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x JO3082_BFC_Flag_Globe_DT_Hamper_6.7cmX4cm_Hand.indd2/1/17 2:59 PM 1 US dispenses toughest sentences for criminals Washington S Attorney General UJeff Sessions yesterday A meeting of great ordered prosecutors to seek the toughest possible charges and punishment against criminal suspects, reversing the Obama administration’s effort to end extreme sentencing of drug users and other non- violent offenders. minds and hearts DT News Network London is Majesty King Hamad Cyber attack bin Isa Al Khalifa Hmet Queen Elizabeth II and UAE Vice-President, hits UK Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Shaikh Mohammed hospitals bin Rashid Al-Maktoum London at the Endurance Village cyber strike which hit of the Windsor Great Park dozens of British hospitals yesterday. Ayesterday is part of a wider The meeting was held “international attack”, Prime on the occasion of HM Minister Theresa May said. King Hamad and Queen “We are aware that a number Elizabeth’s attendance of the of NHS organisations have international Royal Windsor reported that they have suffered Horse Show. from a ransomware attack. HM welcomed Queen This is not targeted at the NHS, Elizabeth II, and expressed it’s an international attack thanks and appreciation to and a number of countries her for inviting him to attend and organisations have been the annual show, pointing affected,” May said, referring to out to the two kingdoms’ rich the country’s National Health heritage and cultures. Service. HM exchanged cordial The state-run NHS declared a talks with Queen Elizabeth “major incident” after the cyber II and Shaikh Mohammed attacks, which prompted some bin Rashid on Bahrain’s hospitals to divert ambulances outstanding relations with HM the King with Queen Elizabeth II at Endurance Village of the Windsor Great Park in London and scrap operations. the United Kingdom and spreading the sport locally Americas at the Foreign Bahraini-UK relations and King expressed thanks and “The National Cyber the United Arab Emirates, and globally. and Commonwealth Office, their steady progress in appreciation to Goodman for Security Centre is working hailing them as long-standing HM King Hamad also met Sir Alan Duncan, and various fields. the valuable book. closely with NHS digital to ties based on mutual respect the Duke of York, Prince Commander Royal Military HM King was also Later, HM the King and ensure that they support the and coordination at all Andrew, former UK Prime Academy Sandhurst, General conferred a book by Rupert Queen Elizabeth II watched organisations concerned levels. Minister, David Cameron, Paul Nanson. Goodman marking 200 the International Endurance and that they protect patient Talks also focused on the Lord Astor, Minister of HM reviewed with them years of relations between Race, held at the Windsor safety,” May added. importance of promoting and State for Europe and the the long-standing and friendly the two kingdoms. HM the Great Park over 120 kms. The prime minister said the government is not aware of any patient data being HM, Queen Elizabeth, Dubai Ruler attend Windsor Horse Show compromised. - AFP P 03 P 04 P 06 Activist Schools attacked What spreading false in Northern, could propaganda: Muharraq it be? BHRWS governorates 2 Saturday, May 13, 2017

The cruise ship captain afraid of the dark

Costa Concordia’s captain Francesco Schettino

The cruise liner Costa Concordia aground in front of the harbour of the Isola del Giglio (Giglio island) after hitting underwater rocks

Rome managed to save yourself but tilting liner were unusable. e will go down in there, it will really go badly... As he sat on his rock, the history as the captain I will create a lot of trouble ship’s purser and onboard Hwho refused to return aboard for you. Get on board, for doctor saved dozens of lives, the sinking Costa Concordia, fuck’s sake!” with even the island’s deputy saying it was too dark to help mayor climbing on board the save lives in a tragedy that ‘There are already bodies’ sinking giant to help rescue killed 32 people. “Captain, I’m begging you,” efforts. Long before Italy’s top Schettino says, to which De court sealed his fate Friday Falco replies: “Go... There are The blonde by upholding on appeal his already bodies, Schettino.” Born into a seafaring family 16-year jail term, Ray-Ban- “How many are there?” he in Castellammare di Stabia wearing Francesco Schettino, asks. near Naples, Schettino was now 56, had been marked “You are the one who is hired by Costa Crociere as the villain of the piece, supposed to tell me how in 2002 and enjoyed a dubbed “Captain Coward” many, damn it!” De Falco reputation as a ladies’ man, by the media for abandoning cries. hosting lavish dinners for ship. “But do you realise that glamorous guests at his table, As terrified passengers it is dark and we can’t see according to crew members. threw themselves off the anything?” Schettino asks, He was entertaining a tilting cruiser liner into the leaving an incredulous De blonde Moldovan woman -- freezing waters after it hit an Falco to wonder: “What do who was not on the official outcrop off the Tuscan island you want to do, Schettino? passenger list -- in the of Giglio on January 13, 2012, Go home? It is dark so you moments before the crash. Schettino spent most of the want to go home?” During the trial he was nighttime evacuation on a Schettino, who would later ordered to stay within the rock. admit to recklessly ordering boundaries of his hometown He would later claim he a sail-by “salute” near the of Meta di Sorrento but SEND OR EXCHANGE MONEY fell into a lifeboat when the island, did not return to sparked the anger of victims’ ship rolled and was carried the ship to run the rescue relatives by being spotted AT GREAT RATES, GUARANTEED! ashore against his will. operations, which went on sunning himself on a friend’s “He looked like a beaten until 6 am. yacht offshore. We aim to make a positive difference in our customers’ lives by providing dog, cold and scared,” said a The conversation was seen He is separated from his fast, safe and convenient services every time! taxi-driver who saw him. in Italy as an allegory of the wife and has reportedly been • Worldwide Money Transfer • Corporate Payments Livorno port official country’s “two souls”; on living alone with a dog given • Online Money Transfer • Payroll Services Gregorio De Falco was hailed one side the “hair-creamed to him by his daughter. as a hero after a transcript godfather used to breaking In 2015 he published • Currency Exchange • Wholesale Services emerged of him demanding the rules”, on the other the a 600-page book on the • Bill Payments the captain return to ship. military hero with rigorous disaster, called “The Truth “Get on the ship and tell ethics. Submerged”, which he /BFCBahrain /BFCBahrain me how many people there Despite discovering the dedicated to those who died. are and what is happening crash had torn a huge hole in According to the journalist Tel: 1722 8888 | www.bfc.com.bh onboard. Is that clear?” he is the liner, Schettino delayed who helped him write the heard saying. sounding the alarm by over book, he said “the only When Schettino resists, an hour, by which point the mistake I made was not dying he warns: “You may have lifeboats on one side of the too that night”. (AFP)

JO3082_BFC_DT_Ads_18cmX12.8cm_Generic_Services.indd 1 2/1/17 3:31 PM Saturday, May 13, 2017 3 Terror attack in Baluchistan condemned DT News Network Activist spreading false Manama ahrain has condemned the terror attack in Baluchistan Bwhich targeted the convoy of the Senate Deputy Chairman killing and injuring several people. propaganda: BHRWS The Ministry affirmed the solidarity of the Kingdom DT News Network tortured and mistreated. “Al City, held by the sectarian with the friendly Pakistan in [email protected] Sayegh captioned the photo Popular Mobilisation Forces,” its fight against terrorism and ahrain Human Rights that prisoners are receiving BHRWS added in its post, its efforts to reinforce security Watch Society (BHRWS) inhuman treatment and are while calling upon Al Sayegh and stability, said a statement Bhas criticised an activist after denied the right to treatment, to keep transparency and issued by the Ministry of she spread false propaganda in addition to being humiliated credibility before sharing Foreign Affairs yesterday. that the Kingdom was ill- in the Dry Dock Detention news and information. The Ministry expressed treating and torturing Centre,” the Society said in a its heartfelt condolences to prisoners at Dry Dock post on its Instagram page. the families of the victims, Detention Centre. “Monitoring departments BHRWS flayed Pakistani government and Ibtisam Al Sayegh was in the Society was concerned the way a picture people, wishing the injured harshly criticised by BHRWS about the matter, as health speedy recovery. The Ministry after she posted a picture of conditions of prisoners is was used to falsify reiterated the firm position a man shackled to a hospital The picture of the Iraqi prisoner spread on Instagram page among our priorities and facts and claim of Bahrain in rejection of all bed, claiming that the picture who was held captive by the BHRWS condemned the way responsibilities. Investigating prisoners are forms of terrorism irrespective was taken in Bahrain. BHRWS Popular Mobilisation Forces the picture was used to falsify further into the matter, we of the motives, calling anew denied Al Sayegh’s allegations in Basra. “This is shameful and facts in Bahrain and claim that found out that it’s not of being tortured for concerted regional and and proved that the picture against credibility principles,” prisoners in the Dry Dock a man in Bahrain, but of a and mistreated international efforts to was of an Iraqi prisoner the society commented. Detention Centre are being sick Iraqi prisoner in Basra eradicate this dangerous phenomenon. 4 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Schools attacked in Northern, Muharraq governorates

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Manama wo schools were attacked by alleged terrorists in A car on fire on King Hamad Highway in the Southern theT Northern and Muharraq Governorate yesterday. The vehicle was completely Governorates, Education destroyed in the fire, which was later extinguished by Ministry said yesterday. Civil Defence firemen, the Interior Ministry said without “Arad Primary Boys’ giving any information about the driver and passengers School and Karana Primary but attributing the fire to gas leakage. This is the third Girls’ School were attacked car to catch fire on the Kingdom’s roads during the past by terrorists, bringing the few days. A car was completely damaged in Isa Town on number of terror attacks Wednesday, while another car turned to ashes in Hamad on government schools to Town on Thursday. This has raised concerns about the 555,” Public Relations and safety of cars with calls to periodically examine vehicles, Information Directorate in the especially with the approach of the summer. ministry said. Ministry expressed its strong disapproval against Results of 12th graders endorsed the continuation of these DT News Network by Deputy Premier and “disgraceful acts” aimed at Manama Chairman of the Council His preventing students from he High Council of Highness Shaikh Mohammed obtaining their inherent Educational and Training bin Mubarak Al Khalifa on right to education, which is DevelopmentT has endorsed Thursday. contrary to the principles of the results of the fifth national QQA Chief Executive the Islam and all international examinations for 12th grade Jawaher Al Mudhahki said conventions and humanitarian students held under the that parents in Bahrain were norms. supervision of the National now paying greater attention “Terrorists infiltrated Authority for Qualifications to national examinations, into the school of Arad, and Quality Assurance of especially after it was decided smashing the glass gate of the The shattered window panes of the schools in Arad and Karrana. Pictures shared by the ministry Education and Training (QQA) that 12.5 per cent of the exam gymnasium, while in Karrana of the damages caused to the schools in March. grade are computed into the the windowpanes of one of the stones,” the directorate said, recently. The Ministry has about these two attacks to take The Council approved the overall average for the students classrooms were smashed with adding the incidents happened informed security authorities the necessary action, it said. results at a meeting chaired in their final school year. Sashi Tharoor to open Book Fair, Literary Fest

Dr K S Ravi Kumar Dr Vandana Shiva

The press conference organised by Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam the other day Sashi Tharoor Manoj Kuroor B S Warier

