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Eid Al Adha on August 21 Bahrain condemns blast in Jordan Mecca certed international cooperation to id Al Adha will be cel- The Foreign Ministry counter terrorism and dry out its fund- Eebrated on August 21, • ing sources. the Supreme Court in Saudi called for concerted A vehicle belonging to the Jordanian Arabia said. international cooperation to gendarmerie was hit by an explosion In a statement carried counter terrorism and dry on Friday evening, leaving one sergeant by the Saudi Press Agency out its funding sources. dead and wounding six other security (SPA), the court said that the personnel. start of the month of Dhull The blast happened just outside the Hijja would be on Sunday Manama capital Amman, where the unit was August 12, Arafat Day when tasked with guarding a cultural festi- Muslims congregate on in he Kingdom yesterday strongly val held in the western outskirt of the the area in the outskirts of condemned the terrorist explo- city. Mecca would be on August Tsion that targeted a joint patrol Local news media quoted government 20 and Eid would be on Au- conducted by the Gendarmerie and Pub- sources denying the blast was linked to gust 21. lic Security forces in Fuheis in Jordan. terrorism, however, investigations are The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ex- continuing. pressed its deep-felt condolences and In a statement, Lt Col Mahmoud Al Three killed in consolation to the martyr’s relatives and The blast leaves one sergeant dead, six injured. Shiab, the spokesperson for the Jorda- family while wishing a speedy recovery nian gendarmerie, said that, “a gendar- Jordan terror raid to those injured in the blast. measures it took to reinforce security all forms of violence, extremism and merie unit exploded outside the area of Amman The ministry affirmed Bahrain’s full and stability. terrorism, irrespective of the motives the festival of Fuheis, and resulted in the support to Jordan in its efforts to combat It also renewed the unwavering stance or causes. death of a sergeant, and the injury of four ordan said yesterday violence and terrorism and backed all the of the Kingdom, which strongly rejects The Foreign Ministry called for con- gendarmeries and two officers”. Jthree people were killed during a police raid on a house sheltering militants suspected of being behind a bomb attack on a police van. Security forces stormed a building in the city of Salt where suspects behind the planting of the home-made Tehran on a knife edge bomb that killed one po - liceman on Friday were be- lieved to be hiding as part Iran test-fired anti-ship missile during drills last week, says US of the manhunt.

a message as the United States national agreement on Iran’s nu- Flight to Sun There were no US reimposes sanctions on Tehran, clear programme and re-impose • a US official has said. sanctions on Tehran. delayed military assets nearby The official, however, did not Senior Iranian officials have Florida or in danger when Iran suggest that such a missile test warned the country would not conducted the test, was unusual during naval ex- easily yield to a renewed US last-minute technical the official added. ercises or that it was carried campaign to strangle Iran’s vital Aproblem has delayed out unsafely, noting it occurred oil exports. Nasa’s unprecedented flight in what could be described as Last month, Iran’s Supreme to the Sun. The guided-missile Iranian territorial waters in the Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Saturday’s launch count- destroyer• USS The Strait. backed President Hassan Rou- down was halted with just Sullivans has been Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hani’s suggestion that Iran may one-minute, 55 seconds re- escorting vessels confirmed on Sunday it had held block Gulf oil exports if its own maining, keeping the Del- war games in the Gulf over the exports are stopped. ta IV (four) rocket at Cape through the strait past several days, saying they Votel said the US military was in recent days. An Iranian short range “Tondar” missile is launched during a war game at an Canaveral, Florida, with the were aimed at “confronting pos- undisclosed location near Tehran. keenly aware of Iran’s military Parker Solar Probe. This fol- sible threats” by enemies. activities. lowed earlier trouble in the Washington US Army General Joseph Vo- But the timing of this par - that as we approach this period “We are aware of what’s go- countdown. tel, head of the US military’s ticular set of exercises was of the sanctions here, that they ing on, and we remain ready ran test-fired a short-range Central Command, said earlier designed to get Washington’s had some capabilities,” Votel to protect ourselves as we pur- anti-ship missile in the Strait this week the scope and scale attention. told reporters at the Pentagon. sue our objectives of freedom Iof Hormuz during naval of the exercises were similar “It’s pretty clear to us that Iran has been furious over of navigation and the freedom drills last week that Washington to ones Iran had carried out in they were trying to use that ex- US President Donald Trump’s of commerce in international believes were aimed at sending the past. ercise to send a message to us decision to pull out of an inter- waters,” Votel said. DON’T MISS IT LOSING GLORY Embassy ‘concerned over Qatar to lose its status as richest place to Macau crimes committed 03 Hong Kong The wealth gap between the by Bangladeshi two places is also expected to expats’ atar is on track to lose widen beyond 2020, with Ma- its status as the richest cau’s GDP per capita set to reach Sporting activities Qplace in the world to the 143,116 about $172,681 by 2023, accord- best vehicle Chinese gambling enclave of American dollars is the ing to data compiled from the Macau. projected per capita April edition of the IMF’s Global 04 for promoting The global casino hub’s econ- GDP of Macau in 2020. Economic Outlook database. tourism sector omy will reach the equivalent Qatar’s, meanwhile, will grow of about $143,116 per person by to just $158,117. Uproar over 2020, according to projections Elsewhere, financial hub Sin- from the International Mone- It’s the only place in China gapore’s GDP per capita is ex- 05 waterpark women tary Fund. where casinos are legal, turning pected to top six digits by next abuse incident That will put Macau ahead of it into a magnet for high-rollers year and is on track to grow to the current number one Qatar, from the mainland. about $117,535 by 2023, while which will reach $139,151 in the Macau is the only place in China were casinos are legal. Macau’s gross domestic prod- Hong Kong - across the water same time frame. uct has more than tripled from from Macau - will touch almost A former Portuguese outpost Macau has become a gambling nese control almost two decades about $34,500 per capita in $80,000 by that time, the IMF on the southern tip of China, mecca since returning to Chi- ago. 2001, the IMF data shows. projections show. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 02 Empowering youth ‘key focus of reform project’ Shaikh Nasser underscores the ability of Bahraini youth to come up with solutions when confronted by challenges

sustainable development goals. brate the centenary of its regular edu- Shaikh Nasser pointed He noted that Bahrain’s ranking cation in 2019, pointing out the steady • fourth internationally in the Telecom- development of the educational sector. out that the Youth City 2030 munication Infrastructure Index as- He pointed out that Bahrain paved was one of the initiatives serts providing a favourable climate the way for political and civil participa- that reflects the strategy for the youth to get informed about tion through a popular referendum on on the ground by providing regional and international experiences the National Action Charter which was in various fields. approved by an overwhelming majority the youth with the needed Shaikh Nasser cited statistics by the of 98.4 per cent of the votes to become training and rehabilitation. UN showing that there are currently 1.8 an essential part of the kingdom’s dem- billion youngsters aged between 10 and ocratic process. Manama 24 in the world. However, 1 out of 10 Shaikh Nasser underscored the on- children live in regions of conflict and going support to the youth’s initiatives epresentative of His Majesty 24 million children do not go to school. to serve the community and shape the the King for Charity Work and Shaikh Nasser Shaikh Khalid He pointed out that Bahrain possess- future of Bahrain. RYouth Affairs, Chairman of the es all factors of security and stability HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Supreme Council for Youth and Sport bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, He pointed out that the Youth City thanks to the efforts of the relevant Khalifa, First Deputy President of the and President of Bahrain Olympic Com- Deputy Supreme Commander and First 2030 was one of the initiatives that bodies. Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, mittee His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Deputy Premier. reflect the strategy on the ground by He also noted that Bahrain will cele- President of the Bahrain Athletics Asso- Hamad Al Khalifa said Bahrain has Marking the International Youth Day, providing the youth with the needed ciation, also congratulated the Bahraini mapped out a comprehensive vision in which falls today, Shaikh Nasser de- training and rehabilitation. youth marking the occasion. the prosperous era of His Majesty King scribed the occasion as an opportunity He also affirmed the significant role HH Shaikh Khalid affirmed that the Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to empower to affirm constant keenness to carry played by the national clubs and youth Kingdom has prioritised its youth and Bahraini youth as they form the pillar out the noble royal vision towards the centres in honing the youth’s talents has considered them the key driver of reform project. youth in Bahrain who play a key role and academic knowledge. of development in all fields, enabling He pointed out that this vision had in the kingdom’s growth and devel - Shaikh Nasser underscored capabil- 24 them to become partners in making been translated into practical schemes opment. ity of the Bahraini youth to come up million children across decisions. implemented by the government under He underlined Bahrain’s pioneering with creative visions to handle various the world don’t attend “Bahrain has given its youth the re- the leadership of His Royal Highness strategy to groom youngsters and tap challenges facing the community. schools. quired support and a space to develop Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Sal- on their potentials through various He pointed out the King Hamad their abilities in line with the 2030 man Al Khalifa and the close follow-up initiatives in order to achieve the UN Youth Empowerment Award which sustainable development goals.” of His Royal Highness Prince Salman goals for this year. aims to enable the youth to achieve the Shaikh Khalid launches Futsal League website

Shaikh Khalid launches the website. the website live following tremendous efforts The website will include many made by those in charge of it. • The website will include many sections, in- sections, including HH Shaikh cluding Shaikh Khalid’s news and those related Khalid’s news and those related to the Khalid bin Hamad Futsal League which to the Khalid bin Hamad Futsal was launched six years ago. It will also feature League which was launched six a photo gallery of the league. On this occasion, Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al years ago. It will also feature a Khalifa said that this website would allow the photo gallery of the league. league head towards news horizons, keeping pace with recent developments in digital media Manama which is now booming under the blessed era of HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of haikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, First the Kingdom of Bahrain. Deputy President of the Supreme Coun- Shaikh Khalid explained that the website Scil for Youth and Sports, President of the represents a solid foundation towards more Bahrain Athletics Association and Honourary achievements in the media sector of the league. President of the Bahrain Sports Federation for “We are keen to stand on the shoulders of Disabilities, has launched the official website worldwide developments. The website will allow of the Khalid bin Hamad Futsal League in the teams taking part in the next edition to register presence of Hisham Al Jowder, Minister of Youth their participation online,” Shaikh Khalid said. and Sports Affairs. Moreover, Shaikh Khalid praised the efforts Shaikh Khalid pressed on the switch to make of those in charge of the website. 03 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 big story Embassy ‘concerned over crimes committed by Bangladeshi expats’ Mominur Rahman urges no mercy for Bangladeshi nationals committing criminal activities in the Kingdom

Bangladeshi nationals.” Mr Rahman said that Mr Rahman said the The ambassador highlighted ‘Ma’amoon’ is part of many crimes • the case of a Bangladeshi dan- including fraud, forgery, theft, majority of Bangladeshi gerous criminal who success- mugging and human trafficking. expatriates are peace- These fully evaded the authorities “He has a Pakistani partner, loving people, who criminals are for a long period. “Ma’amoon, who employs Bengalis to man- had come here to adversely a dangerous criminal, was age gambling tables and traf- affecting the extradited to Bangladesh but ficking in women. He brought make a living while he has returned to the King - 12 women from Bangladesh and taking care of their reputation of innocent dom again. He was extradited forced them into prostitution. families back home. thrice. Every time he managed We could rescue them and send Bangladeshi to escape and obtained resi - back home.” nationals here, The ambassador dence permits through illegal Mr Rahman said the embas- • who just want channels to enter the King - sy is cooperating with securi- highlighted the case to make a living dom. ty agencies to curtail free visa of a Bangladeshi and support their “The person faces many rackets. dangerous criminal families back charges in Bangladesh and is a “We are cooperating with la- who successfully fugitive there. He is now suc- bour and security agencies to home. cessfully hiding as a resident bring an end to these criminal evaded the authorities MR RAHMAN in the Kingdom. I will not let activities committed by Bangla- for a long period. go of the matter and have com- deshi nationals. The community municated with all security can only regain its lost reputa- Mr Rahman said officials in the Kingdom. This tion once these criminals are •the embassy was in its and they should be punished against all criminals.” to put an end to criminal activ- person should be classified as punished and extradited from according to the legal system of Mr Rahman said that he is ities committed by some of the a terrorist.” the Kingdom.” best efforts to bring this country.” aware of the fact that Bangla- awareness among the Mr Rahman stressed that deshi nationals were running community members the Bangladesh Embassy in the many violent gangs in the over not falling prey Kingdom wouldn’t defend any Kingdom. criminals. “There are ‘free-visa’ rack- to free visa rackets. “Criminals are criminals and ets run by Bangladeshi na- they should get the punishment tionals, whose victims are TDT|Manama they deserve. I urge Bahraini our own people. They take authorities to take strict action money from them and cheat louting the convention them. The embassy has al- that diplomats are not ways taken tough stances Fsupposed to talk tough, against them. Bangladesh Ambassador to the “It is a matter of fact that Kingdom Mominur Rahman has many criminals from Bangla- demanded death penalty to his desh have come to countries fellow national if he gets con- in the Middle East includ- victed of murdering the Bah- ing Bahrain after committing raini imam. horrendous crimes there. The imam - Shaikh Abdul They don’t deserve sympa- Jaleel Hamood - was alleged- thy from any society. I urge ly murdered by a Bangladeshi Bahraini authorities to pun- national last week, who left the ish them strictly.” body inside a garbage bag af - Mr Rahman said that the ter cutting it into pieces near a majority of Bangladeshi ex- scrapyard in Askar. patriates are peace-loving “The murder has spoiled the people, who had come here reputation of our nation as well to make a living while taking as the community in the King- care of their families back dom. There are many Bangla- home. deshi nationals in the Kingdom “These criminals are ad- who are hard core criminals Abdul Jaleel Hamood versely affecting the repu- tation of our innocent peo- ple, who just want to make a living and support their families in Bangladesh.” Mr Rahman said that the embassy was in its best ef- forts to bring awareness among the community mem- bers over not falling prey to free visa rackets. “Today, I spoke to about 80 Bangladeshi residents. I have asked them to legalise their status while getting out of the clutches of ‘free-visa gangs’. If they don’t abide by the legal norms in the king- dom, embassy itself will take a tough stance.” Mr Rahman said the em- bassy was in constant touch with the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry to prevent crimi- nals from Bangladesh enter- ing the Kingdom. “We have sent a letter dated July 20 to the ministry in which we Scores paid their last respects to imam. have sought its cooperation SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 04 Sporting activities best vehicle for promoting tourism sector Formulae 1, Ironman, Brave Combat Week and MMA teams and Bahrain–Merida Pro Cycling Team contributing greatly to the sector TDT|Manama Mohammed Zafran

porting activities are increasing- ly becoming a prominent tool in Spromoting the Kingdom’s tourism sector, according to a senior tourism official. International sports competitions and teams from Bahrain have contrib- uted greatly in increasing tourism to Bahrain in recent years, said Director Sports are of Tourism Marketing and Promotions extremely at the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions important to Authority, Yousif Mohamed Al Khan. He said that sporting competitions the Kingdom’s such as Formulae 1, Ironman and Brave tourism vision Combat Week and Bahrain based teams and strategy. such as MMA teams and the Bahrain– MR YOUSIF AL KHAN Merida Pro Cycling Team have con- tributed greatly in recent years in pro- moting tourism. bring people together, people from He pointed out that sports tourism different backgrounds, different coun- improves tourism in two ways, firstly tries and different religions. Sports by attracting visitors for events held in have always been used to promote the Bahrain, secondly thanks to the success brands and as the tourism authority we of Bahraini sports teams and organiza- see Bahrain as a brand and to promote tions on an international level, which Bahrain through in the world of sport improves the awareness about Bahrain. is a plus for us. Any competition that Speaking to Tribune, he explained happens in Bahrain is an attraction, it how sports have contributed to improv- Bahrain Merida bus in Europe brings people to Bahrain.” ing tourism in the country. “Sports is The official said that the authority one of the best vehicles to promote any “To give an instance, when MMA fans promote sports tourism. As a Bahraini team. They go all over the world and are is yet to find the statistics behind the product, service, and destination and so all over the world hear about Brave it makes us proud to see our flag across carrying the name of Bahrain. They have impact of sports on tourism, but will on. We always look forward to Formu- they also hear about Bahrain. When the world. Sports are extremely impor- big buses in countries such as France, release them in the future. “We will lae one, Iron man, Brave and these type all of these main fighters come to Bah- tant to our vision and strategy.” Italy and many European countries and come up with it for sure in the future. of events. They are important for us to rain and tweet about Bahrain, it is free “We have also been working very the buses carry Bahrain’s name.” This relationship with sports has just promote the destination.” marketing. It’s definitely a great way to closely with Bahrain–Merida cycling “Sports have always been known to started, it takes a few years.”

