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Blast horror Israel tried to wiretap Hamas Gaza City

aza’s ruling Hamas Action call Gsaid Saturday that Is- raeli undercover forces had attempted to install US relationship with Saudi Arabia essential for Mideast stability equipment to monitor the group’s landline commu- terrorism. nications network during The United States The Iranian people should a botched mission in No - • know that interfering in the vember. plans to jointly host a affairs of other states is “un- The findings of a lengthy global summit focused acceptable,” and the US wants investigation were an - on the Middle East, to hear the voice of the Iranian nounced by the Hamas particularly Iran, next people, Pompeo said. military wing, known as The US top diplomat has also the Qassam Brigades, in month in Poland. visited Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, a pre-recorded TV state- and the Iraqi Kurdish regional ment. Riyadh capital of Irbil. Hamas presented sur- The US The United States plans to veillance footage, as well as he United States’ re - withdrawal from jointly host a global summit photos of drills, chain saws lationship with Saudi Syria does not focused on the Middle East, and two pistols with silenc- TArabia is essential to the contradict its particularly Iran, next month ers, to back up its claims. Middle East’s stability and secu- strategy towards in Poland, the US State Depart- Hamas thwarted an at- rity, US Secretary of State Mike ment said on Friday. tempt to “plant spying de- Pompeo said yesterday. Iran. The gathering will take place vices in the Gaza Strip,” a The US secretary of state told POMPEO in Warsaw from Feb 13 to Feb 14, Qassam spokesman, iden- Al Arabiya that America wants it said in a statement. tified only as Abu Obeida, an Arab coalition and force that US Secretary of State Mike said in the statement. is capable of facing the different sion to withdraw all US troops Pompeo told Fox News in an Israel’s military has not challenges in the region. from Syria. He was in Abu Dha- interview on Friday that the released details about the He added that the US will not bi on Saturday after a visit to meeting would “focus on Mid- operation which went awry be leaving the Middle East, and Bahrain on Friday. dle East stability and peace and Nov. 11, leading to the heav- Three people, including two firefighters, died and dozens were injured after that destroying Daesh is a priority. He told Al Arabiya that the US freedom and security here in iest round of cross-border a gas leak caused an explosion in Paris. The blast occurred at a bakery at 9 Pompeo is on a whistle stop withdrawal from Syria does not this region, and that includes fire, including Hamas rock- am local time yesterday, as firefighters were responding to reports of the regional tour aimed at reas - contradict its strategy towards an important element of making ets and Israeli airstrikes, leak. French Police had originally said four people had died, before revising suring US allies after President Iran, and nor does it mean a sure that Iran is not a destabilis- since a 2014 war between down the death count. Full story on page 6 Donald Trump’s shock deci- retreat with regards to fighting ing influence”. the two sides. DRUG TRIAL A day of fun

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British former public Psychos schoolboy has been finding a hobby Asentenced to a naked caning for drug offences in 03 ‘in cutting off Singapore. dogs’ tails’ London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 29, has also been ordered to serve 20 years in jail being Ye Ming Yuen is currently being held Showcasing at Changi prison in Singapore. realty convicted of seven charges, 04 including two counts of ‘repeat treasures drug trafficking’. that can be dished out in the The case has now sparked country. Alert call to a rift between Singapore and According to the Mail On- jobseekers the UK, with Foreign Secretary line, the punishment is inflict- Jeremy Hunt and his officials ed by a ‘trained caner’ taught as fraud making it clear they ‘strong- how to cause the most pain 05 recruitment ly oppose the use of corporal possible and could leave him agencies punishment’. scarred for life. Yuen is currently being held Yuen has also been ordered mushroom at Changi prison, but could to serve 20 years in jail for be stripped naked, strapped drug offences, including two to a large wooden trestle and counts of ‘repeat drug traffick- flogged ‘any day’. ing’, one of 69g and one of 60g He will be hit 24 times with of cannabis. Another offence A festival for children was held yesterday as part of the ongoing farmers market at the Agriculture Centre in Budaiya a 4ft-long rattan cane, the included drug trafficking of Botanical Garden, which was visited nearly 22,000 people during the day. The five months long market provides a maximum amount of strikes 15g of crystal meth. platform for local farmers to sell their fresh produce to the public. Full report Page 5 SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 02

The King of Humanity: How His Majesty ushered in Bahrain’s New Age be heard and sought to contrib- that the destructive forces are or the powerful changing of the ute to the growth of Bahrain. At contained. This is the true test of Family Law which brought secu- such a juncture in the growth of leadership. By setting the bench- rity and legal justice to women in Bahrain as a modern nation, it mark for these acts of leadership Bahrain, among many changes. needed a leader with vision and so high, our King His Majesty By leveraging his powerful confidence like His Majesty to King Hamad has proved that he position to change lives and the boldly chart a new path and wel- is truly a King of Humanity. His trajectory of the Kingdom for CAPT. MAHMOOD AL MAHMOOD come citizens to be a part of the actions are shaped by his con- the better, by stepping forward power structure of the Kingdom. cern for the people of Bahrain to enable reform and doing so ust last week, it was my By calling for citizens to ex- and the future of the Kingdom. with compassion and wisdom, privilege and honour to press their views in the National All over the world, it is only His Majesty has set a new tem- Jmeet our beloved King, His Action Charter that mapped the the true leaders who march to plate for leadership. Majesty King Hamad bin Isa future course for democratic their own drumbeat, who have In writing my book, I have Al Khalifa and present to him governance within the mon - the courage to harness people repaid his wise leadership in my book which deals with the archy-led rule in Bahrain, His power for social change. His small and humble measure. In human rights in the Kingdom Majesty led the first vital step Majesty is one such leader. That the decades to come, His Maj- Bahrain under his wise leader- in listening to the people and is why I feel that the most apt esty’s wise rule and his manage- ship and His Majesty’s vision incorporating the values and title for him is ‘The King of Hu- ment of change will be a lesson which shapes Bahrain’s legacy the vision of the citizens into manity’. From the beginning he in good governance and compas- in this area of human endeavour. Bahrain’s future growth. has been a compassionate ruler, sion – a record that we all should His Majesty came to the The reinstatement of parlia- one who has always his peo - celebrate. throne in March 1999 at the mentary governance in Bahrain ple first and always helped to His Majesty receives a copy of the book from Captain Mahmood Al Mahmood. (Captain Mahmood Al Mahmood is the edge of the new millennium. It and subsequent democratic change the way society treats its Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Tribune was a time of change and fer- milestones is now well-know. most vulnerable people – wheth- and the President of the Arab-African ment as a whole new genera - When a leader is charged with his people, he has to manage everybody a voice, listening to er widows and orphans cared for Unity Organisation for Relief, Human tion of citizens clamoured to ruling his Kingdom and guiding a fine balance between giving the wisest words and ensuring under his instruction in Bahrain Rights and Counterterrorism)

Key meeting held Radio show focuses on camping season Manama ongoing follow up of His High- ness Southern Governor. his week’s ‘Al Aman’ ra- He highlighted the alloca- dio show focused on the tion of an office to secure the Tsecurity services provid- camping season and allocate ed during the camping season camping areas away from the to ensure the safety of campers. oil and gas wells in coopera- Director of Engineering and tion with Tatweer company. Investment Services at the He emphasised that various Southern Governorate, Khalid traffic, civil defence and oth- Haji highlighted the dedica- er safety-related workshops tion of the governorate to pro- have been held for campers to vide the required services and encourage them to follow the facilities for campers through safety rules.

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Bahrain attends key UNEP meeting Amman

hief Executive of the CSupreme Council for Environment (SCE), Dr Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina, chaired Bahrain’s delegation to the Ex - traordinary Session of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Envi- ronment, held in Jordan. The Extraordinary Ses- sion was organised by the United Nations Environ- ment Programme, West Asia Office in co-ordina- tion with the Arab League. The session was held within the Arab Group’s efforts to coordinate Arab stances ahead of the Fourth Session of the United Na- tions Environment As- sembly (UNEA 4) and the Global Pact for the En - vironment that will take place during 11-15 March in Nairobi, Kenya. Member States have agreed that the fourth UN Environment Assembly will focus on the theme, ‘Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consump- tion and production (SCP).’ SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 03 Psychos finding a hobby ‘in cutting off dogs’ tails’ Animal lovers urge strict action against those who torture stray dogs

Founder of Bahrain Strays and imitate how people walk Various accounts Fathiya Al Bastaki told Tribune their dogs on a leash and these • that she received many reports kids do it to these puppies with have emerged of of such incidents, where people metal wires. people cutting dog either cut off the dogs’ tails or “Kids being careless, do not tails as a sport. attempted the cruel sport. remove the wire later on and The most recent incident was what happens is that as these The shocking on Friday of a man, who un - puppies get older the wire gets • successfully tried to cut off a tighter until it becomes a medi- account of animal dog’s tail. cal emergency. cruelty emerged as “Yesterday, a member in - “It is very important that the eyewitnesses came formed me about how someone authorities spray and neuter the forward to tell how a tried, but failed to cut the tail as dogs, so that we would not have it was a big dog,” Ms Al Bastaki stray puppies in the country. stray dog was beaten said. “We also urge the authorities and stoned to death A week ago a similar incident to take the dogs away from the by schoolboys. took place. “Another incident villages because there has been happened eight days ago which increasing number of reports TDT | Manama involved a group of expat men about schoolboys torturing stray Mohammed Zafran trying to cut a dog’s tail. Cutting off dogs’ tails is one of the dogs in villages.” “These kind of incidents al- cruel games played by psychopaths. Tribune reported on Friday ways happen in Bahrain,” she that a dog was beaten and stoned utting off dogs’ tails has said. to death by a group of school- become a game to some She highlighted another issue, boys in Sehla. Cpsychopaths on the island which was negligence from the The shocking account of an- who believe animal abuse is a part of kids leading to animal It is very important imal cruelty emerged as eye - fun pasttime activity. suffering. that the authorities witnesses came forward to tell Various accounts have “I was recently alerted about spray and neuter the how a stray dog was beaten and emerged of people cutting dog a dog, which had a metal wire dogs, so that we would stoned to death by school boys. tails as a sport. According to re- around its neck and was suffo- According to sources, the boys ports, both expatriates and lo- cating. I did some investigation not have stray puppies frequently hurt dogs in the area cals have been involved in such and found that many a time kids in the country. and in this instance caused a A wounded dog that was rescued by animal lovers. activities. wrap wire around the dogs’ neck MS BASTAKI fatal injury.

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For appointments: 17 787 888 Open 7 days Toyota Certified Parts & Labour booking.ekkanoo.com SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 04 Showcasing realty treasures Bahrain to host real estate investment expo in February tunities offered at the Bahraini the convenience of a shopping selected carefully the exhibit- port and participation from in- Manama local market. mall which guarantees for visi- ing companies for quality and vestment developments, and ser- The exhibition also emphasis- tors easy access to a wide array licensed projects, in addition to vice providing companies and he real estate sector in es the offerings of readily availa- of quality projects in one place. and it is expected to attract over institutions working in the real Bahrain is set for the ble and licensed properties all at The unique venue rings in the 50 different exhibitors and an 30,000 estate sector. Tlaunch of the second edi- convenience of shopping in a estimated number of visitors to visitors from Bahrain The exhibition aims to pro- tion of Bahrain Real Estate In- mall that guarantees maximum go over 30,000 visitors from Bah- and other GCC mote the real estate culture in vestment Expo 2019 (#BREIX19) exposure for exhibitors, traffic rain and neighbouring countries. countries are expected the Kingdom of Bahrain and to from February 7 to 9 at the Bah- and foot flow, easy access and BREX19 Expo is the second an- to attend the expo. empower a generation of Bah- rain City Centre Mall. The expo will serve a parking. nual real estate event where sell- rainis qualified to lead and de- The exhibition will be held significant segment The Bahrain Real Estate In- ers and buyers can meet under velop the real estate sector, to under the patronage of Shaikh of investors and vestment Expo 2019 is organised one roof to shop for properties develop workers and services in Salman bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, beneficiaries of housing by Expressions Marketing Com- available in the Bahraini market national property buyers. the investment and real estate Chairman of Real Estate Regu- facilities, in addition munications for the second year. offered at different specifica- Bahrain Real Estate Invest- brokerage sector, and to invite latory Authority and President to newlyweds and In a statement issued to me- tions and price ranges to satisfy ment Expo 2019 (BREX19) is or- all stakeholders to develop and of the Survey and Land Registra- dia, Aseel Al Mohandis, Found- every buyer’s requirement and ganised in line with the Bahrain develop the real estate sector tion Bureau (SLRB). GCC national property er and Director of Expressions, budget. It will serve a significant Economic Vision 2030, which from Licensed and government The innovative concept of buyers. said: “The idea behind BREIX19 segment of investors and bene- supports economic investment entities, real estate developers, #BREIX19 focuses on the housing ASEEL is to benefit both exhibitors and ficiaries of housing facilities, in in non-oil sectors. service providers and financial and property investment oppor- visitors at the same time. We addition to newlyweds and GCC It is gaining tremendous sup- institutions under one roof. NHRA holds annual ceremony

Lieutenant-General Dr Shaikh Mohammed, Ms Al Jalahma with other Health Ministry officials at the ceremony.

