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Yemen’s peace talks to start next weekReuters | Dubai
Britain’s ambassador to Yemen said yesterday
UN-led talks seeking an end to Yemen’s war will start next week in Sweden.
“I have booked my trip and looking forward to see-ing you leading your delega-tion, the political solution is the way to move forward,” Michael Aron tweeted to the Houthis’ spokesman Mohammed Abdusalam.
Seized weapons show Iran a threat: USWashington, United States
US officials yesterday dis-played military equip-
ment they say confirms that Iran is increasingly supply-ing weapons to militants across the Middle East and is continuing its missile pro-gramme unabated.
At a military hangar in Washington, Brian Hook, the US special represent-ative for Iran, showed reporters a collection of guns, rockets, drones and other gear. Some of these had been intercepted in the Strait of Hormuz en route to fighters in the region while others had been seized by the Saudis in Yemen, the Pentagon said.
The centrepiece of the display was what Hook said is a Sayyad-2 surface-to-air missile system that was intercepted in Yemen this year. Farsi writing along the white rocket’s side helped prove it was Iranian made, he said. “The conspicuous Farsi markings is Iran’s way of saying they don’t mind being caught violating UN resolutions,” Hook told re-porters, adding the missile was destined to Huthi re-bels fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Toll rises after blast at UK firm in KabulAFP | Kabul, Afghanistan
British security firm G4S said yesterday that five of
its employees were killed and 32 injured on Wednesday in a Taliban-claimed attack on one of its compounds in Kabul.
The company, which provides security for British diplomats, said one Briton and four Af-ghans were killed in the attack.
Militants detonated a vehicle bomb outside the compound before trying to fight their way inside.
“It is with great sadness that we can confirm that five of our employees were killed and 32 were injured, five of them seri-ously,” managing director Char-lie Burbridge said in a statement.
“We are committed to our security role in support of the people of Afghanistan, and we are determined that incidents such as this will not prevent the vital work that the international
community conducts from con-tinuing,” he said.
Afghan interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said earlier that 10 people were killed in the attack -- all of them Af-ghan nationals.
But police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid said authorities were still working to identify
the nationalities of the victims.A massive crater marked the
spot where a vehicle bomb det-onated outside a British security firm’s compound in Kabul.
In the latest Taliban-claimed attack in the Afghan capital, mil-itants detonated the bomb and then tried to fight their way into the compound housing G4S se-
curity company late Wednesday, authorities said.
“Five attackers were involved, one detonated his vehicle at the gate, and four others were on foot and they entered the build-ing,” interior ministry spokes-man Najib Danish said.
One survivor, Abdul Moham-mad, said he and his nephew had just passed the compound when the bomb detonated.
“I lost consciousness but regained it in a few minutes,” he said from his hospital bed.
“I felt a lot of debris hitting us. I tried to pick my nephew up but couldn’t do it... I realised he was dead.”
G4S, which according to its website provides security for British diplomats in Kabul, was also targeted in an attack in March, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives before reaching the entrance of the complex.
Afghan security forces gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm’s compound in Kabul
Bahrain affirms solidarity with Afghanistan and UKTDT | Manama
Bahrain yesterday con-demned the terrorist ex-
plosion that targeted a British security complex in Kabul, Afghanistan.
In a statement, Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed its solidarity with the United Kingdom and the Islamic Republic of Afghani-stan “in combating violence, extremism and terrorism.”
The ministry expressed deep condolences to the fam-ilies of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery to those injured as a result of the hei-nous terrorist act.
Hundreds of Gazans at risk of infection: MSFAFP | Ramallah, Palestinian Territories
Around 1,000 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during months of border clashes have infections
that could leave them permanently crip-pled, medical charity MSF said yesterday, labelling it a “slow-motion healthcare emergency.”
Around 6,000 Palestinians have been shot by Israeli forces during often violent demonstrations along the Gaza border since March, according to the health ministry in the strip.
MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), which has provided care for thousands of Palestinians since the protests began, said the healthcare systems in Gaza were being overwhelmed by the number of cases and the often complicated treat-ments needed.
Most of those hurt by live fire were shot in the legs, often resulting in open fractures prone to infection, MSF said.
Around 1,000 have infections that
could lead ultimately to amputations or even death.
“This many patients would over-stretch the best healthcare systems in
the world. In Gaza, it is a crushing blow,” Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, MSF’s chief for the Palestinian territories, said in a state-ment.
The NGO called on Israel to allow those injured out of the blockaded strip for necessary treatment and for govern-ments to offer their medical facilities for the wounded.
“The alternative –- that thousands of patients will be left to deal with terrible injuries, with many permanently dis-abled and dependent on their families –- is unconscionable when adequate treatment is within the world’s grasp.”
Israel maintains a tight blockade of Gaza it says is necessary to isolate the strip’s rulers Hamas and keep the Is-lamist group from obtaining weapons or material that could be used to make them.
Critics say it amounts to collective punishment of the two million residents.
The border protests have been backed by Hamas, with which Israel has fought three wars since 2008.
Protesters are calling for Palestinian refugees to be able to return to their former homes now inside Israel.
Palestinian protesters carry national flags during clashes with Israeli forces
Facebook mulled charging for access to user dataSan Francisco, United States
Facebook yesterday said it considered charging appli-
cation makers to access data at the social network.
Such a move would have been a major shift away from the pol-icy of not selling Facebook mem-bers’ information, which the
social network has stressed in the face of criticism alleging it is more interested in making money than protecting privacy.
“To be clear, Facebook has never sold anyone’s data,” di-rector of developer platforms and programs Konstantinos Pa-pamiltiadis said in response to an AFP inquiry.
“Our APIs have always been free of charge and we have never required developers to pay for using them, either directly or by buying advertising.”
The Wall Street Journal re-ported that internal emails in-dicating that Facebook mulled charging companies for access to user data were referred to in
a lawsuit filed against the social network in 2015 by Six4Three, creator of a failed app called “Pi-kinis.” The application enabled users to find Facebook pictures of people in bathing suits, taking advantage of an API feature that let apps access the data of social network users as well as their friends.Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (file)
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Fikra, a testament to Bahrain’s development efforts: HRH CP
TDT | Manama
His Royal the Crown Prince yesterday hailed the government inno-
vation competition - Fikra as a testament to Bahrain’s commit-ment to continue placing citi-zens at the heart of all develop-ment efforts.
Fikra has tremendous poten-tial to advance competitiveness across various sectors, His Roy-al Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Com-mander and First Deputy Prime Minister said.
While meeting the 12 project owners shortlisted for competi-tion at Gudaibiya Palace, Prince Salman provided four winning
projects’ owners with an op-portunity to present their ideas to the Government Executive Committee.
HRH the Crown Prince noted
that the government continues to advance innovation and excel-lence across all its work streams, in line with the aspirations of HM King Hamad.
A total of 565 applications underwent intensive review by a number of committees before being evaluated by a Ministerial Committee. Mem-
bers of the public also partic-ipated in the review process by voting for the ideas of their choice.
The three projects that have
been selected by the Ministeri-al Committee are: ‘Hospitality’ by Ahmed Al Turaifi working at the Ministry of Foreign Af-fairs, ‘E-Volunteer Platform’ by Shaikh Salman bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Mubarak Al Tamim, Mai Salah Abdulla and Hisham Mubarak Albufalasa, working at the Ministry of Interior; and ‘The National System for Ap-pointments’ by Adel Al Qallaf working at the Ministry of Jus-tice, Islamic Affairs and Endow-ment.
Members of the public voted for the ‘Work from Home’ pro-ject by Abdullah Mohammed Al Ahmed working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nouf Mo-hammed Al Ahmed working at the Ministry of Finance.
HRH the Crown Prince meeting project owners shortlisted for Fikra at Gudaibiya palace
Bahrain kicks off extraordinary session of Islamic conferenceTDT | Manama
The extraordinary session of Islamic Conference of
Culture Ministers kicked off in the Kingdom yesterday under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa highlighting the theme “To-gether for Safeguarding Hu-man Heritage and Countering Extremism”.
The conference was attended by the President of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and An-tiquities (BACA), Shaikha Mai bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Director-General of the Islam-ic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISES-CO), Dr Abdulaziz Altwaijri, Secretary General of Organi-sation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen Sudan’s Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiq-uities, Omer Suleiman Adam, and culture minister of Islamic countries.
In her opening speech, BACA President stressed that culture is the best means to resist the
challenges currently faced by Arab and Islamic countries.
She highlighted the Pearling Path Visitor and Experience Centre in Muharraq, which was inaugurated recently within the “Muharraq as Capital of Islamic Culture”, and as part of BACA’s efforts to implement cultural infrastructure projects.
ISESCO chief highlighted the importance of the extraordi-nary session’s theme, calling on the International Community to safeguard Islamic heritage in Al-Quds City form Israeli aggression.
Sudan’s Minister of Culture,
Tourism and Antiquities con-gratulated BACA on the success of its events held as part of the “Muharraq as Capital of Islamic Culture”.
The conference featured the signing of various memoranda of cultural cooperation, includ-ing the signature of a cooper-ation agreement on arrange-ments for the 11th Islamic Con-ference between ISESCO and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Tunisia, a Mou between ISESCO and the Arab Centre for Tour-ism Media, and a MoU between ISESCO and the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage.
Bahrain hosts extraordinary session of Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers
Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan with the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) George Mavrikos and Executive Council Chairman of Bahrain Free Labour Unions Federation (BFLUF) Yacoub Yousef Mohammed. They discussed ways to strengthen cooperation to serve the labour and trade union movement in Bahrain
The President of the Republic of Singapore, Halimah Yacob, received yesterday the credentials of Ambassador Ahmed Abdullah Al-Hajri as the Non-Resident, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Bahrain to the Republic of Singapore. Both sides stressed the need to strengthen cooperation in various fields, especially in the economic and cultural fields.
Graduate inmates honouredTDT | Manama
General Directorate of Reformation and Reha-
bilitation held an honouring ceremony for inmates who graduated from the Nasser Centre for Rehabilitation and Vocational Training.
The event was attended by their families and repre-sentatives from concerned authorities.
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More beaches in MuharraqTDT | Manama
Mohammed Zafran
Three new beaches could open in Muharraq with-in “a year or two”, a top
official has said.Construction works, in collab-
oration with Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority, may begin by the end of this year or early next year, said outgoing Muharraq Municipal Council Chairman Mohammed Al Sinan.
He told Tribune that the new beaches will be in Galali, Al Hala and Al Ghous saying, “All of them are massive and will be open to the public, although there will be some sections that will be private.”
“Works on all beaches will start almost at the same time,” he said adding that there is a chance that it could start by the end of this year.
Speaking about some of the important projects during his term, he said, “In four years we had many impressive achieve-ments in Muharraq.”
“Some of the projects include the beach in busaiteen, muhar-raq central market, jogging paths on Dair and Galali, four gardens and agreements on building three malls. Some of them have started while others are yet to start,” he told Tribune.
“I am pleased with the achievements during my term. We are glad to know that people appreciate what we have done,” he added.
When asked about his advice
to the new council, he told Trib-une: “My advice to the new coun-cil is to keep up the momentum.”
“Muharraq is in a great shape now,” he said adding that vigor-ous efforts are needed to main-tain the progress.
“If we do not keep up the ef-forts, all the previous efforts will go in vain.
“But I have faith, I believe that the new council will continue to keep up our good work,” he told Tribune.
Mohammed Al Sinan, Muharraq Municipal Council Chairman
A Beach in Muharraq governorate
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Investigations found that the suspects detonat-
ed the explosions targeting police vehicles in various parts of Bahrain and caused injuries to a
number of police personnel and civilians
We look forward to receiving more cruise ships over
the next few months with an aim to
promote Bahrain’s unique tourism
offerings
SHAIKH KHALED BIN HUMOOD AL KHALIFA, THE CEO OF BTEA
Terror cell case: High Court awards capital punishments • One of the blasts took the life of Policeman Salman Anjum
• Death sentences were awarded to second and third convicts
• Court revoked citizenship of all involved
TDT | Manama
The High Criminal Court yesterday awarded death penalty to two convicts
and ordered life imprisonment to another for deliberate murder and assassination attempts on police personnel and civilians.
Death penalties were given to the second and third suspects along with a fine of BD500
each, while the first defendant received a life term and BD500 fine.
The fourth defendant re-ceived a 10-year jail sentence and the fifth defendant 7 years, Chief of Terror Crime Prosecu-tion, Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi said.
The court also ordered the first, second and third defend-ants to pay for the damages and also revoked the citizenship of all suspects.
The suspects were charged and convicted for their estab-lishment, joining and running a terrorist group, the detonation of explosive devices, handling, possession and training to use weapons, deliberate murder and attempted assassination of po-lice personnel and civilians, as well as the destruction of private and public properties.
The perpetrators, according to a report filed by Public Prose-cution to the court, were instru-
mental in committing several terrorist activities in the King-dom. They attacked policemen by planting explosive devices in places where the security per-sonnel and vehicles assembled or passed, the report said.