5,625 Bahrainis set to perform Hajj TDT|Manama grims this year and Bahrains booked Thamer Tayfoor 5,625 visas out of 5,700 allocated to them.” audi Arabia announced on Friday The Bahraini Consul General in Jed- that more than 1.2 million pilgrims dah, Ibrahim Mohammed Al Musallma- arrived in the holy land to perform 1.2 ni, affirmed that “there is no pilgrimage S million pilgrims have Hajj pilgrimage, which is an increase arrived in Saudi Arabia without a permit”. of 70,000 or seven per cent when com- to perform Hajj. He also called on Bahraini citizens, pared to last year. pilgrims and residents to adhere to the According to Bahrain Hajj Mission, instructions and guidelines issued by 5,625 Bahraini pilgrims will perform the Saudi authorities. Hajj this year after the Bahraini quota Bahrainis have Please adhere to The consul general called on pilgrims was raised by 1,000. thorities. booked 5,625 all instructions from the Kingdom to maintain and Speaking to Tribune, Shaikh Adnan “Today, the first day of the month visas out of 5,700 provided by Saudi ensure travel documents are kept safe, Al Qattan, head of Bahrain Hajj Mis- of Dhu Hijjah, according the the allocated to them. authorities. while urging them to complete all med- sion, urged all pilgrims to follow the Arab calendar, marks the end of the MR AL QATTAN MR AL MUSALLMANI ical procedures including vaccination instructions given by Saudi Hajj au- registration period for Bahraini pil- before carrying out the pilgrimage. ‘Mega Medical Camp’ to mark Indian Independence Day TDT|Manama Harpreet Kaur

he Indian Club in association with Shifa Al Jazeera Medical TCentre will organise a ‘Mega Medical Camp’ as part of the 72nd In- dian Independence Day Celebrations. The specialised camp will be held on Friday, 17th August 2018 at the Indian club premises from 8 am until noon. Speaking to Tribune, Dr Salman Gha- reeb, Shifa Al Jazeera Medical Centre Medical Director, said, “Shifa will be providing four important specialities Indian Club members and Shifa Al Jazeera team revealing the details of the medical camp. under one roof here in order to cater association and Embassies across the to provide care to them.” President Cassius Pereira said, “This cologist Dr Bhuvaneshwari, Specialist the best services to the Indian Club Kingdom and provides free treatment “We know there are a lot of medical is part of the philanthropic activities Pediatrician Dr Sameer Ullas Patnaik members, their families and the general to the deserving. camps that are being held on a regular organised by the Indian club. The camp will conduct the health check-up. There public. Shifa Al Jazeera Medical Centre “This time we are associating with In- basis, which is just checking the blood will have specialities from Internal Med- will be a lecture and interactive session has been conducting medical camps dian Club Bahrain as part of India’s In- pressure, checking sugar and general icine, Ophthalmology, Gynecology and on summer diseases and its prevention since its inception in 2004. dependence Day, to provide the medical checkups but for the first time, a special- Pediatrics. Consultant Internal Medi- under the title ‘Stay Safe’.” “As part of the corporate responsi- care to the needy. The Indian Club-Bah- ised medical camp is being held along cine from Shifa, Dr Sujeet Lal will lead The camp will start at 8 am with reg- bility, Shifa undertakes a lot of charity rain is one of the oldest, most prestigious with dental checkups.” the camp and Specialist Ophthalmolo- istration and check up will be done on a works coordinating with various charity clubs in Bahrain and we are very happy Speaking on the occasion, Indian Club gist Dr Shreyas Palavu, Specialist Gyne- first come first serve basis. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 05

Governor lauds Shaikh Nasser’s Uproar over waterpark achievements The Governor congratulated• HH Shaikh Nasser on the International Youth Day which women abuse incident falls today. Many demanded strict punishment for a group of men who committed the act Manama outhern Governor However, the safety and security “Lots of people took to so - Shaikh Khalifa bin A manager at the officers immediately intervened cial media to condemn what SAli Al Khalifa lauded • and attended to the matter in a happened, but what the real- the key role of Represent- waterpark told Tribune highly professional manner. Ac- ly painful part about this was ative of His Majesty the that further comments tions have been taken with the the response from waterpark.” King for Charity Work and on the incident would cooperation of the Ministry of he said. “That is brutal, that is Youth Affairs, Chairman soon be provided. Interior to investigate the inci- painful. In the video you can of the Supreme Coun - dent,” LPOD Management stated. see the women clearly sexually cil for Youth and Sport “We would also like to con- assaulted, men actually touch- and President of Bahrain TDT|Manama firm that LPOD is equipped with ing them and pushing them,” Olympic Committee His Mohammed Zafran more than 160 surveillance cam- he said. Highness Shaikh Nasser eras covering the entire venue. “A formal apology must be giv- bin Hamad Al Khalifa in n alleged sexual harass- In addition, LPOD Waterpark en to the women based on that boosting the youth and ment incident and the consists of more than 65 em - experience,” he added. sport momentum. Aresponse to it from the ployees responsible solely for The outrage was just as strong He congratulated HH water-park where it happened maintaining the security and in Bahrain as many called for Shaikh Nasser on the In- became a source of huge public safety environment of the water the men to be arrested while ternational Youth Day outcry in the past few days. park.” many others also criticized which is observed on Au- A video published recently A manager at the water park the water park’s statements. A gust 12. showed two women being har- told Tribune that further com- hash-tag, related to the incident The Southern Gover- assed by a huge group of men at Al Ameri’s video also went viral in Bahrain ments on the incident would was trending in local Twitter nor praised the numerous a water park. The women tar- soon be provided. circles for the past few days. achievements brought geted did not file a complaint; added that the two women were waterpark would like to assure The incident as well as the “The victims have nothing to be about by HH Shaikh Nas- however, the video was submit- previously warned against en- that the safety of our visitors is a official reaction to the state - ashamed of. They did nothing ser bin Hamad Al Khalifa ted to the authorities and an tering the pool. Residents took top priority. Regarding the inci- ment was shared prominently wrong. Something people need in many regional and in- investigation is underway. to social media to show their dent, we would like declare that not only in Bahraini circles but to understand.” said Mariyam, ternational competitions, The Lost Paradise of Dilmun outrage at the incident while the safety and security officers also in neighboring counties. showing support to the alleged describing him as a mod- (LPOD) Waterpark stated that also expressing their displeasure of LPOD had previously warned The famous UAE personality victims.” For me I think the sad- el to emulate by Bahraini police have begun investigation to the statement released by the the water park’s visitors to kind- Khalid Al Ameri who has close dest part, is that out of all those youngsters. into the incident and that secu- water-park management. ly conform to the general rules to 1,400,000 followers on Face- people in the video there doesn’t He also lauded HH Shai- rity has been stepped up at the “In accordance with the in- and regulations of the venue.” book, led the outrage as he made seem to have been one person kh Nasser’s support to the waterpark to prevent any future cident that lately went viral on “The individuals involved in and posted an entire video dis- who could separate himself youth through various pro- incidents. social media networks, the ex- the incident were strictly ad- cussing the issue on his social from the pack mentality” said grammes, being the real However, the statement also ecutive management of LPOD vised to avoid crowded pools. media pages. another resident. asset of Bahrain. Shura salutes Bahraini youth ‘803 BAS employees are youth’ HM the King’s TDT|Manama pioneering• Reform Project has paved alman Al Mahmeed, the way for building Chief Executive Officer a new generation Sof Bahrain Airport Ser- vices (BAS), said that the num- whose members enjoy ber of young employees in the leadership skills, and company has reached 803. are capable of assuming He stressed that BAS strate- responsibilities and gy emphasises the importance attaining achievements of investing in national cadres, especially youth, in the belief The BAS strategy in various fields, the that the company’s manage- emphasises council observed. ment is capable of assuming the importance responsibilities and develop- of investing in Manama ing work. Mr Al Mahmeed congratu- national cadres, lated the BAS staff on the oc- especially youth. he Shura Council has sa- The Shura Council casion of International Youth MR AL MAHMEED luted Bahraini youth on Day and expressed his grati- Tthe International Youth for building a new generation Council for Youth and Sport, tude for their continuous ef- Day, marked worldwide on Au- whose members enjoy leader- HH Shaikh Nasser bin Ham - forts to improve productivity gust 12, under the theme ‘Safe ship skills, and are capable of ad Al Khalifa, to support Bah- and quality of work. the company seeks to reach spaces for youth’. assuming responsibilities and Bahraini youth’s raini youth and empower them, He pointed out at the same the young Bahraini leadership In a statement marking the attaining achievements in vari- distinction and through the launch of sports, time the need to provide young positions through a training occasion, the Shura Council ex- ous fields, it added. achievements are the cultural, humanitarian and sci- people with the necessary plan and practical study. pressed deep pride in the Bah- The Shura Council valued fruitful outcome of the entific initiatives aimed at raising skills that make them quali- On the other hand, Man - raini youth, and appreciation of highly the efforts exerted by the constant support and their awareness, strengthening fied to reach the managerial ager of Learning and Train- their landmark achievements, government, under the lead- care they enjoy from the nation and increasing their and leadership positions in ing, Khalid Al Bastaki, said locally, regionally and interna- ership of His Royal Highness HM the King. participation in the kingdom’s the company, especially with that during the past year, tionally. Prime Minister Prince Khalifa progress. the national functional sub- BAS launched the national Bahraini youth’s distinction bin Salman Al Khalifa, and with SHURA COUNCIL The council paid similar trib- stitution plan, through which functional substitution plan, and achievements are the fruitful the support of His Royal High- ute to the First Deputy Chair- which started through the outcome of the constant sup- ness Prince Salman bin Hamad various fields in which they suc- man of the Supreme Council for Development Management port and care they enjoy from Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, ceeded in showcasing their dis- Youth and Sport, President of Programme, a programme His Majesty King Hamad bin Deputy Supreme Commander tinguished leadership skills and the Bahrain Athletics Associ- dedicated to the development Isa Al Khalifa, citing the royal and First Deputy Premier, to em- ability to attain the best results, ation and Honorary President of management skills. confidence in the importance power Bahraini youth and enable which reflected positively on the of the Bahrain Disabled Sports “And in cooperation with in embracing and empowering them to play their role in society kingdom’s development process. Federation, HH Shaikh Khalid 55 the Institute of Leadership youngsters to ensure their ef- through providing them with The Shura Council, in its state- bin Hamad Al Khalifa, for his Bahraini youth took and Management in UK, com- fective contribution to the na- the best services and means to ment, also lauded the tremen- distinguished role in caring for part in a special mensurate with international tion-building process, the state- develop their skills. dous efforts exerted by the Rep- Bahraini youth in various fields programme dedicated standards and developments ment said. In this regard, the coun - resentative of HM the King for through creating suitable condi- to developing in the business world. 55 Bah- HM the King’s pioneering Re- cil lauded the advanced level Charity Work and Youth Affairs, tions for them to showcase their management skills. raini young people participat- form Project has paved the way reached by Bahraini youth in and Chairman of the Supreme creativity. ed in the programme.” SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 06 For the love of music From Western classical violin to Eastern Carnatic music, Kayan has completed a rare musical odyssey

Kayan is one among the few Bahraini female DJs.