Manama tory Authority (NHRA) held its annual the kingdom, in line with the national supervision over health facilities in the man Al Khalifa and His Royal Highness ceremony, in the presence of its Chief efforts to launch the National Health kingdom to ensure their commitment to Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the nder the patronage of the Su- Executive Officer, Mariam Al Jalahma Insurance Programme. the highest quality standards. Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Com- preme Council for Health (SCH) and affiliates. NHRA’s chief executive welcomed the She extended sincere thanks and con- mander and First Deputy Premier, for UPresident, Lieutenant-General Lieutenant-General Dr Shaikh Mo- SCH President’s patronage of the event, gratullations to His Majesty King Hamad their unlimited support for the health Dr Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdulla Al hammed lauded the role played by the noting that the NHRA, based on his di- bin Isa Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness sector, and constant directives to improve Khalifa, the National Health Regula- NHRA in enhancing medical services in rectives, is keen on strengthening its Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Sal- the health services in the kingdom.

Bahrain to host Gulf Minister chairs committee meeting children’s forum Manama He commended the support of His Royal Highness Prime Min- he Gulf Cooperation ister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Council (GCC) Forum Al Khalifa and His Royal High- Tfor Children will start ness Prince Salman bin Hamad during the first half of this Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Dep- month in the Kingdom of Bah- uty Supreme Commander and rain. First Deputy Premier. Good Word Society Honor- He underscored the impor- ary Chairman Shaikh Isa bin Ali tance of such events who nur- bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa stressed ture the spirit of creativity and the importance of the event innovation among children and which represents a platform honing the skills of a generation for youngsters and children to which is capable of innovating showcase their creativity and and serving their society pos- hone their skills. itively. He stressed the importance Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khal- Mr Al Hamer chairs the meeting. of providing children the op- ifa Al Khalifa stressed the im- portunity to discover them- portance of the Budding Star duction of operational expend- proved 101. Ministerial Committee for Fi- selves and the world, expand Award which honours crea- Manama iture, featuring in the six ini- The panel has so far dealt with nancial and Economic Affairs their skills and acquired ca- tive children and acknowledges tiatives of the Fiscal Balance 1,279 governmental demands, and Fiscal Balance for a final pabilities through creative ac- their outstanding gifts, apti- committee charged Programme, which aims to bal- approved 1,144 and dropped 135 decision. tivities. tudes and achievements. with other operation- ance Government spending and others. The minister commended the He paid tribute to His Majes- He commended cooperation A al expenditure held a revenues by 2022. The committee will submit work team’s efforts, stressing ty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khal- between Good Word Society meeting, which was chaired The committee discussed a recommendations to the Min- their key role and constructive ifa, hailing royal educational, and Arab Voluntary Work Un- by Housing Minister Bassem total of 117 governmental de- istry of Finance and National ideas to support the goals of the health and developmental care ion to co-organised the forum, Al Hamer. mands submitted by ministries Economy which, in turn, will programme and optimise gov- for the categories of children hailing the role played by civil The panel discussed the re- and public entities and ap - refer required reports to the ernmental expenditure. and youngsters. society institutions. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 05 Alert call to jobseekers as fraud recruitment agencies mushroom Social media networks used by these agencies to circulate fake recruitment advertisements | Manama TDT “There are many job sites and them to pay huge amounts be- next few hours, I would get a call ‘thanking them’. I would get at Rajeevan Puravankara other popular sites, where adver- ginning with BD250 in placement from an agency saying that I have least over a dozen calls in the next tisements can be placed for free fee and most of them would fall been short-listed for the interview. few days saying that I have quali- any fake recruiting agen- and these fake recruiters are mis- An interview is in the trap. “I was asked to come near a fied the interview and they want cies have been targeting using this online facility to trap staged to convince “After paying the money, job- prominent landmark in Gudaibi- to meet me to discuss next steps.” Mjobseekers in the King- jobseekers. the jobseekers, who seekers are asked to wait for a ya. As I reached, they asked me to The man said he warned them dom through social media net- “Following the submission of month, cheating them in the pro- come to a building nearby. I was about complaining to the local po- works, it emerged. applications, these recruiters in- are later informed cess.” shocked to see that the agency did lice and there were no more calls Sources said expatriates were vite jobseekers for an interview. that they have been Speaking to Tribune, a jobseeker not have any office in that building. from the fake recruiters. the major victims with many end- An interview is staged to convince successful. said he was contacted by one of And the people who interviewed “Many of my friends have been ing up in a miserable state after the jobseekers, who are later in- SOURCES these fake recruiters, who offered me hardly had any knowledge in subjected to such frauds. I urge the paying money to these fake re- formed that they have been suc- a job with high salary. my field. authorities to conduct a thorough cruiters, mostly through online cessful. offer letters are provided to job- “I saw the job advertisement “Instantly I realised that it was probe into these scams and pun- transfers. “The cheating comes next. Fake seekers and these recruiters ask online and applied. Within the a fake agency, and left the place ish the culprits.”

FinTech specialist joins Nearly 22,000 visit farmers’ market TDT | Manama Keypoint Mohammed Zafran children’s festival was held yesterday as part A of the ongoing farmers market seeing a participation of nearly 22,000 during the day. “The occasion was a huge suc- cess as children and their fam- ilies enjoyed various activities and taking photos,” organisers said. “Festivals such as this will continue to be held throughout Mr Al Alawi the season as the market aim to become a leisure destination for families. Osama has a “The festival for children coin- • cided with their holidays and it master’s degree in served as a fun day out for them.” public management The farmers market got off to (MPM) from the Aix- a packed start on December 8 as Marseille Université thousands of people visited the market which opened its seventh (France) and a BSc edition. in Banking and The extremely popular mar- Finance from Ahlia ket has been packed every week University (Bahrain). and is bigger and better than previous years, according to or- ganisers. TDT | Manama The five months long market provides a platform for local sama Al Alawi, who was farmers to sell their fresh pro- Hundreds of children flocked to the market to attend the festival. Oa member of the GCC’s duce to the public. FinTech working group, The market is set up at the Affairs and Agriculture and Ur- market every week from Decem- for children. itiative for Agricultural Devel- Bahrain’s e-KYC project Agriculture Centre in Budaiya ban Planning, was established to ber to April every year. The market is being held opment with the co-operation steering committee, Bah- Botanical Garden. promote Bahrain’s homegrown More than 40 farmers are par- every Saturday from 8:00 am to of Bahrain Development Bank rain’s regulatory sandbox The market, which is organ- Agricultural produce and to sup- ticipating in the market this year. 2:00pm until April 27th. (BDB) and the Ministry of Mu- applications committee and ised by the the National Initia- port local farmers. Apart from the agricultural The market is apart from the nicipalities Affairs and Agricul- the digital transformation tive for Agricultural Develop- Over the years, it has become produce, it also features a section farmers market at Hoorat A’ali. ture and Urban Planning and has steering committee, has ment in the co-operation with extremely popular with thou- for traditional crafts, restaurants, The Hoorat A’ali market is or- also been a huge success since it joined Keypoint. the Ministry of Municipalities sands visiting to purchase at the and an entertainment activities ganised by the the National In- was launched. “With Bahrain continuing to establish itself as a regional leader in the FinTech space – and growing international awareness of its capabilities – we wanted to ensure Key- point was well-placed to lead, not just support, the FinTech space,” said Srikant Rangana- than, a senior director who leads Keypoint’s IT consult- ing function. Osama has a master’s de- gree in public management (MPM) from the Aix-Mar- seille Université (France) and a BSc in Banking and Finance from Ahlia Univer- sity (Bahrain). He is a certified anti-mon- ey laundering specialist (CAMS), has the interna - tional diploma in compli- ance from the International Compliance Association and has completed the CBB’s in- vestment representative programme. Many fun-filled activities were organised for the children at the market. 06 SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 world Explosion rocks central Paris

Explosion followed a• gas leak at the site

Two firefighters killed,• 47 people were injured in the blast

Around 200 firefighters• are at the scene

AFP | Paris, France

powerful explosion tore A fire engine is damaged in the middle of debris through a building in Acentral Paris yesterday, killing two firefighters, injuring dozens of people and causing ex- tensive damage to nearby build- ings, officials said. Around 200 firefighters were mobilised to battle the fire that broke out after the blast and evacuate victims and residents in the area, In - terior Minister Christophe Castaner told reporters at the scene. The explosion came with the city on edge during the latest “yellow vest” anti-government demonstrations, which have of- ten degenerated into violence An helicopter of the emergency services (securite civile) is seen and vandalism in Paris and other cities in recent weeks. “It happened when there were people in the street, and fire - fighters inside,” Castaner said. Around 100 police officers blocked off several streets in the area, home to restaurants and tourist attractions including the Musee Grevin wax museum and the popular Rue des Martyrs. Police also closed off streets in front of the Garnier Opera house as emergency services landed two helicopters in front of the historic building to evac- uate victims. Besides the two dead firefight- ers, 47 people were injured in Firefighters extinguish a fire after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise Firefighters evacuate an injured person the blast, 10 of them seriously, in central Paris the Paris prosecutor’s office said. the firefighters arrived, then area, a popular weekend shop- The explosion occurred short- were still searching for other walk on the door to leave the ladder to evacuate the family, there was an explosion that ping destination for locals and ly after 9:00 am (0800 GMT) in victims. room, all the kids were panick- who lived on the first floor. caused the fire,” Heitz said. visitors alike. building that housed a bakery “I was sleeping and woke up ing, they couldn’t get out of their Cars were overturned by the Other residents were in bath- as well as a restaurant on the by the blast wave,” Claire Sal- room,” she said. ‘Like an earthquake’ blast and glass and rubble was robes or quickly dressing in the ground floor in the Ninth Arron- lavuard, who lives on the Rue “Firefighters advised us to Firefighters had been re- strewn across large swathes of street as police helicopters cir- dissement. de Trevise where the explosion leave but the elevator shaft had sponding to an alert of a gas leak the street as dozens of residents cled overhead. The shockwave was felt as far occurred, told AFP. been blown out, there was no at the site when the explosion were treated by rescue workers. “We were sleeping when we as four blocks away, Commander “All the windows in the apart- railing, nothing, and there was occurred, Paris prosector Remy Dozens of tourists, suitcases heard the noise, it sounded like Eric Moulin of the Paris fire ser- ment exploded, doors were too much smoke,” she added. Heitz said at the scene. in hand, were evacuated from an earthquake,” a teenager who vice said, adding that rescuers blown off their hinges, I had to Rescuers eventually used a “First there was a gas leak and the many nearby hotels in the lives on a nearby street told AFP. Malaysian state choses new sultan, expected to be elected king Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Sultan Abdullah to be chosen just two years of rule, follow- scene and is currently president Malaysian state announced as the next king of Malaysia by ing reports that he married an of the Asian Hockey Federation Ait had a new sultan yes - the Council of Rulers, who will ex-beauty queen in Russia in and a council member of foot- terday, who is expected to be chose a new king on January 24. November during a purported ball’s world governing body, elected king after the former Malaysia is a constitutional two-month medical leave. FIFA. While their role is cere- monarch abdicated following his monarchy with a unique ar - The abdication was the first monial, Malaysia’s royalty com- reported marriage to a Russian rangement where the nation- for the country since its inde- mand great respect, especially former beauty queen. al throne changes hands every pendence from British rule in from Malaysia’s predominantly Tengku Abdullah Shah has five years between rulers of the 1957. Muslim Malays, and criticising replaced his father, Sultan Ah- country’s nine states. Pahang Royal officials have not com- them is regarded as offensive. mad Shah as the ruler of Pahang state is due to provide the next mented on the reported wed- Malaysia’s sultans trace a line- state, the official Bernama news ruler. ding, or said what condition age back to the Malay sultanates agency said, citing a senior pal- The country was thrown prompted the former king to of the 15th century. The king is ace official. into shock Sunday when reign- take the leave. referred to as Yang di-Pertu - Local reports said the move ing king Sultan Muhammad V Tengku Abdullah Shah (C) walking after a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Sultan Abdullah Shah, 59, is an Agong, or “He Who Is Made was designed to pave the way abdicated unexpectedly after a popular figure in the sports Lord”. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 07

