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Former Jordan’s king WIN 3 CARS on rare visit AND 300 to Ramallah GOLD COINS! Ramallah minister ordan’s King Abdullah II Tel: 17228888 is to meet tomorrow with bfc.com.bh JPalestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on his first visit in five years to the West Bank city of Ramallah, a Palestinian official said. Mohammed Shtayyeh, a slams top official in the Fatah party of Abbas, said yesterday the JO3307_BFC_BAH_BOB_Centenary_Bonanza_Campaign_ad_67x40mm.indd25/05/2017 15:45 1 two leaders would discuss WITH efforts to revive the Israeli- THIS Palestinian peace process, PAPER which has been at a standstill since 2014. Qatar press for It will be the first visit since December 2012 by Abdullah -- whose country is custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem and which has a 2004 peace treaty with TO DT SUBSCRIBERSExclusive Israel -- to the Palestinian political capital in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Jordan intervened last misquoting month to help resolve a UN investigating mass DT News Network Press, claiming that he called Qatari press falsified his “the solution to the crisis crisis over access to the ultra- graves in northern Mali [email protected] for dialogue within the GCC statements. should be made within the sensitive Haram al-Sharif without the involvement of Denying that he referred GCC”. mosque compound in the Bamako, Mali Manama foreign parties including to the crisis as a “blockade”, The former official Old City of Israeli-annexed he United Nations said ormer minister Dr. Egypt. Dr. Ali Fakhro said that the appreciated in his statements east Jerusalem, know to Jews it was probing mass Ali Fakhro yesterday Dr. Ali Fakhro, who published statements were the mediation of the Kuwaiti as Temple Mount.- AFP gravesT found in a northern Fslammed Qatari press for held the posts of Education false and that he particularly Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Mali town along with a slew fabricating his statements on Minister and Health Minister said Qatar committed Ahmed Al Sabah to solve of human rights abuses the prevailing Qatar crisis. for three decades, said the many mistakes, insisting the diplomatic crisis between committed by armed Dr. Fakhro’s clarification Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the P groups vying for control of came after Qatari newspapers UAE and Egypt on one side the area. Pro-government misquoted him saying that Quds Press misquoted Dr. Fakhro, and Qatar on the other side. Platform has been clashing he demanded to lift the claiming that he called for dia- The Qatari press was 24 with former rebels of “blockade” on Qatar and that criticised by Bahraini and Azawad, violating a 2015 “forcing Egypt into the issue logue within the GCC without the fellow GCC citizens on peace deal they signed is a distortion of the truth”. involvement of foreign parties social media networks for aimed at ending separatist Published on Friday, continuing to falsify facts unrest and jihadist inroads the reports misquoted Dr. including Egypt to serve the stances of its Gatlin stuns Bolt to into Mali’s north. Fakhro’s interview with Quds government. win 100m world title 2 Sunday, August 6, 2017

Safra edge Saiba

Al Naeem players celebrating

DT News Network against Hoora and Gudaibiya with Hussain Abdulredha with six goals. Manama Mohammed Ashoor the man of This tournament is being played afra Youth Centre defeated the match, while Dumistan was a under the patronage of HH Shaikh Abu Saiba Youth Centre 3-2 5-2 winner against Karbabad with Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First Sin the third round of preliminary Taha Al Fardan man of the match. Deputy President of the Supreme matches of Group 1 in the latest The organisers also invited Council for Youth and Sports and matches of the Fifth Khalid bin and honoured international Honorary President of Bahrain Hamad Futsal League for Youth assistant referee Nawaf Shaheen. Sports Federation for Disabilities East Riffa - Al Qurayya Centres, People with Disabilities The honouring also included and organised by the Ministry of match action and Girls (Khalid 5) at the Khalifa sports journalist and columnist Youth and Sports Affairs and the Sports City in Isa Town. in Al-Ayam Newspaper Nasser Media Office of Shaikh Khalid Man of the match was Ali Salah Mohammed, for his endless bin Hamad Al Khalifa, under the of the winning Safra team. support to Khalid 5 and other local slogan #Generations_Meeting. In a fiercely competitive action sports events. It started on July 24 and packed Group 2 match, East Riffa Organisers said continues until September 14 and beat Al Qurayya 3-1 which saw that after two features 59 teams, divided into 36 five yellow cards, three red cards rounds of matches youth centres teams, 9 unregistered and 14 fouls and East Riffa’s coach that 255 goals had clubs, 8 teams of people Abdulla Ibrahim sent to the stands. been scored with with disabilities After all this drama, East Riffa’s the top scorer institutions and 6 Mohammed Maher was named the being girls teams. man of the match. In the same group, Al Naeem achieved their third consecutive victory in the league after winning 6-2

Ali Saleh, man of the match

Al Naeem - Hoora and Gudaibiya match

Dumistan players and fans celebrating Sunday, August 6, 2017 3 High call rates, poor data irk telecom users DT News Network Companies used to provide package. to higher rental,” she said companies have even changed interests of subscribers [email protected] a free local and international “But now I have to pay BD 7 adding: “this was greatly the billing cycle of plans. to ensure continued fair elecom customers in calls earlier, said another user for an upgraded package with disappointing.” Responding to the queries and effective competition Bahrain are an unhappy adding that all of them are lesser free calls and inferior One of the telecom provider received at its call centre, TRA between telecommunications lot.T For the past few months, now “scrapped”. data package,” Abdallah has increased their monthly earlier clarified in a statement providers”. several customers are This, according to Abdallah, pointed out. rentals for the existing that the authority takes no “The mobile market complaining that they are a Hoora resident, is “very Ameena, another resident, customers. role in devising new plans in Bahrain has seen a surprised with higher call rates surprising”, as many options told DT News that she lost A customer told DT News or packages introduced by significant development and pathetic data quality. were available earlier, when “free calling minutes for being that he received a text message the mobile operators in the since the introduction of the Consumers here say that the “competition was high”. late to refill credit”. requiring him to pay “BD6 Kingdom. third mobile operator and telecom operators are silently Many benefits were offered “Two weeks ago, I went to instead of BD5 from now on”. TRA’s Manager of the removal of the ex ante replacing many of their low earlier which includes “free a customer service centre to “Effective from your bill Consumer Affairs, Mariam regulation of mobile retail cost plans with pricier options. international and local calls refill credit as my line was that is issued after the 30th of Almannai also confirmed that services,” added Almannai. “The low cost plans were as well as a generous data disconnected due to non August 2017, your monthly the authority is “continuously When TRA deregulated either scrapped entirely or package”, he said. payment. plan rental will be increased by monitors the ongoing the market in 2008 one of replaced with pricier options,” “With my previous mobile “However, when they BD 1,” reads another message developments in the Kingdom’s the stated objectives was to a consumer told DT News line, I used to pay BD4 for free reconnected my line, I lost all received by a subscriber from a telecommunications market “enhance competition and adding: “In other cases they international and local calls, the free calling minutes and telecom provider. Customers and takes the necessary meet the needs of users in the simply hiked the charges.” and high speed unlimited data I was also told would have also pointed out that the measures to protect the market”.

