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Fatal traffic accidents down by 50pc Boosting The deaths caused• by accidents came down from 7.36 for 100,000 people in 2013 to Islamic 3.66 in 2018, the official said, quoting WHO statistics.

Manama HRH the Premier chairs the Cabinet in the presence of HRH the Crown Prince. finance he number of fatal traffic Proposed amendment aims to provide legal coverage to Islamic financial services Taccidents in the King- dom has reduced by 50 per cent in the past five years, ter Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al nicipalities Affairs and Urban raini women’s creativity and said the Director-General The Cabinet, marking Khalifa in the presence of His Planning Ministry to study the contributions to achieving sus- of Traffic, Brigadier Abdul- • Royal Highness Prince Salman needs of the citizens in Hamad tainable development in the rahman bin Abdulwahab Al the International bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Town, Qalali, Muharraq, Zal- Kingdom. Khalifa. Women’s Day 2019, Prince, Deputy Supreme Com- laq, Al Lawzi and Manama in The session endorsed a rec- The deaths caused by ac- lauded the giant mander and First Deputy Pre- 16 the fields of health, education, ommendation by the Civil Ser- cidents came down from 7.36 mier, discussed amending the projects will be housing, municipal work, urban vice Council, chaired by HRH leaps and successes implemented on a priority for 100,000 people in 2013 to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) development, infrastructure and the Crown Prince, to modify basis to improve the 3.66 in 2018, the official said, made by the Kingdom and Financial Institutions Law, environment. the organisational structure of regarding its women quality of government quoting WHO statistics. with the aim of keeping pace services to the citizens. In a related context, the Prime the secretariat-general of the The rate is the lowest in empowerment with international financial regu- Minister instructed the Works, Supreme Council for Youth and the Gulf region and the Mid- programmes. lations and providing better pro- Municipalities Affairs and Ur- Sports, through creating a direc- dle East and reflects the con- tection for financial institutions. ban Planning Ministry to find tor-general post, with the rank tinuation of the reduction of The Prime Minister The amendment also aims to Among other things, HRH the urgent solutions to the needs of of undersecretary. Two existing serious traffic accidents as • provide legal coverage to Islamic Prime Minister directed five the Saar villages regarding ser- directorates will report to the results of steps of monitoring instructed the Works, financial services, consolidate ministries to study 16 service vices, a post-session statement director-general. wrong practices and aware- Municipalities Affairs control texts related to insti- projects that would improve the by the Cabinet Secretary-Gen- Another recommendation ness activities. and Urban Planning tutions that are subjects to the quality of government servic- eral, Dr Yasser Al Nasser, said. by the Civil Service Council to The achievements were CBB’s supervision, and deepen es across the Kingdom, as part The Cabinet, marking the In- modify the organisational struc- as result of the directives of Ministry to find urgent the requirements of fiscal sta- of his positive response to the ternational Women’s Day 2019, ture of the Labour Market Reg- Interior Minister and Chair- solutions to the needs bility. remarks made by a number of lauded the giant leaps and suc- ulatory Authority (LMRA) was man of the Supreme Council of the Saar villages. The session decided to refer lawmakers, whom he received cesses made by the Kingdom also approved. Under the move, for Traffic, General Shaikh a draft-law on amending some recently. regarding its women empow- the deputies of LMRA’s Chief Ex- Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khal- Manama provisions of the Central Bank In this regard, HRH Premier erment programmes, which re- ecutive Officer will be reduced ifa to set plans to limit wrong of Bahrain and Financial Institu- gave directives to Health Min- flected positively on the status of to three instead of four, and the traffic accidents. tions Law, promulgated by Law istry, Justice, Islamic Affairs Bahraini women at the political, number of directorate will re- He said that despite the he Cabinet session yester- 64/2006, to the Ministerial Com- and Endowments Ministry, legislative, legislative and gov- main unchanged, but some of increase in the number of day chaired by His Royal mittee for Legal and Legislative Education Ministry, Housing ernmental fields, among others. them will be renamed or trans- vehicles by 36 per cent in THighness Prime Minis- Affairs. Ministry and the Works, Mu- The session lauded the Bah- ferred to other sectors. the last five years, the acci- dents in general reduced by 21.55pc and the fatal acci- TOUGH ACTION dents by 30pc, while the fa- talities dropped by 38pc and injuries-related accidents NRIs deserting wives lose passports US closes Jerusalem consulate, among drivers by 41pc and passengers by 52pc. demoting Palestinian mission The Integrated Nodal• Agency (INA) The Ministry and made to look into the National Commission • The downgrade matter has been issuing for Women are taking is just the latest in Look-Out Circulars to every possible step to a string of divisive protect women in NRI decisions by the DON’T MISS IT absconding husbands. marriages. Trump administration New York MR SRIVASTAVA that have backed Israel and alienated Progress he government has can- including points like man - the Palestinians. of projects celled passports of 40 datory registration of NRI 02 Tnon-resident Indians marriages within one week Jerusalem The US Consulate in Jerusalem. reviewed or NRIs for abandoning their with penal consequences for wives, the Women and Child non-registration, would be “This decision was driven by ‘Serial killer’ Development Ministry has placed before the Cabinet for he United States has our global efforts to increase not mentally ill, said. its approval. officially shuttered its This decision was driven the efficiency and effectiveness 03 reveals mental The Integrated Nodal Agen- Another clause includes Tconsulate in Jerusalem, by our global efforts to of our diplomatic engagements cy (INA) made to look into the amendments in passport rules downgrading the status of its and operations,” State Depart- health report matter has been issuing Look- to facilitate its cancellation for main diplomatic mission to the increase the efficiency ment spokesman Robert Pallad- Out Circulars to absconding absconders, the official said. Palestinians by folding it into and effectiveness of our ino said in a statement. “It does Ministers sign husbands in cases of NRI mar- “The WCD Ministry and the US Embassy to Israel. diplomatic engagements not signal a change of US policy Arab agreement riages and till now, 8 LoCs NCW(National Commission For decades, the consulate and operations. on Jerusalem, the West Bank, or have been issued and 40 pass- for Women) are taking every functioned as a de facto embas- the Gaza Strip.” ROBERT PALLADINO 04 against ports have been impounded by possible step to protect wom- sy to the Palestinians. Now, that When first announced by trafficking in the External Affairs Ministry, en in NRI marriages. We serve outreach will be handled by a er and fundraiser for the West US Secretary Mike Pompeo in humans a senior official said. as a nodal point of contact Palestinian affairs unit, under Bank settler movement and October, the move infuriated The agency is chaired by for grievances received from the command of the embassy. fierce critic of the Palestinian Palestinians, fuelling their sus- secretary in the Women and women on the dedicated email The symbolic shift hands leadership. picions that the US was recog- Child Development Ministry, address [email protected] authority over US diplomatic The announcement from the nising Israeli control over east Rakesh Srivastava. and coordinate the redressal channels with the West Bank State Department came early Jerusalem and the West Bank, The WCD Ministry has also system,” the WCD said in a and Gaza to ambassador David Monday in Jerusalem, the merg- territories that Palestinians seek said that a detailed proposal, tweet. Friedman, a longtime support- er effective that day. for a future state. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 02

His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa received at Gudaibiya Palace yesterday His Royal On behalf of His Majesty King Hamad, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier. Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday received a letter from the President of the Islamic They discussed local issues and progress in implementing citizen-oriented projects. HRH the Premier and HRH the Crown Republic of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The letter was delivered to HRH the Crown Prince by the Minister of Prince affirmed that the Kingdom has brought about numerous achievements in the prosperous era of His Majesty King Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and the President of Mauritania’s Special Envoy, Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed. During Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, underlining development at all political, economic and social levels. They stressed fast-paced the meeting, which took place at the Al Gudaibiya Palace, HRH the Crown Prince and Mauritania’s Minister of Foreign progress in Bahrain despite challenges, pointing out the government’s ongoing efforts to press ahead with growth, secure Affairs discussed Bahrain-Mauritania bilateral relations, and highlighted the importance of exploring new avenues for present requirements and the needs of the future and promote the pioneering status of the nation. increasing collaboration across different areas and sectors.

Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of His Majesty the King and President of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), patronised yesterday the opening of a heritage exhibition organised by Bahrain Society for Women Development under the theme “Vision and History at the Palace of late Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. HRH Princess Sabeeka stressed the importance of holding such specialised exhibitions which cast light on national heritage and preserve it as an inherent part of Bahrain’s identity. She pointed out the need to inform the youth about their rich folkloric heritage and boost their sense of belonging.

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan yesterday received MPs Dr Hisham Ahmed Al Ashiri, Fadhil Abbas Al Sawad and Ammar Hussain Abbas, and discussed co-operation to enhance Bahraini youth employment in the labour market. The minister said the National Employment Programme has attracted many unlisted jobseekers, who have benefited from the training programmes offered by the ministry in collaboration with the Labour Fund (Tamkeen), in addition to gaining access to benefits of the unemployment insurance before getting them engaged in the private sector institutions.

Staff at the American Mission Hospital conducted free health check-ups for the elderly at the UCO Elderly Care in Hidd. Many elderly people took part in the health check-up drive.

Yathra Samithi, a grouping of expatriates from the Indian state of Kerala, has made a request to Dr Sashi Tharoor, Member of the Indian Parliament, to resume the services of Air India flights between the Kingdom and Trivandrum. Dr Tharoor, who was a senior ranking UN official and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, is on a visit to the Kingdom. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 03 Airline staff held ‘Serial killer’ not mentally ill, with 10 kg hashish

drugs across the country along reveals mental health report The defendant was with two others, one of whom • is hiding in Turkey. put on trial before Their illegal activities came 25-year-old Bahraini now faces death penalty for committing murders the High Criminal to light after the police received Court on charges of a tip-off, which revealed that to determine whether he was second victim, another Indian possessing drugs with the 51-year-old man was ped- The man was put responsible for his action. national Mohammed Khan, on an intent to use and sell. dling the drugs which were • The man is accused of attack- April 13 and the method was the brought to him by his accom- on trial over murder ing four Asian men, leaving two I knew he was dying. I same. plices. and robbery charges. of them dead. moved his body to take “On April 13, I saw an Asian • He was ordered to He is said to have been ar- The 25-year-old man told in- out his wallet from his man riding his cycle. I decided remain in the police rested in the village of Jurdab The body of the first vestigators that his crimes were trousers and it was empty. immediately to kill him. I brought detention for 15 days. after what was described as victim,• Indian national driven by hatred that stemmed the hammer from my car and I “heavy resistance” before po- after being sacked from his job. DEFENDANT drove my car in front of him. lice officers. Sajat Ali, was discovered “In my latest job I was drawing “I waited for him to pass by TDT | Manama During the questioning, the on March 29 in Tubli. a salary of BD300 monthly, but into an Asian man in Manama me and I pounced on him with 51-year-old employee denied he I was fired three months after – pinning him between two ve- the hammer. 51-year-old employee was selling drugs, although he TDT | Manama joining,” he said, in his statement hicles, according to court details. “I knew he was dying. I moved serving an airline com- admitted to consuming them, before prosecutors. The body of the first victim, his body to take out his wallet Apany was arrested for saying that he was buying them “This caused me to hate ex- Indian national Sajat Ali, was dis- from his trousers and it was emp- possessing more than 10 kilo- from a fugitive. suspected Bahraini serial patriates because they were still covered on March 29 in Tubli. ty,” he said. grams of hashish as well as The defendant was put on killer is now facing death working, while I was fired. In his statement, the defendant The suspect was arrested after 100 gram of another narcotic trial before the High Criminal Apenalty after a report on “I, then decided to kill as many described sneaking up on Mr Ali the police launched a manhunt substance at his house, it was Court on charges of possessing his mental state confirmed that of them I could.” from behind before repeatedly following the discovery of dead revealed. drugs with an intent to use and he was responsible for his actions. The suspect began his crime smashing his head with the ham- bodies of his victims. According to police inves- sell. The defendant was ordered saga by mugging an Asian man in mer. The man was put on trial over tigations, that defendant was He was ordered to remain in earlier to be mentally evaluated Karbabad before he drove his car The suspect murdered his murder and robbery charges. promoting the sale of banned the police detention for 15 days.

Court revises charge slapped on murder accused TDT | Manama slaughter due to lack of evidence. I went outside and asked him was motionless as his head hit “My client is absolutely inno- “The doctor who examined The defendant is said to have what he wanted,” the accused the ground hard. He was an - cent because he didn’t do any- the accused man told us that the he High Criminal Court killed the victim after the latter man told prosecutors. nounced dead at the hospital thing that caused the death of the head knock didn’t have anything has revised the charge broke into his house while in an However, the victim alleged- after a few days,” the GCC na- defendant. He was only trying to to do with his death which was Tslapped on a GCC man ac- inebriated state. ly attacked the defendant, who tional added. defend himself because he was attributed to pneumonia. cused in a murder case. “While I was, at night, sitting in turn responded, causing his The defendant’s lawyer Islam attacked by the drunk victim. It’s “He affirmed that the victim’s The defendant was initially with my wife and children, my death. Ghunaim argued that his client only normal that a man would head injury had completely charged with beating another cook came to me and told me “He tried to pounce on me. had only acted in self-defence react in this manner to protect healed,” Ghunaim concluded, man to death, but his accusation that a drunk man was attempting But I held him and threw him and didn’t intend to harm an- himself,” Ghunaim told judges at insisting his client shouldn’t be has been now changed to man- to forcefully enter our house. to the ground. Suddenly, he ybody. the High Criminal Court. charged in this case.

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Customs Affairs, iGA sign Ministers sign Arab agreement agreement

