 billion won (US48.3 million) from the local stock market in the week to Wednesday, according to the data by Mirae Asset Daewoo Securities Co. and global fund tracker Emerging Portfolio Fund Re- search, Yonhap reported. The equity funds, including US investment fund Global Emerg- ing Markets, had been chalking up net inflows into South Korea since the second week of January after recording an outflow the prior week. The net outflow was attributed mainly to a withdrawal of $1.6 bil- lion from funds investing in emerging-market stocks. “The amount accounted for a mere 0.15 percent of the global funds’ total assets, but it marked the first net outflow from South Ko- rea since January,” said Lee Jin-ho, a researcher at Mirae Asset Dae- woo Securities. “It is seen as a temporary phenomenon stemming from foreigners’ profit-taking.” Offshore investors, the main driver of the local stock market’s bull run in the first half, started to take profits from gains in large caps from late July, ushering in a short period of market correction.

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he pace of global dividend growth grew in the sec- “The global economy is very supportive for company for underlying dividend growth 5.5 percent to $1.208 ond quarter of 2017, thanks to more evenly spread profits and dividends at present,” said Alex Crooke, head trillion, up $50 billion from an initial forecast in January. Teconomic growth and a revival in banking sector of global equity income at Janus Henderson. US payouts grew 5.9 percent in the second quarter in payouts following years of stress tests that have eroded Financial institutions accounted for half of global div- underlying terms, while the figure for emerging market profitability. idend growth in the quarter, the report said, with bank dividends was up 27.1 percent, boosted by higher earn- yonhapnews.co Underlying dividends — excluding special dividends dividends growing nearly nine percent year-on-year to ings among metals miners. and adjusting for currency movements and other fac- $58.4 billion. In Europe, underlying growth increased 5.8 percent, During the one-week period, funds investing in Asia, excluding tors — rose 7.2 percent in the three months to the end The sector was ‘continuing to normalize its profit- with 86 percent of companies either raising or holding Japan, and global emerging market funds registered a net outflow of of June compared with the same period in 2016, the ability’, Crooke said, after dividends had been knocked their dividend year-on-year. Commerzbank was a nota- $1.2 billion and $300 million, respectively. strongest quarterly performance since late 2015, ft.com by requirements to build up capital levels for post-crisis ble exception: It cancelled its payment as it undergoes In contrast, funds investing in stocks and bonds in advanced econ- reported. stress tests. a costly restructuring. omies reported a net inflow of $300 million and $3.6 billion each, The rise was partly driven by ‘more synchronized’ “Once you’ve rebuilt capital to levels that the regu- In the UK, underlying dividend growth was 6.1 per- according to the data. global economic growth, according to the Janus Hender- lators are happy with, then surplus cash is either being cent, better than Janus Henderson had been expecting. son Global Dividend Index report. Last year, low earn- invested into growing the business or being returned to This was because of a ‘significant improvement’ in pay- ings and uncertainty over the US election caused a sharp shareholders,” he said. outs in the mining sector, the report said, citing a move Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals slowdown in US dividend growth, dragging down the Regulators in June gave US banks the go-ahead to pay by Glencore to restore its dividend. overall figure. out almost all their earnings to shareholders this year, an Nevertheless, headline UK dividends fell 3.5 percent make world safer place But in the second quarter this year, dividends grew estimated total of almost $100 billion from the six largest to $32.5 billion, largely because of falls in the value of across all regions to give an overall US dollar figure that banks. sterling against the dollar after the UK voted to leave the Britain’s post-Brexit trade deals will make the world a safer place by was up 5.4 per cent year-on-year. Overall, Janus Henderson upgraded its 2017 forecast EU in June 2016. forging new alliances between the UK and other nations, the coun- try’s new chief trade negotiator said. Crawford Falconer warns of the ‘destructive political consequenc- es of closed markets’ as he calls on the G20 to break down trade bar- riers to boost global security. Diesel scandal is a risk to German economy Writing in The Telegraph, he said the UK will lead efforts to avoid conflict by creating new trade allies around the world. The emissions scandal ensnaring German overall economic development.” Falconer will this week begin work alongside Liam Fox at the De- carmakers is a risk to Europe’s largest German politicians and car bosses partment for International Trade and act as an ambassador for new economy, the finance ministry said. agreed earlier in August to overhaul en- deals. In its monthly report, the ministry gine software on 5.3 million diesel cars to named the issue, which broke out almost cut pollution and try to repair the indus- two years ago after Volkswagen admitted try’s battered reputation. to cheating US diesel emissions tests, as EU antitrust regulators are also inves- a threat to Germany along with Britain’s tigating allegations of a cartel among a decision to leave the European Union group of German carmakers, a measure and protectionist trade policies by the US that could result in hefty fines for the government, The Guardian reported. companies. But it has said it was impossible to put In April, Volkswagen was ordered to a figure on the potential damage it could pay a $2.8-billion criminal penalty in the cause. United States for cheating on emissions The car industry is Germany’s biggest reutereutersmedia.netrsmediaia.ne net tests. The company is also paying $1.5 bil- exporter and provides about 800,000 moment.” industrial sector to continue its upswing lion in a civil case brought by the US gov- jobs. Strong household and state spend- also in the third quarter, pointing to robust ernment and spending $11 billion to buy “Risks linked to how Brexit will shape ing provided most of the impulse for the orders and strong business sentiment in- back cars and offer other compensation. telegraph.co.uk out and future US trade policies remain,” German economy in the second quarter dicators. Back in Europe, German carmakers Liam Fox (L) and Crawford Falconer the ministry said. when growth was measured at 0.6 per- But the diesel crisis could cloud the VW, Audi, Porsche, Mercedes and BMW “In addition, the so-called diesel crisis cent. Weaker net foreign trade dampened German growth outlook, it said, adding: face questions over whether they collud- Setting out his plan, he wrote: “There is a powerful political should be classified as a new risk to the growth, as exports grew strongly less than “Given the importance of the automotive ed to bring down the cost of components and security element to getting this right. History is littered with German economy even though its ef- imports. industry [the diesel crisis) must be classi- —including some used to control diesel instances of the destructive political consequences of closed mar- fects are not possible to quantify at the The ministry said it expected the fied in the medium term as a risk to the emissions. kets.”

UK to ban all cold calling on pensions Major Currencies CurrencyTo USD Currency To USD A crackdown on pension scams has been outlined by Conduct Authority (FCA), has an active employment scammers may see these savers as a particular target. the UK government, as figures show fraudsters tricked link with the individual, or is an authorized master trust. The government-backed Pension Wise service gives Turkish Lira 0.2840 Chinese Yuan 0.1498 savers out of nearly £5 million collectively in the first Victims of pension scams stand to lose nearly guidance to people about their options. five months of 2017. £15,000 on average, as fraudsters try to encourage sav- The UK government said new figures show nearly Euro 1.1738 UAE Dirham 0.2722 Actions include a ban on all cold calling in relation ers to part with their money with false promises of low- £5 million was obtained by scammers targeting private to pensions, including emails and texts; a tightening risk, high-return investment opportunities. pensions in the first five months of 2017. It is estimated British Pound 1.2860 Kuwaiti Dinar 3.3083 of rules to stop scammers opening fraudulent pension The pension freedoms give people a wider range that £43 million has been unlawfully obtained since schemes; and tougher action to halt the transfer of mon- of options as to how they use their savings, and some April 2014. Australian Dollar 0.7919 Iraqi Dinar 0.0008 ey from occupational pension schemes into fraudulent The minister for pensions and financial inclusion, accounts, according to independent.co.uk. GGuy Opperman, said: “Today’s figures highlight the Japanese 100 Yen 0.0091 Saudi Riyal 0.2666 There will be two exemptions from the proposed ban eextent to which people’s savings are being targeted and to ensure legitimate businesses are not affected — calls sstolen through elaborate hoaxes — leaving them with where consumers have expressly requested information llittle opportunity to build up their savings again. That is from a firm and those where an existing client relation- wwhy we are introducing tough new measures for those Major Commodities ship exists. wwho scam. The UK government is also tackling scammers by en- “If people have saved for a private pension, we want suring that only active companies, which produce regu- tto protect them. This is the biggest lifesaving that indi- Crude Oil $48.37 Silver $16.97 lar, up-to-date accounts, can register pension schemes. vviduals normally make over many years of hard work. Limiting transfers of pension pots from one occupa- “By tackling these scammers, people should know Gold $1292.90 Platinum $983.00 tional scheme to another will mean trustees must check tthat cold calling, apart from exceptional circumstances, Copper $2.96 Wheat $414.25 their receiving scheme is regulated by the Financial independent.co.ukindependentcot.co.uk iis banned.” Aug. 22, 2017 Rare butterfly in Scotland A rare species of the endangered white-letter hairstreak butterfly has been spotted in Scotland for the first time since it was last seen in 1884, the 6 media reported. Cultural Heritage & Environment

