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JO3082_BFC_Flag_Globe_DT_Hamper_6.7cmX4cm_Flag.indd2/1/17 2:55 PM 1 Egyptians wait Ramadan Kareem outside a hospital to retreive some of the The blessed month of the bodies of the victims year has come. DT News of an attack, family wishes all its readers a happy Ramadan. 22 killed Ramadan starts today DT News Network Manama oday will be the first day of Ramadan in Bahrain, in fresh theT moon-sighting committee convened at the Supreme Islamic Affairs Council (SIAC)’s headquarters has confirmed. The panel based its announcement on the Saudi statement which confirmed the advent of Ramadan as no testimonies were reported in Bahrain. carnage

x HM the King pardons 211 prison inmates Assailants who came Manama is Majesty King Hamad in pick-up trucks Hbin Isa Al Khalifa has in Egypt issued a Royal Decree, attacked visitors to a pardoning and releasing 211 inmates who have served Cairo in December and April, killing dozens of monastry before fleeing part of their jail terms asked gunmen attacked a bus carrying Christians. Pictures of the bus aired by state during which they showed MCoptic Christians on a visit to a television showed the vehicle riddled with good conduct. monastery south of the Egyptian capital machinegun fire and its windows shot out. HM condoles with Egypt The Royal gesture, yesterday, killing at least 28 people including Cellphone footage and pictures circulated marking the Holy Month of children, officials said. on Egyptian media sites showed several DT News Network targeted Christians in Ramadan, reflects the King’s The assailants in three pick-up trucks victims who had apparently been shot dead Manama Minya province. His Royal keenness on providing attacked the bus as it carried visitors to the scattered in the desert sand around the bus. is Majesty King Highness Prime Minister the pardoned inmates the Saint Samuel monastery in Minya province, State television quoted a health ministry Hamad bin Isa Al Prince Khalifa bin Salman opportunity to integrate more than 200 kilometres (120 miles) from official as saying a "large number" of the HKhalifa has sent a cable to Al Khalifa and His Royal to society anew and Cairo, before fleeing, the interior ministry victims were children. President Abdul Fattah Al Highness Prince Salman participate in the country’s said. "They used automatic weapons," Minya Sisi, expressing condolences bin Hamad Al Khalifa also development and progress. It was the latest attack on Copts governor Essam el-Bedawi told state on the death of people in extended condolences to after Islamic State (IS) group television of the attackers. Bedawi said the terror attack, which President Al Sisi. jihadists bombed three churches police were fanning out along the road where the attack took place and had set up checkpoints. State television reported that the Bahrain condemns attack attack killed 28 people, citing DT News Network Ministry of Foreign Affairs the health minister. The Manama expressed full solidarity with latest attack came after ahrain has condemned Egypt and offered support jihadists had threatened Bthe terror attack in in fighting terror. “Bahrain An ambulance trans- more strikes against the Egypt in strongest terms. supports Egypt against any porting wounded Copts, who make up Extending condolences to threat to its stability and Egyptians arrives at about 10 percent of the families of the victims security. Such despicable P a hospital in Cairo’s Egypt's 90-million and wishing the injured acts will never succeed,” the 19 northern suburb of population. a speedy recovery, the Foreign Ministry said. Floods, landslides Shubra (See Page 2) kill 91 in Sri Lanka 2 Saturday, May 27, 2017

Cairo condemned Friday’s shooting on the eve of the start of hildren are among at least 28 killed in the attack the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. carried out by masked gunmen on a bus carrying “The Minya incident is unacceptable to Muslims and CopticC Christians on a visit to a monastery south of Christians and it targets Egypt’s stability,” Al-Azhar’s the Egyptian capital yesterday. Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb said in a statement. State television quoted a health ministry official as Condemnation also poured in from Israel, the saying a “large number” of the victims were children. Palestine Liberation Organisation, Russia and France, Many The interior minister said in a statement that the with Paris mayor Anne Hildalgo saying the Eiffel assailants in three pick-up trucks attacked the bus as it Tower’s lights would be turned off on Friday. was heading for the Saint Samuel monastery in Minya “Israel strongly condemns the severe terrorist attack province, more than 200 kilometres (120 miles) from in Egypt and sends the condolences of the Israeli Cairo, before fleeing. people to President al-Sisi and the Egyptian people,” a “They used automatic weapons,” Minya governor statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Essam el-Bedawi told state television of the attackers. office said. The latest attack came after jihadists had threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the more strikes against the Copts, who make up about 10 “barbarism and cruelty of terrorism”, and French children percent of Egypt’s 90-million population. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian tweeted that no The north Minya town of Maghagha saw scenes of one “should fear for their life by practising their faith”. anger and despair and Friday. Hidalgo said the Eiffel Tower would go dark A group of around 50 men gathered near a church after midnight in solidarity with the victims, as also where the funeral of two victims was held, calling for happened on Tuesday after the Manchester Arena the interior minister to “beat it” and for his ouster. attack. Nearby, a dozen women dressed in dusty black Copts have suffered sectarian attacks for years. robes cried and moaned. Friday’s shooting came after a historic visit to Egypt In a statement on its spokesman’s Facebook page, by Roman Catholic Pope Francis to show solidarity among the Coptic Church called for “measures to be taken with the country’s Christians. to prevent the dangers of those incidents that tarnish In his late April trip, Francis visited one of the Egypt’s image”. bombed Coptic churches and condemned violence Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top religious authority, carried out in the name of God. The Copts Trump urges end gypt’s Copts, targeted by gunmen yesterday Eas they travelled in a bus to a monastery victims to violence south of Cairo, are the Middle East’s largest Washington Christian minority and one of the oldest. S President Donald Trump wished Making up about 10 per cent of Egypt’s Muslims “a joyful Ramadan,” yesterday, population of 90 million, the Coptic Orthodox Uurging them to use the holy month to reject form the largest Christian denomination in the violence by Islamist extremists. Muslim-majority country. “On behalf of the American people, I The Copts trace their history to the dawn of would like to wish all Muslims a joyful Christianity, when Egypt was integrated into Ramadan,” said Trump, who is winding up a the Roman and later the Byzantine empire. first overseas trip as president that included The word “Copt” comes from the same root a stop in Saudi Arabia. as the word for “Egyptian” in ancient Greek. “This year, the holiday begins as the world The community’s decline started with the mourns the innocent victims of barbaric Arab invasions of the 7th century and the terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom progressive Islamisation of the country, which and Egypt, acts of depravity that are directly today is largely Sunni Muslim. contrary to the spirit of Ramadan,” said the Copts, represented in all social classes, are US leader. present across the whole country, with the “Such acts only steel our resolve to defeat strongest concentration in central and southern the terrorists and their perverted ideology,” Egypt. he said in his message to the world’s Poorly represented in government, Copts estimated 1.6 billion Muslims. complain that they are sidelined from many Trump said that when he met dozens of posts in the justice system, universities and the leaders of Muslim countries in the Saudi police. capital Riyadh, he had vowed to stand with Egypt’s Copts have been the target of several them to counter “terrorism and the ideology deadly attacks since the 2011 uprising that that fuels it.” toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptians wait outside a hospital to retreive some of the bodies of the vic- tims of an attack Saturday, May 27, 2017 3 Road project nearing Mind your completion DT News Network Manama ork on Malkiya entrance and roads in the vicinity areW nearing completion, Roads own business, Projects and Maintenance Director Sayyed Bader Alawi has said. The project is part of the paving of dirt roads programme, aiming to provide infrastructure services as per FM tells Iran’s priorities set for the Northern Governorate. The Ministry has completed paving 90 per cent of the roads in the block. Work is Shaikh Khalid underway to implement Khamenei storm water drainage tanks, DT News Network affairs. Revolution should keep quiet security forces dispersed leave the Kingdom of Bahrain construct speed humps and [email protected] In his response to the and keep his evil away.” an illegal gathering near Isa alone. put in place traffic signs and latest statements made by The minister shared Qassim’s residence in Diraz, Iranian officials often ground markings. The project Manama Ali Khamenei about the a short video clip on his where five people were killed interfere in the internal affairs will serve 90 housing units ahrain’s Foreign Affairs situations in Bahrain and official Twitter page showing and over 30 policemen were of GCC states, especially and facilitate movement in Minister Shaikh Khalid the recent security operation Khamenei commenting on injured. Bahrain. Malkiya. Alawi explained that Bbin Ahmed Al Khalifa has targeting terrorists gathered in the recent events and praising Shaikh Khalid also tweeted However, it’s not common the project comprises of paving asked Iran’s supreme leader to Diraz, Shaikh Khalid tweeted, controversial religious cleric that Khamenei should pay for the Supreme Leader to a total of 2.6km long roads, “mind his own business” and “Bahrain and its people are Isa Qassim. attention to the endless issues appear on screens with such implementing ground channels not to interfere in domestic fine. The leader of the Iranian As reported last week, his country is facing and statements. for present and future use. Several arrested in Diraz released DT News Network of the minister to release the [email protected] individuals arrested in Diraz events on Tuesday. Manama DT News reported on ore than 40 people who Wednesday that more than 280 were arrested in Diraz on people who participated in an MTuesday were released by the illegal gathering in Diraz were police on Thursday. arrested. Among the arrested This was confirmed by were convicts and fugitives the area’s parliamentary wanted in terror crimes. representative MP Jalal Five people were killed and Kadhim, following his meeting more than 30 policemen were with several MPs with Interior injured in armed clashes that Minister Lieutenant General occurred while security forces Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Jalal Kadhim dispersed the crowd. Khalifa. today in the presence of the “We urge all for self-control Kadhim stated on his official area’s representative and the and not to follow suspicious Twitter page that the police governor. Following up on the statements. We request directorate has communicated matter is continued,” Kadhim religious clerics and eminent with the families of 45 people tweeted on Thursday. persons of the area to embrace arrested from Diraz. The MP confirmed that the the youth and preserve civil “They were all released move follows the directives peace.” RAMADAN KAREEM FROM ALL OF US AT BFC!

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JO3419_BFC_Ramadan_PressAd_DT_QP_180mmX128mm.indd 1 5/25/17 5:24 PM 4 Saturday, May 27, 2017 Leaders exchange Ramadan greetings DT News Network the Crown Prince in reply Minister applauds Manama to their greetings on the is Majesty King Hamad advent of the holy month of bin Isa Al Khalifa Ramadan. Hyesterday received Ramadan HM the King expressed greetings from His Royal sincere thanks and Al Iman graduates Highness Prime Minister appreciation to HRH DT News Network Prince Khalifa bin Salman Premier and HRH the Manama Al Khalifa and HRH Salman Crown Prince for their noble ducation Minister bin Hamad Al Khalifa, feelings, wishing them steady Majed Al Nuaimi has the Crown Prince, Deputy good health and happiness, congratulatedE the graduates Supreme Commander and and the Arab and Muslim of Al Iman School on their First Deputy Prime Minister. nations many happy returns. success, wishing them further Both extended greetings to The Prime Minister achievements in future. HM the King, wishing him, received a cable of The minister who was the Bahraini people and the congratulations from the patronising the graduation Arab and Muslim nations Crown Prince on the advent ceremony in the presence of many happy returns. of the Holy Month of parents, relatives and school HRH the Prime Minister Ramadan. officials said that Al Iman had prayed to Allah the HRH the Crown been steadily improving the Education Minister Majed Al Nuaimi at the graduation ceremony of Al Iman School Almighty to bless HM King Prince extended sincere performance of its students and ministry would spare no effort to the efforts exerted by the trustees of the school thanked Hamad with abundant good congratulations to HRH that this year, it accomplished to support private educational ministry to boost learning the education minister for health and happiness so as Premier, wishing him an outstanding score in the institutions and encourage standards, he said. Bahrain patronising the graduation to continue the progress abundant good health and reading challenge competition, investment in the crucial sector achieved top score in the pan- ceremony, saying that Al Iman and development march the happiness and Bahrain by ranking among the top to help keep the educational Arab science competition and had adopted several measures Kingdom is witnessing under further progress and three, selected from 30,000 process move forward. the second best in mathematics, to boost its educational and his leadership. prosperity. schools that participated Several outstanding national the minister said. learning services and to provide HM the King sent a He also wished the Arab cc from across the Arab world. and international achievements Adel Al Muawda, the special care for outstanding cable of thanks to HRH the and Islamic nations many Al Nuaimi stressed that the were accomplished, thanks chairman of the board of students. Prime Minister and HRH happy returns.

