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TWITTER CELEBS @newsofbahrain OP-ED 8 New Zealand massacre a wake-up call as chilling world order looms INSTAGRAM Robert Pattinson /nobmedia 20 doesn’t like to do LINKEDIN WEDNESDAY newsofbahrain MARCH 2019 similar roles 200 FILS WHATSAPP ISSUE NO. 8056 Actor Robert Pattinson 38444680 doesn’t like to play the FACEBOOK same characters over and /nobmedia over again as he judges his MAIL performance and it makes [email protected] him feel “really self-con- WEBSITE scious”. P14 newsofbahrain.com Idris Elba credits DJ-ing for grounding him 14 CELEBS WORLD 5 Rescuers race to save marooned HM King returns Museum visit Saudi capital to get Manama world’s biggest park is Majesty King Ham- Had bin Isa Al Khalifa yesterday returned from The four projects Turkmenistan, following • an official state visit at the will offer opportunities invitation of Turkmen Pres- worth $15bn for the 70,000 ident Gurbanguly Berdimu- private sector to new jobs will be hamedow, during which the invest in residential, created by the two leaders held talks on project, which aims at expanding joint co-opera- commercial, creating sustainable tion on all levels. recreational and communities. HM the King was received wellness segments. on arrival at the Sakhir Air- base by His Royal Highness Riyadh The aim of the project is to “sig- Prince Salman bin Hamad nificantly improve the lives of its Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, citizens, transform the city into an Deputy Supreme Com - audi Arabia launched an am- attractive destination and make mander and First Deputy bitious $23 billion project it one of the world’s most livable Premier. Syesterday to create vast open cities,” the government said. green areas in the capital, Riyadh, The four projects - King Sal- including the world’s biggest city man Park, Sports Boulevard, Merkel in orderly park, Arab News reported. Green Riyadh and Riyadh Art His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, yesterday, accompanied by Turkmenistan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Construction will begin this – will complement the Saudi Brexit fight Minister, Rashid Meredov, paid a visit to the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat. HM the King was received upon year on four schemes — King Vision 2030’s “Quality of Life” Berlin arrival by Director Maya Ashirova and Hussein Huseynov. HM the King was taken on a tour of the museum and briefed Salman Park, Sports Boulevard, Programme and are aligned with by Huseynov on the history of the museum and techniques used to weave the Turkmenistan carpets that represent an Green Riyadh and Riyadh Art the UN Sustainable Development erman Chancellor An- important part of Turkmenistan’s cultural heritage. HM the King was also briefed on Turkmenistan’s largest carpet in — which will create sustainable Goals, to create sustainable cities Ggela Merkel has said the world, which was registered in the Guinness World Records Book, and the pieces of carpets used to cover the back communities, drive action against and communities, while driving she will fight for an “orderly of horses and camels. HM the King wrote in the museum’s guestbook that he admired the Turkmen history and the climate change and provide up to urgent action against climate Brexit” until “the very last government’s interest in the heritage, culture and folklore. 70,000 new jobs. change. hour”. Mrs Merkel said that cur- rent events were in a “state of flux”, adding that Euro- pean Union leaders will try Both the SDF and to react to whatever the UK • proposes. the US-led coalition say The UK is due to leave the the remaining Daesh EU in 10 days with or without militants at Baghouz are a deal. among its most hardened PM Theresa May is writing foreign operatives. Daesh is done to European Council Presi- dent Donald Tusk to ask for an extension to the process Some of its fighters Daesh loses big part of Syrian enclave as battle intensifies and will meet EU leaders lat- hold• out in the remote er this week. central Syrian desert The camp was the biggest re- At home, a new vote on UK maining area held by Daesh in Brexit deal has been blocked and others have gone Baghouz, itself the last populated by the Speaker of the House underground in Iraq. area the militant group held from of Commons, John Bercow. 