SpaceX to lay off 10 UK mulls limiting jail term of six months or less London, United Kingdom Daily Telegraph. “The public are safer if we per cent of workforce In an interview with the have a good community sen - Los Angeles, United States he British government is newspaper’s magazine, he tence... and it will relieve a lot Tconsidering scrapping said that short jail terms were of pressure on prisons.” jail sentences of six months “long enough to damage you The change would mirror paceX plans to lay off 10 or less for most crimes in a KNOW WHAT and not long enough to heal 2010 reforms in Scotland, where Sper cent of its more than bid to reduce reoffending you. judges are now guided by a legal 6,000 employees, a source fa- and ease pressure on the sys- “You bring somebody in for presumption against custodi- miliar with the decision said tem, the prisons minister said three or four weeks, they lose al sentences of less than three yesterday. yesterday. England and Wales’s their house, their job, their fam- months. “To continue delivering for The move could see tens of prison population has ily, their reputation. Reoffending rates there have our customers and to succeed thousands of people convicted doubled since the early “They come (into prison), since fallen to their lowest levels in developing interplanetary of non-violent or non-sexual 1990s to now stand at they meet a lot of interesting for nearly two decades, and the spacecraft and a global space- crimes, such as burglary and more than 80,000 in- characters and then you whap Scottish government is consid- based Internet, SpaceX must shoplifting, spared jail under them on to the streets again,” ering extending it to less than become a leaner company,” the plan, Rory Stewart told The mates he said. a year. the California-based company, Elon Musk headed by Elon Musk, said in a statement. It added that the trim down “Either of these develop - was “only due to the extraor- US Navy chief ments, even when attempted dinarily difficult challenges separately, have bankrupt- ahead.” heads to China ed other organizations,” it SpaceX in November won China’s Huawei fires Washington, United States added. authorization from US officials “This means we must part to put nearly 12,000 satellites ways with some talented and into orbit in order to boost he head of the US Navy hardworking members of our cheap, wireless internet access Twill visit his Chinese team.” by the 2020s. employee detained counterpart next week, of- ficials said Friday, as the AFP | Beijing, China two powers seek to reduce military risks amid ongoing trade tensions. uawei said yesterday Chief of Naval Operations Elon Musk shows it has fired a Chinese Admiral John Richardson Hemployee who was will travel to Beijing and arrested in Poland on espio - Nanjing from January 13- off prototype nage allegations, as China’s 16, when he will meet with telecom giant distanced itself Vice Admiral Shen Jinlong, from the case amid Western who commands the People’s of Mars-bound concerns that it could act as Liberation Army Navy. a proxy for Chinese security “A routine exchange of services. views is essential, especially rocket, Starship This week’s detention of in times of friction, in or- Wang Weijing follows the De- der to reduce risk and avoid Washington, United States version will be paired with a cember arrest of Huawei’s chief miscalculation,” Richardson massive rocket booster known financial officer in Canada and said in a statement. paceX CEO Elon Musk has as the Super Heavy. US efforts to blacklist the com- “Honest and frank dia- Sunveiled the first pictures SpaceX has said the duo pany internationally over secu- logue can improve the re- of a retro-looking, steely rock- could one day transport peo- rity concerns. lationship in constructive et called Starship that may one ple from city to city on Earth, While China’s government The Huawei booth is seen during CES 2019 consumer electronics show ways, help explore areas day carry people to the Moon as well as propel passengers has vociferously defended where we share common and Mars. around the Moon, to the lunar Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou with Wang on Tuesday. Both interests, and reduce risk Musk posted pictures on surface, and even to Mars and and demanded her release, the men are suspected of having while we work through our Twitter late Thursday of the back. firm swiftly sacked Wang, who “worked for Chinese services differences.” Starship Hopper prototype, SpaceX currently works at its representative of- and to the detriment of Poland,” which awaits its first flight launches regular sup- fice in Poland. said Polish special services test in Texas in the com- ply missions to the “His alleged actions have no KNOW WHAT spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn. ing weeks. astronauts living at relation to the company,” Hua- He said their apartments and Egypt police kill “Starship test flight the International wei said in a statement. workplaces were searched, rocket just finished Space Station, “In accordance with the adding that the Polish suspect 6 militants in assembly at the using its Falcon terms and conditions of Hua- Huawei’s chief finan- had worked “for several state shootout: ministry @SpaceX Texas 9 rocket and wei’s labour contract, we have institutions”. cial officer Meng Wan- Cairo, Egypt launch site. This is Dragon cargo made this decision because zhou was arrested in The Chinese foreign ministry an actual picture, capsule. the incident in question has Vancouver on Decem- said Friday it was “highly con- not a rendering,” The com- brought Huawei into disre - ber 1 on request from cerned” about the case and later gyptian police killed six he wrote. pany is work- pute,” it said. said it was seeking to arrange a Esuspected Islamist mil- The prototype ing on a new “Huawei complies with all the United States, consular visit for Wang as soon itants in a shootout early built in Boca Chi- Dragon crew applicable laws and regulations which has accused as possible. yesterday in the country’s ca, along the Gulf capsule that in the countries where it op- her of fraud related The Chinese embassy in south, the interior ministry Coast of Tex - could start erates, and we require every to violations of Iran Poland has also asked War - said. as, is nine yards carrying employee to abide by the laws sanctions. Meng is the saw to “effectively ensure the The clashes broke out (eight meters) in people to and regulations in the countries daughter of Huawei legitimate rights and inter- during a police raid on a diameter -- like the orbiting where they are based.” founder Ren Zhengfei ests, and humanitarian and militant hideout in a moun- the future rocket outpost later A Polish man was also arrest- safe treatment of the person tainous area on the edge of will be -- but is this year. ed for alleged espionage along involved.” the southern province of shorter. Sohag, some 460 kilometres Its first test (285 miles) south of Cairo, flights -- suborbi- the ministry said in a state- tal “hops” reach- The test ment. ing several miles version of Thai security forces kill two linked Police seized weapons (kilometers) in the Starship and ammunition, it added. the air before Hopper, which landing back on awaits its to deadly shooting at school Earth -- could first flight Bangkok, Thailand come in March test in Texas Many feared dead or April. in the An orbital coming wo insurgents believed after tanker blast in prototype is weeks. Tto be tied to a motorcycle Nigeria expected in drive-by shooting at a school Warri, Nigeria June. That in Thailand’s south were shot dead yesterday, police said, as UNICEF warned of trauma for igerian police yesterday children near the scene of the Nsaid many people were lunchtime violence. feared dead after a petrol Since 2004 clashes between tanker veered off the road, Malay-Muslim rebels and the caught fire and exploded Buddhist-majority Thai state as people tried to recover that annexed the area over 100 Paramedics take away a body after four Thai civil defense volunteers were fuel. years ago have killed nearly shot and killed by suspected insurgents outside of a school in the southern The vehicle crashed in 7,000 people, mostly civilians of province of Pattani on January 10. (AFP) the Odukpani area of the both faiths. The conflict rarely footprint, aided by poorly paid lims and were guarding a school southeastern state of Cross makes global headlines but defence “volunteers” drawn in Pattani province when the River, just north of the is a reality for residents of from local communities. attackers struck just before state capital, Calabar, at border provinces where se- The four men killed in Thurs- lunchtime with students mere about 5pm (1600 GMT) on curity forces maintain a large day’s shooting were all Mus- metres away. Friday. LIFE IS A JOURNEY THAT MUST QUOTE BE TRAVELED NO MATTER OF THE HOW BAD THE ROADS AND DAY ACCOMMODATIONS. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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few people in Richmond who can She married her first husband, keep up with Heather.” whom she doesn’t like to talk Many older people I know about, on the Isle of Wight and are focused on the past. When had a daughter. They separated they talk about the future, they in the early 1960s, when Lee was are, quite understandably, pre- 35. She and her daughter moved BARI WEISS occupied with the hassles and to Australia a few years later. “I obstacles of their increasing age. wanted to start a new life for my- ore precisely, I lum - Lee is different. When she looks self,” she said. bered, jogged, waddled ahead, it is with optimism and What about her career? “I’ve Mand generally humili- determination. She credits that to never been anything really spe- ated my way around a track as I her sport. “I’m always looking to cial. In my latter years I worked tried — and failed — to keep up compete again,” she said. at the post office, which I loved, with the world’s most exceptional Race walking is hard. Trying to by the way.” race walker. do it while maintaining a conver- What was special was her sec- That walker, Heather Lee, is 92 sation is much harder. Fortunate- ond marriage. years old. She holds five world ly Lee was less winded than me. Two years after arriving on the records and eight Australian ones Before we had even made it continent, she married an Aus- for racewalking. She is the New around the first loop, she had told tralian named Leonard Lee, and South Wales Senior Australian of me about some of her favorite by the early 1980s they’d moved the Year. And she has big plans walks in the country (the War- to Queensland, which Lee re- for 2019 — namely, breaking her rumbungle and Bungle Bungle members as “wonderful, won- own best times — so she does ranges), her most recent records derful, wonderful, a perfect life.” not kid around when it comes to (she completed 10 kilometers in They lived by the sea and had working out. 84 minutes 21 seconds), World “two or three mango trees and Lee trains at least three days a War II (“The day previous to Nor- about 23 pawpaw trees of our week. Wednesdays are reserved mandy I knew something was own.” The couple would barter for interval training with her going on. The atmosphere was their fruit for fresh fish caught by coach, Liz de Vries. “I never know electric.”) and the queen. their friends. For fun, they played what horrors she has in store for Lee was born on the Isle of their electric organs. me,” MLee said. “But I’m turning Wight, off southern England, in “We were two halves of a back the clock as far as speed’s 1926, the same year as Elizabeth whole,” Lee said of their mar- concerned.” II. “The queen’s like me a bit: riage more than once during the On a typical day, Lee walks at She’s learned to change with the morning. least 10,000 steps — a benefit, times,” she said. “I’ve gone from Lee died of lung cancer in 1996, she said, of giving up driving. In being a snobbish Pommy to an and as his wife tells it, his final 2018, she walked 3,057,374 steps, Australian.” words to her changed the course according to her fitness watch. Lee, the younger of two sis - of her life: “Now is the time to The athlete was already stretch- ters, played hockey and tennis, show your mettle,” he said. ing with de Vries, a fit mother of rode horses, swam and biked. “I wanted to live up to what he — as far back as the 1970s the compulsion to walk. The faster I of her physiotherapist, she com- three, when I met them at a park She wasn’t particularly academ- wanted me to be,” Lee said. “It’s Lees did cleanses, brewed their walked, the better I felt.” peted in the Australian Masters in Richmond, an hour outside ic. “My schooling was a bit inter- been my creed for all these years.” own kombucha and put lecithin Her athletic career began in Games and ended up winning Sydney, at 7:30 a.m. “I’m 55,” de rupted by air raids and things like She says she had always been on their cereal. But after her earnest a few weeks before she four gold medals. Vries told me. “And I’m one of the that,” she said. focused on wellness and fitness husband died, Lee said, “I had a turned 85. In 2011, on the advice “I was thrilled to bits with the The very rare genius of insomnia Lean in to your sleeplessness and discover its creative potential

seemed lost to the world. problems and irritations until der-crossing wiliness of insom- Terrified of the nullity that they form a manacle of woe. nia, he wrote: “To sleep with sleep imposed, I’d dodge the Since most people are sleeping open eyes is an anomaly sym - bedtime curfew each night: at when I’m awake — their circadi- bolically indicating something lights out, a minor rebellion. Like an rhythms in happy synchrony which the general conscious - Vladimir Nabokov (whose kin- with the diurnal clock — my in- ness does not approve of. People MARINA BENJAMIN dred spirit I had yet to encoun- somnia is troubled by a sense of who sleep badly always appear ter), I figured that sleep offered trespass, even contamination: more or less guilty. What do they nsomnia usually begins with only a dumb conformity. the illicit importing of day into do? They make night present.” a lament, for the love (and Had I not been a child, I, too, night. How can one not feel Not for Blanchot the anodyne Iloss) of sleep; over the red- might have described it as a somewhat soiled by it? distractions of sleep hygiene, eyed mornings and sludgelike “nightly betrayal of reason, hu- The proponents of “sleep hy- which conspire to evade night’s days that tail the wakeful nights; manity, genius.” I longed for the giene” have a lot to say about presence. His recommendation for the rest you crave and cannot light of consciousness to burn contamination, too. In this sense, was that insomniacs leap into get and the cognitive snap that throughout the dark nights. the obsession with sleep hygiene the night. eludes you. Yet if we insist on These days, I’m less inclined to has a kinship with the stylised This is not always easy. Anyone viewing insomnia merely as a rejoice in the way my head is lit fussiness of clean eating. Its rules who has woken from a nightmare matter of negatives, a condition up at night, like an out-of-hours dictate that rather than thrashing knows that shapes and colours defined by lack, a nothing, a zero, factory, when the whirring gen- around in bed, not sleeping, the morph in the dark. Night has a blank, then we risk missing erators flip on, powering up the insomniac whose mind is pollut- its own alphabet, too, a sensory what it can potentially reveal. lights and the processing plants ed by looping dark thoughts and lexicon that is manifestly “oth- I’ve been insomniac all my life. for a frenetic shift. Geared up this sudden lurching panics (the pes- er.” Lean in to insomnia and you As a child, my wakefulness was a way, my mind trips ceaselessly ticides of wakefulness) should can discern the varied granular matter of personal pride, a badge from one mundane thought to instead get up, switch rooms, textures of the dark. Tune in and of honour signifying a shrewd the next, alighting upon a single attempt to read, make lists, make your ears can feast on a strange vigilance (should any ghoul dare word or meaningless riff or song tea, listen to sleep tapes, med - nocturnal orchestration: animal, intrude upon my bedroom by snippet I happened to hear that itate but not medicate, put on atmospheric, hydraulic, electric. night, it would meet with a grisly day. Or it runs backward and fresh sleepwear and experiment All your senses are heightened fate). Yet my refusal of sleep had forward over endless lists, stitch- with soft lighting. at night; everything is amplified. less to do with my fear of the ing and unstitching. I compose In a short essay titled “Sleep, When you hear rustling leaves, it dark and the monsters it bred strings of emails that could wait Night,” published in 1955, the is as if you can pick out each in- than with everyday suspicion: I until morning, line up tasks in a French philosopher Maurice dividual flutter. The scurrying of ten hard along an internal regis- or a mysterious whooshing that simply could not fathom where shoulder-shoving queue. Mostly Blanchot took a very differ - small mammals offers a complex, ter, and you sometimes pick up swirls through your ears like a people went to in sleep. They I just fret, worry-beading minor ent tack. Touching on the bor- scratchboard choreography. Lis- the pounding thud of your heart, miniature mistral. The cognitive