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Call +973 39936618 or log on to www.licinternational.com Saturday, May 27, 2017 5 Panel rejects ban GREENING OUR RAMADAN on publishing amadan is a month which is very different than other months in terms of activities, praying and eating habits. TheR month call for not eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset to boost physical and mental endurance and to understand the hardships faced by the unprivileged human photos of accused beings who do not have enough resources to satisfy their DT News Network criminalising publishing until proved guilty according the committee which rejected basic necessities. The true meaning of Ramadan is purifying [email protected] pictures of the accused ahead to law in a public trial at which the proposal in a report ourselves, taking care of our body, soul, people, surrounding of conviction and subjecting he has had all the guarantees published yesterday and will and ecosystems which is supporting us. Manama violators to punish not necessary for his defence.” be reviewed by the Council of The month of Ramadan is a golden opportunity to parliamentary committee exceeding one year and or He also quoted Article 20/C Representatives on Tuesday. consider making a shift towards a ‘green lifestyle’ that is recently rejected a fines not exceeding BD100. of the Kingdom’s constitution, The committee’s decision environmental friendly, non-polluting, non-wasteful and Aproposal to ban publishing Al Shaer, who’s a member which reads, “An accused came after discussing the aim toward saving of natural resources. The green lifestyle photos of the accused ahead of of the National Institution for person shall be presumed proposal with several parties means improving the quality of life and achieving sustainable being convicted by the court. Human Rights (NIHR) and innocent until proved guilty including the council’s development. This comes as Foreign the former head council’s in a legal trial in which the Legal and Legislative Affairs Let us create awareness on our resources usage during Affairs, National Security Human Rights Committee, necessary guarantees for the Committee and Legal Ramadan, think and act positively towards our environment and Defence Committee in justified his proposal by exercise of his right of defence Consultant, in addition to and change our unfriendly habits which are impacting the House of Representatives quoting the Universal in all the stages of investigation Interior Ministry and NIHR, our ecosystem. Let us seize this opportunity provided by issued a report rejecting a Declaration of Human Rights and trial are ensured in which earlier expressed Ramadan and adopt a model for a green and responsible proposal submitted by MP saying, “Everyone charged accordance with the law.” its rejection to publishing behavior that addresses the urgent environmental issues. Khalid Al Shaer to amend with a penal offence has the However, the MP’s pictures of the accused ahead The month sees over consumption of meat, vegetables and the Kingdom’s Penal Code, right to be presumed innocent justifications didn’t convince of conviction. fruits together with drinks, juices and syrups. We become more extravagant in terms of using food and resources. So, let us be patient on these consumptions, eat healthy and organic food in manageable quantities. Let us grow vegetables and Driver gets 18 fruits at our available land/ space. Use food items judiciously and avoid any wastage. Let us be away from our routine habits months jail as that pollute our air, soil and water resources. Let us be aware of our wasteful habits which are affecting the environment crash leaves and our future generations. We need to understand that any victim in coma mismanagement of our precious available resources will be having an irreversible impacts on our ecology and for our DT News Network future generations. Let us make concerted effort to encourage [email protected] and embrace “green” practices, especially during Ramadan. reckless driver was Ramadan presents the perfect opportunity to recharge our sentenced to 18 months spiritual batteries for the year. It is a time to seek forgiveness Ain prison and BD1000 fine for our misgivings and to reflect upon the signs of creation for causing an accident that from Allah. As human beings, we have a duty as stewards resulted in the complete over this planet, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the paralysis of a female driver. resources and environment are used in a sustainable manner. This was revealed in the final Let this month not only harness our mental and physical verdict by the Seventh Lower ability but also be a turning point for respecting our resources (Traffic) Court against the and environment. Some basic thoughts are: defendant on Thursday. • Support and utilize local produce. Court files showed that the • Plan food usage with no wastage. mishap occurred on Al Ghous • Reducing the water usage, especially during making Highway in Muharraq. ‘wadoo’/ ablution. Be vigilant that the tap is closed. Any The defendant was over- dripping should be eliminated to conserve precious speeding on the flyover near water. Shaikh Hamad Bridge. He • Reducing our energy and carbon footprint. lost control of the vehicle and • Generating less quantity of waste especially food waste. rammed into the victim’s car, Support & practice recycling and reuse. before both vehicles tumbled • No littering especially in common areas, commercial and down the flyover. The driver religious places and shopping areas. and a passenger suffered minor • Minimum or no use of plastic bags. Using less paper and injuries, while the victim, who’s stationery. a newly-wedded university • Switching off appliances after use like lights, ACs, fans, student, remains in a coma to heaters, iron etc. this day. It was revealed by the • Using electrical appliances like washing machines, iron, attorneys that the victim was vacuum cleaner and dishwashers in off peak hours. driving back home at the time • Replacing lights bulbs from incandescent to compact of the accident. She suffered fluorescent and turning off lights when they are not in serious head injuries and is use. now bedridden and surviving • Eliminate use of disposables plates, cutlery, cups, on life-support, unaware of her containers etc. Avoid using Styrofoam containers and surroundings. plastic cutlery. The Public Prosecution had earlier accused the driver of * Head, Waste Disposal Unit, Supreme Council for reckless driving, injuring the Environment, Bahrain (Email: [email protected]) victim and resulting in a 100 percent disability for her, in (The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily addition to causing several reflect the policy or position of this newspaper.) damages to public and private properties. 6 Saturday, May 27, 2017

Manchester People gather to lay flowers and messages of support in St ritain has arrested a “large Ann’s Square in Manchester UNITED Monday, May 22, 21:33GMT: Suicide KINGDOM bomb kills 22 people as they are Bpart” of the network leaving Manchester Arena following behind Manchester’s suicide Ariana Grande concert Manchester bomb attack, police said 3 yesterday, as the government Wigan came under fire for cutting MANCHESTER 6 Hashem Abedi: Arrested for allegedly planning police budgets and election London May 25, Blackley: campaigning resumed. 1 Salman Abedi: Suicide One man arrested terrorist attack in Tripoli. bomber, 22, in Libya in 4 Salman transferred early May. Flew back Jun 2014, Chorlton: €2,900 to Hashem Eight suspects are currently May 24, 26, Whalley to Manchester via Twins Salma and on May 22 in detention on UK soil in Range, Moss Side: Istanbul and Dusseldorf Zahra Halane (below) Two men arrested connection with the blast, for on May 18, according travel to Syria after 8 to Der Tagesspiegel, being radicalised 2 1 7 which the Islamic State group 9 has claimed responsibility. citing German online intelligence May 24, Fallowfield: Three While police in Libya have 2 May 23: Salman’s older men arrested. Salman Abedi detained the father and brother, Ismail Abedi, is lived in Elsmore Road arrested in Chorlton 7 Abd al-Baset Azzouz: brother of 22-year-old bomber Bomb-maker – lived in Salman Abedi. 3 May 24: Two arrested Elsmore Road. Now in Libya in Wigan and Nuneaton 8km Mark Rowley, head of 5 miles 4 May 24: Armed police Britain’s counter-terrorism raid city-centre apartment 5 6 MEDITERRANEAN SEA police, said police had got hold block in Granby Row Tripoli Benghazi Derna of “a large part of the network” Misrata linked to the atrocity in which Sirte seven children aged under 18 8 Raphael Hostey: Lived in Whalley Range. Bani Walid were among the 22 dead. Key recruiter for so-called Zalla “We are very happy we’ve Eastern Libya: Islamic State – now dead got our hands around some Training camp for Islamic State: Forced out Al Qaeda-linked of the key players that we are of Sirte in December 2016 militants run by concerned about but there’s 5 May 24: Libyan security – relocated around Bani Abd al-Baset forces in Tripoli detain Walid and Zalla Azzouz still a little bit more to do,” Salman’s father, Ramadan he said. Abedi, and younger brother, Police said the eight men Hashem Abedi. LIBYA 9 Jamshed Javeed: Ramadan fought against 400km Lived in Levenshulme. ranged in age from 18 to regime of Muammar 250 miles Jailed for six years in 2015 38, including a 30-year-old Gaddafi during Libyan for preparation of terrorist arrested in the Moss Side area revolution in 2011 acts for IS in Syria of Manchester in the early Sources: Der Tagesspiegel, Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, Reuters Pictures: Associated Press, Facebook, handouts © GRAPHIC NEWS hours of Friday. “I woke up because I heard risk of terror by giving police the investigation to US media. US President Donald remove extremist content. his brother Hashem belonged the police shouting, they were the funding they need after “We take full responsibility Trump has threatened to “Make no mistake: the fight to the Islamic State group, shouting ‘Get down, it’s the cuts made while Conservative for that and obviously regret prosecute those responsible is moving from the battlefield while their father Ramadan police, hands on the ground, Prime Minister Theresa May that that happened,” Tillerson for the “deeply troubling” to the internet,” she told the once belonged to a now- get on the ground’,” said local served as interior minister. told reporters. security breach. G7. disbanded militant group with resident Anita Santonelli, Britain briefly suspended Manchester-born Abedi, a alleged ties to Al-Qaeda. who said she looked out to US ‘full responsibility’ intelligence-sharing with the Hunting accomplices university dropout, grew up in Libya said it was working see around 10 armed police Washington’s top diplomat United States on Thursday May was at the G7 summit a Libyan family that reportedly closely with Britain to identify officers. Rex Tillerson also visited over the leaks, but Tillerson in Sicily yesterday where she fled to the northwestern possible “terrorist networks” Opposition Labour leader London yesterday in an said the “special relationship” emphasised the importance of English city to escape the involved, while a British Jeremy Corbyn said it expression of solidarity after between the two countries tackling the spread of terror now-fallen regime of Libyan official said that Abedi had was the “responsibility” of Britain reacted furiously to would “withstand this online by urging internet dictator Moamer Kadhafi. been on the intelligence radar governments to minimise the leaks of sensitive details about particular unfortunate event”. companies to do more to Libyan officials said he and before the massacre. (AFP) Britain arrests ‘large part’ of attack