TDT|Manama of music and experimenting with ated my own events under Kayan know any woman in the region Harpreet Kaur various instruments. One of the Music and the banner ‘In Sound who studied South Indian clas- genres which excited me the most We Trust’. sical music. “I run a community My journey with Bahraini musician has was South Indian Carnatic music “At my events, I aim to bridge outreach programme during the music began almost broken all stereotypes in which the violin played a cen- the Western and Eastern systems day, called project resonance. It’s 10 years ago. When A in the music industry by tral role. of music. My event concepts are a project dedicated to spread - I was younger, I bridging the gap between the “Having come from a back - a celebration of art and music. I ing awareness about sound Western and Eastern music. ground in Western music, it was feel blessed to be able to work in and music. I run workshops on was inquisitive and Noor Faisal, popularly known a steep learning curve to adapt an industry that I love. Last year, resonance and sound alchemy, interested in sounds. as Kayan, has achieved many to the Eastern system. Despite I was honoured to perform an and share my deep knowledge I would listen closely feats at a young age of 31, which the challenges, I was dedicated opening act for French musician of sound with all who wish to and deeply to various other musicians would be cer- to learning all I could about this and more recently for the British benefit from it. Currently, I’m Eastern and Western tainly envious of. fascinating genre. singer James Arthur at the Spring dedicated to utilizing sound for genres of music. Kayan was selected to perform “In 2012, I was awarded a of Culture festival. therapy sessions for children and represent and be part of the scholarship to study various “As a DJ, the music I play tells with special needs. KAYAN Musical Mosaic at the Presiden- forms of classical arts including a story. I am proud to be one of “A couple of years ago I was tial Palace and United Nations to vocal violin and harmonium. I the few female Bahraini DJs on awarded a scholarship to study pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi was honoured to be able to study the Island and am pleased to gain Indian classical arts, where I was on its 150th birth anniversary. classical Indian music with gurus positive recognition for the qual- introduced to Indian Carnatic She is one of the few Arab who were generous with their ity of the music I play and my violin. Meera Ravi, my musical women who could play South time and genuine in their offers attention to detail. godmother, has been guiding me Indian classical violin and vocal. to share knowledge. I later com- “Nothing I play is by chance. through my journeys in Hindu- “My journey with music began pleted a degree in sound therapy. Each selection is deliberate and stani music. almost 10 years ago. When I was As part of my studies, I conducted intentional. Through my live per- “She recommended my name younger, I was inquisitive and research into the effect vibration formances, I do what I can to to the Indian embassy for a pro- interested in sounds. I would lis- and sound has on human emo - lift my audience by creating a ject for Mahatma Gandhi birth ten closely and deeply to various tions and psychology.” sonic and cross-cultural journey anniversary. I feel extremely Eastern and Western genres of Kayan said music is something that weaves together emotion honoured to be selected and sing music. As a teenager, I took up central to her life. “I now work and sound.” for such a project on an interna- the Western classical violin and as a music therapist, musician Kayan, who is also a certified tional level as I have had a very began exploring different styles and DJ in Bahrain and have cre- music therapist, said she doesn’t deep connection with Indian arts. “For the past couple of years, I had to miss out on a lot socially as, where I had to stay home, learn, take classes. Violin is a very difficult instrument and I did not learn it at an early age and thus learning it at a later age, I had to put in a lot of hours and it needs a lifetime of practice. “In relation to the challenges in the industry, there isn’t a many local female, DJs and violinist and musicians and they are mostly male and everyone thinks that just because you are a female, it’s going to be easy, because it does take a lot of work to prove your skills and takes time to build credibility in the industry espe- cially for a local. Further, I think coming from a strong musical background, Dj-ing did become a little easier. She said both musicians and music lovers have been growing considerably in the Kingdom. “There will be more opportu - nities for musicians and music enthusiasts here. The music rev- olution has just begun.” 07 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 business Performance review of STEPPING STONE 10 Govt entities held MIKE ORLOV formance and achievements, The meeting marks and instilling a culture of strate- • gic performance management in Maximising Productivity an important stage in government entities in accord- the implementation ance with the Balanced Score- e are often asked how drugs or treatments were pre- of the institutional KNOW WHAT card methodology,” he said. Wto maximise employees’ scribed. performance project “This is in addition to im - productivity for the benefit of Unfortunately most manag- proving communication be- the enterprise. Without fail we ers see looking after employees The strategic perfor- tween different functional lev- always answer; treat others the is not seen to be an option; TDT| Manama mance review of govt els, horizontally, vertically and way they want to be treated. managers are often heard to bodies aims to achieve within the government entity,” This answer is almost always say; ‘…there is too much at he government has a set of goals - trans- he said. met with a certain level of in- stake and time is too short…’ held the strategic per- parency, credibility “The next stage is to raise all credulity: Really? Do we com- Time is definitely short but Tformance review of 10 and spirit of coopera- the goals, initiatives and stand- pletely let go of our leanings in business, as in medicine, government entities participat- ards after the adoption of the and adapt to the environment no single prescription cures ing in the experimental Tam- tion parties on the automated system as defined by those working all ills. kul project, Adel Hejji Ibrahim stored on the Amazon cloud. for us? We need to take time with Mohamed, Director General This will enable government Clearly it is not possible or our people. We need to explore of Human Resources Devel - agencies to follow up on the im- advisable for us to completely what might be the most appro- opment and Performance, said Adel Hejji Ibrahim Mohamed plementation of objectives, ini- suspend our own views and priate way to deal with each yesterday. tiatives and indicators, and en- priorities but it is definitely individual and the most effec- The meeting marks an impor- Water Authority attended the of cooperation, for stimulating able decision makers and higher worth listening, amending tive way to organise resources tant stage in the implementation meeting. government agencies for suc- authorities in the Kingdom to how you act to fit with their to develop most capabilities of the institutional performance Tamkul aims to achieve the cess in performance, in addition follow up the government per- needs. Just make sure you and competencies for current project. principles of good governance, to supporting government en- formance of these entities,” he amend your approach in a circumstances. However for Representatives of the Min- support government agencies tities to enhance their perfor- said. controlled way; always within most leaders and managers istry of Health, the Informa - in evaluating their performance mance and enable their strat- “The review will also allow boundaries which are set by trying out a new idea, attempts tion and e-Government Au - and make recommendations to egies,” said Adel Hejji Ibrahim higher authorities to know per- your explicitly outlined pur- at a trial to see if it works and thority, the Civil Service Bu- raise performance to the re - Mohammed. centage of achievement, obsta- pose and vision. accepting error and failure is reau, the Institute of Public quired levels. “The strategic performance cles impeding the implemen- If getting the best out of your simply too risky; there is too Administration, the Ministry “The the strategic perfor- review of governmental bod- tation of the strategy,” he said people is a key aim of your much at stake for the enter- of Works, Ministry of Munici- mance review of government ies’ are aimed at improving the adding that the review will con- leadership approach, then prise and for their own career. pal Affairs and Urban Planning bodies aims to achieve a set of institutional performance and tribute to the achievement of identifying and working with, Here are some practices we (both Works and Municipal Af- goals namely, promoting trans- raising the quality of services the government strategy aligned rather than against, their be- have found useful delivering fairs) and the Electricity and parency, credibility and spirit through the evaluation of per- with the vision of Bahrain 2030. havioural priorities, will work for and getting the best out of for you, for them, improve employees: relationships with suppliers, Clarify Purpose, Vision, deliver more for customers Goals And Objectives: Articu- US, Mexico to and cause greater problems for late what today looks like and BAC VP for ICT nominated to WAITSC your competitors. what tomorrow might be, un- resume NAFTA talks Although difficult for those derlining this as a normalized next week TDT| Manama es and communicate them to of us who are supposed to sus- goal fitting in with the needs the airport community. Najwa pend our beliefs and ways of of the individual as well as the AFP| Washington ahrain Airport Company will help develop IT industry enterprise B(BAC) Vice President of In- policy guidelines and positions Define Your Approach: S and Mexican negoti- formation & Communication on issues affecting airport au- Just make When your people believe Uators will resume talks Technology, Najwa Abdul Ra- tomation, telecommunications you have been thoughtful and next week on the update of him, has been elected to the infrastructure, and related pas- sure you considered them in the context the North American Free ACI World Airport IT Standing senger and cargo services. amend your of objective-setting, they will Trade Agreement, Mexico’s Committee (WAITSC) follow- The WAITSC is currently almost always embrace your Economy Minister Ildefon- ing a successful nomination by working on a number of initia- approach in explicit way of doing things so Guajardo said Friday. Bahrain International Airport tives to help streamline airport Train And Educate: Always At the close of the third (BIA). IT operations and passenger a controlled remind and re-educate to consecutive week of dis- In this role, she will help to movements, including projects achieve wider understanding cussions in Washington, develop recommended practic- related to digital transforma- way; always and develop skills Guajardo said a deal was es and standards for airport IT, tion, cyber security, blockchain, Share Success And Embrace still possible by the end of and promote the digitisation of Najwa Abdul Rahim the Internet of Things, and within Failure: Success has many fa- the month.However, he ac- airports across the world. This chatbot technology. thers but failure is an orphan. knowledged: “We still have significant appointment is in As BAC’s Vice President of boundaries Share success with people. a lot of work to do.” recognition of Abdul Rahim’s works closely with prominent ICT, Najwa plays a vital role in Embrace failure. Guajardo stressed that extensive expertise. aviation organisations such as ensuring a smooth overall ex- which are Help Change People For the most difficult issues had Airport Council Internation- ICAO and IATA to develop stand- perience for passengers at BIA. The Better: Let your employ- been left to the end, includ- al (ACI) represents the world’s ards, policies, and recommend- Her responsibilities include set by your ees know you are their busi- ing the US demand that NAF- airports and their collective in- ed practices. planning and executing strat- ness-coach and are committed TA be approved every five terests. It promotes profession- The WAITSC actively works egies to improve performance, explicitly to facilitating their person- years, a provision known as al excellence in airport man- to develop IT guidelines on cost-effectiveness, and service al-growth a sunset clause. agement and operations, and all airport IT related practic- quality. outlined Dream Big And Show All the Great Things Which Can purpose and Be Accomplished: We have to vision earn the right to be a leader Say ‘Please’ And ‘Thank You’: Through your manage- ment teams, encourage civility operating in the hurly burly and respect, treat all as indi- mess of running our enterpris- viduals and use these three es, how do we go about this for words often best possible results. Remember; ‘A good boss is Encourage each member of a person who isn’t worried the management team to see about their own career but themselves as doctors for their rather the careers of those who employees / patients. Clear- work for them.’ ly these management doctors (Mike Orlov is a Partner at would not prescribe the same Stepping Stone Global, a Bah- drugs and treatment for each rain-based boutique strategic patient visiting their medical management consultancy. He practice; each patient has to is also a Fellow of the Institute Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) President Dr Abdulrahman Jawahery, handing over an award to Bader Yahya, who works in the Technical Services be judged on their individual of Leadership and Manage- Department, on his being named the Employee of the Month for May. Yahya has been working in the company since 2004 and is one of the outstanding employees symptoms before a diagnosis ment. Email: info@stepping- who contributed to the success of the company by performing tasks entrusted to him. He has attended several training courses within and outside Bahrain. could be given and before any stoneglobal.com) SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 08

Fitch upgrades Real Search launches water Greece’s debt Ebdaa to support conservation campaign rating to ‘BB-’ TDT| Manama

AFP| Washington eal Search, Bahrain’s larg- Rest property and facilities redit ratings agency livestock traders management services com- CFitch yesterday upgrad- pany, has announced a water ed Greece’s sovereign debt saving campaign to preserve one notch to ‘BB-’ from ‘B’ The bank has launched a new loan product “alsheayir” to water by using the scarce re- due to the recent deal with source wisely on a daily basis. Europe to provide “substan- help live stock merchants during Eid Al Adha As part of the campaign, tial” debt relief. Real Search has launched a The announcement, TDT| Manama #SaveEveryDrop competi- which still rates Greek debt tion to motivate and inspire as speculative, followed l Ebdaa Bank for Micro- residents of all Bin Faqeeh S&P Global’s decision last finance has announced properties managed by Real month to raise its outlook Athe launch of “alsheay- Search to conserve water. For for Greece to “positive,” ir” loan to help livestock mer- this purpose, Real Search has suggesting another upgrade chants during Eid Al Adha. The invited all residents to save as could be coming soon. loan will allow low-income much water as possible for the KNOW WHAT Athens in June reached merchants to have the neces- month of August 2018. an agreement with its euro sary liquidity to do their trade. The residents’ water usage area creditors, allowing a The bank explained that this for the month of August will 10-year extension for repay- loan is exempt from applica- be compared with the usage As part of the cam- ing much of its debts, which, tion fees and was supported in July, and the resident who paign, Real Search at a 180 percent of GDP, are by easy and quick procedures saved the highest percentage has launched a still the highest in the Eu- and a flexible repayment pe- of water will be announced as #SaveEveryDrop ropean Union. The agree- riod of up to two years. The the winner. competition to mo- ment will also allow Greece bank pointed out that this loan The winner will be exempt- tivate and inspire to exit its financial bailout is seasonal and is related only to ed for a 6 months EWA bill as a residents of all Bin program on August 20.And the Hajj season and ends at the reward. The competition will after graduating from a Eu- end of Eid al-Adha. be promoted through Real Faqeeh properties ropean aid program, “The Dr Khalid Al-Ghazzawi, CEO Search’s Facebook, Instagram managed by Real debt relief measures agreed of Ebdaa Bank, said: “The al- and Twitter accounts. Partici- Search to conserve at the 21 June Eurogroup sheayir loan is added to the Dr Khalid Al-Ghazzawi pants must complete and sub- water are substantial,” Fitch said bank’s financing products for mit the tenants’ registration in a statement. low-income Bahrainis and busi- ing the living conditions of the sheet and terms and condi - “We expect fiscal per- ness owners without complica- targeted group by investing in tions form to their building formance to remain sound tions of traditional guarantees.” micro and small projects, pro- receptionist to join the cam- over the post-program pe- Al-Adahi is a popular trade The alsheayir loan moting entrepreneurial spirit paign. Registration is valid un- riod,” the agency said, not- during this period. The loan and self-reliance culture. til August 16, 2018. ing that the long-troubled will help traders to expand is added to the With this new loan Ebdaa “We at Real Search always over 3000 units under man- economy posted a budget their business. bank’s financing Bank is raising the number of believe in being role models in agement in Bahrain. The com- surplus of 0.8 percent of Dr Al Ghazzawi adds that products to lending products it offers to our community by motivating pany with a well-experienced GDP last year, up from 0.6 “alsheayir” loan is a product of help low-income eight, namely the “Al-Najah” others to adopt healthy and team offers various property percent the year before. a dedicated team of Al Ebdaa Bahrainis loan and the “ altfuq” loan, and” positive habits such as con- management services such as Bank who is constantly explor- and business sayidati” loan for women pro- serving energy and resources renting, selling, advisory ser- ing the financing needs of mi- owners without ducing and working from home, to help sustain the environ- vices, leasing, managing ser- cro-entrepreneurs and in the complications And the loan of “ altfuq” for ment we live in and the world vices and furnishing. NASA postpones framework of the bank’s ongo- projects that have commercial we will leave to the genera- Real Search manages prop- ing efforts to provide more fi- of traditional records in the commercial, in- tions that will follow. There- erties in Seef District, Reef launch of spaceship nancing solutions to its clients. guarantees dustrial or handicraft sectors, fore, I encourage everyone Island, Sanabis, Diyar Al Mu- to Sun for 24 hours In addition, it aims to expand DR KHALID AL-GHAZZAWI and the seasonal loan granted to participate in this exciting harraq, Busaiteen, Juffair, Dil- its list of borrowers, the value of CEO OF EBDAA BANK during periods such as holidays, campaign,” said AbdulRahman munia Island, Durrat Marina AFP| Tampa the loans granted them between the holy month of Ramadan Al Kooheji, General Manager and Hamala. 200 and 5000 dinars, while the and return to schools to help of Real Search. Real Search has a workforce ASA postponed until to- average loan outstanding one Ebdaa Bank to achieve its vision the entrepreneurs to increase Since its establishment in of over 120 employees who Nday the launch of the amount of 893 dinars. The CEO of expanding the middle class their goods and produce during 2016, Real Search exceeded deliver quality, services to all first ever spacecraft to fly reiterated the keenness of Al in Bahraini society and improv- the season. and achieved a milestone of clients. directly toward the Sun on a mission to plunge into our star’s sizzling atmosphere and unlock its mysteries. The reason for the delay was not immediately clear, Turkey’s lira crisis: How bad can it get? but was called for after a gaseous helium alarm was interest rates do no fit with Tur- sounded in the last mo - The haemorrhaging key’s economic growth strategy” ments before liftoff, officials • meant that the central bank has said. of the currency reached kept interest rates on hold, Nora Engineers are taking ut- an unprecedented Neuteboom, economist at ABN most caution with the $1.5 intensity in the last Amro, told AFP. billion Parker Solar Probe, weeks as Turkey’s ties “Erdogan’s aim is to improve which Thomas Zurbuchen, the economic position of house- head of NASA’s science mis- with the US strained holds,” she said, adding the gov- sion directorate, described ernment wanted to “keep the as one of the agency’s most AFP| Istanbul music playing” even as external “strategically important and internal imbalances grow. missions.” hree, four, five, six… What The next launch window Tnext? ‘Lost confidence’ opens at 3:31 am (0731 GMT) Turks have over the last half After his June 24 election victo- on Sunday, when weather decade counted the rapid de- ry, Erdogan put his son-in-law conditions are 60 percent preciation of the Turkish lira Berat Albayrak in charge of a favorable for launch, NASA on the screens outside doviz newly expanded finance min- said. (exchange) booths with a mix- istry while a new presidential By coming closer to the ture of bewilderment, alarm and system did away with the office Sun than any spacecraft ironic amusement. of prime minister, whose last in history, the unmanned The currency had spent much People change money at an exchange office in Ankara- AFP incumbent Binali Yildirim had probe’s main goal is to un- of 2014 hovering at just over two on occasion urged caution in veil the secrets of the coro- to the dollar but broke through the dollar for the first time, with gan’s current dash for growth economic policy. na, the unusual atmosphere the three mark for the first time the currency at one point shred- coupled with unorthodox pro- The new system also in - around the Sun. after the 2016 failed coup bid ding a quarter of its value in a nouncements on monetary pol- creased Erdogan’s control over Not only is the corona and then slid to four earlier this single day. icy -- including that lower rates the central bank, which on July about 300 times hotter than year. Economists say that while the can bring down inflation -- have 24 baffled markets by leaving the Sun’s surface, but it also But the haemorrhaging government may be tempted KNOW WHAT put him on a collision course rates unchanged despite infla- hurls powerful plasma and reached an unprecedented in- to muddle through the current with markets. tion that in July came in at 15.85 energetic particles that can tensity in the last weeks as Tur- situation in the hope the exter- The central bank, nominally percent. unleash geomagnetic space key’s ties with the United States nal and economic background independent but never defying “The markets have lost con- storms, wreaking havoc strained further and markets improves, the lira’s fall harbours The lira’s fall har- Erdogan, appears to have aban- fidence in the triumvirate of on Earth by disrupting the questioned their trust in Turkish considerable dangers for the bours considerable doned the conventional mone- President Erdogan, his son-in- power grid. policymakers, pushing the cur- economy, in particular the bank- dangers for the econ- tary policy of using rates hikes law as finance minister and the These solar outbursts are rency to five against the dollar. ing system. omy, in particular the as a tool to support the currency Turkish Central Bank’s ability to poorly understood, but pack A new bout of selling Friday banking system and bring down inflation. act as it needs to,” said Charles the potential to wipe out on increased strains with the US ‘Tight grip on bank’ Erdogan’s “tight grip” on the Robertson, global chief econo- power to millions of people. forced the lira over six against President Recep Tayyip Erdo- central bank and the fact “higher mist at Renaissance Capital. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 09

