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WEBSITE P13 newsofbahrain.com Mick Schumacher moves up to Formula Two 15 SPORTS WORLD 6 Trump doesn’t believe govt climate warning Kuwait opens Fire ball match NATO mission CO2 emissions rise Brussels first time in four years uwait and the North At- New York The report comes days be- Klantic Treaty Organisa- fore a major UN climate con- tion (NATO) on Monday took lobal efforts to tackle ference starting in Poland from another significant step to climate change are way 2-14 December. strengthen their co-oper- Goff track says the UN, as Between 2014 and 2016, ation following the official it details the first rise in CO2 global emissions of CO2 from opening of Kuwait’s mis- emissions in four years. industry and the production sion in NATO headquarters, The emissions gap report of energy were essentially sta- Brussels. says that economic growth is ble while the global economy Kuwait’s deputy foreign responsible for a rise in 2017 grew modestly - but in 2017 minister Khaled Al Jarallah while national efforts to cut these emissions went up by and NATO’s Assistant Sec- carbon have faltered. 1.2 per cent pushed along by retary General inaugurat- To meet the goals of the Par- higher GDP. ed the mission for Political is climate pact, the study says While the rise might seem Affairs and Security Policy, Ajax’s Champions League trip to AEK Athens descended into chaos after a petrol bomb exploded inside the stadium it’s crucial that global emis- small, it needs to be seen in Ambassador Alejandro Al- and visiting fans were embroiled in bloody clashes with police and Greek supporters. The two sides meet in a Group E sions peak by 2020. context of efforts to keep glob- vargonzalez. match in Greece on Tuesday night - but the build up to the game was marred by violence in the stands. Riot police were But the analysis says that al temperatures from rising “This mission in NATO deployed to deal with the trouble as a fire raged inside Greece’s Olympic stadium following a shocking explosion ahead this is now not likely even by by more than 1.5C, as recently will contribute to strength- of the early kick-off. 2030. outlined in a key IPCC report. ening the relationship be- tween Kuwait and NATO and we are keen in Kuwait to strengthen this relation- ship,” Al Jarallah told Ku- wait News Agency (KUNA). He noted that the Kuwaiti mission will be headed by Ambassador Jassim Al Budiawi, Kuwaiti Ambas- Horror unearthed sador to Belgium and the European Union. Hundreds of bodies exhumed from mass grave in Syria’s Raqqa Al Jarallah pointed out that NATO has a regional centre in Kuwait which was The dead include financed by Kuwait and is • considered to be the best women, children, the These deaths have centre of the 29-member elderly and disabled, occurred in a systematic NATO alliance outside its as well as members and widespread headquarters in Brussels. of Iraq’s and Syrian “We have strong relation- campaign of violence. ships and cooperation with armed forces and police, UNITED NATIONS NATO in terms of training, a UN report said. studies, research and polit- abled, as well as members of ical dialogue,” he stressed. During its three- Iraq’s and Syrian armed forces Al Jarallah said that Ku- year• rule, the group and police, a UN report said. wait was the first member The United Nations has said of the Gulf Cooperation terrorised local previously that almost 33,000 ci- Council (GCC) to join NA- residents, conducting vilians were killed by the group TO’s Istanbul Cooperation well-publicised in Iraq and Syrian borders, with Initiative (ICI) which was executions of people more than 55,000 injured. launched in 2004 to boost The grave sites are concen- co-operation with Arab targeted for their trated in four provinces — Nine- Gulf countries. perceived opposition, wa, Kiruk, Salah al-Din and An- government ties bar — in the north and western and more. parts of the country, near the border with Syria. Islamic State had entrenched Beirut Estimates put the number of bodies buried there at around 1,500. itself in these areas until their defeat in December 2017 by Ira- DON’T MISS IT local official in Raqqa ers and recovery teams continue bodies buried there at around qi forces supported by a US-led says more than 500 bod- to locate mass graves around the 1,500. Hammoud Al Shawakh, coalition. A ies have so far been ex- northern city. a local official involved in the The United Nations estimates humed from one of the largest More than a month after dig- work, said Tuesday that 516 bod- between 6,000-12,000 