An army bomb disposal unit is parked near Springfield Street, which has been evacuated in a police operation network following a terror attack in Manchester Saturday, May 27, 2017 7 New Taliban attack kills at least 15 soldiers Nations bombing IS Kandahar t least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their base in Kandahar, officials said AFriday, in the third major insurgent assault this week on the military in the southern province. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday comes after hundreds of insurgents stormed other bases in the same area and Maiwand district earlier this week, bringing failing to the death toll among Western-backed troops to around 60. The attacks highlight a growing insurgent offensive in Kandahar, a Taliban hotbed where security has relatively improved in recent years under the iron grip of police chief and regional strongman General Abdul Raziq. “The Taliban launched a coordinated assault on an army base last night (Thursday) in Shah Wali Kot,” defence protect ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said. A provincial official who spoke on the condition of Smoke rises from anonymity gave a higher death toll of 20, adding that some buildings following a soldiers were missing after the attack and the Taliban had reported air strike on seized four military humvees. a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa civilians Tunisia opens trial over Geneva Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said he UN yesterday urged all “all states” whose air forces are 2015 beach massacre nations bombing jihadist active in the anti-IS missions targetsT in Syria to better needed “to take much greater distinguish between civilian care to distinguish between and military targets, following legitimate military targets and reports that US-led coalition civilians.” strikes killed dozens of non- The rights office had no combatants. specific information about Air raids on Islamic State Thursday’s bombings. group targets in Syria have Zeid’s spokesman Rupert left hundreds of civilians dead Colville told reporters in since 2014. Geneva that identifying the air The latest strikes that hit a force responsible for civilian series of residential buildings deaths is often difficult given on Thursday in Mayadeen, the number of countries in UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people in the Sousse attack in a town in Syria’s eastern the anti-IS coalition and the since 2014. shelling and summary June 2015 province of Deir Ezzor, killed lack of credible information. Zeid underscored that executions by (IS), are also Tunis at least 35 civilians, according The US military had said civilians were now being hit falling victim to the escalating Tunisian court held its first public hearing yesterday in to the Syrian Observatory for coalition airstrikes in Iraq and by both sides in the conflict. air strikes”, he said in a the trial of 26 people in connection with a 2015 jihadist Human Rights. Syria had “unintentionally” “The same civilians who statement. Abeach massacre that killed dozens of foreign tourists. UN human rights chief killed a total of 352 civilians are suffering indiscriminate The rights office has also A student armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and received credible information grenades went on a rampage in the Port el-Kantaoui resort that IS fighters slit the throats near Sousse killing 38 holidaymakers, 30 of them Britons, US-led strikes kills scores of relatives of IS of eight people earlier this before being shot dead by police. Washington bombing raids in recent days “The secondary explosion month who were accused It was the second of two deadly attacks on foreigners ozens of relatives of on the eastern Syrian town of triggered a rapid failure of providing the coalition claimed by the Islamic State group that year, which devastated Islamic State group Mayadeen, held by IS since of the structure which coordinates to guide strikes, Tunisia’s once-lucrative tourism sector. Dfighters were killed yesterday 2014. Early Friday, at least 80 killed the two ISIS snipers, Colville said. Security was unusually tight at the Tunis courthouse for in Syria in US-led strikes, relatives of IS fighters were 101 civilians sheltered in “Scant attention is being Friday’s hearing, which lasted around an hour and a half and regime or Russian raids. killed in US-led coalition the bottom floors of the paid by the outside world to was attended by British diplomatic officials. Scores of civilians, many bombardment, according to structure,” said US Air Force the appalling predicament Six of the defendants are policemen accused of failing to of them families of IS the Syrian Observatory for Brigadier General Matt Isler, of the civilians trapped in assist a person in danger. members, have been killed in Human Rights. the lead investigator. (IS-held) areas,” Zeid said. The remainder, all Tunisians, are accused of terrorist (AFP) offences, murder and “conspiracy against the security of the state”, the prosecution said. Syria dismissed 4,000 judges Ankara Gulen, living in self- have been sacked or suspended Syria army takes control of urkey has dismissed imposed exile in the United from the public sector over 4,000 judges and States, vehemently denies the including teachers, academics, Damascus-Palmyra road prosecutorsT accused of links to claim that he ordered the coup doctors and members of the Beirut last year’s failed coup after an attempt. armed forces under the state of he Syrian army is in full control of the highway investigation of the judiciary, “The investigations have emergency imposed a few days from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time the Turkish justice minister finished. At this moment, there after the attempted putsch and sinceT 2014 after driving out jihadists, a monitor said said Friday. is no judge or prosecutor left renewed three times. yesterday. Ankara blames the attempted that we have not screened,” Meanwhile, more than 47,000 Since troops recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State overthrow of President Recep Bozdag said in a speech in people have been imprisoned group in March, the UNESCO World Heritage site had been Tayyip Erdogan on an Islamic Ankara. because of suspected links to accessible via Syria’s third city Homs, about 150 kilometres movement led by Muslim He added that there could the movement and the failed (95 miles) to the west. preacher Fethullah Gulen. Turkish President Recep Tayyip be further investigations putsch. But after major advances on Thursday night, the army “Over 4,000 judges and Erdogan “because of the nature of the Ankara claims the Gulen now controls the direct road from the capital to Palmyra, the prosecutors have been removed Organisation,” Justice Minister organisation”, saying: “We are movement had infiltrated the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. from their posts inside the Bekir Bozdag said, referring facing a very different kind of state and the series of purges IS fighters first overran Palmyra in May 2015, and Turkish judiciary over their to the name Turkey gives the terror organisation.” are necessary to remove the government troops recaptured it 10 months later. links to the Fethullah Terrorist Gulen movement. More than 100,000 people “virus” inside the public sector. 8 BUSINESS Saturday, May 27, 2017 ArcelorMittal tipped to take over Italy’s Ilva

CarTaormina to erupt sincewars Trump came to comment but I have to,” said andbegin other leaders. problem with Germany,” S President Donald power pursuing a protectionist the head of the EU executive, “He did not say the Cohn told reporters, saying Trump has launched agenda. who is in overall charge of the Germans were behaving bad. Trump had highlighted his Ua salvo against German car Suggesting the comment giant economic bloc’s trading He said we have a problem. It father’s German heritage. exports to the United States, attributed to Trump had relationship with the rest of was not aggressive.” “He (Trump) said: ‘I don’t officials confirmed yesterday, been mistranslated, Juncker the world. Trump’s economic advisor have a problem with Germany, in the latest sign of simmering confirmed that Trump had “It is not true the president Gary Cohn also insisted the I have a problem with German Milan transatlantic trade tensions. raised Germany’s large trade was aggressive in his approach. exchanges had been amicable trade’,” Cohn insisted. consortium led by global Speaking after German surplus with the US in the This a translation problem,” but that an important issue for According to the German steel giant ArcelorMittal media reported the US automobile sector during he said in Italy at a G7 summit the new administration had media reports Trump had Ais tipped to take over Italy’s president as having described trade talks in Brussels on attended by Trump, German been put on the table. complained bitterly about the troubled Ilva steelworks, one the Germans as “bad, very Thursday. Chancellor Angela Merkel “He said they’re very bad likes of Volkswagen, BMW of the most polluting industrial bad”, European Commission “I don’t want to on trade but he doesn’t have a and Mercedes selling millions sites in Europe, a source said president Jean-Claude Juncker of vehicles to the US and yesterday. The choice made by tried to play down the vowed to stop it.(AFP) the administrators in charge latest spat of Ilva must still be approved by the government’s economic Trump-Germany development ministry. Ilva was nationalised salvo raises and placed under special administration in 2015 after EU-US trade fears the Riva family, which owned it, was accused of failing to prevent toxic emissions from spewing out across the southern city of Taranto. ArcelorMittal, allied with Italian steelmaker Marcegaglia, was up against a consortium made up of the Indian group Jindal South West Steel, Italian specialist steelmaker Arvedi, the Italian state’s CDP investment bank and Delfin, the holding company of Italian businessman Leonardo Del Vecchio. The ArcelorMittal-led offer From left : Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French was nearly 2 billion euros ($2.2 President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, European Council President Donald Tusk and European billion), according to Italian Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sit around a table during the G7 Summit of the Heads of State and of Government in Taormina, Sicily media. (AFP)

A new high-speed rail line linking South Korea’s capital Seoul and the U.S. company Rocket Lab has launched a rocket from New Zealand, The U.S. Air Force’s F-35 stealth fighter is scheduled to appear at this PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic venues has been completed and the world’s first from a private facility, showing it is possible to year’s Paris Air Show, with Lockheed Martin pilots performing the provide frequent, affordable launch opportunities to low Earth orbit is in its “testing phase”, according to Olympic organisers first aerial demonstration in the skies above Le Bourget ELECTRON ROCKET KOREA TRAIN EXPRESS (KTX) SANCHEON LOCKHEED MARTIN F-35A LIGHTNING II Built by Hyundai Rotem, based on French TGV Réseau Payload Whangarei U.S. Air Force variant, entered service in August 2016 250km Auckland 155 miles NORTH 17m ISLAND Napier NEW ZEALAND Powerplant: Pratt & Whitney F135 Internal weapons: Two 900kg bombs, Carbon turbofan, up to 191kN thrust two air-to-air missiles, 25mm cannon Maximum operating speed: 300km/h Passenger capacity: 410 seats Wellington composite Performance F-35A Sukhoi Su-30 Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet Total length of train: 201m (15 cars) Weight: 406 tonnes fairing SOUTH ISLAND 1.6 2,220 0.005 NORTH KOREA Olympic venues Christchurch Nine 2.0 3,000 4.0 Detail Rutherford map Sea of engines 5km Japan 3 miles 1.8 2,350 1.0 GANGWON 100km SOUTH (East Sea) Maximum speed Unrefuelled range Radar cross section SOUTH PROVINCE Invercargill 60 miles KOREA KOREA Mach km sq m (lower = better) PyeongChang POSSIBLE AEROBATIC MANOEUVRES Existing line Alpensia Cluster COMPARISON MAHIA Aileron roll: Full 360° upgraded for PENINSULA rotation about plane’s Bokwang SLS (NASA) higher speeds longitudinal axis Snow Park Falcon Heavy 90° (SpaceX) Cobra: Pilot momentarily raises nose Speed slows Rocket Lab Seoul Electron Launch of plane to vertical position or slightly to about Jeongseon Complex 1 beyond before recovering 150km/h Incheon Alpine Centre Remote location Yellow Airport Seowonju Gangneung allows wide range of Sea Coastal Cluster Diameter: 1.2m orbital inclinations, (West Sea) 50km Lift-off 13 tonnes and disrupts less 30 miles mass: regular air traffic High alpha: Pilot pitches nose upwards while maintaining slow, level flight Payload New 120km-long high-speed line means trains can travel from Incheon 150kg FAA-compliant mass: 50° to Gangneung in under two hours – journey currently takes four hours site can launch 120 Orbit: 500km rockets per year

Sources: Inside The Games, PyeongChang 2018 © GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Rocket Lab, Twitter, wire agencies © GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Aviation Week, Global Security, Kable, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy © GRAPHIC NEWS Saturday, May 27, 2017 BUSINESS 9 China for tighter controls on yuan IMF sets tough new Ukraine loan demands Since our last G7 summit in Japan, Shanghai Kiev we haven’t seen anything that would hina said yesterday it is considering a change to its he International Monetary Fund said yesterday it will justify a change in our sanctions Cmechanism for managing its currency to buffer it against Tonly release a new tranche payment to Ukraine once policy towards Russia. I will appeal to market forces. The potential new parliament approves a long- the other G7 leaders system would introduce a “counter- stalled pension system overhaul to reconfirm this cyclical factor” to China’s current and land privatisation legislation. system of allowing the yuan to trade Ukraine is using a $17.5-billion policy,” within a government-set band, IMF lifeline to recover from crises according to a statement on the sparked by the war that began in Donald Tusk website of the Foreign Exchange April 2014 and has claimed more Trade System. than 10,000 lives. European Union President

NATO is set to expand for the first time in eight years by welcoming Montenegro into the alliance. Russia says NATO’s steady expansion into eastern Europe threatens its own security and cannot go unchallenged