Iran FM says he has no plans to meet Pompeo US jury orders Monsanto to Reuters| Dubai

ranian Foreign Minister IMohammad Javad Zarif pay $289 m in cancer trial said there was no meeting planned with US officials including his counterpart Mike Pompeo at the Unit- The case of school ed Nations General Assem- • bly, the semi-official news groundskeeper Dewayne agency Tasnim reported on Johnson was the first Saturday. lawsuit to go to trial KNOW WHAT Asked about the likeli- alleging glyphosate hood of a meeting with U.S. officials, including Pompeo, causes cancer on the sidelines of the Unit- The jury at San Fran- ed Nations General Assem- Reuters| California cisco’s Superior Court bly, Zarif said: “No, no such of California deliber- meeting is planned. We have California jury yesterday ated for three days repeatedly announced our found Monsanto liable before finding that position,” Tasnim reported. Ain a lawsuit filed by a Monsanto had failed Iranian President Has- man who alleged the company’s to warn Johnson and san Rouhani dismissed a glyphosate-based weed-killers, U.S. call for talks without including Roundup, caused his other consumers of preconditions last Monday, cancer and ordered the compa- the cancer risks posed hours before Washington ny to pay $289 million in dam- by its weed killers moved to impose new sanc- ages. tions in line with President The case of school grounds- Donald Trump’s decision keeper Dewayne Johnson was to pull out of a 2015 agree- the first lawsuit to go to trial ment over Iran’s nuclear alleging glyphosate causes can- Monsanto’s Roundup is shown for sale in Encinitas, California. - REUTERS program. cer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG “About the recent offer by following a $62.5 billion acquisi- “proving that Monsanto has Trump, our official position tion by the German conglomer- and says decades of scientific known for decades that glypho- has been announced both by ate, faces more than 5,000 sim- studies have shown the chemical sate and specifically Roundup the president (Rouhani) and ilar lawsuits across the United to be safe for human use. could cause cancer.” He called myself. The Americans lack States. Johnson’s case, filed in 2016, on Monsanto to “put consumer honesty,” Zarif was quoted The jury at San Francisco’s was fast-tracked for trial due to safety first over profits.” as saying by Tasnim. Superior Court of California the severity of his non-Hodg- Over the course of the four- deliberated for three days be- kin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the week trial, jurors heard testi- fore finding that Monsanto had lymph system that he alleges mony by statisticians, doctors, failed to warn Johnson and oth- was caused by Roundup and public health researchers and Musk accused er consumers of the cancer risks Ranger Pro, another Monsanto epidemiologists who disagreed posed by its weed killers. glyphosate herbicide. Johnson’s on whether glyphosate can of defrauding It awarded $39 million in doctors said he is unlikely to live cause cancer. compensatory and $250 million past 2020. The U.S. Environmental Pro- shareholders in punitive damages. A former pest control manag- tection Agency in September New York| Reuters Monsanto in a statement said er for a California county school 2017 concluded a decades-long it would appeal the verdict. “To- system, Johnson, 46, applied assessment of glyphosate risks esla Inc and Chief Exec- day’s decision does not change the weed killer up to 30 times and found the chemical not like- Tutive Elon Musk were the fact that more than 800 Dewayne Johnson (R) hugging his lawyer after hearing the verdict per year. ly carcinogenic to humans. But sued yesterday by an inves- scientific studies and reviews... Brent Wisner, a lawyer for the World Health Organization’s tor who said they defrauded support the fact that glyphosate Johnson, in a statement said ju- cancer arm in 2015 classified shareholders in a scheme does not cause cancer, and did the company said. sate, the world’s most widely rors for the first time had seen glyphosate as “probably carcino- to manipulate the electric not cause Mr. Johnson’s cancer,” Monsanto denies that glypho- used herbicide, causes cancer internal company documents genic to humans.” car company’s stock price, starting with Musk’s Aug. 7 tweet that he might take Tesla private. In a proposed class-action Facebook pages with complaint filed with the World Bank to issue world’s federal court in San Fran- cisco, Kalman Isaacs said large US following to the scheme was conducted first blockchain bond in part to “completely dec- imate” short-sellers, even- require authorisation AFP| Washington tually leading to an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Reuters| San Francisco The World Bank is taking a Exchange Commission. step into the brave new world The class includes in - acebook Inc will introduce of digital finance to sell the vestors who bought Tesla Fan authorization process first-ever bond to be issued en- shares as they were rising for users who manage Face- tirely using blockchain tech- in the wake of Musk’s tweet. book pages with a large US nology, the bank announced The share price later fell. following, it said yesterday, yesterday. seeking to make it harder to More than just funds, the administer a page using a fake World Bank aims to gain ex- or compromised account. perience using blockchain -- a All obligations The measures come about digital public registry of trans- a week after the social net - actions -- that could lead to “a to lenders being work said it identified a new golden future” for financial ser- coordinated political influence vices for developing nations, a met: Jet Airways campaign on its platform to bank official told AFP. mislead users ahead of No - vember’s US congressional The technology is most of- The World Bank is aiming to gain experience through the bond issue Reuters| Mumbai elections. ten associated with cryptocur- At the time, Facebook re- rencies -- like bitcoin -- which investor satisfaction have been nered with Microsoft, which ndian carrier Jet Airways moved 32 pages and accounts often raise suspicion about important hallmarks of our will ensure the platform and ILtd sought to reassure in- from Facebook and Instagram their reliability and volatility, success with leveraging capi- software are “solid, bug free, vestors on Saturday, saying as part of efforts to combat for- as well as their use for criminal tal markets for development,” and have no vulnerabilities to it is meeting its payment eign meddling in U.S. elections. purposes.But because there as World Bank Treasurer Arunma attack,” said Paul Snaith, man- obligations to lenders and KNOW WHAT The new measures will re- yet is no central bank-backed Oteh said. ager of the World Bank’s Treas- other dues, such as staff quire administrators of Face- digital currency in existence, “Today, we believe that ury Operations Capital Mar- commitments. book pages to secure their the two-year blockchain bond emerging technologies, equally kets.He said use of blockchain India’s biggest-full service 32 pages and ac- account with two-factor au- will rely on real-world money: offer transformative, yet pru- could improve transparency, airline issued the statement counts have been thentication and confirm their Australian dollars. dent possibilities for us to con- since it is public, and cut down a day after its shares fell to removed from primary home location. The Washington-based de- tinue to innovate, respond to on transaction time since the a three-year low following Facebook and Ins- Facebook will also add a sec- velopment lender aims to raise investor needs and strengthen bonds eventually will be ex- an announcement that it tagram as part of tion that shows the primary about Aus$50 million (about markets.”The transaction is the changed instantaneously for had deferred its quarterly country from where a page is $36 million), although it could brainchild of the World Bank’s cash.For now, though, investors earnings report. Jet, which efforts to combat being managed. be double that if more investors innovation lab, which has been still have to register and all cash is part-owned by Qatar’s foreign meddling in Facebook-owned pho - get involved before the bond is working on the issue for nearly will be transmitted separately Etihad Airways, was due to US elections to-sharing app Instagram will finalized on August 20. a year, together with the Com- from the blockchain through report quarterly earnings on also roll out similar features in “Since our first bond trans- monwealth Bank of Australia. “normal channels,” the old Thursday. the coming weeks. action in 1947, innovation and The institution also part- fashioned way. IF YOU TELL THE TRUTH, YOU QUOTE DON’T HAVE TO REMEMBER OF THE DAY ANYTHING. MARK TWAIN SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 Trump’s nemesis in the age of Pinocchio Historians will examine how an American presidency parted company with facts, and will assess the toll

whopper). Over the years, a Pi- nocchio has entered the Wash- ington political lexicon as a unit of dishonesty. Now it defines the zeitgeist. Trump is well known to Kes- sler. As a reporter at Newsday, ROGER COHEN Kessler covered Trump’s real es- tate business shenanigans, find- amuel Johnson has James ing him “boastful” and given to Boswell. Lyndon Johnson “laxity about the truth.” Banks Shas Robert Caro. Donald tended not to trumpet Trump’s Trump has Glenn Kessler of The falsehoods; they just declined Washington Post, but Kessler’s further loans. What has changed more nemesis than amanuensis. is his world more than his be - Every untruth Trump utters, havior. Kessler chronicles. At the begin- “Most politicians, I find they ning of this month, the running may exaggerate or stretch, but total was 4,229 false or mislead- they don’t want to out-and-out ing statements since the presi- mislead people,” Kessler tells dent took office, or more than 7.5 me. “The difference with Trump a day. This will be remembered. is that he doesn’t really change Historians will examine how what he says because you fact- an American presidency parted check him. He’ll double down company with facts, and will as- and keep saying it.” sess the toll. So the trade deficit, per Trump, Kessler is a dapper, mild-man- declined $52 billion in the second nered guy who says he’s “pret- quarter. It didn’t (four Pinocchi- ty even-keeled,” even as Trump os). A proper calculation would messes hourly with his head. be a decline, unlikely sustaina- The son of Dutch immigrants, he ble, of about $20 billion. Yet the meets me for lunch with his right president repeats the false claim hand bandaged from a collision four times. with a wineglass while he was He repeats, more than 80 times, washing the dishes. He covered the falsehood that his adminis- “every building in DC,” as he puts tration passed the biggest tax cut it, before editors persuaded him in US history. “The standard way seven years ago to write “The to measure it is as a measure of Fact Checker,” awarding “Pinoc- GDP, and it ranks eighth,” Kess- chios” on a scale of one (for the ler says. shading of facts) to four (for a Trump’s falsehoods, or mis- Trump’s Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un was nothing more than a theatre show. Are Germany’s garden gnomes endangered?

While many new gardeners the strawberries they could not wanted to open the area buy in the Communist regime’s economy of scarcity. to nonmembers, and In the postwar West, however, envisioned the gardens as they have always been a luxury. a space for neighborhood They became the place where ANNA SAUERBREY meetings and festivities, the urban petty bourgeoisie many of the older ones in- could act out its dream of per- t’s quiet in Germany. School’s sisted on privacy and closed fect orderliness. The Kleingar- out, Chancellor Angela gates. ten is a German cliché: narrow IMerkel is on vacation and but perfectly ordered, shrewd the country is recovering from but likable, above all an idyll Gentrification the latest government crisis. amid the swirling roughness of This being Germany, what the world. threatens counts as a Kleingarten is de - Or at least it used to be. The fined in the “Bundeskleingar- Kleingarten is getting caught up the country’s tengesetz,” or “Federal Small in a massive urban conflict: the Garden Law”: A Kleingarten fight over space. tradition (“Kleingärten” in the plural) Kleingärten are not confined Take, for example, Bornholm is a garden of no more than to, but have always had a par - I, a colony of small gardens in of urban 400 square meters (478 square ticularly important function for, Berlin’s Pankow district. A col- yards) that is used for noncom- the cities. In the industrializing, league of mine, Robert Ide, is a gardening mercial subsistence gardening rapidly urbanizing 19th centu- tenant there — and has recently and recreation; it must be part of ry, they were a refuge for poor been appointed deputy head of an agglomeration of at least five workers who had to live in over- the board of the club that runs gardens that also encompasses crowded and gloomy apartment the gardens. be sniffed at by the urban elite timeout from his stressful job. communal areas and facilities, buildings. Crops from small gar- Only 10 years ago, it would — too square, too uncool, too full He wants his kids to learn about the Federal Court of Justice has dens helped the city’s poor to have been very unlikely to find of garden gnomes. nature, and he wants a safe place ruled. You can find them outside survive the economic crisis that someone like Robert in a Klein- But driven by the ecological for them to play. “It’s so relaxing villages or next to urban parks followed World War I. They garten club: a journalist with a movement, rising housing prices to dig a bed, or to cut a tree,” he or squeezed into the Neverland were where people slept after university degree, who lives in and smaller apartments, fami- told me. “In the garden, I can between railways and housing. they were bombed out dur - a cool area of Berlin with his lies like Robert’s have discov- really forget about everything.” Sometimes, there’s just a few. ing World War II. They were girlfriend and two small chil - ered the gardens. Like many However, the changes in the Sometimes, there are hundreds. where Eastern Germans grew dren. The Kleingärten used to others, Robert, too, is seeking a social mix of the club did not go

