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Russia eyes more Mientras hay vida, hay OPEC esperanza. Mexico’s cooperation resilience is its strength. Apple is contributing 8P 09 $1M to recovery efforts. #FuerzaMexico @tim_cook Today’s Weather Saturday, September 23, 2017 Issue No. 7513 200 Fils Max Min www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh 37 °C 29°C Inaccuracies in UN human rights report Qatar crisis deplored DT News Network Geneva ahrain has deplored the inaccuracies in the report presented by Assistant BSecretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour. Expressing regret over the inaccuracies in the report, the Bahrain’s Permanent could last Mission in Geneva in a reply to Gilmour’s report said the conclusions and observations in the report were not based on facts and lacked objectivity. x On several occasions, Bahrain has affirmed its full respect for the rules of Turkey says Iraqi Kurd civil society participation in the work of the United Nations and in particular the vote ‘illegitimate’ Human Rights Council, the Permanent Ankara DT News Network Mission in Geneva said during an urkey has slammed a longer:[email protected] FM interactive dialogue with the Human planned independence Rights Advisory Committee. referendumT in Iraq’s Manama Bahrain is against human rights activists Kurdistan region next week oreign Affairs Minister Shaikh being persecuted or subjected to any form as “illegitimate”, indicating Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has of threat, retaliation or arbitrary arrests. Ankara will retaliate if it Fsaid that the current crisis with Qatar Free expression and opinion are went ahead. “The illegitimate could continue for another decade if safeguarded in the Constitution, national and unacceptable nature of no “actual solution” is attained. laws and international standards, and the referendum has been “Defending our interests shouldn’t the Kingdom of Bahrain has provided a specified once again,” the be connected with a time frame even wide and unprecedented space among the National Security Council if the crisis lasted for ten years”, region to exercise all these rights. said. the minister told Russia Today TV It also affirmed the independent Miss Turkey loses crown during an interview on Thursday, protection mechanisms established by adding: “What is important is finding Bahrain for all prisoners and detainees, over coup tweet a real solution.” as well as the conditions for investigation Istanbul Shaikh Khalid also said that the and fair trial through the appointment of a he winner of Turkey’s anti-terror quartet is keen to preserve lawyer and the provision of legal assistance national beauty pageant the Gulf Cooperation Council and he Foreign Affairs Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa to all of them to file any complaint wasT forced to hand back her hoped that the crisis will be dealt with them. We haven’t asked anyone stances towards the ongoing crisis, concerning allegations of torture and other crown hours after winning, before the GCC Summit to be held to surrender, threatened them or in addition to the Kuwaiti efforts cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment to over a tweet relating to in Kuwait. blockaded them as Qatar claims. But to solve the issue. Bahrain, Saudi the relevant and impartial authorities in the failed coup that was “The crisis lasted for over 100 we have shut the doors on the face Arabia, the UAE and Egypt cut full. deemed offensive. Itir Esen, days but the causes of the crisis have of the Qatari evil doings. We’re still diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 8 In this context, the delegation reminded 18, won Miss Turkey 2017 been there for several years before. ready to discuss with Qatar, within over the latter’s support to terrorism the Assistant Secretary-General that he is on Thursday night and We have been tolerant for a long the framework of demands we have in the region, meddling in domestic in direct and close contact with the Human was going to represent the period of time in regards to the set to end the crisis,” Shaikh Khalid affairs of countries, sheltering Rights Council bureau on a number of country in the Miss World Qatari behaviours. Agreements have said in the interview. He also noted wanted individuals and attempting individual cases raised in the previous competition in China. been signed but Doha didn’t respect the US role in the region and its to overthrow the Gulf regimes. period, including those contained in this report. P 02 P 03 P 06 N Korea Health Minister threatens Ending Syria visits domestic H-bomb test crisis violence victim over Pacific 2 Saturday, September 23, 2017 Ending Syria crisis

Foreign Minister participates in international meeting on Syria New York brotherly Syrian people is the through the Royal Charity of the 72nd session of the United Council resolution 2254 and expansionist ambitions or to ahrain’s Foreign Minister worst humanitarian disaster Organisation to provide various Nations General Assembly in Geneva Statement of the Year support the militias. yesterday called on the since the Second World War,” forms of help and support to the New York. 2012, and by respecting the will of Further highlighting the depth internationalB community said Minister of Foreign Affairs, people of Syria.” Shaikh Khalid stressed that the Syrian people”. of the crisis, Shaikh Khalid called to ramp up efforts to find a Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al The Minister was speaking there is a need for “enhancing The minister also praised the on the international community comprehensive solution to the Khalifa. during the high-level International cooperation outcome of the Astana talks to support the countries that Syrian crisis by “respecting the In this regard, the Minister international meeting on Syria to return Syria to the path of and urged all to abide by them bear the brunt of hosting the will of the Syrian people”. further said: “Bahrain has been held at the initiative of the security and stability.” and not to allow any party to Syrian brothers and provide “The disaster facing the and will remain committed European Union on the sidelines “It should be based on Security exploit them in order to serve them with aid and relief. 2 Saturday, September 23, 2017 Saturday, September 23, 2017 3 Bahrain’s human rights Health Minister protection efforts lauded Ending Syria crisis DT News Network Geneva The representatives of India, Iraq, visits domestic he delegates to the 36th Session of the Human Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, RightsT Council in Geneva yesterday praised the Lithuania, Maldives, Morocco, Oman, statement made by Assistant Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister, Abdulla violence victim bin Faisal bin Jabur Al Sierra Leone and Sudan expressed their Doseri, on Bahrain’s position on the recommendations appreciation for the efforts made by contained in the report of the the Kingdom of Bahrain to promote working group on the third comprehensive international and protect human rights review. Foreign Minister participates in international meeting on Syria The representatives of India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, The delegates Delegation of Bahrain and New York brotherly Syrian people is the through the Royal Charity of the 72nd session of the United Council resolution 2254 and expansionist ambitions or to Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, recommended to the Human specifically the measures ahrain’s Foreign Minister worst humanitarian disaster Organisation to provide various Nations General Assembly in Geneva Statement of the Year support the militias. Maldives, Morocco, Oman, Rights Council to adopt the taken by the Kingdom, Byesterday called on the since the Second World War,” forms of help and support to the New York. 2012, and by respecting the will of Further highlighting the depth Pakistan, the Philippines, report in the outputs of the which contributed to the international community said Minister of Foreign Affairs, people of Syria.” Shaikh Khalid stressed that the Syrian people”. of the crisis, Shaikh Khalid called Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone Universal Periodic Review of strengthening of the labour to ramp up efforts to find a Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al The Minister was speaking there is a need for “enhancing The minister also praised the on the international community and Sudan expressed their the Kingdom of Bahrain. market and in particular comprehensive solution to the Khalifa. during the high-level International cooperation outcome of the Astana talks to support the countries that appreciation for the clear The representatives of the flexible work permit Syrian crisis by “respecting the In this regard, the Minister international meeting on Syria to return Syria to the path of and urged all to abide by them bear the brunt of hosting the efforts made by the Kingdom India and Philippines also and efforts to promote and will of the Syrian people”. further said: “Bahrain has been held at the initiative of the security and stability.” and not to allow any party to Syrian brothers and provide of Bahrain to promote and commended the contents of protect the rights of workers “The disaster facing the and will remain committed European Union on the sidelines “It should be based on Security exploit them in order to serve them with aid and relief. protect human rights. the speech of the Head of in general.

Health Minister Faeqa Al Saleh visiting Zahra Subhi at Salmaniya Medical Complex DT New Network providing the best services despite that her condition [email protected] to patients to ensure their allows her to be discharged. safety. The horrific domestic Manama The visit came on the Hijri violence case became the ealth Minister Faeqa New Year holiday, a day talk of the town after she Al Saleh on Thursday after a local daily claimed appeared in a video in a Hvisited the domestic violence that Subhi was asked by terrible shape narrating how victim who was brutally SMC administration to leave her ex-husband and father beaten up by her ex-husband the hospital. of her five children brutally last week and was The minister also visited attacked her on September hospitalised at Salmaniya a number of wards in 12. Medical Complex (SMC). SMC, greeted them on the She claimed in the video The minister met Syrian occasion of the new year, that the man continually national Zahra Subhi, 35, was reassured on their assaulted her and insisted and was reassured about her conditions and wished them that the last attack was an condition and treatment by speedy recovery. attempt to murder her so he the medical team monitoring DT News reported on can marry another woman. her. Thursday that the authorities Few hours after the video Al Saleh has instructed the in the Kingdom, including message went viral on local team to provide best medical the Public Prosecution, the and regional social media care and services to Subhi. National Institution for networks as one of the worst She also reassured the victim Human Rights and domestic violence cases to that the ministry is Health Ministry be reported in years, police keen on denied the announced that the man report and was arrested and referred confirmed to the Public Prosecution, that Subhi which interrogated him remains in and detained him, pending the hospital, further investigations.