NATO membership Canada Iceland US Q1 Founders (1949) 1950-2000 U.S. 2000-present Potential candidates Estonia Bosnia-Herzegovina (1), growth Norway Macedonia (2) Denmark Netherlands Latvia RUSSIA Lithuania UK Belarus Poland revised up ATLANTIC Germany Czech OCEAN Ukraine Lux. Rep. Belgium Slovakia Moldova Portugal France Crimea Hun. Romania Representative picture Slovenia Serbia Croatia Bulgaria Georgia to 1.2pc 1 Italy Washington Having risen to office with Department figures showed a dip Spain 2 he US economy grew an agenda of economic revival, in civilian aircraft sales helped Turkey much faster than originally Trump has pledged to return depress orders for big-ticket reportedT in the first quarter due the world’s largest economy US-manufactured goods in April, Montenegro 500km to sharp increases in business to annual expansion of three marking the first decline in five Albania 300 miles and consumer spending, the percent or more. months. Greece Commerce Department reported The administration is counting The slowdown was smaller Prime minister yesterday. on that robust growth -- which than analysts were expecting Dusko Markovic The revised data mean GDP economists say may not be but appeared larger due to the says membership growth in President Donald realistic -- to help pay for a steep upward revision in March’s will bring regional Trump’s first quarter was 1.2 proposed military buildup and numbers. stability. But per cent, half a percentage point multi-trillion-dollar tax cuts. Total orders for durable goods Montenegro: Part of communist public opinion higher than the first report, which The revised GDP estimate, fell by 0.7pc in April to $231.2 Yugoslavia until 1992. Joined with remains divided, had US economic expansion at based on a more complete set billion, down from March’s Serbia, first as Federal Republic with pro-Russian opposition its slowest pace in three years. of a data than was available in robust 2.3pc gain, and the slowest of Yugoslavia, then as Serbia saying NATO entry is betrayal Businesses fixed investment April, also reflected a smaller expansion since November. and Montenegro after 2003. of traditional allies Serbia and Russia rose at the fastest pace in five decrease in spending by state and An analyst consensus forecast Independent in 2006 after 55 percent years, which helped put a far local governments than originally had called for a far greater of population voted for severing Moscow considers Montenegro, rosier on the January-March reported. The Commerce decrease of 1.8pc last month. ties with Serbia whose population is mostly Slavic period. Department will revise the data The decline was largely driven Orthodox, to be within its historic Montenegro has population of Analysts had been expecting a again in June. by 9.2pc drop in orders for sphere of influence 632,000 and military of only 2,000 revision of only a tenth of a point. Economists have been civilian aircraft, but there were troops, but it is strategically Montenegro has accused Russia The result was still far slower expecting a rebound in the April- other signs of weakness. positioned to give NATO full control of being behind foiled coup in than the final three months of June period, but a key indicator Excluding the volatile of Adriatic coastline and of entire October allegedly designed to throw 2016, when GDP grew 2.1pc but for the first month of the second transportation category, durables northern coast of Mediterranean country off its path towards NATO analysts say first quarters have quarter was only fair. orders fell 0.4pc, their biggest trended low in recent years. In a separate report, Commerce monthly decline in 10 months. Source: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS UPS fined $247 million for illegal cigarette shipments New York documents. The company said the resellers without a license US judge ordered the Noting that UPS repeatedly penalties were “excessive between 2010 and 2014. American shipping giant denied any wrongdoing, the and far out of the bounds That represented a total AUPS to pay $247 million judge ordered the company of constitutional limits, loss of $34.4 million in taxes to New York state and city to pay $166 million to New particularly given that the not paid to the city and the governments, for shipments York state and $81 million shipments at issue generated state of New York. of cigarettes that illegally to the city of New York. around $1 million in revenue,” But the company said evaded taxes. The two plaintiffs claimed UPS said in a statement. the authorities “sought Federal district court approximately $872 million New York State Attorney to force UPS to serve in a judge Katherine Forrest in damages. General Eric Schneiderman quasi-law enforcement role found UPS “liable in each UPS said it was “extremely filed the lawsuit against UPS which involved monitoring, claim” and therefore the city disappointed in the court’s in February 2015, accusing the inspecting and reporting and state “are entitled to ruling and imposed penalties company of delivering 683,000 package contents, which is compensatory damages and and we will vigorously appeal cases of undeclared cigarettes not appropriate for a common Representative picture penalties,” according to court the decision.” to private individuals and carrier.” (AFP) 10 BUSINESS Saturday, May 27, 2017 London stocks set records as pound A trader works on the floor of the suffers New York Stock Exchange

COUNTRY/CURRENCIES BUY SELL London “On the flip side of the ondon stocks hit record coin broader European AUSTRALIA 0.2885 0.2860 highs yesterday after the markets have continued to Key figures BANGLADESH 0.00493 0.00469 poundL took a beating on an struggle despite economic CANADA 0.2868 0.2837 London - FTSE 100: UP 0.4 percent at 7,547.63 points (close) opinion poll surprise two data which to all intents DENMARK 0.0600 EGYPT 0.0234 0.0217 weeks before Britain’s general and purposes points to a Frankfurt - DAX 30: DOWN 0.2 percent at 12,602.18 (close) EURO 0.4293 0.4272 election. continued improvement in HONGKONG 0.04980 0.04940 The blue-chip FTSE economic activity across the Paris - CAC 40: FLAT at 5,336.64 (close) INDIA 0.00584 0.00591 100 index rose 0.4 per whole of Europe.” INDONESIA 0.00003016 0.00002902 cent to close at 7,547.63 Frankfurt finished the EURO STOXX 50: DOWN 0.2 percent at 3,577.25 IRAN TUMAN 0.000323 points, having hit a record day down 0.2pc while Paris IRAQI DINAR 0.000304 7,554.21 points during the ended flat. Meanwhile, the New York - Dow: DOWN 0.04pc at 21,074.60 JAPAN 0.00353 0.003460 afternoon. euro slipped below $1.12 JORDAN 0.5350 0.5351 Meanwhile, the British after US first quarter growth Tokyo - Nikkei 225: DOWN 0.6pc at 19,686.84 (close) KOREA 0.00038700 pound dived to a month was revised sharply higher Hong Kong - Hang Seng: FLAT at 25,639.27 (close) KUWAIT 1.249 1.249 low against the dollar after a to 1.2pc. MALAYSIA 0.0902 0.0902 Yougov opinion poll put the Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.1pc at 3,110.06 (close) NEW ZEALAND 0.2692 0.2693 opposition Labour Party just Oil volatility NORWAY 0.0474 five points behind the ruling Elsewhere, oil prices NEPAL 0.00391 0.00365 Euro/dollar: DOWN at $1.1180 from $1.1208 OMAN 0.97962 0.98262 Conservatives before a June 8 stablised, after having PAKISTAN 0.00371 0.00360 general election. plunged almost fivepc on Dollar/yen: DOWN at 111.26 yen from 111.85 yen That raised concerns the Thursday as traders were PHILIPPINES 0.00779 0.00758 Pound/dollar: DOWN at $1.2787 from $1.2940 QATAR 0.10381 0.10376 government’s expected poll left disappointed by OPEC’s win might not be as big latest output cut deal. SAUDI ARABIA 0.10058 0.10066 Oil - Brent North Sea: UP 22 cents at $51.68 per barrel SINGAPORE 0.2769 0.2749 as expected, which could Europe’s energy sector SOUTH AFRICA 0.03060 0.03050 weaken its hand in Brexit shrugged off the market’s Oil - West Texas Intermediate: UP 12 cents at $49.02 SRI LANKA 0.00273 0.00247 talks. Against the euro, the OPEC-inspired volatility. SWEDISH 0.0466 pound fell to a two month Asian equities were SWITZERLAND 0.3950 0.3925 low. broadly weaker, despite the upbeat GDP data. can be pinned predominately SYRIA 0.001740 0.0017 “Today’s weakness in the another record close for the After pushing higher for on an underlying sense that TAIWAN 0.012700 pound has helped push both S&P 500 and Nasdaq on Wall five straight sessions, some the market is due for some THAILAND 0.011210 0.011220 the FTSE100 and FTSE250 Street that come on the back investors booked profits profit taking following an TURKEY 0.1120 to new record highs,” said of upbeat US retail data. ahead of a three-day holiday advance of 58 points,” said UNITED KINGDOM 0.4967 0.4938 market analyst Michael Wall Street was down in weekend in the United States. Patrick O’Hare of Briefing. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 0.102810 0.102810 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0.37780 0.37800 Hewson at CMC Markets. late morning trading despite “That negative disposition com. (AFP) YUAN 0.056800 0.056800 Rates are for indication purpose only. For firm rates or for currencies not listed above please call Bahrain Financing Company. Telephone: 17228888, Website: www.bfc.com.bh Total to up production capacity Paris This means that Total will rench oil giant Total said invest in additional capacity yesterday it plans to go even at a time of falling prices Fahead and invest in additional so that it can ratchet up output production capacity, even quickly once oil prices start to COUNTRY 1 US DLR 1 UK STG 1 SFR 100 YEN while crude prices are falling rise again. BAHRAIN 0.3770 #REF! 0.3857 0.3376 in the wake of OPEC’s latest “Our aim... is to decide KUWAIT 0.2855 31.8846 0.2921 0.2556 output decision. within the next 18 months “In raw materials sectors on around 10 new projects OMAN 0.3849 0.3762 0.3938 0.3446 such as ours, the right strategy representing additional QATAR 3.6420 3.5597 3.7262 3.2611 is to invest counter-cyclically,” production capacity of around UAE 3.6730 3.5900 3.7579 3.2889 Total’s chief executive 350,000 barrels per day and Patrick Pouyanne told the which will be profitable” with SAUDI 3.7500 3.6653 3.8367 3.3578 group’s annual shareholder an oil price of $50 per barrel meeting. or more, he said. Saturday, May 27, 2017 11

Doum o escape the nightmare of life in their besieged hometown near Syria’s capital, 13 young girls sought refuge in a fairytaleT performance of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. The all-girl cast spent months memorising lines from the classic Brothers Grimm fable before performing in front of a packed audience this week in the elementary school in Douma. “It was really hard, but I memorised all my lines in English,” said proud 10-year-old Afnan, who played the story’s lead antagonist, the Queen. “When I act, I forget the war that we’re living through in Douma and I feel happy and hopeful,” she said. Afnan’s hometown is the de facto capital of the Eastern Ghouta region, the last remaining rebel enclave near Damascus and besieged by government troops since 2012. Until this month, Eastern Ghouta had been regularly targeted by air strikes and artillery as part of a government offensive chipping away at rebel territory. The bombardment would often wound or kill children as they headed to street markets, played outside, or walked to school. But the skies have been quiet since a landmark deal earlier this month to create four “de-escalation zones” in Syria, where more than 320,000 people have been killed since conflict broke out in 2011. ‘Bombing is their normal’ On-stage, her character is consumed by a search for youthful beauty, but Afnan said her own ambitions in life lie elsewhere. “The lesson from the play is that beauty is in your heart and your soul, not in your looks! I want to be a doctor -- I want to be brave and treat sick people,” Afnan said. With the glittering stage decorations and nervous murmurs of young students, the evening could have almost taken place in any school around the world. But halfway through the performance, two distant booms shook the room -- rockets that hit the edge of the town, residents later said. “These children don’t know what it’s like not to have shelling. For them, bombing is their normal,” a female stagehand said. Earlier this year, international aid group Save the Children warned that a whole generation of war-scarred Syrian children may be “lost to trauma and extreme stress”. For the school’s director of extracurricular activities, Yasser al-Assaad, theatre is one of the most effective ways to offset years of traumatic experiences -- for the young students and their mentors alike. “I get my rehab from a student’s smile, and that student draws her psychotherapy from the teacher that came to her school to motivate her,” Assaad said. It is his third fairytale performance: in 2015, he helped put on “Little Red Riding Hood”, and last year his students performed “Beauty and the Beast”. “We want to send a message to all of humanity that Syrian children can create, that we are open to all civilisations,” he said. ‘Flowers can grow’ Despite efforts to leave Douma’s devastation behind, death seemed to touch the cast of Snow White. Just days before the final performance, the director’s husband was killed by a stray bullet from intra-rebel clashes in the town. And the play’s rosy-cheeked narrator, Dania, recalled how her own school had been bombed just a year and a half ago. “It was all blood and (the bodies of) girls in front of me,” the 11-year-old said. Even lead actress Rayhana Noaman, who played Snow White, said her favourite part of the story was escaping a tragic fate. “The witch wanted to kill me, but the charming prince saved me from death!” she said with a shy smile. Slender Amal al-Kurdi burst onto the stage with an explosive introduction: “A-a-achoo! I’m Sneezy!” The eight-year-old actress donned a white felt beard and brown shirt like her fellow dwarfs. “I really liked acting because we learned how to be brave and how not to be afraid to speak in front of an audience,” she said. As his students prepared to raise the curtain, Assaad said the performance was a sign that “flowers can grow amid rocks of pain.” “Every household in Douma has lost someone and tasted the anguish of pain, war, and siege. Despite this, we can build Syria Syrian girls act in an English-language school-play anew,” he said. (AFP) adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 12 Saturday, May 27, 2017