Global warming, habitat conversion curb biodiversity HHowow ffutureuture vvolcanicolcanic eeruptionsruptions Nature is becoming homogenized, researchers at the Univer- sity of California (UC), Davis, claimed in a new study. The research, published in the journal Global Change Biol- ogy, suggested the combination of climate change and habitat conversion are curbing biodiversity and encouraging uniform- wwillill iimpactmpact EEarth’sarth’s oozonezone llayerayer ity, UPI wrote. When a team of researchers he next major volcanic previous estimates.” surveyed the mix eruption could kick-start So, why is this shift happen- of plant and bird Tchemical reactions that ing so much later than previ- species in Costa would seriously damage the plan- ously thought? Rican forests, et’s already besieged ozone layer. Eric Klobas, lead author and they found cer- The extent of damage to the Harvard chemical physics PhD tain species tend ozone layer that results from a candidate, said, “Previous esti- to thrive in wet- large, explosive eruption de- mates did not take into account ter sections of the pends on complex atmospheric certain natural sources of halo- UPI forest, while oth- chemistry, including the levels gen gases, such as very-short Costa Rica’s long-tailed manakin prefers wet sections of the forest. It’s one of several spe- ers prefer drier of human-made emissions in the lived bromocarbons originating cies losing out as more and more of the forest sections. atmosphere, sciencedaily.com from marine plankton and mi- is converted to agricultural fields. Among open wrote. croalgae.” acreage, where Using sophisticated chemi- Accounting for these emis- forests have been converted to farmland, researchers found the cal modeling, researchers from sions fine-tunes the timing of the species with a preference for dry sites where omnipresent — Harvard University and the Uni- shift from eruptions that cause thriving in both wet and dry fields. versity of Maryland explored ozone depletion to eruptions Lead study author Daniel Karp, an assistant professor of what would happen to the ozone that increase the thickness of the conservation biology at UC Davis, said, “Across Central and layer in response to large-scale ozone layer. South America, we are seeing large areas being converted volcanic eruptions over the re- These natural sources of bro- from native forest to agriculture, and droughts are becoming mainder of this century and in mine become especially impor- more frequent. several different greenhouse gas sciencedaily.com tant in the lower stratosphere Volcanic eruptions could result in ozone depletion until 2070 or beyond, despite declining concentrations of “Both of these global pressures are favoring the same spe- emission scenarios. human-made CFCs. after concentrations of human- cies and threatening the same species. Earth’s stratosphere is still emitted CFCs have declined. “This means we may be losing biodiversity faster than we recovering from the historic facilitate the chemical conver- But exactly when this transi- human-made CFCs. Klobas said, “We found that previously thought when we were studying climate change release of chlorofluorocarbons sion of chlorine into more reac- tion happens — from eruptions David Wilmouth, who direct- the concentration of bromine and habitat conversion individually.” (CFCs) and other ozone-deplet- tive forms that destroy ozone. that deplete ozone to eruptions ed the research and is a project from natural, very short-lived Karp and his colleagues found the conversion of forests to ing chemicals. Researchers have long known that increase ozone layer thick- scientist at the Harvard John A. organic compounds is critically farms is proving most harmful to a variety of tropical bird spe- Even though CFCs were that when concentrations of ness — has long been uncertain. Paulson School of Engineering important. cies, including tanagers, manakins and woodcreepers. phased out by the Montreal chlorine from human-produced Previous research has put the and Applied Sciences and the “Even small, part-per-trillion Meanwhile, blackbirds, doves and sparrows are adapting Protocol 30 years ago, levels of CFCs are high, ozone depletion window of the transition any- Department of Chemistry and changes in the amount of bro- relatively easily to the open fields. chlorine-containing molecules will result following a volcanic where between 2015 to 2040. Chemical Biology, said, “Our mine from these sources can Karp added, “Now that we know this, we know what to fo- in the atmosphere are still el- eruption. The Harvard researchers model results show that the vul- mean the difference between a cus on from a conservation perspective.” evated. When levels of chlorine from found that volcanic eruptions nerability of the ozone column late 21st century volcanic erup- Researchers hope to encourage the targeted preservation of Explosive volcanic eruptions CFCs are low, volcanic erup- could result in ozone depletion to large volcanic eruptions will tion resulting in ozone column wetter sections of forests, and persuade farmers working on that inject large quantities of sul- tions can actually increase the until 2070 or beyond, despite likely continue late in to the 21st depletion or ozone column en- traditionally wet acreage to preserve small sections of forest fur dioxide into the stratosphere thickness of the ozone layer. declining concentrations of century, significantly later than hancement.” on their land. Aug. 22, 2017 Effects of cholera vaccines Researchers found that cholera vaccines are highly effective in adults but less so in young children, who are at particular risk of death from the 7 disease. Health

Study revives argument over mammogram screening Yearly mammograms starting at the age of 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, US researchers reported in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian, found that yearly mammograms aged between 40 and 80 could cut breast cancer deaths by 40 percent, reuters.com wrote. That compares with a reduction of 23 to 31 percent with current screening recommendations that call for less frequent screening start- ing at an older age. Arleo said, “Screening annually starting at age of 40 is the best strat- egy to prevent an early breast cancer death.” Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer So- ciety, said, “The argument that annual mammograms save more lives is not new.” Most groups, including the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the US Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed panel, acknowledge that screening beginning at age of 40 will catch more breast cancers, but screening at this age also produces the most false positive results.

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onset of Alzheimer’s npr.org The new study used data from computer models to compare the ben- efits and risks of three screening regimens. ementia has no cure, but it is slightly more women than men. found that becoming bilingual could Run regularly The model suggested yearly mammograms starting at 40 reduced possible to slow the onset of The exact cause of Alzheimer’s re- delay the onset of Alzheimer’s by breast cancer deaths by 40 percent, compared with about 31 percent if Dsymptoms of the most com- mains unknown. four years. Jogging for at least 24km a week all women followed the ACS recommendations and 23 percent if they mon type of the debilitating condition But factors thought to increase The researchers discovered that was found by research published in the followed the Task Force. — Alzheimer’s disease — through your risk include increasing age, a the ability to speak more than one Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease to re- Yearly mammograms starting at 40 would also lead to the most diet and taking up certain hobbies. family history of the condition, previ- language could slow down cognitive duce your risk by 40 percent. Running women being called back to doctors’ offices for false alarms and biop- The most common type of demen- ous severe head injuries and lifestyle aging. between 7.2km and 12.3km per week sies that turn out to be negative, the team found. tia is Alzheimer’s disease, which af- factors and conditions associated also provided a six percent reduction. Brawley said for a 40-year-old woman who starts mammography fects roughly 850,000 people in the with cardiovascular disease like dia- Drink juice now, the odds of having a false positive are ‘very high’ while the odds UK, according to express.co.uk. betes and high blood pressure. Sleep more that the test will save your life ‘are very small’. Symptoms of the condition include However, there are preventive Consuming raw fruit and vegeta- That risk/benefit ratio begins to change around the age of 47 or 48, memory loss, problems with speech measures you can take to slow its on- ble juices was found by a Vanderbilt Lack of sleep has been linked by re- he said, when the benefits of screening outweigh the risk of over diag- and language and a changing person- set. University study to reduce risk of search to a greater risk of Alzheimer’s. nosis. ality. developing Alzheimer’s by 76 per- A process that clears the brain of As a result, the American Cancer Society suggested yearly mammo- According to the National Health Learn another language cent. beta-amyloid — known to play a part grams starting at 45, and moving to every other year at the age of 55. Service (NHS), it is most common in Adding just three servings a week in the condition — is more active The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening eve- people over the age of 65, and affects A study by the University of Ghent to your diet provided the benefits. when we’re asleep. ry two years starting at age of 50. Both groups also recommend that women who are concerned about their risk should be able to start screening earlier.