The horrific domestic violence incident became the talk of the town after Zahra appeared in a video in a terrible shape narrating how her ex- husband and father of her five children brutally attacked her on September 12 4 Saturday, September 23, 2017 Brave Zero Emissions Day any environmental days and occasions are being celebrated Mworldwide to create awareness among the people to respect our resources and giving proper attention to the environmental celebrates issues which now dominate the global agenda. The Zero Emissions Day or ‘Ze day’ aims to put the Global 24 hour Moratorium on the Combustion of Fossil Fuels. Zero Emissions Day is annually observed by people in many countries around the world on September 21. The main message of this event is “Giving our planet a day off a year”. The idea of creation first of ZeDay belongs to Ken Wallace from Nova Scotia, Canada, when he observed pollution and idling of vehicles affecting the human health. 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Seoul that Kim would follow through orth Korea with a provocation of some could consider sort. Chung said it was possible Ntesting a hydrogen the North could try to test an bomb over the Pacific H-bomb over the northern Ocean in retaliation to Pacific. Donald Trump’s threats over This would potentially to destroy the country, the trigger efforts by Washington to Pyongyang’s Foreign Minister Pacific,” shoot down the rocket, he said, said yesterday. he said. while China may take tougher In a tirade against Trump But he added: “It is up to our measures to choke the regime, N Korea responding to the US leader so I do not know well.” perhaps with an oil embargo president’s thundering speech Tensions over North Korea’s that would be devastating for at the United Nations this week, weapons programme have been the impoverished country. the North’s leader Kim Jong- ratcheting higher for months as Monitoring groups estimate Un warned of the “highest level Pyongyang launched a flurry of that the nuclear test conducted of hard-line countermeasure in missiles and the nuclear blast. in North Korea this month -- its history”. Trump has responded by sixth and largest -- had a yield Kim, who stoked global driving a raft of new tough of 250 kilotons, which is 16 threatens alarm in September by testing sanctions on Pyongyang and times the size of the US bomb what Pyongyang said was an engaging in blistering rhetoric, that destroyed Hiroshima in H-bomb capable of being culminating in Tuesday’s 1945. loaded onto a missile, did UN address, where he said While the North has claimed not detail what response he Washington would “totally to be able to miniaturise a planned. destroy” North Korea if the US nuclear bomb to attach it to But hours after the statement or its allies were threatened. a missile, there has been no was published on Friday In his response, Kim stressed definitive proof that they are Foreign Minister Ri Yong- that his threat to “tame the capable of doing so. ho spoke to reporters in New mentally deranged US dotard Following Trump’s threat of York and raised the possibility with fire” was “not a rhetorical “fire and fury” over Pyongyang’s of a further, more high-stakes expression”. missile programme in H-bomb nuclear test. Chung Sung-Yoon, an August, the North said it was “I think that it could analyst at the Korea Institute for considering strikes near US be an H-bomb test of an National Unification, said there strategic military installations unprecedented level perhaps was a “very high possibility” in the Pacific territory of Guam.

overThis undated combination picture Pacificreleased from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows a launching drill of the Kim vows to make Trump ‘pay dearly’ medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an Seoul The bellicose speech came Korea’s official name. undisclosed location orth Korean leader Kim after months of escalating Kim, whom Trump Jong-Un mocked Donald tensions over advances in the belittles as “Rocket Man”, also NTrump as “mentally deranged” rogue weapons programme questioned the sanity of the -- and warned he will make operated by Pyongyang, which US leader, referring to the the US president “pay dearly” has defied tough sanctions to “mentally deranged behaviour for threatening the destruction launch its sixth and largest of the US president openly of his country at the United nuclear test and to fire a series expressing on the UN arena Nations. of missiles over Japan. the unethical will to ‘totally Kim lashed out after “I will make the man destroy’ a sovereign state”. Trump stunned the world on holding the prerogative of Isolated and impoverished, Tuesday when he used his the supreme command in the the North says it needs a maiden UN General Assembly US pay dearly for his speech nuclear deterrent to protect it speech to warn the North that calling for totally destroying from an aggressive US and the Washington would “totally the DPRK,” Kim was quoted autocratic regime has made destroy” it if the US or its allies as saying by state news agency militarism a central part of its were attacked. KCNA, referring to North national ideology. (AFP) Referendum: Syria Kurds hold first local vote Qamishli councils for towns and esidents of Kurdish- larger areas are planned for majority areas of northern November 3. Iraq Kurd head resists SyriaR began voting yesterday in Then, on January 19, a final the region’s first local elections, phase will elect legislative pressure to scrap vote as part of a push to cement councils for each of the three Arbil “The referendum is no a semi-autonomous regional regions, as well as a single joint raqi Kurdish leader longer in my hands, nor is government. legislative assembly. Massud Barzani it in those of the (political) Friday’s vote is the first stage At a polling station in insistedI yesterday that a parties -- it is in your hands,” in a three-part election to select Qamishli, in the northwestern controversial September 25 Barzani told a large crowd representatives at the district, province of Hasakeh, men independence referendum at a football stadium in the municipal and regional levels. and women, young and old, for his autonomous Kurdish regional capital of Arbil. The vote has been dismissed waited to vote, some eagerly region in northern Iraq “We say that we are ready by Syria’s central government brandishing their light blue will go ahead, even as last- for serious open-minded as “a joke”, but for Kurds it voting cards. minute negotiations aimed dialogue with Baghdad, but represents a step towards a They pressed their fingers to change his mind. after September 25, because long-sought federal system. Kurdish girls hold a Kurdish flag and flash the sign for victory into ink to fingerprint the Iraq’s Kurds have faced now it is too late,” he said of Kurds made up around as they take part in a gathering to urge people to vote in the cards, and then voted behind mounting international Monday’s plebiscite. 15 percent of Syria’s pre-war upcoming independence referendum a curtain before placing their pressure, including from On Saturday, the veteran population and were long quietly building local control regions in the areas under their ballots in envelopes and into neighbouring Iran and Kurdish leader is to hold a oppressed by the central in Kurdish-majority areas control, where voting began transparent boxes. Turkey, to call off the news conference at which government. after the withdrawal of most Friday for representatives at the At the end of the process, referendum that the UN he is expected to announce But they largely stayed out government troops. neighbourhood or “commune” an official coated a fingertip Security Council has warned definitively whether the vote of the uprising that erupted In March 2016, they declared level. on each voter with blue ink to was potentially destabilising. will take place.(AFP) in March 2011, instead three semi-autonomous Elections for executive mark them as having voted. Saturday, September 23, 2017 7 21 dead as migrant boat sinks off Black Sea coast Istanbul Iraqi forces oust IS wenty-one people drowned and up to 15 more were missing yesterday after a fishing boat carrying migrants sankT off Turkey’s Black Sea coast, the coast guard said. Forty migrants were rescued but search and rescue efforts were still under way to find seven to nine people missing in the incident off the Kefken district, the statement said. The area group from Sharqat lies about 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of Istanbul. One pregnant woman who was rescued was taken to hospital but lost her baby, state-run Anadolu news agency said. Mehmet Unal, a local official in the nearby town of Kandira, said the boat was believed to be carrying 70 migrants, most of whom were Iraqis. Unconfirmed media reports said the migrants had boarded the boat in Zonguldak and were trying to cross into Romania. The boat reportedly sank due to bad weather and rough waters. Western Turkey and the Black Sea had been hit by a heavy storm and rains overnight. Turkey has emerged as a hub for migrants from trouble zones around the world including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who are seeking a route west to the European Union.

