TWITTER CELEBS @newsofbahrain OP-ED 8 Spotlighting an epidemic of sexual violence INSTAGRAM Indian actress takes /nobmedia 8 #MeToo claims to LINKEDIN MONDAY newsofbahrain OCTOBER 2018 police WHATSAPP 200 FILS The Indian actress whose 38444680 ISSUE NO. 7893 public allegations of sexual FACEBOOK harassment by a Bolly- /nobmedia wood star is sparking a MAIL string of similar #MeToo [email protected] claims has filed a formal WEBSITE complaint, police said newsofbahrain.com yesterday. P13 Hami on brink of title 16 SPORTS WORLD 6 5,000 missing from quake, tsunami zones Deputy King meets HRH the Premier House nod for VAT The Kingdom will implement Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods and services from Jan 1 Bahrain is set to become• the third Gulf Cooperation Deputy King, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, met Council (GCC) to His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, at the Gudaibiya Palace yesterday. HRH the Deputy King extended thanks implement the unified and appreciation to HRH the Prime Minister for constantly backing the agreement on VAT. programmes and plans aimed at supporting and enhancing the fiscal sustainability of the government and the economic sector, stressing that The parliament, HRH Premier’s leadership of the government has contributed to laying the • foundations on which the Fiscal Balance Programme was based. HRH Deputy holding an extraordinary King and HRH Premier emphasised that the Fiscal Balance Programme session upon a royal requires concerted efforts by everyone to ensure its success, as it is order issued last necessary for the current phase and its challenges. week, approved VAT at the rate of five per cent effective from Iran accused of hypocrisy January 1 next year. TDT | Manama over ‘terror financing vote’ Thamer Tayfoor he Council of Repre - sentatives yesterday ap- The parliament session in progress. Tproved a number of ur- gent laws in its extraordinary abroad. MPs pensions reformed session, including the imple- Considering the sensitivity mentation of the Value Added of the topics discussed and vot- he Services Committee Tax (VAT) by the beginning of ed, 10 MPs demanded that jour- 5 Tin the council approved a next year. nalists exit the hall, while the per cent VAT is law decree to replace the pen- The session was a historical council’s General Secretariat expected to produce sions of legislators (Shura and one, simply for the seriousness withdrew mobile phones from revenues of over $25 Representatives Councils) and and number of legislations the all attending MPs to ensure that billion per annum for municipal councils’ members House discussed and passed. the details of the discussions are the GCC countries, with one salary for each of the Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard listen to a speech in parliament The crucial legislations that not leaked outside the walls of according to Ernst and years they’ve spent as mem- in Tehran over the a bill to counter terrorist financing. were approved in the session the House. Young. bers of the councils. also included revoking the pen- Tribune learnt that 27 MPs As for ministers, the decree Jeddah sions of MPs and Shura Council voted for the implementation of stipulated that they should have members, granting Shura Coun- VAT while only nine parliamen- one MP, Ali Bufarsen, refused a special pensions scheme that ran was accused of hy - cil members the jurisdiction tarians including Jalal Kadhim, to vote. would be regulated by a Royal pocrisy yesterday after its This is a cosmetic and to question ministers and pro- Mohammed Al Ahmed, Ali Bu- Article 3 of the law decree Decree to be issued in the future. Iparliament voted to join superficial move to viding international protection farsen, Mohammed Al Emmadi, states that the executive regu- Article 5 of the new decree a global convention to cut off declare that Tehran for Bahraini military personnel Mohsen Al Bakri, Mohammed lations shall be issued 15 days says that it wouldn’t be im - terror financing. combats terrorism involved in official missions Al Maarifi, Abdulhameed Al after its adoption and shall plemented retrospectively, as The regime in Tehran is in the hope that Najjar, Khalifa Al Ghanim and come into force on the first day it covers former and current routinely accused of being the the international Isa Turki rejected it. Ahmed of January 2019. It comes with- members of the Council of world’s leading state sponsor community will help Qarata and Theyab Al Nuaimi in the Kingdom’s commitment Representatives, Shura Coun- of terrorism, and boasts of refused to vote while Abdulla to the unified GCC agreement cil, the municipal councils and its support for groups such the ruling mullahs Binhowail and Ali Al Ateesh on VAT. the Capital