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The Daily Tribune Prayers fill the air wishes the Kingdom’s leadership, the people of Bahrain US embassy and all its readers a very happy Eid Al Adha. in Turkey targeted Nobody hurt in the attack; an attempt to His Majesty extends create chaos, says Erdogan Eid greetings Manama

is Majesty King Hamad Hbin Isa Al Khalifa yes- terday exchanged cables of congratulations and good wishes on Eid Al Adha with the Gulf Cooperation Coun- cil (GCC), Arab and Islamic countries’ leaders. His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and His The impact of a round fired is seen in a window of the US Embassy in Ankara. Royal Highness Prince Sal- man bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy The assailants fired Supreme Commander and • First Deputy Premier, also six bullets at an embassy exchanged congratulatory security gate from a cables with GCC, Arab and passing white vehicle 40 Islamic countries’ leaders. per cent is the around 0530 am local depreciation of Turkish time (0230 GMT), three lira against US dollar in King Salman arrives bullets hitting an iron door the past few days. and a window, the Ankara in Mina governor’s office said. Jeddah bullets hitting an iron door and a audi Arabia’s King Sal- Ankara window, the Ankara governor’s of- Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal Al Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Sman arrived in Mina, fice said. Saudi holy city of Mecca, yesterday. Arafat is the site where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed gave in the holy city of Makkah urkish authorities detained It issued another statement on his last sermon about 14 centuries ago after leading his followers on the pilgrimage. See page 14 yesterday, to supervise two men suspected of shoot- Monday evening saying two men the services provided during Ting at the US Embassy in the in their late 30s had been detained the Hajj pilgrimage. capital Ankara yesterday, in an at- and a vehicle and pistol seized and As Custodian of the Two tack that coincides with increased that the men had confessed to the Holy Mosques, King Salman tensions between the two NATO al- shooting. ‘No new cases of fake degrees’ is there to oversee the com- lies over the trial of a US pastor in It said both suspects had criminal Manama fort of the pilgrims and “en- Turkey. records and their links were being response to a report published in a local sure the services provided by Nobody was hurt in the attack, investigated. newspaper under the title “Ministry of the relevant government and which President Tayyip Erdogan’s The embassy is closed this week he Public Prosecution said that it Education refers qualifications fakers to private sector bodies meet spokesman condemned as an at- for a public holiday to mark the Is- has not received any new notifi - the Public Prosecution”. the needs of the pilgrims and tempt “to create chaos”. The Turk- lamic Eid Al Adha festival. Tcations regarding the issue of fake The court then convicted the private uni- allow them to complete their ish Foreign Ministry said it had in- “We can confirm a security inci- academic degrees. versity of tampering with the accreditation Hajj rituals with ease, tran- creased security for the embassy dent took place at the US Embas- “The Ministry of Education referred to certificates issued by the Higher Education quility and safety,” according and other US missions and employ- sy early this morning. We have no the Public Prosecution, five years ago, the Council, faking the students’ grades and to Saudi Press Agency. ees in Turkey. reports of any injuries and we are case of a private university which forged using forged documents. The assailants fired six bullets investigating the details,” said David official documents,” said Acting Attorney Al Qurashi said that the Public Prosecu- at an embassy security gate from a Gainer, the embassy spokesman. General, Head of the Public Prosecutor’s tion would deal with any new cases of fake passing white vehicle around 0530 “We thank the Turkish National Technical Office, Ahmed Al Qurashi. degrees, take legal action against suspects am local time (0230 GMT), three Police for their rapid response.” He made the statement yesterday in and refer them to stand criminal trial.

DON’T MISS IT TWITTER ATTACKS ‘Plasticising’ of 03 Heya Beya to harm nature Melania Trump laments cyber bullying Washington lady urged tech companies lives. It can be used in many Eid experience to listen more to “children’s positive ways, but also can be 04 for non-Muslims S First Lady Melania ideas and concerns” about destructive and harmful when Trump renewed her online bullying. Let’s face it: most used incorrectly,” she said. Ucampaign to tackle cyber “Let’s face it: most chil- Since coming to office Me- Witness set to bullying yesterday, as her hus- dren are more aware of the children are more lania Trump has spoken rela- 05 testify in fraud case band lit up the Internet with a benefits and pitfalls of social aware of the benefits tively infrequently in public. stream of invective against his media than some adults,” she and pitfalls of social She was treated at Walter perceived foes. said. media than some Reed hospital on May 14 for Appearing at a health depart- “In today’s global society, adults. what aides called a “benign” ment building outside Wash- social media is inevitably a kidney condition and was re- ington, the Slovenia-born first part of our children’s daily MELANIA leased a few days later. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 02

Southern Governor, HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, yesterday paid a visit to the Southern Governorate Labour and Social Development Minister, Jameel Humaidan, received writer, Saleh Hussein, who presented him with Police Directorate, where he met officers, non-commissioned officers and individuals. The governor extended deepest copies of his book on corporate governance in government companies. The minister lauded the efforts exerted by the congratulations to His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin author to compile his valuable books and publications, expressing hope that they will enrich the national library and Salman Al Khalifa, and His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme benefit researchers. Commander and First Deputy Premier, on Eid Al Adha, wishing them many happy returns. India exempts duty on relief goods Highest Level 3 designation is given when the state may not have the capacity to respond adequately

ed or supplied for flood relief tweeted. TDT|Manama The Indian operations in Kerala. Meanwhile, the Indian Gov- • OP Sreesadan “India stands with Kerala in ernment has declared the Kerala Government has this hour of need. The Central floods as a ‘calamity of a severe declared the Kerala ndian Finance Minister Government is exempting basic nature’, categorising it as a Level floods as a ‘calamity Piyush Goyal has said the customs duty and IGST for the 3 disaster. of a severe nature’, Icentral government is ex- consignments of aid and relief Consequent to the order of de- empting basic customs duty and materials being despatched or claring Kerala Floods a calamity categorising it as a Integrated Goods and Services imported from abroad for the of severe nature, every MP can Level 3 disaster. Tax (IGST) for the goods import- affected people,” Piyush Goyal contribute up to INR 1 crore from MPLADS funds for Kerala relief. The highest Level 3 desig- nation is given when the state may not have the capacity to respond adequately and re- quire assistance from the Cen- tre. Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Members of Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam arrange relief items collected from the Minister Suresh Prabhu said Kingdom. the Aviation regulator Direc- torate General of Civil Aviation this crisis situation. (DGCA) is monitoring airfares The State-run Air India sub- for flights connecting flood- DID sidiary -- Alliance Air -- on Mon- hit Kerala but it should not be day commenced operations from seen by airlines as micro-man- Kochi naval base -- INS Garuda agement by the government KNOW -- with an ATR-72 aircraft to aid as this is a unique situation of the rescue operations in flood- ‘humanitarian crisis’. hit Kerala. Amid concerns raised by According to the Ministry of many including on social me- Budget passenger Civil Aviation, budget passenger dia platforms about steep fluc- carrier IndiGo would also com- tuations in air ticket prices to carrier IndiGo would mence scheduled operations and from Kerala, where the commence scheduled from INS Garuda today. main airport at Kochi has been operations from INS The development comes as shut till August 26, Prabhu said Garuda today. the state reels under the worst the ministry as such cannot bout of floods in the recent past. interfere with the fares but it is humanitarian crisis... We have The grim situation has left the “doing it” in this time of crisis. told the airlines that it is not a state with only two operational In an interview to PTI, Prab- micro-management job,” he said. civil airports at Thiruvanan- hu said the DGCA is monitor- The minister said airlines have thapuram and Calicut, as oper- ing the movement of airfares. also been persuaded to carry ations at Kochi airport have been “It is a unique situation. It is a cargo free of cost to Kerala in suspended till August 26. 03 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 big story

‘Plasticising’ of Heya Beya

the marine life and may also wash up Environmentalists say that back in the beaches contributing to • pollution at the beaches. parents should have been Supreme Council for Environment careful in not purchasing the urged people to opt for the traditional plastic pots for the children baskets stating, “Be kind to nature by to use for the celebration. choosing the traditional Heya Beya in- stead of the plastic one”. “It is really not worth the efforts for The use of plastic Heya us to continue cleaning the beaches all Beya• pots is hazardous to the time if people want to continue to the environment, according support pollution. There are alternatives Plastic pots to environmentalists. to the plastic pots, which are the tradi- tional baskets that do not cause harm to have been the environment. used every TDT|Manama “Plastic pots have been used every year year and we Mohammed Zafran and we are tired of picking them up,” are tired of Bahrain Beachcombers Founder Darren picking them nvironmentalists and prominent ac- Schneder told Tribune. up. tivists have raised alarm bells over the Another environmentalist group Recy- Euse of plastic pots as part of Heya Beya cle Points Bh stated that traders must be MR SCHNEDER celebrations, which they say are harmful to banned from selling plastic Heya Beya pots. the environment. “Plastic pots are not biodegradable and Despite the official instruction from author- cause pollution in our beaches. Please ities to use the traditional palm frond baskets buy traditional ones and report those for Heya Beya, many people instead have been who sell Heya Beya in plastic pots. Trad- Plastic pots opting plastic pots. ers who do sell Heya Beya in plastic pots are not Environmentalists say that parents should should have them confiscated and fined,” biodegradable have been careful in not purchasing the plas- the group stated. and cause Traditional ‘Heya Beya’ baskets made of palm fronds are encouraged by environmentalists. tic pots for the children to use for the cele- “It’s our responsibility as parents to pollution in our bration. make sure we set good examples to our beaches. Please seedlings so no negative environmen- beaches or wasteland are prohibited,” The use of plastic Heya Beya pots is haz- children by making sure our traditions tal impact.” the group stated. ardous to the environment, according to and habits do not create an negative buy traditional “Do not buy your Heya Beya in Heya Beya is an annual Bahraini environmentalists. impact on our environment. ones and report plastic pots but stay true to tradition tradition, which encourages children The pots contribute to plastic pollution in “It is not the people it is the traders those who sell and buy those made from palm fronds to plant seeds in baskets. The basket is the sea, which is one of the biggest environ- that are at fault because if you can only Heya Beya in (500 fils) they are biodegradable and watered daily until the seeds sprouts mental concerns of the century. find those in plastic pots you will have plastic pots. considered food for sea-creatures. and grows into a plant; on the day of The plastic, because of not being biode- to buy it to avoid disappointing your “The National Cleanliness Law the ritual, the children wear tradi- RECYCLE POINTS BH gradable, have negative repercussions on kids, the traders should be fined and states that dumping and littering tional dresses and celebrate on the sea life. According to environmentalists, the product confiscated. Sea animals eat whether on main roads or neigh- shores of Bahrain before throwing plastic jeopardizes the natural ambience of the traditional palm frond baskets with borhoods, on pavements or alleys, at the basket into the sea.

Children throw ‘Heya Beya’ baskets into sea as part of the celebrations. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 04 Open House to offer Eid experience for non-Muslims Grand Mosque ready to welcome huge number of people

August 22nd and 23rd, 2018 from Eid open house 9 am-4 pm on both days. • “The main purpose of this events have grown function is to provide a unique exceptionally since opportunity for people of all it began in 1999. faiths to join us in celebrat - The turnout for the ing the Muslim festival of Eid El-Adha and learn about the first year was in the Islamic culture,” the centre twenties while second stated. year it rose to 98 “The Centre is dedicated to and now thousands spreading the message of peace, love and peaceful co-existence of visitors turn up between all peoples and wel- during Eid open house comes all non-Muslim expa- events, according triates and tourists who wish to organisers. to visit this great architectural marvel. In its official A visitor trying Arab costumes during one of the previous Open House events. Eid Open House events are being regularly held at the Al Fateh Grand Mosque. “Visitors will experience tra- • ditional Bahraini hospitality and statement, the centre Fateh Grand Mosque. Eid experience. have been arranged. He said that interact with local Muslim tour stated that the event On the second and third day Ahmed Al Fateh Islamic Cen- around a hundred volunteers are guides and volunteers in serene would provide a chance of Eid, Bahrain’s largest mosque tre coordinator Farahat Al Kindy expected to work as tour guides and friendly atmosphere. for the guests to learn will be welcoming non-Muslims told Tribune that Eid Open at the mosque. “The numbers The centre is dedicated “In addition, there will be sev- and treating them to a special House has become immensely of full time employees are only to spreading the eral other activities such as Ar- more about Eid and popular and that the mosque a few and so we depend on vol- message of peace, abic calligraphy and traditional the Islamic culture. is expecting to welcome a huge unteers for the smooth running love and peaceful dress corner. The visitors will number of people. of the event.” also be given a guided tour of Eid Open House events have In its official statement, the co-existence between the Grand Mosque and briefed TDT|Manama all peoples and Mohammed Zafran grown exceptionally since it be- centre stated that the event on the importance of Eid and the gan in 1999. The turnout for the would provide a chance for the welcomes all non- Pilgrimage. There will also be a 1999 first year was in the twenties guests to learn more about Eid Muslim expatriates special corner for the children,” n order to promote peace- was the year in which while second year it rose to 98 and the Islamic culture. and tourists who wish it stated. ful coexistence and spread first Eid Open House and now thousands of visitors “The Ahmed AI Fateh Islamic For further inquiries contact was held. to visit this great Ithe joy of Eid Al Adha to turn up during Eid open house Centre is pleased to host a very architectural marvel. coordinator Al Kindy or the non-Muslims, the Ahmed Al events, Al Kindi noted. special Eid Open House event on centre on telephone number Fateh Islamic Centre will host Speaking to Tribune, Al Kindi the 2nd and 3rd days of the Eid MR AL KINDI 17-727773 or mobile number an Eid Open House event at Al explained that a number of stalls Holidays. This corresponds to 35901415 or 37748400.

‘Inmate sought exemption from prison rules’ TDT|Manama Mohammed Zafran by three human rights organization The Gulf European Center for Hu- ahraini inmate Has- man Rights, the Bahrain san Mushaima who is Human Rights Watch Bserving life sentence and the International for his attempts to topple Human Rights Organ- the government refused to ization concluded that attend specialist doctors’ the protest was political appointments as he sought in nature rather than hu- exemption from rules, ac- man rights one. cording to Bahrain Embassy A spokesperson for the in the UK. In response to three organization said protests held by his son Ali The office of the Bahrain Embassy in London. that they received many Mushaima outside the em- complaints from the peo- bassy claiming that medical ple about the inconven- treatment was refused to his fa- not to attend scheduled medical ience caused by the protests. ther, the embassy stated that Has- appointments and him being re- “This sit-in is a deliberate attack san sought special treatment and fused. on the right to safely cross the refused to cooperate with rules. “In essence, it appears that the road and a program that violates According to the embassy, subject matter is a request for the rights of the people and has a Hassan is at fault at for missed special treatment and rule ex- negative impact on the security appointments with medical spe- emptions rather than any other of the Bahraini embassy and the cialists as he declined to attend human rights consideration, as people working in the embassy the appointments as he refused to no comment or complaint have because the protestors are sit- wear prison uniform and wanted been made regarding changing ting-in front of the Embassy for 13 “special treatment”. the rules concerning prison uni- days day and nights,” the spokes- “The embassy would like to forms,” the embassy stated. person said. reiterate that Hassan Mushai- Bahrain’s rights watchdog The independent investiga- ma refused to attend specialists’ National Institution for Human tion also revealed that the pro- appointments at outside hospi- rights had previously refuted test was political and had links tals, including his scheduled PET claims that the inmate was de- to Iran. “The three human rights scans scheduled last year (oncol- nied medical treatment at Jaw organizations (the Gulf European ogists advised a scan every six prison. Director-General of Ref- Center for Human Rights, the months) because Mushaima re- ormation and Rehabilitation had Bahrain Human Rights Watch fuses to wear the prison uniform. also confirmed that Hassan was Society and Organisation of the “Unlike many other jurisdic- being provided with complete Global Message for Human tions, inmates in Bahrain wear medical care. Rights) respect and believe in their own clothes, not uniforms, Ali who is a fugitive sentenced human rights issues. while in prison. However, when in absentia to 15 years in prison, “However, the three organiza- inmates leave the prison facility, has been holding the protest out- tions received many oral docu- whether to attend a trial or go side the embassy in recent weeks. ments from the people, and then to hospital or visitation, they are The protest has been called a po- the European Gulf Center began required to wear a uniform,” the litically charged publicity stunt investigating the case, so that it embassy stated. and criticized for causing a hin- could easily prove that this sit-in “There is a key distinction here drance to those who wished to outside the Embassy of Bahrain is between Hassan Mushaima ex- visit the embassy. political operations linked to Iran ercising his will and choosing An investigation conducted and not human rights demands.” TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 05 Prosecution witnesses fail to attend BD1.5m embezzlement case hearing Three ex-staff accused of cheating a private company by transferring funds into personal accounts