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I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead I learned to walk TWEETS4 Labour Party few people in Richmond who can She married her first husband, Two years after arriving on In a nearby cafe we spoke keep up with Heather.” whom she doesn’t like to talk about what she sees as her life’s 01 Many older people I know about, on the Isle of Wight and the continent, she married purpose: conveying to younger are focused on the past. When had a daughter. They separated an Australian named people the importance of living they talk about the future, they in the early 1960s, when Lee was Leonard Lee, and by the right — a healthy diet and plenty are, quite understandably, pre- 35. She and her daughter moved early 1980s they’d moved of exercise. Oh, and stairs: “One BARI WEISS occupied with the hassles and to Australia a few years later. “I to Queensland. of my mottos is take the stairs, not SHMUEL ROSNER obstacles of their increasing age. wanted to start a new life for my- the lift. Always.” ore precisely, I lum - Lee is different. When she looks self,” she said. “I’d like to be a role model for eavy traffic on Shaikh olitical parties have a tendency to hold on for bered, jogged, waddled ahead, it is with optimism and What about her career? “I’ve women in their middle years who HKhalifa bin Salman a while even after they are no longer useful. Mand generally humili- determination. She credits that to never been anything really spe- are putting on a few pounds or highway towards Mana- PBut sometimes, you have to recognise that it’s ated my way around a track as I her sport. “I’m always looking to cial. In my latter years I worked thinking of slowing down,” she ma near Hamad Town time to say goodbye. With Israel’s April 9 general tried — and failed — to keep up compete again,” she said. at the post office, which I loved, told me. Age, she argued, “is no because of road work that election fast approaching, Israelis can finally say with the world’s most exceptional Race walking is hard. Trying to by the way.” barrier to anything, really.” will continue until Sunday farewell to the Labor Party. race walker. do it while maintaining a conver- What was special was her sec- Perhaps, I thought, the fact that dawn. Kindly follow traffic In Israel, nearly every election sees the birth That walker, Heather Lee, is 92 sation is much harder. Fortunate- ond marriage. she began race walking so late rules and if possible take and death of political parties. This year’s will be years old. She holds five world ly Lee was less winded than me. Two years after arriving on the in life was a gift: Her future tri- alternative roads. no different. But the two parties that could meet records and eight Australian ones Before we had even made it continent, she married an Aus- umphs promise to outpace her @moi_bahrain their demise aren’t newcomers or hastily cobbled for racewalking. She is the New around the first loop, she had told tralian named Leonard Lee, and contacted me and asked me how I past accomplishments. together coalitions. Labor is the heir to the party South Wales Senior Australian of me about some of her favorite by the early 1980s they’d moved went. And I gave him my times for I asked Lee how she felt about that founded Israel — David Ben-Gurion’s party, the Year. And she has big plans walks in the country (the War- to Queensland, which Lee re- the four different events. He said the beginning of 2019. 02 which ruled the country for its first three decades. for 2019 — namely, breaking her rumbungle and Bungle Bungle members as “wonderful, won- I was within world record times. “This year’s a big one because An average of recent polls shows that Labor, once own best times — so she does ranges), her most recent records derful, wonderful, a perfect life.” And I sort of thought, ‘Wow, this — is it going to be better than last a party fighting Likud for political pre-eminence, not kid around when it comes to (she completed 10 kilometers in They lived by the sea and had is something.’” year? Twenty-eighteen was an will take only about eight seats in the Knesset; working out. 84 minutes 21 seconds), World “two or three mango trees and From there, she was off. amazing year for me.” Jewish Home is predicted to win fewer than four Lee trains at least three days a War II (“The day previous to Nor- about 23 pawpaw trees of our Lee now holds the world re- I laughed, thinking of the peo- seats, the minimum required of any party to get week. Wednesdays are reserved mandy I knew something was own.” The couple would barter cords for the 3K, the 5K and the ple I know, myself included, who into the Knesset. for interval training with her going on. The atmosphere was their fruit for fresh fish caught by 10K for her age group (90 to 94). are dreading what this year could e have come a long How did they get here? It is easy to focus on the coach, Liz de Vries. “I never know electric.”) and the queen. their friends. For fun, they played The competition is not exactly bring. Yet here was a 92-year-old Wway. Back in the petty problems that put them in such a dire position. what horrors she has in store for Lee was born on the Isle of their electric organs. fierce. There is a 92-year-old Ro- widow who introduced me to her day, aeroplanes would A year and a half ago, Labor Party me,” MLee said. “But I’m turning Wight, off southern England, in “We were two halves of a manian named Elena Pagu. And friends by showing me a drawer wait to escort middle- members elected a leader who does back the clock as far as speed’s 1926, the same year as Elizabeth whole,” Lee said of their mar- that’s about it. of memorial booklets from their men who were close to not have the charisma necessary for concerned.” II. “The queen’s like me a bit: riage more than once during the But Heather Lee sets out every funerals. And she is full of nothing one party and one fami- Labor continues the job. A month ago, Jewish Home On a typical day, Lee walks at She’s learned to change with the morning. day to beat Heather Lee. “I have but good cheer. ly. Now, middlemen are to cater to some of was unceremoniously abandoned by least 10,000 steps — a benefit, times,” she said. “I’ve gone from Lee died of lung cancer in 1996, become very competitive with “If you push me to the limit being forced to return to the dwindling pool its two popular ministers and is still she said, of giving up driving. In being a snobbish Pommy to an and as his wife tells it, his final myself,” she said. “All there’s left and I drop,” she said she tells her India. What they looted of people who still trying to pick up the pieces. But the 2018, she walked 3,057,374 steps, Australian.” words to her changed the course now is for me to break my own trainer, “do not resuscitate me.” will have to be returned problems these parties face are not according to her fitness watch. Lee, the younger of two sis - of her life: “Now is the time to world records.” Would she, I asked, like to die and those for whom they have a hope for a temporary hiccups. They result from The athlete was already stretch- ters, played hockey and tennis, show your mettle,” he said. By 8:30 a.m., according to Lee’s while walking? looted will be punished. peace process. a major change in Israel’s social and ing with de Vries, a fit mother of rode horses, swam and biked. “I wanted to live up to what he — as far back as the 1970s the compulsion to walk. The faster I of her physiotherapist, she com- times that I’d done and I found Fitbit watch, we had walked 9,206 She didn’t skip a beat. @narendramodi political landscape. three, when I met them at a park She wasn’t particularly academ- wanted me to be,” Lee said. “It’s Lees did cleanses, brewed their walked, the better I felt.” peted in the Australian Masters myself comparing myself to my steps in temperatures nearing “Wouldn’t that be lovely?” The Labor Party is chained to its in Richmond, an hour outside ic. “My schooling was a bit inter- been my creed for all these years.” own kombucha and put lecithin Her athletic career began in Games and ended up winning competitors who were younger 100 degrees. She was ready for historical role as the party of a patriotic, non - (Bari Weiss is a staff editor and writer for 03 Sydney, at 7:30 a.m. “I’m 55,” de rupted by air raids and things like She says she had always been on their cereal. But after her earnest a few weeks before she four gold medals. than me,” she said. “When I came a flat white. I was ready for air the New York Times Opinion section.) traditional Israelism. It is the party formed by a Vries told me. “And I’m one of the that,” she said. focused on wellness and fitness husband died, Lee said, “I had a turned 85. In 2011, on the advice “I was thrilled to bits with the home, a local magazine writer conditioning. generation of pioneers who cast aside traditional Jewish practice and aimed to create a new Jew, a Jew whose connection to a Jewish past and whose tendency to perform Jewish practice is relatively weak. Today, this population is small in number and seems to be shrinking. But Labor continues to cater The very rare genius of insomnia have been FAR tougher to it, and to some of the dwindling pool of people Ion Russia than Obama, who still have a hope for a peace process. This still Bush or Clinton. Maybe allows for political survival (our study identified a tougher than any other group of about 15 per cent of Israelis who score high Lean in to your sleeplessness and discover its creative potential President. At the same on Israeli patriotism and low on Jewish tradition) time, & as I have often said, but it isn’t enough to win an election. getting along with Russia When a political party outlives its usefulness, it seemed lost to the world. problems and irritations until der-crossing wiliness of insom- realms of insomnia frequently As ever, Freud’s grasp of travel, though, and you become is a good thing, not a bad becomes a distraction. Political energy goes to waste Terrified of the nullity that they form a manacle of woe. nia, he wrote: “To sleep with resemble the dippy altered states the mind’s quirks proved alert to the process Freud de - thing. I fully expect that on platforms that are no longer necessary. A new sleep imposed, I’d dodge the Since most people are sleeping open eyes is an anomaly sym - induced by psychotropic drugs. prescient. Sleep scientists scribed when he wrote that dur- someday we will have good reality, including a new culture, demands a new bedtime curfew each night: at when I’m awake — their circadi- bolically indicating something (And of course, like a bad trip, ing the day we “drive shafts” into relations with Russia again! platform. Israel’s new reality is this: Israeli Jews lights out, a minor rebellion. Like an rhythms in happy synchrony which the general conscious - the night can be full of terror: now speak of states in our fresh chains of thought, and @realDonaldTrump are much more in agreement about basic ideals Vladimir Nabokov (whose kin- with the diurnal clock — my in- ness does not approve of. People hypnagogic hallucinations caus- which the brain is neither these shafts make contact with than meets the eye. We are dominated by “Jew- MARINA BENJAMIN dred spirit I had yet to encoun- somnia is troubled by a sense of who sleep badly always appear ing mysterious shadows to sway awake nor sleeping, but “dream thoughts.” This is how 04 ish-Israelis.” And so it should be no surprise that ter), I figured that sleep offered trespass, even contamination: more or less guilty. What do they before your open eyes or induc- both. night and day fertilise each other. the parties established to represent other portions nsomnia usually begins with only a dumb conformity. the illicit importing of day into do? They make night present.” ing furniture to hulk and loom.) This — I’ve come to believe — is of the electorate are losing steam. a lament, for the love (and Had I not been a child, I, too, night. How can one not feel Not for Blanchot the anodyne Just as artists, writers and how creativity is born. (Shmuel Rosner is a senior fellow at the People Policy Insti- Iloss) of sleep; over the red- might have described it as a somewhat soiled by it? distractions of sleep hygiene, seekers have used drugs to ex- As ever, Freud’s grasp of the tute and a contributing opinion writer.) eyed mornings and sludgelike “nightly betrayal of reason, hu- The proponents of “sleep hy- which conspire to evade night’s pand their minds, so have many mind’s quirks proved presci - days that tail the wakeful nights; manity, genius.” I longed for the giene” have a lot to say about presence. His recommendation sleepless souls wondered at one ent. Sleep scientists now speak for the rest you crave and cannot light of consciousness to burn contamination, too. In this sense, was that insomniacs leap into time or other if the insomniac of states in which the brain is get and the cognitive snap that throughout the dark nights. the obsession with sleep hygiene the night. mind, pushed to its lateral lim- neither awake nor sleeping, but hopal & Indore are eludes you. Yet if we insist on These days, I’m less inclined to has a kinship with the stylised This is not always easy. Anyone its, might not yield insights as both. According to Rubin Naiman Bthe cleanest cities in viewing insomnia merely as a rejoice in the way my head is lit fussiness of clean eating. Its rules who has woken from a nightmare well as torments. Might there at the Centre for Integrative India.They have taken matter of negatives, a condition up at night, like an out-of-hours dictate that rather than thrashing knows that shapes and colours be some small comfort amid the Medicine at the University of radical measures:door defined by lack, a nothing, a zero, factory, when the whirring gen- around in bed, not sleeping, the morph in the dark. Night has suffering? “sweat the night into words,” as Arizona, parts of the brain can to door collection of a blank, then we risk missing erators flip on, powering up the insomniac whose mind is pollut- its own alphabet, too, a sensory After all, once in a while, an the poet Bernard Spencer more drift into sleep during the day, waste;No plastic garbage what it can potentially reveal. lights and the processing plants ed by looping dark thoughts and lexicon that is manifestly “oth- unexpectedly profound thought practically put it in his poem effectively making sleepwalkers bags;heavy fines; segre- I’ve been insomniac all my life. for a frenetic shift. Geared up this sudden lurching panics (the pes- er.” Lean in to insomnia and you will suddenly coalesce out of “Night-Time: Starting to Write.” of us all, or shut down entirely, gation of waste;recycling As a child, my wakefulness was a way, my mind trips ceaselessly ticides of wakefulness) should can discern the varied granular the dying remnants of a dream Maybe insomnia itself is a producing a flash sleep that en- of all waste material;Ef- matter of personal pride, a badge from one mundane thought to instead get up, switch rooms, textures of the dark. Tune in and — and then I chase it down, all portal that encourages traffick- dures for milliseconds and is ex- fective monitoring and of honour signifying a shrewd the next, alighting upon a single attempt to read, make lists, make your ears can feast on a strange my insomniac energy bent on its ing between the conscious and perienced merely as a fractional execution; Delhi needs vigilance (should any ghoul dare word or meaningless riff or song tea, listen to sleep tapes, med - nocturnal orchestration: animal, capture. Again, I am reminded of unconscious minds. On the one slip of attention or momentary to learn from these cities. intrude upon my bedroom by snippet I happened to hear that itate but not medicate, put on atmospheric, hydraulic, electric. Nabokov, delighting in the way hand, as Alice Robb argues in blackout. Perhaps, after all, sleep, @amitabhk87 night, it would meet with a grisly day. Or it runs backward and fresh sleepwear and experiment All your senses are heightened his insomnia would explode in a her new book, “Why We Dream,” not wakefulness, constitutes the fate). Yet my refusal of sleep had forward over endless lists, stitch- with soft lighting. at night; everything is amplified. “sunburst,” filling his head with you can train yourself into lucid mind’s default mode. And if that less to do with my fear of the ing and unstitching. I compose In a short essay titled “Sleep, When you hear rustling leaves, it ideas and fancies to feed his crea- dreaming, exerting directorial is the case, then perhaps insom- Disclaimer: (Views expressed dark and the monsters it bred strings of emails that could wait Night,” published in 1955, the is as if you can pick out each in- tive soul. The challenge involved, control over the night brain’s nia is consciousness’s determined by columnists are personal and than with everyday suspicion: I until morning, line up tasks in a French philosopher Maurice dividual flutter. The scurrying of ten hard along an internal regis- or a mysterious whooshing that as Walt Whitman saw it, is to “see filmic productions. Think of it, revenge. need not necessarily reflect our editorial stances) simply could not fathom where shoulder-shoving queue. Mostly Blanchot took a very differ - small mammals offers a complex, ter, and you sometimes pick up swirls through your ears like a the sparkles of starshine on the perhaps, as a form of scenario (Marina Benjamin is the author, most people went to in sleep. They I just fret, worry-beading minor ent tack. Touching on the bor- scratchboard choreography. Lis- the pounding thud of your heart, miniature mistral. The cognitive icy and pallid earth” and then planning. Flip the direction of recently, of “Insomnia”.) Avi Gabbay, leader of the Israeli Labor Party.