DT News Network from May 17 to 27 at the BKS recently at the Samajam. the British empire in India, will Fair and Literary Fest. Dr. held. A literary Camp will also Manama Diamond Jubilee Hall. Former UN Under Secretary also be released at this function. Vandana Shiva will speak be held on May 25 and 26 led ahrain Keraleeya Samajam This was announced by BKS General and MP Sashi Tharoor Environmental activist on environmental issues on by Manoj Kuroor and Dr. K.S. (BKS), as a part of its ‘India President P.V. Radhakrishna will inaugurate the BKS-DC Dr. Vandana Shiva, career May 18. Short story writing Ravikumar. B@70, BKS @70’, celebrations Pillai and Acting General Book Fair and Cultural Fest guru B S Warier, writers Dr. competitions, literary quiz and For registration and other is organising an International Secretary Manoharan Pavaratty on May 17. ‘Era of Darkness’, K.S. Ravikumar and Manoj a carrier guidance classes led by details call 39744981, or Book Fair and Literary Fest at a press conference held written by Shashi Tharoor on Kuroor will attend the Book career guru B S Warier will be 32052047 Saturday, May 13, 2017 5

highest degree of compliance treatment practices as well as of hazardous waste from importer and exporter of waste with the agreement and all taking the necessary measures developed to less developed assume full responsibility of other international agreements that limit and contain the countries (LDCs). The this waste movement as per in line with the directives of generation of waste. The Convention is also intended sound environmental practices His Highness Sheikh Abdullah country is now preparing an to minimize the amount and and that this hazardous waste Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, integrated national strategy for toxicity of wastes generated, to is not disposed or dumped at Personal Representative of His the management of different ensure their environmentally any location causing adverse Majesty the King, Chairman types of waste generated sound management as closely impacts to the public health RECOGNITION OF BAHRAIN of the Supreme Council for in the country including as possible to the source of and environmental resources. the Environment, which stems industrial waste, municipal generation, and to assist LDCs Due to the implementation AT BASEL CONVENTION from the keenness of the wise waste, healthcare waste etc. in environmentally sound of Basel Convention, the leadership to strengthen the in coordination with the management of the hazardous movement of hazardous waste he Kingdom of Bahrain shown their commitment to the commitment of the Kingdom relevant government agencies and other wastes they generate. has been legalized, controlled has been honored as the Convention during the “Basel of Bahrain to international and in cooperation with the The Basel Convention was and illegal dumping has been firstT Gulf, Arab and Asian Convention Secretariat for the agreements and contractual United Nations Environment opened for signature on 22 restricted and minimized. In country to comply with the Transboundary Movements treaties. Program. March 1989, and entered into addition, the LDC are saved Basel Convention on the of Hazardous Wastes”. Other H.E. Dr. Mohammed The Kingdom of Bahrain force on 5 May 1992. So far where otherwise the hazardous Transboundary Movements countries include Argentina, Mubarak bin Daina said is one of the first countries more than 184 countries are waste form developed of Hazardous Wastes, on the Australia, Finland, Hungary, during the seminar that to ratify and sign the Basel parties to the Convention. countries were being dumped. sidelines of the Conference Lithuania, Poland, Portugal compliance with the Convention on Transboundary The Convention regulates While the country is working of the Parties to the Basel, and South Africa. Bahrain is agreement strengthened the Movements of Hazardous and control identification towards meeting the challenges Rotterdam and Stockholm the only GCC, Arab and Asian capabilities of the Supreme Wastes in 1992. and assessment of hazardous of waste management, we Conventions, held lately country to be recognized at the Council for the Environment The Basel Convention on waste, its movement from need to be vigilant in properly in Geneva, Switzerland. event. in monitoring the current the Control of Transboundary different states via land routes, disposing any hazardous waste The recognition was given H.E. Dr. Mohammed state of waste management, Movements of Hazardous water transport or by air. The as per local regulations and to in the presence of H.E. Dr. Mubarak bin Daina, in a and auditing all aspects related Wastes and Their Disposal, procedure include preparing the designated facilities in the Mohammed Mubarak Bin seminar discussed the Kingdom to it. It enabled the setting usually known as the Basel and submitting necessary country. Daina, Chief Executive of of Bahrain’s experience and of priorities in the area of Convention, is an international notification forms whereby the Supreme Council for the progress in hazardous waste its management through the treaty that was designed to approval for movement is * Head of Waste Disposal Environment (SCE). management. H.E. mentioned reduction and minimization of regulate and manage the given by Basel Convention Unit, Supreme Council for The Kingdom of Bahrain that the SCE is working as the waste, change or improvement movements of hazardous competent authority in each Environment, Bahrain. was honored along with nine focal point for the Convention of processes, technologies, waste between countries, and country which is usually the (Email: [email protected]) other countries that have and is keen to present the enhancing reuse, recycling and specifically to prevent transfer Ministry of Environment. The

(The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of this newspaper.) Double meat subsidy compensation: MP DT News Network allowances in their bank Manama accounts, once in every n MP has proposed to three months. The amount double the cash handouts, varied from BD5, BD2.5 to Awhich were initiated by the BD3.5 depending on the age government to compensate of the beneficiaries of the the citizens for removing scheme. meat subsidies in the In March this year, Kingdom. the government rejected This according to MP Isa another parliamentary Turki will “help alleviate proposal to compensate each the burden on the citizens, citizen with BD10 every considering the high demand month for removing meat for meat products and the subsidies. prices for goods during the According to a report, Holy Month.” Kingdom’s budgetary Bahrain chose to end allowances for paying meat its subsidies on meat and MP Isa Turki subsidies touched BD67 poultry products in 2015, as prices of meat products up million in 2014. nations across the Middle East by three times in the local Latest official statistics scrambled to deal with the market from its previous say that 151,000 Bahraini crisis sparked by the drop in level. families are benefiting the oil prices. The move was followed compensation scheme, which The decision, however, by a decision to compensate costs the government around resulted in sending the the citizens by depositing BD26 million.

Manama Central Meat Market (file picture) 6 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Mysterious sea monster washes up in Indonesia

he carcass of a giant mysterious shore. Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries Tsea creature that washed up on an A co-ordinator of Indonesia’s Marine and Oceanography, Nikolay Kim, said: What Indonesian Island is keeping experts and Coastal Resources Management said “Judging by the appearance of the baffled as it hardly resembles any of it was likely to be a whale, according to head, this is clearly some big dolphin. known sea creatures around the globe. Storyful. Originally thought to be a giant According to a characteristic of the skin, The 15m-long carcass washed up in squid, others have posited it might be it is a rare species. Maluku on the Indonesian island of another creature entirely. Lab tests are “I doubt that it lived in our waters. Seram. underway to confirm the species. Most likely, the animal was brought by The Independent, quoting Beritasatu. In the meantime, locals have been the warm current. com, said the beast was first spotted flocking to Hulung Beach in West Seram “We often get tropical and subtropical by a 37-year-old local resident Asrul to see the mysterious remains. species here and, when they cool down, could Tuanakota. It isn’t the first creature from the they stay here and then die. Though he initially mistook the dead depths to leave spectators flummoxed. “I can confidently say that this is some sea creature for a boat in the dark but In July 2015, a beast with a ‘long beak’ kind of a dolphin. However, it has fur. It’s quickly discovered it was something and ‘furry tail’ reportedly washed up on a unusual. Dolphins do not have any fur.” much stranger. beach along the east coast of Russia. The animal was discovered by locals Experts opine that the death of the The discovery was said to baffle marine near Shakhtersk Airport on Sakhalin – a behemoth might have occurred at least experts across the globe. Deputy Head Russian island that is so far east, it is closer it be? three days prior to washing up on the of the Forecasting department of the to America than Moscow. (Independent) UAE plans to tow ICEBERG from Antarctica to Fujairah ncouraging life to bloom in the middle route and used simulators to check the of a desert is no easy task. feasibility of the scheme, according to EBut one company in the United Arab reports in Gulf News. Emirates has come up with a bizarre plan Speaking to the site about what he is to provide drinking water for the state’s calling the UAE Iceberg Project, Abdullah citizens. Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi said: “Our The firm intends to haul icebergs from simulator predicts that it will take up to Antarctica to the gulf coast in order to one year [to tow an iceberg to UAE]. harvest its billions of gallons of fresh water. “We have formulated the technical and The National Advisor Bureau, financial plan. Towing is the best method. headquartered in Masdar City, Abu- We will start the project in beginning of Dhabi, plans to source the massive 2018. blocks of ice from Heard Island, around “We want it mainly for the water. It 600 miles (1000 kilometres) off the coast could also be good for tourism and the of mainland Antarctica. weather.” It will then transport them around The UAE is one of the most arid 5,500 miles (8,800 km) to Fujairah, one countries and one of the top 10 most of the seven emirates which make up the water-scarce in the world, due to its UAE. extremely arid climate, which receives One iceberg could provide enough less than four inches (100 mm) of rainfall for one million people over five years, per year. according to the company. Despite that, it consumes more water And the scheme could begin as early as than double the global national average the start of 2018. putting the country at severe risk of The firm’s director says they have droughts over the next 25 years. (Daily already travelled the transportation Mail) 6 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Saturday, May 13, 2017 7 Mysterious sea monster washes up in Indonesia Turkey moves famed medieval