prosecution witnesses failed to appear in court. the company for 21 years and he collaborated The defendants’ lawyer Abdullah The three men were serving in a major con- with his co-defendants in pocketing money gen- Sahwan• said that the prosecution struction company, from where they allegedly erated from selling movable properties owned embezzled BD1.5m. The trio include the general The defendants used to by the company but they didn’t record them in witnesses failed to attend to the manager, the project manager and a quantity deposit the money earned its accounts. court hearing to give their version surveyor. through selling the movable “They have been doing this for three years, of events and the court adjourned The defendants’ lawyer Abdullah Sahwan and the company discovered their misconduct said that the prosecution witnesses failed to properties into their recently. An auditing process was performed the case until September 5, 2018. attend to the court hearing to give their version accounts. via an external auditing firm, in which it was of events and the court adjourned the case until MS JABER discovered that the general manager transferred The company’s lawyer said September 5, 2018. BD1.5m to his country in the past three years, previously• that the general manager He revealed to Tribune that he insisted during although his total earnings since his recruitment was serving in the company for 21 the hearing on Sunday on his clients’ innocence Lawyer Sahwan also expressed his confidence don’t exceed half million Bahraini dinars,” she and requested to release them on bail. added. years and he collaborated with his “I am perplexed at the absence of the prosecu- Explaining how the suspects manipulated the co-defendants in pocketing money tion witnesses under the pretext that they aren’t company’s accounts, she said: “The defendants generated from selling movable in Bahrain, although they were aware there was Insisting on my clients’ used to deposit the money earned through selling properties owned by the company but a court hearing. innocence, I have requested the movable properties into their accounts. “During the previous hearing, we questioned the court to release them “And then show in the records that they used they didn’t record them in its accounts. one of the company owners, and the hearing on bail. I have great faith in it in carry-out other activities for the company lasted for a very long time because we asked him judiciary. in collaboration with another company which TDT|Manama around 100 questions. was operating in waste collection. MR SAHWAN Ali Tarif He pointed out that the indictment list against “The quantity surveyor was forging the reports the trio didn’t include they had embezzled submitted to the company about the sites in he Lower Criminal Court has adjourned BD1.5m, stating the defendants are accused of in the integrity of Bahrain’s judicial system. which it was working in return of bribes pro - the case of three Asian employees, aged 53, pocketing an amount between BD11,000 and The company’s lawyer, Maha Jaber, said pre- vided by the general manager and the project T35 and 49, accused of embezzlement after BD41,000. viously that the general manager was serving in manager.”

Illegal gambling joint trial adjourned Witness set to testify in people were visiting the place The defendants at different times daily, starting • from 10:00 pm until 3:00 pm. had earlier pleaded Investigations revealed that BD700,000 fraud case not guilty before the one of the five would visit the High Criminal Court. house every day to collect his each by the High Criminal Court. he arrives back,” a salesman share from the profits made. The British man and The pair include a British man serving for the car dealer told TDT|Manama Police officers raided the • and a Turkish woman, who land- prosecutors. Ali Tarif house last May and four men the Turkish woman ed in police net after attempting When he came back, he “When he came back, he in- were arrested while they were were arrested in the to con a local car dealer out of insisted to complete sisted to complete the purchase playing cards. showroom and they luxury cars worth BD700,000 the purchase offline, offline, and this triggered our he court hearing of five They turned on their fifth informed the authorities using counterfeit credit cards, and this triggered suspicions. Thus we notified Bangladeshi men who co-defendant, accusing him of that there were another according to court files. our suspicions. Thus the card issuing company,” he Tconverted a Muharraq running the place. Investigations into their case added. house into a gambling joint has They even helped police of- two men involved in were launched after the General we notified the card The British man and the Turk- been adjourned until Septem- ficers to arrest him as one of the act including a GCC Directorate of Anti-Corruption issuing company. ish woman were arrested in the ber 12, 2018, for a review. them called him and asked him man and a Yemeni man. and Economic and Electronic SALESMAN showroom and they informed Aged between 33 and 54, the to come to the house. Security received a tip-off on the the authorities that there were defendants are said to have He said to have resisted ar- presence of a counterfeiting gang another two men involved in the managed the place illegally rest and attacked police of- TDT|Manama involved in embezzling mon- couple requesting to buy luxu- act including a GCC man and a and were inviting others to ficers when he arrived. Ali Tarif ey from ATMs via forging bank ry cars at a value of BD700,000 Yemeni man. come and gamble their money. The first defendant was card authorisation numbers. using a credit card. All of the defendants were Their activities exposed fol- charged with assaulting cops prosecution witness will While the investigations were “We accepted their offer and tried before the Lower Crim- lowing a tip-off to an under- too. take the stand on August underway, a credit card issu- we drafted a purchase contract inal Court, which sentenced cover agent, after which police The defendants had earlier A27, 2018, to testify in the ing company sent one of their but we informed the competent the British man and the Turk- kept tabs on the house. pleaded not guilty before the case of a fraudster pair involved representatives to police to authorities about the operation ish woman to three years behind And it was found that many High Criminal Court. in attempting to con BD700,000 file a complaint after receiving owing to the amount involved. bars each for fraud. out of a local car dealer. a call from a local car dealer, “The British man said he The GCC man and the Yemeni The duo were earlier sen - informing them about being would leave Bahrain and would national suspect, however, were tenced to three years behind bars approached by an expatriate complete the transaction when acquitted due to lack of proof. New chief for UNIC appointed Manama

nited Nations Secre- In a festive mood tary General António UGuterres has appointed Samir Aldarabi as the Director of the United Nations Informa- Mr Aldarabi tion Centre for Gulf Countries located in Manama. Mr Aldarabi Special Political Mission for assumed his duties on August Yemen; as the National Deputy 1, 2018. Director of Radio Miraya with Prior to this appointment, Mr the United Nations Mission in Aldarabi was the Acting Director Sudan in Khartoum from 2009 Many of the United Nations Informa- to 2010; and as a radio producer streets in tion Centre in Manama, leading at United Nations Headquarters the Capital the strategic communications from 2002 to 2009. Governorate and building understanding and Before joining the United have been support for the aims and goals of Nations, Mr Aldarabi was the decked the United Nations in Bahrain, Spokesperson and Arab Press up for Eid Qatar and the United Arab Emir- Coordinator for the Palestinian Al Adha ates since June 2015. Initiative for the Promotion of celebrations. Global Dialogue and Democracy, Many From 2002 to 2015, Mr Al- events are darabi held key public informa- a non governmental organiza- being held tion positions across the United tion, from 2003 to 2004; and across the Nations Secretariat. He served led the media campaign for the Kingdom as Director of the United Na- first ever population, housing marking the tions Information Centre in Sa- and establishment census at the festival. na’a from 2010 to 2015, where he Palestinian Bureau of Statistics also joined the United Nations from 1997 to 1998. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 06

Oman to host international A day full of fervour, hues transport conference Special celebrations marking the Day of Arafah held on the shores of Busaiteen beach Manama man will host the Heya Beya is a unique 32nd Internation- •Bahraini tradition in which Oal Road Transport Union (IRU)’s World Con- children plant wheat and gress 2018 under the title barley grains in baskets “Innovation in Transport”. made of palm fronds. The three-day is organ- ised by the Oman Global Logistics Group (ASYAD) The tradition is also and IRU. •observed in other countries The conference aims of the region including to enable road transport Kuwait and the UAE. specialists to discuss the challenges facing the sec- tor and propose innovative TDT|Manama solutions to meet these Thamer Tayfour challenges by presenting the best international ex- he Day of Arafah was celebrated periences and practices in in great zeal across the Kingdom the presence of a number Tyesterday. of transport ministers and Many children yesterday celebrated logistics leaders around Heya Beya in great fervour. the world, Oman News Heya Beya is a unique Bahraini tra- Agency (ONA) reported. dition in which children plant wheat The conference will at- and barley grains in baskets made of tract international invest- palm fronds. ments and projects to the They hang these baskets in the porti- Sultanate, promote the cos of their houses before throwing in Sultanate as a promising sea on the Day of Arafah. logistics centre, highlight Children wear traditional Bukhnug the Sultanate’s distinctive costumes during the occasion adorned land-, sea- and air infra- with gold thread while the boys wear Hundreds of children took part in the celebrations held on Busaiteen beach. structure, and allow the the traditional dress with a waistcoat development of expertise as well as a skull cap. ernor Salman Bin Hindi said ‘Heya for Omani human cadres They sing folk songs with passion and Beya’ is a tradition considered to through sharing experi- pleasure while throwing ‘Heya Beyas’ be part of our true culture, which ences with specialists in into sea. we strive to preserve by taking it to the transport sector from The tradition is also observed in other the next generation. The present different countries. countries of the region including Ku- generation should be proud of their The event will focus on wait and the UAE. past generation and culture. innovation in a number of The Muharraq Governorate held “Muharraq Governorate is keen areas including logistics ‘Heya Beya’ celebrations on the shores on reviving traditional festivals and technologies that are of Busaiteen, opposite to the traditional while preserving our original her- growing steadily. It will island of Sayya. itage. The new generation should include interactive discus- Hundreds of children from various be able to celebrate the success sion sessions to allow par- part of the Kingdom attended the cel- and achievements of their fore - ticipants to communicate, ebrations. fathers by performing these tra - exchange ideas, experienc- Speaking to Tribune, Muharraq Gov- Muharraq Governor Salman Bin Hindi attended the celebrations. ditions.” es and best practices.

Stand-up comedian Ahmed Sharif set to enthrall fans Minister receives researcher

It is a combination of• standup comedy, live theatrical play and a musical performance. The show will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel during Eid Al Adha on 22nd, 23rd, and The show is going to be 24th of August 2018. one of a kind not just in Bahrain but also in TDT|Manama the Gulf region. It will Harpreet Kaur be a treat for all the audience as it is going hmed Sharif, a renowned to be a combination of stand-up comedian and a social media influenc- standup comedy, live A dramas and a musical. er is all set to perform live and enthrall the audience. The show poster released by organisers. AHMED The Ahmed Sharif Show, which is presented by Tarteeb, cial media as an influencer and a “There is a high demand on port, I am certain and confident is considered to be one of the comedian. I very much look for- standup comedy in Bahrain. that Ahmed Sharif Show will newest and astonishing shows ward to my journey in stand-up Unfortunately, one of the main be successful and shall provide that have never occurred be- comedy and most importantly challenges that we face as influ- an outstanding entertainment fore in the region including reach the utmost expectation encers and talented individuals experience. In Bahrain, we need Bahrain. for all my fans and audience. is that there is a lack of support more companies like Tarteeb It is a combination of stan- “The show is going to be one by both private and governmen- that helps and supports such dup comedy, live theatrical play of a kind not just in Bahrain but tal sectors in Bahrain. events. and a musical performance. The in the Gulf region where is it “However, Tarteeb under- “Another challenge that we show will be held at the Crowne going to be a treat for all the stands the high demand on face is the scarcity of arranged Plaza Hotel during Eid Al Adha audience as it is going to a com- these types of entertainments halls and stages available in on 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of Au- bination of standup comedy, live in Bahrain and have already par- Bahrain. We usually tend to rely gust 2018. dramas and a musical. taken in this field with ‘chick- on hotel halls, which are usually Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Speaking to Tribune, Ahmed “In addition, an exclusive en nuggets’ a standup comedy fully booked or quite expensive Al Khalifa received Terror Crimes Prosecution chief Advocate General Dr said, “I consider ‘Standup Com- video will video will further be show starring Khaled Janahi to reserve. Thus, it will be chal- Ahmed Mohammed Al Hammadi, who presented a copy of his PhD thesis, edy’ as a new edition to myself. showcased at the event which and Imran Alaradi. lenging for us to provide the from the College of Law at the University of Ain Shams, titled “Protecting Until this moment, I have par- is made with the support of Ju- “As a result, people were real- highest quality of entertainment Criminal Witnesses – Comparative Study”. The minister commended the taken in live comedy plays, TV maan Al Rowaie, who is a legend ly happy and satisfied with the for our audience with such a efforts exerted by Dr Ahmed Al Hammadi, stressing the importance of shows and series, as well as so- in the GCC’s cinematic industry.” show. Now, with Tarteeb’s sup- challenge,” Ahmed added. scientific studies which represent a reference for researchers and specialists. 07 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 business

Ola starts operations in Britain Bahrain’s clean energy London, United Kingdom ndian ride-hailing com- Ipany Ola began operating in south Wales on Monday ahead of a planned expan- drive gets US backing sion across Britain by the end of the year, intensifying its battle with US rival Uber. Britain is Ola’s second Dr Mirza holds talks with US House of Representatives headed by Mary Martin venture into a foreign mar- ket after it started opera- TDT | Manama tions in Australia in Feb - ruary. visiting US delegation Unlike Uber, the company yesterday hailed Bah- offers customers the option Arain’s progress in the of private hire vehicles and electricity, water and renewable taxis on one platform. energy sectors saying “they wish Ola “looks forward to to activate more international providing passengers with cooperation in these areas.” a dynamic, new responsible The move, according to the service,” Ben Legg, manag- head of the delegation, would ing director of Ola UK, said help encourage investments in in a statement. the sector as well as boost trade Legg emphasised Ola’s and scientific research in the screening processes for Kingdom. drivers and safety features This came as Electricity and such as 24/7 voice support Water Affairs Minister Dr Ab- and an option to share ride dulhussain Mirza was receiving details with emergency con- a delegation from the Energy tacts. and Trade Committee of the US Ola was launched in 2011 House of Representatives, head- and claims to handle around ed by Mary Martin. a billion rides a year across Minister receives the US delegation The minister praised the his- India’s major centres and torical 200-year old relations seven cities in Australia. between Bahrain and the United The meeting highlighted the panies. Bahrain leadership, Dr efficiency and renewable energy rain’s experience and the pro- Ride-hailing apps are States of America and made a steps taken by the government Mirza said, paid great attention to achieve comprehensive and gress and thanked the minister booming in India despite presentation on the plans and in the field of energy sustain- to encouraging the use of clean sustainable development. for his interest and encourage- stiff opposition from tradi- projects of the electricity, water ability along with investment energy and the government had The delegation members said ment to strengthen mechanisms tional taxi firms and some and renewable energy sector. opportunities available to com- set up national goals for energy they were pleased to see Bah- of cooperation. initial concerns about pas- senger safety. Ola and Uber are locked in an aggressive fight for a Total has left greater share of India’s taxi- app market, which is esti- Iran, oil minister mated to be worth around $10 billion. Tehran, Iran

rench energy giant To- Ftal has officially quit India seeks its multi-billion-dollar gas project in Iran, Oil Minis- jeweller’s ter Bijan Namdar Zanganeh extradition from UK said on Monday, following the reimposition of US sanc- New Delhi, India tions. “Total has officially left ndian authorities said the agreement for the devel- Iyesterday they have asked opment of phase 11 of South Britain to extradite fugitive Pars (gas field). It has been billionaire jeweller Nirav more than two months that Modi after he was seen it announced that it would there. leave the contract,” he told Modi, who is allegedly at the ICANA news agency. the centre of a $1.8 billion The United States said in fraud, fled India in February May that it was abandoning and has since been linked to the 2015 nuclear deal and A picture showing the Eid Al Adha celebrations held by National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) at the NBB Home for the Elderly. The celebrations, in the presence of NBB several countries. reimposing sanctions on volunteers, included a performance of traditional songs and dances as well as live cooking stations. Minister of Labour and Social Development commended the But a Central Bureau Iran in two phases. efforts of NBB and its staff for their continued support and initiatives to promote the well-being of the community of Investigation spokes- person said: “We received confirmation from Britain through our Interpol chan- nels that Nirav Modi has been seen there.” Under-fire Apple removes 25,000 apps in China The bureau was also in contact with the United China is one of Apple’s largest markets, accounting for roughly 20 percent of its revenue last year States, France, Singapore, Belgium, the United Arab AFP | Beijing, China “Reporters have discovered being on the App Store,” the Emirates and Hong Kong as even after the Apple company’s company said in a statement. it launched a global hunt for pple said yesterday it large-scale repairs, loopholes With the rhetoric between the tycoon. Ahad removed many gam- still exist,” said CCTV anchor Washington and Beijing heat- Modi and his uncle and bling-related apps from its Chi- Chang Xiao. ing up, China’s state media has business partner Mehul nese app store as the US giant A CCTV report last month ac- probed for deficiencies in Ap- Choksi, a diamond mer- comes under scrutiny amid cused the company of allowing ple’s China operations. chant, are accused of ille- trade tensions between Beijing illegal gambling apps to prolif- Another state media report gally diverting loans from and Washington. erate. last month tore into Apple for the bank to foreign-based Apple removed 25,000 apps “We have already removed what it claimed was inade - companies. Choksi is be- suspected of facilitating gam- many apps and developers for quate filtering of messages sent lieved to be in Antigua. bling and illegal lotteries, state trying to distribute illegal gam- through its iMessage service. Before the case Forbes es- broadcaster CCTV reported on bling apps on our App Store, and The app store clearance did timated his worth at $1.73 Sunday, emphasising there was Women pose for a selfie in front of an Apple Store undergoing renovation at a we are vigilant in our efforts to little to abate the criticism from billion, placing him 85th on still work to be done. mall in Beijing find these and stop them from CCTV. India’s rich list. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 08