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The future’s TOP plastic sea Trump’s nemesis in the age of Pinocchio 4 Historians will examine how an American presidency parted company with facts, and will assess the toll TWEETS whopper). Over the years, a Pi- leading statements, increase in Trump’s falsehoods, or mis- I sought out Kessler because 01 nocchio has entered the Wash- intensity: They averaged 16 a day I believe he’s doing the critical leading statements, increase CAPT. MAHMOOD AL MAHMOOD ington political lexicon as a unit in June and July. Unauthorized in intensity: They averaged work that might save the country. of dishonesty. Now it defines the immigrants fuel the crime rate, Trump, he says, is “in another zeitgeist. the president insists. There is 16 a day in June and July. realm completely.” he lifting of the ban on shrimping has been Trump is well known to Kes- no convincing evidence of this. Unauthorized immigrants “Are you going to go on doing welcomed by one and all and in the first day sler. As a reporter at Newsday, “We have the longest positive fuel the crime rate, the this?” I ask. alone, it is believed the 80,000 kilos of the ROGER COHEN T Kessler covered Trump’s real es- job growth streak in history,” he president insists. There is no “Yeah.” tasty crustacean made its ways to kitchens across tate business shenanigans, find- says — but 76 of the 94 straight convincing evidence of this. “Indefinitely?” he Canada-Saudi Bahrain. The sight of tens of traditional fishing boats amuel Johnson has James ing him “boastful” and given to months were under President “Yeah, I have the best job in Tdispute has stabi- sailing out to sea from the ultra-modern Bahrain Boswell. Lyndon Johnson “laxity about the truth.” Banks Barack Obama. journalism.” lized: Financial Harbour went viral for the sheer poetry Shas Robert Caro. Donald tended not to trumpet Trump’s “Collusion is not a crime,” “The best?” g Saudi hasn’t an - of its contrasting beauty. Trump has Glenn Kessler of The falsehoods; they just declined Trump tweets, “but that doesn’t “I write what I want.” nounced new measures However, look closer and what do we see? The Washington Post, but Kessler’s further loans. What has changed matter because there was No Col- Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel in 2 days boats are leaving behind a trashy wake of empty more nemesis than amanuensis. is his world more than his be - lusion (except by Crooked Hillary Prize-winning poet, addressing a g Canada has main- plastic bottles, bags and garbage that is a danger Every untruth Trump utters, havior. and the Democrats)!” TheFact totalitarian leader “who wronged tained its low-profile ap- to the seas and environment. I am appalled at the Kessler chronicles. At the begin- “Most politicians, I find they Checker’s response: “Trump long a simple man,” wrote this: proach of not pouring oil disconnect between fishermen who should know ning of this month, the running may exaggerate or stretch, but maintained there was no collu- Do not feel safe. The poet on the fire and working better than to pollute that sea that sustains them. total was 4,229 false or mislead- they don’t want to out-and-out sion, but now he claims collusion lose your bearings. It’s easy to remembers. You can kill one, quietly with allies But why blame just these fishermen? In the larger ing statements since the presi- mislead people,” Kessler tells is not even a crime. He’s playing blur the lines, to say, “Oh, he’s but another is born. The words g Each side’s incentive scheme of things, Bahrain’s fishing industry is a dent took office, or more than 7.5 me. “The difference with Trump games with words. Conspiracy to semi-close to an actual fact!” so are written down, the deed, the structure strongly sug- small link in the overall marine pollution scenario a day. This will be remembered. is that he doesn’t really change defraud the government is cer- no Pinocchio. It’s easy to expe- date. gests this plateau will but unless we start small, we shall not know how to Historians will examine how what he says because you fact- tainly a crime. No evidence has rience an “unbearable lightness Kessler is doing the poet’s last a while contain the tidal wave of pollution that threatens an American presidency parted check him. He’ll double down emerged of any collusion between of being,” in Milan Kundera’s work. Honour him. The database @thomasjuneau our marine resources. company with facts, and will as- and keep saying it.” the Democrats and Russia.” phrase, when the anchor of truth he compiles with his colleagues Globally, experts have been warning that oceans sess the toll. So the trade deficit, per Trump, Trump said last year, “I don’t disappears. What was Trump’s Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, will have more plastic waste than marine life by Kessler is a dapper, mild-man- declined $52 billion in the second like Pinocchios,” but Kessler says Singapore summit with Kim Jong listing every one of Trump’s un- 02 2050. According to global figures, nered guy who says he’s “pret- quarter. It didn’t (four Pinocchi- it would be “patting myself on the Un, the North Korean leader? truths, will become a reference, more than eight million tonnes of ty even-keeled,” even as Trump os). A proper calculation would back too much” to believe that Theater? Farce? Should we run a talisman. Whether plastic leak into the ocean every year, messes hourly with his head. be a decline, unlikely sustaina- Trump worries about him. The away? Should we care? Should Washingtonians know it. it is about which is equal to dumping a garbage The son of Dutch immigrants, he ble, of about $20 billion. Yet the president’s lying (the Fact Check- we scream? Who would hear us? When Kessler went to the hos- truck filled with plastic waste every meets me for lunch with his right president repeats the false claim er does not use the word “lie” un- Is journalism remotely adequate pital Sunday to get stitches in his preventing minute. This is costing at least $8 hand bandaged from a collision four times. der a policy set by Marty Baron, to describe the moral decay and hand after the run-in with the GM food billion in damage to marine ecosys- with a wineglass while he was He repeats, more than 80 times, The Post’s editor) is so deeply mind-bending corruption, mate- wineglass, the physician assis- and ignoring tems around the world, with up to washing the dishes. He covered the falsehood that his adminis- ingrained (Kessler found that rial and spiritual, of the Trump tant recognized the Fact Checker o double key tar - 80 per cent of all marine litter made “every building in DC,” as he puts tration passed the biggest tax cut when Trump was running for administration? and said: “Oh, we have to make Tiffs against an ally farmers or of plastic. it, before editors persuaded him in US history. “The standard way president, “nearly 65 per cent of Many Americans pose such sure you’re able to type!” which is in a difficult not talking to In February this year, Bahrain seven years ago to write “The to measure it is as a measure of the claims we looked at resulted questions, even as many Amer- financial crisis is really fishermen about joined the United Nations Envi - Fact Checker,” awarding “Pinoc- GDP, and it ranks eighth,” Kess- in four Pinocchios”) that Trump icans believe that Trump is the (Roger Cohen is a columnist brutal. Really. ronment Programme’s #CleanSeas with The New York Times.) chios” on a scale of one (for the ler says. and untruth are synonymous. most honest president ever be- @carlbildt plastic marine campaign along with 40 other coun- shading of facts) to four (for a Trump’s falsehoods, or mis- Trump’s Singapore summit with Kim Jong Un was nothing more than a theatre show. It’s easy to shrug. It’s easy to cause he “tells it like it is.” (In collaboration with New York Times) pollution, the tries and pledged to hold awareness core mistake lies drives, beach clean-ups and make 03 efforts to reduce plastic use overall in assuming that so that it doesn’t find its way into the traditional the sea. That sounds wonderful in professional theory but in reality, six months after signing up, very little has been done does not on any of these fronts. Are Germany’s garden gnomes endangered? understand As a first step, I believe we must go what is at stake. back to our roots. Bahrain has a rich and strong maritime memory and hat u practice today, when most of us have moved Wmore, u become landward to become officials and businesspeople While many new gardeners the strawberries they could not wanted to open the area to non- Senate to protect Kleingärten proficient at it; also in our snug cubicles of glass and concrete, it is the wanted to open the area buy in the Communist regime’s members, and envisioned the areas from development. Similar with loving&living. If u fishermen of Bahrain who hold the key to changing economy of scarcity. gardens as a space for neigh - stories, playing out in other Kle- practice calmness/kind- this terrible story of plastic chaos in the sea. Has to nonmembers, and In the postwar West, however, borhood meetings and festiv- ingärten, have led to a citywide ness u become good at the government communicated to fishermen about envisioned the gardens as they have always been a luxury. ities, many of the older ones campaign to save them. it. Irony is u can prac - the #CleanSeas agreement and sought support? a space for neighborhood They became the place where insisted on privacy and closed Conflict over how to share tice calmness only in The big mistake most bureaucratic movements ANNA SAUERBREY meetings and festivities, the urban petty bourgeoisie gates. Some of the older and the city’s limited space is the stressful situations; so make is to assume that only officials know what is many of the older ones in- could act out its dream of per- less well-off members had been future, and not just in Berlin. welcome them! &can use best. Whether it is about preventing GM food and t’s quiet in Germany. School’s sisted on privacy and closed fect orderliness. The Kleingar- pushed out of gentrifying neigh- Germany’s Kleingärten may no kindness only when op- ignoring farmers or not talking to fishermen about out, Chancellor Angela gates. ten is a German cliché: narrow borhoods like Prenzlauer Berg; longer be a necessity for strug- tion to be cruel, nasty or plastic marine pollution, the core mistake lies in IMerkel is on vacation and but perfectly ordered, shrewd now those who had driven up gling urban dwellers, but they indifferent! assuming that the traditional professional does not the country is recovering from but likable, above all an idyll the rents became their garden still give urbanites a desperately @DineshGhodke understand what is at stake. Gentrification the latest government crisis. amid the swirling roughness of neighbors. needed connection to nature. Along with imposing strict rules about littering This being Germany, what the world. The tensions in Bornholm I But it takes more than just yard – not just our corniche walkways by the sea but threatens counts as a Kleingarten is de - Or at least it used to be. The were exacerbated by outside work to make them function: We 04 every area - and announcing tough anti-plastic fined in the “Bundeskleingar- Kleingarten is getting caught up changes, too. The Berlin State have to share our precious urban rules especially for those pesky single-use plastics the country’s tengesetz,” or “Federal Small in a massive urban conflict: the Senate has promised to con - communal space with others, we like beverage bottles, cutlery and shopping bags, Garden Law”: A Kleingarten fight over space. trol the rising housing prices in have to follow its rules. we must involve our fishermen so that they under- tradition (“Kleingärten” in the plural) Kleingärten are not confined Take, for example, Bornholm the city and build 30,000 apart- In this urban world of scarci- stand why a water or fizz bottle carelessly tossed is a garden of no more than to, but have always had a par - I, a colony of small gardens in ments in the next three years. ty and constraints, Germany’s overboard cuts into their livelihood in the long run. of urban 400 square meters (478 square ticularly important function for, Berlin’s Pankow district. A col- The Senate is looking for cheap Kleingärten have turned from Beaches and Bahrain territorial waters must be yards) that is used for noncom- the cities. In the industrializing, league of mine, Robert Ide, is a land to develop, and much of the symbols of conformity into plac- given special priority in municipality budgets and gardening mercial subsistence gardening rapidly urbanizing 19th centu- tenant there — and has recently land occupied by Kleingärten is es of individuality, creation and his is what I have kept clean at all times. As it is there are almost and recreation; it must be part of ry, they were a refuge for poor been appointed deputy head of city land. Berlin’s government is empowerment — and, at least Tlearnt and practice in no public coastal spaces left in Bahrain, now that an agglomeration of at least five workers who had to live in over- the board of the club that runs considering turning some into at Bornholm I, a place where my life...never lower your Zallaq too has been taken over for private devel- gardens that also encompasses crowded and gloomy apartment the gardens. be sniffed at by the urban elite timeout from his stressful job. without debate. All the lines of housing developments. Born- people with very different back- standards for anyone or opment. What about the waters surrounding our communal areas and facilities, buildings. Crops from small gar- Only 10 years ago, it would — too square, too uncool, too full He wants his kids to learn about tension in German urban soci- holm I is said to be on the list. grounds and worldviews can la- anything. islands? It is not enough to leave it to sporadic the Federal Court of Justice has dens helped the city’s poor to have been very unlikely to find of garden gnomes. nature, and he wants a safe place ety crossed in the Kleingarten. At first, Pankow’s small gar- bor side by side. Not all of them @sadhavi efforts. There should be an official action plan to ruled. You can find them outside survive the economic crisis that someone like Robert in a Klein- But driven by the ecological for them to play. “It’s so relaxing “It was the older folks against deners were divided over how will survive the housing crisis. make Bahrain more responsive to plastic pollu- villages or next to urban parks followed World War I. They garten club: a journalist with a movement, rising housing prices to dig a bed, or to cut a tree,” he the younger ones, Easterners to respond. But eventually the But the fight will be fierce. tion. Only then will we enjoy the future shrimping or squeezed into the Neverland were where people slept after university degree, who lives in and smaller apartments, fami- told me. “In the garden, I can against Westerners, the newly outside threat had a unifying Disclaimer: (Views expressed seasons without fear that it will ecologically be between railways and housing. they were bombed out dur - a cool area of Berlin with his lies like Robert’s have discov- really forget about everything.” arrived against long time Berlin effect, Robert said. Together, (Anna Sauerbrey is an editor on the by columnists are personal and our last. opinion page of the newspaper Der Sometimes, there’s just a few. ing World War II. They were girlfriend and two small chil - ered the gardens. Like many However, the changes in the residents,” Robert said. they persuaded the Pankow dis- Tagesspiegel and a contributing need not necessarily reflect our Sometimes, there are hundreds. where Eastern Germans grew dren. The Kleingärten used to others, Robert, too, is seeking a social mix of the club did not go While many new gardeners trict administration to lobby the editorial stances) (Capt Mahmood Al Mahmood is the Editor-in-Chief of The opinion writer.) Daily Tribune)

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Over 450 people US Navy searching hurt in Romania for marine fallen protest clashes Flash flood kills 37 in overboard Manila | Philippines Bucharest | Romania he US military said it ore than 450 people Thad launched a search Mwere hurt and around India’s tourist hotspot and rescue operation af- 30 arrested during a huge ter reports a marine may anti-corruption protest in have fallen overboard from Bucharest, Romanian police an American warship as it said on Saturday, a day after Authorities sailed through Philippine the rally. • waters. Police had used water opened gates of 25 The US 13th Marine Expe- cannons and tear gas to dis- water reservoirs ditionary Unit said a mem- perse the protesters as tens ber, who was not named, of thousands rallied to call 36,000 people have may have gone overboard on the leftwing government been• forced to take Thursday morning. to resign. Aircraft on board the USS Many demonstrators shelter in rescue camps Essex are searching waters needed treatment after in- off the Sulu Sea and the haling pepper spray and Eight districts had Surigao Strait while multi- tear gas, while others suf- been• put on varying ple searches are also being fered blows, hospital sourc- levels of high alert made inside the ship itself, es said. the unit said. Around 30 police were The ship was conducting also injured, 11 of whom Reuters | Kochi, India “routine operations in the were taken to hospital. Sulu Sea” at the time, the ore than half of the California based unit said 14 districts in Kerala in the statement, which was have been put on high posted on its social media Greek fire Malert, officials said yesterday, as sites. “We remain commit- the death toll from one of the ted to searching for and death toll at 94: worst floods in the southern An Indian woman sits inside her houses immersed in flood waters in Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Indian state of finding our marine,” the state reached 37. Kerala (AFP) statement quoted its com- officials Torrential rains and land - mander, Colonel Chandler slides during India’s June-Sep- eight districts had been put on voirs today,” Kurian said. “How- ers, witnessed its worst floods in Nelms as saying. Athens | Greece tember mansoon season have varying levels of high alert. ever, we will continue our alert 1924 following torrential rains. “All of our sailors, ma - ravaged farmlands and prompt- Another government official and preparedness till August 15.” The weather department rines and available assets he death toll from ed massive evacuation efforts in previously told Reuters that Federal home minister Ra- forecast heavy rains until Au- aboard the USS Essex have TGreece’s deadliest fire Kerala state. crop worth 3.42 billion rupees jnath Singh was expected to gust 15, India’s Independence been and will continue to disaster rose to 94 on Sat- Crops on 1,031 hectares ($49.65 million), across 26,824 travel to the state on Sunday to Day, also warning of flooding in be involved in this incred- urday after one more victim (2547.66 acres) have been dam- hectares had been destroyed take a stock of the relief and res- low-lying coastal areas. Fisher- ibly important search and died in hospital, the fire bri- aged and 36,000 people have by rains since their onset on cue operations, Kurian added. men have been advised not to rescue operation,” added gade said. been forced to take shelter in May 29. Kerala state authorities have venture into the Arabian sea. the search commander, US Reports said the latest rescue camps, according to the P.H. Kurian, KSDMA’s chief taken the unprecedented step Despite the rains, tens of hun- Navy Captain Gerald Olin. casualty was a 57-year-old Kerala State Disaster Manage- and a top state bureaucrat, said of opening the gates of 25 water dreds of Hindus across the state In Manila, Philippine au- woman. ment Authority’s (KSDMA) con- rains had eased. reservoirs to prevent potentially gathered on the banks of rivers thorities said on Saturday More than 30 people trol room in the state capital. “There was no rain in the disastrous breaches. and roads to perform a ritual in they authorised US ships are still hospitalised after A senior official there said catchment areas of major reser- The state, which has 44 riv- honour of their ancestors. and aircraft to enter Philip- the July 23 wildfire in the pine territory to join in the coastal resort of Mati near search, while dispatching Athens. their own military search Four senior officials in- aircraft. The US Marines cluding the minister re- Plane carrying 9 people missing in E. Indonesia said an expanded search sponsible for the police and covering about 3,000 square the heads of the police and Jayapura | Indonesia The Swiss-made Pila- a loud roar from the to reach the suspected Papua. nautical miles (10,290 fire brigade have been re- tus aircraft lost contact plane followed by a big crash site by foot, he add- Indonesia relies heavi- square kilometres) was un- moved from their posts. small plane carry- with air traffic control explosion,” Bintang re- ed. ly on air transport to con- derway.Sulu Sea sprawls The government had Aing nine people went during what was sup - gency police chief Mi- The plane was carrying nect its thousands of is- over the central and south- insisted that with winds missing yesterday during posed to be a flight of chael Mumbunan told seven passengers, includ- lands but has a poor avi- ern sections of the Asian ar- blowing at speeds of up to a short flight in moun- around 40 minutes in AFP. ing a child, and two crew. ation safety record and chipelago, a US military ally. 120 kilometres (75 miles) an tainous eastern Indone- remote Papua province, Search and rescue It belonged to Di - has suffered several fatal Surigao Strait is at least hour, there was little time sia, authorities said, with police said. teams have been de- monim Air, a private crashes in recent years. 300 kilometres (186 miles) to mount an effective evac- a search and rescue mis- “Villagers in Okatem ployed but it will take company operating char- Papua is a particularly away, off the country’s east- uation. sion underway. reported that they heard them up to three hours ter flights in and around difficult area to reach. ern seaboard.