Hon. Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Editor-in-Chief Mahmood AI Mahmood | Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ahdeya Ahmed | Chairman & Managing Editor P Unnikrishnan | Advertisement: Update Media W.L.L | Tel: 38444692, Email: [email protected] | Newsroom: Tel: 38444680, Email: [email protected] Subscription & circulation: Tel: 38444698/17579877 | Email:[email protected] | Website: www.newsofbahrain.com | Printed and published by Al Ayam Publishing 10 SUNDAY,JANUARY 13, 2019 business Dilmunia, NSCC in deal MIKE ORLOV Integrity, Credibility and for Grand Canal works Consistency eading with integrity is a fundamental aspect of building credibility. A leader’s credibility is vital to creating an Lenvironment which delivers consistent collective results. In this trusting environment people within the enterprise will be enthused, energized and empowered because their work- lives are enriched. The World Economic Forum tells us 86 per cent of the 1,500 world’s foremost global leadership-experts believe the world is currently experiencing a leadership crisis (Outlook on the Global Agenda). We are bombarded daily with stories of corrup- tion, bribery and no less damaging, a total lack of consistency, credibility and integrity from leaders, be they in commerce or politics. Abusive narcissistic business-leaders and politicians, enriching themselves at the expense of others, create high levels of insecurity and anxiety amongst employees, customers, suppliers and citizens alike. We hear stories of would-be world-leading politicians, who have built their personal for- The World Economic tunes by lying, stealing and not Forum tells us 86 paying their debts. They destroy per cent of the 1,500 smaller organizations which world’s foremost are led by people who foolishly global leadership-ex- trusted in the integrity of the in- perts believe the dividual they were entering into a business relationship with, world is currently wrecking their own companies Above, officials following the deal signing. The deal was signed in the presence of Mohammed Khalil Alsayed, CEO of IDC and Khalil N. Khouri, CEO of NSCC experiencing a leader- and the lives of their employees. International along with representatives from IDC and NSCC International. ship crisis (Outlook on Sociopathic, narcissistic lead- the Global Agenda). ers lack integrity. Without any in Dilmunia consist of soil im- in December 2017, and awarded form of long-term perspective, TDT | Manama provement, soil levelling and the Third and Final Phase of only driven by lining their own contiguous pile works. Infrastructure Works in early pockets, they damage an en - thmaar Development Com- The Grand Canal will cut 2018, and with it ensuring the terprise’s reputation, employee pany (IDC), the Develop- through the entire stretch of availability of all services to de- morale at the organization, dis- Iment Manager for Dilmunia KNOW WHAT Dilmunia in a semi-circular velopers constructing on the mantle supplier-chain trust and at Bahrain announced awarding route, making it Bahrain’s larg- Island and its first residents. ultimately negatively impact on the early works package for the est man-made water body. It The USD 1.6 billion Dilmunia performance by un-doing customer-relations. Employee morale Dilmunia Grand Canal & Ma- The USD 1.6 billion will feature public promenades, Project is a mixed-use devel- undoubtedly drops when enterprises are led by bullies who act rina to NSCC International, an geysers, water fountains, water opment built on a man-made inconsistently and cheat their way to personal-success, lining Abu Dhabi based contractor. Dilmunia Project is a walls, cascades, boardwalks and island off the coast of Muharraq their own pocket. The deal was signed in the mixed-use development viewing decks. with a unique health and well- Palpable integrity, credibility and consistency emanating presence of Mohammed Khalil built on a man-made With a total length of 1.7 km, ness anchor including residenc- from the organisation’s leadership protects the longer-term Alsayed, CEO of IDC and Khalil island off the coast of and a width spanning 15 to 35 es, a hotel and leisure and shop- health of the enterprise and sustains longer-term growth. N. Khouri, CEO of NSCC Inter- Muharraq meters throughout the Grand ping districts anchored around a Organizations led by people with a positive reputation are national along with represent- Canal, it will have seawater health and wellness cluster. The key intangible assets. They are as important as the services or atives from IDC and NSCC In- pumped in around the mid- development of the ambitious products delivered for customers. But this reputation-building ternational. point of the Canal with the wa- 125-hectare man-made island requires investment. The contract for the early ter flowing via gravity in two is being managed by IDC, which Leaders with integrity do the right thing in a reliable way. works package valued at US$4.5 opposing directions of the en- is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Having strong moral principles, behaving in private as one million, commenced in mid-De- Jean-Claude Bejjani, the tire canal. Ithmaar Bank. Ithmaar Bank is would in public, is quickly recognized by all who come into cember 2018 and is targeted for Project Director of Dilmunia Dilmunia completed its Sec- also the Investment Manager of contact with a consistent, reliable leader. completion in mid-March 2019. stated that the awarded works ond Phase Infrastructure Works Dilmunia Development Fund. Such leaders focus on achieving self-direction and self-mo- tivation necessary to positively affect their own performance, exploring their own weaknesses and finding ways to improve what they do. This requires influencing themselves after in- trospectively managing, regulating and amending their own behaviour. Such an approach can only be entered into if the leader is intrinsically motivated to improve themselves and their employees’ actions. Such leaders will often take counsel from a consultant, mentor or executive-coach; someone who has the knowledge, experience, skills and training to aid in this process. The best of these advisors are committed to creating a sustainable approach to improving not only the leader but also employees. Through a wide-ranging focus on people and productivity, improving the overall performance of the enterprise is core to this approach; improving interactions between people delivers more effec- tively for the organization. A leader who is self-aggrandizing, inconsistent and ‘flip-flops’ with sudden changes of direction will create anxiety and fear, which will undoubtedly damage organization-performance. For employees to be empowered they need to trust their leader who creates a safe-framework for them to deliver. Employees are much more likely to be imaginizing-implementers who release their creativity if they feel safe within the enterprise. An approach based on a servant-leader attitude will ensure the enterprise is seen to be run with integrity, credibility and consistency; where employees, suppliers and customers come first, where there is zero-tolerance of bribery, corruption, lies, theft and unethical behaviour, where the leader is seen to cling to a moral code where values matter.

A delegation from Dar Al Muharraq Parents’ Care Home visiting Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC). Company Corporate Communications Manager (Mike Orlov is a Partner at Stepping Stone Global, a Bah- Zuhair Tawfiqi and several members of its youth committee welcomed the delegation and passed the greetings of GPIC’s President, Dr Abdulrahman Jawahery. rain-based boutique strategic management consultancy. He The visitors were given a brief on GPIC’s business philosophy and operational strategy. They also learned about its management methodology, production and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Manage- export capabilities as well as achievements in safety, quality, environmental conservation and community contributions. ment. Email: [email protected]) SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 11 Haley and Ivanka Trump among possible World Bank nominees AFP | Washington, United States

ormer UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US Pres- Fident Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka are among possible US candi- dates to replace outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, The Financial Times reported Friday. Kim abruptly announced Monday he was cutting short his tenure as the bank’s presi- dent more than three years be- fore his second term was due to end. In addition to Trump and Ha- ley, who stepped down as US Ambassador to the United Na- tions last month, other names being floated include Treasury Undersecretary for Interna- tional Affairs David Malpass and Mark Green, head of the US Agency for International Ivanka and Donald Trump (file) Nikki Haley (file) Development, the newspaper reported. said on Friday that it had no “We are beginning the internal is the bank’s largest sharehold- Kim was the first American plying non-US candidates would Ivanka Trump in 2017 was the comment in potential candi - review process for a US nomi- er, has always chosen its leader nominee to face a contested not be ruled out. driving force behind a $1 billion, dates. nee. We look forward to working since the institution was found- election for the World Bank The World Bank Board said Saudi-supported World Bank The department has received with the governors to select a ed following World War II. presidency in 2012 and the Thursday it would start accept- fund to promote entrepreneur- a “significant number of recom- new leader.” But the success of a US can- bank’s board has said its selec- ing nominations for a new leader ship by women. mendations,” a spokesperson Under an unwritten agree- didate no longer appears com- tion process will be “open, mer- early next month and name a re- The Treasury Department said. ment, the United States, which pletely assured. it-based and transparent,” im- placement for Kim by mid-April.

Jordan PM hopeful GM sees higher 2019 US agencies urge creditors to be for growth profits on job cuts, flexible with government workers Washington, United States ordan’s prime minis- Washington, United States Jter has voiced hope solid US, China sales that his country will turn S banking regulators on Fri- to a growth path, after he New York, United States Uday urged creditors to be briefed the International flexible with government work- Monetary Fund on fiscal eneral Motors projected ers affected by the shutdown reforms. Gstrong 2019 profits Fri- who may need more time to Prime Minister Omar day, fueled by savings from a pay mortgages and credit cards. al-Razzaz, a Harvard-ed- deep restructuring including About 800,000 federal work- ucated economist who job cuts, and by solid sales in ers have been furloughed with- took office last year, said the United States and China. out pay for three weeks in what he spoke to IMF Managing GM, which has faced criti- soon will be the longest US gov- Director Christine Lagarde cism from President Donald ernment shutdown ever. on next steps. Trump and other US politi- Five federal financial and Lagarde said that Jordan’s cians over the planned layoffs, state regulators encouraged Furloughed federal workers, joined by elected officials, hold up signs to protest income tax hike, approved expects $2-2.5 billion in ad- institutions to work with con- the federal government shutdown (Courtesy of CNBC) by lawmakers in Novem- ditional profits this year due sumers affected by the shut- ber, was a “step in the right to the restructuring, pushing down by modifying loans or And the regulators said work through any issues. direction” but that Jordan its earnings-per-share fore- extending new credit. prudent workout arrange - The bank also pledged “still faces challenging cast well above analyst expec- “While the effects of the fed- ments “are generally in the $10,000 to a Washington-area economic and social con- tations.The biggest US auto- eral government shutdown on long-term best interest of charity that will help with food, ditions.”“Sustaining fiscal maker forecast 2019 profits of individuals should be tempo- the financial institution,” and rent and utility payments for consolidation remains crit- $6.50 to $7.00 a share, com- rary, affected borrowers may would not open them to ad - idled workers. ical to preserve macroeco- pared to the $5.88 now expect- face a temporary hardship in ditional scrutiny from bank Government workers affect- nomic stability, which needs ed by Wall Street analysts. GM Chief Financial Officer Dhivya making payments on debts such examiners. ed by the shutdown owe a com- to be supported by a faster also said it sees 2018 earnings Suryadevara as mortgages, student loans, car Bank of America on Friday bined $438 million a month in implementation of reforms per share as exceeding analyst Upbeat on trade talks loans, business loans, or credit announced a special hotline for rent and mortgage payments, to promote jobs and invest- expectations. cards,” the agencies in a joint any of its customers affected according to the real estate firm ment and lower business GM has defended the job Global markets have been statement. by the shutdown to help them Zillow. costs,” she said. cuts as needed to position the shaken in recent weeks amid company long-term, in part worries over slowing global by providing funds to build growth due in part to weak- autonomous cars and other ness in China amid the trade new offerings. confrontation with Washing- “We are focused on strength- ton, and to some forecasts in- Trump welcomes skilled workers to US ening our cash generation and dicating the US will tip into Washington, United States creating efficiencies that will recession in 2020. changes are soon coming which businesses first hire Americans. position us to take advantage But GM offered a solid out- resident Donald Trump said will bring both simplicity and His promise on H1-Bs came of opportunities through the look for its home market, esti- PFriday he would make it eas- certainty to your stay, including just as Trump is pressing to cycle,” Chief Financial Officer mating overall US sales in 2019 ier for top-skilled workers to a potential path to citizenship,” build a wall on the Mexican Dhivya Suryadevara said in a in the “low 17-million range,” a stay in the United States and be- Trump tweeted. border to keep out unauthor- statement. good level, and projecting no come citizens, offering unchar- “We want to encourage tal- KNOW WHAT ized immigrants and asylum Shares of the auto giant sales drop in China. acteristic praise for immigrants’ ented and highly skilled people seekers. surged 7.1 percent to $37.18. GM’s US auto sales are ex- contributions. to pursue career options in the While it was unclear what The auto giant also an - pected to be revved up by new Trump pledged to reform US.” The United States each prompted Trump’s tweet, The nounced plans in 2019 to posi- sport-utility vehicles coming coveted H1-B visas, for which The real estate mogul ran for year grants 85,000 H1-B Washington Post on Friday ran tion its electric cars under the to market, and by a full cal- three-quarters of applicants are president as a hardliner on im- visas, including 20,000 a front-page article on how tech Cadillac brand and to launch a endar year of sales of pickup from India, most of them in the migration and has previously that are reserved for workers are increasingly mov- new global line of lower-cost trucks unveiled in 2018 that technology sector. vowed to crack down on H1- workers with master’s ing from the United States to models aimed at emerging have been hot sellers amid low “H1-B holders in the Unit- Bs by encouraging reporting Canada due to the hassle in ob- markets. gasoline prices. ed States can rest assured that of visa fraud and insisting that degrees or higher. taining H1-B visas. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 12