New technique could protect pelvic floor can also affect men. Medications you from stroke Certain medications can trigger an overactive bladder — including diuret- Stroke symptoms can include While some fatty deposits or dangerous plaques. ics, commonly taken for high blood pres- slurred speech and an inability to plaques can remain stable for Dr. Tara Schiller, from the Uni- sure and opioid painkillers. raise arms above the head. years, other high-risk cases devel- versity of Warwick, is among the How to beat it: Speak to your GP about The medical emergencies are op complications. experts to have discovered that in- possible alternative medication. Exercis- hard to predict but now experts be- These include bleeding into the creasing the wavelength of the in- es can help. lieve they have had a breakthrough, plaque, which leads to the forma- fra-red (IR) radiation used to detect express.co.uk reported. tion of cracks and rupture of the fatty deposit build-up in arteries to Enlarged prostate A stroke occurs when the blood fatty plaque. near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths supply to part of the brain is cut This can result in blockages in allowed the scientists to selectively Men’s prostate glands grow with age, off — which can affect or damage the blood vessels causing a heart identify risk areas. which can put pressure on the bladder brain cells. attack or stroke. Schiller said, “What we have consumerreports.org and result in the urge to wee more often. done uses innovative, materials- How to beat it: Making lifestyle chang- based techniques to assist in the de- es such as stopping drinking liquids an velopment of new diagnostic tools. hour before bed, limiting caffeine intake “This could help us to detect the Reasons why you might be and exercising regularly. threat of an imminent heart attack Those with moderate to severe symp- and result in a decrease of the mor- toms are often prescribed the medication tality rates.” suffering from bladder problems — finasteride or dutasteride. Dr. Karlheinz Peter added, “De- These block the effects of the hormone spite the millions of dollars spent Having a weak or over-active bladder is treatment plan. DHT on the prostate gland. However, po- each year particularly on heart very common — but it’s still a largely ta- tential side-effects include impotence. imaging, there still isn’t a reliable boo subject. Bladder infection way of identifying these unstable At least ten million Brits suffer and Too much tea or coffee plaques. half are too embarrassed to see a doctor Weeing frequently combined with a “We realized when we shine a about it, mirror.co.uk reported. burning sensation can be a sign of a uri- Caffeine in tea and coffee is a diuretic, promedicahealthconnect.org light in the near-infrared wave- A similar number feel — uncomfort- nary tract infection, which happens when which triggers increased urination. length range, that this light is re- able even discussing it with partners, harmful bacteria enter the kidneys, blad- How to beat it: Try switching to decaf- Patients at risk of heart attacks Scientists at the University of flected at a certain wavelength. according to the charity Bladder Health der or urethra. Urine can also be cloudy feinated varieties or ease up on the booze and strokes may now be spotted Warwick, the Baker Institute and “So in a way we can use laser UK. or smell bad. — and avoid — taking in fluids for two earlier thanks to a diagnosis tool Monash University found that light to shine up the plaques that Here are some of the causes and treat- How to beat it: See your GP for a urine hours before going to bed. that uses near-infrared light. when they increased the wave- are unstable and it’s very charac- ments available. test and then a course of antibiotics. The laser can identify high- length of the light currently used teristic.” Too much salt risk arterial plaques, experts have to visualize the plaques they could After further investigation with Diabetes Weak pelvic floor claimed. selectively identify the areas where clinical trials this method of imag- Researchers have discovered that low- Plaques are formed when arter- a rupture was most likely. ing technique could be used to as- Three-quarters of people with diabetes Leaking when you cough, sneeze, ering your salt intake can also lower your ies become blocked by fatty mate- The deposits can lead to blood sess unstable fatty arterial plaques. experience excessive thirst and the need laugh, jump or lift something heavy need to use the loo. Similar to diabetics, rial — a process called atheroscle- clots, heart attacks and strokes. Experts said that it could also be to wee more frequently. probably means you have stress inconti- your kidneys dry to balance the salt in rosis. Current imaging techniques used to monitor the effectiveness When there’s excess glucose in the nence. your blood by producing more urine. Age is the main risk factors for are able to identify some charac- of the drugs used to prevent heart blood, the kidneys react by trying to flush The effects of childbirth are well How to beat it: The NHS recommends the condition — which is why teristics of high-risk plaques but attacks or strokes. it out by producing more urine. known, while older women are com- adults eat no more than six grams of salt strokes and heart attacks tend to none are generally accepted as re- The study was published in the How to beat it: See your GP to get monly affected by falling estrogen lev- a day. Always check processed food for happen in older people. liable methods for detecting the journal Nature Communications your blood glucose levels tested and a els which change the muscle tone. Weak content. Aug. 22, 2017 Earth-like planet Astrophysicists at the University of Texas at Arlington have predicted that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in a star system just 16 light years 8 away. Science & Technology

A good ear for speech could be sign of mental health issues SScientistscientists improveimprove brown brown dwarfdwarf Having unusually good hearing could be a sign of mental health prob- lems, new research has found. Scientists at University College London and Durham University said that people able to make out conversation across a noisy place or wweathereather forecastsforecasts untangle a garbled sounding sentence are more likely to hear h alluci- natory voices in their head, telegraph.co.uk wrote. Experiments found that those with a history of hearing imaginary voices had a three in four chance of discerning a meaningful sentence in computer-distorted sounds, compared to less than half a chance among those without a history. MRI scans confirmed that the region of the brain responsible for monitoring and attention responded better in ‘voice-hearers’. Up to 15 percent of the population hear voices when no one is speaking, although only a fraction of these suffer to a clinically prob- lematic extent, many with linked diagnoses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The research team believe their discovery of an association between auditory verbal hallucinations and better hearing for real-world lan- guage will one day lead to treatments for some mental health prob- lems.

This artist’s concept shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen in Neptune and the other outer planets. phys.org

im objects called brown very long waves mix cold air from the In a 2014 study using Spitzer, sci- observing these brown dwarfs. dwarfs, less massive than the Polar Regions to mid-latitudes, which entists found that brown dwarfs com- The brightness levels of the brown DSun but more massive than Ju- often lead clouds to form or dissipate. monly have atmospheric storms. dwarfs varied markedly just over the piter, have powerful winds and clouds The distribution and motions of the Due to their similarity to giant exo- course of an Earth day. — specifically, hot patchy clouds clouds on brown dwarfs in this study planets, brown dwarfs are windows into To make sense of the ups and downs made of iron droplets and silicate dust. are more similar to those seen on Jupi- planetary systems beyond our own. of brightness, scientists had to rethink Scientists recently realized these ter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. It is easier to study brown dwarfs their assumptions about what was

telegraph.co.uk giant clouds can move and thicken or Neptune has cloud structures that than planets because they often do not going on in the brown dwarf atmos- thin surprisingly rapidly, in less than follow banded paths too, but its clouds have a bright host star that obscures pheres. Published in the journal Brain, the study involved 17 participants an Earth day, but did not understand are made of ice. them. The best model to explain the vari- with a history of voice hearing and 17 without. why, phys.org reported. Observations of Neptune from NA- Apai said, “It is likely the banded ations involves large waves, propagat- They were played distorted speech known as sine waves, ‘alien- Now, researchers have a new model SA’s Kepler spacecraft, operating in structure and large atmospheric waves ing through the atmosphere with dif- like’ noises which can normally be understood only if a hearer is told for explaining how clouds move and its K2 mission, were important in this we found in brown dwarfs will also be ferent periods. to listen out for certain words. change shape in brown dwarfs, using comparison between the planet and common in giant exoplanets.” These waves would make the cloud Without even being told the purpose of the exercise, the voice-hear- insights from NASA’s Spitzer Space brown dwarfs. Using Spitzer, scientists moni- structures rotate with different speeds ers picked out the sentence 75 percent of the time, compared to 47 per- Telescope. Study coauthor Mark Marley at NA- tored brightness changes in six brown in different bands. cent of the non-voice hearers. Giant waves cause large-scale SA’s Ames Research Center in Califor- dwarfs over more than a year, observ- University of Arizona researcher They also detected the sentence quicker than the non-voice hearers movement of particles in brown nia’s Silicon Valley, said, “The atmos- ing each of them rotate 32 times. Theodora Karalidi used a supercom- who were able to make it out. dwarfs’ atmospheres, changing the pheric winds of brown dwarfs seem to As a brown dwarf rotates, its clouds puter and a new computer algorithm The MRI scans showed that the voice-hearers brains automatically thickness of the silicate clouds, re- be more like Jupiter’s familiar regular move in and out of the hemisphere to create maps of how clouds travel on responded to the sine waves containing language, but not the meaning- searchers report in the journal Science. pattern of belts and zones than the cha- seen by the telescope, causing changes these brown dwarfs. less waves. The study also suggested these otic atmospheric boiling seen on the in the brightness of the brown dwarf. Karalidi said, “When the peaks Professor Sophie Scott from the University College London (UCL) clouds are organized in bands confined Sun and many other stars.” Scientists then analyzed these of the two waves are offset, over the Speech Communication Lab added, “This is a really exciting demon- to different latitudes, traveling with Brown dwarfs can be thought of as brightness variations to explore how course of the day there are two points stration of the ways that unusual experiences with voices can be linked different speeds in different bands. failed stars because they are too small silicate clouds are distributed in the of maximum brightness. to, and may have their basis in, everyday perceptual processes.” Lead author Daniel Apai, associate to fuse chemical elements in their brown dwarfs. “When the waves are in sync, you The Research was led by Durham University Hearing the Voice professor of astronomy and planetary cores. Researchers had been expecting get one large peak, making the brown project, a unit devoted to building an understanding of auditory verbal sciences at the University of Arizona They can also be thought of as ‘su- these brown dwarfs to have elliptical dwarf twice as bright as with a single hallucinations. in Tucson, said, “This is the first time per planets’ because they are more storms resembling Jupiter’s Great Red wave.” Dr. Ben Alderson-Day, a research fellow on the project, said, “The we have seen atmospheric bands and massive than Jupiter, yet have roughly Spot, caused by high-pressure zones. The results explain the puzzling study suggested that the brains of people who hear voices are particu- waves in brown dwarfs.” the same diameter. The Great Red Spot has been pre- behavior and brightness changes that larly tuned to meaning in sounds and shows how unusual experiences Just as in Earth’s ocean, different Like gas giant planets, brown sent in Jupiter for hundreds of years researchers previously saw. The next might be influenced by people’s individual perceptual and cognitive types of waves can form in planetary dwarfs are mostly made of hydrogen and changes very slowly: Such ‘spots’ step is to try to better understand what processes.” atmospheres. and helium, but they are often found could not explain the rapid changes causes the waves that drive cloud be- The study also involved researchers from University of Porto in For example, in Earth’s atmosphere, apart from any planetary systems. in brightness that scientists saw while havior. Portugal, University of Westminster and University of Oxford.