Both sides agreed• to promote against trafficking in humans partnership in systems development Arab ministers vow solidarity to tackle challenges faced by the region to enhance the quality of Tunis co-operation to tackle increasing customs services challenges. and automating unisian President Beji He highlighted the importance procedures related to Caid Essebsi received of further Arab cooperation and customs clearance. TArab Interior and Justice coordination, especially in the Ministers yesterday at the joint field of counter-terrorism. meeting of the Arab Interior and He also highlighted the impor- Manama Justice Councils, held as part of tance of stronger joint efforts to the efforts to reinforce regional exchange information and dry ustoms Affairs Presi- security and judicial work. up terrorists’ resources, including Cdent, Shaikh Ahmed bin Interior Minister General the prevention of Iranian inter- Hamad Al Khalifa and the Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al ference in the internal affairs of Information and eGovern- Khalifa and Justice, Islamic Af- Arab countries. ment Authority (iGA) Chief fairs and Endowments Minister He said that the Iran’s expan- Executive, Mohamed Ali Al Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa sionist ambitions and its support Qaed have signed an agree- took part in the meeting which for terrorist crimes required seri- ment for the level of servic- was inaugurated by the Tunisian ous Arab work through taking an es between the two sides. Head of Government Youssef Arab stand and clear-cut steps in Al Qaed asserted the Chahed. view of the Arab countries’ com- importance of supporting In his speech, the Tunisian Pre- mon destiny. all government initiatives mier stressed that cross-border In the same context, the Justice to enhance performance challenges needed closer coor- Minister said that Bahrain’s par- and the experience of the dination, necessary mechanisms, ticipation in the meeting showed beneficiaries through the unified efforts and human and its faith in the importance of joint government organisations’ financial resources to ensure the Arab efforts, especially in the cur- adoption of the latest tech- security and safety of all nations. rent climate of regional challeng- nologies. He also stressed on coordi- General Shaikh Rashid, Shaikh Khalid sign the agreement. es that called for Arab solidarity He hailed the remarka- nation between law-enforcing and an increasing capability to ble development of the cus- agencies and independence of the tions working jointly. to the Arab organisations work- Combating of Maritime Piracy overcome the obstacles facing the toms services thanks to the judiciary. He hoped for further These included the Riyadh ing jointly. and Armed Robbery as part of Arab action. ongoing supervision of the strengthening of ties between Agreement on Arab Judicial Meanwhile, the Interior Min- the Arab Convention against He also said the meeting sig- President of Customs that Arab security and judicial organ- Cooperation, the Arab Coun- ister, Justice Minister and their Transnational Organised Crime, nified the integration of secu- led to the introduction of isations to improve the quality of ter-terrorism Agreement, the Arab counterparts signed the the Arab Agreement to Regulate rity and judiciary in order to comprehensive e-services. work being done. Arab Strategy against Extremism Arab Protocol Against Traffick- Organ Transplants, and the Arab take united stands and improve Both sides agreed to pro- The Arab Interior and Justice and the Arab Agreement against ing of Persons, Especially Women Agreement to Prevent and Fight their performance. The meeting mote partnership in systems Ministers discussed the agenda Money Laundering and Terror- and Children. Human Cloning. was attended by Bahraini Am- development to enhance the related to the activation of Arab ism Financing. This supplements the Arab The Interior Minister affirmed bassador to Tunisia Ebrahim quality of customs services security and judicial agreements, The meeting decided to take a Convention against Transna- that the activation of the Arab se- Mahmood Ahmed Abdullah and and automating procedures counter-terrorism strategies and number of decisions that would tional Organised Crime, the Arab curity and judicial agreement was the delegations accompanying related to customs clear- decisions of the Arab organisa- be referred for implementation Protocol for the Prevention and a practical step to reinforce Arab both the ministers. ance. Beehive Bahrain Workshop on climate launch announced change begins at AGU TDT | Manama sourcing has a significant role he Economic Develop- to play an additional source ment Board of Bahrain Beehive will also of funding for businesses that (EDB) and Beehive yes- have previously been depend- T create a new route terday announced the launch of ent on bank finance. Beehive, a debt-based crowd- for investors to “Beehive will also create a funding platform, in Bahrain gain exposure to new route for investors to gain which will open up new fund- the growth in the exposure to the growth in the ing avenues for SMEs and help Kingdom’s SMEs, Kingdom’s SMEs, complement- drive innovation across the complementing ing existing platforms such One of the sessions in progress at the workshop. Kingdom and region. as the Bahrain Investment Beehive, launched in Dubai existing Market, which is tailored to TDT | Manama the area of training experts and port all environmental causes in 2014, is MENA’s first regulat- platforms such fast-growing businesses.” specialists in many academic in West Asia, especially climate ed peer to peer lending plat- as the Bahrain Craig Moore, Beehive CEO, rabian Gulf Universi- and scientific fields, including change, which is considered to form and one of the region’s Investment added: “We’re delighted to col- ty (AGU) President Dr the preparation and issuance of have the greatest impact on the leading fintech pioneers. Market. laborate with EDB to bring the AKhalid Al Ohaly yester- climate change reports. countries of the region. It uses innovative crowd - MS BUHEJJI Beehive platform to Bahrain, day opened a training workshop He welcomed the participat- Dr Al Jenaid said the work- funding technology to elimi- offering pioneering business- on climate change, organised by ing delegations saying: “The shop will be focused on the nate the cost and complexity es fast, affordable alternative the university in co-operation university’s doors are open to commitment of developing of conventional finance by The license, which is the first finance. Our mission aligns with the United Nations En- cooperate with governmental countries to the UNFCCC and connecting businesses directly of its kind in the Kingdom, is with the Kingdom’s vision and vironment’s West Asia Office. institutions, ministries and spe- Paris Agreement, as it discusses with investors. a reflection of the CBB’s con- strategy to assist the growth The workshop aims to dis- cialised bodies in all GCC coun- the updated periodic reports to The result is a more effi - tinuous efforts in providing of SMEs, supporting them cuss the climate change and the tries, enabling them of address- be delivered by the signatories cient, streamlined process that an optimal mix of policies and through improved access to fi- obligations of developing coun- ing all issues of concern across of the Convention and the ob- gives businesses faster access products to improve the qual- nance, which is crucial to their tries to fulfil the United Nations the GCC region. The university ligatory national contributions to lower cost loans and inves- ity and competitiveness of ser- development and success.” Framework Convention on Cli- is proud to contribute to the mentioned in it. tors better returns on their vices in the financial sector.” Beehive’s launch in Bahrain mate Change (UNFCCC) and the preparation of environmental She added that the workshop money and diversified risk. Dalal Buhejji Business De- follows new regulation issued Paris Agreement. and climatic reporting special- includes intensive training ses- Khalid Hamad, Executive velopment, Financial Services, by the Central Bank of Bah - In the opening ceremony, ists.” sions that assist the participat- Director of Banking Supervi- Bahrain Economic Develop- rain (CBB) in 2017 to enable Dr Al Ohaly expressed and On her part, Head of the ing countries to prepare the sion at the CBB, commented: ment Board, further added: both conventional and Shari’a conveyed AGU’s delight to Geoinformatics Department required studies and main re- “We welcome Beehive’s de - “We are delighted to welcome compliant financing-based constantly host such training in AGU’s College of Graduate quirements of the convention. cision for selecting Bahrain Beehive to Bahrain, which crowdfunding for small and workshops, which add to the Studies Dr Sabah Al Jenaid, The workshop will be pre- to establish the first financ - has long recognised the im - medium-sized businesses. Un- knowledge and expertise of the who is also the coordinator of sented and supervised by UN- ing-based crowdfunding plat- portance of entrepreneurship der the CBB regulation, Bah- participating delegations from the workshop, affirmed that FCCC and Kyoto Protocol Com- form operator, which is a step as a high-potential driver of rain-based Peer-to-Businesses different GCC States, including hosting the workshop by AGU pliance Committee Member forward in promoting the SMEs economic diversification and crowdfunding platforms are Kuwait, Oman, the UAE and the reflects the continuous coop- Mohammed Al Aalim and the and start-ups via facilitating growth. Access to finance is able to fund startups and SMEs Kingdom of Bahrain. eration between the Kingdom World Programme for Devel- the link to the investors for se- an essential element of any in Bahrain as well as regionally Dr Al Ohaly also reiterated on and the United Nations Envi- opment Management Co-ordi- curing the required financing. start-up ecosystem and crowd- and internationally. the university’s rich history in ronment Programme to sup- nator Vincent Yu. 05 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 world

Pakistan airspace fully reopened Islamabad, Pakistan Dutch recall envoy from Iran akistan fully reopened its Pairspace yesterday, author- ities said, days after it closed its skies to all air travel, leav- ing thousands stranded world- in murder plot row: minister wide as tensions with nuclear arch-rival India soared. regime opponents. Iranian embassy workers in The decision to close the Recall follows Dutch authorities accused June 2018 “due to strong indica- airspace came last Wednes- • Iran in January of involvement tions from (Dutch intelligence) day after a rare aerial dogfight dispute over an alleged in the murder of two dissidents that Iran has been involved in between India and Pakistan. plot to assassinate on Dutch soil in 2015 and 2017, the liquidations on Dutch ter- “All airports across Pakistan regime opponents and the EU slapped sanctions on ritory of two Dutch people of are operational and airspace Tehran over the killings. Iranian origin.” reopened,” a spokeswoman for Dutch authorities Foreign Minister Stef Blok Iran had informed Dutch au- the Civil Aviation Authority said in a letter to parliament thorities of the decision to expel told AFP Monday, adding the accused• Iran in January Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi that the government “has de- the two diplomats on February process had been completed before their last contact with their of involvement in cided to recall the Netherlands’ 20 and they were deported back by 1:00 pm (0800 GMT). team (Courtesy of BBC) the murder of two ambassador to Tehran for con- to the Netherlands on Sunday, The closure disrupted major dissidents on Dutch soil sultations” over the row. Blok said. routes between Europe and The government has Iran’s decision to expel the The Dutch had also sum - South Asia, with mounting world, as rescue teams were Dutch officials -- which was not moned the Iranian ambassador frustration from passengers forced to wait for permission The Hague, Netherlands decided to recall previously announced in public over the issue, Blok said. stranded at international air- to send up a helicopter. the Netherlands’ -- was “not acceptable and is Dutch police have previously ports. The climbers, Daniele Nar- he Netherlands said yes- ambassador negative for the development named the two murder victims It also delayed attempts di and Tom Ballard, were last terday it had recalled its to Tehran for of the bilateral relationship,” as Ali Motamed, 56, who was to search for a British and heard from on February 24. Tambassador from Tehran consultations Blok said. killed in the central city of Alm- an Italian climber who went Fresh rescue attempts had to after Iran expelled two Dutch He said Iran’s move was it- ere in 2015, and Ahmad Mol- missing on Nanga Parbat, Pa- be called off over the weekend STEF BLOK diplomats in an dispute over self a tit-for-tat response to the la Nissi, 52, murdered in The kistan’s “killer mountain” and due to bad weather amid grow- an alleged plot to assassinate FOREIGN MINISTER Netherlands’ expulsion of two Hague in 2017. the ninth highest peak in the ing fears for their survival.

Huawei’s Up to 100 still feared Egypt rescues 2,000-year old Meng lodges catacombs from rising water complaint trapped in gold mine against Canada

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hinese telecoms giant CHuawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, has filed suit against Canadi- Rescuers continuing operationt in an attempt to reach trapped miners after an authorities for violating the February 26 landslide at an illegal gold mine in the Bolaang Mongondow her constitutional rights region of North Sulawesi. when she was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia Vancouver, her lawyers said they made no mention of con- Sunday. tinuing efforts to get food and As she suffered “serious ndonesian authorities water to any possible survi- breaches of her constitu- Iwarned yesterday that up vors. tional rights,” she is “seek- to 100 people could still be National disaster agency ing damages for misfea - trapped and feared dead inside spokesman Sutopo Purwo sance in public office and a collapsed illegal gold mine Nugroho said the number of false imprisonment” when despite a painstaking rescue miners inside the shafts at the detained at Vancouver In- effort that has so far plucked 19 time of the accident was still ternational Airport on De- people alive from the rubble, not known as survivors had cember 1, attorneys Howard but also seen nine deaths. given varying tallies. Mickelson and Allan Doolit- Search teams at the unli- “Some say 30 people, 50, 60 tle said in a statement. censed mine on Sulawesi is- people -- even 100 people, be- The 47-year-old business- land have been hampered by cause at the time there were woman was changing planes steep terrain, unstable soil and many in the main pit (and) ... in Vancouver when she was dangerously narrow mining an unknown number in the detained at Washington’s shafts since a landslide caused smaller ones,” he said in a request on suspicion of vio- the accident last Tuesday. statement. lating US sanctions on Iran While authorities said the Because of the precarious A view of a statue inside the catacombs of Kom Visitors tour through the catacombs of Kom El-Shoqafa (Mound of -- sparking arrests of Ca- search and rescue effort would conditions, rescue workers El-Shoqafa (Mound of Shards) Shards), dating to the Roman period (1st-4th centuries AD) in the nadians in China that were continue for another week, initially had to dig by hand centre of the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria seen as retaliatory. to try to reach any survivors, Her lawyers charge im- but relatives of those trapped Alexandria, Egypt The catacombs, which helped “end a problem threat- propriety in the conditions last week gave permission for were in use from the first to ening the area for more than under which Meng was in- heavy-duty machinery to be the fourth century AD, are re- 100 years”. terrogated for three hours deployed. gypt on Sunday announced nowned for funerary architec- Thomas Nichols, an engineer by the customs officers, KNOW WHAT Although mechanised dig- Ethe completion of a project ture blending ancient Egyptian, involved in the project, called it officially as part of a rou- gers cleared debris from the to save famed 2,000-year old Greek and Roman art. “a unique programme where we tine inspection, before be- entrance of one hole on Sun- catacombs in the costal city of The rising water prompt- blended archaeology and civil ing served with her official day, they found no more sur- Alexandria from rising waters. ed Egypt to launch a massive engineering together”. arrest. Mineral-rich Indonesia vivors. The Kom al-Shoqafa location, drainage project supported by Egypt has in recent years The complaint was lodged has scores of unlicensed The accident happened in considered by archaeologists the United States Agency for sought to promote archaeologi- Friday, the same day that mines -- many with the Bolaang Mongondow re- to be the largest Greco-Roman International (USAID) in 2017. cal discoveries across the coun- Canadian justice officially complete disregard for gion of North Sulawesi, where burial site in Egypt, has been Antiquities Minister Khaled try in a bid to revive tourism hit launched Meng Wanzhou’s even the most basic five miners were killed in De- threatened by water since its al-Anani told reporters at the by the turmoil that followed its extradition process to the cember after a similar illegal discovery in 1900. site that the programme had 2011 uprising. United States. safety procedures. gold mine accident. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 06

Vatican to open archives of WWII pope Pius XII in 2020 Vatican City, Holy See Putin suspends INF ope Francis announced Pyesterday that the Vatican will open the secret archives of Pius XII in March next year, which could shed light on his actions during World War II. Researchers have long sought to examine the archives arms treaty with US to discover why Pius XII (1939- 1958) did not intervene more Europe following the collapse against the Holocaust perpe- The deal banned of the treaty, saying Moscow trated by the German Nazis, an • would consider it a “serious attitude denounced by Jewish missiles with a range of threat”. groups as a form of passive 500 to 5,500 kilometres US Secretary of State Mike complicity. Pompeo dismissed the threats “I have decided that the AFP | Moscow, Russia as “bluster” designed to divide opening of the Vatican Ar - Washington and its allies. chives for the Pontificate of Pope Francis (file) Brokered by US president Pius XII will take place on 2 uate “in the proper light and resident Vladimir Putin Ronald Reagan and Soviet March 2020,” the pope said. with appropriate criticism, yesterday officially sus- leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the The date is the 81st anniver- the praiseworthy moments of Ppended Russia’s partic- the treaty,” it said. Putin responded soon after. INF treaty ended a superpower sary of the election of Eugenio the Pontiff and, without any ipation in a key Cold War-era Moscow and Washington have He said Russia would seek to buildup of warheads that had Pacelli to the papacy. doubt, also moments of seri- arms treaty, after the US first accused one another of breach- develop medium-range missiles frightened Europe. “The Church is not afraid of ous difficulties, of tormented moved to ditch the INF deal. ing the Intermediate-Range in response to what he said were It banned ground-launched history,” added Francis, recall- decisions...”. Putin “signed a decree regard- Nuclear Forces agreement con- similar projects in the US. missiles with a range of 500 to ing that Pius XII found himself For many historians, pope ing the suspension of Russia’s cluded between the US and the In his state of the nation ad- 5,500 kilometres (300 to 3,400 as head of the Roman Catholic Pius XII could have con- participation in the agreement former Soviet Union in 1987. dress last month, Putin threat- miles). NATO has said that US Church “at one of the saddest demned more forcefully the between the USSR and the US,” US President Donald Trump ened to deploy new missiles allies “fully support” its with- and darkest moments of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis, the Kremlin said in a statement. said in February that Wash - against Western capitals. drawal from the pact, insisting 20th century”. but failed to do so out of dip- The move was taken follow- ington would start a process to The longtime Russian lead- that Russia’s 9M729 ground- Francis said he made the de- lomatic caution and to avoid ing “a violation of the United withdraw from the deal within er warned Washington against launched cruise missile systems cision confident that serious putting Catholics in danger in States of its obligations under six months. deploying any new missiles in violate the treaty. historical research would eval- occupied Europe.

