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ISSUE NO. 7820 FACEBOOK /nobmedia P16 MAIL [email protected] WEBSITE newsofbahrain.com Battle of last four 20 SPORTS WORLD 12 Laos ravaged by collapse Man sets off explosive outside Strait of Hormuz – key oil waterway Saudi halts Theoil Strait of Hormuz is oneshipments of the world’s most crucial oil transport in Red-sea lane routes, with a third of global oil tanker traffic – carrying 18.5 million US embassy barrels of crude and condensate – passing through the strait every day Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval bases Condemned AFP| Beijing AFP| Riyadh Maritime Bandar-e-Abbas Larak Island IRAN Tehran with a two million barrels capacity, were boundary Bahrain: HQ Deep-water Qeshm of U.S. 5th attacked by Huthi rebels in the Red Sea, Bahrain strongly condemned the Houthi IRAQ 26-year-old Chinese audi Arabia has temporarily halted all shipping lane Fleet state giant Aramco said in a statement. militia’s attack on oil tankers belonging IRAN A man set off a small ex- Soil shipments through a key waterway “One of the ships sustained minimal to the Saudi National Shipping Compa- plosive outside the US em- after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Huthi militia IRAN STRAIT SAUDI damage. No injuries nor oil spill have ny while the vessels were crossing Bab OF OMAN ARABIA UAE HORMUZ bassy in Beijing yesterday, attacked two crude vessels, officials said . Sirri been reported,” Aramco said. The oil Al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea. “The OMAN sending smoke into the air “All oil shipments through Bab al-Man- Jask giant said the decision to suspend ship- cowardly attack is a flagrant violation of IRAN and injuring his hand before dab Strait have been suspended tempo- UAE ments was “in the interest of the safety international laws and norms and poses IRAN UNITED security officials rushed to rarily until... maritime transit through PERSIAN ARAB OMAN of ships and their crews and to avoid the a serious threat to the freedom of inter- GULF EMIRATES the scene and took him into the area is safe,” Energy Minister Khalid Fujairah risk of oil spill.” Earlier, the pro-Huthi national trade and maritime navigation Abu custody, police said. al-Falih said in a statement released by Dhabi Abu Musa Al-Masirah TV said that the militia had in Bab Al-Mandab Strait and the Red Occupied by Shipping lanes for tankers Chinese police said no state media. Two oil tankers operated Iran, claimed OMAN are just two nautical targeted a Saudi warship named Al-Dam- Sea,” the ministry of foreign affairs said by UAE miles wide, separated 25 miles by buffer zone one else was injured in the by the Saudi shipping group Bahri, each 40km mam, without providing further details. in a statement. China Iranian crude oil and gas Condensate incident, which took place condensate shipments 648 330,000 bpd (thousand barrels India near the area where visa per day, June 2018) 502 2.61 million applicants typically line up South Crude oil bpd Korea 2.28 million bpd Others to enter the embassy for in- 314 261 Turkey Italy Japan UAE France terviews. Spain 165 155 Greece 138 127 114 109 The explosion was set off 77 by a man from China’s Inner Sources: MEHR News Agency, S&P Global Platts, Stratfor © GRAPHIC NEWS Mongolia region surnamed Jiang, police said, adding that his injuries were not Imran Khan claims life-threatening. The Police did not indi- cate a possible motive for the man’s action. War will destroy victoryImran Khan heads forin victory in PakistanPak polls Ex-cricket star Imran Khan is on track to become prime minister after an election marred by accusations of vote rigging all you own: Iran tweeted her congratulations. general to Trump There was no official “22 years later, after humilia- • tions, hurdles and sacrifices, my Reuters| Beirut confirmation of results 22 years sons’ father is Pakistan’s next from Pakistan’s election later, after PM,” she wrote. ran’s Quds force chief Qa- commission 24 hours humiliations, The Election Commission of Issem Soleimani warned after polls closed in hurdles and Pakistan dismissed allegations US President Donald Trump of manipulation, blaming the de- against war yesterday, say- Wednesday’s vote sacrifices, my lay on glitches in new, untested ing it would “destroy all that Imran Khan Shehbaz Sharif Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sons’ father is counting software. Leader of PTI party, will Head of PML-N and Leader of historically you possess”, the website AFP| Islamabad need to form coalition brother of jailed liberal PPP. Son Pakistan’s next “These elections were 100 of Iran’s Arabic language if he is unable to secure former Prime Minister of assassinated PM