FAST, SAFE AND SECURE ONLINE MONEY TRANSFER The number of cities powered NOW AVAILABLE mostly by renewable energy has ON THE BFC APP more than doubled since 2015, Tel: 1722 8888 according to @CDP, with many www.bfc.com.bh of them already planning to be 100% Committed by 2030! @algore Friday, March 2, 2018 Issue No. 7673 Today’s Weather 200 Fils Max Min www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh 24°C 17°C JO3639_Smart_Money_App_Launch_DT_Hamper_6.7cmX4cm.indd9/26/17 3:39 PM 1 Property regulation law to come into force Manama he real estate regulation law will come into force soon,T General Manager of the Survey and Land Registration Bureau Naji Sabt has announced. Sabt was addressing the first Arab Land Conference in Dubai on the sidelines of the conference with representatives of the UN Human Settlements Programme and the World Bank. Five candidates for BCCI polls approved Manama His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa graced the wedding ceremony of Shaikh Khalid, the son of the Royal Court Affairs Minister Shaikh Ali bin ive candidates have qualified Isa Al Khalifa, as part of HM the King’s keenness on reaching out to the Royal Family. The ceremony was also attended by senior members of the to run the forthcoming royal family and guests BahrainF Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) polls. They are Fadhel Abdul Abbas Putin says his nuclear-powered missile is Isa Salibi, Mohammed Abbad able to penetrate any missile defence Mohammed Saleh, Abdulla Abdulwahab Hassan Madan, Mohammed Adel Abdulla Announcement comes ahead of Fakhro and Yacoub Youssef presidential election on March 18 Abdulla Al-Awadhi. Says an attack on any of Moscow’s allies P would be regarded as an attack on Russia Moscow a record high and he has cast ussian President Vladimir his military intervention in RPutin yesterday unveiled Syria as a proud moment for UN says Syria02 not an array of new nuclear Moscow. Yesterday, he backed weapons, in one of his most his rhetoric with video clips allowing aid convoy bellicose speeches in years, of some of the new missiles to enter Eastern saying they could hit almost which were projected onto a Ghouta any point in the world and giant screen at the conference evade a U.S.-built missile hall in central Moscow. shield. Putin was speaking “They have not succeeded P ahead of an election on March in holding Russia back,” said 18. He said a nuclear attack on Putin, referring to the West, any of Moscow’s allies would which he said had ignored be regarded as an attack on Moscow in the past, but would Saudi crown 04 Russia itself and draw an now have to sit up and listen. Putin unveils immediate response. “Now they need to take prince to visit It was unclear if he had account of a new reality and Egypt ahead a particular Russian ally, understand that everything I of US, UK tour such as Syria, in mind, but have said today is not a bluff.” his comments looked like a Among the new weapons warning to Washington not to that Putin said were either use tactical battlefield nuclear in development or ready: a P weapons. Putin has often new intercontinental ballistic ‘invincible’ used militaristic rhetoric to missile “with a practically mobilise support and buttress unlimited range” able to his narrative that Russia is attack via the North and Di Maria shines24 as under siege from the West. His South Poles and bypass any PSG sink Marseille 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s missile defence systems. nuke weapons Crimea boosted his ratings to (See also Page 8) again 2 Friday, March 2, 2018 he United Nations says the Damascus suburb began on Security Council resolution to A child and a man are treated it has not received Syrian February 18, according to the UN. halt hostilities for 30 days by for chlorine gas inhalation in the Tgovernment permission to deliver The UN also reported that ordering the five-hour daily besieged Syrian town of Douma, in humanitarian aid to rebel-held fighters in the enclave have fired truce that was to have begun on eastern Ghouta Eastern Ghouta despite a UN hundreds of rockets at the Syrian Tuesday. Assad ceasefire resolution and a partial capital, reportedly killing 15 The UN resolution provided humanitarian pause ordered by people and injuring over 200. little detail on when the ceasefire Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a news conference was meant to begin, how it would regime Since the UN Security Council in Moscow Wednesday, Putin be enforced or even whether voted unanimously in favour of said “extremist forces” and all the parties concerned were a 30-day ceasefire in Syria last representatives of “terrorist aware of it. ‘buying Saturday, the besieged Damascus organizations” had prevented Putin’s five-hour proposal suburb of Eastern Ghouta has seen civilians from leaving. was slammed by ambassadors at “More