Canada’s Ethiopia opens plant to Trudeau to run turn waste into energy again in 2019 Malaysia calls for Ethiopia | energy | waste renewable energy.” Montreal, Canada Reppie is located beside a thiopia on Sunday inaugu- massive dump called Koshe, anadian Prime Min- China’s help with Erated a power plant which a slang word for “dirt” in the Cister Justin Trudeau converts waste into energy, country’s main Amharic lan- announced Sunday he will next to a filthy open-air dump guage. There for over 40 years, run for re-election in 2019 in Addis Ababa where a land- Koshe serves as the main rub- legislative polls. slide last year killed more than bish tip in Ethiopia’s capital The Liberal Party leader fiscal problems 110 people. which has a rapidly rising pop- was officially nominated Named Reppie, the facility ulation, currently at more than by his party in the central is the first of its kind in Africa, four million people. Montreal district of Papi- according to the government A huge landslide killed more neau, a centrist stronghold Malaysia’s national and the British company Cam- than 110 people in March 2017, he has represented since • bridge Industries behind the which scavengers blame on the 2008. He was re-elected in debt is around project, and will turn 1,400 construction of the incinera- 2011 and 2015. $250 billion tons of waste per day into en- tion plant next door. He spoke of his “deep ergy. Ethiopian President Mu- Building of the plant began conviction that despite the China is the top latu Teshome said at the cer- in 2014 at a cost of around 118 politics of fear and division, trading• partner emony that the country “has million dollars. The incinerat- staying positive, pulling been investing extensively ed waste will generate steam people together, looking of Malaysia in hydro power, geothermal, which will then drive a turbine for ways to emphasize our wind energy and now biomass that produces electricity at a common ground, our shared AFP | Beijing, China to boost the manufacturing projected power of 25 mega- values among our differenc- sector with a supply of clean, watts per day. es, is the only way to build a alaysian Prime Minis- stronger country, a stronger ter Mahathir Moham- world.” ad called on China’s Trudeau also promised Mtop leadership to help with US sold almost $42 billion in to reduce the gap between his country’s fiscal problems Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (L) and China’s Premier Li rich and poor, and to lift up yesterday, as he seeks to revise Keqiang talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in weapons to foreign govts in 2017 indigenous populations. major Beijing-backed projects Beijing signed under his country’s merica sold more weap- ber 2017, compared with the scandal-plagued former regime. Aons in the first six months previous five years. America’s The 93-year-old leader, who China for agreeing to increase oversaw the signing of a co - of 2018 than all of fiscal 2017, slice of this expanding pie was Volkswagen recalls returned for a second stint imports of specialty agricul- operation agreement between signing off on $46.9 billion in 34pc, up from 30pc in the pre- as premier following a shock tural products, such as durian Chinese auto firm Geely and weapons sales to foreign part- vious five years. America and 700,000 SUVs election win in May, has railed fruit. Malaysian carmaker Proton. ners and allies – surging past its five nearest rivals (in de- against a series of deals struck But Mahathir also said he ex- China is the top trading part- the 2017 total of $41.9 billion. scending order Russia, France, Frankfurt am Main, Ger- with Chinese state-owned com- pected more from the world’s ner of Malaysia, which is home The size of theSales world’s of U.S.arms weaponsGermany, Chinasoar and Britain) many panies by the administration of second largest economy. to a substantial ethnic Chinese marketAmerica rose sold by more 10 weaponsper cent in the account first six months for nearly of 2018 80pc than allof to- toppled leader Najib Razak. “I believe that China will look minority. overof thefiscal five 2017, years signing to off Decem on $46.9- billiontal sales. in weapons sales to foreign erman auto behe - His government has sus - sympathetically towards the Bilateral ties were warm un- partners and allies – surging past the 2017 total of $41.9 billion moth Volkswagen said pended China-backed projects problems that we have to re- der the old regime, and Chinese TOP THREE G United U.S. CLIENTS Monday it was recalling worth more than $22 billion, solve and perhaps help us in investment into the country (% of exports) States 700,000 SUVs around the including a major rail link, and resolving some of our internal surged as Beijing signed deals world, warning that lights Mahathir had pledged to raise fiscal problems,” he said. for major infrastructure and built into their sunroofs risk the issue of what he views as During his nine-year rule, Na- construction projects. short-circuiting if they be- unfair terms related to some of jib was accused of cutting quick But critics said there was of- Australia come wet. the deals on his five-day trip. deals with Beijing in return for ten a lack of transparency and 6.7% U.S. Saudi 34% of Arabia The fault affects cars be- During a press conference help paying off debts linked to the terms, such as interest rates market 18% longing to the current gen- with Chinese Premier Li Ke- a massive financial scandal that on loans, were unfavourable to UAE Other 74.2% eration of the Tiguan and qiang at Beijing’s Great Hall of ultimately helped bring down Malaysia, fuelling suspicions 7.4% Touran models manufac- the People, Mahathir thanked his long-ruling coalition. about Najib’s real motives. 10% Russia 22% GLOBAL SHARE OF MAJOR tured before July 5 this year, Last week, Mahathir had said Najib and his cronies were ac- ARMS EXPORTS, 2013-17 (%) a spokesman for the firm that he would look to cancel cused of plundering billions of CHANGE IN VOLUME DPA Netherlands France OF ARMS EXPORTS told news agency . or modify the previous admin- dollars from a sovereign wealth 2.1% 6.7% Heat from a short-circuit istration’s agreements with fund, 1MDB, in an audacious 2008-12 TO 2013-17 (%) 40 could damage the roof and China, stressing that “the most fraud. Italy, 2.5% Germany, 5.8% I believe that 35 38 in extreme cases start a fire, China will look important thing is for us to save Since losing power, Najib has Israel, 2.9% China, 5.7% 30 German industry magazine money”. been charged over the scandal sympathetically Spain, 2.9% UK, 4.8% 25 27 Kfz-Betrieb reported. Mahathir is seeking to cut and will stand trial. He denies 25 towards the TREND IN INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS 20 The spokesman said VW Malaysia’s national debt, which any wrongdoing. problems that we OF MAJOR WEAPONS, 1978–2017 15 was still working on a fix has ballooned to some $250 As well as the rail link, which 50 10 but hoped to complete test- have to resolve and billion. Despite the threat to would have run from the Thai 40 5 ing “soon”. perhaps help us in revise China-linked contracts, border to Kuala Lumpur, the 0 U.S. Russia France Germany China 30 In the meantime, car resolving some of Mahathir is seeking to strength- government has suspended a -5 -7.1 owners can continue using en business ties with Beijing China-backed project to build 20 -10 our internal fiscal -14 their vehicles unless they problems during the trip. pipelines after alleging that SIPRI trend-indicator value: Measure -15 notice signs of a short cir- He met the founder of e-com- almost all the money for the 10 of volume of international transfers of major weapons Top five arms sellers, cuit, including the ambient MAHATHIR MOHAMAD merce giant Alibaba, Jack Ma, work was paid out but only a 0 accounting for 74.2% lighting not working or MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER in the eastern city of Hangzhou fraction of the project had been 1980 85 90 95 00 05 10 15 of global arms exports singe marks appearing. on Saturday. Mahathir also completed. Sources: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Defense News © GRAPHIC NEWS Business economists say Trump tariffs will harm US: survey the National Association for by the end of the year. More than 80pc believed cur- Some companies Business Economics also found Some companies across the rent fiscal policy would expand • respondents were split on De- United States have blamed the the budget deficit as a share across the United States cember’s sweeping tax cuts, but tariffs for layoffs, squeezed prof- of GDP, and agreed Congress have blamed the tariffs agreed Congress should do more it margins and possible bank- should work to reduce it. for layoffs, squeezed to shrink the expanding budget ruptcies. Lawmakers in Trump’s Large majorities also favoured profit margins and deficit. own Republican party have fighting climate change and NABE Vice President Kevin expressed outrage about the combating income inequality possible bankruptcies. Swift said more than 90pc of the multi-front trade conflicts and but were split on how to achieve 251 economists surveyed said warned of long-term damage to the latter goal, according to the Washington, United States the tariffs and threats of tariffs the economy. report. had “unfavorable consequential But White House officials say According to the latest NABE usiness economists over- impacts.” the American economy is more survey, 60pc of respondents be- Bwhelmingly worry President “Panelists also expect unfa- than robust enough to endure lieved economic policy should Donald Trump’s trade wars will vorable consequential impacts the conflict, which they believe do more to combat climate harm the US economy, according should the United States with- will ultimately result in more change. to a survey released yesterday. draw from NAFTA,” Swift said equitable trade that reduces the In addition, 74pc said eco - The Trump administration on in a statement, referring to the US trade deficit. nomic policy should do more to Thursday is due to impose its North American Free Trade A majority of those surveyed combat income inequality but latest round of punitive tariffs Agreement. US President Donald Trump (L), his wife Melania Trump and their son Barron (C) by NABE approved of December’s respondents were divided on on China, putting 25 per cent Washington, Ottawa and Mex- walk on the South Lawn upon his return to the White House after a weekend in corporate tax reductions but the best means of doing this: duties on another $16 billion in ico City began talks a year ago Bedminster, only a small share favored the 47pc supported more education imports, with Beijing poised to to revise the 24-year-old trade changes for individuals, which to improve worker productivity, retaliate dollar-for-dollar. pact, which Trump has threat- fail to reach an acceptable deal. timistic in recent days that they Democrats have criticized as while 33pc favoured more pro- The twice-yearly survey by ened to scrap should negotiators Officials have become more op- could finalize a NAFTA rewrite unduly favorable to the wealthy. gressive taxation. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 09

PepsiCo buys SodaStream Markets display optimism New York, United States epsiCo said yesterday it US-China talks Key figures around 1530 GMT Pwas buying Israeli com- slated• for Wednesday pany SodaStream for $3.2 New York - Dow Jones:  0.3 percent at 25,754.12 points billion as the US beverage and Thursday giant contends with falling London - FTSE 100:  0.4pc at 7,591.26 (close) demand for sugar-laden soft China appeared Frankfurt - DAX 30:  1.0pc at 12,331.30 (close) drinks among health-con- to• be moving to Paris - CAC 40:  0.7pc at 5,379.65 (close) scious consumers. SodaStream makes ma- EURO STOXX 50:  0.7pc at 3,395.64 support the yuan chines that carbonate home Tokyo - Nikkei 225:  0.3pc at 22,199.00 (close) tap water, and both PepsiCo Turkish lira was Hong Kong - Hang Seng:  1.4pc at 27,598.02 (close) and its arch-rival Coca-Cola • have been diversifying away hovering above six Shanghai - Composite:  1.1pc at 2,698.47 (close) to the dollar from their mainstay fizzy Euro/dollar:  $1.1439 from $1.1441 at 2100 GMT Friday drinks in part to counter the Pound/dollar:  $1.2763 from $1.2749 onset of anti-obesity sugar AFP | London, United Kingdom Dollar/yen:  110.45 from 110.57 yen taxes around the world. SodaStream offers con- ptimism over signs that Dollar/Turkish lira:  6.17 lira from 6.03 lira sumers “the ability to make China and the United Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the great-tasting beverages OStates will start working New York Stock Exchange while reducing the amount to resolve their trade dispute of waste generated”, Pep- helped stock markets across the and the US can start to break trading. ed the central bank has been currency crisis eased slightly siCo chief executive Indra world move higher on Monday. the trade tariff deadlock or at In Asia, both Hong Kong and letting the yuan soften in recent last week as the lira rebounded Nooyi, who is stepping “Equity markets are buoy- the very least open the door to Shanghai closed more than one- weeks to offset the effects of against the US dollar. But this down following 12 years at ant ahead of the US-China a summit between President pc higher. any US tariffs, a claim China has isn’t the end of the problem,” the helm, said in a state - trade talks which commence Trump and President Xi, which Greg McKenna, chief market denied. said Masayuki Kubota, chief ment. on Wednesday,” said market might begin to ease the pres - strategist at AxiTrader, point- Elsewhere Monday, the Turk- strategist at Rakuten Securities. analyst David Madden at CMC sure,” noted Rebecca O’Keeffe, ed out that Beijing, which is ish lira was hovering above six “The harder the Turkish gov- Markets UK. The talks slated for head of investment at Interac- struggling to support the econ- to the dollar, well off the record ernment finds it to borrow mon- Wednesday and Thursday are tive Investor. omy while also addressing a levels around seven seen last ey, the harder it will be for Turk- Turkey lodges the first since the US and China A possibility that the months- debt mountain, may have had week but still facing pressure ish banks to raise funds, and it began slapping tariffs on tens long row which has battered a “lightbulb moment” last week after Ankara and Washington would not be a surprise if the complaint against of billions of dollars worth of world markets could be brought with the release of more weak traded fresh sanctions threats as country’s banks were hit with US tariffs: WTO goods, and according to the Wall to an end was enough to spur data and a sharp drop in the the row over a detained Ameri- downgrades themselves,” said Street Journal they are aimed at optimism on trading floors. troubled yuan. can pastor drags on. Madden at CMC Markets UK. Geneva, Switzerland easing the dispute so US Presi- London closed the day 0.4 per Authorities in China appeared Ratings agency Standard & Attention this week turns also dent Donald Trump and Chinese cent in afternoon trading, with to be moving to support the yuan Poor’s on Friday downgraded to the annual central bankers’ urkey has lodged a President Xi Jinping can hold a Paris adding 0.7pc and Frankfurt last week as it headed towards Turkey’s sovereign debt for the symposium at Jackson Hole in Tcomplaint against ad- summit in November. climbing 1.0pc. seven to the dollar, its weakest second time in four months and Wyoming, which will be fol - ditional US duties on steel “Investors will be hoping that On Wall Street, the Dow was level since January 2017. warned of a recession in 2019. lowed for clues on US interest and aluminium at World negotiations between China 0.3pc higher in late morning Some observers have suggest- “The worry over Turkey’s rate plans among other issues. Trade Organization, the in- ternational trade court said yesterday. US President Donald Trump earlier this month Brent stabilises near $72 announced on Twitter that Chinese buyers shift to he had doubled steel and Reuters | Singapore, Moscow aluminium tariffs on Turkey amid a row over an Amer- rent oil stabilised near ican pastor held for two B$72 per barrel yesterday Iranian tankers for oil years on terror charges. after several weeks of decline, $72.08 “Turkey claims that the weighed down by concerns per barrel was the price Reuters | Beijing, Singapore measures are inconsistent over slowing global economic of Brent crude futures with a number of provisions growth but supported by an at 1336 GMT hinese buyers of Iranian oil of the WTO’s Agreement on expected fall in supply from Care starting to shift their Safeguards and the General Iran due to US sanctions. cargoes to vessels owned by Na- Agreement on Tariffs and Brent crude futures, a tional Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) Trade (GATT) 1994,” said benchmark for internation- for nearly all of their imports a statement on the WTO’s al oil prices, were at $72.08 to keep supply flowing amid website. per barrel at 1336 GMT, up 25 month, the two governments the re-imposition of economic The first stage in the pro- cents. said late last week, in a bid sanctions by the United States. cess is a request for bilateral US West Texas Intermedi- to resolve an escalating tariff The shift demonstrates that consultations to attempt to ate (WTI) crude futures were war that threatens to engulf all China, Iran’s biggest oil cus- resolve the dispute. It can down 3 cents at $65.88 per trade between the world’s two tomer, wants to keep buying take years to resolve dis - barrel. largest economies. Iranian crude despite the sanc- putes if WTO trade judges Last week, Brent declined Still, White House economic tions, which were put back after become involved. Representative picture for a third consecutive week, adviser Larry Kudlow warned the United States withdrew in The announcement of while WTI fell for a seventh Beijing not to underestimate May from a 2015 agreement to the tariffs on August 10 week due to concerns about a President Donald Trump’s re- halt Iran’s nuclear program. with National Iranian Oil Corp changed to a delivered ex-ship caused the Turkish lira to slowdown in economic growth solve in what Kudlow called a To safeguard their sup - (NIOC) that allows them to use basis from the previous free-on- crash nearly 20 percent, and because of US-Chinese trade “battle to eliminate tariffs and plies, state oil trader Zhuhai NITC-operated tankers, accord- board terms, meaning that Iran prompted Turkish Presi- tensions and weakness in non-tariff barriers and quotas, Zhenrong Corp and Sinopec ing to four sources with direct will cover all the costs and risks dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan many emerging economies. to stop the theft of intellectual Group, Asia’s biggest refiner, knowledge of the matter. of delivering the crude as well to claim his country was vic- China and the United States property and to stop the forced have activated a clause in its The price for the oil under as handling the insurance, the tim of a “political plot” and will hold trade talks this transfer of technology”. long-term supply agreements the long-term deals has been sources said. an “economic war”. Wall Street’s bull run nears new landmark The US stock market all set to mark 3,453 straight days without suffering a drop of 20 per cent