60,000 the third of Syria and Iraq it sud- The deal has already been Damascus people have poured out denly seized in 2014. defeated twice by MPs, and of the group’s dwindling It has been steadily forced back Mr Bercow has ruled that S-backed Syrian forces said enclave, nearly half of there after years of retreats in the Mrs May cannot bring it they were close to captur- whom were surrendering face of military campaigns by the back for a third vote without Uing Daesh’s last territorial supporters of Daesh in the US-backed SDF, the Russia-backed “substantial” changes. possession in eastern Syria yes- last two months. Syrian army and the Iraqi army terday after seizing the militants’ with allied Iran-backed militias. camp at Baghouz, though clashes Over recent weeks, as the group continued with some remaining “very soon.” hemorrhaged supporters fleeing militants. “The battles are not yet over. the besieged enclave, diehard mil- “This is not a victory announce- A fighter of Syrian Democratic Forces gestures in the village of Baghouz. There are still some pockets next itants mounted a desperate last ment, but a significant progress to the river. Some of the terror- stand in the battered Baghouz DON’T MISS IT in the fight against Daesh,” said (SDF) militia on Twitter, using an it would take to defeat the re- ists have taken their children as camp, shooting from trenches Mustafa Bali, a media official with Arabic acronym for Daesh. maining militants, Bali said he human shields. There are inter- and sending car bombs against the Syrian Democratic Forces Asked by Reuters how long expected the operation to end mittent clashes,” he said. their enemies. ‘Fantastic Sounds of ART IN ALL 02 Korea’ musical performance set A hi-tech Gaza border protests provide artist with raw materials Gaza 03 move to help protests began on March 30, 2018. pedestrians Elsewhere on Abu Taqeya’s wooden boards, Palestin- ne year on from the start of Gaza’s border pro- ian protesters, ambulances, Israeli troops and tanks and Kingdom’s tests, the weekly clashes with Israeli soldiers even the wire fence itself are all created in miniature. technological Ohave become part of the texture of life in the He uses empty shells of bullets, tear gas canisters and Palestinian enclave, providing inspiration and even raw sometimes shrapnel of Israeli missiles. strides in focus materials for local artists. A bullet triggered the idea, the artist said. At the first 04 as major expos Diorama artist Majdi Abu Taqeya spends hours day of the protests, Abu Taqeya’s youngest brother was creating three-dimensional miniature replicas of the shot in his leg and doctors took out the bullet, which kick off protest scenes, with figures carved from remnants of he then brought home. Israeli ammunition collected from the landscape along “I turned it into a small statue of a soldier and I gave the frontier. it to him,” he told Reuters. Wool and cotton are turned into the white and black “It was then when I got the idea to start recycling smoke that swirls over the five protest camps that Majdi Abu Taqeya displays the miniature figures he carves from the remnants of the occupation,” said Abu Taqeya, a have been set up along the fortified frontier since the remnants of Israeli ammunition. 38-year-old retired naval policeman. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019 02 Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of His Majesty the King and President of the Supreme HH Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Council for Women (SCW), yesterday received President of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) Shaikha Armed Forces, yesterday received Bahrain’s Council of Representatives Speaker Fawzia Zainal, on the sidelines of her Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa. She lauded the key role played by BACA in preserving the kingdom’s civilisational and participation in Family’s Role in Consolidating the Tolerance Values Conference held yesterday in Abu Dhabi. The Abu cultural heritage, congratulating Shaikha Mai on Bahrain’s recent international achievements. She underlined the need Dhabi Crown Prince praised the Bahraini-Emirates relations and stressed keenness to further boost co-operation in to boost the cultural and artistic infrastructure to maintain the kingdom’s status as an intellectual hub. various fields in the interest of the two countries and their people. Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF), Field Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, yesterday paid an inspection visit to the joint commanders’ drill, the “Fortress of the Nation”, conducted currently by the BDF, with the participation of the National Guard and the Interior Ministry, across the kingdom’s various governorates. The commander-in-chief stressed that thanks to the directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Supreme Commander, the BDF is constantly building its training capacities, strengthening its field efficiency and honing the skills of its human resources, noting that it has always been a symbol of dedication, patriotism and sacrifice. Dr Ebrahim Janahi, CEO of Tamkeen inaugurated Bahrain’s First Learning Village, in parallel with Meet ICT Conference and BITEX Exhibition. The Learning Village is showcasing new, industry aligned trainings and certificates leading to the jobs of tomorrow.

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