TWITTER CELEBS @newsofbahrain OP-ED 10 Political mainstream has to fight back in war against fascism INSTAGRAM Paul McCartney scores /nobmedia 18 US No. 1 after nearly LINKEDIN TUESDAY newsofbahrain SEPTEMBER 2018 four decades WHATSAPP 200 FILS Paul McCartney is back on 38444680 ISSUE NO. 7873 the top of the charts, on FACEBOOK Sunday earning his first /nobmedia solo number-one album MAIL in the United States in 36 [email protected] years. WEBSITE P16 newsofbahrain.com Hazard can be top-scorer: Sarri 20 SPORTS WORLD 12 New evidence: Russia claims Ukraine downed flight MH17 Voluntary work award winners King Hamad Causeway SpaceX to name first honoured passenger to moon Manama work to start in 2021 Jeddah ceremony was held yes- Aterday to distribute the Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa he work on King Ham- Al Khalifa Voluntary Work ad Causeway connecting Award. TSaudi Arabia and Bahrain The tender for Deputy Prime Minister will start by mid-2021 and will be King Hamad Shaikh Khalid bin Abdul- completed in three years, Saudi Causeway will la Al Khalifa attended the Arabia’s Ambassador to Bahrain be issued after ceremony, which was held has said. six months. under the patronage of Bah- “The tender for King Hamad ABDULLA AL SHAIKH rain Basketball Society (BBS) Causeway will be issued after six A file picture showing SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off from historic chairman, Good Word Socie- months,” Abdulla Al Shaikh was launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. ty honorary president Shai- quoted by Arab News. kh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al The causeway will also include kingdoms, which opened in No- Los Angeles Apollo missions ended in 1972 Khalifa. a rail line for the Gulf Cooper- vember 1986. at an event at the company’s Also present were Shura ation Council (GCC) network, Vehicles carrying millions of paceX, Elon Musk’s space headquarters and rocket factory Council Chairman Ali bin cargo trains and vehicle lanes. passengers as well as trucks have transportation company, is in the Los Angeles suburb of Saleh Al Saleh, Southern Al Shaikh estimated that the been using the busy causeway Sall set to name the first pri- Hawthorne. Governor Shaikh Khalifa bin cost of the project will be in the 25 over the years, with a daily aver- vate passenger who will take a In moves typical of his pub- Ali Al Khalifa, ministers, of- neighbourhood of $4 billion, kilometres will be age of 40,000 people. trip around the moon aboard its licity-seeking style, Musk, who ficials representing the Arab adding that it will act as a new the approximate The construction of the new forthcoming Big Falcon Rocket is also the billionaire chief ex- length of King Hamad League, the Arab Association link between the two countries Causeway. causeway was announced during spaceship, taking the race to ecutive of electric car maker for Voluntary Works and Arab and will contribute to boosting a meeting between His Majesty commercialise space travel to Tesla Inc, has already teased a and Foreign Ambassadors. trade in all fields. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa new heights. few tantalizing details about the Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin The new causeway, expect- and Saudi King Abdullah bin SpaceX said it will name the trip and the passenger’s iden- Khalifa Al Khalifa paid trib- ed to be 25-km long, will run in Fahd Causeway, the only ter- Abdulaziz Al Saud in Jeddah first passenger to travel to the tity, but left major questions ute to His Royal Highness parallel with the existing King restrial link between the two in 2014. moon since the United States’ unanswered. Prime Minister Prince Khal- ifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa and Deputy Premier Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa for their directives and support. He congratulated the win- ners of this year’s award and welcomed them to Bahrain, Missiles fired at Syrian city stressing the Kingdom’s strides, led by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa. Missiles targeted ammunition depots in the eastern outskirts of Latakia but were intercepted by air de- shortly after being admitted to a Over 100 killed in During the more fences, Syrian state media said. nearby hospital. • The official SANA news agency The Syrian Observatory for Nigeria floods than seven-year conflict said the Technical Industry In- Human Rights, a UK-based war Abuja in neighbouring Syria, stitution in the state-controlled monitor, said huge explosions Israel has grown deeply city had been targeted. SANA were heard in the city. loods in much of central alarmed by the expanding added that it was not immediate- The missiles targeted ammu- Fand southern Nigeria