AFP | New York, United States life left in this market,” said Sam and some experts quibble over ed major declines, even as the Stovall, chief investment strate- the dates. Fed has pulled back from these olstered by a period of ex- gist at CFRA Research. The current bull market began easy-money policies. Btraordinary monetary stim- The marathon march higher amid the emergency steps taken Stocks got another shot of sup- ulus followed by generous tax began in March 2009, just after by the Federal Reserve, which port in late 2017 when President cuts, Wall Street stands at the the financial crisis erased more set ultra-low interest rates and Donald Trump and congression- cusp of another landmark this than half the value of the S&P sought to spur investment fur- al Republicans succeeded in week. 500, the broad-based US stock ther with billions of dollars in pushing through a tax overhaul The US stock market on index. bond purchases in a program that cut the tax rate on corporate Wednesday will mark 3,453 When stocks fall at least 20pc known as “quantitative easing.” profits from 35pc to 21pc. straight days without suffering a below their previous record, “This bull market started with That has led to huge earnings drop of 20 per cent. That makes they exit a “bull market” and interest rates lower than any gains. Companies in the S&P it the longest “bull market” since enter a “bear market.” other bull market,” said Stovall. 500 have reported a nearly 25pc World War II, according to lead- Although “bulls” and “bears” “That helped fuel economic jump in second-quarter profits ing Wall Street statisticians. are very much in the psyche of growth as well as earnings in- per share compared with the “It’s an encouraging milestone Wall Street, there is no official creases.” year-ago period, according to because it’s the sign that there is Wall Street Bull sculpture is seen in the Financial District in New York authority on these designations Wall Street stocks have avoid- FactSet. THREE THINGS CANNOT BE QUOTE LONG HIDDEN: THE SUN, THE OF THE DAY MOON, AND THE TRUTH BUDDHA TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 Choosing between voters’ will and Iran’s theocratic isolation Iran is not a dominant global player, despite how it is often portrayed. It is a second-rate regional pariah in terminal decline

militancy, corruption and sectarianism. Pro-Iranian parties in Baghdad — despite what is often said — are not un- assailably popular or dominant. They aren’t even the leading force within the Shiite political constellation. Yet BARIA ALAMUDDIN these proxies have won by exploiting Tehran’s muscle to force other parties into line and outmaneuver their rivals, decade ago, regional deci - sometimes by playing their cards more sion-makers breathed a sigh of cleverly and sometimes by digging in Arelief at a deal that resolved yet their heels until others acquiesce. another chronic bout of tension in Leba- Iran is not a dominant global player, non. However, this 2008 “Doha Accord” despite how it is often portrayed. It is a proved to be a poison pill, conferring second-rate regional pariah in terminal upon Hizbollah a “blocking third” of the decline because of its leaders’ behavior. governing system — a political weight Iran wants to permanently drag Iraq they never relinquished — enabling and Lebanon into that growing cluster Tehran and Hezbollah to time after time of outcast pariah states that are ostra- put the political process in a chokehold cized because they can’t and won’t play until other parties eventually cave in. by the international rules. Why would Hassan Nasrallah today behaves as if he any sane Iraqi want this for their na- has a God-given right to always obtain tion? Lebanon has been partly shielded everything he demands — and to hell by its well-educated, diverse and liber- with the consequences for Lebanon. al communities, who reject the writ of Saad Hariri’s long-running efforts to Wilayat Al Faqih — but how long can form a government are being thwarted they hold out? Rather than Hariri and by Nasrallah’s insistence on normal- Abadi being compelled to beat a lonely ized relations with Bashar Assad. This path to Damascus and Tehran, there is the same Assad who colluded with are the only states I can think of where We will soon see whether Iraq meanwhile, was the vanguard of the are infinitely greater opportunities on Hezbollah to assassinate Saad’s fa - political life is routinely obstructed for and Lebanon’s politicians have USSR’s aggressive efforts to expand offer by unambiguously re-engaging ther, Rafiq Hariri. And the same Assad months or years during wrangling over communism, and consequently it stag- with the Arab heartland. who threatened to “break Lebanon” the choice of Cabinets and ministers. the foresight to open their nated and imploded. When Iran suddenly pulled the plug over Rafiq Hariri’s head if he didn’t A veteran diplomat warned me that nations to the international Similar tendencies are obvious in on electricity supplies to southern Iraq submit to Damascus’ demands. Assad a Tehran-aligned government in Bagh- community — or bow to Iran Lebanon: After the civil war, certain ar- this summer — precipitating nationwide has devolved from regional strongman dad could precipitate “economic war” and embrace dysfunctional, eas enjoyed massive Gulf Cooperation protests — it was Kuwait that stepped to Iranian puppet, so Saad Hariri is between Iran and the West, with Eu- theocratic isolation. Council and Western investment and in, restoring light and air-condition- unsurprisingly unwilling to prostrate ropeans and Americans potentially became the luxuriant envy of the Mid- ing to Iraqi homes. We have seen huge himself and humiliate Lebanon. shut out of Iraqi markets altogether. dle East. Other areas went backwards investments from the GCC and oth- We hope he stands his ground, but Hence Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s under stultifying theocratic misrule, er Arab states in Iraqi reconstruction, such aggressive brinkmanship over impossible situation: If Iraq wants to economic neglect, and the terrible im- infrastructure and the private sector. every issue has become exhausting and do business with the West, US sanctions pact of the narcotics trade. Yet it is the Donald Trump’s administration has, prohibitively costly for Lebanon. must be respected. backwards-looking theocratic model meanwhile, been seeking Russian sup- Likewise, after each round of Iraqi Yet Tehran’s ayatollahs would see that is in the ascendancy, particularly port in curbing Iran’s regional influence. elections Tehran dogmatically blocks Iraqis starve before allowing Baghdad’s after Hezbollah waded through rivers In May, the vast majority of Iraqis all efforts at government formation leaders to compromise on this issue. of blood to portray itself as the victor voted for political parties opposed to until it obtains the Cabinet it wants. This is one crisis Abadi can’t spin his in Syria. Tehran’s agenda. Now we get to see Iran’s paramilitary allies, Al Hashd way out of by smiling and telling both gional powers. However, not all foreign The once-mighty, Arab, oil-rich Iraq whether Iraq and Lebanon’s politicians Al-Shaabi, won a miserable 48 out of sides what they want to hear. US sanc- powers are equally malign. Post-war is today a broken nation; no more able have the foresight to listen to voters and 329 seats in the May elections — one tions may thus paradoxically force Iraq Germany was divided into American, to avoid Iranian imperialism than tiny open their nations to the international wonders how they could hope to de- even more tightly into Iran’s poisoned British, French and Russian spheres of Lebanon. We would like to buy into community — or bow to Tehran and em- mand any influence at all. Yet all Iran embrace, compelling it to suicidally influence. The three Western powers Muqtada Al Sadr’s rose-tinted vision brace dysfunctional, theocratic isolation. needs is a sufficient parliamentary distance itself from the global financial exerted their influence with a lighter of a sovereign Iraq rejecting all foreign rump to block all alternative configu- system. touch and West Germany was conse- interference, but in the real world Leb- (Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning rations until it has bribed, threatened Having grown up in Lebanon, I un- quently transformed from bombed-out anon and Iraq require backing from journalist and broadcaster in the Middle East and the UK. She is editor of the Media Services and cajoled enough politicians into derstand that this small nation will fascist dictatorship to modern mir- benign regional powers in shaping their Syndicate and has interviewed numerous accepting its writ. Iraq and Lebanon probably always be a playground for re- acle in two decades. East Germany, destinies away from the three evils of heads of state.)

CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE With unity, we can overcome any crisis erala will take some time to come out of help the state and its people. The small state with 44 the crisis triggered by floods and land- rivers is known for its scenic beauty. But know we Kslides. Nearly 400 people have died and have realized the dangers when these rivers take their the state administration is still having a tough ferocious forms. We can’t take a myopic view on the time to deal with accumulated losses including human invasion on nature, which is seen as one of the vast destruction of infrastructure. But what the reasons behind such natural calamities. What we strikes me most is the unity shown by people needed is a reconciliation and efforts to restore the and the support received by the community from environment in its place, while moving ahead with outside. Help poured in from neighboring states recovery efforts. including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kar- nataka. Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar also offered Ramshankar Parameshwaran

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Choosing between voters’ will Who Is Afraid of TOP TWEETS4 and Iran’s theocratic isolation Shahidul Alam? 01 Iran is not a dominant global player, despite how it is often portrayed. It is a second-rate regional pariah in terminal decline 6 years ago, nearly 75,000 Canadian sol- militancy, corruption and sectarianism. diers stormed the beach- Pro-Iranian parties in Baghdad — es of Dieppe – more despite what is often said — are not un- than 3,300 were killed, assailably popular or dominant. They The wounded, or taken pris- aren’t even the leading force within oner. Today, we remem- the Shiite political constellation. Yet imprisonment ber them and honour BARIA ALAMUDDIN these proxies have won by exploiting their courage & sacrifice. Tehran’s muscle to force other parties of Bangladesh’s #LestWeForget into line and outmaneuver their rivals, @JustinTrudeau decade ago, regional deci - sometimes by playing their cards more most respected sion-makers breathed a sigh of cleverly and sometimes by digging in photojournalist Arelief at a deal that resolved yet their heels until others acquiesce. 02 another chronic bout of tension in Leba- Iran is not a dominant global player, non. However, this 2008 “Doha Accord” despite how it is often portrayed. It is a illustrates proved to be a poison pill, conferring second-rate regional pariah in terminal upon Hizbollah a “blocking third” of the decline because of its leaders’ behavior. the country’s governing system — a political weight Iran wants to permanently drag Iraq they never relinquished — enabling and Lebanon into that growing cluster drift towards Tehran and Hezbollah to time after time of outcast pariah states that are ostra- autocracy put the political process in a chokehold cized because they can’t and won’t play et’s face it: Most until other parties eventually cave in. by the international rules. Why would “Lchildren are more Hassan Nasrallah today behaves as if he any sane Iraqi want this for their na- aware of the benefits and has a God-given right to always obtain tion? Lebanon has been partly shielded pitfalls of social media everything he demands — and to hell by its well-educated, diverse and liber- than some adults but we with the consequences for Lebanon. al communities, who reject the writ of still need to do all we can Saad Hariri’s long-running efforts to Wilayat Al Faqih — but how long can to provide them with in- form a government are being thwarted they hold out? Rather than Hariri and formation and tools for by Nasrallah’s insistence on normal- Abadi being compelled to beat a lonely successful and safe online ized relations with Bashar Assad. This path to Damascus and Tehran, there habits,” Melania Trump is the same Assad who colluded with are the only states I can think of where meanwhile, was the vanguard of the are infinitely greater opportunities on says at cyber-bullying We will soon see whether Iraq As reported by Human Hezbollah to assassinate Saad’s fa - political life is routinely obstructed for and Lebanon’s politicians have USSR’s aggressive efforts to expand offer by unambiguously re-engaging Shilpakala Padak, one of the — pathetic given his love for stopped working and the po - prevention summit. ther, Rafiq Hariri. And the same Assad months or years during wrangling over communism, and consequently it stag- with the Arab heartland. highest honors for artists in Rights Watch and children known to everyone,” lice do not protect. There is no @JenniferJJacobs the foresight to open their who threatened to “break Lebanon” the choice of Cabinets and ministers. nated and imploded. When Iran suddenly pulled the plug the country, by the president of numerous journalists, Ahmed said in an email. academic freedom, so the uni- over Rafiq Hariri’s head if he didn’t A veteran diplomat warned me that nations to the international Similar tendencies are obvious in on electricity supplies to southern Iraq Bangladesh. hundreds of Bangladeshis This is not surprising, given versities can play no role in the 03 submit to Damascus’ demands. Assad a Tehran-aligned government in Bagh- community — or bow to Iran Lebanon: After the civil war, certain ar- this summer — precipitating nationwide The trigger for Alam’s arrest have been picked up by the bleak drift toward authori- development and restoration has devolved from regional strongman dad could precipitate “economic war” and embrace dysfunctional, eas enjoyed massive Gulf Cooperation protests — it was Kuwait that stepped was an interview he did with law enforcement agencies tarianism in Bangladesh in the of constitutionality. Sexual vio- to Iranian puppet, so Saad Hariri is between Iran and the West, with Eu- theocratic isolation. Council and Western investment and in, restoring light and air-condition- GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY Al-Jazeera, in which he spoke past few years. As reported by lence is rampant. The electoral unsurprisingly unwilling to prostrate ropeans and Americans potentially became the luxuriant envy of the Mid- ing to Iraqi homes. We have seen huge critically of the brutal repres- and have disappeared for Human Rights Watch and nu- process is steeped in coercive himself and humiliate Lebanon. shut out of Iraqi markets altogether. dle East. Other areas went backwards investments from the GCC and oth- sion of student demonstrations weeks or months at a time. merous journalists, hundreds of violence. A culture of fear has We hope he stands his ground, but Hence Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s under stultifying theocratic misrule, er Arab states in Iraqi reconstruction, n August 5, Shahidul in Dhaka by the government of The whereabouts of many Bangladeshis have been picked enveloped the country. such aggressive brinkmanship over impossible situation: If Iraq wants to economic neglect, and the terrible im- infrastructure and the private sector. Alam, the acclaimed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi- of them remains unknown. up by law enforcement agencies It is impossible for Alam to every issue has become exhausting and do business with the West, US sanctions pact of the narcotics trade. Yet it is the Donald Trump’s administration has, Bangladeshi photojour- na. He also spoke about official and have disappeared for weeks get a fair trial in Bangladesh. he work done by prohibitively costly for Lebanon. must be respected. backwards-looking theocratic model meanwhile, been seeking Russian sup- Onalist, was dragged from his corruption, years of misrule, or months at a time. The where- Hasina’s son has accused Alam T#Kerala fisherman in Likewise, after each round of Iraqi Yet Tehran’s ayatollahs would see that is in the ascendancy, particularly port in curbing Iran’s regional influence. home by around 30 plainclothes the suppression of dissent and abouts of many of them remains of inciting violence. saving lakhs of lives from elections Tehran dogmatically blocks Iraqis starve before allowing Baghdad’s after Hezbollah waded through rivers In May, the vast majority of Iraqis policemen and taken into custo- extrajudicial killings and dis- unknown. In the name of a war “Because of his false posts flood hit areas is high- all efforts at government formation leaders to compromise on this issue. of blood to portray itself as the victor voted for political parties opposed to dy. The policemen forced their appearances under the watch on drugs, hundreds have been and allegations, students be- ly commendable. They until it obtains the Cabinet it wants. This is one crisis Abadi can’t spin his in Syria. Tehran’s agenda. Now we get to see way into Alam’s apartment of Hasina’s governing Awa - killed by extrajudicial means. came enraged and attacked the took up the work of res- Iran’s paramilitary allies, Al Hashd way out of by smiling and telling both gional powers. However, not all foreign The once-mighty, Arab, oil-rich Iraq whether Iraq and Lebanon’s politicians building at 10:30 pm, snatched mi League. Paradoxically, the Two days after Alam’s arrest, police and our party office,” cuing people, given their Al-Shaabi, won a miserable 48 out of sides what they want to hear. US sanc- powers are equally malign. Post-war is today a broken nation; no more able have the foresight to listen to voters and the cellphones of the building’s imprisonment of Alam only and were tortured in police he was produced in a Dhaka Hasina’s son wrote on social knowledge of local water 329 seats in the May elections — one tions may thus paradoxically force Iraq Germany was divided into American, to avoid Iranian imperialism than tiny open their nations to the international security guards and destroyed proved his point. custody. court and charged under Sec- media. “Many policemen and bodies, without caring wonders how they could hope to de- even more tightly into Iran’s poisoned British, French and Russian spheres of Lebanon. We would like to buy into community — or bow to Tehran and em- its video surveillance cameras. After a speeding bus killed General elections in Bang- tion 57 of Bangladesh’s infa - several of our activists were for their own lives. #Ker- mand any influence at all. Yet all Iran embrace, compelling it to suicidally influence. The three Western powers Muqtada Al Sadr’s rose-tinted vision brace dysfunctional, theocratic isolation. Yet someone managed to two students in Dhaka in late ladesh are expected between mous Information and Com- injured. One of them, Arafatul alaFloodRelief needs is a sufficient parliamentary distance itself from the global financial exerted their influence with a lighter of a sovereign Iraq rejecting all foreign record the moment via a cell- July, thousands of students October and December. It is munication Technology Act, for Islam Bappy even lost his eye- @ashokgehlot51 rump to block all alternative configu- system. touch and West Germany was conse- interference, but in the real world Leb- (Baria Alamuddin is an award-winning phone video. Alam can be heard — including schoolchildren the obligation of artists and online speech that “hurts the sight and is now permanently rations until it has bribed, threatened Having grown up in Lebanon, I un- quently transformed from bombed-out anon and Iraq require backing from journalist and broadcaster in the Middle East screaming. “I am innocent,” he — protested in the streets. As intellectuals to be construc- image of the nation.” He was crippled.” and the UK. She is editor of the Media Services 04 and cajoled enough politicians into derstand that this small nation will fascist dictatorship to modern mir- benign regional powers in shaping their Syndicate and has interviewed numerous says, repeatedly. And, “I want the protests intensified into a tively critical of their country barefoot and limping when he This is bound to have a neg- accepting its writ. Iraq and Lebanon probably always be a playground for re- acle in two decades. East Germany, destinies away from the three evils of heads of state.) a lawyer.” It was horrifying to general outcry against the gov- of citizenship. Hasina’s gov- was dragged into court. Wit- ative effect on how the police watch Alam, whom I know as ernment, the government re- ernment must be deeply afraid nesses said Alam showed clear and the courts treat Alam. an amiable, self-effacing, bril- sponded by unleashing mobs of a credible, respected person signs of mental and physical Apart from massive violations liant man, scream in the video. of the Awami League party like Alam, whose criticisms are abuse. He shouted: “I have been of Alam’s rights, a breakdown Thus does terror enter our daily faithful to attack the student taken seriously, both national- assaulted. My bloodstained of social justice looms over CIVILIAN’S TRIBUNE lives these days. protesters. Researchers from ly and globally. His arrest and shirt was washed and put back Bangladesh. The prosecution Alam’s work over the decades Human Rights Watch spoke imprisonment is an attempt to on me. I was threatened that if of peaceful protesters demon- ook at the ultimate has captured some of the most to several eyewitnesses who silence critical voices. I didn’t testify as they directed, strates that Hasina’s govern- Ladaucity of The terror- important political and ecologi- described how the protesters Hasina’s government is not I would be further ... “ Then his ment understands justice only ists who made an attempt cal questions in Bangladesh and were attacked by members of stopping with his arrest. It is voice trailed off and the rest of as revenge. on Umar Khalid’s life . the region around it. A friend Bangladesh Chhatra League trying to find ways of defaming what he said was unclear. The arrest, abuse and incar- They have boasted about With unity, we can overcome any crisis remembers waking up to the and Awami Jubo League, the him and tarnishing his repu - The court allowed the police ceration of Alam brutalizes his it in a video on WhatsApp. tragedy of the Rohingya peo - student wing and the youth tation. Alam’s partner, Rahnu- to keep Alam in custody for a person and attacks the right to Gave an appointment to erala will take some time to come out of help the state and its people. The small state with 44 ple from Myanmar after seeing wing of the Awami League. ma Ahmed, an anthropologist, week and also allowed brief a free press and the promise of the police n did’nt turn the crisis triggered by floods and land- rivers is known for its scenic beauty. But know we an exhibition of Alam’s pho - Alam was among the journal- visited him in prison and was visits to a hospital for medical social justice. Bangladesh must up . So far, even after six Kslides. Nearly 400 people have died and have realized the dangers when these rivers take their tographs in New York. I first ists who witnessed the Awami startled to realize their meeting treatment. On Aug. 12, Alam immediately release him and days , police has done just the state administration is still having a tough ferocious forms. We can’t take a myopic view on the encountered his work after a League faithful attacking stu- was being secretly videotaped was produced in court again the arrested student protesters nothing . Why ? time to deal with accumulated losses including human invasion on nature, which is seen as one of cyclone in Bangladesh in 1991. I dent protesters while the police by the prison authorities. and sent to jail until the inves- from prison and drop the charg- @Javedakhtarjadu the vast destruction of infrastructure. But what the reasons behind such natural calamities. What we was involved in the relief effort stood by. He photographed the “Friends in the electronic tigations into charges against es against them. strikes me most is the unity shown by people needed is a reconciliation and efforts to restore the and visited the affected area protests and the repression. media tell me they have been him are completed. If convict- Disclaimer: (Views expressed and the support received by the community from environment in its place, while moving ahead with after the storm. Alam’s photo- The celebrated photojour- instructed by the agencies to ed, he faces up to 14 years in (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a by columnists are personal and professor and the founder of the Insti- outside. Help poured in from neighboring states recovery efforts. graphs captured the reality of nalist wasn’t the only person produce ‘dirty stories’ on Sha- prison. tute for Comparative Literature and need not necessarily reflect our including Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kar- my experience. Befittingly, in arrested. Numerous student hidul, there is even talk of con- The feeling among Bangla- Society at Columbia University.) editorial stances) nataka. Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar also offered Ramshankar Parameshwaran 2014, Alam was awarded the protesters were also arrested structing him as a pedophile deshis is that the judiciary has