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Call +973 39936618 or log on to www.licinternational.com 4 Sunday, August 6, 2017 Missing man in Khalid bin Hamad Theatre Mecca found Festival workshop today DT News Network workshop today, Jamal family of writers and authors Manama Al Ghailan, the Director headquarters in Zinj and will he organising committee of the event, has said. Al be addressed by Dr. Rashid Mohammed Kadim of the Khalid bin Hamad Ghailan explained that the Najim and Safa Al Alawi. DT News Network YouthT Theater Award Festival workshop, titled “Do We Need Al Ghailan announced [email protected] will hold an introductory Theatres?”, will be held at the that more such workshops will be held between August Manama 20 and August 30, calling Bahraini pilgrim who upon the participants in the was reported missing festival to attend and benefit Aon Wednesday was found in from the topics discussed Mecca. This was confirmed by in the workshops. He said the Consulate General of the preparations are in full swing Kingdom of Bahrain in Jeddah for the third edition of the on its official Twitter page festival for national clubs, yesterday. The Consulate said youth centers and people with the missing man was found disabilities. Being organised and he is in a good health for the third consecutive year condition, adding that he has under the patronage of His been reunited with his son. Highness Shaikh Khalid bin The statement came two Hamad Al Khalifa, First Deputy days after the Bahraini pilgrim’s President of the Supreme family circulated an appeal Council for Youth and Sports, on social media networks, President of Bahrain Athletics requesting the authorities of Association and Honourary Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as President of the Bahrain Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa well as netizens to help find Disabled Sports Federation and with large and active youth earlier that this year’s edition the missing man. The man has within the initiatives of His participation from national will be held under the slogan been identified as Mohammed Highness, the festival will be clubs, youth centers and people ‘Let’s Plant A Smile’ and will Kadhim and has been missing held at the Muharraq Model with disabilities.The organising introduce several workshops in Mecca since Wednesday Jamal Al Ghailan Youth Centre in October, committee had announced and additional activities. while he was performing Umra. Bahrain at ‘maturity stage’ in ITU Global Security Index DT News Network to harmonize efforts between “The telecom sector has taken Manama local and global best practices. positive strides in improving ahrain has achieved a According to the recently its cyber security posture since mature stage of cyber published ITU report, Bahrain 2014, yet we do recognize that Bsecurity readiness as per the has been listed in the ‘Maturing more needs to be done in order assessment of the International Stage’ category that includes to realize a more secure cyber Telecommunications Saudi Arabia, the United Arab environment that would enable Union’s (ITU) Global Emirates, as well as 75 other us to reap sustainable benefits Cyber Security Index 2017, countries that have developed from digital transformation,” the Telecommunications complex commitments, says TRA’s Director of Cyber Regulatory Authority (TRA) and have actively engaged Security, Dr. Khalid bin Duaij announced yesterday. in implementing key cyber Al Khalifa. The index measured the cyber security programs and “While the Authority security commitment levels initiatives. TRA’s efforts have remains committed towards of all 193 ITU state members contributed significantly bridging the gap with based on five key pillars towards improving the developed countries as per ranging from legal, technical, cyber security ranking on the report’s findings, TRA is organizational, to capacity all of the 5 pillars , and the mindful that the global rank building and cooperation. recently published Critical is merely indicative of the TRA has implemented several Telecommunications gaps that still exist and which initiatives to address the gaps Infrastructure Risk can be positively improved identified in the 2014 iteration Management regulation in through national level cyber of the index in order to elevate particular has played a vital security initiatives that would the telecommunications sector role in improving Bahrain’s result in improved inter-sector cyber security readiness, and ITU ranking in the Index. cooperation and capacity building exercises,” he added. TRA aims to continually The Global Security Index measured the implement initiatives to cyber security commitment levels of all achieve public-private collaborations to ensure the 193 ITU state members based on five sector is adequately prepared to key pillars ranging from legal, technical, counter the rising cyber threats to the availability and security organizational, to capacity building and of telecom and digital services cooperation which are critical for achieving a robust digital economy. Sunday, August 6, 2017 5 UN adopts tougher sanctions US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (R) and Britain’s Ambassador Matthew Rycroft vote on a US-drafted reso- on N.Korea lution toughening sanctions on North Korea United Nations were the first of that scope by the cash-starved state -- the current joint companies July 28. The United States has put he UN Security Council to be imposed on North stripping North Korea of a and adds nine North Korean But the measure does heavy pressure on China, yesterday unanimously Korea since US President third of its export earnings officials and four entities not provide for cuts to oil which accounts for 90 percent adoptedT a US-drafted Donald Trump took office estimated at $3 billion per including North Korea’s deliveries to North Korea of trade with North Korea, resolution that significantly and highlighted China’s year. main foreign exchange as initially proposed by the to enforce the sanctions and strengthened sanctions on willingness to punish its US Ambassador Nikki bank to the UN sanctions United States -- a move that the fate of these measures North Korea, with a ban on Pyongyang ally. Haley told the council that blacklist. would have dealt a serious largely hinges on Beijing’s exports aimed at depriving The resolution bans all the stiffer measures brought The United States entered blow to the economy. cooperation. Pyongyang of $1 billion in exports of coal, iron and the penalty imposed on North into negotiations with The new raft of measures are China and Russia had annual revenue. iron ore, lead and lead ore, Korea “to a whole new level” China a month ago on the the seventh set of UN sanctions resisted the US push for The sweeping measures as well as fish and seafood and put leader Kim Jong Un new resolution after North imposed on North Korea since sanctions, arguing that “on notice.” Korea launched its first it first carried out a nuclear test dialogue with North Korea If fully implemented by intercontinental ballistic in 2006, but these have failed to was the way to persuade China and Russia, North missile on July 4 which was compel Pyongyang to change Pyongyang to halt its military Korea’s main economic followed by a second test on its behaviour. programmes. partners, the measures would tighten the vise around Pyongyang as it seeks to develop its military NOTICE programs. The resolution also prevents North Korea from increasing the number of workers it sends abroad whose earnings are another source of revenue for Kim’s regime. It prohibits all new joint Kim-Jong-un ventures with North Korea, bans new investment in This is to notify the public that operations of the Wadi Al Sail Petrol Station Branch of t’azur Insurance Company located in Building 710, Road 2819, S. Korean FM offers olive branch Block 928, Wadi Al Sail Petrol Station Will be moved to Building 706, Road Manila but the North refused to 2819, Block 928, West Riffa in Military Consumers Association Premises. outh Korea’s foreign respond. Had they gone minister said she was open ahead, they would have been Sto rare discussions with her the first official inter-Korean The Company will continue to service its customers through the main North Korean counterpart talks since 2015. branch at Seef District and the company’s shop listed below. For further at a security forum in the North Korean leader enquiries, Please call the customer service Center on 17561661 or visit Philippines in a bid to rein in Kim Jong-Un has defied our website www.tazur.com Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons South Korea’s international pressure to programme. Foreign Minister accelerate his country’s Branches of the company in Bahrain: The diplomatic olive Kang Kyung-Wha nuclear weapons capabilities, branch came as the isolated and boasted after the second regime faces increasing global also attending the regional intercontinental ballistic Arad Manama pressure following its second summit, which is hosted by missile test that he could Shop 9, Building 143, Building 150, Road 1570, intercontinental ballistic the 10-member Association strike any target in the United missile test on July 28, with of Southeast Asian Nations States. Road 44, Block 243, Arad Block 315, Manama Town, the United Nations Security (ASEAN). In response, Washington Kingdom of Bahrain Kingdom of Bahrain Council set to vote this Kang, South Korea’s first drafted the planned UN weekend on new sanctions. female foreign minister, said resolution to toughen “If there is an opportunity any meeting with Ri would be sanctions against Pyongyang. that naturally occurs, we an opportunity “to deliver our The United States also Awali Budaiya should talk,” Kang Kyung- desire for the North to stop its said it hoped to build unified Khaleeji Commercial Bank Wha told reporters as she provocations and positively pressure on the North at the Awali Fuel station, landed in Manila on Saturday, respond to our recent special Manila event, known as the Building no. 200, Road 4437, Shop 1771, Budaiya Road, according to South Korea’s offers (for talks) aimed at ASEAN Regional Forum Block 954, Safra, Block 509 Yonhap news agency. establishing a peace regime”. (ARF), which US Secretary Kingdom of Bahrain Muqaba North Korea’s top Seoul last month proposed of State Rex Tillerson is Kingdom of Bahrain diplomat, Ri Hong-Yo, is military talks with Pyongyang attending. (AFP) 6 Sunday, August 6, 2017

Rome have died. most and heatwaves would waths of southern Europe Italians longing for the account for 99 percent of the sweltered yesterday in beach have dubbed the hot deaths, according to research Sa heatwave that has claimed spell “Lucifero”, or Lucifer, conducted for the European several lives, cost billions in after the biblical archangel Commission and published in Sizzling crop damage and is, scientists said to have been condemned The Lancet Planetary Health. warned, a foretaste of worse to forever to the flames of hell. The conclusions were follow in coming decades. The latest victim was a questioned by Korean peers of At least five deaths in Italy woman whose car was swept the researchers who suggested and Romania have been away overnight by an avalanche humans would become less attributed to the extreme of water and mud as humid vulnerable to extreme weather conditions since the heatwave conditions near the Alpine ski with experience of it. summer set in around the start of resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo Meteo France forecaster August. broke into torrential rain. Frederic Nathan said he was Unusually high, sometimes That tragedy follows the sure recent heatwaves reflected unprecedented temperatures, deaths on Thursday of two global warning. are being recorded across an pensioners, a 79-year-old “We have always had them area spanning much of the woman and an 82-year-old but their length and intensity gives Europe Iberian peninsula (Spain and man, who were caught up in has notched up since the Portugal), southern France, wildfires in, respectively, the 1950s and 60s and they are Italy, the Balkans and Hungary. central region of Abruzzo and increasingly coming earlier or Thermometer mercury near Matera in the south of the later. has regularly risen above 40 country. “If you look at records for degrees Celsius (104 degrees France, the vast majority of Farenheit) across the affected 150,000 weather deaths? new records being set are for taste of areas, exacerbating the impact Scientists meanwhile high temperatures. Record of an extended drought and warned that deaths due to cold is becoming increasingly children cooling off in the lingering impact of a extreme weather in Europe rare.” running water flowing July heatwave which sparked could increase fifty-fold from Scientist warned last week from a fire hydrant in wildfires that claimed 60 lives an estimated 3,000 per year that large parts of South Asia, Pantin near Porte de La in Portugal. recently to 152,000 by the home to a fifth of the world’s Villette, north of Paris. Hospital admissions have end of this century - if global population, could become the future spiked 15-20 percent in Italy, warming is not reined in. unbearably hot by the end of where at least three people Southern Europe will suffer this century. (AFP) $1m payout over exploding cream dispenser in France

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Montauban When the whipped The damage award French court has cream cannister exploded in included 10,000 euros each awarded a million-euro December 2013 it cracked to Lada’s husband and their Apayout to a woman whose Lada’s skull, prompted two children, aged 3 and 6 skull was cracked by an intracranial bleeding and -- as they were also in the exploding whipped cream tore off part of her face. kitchen with her. dispenser, in a case echoing “But the surgeons’ work AXA has appealed the the death of a fitness blogger was quite astonishing and decision, saying supermarket in June. the disfigurement is now chain Auchan should bear The woman’s attorney, barely visible,” Petitgirard some responsibility as it sold Emeline Petitgirard, said the said. the canister. sum was unusually large for However Lada can no The court disagreed, France, where civil courts longer work and has lost her finding that Auchan was not are “generally skittish” about sense of taste and smell, she liable because Lada could not big monetary awards “in the added. produce a receipt proving her absence of death”. According to the purchase. But the attorney said the judgement, made public It added however that case of Emilie Lada, who Saturday, the court in the Auchan had not put in place was 30 at the time, was southern French town an effective alert system to particularly tragic -- the of Montauban found the warn their clients about the “colossal” 1.09 million euro cannister’s importer F2J.com product, whose dangers have ($1.2 million) sum is “for a and its insurance provider been known since March life snatched away.” AXA liable for the incident. 2013. Sunday, August 6, 2017 7 Ancient Egyptian pharaoh may be the 1st known ‘Giant’ he supposed remains of on ancient Egyptian mummies and his colleagues reanalysed TSa-Nakht, a pharaoh of suggested the average height for the alleged skull and bones of ancient Egypt, may be the oldest “Giants are men around this time was about Sa-Nakht. The skeleton’s long known human giant, a new study 5 foot, 6 inches (1.7 m), said study bones showed evidence of finds. co-author Michael Habicht, an “exuberant growth,” which Myths abound with stories of more than Egyptologist at the University of are “clear signs of gigantism,” giants, from the frost and fire Zurich’s Institute of Evolutionary Habicht said. giants of Norse legends to the just myth” Medicine. These findings suggest that this Titans who warred with the gods Ancient Egyptian kings were ancient Egyptian probably had in ancient Greek mythology. likely better fed and in better gigantism, making him the oldest However, giants are more than 1901 in a tomb near Beit Khallaf health than commoners of the known case of this disorder in just myth; accelerated and in Egypt. Previous research era, and so they could be expected the world, the researchers said. excessive growth, a condition estimated that the bones dated grow taller than average. Still, No other ancient Egyptian royals known as gigantism, can occur from the Third Dynasty of Egypt, the over 6-foot-tall remains the were known to be giants. when the body generates too about 2700 B.C. scientists analysed would have “Studying the evolutionary much growth hormone. This Prior work suggested that towered over Ramsses II, the development of diseases is of usually occurs because of a the skeleton of the man — who tallest recorded ancient Egyptian importance for today’s medicine,” tumour on the pituitary gland of would have stood at up to 6 pharaoh, who lived more than Habicht said. the brain. feet, 1.6 inches (1.987 meters) 1,000 years after Sa-Nakht and The scientists detailed their As part of ongoing research tall — may have belonged to was only about 5 foot, 9 inches findings in the August issue of into mummies, scientists Sa-Nakht, a pharaoh during the (1.75 m) tall, Habicht said. the journal The Lancet Diabetes investigated a skeleton found in Third Dynasty. Previous research In the new study, Habicht & Endocrinology. (LiveScience)