Japan okays research using ‘Kenduren’ festival human cells in animals Malaysian Tokyo, Japan CEO’s widow, stepsons apan has given the green Jlight to a controversial re- charged with search process involving im- planting animals with human his murder stem cells that could eventual- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia ly help grow human organs for transplant inside animal hosts. The decision by the edu - he widow and teenage cation and science ministry Tstepsons of a Malaysian Friday to revise its guidelines CEO who died last year were means Japanese researchers charged with his murder can now apply for permits to Representative picture (Courtesy of yesterday, in a shocking carry out studies employing Al Arabia) twist to a case that has cap- the technique, a ministry of- days “due to ethical concerns tivated the country. ficial said. over the vague line between Nazrin Hassan was the The process involves im- human beings and animals,” chief executive of Cradle planting embryonic animals, the official said. Fund, a Malaysian firm that likely first pigs, with human The old regulations also is an agency of the finance “induced pluripotent stem” prevented researchers from ministry and invests in (iPS) cells, which can trans- placing the embryos into an- start-ups. form into the building blocks imal wombs to allow them to He died at his home out- of any part of the body. develop. side Kuala Lumpur in June The idea is for the iPS cells Researchers will now, for last year. It was initially to grow into transplantable instance, be allowed to create thought he was killed after human organs inside the ani- animal embryos with a human his mobile phone exploded mal embryos. pancreas and transplant it into Participants parade with heaps of durians, hailed as the “king of fruits” by fans, during the ‘Kenduren’ festival in and started a fire. Japan had previously re - the womb of a pig, which could Jombang, East Java. The annual festival, held as thanksgiving for the good harvest of the fruit, attracts many tourists But the fire and rescue de- quired researchers to termi- in theory result in the birth from the region. Grown across tropical Southeast Asia, the durian is hailed as the “king of fruits” by fans who liken its partment later found traces nate animal embryos implant- of a baby pig with a human creamy texture and intense aroma to blue cheese, but many detractors liken their intense aroma to sewage or sweaty of petrol at the scene, and ed with human cells after 14 pancreas. socks. his death was reclassified as murder. His wife, 43-year-old Samirah Muzaffar, and her two sons from a previous marriage, aged 13 and 16, Philippines seizes 1,500 rare turtles in luggage were arrested in the early Manila, Philippines hours yesterday. vation of Nature. They were later brought ome 1,500 live exotic turtles The turtles confiscated on to a magistrates court out- S-- some restrained with duct- Sunday were likely destined to side the capital. tape -- have been found inside an be sold in the Philippines or A fourth person, an In- airline passenger’s luggage, Phil- smuggled to other countries us- donesian woman reported ippines authorities said Monday, ing false documents, environ- to be the family’s maid, was as they vowed a crackdown on ment officials said. also charged in absentia the lucrative wildlife trade. “It’s for business purposes. with murder. The turtles and tortoises were Those turtles are expensive. It’s A murder conviction found at Manila airport on Sun- such a lucrative business. There carries a mandatory death day in the luggage of a Filipi- are buyers and collectors who penalty in Malaysia. The no passenger, who had arrived treat them as pets,” environment government that took pow- from Hong Kong, hidden among undersecretary Benny Antipor- er last year has pledged to clothes and shoes. da told. abolish capital punishment The person fled before au - “We are stepping up our all- for all crimes, but parlia- thorities could confront him, Bureau of Customs public relations office shows turtles found inside a suitcase, covered with duct tape out drive against the black mar- ment still has to vote on customs officials said. “We saw ket of endangered species.” amending the law. the images from the x-ray (ma- not to hurt them because duct who could face charges of violat- pesos ($87,000), the customs Antiporda added the Philip- Cradle Fund was set up chine),” Manila airport customs tape was used to immobilise the ing the nation’s illegal wildlife bureau said. pines would ask Chinese author- in 2003 and has invested in chief Carmelita Talusan said. turtles.” trading law, which carry a max- Among the animals found ities whether they wanted to hundreds of tech start-ups, “We never expected it would Talusan said the matter was imum two years in prison. were the Indian Star Tortoise, take back the confiscated turtles including the forerunner of reach as many as 1,530,” Talusan under investigation and authori- The turtles seized were esti- classified as “vulnerable” by the which were being quarantined Southeast Asia’s dominant said. “Our staff were taking care ties had identified the passenger, mated to be worth 4.5 million International Union for Conser- and treated in Manila. ride-hailing app, Grab. 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Ghosn family calls on UN to help Syria force evacuates ‘human shields’ release him AFP | Baghouz, Syria tackers blew themselves up be- fore reaching SDF positions and urdish-led forces sup- three car bombs detonated at a ported by air strikes from distance, the Kurdish-led forces Kan international coali- said. tion evacuated civilians held as SDF officers perched on roof- “human shields” yesterday after tops have been receiving in- smashing their way into the ji- formation on IS positions from hadists’ last scrap of territory in elite units, and passing them Paris, France eastern Syria. on to the coalition to call in air The Syrian Democratic Forces strikes. and its allies from the US-led co- IS has lost several of its posi- he family of former in- alition unleashed a deluge of fire tions in such strikes since Friday Tdustrial tycoon Carlos on the village of Baghouz at the in Baghouz, a village nestled in a Ghosn, currently held in Ja- weekend to break the defences palm-lined bend of the Euphra- pan on tax evasion charges, of Islamic State group fighters tes River. is to appeal to the United in the final sliver of their “ca- Seven SDF members and 18 Nations in a bid to have him liphate”. jihadists have been killed in the released, one of his lawyers But the Kurdish-led force said fighting since the final push said yesterday. their offensive had been slowed started, the Syrian Observatory Ghosn, 64, formerly in down Monday due to remaining for Human Rights says. charge of the Nissan and civilians inside the pocket, and The capture of Baghouz would Renault carmakers, has an SDF spokeswoman said hun- mark the end of IS territorial been in detention since his dreds had been evacuated out control in the region and deal shock November 19 arrest, of the crumbling bastion in the a death blow to the “caliphate” and has tried repeatedly past 48 hours. People gather by freight cars of a train displaying military vehicles captured from Syrian rebels and jihadists at a railway proclaimed in 2014, which once without success to secure “More than 800 people exited station in Sevastopol, Crimea covered huge swathes of Syria bail. Baghouz from yesterday until and Iraq. “We have decided to ap- today -- IS family members and after days of mass evacuations, jihadists. towards the front line likely to At its peak more than four peal to those UN bodies fighters who surrendered,” she but SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali Three air strikes hit the village ferry out more rescued civilians. years ago, the proto-state creat- dealing with fundamental said. said yesterday the operation was of Baghouz earlier in the day, Despite being hugely out- ed by IS was the size of the Unit- rights compliance,” Fran- Through binoculars from an being hampered by the presence causing a huge cloud of grey numbered, jihadists making a ed Kingdom and administered cois Zimeray said, reading a SDF position outside the jihadist of more civilians in the besieged and black smoke to billow up desperate last stand in the riv- millions of people. statement issued by Ghosn’s holdout, a correspondent saw enclave. into the sky. erside hamlet -- most of them It minted its own currency, family. men kneeling on the ground be- “We’re slowing down the foreigners according to the SDF levied taxes, and designed its The appeal will be made fore boarding trucks, as well as offensive in Baghouz due to a Air strikes -- are putting up stiff resistance. own school curricula. to the Working Group on women clad in black and chil- small number of civilians held A reporter at the Omar oil They are using snipers, a net- The “caliphate” effectively Arbitrary Detention, which dren. as human shields,” he said. field, one of the main staging ar- work of tunnels, and suicide collapsed in 2017 when IS lost is overseen by the UN Hu- The push on IS’s last pocket Two SDF flags floated in the eas for the assault, earlier in the bombers to fight back. most of its major cities in both man Rights Council, he of territory had resumed Friday wind on a hill seized from the day saw empty trucks heading On Sunday, eight suicide at- countries. added.

US deploys THAAD missile in Israel Teen who defied parents to get vaccinated heads to US Congress Jerusalem, Undefined Chicago, United States when health experts are warn- Parents in 17 states are al - he United States has US high school student who ing of a global surge in measles lowed to opt out of vaccinations Tdeployed its advanced Ahad himself vaccinated de- cases -- preventable by vaccine for their children because of THAAD missile defence system spite his parents’ objections is -- brought on by conflict, com- their personal beliefs. Medical temporarily to Israel for a joint set to testify Tuesday before placency and the anti-vaccine and religious reasons also can military exercise, the first of its the US Congress about a surge movement. be cited to forego vaccinations. kind, officials said yesterday. in outbreaks of preventable dis- Lindenberger, who lives in “My mom didn’t believe that The two countries con - eases. Norwalk, Ohio, announced over vaccines were beneficial to the firmed the deployment, with THAAD launch (DefPost) Ethan Lindenberger says he the weekend that he was invited health and safety of society, and Israel’s military stressing it grew up in an “anti-vax house- to testify at a Tuesday hearing in believes that they cause autism, was “not related to any specific Israel has its own missile de- hold,” but decided to go against the US Senate over preventable brain damage and other compli- current event”. fence system, but the exercise his parents’ wishes to get vacci- disease outbreaks. cations,” Lindenberger said in a It is the first such exercise in aims in part to examine how to nated once he turned 18 and was He is scheduled to address the YouTube video posted over the Israel, although the two allies incorporate THAAD so that “we able to legally make the decision Senate Committee on Health, weekend. hold regular joint war games. are ready for any challenges in for himself. Education, Labor and Pensions, Ninety-eight countries re- No dates have been announced the future”, military spokes- The teen’s decision generated along with several health ex- ported more cases of measles for the manoeuvres. man Jonathan Conricus said. international headlines at a time Ethan Lindenberger perts. in 2018 compared with 2017.

For the day of silence Tornado kills 23 in Alabama Washington, United States

tornado tore through the Asouthern US state of Al- abama on Sunday, killing 23 people, uprooting trees and causing “catastrophic” damage to buildings and roads, a local sheriff said. “Unfortunately our toll, as far as fatalities, does stand at 23 at the current time” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told the local CBS affiliate, acknowledging that children were among the dead. Other people have been hos- pitalized, some with “very seri- ous injuries,” he had earlier told Damage is seen at a home from a tornado which killed at least 23 people in reporters. Beauregard, Alabama Search operations for those The swath of destruction while 16,000 suffered outages still missing were halted on left by the storm was a quarter in neighboring Georgia. Sunday night due to hazardous mile (0.4 kilometers) wide and Authorities warned the conditions, but Jones added stretched for the “several miles death toll could rise further they would resume on Monday that it traveled on the ground,” as rescuers search through morning. according to Jones. the debris in Beauregard, “The devastation is incredi- Still and video images showed about 60 miles (95 kilome - ble,” he said. trees that had been snapped in ters) east of the state capital “I cannot recall at least in the two, debris-strewn roads and Montgomery. last 50 years... a situation where wrecked houses in the wake of Television images showed the Balinese people gather at the beach during a Melasti ceremony prayer at Petitenget near Denpasar on Indonesia’s we have had this loss of life that the storm. heavy rain had relented by dusk resort island of Bali. Melasti is a purification festival which is held several days before “Nyepi”, the day of silence, we experienced today.” More than 6,000 homes were but many roads in the worst-hit when Hindus on the island of Bali are not allowed to work, travel or take part in any indulgence. The Indonesian holiday Wrecked houses, downed left without power in Alabama, areas were left littered with island of Bali shuts down for the day of silence to mark the Hindu new year on March 7. trees according to PowerOutage.US, debris and unpassable. WE SHOULD NOT GIVE UP QUOTE AND WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OF THE DAY THE PROBLEM TO DEFEAT US. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019

into a borderless market of 28 na- tions and more than a half-billion people that has brought peace, The official stability and an unprecedented, if uneven, prosperity to Europe. Britain’s decision to break from that is a curious act of self-harm, ROGER COHEN linked, like the election of Donald British Trump, to the desperation of our r and Mrs Average are times. said to live in this south- The country’s main political Mwestern English town parties, the Conservatives and better known as a political bell- Labour, buffeted by the Brexit policy? wether than for any charm. Its maelstrom, are in crisis — beset 54.7 per cent vote for Brexit in by desertions, insurrections and 2016 was one of the first results division. As elsewhere in West- announced, an early indicator of ern democracies shaken by the upheaval. failings of liberalism, hard-line Mayhem Now, with less than a month factions to the left and right have until the March 29 deadline for gained sway. They offer rekin- Britain to leave the European Un- dled socialism or make-Britain- ion, it’s again aligned with most great-again nationalism as the Trump is not forever. Brexit of the country, this time in its answer to inequality and ennui. cluelessness as to what is about The center looks weak, even if is. Britain’s youth oppose it. A to happen. defectors from Labour and the To paraphrase Churchill, much Conservative Parties last month decision of this import should invoked by Brexiteers as a symbol formed an Independent Group to be grounded in reality of the rule-Britannia greatness try to resurrect it. Parliamentary they believe will return once democracy, which is what Britain Britain is freed from its Europe- is, and democracy-by-plebiscite, an shackles: Never was so little which is what the 2016 vote was, known by so many about so much. are in a standoff: A sovereign Par- Britain is in a funk. “Just get liament has rejected May’s pro- this over with,” is a plea I heard posal, while advocates of Brexit, often from Brexit-battered Brits, on time and at any cost, bay about as if they were waiting to have the sacred irreversible “will of a limb amputated. After nearly the people.” Britain today poses three years, they’re done. All the the question of what 21st-century (essentially a fudge preserving “Let’s get on with it! A lot of peo- oxygen has been sucked from the democracy is. British participation in the sin- ple would see a delay as the lib- room by the Conservative Prime May and Jeremy Corbyn, the gle market and customs union eral elite establishment trying to Minister Theresa May’s flounder- Labour Party leader, have both for now); crash out of the union find a way to stay in the EU.” ing attempt to end the country’s made desperate concessions in like a lemming over a cliff; defer As a paid-up member of that 46-year membership in the Euro- the past week. They did so from a decision; hold a second vote; or establishment, I would see a delay pean Union. weakness. May’s acknowledg- some weird combination. and a second vote (one does not It’s not easy to make an egg ment that Brexit could be delayed I met with David Renard, the necessarily follow from the other) from an omelet, as Pascal Lamy, (the union would have to agree Tory leader of Swindon’s borough as an act of very British common the former head of the World to that and would want to know council. He’s getting impatient. sense. Trade Organisation, has ob - why) and Corbyn’s support for a He says he wants British sover- By focusing the zeitgeist’s every served. I grew up in a Britain second referendum (a grudging eignty back, rescued from a web frustration on Brussels, the “Take where “the Continent,” a faintly move from a lifelong Euroskeptic of European Union regulations. Back Control” campaign in 2016 distasteful geographical mass as- heading a pro-EU party) added to He thinks Britain should get out, was a brilliant exercise in emo- sociated with rabies and garlic, the mayhem. even without a deal. “The British tional transference. “Remain” was far away. The EU changed Anything is possible. That’s people voted to leave. It would equaled the status quo. To many that. Now, through finance, trade, now official. Britain could ap - be an affront to democracy if we people, for reasons that had little law and culture, Britain is mixed prove an amended May deal do not on March 29,” he told me. or nothing to do with the union, The ‘failed’ summit isn’t so funny in Seoul President Donald Trump and Kim cut short their parley, ending the summit with no agreement in hand

walk away rather than to promise too with immediate, real-world conse- much. According to the president, quences: They can spur the flow of North Korea had demanded a lifting refugees out of the North, undermine of all sanctions, to which Washington efforts by the South to send food and could not agree. A North Korean other humanitarian assistance, and official said Pyongyang asked for make it difficult to host inter-Kore- only “partial” sanctions relief. Wash- an family reunions. The pursuit of E TAMMY KIM ington’s North Korea watchers and a peace treaty — to replace the 1953 foreign policy experts — what Ben armistice, to which the United States utside the North Korean Em- Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s but not South Korea was a signatory bassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, a deputy national security adviser, has — would, beyond its symbolic value, Oglass case displaying an array called the Blob — concluded that the help dismantle the culture of milita- of patriotic photographs was report- summit was a failure and that Trump rism and anti-Communist paranoia edly reorganised just before Kim never should have met with Kim in that has, at times, justified repressive Jong Un’s arrival. The chairman’s the first place. The Blob was content. crackdowns in the South. portrait remained untouched at the Many South Koreans, however, felt Contrast that with Washington’s top of the vitrine, but the images of dismayed. Trump is no model states- view, which has hardly changed in fruit orchards and fishing boats had man, and his record as president has the almost seven decades since the been swapped out for those of facto- largely been reckless and cruel. Yet end of the Korean War. The consen- ries and a satellite antenna. A South in the Korean context, his bucking sus has favoured peninsular division, Korean reporter, standing outside of foreign policy tradition (born, un- mutual deterrence through a heavy the embassy, observed that the new doubtedly, of a quest for personal US military presence in the South pictures seemed “tailored to fit a glory) has at least drawn the North and, for the most part, neglect of summit — without an agreement on was worried that the lack of a deal Park Sun-song, a professor of North theme of Vietnamese-style reform into the global arena. the North. That changed only when nuclear policy, liaison offices, easing would provoke right-wing attacks on Korean studies at Dongguk Univer- and opening.” Seoul has never had the luxury of North Korea began its nuclear pro- sanctions or a peace declaration — President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who sity in Seoul, had expected small, Instead, President Donald Trump selective dealings with Pyongyang. gramme. Denuclearisation is the only was thus received as a blow by South has faced outlandish accusations of practical gains from the summit, and and Kim cut short their parley, end- North Korea’s nuclear stockpiles real priority for the United States, Korea and the global diaspora. Like propping up communism. Another not even this much was achieved. ing the summit Thursday with no are a less immediate threat than the the end point for all discussions with many of my relatives and colleagues friend, who is active in the South He emphasised that phrases such agreement in hand. Much of the US mass of conventional arms lining the Kim. But for South Korea’s president, in Asia, I was willing to look past Korean labor movement, cried in as “complete denuclearisation” and foreign policy establishment, includ- Demilitarised Zone, just across the denuclearisation is “a starting point the strongman theatrics, toward a disappointment as he watched from “reduced sanctions” are shorthand ing Democratic legislators, reacted border. For South Korea, sanctions for resolution of the Cold War on the deal that might meaningfully open New York. for the dozens of painstaking de- with smug surprise. Trump had been against the North are not simply a peninsula.” up North Korea. A friend in Seoul Other Korean observers, though, cisions that lie ahead, about which played, they said, but he was right to virtue-signalling device, but a policy The unceremonious end to the who works as an academic said she approached the summit with caution. facilities must be dismantled versus