tomb to avoid floodingHasankeyf in the next years because risk of Zeynel Bey was the son of urkish authorities the development of the Ilisu the founder of the Ak Koyunlu yesterday conducted Dam project which aims to dynasty, Uzun Hassan but was aT hugely ambitious and drastically improve energy killed at the 1473 Battle of controversial operation to supplies for the Kurdish- Otlukbeli with the Ottomans move a centuries-old tomb to dominated southeast. and the tomb erected in his new location to stave off the The 550-year-old, 1,100 memory. risk of flooding from a dam tonne tomb had already been Located on the banks of project. loaded onto a special wheeled the Tigris river, Hasankeyf is The tomb of Zeynel Bey is a platform and just after dawn home to a cluster of sites from 15th century memorial to one began the painstakingly slow the Roman, Byzantine, pre- of the key figures in the Ak journey to its new location. Ottoman and Ottoman eras. Koyunlu tribe who controlled It is being moved around two Turkish authorities say much of eastern Anatolia and kilometres to an archaeological everything necessary will be the Caucasus and vied for park being set up just outside done to secure and safeguard supremacy with the emerging the town. all heritage that could be he carcass of a giant mysterious shore. Sakhalin Research Institute of Fisheries Ottomans. The journey lasted around five damaged or submerged by the Tsea creature that washed up on an A co-ordinator of Indonesia’s Marine and Oceanography, Nikolay Kim, said: The exquisite building, hours but the head of Turkey’s dam when the process begins What Indonesian Island is keeping experts and Coastal Resources Management said “Judging by the appearance of the known for its dome and water agency Murat Acu said it in the next two years. baffled as it hardly resembles any of it was likely to be a whale, according to head, this is clearly some big dolphin. intricate coloured stonework, would take three days to fully “We have carried out known sea creatures around the globe. Storyful. Originally thought to be a giant According to a characteristic of the skin, lies in the old town of put the tomb in place. archeological excavations in the The 15m-long carcass washed up in squid, others have posited it might be it is a rare species. Hasankeyf in the southeastern Dozens of locals watched region of the dam, identified Maluku on the Indonesian island of another creature entirely. Lab tests are “I doubt that it lived in our waters. Batman province. as the tomb, bedecked with a the historic sites and developed Seram. underway to confirm the species. Most likely, the animal was brought by Much of the town will be Turkish flag, made its stately projects to protect them,” said The tomb of Zenyel Bey is carried on a rolling structure The Independent, quoting Beritasatu. In the meantime, locals have been the warm current. under water or risk damage way along a road. an official (AFP) com, said the beast was first spotted flocking to Hulung Beach in West Seram “We often get tropical and subtropical by a 37-year-old local resident Asrul to see the mysterious remains. species here and, when they cool down, could Tuanakota. It isn’t the first creature from the they stay here and then die. Germany demands Turkey detains 57 in Though he initially mistook the dead depths to leave spectators flummoxed. “I can confidently say that this is some sea creature for a boat in the dark but In July 2015, a beast with a ‘long beak’ kind of a dolphin. However, it has fur. It’s access to reporter operation against quickly discovered it was something and ‘furry tail’ reportedly washed up on a unusual. Dolphins do not have any fur.” much stranger. beach along the east coast of Russia. The animal was discovered by locals held in Turkey stock exchange Experts opine that the death of the The discovery was said to baffle marine near Shakhtersk Airport on Sakhalin – a behemoth might have occurred at least experts across the globe. Deputy Head Russian island that is so far east, it is closer Berlin Istanbul three days prior to washing up on the of the Forecasting department of the to America than Moscow. (Independent) ermany yesterday demanded access urkey yesterday detained 57 people in Gto a female German journalist it Tan operation against the Istanbul stock it be? said had been held in police custody in exchange as part of the investigation into the Turkey since last month without consular failed July 15 coup, state media said. representation. The 57 were detained in six different In a development likely to further strain provinces, with over 100 arrest warrants bilateral ties, foreign ministry spokesman issued, the state-run Anadolu news agency Martin Schaefer said Turkish authorities said. Efforts to detain the remaining suspects UAE plans to tow ICEBERG had failed to inform Berlin about the are in progress, it added. detention of the reporter, Mesale Tolu. They are suspected of links to the group “That is regrettable,” he said, adding of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher that no German diplomats had managed to Ankara accuses of being behind the failed plot gain access to her since her arrest on April to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it 30. “It is important to us that we can take said. Gulen denies the charges. from Antarctica to Fujairah care of her as a German citizen.” The Haberturk daily said on its website Schaefer said it was believed that Tolu -- that those held were former employees of the ncouraging life to bloom in the middle route and used simulators to check the who according to media reports was born stock exchange suspected of using a encrypted of a desert is no easy task. feasibility of the scheme, according to in Germany with Turkish citizenship but messaging application called Bylock which EBut one company in the United Arab reports in Gulf News. in 2007 became a German national -- no Turkey claims was especially created for Gulen Emirates has come up with a bizarre plan Speaking to the site about what he is longer holds a Turkish passport. supporters. to provide drinking water for the state’s calling the UAE Iceberg Project, Abdullah citizens. Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi said: “Our The firm intends to haul icebergs from simulator predicts that it will take up to Antarctica to the gulf coast in order to one year [to tow an iceberg to UAE]. White House movie theatre opens to public harvest its billions of gallons of fresh water. “We have formulated the technical and The National Advisor Bureau, financial plan. Towing is the best method. Washington headquartered in Masdar City, Abu- We will start the project in beginning of isitors to the White House can now Dhabi, plans to source the massive 2018. Vvisit the cloakroom-turned-movie blocks of ice from Heard Island, around “We want it mainly for the water. It theater where Dwight Eisenhower used 600 miles (1000 kilometres) off the coast could also be good for tourism and the to sneak off to watch westerns and where of mainland Antarctica. weather.” Jimmy Carter screened “All The President’s It will then transport them around The UAE is one of the most arid Men.” 5,500 miles (8,800 km) to Fujairah, one countries and one of the top 10 most The decision to open up the private of the seven emirates which make up the water-scarce in the world, due to its presidential theater -- set up in a large UAE. extremely arid climate, which receives cloakroom by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in One iceberg could provide enough less than four inches (100 mm) of rainfall 1942 -- was made by Melania Trump, the for one million people over five years, per year. president’s wife. The White House (File Image) according to the company. Despite that, it consumes more water “The White House belongs to the And the scheme could begin as early as than double the global national average people of this country,” the first lady much access to its rich history and wonderful the start of 2018. putting the country at severe risk of said. traditions as possible. It is my hope that our The firm’s director says they have droughts over the next 25 years. (Daily “I believe everyone who takes the time to visitors truly enjoy the newest piece of the already travelled the transportation Mail) visit and tour the White House should have as tour.” 8 BUSINESS Saturday, May 13, 2017 Nepal signs up to China’s new Silk US beef Road plan Kathmandu epal yesterday signed up to China’s new Silk Road Ndrive, a massive infrastructure regains project spanning some 65 countries at the centre of the Asian giant’s push to expand its global influence. The long discussed deal between impoverished Nepal access and its much bigger neighbour comes just days before China hosts a summit for 28 leaders cc near Beijing, showcasing the ambitious plan. The One Belt, One Beijingto ChinaThe US in exchange will Trump said. US Commerce implemented. market for American LNG Road Initiative (OBOR) eijing and Washington allow cooked Chinese poultry Secretary Wilbur Ross told Regaining access to China, producers,” Ross said. spearheaded by President Xi announced yesterday to enter US markets. reporters at the White House the world’s most populous China will also give Jinping would see 60 percent Ban agreement giving US The agreement marked that the deal will help reduce country with 1.4 billion permission to wholly foreign- of the global population and beef, natural gas and certain one of the first concrete the US trade deficit with people, has been a key goal of owned financial services around a third of global GDP financial services access to results of trade discussions China, which reached nearly American cattle farmers. firms to provide credit-rating linked through a network of China’s massive market that began a month ago, $350 billion last year. “It’s impossible to services in the Asian giant. Chinese-bankrolled ports, in a deal highlighting the when Chinese President Xi overstate how beneficial this And it will give “full and railways, roads and industrial warm ties nurtured by their Jinping and Donald Trump Ending beef ban will be for America’s cattle prompt market access” parks. presidents. launched a 100-day action Under the agreement producers, and the Trump to US-owned suppliers of The deal will see China plan on economic announced by both nations, Administration deserves electronic payment services, plough money into Nepal cooperation China will authorise US beef a lot of credit for getting including credit and debit for a series of projects during their imports by July 16 while the this achieved,” National card transactions -- something including boosting its road meeting at the United States will lift barriers Cattlemen’s Beef Association China had already said it network, power grid and a US leader’s on Chinese cooked poultry president Craig Uden said in would do in 2015 after losing new railway connecting the Mar-a-Lago exports “as soon as possible”. a statement. a case at the World Trade capital Kathmandu with Lhasa resort in China banned US beef The deal will also allow Organisation. in Tibet. “We believe China Florida. following a case of mad cow Chinese companies to buy US The joint statement said will bring more investment “China just agreed that disease in the United States in liquified natural gas. the United States would send to Nepal, helping the country the U.S. will be allowed to 2003. Beijing had announced “This will let China a delegation to China’s One overcome its status as a sell beef, and other major an end to a 14-year embargo diversify, somewhat, their Belt, One Road summit -- Xi’s landlocked and least developed products, into China once on American beef last year, sources of supply and will signature project -- on Sunday nation,” said Nepal Foreign again. This is REAL news!” but the decision has yet to be provide a huge export and Monday. (AFP) Minister Prakash Saran Mahat at the signing of the deal.

President Xi Jinping’s $1 trillion plan – known as One Belt, One Road – Japan has reported success in producing gas from methane hydrate will see two trade routes to Europe. The plan will bind China’s economy Norwegian authorities expect oil and gas companies to drill a record deposits off its central coast. The extraction of the frozen gas known as to 60 countries, home to 4.4 billion people, half the world’s population 15 exploration wells in the Barents Sea this year “flammable ice” opens up a potentially vast source of global energy Government funds invested in Belt and Road project Number of exploration wells 16 15 (April forecast) 14 $890bn. China $50bn $40bn. $10bn. New 12 Development China-based Silk Road Development Bank AIIB Fund Bank 10 Japan 8 Test well in Nankai 6 METHANE Rotterdam RUSSIA Trough NETHERLANDS HYDRATE Samarkand 4 DEPOSITS UZBEKISTAN 2 Recovered Moscow Bishkek gas hydrate Dushanbe KYRGYZSTAN 1 0 Songa Enabler: Norwegian firm Statoil samples Global methane hydrate reserves TAJIKISTAN Almaty / KAZAKHSTAN 2010 2015 2017 plans to use mobile rig to drill five wells Other likely could hold more energy than all other Istanbul 2 gas hydrate known fossil fuels put together TURKEY Oil and gas finds 100km Beijing occurrences Urumqi Barents Sea could 60 miles Wisting account for almost Xian Drilling 3 CHINA 65 percent of Norway’s Methane hydrates exist Land deposits Venice rig 4 Fuzhou Johan Castberg under low temperature and Below Arctic ITALY Athens Tehran Guangzhou undiscovered resources Kolkata GREECE IRAN BARENTS high pressure permafrost INDIA Filicudi Methane Gwadar Hanoi Gulf Stream: Ocean SEA molecule PAKISTAN VIETNAM current responsible for Alta-Gohta Drillship Nairobi area remaining largely Colombo Snohvit Tornerose KENYA SRI LANKA ice-free, unlike other parts of Arctic such as Goliat Trapped methane Alaska and Greenland Hammerfest Silk Road Economic Belt Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Maritime Silk Road MALAYSIA INDONESIA Arctic Belt and Road projects 3 Tehran rail line: First freight train Circle NORWAY 1 Moscow-Kazan high-speed from China arrived in Tehran in Lattice of Gas seeps railway: $375m, 770km line is first February 2016 RUSSIA ice traps methane from below stretch of 7,000km high-speed rail 4 China-Pakistan highway: Under link to Beijing construction at cost of $46 billion. When brought to Earth’s Ocean deposits Hydrate mounds 2 Khorgos Gateway: Cargo hub “Economic corridor” between China FINLAND surface, one cubic metre Embedded in sediment on sea floor where on China-Kazakh border will handle and Pakistan will link China to port SWEDEN of gas hydrate releases on continental margins at gas escapes from one million containers per year of Gwadar on Arabian Sea 164 cubic metres of gas depths greater than 500m fault conduits Sources: Xinhua, Forbes, Financial Times, Spiegel Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Bloomberg, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research Picture: Twitter © GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Geology.com, U.S. Department of Energy © GRAPHIC NEWS Saturday, May 13, 2017 BUSINESS 9 US inflation, retail sales rise in April ArcelorMittal notches up $1 billion profit I think to be honest he has now Washington Paris learned his lesson -- he is not going S inflation edged higher in April, reversing the previous lobal steel giant ArcelorMittal said yesterday that “positive to be meddling in British politics month’s surprise drop, the Labour Department reported market momentum” and rising shipments enabled it to any more or at yesterday.U Meanwhile, retail sales Gswing back into profit in the first rebounded strongly last month, with quarter of 2017. ArcelorMittal said least if he does he consumers buying cars and driving in a statement that it booked a will get the same up sales at gas stations and online bottom-line profit of $1.0 billion reaction,” stores, the Commerce Department (920m euros) in the period from also reported. The Consumer Price January to March, compared with David Davis Index rose 0.2 percent in April after a net loss of 416m euros a year Britain’s Brexit minister reacts to Jean-Claude March’s 0.3pc decline. earlier. Juncker, European Commission president’s statement on UK politics

Mexico is second deadliest con ict zone Mexico has surpassed Iraq and Afghanistan to become the world’s second-most lethal conflict after Syria. Mexico’s drug wars claimed 23,000 lives in 2016, behind only Syria, where 50,000 people died Mexico Central Syria Iraq 21% 58.9% America 61% 41% EU, US to discuss

Latin America Middle East 39,000 and North Africa (2015: 34,000) 82,000 airline laptop ban deaths Brussels phone call later today with in a letter to US officials countries. The move, (2015: 83,000) op EU and US officials US Homeland Security earlier this week. which forces passengers Other Yemen Twill hold talks over a Secretary John Kelly and In March, Washington to put their devices into Afghanistan 0.1% 9% possible US ban on carry- a number of European banned passengers on checked baggage, came 84% South Turkey 4% on computers on European ministers,” Commission direct flights to the United as counter-terror officials Pakistan Asia Other 5% flights to the United States, spokeswoman Anna- States from eight countries developed concerns that 9% an EU spokeswoman said. Kaisa Itkonen told a news from carrying on board jihadist groups were 19,000 Sub-Saharan Somalia Other (19,000) The US Department briefing in Brussels. laptop computers, tablets devising bombs disguised Africa 23% 7% Sudan of Homeland Security “Our interest is to stay and other electronic devices as batteries in consumer 23% Nigeria sparked deep concern in informed so that we have larger than cellphones. electronics. Asia-Pacific 20% Europe and Europe on Tuesday when it a possibility to share... The affected countries A bomb that blew a 15,000 Eurasia (24,000) 1,250 Philippines said was close to a decision information with our are in North Africa and the hole in the fuselage of a (1,750) 1,000 on extending to Europeans member states,” Itkonen Middle East and include Somali airliner in February 40% South (4,500) Myanmar Sudan Ukraine an existing ban imposed said, adding that two EU Turkey. Britain followed 2016, killing one person, is on eight mostly Muslim commissioners would also with a similar ban applying believed to have been built 24% 20% Other 70% to incoming flights into a laptop Other Thailand 14% Other countries. take part. 12% 24% 30% The policy could have If confirmed, from six Middle carried a huge affect on the the ban would East and North into the Fatalities in world’s conflicts fell Syria’s 50,000 deaths bring total coming high travel season heighten African passenger for second successive year in 2016, since 2011 to around 290,000 – to 157,000, from 167,000 in 2015 more than twice number killed in in Europe, with more tensions cabin. and 180,000 in 2014 Bosnia’s four-year conflict in 1990s than 3,250 flights a week between Number of homicides, virtually Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan scheduled to leave EU the EU all caused by small arms, rose claimed 17,000 and 16,000 lives airports for the US this and US. in 22 of Mexico’s 32 states respectively in 2016 summer, according to T h e Source: IISS Armed Conflict Survey 2017 © GRAPHIC NEWS industry data. EU’s The ban would create Transport a logistical nightmare Commissioner New East Timorese president Francisco Guterres is expected to push for airports, airlines and Violeta Bulc his country’s claim to the resource-rich Timor Sea as negotiations with Australia continue over a permanent maritime border law enforcement, with and Home Affairs laptop computers now a Commissioner Dimitris Australia-Indonesia Dili ubiquitous carry-on item Avramopoulos asked seabed boundary for millions of air travellers. Washington to work with EAST TIMOR INDONESIA “There is a scheduled the Europeans on the issue Representative picture