The first suspect who was a fugitive at large in Iran recruited others in Bahrain to implement
their terrorist plot. The second and third suspects in coordina-tion and prearrangement with the fourth suspect, who was also a fugitive at large in Iran, received training on manufac-turing and detonating explosive
devices in 2011.The first suspect asked the
second suspect in early 2017 through the sister of the fifth suspect to join the terrorist group led by him to carry out terrorist attacks in Bahrain.
The first suspect was able to recruit the second suspect and tasked him with the recruitment
of others in Bahrain to assist and help him, including the third suspect.
The first suspect also supplied them with explosive devices and explosive substances as well as weapons and monetary support
to fund their criminal activity. Explosives were supplied
by the first suspects to others through other contacts in the Kingdom.
The second and third suspects et alia detonated several bomb blasts in the Kingdom after planting the explosive devices on roads where security person-nel and vehicles assembled or passed. One of them monitored the device location, while the other photographed the act of detonation to send it to the first suspect.
Investigations found that the suspects detonated the explo-sions targeting police vehicles in various parts of Bahrain and caused injuries to a number of police personnel and civilians.
The explosions also damaged private and public properties.
One of these bomb blasts took the life of Policeman Salman Anjum and wounded other po-licemen on 27 October 2017.
21 face trial over terrorist activities
TDT | Manama
Th e H i g h C r i m i n a l Court sentenced two
to 15 years in jail and or-dered them to pay fines of BD200,000 and BD100,000.
The court also gave seven others jail terms of 10 years and a fine of BD100,000 each.
The court ruled prison sentences ranging from six months to seven years and revoked the citizenship from 14 defendants.
Incidents leading to the verdict started, when the public prosecution was informed about a fugitive, convicted for several ter-rorist crimes and residing in Iran, who recruited another to carry out terror attacks in Bahrain.
Investigators found that they smuggled guns and explosives into the King-dom and handed them over to the second defendant to hide them for the purpose of attacking security patrols and police officers.
The second defendant re-cruited people to assist him in obtaining the weapons, ammunition and explosives and distributing them to cell members.
Two of the members re-ceived paramilitary training on explosives and weapons in Iraq.
Some of the suspects harboured cell members to protect them from security authorities in an attempt to smuggle them out to Iran.
Head of the anti-terror crime prosecution Ahmed Al Hammadi said that six of the 21 defendants were tried in absentia
Terrorists get life for kidnapping, torturing TDT | Manama
The High Criminal Court sentenced two to life
and eight others to 15 years in jail. The court also sen-tenced two others to 10 years in prison.
According to the head of the anti-terror crimes pros-ecution Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi, the defendants were charged with forming the so-called the “Commission for the Se-cret Services of the Revolu-tion” in Bahrain to detain people suspected of coop-erating with the official se-curity agencies and coerce them through torture into confessions.
They kidnapped four people on different dates, detained and tortured them.
Cruising full speed ahead • BTEA expects to see a 26 per cent jump in tourist arrival this season
TDT | Manama
A 26 per cent increase in cruise ship arrivals is ex-
pected during this season, said a top BTEA official yesterday as the season started cruising ahead with more ships making port calls.
Italian cruise ship MSC Lirica is the latest to touch Bahrain during this season which be-gan with the arrival of Mein Schiff 4.
Speaking about MSC Lirica cruise ship which arrived in the Kingdom on 27 November 2018, Shaikh Khaled bin Hu-mood Al Khalifa, the CEO of BTEA said, “The Italian cruise ship had over 1,990 tour-ists onboard from different nationalities.”
MSC Lirica with eight trips and other vessels including the TUI Discovery and Thomson Celebration is also marking their debut in Bahrain.
A tour around the Kingdom was organised for the visitors to see some of Bahrain’s tour-ist attractions and learn about the Kingdom’s contemporary and ancient sites including Bab Al Bahrain, Al Fateh Grand Mosque, Bahrain National Mu-seum.
“These ships contribute in the arrival of multi-nation-al passengers to the King-dom and exposing them to its rich history and tourism offerings,” Shaikh Khaled added.
Italian cruise ship MSC Lirica is the latest to reach Bahrain
Two arrested for receiving funds from Qatar illegally
• The suspects tried to influence the parliamentary election with the funds received from a Qatari Minister
• Investigators found that the suspect also visited Qatar to receive payments directly
TDT | Manama
The High Criminal Court will hear arguments in
the high-profile case of two men, who were found to have received funds from abroad without authorisation from the competent authority, on December 3.
Based on the investigation conducted by the Public Pros-ecution, Advocate General Dr Ahmed Al Hammadi said two Bahraini nationals received money from former Qatari minister Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani through bank ac-counts.
Investigators also found t h a t t h e s u s p e c t v i s i t -ed Qatar on various occa-sions to receive payments directly.
One of the suspects, accord-ing to investigators, used the money to support his electoral campaign for the parliamenta-ry elections.
Their intentions, one of the suspects confessed during in-terrogations, were to under-mine the national interests by interfering in the internal affairs of Bahrain and influ-encing the work of the legisla-tive institutions to serve Qatari interests.
A judicial permission was issued to control and record telephone calls between the suspects, which confirmed the investigations.
Following an order by the Public Prosecution, the two suspects were arrested at Bahrain International Airport upon their return from Qa-tar with more than BD12,000 and 5000 Qatari Riyals in their possession without declaring them at the Customs Depart-ment.
Toastmasters International on 23 November 2018 held three live open-to-public meeting Toastmasters meetings in Saar Mall. Area 16, of District 20 (covering Bahrain & Kuwait), organised this event to promote the benefits of the programme to the public. Members during the meeting delivered speeches, gave feedback, created fun activities for them and the mall visitors
Man held with BD36,000 ShabuTDT | Manama
Director- General of Criminal Investiga-
tion and Forensic Science announced yesterday the arrest of a man with the “Shabu” worth BD36,000.
A tip-off received led to identifying and arresting the suspect. Shabu was found from the suspect’s home. The case will be referred to Public Prosecution.
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TaaWin, Contrive win big at young entrepreneurs meet
TDT | Manama
Is Lack of space a limiting factor for development in today’s busy world? Many
studies have pointed fingers in this direction. However, here in Bahrain, “TaaWin, a company established by a group of Royal University for Women students, has figured out a way to solve this scarcity in an interesting way.
Their work, the “RestnGo” book, which is transformable to a portable chair has turned many heads including that of the top experts in the region.
And they were not alone in the quest. Students from Shai-kha Hessa Girls School with their “CONTRIVE” Company also grouped together in a bid to help others.
“Knowledge Hunt”, a mobile application developed by their company aims to enhance teach-ing, learning and developing soft skills.
The “Knowledge Hunt”, ac-cording to the students, is an educational and dynamic board game connected to an applica-tion available on App Store & Google Play.
‘TaaWin’ has won the univer-sity Product of the Year Award, while ‘CONTRIVE’ has won high
school Company of the Year Award.
Both teams representing the Kingdom of Bahrain, have com-peted amongst many regional teams, yet earning the title and winning the YEC 2018 compe-tition.
All this happened at 12th An-nual Young Arab Entrepreneurs Competition organised by IN-JAZ Al Arab, a member of Junior
Achievement Worldwide (JA). Held in Kuwait at the Jumei-
rah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, the annual competition highlighted the achievements of students throughout INJAZ Al Arab’s company programme.
The two-day event held a busy agenda, mainly presenting the winning teams with awards giv-en by INJAZ Al Arab, FedEx, MBC Al Amal, Citi Foundation, and
Boeing. “Representing the Kingdom of
Bahrain at the YEC 2018 fills our hearts with honour and pride. We are proud of Bahrain’s par-ticipating teams, we are proud of all the fresh and innovative ideas presented, last but not least, we are grateful to our stakeholders’ continuous support and efforts which brought us here today,” said Hana Al Sarwani, the Exec-
utive Director of INJAZ Bahrain. Dr Abdulrahman Jawahery,
GPIC president and INJAZ board member, congratulated Her Highness Shaikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa saying, “ Your Highness has played a vital role in leading by example, support-ing and motivating INJAZ stu-dents throughout this journey, which brings them to where they stand today. The teams
have earned their success and have definitely raised the bar for creativity during this important regional event.”
Asheesh Advani , Junior Achievement Worldwide CEO, said during his welcoming speech: “The Junior Achieve-ment alumni network now has business leaders, political social entrepreneurs, corporate exec-utives and job creators all over the world.”
This year’s regional competi-tion was organised in partner-ship with global and regional entities, mainly FedEx, MBC Al Amal, Citi Foundation, and Boe-ing, with the support of local partners from Kuwait including Zain and Kuwait Airways.
‘TaaWin’ has won the university Product of the Year Award, while ‘CONTRIVE’ has won high school Company of the Year Award
NMS student shines at NTSE 2018
TDT | Manama
Siddharth Manakil, a grade XI student of New
Millennium School, DPS Bahrain has emerged as NTSE Scholar, clearing the second round of National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2018.
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India conducts the National Tal-ent Search Examination for students studying in Class ten.
Siddharth Manakil
Stage set for ISB “Mega Fair 2018”• Mega Fair on December 20, 21 at Isa Town campus
• Proceeds will be used for charity
TDT | Manama
The Indian School Bahrain (ISB) Mega Fair 2018 will
be held at the school campus in Isa Town on December 20 and 21, 2018.
An organising committee has been formed for the purpose with S Inayadullah as the Gen-eral Convener.
Musical programmes led by Indian playback singer Vid-hu Prathap, Gayathri and Sanjith Salamon will be held on Decem-ber 20 and popular singer Pri-yanka Negi on December 21.
Various cultural programmes
will be presented by the stu-dents and former school stu-dents. Programmes include ex-hibitions, food festival as well as tournaments in cricket, football, volleyball and badminton.
“The funds generated from the fair will be utilised for pro-viding fee concessions to the
economically underprivileged students, welfare activities for the staff and enhance the re-sources of the school,” said ISB Chairman Prince S Natarajan during the press conference.
Entry fee for the Mega Fair is BD2. ISB Secretary Saji An-tony, Organising Committee
General Convener S Inayadul-lah and Principal VR Pala-niswamy addressed the press meet.
ISB Vice Chairman Jayafar Maidani, Asst. Secretary Pre-malatha NS, EC Members Mo-hammad Khursheed Alam, Adv. Binu Mannil Varughese,
Rajesh MN, Saji George, Deepak Gopalakrishnan, Mohammed Nayaz Ullah, Ajayakrishnan V, Riffa Campus Principal Pame-la Xavier, Mega Fair Advisory Committee Member Moham-med Malim and members of the organising committee were present.
ISB officials during the press conference
Asian School win Inter School Science Quiz competition TDT | Manama
Asian School emerged vic-torious in the Inter School
Science Quiz Competition (QUARKS 2018) organised by New Millennium School- DPS for CBSE schools in Bahrain.
New Millennium School team (Thanvi Jeyashankar, Chakradhara Chowdary and Jithin Rajan) emerged second in the competition, with Indian School team (Aditya Sreeku-
mar, Andre Andrew and Devis-ree Sumesh) securing the third spot. The winners were awarded the trophies.
The winning team of the Asian School includes Nevin Varghese Alappat, Hari Shankar Prasad, and Kapil Rajesh Kavita as team members.
Dr Ravi Pillai, Chairman, Gee-tha Pillai, Managing Director and Arun Kuumar Sharma, Prin-cipal congratulated the winning teams.
We are proud of Bahrain’s
participating teams, we are proud of all the fresh and innovative ideas
presentedHANA AL SARWANI, THE EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF INJAZ BAHRAIN
Winners during a photocall
Man held with BD36,000 ShabuTDT | Manama
Director- General of Criminal Investiga-
tion and Forensic Science announced yesterday the arrest of a man with the “Shabu” worth BD36,000.
A tip-off received led to identifying and arresting the suspect. Shabu was found from the suspect’s home. The case will be referred to Public Prosecution.
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Sri Lanka parliament blocks cash flow to Rajapakse’s office
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s parliament voted yesterday to block
any spending by the prime minister’s office, further paralysing a government adrift from weeks of con-flict as two rivals claim to run the country.
The island has been in cri-sis since October 26 when the president sacked prime minister Ranil Wickrem-esinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapakse, a charismatic but divisive former leader.
Wickremesinghe has re-fused to stand aside and commands a majority in parliament, which has twice voted against Rajakapse’s leadership and demanded he vacate the top office.
The war- era strong-man has doubled down and backed by President Maithripala Sirisena, has named a cabinet and as-sumed duties as head of a disputed government with-out parliamentary support.
Sri Lanka’s parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya looks on in the parliament chamber
India’s Earth satellite among 31 sent into spaceReuters | New Delhi
India fired a rocket carrying 31 satellites into space yes-
terday, including its own ad-vanced earth observation sat-ellite among the other smaller ones launched for eight coun-tries.