Addax Bank B.S.C.(c) Consolidated Financial Statements - 30 June 2017

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS as at 30 June 2017 US$ ‘000 AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME for the six months ended 30 June 2017 US$ ‘000 30 June 2017 31 December 2016 for the six months ended 30 June 2017 US$ ‘000 30 June 2017 30 June 2016 (reviewed) (audited) Six months Three months ended 30 June ended 30 June (reviewed) (reviewed) 2017 2016 2017 2016 Operating activities Assets (reviewed) (reviewed) (reviewed) (reviewed) (Loss) / profit for the period (989) 1,558 Cash and cash equivalents 4,925 3,884 Adjustments for: Available-for-sale-investments 4,383 5,855 Share of profit from associates 872 1,252 473 642 Share of profit from associates (872) (1,252) Investment in associates 20,280 21,686 Gain on disposal of investment - 58 - - Gain on disposal of available for sale investments - (58) Other assets 170 296 Dividends income - 32 - 32 Other income (14) (1,151) Total assets 29,758 31,721 Other income 14 1,151 5 700 Impairment of available for sale investments 1,472 470 Total income 886 2,493 478 1,374 Operating cash flows before changes in Liabilities operating assets and liabilities (403) (433) Borrowings from shareholders 9,649 9,649 Staff cost (63) (78) (31) (32) Other liabilities 1,642 2,616 Interest expense (20) (20) (10) (10) Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Total liabilities 11,291 12,265 Impairment on available-for-sale Restricted cash 314 2,481 investment (1,472) (470) (1,472) (73) Other assets 126 173 Equity Other operating expenses (320) (367) (199) (127) Other liabilities (974) (1,222) Share capital 81,222 81,222 (Loss) / profit for the period (989) 1,558 (1,234) 1,132 Net cash (used in) / generated from Share premium 42,111 42,111 operating activities (937) 999 Treasury Shares (700) (700) Other comprehensive income for the period - 20 - 20 Accumulated losses (108,275) (107,286) Investing activities Total comprehensive income Statutory reserve 3,923 3,923 for the period (989) 1,578 (1,234) 1,152 Sale/ redemption of investments - 84 Investment fair value reserve 186 186 Dividend from associate 2,278 1,817 Total equity 18,467 19,456 Interest received on fixed deposit 14 - Total liabilities and equity 29,758 31,721 Net cash generated from investing activities 2,292 1,901

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 1,355 2,900 CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning for the six months ended 30 June 2017 US$ ‘000 of the period 3,570 1,541 Share Share Treasury Accumulated Statutory Investment fair Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period 4,925 4,441 2017 (reviewed) capital premium Shares losses reserve value reserve Total Balance at 1 January 2017 81,222 42,111 (700) (107,286) 3,923 186 19,456 Represented by: Total comprehensive income for the period - - - (989) - - (989) Cash on hand 1 1 Balance at 30 June 2017 81,222 42,111 (700) (108,275) 3,923 186 18,467 Current accounts with banks (note 10) 924 4,440 Fixed deposit (original maturity of less than 90 days) 4,000 - 2016 (reviewed) 4,925 4,441 Balance at 1 January 2016 81,222 42,111 - (109,758) 3,648 186 17,409 Total comprehensive income for the period - - - 1,558 - 20 1,578 Treasury shares received during the period - - (700) - - - (700) Balance at 30 June 2016 81,222 42,111 (700) (108,200) 3,648 206 18,287

Salem Al Noaimi Jassem Zainal Chairman Vice Chairman

The above statements have been extracted from the Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended 30 June, 2017 which was reviewed by KPMG Fakhro, Kingdom of Bahrain.

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Washington the international community open to a renegotiation of was a seen as a body blow to New York June, up from $2 billion in the he United States will still on combating climate change. the pact, the suggestion was the Paris agreement. eleaguered banking giant prior quarter. take part in international “The United States will swiftly shot down by fellow The accord commits Wells Fargo said Friday it Last year, the bank touched climateT change negotiations continue to participate in world leaders who said it was signatories to efforts to reduce Bmight uncover even more fake off a firestorm after admitting despite its planned withdrawal international climate change non-negotiable. greenhouse gas emissions that accounts, broadening a scandal employees had opened millions from the Paris accord on negotiations and meetings... Speaking on a visit to cause global warming, which that has dogged the company of deposit and credit card global warming, the State to protect US interests and Paris last month, Trump is blamed for melting ice caps for nearly a year. accounts in customers’ names Department said Friday. ensure all future policy again raised the prospect of and glaciers, rising sea levels The third largest bank in the without their knowledge in Two months after President options remain open to the a change in policy by saying and more violent weather US said it was extending its order to meet sales quotas. Donald Trump announced administration,” said the “something could happen” events. internal probe to cover three The bank paid $185 million the United States would statement. regarding US participation in They vowed steps to additional years, which likely in fines, clawed back tens of abandon the 2015 global “Such participation will the accord but gave no details. keep the worldwide rise in will uncover more fake savings millions in compensation pact, the State Department include ongoing negotiations Friday’s statement temperatures “well below” and credit card accounts. from senior executives, and confirmed it had informed related to guidance for reiterated that Trump was two degrees Celsius (3.6 The company also revealed a then-CEO John Stumpf the United Nations of its implementing the Paris “open to re-engaging” in degrees Fahrenheit) from fresh investigation by regulators stepped down after being “intent to withdraw from the Agreement.” the pact if the US could pre-industrial times and to into the bank’s practice of publicly hammered by Paris Agreement” -- a process Trump sparked widespread “identify terms that are more “pursue efforts” to hold the charging fees to homeowners lawmakers. that will take at least until international criticism when favorable to it, its businesses, increase under 1.5 degrees to maintain low interest rates In a quarterly report filed 2020. he announced on June 1 its workers, its people, and its Celsius. Despite notifying on their residential mortgages Friday to the US Securities and But in a statement, the State that he had decided to pull taxpayers.” the UN of its intention to for additional years. Exchange Commission, the Department said Washington the world’s largest economy The United States is the withdraw, the United States As a result of continuing bank said it had extended an was still committed to out of the painstakingly- world’s second biggest will not be able to formally legal woes, Wells Fargo said the internal review to cover seven reducing its greenhouse gas negotiated accord. producer of greenhouse gases pull out of the accord until funds it has set aside to cover years -- January 2011 to emissions and engaging with While Trump said he was after China and its withdrawal 2020 at the earliest. (AFP) costs from legal actions swelled September 2016 -- rather than to $3.3 billion as of the end of just four years.

For centuries, the only use humans found for the The secret lugworm -- dark pink, slimy and inedible -- was The secrets of lug- “The haemoglobin on the end of a fish hook. But the invertebrates’ worm haemoglobin lie in its ability to of the lugworm unappreciated status is about to change. survive in extreme can transport Their blood, say French researchers, has an conditions, burrow- ing into sand at the 40 times more extraordinary ability to load up with life- edges of the tide. oxygen from the giving oxygen. The worm grows to Same as human haemo- about 25 centime- lungs to tissues globin tres (10 inches) in than human hae- 1.3 million per The problem was that animal length and has sev- moglobin,” says haemoglobins, as a substitute eral bushy external year gills along its body. Gregory Raymond, Biotech firm for the human equivalent, can Hemarina now cause allergic reaction, poten- Trials in 2015 a biologist at churns out more tially damaging the kidneys. Clinical trials of the blood Aquastream, a than 1.3 million of In lugworms, though, haemo- product began in 2015. the creatures each globin dissolves in the blood Lugworm haemoglobin fish-farming facil- year, each providing and is not contained within was used last year in 10 ity on the Brittany tiny amounts of the red blood cells as in humans human kidney transplants precious haemo- -- in other words, blood type is at a hospital in the west- coastline. “It also globin. not an issue -- and its structure ern French city of Brest has the advan- is almost the same as human and 60 patients are cur- haemoglo- bin. rently enrolled in tests of tage of being the blood product across compatible with France. all blood types.”

Sensor-equipped glasses let you do things in “blink of an eye” Sunday, August 6, 2017 BUSINESS 9 Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany Rwanda’s Kagame in landslide poll win Brexit seriously risks driving a wedge Berlin Kigali between Northern Ireland and Ireland, iscount supermarket giant Aldi said it was pulling wandan President Paul Kagame sailed to a third term in between Britain and Ireland. And I all Dutch eggs from its shelves in Germany over an office with a tally hovering around a whopping 98 percent Dinsecticide scandal. Aldi said it ofR votes. There had been little cannot imagine who was making the move “purely as doubt that the 59-year-old would benefits from that.” a precaution” but acknowledged it return to the helm of the east could lead to “market shortages” African nation which he has ruled for eggs in Europe’s top economy. with an iron fist since the end of Authorities in Belgium, Switzerland the 1994 genocide. With 80pc -Leo Varadkar and Sweden also said they were of results counted, Kagame had Irish Prime Minister removing eggs. secured some 5.4 million votes.

Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are to lay the foundation stone for India’s first high speed rail line that could see trains run at 350 kilometres an hour E5 Series Shinkansen Bullet Train Venkaiah Naidu

MUMBAI-AHMEDABAD HIGH SPEED RAIL Max. Speed: 350 km/h. Journey reduced Ahmedabad to two hours from current seven Vadodara Length: 508km Completion: 2023 Capacity: 36,000 passengers/day in first year is India’s next Cost: $15 billion – 81% funded by Japan

GUJARAT through 50-year low-interest loan Trainset: 10-car variant of Japan’s E5 Series Shinkansen with 698 seats for standard class passengers and 55 seats in business class

POTENTIAL HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINES vice president Surat Amritsar Chandigarh

Gulf of Cambay Patna Delhi ARABIAN SEA Agra Mumbai- Thane Lucknow section Varanasi includes Kolkata Hyderabad 7km Thane Mumbai- undersea Ahmedabad tunnel Dornakal line is part of Vijayawada “Diamond Mumbai Chennai Bangalore Quadrilateral” 50km of high speed trains

MAHARASHTRA Coimbatore 30 miles over 10,000km of track Ernakulam linking key Indian cities Sources: Railway Gazette, Japan Transport Research Institute © GRAPHIC NEWS

Firefighters battled a blaze at the 79-storey Marina Torch Tower in the United Arab Emirates on Friday – the second fire at the Dubai tower and the seventh UAE skyscraper fire in five years Dubai Sharjah Aluminium composite panels (ACPs) IRAN Outer wall Insulation

Abu UAE Ventilated cavity Dhabi Venkaiah Naidu (L) and Narendra Modi attend a party ACP cladding OMAN meeting in New Delhi. (file) SAUDI ARABIA Twin aluminium sheets with polyurethane YEMEN core New Delhi “I promise to uphold the The BJP and its allies enjoy a Jan 2012 – Al Baker Tower: ndia’s lawmakers yesterday elected a constitution and the high standards majority in the 545-member lower Blaze displaces 125 families in Sharjah. Flammable ACPs are Iveteran leader from the ruling right- set by my esteemed predecessors,” house of parliament but not in the blamed for spreading fire Dec 2015 – The Address: wing party as the country’s next vice- Naidu said on Twitter. upper house, weakening its ability to Apr – Al Tayer Tower: Fire at ACP fire ravages 63-storey, president, boosting Prime Minister “It’s an honour for me to become pass legislation. 40-storey tower in Sharjah displaces 302-metre Dubai residential building Narendra Modi’s political standing. Vice President from a family of The BJP rules 18 of India’s 29 states (below). More than 40 storeys burn hundreds of families. ACPs blamed Venkaiah Naidu, 68, secured 516 an ordinary farmer. This speaks either directly or in alliance with for rapid spread of blaze simultaneously at one stage parliamentary votes to pip rival for the beauty and strength of our regional parties. Oct – Saif Belhasa Building: Fire on 4th floor of 13-storey Dubai Gopalkrishna Gandhi -- the 72-year- democracy,” the winner said Naidu’s victory means the top three apartment block spreads rapidly old grandson of Indian independence The vice president presides over the constitutional offices are now held to roof level via ACPs leader Mahatma Gandhi -- who upper house of parliament and can by BJP leaders following the election Nov 2012 – Tamweel Tower: received 244 votes, according to take temporary charge of the largely of the party’s candidate Ram Nath Blaze at 37-storey, 160-metre high polling officials. ceremonial presidency in the event Kovind as president earlier this month. tower burns two separate broad Gandhi was hoisted for the contest that the incumbent dies, resigns or is The Congress president Sonia vertical bands through ACPs from ground to roof by Congress and several other smaller impeached. Gandhi -- of the Nehru-Gandhi Feb 2015 – Marina Torch: Fire opposition parties. Modi congratulated Naidu in a dynasty, not related to Mahatma in ACPs of 79-storey, 352-metre Aug 4, 2017 – Marina Torch: Naidu, considered close to Modi, tweet and said, “I’m confident (he) Gandhi -- in a statement hoped that block rises up one side of building Blaze rips through 40 storeys of held the post of a federal minister will serve the nation as a diligent & Naidu, from nationalist BJP, will and down opposite side world’s fifth tallest residential tower before being nominated as vice dedicated Vice President, committed play a “non-partisan role” as vice Sources: Probyn Miers, Alumco, CNN Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS president. to the goal of nation building.” president. (AFP) 10 BUSINESS Sunday, August 6, 2017 US sees strong job creation

in July Amazon employees aid job seekers through the registration process during a jobs fair at the Amazon Fulfillment Center

Washington However, average monthly about twice the number And John Ryding of RDQ he US saw robust job job creation so far in 2017 of jobs lost during the Economics said the consumer Tcreation again in July, is 185,000, slightly below the recession, according to Labor price index due out next week COUNTRY/CURRENCIES BUY SELL with unemployment falling average recorded in 2016 and Department figures. will be a more important back to a 16-year low, well below 2015 and 2014. But Brookings said factor in the central bank’s AUSTRALIA 0.3079 0.3043 restoring the economy to the Even so, the July gain this does not account for decision. 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Egyptologists go high tech

Inside Passage Of The Egyptian Pyramid

Cairo chemical testing to date Japan’s University of Nagoya, Politecnico team nor the rom the Giza pyramids artefacts. electronic sensors from the antiquities ministry has been to the pharaonic tombs Chemical testing still KEK Japanese Research inclined to discuss the fresh Fof Luxor, Egypt’s ancient requires small samples, but Laboratory, and muon attempt, possibly put off by monuments are holding onto advanced techniques coming telescopes from the French the anticlimactic media mysteries which researchers into use are meant to be non- Atomic Energy Commission. frenzy over the previous now aim to unravel with invasive so as not to damage The results are then bid. cutting edge technology. the ancient relics. compared with infrared Elsewhere, For more than 200 years ScanPyramids is among the and 3D images. Egyptologists are since Napoleon Bonaparte most ambitious of the projects Some archaeologists undertaking a project landed in Egypt with a to demystify the Khufu have pinned hopes on the to nail down the retinue of scholars who laid Pyramid near Cairo, the only sophisticated technology chronology of Egypt’s the groundwork for modern surviving monument from to locate the burial place ancient dynasties more Egyptology, experts have used the ancient Seven Wonders of the legendary queen precisely. science to unlock the secrets of the World.It has employed Nefertiti. The French Institute of the country’s ancient infrared thermography and The wife of King of Eastern Archaeology treasures. muography -- a technique Akhenaten, who initiated a (IFAO) in Cairo has a In the 21st century, the that records images using monotheistic cult in ancient dating laboratory that the scientists have been using muon particles -- in its quest. Egypt, Nefertiti remains an researchers are putting to electronic devices and The project had announced enigma, best known for a bust use for the project. last October that the massive depicting her that is now on “The chronology of ancient pyramid may contain exhibition in Berlin’s Neues Egypt is not clearly defined. Some archae- undiscovered recesses. Museum. Egypt’s former antiquities We use a relative chronology,” “All the devices we put in A British Egyptologist, minister Zahi Hawass buried said Anita Quiles, head of ologists have place are designed to find Nicholas Reeves, believed Tutankhamun, in the research at the IFAO. where the cavity is located. her remains were hidden in in the southern Valley of the “We refer to reigns and pinned hopes We know there is one, but a secret chamber in the Valley of the Kings. Kings. dynasties but we do not know we’re trying to find out tomb of In 2015, archaeologists exactly the dates,” she said. on the sophisti- where,” said Mehdi Tayoubi, scanned the tomb with radar Mapping out ancient The investigation, which cated technol- president of the HIP Institute hoping for clues. dynasties involves chemical testing, is heading the ScanPyramids Both Reeves’s theory and The excitement over the expected to take several years. ogy to locate project. the inconclusive results have possible discovery has died But Egyptologists say The muon devices been dismissed by other down since the inconclusive that science cannot replace the burial include chemical Egyptologists. results, but a team from archaeologists and their emulsion instruments One of them, former Politecnico University in work on the ground. “It is place of the from antiquities minister Zahi Turin, Italy, intends to give it important to have science in Hawass, said that another shot. archaeology,” said Hawass. legendary an adept of the This time they will “But it is very important queen sun god Aton employ tomography -- a not to let scientists announce would never method used in medical any details about what they Nefertiti. have been scans -- and magnetometry, found unless it has been seen allowed which measures magnetic by Egyptologists.” (AFP) to be fields. Neither the

Inside a tomb dating back to the age of the Pyramids in Egypt was this image, an embrace between a priestess and her hus- band, a singer in the pharaoh’s palace. The image has been recorded by researchers in full colour. 8 12 Sunday, August 6, 2017 Sunday, August 6, 2017 13

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan held a community meeting in Duraz to discuss the needs of the residents there. The meeting, attended by scores of residents and by senior officials, focused on labour and social issues and ways to enhance the standards of living and the quality and scope of the services provided. Employment opportunities, training programmes and social services and care topped the discussions.