Hon. Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Editor-in-Chief Mahmood AI Mahmood | Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ahdeya Ahmed | Chairman & Managing Director 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 WE SHOULD NOT GIVE UP TODAY 1046 1279 1496 1616 QUOTE AND WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW DAY IN OF THE Nasir Khusraw begins the seven- The Livonian Order is defeated King Henry VII of England issues Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the DAY THE PROBLEM TO DEFEAT US. HISTORY year Middle Eastern journey in the Battle of Aizkraukle by letters patent to John Cabot and Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM which he will later describe in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania his sons, authorising them to added to the Index of Forbidden Books TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 his book Safarnama. explore unknown lands. 73 years after it was first published.

into a borderless market of 28 na- second-largest employer, an- May and Jeremy Corbyn, “it’s far better to cooperate with tions and more than a half-billion nounced the closure of its plant, the Labour Party leader, neighbours and allies than ditch people that has brought peace, with the loss of 3,500 jobs. There them.” stability and an unprecedented, were various factors, including a have both made desperate With Lara Spirit, another stu- The official concessions in the past TOP if uneven, prosperity to Europe. free trade agreement Japan has dent on leave from college, Dry Britain’s decision to break from concluded with the European week. is a co-president of OFOC (Our that is a curious act of self-harm, Union (making manufacture in ROGER COHEN Future Our Choice — don’t try to linked, like the election of Donald Japan more attractive). Honda pronounce the acronym), a youth TWEETS4 British Trump, to the desperation of our did not cite the elephant on its movement that has sent a blue r and Mrs Average are times. production line: Brexit. bus around Britain emblazoned said to live in this south- The country’s main political Imagine you’re in a board meet- with the words “Please stand up 01 Mwestern English town parties, the Conservatives and ing in Tokyo looking at fathom- for our futures. Signed, young better known as a political bell- Labour, buffeted by the Brexit less uncertainty in Britain for the people.” The bus is a rebuke to the policy? wether than for any charm. Its maelstrom, are in crisis — beset foreseeable future: What would Brexiteers’ notorious red bus that, 54.7 per cent vote for Brexit in by desertions, insurrections and you decide? One angry Honda in 2016, spread the lie that more 2016 was one of the first results division. As elsewhere in West- worker, with 24 years at the Swin- than $462 million a week going to announced, an early indicator of ern democracies shaken by the don factory, had no doubt about the EU would be spent post-Brexit upheaval. failings of liberalism, hard-line the real culprit for his job loss: on the National Health Service. Mayhem Now, with less than a month factions to the left and right have “The government’s complete- least two years all the difficult de- “I’m confident there will be a ou will not remember until the March 29 deadline for gained sway. They offer rekin- ly incompetent handling of the cisions — Gyimah quit. “There’s second vote,” Spirit said. Yhow much money you Britain to leave the European Un- dled socialism or make-Britain- whole thing doesn’t help either, no majority for any option in Par- Polls suggest Britain would made throughout your ca- ion, it’s again aligned with most great-again nationalism as the does it?” he said in a Channel 4 liament,” he told me. “This has to now vote to stay in the European reer. However, you will re- Trump is not forever. Brexit of the country, this time in its answer to inequality and ennui. interview that went viral. “They go back to the people.” Union, perhaps by a 54-46 per- member every single per- cluelessness as to what is about The center looks weak, even if can’t even decide for themselves The people are restive. Renard cent margin. Hugo Dixon, the son that graciously opened is. Britain’s youth oppose it. A to happen. defectors from Labour and the what Brexit means. This is idiocy told me the Swindon council is deputy chairman of a grass-roots a career door for you. To paraphrase Churchill, much Conservative Parties last month of epic proportions.” “making plans for civil unrest as movement for a second referen- Opening doors for others is decision of this import should invoked by Brexiteers as a symbol formed an Independent Group to Idiocy aside, it’s not easy to exe- a precaution,” should Brexit be dum, suggested this slogan: “Fix important and meaningful be grounded in reality of the rule-Britannia greatness try to resurrect it. Parliamentary cute a decision based on mass de- delayed. it. Not Brexit.” work. Be a door opener. Be they believe will return once democracy, which is what Britain lusion. As Robert Smith, a Swin- Liberalism worked well for That’s good. Liberal democracy remembered. Britain is freed from its Europe- is, and democracy-by-plebiscite, don-based marketing director a while. It was good at freeing has failed too many of its citizens. @ValaAfshar an shackles: Never was so little which is what the 2016 vote was, for a law firm, told me: “The gig people from bigotry, sexism, rac- Brexit and Trump prove that. known by so many about so much. are in a standoff: A sovereign Par- economy is not Europe’s fault.” ism, nationalism and prejudice. It Elites have to acknowledge their Britain is in a funk. “Just get liament has rejected May’s pro- Nor is the migrant crisis, billion- was less good at providing people arrogant inattention. The answer 02 this over with,” is a plea I heard posal, while advocates of Brexit, aire-favouring taxes and stagnant with meaning to their lives, be- is to fix problems — in educa - often from Brexit-battered Brits, on time and at any cost, bay about wages. yond hedonism and materialism. tion, the health service, taxation as if they were waiting to have the sacred irreversible “will of “The European Union is our In 2008, with the financial cri- and uncontrolled immigration, to a limb amputated. After nearly the people.” Britain today poses national scapegoat,” Sam Gy- sis, the wheels came off. Those name a few. three years, they’re done. All the the question of what 21st-century (essentially a fudge preserving “Let’s get on with it! A lot of peo- that was an unattractive propo- Trump is not forever. Brexit imah, a Tory MP who quit May’s responsible walked away. A lot To return to Churchill, he de- oxygen has been sucked from the democracy is. British participation in the sin- ple would see a delay as the lib- sition. is. Britain’s youth oppose it. A government last November, told of people felt empty, and were clared in 1936 at another moment room by the Conservative Prime May and Jeremy Corbyn, the gle market and customs union eral elite establishment trying to As a practical matter, however, decision of this import should be me. As minister for Universities, drowning in debt. What had the of British wavering: “So they go resident Kovind pre- Minister Theresa May’s flounder- Labour Party leader, have both for now); crash out of the union find a way to stay in the EU.” the decision to leave has been a grounded in reality. Science, Research and Innova- elite ever done for them? Bigotry in strange paradox, decided only Psents Colours to Air ing attempt to end the country’s made desperate concessions in like a lemming over a cliff; defer As a paid-up member of that disaster. “Fantasy Brexit,” was I sat for a while outside the tion, Gyimah laboured hard to and nationalism made a storm- to be undecided, resolved to be Force Station Hakimpet 46-year membership in the Euro- the past week. They did so from a decision; hold a second vote; or establishment, I would see a delay based on lies, like the imminent Debenhams department store in make Brexit work. The more he ing comeback. That’s Brexit in a irresolute, adamant for drift, sol- and 5 Base Repair Depot pean Union. weakness. May’s acknowledg- some weird combination. and a second vote (one does not invasion of 80 million Turks. Now downtown Swindon. The scene laboured, the less it seemed to nutshell. id for fluidity, all powerful to be at Air Force Station Sulur; It’s not easy to make an egg ment that Brexit could be delayed I met with David Renard, the necessarily follow from the other) Britain has had a three-year crash was not a happy one: stores for make sense. “We get 1.5 pounds The reality, however, is that impotent.” Three years into its ag- says the resilience and te- from an omelet, as Pascal Lamy, (the union would have to agree Tory leader of Swindon’s borough as an act of very British common course in “Reality Brexit.” This rent, people struggling to get by. from the EU for every pound we Brexit only compounds the prob- onising Brexit odyssey, Britain is nacity displayed by our the former head of the World to that and would want to know council. He’s getting impatient. sense. has involved slower growth, low- Swindon is an hour by train from put in,” he told me. “The Univer- lems. Will Dry, a student, was 18 finally realising that scapegoating valiant air warriors is a Trade Organisation, has ob - why) and Corbyn’s support for a He says he wants British sover- By focusing the zeitgeist’s every er investment and the collapse of central London, the purring hub sity of Cambridge gets more than when he voted for Brexit. All his Brussels has gotten it nowhere. great source of pride for served. I grew up in a Britain second referendum (a grudging eignty back, rescued from a web frustration on Brussels, the “Take the illusory idyll. Some 40 free of pro-EU sentiment. It might as all of Romania.” Britain had in- family told him Europe meant It’s going to have to fix its national the nation where “the Continent,” a faintly move from a lifelong Euroskeptic of European Union regulations. Back Control” campaign in 2016 trade deals were promised to re- well be on another planet — and vested heavily in Galileo, a global unemployment and refugees. problems — and the European @rashtrapatibhvn distasteful geographical mass as- heading a pro-EU party) added to He thinks Britain should get out, was a brilliant exercise in emo- place free trade arrangements it’s still far better off than many navigation satellite system creat- Now Dry has taken time off from Union could help. sociated with rabies and garlic, the mayhem. even without a deal. “The British tional transference. “Remain” Britain benefits from as a union towns in Britain. No wonder, I ed by the European Union. Now Oxford University to fight Brex- (Roger Cohen is a columnist was far away. The EU changed Anything is possible. That’s people voted to leave. It would equaled the status quo. To many member. The government has thought, that a majority here did it has been shut out. it in London. He came, he told with The New York Times.) 03 that. Now, through finance, trade, now official. Britain could ap - be an affront to democracy if we people, for reasons that had little concluded a handful, one of them not want to “remain.” When May produced her “deal” me, to “the realisation we did not law and culture, Britain is mixed prove an amended May deal do not on March 29,” he told me. or nothing to do with the union, with the Faroe Islands. Last month Honda, Swindon’s — in fact a proposal to defer for at have a plan.” His new view is that (In collaboration with New York Times)

CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE ur democracy is built The ‘failed’ summit isn’t so funny in Seoul Oon debate, Congress- woman! I should not be expected to have alle- President Donald Trump and Kim cut short their parley, ending the summit with no agreement in hand giance/pledge support Summit to a foreign country in or- der to serve my country in Congress or serve on walk away rather than to promise too with immediate, real-world conse- inspected, or which prohibitions on Denuclearisation is the only cross-border collaboration, like last committee. The people much. According to the president, quences: They can spur the flow of trade and investment should be lifted year’s Pyeongchang Olympics. He in- failed; now of the 5th elected me to North Korea had demanded a lifting refugees out of the North, undermine first. The Koreas are eager to restart real priority for the United vited the North Korean leader and his serve their interest. I am of all sanctions, to which Washington efforts by the South to send food and their joint flagship projects in the States, the end point for all entourage to come to Seoul straight sure we agree on that! could not agree. A North Korean other humanitarian assistance, and North: tourism at Mount Kumgang discussions with Kim, but from Hanoi, to celebrate March 1. @IlhanMN official said Pyongyang asked for make it difficult to host inter-Kore- and manufacturing in the Kaesong for South Korea it is the But the North Koreans remained what? only “partial” sanctions relief. Wash- an family reunions. The pursuit of industrial complex. North Korea in Vietnam, invited to attend a state E TAMMY KIM beginning. ington’s North Korea watchers and a peace treaty — to replace the 1953 wants minimum security guarantees banquet hosted by President Nguyen 04 foreign policy experts — what Ben armistice, to which the United States above all else, and the signing of a Phu Trong and to lay wreaths at the he second Trump-Kim summit has ended in utside the North Korean Em- Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s but not South Korea was a signatory peace declaration could help provide mausoleum of Vietnam’s founding failure without bringing any positive results. bassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, a deputy national security adviser, has — would, beyond its symbolic value, such reassurance. president, Ho Chi Minh. T President Donald Trump emerged from Oglass case displaying an array called the Blob — concluded that the help dismantle the culture of milita- The anticlimax in Hanoi arrived at The speech Moon had prepared his historic summit last June with North Korean of patriotic photographs was report- summit was a failure and that Trump rism and anti-Communist paranoia a poignant time. Friday was the 100th for March 1 had to take Hanoi into dictator Kim Jong Un and proclaimed on Twitter edly reorganised just before Kim never should have met with Kim in that has, at times, justified repressive anniversary of the March 1 Move- account. There was no peace decla- that “there is no longer a Nuclear Threat...Sleep Jong Un’s arrival. The chairman’s the first place. The Blob was content. crackdowns in the South. ment, a key uprising in Korea’s strug- ration to praise, so he spoke instead well tonight!” EMA has been told di- portrait remained untouched at the Many South Koreans, however, felt Contrast that with Washington’s gle against imperial Japan and the of a lesser form of reunification, a Nearly seven months later, the nuclear threat Frectly by me to give the top of the vitrine, but the images of dismayed. Trump is no model states- view, which has hardly changed in first exercise of a uniquely Korean cross-border solidarity that “need remains. Even worse, Kim made plain in his annual A Plus treatment to the fruit orchards and fishing boats had man, and his record as president has the almost seven decades since the identity, according to historian Suzy not be far away.” He promised to keep New Year’s Day address that he hasn’t budged on a Great State of Alabama and been swapped out for those of facto- largely been reckless and cruel. Yet end of the Korean War. The consen- Kim. On March 1, 1919, a cheering sional government was established in working for a “new Korean Penin- crucial pre-summit demand: no disarmament until the wonderful people who ries and a satellite antenna. A South in the Korean context, his bucking sus has favoured peninsular division, crowd of some 5,000 intellectuals, Shanghai, a centre of the resistance. sula regime,” but there were few US-led sanctions are removed. Without a lifting of have been so devastated by Korean reporter, standing outside of foreign policy tradition (born, un- mutual deterrence through a heavy activists, students, families and work- Yet Korea would have to wait until details, other than plans for an in- sanctions, Kim warned, he would take a “new path” the Tornadoes. @GovIvey, the embassy, observed that the new doubtedly, of a quest for personal US military presence in the South ers gathered in Seoul’s Pagoda Park the end of World War II to gain its ter-Korean committee on economic in nuclear talks. one of the best in our Coun- pictures seemed “tailored to fit a glory) has at least drawn the North and, for the most part, neglect of summit — without an agreement on was worried that the lack of a deal Park Sun-song, a professor of North cheering, “Mansei!” (“Long Live Ko- independence, only to be promptly development. In Vietnam, Kim Jong It’s true that Americans might be sleeping better try, has been so informed. theme of Vietnamese-style reform into the global arena. the North. That changed only when nuclear policy, liaison offices, easing would provoke right-wing attacks on Korean studies at Dongguk Univer- rea!”) The leaders read a statement divided into North and South. Un’s ministers had visited the tour- because the harsh, warlike (rocket man versus do- She is working closely with and opening.” Seoul has never had the luxury of North Korea began its nuclear pro- sanctions or a peace declaration — President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who sity in Seoul, had expected small, asserting Korea’s independence In the Korean imagination, March ist hot spot of Halong Bay and a car tard, fire and fury, my button is bigger than your FEMA (and me!). Instead, President Donald Trump selective dealings with Pyongyang. gramme. Denuclearisation is the only was thus received as a blow by South has faced outlandish accusations of practical gains from the summit, and from Japan, inspired by President 1 conjures images of flag-waving factory in Haiphong, which provid- button, etc.) rhetoric the leaders exchanged in 2017 @realDonaldTrump and Kim cut short their parley, end- North Korea’s nuclear stockpiles real priority for the United States, Korea and the global diaspora. Like propping up communism. Another not even this much was achieved. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points: martyrs in traditional white hanbok ed glimmers of the future that South ceased after their Singapore meeting. ing the summit Thursday with no are a less immediate threat than the the end point for all discussions with many of my relatives and colleagues friend, who is active in the South He emphasised that phrases such “We hereby declare that Korea is an and nostalgia for an ethnically pure, Korea wants so badly for the North. And North Korea hasn’t tested any more nuclear agreement in hand. Much of the US mass of conventional arms lining the Kim. But for South Korea’s president, in Asia, I was willing to look past Korean labor movement, cried in as “complete denuclearisation” and independent state and that Koreans politically uncomplicated past. This What it takes to get there, though, is bombs or launched any more missiles, though Kim Disclaimer: (Views expressed foreign policy establishment, includ- Demilitarised Zone, just across the denuclearisation is “a starting point the strongman theatrics, toward a disappointment as he watched from “reduced sanctions” are shorthand are a self-governing people.” Mass is myth, of course, but it’s convenient not entirely in Korean hands. asserted two months before the summit that his by columnists are personal and need not necessarily reflect our ing Democratic legislators, reacted border. For South Korea, sanctions for resolution of the Cold War on the deal that might meaningfully open New York. for the dozens of painstaking de- demonstrations were held across the when it comes to dealing with North (E Tammy Kim is a contributing opinion arsenal is complete and that he doesn’t need to with smug surprise. Trump had been against the North are not simply a peninsula.” up North Korea. A friend in Seoul Other Korean observers, though, cisions that lie ahead, about which Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria Korea. Moon has tried to use the writer.) test anymore. editorial stances) played, they said, but he was right to virtue-signalling device, but a policy The unceremonious end to the who works as an academic said she approached the summit with caution. facilities must be dismantled versus and the United States, and a provi- holiday as yet another occasion for Jack Cheffman