WEST Timor Trough TIMOR Egypt, IMF in initial deal on aid Joint Petroleum Median line Development Australian claim Area Greater Sunrise: Oil and Cairo “The outlook is stable,” its gas field worth estimated he International statement said. $40 billion Monetary Fund said In November last year, yesterdayT it will release the IMF approved the Bayu-Undan the second tranche of a $12-billion three-year aid East Timor almost TIMOR $12-billion loan to Egypt, in package for Egypt, at the totally dependent a “vote of confidence” in the time releasing an initial on single gas field SEA Darwin country’s economic reform $2.75 billion. Francisco “Lú-Olo” Guterres Gas programme. To obtain the IMF could play key role in settling pipeline 15-year-old dispute The amount of $1.25 lifeline, Cairo undertook to 100km billion must still be endorsed implement drastic reforms, 60 miles AUSTRALIA by the IMF board following adopting value added EAST TIMOR: Won key AUSTRALIA: Maintains an “expert-level agreement” tax, cutting public energy victory in Jan 2017 that border should lie announced after a visit to Egypt’s finance minister, Amro al-Garhi (File picture) subsidies and in November when Australia agreed closer to East Timor, Cairo, an IMF statement IMF staff in the continued “ongoing fiscal consolidation floated the exchange rate of to scrap controversial 2006 Greater at edge of Australia’s continental shelf. said. According to Egypt’s implementation of the in Egypt over 2017-2020, the Egyptian pound. Sunrise revenue sharing deal and Since 2002, has granted 90 percent negotiate permanent border overseen of production revenues from energy finance minister, Amro Egyptian authorities’ supported by the three-year Before November, the by international court in The Hague. resources within Joint Petroleum al-Garhi, the tranche should programme” on economic IMF programme”. official rate was 8.83 Egyptian Median line between East Timor and Development Area to East Timor, be disbursed in the second reform, the IMF statement S&P “affirmed its ‘B-/B’ pounds to the US dollar, but Australia backed by UN Convention but development of Greater Sunrise half of June. said. Ratings agency long- and short-term foreign it has since weakened and on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) field remains frozen “This agreement is a Standard and Poor’s in a and local currency sovereign on Friday was averaging 18 Sources: Australian Government, wire agencies Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS vote of confidence by the statement said it anticipated credit ratings on Egypt”. pounds per dollar. (AFP) 10 Saturday, May 13, 2017

Sila Sutharat turning the grates on a cart loaded with chicken as he cooks the white meat with rays of sun

COUNTRY/CURRENCIES BUY SELL AUSTRALIA 0.2849 0.2825 BANGLADESH 0.00493 0.00466 Phetchaburi “After a long time passed cooker went viral online, Sila says that compared to CANADA 0.2811 0.2780 ot many chefs don a by, they’d say: ‘Actually, you people from across Thailand a traditional charcoal grill -- DENMARK 0.0582 welding mask before could do it’,” he added. have flocked to his stall in which he used before his solar EGYPT 0.0241 0.0219 N EURO 0.4163 0.4142 they enter the kitchen, but That’s because the the solar Phetchaburi province. epiphany -- his meat is more HONGKONG 0.04983 0.04943 Sila Sutharat prefers to cook reflector generates intense tender and evenly-cooked. INDIA 0.00589 0.00598 his chicken sunny side up. heat, easily enough to match Daylight saving And given Thailand’s INDONESIA 0.00003016 0.00002890 Two hours south of an oven, with a sunshine- Sila says the idea came to him sweltering tropical climate, the IRAN TUMAN 0.00010959 Bangkok this 60-year-old baked chicken taking just in 1997 when he was struck sun is a free, clean and totally IRAQI DINAR 0.000294 roadside vendor has found twelve minutes to cook by the heat reflecting off a sustainable energy source. JAPAN 0.003460 0.003390 an ingenious way to offer his through. passing bus. “At the time, energy such as JORDAN 0.5346 0.5350 customers something a little For much of the last 20 “I thought, with this heat petrol and gas was becoming KOREA 0.00038461 different by harnessing the years Sila grilled in relative reflecting from the window more expensive and suppliers KUWAIT 1.2580 1.242 power of the sun. obscurity for a fairly local from the sun, I could possibly were also running out of MALAYSIA 0.088800 0.0888 Using a large wall of nearly crowd. change it into energy,” he wood to sell,” he recalled. NEW ZEALAND 0.2624 0.2624 1,000 moveable mirrors -- a But after videos of his solar- said. “I thought if I used solar NORWAY 0.0460 device he designed and built energy, I could save a lot. And NEPAL 0.00391 0.00367 himself -- he focuses the sun’s it also decreases pollution.” OMAN 0.97962 0.98262 rays onto a row of marinated Sila and his wife Pansri PAKISTAN 0.00372 0.00360 PHILIPPINES 0.00778 0.00757 chickens, sizzling away under now cook around 40 chickens QATAR 0.10381 0.10376 the intense heat. -- as well as several sides of SAUDI ARABIA 0.10061 0.26810 His unusual culinary pork -- each day. SINGAPORE 0.2720 0.2700 methods raised a few “We’ve been eating SOUTH AFRICA 0.02960 0.02950 eyebrows when he first hit here for a long time,” said SRI LANKA 0.00273 0.00248 upon the idea. regular patron Thanyarat SWEDISH 0.0457 . “They said that I’d gone Kaewpaleuk, who was tucking SWITZERLAND 0.3817 0.3792 mad, that cooking chicken into lunch with her husband. SYRIA 0.001740 0.0123 like this was impossible,” he “It’s delicious. His chicken TAIWAN 0.012700 said next to his stall, the row is fatty, it’s not burned and THAILAND 0.011070 0.011060 of sun-drenched chickens doesn’t smell like a charcoal TURKEY 0.1117 behind him too bright to look Sila Sutharat looking at chicken grill, which you can smell on UNITED KINGDOM 0.4938 0.4909 at for any length of time. being cooked by rays of sun the meat.” (AFP) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 0.102810 0.102810 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 0.37800 0.37805 YUAN 0.058500 0.0585 Rates are for indication purpose only. For firm rates or for currencies not listed above please call Bahrain Financing Company. Telephone: 17228888, Website: www.bfc.com.bh S.Korea’s largest games maker goes public

Seoul US$143) on the Korea Stock will make an effort to become fourth quarter of this year. outh Korea’s biggest Exchange, giving it a market a global game company,” CEO In a bid to expand its mobile games maker capitalisation of 13.7 trillion Kwon Young-sig told reporters. presence in the North SNetmarble went public in won ($12.1 billion), well With borrowings, the firm American market, Netmarble Seoul yesterday as it seeks ahead of rival games publisher could have a warchest of as in February completed the COUNTRY 1 US DLR 1 UK STG 1 SFR 100 YEN overseas acquisitions, with NCSoft Corp, which is valued much as five trillion won, he acquisition of Kabam’s BAHRAIN 0.3770 0.4879 0.3743 0.3333 the firm valued at around $12 at 7.7trn won. said, adding: “If there are any Vancouver studio in a deal KUWAIT 0.2855 32.2929 0.2835 0.2524 billion. Netmarble’s Lineage 2 Netmarble sold 20 per cent developers that could produce estimated to be worth around is a hugely popular massively of its shares in the flotation and synergy with Netmarble, $700-800 million. OMAN 0.3849 0.3877 0.3821 0.3403 multiplayer online role- said earlier that it would use up we will pursue mergers and California-headquartered QATAR 3.6420 3.6682 3.6160 3.2199 playing game (MMORPG) to 1.68trn won of the proceeds acquisitions actively.” Kabam is a world leader in free UAE 3.6730 3.6994 3.6467 3.2473 with a mediaeval setting. for mergers and acquisitions. Netmarble plans to launch mobile MMOPRGs and the The firm’s shares closed “Netmarble’s IPO is the new its hit game “Lineage 2 Vancouver unit makes Marvel SAUDI 3.7500 3.7770 3.7232 3.3154 at 162,000 won (about beginning and the company Revolution” in China in the Contest of Champions. Saturday, May 13, 2017 11

Skydiver Ingus Augstkalns hang- ing in mid-air in Taurene, central Latvia, after being lifted by a drone made by the Latvian Aerones company

Taurene sports 16 rotors. Weighing 70 it was the turn meters drone jump, a completely new He and his team of Latvian tech company kilogrammes (154 pounds), it of daredevil was way of base jumping. It makes engineers first came up with is claiming a world first can lift up to 200 kilos. skydiver probably it possible to base jump from the idea of building the heavy- Aafter successfully test-flying The same drone was Ingus the most any place -- in cities, in desert, duty drone two years ago. a super-powered drone used in January to debut Augstkalns to nervous in mountains,” he added. It cost 35,000 euros which lifted a daredevil “drone-boarding” by towing literally take moment, But as well as the extreme ($37,000) to build and for skydiver aloft, from where he snowboarders at high speed the plunge as but the drone lifted sports potential of drone- now, flight times are restricted parachuted safely back down across a frozen Latvian lake. what is believed to me... and two seconds later diving, the company hopes to around 10 minutes using to earth. But this week’s operation be the world’s first I was under the (parachute) to exploit the drone’s abilities on-board batteries. Manufacturer Aerones was even more perilous with “drone-diver”. canopy.” to perform rescue operations, In theory the top speed is performed the feat this week the drone collecting a man “It was so much for instance of people trapped around 150 kilometres per in a secret “drone-diving” from the top of a tower and fun -– like being ‘No helicopter’ on the roof of a burning hour (95 miles per hour), operation in a wild, isolated then lifting him some 330 in a playground Aerones CEO Janis Putrams, building or other difficult-to- but piloting becomes difficult central region of the Baltic metres (360 yards) into the in childhood,” who was in charge of the reach locations. at that velocity, so drone- state to which AFP had air. Augstkalns said. drone controls, told AFP “You “We’re aiming at using it boarding and drone-diving exclusive access. After testing the drone by “Of course there were still no longer need a helicopter” for human rescue, so today daredevils have to make do The powerful drone lifting and dropping a dead risks in doing it the first time. to skydive. was a good test,” Putrams with speeds of around 60 kph. measuring 3.2 square metres weight of 90 kilogrammes, “Being lifted the first five “Today we did the first said. (AFP) 12 Saturday, May 13, 2017

Special Envoy of the Philippines President to the GCC countries Dr. Amable Aguiluz, arrived in Bahrain yesterday. He was welcomed upon ar- rival by Minister of Education Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi, Assistant Undersecretary for Information and Follow-up at HRH Premier’s Court, Dr. Ibrahim Khalifa Al Dossary, Philippine Ambassador Alfonso Ferdinand, and sev- eral officials of the Ministry of Education

Gulf Air has extended its support to the Bahrain Red Crescent Society by spon- soring a visit organised by the Bahrain Red Crescent Society, with complimen- tary flights from Bahrain to Dhaka, for representatives from different Bahraini charities and societies. In picture, from left Mubarak Khalifa Al Hady, Director General, Bahrain Red Crescent Society, Dr. Fawzi Abdullah Ameen, Secretary General, Bahrain Red Crescent Society, Mohammed Hulaiwah, Director Cor- porate Affairs and Communications/ Board Secretary and Talal Almahmood, Manager Corporate Communications Students of NMS-DPS participated in the benchmark test conducted by All India School Science Teachers Association (AISSTA). 27 students bagged & Sponsorships, Gulf Air at the airline’s gold medals and received certificates for their meritorious achievement. Principal Arun Kumar Sharma, Chairman, Dr. Ravi Pillai and Managing Direc- Muharraq headquarters tor, Geeta Pillai congratulated the students & teachers for their performance 12 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Saturday, May 13, 2017 13