The rocket launched from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh carried the Hy-per-Spectral Imaging Satellite
(HysIS) with high resolution, digital-imaging equipment to map the earth, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. Satellites from Australia, Colombia, Malaysia and Spain were included.
“The highlight of this launch, #HysIS, will be India’s first hyperspectral imaging satellite!,” India’s information and broadcasting minister Ra-jyavardhan Rathore said.
© GRAPHIC NEWSSources: Associated Press, BBC, Interfax
Russia to deploy new missiles in Crimea
Annexed by Russia in 2014Areas under martial law
Held by Russian-backed separatistsCurrent S-400 bases in Crimea
Russia is planning to deploy more S-400 surface-to-air missiles to theoccupied Crimean peninsula. The move comes amid rising tensions
over Moscow’s seizure of three Ukrainian ships and their crews
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Reggae music on UNESCO heritage listPort Louis, Mauritius
Reggae music, whose calm, lilting grooves found inter-
national fame thanks to artists like Bob Marley, on Thursday won a spot on the United Na-tions’ list of global cultural treasures.
UNESCO, the world body’s cultural and scientific agency, added the genre that originated in Jamaica to its collection of “intangible cultural heritage”
deemed worthy of protection and promotion. Reggae music’s “contribution to international discourse on issues of injustice, resistance, love and humanity underscores the dynamics of the element as being at once cerebral, socio-political, sensual and spiritual,” UNESCO said.
The musical style joined a list of cultural traditions that in-cludes the horsemanship of the Spanish Riding School in Vien-na, a Mongolian camel-coaxing
ritual and Czech puppetry, and more than 300 other tradition-al practices that range from boat-building, pilgrimages and cooking. Reggae emerged in the late 1960s out of Jamaica’s ska and rocksteady genres, also drawing influence from Ameri-can jazz and blues.
It was often championed as a music of the oppressed, with lyrics addressing sociopolitical issues, imprisonment and ine-quality.
Reggae quickly became a global phenomenon thanks to singers such as Bob Marley
Gabon president leaves Saudi hospital: state media
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo, who has spent
a month in treatment at a Saudi hospital, has left Ri-yadh, state media in the kingdom reported, without saying where he went.
As he departed King Sal-man airbase on Wednesday night, Bongo was seen off by officials from the Saudi foreign ministry,the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The president ’s wife said this week in a post on Facebook that he would be transferred to the Moroccan capital Rabat on Wednesday to continue his recovery.
Bongo, 59, had been at the hospital in Saudi Ara-bia since October 24 when he fell ill at an economic forum.
Putin defends seizure of Ukrainian ships• Putin said it had been orchestrated by Kiev as a “provocation”
• He said Ukrainian ships refused to respond
• Ukrainian imposes martial law for 30 days in regions bordering Russia
AFP | Moscow, Russia
President Vladimir Putin has insisted that Russian forces were in the right
to seize three Ukrainian ships last weekend, but President Donald Trump expressed “deep concern” at Moscow’s actions against a US ally.
In his first extensive remarks since the confrontation at sea on Sunday, Putin said it had been orchestrated by Kiev as a “prov-ocation”.
He said the Ukrainian ships had entered Russian territorial waters and refused to respond to requests to stop from Russian patrol boats.
“What were they (Russian forces) supposed to do?” Pu-tin said yesterday, when asked about the incident at an inter-national investment forum in Moscow.
“They were fulfilling their military duty. They were ful-filling their lawful functions in protecting Russia’s borders. They would do the same in your country.”
Moscow and Kiev have trad-ed angry accusations since Russian navy vessels fired on, boarded and captured the three Ukrainian ships off the coast of Crimea.
After warning of the threat of “full-scale war”, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday signed an act im-posing martial law for 30 days in regions bordering Russia, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
He also appealed to NATO members including Germany to send naval vessels to the re-gion to back his country in the standoff.
“Germany is one of our closest allies, and we hope that states within NATO are now ready to relocate naval ships to the Sea of Azov in order to assist Ukraine and provide securi-ty,” he said in comments pub-
lished Thursday by Germany’s Bild daily.
Western governments have rallied behind Kiev, accusing Russia of illegally blocking ac-cess to the Sea of Azov, used by both countries, and of using
force without justification.Trump on Tuesday threat-
ened to cancel planned talks with Putin at this week’s G20 summit in Buenos Aires over the incident.
The White House on Wednes-day said Trump and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdo-gan discussed the Ukraine-Rus-sia incident by telephone and “the two leaders expressed deep concern about the incident in the Kerch Strait and the con-tinued detainment of Ukraine’s vessels and crew members”.
‘Bring our boys home’The Ukrainian vessels -- a tug and two gunboats -- were try-ing to pass through the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, but were refused access and chased into inter-national waters by 10 Russian vessels.
Kiev has demanded the return of its ships and the release of 24 sailors taken prisoner during the confrontation.
The sailors have been put be-fore a court in Simferopol, the main city in Russian-annexed Crimea, and ordered to be held in pre-trial detention for two months.
Detention orders were made against 15 of them on Tuesday, including three still in hospital, and nine more on Wednesday.
What were they (Russian forces) supposed to do?.
They were fulfilling their military
duty. They were fulfilling their
lawful functions in protecting Russia’s
borders. They would do the same in your
country
PUTIN SAID
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE INCIDENT AT AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT
FORUM IN MOSCOW.
8,000-barrel Amazon oil spillLima, Peru
A Peruvian oil executive warned yesterday of
“catastrophe” after indige-nous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil.
“We could face an envi-ronmental catastrophe,” Be-atriz Alva, a manager with state oil firm Petroperu, told channel N television.
Residents in a remote community of Morona dis-trict “cut the pipeline” t and prevented workers from re-pairing it, Alva said.
China orders halt to baby gene-editing activities: state TVBeijing, China
China’s science minis-try has ordered that
people involved in the con-troversial baby gene-edit-ing experiment halt their activities, a government official told state media yesterday.
The ministry “firmly op-poses the baby gene-edit-ing incident and has already demanded that the relevant organisation suspend the scientific activities of rele-vant personnel,” a ministry official said, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
The experiment, which was led by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, claims to have altered the DNA of twin girls born a few weeks ago to pre-vent them from contracting HIV.
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Divine punishmentResearchers unveils ancient Ninja oath pledging never to divulge secrets
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese researchers have uncovered a rare, centuries-old, Ninja
oath pledging never to di-vulge the secrets of their spying and sabotage skills -- on pain of divine retribution for generations.
Written in cursive calligra-phy, the oath contains six prom-ises and was signed some 300 years ago by “Inosuke Kizu”.
Kizu was a Ninja from a clan in Iga, a moun-tain-shroud-ed town near
the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto.
Expressing gratitude to his superior for passing on “nin-jutsu” or “the art of the Ninja”, Kizu pledged he would never pass the knowledge on -- even to his children or brothers -- and would never use it to steal unless so ordered.
In his oath, the Ninja ac-knowledges that if he broke the promises even by a little, he’d be punished by “big and small gods in more than 60 provinces across Japan” for generations.
The rare document shows how strict Ninjas were
about keeping their
skills and techniques secret, said Yoshiki Takao, associate professor at the state-run Mie University’s International Ninja Research Center.
“Thieves and Ninjas did the same thing -- sneaking into oth-er people’s houses -- but Ninjas prized morality highly,” Takao said.
“Ninjas were ‘public servants’ in today’s terms, providing se-curity services and collecting information,” added the expert.
Also of interest to scholars was a vow in the oath to report to his superiors any new skills, tools or firearms that were not in the “Bansenshukai”, a secre-
tive 17th-century text c o n -
sidered to be somewhat of a Ninja encyclopedia.
Kizu noted he could show only three chapters of the “Bansen-shukai” to top-ranking samurais who employed ninjas and vowed not to disclose the book’s con-tents in other writings.
This interests scholars be-cause “it shows that Bansen-shukai was actually becoming used as a textbook,” Takao said, even though it left crucial points vague.
The contents of the multi-vol-ume book are now known to the public but many Ninja traditions remain hidden as important se-crets were passed on by word of mouth.
The oath was among some 130 ancient documents
left to the universi-ty by the 16th head of the Kizu family.
The existence of the oath was un-veiled five decades ago in Japan but its whereabouts were unknown until now, according to Takao.
Inosuke, who sub-mitted the oath, was the fifth head and last Ninja from the Kizu family.
The oath document was believed to have been returned to his family af-ter his death, Takao said.
The research centre is also based in Iga, some 350 kilometres (220 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Cooperating with engi-neering and sciencew de-partments of Mie University, the institute has been trying to reproduce Ninjas’ legacy
including their food and tools.
An ancient Ninja oath written in cursive calligraphy
containing six promises and signed some 300 years ago
by "Inosuke Kizu".
Written in cursive calligraphy, the oath contains six promises and was signed some 300 years ago by “Inosuke Kizu”, in which a Ninja acknowledgs that if he broke the promises even by a little he’d be punished by “big and small gods in more than 60 provinces across Japan” for generations.
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Tutankhamun show set to tour worldParis, France
Four decades after the boy pharaoh caused a sensa-tion in the US and Europe,
treasures from the tomb of Tut-ankhamun are to tour the world again -- many for the first time.
More than 50 of the 150 art-works from his tomb in the show will only ever leave Cairo once, say the Egyptian author-ities, who are organising the tour in the run-up to the 2020 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
“Treasures of the Golden Pharoah” -- which opened in Los Angeles in March -- will go on show in Paris next March at the giant la Villette arts com-plex. It is the show’s only stop in continental Europe.
The organisers have yet to unveil the other nine cities on the world tour.
Previous exhibitions about the boy pharaoh have been re-cord-breaking blockbusters, setting off “Tut-mania” around the globe.
More than eight million peo-ple attended a 1973 show, “The Treasures of Tutankhamun”, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Another 1.2 million people queued to see a smaller exhi-bition six years earlier at the
Petit Palais in Paris in what was called “the show of the centu-ry”.
Dr Mostafa Waziry of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said the tour was also to “cele-brate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of the boy king”.
“The discovery of Tutankha-mun’s unplundered tomb re-vived our fascination with Egypt and its buried treasure,” said Vincent Rondot, head of the Egypt department at the Louvre museum. The Louvre is lending one of its masterpieces, a statue of the god Amun protecting Tu-tankhamun, to the show.
The Paris show will run from March 23 until September 15, 2019.
The Los Angeles show at the California Science Center closes in January.
The Golden Mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum.
The sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun is pictured at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum.
“Treasures of the Golden Pharoah”
-- which opened in Los Angeles in March -- will go on show in Paris next March at the giant la Villette
arts complex. It is the show’s only stop in continental Europe.
US life expectancy drops again as overdoses climbTampa, United States
Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet
again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb -- taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 -- and suicides rose, a US gov-ernment report said yesterday.
The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 percent compared to 2016, while suicides climbed 3.7 per-cent, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.
As a result, the average life span in America dropped to “78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016,” said the re-port.The data comes as the United States grapples with a vast opioid epidemic, fueled by addiction to prescription painkillers as well as street drugs like heroin and synthetic opioids including fentanyl.
“The latest CDC data show that the US life expectancy has declined over the past few years. Tragically, this trou-bling trend is largely driven
by deaths from drug overdose and suicide,” said CDC director Robert Redfield.
“Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the nation’s over-all health and these sobering statistics are a wakeup call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable.”
Overall, the statistics show a “downward trend in life ex-pectancy since 2014,” a time period in which Americans have lost 0.3 years of life.
Canadians live on average three years longer than Amer-icans. Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world, at almost 84.
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IF YOU’RE WALKING DOWN THE RIGHT PATH AND YOU’RE WILLING TO KEEP WALKING, EVENTUALLY YOU’LL MAKE PROGRESS. BARACK OBAMA
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M U S I C S C E N E
FRIDAY November 30, 2018
The poetic licence of Arab indie scene leader
Tania SalehTania Saleh’s latest album
‘Intersection’ marries fierce
lyricism to cutting-edge
music, continuing her influential
status.
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Haneen Turkistany sketches her own path to success
Tania Saleh performs during a music festival
A pencil scribble by Haneen Turkistany
Arab News | Jeddah
When people attain a high level of creativity and are able to dive into their imagina-
tions, they tend to create their own world and maybe their own creatures in their head. This is how a creative young Saudi artist defined her brand, Moshkhmt.
The word “Moshkhmt” is Saudi slang mean-ing pencil scribble. As the name suggests, it is all about one’s power of imagination. It is all about one’s unique perception of the world and to express it through a simple sketch without uttering a word.
Haneen Turkistany, 24, the founder of the brand, explained: “Fear was the main motive for me to start and create the character Moshkhmt.”
Turkistany used the Moshkhmt character to draw a full graphic novel that was exclusive to Comic Con Dubai 2018 and will be published soon in the Middle East.
The brand offers products such as sketch-
books, notebooks, pins, stickers and wrapping sheets with creative signs and logos using the character Moshkhmt. It also focuses on the moon, stars and the outer space. All products are available at @crate.ksa.
