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Bahrain Moving in the Right Direction: HRH CP TWITTER SPORTS @newsofbahrain WORLD 6 World’s False Perceptions of Nagorno-Karabakh INSTAGRAM Valentino Rossi /newsofbahrain 16 tests positive for LINKEDIN FRIDAY newsofbahrain OCTOBER, 2020 coronavirus 210 FILS WHATSAPP ISSUE NO. 8627 Rossi will miss this 3844 4692 weekend’s Aragon FACEBOOK Grand Prix and likely /nobmedia next week’s Teruel GP MAIL | P 12 [email protected] WEBSITE newsofbahrain.com Australia coach Langer opposed to test and T20 schedule clash 11 SPORTS BUSINESS 5 UAE, Israel working on double tax treaty Philippines eyes COVID-19 battle EU, Britain sanction Sinovac trial Russians over Reuters | Manila Navalny poisoning inovac Biotech may start Bahrain moving in the London Slate-stage trials of its coronavirus vaccine in the he European Union Philippines as early as next Tand Britain imposed month, its food and drugs sanctions on top Russian agency chief said on Thurs- right direction: HRH CP officials close to President day, after it hurdled the in- Vladimir Putin yesterday in itial stage of the country’s Bahrain, HRH CP said, brought an unexpectedly robust and screening process. Kingdom achieves down the number of active pa- swift response to the August The Food and Drugs Ad- 45• pc drop in active tients from 6,885 on 17 Septem- poisoning of Kremlin critic ministration (FDA) expects ber 2020"Citizens to 3,773 on 14and October "Citizensresidents and residentsin in Alexei Navalny. to receive the Chinese drug patients in 27 days 2020. Citizens and residents Pushed by France and maker’s formal application PrinceBahrain Salman said have this Bahrainreshown- havein a Bahrain shown havea shown Germany, where Navalny for phase three clinical tri- Reduction mainly due ductionperseverance was mainly due to theperseverance and dedicationperseverance and dedication by and by was treated after collapsing als within two weeks and to• “commitment of all” commitment shown by peoplefollowing dedication precautionary by following on a flight from Siberia, the regulators will make a de- duringfollowing the past four weeks. precautionary Bahmeasures"- EU and Britain targeted six cision after their evaluation, raini authorities launched its precautionary measures Russians and a state scien- FDA head Rolando Enrique TDT | Manama #Commit4Bahrainmeasures" campaign HRH PRINCE SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA tific research centre. Domingo said. on 17 September urging all"Active to cases in Bahrain have The Kremlin condemned Domingo told reporters ahrain’s steadfast com- adhere strictly to the measuresdropped On bythis 45%, note, thanks the Crown to the the sanctions as a deliberate a November trial start was mitment to the COVID-19 outlined to battle the virus aftercommitment Prince called of all" on citizens and 6885 and unfriendly step against “possible”. preventive measures has detecting"Active a spike incases virus cases in Bahrainresidents to havecontinue following Moscow and promised re- Byielded a 45 per cent decline followingdropped the asura season. by 45%, measures thanks to maintain to the the down- taliation. in active coronavirus patients, The reduction in caseloads"Protecting ward trajectories yourself of and cases. your The State Scientific Re- 3773 Yemen start swap especially during the past four achievedcommitment in over 27 days, HRH familyof all"To through eradicate preventative the virus, HRH CP 6885 45% search Institute for Organic weeks. CP said shows the “importance said, all of us should continue to Chemistry and Technology of 1,000 prisoners “This decrease over the past of the civic responsibility sharedaction follow has and a tangible observe theeect precau on - was also sanctioned. period also indicates that the by all to continue followingprotecting tionary measuresthe community" issued by both Kremlin spokesman Dmi- Kingdom is moving in the right measures"Protecting to safeguard yourselfone’s the National and Medicalyour Taskforce 17 September 14 October try Peskov said there was direction,” said His Royal High- family and the wider commu HRH Prince- for CombattingSalman bin theHamad Coronavirus Al Khalifa 45% 3773 no logic to the decision and ness, Prince Salman bin Hamad nity.” family through preventative(COVID-19) and the Ministry of the sanctions had harmed Launch of the Al Khalifa praising the high-lev- action has a tangibleHealth. eect on #Commit4Bahrain relations. el of precautionary restraint ob- HRH the Crown Prince re- campaign Russian businessman served over the past month. Evgeny Prigozhin, who has Relatives wait for the arrival and protecting the community"iterated his gratitude to first release of the Saudi-led coalition The Crown Prince, Deputy responders, including medical17 September ment of all, HRH Prince14 Salman October been indicted in the United prisoners, in Sayoun Supreme Commander and First 45pc professionals and supporting bin Hamad Al Khalifa in a state- States for interfering with Deputy Prime Minister attribut- HRHBahrain Prince recorded Salman a binstaff, Hamad for their Al continued Khalifa efforts ment said, ”Protecting yourself the 2016 US elections, was