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At least 14 killed in Rio security operations Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Calamity of a lifetime

io de Janeiro’s drug war Rhit a bloody crescendo Floods give way as to stench and uncertainty in Kerala Monday when at least 14 people were reported killed An Indian Navy team in a huge operation by sol- Rescue operation made a temporary rope diers in impoverished fave- • las and during a rush-hour almost complete bridge across a stream police car chase. in Thrissur district on The military command Efforts towards Sunday to rescue 100 heading security in Brazil’s rehabilitation• begins people stranded for second biggest city said days eight people died in the Kerala CM praised sweep of favelas “and there • could be more.” fishermen for joining The military command the rescue mission said 4,200 soldiers, backed was to provide clean drinking by armored vehicles and Worst hit areas water and restore power sup- aircraft, entered the Penha • plies to the state of 33 million neighborhood and the Ale- are Thrissur and people. mao and Mare favela com- Chengannur “The total number of people plexes -- poor, densely pop- taking refuge at the 5,645 relief ulated swaths of city in large Floods have caused camps has risen to 724,649,” Vi- part run by heavily armed an• estimated $3 jayan told reporters Sunday. drug traffickers. He said health officers would Only 70 police officers billion in damage be deployed in each village to were said to be involved, check the spread of communi- suggesting a turnaround AFP | Aluva, India cable diseases. from previous operations Thousands of army, navy and into the dangerous favelas loodwaters receded in air force personnel have fanned where police have taken the Kerala yesterday, leav- out to help those stranded in lead and soldiers provided ing Indian rescuers the remote and hilly areas. Doz - F People are airlifted by Indian Navy soldiers backup. grim task of retrieving bodies ens of helicopters have been According to the Rio po- as the death toll from the worst dropping tonnes of food, med- lice force, 948 pounds (430 monsoon rains in a century rose drop food and water in isolated An Indian Navy team made a Mumthaz fled her home in the icine and water over areas cut kg) of drugs were seized in above 400. villages. temporary rope bridge across a Malikapeedika district of Kochi off due to damaged roads and the Mare. With nearly three quarters of Officials said 22,000 people stream in Thrissur district on with her daughters aged 13 and bridges. a million people packed into re- were rescued on Sunday. At least Sunday to rescue 100 people nine last Thursday. In worst hit areas such as lief camps in the southern state, 30 bodies were also found taking stranded for days. She went to her husband’s Thrissur and Chengannur, res- known for its tourist beaches the death toll above 200 since Commercial flight operations parents in another neighbour- cuers are searching inundated Malaysia hunt for and hill resorts, authorities also the torrential rain started fall- to Kochi, the state’s main city, hood but within a few hours houses where they have found fear outbreaks of disease. ing on August 8 and more than resumed Monday after the navy even that was also flooded and the bodies of those trapped by missing radioactive After more than a week of 400 since the monsoon started opened its airstrips for small they had to be rescued and taken the fast rising floodwaters. material fierce downpours, rainfall eased in June. passenger aircraft. The city’s to a relief camp. “They didn’t think that it Monday and flood levels fell in At least 1,000 were feared international airport has been would rise this high -- 10 to 15 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia some districts. Army helicop- stranded in five villages around ordered shut until Sunday. Hunt for missing feet (3-4.5 metres) at some plac- ters and boats kept up missions Chengannur, one of the districts The floods have left wide- “It was surreal. The water was es -- when the initial warnings alaysian police are to find trapped survivors and worst hit by the deluge. spread desolation in the city. close to the knees at one point were issued,” said Ashraf Ali Mhunting for an indus- and within a few minutes it was K.M, who is leading the search trial device containing radi- touching five feet with a cur- in the small town of Mala in oactive material that went rent so strong that we saw big Thrissur. missing from the back of a cars floating like tin cans,” said Fishermen have sailed inland pick-up truck earlier this Mumthaz, who has only one from Kerala’s coast to join the month, reports and an offi- name. search, as volunteers set up soup cial said Monday. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi kitchens and an international The radiography device Vijayan said the priority now appeal was made for financial disappeared on August 10 help. as it was transported out- Vijayan praised the fishermen side the capital Kuala Lum- for joining the rescue mission. pur, the New Straits Times The state government said newspaper reported. each boat would get 3,000 ru- Authorities fear the de- pees ($43) for each day of their vice, which contains the 400 work and that authorities would radioactive isotope iridi- people have died since pay for any damage to them. um-192 and, could fall into heavy rain hit Kerala. Toll The floods have caused an is feared to rise the hands of militants and estimated $3 billion in damage be used to make a dirty but the bill is likely to rise as bomb, the paper said. the scale of devastation becomes Deputy Home Minister A woman cries as she holds her son after they were evacuated from a flooded area in Aluva clearer. Azis Jamman confirmed the incident had taken place but insisted “everything is un- der control”. The company that owned the device -- which weighed Woman survives 10 hours after falling off cruise ship 23 kilograms (50 pounds), and consisted of a large AFP | Zagreb, Croatia Croatia’s Coast Guard on Sunday “The guest was found alive, metal tube with a handle around 1.3 kilometres (0.8 miles) is currently in stable condition, on top -- reportedly used it British tourist who fell off a from where she went overboard, and has been taken ashore in to detect cracks in metal as Acruise ship near Croatia has a defence ministry spokesman Croatia for further treatment,” part of inspection protocols been rescued and is safe after told AFP. the company said in a statement in the energy, power and spending a full night in the Adri- SMILE The rescuers used the wind to AFP. transportation sectors. atic Sea, officials said Monday. and sea currents to pinpoint her “We are very happy that the It was lost as it was trans- “I was in the water for 10 location, he added. individual, who is a UK resident, ported to the company’s of- hours, so these wonderful guys “We saved a human life, it is is now safe and will soon be re- fice from the town of Ser- rescued me,” the woman, ap - The tourist, who a feeling that cannot compare united with friends and family.” emban. pearing in good health, told Cro- said she “fell of the to anything,” the rescue ship’s The incident took place while Police initially detained atia’s National Television (HRT) back” of the Nor- captain Lovro Oreskovic said the Norwegian Star was on its two technicians who had after her rescue on Sunday. wegian Star cruise in a statement on the ministry’s way to Venice, the cruise com- been transporting the de- “I am very lucky to be alive.” ship, was found website. pany said. Tourism accounts for vice, and reported it miss- The tourist, who said she “fell British tourist Kay Longstaff speaks to Norwegian Cruise Line de- 20 per cent of Croatia’s gross do- ing, reports said. However of the back” of the Norwegian by Croatia’s Coast clined to comment on how the mestic product, drawing some the press upon her arrival in Pula with Guard they were later released. Star cruise ship, was found by the Croatia’s coast guard ship, passenger went overboard. 18 million visitors each year. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 13

Afghanistan awaits response to truce Imran Khan vows change offer Kabul, Afghanistan