Explaining the basic concept and aim of Mosh-khmt, Turkistany said: “Moshkhmt is there in each one of us, young and old. It is there in our memories and dreams, our joy and pain. It could be a loved one or a target we aspire to achieve. Moshkhmt is not just a brand. It is a story in every heartbeat, and I can say that life is mainly my audience.’’
Such startups encourage the creative side of all talented Saudi youths, as they make them realize the ultimate goal in life is not just mate-rial well-being or to run after wealth. With the right attitude and using one’s talent in a positive manner, wealth and success follow. This is what Turkistany believed in and launched her brand in July 2017.
She is not only an artist but also an intellectual with a message to convey to the world. “All I wish A work by Haneen Turkistany
The National | Beirut
The Arabic indie-music scene is in rude health.
2017 went down as a fruitful one, with a series of quality albums released, ranging from Egyptian rockers Cairokee (Noaata Beida) and Ramy Essam (A Letter to the UN Security Coun-cil) to Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi’s Ensen and Al Jamilat by Lebanese songstress Yasmine Hamdan.
While only a few weeks were left to go until the year was out, Lebanon’s indie-music pioneer and visual artist Tania Saleh added another release to 2017’s bumper collection.
Ever since her 2002 self-titled debut, which is largely credited as helping to kick start Leba-non’s vibrant indie-music scene, Saleh follow-up albums have all been marked by fierce lyricism and adventurous songwriting.
For her fifth album, the electro-influenced ‘Intersection’, the 48 year-old merges all of her talents for a project that includes music, litera-ture, art and filmmaking. The 13-song collection is primarily made up of lyrics taken from poems by some of the finest Arabic writers of the 20th century, while the booklet contains street art that Saleh created across the Middle East. The album was also released with a YouTube documentary on its genesis.
It was the result of a restless creative mind.“I didn’t know what to do at first,” explains
Saleh. “I had all these ideas about ways that I wanted to approach the album and I even-tually settled for the concept of making it an audio-visual album. Then I realised that I didn’t know what that meant. I knew that I wanted to do draw as well as write songs. So I just started getting into it slowly.”
That three-year process of exploration resulted in Saleh penning two songs, ‘Show Me the Way’ and ‘Speechless’. She recalls being struck by the songs’ subject matter.
‘Show Me the Way’ poses question on where the Arab world, with its various conflicts, is heading: “From Khartoum to Aleppo / From Rabat to the Arab Gulf / What history is being written / Can you show me the way?”
The multi-layered ‘Speechless’ looks at those who perished as result of such turmoil: “Those who died for freedom, never had a chance to live it / Those who wrote songs for others, never had the chance to sing it / Those who died for the cause, never had a chance to solve it.”
Ironically, after examining the material, Saleh realised that she wouldn’t be writing her new project.
“It came from this realisation that what I was doing was actually writing about the Arab world and I was not the best person to talk about it,” she says.
“So I chose poets from the region that have tackled the problems better than me in the past century and whose work still resonates today.”
Saleh’s limited her personal writing contri-butions to those two songs; the rest all include poetry by late literary greats such as Palestine’s Mahmoud Darwish (Happy About Something), Syria’s Nizar Qabbani (Damascus) and Iraq’s Nazik Al Malaika (Invitation to a Dream) to con-temporary names such as Lebanese writer and activist Joumana Haddad (I, Lilith).
As well as the notion that justice and equality
are not guaranteed in life, another theme uniting the work of the poets is that they all tackle grand themes by surveying the lives of commoners.
“They wrote about these issues by looking at what is happening on their streets,” Saleh says. “They knew their environment very well and that came out in their words. For example, one of the of poems in the album is by the Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran called ‘No Justice in the Forests’, and he describes the world as a jungle where only the fittest survive.”
The urban imagery the poems elicited inspired Saleh to undertake a near-two-year-long research trip that saw her paint more than a dozen murals in bustling cities such as Beirut, Cairo, Tunis and Casablanca.
With Saleh academically trained as a visual artist before entering the music industry more than 15 years ago, she explains that each street-art piece was methodically planned, before being completed within 24 hours.
The works, Saleh explains, is more her take on what is happening in the region than reflecting the themes explored in the poems. On Cairo’s main arterial, October 6 Road, she painted an im-age of a clothes-line with T-shirts stating “I love New York”, “I love Berlin” and “I love Paris” – in the middle is a similar shirt with the declaration “I Love Ta’meya” – a reference to the Egyptian term for falafel.
“The concept behind this is that we might like to look like foreigners and be all hip and cool and speak different languages, but we also like our countries” she says. “It is also a message that we shouldn’t just want to import beauty from abroad. We have to also like who we are.”
A closer look among the hive of activity in Bei-rut’s Katarina crossroad and you will find another evocative image by Saleh: a congenial woman in a red dress holding a thread linking to a green map of the Arab world.
“By the way she is positioned, you don’t know if she is either going to sew it back together or bring it all apart,” Saleh says.
She admits to feeling somewhat depressed on the realisation that the issues of injustice, violence and inequality described in the poetrystill applies to the region today.
“It is important to point out,” she reasons. “Our society might need that slap on the face to maybe wake up. Sometimes you don’t realise that this has been going on for 100 years, until someone tells you.”
That is providing if they are willing to listen. Hence, Saleh’s decision to jettison most of her oriental folk stylings and infuse her album with dance beats to reach a younger generation.
To ensure the material doesn’t sound cheesy, she collaborated with Norway-based experimen-tal electronic-music producer Khalil Judran.
The Tunisian surrounded Saleh’s floaty vocals with shuddering beats, ranging from electro to dubstep in addition to squelchy and robotic sounds that are more at home in a sound instal-lation than an album.
Saleh states that Judran’s contributions were essential and not an after-thought. After learning of the Saleh’s ambitious plans, he went to his stu-dio and created a string of audio sketches – rang-ing from disparate beats and looped samples – to complement the vocal melodies. The fact that both artists shared a common heritage, Saleh says, allowed the collaboration to gel.
“That was very important because we were both on the same page, so to speak, in what I was trying to do,” she says. “I wanted to work with someone who understand Arabic poetry.”
As well as garnering critical acclaim, ‘Inter-section’ cements Saleh’s as one of the pioneers of the Lebanese indie-music scene. When asked to reflect on her influence, Saleh says is pleased the community is steadily growing.
“There are great bands out there producing quality music and then there is stuff that’s not good. Someone who decides to play with spoons on a frying pan and gets his hair dyed green, de-cides to make music and call himself or herself an independent band – that’s crap,” she says. “The problem is they put you under the same label. I don’t want to labelled an independent artist just like this spoon-playing dude.”
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TODAY IN HISTORY
S C R I B B L E S
Turkistany used the Moshkhmt
character to draw a full
graphic novel that was
exclusive to Comic Con
Dubai 2018 and will be published
soon in the Middle East
For her fifth album, the electro-influenced ‘Intersection’, Tania Saleh merges all of her
talents for a project that includes music, literature, art and filmmaking. The 13-song
collection is primarily made up of lyrics taken from poems by some of the finest Arabic
writers of the 20th century, while the booklet contains street art that Saleh created across
the Middle East
Hon. Chairman Najeb Yacob Alhamer | Editor-in-Chief Mahmood AI Mahmood | Deputy Editor-in-Chief Ahdeya Ahmed | Chairman & Managing Editor P Unnikrishnan | Advertisement: Update Media W.L.L | Tel: 38444692, Email: [email protected] | Newsroom: Tel: 38444680, Email: [email protected] & circulation: Tel: 38444698/17579877 | Email:[email protected] | Website: www.newsofbahrain.com | Printed and published by Al Ayam Publishing
Haneen Turkistany sketches her own path to success
1731Beijing hit by an earth-quake; about 100,000 die
Tania Saleh
for is that people should stop underestimating the power of their feelings (and ideas),” she said.
Turkistany is working on getting her brand recognized for its main concept and plans to continue developing her sketches and character to achieve international recognition
A work by Haneen Turkistany Haneen Turkistany
KFH Group wins two awards at banking conferenceTDT | Manama
Kuwait Finance House (KFH) announced winning two
awards at the 25th edition of the World Islamic Banking Con-ference (WIBC), which includes The Global Award and the Re-gional Award – for the GCC.
The conference was held from the 26 to 28 November 2018 at ART Rotana Hotel in Amwaj Is-lands, Bahrain.
Kuwait Finance House was the platinum sponsor of the event held under the title ‘Is-lamic Finance and Sustainable Economic Growth in the Age of Digital Transformation.’
The conference was held un-der the patronage of His Royal
Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and the Central Bank of Bahrain as a strategic partner.’
Abdulhakeem Al Khayyat, the Managing Director and CEO at KFH-Bahrain said: “We look for-ward to supporting more pres-tigious economic events that contribute to the development of both the Islamic sector and the national economy.”
As part of one of its subsid-iaries, Kuwait Finance House participated in a panel discus-sion entitled: Digital Technol-ogy – a digitizing campaign for an international bank, in which the discussion addressed several vital topics related to the Islamic banking sector.
For more than two decades, the World Islamic Banking Con-ference (WIBC) has been recog-nized as the largest and most influential international event, bringing together large numbers of international Islamic banking and finance institutions.
Through the strategic support of the Central Bank of Bahrain, the next generation of the World Islamic Banking Conference will focus on transforming Islamic finance into a global proposition by facilitating strategic oppor-tunities, addressing systemic challenges and linking institu-tional investors in international markets with industry catalysts, think tanks, partners and insti-tutions.
US slams Beijing for harmful trade policies
Trump already has imposed tariffs on about half of the Chinese goods imported into US each year
• Donald Trump is due to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a G20 summit
• Xi lashed out at “America First” trade protectionism
AFP | Washington, United States
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer yes-terday slammed Beijing
for failing to offer “meaningful reform” on aggressive trade pol-icies that harm US workers and industry, and threatened tariffs on Chinese autos.
The latest trade threat against China comes days before Pres-ident Donald Trump is due to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jin-ping at a G20 summit in Argen-tina to defuse the ongoing trade conflict between the world’s top two economic powers.
Instead, Lighthizer’s state-ment escalated the dispute fur-ther, saying: “China’s aggressive, state-directed industrial policies are causing severe harm to US workers and manufacturers.”
And while talks continue, “As of yet, China has not come to the table with proposals for mean-ingful reform,” he said.
The country’s policies on auto tariffs are “especially egregious,” taxing US cars at more than double the rate it charges other countries.
“At the president’s direction, I will examine all available tools to equalize the tariffs applied to automobiles,” he said.
Trump already has imposed steep punitive tariffs on about half of the Chinese goods im-
ported into the US market each year, and has threatened to tar-get the remaining $267 billion as well -- which would hit Apple iPhones and laptops produced in China.
Earlier this month, Xi and Trump discussed the US-China trade conflict during a phone conversation that Trump called “very good.”
Xi said he was “very happy” to talk to Trump again.
Tough conditionsBut tensions came to the fore again at a summit when Xi and US Vice President Mike Pence delivered competing speeches criticizing each other’s trade and investment practices.
Xi lashed out at “Ameri-ca First” trade protectionism, while Pence warned smaller countries not to be seduced by China’s massive Belt and Road infrastructure program.
Trump heads to Buenos Aires
on Thursday for a Group of 20 summit that is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the po-tential harm faced by the world economy from the president’s trade wars.
Trump is due to meet Xi for a working dinner at the summit that runs Friday and Saturday.
Economic advisor Larry Kud-low told a White House press conference that “the president said there is a good possibility that we can make a deal and he is open to it.”
Despite Kudlow’s repeated in-sistence that Trump sees cause for optimism, he also underlined the tough conditions that the administration wants to impose on Beijing.
“China should change its prac-
tices and come into the com-munity of responsible trading nations,” Kudlow said, stressing that he considers the US econ-omy in far better shape than China’s to weather a prolonged trade war.
“We are in a position to deal with it and handle it very well,” he said.
China will have to give way on “fairness and reciprocity,” he said, warning that US concerns over intellectual property theft and China’s forced technology transfers “must be solved.”
US President Donald Trump, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose at the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Trump calls off Putin meeting over UkraineMoscow, Russia
Us P r e s i d e n t D o n -ald Trump yesterday
scrapped a planned meeting at the G20 summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s deten-tion of a group of Ukrainian sailors.
“Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all par-ties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin,” he wrote on Twitter.
“I look forward to a mean-ingful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved!,” Trump added, shortly after taking off for the weekend summit in Buenos Aires.
The announcement came shortly after Trump had told
reporters as he left the White House that the summit would be a “very good time” for a meeting with Putin.
“I probably will be meeting with President Putin. We ha-ven’t terminated that meeting. I was thinking about it, but we haven’t. I think it’s a very good time to have the meeting,” he had said.