percent fair and transparent,” simple majority of Nawaz Sharif, vowing former Prime Minister Al Alam TV reported. “You akistan cricket hero JEMIMA GOLDSMITH said Chief Election Commis- know that this war will de- turned politician Imran 137 seats to challenge results Benazir Bhutto sioner Sardar Muhammad Raza stroy all that you possess. PKhan claimed victory yes- ELECTION RESULTS (47% of polling stations counted) KHAN’S EX-WIFE early Thursday as the outcry You will start this war but terday in the country’s tense Imran Khan grew. we will be the ones to im- general election, following accu- Pakistan 114 Election authorities have not pose its end. Therefore, you sations of “blatant” vote-rigging Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) military rigged in his favour. yet confirmed when they expect have to be careful about in- by rival parties. Shehbaz Sharif The unprecedented delay to announce the results. Some sulting the Iranian people There was no official confir- Pakistan Muslim 64 Majority: 137 seats in counting votes, along with reports suggested it would not and the president of our Re- mation of results from Pakistan’s League-Nawaz (PML-N) a surprisingly strong lead for be until Thursday evening at 272 National Assembly public,” Soleimani said re- election commission almost Bilawal Bhutto constituencies contested Khan, have fuelled widespread the earliest. Pakistan Peoples ported Al Alam. “You know 24 hours after polls closed in 42 Turnout estimated at 50-55% fears over the legitimacy of the Election observers including Party (PPP) our power in the region and Wednesday’s vote but partial, of 106 million registered voters exercise. a mission from the European our capabilities in asym- unofficial tallies showed Khan’s Newspapers and television Union are due to give their own 0 30 60 90 120 metric war. We will act and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sources: Election Commission of Pakistan, Dawn Newspaper Pictures: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS channels have been predict- observations on the voting pro- we will work,” he said. party enjoying a clear lead. ing victory for PTI since late cess on Friday. “We were successful and we Wednesday. By Thursday par- The military, which had been were given a mandate,” Khan, the country’s history. that would be “beneficial” for tial, unofficial results gave him accused of seeking to manipu- 65, said during a live broadcast, During the broadcast, Khan both countries. at least 100 seats so far in the late the vote in Khan’s favour adding that there was “no poli- vowed to tackle corruption that Khan’s statement came sev- National Assembly, the lower in the months leading up to the tician victimisation” in the acri- was “eating our country like a eral hours after his supporters house. A majority of 137 seats is polls, has yet commented on monious contest. cancer”. took to the streets to celebrate needed to form a government. the situation. It and Khan have DON’T MISS IT He went on to call the elec- He also touched on promises winning an election that oppo- Khan’s ex-wife, British film previously denied allegations of tions the “most transparent” in to balance relations with the US nents have said the powerful producer Jemima Goldsmith, intervention. Eclipse of the IN FOCUS 03 century today Distressed father’s pleas Einstein was right: Astronomers confirm key theory answered, half 05 AFP| Paris stretch light, much like the their gravitational pull can trap compared it with predictions blind son to compression and stretching of even light, and the supermassive made by Einstein that the light undergo surgery consortium of astronomers sound waves we perceive with Sagittarius A* has mass four mil- would be stretched by the gravi- A said yesterday they had for the change of pitch of a pass- lion times that of our sun, mak- ty in an effect called gravitation- Demare silences the first time confirmed a pre- ing train. Researchers from the ing it the biggest in our galaxy. al redshift. Newtonian physics diction of Albert Einstein’s the- GRAVITY consortium led by the Astronomers followed the doesn’t allow for a redshift. 18 detractors ory of general relativity by ob- Max Planck Institute for Extra- S2 star as it passed close to “The results are perfectly in serving the gravitational effects terrestrial Physics realised that the black hole on May 19 at a line with the theory of gener- of a supermassive black hole on they had a “perfect laboratory” speed in excess of 25 million al relativity” and are “a major a star zipping by it. to test Einstein’s theory with the kilometres (15.5 million miles) breakthrough towards better The German-born theoret- Sagittarius A* black hole in the per hour.