France’s ‘yellow vests’ stage fresh protests Government shutdown becomes longest in US

Shutdown entered a• record 22nd day

Trump remains steadfast• in his demand Yellow vests (Gilet jaune) protestors help a comrade who was showered by a water cannon as they clash with police for $5.7 billion to build a Mexico border wall But scores of protesters Paris, France later clashed with riot police 800,000 federal after arriving at the Arc de employees• did not rotesters skirmished with Triomphe in Paris, prompting receive paychecks Ppolice in Paris and other volleys of tear gas and water cities yesterday as thousands cannon as security forces pre- Friday turned out for new rallies vented them from reaching the against French President Em- Champs-Elysees. AFP | Washington, United States manuel Macron, with dozens Nearly 60 people had been arrested as officials vowed a arrested in the capital, police he partial US government crackdown on the violence said, alongside dozens more shutdown entered a re- that has marred the demon- elsewhere including the cen- Tcord 22nd day yesterday, strations since November. tral city of Bourges, the site of as President Donald Trump re- The “yellow vest” march- another major rally. mains steadfast in his demand es began calmly amid a heavy The interior ministry said for $5.7 billion to build a Mexico police deployment of some there were 32,000 protesters border wall and Democrats in US Vice President Mike Pence (2L) listens while Democratic US Representative Nancy Pelosi (L), US President Donald 80,000 officers nationwide, nationwide as of 2:00 pm (1300 Congress determined to refuse Trump (2R) and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer argue about the impending government shutdown with protesters singing the GMT), including 8,000 in Par- the funds. during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. “Marseillaise” national an- is. That was above the 26,000 The impasse has paralyzed them and holding signs includ- counted at the same time last Washington, with the president declaring a national emergency controversial decision. ing “Insecurity is not a job”. week. retaliating by refusing to sign off and attempting to secure the Only minutes earlier, pow- on budgets for swaths of gov- funds without congressional erful Republican ally Senator ernment departments unrelated approval. Lindsey Graham tweeted after to the dispute. If they can’t do “I’m not going to do it so fast,” talks with Trump: “Mr. Presi- As a result 800,000 federal it... I will declare a he said at a White House meet- dent, Declare a national emer- Macedonia PM urges Greek employees -- workers as diverse national emergency. ing. gency NOW.” MPs to ratify name deal as FBI agents, air traffic control- I have the absolute Trump described an emer- But Trump himself acknowl- lers and museum staff -- did not right gency declaration as the edged in the White House North Macedonia”. receive paychecks Friday. “easy way out” and said Con- meeting that an attempt to Macedonian lawmakers vot- The shutdown became the gress had to step up to the re- claim emergency powers ed through the agreement late longest on record at midnight DONALD TRUMP sponsibility of approving the would likely end up in legal on Friday and it now needs Friday (0500 GMT Saturday), $5.7 billion. battles going all the way to the backing from the Greek parlia- when it overtook the 21-day “If they can’t do it... I will de- Supreme Court. ment to come into effect. stretch in 1995-1996, under clare a national emergency. I Opponents say that a unilat- “Our parliament found the president Bill Clinton. have the absolute right,” he said. eral presidential move would strength but it wasn’t easy. But Trump on Friday however Until now, Trump had sug- be constitutional overreach and I am convinced that the Greek backed off a series of previous gested numerous times that he set a dangerous precedent in parliament will also find the threats to end the deadlock by was getting closer to taking the similar controversies. strength to make the decision,” Zaev told a press conference in Skopje. During the vote, 81 of the Macedonian parliament’s 120 US vet cancels project to raise money for border wall MPs backed the name change, Washington, United States securing the required two- was unable to get Congress of funds from a previous Go - Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran thirds majority to push it to fund the wall -- leading to FundMe campaign, and alleged Zaev delivers a speech to lawmakes through. n Iraq war veteran canceled a now three-week-old partial he ran an operation to fabricate at the parliament in Skopje Zaev, who came to power Ahis plan to crowdsource $1 shutdown of the government. fake news against liberal groups in May 2017, is now looking to billion to help President Donald But donations slowed and and politicians in order to gen- Skopje, Macedonia his Greek counterpart Alexis Trump build a wall on the Mex- Kolfage said the group had erate traffic and profits from Tsipras to uphold his end of ico border after raising only $20 concluded that the government advertising. Kolfage said on his acedonian Prime Minis- the deal, which the pair bro- million and drawing questions won’t be able to make use of GoFundMe page that he will Mter Zoran Zaev yesterday kered last year. about his online activities. them in the foreseeable future. refund donations or, if donors called on Greece to end their “Within 10 days... if we see Triple-amputee veteran Brian In addition, Kolfage was put agree, will put them toward a nations’ decades-long dispute everything is in order, we will Kolfage launched a GoFundMe on the defensive late Thursday new company that will build by ratifying the deal to rename vote,” Tsipras said on Friday account in December, quickly by a BuzzFeed News article that sections of the wall itself on pri- his country “The Republic of evening. piling up donations as Trump Brian Kolfage raised questions about his use vate property along the frontier. Zimbabwe to re-introduce local currency within a year: minister Harare, Zimbabwe are on our way already, give us Shortages of basic com - imbabwe will re-introduce a months not years,” state-owned modities resurfaced and pric- Zlocal currency “in less than Herald newspaper quoted Fi- es shot up - and in some cas - 12 months”, after using the US nance Minister Mtuli Ncube as es more than doubled within dollar and regional currencies saying. weeks. since a hyperinflation crisis a Asked for a timeline for the KNOW WHAT The shortages hit pharma- decade ago, the finance minister currency reform, the minister cies with some running out said in an interview published said it would be in “less than 12 of essential drugs for chronic yesterday. months”. conditions like diabetes and President Emmerson Mnan- The southern African na - Zimbabwe adopted hypertension and accept - gagwa, who took over from tion’s economy has been in a a basket of foreign ing payment only in foreign long-time ruler Robert Mug- downturn for more than a dec- currencies in 2009 currency. abe and won a disputed election ade with shortages of cash, high after hyperinflation, Motorists spend hours in long in July, has pledged to revive unemployment and the gov- which saw some queues waiting to buy fuel. Doc- the economy and mend fences ernment struggling to pay its businesses increasing tors in state hospitals went on with former allies in the west workers. prices several times strike for more than a month after years of international The country was thrown into in December saying the price isolation. panic after Ncube introduced a a day, rendered the hikes had eroded their earnings “On the issue of raising two percent tax on all electron- local Zimbabwe dollar and teachers announced a strike enough foreign currency to in- ic transactions as part of new Public transport drivers complain about having to pay for fuel in US dollars at a unusable. this week demanding to be paid troduce the new currency, we measures to increase revenue. fuel station in US dollars. 13 SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + (G) (ADVENTURE/MUSICAL/FAMILY) 9.00 PM + 12.00 MN EMILY BLUNT, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, THE HIDDEN WORLD SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 2.15 + 5.15 + 8.15 BEN WHISHAW + 11.15 PM (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) NEW AL HAMRA : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 5.45 PM CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 Brie Larson, Alex CATE BLANCHETT, JONAH HILL, GERARD + 6.30 + 9.15 PM + 12.00 MN BUTLER VINAYA VIDHEYA RAMA SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 4.00 + 9.00 PM OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 4.15 (TELGU) NEW SAAR : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.30 + 5.15 PM + 6.30 + 8.45 PM KIARA ADVANI, RAM CHARAN AND WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA) (3D): 2.00 PM VIVEK OBEROI 8.30 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA) (ARABIC DUBBED): 11.45 AM + 11.00 PM OASIS JUFFAIR : FROM FRIDAY 11TH: 10.30 AM RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Greenwald call off + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.30 PM CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.45 + (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 + 9.45 PM + 12.00 MN SEEF (I) : FROM FRIDAY 11TH: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + JOHN C. REILLY, SARAH SILVARMAN, 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT (IMAX 3D): 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + GAL GADOT 9.00 PM AQUAMAN DAILY AT (ARABIC DUBBED): 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE) + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM engagement SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + JASON MOMOA, AMBER HEARD, NICOLE SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 4.00 + 8.45 PM 9.15 + 11.30 PM KIDMAN SPIDER MAN INTO THE SPIDER VERSE IANS | Los Angeles DAILY AT (DUBBED IN ARABIC): 11.15 AM + 1.30 OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 5.30 + + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 10.30 PM 11.15 PM (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) SAAR : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT (ATMOS): 11.45 AM + HAILEE STEINFELD, NICOLAS CAGE, ctress Brie Larson and + 8.15 + (10.30 PM THURS/FRI) 2.45 + 5.45 + 8.45 + 11.45 PM MAHERSHALA ALI musician Alex Green- WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + DAILY AT (IMAX 3D): 6.00 + 11.15 PM wald have called off CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 4.15 + A 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT: (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) 8.45 PM their engagement after nearly THE MULE DAILY AT (VIP II): 10.45 AM + 1.45 + 4.45 + 7.45 SEEF (II) : DAILY AT:1.30 + 6.15 + 11.00 PM three years. + 10.45 PM (PG-15) (CRIME/DRAMA/THRILLER) NEW The 29-year-old actress and SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 BUMBLEBEE 39-year-old Phantom Planet CLINT EASTWOOD, BRADLEY COOPER, TAISSA PM + 12.00 MN + (1.00 AM THURS/FRI) (PG-13) (ACTION /ADVENTURE/SCI-FICTION) frontman exchanged rings in FARMIGA SAAR : DAILY AT: 8.00 + (11.00 PM THURS/FRI) HAILEE STEINFELD, JOHN CENA, Tokyo back in 2016. OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + JORGE LENDEBORG JR. “They have taken a step back 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 + 11.15 PM 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 12.15 + 4.30 + 8.45 PM from their engagement for the DAILY AT (VIP): 12.15 + 2.45 + 5.15 + 7.45 + 10.15 PM SIMMBA SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 1.45 + 6.45 + 11.45 PM time being but they remain CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + (PG-15) (HINDI/ACTION/COMEDY/DRAMA/ close,” people.com quoted a 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 PM + 12.00 MN + (1.00 AM ROMANTIC) EL BADLAH source as saying. THURS/FRI) (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY) RANVEER SINGH, AJAY DEVGN, They had been dating for sev- DAILY AT (VIP I): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 TAMER HOSNY, AKRAM HOSNI, MAJED + 8.30 + 11.00 PM SARA ALI KHAN eral years prior to the engage- EL MASRY, AMINA KHALIL ment as they had been roman- SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 2.00 + Brie Larson and Alex Greenwald CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 2.30 + 6.45 + 11.00 PM tically linked since 2013. 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PM + (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM Greenwald joined Larson gave Greenwald a shout-out my partner through this in SAAR : DAILY AT: 12.45 + 3.15 + 5.45 + 8.30 + CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 3.15 + 8.45 PM HUNTER KILLER (11.00 PM THURS/FRI) SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 4.00 + 9.00 PM at numerous awards seasons while accepting the Academy every way possible,” she said of (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER) WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + events that year when Larson Award for Best Actress at the her “Room” co-star. 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM GERARD BUTLER, GARY OLDMAN, received recognition for the 2016 Oscars. “My real partner, Alex Green- COMMON HOLMES & WATSON JOSEPH 2015 thriller “Room”. She even “Jacob Tremblay (has been) wald, I love you,” she added. CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 12.45 + 6.15 + 11.45 PM (15+) (COMEDY/ADVENTURE) NEW (PG-15) (MALAYALAM) WILL FERRELL, JOHN C. REILLY, JOJU GEORGE, MALAVIKA MENON, ROBIN HOOD REBECCA HALL JAMES ELIYA (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE) OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.15 + OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 2.45 + 8.30 PM TARON EGERTON, EVE HEWSON, JAMIE 3.15 + 5.15 + 7.15 + 9.15 + 11.15 PM FOXX Sarah Hyland wrote CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + URI: THE SURGICAL STRIKE CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 4.30 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 PM + 12.00 MN (15+) (HINDI/ACTION/DRAMA) NEW 9.15 PM SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 + VICKY KAUSHAL, KIRTI KULHARI, 5.45 + 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM CREED II PARESH RAWAL suicide notes in her head SAAR : DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 (PG-13) (DRAMA/ACTION/SPORT) + 7.00 + 9.00 + + (11.00 PM THURS/FRI) CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + TESSA THOMPSON, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, IANS | Los Angeles 9.15 PM + 12.00 MN WADI AL SAIL : DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.15 + 3.15 SYLVESTER STALLONE quired her to undergone kidney transplant + 5.15 + 7.15 + 9.15 + 11.15 PM SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 ctress Sarah Hyland has got candid twice. + 11.30 PM CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 2.00 + 6.45 + 11.30 PM about how close she was to commit- “After 26, 27 years of just always being PETTA A 122 THE SUPER ting suicide and said she wrote notes sick and being in chronic pain every single (PG-15) (TAMIL/ACTION/THRILLER) NEW (15+) (ARABIC/THRILLER/CRIME) NEW (18+) (HORROR/THRILLER) NEW in her head. day, you don’t know when you’re going to RAJINIKANTH,VIJAY SETHUPATHI, PATRICK JOHN FLUEGER, VAL KILMER, The “Modern Family” actress have the next good day... It’s really, really SIMRAN, TRISHA TAREK LOTFY, AMINA KHALIL, AHMED DAWOOD LOUISA KRAUSE spoke to TV personality Ellen De- hard,” she said. OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.45 + 7.00 Generes and revealed that after During her appearance on “The + 10.15 PM CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 2.15 + 6.45 + 11.15 PM SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 3.00 + 7.15 + Sarah 11.30 PM more than 25 years battling chronic Ellen DeGeneres Show”, the “See CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.45 + 5.00 Hyland BACKTRACE health issues, she got to a point You in Valhalla” actress also credited + 8.15 + 11.30 PM (PG-15) (CRIME/ACTION/THRILLER) THE ACCIDENTAL PRIME MINISTER where she wrote suicide notes to talking out loud about her thoughts SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 2.00 + 5.15 + 8.30 + 11.45 PM SYLVESTER STALLONE, RYAN GUZMAN, (PG) (HINDI/DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY) NEW her loved ones in her head, reports for getting her out of her dark place. AL HAMRA : DAILY AT: 2.30 + 8.45 + (12.00 MN MATTHEW MODINE ANUPAM KHER, AAHANA KUMRA, aceshowbiz.com. “I finally said it out loud to someone... THURS/FRI) ABDUL QUADIR AMIN Having said that she came “very, When I said it out loud, they were like, ‘Oh, CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 1.30 + 3.30 DAILY AT: 12.45 + 5.00 + 9.15 PM very, very, very close” to ending her you need to see a therapist.’ “ NTR: KATHANAYAKUDU + 5.30 + 7.30 + 9.30 + 11.30 PM SEEF (II) : (PG-13) (TELGU) NEW SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + life, the 28-year-old actress said. “And that’s when I was like, ‘Ok, I don’t 4.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM BLACK 47 She added: “I would write letters think you’re going to help me. I think I NANDARUMI BALAKRISHNA, RAKUL (15+) (ACTION/DRAMA) NEW in my head to loved ones of why I did it need to really do this on my own and really PREET SINGH, VIDYA BALAN JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN HUGO WEAVING, JAMES FRECHEVILLE, and my reasoning behind it, how it was do even more digging and soul-search- OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.30 + 6.45 (PG) (COMEDY/ACTION/ADVENTURE) STEPHEN REA nobody’s fault.” She added, “I didn’t ing,’ and just saying it out loud helped + 10.00 PM ROWAN ATKINSON, OLGA KURYLENKO, SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 2.45 + 7.00 + want to write it down on paper because immensely because I kept it to myself for SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.45 + 5.00 + EMMA THOMPSON 11.15 PM 8.15 + 11.30 PM I didn’t want anyone to find it because months and months at a time and saying CITYCENTRE : DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 1.45 + 3.45 that’s how serious I was.” it out loud really helped.” VISWASAM + 5.45 + 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM ZOE (15+) (ROMANTIC/SCI-FICTION) NEW On what pushed her to the near Having gone through what she went (PG-15) (TAMIL) NEW SEEF (II) : DAILY AT: 2.00 + 7.00 PM + 12.00 MN EWAN MCGREGOR, LÉA SEYDOUX, breaking point, Hyland blamed through, Hyland urged others facing AJITH KUMAR, NAYANTHARA her health condition that re- similar struggles to seek help. MARY POPPINS RETURNS THEO JAMES OASIS JUFFAIR : DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.45 + 4.45 + 7.45 + 10.45 PM SEEF (I) : DAILY AT: 12.30 + 4.45 + 9.00 PM