White House Press Secre-tary Sarah Sanders told re-porters shortly after take-off Trump had conferred in per-son with Chief of Staff John Kelly and Secretary of State Pompeo aboard presidential plane Air Force One -- as well as by phone with National Se-curity Advisor Bolton, who is in Brazil -- before announcing the U-turn.
Asked how Putin was in-formed about the cancelation, she said she was “not aware” of a phone call between the two leaders.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018
China will have to give way on fairness
and reciprocity. US concerns over
intellectual property theft and China’s forced
technology transfers must be solved
LARRY KUDLOW
ECONOMIC ADVISOR
On behalf of Kuwait Finance House group,
we are honored to have won these two prestigious awards.
ABDULHAKEEM AL KHAYYAT
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CEO AT KFH-BAH-RAIN
Turkey to pay for S-400s in rubles or lira: ErdoganIstanbul, Turke
Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey will pay in rubles or lira, rather than dol-
lars, for its major order of Russian S-400 missile de-fence systems that has trou-bled Ankara’s Western al-lies, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday.
Erdogan said the final currency composition had yet to be agreed but con-firmed he expected the de-liveries of the systems to take place in 2019.
His comments came a day after Putin said that Russia was cutting its dependency on dollars in international trade due to increasingly tough US sanctions.
Turkey is also looking to do the same after the lira plunged in value on finan-cial markets over the sum-mer, although it has recov-ered in the last month.
“We always had this prin-ciple -- that we would do this deal using local money,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul before leaving for the G20 summit in Argen-tina where he is expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“So in the end we agreed that it would either be in rubles or Turkish lira,” he said.
But he added: “But I know that the work of our central banks has still not reached the final point. We have around a year to go. God willing, these deliveries will be made towards the end of 2019.”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
Abdulhakeem Al Khayyat receiving an award
Digital giants warn Australia on new law to break encryptionSydney, Australia
Digital giants led by Goog-le, Facebook and Amazon
have warned Australia against passing a “fundamentally flawed” law allowing security services to spy on encrypted communications among sus-pected criminals and terrorists.
In a submission sent to par-liament this week , the Digi-tal Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said the legislation proposed by Australia’s government would undermine rather than enhance the nation’s security.
The bill, currently under con-sideration by a parliamentary committee, would give security agencies wide powers to force telecommunications and tech-nology companies to give them access to encrypted devices and messaging apps.
The conservative govern-ment of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded the bill be passed into law before parliament goes into recess on December 6, saying a number
of ongoing counter-terrorism investigations were being hin-dered by plotters’ use of en-crypted messaging.
Authorities stepped up pres-sure for the bill’s urgent adop-tion after three men were ar-rested and charged two weeks ago for allegedly plotting an Islamist-inspired mass shoot-ing attack in Melbourne using encrypted messaging applica-
tions to communicate.The DIGI alliance, which also
includes Twitter and Verizon’s Oath platforms, said the bill as written would force them to create vulnerabilities in their operations which could be ex-ploited by bad actors.
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All have expressed strong support and a shared desire to maintain our winning combination
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Google said the ser-vice allows people to use their devices for data in 170 countries and territories under
agreements with carri-ers in those locations.
Australia is a member of the so-called “Five
Eyes” intelligence alliance along with the
US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, and critics have suggested the new surveillance law could be a test
case for toughening anti-encryption efforts
in other countries.
Swiss economy stumbles in third quarterZurich, Switzerland
Switzerland’s economy abruptly went into re-
verse in the third quarter, contracting by 0.2 per cent, with exports tumbling and even the country’s vaunt-ed financial sector seeing growth halt.
“The strong, continuous growth phase enjoyed by the Swiss economy for one and a half years was sud-denly interrupted,” said the State Secretariat for Eco-nomic Affairs (SECO).
“Switzerland is thus fol-lowing the significant eco-nomic downturn seen at the same time in other Europe-an countries, particularly Germany,” it added.
Germany, Europe’s pow-erhouse, also registered a 0.2pc drop in the third quarter, while other Euro-pean economies have seen growth slow as global un-certainty mounts due to threats by trade deals and slap tariffs on imports.
Switzerland’s 0.2pc drop in gross domestic product in July through September, compared with the previous three months, was due in considerable part to a drop in exports.
Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi reaffirm backing to alliance
• Renault is the dominant member of the alliance, holding 43 percent of the shares in Nissan
• Ghosn has been ousted from Mitsubishi and Nissan, but remains CEO and chairman of Renault,
Paris, France
Automakers Renault, Nis-san and Mitsubishi re-affirmed their committ-
ment to their alliance yesterday as company leaders held their first meeting since the shock arrest of boss Carlos Ghosn.
“We remain fully commit-ted to the Alliance,” the three firms said in a joint statement as Ghosn remains in custody in Japan on allegations of financial misconduct.
The talismanic Ghosn was seen as the glue binding togeth-er a complex three-way struc-
ture which counts as the world’s top-selling auto company, with some 10.6 million vehicles roll-ing off the production lines last year.
His arrest revealed brewing resentment and unrest within the Franco-Japanese partner-ship.
Nissan chief executive Nissan Hiroto Saikawa, Renault’s in-terim boss Thierry Bollore and Mitsuibishi’s Osamu Masuko conversed via video, sources and the Nikkei daily reported.
Issues of governance were not
meant to be raised in the meet-ing and no vote was planned, the sources told AFP.
In their joint statement on Thursday, the three firms said their “alliance has achieved un-paralleled success in the past
two decades”.The leaders of the three com-
panies also sent an internal mes-sage that reassures employees that the alliance remains on track. “We owe you this expres-sion of cohesion and commit-
ment to the Alliance today more than ever” said the statement, according to a copy consulted by AFP.
“We are in close touch with each other and with our key stakeholders. All have expressed strong support and a shared de-sire to maintain our winning combination,” it added.
Renault is the dominant mem-ber of the alliance, holding 43 percent of the shares in Nis-san, but the Japanese firm now outsells its French counterpart -- sparking frustration in Tokyo.
French Finance minister Bru-no Le Maire on Tuesday warned that there was no question of a change in the balance of power between Renault, which is 15 percent owned by the French state, and its Japanese partners.
The rules of the alliance, based in the Netherlands, state that Renault and Nissan appoint five board members each but it is the French company which names the CEO while Nissan chooses the deputy.
The CEO holds a decisive vote in the case of a tie in board de-cisions.
Models pose next to a 2019 Nissan Teana during the Thailand International Motor Expo in Bangkok
Facebook expands ‘local news’ to 400 US cities
San Francisco, United States
Facebook announced yes-terday it was expanding its
offerings of local news alerts to 400 US cities, and is now testing the feature in Australia.
The “Today In” section first unveiled by Facebook in Jan-uary offers users “local alerts from relevant government pag-es” which may include infor-mation city council meetings, crime or weather, for example.
Facebook’s move comes amid a decline in the number of lo-cal news organizations, leading to what some researchers call “news deserts” with little or no coverage of events.
Facebook said it was testing Today In in “news deserts,” where it would seek to fill some of the gaps left by the loss of local newspapers.
“Earlier this year, we start-ed testing Today In after we did research in which over 50 percent of people told us they wanted to see more local news
and community information on Facebook -- more than any other type of content we asked about,” said product manager Andrea Watson Strong in a blog post.
“The research showed that people wanted both what might be traditionally understood as
local news -- breaking news or information about past events like city council meetings, crime reports and weather updates -- as well as community infor-mation that could help them make plans, like bus schedules, road closures and restaurant openings.”
A demonstrator wearing a mask of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg poses outside Portcullis house to question the refusal of Zuckerberg to give evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee investigation into disinformation and ‘fake news’ at the Houses of Parliament in London
Google extends telecom service Fi to iPhonesSan Francisco, United States
Google said Wednesday it was expanding its “virtual” tele-
communication service that was limited to select Android-pow-ered smartphones to a wider range of devices, including iP-hones.
Freshly renamed “Google Fi” service aims to take on tradition-al carriers by letting people pay based on how much data they use and roam internationally.
Fi was limited to newer Pixel handsets made by Google and a few Android-powered smart-phones made by other compa-
nies because devices need to be able to hop between carriers whose infrastructures are used to provide service on the “virtu-al” network.
Fi “intelligently” shifts smart-phone service between Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Wi-Fi hotspots to provide optimal sig-nals, according to Google.
“Our plan now works with the majority of Android devices and iPhones,” Fi director Simon Ar-scott said in a blog post.
Fi plans in the US offer un-limited domestic call and texts, plus texting internationally, for
$20 monthly. Data costs $10 per gigabyte with a maximum data charge of $60 for an individual user, according to the Fi website.
“When we launched Project Fi in 2015, we set out to make your wireless experience fast, easy and fair,” Arscott said.
Since smartphones need the proper hardware and software to jump between networks and wi-fi for the “full Google Fi ex-perience,” some features may be lacking for iPhones and other handsets that can now access the service but were not designed for it.
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks about Google’s improvements in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning during a product launch event at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, California.
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at the Australian Financial Review (AFR) India Business Summit in Sydney
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Key figures around 1445 GMTLondon - FTSE 100: 0.8pc at 7,063.48 points
Frankfurt - DAX 30: 0.3pc at 11,337.25
Paris - CAC 40: 0.9pc at 5,025.69
EURO STOXX 50: 0.5pc at 3,185.15
New York - Dow Jones: 0.1pc at 25,332.08
Tokyo - Nikkei 225: 0.4pc at 22,262.60 (close)
Hong Kong - Hang Seng: 0.9pc at 26,451.03 (close)
Shanghai - Composite: 1.3pc at 2,567.44 (close)
Pound/dollar: at $1.2772 from $1.2825 at 2200 GMT
Euro/pound: at 89.03 pence from 88.63 pence
Euro/dollar: at $1.1373 from $1.1366
Dollar/yen: at 113.33 yen from 113.68
Oil - West Texas Intermediate: 80 cents at $51.09 per barrel
Oil - Brent Crude: 50 cents at $59.59
Closing BellSAUDI 0.9pc to 7,703
DUBAI 0.6pc to 2,669
ABU DHABI 2.3pc to 4,770
QATAR 0.3pc at 10,365
KUWAIT 0.4pc at 5,318
EGYPT 0.1pc at 13,320
BAHRAIN 0.3pc at 1,329
OMAN 0.4pc at 4,412
Unilever boss steps down after HQ move fiascoThe Hague, Netherlands
Unilever chief Paul Pol-man is “retiring” from the
consumer giant, the firm said Thursday, a month after it was forced to ditch a controversial post-Brexit plan to move its headquarters from London to the Netherlands.
The Anglo-Dutch group, maker of iconic brands like Marmite and Dove soap, will be headed from January by Alan Jope, the current chief of its huge beauty and personal care department.
“Unilever today announced that CEO Paul Polman has decid-
ed to retire from the company,” the company said in a statement, adding that he had been in the post for 10 years.
Polman, 62, tweeted that he had decided to “step down from my role as CEO”, add-ing: “It’s been a great honour to lead this team for the past 10 years and together build a sustainable business that has made a difference to millions of lives.”
“I have no doubts that I will be leaving the company in excellent hands. Under Alan’s leadership Unilever is well-placed to pros-per long into the future.”
Neither Unilever nor Polman
made any mention of the head-quarters plan, but his position had been in doubt since it fell through on October 5.
Unilever had faced mount-ing opposition from key share-holders, including Aviva Inves-tors, Royal London, Columbia Threadneedle, Legal & General Investment Management, Lind-sell Train, M&G Investments and Brewin Dolphin.
Many were angry that the plan would have ended Unile-ver’s dual listing on the Lon-don and Amsterdam stock ex-changes, meaning that many would have had to sell shares in Britain.Paul Polman has led Unilever for more than a decade (Courtesy of FT/Bloomberg)
European stocks rise on rate hopes as oil reboundsAFP | London, United Kingdom
European stocks rose yesterday, lifted by hopes that the US Fed-eral Reserve may be moderating
its stance on interest rate rises, dealers said.
Oil rebounded from weakness seen in the European morning when the US benchmark WTI contract hit a 14-month low on expectations that OPEC may not agree meaningful caps on oil production at a meeting next week.
There was much market talk about what exactly to read into a speech by Fed chairman Jerome Powell late Wednesday, analysts said.
Many understood his remark that the Fed’s rates were close to neutral to mean that there was now less need for rate hikes, a view that sparked a major rally in Wall Street indices Wednesday after the European close.
As key European indices played catch-up, the Dow index was slightly lower at the opening bell Thursday as the market sought to consolidate the previous day’s strong gains.
‘Somewhat dovish’“European markets are moving
higher after US equities were sharp-ly higher and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave somewhat dovish remarks in New York yesterday,” said analysts at Charles Schwab.
While the US central bank is still widely expected to lift rates, Powell’s comment was a far cry from his char-acterisation last month of them being “a long way from neutral”.