Minister of Labour & Social Development Jameel Humaidan received Bahraini Author Fadhel Habeeb, who pre- sented the minister his latest books titled “Women Subjected to Domestic Violence”

Pakistani Commu- nity members stood united in expressing solidarity with Paki- stan under the lead- ership of Prime Min- ister Nawaz Sharif on the occasion of Yaum-e-Takbir. Pakistani Ambas- sador Javed Malik was the chief guest of the ceremony organised by promi- nent businessman Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhary at Hid Club Bahrain. More than 300 commu- Khalid Al Rumaihi, CEO of the Economic Development Board was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Sulmaniya’s meeting at the Golden Tulip nity members par- Hotel on Wednesday. Al Rumaihi stated that the country is presently undergoing challenges in the field of oil export and that it isn’t clear whether ticipated this would be a positive disruption or a negative one

Under the patronage of Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Ibn Khuldoon National School held its 26th graduation ceremony at Gulf Hotel

Skating enthusiasts performing at a figure skating show at Funland on Al Fateh Corniche yesterday. Children aged between three and 18 performed at the event Saturday, May 27, 2017 13

GPIC President Dr. Abdulrah- man Jawahery opened the IFA’s 85th annual conference, held in Marrakesh, Morocco from May 22 to 24. More than 1,400 participants from 75 coun- tries participat- ed. Discussions focussed on the future of chemi- cal fertilizers and the importance of alternative energy sources

Khalid Al Rumaihi, CEO of the Economic Development Board was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Sulmaniya’s meeting at the Golden Tulip Hotel on Wednesday. Al Rumaihi stated that the country is presently undergoing challenges in the field of oil export and that it isn’t clear whether this would be a positive disruption or a negative one

Indian Film Director Sha- joon Kariyil inaugurated the Photogra- phy Exhibition organised by the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam Pho- tography Club in association with ‘Intercol Canon’ . More than 150 pho- tographs are on display at the exhibition, which con- Under the patronage of Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Ibn cludes today Khuldoon National School held its 26th graduation ceremony at Gulf Hotel

Close to 100 paintings and illustrations are on display at the 13th annual art exhibition by GCSE Art stu- dents of the British school. The exhibition, inaugurated by Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities Culture and Arts Director Shaikha Hala bint Mohammed Al Khalifa and British Ambassador Simon Martin, showcases the works of 22 students in oil pastels, acrylic and oil paint created over a period of two years. Awal Gulf Toastmasters Club celebrated its Family Gala on Wednes- Deema Turkomani, one of the GCSE students, whose work is on the display, said: “I love to create and day at Diva Hotel. More than 60 members attended the function nothing excites me more than being able to study what I love and ardent of.” 14 Saturday, May 27, 2017

Ellen DeGeneres‏ @TheEllenShow For every dollar you give to #RedNoseDay, Bill and Melinda Gates will give another dollar. Amazing.

Cannes galaxy of stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, A Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Will Smith raised more than $20 million (18 million euros) at the AIDS benefit that is the social highlight of the Cannes film festival, organisers said yesterday. The annual amfAR Foundation for AIDS Research gala dinner late Thursday saw celebrities and Cannes benefactors paying up to $500,000 for a ollywood actress Diane Kruger said table at the exclusive Eden Roc hotel just Friday she took her new film role as along the French Riviera at Cap d’Antibes. aH mother who loses her family in a terror Actresses Jessica Chastain, Milla Jovovich attack to show how survivors are often and Eva Longoria, former footballer David left alone with their suffering. Beckham, and directors David Lynch and Kruger, who drew glowing reviews for Pedro Almodovar were among the other her part in “In the Fade” by German- A-listers present for the auction to help Turkish director Fatih Akin, said the the charity founded by the late Hollywood cast and crew in Cannes for the film’s legend Elizabeth Taylor. premiere were haunted by the 22 The starry guest list which also included victims of the Manchester bombing Uma Thurman, Tobey Maguire, Adrien Brody, and the fate of their families. Christoph Waltz and model Bella Hadid were “I haven’t slept in days thinking about entertained by Motown legend Diana Ross who what happened, not just in Manchester sang “I Will Survive”, while rapper Nicki Minaj but (in other attacks) all around the belted out her hit “Truffle Butter”. (AFP) world,” Kruger told reporters. “We live at a time when such horrors are occurring almost daily. You read about 22, 23, 100 dead but you never see a film about the people who are left behind. How do you continue to live after experiencing something horrible like that, how can you come to grips with such injustice?” (AFP)

documentary about the back-breaking work of a young Congolese coal seller to feed his family has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival’s Critics’ Week. A“Makala” by French director Emmanuel Gras follows Kabwita, who goes door-to- door selling coal on his bicycle in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. “Makala” means coal in Swahili. “There is something beautiful and dignified in his work,” the director told, “earning his living by the sweat of his brow. “I wanted to show a man of action, not someone in (the misery) of poverty but someone who lives their life,” he added. (AFP) 14 Saturday, May 27, 2017 Saturday, May 27, 2017 15

Ellen DeGeneres‏ @TheEllenShow For every dollar you give to #RedNoseDay, Bill and Melinda Gates will give another dollar. Amazing.

May 27, 1973 Played the role of Kenneth on the Emmy-nominated Los Angeles ctress Rosario Dawson is in talks to join TV series 30 Rock alongside Tina Fey and later played “X-Men” spin-off “X-Men: The New the eponymous character, Wander, of Disney’s AMutants”. Wander Over Yonder. Dawson, who has already played Claire Temple and Night Nurse on Marvel and Netflix’s series including “Daredevil” and Cannes “Luke Cage”, is in talks to join the X-Men galaxy of stars including spin-off , reports aceshowbiz.com. Leonardo DiCaprio, Dawson will play Dr. Cecilia Reyes, a A Dustin Hoffman, trauma surgeon who has the ability to generate Nicole Kidman a protective bio-field around herself. After she and Will was outed as a mutant by a government Sentinel Smith raised programme called Operation: Zero Tolerance, she more than serves as a mentor for the group of fledgling heroes. $20 million Newcomers Blu Hunt and True O’Brien will play (18 million Danni Moonstar and Mirage respectively. euros) at the Maisie Williams will play Wolfsbane, who is a girl AIDS benefit t first glance, there isn’t anything unusual about struggling to reconcile her religious beliefs with her that is the the Bereaved Families Forum. Fathers, mothers, power to turn into a wolf. (IANS) social highlight of the Aspouses and siblings gather to talk about their loved Cannes film festival, organisers said ones who have died and the sometimes agonizing yesterday. process of working through their grief. The annual amfAR Foundation But in this support group some members are for AIDS Research gala dinner Israeli, and some are Palestinian, holding hands late Thursday saw celebrities and both literally and figuratively, mourning deaths on Cannes benefactors paying up to $500,000 for a opposite sides of a long, bloody conflict. ollywood actress Diane Kruger said table at the exclusive Eden Roc hotel just It isn’t often that you see a film about Israelis Friday she took her new film role as along the French Riviera at Cap d’Antibes. and Palestinians that can be called hopeful, but aH mother who loses her family in a terror Actresses Jessica Chastain, Milla Jovovich Ronit Avni’s assured, thoughtful and clear-eyed attack to show how survivors are often and Eva Longoria, former footballer David “Encounter Point” certainly qualifies. Ms. Avni; her left alone with their suffering. Beckham, and directors David Lynch and co-director, Julia Bacha; and their crew took their Kruger, who drew glowing reviews for Pedro Almodovar were among the other cameras to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron London her part in “In the Fade” by German- A-listers present for the auction to help and wherever else they could find men and women inger Liam Payne says his life changed forever when he became Turkish director Fatih Akin, said the the charity founded by the late Hollywood urging and working toward reconciliation. father to his son, Bear, whom he has with his girlfriend Cheryl. cast and crew in Cannes for the film’s legend Elizabeth Taylor. One is Robi, whose son was killed by a Palestinian SThe “Strip that down” singer and his 33-year-old girlfriend Cheryl premiere were haunted by the 22 The starry guest list which also included sniper. She sees frightening parallels between Israel’s welcomed their son Bear Grey Payne two months ago. Payne says his victims of the Manchester bombing Uma Thurman, Tobey Maguire, Adrien Brody, stance today and the language of apartheid in South life changed when the baby looked into his eyes for the first time, and the fate of their families. Christoph Waltz and model Bella Hadid were Africa, where she spent her childhood. reports femalefirst.co.uk. “I haven’t slept in days thinking about entertained by Motown legend Diana Ross who Another is George, who was driving home from “The moment that little boy or girl looks in your eyes, your life what happened, not just in Manchester sang “I Will Survive”, while rapper Nicki Minaj the supermarket with his family when Israeli is changed forever,” he told Australian radio show “The Kyle and but (in other attacks) all around the belted out her hit “Truffle Butter”. (AFP) soldiers opened fire on their car. His 12-year-old Jackie O Show”. world,” Kruger told reporters. daughter was killed. The 23-year-old says he did struggle a little when he first entered “We live at a time when such horrors The documentary also includes scenes that fatherhood, as he had never had any younger siblings and therefore are occurring almost daily. You read illustrate just how difficult reconciliation can be. he had no idea how to change a nappy. (IANS) about 22, 23, 100 dead but you never Ali, a Palestinian pacifist whose brother was killed see a film about the people who are by an Israeli soldier, is seen visiting his wounded left behind. How do you continue to nephew in the hospital and sitting in the cafeteria live after experiencing something horrible there, talking to a group of Palestinian civilians who like that, how can you come to grips with were attacked and injured. such injustice?” (AFP) Yousef, who lost his leg in the attack, tells Ali angrily, “With Jews there’s no peace.” Then a little boy with the group adds firmly, “We don’t want peace.” But as “Encounter Point” skillfully reassures us, a lot of people on both sides do. Their organizations, publications and vigils offer some hope that what happened in India, an example of nonviolent resistance that is mentioned frequently, could happen here. (nytimes) documentary about the back-breaking work of a young Congolese coal seller to feed his family has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival’s Critics’ Week. A“Makala” by French director Emmanuel Gras follows Kabwita, who goes door-to- door selling coal on his bicycle in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo. “Makala” means coal in Swahili. “There is something beautiful and dignified in his work,” the director told, Kate Winslet is an English actress and singer. She is the recipient of an “earning his living by the sweat of his brow. Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, an “I wanted to show a man of action, not someone in (the misery) of poverty but someone who lives their life,” he added. (AFP) AACTA Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Winslet is the youngest person to receive six Academy Award nominations, with seven nominations in total, and is one of the few actresses to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). In addition, she has won awards from the Australian Academy of Cinema. 16 Saturday, May 27, 2017