Syria opposition activist, daughter killed in Istanbul Istanbu veteran Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter were found stabbed to death at their apartment Ain Istanbul, Turkish reports yesterday, in a crime supporters decried as an “assassination” to avenge their work. Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries flash the victory ges- Friends raised the alarm after being unable to reach Aroubeh ture while riding in the back of a truck advancing towards the northern Iraqi town of Sharqat Barakat and her daughter Halla Barakat by telephone for two days, the Dogan and Anadolu news agencies said. Sharqat town centre and tore down the southeast and one of the last by government forces in their Turkish police then arrived at their apartment in the raqi forces achieved the black flags of the jihadists who pockets still controlled by the advance north to Mosul last Uskudar district on the Asian side of Istanbul and found both first goal of a new offensive had ruled it with an iron fist jihadists in Iraq. year, has been a bastion of women dead. Anadolu said the police investigation concluded againstI the Islamic State group for more than three years. IS still holds the towns of insurgency ever since the first they had been stabbed to death. Unconfirmed reports said that on just its second day Friday, Correspondents saw little Anna, Rawa and Al-Qaim in year of the US-led occupation their throats had been cut. capturing the northern town damage in the town which had the western desert near the in 2003. The Hurriyet daily said forensic investigators believed that of Sharqat, a military source been rocked by fighting, and border with Syria. The territory still held by IS they had been killed two or three days ago and the attacker had said. the bodies of two jihadists in After the defeat of IS in in the “caliphate” straddling poured lime over the corpses and wrapped them in blankets “The town of Sharqat is in the back of a pickup. second city Mosul in July and Iraq and Syria it proclaimed to prevent any smell. The killings unleashed a wave of shock our hands. There are still some Sharqat was the first goal the recapture of adjacent areas, in 2014 has dwindled, with and mourning among the exiled Syrian opposition, whose villages around it that need of a major offensive launched the Hawija area represents the stronghold after stronghold National Coalition grouping is based in Istanbul. to be liberated” from IS, the on Thursday to recapture an last enclave still held by IS in coming under assault on both “The hand of terrorism and tyranny is the prime suspect in source said. IS-held enclave centred on the Iraq apart from a section of sides of the border. this heinous crime of assassination,” the National Coalition Residents danced in the insurgent bastion of Hawija, the Euphrates Valley near the Iraq soldiers, police and said in a statement. streets earlier to celebrate the next goal of the operation, border with Syria. paramilitaries launched earlier as government troops and Hawija is some 30 The mainly Sunni Arab this week an offensive to retake paramilitaries entered the kilometres (20 miles) to the enclave, which was bypassed Anna, Rawa and Al-Qaim. Iran’s Hassan Rouhani vows to boost missile capabilities Tehran Veggie dinos liked a shellfish snack resident Hassan Rouhani vowed yesterday that Iran Paris monarchs of Earth for 160 would boost its missile capabilities despite warnings from ome dinosaurs may not have million years until a space rock PWashington that it is ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal been the strict vegetarians collided with the planet 65.5 over the issue. Sthat palaeontologists thought million years ago and wiped His comments came as Iran displayed a new missile at a they were. out those confined to land. military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its New analysis of fossilised The survivors, which could devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. dinosaur dung suggests some fly, are the direct ancestors of “Whether you like it or not, we are going to strengthen herbivorous dinosaurs may today’s birds. our military capabilities which are necessary for deterrence,” have also eaten crustaceans, Chin and her colleagues Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television. according to a new study found many examples of shell- “We will strengthen not only our missiles but also our air, published Thursday in the like material within coprolites land and sea forces... When it comes to defending our country, Nature journal Scientific -- fossil faeces -- in the we will ask nobody for their permission.” Reports. Kaiparowits rock formation Iran showed off a new missile, named Khoramshahr after The egg-laying creatures in southern Utah, which date a southwestern city, at an anniversary military parade in the may have turned to the snack from the late Cretaceous capital. when they were breeding and period. “The Khoramshahr missile has a range of 2,000 kilometres in need of extra protein. The research suggests the (1,250 miles) and can carry multiple warheads,” the official “It was surprising to find Fossilised shell parts in an ancient stool sample dinosaurs consumed sizeable IRNA news agency quoted Revolutionary Guards aerospace that the dinosaurs had eaten were, but hope to find more Their diets may have been crustaceans sheltered in rotting chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh as saying. animal food in the form of (fossilised dung) specimens more akin to that of birds, logs. Iran says all of its missiles are designed to carry conventional crustaceans,” said author Karen that have particular features which often seek extra protein It is not known which warheads only and has limited their range to a maximum of Chin, an associate professor that will allow us to identify and calcium during the species the dung came from, 2,000 kilometres, although commanders say they have the and curator of palaeontology them.” breeding season, than to that but the authors believe it could technology to go further. at the University of Colorado’s The findings challenge of large herbivorous mammals, be hadrosaurs -- duck-billed That makes them only medium-range but still sufficient to Museum of Natural History. common presumptions of such as elephants and giraffes, behemoths that could grow to reach Israel or US bases in the Gulf. “We don’t yet know what the feeding habits of some the researchers suggest. over eight metres (26 feet) in kind of crustaceans they herbivorous dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were the length. 8 BUSINESS Saturday, September 23, 2017 Trump’s travel ban

The world’s nuclear arsenals are comBOMBS- to expire prised mainly of two types of warheads -- atomic bombs, also called A-bombs, and on Sunday the more powerful hydrogen or H-bombs. North Korea, escalating its war of rhetoric with the United States, on Friday hinted it may explode an H-bomb over the Pacific, having already carried Washington the country. After losing challenges out underground resident Donald Trump’s in appeals courts, on March 6 the tests of atomic and Pcontentious travel ban expires White House unveiled a revised ban, hydrogen bombs. Sunday with little clarity over whether excluding Iraq and exempting people Here is a rundown America’s door will reopen for who already had visas. Nine days later on both types of travellers from six majority-Muslim that, too, was frozen, by a judge in countries. Hawaii, for largely the same reasons as weapon. Based on the policy, US embassies the original. or representatives in Syria, Iran, Libya, Again, the administration lost in two Somalia, Sudan and Yemen should appeals courts, leaving Trump furious resume granting visas to their nationals and turning to the Supreme Court. planning to visit the United States for work, study, pleasure or to emigrate. Trump declares victory his weapons have only been used twice in conflict, when the But some think the Trump On July 26 the high court ruled to United States bombed Japan in the final days of World War II, any times more powerful than administration, determined to stick to partially lift the freeze on the ban, althoughT they have been tested several hundred times. the atomic bomb, the hydrogen his election promise to block Muslims while agreeing to hear the White Atomic bombs work on the principle of nuclear fission where Mor thermonuclear bomb works on the from the country, will extend the House’s appeal to lower court rulings energy is released by splitting atoms of enriched uranium or principle of the fusion of isotopes of 90-day ban at least until the Supreme in October. plutonium encased in a warhead. hydrogen and generates temperatures Court can rule on it next month. Trump declared a political and legal The first-ever explosion of an A-bomb was in a test in the deserts on the order of those found at the sun’s Omar Jadwat, an American Civil victory and shut down visa issuance for of the US state of New Mexico on July 16, 1945 -- the culmination of core. Liberties Union lawyer who has argued the six countries. the secretive Manhattan project to develop such a weapon in the belief While no H-bomb has been used in against the ban in court, said politics, “Great day for America’s future that Nazi Germany was doing the same. a conflict so far, the world’s nuclear not national security, would likely Security and Safety, courtesy of the U.S. On August 6, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on arsenals are comprised for the most decide the issue. Supreme Court. I will keep fighting the southern Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people, part of such weapons. “The animating principle for the for the American people, & WIN!,” he according to estimates. The bomb has a two-stage process government throughout has been, the tweeted. Three days later, a second bomb devastated Nagasaki, killing an with a nuclear explosion triggering a president wants a ban, the president By that time, ironically, the original estimated 74,000 people. Japan surrendered, bringing World War II huge increase in temperature that in wants to ban as many people as he 90 day ban would have been expired to an end. turn provokes nuclear fusion, setting can, as many Muslims as he can, and for two months. Arrivals from the six These bombs produced an explosive yield of off a powerful explosion. we’re going to do what we can to make countries had already fallen by more roughly 20 kilotons, the equivalent to 20,000 The US army tested the first that possible,” he said. than half due to “extreme vetting” tons of TNT. H-bomb in 1952 in an explosion that “I think that’s how we got to where procedures that increased the difficulty The shock wave demolished buildings of was almost 700 times more powerful we are now.” of getting a US visa. reinforced concrete and the intense heat than an atomic bomb. The White House has not hinted vaporised people near the centre of the blast. A year later the Soviet Union tested Political uproar how it will handle the expiration on Others were badly burned or succumbed to its own H-bomb. In 1961 it carried The ban -- which initially included Sunday, and advocates for immigrants radiation-related illnesses weeks, months or out the most powerful blast to date, Iraq and was accompanied by a 120- say they don’t know. years later. exploding the “Tsar Bomba” in the day block on all refugees -- sparked The Department of Homeland The Soviet Union was the second country Arctic with a force of around 57,000 a political uproar when Trump first Security last week presented a classified to test an atomic bomb in 1949; Britain kilotons (57 megatons). announced it on January 27, a week report on security issues and vetting became the world’s third nuclear power with North Korea said it tested a after becoming president. procedures for the six countries, which a test in 1952. miniaturised H-bomb in January 2016, The ban was frozen by courts after could theoretically lead to an update in China, France, India, North Korea although scientists said the six-kiloton a weekend of chaos at airports and the policy -- removing some countries and Pakistan are also confirmed yield achieved then was far too low for a barrage of lawsuits by immigration from the ban, for example. to possess nuclear weapons. a thermonuclear device. advocates and civil liberties groups. Jadwat says Trump could issue a Israel is considered to be an It said that its September 3 nuclear The administration’s stated reason new executive order that updates but undeclared nuclear power, test, its sixth, was also of a hydrogen was national security: the need to does not end the ban. “There’s a lot of refusing to confirm or deny bomb. The underground blast triggered ensure the six countries have adequate things the government can do, both that it has such weapons. landslides in the detonation area. vetting procedures for travelers, so within the four corners of the order,” as to prevent terrorists from entering he said. (AFP) Saturday, September 23, 2017 BUSINESS 9 S&P lowers Hong Kong credit rating China hits back at credit downgrade Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is Hong Kong Beijing obviously a madman who doesn’t tandard & Poor’s slashed Hong Kong’s credit rating, a day hina lashed out Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade after lowering China’s, warning of potential spillover risks its rating, calling the warning against ballooning debt mind starving or killing his people, Sthe mainland’s ballooning debt pile. “mistaken”C and based on “cliches”. S&P, which said the city had “very The agency slashed China from will be tested like strong institutional and political AA-minus to A-plus, a move that linkages” with China, slashed its followed a similar decision in never before!” rating to AA-plus from the highest May by Moody’s stemming from AAA. The moves followed Moody’s concerns that the world’s second - Donald Trump, decision to downgrade China and largest economy is increasingly Hong Kong earlier this year. overleveraged. US President