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emerging web. CrediMax, Gulf Air in deal CERN has held onto only a few souvenirs from the ear- TDT | Manama SICO reports BD3.7m ly days: the first memo that Berners-Lee drafted about rediMax and Gulf Air an- his invention, his black NeXT Cnounced the renewal of computer station and his key- its joint promotion allowing board. CrediMax cardholders to en- profit, 8pc dividend CERN But while may not joy discounted airline tickets have preserved many keep- to over 20 destinations across sakes to memorialise the his- the globe. TDT | Manama toric invention, it has strived The signing ceremony was to prevent the web from fall- held at CrediMax headquar- ICO, a leading regional asset ing into the wrong hands. ters in the presence of Cred- manager, broker and in- In 1993, the organisation iMax Chief Executive, Yousif Svestment bank announced announced it was putting the Ali Mirza and Gulf Air Country yesterday a 12 per cent increase web software into the public Manager Essam A.Hameed Al- in its full-year consolidated net domain, which could have al- Hammadi, Yasser Mohamed profit, thanks to higher reve- lowed any individual or busi- Ali, Gulf Air Senior Sales Ex- nues and improved operational ness to claim it as their own ecutive and Shams AlDoseri, performance across all of SICO’s and control its development. Gulf Air Sales Manager and business lines. But destiny, with a little Mandana Banahi, CrediMax SICO’s board of directors rec- help from Fluckiger, helped Marketing Communication CrediMax and Gulf Air officials following the renewal of their join promotion ommended a cash dividend of avert potential disaster. Officer. deal 8pc of the share capital, equiv- SICO continued to As we head into 2019, After discussions with “CrediMax is delighted to alent to 8 Bahraini fils per share deliver a strong we expect continued One has to ask CERN’s legal service, Fluck- partner up once again with CrediMax cardholders can Gulf Air’s website www.gulfair. subject to the approval of the performance despite market volatility and oneself if we did not, iger decided in 1994 to launch Gulf Air offering CrediMax now enjoy a 12pc discount on com and enter a special code, Central bank of Bahrain and the the region-wide economic challenges in the end, create a a new open source version of customers 12pc discount on all Gulf Air tickets, Economy which could be found on the General Assembly. fiscal and monetary with key regional completely out-of- the web. fare tickets,” said Chief Ex - and Falcon Gold class using website www.credimax.com.bh Full-year consolidated net control monster That proved a crucial move ecutive of CrediMax, Yousif their CrediMax cards. Card- or through the call centre on profit was BD 3.7 million in challenges that themes to include flows we experienced ahead of MSCI & FTSE that allowed CERN to retain Ali Mirza. holders must book through 17117117. 2018, up 12pc compared to the the intellectual proper- BD 3.3m recorded in 2017. To- throughout 2018. At inclusion, increased A plaque is displayed next to the former office of the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (on the right) at the ty rights to the invention tal comprehensive income re- the core of our success government spending FRANCOIS FLUCKIGER European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva while giving access to an- mained unchanged in 2018 at is a forward-looking driven by expansionary CERN COMPUTER SCIENTIST Meyrin, Switzerland yone to use and modi - BD 3.8m. strategy that allows budgets, and oil prices fy the web freely and SICO’s earnings per share us to grow our core movements and their without cost. (EPS) was 10.01 Bahraini fils hirty years ago this In 1995, the in - compared to 8.01 Bahraini fils business and capture correlation to fiscal new opportunities deficits month, a young British tellectual property in the previous year. software engineer work- rights were trans- Net operating income was up across all our business T ing at a lab near Geneva invented ferred to a con - 16pc to BD 10.7m in 2018 com- lines a system for scientists to share sortium set up pared to the BD 9.3m recorded NAJLA AL SHIRAWI information that would ulti- by Berners-Lee in 2017. mately change humanity. based out of MIT, SHAIKH ABDULLA BIN KHALIFA AL KHALIFA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Total operating expenses But three decades after he in- called W3C. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD were recorded at BD 6.7m in vented the World Wide Web, “We were 2018, up 14pc over 2017 figure Tim Berners-Lee has warned lucky that during of BD 5.8m. Three decades that his creation has been “hi- those 18 months, For the fourth quarter, con- jacked by crooks” that may spell no one seized the solidated net profit stood at thousand in 4Q17. stock (BD 5.9m) during the year. after he its destruction. web,” Fluckiger BD 441 thousand in the fourth Operating expenses, includ- Total assets under manage- Berner-Lee’s old office at Eu- said. quarter of 2018, 8pc higher than ing staff overheads, general ment (AUM) grew by 50pc y-o-y invented the rope’s physics lab CERN now “Otherwise, the BD 409 thousand reported administration and other ex- to around BD 700m (US$ 1.9 looks no different than the oth- there might not A copy of the Next Computer that was used as the first server of the World in the same quarter last year. penses, posted BD 1.9m in 4Q18, billion) up from BD 465m (US$ World Wide ers lining the long, nondescript have been a web Net profit growth was attrib- up 22pc over the BD 1.5m in the 1.2bn) at year-end 2017, with Wide Web is displayed at an exhibition at the European Organisation for corridor within the expansive Nuclear Research (CERN) today.” uted to a 25pc increase in net corresponding period in 2017. all of SICO’s funds topping the Web, Tim compound. operating income to BD 2.4m Consolidated capital ade- league tables and distributing The only indication that histo- ing,” Fluckiger said. fundamental right to priva- in 4Q18 versus the BD 1.9m re- quacy ratio stood at 63.97pc dividends during 2018. Assets Berners-Lee ry was made here is a small com- In 1990, Belgian scientist cy, among other things. corded in 4Q17. at the close of 2018 compared under custody with the Bank’s memorative plaque and a page Robert Cailliau came onboard “The web has been hi - EPS was 1.19 Bahraini fils to 59.1pc at year-end 2017. It wholly-owned subsidiary, SICO has warned from an old CERN directory hung to help promote the invention, jacked by crooks and trolls compared to 0.99 Bahraini fils is worth noting that the lower Funds Services Company (SFS) on the door, with “MOMENTAR- which used Hypertext Markup who have used it to manipu- in 4Q17 capital base as at 31 Decem - grew by 8.4pc from BD 2.2bn that his ILY OUT OF OFFICE!” written in Language, or HTML, as a stand- late people all over the world,” Sir Tim Berners- Total comprehensive income ber 2018 compared to year-end (US$ 5.7bn) in 2017 to BD 2.3 bil- jest next to Berners-Lee’s name. ard to create webpages. Berners-Lee warned in a New Lee, best known as Eighty Russian tour operators and travel agency representatives took part in a series of workshops held in Bahrain in 4Q18 was BD 369 thousand, 2017 follows SICO’s acquisition lion (US$ 6.2bn) as at December creation has “Tim worked a lot,” said tech- They created the Hypertext York Times op-ed in December, the inventor of the by Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) in collaboration with international travel and tourism company, down 28pc versus the BD 512 of 10pc of its shares as treasury 2018. nician Francois Fluckiger, who Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, citing threats ranging from the World Wide Web Coral Travel. The event, attended by approximately 150 participants including representatives of 27 hotels in Bahrain, been “hijacked took charge of the web team af- which allows users to access dark web, to cyber crime, fake aimed at developing comprehensive travel packages tailored to the needs of Russian tourists. During the trip, ter Berners-Lee left for the Mas- resources by clicking on hy - news and personal data theft. which took place between the 23rd of February and the 1st of March 2019, participants were able to meet with hotel by crooks” that sachusetts Institute of Technol- perlinks, and also Uniform Re- In January, the man dubbed representatives and visit several locations in Bahrain may spell its ogy (MIT) in 1994. source Locators, or URLs, as a the “father of the web” urged AirAsia launches venture capital “The lights were always on in website address system. the global elites at the World destruction. his office,” Fluckiger said. At the end of 1990, Bern - Economic Forum in Davos to ers-Lee set CERN’s first web nav- join the fight against the “polar- fund to back startups in SE Asia History in the making igator server into action. isation” of online debates. Reuters Berners-Lee was responsible The browser was released out- He called for discussion plat- for CERN’s internal directory side of CERN in early 1991, first to forms that connect people with but was interested in ways to other research institutions and different opinions and back- alaysia’s budget carrier allow the thousands of scientists later to the public. grounds, contrary to today’s the MAirAsia Group Bhd said around the world who cooper- Fluckiger, now retired, hailed common practice of creating yesterday it is launching a ven- ated with the lab to more easily the web as one of three major online ghettos, filter bubbles ture capital fund in the Unit- share their work. inventions in the 20th century and feedback loops where peo- ed States to invest in startups His vision for “a decentralised that enabled the digital society, ple rarely encounter opinions seeking to enter or expand in information management sys- alongside the Internet Protocol different from their own. Southeast Asia. tem” soon gave birth to the web. (IP) and Google’s search algo- United Nations chief Antonio The fund, called RedBeat Primitive forms rithms. Guterres also voiced concerns at Capital, will focus on post-seed of the internet -- a But he lamented the “online Davos over the direction the web stage startups engaged in travel network linking bullying, fake news, and mass was taking. and lifestyle, financial technol- computers -- had hysteria” that flourish online as He warned of the impact “of ogy, artificial intelligence and previously ex- well as threats to privacy. the dark web and the deep web cybersecurity. isted, but it was “One has to ask oneself if we and all the problems of cyber AirAsia is also partnering the World Wide did not, in the end, create a com- security”, and called for the with San Francisco-based AirAsia planes are seen on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 Web that allowed pletely out-of-control monster.” creation of “soft mechanisms” 500 Startups, which in- (KLIA2) in Sepang, Malaysia. - Reuters web pages to be to help rein in countries using vests in young fast-growing collected and ‘Crooks and trolls’ this technology to violate human companies and offers an ac - a southeast Asian ride-hailing The airline last week posted accessed with Berners-Lee has launched his rights. Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) in cooperation with Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) celerator programme for firm. a net loss in the fourth quarter, a browser. own campaign to “save the web”. organised yesterday a preparatory meeting on “FinTech” at Bahrain FinTech Bay. The meeting, attended by BCCI board entrepreneurs. RedBeat Capital will have a its first quarterly loss in more “Very early At the Web Summit in Lisbon Open source member Khalid Al Zayani alongside members of the business community, gave a presentation about Bahrain FinTech 500 Startups has supported base in San Francisco and have than three years, as higher fuel on, we had the last November, he called for a Back in 1989, no one could Bay, the services and programmes it offers, and its future aspirations. Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain FinTech Bay more than 2,000 firms includ- access to 500 Startups deal prices and operating lease costs feeling that his- new “Contract for the Web”, have foreseen the im- Khalid Saad encouraged business owners to invest in innovation and embrace technological advancement. ing Twilio, SendGrid and Grab, flow, AirAsia said. dented income. tory was in the mak- based on access for all and the portance of TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 11 Web an ‘out-of-control monster’?

emerging web. CERN has held onto only a few souvenirs from the ear- ly days: the first memo that Berners-Lee drafted about his invention, his black NeXT computer station and his key- board. But while CERN may not have preserved many keep- sakes to memorialise the his- toric invention, it has strived to prevent the web from fall- ing into the wrong hands. In 1993, the organisation announced it was putting the web software into the public domain, which could have al- lowed any individual or busi- ness to claim it as their own and control its development. But destiny, with a little help from Fluckiger, helped avert potential disaster. After discussions with One has to ask CERN’s legal service, Fluck- oneself if we did not, iger decided in 1994 to launch in the end, create a a new open source version of completely out-of- the web. control monster That proved a crucial move that allowed CERN to retain the intellectual proper- A plaque is displayed next to the former office of the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (on the right) at the ty rights to the invention FRANCOIS FLUCKIGER European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva while giving access to an- CERN COMPUTER SCIENTIST Meyrin, Switzerland yone to use and modi - fy the web freely and without cost. hirty years ago this In 1995, the in - month, a young British tellectual property Tsoftware engineer work- rights were trans- ing at a lab near Geneva invented ferred to a con - a system for scientists to share sortium set up information that would ulti- by Berners-Lee mately change humanity. based out of MIT, But three decades after he in- called W3C. vented the World Wide Web, “We were Tim Berners-Lee has warned lucky that during Three decades that his creation has been “hi- those 18 months, jacked by crooks” that may spell no one seized the after he its destruction. web,” Fluckiger Berner-Lee’s old office at Eu- said. invented the rope’s physics lab CERN now “Otherwise, looks no different than the oth- there might not A copy of the Next Computer that was used as the first server of the World World Wide ers lining the long, nondescript Wide Web is displayed at an exhibition at the European Organisation for have been a web corridor within the expansive Nuclear Research (CERN) today.” Web, Tim compound. The only indication that histo- ing,” Fluckiger said. fundamental right to priva- Berners-Lee ry was made here is a small com- In 1990, Belgian scientist cy, among other things. memorative plaque and a page Robert Cailliau came onboard “The web has been hi - has warned from an old CERN directory hung to help promote the invention, jacked by crooks and trolls on the door, with “MOMENTAR- which used Hypertext Markup who have used it to manipu- that his ILY OUT OF OFFICE!” written in Language, or HTML, as a stand- late people all over the world,” Sir Tim Berners- jest next to Berners-Lee’s name. ard to create webpages. Berners-Lee warned in a New Lee, best known as creation has “Tim worked a lot,” said tech- They created the Hypertext York Times op-ed in December, the inventor of the nician Francois Fluckiger, who Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, citing threats ranging from the World Wide Web been “hijacked took charge of the web team af- which allows users to access dark web, to cyber crime, fake ter Berners-Lee left for the Mas- resources by clicking on hy - news and personal data theft. by crooks” that sachusetts Institute of Technol- perlinks, and also Uniform Re- In January, the man dubbed may spell its ogy (MIT) in 1994. source Locators, or URLs, as a the “father of the web” urged “The lights were always on in website address system. the global elites at the World destruction. his office,” Fluckiger said. At the end of 1990, Bern - Economic Forum in Davos to ers-Lee set CERN’s first web nav- join the fight against the “polar- History in the making igator server into action. isation” of online debates. Berners-Lee was responsible The browser was released out- He called for discussion plat- for CERN’s internal directory side of CERN in early 1991, first to forms that connect people with but was interested in ways to other research institutions and different opinions and back- allow the thousands of scientists later to the public. grounds, contrary to today’s the around the world who cooper- Fluckiger, now retired, hailed common practice of creating ated with the lab to more easily the web as one of three major online ghettos, filter bubbles share their work. inventions in the 20th century and feedback loops where peo- His vision for “a decentralised that enabled the digital society, ple rarely encounter opinions information management sys- alongside the Internet Protocol different from their own. tem” soon gave birth to the web. (IP) and Google’s search algo- United Nations chief Antonio Primitive forms rithms. Guterres also voiced concerns at of the internet -- a But he lamented the “online Davos over the direction the web network linking bullying, fake news, and mass was taking. computers -- had hysteria” that flourish online as He warned of the impact “of previously ex- well as threats to privacy. the dark web and the deep web isted, but it was “One has to ask oneself if we and all the problems of cyber the World Wide did not, in the end, create a com- security”, and called for the Web that allowed pletely out-of-control monster.” creation of “soft mechanisms” web pages to be to help rein in countries using collected and ‘Crooks and trolls’ this technology to violate human accessed with Berners-Lee has launched his rights. a browser. own campaign to “save the web”. “Very early At the Web Summit in Lisbon Open source on, we had the last November, he called for a Back in 1989, no one could feeling that his- new “Contract for the Web”, have foreseen the im- tory was in the mak- based on access for all and the portance of TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 12