HOW TO REACH US “Out & About’, a ready reckoner for the events taking place on the island, is published from Friday to Tuesday. To be EID ISHAL It will also see a Mohiniattam perfor- tra and musical bonanza. It also con- cial section has been arranged for the included, please Date: June 27 mance by Mrs Saumya Nair, Manipuri tains a food festival which is a tasty hit book loving children of Bahrain whom send the matter to the Venue: Asian School dance by Mrs Subhadara Ganguli, among the crowd that comes in the would be privileged to a wide range of following email ID Kuchipudi by Mrs Swathi Yelluri and campus during the carnival. Almost books in classics, folklores, adventures : [email protected] Brand Box in associa- Bharatanatyam by Geetanjali Ajith and 100 stalls from leading business houses and comics. tion with MODERN EXCHANGE Sruthi Sudhakaran. The program will showcase their products and services Company is ready for their upcoming be held at the Abdulrahman Kanoo this year. ISB Secretary Dr. Shemily IFTAR BUFET@MAYAN P John said that the Fair is a way to Date : 27th May 2017 to 24th event “Eid Ishal 2017 “on 27th June International School in Salmabad and reach out to the needy children whose June 2017 2017 at The Asian School Auditorium will begin at 7pm. Entry is free for both the above events. educational future otherwise will be Venue : Pars International Hotel with 2500 Indian crowd. This event is hampered because of non-availability mainly targeted for South Indians who For more information, people can call of funds. Being a community school Pars International Hotel are residing in bahrain celebrating EID. on 39685173 or 39422100 it is the responsibility of the school to invites you to spend the Holy Month The star of the event would be Saleem support such needy children. Proceeds of Ramadan. An ideal place to celebrate Kodathoor and his troupe. He is CONCERTS AT ST. BKS PHOTOGRAPHY CHRISTOPHER’S CATHEDRAL of the Fair will also go towards staff with your friends and family together. EXHIBITION famous for his Mapilla Malabar songs. welfare and creation of a staff contin- This Ramadan, indulge yourself with Date: May 25,26,27 He has a huge fan following in Bahrain. gency reserve. The school has one of our tempting choices of some of the Venue: BKS The event will start at 7pm until 12 the lowest fee structures and it caters finest delicacies of Lebanese cuisine. to the educational needs of all sec- midnight. Tickets are priced at BD 3. Succulent and tasty cuts of lamb, chick- tions of the society. Majority of the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS) Tickets are available at Noba supermar- en, fish, chickpeas, lentils and olive oil. students belong to the economically Photography club in association ket and BrandBox office Adliya. Our starters are hommus, moutable lower and middle class families. ISB with “Intercol Canon” is organ- The Ticket launch was held at the (a dip made from aubergine, tahini Fair General Convenor Mohammed izing a Photography Exhibition Modern Exchange branch in Umm Al and lemon) or sambousek (triangular Hussain Malim requested the support on the 25th, 26th & 27th May Hasan with MODERN EXCHANGE pastries filled with meat or cheese), of the media and the community to 2017. The exhibition will showcase and BrandBox team. Lentil and vegetable soup, and these make this venture successful. The entire the photographs of club members are always served with olives and fresh programme will be announced in due captured in Bahrain and also from MUSIC AND DANCE TREAT Date: June 1 Arabic bread. course of time. It is a great opportunity different parts of the world. More Venue: St. Christopher’s Main courses are shawarma (lamb or to every business and service provider than 150 photographs taken by 80 Cathedral chicken sliced from a spit) or shish to reach out to a large section of the photographers will be displayed kebab (meat marinated in spices and Bahrain population during the carnival during this event in the ‘New Hall’ Concerts at St. Christopher’s grilled on a skewer). Kabsa, a typical days. at BKS. Cathedral will be welcoming back the Qatari dish featuring grilled meat or St. Christopher’s Community Big Band fish with a mound of spiced rice. Fresh The exhibition will be inaugurated on Thursday, June 1st at 6pm. BKS BOOK FAIR caught fish such as red snapper and on 25 May 2017 at 07.00 p.m. The band is comprised of about 18 Date: Till May 27 hammour. at Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam, members, mostly professional musi- Venue: BKS Desserts are usually served and these Segaya. Along with the exhibi- cians working in Bahrain. They enjoy includes the famous local confection, tion there will be presentations performing a wide repertoire of jazz DC International Book Fair Umm Ali, a combination of milk and & experience sharing sessions by and popular music under the direction and Cultural Fest organized by Bahrain pastry with nuts, sultanas and coconut. renowned photographers. of Paul Bagshaw. Their concert will Keraleeya Samajam and DC Books was Savour our selection of fruit juices, include Skyfall by Adele, Valerie by inaugurated by the Former UN Under Arabic coffee (flavoured with car- This intention of the exhibition is Amy Winehouse, Caravan by Duke Secretary General, Member of Indian damom) or tea (with cardamom or to showcase the photography skills Ellington, and medleys of songs by Bees Parliament and former Minister of mint) as you enjoy your meal at Pars and talents of the group members Gees and Stevie Wonder. State for External Affairs, Government International Hotel. and would be featured under dif- Previous performances include appear- of India, Dr. Shashi Tharoor at Segaya ferent categories viz. landscapes, Date: May 27 & June 2 ances at the British Embassy, the BKS DJ Hall. QERQAOUN CELEBRATION wild-life, birds, people, culture, Venue: Bahrain Society of Rugby Club, Crowne Plaza, and St. The Book fair and cultural fest has Date : 2 June 2017, 9:00pm arts, sports, nocturnal, architerce.. Engineers Hall Christopher’s Cathedral last year as evolved into a cherished attraction Venue : Bahrain Fort Museum from Bahrain and also other coun- part of Bahrain UK 2016. for many lovers and publishers from tries. The Indian Fine Arts Society Tickets are BD5 for adults, accompa- around the world. The fair not only Bahrain Fort Museum cel- is organizing two back to back events nied children free. They may be pur- provides a great platform for publishes ebrates Qerqaoun night with Fatima Timings: the next two weekends promoting chased through the Cathedral Office exhibiting their literary works, but gives Story who will tell the story of (the 7.00 pm to 10.30 pm on 25th local talents in Bahrain in the field (Tel: 17253866 / cathedra@batelco. an opportunity to students of Bahrain moon of Ramadan) along with lantern to showcase their skills in literally 9.00 am to 10.30 pm on 26th & of music and dance. The event kick com.bh) or at the door on the night of making workshop. The special night through different competitions. 27th starts with a Carnatic music vocal the performance. will also be celebrated with games, pre- The BKS - DC Book Festival includes sents and candies. debut stage performance called Miss daily seminars, interactive sessions and Free Admission . Registration is BKS photography club would like Subiksha Prakash. This will be held to invite all photo lovers to enjoy literature workshops with renowned required. Minimum age 6-10 years. on Saturday, May 27 at the Bahrain this unique exhibition ISB MEGA FAIR & FOOD writers. Competitions such as the Society of Engineers Hall Juffair from FESTIVAL 2017 Pen a story, Colouring and Painting, BUSHRA @ BUSHIDO 7pm onwards. Aged 18, Miss Subiksha Date: October 12&13 Poem writing ,Book cover Design will Date : 28th May 2017 to 10th Prakash is currently studying in NIT- Venue: The Indian School Bahrain be conducted for the school children June 2017 Surathkal and has successfully com- in Bahrain. The competitions shall be Venue : Bushido pleted her first year in B.Tech ECE. The Indian School Bahrain held for various age groups based on She is a disciple of Indu Suresh, a well (ISB) is gearing up for Mega Fair and the criteria. Bushra returns to Bushido Restaurant known Carnatic vocalist in Bahrain Food Festival which will be held on Famous Malayalam publishers includ- & Lounge for the sixth consecutive and has been pursuing music from her October 12 and 13 in the Isa Town cam- ing Current Books, Manorama, year this Ramadan. With a focus on since the age of 6. pus. The ISB Fair is organized to gener- Mathrubhumi, Sankeerthanam, delivering an unparalleled experience On Friday, 2nd June 2017, the Indian ate funds to sponsor needy students Olive and English publishers includ- to all guests, Bushra withholds a strong Fine Arts Society is organizing a unique and for staff welfare. ISB Chairman ing Penguin, HarperCollins, Oxford reputation, having previously earned dance program titled ‘Nrithya Milaap’ Prince S Natarajan thanked the com- University Press and Random House Caterer Magazine’s esteemed ranking promoting local talent of Bahrain. This munity and media for the overwhelm- among others will display their books in the ‘Top 10 Iftars in the Middle East’. event will see a convergence of various ing support to the previous fair, which at the Fair. DC Books will exhibit books from various genres including story, Indian dance forms to be presented by was one of the best in terms of revenue Ramadan 2017 will once again trans- poems, novel, children’s literature and local artists residing in the Kingdom. generation and receivables. Last year form Bushido’s opulent Japanese- around 800 students received benefit in self-help among others. The Bahrain pagoda into a contemporary Arabian The evening will see Khalil Al Ashar, International Book Fair has titles for a Bahraini talent, Mrs. Yamini Menon the form of fee concession, he said. The experience. Literally translating to School Fair is a carnival that witnesses bibliophiles to choose from a variety “Good News”, it is no coincidence that and Miss Ayushi Vema, dance teacher of categories like fiction, non-fiction, of Indian Institute of performing arts a display of colours which include a Bushra represents exactly that: a pleas- variety of cultural programmes, orches- novels, short stories, poems, self-help, urable and unforgettable experience. presenting the different Kathak forms. management and cookery etc. A spe- Saturday, May 27, 2017 17