Plagued by recent corruption scandals, Brazil is seeking to attract a new wave of investment to its energy sector by auctioning off large numbers of oil and gas exploration blocks across the country Auction areas Sep 27 Russia eyes more 287 blocks Oct 27 Potiguar Eight pre-salt blocks (high potential oil 800km prospects) 500 miles Sedimentary OPECVienna cooperation basins ussia’s energy minister said Parnaíba Offshore Ryesterday that he was in favour Onshore of continuing cooperation with the OPEC oil cartel as their joint accord BRAZIL Sergipe-Alagoas to cap output bears fruit in boosting Recôncavo the price of crude. However Alexander Novak said ATLANTIC that it was too early to discuss Brasília Espírito OCEAN Santo extending or altering the landmark Pre-salt 2016 deal by 24 countries -- area including Russia and members of Campos OPEC -- that expires on March 31. “We should keep the pace and definitely moreover follow through on the concerted action,” Novak said at a meeting at OPEC headquarters Paraná in Vienna of a committee reviewing Brent crude closed at $56.43 a “confirm beyond all reasonable Santos implementation of the agreement. barrel on Thursday, its highest since doubt... that the market rebalancing He added that while it oil February and up 25 percent since is on course,” the Nigerian said. producers should “elaborate a June. It inched up further on Friday “OPEC members are trying to Pelotas strategy” for April 2018 onwards as did West Texas Intermediate. target a figure of close to $60 a and that prolonging it was “an “We have every reason to be barrel. We’re not too far away from Source: ANP Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS option”, it was premature to make pleased with the steady progress we that,” Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a decision now. have made in our collective efforts Nigeria’s minister for petroleum “I believe that January is the to overcome the challenges of the resources, told Bloomberg. earliest date when we can actually current oil market cycle, which is “If we get to March (when the credibly speak about that state of the perhaps the worst of all the previous deal expires) and find that there’s market and about how the situation cycles that we have witnessed in a need to do more, I think we will.” is developing,” Novak told a news recent times,” OPEC’s secretary The danger, however, is that conference after the meeting. general Mohammed Barkindo said higher crude prices could entice “I don’t think it’s right for people at the talks. shale oil producers in the United to expect us to make a decision Recent market data showing a States -- outside the deal -- to ramp seven months before the deal reduction in stocks of oil around the up output and put the market back expires,” he said. world that has depressed oil prices in surplus. (AFP) Budget airlines to drive demand, says Boeing Singapore Representative picture maller planes will dominate aviation orders worldwide in the Snext 20 years, driven by the needs of budget airlines in emerging markets like Southeast Asia, Boeing said yesterday. Nearly three in four of the 41,030 new commerical planes expected to be delivered in the period at a cost of $6.1 trillion will be single-aisle, according to the US aircraft maker. “As you would expect because of the dominance of (low cost carriers) Southeast Asia is one of the world’s next two decades to 4,210 -- up 460 and requirements to connect shorter fastest-growing regions for budget on last year’s prediction. ranges, 72 percent of units will be air travel, with an expanding middle Passenger traffic growth in most in the single-aisle category,” Dinesh class driving a travel boom. of the region is in double digits, with Keskar, Boeing’s senior vice president Boeing said it has hiked its forecast Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and for Asia-Pacific and India sales, said for the number of new aircraft to be Indonesia among the leaders, Keskar at a briefing in Singapore. delivered in Southeast Asia in the added. 10 BUSINESS Saturday, September 23, 2017 No place for Uber

Uber loses licence to operate in London Representative picture London implications”. The licence TfL highlighted the “I want London to be at ondon transport expires on September 30 but company’s approach to the forefront of innovation authorities said yesterday Uber has 21 days to appeal the reporting serious criminal and new technology and to theyL would not renew Uber’s decision, and can continue to offences and to obtaining be a natural home for exciting COUNTRY/CURRENCIES BUY SELL licence to operate in the city operate until the process has criminal record checks new companies that help when it expires, due to public been exhausted. for drivers as factors in its Londoners by providing a AUSTRALIA 0.3085 0.3060 safety concerns, although the London joins other decision. The company came better and more affordable ew Millennium School- DPS BANGLADESH 0.00476 0.00466 US-based ride-hailing app has cities such as New Delhi, under scrutiny in Britain service,” he said. 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DTDT NewsNews ChiefChief EditorEditor CaptainCaptain MahmoodMahmood AlAl MahMah-- moodmood recentlyrecently receivedreceived andand honhon-- ouredoured thethe firstfirst propro-- fessionalfessional BahrainiBahraini footballfootball playerplayer inin thethe DanishDanish footballfootball leagueleague MohamMoham-- medmed AlAl Hardan.Hardan. AlAl MahmoodMahmood exex-- pressedpressed hishis pridepride inin thethe performanceperformance andand achievementsachievements Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa delegated Shaikh Khalifa bin Rashid Al Khalifa and Shaikh ofof AlAl HardanHardan andand Isa bin Ali Al-Khalifa to attend a ceremony during which new Commander of US Naval Forces Central Command Chinese Ambassador QI Zhenhong met Shaikha Mai President of Bahrain Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Dr. Abdulhussain Mirza received a delegation from J P Morgan, headed by the CEO of its Bahrain wishedwished himhim allall thethe and Commander of the Fifth Fleet Vice Admiral John Aquilino took over from his predecessor Vice Admiral Kevin M. Authority for Culture and Antiquities to enhance bilateral cultural coop- office Ali Mousa. The minister briefed the visitors on the latest economic and financial activities in Bahrain and praised the company’s bestbest inin hishis profesprofes-- Donegan. The handover ceremony was held at the US military base in Juffair. US Ambassador William Roebuck was eration and exchanges, and work together to host the coming Chinese efforts to assess its financial and economic situation. sionalsional life.life. also present. Cultural Week successfully.

President of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa received newly-appointed Jordanian Am- Chinese Ambassador QI Zhenhong hosted the 2017 Mid-Autumn Festival Reception in Al Areen Palace. The ambassa- bassador to Bahrain Rami Saleh Werikat. Shaikha Mai briefed the ambas- SouthernSouthern GovernorGovernor HHHH ShaikhShaikh KhalifaKhalifa binbin AliAli binbin KhalifaKhalifa AlAl KhalifaKhalifa receivedreceived thethe RusRus-- dor met the Managing Directors of the Chinese Enterprises in Bahrain and encouraged them to make more contribu- Southern Governor Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa held his fourth weekly Majlis at the Southern Governorate’s headquar- sador on the preparations to welcome the year 2018 in which Muharraq siansian AmbassadorAmbassador VagifVagif Garayev.Garayev. HeHe laudedlauded thethe depthdepth andand strengthstrength ofof thethe Bahraini-Bahraini- tions to promote the bilateral economic relations with the Kingdom. ters in the presence of the governorate’s dignitaries. The Governor stressed that regular weekly Majlises provide an oppor- will be “Capital of Islamic Culture”. RussianRussian relationsrelations andand praisedpraised theirtheir steadysteady growthgrowth inin variousvarious fields.fields. tunity to raise citizen-related issues.

The Ambassador of Bahrain to the United Kingdom Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa President of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) Saeed Al Faihani received Ambassador of the United Kingdom presented his credentials to King Felipe VI of Spain as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bah- TheThe AssistantAssistant ForeignForeign MinisterMinister andand HeadHead ofof thethe DelegationDelegation ofof thethe KingdomKingdom ofof BahrainBahrain toto thethe 36th36th sessionsession ofof thethe HumanHuman RightsRights CouncilCouncil inin GenevaGeneva AbdullaAbdulla binbin FaisalFaisal binbin JaburJabur AlAl DoseriDoseri Simon Martin. Al Faihani praised the advanced level of bilateral ties expressing his appreciation of the ambassador’s role in rain. He affirmed the keenness of Bahrain to strengthen the historical relations between the two metmet withwith aa numbernumber ofof officialsofficials andand diplomatsdiplomats inin thethe HumanHuman RightsRights CouncilCouncil inin Geneva.Geneva. HeHe affirmedaffirmed thatthat thethe lawslaws andand legislationslegislations inin thethe KingdomKingdom ofof BahrainBahrain reinforcereinforce legallegal andand judicialjudicial boosting the cooperation ties. The Institution’s VP Abdullah Al Drazi and Dr. Khalifa Al Fadhel the Acting Secretary-General friendly Kingdoms proceduresprocedures andand guaranteesguarantees in accordance with the highest international standards. were also present during the meeting.