Gold slips to five-week low Saudi market extends gains Reuters old fell to the lowest in Closing Bell Gmore than five weeks Saudi’s Sipchem yesterday as the dollar held • SAUDI  0.4pc to 8,565pts firm and investors opted for gains on completion DUBAI  at 2,644pts riskier assets on hopes of a of maintenance thaw in a trade dispute. QATAR  0.1pc to 10,118pts Spot gold slid 0.6 per cent Alujain rises after ABU DHABI  0.4pc to 5,102pts to $1,285.74 per ounce as of update• on fire in EGYPT  at 14,815pts affiliate’s plant KUWAIT  0.4pc to 5,550pts OMAN  0.4pc to 4,153pts Takaful Emarat gains BAHRAIN  0.4pc to 1,413pts after• FY cash dividend 1.285.7 was price of spot gold as of 1250 GMT Egypt’s Talaat • the worst-performing markets Mostafa up on higher globally last year, fund managers real estate sales expressed optimism in the UAE. 1250 GMT, having earlier Abu Dhabi’s index slid 0.4pc, touched $1,284.50, its low- Reuters weighed down by financial est since Jan. 25. stocks. US gold futures were down Ras Al Khaimah Poultry and almost 1pc at $1,286.70 an audi Arabian stocks regis- Feeding plunged 7.9pc while ounce. Gold tumbled 2.6pc tered a fifth straight session Sharjah Islamic Bank lost 5.8pc. last week, its biggest weekly Sof gains yesterday, ahead of The Qatar index edged up by fall in over 1-1/2 years. the market’s entry to the FTSE Saudi stock market (Courtesy of Emerging Market views) 0.1pc as Mesaieed Petrochem- “Increasing risk appetite Russell’s emerging market index ical rose 2.8pc and Qatar Gas is clearly a little negative in a little more than two weeks, the FTSE Emerging Index with Petrochemicals investor Alu- Insurer Takaful Emarat rose Transport gained 2.3pc. for gold,” Julius Baer an - rising along with most major an overall weighting of 2.7 per jain added 0.4pc after providing 1.3pc, with the company propos- Egypt’s blue-chip index was alyst Carsten Menke said. Middle Eastern markets. cent, according to index com- an update on a fire in its affili- ing a full-year cash dividend of flat, with Oriental Weavers “We saw quite a bit of sell- The Saudi stock exchange ex- piler FTSE Russell. ate’s plant. 7pc of its paid-up capital. slumping 5.1pc after a drop in ing on Friday as the dollar pects passive fund inflows of The Saudi index rose 0.4pc The firm said it expects the Dubai’s index is up 4.5pc its fourth-quarter net profit and strengthened and that’s between $15 billion and $20bn yesterday, helped by petrochem- plant to start operating in the this year, lifted by strong sales.But Talaat Mostafa Group continuing today, putting this year as it gears up for inclu- icals stocks, with Sipchem up first half from October 2019. fourth-quarter results at real climbed 2.5pc after reporting some pressure on gold. The sion in emerging market bench- 3.3pc in active trade after say- The Dubai index was flat, with estate companies, though an real estate sales of 3.2bn Egyp- break below $1,300 (on Fri- marks, its chief executive said. ing it completed maintenance Ajman Bank rising 1.9pc. UAE’s expected weakness in property tian pounds ($183.07 million) in day) also triggered some Saudi stocks will become the activities for its polybutylene central bank approved cash divi- prices is capping gains. the first two months of the year, more selling from technical largest Middle East market in terephthalate plant. dends of 3.5pc of its capital. Although Dubai was one of against 1.5bn pounds a year ago. traders.”

Batelco, Interxion in deal for POP US restores ‘valuable TDT | Manama

atelco yesterday announced Bit has signed an agreement partner’ status of EU with Interxion Holding NV, a leading European provider of Brussels, Belgium woman for EU foreign policy carrier and cloud-neutral colo- chief Federica Mogherini, wel- cation data centre services, to he United States said comed the announcement. deploy a new point of presence yesterday it has re - “We are therefore pleased (POP) in Marseille, France. Tstored the EU’s mission that the United States took the The agreement was signed in Washington to its former decision to revert to the usu- at Capacity Middle East 2019, status, calling the bloc one of al practice,” Kocijancic told a which is taking place from “its most valuable partners” as briefing in Brussels. March 4-7 at the Grand Hyatt, their troubled trade talks are set The EU said in January it Dubai. to resume. was in talks with US officials The signing of this agreement The US State Department about the mission’s status after will enable the facilitation of Batelco signs deal for Marseille POP with Interxion at Capacity Middle East lowered the European Union German broadcaster Deutsche route diversity via terrestrial mission’s diplomatic status The Department Welle reported the downgrade. and submarine cables as well are provided with reliable solu- Hollands said: “The growing from member state to inter- of State will again Deutsche Welle said it only as position Batelco as a regional tions allowing them to run their number of content, gaming and national organisation late last recognise the European came to light when the EU am- provider for IP Transit service. operations smoothly. Batelco is cloud platforms present in our year, in what was seen as a fur- Union’s representation bassador in Washington did Commenting Batelco Chief working to establish an exten- Marseille data centres will now ther blow to transatlantic ties. in Washington as not receive an invitation to the Global Business Officer Adel sive national and international enjoy enhanced access to Batel- “The Department of State equivalent to that of a funeral of former US president Daylami said, “With the in - infrastructure.” co’s residential and enterprise will again recognise the Euro- George H.W. Bush in December. creased use of the internet, it Interxion Director of Market customers in Bahrain and the pean Union’s representation bilateral mission in the Under US President Donald is imperative that customers Development & Strategy Mike Middle East. in Washington as equivalent Diplomatic Corps Order Trump, Europe’s once solid ties to that of a bilateral mission in of Precedence with the US have deteriorat- the Diplomatic Corps Order of ed and last year Washington Precedence,” a statement from GORDON SONDLAND imposed tariffs on steel and Gordon Sondland, the US am- aluminium from the EU and Invita partners with Solidarity Bahrain THE US AMBASSADOR TO THE EU bassador to the EU, said. other partners. TDT | Manama “The European Union is a EU trade commissioner Ce- uniquely important organisa- cilia Malmstrom is to meet her tion, and one of America’s most US counterpart Robert Ligh- ahrain-based Invita, an ISO valuable partners in ensuring that of the United States, and thizer on Wednesday in Wash- B9001:2008 and PCI DSS v3.2 Our aim is to global security and prosperity,” this level of engagement and co- ington as the two sides seek a certified regional provider of guarantee a Sondland said. operation should be recognized trade deal limited to industrial Business Process Outsourcing pleasant and “Europe’s security and suc- appropriately in all settings.” goods and avert threatened US (BPO) services, has signed a satisfying Contact cess are inextricably linked to Maja Kocijancic, spokes- auto tariffs. contract with Solidarity Bah- rain to manage the services of- Centre experience fered by its contact center. to customers and The move will produce a ded- therefore ensure that icated team of agents who will customers are dealt be responsible for providing with in an efficient Oil prices rise on deal hopes timely assistance to customers and professional Reuters | London via telephone and being the first manner Texas Intermediate ( WTI) taliatory tariffs on US goods, a contact point to address their il prices rose yesterday, crude futures were up 55 cents source briefed on negotiations many needs. RAHUL BHALLA, CE, INVITA Obuoyed by OPEC output at $56.35 per barrel. said on Sunday in Washington. Rahul Bhalla, CE, Invita stat- cuts and reports that the Unit- The United States and Chi- Supply from the OPEC fell to a ed: “Our aim is to guarantee a our services to the Insurance enhance and uplift our com- ed States and China are inching na appear close to a deal that four-year low in February, a sur- pleasant and satisfying Contact sector and grow our business munication channels towards closer to a deal on a tariff row would roll back US tariffs on at vey found, as top exporter Saudi Centre experience to customers within a variety of sectors elevating our customer’s expe- that has slowed global econom- least $200 billion worth of Chi- and its allies over-delivered on and therefore ensure that cus- Jalal Aqelah, Digital Trans- rience with Solidarity, we have ic growth. Brent crude futures nese goods, as Beijing makes the group’s supply pact while tomers are dealt with in an effi- formation Manager, Solidarity launched our state-of-the-art were up 63 cents at $65.70 per pledges on structural econom- Venezuelan output registered cient and professional manner. Bahrain commented: “As part call centre in collaboration with barrel by 1313 GMT. U.S. West ic changes and eliminates re- a further involuntary decline. We are indeed happy to extend of our continuous efforts to Invita.” 13 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019

2- TOTAL DHAMAAL (PG-13) (HINDI/COMEDY/ADVEN- 10-ALONE / TOGETHER (PG-15) (FILIPINO/ROMANTIC/ DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + (11.15 PM THURS/FRI) OASIS JUFFAIR TURE) NEW DRAMA) NEW AJAY DEVGN, MADHURI DIXIT, ANIL KAPOOR LIZA SOBERANO, ENRIQUE GIL, JASMINE CURTIS 3- THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS: BETWEEN YIN AND 1-FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (15+) (DRAMA/COME- FROM THURSDAY 21ST 7.00 PM ONWARDS DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM YANG (PG-13) (ACTION/COMEDY/FANTASY) NEW DY/BIOGRAPHY) NEW DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 PM + 12.00 MN JACKIE CHAN, ELANE ZHONG, ETHAN JUAN DWAYNE JOHNSON, FLORENCE PUGH, JACK LOWDEN 11-ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN- DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 6.15 + (11.30 PM THURS/FRI) DAILY AT: 12.30 + 5.00 + 9.30 PM 3- DUMPLIN (15+) (COMEDY/DRAMA) NEW TURE/ROMANTIC) DAILY AT (VIP): 10.45 AM + 3.30 + 8.15 PM DANIELLE MACDONALD, JENNIFER ANISTON, ROSA SALAZAR, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, JENNIFER CONNELLY 4-ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN- LUKE BENWARD DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 PM + 12.00 MN TURE/ROMANTIC) 2-TOTAL DHAMAAL (PG-13) (HINDI/COMEDY/ADVEN- DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 PM ROSA SALAZAR, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, JENNIFER CONNELLY TURE) NEW 12-GULLY BOY (PG-15) (HINDI/DRAMA/MUSICAL) DAILY AT: 6.00 + 8.30 + (11.00 PM THURS/FRI) AJAY DEVGN, MADHURI DIXIT, ANIL KAPOOR 4- UPGRADE (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER) NEW ALIA BHAT, RANVEER SINGH, SIDDHANT CHATURVEDI FROM THURSDAY 21ST 7.00 PM ONWARDS LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN, RICHARD ANASTASIOS, ROSCO DAILY AT: 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM + 12.00 MN 5-GULLY BOY (PG-15) (HINDI/DRAMA/MUSICAL) DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 PM + 12.00 MN CAMPBELL ALIA BHAT, RANVEER SINGH, SIDDHANT CHATURVEDI DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM 13-COLD PURSUIT (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/DRAMA) DAILY AT: 3.15 + 8.30 PM 3-THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS: BETWEEN YIN AND YANG LIAM NEESON, EMMY ROSSUM, LAURA DERN (PG-13) (ACTION/COMEDY/FANTASY) NEW 5- THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS: BETWEEN YIN AND DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PM 6-THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (G) (ANIMATION/ACTION/AD- JACKIE CHAN, ELANE ZHONG, ETHAN JUAN YANG (PG-13) (ACTION/COMEDY/FANTASY) NEW VENTURE/COMEDY) DAILY AT: 2.45 + 7.15 + 11.45 PM *- JACKIE CHAN, ELANE ZHONG, ETHAN JUAN 14-THE UPSIDE (PG-15) (COMEDY/DRAMA) CHRIS PRATT, ELIZABETH BANKS, WILL ARNETT DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM + (1.00 AM DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 PM THURS/FRI) KEVIN HART, BRYAN CRANSTON, NICOLE KIDMAN 4-KIKORIKI. DEJAVU (G) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/ DAILY AT: 6.15 + 8.45 + 11.15 PM COMEDY) NEW 6-ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN- DENIS CHERNOV, JEFFREY HYLTON TURE/ROMANTIC) 15-THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (G) (ANIMATION/ACTION/AD- AL HAMRA DAILY AT(KIDS CINEMA): 10.45 AM + 2.45 PM ROSA SALAZAR, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, JENNIFER CONNELLY VENTURE/COMEDY) CHRIS PRATT, ELIZABETH BANKS, WILL ARNETT 1- KODATHI SMAKSHAM BALAN VAKEEL (PG-13) 5-JUNE (PG-13) (MALAYALAM) NEW DAILY AT (IMAX 3D): 2.15 + 7.00 + 11.45 PM (MALAYALAM) NEW DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.45 + 5.15 + 7.45 + 10.15 PM + (12.45 MN THURS/ DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 4.00 + 8.15 PM JOJU GEORGE, RAJISHA VIJAYAN, SARJANO KHALID, ARJUN FRI) TAYLOR SCHILLING, JACKSON ROBERT SCOTT, DILEEP, MAMTA MOHANDAS, PRIYA ANAND ASOKAN PETER MOONEY 16-HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN DAILY AT: 3.00 + 9.00 PM + (12.00 MN THURS/FRI) DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM 7-GULLY BOY (PG-15) (HINDI/DRAMA/MUSICAL) DAILY AT: 9.45 + 11.45 PM WORLD (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) ALIA BHAT, RANVEER SINGH, SIDDHANT CHATURVEDI CATE BLANCHETT, JONAH HILL, GERARD BUTLER 2-JUNE (PG-13) (MALAYALAM) NEW 6-KODATHI SMAKSHAM BALAN VAKEEL (PG-13) 19-SPIDER MAN INTO THE SPIDER VERSE (PG) (ANI- DAILY AT: 2.00 + 6.15 + 10.30 PM JOJU GEORGE, RAJISHA VIJAYAN, SARJANO KHALID, (MALAYALAM) NEW DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM MATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) ARJUN ASOKAN DILEEP, MAMTA MOHANDAS, PRIYA ANAND DAILY AT: 12.00 + 6.00 PM 8-COLD PURSUIT (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/DRAMA) HAILEE STEINFELD, NICOLAS CAGE, MAHERSHALA ALI DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 2.15 + 5.15 + 8.15 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT: 12.00 + 4.15 + 8.30 PM LIAM NEESON, EMMY ROSSUM, LAURA DERN SEEF (I) 7-ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN- DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 PM + 12.00 MN + (12.45 MN THURS/FRI) 1- TOTAL DHAMAAL (PG-13) (HINDI/COMEDY/ADVEN- WADI AL SAIL TURE/ROMANTIC) TURE) NEW ROSA SALAZAR, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, JENNIFER CONNELLY DAILY AT (VIP I): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM SEEF (II) 1-FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (15+) (DRAMA/COME- AJAY DEVGN, MADHURI DIXIT, ANIL KAPOOR DY/BIOGRAPHY) NEW DAILY AT: 1.15 + 6.30 + 11.45 PM 1 FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (15+) (DRAMA/COME- FROM THURSDAY 21ST 7.00 PM ONWARDS 9-HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U (PG-15) (THRILLER/COMEDY/ DWAYNE JOHNSON, FLORENCE PUGH, JACK LOWDEN DAILY AT (VIP): 1.00 + 5.45 + 10.30 PM CRIME) DY/BIOGRAPHY) NEW DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM JESSICA ROTHE, RUBY MODINE, PHI VU DWAYNE JOHNSON, FLORENCE PUGH, JACK LOWDEN DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PM 8-GULLY BOY (PG-15) (HINDI/DRAMA/MUSICAL) DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 + 6.45 + 8.45 + 10.45 PM DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM 2- THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS: BETWEEN YIN AND ALIA BHAT, RANVEER SINGH, SIDDHANT CHATURVEDI YANG (PG-13) (ACTION/COMEDY/FANTASY) NEW 2-TOTAL DHAMAAL (PG-13) (HINDI/COMEDY/ADVEN- TURE) NEW DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM 10-THE UPSIDE (PG-15) (COMEDY/DRAMA) 2- TOTAL DHAMAAL (PG-13) (HINDI/COMEDY/ADVEN- JACKIE CHAN, ELANE ZHONG, ETHAN JUAN TURE) NEW AJAY DEVGN, MADHURI DIXIT, ANIL KAPOOR KEVIN HART, BRYAN CRANSTON, NICOLE KIDMAN DAILY AT: 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM 9-THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (G) (ANIMATION/ACTION/AD- AJAY DEVGN, MADHURI DIXIT, ANIL KAPOOR FROM THURSDAY 21ST 7.00 PM ONWARDS DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM VENTURE/COMEDY) FROM THURSDAY 21ST 7.00 PM ONWARDS 3- KODATHI SMAKSHAM BALAN VAKEEL (PG-13) DAILY AT: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM CHRIS PRATT, ELIZABETH BANKS, WILL ARNETT 11-GLASS (PG-15) (THRILLER) DAILY AT: (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) (MALAYALAM) NEW DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 12.30 + 4.30 + 9.00 PM 3-UPGRADE (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER) NEW JAMES MCAVOY, BRUCE WILLIS, SAMUEL L. JACKSON DILEEP, MAMTA MOHANDAS, PRIYA ANAND 3-DUMPLIN (15+) (COMEDY/DRAMA) NEW LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN, RICHARD ANASTASIOS, ROSCO DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.45 + 5.45 + 8.45 + 11.45 PM CAMPBELL 10-SPIDER MAN INTO THE SPIDER VERSE (PG) (ANI- DANIELLE MACDONALD, JENNIFER ANISTON, LUKE MATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) BENWARD 4-JUNE (PG-13) (MALAYALAM) NEW DAILY AT: 7.45 + 9.45 + 11.45 PM HAILEE STEINFELD, NICOLAS CAGE, MAHERSHALA ALI 12-THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (G) (ANIMATION/ACTION/AD- VENTURE/COMEDY) DAILY AT: 1.00 + 5.15 + 9.30 PM JOJU GEORGE, RAJISHA VIJAYAN, SARJANO KHALID, DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 6.45 + 11.15 PM 4- THE KNIGHT OF SHADOWS: BETWEEN YIN AND CHRIS PRATT, ELIZABETH BANKS, WILL ARNETT ARJUN ASOKAN YANG (PG-13) (ACTION/COMEDY/FANTASY) NEW 4- UPGRADE (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER) NEW DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM 11-URI: THE SURGICAL STRIKE (15+) (HINDI/ACTION/ DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.45 + 3.00 + 5.15 + 7.30 PM LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN, RICHARD ANASTASIOS, JACKIE CHAN, ELANE ZHONG, ETHAN JUAN DRAMA) DAILY AT (IMAX 2D): 12.00 + 4.45 + 9.30 PM ROSCO CAMPBELL 5- KANNE KALAIMAANE (PG-13) (TAMIL) NEW DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PM VICKY KAUSHAL, KIRTI KULHARI, PARESH RAWAL DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + 10.00 PM + 12.00 UDHAYANIDHI STALIN, TAMANNAH DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 3.45 + 9.00 PM 13-NADI ELREGAL EL SERI (PG-15) (ARABIC/COMEDY) MN 5- KIKORIKI. 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DEJAVU (G) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/ 1-FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (15+) (DRAMA/COME- DAILY AT: 6.00 + 11.30 PM CITYCENTRE COMEDY) NEW DY/BIOGRAPHY) NEW 1- FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (15+) (DRAMA/COME- 17-RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (PG) (ANIMATION/ DENIS CHERNOV, JEFFREY HYLTON DWAYNE JOHNSON, FLORENCE PUGH, JACK LOWDEN 9-THE LEGO MOVIE 2 (G) (ANIMATION/ACTION/AD- DY/BIOGRAPHY) NEW ADVENTURE/COMEDY) DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.00 + 2.45 + 4.30 PM DAILY AT: 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + (11.15 PM THURS/FRI) VENTURE/COMEDY) DWAYNE JOHNSON, FLORENCE PUGH, JACK LOWDEN JOHN C. 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Movie Review CHANGE OF NAME