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Kathmandu afford the hefty permit fee epal said yesterday a but wanted to scale Everest Philippines’ Duterte has South African who and document his experience assured full support to Ntried to climb Mount Everest in a book and film. soldiers to rape up to three women under his newly without a permit can go “The tourism department Floods, imposed regional martial law. home without paying a has excused me and given Do you support Duterte’s $22,000 fine, but banned him me permission to go home,” decision to impose martial from mountaineering there Davy said yesterday. law? Yes No Cant Say for 10 years. The head of the tourism Ryan Sean Davy, 43, department confirmed that was found hiding in a cave Davy had been let off the landslides near Everest base camp heavy fine and just given nearly two weeks ago a 10-year ban on climbing after being spotted on the mountains in Nepal. world’s highest mountain “We have imposed a 10 without a $11,000 climbing year ban on him against We will be here to cooper- permit. mountaineering in Nepal. No kill 91 in ate and do everything we The South African, who fine has been imposed,” said can in order to increase has no prior mountaineering Dinesh Bhattarai, head of the Sri Lankan this cooperation at the experience, said he could not tourism department. residents make European level, in order to their way do more from a bilateral through flood- point of view against ter- Sri Lanka waters rorism,” Vietnam gets US vessel Emmanuel Macron Colombo dead and missing climbed. on a women’s hostel at a tea French President looding and landslides Heavy rains in the plantation at Neluwa in the killed at least 91 people southern and western parts island’s south, killing at least Fand left another 110 missing of the country have destroyed seven women, police said. in Sri Lanka as the monsoon hundreds of homes and cut Evacuation notices were set yesterday, dumping record off several roads. issued to residents along the Israel PM has kidney rainfalls in many parts of the “The (foreign) ministry will Kelani river, which flows to stones removed island, authorities said. continue to monitor the flood the Indian Ocean through the About 20,000 people were situation and seek assistance capital Colombo, amid fears also driven out of their homes as required in consultation that it was about to burst its in the south and western parts with the Ministry of banks. of the country, the Disaster Disaster Management,” “The residents who are Management Centre said. the government said in a living along the Kelani should “The Southwest monsoon statement. evacuate to high ground began with very intense It said Colombo had already within six hours,” the DMC rain,” deputy minister for sounded out the UN and its said. disaster management Dunesh South Asian neighbours. DMC officials said the Israeli Prime Minister Gankanda told reporters in The latest flooding was monsoon had been expected Benjamin Netanyahu Colombo. the worst since May 2003 on Thursday night and ended returned to work after sur- “There are some areas when 250 people were killed a prolonged drought that had gery to remove kidney where we are unable to reach, and 10,000 homes destroyed threatened agriculture as well stones, his office said. but relief operations are after a similarly powerful as hydro power generation. Members of the Vietnam coast guard embarking the CSB- under way.” Southwest monsoon, officials The rains filled the Azerbaijan arrests 8020 cutter The DMC said the toll rose said. reservoirs used for hydro prominent opp. leader to 91 dead and another 110 On Friday the military power, which had hit rock Hanoi a ceremony in Honolulu on missing as reports came in deployed thousands of troops bottom, raising concerns of Azerbaijan has arrested a he US transferred its Thursday, the embassy in from areas which had been to reach marooned villagers power shortage in June. prominent opposition lead- seventh security vessel this Hanoi said. inaccessible earlier in the day. and the airforce carried out But officials said most er, her party said on Friday, Tweek to Vietnam, the embassy The gift comes several Sri Lanka appealed to the several rescue operations to reservoirs were now so full denouncing the move as a said yesterday, boosting days after the US delivered international community pluck people from rooftops of they were in danger of spilling latest step in the crackdown defence ties amid a spike in six patrol boats to Vietnam’s including the United Nations flooded homes. over and causing dangers on dissent in the tightly-con- tensions in the South China coast guard to strengthen its and neighbouring countries In the early hours of the of flooding to people living trolled country. Sea. The US coast guard gave “maritime law enforcement” for help as the numbers of day a mountainside collapsed downstream. (AFP) its Vietnamese counterpart and humanitarian response At least 5 dead as a high endurance cutter in operations. militias clash in Libya At least five people were killed in fierce clashes on Friday Briton jailed for 15 years between rival armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli. for planting bomb on train London spotted by two members of Cyprus peace talks in 20-year-old British man the public who handed it to was sentenced to 15 the driver, who in turn raised limbo Ayears in prison yesterday for the alarm when he saw wires A UN drive for a crunch planting a bomb on a busy sticking out. Cyprus peace conference in London Underground train Smith was convicted for Geneva has failed leaving the last year in what he claimed possession of an explosive future of talks on reunifying was a Halloween prank. substance with intent and the island in limbo. Student Damon Smith, sentenced to 15 years in a For more, catch us who has a form of autism young offenders’ institution, online at: and an obsession with a type of prison. weapons, left the bomb in a The bag was packed with www.newsofbahrain.com backpack on a crowded train explosives and ball bearings Sri Lankan military rescue workers and villagers search for survi- /nobonline in October. and the device was timed to vors at the site of a mudslide in Bellana village in Kalutara /newsofbahrain The abandoned bag was go off within minutes. 20 Saturday, May 27, 2017 Duterte makes rape joke for troops Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte walks past honour guards Manila to militants going on a deadly up in a 1989 prison riot in the hilippine President Rodrigo rampage through a city in the Philippines and murdered by the Duterte joked yesterday that south and flying the black flags inmates. Military flags martial law censorship Psoldiers could rape up to three of the Islamic State group. “There was this Australian lay Manila women, as he reassured them of Duterte said the militants were minister. When they took them he Philippine military said it would his full support under his newly planning to establish a caliphate out, I saw her face and I thought, censor the press and social media imposed regional martial law. for IS across all of Mindanao, ‘Son of a whore. What a pity. toT protect “national security” across the Duterte, who often peppers his home to 20 million people, and They raped her, they all lined up. southern third of the country that is language with man-on-the-street that martial law was the only I was mad she was raped but she under martial law, and warned violators curses, made the comments in way to crush the rebellion. was so beautiful. I thought, the would be arrested. jest during a speech at a military Duterte, 72, easily won mayor should have been first’,” President Rodrigo Duterte declared base to lift the spirits of troops presidential elections last year Duterte said in April last year. martial law across the southern region tasked with quelling what he by presenting himself as in touch The Australian and American of Mindanao on Tuesday to combat what says is a fast-growing threat of with ordinary Filipinos, often ambassadors to Manila voiced he says is the rising threat of Islamic Islamist terrorism. using street language full of their disapproval at the militancy. “For this martial law and the profanities. comments, but Duterte reacted “We’ll exercise the right to censure,” Philippine policemen check evacuees consequences of martial law On the election campaign furiously and insisted he had military spokesman Brigadier General from Marawi aboard a van and the ramifications of martial Duterte said he had two been taken out of context. Restituto Padilla told reporters. In a law, I and I alone would be mistresses but jokingly reassured On the campaign trail Duterte text message, Padilla clarified he meant people against posting material that responsible. Just do your work. taxpayers that he would not cost also jokingly told voters to “censor”. breached the conditions. I will handle the rest,” he said. them much if he was president open funeral parlour businesses “One, to ensure the safety of lives, “That’s why we are appealing to you “I will be imprisoned for you. because he took them to cheap, because as president he would second to ensure operational security and now while there’s still time, to exercise If you rape three (women), I will short-time hotels for sex. fill them with corpses from a war ensure the safety of our men in uniform your common sense, he said. say that I did it.” Duterte also attracted on drugs. who are fighting, and for other national “If you know that this will harm the Duterte imposed martial law controversy when he said he Duterte did launch his security considerations,” he said. public and will not be helpful, better not on Tuesday across the southern wanted to rape an Australian drug war, and it has claimed Padilla specified that social media post it because police might come to your region of Mindanao in response missionary who had been caught thousands of lives. (AFP) would be subject to censorship, warning door later on and arrest you.” Prisoner executed in 8th date with death Washington was first sentenced to death back In her dissenting opinion sentence see Arthur and his legal cash in on his life insurance. She ommy Arthur was executed in 1983 for a murder he denies Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted team as constantly playing the was accused of paying Arthur late Thursday after his committing. Since then, the the risks of the lethal injection system to cheat justice. $10,000 for the hit. Teighth, and final, rendezvous southern US state has executed protocols, writing: “When “He has used every trick in Arthur had already served five with the US state of Alabama’s 58 people -- an end Arthur had Thomas Arthur enters the the books to manipulate the years for the 1977 murder of his capital punishment system. until now dodged. execution chamber tonight, courts for over 34 years. He sister-in-law and was out of jail The 75-year-old was given “Thomas Arthur’s protracted he will leave his constitutional has used every trick possible on work release at the time. He a lethal injection after the US attempt to escape justice is finally rights at the door.” to manipulate the public into admitted to the previous killing, Supreme Court allowed the at an end,” Alabama’s Attorney believing he is innocent,” she which he says was an accident execution to proceed by denying General Steve Marshall said in a ‘Houdini no more’ said.“Hopefully Houdini’s bag of and blames on being drunk. But the inmate’s stay requests. statement released following the His case had angered both tricks is empty and he is finally he has always denied murdering Arthur’s death ends a legal execution. opponents and supporters going down. No Houdini no Wicker. saga spanning more than three In last-minute appeals Death-row inmate Tommy of the death sentence: the more.” Prior to the execution Troy decades in which he became Arthur’s lawyers had challenged Arthur former saw his endless run- Arthur was found guilty of Wicker’s niece had told Alabama known by some as the Houdini the injection method to be used chamber in the event that ins with execution as a form conspiring with his then-lover media that the execution would of death row, managing to evade on Thursday and asked that a something went awry -- requests of psychological torture, while Judy Wicker to murder her give surviving family members his final sentence seven times. He cellphone be put in the death the nation’s highest court denied. those who supported the husband Troy so that she could closure after decades of pain. SPORTS Saturday, May 27, 2017 21 Nasser 10: Batelco Gunners face Batelco Gunners Al Ahlam United team

DT News Network of the second round of the Manama group stage. atelco Gunners United A total of 10 cars will be and Frsan Palace Hotel raffled throughout the event Bare eying early qualification as per the directives of HH to the last eight round by Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad amassing another three points Al Khalifa who instructed each when they face Al Ahlam to allocate significant and Nomas respectively. prizes for the spectators to The first match, between encourage them to attend Batelco Gunners United and and cheer their favourite Al Ahlam will be played at teams. This year’s prizes are 9pm, while the other game the biggest since the launch will be played at 11:15pm. of the event ten years ago. Both games will take place at On his part, Bahrain Khalifa Sports City Football The cars allotted for raffling Olympic Committee Stadium. Football Tournament On the other hand, other General Secretary, Batelco Gunners United in its eighth edition, the professional players are yet to Abdulrahman Askar said that are tipped to win their match event entered a new era. In perform up to expectations, the achieved a tremendous and secure their berth in the this year’s edition, many including Yemeni player success thanks to the interest quarter-finals and are also Mohsin Radhi receiving best player of the match award professional players are Nawaf Abdullah of Nomas. and follow up of HH Shaikh among the favourites to win the efforts of his players, Majestic Cars, underlining performing greatly, including Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the tournament. regretting the absence of a that the team is now eying Cristian of Al Nawayef Team First car raffle Representative of His Majesty Majestic Cars coach powerful striker to score goals to reach the final of the who scored a decisive goal to The first car out of the 10 the King for Charity Works Salah Habib blamed ‘lack of for his team. From his part, tournament after qualifying gift his team the three points allotted as prizes in the Third and Youth Affairs, Chairman preparations’ for his side’s Mohsen Radhi of Al Suqoor to the last eight stage. in their match against Forever. Nasser bin Hamad Ramadan of the Supreme Council for early exit from Nasser 10 Al Bahrain Team affirmed Since the decision of His teammate Fortune also Sports Games “Nasser 10” Youth and Sports, President of after they lost their first two that his team deserved allowing professional players showed a great performance will be raffled tomorrow night Bahrain Olympic Committee matches. He, however, praised their second victory against to participate in Nasser during the same match. during the last two matches (BOC).