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onder Woman’ has not just been a success at the Box- office, but has also made its place in people’s heart and director Patty Jenkins has revealed about the all the heart-warming‘W fan interactions since the release of the movie. The director shared that she has had so many wonderful fan interactions since the movie’s release, she long ago lost count. She said, “It blows me away when I see or hear people find something within themselves for the first time, or again, because of her story or our film. Or when it inspires them to be more than they believed they could be, and more loving and kind and brave and thoughtful.” Penelope Cruz (TOI) Penelope Cruz is a Spanish actress and model. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and Winslet to 2000s included Open Your Eyes, The Hi-Lo Country, The Girl of Your Dreams and Woman on Top. Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky, play WWII All the Pretty Horses, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Blow. correspondent

ate Winslet is all set to join the list of British actresses which will portray noted war correspondents on the big screen. KThe ‘Wonder Wheel’ star will play the distinguished World War II correspondent Lee Miller in an as-yet-untitled biopic about the famed American photographer, London model, artist and correspondent who was ctor Domhnall a leading figure in documenting World Gleeson War II. Miller brought images of the Nazi enjoyed concentration camps and the atrocities Aevery minute of that were committed to the attention of shooting “Goodbye the world. Christopher Robin” The film will document Miller’s life, as and would like to told by her son, Antony Penrose, in the work with his co-star only authorized biography, ‘The Lives of Lee Margot Robbie again. Miller’. With director yet to be announced, the The two actors have worked production is expected to begin in 2018. (TOI) together on two movies -- “About Time” and “Goodbye Christopher Robin” - and are set to star alongside each other in the upcoming “Peter Rabbit” film. Gleeson hopes their working relationship “continues over the years” because she is such a wonderful actress, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Speaking at the world premiere of “Goodbye Anthony Mackie Christopher Robin” here on Wednesday night , Gleeson, 34, told BANG Showbiz: “It’s a wonderful September 23, 1978 cast. I would work with all of them again. Margot Robbie is wonderful. She is brilliant to be around and a really good person and actor.” (IANS) Actor who became known for his roles in the Academy Award-winning films The Hurt Locker and Million Dollar Baby. He also plays the character Sam Wilson/Falcon in the Marvel universe. 14 Saturday, September 23, 2017 Saturday, September 23, 2017 15

Ariana Grande‏ @ArianaGrande Vaughn wants to make Taipei, thank you so much for your love n energy we had so much fun and love you very very much another ‘Fantastic Four’ atthew Vaughn said he wants to have a go at producing another ‘Fantastic Four’ movie to apologise for doing a bad job at the previous one. MThe 46-year-old director said he feels obliged to ‘rectify’ the error and would love to have second chance at the 2015 flop om Hanks has been roped in to star in ‘A Man Called film. Ove’, the remake of the popular Swedish film. “The other one I’ve felt an obligation to do is, I wouldn’t mind The 61-year-old actor will feature in the film maybe making a ‘Fantastic Four’ film to apologise to everyone adaptationT of Fredrik Backman’s 2012 debut novel of the out there that maybe it didn’t go very well for them.” same name. Rita Wilson will produce along with Fredrik “It’s brilliant. One of my favourites is the Wikstrom Nicastro for his Nordic major SF Studios. Fantastic Four, so maybe one day I’ll try Talking about the film, Wilson said, “This and rectify the mistake,” Vaughn said. The story about love, tolerance and hope amplifies filmmaker’s latest, ‘Kingsman: The Golden the qualities in movies that are hallmarks Circle’ is in theatres. (TOI) of the classic films we know and love. ‘A onder Woman’ has not just been a success at the Box- Man Called Ove’ transcended the language office, but has also made its place in people’s heart and barrier to touch readers and audiences in director Patty Jenkins has revealed about the all the ways we long for. What an honour to be heart-warming‘W fan interactions since the release of the movie. part of such beautiful material.” (TOI) The director shared that she has had so many wonderful fan interactions since the movie’s release, she long ago lost count. She said, “It blows me away when I see or hear people find something within themselves for the first time, or again, because of her story or our film. Or when it inspires them to be more than they believed they could be, and more loving and kind and brave and thoughtful.” Penelope Cruz (TOI) Penelope Cruz is a Spanish actress and model. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and Winslet to 2000s included Open Your Eyes, The Hi-Lo Country, The Girl of Your Dreams and Woman on Top. Cruz achieved n a refugee camp near the Turkish border in recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky, IKurdish Iraq in 2003, a 13-year-old boy nicknamed All the Pretty Horses, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Blow. Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) has become the leader of a play WWII motley gang of children, many of whom have lost limbs to landmines. Resourceful when he needs to be and cantankerous when he’s pushed, he finds a satellite dish for a village of frightened people who correspondent want to know when the United States will launch its attack on Iraq. Once he installs it, the elders and the governor want Satellite to translate the news for them ate Winslet is all set to join the list of British and also block out all the images of sexy women in actresses which will portray noted war music videos. The boy says that he was hired to set correspondents on the big screen. up the dish and nothing more. Asked to translate the KThe ‘Wonder Wheel’ star will play the English, he says that it is going to rain the next day. distinguished World War II correspondent Assisted by two friends, the one-legged Pasheo Lee Miller in an as-yet-untitled biopic (Saddam Hossein Feysal) and the melancholy Shirko about the famed American photographer, London (Ajil Zibari), Satellite assigns the refugee children model, artist and correspondent who was ctor Domhnall various jobs in the rugged countryside littered with a leading figure in documenting World Gleeson landmines, spent shells, and wrecked and rusted War II. Miller brought images of the Nazi enjoyed vehicles. He notices Agrin (Avaz Latif), a pretty concentration camps and the atrocities Aevery minute of refugee who has just arrived in the camp with her that were committed to the attention of shooting “Goodbye armless brother Hangao (Hiresh Feysal Rahman) and the world. Christopher Robin” Rega (Abdol Rahman Karim), a blind toddler. When The film will document Miller’s life, as and would like to Satellite sees Hangao defuse a landmine by pulling told by her son, Antony Penrose, in the work with his co-star the pin out with his mouth, he is not impressed but only authorized biography, ‘The Lives of Lee Margot Robbie again. jealous of a new rival. The fearless newcomer has Miller’. With director yet to be announced, the The two actors have worked another even more desirable talent — he can foresee production is expected to begin in 2018. (TOI) together on two movies -- the future. He warns Satellite to get all the kids off a “About Time” and “Goodbye truck loaded with shell casings just before it explodes. Christopher Robin” - and are Everyone is apprehensive about the new dangers on set to star alongside each the horizon. Remembering the past, the Kurds hand mma Stone has revealed about a real-life ‘battle’ that she has other in the upcoming out gas masks to protect against chemical attack. been battling since the age of seven. “Peter Rabbit” film. (spiritualityandpractice) While appearing on a talk show, the Oscar-winning Gleeson hopes their Eactress spoke about living with anxiety from a very young age. working relationship Stone was asked by the host to elaborate on the meaning behind “continues over the a picture she’d drawn when she was 9, which featured the words years” because she is ‘I’m bigger than my anxiety’. such a wonderful actress, reports femalefirst.co.uk. She replied, “I drew this in therapy. I was a very, very, very Anthony Mackie Speaking at the world premiere of “Goodbye anxious child, and I had a lot of panic attacks. I benefited in a big Christopher Robin” here on Wednesday night , way from therapy. I started at 7.” Gleeson, 34, told BANG Showbiz: “It’s a wonderful She also added, “This is me, I guess, and this is anxiety, a September 23, 1978 cast. I would work with all of them again. Margot little green monster that looks a little bit like, as someone Robbie is wonderful. She is brilliant to be around backstage said, a uterus with some ovaries. I didn’t mean it to be and a really good person and actor.” (IANS) hormonally related in any way, as I said, I was 9.” (TOI) Actor who became known for his roles in the Academy Award-winning films The Hurt Locker and Million Dollar Baby. He also plays the character Sam Wilson/Falcon in the Marvel universe. Thursday, September 21, 2017

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(Jan 21st - Feb 19th) It’s important to communicate your feelings today. You tend to hold them inside and wait until they build up and erupt like a volcano. Emotional blocks in your system are clogging up the works and preventing new, healthier energies from moving in. Say what you need to say to the people who need to hear how you feel. This is a terrific day for you, so make the (Feb 20th - Mar 20th) most of every moment. You can accomplish a tremendous amount as you juggle a dozen How to play: different things at once. Others will be inspired by your miraculous feats. You’re a superstar! Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each While you hold everyone in thrall, take the row across, each column down and each 9-box square opportunity to send your love and generosity contains all of the numbers from one to nine. outward. It will be cherished. Saturday, September 23, 2017 19 z #PollToday Malaria warning as resistant strain spreads Bangkok department at the tropical 13 dead after form of malaria that is medicine research unit Aresistant to standard at Mahidol University in Do you think Iran would halt treatment has spread Bangkok, said. strengthening its nuclear to Vietnam for the first The co-author of an article missile capabilities if pressure time, researchers warned published on Thursday in the increases form the west? yesterday. medical journal The Lancet Maria pummels The strain was originally Infectious Diseases added: detected in Cambodia in “It started 10 years ago in Yes No Cant Say 2007, and experts are calling western Cambodia. It is very for action before it reaches fit and spreads very easily. other areas such as India or This resistance is taking over. Africa. “Cambodia already Puerto Rico “It spread like a wildfire changed to a new drug, likely to Vietnam,” professor Arjen to last one or two years. Dondorp, head of malaria Vietnam has to change now.” “We should say a quiet prayer every evening that the mandate of the Controversial Stalin bust current holder of the (German) chancellor’s unveiled in Moscow office is extended,” Viktor Orban Hungarian Prime Minister