I, JYOTHISH EDAYATH I, LINY SHEBA PHILIPOSE I, SURESH KURUVILA S/O. THAZHA KUNIYIL S/O. D/O. JOHN PHILIPOSE, I, SONU S/O. NARSINGH , Sonchiriya: A stark, holding Indian Passport No. PLAKUZHYIL THARIYAN ARAVINDAKSHAN , holding holding Indian Passport KURUVILA, holding Indian Indian Passport No. H5860603 No. H2332072 dated 05-04- M2072756 dated 09-09-2014 issued at LUCKNOW having Passport No. M4526948 dated stirring tale of rebels dated 25-05-2009 issued at 2009 issued at BAHRAIN 25-02-2015 issued at BAHRAIN BAHRAIN having permanent having permanent residence permanent residence at VILL - MAHLA , POST. GHECHUA, having permanent residence at residence at EDAYATH HOUSE at JOHNSON S BUNGLOW, PLAKUZHYIL PANDALAM, , KURINHALIYODE P.O. PALLICKAL EAST, SANT KABIR NAGAR , PIN. 272199, UTTAR PRADESH, MUDIYURKONAM P.O, KOZHIKODE DT, KERALA , PALLICKAL P.O, KOLLAM, PATHANAMTHITTA DT, PIN. 673542. presently residing KERALA, PIN. 691506. presently INDIA. presently residing at FLAT NO.13, BLDG. NO. KERALA. presently residing at FLAT NO.16, BLDG. NO. 1305, residing at FLAT NO.102, BLDG. at FLAT NO.102, BLDG. ROAD NO. 2834 , BLOCK NO. NO. 2348, ROAD NO. 6375 , 1729, ROAD NO. 750 , BLOCK NO. 707, TUBLI, BAHRAIN NO. 2348, ROAD NO. 6375 , 328, AL SUQAYYAH, BAHRAIN BLOCK NO. 363, BILAD AL BLOCK NO. 363, BILAD AL will henceforth be known as QADEEM, BAHRAIN will will henceforth be known as (Given Name) SONU KUMAR QADEEM, BAHRAIN will (Given Name) JYOTHISH henceforth be known as (Given henceforth be known as (Given (Surname) EDAYATH THAZHA Name) LINY SHEBA (Surname) (Surname) PRAJAPATI Objection(s), if any, may be Name) SURESH (Surname) KUNIYIL Objection(s), if any, PHILIPOSE Objection(s), if any, KURUVILA Objection(s), if any, may be forwarded to Embassy of may be forwarded to Embassy of forwarded to Embassy of India, P.O. Box No. 26106, Bldg. 1090, may be forwarded to Embassy of India, P.O. Box No. 26106, Bldg. India, P.O. Box No. 26106, Bldg. India, P.O. Box No. 26106, Bldg. 1090, Road 2819, Block 428, Al- 1090, Road 2819, Block 428, Al- Road 2819, Block 428, Al-Seef, Bahrain. 1090, Road 2819, Block 428, Al- Seef, Bahrain. Seef, Bahrain. Seef, Bahrain. A scene from ‘Sonchiriya’

onchiriya (transl. Great In- March 2019 to 720 screens in In- Raja Sen reviewing the film in of the whole cast he says “Cast Taran Adarsh giving three and The music of the film has been dian bustard) is a 2019 In- dia and 220 screens in overseas Hindustan Times rated the film Live And Breathe Their Roles”. half stars out of five feels that composed by Vishal Bhardwaj, Sdian action film directed by circuit, making it 940 screens with three stars out of five. He Renuka Vyavahare writing for it is a very well-made film but while the lyrics have been writ- Abhishek Chaubey and starring worldwide. liked the lead cast in role of ban- The Times of India gave three caters to a niche audience.Anu- ten by Varun Grover except two Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi The critic giving positive dits but feels that the slow pace and half stars out of five and pama Chopra of Film Compan- songs “Naina Na Maar” (lyrics Pednekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Ran- review find the film gripping, kept the film from becoming a writes “Gripping, tense and ion gives three stars out of five By Traditional and recreate by vir Shorey and Ashutosh Rana. tense and unpredictable.As per great film. unpredictable, despite being a and summarise the review as Ashok Mizaj Badr) and “The The film presents a rooted tale Rotten Tomatoes, the film has Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV slow-burn western, Chaubey’s “A Stunningly Shot, Masterfully Daaku Anthem” (lyrics By Ab- set in Chambal. scored 67% based on 6 reviews gave it three and half stars out period thriller makes for a riv- Staged Fusion Of Caste, Violence hishek Nailwal and music by The film was released on 1 with average rating of 6.33/10. of five and praising the acting eting watch.” And Jungle Law.” Ketan Sodha). 14 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019

Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake

Jessica Simpson Tommy Hilfiger in returns home after hospitalisation for awe of Zendaya fourth time Los Angeles Los Angeles oration inspired by 1970s icons and the 1973 Bat- inger Jessica Simpson esigner Tommy Hilfiger says tle of Versailles fash- says after hospitalisa- actress Zendaya is passionate ion show. The Tom- Stion -- her fourth time Dabout causes that are close to myNow runway show in two months -- she is now her heart, and he is happy that she took place last week, back at home. uses her platform to inspire millions showcasing the Spring 2019 The 38-year-old revealed Timberlake calls wife of fans around the world. TommyXZendaya collaborative on Instagram that she was “Zendaya is passionate about caus- collection at the Theatre des back home after a week in ‘most wonderful human’ es that are close to her heart. She uses Champs-Elysees. the hospital, eonline.com her platform to inspire mil- The event built on the reported on Sunday. Los Angeles There’s even one of Tim - lions of fans around the success of Tommy She shared berlake dressed up in an outfit world,” Hilfiger said in Hilfiger’s signature a pho - inger-actor Justin Tim- making him look like a Roman a statement. “See Now, Buy to of berlake honoured his emperor. The designer got Now” format, her- Swife Jessica Biel on her “My partner in this thang a chance to work and runway looks self birthday by calling her the called life... you are the most with the actress on were immediately wear- “most wonderful human”. wonderful human I have ever the Tommy x Zendaya available across an eco- ing a Biel turned 37 on Sunday met,” he wrote. capsule collection. system of shoppable chan- breathing and the singer posted a mix of “You make me smile, laugh, “Her strong set of val- nels in more than 70 countries. mask over Tommy Hilfiger Jessica throwback and current photo- and love life more than I knew ues and incredible style Opening up about her her mouth Simpson graphs from their relationship I could. I cherish every mo - truly speak to the spirit mantra as a designer, Ze- and a fuzzy on Instagram, reports eonline. ment with you and can’t wait of the brand and comes out across ndaya said: “I’ve learned about leopard-print jacket. com. to spend so many more years the TommyXZendaya collaborative what it really takes to make a gar- “After a week in the They include pictures of doing the same... but, new.” collection,” Hilfiger added. ment. Even something as simple hospital for bronchitis them smiling in a car, posing He concluded: “Happy Hilfiger travelled to Paris with as a plain white tee takes so much (my fourth time in two together like teens at prom and Birthday, you God of all smoke Zendaya to celebrate their collab- more time...every job is crucial.” months), I’m finally driving in a convertible. shows! Love, your Huz.” Zendaya home,” she wrote. “Coughing with Birdie has been a crazy painful Paris Hilton has no time for love journey. I am slowly get- Luke Perry, actor ting healthier every day.” and Beverly Hills Los Angeles love right now. I hardly have time for myself. I am constantly travelling over 90210 star, dies ocialite Paris Hilton says 250 days a year, never home hardly, just The Prodigy aged 52 she does not have time focusing on myself, my business and my for love right now as she friends,” Hilton told mirror.co.uk. singer Keith Los Angeles S is too busy to find a man and “There is always a lot of guys every- Flint dead at 49 settle down. where, always. When I am Los Angeles ctor The 38-year-old broke ready, the most important A off her engagement thing is loyalty, someone L u k e to actor Chris Zylka in who is your best friend and eith Flint, the singer Per- November last year, 11 who you can trust and who Kand iconic frontman ry, best months after he popped loves you for you. When of British rave scene band known the question. you know you know. But I The Prodigy, has died at for his roles “I don’t have time for don’t know yet.” the age of 49, the electron- on TV shows Luke Perry ic pop group Beverly Hills, 90210 and said. Riverdale, died on Mon- Kendall, Police day at the age of 52 after said they suffering a massive stroke Kylie Jenner were not last week. excited to have treating A representative for the the death actor released a statement handbag line in India as suspi- on Monday afternoon. Los Angeles cious after Keith Flint “Actor Luke Perry, finding his 52, passed away today eality TV stars and models Kendall and Kylie body on Monday in Essex, after suffering a mas- Jenner are happy to have introduced their northeast of London. sive stroke,” the state- Rhandbag line in India. “We attended and, sad- ment reads. “He was They have recently introduced KENDALL + KYLIE ly, a 49-year-old man was surrounded by his chil- handbags at selective outlets of multi-brand retail pronounced dead at the dren Jack and Sophie, fi- store Shoppers Stop in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, scene. His next of kin ancé Wendy Madison Bau- Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. have been informed,” Es- er, ex-wife Minnie Sharp, “The handbag designs exude opulence and a classic sex Police told AFP. mother Ann Bennett, aesthetic, with a variety of waist pouches, wristlets, step-father Steve Bennett, slings, totes, fanny packs and backpacks that are per- brother Tom Perry, sister fect for any occasion,” Kendall and Kylie said in a joint Ben Affleck admits Amy Coder, and other close statement. family and friends.” “One style that is sure to catch your eye is the he ‘still loves’ The star was taken to bum bag -- also known as the fanny pack -- which Jennifer Garner hospital in Burbank, Cal- happens to be our favourite! The nostalgic 1980s Los ifornia, on Wednesday look has been modernised over the years and Angeles last week after suffering a is a luxe option for hands-free styling, per- stroke at home in Sherman fect for wrapping around your waist or Oaks, on the outskirts of slinging over your shoulder. It’s the e n Los Angeles. Paris perfect accessory to any outfit,” Kendall BAf- Hilton they added. and Kylie fleck is Jenner opening up about his Ben Affleck alcohol ad- Katy Perry reveals how she met Orlando Bloom diction — and how fortunate Outdoor Catering • Choice of high quality he feels to have ex-wife Jen- • Tailor made menus Los Angeles nifer Garner as the mother Team Offers: for Non-Veg. & Veg. said that she works at a fast food of his three children. • Professional Party joint called In-N-Out burgers in In a candid interview Set-up & Supervision aty Perry recounted the Las Vegas and asked the people alongside his Triple Fron- • Catering for any details of how she met present if she could tell every- tier costar Charlie Hun- number of guests. her fiancee during the one about an incident “that’s so nam on Monday’s Today, • Attractive rates. K premiere of ‘American Idol’ on sweet” reported People. Affleck told Hoda Kotb that Sunday. Perry went on to tell everyone it “doesn’t really bother” Perry jumped with enthusi- how she met her now fiancee, him to talk about his sobri- For Reservations, Call:Umm Al Hassam 17728699 Seef District 17364999 asm when one of the contestants Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Orlando Bloom the first time. ety journey. 15 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 sports