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Pakistan fight back in final South Africa Test Aussies shock India Sharma fireworks thwarted as Australia beat India in 1st ODI in Sydney

Australia fended off• an explosive century from Rohit Sharma (R) to post a morale-boosting 34- run victory over India Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed plays a shot in the first one-day The wickets were shared be- AFP | Johannesburg international in Sydney tween four bowlers with me- dium-pacer Faheem Ashraf Australia took uanne Olivier took his taking two for 19 -- with both a• 1-0 lead in three- Dthird five-wicket haul of his wickets coming in his first the series before Pakistan’s over -- to reduce South Africa match series. bowlers fought back on the to 45 for four. second day of the third and Fast bowler Olivier was Rohit reached final Test against South Africa twice involved in crucial his• 22nd ODI ton yesterday. breakthroughs as Pakistan Olivier grabbed took five were bowled out for 185 in off 110 deliveries wickets for 51 as South Africa their first innings. India’s Rohit Sharma plays a shot gained a first innings lead of He ended an hour of frustra- AFP | Sydney managed to pick up the wickets 280 was chaseable on that wick- Australia 77 at the Wanderers Stadium. tion for South Africa when he at the right time. et but losing three wickets in A. Carey c Sharma b Kuldeep 24 But the hosts were unable to took two wickets in four balls ustralia fended off an “We can always improve, our such a short span of time is nev- A. Finch b Kumar 6 forge a position of dominance, immediately after the morn- explosive century from execution with the ball was at er good. U. Khawaja lbw b Jadeja 59 struggling to 135 for five at the ing drinks break, ending the ARohit Sharma to post a times off. It will be a good se- “Rohit was outstanding and S. Marsh c Shami b Kuldeep 54 close, an overall lead of 212. stubborn resistance of night- morale-boosting 34-run victory ries.” MS Dhoni supported him well P. Handscomb c Dhawan b Kumar 73 Hashim Amla made a patient watchman Mohammad Abbas, over India in the first one-day Handscomb, passed over but we could have done better M. Stoinis not out 47 42 not out off 90 balls against who batted for 88 minutes and international in Sydney yester- this week by selectors for this with the tempo of the game.” G. Maxwell not out 11 tight, disciplined bowling, faced 51 balls in scoring 11. day. month’s two Tests against Sri India lurched to a disastrous Extras (b4, lb2, nb2, w6) 14 while Quinton de Kock lifted Three balls later Asad Shafiq The Australians made 288 Lanka, led the way with six start, losing three wickets in the Total (5 wickets; 50 overs) 288 scoring rate late in the day by ducked a bouncer but was for five off their 50 overs after fours and two sixes. first six overs, from which they scoring 34 not out off 35 balls. caught behind off his glove. winning the toss and restricted Fellow Test discard Marsh failed to recover. India India to 254 for nine. knocked up 54 off 70 balls while Shikhar Dhawan was out on R. Sharma c Maxwell b Stoinis 133 Sharma blasted 133 off 129 Khawaja made 59 from 81. the sixth ball of the innings S. Dhawan lbw b Behrendorff 0 balls in a scintillating effort to India’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar when he was leg before wicket V. Kohli c Stoinis b Richardson 3 keep India in the contest, while finished with two for 66 and for a first-ball duck to ODI debu- A. Rayudu lbw b Richardson 0 Nadal ready to let rip man-of-the-match Jhye Rich- wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav tant Jason Behrendorff. M.S. Dhoni lbw b Behrendorff 51 ardson took four for 26 for Aus- claimed two for 54. Prodigious Sharma D. Karthik b Richardson 12 remodelled serve at tralia. “We are not very pleased with R. Jadeja c Marsh b Richardson 8 It was a tonic for the ailing the way we played,” Kohli said. It got worse for India when B. Kumar not out 29 Australian Open Australians, coming off their “I thought we were fine with Kohli was caught at square leg K. Yadav c Khawaja b Siddle 3 first-ever home Test series de- the ball, score of 300-plus was off Richardson for three and M. Shami c Maxwell b Stoinis 1 feat to Virat Kohli’s India and par on that wicket. We thought two balls later Ambati Rayudu Extras (lb7, nb1, w6) 14 after winning just three of their was trapped leg before wicket Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 254 previous 24 ODIs. by Richardson after a review for Test discard Peter Hand - a two-ball duck, leaving India formats, faced 96 balls and hit scomb topscored with 73 off 61 rocking at four for three. three fours and a six. balls for Australia with Usman Former World Cup-winning Sharma kept India in the Khawaja and Shaun Marsh also captain M.S. Dhoni put on 137 contest with some prodigious registered half-centuries. KNOW WHAT runs with Sharma for the fourth hitting, blasting six sixes and “I am very pleased with the wicket to stabilise India’s rocky 10 fours. performance,” Australia skipper start before he was out leg be- But his mighty knock came Aaron Finch said. fore wicket to Behrendorff for to an end when he skied Mar- “I think the way they rebuilt, Australia became the 51 and his 68th ODI half-century. cus Stoinis to Glenn Maxwell at Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during a match of the 2018 US Open (file photo) Rohit and MS Dhoni, we knew first team to register Dhoni, 37, who has captained deep mid-wicket to end India’s AFP | Melbourne next three months and cut they will take it deep and we 1,000 ODI wins India 332 times across the three remaining hopes. short his season to have sur- afael Nadal revealed yes- gery on a troublesome foot Rterday he was back to full injury. fitness and has a brand new He pulled out of a Brisbane serve to unleash at the Aus- warm-up event with a slight tralian Open. thigh strain but declared yes- Liaison Combine edge Young Challengers The world number two terday his troubles were be- TDT | Manama limped away from Melbourne hind him. Park a year ago, forced to retire “I feel good. If I am not feel- iaison Combine defeated in pain from his quarter-final ing good, I will not be here,” LYoung Challengers by 62 with Marin Cilic. Nadal told reporters two days runs in a CBA Division B League The 17-time Grand Slam before the start of the first match. champion missed most of the Grand Slam of the year. Liaison won the toss and elected to bat first. Sameer (96) Omran’s (57) partnership Prakash - SNCS Praveen Sameer - Liaison Shan Francis Vijil - FOG Printing helped their team to score 194 at the end of 20 overs. Asim took 18.3 overs (Praveen Raj 104, CBA Division D T-20 League Rajesh 2/19) by 3 runs two wickets for Challengers. In Karthick 36) beat Strikers 177/10 SNCS Transfast 173/2 in 15.3 Cebarco 146/5 in 18.4 overs second innings Liaison’s bowl- (Satya 41, Firos 3/25, Talal 3/30) overs (Prakash 94, Vishnu 49) (Laxman 46, Raman 38, Moor- ers restricted Challengers for by 9 wickets beat Young Blasters 169/3 (Rish- thy 36) beat Bulls 143/5 (Chan- 132 runs and won the match CBA Division C T-20 League abh 78, Amartya 43, Shakeel drashekar 47, Laxman 3/15) by by 62 runs. Junaid took three Bassali Tigers 123/9 in 20 2/28) by 8 wickets 5 wickets at Seef District too wickets for Liaison overs (Waleed 19, Sherji 2/12) Other Match Scores Challengers 174/2 in 20 overs Brief Score: Liaison Com- beat NDC Bahrain 116/7 (Rahul Fog Printing 118/3 in 16.1 (Shan Francis 125, Umer 2/20) bine 194/3 in 20 overs (Sameer 28, Umer 2/31) by 7 runs overs (Vijil 62) beat Superb XI beat GT Abdulaal 110/6 (Waqas 96, Omran Gani 57, Asim 2/36) Pak CC 101/5 in 18.1 overs 116/8 (Pradeep 25, Bingly 2/12) 34, Anish 2/6) by 64 runs beat Young Challengers 132/8 (Noman 21, Sajjad 3/23) beat by 7 wickets Via Cloud 112/10 (Akhil 43, (Nasir 35, Junaid 3/14) by 62 Rebel-II 100/10 (Umar 31, Im- Rising Star 127/6 in 20 overs Haroon 4/23) beat Infonas runs. ran 2/4, Kamaran 2/8) by 5 (Sajeev 41, Hussain 3/32) beat 100/10 (Waqas 52, Samson 3/12) Um al Hassan +973 17728699 Seef District +973 17364999 Biyas Bahrain Indians 183/1 in wickets Suha Travels 124/3 (Tabrez 38, by 12 runs SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 15 Barty falls to Kvitova in Sydney epic