UN needs $200m Cars drive through a flooded road in the aftermath for Rohingya influx of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico. San Juan assessments about 13 deaths we have reports of complete uerto Rico was yesterday at this juncture,” he told CNN devastation of vulnerable battling dangerous early yesterday. housing. Of course it’s still Pflooding after Hurricane “We’re 24 hours post- raining over here.” Maria ravaged the island, as hurricane warning and right Maria was blamed for at A woman stands between busts of Soviet leaders Joseph the death toll there jumped now our efforts are to make least 33 deaths, including 15 Stalin (3rd R) and Vladimir Lenin (2nd R) during a ceremony to 13 and authorities rescued sure we have everybody safe, in Dominica, three in Haiti The United Nations will need unveiling a series of new sculptures of top political figures nearly 700 people from high that we can rescue people. Our and two in Guadeloupe. $200 million over the next at the so-called Alley of Rulers in downtown Moscow waters. efforts have already produced “Puerto Rico is absolutely six months to face the “cata- Moscow The seven sculptures Puerto Rico Governor almost 700 rescues so we’re obliterated,” US President strophic” influx of more than bronze bust of Joseph spanning the history of the Ricardo Rossello called Maria clearly focused on that.” Donald Trump told reporters 420,000 Rohingya refugees to Stalin was unveiled in USSR from Lenin to Mikhail the most devastating storm The National Hurricane on Thursday after declaring Bangladesh AMoscow yesterday amid Gorbachev are the latest in a century after it destroyed Center said some areas in the territory of 3.4 million increasing concerns in addition to the recently the US territory’s electricity Puerto Rico could see 40 people a disaster area, a move Kremlin says not Russia that the authorities opened “Alley of Rulers” and telecommunications inches of rain from Maria, and that will free up emergency involved in Facebook ads are seeking to whitewash the composition that already infrastructure. Rossello warned of dangerous relief funding. The Kremlin distanced itself Soviet dictator’s crimes. features 33 Russian rulers. “Part of the island is lacking mudslides brought on by the “Puerto Rico is in a very, from the controversy over Stalin’s sculpture -- along The display shows heads communications so what we deluge. very, very tough shape,” he Russia-linked Facebook ads with those of major Soviet of state from the Norman have are some preliminary “We have a lot of flooding, said. (AFP) which may have influenced leaders like Vladimir Lenin warrior Rurik, who founded last year’s US election, say- and Nikita Khrushchev the first Russian state, to ing Moscow had nothing to -- was unveiled outside a Alexander Kerensky, the do with them. museum in central Moscow head of the provisional Lanka probes child abuse during a ceremony attended government before Lenin India firing kills by lawmakers. seized power in 1917. six Pak civilians in ‘longest saree’ wedding The Pakistani military said six Colombo people have been killed and Sri Lankan couple is over two dozen wounded in Teenager charged over under investigation for firing by Indian troops, in the Adeploying hundreds of school latest cross-border violence London Underground attack children to carry the train between the neighbours. London orphan, lived with British of the bride’s saree during a ritish police said foster parents in the London wedding ceremony, authorities Bali volcano on yesterday they had suburb of Sunbury. The said yesterday. highest alert level Bcharged an 18-year-old man house was one of several About 250 students of a Indonesia raised the highest with attempted murder addresses searched by police state-owned school carried alert for a volcano on the following last week’s after the attack. the train of the 3.2-kilometre resort island of Bali, after bombing of a London Earlier, London police (two-mile) long saree worn tremors prompted thou- Underground train, which chief Cressida Dick said the by the bride as she and the sands to flee over fears it injured 30 people. bomb set off on a packed groom walked down a main could erupt for the first time Ahmed Hassan, who was rush-hour tube train was road in the central district of A Sri Lankan couple walk along a road as the bride attempted in more than 50 years. arrested the morning after “very, dangerous” and had Kandy Thursday, local media to set a record the attack on September 15, been packed with shrapnel. reported. Another 100 students guest at the wedding, according said it was probing the incident. For more, catch us was also charged with use The explosion at Parsons served as flower girls at the to media reports, which said “We have started an online at: of the explosive triacetone Green station in south-west wedding. the saree was the longest investigation,” NCPA triperoxide (TATP), a London, was Britain’s fifth The students were from a ever worn by a bride in Sri Chairman Marini de Livera www.newsofbahrain.com statement said. terror attack in six months, school named after Central Lanka. said. “We are going all out /nobonline The teenager, who is and was claimed by the Province Chief Minister Sarath The National Child because we don’t want this to /newsofbahrain believed to be an Iraqi Islamic State group. Ekanayaka who was a special Protection Authority (NCPA) become a trend.” 20 Saturday, September 23, 2017

A handout artist impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a lunar base made with 3D printing Riga decommissioned in 2024 -- the Beldavs said could be used as such as Moon-derived rocket whatever you touch feels like y 2040, a hundred “By 2030, end of an era of unprecedented a raw material for 3D-printing fuel. the inside of your gloves.” people will live on the cooperation in space after the satellites to be deployed from Robotic exploration is Another problem: “You BMoon, melting ice for water, there could be Cold War rivalry between the Moon at a fraction of the already underway, with several can never escape your crew 3D-printing homes and tools, an initial set- the United States and Soviet cost of a launch from high- Moon landers and rovers mates,” she said. eating plants grown in lunar Union. gravity Earth. planned for the coming years. But Foing, who himself soil, and competing in low- tlement of six Forty years after humankind There is also helium-3, a Woerner said the goal “is to spent some time in one of gravity, “flying” sports. set foot on Earth’s satellite as a rare isotope on our planet but join international efforts and the many earthly modules To those who mock such to 10 pioneers result of that fierce contest common on the Moon, that to bridge Earthly borders and preparing aspirant Moon or talk as science fiction, experts of one-upmanship, Woerner could theoretically be used to crises.” Mars explorers, is undeterred. such as Bernard Foing, -- scientists, has proposed a village on the generate cleaner, safer nuclear But for those who think the He hopes to visit the village ambassador of the European long-abandoned Moon as the energy for Earth. Moon offers an escape from by 2040. Space Agency-driven “Moon technicians next phase in space teamwork. The main target is water, an Earth threatened by climate As for his family, “that will Village” scheme, reply the and engineers“ Scientists and commercial locked up in ice on the Moon’s change and nuclear war, depend on the price... The goal is not only reasonable but prospectors are keen on the poles. physicist Christiane Heinicke price of the ticket is in the feasible too. concept, but politicians have Water can be separated into warns it is a “tough” life, and order of 100 million euros. At a European Planetary you could envisage to have yet to bite -- a reluctance that, hydrogen and oxygen, two not for everyone. That’s now, but in 20 years, Science Congress in Riga family” joining crews there, for now, cripples the idea. gases which explode when She had spent a year in a the price of the ticket could be this week, Foing spelt out Foing said. “It is highly frustrating... mixed -- providing rocket fuel. mock Mars environment in 100 times less.” how humanity could gain a Mere decades from now, We still don’t have the top “To go into Earth orbit... it Hawaii. This will depend largely on permanent foothold on Earth’s “there may be the possibility leaders interested,” said is 40 times cheaper to go from “It is completely devoid of advances made by commercial satellite, and then expand. to have children born on the physicist Vidvuds Beldavs the Moon than from Earth, any vegetation, all they see Moon explorers developing He likened it to the growth Moon,” he enthused. of the University of Latvia, because the Earth has such is rocks, regolith (loose rocks new technologies, boosting of the railways, when villages ESA boss Jan Woerner has who runs a project called the high gravity that you have to and dust), and a sky that is demand for lunar resources, grew around train stations, mooted replacing the orbiting International Lunar Decade, fight against it,” explained different from ours on Earth,” or tourism, and driving prices followed by businesses. International Space Station advocating joint exploration Foing. she told AFP by email. down. By 2030, there could be an with a permanent lunar of the Moon. “Being either inside Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for initial lunar settlement of six colony, a futuristic idea that The missing link? “To ‘Tough’ life the habitat or inside a suit example, hopes to send two to 10 pioneers -- scientists, was high on the agenda at this demonstrate that industrial Experts argue that the future means that you’re never able humans on a trip around the technicians and engineers -- week’s expert meeting in the activity on the Moon is lies in collaboration between to actually FEEL the moon/ Moon in the next few years, which could grow to 100 by Latvian capital. feasible, that... large markets increasingly cash-strapped planet you’re on. You can’t and Blue Origin of Amazon 2040, he predicted. can emerge.” national space agencies and feel the wind (if there is any, founder Jeff Bezos has plans to “In 2050, you could have a Building a market Potential Moon resources the private sector, which can like on Mars), you don’t feel deliver five tonnes of cargo to thousand and then... naturally The ISS is due to be include basalt, a volcanic rock profit from selling resources the Sun on your skin, and Earth’s satellite. (AFP) Labour of love: a daughter’s campaign to free her father Hong Kong “My dad... wouldn’t just be quiet United States congressional hearing wo years after her bookseller if his own daughter ended up in on China’s persecution of its critics. father vanished into Chinese that situation,” Angela told AFP by Last week, Angela had the first detention,T Angela Gui refuses to phone from England, where she is news of her father in almost a year give up her campaign to free him, about to start a PhD at Cambridge after the Swedish ambassador to despite growing concerns for her University. China, Anna Lindstedt, was granted own safety. “I thought: ‘Well if he would do access to Gui. Gui Minhai disappeared on that for me, I will just do what he Born in China and living in October 17, 2015, one of five would do’”. Hong Kong, Gui was also a Swedish Hong Kong booksellers known She has had three brief phone citizen, having spent part of his life for publishing gossipy titles about calls from her father since his working there. Angela was brought Chinese political leaders to go disappearance, all telling her that up in Gothenburg. missing. he is fine and she must not get In the meeting with Lindstedt, For the first 18 months, Angela involved with his case -- which she Gui said that he “feels good”, barely slept. But the 23-year-old believes he did not say voluntarily. Patric Nilsson, deputy director at Angela Gui as a child with student has turned her campaign to Angela has refused to keep quiet the Swedish foreign ministry told and her father Gui Minhai release him into a kind of job, which and has regularly publicised Gui’s AFP, adding the government was (file photo) she says is helping her to cope. plight, including addressing a working actively on the case. SPORTS Saturday, September 23, 2017 21 Batirov eyes