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa met Queen Elizabeth II and UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Shaikh Moham- med bin Rashid Al-Maktoum at the Endurance Village of the Windsor Great Park yesterday. The meeting was held on the occasion of HM the King and Queen Elizabeth’s at- tendance of the international Royal Windsor Horse Show. HM the King also met the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, former UK Prime Minis- ter, David Cameron, Lord Astor, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Alan Duncan, and Commander Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Gen- eral Paul Nanson

Special Envoy of the Minister of Education Dr. Philippines President Majid Al Nuaimi received to the GCC countries University of Applied Sci- Dr. Amable Aguiluz, ences Board of Trustees’ arrived in Bahrain Chairman Dr. Waheeb yesterday. He was Al-Khalifa, who outlined welcomed upon ar- planned academic pro- rival by Minister of grammes and develop- Education Dr. Majid ment plans. University of Al Nuaimi, Assistant Applied Sciences Board Undersecretary for of Trustees member Information and Ghazi Nass and Presi- Follow-up at HRH dent Dr. Ghassan Awad, Premier’s Court, Dr. Higher Education Coun- Ibrahim Khalifa Al cil (HEC) Secretary-Gen- Dossary, Philippine eral Dr. Abdulghani Al- Ambassador Alfonso Showeikh and Assistant Ferdinand, and sev- Secretary-General for eral officials of the Accreditation Dr. Mona Ministry of Education Al-Balushi were present

Chief of Public Secu- rity Major General Tariq Al Hassan attended on Wednesday the gradu- ation ceremony of 501 police personnel of the 15th batch of police ca- dets. Throughout the six- month training, the cadets received police and legal science education at the Police Training Institute. The Chief was received by the Commandment of the Royal Academy of Police (RAP) and number of General Directors. After that, the Chief inspected The Customs Affairs held a regional digital customs and e-commerce workshop under the patronage of President of Customs the graduates who later Shaikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa. Organised in cooperation with the World Customs Organisation, the workshop was at- displayed their skills tended by 30 trainees from North African, Far East and Middle East countries. The workshop aimed to improve skills and capa- bilities and promote digital customs solutions

Gulf Air has extended its support to the Bahrain Red Crescent Society by spon- soring a visit organised by the Bahrain Red Crescent Society, with complimen- tary flights from Bahrain to Dhaka, for representatives from different Bahraini charities and societies. In picture, from left Mubarak Khalifa Al Hady, Director General, Bahrain Red Crescent Society, Dr. Fawzi Abdullah Ameen, Secretary General, Bahrain Red Crescent Society, Mohammed Hulaiwah, Director Cor- porate Affairs and Communications/ Board Secretary and Talal Almahmood, Manager Corporate Communications Students of NMS-DPS participated in the benchmark test conducted by All India School Science Teachers Association (AISSTA). 27 students bagged & Sponsorships, Gulf Air at the airline’s Students of NMS-DPS participated in the benchmark test conducted by All India School Science Teachers Association (AISSTA). 27 students bagged gold medals and received certificates for their meritorious achievement. Principal Arun Kumar Sharma, Chairman, Dr. Ravi Pillai and Managing Direc- Muharraq headquarters gold medals and received certificates for their meritorious achievement. Principal Arun Kumar Sharma, Chairman, Dr. Ravi Pillai and Managing Direc- PMLN Youth Wing Bahrain arranged a lecture on Human Rights at Pakistan Club. The chief guest was Ansar Burney, a leading Pakistani human and civil rights tor, Geeta Pillai congratulated the students & teachers for their performance activist 14 Saturday, May 13, 2017

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Los Angeles ction stars Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone will team up Afor “Ex-Baghdad”, an action thriller to be helmed by Scott Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has Waugh. It is an $80 million budget action film that becomes one included critical and popular success in his youth, followed of the biggest budget films to come out of China, reports deadline. by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a com. Chan will serve as a producer through his company SR resurgence of commercial success in middle age. For three Media, with Qi Jianhong and Talent International’s Esmond consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Ren. SR Media and Talent International will also finance the Forbes list of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and film. Hans Canosa is also producing. June 2015. The film will bring the stars together for the first time. When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor (Chan) is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American former Marine (Stallone) to stop them. (IANS)

Los Angeles ctress Julia Roberts will star in a film adaptation of best-selling novel “The Bookseller”.A Crystal City Entertainment has optioned Cynthia Swanson’s book. The story follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalising alternate world of her dreams, reports hollywoodreporter.com. Swanson’s book, which first hit the shelves in 2015, follows Kitty Miller, a single woman who runs a bookshop and finds herself living out an alternate life -- one in which she is married to the love of her life and has beautiful children -- in her dreams. The lines between her London real-life and dream life begin to blur, ilmmaker Guy Ritchie believes former football star and she must figure out what is real David Beckham, who will next be seen in “King and what is imagined. FArthur: the Legend of the Sword”, is a talented actor. Roberts will also produce with Beckham, who essays the role of Trigger in “King partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Arthur: the Legend of the Sword” along with Charlie Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films Hunnam, Aidan Gillen and Jude Law, has been praised banner, along with Crystal City’s Jonathan as a natural in front of the camera, reports dailymail. Rubenstein and Ari Pinchot. (IANS) co.uk. (IANS) 14 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Saturday, May 13, 2017 15

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May 13, 1986 Actor, producer, and model best known for playing ctress Kate Hudson attended the vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight film series. He AHollywood premiere also played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the of ‘Snatched’ with Goblet of Fire. guitarist Danny Fujikawa confirming that the two are a couple. Hudson and Fujikawa, who have been rumoured to be in a relationship, came together for the first time as they posed on the red carpet on Wednesday. Hudson donned a custom black fringed silk scarf blouse with black-and- silver leopard crystal-embroidered lace pants. Fujikawa was wearing a navy blue Los Angeles suit and a white shirt. (TOI) ction stars Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone will team up as Israel made a mass, semi-conscious Afor “Ex-Baghdad”, an action thriller to be helmed by Scott Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has Hdecision to forget about the Sabra and Chatila Waugh. It is an $80 million budget action film that becomes one included critical and popular success in his youth, followed massacres of the 1982 Lebanese war, in which Israeli of the biggest budget films to come out of China, reports deadline. by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a forces allowed Christian Phalangist militia into com. Chan will serve as a producer through his company SR resurgence of commercial success in middle age. For three Palestinian refugee camps to slaughter civilians? Media, with Qi Jianhong and Talent International’s Esmond consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the This extraordinary animated documentary by Israeli Ren. SR Media and Talent International will also finance the Forbes list of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, making an film-maker Ari Folman - a kind of fictionalised docu- estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and film. Hans Canosa is also producing. June 2015. autobiography - suggests that Israelis have indeed The film will bring the stars together for the first time. forgotten, in a kind of huge, willed amnesia. But his uring the filming of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, movie makes an acid-trip down memory lane, and Tales’ in Australia, actor Johnny Depp reportedly behaved badly Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor Folman might have created his generation’s very D with the crew members. According to them, the 53-year-old (Chan) is called in to extract the oil workers. own Apocalypse Now. would constantly come late on the set, leaving hundreds of He learns, however, that the attackers’ real Like that movie, it is open to the objection that people waiting for hours. plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams the overdog’s pain takes precedence over that of A source revealed that the ‘The Lone Ranger’ star up with an American former Marine the oppressed, but this is a fascinating and often not only used to come late, but also used to drink and (Stallone) to stop them. (IANS) electrifying film in which Folman submits to his very fight with his then wife, Amber Heard, a lot. own ‘Nam flashback: a memory of how the Israel The movie which is scheduled to hit the theatres on defence forces, of which he was a part, effectively May 24. (TOI) presided over mass murder. Over the past quarter-century, the massacre’s horror has been absorbed and repressed within The Cannes film festival by numbers the Israeli mind, Folman suggests, but only partly. The 70th anniversary The very concept of Israel’s partial or indirect Official selection Palme d’Or Cannes guilt, established by the government’s own Kahan films chosen out of • 0.694 carats commission, and therefore a guilt which Israel can 49 1,930 entered • 118 g gold concede without admitting to direct culpability, first films May 17-28 makes it a uniquely painful and potent subject. 9 2017 It’s a reproach drifting just beneath the surface of Films memory and liable to break cover at any time. from 29 countries Los Angeles Vivid and horrifying events leading up to the Thierry Pierre Fremaux Lescure ctress Julia Roberts will star in a film massacres are disinterred by the movie’s quasi- Festival Festival adaptation of best-selling novel “The Official competition A fictional “reconstructive” procedure, somewhere director president • adorned with Bookseller”. between oral history and psychoanalysis. The film 167 diamonds Crystal City Entertainment has optioned uses hyperreal rotoscope-animation techniques, Un Certain Regard Cynthia Swanson’s book. The story follows a similar to those made famous by Bob Sabiston For ‘works regarded as being original 56th Semaine de la Critique Camera d’Or woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her and Richard Linklater. Live-action footage on and unusual from both an aesthetic 1st or 2nd films only For the best 1st film among reality with the tantalising alternate world of videotape has been digitally converted into a and narrative point of view’. the Official Selection, the her dreams, reports hollywoodreporter.com. bizarre dreamscape in which reality is resolved feature Directors’ Fortnight or the Swanson’s book, which first hit the into something between two and three dimensions. 16 films 11 films 13 shorts Semaine de la Critique shelves in 2015, follows Kitty Miller, a Planes and surfaces stir and throb with colours single woman who runs a bookshop and harder, sharper, brighter than before. (theguardian) President 49th Directors’ Fortnight of the Jury President finds herself living out an alternate life of the Jury -- one in which she is married to the love President of the Jury Uma Thurman Non-competitive, featuring both Pedro Almodovar young directors and established Sandrine of her life and has beautiful children names -- in her dreams. The lines between her London Spanish director Kiberlain real-life and dream life begin to blur, ilmmaker Guy Ritchie believes former football star feature 19 films 20 films 10 shorts and she must figure out what is real FDavid Beckham, who will next be seen in “King (5 of them and what is imagined. Arthur: the Legend of the Sword”, is a talented actor. director who has already US actor 1st films) French actor Roberts will also produce with Beckham, who essays the role of Trigger in “King 1 twice won the Palme d’Or Michael Haneke (AUT) partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Arthur: the Legend of the Sword” along with Charlie The film market The 2016 festival Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films Hunnam, Aidan Gillen and Jude Law, has been praised Female directors including 3 in competition accredited people, including banner, along with Crystal City’s Jonathan as a natural in front of the camera, reports dailymail. Sofia Coppola (USA), st market 3,200 producers 45,000 in the world 4,500 journalists Rubenstein and Ari Pinchot. (IANS) co.uk. (IANS) Naomi Kawase (JAP) 1 1,200 agents and sellers Lynne Ramsay (UK) 1,750 buyers 500 security staff films distributed + 12,000 2 by Netflix (a first)* industry professionals 800 festival organisers present * Netflix has refused to give the films a cinema release Source: Festival de Cannes 16 Saturday, May 13, 2017

HOW TO REACH US “Out & About’, a ready reckoner for the events taking place on the island, is published from Friday to Tuesday. To be HIGHLIGHT included, please ICRF MEDICAL CAMP send the matter to the Date: May 18 following email ID Venue: Arabian Neon Company, Hidd FILM: LA LA LAND : [email protected] Date: May 17 ,7pm