BOC conducts management course Juve inch closer to title TDT | Manama post-graduate sports Amanagement diploma Juventus extend Serie A lead to 16 points with hard-fought win over Napoli course, organized by the Bahrain Olympic Acad - AFP | Rome emy in cooperation with the International Olym- uventus closed all talk of a BETTER pic Committee’s Olympic challenge to their Serie A Solidariy Programme, got Jdominance after coming underway at K Hotel in through a second-half onslaught KNOW Juffair. at Napoli to win 2-1 in an en - Bahrain Olympic Com- grossing match that saw each mittee sports affairs execu- side have a man sent off and Juventus all-but- tive director Abduljalil Asad stretch their lead at the top to a inaugurated the course, huge 16 points. sealed their eighth which was also attended by Massimiliano Allegri’s un- straight Serie A title academy director Dr Nabeel beaten leaders have now as good after winning 2-1 at Taha, Olympic Solidarity as sealed their eighth straight Napoli to go 16 points manager Maryam Marda- Serie A title after a match that clear at the top na and participants from looked dead at half-time with national sports clu9s and Juve two goals and a man up, away fans held up “Astori” signs federations. but sparked back into life when and the home fans showed ap- Asad welcomed the at- goalscorer Miralem Pjanic was preciation for a player born and tendees and thanked them sent off for handling a Napoli raised in the province of Berga- for taking part in this pass and picking up a second mo, where the hosts are based. course, which is in line with yellow card just after the break. “This situation has taken over the programmes offered by “I fell asleep, I should have a huge part of us this week. To- the committee in an attempt replaced Pjanic when he had morrow we will close to his to develop and qualify na- the first card. He was at risk, family as we have been for the tional competencies in the but I didn’t expect him to han- last year,” said Fiorentina coach field of sport. dle,” said Allegri, whose future Stefano Pioli. at Juve is uncertain after what Gian Piero Gasperini’s flam- will be five seasons in Turin. Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus in action during the Serie A match between Napoli and Juventus boyant Atalanta are six points “I already said we’ll sit down behind fourth-placed Inter Mi- Matrix edge Santy to talk about this season and the gave Napoli a glimmer of hope. let the champions off the hook. on Saturday that took Genn - lan after winning the second next. I am very happy to be at They were back in the game aro Gattuso’s side third and a spectacular clash with Fioren- TDT | Manama Juventus.” in the 61st minute when Jose Italy remembers Astori point above Inter, who lost 2-1 at tina in a matter of days after Midfielder Pjanic swept home Callejon tapped home a pinpoint As elsewhere across Serie A Cagliari amid a public contract their thrilling 3-3 Coppa Italia atrix beat Santy by 115 his free-kick opener in the 28th Lorenzo Insigne cross, and then this weekend, play at the Stadio dispute with absent star striker semi-final draw midweek. Mruns in a CBA Division minute, which came immedi- piled the pressure on a suddenly San Paolo stopped in the 13th Mauro Icardi. They are level on 41 points D 25 overs League match. ately after Napoli were reduced creaking Juve, with Piotr Zielin- minute to honour the memory But the most emotional scenes with Lazio, 3-0 winners over Matrix won the toss and to 10 men thanks to goalkeeper ski twice forcing fine saves from of deceased former Italy inter- came during Fiorentina’s 3-1 de- Roma in Saturday’s Rome derby, elected to bat first. Opener Alex Meret slicing down Cris- countryman Wojciech Szczesny. national Davide Astori, with feat at Atalanta, who kept their and Torino, who beat rock-bot- Danushke’s brilliant cen- tiano Ronaldo after the Portu- It looked as though the hosts fans of both sides applauding hopes of Champions League tom Chievo by the same score tury helped matrix to put guese nipped in to intercept a were set to launch a final assault the ex-Fiorentina captain, who football alive thanks to goals on Sunday. Two points further a huge total of 266 at the terrible Kevin Malcuit backpass. when they were given a penalty died in his sleep aged just 31 on from Josip Ilicic, Alejandro back are Sampdoria, thanks to end of 25 overs. He scored Emre Can added the second six minutes before the end for a March 4 last year. Gomez and Robin Gosens. 36-year-old Fabio Quagliarella 141 runs in 72 balls includ- from a corner 11 minutes later controversial handball decision Astori’s name was chanted Atalanta playmaker Ilicic, joining Ronaldo at the top of ing ten 4’s and nine 6’s and after substitute David Ospina against Alex Sandro given by by fans of AC Milan, where he who played alongside Astori at the scoring charts with 19 goals was well supported by Pri- tipped away Pjanic’s stinging VAR, only for Insigne to crash his came through as a youth player, Fiorentina, broke down in tears following a brace in his side’s 2-1 yesh (66) who scored a half shot, but the Bosnian’s red card spot-kick against the post and during a 1-0 win over Sassuolo when played stopped, while win at struggling SPAL. century. Both of them put a 177 runs partnership for the second wicket. Chasing the target, Santy Formula 2 and Porsche GT3 Cup Excavation wound up for Balotelli posts goal celebration 151 runs. Noman (45) was to support F1 at Bahrain GP the top scorer for their side. Shyju and Vijeesh took two video on social media mid-match wickets each for Matrix as they won the match by 115 AFP | Paris runs Brief Score: Matrix 266/5 ario Balotelli showed off in 25 overs (Danushke 141, Ma new goal celebration on Priyesh 66) beat Santy Ex- Sunday as he took a selfie video cavation 151/10 (Noman 45, with his Marseille teammates Valeed 40, Shuju 2/9) by 115 and posted it on social media runs during their 2-0 win over Saint- Other Matches Score: Action from a previous Porsche GT3 Cup race at BIC Etienne. Karnataka Strikers 206/9 The Italian scored his fourth TDT | Manama at this level. in 25 overs (Sohaib 40, goal in six Ligue 1 games since Formula 2 will be staging Rajesh 31, Shubam 4/48, joining Marseille from Nice otorsport fans can enjoy the opening round of its 2019 Raghav 3/34) beat Bahrain in January by hooking home Mplenty of top-class rac- season in Bahrain. Hawks 122/9 (Satinder 35, Florian Thauvin’s 12th-minute ing at the Formula 1 Gulf Air The new campaign is set Sharma 3/19) by 84 runs corner with an excellent acro- Bahrain Grand Prix 2019. to feature 12 meetings in all, NDC Bahrain 123/4 in 16 batic volley. Mario Balotelli films himself with teammates after scoring for Marseille in the The sporting and entertain- with each weekend running in overs (Siva 27, Rahul 27, “Balotelli takes the pressure, win against Saint-Etienne ment spectacle takes place conjunction with a Formula 1 Sumith 2/28) beat COLTS he takes the limelight. He re- March 28 to 31 at Bahrain Grand Prix. CA 122/7 (Vidhya 36) by 6 minds me of (Zlatan) Ibrahi- He was not the first player to the race for the third and final International Circuit (BIC) in There are 20 cars represent- wickets movic and he scored an Ibrahi- produce a selfie-based celebra- Champions League spot. Sakhir as the second round of ing 10 teams on the grid. Spartans 115/2 in 14.3 movic goal,” said Saint-Etienne tion, after Roma great Frances- Earlier on Sunday, Mous - the 2019 FIA Formula 1 World Meanwhile, the Porsche GT3 overs (Shahin 41, Shoaib coach Jean-Louis Gasset. co Totti took a picture of him- sa Dembele scored twice as Championship. Cup Challenge Middle East is 27) beat Shafiq Glass 114/10 “He has brought back the self after scoring against Lazio Lyon thrashed Toulouse 5-1 to Formula 1 action will be the biggest and most popular (Maher 30, Jahangir 4/24) public, the confidence, and in the capital-city derby in strengthen their grip on a top- complemented on track by a one-make motor racing cham- by 8 wickets many of his teammates will 2015. three spot. pair of support series in the pionship in the entire region. Friends XI 120/6 in 17.5 raise their level of play.” Marseille doubled their ad- Bruno Genesio’s Lyon, who FIA Formula 2 Championship It has been the number one overs (Umer 33, Grant 2/3) As he celebrated his volley, vantage nine minutes later are also through to the French and the Porsche GT3 Cup Chal- choice of the Arab world’s beat Black Feather 119/10 Balotelli took a phone from the through a Thauvin penalty and Cup semi-finals and claimed a lenge Middle East, ensuring most promising circuit racing (Sam 56, Abdullah 3/14) by cameraman behind the goal be- closed out the win with ease. 0-0 first-leg draw in the Cham- “Limitless” on-track action. drivers to broaden their racing 4 wickets fore filming the video with his Rudi Garcia’s men have now pions League last 16 against Formula 2 is widely accept- experience in a professional- Tornado A 72/9 in 15.2 laughing teammates and post- taken 13 points from their last Barcelona, continued their ed to be the chief feeder series ly run series. Drivers race in overs (Nidhin 12, Waqas 3/6, ing it on his Instagram story. five league matches to leap - strong season by moving six to Formula 1, with many of its identical Porsche GT3 Cup Car Sameer 3/13) beat GT Abdu- The 28-year-old then carried frog Saint-Etienne into fourth, points clear of fourth-placed graduates moving on to the top 911s, supplied by the founders laal 71/10 (Samer 30, Sham on playing. just five points adrift of Lyon in Saint-Etienne. flight after honing their skills from Lechner Racing. 3/9) by 1 wicket TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019 16

Rooney’s DC United blank defending MLS Kane: Spurs must step champs Atlanta AFP | Washington

aul Arriola and Luciano PAcosta scored while for- up when pressure is on mer England star Wayne Rooney picked up an assist Sunday as DC United defeat- fall short when it really matters and improve you are still going to win ed reigning Major League Kane knows that has been holding things,” Kane said. Soccer champion Atlanta them back. “Every team is improving, every United 2-0. There was more evidence of that The thing for us now, team is strengthening, every team A steady rain drenched AFP | London last week as they lost back-to-back kind of like this week, is getting better year-by-year so it’s the players in the American Premier League games against Burn- when the pressure is on important for us that we don’t fall capital in the 2019 season arry Kane says ley and Chelsea before drawing at and we need to step up, behind that.” opener for both clubs. Tottenham Hot- home to Arsenal -- when they had Spurs have a chance to make US striker Paul Arriola spur need to start been in a position to put themselves we need to find a way to progress in the Champions League scored seconds into first- H get it done delivering when the pres- firmly back in the title picture. when they head to Borussia Dort- half stoppage time after a sure is at its most intense “The thing for us now, kind of like HARRY KANE mund for Tuesday’s last-16 second Rooney cross and Acosta’s if they are to take the final this week, when the pressure is on leg with a 3-0 advantage. left-footed shot that squirt- step and become trophy and we need to step up, we need to “It’s not going to be easy, but it’s ed through defenders. winners. find a way to get it done,” the Eng- down to us to put a performance The ball landed in front of Mauricio Pochettino has land captain said. in and we will never have a better Arriola, who blasted home led Spurs towards the top “We haven’t done that in recent were putting serious silverware in chance to get to a quarter-final,” his ninth career MLS goal of the English game, chal - years, we haven’t done that this week their trophy cabinet. he said. for a 1-0 DC United half-time Harry “I wouldn’t say we are one of the Kane lenging for league titles and and that will be the difference. That Kane hopes it will not take that lead. domestic cups during his spell is the turning point that we need to long, but also accepts his side have favourites to go and win it. I think of nearly five years at the helm, try and achieve.” some catching up to do. we have shown in certain games, like but they have so far failed to Pochettino said last week that “I don’t think it’s far away but I this year and last year against Real land silverware. Spurs’ shortcomings meant it could think what the gaffer was saying Madrid and Barcelona, that we can City ‘much better’ than The club have a tendency to be another five years before they was it’s not a guarantee that if you beat big teams.” last year: Guardiola AFP | London

ep Guardiola says Man- Pchester City are playing Ryan Giggs backs Solskjaer to stay on at United “much better” than during they’ve been fine at Old Trafford -- but pick out one team.” last year’s record-breaking AFP | Johannesburg, the really impressive performances have Giggs, whose paternal grandfather is campaign and his players South Africa been away from home. from Sierra Leone and identifies as bi-ra- should not be regarded as “The players they’ve got are suited to cial, said a recent run of racist incidents losers even if Liverpool pip ormer Manchester United playing away from home. in top-flight European football was “not them to the Premier League Fstar Ryan Giggs backed “It’s a tough ask, but not impossible.” just a football issue”. title. acting boss Ole Gunnar Solsk- Giggs, who along with Phil and Gary Several prominent fixtures have been City are favourites to re- jaer yesterday to permanently Neville, David Beckham and Paul Scholes marred by the throwing of banana skins tain their crown after Sat- take the Old Trafford top job but was part of United’s celebrated ‘92 vin- and anti-Semitic chanting in recent urday’s 1-0 win at Bourne- called their upcoming Champions tage, now coaches Wales. months. mouth and Sunday’s goal- League fixture against PSG a “big Winger Giggs stepped straight from “Until you address it socially, you’re less Merseyside derby left ask”. the pitch into United’s backroom staff as not going to get it out of football. But them a point ahead of Jur- “I can’t see anyone past Ole at the a player-coach assistant to David Moyes football does a lot of great work... I think gen Klopp’s Reds with nine moment. The record they’ve had in the in 2013. football has a big responsibility,” he said. matches remaining. league has been phenomenal,” Giggs said When Moyes was sacked, Giggs took Giggs said he was “all for VAR” follow- “In the way we play, we at a Champions League trophy tour event over as caretaker boss until the end of the ing the introduction of video assistant play much, much better in Johannesburg. season, before moving fully into coaching referee technology for the first time in (than last season),” Guardi- “It’s a tough league and to put together at the club under Louis van Gaal. the Champions League. ola said. “Everybody knows the run that he’s done, it’s impressive. “There’s gonna be some teething prob- exactly what we have to do, The Liverpool game, OK it wasn’t one ‘Football has a big responsibility’ lems, I think what they’ve got to address everybody helps each other. of the best performances but they dug Giggs described the Champions is the speed. When you’re a fan, not And when this happens, we out a result.” League title race “as the openest season Former Manchester United teammates, Ryan knowing what’s going on at the stadium, can compete and if we lose, United will face an uphill struggle on I’ve seen for a long time”. Giggs (L) and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer chat ahead of you need to address that,” he said. we lose, but no regrets. Wednesday when they confront an in- “There’s still four English clubs left. a charity football match (file photo) “But you’re not going to get every one “I know in our society just vigorated Paris side who lead them 2-0. You’ve got the usual Barcelona, Real Ma- right, a lot of it is (subjective).” the first one has the credit “With the injuries we’ve got, the po- drid hanging about (and) Juventus, who to do well. Atletico (Madrid) look strong The Champions League had its first and the second one is an sition we’re in, going to Paris is a tough I think a lot of people strongly fancied at and were in a good position against Ju- contentious VAR use on February 20 absolute loser. But it is im- place to go,” Giggs told AFP. the beginning,” he said. ventus. when Atletico Madrid took on Juventus, possible to feel that about “Away from home has been -- and “If PSG go on to beat United I fancy PSG “I think it’s really open -- it’s tough to winning 2-0. my players, it’s impossible.”

After completing century, Federer rises in rankings Madrid strikers have failed to AFP | Paris fill Ronaldo void, says Modric Reuters | Madrid name forward to replace the oger Federer’s 100th title Portuguese. Rlifted him three places to eal Madrid’s forwards “The absence of Cristiano is fourth in the ATP rankings yes- Rhave failed to fill the gap something every team would terday. left by Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka feel; to find a replacement for Stefanos Tsitsipas, the beaten Modric said yesterday. Cristiano is almost impossi- finalist as Federer made history The Croatian, speaking ble,” Modric told reporters. in Dubai also inched up. The ahead of Real’s Champions “Given what he did for us Greek climbed one place into League last-16, second-leg and this club, we miss Cris- the top 10. clash with Ajax on Tuesday, tiano. The club wanted the Gael Monfils, a beaten semi-fi- said his team lacked consisten- other players to make up for nalist, jumped four places and cy and goals this season. what he did, divided between Madrid failed to score in the strikers and that is not ATP top 10: two Clasicos against Barcelo- easy. 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 10,955 pts na last week, being eliminated “Cristiano scored 50 from the Copa del Rey and goals and you can’t find 2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 8,365 falling 12 points behind the someone today who Catalan league leaders, leav- scores that many. 3. Alexander Zverev (GER) 6,595 ing retaining the Champi- Some of us have to ons League as their only take a step for - 4. Roger Federer (SUI) 4,600 (+3) hope of glory. ward and, while Ronaldo, the Eu- not scoring 50, 5. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 4,585 (-1) ropean cham- what we need pions’ all-time is two or three 6. Kevin Anderson (RSA) 4,295 (-1) Roger Federer celebrates with the trophy after winning the final match at the ATP Dubai Tennis Championship top scorer, left players who 7. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 4,190 (-1) back into the top 20 at 19. Isner on his way to winning in points in Mexico. in July to join score 15, The biggest mover in the Acapulco. Kyrgios leaped 39 Guido Pella, who won his first Juventus and 20, or 10 8. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 3,800 men’s rankings was mercurial places to 33rd. ATP title in Sao Paulo on Sunday Madrid signed goals Australian Nick Kyrgios who Novak Djokovic took the week also moved up. The Argentine young attackers Luka and we 9. John Isner (USA) 3,405 beat two top three players, No. off but remains a long way clear has the same number of points Vinicius Jun- Modric don’t 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Alexan- at the top, though both Nadal as Kyrgios but is ranked one spot ior and Mariano h a v e 10. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 3,175 (+1) der Zverev as well as No. 9 John and Zverev gained a handful of lower at 34. Diaz but no big- that.