Sleep is essential for good examine if there were any Using a rat model of sur- the increase in surgical pain mental and physical health treatments or interventions gical pain, the research team caused by previous sleep loss. Superconductivity research reveals and chronic insufficient sleep that could aid to minimize the tested whether prior sleep “Surprisingly, the data increases the risk for several effect of sleep loss by reduc- deprivation increases post- showed that this is not due to matter chronic health problems. ing the severity of pain expe- operative pain and caffeine caffeine’s analgesic properties. potential new state of Now, a new study focuses in rienced after surgery.” blocks the increase in postop- “Furthermore, it looks like on the role that sleep loss plays Perhaps, caffeine? erative pain caused by sleep caffeine was effective only in A potential new state of matter is being reported in the similar complex and intertwined physics coupling in pain following surgery, The research team decided deprivation. those rats that underwent sleep journal Nature, with research showing that among su- spin, charge and lattice degrees of freedom.” medicalxpress.com reported. to analyze the effect of a wide- Next, the researchers deprivation before surgery. perconducting materials in high magnetic fields, the The work was reported in Nature by staff from the Giancarlo Vanini, a re- ly used stimulant: Caffeine. sought to identify a potential “We think that caffeine phenomenon of electronic symmetry breaking is com- Los Alamos Condensed Matter and Magnet Science search assistant professor in Vanini said, “Most people brain mechanism by which might prevent the increase mon. group and collaborators. the Department of Anesthesi- would be confused by the idea disrupted sleep worsens pain. in pain sensitivity by block- The ability to find similarities and differences Using transport measurements near the field-tuned ology at Michigan Medicine, of using caffeine while we in- ing part of the neurochemi- among classes of materials with phenomena such as quantum critical point of CeRhIn5 at 50 Tesla, the re- said, “Postoperative pain con- cal changes induced by sleep this helps researchers establish the essential ingredi- searchers observed a fluctuating nematic-like state. trol is challenging. ative deprivation in specific brain ents that cause novel functionalities such as supercon- A nematic state is most well known in liquid crys- “There is a general long- reduce postoper areas that control sleep and ductivity, according to sciencedaily.com. tals, wherein the molecules of the liquid are parallel standing interest in the rela- TToo reduce postoperative wakefulness, and project to The high-magnetic-field state of but not arranged in a periodic ar- tionship between sleep and sleep pain-related sites. the heavy fermion superconduc- ray. pain, and we know that both ppain,ain, considerconsider sleep “We definitely need more tor CeRhIn5 revealed a so-called Nematic-like states have been are reciprocally related. experiments to clarify this in- electronic nematic state, in which observed in transition metal sys- “Several studies demon- teresting issue.” the material’s electrons aligned tems near magnetic and supercon- strate that pre- and postopera- Vanini and team are moti- in a way to reduce the symmetry ducting phase transitions. tive sleep disturbances wors- vated by their results. of the original crystal, something The occurrence of this property en pain and more importantly, Vanini explained, “These

that now appears to be universal points to nematicity’s correlation predict the onset of long-term medicalxpress.com results are relevant because among unconventional supercon- with unconventional superconduc- postoperative pain. sleep disorders and insuffi- ductors. tivity. “However, while the rela- Vanini added, “The effect of cient sleep are highly preva- Unconventional supercon- The difference, however, of the tionship between sleep and sist on the dangers of not get- sleep deprivation on pain sen- lent problems in our society. ductivity develops near a phase new nematic state found in CeR- pain is well known, its un- ting enough sleep. sitivity in operated and intact “Additionally, often times boundary separating magnetically hIn5 relative to other systems is derlying mechanisms remain “Caffeine in coffee and rats was virtually eliminated patients travel long distanc- ordered and magnetically disor- sciencedaily.com that it can be easily rotated by the unclear.” other beverages blocks the by pharmacologically block- es during the night or early dered phases of a material. Carefully aligned microstructured magnetic field direction. Vanini is the senior author actions of adenosine in the ing the action of adenosine in a morning before being admit- Filip Ronning of Los Alamos devices of CeRhIn5 enabled high field The use of the National High of a new study, published brain. Adenosine is an endog- brain region in the anterior hy- ted into the hospital for elec- transport measurements that reveal an National Laboratory, lead author in-plane symmetry breaking for Magnetic Field Laboratory’s in SLEEP, which examines enous sleep inducer. That’s pothalamus known to regulate tive surgery. on the paper, said, “The appear- magnetic fields of approximately 30 pulsed field magnet facility at Los whether brief, total sleep dep- why we feel more awake after sleep, which is connected to “In one way or another, ance of the electronic alignment, Tesla along the tetragonal c-axis. Alamos was essential, Ronning rivation in rats immediately drinking coffee. major pain-related areas.” most patients do not get ad- called nematic behavior, in a pro- noted, due to the large magnetic prior to surgery worsens post- “Insufficient sleep enhanc- After examining the data, equate sleep before surgery. totypical heavy-fermion superconductor highlights fields required to access this state. operative pain and increases es pain perception, so we rea- Vanini and team found that “This study suggested a the interrelation of nematicity and unconventional su- In addition, another essential contribution was the recovery time. soned that caffeine might also extended wakefulness prior novel intervention with poten- perconductivity, suggesting nematicity to be common fabrication of micron-sized devices using focused ion- He said, “Based on previ- be useful for reversing the in- to surgery significantly en- tial to significantly improve among correlated superconducting materials.” beam milling performed in Germany, which enabled ous studies published by our crease in pain caused by sleep hanced postoperative pain postoperative pain manage- Heavy fermions are intermetallic compounds, con- the transport measurements in large magnetic fields. group and others, we pre- loss. behaviors and extended re- ment in clinical settings. taining rare earth or actinide elements. Superconductivity is extensively used in magnetic dicted that a brief sleep distur- “We liked the potential of covery time after surgery. “We now look forward to He said, “These heavy fermion materials have a dif- resonance imaging (MRI) and in particle accelerators, bance prior to surgery would this intervention because it is Caffeine helped to mitigate testing whether caffeine is ef- ferent hierarchy of energy scales than is found in tran- magnetic fusion devices, and RF and microwave fil- worsen postoperative pain. simple and virtually everyone this effect. fective to reduce pain in sur- sition metal and organic materials, but they often have ters, among other uses. “But, we wanted to is familiar with caffeine.” He added, “Caffeine blocked gical patients.” Aug. 22, 2017 Britain’s leading universities Britain’s leading universities are scrambling to introduce their own entrance exams in a move which threatens to undermine the authority new 9 ‘toughened up’ A-levels. Society