Venue: Bahrain Cinema Club Juffair The Indian Community Relief Fund (“ICRF”) is organizing La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Ryan its 122nd Medical check-up camp on Gosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film’s title Thursday, 18 May 2017. The free refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality. check-up will be held at the Arabian Chazelle wrote the screenplay in 2010 but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his Neon company, Hidd, starting from design. Following the success of his 2014 film Whiplash, the project was picked up by Summit Entertainment. La La Land 6pm to 8.30pm. Health awareness and was premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released in the United States on December 9, 2016. safety tips will be provided to the work- It has grossed $440 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million. INDIAN CLUB BFC MAY QUEEN ers at the camp. Indian Community Relief Fund (ICRF), functioning under La La Land received critical acclaim and was regarded as one of the best films of 2016. Critics praised Chazelle’s screenplay Date: May 18 and direction, Gosling and Stone’s performances, Justin Hurwitz’s score and the film’s musical numbers. It won in every Venue: The Indian Club the aegis of the Indian Embassy, has category it was nominated for at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, with a record-breaking seven wins, and received 11 nomi- been organizing regular free medical nations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five. It received 14 nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, The stage is set for The check-ups at various labour camps in tying the record for most nominations with Titanic (1997) and All About Eve (1950), and won 6 Academy awards for Best Indian Club BFC May Queen 2017 as Bahrain since 2002.For any further Director, Best Actress (Stone), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (“City of Stars”) and Best excitement builds for one of the jewels information please call 39461746 or Production Design. in The Club’s entertainment calendar; 32228424 or 33717421. the ‘Catwalk to Stardom’ is ready and waiting for all aspiring May Queens in Bahrain to ‘walk the walk’ to the glory TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT prestigious Chembai Music Festival to as a means of accelerating innovation of this year’s crown. CARNATIC COMPOSERS name a few. Around India, she has per- from lab to market and safeguarding its ISB MEGA FAIR & FOOD All young ladies of any national- formed in Kerala, Bangalore, Bombay, monetization. The keynote speaker will FESTIVAL 2017 ity, who are over 16 and resident in Mysore, Delhi, and Coimbatore. be Mr. Kameshwar Eranki, the CEO of Date: October 12&13 Bahrain, are eligible to get their names Outside of India, she has performed in VajraSoft Inc, a Silicon Valley based Venue: The Indian School Bahrain onto the judges’ score-sheets, so don’t the United States and Singapore. Intellectual Property Management delay, get your free entry in now for Ananya is a grade ‘A’ artist of All India Company that is currently taking the The Indian School Bahrain The Indian Club BFC May Queen Radio amd Doordharsan Chennai, business world by storm with its pro- (ISB) is gearing up for Mega Fair and 2017. The Indian Club BFC May and has also studied Hindustani Vocal prietary software, “IPMationTM”, an Food Festival which will be held on Queen 2017 will be held at The Club’s Music from renowned violinist, Smt. automated process of IP management October 12 and 13 in the Isa Town cam- premises in Gudaibiya on Thursday Kala Ramnath. Ananya is an accom- which is transforming how businesses pus. The ISB Fair is organized to gener- evening, 18th May in front of an plished Vainika and trains under build, manage and monetize inno- ate funds to sponsor needy students and for staff welfare. ISB Chairman expected capacity crowd of over 2,000 Srikanth Chary, a senior disciple of vation and IP portfolios. The other Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman and she is speakers will be Mr. John Kilmartin, Prince S Natarajan thanked the com- VIPs, dignitaries, sponsors, Members munity and media for the overwhelm- and guests; music, dance, beauty – all also a B-Grade artist in Veena at All Executive Director – ICT, The Bahrain India Radio Chennai. In 2011, she Economic Development Board; Mr. ing support to the previous fair, which ingredients necessary for what will be was one of the best in terms of revenue a spectacular night. was a recipient of the ACTA Music Yousif Ali, Executive Director of Fellowship, which was instituted by Customer Engagement and Support at generation and receivables. Last year The big winner will obviously be the around 800 students received benefit in young lady who is crowned Indian Date: May13 the state of California, USA for Veena Tamkeen; and Mr. Mohammed Husain Venue: The Indian Club the form of fee concession, he said. The Club BFC May Queen 2017, but there study. She is currently working on a Abdulkarim, an intellectual property School Fair is a carnival that witnesses will be a wide range of other awards Masters Degree in Carnatic Music from lawyer at the local law firm of AHA. a display of colours which include a up for grabs - Indian Club BFC May The stage is set to pay a Madras University. For further details of the seminar or to variety of cultural programmes, orches- Queen 2017 1st and 2nd Runners-Up, rich tribute the Great Composers of register for the seminar, please contact tra and musical bonanza. It also con- Best Walk, Best Hair-Do, Best Smile Carnatic Kritis by presenting a live Technobay on (+973) 1718 0551. tains a food festival which is a tasty hit and Audience Choice. Carnatic vocal concert by Ananya INNOVATION AND Web address: among the crowd that comes in the And to go with the titles, a glittering Ashok (a disciple of Sangeetha INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY www.event.technobay.org campus during the carnival. Almost array of prizes will be on offer, includ- Kalanidhi Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan) MANAGEMENT SEMINAR 100 stalls from leading business houses ing – cash awards; flights and holidays who would render rare and very popu- Date: May 15 showcase their products and services – a travel package to Bangkok and a lar Kritis of the Saint Composers to all Venue: The Capital Club EID ISHAL this year. ISB Secretary Dr. Shemily return ticket to Mumbai; jewellery – a music lovers. Date: June 27 P John said that the Fair is a way to diamond ring and items of gold jewel- The event titled as “Samarppanam” Innovation and Intellectual Venue: Asian School reach out to the needy children whose lery; consumer electronics; and beauty (Dedication) is taking place on Property Management as a way to fast educational future otherwise will be hampered because of non-availability product hampers. Saturday the 13th of May.2017 at the tracking economic and commercial Brand Box in associa- of funds. Being a community school Enter now for what will be one of Club’s Sanskar Auditorium and starts growth will be show-cased next week as tion with MODERN EXCHANGE at 6.30 PM. The Bahrain Economic Development Company is ready for their upcoming it is the responsibility of the school to the highlights of the year – The support such needy children. Proceeds Indian Club BFC May Queen 2017. The vocal support of Ananya con- Board, in association with Tamkeen, event “Eid Ishal 2017 “on 27th June sists of Shajith Shankar on the locally based IT company Technobay, 2017 at The Asian School Auditorium of the Fair will also go towards staff The Indian Club BFC May Queen welfare and creation of a staff contin- Mruthangam and Jayakumar on the and Silicon Valley based VajraSoft Inc. with 2500 Indian crowd. This event is 2017 is title sponsored by BFC and gency reserve. The school has one of Violin.Entry to this musical event is mainly targeted for South Indians who supported by Twenty-Four, Lulu from the USA, hosts a seminar for the lowest fee structures and it caters are residing in bahrain celebrating EID. Exchange International, KIMS, Ruby free and alll are welcome. Parking is local IP and Innovation professionals to the educational needs of all sec- Cleaning, Elegant Jewellers, BMMI, available inside the club on first come right across the public and private busi- The star of the event would be Saleem tions of the society. Majority of the Allied Middle East, Jet Airways, basis.For more informations call ness spectrums. Entitled “Leveraging Kodathoor and his troupe. He is students belong to the economically Dadabhai Travel, Sola and Tomina -39132131 or 36433552. Innovation, IP Management to Fast famous for his Mapilla Malabar songs. lower and middle class families. ISB Trading. For entry forms or further Ananya Ashok received her formal Track Profitable Growth”, the seminar He has a huge fan following in Bahrain. Fair General Convenor Mohammed information on The Indian Club BFC and rigorous training from renowned will be held on Monday 15th May 2017 The event will start at 7pm until 12 Hussain Malim requested the support May Queen 2017, please contact Mr. violinist Anuradha Sridhar, daugh- at The Capital Club in The Bahrain midnight. Tickets are priced at BD 3. of the media and the community to Ricson A. Rebello (The Indian Club’s ter and disciple of Lalgudi Srimathi Financial Harbour; it will be a half- Tickets are available at Noba supermar- make this venture successful. The entire General Secretary) on 3925 8158, Mr. Brahmanandam. Under the able day session running from 9.00am to ket and BrandBox office Adliya. programme will be announced in due Nanda Kumar (The Indian Club’s guidance of her gurus, Ananya has 1.00pm with lunch afterwards – it is The Ticket launch was held at the course of time. It is a great opportunity Entertainment Secretary) on 3643 performed in various major venues free to all registered attendees. The Modern Exchange branch in Umm Al to every business and service provider 3552 or The Indian Club on 1725 Chennai like Krishna Gana Sabha, main objective of the seminar will be Hasan with MODERN EXCHANGE to reach out to a large section of the Bahrain population during the carnival 3157. Narada Gana Sabha, Kartik Fine Arts, to focus Bahrain’s professionals on the and BrandBox team. The Madras Music Academy, and the Management of Intellectual Property days. Saturday, May 13, 2017 17

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Pakistani security offi- cials examine the site of a powerful explosion US President Donald J. Trump (C) speaking with Mastung It was later claimed by the in blood, were picking up Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and suicide bomb blast that Islamic State group, which body parts that lay scattered North Korea demanded the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak dur- targeted the convoy of has been making inroads in in the road among vehicles extradition of the South’s ing a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC Aa top senator in southwest the country through alliances twisted by the blast. spy chief, a Chinese busi- Pakistan killed at least 17 with local militant outfits. Paramilitary troops and a nessman, and a CIA agents Washington grinning Trump shaking people and wounded more “I am alive, Allah has bomb disposal squad were over a conspiracy to assas- onald Trump’s hands with Sergei Lavrov than 30 others, officials said saved my life, it was a sudden deployed outside a nearby sinate leader Kim Jong-Un. administration was left and the Russian ambassador yesterday. blast, broken pieces of the madrassa where the convoy Dred-faced yesterday after in Washington, Sergei The attack in Mastung windscreen hit me, I am had been headed for a 5 arrested in India over the Moscow surprised it by Kislyak, during an Oval district, roughly an hour east injured but safe. The driver graduation ceremony. alleged cow killing releasing pictures of a closed- Office meeting. of provincial capital Quetta, and other people sitting next “The death toll has reached Indian police arrested five men door meeting between the That Wednesday meeting struck a vehicle carrying the to me were badly injured,” 17 and more than 30 people for “animal cruelty” after they US president and Russia’s was already being seen as a deputy chairman of Pakistan’s Haideri said on private TV have been injured,” said Dr were caught skinning a buffalo top diplomat. major diplomatic coup for upper house Maulana Abdul channel SAMAA. Daad Muhammad, a hospital and beaten on suspicion of kill- The images -- issued by the the Kremlin, a red carpet Ghafoor Haideri. Survivors, several covered administrator. (AFP) ing a cow, an animal considered Russian state news agency welcome just months after sacred by Hindus. TASS, and subsequently being hit with US sanctions published by much of the for meddling in the 2016 Russian fighter jet flies just Guatemala to search global media -- showed a presidential election. for female assassin boss 20 feet away from US plane Guatemalan security forces launched a search for the Washington female leader of a hit squad Britain blocking EU Russian fighter jet flew for hire after she escaped Aclose to a US Navy plane the prison where she was operating over the Black serving a 94-year sentence. military HQ: sources Sea, but the manoeuver Brussels Turning the agreement was considered safe, a Navy rexit-bound Britain into a legal text however spokeswoman said yesterday. Court urged to order Bis blocking the has run into trouble, with The Russian SU-27 came DNA tests on late doc launch of an EU military proposals to call it an within about 20 feet (six A group of Dutch people headquarters because it “Operational Headquarters” meters) of a US Navy P-8A born through IVF treatment opposes any suggestion being a “red flag” for Britain Poseidon anti-submarine petitioned a court seeking that the unit would have ahead of its June 8 election plane while the US aircraft was DNA tests on the late head an active operational role, and the start of the Brexit conducting routine operations of a sperm clinic to deter- EU diplomatic sources said talks, the diplomatic sources in international airspace mine if he was their father. yesterday. said. Tuesday, according to Captain After months of tough “We are still trying to Pamela Kunze. negotiations, all 28 member find a compromise with Russian SU-27 (representational image) For more, catch us “The interaction lasted 65 online at: states approved plans in our British friends on the minutes and was considered variable that is considered space, and Russian jets March for a small grouping legal position so that this safe and professional by the when defining “safe and frequently scramble to fly www.newsofbahrain.com in Brussels to coordinate structure can be set up,” said P-8A’s mission commander,” professional,” she added. alongside US spy planes in /nobonline three of the bloc’s overseas one of sources who asked she said in a statement. Mid-air interceptions are and around the Baltic Sea and /newsofbahrain training operations. not to be named. Distance is only one routine in international air elsewhere near Russia. 20 Saturday, May 13, 2017 US astronauts on historic spacewalk