Investors meanwhile remain wary about the weekend’s crunch trade talks between US President Donald Trump and China counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
The pound fell versus the dollar and euro one day after the UK government and Bank of England painted a bleak picture of the country’s economic fu-
ture following Brexit.New York’s West Texas Intermedi-
ate crude, one of the world’s major oil contracts, slumped in morning deals to strike a near 14-month low at $49.41 per barrel.
‘Pressure building’“The oil market is clearly not 100 per
cent convinced that the OPEC+ will cut supplies next week, but the pressure is certainly building as prices continue to fall amid ongoing concerns over excessive supply and lower demand growth,” Forex.com analyst Fawad Razaqzada told AFP.
“With WTI hovering around the $50 mark, it has given up more than 50pc of its gains made since hitting a low in 2016.
“This represents a significant drop for a healthy market, which makes intervention from the OPEC+ group even more likely,” Razaqzada added.
However on Thursday, Saudi Ara-bia’s energy minister Khalid al-Falih and Russian leader Vladimir Putin both appeared to dent hopes of a deal.
“Comments by... al-Falih and Rus-
sian President Putin gave rise to doubts that the OPEC+ group will be able to agree on a sufficiently comprehensive production cut when it meets in Vien-na,” said Commerzbank analysts in a note to clients.
“Al-Falih made it clear that Saudi Arabia would not reduce production alone. Saudi Arabia in particular had recently stepped up its production hugely and was therefore chiefly re-sponsible for the oversupply.”
Commerzbank analysts also noted that Putin indicated that key oil pro-ducer Russia is “absolutely fine” with an oil price at $60.
Oil had spiked to four-year peaks in October after OPEC and other global producers had snubbed pressure from Trump to lift output and dampen the market. Prices have since tumbled however on rising production, Chi-nese growth fears, and easing concerns about the impact of sanctions on Iran.
Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average
Oil rebounded from weakness seen in the
European morning when the US benchmark WTI contract hit a 14-month
low on expectations that OPEC may not agree
meaningful caps on oil production at a meeting
next week
Banks boost Saudi stocks
• Record volume in FAB before MSCI weighting boost
• Investors use entry of passive funds to take profits
• Dubai Investments hits five-year low
Reuters
Abu Dhabi’s stock market fell sharply to a four-month low yes-
terday because of a slide in shares of First Abu Dhabi Bank, the United Arab Emirates’ largest lender, just before MSCI doubled its weighting of the stock in its indexes.
The Abu Dhabi index lost 2.3 per cent amid record volume in FAB, which slumped 3pc. A total of 57.9 million shares in the bank traded, by far the highest since its listing in April 2017.
MSCI decided on the weighting in-crease in its semi-annual index review in mid-November. Arqaam Capital estimated the increase, which takes effect at the end of this week, would attract $524 million of passive funds into the stock.
Abu Dhabi National Hotels rose 3.2pc in very thin volume after saying its deal to buy hotels from Dubai’s
Emaar Properties was valued at 2.2 billion dirhams ($599 million). Emaar lost 2.2pc.
Saudi Arabia’s index rose 0.9pc on Thursday, boosted by banks. Al Ra-jhi Bank rose 1.3pc while the largest lender, National Commercial Bank, climbed 3.1pc.
Ash Sharqiyah Development Co added 3.5pc after appointing Abdu-laziz Bin Abdulrahman al-Shamikh as its chairman.
The Dubai index slid 0.6pc,
declining for a sixth straight day as real estate firms contin-ued to sag. DAMAC Properties dropped 3.6pc.
Dubai Investments shed 2.2pc to a five-year low; the stock has been sliding after MSCI decided to move the stock to its UAE small cap index from its UAE standard index.
A trader watching stock movements( courtesy of Argaam)
Russia accepts need for oil cutsReuters | London, Moscow
Russia is becoming increasingly convinced it needs to reduce oil
output in tandem with OPEC but is still bargaining with the producer group over the timing and volume of any reduction, two industry sources told Reuters.
The Russian Energy Ministry held a meeting with the heads of domestic oil producers on Tuesday, ahead of a gathering in Vienna of the Organ-ization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies on Dec. 6-7.
“The idea at the meeting was that Russia needs to reduce. The key ques-tion is how quickly and by how much,” said one source familiar with the talks between Russian oil firms and the
ministry.“Most people agreed that we cannot
reduce immediately, it needs to be a gradual process like last time,” said the source, who asked not to be iden-tified as he is forbidden from speaking to the media.
Riyadh has suggested OPEC and its allies reduce output by 1 million bpd from January 2019 to arrest a price decline as Brent crude LCOc1 fell below $59 a barrel this week from as high as $85 in October due to con-cerns about a possible glut.
On Wednesday, Putin said Russia was in touch with OPEC but Moscow would be satisfied with an oil price of $60 a barrel. Putin previously said Russia would be content with oil at $70.
Bayer to cut 12,000 jobsBerlin, Germany
German chemical and pharmaceutical gi-
ant Bayer said Thursday it would slash 12,000 jobs in a major restructuring follow-ing the mammoth takeover of Monsanto, enabling it to save 2.6 billion euros ($3 billion) a year from 2022.
The planned job cuts will affect about one in every ten of the group’s 118,200 posts.
Bayer swallowed Mon-santo in one of Germany’s biggest ever corporate take-overs at a cost of $63 billion in June.
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I, ROOPESH KUMAR Father of ANSHU ROOPESH KUMAR, holder of Indian Passport No. L1415849, issued at BAHRAIN on 15.01.2014, permanent resident of No. 6-107/4, SRI SANTHOSHIMATHA NILAYA, NEAR KURUAMBA TEMPLE, KODIKAL, KALBHAVI, POST ASHOKNAGAR, MANGALORE – 575006 (full postal address in India to be given) and presently residing at (full postal address in Bahrain) FLAT 210, BUILDING 467, ROAD 41, AL JUFFAIR 340, MANAMA, do hereby change my son’s name as (given name) ANSHU ROOPESH (surname) KUMAR Objection(s) if any, may be forwarded to Embassy of India, P.O Box 26106, Al Seef, Kingdom of Bahrain.
LILY - Female Persian, 2 yrs, just had kittens 4 wks ago (tummy shaved), mostly black w grey tones, not wearing collar or ID tag, escaped door (may havebeen picked up), Wadi-Alsail Riffa (area behind BDF Hospital), 18/11/18. 33507272 or 33040214
TURBO - Male Shih Tzu/Poodle, 3 yrs, white w brown ears, wound on left side of head, not wearing collar/ ID tag, possibly jumped gate while playing outsideor may have been stolen, Nuwaidrat (near YokogawaCo) REWARD for safe return, 5/4/18. 36436997
DUSKY - Male Persian mix, 3 yrs, black and grey, neutered, microchipped, quiet (can be distant w humans), not wearing collar or ID tag, may have escaped thru peep hole in kitchen, Hamad Town (roundabout 4 near Yusuf Zainel home) 24/11/18. 39252695
JUNIOR - Male Shih Tzu, 4 yrs, white w brown spots (just groomed last month), not wearing collar or ID tag, kitchen door opened/garage door also open, Saar (behind St Christopher School), last seen near Megamart Saraya 1, 20/8/18. 36988850
NIJI - Male Persian mix, unsure of age, all white w brown eyes, scared of strangers and noises,usually on roof (but could not find), not wearing collar or ID tag, Gudaibiya (near Thailand Gate Market), 21/11/18. 32373205
SARA - Female Shih Tzu, 3yrs, purple/pinkish collar w bell - no ID tag, gate left open, someone saw a man take her from empty lot, Jidd Ali (nearDiscovery area), 26/9/18. WhatsApp 34525940 or phone 35133681
MISSING PETS
ROBOT 2.0 (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER/SCI-FICTION/DRA-MA) NEW
- RAJINIKANTH, AKSHAY KUMAR, AMY JACKSON
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT (HINDI): 11.15 AM + 2.15 + 5.15 + 8.15 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT (3D) (TAMIL): 12.30 + 3.30 + 6.30 + 9.30 PM DAILY AT (TAMIL): 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.30 PM CITYCENTRE DAILY AT (HINDI): 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT (3D) (TAMIL): 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.30 PM DAILY AT (TAMIL): 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM + 12.00 MN SEEF (II) DAILY AT (TAMIL): (1.00 AM THURS/FRI)DAILY AT (TAMIL) (3D): 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 1.30 + 3.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 + 7.30 + 9.30 + 10.30 PM (12.30 MN THURS/FRI) SEEF (I) DAILY AT (HINDI): 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM + 12.00 MNDAILY AT (TAMIL): 11.00 AM + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM DAILY AT (TELGU): 10.45 AM + 1.45 + 4.45 + 7.45 + 10.45 PMSAAR DAILY AT (HINDI): 7.45 + (10.45 PM THURS/FRI)AL HAMRA DAILY AT (TAMIL): 12.00 + 3.00 + 6.00 + 9.00 PM + (12.00 MN THURS/FRI)WADI AL SAIL DAILY AT (HINDI): 11.30 AM + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM
CREED II (PG-13) (DRAMA/ACTION/SPORT) NEW
- TESSA THOMPSON, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, SYLVESTER STALLONE
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM DAILY AT (VIP): 11.30 AM + 4.45 + 10.00 PMCITYCENTRE DAILY AT (IMAX 2D): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PMDAILY AT (ATMOS): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.45 + 6.30 + 9.15 PM + 12.00 MNDAILY AT (VIP I): 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM DAILY AT: (1.00 AM THURS/FRI)SEEF (II) DAILY AT: (12.30 MN THURS/FRI)SEEF (I) DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PMSAAR DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + (11.15 PM THURS/FRI)WADI AL SAIL DAILY AT: 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM
INSTANT FAMILY (PG-15) (COMEDY) NEW
- MARK WAHLBERG, ROSE BYRNER, OCTAVIA SPENCER
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PMCITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 PM + 12.00 MN + (1.00 AM THURS/FRI)DAILY AT (VIP II): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PMSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PMSAAR DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 + (11.15 PM THURS/FRI)WADI AL SAIL DAILY AT: 12.45 + 3.15 + 5.45 + 8.15 + 10.45 PM
THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB:
A NEW DRAGON TATTOO STORY (15+) (THRILLER/ACTION/CRIME/ DRAMA) NEW
- CLAIRE FOY, SYLVIA HOEKS, LAKEITH STANFIELD
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 8.00 + 10.30 PMDAILY AT (VIP): 2.15 + 7.30 PMCITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 + 11.15 PM + (12.45 MN THURS/FRI)SEEF (II) DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 PM + 12.00 MN + (12.45 MN THURS/FRI)
SAAR DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + (11.00 PM THURS/FRI) WADI AL SAIL DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM
DETECTIVE CONAN: ZERO
THE ENFORCER (PG) (ANIMATION/ACTION/THRILLER/CRIME) NEW
- KAPPEI YAMAGUCHI, TORU FURUYA, MINAMI TAKAYAMA
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT (DUBBED IN ENGLISH) (KIDS CINEMA): 11.15 AM DAILY AT (DUBBED IN ARABIC) (KIDS CINEMA): 1.30 PMCITYCENTRE DAILY AT (DUBBED IN ENGLISH): 10.30 AM + 3.00 PMDAILY AT (DUBBED ARABIC): 12.45 + 5.15 PMSEEF (I) DAILY AT (DUBBED IN ENGLISH): 2.30 + 7.00 PMDAILY AT (DUBBED ARABIC): 12.15 + 4.45 PM
ROBIN HOOD (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE)
- TARON EGERTON, EVE HEWSON, JAMIE FOXX
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 3.45 + 8.45 PM CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PMSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 + 11.15 PMWADI AL SAIL DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY)
- JOHN C. REILLY, SARAH SILVARMAN, GAL GADOT
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT (KIDS CINEMA): 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 10.30 PMSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF
GRINDELWALD (PG-13) (ACTION/ADVENTURE/FANTASY)
- EDDIE REDMAYNE, KATHERINE WATERSTON, DAN FOGLER
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 5.15 + 10.45 PM
WIDOWS (15+) (CRIME/THRILLER/DRAMA)
- VIOLA DAVIS, MICHELLE RODRIGUZ, ELIZABETH DEBICKI
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 1.15 + 6.15 + 11.15 PMCITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PMSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.15 + 3.45 + 6.15 + 8.45 + 11.15 PM
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (15+) (MUSICAL/DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY)
- RAMI MALEK, LUCY BOYNTON, GWILYM LEE
OASIS JUFFAIR DAILY AT: 2.30 + 8.00 PM
INCIDENT IN GHOSTLAND (18+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW
- CRYSTAL REED, ANASTASIA PHILLIPS, EMILIA JONES
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 3.30 + 7.45 PM + 12.00 MNSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 1.15 + 5.15 + 9.15 PM
GUARDIANS (PG-13) (ACITON/THRILLER) NEW
- VALERIYA SHKIRANDO, SANZHAR MADIYEV, ANTON PAMPUSHNYY
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 7.30 + 9.30 + 11.30 PM SEEF (I) DAILY AT: 11.45 AM + 3.45 + 7.45 + 11.45 PM
GUNSHOT (PG-15) (ARABIC/THRILLER/DRAMA/CRIME) NEW
- AHMED EL FISHAWY, RUBY, MOHAMED MAMDOUH
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 + 6.45 + 8.45 + 10.45 PMSEEF (II) DAILY AT: 11.15 AM + 3.15 + 7.15 + 11.15 PM
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY)
- JOHN C. REILLY, SARAH SILVARMAN, GAL GADOT
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 12.15 + 2.30 + 4.45 + 7.00 + 9.15 + 11.30 PM
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF
GRINDELWALD (PG-13) (ACTION/ADVENTURE/FANTASY)
- EDDIE REDMAYNE, KATHERINE WATERSTON, DAN FOGLER
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 12.30 + 3.15 + 6.00 + 8.45 + 11.30 PM
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN (PG) (COMEDY/ACTION/ADVENTURE)
- ROWAN ATKINSON, OLGA KURYLENKO, EMMA THOMPSON
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM SEEF (II) DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM
HUNTER KILLER (PG-15) (ACTION/THRILLER)
- GERARD BUTLER, GARY OLDMAN, COMMON
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM
VENOM (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE)
- TOM HARDY, MICHELLE WILLIAMS, RIZ AHMED
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 1.15 + 5.30 + 9.45 PM
NIGHT SCHOOL (PG-15) (COMEDY)
- KEVIN HART, TIFFANY HADDISH, ROB RIGGLE
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 12.15 + 4.30 + 8.45 PM
EL BADLAH (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY)
- TAMER HOSNY, AKRAM HOSNI, MAJED EL MASRY, AMINA KHALIL
CITYCENTRE DAILY AT: 2.30 + 6.45 + 11.00 PM
THE GRINCH (G) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY)
- ANGELA LANSBURY, BENEDICT CUMBER-BATCH, RASHIDA JONES
SEEF (II) DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 4.45 + 6.45 + 8.45 + 10.45 PM
BEAUTIFUL BOY (15+) 9DRAMA/BIORGRAPHY) NEW
- STEVE CARELL, TIMOTHEE CHALAMET, MAURA TIERNEY
SEEF (I) DAILY AT: 9.15 + 11.30 PM
10 X10 (PG-15) (THRILLER) NEW
- LUKE EVANS, KELLY REILLY, NOEL CLARKE
SEEF (I) DAILY AT: 1.45 + 5.45 + 9.45 PM
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (PG) (ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY)
- JOHN C. REILLY, SARAH SILVARMAN, GAL GADOT
SAAR DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 PMWADI AL SAIL DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM
CHANGE OF NAME
Stallone says hanging up his Rocky gloves
AFP | Los Angeles
After more than four decades and eight mov-
ies, actor Sylvester Stal-lone says he is finally
hanging up his Rocky gloves.