Reuters | Sanaa/Geneva ed the successful reduction in 45 per cent decline towards combatting the spread and your family through pre- also separately sanctioned the active patients to the “per- in coronavirus active of the virus and safeguarding allLaunch ventative of the action has a tangible by the EU, accused of break- lanes carrying prison- severance and dedication” of patients in about a month in the Kingdom. #Commit4Bahraineffect on protecting the com- ing a United Nations arms Pers exchanged by the citizens and residents here. Congratulating the “commit-campaignmunity of Bahrain.” embargo on Libya. warring parties in Yemen took off from three airports yesterday in an operation For mass testing to return about 1,000 men home across the front lines, Iran “Lebanonising” Iraq, warns the International Commit- Oxford scientists tee of the Red Cross said. The Yemeni government US Foreign Policy expert and Iran-backed Houthi develop five-minute movement agreed last month in Switzerland to Militias have wrested COVID-19 antigen test exchange 1,081 prisoners, • including 15 Saudis, in the pervasive control largest swap since peace over Iraqi economy talks in December 2018 that have since stalled. Iran is trying to prevent• reelection BAHRAIN of Trump Warns US TOTAL CASES against• withdrawing 76,954 completely from Iraq ACTIVE CASES TDT | Agencies Picture courtesy of AlAyam 3,652 Ahl al-Haq. Reuters | London in mass testing at airports and ran is trying to “Leba - Boot citing a work by Hisham businesses. DEATHS nonise” Iraq to allow a al-Hashimi, an Iraqi scholar, cientists from Britain’s The university said it hoped pro-Western government says the militias “have wrested 3,000 University of Oxford have to start product development 289 I The US has recently to rule in theory where the pervasive control over much of developed a rapid COV- of the testing device in early DISCHARGED announced plans S real power is wielded by Iran- the Iraqi economy: from air- ID-19 test able to identify the 2021 and have an approved backed militias, warned a top port customs, construction pro- to reduce the US troop coronavirus in less than five device available six months contingent in Iraq from 73,013 US Foreign Policy expert. jects, oilfields, sewage, water, minutes, researchers said yes- afterwards. 5,200 to 3,000 NEW CASES In Lebanon, that force is highways, colleges, public and terday, adding it could be used The device is able to detect 333 Hezbollah, says Max Boot a private property, tourism sites, the coronavirus and distin- historian, best-selling author, presidential palaces; and the The report also points that The university said it guish it from other viruses CRITICAL columnist, and foreign-policy extortion of restaurants, cafes, though many Iraqi lawmakers with high accuracy. analyst who has been described cargo trucks, fishermen, farm- vowed to evict US troops fol- hoped to start prod- “Our method quickly detects 47 by the International Institute ers, displaced families.” lowing a US strike near Baghdad uct development of intact virus particles,” said 210 fils (includes VAT) for Strategic Studies as one of Hashimi, Boot adds, paid for airport, that failed to happen. the testing device in Professor Achilles Kapanid- the “world’s leading authorities his research with his life. A gun- “But the Donald J. Trump ad- early 2021 and have is, at Oxford’s Department of on armed conflict.” man assassinated him outside ministration could be in the an approved device Physics, adding that this meant Hezbollah’s job in Lebanon is his home in Baghdad in what middle of evicting itself.” available six months the test would be “simple, ex- handled in Iraq by militias such widely seen as an operation car- afterwards. tremely rapid, and cost-effec- as Kata’ib Hezbollah and Asa’ib ried out by the PMF. (Continues on page 2) tive”. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020 02 Labour ministry in deal Shaikha Mariam named Deputy for online job training Chairperson of Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission The Minister of Finance and National Economy, Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, during an online meeting yesterday with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director of the Middle East and Central Asia department, Dr Jihad The deal signing Azour, Deputy Director, Zain Zidan, and Head of Regional Studies for the Middle East and Central Asia, Ali Al-Eid. The bour and Social Development meeting was held on the sidelines of the annual meetings of IMF and the World Bank Group. Shaikh Salman stressed TDT | Manama the need for massive international efforts and joint cooperation to weather the impact of the pandemic and continue Minister, Jameel Humaidan implementing schemes to achieve global economic reinvigoration. said the ministry is investing abour and Social Develop- in modern technology to hold Lment Ministry announced remote training sessions, in TDT | Manama signing six memoranda of light of the exceptional cir- understanding (MoUs) with cumstances due to the novel is Majesty King Hamad private training institutes and coronavirus (COVID-19).
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