ly known who fired the missiles. nition depots of the Technical killed over 100 people across clout of its arch enemy “Air defences have confronted Industry Institution in the east- 10 states, the country’s emer- Iran - a key ally of Assad. enemy missiles coming from the ern outskirts of Latakia, the Ob- gency and disasters agency sea in the direction of the Latakia servatory said. It was not imme- said yesterday. Beirut city, and intercepted a number of diately clear what activities the Such flooding tends to oc- them,” SANA quoted a military state institution was engaged in. cur every year in the rainy issiles were fired from source as saying. One of the missiles fell in an season, exacerbated by poor the sea at several lo- State-run Ikhbariya TV said open area to the west of central infrastructure and lack of Mcations in the Syrian 10 people were injured in the A screengrab from a video showing a large explosion near Latakia, Syria, on Homs city causing a fire in an planning to protect against coastal city of Latakia yesterday attack. Eight were discharged Monday night. orchard, Ikhbariya TV said. inundation, but this year the destruction has been the worst since 2012. TRAGIC END Expat dies ‘after being beaten up by co-worker’ DON’T MISS IT rel with a co-worker at the all over the body and we rushed We are still clueless construction site over a work him to the BDF Hospital. • related issue. “The doctors at the hospital as to what happened The quarrel led to a fist fight We are not sure as declared him dead two hours Over 50pc at the worksite. It’s and Subash was badly thrashed, to what would have after reaching the hospital. 03 of treated water really shocking and the sources said. caused the death. “We are not sure as to what ‘wasted to sea’ hard to believe, Suresh Speaking to Tribune, Suresh, But the doctors at would have caused the death. told Tribune. Subash’s younger brother, the hospital told us But the doctors at the hospi - High elections who is also a resident in the tal told us that he suffered a Kingdom, said, “The incident that he suffered a head injury in the fight and that 04 committee TDT | Manama occurred around 5.30 pm on head injury in the could have led to the death.” formed Harpreet Kaur Sunday at the construction site. fight and that could Sources said the accused has Everyone at the site was call- have led to the been arrested and investiga- Appeal verdict n Indian national died ing it a day when an argument death. tions are ongoing. yesterday allegedly af- broke out between my brother We are still clueless as to date set in The deceased Subash SURESH 05 Ater being beaten up by a and his co-worker over folding what happened at the worksite. murder trial co-worker following a worksite the ladder and keeping it in its It’s really shocking and hard to quarrel in Juffair. The accused hailed from the Indian state of place. brother in Gudaibiya. believe, Suresh told Tribune. is also an Indian national, ac- Kerala. “Almost an hour later I got “I went to Gudaibiya and The body of the deceased will cording to sources. Subash was working for a call from Subash saying that brought him to my place and he be flown home once all legal The deceased was identified a contracting company and his nose was bleeding. I live seemed fine. After a few hours, procedures are completed, it as Subash Janardhanan, who sources said he got into a quar- in Umm Al Hassam and my he started complaining of pain is learnt. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018 02 Deputy King His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa yesterday met His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa at the Gudaibiya Palace. They praised the efforts of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to boost relations between Bahrain and brotherly and friendly countries at the GCC, Arab and international level. The Deputy King and HRH the Premier lauded the development programmes adopted by the government and their effectiveness in dealing with the requirements of the current phase according to a more dynamic economic approach aimed at boosting financial stability and backing the economic development efforts. Waste management plans reviewed Eight projects being implemented by the Works Ministry to tackle the waste crisis The session requested the embodies the status of its leader- The session Ministry of Works, Municipali- ship as global peace mediators. • ties Affairs and Urban Planning HRH the Prime Minister re- requested the Ministry to submit the schedule of the quested the Works, Municipali- of Works, Municipalities completion of the implemen- ties Affairs and Urban Planning Affairs and Urban tation of the eight projects, ac- Ministry to maintain the clean- Planning to submit cording to each phase.