Petra Kvitova De Minaur downs Seppi to defeated• Ashleigh Barty 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3) win first ATP title Barty loses Sydney AFP | Sydney 134-year tournament since Ber- final• for second nard Tomic in 2013. ustralian teenager Alex De “It’s crazy that this actually year running AMinaur won two matches in happened,” De Minaur told the a day to claim his first career ATP crowd shortly after his victory. AFP | Sydney title at the Sydney International “I thought it wouldn’t happen. yesterday. Third time lucky, and you guys etra Kvitova outlasted De Minaur, 19 and ranked 29, don’t know how much it means Ashleigh Barty in a fi - conquered the fresher Italian to do it in front of all you guys, Pnal-set tiebreak to win the Andreas Seppi 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) in front of my home.” Sydney International for the sec- in the final after overcoming In his second straight Syd - ond time yesterday. Frenchman Gilles Simon in a ney final, the fifth seed won 75 The Czech 2015 champion rain-postponed semi-final ear- percent of first-serve points to and fifth seed fought back from lier in the day. improve on his runner-up finish dropping the first set and an De Minaur’s triumph made to Russian Daniil Medvedev last early break in the final set to him the youngest winner of the year. beat the top-ranked Aussie, 1-6, Sydney tournament since his De Minaur has soared 208 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) in two hours 19 mentor Lleyton Hewitt claimed places to 29 in the ATP Rankings minutes. it as a 19-year-old in 2001. and was named ATP Newcom- It was a gutsy performance Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic hits a return to Australia’s Ashleigh Barty Sydney-born De Minaur is the er of the Year after earning 28 from the two-time Wimbledon first Australian champion at the tour-level victories throughout champion who only finished her his 2018 campaign. semi-final against Aliaksandra the baseline on her second set After conceding a break of Sasnovich in the early hours of point. serve in the opening game of yesterday. Barty broke early to lead 3-0 in the match, De Minaur levelled Kvitova had beaten Barty th the final set, but Kvitova broke the opening set at 3-3. both the previous times they back in the fifth game to level played, including in the Bir - 26 at 3-3. mingham final in 2017, but she Barty saved four break points career title was claimed BETTER had to dig deep to win her eighth by Petra Kvitova by in the ninth game but with the straight final, coming back winning the Sydney break in hand, Kvitova couldn’t from an 0-3 deficit in the final International serve out the match. set. She broke again in the 11th KNOW Kvitova prevailed despite her game but began to struggle phys- serve being broken six times in ically and back-to-back double the match but she finished with Kvitova began to hit her spots faults took the deciding set to a 31 winners to Barty’s 23. with her powerful ground - tiebreak. Alex De Minaur, 19, is Barty raced through the strokes in the second set and The Czech fired a running the youngest winner of opening set after breaking the broke Barty for 6-5 and then cross-court forehand winner the Sydney tournament big-serving Kvitova in the first served out the set in the next on match point to claim her 26th since his mentor Lleyton game on back-to-back double game with a backhand win - career title and a sixth WTA title Hewitt claimed it as a faults. ner that clipped the back of in the past 12 months. Australia’s Alex De Minaur hits a return against his compatriot Jordan 19-year-old in 2001 Thompson Zverev sad at Murray quitting tennis Rashford can be as good as Kane, AFP | Melbourne Roger Federer and Novak Djok- ovic to win the biggest crown says Man Utd boss Solskjaer rightest new kid on the of his career at the ATP Finals Bblock Alexander Zverev last year. AFP | Manchester last year’s World Cup and this said yesterday he was sad to Obviously Murray is And he said he would always season is joint-top scorer along- hear “super nice” Andy Murray one of the best guys appreciate what the 31-year-old anchester United boss side Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick say the Australian Open could on tour outside the three-times Grand Slam winner MOle Gunnar Solskjaer Aubameyang on 14 goals. be his last tournament. court. He’s always Murray had done for the sport says Marcus Rashford has the Rashford, 21, scored four Murray on Friday shocked super nice to be and new players like himself as potential to be as good a cen- goals in his first two senior the tennis world by declaring around, super nice they emerge on tour. tre-forward as England team- matches for United after be- that his chronic hip pain had “Obviously he’s one of the mate Harry Kane as the pair ing been given his debut by not been eased by surgery a year to kind of be in the best guys on tour outside the prepare to face off in the Pre- then-manager Louis ago and he could end his storied locker room with court. He’s always super nice mier League this weekend. van Gaal in Febru- career in Melbourne next week. ALEXANDER ZVEREV to be around, super nice to kind Rashford is expected to line ary 2016, and es- World number four Zverev is of be in the locker room with,” up as the spearhead of United’s tablished him- the flag-bearer for the next gen- Zverev told reporters at Mel- attack when they face Kane’s self as a reg - eration of stars, having beaten bourne Park. Tottenham at Wembley on ular squad Sunday with both the team and member at striker on a hot run of form un- Old Traf - der the interim manager. ford. Rashford looks reborn under However, Son may need a rest, warns interim coach Solskjaer, scoring he was regu- three times in the centre-for- larly restrict- South Korea coach ward position as United have ed to substitute Son Heung- rattled off four straight league appearances after min AFP | Al-Ain chester United, and Portuguese coach wins since the Norwegian took Jose Mourinho re- Paulo Bento said he was mindful of the over from the sacked Mourinho placed Van Gaal as outh Ko - player’s workload. in December to close in on the manager later that Srea’s coach “After he arrives we will see what we Champions League places. year, and was often warned that are going to do in the game against Chi- “He can become a top, top asked to play in a Tottenham na. We will talk and then we are going striker,” said Solskjaer. “We can left-sided role, with Hotspur to take the best decisions for the team,” talk about Harry Kane and his Romelu Lukaku as the central star Son He- said Bento. class and I’m sure Marcus as attacker. ung-min may “So we need to wait for the game that well. He’s got the potential to Marcus have to be eased in gen- probably he’s going to play on Sunday get up there. ‘Top striker’ Rashford tly when he arrives at the and then check everything he’s done in “He’s got frightening pace, Since returning to United, Asian Cup after a frantic the last months, because he played a lot he’s now become stronger and where he played as a striker few months for club and of games.” can hold the ball up for us. He’s between 1996 and 2007, Sol - country. South Korea, the 2015 runners-up, have a great link player.” skjaer has spoken repeatedly Son has played nearly laboured to 1-0 wins over debutants the Kane, 25, has set the goalscor- of the need to return to the at- 1,000 minutes in 16 games for Philippines and Kyrgyzstan without Son, ing standards in English foot- tractive, attacking football that Spurs already this season, on top who sat out the Group C openers under a ball over the past three years they played for much of Alex of his appearances at last year’s deal with Tottenham. -- he was the league’s top scorer Ferguson’s reign. World Cup and Korea’s title run at However, the Koreans are safely into in 2015/16 and 2016/17 before A central part of Ferguson’s the Asian Games. the last 16 ahead of Wednesday’s group finishing runner-up to Liv- philosophy was the develop- He will arrive in the United Arab decider against China, who hit form in erpool’s Mohamed Salah last ment of players from the club’s Emirates on Monday, a day after Spurs’ a 3-0 demolition of the Philippines on season. academy, which Rashford Premier League clash with Man- Friday. He won the Golden Boot at joined at the age of seven. SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2019 16 Salah extends Liverpool lead Salah penalty puts Liverpool seven points clear again with a 1-0 victory at Brighton

AFP | Brighton, United Kingdom

iverpool bounced back from two consecutive de- 14 Lfeats to remain on course goals have been scored for a first league title in 29 years, by Mohamed Salah this but were made to wait before season, putting him level breaking down an obdurate with Arsenal’s Pierre- Brighton thanks to Mohamed Emerick Aubameyang Salah’s 50th-minute penalty in and Tottenham Hotspur’s a 1-0 win yesterday. Harry Kane in the race for Victory reestablished Jurgen the Golden Boot Klopp’s side’s seven-point lead over Manchester City at the top But the visitors found them- of the table, which was reduced selves a man down when Yann to four when the champions in- Valery was shown a red card flicted Liverpool’s only Premier for a second bookable offence League defeat of the campaign after tugging the shirt of Marc to breathe new life into the title Albrighton. race nine days ago. Southampton still doubled The Reds were far from their their lead just before half- fluent best on England’s south time when Long pounced on a coast, but ground out a vital win mistake by goalkeeper Kasper to settle any nerves caused by Schmeichel. that defeat thanks to a 13th clean Fulham remained in the rel- sheet in 22 league games this egation zone after a 2-1 loss to season. Burnley that saw them concede Klopp made wholesale chang- two own-goals in three minutes es for Monday’s FA Cup elimi- at Turf Moor as the Clarets -- nation to Wolves to underline who didn’t have a shot on target his priorities for this season and -- moved three points clear of he recalled a host of first-team Liverpool’s Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah scores the opening goal from the penalty spot the drop. regulars, including Salah. Andre Schurrle put Fulham However, the Egyptian and hauled down last season’s Pre- Asian Cup Salah passed up a glorious ahead in just the second min- the rest of Liverpool’s forward mier League player of the year. Vietnam 0 2 Iran chance two minutes from time ute but Burnley equalised in the line were starved of service be- Salah stepped up to blast the when he turned James Milner’s 20th minute through Joe Bryan’s fore the break as Brighton sat penalty past Button and move Yemen 0 3 Iraq driven cross wide from point- own-goal and were soon in the deep and the visitors dominated level with Pierre-Emerick Lebanon 0 2 Saudi Arabia blank range. lead when Denis Odoi also put possession without any cutting Aubameyang and Harry Kane That could have proved costly through his own net. edge. as the league’s top-scorer on 14 English Premier League when Florin Andone escaped in Craig Cathcart scored at both Roberto Firmino just failed to goals for the season. behind the Liverpool defence in ends as Watford won 2-1 away to reach a dangerous Andy Robert- One moment of madness from West Ham 1 0 Arsenal stoppage time, but his low cross Crystal Palace in a match coin- son cross, while Xherdan Shaqiri Gross undid Chris Hughton’s Brighton 0 1 Liverpool found no takers. ciding with the second anniver- gameplan to defend and frus- And Liverpool held out to sary of former Hornets manager nodded inches wide. Burnley 2 1 Fulham But neither side managed a trate the league leaders. ensure a largely forgettable 90 Graham Taylor’s death. single shot on target in the first Yet, the German midfielder Cardiff City 0 0 Huddersfield Town minutes could be remembered Watford defender Cathcart half as Glenn Murray headed Al- had a chance to make amends Crystal Palace 1 2 Watford as another important step on gave Palace, whose manager Roy bion’s best chance over the bar. almost immediately with Bright- Leicester City 1 2 Southampton course to the title come May. Hodgson is also a former Eng- Salah immediately signalled on’s best opportunity to level, land boss, a 38th-minute lead a change in Liverpool’s intent but his shot was bravely blocked 10-man Saints beat Leicester with an own-goal. after half-time as his powerful by Fabinho. Spanish La Liga At the other end of the table, But he equalised midway shot at the end of a purpose - From then on Liverpool Leganés 1 0 Huesca 10-man Southampton moved a through the second half before ful run was well saved by David looked more likely to add to point clear of the bottom three Tom Cleverley’s volley into the Valencia CF 1 1 Real Valladolid Button. their lead than concede as Firmi- with a 2-1 win away to Leicester. top corner won the game for Brighton, though, were ar- no’s fierce strike from outside James Ward-Prowse’s pen- Watford with 16 minutes left. chitects of their own downfall the box was placed too close French Ligue 1 alty, awarded after Nampalys Huddersfield remained bot- moments later. Salah was given to Button before Georginio Amiens 0 2 Paris Saint-Germain Mendy fouled Shane Long, tom of the table following a too much room inside the area Wijnaldum and Sadio Mane fired gave the Saints an 11th-minute goalless draw away to relega- to turn and Pascal Gross then wide. *Scores as of closing lead. tion-threatened Cardiff.

Rice scores first Hammers goal to beat Arsenal Iraq power into knockouts

AFP | Abu Dhabi cide who tops Group D in a Declan Rice’s repeat of their combustible • raq sank Yemen and Iran quarter-final of 2015, which 48th-minute goal was I am delighted for this Ibeat Vietnam as the neigh- Iraq won on penalties. enough for West Ham young man to score the bours and arch-rivals powered Iran, looking to end a 43-year to beat Arsenal goal...He is a special into the Asian Cup round of 16 title drought since last winning talent and keeps yesterday ahead of their highly Asian football’s most coveted AFP | London anticipated group decider next prize, could have scored four working hard week. or five but for some poor fin- MARK NOBLE Teenager Mohanad Ali’s ishing in Abu Dhabi. eclan Rice’s first West Ham early solo strike kick-started “It’s a pity our performance Dgoal secured a 1-0 win over Iraq’s 3-0 victory in Sharjah, didn’t produce a couple more Arsenal in a capital city derby vic was waving goodbye to the while Sardar Azmoun struck goals,” Iran coach Carlos Que- clash at the London Stadium. home fans in a London Stadium both goals in Iran’s 2-0 win in iroz told reporters. The victory in yesterday’s record of over 59,000 when sub- Abu Dhabi. “But winning is the best early kick-off saw the Hammers stituted in the 71st minute. Iraq and Iran will meet in medicine in football. To win West Ham United’s Irish defender Declan Rice celebrates after scoring move up to eighth in the Pre- “We will see what happens in Dubai on Wednesday to de- two games and score seven mier League table, on 31 points, was almost as pleased as Rice away Premier League matches. the next days,” said Manuel Pel- goals -- I have to praise my ahead of the bulk of the week- himself, adding: “I am delighted The defender, looking ahead legrini, the West Ham manager. players because I am very de- end’s fixtures. for this young man to score the to next weekend’s clash with “It is an issue that the club manding.” Teenage midfielder Rice gave goal...He is a special talent and Chelsea at the Emirates Sta - must see what is the best for Saman Ghoddos and Mehdi himself an early present for his keeps working hard.” dium, said: “It is a home game the player, for the club and for Taremi went close for Asia’s 20th birthday on Monday by Defeat dented Arsenal’s bid to against an opponent in the top everyone.” top-ranked team before Az- scoring the only goal of the break into the top four, with the four. We know what we need to Former Arsenal favourite moun rose to head home a game three minutes into the Gunners still adrift of Chelsea do. We need to prepare all week Samir Nasri started against his Ghoddos cross after 38 min- second half. -- their next opponents -- in the for this important team.” old club as the midfielder made utes. “I can’t put it into the words,” race for a Champions League West Ham named Marko Ar- his Premier League debut for The Rubin Kazan forward an elated Rice told Sky Sports. place. nautovic in their starting line- the Hammers. lashed in his third goal of the “The lads are always on at me “It is difficult to win if you up despite the Austrian for - Koscielny and Shkodran tournament from the edge of to take the shot on more.” don’t score,” said Arsenal’s Lau- ward’s brother and agent saying Mustafi returned from injury the box 20 minutes from time rent Koscielny, after a defeat Thursday he wanted to move to for Arsenal but there was no Hussein Al-Saedi of Iraq in action to give Iran a record ninth ‘Special talent’ that meant the Gunners had the Chinese Super League. place in their squad for Mesut against Wahid Mohammed Al-Khyat successive first-round victory West Ham captain Mark Noble won just one of their last seven And it appeared Arnauto - Ozil. of Yemen dating back to 2007.