In a video he shared on I n s t a g r a m Wednesday, the 72-year-o l d a c t o r said he was r e a d y t o walk away from play-ing the icon-ic character, referring to his latest ap-
pearance in
the recently released “Creed II” as his “last rodeo.”
“I thought Rocky was over in 2006 and I was very happy with that,” he said in the video.
“And then all of a sudden this young man presented himself and the whole story changed,” he added, pointing to his “Creed” co-star Michael B. Jordan.
“It went on to a new generation, new prob-lems, new adventures.”
The “Creed” films are a continuation of the Rocky story, following the retired champ as he faces up to middle age and trains a new protege.
Stallone said he couldn’t be happier for the way things turned out for the Rocky saga that began in 1976 and which chronicled the life of the heroic underdog boxer.
“As I step back, as my story has been told, there is a whole new world that’s going to be opening up for the audience, for this genera-tion,” he said, adding that it was up to Jordan now to “carry the mantle.”
Payne ‘secretly pushing’ Cheryl into new careerIANS | London
Singer Liam Payne is “secretly” pushing his former girlfriend
Cheryl into new career if her solo comeback flops.
When Cheryl, 35, released her comeback single “Love made me do it” earlier this month, Payne was one of the first to tweet that he loved the song and couldn’t wait to hear the rest of her new album.
And after Cheryl’s new single sold just 5000 cop-
ies, Payne was on hand to offer her some advice, reports mirror.co.uk.
According to a source, the for-mer One Direction mem-ber has suggested she think about alternative paths within the music industry.
“His advice was that if she didn’t want to carry on performing, she should go into music management,” a source told Closer
magazine.
Seth Rogen, Goldberg to produce limited seriesIANS | Los Angeles
Actors Seth Rogen and screenwriter Evan Gold-
berg will be producing “Con-sole Wars”, which will be a limited series, for the small screen.
Legendary Television has closed a deal to develop the Blake J. Harris novel “Con-sole Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation” as a limited drama series, reports va-riety.com.
The books tells the behind-the-scenes story of how Sega
took on the jug-gernaut Nintendo and revolution-ised the video game industry.
J o r d a n Vogt-Rob-erts will d i r e c t w i t h Mike Ro-
s o l i o t o w r i t e t h e pilot.
Sylvester Stallone
Cheryl and Liam Payne
Seth Rogen
BIC all set to host Bahrain GT Festival
TDT | Manama
The stage is set for the re-gion’s biggest grand tour-
ing event of the year as the Bapco Bahrain GT Festival flags off at Bahrain Interna-tional Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir today.
An entire day’s racing is scheduled and the action will be non-stop, with three ex-citing global championships hitting BIC’s 5.412-kilometre desert track.
These include the all-new FIA GT Nations Cup, the GT4 International Cup and the Bahrain Classic Challenge – all of which will be making their debut at the highest levels of motorsport.
The weekend’s events have been organised by BIC in coop-eration with SRO Motorsports Group and the Bahrain Motor Federation.
“We are delighted to be welcoming drivers and teams from all over the world for an exciting weekend of racing,” commented BIC Chief Execu-tive Shaikh Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa.
“GT racing is one of my fa-vourite categories in motor-sport, and I am proud to see that the Bapco Bahrain GT Fes-tival has so much to offer.
“The FIA GT Nations Cup presents the perfect oppor-tunity for fans to show their support for the drivers and teams representing their var-ious countries. We look for-ward to welcoming fans from across the region.
“The GT4 International Cup will be bringing together lead-ing participants from a dozen GT4 championships around the world. It will certainly be an exciting battle in this first-ever season finale.
“The Bahrain Classic Chal-lenge will be bringing a his-toric flavour to the festival’s programme, , with many iconic
racing machines from years past showcasing their prowess.
“With all that spectacular racing and the other attrac-tions we have in store off the track, we invite everyone to come and join us for anoth-er wonderful occasion at BIC, ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’.”
Racing today will begin from 9am and continue all the way until 8.30pm when BIC’s state-of-the-art floodlighting system will be shining brightly and illuminating the track.
Drivers from all corners of the globe are taking part in the weekend’s events. An impres-sive 17 countries are entered in the FIA GT Nations Cup, which is headlining the festival’s two-day programme.
Today’s action in the se-ries will include two 80-min-ute Free Practice sessions, a 50-minute Qualifying, and then an hour-long Qualifying Race 1.
The GT4 International Cup will also have a pair of 80-minute Free Practices and a 50-minute Qualifying run today. For the Bahrain Classic Challenge, a 30-minute Prac-tice along with a 30-minute Qualifying will make up the day’s programme.
Dozens take shortcut at China marathonAFP | Shanghai, China
More than 250 runners cheated at last weekend’s
half-marathon in Shenzhen in-cluding many who took short-cuts, Chinese state media said yesterday, calling it “deeply shameful”.
Marathon and leisure run-ning is growing fast in China despite the pollution which of-
ten blankets major cities, with participants donning the latest fashionable gear and wearable technology. However, the sport has made unwelcome headlines in recent weeks.
During Sunday’s run in Shen-zhen, across the border from Hong Kong, 258 runners were penalised for cheating, Xinhua news agency said.
More than a dozen had fake
bib numbers and three ran in someone else’s place, but most were guilty of cutting corners, the report said.
In the most blatant case, a traffic camera caught runners turning round at least one kilometre (0.6 miles) before they were supposed to make a U-turn, potentially shaving two or three kilometres off the 21-kilometre distance.
Mertens, Hamsik lift Napoli in last 16 battleNapoli’s battle for Champions League knock-out round goes down to the wire
• Napoli’s record all-time scorer Marek Hamsik got his first goal this season
AFP | Naples, Italy
Dries Mertens bagged a brace to add to Marek Hamsik’s early goal as
Napoli beat Red Star Belgrade 3-1 on Wednesday to go top of their Champions League Group C but the battle for a place in the knock-out rounds will go down to the wire in the final round of games mid-December.
Carlo Ancelotti’s Serie A club have to wait to advance to the knock-out rounds after French champions Paris Saint-Germain beat Liverpool 2-1 in France.
Hamsik got the hosts off the mark after 11 minutes in Naples with Mertens adding two more either side of half-time to lift the Italians before the final game at Anfield.
“I said it wasn’t going to be a decisive match,” said Ancelotti.
“We’ve done what we needed to. We’re top of the group so you have to be positive.”
Napoli now have nine points, one more than PSG with Liver-pool back on six.
That means a point at Anfield
would be enough for Napoli to reach the round of 16 at the ex-pense of Liverpool.
Red Star are fourth on four points, but they will finish third if they win at home to PSG in their final fixture and Liverpool lose at home to Napoli.
The Italians are unbeaten in this year’s competition and wel-comed Red Star Belgrade after playing a 0-0 draw in Belgrade.
Ancelotti’s side were reeling after being held 0-0 by bottom Serie A club Chievo at the week-
end to fall eight points behind Juventus.
And three-time Champions League winning coach Ancelotti had warned his team they would be “proper idiots” not to qualify for the last 16 of this year’s com-petition.
They came out firing with Mertens almost scoring the opener after five minutes at the Stadio San Paulo, with a clev-er back-heel flick from a Jose Callejon assist denied by Red Star goalkeeper Milan Borjan.
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258runners were penalised for cheating in Sunday’s
half-marathon in Shenzhen
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Napoli’s Belgian forward Dries Mertens (L) scored
his 100th goal for the club during the match
The FIA GT Nations Cup presents the
perfect opportunity for fans to show their support for the drivers and
teams representing their various
countries
SHAIKH SALMAN BIN ISA AL KHALIFA
Napoli’s Belgian forward Dries Mertens (L) shoots despite Red Star Belgrade’s Serbian defender Srdjan Babic (R)
Engineers work on a car prior to the race
New McLaren 720S GT3 to make global public debut in Bahrain TDT | Manama
Motorsport enthusiasts and car fanatics alike are in for
a major treat at this weekend’s Bapco Bahrain GT Festival, as one of the world’s leading sports car manufacturers will be un-veiling one of its newest race cars at the event.
McLaren Automotive has confirmed that the new 720S GT3 will be making its global public debut at Bahrain Inter-national Circuit (BIC) today and tomorrow.
With three exciting champi-onships already on the cards, the festival has the added at-traction of witnessing the hotly anticipated 720S GT3, which
will be demonstrated on the 5.412-kilometre circuit and dis-played in the Paddock.
The car is set to make its com-petitive debut at Gulf 12 Hours before undertaking a full racing programme in 2019.
“We’re looking forward to demonstrating the 720S GT3 at the Bahrain GT Festival, and really thrilled to be competing in the Gulf 12 Hours, which will end an exciting year for the motorsport team,” com-
mented McLaren Automotive’s Director of Motorsport Dan Walmsley.
The 720S GT3 is expect-ed to compete in next year’s Blancpain GT Series and is the successor to the brand’s 650S GT3 model, which clinched the Endurance Cup drivers’ and teams’ titles in 2016.
The 650S GT3 remained com-petitive throughout the 2018 campaign, vying for overall victory at Circuit Paul Ricard before ultimately taking a third-place finish at the French venue. Swedish representatives Alex-ander West and Victor Bouveng will also use the model when they tackle the FIA GT Nations Cup this weekend.
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Brave CF announces two new weight classes for 2019TDT | Manama
Brave Combat Federation has officially announced
two new weight class divisions in 2019.
The Bahrain-based global mixed martial arts promotion will adopt the super light-weight (165 pounds) and su-per welterweight (175 pounds) weight classes.
This will eliminate the traditional welterweight (170 pounds) in the process. Brave hasn’t set a definitive date for the start of the new divisions yet, but current welterweight champion Jar-rah Hussein Al-Silawi, who claimed the 170-pound belt with a first-round victory over Carlston Harris in Sep-tember, will be crowned the super welterweight title-holder when the change is official.
The new weight class will make it easier for fighters to make weight and to low-er the risks of weight cuts. The new weight class means that fighters are more likely
to fight closer to their natu-ral weight. The Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) ap-proved the new weight class-es in July 2017, also creat-ing the super middleweight (195) and cruiserweight (225) divisions.