DTwrestling News Network glory Manama restler Adam Batirov arrived yesterday in Ashgabat,W Turkmenistan in Bahrain’s final medal quest at the ongoing Fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Son crushes Lin Games. The 32-year old will be competing for his country’s in Japan Open third medal at the games Tokyo The Malaysian, who has won on Monday in the Men’s orld number one Son the Japan Open six times, will Freestyle 70kg and under Wan-Ho overpowered face Shi Yuqi in the other semi- weight category which gets two-timeW Olympic champion final after the Chinese second underway at 4pm (Bahrain Lin Dan of China in the men’s seed beat India’s HS Prannoy time). singles at the Japan Badminton 21-15, 21-14. Winner of last year’s Asian Adam Batirov (R) arrives in Ashgabat ahead of his wrestling bouts Open yesterday, while newly In the women’s draw, Championship’s under-70kg expressed confidence to bring Meanwhile, Bahrain Royal Late on, Shaikh Faisal and crowned women’s world Okuhara pleased home fans gold medal, Batirov will be another medal for Bahrain in Equestrian and Endurance media representatives had champion Nozomi Okuhara with a 21-16, 23-21 win against looking to improve on his last Ashgabat and vowed to extend Federation president and open discussions on sports in also reached the semi-finals. Beiwen Zhang, representing major appearance at the Rio his hard work and effort in a Bahrain chef de mission Bahrain in general, and the South Korea’s Son beat the the United States. 2016 Olympics in the freestyle bid to achieve another feat on Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid Al Asian Indoor and Martial Chinese great with a hard- Okuhara is bidding to reclaim 65kg category, where he lost the international level. Khalifa received in Ashgabat Arts Games, in specific. fought 21-15, 21-15 victory the trophy on home soil, after in the Round of 16 to Ikhtiyor Batirov thanked HH Shaikh representatives of the Bahrain Olympic Committee and now faces world champion winning it in 2015. Navruzov of Uzbekistan. Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Bahrain media, the Bahrain general secretary and chef de Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in On Thursday, she beat Pusarla Batirov, who created a Representative of His Majesty taekwondo team and umpires mission deputy Abdulrahman the semis. V Sindhu, reprising her victory name for himself in the world the King for Charity Works at a special gathering at Yyldz Askar and other delegation Axelsen brushed off a over the Indian in the world of martial arts, progressed and Youth Affairs, Chairman Hotel. officials were also present. challenge from Indian ace championships final. into the Rio Olympics last of the Supreme Council Shaikh Faisal welcomed the Bahrain’s medals have been Kidambi Srikanth 21-17, 21-17. But the home fans were left year after dominating the for Youth and Sports and audience and commended won by Ali Monfaradi and Defending champion Lee disappointed elsewhere in the World Olympic Games President of Bahrain Olympic the efforts of the media to Ahmed Shebeeb, who took Chong Wei squeezed past draw when second seed Akane qualifying tournament held Committee, for supporting promote this event as well the Jiu Jitsu men’s under-77kg fourth-seeded rising star Chou Yamaguchi, winner here in 2013, in Mongolia. him to be able to compete at a as the Kingdom of Bahrain gold and bronze, respectively Tien-chen of Taipei 21-11, was defeated by Spanish fifth Upon arrival, Batirov high level in wrestling. teams taking part. last Monday. 15-21, 21-19. seed Carolina Marin. (AFP)

Eoin Morgan hopes Royal team back in action for title today DT News Network Hales, Buttler get Manama ahrain’s Royal Team will be in Ashes chance action at 9am (Bahrain time) Nottingham Btoday as they attempt to retain the ngland one-day captain Eoin Morgan title of the FEI World Endurance hopes Alex Hales and Jos Buttler have Championships for Juniors and toE change their schedules for the off-season Young Riders in Verona, Italy. by gaining selection for the Ashes tour of The team will be hoping to Australia. A things stand, limited-overs opener follow in the footsteps of Fahad Hales is heading to South Africa for their new Helal Mohammed Al Khatri, who Global League Twenty20 tournament, with won the previous championship wicketkeeper/batsman Buttler destined for a and clinching gold when riding stint in the Bangladesh Premier League. Poly de coat Frity at the 2015 But all that could change if they are included Championships in Santo Domingo, in the Ashes squad, due to be announced on Chile. Wednesday. Both Hales and Buttler have had Bahrain’s squad comprises a taste of Test cricket without nailing down defending champion Fahad Al a place and neither featured in any of this Khatri, Ahmed Khalifa, Miqdad season’s seven Tests at home to South Africa Mohammed Al Janahi, Rashid Al and West Indies. Rowaie, Salem Al Sabt and Dana Team Bahrain But such is the uncertainty over England’s Albenghadeer Al Doseri. Al Khalifa and Representative with the training that took place administrative support and wish batting, with only veteran opener Alastair The race features 110 riders from of His Majesty the King for band have been briefed on the them all the best against some of the Cook and skipper Joe Root currently certain 34 countries and comprises of four Charity Works and Youth Affairs, final stage of the exercises ahead of best riders in this group from around of their places in the Test team’s top order, stages over 120-5km - beginning Chairman of the Supreme Council competition.” the world,” Shaikh Nasser added. that Hales could yet gain an Ashes place. with stage one over 38km, stage for Youth and Sports, President of “The participation in the World Team manager Dr. Khaled Meanwhile one-day international gloveman two is 33km, the third stage is Bahrain Olympic Committee said, Championship gives confidence Ahmed Hassan, expressed his hope Buttler may be on the plane to Australia as the 27.5km and the concluding fourth “Leading up to the tournament, as to our team who look forward to that the team does well through reserve wicket-keeper behind Test incumbent stage over 22km. well as preparations for the team trying to retain the title won in previous experience in similar Jonny Bairstow. (AFP) Bahrain’s Royal Team captain to run in the race and the technical 2015. We have worked very hard events and use it to achieve good HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad plan to be applied, I am satisfied with the riders on technical and results against stiff opposition. 22 Saturday, September 23, 2017 SPORTS Rossi returns

Valentino Rossi arrives to take part Rossi checks his leg Rossi leaves the box

Alcañiz, Spain session in which he managed another Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo was second otorcycling legend Aragon GP free 13 laps as he bids to line up in Sunday’s on the day at 0.214sec with Yamaha Valentino Rossi practice times race. Tech’s Johann Zarco and Pedrosa’s completedM two practice “I’m quite happy, because I feel teammate and fellow Spaniard Marc 1. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 1min 59.858sec sessions yesterday for the comfortable on the bike,” Rossi said. Marquez next best. 2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Ducati) at 0.214sec Aragon Grand Prix, a “I was good already from this Marquez said: “Apparently it should 3. Johann Zarco (FRA/Yamaha) 0.462 mere 21 days after surgery morning and also because the leg, after be dry tomorrow and Sunday, so we’ll 4. Marc Márquez (ESP/Honda) 0.601 on a double leg fracture and two practice sessions, is in a good keep pushing and see where we are in 5. Karel Abraham (CZE/Ducati) 0.613 claimed he felt comfortable being condition, I don’t feel a lot of pain.” dry conditions.” 6. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda) 0.624 back in business. Honda rival Dani Pedrosa topped Rossi, who had completed 20 7. Sam Lowes (GBR/Aprilia) 0.727 The 38-year-old Italian was back the combined timesheets, the 2012 training laps in Misano on Tuesday, 8. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 1.104 on his Yamaha in half the forecast winner in Aragon posting a fastest lap came in 20th, more than two seconds 9. Aleix Espargaró (ESP/Aprilia) 1.157 time normally needed to recover of 1min 59.858sec, the only rider to back. 10. Pol Espargaró (ESP/KTM) 1.184 from such an operation. duck under the two-minute mark. Rossi underwent surgery on Selected The nine-time world champion, The Spaniard commented: “I’m September 1, a day after a crash in 20. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 2.059 Movistar given the all-clear to take part after happy with this day, even if it was training, discharging himself from Yamaha passing a mandatory medical obviously a bit strange. hospital the following day. He is MotoGP’s Italian examination at the MotorLand damp conditions. “Both times when we were preparing returning to action after missing the rider Valentino Aragon circuit, took it easy in He completed seven laps to test to go on track, it started to rain and we San Marino Grand Prix because of the Rossi arrives the opening session staged in his fitness, returning for the second had to change setup and tyres.” leg break. (AFP)