Children key to solving 2,000-year-old philosophical mystery

Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik has published countless studies in prestigious journals. Her work covers how children are WWhyhy ttechech sstilltill more open-minded than adults (and often learn better, as a result), and how they approach the world (in much the same way as scien- tists). Each finding is significant on its own but, collectively, said Go- pnik, she’s working towards solving ‘the biggest, deepest question in philosophy’, qz.com wrote. That question is, essentially, how do we have knowledge about ccan’tan’t savesave kidskids what surrounds us? To a layperson, the answer may seem obvious: We have senses to see, hear, and touch. But our senses provide lim- ited, imperfect information. We assume that what we see is an ac- curate reflection of reality, because we’re only able to witness the world through our own eyes. But this simply means that we’re lim- iinn hhotot ccarsars ited by our own visions.

cnet.com parenteffectivenesstraining.net.au By Brian Cooley* producing a specific, and therefore compelling, alert. forgetfulness the new technologies aim to cure. It’s a mas- Combined with the other benefits such a system could sively tragic situation, but about 0.05 percent of automo- We also have ‘abstract knowledge’, an understanding of concepts armakers have come up with cool advancements deliver (such as theft prevention, drowsiness and inebria- tive fatalities in 2016. that aren’t dependent on physical objects, like the number ‘five’. We like keyfobs that limit radio volume when a teen tion detection, settings customization and intelligent dash Risk management is key and carmakers are loathe to can point to five pencils and add them up, but we don’t need to refer Cis driving and sunroofs that lower themselves at cam) I think this approach is a matter of when it will ar- install any new safety technology that isn’t bulletproof. to five concrete objects to understand the concept of ‘five’. Other ab- highway speed to reduce wind noise. Yet kids are still rive, not if. But when isn’t now. Product liability lawsuits can result from safety tech that stract objects include shapes, the essence of colors, and amorphous dying in hot cars that can’t seem to do much to help Startup Sense A Life is raising funds on Kickstarter to either doesn’t work 100 percent of the time or isn’t under- ideas like justice and humanity. Stanford Encyclopedia lists a few them. develop a kit that adds a weight sensor and transmitter stood by drivers 100 percent of the time. As far as I know, more: “Goodness, beauty, equality, bigness, likeness, unity, being, There has been progress in the last year: GM Rear Seat to a child seat, and a receiver alongside the driver’s seat. carmakers currently have no liability in cases of kids for- sameness, difference, change, and changelessness.” Reminder has been available in about 20 of its models It detects when you leave the car but the child’s weight gotten in hot cars. Gopnik said, “All that reaches us from the world are a bunch of since it debuted on the 2017 GMC Acadia, and Nissan is doesn’t, resulting in an alert on your phone or message to New tech goes in new cars. The Alliance of Automobile photons hitting our retinas. launching Rear Door Alert in the 2018 Pathfinder, cnet. other guardians if you ignore it. Manufacturers, suggested any tech required in new cars “How to we turn this confused, insufficient mess of information com wrote. But why are we saddled with add-on kits or vague de- won’t reach the cash-strapped young parents who need it into concrete, meaningful objects?” Both systems use sensors to notice if a rear door was tection algorithms from only a couple of carmakers? most but likely drive an older car. The alliance advocates How are we able to make so much sense of the limited informa- opened before a trip, but not at the conclusion of it and It’s not that simple. When several kids died while play- education and simple steps like putting your phone in the tion that comes to us through our senses? Philosophers have attempt- then alert the driver with a warning light or beep to check ing in hot car trunks in the late 90s, carmakers were re- back with your child — you’d never forget your phone, ed to tackle this problem for more than 2,000 years, beginning with the rear seat area. US. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) quired to install glow-in-the-dark inside trunk releases the thinking goes, which paints both a sad and true situ- Plato and Aristotle. has introduced legislation that would require new cars (no, those weren’t inspired by ‘The Sopranos’). But that’s ation. Broadly speaking, Plato argued that we have knowledge of these sold from 2019 have systems of this type. a situation with a kid old enough and aware enough to The ingredients to solve this problem are congealing, abstract objects, independent of sensory experience. (So, we know These are good but not powerful improvements: Hu- know they need to get out of danger. however: Sensors, GPS, connectivity and even cameras that there have five pencils because we have an abstract understand- man nature is to ignore repeated general reminders, and We put kids in this situation with passenger seat airbags in the cabin are quickly becoming ubiquitous, and as they ing of the concept of ‘five’.) Meanwhile, Aristotle argued that we the systems can be switched off entirely by the owner — that were too powerful for kids to be seated in front of. begin to deliver a variety of profitable services, smart aren’t born with such knowledge at all, and that all our knowledge perhaps one who may not have kids and likes to stash stuff New rules required kid seats be in the back where they are child detection will come along for the ride. Meanwhile, comes from experience. (So, in his view, we only seem to have ab- in the back seat, unharassed. safe from airbag force but not from being forgotten. an alert made public and a tire iron can be the best we’ve stract knowledge of ‘five’ after seeing enough examples of five con- A smarter system was envisioned by Intel and Ford Prioritizing safety advances can be a cold calculation. got. crete objects.) “Those two — top-down versus bottom-up, nativist back in 2014. The Mobii prototype placed cameras An average of 37 kids die each year after being left in versus empiricist —approaches to answering that question have just around the car that would use image recognition to know hot cars, according Professor Jan Null of San Jose State *Brian Cooley is an editor at large for CNET and their echoed down through the ages,” adds Gopnik. what they see, discriminating a bag from a child and University, and only about half of them due to the kind of senior pundit. Instead of focusing on how adults understand the world, Gopnik believes the answer lies with how children seem to learn about the world. In many ways, she said, it seems they’re born with a huge amount of knowledge. And yet, of course, they’re also making mis- takes, and figure things out from sensory experiences. “It doesn’t Social media didn’t kill email, but it did change it look like what children are doing is just putting details into a hypoth- esis they knew all along. It looks as if they’re really learning about the world,” she said. Too much digital ink has been spilled of thinking ‘above the fold’ based on “But it also looks as if they have abstract knowledge about the over the apparent demise of email. preview panes, people had to start think- world essentially from the time they’re born, or at least from the time ‘What’s to replace email’, and ‘why ing in terms of the inbox’s list-view and they’re very young babies.” email is dead’, are all well-worn top- how to grab the attention of the recipient Her studies have given credence to her instincts, showing that ics musing over a thin premise: So- as rapidly as possible. babies know a lot early on (for example, by 18 months, babies can cial media will replace the well-worn The reliable nature of email is one understand that we don’t all want the same things), but also that they 45-year-old medium. Yes, social media reason why many services employ it as seem to change what they think based on experience. Gopnik’s stud- and collaboration platforms are now a verification method. It helps prove, at ies have given weight to ‘theory theory,’ which essentially argued established, critical work tools. But the very least, there is a human at the that children learn about the world just as scientists make new dis- these tools work alongside email, each end of the line, and not a bot. Email ad- coveries: By developing hypotheses and adjusting them based on channel complementing the other’s dresses are also used to verify and re- new experiences. strengths. cover accounts and can act as a second That leaves the question, though, of how children develop these Still, over the past two decades, social form of verification, should a user or hypotheses in the first place. Gopnik’s believes our exceptionally networks have guided email’s continued service need it. This is a powerful mech- long periods of childhood, with its limited responsibilities, is key to development and vice versa and it will tnwcdn.com anism that most social networks have how humans develop and experiment with new ideas. continue to do so for the foreseeable adopted as they push further into build- There’s a tension, she said, in adult life between testing radical (if future. User-design, personalized com- social, to mobile, to offline, and more, while conveying only headlines to at- ing out transactional and file-sharing exciting) changes to behavior in search of a brilliant solution, and munications and other elements bleed and can be focused into a targeted me- tract a user’s attention. This headline services. trying a more risk-adverse (if safer) approach of incremental change. across the social-email divide. These dium that is as responsive and real-time functioned much in the same way as In addition, social media sites are Childhood is a time where we can explore all manner of hypoth- changes can be boiled down to three ele- as any social network. subject lines in email. Smartphones learning how to craft small, but impact- eses without bearing the full weight of decision-making; adults are ments, each improving on email’s mul- But data is only half of the equation. levelled the playing field by forcing all ful communications between a group watching over us to make sure things don’t go too wrong. timodal roles in today’s world, thenext- How users interact with email and for messaging channels to reorient them- of trusted friends while facilitating an “The very fact of childhood is one of the ways we resolve that ten- web.com reported. what purpose has changed to accommo- selves to a more headline focused dis- activity or action. These communica- sion between Plato and Aristotle’s theories,” said Gopnik. Email has always acted as a unifying date both the growth of social and incor- play. tions are not just simple interactions like This suggests that children are born with some basic abstract element in the digital ecosystem. Digi- porate social’s ability to relay informa- While social was already there due sharing photos, they’re sharing dynamic knowledge and rely on experience to test a huge number of theo- tal registration, authentication and more tion in a quick manner. to character restrictions and just how maps, locations, coordinating bill pay- ries and build up knowledge of other abstract concepts (though, of almost always use email as the common Until the advent and mass adoption the medium was conceived, email went ments and more. Like email, social net- course, the question of precisely which abstract concepts form the denominator. Today, email has evolved of smartphones, email and social had a through a metamorphosis that brought works are evolving to meet the needs of basis of the initial hypotheses that children test is still unknown.) thanks to the inclusion of more custom- significant disconnect best described as the friendly from, subject line and pre- the user wherever and whenever they’re The question of how knowledge is formed informs artificial intel- er-centric data. These data range from immediacy. Social moved very quickly header text into central focus. Instead required. ligence, as well. Gopnik noted that computer scientists from Goog- le’s DeepMind and Uber’s AI team have spoken to her and other de- velopment psychologists to see if the two fields can collaborate, and whether computers can learn by mimicking the models that children use. Poverty striking rural Illinois at faster rate than cities If we want to create machines with human-like intelligence, Go- pnik said computers will have to be programmed to think like chil- dren. The importance of children to AI was also noted Alan Turing’s Poverty might be more commonly associ- Katie Buitrago, director of research problem,” Buitrago said. and rural areas,” Buitrago said. famous 1950 paper on machine intelligence. ated with inner cities, but data shows pov- at the Social Impact Research Center at Buitrago also said rural Southern Il- Buitrago said not enough research has “Instead of trying to produce a program to simulate the adult mind, erty in rural Illinois, in the US is increas- Heartland Alliance, said rural poverty linois has the most counties dealing with been dedicated to identifying the causes for why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s?” he ing at a faster rate than in urban areas. gets less attention but is a growing con- poverty. Alexander County has the highest the increase in poverty in rural areas, but fac- writes. While poverty levels are still higher in cern. Heartland Alliance is an anti-pover- poverty rate, at 28.6 percent — more than tors could include a slow recovery from the “No one ever talks about this,” Gopnik adds. urban cities than rural parts of Illinois, the ty group working throughout the United double the state average of 13.6 percent. recession, an aging population on a fixed in- Gopnik is used to the importance of children being dismissed. number of people living in poverty in ru- States, ilnews.org wrote. “We’re trying to make the case that come and a less-educated workforce. “Anyone who does developmental psychology, especially if you’re ral areas rose by 12 percent between 2010 “I think there’s a lot of misconcep- poverty is an issue throughout Illinois, The state’s budget crisis also did not a woman, has experienced the reaction, “You’re doing the same and 2015, compared with a five percent tions about who lives in poverty and it’s and that our leadership needs to be com- help rural communities fight rising pov- thing as a preschool teacher,” she said. increase in cities. perceived as sort of an urban inner-city mitted to taking it on both in urban areas erty, she said. Aug. 22, 2017 Korean proverb 10 Butterflies come to pretty flowers. Entertainment