A cheque of BD1000 was donated by The Gulf Hotels Group to the Bahrain Deaf Society. The cheque was presented by Groups Chief Executive Officer Garfield Jones to Aqeel Ali Hassan - President of the Bahrain DelegatedDelegated byby HisHis RoyalRoyal HighnessHighness PrimePrime MinisterMinister PrincePrince KhalifaKhalifa binbin SalmanSalman Al-Khalifa,Al-Khalifa, ShaikhShaikh KhalifaKhalifa binbin AliAli binbin KhalifaKhalifa AlAl KhalifaKhalifa yesterdayyesterday offeredoffered condolencescondolences overover thethe deathdeath ofof SuadSuad HamadHamad SalehSaleh Al-Humaidhi,Al-Humaidhi, widowwidow ofof latelate ShaikhShaikh JaberJaber Al-AliAl-Ali Al-SalemAl-Salem Al-SabahAl-Sabah inin Kuwait.Kuwait. HHHH ShaikhShaikh KhalifaKhalifa binbin Ali bin Khalifa Al- Deaf Society, in the presence of Zainab Ali the Society’s translator and Rahim Abu Omar, General Manager of KhalifaKhalifa conveyedconveyed condolencescondolences fromfrom HRHHRH thethe PremierPremier toto thethe deceased’sdeceased’s bereavedbereaved family,family, prayingpraying toto AllahAllah thethe AlmightyAlmighty toto restrest herher soulsoul inin eternaleternal peacepeace andand givegive herher familyfamily andand relativesrelatives solacesolace andand fortitude.fortitude. the Gulf Hotel Bahrain Convention & Spa. The event was held at the Gulf Hotels Group office.

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Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan held a community meeting in Duraz to discuss the needs of the residents there. The meeting, attended by scores of residents and by senior officials, focused on labour and social issues and ways to enhance the standards of living and the quality and scope of the services provided. Employment opportunities, training programmes and social services and care topped the discussions.

A cheque of BD1000 was donated by The Gulf Hotels Group to the Bahrain Deaf Society. The cheque was presented by Groups Chief Executive Officer Garfield Jones to Aqeel Ali Hassan - President of the Bahrain Delegated by His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa yesterday offered condolences over the death of Suad Hamad Saleh Al-Humaidhi, widow of late Shaikh Jaber Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah in Kuwait. HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al- Deaf Society, in the presence of Zainab Ali the Society’s translator and Rahim Abu Omar, General Manager of Khalifa conveyed condolences from HRH the Premier to the deceased’s bereaved family, praying to Allah the Almighty to rest her soul in eternal peace and give her family and relatives solace and fortitude. the Gulf Hotel Bahrain Convention & Spa. The event was held at the Gulf Hotels Group office.

The summer camp held for the children of officers concluded its second week with a host of educational and fun activities. Organised by the Public Security Sports Association in cooperation with the Public Security Officers Club, the camp attracts 420 students 14 Sunday, August 6, 2017

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ctor Jeremy Irvine has joined ctor Bill Skarsgard has joined the cast of ‘Mamma Mia: Here Alicia Vikander in the voice AWe Go Again!’. Acast for ‘Moomins and the Winter Irvine and Alexa Davies will join Wonderland’. newcomer Lily James on the cast The 26-year-old star will voice the of the sequel - a follow up to the protagonist Moomintroll in the film 2008 adaptation of the stage musical that also features his father Stellan, based on ABBA songs. Meryl Streep, who joined the cast as the voice of Amanda Seyfried and Colin Firth Moominpapa. Los Angeles will reprise their roles from the first “So excited to be a part of this lovely ctor Liev Schreiber says he loves the sparkle film. Irvine will play the past version project and bringing Tove Jansson’s that actress Susan Sarandon brings to the show of Pierce Brosnan’s character, Sam fantastical world to the big screen. A“Ray Donovan”. Carmichael, and Davies will step I grew up with my mom and “She’s remarkable. She has this kind of into the shoes of a young Rosie dad reading ‘Moomin’ and their musicality and a sparkle about her. You just look Mulligan. (TOI) adventures to me at bedtime, so into her eyes,” nypost.com quoted Schreiber as it will not be the first time I hear saying. my dad voice Moominpappa,” Schreiber is looking forward to the fifth said Skarsgard. season of his hit show “Ray Donovan”. The animated film is The new season of “Ray Donovan” based on Tove Jansson’s finds Ray (played by Schreiber) turning original books. (TOI) his attention back to Hollywood and his celebrity fixer firm. The fifth season of the show will premiere in India on AXN in August. (IANS)

Actress Michelle Dockery is set to star opposite Bryan Cranston in ‘Network’. Ivo Van Hove is directing Los Angeles the adaptation of ctor Marwan Kenzari is in negotiations to play Jafar in Disneys the Oscar- winning live-action “Aladdin” reboot from director Guy Ritchie. film ‘Network’ at the ANasim Pedrad has also joined the cast as a handmaid and friend National Theatre in to Jasmine. Several sources confirmed the news to variety.com. November. He will join Naomi Scott, who will play Jasmine, Mena Massoud, The ‘Downton who will portray the title character, and Will Smith, who will voice Abbey’ star will play Genie (a role made famous by late Robin Williams in the animated Diana Christensen, classic). the ruthless television John August, whose credits include “Big Fish”, wrote the new executive played by “Aladdin” script. The original animated movie was a comic take Faye Dunaway in the on the Arabic folk tale about a young man granted three wishes by 1976 film. a genie trapped in a lamp. (IANS) Margot Robbie and Denise Di Novi The production are set to produce a sci-fi thriller from will mark Dockery’s Black List writer Mark Townend’s first performance at script. the theatre in eight The duo, who worked together years. on the crime drama ‘Focus’, have Cranston will also collaborated to finance the make his British screen adaption of Gin Phillips’ stage debut as contained thriller ‘Beautiful Howard Beale, the Things’. psychologically Townend’s script ‘Contingency unstable news Vera Farmiga Protocol’ appeared on the 2016 anchor. (TOI) Black List. Meanwhile, Robbie will August 6, 1973 reprise her role of Harley Quinn in ‘Gotham City Sirens’. Di Novi recently made her Actress best known for her Academy Award- directorial debut with the nominated role in Up in the Air. Her other notable Rosario Dawson-starring films include Source Code, The Conjuring, and The ‘Unforgettable.’ (TOI) Departed. American Country music singer and actor, Trace Adkins performs on Fox & Friends’ All- American Summer Concert Series at FOX Studios yesterday in New York City (AFP) 16 COOL ZONE Sunday, August 6, 2017 CROSSWORD Your star today Instead of turning all your burning questions (Mar 21st - Apr 20th) inward today, you might want to consider YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION broadcasting them outward. Engage in discussions and extend your queries to the group. You may usually try to solve all the world’s problems on your own, but once in a while you should stop and consider other points of view. There’s a great wind under your wings today, (Apr 21st - May 21st) and you may find the day’s energy quite transforming. You now have the opportunity to make great strides in whatever you wish to accomplish. It may be time for you to make an important change in your current attitude. Embrace differences in perspective and opinion. Try not to weigh everything down. Don’t pick (May 22nd - Jun 21st) things apart to the point that all that’s left are the tiny details of the situation. Deal with it as a whole. Mental and emotional issues are apt to be of greater concern to you. You shouldn’t try to dissect them. That will only create more issues than you started with.

As you work to keep things in balance today, (June 22nd - July 23rd) remember that one of the key things is to have fun. Happiness is an extremely important element of the cosmic equation, especially on a day like this. The more upbeat you can be regarding a certain situation, the easier it will be to tackle it. A smile can get you through just Across Down about any door you wish to enter. (July 24th - Aug 23rd) Don’t get too emotional about a situation 1- Demote; 6- Hammett hound; 10- Actress Diana; 14- Commonplace; 1- Caliph from Baghdad; 2- Gallery in a theater; 3- Pertaining to bod- today. You could feel a sinking feeling, but if 15- Classic autos; 16- Hydroxyl compound; 17- Bubonic plague; ily structure; 4- Pouches; 5- Antlered animal; 6- Bailiwicks; 7- Singes; you go that route you may end up in a pit of 19- Ancient Persian; 20- Plays are divided up into these; 21- Hard 8- Clan symbol; 9- Shade of blond; 10- Reduce to a lower grade; emotional quicksand that’s hard to escape. to find; 22- Like ears; 23- Great Lakes canals; 24- Public assembly; 11- In the least; 12- Gnawing animal; 13- Heavy hammer; 18- Curses!; Make sure you have a friend to talk to so you’re 26- ___ cases (generally); 28- Actress Mimieux; 29- Like some arts; 30- 22- Monetary unit of Bulgaria; 24- High-ranking NCO; 25- Watchful prepared for whatever you might encounter Entr’___; 33- Slogan; 38- Bern’s river; 39- ___ de Leon; 42- Strikes; 47- one; 27- ___ roll; 30- Gotcha!; 31- EMT’s skill; 32- Definite article; 34- on your emotional journey. Monetary unit of Saudi Arabia; 48- Know-it-all; 52- Pas’ partners; 53- Money; 35- On ___ with; 36- Impresario Hurok; 37- Captivated; 40- Uneven, as if gnawed away; 54- Outback hoppers; 55- Singer Amos; Clear and shrill; 41- Least difficult; 42- Bulges; 43- Sister of Moses; 44- (Aug 24th - Sep 23rd) This is a terrific day for you. You should easily 56- Light air; 57- Pastry shop; 59- Fill with cargo; 60- LAX guessti- Tristan’s love; 45- Final taker; 46- Wind dir.; 47- Pianist Myra; 49- Muse feel its power coming together in an upbeat, mates; 61- Creamfilled cookies; 62- Hook’s helper; 63- Price paid; of poetry; 50- Little bits; 51- Damp; 55- TV’s Hatcher; 57- Chest mus- positive way. Others are apt to fall into place 64- Failed to; cle, for short; 58- Turf; by your side as they realize the wisdom in your way of doing things. Remain confident and positive. Your adventuresome spirit is ready, so push away from the dock.