Miami 43, were carried live on it was supposed to begin, (SCU) as it was hooked up o what is it like to float out NASA television as he and his according to NASA. to Jack Fischer’s spacesuit in into the vacuum of space? colleague Peggy Whitson, 57, The glitch affected the equipment lock section of S“Ginormous fondue pot, began the 200th spacewalk at equipment known as the the Quest airlock,” said NASA bubbling over with piping hot the orbiting outpost. servicing and cooling umbilical commentator Rob Navias. awesomesauce,” said American The spacewalk was briefly (SCU), which supplies power It was discovered as the astronaut Jack Fischer, as delayed after NASA discovered and oxygen to the spacesuits. astronauts were seated in the he embarked on his first- a water leak in equipment that The problem involved airlock inside the space station. ever spacewalk outside the helps power their spacesuits. “a small leak of water at the “This is not the suit itself. International Space Station. The official start time, 9:08 connection point of the Fischer’s suit itself is perfectly US astronauts Jack Fischer(L)and Peggy Whitson (R) mak- The comments by Fischer, am, was about two hours after service and cooling umbilical fine,” said Navias. (AFP) ing a repair on the International Space Station

Britons would vote to leave Eurovision song contest: poll London Tale of the hidden ritons are not finished severing their ties with Europe, according to a new poll yesterday showing a majority Bwould support leaving the Eurovision Song Contest. The online poll by YouGov showed that 56 percent would be in favour of leaving and 44 percent in favour of staying, excluding those who did not know or would not vote. boy shocks Israel Britain has won the Eurovision five times since it was first staged in 1956, making it joint third on the list of winners Jerusalem along with France and Luxembourg. he “heartbreaking” story But many Britons complain that in recent decades their of a 14-year-old boy contestants have been unfairly overlooked and left near the imprisonedT at home by his foot of the leaderboard and the dreaded “nul points”. parents for years grabbed the “The British public is not done attempting to disconnect headlines in Israel yesterday, the country from European institutions,” the polling eclipsing stories on the Middle company said in a statement. East conflict. In last year’s EU membership referendum, 52 percent of Yediot Aharonot daily Britons who cast their ballots voted to leave the European devoted most of its front page Union while 48 percent wanted to stay. and all of page two to the story, under the headline: “The boy who nobody knew.” Haaretz newspaper said the plight of the teenager, Pakistan tackles ‘child confined for at least the past eight years to a ground-floor slavery’ with cash handouts flat barricaded with a washing Image from security footage published by Yediot Aharonot daily Lahore machine and scrap metal, Hadera to complain of a stench when he visited and nobody wearing clothes too small for government cash-incentive scheme has helped place was revealed on Thursday coming from the apartment. answered the door, he called him and with dishevelled hair. almost 90,000 underage Pakistani brick kiln workers when neighbours called It quoted city environmental the police. “The boy’s appearance Ainto school, officials said yesterday, an initiative aimed at environmental inspectors chief Itzik Bozaglo as telling After entering through a was heartbreaking,” Maariv easing the long-standing problem of indentured labour. in the central Israeli town of reporters at the scene that window they found the boy newspaper wrote. Campaigners estimate there are more than two million Pakistanis trapped in a vicious cycle of debt bondage to factory owners that continues for generations, a practice often referred to as modern slavery. Pakistan has the third highest population of such labourers, behind India and China, according to the Global Slavery Index. Under the terms of the Punjab provincial government scheme, which began in January 2016, nearly 88,000 child Trump may be a poet brick kiln workers were selected for a stipend comprising an initial $20 per child, followed by a recurring monthly without knowing it payment of $10. Oslo Myth busted: People smell as know words... I have the best words,” Donald well as dogs, says researcher “ITrump said one day in his Miami superlative way. eople’s sense of smell is just as sharp as those of rats and Now those words by the new dogs, a US researcher said Thursday, calling for an end to US president have been pulled Pa century-old “myth” to the contrary. together as a “collection of Rutgers University neuroscientist John McGann poetry” in Norway. reviewed research and historical writings he says led to Who knew? Trump the poet? the misconception that human sense of smell is inferior, “What Trump says is closer according to the report in the journal Science. to poetry and fiction than to “For so long people failed to stop and question this claim, reality,” said the Norwegian US President Donald Trump even people who study the sense of smell for a living,” man who created the collection, little thought or preparation title is “Make poetry great The content is composed he said. Chris Felt. behind it could have won an again” -- a play on Trump’s strictly from speeches, interviews “The fact is the sense of smell is just as good in humans as “We’re appalled that his electoral campaign,” Felt said. campaign slogan “Make and other statements given by in other mammals, like rodents and dogs.” rhetoric which seems to have The book’s tongue-in-cheek America great again”. the 70 year old over the years. SPORTS Saturday, May 13, 2017 21

Barcelona in Sochi. Hamilton was fastest in Young gets Mercedes’ British ewis the morning’s opening session and driver Lewis Hamilton topped the second with a best lap four-year Hamilton drives Lheaped praise in one minute and 20.802 seconds on his ahead of the Finn by 0.090 seconds. doping ban Happy Mercedes “They have done an amazing New York team job, the team, with these upgrades ason Young, a 2012 US yesterday and the car is working just as we Olympic discus thrower, after he hoped and expected,” said a happy Jwas issued a four-year and team- Hamilton after his sizzling show doping ban yesterday by the mate Valtteri on a cool and cloudy day in the US Anti-Doping Agency for Hamilton Bottas dominated industrial hinterland of Barcelona. a non-analytical violation practice ahead of this Finn Kimi Raikkonen was third involving prohibited weekend’s Spanish for Ferrari, three-tenths off the performance-enhancing Grand Prix. pace, ahead of his team-mate and substances. On a blustery championship leader four-time The 35-year-old Texan, praises day at the Circuit de champion German Sebastian Vettel. was suspended for using Catalunya, the three- Vettel said: “I’m not happy… I’m and having multiple time world champion struggling a bit to find the rhythm, growth hormone agents proved he has bounced and a bit with the conditions, since January of 2013. back from a puzzling probably more myself than the car. Young’s four-year ban loss of pace that left him “I didn’t get everything together. dates to November 17, amazing struggling to fourth in last I wasn’t too happy, but I can feel 2016, when he admitted month’s Russian Grand the car is quick so that is good. I’m having and using the Prix won by Bottas, who not worried, I’m just not happy with prohibited peptides. claimed his maiden success how the day went. In addition, Young was disqualified from all competitive results since Mercedes McLaren accept January 24, 2013, including a 13th-place showing at the 2013 US nationals. Alonso ultimatum In 2012, Young finished cLaren-Honda boss Zak a three-time world champion and he’s third at the US Olympic Brown said he accepted only going to do that in a car trials and qualified for the Force against MFernando Alonso’s challenge that would win. London Olympics, where to give him a race winning “As he said, he he finished a US-best 18th. Mercedes car for next year, and had would love to He had been runner-up no concerns at him leaving stay at McLaren. at the 2010 and 2011 US the circuit to play tennis after We’ve given him a outdoor championships. helping another engine failure. great environment, The newly-installed American he really enjoys Honda told reporters at the Spanish Grand it here -- Prix that he had watched the previous we’ve got to Mandal Barcelona day’s news conference.“Totally give him a McLaren’s Spanish orce India is against any kind of another understand his position... He’s a two- winning driver Fernando beat Target Fdeal that would see their engine team that is a time world champion that wants to be car.” Alonso suppliers Mercedes assisting hapless competitor,” she said. in last ball Honda with their unreliable power Mercedes motorsport boss Toto units used by McLaren, deputy team Wolff evaded direct questions on the thriller boss Bob Fernley said yesterday. subject, but said that there was no deal Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso is set to race Manama Fernley made this clear in a bid to under discussion. in the Indianapolis 500 on May 28 – missing the Monaco Grand Prix – aharashtra Mandal prevent any kind of co-operation that “We are not doing anything for to pursue a lifetime ambition of winning the ‘Triple Crown’ of motorsport Mdefeated Target CC would favour one of Force India’s Honda, that is the current status quo,” FERNANDO ALONSO: CAREER HIGHLIGHTS by four wickets off the main rivals. he said. He added that he believed last delivery in a Group B Speaking at the Spanish Grand Prix, Honda would overcome the problems 2001: Makes F1 debut 2006: Defends title. match in The Indian Club he told reporters that Force India that on Friday saw two-time champion with Minardi, achieving Claims victory in Monaco Indian Expatriates Seven- could not back any deal that involved Spaniard Fernando Alonso halted by best finish of 10th-place Grand Prix for first time A-Side Softball Cricket at Mercedes helping Honda. a failed engine 2003: After season 2007: Transfers to its premises in Gudaibiya. “As a team, obviously, that has before he had done test driving for Renault, McClaren – quits after Batting first, Target were not only paid for its engines, but an opening lap claims first race victory turbulent season, which bowled out for 40 in 5.5 contributed to the development of in morning in Hungary – finishes includes Ferrari spy affair. overs and Maharashtra them, I would certainly be very negative practice. 6th in driver standings Returns to Renault Mandal reached the target about sharing that technology with 2005: Wins first 2010: Signs for Ferrari. scoring 41 for two in six World Championship Misses out on third F1 overs. with Renault. Becomes title by just four points The action now takes a Practice times after second youngest ever champion, 2013: Finishes season break as The Indian Club session in Barcelona: aged 24, ending five-year in second place for third prepares for and hosts the dominance of Michael time with Ferrari as car Indian Club BFC May Schumacher 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1min 20.802sec, struggles against Red Queen 2017 event, the next 2. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Mercedes 1:20.892, Bull’s Sebastian Vettel 3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:21.112, matches being scheduled 4. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari 1:21.220, 2015: Joins for 21 May. 5. Max Verstappen (NED) Red Bull 1:21.438, McClaren Honda 6. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull 1:21.585, Other scores: 7. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) Renault 1:21.687, Group A: 8. Jolyon Palmer (GBR) Renault 1:21.992, May 28, 2017: Set to race in Indy500 Alonso during 1) Moore Stephens 42/0 (Arjun 9. Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams 1:22.015, for McLaren/Andretti Dallara-Honda, first Indy500 21no in 4.5 overs) bt Think Food 10. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP) Toro Rosso 1:22.265, in bid to continue dream of emulating test on 39/5 in 6 overs by 6 wickets. 11. Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas 1:22.371, Graham Hill (below) as only driver to May 3 2) Bahrain Bilawas 29/3 in 4.5 overs 12. Estéban Ocon (FRA) Force India 1:22.520, claim ‘Triple Crown’ – race victories bt National Trading 28 all out in 13. Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) McLaren-Honda 1:22.693, in Monaco, Indianapolis and Le Mans 5.4 overs by 3 wickets. 14. Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India 1:22.722, Force India’s Mexican driver 3) Manglore Boys 56/4 in 6 overs bt 15. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas 1:23.007, Sergio Perez stands in the pits Bahrain Bilawas 21 all out (Faisal 16. Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Sauber 1:23.082, during the first practice session 3-4) in 4.4 overs by 35 runs. 17. Lance Stroll (CAN) Williams 1:23.221, Group B: 18. Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Toro Rosso 1:23.236, Target CC 58/5 (Renjith 27) in 6 19. Pascal Wehrlein (GER) Sauber 1:23.599, overs bt Titans 19 all out in 4.3 20. Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren-Honda 1:24.077 Sources: F1, Indy500 Pictures: Getty, AP © GRAPHIC NEWS overs by 39 runs. 22 Saturday, May 13, 2017 SPORTS Nadal sets up

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal celebrates Djoker a point against Belgian tennis player David Goffin Serbian tennis player semi Novak Djokovic