three-year-old girl who set to spend her first birthday at was told she might not home this December Jerry Lewis quotes A live past the age of “That’s a good message to five has received a life-saving send out to other people ― that kidney transplant from her it’s never too late to help others. Jerry Lewis, the slapstick-lov- those who don’t, none will 64-year-old grandfather. “You have two good work- ing comedian, innovative film- do. Penny Powell, from Sutton ing kidneys, one of which you maker and generous fundrais- *** Cold field, Birmingham, was don’t need, so if you can it’s er for the Muscular Dystrophy When I was a kid, I said to my expected to survive just hours more than a worthwhile thing Association, died August 20, father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, after she was born 10 weeks to do. 2017 after a brief illness. He will you take me to the zoo?’ He premature and weighing just “It’s incredible that someone was 91. answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, 1lb 5oz in December 2013, dai- of my age can donate to some- He was known for his slap- let them come and get you’. lymail.co.uk wrote. one so young, but it just shows stick humor in film, television, *** However, she managed to you what the doctors can do stage and radio. He and Dean I have some very personal defy doctors’ expectations de- these days. The fact that a part Martin were partners as the hit feelings about politics, but I spite being born with abnormal of me is going to live on inside popular comedy duo of Martin don’t get into it because I do kidneys, two holes in her heart her after I’ve gone is amazing.” and Lewis. Following that suc- comedy already. and chronic lung disease. Penny’s father Stuart added: cess, he was a solo star in mo- *** Her parents were told last “I’m never going to be able to tion pictures, television shows, I’ve had great success being a *** June that she needed a kidney thank my dad enough. For as concerts, album recordings, and total idiot. You may catch more flies with

transplant and after the whole SWNS long as I live, there’s nothing musicals. *** honey than vinegar, but you’ll family was tested, it was dis- that I could ever do to repay Here are some mo- It’ll keep you alive for get them to work harder if you covered that only her grandfa- him. tivational Jerry Lewis another 10 years if you use a flyswatter. ther John was a match. “Penny has been my pride quotes: get yourself a laugh once *** John, who shares Penny’s Girl, three, is given and joy from the moment she a day: either provoke it, Comedy is a man in trouble. rare rhesus negative blood type, first stepped into this world. You might as well or look around in the And without it, there’s no hu- instantly agreed to go under the “She was born by emergency like yourself; just wildest laboratory mor. knife and had his kidney taken a life-saving transplant caesarean section, and we were think about all in the world, the *** out at Queen Elizabeth Hospi- told that her life expectancy the time you’re public. Every man’s dream is to be tal in Birmingham at the end of was just hours. going to have to *** able to sink into the arms of a June. from her grandfather “But it kept going up and up, spend with you. I am prob- woman without also falling into Both he and granddaughter and the doctors ― who had to *** ably the most her hands. Penny ― who has make 11 vis- said. out within four days. rip up their medical books to People say, selfish man you *** its to the intensive care unit at “I’ve never questioned my “Since the operation, I’ve find a solution ― were able to “How would will ever meet The day you’re born, you get Birmingham Children’s Hospi- decision. For me, it’s the ulti- felt fine. I’m probably running keep her going. It’s been opera- you like to be in your life. No the pink slip on YOU. Outright tal since she was born ― have mate gift that a dad can give to on about an eight tion after operation. remembered?” I don’t want one gets the satisfaction or the ownership. You must only share now recovered fully from their his son - to help save his child out of ten at the “As soon as he to be remembered. Gimme a joy that I get out of seeing kids that life with those that you and operations. for him.” moment, but knew that he could break. What I want is to hear realize there is hope. only you choose. John, who works a Describing his that’s not a donate, my dad what’s great about me now. Let *** *** market trader, said: granddaughter, problem. stepped up. Be- me hear it! In the box you don’t A woman doing comedy The doc told me I had a dual “As soon as we John continued: “For cause of what hear these eulogies. doesn’t offend me, but sets me personality. Then he lays an 82 knew that Penny “Penny is the me, it’s he’s done, my *** back a bit. I, as a viewer, have dollar bill on me, so I give him would need a most beauti- not a one daughter I don’t want to be remem- trouble with it. I think of her as 41 bucks and say, ‘Get the other transplant, we ful child. She particu- can live an ordi- bered. I want the nice words a producing machine that brings 41 bucks from the other guy.’ all went to get was dealt a larly amaz- nary life. when I can hear them. babies in the world. *** tested. bad hand at ing gesture. “Within a day of *** *** People hate me because I am a “She’s had birth, but she is Any granddad the operation, she was For those who understand, I get paid for what most kids multifaceted, talented, wealthy, such a difficult the most bubbly would do it, if more energetic, bright no explanation is needed...For get punished for. internationally famous genius. life to date, and we and playful child they could.” and bubbly than I’ve ever seen would all be will- you could ever wish John said he was surprised her. He quite literally put the ing to do whatever we to meet. I really want- that he was able to donate a smile on her face.” could to save her. ed her to be well.” kidney despite being in his He added: ‘She’s going to Lioness’ ill-advised hippo hunting “It transpired that only I He said that he had been mid-60s. have to go in to hospital eve- could donate, because I was the nervous about the operation, In fact, the age gap between ry six months to have a pul- only one to share a blood type but explained that it had been him and his granddaughter is monary vein pumped up, but attempt almost ends in disaster with her. It was a no-brainer, of ‘very straightforward in the believed to be one of the largest aside from that she will an or- A hungry lioness’ attempt to sneak before fleeing, which proves to be course.” end’. between a donor and a recipi- dinary life. up on a tasty-looking hippopota- a near-fatal mistake when the hip- The grandfather-of-four said “It was literally a case of tak- ent in the UK. “It’s her birthday on Decem- mus in Kenya ended in disaster in a po grabs the predator’s head in its that he told Penny’s father Stu- ing my kidney out at Queen “The most amazing thing in ber 8, and it looks as though it’s caught-on-camera encounter. powerful jaws and throws the hunt- art that he would do anything Elizabeth Hospital, then taking my view is the fact that I’ve going to be the first one that The video, filmed in Maasai er to the ground on its back. he could to help his grand- it down to Birmingham Chil- been able to do it so late on in she’ll be able to celebrate at Mara, shows the female lion ap- The lioness was able to pick itself daughter after she was born. dren’s Hospital,” he said. my life,” he said. home. proach the hippo from behind as it up and flee without apparent serious “I told him that if it were a “It was all done within a day, Penny, who has made 11 vis- “We’re already planning appears to be sleeping, but the large injuries. question of selling my home and within two days I was back its to the intensive care unit at what to get her, but I think my creature is quickly roused by the “The lioness survived but will and all of my possessions to on my feet again and out of the Birmingham Children’s Hos- dad is owed more than his fair big cat’s presence, UPI reported. probably never come 10 feet close to help her out, I would do it,” he hospital, and Penny was back pital since she was born, looks share of gifts too.” The lioness hesitates a moment a hippo again,” the uploader wrote. UPI