Brave Combat Federation has three fight cards planned for the remaining of the year. On December 8th, Brave 19 will take place in Sun City, South Africa. On 22nd Decem-ber, the company hosts Brave 20 in Hyderabad, India, before closing the year with Brave 21 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 28th December.
Eriksen keeps Spurs’ bid aliveChristian Eriksen pounces to give Tottenham crucial victory over Inter Milan in Champions League
• Tottenham kept their hopes of reaching last 16 alive as they went above Inter thanks to Christian Eriksen’s late goal
AFP | London
Mauricio Pochettino backed Tottenham to complete their Cham-
pions League escape act in Bar-celona after Christian Eriksen’s late strike kept alive their last 16 hopes with a 1-0 win over Inter Milan.
Pochettino’s side were 10 min-utes away from being eliminat-ed at the group stage as they laboured to break down the massed Inter defence at Wem-bley.
But Eriksen, surprisingly dropped to the bench by Pochet-tino, came to Tottenham’s rescue when the substitute fired home
to take their Group B qualifica-tion bid down to the final game.
It was a dramatic end to a hard-fought clash that Totten-ham had to win to avoid bowing out at the group stage for the second time in three seasons.
After taking one point from their opening three matches, Tottenham had scored twice in the last 12 minutes to avoid an early exit against PSV Eindhoven earlier this month.
And this latest act of Euro-
pean escapology means second placed Tottenham are now lev-el on points with third placed Inter.
They head to Barcelona to face the group leaders on De-cember 11 knowing they will
reach the last 16 as long as they match Inter’s result against PSV on the same night.
That won’t be easy against Lionel Messi and company, but Pochettino has faith.
“All is possible in football. We have big respect to Barcelona, they are one of the best teams in Europe, it will be so tough. But we have belief and faith that we can win,” Pochettino said.
Ahmed Faress hopes Brave CF hosts event in EgyptTDT | Manama
Ahmed Faress will compete in his third bout at Brave
Combat Federation during Brave 19 which will be held on 8th December at the Sun City Resort, Johannesburg in South Africa.
Faress is the first Egyptians to sign in the growing bantam-weight division of Brave Com-bat Federation. Currently has a record of 10-2-0 in his profes-sional career, he is set to face Nkosi Ndebele, who will make his professional debut at Brave 19. Ndebele has an amateur re-cord of 12-4-0 and trains at the Nova MMA Academy in South Africa.
In his previous fight, Faress faced Bharat Khandare, the first Indian ever to compete in the UFC. Faress dominated the bout forcing the hometown hero to tap in front of his fans at Brave 5: Go for Glory. Training alongside Hassan Abo Ali and Ahmed Amir, Faress is among
the fighters from Egypt to break into the global scene.
Faress will be making his re-turn after a break of more than a year. The prospect from Egypt believes that Brave 19 will be a major break in his career.
“Brave Combat Federation is an organization for the fight-ers, the bouts get tougher and one needs to keep evolving to survive in such an organization.
This fight is very important for me since I will be fighting in a weight class above my usual fighting weight. I am here to prove and give my best to show that I got what it takes to com-pete at the highest level”, said Faress.
In the bout, Faress will move up a weight class to fight in the featherweight division at Brave 19.
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170pounds (welterweight)
will be eliminated as the super lightweight
(165 pounds) and super welterweight (175
pounds) weight classes are introduced
Pochettino intro-duced Eriksen in the 70th minute and it proved an inspired move as he turned
the game in Totten-ham’s favour
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BOC attends ANOC General Assembly
TDT | Manama
Supreme Council for Youth and Sports assis-
tant secretary general and Bahrain Olympic Commit-tee (BOC) secretary general Abdulrahman Askar recent-ly attended the XXIII ANOC General Assembly and ANOC Awards 2018 in Tokyo.
Joined by BOC projects director Lounes Madene, Askar attended the event, held over two days, which has attracted more than 1,000 delegates from all 206 NOCs, as well as rep-resentatives from Interna-tional Federations, the IOC and upcoming Organising Committees.
In Wednesday’s morning session, Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al-Sabah reiterated his decision to temporarily step down as ANOC presi-dent amid allegations of for-gery. Last week, the Kuwaiti suspended himself from his 26-year IOC membership.
The agenda included the ratification of the ANOC Executive Council and the 2026 Olympic Winter bid cities are also presented to the NOC family for the very first time, providing NOCs with a unique opportunity to learn more about their Olympic offerings.
The ANOC Awards 2018 have already taken place as NOCs celebrated their ath-letes’ success from the Py-eongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
The ANOC Commissions and Working Groups met in Tokyo ahead of the General Assembly as they continue to identify and develop in-itiatives that benefited the NOCs. The ANOC Executive Council also met ahead of the General Assembly.
Schweinsteiger to stick with Fire through 2019AFP | Chicago
Former Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger
has inked a one-year exten-sion that will keep him with the Chicago Fire through 2019, the Major League Soc-cer team said Wednesday.
Terms of the deal were not announced but Schwein-steiger, who will be playing his third MLS season, earned $6.1 million in total com-pensation in 2018, accord-ing to figures from the MLS Players Association.
“Let’s raise a trophy,” Schweinsteiger said in a statement issued by the club. “I believe in this club and I believe that we can be champions.
“This American journey has been very special for me and my family,” added Schweinsteiger, who is mar-ried to former WTA tennis player Ana Ivanovic. “I love being a part of the Chicago Fire and we appreciate how the city has embraced us with open arms.”
Schweinsteiger, who won a World Cup with Germany and a Champions League crown with Bayern Munich, joined Chicago in March of 2017 from Manchester United.
Indian School lift under 19 girls Cricket tournament titleTDT | Manama
The Indian School, Bahrain lifted the CBA School un-
der 19 girls Cricket Title at Alba Ground.
The Indian School girls gave an outstanding performance in the first ever Inter School Crick-et Tournament for under 19 girls organised by Cricket Bahrain Association (CBA) from Novem-ber 21 to 23.
In the final match The Indian School -‘A’ team has defeated the Indian School -‘B’ by a margin of 10 runs while Pakistan School defeated the Bahraini Girls team in the loser’s final and placed third in the tournament.
Shaikha Hayat Bint Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa, the Bahrain Olympic Committee Member
the President of the Table tennis Association was the Chief Guest of the Final Function. Saleem Elias, the President of CBA, the CBA Board Members were pres-
ent in the function. The Chief Guest has congrat-
ulated all the participants for coming up for this particular tournament and stressed the
importance of sports activities in everyday life. She also gave good advice to the younger gen-eration girls to participate more and represent the Kingdom of
Bahrain in various games. She has assured all sorts of support to CBA and its activities and ad-vised to send the team out for more exposure.
The Indian School - A team with the cup
Tottenham Hotspur’s Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen (L) scores the opening goal
Ahmed Faress in action during a bout
Final resultsWinners - The Indian School - ARunner up- The Indian School - BSecond Runner Up - Pakistan School
Other awardsBest Batswoman - Nithya Raj Kumar (The Indian School –A)The Best Bowler - Ayesha Mushtaq (The Pakistan School)The best Fielder - JyothikaJanil (The Indian School –A)The Player in the final - AchsaPullil (The Indian School –A)
Lionel Messi guides Barcelona to top of Champions League groupReuters | Eindhoven, Nether-lands
Lionel Messi scored an excel-lent individual goal and laid
on another as Barcelona beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1 to secure top spot in Group B of the Champi-ons League on Wednesday.
Messi provided an assist for defender Gerard Pique to score the second for the Spanish side, who have 13 points from their five matches and an unassaila-ble lead at the top of the pool. PSV will finish bottom.
Captain Luuk de Jong scored a late consolation for the home side as they matched Barcelo-na for much of the contest at the Philips Stadion, striking the woodwork three times in the first half alone and missing a number of other chances.
In a bright start, PSV forward Gaston Pereiro latched onto a poor pass from Ivan Rakitic but his low drive came back off the post, and minutes later he shot over the crossbar from five
yards.PSV had some good fortune,
too, though, as Barca had two efforts cleared off the line with-in the space of a minute, with Arturo Vidal the unlucky player on both occasions.
His hooked effort from 12 yards was cleared by Pablo Ro-sario before Angelino blocked the Chilean’s goal-bound header
from the resulting corner.It was Barcelona thanking
their lucky stars just before half-time, though, when De Jong’s header from a free-kick came off the crossbar and the follow-up from close-range by Denzel Dumfries struck the post.
The visitors took the lead just past the hour mark, thanks to a typical piece of Messi magic as he picked up the ball on the
edge of the box and, with four defenders around him, managed to drive forward and provide a thunderous finish.
It was 2-0 with 20 minutes remaining when the Argentine’s free kick was guided into the PSV net by an unmarked Pique.
De Jong set up a frenetic fin-ish with his headed goal but Barcelona were able to hold on under heavy home pressure.
Neymar inspires PSG to leave Liverpool in danger
Liverpool can still qualify into Champions League last 16 despite hard lesson from Neymar and PSG
• Liverpool must beat Napoli 1-0 or by two goals to progress
AFP | Paris
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hit out at the refer-ee and Neymar as his side
slumped to a 2-1 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday that leaves last season’s run-ners-up dangerously close to an early Champions League exit.
Juan Bernat and Neymar scored to put PSG in control in the first half in the French capital, before a James Milner penalty on the stroke of half-time ensured this pivotal game remained in the balance until the death.
PSG knew a defeat here cou-pled with an unfavourable re-sult in the night’s other Group
C game could see the ambitious Qatar-owned club eliminated already.
But instead it is Liverpool -- beaten in each of their last five games away from Anfield in the Champions League -- who now seem the more likely to miss out on the last 16.
“When you saw their line-up, the approach they chose was full risk, especially in the begin-ning, to try everything as long as your legs carry you. The quality they have meant it was obviously quite intense to deal with,” ad-
mitted Klopp.He acknowledged that his
team had not been good enough, but hinted that a “clever” Ney-mar had play-acted to break the game up. He was also unhappy at Polish referee Szymon Marcini-ak for his decision not to send off Marco Verratti for a challenge on Joe Gomez in the first half.
“For me it’s a red card. I look like a bad loser, but I don’t care,” said Klopp.
“Tonight we looked like butchers when you look at how many yellow cards we had. It
was clever from PSG, especially Neymar, but a lot of others went down like it was something se-rious and we were not that calm anymore.”
With Napoli beating Red Star Belgrade 3-1, in a tight group Liv-erpool must now win either 1-0 or by two clear goals at home to the Italians in a fortnight if they are to progress.
Such a regression in Europe would be a big blow to Liver-pool, even if it could conceiv-ably help them in the Premier League.
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13points have been
earned by Barcelona from their previous
five matches to reach top of the pool
Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar (C) vies for the ball with Liverpool’s Swiss midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri
Liverpool’s Robertson frustrated by Neymar ‘playacting’Reuters | London
Liverpool were left frus-trated by Paris St Ger-
main striker Neymar during Wednesday’s 2-1 Champions League loss but should have controlled their aggression better in the face of the Bra-zilian’s “playacting”, defender Andy Robertson has said.
The Parc des Princes contest was marked by a number of in-terruptions with last season’s finalists Liverpool committing 20 fouls and picking up six yel-low cards, but Robertson said
the French side had indulged in gamesmanship.
“I suppose they were in the lead and they were looking to waste time. You can use gamesmanship, playacting, you can use it all really,” Robertson told Sky Sports.
“I would like to know how much time they wasted... it was frustrating. But when you play against PSG you know it’s something you’re going to come up against especially with him (Neymar). It wasn’t something we quite dealt with tonight.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar (R) is tackled by Liverpool’s English midfielder Jordan Henderson
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PSG had only won one of their previous seven games in the
competition
Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi shoots the ball
Dortmund enters last 16 after goalless draw AFP | Dortmund, Germany
Borussia Dortmund eased into the last 16 of the
Champions League with a goalless draw at home to Brug-ge on Wednesday, but Axel Witsel suffered a knee injury for the Bundesliga leaders.
After leaders Atletico Ma-drid had earlier secured their last 16 passage from Group A with a 2-0 win against Thi-erry Henry’s Monaco, sec-ond-placed Dortmund got the point they needed to also reach the knock-out stages.
However, the draw may have come at a price as Dortmund’s Belgium midfielder Witsel limped off with a knee injury in the dying stages.
Brugge can not now qualify and will go into the knock-out
stages of the Europa League with a guaranteed third place.
Dortmund can still win the group, if they beat Monaco away in a fortnight and At-letico fail to beat Brugge in Madrid in the final round of matches.
“We had two big first-half chances and then things got more and more difficult - we just couldn’t find the gaps,” said Dortmund sports director Michael Zorc.
“But qualifying for the last 16 was the priority.”
Dortmund dominated at Signal Iduna Park, enjoying 75 percent possession and making nearly three times as many passes as the Bel-gians, but there were precious few clear chances for either side.
Dortmund’s German forward Marco Reus (R) and Club Brugge’s Belgian defender Brandon Mechele vie for the ball