IS jihadists kill 5 members of family India house passes bill to allow NRI proxy voting

Tikrit | Iraq ET | New Delhi who have done well in different spheres of life across the globe. slamic State group jihad- bill to extend the facility of While framing the rules, the Iists killed five members of A‘proxy voting’ to overseas government will ensure that sys- the same family at a check- Indians, on the lines of service tem of proxy voting is not mis- point on the edge of their voters, was passed by the Lok KNOW WHAT used by anyone, he said, adding village north of Baghdad Sabha. “proxy is not a dirty word. It is early on Saturday, a police Moving the Representation a legal word...a defined word.” official said. of the People (Amendment) Regarding the demand for The killings took place in Bill 2017 for consideration and The Bill seeks to give e-voting, Prasad said there Baiji district, around 200 passage, Law Minister Ravi overseas Indians were several difficulties in im- kilometres (125 miles) north Shankar Prasad said the provi- the option of proxy plementing such a scheme in a of the capital, the official sion would help non-resident voting which till now large country like India. said. “A group of Daesh Indians (NRIs) to participate in was only available to There are several security (IS) fighters came from the the electoral process. concerns, he said, adding that Hamrin mountains, crossed The Bill, which was passed by service personnel e-voting has not been adopted by the Tigris river after mid- a voice vote in the Lower House, even developed countries with a night and attacked the proposes that overseas Indians, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad large population. checkpoint at the entrance who are entitled to vote in India, An expert committee of the to the village of Albu Ju - could now appoint a proxy voter there are about 3.10 crore NRIs Election Commission, working wari, north of Baiji,” he said. to cast their votes. to give them the option of proxy garding proxy voting, the Min- living in different countries on the issue, had in 2015 for - Five members of the fam- As of now, overseas Indians voting, which till now was only ister said “let us trust the NRIs across the world. warded the legal framework to ily were killed and a sixth were free to cast their votes in available to service personnel. about proxies.” Prasad said that the country the Law Ministry to amend the was in a critical condition, the constituencies where they Responding to various objec- According to estimates of needed to respect and recog- electoral laws to allow the over- he said. were registered. The Bill seeks tions expressed by members re- Minsitry of External Affairs, nise the achievements of NRIs seas Indians to use proxy voting. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 13

Spain warns of online ‘sextorsion’ ‘Suicidal’ mechanic crashes Madrid, Spain | AFP

panish police warned SSaturday of a massive plane from Seattle airport blackmail campaign to ex- pose web users’ supposed visits to porn sites unless The suspect was identified as a 29-year-old airline mechanic and local resident who “acted alone they pay up -- a technique police calls ‘sextorsion’. “Criminals send an email in which they give a person- The plane crashed al password belonging to • Suicide or the target, and which was sparking a fire in apparently obtained years the dense forest joy ride? ago by mass internet piracy, or they may claim that the F-15s arrived he pilot, identified as user’s computer has been minutes• after the T“Rich,” comes across as pirated,” police said. excitable, confused, and even “They claim to be in pos- plane was stolen apologetic in a conversation session of personal intimate with the control tower. pictures or videos obtained The plane was stolen “Congratulations, you did through the computer’s at• around 8 pm and it,” the control tower tells webcam when the user was crashed 90 minutes later “Rich,” according to audio visiting pornographic sites that aired on CNN. “Let’s and they demand payment turn around the air and land in bitcoin or other virtual San Francisco | United States it and not hurt anybody on currencies within 24 hours the ground.” to stop them from publish- “suicidal” mechanic “I don’t know, man,” the ing them,” it said. stole an empty passen- pilot answers. “I don’t want Demands are typically for Ager plane from the Se - to. I was kind of hoping that between $400 and $2,900, attle-Tacoma airport late Fri- was going to be it, you know.” and the cyber criminals day, took it for a brief flight that “Rich” explains that he had threaten to send the videos included an aerial loop, then put some fuel in the plane “to to the person’s “loved ones” crashed it in an incident officials go check out the Olympics,” unless they pay up. said was unrelated to terrorism. In this file photo taken on September 25, 2006 Alaska Airlines planes are seen at Seattle-Tacoma International Airpor but then worried that he was Police recommend that Two military F-15s were low on gasoline. targets of the shakedown scrambled to chase the stolen “I’m down to 2,100 stay calm and refuse to pay plane, but “were not involved (pounds) [952 kilos],” he says, because the blackmailers in the crash,” local officials said. “I don’t know what the bur- are usually bluffing and Video taken by a bystander nage is like on takeoff, but it have no video because no showed the passenger airplane “I’m down to burned quite a bit faster than computers were actually making an unlikely upside-down 2,100 (pounds) I expected.” hacked. loop, then flying low over Puget [952 kilos],” he The control tower gently Sound before crashing into the says, “I don’t urges him to land at a near- sparsely populated Ketron Is- know what the by military base. “I wouldn’t land in the northwestern US burnage is like want to do that. They proba- Death toll from state of Washington. on takeoff, but bly have anti-aircraft,” he re- The crash sparked a fire in it burned quite a sponds. “This is probably jail Indonesia quake the dense forest. Flames lit up time for life, huh?” he later the night as they spread from bit faster than I asks. “Rich” said: “I’ve got a tops 380 the burning wreckage to nearby The empty passenger airplane stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma airport expected.” lot of people that care about me. It’s going to disappoint Mataram | Indonesia trees. Officials said there were them to hear that I did this. no victims on the ground. I would like to apologize to n earthquake on the ‘Bizarre’ incident filmed The stolen plane was a twin each and every one of them. AIndonesian island of engine turboprop Q400 airplane Just a broken guy, got a few Lombok has killed 387 peo- ohn Waldron, who took dra- pilot “did a complete loop ... I belonging to its sister carrier screws loose, I guess. Never ple, authorities said Sat- Jmatic video of the stolen couldn’t believe he recovered.” Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines said really knew it, until now.” urday, adding hundreds of plane flying in a loop, told CNN He estimated that the plane on Twitter. It normally carries Pierce County Sheriff Paul thousands of displaced peo- that he was out for an evening at its lowest point was no more 76 passengers. Pastor described the inci - ple were still short of clean stroll when he saw the two than 100 feet (30.5 meters) “This is not a terrorist inci- dent at a press conference water, food and medicine fighter jets following the tur- above the water. dent,” Ed Troyer with the Pierce as a “joyride gone terribly nearly a week on. boprop airplane. “Then the pilot “pulled -- County Sheriff’s office wrote on wrong.” The shallow 6.9-magni- His first thought was that pretty much straight up. And Twitter. tude quake Sunday levelled they were practicing for an air kind of at an angle. And almost The plane thief “is confirmed tens of thousands of homes, show. “So, I started to capture stalled the aircraft. Somehow a suicidal male,” Troyer wrote. that the F-15s arrived minutes employee and no other passen- mosques and businesses video, just because I thought he got it leveled back off. And “We know who he is.” after the plane was stolen and gers or crew were on board,” she across Lombok, just one it was kind of bizarre,” he told then made his way down to- The suspect was identified as kept the aircraft “out of harms said. “Our hearts are with the week after another tremor CNN. ward the island.” a 29-year-old airline mechanic way and people on ground safe.” family of the individual aboard surged through the island Waldron said it seemed that Waldron said that he was and local resident who “acted Horizon Air chief operating as well as all of our Alaska Air and killed 17. the jets were chasing down the prepared to “run and take cov- alone,” Troyer added, confirm- officer Constance von Muehlen and Horizon Air employees.” “It’s predicted the death airplane. “I thought this is real- er.” He briefly turned away, ing that there were “no pas - issued a video statement de - The plane was stolen at toll will continue to grow ly odd. Kept the video rolling.” then turned back and saw the sengers on the plane” when it scribing the incident. around 8 pm (0300 GMT Sat- because there are still vic- Then the passenger plane explosion as the plane crashed. crashed. “We believe it (the plane) was urday) and crashed 90 minutes tims who are suspected of The sheriff’s office also said taken by a single Horizon Air later, officials said. being buried by landslides and under rubble, and there are victims that have not been recorded and reported to posts,” national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo 200 drug users bust out of Vietnam rehab centre Purwo Nugroho said. The number forced from Hanoi | Vietnam most recent started on Satur- highway near the rehab centre. with heroin and metham - their homes in the disas - day morning in the southern “They passed my area holding phetamine the most popular ter has soared to 387,000, round 200 drug users es- province of Tien Giang, a police canes and shouted like protest- narcotics. Nugroho said, with around Acaped from a rehab centre officer told AFP on condition of ers. When we saw them, me and While Vietnam is experiment- 13,000 injured. in Vietnam on Saturday, police anonymity, adding that about people around were scared and ing with more community-based The hardest hit region said, the latest breakout attempt half the escapees had already KNOW WHAT worried,” local resident Le Hai treatment options in response to of Lombok has been in from the country’s controversial been captured. Trieu told AFP. criticism over the centres, they the north, where 334 peo- treatment facilities. “There are around 100 addicts Residents pitched in to help remain the most-used form of ple have died and nearly Some addicts are forced by still on the run and the police local authorities capture the recovery. 200,000 have been forced law to spend up to two years in are still looking for them,” the There are more than men. The centres are widely sup- from their homes, according Vietnam’s rehab centers, while officer said. 220,000 registered Another state media outlet ported as a viable treatment to latest official tolls. others are admitted by family or A disagreement with staff es- drug addicts in said that more than 650 people option although addiction spe- Two people were also check themselves in. calated into an assault, with pa- Vietnam, according are registered at the Tien Giang cialists say they don’t work and killed by the quake on the Most detainees undergo tients wielding knives and bricks to official statistics facility, but it did not provide fig- relapse rates are high. neighbouring tourist island cold-turkey treatment in the and encouraging others to break released last year ures on the number of voluntary Early last year 100 people es- of Bali. notoriously overcrowded cen- down the door, state-controlled admissions. caped from a centre in southern Nugroho said the emer- tres or are subjected to solitary website VnExpress reported. There are more than 220,000 Long An province because they gency response period has confinement for breaking rules. Images circulating on social registered drug addicts in Vi- were upset about spending the been extended another 14 Several breakouts have oc- media showed dozens of men, etnam, according to official annual Tet new year holiday days. curred in recent years and the many shirtless, wandering on a statistics released last year, away from their homes. 14 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 features Cursed by conflict

Fishermen of Lake Chad must sail in secret to evade terrorists in a desperate dance that has strangled

their livelihoods Wholesale fish merchants sit by their product waiting for customers at the Baga fish market in Maiduguri o

AFP I Maiduguri, Nigeria Yakubu Dangombe is one of the few to remain, yet business he fishermen of has never been harder. Lake Chad must Dangombe said he had two To avoid the military, sail in secret, forced million naira of fish stuck on the traders smuggle the to evade both Boko road in Baga, the main fishing fish into Maiduguri Haram jihadists and hub on the Nigerian side of the by road in bundles of TNigeria’s military in a desperate lake, blocked by soldiers. dance that has strangled liveli- “I have 35 children, I can’t 10 or 30 kilograms hoods and caused scarcity of a feed them or pay school fees, stashed in cars and once-staple food. it’s a disaster,” says the once rich “under travellers’ While in the past boats slid trader. suitcases” across the vast waters unhin- To avoid the military, traders A SALESMAN UNDER CONDITION OF dered, sustaining a vibrant fish- smuggle the fish into Maidu - ANONYMITY ing industry in northeastern guri by road in bundles of 10 Nigeria, years of bloody Boko or 30 kilograms stashed in cars Haram militancy has deeply and “under travellers’ suitcases”, scarred the region. said a salesman under condition perch, there are some new ad- And despite a brief return to of anonymity. ditions to the menu: monitor 1A man carrying chickens is seen walking through the Baga fish market in Maiduguri stability earlier this year, the Still, not enough fish gets in to lizards and cats. fishermen have become en - meet demand. Organization of the United Na- been razed by the jihadists since in an attempt to cut what was snared in a fresh Nigerian army The shortage has caused a ‘Rock and a hard place’ tions. 2009 in their ruthless quest to an important supply for the ji- counterinsurgency operation dramatic spike in fish prices: Prior to the conflict, fishing was More than 200 trucks would establish an Islamic state. hadists. against the jihadists in and one pile (seven or eight fish) has one of the region’s largest sourc- leave Baga to supply markets At the peak of the insurgency The army eventually regained around the lake launched in surged in the past three months es of income and employment. all over the country, reaching as between 2013 and 2014 when control of most territories, forc- May. from 4,000 to 10,000 naira. The industry produced up to far as Lagos and Port Harcourt, Boko Haram reigned supreme ing the jihadists to retreat fur- For Aminu Mohammed, that So customers have turned to 100,000 tonnes of fish annually Nigeria’s southern megacities. over the lake -- which is bor - ther into the lake, a difficult ter- means “no fishing, no selling other sources of protein. and was valued at as much as Not anymore. According to dered by Nigeria, Chad and Ni- rain to access. fish,” until the end of August, In a large yard where men use $220 million at its peak, accord- the fishing union in Borno, more ger -- authorities from the three By 2016, thanks to the official the date when “Operation Last jerry cans to smoke tilapia and ing to the Food and Agriculture than 200 fishing towns have nations totally banned fishing reopening of the Baga market Hold” is set to end. and the resumption of traffic But he goes anyway, forced to along some key highways of Bor- disregard the rules -- and risk no state, it appeared that some encountering the jihadists -- in normalcy was returning to daily order to survive and feed his life. six children. The danger is im- But traders now complain that mense. the army and local authorities “Boko Haram lurks on the lake are acting together to wring and when they do not kill us they money from them. take 10,000 naira ($27, 23 euros) Soldiers are accused of seizing to allow us to fish,” the 45-year- fish stocks transported by road old told AFP. and working with local authori- There is also a threat of ar- ties to collect taxes, which have rest by the Nigerian army, who tripled, according to Assa Yuni, have detained fishermen in the a trader in Maiduguri. region and accused them of fi- But officials say the cost is jus- nancing the jihadists by paying tified because of the added cost them taxes. of security escorts. “People would like everything Eating lizard and cat to be like before, but it’s not so The once-teeming fish market simple, you have to pay armed at Maiduguri, the capital of escorts on the road, because the Borno state and major trading situation is volatile,” said the hub some 200 kilometres (125 secretary of the Fish Producers miles) from Lake Chad, looks and Marketers Association of abandoned after nine years of Borno state, Mallam Baba Musa. bloody conflict. Not everyone agrees. Most stalls are empty, their “Whether it’s the military or owners, Hausa and Kanuri trad- Boko Haram, we are stuck be- ers who have made their fortune tween a rock and a hard place,” there for centuries, have left to said Dangombe, the trader buy fish at the Cameroon border. Fish buyers are seen at the Baga fish market in Maiduguri inspecting the new load of fish that arrived whose stock is stuck near Baga. 15 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 entertainment

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Aries A social event or group rally could put you in touch with some new, exciting people in interesting fields, Aries. You might run into an old friend you haven’t seen in ages. If you aren’t romantically involved, an attractive new person could arrive on the scene. This promises to be an exciting, stimulating day. Don’t be surprised if new doors to a great future open for you. Taurus Today you could be hit with some exciting news, Taurus. This could involve new people or equipment coming onto the scene or an entirely new project or course of action that you’d never have dreamed of. This is likely to be a lucky break for you, as it probably suits your skills and talents nearly perfectly. 54- Wait ___!; 56- Exclamation of fright; 57- “Believe” singer; 60- Organ of hearing; 62- Fanatic; 66- Swastika; 69- Bad habit; Gemini 70- Prince Valiant’s wife; 71- Galileo’s birthplace; 72- ___’acte; Information that you receive from others and from 73- Deputised group; 74- ___ uproar; 75- Ollie’s partner; within your own heart could compel you to participate in some ambitious projects, Gemini. They may be work Down related, connected with a group, or your own. You’ll 1- Author Morrison; 2- Utah city; 3- Hanging to one side; 4- Elec- find them interesting, challenging, and gratifying. tric generator; 5- Represent in an ideal form; 6- Capote, to friends; 7- Suffix with exist; 8- Castle water pits; 9- Very cold; 10- Hand Cancer Across woven pictorial design; 11- Envelope abbr.; 12- Like Hawaiian shirts; You might consider new lifestyle options. A group, pos- 13- ___ buco (veal dish); 19- Miss; 21- Trademark; 25- Commerce; sibly spiritual or metaphysical, could seem attractive. 1- Tailless amphibian; 5- Gossip bit; 9- Author Calvino; 14- 27- Newsman Donaldson; 28- Beasts of burden; 29- Functional; You might consider joining it. Expect some fascinating French airport; 15- Bond classic; 16- The Younger and The 30- Vestige; 31- Director Welles; 33- Having wings; 34- Peter and discussions with a significant other. Books and other Elder; 17- Light gas; 18- Native tree of Australia; 20- An African Franco; 35- Bottled spirit; 38- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” publications could prove enlightening. antelope; 22- Greek vowel; 23- Opposite of ecto-; 24- Shed author; 41- Mosque towers; 43- Austrian breed of horse; 46- ___ feathers; 26- Flat sound; 28- Gyroplane; 32- Monetary unit of Kapital; 48- Back of the neck; 51- Look for; 53- Departs; 55- Wrist Leo Thailand; 36- Orch. section; 37- Arkansas’s ___ Mountains; 39- bones; 57- Fellow; 58- Circle overhead?; 59- Just manages, with Group activities or social events in your neighborhood 1957 hit for the Bobbettes; 40- Thailand, once; 42- Ford flop; “out”; 61- Equestrian’s control; 63- Bits of thread; 64- Twice tetra-; could put you in touch with new and exciting people 44- Aggregate of fibers; 45- Spanish hero; 47- Red fluorescent 65- Small gull; 67- Dundee denial; 68- Country bordered by Canada who eventually become friends, Leo. Shared goals and dye; 49- French pronoun; 50- Perceived to be; 52- Sherpas, e.g.; and Mexico; interests could give rise to plans for ambitious pro- jects. Whatever enterprises you start today are likely to prove successful if everyone involved pitches in. BEETLE BAILEY Virgo Have you wanted to move in a new direction, Virgo? If so, this could be when you get the lead of a lifetime. You might receive unexpected information indicating possible new sources of income to pursue on your own. New opportunities are going to come that could make a big difference in your lifestyle and catapult you to a higher socioeconomic bracket. Make the most of it all. Libra Unusual circumstances could arise that change your creative orientation, Libra. It’s likely that they involve the gathering, sharing, and using of information. You may consider some unusual options that involve changing jobs, home, or another factor important to you. Think carefully first.