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Prontip Mankong, a former political prisoner, pour- ing melted-down lipstick into small containers

Recycled lipstick for Thailand’s inmates

Bangkok of thousands of donated lipsticks permeates the prison yard, with cash esperate to brighten up the and grouping them into baskets by via prison jobs and relatives the only gloom of Thai prison life, colour. way to secure other comforts like DProntip Mankong and her fellow The waxy chunks were boiled longer showers or pain medicine. female inmates used to sneak food down over a stove into shimmering “This money doesn’t go to the colouring from the kitchen and mix it pink and magenta liquids, and then prisons but goes to the pockets of the with Vaseline to create a homemade poured into small containers which influential inmates,” said Prontip, lip gloss. will be donated to a women’s prison whose chipper attitude cracks when After serving two years for violating after they cool. she starts recalling her own time Thailand’s royal defamation law, the Of all the deprivations of prison behind bars. former political prisoner is now on life make-up may seem a minor one. the other side of the prison gate. Yet Prontip sees the donated Thailand’s prison problem But she is drawing on the same cosmetics as a simple way to boost Thailand’s exploding prison spirit of ingenuity to make recycled morale and free up cash for inmates, population stems from the cosmetics for those still stuck in whose lives are just as governed by kingdom’s harsh anti-drug laws, Thailand’s notoriously bleak jails, money as those on the outside. where the possession of just a few which are bursting at the seams in Inmates earn small incomes from methamphetamine pills is enough to a country with the highest female jobs like cooking and making crafts, land offenders a decade in jail. incarceration rate in the world. which they use to buy sanitary pads The kingdom jails more women “The lip gloss boosted our and other basic necessities from small per capita than any other nation, confidence and gave us a sense of convenience stores, where purchases with more than 80 percent of its self-expression in a place where are limited to around $10 a day. 39,000 female convicts in prison on freedom is limited,” said Prontip “Getting cosmetics was very drug-related offences, according Mankong, who was jailed for her difficult and expensive,” she told to the International Federation for role in a satirical play that authorities AFP, explaining that some inmates Human Rights (FIDH). said mocked the royal family. would buy out all the beauty products Successive Thai governments have On a recent Sunday, the 29-year- from a small prison store and then done little to reform drug laws or old and other female ex-cons spent jack up the price for other buyers. tackle dire overcrowding in prisons. the afternoon slicing off the tops This type of black market economy Many inmates sleep on hard linoleum floors in cells so cramped they have to rest on their sides or lay their limbs on top of one another. Fluorescent lights are kept on throughout the night and dozens of prisoners have to share a single toilet in the back of the cell, with not even a curtain for privacy. In conditions like these, small comforts can go a long way. “Beauty can help,” said Watinee Chaithirasakul, a fashion blogger who helped collect cosmetics for Prontip’s project. “It’s about helping them have a mentality that will Mankong, a former political prisoner, melt- allow them to live in that Prontip Mankong, a former politi- ing donated lipstick over a stove space.” cal prisoner, holding a container of recycled lipstick in Bangkok. Sunday, August 6, 2017 19 z #PollToday Iranian President Rouhani sworn in for a second term

China is stepping up its rhetoric over the border row with India. Do you think, as analysts suggest, the war of words would lead to an armed clash? China Yes No Cant Say

A handout picture released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him (L) giving his official seal of approval during the swearing ups in ceremony of President Hassan Rouhani (R) to serve his It is of course a decision second term for the Northern Ireland Tehran “The US’s repeated Assembly, but I am confi- ranian President Hassan violations of its commitments dent that like other western IRouhani has been sworn and the new sanctions it ante in European countries they in for a second term after imposed on Iran have left will make that decision in a landslide victory over a negative impact on Iran’s due course his hardline opponent in public opinion, and can Leo Varadkar elections in May. hamper implementation of Irish Prime Minister on gay However, ahead of the the nuclear deal,” the Tasnim standoff marriage ceremony Rouhani accused news agency quoted Rouhani the US of undermining the as saying. 2015 nuclear deal. Foreign Minister Javad Iranian officials also urged Zarif meanwhile told EU Europe not to side with the foreign policy chief Federica This file photo taken on July Eight still missing at 5, 2006 shows a Chinese sol- Trump administration. Mogherini that President with flooded Russian Last month the US Trump was “trying to destroy dier (L) and Indian soldier securing a barbed wire fence diamond mine announced new sanctions the nuclear accord at Iran’s at the Nathu La border cross- over Iran’s missile expense” and said “Europe ing between India and China programme and alleged should be conscious of this”, in India’s northeastern Sikkim support for terror groups. Tasnim reported. (AFP) India state.

Beijing “No country should included a map of alleged Rescuers yesterday helped an hina has stepped underestimate the Chinese intrusions and photographs injured worker out of a flood- Four Spanish nationals Cup its rhetoric in an forces’... resolve and of what it stated were Indian ed Russian diamond mine increasingly tense border willpower to defend national troops and military vehicles but the search continued for killed in India road accident row with India, hinting at sovereignty,” he said in a post on China’s side of the eight other still missing in the the possibility of military on the ministry website. frontier. disaster. action in a propaganda push It is a line that has been Calling for the “immediate that analysts are calling echoed almost word for and unconditional” Nepali couple registers “genuinely troubling.” word this week by the withdrawal of Indian troops, ‘first transgender For more than a month, foreign ministry, the official it warned Beijing would “take Indian and Chinese troops Xinhua news agency, the all necessary measures” to marriage’ have been locked in a standoff ruling Communist Party safeguard its interests. A Nepali transgender on a remote but strategically mouthpiece the People’s Chinese foreign ministry woman and a man regis- important Himalayan plateau Daily, the official military spokesman Geng Shuang tered their marriage, a first near where Tibet, India and news website of the Chinese said Thursday that India was in the country, the couple Bhutan meet. armed forces, and other building roads, hoarding said yesterday. On Thursday, Chinese outlets. supplies and deploying a US ends search for defence ministry spokesman On Wednesday, the foreign large number of troops in Ren Guoqiang warned that ministry released a 15-page the area. missing sailor in Beijing had shown restraint document of “facts” about “This is by no means for S. China Sea but had a “bottom line.” the border dispute, which peace,” Geng said. (AFP) US naval forces have sus- pended their search for an American sailor who went missing during a joint drill Panda gives birth to twins in the South China Sea with Japan on Tuesday. The wreckage of a minibus, in which a group of Spanish at French zoo, one cub dies Venezuela assembly tourist were travelling, is seen after it collided with a The Chinese experts, who fires dissident attorney container truck in Punganur, situated about 140km from Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher have experience of this, saw Bangalore Venezuela’s new assem- here was joy and pain for it straight away,” zoo director bly fired dissident attorney French zookeepers Friday Rodolphe Delord said. New Delhi Indian driver died also,” the general, Luisa Ortega, and asT their female panda gave “Our veterinary teams did ive people, including ministry said in a statement. ordered her to go on trial in a birth to twins, but one died everything they could to save it, four Spanish nationals, The Press Trust of India move sure to further inflame soon afterwards. but it was too small, too weak.” Fwere killed and nine more news agency reported that a international criticism. Huan Huan, on loan to A veterinarian holds the sec- But he said the second twin, Spaniards injured in a minibus carrying 10 Spanish Beauval zoo in central France ond of twin cubs born to panda which weighed in at a healthier For more, catch us road accident yesterday in nationals collided with a from China, delivered the first Huan Huan in Saint-Aignan-sur- 142.4 grams, was in “perfect online at: southern India, according container truck in Andhra cub at 10:18 pm (2018 GMT) Cher, central France, health”. to Spain’s ministry of foreign Pradesh state, killing four and the second at 10:32. problems breathing and died The youngster has been put www.newsofbahrain.com affairs. “There have been four of the Spanish visitors, But soon after birth, the first, despite the best efforts of zoo in an incubator so vets can give /nobonline deaths of Spanish nationality, including two women, and which weighed just 121 grams staff. first-time mum Huan Huan a /newsofbahrain nine Spanish wounded, the the local driver of the bus. (4.2 ounces), began having “It was too weak to survive. helping hand, zoo officials said. 20 Sunday, August 6, 2017 Putin goes shirtless on Siberian

Russian President Vladimir Putin fishes in the remote Tuva region in southern lake trip Siberia Putin hunts fish underwater

Moscow tough guy pose has been southern Siberia. The images broadcast Putin said the US would have Sea he allegedly discovered ussia’s President Vladimir documented with shots of him Putin “fished in a waterfall on public television, which to cut 755 diplomatic staff two 15th century amphoras, Putin, who loves to bare-chested on horseback, near a mountain lake, insisted on “the physical in Russia and warned of a but the find was mocked in cultivateR a virile man-of- diving in a submarine in indulged in underwater fitness of the president”, show prolonged gridlock in its ties independent media because action image, was shown on Lake Baikal -- the world’s fishing, sunbathed, went Putin catching a pike in a after the US Congress backed the vessels were suspiciously Russian TV Saturday spear- deepest -- and flipping a Judo rafting in mountain rivers, camouflage wetsuit or sunning new sanctions against the without algae or other sea life. fishing in a camouflage opponent. piloted... motor boats, went his bare torso with Defence Kremlin. Peskov admitted several wetsuit, piloting a powerboat These latest images, hiking and four-wheeler Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin’s previous made-for- months later that the and catching some rays while provided by the Kremlin, riding in the mountains,” said who is originally from the TV exploits, however, have scene had been on a Siberian holiday. captured his two-day stay Kremlin spokesman Dmitry region. not been without controversy. staged. Putin’s affinity for the in the remote Tuva area of Peskov. His trip comes days after During a 2011 dive in the Black