Frenchman Cosnefroy Manchester wins U-23 world title Degenkolb attack fuels Fury’s in hospital over world title bid ‘breathing Manchester to be an important night and it means ughie Fury hopes to defy the odds a lot to me,” Fury told reporters in a after 17 months of inactivity and conference call. problems’ Hwin a world heavyweight title from Joseph “My heart goes out to the families and Parker for the victims of the Manchester on September 23 I’m brining Bergen, Norway profound examinations of his Arena bombing. that belt back for them, erman one-day heart and lungs. The English boxer challenges New bringing some pride and classics specialist “John is feeling relatively Zealand’s Parker today for his joy back to Manchester. GJohn Degenkolb has been well but has been hospitalized World Boxing Organisation belt in But Fury, who has a hospitalised with a breathing pending the results of these the first boxing event at the indoor professional record of 20 Benoit Cosnefroy of France celebrates problem, he and his Trek examinations. We will area since a terror attack killed 22 wins and no losses with Bergen, Norway team revealed yesterday. publish an update on his people -- many of them children -- 10 knockouts, has been enoit Cosnefroy of France won the men’s The 2015 Paris-Roubaix condition as soon as we have and injured dozens more following inactive since April 30 last under-23 world road race title in Bergen winner was forced out of last more information.” the end of a concert by pop year due to a skin disease Byesterday. week’s Tour of Denmark and Degenkolb’s career has star Ariana Grande -- acne conglobata German Lennard Kamna was edged into following tests was admitted stalled somewhat since a on May 22. -- which left him second at the end of the 191km street circuit to hospital. stunning 2015 when he won Fury, who unable to train. race, with Denmark’s Michael Svendgaard “Dear all, yes, it’s true. I am two of the five prestigious is from the The 23-year- snatching bronze ahead of Briton Oliver in the moment in hospital to ‘Monument’ one-day races, northwest city of old then Wood. do some Check Ups. I am fine adding Milan-San Remo to Manchester and suffered a Cosnefroy had taken great risks on a and I will keep you updated,” his Paris-Roubaix success. the cousin of lower back tricky descent in wet conditions to catch Degenkolb wrote on Twitter. The 28-year-old was due former world injury which lone escapee Kamna inside the final 10km In a statement, Trek team to be Germany’s team leader heavyweight caused the and the two had just enough to hold of a doctor Jens Hinder said: “In at the world championship champion fight against charging, but depleted peloton to contest a the last races he did, John road race in Bergen, Norway Tyson Fury, Parker to be two man sprint. suffered from breathing on Sunday but pulled out last wants to postponed The Frenchman opened up first but problems and a serious lack week due to his breathing win the belt from taking Kamna, who was the junior time-trial of power that prevented him problems. and dedicate place champion three years ago, simply didn’t have to perform at his level. He had been forced out of victory to the in New the strength to overhaul him. “His condition was not the recent Vuelta a Espana victims of the Zealand Svendgaard won the sprint for third just improving enough over the after just four stages due to attack. on May 6. three seconds back. (AFP) last week, so we decided his respiratory problems. “That night is going Hughie Fury (file pic) (AFP) he had to undergo more (AFP) SPORTS Saturday, September 23, 2017 23 ‘Now I’m jinxed?’ FIFA best awards: jokes Zidane Finalists revealed Madrid London eal Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane joked yesterday eymar was named alongside that he was “jinxed” as his team comes under attack Cristiano Ronaldo and forR their misfiring start to this season’s la Liga campaign. NLionel Messi on the three- “So now I’m jinxed, am I?” the Frenchman said two man shortlist for the Best FIFA days after Real suffered a shock 1-0 defeat by Real Betis. Men’s Player Award, which was “Before I was the shining star... No, no, I’ve always announced in London yesterday. been a shining star, don’t worry. Brazil superstar Neymar, “I’m at this club and I make the absolute most of 25, won the Copa del Rey with being here. Barcelona last season before “I don’t think about bad luck, that’s part of football joining Paris Saint-Germain and the good news is that we have a match tomorrow. in a blockbuster 222 million We have the chance to be able to change that quickly euros ($266 million) move that and we’ll do it.” smashed the world transfer In the space of just five games Real have gone record. from red hot La Liga title favourites to trailing rivals Ronaldo, 32, is the Barcelona by seven points ahead of Saturday’s trip to overwhelming favourite to Alaves. win the award, having led Real When Madrid swept a crisis-ridden Barca aside 5-1 Madrid to the La Liga title and a A combination of images shows (L-R) Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, Paris Saint-Germain’s Neymar and in the Spanish Super Cup last month, Zidane’s men third Champions League success Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo were expected to romp to the title. in four years last season. Barcelona won the Copa del Rey The shortlist for the Best for the Best FIFA Goalkeeper Instead, disappointing home draws against Valencia He won last year’s award after and Spanish Super Cup. FIFA Women’s Player award prize alongside Keylor Navas and Levante were compounded as Real failed to score winning the Champions League The Argentina great, a comprises Venezeula’s Deyna of Real Madrid and Bayern for the first time in 74 games when Real Betis became with Madrid and the European record five-time winner of the Castellanos, Carli Lloyd of the Munich’s Manuel Neuer. the first side other than Barca or Atletico Madrid to win Championship with Portugal. Ballon d’Or, has made a superb United States and Dutch player The winner of the 2017 awards at the Santiago Bernabeu in La Liga for six-and-a-half Ronaldo previously won the start to the current campaign, Lieke Martens. will be announced during a years on Wednesday. FIFA World Player of the Year scoring 12 goals in his first eight Real Madrid’s Zinedine Zidane ceremony at the London But Zidane insisted that his team was not of the award in 2008 and is a four-time appearances in all competitions. goes head to head with Chelsea’s Palladium on October 23. mindset that La Liga was already beyond their grip. winner of the Ballon Ronaldo won the inaugural Antonio Conte and Juventus The voting for the award, “You can have a 10 or 15-point deficit but in football d’Or. Best FIFA Men’s Player Award boss Massimiliano Allegri for the equally weighted between there are highs and lows and you can experience bad Messi, 30, last year after a six-year merger top coach award. national team captains, national moments and each team will experience them,” the 1998 scored 54 goals between the FIFA honour and Veteran Italian goalkeeper team coaches, media and fans, World Cup winner said. last season as the Ballon d’Or. Gianluigi Buffon is shortlisted closed earlier this month. (AFP) “My character is that I won’t scream for screaming’s sake or do things that are out of keeping for me.” (AFP)

Champions League Group stage, matchday 2 2017 / 2018 Martial eager to Paris St-Germain vs Bayern Munich Coach Coach Unai Emery (ESP) Wed Sept 27 at 1845 GMT Carlo Ancelotti (ITA) start against Saints Parc des Princes Southampton Neymar 48,583 capacity Romelu Lukaku rested for the Burton (BRA) nthony Martial game and expected to return, Martial Head to head must wait to appears to be among four players 4 won 2 discoverA if he has competing for two starting places against drawn played his way back the Saints -- along with Marcus Rashford, 2 8 goals 8 into Manchester United’s Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard. Arjen starting line-up for the “Anthony Martial wanted to do things,” Record Robben (NED) Premier League visit to said Mourinho. 0 Champions League 4 Southampton after scoring “Some he did amazingly well, others Last 16 2016-2017 1/4 for the second consecutive not so well but he was always trying and Kylian 2017-2018 season game. that commitment and happiness on the Mbappé The 21-year-old French pitch is always important. (FRA) New players international has started just “Martial was good, Lingard was good, K. Mbappé (FRA) C. Tolisso (FRA) one league match for Jose Mata was good. Neymar (BRA) J. Rodriguez (COL) Mourinho this season but “I think everybody in attacking areas Groupe B came off the bench to score a gave a good dynamic in the team and Paris SG Bayern Munich penalty in last week’s 4-0 win especially happiness. We look happy Anderlecht Celtic Glasgow over Everton. playing at this moment and that is what Statistics Robert He followed that up I want.” 1st matchday Lewandowski with a start and a goal in the Martial struggled for form and (POL) midweek League Cup victory against consistency in Mourinho’s first year in Passes Accuracy Championship side Burton Albion, with charge at United last season, and was 91% 90% his overall performance earning praise even criticised for his attitude by the 5% 58% 37% 22% 68% 9% from Mourinho. Portuguese manager. (AFP) But with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Short Mid-length Edinson Long Cavani (URU) 60% Possession 68% Franck Ribery Anthony Martial 110.2 km Distance covered 110.4 km (FRA) Sources: UEFA, transfermarkt.com FIFA best awards: P23 Finalists revealed SPORTS 2424 Saturday, September 23, 2017 Muguruza enters semis Tokyo her first tournament since reaching from Garcia. my intensity,” Muguruza told ewly crowned world number the top of the women’s world The ninth seed gave herself reporters. one Garbine Muguruza rankings, never looked threatened a lifeline to level the set at 3-3 “I guess I’m always the favourite Ntrounced France’s Caroline Garcia in a one-sided quarter-final. but was quickly put in her place now,” added the Spaniard, 6-2, 6-4 yesterday to reach the The Wimbledon champion when Muguruza beat her with a referring to the number one semi-finals of the Pan Pacific stormed to a 5-1 lead before ferocious backhand pass to restore ranking. Open. ripping a half-court forehand into normal service. “I’m dealing with a new Earlier, former number one the corner to secure the first set. A crunching serve down situation and I don’t think it’s Angelique Kerber won a war of Muguruza pounced on a short the middle put Garcia out of right to put pressure on myself. attrition with second seed Karolina second serve with a murderous her misery after 81 minutes as But to achieve a dream I’ve had Pliskova to book her place in the backhand to break early in the Muguruza advanced to face title since I was a child gives me a last four. second and the top seed dealt holder Caroline Wozniacki. lot of confidence and a boost of Spaniard Muguruza, playing calmly with fleeting resistance “I felt my game was there and motivation.” (AFP) Garbine Muguruza of Spain celebrates

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