Vows to improve fghanistan was yester- • Pakistan FM calls for Aday awaiting the Tali- Pakistan’s relationship ban’s response to President with neighbouring Ashraf Ghani’s proposal for countries dialogue with India a three-month ceasefire, an offer welcomed by the Retains interior Islamabad, Pakistan United States and NATO af- • ter nearly 17 years of war. ministry portfolio akistan wants an “unin - Ghani unveiled the offer for himself Pterrupted, continued di- during an Independence alogue” with India, its new Day address late Sunday, Announces austerity foreign minister said yester- saying police and troops drive• including day, stressing the importance would observe the truce of talks between the nucle- from this week -- but only if turning residence ar-armed countries who have Shah Mehmood Qureshi the militants reciprocated. into a university fought three wars. The move followed an ex- “We are not only two neigh- Minister Narendra Modi had traordinarily violent week AFP | Islamabad, Pakistan bours but we are two atom - sent a letter congratulating in Afghanistan that saw the ic powers,” Shah Mehmood Khan, and “sent a message to Taliban storm the provincial Qureshi, who became Paki- start talks”. capital of Ghazni -- just a mran Khan made his first stan’s foreign minister for the There was no official state- two-hour drive from Kabul speech as Pakistan’s prime second time after being sworn ment on the letter from the -- and press the fight against Iminister late Sunday, giving in Monday, told his first press Indian foreign ministry, but security forces across the a wide-ranging, televised ad- conference. the Press Trust of India also country, with estimates sug- dress in which he announced Pakistan’s new Prime Minis- reported its existence and con- gesting hundreds of people reforms targeting corruption ter Imran Khan also called for tent. may have been killed. and focusing on human devel- a better relationship with India The new foreign minister It also came just hours af- opment in the rapidly growing in his first televised address also said he wanted to travel to ter an airstrike against a Tal- country. late Sunday, as did the previous Afghanistan to deliver a “mes- iban convoy killed around Khan addressed the nation for government of Nawaz Sharif. sage of love, friendship and a 100 militant fighters. more than an hour, repeating “We have long-lasting prob- new beginning”. many of his campaign pledges lems... we don’t have, in my “Without peace and stabili- to build an Islamic welfare state opinion, any solution other ty in Afghanistan, there won’t but also touching on issues rare- Pakistan’s cricketer-turned politician and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf than talks,” Qureshi said of be rest, peace and stability in Terror suspect ly mentioned by Pakistani prime (Movement for Justice) party Imran Khan, taking the oath as a Member of the relationship with India, Pakistan,” he said. Qureshi ministers such as fighting child Parliament during the first session of the Parliament in Islamabad following especially in a situation “where previously held the position of in court over UK sex abuse and climate change. general election reaction time is very limited”. foreign minister between 2008 ‘attack’ Without naming names, he Qureshi said Indian Prime and 2011. vowed to improve Pakistan’s of the vehicles allotted to the London, United Kingdom relationship with neighbouring prime minister, cutting down countries, and to improve secu- on staff and turning the official explain how he would enforce stan will have to go to the In- terror suspect accused rity in restive Balochistan prov- I will fight the residence into a university. more taxation, especially on the ternational Monetary Fund for Aof crashing his car into ince and the tribal areas along corrupt. Either this “I will fight the corrupt. Ei- rich. a bailout. the security barriers sur- the border with Afghanistan. country will survive ther this country will survive He and his cabinet face a myr- Khan did not confirm if his rounding Britain’s Houses “We want peace, because Pa- or the corrupt or the corrupt people,” he said. iad of challenges including a government would ask for the of Parliament appeared in kistan cannot prosper until the people Khan called for a progressive faltering economy, militant ex- loan, but stated: “We have to court Monday charged with peace is restored,” he said. tax system, vowing to spend the tremism, water shortages, and a stand up on our own feet... By attempted murder. Khan said he has retained the IMRAN KHAN money on the neediest -- such rapidly growing population ne- going with a begging bowl, no Sudanese-born British interior ministry portfolio for as malnourished children, and gating growth in the developing nation becomes great.” national Salih Khater is himself as he personally over- justice for victims of abuse -- country, among others. His finance minister Asad accused of driving into a sees steps against money laun- nounced an austerity drive to and on fighting climate change. The most pressing is a loom- Umar has said they will decide group of cyclists and then dering and graft. trim back the trappings of gov- Few in Pakistan pay their ing balance-of-payments crisis, by September if they will go to police officers last Tuesday. The former cricketer also an- ernment, such as selling most taxes currently, and he did not with analysts predicting Paki- the IMF. He appeared at Westmin- ster Magistrates Court in London yesteday where he was remanded in custody following a seven-minute US rejects Turkey’s offer hearing. The 29-year-old is Anthrax scare hits France charged with two counts of to release pastor: report attempted murder of mem- bers of the public and of po- Washington, United States for Brunson’s release, and that 103 people had come into contact with infected animals lice officers. of other US citizens as well as resident Donald Trump’s three Turkish nationals work- AFP | Gap, France Anthrax is transmitted by Padministration has reject- ing for the US government, spores that can stay inactive ed Turkey’s offer to condition Turkey asked Washington to ore than 50 cows, sheep in the ground for decades, in- Multiple quakes the release of an American drop a probe into Halkbank, Mand horses have died in cluding in the bodies of dead pastor on clearing a top Turk- which is facing possible fines France’s most serious outbreak animals. rock Lombok ish bank of billions of dollars in for helping Iran evade US sanc- of anthrax in two decades, ac- French vets have been bat- US fines, media reported. tions. But the US said that dis- cording to officials who have tling to contain the outbreak Mataram, Indonesia Washington and Ankara are cussions regarding the fines warned of a vaccine shortage. Representative picture because the Spanish labora- locked in a bitter feud over the and other areas of dispute be- Authorities in the mountain- tory which produces the vac- t least 10 people are nearly two-year jailing of An- tween the two countries were ous Hautes-Alpes region of to humans and is deadly in its cines has been closed through- Adead after a string of drew Brunson over disputed off the table until Brunson was southeastern France said the rarest forms, had spread to 28 out August for the summer powerful quakes rocked the terror charges. In exchange released. infection, which can spread farms since June. vacation. Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, authorities said yesterday. The latest quakes struck Sunday, with the first measuring 6.3 shortly be- Malaysia makes record $12 mn rhino horn seizure fore midday. It triggered landslides and sent people Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is in high demand among Abdul Kadir said authorities fleeing for cover as parts of the communist nation’s growing were unable to identify the or- Lombok suffered blackouts. alaysia has made a record middle class. igin of the animal parts. Rhi - It was followed nearly 12 Mseizure of 50 rhino horns Trade in rhino horn was no horn sent to Asia typically hours later by a 6.9-magni- worth an estimated $12 million banned globally in 1977 by the comes from Africa. tude quake and a string of at Kuala Lumpur airport as they Convention on International Officials also found a huge powerful aftershocks. were being flown to Vietnam, Trade in Endangered Species of stash of animal bones -- believed The picturesque island authorities said yesterday. Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to be from tigers and leopards next to holiday hotspot Bali Customs officials found the but illegal hunters have deci- -- in the same shipment, with was already reeling from parts in cardboard boxes on Au- mated rhino populations to sate an estimated value of 500,000 two deadly quakes on July gust 13 in the cargo terminal of rampant demand in East Asia. ringgit. 29 and August 5 that killed the capital’s airport, said Abdul A single kilo of rhino horn can Authorities have not made any nearly 500 people. Kadir Abu Hashim, head of Ma- fetch tens of thousands of dol- arrests over the seizures. Ten people were killed Malaysian Wildlife Enforcement division Director Salman Bin Haji Saaban laysia’s wildlife department. displays seized rhino horns and other animal parts at the Department of Wildlife lars in the region, where many Elizabeth John, from wild- in the strong quake Sunday The 50 rhino horns weighed and National Parks headquarters in Kuala Lumpur o falsely believe it can cure cancer. life trade watchdog Traffic, de- evening, mostly by falling 116 kilogrammes (256 pounds) All rhino species are under scribed the rhino horn seizure as debris, including six people and are worth about 50 million biggest ever in (Malaysia’s) his- Vietnam is a hot market for threat of extinction, according “staggering” and urged author- on the neighbouring island ringgit ($12 million), he told AFP, tory in terms of the number of rhino horn, which is believed to the International Union for ities to track down the people of Sumbawa, according to adding that the seizure was “the horns and value”. to have medicinal properties Conservation of Nature (IUCN). behind the smuggling attempt. the national disaster agency. 14 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 features Day of repentance Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon on Mount Arafat, where pilgrims gather every year from across the globe to atone for their sins

The hajj in numbers ore than two mil- Mlion pilgrims are taking part this year, ac- cording to official fig- ures, compared to 1.86 million in 2016 and just 24,000 in 1941.

ome 18,000 civil Sdefence employees, among tens of thousands of security personnel, are helping safeguard pilgrims, officials say. Additionally, thousands of security cameras have been set up along the pilgrimage route.

wenty-five hospi- Ttals backed by 180 ambulances and more than 30,000 health practitioners have been mobilised to provide emergency services to pilgrims, according to the hajj ministry.

ens of thousands Tof air-conditioned tents have been set up to house pilgrims.

round 14,000 in- Aternational and domestic flights have Muslim pilgrims gather on Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on Arafat Day so far transported pil- grims, according to of- ficial figures. Around 21,000 buses have also been used. Pilgrims scale Mount Arafat for peak of hajj round 16,000 tel- Aecommunication towers and 3,000 WiFi Mount Arafat | Saudi Arabia he and his wife arrived on Mount Arafat. could be seen sipping from bottles of access points have been water. set up to serve pilgrims, uslim pilgrims ascended ‘Closer to Allah’ “I knew it would be a little hard to the hajj ministry says. Mount Arafat in Saudi Workers were hurriedly picking up emp- climb Mount Arafat,” said Nigerian pil- Arabia yesterday for ty water bottles near a yellow sign that grim Saidou Boureima. ight million copies of the climax of the an - KNOW WHAT read “Arafat starts here” in both English “So I prepared for this challenge by Ethe holy Koran and nual hajj which brings and Arabic. working out. And God willing, we can their translations as well Mtogether more than two million people “We know that it’s a difficult task,” see it through.” as other religious books from around the world. said Amna Khan, a 35-year-old American After sunset, the pilgrims will leave will be handed out to Carrying brightly coloured umbrellas After sunset, the Muslim pilgrim. for nearby Muzdalifah where they will pilgrims, official figures under the blazing sun, a sea of worship- pilgrims will leave for “That’s why we are all here. We’re gather pebbles to perform the symbolic show. pers scaled the rocky hill southeast of the nearby Muzdalifah doing this to get closer to Allah, to be “stoning of the devil”. holy city of Mecca for a day of prayers where they will gather absolved.” The ritual begins in earnest on Tues- audi Arabia hopes to and repentance. pebbles to perform the A sea of worshippers scaled the rocky day as Muslims observe the first day of Swelcome 30 million Arms raised, pilgrims repeated “There symbolic “stoning of hill southeast of the holy city of Mecca Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, which pilgrims annually in the is no God but Allah” and “Allahu Akbar” for a day of prayers and reflection where marks the end of the hajj. kingdom by 2030. Mus- (God is greatest). the devil” Muslims believe Prophet Mohammed Muslims traditionally slaughter sheep lims also flock to the “The feeling is indescribable,” said delivered his final sermon. for the three-day Eid al-Adha, a tribute country for the umra Umm Ahmad, 61, who made the trip Some of the pilgrims -- men in white to the prophet Abraham’s sacrifice of a pilgrimage, which can from Egypt. seamless garments and women in loose lamb after God spared Ishmael, his son. be performed at any Some of the pilgrims -- men in white Arafat, where pilgrims gather every year dresses -- pushed elderly relatives in They will consume some of the meat time of the year. seamless garments and women in loose from across the globe to atone for their wheelchairs on the second day of the hajj, and give the rest to poor people unable dresses -- pushed elderly relatives in sins. one of the world’s largest annual gath- to buy food. round 54 million wheelchairs on the second day of the “It feels great,” said 37-year-old Paki- erings. The hajj is one of the five pillars of Apilgrims have at- hajj, one of the world’s largest annual stani Jai Saleem. A hot wind blew across the hill, also Islam which every Muslim is required tended the hajj over the gatherings. “I have always seen this area, since my known as Jabal al-Rahma (Mount of to complete at least once in their lifetime past 25 years, according Muslims believe Prophet Mohammed childhood, in photographs and on televi- Mercy), and the surrounding plain after if they are healthy enough and have the to official figures. delivered his final sermon on Mount sion,” he said, adding that he cried when a downpour late Sunday. Many faithful means to do so. 15 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 entertainment

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Aries If certain projects or tasks have seemed difficult for you to finish, today’s energy will give you the zip you need. The energy indicates that things will go well for you once you get started. It’s a good time to meet with others to discuss business or other arrangements. Taurus You might feel more energetic than you have in a long time. A powerful energy that increases your mental acuity and physical strength can really help you finish anything that’s pending. If you managed to accomplish so much already that you have time to spare, it’s fine to help others with their load. Gemini If there’s something you’ve wanted to take on, today’s the day. There’s an increase in your physical and men- 53- In search of; 57- Caribou; 61- Small pellet; 62- Injectable tal strength. Dispose of any insecurity or lack of con- diazepam, in military lingo; 63- Capable of being terminated; fidence and take the steps to tackle a project or goal. 65- ___ all-time high; 66- Rock; 67- Mai ___; 68- Capital of You have an innate ability to make sound judgments Yemen; 69- Eliel Saarinen’s son; 70- Waiting for the Robert ___; and this is what you need to trust. Down Cancer 1- Tends; 2- Slippery as ___; 3- ___ Kick Out of You; 4- Add fizz; 5- If you’ve been feeling sluggish lately, this will be a Across Exclamation of surprise; 6- You ___ right!; 7- Sublease; 8- Italian welcome day for you. You’ll feel a surge in energy that sausage; 9- Nabisco treat; 10- “J’accuse” author; 11- Heath; 12- In greatly increases your creativity and physical strength. 1- Mother of Hermes; 5- Bloody conflicts; 9- Emerald City prin- the middle of; 14- Jailbird; 17- Mon ___!; 21- Started; 23- ___ Ark; 25- Seize the opportunity to be outside for sports or a cess; 13- “Splendor in the Grass” screenwriter; 14- Chick of jazz; Urban scourge; 27- Sturm ___ Drang; 28- Squabbling; 29- Baseball walk. Such things will direct your energy and give your 15- Chamber; 16- Good-for-nothing; 18- “The Time Machine” team; 30- Pond organism; 31- Technical sch.; 32- Denier’s words; mind a chance to clear. people; 19- Keep under restraint; 20- Region bordering a sea- 33- And others: Abbr.; 35- Blond shade; 36- Flight of steps; 39- Bent- coast; 22- List of candidates; 23- Words of denial; 24- Markka ley of “American Beauty”; 40- Troy story; 41- I get it!; 46- Deadly Leo replacement; 26- Large lizard; 31- Having four sharps; 34- Small fly; 48- Profit; 49- Recently; 51- Golfer Calvin; 52- Diamond flaw?; If there’s something interesting that you’ve wanted to batteries; 37- Wait ___ Dark; 38- In spite of; 42- Madame de ___; 54- Like ziti; 55- “Dallas” matriarch; 56- Actress Witherspoon; try, this is a great day for it. Adventure brings excite- 43- He ran from Iran; 44- Leaves in a bag; 45- Semihard light 57- Some TV’s; 58- I could ___ horse!; 59- ___ instant; 60- Granny; ment, creative flow, and energy, which are essential yellow cheese; 47- Shakespearean villain; 50- According to; 61- Filled pastry crust; 64- 6, on a phone; to you. You’re highly artistic. Continual stimulation is required to keep your psyche healthy. Experience something new today, even if it’s a walk in a new place. BEETLE BAILEY You’ll get the adrenaline you need. Virgo With today’s energy, you can take steps toward getting things in order. Tackle desk drawers, closets, storage rooms, or filing cabinets. When you create order, you gain a sense of peace and personal control. Mental organization, such as goal planning, brainstorming, or scheduling, will add to this, too. Libra Today’s energy can have you feeling ready for any- thing. Given your more radical approach, you may need to keep in check. Humanitarianism is part of your being, so if the pursuit of something you want hurts others, it would be a serious contradiction. Scorpio WORD OF THE DAY Today might be a good day to take a second shot at something that didn’t work out the first time. Falling flat on your face can damage your self-esteem and confidence, but such things are part of life, and they Satiety Did You Know? means “enough.” English speakers appar- really do add character. You may have accurately guessed that sati- ently couldn’t get enough of satis- derived Definition: ety is related to satisfy, satiate (meaning “to words in the 15th and 16th centuries, when Sagittarius 1 : the quality or state of being fed or grati- satisfy fully or to excess”), and sate (which all of these words entered the language. Your ability to find innovative approaches to things fied to or beyond capacity : surfeit, fullness means “to glut” or “to satisfy to the full”). Satiety itself was borrowed into English may serve you well today. Strong energy and mental 2 : the revulsion or disgust caused by over- Satiety, along with the others, ultimately in the mid-1500s from the Middle French acuity continue today, and you’ll find that most things indulgence or excess comes from the Latin word satis, which word satieté of the same meaning. come easily. When approaching projects, take extra time to consider possibilities. Try seeing things from every angle. SUDOKU Capricorn If long-overdue work has piled up, today is the day YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION to dig in. This is especially so for things you weren’t able to handle yesterday. Fortunately, you have added strength and mental acuity. Things will go smoothly. Make the most of this energy by not putting off an- ything. The pile will just grow if you procrastinate. Aquarius Don’t worry about being productive today. You might still accomplish more than you have in a long time. The cosmic energy indicates that if you didn’t get everything done that you wanted to yesterday, you’re sure to do it today. Dig in your heels and go. Things will get done with time to spare. Pisces Expect an added boost of physical energy today. It’s an excellent day to clean out closets. Exercise like yoga How to play or walking will be most enjoyable. It could also prove Place a number in the empty boxes in to be well worth your while to look at your goals. Are such a way that each row across, each you where you want to be at this stage of your life or column down and each 9-box square are there changes that need to be made? contains all of the numbers from one to nine. 16 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018