bombing. More fighting. He told reporters that an the UN Wednesday. UK Deputy chemical More death. More destruction... agreement had been reached Ambassador Jonathan Allen More, in other words, of the with “the Syrian partners.” said it was “wholly inadequate,” same,” UN Undersecretary for “We offered to organize a and that there had been no letup weapons Humanitarian Affairs Mark humanitarian corridor to get in the bombing, nor had any aid Lowcock told the Security children, wounded, all those workers been granted access to Council on Wednesday. who need help out of the region Eastern Ghouta. materials’ Lowcock said a 45-truck ... If we all join our efforts to On Tuesday, International convoy with aid for 90,000 people stabilize the situation in the Committee for the Red Cross was ready to enter 10 besieged country in general and in Middle East Director Robert from locations in Eastern Ghouta but Eastern Ghouta, we are bound Mardini said a five-hour pause had not been given permission for success,” Putin said. He was inadequate for aid delivery. to enter. didn’t elaborate on what that “It is impossible to bring Putin is blaming “extremist success might look like. a humanitarian convoy in North forces” for the failure of a daily US and UN officials have five hours. We have a long orth Korea has been using “innovative five-hour “humanitarian accused the Russian-backed experience of bringing aid across evasion techniques” to send materials pause” he had ordered for Eastern Syrian regime of carrying frontlines in Syria, and we know neededN for chemical and ballistic weapons Ghouta earlier this week. out an indiscriminate aerial that it may take up to one day to production to Syria over the last five years, a new The Security Council and, bombardment of the area. simply pass checkpoints, despite report from the UN says. separately, the Russian leader, had Gen. Joseph Votel, who the previous agreement of all The leaked study found 40 shipments of items issued calls for a pause in fighting oversees all US troops in the parties,” he said. including industrial-level amounts of acid and to allow civilians to leave. The Middle East, said Tuesday The French ambassador to heat-resistant tiles and pipes, as well as ball UN also wanted to send urgent that Russia was playing the role the UN called on Russia to exert bearings and fibre-optic cable, were sent from medical and food supplies in. of “both arsonist and firefighter” pressure on Syrian President Pyongyang to Damascus between 2012-2017. Both calls were ignored and in Syria. Votel said continued Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The 200-page report, due to be published mid- rebel fighters holed up in regime aerial attacks in Eastern “Today is not for talking,” said March, also alleges that North Korean ballistics Eastern Ghouta, as well as Syrian Ghouta appeared to show that François Dellatre. “It’s about specialists have visited three Syrian government government forces, accused each Russia is incapable of holding implementing the weapons production plants. other of breaking the truce. the regime to account or is resolution.” (CNN) It has been leaked to media as rebel factions Syrian government air- and unwilling to. in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern ground-based strikes in Eastern Ghouta accuse the regime of using chlorine Ghouta have killed more than Putin’s play during the fierce 12-day-old bombing campaign 580 people and injured more than The Russian President on the area. 1,000 since a regime assault on appeared to override a UN The Sunday attack killed one little boy and hospitalised 18 other people who first responders said had symptoms consistent with exposure to the poison gas. Monitors confirmed the child died of suffocation but could not determine whether chlorine was present. Bashar al Assad’s government and its Russian allies said any attack had been orchestrated by al-Qaeda linked rebels in eastern Ghouta in order UN says to pin blame on Damascus. The UN report was compiled by a panel of experts appointed in 2016 to monitor international sanctions levied on North Korea because of its nuclear programme. (Independent) A Syrian woman and children run Syria not for cover amid the rubble of build- ings. allowing aid convoy to enter Eastern Ghouta Friday, March 2, 2018 3 Consumer protection exhibitionHarpreet Kaur/DTNN the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) inaugurated [email protected] aims to spread awareness about consumer protection and growing Manama crimes in e-transactions and to he Government’s priority is to further educate the general public on encourage e-commerce without related topics. anyT increased risk of frauds, said “In terms of awareness, a theme the Minister of Industry, Commerce like this is an investment as we and Tourism, Zayed bin Rashid Al need to focus on such issues.