WORD OF THE DAY Scorpio Today you could decide to attend a workshop or social event involving people in a spiritual, metaphysical, or intellectual field, Scorpio. Fascinating talk could Circuitous to circuit, you’re right—both words come circumvent (one meaning of which is “to lead to your own insights and revelations. You could from Latin circuitus, the past participle of make a circuit around”), circumlocution explore ways to harness your natural healing ability, Definition: the verb circumire, meaning “to go around.” (“the act of ‘talking around’ a subject”), and perhaps through Reiki, massage, or another discipline. 1 : having a circular or winding course Circumire is derived, in turn, from Latin circumnavigate (“to go around”). There’s 2 : not being forthright or direct in language circum, meaning “around,” plus ire, which also the prefix circum-, which means Sagittarius or action means “to go.” Other circum descendants “around” or “about,” and the familiar word Books, magazines, TV, the Internet, and conversations Did You Know? making the rounds in English include cir- circumstance, which describes a condition are likely to bring exciting knowledge your way that If you guessed that circuitous is related cumference (“the perimeter of a circle”), or event that “stands around” another. reinforces some of your convictions. Your intuitive abilities are strong, too. Insights could blend well with what you learn from others. Write down your SUDOKU thoughts. You’ll want to put them to work for you later. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Capricorn Surprising news about your finances and the economy in general could cause you to feel confident and secure about your financial future, Capricorn. An unexpected raise could be on the way, possibly because of sudden changes in the workplace. Aquarius Some fascinating new information, possibly spiritual or metaphysical, could come today from periodicals, TV, or the Internet. This could set you on a new course of study, Aquarius. This evening, expect a surprising message from someone you haven’t heard from in a while. Enjoy! Pisces Dreams and meditations could lead to insights about How to play how best to handle your finances, Pisces. Your in - Place a number in the empty boxes in tuition is very strong. Also, you could receive some such a way that each row across, each surprising ideas from media sources. No matter how column down and each 9-box square outrageous an idea seems, consider it well before mak- contains all of the numbers from one ing a decision. A written plan of action for anything to nine. you do would be helpful. 16 SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018

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RESIDENCE AT ANSIL HOUSE, urkish director and prize at the Cannes film festi- Instead, critics have H.NO V/191, CHERUKOLE PO, MAVELIKARA, ALLEPPEY, KERALA, TCannes Palme d’Or winner val in 2014 for his epic drama slammed it as fat-shaming, 690104 PRESENTLY RESIDING AT Nuri Bilge Ceylan on Friday “Winter Sleep”. homophobic and denigrat- VILLA NO 13, GATE 59, ROAD 20, received an outstanding con- His latest feature, “The Wild ing to transgender people. ZENJ 332, BAHRAIN WILL HENCE- tribution award at the opening Pear Tree”, was also selected The offbeat show follows FORTH BE KNOWN AS (GIVEN of the Sarajevo film festival. to compete for the Palme d’Or the story of overweight teen NAME) RUBY (SURNAME) “This is great honour for me, at Cannes. Patty, who is mocked and THOMAS, OBJECTION(S),IF really, and I accept it with my The Sarajevo film festival is bullied incessantly until ANY, MAY BE FORWARDED TO EMBASSY OF INDIA, P.O BOX heart,” the director said after now in its 24th year. she has an accident that re- 26106,BLDG 1090,ROAD 2819, The book will have pictures and stories from his childhood to the present day quires her jaw be wired shut BLOCK 428,AL SEEF, BAHRAIN. -- which causes her to shed significant weight. NAME CHANGE Fox News es and the stories behind his hit With her new svelte fig- NAME CHANGE songs, Hindsight is sure to give ure, she vows to seek re - NAME CHANGE I, TEJASWINI KRISHNAN, D/O he 37-year-old musician fans insight into the entertain- venge on all those who I, SUNIL THATTACKAD GEORGE, UNNIKRISHNAN PURAVANGARA, announced on Friday that er’s life. 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Modric to ‘stay with Fowler, Lowry join Real Madrid’ leaders with Tiger Madrid, Spain Marquez takes pole St. Louis, United States uka Modric looks set to ickie Fowler, seeking his Lextend his six-year stay AFP | Spielberg bei Knittel- Rfirst major title despite with Real Madrid after se- feld, Austria eight top-five major fin - curing a salary rise which ishes, and Ireland’s Shane will see him elevated to the paniard Marc Marquez Lowry charged into con- same pay grade as skipper (Honda) grabbed pole po- tention at the PGA Champi- Sergio Ramos, Spanish me- Ssition yesterday in quali- onship while Tiger Woods dia reported. fying for the Austrian MotoGp, lurked six adrift. Modric, 33, who inspired edging the Ducatis of Italian With Gary Woodland Croatia to the World Cup Andrea Dovizioso and Spaniard setting the pace on 10-un- final last month, only re - Jorge Lorenzo as Valentino Ros- der par 130 for 36 holes, turned to training with the si toiled. “What a fight! What a one ahead of fellow Amer- European champions this pole!” the Honda team tweeted ican Kevin Kisner, ninth- week amidst rumours that After a dominant perfor - ranked Fowler completed a he was a target for Inter mance a week ago in the Czech three-under par 67 to share Milan. Grand Prix, the Ducatis arrived third with US Open cham- However, both Marca in Austria hoping to further trim pion Brooks Koepka on 132. and As dailies insisted Fri- the huge points lead Marquez Lowry, who hasn’t had day that Modric will pen has built with five victories in a top-10 finish this year, a new deal which will see 10 races this season. shot 64 to share fifth as a him make at last 11 million Instead, Marquez, the reign- (From L) Second placed Ducati Team’s Italian rider Andrea Dovizioso, pole sitter Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish rider Marc storm-interrupted second euros a year in Spain. ing world champion, delivered Marquez and third placed Ducati Team’s Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo pose for photos round resumed in the year’s “His salary will be the a fastest lap of 1min 23.241sec in final major tournament at same as capitain Sergio the second and final qualifying rain-soaked Bellerive Coun- Ramos (11 million euros session, just two thousandth of hunting ground for Ducati since tice sessions, Ducati again held we’ll see tomorrow how we take try Club. last season) and just behind a second faster than Dovizioso, the track returned to the Mo- the upper hand with Dovizio- advantage, but all weekend I’ve Woods finished a round of that of Gareth Bale,” wrote the winner in Brno, with Loren- toGP calendar in 2016. so fastest, Lorenzo second and felt good. Marquez gained an 66 to stand on 136, boosted Marca. zo, the runner-up a week earlier, That year, Ducati swept the Marquez only fourth, more than even bigger advantage over his by a quick birdie at the par- As added: “Luka Modric third, 0.135sec back. top places and last season the half a second slower than the closest pursuer in the standings, 5 eighth. Four-time major has made his decision. Af- “It’s the same gaining pole lead changed hands twice on the Italian. Italian Valentino Rossi (Yama- winner Rory McIlroy fired ter talking to his family and positions by a thousandth as by final bend as Dovizioso edged “They struck first in the free ha), was not fast enough to make a bogey-free 67 to stand on entourage, he is staying at a second,” Marquez said. Marquez to win. This week, practice,” said Marquez. “This Q2 and will start from 14th on 137, his round highlighted Real Madrid”. Spielberg has been a happy over the first three free prac- was returning like Nadal, now the grid on Sunday. by a 58-foot chip in at 14.

England 357-6 against India, MMA event in Colombia lead by 250 runs at 3rd day close TDT | Manama Liverpool, United Kingdom

rave Combat Federation has con- hris Woakes continued a superb Bfirmed the first global mixed mar- Creturn to England duty with a tial arts event for Colombia on 7th maiden Test century against India at September in Coliseo Bicentenario at Lord’s yesterday as the home side took Bucaramanga, Colombia. a firm grip on the match. Brave 15 marks the first event taking When bad light forced an early close place in the continent of South Amer- on the third day, England were 357 for ica in a nation other than in Brazil. six in reply to India’s meagre first-in- Brave 15 will be held under the patron- nings 107 -- a commanding lead of age of His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin 250 runs. Hamad Al Khalifa. Woakes was 120 not out, having The organisation had announced shared a partnership of 189 with Jon- that it will be looking out for more ny Bairstow (93) that was an England destinations in South America after record for the sixth wicket in Test the commercial success and reach that matches against India, beating the it had found hosting events in Brazil. 171 put on by Ian Botham and Bob Woakes plays a shot out from his feet Currently, Brazil is the nation that has Taylor at Bombay (now Mumbai) hosted the most number of editions in 1980. and has signed the most number of Sean Santella It was a stand made all the more val- home ground last week because of fighters in the fastest growing mixed uable by the fact England had slumped fitness concerns following knee and martial arts promotion in the world. growth and an active abundance of to 98 for four at lunch, after their latest calf injuries. The Public Weigh-Ins will be con - talent who are reaching out to global top-order collapse threatened to undo England had collapsed to 98 for four ducted on 6th of September ahead of platforms for events and exposure. At the bowlers’ good work. at lunch, with India paceman Mo - the fight night. this juncture, it is ideal that we reach Warwickshire favourite Woakes, hammad Shami doing the bulk of the Main Event will feature Godofredo out to the region to empower and recalled after England omitted Ben damage on his way to stumps figures “Pepey” Castro from Brazil facing KNOW WHAT nurture the growth of the sport. The Stokes because of a clash with his fel- of three for 74 in 19 overs. Alex “Rolo” Torres from Colombia. presence of Brave Combat Federation low pace-bowling all-rounder’s trial England lead this five-match series Brave Combat Federation have signed will be a game changer for the nation. for affray, had missed the hosts’ 31-run 1-0 after a 31-run win in the first Test multiple partnerships with IS 360 We can connect the combined syner- win in the first Test at his Edgbaston at Edgbaston last week. Sport & Entertainment, Vanguardia Brave 15 marks the first event gies of Brazil and Colombia to amplify Liberal, JJ Sonido, Canal TRO and Avi- taking place in the continent of the growth potential in the region anca to host the event. The fight night South America in a nation other and reach out to the world utilising will be broadcasted live on Abu Dhabi than in Brazil the continuously growing platform of Sports, Combate, StarSat, VodaCom, Brave Combat Federation”, said Mo- Fite TV and FloCombat. hammed Shahid, President of Brave “Colombia had showcased a steady Combat Federation. 14 nations to represent at BRAVE 14 in Morocco TDT | Manama event is held under the patronage of Federation. Ottman was crowned as His Majesty King Mohammed VI of the champion by HH Shaikh Khalid at Seef District too he fourteenth edition of Brave Morocco. The event marks the first bin Hamad Al Khalifa during Brave TCombat Federation hosted in global mixed martial arts initiative 9 hosted in Bahrain. Brave Combat Um al Hassan +973 17728699 Tangier, Morocco will feature ath- hosted in Morocco. Federation will be hosting seven ad- Seef District +973 17364999 letes representing fourteen nations. The main event will feature Ottman ditional events in 2018 after the event The nations include the USA, Russia, Azaitar, who is the brother of Abu in Morocco. The upcoming events France, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, Mo- Azaitar facing Danijel Kokora from will be held at Colombia, United Arab rocco, Mexico, Syria, Canada, Mexico, Serbia. Ottman Azaitar is the light- Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Philippines, Sweden and Serbia. The weight champion of Brave Combat Arabia, South Africa and India. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 18

Tour de France winner In psychiatric hospital Berlin, Germany Nadal stays on track ermany’s Tour de de Toronto, Canada ATP TORONTO GFrance champion Jan Ullrich was admitted to a afael Nadal recovered from MASTERS RESULTS psychiatric hospital on Fri- Ra slow start, overcoming day after his brief detention Marin Cilic 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 as the for allegedly assaulting a Spaniard’s chase for a long- prostitute. sought ATP Masters title on Quarter-finals The 44-year-old former hardcourt heated up on Friday. Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Marin cycling star was earlier Fri- The world number one Cilic (CRO x6) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 day released on bail pending reached the semi-finals in To- an investigation for possible ronto and will next face Rus- Karen Khachanov (RUS) bt attempted manslaughter. sian Karen Khachanov, who beat Robin Haase (NED) 6-3, 6-1 But once free, Ullrich suf- Robin Haase 6-3, 6-1. fered a panic attack. Nadal last won a title at this “Jan Ullrich was admitted level on cement in 2013. Kevin Anderson (RSA x4) bt to a psychiatric hospital on “It was a very important Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x5) 6-2, Friday night where his state match for me,” Nadal said. “Be- 6-2 of health is being assessed ing in semi-finals is great news by specialists,” a Frankfurt at the start of the hard court Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) bt police spokesperson told season. Alexander Zverev (GER x2) 3-6, AFP on Saturday. “And winning three good 7-6 (13/11), 6-4 “Due to his mental and matches in the first Master 1000, physical state there was no it’s so important for me. Nadal will next face Russian Karen Khachanov, who beat Robin Haase 6-3, 6-1 other choice” but to trans- “He played unstoppable in ly good frame of mind, playing port him to a psychiatric the first set. I resisted, I played turns 20 on Sunday’s final day, 19-year-old Nadal at Monte Car- match of their 2014 quarter-fi- the kind of tennis that I knew I unit by ambulance, the with the right tactic. I tried to defeated his third straight top lo in 2006. nal duel in Canada when Dimi- wanted to be playing and needed spokesperson said. find my solutions - but it was so 10 opponent at the tournament Tsitsipas will next face Wim- trov claimed one of his six wins to be playing.” Friday’s incidents arose difficult.” after knocking out Dominic bledon runner-up Kevin Ander- against the South African. “Getting off the court pretty after the 1997 Tour de Stefanos Tsitsipas saved two Thiem in the second round and son, who beat Grigor Dimitrov “It definitely was a great comfortably definitely is a really France champion had called match points to beat defending 13-time major winner Novak 6-2, 6-2. match today. I felt I played really good feeling.” on the services of a pros- champion Alexander Zverev in Djokovic in the third. Canadian rematch - well right from the beginning,” The big South African rolled titute at the five-star Villa their quarter-final contest 3-6, Tsitsipas is the youngest play- Anderson’s sweep past reign- Anderson said. into the semis in just 66 min- Kennedy Hotel in Frank- 7-6 (13/11), 6-4. er to post three top 10 wins at ing ATP World Tour Finals “Right from the first point till utes, breaking four times while furt, Bild daily reported. The Greek teenager, who a single tournament since the champion Dimitrov was a re- the last, I felt I was in a real - managing only a modest 11 aces.