Finalists with Tournament Director, Dan Barrie Shaikh Nasser BTA Mixed congratulated Doubles: Manama H Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Hudhud, HFirst Deputy President of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, President Muursepp of Bahrain Athletics Association, congratulated claim gold His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, representative of His medals Majesty the King for Charity Manama Academy (BTA) Social Mixed to react. play-off for the medals. was an enjoyable evening of Works and Youth Affairs, ameer Hudhud and Doubles Tennis Tournament In the preliminary rounds, In the play-off for third- tennis where we tried to focus Chairman of the Supreme Marianna Muursepp at the Dilmun Club in teams were split into two place, Sameer Altaf and on the fun side of competitive Council for Youth and Nnarrowly beat Mohammed Saar. groups and then proceeded Kerri Smallwood-Darwish matchplay. It was a great Sports, President of Bahrain Gaith and Natalia Matskeyvych The one-day event, to compete in short matches defeated Razan Al Tayeh and opportunity for players to test Olympic Committee for 5-4 to claim the gold medals and specifically targets new and against all other teams within Ilse Blondeel 5-2 to claim the out the techniques and tactics winning the nomination for win the ‘BTA Torch’perpetrual recreational players and was their group. At the end of the bronze medals. they’ve been working on in chairmanship of the Olympic trophy in the eighth edition played with a slightly slower group stage the top two teams BTA and Tournament lessons and practice throughout Committee 2016-2020 term of the Bahrain Tennis ball to give players more time from each group progressed to Director, Dan Barrie said, “It the season. by an unanimous decision. 22 Saturday, May 27, 2017 SPORTS ‘I’m the favourite? I don’t care’, says Nadal Paris afael Nadal insisted yesterday that he didn’t care if he was regarded as theR favourite for a 10th French Open, ‘Changed’ even if his rivals begged to differ. “100% he’s the big favourite,” said Austrian star Dominic Thiem, one of the support cast waiting in the wings should the great Spaniard slip up. “Of course I think he’s back at his best this year, and then also he won here nine times. So he knows how it HamiltonHamilton works to win here. “I think he will try everything to win Le Décima, I think it will be very unique in tennis to win a Grand Slam title ten times. It’s pretty crazy, I guess. So 100% he’s the one to beat and the big favourite.” Rafael Nadal of Spain isis nownow aa Thiem, the 23-year-old world have to do, but I don’t care,” said number nine, has already faced Nadal. Nadal three times on clay this “At the end of the day for me the spring -- losing in the finals in only important thing is arrive here, Barcelona and Madrid before play well. If I am playing well, doesn’t gaining revenge in the quarter- matter if you believe or you don’t finals in Rome. believe that I am one of the candidates teamteam It’s that kind of surprising or not. setback -- Nadal’s only loss on “The only way to have chances, real clay this year -- that has the chances to play good event is play very 30-year-old Spaniard eager to well, be healthy, and then be with the calm the mood. right attitude in every practice and in However, with defending every match, no?” champion Novak Djokovic Nadal, who was forced to withdraw player and world number one Andy from last year’s Roland Garros with player Murray both struggling for a wrist injury after two rounds, has consistency, it appears to be a already reached the magical 10 titles Monaco could have thankless task. number this year at the claycourt ercedes boss Toto Wolff believes the “You have to write what you events in Monte Carlo and Barcelona. Lewis Hamilton has changed from freedom Mbeing a loner to become a true team to choose player this year – and hopes that it will any race on boost his hopes of taking pole in Monaco. the calendar Rooney close to As the Formula One paddock took that you advantage of Friday’s traditional rest day would want in Monte Carlo, Mercedes were busy to win, decision on future seeking solutions to the set-up problems it would that saw three-time champion Hamilton without Stockholm first team football. fall a second behind championship leader doubt be ngland and Manchester United’s “I think a younger me would have Sebastian Vettel in Thursday afternoon’s Monaco… record goalscorer Wayne Rooney been a lot more frustrated,” said second practice. “You can ask up British Formula saysE he is just weeks away from Rooney of his limited playing time Ferrari were doing the same to ensure and down the paddock One driver revealing where he will be playing next under Jose Mourinho at United. their advantage was consolidated with and you would get the Lewis Hamilton season. “Obviously happy to be part of that four-time champion Vettel forecasting same answer. I would say arrives for the The 31-year-old’s future at the and in some way help the club win a major fight-back from the champions. it is about time that Ferrari amfAR’s 24th club, where he has spent the past 13 trophies, and that’s the way it’s been “I am not counting out Mercedes,” he wins again here.” Cinema Against years, and his country, is the subject over the last 18 months, last year, and said. “They probably had a problem and Wolff revealed that the AIDS Gala of intense debate which intensified on that’s a decision I am sure they will be back to full force abrupt retirement of 2016 Thursday when he was left out of the I have to make on Saturday. champion German Nico national squad. now, whether “There is plenty of time for them to sort Rosberg has led to a new “I’ve got decisions to make now over I want to things out. My guess is that it will be very unity at Mercedes with his the next few weeks, have a word with continue close -- and that the five-tenths we are replacement Finn Valtteri Bottas my family, and then I’ll decide,” Rooney doing that or ahead of Red Bull is not the reality. working more closely with said after United ensured Champions go on and play “We have been able to put it together Hamilton. League football next season with a 2-0 more regular on Thursday and I am happy about that. “Nico played a fundamental role win over Dutch side Ajax in the Europa football.” It was a good start into the weekend -- in our car development,” he said. League final on Wednesday. now let’s let that sink in and see that we “His head worked like an engineer, “I think I just have to make a keep the tension until Sunday.” but with Valtteri, we have found the decision in terms of a football Vettel added that he was wary of saying best possible substitute. decision, and that’s what I’ll do. he felt like the favourite. “The dynamics in the team have “I’ll do that the next few weeks “We have to get everything right and changed completely. With Lewis and with my family while I’m away then we should be in good shape, but here Nico, we went through different phases, and, honestly, as soon as I know you are not entirely the master of your from friendship to rivalry to hostility what’s going on then, I’m sure you own fate and so many things can happen and arrogance. (will know).” in a long race. “But with Valtteri and Lewis, there is Rooney, who says he has no “We have seen that many times before, zero controversy.” end of offers both in England so let’s keep the fingers crossed.” Wolff said that mutual respect had and abroad with China often Vettel also made clear he believed it brought a new mood inside the team. being mooted as a possible was time for Ferrari to win again in “I think Lewis changed over the destination, says ultimately Monaco after a 16-year spell since 2001. winter. He went from a loner to a true the decision could come “Monaco is always special -- if you team player.” (AFP) down to whether he is Manchester United’s satisfied with a bit part role English striker at United or having regular Wayne Rooney SPORTS Saturday, May 27, 2017 23 Valentino Rossi leaves hospital after crash Rome otoGP star Valentino Rossi has been discharged from Ride Mhospital in Rimini where he was admitted after a training accident, his Yamaha team said yesterday. The 38-year-old Italian suffered chest and stomach injuries in a motocross training accident at Mondavio in Pesaro Urbino near Rimini on Thursday and was taken to hospital. “Valentino Rossi has returned home from the “Ospedale Infermi” in Rimini, having successfully completed routine diagnostic tests that were scheduled earlier this afternoon,” for said Yamaha in a statement. “With the attending doctors confirming the findings shared in this morning‘s medical bulletin, the nine-time world champion left the hospital at 5.30pm, accompanied by his staff. “He will continue the recovery process in his own surroundings.” Rossi crashed out of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans safety on the last lap last weekend handing victory to teammate Maverick Vinales and lies third in the world championship standings. It is not clear whether Rossi will ‘Cycle safe Bahrain’ be fit enough to take part in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello next week. Manama “We would like to thank Gilliam, Director of Bahrain he Cycle Safe Bahrain Shaikh Nasser for making Endurance 13 who showed held its inaugural ride this possible. It was always their full support. yesterdayT with around 400 his vision and love for sports Cycle Safe Bahrain intends cyclists participating from which pushed us to finally turn to spread awareness a broad spectrum of society this into action. We would also among cyclists and in the kingdom and brought like to thank the official pilot motorists on how together riders using road cars of the ride, Nissan, for to share the roads bikes, mountain bikes and their support throughout the safely. This is truly everyday bikes. whole ride.” an important This initiative was under Abdulmohsen Algosaibi, mission as it the patronage of HH Shaikh co-owner of TriLife who does not only Italy’s rider Valentino Rossi Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, joined and led the Level 2 promote sports Representative of His Majesty ride said, “It was such a great culture in the the King for Charity Works day for a ride and we were Kingdom and Youth Affairs, Chairman overwhelmed by the support but it also Saving my fingers of the Supreme Council for that we have received. We highlights Youth and Sports, President of hope that the message behind giving Bahrain Olympic Committee this campaign be passed on back to the biggest battle, says and Captain of the Bahrain to more people in Bahrain to community Royal Endurance Team. keep its road users safe.” in the hope of Shaikh Nasser said, “It is a Haitham Assem, Complex inspiring others Petra Kvitova fantastic initiative which will Director of Marketing at to follow the Paris reinforce the rules that already Westin Bahrain City Centre lead. This is just etra Kvitova will return to tennis at the French Open exist. The campaign will bring said, “This was such a beautiful the beginning for having already won her biggest battle -- saving the fingers awareness to all road users, day for all. This is just the Cycle Safe Bahrain. Pso badly damaged fighting off a knife-wielding burglar. both cyclists and motorists first step and we plan to carry They will be holding Two-time Wimbledon champion Kvitova, 27, a semi-finalist to share the road safely and on with these efforts moving regular weekly rides in at Roland Garros in 2012, suffered career-threatening injuries respect each other on the forward.” different areas all over to her left playing hand when she tackled an intruder at her road.” The event was also joined by the island not only road home in the eastern Czech town of Prostejov in December. Redia Castillo, General Kolja Koracak, Brand Director bike users but also mountain The terrifying attack left the popular Kvitova fighting to Manager of PowerUp led of Bahrain Merida Pro bikes and kids’ rides as save her hand and her career. the programme of the event. Cycling Team and Michael well. But almost six months on, she is ready to return to the sport, claiming that the nightmare incident has left her with a fresh perspective on life. “I actually already won my biggest fight. I stayed in life and I have all my fingers,” the 6ft (1.82m) Kvitova told reporters at a sweltering Roland Garros on Friday. She still carries the physical and mental scars. “I didn’t sleep well the days after. I don’t really have nightmares,” she added. “I was always staring at the guys and looking to see if there are no strangers there. With time, it’s better. But of course I’m more actively watching the people around me.” Kvitova was told by her doctors that she may never play tennis Czech Petra again as a result of the Kvitova attends a press confer- Participants during a group photo session attack. ence Ride for P23 safety SPORTS 2424 Saturday, May 27, 2017

Piancavallo Pordenone to Asiago, Quintana now ormer winner Nairo Quintana took has his work cut out. the Giro d’Italia pink jersey from Especially as Sunday’s final stage is a FDutch rival Tom Dumoulin on Friday mainly flat time trial over 29.3km from but the Colombian climber warned Monza to Milan, and Dumoulin was the race is “far from over” with two nearly three minutes faster than him on stages left. the 10th stage time trial last week. “It’s still quite difficult,” Quintana “We have to try and take more said when asked if he could win in time from Dumoulin tomorrow,” said Milan on Sunday. Quintana. “He is much stronger in the “Tomorrow will be the decisive time trial.” Quintana stage.” Nibali, who lost 2min 07sec to Quintana, the 2014 champion who Dumoulin on the stage 10 race against rides for Movistar, finished nearly eight the clock, agreed: “We have to give it and a half minutes behind Spanish everything tomorrow, we have to take Team Sky rider Mikel Landa who as many seconds as possible before the soloed over the finish line following a time trial. 191km ride from San Candido to the Sunweb team leader Dumoulin summit finish at Piancavallo. produced some valiant efforts trying But it was enough to give the to save his pink jersey this week, Colombian, who saw Dumoulin including a brave solo climb over the make a “rookie mistake” and struggle formidable Stelvio climb following an throughout the fourth of five days in embarrassing, unscheduled toilet stop. the mountains, the race lead two days back before the 100th edition finishes. ‘Bad legs’ Dumoulin -- bidding to become But a day after sparking a spat with the Giro’s first Dutch champion Quintana and Nibali, the Dutchman -- dropped to second overall at was given payback. 38secs with Italy’s two-time Although he shook hands with champion Vincenzo Nibali Nibali before the start, Italy’s two-time (Bahrain) now third at winner was quickly involved when 43, 10 secs ahead of Movistar put the pedal to the metal on resurgent Frenchman the descent of the first climb. Thibaut Pinot (FDJ). It caught Dumoulin cold, and he With a final day admitted: “I had bad legs from the in the mountains start and I made a rookie mistake at in on Saturday’s the beginning, sitting at the back of the 20th and bunch on the downhill. penultimate “Then Bahrain and Movistar split stage from the bunch and I was in the second group and needed, with my bad legs, to go to the maximum to come back, in the middle of the stage. So that was really unnecessary.” Throughout the stage, Dumoulin was in danger of losing the lead after being isolated prior to the final, 15.4 pinkResults from the 19th stage held over 191 km climb to Piancavallo. km between San Candido and Piancavallo: Landa, who had been part of an Stage earlier breakaway that built a lead 1. Mikel Landa (ESP/SKY) 4hr 53min 00sec, Colombia’s Nairo Quintana of nearly 10 minutes, made amends 2. Rui Costa (POR/UAE) at 1min 49sec, of team Movistar for his runner-up finish to Tejay 3. Pierre Rolland (FRA/CAN) 1:54, Van Garderen on Thursday when he 4. Pello Bilbao (ESP/AST) 2:12, 5. Sebastian Henao (COL/SKY) 3:06, attacked Rui Costa 10 km from the 6. Evgeny Shalunov (RUS/GAZ) 3:51, summit to solo over the finish line well 7. Luis Leon Sanchez (ESP/AST) s.t., ahead of his Portuguese rival. 8. Matteo Busato (ITA/WIL) 5:05, “I was very emotional at the finish 9. Lorenzo Rota (ITA/BAR) s.t., because I’ve had a tough few months, 10. Ilia Koshevoy (BLR/WIL) 6:44 and earier in the Giro when we Selected: crashed,” said Landa, one of several 11. Thibaut Pinot (FRA/FDJ) 8:09, riders brought down, alongside 15. Adam Yates (GBR/ORI) 8:21, teammate Geraint Thomas, by a 16. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) s.t., 18. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) 8:23, police motorcycle on stage nine. 22. Tom Dumoulin (NED/SUN) 9:30 Meanwhile, as Dumoulin’s pink General classification jersey grip continued to slip, Pinot 1. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) 85hr 02min 40sec, boosted his chances of a podium 2. Tom Dumoulin (NED/SUN) at 38secs, finish for the second successive day

Result 3. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) 43, by attacking Nibali and Quintana’s 4. Thibaut Pinot (FRA/FDJ) 53, group 6km from the finish to close 5. Ilnur Zakarin (RUS/KAT) 1min 21sec, to within 10secs of the Italian. 6. Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA/ALM) 1:30, Four riders are now within one 7. Bauke Mollema (NED/TRE) 2:48, 8. Adam Yates (GBR/ORI) 6:35, minute of Quintana, setting the scene 9. Bob Jungels (LUX/QST) 7:03, for a spectacular final day in the 10. Steven Kruijswijk (NED/TLJ) 7:37 mountains. (AFP)

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