MILE 22 THE MEG THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME (15+) (ACTION/THRILLER) NEW (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER) (15+) (ACTION/COMEDY) MARK WAHLBERG, LAUREN COHAN, IKO UWAIS JASON STATHAM, RUBY ROSE, BINGBING LI MILA KUNIS, SAM HEUGHAN, KATE MCKINNON CINECO (20)(IMAX 2D): 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 CINECO (20) 10.45 AM + 12.15 + 1.15 + 2.45 + CINECO (20) 2.30 + 7.00 + 11.30 PM + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM + (1.00 AM UPTO SAT) 3.45 + 5.15 + 6.15 + 7.45 + 8.45 + 10.15 + 11.15 PM (VIP I): 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 + (12.45 MN + 1.45 AM UPTO SAT) MAZINEGER Z: INFINITY ‘Mile 22’ was PM + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) (ATMOS): 12.30 + 2.45 SEEF (I) 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/ADVENTURE) NEW + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM + (2.00 AM UPTO 11.45 PM + (2.15 AM UPTO SAT) SHOTARO MORIKUBO, AI KAYANO, SUMIRE SAT) 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM UESAKA + (2.00 AM UPTO SAT) WADI AL SAIL 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) SEEF (II) 11.30 AM + 1.30 + 3.30 PM SEEF (II) 11.00 AM + 12.00 + 1.15 + 2.15 + 3.30 + 4.30 + 5.45 + 6.45 + 8.00 + 9.00 + 10.15 + 11.15 THE EQUALIZER- 2 A DAY AFTER VALENTINE shot in 42 days PM + (12.30 MN + 1.30 AM UPTO SAT) (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) (PG-15) (FILIPINO/ROMANTIC/DRAMA) NEW SAAR 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + DENZEL WASHINGTON, PEDRO PASCAL, ASHTON JC SANTOS, BELA PADILLA, LAUREN YOUNG 10.45 PM + (1.00 AM UPTO SAT) SANDERS SEEF (II) 12.15 + 4.30 + 8.45 PM + (1.00 AM IANS | Los Angeles WADI AL SAIL 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + CINECO (20) 12.45 + 3.15 + 5.45 + 8.15 + 10.45 UPTO SAT) 11.30 PM + (1.45 AM UPTO SAT) PM + (1.15 AM UPTO SAT) (VIP II): 11.45 AM + 2.15 + 4.45 + 7.15 + 9.45 PM + (12.15 MN UPTO SAT) SATYAMEVA JAYATE irector Peter Berg says EL BADLAH SEEF (I) 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + (PG-15) (HINDI/ACTION/THRILLER) it was a remarkable ex- (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY) NEW 11.00 PM + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) JOHN ABRAHAM, MANOJ BAJPAYEE, AISHA perience to shoot “Mile TAMER HOSNY, AKRAM HOSNI, MAJED EL SHARMA D MASRY, AMINA KHALIL SAAR 12.00 + 2.30 + 5.00 + 7.30 + 10.00 PM + 22” in just 42 days. (12.30 MN UPTO SAT) SEEF (II) 11.45 AM + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.45 PM + CINECO (20)12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) The movie was filmed be - 10.30 PM + (12.30 MN + 2.30 AM UPTO SAT) WADI AL SAIL 2.45 + 3.15 + 5.45 + 8.15 + 10.45 tween November 2017 and PM + (1.15 AM UPTO SAT) SEEF (I) 12.00 + 2.00 + 4.00 + 6.00 + 8.00 + GOLD February 2018, filming the 10.00 PM + 12.00 MN + (2.00 AM UPTO SAT) (PG-13) (HINDI/DRAMA/SPORT/HISTORY) NEW MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT AKSHAY KUMAR, FARHAN AKHTAR, MOUNI ROY majority of its interior shots SAAR 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 + 6.45 + (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER/CRIME) in Atlanta, Georgia during the 8.45 + 10.45 PM + (12.45 MN UPTO SAT) SEEF (II) 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 10.30 PM + (1.30 TOM CRUISE, HENRY CAVILL, VING RHAMES AM UPTO SAT) first five weeks, before moving WADI AL SAIL 11.30 AM + 1.30 + 3.30 + 5.30 + CINECO (20) 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + to Bogota, Colombia for the re- 7.30 + 9.30 + 11.30 PM + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) 10.30 PM + (1.30 AM UPTO SAT) HAPPY PHIRR BHAG JAYEGI mainder of the shoot, where SEEF (II) 12.30 + 3.30 + 6.30 + 9.30 PM + (12.30 (PG-15) (HINDI/COMEDY) NEW THE DARKEST MINDS MN UPTO SAT) JIMMY SHEIRGILL, SONAKSHI SINHA, DIANA the exterior action scenes were (PG-13) (THRILLER/SCI-FICTION) NEW PENTY filmed. AMANDLA STENBERG, MANDY MOORE, BRADLEY WADI AL SAIL 12.30 + 6.15 PM + 12.00 MN WHITFORD SEEF (I) 2.00 + 7.30 PM + (1.00 AM UPTO SAT) “It was remarkable how Pres- SKYSCRAPER ident Santos (former Colombia CINECO (20) 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + JAWANI PHIR NAHI ANI 2 8.15 + 10.30 PM + (12.45 MN UPTO SAT) (PG-13) (ACTION/THRILLERA/DRAMA) President Juan Manuel San- DWAYNE JOHNSON, NEVE CAMPBELL, PABLO (PG-13) (URDU/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) NEW SEEF (II) 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM + SCHREIBER MAWRA HOCANE, KANWALJIT SINGH, HUMAYUN tos) and his government really (1.45 AM UPTO SAT) SAEED Mark Wahlberg with director Peter Berg CINECO (20) 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00+ 9.15 + opened up their city to us,” Berg SAAR 5.30 + 7.45 + 10.00 PM + (12.15 MN UPTO 11.30 PM + (1.45 AM UPTO SAT) SEEF (I) 4.00 + 9.45 PM said in a statement to IANS. SAT) SEEF (II) 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + AL HAMRA ON WEDNESDAY 22ND: 12.00 MN Written by Graham Roland back in June of 2017. One of WADI AL SAIL 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM + (1.00 11.00 PM + (1.15 AM UPTO SAT) FROM THURSDAY 23RD: 12.00 NOON and Lea Carpenter, “Mile 22”, the most important special per- AM UPTO SAT) featuring Mark Wahlberg, is the mits the makers had to get was CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LOAD WEDDING PAPILLION story of an elite American intel- to allow aerial filming in what (PG) (FAMILY/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) (PG-13) (URDU/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) NEW (15+) (THRILLER/DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY) NEW EWAN MCGREFOR, HAYLEY ATWELL, BRONTE MEHWISH HAYAT, FAHAD MUSTAFA (II), SAMINA ligence officer who, with the KNOW WHAT were normally the city’s no-fly CHARLIE HUNNAM, RAMI MALEK CARMICHAEL AHMED help of the top-secret tactical zones. CINECO (20) 11.00 AM + 1.45 + 4.30 + 7.15 + CINECO (20) 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 + SEEF (I) 10.30 AM + 1.15 + 7.00 PM + (12.45 MN command unit, tries to smuggle “We were basically given keys 10.00 PM + (12.45 MN UPTO SAT) 7.45 + 10.00 PM + (12.15 MN UPTO SAT) UPTO SAT) a mysterious police officer with to the city. We were allowed SEEF (II) 7.45 + 10.30 PM + (1.15 AM UPTO SAT) SEEF (II) 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 PM AL HAMRA 22ND: 9.00 PM FROM THURSDAY sensitive information out of a Peter Berg made to go into their equivalent of WADI AL SAIL 3.30 + 9.15 PM 23RD: 3.00 PM HOTELTRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER foreign country. his film debut in Times Square and shut it down CHARMING (PG) (ANIMATION/COMEDY/DRAMA) PARWAAZ HAI JUNOON To lay the groundwork for the 1989 buddy for 10 days and do some pretty (PG-13) (ANIMATION/COMEDY) NEW ADAM SANDLER, ANDY SAMBERG, FRAN (PG-13) (URDU/DRAMA/COMEDY/ROMANTIC) NEW filming an action film, which hectic stuff. 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IANS | Los Angeles foxnews.com. he Vampire Diaries” She captioned it “Sun shin- “Tactress Claire Holt has ynasty” star Heather ing day.” married beau Andrew Joblin, a 8.18.18 “DLocklear, who was on The post was the first since real estate executive. Claire Holt posted SITUATIONS a social media break amid her April 13. Holt, 30, took to her Ins - a picture of herself VACANT legal and personal struggles, Locklear was arrested in tagram page on Monday and with Joblin from has returned to the online plat- February after an alleged con- shared the news of her wedding the wedding day forms for the first time in four frontation with her boyfriend, among her followers, reports captioned “8.18.18” months. Chris Heisser. The “Melrose dailymail.co.uk. Mobile technician cum Salesperson required for a The 56-year-old took to her Place” actress then allegedly She posted a picture of her- Claire Holt newly opened Mobile Shop Instagram account and post- attacked officers who were self with Joblin from the wed- in Zinj. Call or Whatsapp ed a photo of her Maltese dog responding to the incident, ding day. They posed alongside tionship with Joblin in July This is the actress’ second 3666-1533 Mister, who was seen resting and then last month, Locklear a dog. It was captioned with the last year by sharing a photo - wedding. She was previously in Locklear’s arms and sport- was hospitalised following an wedding date “8.18.18”. graph from their holiday in married to film producer Mat- ing a pair of sunglasses, reports alleged overdose. Holt confirmed her rela- Italy. thew Kaplan. 17 TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 sports

Kohli piles on the agony for England Djokovic grabs Cincy title The Serb beats Federer to complete Masters matched set AFP | Cincinnati, United States

ovak Djokovic ended a career-long jinx, lifting Nthe trophy in Cincinnati at last to complete a matched set of Masters 1000 titles. Djokovic, who came up empty in five prior Cincinnati finals, defeated seven-time winner Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final. The former world number one became the first man to win all nine of the ATP’s Masters Cheteshwar Pujara completes a run as Stuart Broad fires in a throw 1000 events in the elite series’ current configuration. AFP | Nottingham, United back in 1928/29. Federer, meanwhile, lost a fi- Kingdom Kohli’s declaration left Eng- nal in the hardcourt US Open land with an awkward nine tuneup for the first time. ndia captain Virat Kohli led overs in which to bat. “I played five finals (here) be- Ifrom the front with a well- But Alastair Cook (nine not fore, and most of those finals I Roger Federer (left) and Novak Djokovic (right) pose for photos with their trophies made hundred to strengthen out) and Keaton Jennings (13 lost to this great man, Roger ... his side’s iron grip on the third not out) got them through to a thank you for letting me win trophy, but was unable to get ‘Wonderful feeling’ Test against England at Trent close score of 23 without loss. here once in Cincinnati,” Djok- over the line due in part to four Bridge yesterday. India resumed Monday on ovic joked. double-faults at the most inop- The Serb now leads Federer 24- Kohli, who fell for 97 in In- 124 for two, already 292 runs in “This is a dream come true,” portune of times, but he said his 22 and has won their last three dia’s first innings, top-scored front, with Cheteshwar Pujara Djokovic said. “I finally won return game was also lacking. encounters. with 103 as the tourists, look- 33 not out and Kohli unbeaten Cincinnati after six finals, some “It was definitely not my best KNOW WHAT The pair had not played ing to bounce back from 2-0 on eight. against the greatest ever, Roger.” day on the return - it was just since the 2016 Australian Open down in this five-match series, With three days still left Federer, a 20-time Grand awful,” Federer said. “Missing semi-finals more than two and piled up a total of 352 for seven to play, India could dictate Slam winner, said his game every second serve on the fore- a half years ago. declared. the course of the game after wasn’t sharp -- but he didn’t hand side, I don’t know what Novak Djokovic is the Wimbledon champion Djok- That left England needing skittling England out for 161, want to take anything away that was about. only player who has ovic claimed his Masters re - a mammoth 521 for victory, with pace bowling all-rounder from Djokovic’s achievement. “But I don’t even want to look defeated both Feder- cord on his first match point albeit with more than two days Hardik Pandya taking a stun- “Novak is a great champion,” for reasons why it happened,” he er and Nadal in the and now heads to the US Open to get the runs. ning five for 28 in six overs. Federer said. “This is about him added. “Novak totally deserved same tournament on as a title favorite after a string But no side have made more From 54 for none, England making history.” to win today. This (effort) was of sub-par seasons and an el- to win in the fourth innings of lost nine wickets for 74 runs Federer’s streak of 100 not good enough. 3 different occasions bow injury which required a Test than the West Indies’ and only avoided the follow-on straight unbroken service games “Good week, but I’m happy surgery. 418 for seven against Australia thanks to Jos Buttler’s 39. in Cincy was ended by Djokovic it’s over and I need to rest,” add- ing set in 37 minutes and came “It’s a wonderful feeling. it’s at St John’s, Antigua, in 2003. England lost all 10 of their in the seventh game of the first ed Federer, his eye on the US back from an early break in the been a couple of tough months England’s corresponding wickets inside a session -- the set. Open starting in New York in second to overhaul his longtime for me with an injury and then record is their 332 for seven third time that had happened The 37-year-old Swiss had eight days. rival as they played for the 46th winning Wimbledon and Cin- against Australia at Melbourne since 2016. been aiming for a 99th career Djokovic claimed the open- time. cinnati,” Djokovic said. Halep: I gave up in Cincinnati final Sagan signs on for Tour Down Under AFP | Sydney “This iconic Australian race is the Sport Star | Cincinnati perfect start to the UCI World Tour hree-time world champion Peter season. It has it all, a challenging fatigued Simona Halep said she TSagan on Monday became the first course, warm weather and the pas- A“gave up” in the Cincinnati Mas- big name to confirm he will start his sionate fans.” ters final after failing to convert a 2019 season at the Tour Down Under. His commitment gives race director match point in her three-set loss to The Slovakian master will be making Mike Turtur a handy bargaining chip Kiki Bertens. his fourth appearance at the event on as he tries to entice other big names Rogers Cup champion Halep was the streets of Adelaide and through to Adelaide. on the brink of back-to-back titles but the surrounding countryside from “Peter Sagan is a gentleman of the the world number one was unable to January 10-20. South Australia holds sport and the most popular cyclist in make the most of her chance in the a place close to Sagan’s heart, with the world,” Turtur said. second-set tie-break as she went down the Bora-Hansgrohe rider making his “He’s had a good year so he knows 2-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 on Sunday. professional Tour debut there in 2010. that starting here in Australia is ben- It ended Halep’s nine-match win- “Once again I am looking forward to eficial, as clearly he likes to hit the ning run and the Romanian star – who being at the Santos Tour Down Under,” ground running.” had won 18 of her last 19 matches he said, after taking out the warm-up South Africa’s Daryl Impey was dating back to her French Open tri- People’s Choice Classic and stage four the overall winner at this year’s sea- umph – lamented a lack of energy and honours this year. son-opening Tour Down Under. execution. “I had match ball. So I was there,” top seed Halep said. “Didn’t take my chance. In the third set I was empty and I couldn’t fight anymore.” Simona Halep (L) and Kiki Bertens with their trophies “We played many rallies, and it was a very physical match. That’s why the end I couldn’t make it anymore. I so tired,” Bertens said. “I think it was was also I can say I gave up, because I such a tough match, and after winning didn’t have energy left. But she played that second set I knew, like, anything really well, and she really deserves to is still possible. win that, this title, because her level We played many rallies, “I had a chat with [coach] Raemon was very high,” Halep added. and it was a very [Sluiter] at 2-1 [in the third set] and While there was disappointment for I was, like, ‘I’m dead’. Then I said at Seef District too Halep, there was jubilation for Bertens physical match. That’s to myself, ‘No, I can do this. Let’s go as the world number 17 celebrated why the end I couldn’t for it.’ I was, like, ‘Yeah, I know this Um al Hassan +973 17728699 a remarkable comeback. Bertens make it anymore. I was feeling,’” Bertens elaborated. “I had Seef District +973 17364999 reigned supreme in Charleston earlier also I can say I gave up, this feeling before in the practices. So this year but Sunday marked the big- because I didn’t have I know that I can keep on going. It’s gest title of the Dutchwoman’s career. energy left for a title, so of course you can always “I think I didn’t have really a good give a little extra and just go for it. And time to get nervous, because I was just CHASE KALISZ that’s what I did.” TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 18