bodies mass graves discovered near the ging began in the Panorama 28 ies have been exhumed. are contained in the 202 graves Imam murder Syrian city, once the capital of mass grave, forensic teams con- mass graves have been A few weeks ago, more than documented in the report. convict loses plea the Daesh group’s self-styled tinue to lift bodies believed to excavated so far, said 200 mass graves have been un- But exact numbers were dif- 03 as court upholds caliphate. have been buried there during reports quoting local covered in Iraq in areas formerly ficult to establish, it said, since Raqqa was liberated in a US- the four-month campaign to lib- official sources. controlled by Islamic State mili- only 28 mass graves have been death sentence backed campaign that ended erate Raqqa. tants. The dead include women, excavated so far, with just 1,258 more than a year ago, but rescu- Estimates put the number of children, the elderly and dis- bodies exhumed. Islamic banking not growing as ROYAL KNOT 04 expected: CBB Governor Derasat report Moscow beauty queen marries Malaysian King lauds govt Moscow at the Barvikha Luxury Village concert the royal wedding, Malaysian tabloids 05 efforts to fast- hall in one of Moscow’s most expensive have said. track economic Russian beauty queen has finally suburbs a “stunning Russian wedding.” Muhammad V and Voyevodina’s low- diversification met her king in far-away Malaysia. Photographs and videos posted by us- key ceremony incorporated elements A King Sultan Muhammad V, 49, ers on social media showed Sultan Mu- of both Malay and Russian cultures, the married Miss Moscow 2015 winner Oksa- hammad V wearing a traditional Malay Russian-language islamnews.ru news na Voyevodina, 25, in the Russian capital tunic and Voyevodina in a wedding gown website reported. late last week, Malaysian news outlets surrounded by several bridesmaids. “The wedding was non-alcoholic with reported. The King’s official residence has not Sultan Muhammad V with Voyevodina at the halal food,” the site said without citing Malaysian tabloids called the ceremony yet released an official statement about wedding ceremony. sources. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 02 HRH the Premier receives heads and representatives of a number of institutions, associations and civil society organisations, from European, Asian and African countries. Peace, the ultimate goal ‘Bahrain is an internationally-recognised land of co-existence, tranquility, as well as intellectual and cultural diversity’ Manama HRH Premier said that wars hand to those whose goals are to number of institutions, associ- support rapprochement among is Royal Highness and conflicts have left nothing achieve the Good, security and ations and civil society organ- peoples. Prime Minister Prince but destruction and devasta- stability for humanity. isations, from European, Asian The Prime Minister under- HKhalifa bin Salman Al tion, and they are the first ob- HRH Premier emphasised and African countries, that are We share the vision lined the importance of con - Khalifa has stressed that the stacle to peoples’ unity, and life that Bahrain is an internation- interested in promoting peace, on the need to work certed efforts to build a peaceful world is currently facing in - in love and peace. ally-recognised land of co-exist- co-existence and dialogue together for the sake world through collective coop- creasing challenges that pose “Peace is sought by everyone, ence, tranquility, as well as in- among cultures and peoples. of spreading peace eration and joint international a threat to security and stabil- and the ultimate goal of all those tellectual and cultural diversity. HRH Premier welcomed the action to address the causes of ity, calling on the Internation- who raise the motto of coexist- The Prime Minister made the visit of the advocates of peace to as a central value for tensions and build a better fu- al Community to draw lessons ence, diversity and acceptance statements while receiving, at the kingdom, noting that it is a realising the aspirations ture in which humanity would from the experiences of the of the other,” he said, affirming the Gudaibiya Palace yesterday, good opportunity for them to be of nations and peoples enjoy security and tranquility. past. that Bahrain always extends its heads and representatives of a informed closely about the love, for a more peaceful life. HRH Premier also tackled the coexistence and peace that HRH THE PREMIER latest regional and global devel- prevail across the Bahraini opments, and highlighted his vi- society.