General Secretariat. as Hezbollah in Lebanon and financially. were absent from the session. It was announced earlier It was also mentioned in the KNOW WHAT Hamas in Gaza, which are DR RAFIZADEH The law decree that stipulat- that the new agreement aims decree that the funds, rights widely viewed as terrorist or- ed the implementation of VAT to achieve economic objectives and obligations of the pensions ganisations. put significant pressure on consists of 77 legal articles. through closer cooperation fund of legislators and municipal “This is an absurd and the regime. This is a cosmetic Sources confirmed to Tribune between the GCC system and councils’ members shall be trans- preposterous move by the and superficial move to de - Bahrain joins Saudi that five out of the eight com- developing the foundations of ferred to the Social Insurance Or- Iranian leaders,” the Irani- clare that Tehran combats Arabia and the UAE, mittee members initially reject- collective action among GCC ganisation and that the authority an-American Harvard scholar terrorism in the hope that which implemented VAT ed the new legislation. After a countries to meet the aspira- shall manage and invests these Dr Majid Rafizadeh was quot- the international community on goods and services meeting with Council’s Speaker tions of its leaders in achieving funds. The majority of MPs vot- ed by Arab News. will help the ruling mullahs from January this year. Ahmed Al Mulla, four members the desired GCC integration, es- ed in favour of the law decree. “Economic sanctions have financially. agreed to pass the decree, while pecially in the economic fields. PLEA REJECTED DON’T MISS IT Gulf News ex-editor to serve 15 years for killing wife Dubai attempted to substantiate this request, saying Matthew Russia ties lauded British former newspaper editor in Dubai who was not aware of his actions at the time of the murder. 02 was convicted of killing his wife with a hammer “The accused lawyer’s claim of the incident being an A has had his sentence extended to 15 years. assault that lead to death is overlooked by the court as BD300m eSuccess Francis Matthew was found guilty in March of it is merely an argument,” the verdict read. 03 bludgeoning his wife to death at their home and was The former editor of the English-language Gulf sentenced to 10 years in prison. News had faced the possibility of the death penalty Catalogue The latest verdict was announced Sunday after both over the July 2017 killing of Jane Matthew, his wife of 04 launched sides had appealed. The court said evidence showed over 30 years. that the Briton had intended to kill his wife, following Matthew and his wife were prominent members of a row about their finances. Francis and Jane Matthew the UAE’s large British expatriate community. Matthew’s lawyer, Ali Al Shamsi, had requested Peter Manning, Jane’s brother, welcomed the ruling, the 10-year sentence be reduced and the deportation to kill his wife. saying the lesser sentence would have been a “terrible order be lifted, insisting that his client did not intend An Egyptian forensic expert, Dr Muna Al Juhary, injustice.” MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018 02 Second hottest September recorded since 1902 Manama Russia ties lauded he Ministry of Trans- portation and Telecom- ‘Bahrain keen to bolster ties with Russia in various fields’ Tmunications’ Meteor- ological Directorate report- 41.5 ed in their monthly weather degree Celsius was the highest temperature summary that the month of recorded in the month of September goes on record as September. the second hottest September ever experienced in Bahrain since 1902. Hot and humid weather temperature exceeding 40 C. dominated Bahrain during The mean minimum temper- the month of September due ature of the month was 31.4 to the moist easterly winds. C which is 2.8 C above the The mean temperature of long-term normal and goes on the month was 34.5 C which record as the second highest is 2.1 C above the long-term mean minimum temperatures normal and goes on record for the month of September as second the highest mean since 1946 and only exceed- temperatures for the month ed by September 2015 with a of September since 1902. record of 31.5 C. The lowest This is same as September temperature recorded was 1998 and 2015 and only ex - 28.9 C set on September 28 ceeded by September 2017 at BIA but recorded 27.0 C on with a record of 34.6 C. September 26 at Durrat Al The mean maximum tem- Bahrain. perature of the month was The mean relative humidity 38.9 C which is 2.4 C above for September was 63 per cent HRH the Premier receives Ambassador Garayev. the long-term normal and whereas the mean maximum goes on record as the sec - relative humidity was 78 per Manama Ambassador to Bahrain, Vagif Bahraini-Russian relations.