Madrid only previous meeting on his way to serving 2-4 down as he kept Cuevas, backed by afael Nadal will aim to keep his winning the Monte Carlo Masters 6-3, Nadal at bay for four break points, a fervent support unbeaten start to the clay season 6-1 last month before also lifting a 10th including one incredible cross-court including Atletico goingR when he meets Novak Djokovic Barcelona Open. backhand as he ran back to the baseline Madrid duo Diego for a 50th time in the Madrid Masters And only a poor return on his break after being lobbed. Godin and Antoine semi-finals yesterday. point opportunities denied Nadal just as Nadal wasn’t to be denied, though, Griezmann, roared Nadal is now 13-0 on clay this year as convincing a scoreline as the Spaniard as he broke once more and served out back to win the he swept aside Belgian ninth seed David took only two of his 13 chances. to seal victory after exactly two hours second set 6-0. Goffin 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 much to the delight The 14-time Grand Slam champion on court. On the other side of the draw And Cuevas a boisterous home crowd under the roof had break points in the fourth and sixth Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas advanced landed the only break on the Manolo Santana centre court. game of the first set, but had to settle for to his first ever Masters series semi- in the final game of Djokovic had an even easier day as breaking Goffin’s resolve in a tie-break. final by outlasting German wonder kid the deciding set when he moved into the last four on Friday Nadal finally broke in the third game Alexander Zverev 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Zverev fired wide to without hitting a ball as Kei Nishikori of the second set before having to stave Zverev had been on a seven-match set up a semi-final withdrew with a wrist injury. off four break points on his own serve to victory streak after winning his second against Dominic And the Serb has a marginal 26-23 consolidate his lead at 3-1. title of the season in Munich last week. Thiem or Andy head-to-head record against Nadal. The level of play from both players However, after a bright start from Murray’s conqueror Nadal eased past Goffin in their rose in a remarkable game with Goffin the 20-year-old, tiredness kicked in as Borna Coric. (AFP) Stage set for Solidarity Games Football Scores as of closing Baku level of organisation is very English Premier League: wimmers from 28 high.” countries will be hoping There are a total of 40 gold Sto make a slash at the state- medals up for grabs in the of-the-art facility, which was swimming events - 20 for purpose built for the 2015 men and 20 for women - with European Games in the six finals scheduled on the Azerbaijan capital. opening day alone: the men’s The host nation claimed 200m backstroke, 400m an impressive second place freestyle, 50m breaststroke in the medals table at those and 4 x 100m freestyle relay, inaugural games with a total and the women’s 200m Chelsea 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 of 56, but will be hoping individual medley and 50m Everton 1 Watford. 0 to improve on their poor breaststroke. performance in the pool - The Aquatics Centre Scottish Premiership: where they failed to land a will also host the diving single medal. View of the Opening Ceremony of the Baku 2017 4th Islamic competitions between May “I think that for Azerbaijan, Solidarity Games, at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, 18-21, with four medal events these Islamic Games will better, at any rate!” to organise more elite-level apiece for men and women. be better,” confided Elmir Hasanov is just one sporting events in future. The Islamic Solidarity Hasanov, who has been example of Baku 2017’s “It’s better for us,” Hasanov Games run from May 12-22, promoted to Venue Media commitment to putting agreed. “If you look at 2015 and will be officially declared Manager at the Baku Aquatic Azerbaijani staff on the front there were a lot of foreign open at Friday night’s Centre, having acted as its line at the Solidarity Games, staff, but now there are a lot highly-anticipated Opening Photo Supervisor two years in the hope that they will of Azerbaijanis working at Ceremony at the Baku Aberdeen 1 Celtic 3 ago. “I hope they will be gain the necessary experience the Solidarity Games, and the Olympic Stadium. 22 Saturday, May 13, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Saturday, May 13, 2017 23 From Grey’s Anatomy to Giro’s pink Alberobello in the popular television series where he was asked who his rode alongside Luxembourg’s Bob merican actor Patrick Grey’s Anatomy, was appearing favourite cyclist of all-time was. Jungels -- wearing the real pink Dempsey played a starring as a guest of the BMC team, who “Merckx,” replied the 51-year- jersey as race leader -- for the Arole at the Giro d’Italia yesterday-- were celebrating on Thursday old American, referring to retired opening kilometres of the route Nadal when he donned a vintage pink after seeing their Swiss rider Belgian legend Eddy Merckx - which lead to the official start line. US actor Patrick Dempsey (C) rides along jersey and rode with the peloton Silvan Dillier clinch the fifth stage. generally considered the greatest Friday’s stage is a 217 km ride with Pink Jersey Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels for the opening kilometres of the Dempsey appeared at the start stage racer of all time. from Castrovillari to Albrobello, (L) and Cyclamen Jersey Colombia’s seventh stage at Castrovillari. line of Castrovillari and was also Dempsey then hopped on his close to Bari in the ‘heel’ of Italy’s Fernando Gaviria both from team Quick-Step Dempsey, who played a doctor pictured on the riders’ podium, bike, clipped into his cleats and boot. sets up Fury return on hold

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal celebrates Djoker a point against Belgian tennis player David Tyson Fury Goffin London Serbian tennis player yson Fury’s bid to return Novak Djokovic to the ring is on hold after aT UK-Anti Doping hearing involving the former world semi heavyweight champion was postponed. Madrid only previous meeting on his way to serving 2-4 down as he kept Cuevas, backed by Fury had been hoping to afael Nadal will aim to keep his winning the Monte Carlo Masters 6-3, Nadal at bay for four break points, a fervent support make his comeback with a bout unbeaten start to the clay season 6-1 last month before also lifting a 10th including one incredible cross-court including Atletico in July, but the controversial goingR when he meets Novak Djokovic Barcelona Open. backhand as he ran back to the baseline Madrid duo Diego British fighter is still waiting for for a 50th time in the Madrid Masters And only a poor return on his break after being lobbed. Godin and Antoine a final ruling from UKAD after semi-finals yesterday. point opportunities denied Nadal just as Nadal wasn’t to be denied, though, Griezmann, roared the hearing into a suspended Nadal is now 13-0 on clay this year as convincing a scoreline as the Spaniard as he broke once more and served out back to win the drugs ban started on Monday. he swept aside Belgian ninth seed David took only two of his 13 chances. to seal victory after exactly two hours second set 6-0. UKAD is reported to have Goffin 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 much to the delight The 14-time Grand Slam champion on court. On the other side of the draw And Cuevas asked for the postponement a boisterous home crowd under the roof had break points in the fourth and sixth Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas advanced landed the only break because of a potential conflict on the Manolo Santana centre court. game of the first set, but had to settle for to his first ever Masters series semi- in the final game of of interest involving a member Djokovic had an even easier day as breaking Goffin’s resolve in a tie-break. final by outlasting German wonder kid the deciding set when of its panel, and has therefore he moved into the last four on Friday Nadal finally broke in the third game Alexander Zverev 3-6, 6-0, 6-4. Zverev fired wide to chosen to revisit the hearing at without hitting a ball as Kei Nishikori of the second set before having to stave Zverev had been on a seven-match set up a semi-final a later date. withdrew with a wrist injury. off four break points on his own serve to victory streak after winning his second against Dominic The hearing, which was And the Serb has a marginal 26-23 consolidate his lead at 3-1. title of the season in Munich last week. Thiem or Andy expected to conclude this week, head-to-head record against Nadal. The level of play from both players However, after a bright start from Murray’s conqueror was due to rule on allegations Nadal eased past Goffin in their rose in a remarkable game with Goffin the 20-year-old, tiredness kicked in as Borna Coric. (AFP) Fury and his cousin and fellow heavyweight Hughie Fury tested positively for nandrolone in 2015. Football Both fighters deny using the Stage set for Solidarity Games banned anabolic steroid, and it Scores as of closing is also understood they had no Baku level of organisation is very English Premier League: plans to use the consumption wimmers from 28 high.” of contaminated meat as their countries will be hoping There are a total of 40 gold defence, as had been reported. Sto make a slash at the state- medals up for grabs in the British Boxing Board of of-the-art facility, which was swimming events - 20 for Control general secretary purpose built for the 2015 men and 20 for women - with Robert Smith told Sky Sports: European Games in the six finals scheduled on the “It’s been adjourned to carry Azerbaijan capital. opening day alone: the men’s on later on. The host nation claimed 200m backstroke, 400m “This is one of those legal an impressive second place freestyle, 50m breaststroke cases where anything legal goes in the medals table at those and 4 x 100m freestyle relay, a long time. I’m not surprised, inaugural games with a total and the women’s 200m Chelsea 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 it’s not unusual, it’s obviously of 56, but will be hoping individual medley and 50m Everton 1 Watford. 0 a complex case. I will expect a to improve on their poor breaststroke. decision when I’m given it.” performance in the pool - The Aquatics Centre Scottish Premiership: Tyson Fury has not fought where they failed to land a will also host the diving since beating Wladimir single medal. View of the Opening Ceremony of the Baku 2017 4th Islamic competitions between May Klitschko to win the WBA, “I think that for Azerbaijan, Solidarity Games, at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, 18-21, with four medal events WBO and IBF heavyweight these Islamic Games will better, at any rate!” to organise more elite-level apiece for men and women. titles in November be better,” confided Elmir Hasanov is just one sporting events in future. The Islamic Solidarity 2015. Hasanov, who has been example of Baku 2017’s “It’s better for us,” Hasanov Games run from May 12-22, He faces the prospect of promoted to Venue Media commitment to putting agreed. “If you look at 2015 and will be officially declared waiting for the hearing to Manager at the Baku Aquatic Azerbaijani staff on the front there were a lot of foreign open at Friday night’s finally be concluded, then for Centre, having acted as its line at the Solidarity Games, staff, but now there are a lot highly-anticipated Opening UKAD’s decision and any Photo Supervisor two years in the hope that they will of Azerbaijanis working at Ceremony at the Baku Aberdeen 1 Celtic 3 potential punishment he may ago. “I hope they will be gain the necessary experience the Solidarity Games, and the Olympic Stadium. receive, before attempting to recover his boxing licence. From Grey’s P23 Anatomy to Giro’s pink SPORTS 2424 Saturday, May 13, 2017 Ewan bags

Results Results from the seventh stage held over 217 km between Castrovillari and Alberobello on maiden Friday: Stage 1. Caleb Ewan (AUS/ORI) 5hr 35min 18sec, 2. Fernando Gaviria (COL/QST) same time, 3. Sam Bennett (IRL/BOR) s.t., 4. Andre Greipel (GER/LOT) s.t., 5. Jasper Stuyven (BEL/TRE) s.t., 6. Ryan Gibbons (RSA/DDD) s.t., 7. Enrico Battaglin (ITA/TLJ) at 2secs, 8. Rudiger Selig (GER/BOR) s.t., 9. Alexey Tsatevich (RUS/GAZ) s.t., Giro 10. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) s.t. Selected: 12. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) s.t., 21. Bob Jungels (LUX/QST) 21, 25. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) s.t., Jungels in pink 29. Steven Kruijswijk (NED/TLJ) s.t., 33. Mikel Landa (ESP/SKY) s.t.

General classification 1. Bob Jungels (LUX/QST) 33hr 56min 07sec, stage 2. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) at 6sec, 3. Adam Yates (GBR/ORI) 10, Alberobello 22-year-old’s shoulders, but the for the sprint. But Luka (Mezgec) did Jungels remains six seconds in 4. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/BAH) same time, ustralian Caleb Ewan eclipsed Aussie sprint star known as the a great lead out, so it was perfect.” front of Welshman Geraint Thomas 5. Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA/ALM) s.t., a “difficult” week to snatch ‘Pocket Rocket’ delivered in style, Colombian Fernando Gaviria, the (Sky), with British compatriot Adam 6. Tom Dumoulin (NED/Nairo Quintana (COL/ Ahis maiden Giro d’Italia stage in negotiating a technical finish to winner of two stages on his race Yates (Orica) third, at 10secs behind. MOV) s.t., Alberobello yesterday, where overall power his way to the slimmest of debut with the Quick Step team, Italy’s defending champion race leader Bob Jungels retained the victories on the uphill finish line. finished a close second with Ireland’s Vincenzo Nibali is fourth overall, 7. Tom Dumoulin (NED/SUN) s.t., pink jersey. “It’s been a little bit difficult for us Sam Bennett (Bora) finishing third. three places ahead of Colombian 8. Bauke Mollema (NED/TRE) s.t., Ewan, who won a stage on the in the first part of the Giro d’Italia. Lotto sprinter Andre Greipel race favourite Nairo Quintana, of 9. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) s.t., Tour of Spain two years ago, came I came close and the guys worked finished fourth, with Jungels among Movistar. 10. Andrey Amador (CRC/MOV) s.t. agonisingly close to opening his really hard, so I’m happy to finally the peloton that arrived seconds The eighth stage on Saturday is Giro account for the Orica team win,” said Ewan. later following a largely flat 217 km an undulating 189 km ride from Selected: in the opening days of the 100th “It was a really close sprint. I ride from Castrovillari that saw a Molfetta to Peschici that favours 11. Thibaut Pinot (FRA/FDJ) s.t., edition. had to do some work with three two-man breakaway end with 18 sprinters with uphill finishing 12. Mikel Landa (ESP/SKY) s.t. Pressure was growing on the kilometres to go so I was a little tired km to race. abilities. (AFP) 15. Steven Kruijswijk (NED/TLJ) 23

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