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Yesterday’s solution Aug. 22, 2017 Neymar’s night Neymar scored twice and made two assists on his home debut to help 11 Paris St.-Germain thrash Toulouse 6-2 and go top of Ligue 1. Sports Iran outpowered by top-class Aussies Persepolis looks to change fortunes on Asian level

to finish runner-up in FIBA Asia Cup It will be a clash of two of West Asia’s most popu- it was the first Saudi club to reach the final of the lar teams when Persepolis of Iran takes on Saudi Asian Club Championship, back in 1985. Arabia’s Al Ahli in the quarterfinals of the 2017 In the title decider, the Jeddah-based club lost to AFC Champions League in the Omani capital of Daewoo Royals of Korea Republic. A similar fate Muscat tonight. ensued when Al Ahli made its second appearance Tehran giant Perse- in a continental final polis will look to with its 2012 AFC make a long-awaited Champions League mark on the Asian run, only to lose to level when the Per- another Korean side – sian Gulf Pro League Ulsan Hyundai. champion takes to Since that disap- the pitch against Al pointment, Al Ahli Ahli. While the club has not made it past did reach the semi- the quarterfinals. This finals of the Asian year, Al Ahli will at- Club Championship in tempt to correct that 1997, 1998 and 2001, record. the Iranian side failed 90tv.ir After finishing sec- to reach the quarterfinals of the revamped AFC ond in Group C behind Al Ain, Al Ahli faced its Champions League before this year’s edition. namesakes from the UAE, which was runner-up in The 2017 campaign saw Persepolis successfully the 2015 edition. navigate a tough group featuring Al Hilal of Saudi Prolific front man Omar al-Somah was unavail- Arabia, Qatar’s Al Rayyan and the UAE club Al able for both ties of the Round of 16 fixture due Wahda. Finishing second in the group, Tehran’s to injury, but the Saudi side managed to register a Reds took on Doha side Lekhwiya in the Round of convincing 4-2 aggregate victory. 16. Syrian striker Soma is now back in the squad and After a goalless first leg, it would take an own will be ready to lead Al Ahli’s attack once again af- goal from Lekhwiya defender Chico Flores in the ter scoring four times in the group stage. fiba.com second leg to take Persepolis to the quarterfinals. His scoring prowess is well-known and, recent- Iranian players pose with their silver medals as Iran finished second in the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup after a 56-79 defeat against Australia in the final in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 20, 2017. Persepolis has one man to thank in particular for ly, he was honored by the club for finishing as top getting this far in the competition and that is Irani- scorer for the last three seasons – which should ustralia became the first-ever FIBA victory by a 23-point advantage. sists and 3 blocked shots for Iran in the final. an international striker Mehdi Taremi. Despite not serve as motivation ahead of the big continental Asia Cup champion after beating Brad Newley had a team-high 18 points For the entire tournament, the 2.18m center scoring in the previous round, the 24-year old has clash. AIran 79-56 in Sunday’s Final in Bei- for Australia, while Daniel Kickert added 14 averaged 16.2 points, 10.8 rebounds. 6.5 as- struck six times so far and sits second in the scor- Persepolis will have to host its Saudi counterpart rut, Lebanon. and Mitch Creek, the team’s leading scorer sists and 1.8 blocks per game and had a 20.5 ing charts behind Al Ain’s Omar Abdulrahman. in the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex of Muscat The Aussies jumped out to a 12-2 lead in the competition, chipped in with a dozen efficiency rating. The focus will turn to Taremi once again as the due to political issue between the two countries early on and never looked back on route to a of his own. The 32-year-old spearheaded Iran’s mes- club aims to conquer further ground in Asia. with the second leg set to be played on September comfortable victory, fiba.com reported. Earlier in the day, South Korea upended merizing run throughout the entire field, Although Al Ahli has never won an Asian title, 12. Perhaps it was the Iranians’ poor per- New Zealand 79-56 in the battle for third winning its first six games before the final. formance in terms of making rebounds place. Haddadi goes down in history as the first and dealing with Australians’ physical ad- ever MVP of the new FIBA Asia Cup. vantage in the second quarter, leading to Haddadi named Asia Cup MVP Haddadi was also named in the FIBA Asia ‘Today I saw the fighters’, says Conte a 25-12 score line in favor of the Boom- Cup 2017 All-Star Five. ers, which made the difference at the end Iranian behemoth Hamed Haddadi’s con- Joining Haddadi, his fellow countryman of the game. sistently impressive performance was re- Mohammad Jamshidi, the host’s veteran after London derby triumph Iranians bounced back in the third quarter warded after he was named Most Valuable Fadi al-Khatib, South Korean Oh Se Keun to win it 17-13 but Australia was the better Player of the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup. and Shea Ili of New Zealand were all picked team again in the final quarter to clinch the Haddadi had 18 points, 7 rebounds, 3 as- in the team of the tournament. Farah wins final race on home soil

GETTY IMAGES Marcos Alonso scores a brilliant free-kick for Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur in Wembley Stadium on August 20, 2017. For all the talk of crisis at midway through the first half. dominated. Stamford Bridge following “David played very well, it “The Wembley effect is not last week’s meltdown against was an amazing performance the reason we lost the game,” Burnley, Chelsea manager An- from him,” said Conte. he said. tonio Conte was left saluting Conte again said the club was “It is not fair to blame a his side on Sunday after the working toward strengthening stadium that is one of the best Blues edged Tottenham 2-1 in a the squad in the transfer win- places to play football in the match they could just as easily dow, with at least three arrivals world.” have lost. expected. Pochettino batted away sug- “I think I must be pleased,” “For us it is very important gestions that his players were said Conte, whose nine-man to be focused on ourselves. We affected by the size of the side was beaten 3-2 by Burnley know a lot of teams have im- pitch, which is eight percent in its opening match of the new proved since last season,” he bigger than their old home Premier League season, Euros- said. which is being replaced by a port reported. “The club is trying to do its new, 61000-seater stadium “I want to thank my players best in the transfer market but due to open for the 2018-2019 because they showed me great today I must be satisfied with season. STEPHEN POND/GETTY IMAGES desire and heart and I saw today my players because they gave “If you love football you Mo Farah (R) of Great Britain hands his shirt to Andrew Butchart after winning the men’s 3000m during the IAAF Diamond League event in Birmingham on the fighters.” me everything.” know that Wembley is not the August 20, 2017. The Italian was particularly problem. We didn’t lose be- British distance great Mo Farah sprinted dampened the Birmingham crowd’s enthu- The Briton’s time was well short of the pleased because the champion ‘Wembley not to blame’ cause of the pitch but because clear to win the 3000m at the Birmingham siasm for this sendoff. 7:32.76 he clocked at the same event last was without the suspended they were more clinical in front Diamond League meeting in his final track Farah – who has won more world-level year to break Dave Moorcroft’s national re- Cesc Fabregas and Gary Ca- Tottenham manager Mau- of goal than us,” Pochettino meeting on home soil. track gold medals than any other British cord. hill, giving Tiemoue Bakayoko ricio Pochettino refused to said. The 34-year-old, who is switching to road athlete – was roared to victory by a raucous his debut and trusting Andreas blame the club’s Wembley “What is more important was racing in 2018, came home in 7:38.64 min- crowd, who had to be reminded to save their Farah for Tokyo 2020? Christensen at the heart of the hoodoo for the 2-1 London the performance which I am utes. cheers as the athletes prepared for the gun. defense. derby defeat. happy with.” “All I dreamed of as a youngster was run- He said on Friday that his UK track fare- Farah went on to say there was a slim But it was a couple of old Spurs extended the poor On another day, Harry Kane ning for Britain,” said the four-time Olym- well would be more “celebratory” than chance he might yet represent Britain at To- hands in David Luiz and Mar- form that always dogged them would have buried any num- pic gold medalist. the frenzied and, at times, physical con- kyo 2020. cos Alonso who stood out. at the national stadium where ber of the chances he spurned Farah took his sixth World Championship tests from which he took 10000m gold and “If I’m the best in the marathon and can Luiz stood strong when they have won just two of their on Sunday and Christian Erik- gold in London earlier this month – to go 5000m silver in London, and so it proved. compete… it depends,” he said. Spurs threatened to overrun past 11 games, a record far in- sen also went close. But, for with two silvers – and also has four Olym- Adel Mechaal, who finished just off a “I think it is going to take at least two or Chelsea with the quick-fire ferior to Chelsea who have now all their effort and possession, pic titles. podium place in the world 1500m final 10 three marathons to get it right to learn from passing that served them so won nine in 11. Spurs could not break down a Neither his narrow failure to complete days ago, pushed to overtake Farah down it. It is not easy.” well last season and Alonso Pochettino, though, said he battling Chelsea side. another 5000m and 10000m world title dou- the back straight in Birmingham. But just as Farah will race for the final time on the scored a couple for the Blues, was “only disappointed and “Chelsea set out to contain us ble in London nor the leak of an interim re- at the Diamond League meeting in London track at the Zurich Diamond League meet- first of which came through a not frustrated or upset by the and I am happy to lose in that port from an anti-doping investigation into earlier this year, the Spaniard was left trail- ing on Thursday, August 24 and finish his beautiful long-range free-kick defeat” in a game which Spurs way,” Pochettino said. his American coach Alberto Salazar had ing by Farah’s formidable kick for home. season at September’s Great North Run. Aug. 22, 2017 Mahatma Gandhi: 12 The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Art & Culture