Indian wins women’s Son keeps eye on Spurs wrestling gold as he chases gold

AFP | Jakarta

on Heung-min said he’s cheering on his Spurs Steam-mates in the Premier League even as he undertakes a KNOW WHAT difficult mission for gold in far- flung Indonesia that could make or break his career. The South Korea forward said Olympic/athlet- he had followed Spurs’ “posi- ic medalists and tive” 3-1 win over Fulham from are amongst thousands of miles away at the the few allowed India’s Vinesh (R) celebrates after beating Japan’s Yuki Irie (L) Asian Games, where a gold med- to bypass the al would exempt him from his 21-month compulsory military mandatory AFP | Jakarta level. My body responded well, service. service in South I had trained well and God Son, 26, was speaking after Korea and inesh Phogat became In- was being kind,” Phogat told he scored the only goal in South Son still has a Vdia’s first women’s wres- reporters. Korea’s 1-0 win over Kyrgyzstan chance to gain tling champion at the Asian “I am rough and tough and that sent the defending champi- his own Games on Monday to extend a risk-taker. I take risks in life ons into a last-16 clash with Iran. a family legacy in the sport and they pay off. I have lot of “Of course I always follow which was immortalised in a self-belief that there is nothing Tottenham -- I was very happy tain to reach the round of 16 pri- celebrated Bollywood film. that I can’t do,” she said. because Lucas scored his first or to kick-off, as only an 11-goal Phogat outclassed Japan’s The omens were good for Premier League goal for us, and Son Heung Min (C) of South Korea runs with the ball past Odilzhon loss to Kyrgyzstan would have Yuki Irie 6-2 to win 50kg final the 2014 bronze medallist Harry (Kane) scored in August,” Abdurakhmanov (R) of Kyrgyzstan during their men’s football preliminary group prevented their passage. in Jakarta and was then hoist- when she began the compe- said Son. E match of the 2018 Asian Games in Bandung Son, making his first start of ed on the shoulders of team tition with a win over China’s “I’m following wherever I go. the competition, volleyed home staff draped in the Indian flag. Sun Yanan, against whom she When they play Manchester from a tight angle in the 63rd The 23-year-old is a cous- had suffered a leg injury at the United I will support them.” are on the way to make some- Before leaving for Jakarta, minute as South Korea laboured in of former Commonwealth 2016 Olympics. Son is playing at the Asian thing, and to win some tro - Son apologised to his Spurs to victory, after their shock 2-1 champions Geeta and Babita “Injuries are a part of a Games after being granted spe- phies,” he said. team-mates for his absence for defeat to minnows Malaysia. Kumari Phogat, whose rise sportsperson’s life. And I have cial permission by Spurs, with “But I’m not thinking about up to three weeks on interna- A few hundred flag-waving from obscurity to wrestling heard somewhere that injuries whom he signed a new, five-year it already, the final... We can tional duty. Koreans in the stands roared fame was captured in 2016’s only strengthens an athlete. contract last month. enjoy this evening, and from “Of course I’m still very sor- with approval as Son’s name ‘Dangal’, an international hit. I have come back stronger “I can’t say I’m 100 percent tomorrow we can be ready for ry,” Son added. was announced in the starting “I had targeted gold. I had from that Rio heartache,” she sure to win the gold medal. We the round of 16.” South Korea were all but cer- line-up. three-four silvers at the Asia beamed. Sun scorches rivals to win Asian Games swim title AFP | Jakarta Meanwhile, Japan’s Olympic neck on seven gold medals. best of 25.55 -- almost half a and finish strong -- that’s exactly hope Rikako Ikee picked up her Sun, who powered to the second clear of China’s Wang what happened.” hinese battering ram Sun second and third Asian titles in 200m title at the weekend, un- Yichun. Defending champion Kosuke CYang smashed his rivals to the women’s 50m butterfly and coiled his rippling two-metre The 18-year-old, who has Hagino was stunned by China’s create history yesterday as the 100m freestyle. frame to pull away over the sec- become the new face of swim- Wang Shun in the men’s 200m swimming goliath scooped the But it was the talismanic Sun ond half of the 800m, leaving ming in Japan, is expected to individual medley. first-ever Asian Games men’s who sprinkled stardust on pro- Takeda and Vietnam’s Nguyen be a force in the 100m free and Wang caught his Japanese 800 metres freestyle gold with ceedings as ever, storming to vic- Huy Hoang flailing in his 100m fly at the 2020 Olympics rival over the last leg of free - another monstrous perfor- tory in the 800m free in a Games wake. in her home city. style to win in 1:56.52 as Hagino mance. record of seven minutes, 48.36 “That gives me confidence for And after setting a new meet clocked 1:56.75. For once though he didn’t seconds -- almost five seconds 2020 Tokyo Olympics,” Sun told best in the 100m free in help - “I’m delighted,” said Wang. “It have it all his own way. clear of Japan’s Shogo Takeda. reporters. ing Japan win the weekend’s gives me confidence to beat such Greeted like a rock star by He also came agonisingly close “It was a pity we lost the relay 4x100m relay, Ikee ducked un- a great swimmer.” high-pitched squeals from excit- to completing a relay fightback. but Japan swam a great race. der the record again in the in- However, there were some able female fans in Jakarta, the But Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsu- Two finals in one night isn’t a dividual race, touching in 53.27 late crumbs of comfort for Olym- three-time Olympic champion moto clung on to seal a fingertip problem for me but I can still after a brave fight from China’s pic silver medallist Hagino, who returned to the pool expecting upset in 7:05.17 and dash Sun’s work on my endurance for sure.” Zhu Menghui. swam a superb third leg in the to anchor China to victory in hopes of winning five gold med- “I achieved what I came to do 4x200m relay. Gold medallist China’s Sun Yang Ikee double the 4x200m free -- only for the als in Indonesia. celebrates during the victory ceremony tonight so I’m delighted,” said “I kind of cramped up in the pesky Japanese to tear up the China and Japan finished day of the men’s 800m freestyle swimming Ikee crushed it in the 50m fly, Ikee. “The plan was to conserve medley,” he admitted. “There script. two of the six-day meet neck and event breezing to victory in a Games energy in the first half of the race just wasn’t enough in the tank.”

North Korean stars sweep to India suffer kabaddi defeat weightlifting double Four Japan athletes AFP | Jakarta AFP | Jakarta Then Om, who is not much kicked out taller at 4ft 11in (151cm), raised ndia’s men suffered their orth Korea’s pint-sized 160kg in the clean and jerk Ifirst ever kabaddi defeat at AFP | Jakarta Japan’s chef de mission Yas- Nweightlifters ruled the for a 287kg total, 7kg ahead the Asian Games when they uhiro Yamashita told report- roost as the secretive nation of Thach, the reigning world slumped 24-23 to South Korea our Japanese basketball ers. “We deeply apologise bagged their first two gold champion, who also had in a group match on Monday. Fplayers were sent home and intend to give the ath - medals of the Asian Games to settle for silver behind The seven-time champions from the Asian Games in dis- letes thorough guidance from yesterday. Om in Incheon four years beat both Bangladesh and Sri grace for paying prostitutes for now on.” Ri Song Gum pipped local ago. Lanka on Sunday to stamp sex as the regional Olympics The basketball players had favourite Sri Wahyuni Agus- Indonesia took their sec- their authority but they met was hit by scandal on Monday. dinner after leaving the Games tiani to open their account in ond lifting medal of the day as their match in South Korea, The players were spotted in village last Thursday and are the women’s 48kg class then Suramat Bin Suwoto Wijoyo ending a run of 32 straight a notorious red light district of believed to have been solicited pocket rocket Om Yun Chol was awarded the bronze after wins. India have only lost once Jakarta in their national jer- by a pimp to go to a hotel with retained his Asian Games a 272kg total. before in the home-grown, seys, JOC officials said, adding women, Yamashita added. men’s 56kg title with ease London 2012 Olympic gold breath-holding sport, after Kabaddi, an ancient sport that the four had been ordered They “paid for the services as he defeated eternal Asian medallist Om, known for his they went down to same oppo- rooted in Indian mythology, to leave immediately. of prostitutes”, Yamashita said, rival Kim Tuan Thach of exuberant celebrations, gave a nents at the 2016 World Cup. made its Asian Games debut News that Yuya Nagayoshi, according to Japan’s Kyodo Vietnam. reserved fist pump as he made “What a massive upset. South in Beijing in 1990. Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma news agency. Ri, who is just 4ft 7in his winning lift and depart- Korea beats India in men’s Ka- The game requires yoga-like Sato, Keita Imamura had been The story broke after the (140cm) tall, hoisted a massive ed the stage with just a wave baddi @asiangames2018 24- breathing skills as two sev- booted out will come as a ma- four, who play in Japan’s 112kg in her first clean and jerk before failing at two 172kg at- 23. Indians looked a bit com- en-player teams send a raider jor embarrassment for Japan, B-League, were spotted in the attempt to power past Agus- tempts that would have beaten placent,” former India hockey into enemy territory to tag an who will host the Tokyo Olym- red light district by a report- tiani who had led after the first his own Asian Games record captain Viren Rasquinha said opponent before returning to pics in two years’ time. er for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun snatch discipline. set in 2014. on Twitter. safety, all on one breath. “I just feel a sense of shame,” newspaper. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 19

Ronaldo, Modric, Salah up for Player of theYear Real start La Liga AFP | Paris Salah was forced off with a shoulder injury in the first half ristiano Ronaldo, Luka of that game after a clash with CModric and Mohamed Real defender Sergio Ramos. Salah make up the three-man He also netted 32 goals in his shortlist for the UEFA Player of debut Premier League season, the Year award for the 2017/18 with that tally a record for a with victory season, European football’s 38-game campaign. governing body announced on Lionel Messi came fifth Monday. in the voting by a jury of 80 Gareth Bale scored as Real Madrid started life without Cristiano Ronaldo and Ronaldo -- the winner in coaches from clubs who played each of the last two years -- in the Champions League and and Modric both starred for Europa League, as well as 55 Real Madrid as the Spanish journalists representing each giants won the Champions UEFA member nation. League for the third year run- The Barcelona star came ning, while the latter also won second to Ronaldo last year the Golden Ball for the best but also failed to make the final player at the World Cup after three-man shortlist in 2016. inspiring Croatia on their run Atletico Madrid’s France to the final. star Antoine Griezmann, who Meanwhile, Egyptian star scored twice as his club beat Salah scored 10 times as Liver- Marseille 3-0 in the Europa pool made it to the Champions League final, just missed out League final, before losing 3-1 in fourth. to Real in Kiev.

Man Utd fans should be ‘mad’, admits Pogba

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale in action

AFP | Madrid Varane. Sevilla romped to a 4-1 win at Real, playing their first La Rayo Vallecano, surpassing his eal Madrid got their La Liga game since the departure total of goals scored for AC Mi- Liga campaign off to a I was pleased with the of Ronaldo to Juventus, went lan in the whole of last season’s Rwinning start with a 2-0 team in general and into Sunday’s game on the back Serie A. victory at home to Getafe on of a 4-2 defeat to Atletico Ma- Silva had managed just two Sunday in their first league out- Gareth put in a great drid in the UEFA Supercup in goals for the Serie A giants and ing since the summer depar- performance. Bale midweek. was loaned out to Sevilla this tures of Cristiano Ronaldo and offers us solutions. He But they were rarely in trou- summer. Paul Pogba belives Manchester United fans are right to be furious with their coach Zinedine Zidane. played well, like many ble on Sunday. Franco “Mudo” Vazquez performance in losing to Brighton The European champions of his teammates. Bale was unlucky when a div- opened the scoring with a back- ensured the three points at In the structure ing header came back off the heel in the 15th minute before AFP | London and the fans, this is not the re- the Santiago Bernabeu with a that we are trying crossbar in the first half before Silva bagged his first just after sult we or they wanted,” Pogba 20th-minute goal from Dani the Welshman was key in the the half hour mark. anchester United mid- told MUTV. “They should be Carvajal and a Gareth Bale to create, there are build-up to the first goal with The 22-year-old added his Mfielder Paul Pogba be- very mad. We should be mad. strike on 51 minutes. players with different Carvajal heading in his cross. second in first-half stoppage lieves the club’s fans have Everybody is mad.” Keylor Navas held on to his characteristics and Another defensive error time after a corner and com - every right to vent their anger Pogba scored his second place as Real Madrid’s starting Gareth has his own helped Real grab their second pleted his hat-trick 10 minutes after a first-half collapse saw penalty of the season deep goalkeeper despite the arrival of JULEN LOPETEGUI goal when Marco Asensio stole from time. the Red Devils beaten 3-2 by into stoppage time at the Thibaut Courtois. the ball and sent over a cross for However, he endured a nerv- Brighton. Amex, but by then it was too Costa Rica international Na- Bale to score with his left foot. ous wait before he could cele- Jose Mourinho’s men are little, too late for the visitors vas has been first choice since World Cup. Asensio was close to getting brate, requiring the VAR to over- already three points adrift of as Mourinho’s pre-season pre- 2015 but had been expected to Julen Lopetegui, who re- his name on the scoresheet but turn an offside decision which Manchester City, Chelsea and dictions of defensive problems make way for Courtois, a recent placed Zidane as coach, also was denied by the woodwork. had ruled out Silva’s effort. Tottenham, who they face in were realised on a difficult 35-million-euro recruit from selected Nacho at the heart of Meanwhile, Portuguese strik- It was the first time in La Liga their next Premier League fix- afternoon for centre-backs Chelsea who was voted best the defence rather than French er Andre Silva marked his La history that the VAR had made ture. Victor Lindelof and Eric goalkeeper at this summer’s World Cup winner Raphael Liga debut with a hat-trick as such an intervention. “We always play for the shirt Bailly. Inter Milan shocked in Serie A opener, Dzeko hits Roma stunner

AFP | Milan area. best three. Inter Milan’s top scorer last “I saw Kluivert on the right late Edin Dzeko stunner season Mauro Icardi came close and hoped he would cross it to Agot AS Roma off the mark in twice, with Croatian Ivan Perisic the back post, which is fortu- their Serie A campaign at Torino also sending the ball over the top nately what he did. He definitely on Sunday but Inter Milan made in the second half. changed the game.” the worst possible start with a KNOW WHAT Venezuelan Tomas Rincon 1-0 loss at Sassuolo. Dzeko’s late strike had Torino’s best chance as he Roma’s win meant the top Earlier Roma’s only goal came rattled the crossbar on 39 min- three from last year’s campaign one minute from time following utes. all won their opening round of spectacular play by new Dutch Iago Falque thought he had matches. Inter Milan are the signing Justin Kluivert, son of scored for the hosts three min- Champions Juventus, with only Italian side nev- former Barcelona striker Patrick utes after the break but his at- new superstar signing Cristiano er relegated to have Kluivert. tempt was ruled offside after a Ronaldo making his debut, won been Serie B The 19-year-old came on as look at the VAR. 3-2 at Chievo on Saturday with a second-half substitute, run- Former Paris Saint Germain runners-up Napoli coming back ning down the right flank, drib- player Javier Pastore missed a to win 2-1 at Lazio. “Sassuolo did well on the bling past past three players to number of chances against his But Inter Milan -- fourth last counter-attack, they were com- provide the crucial cross which former teammate Salvatore Si- season -- suffered an early upset pact without giving anything. Dzeko lashed into the far top rigu in the Torino goal. after Domenico Berardi slotted “We lost the game because of corner. Lorenzo De Silvestri limped in a 27th-minute penalty to give a penalty and Sassuolo didn’t “It was a great cross, and I off after a knock and allowed Ola all three points to their rivals create many chances.” scored even better goal!” Dzeko Aina to also get his first Serie A from Modena. Sassuolo dominated the first joked. game just days after arriving on “This has complicated half, earning a penalty when “Last year I scored one that loan from Chelsea, with new everything,” said Inter coach Joao Mario brought down Fed- was maybe a bit better (against Roma goalkeeper Robin Olsen Luciano Spalletti. Sassuolo forward Domenico Berardi in action erico Di Francesco in the penalty Chelsea), but this is among the making several saves. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 20 Bahrain edge Iran Bahrain won 29-23 boosting hopes of reaching semis

Bahrain’s Ali Merza Ali (R) take a shot as Iran’s Seyedalireza Mousavi (L) tries to stop

TDT | Manama yesterday at the 18th Asian Games in and determination to win the match full excellent saves from goalkeeper Mo- the match by Bahrain ambassador to Jakarta and Palembang. points as they kicked started the second hammed Abdulhussain and success- Indonesia Dr Mohammed Ghassan and ahrain boosted their hopes of Despite losing key players Hussain round of the competition. fully-executed counter attacks led by Supreme Council for Youth and Sports reaching the semi-finals in the Al Sayyad and Hasan Madan, who were Playing at GOR Popki Cibubur sports Ali Abdulqader, Mohammed Habib, Al assistant secretary general and Bahrain Bhandball championship after a dismissed with the red card in the first hall, Bahrain started the game well and Samahiji and Bilal Basham. Olympic Committee (BOC) secretary comprehensive 29-23 victory over Iran half, the Bahrainis showed high spirit took a 16-13 lead at half-time thanks to The team was congratulated after general Abdulrahman Askar.

Bahrain seals last-16 round berth in Asian Games football TDT | Manama

ahrain’s under-23 foot - Bball team made it to the last-16 round of the football championship, part of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, after a clinical 3-2 victory over Malaysia yesterday. The win saw Bahrain clinch one of the four-best third-placed teams, along with Korea Repub- lic, who needed a 63rd-minute strike by Son Heung-min to beat Kyrgyz Republic 1-0 in the same Group ‘E’. Bahrain will now face Vietnam in the competition’s final 16. Despite needing full points to qualify, Bahrain started the game miserably and their de- no mistake in sending Ahmed fence failure to clear their lines the wrong way from the spot. resulted in pinball in the box, a loose ball eventually fell to Bahrain out of 10m rifle event the edge of the box and Syahmi Meanwhile, Bahrain crashed Safari as on hand to hammer a out of the 10m rifle event as blistering first-time drive past Mahmood Haji came close to Ammar Ahmed. win one of the places in the fi- However, a lapse in concen- Bahrain’s Abbas Alasfoor in action nal scoring 623.6 points. In the tration from the Malaysians in women’s event, Safa Al Dossary the 33rd minute saw them give the back of the net for the equal- ner and nod the ball past Ifwat by the woodwork, as well as let rushing Ifwat. and Hanan Rahma were also out away possession outside their iser. Akmal. down by some hesitant finishing. There was still time for more finishing 29th and 31st, respec- own area to Mohamed Marhoon. Just four minutes later, Bah- The Bahrainis continued to Yet, a minute from time, Al drama with Akhyar Rashid win- tively. The 3 position 50-metre The fleet-footed forward rain capitalised on more in - look the more dangerous of the Hardan made sure of the win ning a penalty in injury-time men’s shooting event begins advanced into the box before decisive defending to take the two sides after halftime and reg- from a counterattack as he was for Malaysia after being tripped today when Haji and Hussain squaring a pass to the unmarked lead; Al Shamsan left unmarked ularly carved apart the opposi- played in down the right and inside the box by Ahmed Bug- Abduljabbar compete for a place Al Hardan, who clinically found inside the area to meet a cor- tion defence only to be denied sent a delicate chip over the on- hammar, and Safawi Rasid made in the finals.