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), accompanied by defence minister Sergei Putin hunts fish Shoigu, gestures as he fishes in the remote Tuva region in southern Siberia. Trump begins 17-day vacation Bedminster and cooling system during the steamy Trump posted two years later. with 15 days for Obama through onald Trump, who once asked Washington summer as a reason why Not only did Trump attack Obama, August 2009. “what’s the point” of vacations Trump was leaving town. he routinely told supporters he would Much of Trump’s time off took Dand often admonished his presidential “The President will continue to work eschew time off if he were elected place at properties bearing his predecessor for taking them while in over the next two weeks,” said White because he would be swamped with name. office, embarked Friday on a 17-day House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters. work. At the height of negotiations holiday to one of his golf resorts. A president taking time off from a “I would not be a president who took over health care reform, Arriving in Bedminster, New Jersey hectic schedule is nothing new. But vacations,” he said in 2015. “I would not Trump chided lawmakers by for an extended break, the president left Trump’s down time is in the spotlight be a president that takes time off.” saying he could not imagine behind a capital grappling with a Russia largely because of his relentless criticism In late 2012 he tweeted his own “that Congress would dare scandal and buffeted by extraordinary of Barack Obama’s breaks from the apparent aversion to vacations: “What’s to leave Washington” leaks from government officials. White House. the point? If you’re not enjoying your without sending a new US President Donald Trump He has also failed to seize any major He ripped into Obama in 2011 for work, you’re in the wrong job.” health care bill to his legislative victories in his first seven playing golf and then heading to a Despite his comments, Trump has desk. months in office, and is at odds with 10-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. taken considerably more time off than Trump ultimately several Republican lawmakers on “Nice work ethic,” Trump tweeted at Obama in their respective first seven failed to successfully multiple fronts. the time. months in office. broker a deal, the The White House said Trump’s “Pres. Obama is about to embark According to a Washington Post Republican health care Bedminster stay would be a “working on a 17 day vacation in his ‘native’ tally, by the end of August Trump reforms collapsed, and Congress vacation,” and cited scheduled upgrades Hawaii, putting Secret Service away will have spent all or part of 53 days at shuttered Thursday for its month- of the West Wing’s creaky heating from families on Christmas. Aloha!,” leisure during his presidency, compared long summer recess. SPORTS Sunday, August 6, 2017 21

MendisColombo leads hosts fightback really well. I don’t think we did too Wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan ndia tightened its grip on the much wrong,” India’s ace spinner Dickwella, who top-scored for the SCOREBOARD second Test against Sri Lanka Ravichandran Ashwin, who took five hosts with 51 in the first innings, said despiteI a fighting century by Kusal wickets in Sri Lanka’s first innings, the team needs to back itself at the India 1st innings 622-9 dec (C. Pujara 133, Mendis during the hosts’ follow-on in told reporters. Sinhalese Sports Club Ground. A. Rahane 132; R. Herath 4-154) Colombo yesterday. “Hopefully we will try and nick “We weren’t good in the first Sri Lanka 1st innings Mendis put on 191 runs for them off tomorrow. I think this wicket session. We had plans before the D. Karunaratne c Rahane b Ashwin 25 the second wicket with opener will get slower and slower. It is not second innings started,” said U. Tharanga c Rahul b Ashwin 0 Dimuth Karunaratne (92 not going to be easy work tomorrow for Dickwella. K. Mendis c Kohli b Yadav 24 out) before falling to paceman sure,” said Ashwin. “Track is not difficult at all. We D. Chandimal c Pandya b Jadeja 10 Hardik Pandya for 110 just Earlier in the day, Sri Lanka adapted brilliantly. We had a plan A. Mathews c Pujara b Ashwin 26 before stumps on day three. nosedived from their overnight 50-2 and we executed it well and that’s the N. Dickwella b Shami 51 The hosts were 209 for two to 183 all out at lunch, reason why we are 209 for two. D. de Silva b Jadeja 0 at close, still trailing India handing the visitors “We have to back ourselves D. Perera b Ashwin 25 by 230 runs in their second a chance to clinch 100 percent. We might get out R. Herath b Shami 2 innings. Karunaratne and the three-match playing positive shots... We M. Pushpakumara not out 15 nightwatchman Malinda series 2-0. are international players and N. Pradeep b Ashwin 0 Pushpakumara on two we need to adapt quickly,” Extras (b4, lb1) 5 were at the crease. Dickwella added. Total (all out; 49.4 overs) 183 “Credit to them, The islanders were in early Sri Lanka 2nd innings they batted really trouble in the second innings D. Karunaratne not out 92 when paceman Umesh Yadav U. Tharanga b Yadav 2 got opener Upul Tharanga out K. Mendis c Saha b Pandya 110 for two after lunch on a seemingly M. Pushpakumara not out 2 deteriorating pitch. (AFP) Extras (nb2, w1) 3 Total (2 wickets; 60 overs, follow-on) 209 Kohlschreiber Marc Marquez beats bags eighth Rossi to Czech pole ATP title Brno, Czech Republic “I’m very happy with Kitzbühel, Austria orld championship leader Marc Marquez claimed today because I knew that erman Philipp Kohlschreiber his fourth pole position of the season after beating making the pole would claimed the eighth ATP Tour ValentinoW Rossi in yesterday’s qualifying for the Czech be tough, as I normally Gtitle of his career by brushing aside MotoGP in Brno. struggle at this track, Joao Sousa in the final of the claycourt The reigning world MotoGP champion clocked 1min but I tried for it event at Kitzbuhel yesterday. 54.981sec on his Honda to finish 0.92sec ahead of Italian anyway,” he added. The 33-year-old eased to a 6-3, veteran Rossi, of Yamaha, with Spaniard Dani Pedrosa at The world 6-4 victory over his Portuguese 0.138 for Honda. champion’s compatriot opponent, who remains without a The 24-year-old Marquez’s 41st pole position Maverick Vinales tournament win since 2015. in MotoGP, and 69th across the three classes, gives struggled though, and Kohlschreiber had lost his two him a fantastic chance of extending his championship qualified down in seventh previous tour finals, but he recovered advantage. place as he looks to cut the from a break down in the opening “Tomorrow we’ll see what weather conditions we have, five-point gap to Marquez set with four straight games. as it looks a bit unstable and not as warm,” said Marquez. at the top of the riders’ The world number 47 had to fight “It will be a long, hard race but we should be able to standings. back from 3-1 down in the second fight for the podium in either the dry or the wet, so we’re In the tightest title battle set as well, but once again Sousa gave looking forward to it and to enjoying the race.” since the points system was up four games on the trot to slump Considering his domination of the last four seasons changed in 1993, the 38-year-old Sri Lankan cricketer Kusal to defeat. that have delivered three top-class titles, Marquez does Rossi is still in the hunt for a tenth Mendis raises his bat and It was Kohlschreiber’s first title since not have a very good record around the Brno circuit and world title. The legendary Italian has helmet in celebration winning on the Munich clay in May is without a win since 2013. only won once this season, but has 2016, and he will move up six places in But he was in fine fettle in qualifying, and his rivals will remained consistent and is only ten the new world rankings on Monday. have to find some extra speed to beat him in Sunday’s points adrift of Marquez in fourth. (AFP) (AFP) race. Marquez makes a wheelee on his Honda Four-star Anderson leaves England in charge Manchester At stumps, paceman ames Anderson took four Anderson had figures of four Jwickets from the newly- BRIEF SCORE wickets for 33 runs in 15 overs. named James Anderson Close South Africa 220 for The 35-year-old was now End to leave England in a 9 (Bavuma 46, Anderson in sight of his first five-wicket commanding position 4-33) trail England 362 haul in a Test innings at Old against South Africa in the (Bairstow 99, Stokes 58, Trafford. But his seventh Test fourth Test at Old Trafford Root 52) by 142 runs at Old Trafford was the first yesterday. fixture since what was known South Africa were as the Pavilion End had 220 for nine in reply to a match they have to win to been renamed in honour of England’s first innings draw this four-match series Anderson, England’s all-time 362, featuring 2-2. Morne Morkel was 18 leading Test wicket-taker. Jonny Bairstow’s not out after Kagiso Rabada Anderson needed just three 99, at stumps on (23) was brilliantly caught balls to strike when Dean Elgar the second day. by a diving Ben Stokes in the was lbw for a duck in the first That left them gully off Stuart Broad in what over of the Proteas’ reply. England’s James Anderson (2R) celebrates with teammates with a deficit of 142 runs in became the last ball of the day. (AFP) 22 Sunday, August 6, 2017 SPORTS Mo Farah’s double hopes endangered London “I’ve got a few cuts and o Farah’s hopes bruises, perhaps I will need of winning his a few stitches, I need to Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam Mthird successive world recover and get ready, I’ve championship distance double got enough days” before the could be in jeopardy after 5000m heats which are on requiring medical treatment Wednesday and the final Thiam on top following Friday’s epic victory on Saturday. in the 10,000m. Farah though rejected The 34-year-old British notions that the spiking was legend won despite being deliberate. couldn’t get in heptathlon spiked twice in the final lap -- “I’ve got such a long stride I into his rhythm -- the first saw him almost come don’t blame anyone,” he said. had forced him to London to grief and fall into the infield “I recalled how I went down dig deep. lympic champion Nafi Thiam soared into the lead of the -- and which resulted in blood in Rio (in the 10,000m after “It was one of the heptathlon at the IAAF World Championships in London pouring from his left calf. which he got up to win). I toughest races in my Oyesterday. The Somalia-born runner, got caught twice and I was life,” said Farah. The Belgian university student cleared 1.95m in the high jump who prior to Friday’s victory thinking ‘I can’t go down I “The guys gave it to to end the morning’s session on 2,215 points, eight ahead of had racked up two Olympic can’t go down’.” me, it was like ‘how do Cuban Yorgelis Rodriguez, who improved her high jump best and world doubles as well we beat Mo?’ again. by 8cm as she matched Thiam. as the 2011 5,000m world Dig deep “You had the Dutchwoman Nadine Visser topped times for the opening crown, tried to shrug off the Farah, whose association Ethiopians, the Kenyans, 100m hurdles, Thiam chipping in with the 11th fastest time. battering he had taken but still with controversial coach the Ugandans, they worked Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson was sixth in the curtailed media commitments Alberto Salazar has been a as a team together against hurdles, but flopped badly in the high jump, managing a best of so he could be attended to by source of disquiet, admitted me. only 1.80m, far off her personal best of 1.98m. medical staff. the ‘surging’ tactics used by “I just had to stay strong, The heptathletes round off Saturday with the shot put and “I am hurt, I just have to primarily the Kenyan and I was just thinking that I 200m, before tackling the long jump, javelin and 800m on be strong now and see the Ugandan athletes -- upping can’t lose in my home town.” Sunday. (AFP) doctors,” said Farah. the pace then reducing it so he (AFP) Thompson, Schippers ease through to semis London amaica’s female sprint version of Usain Bolt Elaine Thompson danced through the rain to book her place Jin the 100 metres semi-finals at the world championships in London yesterday. The 25-year-old -- who won Olympic 100m and 200m gold last year -- made light of the conditions to win her heat whilst her bitter rival Dutch star Dafne Schippers eased through as well, finishing second in her heat. Thompson looked serene even in the rain that poured down as they rose from their blocks, leading from the off and coasting over the line in 11.05 seconds. Canada’s Crystal Emmanuel and Ariana Washington of Gold medallist the United States took the other two automatic qualifying Britain’s Mo Farah spots for Sunday’s semi-finals. poses on the American Tori Bowie looked mighty impressive in podium during the winning her heat, in the same time as Thompson, beating victory ceremony Commonwealth Games champion and perennial world for the men’s finalist Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria. Schippers has 10,000m event been working on her start and she got it just right in her heat bursting from the blocks only to Netherlands’ Thijmen Kupers wins the heats of the men’s 800m athletics event at the be headed by Ivory Coast’s Marie-Jose Ta 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London yesterday (AFP) Lou who posted a time of 11.00sec. (AFP) South African Wayde Van Niekerk coasts as 400m shows strength in depth London yesterday. Much is expected of Van Even Usain Bolt has pegged world champs. But Van like one of the highest quality outh African Wayde van Nery Brenes shot out in Niekerk, the world and the 25-year-old South African Niekerk, seeking a first double fields in all events in London. Niekerk sailed through the heat and led coming into Olympic champion who as his most likely successor since Johnson achieved the US college runner Fred Sheats of the 400m to get his the home straight, but Van smashed American Michael as the athlete capable of feat at the 1995 worlds in Kerley, 22, and Steven ambitious bid for a 200/400m Niekerk coasted through with Johnson’s world 400m record dominating the track after Gothenburg and a year later Gardiner of the Bahamas, 21, double off to a good start at the a glance to the lanes outside when winning gold in Rio last the Jamaican sprint star’s at the Atlanta Olympics, will won their respective heats in IAAF World Championships him to win in 45.27 seconds. summer in 43.04sec. exit from athletics after these be up against it in what looks 44.92 and 44.75sec. (AFP) SPORTS Sunday, August 6, 2017 23 PSG stroll to

Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar arrives on the football field during his presentation to the fans opening win Paris and on this evidence he won’t atmosphere, the fans pushed on goal, but the Uruguayan aris Saint-Germain be needed for humdrum us to win and I hope they will slipped his shot just past the celebrated the arrival of domestic matters as the continue to do so the whole post. PBrazilian superstar Neymar in newly-promoted visitors were season,” added Emery. Like Arsenal in the Premier festive style with a comfortable nonchalantly dismissed. “We controlled the match League, PSG were often guilty 2-0 victory over Amiens in “This (signing) shows the with our possession and of over-playing the ball, and their Ligue 1 opener yesterday. ambition from both sides: chances. when Angel Di Maria slotted The Parc des Princes in we’re trying to improve and “If there had been more into an empty net after a Paris reverberated to the for Neymar this bet is also to clarity, we could have scored mesmerising move, it was sound of Neymar’s name take a step forward,” said PSG more goals and had an easier ruled out for Cavani having chanted over and again coach Unai Emery. win.” been offside when playing the before kick off as the world’s “Our ambition is to get Amiens had given notice of penultimate pass. most expensive player was closer to winning trophies and the extent of their ambition There was a festive presented to fans. the Champions League is one right from kick-off, rugby- atmosphere and an almost “Paris is magic,” said of those.” style pumping the ball deep casual confidence amongst Neymar as he vowed to “win Last season’s top scorer into PSG territory and out of the PSG players that the goals lots of trophies” for his mega- Edinson Cavani opened the play for a throw-in. would come as they wove rich employers following his scoring three minutes before Thereafter they spent most intricate patterns around 222-million-euro ($264m) the break with Javier Pastore of the match camped on the the pitch, multiplying the Paris Saint-Germain’s Uruguayan forward Edinson transfer from Barcelona. notching the second 10 edge of their own area. tricks and flicks as Amiens’ Cavani (C) controls the ball Neymar has been bought minutes from time of a one- Six minutes in and PSG overworked defenders held on to bring Champions League sided affair. carved Amiens open with grimly. Di Maria’s cross was cut out pass to Pastore rather than glory to PSG’s Qatari owners “There was a great slick passing to put Cavani in On a rapier counter-attack, as he tried to pick out a return shoot himself. (AFP)

Kei Nishikori faces Liverpool end pre-season unbeaten Dublin in the Europa League on Moreno and Mohamed Salah Ager Aketxe, but stretching to iverpool ended their Thursday. combined to set him up again connect his shot went wide of Zverev in semi-final globetrotting pre-season Liverpool were without five minutes later, the 22-year- Simon Mignolet’s goal. Washington and Zverev. unbeatenL after easing to a 3-1 the injured Daniel Sturridge, old headed wide again. Williams reacted with op-10 rivals Kei “I’m sure it’s going to be a win over Spanish side Athletic Philippe Coutinho, a possible The opening goal didn’t take frustration but made up for Nishikori and Alexander tough match,” Nishikori said. Bilbao at Lansdowne Road in transfer target for Barcelona, long to come, with Firmino, it moments later when he ZverevT advanced to a semi- He has been playing really Dublin yesterday. and Adam Lallana, but still who scored twice from the spot blocked Dejan Lovren’s final showdown at the ATP well.” Jurgen Klopp’s side warmed fielded a strong team. in midweek against Atletico attempted clearance and and WTA Citi Open on “Kei has been in the top 10 up for next Saturday’s Premier Belgium striker Divock Madrid, doing so once more placed a controlled finish past Friday while second-ranked for a long time now,” Zverev League opener at Watford with Origi should have had the Reds after Inigo Lekue conceded a Mignolet to level the score. Simona Halep retired with said. “He’s going to be a tough an emphatic friendly victory, ahead inside 10 minutes when soft penalty by grappling with Firmino put Moreno heat fatigue. test on the hardcourts.” leaving them unbeaten inside Joel Matip delivered a perfectly the Brazilian. through on Kepa Arrizabalaga Ninth-ranked Nishikori, Saturday’s other semi-final 90 minutes over eight games weighted slide pass to put him Bilbao were threatening on just before the break but the 2015 champion on the sends US eighth seed Jack that included a 3-0 win over through on goal. the counter attack against a the full back, who had been Washington hardcourts, Sock -- a 7-5, 6-4 winner German champions Bayern But the striker pulled his rocky Liverpool defence, with impressive in attack, fired right saved three match points over Canadian third seed Munich. attempt wide, and after Alberto Inaki Williams setting up at the goalkeeper. (AFP) in a tension-packed second Milos Raonic -- against The Reds went into set before rallying to beat South African an early lead through 225th-ranked American 15th seed Roberto Firmino, before 20-year-old Tommy Paul Kevin Inaki Williams levelled 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-4 after two Anderson, before half time. hours and 40 minutes. who blasted Klopp made “It was a great battle,” 21 aces to defeat 10 changes at Nishikori said. “He almost 200th-ranked the break, and had it. Happy to win.” Indian qualifier Yuki teenage duo Zverev, a 20-year-old Bhambri 6-4, 4-6, Ben Woodburn German seeking his fourth 6-3, after ousting top and Dominic ATP title of the year and seed Dominic Thiem on Solanke added ranked a career-high eighth, Thursday. two more goals took only 57 minutes to “I definitely have the belief to seal victory. eliminate Russia’s Daniil in myself that I’m able to win The Premier Medvedev 6-2, 6-4. this tournament,” Anderson League side “I felt so good from the said. “If I play my best tennis were up against start,” Zverev said. “It was a I have a chance to do very a weakened great match for me. It’s just well.” (AFP) opposition, with all coming together now.” the Spaniards making It will be the first career Kei Nishikori of 11 changes to meeting between Nishikori Japan competes the side that beat Dinamo Bucharest Liverpool’s Brazilian midfielder Roberto Firmino (C) runs through the Bilboa defence PSG stroll to P23 opening win SPORTS 2424 Sunday, August 6, 2017 Gatlin stuns

London Bolt suffered a dreadful start and could he has in the past merican veteran Justin Gatlin was booed only claim bronze in 9.95sec. ironically credited with after he stunned Usain Bolt to win the “I’m sorry I couldn’t end it on a winning his four years of forced exile A100m world title in London yesterday and note, but I want to thank you for your from the track. rain on the Jamaican’s farewell race in the support,” said Bolt, who embraced Gatlin The evening was all supposed blue riband event. after they streaked through the line with no to be about the 30-year-old Bolt BoltGatlin, who has served two doping bans clear victor immediately apparent. “It’s been claiming a remarkable 12th world and won silvers behind Bolt at the last two a wonderful experience as always.” gold to add to his eight Olympic golds world championships, clocked 9.92 seconds, Gatlin was afforded the same rough in what has been a glittering career. with teammate Christian Coleman winning reception as he had in the heats and semi- And what a gaping hole his absence silver in 9.94sec. finals, loud boos and jeering ringing around will leave, no matter how brave a face the same stadium where in 2012 his rivalry track and field’s governing body the with Bolt was presented as ‘good against evil’, IAAF try to put on it. given the American’s doping-tainted past. Of his 19 global golds, 13 have come That continued unabated after it became in individual events and allied with a clear Gatlin, a sprinter whose past divides charismatic personality, it has guaranteed track and field, had gatecrashed Bolt’s party. Bolt recognition as one of the world’s most Jamaica’s Usain Bolt But Gatlin has form as the last man to successful sportsmen. In temperatures of beat Bolt over 100m -- by a hundredth of a 19 degrees Celsius (68F), Bolt the showman second in Rome in 2013 -- and at the age of demonstrated exactly what athletics will 35, can still produce the goods, something miss when he bows out. (AFP)

US athlete Justin Gatlin celebrates

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