License Holder: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) BIBF to open today Managing Director: Sadreddin Mousavi Editor-in-Chief: Kambakhsh Khalaji Art & Culture Desk Editorial Dept. Tel: +98 21 88755761-2 Editorial Dept. Fax: +98 21 88761869 The 24th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) opens to- Subscription Dept. Tel: +98 21 88521954, +98 21 88748800 day in a ceremony to be attended by top Chinese officials ICPI Publisher: +98 21 88548892, 5 Advertising Dept. Tel & Email: +98 21 88500617 - [email protected] and the Iranian delegation dispatched to the expo. We b s it e : http://www.irandailyonline.ir The expo will be held at China International Exhibition Email: [email protected] Center in Beijing from August 23 to 27, mehrnews.com re- Printing House: Iran Cultural & Press Institute ported. The expo’s opening ceremony will be held at Great Hall Add.: Iran Cultural & Press Institute, #208 Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran/Iran of the People in Beijing. Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. Iran is taking part in the expo as the Guest of Honor. Stars pay tribute to ‘King of Comedy’ Jerry Lewis

he death of comedy legend Jerry Lewis, who died aged 91, per- Lewis on Sunday prompted an fected a goofy brand of slapstick that Toutpour of tributes from fellow endeared him to millions over the comedians, actors and others in the en- course of a career spanning six dec- tertainment world. ades. Here are reactions from some nota- One of the most popular American ble personalities: entertainers of the 1950s and ‘60s, WIKIPEDIA Lewis made his name as the clown Iran has sent an 80-member delegation to the exhibition. Comic film actor Jim Carrey behind such quirky comedies as ‘The The team includes senior officials including President of Nutty Professor’ but also won ac- Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Abouzar Ebra- “That fool was no dummy. Jerry claim as a writer, actor and philan- himi Torkan, Managing Director of Iran Cultural Fairs In- Lewis was an undeniable genius an thropist. stitute Amir-Masoud Shahram-Nia, Iran’s Ambassador to unfathomable blessing, comedy’s ab- The comedy legend, who at the China Ebrahim Khaji and Iran’s Cultural Attaché in China solute! I am because he was! ;^D,” he peak of his popularity was among the Mohammad Rasoul Almasieh. wrote on Twitter. world’s biggest movie draws, died at Earlier, speaking at a press conference on the 24th BIBF, his home in Las Vegas early Sunday Gholamreza Noei, director of Iran Cultural Fairs Institute’s Actress and comedian Whoopi morning. international exhibitions section, said nine well-known Ira- Goldberg “I can sadly confirm that today the nian authors will be present in Iran’s pavilion at the event. world lost one of the most significant Noei said three Iranian music ensembles will also put on “I realize I may be late with all this human beings,” said his publicist live performances during the expo. but all know is, losing Dick Gregory Nancy Kane. “Jerry died peacefully He listed the other programs of the Iranian pavilion dur- and Jerry Lewis is a gain 4 heaven, but at home of natural causes surrounded ing the exposition as putting more than 950 books in differ- a big loss for comedy,” she tweeted. by family and friends.” ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP ent fields on display, holding Iran’s film week at National US comedian and civil rights activ- US comedian Jerry Lewis posing during a photocall for the film ‘Max Rose’, presented Out of Competition Fans left flowers at the come- Museum of China, showcasing 70 illustrations by Iranian ist Dick Gregory died one day before at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. dian’s two stars on the Hollywood artists, introducing a number of contemporary veteran Ira- Lewis. Walk of Fame. nian authors as well as Tehran International Book Fair and Honored with accolades at home and abroad, includ- presenting the strong points of Iran’s publishing industry to Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel Director Martin Scorsese ing a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and France’s Legion visitors. of Honor, Lewis became known as much for his tireless “Jerry Lewis was a genius comedian, actor, director, “Jerry Lewis was a master. He was a giant. He was efforts to promote awareness of Muscular Dystrophy as inventor, humanitarian, and as a Las Vegan, what I miss an innovator. He was a great entertainer. He was a great for his wacky comedy. most...” tweeted Kimmel. He added a link to a video of artist. And he was a remarkable man. I had the honor of Over the course of 45 years, he raised some $2.45 bil- ‘Under the Smoky Roof’ Lewis’s performance of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ at his working with him, and it was an experience I’ll always lion for combatting the disease with an annual television annual telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy. treasure. He was, truly, one of our greats.” event. Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, New Jersey to two to go on screen in 10 German cities Actor Robert De Niro Television and radio host Larry King entertainers, Lewis first took center stage at the tender age of five, when he performed ‘Brother, Can You Spare Iranian feature film ‘Under with her husband and child and is “Jerry was a pioneer in comedy and film. And he was “Jerry lived to make the world laugh, and laugh we did a Dime?’ He began playing at resorts outside New York the Smoky Roof’, directed by searching for a way to communi- a friend,” the actor said in a statement. “Even at 91, he for decades. His talent was surpassed only by his human- that catered to Jewish patrons, known by touring enter- Pouran Derakhshandeh, will be cate with them and solve her fam- didn’t miss a beat... Or a punchline. You’ll be missed.” itarianism. Rest well, pal.” tainers as the Borscht Circuit. screened in 10 cities in Germany. ily problems. This is while, but she The flick, starring Farhad cannot succeed in what she seeks Aslani and Merila Zarei, is based to do and, instead, her efforts leads on the social and emotional di- to a crisis. She encounters new lemma created by divorce in challenges in her second attempt Iranian cultures, mehrnews.com to overcome the crisis. reported. Derakhshandeh’s movie was

mehrnews.com The movie will be screened in screened at the 35th Fajr Inter- 10 cities of Frankfurt, Bonn, Ber- national Film Festival in Tehran lin, Munich, Cologne, Cologne, and nominated at six different Darmstadt, Gibson, Karlsruhe, sections for the Crystal Simorgh and Wertheim in Germany as award. well as in Kinopolis cinema Acclaimed Iranian actress MOHAMMAD MOHSENIFAR/mehrnews.com chains. Zarei won the prize for the best The play 'Lions of Khan Baba Saltaneh', directed by Afshin Hashemi, was ‘Under the Smoky Roof’ nar- actress at the 35th Fajr Interna- staged for photojournalists and members of the Photographers Association of Theater Forum at Tehran's Shahrzad Theater Complex on August 20, 2017. rates the story of a married wom- tional Film Festival for her per- Public performance of the play will begin today. en, Shirin, who has problems formance in the movie. Weather 36 33 24 48 32 36 21 32 17 38 23 23 32 18 20 11 18 8 34 19 32 23 Bandar Anzali Dezful Yazd Mashhad Tabriz Tehran Kabul Minsk Stockholm Tashkent Tripoli