Pogba happy to repay Halep enters Montreal semis trust as ManU captain AFP | Montreal, Canada slammed the WTA about her scheduling, saying she regularly Manchester, United Kingdom said Pogba. orld number one Simo- has less time to recover from The man who cost United Wna Halep punched her matches than her opponents. anchester United mid- a then world record £89 mil- ticket to the semi-finals of the “I am very upset about it,” said Mfielder Paul Pogba de- lion (105 million euros, $116 WTA Canada tournament for Halep, who is first up on the clared his pride at being million) in 2016 was routinely the fourth straight year, cruising Montreal courts on Saturday. “I named captain for Friday’s dropped by Mourinho last sea- past France’s Caroline Garcia talked to my team about this and Premier League opening 2-1 son, and had been linked with 7-5, 6-1 on Friday. all of them are upset... I never win over Leicester, but point- a move away from Old Trafford The 26-year-old Halep bat- complained about the schedule, edly suggested he wants to be in recent days with Barcelona’s tled through a difficult first set, but today was enough.” trusted more by manager Jose interest reportedly piqued by then easily won the second in a On Friday, Halep broke Garcia Mourinho. his frosty relationship with the rematch of last year’s quarter-fi- in the fifth game of the second Mourinho surprisingly put Portuguese coach. nal contest with Garcia which set for a 4-1 lead and had no Pogba straight into the start- “Like I always say, I always was also won by the Romanian. trouble icing the win from there. ing line-up and handed him give my best for the fans, for “The first set was real - World number 16 Barty the armband even though the my team-mates, for the people ly tough,” Halep said. “I just reached the semi-finals by reel- Frenchman had just returned that trust me,” the midfielder didn’t give up at all in the first ing off nine of the last 10 games to training on Monday after his said. set. After I took it, I felt more against Bertens. exertions in lifting the World Mourinho has clashed with confident. Simona Halep US Open champion Sloane Cup less than a month ago. the club’s hierarchy in recent “I felt that I’m moving bet- Stephens was just as ruthless as Pogba responded with what weeks and showed his frustra- ter, I’m playing better, stronger. Barty in her quarter-final as the Mourinho described as a tion at not adding to his squad [Garcia] went a little bit down errors in check, finishing with a Netherlands in straight sets 6-3, third-seeded American made “monster” performance and before Thursday’s transfer with energy after she lost that total of 31. She earned her only 6-1. the semi-finals for the second took responsibility from the deadline. set.” career win over Halep in five Halep, the 2016 tournament straight year, seeing off Anasta- penalty spot to open the scor- “Football is changing, and The top-seeded Halep ham- previous meetings in the 2017 champion, was playing her third sija Sevastova of Latvia 6-2, 6-2. ing after just three minutes of managers should be called mered 19 winners and won 77 WTA Beijing final. match in the past two days after Stephens will face defending the season. head coaches,” said Mourinho percent of points on her first Halep moves on to the final earning two wins on Thursday champion Elina Svitolina, who “Of course it makes me after beating Leicester, who he serve in the 88-minute contest. four where she will face Aus- over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova came back from an 0-4 deficit proud, it makes me happy to flagged as a side that should Garcia started quickly but sie Ashleigh Barty, who ousted and 38-year-old Venus Williams. in the first set to eliminate Elise wear this (armband) at a big not be underestimated as they could not keep her unforced giantkiller Kiki Bertens of the After the match Halep Mertens 7-5, 6-3. club like Manchester United,” “invest more than us.” West Bromwich down Norwich City in seven-goal thriller London, United Kingdom to make it 3-1 but Norwich kept sent off, thanks to Britt Assom- with a 2-1 win over Queens Park est Bromwich Albion got within contact. balonga’s early goal. Rangers. Wtheir Championship pro- Teemu Pukki pulled one back Aston Villa are expected to Reading are still searching for motion campaign up and run- before Hal Robson-Kanu had feature in the promotion chase their first points after losing 1-0 ning with a thrilling 4-3 victory scored West Brom’s fourth. after losing in the play-off final to Hillal Soudani’s goal for Not- against Norwich City yesterday Grant Hanley netted Nor- against Fulham last term. tingham Forest. Despite being ranked among wich’s third, but the hosts could They have made a solid start to Jamie Paterson scored nine the promotion favourites, Dar- not find a leveller. the season and Birkir Bjarnason minutes from time to earn a 2-2 ren Moore’s side took only one Swansea City came down popped up to secure a 3-2 win draw for Bristol City against Bol- point from their opening two along with Albion, but they over Wigan Athletic four min- ton Wanderers. games.But Albion, relegated have maximum points after two utes into stoppage time. Rotherham United beat Ip- from the Premier League last Championship games thanks to Callum Connolly marked his swich Town 1-0, while Sheffield season, finally kick-started their a 1-0 victory over Preston North second debut on loan for Wigan Wednesday drew 1-1 with Hull challenge with a powerful dis- End. by making it 2-1 after Nick Pow- City and Blackburn Rovers were play at Carrow Road. Ollie McBurnie saw an early ell had cancelled out James held to a 0-0 draw by Millwall. Striker Jay Rodriguez showed penalty saved by Declan Rudd Chester’s opener. Stoke City, relegated from the why Burnley were keen to sign but Jay Fulton netted the winner But a Chey Dunkley own goal top flight last season, are still him as he bagged a brace after in the 32nd minute. soon had Villa back on level searching for their first win after Jordan Rhodes had put Norwich Middlesbrough won 1-0 terms before Bjarnason won it. Ollie Watkins cancelled out Be- ahead. Harvey Barnes scored against 10-man Birmingham Sheffield United claimed their nik Afobe’s opener in a 1-1 draw his second goal for his new side City, who had Craig Gardner Jay Rodriguez bagged a brace first points in their third game against Brentford. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 19 Barca kick off season English Championship: (Results) with Messi as captain Tangiers | Morocco Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce said his side’s dramatic stoppage-time win arcelona kick off a new against Wigan Athletic was testament to the “resilience” of his squad season and a new era following a turbulent off-field summer for the club when they take on Sevilla B Aston Villa 3 2 Wigan in the Spanish Supercup in Mo- rocco today with Lionel Messi Blackburn 0 0 Millwall newly installed as club captain. Bolton 2 2 Bristol City Messi has occasionally worn the armband before when An- Middlesbrough 1 0 Birmingham dres Iniesta, who replaced Xavi Norwich 3 4 West Brom as skipper in 2015, missed a Nottingham Forest 1 0 Reading game. The Argentine has also led QPR 1 2 Sheffield Utd his country, with only mixed Rotherham 1 0 Ipswich results. Sheffield Wednesday 1 1 Hull With Iniesta moving to Japan, Messi takes the job full time Stoke 1 1 Brentford starting in Tangiers after Sergi Swansea 1 0 Preston Roberto captained an inexpe- rienced Barca squad during the Playing later club’s recent tour of the United States. Derby v Leeds (1630 GMT) Messi can eclipse Iniesta in another way in the Supercup, as Scottish Premiership: both have won a club-record 32 Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi (L) and assistant coach Lionel Scaloni attend a training session of Argentina’s national Hearts 1 0 Celtic trophies with Barca and victory football team at the team’s base camp in Bronnitsy, near Moscow on Sunday would break the tie. Dundee 0 1 Aberdeen The match marks a break Livingston 0 0 Kilmarnock with tradition. Since its return ruling that helped Barcelona, ly against Boca Juniors on Motherwell 0 1 Hamilton in 1982, the competition has announcing that the normal re- Wednesday before kicking off been played over two legs with strictions on non-EU players in the defence of their Spanish each team hosting one game. Spanish games would not apply. league title at home to Alaves Today (1400GMT) This season, with Sevilla in One of Barca’s South Ameri- next Saturday evening. Rangers v St. Mirren, St. the Europa League and Barce- cans, Brazilian Philippe Coutin- KNOW WHAT Sevilla played on Thursday, lona keen to play in the lucra- ho, obtained his Portuguese beating Zalgiris Vilnius 1-0 at Johnstone v Hibernian tive International Champions passport on Friday, but the de- home in a third qualifying round Cup exhibition tournament in cision means that coach Ernesto Messi has occasional- first-leg game. French Ligue 1: the United States, the Spanish Valverde can play three recent After Sunday’s match, they ly worn the armband Nantes 1 3 Monaco football authorities switched to major signings Chilean Arturo must cross Europe to defend a single-game format. Vidal and Brazilians Malcolm before when Andres that slender lead in Lithuania Angers v Nimes, They also moved the match and Arthur together. Iniesta, who replaced next Thursday before kicking Lille v Rennes, Xavi as skipper in across this Straits of Gibraltar to Barcelona could also give a off their domestic league cam- Montpellier v Dijon, Morocco, where Spanish foot- debut to Clement Lenglet, a 2015, missed a game paign at home to Villarreal on ball is keenly followed. French defender they bought Sunday. Nice v Reims, Sevilla, who therefore lost an from Sunday’s opponent, Se- “It is more important to pro- Saint-Etienne v Guingamp (all 1800) attractive home game against villa. gress in the Europa League than one of Europe’s most glamorous The game pits Barca, who who finished a distant seventh win the Spanish Super Cup”, Friendly matches: teams, protested to no avail. won the Spanish double, against in La Liga. Joaquin Caparros, Sevilla’s di- This week the Spanish foot- the club they thrashed 5-0 in the Barcelona follow Sunday’s rector of football told the Cope Real Madrid v AC Milan, ball authorities made another final of the Copa del Rey and game with a home friend - radio station. Atletico Madrid v Inter Milan Ronaldo set to begin Juve adventure in intimate alpine friendly

40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Turin. rent Ballon d’Or hold- bucolic setting. That could mean Ron- However Juve’s closest recent chal- Ronaldo signed for Set in a valley at the foot of the er Ronaldo will take aldo gets even more up close and per- lengers -- Napoli and Roma -- have • Italian Alps, Villar Perosa (popula- his first steps in black sonal with Juve fans. sold important players this summer, Juventus from Real Madrid tion: roughly 4,100) is the home of and white stripes at Established custom dictates that five and Napoli have to adapt to new coach in a shock 100 million the family estate and summer re- the town’s compact minutes after half-time fans invade the Carlo Ancelotti following talismanic euro ($117 million) deal treat of the powerful Agnellis, who, ground, named after pitch, bringing the game to a halt as fans Maurizio Sarri’s departure and subse- apart from a brief period around notoriously brutal Ita- charge after and greet their heroes. quent move to Chelsea. Juventus have signed the Second World War, have run ly centre-back Gaetano • Juventus since 1923 and es- Scirea. Superhuman? Euro ambitions Ronaldo to boost their tablished the traditional There should be more Ronaldo joined the team for training on Juventus have signed Ronaldo not to international profile and bag alpine curtain raiser. fans at the match than the Wednesday with Juventus two impor- cement their domestic dominance, after their first Champions League Members of the in- entire population of Villar tant players lighter after their return winning seven straight league titles, triumph in over two decades dustrial dynasty -- Perosa, with the 5,000 tickets from the International Champions Cup but to boost their international profile founders of Fiat car available long-since sold out in the United States. and bag their first Champions League manufacturers and and even more supporters The 33-year-old’s arrival pushed triumph in over two decades. Last season, Ronaldo often called the desperate to try and catch striker Gonzalo Higuain to rivals AC Last season, Ronaldo was his usual was• his usual dominant self “Italian Kenne- a glimpse of their new idol. Milan, and the Argentine was joined by dominant self in Europe as he smashed in Europe as he smashed 15 dys” -- have lived Such is the enthusiasm for the impressive Mattia Caldara, who has 15 goals to top the Champions League goals to top the Champions at “The Castle” in Ronaldo’s debut, that special established himself as one of Serie A’s scoring charts and fired Real Madrid to Villar Perosa since security measures have been best defenders since breaking through continental glory for the third straight League scoring charts the 19th century, drafted in the town for the at Atalanta two years ago. year. while deceased match, including a complete Caldara arrived at Juve in early July Interest in Juve and in Italian football Rome | Italy former club chair- ban on the sale of alcohol from only to be swapped last week with has spiked following Ronaldo’s arrival. man Gianni Agnel- Saturday. Leonardo Bonucci, who returned to July visits to the club museum shot uventus fans will get their first li was town mayor Ronaldo’s arrival had sparked Turin after just one unconvincing sea- up 15 percent compared to last year, Jglimpse of superstar summer sign- between 1945 and rumours that the match would son with Milan. and were nearly a third more than in ing Cristiano Ronaldo in rarified sur- 1980. be moved to the Allianz Sta- The decision to deprive themselves 2016, and the over 29,000 season tickets roundings today, when he makes his dium such was the en - of a proven Serie A goalscorer and available to fans have been sold despite debut for the Italian champions at the Up close and thusiasm from fans in particular to swap Caldara, 24, for a deeply unpopular 30 percent price foot of the Alps a week before the start personal after his signing, 31-year-old Bonucci has left some ques- bump announced before Ronaldo’s ar- of the new Serie A season. Used to impos - but the club de- tion marks over Juventus despite Ron- rival. Ronaldo, who signed for Juventus ing arenas such as cided to stick aldo’s proven prowess. ESPN have snatched the rights to from European champions Real Ma- the Camp Nou, Old with the His domestic form -- despite scoring broadcast Serie A in the US from BeIN drid in a shock 100 million euro ($117 Trafford and the tradi- 26 goals in La Liga -- was below the Sports (although the league has not said million) deal exactly a month ago, will Bernabeu, cur- tion- almost superhuman levels that had how much the network will pay) and wear the Juventus kit for the first time a l characterised his time in Spain as Ma- World Cup Golden Ball winner Luka in the club’s traditional pre-season drid finished third behind local rivals Modric is also pondering a move to join friendly between Juve’s first XI and a Atletico and a whole 17 points behind former teammate Ronaldo in Italy -- at “B” team in Villar Perosa, a small town champions Barcelona. Juve’s arch rivals Inter Milan. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2018 20 Chelsea, Spurs off to winning

Chelsea’s Spanish midfielder Pedro (R) celebrates with Chelsea’s starts Belgian midfielder Eden Hazard after scoring the team’s third goal past Huddersfield Town’s English goalkeeper Ben Hamer during the English Premier League football match between Huddersfield Town and Chelsea

Results: London, United Kingdom Newcastle 1 2 Tottenham Bournemouth 2 0 Cardiff helsea manager Maurizio Sarri got off to a Fulham 0 2 Crystal Palace winning Premier League start as new signing CJorginho slotted home coolly from the pen- Huddersfield 0 3 Chelsea alty spot in a 3-0 win at Huddersfield on Saturday. Watford 2 0 Brighton Tottenham also made light of discontent over their lack of summer transfer activity by resisting a late Newcastle onslaught to win 2-1 at St. James’s Park Playing later thanks to goals from Jan Vertonghen and Dele Wolves Everton (1630GMT) Alli. Watford, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace Played Friday also picked up 2-0 wins on the opening weekend of the season. Manchester United 2 1 Leicester City Chelsea have endured a turbulent pre-season with Sarri sworn in to Playing Today replace fellow Italian Antonio Conte less than a month before the cam- Liverpool v West Ham, paign got underway. Southampton v Burnley (both 1230GMT), The Londoners also smashed Arsenal v Manchester City (1500GMT) their transfer record and set a new world record fee for a goalkeeper in splashing 80 million euros (£72 million, $92 million) on Kepa Arriz- summer after becoming the first Premier League side since the transfer balaga this week after Thibaut Courtois window was introduced in 2003 to not make a single signing. departed for Real Madrid. Supporters’ groups have demanded answers from chairman Daniel But the young Basque ‘keeper was rarely Levy after paying increased season ticket prices for a first season in troubled in recording a clean sheet as the the club’s new stadium. visitors’ greater quality told at the John But manager Mauricio Pochettino has insisted his happy just to have Smith’s Stadium after a slow start. retained a host of players who excelled at the World Cup and it was two Crucially Chelsea have held onto Eden of them who handed Spurs all three points at Newcastle. Hazard, but while the Belgian was only Vertonghen and Alli struck either side of Joselu’s equaliser for the deemed fit enough for a place on the Magpies with all three goals coming in the first 18 minutes. bench following his World Cup ex- “It is important to be strong from the beginning and have belief and ertions, N’Golo Kante was thrown convey a positive message,” Pochettino said. straight into the side after starring in “It is important the fans know the players need their help.” Russia for world champions France. Harry Kane was one of Tottenham’s many World Cup stars to start Kante has been deployed in a despite having just a few days’ pre-season training in their legs. more advanced role due to Jor- The Golden Boot winner was unable to break his hex of failing to ginho’s arrival and was on the score in August and, like the rest of his side looked far from his best, but end of Willian’s cross to open Pochettino was impressed by his side’s commitment and energy levels. the scoring 11 minutes before “I am so proud of the performance in the circumstances,” added half-time. Pochettino. Moments later Marcos Alon- “We can do better, of course, and be more consistent but it was a so was upended inside the area massive challenge to connect everything and prepare in the few days and Jorginho cheekily slotted we had.” home after a hop in his run up Promoted Fulham earned rave reviews for their summer business, Tottenham wrong-footed Ben Hamer. outspending Manchester United and Manchester City, in signing 12 Hotspur’s Hazard was introduced for the final 15 new players. Argentinian minutes and looked keen to make up for But there was no instant return on that investment as Jeffrey Schlupp head coach lost time as he teed up Pedro Rodriguez and Wilfried Zaha scored either side of half-time to give Palace a 2-0 Mauricio to round off the scoring. win at Craven Cottage. Pochettino Roberto Pereyra scored twice as Watford were too good for Brighton. applauds the Pochettino pleads for unity Bournemouth were also comfortable victors over promoted Cardiff fans Tottenham have had a much quieter thanks to goals from Ryan Fraser and Callum Wilson.